The Sun. — London, England, 1850-02-13 00:00:00

Immediately, in S vols., poet A DVENTURES of a GOLD FINDER. WRITTEN BY HIMSELF. " What is here ? Gold ? yellow, glittering, precious gold ?" Timon of Athens. Henry 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 Svo., 21s. " One of the best novels of the year 1849."---Lthenteum. "Considerable ability is displayed in this work, which is evidently he production of a wrilar well acquainted with French society. There la no want of incident in this novel ; indeed, it contains as much as is usually found in a dozen volumes. Nor is that its only merit. the style is ♦igorous, and there is a knowledge of character and shrewdness of observation which we seldom meet with in novels. The description of French society is admirable."—Britannia. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. NEWMARKET RAILWAY. Notlee is hereby given, that the FEBRUARY HAT.F YEARLY GENERAL MEETLNG of the Proprietors of the New market Railway Co/ninny will be held at the London Tavern, Bi shopsgate-street, London, on THLItSDAT, the 28th Instant, at One O'clock precisely ; and that the Books in which Transfers of Shares of this Company are registered will be CLOSED from WantrasnAv, the 20th to TmJ3SPAT, the 28th, both days inclusive. GEORGE MANNERS, Chairman. G. W. BROWN, Secretary. 117, Cheapside, Monday, Feb. 13, beSO. This Evening being Ash Wednesday, the Theatres will be Closed. TIIBITRE ROYAL, DRUBY-LANE. Losses and Manager, Mr. JAMES ANDERSON. TO-MORROW EVENING, Will be presented. by her Majesty's Servants, JULIUS CASAR. Julius Caesar, Mr. C. Fisher; Octavius Cesar, Mr. Everett; Mark Anthony, Mr. Anderson ; Brutus, Mr. Vanden holt; Cassias. Mr. Cathcart;' Cases, Mr. Cooper; Trebonius, Mr. Diddear ; Decins, Mr. Montague ; Calphurnia, Mrs. Ternan ; Portia, Miss Phillips. To be • folloWed by a New Grand Historical, Metaphorical. Aliegorionl, and Diabolical Pantomime, by the author of " 131uff King Hal ' to be called HARLEQUIN and GOOD QUEEN BESS ; MZRECTII ENGLAND IN THE OLDEN TIME, Private bozos, al. 31., 21. 12s. 6d.,_21. 25., 11. lie. 6d., and 11. Is. Stalls, 55. each. s. d. FIRST PRICE. nroleS - 4 0 Pit - - - 2 0 Lower Gallery - I 0 Upper Gallery - 0 6 Box-book-ko d. SECOND PRICE. Rears - 2 0 Pit - - - I • Lower Gallery - 0 6 No Half-price to Upper Galley, •. Mr. J. Povey. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Mr. B. Webster, isle Lessee and Manager, Old Brompton. TO-MORROW, Will be presented au entirely new and original Comedy, entitled LEAP YEAR ; or, The Ladies' Privilege. Sir Solomon Sohn. Mr. Keeley ; Captain Mouser, Mr. Selby ; Mr. Dimple, Mr. Buckstone ; William Walter, sr. Charles Kean ; Mrs. Flora Flower.lew, Mrs. Charles Kean ; Miss Sally O'Leary, Mrs. Pitzwilliam ; 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; tiell Gwynn*, Miss Reynelis ; Mrs. Snowdrop, Mrs. Stanley. To conclude with BOX and COX. The Box-office is under the direction of Mr. I. T. Archer. THE- T 1 ROYAL, ADELPHI. ;7: 4 .ier the itrectbn Madame Ceiee+•x, TO-MORROW, Will be performed a new domestic Drama, called THE WILLOW O'SE. Principal characters by'llimsrs. Hughes, Wright, P. Beet art , 0. Smith, Worrell; Madame Celeste, and Miss Woolgar. After which an entirely new Extravaganza, entitled DO eIESTIC ECONOMY. John Gramly, Mr. Wright ; Mrs. Ornisly, Mrs. F. Matthews. To conclude with FRANKENSTEIN; or, The Model Man. Franken ,:tein, Mr. Wright ; the What is It ? Mr. P. Bedford; Lamle', Mr. 0. !mitt ; Otto of Rosenberg, Miss Woelgar ; Tiddleivincz, Miss E. Chaplin ; Agatha, Miss Coveny ; ifraline, Miss E. Harding. PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Mr. J. M. Maddox.. Sole Lessee and Manager. TO-MORROW, Will be performed a new comic Opera, entitled THE VALLEY OF ANDORRE. To conclude with RING JAMIE ; or, Harlequin and Magic riddle Harlequin, Mr. Bologna; Palltaleon. Mr. Paul.; Clown, Mr. Flex more ; Columbine. Maki Fawcett. ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. FRENCH PLAYS AND OPERA COSIIQUE. FIRST AND ONLY MORNING PERFORMANCE, TO-MORROW MORNING, Commencing at Half-past Two and terminating before Five. LE DOMINO NOIR. Lord Ilfert, M. Chateaufort ; Juliano, M. Soler ; Horace, M. lAc ; Gil Peres, M. Baguet; Angela, Madlle. Chartou ; Brigitte, Madlie. Cotti g Ursula, Madlle. Danhaussez ; Jacinthe, Madame Mancini ; Gertrude, Madlle. Ylgny. The hoz-efilce et the Theatre is open daily from Eleven till Floe. NEW ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE. Sole Lessee, Mr. W. Watts, St. John's Wood. TO-MORROW Will be performed THE MERCHANT OF VENICE. Duke, Mr. Johnstone; Antonio, Mr. Ryder; Bassani°, Mr. .'onway; Gratiano, Mr. Wigan ; Lorenzo. Mr. Belton ; Shylock, Mr. G. V. Brooke ; Launcelot Gobbo, Mr. Compton; l'ortia, Miss Fanny Vining; .Ne riegm, Mrs. Seymour: Jessica, Miss Oliver. Alter which a new Farce, entitled A DEAD TAKE IN. Captain Darceurt, Mr. Wigan ; Hector Poelet, Mr. Compton; Clara, Miss Myer. --- le conclude with TILE MIDNIGILT WATCH. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPIIITHEATM. Proprietor, 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 COHSE DE LEON ; or, the Brigand of Savoy. To be followed by a brilliant display of Batty's peerless scenes of the Circle, enpported by the accomplished artistes of the establish ment. Te conclude with a grand Equestrian Comic Pantomime, by Nelson Lee, called HARLEQUIN YANKEE DOODLE,* ho came to Town upon hls little rimy. rox-effice ()pea from EloVen till Your. U10:] wATE.R. AT VOSDON Fitts Day --‘l6rning, 32 Min. after 2 I Evening, 7 min. after 3 te-goasow - 'Mamma, 23 min. after 3 j Nves,w, 36 min. any, 3 THE WEATHER.