The Sun. — London, England, 1853-01-17 00:00:00

MARKET NEWS-(THIS DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE. The country markets held on Saturday were fairly sup plied with wheat, the general condition of which was very inferior. On the whole, there was rather more firmness in the demand for most descriptions, and previous rates were well supported. Fine malting barley, from its scar city, realised is per quarter more money. Grinding and distilling sorts, including malt, were held at full quota tions. O a t s , beans, and peas were quite as dear ; but flour was the turn lower. Advices from New York to the 4th instant state that the value of flour had a downward tendency. On the Continent the trade has continued in a s l ugg i s h s t a t e , but n o material change has taken place in prices. Tip to our market, last week, the arrivals of English grain were very moderate. From abroad, we received 5,214 quarters of wheat, 605 oats, 2,780 beans, 25 peas, 1 1470 linseed, 284 rapeseed, 163 sundry seeds, 1,610 sacks, and 3,490 barrels of flour. Fresh up to this morning's market, the arrivals of wheat from Essex and Kent were moderate, and greatly out of condition. From the east coast, a few parcels came fresh to hand ; whilst the receipts by land carriage were com paratively small. The show of samples of both red and white was far from extensive. Selected qualities of the latter moved off sisadily, at prices fully equal to those of Monday last, and there was a better feeling in the inquiry for all other kinds, at full quotations. We may observe, however, that, owing to the damp state of some of the parcels, a total clearance was with difficulty effected. There was a slightly improved sale for forward delivery parcels, but we observed no change in the quotations. With foreign wheats, fresh as well as well as ex-granary, we were but moderately supplied. For shipmen t coast wise there was an improved inquiry, at fully l ate rates. Otherwise, a fair average business was transacted, and prices were well supported. The stock here is much re - duced. Floating cargoes of foreign wheat and beans, off Fal mouth, were held at extreme currencies. Malting barley, the show of which was very limited, sold readily, at prices somewhat in favour of holders. Grinding and distilling sorts moved off readily, and late currencies were freely supported. Tho malt trade was tolerably firm. In prices we have no change to report. The want of adequate supplies of oats prevented much business being transacted in that grain. Prices were very firm in every instance. Dealers are very short of stock. Beans commanded a steady, though by no means active, inquiry, at late rates. In the value of peas, the show of which was limited, no change took place. The flour trade was in a sluggish state, at last week's prices. CURRENCY PER IMPERIAL MEASURE. Wheat —Essex & Kent, Rod .... new 40s to Cis Ditto•• . •• •• .... old 46s 59s Ditto, White new 45s b3s Ditt0........ old 503 60s Norfolk and Lin coln, Red, old Ditto, new ...... Rye—Old ............ Malt—Chovaller .. • 61s to €33 Oats Yorkshire and Lincolnsk., Feed 16s 22e Potato ...... • ... 21e 241 Yogghal and Cork Black. ...... 161 94s 488 538 37$ 47$ 318 31s 31$ 33s 263 28s 3ls 23$ 348 36s Cork, White ..... 16s 25s Scotch, Feed 210 Ms Beans—Tick •• • •• 321 34s Pigeons ••• . 354 403 Peas—Grey .. ••.• • • • • 31s 35 33s 36s White........... 334 37, New arley —Grinding Malting* . Chevalier Malt—Satrolk and Nor folk .... ........ 54s Hs Brown Kingston sad Ware 535 60s Boilers .......... 26s 41s Flour—Town-made... 41s 46 4 Suffolk .......... 32e 3•s Stockta & Norfolk 32s 33s SMITHFIELD. Tke imports of foreign stock into London, last week, were moderate—the total supply amovrt:ng to 3,114 head. Dtuing the same period in 1852 trey amounted to 3,204 ; in 1851, 2,433 ; in 1850, 440 ; in 1849, 1,406 ; and in 1848, 965 head. IMPORTS MO LONDON LAB! WEEK. From - Beasts. Sheep. Lambs. Calves. Pigs Bamburgh...... 10 ... 111 .. Os'zend ..... 235 692 Antwerp.. .... . 375 Rotterdam.- 651 . •.• . 173 ... ... -- 418 ... 2,449 3 ... 241 ... The yearly comparison of weekly imports is as under : Boasts. Sheep. lambs. Calves. Pigs. 1 852 621 2,223 ... 353 ... 7 1851 399 ... 1,778 227 24 1 840 l5l 245 44 1849 177 ... 1,122 107 ... 1 849 136 ... 800 ... 29 The following are the imports of foreign stock into the United Kingdom during the first eleven months of 1851 and 1852 : Total . - . 1851. Beasts 33,962 Cows Calves 22,342 Sheep 161,926 Lambs 9,120 ......, Pigs 14,971 1852. ... 37,499 ... 22,554 ... 24,157 ... 192,771 ... 12,339 ... 10,045 The show of foreign stock in to-day's market was season ably•extensive, and in middling condition. Amongst the supply of beasts were 100 oxen from Spain. From our own grazing districts, as well as from Scotland, the arrivals of beasts were considerably in excess of those reported on Monday last, nevertheless, the demand for that description of stock, owing to the large number of buyers in attendance, ruled tolerably steady, at that day's quotations. The very primest sorts were worth from 4s to 4s 2d per 81bs. The receipts from Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, and Cambridgeshire, amounted to 1,700 Scots and short horns ; from other parts of England, 1,200 Herefords, runts, Devon's, &c. ; and from Scotland, 900 horned and polled Scots. With sheep, we were fairly supplied. The mutton trade was by no means so active as on this day se'nnight, never theless, it may be considered steady, at the late advance in the currencies. The primest old Downs produced 5s per Blbs. Calves—the supply of which was moderate—moved off steadily, and the prices were well supported. We had a fair sale for pigs, at full prices. Per Sibs by th© carcase. s. d. S. d. s. d. s. d. Inferior Beasts ...2 10 to 3 0 Prime Southdown 410 5 0 Second quality ...3 2 3 4 Largo erne. calves 3 0 4 0 Primo largo oxen 3 6 3 8 Prime small do 4 2 4 6 Prime Scots, &c. 310 4 2 Largo hogs ‘, 10 3 6 Inferior sheep ...3 8 310 3mall porkers 3 8 310 Second quality ...4 0 4 4 Suckling calves 20 0 24 0 Prime erse.-wlled.4 6 4 8 Quarter old pigs 19 0 23 0 TOTAL SUPPLY. FOREIGN SUPPLY. Beasts Shcop 20,860 Sheep Calves 307 I Calves 256 Pigs 285 Pigs — A statement and comparison of the supplies and prices of fat stock exhibited and sold in Smithfield Cattle Market, on Monday, Jan. 19, 1852, and this day, Monday, Jan. 17, 1853. Per Slbs, to sink the offals. Jan. 19, 1852. Jan.l7, 1853 B. d. s. d. s. d. s. d. 2 Bto 2 102 10 to 3 0 3 0 3 43 2 3 4 3 6 3 83 6 3 8 3 8 3103 10 4 2 210 3 0 3 8 310 3 2 3 84 0 4 4 310 4 046 4 8 4 2 4 4410 5 0 3 0 3 63 0 4 0 3 8 4 04 2 " 4 6 . 2 6 3 6210 3 6 .2 8 310 3 8 310 ... 3,565 4,562 ... 24,760 20,860 • 114 307 ▪ ... 360 285 SUPPLIES ON SALE, Jan. 20, 1851.—Beasts, 4,327 ; sheep, 20,670 ; ca l ves, 153; pigs, 205. Jan. 21, 1850.—Beasts, 3,334 ; sheep, 19,800 ; calves, 150 ; rigs, 220. Coarse and inferior beasts ... Second quality ditto Prime large oxen ... ... . Prime Scots, drc . Coarse and inferior sheep ... . Second quality ditto ... . Prime coarse woolled ditto ... . Prime Southdown ditto Large coarse calves Prime small ditto .. Large hogs ... Neat small porkers Beasts... Sheep . Calves. Pigs NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL. The Supplies of each kind of meat on offer to-day were but moderate, compared with some previous weeks. Generally speaking, the demand ruled steady, and prices Were well supported. Per 81bs by the carcase. s. d. s. d. ' l3oef, inferior 24 2 6 Do., middling 2 8 210 Do., prime large 3 0 3 2 Do., do. mall 3 4 3 6 Pork, large 2 8 3 0 N. d. s. d Mutton, Inferior 3 0 3 6 Do.,middLin 3 8 4 2 Do., prime 4 4 4 6 Veal 2 10 4 4 Pork, small 3 2 4 0 WOOL MARKET. A steady demand having sprang up for English wool for shipment to the United States, prices have advanced ld per lb. There is more inquiry for foreign and colonial qualities, at full rates of currency. Last week's imports were 121 bales from Constantinople, 147 from Alexandria, and 54 from Hambro'. BOROUGH AND SPITALFIELDS. Very moderate supplies of potatoes have come to hand, coastwise, since our last report. From ab roa d t h e arrivals ' have been liberal :-209 tons have reached us from Calais, 20 ditto from Rotterdam, 353 from Rouen, 105 from Gra velines, and 20 from Ostend. The demand is in a sluggish state, as follows :—York Regents, 85s to 135 s per ton ; Lincolnshire ditto, 75s to 100 s; Sc!hch ditto, 80s to 95, ; Ditto Reds, 753 to 90s ; French Whites , 751; t o 90 8 ; Dutch, 60e to 755. BOROUGH HOP. Since our last, several speculative purchases have been effected in new hops. Prices are, therefore, well sup ported. In other kinds scarcely any business has been doing. Mid and East Kent pockets, 90s to 150 s • Weald of Kent, 85s to 108 s ; Sussex, 85s to 105 s per ck SEEDS. On the spot, Petersburg linseed is selling at from 49s to to 50 8 ; and Calcutta, 518 to 52s per quarter. Shipments up to September are quoted at 465. About 15,000 quarters of Black Sea, for shipment next season, have Changed hands, at 465. Rapeseed has advanced 2s. Cakes are in good request, at very full prices. T arl ll l3,White, per bush. 8s to Ils Carraway, new ...... 