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be affixed to the memorial, with my fullest concurrence and approbation of its object. I remain yours very truly E. NORWICH. To the Lord Bishop of TIIE ELEVENTH VOLUME OF LIVES OF THE QUEENS OF ENGLAND, BY AGNES STRICKLAND, IS NO N 7 READY AT ALL THE BOOKSELLERS. N.B. The Twelfth Volume will complete this important work. Henry Colbarn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. Now ready, in post evo., price 10s. 6d., with Portraits and Plates. ADVENTURES OF AN ANGLER In CANADA, NOVA SCOTIA, and the UNITED STATES. By CHARLES LANMAN. Richard Bentley. New Barlington-street. (Publisher ia Ordinary to her Majesty.) RAILWAY SHARES BY PUBLIC SALE. MESSRS. LAMOND and Co., RAILWAT SHARE AUCTIONEERS, beg to thank their Friends and the Public Par their continued support and patronage, and to announce that their Public Sales of Railway Shares, &c., take ;mace every WEDIUSDAT, at One o'clock, (instead of Tuesday and Friday, Li hitherto), at the Hall of Commerce, Threadneedle street, London, to which place, favours, containing instructions (with a reference), are respectfully requested is be addressed. All Scrip and Share Certificates must be deposited, the day previous to their being offered; and advices of results will be f.rwarded by the first post after the sale, and the proceeds imme diately disposed of according to instructions. N.B. Sales and purchases of all descriptions of stook and shares effected by private contract, every day, as usual. flail of Commerce. Threadneedle-street. London. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Uzier the Management of Mr. B. Webster, sole Lessee. THIS EVENING Will be performed the Comedy of THE SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL. Sir Peter Teazle, Mr. Ferren ; Sir Oliver Surface, Mr. Tilbury - Sir Benjamin Backbite, Mr. A. Wigan ; Joseph Surface, Mr. Cres;ick ; Charles Surface, Mr. Henry Farren ; Careless, Mr. H. Vandenhoff ; Rowley, Mr. Gough ; Moses, Mr. Webster ; Snake, Mr. Braid ; Sir Barry, Mr. Caulfield; Crabtree, Mr. Rogers ; Trip, Mr. Brindal. Lady Teazle, Mrs. Nisbett ; Mrs. Candour, Mrs. Glover; Lady Sneer. well. Mrs. W. Clifford ; Maria, Miss E. Messent. To be followed by MY WIFE'S MOTHER. Uncle Foozle, Mr. Farrell ; Mr. Budd, Mr. Hell ; Mrs. Quickfldget, Mrs. Glover; Mrs. Itudd. Miss Julia Bennett. to conclude with a new and original Farce, :called WHO'S MY HUSBAND ? Doctor Mull, Mr. Tilbury; Daniel Tootles, Mr. Keeley; Mrs. imith Thompson, Mrs, W. Clifford; Sophonisba Mull, Mrs. L. S. Buckingham ; Sally Starch, Mrs. Ilumby. Stage Manager, Mr. Farren ; Acting Manager, Mr. F. Webster. J. T. Archer, Box-book keeper. Boxes, ss. ; Pit, 3s. • Gallery, 2s. ; Upper Gallery, Is. Doors open at Half-past glx, Performance to commence at Seven. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. Under the direction of Madame Celeste. THIS EVENING Will be performed, the celebrated Comedy of PAUL PRY. Frank Hardy, Mr. Stoker; Witherton, Mr. Cullenford; Somers, Mr. Wor rell ; Colonel Hardy, Mr. Lambert ; Mr. Stanley, Mr. Thomas ; 4r lJarry Stanley, Mr. Boyce ; Paul Pry, Mr. Wright ; Grasp, Mr. 0 . Smith ; Eliza, Miss M. Taylor ; Marian, Miss Emma Harding ; Mrs. Subtle, Mrs. Yates ; Phcebe, Miss Woolgar. To be followed by a new Farce entitled THE TIPPERARY LE GACY. Tumem Green, Mr. Wright ; Bob Gills, Mr. Munyard ; Lanty Scrimmage, Mr. Paul Bedford ; Chubblock. Mr. Cullenford ; Policeman, Mr. Sanders ; Lizzy Chubblock, Miss Woolgar. To conclude with the Farce, entitled TIIIS HOUSE TO BE 30[.D 'the property of the late William Shakspeare), Inquire Within. Cha racters by Messrs. Wright, Cullenford, Worrell, 0. Smith, Paul Bed ford, Mrs. Laws, &c., &c. Boxes, 45.; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, Is. Doors open at Half-past Six, Performance to commence at Seven. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Under the Management of Madame Vestris. Sole Lessee, Mr. Charles Mathews. THIS EVENING, Will be performed a new Comic: Drama called PEGGY GREEN. After which, a new Comic Drama, entitled THE TRAGEDY QUEEN. After which, THE RING DOVES. To conclude with a Comic Drama, called A ROUGH DIAMOND. Dress Boxes, Is. ; Upper Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, Is. No half-price to any part of the house. The New Box-office, No. 2, Wellington-street, is open to the Public every day, Iron Ten till Six. The Interior of the House has been entirely re-designed by Mr. W. Bradwell of the Colosseum. PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Madame ANNA THILLON. THIS EVENING A new Comic Opera, entitled THE AMBASSADRESS. Duke de Valberg, Mr. Bodda ; Benedict, Mr. Barker ; Fortunatus, Mr. Lef ler; Countess de Fierschomberg, Miss Villars; Madame Barneck, Mrs. Selby ; Charlotte, Miss Arnie Romer ; Henriette, Madame Anna Thillon. To conclude with the Comedy of THE HONEYMOON. Duke Aranza, Mr. Cooper; Couut Montalban, Mr. C. Fisher; Rolando, 'Mr. 3. Vining ; Jacque., Mr. Conaptoa ; Juliana, Miss Cushman ; Volantc. Miss Susan CUSI2SIOII. Dress Circle, Is. ;- lit, 2s. ; Gallery, Is. FRENCH PrAVS.—ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. Lessee, Mr. John Mitchell, 33, tlldi 114,nd-street. TO-MORROW EVENING. Will be presented LE CIIEF-D(ELTVRE INCONN U. Maitre Michel, M. St. NI arse ; Rolla, H. Fechter ; Stephano, Mdlle. Baptiste After which, LE REVEIL DU LION. M. Stadislaus de Fon blanche, M. Cartigny ; Rector Matdeols, 111. Alontalami ; Charlotte de Villedieu, Madame Vainly. To conclude with LE SECRET DE MON ONCLE. Deejobert, M. Henri Adis ; Ernest Dupare, Montaland. A detailed prospectus of the general arrangements, and of the pieces which will be produced during the season, may be had at Mr. Mitchell's Royal Library, 33, Old Bond-street ; and at the Doi-office of the Theatre, which is open daily, from 11 to 5. Boxes, 6s. ; Pit, 3s. 6d.; Amphitheatre, 38. ; Gallery, 2s ROYAL SURREY THEATRE Lessee, Mrs. F. Davidge, No. 1, Davidge-terrace, Kensington-road, Surrey. THIS EVENING, the performances will commence with the celebrated Opera or THE BO 'SD SIAN. Principal characters by Messrs. IL llorncastle, Rafter, Maynard, Jones, D. W. King, and Attwood ; Miss Poole, Mrs. R. Hughes, and After which, Dibdin's Ballad Opera of THE QUAKER. Steady, Mr. H. Phillips ; Lubin, Mr. 11. Horneastle ; Solomon, Mr. Attwoud ; Gillian, Miss Collett ; Floretta, Miss R. Isaacs. To conclude with the First Act of LA SONNAMBIJLA, A distinct entrance to the private boxes has been made (which have been re-fitted). Private boxes may he had nightly of all the irincipal Librarians ; and at the Box-vflize of the Theatre, which is open daily from Ten until Four. Boxes, Is. ; Pit, Is.; Gallery, Psi. AnTLEY'S ROYAL AIArIiMIEATRE, ir.)prietnr and Manager, .etr. William Batty. Mr. Betty's performing Elephants. Tills EVENING The Grand Sl.ectacle of THE CAIIP OF SILESIA. Entiro; y new Scencs in the Arena., by the talented Artistes of the Establishment, in the *aeons modes or equestration. To conclude with a new Domestic Drama, called THE WHITE FAIiM. In preparation, a New Grand Comic Christmas Pantomime, which Will exceed in splendour and effect all former productions at the Amphitheatre, Box-el:flee open tom 11 till 5 Acting and Stage ..11anaktr, Mr. W West THE THIRD EDITIONS "THE SUN " ' CONTAIN, AS ITSULL, THE LATEST PATtLIAMENTAItY INTELLIGENCE, AND ALL OTHER NEWS UP TO THE HOUR OF POST. 4 , Orders recciced by all Newsmen, and at the Sun- office, 112, Strand. tiFincE. DEC. 14. TilzitlnoMlTEß, Lowest, 42 ; Highest, 49 ; Noon, 45, FIARoxzTEtt, E.S.E.; fine. WATER AT LONDON.31;11.0:• "1"11: , , DAY. 53 minutes after 5. J Evening .. 25 mina! rs tfser 6 Nfornin: . 4 kfet.i. 4.7".- (~,,i , .4.-_,---...... : 4 ~,,-; t _ LUi.114 4 ._,.. ~ ,.,q; ~:- -,,,, i , ..< • .. 