The Sun. — London, England, 1847-01-06 00:00:00

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Xs3* .. .. • sa4i .. sight ELLS JAN. s.—The Orwell, Martin, w towed off the Woolpack Sand to-day by the Wilberforceas (steamer), and Proceeded for Hull in tow. ,KET NEWS -(THIS DAY CORN-EXCHANGE —WEDNESDA Y The show of English Wheat samples here was again very small; yet, owing to the extreme rates demanded by the holders, the amount of business actually passing was trifling. However, in every instance, Monday's prices were well supported. In free Foreign Wheat the sales were to a fair extent, and the late advance in the currencies were freely maintained. Several parcels of inferior bonded Wheat were taken on Irish account, at high rates. The Barley trade was firm ; but we can notice no further improvement in value. Draft was in moderate request, at unusually high rates-87s. having been paid for fine Chevalier. Oats, Beans, and Peas supported the late advances; while the top price of Flour was 653. per 2801bs. ErICLI3h Irian ... Foreign ~.. .: :: Ait II 7; , ALS. Wheat. I Barley. 1,130 qrs., 1,560 qrs. Oats I Flour. -- qrs. 1,420 ski 700 J 2,600 Malt. 1.910 qrs. AV IIITECHAJPEL. The supplies of each kind of meat being on the increase, the demand was in a very sluggish state, and prices were with difficulty supported. Beet; from 2s 8d to 3s 8d; Mut ton, 33 8d to 43 6d; Veal, 4s to 4s 10d; and Pork, 3s 8d to 4s 10d per 81b, by the carcase. SECONDARIES' -(THIS DAY.) T BLACKMAN V. WEBB. bale hiS WEIS an a ct i on to recover the sum of 41., the aace due on a promissory note. The defendant de nie-Jd making the note. The plaintiff's solicitor said he should be able to prove the defendant's signature, and thAt 11. was paid on ac count, and called Henry Baker —An objection was taken to this witness being examined, on the ground that the money was ad taneed by a loan society in which he was interested. The SECONDARY said that did not show that the wit mess was an incompetent witness: he might hold some appointment. The defendant's attorney asked whether witness was not a shareholder as well as clerk, and was answered in the negative. the witness then deposed that the defendant signed itpe,itztheo.ok l o n f eross-exa tn ination he admitted entries in Payments to the amount of 11. .ss. deuce The SECONDARY said that he could not receive evi -I°f Payment under the plea. The defendant denied by tshiegnature, and on that plea plaintiff was entitled to a verdict for the amount of the bill ; but he had admitted, Particulars, the payment of IL, which was the Only Sum could be deducted, notwithstanding any evi dence of further payment—the difference in amount was "IY 5 5., but large or small, the principle was the same. The jury gave a verdict for 41. CRIMINAL COURT.—(THIS DAY.) OLD COURT. M URDER CD3IMITTED UNDER INSANITY.—Mary Ann 46 / 9 , a healthy-l oo ki ng woman, aged 25, was charged, °,,.11 the coroner' s i nqu i s i t i on, w i th the wilful murder of 'James Ring, an infant, to whom she had shortly before Riven birth. The prisoner had been removed to this coart by an order of the Secretary of State for the Home Department, from the Criminal Lunatic Asylum, in which she was placed shortly after the occurrence, in consequence of being afflicted with insanity, under the influence of which, it was assumed, she had committed the crica"!. As she subsequently became sane, and was deernera in a fit state to be set free, it was necessary that she should undergo the ordeal of a trial here, in Order that a jury might decide upon the matter, and if proved to their satisfaction that she was not a free agent at the time, that she might be liberated. Mr. Doane appeared for the prosecution. Amelia Lyons, the mother of the prisoner, Stated, that on the 22d of January last her 'decedaughter was delivered of twins, a boy (the ' de ceased) and a g i r l. Sh ortly afterwards she ased) to be labouring under insanity, as she talked incoherently upon religious subjects, and about her chil dren, and dying. O n t h e 31st of that month, she was in her room ; her (the prisoner's) husband was also there. Her daughter was in bed suckling the infants. , Ilaving observed indications of insanity on the previous Thursday, she was afraid to leave her alone, and having occasion to go to the fire place, she desired her husband to watch her. She turned towards the fire, and the next moment the husband exclaimed, " Oh ! mother, she has thrown herself on one of the children." He pulled her tip, but she again flew at the child, and bit him on the cheek. They succeeded in getting the child away, on Whose face they found two marks and a little blood. She took the child to Mr. Mason, a surgeon, i n th e neigh bourhood, w hil st h er husband' held her daughter down on the bed with a sheet. She raved and besought him to take care of her children. The child died three weeks and two days after. Mr. Mason, a surgeon, in High-street, Newington, stated that the child was brought to him about ten o'clock in the evening in question. He found his face, especially the left cheek and the mouth, covered with blood. On removing the blood, he found several punc tured wounds —one on the upper lip, one on the nostrils, and another near the eye, which bore the imprints of teeth. Inflammation ensued, and he attended the child until his death. From feelings of humanity he visited the prisoner the same night, and found her perfectly in sane. She was wholly unconscious of what she was saying or dying. Mr. Justice ERLE suggested to the jury, that if they Were satisfied that the woman was unconscious at the time, that th e y s h ou ld acqu i t her on the ground of a sanity. The jury accordingly Acquitted the prisoner on that Ironed. Mr. D OANE sa id the prisener became in a similar state nn the birth of her first child. M ad 14 r. Justi ce E RLE sa id a representation would be e to th e S ecretary of State, setting forth the state ofher mind at the time, and the verdi c t o f th e j ury, s ad she wou ld b e l i berated. ' The woman was then removed. COINING.—James Morris, aged 36, described as a labourer, was convicted on two indictments, oharging with having counterfeited a half crown, and of ' l aving a mould in his possession. Sergeant Brenan, an act i ve an d i ntelligent officer, and a body of constables, proceeded to a house in Duck-lane, Westminster. He broke into a room, and found the Prisoner with a pipkin in his hand at the window, from which he threw several articles, amongst which were several counterfeit shillings. He was crushing a half crown mould under his feet. A counterfeit half-crown was taken from him, but it was so hot that the sergeant was obliged to put it into his pocket, and another from the same mould was found in his possession. There was a clear fire and a galvanic battery in the room. The prisoner shouted from the window, and brought some hundreds of the denizens of that part of the metropolis, who assaulted the police severely, and enabled the prisoner to escape. Sometime after he was arrested at a house in the Borough in the very act of coining; several dies and other coining implements were found, and twenty-two counterfeit half-crowns, fifty shillings, and a number of crown pieces. He blew out a candle which was on the table and jumped out of the Window. He was, however, immediately arrested. It appeared that the prisoner had been known to the police as a coiner for sixteen years. The prisoner besought the Court to deal mercifully With him on account of his having a wife and five young children. He said he had been driven to the crime in order re to provide f oo d f or t h em. His parish had refused him lief. Mr. Justice MAULE sentenced the prisoner to be transported for fifteen years on each indictment—thirty Years altogether. CO U RT. ROBBERY OF THE W HUNTINGDON AND WISBEACH ItAILAVA. Y.— Wm. Poole, a very respectable young man appearance, and lately a clerk in the service of the RUntingdon and Wisbeach Railway, was indicted with stealing an order for th e p ayment of 101., the property of the company. The jury acquitted the prisoner. RA:TENSTVE ROBBERY. —The case of Francis Olifreres, described in the calendar as a hair-worker, and who stands charged with stealing property to the amount of u pwards of 4001., was postponed to the next session. Mr. CLARKSON having made an application this morn ing to the Common-Sergeant, to delay the taking of the Nvitnrases before the grand jury till that period, on the grovi n d of the absence of a most material one, the Learned Common -sergeant, upon an application for that purpose, refused to liberate the prisoner upon bail, de clining to take upon himself so great a responsibility. The parties if they wished to obtain the liberation of the prisoner till the next sessions, must go before one of the Learned Judges of the land and see if they could P er attede him to take bail. SURREY SESSIONS. —(THIS DAY.) Jane Morris, a woman fifty-five years of age, was in dicted for stealin g is. 6d. out of a drawer in the bar of the house of Mr. James Coles, at Godalming, on the 28th of December, Where she was employed as a char woman. Mr. Coles, the landlord, saw her unlock the till and take something from it. He immediately stopped her, and, found the money produced in the Court, which he marked, and handed, with her, over to the constable. The jury found her Guilty, but rec ommended h er Mercy. Sh e was senten ce d to