The Sun. — London, England, 1853-02-07 00:00:00

sfto, btrb r-443,;i'""Katttott. SUN OFFICE, Six o'clock. TATTERSALL'S. (THIS EVENING.) METROPOLITAN HANDICAP. Bto 1 agst Contentment. 20 to 1 agst Lampedo. 25 to 1 agt Snowdon Dunhill. 25 to 1 agst Maria. NOTTINGHAM HANDICAP, 3to 1 agst The Bishop. 7 to 2 agt Bold Davie. CHESTER CUP. 20 to 1 agst Contentment. 35 to 1 agst Richard Primer. NOTTINGHAM TWO YEAR OLD STAKES. 7to 4 ag - st Lady Audrey. 3to I asst Bridesmaid. LIVERPOOL STEEPLECHASE 6to 1 agst Miss Mowbray. ato 1 agst Oscar. 11 to 1 agst Sir Peter Laurie. NEWMARKET HANDICAP. 10 to 1 agst Contentment. 15 to 1 agst Herbert. TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS STAKES. 4to 1 agst Sittingbourne. 4to 1 agst West Australia. DERBY. 10 to 1 agst West Australian. 15 to 1 agst Pharos. 16 to 1 agst Sittingbourne. 20 to 1 agst Elmsthorpe. 35 to 1 agst Contentment. CHILD MURDER AND ATTEMPTED SUICIDE OF THE MOTHER.—On Saturday, at an inquest taken by Mr. Baker, the coroner, at the Victory, Kingsland-road, Shoreditch, information was communicated to him by Mr. Meadows, summoning officer of the parish, of the following extradinary case of child murder in the Regent's Caned, Haggerstone, by the unfortunate mother, and of the, attempted suieide of the latter, who is at present lying in Shoreditch workhouse, where she was removed, sSter having been prevented effecting self-destruction. it appears that on Tuesday morning last, about 11 o'clock, some men were passing down Great Cambridge-street, alsaggerstone, near the bridge which traverses the Queen's road, they observed a female, who was holding a bundle in her hand, phange into the canal. Several of them went to her assistance, and succeeded in bringing her to the towing path. hile they were so engaged, an infant was observed to be struggling in the water, and which had dropped out of the handkerchief in which it had been wrapped. The poor baby soon sank. Some persons, who were in a state of astonishment at the extra ordinary scene, tried to rescue it, but without success. The mother was taken to the Acorn public-house, Great Cambridge-street, where she was put to bed. The next clay the unfortunate young woman was removed to Shoreditch workhouse, and has been attended to by Mr. Clarke, the house-surgeon. She still remains in a very Precarious state. The name of the young woman is Mary Ann Capron, and she resided at No. 7, James street, Coal Harbour-street, Hackney-road. She is a single woman, about 26 years of age, and very respect ably connected. She was delivered of the child about five o'clock on the morning of Tuesday, unknown to her parents, who charged her with havin g b een enc i en te, and who suspected that her delivery had taken place, which she denied. She left her home unknown to them, hav ing folded her infant up in a blue handkerchief. RESCUE FROM DROWNING.— , HUMANE AND HEROIC CONDUCT OF AN OFFICER.— We should, indeed, take great shame to ourselves did we omit to mention, and that in terms of the highest possible commendation, the humane and heroic conduct of Captain Grierson, corn blending officer of the 15th depot, quartered here, .who under Providence ' was the instrument of saving , the life of a yoiinglid on Saturday last. The "Lord's Hole," a pool of inconsiderable depth and extent in summer, but which, by the continuous and heavy rains of this winter, ; been converted into a lake, situated on the eastern eel of our fair green, immediately close to and over the canal, and apparently supplied by a spring Somewhat no sr its centre, has been from time immemorial, the theatre where. the youth of our town, not having the fes r of broken bones or wet jackets before their eyes, took lessons in the slippery art of skating and sliding whenever frost converte d it into a field suitable for such • es The frost of the two or three p rece di ng nights t eiLpes having, in the opinion of the juvenile s , imparted on the (ley named the necessary degree of firmness to its surface, comiderable number of them were amusing themselves )01 I nt, when one unfortunate wight, carried away by tile excitement of the moment, incautiously approached too , near the spring, where, the ice being thin and nenk, it suddenly gave way under his weight, at once .scipitating him, in the deepest portion of the pond, : , 1:.1 where the 'water was considerably beyond his depth. sines to t}',e surface, he continued to catch hold of ti; table ice:, but either through fright or cold, or both aabined., he made no further efforts tocxtricate himself ; eed as Ms companions, influenced most likely by the same fiechngs, also seemed incapable of affording him any assistance, contenting themselves merely with acting the part of passive spectators, his situation was every mo zne at becoming not only more painful but perilous in the es reme. Fortunately at this juncture Capt. Grierson, .a was coming from the barracks, seeing the commo ea about the pond, rushed down, and perceiving the perilous position of the boy, and, also, that none of the bystanders, of whom there was a goodly number on the beaks, of the pond, were willing to risk their lives or subject themselves to a wetting with the thermometer at I 'le freezing point, in an attempt to save the lad, boldy ed at once plunged into the water, broke up the ice in his immediate vicinity, severely lacerating his hands in le a efforts, and after considerable danger and difficulty 3ceeded in dragging him ashore in all but an exhausted .ndition. Not content with doing things by halves, he not stop even here, but had him at once conveyed to a neighbouring house, wrapped up in blankets, and re t seatives applied, and wasted not even a thought on his aa. dripping condition and bleeding hands until he had the satisfaction of knowing that, under Divine Provis lice, he had been the means of not only preserving a flow -creature from a sudden and violent death, but also a ,accent and worthy family from affliction and mourning. —Westmeath, Guardian,. BANKRUPTCY AND FLIGHT OF THE RECTOR OF STEP r: Y.—The large parish of St. Dunstan, Stepney, has been lately deprived of the services of the Rev. Richard Lee; the rector, under very extraordinary circumstances. The reverend gentleman succeeded to the living on the r , signation of the Rev. Mr. Vaudrey, in 1847, and it is believed he was then considerably in debt. He has for scene time past been engaged in railway speculations to a TT. Ly large amount, and these adventures turning out unfavourable, he disappeared some few weeks since, and much speculation has taken place respecting his where abonts. It is believed that, in the first instance, he fled to 'Hamburg, and afterwards to Brussels. A few days since the officers of the Court of Chancery were on the look out for the clerical defaulter, and received informa flea that he was at Birmingham, and they proceeded to that place in search of him, and returned to town with out being able to arrest him. The amount of the reve rend gentleman's liabilities is upwards of 11,0001., and a composition has been tendered to some of the creditors, of 6s. Bd., and to others of lls. in the pound. The living has been sequestrated, and the sequestrator ha, given notice that a ll tith es, f ees, E aster offerings, and other money, are to be paid over to the Rev. Mr. Atiehinleck, the curate, on his behalf. The value of the livieg, exclusive of the large and spacious vestry house n'tei pleasure ground, is 8001. per annum, and is in the eie, of Brasenose College, Oxford. An offer to pay the ereslitors 5001. per annum from the proceeds of the living has been made, and, it is b e li eve d, w ill h e u l t i mately ace , ded to. Several persons residing in the parish will he great sufferers by the failure of Mr. Lee. The Rev. Bee was not a man of expensive habits, but a great ' , l l, ‘eulator. He was anything but popular in the parish, ".' 3 7 inll3.fferent preacher, and, to use his own words, .1,-1 orator. Hi s o p pos i t i on to the election of the Rev. • l• Rcrole, the popular afternoon lecturer, and his refusal ')e_rrnit hi m th e use of the pulpit one Sunday afternoon, Lel a caused a disturbance in the church, broughtthe Rev. r • LL into very bad repute with his parishioners. The absurd reports respecting the flight and liabilities a t. t e rector of St epney have prevailed in the parish all 4.1,- past week. A rumour obtained extensive circulation one day that the rector, overwhelmed by his misfortunes, 1 1 , 14 committed suicide ; but there is no foundation what for this story. It was reported on Saturday in the -vicinity of Old Stepney Church, that the Rev. Mr. Lee was the inmate of a lock-up house in the neighbourhood of Chancery-lane, snd that his creditors had refused to accept the composition offered them. The clerical duties Jew" been performed by the curates since Mr. Lee's ab eence from the parish.