The Sun. — London, England, 1857-01-24 00:00:00

THE LATE WAR IN THE CRIMEA. (From "Letters from Head-quarters," by an Of f icer on the Staff.) THS FIRST SHOT ON THE ALMA. " Lord Raglan had placed himself, with his staff, in front of the troops, and I must tell you that by this time the staff had grown to three times its proper number—that is to say, ev er y o ffi cer o f th e com missariat or medical department, who had a quadruped, chose to join the head-quarter staff, as probably the best position for seeing the battle. I should think there could not have been less than 50 or 60 mounted officers. This great number began to be a nuisance—as it perpetually ob structed the view, as they crowded round the Commander-in-Chief in a manner th a t i n a ny other service would have been thought highly imperti nent, and resented accordingly. Some one sug gested to Lord Raglan that it would be as well to hint that those gentlemen not actually on the staff had better move off. However, Lord Raglan, with his usual good nature, said, Let them stay ;' and the, added, You know, directly we get ander fire those not obliged will depart, you may rely upon it.' Lord Raglan was quite right. In t wo minutes the first shot was fired against us by the enemy. I looked at my watch it was exactly ii p.m. The shot, which was evidently fired at the staff (the only body of horsemen in sight, and the most advanced), fell short, and bounded over us with a whiz that made many duck their heads. You should have seen the hangers-on scattered in all directions. There was no more crowding about Lord Raglan." PRINCE NAPOLEON IN THE WAR. ig I was presented to Marshal St. Arnaud and prince Napoleon ; the latter is most wonderfully like the pictures one has seen of his uncle in his younger days. I think he affects his attitudes and dress as much as practicable. He was dressed in a French general's uniform, viz., tail-coat buttoned up to the chin, white inexpressibles, and Napoleon boots. He stood generally with his arms folded, and a lock of hair falling over his forehead, as you so often see represented in pictures of Napoleon I. His manner is good, gentle, and courteous, and, altogether, one r ece iv es a f avoura bl e impression of him on first acquaintance. Marshal St. Arnaud is different in every way—so energetic and demon strative in manner, he gives you the idea of an actor ; talks very fast, whether in French or broken English, and is withal most goodnatured." MEETDIG OF ENEMIES. A little scene at the outposts on the Inkerman line, in the depth of winter, gives palpable life to a large class of incidents on the skirts of the diffe rent camps. It is quite dramatic in its way :- 1 ' A few nights ago, when it was very cold, our men on sentry in front of Inkerman observed seve ral Russian soldiers coming towards theta without arms, and they naturally supposed them to be de serters ; but on their approaching nearer they made signs that they wanted a light for their pipes, which one of our men gave them, and then they stayed a few minutes talking to our sentries, or rather trying to do so, the conversation being some what after this wise : " Ist Russian soldier--` Englise bone " lat English soldier—' Ruskie bono " 2d Russian soldier—` Francis bono !' " 24 English soldier—' Bonn !' 3,1 Russian soldier—` OJlem no bono !' " 3d English soldier—` Ab, ah ; Turk no bono !' " Ist Russian soldier— Oilern !' making a face, and spitting on the ground, to show his contempt. " Ist English soldier—' Turk !' pretending to run away, as if frightened, upon which all the parties go ipto violent laughter, and then, after shaking hands, they retire to their respective beats." MR. ',UNMAKE AND HIS PONY; "This morning (before the battle), when Lord Raglan was waiting, surrounded by his staff, for the troops to get into their places, a gentleman joined us on a handsome little pony. This pony began neighing and screaming in the most wonderful man ner, and so continuously that one could hardly hear what was said. At last it attracted Lord Raglan's attention, and he said, I never heard a pony make such a row ; does any one know who the gentleman is 1' Sono one of the staff said, think he is one of the newspaper reporters, my Lord ; sh a ll I t e ll himto go away ?' Lord Raglan laughed, and said, If you do, he will show you up you may depend upon it.' It so happened that I had made this gentleman's acquaintance on the beach a few days before. So I told Lord Raglan that it was Mr. Kinglake, the author of Eothen." Oh !' said my Lord, ' a most charming man and was going to speak to him, when Marshal St. Arnaud came up, so for the time he could not do so. About 11 o'clock, as we were nearing the Russian position, indeed when within sight of them, Lord Raglan and his staff were riding in advance ; presently a pony dashed past us at a furious pace, and who should it be but Mr. Kinglake ! On he went right through our skirmishers, with his horse's head be tween his legs ; but, fortunately for his rider, the saddle got forward, and after a time went over the horse's ears—of course the author of Eothen' went with the saddle. It was rather an absurd thing just before a battle ; we all laughed except Lord Raglan, who rode up to him and inquired most kindly after him ; offered him (I think) one of his own ponies to ride, and told his orderly to put his saddle to rights. Mr. Kinglake was all thanks. That night, after the battle, Lord Raglan met him wandering about, not knowing where to go, so asked him to dinner. Of course he cams, and delighted every one present with his charming manner and conversation." THE DAY AFTER THE BATTLE OF ALMA. "In the course of the morning there was a con ference between Marshal St. Arnaud. and Lord Raglan ; the former wished much to advance and follow the enemy. To this, however, Lord Raglan would not listen ; and he said ho had nearly 3,000 wounded English and Russians, and that as we moved over three miles from the sea, it ,was quite impossible to move them all on hoard a ship under two days. The Marshal sail he had lost over 1,200 men hors de combat, and out of that number 1,000 wounded had already been moved on hoard ship, would be so by the evening. I say that is what tae Marshal said ; but everybody else said it was a great exaggeration. . . . On returning towards headquarters Lord Raglan saw a French gun-limper drawn by six horses, standing a few yards from where the two Russian guns that we had captured had been placed, so he sent one of his aides-de-camp and Vico to know what they wanted. M. Vico asked first of all one of the French drivers • he an swered, with the most perfect innocence, that they had come to fetch the gun. What gun ?'—' Oh ! one of the guns taken by the English.' 0 01, rather I think. However, on M. Tico asking a French serjeant who had come in charge of the limber, he was sharp enough to say that he had been sent. by tlse French general of artillery to take the calibre of the gun I A strange way of doing so, to send a serjeant with a limber and six horses. There could be no doubt that they came with the full intention of takin g one of the guns away ; and, indeed, the Marshal al most admitted it to Lord Raglan, for the next day he proposed that all the trophies taken from the enemy should be divided between the two armies. This was of course not agreed to by Lord Raglan, who knew there would be endless dis putes." THE ALLIED ADMIRALS AT VARIANCE. " Great blame is imputed to the French for the failure of the first bbe°twrnebeanrdthraeent and somethi ng very like a quarrel Admiral Dundas admirals is recorded. Frenchand desired ßr'il t sh o anchor within a thousand yards of the forts,—Ad ruiral PE amelin desired almost to double the dis _ tance. 