solitary confineme n t for 2 1 day s , w stealing a ewe as indicted for ,- Wm. White, aged 28, sheep at Ripley, the property of Mr. John Metcalfe. In another count he wa, charged with .killing th e sheen with intent to carry off the fore and hind quarters. ' Mr, Locke was retained for the prosecution, and Mr. Itobinson defended the prisoner. Mr. LocitE, having stated the case, called William Holington, inspector of police at Guildfi rd, Who was sent for on the 28th of December, and wa s shown the place where the sheep had been slaughtered. Near to it he observed the tracks of a man's shoes for f or some distance where the carcase had been dragge along. P rom information which he received he went t o the prisoner's house, whore he found a neck of mutton, and, aftorwards, the carcase of a sheep tied up in a bag, With the name upon it of Mr. Lambert, by whom White Was employed. Witness subsequently head of' the sheep with the carcase, as also the saddle' compared the with the place from which it was taken, and found them to fit exactly lle had also compared the prisoner's Shoes with the in%rks in the field, a nd found them to . ' ra nging The prisoner was apprehended at a bars be t'ranging to Mr. Lambert. . Cross -examined—The foot -marks were plain, but hrewas nothing particular about them, and he did not f,, BYre the nails with the indentations. ~.):the CHAIRMAN —He bad traced the marks from the 1 t-) the place where tho sheep was ki11,,1. The place s about halfa mile from the prisoner's house. kr. John Metcalfe, a farmer and innkeeper at Ripley, Mr. ROBINSON then addressed the jury on behalf of he prisoner. The CHAIRMAN summed up, and the jury found the prisoner Guilty.—He was sentenced to ten years' trans portation. APPEALS. The CHAIRMAN stated that appeal cases would not be ;aken before Saturday. BOW-STREET -(THIS DAY William Harrison was placed at the bar before Mr. Jena-, on a charge of " being a disorderly person, and driving through a file of foot soldiers, thereby endanger ing their lives." Sergeant John Hanington, of the 3d battalion Grena dier Guards, said that this morning about 11 o'clock, he was marching with a single file of soldiers through the Strand, on their way from the Tower, where the batta lion was stationed, to the tailor's, where they were to be fitted with caps, when the prisoner, in a cart, came down Wellington-street, " at a foot pace," just as they were crossing the road. Although he and two of the privates called out to him to stop, and the two privates attempted to stop him, he still went on. He broke through the file, and was driving down Wellington.street South, towards the bridge, when he was stopped and brought back. He did not say a word, but allowed himself to be given in custody. There were 18 men in the file. They were ordered to walk in single file to give as little ob struction as possible to passengers. The two privates mentioned by last witness, John Woodwall and George Macktellow, gave evidence in corroboration. The prisoner was going at a slow trot. He made no attempt to stop. Woodwall was obliged to retreat, and Macktellow to spring forward in order to avoid being run over. They had tried to stop the cart, but could not do so. The file was completely broken. The prisoner said that the file was already broken by a van, and that he only passed through the opening already made. He did attempt to stop the cart. the three witnesses denied this altogether. The van drew up and waited till they were gone over, and the prisoner (whose cart was alongside the van) might easily have done the same. The file was not broken till he broke it. Ile made no attempt to stop. Mr. HENRY said the prisoner was like most obstinate people, he insisted that he was right when 'it was clear he was in the wrong. To convince him of his error it was necessary to punish him. The sergeant said that if the prisoner would admit his errer and apologise, he and his comrades did not wish to press the charge. They did not want to hurt him, and if it was " a warning to him " that was enough. The prisoner gave the required apology. Mr. HENRY said that as the complainants did not wish to press the charge, he would not inflict a heavy penalty, but it was necessary to inflict a nominal penalty to convince him that he was liable to punishment. He would therefore fine him 2s. 6d., which, together with the expense of taking his horse from the green-yard, would be enough. The prisonei:'sent for the money, and on receiving it paid the penalty and was liberated. William Fletcher, who has been repeatedly remanded on a charge of furiously driving a market gardener's cart in Whitehall, and knocking down and driving over an old fruit woman cf seventy years of age, who, with her husband, was wheeling a barrow of fruit, was finally brought before Mr. Henry this morning. The complainant now said that as the prisoner was a poor man, and had a wife and large family, and as he showed great contrition, and " paid every attention" in his power to her while laid up, she " did not want to hurt him." Mr. HENRY, yielding to the very earnest request of the complainant, agreed to let the prisoner off un punished, as far as the charge of injuring her was con cerned, but as no man must be allowed to get into a cart drunk and drive at a furious rate in a crowded street, for that offence he would fine him in the full penalty of 21. As the complainant was very much to be pitied he would order her 11. out of the poor-box. MARLBRO'-STREET—(THIS DAY). Thomas Webb and Thomas Leary were both charged with creating a disturbance in Oxford-street, and in several public-houses, where they called for liquor and refused to pay for it. Police-constable E 34, saidihis attention was calledtto a crowd of 200 people gathered in front of the American Storef, in Oxford-street, where he found the prisoners quarrelling and vociferating. He said he had been obliged to take them out of American Stores just before. Elizabeth Knight, barmaid to the American Stores, said the two prisoners and another man came in and called for a pot of stout. It was drawn for them, and they drank it off, and called for another, but on being told they must first pay for what they had had, they began to quarrel with each other, and as none of them had any money, it was necessary to call the policeman, and have them turned out. Mrs. Brown, landlady of the Three Tuns public house, Oxford-street, said the same persons had just previously been in her house, and drank some rum, and ran out without paying for it, Mr. HARDWICK said there was too good reason for believinc, that the priso ners were o f a gang who were perambulating the metropolis for the purpose of defraud ing people of their property. He sentenced them to a fine of 20s. each, or fourteen days' imprisonment, for creating a disturbance. Donation of 2/. from J. H. 11., through Messrs Gos ling and Co., was received in aid of the poor-box. CLERKEN WELL.—(THIS DAY.) Frederick Blackstone was charged before Mr. Combe with attempting to pick pockets in the pit of S a dl er ' s Wells Theatre, and also with having struck police:con stable 171 G, a tremendous blow on the head, with a thick stick, loaded with lead at the end. The policeman stated that he was on duty last night at Sadler's Wells Theatre, when he observed the pri soner, who was accompanied by several other well known thieves, enter the theatre, and having watched them closely, and observing the prisoner try several persons pockets, he took him into custody, and had re moved him as far as the lobby, when the prisoner sud denly turned round, and struck him a violent blow upon the top of the head, which felled him to the ground. The house, as usual, was much thronged, and a number of the prisoner's companions succeeded in getting him away, but he was followed by several con stables through the crowd, and again taken into custody. He was committed to hard labour in the House of Correction for one month, without the alternative of a fine. Two diminutive boys, named William Bailey, and John Pully, were charged with stealing frum Mr. Ayrc, a surgeon and chemist, in High-street, Camden -town, a number of valuable smelling-bottles, and William Har rison was charged with having received them, well know ing them to have been stolen. The prosecutor stated that within the last few weeks the prisoners had called at his shop several times, under pretence of having some trifling prescription compounded, and on almost every occasion he missed some article from the shop after their departure. Yes terday they came again, and as they were leaving he searched them, when he found upon Tully two silver mounted scent cases. The prisoners then said they had stolen several other silver mounted bottles from the house and sold them for three-halfpence each to Harri son, who keeps one of those shops; half marine store dealers and half confectioners, where children too often get their initiatory lesson in thieving, by exchanging small portable articles tor" sweet stuffs." Mr. CosinE said, that taking into consideration the extreme youth of the two boys, and that they, as well as too many others, he was afraid, had been made the victims of the elder prisoner, he should admit them as evidence against him, so as to ensure his conviction, which would be a benefit to society. The boys then made their depositions to the above facts, and Harrison was committed to take his trial. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. BETTING AT IdANCHESTER.—Tu ESDAY. CHESTER Cur.-50 to 1 agst Fitzallen (taken)-50 to 1 agst Newcourt ( taken)-50 to 1 agst Antler (taken)-50 to 1 agst Critn. Con. (taken)-1,000 to 15 offered against any other. DERBY.-15 to 2 agst Van Tromp (offered)-13 to 1 agst Epirote (offered)-17 to 1 agst Planet (taken)-25 to 1 agst Glentilt (taken)-25 to 1 agst Sister to Cobweb colt (offered)-35 to 1 agst Lunedale-33 to 1 agst Old Port -35 to 1 agst Wanota-40 to 1 agst Red Hart (taken)-40 to 1 agst Miss Martin colt (taken) 11 to 2 agst Scott's lot (taken). INTELLIGENCE EXTRA.—NORTHAMPTON AND PYTCHLEY HUNT, 1847. Nominations for The Great Northamptonshire Stakes— weights to be declared 20 t h J anuary, and forfeits on the Ist of February. Leopard, 5 yrs—Refraction, 5 yrs—Typhon, 3 yrs—Bro. to Stitch, 3 yrs—Jenny Wren, 5 yrs—Black Strap, 5 yrs— Valentissimo, aged—Bokhara, aged—Halo, 3 yrs—Palma, 3 yrs—Sh era t on, 4 yrs—Pal, 4 yrs—Fort William, 4 yrs— Punch, 4 yrs—The Premier, 3 yrs—Tragical, 4 yrs—Hyd rangea, 4 yrs—St. Demetri, 4 yrs—Satyr, 6 yrs—Secundus, 6 yrs—Wolfd og , 5 yrs—Humdrum, 4 yrs—Queen Mary, 3 vrs—Wild Roe, 5 yrs—Fugitive, 4 yrs—The Duke of Richmond, 4 yrs—Morocco, 4 yrs—Sting, 4 yrs—Lady Cecilia, 4 yrs—Comme it faut, 3 yrs—Turpin, 4 yrs—Rufus, 4 yrs—Queen Anne, 4 yrs—Projectile, 3 yrs—Ennui, 4 yrs— Spur, 4 yrs— br g by Young Cadland, 5 yrs—Tit-bit, 4 yrs— What, aged—Captain Phebus, 5 yrs—Giselle, 4 yrs—Sis. to Pedometer, 5 yrs—The Best of Three, 6 yrs—ldolater, 5 yrs — Moonlight, 5 yrs—Sister to Flambeau, 4 yrs—blorpeth, 6 yrs—Diorned, 4 yrs — Reminiscence, 3 yrs—Chatterbox, 4 yrs—Marquis of Conyngham, 4 yrs—Polka, 4 yrs—Roebuck, 5 yrs - -Dulcet, 5 yrs—Milden, 5 yrs—lcicle, 4 yrs—Caprice, 4 Y r .s — Credential, 5 yrs—Moodkee, 3 yrs—Wee Boy, 3 yrs— TrejT 3 , 6 y rs —D aughter of the Star, 3 yrs—Milliner, 4 yrs— Crozier, 3 y rs —C ounsellor, aged—Emmeline, 4 yrs—Cha mois, 4 yrs—Roderick, aged — Komager, 5 yrs— Vampy 3 re, 4 yrs-- - Mendicant, 4 yrs—Euclid colt, 3'yrs—Flit c h , 4 yrs—Lo t,hario, a g e d — Alvanley, 6 y rs —C ampanile, 5 yrs—Mirmillo, 3 r s — Roman a,4 yrs—Princess Royal,s yrs—The Magnet, 5 yrs A—Lord Salt a,4 6 yrs—Alliance, 4 Yrs—Lightning, 6 yrs— uuandale, o yrs—Buttress, 4 yrs—lancer, 3 yrs—Princess Alice, 4 yrs—Golden Bee, 4 yrs—Best Bower, 6 yrs—Miss Burns, aged—Camera Obscura, 4 yrs--Devil me-care, 3 yrs —Sweetmeat, 5 yrs — Doleful, 5 yrs—Watch Dog, 3 yrs— Mistress Je an , 3 y r s — Headsman, 4 yrs—Red Rover, 6 yrs. NOMINATIONS FOR THE ALTHbRP PARK STAKES. Dacia colt, by Eryinus, out of Equator colt, by Touch . stone, dam by Glencoe —Mother Carey's Chickens, f by Col wick, out of Vignette—Old Brompton—The Sheriff—Lucy Ashtui,—iota—Glendower f by Buzzard, out of Layla--. Wooderaft—Fernbill—Little lied Riding Hood Beverla —Hanwell—The Hind of the rorest Ilatherley—Chip. THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 6, 1847 stated that, on the 25th of December, he missed one of a flock of fifty sheep, and on searching, with the assist ance of his man, on the following Monday, he found the skin and entrails of a sheep. He recognised the skin as having been part of the sheep he had lost from discover ing the marks of E. L, on the horns and on the sides of the animal He also found a lamb with the entrails, and ' the sheep he had lost was, when taken away, ready to drop her lamb, peway—Propeller—Protection—Searoom Good Boy Nectar Awkward—Publican. CHESTER CUP. The following names complete the entry of 177 horses for this race :—Driffield b fby Co'wick out of Quid's Dam, Sir Martin, and No. 45. We ought also to add that in our former list Fantastic and Emigrant were named twice, and Banana called Bavaria. HUNTING APPOINTMENTS. Her Majesty's stag hounds will meet on Thursday at Salt Hill, and on Saturday at Bedfont Toll-gate, at 11. Air. Dawes, a butcher at Ripley, had examined the mutton found in the prisoner's premises, and the remains of the sheep discovered by the last witness, and believed them to be the same. April 5, July 5, 1845 1845 Oct. 10, 1845 Jan. 5, 1846 THE CENTRAL SUN. At the close of the last meeting (on the 14th of De cember) of the Royal Irish Academy, after the delivery of the very interesting antiquarian communication from Professor Warsare, of Copenhagen, and in connexion with a new mathematical method of geometrically con ceiving and symbollically expres-ing the Newtonian law of attraction, Sir William Hamilton announced that hr had just received from Professor Madler, of Dorpat, the extraordinary and exciting intelligence of the presumed discovery of a Central Sun. Professor Miidler's essay on the subject (Die Central Sonne, Dorpat, 1846) was also exhibited by Sir William Hamilton on the same evening to several members of the academy; but as this work may not, for some time to come, be generally known, or, indeed, easily procurable in this country, we believe that our readers will thank us for publishing a sketch of the results which it contains, and which were briefly stated on the evening already mentioned. This course will also serve to correct any misconception on the subject which the unexpected nature of the commu nication, and the consequent absence of many of the members of the academy, may possibly have occasioned, or at least allowed to arise. By an extensive and laborious comparison of the quan tities and directions of the proper motions of the stars in various parts of the heavens, combined with indications afforded by the parallaxes hitherto determined, and with the theory of universal gravitation, Professor Miidler has arrived at the conclusion that the Pleiades form the central group of our :whole astral or sidereal system, in• eluding the Milky Way and all the brighter stars, but exclusive of the more distant nebulae, and of the stars of which those nebulae may be composed. And within this central group itself he has been led to fix on the star Alcyone (otherwise known by the name of Eta Tawri), as occupying exactly or nearly the position of the centre of gravity, and as entitled to be called the central sun. Assuming Bessel's parallax of the star 61 Cygni, long since remarkable for its large proper motion, to be cor rectly determined, Madler proceeds to form a first ap proximate estimate of the distance of this central body from the planetary or solar system ; and arrives at the (provisional) conclusion, that Alcyone is about thirty four million times as far removed from us, or from our own sun, as the latter luminary is from us. It would, therefore, according to this estimation, be at least a million times as distant as the new planet,'of which the theoretical or deductive discovery has been so great and beautiful a triumph of modern astronomy, and so strik ing a confirmation of the law of Newton. The same approximate determination of distance conducts to the result that the light of the central sun occupies more than five centuries in travelling thence to us. The enormous orbit which our own sun, with the earth and the other planets, is thus inferred to be de scribing about that distant centre—not indeed under its influence alone, but by the combined attractions of all the stars which are nearer to it than we are, and which are estimated to amount to more than one hundred and seventeen millions of masses, each equal to the total mass of our own solar system, is supposed to require up wards of eighteen millions of years for its complete de scription, at the rate of about eight geographical miles in every second of time. Customs Excise Stamps , ....... Taxes Property Tax . Post-Office Crown Lands Miscellaneous*. to Total Ordinary Revenue 10,350,059 China Money.... .. 392,065 Imprest Moneys, &c... I 206,007 Repayments °advances 418,545 Total Income . •• 11,356,676 Amount applied to Con- . solidated Fund .... • • 7,273,077 Ditto, as Advances ... •. ! 380,000 Ditto, as Ways & Means of the Year •••• • • • 3,713,599 Total . ... • 11,366,676 Quarters ended Jan. 5. INCOME. Customs •• ••. • . .... Excise ........ Stamps ...... ......... Taxes• • • • ........ .............. Property Tax Post-office .