The Sun. — London, England, 1857-02-16 00:00:00

Naval and Vittaly intelligence. His Royal Highness the General Commanding-in-Chief will hold a levee at 1 o'clock on Thursday next. The reports of a Malta correspondent under this head come down to the 11th of Feb., between which date and the 24th preceding the Sultan, Pera, and Euxine steamers had arrived from Southampton, pro ceeded to Alexandria, and the last two returned on the 11th, when the Pera left on her return to England with the heavy India mail, and the Euxine for Marseilles with the overland mail and despatches. The Thessalia and Andes (screws), from Liverpool, had arrived, and left for Constantinople, whence, after filling up at Smyrna, the Athenian and Athens had arrived, and left for Liverpool. The Bceotia, Aleppo, Melita ) and Laconia had arrived from Alexandria, and left for Liverpool. The St. Elmo arrived from Glasgow and Gibraltar on the 80. Beyond these, and the arrival and departure of the usual French and English mail steamers, bringing at this season a greatly reduced list of passengers, the only movements reported are the following : "Her Majesty's screw steam gun-boat `Panderer re turned from Cagliari on the 27th Jan., whither she had been despatched to telegraph to Government the China and Persian news. " The Clara Louisa, hired freight-ship, arrived from London on the 3d Feb., with gunpowder and Govern ment stores. " Her Majesty's surveying steam-sloop Medina ar rived from the Bosphorus and Cerigo on the 28th Jan., and on the same day H.M.'s steam-sloop Sheaewater, from Corfu, for which last-mentioned port the Centaur steam-frigate, which returned from Tripoli on the 29th Jan., left on the 4th Feb., conveying Captain Piper, Lieuts. Whitten (and two sons), Sattie, Morley, An drea, Southam, Buchanan (and wife), Simpson, Beale, Richards, Clerks, and Jepson. " Her Majesty's steam-frigate Gladiator arrived from Bujukdere on the Ist Feb., having on board Capt. War ren, R.N., of her Majesty's ship Cressy, on sick leave, and Commander Warren, R.N. "Her Majesty's steam transport Supply, with super numerary seamen and marines for the fleet, left for the Bosphorus on the 7th. " Her Majesty's screw sloop Wye left for England on the 3d. " Her Majesty's steam frigate the Dauntless, convey ing Lieut. Palmer, 47th, and 24 military invalids, loft tor England on the stb, having in tow the Cracker gun boat. Commander Frederick Holland, R.N., went pas senger by the Dauntless. " Her Majesty's sailing transport Diligence left for England on the same day, laden chiefly with condemned provisions. "Her Majesty's screw corvette Swallow left for the Bosphorus on the 3d, conveying Surgeon Slight, R.N., to be tried by a naval court-martial, the witnesses touch ing which are in the fleet. She also conveyed Lieutenant Carter and Mr. Bovistock, RN. "The schooner yacht Maria, Mr. A. Williams owner, arrived on the 4th from Palermo, Messina, and Syracuse, and left for Tunis and Gibraltar on the 9th. " The schooner yacht Titania. having on board the owner, Mr. Stephenson, and Mr. Lee, sailed for Gib raltar on the sth. "The French Government screw transport La Bor. dogne, arrived from Milo on the 3d, and left on the sth for Algiers. " The Ottoman steamer David arrived from Gibraltar, Algiers, and Bona on the 3d, and left for Constantinople on the Bth. " The Peninsular and Oriental Company's ship Pera, .Capt. Soy, arrived at Malta at 4 a.m. on the 20th Ja nuary, having made a remarkably fine passage out of seven days 18 hours, giving an average speed of 12 knots. She ran from Southampton to Gibraltar in four days three hours, the quickest passage yet made, with the exception of the Himalaya'e, which occupied a little under three days. The Pera was detained at Gibraltar 18 hours, in consequence of having arrived just after gunfire. It would seem to be an unnecessary detention that, as in this case, a ship like the Pera, requiring neither coals nor anything else, should be kept so many hours at Gibraltar because she happened to arrive a short time after the customary,, hour of visiting ships. The Pera met with thick, dirty weather on starting, but afterwards strong north and north-west winds, with a heavy north-west swell across the Bay. She brought a large number of passengers (130) and a valuable cargo of specie—say about 400,0001. " The company's new steam-ship Aden, Capt. Ber nard, made a remarkably quick passage from Bombay to Suez, with mails and passengers, having made an average run of 320 miles daily. "The situation of the officers of the naval establish- ments in Malta has been materially improved by a gene ral increase of pay. The salaries of the master ship wright and the superintending engineer have been in creased by 101/. a-year each. The other gentlemen of the dock and victualling yards and hospital have been placed upon a rising scale of pay, as in England, where the salaries of the let clerks increase by 151. a-year, as far as 450/. ; those of the 2d class also by 151., as far as 3001. ; and those of the 3d class by 101., as far as 1501. Besides the above emoluments, the lat clerks in each department are allowed free quarters." On Saturday afternoon the depots of the following regiments belonging to the Provisional Battalion at Chatham—viz., 10th Foot, under the command of Cap tain J. V. H. Montagne ; 29th, under the command of Captain J. M. Lyle ' • 64th, commanded by Brevet-Major W. J. Chads ; and the 83d, under the command of Cap tain W. Nott, together numbering about 500 non-com missioned officers and men—left Chatham barracks and proceeded to Brompton barracks, where they are to be quartered, their removal having been rendered necessary owing to the crowded state of the Provisional Battalion, and the large number of volunteers for the various Indian depots which will arrive at Chatham garrison during the present week. The number of workmen employed . in Chatham dock yard having been ordered to be reduced, 16 men received their discharge from that establishment on Saturday last, and 30 more will be discharged at the end of this week. In consequence of the order which has been issued by the Admiralty for reducing the pay of the labourers em ployed in the dockyard to 12s. a week, a public meeting bas been held at Chatham, presided over by the High Constable, when it. was unanimously resolved to memo rialise the Lords of the Admiralty to rescind that order. Her Majesty's ship Winchester (50), the late flag-ship, arrived at Singapore on the 23d Dec. from Hong Kong, and sailed on the 27th for England. The Diamond, 27, Captain C. B. Hamilton, is being stripped at Chatham and her stores removed, in order to be paid off into ordinary on Wednesday next. The Iris, 26, Captain W. Loring, C. 8., fitting at Chatham for the Australian station, is ready for sea, and is expected to eail from that port on the 18th inst. Ile iron paddle steamer Trident is ordered to be un dccked at Word with on Monday, and the Banshee will be placed in No. 1 on the following day, for thorough ex Itoination, prior to commencing service as Admiralty yacht and tender to the Fisgard. Her Majesty's screw corvette Scout, in Woolwich ba sin, has received her masts, engines, and machinery, and was on Saturday replaced under the east shears by her Majesty's ship Spitfire. The steam troop-ship Dee, Master-Commander Pullen, left Woolwich on Friday evening, laden with machinery and boilers for the Royal Sovereign and Melpomene at Poi tsmouth. Mr. Tandy, the chief engineer of the vessel, received instructions from the Lords of the Admiralty to take careful notes relative to the working of the super- heating steam apparatus during the voyage, and to re port officially thereon on his return. The Admiralty yacht Vivid, which has been lent for temporary service to the Royal Mail Steampacket Come pany, bas been fitted with Mr. Jeffrees' patent smoke consumer and fuel economiser, for experiment on board that vessel. It is considered that this method will effect an economy in the consumption of fuel to the amount of at least 40 per cent. The inspecting officer of machinery afloat attnched to Woolwich dockyard was ordered to take passage in the Vivid to Dover, and to report on the operation of the i nven ti on f or th e benefit of Government. The screw steamship Chile, Capt. Smith, with mails and passe ngers f or t h e West Coast of South America, which left Plymouth on the 15th Jan., put back to that port on Friday last, dismasted and disabled. She has been no