—Sus OFFICE, FEE 13. THERMOMETER, Lowest, 28, Higheit, 45, Noon, 36 BARoMETER. 30'06. WIND W.N.W.—fine sunshiny weather. ... • , 4 ~..,.„...i i (.........,,... -, : i .. ,,,.„ ~,,T,...,:t......v4(t.:714( , tc . , • '. l ,"isbi - .I.' .; ' • ' ..-4 . •"'i b. .--, .. *eir.,. , ‘„,:t. • • t— . far__'.,, ~ r • v *r .. a s '• - j.. e't , • - (Stiirixitt aAtit; LONDON, WEDN SD 3Y, FEBRUARY 13. MO, Although Mr. MILINER GissoN 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 Lnglish 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 muses is rendered almost an entire irepoasi 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 KNIGHT, • 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 his undisputed abilities as a commentator upon SLIMESPERE, 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 st 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 %Angle work like the "Penny Cyclopmdia," 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 imposition upon the paper of three half pence per pound. Never was the story of the arith metical increase of farthings on the nails of n horse shoe, a story kr.mortaliz-A in the golden histort of " S ir,dtord :4nd Merton" more lamentably illustrated Out of this three-half-penny tax emerged a tremen dous incubus of thirty-two thousand pounds, which has been ever since weighing upon the origi nator and publisher of this noble and national cyclopsedi.J. 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 • " The Struggles of a Boojc against Excessive Taxation." By Charles Knight. Bvo. Pp. 16. London, Fleet-stteet, 1850. THE SUN, LONDON, WIEDNZSDAY EVENING, FEERtTARY ls, lose poured into the Excise ! These 16400/. 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 82,0001. Thirty-two thousand pounds dead weight of taxation on a single work, and that work the " Penny Cycloptedia"—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,Cyclopmdia," 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 KNIGHT 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 1 " 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,Cyclopmdia," 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 ehirtmakers from copy furnished by the most ig norant, at the " wages of scavengers." Both " The Sewer " and " The Fountain " 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 worth of Mr. SIMON'S report, "its unrestricted supply is the first essential (,f 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 statement* of the Ex., ccutive 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 the 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 mon to a large number of persons, and supplied only at intermittent periods. We have already pointed out the evils of this system, and we have; no reason to believe them to he 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 of the landlord, and the expense of a separate cistern or water-but: for each house neces sarily entailed 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 that the ravages of cholera ware 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. JAMES WILD, 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 hat•itF, furnished by Provi dence for human use, without 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 cost of its conve nient distribution. "3. That it is equally the interest and the duty o f the community. as a protection from contagion and dis ease; as a Mitt' from the pressure of rites caused b ; the bad health and debility of the poor ; a nd as an in strument of the devation of the morals of the labuuring classes, by affording them every faci;ity for the improve ment of their domestic habits, to enforce the introduc tion of an abundant cons eyed suppiy of pug e water into evk ry house in the cut tropoli s , without exception or dis- Lir , ctiott of class, on the principle of constant service and high pressure. "4. That economy in cost of distribution, in survey, collection, and manapment, uniformity of plan, is,ses meat, and regulation, and the requisitions of sanitary Police and domestic morals, equally suggest that tLe necessary supply should be in the hands and under the control of the public, managed by a parochial repre sentation, which shall embrace the whole area of distri bution, regulated by a competent commission chosen by • " Supply of Water to the Metropolis. The Case of the Rate-payers and Consumers stated by the Execu tive Committee cf the Metropolitan Parochial Water- Supply Association." London: Henry Renshaw. the consumers, and paid for by a parish rate on the ad justment of an equal assessment. " 5. 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 ',lle police, censors, and cut ators, con stituted the means of cleanliness and purification an im portant part of their ;public admiui:trAion, leads to the conclusion, that the supply of water ti large cities can not taMy or economically be left to the hazards of pri vate enterprise, or the disjointed action of conflicting bodice. 