• ............. Crown Lands.. .......... Miscellaneous • China Money ..... Imprest and other Moneys • • Repayments of Advances.... To Cash brought to this Account to be applied to pay off Deficiency Bias.. 4,354,789 3,353,440 1,792,402 1,876,050 386,985 189,000 25,000 68,612 300,859 64,084 404,179 12,815,403 200,000 13,015,400 4,514,721 3,622,151 1,740,687 1,909,899 450,219 203,000 30,000 29,657 31,884 302,449 12,834,667 12,834,667 OPENING OF THE SPANISH CORTES. We have received the Queen of Spain's Speech at the opening of the Cortes, on the 31st ult., of which the fol lowing is a translation:— " Gentlemen, Senators and Deputies,— " Nothing causes me more lively satisfaction than to find myself again in the midst of you, and again to give myself over to the hope that your loyalty and your every effort will be consecrated to cement the union of the Throne with the institutions of the country, and to continue the work of the prosperity of Spain. "I have contracted a marriage with my august cousin, Don Francisco d'Assis Maria de Bourbon, agreeably to my intention announced to the preceding Cortes. I trust that Heaven will bless this union, and that you also, Gentlemen, will unite your prayers with mine to Almighty God. The marriage of my beloved sister has also taken place in the way which has been already ex plained to the Cortes. " In our relations with foreign Powers no change has taken place worthy of notice. " Domestic tranquillity, that first need of nations, is strengthening itself, in spite of attempts which have been made to disturb it. lam confident that all legiti mate opinions, uniting themselves on the vast and free field of our institutions, will leave without support the factions hostile to the public peace, and will contribute to consolidate the constitutional Government, and to efface all traces of the troubles which have so long agi tated the nation. " In order to attain that important end, I have granted to persons implicated in those troubles as large an amnesty as the welfare of the State permits. It is the welfare of the State which I shall consult, at some future time, as to the question of extending this amnesty to those who, for weighty reasons, have been hitherto ex cluded from it. The plane of this vast orbit of the sun is judged to have an inclination of about eighty-four degrees to the ecliptic, or to the place of the annual orbit of the earth ; . . and the longitude of the ascending node of the former orbit on the latter is concluded to be nearly two hundred and thirty-seven degrees. The general conclusions of Midler respecting the con stitution of the whole system of the fixed stars, exclusive of the distant nebulae, are the following :—He believes that the middle is indicated by a very rich group the(Pleiades), containing many considerable individual bodies, though at immense distances from us. Round this he supposes that there is a zone, proportionally poor in stars, and then a broad, rich, ring-formed layer, followed by an in terval comparatively devoid of stars, and afterwards by another annular and starry space, perhaps with several alterations of the same kind, the two outmost rings com posing the two parts of the Milky Way, which are con founded with each other by perspective in the portions most distant from ourselves. Professor Miidler has acknowledged in his work his obligations, which are those of all inquirers in sidereal astronomy, to the researches of the two Herschels, Sir William and Sir John. The views of Sir William Her schel, respecting the relation of our solar system to the Milky Way, will naturally recur to the recollection of our readers ; and while astronomers are anxiously awaiting the shortly -expected appearance of the com plete account of Sir John Herschel's Observations on the Southern Nebulm, the following passage of a letter, which was written in 1835 by that illustrious son of an illustrious sire, from . the Cape of Good Hope to Sir Wil liam Hamilton, may be read with peculiar interest, from the agreement between the views it expresses and some of those to which Professor Midler has been led. In the letter just referred to (from which an extract was published at the time) Sir John Herschel expressed himself as follows: "It is a great satisfaction to me to be able to an nounce to you that, thanks to the peace and to the re forms to which former Cortes have given their support, the national prosperity is making notable advances; my efforts will before all things tend to extend and aug ment those advances, and I reckon on your co-operation and assistance in this matter. " The different branches of the administration of the State have experienced great ameliorations; these are owing to the regularity introduced in the payment of expenses in the various offices, to the preservation of the public peace, and to the harmony and order which the laws recently established have introduced into the working of the administration. " The general aspect of the southern circumpolar re gion, including in that expression 60 or 70 deg. of S. P. D., is in a high degree rich and magnificent, owing to a superior brilliancy and larger development of the Milky Way, which, from the constellation of Orion to that of Antinous, is one blaze of light, strangely in terrupted, however, with vacant and almost starless patches, especially in Scorpio, near a Centauri and the cross; while to the north it fades away pale and dim, and is in comp ar i son h ar dl y traceable. I think it is im possible to view this splendid zone, with the astonish ingly rich and evenly distributed fringe of stars of the third and f our th magn i tudes, which form a broad skirt to its southern border, lik e a vast curta i n , w i t h ou t an im pression, amounting t o a conv i ct i on, t h at t h e Milky Way is not a mere stratum, but an annulus; or, at least, that our system is placed within one of the poorer and almost vacant parts of its general mass, and that eccen trically, so as to be much nearer to the parts about the cross, than to that diametrically opposed to it."—Dublin Evening Post. " In the organization of the army some reforms, im peratively demanded by the public good, have been carried out. These reforms have brought about a con siderable economy in the expenditure, and it is great subject of satisfaction to me that their introduction has not infringed upon vested rights, nor caused any preju dice to the classes who compose this interesting portion of the nation. In the matter of discipline and soldierly behaviour the condition of the troops both by sea and land could not be more satisfactory, and the fidelity of all ranks is a sure guarantee that the sacred trust re posed to their care will be protected frosn'all dangers. " My solicitude, and that of my Government, has not been less with respect to the navy. For the first time since many years the expenses of all establishments have been covered ; considerable works and repairs have been completed in our arsenals ; an impulse has been given to naval construction, as well in the yards of the State as in those of private individuals, so that the vessels of our fleet have been available for all the purposes of the State, as well as for the protection of our mercantile marine, the rapid increase of which gives rise to the fondest hopes. " The amount of the revenue is increasing, and there is ground for hope that it will be still more considerable when the projected alterations of the tariff have been put in force ; my Government will notify these changes to you in a proper form. THE LATE FIRE AS IRONGATE WHARF.—Ru- MOURED Loss OF LlFE.—NOtwith s t an di ug that five days have elapsed since the outbreak of the destructive fire at Irongate Wharf, a considerable portion still re mains in a heat e d state, and th e fi remen were still obliged to keep discharging wat er upon t h e same. That portion of the premises that contained property belong ing to Mr. Powell, the provision merchant, is perfectly cooled, and the firemen have already succeeded in getting out nearly 250 tierces of beef and pork in a good condition ; they have also succeeded in saving about 150 tierces of the same sort of provision, but in a very damaged condition. The wall at the western extremity is in an exceedingly dangerous condition, and is ex pected momentarily to topple over. It i s so situated that until the ruins are cleared out in that quarter it can neither be shored up nor pulled down. The dock com pany have commenced erecting a substantial wooden hoarding round the premises, so as to prevent the rubbish from falling into the street. Mr. Cole man, the occupier of the wharf, has made a most searching inquiry, to ascertain, ifpossible, the exact cause of the calamity. The result of that investigation showed that the outbreak was occasioned in the manner previously stated in this journal. One of the workmen who had been employed on the premises, and who it:is asserted, by his fellow-workmen, was seen on the wharf at the time of the outbreak has not since the night been seen or heard of. Some of the workmen state that he was seen as late as six o'clock in the evening assisting in extinguishing the flames, whilst others assert that he never left the premises after the fire commenced. What has become of th e p ar t y i s un k nown . O ne thing, how ever, is certain, that his wife was at the ruins yesterday morning inquiring whether any one had seen her hus band, as he had not been home since the morning of the day that the fire began. During yesterday a number of bales of canvass and sail cloths were got out, but they were greatly damaged by fire. It has been ascertained that a larger number of persons have lost property by the disaster than was at one time believed, one gentle• man belonging to Bridport, alone, has lost plate and fur niture to the value of 7001. The firemen no doubt during this day will be able to get a deal of other pro perty from the ruins. THE LATE ROBERT PLUMER WARD, ESQ.