The Sun. — London, England, 1851-01-31 00:00:00

NOTICE.—TIIE SECOND VOLUME of PEPYS' DIARY, CHEAP RE-ISSUE, IS NOW READY, price 6s. bound. henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. THE AUTHOR OF ROCKtNGHAM'S NEW NOVEL. • N o w ready at all the Libraries, in 3 vole , OVE and AMBITION. By the Author of "Rockingham." " Told in a manner fully to support the literary reputation of the author of • Rockingham,' and to justify the praise bestowed by the • Quarterly Review' on the author's first work."—Standard. " There is the same powerful touch as in the former production of the author's able pen —painting the human heart in sharp outlines of character, and in deep colouring of the passions, and the same fami liar acquaintance with society, whicat :nflrms the rumour that the author is one who moves in the highest circles."—John Bull. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. Now ready at all the Libraries, in 2 vols., post S I A NOVEL. 0 0 D. a " The author, we are convinced, is young, otherwise we could hardly see displayed such fresh and enthusiastic sympathy in be half of his heroes and heroines. He is a writer of genius, inspired by a high standard of morality and religion, and by a laudable love of the purest sort of fame. We gather this from the glowing lan guage in which he expresses his feelings, sentiments, and opinions on the - subjects just mentioned. There are several chapters, in which links of the story are dropped, containing most eloquent essays on matters that are the prima mobilia of the actions which cha racterise nature's nobility. The writer evidently belongs, though he has marked per se peculiarities, to the school of the Disraelis, Man nerves, and Smythes."—Observer. "` Silwood' is no ordinary work ; it contains passages of exceed ing beauty, and is written in pure and forcible language, with great good taste and power. It is one of the most interesting and en gaging novels which the present season has produced. Of the cha racter of Amelia Ross we have already spoken, and the extract we have given above is the surest voucher of the truth of what we have said. The other ladies who play conspicuous parts in the tale are Flerence Howard, an intellectual beauty; Jessie Gordon, a wild and impulsive genius, passionately fond of music and poetry ; and Julia Maitland, the noblest and best of them all."—Morning Post. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. THEATRE ROYAL, DRITRY-LANE. Lessee and THIS Manager, M EVEN r. IN James Anderson. G, will be presented by her Majesty's Servants 13th time, a new Comedy, called, THE OLD LOVE AND THE NEW. Sir Algernon Courtonn, Mr. Cooper. Major Stock, Mr. Emery ; Capt a i n Sid ne y C our t ouu , Mr. J. Anderson ; Mr. Haythorn, Mr. Barrett ; Miss Trimmer, Mrs. Ternan ; Camilla Haythorn, Mrs. Nisbett ; Cherry Bounce, Mrs. Walter Lacy. To be followed by A new Operetta, in One Act, called THE CADI'S DAI7GHTEI2. After which an entirely New Grand, Historical, Emblematical, Aerost4tical, Gastronomical, Metaphorical, Musical, Poetical, Vocal, Municipal, Juvenile, Pantomical Pantomime, by E. Fitzball, the po pular author of " Za-ze-zi-zo-zu," entitled HARLEQUIN and HUMPTY DUMPTY; or, Bobbin de Bobbin and the First Lord Mayor of Lun'un. To conclude with THE LADY OF LYONS. - Claude Malnotte, Mr. J. Anderson ; Pauline Deschappelles, Miss Vandenhoff. Private Boxes, 3/. 38., 2/. I2s. 6d., 2/. 25., IL 11s. 6d., and I/. Is. To be obtained on application at the Box-office ; Mr. Sam's Libarary, St. James's-street ; Messrs. Mitchell Ebers and Co. ; Andrews and Alcroft, Bend-street; at Jullien's Music Warehouse, Regent street; Chappels, New Bond-street; Leader and Cocks, 63, New Bond-street ; Ransford and Co., New Bond-street ; and Bailey and Moon, Carlton Library. 12, Regent-street. Stalls, 58. each. First Price—Dress Circle, ss. Od. ; Boxes, 4s. ; Pit. 2s. 6d. ; Lower Gallery, Is. ; 'Upper Gallery, 6d.. Second Price at Nine o'Clock—Dress Circle, 2s. 6d. ; Boxes, 25.; Pit, Is. 6d. No Half-price to Upper or Lower Galleries. The Box-office open from 11 till 4. It is respectfully Intimated that seats in the Boxes cannot be reserved after the First Act ofthe Play. THZATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Mr. B. Webster, Sole Lessee and Manager, Old Bromptorl. MR. MACR EAD Y. THIS EVENING, Will be performed the Tragedy of MACBETH. Duncan, Mr. Rogers ; Macbeth, Mr. Macready ; Banquo, Mr. Howe ; Macduff, Mr. Davenport; Lady Macbeth, Mrs. Warner; Hecate, Miss P. Hertori. After. which a new translation of THE SECOND CALENDAR and the QUEEN of BEAUTY who had the Fight with the Genie. Principal characters by Messrs. J. Bland, Selby, Lebarr, Bnckstone, Mrs. L. S. Buckingham, Mrs. Fitzwillia.m, Miss P. Horton, and Miss A. Romer. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. Under the direction of Madame Celeste. THIS' EVENING, Will be performed an entirely new grand Drama, n 3 acts, entitled BELPHEGOR THE MOUNTEBANK; or, The Pride of Birth. Duke de Montbazon, Mr. Hughes ; Count de St. Cyr, Mr. Boyce ; The Chevalier de Rolac, Mr. 0. Smith ; Guillaume, surnamed Bel phegor, Mr. B. Webster; Ajax, alias Mr. Merryman, Mr. Wright ; Captain Pufferes, Mr. Worrell ; Madeliene, Madame Celeste ; Nini Flora Aphrodite Stilz, Miss Woolgar. To be followed by a new Extravaganza called LA TARANTULA ; or, the Spider Wing. Characters by Messrs. Wright, P. Bedford, 0. Smith, Miss Woolgar, Miss E. Chaplin, Miss K. Fitzwilliam, Madame Celeste, &c. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. Under the Management of Mr. C. Keaa and Mr. Keeley. The Pt.blic is respectfully informed that Mr. BARTLEY Will per form only Five Nights more, and that consequently the final repre sentations of Shakespeare's Play of HENRY IV. will take place on Monday, Feb. 3, Friday, Feb. 7, Monday, Feb. 10, Friday, Feb. 14, - and (for the last time) on Monday, Feb. 17. Private Boxes, &c., to be had of all the Booksellers, and of Mr. Massingham ; of whom also places may be taken at the Box-office, Oxford-street, from Eleven till Four o'clock. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Under the Management of Madame VestrlS. Solo Lessee, Mr. Charles Mathews. THIS EVENING, Will be performed THE HANDSOME HUSBAND, After which an entirely new and original Fairy Extravaganza, to be called KING CHARMING; or, the Blue Bird of Paradise. Characters by Messrs. C. Mathews, F. Matthews, Horncastle, Suter, Bellingham, and Honner ; Madame Vestris, Mrs. Frank Matthews, Miss Ellis, Mrs. C. Horn, Miss St. George, and Miss Martindale. To conclude with THE RINGDOVES, ii whit& Measrs. C. Mathews, F. Matthews, Basil Baker. Mrs. F. Matthews, and Miss M. Oliver will appear. ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE. Lessee and Manager, Mr. W. Farren. Great hit of the Romance of the Nose. THIS -EVENING, Will be performed ALL THAT GMT riEs IS NOT GOLD. After which LOVE AND CHARITY. .... _ - To be followed by PRINCE DORUS ; or, The Romance of the N ose, in which Messrs. H. Farren, Compton, Shalders, W. Farren, jun ~ Cooke ; Mesdames Louisa Howard, Ellen Turner, and Madlle. Adele will appear. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Under the Patronage of her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert. Proprietor and Manager, Mr. W. Batty. Extraordinary series of attractive novelties. THIS EVENING he Grand new Spectacle of KENNALR ORTH ; or the Golden Days of the Virgin Queen, with new and costly costumes. Together with Batty's Splendid Scenes of the Circle. To conclude with an entirely new and original grand historical Equestrian Christmas Pantomime, written expressly for this Theatre by the author of " Bluff King Hal," to he entitled HARLEQUIN AND O'DONOGIIIJE ; or, The White Horse of Killarney Box-office open from Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. T. Thompson. HIGII WATER AI LONDON BRIDGE Tams DAY —Morning 3.5 min. after 1 I Evening 55 min. after 1 To- , folutovi—Morning 15 min. after 2 I Evening 32 lain. after 2 THE WEATHER —Suit OFFICE, JAzcrny 31. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 50—highest since noon yesterday. 31—lowest this morning and during the night. 40— this day, at noon. BAROMETER, 2925 ; a fall of more than half an inch since Wednesday. Wn S.W.—Boisterous weather. It blew a heavy storm last night, with rain, snow, and sleet this morning. DAILY WEATHER TABLE. State of the Wind and Weather at each of the following places at Nine o'clock yesterday morning.