The Sun. — London, England, 1853-02-21 00:00:00

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. Under the Management of Mr. C. Kean. THIS EVENING, Faa. 21, Will be produced Shakspers's Tragedy of MACBETH (as acted at Windsor Castle, by Royal command). Principal characters by Mr. and Mrs. C. Kean. To conclude with the new and criginel Grand Comic Christ mas Pantomime, entitled HARLEQUIN CHERRY AND FAIR STAR; or, The Green Bird, the Dancing Waters, and the inging Tree. ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE. Lessee and Manager, Mr. Farrel'. First Night of an entirely new Drama. THIS EVENING, rElt. 21, Will be presented LIFE IN AUSTRALIA, FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT, supported by the whole strength of the Esta blishment. _ After which, the celebrated Tyrolese Singers will give their Na tional Entertainment, as, by command, before her Majesty. To conclude with A DEED WITHOUT A NAME, in which Mr• Compton will appear. "Box-office open from Eleven till Five. under the superintendence Of Mr. E. Chatterton. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Proprietor and Manager, Mr. W. Batty. LAST WEEK BUT TWO of Mr. BATTT'S MANAGEMENT. THIS EVENING, Ft's. 21, And daring the Week, the Entertainments will commence with the superb Spectacle of MAZEPPA AND THE WILD HORSE, reproduced with all its splendid and startling effects After which, a brilliant Routine of Scenes in the Arena, sup ported by the first native and continental talent. To conclude with a Laughable Farce. Doors open at Halt-past Six o'clock. To commence at Seven. Pox-office open daily from Eleven to Four. Stage Manager. Mr. W. Meat. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Farewell Season of Mr. Benjamin Webster as Lessee and Manager. TIIIS EVENING, FEB. 21, Will he performed the new and original Comedy, in five acts, called NOT SO BAD AS WE SEEM ; or, Many Sides to a Charac ter. Supported by Messrs. B. Webster, Barry Sullivan, Keeley, Buckstone, Leigh Murray, Stuart, Rogers, Miss Rosa Bennett Miss k. Murra Vining, Mrs. Leigh After which, the new and original Farce, ealled TO PARIS AND BACK FOR FIVE POUNDS. To conclude with the Farce of BOX and COX MARRIED and SETTLED. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE• Under the Management of Madame Veldt& THIS EVENING, Fan. 21, Will be performed the original and popular Fairy Extravaganza milted THE GOOD WOMAN IN THE WOOD, in which Messrs. F. Matthews, Suter, llorncastie, and Templeton ; Madame Vestris, Miss Julia St. George, Miss Robertson, Miss Marttndale, Miss Ellis, Mies Wyndham, Mi s s Eglinton, and Miss Rosins Wright will appear. After which, LITTLE TODDLEKINS. To conclude with A PHENOMENON IN A SMOCK-FROCK. Characters by Messrs. C. Mathews, F. Matthews, and Horneastle ; Miss F. Baker and Miss C. Mitchell. sole Agent for the Private Boxes, Mr. W. Allcroft, 15, New B it:id-street. THEATRE. ROYAL ADELPHI. Proprietor, Mr. B. Webster.—Directress, Madame Celeste. THIS EVENING, Fas. 21; Will be performed THE CHILD OF THE WRECK, by Messrs., Emery, Parselle, and Callentord ; Madame Celeste and Mrs. Keeley , After which, at second price, the Drama of SLAVE WEE ; or Uncle Tom's Cabin—by M essrs. Alf re d Wi gan, 0 . S m ith, S. Eimer," , Madame Celeste, Miss Woolgar, Miss Keeley, Miss Collins, and Mrs' Keeley. To conclude with the Comic Bilet of THE DANCING SCOTCH ILAN. HIGH WATER AT LONDI ON BRIDGE. MS DAT —Morning 5 min. after 12 I Evening 35 min.aft. 12 To-Moßßow—Morning 0 min. after 1 1 Evening 22 min.aft. 1 THE WEATHER.—Sax Orrica, F. 20. THERMOMETER, IN THA SHADE. 27—highest since noon yesterday. 19—lowest this morning and during the night. 30—this day at noon. BAROMETER, 2853 rising., WlND, N.—Fine, clear, frosty weather, with sunshine, FEBRUARY 21. • 31-11gheat since noon, yesterday. • 2:1 —lowest this morning,and during the night. 32—this day, at noon. BeRomETEn, 30'11,- rising rapidly. WIND, N.W.—Cloudy weather. • DAILY WEA7HER TABLE. MONDAY, FEB. 21, 1853. State of the wind and weather at each of the following places at nine o'clock on Saturday morning. The stations are airanged in order of latitude. LIMERICK—N., strong breeze—cloudless, frost. MULLINGAR—N., strong breeze—snow. HASTINGS—N.E., gentle breeze—partially cloudy. ForauesToNE—N.E., light breeze—partially cloudy. TUNBRIDGE—N.W., strong breeze—snow. GREENWIOH—N.E., gentle breeze—cloudless. STRooD—N., calm—partially cloudy. SwiNnoN—N.E., fresh breeze—cloudy. CAMBRIDGE —N., gentle breeze—partially cloudy. YARMOIITH—E., strong breeze--cloudless. HOLYHEAD—N.E., gentle breeze—frost, snow. WHITBY—N.N.W_„_. gentle breeze—frost, sno w. DARLINGTON—W.N.W., gentle breeze - partially cloudy, hard frost, snow. SHAY—N., gentle breeze—partially cloudy, hard frost snow. The returns from the following places indicate the state of the weather on Friday morning at nine o'clock : HASTINGS—N., strong breeze—partially cloudy. FOLKESTONE—N., light breeze—overcast. TUNBRIDGE—N. - W . ., hard wind—snow. GREENWICH—N.N.W., gentle breeze—partially cloudy. STROOD—N., strong breeze—snow. SWINDON —N., strong breeze—cloudless. LEIGHToN—N ' . strong breeds--hard frost. HOLYHEAD—N.N.E., strong breeze—hard frost, snow. SNAP—N.W., calm—overcast, hard frost, snow. The Publication of " THE SUN" Commences every afternoon at THREE O'CLOCK, and the Late or Third Edition, containing the DEBATES IN PARLIAMENT ON THE SAME EVENING with all other news ariving in London up to the hour of Post, at SEVEN O'CLOCK. EXPRESS EDITIONS will be forwarded after the Post is closed by the Latest Trains. me , ,•••• • W.:4r 'LONDON, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1858. Transportation to Van Diemen's Land has been abolished, and the transmission of convicts to any of our Australian colonies is only to be con tinued for a limited time, and to Western Austra lia exclusively. This is as it should be. The Duke of NEWCASTLE has entitled himself to the thanks of our brethren at the Antipodes for the removal of the grievance under which they so long suffered, and the tardy recognition of their just demands. There was no procrastination or indecision to be complained of on his part. And the determination at which he arrived, and which was so promptly and decisively announced, affords the best auguries for the future administration, by the Noble Duke, of the affairs of the important department over which he presides. While thus rendering the honour to which the Noble Secretary is so eminently entitled, it is but an act of simple justice to state that his prede cessor, Sir JOHN PAKINGTON, had arrived' at a like decision, and that, had the Right Hon. Baronet remained in office, a similar determination Would ere this time have been communicated to parliam en t and the country. We do not make this statement for the purpose of disparaging the Du ke of NEWCASTLE, or impairing the credit to which he is entitled for his just and po litic resolution. We have, unfortunately,. known Colonial Mini s t ers who exhibited • a perverse and obstinate determination to accede to no ap plication, however reasonable, and to reverse every politic arrangement of their predecessors. Our Australian fellow -subjects may rejoice at finding that the disposition of the Noble Duke is so very different. But, while bestowing the thanks and gratitude fairly due to him by whom the good work has been consummated, Ws should not forget th e ot h ers w h o lent efficient aid to th e completion o f th e ed ifi ce. Si r Jonzr PAKrivorox then, who first bestowed an attentive and unpre judiced consideration upon the complaints of the Tasmanians, is entitled to participate in 6.9. laurels acquired by his noble 'successor, who wisely and judiciously carried out the project on which he had resolved. But the chief credit, after all, is due to Mr. JOHN C. Kura, the efficient and energetic agent of the colony, to whose ineassant and judicious exertions, and vigorous arid unanswerable denunciations of the iniquitous 'system, may be attributed the cessation of the polluting stream of crime----the fatal gift of the mother country to its promising offspring. We have long since alluded to the beneficial labours of this gentleman, and rejoice to find that the sound