'At fi rs t Ad m i ra l Dundas would not hear of this p roposa l , b ut the Frenc h admiral then said tkat he w ou ld not carry out t h e fi rs t p l an , and that, if Admi ra l D un d as did no t agree to the one then proposed, he should think it necessary to send to General Canrobert to inform him that the allied admirals could not come to *an understanding on the m o d e o f attack, andan t herefore he could not p rom i se hi m 7th e raco- Edmund Lon of the fleets. I t is said that Sir of Admiral yons was very indi gnant at the conduct Hamelin, and did all in his power to persuade Admiral Dundas not to give , , insist on th e o ld propositions being c inarri but to ed out. -Admiral Du n d as, fearing the responsibility of re- fusing to agree with Admiral Hamelin, finally deified fo follow his plans.'" PUNISHMENT IN SEBASTOPOL. " About two years ago, a gang being at work in the dockyard at Sebastopol, one of them attacked passer-by without any prov oca ti on, knocked hitna down, smashed in his face with the manacles on his bands, then jumped upon and trampled him to death. The act had been so sudden that the occurrence could not be prevented. It was thought by the authorities that so brutal a murder - should be visited with some peculiar punishment, as an example to the others, for if ti e man wa s hung or shot immediately, the circumstance would soon he forgotten. The case was made known to the Emperor Nicholas, who, on hearing of it, ordered an iron wheelbarrow to be made, and chair from its legs to be attached to those of the man. This was accordingly done, and, of course, the man could not move a yard without wheeling it in front o f him. It is said that a week after he had been thus punished he begged to be put to death, as it made his life a burden to him. This, of course, was not listened to, and three months after the wretched man died, rsving mad !" AN OPINION IF GENERAL CANRoBERT. "When in April, 1855, , be assault waspostponed by the desire of G,ll. Canrubert, the Staff -officer writes: --` I need hardly tell you how much disgusted we all are at the vacillating conduct of General Can• robert, who never seems to know his own mind two days together. No one knows what trouble and annoyance these constant changes of opinion at the French head-quarters give Lord Raglan, and how very difficult his position is, the more so as people in England appear generally to attribute the delays to the fault of the English Commander. in-Chief. No member of the British Government who really knows the state of affairs dare say any. thing in defence of Lord Raglan that would (=- promise General Canrobert, as they are so fearful of in any way endangering the alliance between us. It is said that General Canrobert is getting very unpopular with the French army here, as it is be come pretty generally known that he is the great obstacle in the way of an assault on the town.' " It is known that the Emperor napoleon had proposed the plan of a campaign in the field in the summer of 1855, and we learn from this book that the plan was approved by the French and English Governments, and that orders were sent out t o th e allied commanders to carry it out if practicable. Lord Raglan ad hered to his idea of the necessity of continuing the siege. In spite of the earnest remonstrances from General Canrobert, and the instructions from home, he refused to give up the English trenches to the Turks. Canrobert, unwilling to incur the responsibility of disobeying the Emperor's orders, resigned, and was succeeded by Pelissier, who cordially fell in with Lord Raglan's ideas. The capture of the Mamelon was decided. E SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING JANUARY 24, 1857. ages from the defendant, a publican, the proprietor of , the Founders' Arms, in Brick-lane, Spitalfields, for a breach of promise of marriage. The defendant pleaded not guilty. It appeared that some three years ago the plaintiff entered the service of a Mr. Holmes, a publican at the Eastend of the town, where also the defendant was employed in the capacity of barman. She remained there some 15 months, during which time an intimacy sprung up between them, which resulted in the defend ant proposing to marry the plaintiff. Matters went on I till ultimately the plaintiff left Mr. Holmes's service in, Nov. 1855 in the familyway, alleging that her master was the father of the child. The defendant also left, his employer having set him up in business in the house which he now occupied ; but notwith standing the condition of the plaintiff he continued to visit her, displaying great solicitude about her unhappy situation. The child was born ; and the plaintiff, not withstanding the expressed wish of the defendant, at tempted to affliate it o❑ Mr. Holmes, from which time "a change came o'er the spirit of his dream," and he wrote to her saying she had " brought the misfortune on herself, and she must put up with the consequences." Subsequently, not being successful in affiliating the child, she brought in this court an action against Mr. Holmes nominally for an assault, but which amounted to an action for seduction, when the jury awarded her 201. damages. Several letters written by the defendant to the plaintiff were put in evidence, in one of which he said, "I trust to your future good morals, and we shall in the course of time be happy and comfortable toge ther." The case on the part of the plaintiff having termi nated, Mr. Edwin James addressed the jury in mitigation of damages. He said there was no denying that the de fendant had promised to marry the plaintiff, but his breach of that promise was solely and entirely attribut able to the misconduct of the girl herself, who was made the tool of her attorney in bringing this action, which should never have come into a court of law. Emboldened by the success of the former action, those behind this unfortunate girl had prompted her to again come into court. They all knew that love was ardent, and as Hudibras said— " Love is a thing that burns and sparkles In men as natural as in charcoals." However, to return to the case. The letters from the defendant were couched in affectionate terms to the plaintiff down to the 16th of February, 1856, when she attempted to affiliate the child on her former master, from which time the defendant, although he was willing to marry her, knowing her disgrace, could not reconcile to hie mind the ruinous public exposure which had taken place before the magistrate. He therefore with drew from all further intimacy with the plaintiff. He would ask the jury how could the defendant marry a girl who had made her disgrace so notorious What an ornament as a publican's wife I Why, his neighbours would scoff at him, saying "You have married a woman who has had a child by Holmes." In conclusion, the learned counsel expressed a hope that the jury would only award nominal damages ; such an amount as would show that actions of this description ought not to be brought into a oourt ofjustice. 11 .