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 b:ead; and the time has 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 Re;istrar- General, all leading to oce 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 In-, 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, unifirmity, 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 ccncedes 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 cf 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 who 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 CIIANGARNIER 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 o thers, that of placing their districts in a state of siege. These important commands will, it is said, be entrusted to Generals CIIANGARNIER, DE CASTELLANF, MAGNAN, ROSTOLAN, and GEMEAU. The near approach of the elections creates some excitement in Paris, and M. CARLIER, 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. lie 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. lie 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. GoUDCHAUX and MALORMET, but they object to N. MAREAST, although the pure Re publicans would probably support his candidature ; M. EMILE DE GIRARDIN 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 LAHITTF, the Minister for Foreign Affairs Tne Legitimatists talk of starting the Count DE CHABROL ; and the Bonapartists intend to put for ward M. THAYER and the DUO DB PADOUF. The Republican candidates will have the benefit of the support of M. EMILE DE GIRARDIN, who, in the Pre.vse of Monday, makes the following declaration : " Paris has to elect thrt e representatives. We de clare, in advance, that whoeser may be the tht eo candi dates of the Opposition, our ce -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. Is is it alone, therefore, which must be accused. Between two dangers—that of going back • wards and that cf going forwavds—WO have chosen the ley t, and have given the pt.( f:rei.ce to the future instead t f tI e past. Triellvolu iou, ythic:t has t ice—!n 1830 1813—broken irons its ma} be directed, but it cannot be stepped. On this point all illusions should be dissipated, all fears be resigned, all resistance be en lightened." The Assemblee Nationale says :—" The Cercle Constitutionnel, which for a short time past has had its sittings in the Rue 'faitbout, 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 et the election of the Charente has now come to hand. Lieut.-Col. EDGAR NET obtained 58,750 votes, and M. BA BAUD-LARIDIERB 24,297. The judicial inquiry into the late disturbance at the Cane St. Martin is nearly terminated. The number of persons arrested who have been amnestied at Belle• Isle amounts to 50. M. LEOUTRE, ex-responsible editor of the:Reforme, was on Saturday condemned by the Court of Assizes to four months' imprisonment and 3,0001. 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 had been doubled. Accounts have been received from Algiers to the th 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 the 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 Phi lippeville. The natives treated the shipwrecked men 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. A letter from Toulon of the 1 7th, says :—" The Spanish war steamer Vulcano, Captain Busquilo, cast anchor 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 tEe Roman States. The early arrival of the POPE Zt Bologna was announced. is for the return of his Ho-1 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 lanlmssaeor at Athens. It is again rumoured that the sqmdron of the Mediterranean will soon return, but this appears to us to be entirely unfounded. It is not very probable in fact that the Government of the Republic can have sent an order to these naval fo: ces to return at the moment at which the English as sume a menacing attitude towards Greece. The Zenobie frigate, the Pomone fiigatc, and the steam corvette Peony, 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 lath." PARIS BOURSE, FEB. 12.—There were comparatively few speculators at the Bourse, and there was but little bu.icess tianas4ted. The Five per Cents. opened at 96f. 50c., rose to 96f. 60e., fell subsequently to 961. 25e., and closed at 961. 50e. the Three per Cents. closed at 58f. 60c.; Orleans Railroad Shares at 810 f. ; Rouen, 575 f.; Itivre, 250 f.; Great Northern, 4661. 25e.; Avig non, 212 f. 50c.; Vierzon, 320 f.; Basle. 1151.; Bordeaux, 4111. 25e.; Paris and Strasburg, 358 f. 75c.; Tours and Nante7, 265 f. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT TIIE LONDON STOCK-EXCHANGE, FEB. 12. Boulogne and Amiens, 7 1 4—East Indian, 3% 4 —Namur and Liege, VA—Paris and Rouen, :43%. salt, and imposed a tax on mortgages. The Tuscan budget for 1850 is fixed at 35.000,000 francs. THE AFFAIrtS OF GREECE. TELEGRAPHIC DISPATCH. FROM THE GOVERNOR OF TRIESTE TO PRINCE SCHWARTZENEERG, 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. TRIKUPIS, is ex route for Paris, and perhaps for London. _ _ _ " lire 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 29th of January thirty English vessels entered the harbour cf the Piraeus, and commanded that all the Greek vessels lying there should weigh anchor, and be 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 Pincus 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. TAIKUPIS Will set off to day, as Ambassador for Paris, ZOGRAPHOS, via Vienna, to St. Petersburgh." SECONDARIES`.—(THIS DAY.) (Before Mr. Secondary POTTER ) WARD V. PRITCHARD. This was an acticn brought on a guarantee. Defen dant suffered judgment to go by default. It appeared that the plaintiff had advanced 1501. to the def,n(lbnt and others on their entering into a guarantee for the repayment, of the'amount, and also effecting a policy of in:Airaziee, 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 pleading, admitted the breach, the production of the deed was sufficient to entitle the plaintiff to a verdict. Verdict for the amount claimed, and interest at 5 per cent. The parties in the other cases not being in attendance, the jury were discharged. BOW-STREET.