The Sun. — London, England, 1850-02-05 00:00:00

EMERSON'S REPRESENTATIVE MEN, jric (One Shillin,g, handsomely printed in post Bvo., uniform With the " Standard Library," and forming the first issue of Bchn's Shilling Series. Other sterling works, ch'efly by American writers, are in preparation, and will be published at short intervals. Henry G. Bohn, York-street, Covent-garden. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. Lessee and Manager, Mr. JAMES ANDERSON. THIS EVENING, Will be presented, by her Majesty's Servants, The historical Play of FIESCO ; or, the Revolt of Genoa. Andrea Doria, Mr. Cooper ; Prince Gianettino Doria, Mr. Fisher ; Marquis de Calcaguo, Mr. Montague ; Fiesco, Mr. James Anderson ; Count Lomellino, Mr. Cathcart; Verrina, Mr. Vandenhoff ; Julia, Mrs. Ternan ' Leonora, Mies Laura Addison. To conclude with a New Grand Historical, Metaphorical, Allegoriebsi, and Diabolical Pantomime, by the author of " Bluff King Hal 'to be called HARLEQUIN and GOOD QUEEN BESS ; or. MEERIE ENGLAND IN THE OLDEN TIME, p rivate b o xes, E. 3a., 21. 12s. 6d., 21. 25., 11. I Is. 6d., and 11. Is. Stalls, ss. each. 8. d. I s. d. FIRST PRICE. SECOND PRICE. Boxes - - 4 0 Boxes - - 2 0 Pit - - - 2 0 Pit • - - 1 0 Lower Gallery -1 0 I Lower Gallery -0 6 Upper Gallery - 0 6 No Half-price to Upper Gallery. Box-book-keeper, Mr. J. Povey. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Mr. B. Webster, Sole Lessee and Manager, Old Brompton. THIS EVENING, Will be presented an entirely new and original Comedy, entitled LEAP YEAR ; or, The Ladies' Privilege. Sir Solomon Solos, Mr. Keeley ; Captain Mouser, Mr. Selby ; Mr. Dimple, Mr. Buckstons ; William Walker, Mr. Charles Kean ; Mrs. Flora Flowsrew, Mrs. Charles Kean ; Miss Sally O'Leary, Mrs. Fitawilliam ; Mrs. Crisp, Mrs. F. Matthews. To conclude with the Comedy of NELL GWY:"..4. - NE. King Charles, Mr. Webster; Charles Hart, Mr. Vandenhoff ; Joe Haynes, Mr. Selby ; Orange Moll, Mr. Keeley ; Nell Gwynne, Miss Reynolds ; Mrs. Snowdrop, Mrs. Stanley. The Box-oftles is under the direction of Mr. I. T. Archer. THEATRE ROYAL. ADELPHL Under tae direction THIS of Madame Celege. EVENING .. . _ Will be performed a new domestic Drama, called THE WILLOW COPSE. Principal characters by Messrs. Hughes, Wright, P. Bed fere , 0. Smith, Worrell ; Madame Celeste, and Miss Woolgar. Atter which an entirely new Extravaganza, entitled DO MESTIC ECONOMY. John Grimily, Mr. Wright ; Mrs. Grnmly, Mrs. F. Matthews. Te cenelude with FRANKENSTEIN; or, The Model Man. Franken stein, Mr. Wright ; the What is It ? Mr. P. Bedford; Zamiel, Mr. 0. mlth ; Otto of Rosenberg, Miss Woelgar ; Tiddlevrlncz, Miss E. Chaplin ; Agatha, Miss Coveny ; llncline, Miss E. Harding. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Under the Management of Madame Vestals. Sole Lessee. Mr. Charles Mathews. THIS EVENING, Will be perftrmed USED UP. After which THE ISLAND OF JEWELS. To conclude with AN APPEAL TO THE PUBLIC. Dress Boxes Sc.; Upper Boxes, 4 s. ; Pit , 2 s. ; ueuery, Is. No Laif-prioo to any part of the house. All applications for Private Boxes must be made to Mr. Allcroft, 15 Sew Bond-street. PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Mr. 3. M. Maddox. Sole Lessee and Manager. THIS EVENING, Will be performed a new comic Opera, entitled THE VALLEY OF ANDORRE. To conclude with KING JAMIE ; or, Harlequin and Magic Fiddle Harlequin, Mr. Bologna; Pantaloon, Mr. Paulo; Clown, Mr. Flex more ; Columbine, Miss Fawcett. ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. FRENCH PLAYS AND OPERA CONIIQUE. Mr. MITCHELL begs respectfully to announce that the Freneh Performances at the St. James's Theatre will commence TO-MORROW EVENING, At Half-past Seyen, wken will be performed ITN TIGRE DE BENGALE. With Herold's Opera, in Three Acts, entitled ZAMPA ; on, La Fiancee de Marbre. Zampa, M. Chollet ; Alphonse de Monza, M. Killy Lerey ; Daniel Capuzzi, M. Soyer ; Dandolo, M. ChateaUfort ; Camille, Madlle. Charton ; Ritta, Madlle. Guichard. The Box-office of the Theatre is open daily from Eleven till Five. NEW ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE. Sole Lessee, Mr. W. Watts, St. John's Wood THIS EVENING. Will be performed the Tragedy of ARIADNE. (Enarus, Mr. Ryder ; Theseus, Mr. Davenport ; Pirithous, Mr. Conway ; Areas, Mr. Knicch ; Nerima, Miss Oliver ; Phmdra, Miss F. Vining ; Ariadne, Mrs. Mowatt. After which a new Farce, entitled A DEAD TAKE IN. Captain Darcottrt, Mr. Wigan ; Hector roulet, Mr. Compton; Clara, Miss Oliver. To conclude with a new Farce called LAW FOR LADIES. Mr. 2ierey Twizzleton, Mr. Wigan ; Mrs. Howard, Mrs. Seymour. ASTLE IC'S ROYAL AMPIIITHEATRZ. Pr"orletor, Mr. W. Batty. - A Grand Juvenile Night, commencing' with the Pantemime will take place on Thursday. TUIS k. V ENIN The performance will commence at a Quarter to Seven, with a ew Grand Spectacle of THE KNIGHT OF THE EAGLE CREST ; •r, The Tourney of Love, in which Mr. N.T. Hicks will appear. To be followed by a brilliant display of Bitty's peerless scenes of ..he Circle, supported by the accomplished artistes of the establish ment. io --- donclude with a grand Equestrian Comic Paatemime, by Nel -1 Lee, called HARLEQUIN YANKEE DOODLE, who came to Town upon his little Pony. Box-office open from Eleven till Four. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Ins DAT —Morning, 54 rain. after 7 I Evening, 25 min. after To-Meinow —Morning, 2 min. after 9 1 Evening, 38 min. after 9 THE WEATHER.-SIIN OFFICE, FEB. 5. THERMOMETER, Lowest, 39 ; Highest, 46 ; Noon, 43. BAROMETER, 29.66. Wnn W.S.W.—Morning, cloudy ; Afternoon, fine sunshiny weather. \Jfl ufl LONDON, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1850. It is to be hoped that the present session may be distinguished from its predecessors by the activity and energy displayed from its very commencement. Heretofore but little progress has been achieved in the business of legislation during the earlier months— long and unnecessary debates have consumed the entire time of both Houses for more than half the period allotted for their sittings ; discussions have been unduly protracted, repeated adjournments have taken place ; seven, eight, or in some instances, nine or ten nights had been consumed upon a single ques tion ; procrastination in every possible shape, and on the most frivolous pretexts, has been resorted to ; unpleasant topics have been shelved for the time being by the stale device of " counting out " the House, the successful parties apparently forgetting that resolute and determined men cannot be silenced by such childish expedients, and that other opportunities will be found when an audience must be yielded. The evil day is only delayed, not altogether avoided, and much valuable time, in which really urgent matters might be dispatched, is wasted in the vain attempt of silencing some chosen representative of the people. The natural consequence of this unwise and im politic system is, that an enormous quantity of busi ness remains undisposed of at the very close of each session ; that many Bills, supported by overwhelm ing majorities of both Houses have been either altogether withdrawn, or so mutilated in their progress from undue haste, as to be deprived of their efficiency and rendered comparatively useless. This serious mistake will, we trust, be avoided during the present year. An improved spirit is already perceptible, from which we anticipate the happiest results. The first debate on the Address to the Crown, which involved the great question which it was feared would constitute the "chief obstruction to the progress of all useful legislation," was con cluded in two sittings, and the majority was so de ciaive (119, in a House containing 503 Members), that it must be obvious—even to those most obtuse in their perceptions, and dull of comprehension—how utterly useless it is again to agitate the subject, and thereby unnecessarily to waste the public time. The debate in the Lords, which was disposed of the very first night of the session, and by a majority no lass aatisrantory than that in the Commons, must have completely annihilated the hopes of the Protectionists, if any such really existed. The very assembly on whose proceedings the most sanguine expectations were based afforded the most prompt and unqualified evidence of its fixed determinatio n not to disturb the s ,s great settlement which has so recently come into 'operation, or to make any movement in favour of the `resuscitation of the defunct monopoly, or the re-impo sition of the iniquitous and universally condemned bread-tax. This "heavy blow and great discourage.. ment" will, we trust, undeceive the agriculturists, and induce them to restrict their exertions to practical reforms, in which the groat body of the people . may concur. They may learn from their very , -oxen how u se l ess it i s " to ki c k aga i ns t th e