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DEDICATED BY EXPRESS PERMISSION TO lIElt MAJESTY THE QUEEN DOWAGER. Now ready, in 3 vols., with Illustrations, 31s. Gd., bound, MARY ANNE WELLINGTON, THE SOLDIER'S DAUGHTER, WIFE, AND WIDOW. By the Rev. RICHARD COBBOLD, M.A. Author of " The Histery of Margaret Catchpole." " This Interesting work, we have no doubt, will attain greater popularity even thAn Margaret Catehpolc.' "—Sunday Times. Henry Colborn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. 18 and 19, Southampton-street, Strand. MR. °MAIER has this day published the new NOVEL, illustrative of the (lame-Laws, entitled, TIIE POACHER'S WIFE, In two Volumes, post Bvo. Orders received by all Booksellers and Librarians. All Scrip and Share — Certificates must be deposited, the day orellous to their being offered; and adviccs of results will be forwarded by the first post after the sale, and the proceeds Imme diately disposed of according to :1'1 , 41 - Lotions. Offices, Hall of Commerce. Threadneedle-street. London. TIER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. The NobiEty, Gentry, Subscribers t 9 the Opera, and the Public, are respectfully Informed, that this Theatre will OPEN for the KEASON TIIIS EVENING, Feb. l6:11, when will be performed Denizettl's celebrated Opera of LA FAVORITA. Fernando, Signer Garth - ad (his first appearance in this country); Alfonso XI. (King of Castile), Signor Supereld (his first app,aranco) ; Daidassan, Signor Bonehe (his first appearance) ; Leonora, 31dIle. Swinton; Ines, Mdile. Nascio (her first appearauce in this country). The " National Anthem" will be sung by Mdlles. Nasio, Faggrani, and Sanchioli, Signors Gardoni, Bouche, F. Lablache, Superchi, and other Artistes of the establishment and Chorus. After which a new and original grand Ballet, in are tableaux, by M. Paul Taglioni. entitled CORALIA ; on, Lt CHEVALIER INCONSTANT. Corolla, 3ldlle. C. Rosati (her first appearance); the Knight Bill debrand, M. Paul Taglioni ; Squire, M. Gouriet ; Bertha, Mdlle. Petit ; Page, Mdllo. Honore; Duke, M. Gosselin ; Fraisondin, M. renelYa ; Fisherman, M. ill Mattla. DANCES.—Second Tableau—Scene Dan'ants Ilas Caprices, by Mdlle. Rosati. Third Tableau—Pm de la Nymphs des Eaux et de Ses Compa,znee, by Mdlles. Rosati, Montfort, Cassan, and the Corps de Ballet. Fourth Tableau—Pas de la Rosfere, by 31,111 e. M. Taglioui (her first appearance) ; Pas de Deux, by M. P. Taglioni and Mdlle. Rosati ; Deutche Rhein, Valse des Pager et des Demoiselles d'Honneur, by the Corps de Ballet. Fifth Tableau—Pas, by M. d'Or and Mdlle. C. Baucourt ; Ballabile dee ilalbardlers, by Aldine. Stephan, Mdlles. Honore, Cassan, The •enot, Bertin, Julienne, L'Amoureux, and the Corps de Ballet ; Pas de l'lnconstance, by Mdlle. Rosati, Aldme. Stephan, and M. Taglioni. Doors open at Ilalf-past Seven ; the Opera to commence at Eight. TrIEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. The Public is redpectfully infesmed, that, so late as ten minutes to Seven, last evening, the to!lowing certificate was sent to the Theatre : " I hereby certify that Miss Romer Is unable, from sudden indis position, to perform this evening. " Feb. IS, 1847. " HENRY RE EC E, Surgeon.' In consequence of the above, the Theatre will be closed this even ing and to-morrow. THEATRE ROYAL,ItI(ET. Under the Management of Mr. B. Webster, sole Lessee. THIS EVENING Will be performed a new and original Comedy, called THE SCHOOL FOR SCHEMING. Principal characters by Messrs. Far ren, Stuart, Buckstone, Howe, Selby, Brindai, Mrs. Glover, Mrs. Humby, Mrs. Yarnold, Miss Fortescue, Miss Bennett, Miss ltey nolds, &c. During the evening the Band rill perform the Overture, " Lac des Fees," " Plantagenet," " Rose," and " Helen" Polkas, &c. To conclude with the Original Grand Fairy Extravagarrikl, called the INVISIBLE PRINCE; or, the Island of Tranquil Delights. Principal characters by Mr. James Bland, r.liss P. Horton, Kra. L. S. Buckingham, Miss Reynolds, and Miss Julia Bennett. THEATRE ROYAL, LYCEum. Under the Management of Mrs. Keeley. THIS EVENING Will be performed a new Comic Drama, called £5OO REWARD. Characters by Messrs. A. Wigan, Meadows, Emery, 41. Butler, 3liss Ytliars, and Miss Forster. Atter which a new Farce, called THE WIG W Of. Characters by Messrs. Matthews, Oxberry, Keeley, Miss Arden, Miss Turner, Miss Foster, and Miss Mary _Keeley. To be followed by the Farce of THE ETON BOY. Captain Popham, Mr. Wigan; Dabster, Mr. Keeley; Miss Fanny Curry, Miss Dickinson. To conclude with the Farce of MRS. WHITE. THEATRE ROYAL, .DELPHI. Under the direction of Madame Celeste- Will THIS EVENIG be performed the celebrated Dr N ama, called THE GREEN LUSHES; or, A Hundred Years Ago. 3furtogh, Mr. 0. Smith ; Dennis, Mr. Cullentbrd ; Jack Gong, Mr. Paul Bedford ; Grinnidge, Mr. Wright ; Madame St. Aubert, Madame Celeste ; Geraldine, Mrs. Yates.; Nelly O'Neil, Mrs. Fitzwilliam. To conclude with the Fairy Spectacle, founded on the Ballet of LA GISELLE, entitled THE PHANTOM DANCERS; er, the Wills Bride. Principal characters by Mr. Wright, Mr. P. Bedford, 3lr. 0. Smith, Mr. Cullenford, Madame Celeste, Miss Marian Taylor, Miss Emma Harding, Miss Ellen Chaplin, and airs. Laws. PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. J. M. Maddox, sole Lessee and Manager. THIS EVENING Will be perfbrmed the new Musical Romance, entitled THE SEVEN MAIDS OF MUNICH ; or, The Ghost's Tower. Bertrand, Mr.tlisher ; D'Arminconrt, Mr. Barker ; Bollejambe, Mr. Delavanti ; Adolphe, Mr. IWy nu ; Grosdos, Mr. Compton ; Bristle bath. Mr. Walton; Bumps, Mr. Homier ; Seven Maids of Munich, Misses Flower, Rourke, Honner, Mucks, Millar, L. Marshall, and Laporte ; Uriel, Miss Marshall ; Madame Groutz, Mrs Fosbroke. After which, the Comedy of Sir'; STOOPS TO CONQUER. Principal characters by Messrs. Wynn, Granby, Vining, Compton, Fisher, Cowell, Mrs. Stirling, Mrs. Hughes, and Mrs. Fosbroke. In the course of the evening Professor HEMMING and his ta lented CHILDREN will go through their wonderful performances. Previous to the Pantomime the Band will perform " The Ame rican Polka," Introducing "The Railroad Overture." To conclude with the Grand Comte Christmas Pantomime, en titled The ENCHANTED BEAUTIES of the GOLDEN CASTLE; or, The One-eyed Gent. Harlequin, Mr. Bologna; Pantaloon, Mr. Paulo; Columbine, Miss Burbidge ; Sprite, Mr. H. Marshall ; Clown, Mr. Flexmore. FRENCH PLAYS.—ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. Lessee, Mr. John Mitchell. THURSDAY EVENING Will be performed Eugene Sue's popular Play of LES MYSTERES DE PARIS. Jaques ' , errand, M. Leinaitre ; Itlgolette, Foriquet. Boxes, 65.. Pit, 35. Gd. , Stalls, 38.; Callery, 2s. Doors opened at Half-past Seven, and the performances commence at Eight. Private Boxes, Stalls, and Places may he engaged at Mitchell's Library, 33, Bond-street; and at the Box-oftice. ETEIOPIAN gERENADERS, ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. The celebrated ETHIOPIAN SERENADERS, Pell, Harrington, White, Stanwood, and Germon, will have the honour of repeat lad their Inimitable ENTERTAIN3tENTS, at the above Theatre, THIS EVENING (Tuesday), and every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday. Doors open at Eight o'clock, and the Entertainment com mences at Half-past Eight. The Programme will be varied on each occasion. Their next DAY PERFORMANCE will take place en Monday Morning, Feb. 22. foxes, 4s. ; Pit, 2s. ; Amphitheatre, 2s. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Proprietor, Mr. W. Batty. Tinder the patronage of the Queen, Prince Albert, and other Members of the Royal Family.—Mr. BATTY's Fox-Hounds meet every Evening at Half-past Six, d ur i ng the week. THIS EVENING Will be performed THE ROY.A.I. FOX-RUNT; or, Lif e ', c ourse of Men and Steeds. Entire change of the SCENES of the CIRCLE, by the double Company of Foreign Artistes. To conclude with tile successful Comic Equestrian Fairy Pantomime aatitled THE FORTY THIEVE 6 ; or, Harlequin and Ali Baba and the Robber's Cave. Clown, Mr. Rochez ; Harlequin, Mr. W. Har vey : Pantaloon, Mr. Laffarini ; Columbine, Miss Louisa Waite. Box-office open from eleven till five o'clock.—Doors open at six end cwnmence at half-past six o'clock.—Stage Manager, Mr. W. Broadfoot. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Lessee, Mr,. Frances Davidge. THIS EVENING Will be performed a new Drama, entitled BABY RATTLER; or, The Progress of a Scamp. Characters supported by the whole strength of the Company. After which, the favourittl,Ballet of L'AMOUIt ET LA FOLIE. To conclude with TEMPTATION; or, The Fatal Brand. Box•oillcc open from eleven till four o'clock. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. Boxes, is., Half-price, 6d.; Pit, 6d.; Gallery, THIS EVENING Will ba performed TIIE CASTLE OF ST. ALMO. Principal characters by Messrs. Hicks, Dale, Forman, Searle, Bird, Miss Vincent, Miss Pearce, &c. After which, BURIED ALIVE; or, The Eltistrious Stranger, Benjamin Bowbell, Mr. Forman. To conclude with VIE RUINED 1101 7 SE AT 'MILBANK ; or, The Murder at the Lonely Creek. TH E POST-OFFICE AND ST. VALENTINE'S -DAY.— Yesterda• beingthe extranrdin. celebration of St. Valentine's-day, an number of letters passed through the Post °Mee ' ~, In_,Sstc.rti Martin's-le-Grand. Not less than 150.000 letters ' - t i is in i 4` et 7 bes i i o iles on , s, ship, foreign, provincial, and London in the morning 12)0,000 newspapers, were delivered at nine the London distrjt the General post letter-carriers, while in -oice the numbers stool thus :—At the ten o'clock . 