—The stations are arranged in order of latitude. KINGSTOWN (DUBLIN)—Wind N.W., gentle breeze— partially cloudy. PLYMOUTH—Wind N.W., strong breeze—partially cloudy. PORTSMOUTH—Wind W., strong breeze—partially cloudy. BRIGHTON—Wind S.W., strong breeze—partially cloudy. ILL suNGS —Wind W., strong breeze—partially cloudy. SounlAmYroN— Wind S.W., strong breeze —partially cloudy. FOLKESTONE—Wind S.W., strong breeze—rain. TuzinamGF,--Wind S. W., gentle breeze—partially cloudy. BASINGSTOKE —Wind S.W. strong breeze—partially cloudy. GREENWICH—Wind hard wind—partially cloudy. SWINDON—Wind S.W., gentle breeze—partially cloudy. OXFORD—Wind S.W., hard wind—partially cloudy. LEIGHTON—Wind S.W., strong breeze—rain. COLCHESTEIL—Wind S.W., strong breeze—partially cloudy. CAMBRIDGE—Wind S.W., gentle breeze—overcast. Rtrony—Wind S.W., gentle breeze—snow. PiernalsoaouGH—Wind S.W., gentle breeze—rain. Yanstourn—Wind W., strong breeze—cloudless. LYNN? Wind S.W., gentle breeze—overcast. CONWAY —Wind S.W., strong breeze—cloudless. HOLYHEAD Wind S.W. ' strong breeze—partially cloudy. MANcitEszEz ' —Wind S. fresh breeze— overcast. LANCA.STNE—Wind S.W. strong breeze—hail. s HAF ..—Wind S.W., gentle breeze —snow. CARLISLE Wind W., strong breeze—partially cloudy. B EATTO O,-,—Wind S., gentle breeze partially cloudy. The returns from the following places indicate the state of the wind and weather on Wednesday morning at nine o'clock : COILIC —Wind S., strong breeze—heavy rain. MOLLINGAR—Wind S.W., stiff breeze—rain. DUNDALK—Wind S., gale—rain. PooLE—Wind S. W., strong breeze—overcast. PORTSMOUTH—Wind W., gentle breeze—overcast. WHITBY—Wind S., strong breeze—overcast. Slier—Wind S.W., hard wind—rain. Wurrzaavitx —Wind S.E., gentle breeze —heavy rain. CARusLE—Wind S.W., gentle breeze—rain. BKA l "roca—Wind S., strong breeze--heavy rain. A Deputation from the Committee of the " Alleged Lunatic's Friend Society" had the honour of an interview with his Excellency, Abbott Lawrence, Esq., at his residence, Piccadilly, respecting the state of the lunacy laws in this country and in the States of the American Republic, on Tuesday, the 28th instant. Mr. Lawrence is the well-known Minister and Envoy Extraordinary from the Federal Go vernment of the United States. THE SAILORS' STRIK E IR THE NORTH.—The strike among the seamen in Sunderland, Shields, Newcastle, and other northern ports, has extended to Hull. The demand 1 of the men as to wages is that they should be paid at the rate of 31. a month, with small st ores (tea and sugar); but a fertile source of complaint here ( as elsewhere, has arisen out of the operation of the Mercantile Marine Bill, es pecially as to the shipping offices lately o . Petted. The ship owners offer 31. per month, without the stor es; b ut this, with f ew exceptions, has been refused by the men, and the strike continues upon only the sma ll g round of difference in vo l ve d inthe cost of the Stores, which certainly would not exceed ss. a month. Th ere have been some threats of violence used by the men in strike towards those of their " mates" who have signed articles at the wages offered; but no actual breach of the peace has o c c urred, owin g , p erha p s, to the precautions which have been taken by the authorities. The w Two Si s t ers , emigration-linplhich was to have sailed thi s morning with passengers for New York , has not left th e dock , owing to the crew not being made up. As it was expected that some force would have been used towards the men . who had signed a r ti c l es, and as it h a d been intimated to them that they would b e thrown over b oar d incontinently, a police force was stationed on board for their protection, and will continue in the ship nntii its departure. A sort of . watch was, nevertheless, kept up d ur i ng the wholo o f l as t night by the seamen on strike, some dozen or two of whom paced up and down within twenty yards of the vessel, with no other defi nite object, perhaps, than that of holding the others in ter rorem. The leaders of the malcontents, however, express a wish that the strike should be conducted peaceably. NATIGATION OP THE ItivEß THAMES.—The Right Honourable the Lord Mayor has issued a notice that the navigation of the river Thames on the tliddlesex side, under the fifth and sixth arches of Bl ackfriars-bridge, is for the present suspended for every description of craft until further notice. As repairs are now being made in that portion of the bridge, it is only a precaulionary measure to prevent all accidents. MEETING OF PARLIAMENT THE THIRD EDITION OF "THE SUN will be found highly interesting during the present extraordinary Session of Parliament. The THIRD EDITION will contain the DEBATES of the SAME EVENING up to the HOUR of POST ; also, SPORTING of every description, with TATTERSALL'S on Monday and Thursday Evenings in time for Post ; with the GAZETTES of Tuesday and Friday, con taining Army and Navy Promotions, Bankrupts, Scc., and ALL NEWS arriving in London up to the Hour of Post. EXPRESS EDITIONS ON ALL IMPORTANT OCCASIONS. Orders received by all News-agents, and at the Sun Office, 112, Strand. Sun Office, 112, Strand, JANUARY, 1851. TEE SUN, oc. ..... ui.•,,, , • - . t. „0,...i. ~.., _.....a or V , -S , ••• A. A - :.••.,4„.b.f 0 ._ • ' 6 3.41,ighii. 2- Nz \ ' ''-' -j-4 • - .. -' 4o‘7,* r 1 , . . 4: Pr • Ito • •'',7:11..• i - ROIT ' •, ' •• ••=`---•- • ' '..A ; It li ~,,' tp..lbo ' • ••••< 10 ",•" - 1‘.. . „ .. - '---1 , • .." 0 ":01. ~ -. " ' ' ,7......., °+ ITifltfli rnii LONDON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 31, 1851. Expectations of the most diversified character are rife in the Parisian circles in reference to the probable election of this individual and that as President of the Legislative Assembly to-morrow, the Ist of Fe bruary. Throughout the whole period which has elapsed since the convocation of the existing Legisla ture, namely, since the May of 1849, M. DUPIN has occupied that difficult and responsible post, having been re-elected by immense majorities at the close of each term of his periodical presidency. His continu ance in office as the chosen head of the A ssembly has, in fact, come to be regarded as something very like a matter of course. The public have become habitu ated to his selection in preference to all other compe titors, and the popular representatives themselves ap pear to have become equally accustomed to that ar rangement. It consequently seizes the attention as a somewhat startling novelty, the mere announcement that M. DUPIN is likely to be rejected as a candidate on the next Ist of February. Such is actually the statement currently made through the political circles of Paris ; and it is reported that not only is M. DIIPIN to be refused his re-elevation to the Presidential chair of the Assembly, but that, in addition to this, M. BAROCHE will be appointed his successor as Procu reur• General of the Court of Cessation. Whether such will be the case or not, it would be rather diffi cult to conjecture ; but we believe that the rumour spok en of in reference to the leadership of the Re publican Legislature is in the highest degree pro bable. Various hopes are consequently alive as to the personage likely to be chosen in lieu of the veteran senator. The minority look forward with some con fidence to the success of their favourite candidate, M. NAPOLEON DIM, the Mountain being certain an tagonists of the Legitimatist candidate, General BEDEAU. Between these two men, at any rate, there can be little doubt as to the number of votes being greatly in favour of the former—the latter being re garded naturally by all the staunchest Republicans with an unconquerable suspicion. Whatever may be the ultimate resolve of the Assembly upon this par ticular, there can be no question but that it will tend very materially to precipitate affairs towards some broad and definitive settlement. Supposing the Bo napartist candidate to be successful, supposing General BEDEAU to be beaten by M. NAPOLEON DARU, and this in consequence of the jealousies of the Mountain and the unanimity of the supporters of his antagonist, the result must inevitably produce a most favourable impression as regards the interests of the PRESIDENT of the Republic. Coming, indeed, so imm e ediately after his late discomfiture of the Legitimatists, it would strengthen his influence almost incalculably. In this respect the triumph over General BEDEAU would be a fitting sequel to the victory over General CHANQARNIER. So important, in fact, would such an event be in forwarding the development of the po licy adventured upon by Louis NAPOLEON, that we doubt not every effort will be employed with a view to se cure to his cause so enormous an advantage. Under present circumstances the adherents of the PRESIDENT must feel themselves encouraged to enter the lists even against the combined ranks of their opponents. Their late ingenuity, in evading the dangers set in their path by the whole body of the counter-revolutionists, must act perforce as an irresistible encouragement to yet further attempts of still more conspicuous audacity. The irritated and irritating rhetoric