The Sun. — London, England, 1850-02-15 00:00:00

NEW EDITION OF EVELYN'S DIARY. Now ready, 10s. 6d. bound, - tT OL. I. OF EVELYN'S DIARY AND CORRESPONDENCE. V NEW AND CHEAPER EDITION. Revised, with numerous Additional Notes. To be completed in 4 Volumes, uniform with the New Edit on of Pepy's Di. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. To be had of all Booksellers. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. Lessee and Manager, Mr. JAMES ANDERSON. THIS EVENTN ~ 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 Calcagno, Mr. Montague ; Fiesco, Mr. James Anderson ; Count Lomellino, Mr. Cathcart; Yerrina, Mr. Vandenhoff ; Julia, Mrs. Ternan Leonora, Miss Laura Addison. To be followed by a New Grand Historical, Metaphorical, Allegorical, and Diabolical Pantomime, by the author of " Bluff King Hal "to be called HARLEQUIN and GOOD QUEEN BESS ; gr. MERRIE ENGLAND IN THE OLDEN TIME, Private boxed, 21. 35., 21. 12s. Gd., 21. 25., 11. Ils. 6d., and 11. is. Stalls, ss. each. s. d. FIRST PRICE. Boxes - 4 0 Pit - - 2 0 Lower Gallery - 1 0 Upper Gallery - 0 6 Box-booktkeepe s. d. SECOND PRICE. Boxes - - 2 0 Pit - - - 1 0 Lower Gallery - 0 6 No Hall-price to Upper Gallery. r, Mr. J. Povey. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Mr. B. Webster, tielP Lessee and Manager, Old Brut:rap:3n. THIS EVENING. Will be presented an entirely new and original Comedy, entitled LEAP TEAR ; or, The Ladles' Privilege. Sir Solomon Solus, ‘lr. X-PeleY ; Captain Mouser, Mr. Selby ; Mr. Dimple, Mr. Buckstons ; William Walker, Mr. Charles Kean ; Mrs. Flora Flowerlew, Mrs. Charles Kean ; Miss Sally O'Leary, Mrs. Fitzwilliam ; Mrs. Crisp, Mrs. F. Matthews. After wide' CHARLES THF. TWELFTH. To conclude with THE CHRISTENING. The Box-office is under the direction of Mr. I. T. Archer. THEATRE ROYAL. ADELPIII. Ilader the direction of Madame Celeste. THIS EVENING, Will be performed a new domestic Drama, called THE WILLOW COPSE. Principal characters by Messrs. Hughes, Wright, P. Bed f3se , 0. Smith, Worrell; Madame Celeste, and Miss Woolgar. Aster which an entirely new Extravaganza, entitled DO sifESTIC ECONOMY. John Greenly, Mr. Wright ; Mrs. Greenly, Mrs. F. Matthews. To conclude with FRANKENSTEIN; or, The Model Man. Franken ;tein, Mr. Wright ; the What is It ? Mr. P. Bedford; Zarniel, Mr. 0. Smith ; Otto of Rosenberg, Miss Woelgar ; Tiddlewincz, Miss E. Chaplin ; Agatha, Miss Coveny ; Undine, Miss E. Harding. PRINCESS'S THEATRE:. Mr. J. M. Maddox. Sole Lessee and Manager. THIS EVENING Will be performed a new Opera, entitled CHARLES THE SE COND. To conclude with KING JAMIE ; or, Harlequin and Magic Fiddle Harlequin, Mr. Bologna ; Pantaloon, Mr. Paulo ; Clown, Mr. Flex more ; Columbine. Miss Fawcett. NEW ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE. Sole Lessee, Mr. W. Watts, St. John's Wood. THIS EVENING, Will be performed MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING. Benedict, Mr. Davenport ; D.gberry, Mr. Compton ; Beatrice, Mrs. Mowatt. . _ After which a new Farce, entitled A DEAD TAKE IN. Captain Dareourt, Mr. Wigan; Hector Ponlet, Mr. Compton; Clara, Miss Oliver. To conelude with TRH MIDNIGHT WATCH. ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. FRENCH PLAYS AND OPERA CORIQUE. Last Week but One of M. CHOLLET'S Engagcment. --.- Mr. MITCHELL begs respectfully to announce that the French Performances at the St. James's Theatre will commence THIS EVENING. At Half -past Seven, when will he performed LE YAL D'ANDORRE. Stephan, M. Lae; Le Jeyenx, M. Chollet; Satarnin, M. Killy Leroy ; Jacques Sineere, M. Nathan ; Theresa, Madllo. Gaiehard ; georgette, Madlle. Cotti ; Rose de Mai, Madlle. Charton. The box-office of the Theatre is open daily from Eleven till Five. Boxes and Stalls at Mr. Mitchell's Royal Library, 33, Old Bond street. N.CIYAL LYCEUM THEATKE.. , Inder the Management of Madainc. Vustrts. •pole Lessee. Mr. Charles Mathew.. TIIISI EVENING. TOll be performed CHARLES THE TWELFTII. After which THE•ISLAND OF JEWELS. To conclude with A PRACTICAL MAN. Dress Boxes S+.: Upper Boxes. 4s. ; Pit, 2s-; Gallery. Is. No half-price to any part of the house. All applications for Private Boxes must be made to Mr. Alleroft, 15 New Bond-street. ASTLRY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Pr( prietor. Mr. W. Patty. Last Week of the Pantomime. do attire change In the Scenes •f the Arena. New Grand Spectacle. THIS EVENING, The performance will commence at a Quarter to Seven, with a new Grand Spectacle of THE CORSlii DB LEON ; or, the Brigand of Savoy. To be followed by a brilliant display of Batty's peerless scenes of the Circle, supported by the accomplished artistes of the establish ment. . _ . . . To unwinds with a grand Equestrian Combs Pantomime, by Nelson Lee, caned HARLEQUIN YANILRE DOODLE, who came to Town upon his little Pony. Rex-Wilco open from Eleven till Four. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGV. Tmi DAT —morning. 54 min. after 3 Evening, 10 min. after 4 To-ITozzow - Morning, 27 min. after 4 I Evesieg, 431 min rt 4 WEATHER.—SuN °MOS, FEB. 15. TEIBILMOXETEB, Lowest, 29. Highest, 49. Noon. 52. BAROXETNR. 30'07. WIND S.W.-dull cloudy weather. l entn LONDON, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 15. 1850. Cordial, and be it said to the honour of the House }Commons, unanimous was the consent yielded last evening by the national representatives, when Mr. EWART moved for leave to bring in a Bill for enabling town councils to establish, not only museums, but public libraries. When this most excellent and judicious measure shall have passed through its elifferent stages in the Legislature, another great step will have been taken in the way of popular education. For, if the opinion of EDWARD GIBBON be correct, an opinion referred to yesterday by the Honourable Gen tleman the Member for Dumfries, namely, that self education, that is to say the education which a man gives to himself when he has left the porch of the academy for the market-place, is better, is more efficient, is far more important than the edu cation acquired from the instructions of a teacher— then is a Bill of this simple character, to a consider able extent preferable to some more ostentatious measure, involving the expenditure of millions of the public moneys in the construction of national schools and universities. By opening to the working classes libraries stored with the treasures of ancient and mo dern literature we shall be holding out indeed ten irresistable temptation from ignorance. The fascination of knowledge will soon manifest its influence among the more populous classes of the community if we only afford those classes an opportunity of developing their intelligence. To do this nothing more effectual can scarcely be conceived than the very scheme which the Member for Dumfries last night found himself empowered by the Committee of the last session to submit to the consideration of the House for the acceptance of the ilritish Parliament. Are we desirous of appreciat ing the force of the innate tendency to accumulate fact or fiction from literature this tendency which first evidences itself in each and all of us in the inexhaustible curiosity of childhood—let us observe the avidity with which the wretched catchpenny periodicals of Holy well-str-et (that Grub-street of the present generation) are bought up and devoured. The curiosity of infancy, just mentioned as being the first testimony of the innate yearning of our race for iformation, is, in truth, so remarkably manifested in all classes and conditions of society, from the palace to tee cottage, in the garrets of Whitechapel and in the drawing-rooms of Belgravia, that we might with Perfect correctness designate Childhood a walking and thinking Catechism—consisting wholly of ques tions and wonderment. As the offspring of the wealthy and the well-to-do grow up, this wholesome hunger and thirst of the intellect after the aliment of know ledge is directed by judicious teachers into proper channels for its acquisition ; whereas the unfor tunate children of the over-worked and the desti tute are abandoned to the accidental teachings of the streets—those peripatetic schools of depravity. There, from the shop-windows, stored with the last num bers of the cheap publications—the veriest garbage of literature, licentious in tone, and reeking with the grossness of the depraved imaginations from which they have emanated—the child of misery learns first of all to acquire that taste for the lowest species of romance, the melodrama of literature, which is con firmed into a passion by the tawdry scenes witnessed from the twopenny gallery of some squalid suburban theatre. These are the real nurseries cf crime, the hotbeds of felony—where the outcasts of