The Sun. — London, England, 1851-03-07 00:00:00

t roFC- SUN OFFIC.E, Seven o'clock. FRANCE. The Presse advocates in the following remarks the advantage which would accrue alike to the Bank of France and to trade from an increased circulation of its small notes : I t will be doubtless remembered that the coun cil of the Bank made a desperate opposition to the system of the Issue of small notes, so loudly called for by the necessities of commerce. The creation of these notes had been insisted on more than ten years ago, when the Chamber of Deputies decided in April, 1847, on authorising the issue of notes of 200 f., but that law was not sanctioned until the 10th of June following. The Bank at that period underwent a severe crisis; the necessity of procuring a supply of corn from abroad, drew from France a great part of her specie, and the amount in the coffers of tile Bank was at one moment as low as 57 millions, and it would have been reduced much lower if the Bark had not found means to borrow 25 millions of sliver bullion, and had not sold to the Emperor of Russia two millions of its rente for a capital of .50 millions. ey means of these 50 millions, it was able to pay the foreign corn merchants without being obliged to export any more of our coin. This sale. of renter, and the loan from the English capitalists, might have been avoided if a large emission of small notes had been made at, that period. This was assuredly the object of the Chamber when they authorised the iasti3 of bank Lo`es of 200 f. to the amount of 2:5 millions. The Bank, however, dreaded the effect of this issue of small notes, and continued to act with out availing itself of that resource. The notes of 200 f. were of such limited circulation, as to give but little assistance to business. At the end of January, 1848, only 8,600,000 f. worth had been printed, and of these only 6 millions were in circulation. M. Other, in his annual report to the shareholders, stated that sfter the whole of these had been exhausted, the bank would take into consideration what further sum it would be prudent to print. A few days before the re volution of February, the amount in the coffers of the bank had increased to 200 millions, and this improve ment bad been caused solely by the general movement of trade with foreign countries. The issue of notes of 200 f. had remained, ; tionary at about 6 mil lions. Every one will remember the panic caused in the public mind by the revolution, and the necessity in which the bank was placed to have a forced issue given to its notes at the same time that it demanded authorisation to issue small ones. It was only then that the necessity for notes of 100 f. was admitted in order to give a powerfal assistance to com mercial transactions. We will remark, that the law which united the departmental banks to the Paris Bank dated from May, 1848. The junction of the other branch banks added one hundred millions to the circulation, and taking this difference into account, the circulation on the 2d April, 1848, would have been 395 millions. It is at the present time about 509 millions, which makes an increase of 114 millions for all France, the greater part of these 114 millions being in notes of 100 f. and 200 f. This in crease of 114 millions of notes would be a real addition to the riches of France if ,the cash which they repre sent did not accumulate at the same time in an enormous proportion. In fact the amount in the coffers of the Bank, which, at the beginning of April, 1948, was 96 ,830,000 f exclusive of the old departmental banks for a circulaion of 295 millions, now amounts to 509} millions, and completely equals the amount of notes. 1; is only from the day when the bank will give to commerce all the facilities which it has hitherto refused it, that its affairs will resume a great development. Then the creation of notes of 200 f. and 100 f. will be not only a great convenience in exchange?, but will become a great saving of cash for the whole of France, whose capital would be augmented by the sum which will form the difference between the amount in the bank and the circulation. It cannot for the moment be said that there is in reality en increase of capital since all the notes in circulation aro exactly represented by the cor responding sum in cash lying in the cellars of the Bank of France." GERMANY. The Borsenhalle contains a letter from Kiel of the 28th ult., mentioning a rumour, which was gaining ground, that the Cabinet of Vienna intended t o pre pare, with a view to the future, a line of halting places for her troops to the Duchies.—A letter from B erlin, March 3, in the same journal, announces that the Austrian army in Holstein is to be at once di minished by a brigade of 3,000 men. The Spener Gazette gives a letter from Berlin of the Ist, which says—" I learn from a source worthy of credit, that Prussia was not one of the states which at Dresden protested against the College of Nine. The first protest emanated from the Grand Duchy of Baden, as has been already stated, but Prussia never gave her ,adhesion to that step. As Austria has adopted as the starting-point of the affairs of Germany the principle of liberty, she cannot overlook such protests, and it is pretty certain that the smaller states will not withdraw those which they have made. That being the case, the return to the ancient diet appears to be the best mode of getting out of the pre sent difficulties." A letter from Vienna, of the 28th ult., states that it has hen decided that Baron de Prokesch is to be sent as AmbasEad2r to Cor.stantiLople, Count de Reekberg to B.r!in, and Count Thuz to London. The Austrian Government lowered the postage of letters on the Ist of June, 1850, and from that period up to the 31st of Octdier following, 1,054,680 letters more than in the corresponding period of 1849 were forwarded. The postage received was alto more by 291,304 florins (upwards of 800,000 f.) ITALY. The Roman Observer of the 28th ult. contains the following : "On the Bth of March, 1850, the Pope, whilst at Portici, had consnted to the institution of the Bank of the Rcman 6tites, with a capital of 1,000,000 scudi, formed of 5,000 shares of 200 scudi each. Notwith standing the exertions of the repre sen t a ti ves o f t h e Roman Bank, they were unable, owing to the difficulties of the times, to raise that sum. They then applied to his Heline3s to reduce the number cf shares to 3,000 and the capital to 600.000 solidi, to commence opera tions, which request was acceded to. Since the 6th February, the Roman Bank informed the Government that it passest!ed a capital of 350,000 scudi, accruing from 1,:340 . ilares., and that they had moreover obtained 273 signatures for 268,000 further scudi, and that they were consequently in possession of the sum of 600,000 sou ii required for the definitive constitution of the bank. M. Galli, pro-Ilinister of Finance, accordingly autho rised the estaniiihrnent of the Bank cf the Pontifical Sta.trs, en the 22:1 F' hrnary." M. Charle.s .Frinn)is Baillargeon, coadjutor and future successor of the Archbishop of Quebec, in Canivia, had b2en consecrated Bishop of Hoe, in partibus infidelium ' in the Church o f St. T r i n it y o f Atontecitori a , by CArdinal Tnnz - ani, Prefect of the Holy Congregation for the Propitgntion of the FAth, assisted by P.l,Alocs Hughes and Mannod. THE CAPE or GOOD IlopE.—The 74th (High landers) and a strong reinforcement of the 91st (Ann-ll shin) Regiment are under orders for immediate embarkation for the Cape. It is reported these troops will proceed to their destination in steamers.—British. Army Dispatch MARKET INTELLIGENCE. (From the Landon a'Vezo Price Current, March 7.) iSIIGAIL—To-day one rate 3 obtained for Yeast India Sugar wsre in most casos the tharna as these of Friday last, the buppiy iseiug yet small, be; al; parties operated with mach cautioc, and only 136 hhda, &c., were ac tually sold, making th e sa l es f or t h e wee k 436 bads, &e. REFINED.--.TO-day Refined goods were operated in with caution far home trade purposes, and fair grocery Lumps were offered at 435; Crushed is also dull of sale, at former rates. LIAURITIUS.—This afternoon the public sales of Mauritius Sugar attracted little attention, and prices deciined 6d to is for interior and mid, and 6d for better sorts; the chief part of 5,649 bags, however, found buyers, good and tine yellow went at 393 to 40s 6d, low and mid 36s to 385 6d, grey 36s to 403, and washed 34s 6d to 40s per CIVt• EAST INDIA.—Ti)is afternoon there was again a good demand for Benal, and the public sales of 4,200 bags went generally at former rases, low to fine white Benares a; 40s ti 43s 6d, damp and washed 38s to 431, good fine soft yellow 37s 6.1 to 39s 6d, and grainy 40a to 445. Of Madras 2,400 bags sold at a decline of Gd to is for soft kinds, but grainy yellow realised full rates, and went at 42s 6d to 435, soft brown low and very ord 26s 6d to 295, yellow 30s to 35s for low to good ditto. Foaarcsa—To-day there was no public sale of Foreign Sugar, and privately operations were of little moment with a desi re on the part of holders to accept former rates. Of brown Bahia 500 cases realized 37s 9d to 38s, and 50 cases raiba at 34s to white in bond at 21 s; an d a parce l o f Pa -36363 for yellow and brown. .r.doLassas.—West India cannot be obtained under previous rates, but the purchases have been upon a small scale in all sorts; prices for l ow to fine West India rale at 15s to 17 3 , Bengal an d Mauritius 12s to 14s, and Porto Rico Cuba 145 6d to 16 a per cwt; the stock is 700 tons more than a!: Oda time .. l ast year. H oney i s yet in good request; Jal-"i" . realised fr om 35s to 60s per c w t, and there is no increase the suppl y. COCOA..—Today there is more d oinit . 11 1 West India Molssses, but at lower rates. The sales for the week are 00 puss nearly all at 14s for low West India of old COFFEE.