pricks,' land that they can only sustain loss and injury by any new agitation on the subject. If this great impediment to the dispatch of pressing business he removed, we may hope that the year 1850 will be rendered remarkable fur the number of useful and practical reforms introduced into and car ried through both branches of the Legislature. There are already many subjects respecting which notices have been given affording ample scope for legislative action. Ministers and private Members are alike prepared, and no loss of time can arise from lack of suitable business to be disposed of. The order-book exhibits the strongest evidence of this general prepa ration. This day the Chancellor of the Exchequer will bringiorward, on the part of Government, a Bill for amending the Laws relating to Savings' Banks" —the absolute: necessity whereof has been shown by the late infamous frauds, by which the innocent depositors have been victiiLised. The Right Hon. Baronet will also move for the appointment of a Select Committee on Savings' Banks, and on the Army and Ord nance Expenditure. To-morrow the Solicitor- General will move for leave to bring in no less than four Bills, having f.r their objects the amendment and alteration " of the practice of the superior courts of common law in Ireland," " the simplification and improvement of the proceedings in the Court of Chancery in Ireland," " the registration of assurances of lands in Ireland," and " the amend ment of the laws concerning judgments" in that country:; arid Mr. HAWES will also move fur the re-appointment of a Select Committee respecting the affairs of Ceylon, when we may hope that some important statements will be made respecting that misgoverned and ill-treated, but most valuable co lony. Thursday is necessarily given up to private Members, but on Friday the First Lord of the Trea sury will bring in a Bill for the better Government of the Australian Colonies, and make a statement of the colonial policy of the Government. The Chief Secretary fur Ireland will on the same evening intro duce a measure "to restrain party processions" in that ill-fated land. The Solicitor-General will bring forward two Bills, one granting additional leasing powers to persons having limited estates in Ireland, and the other for the better administration of charit able trusts. The Chancellor of the Exchequer will endeavour to make better provision for " the management of the Woods, Forests, and Land Re venues of the Crown, and for the direction of public works and buildings ;" and the Home Secretary will move for a Committee on prison discipline. This is a full and animated programme for a single week. It is, indeed, " a dainty dish" to lay before the Commons ; and with such abundant fare there is no chance of their having to rise unsatisfied from the legislative banquet. But there is also an abundant supply from private sources, among the most impor tant of which we may notice a measure by the Hon. Member for West Surrey, to_facilitate the transfer of real property ; one by the Hon. Member for Yong hal, for the repeal of the penal Acts against the Roman Catholic religion ; a motion by the Hen. Member for Glasgow, " that it is expedient and just to incorporate by an Act of Parliament the parishes of Kensington, Chelsea, Fulham, and Hammersmith, into a Parliamentary borough em powered to return two Members, to fill up the vacan cies caused by the disfranchisement of Sudbury ;" and, although last, by no means least in importance, the reintroduction by the Hon. Member for Bute, of the Bill for the Amendment and Alteration of the Act 5 and 6 Will. IV., so far as relates to Marriages within certain of the prohibited Degress of Affinity. This last measure, the withdrawal of which at the termination of last session created such wide-spread disappointment and regret, is so just and politic—so wise and expedient in itself—supported so strongly by all classes in the community—by pre lates and ministers of the Church by law established, by the highest authorities of the Roman Catholic Church, and by the distinguished Dissenters and Nonconformists, that we can entertain no possible doubt but that the grievance which has so long existed, and which has blighted the happiness of so many families, will be at once and for ever removed before the separation of Parliament for the Easter recess. The question has been so fully argued, so thoroughly investigated on every point, and through all its ramifications, that no possible pretext can exist for any further delay—a delay which is so cruel and unnecessary in itself, and so annoying and vexatious to many persons of high and delicate minds and moral and religious habits. We have already alluded to the animus exhibited by the Incorporate) Law Society, through their counsel, in dealing with the claim of Mr. WILLIAM HENRY BARBER to be re•admitted to the practice of his profession. Every point that could possibly be brought forward, however stale, was pressed into the service ; every exertion was made to discover matters on which even a question of doubt could be raised, and the same spirit of unrelenting hos tility and vexatious procrastination was exhibited be fore the Master during the preliminary investigation which was afterwards so painfully conspicuous before the Court itself. Two grounds of opposition were chiefly relied on by the society, as rendering Mr. BARBER unworthy of his certificate. First it was contended, " that the verdict of the jury in SLACK'S case was substantially correct, that it would be most perilous if the Court should express any doubt of the propriety of a verdict w a bich had been so pronounced, and that the Royal pardon merely freed the applicant from the penal conse quences of the conviction, but that it did not remove the moral taint, so as to place him in every respect in the same position as he was in before he committed the crime," and, secondly, on alleged cases of malpractice in his profession, unconnected with what may be termed the " will forgeries." The first class of objections, it will be seen, resolved itself into an attempt to re-hear the entire question of the guilt or innocence of Mr. BARBER in reference to these transactions, to violate the well-known rule of Jaw which declares that a party shall not be placed a second time on bis trial for the same offence, to impeach the decision of the only tribunal competent to review an erroneous decision upon facts, and to limit the prerogative of the Crown, by materially reducing the beneficent results of the Royal pardon, and restricting its opera tion within the narrowest limits. The new trial was manifestly a second thought. No such proceeding had been contemplated in the first instance, either when the reference was obtained, or when the inquiry was proceeded with before the Master. It is certain! that the Court would never have sanctioned a course so illegal in itself and oppressive towards the party whose conduct formed the subject -matter of the investigation. The object of the statute in requiring a term's notice to he given of the intention of any party, who had omitted to take out his certificate, within the time appointed by law for that purpose, to again enter upon a professional career, was, that full . information might be obtained as to the circumstances under which he had discontinued to practise, and his conduct and employment during the intervening period. These points were so fully known in the present instance, that, according to filr FREDERICK TLIESIGER:B own admission, " the inquiry would have been an idle one." The officer of the court accord ingly, in deference, we suppose, to the wishes of the Incorporated Law society, took upon him self to alter the rule as originally prepared under the direction of the Judges, and thus materially enlarged the sphere of his own duties. He did not, however, for a moment contemplate assuming the functions of a new jury, by pronouncing any opinion on the guilt or innocence of Mr. BARBER ; neither was it then attempted by the society to impose such a task upon the Learned Gen tleman. On the contrary, at the very commence ment of the proceedings, and prior to the delivery of any documents, Mr. MAUGHAM distinctly stated that " the society did not mean to attempt to prove guilt, but to inquire whether Mr. BARBER had not betrayed, gross negli gence," to which the Master replied, " No, I cannot suppose that I am expected to try a case of felony ;" and yet this very charge of "felony" was subsequently insisted upon, contrary to the declaration of the society's solicitor ; and Sir F. THESIGER struggled, with all his ingenuity, to prove that her MAJESTY, and her able and impartial Home Secretary, had been imposed upon, and committed a gross blun der ! What could be the motive for this palpable inconsistency ? Was it not that the unfortunate applicant might be subjected