The Sun. — London, England, 1847-02-24 00:00:00

I and Scotch, PATRONS. Her Most Gracious Majesty the QUEEN. His Royal Highness the PRINCE ALBERT. Her Majesty QUEEN ADELAIDE. Her Royal Highness the DUCHESS of KENT. His Royal Highness the DUKE of CAMBRIDGE. Her Royal Highness the DUCHESS of CAMBRIDGE. Her Royal Highness the DUCHESS of GLOUCESTER. Ills Excellency the LORD-LIEUTENANT of IRELAND. PRESENT. The MARCHIONESS of AMESBURY. The MARCHIONESS of CLARICARDE. The VISCOUNTESS PAL3IERSTON. Until Tuesday next, after which the prices to be increased. (Signed) MARIE ELIZABETH AILESBURY, HARRIET CLANRICARDE, E. PALMERSTON. ROYAL ITALIAN OPKRA, COVENT GAR' EN, THEATRE ROYAL, LYCEUM. Under the Management of Mrs. Keeley. es THIS EVENING Will be produced th e O r i g i na l F arce, called THE WlCiVir M. et: Characters by Messrs. F. Matthews, Oxberry, Keeley ; Miss Arden, Miss Turner, Mies Foster, and Miss Mary Keeley. After which will be produced a new Fairy Extravaganza, entitled THE ENCHANTED FOREST. In which Mr. and Mrs. Keeley will appear, supported by t' a whole talent of the Company. • To conc'uda wl'h a new Comic Drama, called L5OO REWARD. st Vlllrars,e by Messrs. A. Wigan, IteadQWS Etna. Butler. Miss and 311.54 I'iIEATKE ROYAL, ADELPIII. under the direction of Madame Celeste. THIS EVENING Will be p , !rfo:med the celebrated Drama, called THE GREEN • BUSHES; or, A Hundred Years Ago. Murtogh, Mr. 0. Smith; • Dennis, Mr. Cullenford ; Jack Gong, Mr. Paul Redford ; Grinnidge, - Mr. Wright ; Captain Dartois, Mr. Worrell ; Madame St. Aubert, Madame Celeste ; Geraldine. Mrs. Yates; Nelly O'Neil, Mrs. Fitz- William. After which the Comic Drama, called TIIE MAID WITH THE MILKING PAIL. Lord Philander, Mr. Cullenford ; Algernon, Mr. Boyce ; Diccon, Mr. Wright ; Jtilly. Mrs. Fitzwilliam. To conclude with the Farce of A NABOB FOR. AN HOUR. Mr, Frampton, Mr. Worrell ; Sam Hobbs, Mr. Lambert ; Dick Dumpy, Mr. Munyard ; Miss Leslie, Miss Harding; Nancy Scraggy, Mrs. Maitthews. FRENCH PLAYS.—ST. JAMES'S TIIEATRE. Lessee, Mr. John Mitchell. THIS EVENING Will bo performed the Vaudeville of LE DEMOIT DE LA NI7IT. t. Frederic, M. Iterou ; Oscar, M. Langeval ; Gillestiern, M. Cartigny ; Mathilde, Mdlle. Fargeull ; Caroline, Mdlle. Vallee. To conclude with the admired Vaudeville, called PIERRE LE ROUGE. Pierre le Rowe, M. Laront Jeanneton, 31d1le. Fargeull. Boxes, 6s. , Pit, 3s. 6d. , Stalls, 3s. ; Gallery, 2s. l)oors opened at half-past Seven, and the performances commence at Eight. Private Boxeq, Stalls, and Places may be engaged at Mitchell's Library, 33, Bond-street; and at the Box-oftice. ETHIOPIAN i.ERENADERS, ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. The celebrated ETHIOPIAN SERENADERS, Pell, Harrington, White, Stanwood, and Gormon, will have the honour of repeat - - In, *heir Inimitable EN FERTA NIFNT,z. at the. ahnve Theatre, 1 0-M , RROW EVENING, and eery Ttzeildey, Thursday, an i Sa te ley. I)no I open at Eight Weiock, ai t tue Eutcrtauunent cote_ n‘en ce a t 11 4 1/-p,,t The 110fct NG ENTERTAINMENT .-• will take place on every MONDAY MORNING dur n • Lent. The Zee „tie:ewes wul coutuu nce, each day, at half-pan TWO O'clock. he Programme \VIII be varied on each occasion. Boxes, 4s. ; l'it, 25.; Amphitheatre, 2s. PRINc.F.SS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. .1. M. Maddox, sole Lessee and Manager. Will he perfo rmed THIS EVENING AYMON ; or, The the Comic Op era, called THE CASTLE OF Olivier, Mr. Allen; Richa Four Brothers. R eaumano i r, Mr. Walton; rd, Mr. Barker ; Renaud, Mr. DelaTantl; Gertrude, Mrs. Fcshroke. M All'trd, Mr. Wynn ; Ivon, Mr. Leffler Hertnlne, Miss A. Romer ; After which the TWW and original Musical Romance, entitled v.; F, SEVEN MAIDS OF IMUNI.:H ; or, The Ghost's Tower. Mr. Fisher ; D'Arrnincourt, Mr. Barker ; Bellejambe, Bertrand, Grosdos Mr. Compton ; Bristle- Mr. Delavanti ; Adolphe, Mr. W 3 no; Bumps, Mr. Honner ; Sewn Maids of Munich. Mr Walton i bath . • mi 5 s ' e 3 Flower, Rourke, Honner, Ilincks, Millar, L. Marshall, and „. 4ei, :gi b e Marshall ; Madame Groutz, Mrs Fosbroke. La pArte ; v " To conclu Shakspere's Comedy of KATHERINE AND ro de ith PETRI:CH-- wlnwhich Messrs. Vining, Comp ton, Cowell ; Mrs. fitirline, &c., will appear. ROYAL SURREY THEATIti.7 ------- """ Lessee, Mrs. Frances Davidge. TIIIS EVENING WIII 1 e performed Sbakspere's Tragedy of HAMLET. Hamlet, Mr. H. Betty; Gertrude, Miss Richardson ; Ophelia, Mrs. Daly, To conclude with a new Drarua, entitled RABY RATTLER ; or The Progress of a scamp. Characters supported by the whole strength of the Comptay. Box-oftlce open 1!'0132 eleven till four o'clock. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. the Nobility, Gentry, Subscribers to the Opera, and the Public, are respectfully in , ormcd, that TM, EVENING, Pcb. 23, will to . - lirforired Donizetti's celebrated erflt — ar LA FAVORITA. .... ,'ernando, 3ignsr Gardoni; Alfonso XI., Signor Saperchi ; Baldas 1. stn, Signor B.atche ; Leonora, Mdlle. Styr:Molt . Ines, Mdlle. Nascio. 1 .AlVer which. a new and original grand Ballet, in five tableaux, by Paul Taglioni. entitled CORALIA ; ou, LE "WEVALTER INCONSTANT. . Ooralia, Mdlle. C. Rosati (her second appearance); the Knight 1101- Jebrand, M. Patti Taglioni ; Squire, M. Gourlet, ; Bertha, Mdlle. Petit ; Page, Aldlle. lionore ; Duke, M. Gosselln ; Fralsondin, 31. Vsnefra ; Fisherman, M. dl-lattia. DANCES.—Second Tableau—Scene Dan'ante das Caprices, by le.Rosati. Third Tableau—Pas de la Nymphe des Rena et de Sea Compagnes, .ey 3:1111e. Rosati and the Corps de Ballet. Fourth Tableau—Pas de la Rosiere, by 3ldlle. Taglioni ; Pas de Deux, by M. P. Taglioni and Nidlle. Rosati ; Deutche Rhein, Vitae des Pages et des Demoiselles d' tionneur, by the Corps de Ballet. Fifth Tableau—Ballabile des Halbardiers, by 3ldlle. C. Baucourt, Mdme. P, Stephan, Mdlles. llonore, Cassan, Thevenot, Berlin, Julienne, L'Amoureux, and the Corps de Ballet ; Pas de l'lncon . stance, by Mdlle. Rosati, Mdme. P. Stephan, and M. Taglioni. The Opera to commence at Half-past Seven for Eight o'clock. UNDER THE S..k.NCTIONJESTY OF HER MOST GRACIOUS MA HEREEE MAJESTY'S THEATRE. EXTRA NIGHT, For the Benefit of the Fund for the Relief of the Distressed Irish The Qneen has been pleased to sanction a performance at the above Theatre, in all of the Fund for the Relief of the Distressed Irish and Scotch, and has been pleased to approve of THURSDAY EVENING next, Feb. 25, when a favourite Opera and Ballet will be perf.)rmed. Her Grace the Duchess of Rich- The Lady Anne Becket mond The Lady Charlotte Guest Her Grace the Duchess of Marl- The Lady Lawley borough The Lady Montetiore Her Grace the Duchess of Sathe r The Lord John Russell land Tho Lord Campbell Her Grace the Duchess of Leinster The Lord Ernest Bruce Her Grace the Duchess of Mon- The Lord Robert Grosvenor t rose The Lord Beaumont Her Grace the Duchess of Handl- The Lord Marcus Hill ton The Lord Sadys His Grace the Duke of Richmond, The Lord Camoys K.G. The Lord Xorreys His Grace the Duke of Leinster The Lord Walsingham His Grace the Duke of Montrose The Lord Saye and Sele The Marchioness of Lansdowne The Lord Rossmore. The Marchioness of Ailesbury Sir John Guest, Bart., M.P. The Marchioness of Clanricarde Sir John Lowther, Bart., M.P. The Marquis of Lansdowne, K.G. Sir henry Webb, Bart. The Marquis of Ailesbury, K.T. Sir Henry Meux, The Marquis of Clanricarde Sir George Wombwell, Bart. The Marquis of SPco Sir Archibald Macdonald, Bart, The Marquis or Granby Sir Henry Bold Hoghton, Bart. The Marquis of Donegal Sir John Shaw, Bart. The Countess of Carlisle Gen. Sir Andrew Barnard, G.C.B. t The Countess of Jersey Sir Moses Monteflore, Bart. The Countess of Tatikerville Sir William Clay. Bart., M.P. The Countess Delawarr Mrs. Packe Reading. y The Countess of Clarendon Mrs. Hubert de Burgh The Countess of Eglinton Mrs. Mountjoy Martin ' The Earl Delawarr Mrs. John Sanford The Earl of Eghinton Mrs. Dodd The Earl of Ducie The Right Hon. Henry Labouchere The Viscountess Palmerston The Hon. Capt. James Macdonald The Viscountess Dillon Henry Broadwood, Esq., M.P. The Viscountess Jocelyn C. W. Packe, Esq. The Viscount Palmerston, G.C.B. C. Barry Baldwin, Esq., M.P. The Viscount Morpeth H. Broadley, Esq., M.P. The Viscount Castlereagh George Dodd, Esq., M.P. The Viscount Dillon T. S. Duncombe, Esq., M.P. The Viscount Chelsea Hubert De Burgh, Esq. The Viscount Barrington Captain W. Lyon The Viscount Villiers Captain Mountjoy Martin. The Viscount Acheson John Sanford, Esq. The Viscount Milton Robert Parnther. Esq. The Viscount Jocelyn H. Brereton Trelawny, Esq. The Lady Ernest Bruce A. Grant, Esq. The following ladies have most obligingly consented to act as a Committee for Superintending the Arrangements: Tho Marchioness of Allesbuisy. The Marchioness of Clanricarde. The Viscountess Palmerston. - At a Meeting of the Committee at her Majesty's Theatre, ale 19th day of February : RESOLVED:— I.—That the most strenuous efforts be made by the Committee to flirther the objects of the Charity. ll.—That the prices of Boxes be fixed as follow: 1 Grand Tier - Six Guine is Two Pair - - Three Guineas Pit Tier - - Five Ditto Three Pair - Two Ditto Gee Pair - - Font* Ditto Stalls - - - One Guinea ILL That the unanimous thanks of the committee be voted to Mr. Lumley for having generously devoted the theatre to this charitable object, and for having undertaken to defray the woolc of the pay ments and expenses of every kind, in order to leave the whole of the receipts to be appropriated to the benefit of the charity. IV. That application be made to the public journals to publish the arraalgaments, and these resolutions, gratuitously for the benefit t'xe Established tor the purpose of rendering a more perfect performance of the Lyric D:ama than has hitherto been attained in this country. Under the Direct.on and Management of Mr. BEALE. The Nobility Gentry, and Patrons of Music, are respectfully in ormed that the Royal Italian Opera will open the first week In April. It is proposed to produce, in the course of the season, sonic of the established works of Cimarcmi, Mozart, Rossini, Meyerbeer, and others et the more modern Italian School, including Operas by Bellini, Dont- Sett, Mercadante, and Verdi, on a scale of the utmost perfecton in every department ; to which intent the mans ement has assemb'ed a Company embracing the greatest and most varied taWent in Europe. PRIM! SOPRANI.