38S 41 s Swede ...• 1013 12s Coriander, new ..... 103 120 'Award, 8r0wn.. .... 73 9s llempseed, per quarter 32s P s s White, new...... 780 d lOs Linseed, Eng. Sowing.. 58s 60s T ares,Wintor,new.... 4s 6d Bs Od Crushing •• 47s 52s Spring Os Od 03 Od Baltic •• •• •• 47s 50s u , s anary, per quarter .. 453 47s Od essa .......... 4 8 4 52s .ye grass.. •• • • 28s 34s Linseed Cake, pr. ton — Clover, Red Eng. (cwt.) Us bOa English .. 9! 04 In , Os White ........ • . 38s 508 Foreign, per ton 8? 103 101 58 Foreign Red...... 381 502 Rape Cakes, pr ton 41158 51 Os White.. • • 37a 49s Rapeseed, New, pr Is t 2210 s 24108 Trefoil, new.. •• 263 309 TA.LI Since our last report the del spot and for forward delivery, state, and prices have had a so; P.Y.C., on the spot, is qu 45s 6d per cwt. net cash ; rou ,OW. 'Bland for tallow, both on the has been in a very sluggish nnewhat downward tendency. noted at 465. Town tallow, igh fat, 2s 7d per Blbs. 1846 --.-.---- . I 1850. -- ---- --- Stock this day ...... 37,922 4 2,442 1 ,031 P rice of Y. c; .... s - 418 6d 398 Odtoins 52 3d to Cto4 I s 3,1 00 s Od 37s Gd Delivery last week .. '1,720 2,289 2,364 Ditto from June 1.... 68,135 63,525 6r Arrivals last week .. 2,637 279 1,812 Ditto from Jun e 1.... 98,514 80,194 89,762 Price of Town .....• 438 6d 41s Od 390 Gd 60,532 3gs 3d to36sfd 2,859 70,413 2,144 94,111 394 6d 44,2701 16s Od to COs Od 2,436 66,399 70,041 476 9d THE FRENCH EMPIRE. In the Moniteur of yesterday morning there is an article of an angry character against three Lon don journals—the Morning Chronicle, the Times, and the Morning Advertiser, which are accused of persevering in a system of falsehood and insult against the French Government, at a time when all Governments are endeavouring to maintain friendly relations, and when they are moreover, as it is affirmed, approaching to present French prin ciples of administration. The Moniteur, while blaming the literary excesses of the three London papers, acknowledges that, generally speaking, offences of this kind on the part of forei g n j ournals have become rare. In Belgium, for instance, the complaints against the press as soon as made were so seconded by public opinion as that they had no occasion to be renewed. Even in England some journals, at first most hostile to the new order of things, not being able to resist the evidence of fact, had adopted a tone of moderation and dig nity ; while, on the other hand, the three obdurate journals already named have only become more violent, pushing beyond all bounds, l'impudence de la calomnie, la grossierete des outrages. In vain has the Emperor, it is said, protested, on the most solemn occasions, that his sincere desire was to consolidate the peace of the world, and that he aspired to no other conquests than those of civilisation, finding ample scope for his useful activity in the colonisation of Africa, the completion of public works, the amelioration of the state of the working classes, and the progress of in dustry and arts. Those declarations, supported, too, by the reduction of the army, have been met by these hostile journals with an insolent dementi, they asserting that France andher chief only breathed war, and were watching an opportunity to fall on Europe, so that a new coalition would be necessary to resist such insatiable ambition. The French people, they say, have shown themselves the vilest and most contemptihle, and their statesmen, gene rals, and even the army itself miserable slaves, or greedy instruments of tyranny, because they had all acclaimed Louis Napoleon Emperor, and sup ported the grand act of the 2d December. In sup port of this general style of language, as being that of the journals in question, the Moniteur proceeds to give extracts, beginning with the Morning Chroni cle of the Ist January, calling the Emperor a usurper, who, with the help of a band of adventurers, has set about reorganising the Imperial regime, which must necessarily be one of territorial aggrandisement and military glory. Next comes the Times of the 2d of January, with its strictures on a Senate more cowardly than that of Tiberius, favourites gorged with honours, functionaries without conscience, with crimes and exactions, which before a year was about would bring about something terrible. The Morning Advertiser of the 3d, calling Louis Na poleon the " greatest tyrant, the most perjured criminal, and the most abominable monster that had ever shamed humanity," is very fairly de scribed as having surpassed its cotemporaries in. abuse. These extracts are of course made a han dle of against the liberty of the press, and are used as affording a justification of the measures of the French Government anent the same. In conclu sion, the Moniteur relies on the good sense of the English people as an antidote, and feels assured that it is only necessary to bring such sentiments as those put forward by the three London papers to the bar of public opinion to ensure their con demnation. The following is the article in extenso : " While all the Governments are endeavouring to main tain the most friendly relations between nations—at the moment when the powers join in a manner in the senti ments of France in recognising the rights of her new Emperor, and the services which he has rendered to social order, some foreign journals persevere in their deplorable system of falsehoods and insults ; they seem to suffer fro►n witnessing peace and public security. Their excess shows how fortunate it is for the repose of the world and general prosperity that wisdom and mode ration now preside over the conduct of States. We must, however, allow, for the honour of the foreign press, that these excesses have become more rare. It was sufficient to point out to the attention of Belgium the licence and dangers of certain journals of that country, in order to excite against them the opinion of all honest men, and to submit them to the just authority of the laws. In England, even, journals which were in the first place the most hostile to the new order of things in France, are now more measured and more dignified in their language. It is not, however, so with all of them—the Tinbesithe Morning Chronicle, and the Morn ing Advertiser appear to increase in their hatred, and to push beyond all bounds the impudence of calumny, and the grossness of outrage." The 31oniteur then quotes parts of leading articles of the above journals, and proceeds : "It is needless for us to give any more quotations. What we have given is sufficient to make known the terms in which certain journals speak of a friendly nation, and of a sovereign whom it has just raised to the throne. It may be remembered the indignation which was raised throughout the whole of Europe on reading those odious manifestoes of the demagogical party against the re-esta blishment of the Empire. England herself could not comprehend that those to whom she has accorded her hospitality should profit by it to dare to publish these savage provocations. The same disgust, the same uni versal reprobation will be excited by the language which we have just quoted. What opinion de these journals give to the world of the liberty of the press, of which they so f r e e ly ma k e th emse l ves the defenders ? What ! in a country where that liberty has existed for so many ages there can still be found writers who only make use of it to propagate falsehoods ! Certainly the French Government is far above those miserable insults. It sees enough in the spectacle of public prosperity and in the sentiment of confidence and affection of the people to inspire it with conte,npt for such outrages. It, besides, knows