of M. TRIERS has failed altogether to Laing destruction upon them or disgrace upon their endeavours. Still less can be hoped from the very questionable prestige of General BEDEAI7. The faith less and unconstitutional behaviour of M. BERBYEB has proved ineffectual in carrying palsy to the arm of the Executive. Still less can be looked for as a con sequence of any flagrant act of the like kind coming from M. LEO DE LA BORDB. The fate of the Legiti matist faction would appear to be sealed by the un timely disclosures in which some of its leading men have indulged themselves, impelled to the declaration of their real sentiments by the arrogance of an over confident ambition. Thanks to that premature and mistaken reliance upon a vigour which proves only, when too late, to have been altogether illusory—the venom of intrigue has been extracted before its fangs could be fastened in the Government. Lours NAPOLEON may now, therefore, act towards his very numerous antagonists with a boldness the force of which is immeasurably enhanced by the fact of his perfect self-possession. Satisfied that he is dealing with men innocuous from their party division, and impotent from the very circumstance of their in sincerity, the PRESIDENT may, with more even than his customary determination, grapple with the diffi culties by which he is yet surrounded. His latest exploit, though not paraded with any thing like ostentation, is perhaps the most effectual blow yet stricken at the conspiring Legitimatists. By his " Ministry of transition" he has baffled those who imagined they had caught him on the horns of a dilemma. Modestly selected from men of unimpeach able integrity, if of a merely respectable mediocrity, the members of the new Cabinet have taken occasion through their representative M. ROYER, the Minister of the Department of Justice, to assure the Assembly that their mission, undertaken by them with patriotic alacrity, is of a strictly evanescent and temporary nature. This assertion, moreover, was made in language of the most dignified conciliation—the Le gislature evincing their appreciation of the course pursued both by the PRESIDENT and his Ministerial advisers by abrupt and almost involuntary applause. Out of this indirect endeavour to smooth down ex isting difficulties may spring, will, we hope and be lieve, spring a more direct, a more visible, and a more effectual means of reconciliation. The delay will, at any rate, enable the PRESIDENT to organize with de sirable deliberation the permanent Ministry to be ultimately appointed. Overtures, it is said, are still made by him in various quarters, to the end that men of incomparable ability, as well as of probity beyond suspicion, may be entrusted with the duties of forming an Administration. A definitive settlement of this kind must be acknowledged to be most singularly desirable under existing circumstances, the Legislature being divided against itself as well as against the Executive powers of the Republic, and the May of 1852 drawing nearer and nearer to us—that importaet month which will terminate the career of the existing Legislature, and bring Prince LOUIS NAPOLEON to the close of his first Presidency. On Saturday last we directed the public attention to the case of Mr. JOHN GOLDSMID, a member of the Stock Exchange, who had on Thursday, the 23d in stant, been convicted before Mr. Sergeant ADAMS, and a bench of magistrates, at the Middlesex Sessions, of an alleged assault on GEORGE TREVEMAN, an office r attached to the department of Inland Revenue. Although at all times unwilling to impeach the de- LONDON, Jibe-ate deeison of a judge and jury—of a person of education and experience, selected to discharge the arduous and important duties of the judicial office, and of twelve men sworn on the Holy Evangelists to decide impartially according to the evidence—we felt it to be an imperative duty to protest earnestly and emphatically against that verdict, which we had no hesitation in declaring to be " totally opposed to the weight of evidence," and we called on the Home Secretary to institute a searching inquiry into all the circumstances of the case. In thus acting, we were influenced by no private or personal motives. We knew nothing of the parties concerned ; nothing but a strong sense of duty to a person whom, from an at tentive consideration of the evidence brought before the Court and jury, we verily be lieved to be an innocent and deeply injured man, and to the three respectable witnesses produced on his behalf, to whom the commission of wilful and deliberate perjury was openly and unequivocally at• tributed, could have induced us to take up the case. We felt that the fundamental principle of the criminal law, which declares that it is beter that one hundred guilty persons should escape than that one innocent person should suffer undeserved punishment, had been violated. The jury gave the benefit of the doubt to the Crown, and not to the prisoner ; they gave credit to the loose and flippant swearing of the prosecutor, who obstinately persisted in his charge, rather than to the concurrent testimony of the seven witnesses for the defence. He might have fallen into error, he might, and we believe really did conscientiously believe that he was stating " the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth,'' so far as he was concerned. We believe it to be a case of mistaken identity ; but there was no possibility of such a mistake on the other side. If Mr. JOHN GOLDSMID did not go down to Brighton under circum stances which rendered it impossible that he could havo been at the Blue Posts on the evening of the Ot October, Messrs. SAMPSON and SEPTIMUS GOLD SMID, and Mr. J. STEVENS, together with EDWARD STONE, footman to the first witness, must have deli berately stated what they well knew to be false. If it was not, Mr. HOGGINS, who indulged in the rough practical joking which had been erroneously attri buted to the defendant, and which led to such un toward results, then must the landlord, waiter, and porter of the Blue Posts have been all guilty of perjury, and, cui bono, for what object was this enor mous mass of crime to be perpetrated ? Was it to save the life of the defendant ? or, at least, to save him from perpetual banishment from his native land, that he would be capable of suborning seven persons, in cluding his own father and brother, to commit so fearful an offence, or that those persons could have been induced to have yielded to such infa mous solicitations ? No such thing 1 The worthy magistrate before whom the charge was first investigated justly designated the entire trans. action as " a foolish business," and recommended the defendant to make an apology and some recompense to the complainant. Had that advice been complied with the matter would, most probably, have ter minated there ; or, if there was no difference as to the facts, it would have been summarily disposed of, a fine of 51. being the highest punishment that could have been inflicted. It was really too absurd to suppose that a man in easy circumstances, to whom such a sum could have been of no great importance, would prefer going to trial to making such an arrangement; but, unfortunately, the jury disregarded all these matters, and still more unfortunately, the Judge adopted the same erroneous view, and justified the severe sen tence which he passed on the defendant on the ground of his having " called upon his father and brother, as well as other persons, to commit perjury," and feel ingly declared that he " had never seen such an exhibition of wickedness in his life ;" while it was suggested by another gentleman that " steps should be taken to deprive the landlord of his licence," a suggestion to which the Learned Counsel for the prosecution immediately responded, promising that such steps should be taken. _ _ It now appears clearly and distinctly, beyond the possibility of doubt, that we were right, and that, as we declared, the Judge and jury bad fallen into a very serious and lamentable error. No sooner had the extraordinary and unaccountable verdict been re turned than Mr. SAMPSON GOLDSMID sought further evidence to confirm the accuracy of his state ment and to vindicate his veracity, which had been so wantonly attacked. The distinct, positive, and unequivocal declarations of no less than fifteen additional witnesses, whose attention was directed to the case by the publicity which it attained, all con firmatory of the evidence for the defence, were ob tained and forwarded to Mr. Sergeant ADAMS, with the view of being laid before Sir GEORGE GREY, and at the same time, in order "to make assu rance doubly sure," the real Simon Pure, disregarding all personal consequences, most hand somely and honourably came forward to save an innocent man, and acknowledged