--(THIS DAY.) An elderly man named .Neal, and a young man named Keef, were charged with assaulting the police. relice-constable F 119 stated, that while on duty last night, betwen seven and eight o'clock, he saw Reef kick ing at a public house door in Brownlow-street, and per ceivi► g that he was drunk, he requested him to go away, but instead of doing so, he became very abusive, and ultimately he attempted to take him into custody. The prisoner, however,• resisted, and during the struggle Neal came up, and demanded that Keef should be re leased. He 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 tore 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. Keef said he was a plasterer, residing in Short's gardens. He had been attending an arbitration, on sub poena, and having drank rather too freely, he was quite unconscious of what had occurred. Neal said he simply interfered because ho knew Reef 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 cabal him a bulldog, which exasperated him, but had the officer been more mild in his manner, no disturbance would have taken place. Mr. HENRY fined Reef 10s., or seven days' imprison ment, and Neal is., or three days. The fines were paid. MARLBRO'-STREET-(THIS DAY.) LOOKING 01:12' FOR ♦ BREAKFAST.—John Crawley, a member cf 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 she sent fur 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 fur the purpose of getting his money. On telling the purport of his visit to Mrs. Count, 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. Bitianast 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 FRAUD.—A well dressed man, who stated that his name was Richard Willis,aad that he was 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 for 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 he 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 fine clear dry weather. DEAL, EEL 12.—A.K., Wind W.S.W., strong; p.m., W.N.W., strong and squally; 6 P. 51., 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 stranded, Feb. 5., and all her crew drowned. Arrd. Williams, .Maracaebo; Queen Dowager, Laguna. Sld., Dec. 25., Ontario, Charleston; Aimee, Charleston; Jenny Lind, INewfoundland. Off Port, Philadelphia, supposed from New York. RAMSGAIE, FED. 12.—The John and Isabella, Sun derland to Portsmouth, has put in to-day, leaky, having struck the ground in Dungeness-roads. RHTL, FEB. 12.—The Ellen *loop, of Bangor, came on shore last night, abandoned in Abergele Bay. CARNARTON, FEB. 12.—The report of a vessel called the Reinder, from Australia, having boen lost in the Bay. is unfout,ded. Alri.ronD, irks. 11.-11 , e Black Prince, Oporto. Newfoundland, is on the rucks. and likely to bee sue wreck; crew saved. Tito lauilie Liverpool to Genoa, is much stia , ned, and must be ca ulked. CLYDE, FEB. 11.—Arrd. Urgent, Mauritius; Huguenot, Savannah; Franconia, Liverpool, for New Orleans, leaky. Sid. Minerva, Batavia; Clydesdale, Trinidad; Isabella, ditto; Charles M‘Lachlan. Boston. RAMSGATE, FEB. 12.—Arrd. Pandora, from Hartle pool, with bows stove, having been in contact with the Prudence, of ;Newport ; the Milena, , Newcastle to Guernsey, leaky, having struck the ground at Dun geness. GALWAY, FEB. 10.—The San Spiridon, which drove on shore at Hare Island sth iust, has become a complete wreck; some cf 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 Paneora. WATERFORD, FEB. 11.—Wind N.E. to W.S.W.— Arrd. Alabama, for Galatz, leaky, &e. PETERHEAD, FEB. 1 1.—Wind S.—Sld. Traveller, Greenland. HARTLEPOOL, FEL 12.—Wind S.W.—Sld. Leipzig, Calcutta. WAINFLEET, 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 hand since our last. Granaried samples moved off to a fair extent, at previous cur rencies. The show of Barley 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 had a good show of English Oats; but that of Foreign was small. On the whole a lair business was doing in them, at fall prices. Beans, Pear, Indian Corn, and Flour commanded very little attention. ARRIVALS THIS WEEK. Wheat. --- -- __ Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. Sacks. Englisk •• •• •• 450 1,010 4,540 1,020 40 scotch.. •• Irish •• •• •• . Foreign •• •• •• , —•— — Barley. Oats. Malt. I Flour. BO7iLOUGII HOP IYZELEZALET. For all kinds of Hops, both Old and New, the demand is heavy, at barely stationary prices. NIVELITECIIAPZL. Prime Beef and Mutton commanded a steady sale, at full prices. In all other kinds of Meat very little busi. ness was transacted. Beef, from 2s 6d to 33 4d; Mutton, 2s 10d to 36 8d; Veal, 3s to 48; and Pork, 2s 10d to 4s per 81138., by the carease. WEDNESDAY CONCERT9.—MII. STAMAIERS'S BEN E• FlT.—The seventeenth of the London Wednesday Con certs for the preent season takes place this evening at Exeter Hall. The performances are for the benefit of Mr. Stammers, the director, to whose enterprize we are indebted for the establishment of these delightful weekly musical reunions. All the notabilities of the Londo❑ Wednesday concerts (including Messrs. Sims Reeves, Fora:o4, and Ernst) will app( ar on the occasion, and there can be no doubt but that the hall will be crowded to excess. LAUNCHES ON THE WEAL—The Sunderland ship builders are emulous of the skill of the Yankee gaiter maker, who threw his productions over his shoulder as he finished them, aad bad a gaiter continually in the air! There is everlasti ng l y i n S underland a ship rushing out of air iato water--seeking, as our friends the penny-a liners periph ras ti ca ll y, i f 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 Dunbar, who had once a crochet in his head (new happily expelled) that shipping was going to the dogs.