—To-day there was Iso if lp rig public sale sill sale se s oret,o,frbtzee.t and privately operations were .14 boi 4 srs are generally 6rni; and -lv6 (*)'33'°73 is nut off,,rc(l under 456 per cwt. TEA..—cothmen Con g ou has been much in dpmcn~j, and she price i s firm at 13 per lb. for 2i/in . /C. l qoai.ty, wish Only audited supply. A gaod liminess has tr , - . 1flo;•,e in blackish leaf rather 'strong sad strong nt Is 3d t's 15 2 'l and (oiler sorts pureh.scd rooco fealy et Is 311 to Is 91. In Canton Gunpowder, Imperial sad Ifysoa ditto roans pnrchasen have been made at full former rates. The market is tirra for better sorN of Green, and large °sclera are loolaal for shortly. In Scented roil Pekoe Teas there is .T.?,ther more doing. Of 5,000 pkgs of Tea offered at auction, chiefly Congou, 1,000 pkgs found buyers. Tt;e market for Tea has impraving ap p • Tizis afternoon rates were supported with dif -fiesajtii the public sales of I,s Q5 bags of Madras, but to w i t\ put m id at 7a 6d to as for 19W and laid pinky, an* o,ol\to 7$ 4ci for doonged, tblcSAP—Piateato 119 1 chisfm, but there has been THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, MARCH 7, 1851. less business doitg privately, and at auction 150 bags were only in part disposed of skd to 51d for low mid and mid. Fall terms are required for Cloves, but there arc few buyers, and 137 bags Bourbon at auction wereonly in part disposed of at 6d per lb. The value of Penang is 9d to is 4d. Mace is wanted, first sort realized 2a 6d to 2. Bd, and other sorts realised 2.6 2d to 2s sd. Nutmegs are yet in small supply, and prices have an upward ten dency, there being several buyers. The value of good and fine brown is from 3s 2d to 48, other sorts 2:16d to 3s, and good limed 2s 8d to 2s 10d. Holders of Pepper continue firm and none has again been ofered at auction; privately, however, operations have been to a fair extent, and prices remain at aid to aid for Malabar, and Summatra 341 to 3id. In white several sales have been made at from 6d to Bd, but African Pod is offered at from 35s to 45s per cwt, and with few buyers. Ginger continues in small supply, but purchasers are few, and rates re main at 21 lOs to 9/ for low to fine Jamaica, and at 34s to 37s for African. At auction 195 pockets Bengal were disposed of at 17s 6d for export sorts. For small parcels of Cassia Lignea, 92s to 102 s per cwt have been ob tained. At auction 37 boxes Cassia Vera were sold at 35s to 375, and one lot at 40s. The value of Cassia Buds is 1088 to 110 s. Cinnamon of common quality is wanted, but there are few buyers of the best kinds, low as prices are. The value of first sort is from is 9d to 3s 61, second ditto Is 5d to 2s 7d, third and fourth is to 2s 3d per lb. To-day at public sale 119 bags cf Pimento sold at rather lower rates: mid went at *I, ord and low to 4id per lb. SPIRITS.—There is much dulness in the market for Jamaica Rum with sellers of low and mid sorts at rather lower rates, but better kinds sustain the previous value. The rates taken for common and mid are 2s 8d to 3s for 30 to 34 per cent over proof, and 3s 2d to 4s 6d for good mid and good 34 to 38 over. Of Leeward Island only small parcels have been sold at Is 8d to is 8d proof, but supply is yet scanty. East India has been dealt in with caution at is 6d to is 6jd proof. In De merara sales have been small and more desire is evinced to sell at from 2s 5d to 2s 9d for 30 to 40 per cent over proof. The sales in Brandy continue upon the same small scale, as for some time past, with free sellers of Cognac best brands of the vintage of 1850 at 4s 4d to 4s 6d, 1849 ditto 4s 7d to 4s 9d, 1848 ditto 4s 9d to 4s 11d, low and inferior sorts 3s to 4s 3d. British made Spirit are still quoted at 9s 8d to 9s 9d. Gin 8s 3d for 22 under proof. Geneva is 7d to is 8d for ord and fine at is 9d to 2s per gallon. INDIGO.—This aft, moon, at public sale, 30 Serona Guatemala Indigo sold at rather lower rates, and went at from 2s 10d to 4s 2d, and one lot low 2s 4d per lb. The market for all sorts of Indigo has a dull aspect. SALTPETRE.—TO-day prices were supported at the public sales of 1,266 bags Calcutta refraction 6 to 5 per cent, selling at 28s 6d to 295, 7 ditto 27s 6d to 28s, da maged 23s to 27s per cwt: TALLOW.—To-day at public sale 630 casks Sydney Tallow mostly sold; Sheep at 36s to 36s 9d; Orr 35s to 363 6d; 1,000 pkgs South American 34s to 37s 9d; 23 cks of North American 36s 3d to 37s 9d; 10 cks Belgian 36s 3d to 36s 9d. OILS.—To-day at public sale 30 tuns Southern Oil sold at 30110 s to 31/103; 500 ditto E. I. Rape Seed Oil mostly taken in at 31s 6d to 323 9d; 70 pkgs Teel Seed Oil at 335; 104 Ground Nut Oil at 34s per cwt. THE LONDON GAZETTE. (THIS EVENING.) [The following is substituted for an article which ap peared in last Tuesday's Gazette.] WHITEHALL, FEB. 22, 1851. The Queen has been pleased to direct letters patent to be passed under the Great Seal, granting the dignity of a Baron of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland unto Arthur Baron de Freyne, and the heirs male of his body lawfully begotten by the name, style, and title of Baron de Freyne, of Coolavin, in the county of Sligo, with remainders, in default of such heirs male, to his brothers, John French, Clerk, Charles French, Esq., and Fitzstephen Fench, Esq., severally and successively, and to the heirs male of their bodies lawfully begotten. FOREIGN OFFICE, MARCH 6. The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. John Longlands Cowell as Consul at Gibraltar for his Majesty the Emperor of Austria. The Queen has also been pleased to approve of Mr. N. Christian Mathiasen as Consul at Gibraltar for his Majesty the King of Denmark. The Queen has also been pleased to approve of Mr. William Henry Tilstone as Consul in Canada for her Majesty the Queen of Portugal and the Algarves. The Queen has also been pleased to approve of Mr. Joseph Jesse as Consul at Montreal for his Majesty the King of the Belgians. CRO WN-OFFICE, MARCH 7. MEMBER RETURNED TO SERVE IN THIS PRESENT PARLIAMENT. Borough of Harwich—Henry Thoby Prinsep, of Little Holland House, Kensington, in the county of Middlesex, Esq., in the room of the Right Hon. Sir John Cain Hobhouse, Baronet, who has accepted the office of Steward of her Majesty's Chiltern Hundreds. WAR-OFFICE, MARCH 7. 2d Dragoon Guards—Lieutenant David He n ry H owe ll , from the 15th Light Dragoons, to be Lieutenant, vice Hibbert, appointed to the Ist Foot, March 7. 15th Light Dragoons—Lieutenant Henry Howard Barber, from the Ist Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Howell, appointed to the 2d Dragoon Guards, March 7. Ist (or Grenadiet) Regiment of Foot Guards—Lieu tenant and Captain the Hon. 11. Hugh Manvers Percy, to be Captain and Lieutenant. Colonel, by purchase, vice John Dixon, who retires ; E ns i gn and I.,etitonant James Evelyn, to be Lieutenant and Captain, by purchase, vice Percy, March 7. Ist Foot—Lieutenant Leycester Hibbert, from the 2d Dregoon Guards, to be Lieutenant, vice Barber, up peinied to the 15th Light Dragoons, March 7. sth Foot—Cep:ain William Robert Lyon Bennett, from halt-pay Unattached, to be Captain, vice Felix Ashpitel, who exchanges; Lieutenant Ferdinand Wil liam L'Estrange, to Le Captain, by purchase, vice Ben nett, who retires, March 7. 7th Foot—Lieutenant the Hoe. William Monck, to be Captain, by purchase, vice Wilson, who retires, March 7; Ensign Richard Williams Thomas, from the St. Helena Regiment, to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Monck; Lieutenant Thomas Beckwith Speedy to be Adjutant, vice Monck, promoted, March 7. 18th Foot—Ensign George Augustus Elliot to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Ferrer, who retires, Me.rch 7. 34th Foot—Lieutenant Mawdistly Gaussen Best to be Captain by purchase, vice Sir George Douglas, B art ., retire; Ensign Arthur Trevor Leake Chapman to be Lieutenant and Adjutant, by purchase, vice Bast, pro moted, March 7. 48th Foot—Lieutenant Samuel John Maclurcan to be Captain, by purchase, vice Adam who retires; En s i gn Frederick John Castle to be Lieutenant by purchase, vice Maclurcan, March 7. 57th Foot—Lieutenant Robert Abraham Logan to be Captain, by purchase. vice Ashton, who retires; Ensign Gerrard John Forsyth to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Logan, March 7. 74th Foot—Lieutenant John Jago to be Captain, by purchase, vice William Cunninghawe Bruce, who retires; Ensign Philip Philpot to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Jago, March 7. 81.;:t Foot—Major Henry Farrant to be Lieutenant- Colonel, by purchase, vice Miller, who retires; Captain the Hoe. Robert Alexander George Dalzell to be Major, by purchase, vice Farrant; Lieutenant Francis Lepper to b Captain, by purchase, vice Dalzell; Ensign William Egerton Todd to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Lepper, March 7. 91st Foot—Lieutenant William Richard Annesley, from the 97th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Cole, promoted to an Unattached Company, March 7. Ist West India Regiment—Lieutenant Edmund Bagee nail, from half-pay of the Ceylon Rifle Regiment, to be Lieutenant, vice Ross, promoted to an Unattached Com pany, March 7. Cape Mounted Riflenaen—Ensiga George Lloyd Stud dert to be Lieutenant by purchase, vice Lavers, who retires, March 7. UNATTACHED.—Lieutenant the Hon. Edward Sydney Plunkett, from the 95th Foot, to be Captain without purchase; Lieutenant Archibald Rutherford, from the 76th Foot, to be Captain without purchase, March 7. BREVET.—Lieutenant-Colonel Frederick Abbott, C.B. late of Bengal Engineers (Lieutenant-Governor of the East-India Company's Military Seminary at Addis combe), to have the local and ternporapy rank of Lieut.- Colonel in the Army while so employed, March 7. MEMORANDUM.