the popu lation, incited to all kinds c,f infractions of the law, from petty larceny to homicide, by the pages that d, lineate a burglar in the light of a hero—furnish occupant, for the hulks and victims f or t h e h angman. To counteract, in some mariner, the pernicio us ; ence of such allurements to vice, should be anion, the, foremost aspirations of the political philan thropist, and to effect this the most readily and effectually no better project could be adopted than the supplying of the masses of the people with wholesome food for the mind in the shape of literature. Let the people have access to public libraries, and they will soon prefer the mental aliment they obtain there to the foui products of some ricketty hand-press —products for the intellect, more of the character of poison than of nourishment. In stead of paying their periodical coppers for the vil lanous fictions penned in a villanous school, they will naturally give the preference to those golden repositories of books, those regions of the soul, where the milk of wisdom and the honey of poetry are flowing abroad gratuitously as in some intellectual Canaan. What they can get for nothing, more especially if it be of superior excellence, will of course possess a greater fascination for them than those inferior and detestable effusions, the deformity of which will at once, by contrast, be rendered ap parent, and the enjoyment of which necessitates a small, a singularly small, but, to them, alas! a heavy expenditure. Tell us not that the people, or rather that these, the most neglected classes of the people, are incapable of appreciating the beauties of art and the masterpieces of refined intelligence. They have a capacity to recognise the genius of thought, as sen sitive as that of any of the inhabitants of May-fair, untutored, it is true, but still, say we, as sensitive. Watch them in the upper galleries of Drury-lane when one of the glorious dramas of the great SHAM PEREis being represented by her MaJesTy's servants. We doubt not you will hear them laugh the loudest at the jests of Master Gravedigger, at the mincing ways of Osaic, and at the garrulous absurdities of Poeorsius. But not only during the humorous por tions of that, the sublimest of all dramatic master pieces, are the keen perceptions of the people mani fested, but when the apparition of the royal phantom glides over the battlements, they can listen with an awful attention : when HAMLET moralizes over the skull of Yomme, they can drink in from his words the sweetness of all his melancholy philosophy : when LAERTEI mourns over the insanity and death of OPHELIA, they can weep in sym pathy with all his imaginary afflictions. -These are no idle syllables but records of "a truth visible in every theatre in London on any night when the dramas of SHAICSPERE are enacted. And' yet we are told, forsooth, that we shoUld be throwing pearls in a , direction that shall be nameless if we were to dream of opening public li braries for the free admission of the popu lace ! As if SETAKSPERB were at the very base instead of being at the very pinnacle of the literary pyramid ! No, in rendering the treasures of litera ture accessible to the multitude, we are only enabling the voices of the poets, and the historian:, and the philosophers of humanity to become audible to men hitherto deaf to their divine utterances, to men the chords of whose hearts can vibrate as profoundly as those of the most cultivated and refined. It is be cause we think thus that we rejoice in the ready ac quiescence last evening of the House of Commons in the demand made by the Hon. Gentleman the repre sentative of Dumfries. We had hoped that the present session of Parlia ment would, in one respect at least, have exhibited a striking contrast to its predecessors ; that the urgent and pressing business before the Legislature would be dispatched with all convenient speed, and that no valuable time would have been wasted through the negligence or apathy of Honourable Gentlemen in not attending in sufficient numbers to constitute or maintain a House. Although so short a period has elapsed since the meeting of Parliament the " counting out" system has been already re sorted to, and that on a question of no 1 ordinary importance to the general interests of the country. On Tuesday evening the House ad journed at half-past nine o'clock, twenty-five Mem bers only being present at the time. The subject under consideration was the second reading of the Bill to simplify and improve the proceedings of the High Court of Chancery in Ireland, a measure which it is more than probable will be extended to this country also, and be calculated to remove some of the most crying grievances and serious abuses by which the suitor for justice is embarrassed and impeded in the attempt to recover his just rights. How many unfortunate persons who have been pining for years under " hope deferred," who have felt their hearts sickening and despair arising at every additional delay and pro crastination, and every new demand for funds to carry on their suits, must have felt surprise to find that Chancery reform is considered of so little moment that only twenty-five Members—less than one twenty sixth of the popular branch of the Legislature—could be induced to attend in their places to listen to the debate, and lend their assistance to pass the wise and statesmanlike measures of the Solicitor-General through one stage in its progress. Through this unaccountable apathy, this cri minal negligence, the measure has been retarded, but it cannot thus be shelved or got rid of. The Fabian policy cannot be suffered to prevail ; the Augean stables must be cleansed and purified ; the absurd verbosity and prolixity, leading to such inter minable delays and enormous expenditure as to render the Court of Equity the scandal and reproach of the nation, must be abolished, and a more simple and satisfactory system of pleading introduced, by which the opinion of the Court may be readily obtained, at a com paratively moderate cost, upon the real points at issue, and for which alone the tribunal is resorted to. As the Solicitor-General truly stated, when intro ducing the Bill, " the only question might be the construction of some particular instrument—the construction perhaps of five or six words in a deed, or a couple of clauses in a will." And yet every form, however useless, must be complied with, months, aye, years wasted, and tenfold expense in curred, before a decision can be even asked for, while the wretched victims are sustaining the greatest distress—their funds being " locked up" during the interval in the coffers of the Court. In our impression of Tuesday evening we gave in sertion to a communication from a gentleman, detail ing his own experience of the working of the English Court of Chancery, in a matter which, to the unini tiated, might appear of the most simple character. On his return from a residence abroad, he found that a relative had bequeathed him a sum of 3001., and left similar legacies to four other persons. This was, undoubtedly, an agreeable surprise. The fortunate legatees, no doubt, supposed that they had nothing to do but to receive their money after the year allowed by law to the executors for making up the accounts. There is, however, unfortunately, " many a slip I twixt the cup aid the lip." The solicitor who had prepared the will thought it only prudent that the trustees should take the opinion of the Court on what he was pleased to term -" a doubtful point." The trustees adopted his re commendation. A bill for the administra tion of the assets of the testator was filed in due form of law ;'the necessary answers were put in ; the suit brought to a hearing, and an " interlocutory decree," as it is termed, ob tained, by which it was referred to the Master to tax certain accounts. In his office it still remains ; while all those whom it was the intention of the tes tator to have benefited have only received trouble, vexation, and expense from the proceeding. Under a proper system the matter might have been decided in a few weeks at the outside ; but it has been pending three years, and our correspondent has judiciously sold his interest in the legacy, the greater portion of which will, no doubt, be absorbed in costs, for a mere trifle. The case, thus plainly stated, is one of the most ordinary character. We venture to say that it may be regarded as a fair illustration of hundreds, aye, of thousands of similar cases, where the legatees have been ruined in their circumstances, and deeply in body, and estate," from bequests jured in "mind, which in their simplicity and ignorance they had re garded as causes for joy and self-gratulation. Thousands of suitors are at this moment