the sentiments of the statesmen of England ; and it knows that the mass of the nation is animated with the most friendlyfeeings for France. The close relations which exist between the two people have taught them reciprocal esteem ; but it is precisely for that very reason that it is impossible to prevent a painful impression in thinking that at the very moment when the Government and all right-thinking men are striving to remove all the prejudices of another age, and which have had such disastrous consequences on both sides the Channel, unworthy writers should en deavour by insult to revive our old divisions. The good sense of the English people will rightly judge of a press which so unworthily sacrifices the true interests of their country, and to punish such excesses, it is only necessary to bring them before the bar of public opinion." Official notification is given of the proclamation of the French Empire at Tunis on the 2d inst. The Bey ordered the event to be celebrated by firing a volley of 101 guns from the batteries, a salute which was ackowledged by an equal number from the French frigate Mogador, stationed in the har bour. Abd-el-Kader arrived at Messina on the 23d of December, at half-past four in the evening, after a journey of less than three days. Great attention has been paid to the Emir on his route by the King of the Two Sicilies ; the ruins of Etna particularly excited All-81-Kader's attention, and the civilities of the authorities were acknowledged with all the florid gratitude of Arabian custom. A telegraph dispatch from Hamburgh, of the 15th, gives us a rumour worthy of belief, that the Danish Diet has been dissolved, on accountiof the rejection by 50 to 45, of the law for removing the customs frontier from the Eider to the Elbe. The Minister of Public Works has published re turns of railway receipts for the years 1851 and 1852, showing an increase in the latter over the former year of 25i millions of francs, of which, al though a certain portion may be attributed to the opening of some branches, yet must the whole be taken as a proof of augmented traffic, the average per kilometer having risen from 32,345 f. to 35,673 f., making a difference of 3,317 f. for 1852. The re turns of taxes and indirect revenue for the whole year 1852 amount to 804,334,000 f., showing an increase over the preceding year of 66,491,000 f. The direct taxes received amount to 389,282,000 f., being 94 per cent. of the sum due, while at the corresponding period of last year the amount got in was but 92 per cent. The cost of proceedings against defaulters came to 2f. 75c. per cent., while in the preceding year it amounted to 3f. 7c. per cent. The Council of State has had laid before it the estimates of expenditure for 1854, as they were prepared by the different Ministers. The estimates for the department of Foreign Affairs have in creased by 1 ,200,000 f. The secret service ex penses of the department of Foreign Affairs are fixed at from 5 00,000 f. to 550,000 f., and for the expenses of Government messengers an additional sum of 260,000 f. is demanded. It is also rather curious to observe that, under the head of depenses imprevues, the amount is at once raised from 30,000 f. to 80,000 f. The estimates for the de partment of Public Instruction are increased by 353,000 f. Public Worship is united with Public Instruction, but they have a special budget, and the latter is increased by 709,000 f. The expenses of the Pro testant worship are increased by 15,000 f., and those of the Jewish by 7,000 f. An augmentation of 1,035,000 f. is made in the estimates of the Minister of the Interior, Agricul ture, and Commerce. The department of the Minister of Police is put down at 518,060 f. increase. But the most consi derable augmentation is that which is found in the estimates of the Minister of Public Works ; it amounts to 5,413,000 f. for the ordinary service, and 26,931,000 f. for extraordinary works. With respect to the extraordinary works, the sum of 27,000,006 f. is destined to the great railroad lines. A reduction appears in the war estimates ; this reduction is but 4,088,000 f., to which, how ever, must be added a sum of the same amount, or little more, proceeding from extraordinary credits, but which will not be employed for 1853—the total difference (less) is 9,032,000 f. ' Finally, the budget of the Minister of Financ3 has been considerably increased, like that of the Minister of Public Works. The increase is 28,046,000 f., of which 21,671,000 f. represent tie increase in the dotations. The increase of the budget of 1854 over that o 1853 is 57,719,795 f. The question arises, How is this continually increasing expenditure to be defrayed by the pre sent revenue 7 The Moniteur publishes ae decree, commanding : "1. That the officers, functionaaies, and employes, connected with the departments of War and Marine, shall take the oath prescribed by the 16th article of the Senatus Con,sultum, of the 25th of December, 1852, modi fying the 14th article of the Constitution. 2. Every officer, functionary, or employe, who shall refuse to ful fil that obligation shall be considered as having resigned. 3. A Ministerial decree will define the form and the delay in which this oath shall be taken, according to the rank and position of the parties. 4. The Ministers, Secretaries of State in the Departments of War and Marine, are charged with the execution of the presen decree. "NAPOLEON." It is not considered likely that the recognition of the Empire by foreign Powers will be followed by any extraordinary mission to the courts, at least before the coronation. Any feeling of asperity that may still exist will, it is hoped, be softened down, and an additional claim to complete equality may be advanced from the imposing ceremony of conse cration and the marriage. It would appear that Prince Napoleon Jerome is directing all his efforts to the triple object of keep ing himself in the good graces of his cousin ; of di minishing the repugnance of moderate men to the probability of his being Emperor at some future day, and of regaining the confidence of his former Red associates, which, it is scarcely necessary to say, has been seriously impaired by his late defec tion—if, indeed, the Prince had ever been a Democrat. One of his former colleagues of the Mountain he succeeded in inducing to visit him very recently. The ex-representative maintained throughout an attitude of much firmness, and seemed by no means convinced by the arguments employed by his Imperial Highness for his justifi cation. The Prince reminded him pathetically that he once had the pleasure of sitting with him on the extreme Left of the Assembly ; but the stern Republican remained untouched by the souvenir. He then alluded to the possibility of a democratic prince being one day the Ruler of France. To this it was replied, " Sir, you will neither be the man of France nor the man of the Republic." _ _ M. Delangle's place of Procureur at the Court of Cassation is not yet filled up, and M. Dupin is still coy, or coquetting, or biding his time. The learned gentleman's position with the Orleanist party does not much differ from that of Prince Napoleon Je rome with the Republicans. There is an old pro verb about the probable result of a person trying to sit on two stools. M. Dupin has clever people to deal with. He has already lost caste with his party, and it is to be feared for ever. It is not certain that he has acquired much credit elsewhere, and between the two, should he hesitate much longer, he will very likely come to the ground. Two individuals were arrested at Vaugirard on Wednesday night, after having made a determined resistance and wounded the officers entrusted with a warrant for their apprehension. On searching their lodgings a quantity of arms and a mass of political correspondence were discovered. SPAIN. We have received dispatches from Madrid, dated the 11th inst. We learn from them that M. Aris tizabal had been replaced by M. Llorente as Minister of Finance, and M. Benavides had been appointed Minister of the Interior ; other changes had been made, but the parties were not named, Bourse.