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~y _ .~ lieved i f bad ex' to be in the handwriting of Miss Coutts. This lady dared aibited articles of the peace against him, and had de "Por . that she believed her life to be in danger ; and yet, coe this the judges had discharged him. What reliance iie Jr' dd they now place on the oath of a party w hen t .dges had discharged him from pr ison, where he had been sent upon articles of the peace? as not Miss Coutts bound, as a decent woman, as 'a lady, as a Christian, to tell him that these letters were not in her handwriting, and that he was under a deception? Wou ld it' havedegrwoaudleddihtehravine her dignity—would it have lowered her rank been anything but common decency or common humanity to have saidto H u mphreys, who was s nappin g at everyopportu nity for 6s. Bd., to have said to him,"e and see ?,Ir. Dunn ; I don't think he will take your I . aassure him done I ha ? ve Did not written any letter to him e ' liad . that been they suppose that if he posted letters Miss Coutts did not receive them ? And if the case stood upon that basis alone he would ask this simple question,—had not Miss Coutts, not hers, if she received them, and the answers were and as u njus tifiable com mitted upon him as gross, as wicked,fi a fraud as had ever been committed upon man Th e first letter which he had received from Miss Coutts in the Fleet Prison was not so ridiculous as Sir F. Thesiger wished to make. it appear. The commencement of it, which would perhaps e b sufficient, ran thus : Art thou not dear unto my heart ? Oh, search that heart and see, And from my bosom tear the part Which beats not true to thee." If any one strove to play a trick upon him, the fact that the letters were addressed by a strange hand, which he was able to establish, would be sufficient to prove that intention. Who ever played such a trick must have had access to his letters. His Lordship told him that he must not go into the origin of the case, as the present inquiry was not connected with it. lle, however, certainly did think it was, and he would submit with all respect to the Noble and Learned Lord, that the whole conduct of a party who did strange things, or who was alleged to do strange things 'ought to be calmly and dispassionately viewed, before the last act of the comedy which Miss Coutts seemed to think it necessary to play at his expense was consummated; and he thought that what she did when he first had the misfortune to meet her—what she did when he said, " Hand me back my letters, and I will retire from your presence for ever," had very much the ap pearance of casting out an anchor to catch a man.—(Laugh ter. ) She was bound to have said to him, if she desired to rid herself of him as an annoyance, "Sir, there is your trash ; take it, and go home to your owa country ; I do not want it —(Great laughter.) Mr. Dunn here entered into a long and rambling defence of himself, in the course of which he assailed the evidence of Miss Coutts, Mr. Marjoribanks, Sir E. Antrobus, and the other witnesses called for the prose cution. He declared it to be still his firm belief that the authority on which he acted was a good authority in point of law, and he suggested, as a reason why Miss Coutts should grant that authority, her compunction at the persecution he had met with from her. The doggrel verses in which the authority was conveyed he explained as originating in a de sire on the part of the prosecutrix to play fast and loose with him. After a very long speech, the greater part of which was spoken in a moderate tone of voice, he concluded by imploring the jury, as they valued their own honour, to pro tect his. The following evidence was then given for the defence : Sarah. North—l was your servant in 1842 and 1843 in the Fleet Prison. I know these two letters perfectly well. I received them at your door in the prison from the post car rier, and gave them to you. I received three or four of them ; one was a valentine. I recollect you sendiu replies, and Captain Sutherland directed them, and you told me to post them in Piccadilly, that it might not be known where they came from. I did so. They were addressed to Miss Coutts, 1, Stratton-street, Piccadilly. I lived with you in the Queen's Prison also. I dare say I posted three or four letters for you in 1842. Cross-examined--One of the letters was a valentine. Mr. Dunn used to show me his letters. I have heard him tell Captain Sutherland about the letters. Mary Turner—l , called upon yen at the Fleet, and you asked me to poSt a letter, in 1812. I think I posted one to Miss Coutts. It was directed by Captain Sutherland. David Law—l am an accountant. 1 recollect your inter view with Wells in January or February, 1846, when two letters were produced, .purporting to have been written by Miss Coitus to Lord James Stewart. Nathaniel Wells—l showed you two letters, purporting to have been written by Miss Coutts, to satisfy you that the letters you hail Were not in the handwriting of Miss Coutts. I beg to state that the moment I produced the letters I had Mr. Dunn said that those letters were not hers. The opinion I formed was, that there was such a similarity in the writing as there is between those of ladies who have been taught by the same sort of master. My impression was, that your letters were not in the writing of Miss Coutts, and I have told you so from time to time. You told me you should subpoena me, and I told you I did not wish to appear, for I should be a witness against you. I said I had seen .Miss Coutts sign one of the letters I had, which, how ever, wee untrue, but 1 did so to prevent finther annoyance. Mr. Dunn wished to recall Mr. Law, to give a different account of what took place. Mr. Lew was recalled—Wells said that he could prove the letters to Lord Stewart to be the writing of Miss Coutts, and he then looked at your letters, and said there was a great similarity ; and upon being asked by you if he was called as a witness what ha would state, he said he would swear he believed them to be in the writing of Miss Coutts. Cross-examined—My acquaintance with Mr. Dunn has been for seven or eight years, on very intimate terms. I visited him twice at the Fleet and once at the Bench. John Smith—l was post-master in the Queen's Prison. There letters came through the Post-office. Sir F. THESMER replied at some length, pointing out the inconsistency of the defendant's speech, and the strong ad ditional reasons which that and the evidence supplied for regarding his whole conduct as a deeply-laid scheme to ex tort money from Miss Coutts. Lord - DEN3rA`.( summed up the'case. First, the jury had to say whether- it was-the intention of the defendant to make Miss Coutts a bankrupt, as that was laid in the indictment. The rest of the indictment imputed to the defendant that be falsely swore to those Verses being the composition of Miss Coutts. That the oath was false, he (Lord Denman) took to be completely proved, and the only question was as to the defendant's knowledge of its untruth. The jury at once returned a verdict of Guilty. The defendant took some formal objection to the indict ment, which we did not distinctly catch, but which we un derstood to be that it had undergone material alteration. Lord DEN3IAN having refused to sustain the objection, Sir F. THESSCIER prayed for the judgment of the Court ; and Lord DENMAN in a tone of great severity, and amidst the most profound silence, ,aid—Eichard Dunn, you have been convicted upon the clearest evidence of a most base and malignant act, founded on the most corrupt motives, and tending to the persecution of an individual who appears to be in the highest degree entitled to respect, and evidently incapable of doing that which you have imputed to her by this affidavit; because, if there was nothing but the appear ance of the paper itself, no man in the possession of his senses couli doubt that Miss Coutts never wrote that paper. I cannot entertain the smallest doubt that that paper was fabricated by yourself. Mr. Dunn exclaimed— As I stand before Almighty God, my Maker, I never did nor do I know whom' it came from. May I never enter into the kingdom of God if I know who wrote it.