—The Commission of Lieutenant William West Turner, as Adjutant of the 15th Foot, has been ante-dated to the 26th August, 1850. OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, M ARCH 5. Royal Regiment of Artillery—Second Captain John Farnaby Cater to be Captain, vice Low, retired on full pay; First Lieutenant John Fraser Lodington Bad deley to be Second Captain, vice Cator; Second Lieu. tenant Herbert Mark Garrett Purvis, to be First Lieu. tenant, vice Baddeley, Feb. 22. ADMIRALTY, MARCH 4. Corps of Royal Marines- - --Gentleman Cadet John Blackwood Colwell to be Second Lieutenant. ERRATA.—The Commissions of Captain R. S. Searle and First Lieutenant E. D. Thelwall are dated 28th Feb., instead of 3d March. ----- WHITEHALL, FEB. 28. The Lord Chancellor has appointed Henry Ling, of of Norwich, Gent., to be a M as t er Extraordi nthaey ry ci i t n the High Court of Chancery. BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED. Thomas Picket Hennings, dealer in wine, Wyndham road, Camberwell. Joseph Harper, coal merchent, Ponsonby-place, Vaux hall-bridge-road. C Yellow, innkeeper,:Leeds. Miti - gatet Wood, widow, Grimshill, Salop. BANKRUPTS. William Siorror, oPholiterer, Southemp on. Arnold Francis Wile and George Henry Wilson, mer chants, Kiugston-upon-Hull. William Walker, manufacturer, Howden, Yorkshire. William Couch, rianotorte intker, .John,-street, Fitz roy..square. Th„ , , ... li,uhku ca h . 1 . 11 . 7 1 - 0:, 1 ,, r ,,, c ,, h k , ,, r( , e a , . 1 , rn ir a tt s i t ,., e r r e. , h ß a r l o ni , e i ,v , : r S p h o r o r i i . p s, h i r e. i Th_e_..."-:':, er a,__g_b_ P r e r ce l' e i 1 I C IL ( w ) Brown wil, , , ...lialwai I.acMillari end Robert Service , 1, dry:. er4, I'leiton. or Muscovado Sugar, corn turns on the importation stoms Duties paid or payable thereon I . ° B " 3 7i i e l x 7 usiveoli mad e in the week ending March 4, 1 pones thereof j into Great Britain:- 5 7 rom the British From the Mauritius ens in America 30s. 110. per cwt , eomput g ed as From the East Indies ''' —22 e. 2d. „ in d • e . : 30e. 114 d. „ ••• Average price of the two fore; i By authorit ••• 295. 10id. ~ I a s c b r o i v p e t i , o u ns a of ex su e g iw ar i y e oin of tl 3(uty _ y of Parliara EX.1.7."1" BICII4ET.i., Clerk of 0,, Q *Ws °MO' Convoy, I Grocere-hall, March 7. , IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. (THIS EVENING.) HOUSE OF LORDS. The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat upon the Wool sack at Five o'clock. DESIGNS ACTS EXTENSION BILL. This Bill passed through Committee. PETITIONS. The Marquis of LANSDOWNE laid on the table the Tithe Commissioners' Report for 1850. Lord BEAUMONT presented a petition from the Law Society against the second clause of the Law of Evidence Bill wticti authorised the examination of parties to the suit and their wives; he personally did not agree with the prayer of the petition, because such evidence would always be taken for what it was worth, and the evi dence of the parties might lead to the discovery of tur ther evidence; but stilt the opinions of the petitioners were entitled to attention, and he hoped the Bill would be referred to a Select Committee. Lord BROUGHAM bore evidence to the high re spectability of the petitioners; but forty-nine out of fifty of the county court judges had reported in favour of the plan. The Earl of ENNISKILLEN presented a petition from Galway praying for the establishment of a packet station on the west coast of Ireland. COUNTY COURTS EXTENSION BILL. Lord BROUGHAM rose to move the second reading of the County Courts Extension Bill. So long ago as the year 1825 Lord Althorp brought in a Bill for the better recovery of small debts. That Bill went but a little way; it merely proposed to give jurisdiction to small debt courts in cases in which the amount in dispute did not exceed 101. Lord Althorp handed over the Bill to the late Sir R. Peel, wbo was always anxious to promote any measure of law reform, and Sir R. Peel cheerfully undertook the task of reform. Two Commissions of Inquiry into the common law, and another fur inquiring into the law of real property, were issued by Sir R. Peel and the reports of those Commissioners were most valuable, and many impor tant changes bad been introduced, grounded upon the reports of those learned commissioners; and so im perfect had these changes been, that it some of the emi nent lawyers who had died within the last quarter of a century were to revisit Westminster Hall they would scarcely believe that they were in the same country in which they had passed their lives. He bad himself, in 1840, introduced a Bill for establishing courts of local ju risdiction. In that bill he had originally given jurisdiction to Local Courts, in cases of debt to 100/., but on the re presentation of the Commissioners he had reduced it to 201. That Bill was rejected by a small majority corn. posed of proxies. In 1842, Lord Lyndhurst had intro duced a Bill which was in all essentials identical with the Bill, which afterwards became law, and he regretted that more had not been done. Last year a measure was proposed, extending the jurisdiction of these courts to 50/. in cases of debt. There was no man who could deny that these County Courts had worked admirably In every man's neighbourhood a tribunalexisted where a man's dispute with his neighbours could be speedily and cheaply settled. In two years and nine months 1,200,000 causes had been disposed of in these County Courts, being at the rate of 420,000 causes a-year, and the amount of property adjudicated on must have been about 2,000,000/. a-year. The last year's Act gave an appeal upon points of law upon sums above 20/., In five months 4,000 of these causes had been disposed of, and there had not been more than four appeals. Now, so far as regarded contentious jurisdiction, so far as regarded the ousting of the jurisdiction of the Supreme Courts, he did not propose to extend the jurisdiction of these courts. The four classes which were included in the Bill of 1830, but which were now excluded by the County Court jurisdiction were bankrupts, equitable jurisdiction arbitration and courts of reconcilement. He proposed to extend the jurisdiction of the county courts to cases of bankruptcy, gradually to absorb the bankruptcy juris diction in that of the county courts. He also proposed that all matters upon which a Master in Chancery could decide should be, upon the order of the Court of Chancery, remitted to a county court of decision, so that instead of parties being brought from Cornwall to Chancery-lane, they should have equity administered to them in their own district. He also proposed that all parties, whatever might be the cause or the amount in dispute, should be enabled to submit the matter in dispute to the county court judge as an arbitrator, sub ject only to have points of law, as is the case at present with regard to arbitration, raised in the superior courts on their award. In a great variety of cases at present, more particularly in cases of disputed amount, when a case became ripe for trial it was found that it was impossible to try it by a judge and jury, and the judge ordered such a case to be referred, now he proposed to give parties a power of referring such a case at once to a county -court judge. (Hear, hear.) In ordinary cases of arbitration there was sometimes a tendency to protract proceedings. Now the county-court judge would have no temptation to protract proceedings, because he was not paid by the number of sittings, but was paid a fixed salary. But he set still greater store by his proposition to make these county courts counts of reconcilement. It was proposed that any party suing or sued on any matter whatever might cite his adversary to appear before a county court judge in reconcilement and the parties thus uppearing might state, the one his cause of grievance and the other his defence. In every profession, and in the law as well as others, there must be a better and worse class, and as a skilful and honourable solicitor was the greatest blessing a neighbourhood could have, so there could not be a greater curse than one of the worst class. But a respectable solicitor might be misled as to the merits of his client's case ; he proposed that no counsel no attorney should attend the court of reconcilia tion, bus that the parties should go unattended by legal advisers and state their case. The judge would at once see whether or not a party had pod grounds for proceed• ing, and if' he had none, and the judge told him so, in nine cases out of ten litigation would cease. The courts had been tried on the Continent, and had succeeded In France they were compulsory • but if that wore the case here they would gradually Assume the character of courts of law rather than of courts of reconcilement, and therefore he did nut propose to make them compulsory. In Switzerl an d, in some of th e cantons i t was compulsory, in others it was optional; where it was compulsory it was said to fail, where voluntary it succeeded. (LEFT SPEAKING.) HOUSE OF COMMONS. The SPEAKER took LI e Chair a few minutes to Four o'clock. NEW MEMBER. Mr. PRINSEP, the new Member for Harwich, took ;he oaths and his seat. The Hon. Gentleman was in ,roduced by Mr. Herries and Mr. F. Mackenzie. ABOLITION OF THE OFFICE OF LORD LIEU. TENANT OF IRELAND. The Lord Mayor of Dublin, accompanied by several Aldermen, appeared at the bar, and presented a petition from the corporation of that city, against the abolition of the office of Lord-Lieutenant. SECOND READINGS. The following Bills were read a second time, and or dered to be committed:— Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway (Fifth Share.). Metropolitan Cattle Market. COPPER MINER'S IN ENGLAND. On the motion that the Copper Miners in England Bill be read a second time, Mr. SPOONER objected to the Bill on the ground that the principle of it was