truths to which he gave utterance have at length pre va i led —that the good cause has achieved sgn a l a triumph. that Now that the v i ctory has been accomplished tardyjustic e has been rendered to our brethren —the only thing that can create aAtonishment will be that—we will not call it the boon, but—the simple act of justice was so long delayed. Why should we have continued for so many years to send the outcasts of society, those marked with the inde lible brands of crime to a fair and promising 4e pendency, which only required judicious treatment to render it one of the brightest gems in the Im perial diadem ? If our object had been to foster the bad passions—to bring into one narrow com munity all the crimes and vices that have de graded, and still degrade humanity—to congre gate the evil demons, still permitted to lead mankind astray—in fact, to create a " hell upon earth," we could not have pursued a course more likely to terminate in such a result. The most accomplished villany the most brutal insensibility were combined together to create a moral deformity. The polished and unscrupulous swindler and the clever forger were associated with burglars and robbers, with offen ders of the deepest dye, who, but for the humane alterations in the criminal code effected under the auspices of Sir ROBERT PRIM, would have expiated their atrocities on the scaffold ; and the stupid country yokel, who had not sufficient fortitude to resist his love for hares or pheasants, was placed under such tuition until he rivalled his teachers, and when the opportunity occurred was prepared to show how much he had profited by their :in structions. Such were the gifts we bestowed on bur children. They asked for assistance; they of fered remunerative employment to all that we could send—plenty and abundance to those who at home had only experienced starvation and destitution, and whose former privations would only bestow an additional zest to the enjoyment of theunworited comforts of their new home. But in place of a blessing we gave them a curse—in place of healthy, well-disposed labourers, able and willing to work, and desirous of acting justly towards their emplopers,, we sent the very outcasts of society—those whose repeated offences and notorious characters taught their Judges that reformation was hopeless ..that the noxious weed should be excerpted from the wholesome crop. We sent these wretched . criminals in numbers sufficient to :ex ceed the " true men," and then wondered at'the importunacy of those who thought proper to Om plain of the system which, in our wisdom, we deemed expedient. This is now happily altered, but ample reparation is due to the sufferers. , Ancient Rome might have become a mighty em pire from a degraded and criminal stock, but there was not a constant accession of crime—a conti nued increase to the convict population of men who must necessarily taint and corrupt every honourable feeling in the hearts of those with whom they were associating. In another part of our impression will be found a very able article on the subject which we have extracted from the Times, and which clearly points out the evils to- which we have alluded. The matter is there placed in the clearest light, and we would, earnestly invite public . , attention thereto. An excellent article from a .respected weekly- con ,temporary—the Observer—will also be found well -worthy . of isnrusal, for although it does ,not ' allude' to the penal part - of the subjeat, it so clearly. 'points,. out the : almost miraculous na-, 1 tural,advantagqs, of our Australian dependencies, as to show in the strongest light the injustice and impropriety of continuing a system fraught with so many inconveniences to the colony, and pricti cally holding out a premium to vice in this coun try. The discoveries of coal the true black diamond the source of national wealth greater far than the most preci ous metals, and which will be fully and fairly worked by an influential company, confirms ithe most sanguine anticipations that can be entertained as to the future prospects of the colony, now that the plague-spot, the lowering cloud, has been banished from her political horizon. An ancient successor of the Apostles, one in deed ordained by PAUL himself, one to whom Episcopalians have always referred as the Right Rev. TIMOTHY, Bishop of Ephesus, was enjoined in a part of the Apostolic charge, to " preach the word, and to be instant in season and out of sea son." We know not to what extent the Right Rev. HENRY, Bishop of Exeter, obeys this last clause in regard to preaching, but we are quite sure he most strenuously acts upon it as Colonial Church-monger. In 1840, he was "instant out of season," frustrating by legal quibbles an Act which gave the Episcopal Reformed Church in Canada half the proceeds of the Clergy Reserves, although it was but a small minority, and the other half was to be divided among the other more numerous sects ; he was " instant out of season," enforcing such modifications as have kept the quarrel alive from that time, to this ; and now, again, this "stormy petrel" of the Church and the Colonies, is "instant out of season" anticipating most un seasonably, a bill not yet before the House of Lords, and prognosticating an odious tempest. HENRY of Exeter must be a holy man ; ;he could not otherwise have that epithet " godless" for ever on his sacred lips. " Godless" are all the multitude of emigrants who preferred, Bishop less, to worship their GOD. "No Bishop, no King," said KING JA3fES. "No Bishop, no GOD," says HENRY. " Godless," too, are all the purposes to which money can be applied if it be diverted from hierarchical pockets ; reminding us of ano ther passage in the apostolical charge to the first Right Rev. of Ephesus,—which adverts to those who thought " gain godliness." True, the clergy of that creed he of Ephesus was enjoined to shun —but the practice of Bishops in " the three first centuries," the favourite code at Exeter—reversed the decision of PAUL ; and now godliness is mea sured by the amount of clerical X. s. d.—ungod liness by the amount of secular £ s. d. We should suggest that the unmeaning epithet reve rend be dropped, and that the formula henceforth be, the Right Godly HENRY, &c., &c. His Lord ship applies his episcopal standard of godliness, we suppose, in speaking of " the Colonists." He repeatedly speaks of them as if there were no other Colonists than those opposed to the Govern ment propositions ; should the godless (1. e., Bishop-less) Independents, Freechurchmen, Me thodists, Baptists, and the rest, remind the Bishop that they are Christians, or, at least, men, he would no doubt rejoin in the words of MACBETH—. " Aye, in the catalogue, ye go for men ; As hounds, and greyhounds, mongrels, spaniels, curs, Shoughs, water-rugs, and demi•wolves are 'cleped All by the name of dogs." His Lordship's ignoring, however, all other Christians, or men, but the episcopally and, there fore, godly-minded, makes his logic as against the proposed Bill, very bad. The Bill merely intrusts the whole affair to the Colonists. If they therefore be opposed to secularisation, and would even pray to have such power withheld from them, why need the worthy Bishop fear for the clerical gold ? This question may be asked of all who would draw a hostile argument from the supposed preference of the colonists for present arrangements. If such be their preference, why this English oppo sition ? They are " good and safe men." If, on the contrary, these ignored men compose the great majority, what folly to wish, by an intermeddling imperial Act, to override the knowledge and wishes of the colonists. Let the Bishops and the House of Lords be assured that they cannot modify or curtail the proposed measure, except to perpetuate strife. A single clause which the colo nists disapprove, will be a sore place till it is re- Pealed, and will diminish the heartiness of colonial loyalty. It may even hasten a separation. The particulars of the Bill are not yet before us, but w e are bound to accord unreserved praise to Mr. F. PEEL and the Government, for all that was stated by them on Tuesday night. They took a consistent and manly view of the rights of the