The Sun. — London, England, 1853-03-09 00:00:00

'CIAL NEWS. f ImpERIA MONRY AND COMAIERI CITY, TWO O'CLOCK. • The sales - of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were estimated at from 3,000 to 4,000 bales all to the trade. The market was flat, and prices of all kinds were drooping. The sales comprised 110 Pernain and Maranham, at SP. to 61d. ; 110 Bahia, at 6d. to 611 d ; 200 Egyptian, at 6id. to lid. ; 200 Surat at 31d. to 41(1., and the remainder American. Railway Shares were flat at lower prices. The ship Chance, arrived at Callao, bad Mel bourne accounts of December 9, bit the tenor of them is not known. The steamer Forerunner, with the African mails on board, brings 2,0900 z. of gold. The Niagara furnishes late dates from the United States and Canada. The mercantile advices read Well, and the yield of gold in California was large. The steamer Orinoco brings about 190,0001. in Specie on freight, 45,000 dollars being for the Mexi can bondholders. The accounts from Mexico lead to the conclusion that Santa Anna will certainly return to power, whether, however, to be more successful than his predecessor, remains to be seen. Mr. Falconnet's letters are not so late as the published advices. From Jamaica we learn that the expected proro gation of the House of Assembly had not taken Place. Nothing had been done in reference to granting supplies, the revenue bills were in abey ance, and by some it was considered that the ses sion would last till April. There had been a flood at Port Maria, and the roads were impassible owing to, the overflow of the Westermost river. The wate r is described as hav ing rushed through the houses and stores. The inhabitants in Stennetts Town had been driven from their houses, the water having attained the depth of 5 feet, but subsequently it had quite subsided. In Annotto Bay the flood had been tremendous, heavy rains having prevailed. The bridge on the Annotto River was entirely de stroyed, earth, trees, poultry, pigs, goats, and houses being carried away. Most of the stores on the Bay suffered severely. Business was entirely suspended, all communications with the interior being cut off. Falmouth, Hanover, Westmore land and Montego Bay bad suffered also. Much injury had been done to the cane fields. The suspension of payMent of Mr. George Hen nett, the railway contractor, has been announced, and the liabilities are said to be large. The Arctic Company is receiving, it is stated, very good support, and the Share list will be cloned on Saturday. It is obvious that parties who join Such an undertaking must do so with the object of giving it full support as a national experiment, and such men, it is said, have come forward both here and in Aberdeen. There was no alteration yesterday in the rates at Which Bills of Exchange were negotiated upon the Principal Continental cities. Paris, 90 days, was taken at 25 27- to 30 ; Hamburgh, 13 7i- to 7f : Ainsterdam, 11 181 to 19 ; and Triest e 115 t o 11 9. The' H onoura bl e East ndia Company drew bills during the last fortnight to the amount of 13,3031. 4 23• 2d. at the exchange of 2s. Id. on B enga l , an d 48 - lid. , on Bombay. The English Stock Market has risen again, Con 801e being 99i for Money and A ccoun t. B an k Stock is worth 2271 to 228-i. Exchequer Bills are _• to 13s. premium. The New Three-and-a- Quarter per Cents. have been at 1031 The business doing in Greek Bonds is still active, and they have been done as hih as 8i and 9. I. s ,razilian New Stock is active at 971 to 98 for the 'o ll r-and-a-Half per Cents. Equator Stock is at vi• Sardinian Bonds are 98 to 99i, being scarcely 1(3 good. The Turkish Loan i s 'better and the Spanish Certificat es are u p. Peruvian. New Scrip 185 to premium. There has been an improved market for Railway shares, b u t the dealings are still limited. Great W aterford are u p a littl e , and North Stafford and, and Limerick. Chester and Holyhead go not so hi g h. S ou th-W es t ern fl uc tu a t e , an d e lth-Western are still depressed, as also York and North Midl an d. 411 French Shares there is -very little doing, but th ey bring rather higher prices, owing to the im te'vement at Paris. Upper India have been again Gold at •i premium. mold Mine Shares continue inactive, and there f e ,sPecially a decline in the Waller, the prospects „ the mine being very different from what was re presented. This, we apprehend, will 'be the case with many of the other United States schemes that are now bein g f o i s t e d on th e mar k et, and if the directors who joizx-them do thei r duty, they- will in gist upon sending out a special agent to verify the representations made befcre they part with -a sixpence to the parties who introduce the affair on this side of the Atlantic. The Megantic Copper Company did this, and the result was that the directors, as honest men, advised the share holders not to go on with the concern, and fulfilled their promise by deducting only the amount origi- Willy agreed on for expenses. In the Land Company's Shares very little has been done, and they are nominally the same. The Australian Bank Shares are generally rather cheaper. The directors of the Englks . kand Australian Cop- Per Company have this day received advices from their managers, dated Adelaide, 15th November hit, by which they have been informed that over 40 teamsters had been engaged to work on the p ort Wakefield road, consequently, showing that l abour was becoming more abundant in the colony. The manager writes :—" We have accumulated b etween 300 and 400 tons of coal at the works, and We anticipate that in the course of next week we ' 3 411 be able to light three or four furnaces, and th e copper produced will enable us to keep faith With the Burra Company." 1:411 TISII FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK THIS DAY. (From. the Official List.) :l*Stock B si i ness done. a a Per cent. Reduced Annuities lo# 4 N i'er Cent. Consols Annuities t o 3 4 per Cent. Annuities........ .... . I 1.. g Annuities Expire sth Jan., 1860 62 7-16 8, 4 ; 4 , Bonds, £lOOO 4B Cons ols Sea Old Annuities 991 —untie's for Account 10th March 9 92 8 Exchequer Bids 14d. £5000. ..... ••• ........ 0 p ICE — ICE OF FOREIGN FUN DS AT ONE O ' CLOCK. Brazilian Bonds x Ditto Nw, 5 per Cont. 1852, 4i per Cent 97i 8 7f Qre qua et. clor B on d, 51 Ate .- ex over-due Coupons I ! . e all 3 per Cent 24 tartottto for the Account 2sh Eipatr,jan Bonds, 5 per Cent... ... ... ia t , a ll sti New Deferred, 3 per Cent . 234 •%„, Spa ni sh Committee Cert. of Coup. not fun, 8 7i ft , edish L oan li ' v tlrk* i . :2 1 Loan, 6 per Cent., 1852 b q . ' 4 ° for the Account 411 E xchange 2i per Cent tt ° 4 per Cent. Certificates 9Bl 13 8 13 Consols Ditto March Account d P 0 li P HALF-PAST TWO. 99A B 991 eO/fir daY --XBSION OF MURDER.—GLASGOW, MONDAY (; -013. evening last, a res p e ct a ble looking youn g man t o met ered the cent ra l p o li ce -office, stating that he wi s hed i deli ver himself up to justice as he could get no peace It 418 Mind from having recently committed a murder. %. 'States that his name is Joseph Crawford aged 19 *1 Cars (li b , 1 a shawl printer by trade, and a native ' of B . ed gton Corner, near Croydon, Surrey. Some eight oeth s Cob, ago, while at Longbank, on the banks of the about 15 mil es from London, an illegitimate child the born t o him, and, after sundry consultat i ons w i t h at t e lm) ther, he killed it by holding its head under water, N.._ then t oss i ng the body into the s t ream . The body this rec overed, he lear n t, an d an i nq uest held, but by h e ti nle he had escaped. He came to work at Barr t butsner Glasgow, as a calico printer some n weeks iin remorse would not let him rest, and he resolved i7:lBerrender himself. Such is the man's account, t, which hell.teadily perseveres in. He is still detained waiting vices frora En glan d on the subject. hee4 kONSTERTRAIN.