—(Great sensation.) Lord DENMAN- 7 -It is very shocking to - hear a man utter ing 'such horrid imprecations. But you must remember that a person convicted of perjury does not obtain much credit for what he says. Mr. Dunn—l know that; but— Lord DENMAN (with increased emphasis)—Nobody can doubt but that you have done it yourself, or put somebody to • do it for you. You had no ground for supposing it was hers. You have constantly persecuted her. I cannot forget what I particularly know. Although legal defects may have prevented your continuing in confinement, I cannot turret the facts that were brought before us, and the deep regret with which the judges of the land felt them selves bound to deprive that lady of the protection of the law. That matter has been long before the public, and • has gained 'a disgusting sort of familiarity. A person during the course of eight years, from some absurd imagination and perverted, judgment, but also from most corrupt feeling throughout towards a pecuniary ob ject, seeks to persecute an individual by legal instrumentality. This conduct no one throughout the country can think of without some degree of shame, i hope we shall eradicate it, and, in the present instance, I think it is most desirable that the sentence should be immediately passed. I have doubted whether it was nut my duty to pronounce sentence of trans portatien, but upon consideration, and particularly with respect to the foiling of the public mind with regard to that punishm nut, I stall pronounce a sentence of imprisonment ; bat that must be severe. The sentence is, that you be im prisoned for eighteen months in the Queen's Prison, and give securities at the and of that time, yourself in 1001., and two sureties in 50/. each, for two years, and that you be then imprisoned until those sureties be entered into. The tip staff instantly removed Mr. Dunn from the Court. COURT OF EXCHEQUER, Feb. 27. _ The Court was engaged all the morning with a trading case, " Entwistle v. Dent," arising out of a dispute respecting some mercantile tranactions between the plaintiff and de fendant, the representatives of houses in Manchester and London respectively. Tne case, a dry and uninteresting one, was not expected to clos3 before the rising of the Court. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, ►Feb. 27. (Sittings at Guildhall, before the Loup CHIEF J usTice. and a Special Jury.) WESTROPP V. SOLOMONS. -THE BUCKINGHAMSHIRE AND TIIE OXFORD AND 131.RTOILLY JUNCTION RAILWAY. This was an action brought to recover the sum of 13,0001. on a scrip transaction in the shares of the Buckinghamshire and the Oxford and Bletchley Junction Railway. It appeared that in the course of last year the defendant advanced money to the plaintiff, a broker, to purchase 500 shares in the above railway c.unpany. The plaintiff pro cured the shares and sold them to the defendant, but it was subsequently discovered that the shares so sold were forged scrip; the result was, the plaintiff to complete his engage• ment, had to purchase for the defendant 500 good shares at aft increased price. The defendant refused to make good the difference, and the present action was in consequence brought. 4784 had been paid into court by the defendant as a satisfaction of the claim. After the case bad been shortly gone into, at the sugges tion of the Learned Judge the matter was agreed to be made a special case. _ .. . . . Ordered to be made a special case accordingly. DISTRESSING SUICIDE BY A. GIRL.—On Saturday a girl, twelve years of age, named Margaret Roberts, the eldest of eight children, the daughter of a gardener at Row ton Castle, in this county, committed suicide by drowning. The poor girl was in the service of Miss Higgins, of the ladies' seminary, at Ford, and for several months past had suffered much from abscess of the ear, which doubtless affected her brain. On Saturday morning she left her mis- 1 tress's house without any reason, and came to Shrewsbury with s - Neral market-girls; it being her first visit to this lemn, and there being no reason for her visit. On her way i 1 .5 44 ,e:11: complained of her head aching, and wished she was 11, R . _ Severn About five o'clock she was seen going across the nehis from Ford towards the Severn, whi c h was muc h flooded a t t h e time. and asked if The ferryman at Montford weir called proceeded ecewrted to cross the river. Instead of an wering she minutes was heard a shriek up to the next fi e ld, an d i n a f ew that reached the village of Mont lord; but no one thathaV it suspected th e f a t a l cause. Th e girl being missed, search and when and her bonnet and collar were found on the bank; the ezvfhtesn the water subsided, her footsteps were traced in , and itail near the bank. The body has not yet been found a great distance by the flood.— shre probably will be carried ~wilo ry Chronicle TUE CHANCELLORSHIP OF I;AMBRIDGE. N• every reason to believe that his Royal Highnes s the have Field-Marshal has graciously signified his inteotionetoParince the honour so unanimously conferred upon his Royal accep t the of 116 of the Members of the tg - ncss by a major ity . _ Senate of 11ellnivereity of Cambridge, after a contest of unexampled everity.—Post. The Hen. William:Grey, some time resident with the has e:nglish Embassy at Vienna, in been appointed a paid at- Pieta at the Austrian Court, p la c e of Gervas Bustle, Esq., deceased. Observer. * %.HIC SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, MARCH 1, 1347' HER , lAJIISTY'S TEEATBE. ty, the Oper^, mid the PuTi?ie, 7 7:: • •T. T.? afa - 21a7e1l 2, ei:d I^d F . 7110r .., J t.. J : ..... blca~ ~ by ~ Ppul Tagth, • it ; :.1611e. Honork ; sr.cfra;• 7 / 5 11e:man, ?I. dl " Idne FoscTri," is in ecti - v'e preparation, and will !,d, for the fli*,)'; tittle in this country. has :Tr v:3l in town, and will etortly appear. 1:s drily expected. " a," Tall be repeated as soon as et?. ....; permit, EC7CII. 'rho Opera will commence at )Y%l", COVZidn: GATiDEI,T, Established ter :he purpose of rendering a more perfect perfocrnance of the 14, , rie D:arna than has hitherto been attained in this county. Under the Directon and Management of lire BEALI2, The Nobi•ity Gentry, and ratr - ns of .Lusi,- are respectinDy in formed that the Royal 01 -, era w:11 open the frA week in April. It 13 proposed to produce, in tae coarse of the 'ea.son, some of the established works arChnarera, Mozact„ ressini, Meyerbeer, and others Lhe more modern Italian School, inciLding 01)cras by Bellini, Dont ze tti, 7!•,lereadante, and Verdi. on a scale of the tr.m37lperfect'on !a every department ; to which inten'z, the nima:ement has anerub7ed a C.'areany ensbra,cizg the greatest cud moot varied talent in Europe. PRIMI SOPRAiNI.- - Madame Grisi and Madame Persiani (her flr.it epee:Tone° in London :or three years), Madame Roaconi and Stefirmoni. (of the Titcutie La Scido, iu Milan, her first ap• pc::- - en.,3 in tLiS coatt'zy). Ai . :eni (of the Theatre La Scala, cf t -7 1e Jrnperial Vlenna, her first aDpctrance T:1 L 712, (cf the Turcerial of Pei 1 . ."9 1%31: r_2:l'_•.:l - 2r.ri2,3 cc. n o'',ll (of thri Theatre Son Co7io, 11'9 vopear ance in this coot - fay), a - ad air Snlvl (o'; La Sec is, in ohm's ftild reten , ) - y•ah, ti71::3Z1 , 76. 3 C C 713 I• . 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It is said that CHRISTINA iil ere long be forced to reiite into France, and her retreat will, it is said, be the signal of a violent explosion. Differences are said to inve arisen between the QUEEN and King Consort, the latter of whom has protected his family from the ven geance of CHRISTINA. IL is said that the Count DE MONTEIVIOLIN has ap pointed PEPE DE LOLE Commander-in• Chief at Barce• lona, and TRISTANY Commander-in-Chief of the pro vince of Tarragona. MADRID BOLSA, FEB. 2 2.—The Three per Cents. were done at3o 3 / 4 fo the Five pe r C en t s ., a t 20 ; the Debt without Interest,r h cash ; and the Coupons, at 184. s ; We have received the Paris papers of Friday and Saturday. _ _ _ It was reported in Paris, on Saturday, that, thanks to the good offices of the Kixo of the BELGIANS, the per sonal differences between M. GurzoT and the Marquis of NORMANDY are settled. M. GUIZOT has undertaken to make the amende honorable by explaining away the offensive character of the words made use of by him in the Chamber, and with that explanation the Marquis of NORMANDY will express himself satisfied. With regard to the differences between the two countries on the subject of the Montpensier marriage, they still remain in stalu quo. The Journal des Dibats of Friday has an article on the financial statement of the English Chancellor of the Exchequer, the writer of which (from internal evidence we should say it proceeded from the pen of M. GurzoT) can scarcely conceal the joy which he evidently feels at the present distressed state of Ire land, which he considers effectually prevents England from taking any steps to vindicate her rights abroad. M. GUIZOT, however, forgets the distressed condition of the French people and the embarrassed state of the French finances. •As the Reforme of S.anrday justly remarks:— "The Journal des Debats might have strengthened its argument and completed its demonstration. It had merely to refer to the accounts of M. Lacave Laplagne, our Chancel lor of the Exchequer, and all the estimates being analysed, tint of publie works, that of provisions, that of our over plus revenue mortgaged, without counting the ordinary and extraordinary grants, it would have been seen that poverty is not less great in France than elsewhere, and that conse quently there is a double guarantee for _the peace of the cowards. Yes ; such is the clear and precise result of an alliance of sixteen years—a deficit in the two states and dis tress amongst the two , nations." The Jesuit paity, have gained a great victory at Court. They have prevented the appointment of M. HEBERT tti the .Ministry of aiistice. The Patrie says— -'• "It was reported to-day at the Chamber of Deputies that the ordonnance for the nomination of M. 