— Dispatch. THE CONVICT KIRWAN. —During the present week some very remarkable circumstances have come to light connected, with the case of Mr. Boyer, to which re !, ence Las often been made in the police reports. It appeare that a communication was addressed, by the ary of the Police Commissioners, to the actuary of 11;9 Abbey -street Savings Bank, with a view of ascer .ing whether there was any record of moneys de -1,0,4ed in that bank, in the separate names of Boyer :en his wife. After due inquiry it was found that some ! 3 since--we have not learned the exact date—a sum 3 T- e bout 201, h a d b een lodged by Mrs. Boyer in her own I le, and another amount by her husband in his name. It ;Lad been stated by Mrs. Boyer that, on the occasion swyer. her residence was broken into, and her furniture a away, a savings bank book, belonging to her, JeLe been abstracted. It appears, by the records of the that the husband had claimed the amount lodged ?,,n;sti.er name, and the ba n k, on t h e cla i m being esta ).,y evidence, paid the money. A demand was Lie ray William Burke Kirwan for the amount lodged the bank in the name of Boyer, whose savings bank he Produced, and the whole sum deposited by a; , 1- - was paid t o hi m. The signature of Kirwan, , the recepient of ,money, appears in the bank book. a s et that time, the rule of the bank was to pay deposits t(, the holder of the book, after regular notice.-11 f ercan fi/C Advertiar, THE SUN, T. ONI)ON, MONDAY EVENING, FP,BIITJATtY 7, 1555. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. (From the Times.) It has been said that writers are an irritable race, and we recollect that a certain anonymous correspondent of this journal who attacked us some what vehemently a few weeks ago appealed to what he thought must be our susceptibilities in justifica tion of his own. As far as a private opinion can be taken in such a matter, we really conceive that we are not much exposed to the imputation. We can assure the reader that we receive with great equanimity many flattering communications of ; which he never hears, and we do think that we display some patience under visitations of a diffe rent kind. Being perfectly content with what we know and feel to be our position, we are willing to let all disquisitions on our abilities or our useful ness pass without notice or interference for what they are worth, and the result must be at least thus far agreeable to the public—that it learns the intelligence and politics of the day, instead of being regaled with private controversies and. squabbles. If we depart at all from this observance, it is in the interests of journalism at large ; and on no other principle than this do we now refer to the latest harangue of Mr. Cobden, delivered this week at Holmfirth. The part played by the press in the affairs of this country is so important that no re flections on its office or influence can be prudently pamed by. " You will find," said Mr. Colie_en to his audience, " that people will resort to n ew s-rooms, not to read the leading articles, for, with all respect for the talented writers of the public press, I regard the leaders as of far less importance than the articles of news in the paper. Take a newspaper up, and you will find news brought from all parts of the world ; nineteen-twentieths of the *hole paper consists cf news, and only one-twentieth part of original articles or leaders ; therefore, with all respect to the editors of these newspapers, I believe these original articles, so far as guidance and direction are concerned, are the least useful and interesting parts of their papers facts and intelligence being more sought alter by readers. There are far more newspapers in America than here, but they have less political influence." Such are Mr. Cobden's views, nor will there be much difficulty in disce—aing what they imply as well as what they expless. If we pleased to be short with our depreciator, we might argue, in his own words, that as only one-twentieth part of the House of Commons consists of Mr. Cobden's friends, and nineteen-twentieths of other parties, therefore Mr. Cobden's party, as far as public guidance is concerned, is the least useful part of the house. Or we might inquire how that " political influence" which Mr. Cobden begrudges us could ever have arisen if no readers sought guidance and direction from what we wrote. If the leading articles of the paper are of so little in terest that they are forsaken for " facts and intelli gence," why should these articles be thus attacked as unduly influential ? Either Mr. Cobden's facts are unreal, or his arguments are good for nothing. The effect cannot exist without the cause, and yet he first ignores the cause and then complains of the effect. We prefer, however, to reason otherwise with our antagonist, especially as his opinions on this point are not now intimated for the first time, though they happen to be conveyed with unusual plainness. He contends that the proper functions of the press consist in the distribution of news, and not in discussion, inquiry, or argument. He wants " facts and intelligence," not " leading articles ;" and, with the view of superseding what he dislikes by what he desires, he has often insisted on the excellence of small penny newspapers, comprising not'ning but " facts,' and retaining, of course, no talent above that of the compositor. Now, in the first place, we must ask him what are " facts and intelligence" as thus invidiously particularised for contrast ? We beg the reader to believe that it is from no fault of our own inten tions if the leading articles of this journal do not convey the most accurate facts and the best-sifted intelligence contained in the paper. We cannot, of course, always rely implicitly on the accuracy of our correspondents, surrounded as they frequently are with difficulties of various kinds, but we can appreciate these conditions in each particular case ; we can compare their reports with those from other sources of information ; and we present the public in our remarks with the conclusions most probably approximating to the substantial truth. In point of fact, those very articles , selected by Mr. Cobden as least concerned with the ." news," which he thinks should be the exclusive produce of &paper, are those in which the news is most carefully given. And this is not only naturally, but even necessarily the case. Our news arrives from every quarter of the world, and, as every day brings its own delivery, the most anxious vigilance would be insufficient to certify it in all particulars. Laborious as is the discretion exercised in this respect—and we can assure the reader that he has little conception of the duty—it is of course impossible to secure perfect infallibility in five hun dred correspondents ; and yet Mr. Cobden's pro posal would pin the reader's faith upon a corner paragraph, to the exclusion of those expository articles on which all the experience and discern ment at the command of the journal have been carefully engaged. Again, how is a " fact" to be measured If by nothing but the words required to comiaunicate an occurrence, then the model of Mr. Cobden's news papers would be contained in our submarine ex presses, and it would have been quite sufficient last Monday to have announced as the first and last notice of the subject, " The Emperor of the French is married." If our own observations on this topic did no 'L partake of that " intelligence" which news papers ought to convey, then neither did the letters of our Paris correspondent, for they were only ";articles" in another form. Precisely the same remark, too, may be made of every report which reaches us from the suburbs or the provincial districts, from Scotland, or from Ireland. An " alleged murder" or a " railway accident" could be reported as a bare " fact" in two lines, but we suspect the utility of this kind of " intelligence" would not be great. It can scarcely, however, be needful to insist on this argument. The obvious truth is, that no facts can be usefully conveyed without collateral information, and few without some admixture of opinion. But there is another, and a much more critical point of inquiry—a point on which we are in clined to think that the whole question, as really, viewed by Mr. Cobden, would be found to turn. Pray let us ask him what, in our selection of " facts and intelligence," we are to do with reports of public meetings, and speeches there delivered ? Mr. Cobden's visits to Manchester yesterday week and to Holmfirth on Wednesday were " facts," no doubt ; and, considering the hon. member's reputation, would be very - properly chronicled ; but what were his addresses ? Should we , have discharged our whole duty as purveyors of " news," if, instead of letting him talk for himself last week through twenty of our columns, we had an nounced that " Mr. Cobden spoke at a Peace Congress, and has written a book ?" Is this what a newspaper should have done ? If so, we can only say that we might have spared ourselves some cost, and the public, as we have reason to know, some impatience. If not, and