to additional embarrass ment by being called upon to answer simultaneously the question of guilt and the minor charge of mere negligence ? A further evidence, if any were required, of the spirit in which the opposition was conducted, may be collected from the fact that the certificates of good conduct obtained from persons holding official situa tions were not admitted to be read, because they were not " statements on oath." These documents were of the utmost importance in the case, exhibiting the conduct and demeanour of Mr. BARBER, under the most trying circumstances, in a very favourable light. They had been admitted before the Master, but were subsequently withheld from the Court, and let us ask upon what ground ? Soon after the inquiry commenced Mr. MAUGHAM called upon Mr. BARBER to produce for hi 3 inspec tion and examination the originals of the documents set forth in the pamphlet. This was accordingly done, and be and his son devoted several hours to a minute examination of each, comparing word for word, and closely looking at the signatures, many of which he said he knew to be genuine. Having done this, he delivered to the Master a copy of the pamphlet, with the narrative portions struck out, leaving the reports, subscription lists, letters, certificates, &c., marked as examined—at the same time observing to the Master that he had erased what he could not admit as evidence. Nothing could have been more clearly understood than that these certificates were admitted as genuine, and that they should be used as such. Notwithstanding this, Sir FREDERICK THESIGER took a technical objection to their being read to the Court, because they were not legally authenticated! and thus a body of very im portant evidence was shut out, not merely as to Mr. BARBER'S conduct since his conviction, but demon strative of his innocence and entire blamelessness. We regret that our space this day will not enable us to go fully into the other pieces of " sharp prac tice" exhibited towards this cruelly persecuted man in the course of the inquiry, not only in reference to the forgery, but also the malpractice cases. A system of annoying and vexatious litigation was pursued, which justifies the opinion of a respected contemporary (the Law Times, 2d February, 1850) that— " This branch of the opposition by the Law Institution appears, then, to us to be utterly indefensible on any principle of justice and humanity, and gives to the pro ceeding more of the aspect of persecution by some per sonal enemies, than the act of a public body discharging a public daty." THE FRENCH REPUBLIC. We have received the Paris journals of yesterday. The Moniteur announces the departure of M. DEOUYN DE L'HUYs, as Ambassador, to London. On this subject Galignanis Messenger says : " One of the rumours on Saturday which tenclei to occasion the fall in the price of the funds was that of an order for the immediate departure of the French fleet fjr the Piraus, in order to protect Greece against Eng land. We can contradict this rumour upon good authc rity. It is, however, true, that the affairs of Greece, coupled with those of Switzerland, have occasioned the immediate departure of M. Drouyn de l'Hum who left Paris last evening as Ambassador Extraordinary to the British Government. Count Slarescalchi, the secretary to the French Embassy, will leave in a few eays." On the 31st ult. no less than 207 persons were arrested in Lyons and its suburbs; of these sixty natives of Lyons, who proved that they were work men seeking employment, were discharged; sixty who were not natives of Lyons were passed home to their respective communes ; and the remainder, who were recognised as vagabonds and discharged convicts, were committed to prison. No reasons are given for these wholesale arrests. M. MARC DUFRAISE, Representative of the people and editor of the Ruche de la Dordognp, has been sentenced to six months' imprisonment and a fine of 2,000 francs, for exciting the population to civil war. The following are the Republican candidates for the department of Saone and Loire :—MM. ARMAND MARRAST, DUPONT DE BUSSAC, MADIER DE MONT JAU, and EUGENE SUE. There is every probability of their success. Several steamers have left Toulon for Civita Vecchia, to bring back troops from Rome. The Journal du Cher of the 2d states that an Irish priest, inhabiting one of the communes of the arrondissement of Ssncerre, has been expelled France. The Bourse was animated, and a considerable quantity of business was transacted. The Five per Cents. opened at 94f. 75e., fell to 94f. 70c., and rose subfequently to 95f. 50c., at which price they closed ; the Three per Cents. closed at 57f. 90c. ; Orleans Railroad Shares at 812 f. 50c.; Rouen, 595 f.; Havre, 252 f. 50c.; Great Northern, 4671. 50e.; Avignon, 212 f. 50c.; Vie: zon, 328 f. 75c.; Paris and Strasburg, 360 f.; Tours and Nantes, 267 f. 50c. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK-EXCHANGE, FEB. 4. Boulogne and Amiens, 7% Dutch Rhenish, 2—East In. dian, 4—Luxembourg, 24—Orleans and Bourdeaux, 3 3 / 4 — Rouen and Havre, 93/4. SPAIN. Madrid journals of the 30th ult. nave arrived. The Senate on the 29th ult. adopted the Bill on the army, and that on railways. In the Chamber of Deputies, the debate on the Bill for authorising the Government to levy the taxes was resumed, ; and, in the course of it, M. GONZALEZ BRAVO demanded ex planations from M. Rios ROSAS with respect to cer tain reflections he made on a previous day , he specially required to be told: if M. Rios Roses had meant to charge him with being an apostate to his political principles, and with having committed in 1843 a dishonourable action ? To all this M. Rios Roses replied in an evasive manner. M. GONZALEZ BRAVO thereupon became greatly irritated, and applied some strong language to M. Rios ROSAS. At this the latter fiew into a violent passion, and in a wrathful reply attacked M. BRAVO more severely than before. Great agitation was caused in the Chamber by the affair, and the whole of the sitting was occupied by observations and explanations from the two adver saries, the Minister of the Interior, and other depu ties. On the rising of the Chamber, a meeting between M. Rios ROSAS and M. GONZALEZ BRAVO was arranged ; the seconds of the former being Gen. BLASER, M. NOCEDAL, and M. SAN Resiem ; of the latter, General AasiEito, M. POLO, and M. GARCIA llinewo. The weapon chosen was the pistol. An exchange of shots took place without result, and the pistols were reloaded. Lots were drawn to see which of the two should fire first. The chance fell on M. GONZALEZ BRAVO, and he fired at M. Rios Roses without hitting him. M. Rios ROSAS then returned the shot, and M. GONZALEZ BRAVO was struck in the breast. Me dical men dressed the wound on the ground, and M. GorizeLaz BRAVO was conveyed to his residence. There the wound was dressed a second time, but the efforts to extract the bullet were unsu cces sful. The wound is stated to be very serious, but the physicians state that they do not consider it mortal. The affair had caused a profound sensation in Madrid. On the 30th the Chamber did not meet before four o'clock. It rejected by a large majority a mo tion of M. ORENSE, to the effect that the debate on the Bill on the Taxes should not be closed so long as any deputy should wish to speak. The Chamber was left sitting. Great agitation prevailed in the Assembly, and it was rumoured that the Ministry had resolved to close the session at once. MADRID BOLSA, JAN. 30. Three per Cents., 20 9-16:;Five per Cents., 12:1 Exchange on Lon don, 50 33. GEMIANI.T. The Preuissische Staats Anzeiger publishes the following royal message to the two Houses of Par liament:— " We, Frederic William, by the Grace of God King of Prussia, &c., have been katiiefied to sae from the last resolutions cf the two Houses of our Parliament, that a greet majority of them have assented to our propositions on the Charter of the Constitution. Respecting the abolition of entails we bavo been grieved to find the same assent could not be obtained. We purpose, there fore, in the spirit of the proposition to reserve, fur the 14W on entails as well the preservation of the vested rights of the claimants, as a foundation for the constitu tional creation of an Upper House. " We take it that the revision t f the Charter, as sti pulated in the draught of that document, dated sth December, 1848, is now concluded. We have, therefore, ratified the said Charter with all the changes and addi tions voted by Parliament. According to the conclud ing clause cf that Charter, we are now willing to take the oath prescribed therein in the presence of our two Houses cf Parliament, and in return to receive the oath cf our Ministers and of the Members of the said two Houses. This solemn act is to take place on Wednes• day, the 6th cf February, of this year, and we call upon the Members of the