— Among the numerous articles of interest left by this deceased, as heir-looms with the family estates, there are the following :—The pole of the royal standard of Scot land, taken at the battle of Musselborough, tempore Edward VI., by the hand of Sir Ralph Sadlier, his pre decessor in the Standon estate ; the standard of his father-in-law, General Sir George Anson's regiment, 23d Light Dragoons, bearing Peninsula, Talavera, Sala manca, and Waterloo, and other banners ; the helmet, crest, and coat of arms of Sir John Gore, his prede cessor in the Gilston estate ; many original paintings, family portraits, and of the nobility and their ancestors, busts and engravings ; the service of plate with the arms of the Plumer family ; and the plate at Gilston Park ; several pedigrees, certified by Sir G. Naylcr, Garter, connected with the family and the pedigree of the Plumer Ward, from Charlemagne ; an intended letter written by Mr. Pitt on his death bed, a few hours before he expired, and when his mind was wandering—although Mr. Pitt had torn the paper, he gave it to Sir Walter Farquhar, desit ing he would give it to the testator, Mr. Ward, then under secretary of state for foreign affairs. All his printed books, not specifically disposed, he leaves to his three grandsons, Charles, Swinburne, and Evelyn, the sons of his son Henry George W ar d ; an d leaves all other his furniture, books, busts, pictures, plate, &c., in his several houses in Upper Brook-street, Chesterfield-street, London, and O'Beover Hall, Stafford shire,&c., to his relict, who is his sole execu t h r i i s x.ue for his servants. All his real estates he lias se ttled on carriages,ha left liberal legacies and provisions his son Henry G. Ward, subject to his w i fe ' s jointure.— Post. " Some alterations have at the same time been intro duced in the subject of taxes, and the chief defects which disfigure that system will disappear as soon as all the data, which are now being sought for with great care, have been collected, with a view to a just and equal apportionment of the contributions. " My Government will present you with the budget of receipts and expenses for the year 1847. You there see the ameliorations and economies which it has been possible to make. I regret that past troubles, and the very reforms themselves which must afterwards produce good results, do not permit of my making at present all the reductions which I desire. " It has been equally impossible for my Government to arrive at an arrangement of the public debt in virtue of the authority given by me for that purpose. How ever, as I have a lively desire to satisfy the just de mands of the State creditors, as well domestic as foreign, the measures which may appear most proper for arriving at this end will be proposed to you at a fitting time. " Agreeably to the law of the 9th of June, 1845, a loan of 200 millions of reels (50 millions of francs) has been contracted, destined to making new roads; the works have partly commenced on several lines, formi ng parts of the vast plan of internal communication which my Government proposes to carry out. " Besides the budget, other measures demanded by the public weal will be proposed to you. " A fixed and fitting endowment for religious pur poses and the clergy i s a positive and u rgent need, as essential to the welfare of religion as it is for that of the State. My Government will present you shortly with a law on this important matter. " Besides these, other laws will be proposed in the course of this session--some with a view to protect the increase of wealth by curbing the abuses which accom_ pany the first impulse of its development, others with a view to introduce ameliorations in the different branches '• of the administration, and others, fi ally, W i th a view to regulate the arrangements in force relative to the press and to exceptional professions. " It is thus, Gentlemen, Senators and Deputies, with the aid of Providence, and while the efforts of all are directed with courage and firmness in the pursuit of the same aim, that the ameliorations introduced in a politi cal, economical, and administrative point of view will be consolidated, that fresh ones will be introduced, and prospe that, after so much agitation, peace, order, an d rity will be restored to a this , this nation—blessings to which her great qualities and her many virtues gi ve h er so great a claim." POST-OFFICE ROBBERY. - Yesterday information was received by the metropolitan police that two letters containing notes and bills of exchange amounting to 2,229/. 18s. 6d. had been abstracted during transit through the post-office, from the firm of NV S. Chee tham, of Nottingham, to the Commercial Bank of Scot land, Edinburgh. All efforts at present, either to trace the notes or detect the guilty parties, have been un successful. FREE READING-ROOMS FOR THE LAI:MUM/id CLASSES IN THE CITY.—A society has been established, having Lord Ashloy at its head, for " the purpose of pro viding free reading-rooms for the labouring classes in the city of London. We regret to state that Mr. IV. R. Cartwright, of Aynhoe, the late representative of the southern:division of the county of Northampton, expired at his residence in that county on the 4th instant, in the seventy-sixth year of his age. I [DESTITUTION IN LIVERPOOL.—The parish offices in Fenwick-street have for several weeks presented an extraordinary scene of confusion, owing to the immense number of applicants for relief, but yesterday the appeals were more numerous than ever. The street was quite im passable. No fewer than 1,500 families, representing on an average three persons, were yesterday relieved, of whom probably three-fourths were Irish. The relief dispensed during the day, up to six o'clock last night (and the dis tribution had then by no means ceased), was 2,300 rations of bread and 2,000 soup tickets, in addition to a large sum in money. The burdens on the rateryers will be immensely increased by this large outlay, but we see no means at present of lightening the pressure. — Liverpool Standard. THE REVENUE FOR. THE YEAR AND QUARTER ENDING JAN UARY 5, 1847. No. I—An Ab s t rac t o f th e Net Produce o f th e R evenue o f G I rea t B r it a i n in Decrease t h e years each head thereoand Quarters ended sth of Ja nuary, 184 G, and sth of January, 1847, showing the B it in on f. YEAR ended Jan. b„ 1846 April 5 1846 July 5, Oct. 10, ! Jan. 5, 1846 1846 1847 YnAR ended Jan. 5, 1847 • Xl£££££ £ £ I £ £ I . 4,402,506 4,499,548 4,848,363 4,354,789 18,105,206 3,961,918 .4,523,391 5,310,835 . 4,514,721 18,310,865 1,917,485 2,965,684 3,955,106 3,338,837 12,177,112 1,626,458 3,104,711 4,181,926 i 3,608,155 12,521,250 . . 1,742,461 1,837,076 1,780,175 1,792,402 7 ,152,114 1,685,808 1,730,495 1,174,364 1,740,687 6,931,414 . 145,945 2,000,567 201,279 1,876,051 4,223,842 146,142 2,006,427 209,940 1,909,899 I 4,272,408 . 1,905,711 909,991 1,823,883 386,985 5,026,570 1,963,882 1,009,162 1,972,128 450,219 5,395,391 ~/ 178,000 155,000 209,000 189,000 73 1,000 215,000 181,000 217,000 203,000 816,000', • 35,000 30,000 30,000 25,000 120,000 45,000 - 45,000 30,000 120,000 • 22,951 13,652 15,102 68,612 120,317 91,522 18,001 177,910 29,657 317,090 ) 10,350,059 12,411,518 12,662,908 12,031,676 47,656,161 9,735,790 12,573,187 13,889,103 12,486,338 48,684,418 i 1 392,065 -.. 450,000 300,859 1,142,924 .. 440,000 227,644 .. 667 , 6 44 206,007 29,262 24,591 64,084 323,944 52,909 • 73,939 • 33,815 31,884 192,547 418,545 182,354 473,881 404,179 1,478,959 456,473 111,607 ; !199,882 302,449 1,070,411 i •1 11,366,676 12,623,134 13,811,380 12,800,798 I 50,601,988 (10,245,172 13,198,733 114,350,444 112,820,671 50,615,020 II • 1 • 7,273,077 8,255,562 8,869,973 7,859,997 32,258,609 1 5,468,355 8,476,134 7,617,435 i 8,615,898 30,177,822 '1 380,000 101,501 550,000 615,077 1,646,578 I 140,000 91,501 472,500 837,500 1,541,501 i I 3,713,599 I 4,266,071 4,391,407 4,325,724 16,696,801 4,636,817 4,631,098 6,260,509 3,367,273 18,895 697 ' -------, 11,366,676 112,623,134 13,811,380 12,800,798 1 50,601,988 10,245,172 13,198,733 ,14,350,444 12,820.671 I 50. run 09( Year ended Jan. 5, 12,800,798 1 50,601,988 • Exclusive of 10,245,172 !hina Alone: 13,198,733 14,350,144 12,820,671 50,615,020 Customs Excise Stamps . Taxes Property Tax. Post-office Crown Lands Miscellaneous Increase. I Decrease, Total .. China Money Impreq Moneys, &e. Repamnts ofAdvne S. 205,659 344,138 220,700 48,566 368,821 I •• 85,000 j .. 196,773 1 ,248 . ..957 I 220,700 1 4 3 7. 1 5 :3 2 9 8 7 0 •• • • •••• I 408,548 Total Deduct 235 ' 925 L Decrease 13,032/ Increase the Year. No. ll.—lncome and Charge of the Consolidated Fund, in the Quarters ended the sth January, 1846, and the sth January, 1847 CHARGE. Permanent Debt ... . . .. Terminable Annuities. . ... . Interest on Exchequer-bills issued to meet the charge on the Consolidated Fund . Sinking Fund ... .. .. . . . The Civil List ... . . . . Other Charges on the Consolidated Fund ..... For Advances •••••••••• ... .... Total Charge ...... The Surplus .. •—•••• Tho Amount of Exchequer-bills issued to meet the charge on the Consolidated Fund for the Quarter ended Oct. 10, 1846, and paid off out of the growing produce of that Fund for the Quarter ended Jan. 5, 1847, after deducting 650,000/., paid off out of the Sinking Fund .. •• •• •• • the Consolidated Fund for Supply Services. .. . . 