to set aside the claims of all the creditors of the company unless they became partners in the undertaking, which had for many years been in a bankrupt state. A great number of debentures had been issued by the company, and the effect ef this Bill would be to render them cutiiely va lueless, except where the holders of them chose to become proprietors. Ile, therefore, hoped the House would not give its assent to so unjust and monstrous a proposition. The Honourable Member moved that it be reed a second time this day six months. Sir DE LACY EVANS supported the second read ing of the Bill. Mr. MUNIZ would be exceedingly sorry if this ' Bill a ere passed, and he thought that everybody be longing to the concern would be sorry too that they had ever got it. Mr. BOOKER protested against the principle of this Bill being entertained by the House. Mr. MACGREGOR supported, the second, reading of the Bill. Mr. BROTHERTON thought that the Bill ought to go into Committee, in order to give opportunities fur investigation. Mr. G. C. LEGII opposed the Bill. The House then divided, when there appeared— For the second reading Against it 66 Majority —57 The Bill was then road a second time. PETITIONS. Mr. TANCRED presented a petition from the Catho lies of Banbury against the Ecclesiastical Titles Bill. Mr. L. HODGES presented a petition against the re moval of Smithfield Cattle Market. Sir DE LACY EVANS presented a petition from Westminster praying for the repeal of the window -tax. Mr. S. ADAIR presented a petition praying fur a re peal of the taxes on knowledge. Sir R. H. INGLIS presented a petition against the Papal aggression, and praying for the suppression of Jesuit establishments. Sir GEORGE STRICKLAND presented two peti• lions from Preston against the Ecclesiastical Titles Bill. Mr. Alderman SIDNEY presented four petitions egaiost the Government measure for the removal of Smithfield, and a petition from tho butchers of Enfield praying to be heard by counsel against the Bill, BOARD OF CUSTOMS. Mr. MITCHELL gave notice that on an early day be should move for the appointment of a Select Com mittee to inquire into the management of thu Board of Costume, with a view to its improvement—(hear, hear) nd saviog expotise to the courAey. Mr. MACGREGOR az.cl sestrzl other Hon. Members preb , !ited petitions to the Ifouso, awl Postponed motions of vshicli the) had given notice. _ ... CIIANCERI : REFORAL Lo:d JOHN RUSSELL gavm notic e th a t i t was his . intention to bring in a Bill on a n early day for a ref orm 1 in the practice of the Court cf Chancery. THE KAFIR WAR. Sir DE LACY EVANS begged to ask the Noble Lord at the head of the Government a question respecting the intentions of the Ministry in providing for the expensesof the contest. He put this question in the hop e t h at :the colonists would hav e to bear the weight of their owncon flirts. Lord JOHN RUSSELL replied that all he could say at present was, that his Noble Friend at t h e bead of the Colonial Department had written to the Governor of the colony, enjoining him in the strongest manner to take care that IL) expenditure should be incurred in the event of a liiefir. war which would fall on the G tvernment of this ceuntry. The co lony must, therefore, be exrct , d t•) b - tar its own ex penses. At the present time if, was impetetible to say more than this—that with the exc,ption of sending out a necessary reinforcement, no expense would be incurred is respect of the war without, the sanction of the House. Sir W. MOLES WORTH wished to know whether the Under-Secretary for the Colonies had any official information with regard to the commencement of the war ? Mr. HAWES said, as soon as any dispatches were received they would be laid on th© table of the House; but he might observe that he believed too much importance had been attached to the information which had been circulated among the public. No dispatch had yet been received from the Governor, and the only dispatch which the Government were in possession of was that of the Colonial Secretary, which cemmuniceted the nature of the events in tee colony up to the 4th of January last. The reason why no dispatch was received from the Governer was that at that time he was surrounded by a large body of Katirs.—(Loud laughter.) Since that date Sir H. Smith, with that cha racteri,tie gallantry, skill, end courage which belonged to him, hal emancipated himself fro all his difficulties, and gallantly cut his way through hordes of b-aberians. —(Cheers.) A steamer was expected every hear with fresh advices, bringing accounts up to a period three weeks later than thus, last received. EXCISE. _ SIBTIIOBP wished to know whether it was true that the chairman of the Exci.le, Sir John Wood, bad received an increase of 500/. a year, in addition to his salary of 2,0001.? The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said, if the Gallant Member would move for the necessary mi nute on the subject, be would be glad to state the rea sons why that increase hai been made. CEYLON. In reply to Mr. BAILLIE, Mr. HAWES said he would lay the report of the Royal commission on Ceylon on the table of the House to-night, and it would probably be placed in the hands of Mombers to-morrow. EXTENSION OF THE FRANCHISE TO COUNTIES. M. LOCKE KING brought up his Bill for the exten sion of the county franchise to 101. householders. The Hon. Member, on appearing at the bar with the Bill, was received with cheers. The Bill was ordered to be read a second time on the 2d of April.—(This announcement was received with laughter.) MINISTERIAL STATEMENT. On the motion that the House on its rising adjourn till Monday next, Lord JOHN RUSSELL said,— Sir, in rising to move that the House at its rising a J , Jurn till Monday next, I will make the statement which I promised on Monday last. My Right Hon. Friend the Secretary of State for the Home Department will, on the reading of the order of the day for the second reading of the Ecclesiastical Titles Bill, state the altera tions and modifications which we propose to make in that Bill, and, as they ate extensive, I propose after that statement has been made to postpone the second reading of the Bill until Friday next.—(Hear, hear.) With respect to the general business of the session, I should state that a considerable interval having taken place, i❑ which no public business has been transacted, it is most desirable that we should proceed with as little delay as possiele, end, therefore, on Monday next I propose that the House shall go into Com mittee on the Navy Estimates. As I have proposed a postponement of the second reading of the Ecclesiastical Titles Bill until Friday, I trust that there will be no opposition on the part of Hon. Members who are opposed to the Bill, to go into Committee on an early day after reading the Bill a second time, supposing that the House should pass the second reading. It will bo necessary to take some votes with regard to the army and ordnance estimates, and espe cially to take a vote for the number of men required in the army, as the House is aware that the Mutiny Bill expires on the 25th of March, and the Easter vacation intervenes before that day. I do not pro pose to take any vote on account of the Income-tax, until Mondry, the 24th, and on the Friday preceding, that is on the 21st, my Right Hon. Friend the Chan cellor of the Exchequer wilt state any alterations which he has to propose with regard to the financial measures of the session. The motion for the adjournment was then carried. ECCLESIASTICAL TITLES BILL. On the motion for the second reading of the Bill, Mr. STUART presented a petition in favour of the Bill from the Bishops of the Ecclesiastical Church of Scotland, which he moved should be read by the Clerk at the table. The petition was then read at length by the Clerk at the table. Lord ARUNDEL and SURREY presented a petition against the Bill from the Roman Catholics of Wales. Dr. POWER presented a similar petition from Cork. Mr. REYNOLDS presented is petition to the same effect signed by 6,000 of the Roman Catholic inhabit. ants of St. Mary's, St. Thomas, and S. George's, Dub lin. On the motion of the Hon. G-entltman the petition was read by the clerk at the table. Sir WILLIAM CLAY presented a petition against the Bill from the &mail, C . 2tliolics of the Tower Ham. lets. Mr. COBDEN presented a similar petition from the Roman Catholic% of Yorkshire. Mr. M. O'CONNELL presented ten similar petitions from places in Ireland, and pr a yi ng t h at t h e revenues o f the Protestant Church might in future be appropriated to the relief of the poor. Mr. A. GORE presented a petition to the same effect from Sligo. Mr. CAYLEY presented two similar petitions from places in the West Riding. Lord JOHN MANNERS presented a petition to the the same effect from the Roman Catholics of Colchester. Petitions were then presented by Mr. Cardwell, from Liverpool; by Mr. Clement, Mr. Lennard, Mr-Bennet, and Mr. Roche, from the county of Cork; by other members from the county of Downe, by Mr. Philip Howard, from Exeter, signed by upwards of 3,000 of the aroz ins, labourers, and other members of the community of Exeter. (Some amusement was occasioned in the House, end not a little laughter, by the Hon. Member going to the wrong side or the table to give his petition to the Clerk of the House).