two Houses to assemble on that day, at 11 o'clock A.m., in our Royal Castle et Berlin. " FREDERIC WILLIAM." " COUNT BRANDENBURG, VON LANDENBERG, VON MANTEUFFTL, VON STItOTHA, VAN DER HEIDT, VON RABE, SI3IONS, VON SCHLEINITZ. " Charlottenburg, Jan. 31, 1850." M. DE BOLDESCHURUGII, President of :the Council of Administration of Germany, has, like tbe Minis ters BRANDENBURG and MANTEUFFEL, been elected one of the Representatives of Berlin in the German Parliament of Erfurth. In thanking the electors for the hononr conferred on him, M. MANTEUFFEL de clared that he would serve by all means in his power the great cause at Erfurth (that of the unity of Ger many), and for that purpose would associate himself with M. HENRI DE GAGERN. He added, however, that he would not forget the important interests of Prussia and Berlin. A letter from Wissemburg status that ten German refugees had arrived in that town from Switzerland, to be conducted beyond the frontier. Two of them refused to leave the French frontier, declaring that they feared being shot. At their own request they were enrolled in the foreign legion. The Cologne Gazette states that the Council of Administration of Germany is occupied with the question whether the Governments of Saxony and Hanover, by their proceedings during the last few inonth, have not violated the treaty of the 16th May, and whether such violation should not be carried before the Arbitral Tribunal. Letters from Vienna of the 30th ult. state that 108 artillerymen with their officers have been frozen to death in the neighbourhood of Wesselburgh. Typhus fever has broken out among the troops in Bohemia and on the borders of Sixony. The Atrgsburgh Gazette states that the Austrian Government is about to proclaim, from the Ist of May next, its adhesion to the uniform legislation in matters of exchange, which is now in course of exe cution in all Germany, except Bavaria. HUNGARY The butcheries of Pesth have been revived, Ko- LASSY and two unfortunate Honveds were hanged there on the '23d ult. The thirst for blood of the red Emperor is not yet slaked. 44 . Vf , ._ 4\ -. ~ . 4 4.4 Rik :•.!-, ' ,. kil , -grigge---7 ~,_411•••"7.:' 4,111‘1&41111 '' . NO.* ri1;1, A .„-,fif. - ; ' ''' 4'44tc.t ‘-- . t . ' 'Vita o • '`, , r "N . ,..' ' _.'.'4.0.-'''—',4&' - . -o4t'',',J6.z ' * 6 :: 4 . • , ITALY In the sitting of the 30th ult. of the Chamber of Deputies of Tulin, the Bill for the e3tablistanent of a school of commerce at Genoa, was passed by a majority of 104 to 25. The Chamber then took into consideration a proposition for fixing a limit to the salaries of public functionaries. A Bill for a credit of 8,289 f. to be applied to the navy was also passed by a majority of torty-three to seven. In the Senate the Bills concerning charitable establishments in Sar dinia and Turin, were agreed to without opposition. The Piedmontese Gazette of the 31st ult. contains the following notice :—" The Italians of the Lom bardo-Venetian Provinces, who may be desirous of addressing themselves to the Austrian Government, are informed that they may henceforward apply directly to the constituted authorities in those pro vinces, or to the Austrian Embassy at Turin." The Leghorn banker, M. BASTOGI, has informed the Tuscan Government that he has sold 3,000 bonds of the new loan at 90 and 91 per cent., so that only 2,735 bonds more remained to be sold. Letters from Rome, of the 26th ult., announce the arrival of Cardinal CASTRACANT 7 Bishop of Palestrina, from Portici. The municipality of V elletri has pre sented General FERNANDO DE CORDOVA with the right of citizenship. On the night of the 21st six robbers broke into a house at Calisese, near Cetana, and wounded several persons. Three of them were arrested on the 23d. COURT CIRC ULAR. WINDSOR, MONDAY. The Queen and Prince Albert walked this morning in the Slopes and Windsor Park. The Royal Family took walking and pony exercise. His Royal Highness Prince Albert rode out this morning on horseback, attindad by Colonel lion. A. Gordon. The Duchess of Sutherland and Lady C. Leveson Gower, the Duke and Duchess of Norfolk and Lady A. Fitzalan Howard, Lord Edward Howard, the Right Hon. Sir Robert and Lady Peel and Miss Peel, and the Rev. Dr. Philpott, left the Castle to-day. There is no addition to the Royal dimmer party this evening. The band of the Ist Life Guards performed the fol lowing pieces during dinner on Saturday evening : March W addell. Walzer (8.11 Bouquet) Petzmayer. Fantasie on the Scotch Air, " Wandering Willie" _ Pot pourri, " II Tancredi" Polka The Queen's private band played the following pieces in the Castle after dinner on Saturday:— Overture, "Le Toreador" ••• Concerto Violin, M. Sainton (lstmovement) Beethoven. Selection, " Marie" Jallacic Marsch. The Rev. Mr. Spencer had an interview with Lord John Russell yesterday, at his official residence in Downing-street. Colonel Fitzgibbon had an interview with Sir George Grey yesterday, at the Home-office. Sr Thomas Frmantle, Chairman of the Customs, had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday. Mr. Tidd Pratt had also an interview yester day with the Right Hun. Baronet, at his official residence i❑ Downing-street. Mr. Anderson, M.P., had an interview with the Right Hon. H. Labouchere yesterday, at the office of the Board of Trade. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. PORTSMOUTH, FEU. 4.—The Hermes steam-sloop, Commander Fishbourne, arrived this morning from Sheerness, towing the Dart brigantine, second master M.Clure, which is to be navigated by a portion of the crew of the Hermes to the Cape of Good Hope, where she will become a tender to the Commodore's ship Castor. The Raleigh, 50, Captain the Hon. Charles Hope, has been taken under the sheers to-day, and had her masts taken out. She will be paid off alongside the dockyard. APPOINTMENTS. WOOLWICR, FBB. 4.—Commander Thomas G. Forbes (1842), to command the Philomel, 8, sloop, commissioned this day at Devonport. Lieutenant A. P. H. Helby, to the Philomel. Acting-Master Francis T. Jameson (Second Master, 1845), to the Philomel. Acting Paymaster and Purser John Tweedie (Clerk 1842), to the Philomel. Midshipmen—R. P. Cator, E. C. Miller, and Charles E. Burlton, to the Philomel. Master's Assistant Frederick Townsend, to the Philomel. Clerk Sydney E. Wright (1848), to the Philomel. Naval Cadet Arthur H. M. Cunningham, to the Fisgard flag-ship, at Woolwich. - - Boatswain John Lee to the Philomel. Carpenter IVilliarn IVhitburn, to the Philomel. Several of the members of the Board of Admiralty contemplate visiting Woolwich Dockyard to •morrow, Feb. 5. Captain Alexander Mile, one of the Lords of the Admiralty ; Captain Sir Baldwin Walker, Surveyor of the Navy ; and Lieutenant-Colonel Greene, Director of Engineering and Architectural Works, left the Admiralty this morning on an official visit to Devonport. MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.) EAT .111A.14,X713. SMITHFIELD. — MeadowIia7,2IB; to 31 10s; Clover litto, 31 Oa to 4/ lOs ; and Straw, 11 2s to 11 8s per oad. A full average supply, and a dull trade. CumnEnrAND.—Meadow Hay, 21 86 to 3110 s; Clover ditto, 3/ Os to 41 7s ; and Straw, 11 2s to 1/ 9s per load. Trade very dull, at last week's quotations. WHITECHAPEL. Meadow Hay, 21 6s to 3/ 104 ; Clover ditto, 3/ Os to 4/ 10s; and Straw,ll 2s to 118 s per load. Supply good, and trade dull. CO LOATIAL. SE:GAIL—The market for British Plantation is ex ceedingly dull at 6d decline. Mauritius, 821 bags offered by auction only partly sold at previous rates; Bengal, 2,900 ba of fully 6d per cwt. Ab out 5,000 b ags M a d ras we re chiefly sold at 6d decline. P r i vate l y, 400 .b oxes low V' were Only p ar tly sold at a reduction yellow llavannah have been sold at 20s 6d. The quan tity of British Plantation landed last week at the East and West India Docks wus 1,645 hhds, 146 tierces, 673 barrels. There ware taken for home consumption 1,270 hhds, 91 tierces, 138 barrels. The stock in the same places is 9,349 hhds, 1,568 tierces, 2,361 barrels. COFFEE.—There has been an improved demand for this article; upwards of 6.000 bags good ord native Ceylon have changed hands, at 60s to 62e, and there are but few sellers at the latter price. 2,200 bags and 87 casks Plantation Ceylon were partly sold at a rise of 2s to 35 per cwt, the remainder being held above that ad vance. 150 bales Mocha were sold at comparatively cheap rates, viz., 74s to 75s for good long Lerry. RUDI.—The quantity landed last week at the East and %Vest India Docks was 222 puns 1 hhd. There were taken for home consumption 354 puns 17 hhds, and exported 33 puns 50 hbds The stock in the same places is 19,065 puns 2,168 hhds. RlCE.—Bengal realised lOs 3d for mid white, and Madras 8s 6d to 9s for pinky. PEPPER.—BIack sold at a decline of fully hd, viz., to 43d, for good light Eastern to good halt heavy Malabar. TALLow.