that he was the person who had so roughly jested with the sensitive exciseman. The result was, that within half an hour after the matter was brought before Sir GEORGE GREY, the defendant, Mr. Jonri GOLDSMID, was liberated with a free pardon !! ! The unenlightened reader may ask, " a pardon for what ?" Is it for having been subjected to unmerited punishment? for having been associated for five days in the House of Correction with the lowest class of criminals ? Why should not the mistaken verdict be reversed, and ample compensation made to the victim ? No such thing. The wisdom of the Legislature has decided that a verdict once returned in a criminal case is final and conclusive, and cannot be reversed under any cir cumstances whatsoever. Once more, then, we repeat our interrogatory—when will a court of appeal in criminal cases be established ? The vindication of Mr. JOHN GOLDSMID is complete. It is now spoken of as a "singular case of mistaken identity," in place of being designated in more homely but more correct language, while the verdict must for ever remain recorded against the injured gentleman. Such things should not be possible in this mighty empire; and once more we repeat what we have so often hitherto asserted— that amongst the many legal reforms so urgently re quired, none is more essential than the establishment of a court of criminal appeal, where the facts of a doubtful case may receive a second investigation. THE FRENCH REPUBLIC. We have received the Paris journals of yesterday. The Legitimatist representatives have unanimously resolved to oppose the Dotation Bill, and the Re publicans will also vote against it to a man ; thus there is but little chance of its being carried at pre sent ; indeed, it was stated that the PRESIDENT had determined to postpone its presentation for the pre sent. Had it not been for these demonstrations on the part of the Legitimatists and Republicans the Bill would have been presented to-day. All the persons arrested at the Bemire Pigole for complicity in the supposed plot of the Union des Communes have been set at liberty, with the excep tion of five. The sham having served the purpose of its concoctors, and terrified the Legitimatists and Orleanists into silence on Monday, is now to be suf fered quietly to pass into oblivion, M. CAELIER hav ing no further present occasion for it. The Burgraves, have lost entirely the confidence of their followers in consequence of their conduct on Monday. The Le gitimatists and Orleanists are loud in their denuncia tions of the cowardice of MM. TRIERS, BERRYER, ODILON BARROT, and LEON FAUCHER. The Assembly has granted an authorization to M: CHERON to prosecute M. MAILIGUIN for debt. The Constitutionnetpublishes an article by M. DE LAISIARTINE, on the recent conflict between the two Powers; it is intended to appear in the forthcoming number of the Conseillier du Peuple. We extract some of the most remarkable passages. Aft er re citing the circumstances of former P a rli amen t ar y coalitions, M. DELASIARTINE alludes as f o ll ows t o the late coalition against the PRESIDENT of the Re public Three Governments have been undermined, and have fallen by three coalitions. A n d now t h ere i s a f o urth coal itio n against anoth e r G overnment—weaker and younger in years—the Republic. And y et, in find ing the same actors on the scene, the same raanceuvrei at stake, the same petty passions in wrath, the samo speeches in common, and the same hands appl au di ng , en attendant the occasion to be railed in h ostil i ty — you trembling b n l i o n t g s fo d r mi t t h u e s ßeub to be a ic nd moved, warned, a l arme d, for the people con ducted a fourth time to the abyss—an abyss a thou sand times more profound than those of 1829, 1840, and 1848! You will not admit us to tear away the veil, a thousand times too transparent, of a conspiracy aga i nst the public peace. Go to! You may conquer us, ind ee d, involuntary complicity to the inexplicable credulity or the complicity of certain men, but you will at least not have the satisfaction 0 having deceived us! We see as FRIDAY EVENING, clearly into your game as one can see into the dark fbachinations of parties, anti as one can discern the truth on physiogniwies of such different aspects." M. DE LAMAUTINE then observes that the enemies of the Republic, dissatisfied with the calm and pros perity which prevailed, resolved to get up a storm, and for that purpose began to accuse the different acts of the PRESIDENT. M. DE LAMARTINE passes some of these acts in review, and on the dismissal of Gen. NEUMAYER, remarks : "This was a misfortune; but we well know that General Neumayer was not dismissed for having forbid den cries of Vive l'Empereurr but for having lessened the acclamations of Vive le Plbsident!" Vice Napo leon!' Perhaps at that moment the President had need of those demonstrations, which were not sedi , ious, but expressed affection and devotednes, to intimidate the malevolence, the rivality, and the hatred which threat ened to break out elsewhere." On the Permanent Committee of the Assembly, M. DE LAMARTINE says--- '• During the President's journeys, banquets, and re views, suspected or ron-suspected, what occurred in a certain quarter of Piris? The Permanent Committee there assembled. TAB committee, which replaced the Assembly, was composed, including the bureau and the questors, of thirty-six representatives, chosen by the ma jority of the Assembly from among the most accredited and most eminent members of the Parliament, but not assuredly the most notorious for their Republicanism. We do not reproach them with this; the Republic, as we understand it, is rot made for Republicans alone, but for everybody. Opirions in it are free, and sentiments respected. That is ,:ust, great, and politic. Each one must be master, and proud of his place on the common field of the Republic, and even his heart may be Royalist, provided his vote be constitutional. But the heart occupies a great place in human organisation; and when the heart declares frankly that it is with the fallen dynasties, we may, without calumniating any one, suspect the mind to be involuntarily influenced by it. The members of the Permanent Committe, either rightly or wrongly, were not accused of too nuch heartfelt leaning towards the Republican system sf government and the President of the Republic." M. DE LAMARTINE next notices the visits of the Legitimatists to Wiesbaden, of the Orleanists to Claremont, the celebration of a mass for Louis PHILIPPE in the chapel of the Tuileries, and other acts of the Royalist parties, and complains that none of them were noticed by; the Permanent Committee. But this Committee, he says, was occupied in watch ing the Empire:— "And how did it watch the Empire? Ah ! You have only to open the minues—they are a chef d'ceuvre of sagacity and solicitude; from each page there arises an odour of police from the hands of such or such subalterns; there are gossipings put into reports, half confidences, night patrols; the phantoms of an autumn evening seen by the fireside. One had beard say; another had fancied he had seen; th's one imagined that he had suspected; that one was surprised to have remarked; such a one felt the necessity of calling on the conspirator, the Minister of War, to ask him frankly if he were not conspiring— another to make him promise to give nothing more than the simple ration to the soldiers, thirsty from the march; another to wait patiently for the coming review to as certain if really, yes or no, the Republic will that day be confiscated—determined, no doubt, to denounce the conspiracy atter it should be accomplished: in short, things that are really prodigious in keenness, tact, logic, and sagacity! And all ends by the famous assassination. But the general commanding the troops, according to these minutes, was present at some of the sittings. He necessarily trarquiliised the committee; for he had only to speak, and there would have been no reviews, or he would only have to resign, and his retirement would have revealed the supreme peril. At the instant the Assembly would have beenconvoked, and the conspiracy would have been crushed by the weight of a nation which wilt have none of such things. But, no—the Parliament is not con voked, and nothing is said, but there are whisperings which are the denunciations of silence! Well, let us reason closely, and say the truth to the Permanent Com mittee. This truth is one of two things : either the Permanent Committee saw crimes in the acts of the Executive Government during the absence of the As sembly, and in that case it is inexcusable for not having at the same moment sounded the constitutional tocsin of alarm, and recalled the Assembly to prevent, beard, and pulverise the coup d'itat ; or the Permanent Committee