'Hebert as Minister of JastiCe and Public Worship was to have been signed this day, but that it had been postponed. It was added that M. Dumon, Minister of Public Works, had been sent for to the palace his day at noon, and earnestly entreated by the Queen to take the portfolio of M. Martin (du Nord). • M. Dumon, it is said, gave way, and it was thought at the Chamber that he consented to remove to the hotel of the Place 'Ven dome. M. Liadieres was spoken of to replace M. Damon at the Public Works. M. Vitet has positively refused this portfolio. He desires only that of finance." And this is La mezlleure des republiques. Certainly those who accepted it in July, 1830, little thought that in 1847 the parti prate would be in the ascendant in the Tuileries, dictating to the KING of the FRENCH, as it was wont of yore to dictate to the King of France, who should or should not be Minister. The only cause that can be alleged against the appointment of M. lIEBERT is the hatred of the priests to him, on account of his boldly withstanding all attempts to give the mo nopoly of education to the Jesuits. On this occasion, at all events, we wish LOUIS PHILIPPE had exercised his own personal will, and persevered in the appointment. The Courrier of Marseilles says that the commercial advices from the Levant are of a satisfactory character as regards the arrival of grain expected from those ports. A vessel from Odessa had brought the intelligence to Coastantinuple that, on the 4th, the ice had broken up, and that more than fifty vessels were able to sail for the Bo2phorus. From this circumstance it is hoped that, if if the thaw has not yet become general, it will not be long before it becomes so, and that departures will take place without interruption. It is stated that numerous vessels had been engaged at Constantinople and Smyrna, to take in corn at the different ports of Turkey, for Mar seilles. All the members of the household of Don CARLos have quitted Bourge s . Don ENRIQUE arrived at Toulon on the 21st ult. Notwithstanding the fall of a half per cent. in the English Funds on Thursday, a rise took place on the Paris Bourse on Saturday so opportune for the interests of the " Bulls " as to suggest suspicions that it was facti tious. The principal ground advanced for it was the alleged (we are assured) real arrangement of the quarrel of M. GulzoT and the English Ambassador in Paris already (above) alluded to. Before the Bourse the Three-per-Cents. were done (in the Passage de 1' Opera) at 78c. 15c. The Three per Cents. closed on the Paris Bourse on Satur day at 78f. 50c. ; the Five per Cents., 118 f. 80c.; the Or leans Railway Shares, 1,2751. ; Rouen, 870 E ; Havre, 683 f. 75c.; Great Northern, 630 f. ; Avignon, 835 f. ; Vierzon, 5851.; Bordeaux, 5351; Troyes and Montereau, 302 f. 50c.i Basle, 208 f. 75c. ; Dieppe, 345 f. ; Paris and Strasburg, 468 f. 75c.; Tours and Nantes, 467 f. 50c.; Paris and Lyons, 491 f. 25c. ; Lyons and Avignon, 4821. 50c. ; Bordeaux and Cette, 451 f. 25c.; Belgian '1 wo-and-a-Half per Cents., 54 1 / s ; Spanish Three per Cents., 35 3 %. BUSINESS DONE IN. FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STO C K EXCHANGE, FEBRUARY 26. Boulogne and Amiens, 1 4 %—Dutch Rhenish, 4% —East Indian, % —Northern of France, 13—Paris and Strasbourg, 334. BRISTOL SUGAR MARKET, FEB. 25.—There is a moderate demand for refining descriptions, but the grocery kinds are neglected; the sales of the sleek are unimportant. The refined market is- still dull, and a shade lower.—Bristol Mercury. WAKEFIELD CORN MARKET, FRIDAY.—This week's arrivals are large of wheat, and good of other articles. A decline of ls. to 2s. per quarter is submitted to on wheat, at which there is a healthy demand. For barley there is very little inquiry, and prices are 2s. per quarter lower. Oats and Shelling are unaltered in value, but meet a readier sale. Beans remain same as last stated. A NEW WAY OF PAYING ARREARS OF BASTARDY. —A tradesman, residing not fifty miles froin Hull, was, a which s hort time ago, saddled by the m ag i s t ra t es w i t h the main tenance of a bastard child, but, no t re li s hi ng the burden, emitted thep parcel a cel strongwas opened—it odour, en e d —it not be hit upon a novel ex p e dient to show his chagrin and vexa tion. Last week the friends of the m o th er , w h o res i de at Bishop Burto n, near Bev erley, received, by carrier, a h eav y, ur s-1 at all pleasant to the olfactory organ : with so me m i sg i v i ngs as s to the u natureookirg parcel, con tained a considerable sum of mon e y. a ll i n f art hi ng . , suspicious-looking ofi ts contents, thickly embedded in oil and tar, being the mode of payment adopted to satisfy the arrears due for the support of the child. We would advise the unfortunate tradesman to send his next remittance in a barrel full of those unctuous, sticky ingre dients, and then the poor people may set up a b as t ar d o il and tar shop.—Hull Advertiser. The Tribunal of Commerce of Paris was on Mon day troubled by an unusual act of violence. A case of fraud was being argued, in which damages were demanded against a man n amed Wuy. The counsel for the plaintiff, M. Martin- Leroy, was pleading, when Wuy suddenly rose, rushed over to where the Learned Gentleman was standing, and spat in his face. Tbis conduct caused for the moment great confu sion, and the presiding judge at once ordered the offender to be taken into custody. a Martin-Leroy immediately said— " The outrage which you have all witnessed . cannot in any lower me, and I despise it • but, as it might be way lmight supposed that any language use was actuated by anger at the conduct of the defendant, I demand permission from the Court to desist, and to allow the case to be deliberated on without any further remark from me. Further, to prove to the man who has thus insulted me how much I am above such an affront,l entreat the court to use indulgence towards him for his conduct." The President immediately ordered the offender to be removed from the court, and placed in custody in a common prison until interrogated within twenty-four hours, as prescribed by Art. 91 of the Civil Code, subject further to such punishment as the criminal courts should think fitting to impose. Wuy was then re moved. The President then addressed the learned connsel as follows :—"The Court has to express to you all the indig nation it feels at the outrage just offered to you, and is happy in being able to testify that the moderation of your address in no way called for any,sueli violence. The Court has also' to express its hope that ~the prompt committal of the of fender, and the punishnient subsequently to be inflicted on him, will prevent a repetition of such conduct. As to the case under co nsideration, the Court will examine it with it s usual impartiality." The sitting was then brought to a close amidst some agitatien. THE INCONVENIENCE OF A RED FACE.—Mr. John Thraves, a respectable farmer, residing at Edmonthorpe Lodge, near Market Overton, appeared before the magistrates at the Town-hall, Stamford, on Saturday last, under the following aggravating circumstances : About half- past three o'clock in the afternoon of Tuesday week, being Can ' dlemas Fair, Mr. Thraves, in company with Mr. Hack, of Clipsham, was standing in the High-street, giving direc tions to his son relative to some beast he had that day pur chased, when policeman Mitch • ell stepped up and asked Mr. Thraves his name and address: The three were surprised at the inquiry, but Mr. Thraves instantly furnished the desired information, and soon afterwards walked towards Iron monger-street, when Mitchell followed them, and asked Mr. Thraves his Christian name ; he, considering this second application a rude annoyance, refused to tell him. A few days afterwards be was summoned to appear at the Town. hall, as above mentioned, to answer a charge of drunkenness. He attended accordingly, and Mitchell and two other officers gave evidence to the effect of his being intoxicated. On the other band it was sworn by Mr. Hack and his son, as well as the servant of Miss Hack, That such was entirely untrue. Upon cross-examination the ,policemen stated their convic tion that the defendant must have been in a state of intoxi cation, not only from the circumstance of his jolting against his two companions as he walked down the street, but also from his having a very red face. The magistrates had ocular demonstration that Mr. Thraves, even at that early period of the day, was blessed with a colour, a portion of which thousands in the smoky districts would be happy to possess; and they unhesitatingly dismissed the summons.—Stamford Herald. FIRE CAUSED BY TAKING A PINCH OF SNUFF.