159,932 269,318 33,848 63,234 14,000 5,000 The Surplus of Revenue, after providing for the Charges on the Consolidated Fund, and for the payments of Supply Services in the Quarter ended Jan. 5, 1847 MAGAZINES—(CONTINUED). DOUGLAS JERROLD'S. We are sorry to see, from an announcement on the cover of the magazine, that the writer of a " History for Young England" has abruptly brought his labour to a premature close. As, however, the publisher states that this series of papers will shortly be re-pub lished and completed in a separate form, we hope that the " abrupt close" alluded to only concerns the magazine, and the world will not be deprived of this which promised to be an excellent abridgment of English history. The illustrations to St. Giles and St. James are also discontinued. Of the story itself, however, we have the 35th chapter in this number, which thus commences : "We will not linger with Snipeton. For why cast away sympathy—that essence of our moral being—upon an old, money-loving man, gulled of his youthful wife ? Wherefore pity him, made, by the lucky boldness of hired knavery, retained and paid by scoundrel cowardice, the living joke of the best society, shaking its sides at the best of clubs ? Had the miserable man been left upon the road, with out-turned pockets, and a medicable bruise or gash or two, why, there would have been no jest whatever in the dull mishap ; the robbery and the wound might have passed among the serious things that lengthen even careless faces. But how different the casualty I A man—an old man —and the quintessence of the drollery lay in his wrinkles—had been robbed of his other self ; had had his very being rent in twain, and to think of his loss was rarest comedy —to picture him writhing in the agony of that forced separation was to crow with laughter. Such was the compassion bestowed by men upon the old money-merchant, as rumour, like a wild-goose, cackled as she flew. Therefore, for a time, we will l eave Snipe ton at his solitary h ear th. No; not solitary. For now the figure, the features of his wife—the run-away; yes, there was the horror; there the burning truth that poi soned the wound—were multiplied about him. It would have been some relief to the tortured—a passing breath cooling the damned—to think that beautiful mischief the victim of violence; but no; she had clubbed her share of cunninz; she had played a free part in the wickedness; she had fled from him; and he could hear her laughter at the trick. And then those very numerals—things that in pleasant idleness of heart he had jotted down, as fancied guards, and retinue of wealth, to glorify and do homage to that idol of his home— they rose in his brain like sparks of fire, and he howled and whined like idiotcy. And at the same time, as we have said, there was great laughter —very great enj,yment at the clubs." The scene then shifts to the house of Shoveller, to which poor Clarissa has been abducted, and Shoveller and Crossbone are congratulating themselves on the cleverness with which they have managed the affair when young St. James enters. Crossbone meets him, and St. James is scarcely able to conceal his disgust when he learns that Clarissa has been taken off by violence, and is at that moment a prisoner. Seizing the key of the chamber in which she is con fined, he rushes up to her prison, leaving Crossbone alone in Shoveller's parlour, where he is soon joined by the housekeeper, Mother Daws, an ugly bunch of an old woman, who would in days of yore have been burned as a witch. A new story, entitled " The Dreamer and the Worker," which will be com pleted in the present year, is commenced in this number. It opens with a description of shipwreck, which is written with great power, and which introduces to, as we suppose, th e D reamer and the Worker—th e Dreamer being Archer, a passenger, in the shipwrecked vessel, who keeps his post by Miss Walton and her aged father on the deck of the ship Wrecked vessel, and refuses to leave them ; the Worker being Harding, a ship-carpenter, who forms a raft, which he is about to launch, but is restrained by Archer, who demonstrates to him that the time for launching it is not yet come. The "Worker takes the advice of the Dreamer, delays his launch until the proper moment, and both Worker and Dreamer, and Miss Walton, and her father, are saved and hospitably received by the inhabitants of a Welsh hamlet, near the spot where they are cast on shore. Forty persons, however, have perished. " Fables for Foolish Fellows" are continued ;" and Paul Bell, in " Heads and Tails of Families," ad mirably satirizes the " unco gude," in the person of Mr. Dabley, a man of substance and a pious man, who always has " family devotions" at night, and always occupies a handsome pew in the church on a Sunday, but who is a domestic tyrant withal, and makes his home such a perfect place of torment for his children that they all quit it as soon as possible— (the girls elope, one with a common soldier, and another with a German adventurer)—and all turn out badly. There are, we fear, too many Dableys in the world. The " Pharisees of the Rail" is a smashing philippic on the Sabbatical Directors of the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway. The following is the concluding passage : " But, for the present at least, the pharisaical star is in the ascendant. They have it as yet all their own way —these modern representatives of the mad bigots of old. who raised their Exeter Hall.like brayings, when the Founder of Christianity healed disease and rebuked devils, and soothed suffering upon the Sabbath-day. The four Scotch Popes are issuing their bulls, and ful minating their edicts, triumphing over the free exercise of common sense and reason ; reviling the creeds, and slanderin g th e motives of all who attempt to stand by their own rights and those of society. How long shall their reign last ? How long shall these particular dogs have their day ? Their overthrow is no doubt fast coining. The sense of mankind is arming and mar shalling itself against them; but until the decisive mo ment is at hand, be content, Scotsmen, to remain what you are—the objects of the mingled pity and derision of the civilised world; be content to be tyrannised over by four Railway Directors; be content to hand yourself over, body and soul, to Blackadder and Co.; though sickness and death smite your friends, dare not to stir—you have spiritural dictators —crouch and obey; keep the Sabbath as you are ordered —attempt to think or act for your selves at your peril—lurk in your crowded Glasgow courts —your loathsome Edinburgh closes: the country air—the bright sunshine of the first day of the week, were not intended by their Creator for you; or if they were, four Railway Directors have decided that you shall not enjoy them!" The best of the light papers of the present number is a graphic sketch of London skaiters, by Angus B. Reach, entitled " Winter in the Parks." 545,332 545,332 525,459 COMMERCIAL MAGAZINE. In addition to the usual commercial intelligence of the month, this number, on the " Law and Equitable Mortgages," shows what the state of the law is at the present time, as lail down in all the recent deci sions. 19,8731 51,715 38,955 90,670 300,859 32,200 101,730 525,459 Deduct Decrease, Increase on the Quarter. Quarters ended Jan. 5. 5,660,472 628,805 5,651,250 617,473 1,314,075 98,072 423,583 615,077 445,415 98,280 338,538 873,500 8,740,084 4,275,316 13,015,400 8,024,456 4,810,211 12,834,667 77,483 3,367,273 4,810,211 1,442,93 S 1,365,455 Exeter lines, the writer lik ew i se recommen d s com promise. We have in this number a chronicle of the result of the past session of Parliament, as far as rail way matters are affected, and a prophecy of the pros pects of the coming session--besides lists of contracts, &c., and the usual railway intelligence of the month. THE MIRROR. A new tale from the pen of Mr. Percy St. John, entitled the " Miser's Will," is commenced in this number. In this tale Mr. St. John has abandoned his stronghold of America, and has laid his scene in England, in London. His power, however, is not diminished one jot. In the present number we have only four chapters, but the interest of the reader is completely excited. His descriptions are as graphic, his characters as completely individualized, and his reflections as philosophical in this as in any of his preceding tales, and he is quite as much at home in the streets of London as in the prairies of America. In the first chapter we are introduced to a strange and eccentric rich man, who shuts himself up in an old house in the Borough, much after the fashion of the Colonel in Eugene Sue's tale of " Mathilde." In the second chapter we are introduced to the hero. " About the middle height, certainly not more than one-and -twenty in age—his features were naturally handsome, though the good effect of them was much marred, either by the effects of dissipation or of poor and unwholesome living. His eyes, in which lurked a hidden fire, were somewhat sunken, which with his hollow cheeks was almost proof sufficient of his poverty, if indeed his sudden interest in the beggar woman had not made the supposition almost a matter of certainty, for none sympathise with the poor so readily as those who feel the most. His hair was black, and fell in huge matted clustres over his shoulders, while a shabby hat, rejoicing in a rim with no particular bias up or down, but rising here and falling there according to fancy, was of very material assistance in rendering his naturally good looks of little momenta A blue Taglioni of anti quated fashion, in the pockets of which his gloveless hands were thrust, plaid trousers, boots with more holes than sole leather, completed his attire, save only a shirt collar of large dimensions and very yellow tinge, which fell over a black silk handkerchief that encircled his neck. "Such was Frederick Wilson, student.at-law, as he called himself, reporter as his friends denominated him, while penny-a-linner was the highest epithet which his enemies could ever allow him. Whatever his profession, however, he did but little credit to it ; his whole appear ance was that of one whose breakfast was rare, whose dinner was matter of irregular occurrence, and who, if he ever supped, did so at intervals of