awaiting with the most intense anxiety the termination of proceedings which are apparently no nearer to their conclusion than they were years ago Some idea may he formed of the numbers of persons interested in such ptoceedings, arid the amount of pro perty 'tnvolved, when v. e learn the astounding fact that " no l .ss than 60,000,0001. sterling of money, valuables, stock, are now standing in the name of the Ac countant-General of the Court of Chancery, awaiting the, decision of various suits." This enormous amount would be sufficient to pay the interest of the national debt for more than two years, or to complete the various lines of railway now in progress throughout the kingdom. It would buy up all the incumbrances on Irish estates, and render the proprietors free from the demands of the mortgagees; or it would provide on the most liberal scale for the expenditure on all our national establishments, naval, civil, or military for the present year, and leave sufficient to construct the railway from " Calais to Moultan," which astonished so many at the magnitude of the concep tion and the almost boundless outlay it would require. And yet when the question of Chancery reform, by which these enormous evils may be remedied, is introduced, but twenty-five Members can be found to remain in their places and listen to their discussion. This is not as it should be ; it is not what the nation has a right to expect from the chosen representatives of the people. We trust that we shall not again have to direct the public attention to a similar instance of apathy and inatten tion, but that when the subject is again brought for ward it may receive the mature and attentive con sideration which its magnitude and importance so eminently demand. THE FRENCH REPUBLIC. We have received the Paris journals of yesterday. _ _ The adjourned debate on the Education Bill was resumed on Wednesday by M. TRIERS, one portion of whose speech, in which he speaks of his " honour able friend, M. DE MONTALEMDERT," was received with shouts of derisive laughter from every part of the Assembly. After a short but telling speech from M. BAR THELEMY ST. HILAIRE, in reply to M. TRIERS, the debate was again adjourned. MM. TRIERS, MOLE, and CHANGARNIER, have, it is said, refused to join the new Orleanist Club. It is officially announced in the Moniteur du Soir, that General LAELITTE, the Minister for Foreign Affairs, is one of the candidates for the representation of Paris. M.GARNIER PAGES is spoken of as likely to be one of the Republican candidates. In the depart ments of Nievre, the Ariege, the Loire, the Upper Vienne, and the Soane-et-Loire, the success of the Reds is considered as certain ; and in the Cher, where a coalition has been formed between the Reds and the parti-pretre, one Red and one White will probably be returned. The Meniteur publishes the treaty of commerce and navigation between France and Belgium, con chided on the 17th of November, 1849. The President of the REPUBLIC visited yester day afternoon, in company with the Minister at War, the barracks of the Gendarmerie Mobile, in the rue de Luxembourg. The corps, which is composed of 600 men, had been consignes in the morning, and it was imagined for some time that a disturbance was expected, and that their services were to be required during the day. They were agreeably dis appointed, however, when, about two o'clock, they were informed that the PRESIDENT intended to pay them a visit, and they soon set about cleaning their arms and accoutrements. The PRESIDENT soon after inspected them and bestowed four decorations— one of them to a gensdarme who only lately entered the corps, but who volunteered to join the National Guards on the 24th dune, 1848, and was wounded at a barricade. Prince Louts NAPOLEON was very well received, and so soon as the crowd that assembled in the streets heard of his having decorated the June volunteer, they raised repeated cries of " Vive Napo leon," " Vive le President." The crowd was so great in the street that it was with difficulty his carriage could move on. PARIS BOURSE, FEB, 14.—Latest Prices:—Five per Cents., 95f. 80c.; Three per Cents., 58!.; Bank Actions, 2.355 f. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK-EXCHANGE, FEB. 14. East Indian, 334—Luxembourg, 2 1 ,4—'Namur and Liege, 7IA —Northern of France, 14—Sambre and Meuse, 2%. SPAIN. Madrid journals of the 9th have arrived. They contain no news of interest. In the Senate on that day, M. FACUNDO INFANTE opposed the Bill for authorising the levying of the taxes. In the Chamber of Deputies a report of a mixed Committee of the Chamber and the Senate on the Bill on public ac counts was presented. M. Rios ROSAS, brother of the deputy who was wounded in the duel with BRAVO, took the oaths and his seat. More anony mous placards attacking the KING, QUEEN, and Go vernment had been published. L ~."- „ 4-4 , , 0 ,-...* ''.,, S . ~--i..... -, -1..),...r, i „ l'" 7,..- , • ,-- -- '— -, z ~,, , Rr. ge :' f, %,,, , ii c , • ~' ,„ ._, - i'. , 1, no ~• " 0 ..,... ..: 0 . , ilit .• THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY l5, 18,50 PORTUGAL. Advices have been received from Lisbon to the 9th. The Chamber of Peers had decided, by a majority of 27 to 22, not to call upon the Count MOSIA.I to state whether or not he had made an affidavit in an English court of justice, in the course of the pro ceedings instituted against the Morning Post. This, considering that the Count had recently created 13 new Peers, is,tantamount to a defeat. The Duke of SALDAICHA, who voted against TIIOMAR, was the next day sent for by the QUERN, and dismissed from his office cf Lord Migh Chamberlain. The unpopularity of the Count DR MOUE was very great, and serious apprehensions were enter tained of an outbreak. The British fleet was in the Tap?. The Prince and Princess DE JOINVILLE were still at Lisbon. SWITZERLAND. Letters from the frontiers of Switzerland, of the 11th, state that considerable agitation prevails in the cantons of Geneva and Vaud, particularly at Lau sanne, Nyon, and in the neighbourhood of Yverdun. GERMAN Y. In the morning sitting of the Second Chamber of Berlin on Tuesday, the Minister of War laid on the table a Bill fer granting to the Government an ex traordinary credit for military purposes. This measure was imperiously demanded by the continued maintenance of the , army above the peace-footing. The Government would gladly seize the opportunity when if offered of diminishing the armed force. The great means that would be necessary in case of a war to mobilize the army could not be suddenly pro cured without immense exertion and inconve nience. Therefore a timely foresight was to be recommended. The Government would apply reli giously the assigned means to the end pointed out and only with consent of the Chambers, which the Ministers believed would gladly co- operate in con ducting the affairs of the Prussian and German fatherland to a satisfactory goal. The debate was then opened by MANNTEUFFEL, on the report of the Committee on the municipal ordinance. The necessity for the adoption of this measure is occasioned by the menacing tone adopted by Russia in relation to the assembling of the Erfurth Par liament. The Austrian Government intends, states the Con stitutionnel, to convoke " hommes de confiance" of the Lombardo-Venetian Kingdom, who are to meet at Vienna for the purpose of giving their advice on the future organisation of the provincial diet of that country. There is a great deal in the Vienna journals on the, affair of Greece, and some violent attacks are made on Lord Palmerston. A Vienna letter of the 3rd, referring to the subject, says :—" The Envoy Extra ordinary of Greece, M. ZOORAPUOS, has had a confer ence with the President of the Council, Prince SCHWARZENBERG ; and it is said that the Prince has given him the assurance that the Austrian Govern ment will support all measures which may be taken by France and Russia to maintain the rights of Greece, as guaranteed by the treaty of 1832. An arrangement of the affair is, however, expected." A letter from Vienna states that at Pesth an impor tant party has been formed among the Magyars to demand, not only the abolition of the old Constitution, but the adoption of absolutism. A letter from Pesth of the 3rd states that already 70,000 honveds have been incorporated in the Aus trian army, and that the incorporations still continue. A telegraphic dispatch from Berlin of the 13th inst., in the Kolner Zeiteng, announces that the fol lowing gentlemen ha ve been elected by the Lower House of the Prussian Parliament to represent that House at Erfurt :—Baron Patow, Otto Camphausen, Messrs. Ambronn, Riedel, Lensing, Hessee, Brok hausen, Baron Henry Arnim, Baron