—The Three per Cents., 42 ; Deferred, 234 ; Exchange on London, 51 paper. PRUSSIA. The election of a permanent President and two Vice-Presidents for the remaining portion of the session, which took place in both Chambers imme diately on their meeting again after the Christmas holidays, has ended in the re-election of Graf Ritt berg, President ; Geheimerath Dr. Briiggemann, First Vice-President ; and Graf von Itzenplitz as Second Vice-President of the First Chamber ; and in the Second Chamber in the election of Graf Schwerin as President, the re-election of Baron von Waldbott-Bornheim as First Vice-President, and Herr von Engelmann as Second Vice-President. The re-elected Vice-President has been charged by the Catholic party with the bringing in of a motion, the passing of which would overthrow the policy hithefto observed by the Ministry towards Roman Catholic Church in Prussia, and either compel their resignation or a dissolution of the Chambers. The motion is for an address to the King, peti tioning him to revise certain orders which were made last year, prohibiting Roman Catholic mis sionaries from preaching in places where their doc trines would have a tendency to create a breach of the peace, on the ground that such orders are in direct contravention of the 12th Article •of the Constitution, which guaran tees the freedom of religious confession, the right of association for r e li g i ous p ur p oses , an d o f meeting for domestic and public religious exercise. The motion is signed by 73 Catholics, and backed b . y 13 Polish mem b ers o f th e same persuas i on, an d if (as there seems some chance) the Left side, of about 100 strong, and any portion of the Right side and the Bethman-Hollweg party should join them, they would be able to carry it against Mi nisters. The Ro m i s h Ch urc h en j oys great tolera tion in Prussia, p er h aps more so t h an in any other nation where Protestantism prevails ; but in spite of this favourable position the l anguage o f th e Romanist organs here frequently equals in viru lence the choicest productions of the Irish press in the palmy days of O'Connell's agitation. We read of " wrongs done to Holy Mother Church," " violations of justice," " necks bared to the yoke," &c. And yet in Prussia Romanists meet with no sectarian bigotry amongst their fellow-subjects, for, thanks to the rationalistic German philosophy and Frederic the Great's sneering Voltairean principle, that everyman in his dominions should be " allowed to bet to heaven after his own fashion," the greatest liberality and even latitudinarianism exists hero : serious Protestants, Anythingarians, Lutherans, tiagree to leave every man's religion to and infidels tohinaseff all a and his God. RUSSIA. A ukase has been published at Warsaw, ordering that in future no foreigner shall be permitted to act as a preacher, or as the head of a school. Fo reigners giving private lessons in music or lan guages, and tutors or governesses may be autho rised, but under the name of domestics. THE MUTILATION OF A CHILD AT THE HORSE GUARD —The public was greatly shocked a few days since b the details of as atrocious a piece of barbarity as th savage mind could conceive, and the most brutalised of our species could execute, upon a young and helpless child, at the head-quarters of that British army renowned for gallantry and mercy under the most trying circum stances in warfare. The poor child, Lambden, has beyond all question been injured for life, and without at all commenting upon the scene at Bow-street, on Friday last, before Mr. Jardine, who made two payments of 7s to the widowed mother of the infant, we may state what has been done by the War-office authorities. The act of cruelty, it will be remembered, was committed during the Earl of Derby's administration, but the resignation of the noble lord's Cabinet precluded the inquiry ordered by the Right Hon. W. Beresford, Secretary-at-War, being carried out. The succeeding Ministry, however, had not lost sight of the matter, and their sense of re pugnance, sharpened by the interrogatories of the press at the brutality, was marked by an immediate order on the par tof the Right. Hon. SidneyPerbert, present Secretary at-War, for a searching inquiry being instituted. On Tuesday week last, the parties acting as servants at the War-office, and who, by their own evidence, were the only persons present when the inhumanity was perpe trated, and all of whom denied all knowledge of how the injuries were inflicted, were summoned by Mr. Benja min Hawes ' Under-Secretary - at - War, to appear before the Right Hon. Sidney Herbert. The whole circum stances were thoroughly gone into, but as consistency with the statement before the magistrate at Bow-street was the safest course, the Secretary-at-War failed to elicit anything which could criminate the morally ac cused. The Secretary-at-War, than whom a more humane man does not exist, as his long-known philan thropy testifies, expressed himself very strongly upon the case, and held out an inferential threat that the ser vants would have time to consider the propriety of arriv ing at a decision as to giving up the name of the offender, or all being dismissed, without any benefit whatever for long servitude. This, it is to be hoped, will bring the inhuman wretch before the bar of public justice, to meet with that punishment he or she so justly merits, and until which time the public feeling must re main outraged.—Dispatch. - [ADVERTISEMENT.]—The Earl of Aldborough and Holloway's Pills.—An astounding cure by this miracu lous medicine, after every other means had failed.—See extract from his lordship's letter, dated " Villa Messina, Leghorn, Feb. 21, 1845. To Professor Holloway.—Sir —I beg to acquaint you that your pills have effected a cure of a disorder in my liver and stomach, which allthe most eminent of the ficulty at home and all over the Continent had not been able to effect—nay, not even the waters of Carlsbad or Marienbad. (Signed) ALD BOROUGH." These wonderful pills will cure any dis orders of the liver or stomach. Sold (also Holloway's ointment) at Professor Holloway's Establishment, 244, Strand, London, and by all medicine vendors through out the world. Prices Business done FOREIGN CIo . sing p Sim Paid 3lirovATs. Yesterday. Yesterday. 5 3 Belgian Eastn. Junct. 1 2 20 all Charleroi & Erquelin 133 1 4 20 6 Dijonand Besan9on par p 20 8 Dutch Rhenish 2 —l# d 20 all East 1ndian......... 6- p 26 5 all Gt. Indian Peninsula 2 —2A p 20 4 Gd. Junct. of France 3d par 6.1 203 103 Gt. Westn. of Canada Shares 1 17 2 p 20 14 Luxembourg 10 10 Do. (Railway) 4A 5 5 Li Do. 5 2i Do. (Canal) .. . 20 5 Lyons & Medierran 8 —lO p 20 4} Madras 2 —23 p 34 29 Maria Antonia — 10 10 Do. New • ... 20 all Namur & Liege (with interest 8 8* 20 all Do. (ex interest) 6 16 all Northern of France 32 33 3 3 i x jno 20 &I Do. 201. 3p. c. Bds (fmy.B.&Ams.Shs.] - 14 10 all NorwegianTriak.Pref 20 10 Paris and Lyons l4 —14.1 p 3 20 all Paris and Orleans 3B 40 39 20 all Paris and Rouen 3B 39 20 all Paris and Strasbourg 29A 30xd 301 20 4 Paris Caen &Cherbrg. 4i 5 p 8 10 2i Quebec & Richmond * 20 all Rouen and Havre l9 —2O 20 all Sambre and Meuse 9— 9 93 3 9 • 20 4 Southern of France 2 —31 p Upper India la n de 1 8 . s crip 4 P 2 1 80 9 i a 211. V 4 s Do. 53 per c. Pref * sl 20 9 Western of Franco— 11 —11 b TIIE SHARE MARKETS. RAILWAYS Aberdeen Ambit. Nottng. Bost & Eastu. Junct Birmg. Wolverh. & Stour Valley Birkenhd. Lanesh. & Cheshire Junct. Do. Chesil. & Birk., £5O and £25 Cons. Do., £2O Bristol and Exeter Caledonian 'ester & Holyhead, Cork and Bandon._ Dublin&Belfast June. Dundee Perth&Aber deen Junction... Do. New,,,, East Anglian (£25 L. and E. & L. & D.) Eastern Counties..... Eastern Union, Class A. (late E. U. Sh.) Do do 100 100 all all Do.; B. and C..: East Lancashire East & West Id Dk. & Birming. June Edinburgh & Glasgow Min. and Peebles .:din. Prth. &Dtmdee Glasgow& S. Western Great Northern Stk Do A. Stock D- 0., B. Stock Great Southern and Western (Ireland). Great Western ,Irish South-Eastern Lancaster & Carlisle Do., Thirds ............ Laneash.& Yorkshir e ; Do Fifths I ............ Do., Wst. Riding Un' Leeds Northern Liv. Craby. &Southpt London & Blackwall Lond. Tilb. & Sthend. Lond. Brigt. & S. Cst. London & N. Western Do., Fifths D0.,£10 Sh.M.&B. C London & S. Western Do., £5O Do., £4O Londerry. &Coleraine Lndndrry. & Ennisk. Manch. Shef. &Lincln Do., Man. & Lin. Un 'Midland Do. Binning. & Derby Midland G. West.(lr.) Do. 1 Shares Newcastle & Carlisle, Newmarket Do. Bury Extension. Newp. Aberg.