7. , . iT --- • ''' - 4 47 , • 3:0-1'' - int - ~. . • , ~® I:YOMM tn/4 LONDON, TUESDAY. DECEMBER 14, 1847. The Crime and Outrage Bill was last night read the third time in the Lower, and the first time in the Upper House, and in all probability it will be the law of the land within the week. Mr. J. O'CON NELL, although he acknowledged the utter inutility of any attempt to resist the wishes of the great majority of the House, opposed the third reading of the Bill, in which he was supported by Mr. SMITH O'BRIEN, who was obliged by indisposition to absent himself during the earlier stages of the measure. The united influence of Young and Old Ireland was uLahle, however, to obtain a more respectably mi nority than fourteen, many of the Irish Members ho formerly acted with Mr. JOHN O'CONNELL having remained away from the House, being resolved that they would not expose themselves t o the char g e o f i ncons i s t enc y, by it - u nowopposing a measure which they had received approbation, while others followed the manly ccurse of the Members for Meath and Mayo, and lc lldly recorded their votes in favour of a law, the pressing necessity for which they were compelled to acknowledge, The for Kerry (Mr. Aloa- Alf Jcaui sup ) ort ast f night made a most creditable speech outth Bill, in which he clearly and forcibly pointedthe i manner in which it differed from former measures, and "being with the ordinary law as little as possible, was the first fashioned after measure offered to Ireland which an English model," the Hon. Memberprtielrevdinit gladly. lie stated " that if the necessity of in Ireland was admitted, he did not see that wgithoradevr ...how of reason he could object to it ;" indeed, he wentn' further, saying, " It was to be hoped that the Bill would work well, but if it did not, then, as it was their first office in that House to preserve order and to give security to life and property, be, for one, should not oppose the Government in the introduction of a mea sure granting still more extraordinary powers. This is the just and proper spirit by which the Irish representatives should be octuated ; they should press firmly and resolutely for those remedial mea sures by which alone the prosperity of their country can be attained, but they should not appear as the advocates of the miscreants by whom the peace and tranquillity of the nation is disturbed, and • the Irish soil polluted by blood. If Ministers avowed their intention of relying solely on coercive measures, and declared that they hoped to appease the disturbed districts by penal enactments of extraordinary stringency, then, indeed, there would be justice on the side of the Irish Members when protesting against such a course. But such is not the desire of the Executive. Several measures of great importance have already been announced. The monster grievance of Ireland is to be abated—the state of the relations between landlord and tenant is to be placed upon a better footing—facilities are to be afforded for the disposal of encumbered estates, and a more solvent proprietary given to the country by means thereof. The Grand Jury laws are to be re modelled, and although there are many other points on which legislation is required, we have no reason to suppose that the Ministers will stay the progress of the necessary reforms, or that they will not proceed with all due diligence to the enact ment of suck laws as may be required by the condi tion of the country. All, however, cannot be done in a moment. Some time must elapse, even under the most propitious circumstances, before the benefi cial effects of the proposed ameliorations can be fully realised. In the meantime, from whatever causes they may have arisen, crime and outrage have at tained a fearful height in some localities. The re straints not merely of the law are set aside, but every dictate of religion and morality is violated. Human life is disregarded, and blood is unhesitatingly shed on the most trivial pretexts. We do not believe that the people generally are implicated as consenting parties in these sanguinary transactions , but that they are intimidated by a few miscreants, who, already stained with every crime, and with their lives forfeited to the offended laws, unhesitatingly commit any new atrocity. Granting to the fullest extent that this state of things has arisen in conse quence of the bad government and the unjust laws of former days—assuming that its origin has been accurately pointed out by the opponents of the Bill— surely that forms no valid reason why the reign of terror should continue, and the assassins be permitted to pursue their murderous course without molesta tion, until more equitable laws shall have produced a better state of society. The contemplated remedial measures form the strongest grounds for the concession of the moderate powers demanded. The outlawed disturbers of the peace must be taught that the law is sufficiently powerful, and cannot be violated with impunity—its majesty must be fully vindicated. They must not be permitted to boast that the mea sures which have emanated from the justice and equity of the United Legislature have been extorted from their fears, or that a course of reckless ille g dity will be more effectual in procuring the desired ameliorations than one of honest industry, and the proper discharge of the duties incidental to their several positions. Mr. JOHN O'CONNELL and his a-sociates, however, insisted that nothing should be done to put down those outrages, to protect the peaceable inhabitants, or to enable the proprietors of the soil to resid e on an d i mprove th e i r pr o perties, until the other measures were introduced—measures in which no effectual progress could possibly have been made until after the recess. They ap peared to forget that Parliament had been assembled under most extraordinary circum- stances, and at a most unusual season of the ) ear ; they would make no allowance whatever, but wasted the public time in opposing a Bill, against which no valid or sufficient objection could be assigned, and thereby materially damaged their own characters and destroyed whatever influence they might formerly have possessed in the House and with the country. The loss of the late lamented LIBERATOR was never more apparent than when the Member for Limerick attempted to act as leader of the Opposition against the present Bill. At length, after a delay of two years, the unfor tunate Mrs. CUMMING has had that property restored to her of which she was deprived, in consequence of the present most unsatisfactory state of the law of lunacy. Our readers may, perhaps, remember that this unfortunate lady was, in May, 1845, seized, and, upon the certificate of two "skilful persons," incarcerated in a lunatic asylum, where she remained a prisoner until the month of September following. In that month a Commission de Lunatic° Inquirendo was sued out against her at the suit of her daughters and their husbands, and a jury was a,sembled at the Horns at Kennington, to try the I question of her sanity. Before that jury this un fortunate lady was brought, without a legal adviser, in custody of the keeper of the asylum. For one day she defended herself, and defended herself well too (no great proof this, by the bye, of insanity), and at the close of the day's proceedings a solicitor, who hap pened by chance to be present, offered his services to her, which were thankfully accepted. The inquiry was adjourned in order to enable him to in struct counsel ; and when the jury re-assembled they were astonished to hear that those who had sued out the commission had offered to compromise the case (as if it were possible to compromise a charge of imanity), and that Mrs. CUMMING, who had for months been incarcerated as a lunatic, would be set at liberty, if she would make a disposition of her property in favour of those suing out the commission. To those terms she consented, and executed certain deeds, making the required dis position of her property. At the time this arrange ment was entered into we drew the attention of the public to the case, and gave it as our opinion that the agreement was void, inasmuch as, if Mrs CUMMING were insane, she was incapable of executing any legal document, and if she were sane her execution of the deed having been obtained under a threat of incarceration, the deed was void, because the execution of it had been obtained under duress. An action was brought by Mrs. CUMMJNG to recover possession of the deed thus extorted from her, and the jury found a verdict in her favour. Subsequently a rule nisi was moved for a new trial—the case was solemnly argued in the Court of Queen's Bench, and on Saturday Lord DENMAN, in giving the judg ment of the Court, fully confirmed axe views we had all along entertained as to the invalidity of a deed so obtained. His Lordship said— On the trial of the issue, it was contended for the plaintiff that she was not bound by the arrangement, as it was made at a time when she was under duress. It appeared from the evidence that she h.ad been confined in a lunatic asylum, and was brought from the asylum before the Commissioner; and it was sworn by the clerk of her attorney, that she acceded to the arrangement from fear of being taken back to a lunatic asylum. It was contended that that confinement was illegal ; and that even if