—One of the new express engines It a i l i V a Y construct e d f or th e L on d on an d N or th-W es tern kat' Yesterday brought an experimental train con eachng of n o t l ess than 34 carriages, is Q ' fr° m Birmingham to L on d on i n t h ree h ours . This evero n sidered t o b e the most extraordinary performance ha, acc omplished by a s i ng l e l ocomotive engine, and tZn he ~a'arr c onfirmed th e expectations formed of the merits of augennents recently pat en t e d b y M r. M'Connell 44.147t1Y parts of th e j ourney th e speed had to be much hiadltlished in consequence of the bad state of the road, the t he re is no doubt, when these defects are remedied, ezi,,,,wo hours' trip, with a train of 15 carriages, will be ed into effect. '1 1 4 41 11150,., JaLIDDLESEX CONSTITUENCY.— According to the (44 "'just issued by the Middlesex Reform Registration lar k e pi ' it appears th a t th e Lib era l party have g - ained t ainiupon th e l ate revision, independently of still reo- epreg a majorit y o f tr i ed supporters of their present f eiekierxtatives. Th e num b er o f e l ectors on the register the rebate e tom for 1853, is 14,836 ; th e num b er o f electors on th r of electors for 1852, was 14,610. Increase O f ch: ) .! et al number of electors, 226. The total number epu i , -- g_ i t'a in the re g i s t er i s 3,378, b e i ng 1,576 names ,ays and 1 802 new names inserted. These facts, 'II lesslrePert, ' shown] a total change of 3,378 electors ' l4 an six months g most forcibly exhibit the neces anp,tY ` a close attention to the register, and the future lib era this office should receive from all friends to T eP r i al 411131 P r ogressive reform. chaß ColfuEnvATivit LAND SOCIETY.—The sixth pur e or th e a Orti ercv . ociety was made yesterda (Tuesda) in 414.8 r between the towns of War e and Hert y ford. L PAHL Lord PALMERSTON said that some great system of drainage was absolutely necessary, and the question was whether it should be done by private enterprise or by the metropolis itself. , He thought if a private com pany were disposed to undertake it, it would be much better to allow them to do so. Even when the works projected by this company were executed, there would still be a great sum needed for the repair of district sewers. He did not believe that this guarantee would be needed, but it was a matter for the considera tion of the committee, and he should, therefore, support the second reading of this bill, without any adjourn ment. Lord SEYMOUR supported the second reading of the bill, because he thought that, if this greau work could be carried out by a private company, it would be an immense benefit to the metropolis. He had been in formed that to drain the north bank of the Thames alone would cost about 1,500,0001., and he did not think that was a burden which the metropolis would be • readily brought to take upon itself. Sir J. V. SHELLEY said he looked with some sus picion on this bill, because he had reason to believe that it was backed up by the corporation of London, the Commissioners of Sewers, and the Board of Health—. the three great nuisances of the metropolis. (Hear.) Believing that the ratepayers of the metropolis ought to have time to consider this guarantee, he should vote for he amendment. After some remarks from Mr. V. Sculley, Mr. Divett, and Mr. Cayley, the house divided, when there ap peared— _ .. For the second reading lll Against it Majority .. 105 The bill was read a second time. Mr. MACKENZIE presented a petition from the working men of Liverpool against the opening of the Crystal Palace on Sundays. A great number of petitions were presented against the admission of the Jews into Parliament. Mr. MIALL presented a petition praying for National Arbitration. Mr. SPOONER presented petitions from Staffordshire against the Maynooth grant. CRUELTY TO ANIMALS BILL. Mr. T. DUNCOMBE moved the second reading of this bill, which he explained was to remedy the defect in the present law on the subject, by which no appeal is allowed in convictions under 40s. The more immediate cause of his bringing in this bill was a case of injustice which had taken place in 1850, in the North of England, in which the magistrate had made the penalty 11. 19s 6d, in order that there might be no power of appeal. Other cases had also come to his notice, some in the metro polis, which convinced him that the power of appeal ought to be altered. Sir G. GREY defended the conduct of the magistrates in the case alluded to by the hon. member for Finsbury. With regard to the bill, he thought there was no neces sity for it. Mr. FITZROY opposed the bill on the ground that the case to warrant it had not been made out. Persons convicted under this act were in a much better situation with regard to the right of appeal than any other. He should, therefore, ask the house to reject this bill. (LEFT SITTING.) ELECTION COMMITTEES-(THIS .DAY.) DERBY. At the sitting of the committee this morning, Mr. M. Smith announced to the committee that Mr. Horsfall had determined to drop all opposition to this petition, and withdraw himself from the representation of Derby. The petition against Mr. Bass would also be withdrawn. Mr. Horsfall was then examined, and gave a most emphatic denial to any knowledge of improper practices during the election. He had given his party clearly to understand that he would not sanction any illegal ex penses. He had transmitted 8001. to Derby, and out of that 5791. had been paid for his expenses. He had re ceived the balance. Mr. Fanshaw, the agent of Mr. Horsfall, was ex amined to a similar effect. He had drawn 5791. on ac count of Mr. Horsfall, to discharge his election expenses ; all the expenses were legal. He had no knowledge of any improper practices at the election. • The room was then cleared, and the committee was then deliberating on its resolutions when our report left. SECONDARIES' COURT.-( THIS DA Y.) (Before Mr. Secondary Potter.) PROST V. WISCOMBE.-A BILL TRANSACTION. This was an action to recover the sum of 51., the ba lance due on a bill of exchange of which the efendant was the acceptor. Defendant pleaded payment of 81., and paid 21. 10s. into Court on account of balance and interest. _ _ _ Mr. Chidley, Gresham-square, appeared for defendant in support of the plea, and called him to prove the pay ment of 11. to a person named Clarke, who held the bill, and two similar sums to the plaintiff, and subsequently 51., the latter sum being indorsed on the back of the bill. He denied that he had paid the 31. for time from month to month. Mr. Anderson, for the plaintiff, said he approached the case with considerable difficulty, for he should have to call the plaintiff, who would most positively contra dict the defendant. He should also call a gentleman named Massey, who was a perfectly disinterested party, and who would in the macn confirm the plaintiff, and it would then appear that the 31. was paid to induce the plaintiff to hold the bill over, as defendant was pressed. Plaintiff was not the holder of the bill at the time it became due, having paid it away to Clarke, but subsequently took it up. Mr. Anderson contended that a party could not at one time give a bonus to obtain time, and then plead it as part payment. The plaintiff was called, ard gat e evidence that two or three days before the bill ,became due he told defen dant he did not hold it, but it was in the hands of Clarke, and introduced defendant to him. He saw de fendant shot ay after, and the latter said that he had settled with him to hold the bill over for a month, and had paid him 11. to do so. Defendant afterwards paid him L. for a further delay of a month, and another 11. for a purpose. He admitted also the receipt of 51. on account, but denied that he had ever agreed to take payment by instalments, and that the 31. was paid on that account. Mr. Henry Massey, an attorney at Edmonton, where all the pai ties reside, said that he was instructed by plaintiff to apply for payment, an d h e did so an d threatened proceedings unless the money was paid before 12 o'clock the next day. He had spoken to defendant previously on the subject, as defendant was his client. The Secondary said, that nothing said to witness as defendant's professional adviser ought to be given in evidence. Witness, in cross-examination, denied that deferdart ever told hi fa anything about the payment of the 3!., but he said that he did not