further than 17 west, and for a considerable timo was in imminent danger of drifting cn the coast of Spain in the Bay of Biscay. Shortly after her departure she experienced heavy gales, which continued with so much force as to carry away the foremast and jibboom ' close down, and as the rigging was of wire it was some time before the wreck could be cleared. After this it was found necessary to cut away the topmast. While preparing for this a heavy roll of the vessel snapped the mainmast short off, and two men in the tops were thrown into the sea, but managed to get on board again. For many days after she continued drifting about, and the crew urged the necessity of abandoning her, which was energetically resisted by the officers. After many f a i. lures, jurymasts were rigged, and the after tanks filled to get her down by the stern, when she managed to hold her own till fine weather was experienced, when she gradually approached the Channel, from which she had never been distant more than three or four days' sail during a period of 29 days. The engines were'of very little service in her distress, and great alterations will be necessary in the machinery before she can proceed to sea again. Her leakage is not to any extent. Commander Luxmore and the surviving officers and seamen of the steamsloop Argus have erected in the public cemetery at Plymouth a handsome cenotaph to the memory of their friends and messmates who died of yellow fever in the West Indies in the early part of the year 1856. Her Majesty's steam frigate Arrogant, 47, Captain Lyster, is alongside Portsmouth Dockyard dismantling, preparatory to being paid off. A shocking accident occurred ou board her on Saturday. As one of the heavy P iv ot gnus, a 63 -pounder, weighing .9.5 cwt., was being hoisted out the fall broke, and the gun fell upon one of the crew named James Dernan, whose body was dread fully mangled, causing instantaneous death. The Ad miralty Coroner, Mr, Swainson, held an inquest on board in the afternoon, when a verdict of" Accidental death" was returned. The tackle fall was quite- sound and in good order, and had not been used more than half-a-dozen The convict Johnson, who stabbed the Warder Astin lately at Portsmouth, was on Saturday committed for trial by the Portsmouth magistrate, and removed to Winchester Gaol the same day. Rear• Admiral of the Red Provo W. P. Wallis has been nominated to succeed to the command of the squa dron on the South-East Coast of America station on the expiration of the term of Roar-Admiral Johnotone. THE PARKS AS THEY WILL BE. TEE AFFAIRS OF NAPLES. OFFICIAL DESPATCHES. - - --- On Saturday the co rrespondence relating to the affairs of Naples, extending from May 19 to November 15, last year, was issued as a Parl iamentary paper. The return embraces 47 communications. On May 19, last year, Lord Clarendon wrote to Sir William Temple, at Naples, setting forth the grounds on which her Majesty's Government recommended the Government of the Two Similes to grant a general amnesty, and to adopt an improved administrative system. Sir William Temple acknowledges the receipt of this despatch, and communicates the result of his interview with the Neapo litan Minist er. The report of M. Brennier, the French representative, who acted with Sir William, is also given.. Then follows a memorandum received from Mande of political prisoners by Sir William Temple, re lating their sufferings, and communicated to the Neapo litan Government. Sir William Temple sends also re ports of the trials at the grand criminal court, and the representations made from time to time by M. Carafe to the English and French Governments, with the results. Between July 31 and Oct. 27 the correspondence from Naples to our Government is conducted by Mr. Petre. The letters of this gentleman include observations on the political state of the kingdom, the results of the trials, the sufferings of Poerio and others, the facts connected with the rupture) of the diplomatic relations, and the depar ture of the French and English representatives from the capital. Mr. Petre, in a special despatch, expresses his grateful sense of the perfect cordiality and frankness which he has met with from Baron Brennier, who re ceives accordingly the acknowledgment of her Ma jesty's Government. The subjoined is the despatch with which the corree pondence commences : " No. 1. " THE EARL OP CLARENDON TO SIR W. TEMPLE. "Foreign-office, May 19,1856. " Sir,—The 22d protocol of the Conferences lately held at Paris, which has been published, will have proved to the Neapolitan Government the anxiety felt by the Congress in regard to the present state of the Italian peninsula. " This anxiety, and a profund conviction of tne im minent danger with which Italy is threatened can alone justify her Majesty's Government in deviating from that principle of which they are the first to recognise the im portance—that no foreign power has a right to interfere in the internal affair 3 of another state ; and the govern ment of ,the King of the Two Sicilies may be assured that, in offering advice for the regulation of its internal affairs, the Government of her Majesty is actuated by friendly feelings and the persuasion that not only the stability of the Sicilian monarchy, but the general peace of Europe, will be endangered by a perseverance in that system of internal administration which now exists in the Neapolitan dominions. "The Neapolitan Government cannot be unmindful of the threatening aspect of affairs in Sicily, where the slightest accident may at any moment rouse into action the ill-suppressed feelings of the people. It must also be aware that there is a point beyond which popular feeling cannot with safety be repressed, and that a sys tem of rigour may fail to be effective at the very moment when the results sought to be attained by it would be most essential for the security of the existing dynasty. "It is, then, in a true spirit of friendship that her Majesty's Government would recommend the government of the Two Sicilies to enter upon a new course of inter. ternal policy, to endeavour by a general amnesty to rally round the throne those who have been alienated from it by systematic distrust, and in too many cases by un merited persecution, and to inspire all persons, irrespec tive of their political opinions, with confidence that justice will be duly administered, and that their personal liberty and their property will be respected. " The attention of Europe is now directed towards Italy as the quarter from whence, more than from any other, the general peace now happily restored is likely again to be disturbed. The Powers of Europe feel that they have a right to employ all the means at their dis posal to avert a calamity so grievous as the renewal of war, and the means they may decide on adopting for that purpose will be justified by necessity. • " Her Majesty's Government indulge a hope that the Neapolitan Government will take into their consideration whether it would not be prudent, frankly at once, to adopt a new system which would relieve Europe from anxiety, and improve the relations of Naples with fo reign Powers. Its present system is a barrier to the friendly relations between Great Britain and Naples which her Majesty's Government anxiously desire to re-establish ; and the Neapolitan Government may be assured that those relations would be rendered more per manent and secure by the adoption of a policy which would be more in harmony with the spirit of the age, and would place the King's throne on a solid founda tion by promoting the happiness and encouraging the loyalty of his people. Yon will add that her MajeOy's Government look with the utmost anxiety to the answer which may be re turned to the communication which, in conjunction with your French colleague, you are now instructed to make the Napolitean Minister for Foreign Affairs. " You will read and give a copy of this despatch to the Neapolitan Minister for Forego Affairs.—l am, &c., " (Signed) CLARENDON." The following extract from a despatch from Lord Clarendon to the Admiralty, dated October 10, thus ex-. plains the object of a naval demonstration. " I am now to signify to your lordships her Majes ty's pleasure that a British naval force should be held in readiness at Malta for the protection of British interests in the Neapolitan dominions, in case those interests should suffer prejudice after the withdrawal of her Majesty's mission from Naples. 