saw only phantoms, and in that case why has it joined in a chorus with the retrospective coalition which has just denounced the soi-disant conspiracies of the Execu tive Government to the Assembly, has agitated the peo ple. caused a panic in the Republic, suspended affairs, divided the two powers, whose harmony is the necessary condition of all good, and whose conflict the condition of all evil? Either the committee was very blind two months ago, or is very mute at present. Let it reply if it can." The Moniteur announces that the PRESIDENT of the Republic has received the King of SARDINIA'S reply to his letter accrediting M. DE BUTTENVAL at the Court of Turin. In the Strasburg election of members for the Tribunal of Commerce, the Democrats obtained a majority. The Gazette de France states that Prince Dean- DOFF has received permission from the Emperor of xtussla. to come and reside in Paris. There was a considerable amount of business transacted at the Bourse, at an advance of prices. The Five per Cents. opened at 96f. 20c., and closed at 96f. 35c.; the Three per Cents. closed at 57f. 85c.; the New Loan at 96f. 10c. BUSINESS DONE IN FOBEIGN RAILWAYS AT TBE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, J. O. Boulogne and Amiens, 9%—Central of France (Orleans and Vierzon), 16—EasOndian, 11 1 / 2 —Luxembourg, 2N Namurand Liege, 8 1 / B —Northern of France, 15 1 / B —Orleans and Bordeaux, 4—Sambre and Meuse, 3%. SPAIN. Madrid journals of the 26th have arrived. The Budget was to be brought forward on the fol lowing day, and it was said that the grant to the uni versities would be repealed, as the Ministers consi dered they ought to support themselves. This would effect a saving of one million and a half of reals. The project of the regulation of the national debt will be calculated on nearly the bases laid down by Senor BERTRAN DE LIS. MADRID BOLSA, JAN. 24.—The Three per Cents., 34k; Five per Cents,, 13k. Exchange on London, 50 65 money. GERMANY. The Austrian Government has recalled its Minister from the United States, and the diplomatic relations between the two countries are entirely interrupted. Prince SCHWARTZENBERG, too, has been speaking as "prave oorts" as mine ancient PISTOL, de claring what great things Austria would do were her geographical position with regard to America different. Let his blustering Highness beware, or America, FLUELLIN-like, will compe 1 him to eat his leek. The relative geographical position,. of the two countries may be an excellent excuse lo Austria contenting herself with utte ring loud threats' but it would ❑ot prevent the Americans from taking possession of Trieste, Fiume, and Venice, were they so minded. The Austrian Government has given strict orders that, under pain of prosecution before a court-martial, none of the journals shall speak of the recently dis covered plot in that city, and accordingly all are silent. But the Constitutional Journal of Prague de clares that the alleged plot has no importance, that it was not in communication with secret societies abroad, and that only eight persons, belonging to a political club in the Leopoldstadt, has been arrested. The German Journal of Frankfort, of the 27th, states that the French Charge d'Affaires to the Court of Electoral Hesse, who had quitted Cassel on the rupture between the ELECTOR and his subjects, still remained in Frankfort. The Cologne Gazette, under date of Dresden, 23d, says— In a few days Germany will find herself sheltered from the storms which are preparing in France and in Switzerland, at least so far as considerable masses of troops can do so. The new Central Provisional Go vernment will be invested with all the powers necessary to meet any events. All the forces which it may want will be placed at its disposal. Prussia will place at the command of the Central Government the 30,000 men cantoned near Coblentz." DENMARK AND THE DUCHIES. Hamburgh is now in the possession of the Austrian troops. They arrived on the 28th. The labours of the German Commissioners for the affairs of Holstein will be principally directed to the re-establishment of material order and the internal relations ; the question of rights will be settled else• where, and by other parties. The Commissioners are using all their efforts to bring about a satisfactory ar rangement. The German Reform says the reduction of tho Danish army will shortly take place. The Hamburgh Correspondent of the 27th inst. states that in his last dispatch, Prince SCHWART.. ZENBURGH announced to the Cabinet of Copenhagen, that Austria fully acknowledged the treaties of 1721, and that consequently the rights of the Ger manic Confederation, as well as the nationality of Holstein and of the Duchy of Schleswig would be guaranteed in such a manner, that for the future each party would be bound to abstain from any arbi trary or illegal act. It is said that the constitution of the Duchy of Holstein will undergo an important revision. TUE SHARE MARKETS. BRITISH RAILWAYS 80 8 6 8 13 14 0 178 6 8 5 45 100 25 50 25 15 1 1 0 8 6 8 - 12% 12% 12% 100 1 1 Normal Prices. 111 13 41 47% 100 100 12 15 4 20 100 100 42% 4 2 0, j 29 16 0 100 47% to to tom 3i U dta. 5N —5% Ws. 34 - I P. 29 -30 27 -28 8- 9 p 7- 5 p 10 -11 78 -SO UN - 173 10% - 10% 5 % -5% 174 - 18 14X -151 i •• -- •• 25 —23 dis. 3 -3% 1% -2% 1% -1% 1 - IU, % -1 6% -6% 'Ai % P % die. % P 10% - 11 63 —64 b 5 —57 4 —6 p 74 -7% 5 - I£3 -19 12% - 1N 2% -3% 32 - 32% 29 -30 5% - 6 - % 17% - 173 1 , 3 -6% 11% - 11% 12% - 13 40 -42 % 1242 - 245 84% —85% 2% dis. 101 103 50 —52 23 —24 69 —7l 26 —27 p F. 56 —57 lON —10 M 7 dig. 1% I dis.l 130 - 135 6 5'4 dis. 97 —9B - 16 3% —2% die. 3% 3 dis. i i z i % dig. 1 IN, p -- • .• 7 - 7i 96% - 97% 16% -11 A 57 -60 57 -60 138 - 141 11% - 12 234-24 125 .- —125% —4% p. 4 p. 2% p. 85% 86% 7% &iv 6 5 dis. —2% p. •. - •• 14 -16 4% -. 3% Mi. 26 27 11 12 10Ysi 11 % % P 34 234 dis. 52% —534 •• •. 184— 171019.; 26 —2l 126 - 128 5 -5% 2 12 0 6 —27 14% 13% dia. 17 18 8 14 —8 434 —5.,4 % 7 s —9 % du: 15% - 161,i 42 -43 8 - 9 p. 13 5 3' 9 12 3 paid up paid up 21 -21% 7%- 8 1 36 - I%p. 1N -14 N 7 - 8 5 -5% 6 5;4 dis.l s}i 10 10% 4% dis.l 1 12 —l4 6 7 10 —ll 1X 1 clis. 13}i 14 3 3 dis. 16 16 12 —l3 3% —3% as. 24% 24% .. - .. 22 -23 4 3 di,. .• • 9 —• 7 dia. 7 6 dls. 3 4 15% 16 .. - .. 22 -23 8 -8% •. ..." •• 20 -21 •• ••• •• 42% - 43% 20 20% 5 —4% d 13 .1 2% —2% dis. 16 -- 17 4 —4% 24 —24 1 1 dls. FOREIGN. 20 I 9 -9% 15% - lf % x.i. 4% —4% die. S 1 , ,i ) p. U - % P• % - U P• 3G-1% 2% -2% 7% 15 15! 4 —3A Ws. 34 —35 27% —27% 54 —5% dis. 103 11% 3 —3% HOLLAND. THE HAGUE, JAN. 28.—We have received intel ligence from Berlin, stating that the postal conven tion between the Netherlands and Prussia was signed by the plenipotentiaries in that city on the 26th, and will come into operation on the Ist of April next. In consequence of the requisition of the herring fisheries board, the KING has appointed a committee to inquire into the cause of the great decrease which has of late years taken place annually in the product of the herring fisheries, by which many families who depended upon it for their little Livelihood have been thrown out of employment. The Town Council of Edinburgh have agreed to petition Parliament to abolish the income-tax on trades and professiwas! Itailways. Paid. Aberdeen.. Do. Preference • • •• I Ambergate, Nottingham, Boston, & E. Juncion Ayrshire and Galloway.- Belfast and County Down Berks and Hants Eaten. (Great Western Per petual 5 per cent.) Birmingham and Oxford Junction, calls duly paid, or with a guar... Do. without a guar... Birming., Wolverhamp ten, and Dudley, call* duly paid, or with a! guarantee .. .. ..I 1)o. without a guar. •• Birming., Wolverhamp., and Stour Valley •• Birkenhead, Lances., andl Cheshire Junction •• Bristol and Exeter.. . Buckinghamshire •• •• Caledonian Do. 101. Preference .. Do. Clydesdale June... Chester and liolyhea.d Do. Preference .. .. Clarence .. .. .. .. Do. Ist Class, 6 per et.l Do. 24 de., 5 per cent. Do. Gov. 1.0an,4 pr. ct. Direct Lond. and Portsm. Dublin and Belfast Junct., Dublin and Kingstown.. Dundalk and Enniskillen East Anglian (25/. L. & E. and L. & D.) Do (181. E. & B.) .. Do. (3/. 10s.) 6 per cent. Preference .. Do. (5/.) 7 pr. et. Pref. Do. (71.175.) 7 p. c.Pref. Eastern Counties Do. Exten., 5 persent. l No. 1 Do. No. 2 .. Do . New Preference, • 6 per cent. Do. North. and East. 6 per cent. Do. do. 5 per cent .. Do. do., New .. Eastern Union, class A, late E. U. shares • • Do. do. do. .. Do. do., B & C shares Do. do., scrip, guaran. 