- . Sergeant Thomas—As in imputation had been cast on the attorney in this case, may I observe that this action was brought by the advice of my learned friend Mr. Charnock and myself. Mr. Baron Bramwell—You are not justified in making any such statement ; it is not, as counsel, your province t ) do so. Mr. Sergeant Thomas excused himself by saying that the attorney for the plaintiff bad been attacked. Mr. Baron Bramwell—Let the attorney submit to it then. _ _ _ The learned Judge, in the course of his summing up, told the jury that they must measure the amount of damages to which the plaintiff would be entitled by the injury she had sustained. The damages ought not to be regarded as referable to the making of the promise, but with respect to the breaking of it, and the jury were to say what amount they would award for such breach. To do that it would be necessary for them to consider what would have been the condition of the plaintiff if she had married the defendant. If they considered that the plaintiff and defendant would, in the married state, have led a cat and dog life, a very small sum would com pensate her for the injury she had sustained ; but if, on the other hand, they were of opinion that 13he would have been happy, she would be entitled to recover a a large amount. The fact of the woman having give❑ birth to the child was no abatement of the injury com• plained of by her, as the defendant had, after his knowledge of her disgrace, renewed his promise to marry her. The jury retired ; and, after an absence of an hour, returned into court with a verdict for the plaintiff — damages 301. Trelawney's, Mr. ...Tues. Buller's Arms, Dean ll 0 Sat. The Rising 'un Crabtree 10 30 Tyned ale Mon. Short Flat Tower lO 45 Wcd. Great Whittington Fri. Minsteracres V. W. H., Lord Gifford's Tu es . Barro w Elm Thur. Stone Mill Sat. Preston Toll-bar Vaughan's, Sir R. W... Mon. Tyffos lO 0 Wed. Rhu, 10 0 11 0 11 0 10 45 10 45 10 45 10 30 11 0 11 0 12 0 11 0 11 0 11 0 11 0 11 0 TEE EMPEROR'S 'TELEGRAPHIC MESSAGE. " I must tell you a curious act, showing how necessary it is for a general commanding an army in the field to use his own discretion, even when contrary to the orders that he may receive from home. The responsibility is of course great, but his reliance in his own judgment should be greater. The instance was as follows :—Sbortly before Gen. Pelissier left the French head-quarters to witness the attack against the enemy's works on the after noon of the 7th inst., he received a telegraphic message from the Emperor Napoleon, ordering him on no account to assault the Mamelon, as his Ma jesty considered that it would be attended with defeat and disaster. General PeliFsier quietly put the telegrah in his pocket, and shortly afterwards mounted his horse and rode off to witness the cap ture of the Mamelon, &c. When all was over, and he had returned to camp, he showed it in triumph to some officers of his personal staff—a great con trast to General Canrobert's conduct when he re ceived the order for the recal of the Kertch expe dition." THE BANK CRARTEIt ACT OF 1844. (Front the Derbyshire Courier.) A second letter, and more carefully prepared than his former one, has been addressed by Mer cator to the Times in support of his theories. This letter does not appear to us to establish any new fact, or to adduce any novel argument for the renewal of the measure of 1844. It is, in tact, a professed free-trader's apology for a system of re striction and monopoly more stringent than any other ever inflicted on the commercial world. And this principle of restriction and monopoly the act of 1844 app ied to that which, above all other things, ought to be " free as air," viz., the uni versal medium of exchange —money. Mercator defends the act of 1844 by which the restrictive monopoly of issuing 14,000,0001. of notes against the government debt and government se curities !was conferred on the Bank of England. Even the Times can perceive the absurdity and in justice of this enactment--the absurdity of govern ment having to borrow from the bank notes issued against national securities for which interest is, at the same time, being received by the bank ; and the injustice of conferring on the Bank of England exclusive privileges which injure the country with out benefitting the bank itself. Half of Mercator's letter is employed in attempt ing to justify this narrow and antiquated system of restriction, and the other half in opposing the notion of any "relaxing power" being entrust,' to the bank directors. Mercator is here, no doubt, logically right. If the principle of the bill of 1844 be worth anything it ought to be carried out to the letter. To establish a principle for the self-regula tion of the circulating medium of a nation, and to relax the principle just when it becomes actively and powerfully operative is the extreme of ab- Barclay. The Bank of England grew up under a system of restriction and protection. Those who advocate this system are consistent in advocating also the extensive privileges of the bank, and a " strict limitation" of the amount of notes issued by other banks, but Mercator, who attributes all the com mercial prosperity and progress of the nation to free trade, ought to be the last man in the country to support such a system. We speak the opinion of experienced and un prejudiced commercial men when we affirm that the Bills of 1819 and 1844 have caused, on several occasions, in one year, greater loss and ruin in this country than the failure of all the Banks of Issue put together, when they had the power of what Mercator calls "unlimited issues." The loss to the nation by the failure of large Banks of Issue might be estimated by thousands of pounds ; that which we suffered in 1819, 1825, 1837, 1839, and 1844 must be estimated by millions ; and let it be remembered that the effects of these periods of commercial depression and panic were not confined to merchants and traders, but brought misery, urging the people to the very verge of revolution, into the cottage of the labourer and the cabin of the artizan. But if these two letters of Mercator be little re markable for that which they contain, they are very remarkable for that which they do not con tain. They contain no reference to the panic of 1847, or the Gold Discoveries of Australia and California. " The first great object of the act," he says, was the effectual maintenance of specie payments, and the suppression of all real danger and of such reasonable alarm and apprehension upon the sub ject, as occurred in 1825, 1837, and 1839." Mercator well knows that the Bank had in its Banking Department, on the 23d day of October, 1847, only 447,2461. in gold and silver coin, while the notes in active circulation in the hands of the public amounted to 20,318,1751. This is his " effectual maintenance of specie payments." Mercator knows that " real danger and reason. able alarm," extorted from Lord John Russell and Sir Charles Wood the letter which was to all in. tents and purposes the suspension of the Act of 1844. Mercator knows that the House of Lords' Com mittee of 1848 condemned the Bill of 1844 in the most decided manner ; and that a similar con demnation by the Committee of the House of Commons was only narrowly escaped. Can any hardihood of assertion, therefore, be greater than that of a writer who affirms " that the Act has fully accomplished all that was expected from it in this respect admits of no reasonable doubt." But what has Mercator to say in defence of his omission to estimate the influence which the Gold Discoveries have had in enabling the Act of 1844 to remain so long in existence Mr. Macculloch calculates that the " total avail able annual produce of the precious metals from the American, European, and Russo-Asiatic mines," before the discoveries in California and Australia, was 9,050,0001. Since those discoveries (1849) 130,000,0001. of gold alone has been sent into the market of the world. Can Mercator, as an honest arguer on the Cur rency Question, ignore this fact f Whether he do so or not, the public will never be persua 'ed that this enormous influx of gold has not produced the most important results. Many will think with us that without this gold, Free Trade and a Restricted Currency would have enforced the repeal of the Bank Charter Act before this ; and that a greater amount of misery and ruin would have- resulted from this measure than was witnessed in 1825, 1837, 1839, or the disastrous period of 1847.1 And as to the good which these extrarordinary discoveries of gold have effected, the monetary system established in 1819 by Sir R. Peel, and made more restrictive and oppressive in 1844 by Sir R. Peel and Lord Overstone, has checked and diminished the advantage which the people of England would otherwise have derived, and re tarded the progress of the nation. ts everything of the universe," says E merson, " an d with one o f my f r i en d s w h o peisc I compared notes ex A WORD TO THE disappointedMAßßlED.