—Madame Grist and Madame Persian' (her first appearance in London for three years), Madame Ronconi and Mae. Steltanont (of the Theatre La Scala, in Milan, her first ap pearance in this country). CONTRALTL—Signora Alboni (of the Theatre La Scala, Milan, and of the Imperial Theatre in Vienna, her first appearance in:thls country), and Mademoiselle Corbari. TENORL—Signor Mario, Signor Salvator Lavia (of the Imperial heatre of St. Petersburgh, his first appearance in this country), Signer Tulli (of the Theatre San Carlo, in Naples, his first appear ance in this country), and Signor Salvi (at the Theatre La Scala, in Milan, and of the Imperial Theatres in Vienna and St. Petersburgh, his first appearance on the Italian stage in England). PRIME BASSI I3ARITONI—Signor Tamburini and Signor Giorgio Ronconi. vr T/ gir PROFnVPT—Siznor Marini (f the Theatres S.lll Carlo, Naples, I.a Scala, Milan, and the uvenal ineatre, his first appearance in this country), Signer Angelo Alba (of the Theatre Royal, Madrid, his first appearance in this country), and Signor Polonini (of the Imperial Theatre, Vienna, his first appear ance in this country.) PRIME BASSI CO3IICI —Signor Pietro Ley - (of the Theatre Royal Madrid, ke first appearance in this country), and Signor Agostino Revere (of the Theatres Royal, Naples, Milan, Vienna, and St. Pe tersburgli, his first appearance in this country). Seconde Donne—Madame Antoinette Mollidori (of the Theatre La Scala, in Milan), Mademoiselle Amelia Liner', Mademoiselle Luigina Bellini. ieconde Tenore—Signor Emmanuele Slano (of the Theatre San Carlo In Naples). Director of the Music, Composer, and Conductor—Mr. Costa. A powerfnl and numerous CHORUS of chosen and experienced Singers will complete the Vocal Department. Chorus Master— Signor Bonconsiglio. Prompter—Signor Monterasi. • The ORCHESTRA, formed of Artistes possessing the highest executive powers, will comprise among its members Eighty distin . guished professors. The Military Band of the Coldstream Guards *LII be under the direction of Mr. Godfrey. An ORGAN, of extensive compass, has been expressly erected in the theatre by Messrs. Flight and Son. Organist—Mr. Y. Novelle. The BALLET, of a brilliant and costly character, will dose the 4 performance of the evening, and no Divertissement will be suffered - between the acts of the Opera. The Director has the pleasure to - announce that he has concluded an engagement with Mademoiselle Fanny Eissler ; and, during the season, the following eminent Danseuses will appear:—Premieres Danseuse-3•lademolselle Dumi latre (of the Grand Opera, Paris), and Mademoiselle Plunkett (of - the Grand Opera, Paris), Mademoiselle Benin (of the Imperial Theatre, Vienna, her first appearance in this country), Mademoiselle Neodot (of the Theatre Royal, Madrid), Mademoiselle Marietta ; Baderna (of the Theatre La Ocala, Milan), and Mademoiselle Fuoco (of the Academie Royale de Paris). Monsieur Petipa (of the Grand Opera, Paris), Monsieur Gontie (of the Theatre Royal, Madrid), L Monsieur Ferdlhando Croce, Monsieur Delferier (of the Grand 5 Opera, Paris), and Monsieur Auguste Mabille (of the Grand Opera, Paris). Maitres des Ballets—Monsieur Albert (of the Grand Opera, Paris), and Monsieur Bias's (of the Theatre La Scala, Milan). Leader of the Ballet—Mr. Alfred Mellon. Regisseur de la Danse Mr. O'Bryan. Composer—Signor Alessandro Curmi (of the San , Carlo Theatre, Naples). THE THEATRE.—To render the Interior at once commodious, s' elegant, and comf,rtable, it has been entirely reconstructed and • deeorated, under the immediate direction and after designs of IL e Albano, Esq., C.E., with every attention directed to its proper e ventilation. The Decoration s h ave b een execute d b y Mr. Ponsonby. The Management has happily secured the artistic skill of Signori "'" Ferri and Verardi (of th e The atre Italien, in Paris), to embellish I ,' the ceiling and to prepare a New Drop Scene. The approaches ek to the Theatre will be found improved, by a carriage way being • formed immediately under the Portico in Bow-street, whereby parties - can leave or cuter their carriages without exposure to the weather ; • and by increased facilities for ingress and egress. The Refreshment 4 , Boom will bo uuder the superintendence of Mr. J. G. Watson. Tickets, Stalls, and Boxes, for th e n i g ht or season, to b e o b ta i ned ft at the Box Office, Bow-street ; and at Messrs. Cramer, Beale, and Co.', 201, Regent-street. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. THIS EVENING Will be performed the new Grand Opera, entitled MATILDA OF HUNGARY. Count Magnus, Mr. Borrani; Podiebrad, Mr. Harr!. son ; Mathias, Mr. Weiss ; Matilda, Miss Romer; Liilia, Miss R. Isaacs. After which the new Ballet, calla,' TIIE PRETTY SICILIAN. Count Amede, M. Croce; Rosella, Alduls . Baderna. THEATRE ROYAL, H.AYMARKEI. nder the Management sf 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 rell, Stuart, Buckstone, Howe, Selby, Brindal, Mrs. Glover, Mrs. Hamby, Mrs. Tarnold, Misa Forteacuc, Miss Bennett, Miss Rey. nolds, &c. Daring the evening the Band will perform tho Overture, " Lae des Fees," " Plantagenet," " Rose," and Ylelen" Polkas ; Waltz, by Lanner ; Galop, by Strauss ; and the " American Polka." To conclude zith the Original Grand Fairy Extravaganza, called the INVISIBLE PRINCE; or, the Island of Tranquil Delights. Principal characters by Mr. James Bland, Miss P. Barton, Mrs. L. S. Buckingham, Miss Reynolds, and Miss Julia Bennett. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Proprietor, Mr. W. Batty. Under 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, during the week. THIS EVENING Will be perfbrined THE ROYAL FOX-HUNT; or, Life's Course of Men and Steeds. Entire change 01 the SCENES of the CIRCLE, by the double Company of Foreign Artistes. To conclude with a new Farce, entitled DRAWN FOR THE MILITIA. Box-office open from eleven till five o'elook.—Doors open at six am; commence at half-past six o'clock.—Stage Manager, Mr. W. Broadfbot. COMPLETION OF MISS BURNET'S DIARY. T HE CONCLUDING VOLUMES (6 and 7; of the D'ARBLAY DIARY AND LETTERS, AiNI now ready, Purchafiers of the first five volumes are recommended imme diately to °leder the completion of their sets, to prevent disap pointzneut. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. Orders received by all Booksellers. NEW NOVEL, BY THE AUTHOR OF "SUSAN HOPLEY." Now ready at all the Libraries, in 3 vols., T HE STORY OF LILLY DAWSOY By Mrs. CROWE. Authoress of " Susan Hopley," Re. Henry Colburu, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough•street. NEW WORK BY TIIE AUTHOR OF " THE RANSOM." Now ready, in 3 vols., post Bvo., KIRKHOLME PRIORY; or, Modern Heroism. By the Author of " The Ransom." Richard Bentley, New Burlington•street." 1 7 , § . I- `~ /4:; 1 THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY MORNING, FEB RUARY 24, 1847 RAILWAY SHAIZES BY PUBLIC SALE MESSRS. LAMOND and - Co:, RAILWAY SHARE AUCTIONEERS, beg to thank their Frienids nut the Public for their continued support and patroMage, to announce that their Public Sales of Railway Shares, Pr, take place every TUESDAY and FRIDAY, at One o'clock, at the Mall of Commerce, Threadneedle-street, London, to which place, favours, containing instructions (with a reference), are respectfully •equested to be addressed. All Scrip and Share Certificates must be deposited, the day previous to their being offered; and advices of results will be lorwarded by the first post after the sale, and the proceeds mime ,iately disposed of according to instrtzetions. (knees, hall of Commerce, Threadneedle-street. London. iIE WEATHER.—SIIN OFFICE, FEBRUARY 23. THERMOMETER, Lowest, 38; Highest, 51 ; Noon, 39 BAROMETER, 30.3.—W1ND E., dull. HIGH WATER AT LONDON-BRIflG} THIS DAY. Iforning .. 53 minutes after 8. I Evening .. 37 minutes after 9. 4-,e, „, ..,4' i • .: - .;, Acii , ... .. t iz; , ,,,,,* e .. v ........,. : $ . ~.., WI/ .1 .. .0 , .%k ?1 .1 ° .4; 2 i:,: , ~1 . 16., ~, ---. . 'AP , 42 . vrE L . ' • 1.„:;;;;,.;, . 