6 ' The commander of that force should be directed to despatch a steam-vessel from time to time, so as to keep up a frequent communication with her Majesty's consuls at Naples, and the principal consular stations in the island of Sicily ; and if any circumstances should arise which call for the active interposition of her Majesty's naval forces for the protection of British interests, the earliest possible notice thereof is to be conveyed to her Majesty's Government through Marseilles ; and the com mander of the squadron will hold his ships in readiness to carry out, without loss of time, any instructions which may be sent to him by yoar lordships, but without such instructions he will not appear with the line-of-battle ships off the coasts of the Neapolitan dominions. " Her Majesty's Government have reason to believe that corresponding arrangements will be made by the French Government ; and I have only to add tbat the commanders of her Majesty's ships, either collectively or separately, will endeavour to a3t in entire concert with the commanders of French vessels engaged on the same service, and will look after French interests equally with those of her Majesty's subjects, in the accidental absence of a French ship of war." —On the same date Earl Clarendon sent the following despatch to Mr. Pctre : " No. 27. " THE EARL OF CLARENDON TO MR. PETRE. " Foreign Office, Oct. 10, 1856. "Sir,—lt is with regret that her Majesty's Govern ment have arrived at the conviction that the Neapolitan Government do not intend to modify the system which prevails throughout the dominions of the King of the Two Siciliee, and which formed the subject of my de spatch of the 19th of May last to Sir Wm. Temple. "The advice contained in that despatch was offered in a friendly spirit, and in terms that could give no offence to the Neapolitan Government. "Her Majesty's Government felt themselves justified in offering that advice, upon considerations of general interest, and with a sincere desire to establish between England and Naples relations of greater cordiality than those which for some time past have exited. The reply of the Neapolitan Government was nei ther courteous nor satisfactory, and proved that the inn tives and intentions of her Majesty's Government bad been completely mistinderstoo4 but, as the p ainful im pression which it created w as not unknown to the Nea politan Government, we had hoped that our Abstine n ce upon the Ne a p o li tan from again pressing our advice u Go vernment might have induced that G overnment, sponta neously, to adopt measures in accordance with the prin ciples upon which the communication of her Majesty's Government had been founded. Her Majesty's Govern ment would have greatly preferred that such a course of proceeding should have been pursued, for they have no wish needlessly to interfere in the affairs of Naples, and a sense of duty alone impelled them to suggest certain changes and improvements in the internal po licy of that Government. They accordingly waited in silence for several weeks, in the hope that more prudent counsels might have prevailed at Naples ; but their expectations have been disappointed. A tardy apology for the first reply of the Neapolitan Government has, indeed, been received, not apparently suggested by a sense of propriety on the part of the Neapolitan Go vernment, but called forth by reports received from Vienna and Paris. This apology, however, is just as unsatisfactory as to the main objects in view as was the despatch of M. Carafa to Prince Carini of the 30th of June, and her Majesty's government, therefore, in T thetion with the Go v ernm en t o f th e E mperor o f French, are of opinion that diplomatic relations can no longer be maintained with a Government which rejects all friendly Warning, and is determi ne d to persevere in a course w hi c h i s condemned by all civilised nations. "You will, therefore, upon the receipt of this de spatch, prepare to quit Naples with the members of the l e gation, leaving the archives in the care of her Ma jesty's consul. "Similar instructions will be addressed to the French minister. B u t, in order that the interestaof e titish subject s in the Neapol i t an territor y may not he l without ade quate protecticn, a British squadron will be held iu . a steam -vessel from o e rea diness at Malta, an d the commander of that tuad nsuimaet ron will be directe d to d espatch to time, to conirnunicate w i th her M a j est , Naples and at the ports the Island of consuls Sicily, i n order to ascertain that Briton in terests are not prejg. of diplomat i c relations diced by the interruption between the two countries. "A. French squadron will be held in readin ess at Toulon, th e comman d er of which will rece ive correspon ding instructions for periodical visits to the ports of Naples and Sicily, with a view to the protection of French interests. You will read and give a copy of this despatch to M. Carafa, an.- you will quit Naples as soon after that as you can make your arrangements for doing so." The following, from Mr. Petre, will give some idea of the details communicated respecting the sufferings of the prisoners : " No 39. "KB. PETBE TO THE EARL OP cLAIENDor....._(nECIEIYED NOV. 1:)_ "Naples, Oct. 27, 1856. "My Lord,—l regret unfeignedly in this, one of my ast despatches to [your lordship, to have t o recor d th e physical sufferings of Carlo Poerio. "For some time past he had bean suffering from a tumour on tLe spine, 468123,7 in great measure, I believe, from long confinement and low unhealthy diet, and ag gravated by the friction of his chain. An operation was performed very recently upon him, and he is now, I am told, in a more satisfactory state of health. But, if my information is correct, and I have no reason to doubt it, however revolting to humanity the fact, neither before, nor during, nor after the operation, was Poerio's chain removed." THE KING OF PRUSSIA'S HONOUR. (From the Times.) It is fully believed in Berlin that the King of Prussia, now he bas got his partisans out of the bear's grip, has not the smallest intention of keep ing his part of the implied bargain. He has not, so it is said, the most distant idea of giving up that airy nothing—his right over the canton of Neucha tel in return 'for the prisoners. Tho whole story is so absurd that it can scarcely be discussed with becoming gravity. All Europe has been set in commotion about the King of Prussia's honour, and now he refuses to keep his honourable under. standing. " Only let the Neuchatelois give up the prisoners," said the ingenuous monarch, "and then Europe shall see, and the descendants, of Tell shall see, what I am capable of in the way of gene rosity." Has not this declaration pervaded the political atmosphere of Europe for the last four months ? Have not the diplomatists of France and England been running backwards and forwards for we know not how long, like the two foolish old Generals at the military clubs, who when a duel is impending write memoranda to each other every five minutes, and endeavour to persuade the bellige rents not to stand so stiffly upon the point of honour —not to thirst so madly for gore ? We cannot say , how far our French friends have committed them selves, but the English Premier, it appears, knew his man too well. He declined to give any guaran tee to the Swiss, or to make himself responsible in any way for the conduct of the Prussian Sovereign on any given contingency. The event has proved the soundness of the decision. The King has got his partisans back, and now he refuses the quid pro quo, under the pretence, doubtless, that no docu ment under his hand and seal can be produced against him. All that was done was to disse minate throughout Europe the belief that if the prisoners were given up the claims would be re signed. Every act of the Prussian Court, every phrase of Prussian diplomacy, has been directed to this end. It was in consequence of this that the public opinion of Europe at length took a turn, which, if not actually unfavourable to the Swiss, was at least in favour of their making the required concession. Everybody knows that the canton of Neuchatel is and has been for many years past as essentially Swiss as Sussos , ;s 2. 