4 turns" of the deli very duty 4.5,000, and during the successive delivered, forming a total of 20's,•‘,.ere stamped, assorted, and the day. Independently of these -- >Q OO district letters during letters 'lnd 5,000 newspaper:se numbers, not less than 12,000 received by the mid day the metropolis, mails, and delivered throughowuter? than 120,000 newsp t a Were dispat , lted and not fewer and at night 60,000 letters ; the grand total, Pe t7 ;ne,,, spap„;i4yesterday stands newspapers passing through the 'therefore, of lett'2" and ersi,ooo. ALhough as follows :—Letters, 422,000 been known remarkabletin fact i the dinty yesterday was far heavier than ev On any previous " Valentine's-day," fo i nn t is a of \T a a s im that the frolicsome missives in the never so few, and the returns for those " refused " have ere no before been known to be so sm all. The re ason of this is to be found in the fact of the majority of them having b ees "pre-paid." HEALTH OF LADY JOHN RUSSELL.--Lady John Russell, according to inquiries last evening, in Chesham-place is progressing favourably towards convalescence. The Noble Lord's Parliamentary dinners and also her Ladyship's assem blies are postponed sine die, and provide a uew character and a new face for Ireland. He had now only to thank the House, in conclusion, for the patience with which they had listened to him—and whatever might be the result of the measure, and after what had fallen from Hon. Members in the course of the debate he no longer expected it would now be carried —he was per suaded that ultimately it must be successful.— (Loud cheers.) He honoured those gentlemen who sacrificed conviction to party, but lie thought if any Irish Member wished well to his country, he could not refuse to give his sanction to this measure, which no polittcal agitator, whether he were repealer or imperialist, who had the love and benefit of his country at heart, could object to. No measure for the relief of Ireland half so comprehensive, or half so practical, had ever yet been prepared by any one, and he could only say, whatever might be its result, that it had been brought forward in perfect good faith, without any aim or intention of doing injury to the Government, although they did aspire to the hope of its benefiting a nation.—(Cheers.) On the motion of Mr. B. OSBORNE, the debate was adjourned till to-morrow. On the motion of Mr. C. O'BRIEN, copies of the follow.. ing correspondence were ordered :—Copy of Colonel Jones's letter to Mr. Trevellian, dated the 28th day of November, 18 , 46, referred to in Mr. Trevellian's letter of the 21 d ay of Decein her, 1846. Copy of Mr. Hornsby's letter to Samuel G am bl e, C.E., referred to in Mr. Gamble's letter of the 8:h day of January, 1847, addressed to Lieutenant -Colonel Jones. COTTON WOOL. On the motion of Mr. BRIGHT, the followinc, return was ordered :—Return of th e quant i ty of cotton wo ol h exported from the British possessions in India in each year during which the accounts have been kept, stating the ports from which the shipments were made, the quantity shipped at each port, and the countries to which the cotton was exported, and the ship ments to each country. The other orders of the day were then disposed of, and the House adjourned at Half-past Twelve o'clock. DESICA.TED BY PERMISSION TO THE QUEEN AND TO THE PRINCE CONSORT. TH Now ready, price 2s. 6d. bound, E HON. MISS MURRAY'S REMARKS ON EDUCATION IN 1347. " feel much indebted to the amiable writer of this most in structive volume, for directing attention to many dangerous errors comnecti with the individual training of children of all classes of society, and for the reinolies she has suggested."—Daily News. Henry Colbern, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. RAILWAY SIIABES BY PUBLIC SALE. MESSRS. LAMOND and Co., RAILWAY sHARE AUCTIONEERS, beg to thank their Friends and the Public fbr their continued support and patronage, and to announce that their Public Sales of Railway Shares, &c., sake place every TUESDAY and FIUDAY, at One o'clock, at the /fall of Commerce, Threadneedle-street, London, to which place, favours, containlag instructions (with a reference), arc rapectflilly requested to be addressed. THE SUN THE WEATHER.—SU OFFICE, FEBRUARY 16. THERMOMETER, Lowest, 36; Highest, 52 ; Noon, 44, BAROMETER, 29 82.--WIND W., rain. _ - - 111(111 WATER AT LONDON-13.13.1.DUE TLIIS DAY. Iforaing .. 17 minutes after 2. 1 Evening .. 42 rintni.es after 2. a . ,•; , ..-i, .. . 7 , s i .1 - s oiT twi••4 44 ' .. ,A ..' t.,40. 4 __ • Ni.,-... ,e ... ,„ . . , .:-. :., , i ~,,gep .2q , %',—, 4, ow -,:, „ .t r 7-7,.- .„ .. 4* • m 014 ~,,,i77,..V(42170:-. 3 -•,...,'* t, SECOND EDITION. trail% (*int LONDON, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 184 The great press of matter occasioned by the arrival of an American Express, and by the length of the debate iu both Houses of Parliament, render it impossible for us to give our usual summary of Parliame:dary in!elligence. CABINET COUNCIL A Cabinet Council assembled at twelve o'clock this day, at the Foreign Office, Downing-street. Lord John Russell, Lord Palmerston, Lord Lans dowhe, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and most of the Ministers attended. Dissimilar as the Parliamentary sessions of forty six and forty-seven are in all other particulars, upon the protraction of impotent debates they preserve a striking and mournful resemblance. We have al ready and repeatedly given the Noble Lord the re presentative of Lynn every credit for the most bene volent and magnanimous intentions with regard to Ireland, but we are, nevertheless, persuaded that this benevolence would have but comparatively little attraction to the Noble Lord and his colleagues, were it not intimately blended with the embarrassment of Government and the procrastination of the labours of the Legislature. Did Lord GEORGE BENTINCK feel morally convinced that the introduction of his Irish railway scheme would prove as advantageous to the interests of the Administration as it is certain to be rejected, we question whether he would have exhi bited such an ostentatious sympathy with a starving peasantry and a dejected population. 'We will concede to Mr. DISRAELI the accuracy of his terse panegyric upon the railway measure now under the considera tion of the House of Commons ; we will concede to him that it were scarcely possible fur any one to contend that that measure was " conceived in a spirit of faction or matured by the calculating craft of a scheming ambition." But, with all deference to the gentleness of intention, we must still continue to doubt the wisdom of the conceptions of the Noble Lord. Notwithstanding the agreeable and sparkling , pleasantry with which the Hon. Member for Shrews bury endeavoured to disprove the insinuation that the "navvy " is a gallant, gay Lothario, and to de monstrate that, on the contrary, that industrious labourer is usually a very comfortable Bene dict with children, amounting on the average to a baker's dozen, we must still continue persuaded that the class of men engaged in the con struction of railroads is not exactly the class needing assistance at this crisis. It would savour little of agri cultural economy to expend all our guano, and tillage, and tilage, and irrigation, and so forth, upon the most productive portion of a farm, abandoning only those portions the aridity and barrenness of which most imperatively demand supervision and cultivation ; and it would savour still less of political economy to lavish the whole patronage and munificence of the Legislature upon the most thriving members of the community, leaving to their helplessness and wretched ness the emaciated and the famine-stricken. And that alone would be the operation of the Railway Bill of Lord GEORGE BRISTINCK. Enlarge as Honourable Gentlemen may upon the benefits accruing to the population of any country from the systematic introduction of railways and the conse quent facilitation of transit, the bestowal of 16,000,0001. at this moment upon that gigantic ven ture would only conduce to the pampering of those who are already in excellent circumstances, and the detriment of those to whom assistance is most requisite. Look at the matter in its homeliest light, and that alone is the conclusion at which every sensible and unprejudiced man must arrive. Ireland is not merely threatened with starvation, she is suffering from an unparalleled dearth and an inexorable famine Hitherto, as Mr. DISRAELI felicitously observed, " the Irish question has been how Ire `and is to be governed; now the Irish question is how Ireland is to be fed!" There is the difficulty condensed into a sentence. " How Ireland is to be fed." Not whether Ireland is to be fed, but how Ireland is to be fed. The matter of dispute, therefore, is, as to the manner in which provisions should be placed within the reach of the destitute. By an unanimous opinion it has been decided a considerable time that assistance in the shape of alms and bounties would, if possible, be worse than no assistance whatever. Employment, therefore, is uni versally acknowledged to be the only safe channel for the distribution of relief to the penniless and dying. Upon the suggestion of the Government Parliament is to disseminate employment throughout every quarter of Ireland, northwards, southwards, east wards, westwards, inland, along the coasts of the Channel and the Atlantic, to the dwellers in towns and villages and hamlets, to the farm -servants among corn-fields and to the peat-cutters among bogs and quagmires. And this diffusion of employment throughout the length and breadth of the island is rendered possible by the succession of measures introduced by the Cabinet— the Poor-law extension, the reclamation of waste lands, the loans for agricultural improvement, and the completion of the roads already undertaken. But the Noble Lord the Member for Lynn is averse to these moderate modes of unravelling the threads of Irish distress. He demands a comprehensive enact ment ; he wants a measure that will shed a brilliant though somewhat meretricious lustre upon the Legislature ; he regards the ex traction of wealth and sustenance