— A few nights since, at Stanton, an old woman by the name of Bruce thought proper, about midnight, to strike a light in order to take pinch of snuff, and by way of making it con venient, set the candle on her pillow, but before she could ac icommodate her nose the whole bed was in flames. and also part of her night dress. Her screams soon awoke the neigh bours, who hastened to her assistance. A few minutes longer and the whole house, large barn, and out-buildings, must all have gone. Much credit is due to a man by the the name of Pettitt, and his son, who entered the apartment with only a few things on them, and, after much difficulty, succeeded in arresting the progress of the fire.—Suffolk Herald. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. • CITY, QUAR7ER TO THREE. Tne sales of cotton at Liverpool on Saturday were 2,500 bales, without alteration in prices. Shares were quiet again. The taking of the new loan at the Treasury this morning attracted rather a large attendance of City capitalists and others, but there were some parties absent, we believe, who were present at the meeting for the settlement of the pre liminary terms. Before ten o'clock, the ante-rooms of the Treasury-chambers were occupied by the parties prepared to tender, and at the hour appointed they were ushered into the audience room, where the Chancellor of the Exchequer was seated, Lord John Russell being on his right hand; Baron Rothschild, Mr. A. Rothschild, and two others of the part ners of the firm, were also there. The Governor and Deputy Governor of the Bank of England, Sir John Rae Reid, Mr. Bates, Mr. Baring, Mr. Mildmay, and about fourteen other parties connected with the monied interest, were also in attendance. Sir Charles Wood, the Chancellor of the Ex . chequer, opened the business by stating that he was ready to receive tenders upon the terms proposed on„Thursday last. The Baron Rothschild handed in a sealed letter, which was opened, and then followed another from Mr. Baring Both biddings were 89'. 10s. for 1001. Stock in the Three per Cent. Consols. It was clearly evident, then, that those two firms had coalesced, as no offer was made by the Governor of the Bank of England, or by others who were in the room. And immediately afterwards, in reply to a question, the Chancellor of the Exchequer said that it was the intention of himself and Messrs. Barings to take the loan between them. After a slight hesitation the Chancellor acceded to the terms, but a question was then raised as to the word ing of a document read on Thursday as respects the pay ment of interest. It was stoutly contended for that the Chancellor would give interest upon instalments made in the months up to the 2d July, so that those who took part of the loan would be entitled to the July dividends. It was consi dered but reasonable that as no discount was to be allowed, as usual, this concession ought to be granted. After considerable discussion, the parties interested in the bidding retired and consulted together. The result was, that a paper was drawn up by Mr. Baring, explanatory of their views of the contract which the Chancellor of the Exchequer and Lord John Russell read. Shortly the Chancellor said that, as there was no opposition, and that as it seemed to be the feeling to con vert the scrip into stock, he would grant interest on payments made in full in July, and also interest upon the monthly payments up to that date; but that in case payments re• mained until October, then the year's interest from the sth January last, until the sth January, 1848, would be paid. at one time. These terms finally were sanctioned, and the con tracting parties signed the document, which was' witnessed by the Governor and Deputy-Governor of the Bank. Accounts , received to-day from Holland state::that the Finance Minister had laid his estimates before the Legisla.'. tare, but that, although they exhibited an increase of ex penditure, there was also an augmentation in the receipts cf 1,300,000 florins. .The Bank of Belgium has declared a dividend of 19f. per share. The wheat market is steady this morning, but barley, oats, &c., are lower. The English Stock Exchange has presented an extra ordinary appearance again to-day, the excitement having been carried to so high a pitch that immediately upon the commencement of business the confusion of tongues conveyed no imperfect idea of what Babel may have been. Skouting and quoting, were, however. not the only events, for there was a good deal of business done. We need hardly say that the new scrip was all the rage, and that immediately upon the terms becoming known, parties were bidding up to 1%, and even 21 1 ' ; premium. .This is the usual policy at first, and therefore the subsequent partial relapse to 134 % premium was to be expected. The allot ments, as far as can be ascertained, have not been made in large amounts, as some of the City bankers have obtained a good "slice." Consols for transfer to-morrow have ad vanced to 90%, and been down again to 90%. For April 15 the rates have been 91 and 91 V I , but at present are only 90: 1 to 91. Bank Stock is higher, 20-114 to 205 1 / 2 , a proof, as we take it, of confidence in the new operation. Exchequer Bills have been at a decline, to Bs. and 3s. premium. This is the result of sales to pay the deposit on the new loan. East India Stock is marked 251. The New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. are 93 to 93%. The Foreign market has been rather flat again, as with the greater attraction for speculation offered just now by the British investments, there is very little business doing, Spanish Five per Cents. are 24%; Chillan, 95; and Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents, 58.4 to The Railway Share market has been looking buoyant again, and there is an improvement in the quotations of some of the old and new lines. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. (From the Official List.) - - Bank Stock .. -• • ' 20414 205% Three per Cent. Reduced Annuities 91% 91 91% Three per Cent. Consols Annuities .. • • 90h% New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cent. Anus. 93% % Long Annuities, Expire Jan. 5, 1860 .. India Stock .. • . .. 251 India Bonds, 1,0001. • • • • • • • • p Ditto, tinder 1,0001. 8 2 p Consols for Account, April 15 .. .. 91U 90% Ditto, Scrip .. 1% 2 1% p Exchequer Bills. I%d. I%d. 1,0001. .. .. • .. • • 7 8 3 pm. 500/. • • • • •• • • 7 9 p m. Ditto. Small .. .. • • 9 pm. Ditto, Advertised .. 1 5 pm. PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK. Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent .. 86 1 4 Ckllian Bonds, 6 per Cent. .. 95 Russian Bonds, 5 per Cent .. 109 N ex_ div Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent. .. Ditto,' for the Account ' 24 Ditto, Passive Bonds 5 1 4 • Dividends on the above payable in London, Belgian Four-and-a-Dail per Cent. 96 Dutch Two•and-a-Ilalf per Cents. 58% ii Ditto, 4 per Cent'. Certificates .. 92% BUSINESS DONE 'IN RAILWAY SHARES AT ONE O'CLOC ITAILWAYS. PAID. PER SHAM Amber., Notting., Boston, & Eastrn Jn. 2% 2% .. to Birmingham and Oxford Junction .. 5 .. . • 14 %34.. to Birmingham, Wolver., and Dudley .. 5 .... 105 k .. • • to Boston, Stamford, and Birmingham 5 •• • • 7% •••. to 7 Buckinghamshire • • .. 84s. ... • % pto Caledonian .. • • .. .. 30 2834 .... to Direct Northern Scrip .. .. 2 2 7 4, • • • to Eastern Counties • • • . • • 20 .... 21%54.. to Ditto, York. Extension ~ .. 4 .... 43k0 . • to Eastern Union .. .. .. 40 •• • • 55 .. • . to Ditto, Quarter Shares .. .. 10 13%.... to East Lancashire .. •. • • .. .. 14 .... 1034 .... to East Lincolnst ire .. • • • • • • 4 .... 734 .... to Great Northern (London & York Regd) 234 .... to Ditto (Direct :Northern Regd.) • • 314 . • 434 .. ••to Great Southern and Western (Ireland) 2734 .... 25% )4 • . to Great Western .. .. • • • • .. .. • • to Ditto, Quarter Shares .. • • . • 1234 .... 19 ex. d. to Ditto, Fifths .. • . .. • • •• 20 . • 27 1 3 3 ,4 x. d. to Ditto, New .. .. • • .. 434.. 8%34 x. d. to Hull and Selby .. 50 ....104 .. • • to Leeds and Bradfsrd .. • • • • •• 35 •• • • 79?/ 7 to T . • . . Leeds and Thirst: .. • • • • 22 1 ,,/, ....21!;:22V, 2 to 21Y, Ditto, New .. .. • • • • • • 5 .... 5 1 4 •• • - to Do., do., Preference, 6 per Cent • . .... 5 1 4 .. to Liverpool, 3fluich, and .Newc. Juliet. 234.... 2LA .... to London, Brighton, and South Coast • • 50 .... 56 x all.. to 55% Ditto, Co: isolidated Eighths • • 10 .... 14% •. • • to . . Ditto, Gu.tranteed Five per Cent... 9 .• • 9 yy ••to London and Greenwich .. 121. 15s. 4d. .. • • 9 , 4 .. ••to London and North-Western • • ..100 188 186% 18G to 187 Ditto, Quarters .. • • .. • • • • 2 •• • • .. • • to Ditto ditto New .. • • .. • 2 •• • 14 to Ditto, Fifths •• •• • • • • 2 •• • • 18N to London and South-Western 411. 6,10 d. .... 63 x div. to 6411 Ditto, Tenths (Consolidated) . .. 50 • • 55 .... to Ditto, Scrip .. • • • • • • • • 5 •• • • •• • • to Ditto, ditto .. • • • • • • • • 4 •• • • 4%. .. to -- Lynn and _Ely • • .. .. • • 20 •• • • 22 3 , 4 ••to Manchester: - and Leeds . • . • • 8',2 .... to Ditto, 'f'airds (Reg.) . • • • • • 84s. 3 p.. to Ditto 14 (tate Rudders. & Sheffield) 23 .. • • '27% •• .. to Manch., London, and Itirm. Juuct • 2 •• .• 2 .. ••to -- Manchester and Southampton .. • • 2 •• • • 1M %• • to Midland ,„ ..100 ..122M 121% to 123 Ditto, New . .. • .. •• 30 •• .. 35% %..to Ditto, Birmingham and Derby .