she was in lawful confinement the argreement was not binding as it was executed under duress. On the other hand, the defendants contended that the proceeding was Gana fide for the benefit of the plaintiff' herself, and tLuc the agreement had been sanctioned bythe counsel act ing on the part of the plaintiff. Great weigh twe uld be due to this consideration under ordinary circumstances, but where one of the parties is alleged to be a lunatic the par ties are not on equal terms. The object of the proceed ing under the commission was that she might not be de clared to be a lunatic, and that the management of her estates might be taken out of her hands. How then could the defendants, in the face of their own proceed ing, contend that she was in a fit state of mind to give her consent to such an agreement ? If she was in her right mind, she was entitled to keep the deeds ; and if not, she was incapable of giving her assent to the ar rangement. We need not question that hie. counsel did the best for her under the circumstances ; but aa, by the hypothesis she was incompetent to make a contract, she was equally incompetent to appoint counsel to act on her behalf - . If her counsel acted on the belief that she was in a sound state of mind, their proceeding is now being enforced. It might, perhaps, have been better for the plaintiff, if this agreement could have been carried out; but we have no power to effect that object. The jury found a true verdict when they decided in favour of the plaintiff. The rule for a new trial oust, therefore, be discharged." It is satisfactory to have this solemn decision of the Court of Queen's Bench declaring the illegality of all settlements of property obtained by a threat of incarceration in a lunatic asylum ; but it only proves the absolute necessity that exists for the in stitution of some public preliminary inquiry into the state of mind of alleged lunatics, before authorising their incarceration in such an asylum. In this case Mrs. CUMMIN G had been incarcerated from illay to September i n an asylum upon the authority of a medical c er tifi cate, and there she might have re mained until this moment had not an attempt been made to get the control of her property, which involved th e necessity of an inquiry before a jury. Air. CAMPB ELL was i ncarcerated in an asylum on the certificate of "skilful persons" for upwards of seven years, at the end of which time he inherited some property an inquiry before a jury consequently he came necessary, and the jury declared that he had always been perfectly sane, and he was restored to society. All these cases prove that an inquiry before a jury is the only safeguard for the liberty of the subject, who may chance to be accused of insanity, and we confidently trust that the present reforming Government will not suffer this crying grievance to remain much longer unredressed. The Vesuvio steamer has arrived at Marseilles, bringing intelligence from Sicily to the Ist. At that date considerable agitation prevailed in Palermo, and the Governor, to appease the people, had been obliged to promise the immediate adoption of measures of reform. The Madrid mail had not arrived in Paris when the post left. We have received the Paris papers of Sunday. It was rumoured in Paris that ABD-EL-KADER had made his submission to the Emperor of Moaocco, dissolVed his Deira, consented that his officers should inhabit each by himself such places as the Emperor and the French Government shall appoint, and had chosen for his own residence a place in the neigh bourhood of Fez. The Journal des Debats and the Presse express doubts as to the authenticity of this intelligence. M. GUIZOT is evidently trying to back out of the awkward scrape into which he has got himself by his impertinent meddling in the affairs of Switzerland. The Journal des Debats says— We, like the other journals have published a note which we are useured has been, or is about to be, ad dressed by th, Helvetic Diet to the Minister of Foreign Affairs of France. Although we have reason to believe that up to the present moment the French Government has not received any communication of this kind, we have, nevertheless, nu reason to doubt of the document published by the Swiss journals, neither do we make any difficulty in acknowledging that the answer of the Diet is conceived in moderate and proper terms. Our only regret is, that the acts of the Radical majority are not more in conformity with its language. The argument of the Diet goes principally on one point, to wit, that the five mediating Powers, in proposing to call into a common conference a representative of the Diet and a representative of the Sonderbund, appeared to acknow ledge in Switzerland the existence of two confederations, and to place them both on a footing of equality. The Diet protests with all its strength against that separation, whiefi, according to it, would I . :Umpromise the integrity of Switzerland. On this point we shall make one remark. The Diet, in addressing principally to the French Government its protest against that part of the col lective note, is deceived to a certain point in the direc tion. If we are nut deceived, it was not M. Guizot who had the first idea of dividing the Diet officially into two parts. He had foreseen the obstacles which such a proposition would naturally encounter. It was more in conformity with the spirit of the compact and with the spirit of the sovereignty of the cantons that all the can tons should be individually represented in the con ference as they are in the Diet, and we know that a disposition of that nature formed a part of the project originally proposed by M. Guizot. It is nut that the French Government had a fixed opinion on that subject, as to which side was in the right, but it was not to it we believe, that the initiative in this uclicial recognition of the two confederations should be attributed; and, per haps, if the Diet had been better informed on this point, It would have shown less vivacity in its protest. " As to the merits of the question, the reasoning is so worn out on both sides that we believe it to be super fluous to revert to them. We only remark that it is necessary to understand the meaning of words diffe rently from a hat it has ban since the invention of languages to affirm that there ass no civil war in Swit zerland. The invasion of the Leven cantons of the Confederation by a Federal army was only, according to the Diet, a simple measure of order and of interior police; and the eighth article of the compact deter mines that, in every case where a different majority is not specially la quired, it is an absolute majority that decides. But it is that very article that condemns the Diet, for the first principle, the fundamental basis of the compact, is precisely the guarantee of the suve reignty of the cantons ; that is to say, that in every thing having reference to that sovereignty nothing should be determined excepting with the consent of those interested. Thu Diet wished to cover itself' with the compact, but it has rent it too much, and made too many holes in it, to make it now a mantle. We the less hesitate to do justice to the moderation adopted by the Diet in its language, that this very moderation i s the severest censure that can be cast on its acts. To hear it—it only wants to restore peace to the Confede ration, liberty to the oppressed, their country to the banished ; all which does not prevent at the same time from occupying militarily the conquered cantons, proscribing the persons vanquished, and multiplying confiscations. This is not only unjust, but un skilful. The last events have, in a certain measure, changed the state of things to which the mediation was to apply, anti have neces sarily altered its terms. The Diet will now, no doubt, have sent its reply to the Governments, the representa tives of which had addressed to it the collective note ; as soon as that communication shall have been made officially, it is probable that the Powers will have to make it the object of new deliberations, on which the ulterior conduct of the Diet will not be without in fluence." The threat involved in this last sentence will no doubt be estimated by the Diet at its true worth. The big words of M. GUIZOT will not fright them from their propriety. By this time they are perfectly well acquainted with " him and his means." Accounts have been received from the island of Bourbon to the 16th. There had been a serious emeute at St. Denis, the capital of the island, in conse quence of the arrival of two priests, the