Bodelschwing, Count Dyhrn. TURKEY. Advices have been received from Constantinople of the 26th ult. The Austrian loternuncio had not officially re sumed diplomatic relations with the Porte. The conduct of the Austrian Government and of its agent in Turkey, furnishes every day additional proof of the truth of the charges brought against it, of complicity in the plot for the assassination of the Hungarian re fugees. The Commissioner named by Austria to pro ceed to Shumla, to superintend the deportation of the refugees, is TAMATZI, the man who is accused of having been one of the principals in the conspiracy fur the assassination of KOSSUTH. The Breslau Gazette publishes a letter from Shumla, which states that the Turkish authorities had commenced a severe investigation into the charge against JOSMOGYI, a functionary of the Austrian Go vernment, of having bribed a band of men to assas sinate KOSSUTH, BEAT, and DEsmirssxr. The Vienna journals announce that the Hungarian refugees were, on the 16th ult., sent from Shumla into the *Asiatic provinces of Turkey. GREECE. The following circular has been issued by her Bri tannic MAJESTY's Consul at Athens to his col leagues : •' Sir,—l am instructed by the Right Honourable Thomas Wyse, to inform my colleagues, that the Com mander-in-Chief of her Majesty's naval forces, acting in obedience to the instructions of her Britanuic Majesty's Government, and in concert with her Britannic Majesty's representative, deems it necessary to extend to the Greek merchant-vessels the prohibition to put to sea, which, from an anxious desire not to injure Greek commerce, has up to this moment been limited to vessels belonging to the Greek Government. I have therefore to au nouLce to you, that henceforward the Command( r•ir,- Chief of her Britannic Majesty's naval forecs will not permit any Greek vessel to leave any Greek port, but any Greek vessels having been chartered previous to the present communication to carry a cargo or part of a cargo belonging to foreign merchants, will be allowed to put to sea; an exception which cannot be applied to any Greek vessel chartered by or for foreign merchants after the communication of this notice. The above measure in no way affects foreign vessels of any descrip tion, but is exclusively confined to vessels under the Greek flag.—l have, &e., " Athens, Jan. 24,1850." " J. GREEN. A letter from Athens of the 29th ult. published in the Paris National of yesterday, states ;hat the city of Lacr lile, situated near the Turkish frontier, had been attacked by a band of Klephtis, and that a battle had taken place, the result of which was unknown. The following is an extract from the letter of the Constantinople correspoudent of the same journal : " It was only yesterday that we heard of the events in Greece, and I cannot yet inform you of the effect which they may produce here. The part of France will be a rather difficult one to play during the exist ence of this Anglo-Greek difference. She must avoid embroiling herself with England, and at the same time protect the independence of Greece ; which, however, in my opinion, is not at all menaced; but above all, she must make the Greek Government understand that Greece will not be per mitted to become the focus for insurrections and projected risings in Turkey. If the Northern Powers bear down small states such as Switzerland, to pre vent them from affording refuge to perturbators, why is it they do nothing at Athens, where a crusade against Turkey, to be undertaken under the protec tion of Russia, is publicly preached." ITALY. The Corriere Mercantile of Genoa of the 9th ob scurely alludes to the removal of two or three emi grants from Piedmont; the Government of Turin having left it to their option, either to leave the kingdom or to retire to the island of of Sardinia. The Tuscan Monitore, of the 6th, publishes two decrees, dissolving the civic guard of Monterchi, Casellina, and Torri. Great preparations are going on in Leghorn for the reception of troops ; it is be lieved the greater part of the army of occupation will be concentrated at Leghorn. Marquis Ruin° SPORE& has presented his credentials to the Grand DUKE, as Minister Plenipotentiary of Naples. HOUSE OF LORDS.—(THIS DAY.) The House sat again to-day to hear Scotch appeals. The Lord Chancellor presided and Lord Brougham was present. THE DUKE OP HAMILTION ?AND BRANDON V. THE Mk. GISTRATES AND TOWN COUNCIL 07 THE BURGH OF HAMILTON. The arguments in this part-heard appeal were re sumed to•day, and occupied their Lordships the whole morning. JUDICIAL COMMITTEE OF THE PRIVY COUNCIL.-(THIS DAY.) The Committee of the Privy Council sat at Whitehall this morning, and were occupied throughout the morning in hearing the arguments in the case of Grant v. the Chief Justice of Bengal, which involved the question of the suspension, among other things, of the appellant from a judicial office in India. Mr. TURNER was engaged during the forenoon in stating the appellant's case. The members of the Court present were, Lord Broug ham, Lord Campbell, the Master of the Rolls, Dr. Lush. ington, the Hon. Mr. Pemberton Leigh, and Sir Edward Ryan. VICE-CHANCERY.-(THIS DAY.) (Before the VICE-CHANCELLOR of ENGLAND.) His HONOUR heard unopposed cause petitions, short causes, and cause petitions today, but no case calling for a special report came before the Court during the whole morning. (Before the Viee-Chancellor KNIGHT BRUCE.) The Court heard causes of no interest except to the parties concerned. The Vice-Chancellor Wigram did not sit. QUEEN'S BENCH.—(THIS DAY.) (Sittings at Nisi Prius, at Westminster, before Mr. Justice WIGHTKA.N and a Special Jury.) COYLE V. LEEKS. This was an actiZi;libel: M. Mr. Humfrey, M r . Chambers, and Mr. Dowdes well were counsel for the defendant, and the plaintiff was represented by Mr. Cockburn and Mr. Edwin James. The plaintiff is a collecting clerk in the firm of Messrs. Grimbell, Clark and Co., distillers, in Albion street, and at Cow-cross ; and the defendant is the proprietor of the City of London Trade Protection Cir cular. The libel in question, of which the plain tiff complained, appeared in the defendant's publica tion, of the dates of the 19th June and 11th July last, and charged the plaintiff with being connected with a society in Crooked-lane, a notorious swindler, and with having decamped from his chambers in that locality without paying his rent, and in debt to various tradesmen. Mr. Ha) 04, one of the firm of Grimbell, Clark and Co., in whose service the plaintiff is employed, was called on his part, and proved the publication of the libel, and that whilst in their service the plaintiff had never been con nected with any society in Croaked-lane, and that dur ing that time he had conducted himself with the greatest integrity. Mr. Hummel - , on behalf of the defendant, in his address to the jury, reiterated the alleged libel, charging the plaintiff with being a notorious swindler, and said he would prove it He, however, relinquished a justifica tion of that part of the libel so far as it charged the plaintiff with living in Crooked-lane, and therefore the plaintiff must have a verdict upon that point. Rev. Patrick Fenn was then called on behalf of the defendant—He said, I am rector of the parish of Rad nassuming advertisement in the Record newspaper, I communicated n w e i s th s, Manningtree , Essex. In consequence of an who signed that advertisement, and who the name of J. Sydserff, de scribed himself as the son of a Wesleyan minister, n a ca p r erso and offering money to lend to dissenting ministers, ou advantageous terms. I had some correspondence with tho person who signed that advertisement, named Syd serff, and he came down to see mc, by his own proposi tion, at my residence, on the subject of discounting a cart sin bill of exchange. (Here the witness pointed to a person sitting in court in a convicts's dress, and in the custody of an officer, whom he identified as the man Sydserff, who had visited him on the subject of the bill of exchange. Certain letters were then put in, signed J. Sydserff, and dated June, 1847, from '7, Belvidere-road, Lambeth, offering to advance witness 600/. at 4i per cent,, the writer professing to be the son of an itinerant minister of the Wesleyan persuasion). Sydserff came down to see me, and the re suit was that shortly after his visit he sent me down two bill, each fur 100/., on ley own personal security, the principal to be paid off in five years. I accepted the two bills and sent them to Sydserff, but I never got any money in exchange for them. There were ac tions afterwards brought against me by the holders of the bills. Cross-examined — Mr. Sydserff came down once to me, dined with me, and staid three or four hours. I never came into contact with Mr. Coyle, the plaintiff. Joseph Sydserff called--My real name is Alfred Sin clair. I come now from Milbank Prison. (Handed the letters s i gne d Sydserff). These letters are all written by me. The advertisement in the Record was sent in my hand-writing, and the bills are also written by me. I know a man named Shires. He calls himself a com mission man. I do not know a man called Thomas Holbrook Coyle. When I received the bills, I gave them to Shires. I never got any value for them. Cross-examined —l have been convicted for obtaining goods under false pretences. I was tried before Sergeant Mirehouse. They were the goods of a man in Hatton-garden. I was sentenced for seven years' transportation. Thee/ is a person named Sydserff, a merchant, in the City. When I signed his name to those letters I did not know what business he was. I gave the bills to Shires to get them discounted; but I never got any money ,from him in lespect to them. Shires had formerly been a builder; but when I knew him he was a commission man. Shires was hers called, but he did not appear. (The case was proceeding when our report left.) EXCHEQUER.