6 4;5z,,, or Drormandy French. We are not ignorant, motteover, that the misguided men who rose against the public autho rities in the chief town of that canton—or at least their leaders were in close intimacy with the Prussian Court. The revolt broke out in Neu chatel, but the strings were pulled from Berlin. It has also been asserted throughout—although the point is, of course, beyond our knowledge—that if the prisoners had been brought to trial revelations of the most unpleasant kind as to their connection with Prussian statesmen would have been made in open court. It was very intelligible that the King of Prussia should wish to put a stop to all this mis chief, and to do so with as little loss of dignity as possible. He succeeded. The Swiss were jostled and hustled, and coaxed and worried into acquies cence. In seems one of their agents understood a phrase in a sense too favourable to his own views. The French Emperor again threw the great weight of his power and position into the adverse scale at a most critical moment, but he appears to have done so on the understanding that the point in dispute really was the point of honour. In common with the rest of the world he was mistaken. Honour and the King of Prussia throughout all this affair have been a thousand miles apart. The whimsical thing about the whole affair is, that if nothing more is done the King of Prussia is no more ruler of Neuchatel than he was twelve months back. Supposing from this moment for ward the Swiss Cantons refuse to take the smallest notice of himself or his agents, what can the King of Prussia do ? True, he may try another " mobi lisation," and endeavour to recover his rights real or supposed by force of arms. But this time he must carry his threats into effect, or he will make the Prussian name the laughing-stock of Europe. Now, is he prepared to face the consequences of such an act—the results of such a policy ? With the whole public opinion of Europe against him—with Austrian statesmen smiling behind his back at the complaisance with which he exhausted the strength of his people and resigned the leadership of Ger many into their hands—would the Prussian Sove reign really go and knock his head against the Swiss mountains ? We doubt it. The result, then, is, if nothing is done, that his sovereignty in Neuchatel remains a mere nullity—a zero a Twelfth-night toy. There cannot that we know be the smallest objection raised to the fact that the titular Prince of Neuchatel should continue to bear the name in ' his place of exile at Berlin. It might, perhaps, be wiser and in be , ter taste to adhere to the incognito of the King of Prussia ; but if the Prince of Neu chatel, within his own four walls, chooses to call himself by this name, we know not who is to pre vent him. He might in the same way trench on the dignities of the King of Sardinia, and style himself King of Cyprus and Jerusalem,—either course is open to him, and with perfect impunity. Our own Sovereigns were silly enough to retain the title of Kings of France until the Peace of Amiens, but we have never read that e4ther they, or the people they governed, were much benefited by 'the assumption. It was, however, something to call one's-self King of France. If it was an im posture it was a gigantic one, and might bo taken as evidence of an inspiring mind. But, had the Kings of England insisted upon bearing the title of some beggarly district in Prussian Poland, to which they could not in case of need have de- spatched a'corporal's guard without the certainty Of bringing on a general war, we should have said the ambitioa was but a paltry one. This is pretty much the case of the Prussian Sovereign with the little insignificant canton of Neuchatel. It is divided from his real dominions by the territories of two or three independent Sovereigns. It brings to the Prussian exchequer no revenue. The King never pretends even to govern it as a provinc e or depen dency of the Prussian Crown. His connection with it always has been in times past, and must ever continue to be a source of mortification to him. The people don't want him. If the Emperor Louis Napoleon is by the people's choice Sovereign of France, then the King of Prussia, by th e peo ple's choice also, is not Prince of Neuchatel. Had he been simply Prince of Neuchatel he would, pro bably, have been residing for some years in the New-road, or at St. John's-wood in a genteel cot tage residence. He happens, however, at the same time te be King of Prussia, and, if not warlike him self, at least the chief of a powerful and well organised army. The King of Prussia has a fancy in short to be Prince of Neuchatel. If the desire ever attain larger proportions than those of a wan dering fancy the Prussian people must find the blood and pay the bill. It may be that those philosophers are in the right who talk of the equal distribution of happiness among human beings. Here now is the case of a monarch who stands fifth in power in Europe, with a people under his hand largely susceptible of drill and lectures and decorations, and raps with the paternal staff. He has three or four palaces to live in, which, if not exactly delightful to the English eye, at least please him. He can tin ker at creeds and rate his Chamber as he pleases —so patient are his theologians, so much en during is his Parliament. Surely, such a posi tion would appear to possess certain latent elements of felicity ; but not a bit of it. There is a spectre behind the bed-curtain—a Mordecai at the gate. The King can't have a Swiss toy which he covets, so he assumes the attitude of Job, and apes his discomforts, without the patience which rendered the position of the Patriarch just endurable. It is the same story in private life. Go and stop with a rich proprietor in the country, who owns more land within a ring fence than the eye can take in even from a good point of view, and you will find that the burden of life presses heavily on your friend on account of some squabble with another rural thane, or because he is at war with the parson, or because somebody nine years ago shot his favourite bull when that interesting animal was making a clean sweep of the turnpike road; but somehow justice was never done in the case. These thoughts and recollections bairn like fire in the human brain, just as his Neuchatel grievance vexes the King of Prussia to death. How cool and comfortable would that Royal personage feel in the morning when ho awakes if he would just make up his mind to throw off the burden altogether. TIM AUSTRALIAN MAIM—SOUTHAMPTON, Feb. 14. —The European and Australian Royal Mail Company's steamship Columbian, Captain Pander, which left this port on the 14th nit arrived off the island of St. Vin cent at 2 a.m, on the 23d, thus making the passage from the Needles in 8 days and 7 hours. Her average speed throughout was 12 knots per hour, and on three consecutive days the runs were 315, 310, and 300 nau tical miles. The weather at Porto-Grande was very un favourable ; strong winds and dark cloudy weather with rain. Rollers had set in with a violence which had only been experienced once before during the last 20 years. On this account great difficulty was experienced in coal ing, and the Columbian was detained four days. She sailed thence for Australia on the 27th. The pas sengers were all well, and expressed themselves highly satisfied with the ship and all the arrangements on board. The ship on leaving had a total stock of 1,400 tons of fuel on board, and it was intended that she should procoed direct to Melbourne, without calling any more on the way thither. The mailsof the present month will be conveyed in the Etna steamer, of 2,215 tons and 500 horse-power, which is to leave Southampton on the 24th inst., and proceed to Alexa n d r i a , w h ence th e y w ill be carried overland to Suez ; after this the mails by this route will leave Southampton on the 12th of each month. The dismal appearance which St. James's Park has put on for the last four mouths is beginning to improve, and the scene gives some token of what may be expected when the extensive works in ope ration shall be brought to a conclusion. Nearly the whole of the bed of the lake is now drained and levelled, and in the course of five or six weeks, when the present artificial bottom has well settled, the whole will be covered with concrete, which is anticipated will effectually prevent the growth of vegetable matter, and will give an easy means of cleansing the whole. Were it not for the new bridge across the lake the works would soon be brought to a conclusion ; but on digging the founda tion for the abutments such a mass of springs has been tapped that it has been necessary to keep three steam engines cont.nually at work in