care about th e proceedings as he should go through. Mr. Chidley replied, and commented on the fact that, supposing the plaintiff to have spoken the truth, the de fendant was paying 120 per cent. by way of bonus. He did not believe that the jury would for a moment give credence to such evidence, but that they would at once give a verdict for defendant. The Learned Secondary said that money was a mar ketable commodity; and if person s wou ld b e foolish enough to pay exorbitantly for it, they must abide by their bargain. The question for the jury was, whether the 3/. had been paid as a bonus or on account of the bill. A juror asked what the bill was given for, and what Clarke gave for it? and was answered that it was for ons C ul la ta rk ti e on g , av g e av 9 e l. a verdict f or go T od h s e sold jury , an a d fte w r o a rk sh d o o rt ne c . the defendant. ENCOURAGEMENT OP SOLDIERS IN FRANCE. In order to enhance the value of the new military medal, the Emperor has decided that every soldier wearing the medal shall be entitled to marks of respect from sentinels of his own rank not so decorated. This mark of respect is to consist in standing at attention, whether with arms ported or grounded. Sub-officers and corporals having the medal, are to receive regular military salutes from soldiers. On the decease of any sub-officer, brigadier, or soldier, decorated with the medal, he shall be entitled to funeral honours from a quarter of a detachment. No corporal, brigadier, or soldier can be cashiered except by the minister at war. These new regulations are analo gous to those now applicable to military members of the Legion of lionour. HOUSE OF COMMONS—(THIS DAT). The SPEAKER took the chair at 12 o'clock. Mr. H. HERBERT reported, from the Southampton election committee, that H. E. Bower, a witness sum moned before the committee, had misbehaved himself, by refusing to give evidence, and he had, therefore, by the direction of the committee, committed the witness to the custody of the Sergeant-at-Arms, to await the pleasure of the house. LONDON DRAINAGE BILL. Sir B. HALL moved that the consideration of this bill be postponed until the 6th of April. Mr. W. WILLIAMS seconded the motion. Mr. M. GIBSON said that the drainage of London was a great public work, which must be carried out by somebody. In ,answering a question on a former night, the Secretary of &ate for the Home Department, said that it very much depended on the success which this great private company formed for the drainage of Lon don might have, whether the Government would bring in a measure to enable the Commissioners of Sewers to borrow money on the rates. This company proposed to drain the metropolis by two great arterial sewers, the expenses of working which were to be covered by the profits of the manure which would be thus collected. The guarantee clauses, by which the profits of the com pany, should they fall below it, were to be made up to 3 per cent. would be better considered in committee, and he was not prepared to say that the company would give up their project if this guarantee were rejected. He should press the second reading now, in order that the details might be considered. Mr. T. DUNCOMBE thought that the whole scheme was ridiculous and absurd. He understood that the manure when got would not be worth a farthing. He should vote against the second reading of the bill when e)ver it was presented. After a few words from Sir De Lacy Evans and Mr. Sotheron, THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MARCH 9, 1853. 'ME SOCIETY. The commemoration of the 50th anniversary —the first jubilee—of the above society was held yesterday in Exeter-hall, and attended by a very numerous meeting of the various religious denominations, among which many of the Society of Friends were observable. The proceedings of the day were opened by the Rev. Mr. Meliar reading the 61st chapter of Isaiah. The chair was taken by the Right Honourable the Earl of Shaftes bury, upon whose right the Rajah of Coorg attracted much attention. The Eastern prince was attired in a close-fitting surtout of blue cloth, richly embroidered with gold lace, and wore a small blue cap of the same materials. Upon the left of the chair the Right Hon. the Earl of Carlisle and the Bishop of Winchester were seated. After the meeting had commenced his Grace the Duke of Argyll entered and took his seat to the right of the Rajah., The noble chairman read a letter from the Chevalier Bunsen, the Prussian Ambassador, ex pressive of the sorrow of his Excellency at his unavoid able absence, and referring to the approaching celebra tion on Sunday next at Berlin of the jubilee of the Prussian Foreign and Bible Society. The noble earl then proceeded to detail the rise and progress of the British society in a speech which was subsequently characterised by the rev, prelate on his left as rising to the exigencies of the occasion. It transpired that from the first institution of the society in March, 1804, after years of anxiety and labour, upwards of 8,000 societies, including Colonial, Irish, and Foreign bran Shes, had been established. The Scriptures had been translated into no less than 148 languages and dialects, of which 121 had, prior to the establishment of the society, never appeared in type. Upwards of 43,000,000 of these translated copies had been disseminated among ,it was computed, not less than 600,000,000 of the human race. Of the languages into which these copies had been rendered, upwards of 25 had existed, hitherto, without an alphabet, and merely in an oral form. This society was essentially " a Free-trade Society," a "Peace Society," and a " Defence Society," —one, too, affording a " cheap defence to nations." s t y The resolutions were then proposed and seconded by the 12 various distinguished visitors stationed upon the plat- 50 form, the most important being the one for the establish- 16 i ment of a jubilee fund to aid the further proceedings of St. the society. A voluminous extract from the report of 20 the society, circumstantially detailing past progress and 50 future auspices, w as rea d, an d li stened to with much 20 attention. Letters from many of the presidents and vice-presidents of the local societies were read, contain- 10 ing apologies for unavoidable absence—among the St. rest, one from the Earl of Roden, president of the St. Dublin society, was read by the noble chairman. The 20 speakers were generally received with much applause, 10 more particularly the Earl of Carlisle and the Rev. St. Hugh Stowell. The Rev. Lord Bishop, the Rev. Mr. James, and the Rev. Dr. Duff met with much applause 25 25 in thei r severa l mo d es o f d ea li ng w i t h the top i c in hand. 25 This, of course, mainly referred to the propagation of St. the gosp e l, b u t genera l re f erence was likewise made to RI those subjects which, though secular, still had more or less close relation to the principal subject of discussion. The despotism, anarchy, and Romanism of the Con tinent were the principal subjects adverted to, and were freely handled. Allusion was likewise made to the sla very of America. Considerable eloquence was displayed by those who addressed the meeting, and the alternations from the pecUliar oratory of one to the other upon the meeting was marked in its effect. The former presi dents of the society, and particularly Lord Bexley, had a tribute of respect and esteem awarded them, as did likewise the former secretaries and other officials of the society. The noble earl in the chair was much eulogised for the support he had given the society, and his strenu ous efforts generally for the diffusion of knowledge and the amelioration of the intellectual condition of the work ing classes. Great respect was evinced for a Mr. Hughes, an itinerant preacher, formerly well known in the North, whose expression, while propagating a provincial Bible society, of the feasibility of making it one common to the whole empire, had been the germ of the present so ciety. The temporal head of the Church was often alluded to with unfeigned respect, and the Rev. Dr. Duff described her gracious Majesty as having entwined herself into the deepest recesses of the hearts of her sub jects by her unswerving piety and Christian devotion. The subscriptions above 501. to the proposed fund were then read over. Two sums of 5001. were contri buted by Mr. Thomas Milnes, M.P., and Mr. John Re mington Milnes, respectively, besides one or two others to the same amount. Two sums of 1,0001. by Mr. Farmer and Mr. James Foster, and an additional sum of 1,0001. from an individual who wished for the present to be anonymous. The SECRETARY, in bringing forward the list of sub scriptions, stated that he had come prepared to ask the meeting for a sum of 7,0001., but he was happy to say that sum had been already exceeded by the munificent donations above-mentioned, and he would, therefore, merely express the hope that it would reach the sum of 10,0001. in the result of that day's proceedings. After a few more speakers had addressed the meeting, it broke up, at about half-past four, after the observation of the usual formula. 