if speeches are to be considered as facts and intelligence deserving all publication, will Mr. Cobden inform us why we may not address the public as well as he, or why his opinions on current politics should be impressed upon everybody, while those of others are to be discarded as offering no " guidance or direction ?" It is perfectly evident, from his own deportment, that he looks upon popular meetings and orations as fit and proper means of public instruction, and it is of course notorious that the chief effect of such addresses must be accomplished afterwards by the agency of the press. Mr. Cobden, in short, works upon public opinion through the columns of the Times as directly as if he had written and sent to us on paper what our reporters dispatch to us as taken down from his words. We must needs presume that he does not regard this " part of the paper " as deficient in interest or use ; yet, if he does not, with what face can he claim for his own views a consideration which he denies to others ? He surely would. not demand to have all the speaking to himself ; and yet what he here de mands is nothing less than all the writing. Only a short time ago he was pleased to characterise certain leading articles as " the most transcendant things, in point of style and intellect, of any productions of the present day," and, at any rate as commentaries on public affairs, they are as much like " facts and intelligence " as his own speeches, and deserve as much perusal. Without any desire to be uncharitable, we can give but one explanation of arguments so incon sistent, and that is, that Mr. Cobden would fain demolish every influence but his own. He would make us the vehicle of his opinions without ad mitting us t o any like privilege of speech. He wants more newspapers, because more newspapers, he thinks, might bring him more readers, and he wants "no leading articles," because those articles are occasionally devoted to the correction of speeches published side by side with them. He would like to address his persuasions to the public without check or interference--to be undisturbed in his history, his politics, and his p ro ph ec i es ; an d to have all these accepted as "facts and intelli gence," whilst the reflections of others on the same subject were rejected as neither " useful nor in teresting." Considering the occurrences of the East few years, it may surprise_ many readers to ob- serve such a conclusion. - A free Press means free discussion. There is no Government in Europe, however absolute, whether at Naples, Paris, or Vienna, which would care to control the publica tion of " facts." What such rulers object to is the expression of opinions ; and very strange it may possibly seem that the first objection of this kind in England should have proceeded from a politician avowing views of extreme liberalism. In reality, however, this intolerance is nothing but an ordinary symptom of democratic excess—a symptom which, if free course were given to the malady, would be seen not only in this, but in every department of politics. Fortunately, the danger is not great in this country that such a consummation will ever arrive ; nor is Mr. Cobden indeed taking the right steps to promote it. He is indefatigable in his efforts, and plausible in his talk ;• but among so sensible a people as Englishmen he will gain no converts to his doctrines by disclosing his anxiety to suppress all teachers but himself. (From the Morning Herald.) We do not think it necessary to adjudicate upon the respective merits of the Quarterly reviewer and M. Disraeli. The late brilliant leader of the House of Com mons was relieved from any responsibility with re spect to the best abstract policy to be pursued — first by his own promise, and secondly by the ex pressed wish of the country. It is enough to know that if the present Chancellor of the Exchequer did not defeat the late ministry factiously—that is, for the sake of the defeat—he did so for the sake of a principle which is false in the abstract, unjust in practice, and obnoxious to all parties—that of the present income-tax. Laying aside, therefore, the dis cussion of budgets, we join issue with the leading journal (so-called from being led ?) on the sub ject' of the navigation laws. We are amused at the confidence with which so great a cause is reposed on the evidence of the coAsistent Mr. W. S. Lindsay, and we are prepared to con tend that the present prosperity of the ship ping interest is in no way the result of the re peal of the navigation laws, for that repeal opened up no new markets, and the advance in the value of shipping has been greater during the last six months than during the whole of the preceding two years and a half. He who will take the trouble to cast his eye down the entering-out notices for London, Liverpool, and even Dundee, and there behold the evidence of a trade to Australia larger than we pos sess to any other part of the world, and which has sprung up suddenly like the prophet's gourd, will have no difficulty in accounting for the sudden change in the prospects of the shipowners. If the same person will then reflect that the voy age to Australia is three times as long as that to the United States, and th a t a t l eas t 100,000 to 200,000 tons of shipping are lying in the various Australian ports without crews to remove them, he will have some idea of the displacement of tonnage which has resulted from the discovery of gold in our own colonies. This discovery, acting on a gold cur rency, restored confidence, suspended the opera tion of the Bank Charter Act, a - id created an active and immediate demand for labourers and for manu facturers. How the Times is to prove that we have more men than we used to have, we are at a loss to con ceive ; and we confess that we look with some ap prehension to the ultimate effect of the present mania, which, assisted by foreign shipping, is aid ing the operations of emigration ; and owing to the scarcity of small British vessels (which the most sanguine were afraid to build in the face 'of foreign competition) is giving over much of our le gitimate and ordinary tulle to foreign vessels. The effect of the export of gold to the Danube, &c., for grain is very likely, in conjunction with an unfa vourable harvest, to produce a sudden reaction, especially as much of the gold produced in. the colo nies will find investment on the spot. Mr. W. S. Lindsay being paraded as the cham pion of Mr. Labouchere's measure, it is necessary to remind our readers of his sudden convez sion from declared hostility to a firm belief in its merits. It is remarkable that the sudden change which we refer to took place at a time when the shipping interest was undoubtedly depressed, and his conduct requires some further explatation than it has yet received. He might, with his re markable foresight, have become in t mystthious manner informed of the revelations to be made at the antipodes ; but that his modesty should have led him to keep his knowledge a profound secret re quires more faith than we have at command. It is well known that he is an eminent shipbroker as well as owner, though- he makes a greater parade of the latter than of the former profession, and that it is usual with men in that description of business to take small shares in expensive ves sels, with a view to acting as agents and ships' husbands. It is, therefore, natural to suppose that persons so situated would be more sanguine under a depression of the shipping interest than those whose incomes are entirely derived from the profits of the voyage. Be this as it may, the re peal of the navigation laws, irrespective of the com mercial question, was a pernicious measure, and, in conjunction with the Merchant Seamen's Act, de mands the prompt attention of the Legislature. (From the Morning Post.) The increasing unpopularity of the Courts of Bankruptcy is notorious. Each succeeding Gazette bears testimony to it. As for the district courts, they will Wad have a holiday the whole year round. So far from being all work and no play with their rustic honours, it will be soon all play and no work. Nor are matters in Basinghall-street much more promising. Punch's lively representation of the judges playing at shuttlecock may, so far as leisure is concerned, be speedily realised there. But the interests of commissioners, and of official assignees and messengers, are far from being identical. " What's sport to you is death to us." The com missioners, secure of their quarter's salary, may smile at the diminishing bankruptcy column of the Gazette. In their eyes it may be growing " beau tifully less ;" but with official assignees, messen gers, and those subordinates who live upon the wrecks of ruined traders, and who are paid by per tentage—whose perquisites, like those who strip the slain on the battle field, are in proportion to the havoc—with these functionaries things are assum ing a serious aspect. In turning over the pages of one of those pon derous blue-books