Colonies. Such principles as they defended would, if carried out, insure a substantial union i n some form between England and her present dependencies aslong as E ng l an d h erself remains what she is. Under a system of perfect Free Trade, and of thoroughly self-government, it is not easy to conceive of our colonies wishing to b rea k an imperial connexion which guarantees their safety from hostile attack, while it leaves them free to the most prosperous self-development. We gave so lately (see .The Sun of December 14th) a clear ,history of the matter that our readers will not wish it repeated. Suffice it to' say, that these Clergy Reserves, which have been a subject of dispute ever since Upper Canada began to be peopled, which had a sad share in the rebellion of 1837, which Lord SYDENHAM and the Canadians had settled amicably by a Bill sent home for con firmation, but which Bill the Bishop of EXETER turned into the present cause of strife, these Reserves—partly lands, and partly money, the proceeds of lands—..the Canadians desire to do with as they please, subject to life interests of parties concerned. This the Government proposes to grant. Lord Gummi and Lord GREY did the same ; indeed Sir JOHN PAKINGTON is the only Colonial Secretary who has resisted their demand. His only objection was that it would divide the colony into Upper and Lower Canada again, and both ultimately and quickly, perhaps, from the mother country. He wishes to treat as null the votes of Catholic members from Lower Canada, hopes that Upper Canada might furnish a majority in time against intrusting the funds to colonial management (a most unlikely thing), and then, by pitting Catholics against Protestants, to keep things as they are. And for what amount of money, gentle reader, do you suppose that the united Canadas are to be embroiled with each other and made disaffected towards England why to secure merely some 12,000 a-year to the English Episco pal Church in Canada I Sir JOHN PAKINGTON, Sir HARRY INGLIS, and the Bishop of EXRTER are ready for this miserable pittance, which the Bishop of LONDON, and a few others, would hardly miss, to keep up a constant irritation abroad and at home, and there is little doubt to endanger the loyalty of Canada. We perfectly agree with the Times, that it was nothing less than bad faith in Sir JOHN PAKINGTON not to carry out the pro mises made by Earl GREY, and to bring in the Bill now proposed while he was in office. He had better be quiet now. He must yield at last, or prepare to occupy, not to govern Canada, unless he would see it completely independent. We think it the bitterest sarcasm which can be flung at the Episcopal Church in Canada, that it will be endangered by the possibility of losing 12,000 a-year. The sums awarded annually to all the sects which will take State pay, the Church included, is little above 20,0001. A sum easily enough raised, if needed, by their co-religionists here in England. We believe with Mr. F. PEEL that the Church of England must rely on its own merits and the character of its clergy for success in Canada, and that nothing could be more fatal to its interest than to be loaded with the burden of undue partiality and favour on the part of the Government. The case of the MADIAJS has been argued once more ; it has been brought before the highest earthly court in which it can be heard, and it has not been heard in vain. True, that court de clined to take action, or rather left its highest members—the advisers of their Sovereign—to act for it ; but it distinctly pronounced its judgment. It did so by ratifying 'the proceedings' of the sic cessive Foreign : Secretaries, 'Flaci . had in the strongest terms , allowable appealed to the Popish Duke, through - .the. British Representative at the Court of Tuscany. Sir: ROBERT -PEEL de- nominated our House of Contnons' " the grand inquest of the nation"—it is the grand inquest of Europe also. A free press promptly utters the cries of the oppressed in the ears of every English man—a short time tests their claims to sympathy ; and what all Eiaglishmen feel strongly, the House of Commons must in some form discuss. Well that it is so. A condemnatory debate in West minster at once checks the rampancy of tyranny, and raises the hands of its victims in gratitude to GOD. Messengers will not be wanting to tell the MADIAIS that not only independent members of the British Senate, but two of her most illustrious statesmen, nobly vindicated their humble but righteous cause—to tell them that but one man, and he an apostate from the gentle creed of the Society of Friends to the exclusive one of Rome, had a word to say for their persecutorg—a man who, on Tuscan and Papal principles, would now be in a common gaol, or indeed under the knife of the guillotine ; but who on Protestant principles takes his seat in the British House of Commons ! A religious CA TALINE there assuredly, since, could ho get all power into the hands of his sect, he argues for silencing by violence the doctrines of his fellow members. The case of the MADIAIS, in the worst light in which a bitterly Popish Editor and Irish Member of Parliament can place it, is as good a one as any Protestant could wish for. Turning to the books for reading and teaching which they now linger in bonds, they might say with an apostolic victim of religious malice—" They neither found us dis puting with any man, neither raising up the peo ple, neither in the synagogues nor in the city ; neither can they prove the things whereof they now accuse us. But this we confess, that after the way which they call heresy, so worship we the GOD of our fathers."against tThheme virulent a t and brings n urged o charge h others arge to read the Bible. ex-Quaker they read this last clause expresses, according to Mr. L Nw u e cA ' s ,the butlt m te igh tea t e b h e Ja'ust servant permis siblete gaol-deservingto read a Bible, read it is unendurable. Mr. L ucAs deserves no other answer than astonishment at his impudence. Had he been brought up from infancy, like a kind of Papal SAMUEL, in the precincts of the Vatican itself, had he never heard of nor enjoyed the bl • essmg of reli gious freedom, were he now forbidden to hear mass, to confess, to say his paternosters and aye marias, and to convert to Popery all the Protest ants he can, we might, perhaps, bear with him ; but wafitoning in full liberty himself—liberty even to defend the remorseless Popery of Tuscany--we deem the being self-disgraced who advocates bonds and imprisonment for teaching the Word of Gon— as Mr. DRUMMOND happily observed, for teaching the laity to read that New Testament which, as soon as they opened it they found to be addressed, almost exclusively, to them Mr. LUCAS is, indeed, a little come down since he penned his fierce reply to Sir Ctruarro EARDLEY. He does not now advocate death to " those who (by means of the Bible) make people devils, or worse"—he would only " exterminate" them—we suppose he means drive them beyond the termini of the country, a mercy which has been asked in vain for the MADIAIS, and a punishment which, if retorted upon M r. LUCAS, would, perhaps, make him happy in the Court of the GRAND DUKE. It is impossible, however, to find an aigu ment for the DuK z in Mr. LUCAS'S speech which needs an answer. The most like one is that " Tuscany would not allow foreigners to tamper with its religion." Granting, howeve,r, that the MADIAIS might have first learned from fereigners to prefer the teaching s of the Word of GOD to the d icta of Priests and Popes, yet the MADIAIS were natives, the foreigners wer e g one, and the whole is a ques tion not of deporting foreign missionaries, but of persecuting native Christians. For a believer i st n the POPE'S supr emac y , too, to exclaim ag ion ! ain f ore i gn i n termeddling with a nation's relig if that may properly be a subject of punishment, why, of course, the Ecclesiasticalu th Titles that to Bill is superabundantly justified. The tr is, persecu te any one for teaching the religious views Lo u d which he believ es to be truth, is, as d JOHN remarks, " a great moral Milne." Mr. LUCAS twitted Lord PALMERSTON with he expulsion of th e Jesuits from Switzerland. H was doubly