---‘` I found that I begin aaything i s l ess t h an the b est ; and when at the other extreme, expecting nothing, and am al ways full of th an k s for moderate goods. " Would that all young persons could l earn to enter wedlock with this philoso phic spirit. But they will not. Hope is too sweet for them. Th ey will not stoop till they stumble. Lofty , expectati on h overs ever the precipice of disappointment, towards whi c h so many of our married friends have been lured, until too late to save themselves from tumbling down. [ADVERTISE]IENT.I—TioIIoway's Oi n t men t an 1 Plls have an enviableßesell re putation in all plats o f t h e wor ld . Esther ,of 6, Slaney-street, Birmingham, suffered for ten years with an nicerated leg. Sh e wa s a patent in two hospitals, and amputation of the leg was consider ed imperative, to which she refused to submit, although, the ulcers being of nine years' standing, the pain was most acute, and the system much debilitated. 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The police-officer said he apprehended the prisoner on Sunday upon a warrant, and told him the charge was for assault ing a young woman. The prisoner said at the time, " Well, I allow that I did hit her with a strap, but not so as to make any mark; it was a very easy blow." ♦lice Mullaney, a young married Irishwoman, was then called, and stated that she was employed in the silk null of Messrs. Lees and Booth, as a silk cleaner. The prisoner was overlooker. On the 16th January, at five o'clock in the afternoon, he came behind her, and without saying a word, and without the slightest provo cation, struck her on the neck a hard blow with a strap. She turned round, thinking he must have struck her in mistake, andlasked him if the blow was intended for hert He said it was, and that he would do it again. She told him that he should not, and he then pushed her so that her stomach came in violent contact with a bench. She was more than six months advanced in pregnancy, and believed that she had sustained serious injury. _ In reply to a question from Mr. Trafford, witness said she had frequently seen the prisoner strike young chil dren with the strap. Mr. Fernley, for the prisoner, objected to any evidence being taken that did not apply to the specific charge be fore the court. Mr. Trafford said evidence bad been given on the pre• vious day which revealed a state of things that ought to be inquired into, but what the learned counsel urged was the strictly legal course, and if the wish was to suppress investigation, he (the magistrate) must acquiesce, al though the employers of the man being in court, he thought, for their sakes, they should desire it to go on. The next witness was Margaret Woodcock, a young woman working in the mill, who corroborated the state ment of the complainant as to the assault. Mr. Trafford asked her what the strap was generally used for Witness replied—To strike little children and young women with. lie never used it for anything else, and she bad seen him beat children with it shamefully. Mr. Fernley again objected that they were travelling out of the case. Mr. Trafford said his last question was strictly in order. Jane Caton corroborated the evidence of last witness. Mr. Fernley said he reserved his defence if the case were to go before a jury, believing that there was an amount of prejudice against his client on the part of the court. Mr. Trafford thought it would be best to send the case to the sessions, and committed the prisoner for trial accordingly. He afterwards consented to take bail in two sureties of 201. each for the prisoner's appearance at the sessions. The manager of the mill, with the manager of another mill, entered into sureties for the prisoner, and he was liberated. It is understood to be the intention, since an eg.lpese of the whole ease against the prisoner could not be gone into, owing to the objection raised by counsel, to take the evidence of six or eight persons who have been grossly assaulted by Tabner, an d f oun d on t h em o th er indict ments at the sessions. RISE AND FALL OF LAKE ONURIO.—The phenome non of the periodical rise and fall of the waters of Lake Ontario is one that has never, we believe, been explained to the general satisfaction, though individuals have their private theories, differing from each other. Whatever the cause, the fact seems clear that it is controlled by some permanent influence. We have heretofore published tabular Statements from the records kept in this city, of the rise and fall, from Jan. 1837, to Nov. 1854. During this period of seventeen years the water went to zero— th() lowest point on record—twice, March, 1846, and Nov., 1848. Since 1854 observations have been made daily, by direction of Government, by Capt. Malcolm, but the water has not been to zero since that period. This periodical rise and fall of Lake Ontario affects our harbour more or less, and some little inconvenience has been felt from it this fall. At present the water is one foot and one inch lower than at this time last year, and inconvenience to commerce, and then only for a brief has fall en two feet three inches s i nce the first of July last, but is s till ten i nches a b ove l ow water mar k , or zero. Although the low state of the water occurs only at lengthy ' intervals, so as no t t o cause an y material period, ou r C iti zens and commercial men feel the neees• !ay of overcoming even this difficulty, by prompt action in securing the needed improvements.—Oswego Palla dium. 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Crynnetti, near Bala Tine,EarlPortsmouth'sMon. Three Legged Cross LAW INTELLIGENCE.—Jan. 23. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH. 'Sittings in Banco before Lord Campbell, and Justices Coleridge, Wightman, and Crompton.) DAVISON V. DUNCAN AND ANOTHER. This case came before the court upon a demurrer to the defendants' plea. Mr. Manisty, in support of the demurrer, stated that the action was brought to recover damages for a libel pubiished by the defendants respecting the plaintiff in the Durham County Advertiser. The article in question was headed " West Hartlepool Improvement Commis sioners," and purported to be a report of certain pro ceedings and a discussion which bad taken place at such meeting respecting a license alleged to have been granted by the Bishop of Durham (Dr. Maltby) to a Rev. J. H. Barges to act as chaplain to the cemetery. The learned counsel read the report, which showed that the dis cussion was of an angry and abusive character. Several of the commissioners alleged that the liceric3 was " a clumsy device o❑ the part of Mr. Joseph Davison (the ilaintiff), and that it was discovered by the bishop." Another commissioner said, "it would appear that the whole proceeding was a fraud upon the bishop as well as spoil the public." Another said, "it was a great scandal upon the Church ;" while a third said, " I don't see that. It is, in my opinion, merely a scan. dal upon Mr. Joseph Davison, the late bishop's secre. tary" (meaning the plaintiff). At the close of the dis cussion the commissioners resolved ueanimonsly— " That the commissioners do not admit the necessity of any such document, and, being now informed that the bishop himself repudiates it, decline to recognise its va ►idity. To this declaration the defendants pleaded that the said meeting of the said Hartlepool Improvement Commissioners in the said libel mentioned