in which so many useful facts are entombed, we happened to light upon a piece of evidence given by Mr. Miller, the gentleman who drew up the Bankruptcy Consolidation Act, and whose testimony may be relied upon. Having been asked by the chairman of the Commons' Com mittee on Bankruptcy, if official assignees would not prefer a fixed salary, with some additional per tentage, to the existing mode of remuneration, he replied, " No; they have been questioned on the subject, and all refused; they preferred the present lottery system." That, no doubt, was the case in 1848 ; but that was just after the panic, which was as beneficial to official assignees as an epidemic to physicians. They would now, probably, in the hackneyed language of the poet, exclaim, " Tem pera mutantur nos et mutamur in illis !" By way of making things better for them, their charges have, by the New Rules and Orders, been aggravated. The public complained of the monstrous expenses of bankruptcy, and their complaints were met by an increased scale of fees. The authorities else where acted very differently. Look at the new scale of fees in the common law courts, and see the reductions which have taken place in Chancery. But bankruptcies decline ; therefore, let the credi tors under those which come in be more heavily mulcted—about as good policy as the landlord who would raise the rents of his farms because his tenants were leaving them. " My lords," said the late Lord Chancellor, in his speech on law reform on the 16th of November last, " I have been anxiously inquiring what can be the reason why the business in the Court of Bankruptcy has fallen off, especially when I find that the fees received in respect of business in that court are insufficient to meet the ex pense,." The unfortunate creditors who find the assets of their debtor absorbed by official assignees, messengers, brokers, accountants, de cayed or decaying commissioners, &c., could answer the question with great force and simplicity. They complain of a scanty dividend, and they are comforted with the assurance that the bankrupt's books were very voluminous, that it was necessary to raise a " supplemental ledger," and that the accountant's charge alone was 601. or 801. Let us not be understood as saying one word against official assignees personally. They are a respectable, clever, painstaking, and at present, we believe, a very ill-paid body. The truth is, the present system is radically bad. We have fre quently pointed out its gross anomalies, and the grievous injustice it inflicts ; the only remedy is its entire remodelling, or its complete destruction„and the transfer of its jurisdiction to a tribunal whose constitution is more in accordance with th e require ments of a commercial nation—a tribunal whose machinery would be less complicated and expen sive, which would deserve and obtain the confi dence of the mercantile public. V f e ot a. there g a l a n d o i t t o i n p e o r f c e t ihveep t t s at r Lord Brougham's gha ' bill c t Courts o order-book erb to be able Bank ruptcy, and the transfer of their jurisdiction r oo o t f o the county courts, stands upon th e pleased House of Lords • and still more to announce that it is the intention I n reply to law reformer to persevere with it. o f the veteran , o ne of the county in quiries addressed by that noble and learned lord to Mr. Arthur James Johnes court judges, that gentlemaLtom a letter published in the last number of the Review, states his reaso ns why it_ is expedient to transfer to the county courts the country jurisdiction in bank• ruptcy. He says, the present courts of bankruptcy in the country, having been established, only in a; few of the principal towns of the kingdom, are too remote from most of the country districts to dispense the bankruptcy law to those districts with simplicity and economy. He considers the constitution of the present coun try bankruptcy courts, by the expense, trouble, and risk which legal redress in them occasions, amounts to a practical denial of justice. Nor does he think the objections to the present system would be got rid of by sending commissioners on circuit ; " for," he justly observes, " the amount of business in all districts except the largest commercial towns is too small to furnish any reasonable justification for throwing, either on the Government or on creditors in bankruptcy, the expenses incident to a circuit for the single purpose of bankruptcy cases." But Mr. Johnes urges a still stronger, it appears to us an unanswerable, reason against the circuit project, namely, the absolute necessity for the constant pre sence of the inferior officers employed in taking possession of the estate, in making out the accounts, in carrying out all the details of management, and final distribution among the creditors. Mr. Johnes's remedy is to transfer the country jurisdiction in bankruptcy to the county courts, be cause those courts possess in themselves all the requi sites which are wanted in any separate bankruptcy jurisdiction. He is of opinion that, except in popu lous commercial neighbourhoods, where be would make a slight addition in the number of county court judges, the bankruptcy business would form only an imperceptible addition to the labours of those functionaries. " There is a county clerk and a high bailiff resident in each locality in which a county court is held. They are constant residents, and not mere attendants on the judge, who has to visit commonly twelve districts in each month. They are local officers in the strictest sense, and thus have an opportunity, at the smallest possible expense, of personally superintending the management and final distribution of a bankrupt's estate, under the eyes of the creditors, and subject to the periodical superintendence of the judge. These very func tions they have already exercised in insolvency cases (embracing the failures of all traders owing less than 3001.), &c., &c. As a class, they are un doubtedly quite equal in intelligence, &c., to those officers to whom analogous duties are confided in the Courts of Bankruptcy." The jurisdiction of the London Bankruptcy Court now extends over the counties of Middlesex, Herts, Kent, Surrey, Sussex, Hampshire, southern divi sion of Wiltshire, such parts of Dorsetshire as are within one hundred miles of London (including the towns of Poole, Wimborne Minister, Blandford, Sturminster and Shaftesbury), Oxfordshire, Berk shire, Buckinghamshire, Bedfordshire, Northamp tonshire, Huntingdonshire, Rutlandshire, Cam bridgeshire, Norfolk, Suffolk, and Essex. The new bill has the following restrictive provisions :—"From. and after the commencement of this act, the jurisdic tion of her Majesty's Court of Bankruptcy, and the Commissioners thereof sh all, save and except as here in-after mentioned, be restricted to cases in which ttrhaeder in petitioners in any matter of arrangement, or the any matter of bankruptcy, or the trader debtor in any matter of trader-debtor summons, shall have resided or carried on business for six months next immediately preceding the time of filing the petition for arrangement, or petition for adjudication of bankruptcy, or of the issuing of any summons against any trader-debtor, within any parish the distance whereof, as measured by the nearest highway from the General Post-office in London to the parish church of such parish, shall not exceed the distance of twenty miles." We entertain no doubt but that, sooner or later, Lord Brougham's bill, or some such measure, will find its way into the statute-book, and that the grievous hardship of dragging creditors from such remote places as Yarmouth and Lowestoft to Bas inghall-street, in order to establish a disputed claim, or expose a knavish bankrupt, will cease to exist. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. SPORTING NOTES.