answered, that the POPE himself had declared the ins titution of the Jesuits to be incom patible with the taus© of good order ; that S p ain, the most Cath olic country in Europen, expelled them also, and on political grounds ; a d that, in this case, it was with the concurrence of Catholic France, and because both Governments recognised in them the sole cause of Swiss L d UCAS, but isturbance in s. Tahiti was als o dra gg ed in by Mr. vain. We never justified the law of Tahiti which forbids " foreign intermeddling" with the religion which the Missionaries had introduced —but, as Lord PALMERSTON remarked, these Missionaries wer e not east into dung eon s, they were merel y quietly " ex t erminated," as Mr. L. calls it. Mr, LUCAS seems to exult in the enforcement of Papal Missionaries :aid French protection on the island by French connon. Would he recommend the' introduction of a, Mission to Tuscany from the Protestant Alliance on the same plan ? We can assure him that it would rejoice the hearts of tens of thousands of suppressed Italian Protestants, and not, as in the case of Tahiti, raise the population against the foreigners. As to Sweden or Meck lenburg, or any persecuting Protestant country, Lord JOHN declared that the Foreign Minister, if appealed to concerning any case of persecution, would readily instruct the British Representative to remonstrate with the Government on a practice so inconsistent with the maxims of modern civili sation. It was overlooked by all in reply to these taunts of Mr. LUCAS, that Protestants.are not one sect like the Romanists. There is no English Lutheran Church, for instance. Hence on no par ticular class of Protestants here is the disgraceful brna affix that where th e y h ave p ower th e y area persecutinged class. B u t one F ore i gn Sec retaryat least has lately s h own hi mse lf ener getic in rescuing from foreign persecution a member of a Protestant sect with whose views his Lordship could have little in common. We were recently informed by a gentleman, who was himself a part of the deputation, of the effi cient manner in which Lord PALMERSTON once did remonstrate with the Protestant Government of deputation were proceeding thither to Theoobtainthe emancipation of Mr. ONCKEN, who had been imprisoned for teaching Baptist sen timents. They waited on Lord PALMERSTON, and t o ld him their errand ; he received them most cordially, assured them of his heartiest co-opera tion " Gentl eman, " he added, " I fully ex pect you will find it w ill not b e i n va i n. " N or was At first th e B r i t i sh Consul there s h oo k ;and t his head, but on their showing him the papers intrusted to them by Lord PALMERSTON, he im mediately assured them that all would end right, and rightly it did end ; the prisoner was soon at liberty, and to this day teaches and preaches his peculiar views. Without casting any slight upon others, we certainly could wish that the whole affair of the IVIADIAis from beginning to end had been in the hands of Lord PALMERSTON. Second to none in zeal for religious liberty, it is no dis paragement to others to affirm, what every foreigner will corroborate, that the fears of despots, and the hopes of the oppressed, alike attest him to be England's just pride as a Foreign Secretary. NORWICH ELECTION PETITION. This petition was withdrawn on Friday last, but we are informed to-day, by a correspondent, that that step was , taken by the agent himself, on his own responsibility, without the consent of the petitioners. Colonel Dixon, the unsuccessful Conservative candidate at the last election, has issued an address, which will be found below, and a petition will be presented this evening to the House of Commons, praying that the petition may be restored to its former place on the list. If our in formation be correet, of which we have no doubt, the House, we are assured, will feel itself bound to dis countenance what appears to be a piece of electioneering jobbing. From letters we have seen, the whole matter has given rise to considerable excitement at Norwich. We learn that the authorities at the Carlton Club tepu diate all connection with the transaction, and at, present 'are at a loss to understand the motives of it. „ . ; ' TO THE CONSERVATIVE ELECTORS OF THE : CITY OF. NORWICH. GENTLEMEN,—It was with the utmost astonishment that I observed by the morning journals that your peti tions against the sitting members for the city of Nor wich had been withdrawn. It is, however, highly grati fying to me to be informed that this act has been perpetrated without your knowledge or consent. I hastened to require Mr. Browne, the Parliamentary agent, to explain this most unwarrantable proceeding ; bat all that I could learn from him was, that he "had done.it for the good of the party" 11 / Gentlemen, as a candidate for the honour. of represent ing you in the Commons House of Parliament, I de nounce this most scandalous and political piece of jobbery, comproMisinm as it does your interests and that of the party to which you belong. Be assured no effort on my part will be withheld to obtain the restoration of the petitions to their legitimate place, for the purpose of having them dealt with by a Committee of the House of Commons.—l have the honour to be, Gentlemen, your most obedient servant, LOTHIAN S. DICKSON. 10, Stanhope-terrace, Hyde-park-gardens, Feb. 19th, 1853. THE,SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 21, 1853. COURT CIRCULAR. Her Majesty, and his Ro/al Highness Prince Albert, attended by the Marchioness of Ely, Lord Alfred Paget, and Lieutenant-Colonel the Hon. A. Gordon, honoured the Baron Marochetti with a visit at his studio in Onslow square on Saturday afternoon. The Queen had a dinner party on Saturday at Buck ingham Palace. The following had the honour of being present : His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, the Duchess of Sutherland, the Count and Countess Walewski, the Duke of Norfolk, the American Minister, Lord and Lady John Russell, Viscount and Viscountess Combermere, Lord Colville, the Hon. F. and Lady Anne Charteris, Sir George and Lady Grey, and Major the Hon. J. Macdonald. The band of the Ist Life Guards was in attendance a , the Palace, and played during dinner the following pieces March of the lst Life Guards H.R.H. the Duchess of Kent. Overture—" Die lustigen Wei ber von Windsor Otto Nicolai. Introduction and Chorus, Opera "Zayre" H.R.H. the Duke of Saxe Coburg. Festlicher Tanz, Opera "Rienzi" Wagner. Mazurka, Opera "Le Caid" Th omas . The Guards March Duggan. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, accom panied by her Serene Highness the Princess Adelaide of Hohenlohe, visited the Queen on Saturday, at Bucking. ham Palace, and partook of luncheon with her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert. The Queen and Prince Albert, the Prince of. Wales, the Princess Royal, and the Princess Alice, with the ladies and gentlemen of the Court, and the domestic household, attended divine service yesterday morning in the private chapel of Buckingham Palace. The Hon. and Rev. Gerald Wellesley officiated. Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridge and the Princess Mary visited her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent on Saturday, at her residence, Cla rence House, St. James's. A deputation from St. Saviour's parish, on the subject of New-street, had an interview on Saturday with Sir William Molesworth, at the office of Works and Public Buildings, in Whitehall-place. The deputation consisted of Mr. Alderman Humphrey, Messrs. Beard, Rider, and Russell (churchwardens of St. Saviour's), Mr. Eli Rich ards' Mr. Thomas Bail e y, M r . Th wa it es , M r . B roo k s , and Mr. Herbert Sturmy (solicitor). A deputation, consisting of Mr. Dixon, of Bromley by-Bow, Mr. Farnham (Highgate), Mr. Gwilliam (North Audley-street), Mr. Marshall (Bow, Middlesex), Mr. Reid (Plaistow), Mr. Self (West Ham), Mr. Stevenson (Lambeth), and Mr. John H. Hay (Kennington), had an interview with Earl Granville, at the Privy Council office, on Saturday. Captain Penny had an interview with the Duke of Newcastle, on Saturday, at the Colonial-office. A deputation from Great Grimsby had an interview on Saturday with the General Board of Health, at their office, Whitehall, in reference to the Great Grimsby Im provement Bill, now before Parliament. The deputa tion consisted of the Earl of Annesley, M.P., Mr. G. Tomline, M.P., and Mr. Hargrave, secretary to the town committee to watch the progress of the bill. The deputation had also an interview with Sir Win. Moles worth on Saturday, at the office of Works and Public Buildings. Dispatches were sent on Saturday from the Colonial office to the Governor of Malta, the Lord High Com missioner of the lonian Islands, and to the Governor of Hong Kong. Lord Goderich had an interview with Viscount Palmer ston on Saturday. Dispatches were received yesterday at the Colonial office from the Governors of West Australia, New Zea land, and Ceylon. MUTING OF IRISH MEMBERS.