—P.Y.C. is 3Ss per cwt on the spot, and Town 393 6d. . TEA.—The market is rather quieter, but with fair deliveries. TOlLtcco.—The market has continued to assume a firmer tone during the whole of last month, and consi derable sale:', have been effected, amounting in all sorts to 3,150 hhds. Parcels of western strips have been sold at an advance of full ; ',ld per lb., nevertheless there has been an evident indisposition on the part of a large portien of the trade to purchase. Importers have shown no inclination to effect sales excepting at ex treme. rates, and buyers in many instances have con fined their purchases to their immediate wants, on the supposition that present prices cannot be sup ported. There has been a more active demand for exportation, but present rater, and the peculiar posi tion of the market, prevent the possibility of orders being executed. In Virginia sales have been 600 hhds, about half fur exportation and half for home trade; t . here has been an improved demand for strips, and for qualities extreme rates have been paid. For expor tation purchases have been chiefly confined to mid and ord sorts. In Kentucky Leaf and Strips sales may be estimated at 2,190 hhds, cf which 2,000 were strips; as before stated, parcels have been taken at an advance of id per lb. Maryland—Sales are limited at previous rates. In Havannah Leaf very few sales have effected in consequence of stock being quite bare of good and fine qualities. Advices continue favourable as to the quality and quan tity of the last crop. Eavannah Cigars have been in fair demand at firm prices. Manilla Cheroots and Leaf have been in moderate request at steady prices. Of the latter none remains in the ha nds of importers. Yara and Cuba in fair demand at firm rates. Brazil, nothing done. Stock entirely hero cf suitable dosciip- Cons. Havanna!' seed leaf, Florida, and Porto Rico — Sales confined to the immediate wants of buyers. In Co lumbian. Andalusian, and Giron, fine descriptions have been in fair demand at firm rates; there has been a good inquiry for exportation, but the positioncf the market has prevented the pos s ibility cf ffcctinF, saler. Iu Amersfuort nothing done. Good quality for snuff pur poses would meet a ready sale. In Negro Beal and Cavendish sales have b een made to a fair extent, chiefly on speculation. Stalks were in moderate demand. BRIGHTON, LEWES, A ND T U NBRIDGE WELLS RA.II.- 'l'l'l.-OEI Saturday the Master in Chancery Sir William Horne proceeded with the list of shareholders in this undertaking, and placed thereon as con ributories, lisble to a pro rule payment in discharge t.f the habilities, amounting to 5,0001., 1,160 shareholders, who had ap plied tor shares and had them allotted, but who had neither paid the deposit nor signed the deed of contract. MONEY nil COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, QUARTER TO THREE. ' The sales of Cotton at Liserpool yesterday were esti- 1 mate) at about 9,000 bales, of which 2,500 were taken on speculation; the sales comprised 5,000 A naorican at 60 .to 9d , 1,800 Pernaea and Marauhana at eid. to 71d., 500 Bahia at 70, 200 Egyptian at 61d. to 81(f., 1,200 Surat at 411 to 5-11, and 80 Sea Island at 111 d. to ls. 4d. per lb. Tee market was brisk, and prices of American were itl.'to id, Brazil id. and other sorts *d. per lb. dearer. , —Railway Shares were dull. The letters and papers from the United Stat .s and Canada were delivered yesterday afternoon, asd we find in them several items of interest. We adverted yeste: . - day to the easier condition of the Money Marktt, and the point that now presents itsel most prominently is the intelligeree frsm California. More gold had been received at New York, and further amounts were advised as coming. At the Georgetown diggings the average per day for labourers were not less than three ounces, and instances of bagging eight and ten ounces are said not to be rare. The gold bearing quartz of California also pro mises great results; and our readers may judge, if all the anticipations are realised, what will be the effect upon the American money market, and, should the pro,iuction continue, upon the European market likewise. One must not be led away, however, by everything that is loosely stated, but watch the arrival of the dollars. It is pleasing still to observe that the State Legisla tures are receiving from their respective Governors very satisfactory financial reports. That of Ohio is encou raging. An inter citing account is before us from Canada con cerning the timber trade. It is dated from Ottawa, and runs as follows:—" We have taken some pains, for the interests of our subscribers, to ascertain what is doing in the timber business. We find that the probable quantity of white pine on the Ottawa and its tributaries will be about 12,000,000 feet, and in the St. Lawrence and its tributaries about 6,000,000, to which we add the st ick at Quebec, 6,554,290, making an aggregate of 24,554,290. The average annual exportation being about 12,000,000, leaves the balance as stock for the following year, with the exception of the home consump tion, and whatever may be shipped to the States, which has been so far limited, and must continue se, until the duty of 20s. is taken off. The extra quantity toing manufactured this season, by farmers and others now regularly in the trade, is estimated at about 4,000,000 feet, leaving in the hands of regular traders on the Ot tawa 8,000,000. For the last ten years there has not been less timber cut off unsurveyed lands of the Crown than the present season. The timber is generally being made in old settled townships, and on private property, we should say to the extent of 7,000,000 feet, a large portion of which is being manufactured on the Ottawa and its tributaries, below Bytown." The report from the Amsterdam Bourse, dated the 2d instant, states that the Dutch Funds were firm, but not active. The Two-and-a-Half per Cents. were 54; Peruvian were up to 731. At Frankfort, on the 31st ultimo, the Austrian Meetallics were at 85. Within the last few days a requisition has been drawn up by some of the members, and presented to the Com mittee for conducting the affairs of Lloyd's, suggesting the expediency of closing business in the Underwriters' Room at two o'clock on Saturdays. As the idea did not appear to find favour with the Committee, the requisi tionists came to the conclusion that it would be expedi- • ent and graceful to abandon it, and have done so ac cordingly. The English Stock Market has been very fluctuating, and prices have declined considerably. Consols realised 951 i r in the morning, but have declined since to 951 -?,-. Bank Stock has been firm at 206 to ', and India Stock quiet at 266. The New Three -arad-a Quarter per Cents. have brought 97i 0 981. Exchequer-bills have dropped to 565. to 59e. premium. The present value of Consols is 951- i to 1 for Money, and 951 1 for Account. In the Foreign market a further great aivance has occurred in Peruvian Bonds, which have touched 784 to 79 fsr the Active, and 32 to 33& for the Deferred. Venezuela Stock has been done at 33 and 334; Grenada Bonds are 18k; Equador, 4; and Mexitae, 29 to 1 Spanish Three per Cents. were quoted 36,1, and Portu guese Four per Cent=. 341 to 35 ex dividend. Russian Old Stock has been at 109, and the Scrip is not higher than 24- i- premium. Dutch Four per Cents. are 86 7 1. In Railway Stares there is very little business doing, and prices rule heavy. ONE PRICES OF ,• it iTIBEI FUNDS O'CLOCK. 7RP - ES. Bank Stock 3 s ai- Gent. Reduced Arms per Celt Console Annuities 95 3 /4 % Ye l / 4 4 95% 3 per Cent. Annuities,l726 9 4 7 /s 94% N ,Vir 3 1 4 per Cent. Ann 5...... ,sent; Anna. to expire J an. 1860 Ditto, 30 years, Oct. 10, 1859 -16 8 7-16 Ditto 30 years, Jan. 5, 1860. 8 5-16 8 5-16 India Stock India Bonds, 1,0001... 9l p 91 p Ditto under 1,000/.. ....... ....- BB p 88 p South Sea Stock - Ditto New Annuities ...... Consols for Account 9 5% % VA l A 951 / 2 Exchequer Bills. 1 1 ,40. & 2d 1,0001. June 56 59 p 55 p 500/. June Small. June 56 59 p 55 p PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. ONE (1LOSIN: O'CLOCK. ?RTC E 8 Brazilian Bonds — 88% Buenos Ayres Bonds, 6 per Cent — 55 Danish Bonds, 1825,3 per Cent Ditto 5 Der Cent. Equador Bonds .. Grenada Bonds, 1 1 / 2 per Cent lBl,O 18% Ditto Deferred Greek Bonds Ditto ex Over-due Coupons 7 6% 7% 7 1 / s Slexican, 5 per Cent. 1846, with Coupons— Ditto, Ex Jan. Coupons ... Ditto, Account ...... 29 29 1 / 8 291. E Peruvian Bonds, 4 per Cent ........ Ditto, Account ............ ......... 76% 7814 79 79 Ditto Deferred Portuguese 5 per Cents. Ditto, 4 per Cent. Ditto, Account Russian Bonds ... 109 110= Ditto Scrip Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840 lB% 18 3 / 4 Ditto, Passive 3% 3% Ditto, 3 per Cent Venezuela Bonds, 2 1 4 per Cent Ditto, Account Ditto, Deferred Dividends on the above payable in London. Dutch 214 per Cent., 12 Guild. .. 