was held as therein stated, and the same was a public meeting of the commissioners, acting under the powers of the West Hartlepool Improvement Act 1854, and was held for the purpose of putting that act into execution. It then alleged in substance that the article complained of was a just, true, faithful, correct, and accurate report of the proceedings which took place at the said meeting, and that there was no malice on the defendants' part in printing or publishing the same. To this plea the plain tiff demurred, and thus raised the question whether tke defendants were justified in publishing a true and faith. ful report of the defamatory speeches spoken at the meeting of the said West Hartlepool Commissioners. Lord Campbell said the plea would formerly have been held bad on special demurrer, as amounting to the general issue. Mr. Manisty said— The p!antiff alleged that the charges were false, and that the question was whether newspapers were to be at liberty to publish false state ments made at such meetings. The ca-e was not like that of a report of proceedings in a court of justice, vhdre the parties were present. The plaintiff alleged that the libel was false from beginning to end. The speakers S took the opportunity of making statements which were not founded in fact. Lord Campbell said the plea denied that the defen dents had any malice. Mr. Manisty said that was so ; but the question was whethereeches made e s open at t such to ta n e e e w t s ia p g a s p . ers to publish h reports of sp • Lord Campbell—Was this a meeting a 4 which the public had a right to be present I A good deal might depend on that. Mr. Manisty said the public had no right to be present; the act was only a local improvement act. It was an act for paving, lighting, watching, draining, cleansing, regu lating, and otherwise improving the town of West Har tlepool, &c., and for providing a cemetery, and for other purposes. It appointed commissioners whom it incorpo rated, with power to make rates for carrying out the act. Lord Campbell said that, as the commissioners had power to do acts and to levy rates, all the inhabitants of West Hartlepool would have a right to be present. For what purpose were they assembled when thedebltte arose? Mr. Manisty said it did not appear. The plea merely said there we, a meeting of the commissioners acting under the powers of the act, and for the purpose of putt:og the act in execution. The learned counsel proceeded to con tend that, though the courts allowed reports of proceed ings in courts of justice where the proceedings were not ex parte, the law had never been extended to eases like the present. The cases were all collected in the case of Hoare T. Silverlock" (9 C. 8., 20), in which it was held that in an action for libel it was a good defence that the article complained of was a fair report of a pro. ceeding in a court of justice, the proceeding not being ex parte. Mr. Justus Maule said, "I think it is mpossible to bay that a fair account of proceeding in a court of jus tice not being ex parte, but in the hearing of both sides, is not, generally speaking, a justifiable publication. Matters may appear in a court o justice that have so immoral a tendency, or be so injurious to the character of an individual, that their publication could not be tole rated. But, as a general rule, it may be assumed that the publication of a fair account of what passes in a court of justice not exparte is justifiable, unless there is something to take it out of that rule. Mr. Unthank, who appeared in support of the plea, said the question now was whether 4 air report of what took place at a meeting of commissioners, and without malice, was a privileged communication. Lord Campbell said that nearly 10 years ago it was proposed to the Legislature to pass an act to render that lawful which was not so before, but it. did not extend to public meetings. His lordship spoke in a very low tone of voice, but we understood his lordship to refer to this circumstance to show that the distinguished persons who had considered the subject did not consider that the pri vilege extended to reports of public meetings. Mr. Justice Wightman said—Suppose the case of a public meeting on the subject of the income tax, and some very strong observations made I Mr. Unthank said a public; meeting would have no power over such a question. Lord Campbell laughed, and appeared to signify dis sent from that proposition. Mr. Justice Wightman—Suppose the editor said he published a correct report of what passed ? Mr. Justice Crompton—Suppose a speaker makes some strong observations upon a collector / Lord Campbell—Or that the Chancellor is charged with robbing the Exchequer, and that thereby the neces sity for the income tax arises ? (Laughter.) Mr. Unthank contended there was a difference be tween that case and the present, where commissioners were appointed by act of Parliament who had the power to tax the subject to the extent of 2s. 6d. in the pound on all property rated to the poor rate. Mr. Justice Crompton said—Suppose it had been the case of a railway meeting, how were her Majesty's subjests beyond Hartlepool interested ? Mr.,Unthank said the question was one of great importance, as similar bodies were now constituted all over the country. The commissioners in this case had every conceivable power, including power to construct baths, cemeteries, &c., and to borrow money to the extent of 26,000/. It was therefore of the highest im portance that their meetings should be open to the pub lic, and their proceedings reported in the newspapers,— as much so as that the proceedings in this court should be reported. It had been decided that an advertisement inserted in a newspaper respecting something lost was not libellous, though it might criminate some one. Lord Campbell—You are now contending for the right to give a fair and full report of what takes place. Mr. Unthank admitted that more might have taken place than was irrelevant. Lord Campbell—We 'assume that it was a public meeting. Do you assert that a fair report of what takes place in a public meeting may be reported in the news papers 1 Mr. Unthank said he did, the same as the proceedings of a pelice.court or court-martial. All the cases were brought before the court in " Stockdale v. Hansard " (9 A. E. 97). Lord Campbell intimated that there was no case to support the learned counsel's proposition. Mr. Unthank said that since that case was decided these local authorities had been established all over the country. Lon - 1 Campbell—Then all that takes place in a vestry meeting may be published ? His lordship here referred to the case of Lord Abingdon, who made a speech against his steward, and afterwards maliciously pub lished the libel. Mr. Justice Wightman—You must assume that the speaker speaks maliciously, and that the reporter states what passed. Mr. Unthank said that would apply to what took place in a court of justice. Mr. Justice Crompton said the question was whether the privilege was to be extended —whether a reporter might publish every inflammatory charge I Lord Campbell—There is a difficulty in deciding what is done bona fide and what maliciously. Mr. Unthank—That would apply to a report of a pro ceeding in a court of justice. Lord Campbell—But that is in the presence of the judges, and they are answered by the other side. After a short conference with the other judges, Lord Campbell said he was of opinion that, as the law now stood, the plea was bad. As the law now stood a fair account of what took place in a court of justice was privi leged, if made bona fide. The public had great interest in knowing what took place in courts of justice, and what passed there was under the control of the judges, and the inconvenience which arose from allowing that privilege