Abbes PONCE.. LET and MONNET, who had made themselves obnoxious. The white inhabitants assembled, and threatened to expel the priests by force. The military interfered, and dispersed the rioters, not, however, until several had been killed and wounded. At length the Go vernor sent M. MONNET, the most obnoxious of the priests, from the island, and tranquillity was in con sequence partially restored. It appears that these priests were abolitionists, and that at one period of the emeute the slaves threatened to rise in their de fence. It is said that a lively altercation took place on Friday between MM. GIIIZOT and DUCMATEL, the former reproaching the latter with mismanagement in suffering the Reform dinners to continie, and the latter retorting on M. GUIZOT his gross blunders in Swiss affairs. The Debats states that there is no truth in the re ports which speak of an insurrection in Sicily. The Three per Cents. were done in the passage of the Opera on Sunday at 75f. 27ic. BUSINESS DONE IICT FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, DEC. 13. Boulogne and Amiens, 14%—Central of France (Orleans and Viarzon), 15 1 4—Dutch Rhenish, 2%—Namur end Liege, 5 1 A—Northern of France, 11%—Paris and Lyons, 5 1 74—Rouen and Havre, 19—Sambre and Meuse, 7;i: , - , Tours and Nantes, 4—WestFlanders, 11A. MARKET NEWS.—(THIS DAY.) SILLY ZVIATL=ETS. SMITIIFIELD.—Meadow Hay, 2/ lOs to 31 12s ; Clover, ditto, 3/ 103 to 41 15s ; and Straw, 11 5s to 1/ 8s per load. A full average supply and a heavy demand. CUMBERLAND.—Meadow Hay, 21 lOs to 3/ 143 ; Clover ditto, 3/ 103 to 4110 s; and Straw, 1/ 5s to 1/ 10s per load. Supply moderate and trade dull. WHITEMAPEL.—Meadow hay, 21 8s to 31 12 , ; Clover ditto, 3/ lOs to 4/ 15s ; and Straw, 1/ 4s to 1/ Ss per load. Trade dull at the above quotation. %-..-YESTERDAY. Walker Washington Eden Main . 203 3d Harraton Main 163 6d Belmont 205 3d Retton Lambton Russell's Iletton Shot ten S: swan's Whitwell Hudson's Hartlepool 2os Od High Thorn ley Heugh Hall Leasingthorne Hartley IGs Od Adelaide Tees ... 2os 64 Denison Richardson's Tees 193 Od 19s 9d Od i CS : ° . uw i tih l ' a np rt u l l e ir y ahra N ttln e ey therton 178 Od 155—soil, 87. THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 14, 1847. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, QUA RTER TO THREE. The Cotton Market at Liverpool yesterday was very flat, at the previous rates. Sales 3,000 bales. American realised 4id. to 6d. per lb.—Railway Shares had not been dealt in to any extent, and prices were lower. There have no: been any late colonial advices an nounced this morning. A somewhat uneasy feeling has been engendered in City circles at the early adjournment of Parliament for the Chi istmas holidays, and the unstable position of M. Guizot, the Premier of the French Ministry. To this, probably, more than to any other cir cumstance, may be ascribed the reaction in our Funds this morning, to which more especial atten tion will be directed hereafter. Should a change in the advisers of Louis Philippe occur, pending the recess, and any hitch occur in consequence—say in the affairs of Switzerland—prompt replies of our Foreign Minister, of our .status with the new Cabinet at the Tuileries, would have to be postponed until the early part of February in the coming year. The accounts from the United States, received this morning by a steamer arrived at Havre from New Orleans, are considered, as far as the condition of the markets there, as favourable. Specie, it is said, must come forward, and that to a very considerable amount, to this country. The letters, of course, have net yet been delivered. At New York freight had been engaged for 2,000 barrels of naval stores for London. The advices from Bombay by special overland express state, that the news of several of the large failures here had arrived, but without any visible effect being pro duced. To new houses consignments were in progress. In the Consol Market the business transactions have been few. For Money the price is 854 without the dividend, while for the Account it has advanced from 84i to 854. The premium upon Exchequer-bills has run up from 6s. to 10s. India Bonds still remain at a very heavy discount. Bank Stock is flat at 186 i. in the Foreign Bond Market Buenos Ayres Bonds have been sold at 31, Russian at 107, Spanish Five per Cents for Account at 171, and the Dutch Two-and-a-half per Cents. at 55k. The Railway Shares are steady. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. (From the Official List.) Bank Stock .. 186% 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 84% 1 A 3 4 3 per Cent. Consols Anna 85% New 3 1 4 per Cent. Anus 86% 86 BCi India Stock Do. Bonds, 10001 . 25 dis Consols for Amount B5 85 1 84% 85 1 ,ixd txcllequer Bills. 3d. 1,0061. 5001. Small PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK. Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent Ditto Small Buenos Ayres Bonds, 6 per Cent 3l Mexican Bonds, 1846, 5 per Cent — Ditto Small Russian 80nd5.1822, 5 per Cent lO7 Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent,lB4o Ditto for the Account ....... 17 1 ,i Dividends on the above payable in London. Dutch 2V, per Cent.,l2 Guild 5 5 1 /8 usINESS DONh IN RAILWAY SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK RAILWAYS. PAID. PER SuAae. Aberdeen Amber., Notting., Boston, &c. 2% Ayrshire and Galloway _ . . B 7 :_ Ifast and County Down .. 10 .. .. Birmingham & Oxford June-. 15 Birmingham, W 01.,& Dudley 10 ... . 13% to Birming., Wol., & Stour Val. 101.145.... Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Junction 73/ — to Boston, Stand., & Binning-. 5 Bristol and Exeter D0., Thirds Buckinghamshire lOl. 4s — to Caledonian .....•......... 50 Ditto, Half Shares - ... 1N..... to Ditto, Clydesdale Junction 50 Chester and Holyhead 3 7 1,4 ..... 21% to 21 Ditto, Preference 8 Clarence. .... 7Bl ..... to Do., let Class, 6 per Cent... 10 Do., 2d Class, 5 per Cent... 10 Do., Gov. Loan, 4 per Cent. 10 Dublin and Belfast Junction.. 20 Dundalk and Enniskillen ... 15 ...... East Anglia, 25/.& L. , E. ald L. & D. Ditto, 184 E. & H Ditto, 31. 10s., E. & H... 2 Eastern' Counties Ditto, ditto (B) Do. Perpet., 5 per ct. No. 1,6/. 13s. 4d... Do., do N 0.2,61. 138. 4d... Do., York Extension lO ..... Do., Northern & Eastern... 50 Do., Quarter .... .. ........... 12 %..... Do., New East ersn Union ... .. 50 Ditto, Quarter Shares ...... 12% — to Ditto., 13s. 4d — ...... to Ditto ( Thirds guar. 6 per cent.) ... East Lancashire Ditto, New . • l3 Do., New Quarters East Lincolnshire ... 12% — to Edinburgh and Glasgow 5O — ...... to Ditto, Half Shares Ditto, Quarter Shares 1 2 I,E Edinburgh and Northern ... 22% — Ditto, New..... - .......... ... 3 3 / 4 — ..... . to Ditto, New port 9 l, (e — ...... to Ditto, ditto, New ........ .... 2 1 4 — ...... to Exeter, Yeovil, & Dorchester 2% Ditto, New Glasg., Dumfries, & Carlisle-8/. 65.8 d... to Glasgow, Kilmarnock, & Ayr 50 — to Ditto, New Do. , z 4 Shares (5 per ct. gua.) 12 1 ,4 ..... .. Great Northern lO% 4%..... to Do. London & York Exten. 2 1 ,¢ — ..... to Gt. South. & West. (Ireland) 35 Great North of England. ..... 100 Ditto, New 40/ 5 Ditto, New 30/. Ditto, New 151. 6% — . ... to Great Western- Ditto, Half Shares Ditto, Quarter Shares Ditto, Fifths Do. New 171 7 ...... 8 ...... to 7 3 4 u uddersfield and Manchester 22 - to Dittc, Thirds Hull and Selby Ditto, Half Shares .......... 25 ..... 49 Ditto, Quarter Shares ..... .. 12% — to Ipswich & Bury St. Edmunds 15 Do. do. and Norwich ls Do., do., Extension Scrip (late (Comb. and Ely) 2 1 ,4...... to Lancaster and Carlisle.... ... 50 Do., Thirds lO ...... Lancashire and Yorkshire ... 93 Ditto, ditto Ditto Half Shares ...... - 38 ...... to Ditto Quarters ......... 14%...... Ditto Fifths ...... 8 Ditto Sixteenths ........... 6q — ...... to Ditto Thirds (Reg.) ... 101 . 4 5 . — Do. Liverpool and BUry... 34 Do. (Rudders. and Shed'.) &3 Do., Wakefield, Pontefract, and Goole 47% Do., West Riding 11iti0n....4/. 2a..... ..~ ' ' Do., Preston and Wyre ... 25 Do., do., Half Shares (A) 9 — to Ditto ditto ........ ......(B) 1 1 Leeds and Bradtord Leicester and Bedford l6s. Leeds, Dewsbury, & Manches. 37 1 ,4 — to Do., Branch % Shares 12% to Ditto, New Branch (blue).. 2% — to --, Ditto, Extension (green)... 2% — to Do., New Exten. (pink)... 2% — ...... to Leeds and Thirak Ditto, New Do., do., Prefer., 6 per Cent. 3 . .... ...... to Liverpool. Crosby, and South- port.. Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle Juncti0n.......... 2% — ...... to London & Blackm*all...l6/. 