1 ' • 34,0 Y.' ,',,ticao,;;*. '': - Liztort ", SI. .: ...; . , cal • tiliff Vint LONDON, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1847, The House of Lords met at Five o'clock. The Destitute Persons (Ireland) Bill was, after u short debate, read a third time and passed. The Royal assent was then given by commission to _ _ the Buckwheat Importation Bill, the Brewing from Sugar Bill, the Distillation from Sugar Bill, and the Chelsea Pensioners' Bill; after which their Lordships adjourned. The house of Commons met at Four o'clock. Mr. ELLICE moved that all railway Bills in the pre sent session he referred to the Railway Commissioners, for their report to this House upon the following points, previously to such Bills being considered in Committees of this House:—That every report so to be made upon each Bill should state the amount of the capital proposed to be raised, and of the loans proposed to be authorised by the Bill; and if, under the pro visions of such Bill, any powers were to be given to any company already incorporated, of raising further capital or loans, or of making alterations, branches, or extensions of their existing lines, or of purchasing or leasing any other lines made or to be made, or of subscribing to the capital, or guaranteeing the capital of, or amalgamating with, other companies ; such report should also state the powers granted by any former Act or Acts to such companies already incorporated for any of the above purposes, and of the manner in which, and extent to which, such powers had been exercised ; and the report should further state the opinion of the Commissioners Ithereon, and also their opinion as to any special pro ►isions with which it may in any case be expedient to accompany the grant of any special provisions of any powers for any of the above mentioned purposes. That every such report be referred to the Committee of this House appointed to consider the Bill to which the same may relate. Mr. HUDSON would not object to the motion. Lord J. RUSSELL thought considerable benefit would arise from the motion proposed. The motion was then agreed to. Mr. T. DUNCOMBE moved for leave to introduce a Bill to amend the Reform Act, the object of which was to do away with the rate-paying c l auses o f th at A c t. _ _ . . „ Lord JOHN RUSSELL felt it his duty to oppose the motion. Mr. GISBORNE supported the motion, as did Sir DE LACY ETANS. Mr. P. IlowAnD opposed the motion. Mr. HUMS regretted to hear that the Noble Lord at the head of the Government opposed the motion. Sir B. HALL thought the repeal of the rate-paying clauses absolutely necessary. Mr. D'EvNcounT was in favour of the Bill. Mr. WAKLEY thought that those who had attempted to show cause against the Bill had failed, and he trusted it would be pressed to a division at once. Sir G. GREY opposed the Bill. Sir C. NAPIER thought that the franchise should be more extended, and therefore he should support the Bill. After a few words from Mr. WILLIAMS, Lord G. BENTINCK, Mr. B. Escort', and Colonel WooD, the 'louse divided, when there appeared— For the motion for introducing the Bill 38 Against it Majority against the introduction ... —2O SirJ. PAKINOTON then moved for leave to bring in a Bill authorising the trial and conviction of juvenile offenders in certain cases, without the intervention of a Jury. The House was addressed by Sir G. GREY, and eventually leave was given. Lord J. MANNERS obtained leave to bring in a Bill to amend the law relating to charitable bequests. The House adjourned at a Quarter-past Eleven. Eight millions to be granted for the relief of Ire land is the paramount feature in the financial state ment of the Right Hon. Gentleman the Chancellor of the Exchequer. Considering the embarrassments consequent upon the appalling destitution in Ireland and in various districts of Scotland, taking into account the vast addition of expense resulting from that destitution, the extraordinary deficiency of pro visions, not only in the United Kingdoms, but in France, Germany, and Poland, and the diminution of wages in our manufactories, the speech of Sir CuARLES WOOD is singularly satisfactory. Although the Right Hon. Baronet requested the lenient consideration of the House, because of the indisposition from which he was a sufferer, and because, likewise, of the almost unprecedented demands which it was his duty to make upon the Legislature, there was little reason for either apology or indulgence. Possibly the statement delivered upon the Budget last evening may be regarded as the most lucid speech yet uttered in the house of Commons by Sir CHARLES WOOD. In the arrangement of his materials, in the enunciation of the different amounts constituting the national revenue, and the numerous charges (usual and unusual) upon the Exchequer, the Right Honourable Gentleman evinced very re markable capacity, and reduced these complicated calculations to the comprehension of the most medi ocre understanding. In so much was the lucidity of Sir CHARLES WOOD manifest, as to have elicited the cordial commendation of Mr. GouLnunal and the re peatedapplause of the Members generally. It were un necessary to enter upon any synopsis or analysis of the particular financial statement submitted to Par• Lament by the Chancellor of the Exchequer ; it were unnecessary, fr om th e e l a b ora ti on o f the Parliamen tary reports and Parliamentary summary, and es pecially unneces sary b ecause the gist of that state ment may be expressed in the compass of a few syl lables. Contrary to the expectations of the multitude tl,• estimates made by Sir CITARLE3 WOOD, as to the balance of our national accounts on the close of the year ending sth of April, 1848, are propitious and consolatory. Not%ithstanding the remarkable abate ment of our manufacturing industry, in consequence of the scarcity of food both at home and on the con tinent; notwithstanding the certain injury which must result to the revenue from the diminished con sumption and the enormous drain of 10,000,000/. for the assistance of Ireland, it is calculated by the Right Hon. Baronet that there will still remain a surplus of 332,0001. over and above the total expen ditures. As compared with the surplus of the year ending sth April, 1847—a splendid surplus, reach ing no less a sum than 9,000,000/.—that anticipated for the forthcoming twelve months is insignificant enough. But, bearing in recollection the lamentable condition of Ireland and of the northern portions of Great Britain, the circumstance of there being any surplus whatever is matter for earnest gratulation. What is particularly remarkable in the Budget for 1847 is the fact of there being no additional taxation. Under existing calamities this is an unex pected and thrice-welcome announcement. Taking the entire surplus for the ensuing year at 489,000/., it is proposed to burden the community by borrow ing no less an amount than 8,000,000/. for the relief of Ireland. Borrowed at three and a half per cent., the interest upon these 8,000,000/. will amount to 280,000/, and the inevitable consequence of this loan must be the advance of interest upon Exchequer-bills from lid. to 2 , 1. per: diem, making an additional sum of 142,000/. Upon the proposed debt of 8,000,000/. the entire interest for the year will be 422,0001., which, subtracted from the expected excess upon the balance sheet, would reduce the surplus upon the financial year to 67,000/. Now, the residue of the Chinese silver, con sisting of 450,000/., will, on the abstraction of 185,000/. for our increased naval expenditure, raise the surplus for the sth April, 1848, from 67,000/. to not less than 332,0001.—an amount beyond the most sanguine expectations of the most hopeful observer. It will therefore have devolved upon the empire to sustain the terrible visitation at present scourging the sister island, to the enormous extent of 10,000,000/., of which 2,000,000/. have been ad vanced and distributed. In this balancing of the boun ties and the economy of the nation the Government has displayed a sagacity proportioned to its courage in dealing with so many enormous difficulties. If the Ministry are in no manner prepared to diminish the taxes still imposed upon the people by precipi tating the extension of the principles of free trade, they cannot at least be regarded as imitalores ser rum pecus in respect to the increase of taxation for the payment of the interest upon a loan of actually 10,000,000/. It is insinuated that the landlords of Ireland will exhibit no readiness to repay even a moiety of this magnificent assistance, that they will grudge the restitution of even 4,000,0001. out of the eight which still remain to be advanced. The insinuation gained some colouring of probability from the merriment expressed by the Hon. Gen tlemen of the House of Commons on the allusion to that repayment uttered by the Chancellor of the Exchequer. 'Whatever may be the actual sentiments of the landlords of Ireland on this point, we can assure them as one of the Voices of the People, that the nation will never submit to such a sublime act of swindling, supposing they had the temerity to at tempt its perpetration. England is evincing a noble generosity—a generosity proportioned both to the magnitude of her wealth and the vastness of her present troubles ; but let it never be forgotten by those who would impose upon her generosity and batten upon her benevolence, that her security is the rigour of her determination. The attention of the House of Commons was on Monday night directed by Mr. E. ELLIC➢ to the ex traordinary destitution unfortunately existing in the Western Highlands of Scotland. No time could more properly have been selected by the Hon. Member for that purpose than that immediately preceding the financial statement of the Chancellor of the Exche quer, when the extraordinary exertions of the Go vernment on behalf of the Irish people, and the mode of providing for the gigantic outlay thereby rendered necessary, was about to be detailed by the Minister whose especial duty it was to provide the necessary funds and to regulate the income and expenditure of the country. The primary cause of the distress in both Ireland and part of Scotland is the same ; we have in both countries a large and crowded popula tion, whose usual and accustomed article of food, that constituting, if not the sole, by far the largest portion of their ordinary diet, has been destroyed, and swept away by the mysterious visitation of PROTIDNNCE. In both cases, we find the crops, on which the fami lies of the poor cottiers were fed, decaying and rot ting in the earth, so as not to be worth the trouble and expenditure of digging them from the soil, and the visitation borne with extraordinary patience and resignation by the unhappy sufferers, who, on the total failure of their own resources, were driven to seek from others that maintenance with which they were unable to supply themselves or families ; but here the comparison ends, for in Scot land we find the landed proprietors, or at least the