— Gateshead Observer. MOSEY ADO COMMERCIAL NE , ~ CITY. C21.-.TARTER TO IBIS.: at There was a dull and heavy market for CotL u oo t „ Liverpool yesterday, and the sr:les were o rd : l ' s ;:td ; 2,000 bales. American descriptions were 1-16 d• per lb. lower.—lZail% ay Shares were dull, and I" I had a downward tendency. o d tla The Indigo anctions commenced yestorilay, a , 44 quantity declared is 14,369 chests. This includes B, _ * chests of Bengal. Oude, &c., 1,164 of Mll lllB3, 316 , 0 d liurpah, and 3,790 chests of various kinds, in !e ne . tainel-;. The qualities of the Bengal are about ord. f ,urth good and fine, and three-fourths mid. sod, ? r d, The Madras is one-third mid. and ord., and twe' l ' r d ., good and fine. The Kurpah two thirds raid. a °d ° to n, and one-third good and fine. The Oude, BiEn la P a full and Manilla chiefly ord. The sa li -room presented a buyers, appearance, including a f tir att ,ndatce t f for .i --' but of the borne trade very few, the latter consal61;0! that the advance which has taken place since la L st t y c o'. Ler sales would not be maitt , ained; th. re,,uli, " n- rthe of this the first day has not only so far establisheosso late ris ,, , but has even gone be ) and it. The i n g a opened with a parcel i f Bengal, which, a`ier tr y" s od f w lots at full 9d. per lb. advance, was withdrawn') t o, other parcels were offered which sold readily sl 6 ' l ' l ' o . lb. per a . above October tett s for Bengal ; 4d. 6 , - ) 6cl ' P o d de. above for Madras and Kurpah; and 4d. per lb. for wilt . 1,022 chests passed to-day, of which 251 wer e drawn, 206 bought in, and 565 sold. isted The rates at which bills of exchange were n e g," m s t ies, yesterday aftarnoon, on the principal coutinento:s 621 were all higher. Ninety day s ' papkr was done 0 '', l 56 to 674 on Paris, at 13 121 to 134 on Hamburg'', ' to 40 on Trieste, and 12 24 to 3on Amsterdallo- a the The accounts from abroad a r e t o l e rably 14" d ' In gle' French Rentes continue to advance. In France. W e log, nevertheless, how unsettled is the state of public :l iege ; otherwise it would not be necessary to form th e . 10 4 plans for re-organizing the army stud distil 0304 it into four great divisions under the „, e°°l pl . of generals of known firmness and ab" , i' desire fear of anarchy triumphs even over the Ao riti of liberty, so strongly felt by the large % 0 0 of Frenchmen. We are of opinion that in Baler o be more is being made of the threatening attite ue o for Socialists than is really justified by circume soc ,i i elf trade in France is described as b e i ng s till COSlPO ra teo lill prosperous, the deposits in the sav i ngs ' banks sr e L et alli increasing, and the operati ves an d ar ti s ans sr° %al° well employed, and, one would imagine, ee lha. , e - 030 115 ' not much disposed to join in new political 01 °'. - tea dili Finally, we should note that the Rentes ha l'' It Or e tended upwards, and that sales of English P,t' .. 10 0 stated to have been made recently (mjudicionstadi ie think) for the purpose of investing the Pt w- ...I : French securities. e a seeu There is a very flat market again for Eng"°- that ties, and the Bull account is m a d e t o tell an t 'sO n ' Great efforts are made also to k ee p the mark e l • i vi : point which will bring fewest "opti o n s " into reol o r the 16th ult., the first day of th o new mean" 185d111 were 961 to 97, and from that time hare We i ; t hoog / declining, being at their lowest point this a s ': 951 l a they were done on the 7th inst. also ‘ 5 ,,,,,.' 011 , The " puts " will be available, there i r,„o Fa those who have " calls " are debarred ""015 fog, because there is no rise since they p or ted 1 " .. a Rumour avers that an eminent firm has 01 01- e dact versely to prices because of its hostility to 01 m .- isits, in the rate of interest on Consols, and to O I L S°,'i• supposing the Government had the chance , * l - iS e" t banks are likewise said t 3 be inimical. With his e d , -' lent surplus, the Chancellor of the Exchequer , --- s eew n t withstanding be yet in a position to carry ° ll ' nee lale h i l operation of scarcely less importance, C i a t - a be P H. -- of part of the Irish loan, and such is believe'. ''„ CO' intention. The New Three•and-a-Quarter P e r , b lit , 1 0 5 : have realised 974 to 984. and the Three per ',,, e a t R` duced Annuities 954 to i. India Stock has be Ce ti ' Exchequer-bills have been 555. to 58s. premium' sols now are 961 4. .aalcia 0 fl In the Foreign Mark e t p re p ara tions are •••" to i b to-morrow's settlement. Russian Scrip beadsl -eop premium, being rather higher. Mexican Geell o i touched 294 4. Equador are fiat at 3 i 1 / 6 0 to realise 18k; and Buenos Ayres have rallied ts' ii 89 0 , - 61. Peruvian Stock is still rising; the Ae, ti : e r r9: 11 ,. 83, and the Deferred 37 to 374. Spanish Fi v ''„,,„r e r 0 J : are neglected at 184, and Porte nese Four r" C ep have been 354 ex dividend. Dutch g Four P er have been 864. 0 " ed ° elil Rails ay Shares have been rather dey resa Wes tici- of but they are not very much pressed for sale. boos is rather say that there was a temporary 14 ,,,tisg s k ils buyers, and tt,a.t the result of the ensuing W - 0 1 ",0 being looked to before parties make investle ; tle ,,di F f we know that efforts are being made 0 . . d e i0 51 5, 0 prices, and that a small rate of interest id Plhoreoll instancai to induce lathes not to take the ir 6- 0. 