• 100 .• •• 96 ••• to Midland, Birmingham & Gloucester.. 100 ....123 .. • • to -- Newcastle and Berwick .• .• 20 .. • • 323;,%.. to Newmarket and Chesterford .• .. 10 .. • • 101 9 •••• to Norfolk .. .. • . ..100 . ..140 x div. to Ditto, Ex tension 6 •• .. 6% • ... to Northern Connties Union .. 2 1 , •. • • 1% • • to North British • • • • .. .. 25 .. • • 35%14 .. to Ditto, Ti iirdS • • • • • • .. • • 1 •• .. .. • • to— North stall ordshire .. 5 .. • . • • to Preston ana.Wyre .. • . .. 25 .... .. to 35 Ditto, IL , d/ Shares (A) •• .. • • • • 6 6 • to Ditto, dit to (II) .. • • 11,', 1 2 4 .. • • to Reading, Guildford, and Reigate .. 5 .... 5 1 ,•; i .... to Royston and.. l ,litchin .. • • • • • • I% •• • • 2% %• • to Scottish Midland .. • • • . 17% •• . • 25 %•• to— Shrewsbury tnd Birmingham (A) 3 •• • • 4% 4 .. to Shropshire Union • • • •• •• • • 425. •• • • % dis. to South Easter a and Dover • • .. 331.28.40. 39 •• • • to Ditto, Nevi - (do. 151.) No. 4 .. 3%.... 4%%.. to ---- South Wales .. • • •• •• 10 •• • • 81 1 / 1 %to South Yorksl fire, Doncaster, & Goole 2 •• •• 4.. to West Riding Union .. • • • • 428. •• pto 2 York and Nei ,vcastle • . 25 .• • • 36 1 h .. • to Ditto, Nem .• . • • • • • 5 •• • • 11% h• • to York and Not th Midland • • .. 50 .... 87 .... to Ditto, Prep 3rence .• • • • • • • • 2 •• .. 12% N.. to Ditto East as al West ItidingExtension 10 .... 22 .. • . to FOREIGN RAILWAYS. East Indian .. .• • • .. ss. . 34 .... to Great Wes term Bengal .. • • • • ss. • • •••• to Luxembourg .. •• .. • • • • • G •• • • 2% ••to Namur ami Liege .. • • • • • LlO • • b 14.... to sxd Northern 4,f France .. • • 8 .• • • 13 34 .. • • to Paris and Rouen • • .. .. • • 20 .. • • 34 1 / 2 74 • • to Rouen awl Ilavre .• . •. 20 .... 27 2 .... to Sambre anal Meuse .. • . .. 12 .. • • 7 •• o MINES Real dcl 31:orrte, Unregistered .. —3% to LLOYD'S SHIPPING—(THIS DAY.) Loxpolc Malice I.—Wind N.E., fresh breeze, and hazy. DEAL, EB. 28.—Wind E.—Sid. Atlas, Havannah ; St. James, Nee • York ; Fairy Queen, Cape of Good Hope. BRISTOL , FEB. 28. Wind E. S.E , strong.—Sid. Ant, New York ; Dri e Vrienden, Batavia. GLoncatt ;TER, FEB. 28.—Wind E.—Sld. Nicaragua, New Orleans. NEWPOI tT, FEB. 27.—Wind N.E.—Sid. Constantine, Hong-Ko; ig ; Whampna, Grenada. CLVDF ; , FEB. 26.—Wind N.—Arrd. Ellen Roger, China ; Calcutta,. Mitchell, Sierra Leone; John Willis, Willis, De merara. Sld. Mary, Antigua ; Relay, New York. Huu., :FEB. 27.—Wind N.E.—Sld. William Ward, Gra ville, Gr etenland. ABER OREN, FEB. 25.—Sid. Mary, Greenland. 24. Ceara, New Yo rk. WHEI 'ENAVEN, FEB. 26.—Wind N.E.—Sid. Ann Wise, Baltimc we. DEBI IN, FEB. 25.—Wind S.S.E.—SId Recovery, New Orleans . Lnu ;Pam, FEB. 25.--Sid. Undine, New York. WEB TPORT, FEB. 22.—Sid. B. Wood, Philadelphia. OLD HAIEN, FEB. 28.—The Rose, of and for Exeter, from Londo)a, run down by a three-masted steamer whilst at anchor off t his port this morning; crew drowned. LEVER T() 01, FEB. 27.—The Cuba, Whitehaven, to An tigua, was towed into Kingstown yesterday, dismasted, and a derelict, having been in contact off Holyhead 23d inst., with the Symmetry, from St. John's, New Brunswick. Arrd. 253, —Orixa, Christian, Singapore; Hannah Salkeld, Robert, s e n , Calcutta ; Priscilla, Goble, Paraiba ; Jane Bar bara, Brawn, Mobile • Symmetry, M'Nennell, St. J o h n ' s, New prune wick, with loss of bowsprit, head, cutwater, &c., having been in contact. Sld. 28, Lord Seaton, New Orleans; Rowland, Na w Orleans; Eliza and Superior, Mobile; Engi neer, New York; Louisiana, New York; Euphrasia, Boston. p ormy mu m, FEB. 28.—Wind E.N.E.—Arrd. Adolph, Bobme l . ,iest Coast of Africa, and St. Thomas, leaky. Ski. Royal George, Adelaide, South Australia. Off port, General Vanderrbosn, Batavia for Rotterdam. F±LB. 28.—Wind E.—Arrd. Clara Henrietta, Batavia for Amsterdam ; William Shand, Callard, Calcutta. TEIG N310171'14 FEB. 28. --The Four Brothers of Rye, last from Exmouth, struck on the bar and is full of water, and is likely to become a wreck. BELFAST, FEB. 27.—Wind E.S.E.—SId. Monterey, New York ; Lucy, Wright, New Orleans. ilumetErooL, FEB. 27.—Wind E. to E.S.E.—SId. Dun dee, Jamaica. ITiARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE-MONDAY. The past week's arrivals of English Wheat, Barley, Malt, 4 Beans, and Flour, were on a fair average scale,'but those of all other articles of home produce were small. The receipts of grain from Ireland and Scotland were trifling. From abroad we received a limited supply of Wheat and Flour; but that of Barley, Oats, and Beans was somewhat extensive. Coastwise, a moderate supply of Wheat reached us from Essex and Kent. By land carriage and sample the quantity was by no means large. On the whole the stands were to lerably well filled with parcels of both red and white in good condition. Several buyers being in attendance from France, considerable firmness was manifested on the part of the holders, and about one thousand quarters of Kentish Wheat were sold for that country, at prices rather above those obtained on Monday last. However, as the Essex qualities were in by no means active request, and as a total clearance was not effected, we may call the English Wheat trade steady, at last Monday's currencies. The quantity of Foreign W heat - on show was small, nevertheless, the transactions in that article were only to a moderate extent, at unaltered currencies. We had a large show of English and Foreign Barley, which met a very dull inquiry, at a reduction in value of from is to 2s per quarter. Superfine White Malt moved off slowly, at late rates; but all other kinds might have been purchased at a reduction of quite is per quarter. The total supply of Oats being more than adequate to meet the wants of the dealers, the trade was dull, and prices were 6d to is per quarter lower than on this day se'nnight. In Beans next to nothing was done, and the quotations receded Is per quarter. All kinds of Peas were heavy, and the turn lower than last week. In Flour, either sack or barrelled, very few sales were concluded. In prices we have no alteration to notice. Several cargoes of Indian Corn were sold at very full rates. . CURRENCY PER IMPERIAL MEASLRE iTheat—Essex & Kent, er.....• 77s to 825 Red, New•. •. 70s to 76s Oats— Yorksbile and, Ditto,Whlte, New 73s 83s Lincolnsh., Feed. 305 35s Norfolk and Lin- Potatoe .•.. .. coin, 689 7!'s Yoaglial rndCo..a, Ditto, White . • 73s 78s Beck... Irish, Red........ —s —s Cork, Woite ....• 31$ 34s Ditto, White —5 —s Scotcn, Veed. .. • • 33s 383 Rye—Old .... —s s Beans—Tick New. ...... Vs 58s Pigeons . 505 53s Barley—Grinding 41s 431 Pease—Crey......... 50s 53s Malting . ... ••• .. 52, 53s Ma 515 535 Chevalier .•. 553 59s —s —s Sfalt—S4frolk and No:- 54s 580 . folk.• • • ... 738 76s Flour—iol: st-tne de ... 609 655 Brown .••.•• • • • • • 688 703 Surto , c Kingston end Ware 768 78s Stmcktn w Noi - :clk 48,5 545 • SMITHFIELD: s ' The following statements show the imports of foreign stock into London during the past week : From whence. Oxen. Cows. Sheep. Flushing Ditto Rotterdam Ditto ... 36 Ditto Ditto Harlingen Ditto Nieudiep ...... 29 . 442 Calves Total ...... 168 ` , .;75 890 27 At the outports, 100 beasts, 200 sheep, and 10 calves have been landed, mostly from Rotterdam. The supply of foreign stock offering consisted of 120 Oxen and Cows, 180 Sheep, and 5 Calves. The general quality being tolerably good, nearly the whole found buyers, at fully last week's quota tions. With Beasts, from our own grazing districts, we were, the time of year considered, well supplied, there being 1,000 head more on sale than at the corresponding market day in 1846. Although the weather continues cold, the Beef trade, arising principally from the dead markets being rather heavily stocked with the past week's arrivals from Scotland and the north of England, was in a very sluggish state, at the decline in the quotations noticed on Monday last, the highest rate for the best Scots not exceeding 4s 2d per Slbs. There were some remarkably prime Downs, Scots, and runts offering, but the general condition of the bullock supply, as to weight and condition, was by no means equal to that ex hibited on many previous occasions; at the close of business an advance was not effected. From Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, arid Cambridge, we received, mostly by railway, namely, 1,300 Scots, homebreds, and shorthorns; from the northern counties, 350 shorthorns ; from the western and midland counties, 800 Devons, runts, Herefords, &c. ; from other parts of England, 400 of various breeds; and from Scotland, by steam-vessel, 180 horned and polled Scots. The number of sheep was again scanty, owing to which the mutton trade was firm, at an advance on last week's quotations of 2d per 81b. This amount of improvement was realised for all breeds. There were about 400 shorn sheep in the market, chiefly from Lincolnshire. The highest price for the best old Downs was 5s 2d per 81b. We had about 250 Dorset lambs on show, but which sold at irregular prices. Calves were in short supply and ,ready inquiry, at Friday's improvement, viz., of from 2d to 4d per 81b. Neat small porkers moved off steadily, other qualities of pork slowly, at unaltered cur rencies. • , s ocr ..