great majority, availing themselves of every means to provide for the poor of their respective estates, casting themselves into the breach with a noble devotion, and resolving that, so long as any means were left to them, so long as by any sacrifices on their own part they could he enabled to do so, they would continue to afford that support and maintenance This generous, humane, and Christian conduct is worthy of something more than the praise that cannot be withheld from it. The Highland land owners have set their own shoulders to the wheel— they have relied on their own exertions, and have not been disappointed. By these efforts they have preserved the lives of their people, and deaths from starvation, or its effects, so frightful to contemplate —so unworthy of a Christian country, where. some of the inhabitants are surrounded with all the appliances of wealth, and the comforts and luxuries thereby obtainable--and so disgraceful to the localities in which such harrowing and fearful scenes are suffered to take place—have been averted, and banished from the Scottish coasts. In Ireland, we regret to say, that a like praiseworthy conduct has not been pursued by the majority. True it is that many, very many, landlords have acted in a manner b..yond all praise, and have entitled themselves to the marked thanks of the community at large, and better still to the proud consciousness of having performed the arduous duties imposed upon them, but such, un fortunately, cannot be said of the general body- Whatever may hare been the exciting cause, whether the debts and encumbrances affecting their properties, that cramped their energies, and fettered and re strained their action, the Irish people were suffered to fall into a state of suffering and destitution hap pily unknown in Scotland to anything like the same extent, until the cry of affliction and distress re verberated on the air throughout the length and breadth of unhappy and afflicted Ireland—and this notwithstanding the extraordinary power afforded to her people by the Labour-rate Act, and the vas sums drawn by means thereof from the national Ex, chequer for the relief and mitigation of the distressh that country. We do not desire to be understood as deprecating the aid that has been already afforded, or is about to be given to Ireland. We do not regret that the sum of ten millions should be advanced to ward off, as far as possible, all future mortality, and to provide for the wants of her people. We do not object to the prin ciple that the calamity should be considered a national one, and a moiety of the expenditure should be borne by the State and defrayed from the national purse, But, if from similar causes great burdens have fallen on the proprietors in the distressed districts of Scot land, we think that a like rule should be observed, that the calamity should in like manner be considered a national one, and that a portion of the expenditure should be defrayed by the State. It is not because the Scotch proprietors have well and nobly dis _ _ . charged their duty, that they should be deserted by the Executive ; on the "contrary, it is for that very reason that every possible aid should be afforded and he greatest assistance rendered. A just precedent has been afforded by what has taken place in the cases of the Irish landlords who applied for present- ments under Mr. LABOUCHEPteS letter, and for whom the time of repayment was extended to twenty-two years, in place of ten ; as it was justty considered that they should not be placed in a worse footing than those who hung back, and did not exhibit the same promptitude on behalf of their dependents •ied neighbours. had the Scotch landlords been negl;gent or exhibited less self-devotion, they would have been aided by public loans and grants, having acted in a more correct and proper manner, that aid should not he withheld from them, and the con templated measures for Ireland should be extended to all parts of the United Kingdom visited with similar affliction, and where the people are suffering under a deprivation of their accustomed food or means of livelihood. We have received news from Oporto to the 13th. Since the death of MACDONNELL the Miguelites have everywhere joined the Septembristas. Count DAS ANTAS had marched from Oporto to attack CASAL, and another division of the insurgents, under Baron FERNOS had marched in the direction of Berea d'Alva, and CiESAR VASCONCELLES, at the head of 2,500 men, was at Pennafiel, prepared to dispute the passage of the Douro with SALDANNA. This force had been joined by 800 Miguelites under BERNARDINO The remains of MAcDoNNELL's band have joined DA ANTAS. MENDEZ LEITE, a Septembrista officer, at the head of 300 insurgents, had surprised SeLnafixa's depot of arms at Averro (which is within the lines occupied by SALDANNA'S army, and only eight miles from; his head quarter➢), and had captured 230 stand of arms, a quan tity of ammunition, a considerable sum of money, and several prisoners. Among the latter is the son of SAL DANIIA'S military secretary. The insurrection was spreading in Algave, and Faro has been fortified by the insurgents. Madrid journals of the 15th have arrived. General PA.VIA. had resigned his office of Minister of War in consequence of the refusal of his colleagues to permit him to exercise the authority of Generalissimo. General JOSE CONCHA will, it is said, succeed him. MADRID BoLsA, FEB. 15.—The Three per Cents. were done at 32 ; the Four per Cents., 20%; the Five per Cents., 20%; the Coupons, at ]B% ; and the Passives, at G. We have received the Paris papers of Sunday. The trial of the National for publishing a libel re flecting on the KING took place on Saturday, and ended in the acquittal of the National. The libel was con tained in an article cottm, , nting on the removal of the French Consul from the:Mauritius, and it concluded by declaring that the ICINa alone directed the whole policy of the state. This libel the counsel for the National justified, and quoted from the speeches of successive Ministers for the purpose of proving the direct and per sonal interference of the KING in various affairs of state, stigmatising such interference as unconstitutional. The jury, after deliberating a quarter of an hour, brought in a verdict of acquittal. This is the severest blow that the system has yet received, and is tantamount to a censure on the KING. The Presse continues its personal attacks upon Lord NORMANBY. It is now confessed that M. GUIZOT in tended by what he said in the Chamber to offer a per sonal insult to the British Ambassador. The fact is, M. GUIZOT is endeavouring to play the same game that he played as French Ambassador in London in 1840, to intrigue with English parties or rather partizans for a change of Ministry,so as to secure eitherafaineant Foreign Secretary, whom he can bamboozle, or a worse than fainéant, who will aid him in carrying his project of securing Orleans domination on the Continent and in the Mediterranean. This intrigue, however, will not succeed, and the fact that any English Minister held office as the nominee of GUIZOT, or of Louis PHILIPPE, would be alone sufficient to secure his downfal. M. MARTIN (du Nord) has resigned his Ministry o Justice, on account of the precarious state of his health It is reported M.M. LACAVE-LAPLAGNE and CUNIN GRIDAIIIE were also about to leave the Cabinet. CABRERA'S brother-in-law, General Pow, has escaped from Avignon. The French steam-frigate Caraibe has been driven on shore in Senegal. Twenty seamen and boys perished among the breakers. The KING of the BELGIAN. is expected in Paris. The Echo Agricole states that the price of flour in the Paris market on Saturday still maintained itself be tween 100 and 105 francs per sack of 157 kilogrammes, according to its quality. The transactions in wheat were very limited, but large quantities of foreign rye were purchased for the consumption of the interior of France, and particularly the department of the Allier, where that grain had completely failed. The Courrier du Bas Rhin announces that prosecutions had been in stituted againt 17 individuals accused of having had re course to fraudulent means in order to cause a rise in the price of provisions. The Moniteur states that the trial of the works of art of the Havre and Rouen railroad, by the moving weight, was proceeding satisfactorily. The viaducts of Barentin and Malannay bad withstood it with complete success. The Council-General of the Roads and Bridges had at last approved of the plan proposed by the Northern Company for the construction of the Creil and St. Quentin Railroad between Creil and Noyon fhe line is definitively to pass through Pont St. Maxence Ribecourt, Comp'egne, Thourotte, Ourscamp, and Noyon. Th© Three per Cents, wero done in the Passage de l'Opera, on Sunday, at 78f. 45c. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, FEBRUARY 22. Dutch Rhenish, 4—Louvain a la Sambre, I k i —Northern 01 Trance, 12% —gleans and Bordeaux, 7%. THE LOAN OF EIGHT MILLIONS. The following notice has been sent to the Governor and Deputy-Governor of the Bank of England : " Treasury Chambers, Feb. 23, 1847. " Gentlemen,-1 beg to inform you, and to request that you will make it known in the usual manner, that. Lord John Russell and I shall be ready to see any gen tlemen who may be desirous of contracting for a loan of Eight Millions for the service of the present year, on Thursday next, the 25th instant, at one o'clock, in order to fix the conditions of the loan, and manner of the kidding; and I hope it will be convenient to you, or one of you, to meet those gentlemen here at that hour.