—No. CCCLXXI. NOTTINGHAM SPRING MEETING. The sporting public, if fine weather continues, will be gratified with a day's capital sport at Nottingham to morrow. The meeting is under the stewardship of Captain Percy Williams and J. Whitaker, Esq., with Mr. Richard Johnson, of York, as Judge, and Mr. Bradfield, as usual, Clerk of the Course. o the last named person's energy we are indebted for a Spring, as well as a Summer Meeting, in this locality. The sport commences at half-past twelve with the Nottingham Spring Handicap of 14 sous. each, 5 ft., with 50 added (mile and a half). This"gtake has obtained an ac ceptance of seventeen,- above a moiety of which will be found at the post. The range is only two stone between the top and bottom weights. Mr. T. Parr has a couple —Bardolph and Pride—one at the top, and the other one at the bottom of the list. I cannot imagine that either has a chance of winning. May-day is over weighted at Bst. 71b. Humphrey, same weight, I have no doubt will run very well, and there are mere apparently impossible things brought about than his winning. Little Davie's running is du bious. Prestige, at Bst. 51bs., if her former self; is not weighted too much ; but I fancy she is not in that perfection she once boasted of. Psyche, I pre sume, will not run. The Bishop, although he has never accomplished anything particularly grand, yet, I fancy, from his present condition and appearance, will be the winner on this occasion. Ricardus de Pigburn I know nothing about. Tower is a perfect brute. Chilton, the best horse in the entry, is overweighted. Llanforda, if meant, ought to run well. Bold Davie, lam given to understand, is sure to figure in front. Lady Sarah, Anne Page, and the Liverpool filly are not likely to trouble the judge this time. The Grace Darling filly, whose performance hitherto, have been anything but re spectable, is an improving animal, and will do something good presently, but not this bout I reckon. To sum tip their pretensions, I should place THE BISHOP and Bold Davie first and second ; with Old Humphrey and Mr. T. Parr's animal in the next two berths. _ A Sweepstakes of 5 sovS.e;cll, with 30 added, for two year-olds, is the second race on the card, colts, Bst 71b ; fillies, Bst 41b (about half a mile on the straight run in). This race will, of course, be nothing more than a spurt , the horse in the best condition, and first off, if possessed of speed, being almost certain to be the winner. Taking into consideration that not one of the twelve entries have yet appeared in public, it is not altogether the easiest task to select the winner. I have ascertained, however, that the majority are not forward enough in their pre paration ; and that the race is almost certain to be con fined to the Jewess, Bridesmaid, and Lady Audrey, all three of whom are in very good condition, considering the time o' year. I feel incli ne d t o g i ve the palm to Lady Audrey, and to place Bridesmaid and the Jewess in the second and third positions. The Selling Sweepstakes of 5 sovs each, with 25 added does not close and name until this evening. The Free Handicap Hurdle Race is said to be a posi tive certainty for Caurire or Sir Robert ; but about this raco I know but little. The Hunters' Stakes is also said to be a good thing for Cropwell, a well-known hunter in those parts. A Sweepstakes of 5 sous, to close to-night, brings th• day's sports to a conclusion. THE SPIRIT OF THE TURF. WILTSHIRE CHAMPION COURSING MEETING.--FEB. 1 TO 4. The Druid Cup for all a'es (16 subs.) was won by Mr. Brown's Bedlam Bess ; M. Rendall's Rabbi ran up. The Great Western Stakes for 12 puppies of 1851, were won by Mr. Jardine's Marmora and Miss Hannah. The Amesbury Stakes for 16 puppies of 1851, were won by Mr. Etwall's Evangeline ; Mr. Lawrence's Lucy Locket ran up. The Stonehenge Stakes were won by Mr. Etwall's Egypt. The Elston Stakes were divided by Mr. Brown's Bright Eye. The Beacon Hill Stakes were won by Mr. Biley's Roscelle. The Bulford Stakes were won by Captain Wyndham's Whiff and Caffree. HILTON COURSING MEETING. This great coursing meeting took place on Thursday and Friday last , when the follow in g was the result of t the two days' sport, w hich was of a first class 2/. character : The Hilton Cup by 16 dogs, all aged, a 10s. each, the winner to receive 13/ ..the second,7/., anTinners of t w o courses 21. 10 s . eac h, — was won by Mr. . Con stable's r. d. Luck's All, Mr. Gouland's Bonnie Dundee, Mr. Aungle's Sandy o'er the Lea, and Mr. Hilton's Tip received the second and Ciird monies, having won two courses each. The Levey Stakes, by 13 dogs, at 11. 10s. each ; the w inner to receiv e 10/ , the second 31., and winners of two c ourses 11. 10s. e ac h . . Our correspondent from Stockton on-Tees has omitted to say which dog won this match, but Mr. Aungle's ZilMr. Sweedy's Volti g eur, and Mr. Menburn's s Macaroon ‘ won two courses each. The meeting on the whole was a very successful one. RACING FIXTURES FOR 1853. The figures within parenthesis denote the number of days' racing. FEBRUARY. Nottingham Sprin g (1) .. . 8 llereford ( 2 ). 1 7 Lincoln Spring (2) 15 Coventry Spring (2) ''2 MAT CI. Carmai thenshire Hunt 1 Newcastl e S p ring (2)....23 Liverpool Spring (1) 2 Leamington (1) 09 Doncaster Spring (2) 8 Catterick B rid g e (2) 29 Salisbury (2) lO Northampto n (2) 3O Warwick Spring (2) 15 Abergavenny (1) 31 Kiplin Coates (1) l7 APRIL. Croxton Park (2) 5 York Spring (2) .......... le Epsom Spring (1) .. 7 Mahon (2) .................. 21 Newmarket Craven (5)...11 Newmarket F. S. (5)....25 MAY. Chester (4) 3 Redditch (2) ............... 15 Newmarket Sec Sp (3) 10 Bath (2) ..................... 17 Liverpool Hunt (2) 11 Manchester (3) ............ 18 Shrewsbury (2) Edinburgh (2) l l 2l Epsom (4) .................. 24 GENERAL BROTHERTON AND MR. COBDEN. General Brotherton has thus handsomely terminated the very petty quarrel between himself and Mr. Cob den : " Travellers' Club, Feb. 3, 1853. " Sir —I have this day received y our rep l y t o my l e t ter of the 29th ult. "As my whole object in taking up your challenge was to test your sincerity, which I have now done, I therefore decline to accept your bond. But, of course, I, nevertheless, still hold myself bound strictly to per form my part of the agreement—viz., the payment of the weekly subscription to the Manchester Infirmary, and I have accordingly directed my solicitor to wait upon yours, and give him all the satisfactory security he may require for the due payment of this subscription, from this day henceforth, which, believe me, 1 shall always feel gratified in paying in support of such a benevolent institution, and to which I shall add a do nation of 51., transmitted to the treasurer.—l am, sir, your obedient servant, _ " T. W. BROTHERTON "To Richard Cobden, Esq." EXTRAORDINARY WAGERS. Apropos of Cobden's wager, the Observer says :—" We have in our minds a great many such " bobble bets," that have come to nothing, and all without the aid of dramatic incident or effect. Instances are numerous enough of such extravagant and hasteless wagers, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. There is one at hand, so apt and appropriate, that we shall quote it here entire—the more so, as it is not entirely foreign from the question at issue, and that it reproduces, in the language of the learned Chief Justice Lord Ellenbo rough, 'who was moved for a new trial, the some what apposite statement that in those days French in vasions were annually threatened, and were depre cated weekly in every church. In spite of all the terrors that are daily endured by timid or sanguine people, we are not come to that yet. We are not yet past praying for. Indeed, we have heard of no church—nor even a Quaker meeting-house—where the invasion is deprecated every week. The chances of war and peace are now discussed in the United Service Clubs—not in the churches or the conventicles. And yet, in the remark able case which we select out of many—and which is here subjoined—the parties to the suit are a well-known sporting baronet (of Yorkshire, too), Sir Mark M. Sykes, Sire of Sir Tatton Sykes we believe—and a clergy man, the Rev. Mr. Gilbert, who, in spite of the weekly praying in churches, had no hesitation in standing to win upon the continued existence of the daring Emperor of the French, Napoleon the First and Fastest. The following is an accurate abstract of the case, which will not be read without interest in the present day. The time is 1812, and the scene the York As sizes, and the Court of King's Bench, at Westminster. Before proceeding any further, however, it is but fair to inform the reader that General Brotherton has declined to "take the odds," as will be seen by his last letter, also subjoined ; and that, therefore, the affair, as regards the parties, is virtually at an end. The moral of the case, however, remains the same, and is held to bear out these observations : " CARR ON A BET.-GILBERT V. SYKES.