= • 1* „. = SECOND EDITION. L _ LONDON, MONDAY, MARCH 1, 1847. Car n total power, is so essential to our very exis f.r,ce as a nation, that too many precautions 'cannot be ts'ken for the prevention of its decay, too much iTo-nest cannot be felt in its prosperity, or too much CL". tiny cast upon the administration of that depart ment of our national service. We have already ex pr: -sed our satisfaction at the vigorous course entered ur,na by the present Government in reference to the e -nsion and development of our maritime ervergies. 1.1 ,he able and comprehensive speech, deliveted on Fi' , .l),y evening by the Hon. Gentlemen the Secretary Admiralty, we have recognised the programme " innovation most propitious end most conso ' But our observations upon the re quisi announced in that statement of the naval tes for the current year were ineces restiicted to the consideration of the circumstance that a new system. was to be adopted. Our congratulations to the were, for ostensible reasons, confined to the nnouncement of an increase in those important L It is, however, so essential that the n Loney . :obt - iacted from the Exchequer shoul.d be • applied—that, in short, with the minimum of we should obtain the maximum of s.dvanitage we r"e induced to return to the examin.ation o WARD's clover and satisfactory statemen t. • hsve been the perp e t ua l • themes of the serutators of the Admiralty ? riChese :— . -first, the mal.applicaticn of the moneys fiy expended in our naval affair=, ' and, the niggardliness of the amounts com p ;A in our annual estimates for that ser ?-. It would be absurd 9nd futile to deny the v "dity of those accusations. That parsimony has t.n evinced by our Legislature in the sums voted 1. :cdically to this most national and rational ex:pen (." 'Lire, is manifest on comparing the gross calculation he naval estimates of France, not a merely roar-- nation, and of the naval estimates of Great stain, essentially and pre-eminently a mariitime ion. Mr. WARD has contrasted those by no means 9'wlogous estimates. We have repeated that con t rst ; we have done more, we have enumerate& the N sous amounts devoted to the English navy as far :back a 1816, and as recently as 1844—an enumer %don I)ich would be of itself sufficient testimony the our 'sour as an insular empire has been stunted, instead of I ; *ig been fostered to a natural and noble mattr.rity. pile a sagacious neighbour, with all its mural, and ,„;,neering, and military means of defence, has lbeen ' - .'sbing millions upon its extraneous imam. 12 cats of protection and aggression—namely, its -remise; England has been doling out the 4:ash t - ich was absolutely requisite for the maintena nee • our only safeguard—the main cause of all our na- Curial greatness—the glory and boast, and, whl t is racrc-, the very bulwark of our magnificent dc,mi u'ors. That the application of the moneys voted by P, •..anient for our naval service has neither teen • ractelised by the highest prudence nor the n iost judicious economy, is an assertion wholly indisputable. And it is this mal-application of the national re venues that has excited the attention and aroused the ei:,argies of Sir CHARLES NAPIER. That there has ix 2.1 considerable reason for the indignation exprel ,sed by that gallant officer is certain : the very reforms e - ounced by the Admiralty through their Secret ary • :'ilday se'nnight, is a plain acknowledgment that was something to be reformed, and the deraand -1 extension of the naval estimates, which was se announced in the same speech by Mr. necessarily implied that the previous esti- were regrrded by the present Right Hots. the of the Admiralty as having been insufficien t and lonious. So for the acctuations of Sir CHARLES _,a, and the proceedings of the present n ally and it is with singular satisfacti on we I:;=,erved the bold and decided course taken by v.inment an Ws delicate, but absolutely neces : 'nayJinn. ':ung the most advantageous regulatioria con ;3 t tbis improved system must be ex:Tpress l v ilmised, the advancement of the corps o f naval c ^<rs from ranking with the ships' carpel] tars to t :.-? 1 position to which they are entitled r.s gen t' - 11, together with an increased pay from 131. ls. r- month as heretofore, to 251. per month, propor to the vat ions grades of the profession.. The c -•:equence of such a modification of the isting syttem is obvious. Talent and respectabilit; r .will ti - be insured, and the service perform° 3 will rrtorelly be done more effectually from th e cir comstance of its being performed more cordially. I t!ddition to this, no less than 20,000/. are pro p.--,?d to be applied to the organization of the' dock s. corps ; the leave of 'absence granted to semen vrnm remaining on the ship's books, is to be er:ended to . aix weeks, with the simple proviso of :leaving clothes, kit, &c., in the local dockyard. Th,e total v6‘e for salaries and wages is 810,664/. These: salu 1-;,- measures are, moreover, accompanied by a. :scheme must tend to the substantial benefit of the by exciting a wholesome spirit of emulation tl‘ , :oughout all the subordinate artizans in the di Terent dockyards of Great Britaba. By the plan unfolded by Mr. WARD, each - man is to allured and incited to the most etieri torious dischrrge of his duties by opening up to him :a series of promotions and rewards. With an extomsion of wages, and a systematic education, they ti 4. 1 1 be in such a position that the improvement of Els ir con dition must inevitably result from their own p robity , sobriety, industry, and intelligence. Thum they ..-,u Id be enabled to anticipate their gradual ell* , vation to he rank of foremen, and thence, by suci !essivo sto:ses, to be inspectors and dock-masters, with a pos sib.e income of 6001. per annum, and a residenc a free of rent. It is by such sensible enactments th At the interests of our naval service may be best coast ilted; and the prosperity of that naval service is synon a mous with the grandaur, the strength, and the stability of the empire. i'Arid papers of the 22d hrve arrived. e debate on the Address continued in the C 1 tuber of ;I'.:=Fllities, and Senor PIDAL, one of the late 161 a n i s . , 19-1 commenced his defence of the Istuam Ca bi again.t the attacks of Senors CoRTINA and: Ros DL C ;: Herald() says that the Government is addit gto th Cady enormous army. A corps is to be static med fori:i,ith on the frontiers of Portugal, and anotl rin . Per Blbs. to sirk the offel. s. d. to s.• d Inferior Beasts.. 2 10 3 0 second quality 3 2 3 4 Prime large Oxen 3 6 3 8 Prime Scots Large coarse Calves 4 4 4 10 Prime small ditto Buckling Calves • • 18 0 28 0 Inferior Sheep .. . 3 8 4 0 5. (1, to S. d. Secolidquall'.y Vt) 4 2 4 4 Coarse-w&jeddilo 4 G 4 10 Sou;lidov% We'...er 5 0 5 2 DiZto 0.1:0: the wool - Large Hogs •••• • • 3 8 4 6 timPtt l'or_zei's • • • 4 8 410 Qdar;er old •• 16 0 19 0 14tutbs SUPPLY AT MARKET. Beasts. Sheep. ' Calves. 3,365 16,980 I 78 ATENVIZA.TE awn imukimiwyititz.x. The past week's arrivals of meat from Scotland and the northern parts of England have been on a liberal scale, those from other quarters moderate. The supply of Beef on offer, killed in the metropolis, has been seasonably large, - that of other kinds of meat rather limited. Prime Mutton, Veal, and Pork have sold readily at, in some instances, a trifle more money, otherwise the demand has been in a sluggish state. The total number of carcases received since our last has been about 10,500. About 40 carcases of foreign Beef, 90 ditto of Mutton, and 8 ditto of Veal have been on sale. l'igs 2SO At per stone by the Car - calm,. s. d. to s. d. I s. d. to s. Beef, inferior...... 2 6 2 8 Mutton, inferior 3 6 3 8 middling .... 210 3 0 I middling— 310 4 0 prime large .. 3 2 3 4 prime .... 4 2 4 4 prime small .. 3 4 3 6 Polk, 3 4 6 Vea1..... .. 4 4 5 4I 5mi1e........ 4 8 4- 10 Lamb. Os Od to Os Cd. BOROUGH HOP MARKET. We bare to report a steady, but by no means brisk in quiry, for tho best Hops in pockets, at full prices. In all other kinds of Hops, the show of which is good, next to nothing is doing;--Sussex Pockets, 41 to 418 s; Weald of Kent ditto, 415 s to 4/ 16s ; Midland and East Kent ditto, 4115 s to 6/ 10s. BOROUGH_ AND SPITALPIELDS. _ _ About 150 tons of Potatoes have arrived from abroad since Monday last ; but from our own coasts the receipts have been very small. All descriptions are exceedingly dull, as follows:—Yorkshire Regents, 180 s to 2205; Ditto Reds, 180 s to 220 s ; Lincolnshire and Cambridge Regents, 180 s to 200 s; Ditto Kidneys, 1603 to 170 s; French Whites, 170 s to 180 e. woOL. The total quantity of Wool offered at the public sales, which were brought to a conclusion on Thursday, was 10,571 bales. For the best qualitities, the biddings were somewhat animated, at full prices; but other kinds were somewhat neglected. There is rather more doing in English Wools privately; but Foreign and Colonial parcels are neglected. In prices, we have no material alteration to notice. The im ports in the past week have been about 500 packages, chiefly from the Cape and Rotterdam, TALLOW. This market is very steady, and prices have an upward tendency. P. Y. C. on the spot is held at 50s 9d to 51s; and for arrival, 45s to 45s Gd. Town Tallow is firm at 50s to 503 Gd net cash. The stock of Tallow in all hands is small. QUEEN'S BENCH.