from mere mo rasses and heaths as peculiarly ignoble. Give us the wizard spells of science, he exclaims, give us the wand of the mechanician and the magic circle of the engineer, and we will conjure you up a paradise of happiness out of this wilderness of misery and desolation. We will treble the crops of Irish agri culturists by a gradient and carry on the affairs of the nation swimmingly upon the broad gauge. Ireland has been plunged into its present difficulties by a too general relian ce upon t h e potato dibble, she shall be extricated by the theodolite. Literally these are the arguments and anticipations of Lord GisoaGE BENTENcx and his supporters. They would sacrifice the interests of the starving peasantry for the iclat of fattening the robust navigators—be those naviga tors gallant, gay Lotharios er Benedicts with families as extensive as that of the old lady in the nursery-rhyme, who " had so many children she didn't know what to do." Lord GEORGE BENTINCK'S Irish pyramid is bottom upwards, the foundations upon which it is built are in nubibus, and its point forms a very un stable and ricketty basis. The Member for Lynn is not destined to extirpate the reptiles of poverty and famine from Ireland. Lord GEORGE is but a sorry substitute for Saint PATRICK. The arrival of the mail-steamer Hibernia has furnished us with intelligence from the United States and other parts of America. Great com mercial excitement, occasioned as well by the political as the mercantile new received from our shores OF WESTMINSTER. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sin,—ls Mr. Cochrane the same person as " Don Juan de Vega," or is he not ? If he be the same person, then the violated hospitality and outraged kindness shown to him at Brighton, Canterbury, Dover, and other places, will rise up in judgment against him, and serve as a warning to the electors of Westminster not to confide in any such wander ing personator. If he be not Juan de Vega, then why not disown it? Lst Mr. Cochrane beware, if he be the fraudulent Spanish refugee that Juan de Vega pretended to be, that he does not meet such an expose as he well deserves, if identical with that vagabond.—Yours, an Elector, J, C. Feb. 16, 1847. NEW ZEALAND. The barque Cecilia, Captain Pearce, with a full cargo of contract Kauri spars, and a small quantity of copper ore, arrived at Plymouth on the 13th inst., from Auckland, New Zealand. The native chief Heki, who ;formerly disturbed the northern colony, continues quiet, and appears likely to remain so. In the south the vigorous measures of Governor Grey have completely suppressed the rebellious efforts of Kangbieta, whose brother was taken prisoner in Cook's Straits, and has been executed, after an investigation which proved his participation in the late disturbances on the river Hutt. The course pursued by the new colonial Government at Wellington gives entire satisfaction. Her Majesty's brig Childers, 12, Commander John C. Pit man, arrived at Auckland from the Cape of Good Hope and Hobart-tows on the 18th of October. Her Majesty's frigate Castor, 36. Captain Graham, arrived the same day from Sydney. Her Majesty's steam.frigate Driver, Captain Cour tenay 0. Hayes, was signalled outside the harbour on the 20th, probably from Wellington. Her Majesty's frigate Cal hope. 26, Captain Edward Stanley, was at Wellington. The Cecilia left on the 19th of October, and brings passengers Captain llowett and lady, of the barque Mary Katherine, stranded on the river Kaiapara, and Mr. Nattrass, from Nel son. The ship Haidee, Capt. Marshall, loading with spars, was to sail for England direct on the Ist of November; and the Madras, Captain Hillbery, rici Valparaiso, on the 27th of October. EXCHEQUER BILLS. AN ACCOUNT "of all EXCHEQUER BILLS raised, or authorised to be raised, charged on the Aids or Supplies of 1847, unprovided for." The Amount of Exchequer Bills authorised to be raised, charged on the Supplies of 1847 £ 1 8,380,200 Deduct for Exchequer Bills paid off in Money in 1846, and provided for from surplus of Ni ays and Means to the sth January, 1847 69,500 Amount to be provided for in the present year ... ... .C 18,310,700 J. PARKER. Whitehall, Treasury Chambers, Feb. 12, 1846. IRELAND. GALWAY ELECTION. GALWAY, FEE. 13.--" HALF-PAST ONE; O'CLOCIL.—The following is an authenticated account of the state of the poll at this moment, taken from the official return : "The solicitor-General (luring the past month, has throughout pervaded the markets of New York a nd other leading cities. Greatly enhanced prices have been demanded upon the chief commodi!ies of trade and commerce. Cotton, flour, wheat, rye, oats, provisions, and the necessaries of life, have attained prices which have never been previously realised. It is considered that these augmented rates of purchase will not be speedily diminished. The information which they will gain by succeeding mails and packet-ships from Europe We are informed that official information was was looked for with the greatest anxiety; and when resterday received that the Emperor of Russia has prohi they learn the prohibition of the Emperor of RUSSIA against the further exportation of core from his bited , all further exportation of corn from his dominions. dominion s , it may be presumed that prices ' generally The electric fluid fell a few days buck on two ( trees, near the road leading from Landerneau to sterre), and reduced them to fragments. A carter who will be still further advanced. It is h NLesneven , was passing at the moment had two'of his horses killed and that, in e :er, gratifying to not i ce . Is, o ' -- the other injured. He himself lay for three hours nearly in the United tensible, but he has since recovered. " OT/aberty " Majority for Monahan ..... 26 "QUARTER TO Two O'CLOCK.—The mail will start in half au hour. The Solicitor-General has added one to his ma jority since the l as t re t urn . Th e polling is not going on so briskly as it Lad been up to one o'clock. LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 16, 1847. States and elsewhere, the resources are ample to meet the demands which have and will continue to be made upon them by their European purchasers. The deficiency of tonnage, and not insufficiency of stock in the commodities required, is the chief draw back to their commercial prosperity. In a short time the great canals will be freed from their icy thrald dom, when vast hoards of grain and bread-stuffs will be rapidly accumulated in the sea-port towns for transmission to Europe. Congress has empowered the PRESIDENT to issue twenty-three millions of Treasury notes. The pro ceeds arising from the sale of the public lands are expressly mortgaged to pay the interest of six per cent., and to redeem, at the expiration of twenty years, the notes, or the stock into which they may be converted. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, QUARTER TO THREE. The sales of Cotton in the Liverpool market yesterday were 2,500 to 3,000 bales, including 2,000 bales American at 65d. to 75d , and 250 bales of Surat at 3, 7 s d. to 4%d. per lb. The market closed heavily, and prices were without any par ticular alteration. Railway Shares were rather firm. The accounts from the United States, per Hibernia, have set people quite in a ferment here, and some of the more cautious hands, remembering the former American revul siens, predict violent fluctuations in the produce markets ere long, attended by the usual consequences to those who have bought high and may have to sell low. There is, at any rate, very little fear of short commons while spe culators force up prices, and if sufficient supplies be secured before prices fall, consumers here may have no reason to complain. The danger in these cases generally is that the losses incurred by the rashness of speculators check others from entering into the business, and thus the supplies would not steadily continue. The state of affairs generally in New York, New Orleans, Fec., was favourable in other respects, and the money market was easy, while the exchange had been steadier. The packet has some fair orders for goods, as far as we can yet learn. We are happy to see that active steps are being taken at Toronto to form a Joint-stock Forwarding Establishment. It is to be called the Canada Steam Navigation Company. It was stated, at a meeting held there, that the freight of a barrel of flour between Toronto and Liverpool, was, arid had been for a long while back, two dollars per barrel ; if this Company succeeds, one half of this will be saved, and thereby an increase on the price of wheat effected of no less than one shilling currency per bushel ! The public revenue from the canals was dependent on it also, and consequently every tax-payer was directly interested. If this company succeeds, the canals, even at a greatly reduced rate of toll, will be profitable; but unless the forwarding by the St. Lawrence is put at th e l owest rate, the public works will be a burden on the country. The speakers at the meet ing expressed themselves confident that the enterprise would be heartily responded to throughout the province, and espe cially in Montreal and Quebec. In a report of the business of the Champlain and St. Law rence Railroad it is stated that the nett gain for 1816 was 10,203 L; the number of passengers having been 52,177, and of goods 17,969 tons. The St. Lawrence and At lantic Railway is likely to require all its capital in this and next year, and is to apply to the Legislature for power to borrow money—a curious omission in the charter already obtained. The Stock Market has experienced a re-action again, and the improvement of yesterday is lost. Consols for present transfer have been marked 90 1 ,f z 3 / 4 ; and for Time about !i t per cent. above those values. The New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. have been 92% to 92%; and the Three per Cents. 