—(THIS DAY.) (Sittings at Nisi Print, at Westminster, before the LORD CHIEV BARON and a Special Jury.) CHARTIST LAND SCHEME. O'CONNOR v. BRADsIiAw. The trial of this case, which occupied a considerable portion of yesterday, and of which 'a full report ap peared in our Third Edition last evening, wa s resumed again this morning, when the evidence for the defence was proceeded with. It will be recollected that the ac tion was instituted by Mr. Feargus O'Connor, M.P., against the proprietor of the Nottingham Journal for the publication of a libel. The first witness called was George Frederick New marsh, a solicitor, residing at, Cirencester, in Gloucester shire. He said—l acted as solicitor for the sale of the Lowbands Estate, which was purchased by Mr. O'Con nor, and conveyed t) him without any trust. The CHIEF BARON—Does that apply to all the estates ? ------ - Mr. KEATING said it would, perhaps, save time, as well as make his Lordship's nutes more intelligible, it' the names of all the estates purchased were given at this stage. The CHIEF B ARO N acquiesced in th e su gg estion. Mr. KEATING--TllO estates purchased wer e Low bands, 8 ,560/. ; lierringsgate , 2,344/. ; Minister Lovell, 10,878/. ; Snig's-end, 12 ,2001. ; Dod ford, 10,350/. ; and Mathon, whi c h h a d b ee purchased for 15,350/., but was not yet convey e d. Charles Brown, a cordwainer, li vin g at Nottin g ham, Scheme in examined, said—l became connect ed with the Land 1845, and commenced with one share, for which I paid 21.55. In 1846 I took two more acres, for which I paid a s i m il ar am ount, and in 1847 I increased them to 20 acr es f or th e benefit of my children. I had then four five-pound shares, and I paid altogether 20/. I never received a ny allotment. I was at Nottingham in 1847, and I saw Mr. O'Connor there. He was making an eleetion speech, and said if he became a Member of Parliament, he would ,' be able to get all the members of the Land t Company located in:Ahree years, but if not it would take ' him five or six years. After that I made an additional purchase from a successful balloting member, which gave me the right of location. I paid 351. for that purchase, which consisted of three acres. I saw Mr. O'Connor afterwards, at the Ram Inn, Nottingham, and communi cated to him what I had done, and he said, with very great politeness, that the man who sold it was a great fool ; he did not say the man who bought it was a fool. —(Laughter.) I was located, eventually, at Snig's•end. I had a cottage and three acres of land. It was not a substantial cottage, although it had a neat appearance outside. It did not keep out the wind and wet. The ground was not properly prepared for cultivation. I re mained at it nine months, and left in consequence of my expectations not being fulfilled. One of my sons enlisted in the army, and I wrote to Mr. O'Connor about him. Soon after I took possession at Snig's-end I got 151. ready money. In October, 1849, I made an application, by writing, to Mr. O'Connor for a return of my shares, but did not receive back any money. Cross-examined by Mr. Sergeant WILBINS—I left Snig's-end partly from illness. A s far as I can say, my ill ness was a spasmodic attack of the stomach. There were t hree rooms in the cottage. The rain came through the roof and window of the back kitchen or scullery, owing to the bad workmanship. When I went, there le ere planted about an acre of potatoes, and about half-an•acre of barley. I reaped the barley. The potatoes were very much affected by the disease. In the following year I sowed two acres with wheat, and about half-an-acre with vegetables. I sold my allotment, and got 251. for it, tied the purchaser, as far us I know, is living upon it now. I afterwards wanted th• land back again, and offered to give 51. more than I had received. Mr. Sergeant WiLitiNs here observed that the man damus which had been obtained to ascertain whether the company could be legally registered, was at this moment being argued. The LORD CHIEF BARON said it was to be regretted, that a decision was not given before this case came on for trial. Mr. Sergeant WILKINs observed that he was placed in some little difficulty, in consequence of the decision not being given, but the plaintiff was in no way to blame. Mr. ROEBUCK —As my Learned Friend has constitu ted himself a witness, it is my duty to say that there are other witnesses behind me. William Matthews, solicitor, practising at Gloucester, said—l was solicitor to Mr. George Dewhurst, the wit - ness who was called yesterday. I had several commu nications with Mr. O'Connor. On the first occasion I applied to him fur a conveyance of some property on the Snig's• end estate, which had been purchased, and he said it was contrary to the rules of the Land Company. Edward Ross, a frame-work-knitter, said—l was a subscriber for three acres, and paid V. 183. I heard him speak in the Market-place, at Nottingham, on the day of his nomination, and he said if he was returned he would be able to give allotments to all the paid-up sub scribers within 6 years of the commencement of the scheme William Best, a native of Nottingham, and an allottee at Snig's-end, gave similar testimony to the preceding witnesses. Mr. William Bevans, Secretary to the Commission appointed to inquire into the state of the pour in En gland and Wales, said—l have bad for some years ex perience in the management of farms. I was directed two years ago, by the Poor-law Commissioners, to in quire into the effect of the settlements on the parishes in which the allotments of the Land Company were made. Inspected the allotments and the houses upon them. The cottages were most excellent, and were new, and the land was all under a system of cultivation which is usual to small allot ments ; there being a patch of one thing, and a patch of another. There was nothing remarkable about the people. My opinion is, that no man can work one acre thoroughly with a spade, and if he could, he would be unable to live upon it. The soil was va rious, but principally light. The soil at llerringsgate and Minster Lovel was very inferior—it was very thin, but six or eight inches deep, upon a gravel substratum. The soil at Snig's-end was very good. The opinion I formed was, that these allottees would invariably fail in about a year, provided they had no other occupation, and no money. The fact of a two-acre al lottee receiving a capital of 1.51. to begin with, and a three-acre allottee 221. les, would not alter my opinion. I cannot say whether 71. 105 is 3 fair sum for sowing an acre of barley and half an acre of potatoes. _ _ - Cross-examined by Mr. Sergeant WILXINS—I have had a strong opinion for some years against small farming. I was about 30 when I first directed my at tention to farming, and I have farmed in Jersey and Yorkshire. lam not an advocate for spade husbandry, and don't think it is recommended by m•n of great au thority. I have tried William Cobbett's system of hus bandry, and my experiments have always failed. lam not aware from his writings that he was an advocate for spade husbandry. I have not read the work of Mr.• Mill on husbandry. I don't know such a writer on the subject. Mr. Roisuca—There is no author of that name who has written on spade husbandry. Mr. Sergeant W ILKINS—You know a great deal, I dare say, Mr. Roebuck, but you are not acquainted with everything.