20 20 50 20 BATTERSEA PARK. The following proposal from Mr. Thomas Cubitt, the eminent builder, has just been made public in a Parlia mentary retnrn 3, Lyall-etreei, Delgrave-square, Feb. 11. Sir,—By the report in the Times paper of the 18th De cember last, Mr. Disraeli, then Chancellor of the Exche quer, made some very strong observations, in his speech on the previous night, with regard to Battersea-park; and as this park was suggested by ine, I cannot help feeling much hurt by the way in which he spoko of it. I have always considered that that park was a proper subject for the Goverrunent to take up, and had it been carried on with out so many years' delay and so much loss of time, I am quite satisfied that it wou ld h ave b een a means of profit, as well as of greet advantage to the metro polis. Perhaps, however, this may not be the opinion of the present Government, who may not think it a subject worth prosecuting with the vigour that public works require to make them successful • but whatever may b e th e inten tions of the G ovei nment, I fear there will bo no person who will, during so important a political juncture, think it a matter worth his answering ; and so that part of Mr. Disraeli's speech will be left to work upon the public mind. I now beg to make the following proposition, which I shall be glad to have accepted ; and it will, I think, show that my confidence in the success of improving that part of London is not altered. I therefore propose that, if the Government is not satis fied with the scheme, I will take the whole of the land that has been agreed to be purchased, whether it be paid for or not paid for, off their hands, at the cost price, though I do not know what the amount will be; l.will, also, if they desire it, take th e b r id ge a t the cost puke, with' its new approach, nor do I know what that may be ; the country will only then have to lose the interest caused by the delay, and the law and professional expenses ; but in return, the public will get an immense improvement to the district, which is likely soon to become a very im portant part of London.—l have, &c. (Signed) THOMAS CIIBITT. The Right Hon. Sir William liolesworth, Bait., M.P. RETURN OF THE HON. COLONEL BOYLE FOR THE BOROUGH OF FROME.—This gentleman, who was re turned for Frome at the last general election, and was unseated on a petition by Mr. Hall Dare, as having held an office of profit under the crown, the electors n o t b e i ng aware of the fact at the time of election, was again re turned for this liberal borough on Monday without opposition. METROPOLITAN IMPROVEMENTS. - Yesterday was printed a Parliamentary return, to the effect that the incumbrances on the London-bridge approaches fund, on account of the metropolitan improvements, we.-e 753,0001., some of which was b orrowe d at 3i c, , 4, an some at per cent. The arrears of interest now due amount to 296,302/. 7s. lid. EXTRAORDINARY ROBBERY IN MANCRESTER.—At 20 minutes past one o'clock on Monday, Mr. Howard, the keeper of a small jeweller's shop at the corner of Mar ket-street and Corporation-street, in Manchester, went .0 his dinner, leaving hisdaughter Miss Fanny Howard a girl about 18 years of age, in charge of the shop during his absence. He had not been gone more than five minutes, when a gentlemanly-l oo ki ng f e ll ow wa lk e d in and asked the price of some article in the window. Miss Howard told him, and he then asked her for one of her father's address cards. She gave him one, and on looking at it he discovered that it did not name the street in which the shop was situate, and ho requested Miss Howard to put it upon the card. She retired behind a counter, crossing the shop into a retired corner, followed by the man, who impudently lifted up a portion of the counter and went and stood looking over her shoulder. While he was doing so a second man entered the shop, on which the first fellow put his arm round Miss Howard's neck, and one hand upon her mouth, and 83 strangled and gagged her that she could not give an alarm. The second man then stripped the window, or nearly so, of its contents, consisting of a large quan tity of jewellery. h e e ff r ec d t e e w d n t , h a is n , d th le e ft m t a h n e hold ing shop Miss Howard Having with his companio n, who had the boot y in his p ockets. e They hailed a cab a s soon as they got into the street, threw and were soon on their way to London. They hay° since been apprehended. The property which h u w nd a r s e f d o s un d upon them, we hear , is valued at some of time within twelve pounds. Mr. Howard wa s so much affected when he heard the news (this being the second months that he has been robbed), that he is now in the hands of a medical man. Fortunately a case containing four dozen diamond rings had been removed from the window that morning to be cleaned, and the thieves did not get them. SANITARY STATE OF CROYDON.—A commission con sisting of Dr. Arnot and Mr. Thomas Page, C.E., ap pointed by an order from the Home-office, sat on Satur day, for the first time, to inquire into the sanitary con dition of the town. It appeared from the evidence then given by several householders, that the drains were in a most defective state, and emitted noxious and intoler able stenches, by which the health of their families had been seriously affected, and numerous cases of fever caused ; that the filter-house erected at the bottom of the town for carrying away the sewage produced considerable annoyance to the neighbours, whilst the river was also polluted by the drainage of the sewers intocould oiulll mills i during t hn . aotdth T enb l ewea been discharge icha obliged bueli esgke redgdtefh for aor hadat beenleaveany purposes.nff s e o inw po b lr a ek d y. Some doTm three uh times epe upon nf watertt hh ee witnesses attributed the increase of. effluvia to the system of drainage brought into operation by the Board of Health. On the other hand, Mr. Close, a plumber, although he acknowl e d ge d th e b ad state of the drainage, thought the present system of surface drainage had nothing to do with the recent fevericases. He had been in many houses both before and since the operations of the Board of Health, and the increased sweetness was manifest. The smells formerly were intolerable on one side of High-street. There were a hundred offensive odours for one now. The inquiry was adjourned. THE SHARE MARKETS. BRITISH RAILWAYS. Paid' RAJLWATB. 100 Aberdeen ....... Ambg. Nottng. Bost. & Eastn. Junc....... all Birmng. Wolverh. & Stour Va11ey...... ... 28 BirLenhd. Lancsh. & Cheshire Junet...... all Do; Chesh. & Birk., £5O & £25 Cons.... 184 Do., X2O .... ........... 100 Bristol & EreLer ...... .00 Caledonian.....,. all Chester & Holyhead all Cork and Bandon.... all Cork, Black.. 1; Pas s , 45 Dublin&BerastJune. all Dundee Pet &Aber deen Junt.tion ....... all Do. New ......... ..... all East Anglian (525 L. & E. & L. & D.)..... all Do., (XlB E. & all Eastern Counties..... all Eastern Union, Class A. late E. U. 5h.... 84 Do., ..... all Do., B. & C.... 1.00 East Lancash;re ...... all East & West Intl. Dk. & Bienain3. June.... LOO Edinburg ; Glasgow 14 Edinb, 100 Edinb.Prtl &Dundee .00 Glasgow &S. Western .00 Great Northern Stk.. 100 Do., A. Stock 'lOO Do., B. Stock It. 100 Gt. Sth.