—A circular has been issued, requesting a meeting of the Irish Liberal Mem bers, on Thursday, the 3rd March, at King's Arms, Palace Ydrd, London, at half-past two o'clock, to con sider the course to be taken by them at present. The notice bears the signatures of T. Meagher, 'W. Pollard Urquhart, John Greene, Fitzstephen French, John Keating, Wm. Kirk, Robert Potter, John Esmonde, Richard Swift, Thomas V. Burke. THE YOUNG EARL OF SHRENTSBURY.TThe Lord Chancellor, on Saturday, in his private room, appointed Captain Bedingfield to be guardian of the Earl of Shrewsbury during the remaining few months of his minority. This appointment was in entire accordance with the personal wishes of the youthful peer, who is the heir of large property, as well as of ancient titles, and who is said to be a very accomplished young man. DEATH OF THE EARL OF BELFAST.—We regret to state that the Marquis of Donegal received by electric telegraph, yesterday, the melancholy intelligence of the death of his heir apparent. Lord Belfast, which took place at Naples on Friday last. His lordship, who was only in his 27th year, was on a tour in Italy, and had recently sojourned at Nice, where his lordship met with an accident. The Earl was distinguished by his eminent attainments, and composed several melodies. DEATH OP THE BISHOP OF LINCOLN.—This reverend prelate, who died on Saturday, was the Right Rev. John Kaye, D.D., son of Abraham Kaye, Esq. He was born in 1782, married, 1815, the daughter of J. Mortlock, Esq., was formerly Master of Christ's College, Cam bridge. was consecrated Bishop of Bristol 1820,, and translated to this see 1847, and was patron of 60 livings. The annual value of the diocese is' 4,0001. " MONEY AND COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, TWO O'CLOCK. The sales of cotton at Liverpool on Saturday, were estimated at 5,000 bales, of which 1,000 American were taken for export and on specula tion. The market closed heavily at previous rates. The sales comprised 4,500 American, 250 Egyptian at 6d. to Is. oid., and 250 Surat at 4d. to 4kd. per lb. Railway shares were steady at better prices. The railway meetings announced are the fol lowing : Company. Date. Place. Mar. 3, Radley's Hotel. LAW INTELLIGENCE-(THIS LAY.) COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH. Sittings at Nisi Prius in London, before Lord Camp ' bell and a Special Jury.) THE QUEEN V. HENRY BROOM-PERJURY. This was an indictment preferred by Richard Sill, at torney, against Henry Broome, for wilful and corrupt perjury. Mr. M. Chambers and Mr. Hodson, conducted the prosecution, and Mr. Parry and Mr. Metcalfe, appeared for the defendant. The circumstances out of which the present case arose, have been repeatedly before the public, and in various shapes and forms. It will be recollected that Sill was originally employed to act as attorney for a young man of property named Hamp, who preferred a charge against John Broome and two other persons, named Staden and James, for cheating him at cards at Brighton. Subse quently, Henry Broome, the brother of John Broome, indicted Sill at the Old Bailey for obtaining money and securities from him under false pretence of suppressing the prosecution, and he was convicted on the testimony of Henry Broome himself, and sentenced to a term of imprisonment. Mr. Chambers, in his opening address to the jury said, the object of Mr. Sill in preferring the present indictment was to bring Henry Broome to justice, to vindicate his own character, and to establish his inno cence. The perjury committed by Broome con sisted in his swearing at the trial, at the Old Bailey, on the 16th of August last, that he was induced to give two bills of exchange for 1201., and another for 2401. to Sill on his saying that he had had an interview with the Secretary of State for the Home Department about his brother, John Broome, and that he was sure to get him convicted unless he had 300/. given him at once. This he was in a condition to prove was utterly false, and that the bills in question were given in bond fide pay ment of the costs which Sill had incurred on behalf of Hamp. Evidence of what transpired at the trial having been taken, ____ Mr. Sill, the prosecutor, was examined by Mr. M. Chambers.—He said he had been a solicitor • 25 y ears , he served his articles in Westmoreland, and went to practice at Hereford. He settled in London in 1840. While practising at Hereford, he was con cerned in some matters in which Hamp was interested. He was employed by Hamp as his attorney in the prose cution of John Broome. After he ceased to act in that capacity, his bill of costs was taxed before the Master. On a subsequent occasion he dined with a friend, a Mr. Doyle, in the Temple. While there, a Mr, O'Brien called on him several times. Witness and Doyle left the Temple about 11 o'clock, and went to Price's oyster-shop is Fleet-street. tHenry Broome entered in a few minutes, and O'Brien followed him. O'Brien said, " I hope, sir, you will allow me to introduce to you Henry Broome, and that you will shake hands with him." H enry Broome immediately got up, extended his hand, and said he was very glad to see him as he had wished to speak with him for some time. Witness then shook hands. Broome commenced speaking about his brother's case, but he told him he could not allow the matter to be spo ken about, and that if he entered upon it he should im mediately leave the room. Witness added, that William Hamp had behaved very improperly, and that because of some affidavits that had been madeby t wo parties in reference to the taxation of his (Sill's) costs he had determined to retire from the . prosecution, and that his determination would be communicated to the magistrates at Brighton. Broome said he hoped witness would allow him to speak about his bill of costs. He asked him what he wished to say, and he then replied that the bill ought never to have been taxed, and that no one had ever been employed to tax it. He also said that Mr. John Hamp had long ago given him two bills to settle the account. Witness observed that as that was the case, it ought to have been paid long ago. Broome said it would be paid if he (Sill) would call at his house in the Haymarket, and he promised to go there the same day. They then all left the . oyster shop and wept to the Opera Tavern in the Haymarket, which was kept by Henry Broome, and he remained there with O'Brien until three or four o'clock in the morning. It was arranged before he left, that he should call again at two o'clock the following afternoon. He accordingly called the next day with O'Brien whom he accidentally met in the street. They both went into a room up stairs, accompanied by Henry Broome. He then mentioned that he had been put to considerable expense in the taxation of his cost's, and Broome said that John Hamp had agreed to allow 201. for the extra trouble he had been put to in that respect, and also that his expenses would be allowed for going down to Brighton to tell the magistrates that he had withdrawn from the prosecution. Broome, moreover, agreed so, pay 25/., which was due on an overdue bill of O'Brien, which he (Sill) then happened to have in his posseSsion. Two bills of exchange, each for 1201., drawn by John Hamp, were then handed to him by Broome. He pointed out that the bills were imperfect, as they were not drawn upon or accepted by any person. Broome said he did not know whether his brother in Air-street (John) had got so much cash about him, but he would go and see. Witness replied, " I cannot receive any money from your brother, and Lonly see you as a per son sent to me by John Hamp." Broome proposed to give him, as collateral security, a bill for 240/. He next went out of the room, and re turned after a short absence with a bill for that amount drawn by Henry Broome, and accepted by John Broome. He made up the difference by giving witness a cheque for 20/. on Messrs. Taylor of Birming ham, and 201. 