—(Laughter.) Croas-examination cont►nued--I have read Mr. Mill's work on political economy, and I am personally ac quainted with that gentleman, but I know he never had a spade in his hand in his life, I did not state ham* a Committee of the House of Commons that I had made inquiries and found that the cottages at Snig's-end cost more than 1001. each, but I should say they cost very little less than that sum. At Herrings gat.. there were 30 cottages on the estate and at Minster Lovell 60. Mr. Brown, clerk at the office far the Registration of Banks at Somerset House, said there was no return of a bank called the National Land sand Labour Bank. Mr. Weedon, clerk in the Loudon Joint Stock Bank, said no account was opened in the name of Mr. Roberts, the trustee of the National Land Company, nor in the names of T. S. Duncombe, M.P., John Sewell, and Ernest Jones. There is no account in the name of Mr. Fergus O'Connor jointly with others, but he opened an account in his own name in 1847, and another in 1848, which was distinguished by the initials B. A. Cross-examined by Mr. WILYINS—I do not know such a person as Mr. Roberts. (The Learned Counsel here handed the witness several cheques to a large amount, which had been drawn by Mr. Roberts.) These belong to a country account, and are kept in a country register, which does not pass through my hands. They appear to belong to a Manchester customer. I do not know whether Mr. Roberts lives at Manchester. Re-examined—Mr. O'Connor had a deposit account in July, 1847, of 8,5001., upon which he received in terest. _ _ _ . (The trial had not concluded when our report left.) COMMON PLEAS.—(THIS DAY.) (Sittings in Banco after Term, before Justices Matrix, (:RESSWELL, WILLIA.IIB, and TALFOURD.) FARREL V. COOPER. In this case there were two actions brought by the plaintiff, against the London and County Joint-Stock Banking Company, the first for refusing to cash certain cheques drawn by the plaintiff on the bank when they had a sufficient balance of his account in their bands to meet them, and the second for exposing the plaintiff's banking account without his consent. It appeared that the plaintiff was in the employ of Lord de Lisle, as farm bailiff, and that he transacted business on his Lordship's account, selling wheat and grain of all sorts of the farm. Lord de Lisle having occasion to suspect that the plain tiff's accounts were not all right, wrote to the branch bank at Tunbridge, and demanded to see plaintiff's banking account, which, after ha bad obtained an order from the head office in London, the manager allowed him to do. His Lordship then served the bank with a notice not to pay out any of the account of 128 L which stood 'in plaintiff's name, as the money was his Lordships. In accordance with this, the bank had re fused to honour two of the plaintiff's cheques which had been presented. Out of these circumstances two actions had been tried at Guildhall before the Lord Chief Justice, and in both of which verdic ts bad been returned for the defendant, subject, to a demurrer on two special pleas, which was now argued. The arguments in this case lasted the entire morning. SECONDARIES'.-(THIS DAY.) (Before Mr. JAMES.) SCHHOLLINGER V. WEBSTER. The plaintiff in this action is an hotel-keeper in Gracechurch-street, and defendant is described as a captain in the Indian army. The action was brought to recover the sum of 43/. 10s. on a bill of exchange, and 71. for refreshments supplied. The defendant suffered judgment to go by default as regarded the bill, and evidence was adduced as to the general charges, and a verdict was given for 50/. 10s. This was the only case. SURREY COUNTY COURT. (THIS DAY.) (Before G. CLIVE, Esq., Judge.) IMPORTANT CAII7EON TO LOAN MOCIETIEL—OWE N v, KELLY. The plaintiff stated that he was secretary to th e Friendly Loan Society, and in June last a person n ame d Jeffery borrowed 12L, at 5 per cent , interest, to be rep ai d by weekly instalments. The de fendant was one of his sureties, and on his being a defaulter in the sum of 71., the society brought the present action to recover that amount, as they were unable to find the borrower o r the other security. A regular promi ssory note was drawn up and signed by all parties. Mr. BxtiNs, who attended for defend an t, as k e d for the production of the promissory not*. Defendant here produced it, and on examination by Mr. BaNNS, the latter contend e d th at t h e plaintiff must be nonsuited, inasmuch as the pr esent act i on was brought on a promissory note, whereas th e note now b efore him was a regular bill of exchange, payable three months afi.er date. He (Mr. Binns) called his Honour's atten tion to -the 9th and 10th Vic., cap. 98, which would settle that point. The plaintiff informed his Honour that they always recovered in such notee, and never had such an objection before. His HONOUR, after carefully examining the Act of Parliament, alluded to by Mr. Binns, said that the plain tiff must be nonsuited, as there was a vast deal of differ ence between a promissory note and a bill of exchange. The plaintiff was accordingly nonsuited. VALENTINE'S D♦Y.--Yesterday was a very busy day in the Post-office, upwards of 22,000 letters above the ordinary daily average, making a toed of upwards of 102,800, having been delivered. The increase was principally in the department of the Lundon district post; and, in consideration of the extra labour imposed, by command of the Postmaster-general, the whole of the hands employed received a substantial repast of beef; bread, and beer.; BOW-STREET.—('rius DAY.) A young man named Smith was charged with the fol lowing assault. Mr. Walters, a respectably attired man, t.tatr,'d that between six and Seven o'clock last night he was passing down Tottenham -court-road, when he observed the pri soner ill-using a boy. He interfered to save the boy from his violence, and the prisoner immediately asked him if he had " a mind for any thing?" He replied that he did not intend to lower himself by fighting in tLe streets, and the prisoner at once struck him in the face, giving him a very ugly black eye. The prisoner was drunk at the time. Mr. JARDINE asked the prisoner what he had to say? The prisoner—Why, yer Wership, I'm a basket maker by trade, and last night I was a comin home with a bundle of twigs across my shoulder, which they is at the station now, and a lad, in trying to get one out, pulled me down. I was a remonstrat ing with him upon the himpreperiety of his conduct when this man comes up, and says he " Why don't you fight a man of your own siz,?" " Well," says I, " come on, ready for you." " Oh, says he, I won't fight here, come into a back street where there aint no police, and I'll have a shy at you." " Agreed," says I, aad we was a goin but he bit at me, and we had a round together; I fail, and lie struck me while I was down, which I have the marks to show. The complainant said this statement was a pure fabrication fioin beginning t•o cud. Mr. JARDINE oh:erved that as the prisoner was drunk at the time of the ass'.ult, no credit could be at tached to his statement, slid he should therefore fine him 30s. or three weeks' imprisonment.—The fine was paid. A middle-aged woman, whose name did not transpire, was charged under the following. circumstances: — Police-constable: F 48, stated that last night, about eight o'clock, he was sent for to a pastry-cook's in Great Russell -street, Covent-garden, and on going there he found the prisoner. The proprietor of the shop said she had been attempting to take poison, and handed him a small packet of white powder which had been snatched from her hand. She said it was useless for them interfering with her, as she was determined to put an end to her lite either by taking poison or cutting her throat. She was drunk. The prisoner said it was all a joke. She had no in tention of committing so rash an act. Mr. JARDINE remanded her for a week, in order that her friends might be communicated with. MARLBRO*-STREET-(THIS DAY.) OUTRAGEOUS ASSAULT ON THE POLICE. - John Bryan, a rough-Jooking fellow, was brought before Mr. Hardwick, charged with being drunk and riotous at the Feathers Tavern, Warren-street, Fitzroy-square, and with violently resisting the police while iu the execution of their duty. Mr. Charles Payne, landlord of the Feathery, deposed that on the previous night, about seven o'clock, the pri soner accompanied by two women came into his house, in a state of intoxication, and called for a pot of porter. Observing the state he and the women were in, witness refused to serve them, and ordered them out of the house. The prisoner swore he would not leave, and if ho was not served he would smash every d—d thing in the house. He was proceeding to carry this threat into exe cution, when witness sent for a constable and gave him in charge. He subsolsently made his escape, and re turned to his house tikain, and having forced his way into the tap-room, seikid hold of au old man who was quietly smoking his pipe, and beat him most unmerci fully. Witness ran out and fetched the police, and gave him in charge a second time, when he made so much resistance that it took four constables to lodge him in the station. Police-constables 152, 103, and 123 E, proved that the prisoner resisted them with much violence. The first constable was struck a tremendous bl )w on the head, the second had his hand bit nearly through, and the third was dreadfully kicked about the legs. They were all more or less rendered unfit for duty. The prisoner denied the charge, and said, instead of his assaulting the police, they assaulted him, and tore his clothes nearly off his back. Mr. lannwica committed the prisoner for a montb, with hard labour. SOUTHWARK.