&West.(lrz.‘:`, 100 Great Wester 11 Irish South-Easters, all Lancaster &Carlisle 11i Do., Thirds . 100 Lancash. &Yorkshire 15 Do., Fifths 11; Do., Wst. Ricl'ng Un all Leeds Northern. all Liv.Crsby.dxSo/Llapt. all London & Blackwall 3 Lond. Tilb. & Sthend. 100 Lold. Bright. &S. Cst. 100 London &N. Western, 12 Do. Fifths 1 D0.,10/.SI-.. - 100 London & ti. Western 424 Do., £50....... • - 34 Do., X 40. .. .. ......... all Lndndri all L"dndrry. & Ennisk. 100 tranch.She&Lincln. 4i Do., Man. &Lin. Un. 100 Midland 100 Da. Biro T.& Derby 174 Widlare G. We 174 )o. 4 5i.".......... all Newcastle & Carlisle.. 100 Ne 6 S Do. Bury Ex' - isions 16 Newpt.Abetz,,,,ltfd. 74 Newry & Enniskillen all Newry Wavrenpoin, & Rostrevor 100 Nor:olk... ........ all Do., New 34 No Ahn. Counties Un 100 North Bri;'sh ..... 13 North Devon, No. l 641D0., No. ...... all Do., 4 A Deferred 5 Do., 4 B Guaranteed 174 North Staffordshire all North Western.. 10 N. &S. Wesirn. June ' 100 Oxford Worcester dr,' Wolverhampton 100 Scottish Central 100 Scottish Midland 100 Shrewsbury & Birmg 100 Do., L. & N. Westn Guaranteed Stock 8 Shrewsby. & Herold all (Shrewsby . & Chester (Nor. W. MM.) all Do. Halves, do. all Do. Oswestry ......... 64 Shropshire Union .... all South Devon 1.00 South Eastern all South Wales 15 S. Yorksh. River Dun 5 Do ......... ......... 163 Stockton & Hartlepl. 19 Thames Haven Dock and Rai1way......... 17 Vale of all INaterfd. & Kilkenny all Waterford&Limerick 13 West C0rnwa11........ 21s. Wmbledon &Croydon 1 Woodford 100 York Newctl. &Berw. 20 Do. Extensions.....,., 114 Do. G.N.E. Purchase 100 York &N. Midland.. 2i - - 58; - 1 ICJ Aberdeen all Do., No. 2,7 p. •••• 100 Bris. & Ex. 4p. c. St. 5 Do. 4 p. c. Snares 100 Caledonian £lO ,106 all 'Chester dr Holyhead Guar. m per ut._ 34,Cork&Bandon5l P.C. all (Dundee Perth& ber j deen Junction....... all EastA uglian (23105) 6 per cent. ........... all Do. (25) 7 per cent.. 2 Do. (27175) 7p. et.. all Eastern Counties Ex tension, 5 p. c. No.l all Do., No. 2. all Do., New 6 -, c. St.. all Eastern Unipn, Seiip Guar. 6 per cent._ 100 EastLant-:.-' . 6 p.ets. all Edittb.Prl I , ',Dundee Iper cen_.......... 100 Glasgow &S. Western guar. 5 per cent.... 100 Great Norihn. 5 p.c. 100 Do. 5 r c., &deem., at 10 p. .. prom .... all Gt. Soutlin. &Weitn. (Inland) Eig hths 6 Gt. Westn. (P-aks do Hants Ex. 100 G. West. fixed4A pc. 6 Lan. j• York. F. £2O, 100 Do., 6 p. c., 1.00 Lordon and Brightor Guaranteed 5 p. c... 100 Do. Pref., sp. c. St. all Do. Convertible, Sp. c., 1852 . 100 Do. New GUP*. 6p.c. 5 London & S.Western, Con. lairds. 10 Londor derry& Color, _. _ i Shares L . all andy. di Ennis. Szi all hianch.,Shef., dti VII., 4 Shazes, No. 1 all Do. Now, 210 3 Do., 26 ..... all i'Maryp - t. &Carl. 4p. c. all I Do. 4:1 per cent ...... . _ . 81 Do . 100 Mid. Consol. 6p.c. St 100 Do. Consol. Bristol cSt Birm. 6 per cent 5 Do. Pref. 41 per cent all Norfolk Extension all Do. Guar. 51 per ct all Do. Wry. Val. 5 p c 100 North British ... all North Staffordshire 100 Oxford Wo Tester tit Wolverh. £15,6 p. c. 9 Do all Shrews& Birm. all Shre wsby. & Chc (Nor. W. Min),B p. c. 10 Do. 5 per cent........ all ISouth Devon . 14 Do. New all S. Eastern (Reading Ann.,) of £1 08.6 d. all S.Yorksh.4p.c.Guar. 3 Waterfd.&Kilk.6p.c. 100 York Newcastle and Berwick, 4 p.c.Pref. 5 De 10 York& N. Midland H. & S. Birch PREFERENCE SHARES. -108 i 107 19 20 i d— pa] 64 3t g - 4 -2 p p 14g -- 141 18; -- 19 3 - 34 111 - 113 81 - 9 6,1 105 -107 7 x0 -# p 150 - 152 •• • - x(1 •• • - X(1 ... - X4l 3 1 -- 3 i 1) 10 -- 11 131 -13 i 11HI, 146 —l4Bxd i— i P 224 23 54 61 2 4 107 -- 109 25 26 11 --111 i 17i -- 18 is -- 11-1 p ar— p 26 -- 266 20 -- 21 id -- p ar 100 -- 102 5 -- 51 P - iPi 1 wed 1 -- 13i -13 i 24! —2i p 2t ltdis 6t -- 6i p 1t -- Pp lt -- lip P 6 i -- 74 4 -- 44 1' -1! 11 -- 11 d 9 -- 11 p 2 -- 7i -- 84 6 7 351 -- 36 141 -14 i 8 -- 9 17 '-- 17ip 41 -- 43 41i -- 424 32 -- 331 4i -- 6p 19i -- 9i 5 8- f " op 51 104 le s ip i d p d FOItE: 3 Antwerp&Rotterdam, 3 BelgianEastn. Juuct. all Charleroi & Erquelin. 6 Dijon andßes.an9on 8 Dutch Rhenish all East Indi.n 1 Do. Ex.ension all Gt. Ind'An Peninsula 7 Gd. Junct. of France 1531' i. Western of Canada Shares 5 1 Lucca & Pistoja sp.c. 15 Luxembourg .0 10 Do. (Railway} 5 2 Do. 3 Do. (Canal) Do. 6 p. ct. pre f 7 Lyons tit liediterrau 41 ,Madras. . all Namur 4 ".: interest) all Do. (ex interest) all Northern o France all Do. %I. 3p. c. Bds (:my. B. ;Anis. Shs.) all NorwegianTx.mkPref 10 Paris and Byers all Paris and Orleans all Paris and Rouen all Paris and Stn'sbour; 4 ParisCaen & erbrg. 54 Quebec &Richmond all Rouen and Havre all Sambre and Meuse I 4 Do. N p. et. prof 4 Southern of France ) 2s. tipper India Scrip I all West Flanders.. 6 Do. 5i per c. Prof 10 Western of France 2 West. of Switzerland 31 Zeal and .. .„ Closing Prices Yesterday. 30 - 31 61 - 10 - 10, 6 —6idxd 21 22 3 2i d 106 108 63i —63 i 22 224 184 19ji 14 -21 p, 8 - 9 53 -- 53 4 4t 12 -- 13 10i -11 i 84 - SN 724 - 734 55 - 57 76 -- 78 32 - 34 61 - 63 .1 44 1 11 - 123 :1107 108 • 90 A— 91 -- 7 i uz 97 13 14;p 77 77 -- lid ' 3 * 3d 15 i-1$ "gi 3:1 1; . 2 p 103 11.9 at lA p 91. 5 i fad 4 4 3 d d 11 1 2 19 21 23 -- :9 3 d 44 76 77a . 03 52 34 as Si 10 56 2R d 87 - d 4 1 d 8 4i p 48 102 66 66 Business dons this day. 'a xd xd xd Sir. Paid Itairmars. Leasing Closing Prices Busirres. Compans. Yesterday. this day. ----- --_-____ _ 50 all 13 - xlcord and London B'etchley.... N. West. 304 all Birm. & Oxfd. ... ... guarantee ... Gt. Wes tn. 30 —3l 301 a ll Do.willoutgr Do 294 —3O 30 all Birm.Wolv. & Dudleyguar. Do 3O —3l 301 all Do.wthtguar. Do 29 30 St. 100 Buckghamsh. L. & N.W lO5 —lo7xd x d 50 all ClydesdaleJc. Caledon 524 —s33xd x4l St. 100 E. Lincoln. gr. 6p. cent .... Gt.Notrhn 151 153 151 25 all Glstr.&D. .. Gt. Westr . 32i —33 i 100 all Hallo'. D ... & Yk. New. Iheway & Bcrw.. ... ... 50 all [lull & Selby Y 7 IN.Md. 111 —llacl x d 25 all Do. 4 Shares ..i. 1 12: all Do. Sha. Do 26. —27t,xd x d 127, all Lon.&Greenw S.E as t ern l 3l -- 141 20 1 all Do. Preference Do 254 26 20 all Lowestoft g.... all 4 per cent... Norfolk 20 all Do. 6* •ct.. Do 25 27 5; all Man& 3xton. Lu. &N. W and I•.:at!ock & Ilid!d 3 3 4 3 50 all Niddlesbro' & Ackton t 65 Re' •I. D.lrl;tigt ... -- ... )0 all Yfidle Jradfd. %Oland... 108 109 108 30 all Northern and Easternsp.c. E. Count.. Cl 66xd x d 30 all Jo. 6 per et. Do — xd x d 10 all ' )o.Fixedsp.c Do ... - ... - ... xd x d ;5 all ' 'rest. & Wyre L. & 1'... W. 2 I • &LndrYk ... ... 01 11: I Jo. A Saat.3l. Do p m .' .! - it. 100 iitoyszu.dr Wt. Gt.Northn 152 154 It. 100 Do.Sll,oth.St Do l5l 153 5 18i: SE... Roth. & Lancash.& Goole g.5.p.e Yorksh ... - x d x d 2 9.3 S. Staffordsii.. 15111 Clean i lii a d 0 all Wear Valloygr Stockt. & 6 per cent ... Darling. ... 5 all Do Do 32i 334 32A 1. 100 Wilts&Somrst GL.W es t n lO3 104 103 MINES. 1 all Agua Fria 10s. all Anglo Californian 10 2 Australasian n_24 p 20 5 Australian 6 —6l p 1 all Australian Cordillera par a pl 1 1 all Australian Freehold. 4 4 p 1 all Ave Maria par If p 3520 1 2 3 4 . 4 5 B B ai r t. a i t z i 2i s is h i a p l n Iron LI o m n p . 1 all Baden (Gd. Duchy of) par 4 p (issued 1 all British Austrin. Gold i / p 14 1 7 9 4 4A 30 all Do. Cocaes & Cuiada 2 21 20 15 Do. St. John Del Rey 29 —3O 1 4 Carson's Creek par 4 p 40 all Cobre Copper 43 45 45 5 1 Colonial Gold 2l 2a 34 ... 14 Copiapo — ... St. all Copper Min. of Eng 6O 70 25 all Do. Pref. 74 p. cent 74 —84 p 5 all English and Austin. Copper Smelts. Co. 14 1 d 20 all Ge , eral l7 18 2 all GI lat Nugget Vein 2a —24 p 4/ 3 all Gi,,‘at Polgooth. l4 —ls p 1 all Take Bathr-st... 1 all Liberty 6 i P 1 11 1 allai : d i nari d grt . ni tc tacrus alifo h rn . . go o . i . d 4 --4 d-- par i d 4 1 10 9 Mex;can&S.Americn. 64 7 1 all New Granada 4 - li p 1 all Nouveau Monde ls lip 21 4 6 1 Port Philip 4— l i p 2 1 1 all Quartz Rock par p 50 all Rhymme Iron 22 2 p 15 Do. New — ... ;0 101 Santiago de Cuba 6 7 1 all South Australian par 4 p l 0 7 Tin Croft ll 12 • NA all United Mexican 6l 71 C,T, 1 all Waller —-1) li i 1 all West Granada i i P 1 all West Mariposa pear-- 1 p 14 1 all Yuba 4 4 P JOINT-STOCK BANKS. 