—The petition was ordered to lie on the table. Mr. GRATTAN presented a petition from several thousand people in Ireland to the same effect. Sir R. H. INGLIS presented a petition from 616 per sons of condition and character who desired to re sist the Papal aggression. They expres.ed a strong hope that the officers of Government would resist this aggression; yet, while expressing this hope, they a; the same time said that the last thought in their minds was to oppose anything like a barrier to the progress of civil and religious liberty. Mr. MORGAN JOHN O'CONNELL presented pe titions against the Bill from the Roman Catholics of Listowell and several other places in Ireland. Mr. MILNER GIBSON presented a petition from 13,000 inhabitants of Manchester against the Bill. THE MINISTERIAL CRISIS. Sir GEORGE GREY then rose, and silence having been obtained, proceeded to say that before he went on to make any observations respecting the Government, ho wished to make a few remarks regarding the position in which the Go ern ment was placed. He desired to make a few explana tions. Tho Honourable) Member for Manchester (Mr. Milner Gibson) had placed the Government in a singular position. It might seem from that Hon. Gentleman's impressions (derived from the speech of Lord Stanley in another place) that it was the intention of the Go vernment to throw of this question altogether.—(Hear ) But the Right Hon. Member for Manchester, and those who thought with him, had not rightly comprehended the suggestions which fell from Lord Stanley. They seemed to assume that his Lordship suggested that a Committee of both Houses of Parliament should be appointed, to whom should be re ferred a variety of subjects connected with the relations of Roman Casktolic subjects in England, wish the Crown on the one band, a nd with their own church on the oth er , and that a proposition of that kind might be adopted without debate and discuseion, and the further considerate to of any Bill on the subject inde finitely postponed—(Hear, bear) —and both Houses be enabled to proceed to the consideration of other matters of greater public importance. But they seemed to over look that it was a p art of his Lordsh i p ' s proposition that resolutions should be simultaneausly proposed in both Houses declaring their opinion that the encroachments of th e P opo were offensive to the country, derogatory to the digni'y of the Crown, and trenching upon the independence of Parliament. Now, the Government did not cons id er suc h a course consistent with the duty they owed to the country. If resolutions of th at ki n d w ere proposed, they would involve l ong an d di s cursive debates and would probably occupy th e House a much longer period than the present Bill.—(Hear.) Besides, such resolutions w ou ld h ave s o legal ( fleet, aud would be totellS disregard e d b y Roman Catholics in this coun try, and not prevent t h e assum ption of any of tho titles with which the Bill of the Government attempted to deal, Then if Committees were appointed to consider the subject it should not he forgotten that th e y would have to receive ail kinds of statsmioits and retire to stations, imp eac hi ng t h e Reroun Catholics on the O n e hand, and coun t er statemen ts on tne other ; and a kind of indefinite expectation would be held out to the public that a system of co mprehensive , legi s l a ti on would be adopted w hi c h w oule toe Protestant fee hog of the co un t r y. an d a t the some tittle loop invio late those principles el civil and religious liberty which were held sacred by the COW awn:v.—(lleat., hear.) The next suggestion maths was that the , opera tion of the Bill atiouel not be extended to Ireland. That subject was fully considered by the Government. Now, if a Bill was necessary—if this aggression of a foreign power upon the authority of the Queen was to be repelled by an Act of the .Legislathte, and the Government had proposed to limit the Bill to one part of the United Kingdom, they would have been charged with tacitly admitting that the authority of the Queen was less paramount in one portion of her domi nions than another. But at the same time he was willing to admit that there was a wide difference in th e circumstances of Ireland and those of England and Scotland. It was impossible to overlook the fact that there existed a Roman C..t.thetic population in Ireland, and a Roman Cairolic Church which had existed side by side with the Established Church since the time of the Reeerroation, at one time prohibited, at another tolt rect.?, and at awither protected. That was,in fect.the great difficulty which stood in the way of legislAing for this case. Certainly in this country Roman Citholic Bishops had existed, but it was under entirely different circumstances from those under which they had existed in Ireland. Ho was not, however, prepared to admit that the objection which had been urged against the Bill, and particularly against the second and third clauses. It could not pos• sibly interfere with the spiritual acts of a bishop; neir tiser did he think a clause like the third would at all defeat the object of the. &quests Act, since by that Act only those bequests were void which were left to ecclesiastics who assumed tities contrary to the provisions of the Emanctieition Act. Now it was said that a portion of this clause as it now stood might pr judice some of the rights of the Roman Catholics in Ireland. It was alleged that it would interfere with precCcyis which had been sanctioned by time as well as the courts of law and equity, such as the ordination or collation of a priest. Directly it would not, hut in directly it might; bec:use it was sometimes neeesury to give in evidence the fait of the ordination and the practice was to produce the certificate of collection fir that ptirpo,e. Now, in these certificAtes the nitary granting the ordination was described in Latin. a s the bishop or archbishop of the see which he held, and though hitherto the courts of law and equity had admitted those certificates. in evd,rice, it Set was extremely d , tib,ful it than practice, could be continued if this Bill pes:42(l (LEFT SPEARING.) BANK OF ENGLAND. (From this night's Gazelle.) AnAccount, pursuant to the Act 7th and Bth of Victoria, cap. 32, fer the Week ending on Saturday, the let day of March, 1851. ISSUE DEPARTMENT. Notes issued.... •• •• 27,772,240 Government debt •• 11,015,100 Other securities •• • • 2,9114,900 Gold coin and bullion 13,735,865 Silver bullion •• • • •• 33,375 4 27,772,240 M. MARSHALL, Chief Cashier. Dated the 6th day of March, 1851. 227,772,240 or some other way. I observed symptoms of inflamma tion in the bowels, such as would be produced by an ir ritant poison. By the prisoner--I don't know who fetched the bladder in which the contents of the stomach were planed. It was brought to ma by Superintendent Clarke. Superintendent Clarke recalled—On the 28th of May I searched the prisoner's house. Is contained three rooms on the ground-floor, in one of which the deceased died. The prisoner was at home at the time. I first searched the room in which the family lived, and in a kneading troueh that wasp hi it I found a qUantity of rice. Breese this I had taken possession of some bottles ' and other things. The prisoner made no objection to my doing so. I found the rice in a bag, and when the prisoner saw me take it up she said " She hoped I was not going to take that away, as it was her father's, and she had used some of it for her husband;" and she added, " That if I welt it away she hoped I would tell her te ther of it." I told her not to interfere with me, and I should take away just what I thought proper. Two or three times after this she repsered that she hoped I should not take the rice away. I kept the bag and the eke in my care until the 30th of May, and I then deli vered it to Dr. Taylor in the same • state i: was in when I took it from the prisoner's house. By the prisoner - -- I had no warrant with me when I went to sear oh the house. Jana , s Pilly, a police-constable, said--I accompanied Mr. Clarke to snatch the prisuer r'e Inane, anti I sew him tulle the' rice out of the kneading-trough. When the pri soner saw him fake out the beg of rice she appeared very anxiow, and exclaimed tat she hoped we were not going to take the rice away. Ann Piny said—l am the wife of the last witness. I was present when Mr. Clarke took the rice from the trough. The bag of rice was placed in my possession for a short time, and I then returned it to Mr. Clarke in the same state in which I received it. I searched the person of the prisoner, but found nothing remarkable. Mr. C. C. Lewis—l am one of the coroners for this county. On the 20.1 of May last I held an inquest upon the body of the deceased at Clavering, and I received a parcel from Mr. Brown, which I afterwards delivered to Dr. Taylor, of Guy's Hospital. The inquest was ad journed from the 20th of May to the 2d of June, and the prisoner was present as a witness on the second occasion. No charge had at this time been preferred against her. She made a statement upon oath, which I took down in writing. Mr. BODKIN then proposed to put in the statement made by the prisoner, but upon a suggestion from his Lordship that there might be a question whether it was admissible, the Learned Counsel said he would postpone putting it in for the present. Dr. Taylor, professor of chemistry at Guy's Hospital, was then examined. He deposed that he examined the contents of the bladder handed to him by Mr. Lewis, and applied the usual tests to them, and the result was the discovery of the presence of arscusic. He also said that the intestines presented the appearances. which usually accompanied the exhibition of arsenic. The whole quantity of arsenic found by him was about the 25th part of a grain, which, he said, was insufficient to occa sion death. By the COURT—The whole of the arsenic was ex pended by the various tests that were applied to it, but he could state positively that arsenic to the extent he bad mentioned was discovered in the intestines and in the fluid of the stemach. By Mr. BODKIN—It was possible that the arsenic he found was the remainder of a larger dose that had been administered some days before, and he did not believe that it bad been administered very recently before death. If the poison had been taken seven or eight hours before