55 Ditto. 4 per Cent. Certificates , — 86% 86 1 % PRICES OF PAD' ,BUSINESS DONE CLOSING ‘; A ILWAY SHARES.AT ONE O'CLOCK. PRICES 3irmingham and Ox ford Junct., calls duly paid, or with a guaran. 20 Caledonian Ditto, New 10/. Pref... 10 Dublin and Belfast June. 40 ...... 634 ... 6 14 t.aatern Counties........ 20 ...... ...... .... ... 7% Do. New,Gua.6 per ct. 10 ...... 11% ...... .. 11% Eastern Union, Class A (late E. U. Shares) 25 Great Northern Do., 5 per Cent. Pref 124 10% Great Western 100 Ditto, 1 ,4 Shares 5O - ••• Ditto, 1 4 Shares Ditto. New 17/ l5 . 814 ...... 3 1 4 Lancashire& Yorkshire 100 Do. Fifths Do. Thirds .............. l 8 ..... 8 Do. (W. Riding Union) 10 ..... 3% 3% Leeds and Bradford 5O _ _ 97% 9714 London &Blackwall...ll/. 68. 3d... 33i 3 ii London, Brighton, and South Coast... ..... 100 ...... —x. d. ........ 82 x. d. Do. Guarant. 5 per rt.. 9 ...... 10% x.d 10% x. d. London and N Western 100 115% 115 115% 115 1 / 4 Ditto, New Quarters.. 12 9itto,Fift i London & S.Westarn . 100 ... Nl.Anenester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire ...100 ...... D 0.% Shares (No. 3) 12 1 4 — Do. New 101. Pre.E.... 10 ..... Midland ...... ........... 100 .. Do., do., 50/. Shares 30 ..... 6% .... . 6% Do.Consol.Bristol and Birming., 6 per ct. —.IOO Norfolk .. • . 100 Do. Extension ... South Staffordshire ... 17% 7 1. .. 7 Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton ...... 50 Reading, Guildford, and Reigate 3outh Devon South Eastern York, Newcastle, and Berwick..... ... ..... ... 25 Do. Newcastle Eiden. 20 Do. G.N.E.Preference 8 ... 2';‘ ) 2 York and North Midland 50 FOREIGN RAILWA Yrs. B ou logne and Amiens... 20 Dutch Rhenish ......... 8 ... .. ... ••• 2 Northern of France...... 16 Paris and Strasbourg ... 12 Rouen and Havre MINES. BrazilianCocaes&Cuiaba 30 ...... 4 3 / 4 4% Cobre Copper JOINT STOCK BANKS. Australasia London Joint 5t0ck...... 10 LLOYD'S SHIPPING—(THIS DAY.) LONDON, FEB. s.—Wind at noon W.S.W., light breez ,, , and cloudy. SOUTHAMPTON, FEB. 4.—Arrived Jupiter steamer, Gibraltar, &c. LIVERPOOL, FEB. 4. —Wind S. to S.W.--Arrived William West, Sampson, Mobile; Charles Croaker, Duncan, Charleston; James Gray, Carter, ditto; Jane Softly, Wilmington ; Rossetta, Chambers, Windsor, Nova Scotia; Sarepta, Williams, Valparaiso; John liancock, Burgess, New Orleans; Silas Leonard, Thomp son, Charleston; Waterloo, Allen, New York. Sailed, Seraphina, Pernambuco; Franconia and Republic, New Orleans; Kate, Hunter, Montezuma; ,Gertrude, New York. The Sultan, hence to St. John's, New Bruns wick, was wrecked on Beale's Island, Machias, 7th ult.; crew and passengers saved. The Elizabeth, hence to Charleston, was on shore near the bar of the latter place 22d ult., with nine feet water in her hold, and expected to be a wreck; crew saved. liertwicH, FEB. 4.—A boat marked " Santipetre," in white letters on a black ground, has been picked up off the Long Sand, supposed from some vessel lost there. The broadside of a vessel of about 200 tons has been picked up and brought in to•day. YARMOUTH, FEB. 4.—The Ann and Jane, of and for Wisbesch, from Seal-am, whilst at anchor off the Humber sprang a leak, and went down; crew saved.: SCARBOROUGH, FEn44.—The Swift, of Seaham, foun dered on the 2d inst., the Castle bearing S.W. six miles distant; the master saved; the crew took to the boat, and have not been heard of. WHITEHATEN, FEB. 4.—The Arrow , o f and for this port from Dublin, has been wrecked on St. Bee's Head; crew saved. EIVELHELT, FEB, 4.—The Good Intent, of Tenby, was run on ihore in Stuiwill Romis, 2uth Jon.; crew aved. QUEENSTOWN, FEB, 2.—Wind S.W. strong.—Arrd. Ilarriot, Toss ell, S. John's, Newfoundland, for Lisbon. JUDICIAL COMMITTEE OF THE PRIVY COUNCIL.-(THIS DAY.) There being some rea,ion to believe that the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council ilould have given judg ment this day iu the case of Gorham v. the Bishop of Exit9r, a gentleman from our office attended at tho of flee of the Privy Council this morning to inquire wht.thi r the judgment would be given to-day, and, it so, to report it; but he ascertained that the Judicial G:nnittee a tie Privy Council would not bit to-day, nor could he learn in that quarter on what day thy judgin,:q t in Gorham v. the Bishop of Exeter would be pronuuriced. CIIANCERY.-(THIS DAY.) The Lord Chancellor sat in the Old Hall, Lincoln's Inn, to-day, to hear apvells. AGSLIAWE, bLP. V. THE EASTERN UNION RAILWAY. The further arguments in this part heard case were resumed to-day, and occupied his Lordship the whole morning. The case came before his Lordship upon appeal from the judgment of the ViceoChancellor Wigram, overruling a demurrer put in by the defendants to the plaintiff's bill fur want of equity and want of parties. The plaintiff is the Member tor the borough of Harwich, High Steward and a magistrate of the borough, also the owner of the dockyard there, and greatly inte rested in promoting the prosperity of the borough. Ile is proprietor of two scrip certificates issued under two Acts of Parliament, entitled "Tt e Eastern Union and Harwich Railway and Pier Act," and "The Eastern Union and Hadleigh Junction Railway Act," such scrip having been converted into 25 shares, and the plaintiff's name being registered as owner of their. The d 4 fen dents are the directors of the Eastern Union Railway Company. The demurrers are by the company as a com pany, and by the directors in that character. The bill prays an account of the sums received by the defendants under the Eastern Union and Harwich Railway and Pier Act, and the Eastern Union and Hudleigh Junc tion Railway Act, of 1847, or either; and of the appli cation cf such sums; and, if it shall appear that the dit ectors have applied any portion of such sums to any other purposes than those authorised by these Acts, the bill prays a declaration by the Court that such appli cation is a breach of trust, and that the defendants may be decreed personally to replace such sums; and that the Court would declare that it would be a breach of trust to apply any portion of such moneys to any other purppsc. The bill also prays an injunction restraining the defendants from applying any portion of the moneys already received, or hereafter to be received, under the powers of the Acts, to any other purpose than those of the two Acts. The plaintiff sued as the proprietor of scrip certificates of " Per etaal Six per Cent. Stack, 1849," on behalf of himself and all other proprietors of the like certificates who should come in and se, k relief, contributing to the ex penses of the suit, r ther than the directors. The original Act of the company (7 and 8 Victoria, e. 85) incorpo rated a company for the purpose of making a railway from Colchester to Ipswich. By a subsequent Act (8 and 9 Victoria, c. 97) another company was empowered to form a line from Bury S'. Edmund's to Ipswich. The 10 and 11 Victoria, c. 174, amalgamated the above companies, under the name of the East rn Union Rail. way Company. By a fourth Act (10 and 11 Victoria, c. 225) the Eastern Union Railway Company was em powered to carry a line from Manningtree to Harwich. A fifth Act, passed in the same session, authorised the sale of the Eastern Union and Hadleigh Junction Rail way to the Eastern Union Railway Company. Under the fourth Act tae company was empowered to raise 200,000/., and under the fifth, 100,000 e f or the purposes of those Act- in addition to their capital. It was pro vided by the Manningtree Act that the 200,000/. should be considered as part of the general capital of the company, and should be subject to the same provisions, in all roepects, as if it had f new d part of the original emits!, except as to the amount of shares, the times, and the amount of calls. The bill stated that at a meeting held on the 21st of August, 1847, at which Mr. Coobbold presided, the di rectors submitted to a meeting of the shareholders a re port relative to the powers given by the two Last Acts, and the following resolution was propos.. d and carried unanimously :—" That fur the purpose ofconstructing the branch line from Manningtree to Harwich, and for pur chasing the Hadleigh Railway, under two Acts passed in the last session of Parliament, the directors be autho rised to raise, between the date hereof and the Ist of January, 1849, the sums of 200,0001. and 100,0001, and to grant scrip receipts for such amount es may from time to time be paid up in respect of such sums until each subscriber of 201. and upwards shall have paid the amount he may subscribe in full; and such scrip receipts shall entitle the holder thereof, on the Ist of January, 1849, to become a registered shareholder in a new Eastern Union Stock for the amount he has subscribed and paid up, upon which he shall receive a guaranteed divi dend of 6 per coat. per annum in perpetuity, and have the option at the end of any six months within five years of converting his guaranteed stock into the general stock of the company; that to comply with the 4th artiele of the terms of amalgamation between the Eastern Union and Ipswich and Bury companies, the directors shall, by means of a circular to be addressed to the original shareholders of the guaranteed 5 per cent, and general extension scrip f the Ipswich and Bury Company, offer, until the 31st of October next, to receive such sums ex clusively from the present holders (as they can be ascer tained) of the above extension scrip shares, and that each holder of an extension share of 51, on which 21. 