order to form anything like a solid bottom. This influx of water has'necessitated the keeping open the cutting which runs on the north side of the l a k e , an d w h ic h cannot be filled in unt'l the foundations of the bridges are completely settled. The erection of a suspension -bridges of a more difficult character than the generality of persons imagine. People see the abutments of the bridge, and chains passing y and securely attached. over them, which support the roadway, but they of finding means of are een keepingo awar e odit s these operandi e at r ihn a es n d dr rilic ; llylt the uninitiated may thus - succinctly be described :—At some distance beyond the extreme end of the bridge a deep excavation is wades below even the foundation of the abutments of the b r id ge . At the bottom of this excavation an inverted arch, of the strongest material, is constructed, the interior and exterior of which are filled and s urroun d e d w ith Portland cement. This forms the table o n w hi c h the principal stone rests, to which are att ac h e d th e chains. Three blocks of granite are then placed above this stone in such a manner that, without disturbing the whole, it is impossible to move the keystone in the slightest degree. Above and around these blocks of stone are some 700 or 800 tons of the strongest blue has concrete that can be made. This, in fact, forms one solid mass of stone, so that it is physically impossible the keystone can be started. The chains thus fixed pass through a small tunnel, called the chain tunnel, and thence over the abutment thv Midge to the other shit, wilt:Lc they are similarly attached. This seems easy enough on paper, but it requires a good deal of en gineering skill to carry it out properly. With respect to the bridge in question a rather curious circumstance occurred. I n di gg i ng th e f oun dation the excavators came upon a solid bed of peat some 10 feet in thickness, and at the bottom was found a layer of green moss, in which was imbedded, in a capital state of pres erva ti on , th e an tl er s of a fine buck, which have b een care f u ll y preserve d a s a curiosity. As regards the b e d o f peat, the same thing was discovered on digging for the Victoria Tower some three or f our years ago. Th e en tire worksin St. Jame s ' s P ar k are expec t e d t o b e com pleted by the beginning of May, and, as the gar dens at Kew are ma d e now to pro d uce a l ar ge number of half-hardy plants, such as geraniums, &c., and as also the enclosure has been thoroughly, for the first time, drained, the frequenters of the park may in . confidently anticipate a vast improve ment its general aspect. While, however, so much kas been done in St. James's Park, a large amount of money has also been expended in Hyde Park, and to a good purpose. But little has been said on the subject, and very few persons have been aware of what has been going on for the last few months, except that they have seen a number of workmen employed, and a good deal of dirt and muck. The improve ment in question will be sure to meet with general approval when it is completed, which will be early in May. A new road, or rather path, planted on each s id e w ith s h r ubs, is being made from the marble arch to Victoria-gate. It will be, when completed, more than three-quarters of a mile in length, and will be the finest walk which the metropolis will be able to boast of. While making this new road one of the workmen disco vered a mass of valuable gold coins—so valuable, indeed, that he has not been seen since. The new illuminated clock at Hyae Park-corner has been set up, in order to judge of the effect previous to its principle being adopted in the monster clock in the Palace at Westminster. The dials of illuminated clocks have hitherto been of ground or opaque glass, with gilt numbers and gilt hands. A new material is now used, which apreirs to answer admirably. The glass, instead of bang ground, is coated with white enamel, with dart blue numbers, the hands being of the same colour. Iu the daytime the dial presents a solid appearance, like that of an ordi nary watch, and at night, with a light behind it, the dial presents a much more even and clear ap pearance than ground glass. Those who are desir ous to know what the future appearance of the great cock will be can satisfy their curiosity by examining that at Grosvenor-gate. The great clock is expected to be in motion, with iLs concomitant bells, before the session closes.—Observer. MURDER AND HIGHWAY ROBBERY IN SURREY. On Saturday afternoon information was received at the Metropolitan Police-station in Scotland-yard of a murder, accompanied by robbery, on the high way between the villages of Nutfield and Warwick town, in Surrey, a draper named Ovenden having been shot with a pistol on his return fro& Godstone anti robbed of between V. and 5/. The circum stance has occasioned a good deal of alarm not only in Nutfield, near which village the murder took place, but throughout the whole of the district. The following, as far as we have been able t o ob tain them, are the particulars of thi s s h oc ki ng affair :--Mr Oveuden had been to the village of Godstone on a bwiness visit, and was returning i n his light cart to Warwick-town. About a quarter to 5 o'clock, while proceeding on the road to Nut field, he was accosted by a pedestrian, whom he overtook on the road, and who asked him for a lift in his cars, stating that ho was going to Red hill. The man was dressed as a labourer a n d h a d request. He they passed th roug h. Nutfield was accordingly every appearance of being one, and Mr. Ovenden to Redhill. Th ey h a d no t , way very great distance from the village ed n up when they arri ve d a t a very d u ll an d f h te o l o r oi -kmt w e however, with onni gonettoh their l ' thes a lonely part of the road, and Mr. Ovenden, from whom the information has been obtained, was surprised by the man, who was a tall, strongly built fellow, suddenly turning towards him and de manding his money or his life. At first Mr. Oven den thought that he was joking, but be was soon fatally undeceived by the man taking out a pocket pistol and pointing it towards his breast. Still Mr. Ovenden did not apprehend anyserious danger, and not wishing to part with his money endeavoured to make it appear that he thought the whole affair was a joke. The man, however, assumed a deter mined aspect and persisted in his demand, and, on Mr. Ovenden, who was now seriously alarmed, re fusing to comply, the villain at once fired the pistol, the bullet of which was lodged in the left breast of his victim, a little below the shoulder. Mr. Oven den, still having the reins in his hand, fell to the bottom of the cart, the jerk pulling the horse up. Theleowardly ruffian then proceeded in the most deliberate manner to rifle the pockets of the un fortunate man, taking from them 4/. in gold and about 10s. in silver, with which he made off across the country, leaving Mr. Ovenden in a senseless state at the bottom of the cart. This occurrence took place about 5 o'clock in the afternoon in broad daylight. About a quarter-past 5 o'clock Mr. Oven den, who had been stunned and partly paralysed by the effect of the shot, came to himself, and, found that he was bleeding from the wound in his shoulder. He managed to stanch the bleeding with a pocket-handkerchief, and, although much weakened by th e loss of blood, contrived to reach his home at Warwick-town, where he at once gave information to the police of the attack which bad been made upon him, and at the same time lodged in the bands of the police a very accu rate description of the fellow who committed the assault, He of course received every medical and surgical assistance, but on examination it was found that the wound was of a much more serious charac ter than had at first been imagined. On reaching home he was in a most depressed condition, and, in fact, almost fainting. He was immediately put to bed, but notwithstanding every attention informa tion reached yesterday the Metropolitan police-sta tion that he expired on Saturday morning. Mr. Norman Wilkinson, a magistrate for the county of Surrey, on hearing of the condition in which the unfortunate man was, took his dying deposition, sn which he gave a very complete description of his assailant. The intelligence received at Scotland-yard by electric telegraph of the death o f M r. Ovenden was accompanied by a hand-bill offering 1001. reward for the apprehension of the person who committed this atrocious act, and who, from the evidence already obtained by the police, _ was seen by a party of labourers at a later peri od , his way to the village of God stone. The follo w i ng i s th e d escr iption of the man taken from the lig ht figure, but having the day aski ng deposition of Mr. Ovende n " About six fe e t i n her ht large bones, very sa llo w complexion, high cheek bones, and very h o ll ow i n the cheeks near the mouth ; dress e d i n a c l ose b ox c ap, fitting tight to the head, and a s h ort navigator's smockfrock much embroidered." The pistol with which the murder was committed was found lying in the bottom of the cart covered with blood, ft WAS an ordinary small pocket-pistol. Since the commission of this murder the police have been unceasing in their exertions to apprehend the fellow, but up to the present moment have been unsuccessful, although it is thought that from the very full description given of him he cannot long escape detection. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. GREAT WESTERN. The lialf-yearly meeting of this company was held on Friday at the station, Paddington ; Lord Barrington, M.P., in the chair. Mr. Saunders, the secretary, read the notice con vening the meeting. The report, an abstract of which has appeared in The Sum, was taken as read. The CHAIRMAN said—ln consequence of the pub licity which, at the request of the Committee of Consultation, has been given, and very properly given, to their proceedings, the necessity is not en tailed upon me of going into all the minutiaa of the affairs which have been brought before the directors, and called upon Mr. Miles to address the meeting. Mr. N. MILES, M. P., expressed the great pain be experienced at finding himself opposed to the board of directors, with whom it had been his plea sure to coincide on many occasions, and moved the following resolution : "That, in the opinion of this meeting, the present system of management of the Great Western Railway Company is defective, and requires amendment." Mr. WITHERS seconded the motion. Mr. NORRIS opposed the motion, on the ground that the committee had not carried out the object for which they were appointed at the last meeting at Bristol. He begged to move as an amendment-- "That this meeting, having fully considered the re spective reports of the deputation of shareholders and the board of directors, decline to adopt the recommenda tions of the deputation ; that the objects sought to be attained by the deputation were not warranted by the terms of their appointment ; that the re-election of Mr . Baker and Mr. Potter, after they had retired, would weaken the board at a time when harmony was most necessary in the company and that unity of action should prevail, and the board of directors had exercised a sound judgment in appealing to the shareholders on this sub j ect." Mr. AVERY seconded the amendment of Mr. Norris. The question was put, and the show of hands being against the amendment, a ballot was de manded. It was announced that the poll would remain open till 8 o'clock, from 10 to son Saturday and Monday, and from 10 to 11 on Tuesday, when it would close. The report wars then adopted, and the dividend declared. The meeting adjourned until 2 o'clock on Tuesday. LONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN. The directors of this company have just issued their report. It states that the directors have again to report a steady increase in every depart ment of traffic. The usual tabular statement of receipts and expenditure exhibits fog the past half year an increase of 15,4231. in the receipts for pas sengers, ”arcels, mails, &c., and of 45,4561. in the merchandise, m a ki ng togther 60,879/. The "in crease in the working expenses amounted to 23,2601., leaving the net increase 37,619/. The two addi tional lines, already authorised, between Camden station and Willesden, have been let undercontract to complete them in nine months from the present time. In consequence of the high rate of interest which has prevailed for thepast few years the direc tors have hitherto deferred making any call upon the 121.105. shares, created on the 30th April, 1853. It will, however, shortly be necessary to do so (the 20/. and 10/. shares being now fully called up) ; and as it is desirable that the holders should know the dates at which these calls will be made the direc tors have decided that they now be fixed as follows: —first call of 21. 10/. per share, payable July 1, 1857 ; second ditto, July 1, 1858 ; third ditto, July 1, 1859; final ditto, July 1, 1860, from which last date these shares will take dividend as ordinary stock. The directors request a vote of the proprie tors profits of h for the works, halfyear involving er those of h exceededan outla outlay 25,361!. te The corresponding period by 39,9631. 10s. 7d., and the directors are therefore enabled to recommend a dividend at the rate of Si. 10s. per cent. per an num. NORTH-EASTERN. The disposable balances on the Berwick and York revenue accounts , after paying all preferen tial charges, amounts to 165,335/. and 64,593/. re spectively ; and the directors recommend that divi dends be declared on the Berwick stock and shares at the rate of 42 per cent. per annum, and on the York stock 3i per cent. per annum, leaving bal ances of 11,0511. and 4,2421. to be carried forward. The Leeds revenue account shows an available balance of 14,568/. LONDON AND BLACKWALL. The balance available for distribution among the shareholders amounts to 19,3021., out of which the directors recommend a dividend of 3s. 6d. for the half-year ending the 31st of December last. TRAFFIC RETURNS FOR THE WEEK. Miles I Receipts. e?ened, NAME OF RAILWAY. 1856. I 1857. 18 ,6. BEITIBH. £ £ 115 Aberdeen .. • • • • • • .. - 37% Belfast and Ballymena .• ............ 1,109 826 17 Belfast and County Down• • • • • • • • • • .. 33 Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire 2,064 1,842 26 % Bolton, Blackburn,and West York .... - 117 Bristol and Exeter • • .... •••••• •• • 5,139 5,493 191 4 Ca1ed0nian.......... •• • •• 12,201 10,234 9 11 4 Chester and Holyhead. • • • • ........ 4,743 4,502 616 Cork, Blackrock, and Passage ••• • • • 161 127 20 Cork and Bandon .• • • ... • •• •• 2 95 212 56 Dublin and Belfast J unction •• .. 1,090 963 63 Dublin and Drogheda •• • • ......... 1,301 1,294 401 ,E Dublin and Kingstown ••••••• • • • • • • • 1 ,157 911 16% Dundee and Arbroath ••••••• • • • • • •• 499 316 31 Dundee, Perth, and Aberdeen Junction 923 848 36 Dundalk and Enniskillen • • • • • • • • • • • • 422 316 67% East Anglian...• ...... ••••• • • • • • 5,722 848 5,254 859 93 East Lancashire • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 417 Eastern Counties and Norfolk.. ••• • 3 • 21,427 50,791 Eastern Union.. •• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 142 Edinburgh and Glasgow ..... ........ 4.776 4,443 126 Edinburgh, Perth, and Dundee •• •• 5,374 4,947 6 Exeter and Credlton.. • • •• •••• • • • • 22 Furness Railway • • •••• • • 183 % Glasgow, and South-Western.. ••• • .. 5,966 5,522 283 Great Northern... 203 % Great Southern and Western (Ireland) 5 ,53. 5 6,3 6 7 415 Great Western •• • • 24848 23,846 25 1 A Irish South Eastern •••• • • • • ••• • • • 90 Lancaster and Carlisle ••••• • • • •• •-• 5,652 5.427 286 1 Lancashire arid Yorkshire...... • • .... 21,309 20,345 - Leeds Northern ...... • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 161 Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport• ••• - 637 London and North Western ... • • 55,111 52,803 5 % London and Blackw all.. •• •. •••.. 1,130 1,194 183% London, Brighton, and South Coast.. 10,562 9,602 267 Louden and South We5tern......... 12,803 12,347 60 Londonderry and Enniskillen .• ...... 622 497 - Manchester, Buxton, and Matlock, &c. 173% I{anchester, Sheffield,and Lincolnshire 8,853 8,125 *4 Manchester and South Junction-- 732 618 28 Maryport and Carlisle •••• • • • • •• •• 97 2 945 498 5 4 Midland •••••• • • • • . 1'.6% Midland Great Western (Irish) ••• • •• 3,43 2,699 52 Monklands ••••••• • .. • • .• .• •• • • 78 Newcastle and Carlisle.. • • ...• ....• •• 149 North British •• ••••• • • • • • 4 770 4,481 233 North Staffordshire •• • • ........... 6,782 6,417 47 North-Western • • .. •• • • .• • • .... •• .. 835 941 Scottish Central . • • • • • • • •• .• 32 Scottish Midland •••• • • • • - - 29% Shrewsbury and Birmingham •• 1,511 1,261 48 Shrewsbury and Chester '2,103 2,407 30 Shropshire Union .. ••••• • • • • • .