-(THIS DAY.) (Sittings at Guildhall.) The Court, after trying two cases of minor interest, ad journed until the next City sittings, after Easter Term. COMMON PLEAS.--(THIS DAY.) This being the last day of the London sittings, the Court was engaged with common jury cases of no interest but to the parties concerned. CRIMINAL COURT.-(THIS DAY.) OLD COURT. The 161st sessions of this Court, and fifth during the present Mayoralty, were opened this morning in presence of the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor, Sir Chapman Marshall, Alderman Hughes, and Sheriffs Challis and Kennard, and the Learned Recorder of the City of London. Prom the short time which had elapsed since the last sessions, the calendar was necessarily light; it contained the names of no more than 104 persons committed to take their trial on the present occasion, but some of — these for crimes of rather grave character. - 7 , The RECORDER, when the grand jury had been chosen and ' sworn in, proceeded as usual to deliver his charge. He said the calendar contained a list of persons amounting to 104 but .he was given to understand that that number had been already greatly augmented by commitments on Saturday last, and he believed it very probable that a considerable addition would be made to that number in the course of their attendance there. There were a number of the cases com mitted for trial which were of grave importance and serious aspect, but in general they were simple in the facts, and it did not appear to him after reading over the depositions that they were at all likely to involve any questions of law. But if contrary to his expectation, such difficulties should arise, the Court, as usual, would rea dil y furnish the grand jury wi th the assistance which the cir cumstances might appear to require; yet considering the de positions which had been submitted to him, with one excep tion, he did not think the cases called for any lengthened ob servations on his part. There were such crimes in the calendar as cutting and wounding, using violence towards children under ten years of age, and other offences of like serious nature; but still the question whether these cases ought to be submitted to further investigation depended upon the evidence, whether that w as such as to support the charge; and in exercising their judgment on that. they would merely have to consider whether the evidence was left unanswered and unexplained, for in that case they would have to send it for further inquiry before the petit jury. But, on the other hand, if the case on the part of the prosecutor did not warrant them in giving the evidence their credit; if it betrayed any sinister motive on the part of the person promoting the charge, it became the duty of the grand jury to shelter the person committed from further proceedings on that charge. There was, how ever, one case on which he felt it his duty to make a few remarks, because it was a case a little out of the ordinary character, and one where, though the facts were of the clearest description, some considerations perhaps beyond them were involved. It was not his duty to say what was the proper effect of the evidence which appeared on the de positions, but it might be necessary to lay before them such observations as be thought might enable them to come to the conclusion whether they ought to send the case for further inquiry. He alluded to the charge of manslaughter in the administering of medicine. Now that was a case in which a distinction had been laid down in law, that if a physician or surgeon should in the proper discharge of his vocation administer medicines or potions, and death should fallow, that that was not manslaughter or murder, but a misadventure. But he felt it necessary to observe another distinction which had been taken in cases of this nature, viz., between a licensed member of the profession, a regular phy sician or surgeon, and a person not in possession of this token. Several ha , l attempted to draw this distinctioo , authorities in law questioned the propriety of it, aed Justice Blackstene concurred in doing so, and it was o _ down, that, unless the person in charge of the gross ignorance, or a criminal disregard of human life, be; not to be charged in criminal law. The question, ther, e , they would have to consider in the present case wouta, whether the party charged with misconduct had, l,' misconduct, showed a gross and culpable ignorance medicines prescribed, or the case dealt with, or whetl exhibited a criminal disregard of human life. The Ite c % here read from the books in confirmation of his opitiion, quoted the case of Mr. Long, whom the So% a c patient s_a consideration e,f the evidence, found guilty a. minal disregard of human Sow, ,T aio present ease the circumstances were peculiar. " ss sa speaking, the act done was immediately traceable to ti s 7 s t' s charged, and then it became a simple he was either innocent or guilty—whether the potio nistered was dangerous which had ended in death; im present . case a prescription had been written out aral,.g h a the patient ; the nature of the indisposition for which medy was sought did not appear definitely on the far 1 1, depositions, and that, he believed, was not necessary. ar, prescription was given for medicines, partlY $ li which were to consist of certain ingredlen it question n D a s , when made up to be taken in certain proportions ;0 peered that the first time that prescription had b i ee w itbl , up under the superintendence of the party charg e "d a is, offence on his own premises, and by his own ofd t g that it had been taken by the patient wrilfst bad consequences. consequences. But the second time third scription had been made up by a th u_ " s i by an ordinary chemist, and the effect proved fat"" in; they would have to consider whether the ingredient:ol; potion were of an injurious nature, whether they we as 0 lated when mixed to destroy life, whether th e " rte' appearance of gross ignorance in making out such a,P4 tion, or any criminal disregard of human life in leassiti.so the terms of the prescription so vague and ill defia.,e a o is, the hands of a third person ill consequences would, chi' in leaving a prescription of such a kind to the ill which which might arise from a typographical error 0 11 I in' made up by an ordinary chemist. The prescriptio2u3s: case was the compound spirit of ammonia 2 drat surge tincture of opium 16 drops, prussic acid of Scheel e'ss s 4 drops, compound strychnia powder 2 gm i s e ' s bitter almond water 6 ounces ; a spoonful Or time to be taken three times a day. As he had 1 % 0 1 , before, this precription having been made up, exclagi;"/ strychnia powder, was administered in the (pla it s .' it', scribed to the patient, a young lady. After takirbtely walked a short distance, then fell, became imraerii i s tig g , sensible, and almost immediately died. As they wo w s old from what he had said, one of the ingredients bad included in the draught administered. If that iniG being included, would have had the effect of neut ra " poisonous qualities in the medicine, then nothing: l e ji alleged against the party charged for haying pros ( r'd' dicines of a dangerous character. But; again s if 1111 „ ; ,;V;. the other ingredients were poisonous, and this 0 ", poisonous also only added to the general effect, tlicif,"se 4 sion must be different, and the person prescribing reirt it for his prescriptions. It was worthy, of remark, t il t", were two articles mentioned ,in that, prescription. , " s ee, compound strychnia poW4r, 2 grs., and bitter to '' , water 6 ounces. These were not to be O ct sfe any former Pharmacopoeia; and any ordinary nr ei; called on to make up the prescription, would be igl' l lg . :, the effect it might have upon the patient. This ni— ber , served, that the last of the ingredients, almond NO' ' 1 0; tamed in it a poison which was extremely dangeroas,4l,, self, and the quantity infused into the water differedre g degree, and contained proportions of prussic aci.,", t were never known to be applied internally. lit' inferred danger ; but it was - connected wit'*: for their were other ingredients, viz., prussic acid of e t ' r/s ✓ strength, 4 drops; the tincture of opium, 16 drops; s d i s powder, 2 grains—all added to the bitter alma ° 0 , 4 The jury would have to inquire what was strychn i4 te f He might tell them what it was, but he would no t e to submit his opinion, as they would have niedi c , s (la men before them from whom it would be the da'" at o grand jury distinctly to ascertain the natur el ss ta s s ingredient, and the effect which it would proda,ol"; whole mixture, whether or not it would neutralize O oz e!: They were then to ascertain whether any evil e, fig e, followed from the omission of that ingredient; hay tamed that, they would inquire whether the death- !' o g F v ; in this case could be traced to the prescription. Ha ul tamed these questions, and satisfied themselvel 00:4 they would inquire whether this prescription bad with an injunction that it might be made up b9 reg e 4 . nary chemist, and thereby showed a rash di y r s human life, as Lord Lyndhurst had ruled, , s l,' t 11; said " I leave it to the Jury to say whether a' e; been occasioned or accelerated by this medic l° sig, second, I tell the jury that the prisoner is manslaughter if he has acted in gross ignorance, o r e vsP, a rash and criminal disregard of human life. Th e ; ) ,er Recorder, after commenting at more length oil ' 4 11 5 culars which he had just laid down, dismissed the V . " to the discharge of their important duties. it The morning was mostly occupied with swearing petit jury. ALLEGED CIIILD MURDER.