very great extent." Wilson renders a service to a young girl, who is going home alone, is by her introduced to her mother, a Mrs. Cartwri g ht, an d i t i s ev i dent that before they part Wilson and Miss Cartwright are in love. An apothecary, with whom the Cartwrights' lodge, waylays Wilson, in order to pump him, and they adjourn to gether to a night tavern in St. Giles's, where the author leaves them. There is one retrospective chap ter, detailing the revenge of a husband upon his sup posed unfaithful wife, and with this adventure we imagine that the Cartwrights and the mysterious man in the Borough are concerned. This tale is illus trated by several wood- cu t s . " Th e E agle ' s Nest is continued, and we have several other light and amusing tales. Among the papers of more permanent value are an article on " Education in Greece,' in which free use has been made of the valuable and excellent work of Mr. J. A. St. John, on the "Manners and Customs of Ancient Greece." A "Memoir of General Demetrius Kalerges," one of the liberators of Greece ; and a review of "Le w i s ' s Hi story of Philosophy, " in which we are glad to find' the reviewer taking up the cudgels in behalf of Locke against Victor Cousin, and Whewell. As to Victor Cousin, the reviewer describes him accurately, when he says, " he is a bad reasoner, and a bad writer, a faithless translator, and a disengenuous commentator ;" while the self sufficient, vain, dandy philosopher of Trin. Coll., Cam., having first mis-apprehended and mis-stated Locke's meaning, applies himself vigorously to the refutation of his own mistake. Pro fessor Whewell does very well as stage manager of the British Association, but no superficial man should venture to meddle with Locke. The Mirror im proves month by month. This is the best number that has yet been published. SPIERS' UNIVERSAL ALMANACK and BOOK of GENERAL REFERENCE for 1847. The title of this book is an accurate description of its contents. It is an universal almanack and book of general reference, and contains every species of in formation that those who refer to an almanack can expect or desire in such a publication. COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, TUESDAY.—Her Majesty walked this fore noon on the Eastern Terrace of the Castle, attended by the Lady in Waiting the Marchioness of Doure. The Bishop of Oxford left the Castle to-day. His Excellency M. Van de Weyer, the Belgian Mi ter, and Madame Van de Weyer, are expected to ve at the Castle to-day on a visit to her Majesty. The Royal dinner party at the Castle this evening will include her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, their Excellencies Mons. and Madame Van de Weyer, his Excellency the Baron de Brunnow, the Lady in Waiting of the Duchess of Kent, the Baroness de Speth, and Sir Robert and Lady Peel. The band of the Firot Regiment of Life Guards will attend during dinner. Her Majesty's private band will afterwards attend in the Castle. The Duke of Cambridge visited her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester yesterday. The Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt had a quarterly meeting yesterday, at the official residence of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, in Down ing -street. The Governor of the Bank of England and the Deputy-Governor attended. Mr. Higham, Comp troller- General, was in attendance. The ratification of a treaty of commerce and naviga tion, .negotiated and signed at Athens by Mr. P. Del gauni, Councillor of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs to his Majesty the King of Greece, and Dr. Patrick Col quhoun, Hanseatic Plenipotentiary at Athens, were exchanged on the 15th ultimo, in London, by Mr. Ralli. Consul-General of his Hellenic Majesty, and Dr. Patrick Colquhoun, on the part of the 'Venerable Senate of Bremen. Mr. C. K. Murray had an interview with Sir George Grey yesterday, at the Home-office. Lord Monteagle had an interview with Lord John Russell yesterday, at his official residence in Downing street. The Judges and her Majesty's Counsel will not meet at the Lord Chancellor's residence on the first day of the ensuing term. Lord and Lady Alan Churchill have left Farrance's hotel for Blenheim. HAIRDRESSERS' ASSOCIATION FOR . THE EARLY CLOSING OF Snors.—A preparatory meetibg was held at the Bcdford Head, Bloomsbury, last evening, for the purpose forming of an association for th e ear li er closing of hairdressers' shtpa in London, when a series of resolutions having this object in view were agreed to. It appears that this class of tradesmen are in the habit of keeping their shops open until a late hour, especially on Saturday nights, and the subject of discussion was the practicability of their being closed earlier both in the been winter and summer months (suet] a practic e h av i ng pursued in Glasgow and other large towns with success), and thus enabling the numezous journeymen and apprentices in this business to have time for recreation and the acquirement of general knowledge. It was understood that a public meeting on a larger scale, with the view of carrying out the objects of the association, would shortly be held. COALS AND NEWCASTLE.--On Monday last, a leg of Mutton and a half-crown were run for by a party of skaters, sixteen in number, on Port Holme Meadow. The leg of mutton was one by Mr. W. Clark, butcher, and the half-crown by Mr. C. Jacob, juu., harness maker.--Bedford Mercury. i £ s. d. East London.... —•• • • 8L 100 0 0 Grand Junction .... • • 31. 10 3 . 4 1 1 3 4 I Kent .... ••••—• • • • • • 2/. 10s. 100 0 0 1 '— Vauxhall ... ... .•• • • • 51. p er cent. 100 0 0 — West 311ddlese . . . Si. s s . p r cut. 63 12 9 ' —. MARKET INTELLIGENCE. From the London New price Current of January 5.) SVGAR.—Business in the raw Sugar market was resumed this day. Merchants displayed much firmness, and refused to sell, excepting at prices is per cwt above those that prevailed prior to the holidays. The trade were desirous to operate, and in both grocery and refining sorts a good business was trans acted, the dealers evidently having allowei their stocks to get to a low ebb. The quantity sold in the private market amounted to 660 hbds and tierces, and there was but a small and indifferent assortment. At public sale 152 hhds of Barbadoes went off with spirit at a rise on the rates of the last auction of 6d to is per cwt. The market closes with a firm aspect for all kinds of raw Sugar. REFINED.—To-day refined goods were in excellent request by the home trade, and prices were firm—brown grocery lumps at 645, and standard lumps at 65s per cwt. Bonded Crushed Sugar is wanted, and first sort is selling at 33s 6d to . 33s 9d per cwt. MAIIILITIES.—This afternoon the quantity submitted to public competition was large, and amounted to 6,775 bags, and 211 casks, the chief part of which consisted of the better qualities of yellow. The trade were willing to operate, and the whole sold at prices showing a rise on those of the last auctions of 6d to Is per cwt. .EAST I: usu.—For Bengal the market has an improving appearance. By private contract to day several parcels were disposed of ; and at public sale 550 bags of white Benares went 6d per cwt. higher. Madras was in excellent request; and 5,821 bags at public sale, all out of condition, sold at a rise on former rates of is per cwt. FOREIGN.—A good demand existed to-day for all sorts of foreign sugar for home consumption by private treaty, and rather higher rates were paid. The export orders are, how ever, still small; but for the sorts available for that purpose only: holders refuse to submit to any further reduction in price. A fair demand exists for refining under bond. MoeassEs.—Prices cannot be quoted higher for West India at present, but the demand has been brisker, and 22s to 26s per cwt is the value of low to fine quality. COFFEE.—This afternoon Native Ceylon met with less ate tension, and the parcels offered at auction, amounting to 1,824 bags, were taken in. Holders remained firm, and in sisted upon former improved rates. Mocha has been in good demand privately, and prices are on the advance for clean sorts. RlCE.—Bengal met with increased attention, and a further advance has taken place in the value: extensive purchases have been made privately, and the rates paid are 2s to 2s 6d per cwt above those that prevailed two weeks back ; the whole on offer has been cleared off the market, indeed, the stock is nearly all in second hands. SPIRITS.