91 to India Stock was at 249 1 . Exchequer-bills have fallen very decidedly, viz. to Ss. premium, and it is probable that the Bank of England is parting with more of its Government Securities. The Foreign investments are wholly neglected. Portu guese Four per Cents. realise 34% to 35. Spanish Three per Cents. are 35%. Russian Bonds have been firm at 112. Railway Shares have nominally been very steady, but evi dently sales to any extent would lead to a depreciation, ex. cept in special instances. BIIITISII FUNDS THIS DAT AT OBE O'CLOCK. (From the Official List.) Three per Cent. Reduced Annuities • • 91% Three per Cent. C onso l s Annuities .. • . 90%.74 1 s a New Three - and-a-Quarter per Cent. Anns. 92%14 sLs Long Annuities, Expire Jan. 5, 1860 • • 9 11-16 9-16 India Stock ..• •• •• 2193 India Bonds, 1,0001, The continuance of hostilities between the States and Mexico embarrasses the PRESIDENT and Con gress as much as ever. The perplexity, both of the war itself and its direct consequences, political and commercial, is what every patriot throughout the civilised world will rejoice to learn the iniquitous invaders of Mexican indepen dence are now bitterly experiencing. In the Senate the general feeling seems favourably to point to the establishment of a speedy peace. A direct resolution to this effect, moved by Mr. STEPHENS, and couched in terms subversive of the grasping policyof Mr. PoLit, was only lost by twelve votes. On the other hand, the Mexican Congress have rejected every overture for peace whilst a single soldier or ship of the United States remains in their territory or infests their coast ; and to this the majority of the Congress have sworn under the solemnity of an oath. Canada and the United States are raising handsome subscriptions to testify their sympathy with the distressed condition of Ireland and the Highlanders. This spirit of charitable munificence, beyond the posi tive benefit of alleviating human misery, has the glo rious tendency of binding the nations of the earth together ; teaching the afflicted that,:however dis tantly severed they may be by a vast expanse of the ocean from the more favoured portions of the uni verse, the voice of distress is no sooner heard than philanthropy spreads its wings to succour their distresses. Intolligenee has been received from Lisbon of the oth, and from Oporto of the 9th inst. QUEEN'S BENCH.-(THIS DAY.) INGRAM V. GANT AND BLUNDELL. This was art action brought by the plaintiff; a surveyor, to recover 55/. from the defendants, who were the engineers to the Cheltenham, Oxford, and London Junction Railway, for work and labour and expenses rendered and incurred during twenty days he was employed by them in surveying a por tion of the line in question. He sought 2/. 2s. a day for his professional services. The defendants had paid the plaintiff' 441. 10s., and denied their further liability beyond 5/. They characterised the claim as exherbitant, and seemed to think that the " go's" of brandy, wine, and other compounds, which formed pro minent features in the plaintiff's bill, were not strictly ex penzes incidental to the performance of the task for which the plaintiff was engaged. The jury, however, considered that some reductions ought to be made, and gave the plaintiff' a verdict for 45/. Os. 3d. The greater part of the day was occupied in trying cases of no interest save to the parties immediately concerned. Count BO3IFDI and his unfortunate companions have been sent off to Angola. A guerilla of seventy men had been dispersed at Thomar by the QUEEN'S troops ; but, on the other hand, GALAMBA'S guerilla had sur prised and taken prisoners Major ILITARCO and 130 men at Alcacar do Sal, in the Alemtejo. Several small actions had taken place with various success. SALDANHA'S head-quarters still continued at Agueda, eleven leagues from Oporto. CASAL was entrenched at Viana, closely watched by DAS ANTAS, who i 3 at Barcellos. Since AVDONELL'S death several of his officers have joined the Junta. The blockade of the Douro is very imperfectly maintained. The British frigates America and Thetis are stationed off the Bar, and the British war steamers Gladiator, Polyphemus, and Bloodhound, and the brig-of-war Nautilus, in the inner waters of the Douro. Eveything was quiet at Oporto, which was abundantly supplied with provisions. South I S , e i f t i t S o Ditto, under 1,0001. , to O e l k d A . 1 •111 u t . l es• • • • 6-91 ,4 Consols for Account • • ••• • • . 00% % Exchequer Bills. 13id. I%d. • •• 3 5001. .. „• •• • • 4 5 1-- pm, Ditto. Small Ditto, Advertised • • ••' PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK. Portuguese Four per Cent .. 35 34i Russian Bonds, 5 per Cent • • • • Ditto, for the Account Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent. • • .. Ditto, Three per Cent .. • • • • 35% BUSINESS DONE IN RAILWAY SHARES AT ONE O'CL, RAILITATS. PAID. PER SHARE. Amber., Notting., Boston, & Eastni Jn. 2% .. to Birmingham and Oxtbrcl Junction .. •• 14% %• • to Birmingham, Wolver.,& Stour Valley 5•. • • 614 to Bristol and 11:xeter .• • • .. 75 •• • • 7654 .... to Buckinghamshire ..• 84s. x. int. to Eastern Counties .. • • • • 20.. 21% % x. div. to Do., Perpetual,s peret. No. 1, 61. 13s. 4d % p.. to Ditto, York Extension • • • • 4 • Edinburgh and Glasgow .. • • •• 50 •• • • 7614 —.. to Great Northern (London & York Itegd) 23 •• • • 2%.... to Hull and Selby .. .. • • .. •• 50 .. •.to Ditto, Halt Shares . • .. 25 50 1 ,4 x. d. to Ipswich and Bury St. Edmunds •• 14 .• •• •••. to Ditto, ditto, and Norwich.. • • • • 5 •• • • 3 3'• •• • • to Lancaster and Carlisle 50 London and Blackwell .. 161. 13s. 4d. ••• • .. ••to Ditto, New, No. 2 .. •• • • •• • • 1 P•• • • to London, Brighton, and South Coast • • 50 .. • • 55% .... to London and North-Western • • ..100 •• .. 184 x div. to 1t334 Ditto, Quarters .. „, • • • • 2 •• 22 .. ••to Ditto ditto New .. .. • 2 .. • • to Ditto, 40/. Shares • • 31. and B. .. 40 .... 7231 zdto London and South•• Western 411.6.,. 10d. .. • • 64% .... to Manchester and Southampton .. 2 •. • • 1% •• • • to Midland • • • • • • • . • • • .100 • • 12054 xdto Norfolk .. .. • • • • • • ..100 . •.•• to Ditto, Half Shares .. • • .. 10 .... 124.... to North British • • •• . • ••25.. • • 34% —.. to Ditto, Extension .• • • %•• , • 1%.. ••to Shrewsbury and Birmingham (A) • • 3 .. • • 4 •• to Ditto, ditto (13) •• .. 1% .... to Shrewsbury and Hereford ••• • • 2 • • 1% .... to South Devon • • • • •• 40 ••• 32 .. ••to -- South Wales .. •• •• 1 •• •• N••• • to South Yorkshire, Doncaster, & Goole 2 .. •• 2% 1 4 to ivrans. & Loughor & Cameron's Stm.. 2..• • 2% to Windsor, Staines, and South-Western 425. • % p.. to York and Newcastle •- • • 25 .. • • 36 •• • • to Ditto, New • .. .. • • • • • . 5 .. • • 11 , 31 .• to Ditto, Preference .• • • • • 4 .. • • 87i, •• • • to York and North Midl an d .• • • 50 ... to Ditto, Extension .• .. • • .. 20 •. • • 3614 to Ditto East and West Riding Extension 10 .... 21% • to FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Dutch 'Rhenish •• •. •• 7 ...• 41y .. • to Great Indian Peninsular .• • • • • Os. ...• •. • to Italian and Austrian .. • . .. 4 •• • • • to Madrid and Valentia .• •• • • 2 .. • • %•••• to -- Namur and Liege •• • 8 .. • • .... to Nerthern of France .. •• 121,4 %.. to Sambre and Meuse .. • • • • 12 .• • • 6% •• • • o JOINT-STOCK BANKS. British North American .. ••.. 50 ...• ... •to 8p . •• •• 14 p •• .. 112 CLERKENWELL.-(THIS DAY.) Thoma s Warwood and Caroline Andrews, persons of c dour, were charged with violently assaulting Mr. Alexander Ful lerton, and robbing him of a purse containing 11/. 10s. The evidence went to show that the prosecutor met the two prisoners in the City Arms public-house, in the City road, and having treated them with gin until they were all partially intoxicated, went out into the yard, where he was followed by the prisoners and knocked do wn b y W arwood, who, as well a s th e female, kicked him about the head and face in the most brutal manner, and took his purse out of his waistcoat pocket, which another person swore he saw passed by the male to the female prisoner, who passed it again to a coalheaver in the bar of the City Arms. They were remanded, in order to afford time to the police to trace the purse and the partyfrho had lost it. A lad, about fifteen years of age, named Connell, in the employ of Messrs. Gilbert and Rivington, the extensive printers, in St. John's-square, was charged with stealing an immense quantity of valuable brass-work, consisting of plain and toothed wheels, rules, brass and iron clasps, and various other articles used both in machinery and composing; and an elderly man, of respectable appearance, named Young, a marine 'store-keeper, at No. 3, Colonnade, Brunswick ' square, was charged with receiving them, knowing them to have been stolen. Mr. Wakling appeared on behalf of Messrs. Gilbert and Rivington, and stated that the prisoner Connell had been in their employment as an assistant to the stoker, when the storekeeper having missed a quantity of brass work, sus picion fell upon the younger prisoner, and upon a close search being made in the fire-room several wheels and other articles were found secreted in the coals. After some hesi tation he confessed having stolen them and a great many others, and sold them to the prisoner Young at various times for very small sums of money. Sergeant Archer at once pro ceeded to Young's house, in the Colonnade, which he found crammed in every co rner w i t h art i cles sold by marine-store dealers; although no name was upon the door to indicate the nature of the traffic carried on. A vast number of articles, which were identified by Messrs. Gilbert and Rivington as their property, were found amongst the stock upon the premises, the greater part of which had been purchased by Young at almost a no minal