was infinitesimally small compared with the benefit which was conferred upon the public. But when an attempt was made by the Legislature to extend that privilege it had failed, and till now in a court of justice the doctrine had never been contended for. It might be desirable that the doctri ne s h ou ld b e ex t en d e d, b u t w ithout some gu a rantees for th e p ro t ec ti on o f p r i va t e character he (Lord Campbell) th oug h t such publications ought not to be permitted. If t h e plea were goo d , a f a i r accoun t m i g h t be published of what took place at a public meeting, what ever injury it might do to private character, from a meet. ing of the county down to a meeting of a tlwn council— a meeting to levy a rate, •r for the removal of a pauper. At such meetings there might be a great number of things said extremely injurious to private character, and if such a plea an the present were a defence there would be no opportunity for the party to vindicate his character from the aspersions cast upon it. If the Legislature sa w fit, it might extend the privilege to certain meeti.aga under certain qualifications. But the Court had s,o de cide according to the law as it now stood, and he (Lord Campbell) felt bound to give judgment for the p l .aintiff. Mr. Justice Coleridge and Mr. Justice Wightman expressed themselves to the same effect, and Mr. Justice Crompton said he was entirely of the same opinion for the same reasons Judgment for the plaintiff. COURT OF EXCHEQUER . DESBOROUGH V. MIDGLEY—BREACII OF PROMISE OF MARRIAGE. Mr. Sergeant Thomas and Mr. Chart ock appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. E. James and Mr. 11. Jaw us were counsel fur the defendant. This was an action brought by the plaintiff, a sem An t maid, 21 years of age, to recover eompeneation in dh Arr,. Sporting Intelligence. BETTING AT MANCHESTER.—FRIDAY. Two THOUSAND GUINEAS STAKES. 9 to 2 agst Loyola (offered) 6to 1 agst Vedette (taken) 7to 1 agst Schiedam (taken) Bto 1 agst Sydney (taken) 8 to 1 agst Anton (taken) LIVERPOOL STEEPLECHASE, 15 to 1 agst Minos (taken) 20 to 1 agst any other (offered) CHESTER Cur. 15 to 1 aget Leamington (taken) 100 to 6 agst Mincepie (taken) 33 to 1 agst Claret (taken) 33 to 1 agst Maid of Derwent (taken freely) 50 to 1 agst Schiedam (taken) 50 to 1 agst Prince of Orange (taken) 50 to 1 aget Commotion (taken) DERBY. 100 to 6 agst Tournament (taken freely) 100 to 6 agst Zuyder Zee (taken freely) 1000 to 20 agst Commotion (taken) HUNTING APPOINTMENTS. STAG HOUNDS. IT. M. Her Majesty's Tues. Farnham-common ll 0 Fri. Maidenhead-thicket Cheltenham, Ct. West's Fri. Birdlip Tunbridge Wolls Wed. Crowborough•cross Fox 110IINDS. Albrigbton (Mr. 0 Stabbs') Tues. Gatacre Thur. Loynton-hall lO 30 Sat. Sutton Atherstone Mon. Packington-park-gate ... 11 0 Wed. Crickets Inn Fri. Brinklow ll 0 Sat. Oldbury Bads worth Tues. Fenwick Thur. Hampole lO 30 Sat. Darton Beaufort's, Duke of ...Mon. Kington Langley Wed. Stoke-park lO 30 Fri. Jackaments Sat. Knockdown Bedale Mon. Scorton Fri. Busby-stoop Bellew's, Mr. F. Tues. Nor thmolton lO 30 Fri. Backstone-gato Berkshire, Old (Mr. Morrell's) Mon. Lamb and Flag, Longwrth 10 30 Wed. Didcot Station Fri. Buscot-park Sat. Chaddle worth Berkshire, South Mon. Checkendon Tues. Blade Bone, Bucklobury 10 30 Thur. Three-mile-cross Fri. Grotto, Basildon Biedner, Me. Thom son's Tues. Weston-on-the-Green ... 11 0 Tues. Edgcott-village Thur. Waddesden-cross-roads 11 0 Sat. White-cross-green ll 0 Blackmoor Yale Mon. Kingweston Thur. Y arlington-lodge Bramham-moor Mon. Scarcroft-bar lO 30 Wed. Parlington Fri. Marston Sat. Harewood-bridge Bramehill, Mr. Garth's Mon. The Bull, Barkham Wed. Ascot Kennel Fri. Waterend-gate Brocklesby, Earl of _ Yarborough's Mon. Bradley-cross-roads ..... 11 0 Wed. Cuxwold ll 0 Fri. Pelham's-pillar Burton Hunt (Lord Hy. Bentinck's) Mon. Fillingham-park ............ 11 0 Tues. BI ankney IN ed. Brant Broughton Thur. Kettlethorp Fri. Torksey.station Sat. Lang worth-bridge ll 0 Cambridgeshire ~.......Mon. Childerley.gate lO 30 Fri. Megre-wood Cheshire Mon. High Leigh lO 30 Wed. Holmes's Chapel Thur. Fox and Barrel lO 30 Sat. Sutton Pinfold Cotteemore, Trpllope's Mon. Grimsthorpe Tues. Leesthorpe ll 0 Thur. Clipsham Sat. Thistleton Craven,,,. Mon. Halfway-house, Now. bury.road Fri. Harm-village Crawley and Horsham Mon. Rowfant-Lodge — Wed. Slangham-village Fri. Wappingthorn-gate Deacon's, Mr Mon. Two Bridges Thur. Okehampton lO 30 Essex, the, H. Greaves'sll en. Skreens Thur. D .genam ll 0 Sat. Hatfield-town ll 0 Essex, East (Mr. Mar riott's) Tues. Colemans ll 0 Fri. Braxted-park ll 0 _ Essex, South, (Mr. But ton's) Sat. Corringham-street Eeeex and Suffolk Tues. Bradfield-street Fri. Server-bridge Essex Union Mon. Ashiugdon Wants Wed. Danbury Griffin ll 30 Sat. Purleigh.waah Farquharson's, Mr. ...Mon. King Settles Fitzwilliam's, arl Mon. Washingley lO 30 Wed. Bythorn Toll-bar ... Thur. The Kennel lO 30 Sat. Connington-lane lO 30 F. B.H.,Mr. Williams's Tucs. Bochym Fri. Roscrow Hanibledon, Mr. Long's Mon. Westbury House — Wed. Quobleigh House Fri. Holywell House -- Hampshire Hunt Mon. New Inn, Lasham lO 45" Tues. The Kennels Thur Nutley Church Sat. Well lO 45 Harboro', Mr. Tailby'sMon. The Twelfth Milestone, Welford-road Thur. Holt ll 0 Herefordshire Tues. Canon Froome lO 30 Thur. Hampton Court lO 30 i Heythrop Mon. Boulter's Burn Weil. Tar-wood Fri. Eyford. lO 30 Sat. Shipton Barrow lO 30 Hurworth Tues. Enter Common Sat. Welbury Horsley Mon. Ledford Hut Fri. Badsley Church, Stanley Lowe .• lO 45 Ingram's (Mr. Meynell)Mon. Sudbury Coppice Thur. Swarkston e Bridge Sat. Rolleston Hall lO 45 Isle of Wight Tues. Newchurch Fri. Thorley Farm lO 30 Kent, East Mon. Sandling-park Thur. Breech-down Sat. Chariton Wood lO 30 Ledbury, J.Thaekwell'sMon. Bethel Pit Turnpike lO 30 Wed. Dymock Village lO 30 Fri. Acton green Ludlow, Mr. Sitwell's.Wed. Brampton Brian Toll-gate 10 30 Sat. Craven Arms lO 30 Marshall's, Mr. Mon. Blagdou Plantation „,... 10 30 Thur. Ashwater Mill lO 30 Middleton's, Lord ... Mon. Pluckhaui Wed. Oulston Fri. Ganton lO 30 Sat. Thornton-le-Clay ...... , 10 30 Morpeth Tues. Wallington lO 45 Thur. Thropple Sat. Morpeth Quarry-bank Now Forest Tues. Cuffnell's Park Thur. Shirfield Hatchet Sat. Beaulieu village Norfolk Mon. Bodham Wed. Guist-bridge Fri. Dunham station lO 45 Oakley Mon. Odell Thur. Cowper's Oak Sat. Hail Weston Oxfordshire (South), Mr. Phillips's Mon. Meninarsh Guide-post ... D. 0 Fri. Boldon-green ll 0 Pembrokeshire (Phillips's Mr. L.) ...Mon. Killanow-gate Fri. Alleston Puckeridge Mon. Dassels Wed. Little Chesterford.. lO 30 Sat. Cumbelow Green Pytchley Mon. Brampton Weed Wed. Stanford Hall. lO 45 Fri. Al thorpe Park Sat. Clipston Windmill Quorn Men. Kirby Gate ll 0 Tues. Wilson Village Thur. Grooby Village Fri. Lowesby Hall ll 0 Sat. One Barrow Lodge Raby Mon. flartforth Wed. Manfield lO 30 Fri. Winston Bridge lO 30 Romney Marsh Mon. Guldeford Church lO 30 Thur.Tbe Hawthorn, Midley lO 30 Sat. Coldicnt Farm Raiford Mon. Blidworth Dale lO 45 Tues. Clumber House lO 45 Thur. Ossingtou Sat. Lang with Lodge Scarborough's (Earl of) Mon. Shireoaks l2 0 Wed. Clumber l2 0 Fri. Gringley Fat. SanObeck Park lO 30 Seale's, Sir Henry ......Tues.Ashprington ......... Fri. Wallaton Cross — Selby'o, Mr. Tues. The Kennels Fri. North Charlton lO 30 Sinnington Tues. North Holme lO 30 Fri. Ampleforth lO 30 Smith's, Mr. Aseheton Mon. Wilbury Tues. Oare Hill ll 0 Thur. Chute Windmill ll 0 Fri. Clarendon Park ll 0 Somerset West Toes. Buncombe Hill Fri. Nettlecomb lO 30 Southdown, (A. Dono vans) .................. Mon. Short Gate lO 30 Wed. Plough, Dicken 10 30 Fri. Newhaven Sou th wo ld(Mr.Cook's)Tnes.Revesby Park Gate ll 0 Thur. Hainton Hall ll 0 Sat. Langton by Spilsby Sta ff or dshire, North ;.. Tues. Whitinore Station Fri. Stokeheath .................. 