6 per cent. East Lancashire .. Do. tiew quarters •• Do. 6 per cent. pref. quarter shares.. • • East Lincolnshire, gua. 6 per cant Edinburgh and Glasgow Edin., Perth, and Dundee Do. Newport .. Exeter and Exmouth .. Glasgow and South- West, Do. pref. consolidated Do. do. G. D. & C. stock Gloucester & Dean Forest Great Northern .. • • Do. halves, A, deferred Do. halves, B, 6 per ct. Do. 5 per cent. pref. • • Great Southern and Western, Ireland .. Do. eighths .. .. Great North of England. Do. new 401. .. .. Do. new 30/. .. .. Do. new 151. . .. Great Western .. • • Do. New, 171. .. Hull and Selby .. 1)o. half shares • • • • Do. quarter shares -. Lancaster and Carlisle .. Do. thirds • • • • •• 1 1 Lancaster and Preston .. Lancashire and Yorkshire Do. quarter shares .. Do. tilths . Do. F. 201. Do. new, guaranteed 6 per cent. .. _ . • DO. iiudders. & Sheff., Do. West Riding Union Leeds and Braaford • • Leeds and Thirsk •• Do. pref. 6 p et., No. 1 Do. pref. 6 p et., No. 2 Do. pref. 6 p et., No. 3 Do. pref. qrs., 1848 .. Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport .. • London and Blackwall • • London, Brighton, and South Coast .. • • Do. guarteed. 5 per ct., late Croy den thirds De. preference, 5 p et. Do. preference, cony. 5 per cent., 1852 .. . _ DO. new guaranteed, 61 per cent. .. London and Greenwich . Do. preference . • • London and .N.-Western Do. do. new quarters . Do. fifths Do. 101. sh., AL &13 (c) London and S.-11 esters ~ Do. new 50/. Do. new 401. Do. new preference .. Londonderry & Coleraine ; Do. half shares .. Lowestoft, guar. 4 per et. Do. do. 6 per cent. .. Londonderry and Ennis- _ killen. .. .. .. • • Do. half shares • • • . Manchester, Buxton, and Matlock •• .. .. Manchester, Sheffield, & Lincolnshire Do. quarters, No. 1 • • Do. new, 101 preference Do., 61. Prefereuco Do. Manchester and Lincoln Union •• Midland • • • • .. • • Do. consolidated pref. Do. 50/. shares • • • • Do. Blaming & Derby Do. Consul. Bristol & Birming., 6 per cent. Do. Bristol & Glouces.l Do. do. do. •• Do. Erewash Val. pref. Do. Leic. & Swanning. 8 per cent. guar. .. Midland Gt. West. (Ire.) Middlesbro' and Redcar, 6 per cent. guar. Newcastle and Carlisle•. Do. quarter shares Newmarket • • .. Do. extension scrip .. Newport, Abergavenny, and llereford • . :. Newry & Enniskillen .. Newry, Warrenpoint, & Rostrevor • • .. • • Norfolk • • • . .. • • Do. New 201. shares • • Do. Extension • • • • Do. guar. 5% per cent. Do. Waveney Valley.. Northern Counties Dillon North British.. .. .. Do. ['reference .. .. North Staffordshire .. North-Western .. •• Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton.. Preston and Wyre Do. Halves (A) •• • • !leading, Guildford, and IZ.eigate .. • • • • .. Royston and Ilitehin Do. Shepreth Scottish Central .. Scottish Midland .. Do. new .. Shrewsbury & Binning. Clas3 A.. .. Do. Class 8.. .. Do. New Guarantee.. Shrewsbury & Hereford Shrewsbury and Chester (Nor. W. Min.) .. Do. tial - ies .. .. .. Do. Oswestry .. .. Do. New.. .. • • Do. 8 per cent. Pref. . Shropshire Union . • • • South Devon • . Do. Preference • • .. South Staffordshire .. South-Eastern .. .. Do. do. 4% per cent... South Wales.. .. .. South Yorksh. and River Sheft., Roth., and Goole, N. Div., guar. 5 p cent. Do. do..Eiouth Div. .. Swansea & Loughor, &c. raw Vale Extension .. Thames Haven Dock and Railway .. .. • • Vale of Neath .. . Waterford and Kilkenny Waterford and Limerick Waterford, Wes., Wick., and Dublin Wear Valley, 6 per cent. guaranteed • . Do. do. Do. do. West ,!ornwall do. .. do. .. West London . .. • • Do. Ist Class Prof. (101.) Do. 2d Class de. (par) Whltenaven and Furness] Windsor, Staines, and S. Western .• .• •• Wilts, Somerset, & Wey. month • • • • • • • • York, Newcastle, & Ber-, wick .. •• •• •• Ditto and Newcastle Extension • Ditto G.N.E. purchase or preference • . Do. Hartlepool . Dock and Railway .. ..1 York and North Midland Do. Preference .. .. &alone and Amiens •• Central of France (Or leans and Vierzon) • • Demerara .. •• Dutch Rhenish • • •• East Indian • • .. • • Do. do. do. • • Great Indian Peninsula • . Ditto ditto • • .. Louvain ala Sambre .. Luxembourg • • .. .. Ditto • • • • • • •• Madrid and V alentia Maria Antonia • • Ditto, New .. Namur and Liege .. Northern of France .. Orleans and Bordeaux .. Paris and Orleans .. Paris and Rouen .. Pails and Strasbourg Rouen and Havre .. . Sambre and Meuse .. Strasbourg and Basle .. Tours and Nantes Tournay, Jurbise, Lan den, and Hasselt • • West Flaliders .. • • Australasia •• • • • • •• British North America.. Colonial .... ••.. • • Commercial of London.. London Joint Stock ....' London and Westminster National Provincial Eng. National of Ireland .. • . Previncial of Ireland.... Do. New . • •• •••• • • Union of Australia .. Union of London ...... Union of Madrid 10 die. 6 % % 13 )4 dis. 58 52% 53( 8 % % ,liyi 10 9N 7 15X x. n. 24 5 M % 22( % 9 % % 27% 9% 11.% JANUARY 3l, 1861. 10% -9- 7 i, dia. 13i -1% ;K BANKS. 29 -311 i 421( -42 9%-10 25 -25 X 18% -19 27% -2714 17% - 18 42 - 42% 15% - 15 34% - 35 12% - 13% •• ...... ~,,,, Business done to-day. 10% 5 % 4 18 17% 15 % P 1 ,6 par 17% li 1$ 85 84X 86% 14X % 567, 57 98 15}i % 95 94% x.d 11% x.d. [126 125% 126% 21 % % 17 ' 27 5% ( dis. ax y g dis. 2O % 15% U 24 %i( 9 8 . 1 4 • 15% 15 x. d. 6 13 4' 6 13 15 11 6 3 MTNP,Q. Paid, I Nominal Prices. IBusiness don to-day. Anglo.Mexican(is. 5/. p.) 100 .. —.. Asturian .... ..... ..... 15 .. —.. Australian .... •••• •• • • 4 3!! —2% Barossa Range ........ 113 0 3% —3% Blaerntrvon Iron and Coal 50 • • —.. Bolanos Scrip ...... •• • • • • '-- • • British Iron.. .... ...... 13 5 .. —• • Brazilian Imp. (Is. 5/. p.) 24% .. . • • Do. Cocaes and Cuiaba 30 2% 2 Do. St. John del Rey.. 15 14% 13% 13 % 34 •U Cobra Copper ..... ... 40 32% -35 Copiapo ..,........ •• • 14 5% —5% 5% General..... ....... .. • • 20 13% —l4 Real Del Monte, Unreg. H, % Do. Black Debentures . .. —., • Do. Red Debentures .. . • —• • Santiago de Cuba ...... 10 9 —7% Tin Croft ........., .••I 7 10% —ll United Mexican...... •.28 2 8% , 6% —4% 4% MISCELLANEOUS. Canada .............. 32% 42% —44 Gen. Steam Navigation . 14 26% ',8% Penin. & Oriental Steam. 50 GSK, —65 x. all Royal \ , ail Steam ...... 60 73 —69 rWe cannot be answerable for the errors of the Official Lists, and will not be influenced by interested correspondents.] MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS CITY, TWO O'CLOCK. The sales of Cceton at Liverpool yesterday were esti mated at 2 500 bides. The market was very quiet, and closed heavily at a decline fur 'lli kinds of id. per lb. — In Railway Shares a large business was dine at higher prices. Taking the aggregate transactions in the foreign and colonial produce markets, they have not bee❑ much enlarged this week, but there are some articles that at tract more attention. A good deal has been done in Spices. Tea, at a slight reduction, has been taken more freely; and Tallow, although the stock is large, has been very firm. Sugar is not brisk, but nevertheless holders are rather sanguine of a rise; the cholera in Jamaica, the diminished production in Cuba, and other causes leading to the conclusion that there will not be any excess in the quantity available for the influx of foreign visitors this year. Coffee has ruled very dull. In Rice not much has been done. Rum has become brisker withi❑ the last two days. Saltpetre has been cheaper, and Cotton barely maintains the previous rates. At Frankfort, o❑ the 28th inst., Austrian Metalliques were 723-, and Spanish Three per Cents 334 to 13-16. he rate of exchange on London comes higher from Paris, and consequently an improvement is expected here this afternoon. The English Funds have been rather flat again, and there has been a somewhat augmented supply of money stock. The foreign news is good, but the position of our Cabinet is not well understood, and therefore speculators continue timid. Consols are 96i- tor Transfer, and 96f for Account. The New rnree-and-a Quarter per Cents. have been 88,1 ; to 99. Exchequer-bills have been in request at 58s. and 61s. premium, another proof of the abundance of money. In the Foreign Market the half-monthly account is being arranged. Mexican Bonds are 33i -1-; Peruvian Four-and-a-Half per Cents. have touched 791 and 80; and Spanish Five per Cents. 18 i; Brazilian Small &ends are 89i; Russian Five per Cents. have been sup ported at 113; Dutch Fuur per Cents, are 91k to 1. Messrs. John Railton and Son write from Man chester hat— " With a view to the improvement of the very de pressed state of the unguaranteed railway capital, by fixing public attention constantly upon it, we selected twenty-three lines, embracing a capital of 96,000,0001, and took one share from each—amounting together to 7331. 163. 3d., on the 26th dsy of April last—to form a weekly state of the market that could be relied upon; and on the 31st of December the result was a gain of 232/. 17 s. lid., or 314 per cent. for the 249 days the cal culation was in operation. "'Taking the fluctuations that have taken place during the last four weeks ending the. 29th instant, when the total profit since the 26th of April amounted to 2681 is. Id., they augmented the original value of the twenty three from 733/. 