10s. has been already laid, shall be entitled to 20/. of such guaranteed stock, on making application to that effect, with an understanding to pre-ray the remaining 17/. 10s. before the Ist of January, 1849, at such stated periods as shall be satis• factory to the directors, and that on all pre-payments discount be allowed to the Ist of January, 1849, at the same rate of interest as allowed in perpetuity on the new stock; that in case any holder or proprietor of such Ipswich and Bury extension scrip shall refuse or neglect More the 31st of October, 1847, to accept stock in ac cordance with the terms of the offer, or having accepted the same shall fail to pay the sum of 171. 10s. in respect of every 20/. thereof, on or before the Ist day of January 1849, the same be allotted by the directors to such per sons and in such manner as they may think fit, and with or without the like advantages as to interest, by way of discount and dividend, as above provided." The bill then alleged that the plaintiff believed that the defendants were misapplying the funds under the two last Acts, in the construction of an extension line to Norwich, and to other purposes. Mr. Wood and Mr. Daniel were counsel for the ap peal, and the Solicitor-General and Mr. Grove supported the judgment of the Court below. QUEEN'S BENCH.—(THIS DAY.) (Sittings at Nisi Prius at Westminster before Mr. Jus tice Eau: and a Common Jury.) LINTOTT V. FARRELLEY. This was an action to recovt r a compensatio n i n da mages for the false imprisonment of the plair.tiff by the defendant. _ Mr. Elwin James was counsel for the plaintiff, and Mr. Miller represented the defendant. It appeared that the plaintiff, Mr. Bernard Lintott, of 9, Herbert's-passage, Beauf)) t-buildings, was, in 1849, acting as an agent fur the sale of the beer of Messrs. Brennan and Price, of Dublin. In April, 1849, some differences arose between the plaintiff and Messrs. Brennan and Price, and the result was that Mr. Simon Plunkett Farrelley, the defendant, was sent over from Dublin to London by Messrs. Bren nan and Price to are as their agent in the sale of their beers in the place cif the plaintiff. Notwithstanding this arrangement the plaintiff continued for some time after wards selling off the old stock in his possession belong ing to his principals, Messrs. Brennan and Price, and while doing so the plaintiff, in May, 1849, sold to a Mr. Bowyer, of Eaten-square, a dozen of stout, the price of which was half-a-crown, which was paid to the plaintiff. This transaction coming to the knowledge of Mr. Far relley, the defendant, he caused the plaintiff to be given into the custody e f two Police -constables. who conducted him through the public streets, in the mid .le of the dav, to the Bow-strs et Police-office, where the defendant charged him with the commission of a misdemeanour in having received the half-crown from Mr. Bowyer for the dozen of stout. Alter hearing the charge, Mr. Jardine, the magistrate at Bow-street, immedi ate ly di sc h arge d' the plaintiff, and it was for the false imprisonment arising out of this transaction that the present action was brought. The magistrate expressed great dis pleasure at the plaintiff having been taken into custody a all by Farrelley upon such a charge, and said that if the defendant Farrelley had felt himself' aggrieved he should have taken out a summons against him. The plaintiff eat kept in custody for about two hours. The circumstances related above were given in evi dence by witnesses called for the plaintiff, and Mr. MILLER addressed the jury for the defence, con tending that the circumstances were such as to warrant the defendant in bringing the plaintiff's conduct before a magistrate, though th e defendant in giving him in charge had acted from a mistaken apprehension of the law; and that there was no evidence to show the de fendant in this transaction had been influenced by malig nant feelings. Mr. Justice ERLE, in summing up the case to the jury, told them in dealing with it they ought to take into consideration the outrage which had into custody on a been inflicted upon the plaintiff's feelings iu taking him charge of this kind, and conducting him through the streets in mid-day by two police - co nstables to a police office, and the injury to the platntiff's character which such a proceeding was likely to occasion. , The jury, after a few minutes consultation, gave a verdict for the plaintiff—Damages 1001. CRIMINAL COURT.--(THIS DAY.) OLD COURT. (Before the RECORDER and Mr. Alderman CARDEN.) CUTTING AND WOUNDING.—Two sp( c , al4-at ired young men, named Dennis and , John M'Ken na , the first described as a tailor , and tne second as a labourer, were indicted for feloniously cutting and wounding Lewis Nutley, with intent to do him some grievous bodily harm. The prisoners pleaded Not Guilty. Mr. Ryland appeare 1 for the prosecution, and Mr. Parry for the defence. The party upon whom the assault had been committed was a member of the City police force, and on the 6th of January last, between two and three o'clock in the morning, he was on duty in Bishopegate, when he observed the two pri soners and another quarrel ling with a woman. He attempted to disperse them, when the woman ran away, and the prisoners, with others, made a cicspert_te attack upon the tolict.- man, throwing hi m f orc ibl y to t h e grounO, and inflictirz very severe woun d s on t h e b ac k o f h i s h ea d. NVbile on the ground he was stabbed several times with some a sharp instrument, and when take n u p he wa3 (111i4 exham-Od from lois of blood. He was removed to the London Hospita', whe:e he had sinc e been to from coneussi , n [of the brain. It wo uld be shewn be yond all doubt thct the teo pr i soners formed 1 , and ' f the individuals who were creating the disturban ce, h e arrested Ryan was in the very act of decampl4. being e was, however, pursued and overtaken,, ani on brougct b.:c's to the scei.e of if o; lissatilt, the we 6 P ee with which the injuri,s were ii II cte , i was found lying on the groom'. The following witnesi,es were called to prove the Nhoi crge : Lewis a !ey deposed t1.a, , , on Saturday, the 6th of January, he was on duty in Catherine Wheel alley es two o'chck in the morning, where he taw the two Prl• sorers, accompanied by a woman and anothtr r ty Mal, making a wise in the site ,t. e desired the pa t° H walk quietly, when stid , lily the woman s p ran ll g on hil°' her, wb' He had no soonerdisengeged himself from the prisoner Ryan seized him round th e waist and three him down; the back of his head receiving a violent con ; cussion in the fall. While on the ground I.e rec eive : several severe blows about the head. The prisoner BY fell on him, the others were in the rea r. The 11110 % ' I very narrow. ot Cross-examined by Mr. PARRY — Wa s certainli 1 1 , 0 - $ the worse for liquor, had had NU-a-pint cf pate r e no spirits, The prisoner Ryan, at the Mansion withfrous charged him (the witi.es) with being drunk and , assaulting a woman, but neither of these accusati°°,, was true. Had never charged anybody with an eas e " before, or been charged with an assault. i d i st John Neil, a boy, fourteen years of age, dePcl sau ' 7.1 on the morning of the 6th of January he was relur n V :with his mother from carrying supper to his father , w.,, i ,„ is a night-watchman in Bishepsgate-street, and:1181;a1 by the end of Catherine 'Wheel-alley, he heard 5 g the noise l going on. On going down the alley be saw a o iceman Notley talking peaceably to three teen o° oo woman, one of whom was Ryan. Suddenli gY the struck the policeman, who fell down, and h . in others then crowded round him and kiek, e3 h .' l- s; Ryan took the staff out of Notley's hands, whin' ",-; 11 0 d endeavouring to draw. Witness shouted the prisoners then ran off, and witness followed RP" who dropped his hat as be ran awe• A at Daniel Murray , one of the Cit P l . d V se- th y poles, e , Bysa on the morning of the 6th of January be w e ', gel hurrying from the direction of Catherine-whew° ei stonP ri , without a hat and very much excited.' Wir rieee him and asked him where he had been• tr b° P hio s h o e ner could scarcely speak for some time, but pith Whoa recovered he said that he had been out lat , some friends, and returning home alone he saw 6 ! ‘ „ e liee. goingthen struck toofa h r, im an i d n witness "Police, 0 _ man m disputing with two men and a woman. Tb e l''' tie policeman an was facie and inte r flieer) : bd . 