-At the York Assizes in March, a trial came on, in which the Rev. B. Gilbert was plaintiff, and Sir Mark M. Sykes, Bart., defendant. It appeared that the baronet, at his own table, in a dinner-party, during a conversation re specting the hazard to which the life of Bonaparte was exposed, had offered, upon the receipt of 100 guineas to pay a guinea a day as long as he should remain alive. Mr. Gilbert suddenly took up the offer ; but finding that the sense of the company was against making a serious matter of a bet proposed at a moment of conviviality, he said, If you will submit, Sir Mark, to ask it as a fa vour, you may be off.' This the baronet refused to do ; the 100 guineas were sent by Mr. G., of which Sir M. acknowledged the receipt, and he had continued paying the guinea a-day for nearly three years. At length he declined further payment, and this action was for the recovery of the sum still due upon the contract. "Mr. Topping, for the defendant, eontended, first, that there was no serious intention of betting on the part of Sir M. Sykes, but that he was surprised by the hasty acceptance of the offer by the clergyman. He then, on the supposition that it was regarded as a real bet, advanced an argument, that Mr. Gilbert, having thus a beneficial interest in the life of Bonaparte, might be induced, in case of his invading this island, to use means for protecting from personal danger an inveterate enemy of his country. "The judge, after stating the evidence to the jury, with his observations, left them to decide the fact, whether there was an intention of betting on the part of Sir M. Sykes, and reserving the point of law. The jury returned a verdict for the defendant. " On 16th April the case was brought before the King's Bench, where Mr. Park moved for a rule to show cause why the verdict for the defendant should not be set aside, and a new trial granted, the verdict having been found against all the evidence produced. Ile recapitulated the circumstances of the transaction, and said that Baron Thompson, in his charge to the jury, had treated the contract rather as annuity than a wager, and, however hastily it had been adopted by the plaintiff, put it to them whether it had not been per sisted in by the defendant. It was no wager that Bona parte would come to his end by violent means. " Lord Ellenborough, in granting the rule, said that he was very sorry this question should come to be argued in a court of law ; but unless there was in the nature of the bet anything of an immoral or impolitic tendency, it was a legal contract, and must be supported. He would not declare what relief might be obtained elsewhere under all the circumstances, but as the defendant went on paving for three years, the fact of the contract seemed to be clearly established, and the jury had certainly gone beyond their province in finding for the defendant. " The case was again brought under consideration before the Court of King's Bench on June 11 and 15. After the counsel had held their arguments respect ing the nature of the contract, and the interest of the parties in the event which was its subject. Lord Ellenborough said, that although the Court might differ as to the grounds of their opinion, they all con curred that no new trial ought to be granted in this case. The objection to this wager was its tendency to produce public mischief. At a time when the enemy's threats of invasion were annual, and deprecated weekly in every church, could it be said, that in the event of Bonaparte's landing, the interest of 365 guineas per annum to preserve his life was too remote ? Besides, one great object of the nation ought to be to obviate the suspicion of attempting the assassination of Bona parte, with which it had (he hoped unjustly) been charged ; and to prevent a war of assassination, with which any attempt of that kind would not fail to be re venged. He could not say that the verdict for the de fendant was proper on the ground that the bet was not deliberately entered into ; but looking into all the cir cumstances of the conversation upon which this contract was founded, and the contract itself, he thought the rule for a new trial ought to be discharged. " The other three judges delivered a similar opinion, and the rule was'accordingly discharged." POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE.—The case of Doyle, who was reported to have been killed by Thomas Golden Valle, the chief mate of the Pekin, again came on for hearing, on Saturday last. Captain Whitby who was a. consider able time under examination, made additions to the depositions which he bad made previously to the issue of the warrant for the apprehension of the accused. He said--On the day before Doyle's death all hands were ordered aloft, and he alone refused to go up. I remember him askinc , for water in his own l anguage of his countrymen, but 'I did not see any given to him. I did not see the prisoner strike him at all. I solemnly swear (here the witnesses spoke most emphatically.) The deceased had a small white pimple on his eye, which gradually increased, notwithstanding the appli cation of zinc powder, which I got from my medicine chest. It gradually got worse, till he lost, or pretended that he lost, the sight of it altogether. I had seen him at work during the forenoon of the day before he died. The Lord Mayor—Did he appear lame ? Witness--I saw no difference in him. He was lame ; he was clubfooted in both feet. He came down the rig ging of his own accord, and made no "complaint to me whatever. He stood by the gangway for some time, and then lay down and rolled himself across the main hatch grating to leeward of the vessel. The Lord Mayor—Are you aware of any injury done to Doyle Witness—None whatever. It was I that called the prisoner's attention to Doyle, as he was going up the rigging. Vaile then took a piece of small line, and went up the rigging and passed the li ne roun d th e shroud and round Doyle's body, and fastened it behind. He then came down to the poop, leaving Doyle tied to the rigging. Doyle began to unloose himself, when the prisoner went up and untied him, or cut him adrift altogether. The prisoner Yad not a piece of wood in the rigging, and I was in a position to see everything that took place be tween Doyle and him in the Pigging. It is not true that Doyle fell on the deck from the rigging. If he had fallen from the rigging be must have &Pen overboard. He sat himself down when he came down from the rigging, and then rolled himself over the mainhatch grating, and he remained under the foresail from after twelve o'clock till seven or eight in the evening. Mr. Mullins—What is, the character of the prisoner for humanity ? Witness—He is a man of the greatest humanity. Joe (one of the crew), whose evidence was given upon the first examination, repeated the statement he had on that occasion. He said, upon his cross-examination by Mr. Mullins —I saw the prisoner strike the deceased three times in the rigging with a rope. Doyle fell from the rigging on the deck. I saw the prisoner beat Doyle on the deck once with a piece of wood. The Lord Mayor—Was it by accident he fell down? Witness—No. He fell from the striking by the pri soner. The rope with which he beat Doyle was a large rope. He struck Doyle in the rigging with the wood alone, but with the rope when he fell upon the deck. Mr. F. S. Conryn, second mate of the Pekin, wa s next sworn. He believed Doyle's death t o have been a natural death. Mr. Mullins submitted that it was quite impossible that any jury on oath could say his client was the cause of the death of Henry Doyle. The Lord Mayor said the case was of to o ser i ous a nature for him to decide upon without examination of the evidence. It was most important to the public and to the prisoner that an adjournment should take place, givi and ng his lordec isio ship n accordingly app ointed Wednesday for his d. SOUTHWARK.—Mr Witlimn, Tritton, treasurer of the Codgers" Friendly Society, held at his house, the Dog and Still public-house, Earl-street, London-Road, was summoned before Mr. Combe, to show cause why he refused to pay John Farrirgdon, a sick member of the society, 9s per week, and why he was unlawfully scratched off the books. Mr. Solomons appeared for the complainant, and Mr. Binns for the defendant and the other members of the society. It appeared from the statement •f complainant that he became a member of the society eight years ago, and married a year afterwards. He became sick after that, and had frequently been 'on the sick fund since. On the 12th of November he went into St. Bartholomew's Hos pital, when he sent a declaration on the funds to the steward, and remained in the hospital until the 30th of the same month.. When he came out he received his sick money until Christmas last, and since then they had not only refused to continue the pay, but had scratched him from the society. The complainant now sought to be paid the arrears, and to be reinstated. In his cross-examination by Mr. Binns, the complain ant acknowledged that he had told falsehoods to. one of the stewards who visited him after he quitted the hos pital. He said lie was visited by a Dr. Diamond, of Burton-crescent, whereas no such person attended him. By that false assertion he obtained the sick-pay fur three weeks, up to Christmas. Mr. Combe asked what Mr. Binns called a Codger ? Mr. Binns—Why, a Codger, your worship, is a man, who saves his money. Mr. Solomons—Then my friend Binns is a Codger, for he saves his money. (Laughter.) Mr. Cornbe said that the complainant had certainly deceived the Codgers by his falsehood, and not giving a proper certificate for three weeks. He should, there fore, dismiss the summons, which renders the complain ant not entitled to any claims on the society. It was stated that he had received more than 50/. for sickness, and bad not paid in 41. HUNTING .A.PPOINTMENTS. ST Her Majesty' s New Lodge —at half-past eleven. —Tu e AG sda HOUNDS. y, Stoke-common ; Friday, Cheltenham Tuesday, Garrick's-house ; Friday, Beckford Inn—at twelve. Baron Rothschild's—Thursday, IVlentmore—at eleven. FOX HOUNDS. Albrighton—Tuesday, Hem-gate ; Thursday, Ran ton ; Saturday, Chillington—at eleven. I3edale—Thursday, York-gate ; Saturday, Cowgate station—at half-past ten. Old Berkshire—Tuesday, Kingston Bagpaze ; Friday, Goosey Green—at half-past ten. Cambridgeshire —Friday, Ickwell Green —at half past ten. Carmarthenshirei—Tuesday, Cwndriad, near Cornail ; Friday, Llandissillis—at ten. Cheshire —Tuesday, Peeover ; Thursday, Arley ; Sa turday, Peckforton—at half-past ten.l Cleveland—Thursday, Court-green, at half-past ten. Mr. Colyers's—Tuesday, Timbarden ; Thursday, Bates wood ; Saturday, Royal Oak, Wrotham— at half-past ten. North Devon—Thursday, Yard-down—at half-past ten. South Devon—Thursday, Force's-cross—at ele''en. Mr. Drake's—Tuesday, Weston Pea-pitts ; Thursday, Edgcott-village ; Saturday, Souldern-gate—at a quarter to eleven. Lord Elcho's—Tuesday, Roddam ; Friday, Swinton mill-toll ; Saturday, Riffington—at half-past ten. F. B.