6 .0%, next account day. t,,,cp..:, ONE rts' 9 5.74 PR.uND„ O'CLOCK:, • 95'4 31 or Cent. Reduced Anis ... 95% 3 / 4 'l 2 i 4 A J per Cent. Consols Annuities::: • 05% ; v s i 9 67 ° R 9- 3 , 11 New 1 1 4 per Cent. Anna .. .. -• 98%4 9 ,' 16 " SP Long Arms. to expire Jan.lB6o B'ifi 8 ...• 65 Ditto 30 years, Jan. 5, 1860. . 8% 8 6 P India Stock India Bonds, 1,0004 • 89 86 P 93$ Ditto under 1,000 c.. ...... , 89 8 6 P 0 3 per Cent. Annuit ies , 1751 . .7,7 . 93S 95 . ` 41„ Nd 0 r a onsols for Account xeliec i uer Bills. I 1 / 4 4'` - 5$ i 1,0007. June 55 58 P DO f 5001. June Small. June o,lrilP' I'S l ig , ? 89A razilian Bonds — .. ...... —1 61 Ditto, Account Buenos Ayres Bonds, 6 per Cent... ' 9 ." Ditto, Account . .................. ..• 59 61 5 8 Chilian Bonds 6 per Cent ••••• 79 Do., 3 per cent .. — ' 1 0 Danish Bonds, 1825,3 per Cent. .. --- 4. 1 Ditto 5 per Cent. Equador Bonds . Grenada Bonds, 1 1 / 2 per Cent l B l4 2' 24 M ex i can , s per Cent. 1846, with Coupons-83 Ditto, Ex Jan. Coupons ... ..... . 29Y % 80 Peruvian Bonds, 4 per Cent Ditto, Account Ditto Deferred . . ..... 3 7 37 - 4 . 31 ''.s Portiiiiiie: o ~ er C;11 - ;: , .. .............. 3 .-- . - d .' I: Ditto,4per)Cent. ............. '''' - Ijl°." 2P itu3sian torld3 . ................. 3 . , ,'2 1- Ditto Scrip .. - ." — 2l.‘ lis. *2 P 1 2 8' ; SveD.bnieitt Venezuela uo o l e: l :P a a pß s e s or i nvce.s2t .. . 8 , 74.6 .• • 1 3 ! ill • paws,' .. per C e nt. 36% • 3 5 Ditto,!) Dividends On 1 3 /4 per Cent ....- ron dor. ...., L n the above payable in Dutch 2% per Cent., 12 Guild "14 8 6 P t 1 r i,CO3:ka Ditto, 4 Der Cent. C • • ' " 867 v ertiheateB OO pi i i D PRICES OF BUSIOS' rILOCIC * q" ,;AILWAY SHARES. PAID. AT 0 , 0 ; 0'- .. I, ......... ic ;;uckinghamdaire Caledonian .... Ditto, New 104 Prof... 10 .0 , , i . 3hester and Holyhead... 50 Ditto, Preference eastern Comities— ..... 20 'W ' . 0 Ditto,Extension,s per P ..... Cent., No.l 6/.135. 4d.... ja % P••• ' ... . ... Ditto ditto, No. 2...61. 13s. 4d... i s %a P ..... Eastern Union, Class A PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. cgrE cycL •..1 ..- *" (late E. U. Shares) 25 - ..... ,g , Do. Scrip (6 per cent.) 20 .„ 13F4 ..... ... 0 East Lancashire ti.dinburgh and Glasgow 50 ..„ 2B 27 Ye ' .. ..... great Northern - ......... Great Western 100 ...... 66 65 ..... ...... Ditto, % Shares 5O ...... 3 1 1 / 4 .. ,••••• :: .... Ditto, LA Shares Ditto, Fifths .. 20 Ditto. New 171......,. 15 Lancashire Yorkshire 100 - ....... „ ...... Do. Quarters ........ 23% l2 -".. ....... Do. Fifths... ......... ... 10 Leeds and Bradford 5O lOO ........ ...0 _ Loudon & Black wa 11...111. 6s. 3d 4 1 4.""." . 112 ,,1 Lo Mon and N Western 100 113% 114' .„. Ditto, New Quarters.. 12 . Ditto,Fifth, l2 ... .. 13 ....... .. . ... .... London ':,.1% ,, , , 0t0rn lOO _ . ..... • ...... .... Do.. New Preference. 5 Midland ... .1(0 „... 43% ....... uo.Consol. Bristol and 1 ......... Do., do., 50/. Shares 30 Do. Birm., and Derby 1( 0 ... Binning., 6 per ct.... 100 .... 123 ..,;,' ..,„.• N - orth BritiNh ... .... ... 25 .... , 11 lON ... ..." Ditto, Quarters Reading, Guildford, and • Reigate .. ..,„, Royston and Hitchin ... 4%..... s ie ." .. 0 Tiropshire Union ....... .. „.. South Staffordshire B% 4%!6"* ...." &lath Eastern .. N 6u ea th r Valley f, per Cent. 34331)6 1199'4 .9..:::'' ' . .1.. Guaranteed ... .. ...... 50 ........ 0' ~...•••'I Do. do. do. ... 25 York, Newcastle, and f 156 Berwick. ...• ••••••••••• 25 .. Do. G.N.E.Pr e t urcoce 8 ... - 2 „..." York and North Midland 50 .....„ ... . 19%V w. ; . FOREIGN RAIL A:, .......... Boulogne and Amiens... 20 .... .... ....» 71 4r A1 Ditch Rhenish ..~„„ 8 Paris and Orleans ...... 20 .... 8134 " ... MINES. .... .. ....... Anglo-Mexican lOO ...... --- i , ....... Australian. 1 54 % __--.-""'"'''''"----.---"'"-------- 0,00 BIRTHS. o,inerr t° lifo On the 7th inst., at Clarendon-square, w" , wife of Mr. H. P. Davis of a dau liter. j o O hOn n a N t h t uh e ne 9 e 87 1% , .E; c rp ortbe tlsilif°' t of aii e tonifnsaitndsat.u,gahotterFlerry-side, a J. Reddie, Es q ,Admiralty, of a sloin. Bra yton , the t he ~ at ns ow-vi IV, .110 1, vAtilig Oa the 10th inst., at 17.dbroke-square, "" gillg i wife of G. H. Ullathorne, Esq ,of a sov• :r of S C ' 1 cr. un O io n n the .g ro :t e l: a i n n d st. E , s t s h ex e Esq.,t H of a a m d ps a t u e g a n d ier o . n the 11th inst., the w i fe fool pagill of a daughter - Essex-street, r i fee t, of J. Alderton ----------- T r itli t, d '' MARRIED. 00 Sor r) On the 11th inst., at the Church of th e f it' AO" Paddington, Charles Goring, EFq. only 5011.Z.giiretrrl, Dent Goring, Bart., of Iligliden, Sussex , t° ` 1 1, : ; . q. e ' second daughter of the late Jones Panton, jun . ' ' Gwyn, Anglesey. ---------------Maecqtgj; lED. . Joho `'‘. 0 At Trevandrum, on the 1 7 th Decenagen 59 00 Esq., ER.S., F. R. A, S , director of his Hig h° goli, li° yf Travancore's Observatory, agcd 49 years. ~,,, de , 1 .,. On the 7th inst., at Brompton, Miss Fran7l,rt,.;eof tenet', niece of the late Captain Sir Robertßarels:iVilds for'iod, Oa the Atli inst., aged 84, Mr. V‘ . 3 ' ik o f Pg li gea and for nearly half a century a clerk in the a 1341 J0 11115°13'114/rt' N 2 v 7 4 .3 :ll () a u l i t, g S e6 t t aff s rrl f At Dudley', on the 9th lust. Frederick ~.. 