—The market has an improving appearance for all descriptions of Jamaica Rum,: a good demand having Prevailed from the home trade, and exporters operated with more freedom ; the rates paid have been above those pre viously current. Leeward Island Rum has been in excel lent request ; the supply at market is at present small, and prices are improving. East India has been in good demand, and the rates paid are rather above those previously current. Demerara of strong quality been sold to a fair extent, and at stiffer prices. For Brandy a brisk demand has sprung up, chiefly for ho_nse consumption, and prices have improved for all sorts.ue_ Ge neva met with a much better demand, and prices advanced to 2s 7d to 2s 8d for common s the demand is active, and supplies being 6d for fine for home consumption. distillers to • h rates of grain, caused the gether with the high hippi F n o g r so ß r i t i s t ' is a h n d Co 3 rn s Spirits2d to 3s but moderate, to n Spirits being now Ils 9d, Sc advance the price of all des o c t r c ipti n o n n d sy r te qu h,i o i t s a 8 t d o n n e f o u r c C a o s r t °ihas been su na pp3, good l, business transacted in S ea l Oil. buyers are compelled t o pay stiffer Cod has been only in limited request, and and . rates. d having There a small having a better supply there are sellers upon rather lower terms. Southern is wanted, and owing to the limited supply a further advance in the value took place. For Olive the demand has been brisk, and advanced rates given. Palm met with ready buyers, and holders are very firm. Cocoa Nut is in scanty supply, and being much wanted, prices are rising. In Rape Seed Oil a good deal has been donewnel at better prices. For Linseed Oil prices have not impoved, there being still a plentiful supply, but the home demand has been good. nut:isle—There has been a brisle demand for Russian on the spot, and the rates paid have been rather above those previously current. For forward delivery there has been little passing. Home-made has been in excellent request. In other sorts of Tallow a good business has been done at full rates. ANOTHER SINGING MOUSE.—In our journal of May 4, 1844, we recorded the capture of a singing mouse, which was exhibited at the Exchange public-house, Charlton ; and we have now to record that a similar lulus naturre has been caught at the residence of a labouring man named Samuelson, living in Strond-lane, Dover. It appears that the family have for the past three months heard a chirping behind the fire-place, which was supposed to be from a cricket. The gude wife, however, one evening saw a mouse run into a hole, and at night set up a lire trap, and iu the morning was much surprised at hearing a singing noise proceeding from the trap in which the mouse was caught. It was than transferred to a more roomy cage, and has since daily amused numbers who have been to visit this musical benius, which at times sings very loud, and mu c h like a ird. The animal is very similar to the common mouse, except that the tail is much longer, and the head smaller, with very sharp eyes.—Dover Telegraph. RAILWAY MONTHLY MAGAZINE. This is a new candidate for the favours of the rail way world. It opens with a paper, illustrated with a map, on the South-Eastern Company and the New Kentish schemes, in which the schemes of that company, as opposed to the schemes of the Brighton Company, are advocated with energy and ability. We then have a paper on the Birmingham and Oxford Rail way, which is at present the great bone of contention between the North Western and the Great Western Companies After giving a history of the various negotiations which have taken place on this subject, the writer proposes the following compromise between the conflicting claims of the two companies : " The London and North Western Company think they ought to have joint possession of the Birmingham and Oxford Railway. We think they are reasonable in that desire. If our surmises arc accurate, the Great Western Company are not indisposed to acquiesce in the arrangement upon one condition—that condition being the extension of the broad guage to Birmingham. There 's the case in a nutshell, and we think its settle went might be as brief as this description." In the paper on the capital of proposals of the South Western, Great Western, and Bristol and LATEST PRICES OF SHARES;, IN BANKS, ASSURANCE, AID OTHER CO: I. PANIES' STOCK. From► tic Official List, UELI6IIED EVERY TUESDAY AND FRIDAY A-VI:NIRO. LONDON, TUESDAY, JANUARY 4i JOINT-STOCIt ruuvra.s. Dividend per Name of Company. Amount of Share. Annum. iustralasia • • • • • • • • • • Britsh ti orth American Commercial of London ........... Lando ai:d Westmiustr London Joint-Stock ... Metropolitan ......... Provincial of Ireland.. Ditto, New.— • • National of Ireland Nat. Provlicial of Eng. Ditto, New..... .... Union of Australia.... Union of L0nd0n..... 61. per cent. 51. rer cent. 51. per cent. 51. per cent. 61. per cent. 61. per cent. X s. d. 40 0 0 50 0 0 20 0 0 25 0 0 20 0 0 10 0 0 7 10 0 25 0 0 10 0 0 20 0 0 35 0 0 10 0 0 25 0 0 10 0 0 81. per cent. 81. per cent. 51. per cent. 51. per cent. 51. per cent. 51. per cent. 5/. per cent. I INSURANCE CODIPILLTIES. t e. Dividend Amount Name of Company. per of Paid. I Price e Annum. Share. 1 1 £ s. d. 1 X 8. d. 1 ---- . Albion ............. A I 0, 1 .. 1500 00,500 0 1 75 Alliance Brit. and For . . 6 per Mit. 1190 0 0 1 11 0 0 i IS% Ditto Marine... -• • 6/. per cent, 1150 0 0 5 0 0 1 5 1 4 -- •. " 1 " •••••••• • • • • • • -138.6 d. pr sh. &6 1 0 0 ' 5 0 0 I 13 34 British Commercial - 7s. per share 50 0 0 50 0 7 1 % Cleriel,Med. & Geu•Life 51. per cent. 100 0 i."' , 210 0 10 - 'ounty 31. 100 0 0 1 JO 0 0 Crown .... -•••• • • • • 10s. 50 0 0; 5 0 0 - \ 'Cagle -••- - ...... - 6s. 50 001 5 9 0 .5 1 ixd Eng. & Scot. Law -. • 5/. per cent. 50 00 ' 26 D 3 European Life ••• • • • 5 1 % per cent. 20 0 0 ! All paid. 20 Freemasons' ... -•• • • 5/. per cent. 20 0 o l ' 3 0 0 Globe ••.••-• • • • • • • • 6/. per cent. Stock. - 126 Guardian •••••• • • • • • • 51. per cent. 100 0 0 1 36 10 0 :48 1{ Imperial lire Imperial Life ........ 12 s. 100 0 0; 10 0 0 - Indemnity Marine.. - 11. sh. & bs. 100 0 0 1 513 1 31 ..aw Life.. -.. • • .... I/. ss. 100 0 0 110 0 0 3% _ ~egal and General Lite -- 50 00 1 20 0 61i. .andon Fire ........ 10s. 25 0 0 l2 10 0 14% ,ondon Ship .... •• -10 s. 25 0 0 12 10 0 15 _ idarine - ....• ••• • .. 5/. per cent. 100 0 0 15 0 0 - Ved. Invlid & Gen. Life 1 1 4 1. per ct. 5.0 0 0 , 2 0 0 - Yational Lean fund . 51. per cent. 20 0 0 i 210 0 - - National Life- ..• •. • • 8/. per cent. 100 0 0 50 0 81% Palladium Life ...... • • 51. per cent. 50 0 0 1 2 0 0 21. Is I'licenix - ' - 195 Protector Life.... ... 5/. per cent. 20 0 0 1 0 0 245. 6d Provident Life........ 11. ss. 100 0 0 10 0 0 23 _ Rock Life.. - - ...... 4s. 50 0 010 0 4% Royal Exchange 5/. per cent. Stock. - - Sun Fire ....... • . • • - I - 210 T . Ditto Life ... .. ... • - I - 49 Universal Life . - - - -- - e &ZEIT 07 SCOTTISU COIITPAITIES' rnicm.s. Dividend Amount Name of Company, per of Paid. : Price. Annum. Share. 1 I -.----...- ..-• -........ X s. d. X s. d I Bank of Scotland ... • • 61. per cent. - 100 11 0 1 1 70 Royal Bank of Scotland 6/. per cent. - 100 0 160 British Linen Company 8/. per cent. - 100 0 I: 1220 Commercial Bank .. • • 61. per cent. - 100 00 1 167 National Bank 6/. per cent. - 10 0 0 14. 7 .10 s Union Bank of Scotland 7%1. pr cent. - 50 0 0 9i Western Bank.. .. .. • • 6/. per cent. - 50 0 0 841 North of Scotland Bank 61. per cent. - 5 0 0 7 Clydesdale Bank.... • • 6/. per cent. - 10 0 0 13/. Bs, Eastern Bank.. - 10 0 0 12 Caledonian Bank - 210 0 141. Ils Edinb.& Glasgow Bank 61. per cert. ' - 5 0 0 1 71. 2s City of Glasgow Bank . 5/. per cent. - 10 0 0 13/. 78 Scottish Union Ins. Co. 51. per cent. :20 0 0 1 0 0 '2ss. 9d Hercules Insurance Co. 71. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 14 1 4 Insur. Co. of Scethid 5/. per cent.: 10 0 0 All paid. 9% North British Insur. ••5%1. pr cent. ;200 0 0 10 0 0 27 1 4 Caledonian Fire Insur. 101. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 22% Edinburgh Life Insur. 61. per cent. ,100 0 0 12 10 0 184 Edin. & Glasg. Railway 1/.los. per c. 150 0 0 50 0 0 78% Ditto, 14 Shares• •• • 7s. 6d. p. s. 12 10 0 All paid. 194 Edln., Leith, & Grantn - 20 0 0 .0 0 0 1834 Glasgyv & Ayrshir Rail. 71. percent. 50 0 0 All paid. 693 Glasgw& Greenckßail. 2/. per cent. 25 0 0 All paid. 1634 Glsgw&Garnkirk Rail. 51. per cent. 25 0 0 All paid. 39% Dundee& Arbroth Rail. 6/. per cent. 25 0 0 All paid. 37 Standard LifeAssurnee.l 57. per cent. 50 0 0 I 2 10 0 9 CANALS. 1 i ! Names of ~.; 4 4 Dividend 2, ;Dividend Price . e. Names of 2 , p r i m. ; Annum. Companies. , per i er, , X I Companies. . per .q Annum. £ -.-.., Ashtn & Oldhl 57 51.55. p c - Monmouthsh 100 81. - Ash by-d-la-Z 'll3 4/. - 3lntgotnryshlloo 51. - Barnsley.. • • 1 160 121. - Macclesfield. 1100 - - Basingstoke-' 100 - 1 - N ea th ••• • • •1100' 177. - Brknk&Abrg'lso 57. 1 - Nottingham. 150 121. - Cromford .. • • 'lOO 141. - Peak Forest. 78 M. 75 Dudley 1100 4/. - Regent' s .. •• 33 1/ . ss. 20% Derby ••• • • 1 100 6/. - Rochdale ... •85 4/. Ellsrrire&Chs'l33 41. 55 Shropshire • • 125 81. Erewash .• • 'lOO 321. - Somrset Coal 150 71. 10s. - Forth & Clydloo' 47. - Do.Lk Fd St 12 6/. p. c. - GrandJunctn 'lOO 71. 83 Stffrd&Worell4o 281. - Urand Union:100 1/. 10s. - Shrewsbary..ll2s 15/. - Glamorgnsh. 172 13%1. - Stourbrldge -1145 20/. 315 illstr & Brklyl , 00 - - Strtfrdon Av 79 11. 103. - arantham .• 150 121. - Severn and } 26 1/. Bs. - Huddersfield.; 57 - - Wye Rail. Remit & Avil l 39' 7s. Gd, 5 4 ,Trot &MI 50 30/. - Lancaster 1 47, 11. 10s. - I sey, sh. Leeds& Livrp 100 j 341. 522 1 % ' Thams &Med 19 - - Leicester .. • • 140, 10/. 105 tWorcstr & 1 Leiestr &Nth 83 . 4/. 52 t Bi rm i ng. s 78 2/. 43 Loughborogh,l42 70/. - iWilts & Bits, -67 11. - Ida X 5. d. 50 100 100 100 50 DOCKS. Dividend per A nliuin i _ , s. d. X s. d. Commercial .... • • .•• i 31. per cent. Stock. East and West India... 61. pr cent. ' Stock. i East Country •• 11. per sh. 100 00 , 1 I 3ndon .. .. •it. Katharine .... •• •• 5 per cent. i Stock. ' Southampton •• ••• • • • 1/. per cent. 50 • 0 50 0 0 V.74I.TER-VTORES. Name of Company. Dividend Amount per of Annum. Share. Paid. Name of Company. Amount Share. Paid. Price. [Quarter ended Jan. 5, Increase. Decrease. rata. •••••• ~;•~ Price. 1111 ,