&Hftd. Newry & Enniskillen Newry, Warrenpoint, and Restrevor .. Norfolk Do., New Noithn.Counties Un, North British North Devon, No. 1 Do., No. 2 Do.; A Deferrod Do., B Guaranteed North Staffordshire North Western N. & S. Westrn. June Oxford, Worcester, & Wolverhampton Scottish Central BRITISH RAILWAYS. 29 - 33 GA - 10 -- 11 6} 6 d - 221 I ao7 -- 109 644 -65 i 22 - -- 23 17i -- 18 4 -- 3d 8; -9, 51-- 5 i 12J - 12 9 - 10 74 - 76 55 Go 74 76 d ip 26 28 60 62 771 781 40 42 119 122 101 106 90 -- 91 88 -- 90 114 -114 p 81 -84 i 3$ -- 3/d 21 -- 21 d 17f -- 181 * -- lt -- 2 [o7h -1 08 A L 244 -- 125 - 4 -- 4i p —2 p 9-- 54 -- 42 91 d 4i -- 34 -- 12 61 -- 124 20 -- 21 - 30i -- 30 77 -- 77 45 7- 47 1 51 -52 if 3 34 4 2i 2 81 -- Si 53 55 74 8 2A 35 —3 6 d 61 61 d 2h 2g d 4k d 8 - 9 3 —4l p 53 54 92 94 63 65 68 68 58a 593 78 82 11 Id 19 20 9} 10 14 15 3 —2i d • 24 - 25 824 - 833 394 - 3'.1 13f - 144 4 - 4i 2' -- 2i 12i -- 134 1 9; -- 9 27 -- 274 9 . / -- 10- 74 3 9 8i 15i 6.1 133 8 Closing Prices I Business done this day. Yesterday. 1103 5i 63 4 ; 23 2i 17/ 13 13 7565 I7Bi 9 8 41 105 4A 92 1 i 90i 80i la 11i a 1051 4 122 1 91 891 901 90 9 77i 7.18/ 54i 4 !Scottish Midland . 1.... St. St. St. St. all all Ga all 1.00 all Shrewsbury &Birmg. Do., L. & N. Westn. uaranteed Stock. Shrewsby. &Hereford Shrewsby. & Chester (Nor. W. Min.)._ D o . Halves, do Do. Oswestry I Shropshiro 'Union . South Devon . 'South Eastern.. South Wales . IS. Yorksh. River Dun. Do. Stockton & Harticpl. IThames Haven Dock and Railway Vale of Neath Watera & Kilkenny' Waterford& Limerick West Cornwall Wimbledon&Croydn. Woodford 50 491 151 23 2,} 78i 94 7i 'York Newctl. &Bony. ;Do. Extensions Do. G. N. E. Purchase ;York & N. Midland 71 70 121 K 2 PREFERENCE SHARES. St. 100 Aberdeen ....... — 5 all Do., No. 2,7 p. c St. 100 Bristol & Exeter 4 p cent. Stock 107 109 20 5 Do. 4p. c. Shares St. 100 Caledonian £lO 105 107 1063 15 all Chester & Holyhead Guar. 54 'per cent. 19 20 64 31 Cark&Bandons4p.e. par 1 p 64 all Dundee, Perth, and Aberdeen Junction 6 64 3i all EastAngl:an(X3 10s) 6 per cent 3 33 5 all Do. (EN, 7 per cent 34 4 74 2 Do. (£7l7s), 7. pct g— , tif f all Eastern Counties Ex- tension, sp. c. No.l 14 —li p 1.13 pm 64 all Do., No. 2 l# —1/ p 10 all Do., New 6p. e. St l4q 141 144 20 all Eastern Union Scrip Guar. 6 per cent lB 184 184 k St. 100 East Lancash. 6p. ctg 5 all Edinb.Prth.&Dund 3 34 St. 100 Glasgow &S. Western Guar. 5 per cent St. 10 Great Northn. sp. C 1 2 .7 128 127 St. 10 Do. 5 p. c., Redeem at 10 p. c. prem ll2 Of all Gt.S outhn. & Westn (Ireland) Eights Bl 9 i 50 6 Gt. Westn. (Berke & 114 112 Hants Ex. sp. c.) 1 p 7 Stock l5O 152 St. 100 Great Western, fixed Do., 44 per cent ICO 110 11 0 16 6 Lancash. & Yorksh St. 100 .£ 6 2 p o . c., St. 100 Londonand Brighton Guaranteed 5 p. c St. 100 Do. Pref. sp. c., St ." 50 all Do. Convertible, 5 p c., 1852.. . St. 10 Do. New Guar. .. p. c • •• • 50 5 London &S. Western, • Con. Thirds .. . 124 10 Londonderry &Color .4' Sh ares • • .11 .... 8 84 124 all Londndry. & Ennis k. 4 Shares ..' . .... . 131 —13 i 25 all Manch., Slid. ,Sz 1 Shares, No. 9 10 10 all Do., New, £lO 6 3 Do., £6•. ... .. ... d p 123 all Marypt. &Carl. 4 p.c. 12 all Do. 44 per cent. 124 84 Do ......•.... ..... . St. 100 Mid. Consol. 6 p.c.St St. 100 Do. Consol. Bristol & • Birm. 6 per cent. 150 152 1514 16/ 5 Do. Pref. 44 percent. 234 p 54 20 all Norfolk Extension 23 5 a ll Do. Guar. 54 per ct 54 6 2 all Do. Waveney Valley 5 per cent 2 —2/ St. 100 North British .. .. 101 102 1014 20 all North Staffordshire 254 26 St. 10 Oxford, Worcester, & Wolverh. £15,6p, c. 15 9 Do. 2 —2l p 8 all Shrewsbui7 & Rirm. New Guaranteed._ 11 114 10 all Shrewsby. & Chester Nor.W.(3 l in), 3 P.c. 174 17 10 10 Do. 5 per cent. — 1 25 all South Devon l6 17 10 14 Do. New par p 10 6 all S. Eastern (Reading Ann.) f£l Os. 6d. 26 264 26 20 all S.Yorksh.4p.c.Guar. 19 20 5 3 Waterfd.&Kilk.6p.c. dd St. 100 York, Newcastle, and Berwick, 4p. c. Pref. 103 105 17 SDo sh 5i 25 10 York &N. Midland, H. &S. Purchase p 01104 LINES LEASED. Leasing Cowl ns. Loudon 13, , .:' N. West. IGt.Westn Do Do Do L.&N.W Caledon Gr i t.Nrthn. Gt. Westn Yk. New. & D3rw. Y. & N Md Do Do '3. Eastern Do [ 'Norfolk, Do L.& N.'W. & Stckton & Darlingt. Midland.. E. Count, Do Do L. &N.W &Ln&Yk Do IGt Northnl Do Lancash & Yorksh. M.MClean Stockt. & Darlingt Do IGtWestn.l Business this day. RAILWAYS, Bedford and Bletchley. Birrn. & Oxlll. guarantee.... Do. withoutgr Birm, Woly. Dudley guar. Do. wtht guar. Buckghamsh. Clydesdale Jc. E. Lincoln gr. 6 per cent. Glstr. &Dn. Fr, Hrtlpl. Dk. Railway Hull & Selby Do. Shares. Do. d Shares. D Lo o n.t G fe r i c e e n n e w .p e Lowestoft gr. 4 per cent. Do. 6 per et. Manch. Bxtu. and Matlock Middlesbro' & Redcar. Midld.Bradfd. Northern and Easternsp.c. Do. 6 per et. Do. Fixeds p c Prest. & Wyre Do. Shares. Roystn ..Sz Hit. Do. Shepth.St. Shef. Roth.and Goole g. 5 p. c. S. Staffordsh. Wear Valleygr 6 per cent... Do Wilts&Soonst 30 - 31 29 - 311 30 - 31 29 - 30 .09 - 111 53 - 55 148 - 150 32i - 33 113 - 114 56 - 57 27 - 28 14 - 14] 253 - 26, 193 - 20 23 - 25 3 - 31 1108 - 109 64 - G 6 ;152 - 154 1152 - 154 id 31A -32 i 103 - 104 Closing Prices this day. MINES. Agua Fria Anglo Californian Australasian Australian Australian Cordillera Australian Freehold Ave Maria Baden (Gil. Duchy of) British Austrin. Gold British Iron Brazilian Imp. (issued at £5 pm.) Do. Cocaes & Cuiaba Do. St. John Del Rey Carson's Creek.. Cobre Copper Colonial Gold Copiapo CopperMinersof Eng Do. Preference English and Austin -Copper Smeltg. Co General Go' den Mountain Great Nugget Vein Great Polgooth Lake Bathurst Liberty Lond. &Californ. Gold Quartz Crush. Co Mariquita Mexican & S. Americ New Granada Nouveau Monde Port Phillip Quartz Rock Rhymney Iron Do. New Santiago de Cuba (South Australian En Croft United Mexican Waller West Granada West Mariposa Yuba i— 4 n 13 p P 2 -3 6 -7 par p P — IP par p Par P t p 9 —ll p 4 —5 2 29:j —3O. par p 40 — .2 —3 p 64 7i 63 - 73 11 d d 3 31 - 1 p d— par 4d d ip 4i - P - 1 p - 1 p -26- P - -7 12 P —s - P JOINT-STOCK BANKS. Australasia British N. American Colonial Commercial of Lon ('on English Scottish and Australian Lond. Chart. Bk. of Australia London and County London Joint Stock Lond. dt Westminster NationalProv.ofEng. Do. New National of Ireland Oriental Bank o Corporation Do. New Provincial of Ireland Do. New 'Royal Australn.Bkg. & Gold Importing Company. South Australia Union of Australia Do. New Union of Londo-a.. Union of Madrid... MISCELLANEOUS. Australian Ag,ricult Austrl /I sn.Pcific.Mail Australu. Royal Mail Brit. Anicricn. Land Canada Crystal Palace Crystal Pal. of France Eastern Steam Electric. Teleg. of Ir Gen. Steam Navigat General Screw Steam Irish Beetroot Sugar Netherlands I and. Nrth.of Europe Steam Peninsular & Oriental Royal Mail Steam South Austral. Land Submar. Teleg.. aph Universal Emigration . . CO 50 •.. - .. and Colonisation. Van Diemen's Land, MARLBOROUGH-STREET-(THIS DAY). AN UNDUTIFUL SPN.--11illiam, Harding, a lad about 17 years of age, was placed at the bar before Mr. Bing ham, charged with stealing several skins of coloured leather, the prOperty of his father, John Harding, leather colourer, 621, Berwick-street, Soho. It appeared from the evidence of Stringer, an active officer of the C divi sion, that about ten o'clock on Saturday night he saw the prisoner proceeding along Hollen-street, and observ ing that he had something bulky concealed under his coat, he followed him as far as Moor-street, when he stopped, and pulled from his coat pocket a large roll of leather. He (the officer) then went up to prisoner and asked him where he got the leather from, and what he was going to do with it 'I To which prisoner replied, his father gave it to him, and he was going to take it with him to Holborn. The prisoner's conduct was so sus picious that he thought it his duty to take him into cus tody. Witness subsequently discovered that the pre mises occupied by prisoner's father had been broken open. Mr. Harding identified the leather produced as his property, and stated that he locked up his warehouse, and left all safe at 8 o'clock on Saturday night. . About 12 o'clock the officer came to his residence at Kilburn, and told him that his son was in custody. Prosecutor added that his son was a most undutiful lad, and had robbed him repeatedly, and he now wished to prosecute him for the offence. Committed for trial. •• -- ..• , .. --- ... . ~. - ... LLOYD'S SHIPPING -(THIS DAY.) LONDON, Jan. 17.—Wind at Noon, N.N.W. to N.N.E., moderate breeze, and fine. DEAL, Jan. 16.