-(THIS DAY.) Henry Boden was brought before Mr. Burrell, charged with attempting to commit a fraud at the Victoria Thea tre, by presenting a false check for admission. Murray, the constable of the theatre, said that his at tention was called to the check-taker's box near the gallery, by hearing a scuffle and cries for eisistance. Ho instantly passed from the pit and found the prisoner struggling with the check-taker, and attempting to force his way in. The check-taker then told him the prisoner had presented a false check to him, and on his refusal to admit him he endeavoured to force his way into the gallery. Witness attempted to eject him from the theatre, but his conduct became so violent, that he was compelled to call for the assistance of a police-con stable and give him into custody. The check-taker produced the check, which he proved to have been issued on some former night, and was dif ferent to those issued last night. The MAGISTRATE said a atop must be put to such proceedings, which were likely to be injurious to the proprietors of the theatre. As a caution to him for the future, he should fine him los. for the assault, and in de fault of payment commit him for seven days. MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.) CORN-EXCHANGE.-(FRIDA Y.) The quantity of English Wheat received fresh up to this morning's market has not exceeded 1,470 quarters. By land carriage and samples] the re ceipts have boon small. The stands were very scantily supplied to-day, while the demand for most descriptifsns was steady at Monday's prices. The actual purchases were, however, small, as inei•ised,supplies were ex pected on Monday. The import of foreign Wheat have been 1,680 quarters. Fine qualities were in fair re quest, at fully previous rates. In the middling and in ferior kinds only a limited business was transacted. The supply of Barley, both English and foreign, was small; most kinds sold slowly at unaltered currencies. In Malt, the flesh supply of which was 2,230 quarters, so little was doing that the quotations were about no minal. The show of English Oats was good—that of foreign small. Most qualities sold without difficulty, at full prices. Beans, Yeas, Indian Corn and Flour were very dull. ARRIVALS THIS WEEK. Wheat. Barley. Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. English •• •• •• 1,470 2,260 5,71 U 1,230 Scotch• • •• •• • • Irish •• •• •• •• Foreign •• •• .. 1,680 400 -- I Oats, Malt. I Flour. SMITHrIELD. Sacks. 860 Although our market to-day was very scantily sup plied with Beasts—the general quality of which was inferior—the demand for that description of stock wag in a depressed state, at prices barely equal to those ob tained on Monday. The extreme value of the best Scots was 3s 10d per Blbs, and u t ,tal clearance was not effected. The numbers of Sheep were again email. All kinds moved off readily, at au advance in the quotations of 2d per gibs, the primest old Downs in the wool pro ducing► 4s 4d to 4s 6d per 81117. There were about 600 shorn Sheep on offer, at 3s 4d to 3s 3d per Sibs. Calves were in good supply, and sluggish inquiry, at unaltered currencies. Prime small Pigs produced full prices. Otherwise the pork trade ruled dull. Mulch Cows were heavy, at from 141 to 181, including their small calf. Par albs, tostnt the offal. I. d. to s. el, I. c. to s. d. Interior Beasts 210 3 2 Second qua'. Sheep 3 6 310 Second quality •• •• 3 4 3 6 Coarse-woolledditto4 0 4 2 Prime large Oxen 3 6 3 8 Southdown Wether 4 4 4 6 Prime Scots Large coarse Calves 3 3 3 6 Large Hogs .... •• 3 4 3 11 Prime small ditto inckling Calves lB 0 25 0 Quartar old Pigs .. 16 0 21 0 [nftrlor Sheep .. • 3 2 3 4 Lambs .... —•• • • 0 0 0 0 TOTAL SUPPLY AT MARKET . Boasts. I 2 Sh 010 eol). i i Calves. I Pl gs . 735 I , 225 240 FOREIGN SUPPLY. I Shee2oop. I Calves. 1 Pigs. 124 SCOTCH. Beasts. i Sheep. 1 Calves. I Pigs 40 NEXT/GATE AND LEADENNALL. Mutton sold reolily, at an advance in the quotations of 2d per Blbs. In other kinds of Meat only a limited business was passing, on the following terms:— Beasts. 120 ett per stone by the Caresee. S. d. to s. d. I s. d. to s. d Beef, inferior.... •• 2 4 2 6 Mutton, interior .. 2 8 210 - middling .... 2 8 210 middling.. 3 0 3 4 primelarge .• 3 0 3 2 prints .... 3 6 310 - prime small.. 3 2 3 4 Pork, large •••• 2 le 3 4 V cal'• ••••••• • • • • • 3 0 4 0 , - small •••• •••• 3 6 4 0 MU:LOUGH UOP 11T.8343LET. Notwithstanding that the supply of most kinds of Hops on offer continues small, the demand is in a very inactive state, at last week's quotations. The large brewers purchase for immediate wants only.—Now Mid and East Kent pockets, 61 6s to 111 lis ; now Weald of Kent ditto, 61 3s to 81; new Sussex ditto, 51 88 to 6110 a; new Farnhams, 121 to 131; yearling Kent., 31 to 41 10s; yearling Sussex, 21 8s to 31 15s ; old Hops, 11 to 31155. COLONIAL.. SUGAR.—The maritethasruiWd . ull fur most descrip tions, and there has boon rather an i ncreased dispositi on to sell. British Plantation early in the week was in some request, however, for the grocery and r e fi n i ng sorts. Barbadoes by auction realised 41s to 42s f or fine yellow, and 38s to 40 s 6 d for ether kinds. Refined has been at 498 6d to 50i for standard Lumps. EAST INDlA.—Mauritius has been offered publicly to the extent of over nine thousand bags, but only about half found buyeri, end at low er values: good to fine yellow, 38s 6d to 40s 6d; low to mid, 363 to 38s; and mid to fine brown, 33s to 35s 50. Bengal has realised barely previous quotations. White Benarrs has been 398 to 41s 6d, and guilt to tine soft yellow 36s 6d to 33s 6d. Madras has been neglected, and 31;nilla was taken in at 38s to 38s 6d for mid yellow, and at 38s 6d fur low brown. FOREIGN.—Mather loser rates have been accepted. Porto Rico has been sold at 35s 6d to 378 for ordinary to mid grey ; at 39s to 42s 6d for good and fine gro cery ; and ut 37s 6d to 38s 6d for mid. Havannah duty -paid has been taken in at 40s to 42s 6d for middling to good, and a few parcels in bond sold at 18s to 22s 6d for low to fit e. Bahia was bought in at 40s to 43s for low to flee white, and at 37s 6d to 38i 6d for brown. COFFEE,—Buyers still bold back, and very little is doing. Native Ceylon has been is to 23 lower, good ordinary 59s to 60J, and us low as 58i. Plantation has also given way, good having been sold at 675 to 705, fine ord to m ild at 61s 6ti to 665, a nd triage at 54s to 56g. Some favourite marks have been tak e n in at 75s to 85a. Costa Rica has been sold at 55s 6d to 595 for good and fine ord, and at 60s to 61s 6d for fine fine ordinary. Brazil, good and fine ordinary has been taken in at 54s 6d; and Bahia at 54a 's to 563 ter gord ord, nnrl. at COS for floe goelta be sold at 73'1 to an 42 " , for ord. Singapore Java has - been taken in a t 50s 6d 55s for ordand good ord. Good erd Jamaica has realised 565. Cocoa.—Trinidad fine arid ord grey to gootl red "la d g ood s been taken in at 41s to 45 , per cwt, and some at 45s to 465. Bahia le:t.s been dull and taken in at 3 53 . Pc , lb ior c SPICES.—BIack Pe at pper has been sold at •ttl lean Penang. Cassia Lignea. ; , as be. deUl 3l3j 105 - to 111 s per cwt. White Pepper has been s°lll a t 6-ad to 6id per lb. COTTON. —There Las ben a quieter market for th is article. liicE.—The market is a little firmer, but not ran ch has been de. PALLOW on .—'l'he demand is limited, P.Y.C. being on l y 37s 6d to 37s 9d per cwt on the spot. T. e° - rd RUM —There has been some irquiry for • ,, w 3 Island at Is stlper gallon for poof. oda' G TEA.—price ntinue much th e same, Wit" - rate business. REEN Fiturr.