—On Sa.turcV .William Payne held an inquest at the Three Non s le ito,. Aldgate, on the body of a full-grown newly -born name unknown. William Baker, No. 1, Carter-1",,O; cliff, said that on Thursday evening, about seven 0; $ pt. was in the Crescent, in the Miuories, when he Ti e cei on the sill of the Seamen's Register-offieem„ co s& y , policeman, who found the contents to be the tiv was wrapped in a piece of flannel and a strip of b' areV, Mr. Ball, a surgeon, of Jewry-street, said that the cord had been burned off. He made a post m ortent r- " be tion of the body, and from the state of the right liraf of opinion that the deceased had breathed. Ile . f„i e telf infants to live hours without the lungs being "''r flat ed Verdict—" Found dead." PROVISIONS FROM THE UNITED - fro m Cea',, Washington Irving, from Boston, and Abagr; 26th ins, ton, which were reported at Liverpool on t d 7 700 tla"j bring 1,200 barrels of flour, 5,672 sacks, 411 1, ' an d 245 r I Indian corn, 418 barrels of Indian corn urea ages of bread. • entertainment last evening at the Frenc- }AnTurldi His Excellency Count de St. Aulaihre g, a b v a e s :y. distinguished guests were his Excellency the tbe nister and the Princess Callimaki, his EXCellenCY elan Minister and Ba r o n e ss B nnow, his Eacelle l V Belgian Minister and Madame de Weyer, lency the American Minister and Mrs. Bancroft, hi s eL A lency Count Kielmansegge, his Excellency Chevalier 'i ta a': Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston, Lord Joh n 01 Lord Foley and Hou. MisS Foley, Countess de Jarn a4 de Noalles. M. Panizzi, and M. Cotter. - that, 111°1 ; FOREST OF DEAN.—We are inform-, dience to instructions received during the Pa s ' the e pi keepers of the forest will very speedily remove her cause of complaint by greatly reducing the nuT, ei ,1 . deer, and that in future the preservation of the e . c je, kept within reasonable limits.—Gloucestersliire Chloylf TIIE NEW PAINLESS OP ERATIO N AT VIE e plll i t % TRY HOSPITAL.—A surgical operation was perfi l T e e et ' the influence of ether, by Mr. Laxon, in the pres e .`;! other medical officers of the institution, at the !wallop city, on Sunday, Feb. 14. The subject was ~ yip° named Henry Jackson, a native of Coventry, I'll' l3e e. been living at Bedworth, with his grandmothe r ,,,' i n gyi admitted to the hospit a l o n th e 22d o f D ece mber, nt j to 4 e , very ill and suffering under the e ff ec t s o f s t o ne in the 1,4 with which he had been affli c t e d f or th e last tt'oe eyo Upon applying the instrum en t by means o f whichelto tl ;, is inhaled, the boy appeared to become insensible 1 °,,,,0e.Pe minute and a half. The operation was then e ° ' - d ppe g „ h t The boy struggled considerably at first, but did not - 4 10 0 , suffer pain, as he did not give utterance to any sel l 'pec,, ever, The inhalation being continued, he speedilool';' oblivious to all pain during at least a quar!e: of an. d Operation being unavoidably protraelisd to that perl e c er, large size of the stonC. W hen the operation was e ° the boy had recovered his consciousness, he declar ,1 quite ignorant of everything that had taken place. Herald. A ir "An affair of honour" between a disti °6 01,`:1 disciple of Esculapius and a gallant c apt a i n , arisinfll'i dispute at a late meeting of subscribers to the `" i l),, Agricultural Society, was prevent e d on T u e s day 1 1%M interference of a constable, who arrived at the fielu . ," just as the combatants were prepared for the affray Journal. ROBBERY BY A CLERK.—On Saturday 311 10 was received by the police, that John Hoare, a cler",V, employ of Mr. Mebris, of Parliament-street, had 5 , 11 0 1,r',,` with a cheque for 48/., 33 sov e reigns, a 51. and that he had been entrusted to convey to the tentiary. 0 ). Loss OF TIIE CA RAIBE FRENCH STEA3I4.9; —The Presse publishes th e f o ll ow i ng l e tt er, d ate d Sv i po'' January 13th, 1847, describing the loss of the vess e liti l ' named, and censuring i n severe l anguage the Preci;ir: ,:; with which that vess e l was a b an d one d .— " N ot hi n g a of here but the loss of the steam-frigate Carail", i - t e , ; manded by Admiral Moutagni e s d e l a Roque. Ab°;.0111'; o'clock yeste r d a y morn i ng t h a t f r i gate, re t u rning v a s s t Canary Islands, where she had been to convey M. Q , wrecked on the coast, five leagues to the north of A heavy fog covered the sea at the time. The con / r ed was aware that he was near the land, since he had et ° P o V i o i from midnight to six o'clock in the morning. At O eb eli, t , he got up his steam to reach St. Louis, but during to'', she was stopped the currents had carried her so clog- 0 19 ,; shore that she was no sooner set in motion by t' - r re ,, than she struck the ground. The' misfortune occlictser,, the moment the commander, having a doubt as t ° • ti g 6 il t tion, had given orders to heave I.`he lead. .Ac hac l ik ettl y , some cannon shot in order to obtain assistance, til e „. 0 0 1 . „ 1 , ordered out the boats. But the frigate was su,' a tiv i ; with breakers, and according as the boats were ' .. „ l s i o i they were swamped, and all hands in them perishelsl. 4 the exception of one seaman, who brought an aeo l s olli the disaster to St. Louis towards ten o'clock. The if red population of that town instantly proceeded to the , 0 1 ,1 ,1 With unheard-of effOrts they succeeded in laying 02 ,e the ropes of the frigate, and held her down to the tr t r - It was by these means the crew was saved, hat e hep ' fourths of the seamen would h ave per i s h ed ha d not ci * - it i o trepid negroes of G ue t u d ar se i zed them as they peci into the water. N evert h e l ess. I sa w six or seve, ° , h F 4 l with my own eyes. The landing w as e ff ec ted W" - 000 precipitation, and many of the crew perished avb,...„ '" ° J, have been saved. Some b oa t s , w hi c h arr i v ed , e Zia Louis, brought off all the officers, and the Admiral, ,„ towards seven o'clock in the evening. The ship re "V total wreck, without any hope of saving her. She v (- " 01;4 Boned with by far too much precipitation, for where c attle the men might have remained safe on the pooP vv, several days. The Admiral bivouacked with the ere ll a isOpt sea shore, in order to save as much of the stores as P lo o . ',f and they still remain there. It is a great misfb rt Oo T ol France, and a great misfortune for the Admiral. viiilte6o indeed truly unlucky to have lost a superb frigate, 1 13 4 ) any reason with twenty of his crew drowned e ees,,ry were several soldiers on board the Caraibe who a from the Pepin when she was wrecked, and We'h sequently on board the Caiman when she went ashore iif itt , LONGEVITY.—There is at present a woma n ' s ,eg, in Caledon, named M'Clelland, who is in her 111 0 0 11 ; For upwards of seventy-five years she has kept a F ea ee house, the duties of which she can still p er f or m Wit h A Armagh Guardian. 1 7 . 1 N THE CONFESSIONAL.—CONSPIRACY AMO - „ C4 f r E CLRGY.—The humanizing cler g y i n O x fo r d and otm - bali have lately adopted a plan o f l eav i ng open c hurches , o r hour before each service, an d h a lf an h our a fter it , 1 . „ p le„ purpose of receiving con f ess i on. 'Th ey a l so CO' establishing confrat ern iti es . fi rst i n t h e metro polis, 51 , 3 , 00 cia, ward in provincial towns, the internal policy of the he ari`i? bei-g reserved front the eve of the world to prevent 1 ' 6 10°,4 cipation and defeat of their plans." One of the e ii l ; 4 ete er i , fur corrupting the Protestant laity is to be the eSt 3 u,iiter°;;, of " well-selected lending libraries" for scientific and c ieelj, works, with a judicious admixture of theology and ec tical pamphlets of a certain sort. Dissenters ar e tO 0 1 0 Tressed with s o ft words, instead of "tongue-hammerl3,ooos die principle s o f th e soc i ety are adopted to a sufficientoool, to put do wn w h at t h e prospectus terms , t h e de,: xi confusion of tongues," and substitute "the de e p 00" toned harmony of the one Catholic church I" For 0" s fore -armed.— Oxford Chronicle. • T 1 be lin ev co =. J C B' ha at trl Ve 8U th Pu Iv; th of Wt 1111 Ui V 4 On an