death he was of opinion that a larger quantity would have been found in the stomach itself than on the coats of that organ. The portion of the poison that was absorbed and deposited in the stomach might have been administered as long as twelve days, but that which was contained in the fluid might have been administered much more recently. The symptoms exhibited by the deceased would in his opinion be en tirely explained by the continual administration of small does of arsenic. By the LORD CRIER JUSTICE—WitReBS was of opinion that the arsenic must have been administered in small doses, not at all calculated to produce death at once, and when the administration of the poison was re linquished for a time the man got better. • se- By Mr. BODKIN—The effect of the continual adminis tration of small doses of arsenic would be to gradually cause the powers of the body to languish, and would thus tend to develope any c nastitutional mated t, such as con sumption, that might be in the system. Witness subse quently examined a quantity of rice that was handed to him by Clarke, the police-officer, and he found that it was all over arsenic; and according to the calculations he had made he was of opinion that thserice ' which was about a pound in qu ant i ty , t h ere were about sixteen grains of arsenic. Every grain of rice was covered with a minute portion of the poison, end the whole ap peared to have been carefully mixed up together, so that every part of the rice was poisoned, and the interior of the bag containing the rice was likewise covered with arsenic. The poison consisted of the common white are genie, which had the appearance of flour. Witness was examined upon the former trial of the prisoner for poi soning her children,-and he upon that occasion, in her presence, described the nature of arsenic and its mode of action. Mr. BODKIN then again proposed to put in the state ment made by, the prisoner upon her examination before the coroner. The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE said that before he ad mitted the evidence he would consult Mr. Baron Parke upon the point of its Upon his LORDSHIP'S return, he state &that his Learned Brother concurred with him that the statement was ad. missible. The statement was accordingly put in and read. It was to the effect that her husband had been in good health until about twelvemonths before, when he was seized with pains in different parts of his body, and they eventually settled in the bottom cf his body, and he then complained of suffering very great pain and was almost mad for two or Three days when Mr. Hawkes neglected to visit him. She el-o stated that deceased was re peatedly sick, and she thought that the doctor had given him something in his physic to make him sick. The most material part of the statement was that the pri soner denied positively ever having given the deceased any rice. James Parker said—The prisoner is my daughter. and I lived in the same house with her and her husband at Clavering. I remember her husband dying. Before this happened I had purchased two pounds of rice and had eaten a portion of it on two occasions, and it took no effect upon me whatever. I ate some of the rice the first night I bought it, and the second time was a week afterwards. I kept the rice in the kneading trough, and I never put any thing into it. By the prisoner—l used to ear, the rice without wash ing it. I do not know Mr. Lewis, the coroner, but I know the "crowtier."—(A laugh.) I don't remember any.. thing particular happening about the rice one day when he was going by the cottage. Henry hooch, assistant to a groc:r at Clavering, proved that about three weeks before the death of the prisoner's husband he.sold the last witness two pounds of rice. It was in good condition, and he Lever heard any complaints of it. Hannah Phillips, the wife of a labouring man at Cla verin?, proved that she knew the prisoner before her former trial, and remembered her coming home after it was over. Witness was passing by her cottage some time afterwards, when she called her in and began talk ing to her about her children being poisoned; and she said that she did not poison them, but that some one else had done so. She mentioned the name of the person, and said that he had given the children a halfpenny a piece. to take what he gave them. The prisoner then mention, d arsenic, and witness told her that she must not talk to her about arsenic, for she did not know what it wis, and the prisoner then said there was very little difference between the look of arsenic and flour. She also said that the arsenic she had had before she was sent to Chelmsford for trial she had hid under a stump of a tree in a lane at Clavering, and when she came back she took it up again, and said that was the poison she had intended to poison the woman with, but had not the opportunity, and that she poi-rained the child first. She mentioned the name of the woman whom she meant to poison. The prisoner did not tell her all this at one time, but upon, several different occa sions. -Another time the prisoner told her that she had bought'some liver and lights and made a mincepie of them for her husband, and she advised witness to make one too, and said that if she did not know how to " season" it if she brought it to her she would season it for her, and she added that it would be no more harm to kill such a man as her own or witness's husband than it would be to kill a mouse. Witness had had a quarrel with her husband a short time before, and had told the prisoner of it, and she said that her husband would not dare to hit her, and if ever he did so she would put him under the bricks. While the prisoner's husband was ill the un t her one day as she was corning from the doc tor's, and asked her how her husband was. She replied that he was very ill, and she had been for some medicine for him, and that Mr. Hawkes had made a mistake, and put the boy's medicine into his f at h er ' s bottle. The pri soner then said they had taken the boy's allowance off and wanted him to go into the union, and she then turned aside and cried, and said she had sent her soul to hell all through him. Witness did not know who she meant by a him." On the Tuesday after the death of the de ceased the prisoner came to her and said that her mother in-law had heard what she had been saying about the pistils), nod she wished witness not to say any more about it, arid she added that her trouble was great. Shortly after the inquest the prisoner carne to her, and thanked her for what she had said before the coroner, and began to abuse her; and she replied that she had not said so mush but that she could say a good deal more, and sh e th en called the prisoner " Sally Arsenic," and told her that she might have had her husband alive as well as other people if she had treated him properly. The prisoner then told her that she might have gone in and poisoned him if she had liked; and witness called hers good-tor-norhieg wretch, and she also told the pri soner that if it bad been her she should rave been hung long ago. The, prisoner replied to this, that the did not care about the under , set" so long as she bad the good will of the heads of the people. The prisoner also told her upon another occasion, that when the was at Chelmsford before she did not intend to go home to her husband, but to go an; live with another man, and cho said that this man was waiting for her to take her away while she was being tried. Charles Cloydare a labourer, of Clavering, deposed— that in the harvest of 1849 he was at work with the de ceased in the harvest field, and sew him eat his dinner, which was a meat pasty. The decesasd complained of pain in his stomach after he had eaten the pasty, and frequently said that he had a gnawing and a sinking in his stomach, as though something was feeding on it. Dr. Taylor recalled—A sensation of gnawing and sinking in the stomach would be one of the symptoms consequent upon the administration of arsenic. csroline Cole, a neighbour of th e pr i soner, deposed_ BANKING DEPAXTMEN T. Proprietors 'capital.. 14,553,000 Rest • .. ...... 3,610,954 Public deposits (In cluding Exchequer, Commissioners of National Debt, Sav ings -bank s, and Di vidend accounts).. 7,794,314 Other deposits • • 9,521,305 Sevon day and other Government securi ties (including Dead Weight Annuity).. 14,145 696 Other securities ...• 13,174 857 Notes ......... •• 8,536,665 Gold and silver coin • 676,181 Bills --- ———•• •• 1,033,5'26 £36,553.399 436,533,399 %f. ASARSIIALL, Chief Cashier 51. Dated the 6th day of March, 1811 COURSE OF EXCHi Am it enlath •• • • 11 16 4 three months .. 11 17%, - totterdatn .... ••.. • • 11 17% A.n twerp ••••••• • •• • • • • 25 30 Brussels • • •• 25 30 aanaburgh • • M.B. 13 7% Altoona • • • • • . • • ***** • • .N GE.-(THIS DAY, iGibraltar..... Leghorn ........••..•• 30 62% (}enoa...• ••.....• •••• 25 64 )i Milan Venice•••••••• •• •••••• Naples 41% Palermo, peroz ........ 1264 Messina .............. 125 4 6346 Oporto .• .. • • .....• .• • • 53 % Rio Janeiro ........ • • Buenos Ayres .. • •• Paris, 3 days'sight • • 25 7% Ditto, 3 months .... 25 30 Marseilles .......... 25 30 Bourdeaux.... ••• . • . Frankforton Maine.... 119% Berlin • • .............. 1 New York, 60 days'sight Vienna, effec. fib...—. 13 0 Trieste, ditto.... • • .... 13 0 Petersburgh, Oil. Rble.. Madrid •••••• •• •• •• 43 Cadiz ... •• •• •• •• •• •• 54i Barcelona •• •• •• ~ „ „ 'Philadelphia MOBS OP BULLION, PEE OX, Foreign Geld in bars.. £3 17 9 Portugal Gold Coin .. 0 0 0 Spanish Doubloons .. 0 0 0 Seville. Now Dollars .... • • 0 4 11% Silver ha bars 0 5 1% SALMON FISHING.