13s. 4d — - Ditto New, No. 1.. Ditto New, No. 2 4/. 13s. 4d.... . .... to Do. Extension Lond., Bright., & South Coast 50 Do. Consolidated Eighths... 30 ...... Do. Guaranteed 5 per Cent. 9 •••••• Do. Pref. Co,iv. 5 per Cent. 50 ...... London and Greenwich... 12/.155. 4d... -- Ditto Preference London and North 1 8/17s Western..100 Do. Quarter .....L. an d B. 17 Do. do. New ...... .... ...... 2 2d... to 8%.... to 8 Do. do. Fifths Do. Quarters ......... G. J. 25 to Do. 401. Sha res .....L. & M. 15 - .. ••• to Do. 401. Shares...M. a n d B. 40 .... 59 Do. 10/.... M. and B. (A.) 71%..... 11% Do. 10/. .. M. an d B . (B . ) 7% — to 1)o. 101.... M. an d B. (C.) 1 - London and S. We s te rn .... 41.. 638 d 54 53% to 54%x.n. Do. New Cons o lid a t e dBth s. 40 Ditto New 50/......., „...„ 32 1 / 4 _, _29 1 4 ex n. to Ditto New 404 __ .. 26 Do. Tenths (Consolidated) 50 •••••• Do. Tenths (Consolidated) 40 Ditto, Thirds 61. 13s. 40... ...... to London, Salisbury, & Yeovil 1% — to Londcnderry and Coleraine... 27% — to Londonderry and Enniskillen 23% ..... to Manch, Buxton, & Matlock 3 Manchr, Sheffield, and Linc.100 Ditto 1 4 Shares (No. I ) ... 18 Ditto, ditto (No. ')) 25 Ditto, 1 / i 3 Shares (No. 3)... 7% — to Ditto Grimsby 25 — to Ditto, ditto. ..... 7 Ditto, ditto . . 4% to Ditto, Sheffield, and Line. 7%...... AlanchesteranclSouthampton `2 1 4...... .. Micliand lOO lO7 Ditto, Consul. Preference...loo ...... Ditto, 40/. Shares Ditto, 501. 5hare5........... 10 ... 8 Midland, Birm., and Derby-100 ... 81% to Midland, Consol. Bristol and Birmingham 6 per ceat....100 Midland, Bristol and Glouc. 34 Ditto ditto 7 L 95.... .. ...... to Midland, Leices. and Swan nington (8 per ct.gua.) 50 .... . N.lidlil. Great W es t ern (I r i s h) 35 Newcastle and Carlisle lOO ....... ...... to Ditto Quarter Shares Newmarket and Chesterford 18 1 h — to Ditto Extension - •••••• to -- Newport Abergy., and Heref. 6 Norfolk, Ditto New 201. Ditto Extension Do. Scrip, 1847, N. of Norflk 2 Do. do. Waveney Valley... 2 Newry and Enniskillen N awry, Warrenpoint, and Rostrevor Sorthern Counties Union North British Ditto Half Shares. 1 2 1,4 l 2 Do. Quarters 43A — ...... to -- Ditto. Extension % to Ditto Thirds North Staffordshire... . ....... 7% 7% to North Wales 3l/, ..... . .... to North Western . 6 Oxford, Worcester, and Wol- verhampton Reading, Guildfd., & Reigate 7% ...... to Royston and Hitchin Scottish Central Scottish Midland .... ....... .... 17% — ...... to Ditto, New lO — to Sheffield, Rotherham, and Goole 5 - Shrewsbury and Birmingham 6 — ...... to Ditto, ditto, Class B. 3 Shrewsbury and Chester (Nor. W. Min.) Ditto Halves, Ditto... 8 ... .. . to Ditto, Oswestry Ditto (New) .. 1 Shrewsbury and Hereford ... 2 Shropshire Union . South Devon ....... ...... ... 40 -- Ditto, Preference South Staffordshire 4 South Eastern and Dover 33% 3 1 14 to 31 Ditto, New, No. 1 Ditto, New, N 0.2 ' Ditto New, No. 3 ls Ditto New, No. 4. .. .. 71 4 5%%... to South Wales South Yorkshire, Doncaster, and Goole Swans. and Loughor and Ca meron's Stm. Coal ...... ... .. 4 (lames Haven Dock and Railway 17% to 'raw Vale Extension Vale of Neath Waterford and Kilkenny 13%...... Waterford and Limerick ... .. 40 ... .. to Waterford, Wexford,Wicklw, and Dublin West Cornwall 4 - Whitehaven and Furness l2 ... .. Windsor, Staines, and South Western s2s. Wilts,Somerset,&Weymouth 30 York, Newcastle, and Berwick 25 ... . Do. Original New & Ber'ck 25 .....30% 31% to 30% Do. North Shields Purchase 25 .. ... Do. Extsn. No.l (Y. &N.) 10 - to Do. do. No. 2, New & B. 10 Do. G. N. E. Par. or Pref. 8 York and North Midland .. 50 . 7 4 1 / 2...... to 75% Ditto, Preference Ditto East and West Riding Extension .... .. ...... 20 FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Anglo-Belgian Barbadoes ".••• 1 Boulogne and;Amiens 2O ...... 1414%... to Central of France ( Orleans and Vierzon) Central of Spain Ceylon Demerara. ..... Dendre Valley Direct Bombay and Madras ss. .... . Dutch Rhenish East Indian . 1% to Great Indian Peninsular Great Southern of Madras Great Western Bengal ss. Great Western Canada Italian and Austrian Jamaica S. Midland Junction 1 Louvain ala Sambre ......... 7 Luxembourg Lyons and Avignon (Con stituted) Madras Madras, Nellore, and Arcot... % — to Madrid and Valentia Namur and Liege . l4 ...... ... . to 5 Northern of France. Orleans and Bordeaux .... .. 6 Over Yssel 4l3s 4d — to Paris and Lyons: .. 10 ^ 5 14 to Paris and Orleans.~ Pans and Rouen .. Paris & Strasbourg ...... ..... 8 Rouen and Havre 20 Sambre and Meuse Strasburg and Bale Tours & Nantes ... ... .. 8 Tournay, Jurbise, Leaden, and Hasselt - ••••• • to ..... Trinidad.. ........ West Flanders B-A — to JOINT STOCK BANKS. Australasia British North American .... 50 Colonial Commercial of London London Joint Stock .... ...... 10 London and Westminster... 20 Ditto, New National Provincial of Engld. 35 Ditto, New National of Ireland 2 2 1,E — ... .. to Provincial of Ireland Ditto, New Union of Australia 25 Ditto, New 21,%' — to - Union of London ........ ...... 10 Union of Madrid 4O MINES. Anglo Mexican .. 100 Astrian Mining Company ... 11 ...... Australian ... Blaenarvon Iron and Coal ... 50 Bolanos Scrip '' to British Iron Brazilian Imperial ...,. .. ... 21 Cobra Copper Galvanized Iron Pad del Monte, Unregistered . .. 8 LLOYD'S SHIPPING—(THIS DAY.) LONDON, DEC. 14. —Wind E.S.E., light breeze and cloudy. _ _ 011 i RAMSGATE, Dec. 13.—Margaret West, Batavia. OFF Dovzn, Dec. 12.—Wanderer, Tims, Prince Edward's Island. Off SHOREHADI DEC. 13.—Wind Nancy, Fond, Quebec. MUMBLES, DEC. 11.—Arrd. Hero, Harrison, Dal housie, for Port Talbot. Sid. British Queen Boston. LIVERPOOL, DEC. 13.—Wind E.S.E.—Arrd. Nemesis, late Brown, Calcutta ; Earl of Chester, Blackstone, Bombay; Stirlingshire, Rattray, Maranhaw, sailed 10th ult.; Wanderer, Jenkins, Laguna ; Actaeon, Daly, New Orleans ; Anne and Jane, Swift, Calcutta • Mersey, Shuraway, Mobile; William Prim, Michaels, Charleston; Esther May, Boston; Maid of Erin, Egan, Pictou. FALMOUTH, Dec. 12.—The Robins brig, of and for Glasgow, from Berbice, was brought in here, having been fallen in with by the barque British Isles, Robson, of and for London, from Cuba, 17th ult., lat. 38 N., lon. 56 W.; foremast and bowsprit only standing, and aban dontd with the exception of two seamen, who were taken on board the British Isles, when the chief officer, three seamen, and a boy were put on board, and suc • ceeded in bringing her in here, with the assistance of a pilot only. It is supposed that the ground tier of sugar is washed out. Cargo consists of rum, sugar, wine, &c. PETERHEAD, DEC. 9.—The Clipper, Stott, bound to London, has put back leaky and must discharge. The Prince of Wales, Wilson, which arrived in the river to-day, was struck by a sea on the 6th inst., in lat. 47 N., lon. 10 W., blowing a heavy gale at the time from N.N. W., when she lost bulwarks, water-casks, &c.; cutwater started, and has three feet of water in her hold. WEYMOUTH, DEC.. 10.—The American ship which was burnt to the wattles edge, and the wreck of which afterwards came on shore on Rimmeridge Ledge, is the R. G. Shaw. BRISTOL, DEC. 11.--The Amity, Waters, from Car diff to this port, is on shore beneaped above the river's mouth. MILFORD, DEC. 10.—A vessel, said to be a brig, was seen to go down in St. Bride's Bay 6th inst. A largo boom has been picked up on Newgate Sands, in the same bay, and some bees we x has been picked up. The Flirt, Roberts, from Odessa to Liverpool, which arrived here Bth instant, is leaky, rind it is expected will discharge. The Lady Eleanor, Mills, from Liverpool to Galway ; the Jane► (schooner), i)f Cork ; and. the Agenoria, of Colchester, are discharging to repair. LLANNADOCK, NEAR. SWANSEA, DEC. 12.—The Mi nian, Elliot, of Limerie:k, from Quebec, which was on shore on the Lagenny Sands on the 10th instant has become a total wreck, rigging and part of cargo saved. RANGLOSS, VALENTIA, DEC. 11.—The poop rail of a large vessel, painted light green and lead colour, and made of American elm was picked up here on the 9th inst.; the weather here continues very strong. DEAL, DEC. 13.—The Antwerp to Smyrna, was in contact this afternoon :ixt the Downs, with the Fanny, of Prince Edward's Island, and has sustained damage. The Margaret West, De Boer, from Batavia, which arrived off Ramsgate to-day, was struck by a sea in lat. 46 N., and lon. 19 W.., and sustained considerable damage. The outward bound, which sailed this morn ing, have mostly put back, and anchored on the South Foreland. BEAUJIIRIB, DEC. 11.