10 30 SuffolkTues.Walsham Hall ......... 1 0 45 Thur. Denston, Plumbers' Arms 10 45 Sat. Ampton Hall ............... 10 45 Southampton (Lord) _Mon. Tiffield Toll Gate ......... 11 0 Wed. Swanbourne Station ...... 11 0 Fri. Whitfield Sat. Nash Surrey Union Mon. Cover Wood Thur. Compton Common Sat Boxhill Sussex, East- Tues. Catsfield Green li 30 Fri. B r i g htli ng Tailby's, Mr. ~.,......, 1 Mon. Twelfth Milestone on the Welford.road ll 0 Thur. Holt ll 0 Tickham Tues. Black Post, Hollingbourn 10 30 Fri Ottorden lO 30 Tiverton ,....M0n. Templeton-commen ..... 10 30 .10 0 Tivysido M on , C wm M organ 10 Thur.Lechryd.bridge - ; 10 0 11 0 Wed. Crookhar7 ll 0 Fri. Freefolk-wood Sat. Sherboiume St John ll 0 Warwickshire Mon. Newbold Pacey lO 45 Tues. Brailes-house lO 45 Thur. Shuckburgh Fri. Upton-house Warwickshire (North) Tues. Kenilworth-castle ll 45 Thur. Bilton-grange ll 45 Fri. Solihull Worcestershire Mon. Goose-bill Wed Witiey-park Fri. Severn Stoke Wynn's, Sir W. W Mon. Carden lO :'0 Tues. Erddig Thur. Broughton-hall Sat. Lc ppingto n York and Ainsty Mon. Sutton-on-the-Forest Tues. Nun Appleton Thur. Green Hammerton Sat. Pill-moor, Brafferton HARRIERS. Alton Beagles Mon. Combo .. Wed. Southcott Fri. Alton Turnpike-gate Blean Forest Hon. Goodnestone Wed. Moldash Sat. Squirrels, Broughton ... Brighton Mon. Patcham Wed. Race Course Sa The Dyke ...... Breoksend, Thanet Mon. Birchiugton Brookside Mon. Newmarket-hill Thur. Tel sc ombe-Tye B. V. Tues. Milborne tort 10 30 10 30 10 30 10 30 10 30 10 30 Fri. Cerne-hill Crowkerne Mon, Red House Inn, near Yeovil . High Peak Tues. Wilton's House Thar. Hunter's Mere Sat. Pike-hall Huntingdonshire Tues. Pidley _. . _ Fri. Ely Toll-bar Somerset Thur. larayton ll 0 Torquay Tues. Iraldon-house lO 30 WorthingFarmers' Sub. Tues. Chantry Post ll 0 Belvoir Hounds.—ln consequence of the death of the Sake of Rutland this pack will not meat until further notice. Racing Fixtu FEBR ts for 1857. ARY. Lincoln Spring 18 1 Derby Spring 26 Nottingham Spring 24 1 MARCH. Livorpool Spring 3 Warwick Spring 17 Doncaster Spring 10 Northampton' 25 Salisbury l2 Croxton Park 21 APRIL. Epsom Spring Newmarket Craven 13 York Spring 21 Durham l3 Melton 23 Coventry lB 1 Newmarket F S 27 Catterick Bridge l5 1 Chester 5 Shrewsbury l3 _ . MAX. Bath Epsom 26 Ludlow ..14 JU Manchester Ascot 9 Beverley, Hull, &c 10 Hampton l7 Newton 17 Newcastle 2: Worcester 2 Newmarket Liverpool 15 AUG Bibury Club 24 Stockbridge 25 Winchester 26 Carlisle 3O Chelmsford 3O Nottingham 2l Stamford 23 Goodwood .28 UST. York Radcliffe Egham Stockton Hereford ...24 ..25 ...27 ...27 Ripon North Staffordshire 4 Brighton Brighton Club 7 Wolverhampton lO Reading l2 SEPTEMBER. Warwick Cardiff Tbirsk . 3 Manchester Autumn Lichfield I Derby OCTOBER. Northallerton I Chester Autumn 0 Warwick Autumn ... Wrexham . Richatoad . Newmarket H NOTEiIIBER. Worcester Autumn . S Liverpool Autumn ... Wen lock - Shrewsbury Autumn ...17 ..15 ..23 ...24 ...24 ..20 ..26 ~.10 ..20 Irish Racing Fixtures for 1857. MARCH. Howth and Baldoyle 5...17 1 Curragh Camp Meeting. 26 APRIL. Curragh MAY. Howth and Baldoyle Summer 19 JUNE. Wicklow Monckstown (Co. Cork) 9 JULY. . .21 ....23 Bellewstown 8 I Heath of Maryboro'...2B Down R. Corporation 2l AUGUST. Galway 4 1 Ballyeigh 25 Tamore 11 I Tuam not fixed Killarney lB I SEPTEMBER. Curragh 2 I Jenkinstown Park 22 Catherciven .• 8 Johnstown 29 OCTOBER. Kilkee Armagh 7 Down R. Corporation...2l Curragh l3 Cork .27 AQUATICS. KELLY AND MEEEENGER.—It may be as well to remind all those concerned, and who might wish to be present on the occasion, that the . next deposit of 201. a side for the scullers' race for the championship of the Thames is to be made on Monday evening next, Jan. 26, at Mr. Taylor's, Hand and Flower, Brentford.—We understand that Mr. R. Bain, of Lambeth, who manufactured the sculls which Kelly rowed with when he beat Buttle, the Norwieh champion, has received instrucrions to provide Kelly's sculls for this event. ABCOEK AND PALMER. —Articles of agreement were entered into on Tuesday last, the 20th inst., by Thomas Palmer, of Old Horselydown Stairs, and Thomas Adcock, of St. George's Stairs, Thomas-street, Horselydown, to row a right-away scullers race, in old-fashioned wager boats, from the Waterworks Bridge at Putney to a boat moored off the Ship at Mortlake, for 101. a side. Thos. Palmer won the boat at the Horselydown Regatta last year, and Thomas Adcock was second, when H. White, of Lambeth, won Doggett's Coat and Badge. RAILWAY TRAFFIC RETURNS• TRAFFIC RETURNS FOR TUE WEEK. Miles Receipts. opened, NAME OF RAILWAY. ----- 1857. 18561 1856. ............. ...mmimarm5......................••••,....••• _ BRITISH. X X 115 Aberdeen .. ....... • • • • • • • • • •• 1 • *" " - 37% Belfast and Ballymena .. •••• •• •• • • •• ,8 01 846 17 Belfast and County Down• ••••• • • •• - 2. 06 8 -7 33 Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire l,qo _ 117 Bristol and Exeter •• •• •• •••••• •• • • ••• 5,17 6 5 378 26 % Bolton, Blackburn,and West York .... _ ---._ 191% 9434 Chester and Holyhead.• •••••• • •• " • • 4 6 4,256 Ca1ed0nian............. ...."...... 12 ; 4 8 1 6 3 11,151 834 Cork, Blackrock, and Passage •••• •• 164 15 4 20 Cork and Ban don .. ••............ .. 202 207 56 Dublin and Be itast J unction •• . • •• • • 1,105 958 63 Dublin and Drogheda •••••••• • • • • • • • 1,405 1 • 318 40% Dublin and King stown ••••••• • • • •• •• 1,127 841 16% Dundee and Ar broath ••-•••. • • • • • • 444 31 Dundee, Perth, and Aberdeen Junction 915 t 519 36 Dundalk and En niskillen ••..••• • • • •• 9 4!? 8 80 320 1 67% East Anglian.... ••.. • ... - - •,, .• • • •• 93 East Lancashir e •••••••••• • • - .• •• •• 8,0"1.; 5,811 Eastern Counties and Norfolk ...... } Eastern-Union •••.•••••• • • • • • • • • • 22,469 20,582 • 142 Edinburgh and Glasgow ••• • • • 5.107 4 , 53 8 12 t ; Edinburgh, Perth, and Dundee."... 5 97 , 6 Exeter and Crediton --.• .. - ' ' 5 ,954 and South-Western 5,77 - • • .• .. - Fn•• ••iess Railway ... .......• .. • • - I and Western (Ireland) 5 ' ' l9 22 183% Glasgow.' 283 Great No the 203% Great Southex., 8 5,628 22 415 Great Western .. ... 24,016 23,243 2 5 34 Irish South Eastern ~ '••••••.. •. .• .• 90 212 205 Lancashire ,c a r n o d sb Y y o ., r a k . n s . h.i .d. z ut. . h y po. :• 4 7 . ::: •, 21 ' 6 7 Lancaster and Carlisle.. • • • • • • • • • • •• 5 513 5 4 8 286:i l verpool - Leeds Northern •. • ' . • 88 1 9, 946 - - - - 637 London and North Western - ' 56,133 52,563 5 London and Blackw all .. • •• ' 183% London, Brighton, •••••• • • • • • • l'..- ,569 267 London and S and South Coast.. 10, 606 - 196 60 Londond onth We5tern......... 12,160 12,_ • *MY and Enniskillen .......• 641 57b - Manchester, Buxto n, 173 3 z d all Matlock, &c. - - ... Manchester Sh fil 8 487 9% Manchester ' e eld,and Lincolnshire 9,004 , 28 m a and SOuthJunction •••• • • 773 670 498 X Mort and Carlisle .• 837 725 ' Midland • •• •• • • •• •• • • 27 533 26,251 126% M' •••••••- • 52 Aland Great Western (Irish) •• •• • • 3'377 2,699 Monklands - 1434 Newcastle and Carlisle.. ••• • • • ''' •• • • - 4 715 4,630 North British •• - • • • • • • • • - • • • • • • • • ' 233 ... 7,137 6,664 North Staffordshire • • • • • • • • • • •• - 791 820 47 North-Western •• • • •••"•'•••• • • • • •• 7- - 8734 Scottish Central ••••••• ' • • • • • • .. .... 32 Scottish Midland ••••••"•• • • • • • . • • 1 ,50 8- - 1,314 291 34 Shrewsbury an d Birmingham ••• • • • 2 48 Shrewsbury and Chester ••••• • • • " - ,572 2,510 693 661 30 Shropshire Union -•••••••• •• • • • • • • 57 % gonth Devon .-•••..-•••'• •• - •• " _ 7... - 289 South Eastern •---"•"•••• • • • •• •• •• i ' ,6 ' , 15,922 6,352 5 24G 171% South Wales •-••• • • • ' ... and Goole ' - 97 South York., Doncaster, .