—l have the honour to be, gentlemen, your most obedient servant, (Signed) " CHARLES WOOD." " To the Governor and Deputy-Governor of the Bank of England." INTEREST ON EXCHEQUER -BILLS. Exchequer bill Office, 2, Whitehall-place, Feb. 23, 1847. The Lords Commissioners of her Majesty's Treasury have determined that the new Exchequer-bills, to be dated 16th March, 1847, charged on aids and supplies, shall bear an in terest of Twopence per Centurn per Di em , i nstead of One penny h alfp,„ y, as stated i n the advertisements from this office, dated 16th February, 1847 : And also, the Exchequer -bills dated in the month of June, 1846, cha rge d on a i ds and sup plies, which are now ou tstanding , shall on and after the said l6t h March, 18 4 7, bear an interest of Twopence p er C enturn per Diem. COURT CIRCULAR. The Queen and Prince Albert rode out on horseback, y es _ terday morning, in Claremont Park. Her Majesty and Prince Albert, accompanied by the Prince of Wales, and the Princess Royal, left Claremont at three ' o'clock yesterday afternoon, in a carriage and four, for town, escorted by a party of the 12th Lancers. Their Royal High nesses Prince Alfred, the Princess Alice, and the Princess Helena, and the Lady in Waiting, the Marchioness of Douro; the Lord in Waiting, the Earl of Morton ; the Master of the Household, Major General Bowles; the Equerry in Waiting, Colonel the Hon. Charles Grey; and the Equerry in Waiting to Prince Albert, Captain the Hon. A. H. Gordon, followed in four carriages and four. Her Majesty and Prince Albert and the Royal party arrived at Buckingham Palace at twenty.five minutes be fore five o'clock, escorted by a party of Lancers. Her Ma jesty and her Royal Consort were received at the Palace by the Maids of Honour in Waiting, the Lord Chamberlain, the Master of the Horse, the Earl of Listowel, Lord George Lennox, Colonel the Hon. C. B. Phipps, Sir Edward Cod rington, and Captain Francis Seymour. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent dined with her Maj-sty and her Royal Consort last evening, at Buckingham Palace. Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cam bridge, and his Serene Highness Prince Frederick of Hesse, honoured Count Kielmansegge, the Hanoverian Minister, with their company at dinner yesterday evening, at his Excellency's residence in Grosvenor -place. Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cam , bridge, and his Serene Highness Prince Frederick of Hesse, visited and inspected the Caledonian Asylum on Monday. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge gave Mr. Dalton a sitting for the completion of his portrait yesterday. The Royal Duke is represented in the robes of the moat noble Order of the Garter over a field marshal's uniform. Senor de Toro, the Venezuelan Minister, had an inter view with the Earl of Clarendon yesterday, at the (Ace of the Board of Trade. Lord Hatherton, Mr. Beckett, M.P.. and a number of de legates of various canal companies, including Messrs. Rhodes, Wilson, Ilordern, Cradock, Marchant. and M. C. Allan, and Mr. Craig (engineer), had an interview with the Right Lion, Edward Strutt yesterday, at the office of the Comifiissioners of Railways on the subject of the impropriety of allowing railway companies to have any control over canals. Lord Monson had an interview with Earl Grey yesterday, at the Colonial-tEce. Dr. Lindlay had an interview with Sir George Grey y es . terday, at the Houle-office. THE RATE-PAYING CLAUSES OF THE REFORM 1311.1..—0 n Monday a public meeting of the inhabitants of the parish of St. Pancras, was held in the Vestry-rooms, Gordon-street, Gordon-square, for the purpose of taking into consideration the rate-paying clauses of the Reform Bill, and petitioning the Legislature for their repeal. The chair was taken by the churchwarden, who having briefly ad verted to the o bj ec t f or w hi c h the meeting had been called, several gentlemen addressed the assembly, showing how heavi y the rate-paying clauses affected the great majority o f the householders, many of whom, in consequ ence o f not being . able to p a y th e i r t axe s in time, were annually dis franchised. R e s o l ut i ons in accordance with the views of the speakers having been adopted, a vote of thanks was passed to the chairman, and the meetag separated. MR. COCHRANE AND THE ELEC- TORS OF WESTMINSTER. In The San of Saturday, Feb. 13, the following letter from a correspondent was inserted:— MR. COCIIRANE AND THE ELECTORS OF WEST- MINSTER. TO THE EDITOR OF THE 61 , . Sir,---As an elector of Westminster ::flow me to ask, whether the Mr. Charles Cochrane, who now so ostentatiously parades his pretensions to represent Westminster, is the same person as one Senor Juan de Vega, who some few years back published a journal of a tour through Great Britain and Ire land, and who then paraded a series of adventures in various towns and places at which modesty and docency felt ashamed, and whose public avowal signally proved the want of goad taste and common propriety in the writer. If they be one and the same person, the electors of West minster ought to know it. If not, Mr. Cochrane cannot too soon disown the identity.—l am, Sir, your obedient servant, St. James's, Feb. 12. ALPHA. [We cannot answer this query. Doubtless Mr. Cochrane will.—Ea. Sun.] On Monday, Feb. 15th, appeared a letter from another correspondent, as follows : WESTMINSTER ELECTION. TO THE EDITOR OF TIIE SEX. Sir,—A correspondent in your excellently-conducted journal asks, " Who is Mr. Cochrane, the present candidate for the representation of Westminster?" "Is he the same Mr. Cochrane who, some years since, travelled through the country as a Spanish minstrel ?" "Is he the party who published a descriptive account of his wanderings through Kent and Sussex ?" These questions require a straight forward answer, since it must not be borne, it must not be tolerated, that the large and influential city of Westminster shall be represented by a person who, in the disguise of a travelling musician, succeeded, in many instances, alas ! too many instances, in insinuating himself into private fa milies, and afterwards exposed the flirtation of sundry misses, some in their teens, and others approaching that question able age when ladies begin to think they are forgotten by the sterner portion of the sex. I do not state that Mr Cochrane is the man who thus acted ; I do not aver that he is the individual who published sundry amours in.his book, which he pretended took place at Canterbury, Dover, Has tings, and Brighton ; I can scarcely believe that a man who could betray the confidence of any female, after having been fed and pampered to satiety by her friends, and supplied with money, believing the said individual to be in the condition of an unfortunate political exile, would dare to affront a highly respectable and honourable constituency with his presence. But, Sir, you say—" Perhaps Mr. Cochrane will inform the electors whether he is the person I have thus hastily alluded to." My reply is, do not take Mr. Cochrane's word for his in nocence. Iknew the wandering minstrel—the poor amiable young man who had been driven from . friends and home, owing to political disturbances in his own country—l have seen him often, but not since he gathered silver and gold from those who pitied his pretended misfortune—from those who fostered the viper, who felt for and sympathised with him in his assumed distressed condition, and I might be able to identify him; yet, there is a probability of clearing up the point beyond the possibility of doubt. The minstrel's work was printed by Mr. Brettel, of Rupert. street, Haymarket ; and I have reason to know that that gentleman is perfectly acquainted with the person of Mr. Cochrane, and can, there fore, without difficulty, set the matter at rest, and thus ease the minds of many parties who have promised Mr. Cochrane their support, but who would at once withdraw it if Mr. Cochrane can be identified as the wandering minstrel. Allow me to add, that, for years, Mr. Brettel has taker, a very prominent part in the Westminster election; he is a Liberal too; and would, no doubt, not only for the credit of the House of Commons, but for the honour and reputation of IVestminster, set the matter at rest. I am, Sir, faithfully yours, J. w Fleet-street. On Wednesday, Feb. 17, another correspondery thus wrote: — MR. COCHRANE AND THE ELECTORS OF WESTMINSTER. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sir,—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? Let 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. On Friday, the lgth, we inserted another letter in the following words : MR. COCHRANE AND THE ELECTORS OF WEST MINSTER. TO VIE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sir,--My attention has been directed to the inquiries con tained in your paper, relative to the identity of Mr. Coch rane, the present candidate for Westminster, with one JUAN DE VEGA, who some years back travelled through some parts of England, professing to be a Spanish refugee, and then published adventures of a most immoral kind as the account of his trawls. I remember a person calling himself Don Juan de Vega soliciting charitylin this town, not for himself only, but for his fellow Spanish refugees. He came as a Spanish peasant; a large slouched straw hat, and open vest, a mantilla ciaak, breeches, and stockings, formed his dress; he professed to speak no English—French and Spanish being the only languages he knew. He was of slight figure, and dark muulatto complexion. He excited much compassion in this town, where he professed to be a Quaker, and attended the Friends' Meeting House ; was fed, clothed, and had money given to him in no small quantity; and yet was afterwards, by his own published adventures, found to be an imposter, a hypocrite, and a scoundrel. He endeavoured to seduce every girl he could come near, and those whom he could not ruin in person, he sought to lower in character, by imputing in print the actions of charitable feeling to the promptings of the most unchaste passion. I know, and could identify the man. Ido not know whether the Juan de Vega, of Brighton, be the candidate for Westminster. I can hardly believe that the swarthy Juan de Vega can be the Mr. Cochrane who appears at meetings of charity, dances with the daughters of the Governor of the Licensed Victuallers' at their annual balls, and is alternately heard of at the Crown and Anchor and at Exeter Hall, in company with Dr. Leifchild and Mr. B. B. Cabbell—l say I can hardly believe it, and yet why does he not deny it ? If they be the same person, I pity the deceived, I despise the deceiver. But I will come up to London on his first public appearance, and my own eyes shall, if I be spared to see him, con vince myself. If Juan de Vega be Mr. Cochrane, I will de nounce him, and the " Tallow-chandler and Grocer," whom he so described, and whose hospitality he abused, shall shame him from the Westminster hustings.