—The Mary, of Newry, which was ashore under Trecastle, has been got off, and beached opposite this port. DUNDEE, DEC. 11.—The Adah, Clark, from Arch angel, which got on shore at the entrance of the river, is leaky; nearly the whole of her cargo has been landed in a damaged state. Wica, DEC. 10.—The wreck of a Norwegian schooner, bound to this 'place, has been fallen in with by another Norwegian vessel, which arrived here last week. The crew are said. to have been five in number. NOTICE TO MARINERS. QUARANTINE REGULATIONS. GENOA, DEC. 9.—The Board of Health published a decree on the 3d inst., rescinding the suspension of free pratique to all vessels arriving from French ports in the Mediterranean; and, at the same time, ordered Quaran tine to be performed by all vessels arriving from the lonian Islands which shall have sailed from those islands between the 18th and 30th ult. THE IRISH CIIANCELLOIL—.DUBLIN t DEC. 12. There is but little change in the malad y under which his Lordship is suffering. The physicians are in constant attendance, and bulletins of the pati en t' s progress at e issued daily. The one of this morning states that the Chancellor passed a tolerably quiet night, and has not lost ground within the last twenty-four hours. A natu rally robust constitution encourages his friends to hope that the present unfavourable symptoms will eventually yield to medical treatment. QUEEN'S BENCH.—(THIS DAY.) (Sittings at Nisi Prius, in Guildhall, before the LORD CHIEF JUSTICE and a Special Jury.) BAILEY AND ANOTHER O. CRITCHLEY. This was an action to recover 6501., being the balance of 1,3001., the amount of an advertising agent's bill. The plaintiffs were the well known advertising agents of the City, and the defendant was one of the provisional committeemen of the Paris and Strasburg Railway. The sum sought to be recovered was the balance of the plaintiff's' account for advertising the railway in the English newspapers. The defendant contended that as he did not act upon the managing committee, or instruct the plaintiffs to advertise the scheme, he was not liable. The jury returned a surdict for the plaintiffs. CRIMINAL COURT.--(THIS DAY.) OLD COURT. (Before the COMMON-SERGEANT and Mr. Alderman Gums.) James Hardiman, a barman, was indicted for stealing four sovereigns, the property of William Rowland Seares, his master. When the case was called on neither the prosecutor nor any of his witnesses were in attendance. The COMMON-SERGEANT (addressing the jury) said, that if the prisoner's witnesses happened to be absent, through any mistake or neglect on their part, or not expecting the trial to come on from the state of the paper, the prisoner would have no delay on that ac count. It was but evtn justice that the prosecutor should also be required to attend, and that the trial should proceed. The case therefore being left to the jury without any evidence, the prisoner was acquitted, and tha Court di. rected the recognisances of the prosecutor and his wit nesses to be estreated. Several other cases were callod on, in none of which were the parties in attendance. In some the prisoners obtained delay on account of want of preparation, in one case upon affidavit. In another it was stated that it was arranged between counsel, with the assent of one of the judges, to come on at a particular hour. At this the Common-Sergeant expressed great displeasure, and at half-past nine said angrily that he " would wait no longer." Mr. Alderman Gibbs said, " Nor I," and both immediately left the court. The jury seemed at a loss what they were to do, and were about to imitate the movement of the bench and retire also. But, on the intimation (as it appeared) of the officer of the court, they kept their places, until the return of the Learned Sergeant, at ten o'clock. Again the counsel were unprepared to proceed with a case which stood next on the paper, and a long discus sion took place, in which Mr. Ballantine, Mr. Clarkson, and Mr. O'Brien took part. Mr. BALLANTINE submitted that it must sometimes occur that counsel may be elsewhere engaged in a case that occupies an unexpected length of time, when another of equal importance, and in which he is en gaged, may be called in this court. That was the position in which he was himself placed. A case of importance was proceeding in another court, which had occupied from eleven o'clock yesterday, and would yet occupy many hours. Mr. CLARKSON said that there was another cause of delay, in the great distances to which the jurisdiction of the court extended, and which rendered it impossible for witnesses to arrive at an early hour upon the short nutice given of the day of trial after the committal of a prisoner. In a case just now called on the witnesses had to come from a distance of fifteen miles. After much further discussion the court was again adjourned for an hour. In the mean time the jury drew up the following memorandum, which was signed by twenty-seven of the jurors in attendance, and was pre sented to the Common-Sergeant on his return with the Alderman:— " It appearing to the jury assembled this 14th day of December that the hour of nine o'clock is alike inconYe nient to all parties concerned, more especially at this season of the year, they beg respectfully to suggest to the authorities of the court that no earlier hour than ten o'clock should in future be appointed for the commence ment of business." Mr. PAYNE said the suggestion had the support of the whole of the bar. The COMMON. SERGEANT said he would lay it before the. Judges and the Court of Aldermen, and the other members of the commission. John Wakeman was indicted for stealing a quantity of oats, the property of George Robinson, his master, from a granary at Chiswick. — The defence was that the prisoner, who was a carter in the employment of the prosecutor, took the oats (three pecks) for the use of his horse. The jury found him Guilty, and he was sentenced to imprisonment for six months, with hard labour. Ann Barrow, a married woman, was indicted for stealing 30 yards of lace, value 101., the property of William Goodman and another. It appeared from the evidence that the prisoner, on the 19th of November, made a purchase at the shop of Messrs. Goodman and Taylor, of Uxbridge, the prose cutors, and went away without suspicion. In the course of the next day the prisoner and her husband were given into custody for attempting to pass had money. They were placed in a cart to be carried to the station house, and one of the witnesses saw the prisoner stoop down and let something fall from her muff. On his re turn from the station-house he found the lace in ques tion, tied up in a silk handkerchief: Upon inquiry at the shop of the prosecutor, it was found that a corre sponding quantity of lace was missing from the stock. Mr. PAYNE addressed the jury for the defence. The jury returned a verdict of Guilty. There were two other cases of a similar nature against the prisoner, and The COMMON-SERGEANT observing that she was a common shoplifter, sentenced her to be transported for seven years. The Court was occupied the remainder of the day with indictments for passing bad money. NEW COURT. (Before the RECORDER and Mr. Alderman H. HUGHES.) The Court was occupied the whole morning with the trial (continued from yesterday) of Barr, Brewer, Ralfe, and Carter, who were indicted for conspiring to defraud Mr. Kerrie, of Jamaica, by cheating him of large sums of money at cards. The prosecution was conducted by Mr. M. Chambers, Mr. Ballantine, and Mr. Huddleston. The prisoners, Barr, Ralfe, and Brewer, were defended by Mr. Clark son, Mr. Bodkin, Mr. Sergeant Wilkins, Mr. Sergeant Allen, and Mr. Parry. Mr. Prendergast appeared for Carter, who has not been taken into custody. The evidence added nothing to the full details already published in the Bow-street police report of The Sun. The trial bad not conehried when we went to press. MARRIAGE IN HIGH LIFE.—On Saturday, the 11th, by special license, at the church of Holy Trinity, Brompton, by the Rev. W. J. Irons, vicar of Brompton, the Hon. Robert Fitzrnaurice Tilson Deane, eldest son of the Right Hon. Baron Muskerry, of Springfield Castle, county of Limerick, to Elizabeth Geraldine, eldest daughter of Hamilton Knox Grogan Morgan, Esq., of Johnstown Castle, M.P. for the county of Wexford. The ceremony was attended by a number of the distin guished relatives of the bride and bridegroom. After partaking of a splendid dejeund given on the occasion by Mr. and Mrs. S. C. Hall, et their beautiful cottage in Old Brompton, the happy couple left town in a car riage and four for Richmond, en route for Antrim Castle, the seat of the Right Hon. Viscount Massarene and Ferrard, county of Antrim, Ireland. RAGGED SClloOlS.