• • 2 554 2,270 4,230 3,338 36 Taff 36 ulster ............... •• •• _ - -.• -.• 1,376 1,262 77 Waterford And Limerick ••••• • •• - - 1 , 10 6 926 542 534 2734 Wes t Cornwall ••• •• • • .... ....... 12 Whitehaven Junc tion ... 373 287 682 York and Newcastle, an erwick & ' York and North Midland & Leeds.. - FOREIGN. 109 Dutch Rhenish -•-• • • . ............ 2,193 1,700 328 Lyons and Mediterranean •• ,•• •• 63 Monteresu and Troyes .• .....• -• • .. - - N a mur and Liege .. • • .t.• • • • • _ - 445 Northern of France .... ••••• • • . •• •• 32,314 O r leans and Central .. b 9 Paris and Lyons .• • . _ - Paris and Rouen. • • .. • • .• • • • • • . • • ~ _ - Paris and Strasburgh ............ • _ - Konen and Havre ............... • - Western of France • . . • •-- •• •• 7. •• ine _ Country Markets. LIVERPOOL —JAM. 23. The Corn Exchange this morning had a slender attend ance of millers and dealers, and the general business was dull. Good dry American red wheat could not be bought under Tuesday's price, but white was 2d, and the lower descriptions were nominally about 3d per bushel lower. Flour dull of sale, at slightly easier rates. Indian corn did not move so readily as on Tuesday, still no difference in price can be made; holders are very firm. Oats de clined lit per bushel, and oatmeal is per load, with a slow sale. Barley, beans, and peas commanded late rates. EXETE.R—JAN. 23. CORN.—Wheat, 786 d to 8s ; barley, 5s 6d to tie 3d; grinding do., 0, Od to Os Od. Oats, 3s Od to 38 3d • Beans, Os Od to 0 Od. Peas, 00s Od to 00s Od. FLOUR. —Fine, 44s Od to 46s Od.; seconds, 42s Od to 441 Od per sack. CATTLE. —There was a small supply of bullocks. Best beef, from —s Cd to 11s per score ; inferior, Os to 10s Od per score; fat calves, —d to 7d per lb ; barrenners, 6s 6d to 7s Od. per score ; cows and calves, 121. to 16/. ts ; butchers' calves, 6d to 7d per lb., rearing calves —s to s each. sheep, ewes and lambs, 01. Os to 01. Os per couple; ewes, 6d to O 1; wethers, 6d 7d ; l am b s , —to Od per 13. Pigs, large size, --s to —s ; second size, —s to ; slips , —6 to —a ; suckers, —s to —s. Rough fat, 4id per lb. Pork carcases from 9s 6d to 10s 6d per score. WAKEFIELD—JAN. 23. The wheat trade was dull at is to 2s per qr. decline. Barley sold slowLy at is cheaper. In beans steady prices were obtained, and oats and shelling unchanged. BRISTOL SUGAR-JAN. 23. -- - The market has again assu,ned a very firm appearance ; and although the transactions in West India reported since our last are only of limited amount, owing to the short supply, still prices not previously obtainable have been paid, and the market closes with an upward tendency. In Mauritius about 1,100 bags on the spot, and 9,000 mats to arrive, have been disposed of, but the particulars have not transpired. In refiners' produce, both stove-dried and wet goods, some considerable sales have been effected at very full rates. Of rum we have no supply offering. GOAL KARA Pease of Coal per ton at 7.-JAN. 23. the close of the market. a. d. Bates's West Hartley 14 9 Saddle W. Hartley l5 3 Bebside's Hartley 15 0 Howard's West Hartley Netherton 15 3 Davison's West Hartley 15 3 Longridge's Wet Hartley 15 3 North Percy Hartley l4 9 Tanfield Moor l4 0, Tanfield Moor Butos 14 0 Walker Primrose l3 9 West Riding Hartley, 14 9 Wallsend, &c.. Wallsend, &o. Eveuwood is d• 15 6 Hunwick l6 0 Stewart's 18 6 Lambton 18 0 Whitworth l6 0 Edon Main l7 3 Hartlepool Hetton 17 6 flosforth l6 6 Riddell l6 6 Russell's Hetton 17 6 Tees lB 6 Thorp l7 6 Barton Eden Hilda l6 3 Wharneliffe 16 3 Hetton Lyons Main l6 6 Braddyll l7 6 . _ Hengh Hall 17 0 Cassop 17 6 Haswell 18 6 Hetton lB 6 South Hetton 18 3 Framwellgate l7 0 Ships at market...los-1 I sold. Bl COURSE OF EXCHANGE.—YESTERDAY. Amsterdam .... 11 14% Gibraltar Ditto, three months .. 11 17% Leghorn •• • ..... 29 52% Rotterdam .......... 11 17% Genoa ..... • 25 76 Antwerp.• •• .• •• •• .• •• • 25 32% Milan •• ••• •••••• • • •• Brussels 25 32% Venice Bamburgh •• •• •• •• •• • • 13 6% Naples .• •• .. 43 Altona ..... ........... Palermo ..... 129 Parls•• •• •• • •• •• 25 25 ' Messina Ditto, three months .. 25 65 Lisbon .. Marseilles ............. 25 6734 I Oporto .........• •• •• •• 51it Bourdeaux Rio Janeiro ..... .•• -- Frankfort-on-Maine .• 118% Buenos Ayres.. •• •• Berlin ................ New York,6o days' sight -- Vienna.......... • • .... 10 40 Philadelphia Prie5te.........• •• .... 10 42 PRICES OF BULLICIS, PER oz. Petersburg 37 g Foreign Gold in Bars 43 17 9 Madrid .........., ~.. 49% Portugal Gold Coin .. 0 0 0 Cadiz ......... •• 49% Mexican Dollars .... 0 0 0 Barcelona ............ New Dollars ...... 0 0 0 Seville_ .............. Silver in bars ...... 0 0 0 LOCAL SHARE MARKETS. LIVERPOOL, JAN. 23. STOVE EXORANGE.—The following were the sales this morning :—Caledonian, 30A—London and North Western, 106 a 6—ditto, eighths, i dis. The sales in the a fternoon were—Lancashire and Yorkshire, 96k—Midland, 62i - "' Dutch Rhenish, A die. BIRMINGHAM, JAN. 23. STOOK EXCHANGL —Prices continued firm, but the transactions were limited. Great Western Stock Wa done at 66--Birmingham Canal Shares at 93i—and Bu' mingham Old Union Mills at 14i and Closing Pricess —Great Western, 65. 66h—Lancashire and Yorkshires 96 96i -London and North-Western, 106* 1061-110 (1. lands, 82i 82k. - MANCHESTER, JAN: 23. STOOK EXONANGL—The market was rather flatter in tone, with but few offers making. The sales were Shol: fields, 34i— Midlands, 82i g—Dovers , 22 5-16—Nor th Staffords, 4 die.— East Lancashire, 23 Leeds 961 -- * Londons, 1061—York Capital Stock, 30— Great — Western , 65i. LEEDS—JAN. 23. STOCK EICHANGE.—The share market is dull, and closes weak. The only sales reported ars as follows s—' Leeds Northern, I.Bi — South-Eastern and Dover, 22i. BRISTOL, JAN. 23. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The share market is steady to-( 101 and there have been sales of Bristol - and Exeter at 934" Lancashire and Yorkshire, 96i. SEABORNE MAILS. [When the date for making up a mail falls on a Sandal: the mail remains open until the day following ; except in t h i , case of the India mail, via Southampton, which, on oli c occasions, is made up the previous evening.] Fos By what When 1 B: ..-.:i. t - :Made up at Whence • expected Y Oll/Iv-ba the des- Post-Oftlce. patched. Vessel Sout- ~ . , ...... ge Lisbon M I7 th th ij o 7 f th t ' h B e} Spain ampton inaund Jan. 24 bra , Gibraltar ' Gibraltar 1 ... Malta Egypt ...• Ceylon • • - 20th of 01017 3)8 Indus India .....• month. am p ton the 0 Mauritius • month. (via Ceylon) - China ampton ColOrista 4t Penang I M the South - Indus Feb. 4 .. Singapore Afor ol4 Australla(via i M .. • 1 South- .... Jut. 31 -- iit est the Cape) .3 •..•• • • i ampton "• • Cape of Good Hope ...• Mauritius Ceylon - Harbin- T . ,- .mogiagli India • • Lisbon Madeira 1 CapedeVerds South- Brazil ..... . M Feb. 9 ... , ampton Medway Feb. 12 1 • 111/ BuenosAyres Falkland Is lands i J West Indies (except Ha vana and Honduras). 2d and 17th Ist and Venezuela - 16th of „to Grey Town M Feb. 17 . 1 month. i alcupton Parana the Ai' . New Granada Chili . Peru ...... California .. month. --.' Honduras .. / 16th of ..4 Nassau .... South- ' ampton month. • Mexico .... South- ' Havana .... ? Feb. 2.... } Parana Feb. 1 - At til ampton Madeira .... T euerlffe .. ? J an . 23 •' } mouth Pl y - Candace Feb 6 g.ki...fil , W C.of Afri ca ...: British North America .. Every Fri Liver- I Europa lan. 26 Nisi igl" United States pool United States 1 Feb. 3 and} British North alternate pool •• • Liver- .. America .. Tuesdays. United States ' British North M Jan. 14 .. } a t u p t t o h n - Herman eb• 19 .°llll. America .. ' ~,§0 7 Liver- Anglo- 5. ,'-- , Canada .... I E Jan. 27 •• 3 pool Saxon Feb. 4f r , ~,, M —Morning. E—Evening. BIRTHS. 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