—SinCe the Ist of February only ten fish have been caught in the Doon. The take continues to be very moderate in the Tay, but not more so than in an average of seasons in February. The fish hitherto taken have been almost uniformly large, and a few so very heavy as to be exhibited for their size and symmetry. Prices in London have varied from 2s. to Is. 6d. per lb. during the last fortnight, according to the supply. A very erroneous impression prevails as to the fall in the rents of the Tay fishings. Some of the stations, no doubt, have fallen off, but others have proportionably increased; and, on the whole, the present rental of the river is about equal to what it was twenty years ago Glasgow Constitutional. BRISTOL, MARCH d N.N.E.—SId. Syballa, Trinidad. ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. .HOUR ClRCUlT.—Chelmsford, March 6. CROWN SlDE.—(Before Lord Chief Justice CAMP BELL.) THE POISONINGS AT CLAV.ERING. Sarah Chesham, 41, widow, a masculine-looking woman, was indicted for the capital offence of feloni ously administering to Richard Chesham, her husband, a quantity of arsenic, with intent to murder him. This case excite d a good deal of interest, on account of the terrible celebrity gained by the prisoner, and the reputation she has of being a professed poisoner. She was tried in 1847 at these asitizss upon a charge of poisoning two of her children, but although the evi dence was moat cogent, and left very little doubt of her guilt, she obtained a verdict of acquittal upon that oc ca,ion. She has since then been implicated in another charge of poisoning, when she again escaped justice; and, in 1849 a woman named May, who was convicted of poi soning her husband, and who was executed for that of fence, admitted after her conviction that she had been instigated by the prisoner to the commission of Vie dreadful act for which she suffered. Mr. Bodkin and Mr. Clerk conducted the prosecution. The prisoner had no counsel, but one of the gentlemen of the bar, at the request of. the Court, put such ques tions to the witnesses as she suggested to be material. Mr. Boman . opened tho case in his usual char and temperate manner. He intreated the jury to dismiss from their minds all that they had heard or read in con nexion with the prisoner, and to be guided solely by the evidence ; and he said that it was the more important they should do SO, because he should be compelled, in the course of the evidence, to make reference 'to a former charge of the same description that was made against the prisoner. He trusted, however, that they would not allow this to prejudice the iequiry, but that they would come to a decision upon the facts that were proved on evidence relating solely to the present charge. The following evidence was then adduced : Sarah Chesham deposed that she was the mother of the deceased, and at the time of his death she occupied part of the same cottage with him and the prisoner at Clavering, in this county. She then proceeded to make the following statement:—l remember my son being very ill in the win ter of 1849. He was first taken about that time, and he continued ill until the fallowing May, and he died in that month. I was in the house with him shortly before his death. He was not able to feed himself for several days before he died, and the prisoner used to feed him with milk thickened with flour or rice. I saw the pri• soner give her husband something on the day before he died, but Ido not know what it was. The prisoner did not like anybody but herself to feed him, and she always did so. By the prisoner —I did not see anybody else give him anything to eat but you. Some one may have given him a cup of tea, but I know of nothing else. The deposition of Mr. Willing, who was at the time relieving officer of the union of which Clavering is a por tion, bus who has since died, was then put in and read. It was to the effect that the prisoner applied to him for an order for the doctor for her husband, and he gave her one, and he subsequently repeatedly visit( d the deceased at his cottage. He always complained of pain in his chest, of continual vomiting, and also that his body was swollen, that his bowels were con stantly out of order, and that he always felt sick. Upon one occasion be showed him his body, which ap peared swollen to nearly double its ordinary size, and his arms and legs appeared like those of a skeleton. The prisoner pulled down the bedclothes to let him see her husband, and while he was looking at him exclaimed, " Poor thing. he will not be a trouble to any one long," She also told him that the deceased was continually vomiting, and that if he got better for a day or two he always relapsed again and became worse than before. Mr. Hawkes said, I am the medical officer to the Saffron Walden Union, and by direction of the relieving officer I attended upon the deceased dfiring his illness. I first saw him about the 11th of February, and he com plained of distension of the bowels and violent pain iu the abdomen and sickness, and all these symptoms con tinued for a period of six weeks, when he was somewhat better. The symptoms intermitted constantly, and some times they returned with greater, and sometimes with less violence. The 'case was of such a nature that I could not form any satisfactory opinion as to the nature of the disease or its cause. All the symptoms, how ever, were such as would be the result of the adminis tration of small doses of some irritant poison. The deceased also exhibited symptoms of a disease of the lungs, and they continued until his death. A short time before the death of her husband I told the pri soner that the nature of his disease was quite ob obscure, and that I thought she hap better have further advice, but she declined, and said she was quite satisfied with me. About this time I had talked in the village of the necessity of having a post mortem examination of the body in case death should occur, and the prisoner came to me in a very angry mintier, and said that she had been given to understand that I intended to cut her husband's body open. I told her I hoped there would be no occasion for it, and that her husband would get well. I had sent medicine to the prisoner and to her son, but none of it contained arsenic or any preparation of ar senic. The symptoms I hove mentioned continued until the death of the deceased took place. I made a post mortem examination 'of the body, and 'Ascertained that the immediate elute) of death was dissase of the lungs. I a erwards removed the stomach and the intestines and their contents, and they were carefully seeled up and subsequently submitted to Dr. Taylor fur annlyzatton. By tho prisoner —I remember the first Sunday I saw deceased in February, and also sending him some niedi• tine and a piece of net rag to place upon his body. I examined the body of the deceased before his destb, but did not observe any appearance of a bruise or hurt upon it, Mr. Thomas Brown said--I am a surgeon, and reside at Saffron Walden. I was previa at.the post mortem ex "alination or the deceased on the 20th of May, and as- sisted Mr. Haakesiiiperformirg the operation, and in removing the stomach and the intestines from the body, and I afterwards saw them sealed up and deliv.:red to the coroner, Mr. Lewis. I bud 80100 experience in cas es b_ of consumption, and I never saw any syinptom s 4 griping and purging in the early stages of that disease. I should attribute these symptoms solely to inflammation of the stomach and the coats of the intestines, and if I found them intermittent and returning with increased violence, I should attribute them to some irritating sub. SWIM being taken into the Atom* ell* i n t h e food t This h closet: the case fur Le proaecution• ma d e 3 The prisoner, when called upon for her defence, tns h . e , a long rambling statement, in the course of which t er 7 tteserted that she was innocent, and declared that : b li on 1 husband had been poisoned the poison must have..e. taken in seine of the things which the pe o p le were 0° b antly t seeding to him while he was; . the 00 The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE then summeilld up - . la • with great minuteness, and the jury almos t immed lole I returned a verdict of Guilty. big His LORDSHIP then put on the black cap , but b emotion was so greet that some time elapsed could recover himsel sufficiently to pass sentence' b e d I at length addressed the prisoner, and said se ; - :s been convicted by a jury of her country of the e°',„, (-fleece of administering poison to her husband wi . th ; :s tent to murder him, and ho must aay th2t the yid t• adduced in support of the charge was altogether pro Pclggeting. He had not taken upon himself to 10T 13 , 10 any opinion until after the verdict was deliveretn_no TIOW that the jury had stated their opinion upon the T oo . he could not refrain from observing that be entirely 74, curred in the verdict they had given; and he Mast add before ,i: that there would be no safety for mankind if, wheugiid guilt was clearly established, condign punishoieliteuea not tolluiv. He was afraid this was not the only 0 : 11 0 of which she bad been guilty. She bad coure ee ho es having murdered two of her children, and altboug 1 s over' had escaped from that charge, justice had at agi e- iive taken her, and she had now only a short time 0. 