—Yesterday the fourth anni versary meeting of the subscribers to the Union-mews Ragged School was held in the Portland Rooms, Foley street, Portland-place, and was attended by a large number of the neighbouring gentry. The chair was taken by Sir William Baynes, Bart., in the absence of Mr. B. B. Cabbell, who was to preside. The secretary read the report, which stated that the attendance of chil dren had considerably increased during the last year. The average number on Sunday evenings was ninety boys and forty girls, and on week days forty of the for mer and thirty of the latter. The report stated that the year's receipts amounted to 561., and the expenses to 691. The report was unanimously adopted. FIRE AT BERMONDSEY. —Yesterday morning, be tween ten and eleven o'clock, a very alarming fire broke out upon the premises in the occupation of Mr. Hai-- board, rope-manufacturer, situate on Jamaica-level, Bermondsey. It commenced in the tar house, and was occasioned from the leakage of one of the coppers filled with that combustible material. In the space of a few minutes the building became fired from the bottom, and penetrating the sides, another similar erection used as the stabling, and also the yarn-house, became ignited. Three engines soon reached the spot, anti owing to the combined exertions of all parties present, the fire was eventually extinguished, but not until considerable da mage was done not only in that portion of the premises where the flames began, but also to the furniture in the private house, by removal and water. The adjoining s p u r s O t p a e i n rt e y d , o occupied a g b Mey by fi r . r e Rico, an h d a r w d a s te n r. has r t likewise t e I s y Mr. Harboard was insured in the Sun Fire-office. S OU THAMPTON, M ON DAY, DEC. 13 . — The fears en tertained for the safety o f the American steamer Wash ington were groundless, as intelligence has come to hand from Bremen that she arrived off the Weser on Sunday, the sth instant, in 42 hours from Cowes-roads, thus making an unusually quick passage. The Washington was to leave Bremen for Southampton on the 13th (to day) with the United States mail from Germany, and is o dayut h a o t n mr podt Spanish departure r ao r o s at e n un rdleVbeedsdinnegfiaxye, d t f o or lo s ad atu fo n r expected tYork,ed h at e S r i s Portugueseexp e expected mails,t o-m morrow d a y, the 18th instant. The Peninsul ar an d O r i enta l w s i t t e h ana th e e r C (l o ,u nl e p s a d n ay y;S , ATTEMPT AT HIGHWAY ROBBERY NEAR ABER• AVON.—ONE OF THE ROBBERS SHOT.—As Captain Dean Lovering, of Neath, was on hi s way home - from Port Talbot ome Talbot (where his ship' I • was prig), ou Friday night last, he was attacked by two men, who demanded his "money or his life." He replied that he had no money, when they exclaimed, with an oath, that he had a "very good coat on his back," and that he must also have money about him, and that he had better • give up both. Captain Lovering had fortunately been persuaded by his mate, on leaving the ship, to take a pistol with him, which he did; and on the robbers continuing to demand his money and coat, threatening instant death, he proceeded apparently to take off his coat, but drew out the pistol, and fired it at one of the men, whom he wounded in the leg. On seeing his companion drop, the other said, in the most determined manner, "D—n you, you have not finished us both yet," and attacked Mr. Lowering fiercely, when a violent struggle took place, which ended in the defeat of the villain, as Captain Lowering used the butt end of the pistol most effectively. The police are on the alert, and will no doubt com e u p on the track of the robbers.—Cambrian. We are informed that Messrs. Heywood have re solved to adopt in their future ba nkin g arran g ements the recent example of Messrs. Jones, Loyd, and Co.—Li verpool Albion. FRENCH PLAYS. ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. A pleasant little vaudeville, entitled Manche a Mancha, was produced here last evening, for the purpose ot in troducing- to an English audience M. Henri Allix, in the character of Montmedi. This Montmedi is an old veteran, who brings about a reconciliation between a Captain Geran (M. Tourillon) and his lady, La Comtesse Aretheuse de Montabor (capitally acted by Madame Valmy), who are on the point of sepa ration in consequence of the jealousy enter tained by the lady for a pretty soubrette, Marie , who has been introduced into the house by the husband under somewhat suspicious circumstances, and who has been dismissed by that lady. Montmedi, who knows something of the antecedents of the Coun tess, hints to her that he is aware of certain affairs in which she was concerned " long, long ago," and the Countess, imagining that he knows all, confesses that, some years before, she bad given birth to a - daughter, and entreats him to keep the affair a secret from her husband, and also to seek out her daughter, of whom she had long since lost sight. He consents, on condition that Marie shall remain. The husband, Geran, also has a secret. He, too, has had a daughter before his Ina" riage, and that daughter: is Marie. Montmedi re cognises in Marie a young girl whom he had saved from insult some days before, and, from the papers confided to him by the Countess, proves that Marie is her lour lost daughter. Marie marries Montmedi, and all end s , happily. M. Henri Allix is an excellent actor, full el life, vivacity, humour, and bonh o m m i e . I n p ers on, voice, and style of acting he bears a close resemblance to the late Fawcett. The house was well and fashionably lit' tended. LYCEUM THEATRE. A clever adaptation, by Mr. John Oxenford, of the French vaudeville :Tiridate was produced here las t evening with complete success, under the title of P i ' Tragedy Queen. The tragedy queen is Mrs. Brac e girdle (Mrs. Stirling), who has, by her acting, tone° the head of a certain David Standfast (Mr. ParselleN a law-student. Old Ebenezer Standfast (Air. F• Matthews), his father, an attorney of Banbury, forces himself into the presence of the tragedy qug! l3 " and, bearing his testimony again s t th e iniquity of stage plays and stage players, dernaeu'l what she means by beguiling his son frl his studies to frequent such wicked p as times, 515 to seek to ally himself with a " stage woman." Sh e sets old Standfast'a mind at rest by t e lli ng hi m s he Wl' soon cure his son of his folly ; and when David h° for the first time an interview with her, she ridieliD ° sentiment, poetry, and everything graceful, and is ' A coarse and boisterous that he lea ves h er i n despair, ,„813:', his life is in danger from his disappointment. .-1- father, more alarmed than ev e r, b egs i t h e tr agedy queen to come again to the r escue . B r id ge t, he' t. servant (Miss Marshall), discovers:that David is the g eir tleman who had on one occasion saved M rs . B ra cegird le • , from insult, and the actress herself finds that he is th e author of a beautiful tragedy, which h as b een seeeP- e -. =1 at the theatre on her recommendatio n . Sh e seeks i. second interview with him, and so ch arms hi m by a il manner of reciting some exquisite pa s sa ges f rom his °l '' tragedy, that he is once more reconciled t o lif e , , an d tb curtain falls. Mrs. Stirling acted the tragedy qu eel3 s to perfection. These was, a kind-hearted warmth abo rt her 'Banner that was perfectly b ew it c hi ng ; an d We are not surprised at the conversion of old Standfast from 11 . heresy of stage play-hating. Miss Marshall, as Bridg e " made much of a little part ; and F. Matthews made C u admirably stern old Standfa s t. Th e p i ece wa s COar 1 pletely successful. ' 1 STRAND THEATRE. Last night a domestic drama, called The Chid of Crime ; or, the Village Outcast, was produced at this 0 theatre for the first tim e . It i s a version of the 0 1113 . a story upon which th e d rama o f Grace illintleY founded, and which was so successful when prodt o at the Adelphi theatre a few years ago. Mr. Roger son sustained poor Yates' ch arac t er o f J ose ph Hunt le y, very creditably ; and Sandy S m i t h, a v ill a in of s first water, was ably represented by Mr. Yarnold. , berry, as Simon Siealba g , th e v ill age baker, was veil good. Miss Love, as Grace, ac t e d w i t h h er accustomed care and judgment. Peggy, a village coquette, was re presented with spirit and arch ness b y Mi ss J ane Colem an. Miss Eliza Terry, as