6;1 7: away. Frederick Russell, a sergeant in the posed that on the morning of the 6th ofJanuerY 11 , e i o 0 seen the prisonet'Ryan in company with two men n ' en eda woreae, about twenty minutes before this affair haPr o 00 On hearing that something had happened he w! 11 , 1 1 ,, pri' station-house, and some time afterapprehendeu eg-oiler soner M'Kenna, in company with a wougo•„1", - a Vol e wes perfectly sober at the time. He was one 0 , ""- onducted men in the force. alarm John Stapler,city posteelbsd . a policeman, deposed that, bel o ,F " bo or by the cries of the boy Neil, he had gone into tia' ro od, h w i h r eel-alley, where he found Notley on tbe g' tiorr -eding profusely. He. sicis house, whence he was transferred to St. Tber n , 9 l - eter° l pital. He also found in the alley a policernani- PS a w e h Ts a h t n , iws a n n we d ads a ht b yh o ei n tc n ya e as t ne , la w . otrh theieh assisted AhpierannUsito him l O on d u. U s t e e l . d• the Thetf E a c i o n ?. Es the ER of 'f sawi-ay . 10 . Mr. PARRY suggested that there WO lio eii imy r l h ic e ate Learned Ml n ß ndee° to (1 ° 1 1;000 et the no reason evidence of Notley, who score t' - 'at he R .and saw th e 11 40 06 sau Maenna together, and though e'it lei might not positively take past r ' in the n's-,stieepr beir.g pretest at the time he would become Pa'" did nct seem to ~,, It criminis. to identify M Mr. PARRY d I. defen'' ce h d i r m ess t c h d at ththeerjeurywafeorettigiest ob id e e ni e 6 witness pl who would swear to his presence eC ° sail' . the livesp , r w ot a ect p o e r r s r o e f cti t y he nec 'Kenna, and he should call before 1 stbe e fir se i e t . He acknowledged that this was a serlol9o ore ,rf yl bA b e% g th ir e j e esty s subjects, should themselves be protecteu 1 . 00 1 clears en d that r ntphe ernespo l i c e ( in xel t •c h i i s e e of their duties. The jury would oho% et case the prisoner Ryan was entir e /Tot the mercy f 0 - the policeman IsTetleP pa there was a row, and that the policeinelnied, gotet the worst of it could not he " 1 ;010 1 There great point wad who provoked the 69 don; , provo 'ate' 1 was no preteneof ' -e malice or deliberate 1 0 I se it was a sudden affair, and he must impress 1t:99 set minds of the jury that the story of Byan, whi ch ,I - stoll' against that of Notley, was a perfectly ons isten. 03e st in which he bad all alon r pe siste , and an w iao eri made on a sudden when he met Murray,y h 7 s o oke lf , r i could have had no time much fir the truth of his tale. frame' hoped tha t tilejilhe tale. Ile ~ _ r o , o l _, would take this into manner in which the policemen consideration, he d v t e o n g t e h E ve ;sled to i 4 e l l]; and diet that they would find their wayg to s 10it i g ate e d r ye or to an acquittal altogether in Bla,rl'9 • as I O n°. should entire Jo call a witness to prove M'Keene'6' cence of the charge. The Learned co l then et' Counsel the following witnesses• he 4 a Anne Lana saidthat .— le,psent , a i g st the prisoner been in h until er company from six o'clock, !I C 001 twelve at night on the 6:h 0 1 , ; s eibet: last. Theyand o w n ereat a public-house in the Cather'll.l. to O being tusned out., they had P ee ° Bu sse " next alley, door, and remained there till had P e e t i the policex 6 eb took )))'Kenna a into eustory. mjc ,„5 ree-,, at worse fcr liquor, and witness did • enna —tP' - ¢ rtness did not wish hill' -e skir'e by himself, as she did not think him capable of tv not care of himself. On leavin' the hl.• house thei r ° s pu lc- e s t i° t, e policeman Notley, who appeared tee worse for Pi w bjcP he staggered in b• Is e alk andmuttered tbil3g 1)14 some _ hi t , she could not understand. Was quite cern' ,igh 4 M'Kenna did not take part in quarrel Iln it Oi l Ryan never was in . any i A ll company with WlCenna '' night. e 501 Frederick - , t Russell, on being recalled, identifie d 0 w wl it n h e A ss Lane as the woman whom be saw in c ,i ) bee el lelienna and R - tifie" Ryan, and Notley rden the woman who •R Or d" Mr. ily pulled off his bat- LAND replied, and the Learned --e summed up. f 0 0 95‘ The jury then returned a verdict of Guilty °- gravated assault d against both the prisoners. , G ate Sentence to twelvemonths' ' • imprisonment in street Prison with • 0 1 he WO The hard labour . Learned RECORDER then directed that 1-- Anne Lane should be prosecuted for perjury. The rest of the cases were of no interest. NEW COURT. ia (Before the CommoN SxnaEANT) • pi The Court was employed the whole (14 I ,: t• Mint cases, which presented no feature o f inte6 A y,) SURREY SESSIONS.—( TAT S 1) °- t (13, fore THOMAS BUCKLE, Esq., and 5 13C11 John Henry Pus 018 on., lately Maxis r • es.) yell r. e ii i e st til fo ; coanext employ ed by the High 13 , 61 i e te d ~,,p Posey, 31, a - yLangcean of County Court, Kingston-Jn-Thames, w* 9 soliincleigb``-1‘ stealing a ten pound Bank of England note. f 0 111 pounds in gold and silver, tLe prop erti c gr, Rowland. fr i e nd Charnock was retaine d by t he p r i soner . prisoneie '' $ Mr. Locke appeared for the rosecutinnt °ici rti ° 6 bor defend. 4 . _ °_.l The prisoner pleaded Not Guilt • but, of i l- p ies, l. consultation with his counsel, he reyt; a cted li 9 - 00 1 laid himself on the mercy of the Court. d Coo we The facts if the case stated by the Lesrn e oroe o we are as follows :—The prisoner had been fore Some employed to assist the High Bailiff of tPo So ." pi County Court, the upper part of which, as w e I pert, portion of the lower, was inhabited by solo r" - ( 0 who had access to the house at any tim e , g • „, il ° b 0 which was locked by the count court 0"Z oil i je a e ground floor, and usually kept locked , -t to e ijilb rc' evening of the robbery it was left unlocked ib° 11 ' of the women to clean it. The prisoner 53 ,7 0 0 ° ,, 13 .6, secutor deposit his cash-box cobtaining ' 1 0 0' 0 andin a cupboard of the room, which b° oo o o ho o4 carried the key away ; but a s . be cOPZ 10 he was gone the prisoner broke ()Pel l ' obl e "ntre with i to ree - c ol door and abstracted the money, decamped. Ile (Mr. Locke) was instruct,eurnier g mend him to mercy on account of hi s I°.- IS' 0 1° conduct. m i di° The prosecutor having personally J- ne bc to 5 commendation, The CHAIRMAN told the prisoner that 1 11 Optl° extremely thankful for his leniency; h 4 ti 1 , 0 6 nstir,ohielelyhbiremeicmowmptrmtiisteonnsdenedmitshwiemsne,tvyteh.roeintyCe.oduarlsvigsi:sues'oo jii er ri 0 00 . that h finement. It by eod fief, v -Sl.: RE E T.— i THIS PIS. .° I.ll# gilaerArntuietßgreci.odi,.ionGeloovr ..—......-,-......—..-......(-(ok•' Y•) o against p p os it j a h n t . h o; g h a e n S g St e rPa g ini i i r da ;, a f na o 'P r Pleaanrdelvolrdb obstructing et)ftb r t ie b b ee 14:1.re o : c ltietigi:rbbcif: e b 44l : re: He said notwithstanding t woi did t u h s s e tn , a a on n td d i naagpl appear hecausing had a u td s h i n ebs g eee a n d epx i r s ci t i t e ri tt : ,i cn, , j il t ihri, 0.00 4 : tonyn s i:: hge s ecir o rct i g r eca ( not o mtel : dp. t a h n e y. prisoner, it t 'll tv 1 a a s u s d ailed byatthedthisegustpi For scmo long titre r sbits, to language mi t t :: ti t s b e ° o il l : 1 : 0 :0 i t i h n e ears of himself and fan ; bY ties premises throughout we r t , h c e 0 m w p h l o e l t e e l e; ebnlioncgk.edl; jtii: ibuyittlen,t.io,o:Ltido.„l they were remonstrated with a volley Cf ' bus u e n - do beh t ° I all the redress he would get. Upon these gr . ° _ ors -0 toad to determined th,ffi upon making an example of the $ tic pit gumbers varying f r om tbeourser sharp race. full , and the prisoner being the most folPi l°l3 of (et. 11 p osin a , l6 ; '\'r JARDINE remarked that be was funk s ' ;,t0 c"„t i with • the abomitiable nuisance, but the Pn b l in 14 7, on, she was taken into custerli A taioly to Game for purchasing the froi Ir° ol 3ell cr, , ,, tur , , 4 3- I in( d 10,., or fourteen days' iroPris° MATHS. p o. a S 011• ma O y il 1, 91 e 29th ult., at Fish- hall, K e nt, the la:11 °sr lCP l b. .0u the 29th ult., at Westbourn e. p lace, wife of J. Welch, E.g., of a daughter. b 00 0 12 P3 2 3r 7 llisa t nt h tt ueuttd:lttt..,, at t t F t u u e l hlap, ni:a. o.gee,d 4t, captain dan, half-pay unattached, late cf . the 63d Font. .1 4 get,; l' a the Fur the h I ;te f v or . of '•t T;byolegatiev,eßol)t.x.7l:,Pa,sl::6l..as!e: fini ''biltington,, the the Rectory, \\ est aged 58. • 0 an t d Published ; P A btrai , l, Printer, at The SUN c o . OW -.llu, in the Precinct c. , t the S...ivoy, 111 al diem, Tuealay, February 5, 1850. THE SUN, 4.0ND0 FEBRUARY 5, 1850