16s. 3d. to 1,0011, 17s. 4d., or 36i per cent, in 277 days. By taking the actual market prices the dividends are embraced as they occur, by the antici pated rise and subsequent decline. "Railways, undEr ficient management, are capable of taking a very distinguished lead fur every purpose that can keep capital either fixed or moving in this country; but the present vicious mode of proxy voting must he placed under such restraint as will be safe for every interest:—by limiting the power of each individual acting by proxy to a given number of votes, and not exceeding a fixed amount of capital, would accomplish it, if ample time was given for the purpose." To-day the Railway Share Market is still very buoy ant, and the transactions have been to a good extent, and at enhanced prices, Conaola Ditto Account QUARTEI? TO THREA .. ... ... 961 i ... ... ... 961 i BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. From the Official List.) 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 97 VA, •J per Cent. Consols Anns New 3 1 4 per Cent. Atlas. ..... India Stock Do. Bonds, 10001 6B 71 p Ditto under 1.0001 Ainsols for Account . ....... E tciacquer Bills I Wel. 2d. March. June. 59 61 58 61 p 59 61 58 61 p 59 61 58 61 p ',060i. 500!. Small PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCE. Brazilian Bonds, 5 per 'Cent. Ditto, Small . Danish Bonds 1825, 3 per Cent.— Ditto, 5 per Cent BI ,aican ocm4s, 1846,5 per Gent., Coupons Ditto Ex Jan. Coupisus Peruvian Bonds, 4% per Cent 79 80 Ditto for the Account 80 80y e Ditto Deferred Portuguese Bonds, 5 poP Cent Ditto 4 Der Cent. . 35 Russian Bonds, 1822, 5 per Cent ll3 Ditto 4 1 A per Cent.. Spanish Bonds, 5 per 18 % 3 4 parish Bonds, 3 per Cent,lB4o ... 38 Venezuela Bonds Dividentls on the above payable in Londor. Dutch 2 1 4 per Cent., 1 2 Guild Ditto 4 oer Cant. Certificates LLOYD'S SHIPPIN G.—( THIS DAY.) LONDON, JAN. 31.—Wind at noon S.W., light breeze, and dull hazy weather with rain.—The Countess of Lonsdale steamer, which arriv,4d in the river yesterday from Gluckstadt, left on the 28th. The ice in the Elbe was making fast; the navigatio a was expected to be soon impeded. QUEENSTOWN, JAN. 29.—Wi rid S.W.—Arrd. Forfar shire, Callao. SHIELDS, JAN. 30.—Wind V\T.S.W., moderate.—Sid. Cassebelanus, Aden ; Margavet, Cadiz and North America. SUNDERLAND, JAN. 30 .—Wiald S. W.—Arrd. John, Moulmein. CARDIFF, JAN. 30.—The stab 'board side of the Noel, which got on shore in Four Acri ,s Bay (near Abershaw) 26th January, is completely knocked ST. DAVID'S, JAN. 29.—Two t. ar barrels have washed ashore at Trt ginnis, covered with: barnacles, and marked " 1850, R A—l Y E"—" W N SEV I-0 H." DEAL, JAN. 3 0.—Wind W. to W.S.W., fresh; 9 p.m. strong and squally.—Arrd. umburo, Guancheco. Arrd. from the River, Sarah, Rio Janiero. LIVERPOOL, JAN. 30.—Wind W.S.W. to S.S.W.— Arrd. Ellen, Highfield, Rio Gran de, sld. Nov. 9; New England, New Orleans; Scotia, Mobile; Washington, New York. Put back, Fairfield, Calcutta; Ohio, Vir ginia, leaky. Off port, Chaos, Us,k, and Fides. Part of the bottom of a vessel of about 300 tons, painted black, which appeared to have la Zen cut in two, was passed on the 7th instant, in lat.- 42, long. 61, by the Andrew Foster, arrived at New York. The Ellen Highfield, arrived here, has encountered a succession of heavy westeily gales for the last 1r irtnight. She passed a great many pieces of wreck beVween Holyhead and Tasker. FALMOUTH, JAN. 30.—The Sum ours, from Pernam buco, and the Concordia, t,urinaui to Amsterdam, p ut in yesterday leaky, and will have - to discharge. CAsTLETowN, ISLE cF MAN. , J AN.26.—lhe Th omas Tattersall, of Drogheda, Cardiff t u Liverpool, was aban doned yesterday three miles off the Skerries, h av i ng b een in contact with a ship, name un.known; crew landed here; also two casks of brandy, rnitrked " Ch ar l es Hen nessy, Cognac, 9 , J ll JRILL C. O. P.," and " Re nault and Co., Cognac, JJ. TM. R.. and Co., 234." NEwroaT, JAN. 29.—Wind W.---Arrd. Mountaineer. Quebec. PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 30.—Last night and all to-day it has blown a heavy gale at W. to S.W., with severe squalls. TORBAY, JAN. SO.—The Ferrett: schooner, of Wis beach, Newcastle to Bordeaux, witt; in contact yester- day with a brig, name unknown; lost mast, bowsprit, &c., became very leaky and was abandoned, the Start bearing N.N.W., about 20 miles; crew landed here. MUMBLES, JAN. 30.—The Three Brothers has been hauled off shore. CLYDE.—Arrd. Carona°, S. Ch link, Pernambuco; Actress, St. John's, New Brunswick. Ski. Penelope, Demerara; Roger Stewart, Ilavann OFF RAMSGATE.—Agues, Honduras for London. FLEETWOOD, JAN. 30.—Wind S. W.—Arrd. Isabella, New Orleans. CABINET COUNCIL.—(THIS DAY.)—The Ministers again assembled i❑ Council this afternoon, at two o'clock, at the Foreign-office. 'There were present the Marquis of Lansdowne, Lord John Russell, the Earl of Carlisle, the Earl of Minto, the Marquis of Clanricarde, Earl Grey, Sir George Grey, Viscount Palmerston, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir John CAin Hobhme, the Right Hon. H. Labouchere, Sir F. Baring, and the Right Hon. Fox Maul. The Ministers were in deliberation when we went to press. No WAY OF " A STONISHING" " DANDIES."—When the Professor of Architecture at the Roy a l A ca d emy was present in Scotland on the occasion of laying the foundation of the National Monument, he was particularly struck with the indifference of the assembled dandies to the three great stones employed, each weighing two tons or more : it created no interest with them ; they had no minds capable of appre ciating the large masses used by the Greeks in their glorious erections.—Builder. AN IRON-MASTED VESSEL.—The Olivier Van Noord, a Dutch East Indiaman, Captain Kicoyt, lying in the Salt-house Dock, Liverpool, has her lower masts constructed of iron-plates formed into cylinders, and firmly rivetted to gether. Inside, at various intervals, are cross-bars to main tain the shape of the cylinders, and to ,prevent bulging or other injury. A T 4 IC! Irr "C , • - r• -777. T 4, • 41 - • ' , A, A • ) CORN EXCHANGE.—(FRIDAY.) continued influx of foreign. Wheat and Flour ofe; rates i,criously against cur nuarke. During the cresen , week the arrivals of English Wheat coastwise have been under 2,000 quarters. By land carriage the receTto fre,h up to-day were small and mostly out of condition. As the attendance of both town and country buyers Wa s limited the demand fur all kinds of Wheat of home pro duce ruled heavy, at almost nominal currencies. N" d Y . 30,000 quarters of \Voeat havtrg reached us, chittlY Rom the Levant, the show of samples was considerat!ii on the incr , use. Fine (try quali ira chang d hands sloydii , but ail ot'it-r wi re dud in the extreme and the lower. We hail a very tow quantity of Barley oti s how: Malting parcels sold at late figur,s; but the ' , Page , tr grinding and distilling sorts had a downward tenifei.cP The sale for Malt was heavy in the extreme, at ti - $ ' I Y stationary prices. The piupply amounted to 7. 460 qiiarter. Fun s the evriy,il of Odes 17 good. litiat grain 123,t, a d,..11 sale, and ea ri i , re ,l 1 -arc. * , re 6d lower. 13-• ans, Peas. lonii to Corn, atAl El fur wee r (lull, hut not cheaper. ARRIVALS THIS WEEK Wheat. Barley. Malt. , Oats. Flow; Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. ..• ac" English .... • • 1,890 4,950 7,460 i 3,180 2, 660 _ '; 1 cotch.... • • Fore •• •• •• •• — ,' 4,650 rign .... • • 29,210 _ 7,c20 ___ :7 I 11,200 10,73° • 151 , 4mi/1 - mum. Our market to-day was very scantily supplied with Beasts, both as to number and quality ; neverthele`6o owing to the unfavourable sia,e et the weather for slaughtering, and the heaviness in Newgate and Leade e: hall, the Beef trade wal heavy in the extreme, at Pric e ,: barely equal to those obtained on Monday—the extrem e value of the best Scots being 3s 8d per Bibs. Sheep wer e in short supply and sluggish inquiry, yet a fair clear' ance was efrtcted at full currencies. For Calves the de mand ruled dull, anal in some instances the quotation: gave way 2d per 81b3. In Pigs so little was doing th s l prices were almost nominal. Mitch Cows were quot e ° at from 14/ to 18/ each, including their small calf. Per albs. to sink the offal, a. s. d. to s. d. B . d. to 8 interior Beasts-- 2 6 2 8 inferior Sheer • • 3 4 3 10 Second quality •• • 210 3 0 Second qual. Sheep 3 S 2 Prime large Oxen• • 3 2 3 4 Clarse-woolledditto4 0 , Prime Scots .. ••• • 3 6 3 8 Southdown Weth e r 4 2 0 t,arge coarse Calves 210 3 4 Ditto out of the wool° 0 6 Timesmall ditto •• 3 6 3 8 Large "logs ...... 