price; three toothed wheels, which were worth 305., having been bought for 7d. from the prisoner Connell. Young complained that he had not had time to prepare his defence, and requested that the further investigation of the case might be adjourned, in order that he might procure the attendance of Mr. Ballantine as his counsel. Mr COMBE acceded to the application. Madrid journals of the Bth have arrived. They con fain no intelligence of importance. It was a holiday ai ,he Bolsa. We have received the Paris papers of Sunday. The correspondence between Lord NORMANDY and Lord PaLarEasroN is published in all of them. The Journal des Debats merely publishes the letters together with the passage in M. GUIZOT'S speech to which they refer. The .Epoque sneers at the Marquis of NORMANDY for " rushing into print," while the Presse, which on this occasion would seem to be emulous of out-Guizot-ing GITIZOT i❑ disregard for truth, declares that " since his arrival in France the Marquis of NOR. MANBV has been the adversary of the Government, and the friend of the enemies of the Government." The Notional declares that after the publication of Lord PALMERSTON'S note to Lord NORMANDY, either M. GUIZOT or Lord PaLmEnsToN must retire, if it is desired that any terms should bo kept between the two Governments, inasmuch as Lord PALMERSTON'S laconic note amounts, in fact, to a posting of M. GUIaOT as a shameless liar (un tgronte menteur). Notwithstand ing all the coquetting of M. GUIZOT with the absolutist Powers, notwithstanding all the sacrifices which the French Government has made to propitiate them— sacrifices which have completely alienated from the Government all the Liberal party of France and of the rest of the Continent—it is no longer doubtful that the northern Powers hare joined Lord PAL)IERSTON in his protest against the marriage. He has completely turned M. GUIZOT'S position, and that not by making sacrifices, but by persuading those Powers to adopt a liberal course of policy. Since their junction with Eng land, Prussia has had a constitution granted, and Austria has abolished feudal rights. This has greatly increased the favour with which Lord PALMERSTON is regarded by the Liberal party in Franee, and certainly his conduct has throughout these transactions been marked by great ability. The Three per Cents. were done on Sunday in the Passage of the Opera at 77f. 70c. litAnsintLas, FEE. 9.—Marseilles and Avignon, 830 f. ; Northern, 615 f. LYONS, Fits. ll.—Paris and Rouen, 8781. 75c. ; Avignon and Marseilles, 8221. 50c.; Northern, 608 f. 75c.; Paris and Lyons, 468 f. 75c. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT TAB LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, FEBRUARY 15. Boulogne and Amiens, 14 %—Dordeaux, Toulouse, and Cette (Espolete), yi —Dutch Rhenish, 4%—ltalian and Austrian, 2% Luxembourz, 2—Northern of France, l2%—Paris and Strasbourg, 3 i4 —Raven and Havre, 263 i az div. MINES Real del Monte, Unregistered .... 3% • • to Erratum in Yesterday's List—Read London and North-Western Quarter Shares 21 Instead of 15. LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY) LONDON, Fps. 16. —Wind W.S.W., fresh breeze and hazy. STOPPAGES ON THE GLASGOW RAILWAY. DEAL, FEB. 15.—Wind W.S.W. to W.N.W., moderate; from N.W. by W., squally.—Arrd. Aqua Marine, Conellv, China; Britannia, Bowes, Bombay; James Weueen, Cona ley, Honduras ; linneganee, Milcher, New Orleans, and sailed for Dundee. LIVERPOOL, FEB. 15.—Wind W., fresh.—Arrd. Red Rose, Savannah;pCrns c ditto; i ; tt Minerva, meteerotr Ln .b ,a l iw o i r ra r em i n s :Morrison, Singapore; Albion, Gordon, Calcutta; Hope, Wylie, ditto; I,, A D,6 l o l wm e Allegro, Orleans; nesn;i Citizen,uA ; Albatross, a Hesperus,tsrotsascf:)sr Stafford, ton, ditto; Ellen Brooks, Howe, Savannah; Superior, ditto; Orleans. Off port, Rhone, Harvey, Baltimore; Edwin, Wales, New York; Pit- FEB. Wind S.S.W.—Arrd. Rokeby, toma, Donaldson, St. Andrew's; Zanoni, Sim, St. John's, New Brunswick; Corsair, Cumming, Newfoundland. Sid ' . Wind W. —Arrd. Forrester, Val FEB. 15.—Wind W.—Arrd. Cecilia Lanercost, Hong KoNnegw; B D r a u l a m s a w t i i c a k , ..Ne w Westmoreland and Indus. OFF CAPE CLEAR.—James Christie, Berbice. Valparaiso. Robison, piiL E uy w i 311, c ,o a sFu s t T. T E ILBJI John's, a, Pearse, New Zealand. SUNDERLAND, FEB. 14.—Wind N.W.—Arrd, George Gor don, Smith, Maulmain. Sld. P e ki n steamer, Hong Kong. SOUTHAMPTON, FEB. 15.—Wind N.W.—Arrd. Montrose steamer. COWES, FEB. 13.—Wind S.W.—A rr d. A rgo Gerritz, Rio jaOnFeisr•ok aß GATE, FEB. 15.—Wind W, _Ki r k man Finlay, Martin, Calcutta. tanßh:ollucFsAe,S FEB.Sl3.—Wind S.—Sid. Ohi o, Philadelphia. Ctßl3.' Wind W.S. W.— Arrd. Elizabeth, Johns, l3al- New Brunswick ; Victoria, White Pa tagonia; Sandwich, Chunn, St. John's, New Brunswick'. DEAL, Firs. 15.—The Sisters, Tippett, o f and from Halifax to St. John's, Newfoundland, was ab an d oned in a sinking state on the 28th ult., in lat. 40 N., lon. 43 W. ; cr ew an d pas sengers saved and brought here by the Winn eganee. LIVERFOOL, FEB. 15 . The Venus (b r i g) sailed from was wrecked previ ous t o the 27th ult.; passengers saved. The Amelia (brig) f rom P rince hence e u Cumberland lo b rtl7 andnßd o , s N ht Boston, , S ns n since been heard o f. T he Milo, Grace, , not for this port, touch e d at E astport and left crew and Edward's Island to this port, was destroyed by fire, Dec. 24, off Charlotte Town. The Arabian, Hawkins, from New Orleans, was in contact last night in the river, and lost bow sprit, cutwater, &c. WHITBY, FEB. 15. The Hebden, Wetherall, of tin. Sca rborough, put in here to - day with loss of bowsprit, head, an d cutwater, having been in contact with a light brig, name known, and afterwards, in coming up, got foul of the Por poise, at anchor, which sank. GLOUCESTER, . a FEB. 1 - 15 .—Wind N.W.—Arrd. Jane Boyd, Alexander, Valparaiso. GUERNSEY, FEB. 13.—The Rose, from Newcastle, struck on a sunken rock last night and sunk ; crew saved. PLYMOUTH, FEB. 14. A great quantity of timber, ap parently cargoes of wrecked vessels, was passed near Cape Finisterre and in Corunna Bay by the Transit (steamer) arrived here. GLOUCESTER, FEB. 15.—The Delta, Robinson, of and for this port, from Newport, with coals, parted her chain and drove on shore last night, between the English Stones and British River, and sunk; crew saved. Cann:FT, FEB. 15.—The Mary Joseph, of Dungarvon (wheat laden), is on shore near Scilly Island. MARYPORT, FEB. 14.—1 t is blowing a heavy gale at S.S.W. The Hero, Sullivan, from Belfast, came on shore last night, but has been got off and into port to-day. The Fox, Surrage, from B e lf as t, go t o n shore to the north of this harbour, but will be got off without damage. HULL, FEB. 15.—The Thalia, from Shields, got in contact 13th instant, with a large light ship, and is pulling into Grimsby, with considerable damage- CLAY, FEB. 15.—The Ovis, of Sunderland, came on shore west side of Blakeney Harbour this morning; is expected off next tide. WAINFLEET, FEB. 15.—Th e T r io, of Chichester, was in contact in Yarmouth R oa d s 13 t h i ns t. with a schooner, name unknown, and was run on shore at Skegness leaky, but since repaired and proceeded. NOTICE TO MARINERS.—NEW LIGHT ON SAND KEY. The agent at Lloyds at Key West states that a temporary schooner light-vessel, to replace the lighthouse on Sand Key, destroyed in the October gales, would be placed as near the spot of the former light as possible about the 10th of Janu ary last. She will have a fixed light, 43 feet above the level of the sea, and be seen, in clear weather, at from six to seven miles' distance. The lantern is four feet square, single lamp, without reflectors. The agent also states that the lighthouse at Cape Flanders is in a state of forwardness. (From the Scotsman.) , The miserable mismanagement as regards mere secular business of the active theologians who at present conduct the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway is getting more and more beyond endurance. As in previous cases, we cannot attempt to find room for all the mishaps of the week, but confine ourselves to the latest. ' When the dispatch train from Edinburgh of Thursday morning had gut to the open country beyond Falkirk, it very peacefully and noiselessly came to a dead stop. Heads were immediately popped out of windows, and inquiries uttered of "Ilolloa! what's the matter thsre ?" and such like ; to which the very simple and emphatic answer, " Stuck," was returned by the officials of the train, who were standing looking on with much com placency, like people who were accustomed to such a phenomenon, and were curious to see its effect on strangers. " Bless me, how did it happen ? 1.; ill we be long kept ? Can we get out with safety ?" were the sort of exclamations that succeeded the intimation. " With perfect safety," said the proper officer, with a sardonic grin ; " here we stick till the slow train comes up." " Confound it !" shouts a lively English voice from the interior, " this sort of thing seems to happen once a week here." " You would be more correct if you said once a day, sir," was the rejoinder of the philo sophical official. Some of the passengers, the object of their attempt to visit Glasgow being defeated, returned to Edinburgh with the next train from the west, and a few had a benefit they had not anticipated or paid for when they left Edinburgh—an exhilirating walk westward over the frozen moor. When they reached Castlecary, they took the opportunity of giving their views of the matter hi the following document : R• COCHRANE arid the ELECTORS "Castlecary Station, Feb. 11, 1847. " We, the subscribers, passengers by the ten o'clock fast train from Edinburgh to Glasgow, state that the engine came to a dead stop at a quarter past eleven o'clock, a short distance west from Falkirk. " We understand that the accident occurred from the breaking of a decayed pipe in the fire basket ; and we beg to record our conviction that this stoppage pro ceeded from no other cause but the carelessness of those ' whose duty it is to provide proper engines on the line. " JAMES DIX, Bristol. " ROBERT ALLAN, Edinburgh. " J. 11. BURTON, Edinburgh. " WILLIAM NICHOLSON, Lime-street, London. " JOHN SPENCE, 10, Hunter-square, Edinburgh. " HENRY HOLDING HICK, Northampton. " W. WOOD, Leith. " DAVID PORTEOUS, Walsall, Staffordshire. " ROBERT CORMACK, Berwickshire, r w , unquestionablyA ItEN , Leith." ,fast in the neutral "es WILLIAM t sr e ua , 'e n qn d G: sense of the wor d , rece i ved a friendly shove from the " slow tr a i n ," which left Edinburgh at eleven o'clock ; e a tnsogtl the Glasgow i efiknletadl wonder Castlecary d by er a of p i t l i o le t a e pt n aa g s s i ge n un ie ga r d e tr i e s s p b i t e a f t Tocwrhha‘eed on from r was not much more than an hour and a half beyond its proper time. I MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.) HAY MASI 3VSITs. SMITIIFIELD.