5 , 1 ., of R - 0 i r° li d Mu D London: Printed and Published by 7 odic* „ Pi t osi No. 112, Strand, Printer, at TM ou s ;„ t he cv i t r h e. e late W E. Jobvsoo, _........: ~,,,: of Strand, in the Precinct of the g o voy Middlesex, Wednesday, FebruarY 13 ' l'"-. SPAIN. Madrid journals of the 6th have arrived. The Herald() 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 Saville with great pomp. Some of the journals again repeat on the faith of foreign correspondence, that it is the intention of the Montemoliuist 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 °Lax() had been appointed commandant-general of the camp of Gib raltar. M. GONZALEZ BRAVO wag better. M. RIOS ROSAS 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 POPE. MADRID BOLSA, FEB. 6.—The Three per Cents. were done on the Bolsa at 291, and are reported since at buyers, 9-16 sellers; Five per Cents., are 121, Passive Debt, 3f, 15-16. Exchange on London, 50 35. ; Coupons, 7f, PORTUGAL. Intelligence has been received from Lisbon to the 2d. On the previous day the Count of LAY&ADIO 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 bad made with reference to the QUEEN. It was understood to be the Count of LAVEADIO'S 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 THOHAR had prevented his opponent from bringing on his motion by requdsting 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 bad 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 SALDANHA bad made a personal representa tion to the QUEEN upon the affair, when it was re ported that her MAIIESTY had made light of it, and determined to stick by her Cabinet. GERMANY. The Berlin Chambers on the 9th adopted the Habeas Corpus Act for securing personal liberty. A letter from Mentz, of the 6th, says that Count DE DEIGENFELD, 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 GIULAY. 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 elector is to be the paying of taxes varying in amount from five florins to 15 florins, ac• cording to towns and districts. ienna 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. THE HAGUE, FEB. 9.—lt is said that Prince IleNity 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 spired, but it is supposed to have reference to the German question. DENMARK. COPENHAGEW, FEB. 4.—The Minister of Finance has isbued a notice that, according to the most recent information received in his department, the following ports, islands, and towns may be considered ea in ft-cted :—J. Asiatic cholera—the Russian port*, the Prussian ports, the other ports of the Baltic, and Kiel, both inclusive, the ports of the Elbe, and Bremen. 2. Of the yellow 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 those above indicated as infected, and the other ports and cities of Barbary. All the other ports 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 governmens 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 M. DRUET, the President of the Confederation, after stating the purport of the circular, proceeds to name the persons to whom it more particularly refers : " These refugees, it says, are Messrs. Fries, Mem ber a the Provisional Government of the Palati nate ; Richter, De Itotteck, Thiebault, and Tor rent, Members of the Committee of Baden; Gantert and Kuchling, ex-commissioners; Sznaide or Schneider, and Racquillet, military chie fs ; and to these are added, Messrs. Werner, formerly dictator, and Lowenfels mentioned in the decree of the 16th July. In conse quence we invite you, faithful and dear confederates-1. To ascertain as soon as possible if the foreigners above named, or any of them, are in your canton. 2. In case they should happen to be there, to invite them to make their preparations for immediately leaving Switzerland, to cause to be transmitted without delay to our depart and to make known to it to what country t h ey ment of Justice and Police a personal d escr ipti on o f those refugees, wish place they pr o pose to enter France to proceed, n ceontheirw a a n y d to by th wha their destination. 3. To make us a report, between this and the 20th of February at the latest, of the result of the investigations of your authorities, whether the refugees referred to, or any of them, be in your canton or n ot , as also on other measures you may have ordered in execution of the present circular, and of that of the 19tb November, 1849. As regards the other refugee leaders named in the circular of the haelnreport on the 19th November, whose residence is known to you, you are invited to take measures calculated to hasten the de partureyour canton. You will also be kind enough to make us, before 20 as are still in re sult of the measures which you may have prescribed in consequence of this invitation." Switzerland of t su m c o h n o t f h t , The Swiase announces that the Chambre d'lnstruc tion of Geneva has decided that there is evidence sufficient to authorise the prosecution of . " Agent of the Austrian Police of Turin," for con spiring to cause the assassination or the abduction of MAZZINI and other refugees. ITALY. A. rather poor drama, acted at Turin, called The Siege of Alessandria, and representing scenes from the time o f B ARBAROSS A, but of course full of allu sions to the l a t e eve nts in Lombardy, having excited the displeasure of the Austrian Minister, and induced him to address a note to the Government ; M. D'AZEGLIO answered it by sending the Ambassador a few numbers of the Milan journal r Operaio in which King V ICTOR E MMANUEL is most grossly calum niated, observing at the same time that under a con 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 POPE for Rome . is fixed for the beginning of Lent. He will be preceded by Cardinals FRAN ZONt and LAMBRUSCHINL His HoL;NEss, it is said, will re-enter his capital accom panied by the Spanish troops ; and if France should not consent to this, he will place himself at Bologna, under the pr o t ect i on o f the Austrians. By a notification of the Roman Government Com mission, d ate d t h e Ist, t h e importation of corn, cattle, oil, soap, and a few other articles duty-free, at Ancona and Civita Vecchia, is abolished. On the 30th ult. a society of 30 noblemen gave a grand ball at the Palazzo Poli. General BARAGUAY D'HILLIERS and General FERNANDO CORDOVA, and several French and Spanish officers, were present. The Tuscan G overnmen t has doubled the duties on corn and merchandise introduced into the free port of Leghorn. It has also increased the price of JUDICIAL COMMITTEE OF THE PRIVY COUNCIL.