—Wind, strong from W.S.V/ ~ mode rate. Arrived froria the River—Blonde, for Bahia. Sailed, the outward bound, except the Connet, Lyra, Arnald, Pyrenees, Poicters, Callao, San Francisco, Brown, Bal moral, Royal Alice, Douglas, Kate Kierney, Ocean Queen, and Sea Horse. Put back, Sacramento, Gov. M'Donald, Ellen, Lady of the Lake, Pauline Houghton, Sarah Swan, Potentate, Cybull, Belle Alliance, Vanguard, Tropic, Apollo, and Sir John Beresford. The Regina, London to tha Mediterranean, and the Wm. Stetson, London to Bos ton, were in contact—the former sunk off Dover; crew saved and landed here. DARTMOUTH, Jan. 17.—The Herald, of and for London from Madras, was in contact with a schooner on the 14th instant, off the Lizard, and sank off the Lizard next morn ing ; ono man only saved. SIII3LDS, Jan. 16.—The Rosalind (barque) of London is sunk, and is supposed to have sustained severe damage. RAMSGATE, Jan. 16.—Wind, S.W., strong and squally. Arrived—Gazell e , Bremen, with bows st ove an d l oss of bowsprit ; Dorset Kondon, with stem damaged ; Fanny Gunn, Whitstable, assisted in here dismasted, by colision ; Nyinphen, Sunderland, with bows stove in. Put back— Matchless, for St. Michael's, with loss of bowsprit ; Thos. Rowell, Newcastle, leaky ; Celerity, Hull, with loss of bowsprit from contact with the Ardowell (brig) of South Shields. LIVERPOOL, Jan. 16. Wind, S.S.E. Arrived—Duchess of Lancaster, Shanghae ; Cambald, do. ; Foam, Canton ; Mountaineer, New Orleans ; Sarah, St. John's, N.B. ; Courcer, Bombay ; Harriet L., Monte Video ; Arrow, Pan ; Canada (s), Boston. S a il e d—P r i nceton, New York ; Africa (s), do. ; Daniel Webster, do. ; Parliament, do. ; Lady Hobart, Charleston ; Wyoming, Philadelphia ; Fortune, Sydney, N.S.W. ; Lo o di ana h, Af r i ca ; Rosalin, Monta Video ; Queen of the Exe, Rio Janeiro ; Guardian, do. ; Royalist, B a hi a ; Thornhill, New Orl eans ; Li zze, Hauwood, do. ; Fanny, do. ; Squantum, do. ; Albert Gallator, Now York ; Southampton, do. ; Sandusky, do. REPORTED INCARCERATION OF THE REV. MR. MAC DONALD OF BLAIRCOWRIE--For the last few days, a report has been in general circulation, that a townsman of our own, the Rev. Mr. Macdonald, the Free Church minister of Blairgowrie, had been apprehended in Rome. while engaged in distributing tracts in " the Eternal City," and subsequently lodged in the cells of the Inqui sition. We are in a position to state, that the report is so far incorrect, or, at all events, premature, inasmuch as the last advices received from the rev. gentleman were dated from Leghorn, in Tuscany, and that these make no mention of any apprehension such s hat alluded to. M r . M ac d onald, we may state, has fo t r a considerable time past been in delicate health ; and hence the tour he is making on the contin t P erth, Constitutional. ~. ~• ~, 24 2 14 5 i 5 7 64 1 t A a. 1 30 i 29} 41 4 i i 5 ,?, I 14 26 N 5 a i 10i 11 M 46 73i 3 4 3 1255 35 9 Shr. IPai, 20 50 100 25 all all all all all 13.5 all 15 all all ••. .-- . ~ - ... THE GREAT FORGERIES IN THE CITY. The enormous forgeries upon a foreign banking-house disclosed in our police report of Tuesday last, coupled - 1 with the lamentable failure of a large mercantile firm arising from the frauds, having engrossed a large amount of public attention, any addition a l particulars will b doubt less be welcome. Mr. R. F. Pries, the person charged with committing these frauds, is a merchant, who, since he had been in business, a period of nearly five years, had borne an irreproachable character. lie is a native of Germany, about thirty-five years of age, very respectably connected, and had numerous transac tions with many of the first houses on the Continent. He is said to have derived an income of 2,0001. yearly from the agency of two firms in Paris. His offices were 1, Crosby-hall Chambers, and his private residence 10, Grove-place, Brixton, Since his establishment in London he married an English lady, by whom he has two children, and although his abode was elegantly furnished, his style of living was unostentatious and retired. His transac tions were chiefly in corn, and his account at Sapte and Co.'s Lombard-street, bankers, show that since the Ist of .Ta,nuary of the present year he had issued cheques to the amount of 615,974/. It will be seen by the police report that one firm spoke of having paid him 70,0001. since April last. Of late some dealings in corn in which he acted, whether as agent or principal, excited a good deal of observation in Mark-lane. He commenced a series of shipments of grain from Hamburgh and other places on the Continent to England, and disposed of them at rates from is. to 2s. per qr. less than the current price of the Exchange. During the extraordinary operations Mr. Pries obtained large advances from foreign bankers in the city, upon several consignments of corn, averaging from 10,0001. to 20,0001. The obligations were often renewed, the security in all cases being the warrant do cuments, bills of lading, &c., presumed, of course, to be genuine. These transactions went on up to the last week of his continuin g business, whe n some susp i c i on was excited by Mr. Pries failing to complete the terms which he had entered into with the bankers who had favoured his advances. It will be noticed that the house of Messrs. Holford and Co., foreign bankers, of No. 1, New Broad-street, on the Ist inst., advanced 18,0001. on warrants, to be repaid on the following Monday, and the house of Messrs. Mpnteaux and Co., 17, Grace church-street, granted 9,000/. on similar securities and conditions. Failing in his payments, the firms pressed him, and he succeeiled in putting them off from day to day, until proceedings were at length threatened. How ever, on Saturday week, the clerks of those houses called upon him at his offices, when he handed cheques for the amounts demanded. He gave two to the representative of Messrs. Holford--one for 5,000/., payable on that day (Saturday), and the other for 14,0001., which in cluded interest—and to that of Messrs. Monteaux a cheque also payable on that day. The clerk of Messrs. Monteaux noticed some peculiarity in Pries's behaviour which areused his suspicions. He communicated his misgivings to the principals of the house, who at once put themselves in communication with his bankers. The bank had closed for the day, but they ascertained that the cheque would not be cashed. Inquiries were then instituted as to the bona fide value of the docu ments upon which the advances had been obtained, which resulted in the discovery of one being forged. While this investigation was going on, and it was not of long duration, occupying little more than an hour, one of the clerks was dispatched to Pries's private re sidence' at 10, Grove-place, B r i x t on , w ith a v i ew o f seeing him. The clerk was introduced by the servant to Mrs. Pries, who was found in a most distressing stays of excitement and grief. She had r - ceived a letter from her husband that afternoon, which she handed to the clerk, who was not a little surprised at the contents, receiving as he had the cheque from Mr. Pries himself not two hours previously at his office. He recognised the handwriting of the letter as that of Mr. Pries. It commenced "My dearest, dearest Matilda," and prayed that the Almighty would bles3 her with strength to bear tho shock which she would sustain through his conduct,. He had been a villain and an imposter, and implored her to protect his children from shame and disgrace. She would shortly know all. He had been the cause of others ruin. The remaining portion of the letter was calculated to lead a reader to irfer that, by the time the note reached Mrs. Pries, the v‘ alter would be no more. The clerk, leaving the house, hastened back to his em ployers, who, not crediting the contents of the letter, proceeded to the City Police Commissioners' office in the Old Jewry, and instructed Mr. Hodgson to take active steps to apprehend Mr. Pries on the charge of forgery ; at the same time offering one thousand guiners reward for his capture. With as much dispatch as possible for the evening had far advanced, several efficient members of the city corps of detectives were summoned to head quarters, and being put in possession of Pries's descrip tion, were sent out is all directions where he was likely to be encountered, while the electric and submarine telegraphs were set to