—IIIeadow Hay, 218 s to 31163; Clover ditto, 3/ 5s to 4/ IGs ; and Straw, 1/ lOs to 1/ 14s per load, A moderate supply, and a sluggish demand. CUMEERLAND.—Meadow Hay, 2/ 8s to 31 18s ; Clover ditto, 3/ 5s to 41 15s; and Straw, 1/ 12s to 1/ 15s per load. Trade dull, at the above quotations. WHITECHAPICL.—Meadow Hay, 2/ 5s to 3/ Hs; Clover ditto, 3/ 8s to 5l; and Straw, 11 lOs to 1/ 14s per load. Supply good, and trade exceedingly dull. COLONIAL. SLTOAR.—The market for British Plantation is without change, only about 250 hhds having been sold at previous rates. The public sales have consisted principally of 40 hhds 50 tierces of Barbadoes, 60 hhds 30 tierces Berbice, 4,190 bags Mauritius, 5,530 bags 200 cases Bengal, 310 bags Madras, and 940 baskets Penang, all of which found buyers, but went off heavily, and in most instances at a further reduction of Gd to Is, with the exception of white Bengal, which brought about previous rates. The British Plantation was chiefly in small lots of in ferior quality, and affords no guide. The M aur iti us b roug h t 48s to 52s Gd for mid to fine yellow; Bengal low to fine white Benares 50s Gd to 55s Gd; low soft brown to good yellow Mauritius kind 41s to Sts; Madras, low to good brown, 3Fs to 42s Gd; and Penang 38s to 44s Gd for very low soft to good srown. Privately about 300 chests good - brown Bahia sold at 24s to 24s 6d per cwt. COFFEE.—Good ord Native Ceylon realised 42s to 43s per cwt. Rust.—Since the contract was taken there has been rather less doing, SA LITEFRE.-3,250 b4gs Bengal sold from 25s Gd to 26s for 11 1 ,, to 7 per cent. refraction. TALLow.—P.Y.C.is 49s 6d to 53s per cwt on the spot, and Town 52s per cwt. TEA. —The market is steady, and there is a fair business doing for consumption. Izepicio --The sales are going off well. HOUSE OF LORDS.-(THIS DAY.) The House of Lords sat again to-day to hear appeals. The Peers in attendance were the Lord Chancellor, Lord Sidney, and the Bishop of St. Asaph. V. WILSON. The further arguments WlLSON in this part-heard appeal from he decikion of the Vice-Chancellor of England occupied :heir Lordships the whole of the morning. PRIVY COUNCIL.-(THIS ]JAY.) The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council were occu pied the whole morning in hearing appeals from the • Ad miralty Court, none of which postessed any points calling for a particular report. The Lords of the Judicial Com rnittee in attendance were Lord Brougham, Lord Campbell, Lord Langdale, Sir Herbert Jenner Fust, and the Chancellor of the Duchy of Cornwall. V ICE - CHANCERY.-(THIS DAY.) (Before Sir J. K. BitucE.) His Honour was occupied to-day in hearing petitions which were of no public interest. REASONS FOR MAKING RAIL WAYS IN IRELAND. I. Because, the formation of railways in Ireland would rot only furnish employment to large numbers of persons, which would relieve the present distress, but would furnish also permanent employment in the maintenance and working of the railways when completed. Because, railways in Ireland are desirable for the general convenience and advantage of the whule community of the United Kingdom. 111. Because, railways when formed, would be property of a profitable nature, created by labour otherwise unem ployed. IV. Because, they can be constructed, and the people thus fed, not only without even the temporary abstraction of a single farthing from the public Treasury, or from the millions which are annually added to the wealth of this country, but may be made conducive to the increase of both. V. Because, the money for making the railways might be easily provided by the means of Exchequer notes of 1/. each, bearing no interest, and receivable in taxes and other Govern ment payments, without cost to the Exchequer, and without disordering the national finances. VI. Because, on the contrary, the circulation of such Exchequer notes, by providing the wages of labour, would increase the consumption of exciseable articles, and thereby improve the national revenue. VII. Because, the necessity would thus be obviated of borrowing money in the market at interest, and thus (at .3L per cent.), an annual burden of 560,000/. would be saved to the country. VIII. Because, the only unobjectionable way of distri buting food to the able-bodied, being in return for labour (and not by way of charity), and money being admitted on all hands to be the only medium through which labour can be efficiently employed, and wages paid, there now exists an imperious nece ss ity f or an additional quantity of such me dium. IX. Because, this additional quantity of circulating me dium being required to supply a deficiency that exists, the issue thereof can have no injurious effect upon the existing currency; a danger only apprehended, even by the most cautious, when there is a supposed issue in excess. X. Because, as the Exchequer-notes proposed would be the instrument of paying the wages of labour, and would supply the absence of the usual means of payment in pvictice in Ireland, by barter of potatoes and other food, re cently destroyed to an extent far exceeding 15,000,000/., they would, in an especial manner, benefit the labouring classes in Ireland, whose distresses, in the present extraor dinary exigence, they are intend e d t o re li eve. Xl. Because, the money so provided would not withdraw the means cf prosecuting other useful occupations, but would, on the contrary, and especially at the present time, tend to stimulate and ass i st the general industry of the ustr country. fIIILANTHROPIC SOCIETY, ST. GEORGE'S-YIELDS.— From the report just p u bli s h ed of the above Society, it ap. pears that durin g the pant two months eleven additional boys have been received into the Institution, from different prisoses, of whom five were orphans. Twenty-five have been admitted from Parkhurst Prison, Isle of Wight, upon the recommendation of the Secretary of State for the Home Department. Among the donations recently forwarded are those from William Wilberforce, Esq., 211; Miss Benyon (second donation), 311. 10a.; and John Baring. Esq„ 201. DEATH or LADY FRANCES STEPIIENS.-I'his esti mablegl.:t F o l 'c i l G a r l . s — , lady died on Wednesday last, at her seat in Devon shire. her Ladyship was only daughter of the late Earl Manvers, and was born June 19, 1781. bo ß ut Uß h N al l f ts_ p G ast lN ei On — Thursday evening, considerable disturbance was DETERMINED SUlClDE.—Yesterday morning, 1 . . ilargaret's-street, to witness the gof an be tween twelve and one o'clock, a young man, named William Mooney, residing with his parents in John's. court, Golden square, committed suicide in a most determined manner, by a strangling himself. The deceased had been for some time in Fre t a l ted .n it s t , Ca i nterbury by a large body of bonnieassem a—desPonding state, owing, it is supposed, to some love affair. bli , N l T lr e l : a tits m lte e erf a , and Greene eGa tradesmen,trieoe:ln. e r ri e l fu e il l i ni gs ad ,ys c i o n : g. a fo st r i t n i et : ier t to shopst ehaensao rule tf vn the previous night he returned home apparently in better effig g y, l w__ich it was represented would take place in front of spirits, and shortly afterwards retired, as it was thought, to Messrs. "..eanle and Greene's grocery establishment. This his bed-room. At the hour above-named the deceased's bro- singular exhibition had been brow ht about in cons uenc g eti e in tattered uniforms of a yellow colour , F or some days past his feet touching the ground. He immediately cut him eight o'clock, to afford their shopmen and others the oppor- Bayoune contains the following:—"TllE FLORES EXPEDITION. The Phare de t s L I e i p r, e n o d n e entering b3 a s i t l h k e han water-closet, kerch ie f was ro alarmed an iron h t() o o fi k n , d w h i i t i i n , ta o : f ilin, ll ipt i t ; : s du s f r b s 3 . a ment. several men have been observed wandering about our streets down, but life was quite extinct. and presenting a BU RGLARS D isT u ßß ED.—Yesterday mornin g th e bringing together nearly a thousand persons, some of whom most wretched appearance. We understand that they are family of Mr. Forman, a tradesman, residing at No. 16, threw stones and broke several panes of glass in Messrs. abncodi,seanidn h T i lg r n is c i ozr s nit , te ß d o t i pr T is li o E n. — u - C N os l i T te E sb D usy./our/w/. Surrey.row, Nackfriars, were su dd en ly a l arme d b y burglars. learns and Greene's windows. Some persons implicated General o French siu,lhojreecst,s butssli who had been b i s l ' a e a n beenernoll abandoned.ed for the expedition iljerev,,er o e f 1,500 Spaniards, all of About half past five o'clock, about 100 Frenchmen enrolled and STATES.