210 4 0 4uckling Calves —lB 0 24 0 Small Porkers •• - • 3 8 0 Lambs •••••• • • • • 0 0 0 0 Quart3r old Pigs —l6 0 40 TOTAL SUPPLY AT MARKET I Sheep. i Calves I Figs 3,000 I 241 310 SCOTCH. I Sheep. I Calves. I rigs 60 FOREIGN SUPPLY. 'feasts. I Sheep. I Calves. I rig ° ' 182 700 104 ITEIVGATE AND LEADZNELALL. 1, These markets were well supplied. G e nerally spea k ing, the demand ruled heavy, as follows: Beasts. CV) Beasts. 31 At per atone oy the Carcase. d, a. d. to s. d. , s , d. tO S. eet,inferior...... 2 0 2 2 Mutton, inferior .. 2 6 ?• - middling .• •• 2 4 2 6 - 210 1 0 - primelarge .. 2 8 3 0 prime .....3 6 - prime small .. 3 2 3 4 Pork, 1arge........ 2 6 Taal•• •••• •••• •• •• 210 a 8 - small ........3 8 130ROUGEE HOP MARKET. is For most kinds of Hops—the supply of Whi ll somewhat extensive—the demand continues firm, sod' "i; some instances, prices are a shade higher than last We e ' , Ten bales have come to hand from Ostend. Fact °rs prices, viz., ready money—East Kent pockets, per 31 16s to 61 15s; ditto bags, 31 4s to 51 ss ; Mid .0 )311 , pockets, 2/ 6s to 51 15s ; ditto bags, 21 to 4l I°,6t; Weald of Kent pockets, 316 s to 412 s ; ditto bags 31 10s; Sussex pockets, 2/ 18s to 3/ 16s. COLONIAL. h SUGAR.—The market for most descriptions has - ee c i, a little firmer, and with a somewhat improved de03 513 a Barbadoes by auction sold at 41s to 43s for mid to g °° yellow, and at 43s 6d to 44s for fine. Demerara re6asi lised 37s 6d to 39s for low and mid yellow, and 3 5 1 to 37s for good and fine brown. lit•fined has been of"" at 49s 6d to 51s 6d for grocery lumps. e tion EAST INDIA.-Mauritius, 5,400 b ag s w e nt by tiu at full prices; fine yellow, 40 s 6d to 42 5; grey, 3', to ;00 40s; and brown. 323 to 363. The chief part Ot bags Bengal found buyers at full quotations ; white nares, however, being somewhat lower; fine, 44s t° 4 to mid to good, 41s 6d to 49s 6d; fine grainy white, 493 00 ,1 50s; good and fine; grainy yellow, 43s to 455, and g, to and fine soft yellow 38s to 403. Madras sold at ` 2 . „ ' ot i 30s for soft brown, and at 31s to 34 s 6d f o r low t° g . .?„0 mid yellow, in small parcels. Manilla, 4,8636 bags v ri d taken in, ord and mid dark brown at 30s to 318 6d,s good yellow 38s 6d. for FoREIGN.—Cuba sold publi c ly a t 39 s 6d to 426 5911 mid to good yellow, at 42 s 6d f or fi ne, an d a t 370 t° i t 6d for syrupy. Brown B a hi a , 440 cases was t a ken i n 0 - $ 38s 6d for btrong, and damaged white Havannah we at 25s to 27s for washed. 8 in COYFEE.—There has been very little business & ti me , this article, and prices have continued much the i s t ti r Native Ceylon was at 48s to 49s for good ord. F . `„ l : - fct tion has been held at 65s to 70s for good, 58s to 6v- he eo mid, and Ms to 57s for other sorts. Bailin bas ~ - 40 s taken in at 46s to 47s for good and fine and mixed' of r to 453 for ord, and 26s 6d for black. A small parcel Jamaica was taken in at 40s for fine ord. for ord COCOA.—Trinidad has be e n t a k en i n a t 445 to grey, and good red has been so ld at 54 , , to 575; 03i- k good grey, 50s to 525. Bahia mid an d good wa s t— e in at 30s to 31a, and Para grey at 30s. r atber SALTPETRE.—The lower sor t, h ave b ee n cheaper, but other descripti ons fi rm. F ine 3to3i i o r e i r cent retraction, 29s to 29 s 6d ; an d or d an d mid io} l9i per cent, 26s 6d to 27 s f or Calcutta. ign uj9-4,2 B f it if id tor and . 9 per cent retraction so ld a t 27 s to 27s _ o re Rum.—The demand has increas e d, an d price s ,..,, e , firmer; strong Demerara, :Is 8d to 2s 9d; proof wards, is 8d to is 9d; and East India proof. 1 5 7d. , t, RlCE.—Madras has been t a k en i n at 8s 6d Per -If and very little has been done in Bengal. for SeicEs.—Black Pepper has realised Sid to -d sirli heavy and half heavy M a l a b ar, an d Penang 31 1(1 t° b e o mid white has been taken in at 6id; Cloves have to at full rates, viz.. 61d per lb. Nutmegs quiet at 25 6- go 3s; Pimento, 44d; Cassia Lignea went off heavilY a t e to 97s 6d for mid, and goo d b r i g h t and goo d or d Ot s % at 92s 6d to 935; Cinnamon at the quarterly sale s mostly bought in inferior at about previous raters' good a fine 3 to 6d pe lb lowe. ARRO nd W-ROOT, d &C.—St. r Vincent sold at 5d to 96` A Per lb; Rio Tapioca brought 2d to 44d per lb. COTTON.—This article has been dull at b a rely P vious rates. re' TEA.—There have been buy ers a s h a d e un d e r the P ra vious rates for common Congou, and holders not much has been done. Th e p u bli c sa l e of ly' packages went cif tolerably well. TALLOW.—P.Y.C. has been firm at 37s 6d to 315 per cart on the spot. holder s GREEN FRUIT.—The market has been quiet; 0 0 of Orarges are not disposed to press sales, two c sr %lic from St. Michael, sold by Keeling and Hunt at 1 311 1 to sale, were taken by the trade at prices barely Ou t/ O A last week. More inquiry for Lemons — an y of g - t he quality command a sale. Black Spanish Nuts out o f i lls market. Barcelona likely to improve in price. Se lei Sour Oranges are in demand; quality superior to season. (QUEEN'S BENCH. -k THIS DA''„ ) , o (Sittings in Banco, before Lord CAMPBELL and Just' PATTESON, COLERIDDE, and WIGHTMANO THE QUEEN V. THE INHABITANTS OF HuLIEC'" lUDQMENT. ( bin Lord CAMPBELL delivered judgment in this COM igl morning. He said it was admitted that the pal l P,„ ei o . f• this case had resided f or fi ve years so as to be irr.e."„eo able unless an int errupt i on of such a residence be,° created by imprisonment. The pauper, it was ess°;e had been remov e d f rom t h e respondent par i s h Witi."o• intention of retur n i ng t h ereto as soon as his t ime prisonment should expire; and the question of ture r ' i d tion was then raised on the argument upon the gr° Sp that absence by imprisonment would constitute 0 interruption. The Court, however, saw no ress °l : l o• support that proposition, while the danger of ep e pt vouring to destroy the right by me ans o f imprimo°Bof afforded a reason against the c o nstr uc ti on . Su r fali the cases which had b ee n c i te d i n the argument","ealt give an impression that i m p r i sonmen t wou ld be u t s it in the residence, but en examination of those c 36e ie would seem that no such rule had b een l a id d° vl l „ : 1 be them. If the Court held that ir re m ova bility tv °ll , d . be destroyed by every imprisonment th e pauper vrotl'cite much restricted; and the Court had come to the c ° ,, -torsion to decide against the app e ll an t s , un d er the sir" stances which had been stated in the argument. Judgment for the appellants accordingly. EXCHEQUER.-(THIS DAYOpy, The Court proceeded with the special paper t°" u or but the cases heard during the m orn i ng i nvo lved " r of dry questions of pleading and pr ac ti ce, w hi c h w e" °° of interest to the parties immediately concerned. BAIL COURT.-(THIS DAY•) (Sittings in Banco, before Mr. Ju‘tice ERIE.) fa , EXPARTE CORPORATION OF NEW CASTLE-UPO N Ty- Mr. CROMPTON appli e d, on b e b a lf of the corpell,llo- of Newca.tle-upon-Tyne, for a rule calling upon a C° 4 - cillor of that borough t o s h ow cause why a quo Wa rr t he should not issue requiring him to prove his right to bat office he held. He was elected in November 10 1' t he before that time and since he had supplied gild gaol of the corporation with stationary and printivktior had, besides, contracted for the corporation adver" meats, and sold the corporation his newspaper. t ion Mr. Justic e E RLE was no t aware that a co rpora or was authorised to lay out the borough fund in the P chase of newspapers. Mr. CnomPToN did not know how that was. the Mr. Justice ERLE said th a t t h e A ct di rec t e d t h at borough rate should be applied t o th e p aymen t of sole t-e xi : 0 and the balance, if any, to the improvement of the ° t he Surely purchasing newspapers was not improvi n g ll town. But, at all events, the f ac t o f th e councillor se inn his colleagues newspapers was no disqualificati ou. o Mr. CROMPTON contended th a t, un d er t h e sth 9 ° d b pd William IV., chap. 76, his p r i n ti ng f or the gn°'gli' contracting for the corpor a ti on a d vert i semen ts tlisq tied him for the office. Mr. Justice ERLE thought that circumstan ce iv. enough for a rule to show cause.—Rule nisi acco ding QUEEN V. CAMERON'S. COLEBROOK AND SWANOA' RAILWAY. „, a for 3 Mr. I - locGINS moved, on b e h a lf o f M r . Camer lasy rule calling upon th e C o l e b roo k and S wanse a lila; ~o t Company to show cau se w h y a man d amu s should b issue commanding th em to a l low that en tleman spr ct their books and aecout•ts as 14 b'hgareholder / to e i 0 ton manner the deed of sett l ement , uthor i z d. Carn er r ° ,, had leaned some coal mines to the company in cowi d , e ibe Von of 130,0001., whi c h they wevo now working, O h " re s consideration was n o t paid in money, but in 0° 6-II k i a r at!, eat the