40 all Australasia 9li 921 91 Si) all British N. American .., ... 20 2 Chrtd. Bnk. u: India, Aus a alia, & China 11 lip 31 100 25 Colonial .• ••• 100 20 Commucial of Lond. ~. ... ... 4 English Scottish and Austr. -. ,,n • 21 —2f p 61 20 n Lond. I nirt. Bk. of Austv - ia 5 —51 p 50 20 London and County .., ... 50 10 London Joint Stock ... ... 100 20 Lond. & Westminster ~ • ... 20 2 London Bank of Aus tralia and India 50 221 ..:Atonal of Ireland . o . ... 25 all ( tiental Bank of CoiporLtion 5l 55 25 5 Do. New . ... 100 25 Provincial of Ireland ... ... 10 all Do. New ... _ 5 1 Royal Australn. Bkg. A told Imp Go._ 25 all South Australia 5l Ei 25 all Union of Australia.. 77 78 ... 24 Do. New Bj 9 1 9 50 10 Union o f London__ _ .. 1 l .- 40 all (Union of Madrid - ; MISCELLANEOUS 100 35 /Australian Agrienit. 1110 110 104 ex Peo 20 4 Australsn. Pc i tic. Mail [ex Peel &xd [and xd 10 5 ,Australis. Royal Mail ... xd .•. 381Bri:;. American Laud ... ... 100 326iCanada — .. 5 5 Crystal Palace .. ... Ss i 4 2 Crystal Pal. of France ~. ~. 20 1 Eastern Steam — ... 1 IEI ecti ic Teleg. of Ir . .., 15 14 Gen. Steam NaN;gat . ... 100 50 General Sc r e w St eam . ... 20 21 Irish Beetroot Sugar .. ... 1 all Nat. Pat. Steam Fuel ... ... ]0 2 Netherlands Laud ... ... 2 20 21 Nrth. of Europe Steam ... ... 50 all Peninsular& O r i en t a l ... ... 50 25 Do. 00 60 Royal Mail Steam ... 25 25 South Austral. Land 52 54 1 1 Submar. Telegraph .. ... 5 2 Univeral Emigration and Co l on;' , ation ... ... , 100 281 Van Dien - en's Land 16 —lB 1 MARKET NETVS-(THIS DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE. Notwithstanding that our market to-day was very moderately supplied with all kinds of English wheat, the demand for that article ruled dull, and Monday's prices were barely supported. The general condition of the samples was inferior. For forward delivery next fto nothing was doing. The imports of foreign wheat amounted to 3,240 qrs., chiefly from the westward. Good heavy samples changed hands slowly, at previous currencies ; but inferior parcels were very dull, and rather lower to purchase. In floating cargoes very few sales were repork'd. Barley—the supply of which was small—moved off steadily, at late rates. Malt sold at extreme quotations. The supply of Irish oats was good—that of English and foreign limited. The trade ruled dull, at late figures. Beans, peas, and flow. sold slowly ; in prices no change took place. ARRIVALS TIIIS WEEK. Wlluat. 1 Barley. Malt. Oats. I Flour. 1,4"0 i 61 u 1,580 J 1,854 / 910 i 8,340 I 7,920 English .. Iris Foreign .. 3,240 WHITECHAPEL. For each kind of meat at this market to-day the inquiry was in a sluggish state, at barely stationary prices. Beef, 2s 6d to 3s 6d ; mutton, 3s 4d to 48 6d ; veal, as Od to 43 4d ; pork, 2s Gd to 4.9 Od. per 81bs by the carcase. BOROUGH HOP. Tho demand for most kinds of hops is steady, at fully ho late advance in the quotations. LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY.) LorrpoN, March 9.—Wind at Noon, W.S.W., light airs, and hue clear mild weather. SOUTHAMPTON, March B.—Wind, N.W. Arrived — Orinoco (s), West Inpies—on freight, 238,6211. DEAL, March B.—Wind, W.S.W. Arrived Broughton, South Seas. Arrived from the River—John Bunyan, for Shanghae ; Countess of &afield, do. ; Cores, Sierra Leone ; Wesconson, New York ; Hope, Nassau. FALMOUTH, March B.—Wind, W. to W.S.W. Arrived —Amelia, Bahia ; Gem, New Orleans. OFF PORTSMOUTH, March B.—Walmer Castle, CalCUtte. BRISTOL, March B.—Wind, N.W. Arrived—Urgent, Cuba ; Nimroud, New York. LIVERPOOL, March B.—Wind, S.S.W. Arrived—Jean nette Marie, Laguna ; Tonawanda, Philadelphia ; Electric, Calcutta ; Water-lily, do. ; Hibernia, Bombay ; Mercutio, Buenos Ayres ; Menalto, Monte Video ;• Ver_elia, Rio Orande ; Harrison Chilton, Marauham ; Wanderer, Gal veston ; Jane Henderson, New Orleans ; Marshfield, do. ; Wm. Nelson, do. ; Elizabeth, do. ; Post, do. ; Commerce, do. ; Imperial, Mobile ; Adonas, do.; New England, Sa vannah ; Admiral, Charleston ; Mersey, do. ; Lemena, Baltimore ; Great Western, New York ; Chas. Crooker, do. ; Goldfinder, St. John's, N.B. Sailed—Antelope (s), Melbourne ; Propontes, Monte Video ; Vanguard, New York. Off Port—Elizabeth Moore, Bahia ; Windsor Castle, do. ; Sutloy, Wild Wave, Portland, Warlock, and Fidget. The Anna Rich, bound to Boston, which got on shore on the Devil's Bank, on the 27th ult., has been got off, with much damage. OUEENSTOWN, March 7.—Arrived—lngleborough, Mau ritius. BELFAST.—Arrived—Mingo, New York. DllNDEE.—Sailed—Elizabeth, Melbourne. LOWESTOFFE, March B.—Wind, S.W., foggy. Ar rived—Active, Sunde:•land, for London, and Maria, Col chester, for Newcastle, both making water. The A nn Mills, St. John's, N. 8., to Grimsby, which was on shore, abandoned, has been got off. FATAL, Feb. 23.—0 n the 17th F e b., it b lew a heavy : gale at S.E., during which the Ellen Gillman, from Liver pool, and the Salamandre, wore driven on shore, wrecked, and have been sold. The Io ? from Boston, dragged her anchors, and cut away her main and foremasts to prevent going on shore. The Hope, from Liverpool to Boston, put in here Dec. 4, leaky, and is repairing. The report of her arrival at New York was erroneous. ANTWERP, March 7.—The Normandie, Pernambuco to Marseilles, has put in with l oss of part of her masts, sails, riggin, &c,, and Part of c argo' & c.. overboard. WEST INDIA MAIL. Grenada Carriacou St. Vincent St. Lucia Martinique Guadaloupe Dominica Antigua Montserrat Feb. 7 10 15 .......... Feb. 11 Vera Cruz Tampico... Ha'rannah Greytown Chagres Carthagena, — 11 Santa Martha.. Jan. 26 Kingston Feb. 12 Jacmel(Hayti) — 13 San Juan — 15 Berbice — 8 Georgetown ..... 9 Tobago — 8 Port of Spain — 11 Bridgetown ...... 13 The Orinoco also bring received at Panama by ti tion Company's ship Bi treasure value $lBO,OOO Bank of. England, and da Valparaiso ... Jan. 15 .Coquimbo 16 Huasco 16 Caldera ... ••. 17 Cobija, . 19 Iquique ••• 19 The Orinoco has performed the voyage from Si. Thomas in 14 days. She brings 50 passengers The Rev. Mr. Osborne died at sea on the 27tliult On freight this steamer has specie value $1,443,106, or say 288,6211. sterling, of which $45,000 is for account of the Committee of Mexican Bondholders. The freight list also comprises 340 serons cochineal, 41 serous indigo, 4 serous jalap, 69 cases cigars, 102 bales tobacco, 7 casks coffee, 79 bales sarsa parilla, 1 case tortoiseshell, 31 cases succades, 9 cases beeswax, 9 cases balsam of Tolu, and sundry merchandise. The news from Mexico is up to the 7th Feb. The letters from the capital are to the 3d Feb. The inhabitants of Vera Cruz were convinced that General Santa Anna was the only man cap able of governing the country with honour and credit at home and abroad, and they, therefore, on the 7th of February, pronounced in his favour, and sent commissione rs by th e pac k et to invite himi to return to his country. There was no doubt that he would accept the invitation, and it was expected that he would arrive before the Ist of March. General Uraga and the troops in the city of Mexico had also pronounced in favour of General Santa Anna, and a resolution requesting the Ge neral to return had been passed. Our intelligence from Jamaica is to the 13th of February, on which dap the Orinoco left,Kingston. Neither the files of island papers, nor the private correspondence, contain any news of importance. Mr. Westmoreland's resolution, limiting the public expenditure for the current year to 165,0001., was brought forward on the night of the 2d of Feb ruary, and, after a lengthy debate, was carried by a very large majority, only two members voting against it. Emigration to Australia and to the Isthmus was proceeding apace. The Government ship Glentun ner was in Kingston for the purpose of taking pas sengers to the former place. It was said that 90 persons, principally of the better sort, had already engaged berths on board of the Glentunner, and it was expected that a great many more applications would be made. About 200 passengers, among whom were many of the labouring