—The whom are now dispersed." the room ;here he was lying, was much al ar med by seeing two men walk into the apart- Q. E. D. from New York, Shenandoah from Philadelphia, M s r. ud i d 'o e r n n ly a n ros h e ea u ri p ng i n He leaped out of bed, but the thieves effected their and Harmony and llowland from New Orleans, which were yesterlay, a man named Matthe.v Jowatt was coMmitted for escape le it, tottelt valuable property behindu them whi c h rep, ft ,,, l at f : rei . pw ,, .., the 13ti , i ,,, , , . :: , g , 6,873 barrels SIIEEP STEALING.—At Brentford Petty Sessions trial, Charged with having k i ll e d mid stolen a sheep, the pro- i tilos Ild tied tip ready fur eariTinA.; away They had ran- flour, .12,000 I.mshels v i.-,t, 3,349 !,-,,.'-: 11:diaa corn, 1,000 perry of Mr. Warr en , a f armer a t ssiewortn, in whf.*e service i sack e d th e drav,-,a.s in the "rTer r ( nctrls of Wes apparel imt re.!s Tmlin corn meal, and 46) isarrels bread. Jowatt thrinerly wat. Part of the stierp V% as futthd iu the j and other things. Tncy has behind them a skeleton key, a ' We re -t to announce grc thedecease of the Countess prisoner's cotta , b '1• • ther portions 6e, oi ing in a pot, and o- were quantity of , lucifer-matches and various implements used • in Dowager of Shrewsbury, whose serious indisposition was fouud sewed up in the bed. housobreaking• mentioned in this journal a few days since. Her Ladyship was the widow of the 15th Earl. MILLBANK PRISON. Copy of a Letter from the Secretary of State to Bick ham Escott, Esq., and of the Report therein referred to on the state oilbank Prison. Whitehall, Feb. 6, 1847. Sir,---I have recei ve d a document purporting to be a report to her Majesty from you as a member of the re cent commission of inquiry into the state of Millbank Prison. I have to acquaint you that a report having been al ready presented from that commission, signed by the nrijority of its members, I should not be justified, ac cording to the usual practice in such cases, in presenting to her Majesty the document bearing your signature, as a report made in pursuance of the commission. In cases where a difference of opinion exists among members of a commission appointed by the Crown, the fullest opportunity is afforded to any member who differs from his colleagues of stating his opinion, either in a document appended to the report, or in soma other form. Having informed you that I should willingly receive and lay before the House of Commons e our opinion on the matters inquired into by the Millbank Commis sioners, and having, with a view to facilitate this okiect, suggested the fie m c f the document in which your opinion could be expressed, I had not anticipated the possibility of any difficulty arising on the subject. As, however, you have declined to conform to the ordinary practice, and appear to attach importance to the form which you have yourself adopted, I shall retain the document in question in this office, as the record of your opinion, although, for the reason which I have stated, I shall be unable to submit it to her Majesty. —I have, &c., (Signed) Bickham Eacott, Esq., M.P. The undersigned, being one of three Commis sioners directed by your Majesty's letters patent dili gently to search and inquire into the conduct and ma nagement of your 'Majesty's prison at Millbank, and into any abuses or grievances which may exist in the ma nagement of the said prison, and commanded by your Majesty's said letters patent to report to your Majesty, under their hands and seals, their several proceedings, and chat they shall find touching the same—hunibly re ports to your Majesty, 1. That together with the Earl of Chichester and Lord Seymour, the two other Commissioners, with whom the undersigned was associated in this inquiry, he has diligently inquired into the aforesaid matters. 2. That he has read a report on the aforesaid matters which has been presented to your Majesty, under the hands of the said Earl of Chichester and Lord Seymour. 3. That in the report is the following statement : " We have, however, determined to report the evidence in full." • 4. That he is informed, and believes, that such evi dence has been so reported by the said two Commis sioners ; yet that report, as aforesaid, has been printed and delivered to Members of the House of Commons for their perusal and consideration, without any report whatever of the evidence given vivo voce before your said Commissioners. 5. That upon a patient hearing and due consideration of the evidence given before the said Commissioners, and the demeanor of the several witnesses, and a personal inspection of the said prison, it appears 6. That the prison at Millbank, by stet. 6 and 7 Vic., c. 26, and by virtue of other statutes, and by orders of one of your Majesty's principal Secretaries of State, is a place of confinement for convicts under sentence or order of transportation. 7. That the condition of the various apartments, wards, offices, and furniture of the said prison is generally very good, for order, cleanliness, purity of air, and their ap propriate uses . . 8. That from this general statement must be excepted the dark cells, which are unwholesome and improper places for the confinement of prisoners. 9. That the diet of the prisoners, ordered by the Se cretary of State according to law, when not curtailed by punishments inflicted by the officers of the prison, is wholesome and ample. 10. That the health of the prisoners is generally good. 11. That there are faults in the discipline and order ing of the said prison, which require recormation. 12. That the rules for enforcing silence, and the se parate confinement of prisoners in the said prison, de mand further inquiry and great consideration at the hands of your Majesty's advisers and your Parliament. 13. That unjust and cruel punishments have been in flicted on certain of the prisoners within the said prison by orders of the governor and the inspectors. 14. That such punishments have been unjust and cruel, inasmuch as they have been inflicted without a full hearing or due consideration of the evidence bearing on the several cases, and have been disproportionate to the offences charged against the prisoners. 15. That sufficient care has not been taken by the chief officers of the said prison to guard against the in fliction of punishment in cases where it might be inju rious to health. 16. That serious injury to the health of prisoners has been the consequence of such punishments. 17. That such punishments inflicted on prisoners of weakly constitutions have aggravated their infirmities and accelerated their deaths. • 18. That such consequences have not followed from any proved malice, or wilfully evil design of the governor or other officer of the said prison. 19. That the main defects in the personal character of the governor of the said prison have been an insufficient knowledge, or lack of observance of the first and ele mentary principles by which all judicial inquiries should be governed, and a hasty, boisterous manner of issuing orders and decisions, which has hurt the feelings of other persons, and given offence, even when the orders them selves may have been just and lawful. 20. That the chief merits of the said governor consist in a strict enforcing of order and discipline, personal courage, and a spirit of improvement in much of the management of the prison. 21. That it is probably no easy thing to find a man in every qualification well fitted for the exercise of such an authority as that of the governor of such a prison, on whom a peremptory enforcing of strict rules, and prompt decision, and stern firmness in the execution of all his duties, should, if possible, be associated with equanimity of temper and a mild demeanour. 22. That the conduct of the inspectors of the said prison has not always manifested that attention to the established principles of judicial inquiry which ought to be required from all persons to whom the Legislature has confided the power of punishment. 23. That much of the evidence given before the Com mission was irrelevant and unsatisfactory, from the dis. ingenuous and evasive manner in which questions were answered, and that the chaplain, the chief medical officer, and the resident surgeon of the prison, have especially incurred this censure. 24. That the charges which have been laid against the governor and chief officers of the said prison have, in some instances, been exaggerated accusations, and in some other instances remain unproved. - Yet enough has been proved to show the necessity which existed for some impartial and searching inquiry into the state of the prison, and to in• spire a confident hope that the evidence which has been elicited by the Commission, and the facts which have been thereby brought to light, may lead to great and permanent improvements in the future management of your Majesty's prisons. Ail which is humbly submitted to your Majesty, under the hand and seal of your Majesty's faithful subject and servant, B. ESCOTT (L.S.) February 1, 1847. G. GREY, SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. TATTERSALL'S—MONDAY. Of the Liverpool Steeple-chase and Spring Han •dicapa, of which were speculated on in the course of the day, I Chester Cup alone calls fur any remark. The bust inessd° on it was on a very moderate scale, and its only "featurl were the advance of Mickey Free (new at Mitchsell-e l the re-appearance of Arthur,who was backed in ono instsp at 3,000 to 90, and afterwards freely at 30 to 1; r end the tirement of Bedlam, against whom a gentleman, S rho mat, supposed to know som e thi n about him, betted 4 u 5 00 to 1 following it u p w i t h 1,000 to 15, and finally 000 ling courage of hisadmirer s by o ff er i ng 10 , 000 to 150 . The on betting, if not. h eav y, was o f some i mportance, inasmuch 0 nut only gave Epircte a further lift in the odds, but left PlO ll ,, in a more fav o u ra bl e pos i t i on t h an he occup i ed out Thuroa! last :—the first was backed for two or three hundred pOlO at 11 to 1, and the other at i 3 to 1, and the takers l e ; still for getting on ; the favourite was backed for a handl. or two at 15 to 2; Gientilt in two or three quarters at 1, to 45 and 22 to 1 ; Convngham for two or three hun , pounds, at 25 to 1; the Horn of Chase, who arrivedl o Mickey Free, at Mitchell-grove (Forth's), on Friday last , 30 to 1; Wanota freely at 40 to 1, and two or three ° in small sums. Very little wds done on the Oaks , - Nerissa had some friends, and was finally qu o ted at ant , provernent of fur points. The prices subjoined ane Med d to the close of the room LIVERPOOL STEEPLE CHASE. 