—l am, Sir, your obe dient servant, D. B. Brighton, Feb. 17, 1847. In The Sun of Monday night will be found the fol lowing advertisement : "TO THE INDEPENDENT ELECTORS OF WESTMINSTER. " GENTLEMEN,—Some of you will doubtless have seen a succession of personal attacks on me which have appeared in The Sun newspaper, and which evidently have for their ob ject to pTejudice me in your estimation. After the very flattering reception which I have met from you at public meetings and in my private interviews with a large propor tion of your body, I deem it due to you to state that, acting under the advice of the most eminent Counsel, I have brought an action for defamation of character against the proprietors of The Sun newspaper, when an opportunity will be afforded to my anonymous assailant to prove, if he can, the charges he has preferred against me.—l have the honour to be, Gen tlemen, your obedient aid grateful servant, " CHARLES COCHRANE. " Devonshire-place, Monday, Feb. 22, 1847." This, then, is Mr. COCHRANE'S answer to the in quiries of our correspondents—an action for defama. tion of character !! We think it right to lay the whole case fairly be fore the public, and the electors of Westminster in particular, that they may judge for themselves as to whether a public journalist is not bound to give pub licity to letters such as the above, and on such a sub ject. If Mr. COCIIRANE be not Senor JUAN DE VEGA—if we have, even by implication, said one word to his then undeserved disparagement —we are ready and willing to apologise most amply and most unreservedly. But if he be Don JUAN DE VEGA, and we put the ques tion fairly to him, whether he be so,—if he be the author of a work in two volumes, containing an account of his adventures, then not one word of recantation, but many of bi tter i ndignation, shall appear in The Sun. We challenged inquiry into the identity of Don JUAN DE VEGA, and the candidate for the suffrages of the electors of Westmin ster —we are answered by threats. We laugh at threats such as these, and we know little of the electors of Westminster if any candidate can gain their favour by attempting to put down inquiries into who or what he is. Let Mr. COCHRANE state a parentage, a conduct in life, and a character such as may recommend him to the electors of Westminster; but let him beware of the reputation which must always attach to JUAN DS VEGA. Our answer to Mr. COCHRANE'S threats is a very short query—Are you, Mr. COCHRANE, the writer of two volumes, detailing the adventures of JUAN DE VEGA; and are you that personage ?—Aye or no. Upon your answer our course depends. RICB FLoug.—A parcel of rice dust, meal, or flour, was lately imported by one of the vessels arriving from the United States, which being a novel description of impor tation, was not specifically rated in the table of duties, but it was considered to be liable to the duty of Is. per cwt. as rice, and ordered to be charged accordingly. The duty on rico itself has been suspended or temporarily repealed, and, there fore, the article mentioned would now, equally with rice, be fog tf duty. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. Fr, au The Sun of last Night. The Cotton Market at Liverpool yesterday was firm. Sales 5,000 hales, including 500 for export, and 500 on speculation ; 4500 bales v,ere American, and realised Gid to 7 3 4t1 per lb; 200 Egypti an , 7%d ;o 9d; and 200 Surat, 4%d per lb. The market closed rather firmer. Shares had been rather dull. The sale of Railway Shares yesterday, by Melsrs.Lamond and Co., w as fi rmer; an d as the Budget has been brought out, more confidence was displayed; still there was no great change in prices. The following are a few of the principal sales : East Indian Calcutta and St. George's Point 0 4 0 Derby, Stafford, and Worcestershire Boston, Stamford, and Birmingham 6 18 0 South-Eastern and Dover, No. 4 Manchester and Southampton 1 6 0 Great Northern (London and York Reg.) 2 14 6 Reading, Guildford, and Reigate 4 5 6 Northern Counties Union Buckinghamshire . Shropshire Union and Canal 1 7 0 Eastern Counties, York Extension... ..... The details of the Budget are so fully given and Com mented upon in another column of The Sun, that it is un necessary to recapitulate them here, and we may merely remark that they are considered to be quite as favourable as could, under the circumstances, have been anticipitated, and that although the Chancellor of the Exchequer has deter mined upon an open loan in preference to a funding of Ex chequer-bills, the advantages and demerits of which policy we have alre..2.dy pointed out under this head, the limitation of the amount to be raised to eight millions will serve to render the operation much less onerous than it would have been, and more especially if the instalments be Judiciously extended over a given period. To arrange these preliminaries the city capitalists will meet Lord John Russell and Mr. Wood on Thursday neat, as shown in a communication in another part of The Sun, which was read in the Stock Exchange this morning. The new loan can hardly be expected to come out so well as the Canada debentures did, because money is now much scarcer; and if par should be given for Three-and-a-Half per Cent., this would hardly correspond with the rates now current in the market. Capitalists now will be look ing probably for about 3% per cent. in the funds, and of course the loan will come out in pro portion. Possibly for every 1001. stock, bidding, varying from 109 up to 112 may be made, but of course we are now merely giving the on Bits of the day. The New Exchequer-bills to be dated March 16, 1847 are to be raised to 2d. per diem, as advertised in another column. The Stock market is rather unsettled, and prices have re ceded about per cent. This is the natural effect of the new loan. Consols are 90% % for present transfer, and have been 90 1 4 % for the Account to be arranged on Thursday, and of which it may puzzle many to predict the result. Exchequer-bills have risen to 10s. and 14s. prem. Bank Stock is not higher than 203 to 1 ,4. The Foreign Bonds are quite neglected. Portuguese Four per Cents, are heavy at 34. The accounts fr Lisbon are not very favourable. Mexican Bonds have ikkeded to 22 4 and 21%. Railway Shares have been rather firm again. BRITISH FUNDS. ONE CLOSING O'CLOCK. PRICES. Bank Stock .. 203% 203% Three per Cent. Reduced Annuities .. 90% 5 91% 911 liree per Cent. Consols Annuities 90 %%% 90% Three per Cent. Annuities, 1726 .. 89 IA Sew Three-and-a-Quarter per Cent. Anns. 9'2%% 93 New Five per Cent. Annuities .. 122 Long Annuities, Expire •Jan. 6,1860 .. 9 9-16 %% 9% Ditto, 30 years, Oct. 10, 1859 .. 9 5-16 % Ditto, 30 years, Jan. 5, 1860 .. • • 9% Console for Account .. 90% % 90% Exchequer Bills. I%d. I%d. 1,0001... 10 14 pm. Ditto. Small .... 15 10 pm. Ditto, Advertised • • • • 9 ONE FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK. Mexican Bonds, 1846, 5 per Cent .. 22% 21% Ditto, for the Account .. -- Portuguese Four per C en t .. 34 Dividends on the above payable in Lendon. Belgian Four-and-a-Halt per Cent .. 941¢ Dutch Two-and-a-Bait per Cent Ditto. 4 per Cent. certificates CLOSINC .. 92%% 92% PRICES OF BUSINESS CLOSING RAILWAY SHARES. PAID. DONE AT PRICES, ONE O'CLOCK. Aberdeen.. .. • • • • •• 25 .... 23% .......... 23% Amber., Notting., Boston, and Eastern Junction . • • • • 2% .... 2% 2% Birmingham and Oxford Junction 5 .... 14% % . 1414 Birming., Wolver., and Dudley.. .... 10% 10% Bristol and Exeter • • • • .. 75 .. 77 77 Buckinghamshire .. .• • • • • 84 s. •• • • %% ...... P Cornwall . _ 5 . .. .. Ditto, Half Shares .. .. Direct Northern Scrip .. .... 2% % .. 2% Eastern Counties .. 20 21,4% 21% Ditto, York Extension .. 4 4% East Lancashire .. .. 14 .. Ditto New .. .• • • • • 5 •• • • 7 % 4•••• • • • • 74 Edinburgh and Glasgow .. .. 50 .... 77 ...... 77 Edinburgh and Northern .. .. 15 .... Ditto, New . • • • • 2% •• • • 3 % ••••• • • • • • 3 34 Great Northern (London & York Regd.) .. 2% .... 2% %•• .. • • 2% Do., do (Direct Northern Regd.) 3% .... 3% • •••• • • • • 3% Great Western .. 85 ....121 122% 122% Ditto, Half Shares .. 50 .... 71 • • ........ 71 Ditto, New 414 •• • • 8 3%% ••• • •• Ipswich aNd Bury SLEdmunds .. 14 •••• • • • • • 12% Ditto ditto, and Norwich .. 5 .... 3% ••• • • . Leeds and Bradford .. 35 80 • • ...... • • 80 Leeds, Dewsbury, & Manchester 27% — Do., Old Extension (Green) .. 2%.... .. Leeds and Thirsk 22%.... 19% . • .• • • /9% Ditto, Preference 6 per Cent. 3% • • • • • • • • 5 London and Blackwell .. 161. 13s. 4d. 8% . ...... 8 3% Ditto, New, No. 1 .. 4 5 ..... London, Brighton, and S Coast.. 50 .. 55% 56 55% 56 Ditto, Guarant. Five per Cent. 9 .... 9% %•••• • • • • 9% London and North-Western • • ..100 ... 184% 185% Ditto, Quarters • . .. 2 .... ..... Ditto ditto, New Shares .• .. 2 .... 14% London and South-Western • • 41/. 