4s. in cash, making altogether 2801. 4s.' He afterwards dined with Broome. Next day he went with him and O'Brien to Brighton. He there saw the magistrates, and told them that he could not consistently remain in the prosecution against John Broome, and they gave him permission to withdraw. The witness was under examination when our repor left. FRENCH PLAYS. On Saturday night a novelty, entitled Edgard et sa Bonne, fresh from the Palais Royal, terminated the per formance at this theatre. It treats of the serious incon veniences which occasionally arise from too great inti macy between young gentlemen and the female domestics of their household, and in this case M. Edgard, wearied with the tyranny of his bonne (Florentine), to whom he has been rather too attentive in former times, and who, as is not unusual in such cases, has him completely under her thumb, resolves to free himself by marrying a young lady whom his friends have chosen for him. Of course, this by no m eans su it s Fl orest i ne ' s views, and she op poses it by all the means in her power, and his effort to get her out of the way, and to prevent the family of his intended from discovering the relation between them, constitute the fun of the piece. Then we have all sorts of broad practical jokes, one of which—a fair specimen of the rest—consists in M. Edgard being suddenly called on to dance a polka with a warming -pan stuck up the back of his coat, the lid of which goes flip-flap, keeping time to the music, like a huge castanet as he is whirled round the room. All this kept up a round of incessant laughter from first to last, and M. Ravel was, as may be believed, perfectly in his element, and more irresistibly comic than ever. We regret that there only remain three. more nights of his engagement. On Wednesd a y next he takes a ben e fit, w h en h appears for the last time in L'Etourneau, and a new vaudeville, entitled Rue de la Lune. SACRED HARMONIC SOCIETY; EXETER-HALL. Handel's oratorio of Judas Maccabeus was performed here on Friday night. The principal vocalists were Miss Birch, Miss Deakin, Miss Huddart, Mr. S. Reeves, and Mr. H. Phillips. The performance was one of the most brilliant and successful which the society has yet given, and reflects great praise on all concerned. Miss Birch sang the well known " Pious orgies" with great sweetness and feeling, and Miss Deakin and Miss Huddart were most successful in the duet " Hail, hail, Judea !" which is always a favourite when well sung. Miss Deakin was also heard to great advantage in the beautiful melody, " Wise men flattering," which she sang with a mingled power and sweetness, so successful on the audience that, but for the regulations of the society, she would have been greeted with an unanimous encore. The recitative, " Arm, arm, ye brave !" was given by Mr. H. Phillips with his usual fire and anima tion, and Mr. S. Reeves made a strong impression by the finished style in which he sang his two principal powe songs, rs." "How chorus was perfect, and several times excited the uncontrollable applause of the audience by the power and precision with which the fine choruses of this oratorio were sung. ORDER OF THE THISTLE -LORD EOLINTON. TO THE EDITOR. OF THE SUN, SlR,—you have copied into your paper of this evening a statement from the Morning Herald, to the effect, that the Order of the Thistle recently conferred upon Lord Eglinton was bestowed upon that nobleman by Lord Derby's Government before they gave up office, and not by her Majesty's present Ministers. I am not quite sure of dates, but, if I am not mis taken, the death of the Earl of Stair, by which the vacancy took place, was subsequent to the occupation of office and the formation of the present Government by the Earl of Aberdeen. If lam right, the statement in the Herald is totally without foundation.—Your obedient servant, Coventry House Club, 19th Feb. A WHIG. TO THE EDITOR OF TEE SUN. your paper of Feb. 14, speaking of the Coin mission for Inquiring into the state of Cathedral Chap ters, you say :—" To the inquiry ' What are the rela tions of the chapters to the bishops ?' the answer might be, with little variations, Sons, sons-in-law, brothers, brothers-in-law, uncles, nephews, and cousins by birth or marriage.' There would appear to be very snug family parties in the cathedrals of each diocese." Let me beg you to qualify these last words, as respects the diocese of Lincoln. Whatever Bishop Prettyman might do, the admirable prelate who has just expired, Bishop Kaye, has not conferred a single lucrative dig. nity on his son, or any one of his three sons-in-law, all clergymen. He has had ample opportunity of doing s o , in the case of these or other relations, but beyond the gift of an honorary prebend he has wholly a b s t a i ned from using his power. It will be difficult, alm os t im possible, to supply his place with a Bishop o f Li ncoln as meek, as learned, and as pious as hims e lf. Th e Church and country have sustained a heavy loss. -1. am, sir, yours obediently, A LINCOLNSHIRE CLERGYMAN. Aberdeen Ambergate Feb. 28, London Tavern. Belfast and County Down Feb. 28, Belfast. Birk., Lane., & Chesh. June Feb. 26, Birkenhead. Birminham & Oxford Juno Feb. 26, Birmingham. Birm., Wolverh., & Dudley Feb. 26, Birmingham. Blackburn Bristol and Exeter Feb. 24, Bristol. City of Toronto & L. Huron Feb. 24, 13, St. Helen's-pl. Cornwall Direct London& Portsmouth Feb. 25, London Tavern. Dublin and Drogheda Feb. 25, Dublin. Dundalk and Enniskillen Feb. 22, Dundalk. East Anglian Feb. 26, London Tavern. East Lincolnshire Feb. 25, King's-cross. Eastern Counties Eastern Union Feb. 25, Radley's Hotel. Edinburgh and Glasgow Mar. 1, Glasgow. Fleetwood, Preston, & West Riding Junction Feb. 24, Preston. Glasgow and South-Western Mar. 9, Glasgow. Great Northern Feb. 26, Albion Tavern. Great Sn. & Wn. (Ireland) Mar. 4, Dublin. Kilk. & Great S. & W. Irel Feb. 22, 17,Gracechurch-s: Lancashire and Yorkshiie Mar. 2. Manchester. Lancaster and Carlisle Mar. 4, Liverpool. Leeds Northern Llynvi Valley Feb. 24, Bristol. Londonderry & Enniskillen Mar. 1, 4,Coleman-st.-blgs Loughor Feb. '2,8, 37, Walbrook. Manch., Baxton, & Matlock Mar. 2, Derby. Manchester, Shell., & Lin. Feb. 28, Manchester. Midland Feb. 23, Derby. Mid. Gt. Western Ireland Mar. 4, Dublin. Monkland Feb. 24, Glasgow. Newmarket Feb. 26, London Tavern. Newp., Aber., & Hereford Feb. 23, London Tavern. Newry,Warrenp.,&Rostrev. Feb. 26, Liverpool. Norfolk North Devon Feb. 21, London Tavern. North & South-West. Juno Feb. 21, 15 Parliament-st. Oldham Alliance Feb. 24, Oldham. Oxf. Worc. & Wolverhampt Feb. 23, London Tavern. Royston and Hitchin Feb. 28, 15.A.,St.Helen's-pl. Sambre and Meuse Feb. 23, Jardinet. South Devon Feb! 22, Plymouth. South. Eastern Mar.l7, Bridgehouge-hotel, London-bridge. South Wales Feb. 25, Paddington. South Yorkshire Feb. 25, Sheffield. St. Andrew's and Quebec (Class A. 4 Feb. 24, 26, Parliament-st. Thames Haven Feb. 26, London Tavern. Tourn., Jurb., Land., & Hass Mar. 17, Brussels. Waterford and Limerick ' Feb. 25, Waterford. West Cornwall Western of France ~ Feb. 28, Paris. Wharfdale Whitehaven & Furness Juno Feb. 26, Guildhall-chamb. York & North Midland Feb. 23, York. A return of some interest has been issued as to the dealing by the Bank of England in specie and bullion. This shows that since the year 1848 the Bank has had nothing to do with purchasing either silver bullion, or foreign silver coin. The year 1852 was by far the most active as regards pur chases of gold bullion and coin, over 15,000,0001. being the amount, whereas in 1851 it was, less than 7,000,000/., and in 1850 under 2,500,000/. In the year 1848 the - amount. was about 6,000,000/. As regards the gold and silv:er bullion and coin held at the beginning of January for several years'pas the amounts were as under :- 1847 . 