work, circulating the in formation not only throughout the United King dom, but to the principal cities and towns on the conti nent. So prompt were the officers in acting upon their information that, within an hour after they had been in structed, Pries's capture was effected, and the reward claimed, the firm having guaranteed its payment by affixing their signature to the paper which bore the de linquent's description, and the condition of the reward. It being known that Pries had an excellent knowledge of the lines of communication between this country and northern Europe, it was immediately conjectured that he would direct his flight in that quarter, and it bein• , imagined that he would suspect the police would be on the look-out for him, and prevent him going by the u sua l steamers from the Thames, or by the South-Eastern, South-Western, or South Coast Railways, it was thought that he would take his departure by one of the northern railways, and endeavour to reach Hamburgh by one of the boats which ply between that port and Newcastle, or Hull, &c. The Euston-square terminus of the London and North-Western Railway was of course to be watched by the superintendent of the force and Hugget was the officer selected for that part. Accompanied by a party who had a tolerable good knowledge of the appearance of Pries, he reached the station within a few minutes of the mail train leaving for the north. The officer took a stroll up and down the platform, and hav ing taken a cursory g lance at the occupants of the seve ral carriages, his attenti on was attracted to a gentleman in a first-class carriage, who was muffled up above the face, and wearing a peculiar skull cap ; his recognition was a matter of some difficulty. Not a moment was to be lost, the "bell" was ringing, and the train was on the eve of starting, when Huggett jumped into the car riage, and placing his hand upon the party in question, addressed him, "Mr. Pries, I believe." " Yes," was the reply, when the officer informed' him that he must go along with him, as ho was wanted in the City. Mr. Pries became much agitated and trembled violently. Huggett assisted him out of the carriage, and having collected his luggage, carpet bag, railway wrapper, and top coat, he placed Mr. Pries in a cab, and hastened to the Bow-lane police station, where he was confronted with the principals of Messrs. Monteaux, who preferred the charge on which he was detained and locked up. In the interval it had been ascertained that both the cheques given to Messrs. Holford, to the 'amount of 19,0001., 18,000/. being the amount advanced, and 1,000/. for in terest, had been returned. Pries not havine. more than 50/. at his banker's. As usual in all cases of felony, the prisoner was asked to give up all he had about him, when he handed over to the officer a canvas hag containing; gold and silver to the amount of 161/. 193.11., together with a gold watch, a bundle of cigars, and a few trifling articles, together with a first-class ticket for Newcastle. The carpet-bag was examined, and was found to contain nothing but linen and claithing. He became exceedingly reserved in his manners, and avoided entering into con versation. On Pries's apprehension being made known on Mon day morning, much excitement prevailed in the City, which in a few hours was in no little way increased by the announcement of the stoppage occasioned by the dis covery of the house of Messrs. Collman and Stolerfowht by forged bills of lading and granary warrants. It was naturally feared that other firms immediately connected with the English markets would suffer directly or indi rectly, and on Saturday it was announced that Mr. E. Weatherman, the Amsterdam correspondent of Mr. Pries, had suspended payment, and that the amount of liabilities was between 30,0001. and 50,0001.; and it was report(i that as much as 27,000 onar iers of wheat were coming to him from the Baltic, which, if true, would force sales and involve a loss of Bs. to 10s. per quarter. With the exception of the 101/. 19s. 4d., which Pries handed to Huggett when he was apprehended, and the 501., the balance in the hands of the banker, no other moneys or papers of any value whatever have been found. Both his chambers and his dwelling at Brixton have been Searched by the police, but without any satis factory result. It is represented that so late as ten days before his apprehension he had 18,000/, at his banker's, the whole of which, with the exception of 501., he had drawn out. This circumstance probably induced the assignees under the • prisoner's bankruptcy to adopt the course they have in offering rewards for informati on . Pries is a native of Rostock, in Mecklenburg. Prior to commencing business as a merchant on his own account, he was in the employment of a wine merchant in Mark-lane as clerk, where he had the means of forming an extensive connexion. AN INMATE OF A CONVENT POISONED. i An inquest has j us t been .brought toa h. Close before I ' Mr. Fry, coroner for Somerset, at the wteartnu, u I Brislington, t ouc hi ng t h e d eath of a fine young woman, named Emma Forty, but known in the convent as Me lanie, who was a penitent in the Convent of the Good Shepherdess, at Amos Court, and who came to her death through poison, administered to her by the Sister Assis tant, Miss Sophia Ryder, in mistake for a medicine which had been prescribed for her by the medical attendant, Dr. O'Brien. Miss Ryder is stated to be the daughter of a Protestant bishop, a near relative of the Earl of Harrowby, and a niece of Sir George Grey, and she is herself a pervert. A grea:. number of rumours had got abroad. respecting the circumstances under which the deceased had been poisoned, and a very unusual degree ofinterest was manifested throughout the very lengthened inquiry. The jury having viewed the body, a number of wit nesses were examined, the substance of whose evidence was, that the deceased was suffering from an internal complaint, for which the physician prescribed the pro per remedy in the shape of a draught. The dispensing of the medicines prescribed, however, was entrusted to Sophia Ryder, one of the nuns, and she in mistake used of t tincture of aconite and morphine instead of tine The _ conse quinine in making up the prescription. quence was, that deceased died in a few lion administration of the medicine. A post d l'rezulted from nation of the body showed that death demonstrated to poisoning by aconite, and it wasais have been caused purely by accident. the evidence, turn a The coroner having summed up the they wished t s e n a f t e t e x r a m t h i e . t°return death The foreman of the jury said "That Emma Forty's verdict in the following form : • was occasioned by the negligence of Miss So thia Ryder, who administered to her aconite, a poisonou u mis take for medicine prescribed for her, r CIE): eider that much blame is attributa t., 41 744114, 0 , :u •t% of the convent for allowing a p therein of permitting persons to (1' from their want of the necessary cictioli77oo3ji o * Ti of their nature. The jury furt hope that such practice will in tilt Mr. Gillow, surgeon, said he rior to say that a change would .71 ac (• .01e (Mr. Gillow) had formerly dispensed t. • 411tv until his increasing engagements prevented his so 'tf g. It was here suggested that the term "negligence' im plied a duty, so that the verdict might amount to one of manslaughter. The foreman said such was not the intention of the jury. They merely nished to censure the system ; and ultimately the verdict was modified by altering the words to "was caused by the administration by Miss Ryder in mistake," &c. THE INCOME TAX. (From the Times.) On Friday last, a deputation of officers from the leading assurance companies of the kingdom at tended in Downing -street to present a memorial to the Prime Minister on the subject of the existing Income Tax. The remonstrants, it is understood, were courteously received, and apprised by the mouth of Lord Aberdeen himself that the impost in question was under the earnest consideration of Government, and that the abilities of the entire Cabinet ;would be taxed to effect an equitable solu tion of the problem. The assurance thus given will naturally be deemed sa ti s f actory ; nor have we any desire to derogate from - th e cre di t of the first Administration which has - thus accepted its proper obligations to the public. We do, never ' theless, consider