63.10 d. . Ditto, Scrip.. .. 5 .... 5% London and York Extension Scrip 2% .... 238 . ...... Lynn and Dereham . ' .. •• 15 .... 17 .. ••.. • • Manchester, Buxton, ft Matlock 425. % p• • Manchester and Southampton .. 2 .... 1 1 - Midland —lOO ... 1224 .. 122% Ditto, New .. 2 .... 6 5t 554 5 54 Midland, Binning. & Gloucest.• .100 .......... 123 Newcastle and Berwick .. .. 20 .... 32% % 32 1 4 Newmarket and Chesterford • . 10 .. • . 1014% • • • . 10% Norfolk .. •• ..100 •... ••••• 149 Ditto, Half Shares •. .. 10 . 14%.... • ..... 14% Ditto, Extension .. • .. 6 .... ........ 6% Ditto, ditto, Waveney Valley.. 2 .... .......... North British .. 25 .......... Ditto, Half Shares .. .. 12% 16% .......... Ditto, Extension .. .. 1 % Ditto, Thirds • • .. • • • • 1 •• • • 33g •• • • ••• • • North Staffordshire .. • • • • 5 •• • • 8 % 34 • • Preston and Wyre .. • . 25 .... 344 % ..44.44. Ditto, Half Shares (A) .... 11 Ditto, ditto (B) 1% 1% Reading, Guildford and ,Reigate 5 .. • • 4% % • ....... Scottish Midland .. 17%.... 22% 21% •• .. Shrewsbury and Birmingham .. 3 .... Ditto, Class B •. • • • . 1% .... 13,8 .......... Shropshire Union .. 425..... 4 dis _ South Eastern and Dovor .. • • 33% ........ Ditto. New (iss. at 321.) No. 1. 20 ... 13 .......... 23 Trent Valley and Midland June. 425..... 1 p• • .... • 1 p Waterford and Kilkenny .. 11 .... .......... 4% West Riding Union .. 425..... I p p York and Newcastle .. .. 25 .... 36% 364 Ditto, New.. , 11% _ „ „ Ditto, Preference .. .. 4 .... 8X 8% York and North Midland .. 50 .... 863 y 87 87 Ditto, Extension .. .. 20 .... 364 3674, Ditto. Preference .. .. 2 .... 12% 11 FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Boulogne and Amiens .. 18 .... 14% .......... Central of France (Orleans and Vierzon) • • • • • . 10 .... 13 .......... Dutch Rhenish .. 7 4% 1 4 ..... East In tia. ,, . .......... Namur and Liege .. • • .. 8 •• .. 3 Northern of France .. • . 8 .. ... 12;3 Paris and Rouen .. .. 20 .... 34% JOINT-STOCK BANKS. MINES. Union of Australia 14 " i', 8 34% II I's 1 5 , 7 s 74 dis Real del Monte, Unregistered .. •• • • 3 14 ••• • • • •• • 3 COURSE OF EXCHANGE.-(YESTERDAY.) Amsterdam ...... C.F. 12 3y, Gibraltar.. .... Ditto, at sight ...... 12 1 Leghorn ........ ••.. • . 30 20 Rotterdam ...... 2U. 12 4 Genoa ........ .. 25 85 Antwerp .... 25 80 Milan aamburgh A 1.13. 13 10}:, Venice_ .............. Altona .............. Naples ............ • • 40y, Paris, 3 days' sight .... 25 45 Palermo, per 0z...... . 121 Ditto, 3 months .. .... 25 75 Lisbon .... 53 Marseilles 25 85 Oporto •••.. • . 54!• 80urdeaux......... .. 25 85 Rio Janeiro .•.. • • 28 Frankfort on Maine.... 121 Bahia . . Petersburgh, 3 U 5...... Buenos Ayres Berlin ............ .• • • New York, 21 days' sight Vienna, effee.flo.... • . 10 3 Philadelphia Trieste, ditto.... ...... 10 3 FRICk3 OF BULLION, FL ot. Madrid ............ 36 Foreign Gold in bars.. £3 17 9 Cadiz .• •.. : 8i1ba0................ Portugal Gold Coin ••0 0 0 Barcelona •• • • ........ Spanish Doubloons .. 0 0 0 Seville.. • • ••• • .. Silver in bars .... ••• 0 5 0.3 d MR. BYNG'S WILL. —The late venerable Member for Middlesex made his will on the 11th of September, 1844, and has bequeathed to his widow for her absolute use all the growing crops and farming stock, arrears of rent, household stores, carriages, horses, &c., and the residue of hi s f un d e d and personal estate, which alone amounted to about 60,0001., the furniture, statues, bronzes, pictures, books, and other household effects at his residence at Wrotham Park and St. James's-square, to be enjoyed by the tenant in possession of his real estates, and descend as heir-looms. His numerous freehold and landed estates and tithes in the cities of London and Westminster, and at Harmondswortb, Barnet, and else where in Middlesex, and all.other his estates in the counties of Hertford and Kent, and in all other parts of Great Britain, he has devised to his brother, the Right Hon. John Lord Strafford, and his issue male. The trustees are the Right Hon. and Rev. Lord John Thynne, Prebendary of West minster and Rector of Walton, Somerset; Henry Tufnel, Esq., M.P. ; and Samuel Charles Whitbread, Esq. Lord Thynne is the acting executor. Mrs. Byng is also appointed executrix. r a e y sid a enc c e om of m G i e ss o i r o g n e ° th n e d CommissioN ofL wa u s ru op c e r n . e 7 a l A t l de lunatic* inquiren Cole, Esq., 73, as to the state of mi n d Edgware-road, before Mr. Commission er Winslow and a special jury , to inquire f 83 years, and possessed of property to the of the above-named George C ole, a g entleman of the very advanced age o vieailueofnearly 12,000/. The commission was taken out a t t instance of Mr. Richard Cole, a brother of the unfortu nate gentleman, who resides at Dudley Castle, the property of Lord Dudley and Ward. Mr. Hugh Hill appeared as counsel in support of the commission, and Mr. Beaumont as solicitor for the alleged lunatic. Mr. Webster and Mr. Guy, of the Edgware-road, surgeons, bore out the foregoing testi mony, concurring in opinion that the unfortunate gentleman was effected with incurable dementice, resulting from extreme old age. The jury, with the Learned Commissioner, counsel, &c., proceeded to the drawing-room to have an interview with Mr. Cole. His appearance was that of a very healthy but aged man, with a mild, good-humoured countenance, and features which had evidently been handsome. The few answers he made to the questions propounded were con firmatory of the foregoing testimony, and on their return to court they immediately returned a verdict, "That George Cole was of unsound mind, incapable of managing himself and his affairs, and had been so since Feb. 1, 1844." THE FEVER AT SIERRA- LEONE.—Letters from Sierra Leone up to the 26th of December have been received, reporting that the fever prevailed to such an extent in her Majesty's sloop Wanderer, that she was kept at anchor there, and had been placed in quarantine. Up to the above day she bad lost Lieutenant W. H. Warlters and nine of the crew, and had sick in their cots. The Contest, 12, had gone to the Wanderer with provisions, and having had communica tion with her, it was deemed advisable that she should also be placed in quarantine. The officers and craw of the Wanderer were anxiously looking for the arrival of Com modore Sir Charles Hotham, in the Devastation, who would either order the brig to Ascension or to England, to en deavour to stop the fever from spreading. Sir Charles Hotham left Ascension on the 26th of December, for Sierra Leone. HEALTH OF THE QUEEN OF PRUSSIA.—BERLIN, FEB. 16.—Her Majesty the Queen has slept quietly during the greater part of the night; in the morning the cough is lase frequent, and only a slight excitement of pulse 14 per ceptible. FUNERAL OF THE DUKE OF NORTHUMBERLAND. The remains of the late lamented Duke cf Northumber land were interred yestezday in Westminster Abbey. I'h° funeral, though conducted with that pomp befitting the high rank of the dectafed Peer, was essentially a private one, as save the immediate relatives of his Grace, the clergynL,, , ut .-kinwiek, the parish in which he died, an d the heads of IL , :1;:osehold followed his bier as mourners. EIS the lying in state of the body at Northumberland House was equally private, few, save the relatives and household of the Noble Duke, being admitted into the chamber of death to testify their respect, and take their farewel of the descend of the ancient and noble' family of the Percy'--" throe et maternal &scent the representative of the old Earls Northumberland—of that M a nfred the Dane, who n ude irruptions into France in the ninth century, and whos e Pr terity, settling in Normandy, took their name from the tor main of Percy in that province." Ills Grace was born 0.0 the 2.oth of April, 1785, • and, therefore, at the time of ble death he had not completed his sixty-second year. On the 28th of April, 1817, whilst in his thirty-second year, the espousod the Lady Charlotte Florentia Clive, second dalkg, ter of Edward, first Earl Powis, who was then in her thirnetu year, and who survives her husband. The deceased DOI came from the Smithson branch of the family, th e firs, t baronet of which received his title on the 2d of A u g li" 1660. The mournful cortege left Northumberland House shot* after twelve o'clock in the following order:— Two attendants on horseback. Two mutes on horseback. Feathers. Two mutes on horseback. Eight cloakmen on horseback. The coronet of the late Duke on a crimson cushion. S carriages of the late u. A hearse, drawn te by six horses, containing ke the body of 1118 late Peer. The family arms and stars were emblazoned on the h e s t ld ' mer-cloth and sides of the hearse. The coffia was cov OW with crimson velvet, studded with gilt na il s , and bell emblazoned with the arms of the house. In the first 4, riage were the Rev. Sir H. Duki n fi e ld, B ar t., vicar' nt,'l d Martin's; Rev. Mr. Giffard, curate; and the Rev. Ch' i l Charlton, minister of Alnwick New Church. In the 50c0., 0 his Grace the Duke of Northumberl an d (the late Dg's brother); his Grace the Duke of Athol, and the Right 4 0 0, Lord Lovaine. In the third, the Bi s h o p o f Carlisle , _r im Admiral Joceline Percy, Hon. Ad m i ra l W m . Percy, 01 .Ler Hon. Charles Bertie Percy. In the f our th, the Hon. PI; M. Percy, the Rev. H. Percy, an d L or d Janles, A 7 s - al ray. In the fifth, Earl Powis, the Right Hon. the Lord Clive, M ' .P. and W. Martin Drummond, Esq. IA 6th, Sir Walter Riddell, Bart. ; --Hodgson, E s( l'' Blackburn, Esq. ; and Williams, Esq. The 7th eighth carriages contained some of the household. .„pif A long train of the carriages of th e no bilit y and P" — followed. 