1848 . £14,951,572 12,404,250 1849 1850 1851 1852 1853 • 20,527,662 The increase, therefore, has been steady, and en tirely in gold, the amount of silver both in foreign and British coin being on the Ist of last month smaller than for years past at the corresponding date. The French Government,' in the month of January last, lowered the duty upon guano imported into France from 50 to 30 francs per ton when in foreign ships, and at the same time abolished all duty upon it when brought in French vessels. A rumour prevails that the duty is to bo be taken off, by whatever ships the article may be received, as greater importance is now attached to its use, and agriculture needs a stimulus. A loan of three millions of francs is announced for the city of Brussels. The bonds will be of 100 francs each, and bear 3 per cent. i n t eres t . Th e loan will be redeemable in 66 years, and every year there will bo a drawing for a small amount to be cancelled. The steamer which leaves for Australia on Wed nesday takes out 220,0001. in specie. The English Stock Market has been rather dull, the advices from Austria, received late on Satur day, having rather a depressing influence. Consols have been 99i !4 for transfer and account, or about the same as they left off on Saturday. The New Three-and-a-Fourth per Cents. have been done at 103 a 1, and the Three per Cents. at 100* if. Bank Stock has been steady at 228. Exchequer Bills are a shade better, being 15s. to 17s. for those at 11d., and 13s. for those advertised to be paid off. East India Bonds have been at 355. premium. In foreign stocks there is not much doing. Spanish Three per Cents. have been marked 48f, and the New Deferred 231, being rather firmer. The Committee's Certificate is at 51- per cent. Portuguese Four per Cents. have realised 38k, and the Five per Cents. 40.. Mexican Bonds have been done at 23Z, which is a shade better. Equa dor stock keeps up at SR-, and Grenada Deferred is worth 11k. Danish Five per Cents. have been at 1071. Dutch Bonds are nominal. Railway shares, for the most part, have been rather fluctuating. The principal dealings have been in Great orthern, Caledonian, Midland, Lancashire and Yorkshire, and York and North Midland, which are rather in favour of buyers. The Lancashire and Yorkshire, it is said, will pay only 3 per cent., with no surplus, wages which fell due the Ist July last having been deducted, car riages and new engines also forming a heavy charge. The French shares are not so good. The gold mines have been at about the previous rates. The land companies' shares are quieter. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY. (From the Official List.) Business clone. Bank Stock 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 1094 i 3 per Cent. Consols A nnu iti es New 31 per Cent. Annuities.— ..... Long Annuities, Expi re sth J an., 1860 64 a+ Ditto 30 Years, Expi re sth Jan., 1 860 6 +3-16 India Stock India Bonds, £lOOO 35 50 Consols for Account 10th March 99g A B Exchequer Bills lid. March. June. £l000. £5OO l7 15 Small lO Ditto Advertised l3 6 PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY. Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent Ditto Small 1024 Ditto New, 1852, V s per Cent 97i Danish 5 per Cent. Equador Bonds • 5 ....• g 4 Grenada Bonds, D e f erre d , lli 4 11 Mexican 3 per Cent Portuguese 4 per Cent. . 4O x d Ditto, 4 per Cent. ................... ......••• 38 i Ditto for the Account 39 Ditto 3 per Cent 35 Sardinian Bonds, 5 per Cent. ............ Spanish Bonds, 3 per Cent . ......... Spanish New Deferred, 3 per Cent 23. Spanish Committee Cert. of Coup, not fun, 5i J 1 6 • Swedish Loan 4 d Belgian Bonds, 4 per Cent. Ex. 25fr 984 Dutch Exchange 2 t i per Cent — Ditto 4 per Cent. Certifieates......... • ••• 98 1 THREE O'CLOCK. Consols . 99; i Ditto March Account 99s buyers DESTRUCTION OF A LICENSED VICTUALLER''—(THrs DAY).—Shortly before four o'clock this morning, great excitement prevailed in King-street, Lock's-fields, Surrey, in consequeice of the lower part of the Newing ton Arms public-house having been discovered in flames. The police soon aroused those residing in the house, and instant measures were resorted to for the quick arrival of the engines, sand only a very short time elapsed ere Mr. Henderson and Mr. Connorton, with the brigade and West of England arrived, but by this period the con tents of every room in the house was one burning mass. The firemen used their utmost exertions, but in an hour all the property of the Newington Arms was destroyed, all of which is insured. Nothing is known as to the cause of the fire. FRIGHTFUL DEATH OF A CHILD.—On Saturday Mr. W. Carter, coroner for East Surrey, held an inquest at the Union, Vassal-road, Camberwell, on the body of Daniel Connor, aged three years, the son of a labourer, residing in Nelson-street, Wyndham-road. From the testimony of several witnesses, it appeared that on Mon day last the deceased was left in the care Os a little girl, aged eight years. About four o'clock in the evening the girl left the room to procure some' coals (previously placing a kettle of boiling water on one of the hobs), and during her absence the deceased drank some of tl.e boiling water, scalding his mouth and throat in a mo t dreadful manner. Mr. Thomas K. King, surgeon, was immediately sent for, but, not w ith standing the utmost attention the deceased expired in great agony, on Tues day evening, from the effects of the scald. Verdict, "Accidental death." MARKET HEIVS-(THIS DAY•) CORN EXCHANGE. The leading provincial markets held on Saturday we r e fairly supplied with wheat, in which a steady business wo transacted on somewhat higher terms. Malting barley Pr d.uced rather more money, and the value of griuding,sno distilling s or t s was we ll supporte d . M a lt wa s quite dear ; but oats, beans, peas, and flour commanded little attention. The latest advices from New York are to the effect that steady business was d o i ng i n w h eat an d fl our f o r shiPre, to England. M os t o f th e cont i nental mar k e t s have el' . bited more firmness at full prices. The arrivals of English grain up to our war l a d week, were very m o d era t e F rom a b roa d , we reeei ea ° 30 6 5,402 quarters of wheat, 1,130 barley, 10,029 beans, 124 peas, 473 tares, 1,200 linseed 130 rapesee d ' DI mustard seed, 63 sundry seeds, 889 sacks' and 1,301 baize of flour. 1 of Fresh up to day coastwise from Essex, the aril ° condition. wheat was tolerably good, and in improved ve ry From Kent, Lincolnshire, &c., the receipts wer e fr o limited, but of full average weight. By land carriag e the the midland counties a few parcels came to hand, but 03 total supply on offer was very moderate. The attendallb, of both town and country millers being tolerably gl ed ' ye ry demand for all kinds of wheat of home produce ruled of steady, and a good clearance was effected at prices equal to those obtained on Monday last. isg The amount of business doing for forward delivel.'weri larger than for some time past, nevertheless, the gr og were unable to obtain any advance in the quo'ts,tions. to, oats' The show of fresh foreign wheat was but ulec i v er :Dy Ex-granary, the supply was seas ona bly ex t en sive. 110 fine parcels moved off freely, at the ex t reme r ates Pai d week, whilst middling and inferi o r qua liti es were st ead and quite as dear. sad Floating cargoes off Falmouth met a dull lug ' 9„, late Ma rates were bare suorted. Malting ba ley, the supply of which was limited , If car good request, at, in some instances, an advance in t he vs' reincies of ls per quarter, 39s h a vi ng b een p a id for Cb t - 0 Tier ; grinding and distilling parcels ruled steady, 5 quotations. hich We had a good demand for malt, i n th e va lue of ic no change took place. te the Although the total supply of o a ts was b u t modem t if e, demand for that description of produce was far from s e at late rates. oo ta The sale for beans—the arrivals of which were ra —was tolerably fi inquiry full quotations. cle f ' We had a slow for peas, at unaltered cull .