• •• • • 770 683 57% South Devon .•• • • 2,023 2,140 289 South Eastern.. •• •• •• •• 13,572 13,468 171% South Wales .. •• .. •• • • ........ 5,242 5,595 97 South York., Doncaster, and Goole .. 2,503 1,756 39 Taff Vale ••••••.••• •• • • •• •• .• .. 3,599 3,551 32 Ulster . • • • • • • • • • • 1,292 1,201 77 Waterford and Limerick • • 1,013 997 274 West Cornwall .. • • • .... ....... 499 492 12 Whitehavcn Junction 434 345 682 York and Newcastle, and Berwick & York and North Midland & Leeds.. - FOREIGN. 109 Dutch Rhenish ••• • • • ...... •• •••• • • 2,062 1,321 324 Lyons and Mediterranean ........ • • - 63 Montereau and Troyes .• ........ • • • • - Namur and Liege .. • • ........ • • • • • • - 415 Northern of France ••••••••• • •• •• •• 36, 9 80 • 34,215 - Orleans and Central 59 Paris and Lyons .. •••••••• •• • • • • •• - - Paris and Rouen. • • •• • • •• • • • • • • • • •• Parisand StrasbUrgh •• .• •••••• •• " - Rouen and Havre • • ••••.•• • • • •• • •• - Western of France •• • • PARLIAMENTARY BILLS. —The following bills were issued on Saturday :—Sale of Beer, &c , Bill ; Church Rates Abolition Rill ; Chatham Lands, &c., Bill ; Eccle siastical Corporation Bill. PARLIAMENTARY RETURNS,—There were issued on Saturday, the Reports of the, Pres i dents of Queen's Col lege, Galway, and o f Queen College, Belfast; Corres pondence as to the removal of the inhabitants of Pit cairn's Island to Norfolk Island ; Customs Duties ; Lu nacy Accounts ; Queen Anne's Bo may ; Traffic with France ; Ordinances of Oxford University ; Rules rela- tive to Constables. A letter from Berlin of the 10th says It is known that in 1850 Prussia on the one hand, and the Germanic Confederation on the other, sent troops into Electoral Hesse, on ac count of the dissensions which arose between the Chambers and the Government of that coun try with respect to the constitution. Hitherto the Germanic Confederation has not consented to pay the Hessian government an indemnity for the expenses to which it was subjected by the occupation, though one has been demanded several times. Prussia, on the contrary, has consented to pay an indemnity, and has sent a functionary connected with the department of Finance to Fulda to ascertain the amount of it." The Prussian Chamber of Deputies, in its sitting of the 10th , was occup i ed in hearing reports' c, on Pe' ) titions. O ne was f rom D r. Trusen, praying that a complete reform be introduced in the matter of burials, and recommending especially the public exposure and burning of bodies, The petition was rejected, PRICES OF SHA From the Official Llst. PUBLIMIED EVERY TUESDAY AND FR: LONDON, FRIDAY, FEL 1 CANALS. Names of Companies. Ashtn &Oldb Birmingham Coventry.. • Derby .. • • • • GrandJunctn Do., 6 pr. Ct. Grand Union Kennt & Avn Leeds &Livrr, Leicester Leicstr &ND+ Lought.orogh Macclesfield. Neath .. • ... 0xf0rd...... 2 Dividend per -n Annum. 93 71. p. ct. 40 41. ,00 111. 100 61. 15s. 100 21. pr. ct. 10 W.pr.ct., 100 7s. 60 40 6s. 100 251. 100 Si. 83' 11.55. .143 701 100 21. 10s. 'lOO 161. htoo Name of Company. Berlin East London Do. 4 per Cent Pref. Do. 5 per Cent Pref. Grand Junction Do. New ••• • • • Lambeth • • • • • New River Company • • Southwark & Vauxhall West Middlesex • • • • .. Do. D 0......• Name of Company. flungerford.. Southwark .......... Ditto New of 7% p.c. Waterloo . • ........... Ditto Old Ann. of SI. Ditto Nw ditto of 71. Vauxhall GAS-LIGII' Name of Company. British rrovincial Brighton .• ...• •• City of London .. European .... .•• •• qreat Central Imperial Ditto New Ditto Debentures Do. Continental 1 stCap Do. Do. 2d Cap Do. Do. 3d Cap Do. Do. 4th Cap Independent ....... London Pail. Preferen. Pheenix Rateliff Surrey Consumers United General • • •• •• Westminster Chartered Ditto, New .... • • •• Western A Ditto B Name of Company. Albion .... • • .• • • • • &Maria Bri . and For. Ditto Marine ....... Athenxum :....... Irgus Life • • • • British Commercial .. Church of England .. City of London .. • • Clericl..iled.& Gen. Life County Eagle.. Equity and Law...... European Life Family Endowment •• Genera 1........ • • Globe ... • • ...• Gresham Life Do. Do.. Guardian .. • .• • • • • •• Imperial Eire_ Imperial Life Indemnity Marine.... Law Fire Law Legal and General Life London . London & ProT. Law • • Med. Irvlid & Gen. Life Minerva ........ •• Monarch •• •• •• •• New Equitable Pelican .... • • • • • • •• •• Phcenix Profess!onal Life • • • • .. Provident Life........ Rock Life „ Royal Exchange ....• . Sun Fire .. • ... Ditto Life ..... United Kingdom Universal Life ... Victoria Life Name of Company. Australasia........... Bank of Egypt ...... Bank of London . British North American Ch. Bk. Ind. Aust & Ch, City ... C010nia1.............. Commercial of London. Eng. Scot. & Aust. Ch. Lond. Char. Bk. of Ans. Do. New London and County .. Lon. & Eastn. Bnkg. C. London Joint-Stock . • - Londe dad Westmin3tr Nat. Provincial of Eng. Ditto, New Ditto ditto Nationr.l Bank • New South Wales Oriental Bank Corpora. Ottoman Bank Provincial of Ireland Ditto, New.• • •. • • South Australia • • -• Union of Australia.. • • Union of Hamburg •• Union of Unity Mutual •• • • Western Bank o' Londn Name of Company Commercial.• ........ Do. Preference East and West India.. Grand Surry D. & Canal Do. Loan Notes .... Do. 5 per cent. Pref. London .. • • •• St. Katharine • • • • .... Fouthampton •• Victoria .. •• .• Ditto New ........ Names of Companies. !Peak Forest. Regeia is • • • Rochdale.... Stftrd &Won Stonrbridge. Severn and Wve Rail. Warwick & Binning. Warwick & Napton.. .Worcstr Binning. ,Wilts & Brk, WATER-WORKS. Dividend per Annum. Amount of Share. Paid. Price 51. per cnt. 6i.per cnt. 41. per cent. 51. per cent. 4, per cnt. 5/. per mt. V. per cent. BRIDG: Dividend per Adnum. lOs per cent.i 11. 12s. Od. 11. Ss. Od. 28s. :T AND COK Dividend per Annum. 71. per cern,. 51. per cent. 21. rer cent. 21. 61. per cent. 4/. per cent 101. per cent. 31. fis. 4/. 15s. 41. 10s. 61. per cent. 5 per cnt 61. per cent. 16s Ott per sh. 7 per cent. rRANCE CO: Dividend per Annum. 71. per c. 71. 14s. 6d. p.c. & bs 15s. 0(1. & bs 41.p0r cent. 71. 10s. 71. 10s. 51. 5 pr ct.& bs. 41. per share 11. 18s. ss. 5% per cent 1/. 41. per cent. 6 per cent. 51. per cent 5/. per cent 121. per cent :143. 51. p. et. & bs 23 & 2s bons 241. per sh. 4s. per shalt 11. 18s.& be. 4% per cent 51, per cent 51. per cent. 6 4 per cent 51 p. ct. 5/. per cent. Si. per cent. 12% per c. 78. p. c. & be p. c. & be, 11 14s. 4t. & bonus. SI. & bonus. 51. & t.ouus /INT-STOCK Dividend per Annum. 20%. per cent. 51. per cent. 9 per cent. 41. per cent. 51. per cent. 71. p. c. & bs. 41. per cent 1 51. percent. 141. per cent. 6?. per cent. 28 per cent. 18 . per cent. 18 pc. & ba il.per cent. 20'. per cent. 101. per cent. p. ct.Scbs. 81. per cent. s'. per cent. 10/. per cent 211. per cent. ISt.pc — r cent] DOCKS. Dividend . per Annum. 51. pr cent. 91 6/. pr cent. 41. per cent. 51. pr cent. 4141. per cnt. 4 per cent. 51. Os per c. LIST OF sccatisa co: Name of Company. Dividend per An'num. X S. d. Stock. Stock. Stock. 100 0 0 100 e o 25 0 0 Stock. Stock. 50 0 0 20 0 0 20 0 0 'ANTES' £ s. d. Stock. 100 0 0 100 0 0 5 0 0 Stock. 50 0 0 20 0 0 14 0 0 'RICES. X s. d. 10 0 0 Stock. 25 0 0 25 0 0 20 0 0 25 0 0 100 0 0 1 100 0 0 100 0 0 61 0 I 5 1 • Amount of Share. X s. d. 25 • 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 .100 0 0 GO 0 0 40 0 0 70 10 3 COMP. Amount of Share. s. d. 0 0 20 0 0 150 0 0 50 0 0 2) 0 0 10 0 0 50 0 0 60 0 0 Stock SO 0 0 50 0 e 40 0 0 50 0 0 40 0 0 25 0 0 60 0 0 20 0 0 10 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 e 50 0 0, 10 I 0 10 0 0 :PANIES. Amount of Share. £ a. d. 500 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 I 0 0 50 0 1 100 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 20 0 0 100 0 0 5 0 0 Stock. 20 0 • 100 0 11 500 0 0 100 0 C 109 0 0 100 • 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 0 50 0 0 100 • 0 50 0 0 20 0 0 5 0 0 10 0 0 6 5 0 100 0 0 5 0 0 Stock. 20 0 0 100 0 0 Z s. d. 50 0 0 11 0 0 25 0 0 all 5 15 0 25 0 0 5 0 0 2 0 0 2 0 10 0 0 10 0 0 5 0 C 5 0 0 6 0 0 all 4 0 0 47 5 50 0 20 0 30 0 2 1 0 13 0 2 1 12 1 0 2 0 12 1 2 0 23 0 2 0 4 0 1 0 .. 