Alice Green, sustained the charac ter in her usual style. The drama was perfectly suc cessful. The farce of Airs. Whit e followed, and th® entertainment concluded with the laughable farce of T h l Pwcha's Pets, the princip a l c h aracters being sustaineus by Messrs. Oxberry, Y a rn o ld, an d Rogerson, sustains Coleman, and Mdlle. Louise Bl anc h e . The house vr n well attended. PRIVATE THEATRICA-L iT S ,, TRIT COLLEGE FOR CIVIL ENGINEERS, F l u Last night was a gala at this excellent instituLion- The students having concluded the more serious lab ours of the Michaelmas term, invited th e ir friends resident in the vicinity to an exhibition of private theatrical s, alto ; gether prepared and got up amongst themselves , withot !, any external assistance. ,Thu lecture-room of th e eOl, lege was fitted up as a theatre, the scenery painted, . dresses arranged, and everything completed for the per- formance by the young gentlemen of the college. At seven o'clock, an audience, consisting of th e most respectable inhabitants of the neighbourhoo d, had assembled. The walls were hung round with nn; merous flags and banners, and with various garlands of evergreens, in which the Christmas holly was not for gotten. The room was exceedingly well lighted, and there was a drop scene painted specially for the occasion by Mr. Christie, a student, which attracted much atten tion. The performances commenced with the overture to The Caliph of Bagdad, which was extremely well give!' by the orchestra. The musical taste of the students I carefully cultivated, and the college consequently boast s an excellent band. The first piece was Planche's comic drama, The Jacobite, with the following cast of c harac ters:— Sir Richard Wroughton, Bart.... Mr. Harris, Major Murray ... ••• ... Mr. Fothergill, John Duck D So u m ck erford ... Mr. Aston, Lady ••• Mr. Ashwell , Widow Pottle ... ... Mr. Sutton, Patty Pottle ... ... Mr. Davidson, being the first appearance of each of the actors oP ° ' ny stage. Mr. Ashwell made an uncommonly pretty Lady Sore s :: ford—we have seen many fair performers with less f e r r y, tensions to good lo o k s . All go t t h roug h t h e ir part s tw o efficiently, and ex hibi te d muc h l ess nervo usness might have been expected. Mr. Aston made „ uste - a . c3 : s r, John Duck. H e was per f ect l y at h ome i n t he c' ar- of and in some of hi s touc h es strongly remin ded , n ation 13uokstone, mor e p ar ti cu l ar l y i n h i s burst o f in"" 6 that when he becomes jealous of the Major, believing, by it was Patty he had gone to visit. This was follow Borough Borough Politics, in which Mr. Sutton, as Mrs. T h i ° u9 e, son, and Mr. Harris, as Florid, received much al?P`l,,,,ee The last piece was Morton's farce of Chaos is Again, which excited much risibility. The _ A ey ,: . ; the entertainments concluded with Negro Alelw f - :,;e the young gentlemen having darkened their visage! rni " an te occasion. During the intervals of the per form &c several selections of quadrilles, polkas, volt,,ze for were very pleasingly given by the orc h es tra, and the ments were provided in the a dj o i n i ng roomi o audience. the Although much care must have been devoted by w students to the getting up of the entertainment, thereo ra no infringement upon their hours of study or the g tec l, pursuits to which their time should chiefly be deep re Everything connected with the performances was 1 1 :01, pared during their leisure hours, and the practical e which it is the object of the Principal and his assist/0' to confer, was thereby brought into operation. It is always desirable to provide innocent means 'of r e, creation for young men approaching to maturity. 1 .1 1 cannot at all times be engaged in study—there is trot, in the old adage, " That all work and no play lnek e o Jack a dull boy;" and it too often happens that the s c i who perform all their collegiate duties efficiently, ISO make considerable progress in the course of study quired, get into mischief, from having their leisure boric left unoccupied. A performance such as that which too place last evening will afford a motive for the emplorn e „ lj r of those idle hours that might otherwise bo wasted:, misapplied. We trust that th e beginning whieh„'; thus been made may serve as a precedent for in'," % . years, and that we may have often to record simila r j o g hibitions, so creditable to the s t u d ents an d so &P . ' to the audience, to _ - Viscount Melbourne received a select ''g dinner, on Sund a y l as t, a t hi s residence in sout''The POWER OF C OURTS - MARTIAL AT „, ° CRA C° :f 110W' .Austrian governor o f C racow has published t m",h ugh ing decree:—" His Majesty the Emperor ha s tion right, under th e c i rcumstances, to ordain, by r e L - i lu sbsil of the 21 s t o f November, 1847, that courts-w ar i o li o vi in s g try all per sons gu il ty of high treason in the specified cases: - 1. Those who shall excite others o v i e w revolt or ins urrect i on, with hi g h treason vi, exis t although w i t h out success. 2. Those who 0 15 ; 1 ce• with an object of high treason the armea y r p ot 3. Those who being armed shall join a crowd, ,a nd obey the authorities who may enjoin them to Witn it the or who, during a revolt, are seized with arms hands." BIRTHS. On the Bth inst., at Windsor, the wife of Captain •-• r °Or rane (late) Rifle Brigade of a son. G• On the 9th inst., at Harrow-on-the-hill, Maclaine Rualt, of a daughter. th e On the 9th inst., in William-street, Lowndes - sq uare, wife of Robert Frederick BroWne, Esq., of a son. s e On the 10th inst., at Eltham, the wife of He nr y Ron Baines, Esq., of a son. On the 10th inst., at Loosleigh, Devon, the wife of Wo' iter ElliOsn the 10th, Esq., of a son. st A. , in., the wife of the Rev. W. B. Flower, —' f Assistant-Classical Master at Christ's Hospital , London, ° a son. M. On the 11th inst., at St. ARRIE James's D , Piccadilly, the Baron F' Van de Capelien, to Catharina Van Hoogstratem DIED. ; Yesterday morning, Eliza, the wife of Mr. S. B. 113 hop of the Mitre, bownham- road, Kingsland, aged 34. On the 10th inst., in Lower Eaton-street, Grosveri°,,r; place, the Right Hon. Lady Montfort, wife of the ltig" Hon. Lord Montfort. Brown, zi ge d f S i a () ; On the Otis inst., in Park-road, Mrs. Anna Brow n, On the Bth inst., at Potternewton, near Leeds, Gar,'“"„gl-1 Frederick, infant son of Captain Frederick Cleavelan d, Horse Artillery. On the 10t1 inst., at Walmer, Miss Staniforth, ag,!( 1 1 33 " o f On the 111th inst., Sir John Leman Rogers , " a "" Blackford, Devon, aged 68. NGl l London : Printed and Published by MURDO YO.„" No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Suez Office, N O' , ft Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, ix the CoP" Middle4ex, Tuesday, December 14, 1847. COAL MARK E' Adair's Main . ..... 16s 6d huddle's W. Hardey I6s 6d Carr's Ilartlev Davison'sWe;tllartley 17s Od Dipton Tantield._ Hasting's Hartley - l7s Od New Tanfield • ..... IGs Od Oral's Redheugli Original Pontop South Pontup - lss 111 Stewart's Hartley - Tanfiold Moor .._.. 17s Od Tanfield Moor lin tea... 15s 9dl Townlev l6s 6d West Wylam West Hartley 17s Od Wylam Wall's End, &c. Fratnivell Gate .. l9s Od Idedley llevburu . 19s Odi Sty; ps at markci DEATH OF I MDT MONTFORT.—This lady expired on Friday last, at Lord Montfort's residence in town. The deceased w is daughter of Mr. Watts, and married in September, 1; 93, Lord Montfuri, by whom she does nut h aye any iss DEATH oa L svt GARDNER.—We regret to an nounce the death .J.l4 , ttly (xardner, alter a short illness. The melancholy ev en t took place on Wednesday last, at Kturnell Park, tl seat or her father, Lord Dioorhen, near St. Asaph. "er Lad)sh'ip had only recently com pleted her 33d )ea r. DEATH OF Sr JOHN LEMAN ROGERS.—This lesp(cted Baronet died on Frid,,y last, at his seat in Devonshire. iu au 68th year or his age. Ile had en joyed the ba'..oragte y jest half a century, having suc ceeded his frth, 'ie firth I ' l. ' ll ' l ' in 1 797. DEATH OF COUNTESS OF KINGSTON.—We have to record t he death of the above estimable lady, which took plae e oP Thursday lust, at her residence at St. John's Woe I. Her ladyship, who was in her 76th year of her age, was the only t , univing issue of Stephen First Earl of M anntcashell, and married in May, 1794, George, third I :1...xf of Kingston, father of the present Peer. We regret to le, am thatViscountEss Palmerston has been confined to b er clramber since Friday last, from an attack of inffou nza. Her Ladyship was somewhat better yesterday.