9 to 1 agst Mr. Preston:3 Brunette—taken 12 to 1 agst Mr. J. Bowers's Saucepan—taken 12 to 1 agst Lord Strathmore's The Roarer--taken 13 to 1 agst Captain Ganthier'sAvoca—taken_ 15 to 1 agst Mr. Neale's Red Lancer—taken IS to 1 apt Mr. O'Higgin's Pioneer—taken 20 to 1 agst Mr. Watt, jun.'s St. Leger—taken 30 to 1 agst Mr. Courtenay's Matthew—taken NEWMARKET HANDICAT. 10 to 1 agst Lord Orford's Footstool 15 to 1 agst Lord Stradbroke's Lynceua—taken 20 to 1 agst Mr. Jaques's Sir Martin 20 to 1 agst Mr. Wigram's Keshang 25 to 1 sgst Mr. Mostyn's Devil-me-care—taken METROPOLITAN HANDICAP. 20 to 1 agst Mr. Stephenson's Sheraton—taken 40 to 1 agst ➢lr. G. L. Fox's Hannah Raise--takes Brocardo was scratched this afternoon. TWO THOUSAND GUIEHAS STAKES. 150 to 100 agst Kent's lot—taken twice 7 to 1 agst Sir R. Pigot's Conyngham—taken CHBSTER CUP. ' 22 to I agst Mr. Gully's Mendicant—taken 25 to 1 agst Mr. B. Green's The Lamb—taken 30 to I agst Mr. Herbert's Antler—taken 30 to 1 agst Mr. Wilson's Punch 30 to 1 agst Mr. Mostyn's Camera Obscura 33 to 1 agst Mr. Irwin's Mickey Free 40 to 1 agst Mr. Minor's Duke of Richmond—taken 1000 to 25 agst Mr. Hutchinson's Emigrant—taken , 50 to 1 agst Mr. A. W. Hill' s Intrepid—taken. to 60 50 to 1 agst Mr. W. Scott's Sir Tatton Sykes 50 to 1 agst Lord E. Russell's Dalcet 66 to 1 agst Mr. O'Brien's Bedlam 1000 to 15 asst Mr. Collett's Pal—taken 1000 to 15 agst Mr. Meiklam's Inheritress—takeze 70 to 1 agst Mr. G. L. Fox's Hannah Raine—taken 1000 to 10 agst Mr. Igoe's Woodpecker 700 even on the field agst 27 3000 to 15 agst Mr. Haworth's Robin Burns—taken DERBY. 5 to 1 agst Kent's lot—taken 15 to 2 agst Lord Eglinton's Van Tromp—taken 10 to 1 agst Mr. Bowes's Epirote--11 to 1 taken kee l ! 12 to 1 agst Mr. Mostyn's Planet—taken 22 to 1 agst Mr. Mostyn's Glentilt—taken 25 to 1 agst Sir R. Pigot's Conyngham—taken 30 to 1 agst Mr. Irwin's Horn of Chase—taken 35 to 1 agst Duke of Richmond's Red Hart 35 to 1 agst Mr. Payne's Sister to Cobweb colt 35 to 1 agst Lord Caladon's Wanota 50 to 1 agst Mr. O'Brien's Bedlam 1000 to 20 agst Col. Anson's Bingham—taken 50 to 1 agst Mr. Mostyn's Mr. Martin—taken 66 to 1 agst Mr. Mostyn's Projectile 1500 even between Epirote and Planet 500 even between War Eagle and Sis to Cobweb colt OAKS. 8 to 1 agst Mr. Jno. Day's The Farmer's Daughter 8 to 1 agst Mr. Payne's Clementina 16 to 1 agst Sir J. Hawley's Miami—taken 16 to 1 agst Lord Eglinton's Nerisa-._taken 20 to 1 agst Captain Harcourt's Ellerdale—taken. RACES TO COME. The following list of the next season, will be useful not determined on the time fixtures already made for fib! I to thoso stewards whol oll. of holding their meetiogg:" _, RCM Northampton ..... 26 Bibury Old Meet ......... MA Coventry Warwick Spring Kilpin Coates Newmarket C. Burton Constable Bath Catterick APRIL. 1 6 51 Epsom S. ... 7 1 Newmarket, F. S. . 13 1 Durham ..... 21 l 3 1 Chester MA Newmarket, S. S Shrewsbury Y. 1 1 Epsorn 0 Newton TE. lr Stockbridge Newcastle 30 Carlisle JU. Ascot Heath 1 Hampton Sutton Park ' 15 Bibury Club l6 Ju Newmarket Lancaster Liverpool ,Y 2 0 Nottingham Goodwood AUG Ripon 2 I Brighton Hor wich Wolverhampton *Chelmsford lO Lewes ll SEPTE Warwick Doncaster OCTO. Newmarket, S. 0 ll I UST. 15 York *Egbam 24 Derby 24 *Hereford * Huntingdon 96 *Canterbury 27 MBER. *Lincoln .. 2 3 I Newmarket, F. 0; ... 28 113 ER. 25 Newmarket, H NOVEMBER. Worcester not fixed Tarporley not fixed [The meetings against which we have placed an sar terisk have not been officially announced, but in all pro' bability will take place at the time mentioned.] NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. PORTSMOUTH, MoxvAr.—The Sidon steam-frigate, Cott' Henderson, was d oc k e d t hi s morning, to have some oft pipes which are und er water cleared, and her bottom broolne' down. She is o r d ere d peremptorily to be ready for service 11 the Ist of March. The African steam-tug returned from the Sphynx 011 Friday night, and proceeded again to her on Saturday, t?", mg a mooring-lump, and the ca me l w hi c h i s to b e a pplied her head. She also took down Mr. Bellamy, the sewn ri master attendant, and a number of extra hands to assist the Emerald her o ff. Y es t er d ay morning, before daylight, t Emerald tender, with Mr. Biddlecombe, master of the flag;" ship, who had b een emp l oye d i n sounding for, and huoyo3e off, a channel th roug h w hi c h to heave the Sphynx off, r e. turned into harbou r . Th e D ra k e l i ghter, with about 15 OP', of her machinery, including her funnel and steam-pipes , also came in i n th e n i g h t. T hey brought news that IT floated on Saturday, and was hove out about twenty- The weather, which has been hitherto remarkably faivour; able, with the wind northerly and north-west, chnge' yesterday morning, between two and three o'clock, a to e fresh breeze from W.S.W., with rain, which continued during the day. Should this last, we much fear all hope ° I saving the vessel must be abandoned. There are strong symptoms at present of an approaching westerly or ecntli westerly gale. The Echo returned this morning from the wreck, and re ports that the rollers having set in on the change of 'Pin"' stopping near the wreck was out of the question. Sh e lost two punts or camels, and also reports that the wreck has been driven back in shore, and broadside on, so that there are but faint hopes now of saving even the hull. The Echo is coaling, preparatory to making another trip ; and the Drake has gone down to pick up what she can of the ons' chinery, &c. Mr. Bellamy, the assistant -master-attendant of this dock' yard, has gone down again this afternoon in the Echo to the wreck of th e S p h ynx. We learn that the two "camels intended to go under the sponsons of the steamer, iierohe adrift on Saturday night, from the ring bolts drawing, but have since been picked up and taken into Yarmouth Roods. By a letter from the Cormorant steam-sloop. Captsi! Gordon, on the Pacific station, we are informed she left Nisqually, Pnget's Sound, on the 16th of September, for the Straits of Georgia, and the northern coast of Vancouv'er's Island, in search of coal, and returned to Nisqually on the 7th of Octob er . h av i ng found and shipped 60 tons of ex ce!" lent quality. She left Nisqeally on the 10th of October, 11 1 company with the Fisgard, 42, Captain Duntze, and arri red at Fisgard harbour, Vancouver's Island, on the follow ing day, and on the 13th proceeded, still in company with the frigate, through the Straits of San Juan de Fuca to the westward of Cape Flattery, and then returned to Fort Victoria, Camoosan Harbour, Vancouver's Island, to winter. Mr. C..N. Frampton, the paymaster and purser of the Cormorant, died at Nisqually on the 30th of August. Mr. W. W. I'arminter, clerk of the Collingw o od, is appointed to the death vacancy. The Fisgard experienced a heavy thunderstorm whilst lying at Nisqually, on the evening or the 26th of September last, during the prevalence of whi c h her mainmast was struck by lightning; the electric nem passed down the conductor (she is fitted with Harris's), a n d by it out on each side of the ship, causing a tremendous ex.- plosion, but no damage was sustained either by the mast or the ship. Two persons were s t ruc k d own by the violence of the shock. It is considered the conductors saved the shill. The Marquis of Northampton has accepted the office of Patron of the College of Preceptors. 11•••••,, ------- On the 13th i ns t ., at St. L BIRTHS. eotard's-hill, Windsor, Viscouttl 0 08 Emlyn, of a son. On the 6th inst., at Heidelberg, the Right Hon. Lady Do Tabl 07, of a daughter. On the 7th inst., at Westwell Vicarage, Kent, the wife of the Ref' J. A. Ross, of a son. On the 10th inst., at Pinner-grove, Mrs. Millman, of a daughter. On the 10th inst., Lady Maria Brodie, the wife of the Rev.. W. Brodie, at EIVVII, Surrey, of a daughter. On the 12th inst., at IVymondharn, Norfolk, Mrs. William Clatke. of a daughter. On the 12th inst., the wife of the Rev. D. W. Marks, of Burton street, Burton-crescent, of a son. On the 12th inst., at Upper Clapton, Mrs. William Adam, of a, daughter. On the 13th inst., In itryanston-square, the lady of Capt4tin I'rohyn, of a son. On the 1 tth inst Mrs. Charles Bentley Bi ng l ey, o f G reat Marl borough street, of a :laughter. MARRIED. On the 13th inst., at St. George's, Hanover-square, the Rev. T. Knox, 11. A., Rector of Runwell and Ramsden Crays, Essex, to Ade laide, feeond daughter of Thomas Bearda Butard, Esq., of Sydenhale, Kent, and Ramsdell Crays, Essex. DIED. On the 16th of December, at Neemuch, Augusta, the wife of 3fajor 3fercer, 70th Reinvent Native Infantry, aged 29. Ou the 7th lAst., at Doncaster, Fanny Lietitla, wife of Dr. Fenton. On the Sth inst., at Tonbridge, Philadelphia, daughter of the late Rev. William Hussey, Rector of Sandhurst, Kent. On the 10th inst., Elizabeth, the wife of Thomas Blackburn, Esq.. of Joss, St. Peter's, Thanet, aged 83. On the 11th inst., at Midhurst, Sussex, Mr. E. Godwin, aged 83- On the 12th Inst., at Bath, Rosa Alice, the only child of John Hul bert, Esq., aged 17. On the 12111 inst , in York-nlaee. Mary Lughington, eldest daughter hart. 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