—(THIS DAY.) Th• 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 of the Courts of Judicature in Bengal, involving the question of a disputed pedigree. Th• counsel for 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. WIGRAM 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 Hon. T. Pemberton Leigh, and Sir Edward Ryan. CHANCERY.-(THIS DAY.) ♦DAMS V. THE RLACIWALL 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 want of equity. The LORD CHANCELLOR, at the conclusion of the ar guments, stated that he should consider the case before he gave his judgment. THE DUKE OF BEAUFORT P. MORRIS. The further arguments in this part-heard case were then resumed, and occupied the Court the, remainder of the morning. VICE-CHANCERY.—(THIS DAY.) (Befare the ViCE-CHANCELJAA Of ENGLAND.) ♦NDERSON V. WARNER AND OTHERS.-INIUNCTION. Mr. BETMELL 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, had 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 Jewin- 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- G eneral'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 en in junction to restrain the defendant from manufacturing, selling, or communicating, or publishing in any manner the nature of the invention. Mr. Bethell said that he would not on an ex parts mo tion ask for the injunction to the full extent cf 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 ou 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-CHA.NCELLOR, 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 and 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 then proceeded to hear causes, and the arguments in the case of " Becks v. Bell," which came before the Court upon demurrer, occupied the Court the whole morning. (Before the Vice-Chancellor KNIGHT BRUCE.) His Hououu, after disposing of the bankrupt petition of " Johnson v. Bulmer," which came before him upon d o c eceads case d o f t o e h r e a o r w e t h i l e y ! a l ; t o b b e s r o n a g u w m h e i n :h a (Before the Vice-Chancellor WlGRasi.) JOHNSON V. JOHNSON. ia o Il e S C p u t eh ' i a d pl a t c h rat e s-eh W e h pa o r le morning. r 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 Fritts, at Westminster, before the Lord CHIEF BARON and a Special Jury.) THE QUEEN ON THE PROSECUTION OF NAUDSLAY v LORE AND OTHERS. This was a proceeding for the purpose of trying the validity of a patent which was granted in 183$ to a per son of the name of Lowe, for an improvement in the mode of propelling vessels, and was instituted by Mr. Maudalay, 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 Thesiger, 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 bad reference to an improved application of screw propellers to vessels, and Mr. Maudalay alleged that it was perfectly well known to the world for many years previous to the patent being obtained. It appeared that various experiments 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's 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 c.f the vessel, but he had 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 Bramah, who was familiar to the scientific world, took out a patent for a variety of objects, and am ong t h em one for propelling vessels by means of a screw, whic h one to all intents and purposes was the same as the claimed by Mr. Lowe. Again, in 1800, a Mr. Sh orter e i obtained a patent for a screw on a similar principle. tK as made with blades having the appearance of the vertical sails of a windmill, and its only difference to 51r. Low e ' s screw was that it was worked by means of a out-rigger carried out from behind the vessel. Another patent was taken out in 1829, for an invention of a Frenchman named Cammoreaux, also in 1832 iy a Mr. Wo o d cro f t , and in 1836 by a Mr. a llEllickson,_of which i nvo l ve d to a certain extent the principl e of Mr. Lowe's invention. It had, in fact, been admitted by Mr. Low e th a t th e en tire screws or blades u se d b y him had been made and applied be'ore, but, he alleged, had p rove d f a il ures , an d his only claim to orig inal it y Has applying the curved blades, previously in tl t on an axis b e lo w the water line. Independ en t the Learned Counsel theid want of originality, said that the specification was not sufficiently explicit to inform the pub lic of the nature of the invention, and con tended, th ere f ore , t h at Mr. Lowe was no t entitled to the pat en t. 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. COMMON PLEAS.—(THIS DAY.) :Sittings in Banco, Wore Mr. Justice MAULE, Mr. Justice CaEsswELL, Mr. Justice WILLIAMS, and Mr. Justice Luso nap.) ... .. ._. .. The cases which eume before this Court this morning presented no feature of interest to merit 6 report.