classes, were about to sail in the Royal Mail Company's steamer Conway for the Isthmus. The labourers were to be employed on the railway. Business remained as dull as ever. The weather was good, and the public health had considerably improved. The sugar crop had commenced, and was ex pected to reach from 30,000 to 35,000 hhds. At Barbadoes the fever had nearly disappeared, and the islands generally were healthy. Her Ma jesty's steam-frigate Dauntless was still there. The Amended Health Act had been under the conside ration of the House of Assembly. Several fires had occurred on the sugar plantations, supposed to be occasioned by the continuance of dry weather. Our accounts from British Guiana are to the 10th ultimo. On the subject of the yellow fever the Royal Gazette says " Fever, in a malignant state, still prevails, and, strange enough to say, other diseases, as they approach a fatal termination, assume the type of yellow fever. The authorities appear at last roused to the necessity for action. The epidemic, from whatever cause arising, is no doubt increased in virulence by the unwholesome state of the atmosphere. No efficient means have yet been taken either to drain or cleanse a city affording sin gular facilities for having both done cheaply." This colony was quiet and prosperous, and the planters and merchants in good spirits. The crop of the preceding year, which reached nearly 56,000 hogsheads, had been all shipped, and the prospects for this year were most encouraging. By the Golden Gate, which left San Francisco on the 15th of January, there is little news. The weather still continued rainy and the country flooded, with scarcity of provisions, suffering, and embarrassments in seine districts. Flour was selling at a dollar per pound, and in many parts of the mining districts beans and acorns were the only food. In San Francisco, however, flour had fallen to 31 dolls. per barrel. Nevada county had taken the initiatory step towards perfecting the quartz mining laws of the State, by accepting a code which should secure permanent rights in the tenure of mining property of this nature, and the people of San Francisco were rejoicing in the im proved value of city property since the advent of their first upright town-council. In the shipping news we have the loss of the British Ship Aberdeen on the same spot where the Samoset was lost—the rocks off Fort Point, three or four miles within the Heads. The ships Courtenay, from Cardiff, and Abyssinia, from Sydney, the barks Radiant, Globe, and Lady Louisa, from Liverpool, and the Ocean Queen, from Hong-kong, had arrived, besides 50 sail, mostly American. Her Majesty's ship Am phitrite had sailed, and the Thetis was still at Vancouver's Island. ...... - 13 . ..... - 12 ••• - 14 ••• - 12 iJ Nevis St. Kitts — Tortola — 15 St. Thomas' — 21 Nassau (Bahamas) — 8 Puerto Cabello — 10 gs mails from the Pacific, he Pacific Steam Naviga ;ogota, which vessel had I for conveyance to the ttes— Arica Islay Pisco Callao Payta, Jan. 20 The Trinidad journals were discussing the sub ject of reform in the Government of that island. The sugar crop had commenced, but the canes were not yielding satisfactorily. There appears to be abundant labour in certain localities ; and for the general want, about 1,500 coolies and 1,003 Chinese are said to be expected for distribution upon the work of the present crop. The first coolie ship of the season arrived on the 23d ult., in 96 days from Calcutta, with 204 men, 47 women, and 6 children. A project is on foot to put a suitable vessel on the berth to sail from Trinidad to Port Philip, carrying cargo and passengers, and bringing back cargo. We regret to no ti ce the existence of malignant fever at Port of Spain. The Gazette, of the 26th of January, records a fatal case of typhus, which the medical men ascribed " entirely to the filthy, pestilential state of the premises ' in which it occurred. THE UNITED STATES ARRIVAL OF THE NIAGARA. The British and North American Royal Mail steamer Niagara, Captain Lang, arrived at Liver pool on Tuesday morning with the usual mails, 27 passengers, and 250,000 dollars specie on freight. She sailed on the 24th ult., one day later than her fixed day, owing to the heavy swell on the bar rendering it unsafe to cross. She has made the voyage in 11 days 2 hours, an average passage. She reports the arrival of the United States mail steamer Pacific at New York on the 21st, and the Arabia on the 23d. These fine vessels sailed hence on the 9th and 12th ult. respectively, the advan tage being about 16 hours in favour of the Arabia. The news in Congress is not important. General Pierce, on being officially notified of his election as president, gave the following reply " You will please communicate to the respective houses of Congress my acceptance of the trust con fided to me ; and at the same time express to them my grateful acknowledgments, and assure them of the deep sense of obligation with which I regard this manifestation of confidence on the part of my countrymen, and it will be my earnest desire to prove that their confidence has not been min. placed." . . Nothing certain was known about the cabinet. In addition to the former statements, it is now re ported that Mr. Buchannan will be appointed minister to the court of London. Mr. ex-President Van Buren, with his son, Mr. M. Van Buren, will leave the States next month on a tour in Europe. The trial of the caloric ship Ericsson, on the 16th February, appears to have given the most ample satisfaction to all who were on. board. From the time of her leaving Sandy Hook till she reached the mouth of the Potomac she ran in the face of a succession of heavy gales, and though frequently pitching her bowsprit under water, her engin_ers performed with the utmost regularity, an.drinz. wheels made six -and-a-half revolutions per l r n n i d Only one fireman was on duty at a time, and P eric ' d machinery was continually in motion that in of 73 hours. It is, however, quite the Ericsson Point of that great requisite, s?f7 s th i s trial p 11 3 quite a failure, at least so f.' as is demonstrative of her pow w ith her 'J of their Mrs. Harriet Beecher S towe'. otner tj a jne r b by en the Dr. Stowe, and some her direct to S" - i T n ew York on the steam family, proceed, di. ch . --- saus froni ship Glaggow, win uary have been 26th of March. California da tes of the 2d Fehr The royal mail steam-hips Orinoco, Lieutenant Phillip Hast, R.N., commander, arrived at South ampton on Tuesday evening, bringing the West India, Mexican, and Pacific mails, in charge of Lieutenant Dennehy, R. N., Admiralty agent. Her dates are— BRITISH AND TAMENT. 50 25 LOO St. 10 25 10 1 1.( 50 3 3 9 54 2 36 61 41 - 8 - 3i - 47 - 100 - 64 - 64 - 70 - ••• "-- 31 - 21 - 781 - 36 12i - 4 - 77i - 37 13 44 2R - •15i 10 30 10 P 70 7d 54A, 9i 28 94 d n - •:%r•• . :IGN. 40 x d 12i x 81 801 x d ad 90/ 4 id pm 77i 16i 16 118 j i x d x d 901 1 90; x d 371 75i 6 i d ad I I xd 8 . xd 58 xd pm 4 p 20 in x d 15 100 20 106 z d 147 xd i Pm received in New Orleans, only 18 days from San Francisco. They were brought from AeapUleo to Vera Cruz in 5i- days, and thence by the steam-ship Albatross to New Orleans, being the shortest time on record. The mining intelligence is of a highly favourable character. The census returns show the present population of the state of California to be 224,000. The markets had been unfavourably affected by unusually large marine arrivals. Flour and pro visions generally had declined from the late ex orbitant quotations, good sweet flour being now quoted at 20 dollars a barrel. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. NEW YORK, FEB. 23. MoNEr.—The market closed lower for sterling, with but a moderate amount of transactions. All the leading bankers were drawing freely at 101, and some at 10 per cent. First class commercial bills were sold at 91 per cent. The importers are too busy paying up duties to remit largely by this steamer. There was an increased supply of mercantile and southern bills on the market, giving an impression that exchange may decline some what, which feeling also tended to check remittances. Francs, 5 121 to 5 114. CorroN.