--The inarkt.t has not been brisk t hil n r door we, owing to the bad weather checking 011 * - .. ; , of consumption, and the advance obtained in the P" - „ e y o es Oranges last week has not Lem sustained; thr ee °l id" st from St. Michael and one from Terceira, 11°--, public sale by Keeling and Hunt, went kill be decline of is to 2s per box. Barcelona Nuts :„ I dget, higher; a cargo ha. been withdrawn from Lb? " — Net the importers refusing to sell at the present pric e ' s od any black Spanish remaining. Lemons in cle "l ll 2 l ,,e ' 113. the price flew. S, ville Sours, of good quality, "‘" vanced 10s per chest. MONEY anfi COMMERCIAL , r ij A . .g. CITY, QUARTER TO T`" est i- The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yes terdaY w ere o sa• mated at about 3,000 bales, comprising 2, 000 Amer! fir 300 Pernam and Maranham at 6;d. to 7/(1., 100 61d. to 6id„ and 300 Surat at 4id. to 4id. per lb' The rs tes• market was quiet, and compared w i t h Fridei. o 's prices of all kinds were id. per lb. lower. ---14' shares were dull at about previous quotations. nda „ The Corn market is much the same as on In the Colonial produce markets the transactio9! o d week hare been restricted, buyers still holding botioi• to prices have ruled lower for many urticleF pally for coffee. Indigo has realised f but pr. aller ? l ore; though it barely supports the values obtained ea ti's day. Colonial wool is going off briskly. ic a O i l The Amsterdam letters of th e 13th inst. r e d -- or. morning state that the Home Funds had a d ing tendency, the Dutch Two-and-a-Half per C e° " 55 9-16. In Spanish Three per cynts. thent Weet est alteration. Greek Bonds were brought feee`l..„ ° SteeP, Peruvian Deferred was quoted 36, and IfelICT,, - g was at 29 9-16. Venezuela were still advon c _rari sou Frankfort, on the 11th, Austrian Bonds resltsou at Vienna they were 95k, with the Exchang e rs fort at 1124. b The inundations on the Continent fait s t i be e ; The streets of Cologne, which for nine do)? " lici sin, 6 ,,,. r " covered with water, were again dry, and tp l Yb te hag resumed their voyages to Mannheim. ° also was retiring within its usual limits. do . sbt e ; A meeting of the Sambre and Meuse Ita""„ -- ; holders has been held in Belgium, but objee ll 9% - t b dirs e ' been made to Mr. George Stiewa , rd, the resiue,—,larg! tor, using more than file votes, _ _.„ a'though he number of proxies given by the London propm. d OPP gentlemen declared the meeting to be adjeurn, e „ who want of a sufficient attendance. Th e shareholaci;otber were present intend to protest, it is said, but meeting will be convened. the gu ile : The total circulation of bank-notes in 1 s co Kingdom during the four weeks to the 260 1 11 1 , 1 ;. th. 33,243,836/., being an increase of 1,043081' ° ° a for The month. The English Stock Market continues beeilto4eklii settlement is scarcely over. Consols have been " 4 4' till; Transfer, and to 95 for Account, and at P„,",; ( 1] s d '" : 4 4 i• The New Three-and-3•Q ter per ' de b .- .1 1 . $ 7i to 1. Bank Stock is at 206i. ua Excheq uer. " 11 545. to 575. premium. (crib tine Foreign Securities the dealings are c irctio l- , $ 5 exceptif Peruvian, which continue buoyaulteo.ll Mexican are quiet at 294. The lief roce °d .,:l . Committeei have prepared a statement of their s OP, !rigs for circulation among the bondholdta' fte°' it will testify to their activity, especially if, sat re; or:, they have all but succeeded in bringing 3Wc.i. - ;1 ) rangement of the remanet question. Russiii i 3; ;o be 14 to 2 premium. Spanish Five per Cel 3 " . 181 Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. a re 14 ort e hgs to n" liailvvay Shares have been very clui st 'aoot c g t Western are rather better; Great Western- n riik same, and Caledonian heavy; and South - W ester lower. 010 0 0 9., ONE 006 4 P: .: ;r:. , - • )), RPrihii , "UND:4 O'CLOCI 0141 Sank Stock 3, er Cont. Reduced Anna ...... ..... 9. 94% , 97t per Cent. Consols Annuities........ 94 5, , 3 4 VI , t S New 3 1 A per Cent. Anns. . ... uong Anna. to expire Jan. 1860 Ditto 30 years, Jan. 5, 1860. B% -, kalik 80nt.1,,, 1,0004 B5 :18 P 0 South Sea Stock — 0 _ _, Ditto Old Annuities 9A 9 A 64 P Consols for Account , %.„ • xchequer Bills. 6 11111 1,000/. Juno :.., 57 54 P ot ,o ics g, PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. =IA, TB .-- (r evs , — 86 nrazilian Bonds - •••• Ditto, New, 1843 •• Buenos Ayres Bonds, 6 per Cent.... "... 62. 61 1 14 Ditto, Account . i:hilian Bonds 6 p er Cent ..... - 5 3ii P • Do., 3 per cent 3% 10 Equador Bonds .. • .o', Greek Bonds Ditto ex Over-due Coupons ...... 7t,4 19 70 1 8 ) 7 i t i t c o an , E. S x p .T r an C :CAG "" l 4 ; B". ,B.• ' i • t. ' n "(l)l: up -2 o : s : 2 9 . cl ). 5 A • Ditto. Account 85 1 / 4 6 4 Ditto, Small N 3 7. 4 Peruvian Bonds. 4 per Cent Ditto Deferred Portnauese 6 par Cents. Ditto. 4 per Cent. ftlaagan hand 6 Ditto Scrip 2 1 3 4 ' 3-,. Spaut.n ' per Ueuc. 1840 Ditto, Passive — 0 Ditto. 3 per Cent Venezuela Bonds, 2 1 4 per Cent .. C-- n 6 614 Dividends on the above payable in 13114°• SO Dutch 2% per Cent., 12 Guild. .. 55 3 / a i i gi so Ditto. 4 pa r Cent. C ertifieates 86% - ' 4 c[‘giasL4: PRICES OF PAID. BUSINE. 8 , 82 1,0 e7g, f . ' 1 1 / R kILWAY MARES. Caledonian ...... .... .. 50 hestor and Holyhead... 50 Eastern Coumties... ..... 20 . A T i° 7 1.3113 :: : I. ••• •• ... ::::'‘. Do., New Prcf.rence, ...... 2 17 s 6 i~er Cent. . East Lincolnshire ...... 25 ..... / X Edinburgh and Glasgow 50 - '" ....... ''' 5 6 ,„ Exeter.Yeovil, & D orc h . 25 , ,, --......... 0 v rest Northern ... .. 6 % •" ...... .•''' WY, Do., 1 1 2 A Deferred - 3 ....... ;...'' , 5 14, Do., 5 per Cent. P rc f 1214 .... •• "3 1 A'' . ./* Great Western Ditto, 14 Shares Ditto, New 17/... - .............. "A Lancashire& Yorkshire 100 ..... -- ....... ~ ..... iii Do. Quarters ... 23% — i....... ........ tli • Do. Fifths.... ........ ... 10 - „•• 5 Do. Thirds .. Do. New, Gua. 6 per ct lO ...... ........ ...... 97 'Ol 4 Do. (W. Riding Union) 10 .. ... .... ' .. •• 9•'i x' d ........... nti Leeds and Bradford SO 8 1 / 2 ••• .... 5 " Leeds and Thirsk ...... 50 ~.. / London, Brighton, and South Coast... —.IOO Do. Prefer. 5 per cent. 50 -- — ..... ' - ..... 1/.104 Ditto ditt0...... 1852 50 „ ~.„ 58 ••• -- iv ..- 11 2 -151 ' London and N We s t ern 100......110 111 1107 4 ~ 13 Ditto, New Quart ers .. 12 thlto,FiGth, London & S.Wc-stern _.. 100 .. 6 7 4; 4 , '''''' . Midland ...... . . i€o 43 Wig ''''''' . - Do. Consul. Bristol and ~.• 1 23 Do., do., 501. Shares 30 m ai .. A ''''' '' '' ......... OA Birming., 6 per ct 10(.. . _ 123 ••'''' ..... ~1 , / Norfolk .......... ....... lOO - 2 B 2B .. . ,•• ........ ..• o i North British ...... • • •••• • .... •• Ditto, Quarters - "......• •• Ditto, Thirds ........ Si .. - •••-• . ..... 0 North Staffordshire ... 17. /t 61,4,... "' lO Oxford. Worcester, and ......... 15 Wolverhampton ...... 50 Reading, Guildford, and ...... 3 g Reigate ..... 15 Royston and Hitchin ... 4% 151.4 ...... ............... i i 4 . „ . Scottish Central - "..• ' j Oi Shrewsbury and Birra l2lh . 4 14 •••''' •"' South Staffordshire B% — ...... -...•''' - - , South ' Wales ~.-o 2 Wear Valley 6 per Cent. - ......... .•••• Guaranteed ... .. ...... 50 . , .0' i Do. do. do. ... 25 York, Newcastle, and ... •••••• -'l 44 ... . Berwick. . 25 •." ...... ' -4 05 •••• •••••........ 1 / 4 ............. j 9 Do. Newcastle Exton. 20 Do. G.N.E.Protortnce R ... York and North Midland 50 ..•••••• (/ 1.) , tt, , Preference ...... 10 FOREIGN RAILWA Y. O ...... 6% %. •• 12 5., Bou'ogne and Amiens... 20 East Indian ..... • ......• .. Paris and Rouen 2O ....... —' ' , ..... IA Sambre and Meuse 2O -- '—' ....." 6 . 1 MINES• ...... ‘' i i, BrazilianCocaes&Cuiaba 30 - ..... 0 JOINT STOCK BAN"' ...... ' 'l' London Joint Stock lO ...... 171,4.. .............. 41 1° London & Westminster 2O •••••• ... .. . .) Provincial of Irel a nd ___4_23...•.•• . .... A lii LLO YD' LONDON, FE B. . 0 3 an h d t dull cloudy weather. A letter from I:,,ht b , t ed i'lae'elced 81381115.1-17nIdNat"no7nt T S. 14:1!!viP:reeP: Jan., reports six vessels to have bee° oit h Barletta. DEAL, FEB. I—Wind . S.W.S.W. to IV- -.S.W.,strrt)urth-icids hard squalls; 7 P.M., W.S.W., moderate. r . lA. Fairy Da Qu een, New Zea7and; Favourite, SigaP°o:l:. Sr. janlb",io, Calcutta; Rachel, Bombay; 1 - 1° !, 0 ,1 1. 1 Janeiro; Duchess of Portland, Berbice; An)°0031131" d ß a e d al ; w i l o rd nd , aßraasr;bandnodeso;ooJros.hn rig:: 140 0 0 N.?LYDE, FEB. 13.—Wind N.W.---D'u' --liac w Orleans; Roger Stewnrt• DPITn. rot Gr O ev n ii t t h e, e o l f 2 a th d i a n u s g t. h , t n e t r North D 1 lltms-place,l7: bfAr g' On the 12th inst., at 'Clieshant-str eet ' the Littleton, of a son. CIO ° DM). t he WV' On the 10th inst., at Guiseley, near Le ede, iril li .aa °lll Wilkinson, aged 25 cl 85. s ' re.- . Thresher, Fareham, Hants, on the 10th inst., slicee of tbe Ju Esq., one of her ArajestY 's tor the county. London : Printed and i Publ.' by O r ' Sp nith -ljll-6. d °‘;l No. 112,, Strand, at The 810 - coal Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoit .- Ittiddlegm, Friday, February 15, 185°'