° The demand for flour was rather firmer than of late , prices, no change took place. Uinta/MOT PEE IMPERIAL MEASURES to 6.11 Wheat—Essex lc Kent, Malt—Chevalier • • . 9 . 61° ~. Red —• • new 40s to 48s Oats Yorkshire an d ~,, P•„ Ditto .• • • ........ old 455 59s Lincoinsh., Feed 1 " . " 11. 1 Ditto, White new 44s 53s Pot a t o ...... •• • • 211 Ditt0........ old 493 608 Youghal andCOrk .61 1, 41 Nculolk and Lin- Black. ••• • " 16, 1 1, coin, Red, old 47s 53s Cork, White .• • " ii P" . 2 341 Ditto new ...• •• 37s 47s Scotch, Feed. •• • • s i, m Bye—Old ............ 315 32s Beans—Tick .......... 3b , 41 New ............ 31s 33s Pigeons ....•• .• • 31 , - arley—Grinding..... 253 28s Peas—Grey ..• ••••• •' 23, A.T Malting ......... 3ls 34. Maple. ....•• •• "- i r .. 33 40 Chevalier.... ... 35s 395 White... ••• • • • 36s Ad Walt—Suffolk and Nor- Boilers •• • ..... . al/ ad' folk. ..... 54s 58s Flonr—Town-made.•• 2 - 0 - irown ........... •... 46s 525 Suffolk .• •••• •• " iis IClnestonandWare 53s 60i Stoaktn & Norfolk - SMITHFIELD. oe 4 i The imp or t s o f f ore i gn s t oc k i n t o L on d on , Do 161 were very l arge —th e t o t a l supp l y amoun ti n g to 0(11 head. During the same period in 1852 they aul° llll . 1,899 ; in 1851, 2,229 ; in 1850, 979 ; in 1849, 1,9661 in 1848, 1,546 head. 0 ,100. , IMPORTS INTO LONDON LAST WEISE. From Beasts. Sheep. Lambs. Hamburgh l'=2 ... ••• Ostend — ... 342 ... 9 Harlingen 3OB 114 ... 1 ' Antwerp ,.„ 337 2 _ ... 205 2 .'"--i 28 9 Rotterdam 129 . 1,728 Amsterdam Total .... 475 ... 2,842 ... ',••• The yearly comparison of weekly imports is as under: Beasts. Sheep. Lambs.' Carta. 1852 430 1,260 2OO ." 1851 475 1,484 263 •.' 1850 368 ... 324 287 • 1849 403 1,287 186 1 848 764 700 82 ••• too , To-day's ma r k e t was f a i r l y supp li e d w ith f o reigi both as to number and quality. M me Since our last report, 5 beasts and 92 pigs have hand direct by sea from Ireland. dig The fresh arrivals of beasts from our own graw&:a er eu triets were very moderate, the ti me o f year CO o i toil whilst their general quality was tolerably good. tP standing that the dead markets were well suPP7ra th beef trade, owing to the prevailing fine weather, i'poto large attendance of buyers, ruled active. The r u f e rii bre eds realised full prices in every instance, whilst d r i and middling qualities of beef advanced quit e Blbs. From Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, and Cambridge sp r. roceiVed, 1,750 Scots, short horns, &c. ; from o the i l i of England, 600 Herefords, runts, Devons, &c. Scotland, 4-00 horned and polled Scots, whollY Pe r , The steamer had not arrived at the usual hlimited, sol] The numbers of s he e p were aga i n verY ntra d e rill' by no means fir s t- ra t e con diti on . Th e m utt° firm, and last week's prices W ere fully sup 5 to 58 primest old D owns , i n th e wool sold a t f ro m -s out of the wool, 4s to 4s 2d th p P er — s Calves—the supply of Which w v derst e r -4 ? ry steadily, at in m os t instances, anadvan e ci; in the our re " e of 2d per 81bs. The top figure was 4s 8d per 81b0. i. se t There was a sli g htly improved inquiry for pigs, 51 ' full prices. Per 81bs to si s. d. s. d., Inferior Beasts ...3 oto 3 2 Second quality ...3 4 3 6 Prime large oxen 3 8 310 Primo Scot; Etc. 4 0 4 2 Inferior sheep ~.3 10 4 0 Second quality ...4 2 4 6 Primo crse.-wlled.4 8 410 ;ink the sflitls. . c d. I '6 rime Southdown 5 0 4 Largo cm. calves 3 9 4 Prime small do ... 4 4 ; Large hogs ......... 210 4 'mall porkers ...... 3 ! $4 , - uckling calves 20 u, s 01 Quarter old pigs 19 u Cs] reveeps ........... . Beasts ......................... ......................................... 1,1 5 00 4 ,1 ' S Pigs ....................... lies and P.F!ce.for't,,o,ll TOTAL SUPPLT. Beasts , 3;804 Sheep 17,270 Calves l3O Pigs 305 f A statement and comparison of the su -g a p, stock exhibited andsold in Smithfield Cattle Fab , Monday, Feb. 23, 1852, and this day, Moods)" , 1353. 13 0 Per 81bs, to sink the offals. • 21 1 a, Feb. 23, 1852. ' s. d. •. • 0 to Coarse and inferior bea s t s • ... 2 2to 2 4 4 ; Second quality ditto 2 6 210 3 8 P Prime large oxen 3 0 11 2 10 ! Prime Scots, &c 3 4 I 6 Coarse and inferior sheep 210 3 0 3 1 0 Second quality ditto ... 3 2 3 8 4 8 ; Prime coarse wo o ll e d ditt o 310 4 0 4 0 ?rime Southdown ditto 4 2 4 4 5 g Largo coarse calves ••• 3 6 4 0 3 4 Prime small ditto 4 2 4 6 4 Largo hogs 2 6 3 6 " 4 4 0 Neat small po • I : liere •• ••• •••• ••••• 3 8 310 8 -? 8 / 4,094 g Sh eep ••• ••• •••. 21 , 740 St /5 Calves... ••• 219 320 s 011 eM SUPPLIES ON SALE Feb. 24, 1851.—Beasts, ; 19,000 ; c a l ves, 70: pigs, 295. / 1 4 '10" Feb. 25, 185 0.—Beasts, 3,922 ; sheep, 19,490 ; pigs, 185. NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL 6 0.1 °P Or The suppli es o f b o th town and country ~.411a °A offer to-day were extensive ; yet tho general dew steady, and prices were well supported. Per 81bs by the carcase. d , ‘i 6 s. d. 0. 4d. 3 4 I Beef, inferio r 26 2 8 Mutton, Inferior . 3 8 4 Do.,middli ng 2 10 8 0 Do.,middling ..••• Do., prime large 3 2 3 4 Do., prime .......... g 4 Do., do. small 3 4 3 6 V ea l ...............•• 3 Pork, large 2B 3 0 Pork, small .... BOROUGH HOP. an fifiti All kinds of h o p s , both new and old, cootllos• ite gti , request, a t f u ll y t h e l ate advance i n the 0 ) .1'1 of '- and Ea s t K en t poc k ets, 96s to 160 s ; w 90s to 112 s ; Sussex, 92s to 110 e per cwt. - D , 14/1 ' BOROUGH AND SPITALFIEL- ~,,(10,„rote These markets are tolerably well, but n ot to,T i neu no " supplied with most kinds of potatoes, in whieLy business is doing, at about stationary prios• Col°,.10 11 : last week wore 100 tons from Rouen, 47 fr°l`sool lB- 10' 19 from Rotterdam.—York Regents, 85 5 t ° ;13,5s t ° 110 0 "' Lincolnshire do., 75s to 110 s ; Scotch do. , 9 00; Do. Reds, 75s to 85s ; French Whites, 80s t° 65s to 755. lIVWOOL. e go y The public sales of colonial wool hold sin e o f the AD? have been well attended by buyers, and L eost rioes , ~ , ,,y 0 offered hare changed hands at the opening P P i e 18,000 bales have now passed the hamme r ' T A O 00 00 English wools are firm and quite as dear• lie c o imports were under 400 bales, wholly from .... cig 0 SEEDS. ~ 10 „„ 1 A OOP' s jeil/" - 0 The demand for linseed is less active. 4- C r as h f realised 50s, and ex. granary, 50s 6d to S L-s' r. fl P t held at 51s, and Petersburgh, 48s per (1 ,151 7 a at. _,, 3v 'clii l ", season, 20,000 qu ar t ers o f th e l a tter haves c " . ~A Ofsbr, public sale, 1,225 qrs. East India have chang7 bev ,A 00 52s to 52s 6d. Canary is lower to purelo° 404' owing to the ri se i n th e o il mar k o t, has a ll ol: s so j 1 dency. ..••• ISO 0• 5 !, TurniP•White, per bush. Si to Ile Carraway, new ^ ' ...• 9 90 6Y Swede .......... lOs 123 Coriander , new i i' o ter ' ,so 11 0 Mustard, 8r0wn...... 7s 103 Ilempseed , P er .: l ,wing* * 49 0 i?, White, new...... l an d l O s Li n seed, FA/P' .. •• •• 49 0 V TAres,winter, White .... Spring .......... Os Od Os Od Rai" • • .......*•• / I?, Re4En n:w., .. 4s Gct ha Od Crushing .. ..... 49 , Canary, per quarter .. 438 45s Odessa ••• ~ too - , 3 1.,4 r, Cloverss ... •• .... 28s 34s LinseedCaks, P* • 91 ,' OO 1 1 5s ...... 46s 66s Foreign, P op 1. 1 0 9 (cwt.) 4is 623 English • 6 ; ;on 11 'pi I 'o lo Trefoil White.... g6s 4Bs 3 6 0 2 5 s Rape Cakes' 1) " alit j White.... 46s 64s Rapeseed , Ne w , ' 38 TALLOW. .. for;„isr#4o) There has been rather activity in W S -- f r y more a 0 „„, , " Monday last and ' both on the spot ti? i l j o y, . 4 , r deliv. delivery, ha v e had an upward tendenck _-ftallovr on the spot, is quoted at 45s per cwt. T°'s 10. tki per cwt. net cash ; rough fat, 2s. 6d. Per 3s. 1 5 _,„i" Y, 6 4 0 76,1 0 44 .! 460 0 1 1851. Stock this day ••• • .. 32,418 I ----- ----.---7- • • 6d to'37s bd Price of Y. c . : ... 40s Od 30s • 000 Od • to 00s Od 00s Od Delivery last week .•1 2,04 b ' '1,744 1,941 Ditto front June 1.... I 78,792 72,839 74 911 last week ~ 569 1 156 - 1 41 Ditto from June 1.... 103,374 1n87,515 911 40,147 I 49, 91 t, 6d rri —et+ of Town .... •• 488 Oil I 315 6d 395 - Isso. -- 11 51 ' 52, 0 3 ,1 35s 0 to 35s n 9, 48 " 0, 913 1,93 5 , 99,1 6 ' 30Od