—The market here is unsettled and quotations nominal, with sales for the past three days of 2,000 bales. Freight to Liver pool — EngagernCl i t s at 3-16 d. BaueusroFFs.--In breadstuffs there has been but little done, and prices are quoted lower, Western Canal flour being quoted at 5 dols. to 5 d o l s. 121 e. steady ; Indian meal, 3 dots. 371 c. to 3 dols. 50c. PROVISIONS had been in good demand, and prices pretty steady. FREIGHTS.—With a better supply of vessels the en gagements of the last fortnight have been on easier terms, but at the close of business yesterday there was less room, and the rates asked were—to Liverpool, 2s. 9d. to 3s. per barrel on flour, and Bd. per bushel on grain ; London, 38. ditto, and Bd. to Pd. ditto; Glasgow, 3s. ad. ditto, and 9d. ditto. AFRICA. The African Steam Navigation Company's steamer Forerunner, Commander J. B. Atkins, arrived at Plymouth on Tuesday evening at eight o'clock. She left Fernando Po, January 30 ; La gos, February 4 ; Cape Coast Castle, 7 ; Sierra Leone, 14 ; Goree, 21 ; Tenerife, 22 ; and Ma deira, 28. She brings 70 tons of palm oil, 25 tons of ginger and pepper, 15 tons of beeswax, 35 bags of cochineal, and 2,000 ounces of gold. On the outward passage, Commander Lynch, of the United States Navy, went in her from Tene rife to Jamaica, where he joined the United States ship-of-war John Adams, and proceeded down the coast via Sierra Leone, to survey and find a suitable place to which the Americans could emigrate. Al Fernando Po were her Majesty's steamer Electro, the barque Gambia, and the brig Daisy. At Cameroons, January 30, were the barque Gar roon, and the brigs Mary, Mohawk, and Timbuc too. At Old Calabar, February 1, were the ships Africa and Tapley, and the barque Decima. At Bonny, February 2, were the ships Elizabeth Bibby and Polonia, the barques Roe and Cleopatra, the brigs Swiftsure and Mary Ann, and the schooner Visitor. At Lagos were her Majesty's brig Brito mart and the steamer Electro ; the Italian brig Indicator, the Hamburg brigs Julia, Hamburg, Time, Asia, and Portuguese schooner Belos. At Whydah, February 4, were the French brig-of war Messager, and the British barques Anna Wat son and Foam. The African mail packet Faith arrived at Sierra Leone, all well, on the 17th of February. The barque Lady Horsley, abandoned by Capt. Salter, at Bonny, has been recovered by Messrs. Wylde and Thompson. THE FRENCH EMPIRE. A decree in yesterday's Moniteur announces that Chinese crapes, imported from the British do minions, will no longer be subjected to the restric tive ordinance of 1826. Yesterday the Siècle received a "warning," in consequence of an article deemed offensive to the Government. Lord Stratford de Redcliffe, British ambassador to Constantinople, is expected in Paris, where he will remain for some days. A trifling improvement was observable on the Bourse yesterday, in the prices of the Rentes gene rally, for the end of the month, as compared with Monday ; but there was no substantial advance in the cash quotations of any description. The Four and-a-Half per Cents., which closed on Monday at 104 f. 70c., left off at 105 f. for the settlement, while the closing price of the same stock on Monday, for cash, was 106 f. 50c., and yesterday 104 f. 70c. The Three per Cents., also, were reported 15c. better for the account, being last called at 81f. Bank Stock closed at 2,769 f., which marked a fur ther decline of 6f. There was nothing of impor tanca transacted in railway stocks. The corvette Eurydice, fitting at Toulon, the transports Prevoyante, at Cherbourg, and Sarcelle, at Brest, are about to sail for the Pacific. GERMANY. In the sitting ofiliedermQc Diet on the sth inst., the reinforcement of the federal military ser vice was negatived. Switzerland has acceded to the demands of Aus tria relative to the security of all foreign refugees in the Helvetic territories. The political condition of Bavaria is stated to be extremely critical, military precautions are re doubled, and the Council of Ministers have for warded a dispatch to King Maximilian, who is at present in Naples, urging his immediate return to his capital. At Lindau, a few days since, every house in which an officer resided was marked by a red cross: The British Envoy at Munich has commenced a suit against the editor of the Volksboten for ca lumny. This Wurtemberg Chamber has decided against the Government that the penalty of death shall, in future, be only applied to criminals convicted of attempts against the person of the Sovereign, and to common murderers, but not to those convicted of attempts against the State. According to accounts from Pesth, of the Ist, Noslopy, chief of the guerillas, and three of his ac complices —one of whom is the tutor of Kossuth's children—were to be executed on the 3d. It is said that the Austrian troops on the fron tier of Switzerland number upwards of 15,000 strong. The Emperor is rapidly recovering from the effects of the assa-ssin's wound ; but though his health is generally good, it is feared his eyesight will continue to be seriously affected. TURKEY. A special firman will shortly be issued by the Sultan, ordering► tho removal, from Bosnia, of all objects hostile to the Christians, and adopting the most effectual means to protect that part of the population. SPAIN. The Ministry have sustained a defeat in the Se nate. The four secretaries elected belong to the Opposition. The Senate refused to admit th e new senators before the constitution. The Three per Cents, were at 43. CONTROVERTED ELECTIONS. a;ngu).—iltityeb;°hrtedis agent COMMITTEES CONCLUDED. 21,LANrC.AASrTnisERtro(Mngr. notD i dulyvo cha i r m elected not duly elected ;. Want of qu e llifi ° ca- - -- y m a r n . d c art Carter treating, TAVISTOCK (Lord R. Grosvenor, chairman). R n rted tion. Mr. R. Phillimore duly elected Feb. 21, ber CANTERBURY (Mr. K. Seymer, chairman) Feb. 21, Mr. H. P. Gipps and li ' .—Reported not duly electe d ,. guilty by their on. H. B. Johnstone _ agents of bribery. BLACKBURN (Mr. Deedes chair man 24, Mr. Eccles not "dui R eported Feb. ).—Repo . bribery, y elec te d •; guilty by his agents o f NEWRY (Mr. u •H.D. S t L • ..___Reported Seymour, chairman): —Reported Feb. 24, Mr. lii k rduly elected. rted CLITREWA (Mr. J. M. Gaskell, chairman).—ReN • Feb. 24, Mr. M. - g uilty by his Wilson not duly e l ec ted p agents of bribery and • treating. . _Reported FROMR (Mr. G. A. Hamilton, chairman/. holding an Feb. 28, Ho n . D -.-.. Boyle not duly elected ; *Mee of profit under the Crown. . e e chairman). —Re. BRIDGNORTH (Hon. E. 33" v d uly r ' elected. Sir R. ported Feb. 28, mr. ---• Whitmore b his agents of bribery. Pigot not duly elected ; gu ilty Smith, chairman).—Re- CAMBRIDGE CA.MBRIDGE (Mr. Vernon Macaulay and Mr. IC Macau ea ts o f bribery. ported March 1, Mr. S. ; guilty by their ag O. Stanley, chair not duly elected NT i, (Hon. W. o de duly elected. WATERFORD 0 rt Cllrch 4, Mr. Esmon Re orted March man). —Reported eci kington, chairman). p by his agents RYE(SirJ..S. Pa not duly elected ; gui lty Mackinnon 7, M r . Ma 1 • man), —Mr. Clay and of treating. ilf Labouchere, C.lair . by ag ents of HULL \ --r. no t duly elected ; gui lty Goderich Lord chairman).—Mr. Mangles bribery. (Lord Seymour, GUILDFORD Mr. B e ll duly elected. CHATH and 1 14- - • (Mr. Bramston, chairman). Reported ABI \ March 7, Sir F. S mith not duly elected ; guilty by his a gents of bri bery. CITY COMMISON ERS in o ester . d ri ay epu th v Peacock in com missioners a sse m bled P th S e E G w u ß i ß ld s. l:ll l — r mr ' the chair. The cou r t p rocee d ed to consider the claim of the medical officer of he a lth o f the city of London to an increase of salary, on ac coun t of his valua ble services. After some discussion, the salary of the medical officer of health was raised from 500/. to 8001. a year. The court then adjourned. THE IRISH BRIGADE. ---The accounts received, from opposite quarters of the proceedings at the meeting of Irish members, held on Saturday, leave no doubt what ever that the resulthas been the final and total dOband• in of the " brigade." 26 2g 67, 7 22; i 131 i 47 1001