—Friday, Laydock-wood—at ten. Mr. Farse's—Friday, Ashreigny-village—at half past ten. Mr. Garth's—Thursday, Holdshot-mill ; Friday, Hart ford-bridge-fiat —at half-past ten. Gwrtheyra—Tuesday, Horeb ; Saturday, Troclwaw (Llangder)—at ten. • Hambledon Thursday, Wickham-gate ; Friday, Upham -pond—at a quarter to eleven. H.H.— Tuesday, Brandean-comm on ; Thursday, Illis field Church ; Saturday, Upton-gray —at a quarter to eleven. Heythrop —Wednesday, Sturdy's Castle ; Friday, Little Rissington ; Saturday, Dean Cross -roads—at half-past ten. elHeven ursley—Frid a y, C ranbury -park —at a quarter to . WiMr. Low dnesleven Tuesday, F urzen-field ; Saturday, nslow—at e Tawb Mr ridge— ; at half-past teu.. Luxton's —Tuesday, Kingsymptom ; Frid a y, eleven. r. Marshall's—Thur s d ay, Bradworthy Village —at Mr. Morgan's—Thursday, L ong -cross--at half-p as t ten. New Forest—Tuesday, Moyles-court ; Friday, Ken nel—at eleven. _ Mr. Newton's--Thursday, Gribble Ford-bridge —at ten. South Oxfordshire—Friday, Stow -wood. Pembroke—Tuesday, Melleston Cross-roads ; Friday, Amroth Castle. Pembrokeshire—Thursday, Stepa.side-bridge—at ten. Puckeridge—Thursday, Chrishal-grange ; Sat ur d ay, Ardeley,Bury—at half-past ten. Sir H. Seale's—Tuesday, Burlestone-wood ; Friday, Hardham. Shropshire—Thurdsay, Lutwyche—at half-past ten. Simington—Tuesday, Helmsley ; Friday, Simington —at ten. Somerset and Wilts—Tuesday, Viaduct-Inn ; Friday, Lower-wood—at half-past ten. Lord Southampton's—Tuesday, Cowper's Oak; Fri day Astwell-mill ; Saturday, Bucknells-wood—at eleven. North Staffordshire—Tuesday, Chipnal-wood ; Fri day, Stallington—at half-past ten. Mr. Lee Steere's—Thursday, Shillingbee-park—at eleven. Surrey Union—Wednesday, Hazle-hall ; Saturday, Woodbridge—at half-past ten. Tivyside—Thursday, Llingwawr—at half-past ten. Tredegar—Wednesday, Laurunny-lodge ; Friday, Ebbw-bridge—at half-past eleven. Mr. Trerawny's—Tuesday, Chaddlewood West-lodge ; Saturday, Flete—at half-past ten. Mr. Trevor's—Tuesday, Redbourne-common ; Friday, Datchworth—at half-past ten. Mr. Vaughan's—Thursday, Dihewidd—at eleven. Vine—Wednesday, The Furze-bush ; Saturday, Old Basing—at a quarter to eleven. _ ___ Wheatland-Z . -Tuesday, Spoonbill ; Friday, Oldbury— at half--past ten. Mr. Wbeble's—Tuesday, Compton ; Thursday, Beech hill ; Saturday, the Plough, Shiplake—at eleven. South Wilts—Wednesday, Deptford-inn —at eleven. Wyeside--Wednesday, Velinvach. Colonel Wyndham's- 1. -Wednesday, Fitzhall ; Friday, Stanstead-avenue--at half-past eleven. Sir W. W. Wynn's—Wednesday, Brynypks ; Friday, Wynnstay ; Saturday, Green Dragon. York and Ainsty—Tuesday, Streethouses ; Thursday Copgrove ; Saturday, Linton—at half-past ten. SCOTCH. Duke of Buccleuch's—Tuesday, Drinkston ; Thursday, the Hirsel ; Saturday, Edden-hall—at half-past ten. Lanarkshire and Renfrewshire—Tuesday, Blair ; Sa turday, Broadfield—at a quarter to eleven. Linlithgow and Stirlingshire—Tuesday, Barr-hill ; Thursday, Ingliston-gate ; Saturday, Annadale Toll-bar —at a quarter to eleven. HARRIERS. Aikshaw—Thursday, Wrath ; Saturday, Dundraw. Aikton—Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Orton School house—at nine. Lord Bolton's—Tuesday, West Bolton ; Saturday, Leyburn—at eleven. Bronwydd—Wednesday, Penyrherbert ; Saturday, Glanyravon—at eleven. Cardigan—Tuesday, New Mill ; Friday, Lantood—at eleven. Carlise—Tuesday, Wreay ; Friday, Dalston—at ten. Craven--Thursday, Gill Church ; Friday, Craven Heifer—at eleven. Mr. Deacon's—Wednesday, Goodameavery-house ; Saturday, White hurch Down—at ten. Dulverton—Friday, Mountsey-hill--at half-past ten. Edmont--Wednesday, Winderwath ; Saturday, Pack Horse, Plumpton—at half past ten. Harrogate—Wednesday, Burnt Gates ; Saturday, Sal tergate-hill—at half-past ten. High Peake—Tuesday, Wingstone Turnpike Gate; Thursday, Moneyhash ; Saturday, Newhaven—at eleven. Mr. Hildyard's—Friday, Acklam Blue Bell—at half past ten. ____ Captain H. Lewis's—Tuesday, Sigston ; Thursday, Morton Bridge ; Saturday, N ort h allerton—at eleven. Lord Lonsdae's—Friday, - Wendover—at eleven. West Norfolk—Wednesday, West Dereham (a deer) —at eleven. Mr. Okeover's_Tuesday, Ballidon ; Friday, Water houses—at eleven. Tunbridge Wells —Thursday, Cooke's Corner —at half-past ten. Mr. E. Will iams's—Tuesday, Beer Alstone Down, Devon ; Friday, Ashland Village, near St. Dominick— at half-past ten. OVERFLOW OF TWE GARONNE.—Recent heavy rains, combined with the melting of the snow in the mountains, have caused the Ca ‘ronne to overflow its banks at Preig nac, Barsac, Podeusac, and some other communes ; but instead of doing d; Lmage, the inundations of the Garonne are advantageous., as, like those of the Nile, they leave behind them a quantity of slime which possesses eminent fertilising qualities. The hay of Preignac, Barsac, and Podensac in particular, is noted as specially excellent on that account. Al; Bordeaux there have of late been such high tides that the quays have been under water, and the employes of the octroi and customs have been obliged to leave their office s. UNCLE Tom's CABIN. —The celebrated Uncle Tom is continuing his course through the . world. It is known in Russia by a F translation, most negligently done, the writer, who Ls however a man of talent, appearing only anxious to b e first in the field. The work has great success in Russia, and th e p o li ce d o no t i n t er f ere w ith i t. It so happens tin Russia at present enfranchisem en t is quite the of der of the day, and no one can better pay court in high qua rters than by appearing a good uncle, for, strange en ou gh, the term uncle, brought into fashion by the Amer . .? eaz .7s is also perfectly Russian, and em ployed i n t h e s:_iMe sense of familiarity and affection. Although n o f 'ormal authorisation has been given to ad mit the work, yet it is not interdicted. At first, when only a few co pies had arrived, they were passed about with the utm ost regularity from one part of the city to the other. th station for each reader beingpfixed at tw o hours, and n( rt a moment longer. Hence the aristocracy of Moscow s ct•aally read the work bit by bit, as they' could best n - am age to obtain it. At present, thousands of copies ar e ill circulation both here and at St; Peters burg. A tram lation into Russian by an eminent writer is about t,o app ear by the authorisation of the Govern ment." - CO UNI'RY MAR, t C If; TS. DALKEITH, FEB. 3.—The relative weight per four bushels of the three prices of wheat were 18st 11b, 17st 121 b, and 16st 101 b. Oats, 13st 31b Pst 31b, and 9st 131 b. Barley, 16st 61b, ls s t 61b, and 11st 91b. Peas and beans, 19st 61b, 19st 21b, and 17st 71b. Qrs. Best. Current. Inferior. 456 Wheat £2 8 6 £2 4 0 £1 18 0 1,441 Oats ... ... ....1 2 4 019 0 0 13. 4 668 Barley 1 13 9 1 7 3 1 5 0 91 Peas and heans 1 16 0 1 15 0. 1 10 0 Average of wheat, 2/. 3s 114 d. HADDINGTON, F.EB. I.—The following are the prices of grain at our market to-day : WHEAT. BARLEY, First s2s Od 34s at Second 4ss 7d 31s ld Third 4ls Od 24s Od. Total quantity- of wheat in market, barley „ OATS. I BEANS. 24s Od 35s Od 20s 5d 31 s 2d 18s Od I 293 Od 575 qrs., 497 sold 475 qrs., 453 sold 363 qrs., 304 sold 183 qrs., 100 sold beans - - ABERDEEN, FEB. 4.—Grain—Old oats, OOs Od to 00s Od, 401bs per bushel ; new oats, 16s GA to 17s Od, 401bs per bushel ; bear, 28s 0(1 to 29s Cd, 531bs per bushel ; barleY , 27s Od to 28s 0(1, 531bs per bushel ; wheat, red, 48s Od to 00s Od, 621bs per bushel ; wheat, white, 52s Gd to 5 3 s 6 d , 621bs per bushel ; oatmeal, lls 0(1 to 15s Od per boll ; flour, 39s Od to 40s Gd per sack. Provisions—Beef, per ll't 4d to 7d ; mutton, ditto, 4d to 7d ; veal, ditto, 6d to 7cl; pork, per stone, 4s 0(1 to 4s 3d ; ?arab, per lb, Od to Od ; rabbits, each, Od to Od ; tallow, per stone. 4s Od to 45 6.1; potatoes, per peck, ls to is 3d ; butter, per lb, 10d to Os lld eggs, per doz, Os 9d to Os lld ; hens, per pair, 2s Od to 2s 6d ; chickens, ditto, is Gd to 2s Od ; ducks, ditto, 2s 6 d to 3s Od ; ducklings, ditto, Os Od to Os Od ; turkeys, each, 4s Od to 5s 0(1 ; geese, ditto, 3s Gd to 4s Od ; butter for exportation (present cure), per cwt, 80s to 84s ckl ditto (summer cured), OOs to 00s Od ; eggs, wholesale prie e, per dcy;en, Od to 6d ; 41b loaf, 7d ; 21b loaf, 3Ad ; porn fine small, Os Od to 5s 6d ; pork, large, 3s Gd to 4s 3d. CORK-FEB. 4. Brits. Currency. White wheat 00s Od to OOs 041 Os Od-20 stone. 