0 Charing-cross, Whitehall, and Parlia men t- s t ree t ive > ' e thronged as on the days of the openin g an d prorogsnw Parliament. Most of the windows were occupied. botti The cortege reached the north door of the Abbe Pe nis one o'clock, in the immediate vicinity of which In isni l b o number of persons had congregated. The coffin haying t hs carried into the chapel and placed close to the vaults , Right Rev, the Dean, aided by the o th er dignitaries of Abbey, who appeared in their full canonieals, perfornnbi beautiful service, after which an anthem was c haunierol the choir, and the body was removed to th e va ult, and P beside that of the late Duke. _ al The Abb..— filled • ne Jbey was with spectators, the whom appeared in mourning . COURT OF ALDERMEN. Yesterday a Court was held fur the disfo tch business. ,„ liff; Alderman Wu.soN presented th e pet i t i on from -- ec teu Budd praying that the City S o li c i tor s h ou ld be 0 1.04 to stay the proceedings ag a i ns t hi m f or having bee 4 to serve on the inquest jury, on which he heu o isbi elected as a juryman in 1845. Th e cons id era tico j 011 petition bad been postponed in consequence tiot absence of the petitioner, on the last day of the of the Court. Mr. Budd appeared at the bar, and a Alderman WILsoN said that th e p e ti t i one r h -11,00: pressed much regr e t th a t h e was prevente d by en boa able circumstances from serv i ng on t h e inquest, e l) or offered tip attend upon any futu re occas i on with P r os titude and punctuality. It would be, therefore, P° mtsi than fair plsy in the Court to direct the Solicitoore the proceedings adopted in th e case as they could ftb° no other object than the performance of the duties u office. The Allsrman moved accordingly. o re, Several members said th e y cou ld not t hi n k 0' Igor ing to the proposition o f Ald erman Wil s on being assured that Mr. Budd had paid the costs. p ea' The RECORDER said, if th e matter state d in L L°3 or° tion had been represented b e f ore th e p roc eeding: 3 l o commenced, there would have been no occasion u ) of present application. After some observations from members WO no to' opinion that th e re f usa l o f M r . B u d d to se rve " o f inquest, was m a d e i n d e fi ance o f the authority IR O Court of Alderm an , th e pet i t i on was or d ere d t o O no oo the table. Mr. Budd will therefore be called er answer for his refusal to serve, Ler Alderman HUMPRERY begged to state to 'lin o r Mayor that he had rece i ve d i nt i mat i on from r ep ot? Ferguson that the mayor of L on d on d err y ands peal° Lion were expect e d t o arr i ve i n L on d on w ith a dispute between them and the Irish Soniev;: o s object in noticing the circumstance to the Courtai secure to the gentlemen a hearing at the next ti_ e u4 Common Council, and to h ave a p e rfect undeve'; established between the corporation of Londonder'4 the Irish Society. bat til l The general opinion of th e m em b e rs was had no right to as k th e. L or d M ayor to gra nt - 010 1 to the deputation at the Court. Thai was P which depended entirely upon his Lordship's o wp pendent choice. t 5943. Alderman SIDNEY m...ved that the following ..•••• ing orders of the Court : s p First, that no businesa be proceeded with; nor gratuity be voted, nor any account be ordesled f"' por ment, unless notice o f suc h b us i ness, gras4itY' ment be inserted on the summons. • Co P Secondly, that the r ecor d e d proceedings of this in future be print e d, an d circulated to each mew after every sitting. The first of these propo s iti ons wa s, after sne3efirlS fication, referred to a co mm i t t ee . The seco nd negatived by a considerable majority. E Sh° l l _XTRAORDINARY SHOT.—An extmordinfLi co lorie , was last week made on the Hampshire coast bY, 2 „ 0 00 0 hawker with one ba rre l o f hi s 2001 b. gun, and a -1 e patent cartridge by Eley. lie picked up, at this °R , dose ° 178 oxbirds and a pl over , exc l us i ve o f a b o ut thr e . the more birds that escaped in the scramble of co ne killed and wounded. F 13 ' 2 , 1:1 e; THE SCOTCH IR ON TRADE.--GLASGOW, f r d —The price of Scot c h pi g i ron , d e li vere d f ree on ue'; may be quoted to-day at 745. per ton net cash,„, l ,, e ; re ve„rj" 1 numbers. Our market w a s thi s wee k b uo y an t. 4 1 4 toi l extensive buyers at 735., 735. 6d., an d 74 5 ., cash in days, at which rate s a l arge b us i ness was done, d Of are now scarce at the figure quoted to-day. ,tilig BANWELL IRON COMPANY. —The first - Toros this company was held on Monday at the office to I:sr needle-street. The chair was taken by 13. Barnett' ersti": when a report was read, which showed that the 0 1 0'7 4 at the mine, which had only been a short time colu l ril had induced the directors to believe that the woodt would turn out very productive, and that the ore,tlst rich in proportion, that extracted having produce ( ' t ; eit" forty-four per cent. of iron. The report and accea l arlopted,when the meeting adjourned. DETERMINED SUICIDE.—On Sunday tng P. 4 man was walking towards th e en t rance o f ri c toria - P s n ,l o ; perceived a quantity of blood close t o a gra vel jo tP proceeding towards it discovered the body of a u l t,7,iisi e ''y pit with his throat cut, an d quite dead. lie informed the police, w ho conveyed the body to the 4. llg oes' workhouse, where it reiaai ns awa iti ng a coro ner's 1 011 , The deceased was ab o ut thi r ty- e i g h t years o f age, 5011° respectably dressed. He must h ave fi rst i n fli c ted the r ose s during his struggles h ave ro ll e d i nto t h e pit. P he has not been identified. THE CASE OF M. ALISXANDRE D Civil Tribunal gave j u d gment on Friday in the - 0 61 P. brought by M. d e Girardin, gerant of the Prase, an V4ron, gerant of the Constitutionnel, against M. Ale e - ede.,, l3# Dumas, for the breach of engagements into which he honed' tered relative to the supply and publication of his re`",, r derr, The judgment in both cases are the same. The Cour t , " stref, that within six weeks from the Ist of March next Allie Dumas shall be obliged to remit to Emile de Girs, r ,.oo„'", manuscript of the first of the volumes of which the " o f tP; declares him debter—that is to say, the coutinuatie ll A l ; "Minoires d'un 1116decin," and that he shall remit t` l .l oes,," volumes from month to month, beginning 15th APP io csr, until he shall have entirely cleared off the arrear ; 8 00 ' Um Dumas shall neglect to make the deliveries within the ors specified, condemns him to pay to Emile de Girardin t o e r derS,l of 100 f. for each day's delay during three months; 09 115 that in case of non-payment of the said damages, D util eeed be liable to arrest, when the amount shall have e5,-".0 to 300 f.; says that there is no ground for deciding rel s 46, the volumes to be furnished from 11th December , f allh Ist of April, 1847; but orders only that the treat,' s' reli t executed in its form and tenor, except, however, as ree, or the term of the debt, which is April, 1847, !Ito the Ist of July f o ll ow ing, the period 0: 0 0 commencement being changed; condemns Alexandre P d e lei to pay to Emile de Girardin 3,000 f. asdamages for 0 00 in the execution of the treaty, with liability to arre st ta c os' of non-payment, but only in six months from this dic;rond demns Emile de Girardin to the expenses of the u o f the Prorogued from the of against the other newspapers, as also to the expeas_,„ es e nt demand against Dumas with respect to the advertiaw",,, ds' the Mode ; condemns the Mode to the expenses of_tooried mand against it, but only up to March, 1846, at wh i " . l6ll o3ai . it gave satisfaction to the complainants; conderau'Atigiols• to the expenses of the demand contained in the eorl_` o f the. of December 14th, 1846, including the registration:l2e cost treaty necessitated by the process; be and orders that bor ne and signification of the p resen t j u d gm ent shall t he C .ol ' . Dumas." A similar order was made with regard to stitutionnel, V$1141) THE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH IN TIIE - i.as far. STATES.—A correspondent of Galin Messenger `has fished to that paper some particulars illustrating thethiited to which the electrical system has been carried in th e +ts ined• A States, and the working perfection to which it has a6 goa n. lino "has been completed across the Alleghaer de lphi* tains, and it h as wo r k e d a d m i ra bly between Phi ~ ,,e ,1 9 of and Pittsburg—a distance of 300 mites. The ..l e ' - o f oll! Pittsburg have publi s h e d th e p rocee dings of Cong res s n wita afternoon on the following morning; and this is the n O" The yor- 1 4 all the news from the great cities of the Atlantic cost. message of the Governor to the Legislature of New . .., t wo delivered at Albany on the 7th ult., and consisting t.' t he columns and a half of solid nonpareil, was pu blished I " be ee city of New York two hours after its delivery , ng telegraph transmitted sentence by sentence by the electric tele t f ) 00 , A company has been formed, with adequate cap_ctahingtolt struct a telegraphic cornmunicatiun between /vB3 cbarleSt °3 arid New Orleans, by th e wa y o f Richmond , Mobile, &c. NORFoEK.—The lambing season mm enced h a s co— in the eastern counties with a good promise of pro ..ot ew h e it ' o r e e though in some districts the number of stock equal to the usual average. It is feared, however' t rin g ad" vances. The turnips were affected by the will be a scarcity of food for the flocks as the protec t occurred when there was no snow on the ground to t the farmer' them • , and there are now complaints amohgs . si v e° more particiiiarly in Norfolk, that the crop is rottli3Fe'd m en in the thaw, the state of the young wheats has e..c 11 :, men in attention ; but it is the opinion of the best pracycared by to that district that they have not been 101'4' 011 Lill" severe minter. severesfi;osts that t z