that the conduct of British states men in this respect through eight long years at taches an imputation to their science or their po licy which even successful reforms will fail entirely to obliterate. If any reader conceives that we are speaking with too great severity, we request his at tention to the observations subjoined. The income tax was an experiment of direct tax ation avowedly designed to fall upon every man in the best ascertainable proportion to his means. Small incomes were exempted altogether, special deductions were permitted in the cases of farmers and tradespeople, and schedules were framed for the accurate classification of the different descrip tions of receipts on which the Government duty was to be demanded. The scheme of taxation thus organised, after taking cognizance of the various kinds of property and income so far as to bring them all within the scope of the act, proceeded to assume that nofurther distinction subsisted between them. One person possessed a capital of 10,0001., producing 303/. a-year income ; another possessed a capital of 5,0001., producing the same yearly re turn, because the annuity was terminable, and be cause a portion of the yearly payment represented a part of the capital repaid with the interest. The Go vernment scheme declared these two incomes to be identical. A third person possessed a landed estate, producinghim 500/. per annum, depending on no suc cess or exertions of his own, and surviving him for the benefit of his descendants ; a fourth realized by his daily toil an annual revenue of the same arith metical amount, bub of uncertain duration and cer tain terminability. Government declared these two incomes identical also. It declared, in short, that there was no distinction in taxable qualities between imperishable property and precarious pro fits. In defiance of the common sense of the country and the manifest assumptions of every-day life, it was held and assumed that incomes of a given amount, whether earned by labour or arising spontaneously from capital—whether continuable for five, fifteen, fifty, or five hundred years, were all of the same valte, and that each and all enabled the possessor in exactly the same degree to contri bute to the exigencies of the State. Now, we have no wish to scrutinize too minutely the circumstances under which this tax was first imposed in 1842. Perhaps at that moment it was really believed that the impost would not be re quired or not tolerated beyond the brief period originally fixed for its duration. Perhaps it was thought that an elaborate reconstruction of its pro visions would look too like the introduction of direct taxation as a permanent feature in the budget, and that the revival of an old tax in its old form would be more consistent with the idea of a sudden and temporary emergency. On this point, we repeat, we will not insist ; but what we assert, and in confirmation of which we appeal to the reader's own knowledge, is, that almost the en tire body of reputed "statesmen" did, while they foresaw and advocated the continuance of the tax, oppose themselves, by all possible means, to the correction of its notorious inequalities. If the question had been left in their hands, the very problem on which an able Administration is now strenuously engaged would never have received any attention at all. It was with great diffi culty that Mr. Hume could obtain even his Committee of Inquiry upon the subject, and when the committee had been at work strong ob jections were made to the publication of the evi dence. When the universal indignation at this financial injustice produced a thousand propo sitions of reform, the " statesmen" of the House availed themselves of this very fact to argue, with edifying gravity, that where no two persons agreed upon the same remedy there could be no remedy at all. All positively affirmed, on their own personal convictions, instinct, and experience, that it was absolutely impossible to distinguish between per manent and precarious incomes--that the income tax could never be adjusted—said that as long as it was maintained at all it must be maintained as it stood. And what position have they now assumed before the eyes of the nation ? These * very men have practically confessed that their assertions had no foundation at all. One after another, under the influence of a wholesale competition for public con fidence, they have given in their adhesion to the truth. One party at length advocated the simple but effectual proposition that schedules of incomes, already distinguished in every other respect, should be distinguished by different rates of impost also. Another acknowledged, through its leader, that " it might be possible to distinguish between per manent and precarious pos.:: sssions ;" and at 'length all became so completely of one ac. ord on the main point at issue, ti At the only dispute was which could perform mot dexterously that very operation which, a few months earlier, they had combined to assert could never be performed at all. By these proceedings the whole industry of this most industrious country has been subjected, through a series of trying years, to a most unfair taxation. The knowledge and intellect of the professional and commercial classes were set in open and declared opposition both to the tax itself and to the excuses by which its continuance was defended. Any actuary in London would have undertaken to produce a scheme which should, by common confession, have approximated 90 per cent. more closely to absolute justice than the scheme maintained by Government, in alleged dread o f getting a more unjust one. Be it remembered, that the particular point on which Friday's protest was recorded, though it called forth the remon strance of 61 assurance offices, representing a capital of a hundred millions sterling, and, what i s even more, a matchless a ggregate of knowledge and ex perience on this very subject, was, after all, but one point in the general complaint of the kingdom. It is perfectly true that the identification of term_ ble with perpetual annuities causes a monstrous class imposition on one c l ass of annv;,'-ants, but the of annuitants i s infinitely smaller which has no ann u it y at all, a nd than that cla ss which theless taxed on a s i ngle is never year's earnings exactly r S if those earning s , w i thout any further 6 1a19our, were to endure for ever. The dep u t a ti on showed most convincingly th at the minable an nu i ty comprised, beinsidsteaslmtheentporoffiatsteorf the suin in vested and th a t this was only a certain portion of the capital, this capital by the present law was actu ally taxed as income. This was indisputable ; but one of the faults of a system Which was resolutely defended by British states men as m ore f aultless than any which the know ledge o f the nineteenth century could devise. It remains on record that the conductors of our public business have held injustice to be neu tralised by the universality of its operation. They did not deny that the recipient of a ter minablee annuity was unfairly treated as a lif annuitant ; they did not deny that arerman trades man earning 509/. a-year was a v poorer land ; than the possessor of 500!, the innxjendstlinceusbtright to naur. 11 ,1 P er ° their taxable they not deny that in a tax a : - e n ' was tractabdly desirable to consi as every income value. What they said was, that•alue, was taken and in the kingdom, of whatsoeverti'cai a mount, and as incomes it assessed at its naked arit t h h luereefore needs suffer some every person taxed injustice, the other gained, or, if all nrar. Finally, either one lost became nothing at all,—that lost alike, none d h w a ( l ; : er :JY 'edged that the experiment thus it is quietly ackn p u blic opinion has compelled a reform, now that positively a nd repeatedly declared i mposs ib le had er be en tried. Of its succe ss we h ave no k n i e n v da y e Libt i but the very facilit y w ill only place in a stronger light the unsoundness of the states inanshiP by which injustic e so easily remediable wa s so oustinately maintained. CHAPTER OF THE GARTE R. — Summonses were issued on Saturday for a Chapter of the Order of St. George to be held to-morrow at Windsor Castle, for the election of two knights. The Duke of Norfolk (Lord Steward) comes from Arundel Castle to attend the investiture. 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