0 or He therefore entreated her to employ that tigne,,lo, fudge pentanes and prayer, to endeavour to obtain por" ,ju dge the many crimes she had committed. The Learn ed then passed sentence of death in the usual form. " r ise The prisoner did not betray " the least e motion owe d the Learned Judge's address, and when he bad n she walked with a firm step from the dock. CENTRAL CRIMINAL COVRT. (Before Mr. JustiG oo L E D RL CO CO URT. j roe pit s il o f E and Mr. Justice Upon the application of Mr. CLABESOf Tr th e - dto William Gray timyth and Francis Taylo r was ordure Samuel Cole, 23, paperhanger, stand over until next session. y e p, with violence, from the person of William 13 purse and twelve sovereigns, his monies• f ded. Mr. Charnoek prosecuted, ' and Mr. Parry . de- en lte a Ste The prosecutor, a dancing master residie - D art t he early l i g , Newiugton, said that one evening, during of the past month, he was going home across thebeveis gerstoe-fields, and had missed the footpaths when see , it overtaken by a wan w h ose face be co uld Do me die being so dark; end when they had proceeded d pre tepee, the man said to him, " Hero is the path by to Was indicted for stealiog, your hand;" and he was immediately seised T o ad throat by some one else, and thee thrown to the and held down while hie pockets were cut "" by O n then made off, but the prisoner, being ho w l obi. police, was taken, and prosecutor identified him ' height and voice. For the defence an alibi was set up. The jury Acquitted the prisoner. THIRD COURT. (Before the Comfort SERGEANT.) .esjjeg Edward Tobin, 50, hawker, was indict ed for o ' s , of ~ eight bagatelle balls, valued at 30s the prop Thomas Blondell. last 00f The prosecutor said, that in October e - eeite.slept at his house, the Duke of Wellington, Sigudree,tbo After he was gone, on the morning of the hel t ...;d hi balls were missed, and found to have been Pa" - him in his own name. The jury found him Guilty, and two previou s °Wir e lions were proved against him. The COMMoN SERGEANT—This is the '"' r te ° third time it; have been convicted; you will now be traper r- ' se v nyears. Prisoner—And a good job too. (T° prosePt°ll'. Bad luck to you tor a false swearing v illain. .to Oil In the course of the day the grand jury cam e 000, t b y i i Smyth ,l S a re or th fe e tour', and brought in eleven true bills agsfu et y e ar 0 1 thefor riloictl duce Frances aod Taylor, h a b l e ia v o he_other seven for misdemeanours set forthio f l ith coo felonies, bean Vauxhall-rlk. _ 0, ou of furies, acme of the counts charging him' w ith to ee' tinned; and also there are separate counts ae- -- ..iti The for assaults with intent, and common aas s r h -. 0111 ' prisoners are described in the calendar---Sro"-- 0 . serFalorgeinirlsPl,l3,wwboitshe rica°tansePaiLsll!3.o;ol33l:ilitO goon, aged 47, and Taylor, 21, married. The other cases t r i e d i n t hi s court dialog the dap were entirely devoid of public interest. RAILWA Y SHARE MAR,OTS• an 8 € 1 T e r r e s Ex fi en nl " . 6eß P . l ß lT lS t isT ra hO n eL s m a . c aM t r io kA n erz s t wil w a e s6 re ve a r s . . l ; cl i at ; . e ti ‘ge ; t : 6l3l6B74ll. Western, 92 - Midland, 65—:•outh Devon, rte.' LIVERPOOL, MARCH 6. „A 60 1 Srocic EXCHANGI.—The share market oPel lv- ,. 0 - edl st ,, n a th morniug, and a good busine- has been done at i 011:4 ;item:o the market closing brisk at the quotaions. 'The t r e , 6 ir ro were as follow : Aberdeen, 15;14 Ditto, F refereil d c ell es cent. (paid up) 1-16 p. Birkenhead, — Lancashire, 011- dis• (late C. and B), 217 f. Ditto, 221. Shares 314 Cre Birmingham and Oxford, guaranteed , itto ( 15 4 1e fer theroe, and West Yorkshire (No. 1) , 6iii— r.mteed 5 per cent., 18% Caledonian, 13 Ditto, ence, 6 1 4—Chester and Holyhead, 24—East Lanese 1 ,, 1 5,1 0 IHO, Fifths', . 1 ; er pool , —Lancashire and Yorkshire, 59 3 / dis.—Ditto, Twelfths, 7. , / —Leeds -and Think, 17 - l o ot° Crosby, and Southport, 5-16 4 p.—London and North-. 004, 131 , —Ditto, N - ew Quarters, 61% p.— lifanchesterloß`pittsr and Lincolnshire, Preference, 12—Midland, 65 ._.PI Halves 13 , 4 dis.—North Staffordshire, 6 dis.---Shr and Binning= (B), A -3/4—South-Eastern and Doveraidx, —York, Newcastle, and Berwick, 2 V.-.Ditlo, 11° P 1U dis.—York and North Midland. 27. Do MANCHESTER, MARCH 6. . CIO STOCK EXCHANGE. —There has been a fair busirl fol' today, and prices were actions wer e I,al l. rm. The trans East p eer low • Bol!.0!, foe low: —Caledonian, 13 1 4 3 —Ditto, Preference v re fere cashire, 17; 1 4—Ditto Quarters, 4 3-16-I)llto,_;`," decpl 7 'Ai— Cheshire Junction, 7 , 1 1 dis.—Kendal and vv, 113 „ cli0;,1; 71—Leeds Stock, h9 l h— Ditto, Fifths, 6 15-1° Sheffield Stock, 35%—Ditto New Preference , 1 9,T 2 ,1fi t li British, 9 11-16—London and North-Western, A' 27 11 A New Quarters, 6 5-16 p.— South-Eastern and DoVeroyerltli, —North Staffordshire, 6 1 4 1 —Midland Stock, 65'4";,, fp. North Midland, .46 L? - Matlock, 3% dis.—Shtffie,.'''„` 145 i —East Anglian, Preference 1848 51., 1 15' 1° I ' t iff BIRMINGHAM ' , MAR CH 6. • inal G ui r STOCK EXCHANGE.— The share market 1 c7,,•$1 1 101 to-day, and:business limited, but without any ol g—i llfit r e ation in prices. The transactions were as folloW l ,jl4. Stock, bbiL,—Oxford Worcester, and WolverhaMP'4 ference, 1 p.—Shrewsbury and Birmingham (AA di —Ditto (B), 31. 13s. Vd. dis.—Shropshire Union , bi" P IA The LOOK AFTER YOUR WIFE'S MAID."'" Journal of this day says, that a rumour prev al e her l6- 0 0 city last evening, to the effect th at a serv ant "t he reis r , oe a lady in Palteney-street, an d w h o h a d beef ; 0 0 0 1 0 of years as femme de toillett, was discovered t o ' - uel i n c jied gentler sex. The revelation was made, in co as t ,O t" another servant, decidedly of the softer sex, being interestingly indisposed. ord i °l LIVERPOOL WATER ACCOUNTS.-"TheA If 8 , income of 1850 amounted to 59,7331. Os. 6d., 4 113 7. 5,6 5 .z",r5e diture to 54,680!. 13s. 6d., leaving a balance o f 9.5 0, e ve The total income for the three years I °Z,.. 173,3261. Bs. 11d., and the total ex enditure Luirj. period, 145,106, 3s. 7d., leaving a ha P lance of 2- f - . be ce- t rott Deducting the amounts owing on the 3let ac c , c ' h ree last, and sundry amounts charged in RivingTr the —OO -e u eiVe - fr g l Y the r e Is a balance of income over expenditur years of 2 , 4341. 3s. 2d. In 1848 the amount r e a c t o !deft water rents was 4 1 .,7991., in 1849 45,848 i ., ". e%P e "; on 46,343/. On the Rivingtnn account there vill° ll d debv c i.. last year the sum of 104,8311 . 145. 33. I b i e d 1 1' 0 1 1. 10 the water account amounts to 80 9 ,033/. 1 30 * pal part of this sum is borrowed at 5 Pe r cen ts 1 111/115 last of it is rede e m a bl e i n t h e year 1857. DEATH OF JOHN BELL, ESQ., M. ; „ k il i qro' . MARCH s.—This gentleman expired this ever 3- toi joeu so , of o'clock, after a prolonged illness. Ho was 3 8 1 40 i. e 3 ofc' tectionist, and has died young, being age. He was unmarried, and his estates g° vote' r ter only s hot! . to oi ,tino .. ',RAY OPP ° sisters. The feeling of the borough is dee' , i decl ist and Protestant. and no one but a very 61`"" uogail of those principles has the slightest chance. Aipl 3 ° - . 0 ,10 0 ADVERTISEMENT.j—THE EARL O 1 t hiS 1311. " hi 31 2 AND Homowav's PILLS.—An astounding cure a tr ot of is.- e.d, medicine, after every other means had failed. Feb' „hrive d t Lordship's letter, dated " Villa Messina, Legno7 o ,o Professor Holloway—Sir : I beg to acquaint you tb,_ 3 ",i t tell DOS; fected a cure of a disorder in my liver and stomacn "„ t b l en r eminent of the faculty, at home and all over the n°,- ar oau l t o been able to effect; nay, not even the waters a t' Asea l rienbad. (Signed) ALDBoaotron." These 033 150 on 0. sure any disease of the liver or stomasold ( 44 . Was Ointnwat) at Professor Holloway's Establishmen t, , 5 2 ,0, by %II medicine vendor. throughout the civilised 0"^ BIRTEM. OF A SOW. Meld, I 3 On the 4th inst., at the Aran or. ouSe, Bin F, wifen the of H. B x 4th iruner, Ezit-sq Onst., . Brighton, of Cbarles the Scott, Esq. P3 ll°lis. OF A DATTGEITICX ~ tho 2d inst., at Vicarage, Edgbaston, Mrs: On the inst., the wife of George Bird, Madras Civil Service. J3 ol* On the 4th inst., at St. Brides, Wil"3,ddieseP eldest son of William Lambert, E; ~ of Brentfcrd, 0001. to Jane Apn, eldest daughter of J ' l cl Wrenn , L i3 iv e e riv t °, ll' O the Ist inst., at t ourtrai, in Belgium , Jou ° — o3erivri Esq., of Moat-hall, Shropshire, eldest son of Colonel uor ton, of Bruges, to Georgiana D.borah, second clatignuy. the late !obit S. Cason, Esq., of Flask Priory- XjllB Lition O bee n orit t n i: Ks e il 4 nn t zn i . I :tna i n n g, s e t di . 7N7 a . t , a D „ o e in:s i :t ' r ee t , Picca d i i l y' ''. -11 . of flo tell° Vq't . On the 2d inst., at . Jersey, Thomas G. Brewer , c a s ter d On the d inst., • aged 79, Miss Lavinia BilyleY,' „- g the late Mr. W. Bayley,' formerly of the Stock .I',Viiiowbeertib On the 3d inst.., at. Twickenham, aged 89, w• ". Esq., foi merly of Banapton Oxfordshire. _. bt . ' On the 3d inst., at the ' Parade, Neath, titatnergs; ~,A.. Mrs. Jare Coke, widow cf the late 3. Coke, Esq., ag ea `;,,ifs On the 4th inst., at Oxford, aged 83, Isabella t i l 6 . of E. Revers, Esq. th o u el At St. Flelier', , , Jersey. Tomvns S. Dickins , Esg:, ° „e ar. her Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the West isil'e" • Yorkshire. On the 4th inst., at Hammersmith, Mr. R. Marsh' -----"' ...,......._ --- London: Printed and Published by MURDO YO 10, No. 112, Strand, Printer, at Tha Sun 0t1iC01_:!..,,°%1 fi Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, is the "- bilddleiez , Writillh I& 7 r 051. ___. .. that while deceased was ill she bad some conversation w ith the Prisoner upon the state of her husband's 0084 and she told her that he was very ill, and that bis bodl was vnry much 3rolien, and she said she thought that Mr. Uawkes bad put something in his medicine. Sill: 11( ss told her that Mr. Hawkes had doctored her and 01 her family, and he had never done them any harm. VA prisoner, in reply to this, said she knew what b a r cbc ranter will, and if any poison bad been pu into ri s t bi a medicine it was dune in order to get rid of her. prisoner afterwards :aid, "If I have d poisone Illy eh' . dren, Phave not poisoned my husband;" and Illy began to abuse the witness Hannah Phi lli p s, and go that kbe had au opportunity she should ,like to 'tier son' a pie for her and make her a croaker.' i' tn Te ti: 4 ! Thon t oot 1 14% 1 ti kellt< Nl_ll