89 Bedwheat ISs Od to 25s 0.1 Ditto OOs 0(1 to OOs Od 224 6d-20 do. Ditto OOs 0(1 to OOs Od 96 Barley l4s 4(1 to 14s 8d Ditto OGs Od to OOs 0(1 14s 6d-16 do. Ditto OOs Od to OOs 0(1 1 Sere l3s 64 to )Os Od Os 04 453 Oats . 266 Ditto, 388 Ditto, 393 Pigs , 9s 6d to 9s 10d 9s 10d to 10s Od Os 10d do. lOs Od-to lOs 8d 30s Od to 42s Od 41s Od per cwt• Quantity sold at the highest prices :- 0 barrels white wheat; 19 red ; 50 barley ; 0 bore ; 46 oats ; 90 pigs. Quantity of grain and number of pigs sold last week :---- Wheat, 684. Barley, 1,383. Bore, 0. Oats, 6,501 Pigs, 242. PRICES OF BUTTER. CANT. 94s 93$ 88s 82s 74s 58s CURRENCY. First qu2.lity Second quality Third quality Fourth quality Fifth quality Sixth quality 55 3 ........ SP ........ 7 93 ........ _ 33 ........ ........ 493 First quality Second quality Third quality.. Fourth quality Fifth quality .. Sixth quality.. Return of cattle sold for week ending Jan. 29 : Pigs, 806. Sheep, 250. Cows, 180. CORK —Flour—First, 15s Gd to 16s 6d ; extra, 17s 6 Q seconds, 14s Od to 15s Od ; households, 10s to 13s Od ; 7s Od to lOs per cwt. Meal—lndian meal, Ss 6d to Ss o ",' oatmeal, lls Od to 11s6d ; wheat meal, lls to lls 6d per ow; Indian corn, 81 Os Od to 8/ 7s 6d per ton. Bran, 4/ 15 00 ' to 4/ 17s6d per ton. Hay—Farmers, 20s Od to 31s Oci ; a verage , 30s ; dealers, 32s Od to 44 8 Od ; av er age, Os p e r ton. Stray , ' Farmers, 18s Od to 28s Od ; average, 240 ; dealers, 30s Od 34s Od ; average, Os. per ton. Bread—Wheaten loaf, 7d t ° Od ; household ditto, 6d to Od per 41b.—Fresh batter, 9d lid per lb. Eggs, 6s 8d to Os 10d per hundred. Meat —bee' 4d to 6d ; mutton, 5d to Old ; veal, 4d to 6d ; pork, 4(1 sd. ; bacon, 6d to 7d ; sausages, 5d per lb.—Fish, Newfound. land, 111. Os to 121 Os per ton ; Scotch herrings, 28s to 000, Red, do., 30s per brl.—Potatoes, white, 8d to 9d; lld to 12d.— Coals, Newport, 23s ; Lydney, 00s ; Culnl, Od per ton.—Whiskey, 25 0.p., Gs Od per imperial ga llo ,;,if Flic l es, market, 25s to 325; Salted, 26s to 32s per cwt. skins, 3id per lb.—Bangor slates 21. 17s. 6d to 31. per ton' Fleece wool, 15s to 16s per stone.—Hemp, 371. to 40/. P e ton—Timber, Memel, 31. lOs ; red pine, 31. 10s ; yellow do'' U. Os. per ton ; deals, 161. to 181. per hundred.—Bark, red ► 71. to 81. 10s. per ton.—Tallow, 47s to 48s per cwt.- 11° P: 71. lOs to 01. per cwt.—Tar, Ar c hangel, 19 s . p er brl.—Gua ll Peruvian, 101. lOs to 111. per ton. RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS. LIVERPOOL, FEB. 5. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The market to-day has been ileac/ and languid ; quotations have been again reduced , rule as follows :—Aberdeen, ; Birkenhead, Lane 9 l o , and Ch es hi re (Ch ester and Birkenhead), 21$ ; Caledontern, 30$ ; Dubli n an d B e lf ast J unct i on, 1 di s. ; Great We s an d 86i • Lancashire and Y or k s hi re , 764 ; Lancashire Tido, Preston, Fourth Shares, issued at4l. 14s. dis., 26 ; Ow • and North-Wester n , 118 ; Manchester, Sheffield, 2 3h ' coin, 29 ; Midland 76 ; South-Eastern and Dover , York and North Midland, MANCHESTER, FEB. 5. ~,, Dei r STOCK EXCHANGE.The prices WEITO sornew t ish ; than on Friday :—Blackburn, 71 ; East Lancasiljr c r iobir Lancashire and Yorkshire, 76i ; Lancashire and YlOO ' (161. shares F), ? 4 prem. ; Mancheste r and BirroilAl Quarters), 12 p rem . ; S outh Eastern and Dover, -‘;'-'4. BIRMINGHAM. FEB. 5. - - STOCK EXCHANGE.—The railway share market has 10501 , 3 very inactive throughout th e week - , and prices have , rally declined. There have been few sellers a t pr ose% prices, and there is no prob a bility o f th ere being viufied business done until the dividends are d ec l are d. the closing quotations this afternoon were Amberei. Nottingham, and Boston, buyers 6,3 ; Birmingham, r o i verhampton, and Stour Vall.ey, buyers 10, sellers Midland, buyers 754 ; ditto (Birmingham and Derfa Y . o . buyers 443, sellers 48 ; Shrewsbury and Birmingham, ; ers 763 sellers, 68, 1 , ; North Staffordshire, sellers 4 To Shrewsbury' and Birmingham (London and North-We i :l. 4 , w Guaranteed), buyers 73, sellers 77 ; South Stafford buyers 4 , sellers dis. BRISTOL, FEB. 5. 03 0 STOCK EXCHANGE.—The market is much firmer it has been for the last few days. Bristol Steam N 3Vl '' tion Shares were done at 50. SEABORNE MALLS. (N signifies that the mails are sen t f rom th e General - 1, ost-o Dtc the night—and M by the morning—dispatch.] _.......e. Day when m ade up From what Wile o COUNTRIES. In General Post- Port dee' Office, London. Dispatched. America (byßrit.pack.N Feb. 4 .. .. Liverpool ..Feb. America (by United Sts. Ai p P n a a e c e r k k ic e e a t t ) , h ) (b:y: :.• 7 . 1) : . 1 . 1 . Southampton Feb' I Aust-alia (via South. amptor) M 4ih o f M arc h .... 'Southampton - b• 19 Ditto (via Marseilles N 3th of March .... Dover ...• F ew ' Ditto (via Cape of good 30 Hope) . • N 22d o f February .. Plyrr oath .. „ 13 Africa (West Coast) N 23rd of the month. Ply.roath • • N e h b. 16 Alexandria... .. • N 19th3E3Ott• of mon. Dover ...• •• F e `;; : v Belgium ••••• • • • • N Dover . . .16 Brazil .......• •• • . lll 9th of the mouth.. So,tbampton Feb',. tb Buenos Ayres .... • • lll 9th of the month.. Southarr tton Feb 16 California -•• • . & 17th of month Southarri of F e ,": 26 Cape of Good Hope N and 14th of Feb. Southampton Fe . 2 6 Cape de Verds N 14 thof the month . Southampton Feb'„" 10 Constatitinople* ▪ N 7 t l ll7th27thof mo.. Dover ...• • • „ re „,'" . 1 dt , Central America M •?ild & 17th of mon. Ja itempto” r• Channel 151e5.... • N Mon.Wed.&Friday z."ttati amp , o -1 16 Ntd & 17th ormonth Feb'„ejaw , France ...... & Twice daily Dover ...... 10 , Greece* .......... N 701 17th27thormon. Dover ...... r St . '" Hamburgh N Tuesday & Friday London ..... 'r ue 2•101 1 ' Holland ..... Wednesday & Sat London S L I ; 16 01 Honduras N 17th of the month. Southernp OD Fe b ' ce dsi• Ireland ... • ..11.1 & N Twiee daily Holyhead ,2 4 India (viaSouthampt.fli 20th of the month.. Soutbmp.ou 19 India (via Marseilles) 3th& 24th of month Dover e • India (via Cape Good Mauritius NFeb'Mediterranean •(via 14th4th o o l f .t t i h ie e m m o o n n o th . ... s S o o u u t t h b a a m m p p t t o of , F . 26 Feb. 4 Southampton 20th of the month, Sz ou th amp t o n g Ditto (via Mars e ill es).N , th& 24th of - month Dover ...• • • F eb ' 1 Mexico 2nd of the month. Southampton Fe b ' b. 1 Madeira • 9 th&23tloftlic mon. Southampton k e" 7th )7th 19th 27th 1 0 Malta* ........ ....N ' '• " F eb ' 31 az3Oth of the month Dover Napless . N sth 1 6 th25thofmon. Dover .... • • Papal States*.. N ithlsth2sthof mon. Dover ...• • • Feb. Peninsula 'till 7tll27thof mon Southampton . 16 Tuscany ) ; •2d & 17th of month -•outhampton F, e i , 12 N rithltith2sthot nton. Dover t , e ,t ; 16 West Indies M 2d & 17th of mo n th =outhampton r Van Diemen's Land (see Australia) ...... * The mail s t o those countries thus marked (*) are co j oc:ve French packet to Marseilles. BIRTHS. OF A SON. On the 3d inst., at 16, Mansfield-street, Laa o,o lo 9 . ~.4 Ru ssell. °Q. On the 3d inst., at Marston-house, the Hon. 310' eit Boyle. OF A untes°. 0 On the 4th inst., at 103, DAUGHTER Eaton-square, the -° 4 o 10 Enniskill en , the 1 On the 30th ult., at the C rescen t , L on d on derr9o / of Major Stuart, staff-officer. 6 , tlie, MARRIED. av, On the 3d inst., at St, Geor'a, Hanover-BV_, Hon. T. M. C. Wide, younger son of the Right 11 ," 0 00'' Truro, to Emily, second daughter of Charlesc Esq., of Balhain-hill, Suirey g 0(14, On the 3d inst., at Trunahiton, Alfred Pao' of Sj r of St. Thomas's-stree London, and second son ong e f daughterAVi iam o Poland fs tep,hoefnA Blackheath deoek ,E , s q t o . o Susanna cam b ße ri l d i g % Send ° Trumpington. Ne er DIED. On the 30th ult., Mary Dodd, of 8, York-buildinptinertf road, the widow of Major Thomas Dodd, Roy al ree t°l. o ° f On the 29th ult., at Nice, the Rev. F. Clerk(); _ ot her Eydon, Northamptonshire, ao—d 56, and second. In - da Sir W. H. Clerk() Part. Corar ailli On the 3d inst.. at C • nwich Hospitai, Charles Robinson, R.N. 'lce ler, On the 28th ult., J. M. Stothor, Esq., cowman' 000 f aged 68. Qn the Ist inst., at Southampton, Lieutenant G. of the Ist West India R g eoiment, Cagaedl 50. Bsci• it ,y, On the I s t inst. ,at Sasbur hres Brodie, Nir. On the I s t inst., at Croydon-common, Surrey' Esq., l a t e o f the Rome-oce, aged 81- T .,- liowar r°a On the 4th inst., in the Albion-road, -la° J. T. P oo l ey, Esq., aged 56. . Strand • LONDON : and Published by latatw so. - - 0 ( ,-, el -you i d, of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sun . Off l a the c °/ ` Mid th In e Precinct of the Savoy', ill woe; Monday, February 7,1553. f