1 0 0 o 10 0 10 0 0 0 10 0 i 10 0 10 0 0 5 0 0 Amount of :;harel. X a. d. 40 0 0 25 0 0 100 - 0 0 5e 0 0 20 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 20 e 0 20 0 • 20 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 0 0 0 10• o 0 1 1 0 0 0 '0 0 0 20 0 0 50 0 0 20 0 0 25 0 0 20 0 0 100 I 0 10 0 0 25 0 0 25 0 0 25 0 0 is e o 450 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 Amount of Share. X 5. d. £ s. d. all 150 ft 0 all 12 10 G 1.00 0 42 15 0 41 0 0 43 10 0 41 0 0 1 all 52 0 0 16 0 0 •ll 10 0 0 all 4 0 6 d. all la 15 0 60 0 0 all 6 0 0 50 I 0 25 0 0 20 0 0 all 20 0 0 50 0 0 10 0 0 20 0 0 35 0 0 10 0 0 5 0 0 22 10 0 all 15 0 0 25 0 0 2 10 ,0 2 0 0 10 0 0 50 0 0 JO 0 0 Paid. I Price. Paid. Bank of Scotland .... British Linen Company Caledonian Bank ..... City of Glasgow Bank Clydesdale Mink C , mmercial Bank Eastern Bank .... -----.. - - Edinb. & National Bank • • • • North of Scotland Bank Royal Bank of S cotl. Union Bank of Scot. •. Western Bank •... Alliance Fire and Life.. British Guarantee . •. Caledonian Fire Insur . City of Glasgow Lite Co'onlal Life ......... Edinburgh Life Insur. Eng. & Scot, Law Life ' Life Assoc. of Scotland National Fire and Life North British Insur... Northern Assurance Co.,' Scottish Provincial Scottish Union Insrnc. Standard Life • • •• • • • • 71. per cent. 81.. per cent. 81. per cent. 5/. per cent. 53“. p cent. 71. per cent. 61. per cent. 3}41. p cent. 63, per cent. 51. percent 51. per cent . 81. per cent. 71. per cent. 8 y 4 /. pr cent. 41. per cent. ith.por cent. 61. per cent. 51. per cent. 61. percent. 51.0ar cent. 61. per cent. 61. per cent. 71. per cent. Amo , tnt of Share. X s. d. 100 C 100 0 0 10 0 0 10 0 0 20 0 0 500 0 0 25 0 0 0 prcent. 51. per cent. Imo o o •0 0 0 No 0 0 too 0 0 50 0 0 100 @ 0 10 0 0 100 0 0 25 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 40 0 0 10 0 0 200 0 0 20 0 0 1 50 0 0 20 0 0 50 0 0 X a. d. 100 0 0 100 0 0 2 10 0 10 0 0 10 0 0 100 0 0 10 0 0 - 5 0 0 IGO 0 0 2 10 0 100 0 0 50 o e 50 0 0 11 0 0 2 0 0 10 0 0 2 0 0 3 0 a 15 0 0 a 5 0 S 0 0 1 4 •0 20 0 0 1 0 0 2 0 0 1 0 0 7 0 MISCELLANEOUS. Dividend Amount 1 Name of Company. per of Paid. Price. Annum. Share. ---- --- .£ a. d. Acadian Charcoal Iron .. ii.. pc; .cent.2o 0 0 0 0 10 0 0 2 0 0 2 10 0 0 0 0 0 ..... /per cent 50 0 0 AfricaniSetaen.... .. .. .. mShlp.. A As u s e a t m ion Mart•• •• •• • • 2 1 4 Australian AgTiculturl 25 0 o 19 II 0 21N Australian Trust •... 81. pr cent. 100 0 0 25 0 0 Austrmian Royal Mall 10 0 Q all 1% Anglo-Mexican Mint., 11. 10s. 10 0 0 all British American Land 5/, per cent 50 0 0 40 0 0 Canada •••••••.. •• .. 61. per cent. 100 0 0 32 10 0 133 Do. 5 per cent Bond, 5/, Pet cent Stock 100 0 0 Ditto, 5 per cent bds s,.per cent. Stock 100 0 0 • Ditto, 6 per cent. • • 6/, per cent. Stock 100 0 0 1 10 % Ditto, 6p c. bds 1874 4/, nor cent. Stock 100 0 0 Ditto, 6p c. bds 1876 6/. per cent Stock 100 0 0 Crystal Palace ...... 21. per cent. 5 0 0 all - Ditto Preference.... 71 pr. cent 50 0 50 0 2% Crys. Palace of France 4 0 0 all 5% _ City Navigation Bonds :”-!!/. per cent Electric Telegraph .. 6/, per cent. Stock. 100 'Eng.&Aus. Cop. Smelt. 50 0 allo 0 03% Eng.&lris. %fag, T. Co. 50 0 0 all Equitable Iteversionry slper cent. 10 0 0 0 iOO 0 0 Dittc New ........ 50 0 0 2 2 10 0 23 ..._ Gen. Revers. & Invest. 51. p c and 1/ 100 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 25 0 0 all _ Gen. (Lim.) 0 0 all 4 Stock Stock Gen.SteamNavigation 101. per et. & 15 0 0 14 0 0 a 4 London Gen. Omnibus 12/. per cent Hudson's Bay 2/. ss• llungerford ...... •• .. 100 0 0 all Lon. Ne. &Na. Mauso. 10 0 0 all ........ 5/. per cent. all London Beyersionary 10 0 0 all 3 Nat. Discount Comp • • Mex. & S. American 25 0 0 50 0 5N • 100 0 0 99 V, per cent. is 0 0 N.S.W. Goy.sp.c. Deb. 5 . / • p er cent . Nor. Br i. Australasian Gd. 10 0 all % 20 0 0 17 10 0 13% North of Europe, Stm. Al. per cent 21 0 0 all Price's Patent Cand. C o P ee l RiVer.Land&Mln. 50 0 a'l 2% all 67 50 0 0 10 0 0 1 % 3 Ditto New —•• S . • ' 41„; /, pr cent 100 00 ' all ~ • Reversionary int. 0 ,0 0. Pen. & Oriental Ste am 71. per cent 50 0 0 0 ........ si,/. pr cent. 130 0 0 20 0 41. p. share. 100 0 0 60 0 0 Aus. InYest. • PL 15/ - r cent. 1 0 0 all Scottish ent• 25 0 0 Attqralian Land 71. per c , all 35% South .., Ro D y i a t i to m le l "r Steam.... ___ 10s. 100 0 0 22 10 . Van Diemen's Land.. Trust and Loan Comp. i'!; /. pr cent. 20 0 0 5 u 0 : Vic Gov 6 Per CI. lids. 6 per cent. ___ . • . B E S. IDAY 3, 1857. DiTiclend per A nnum .1 281 121. 10s. I/. 16s. 10s. is. Od. X s. d. 100 all Country Markets. HADDINGTON GRID MARKET-FEE. 13. WLINAT. BARLNY OATS, ERA! S. First 673 Od 453 Od 373 Od , 503 Olt Second 403 3,1 ; 37s ld 1263 8d ) 373 9d Third 2S s Od 124 3 Od 1 20 s 01 I 31s Od Total quantity of waeat in market, 1091 qrs., 978 sold barley f , 376 qrs., 220 sold oats ,; 530 qrs., 43 L sold PP beans 206 qrs., 193 sold PI AVERAGES PER IMPERIAL QUARTER. Wheat, 2/. 0 3 3-12ths I Barley, ...11. 17 1 5-12 tbs Oats, ... 11. 6 8 3-12ths I B , ,ans, ll. 17 9 2.l2tbs , 11 DALKEITH GRAIN MARKET—FEB 12. Qrs. Best. Current. lnfetior 822 Wheat Gss OLI 1436 Oats 34s On 524 Barley 44s On .. 35s 01 - Od 50 Peas & beans 3Ss 01 . 34s 3id 33. Gcl ABERDEEN—FEB. 13. Potato oats 9 1s Od to 22s Od 1401bs per b us h e l Common oats 20 s Od to 20s 6cl Bere g3s Od to 36s Od 1 531bs Barloy 32s Od to 36s Od Wheat, red (spring)3ss Od to 38s Od „ white 3os Od to 45s 0,1 Oatmeal l 6 9lbs „ 17s Mto 18s 6 1 per boll. Flour 49s Od to 51s Od per sack. MARKET. Butter, p lb. is Od to is 2 , Eggs, p doz. Os 8.1 to 0., 9.i Hens, p pair 3s Od to 3s 63 Chickens,do.2s Od to Z. 61 Ducks, do., 2s 0(1 to 2s 61 Ducklings,do Os Od tv 0: 0 Turkeys, each 4s Od to 5s 0.1 Potatoes, pr pock, 9d to 103 9d to 10d. PP.OVISION Beef, per lb 6d to Ed Mutton, per lb 5d to Sd Lamb, do., 03 0 , 1 to 0 Veal, per lb ... Ed to N9d Pork, per 1b...N 5d to Os 6(.1 Salmon, per lb Os to Os Grouse, per brace Os to Os Tallow, p stone, 03 to 12s 61 Rabbits, each... Butter for exportation (present cure) per cwt. 104 s to 108 i Eggs, wholesale price, per dozen RETAIL PRICES. Flour, 11lb 0s Od to 2s 10,1 Barley flour,l4lb.Os to 2s 4d Oatmeal Os Od to is 10d „ dust, Beremeal ....Os Od to 23 Od , per lb 2d to 2ad Peasemeal... Os Od to 2s 8d Side, 6l Cheese, per imperial s 44b. 10af...8d. ,`,.one, 4s. Od. to 4s ad 1 2-Ib. 10af...4d. DUBLIN. FE8.13. White wheat, 31s 6d to 34s Gd ; red ditto, 31s Od to 328 6d; ditto now, —s ; barley, malting, 16s to 258 6,1 ; grind ing, 15s to 203 6d ; oats, old, lls to 13s ; ditto, new, —5 01 to 153 01 ; oatmeal, 14s to 15s 01; bore, new, 16s to 18s 01 ; rwes , d, 303 Od to 32s Oct per brl; I, akere flour, 193 6d to 26s Oct per cwt; Indian corn, 31s 01 to 373 Od per 480 Ih. LOCAL SHARE MARKETS. LIVERPOOL, FEE. 14. STOCK EXCHANGE. The market continues steady to. day, at about the same as yesterday's rates. The follow ing were the sales :—Blackbarn, 8 15-16 9—Lancashire and Yorkshire, 99i—Eastorn Counties, IC—Caledonian 32 L—Dutch Rheni s h, a p—Midlands, 83 i—London and North Western, 1074 i—North Union A., 228—North Eastern, Berwick, 211-South Eastern, 22k—Grand Trunk of Canada, 12i—Great Western of Canada, 254—Ditto, new, 21 pna.—Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln, 36 Lancashire and Cheshire, 68 9—Lancaster and Preston. (4 shares, issued at 4/. 145.), 24 LEEDS, FEB. 14. STOOK EICOHANGE.—An average business done to-day. Midland, 831—North Eastern, (Leeds capital stock), 19 — Ditto Yorks, 31 i—North Western, 7 13-16—Manches. ter, Sheffield, and Lincoln, 36. BIRMINGHAM, FEB. 14 STOCK EXCHANGE.—There was a considerable business, mostly at rather improved prices, and the market closed firm. London and North Western, 107 i 'I —Midland, E3l 83k—Great Western, Birmingham Guaranteed, 76 76i — Shropshire Bank, 3i 4. MANCHESTER, FEB. 14. STOCK EXCHANGE. —This market was much brisker to day, and prices closed rather fit mer. London and North Western, 107 i—Great Western, 4 per cents., 84—Leeds, Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln, 354 6 —Midlands, 83i —Dover, 22 13-16. CSIIIRCH-RATES BILL.—Sir W. Clay's new bill to abo lish church-rates enacts that no church-rate shall be made or levied in England or Wales ; with a proviso as to sums borrowed and salaries charged on church rates by statute, in which case rates may be levied to pay off the debts and the salaries in question. The act will not extend to Scotland or Ireland. DIVORCE AND TESTAMENTARY JIIRISDICTION.—The Lord Chancellor's hills on wills and divorce cases bays been printed. Their purport will have been gathered from a perusal of the recent debate in the House of Lcrds. The testamentary jurisdiction of the Ecclesiass tical Court (the Prerogative Court) is abolished, and the " Court of Probate" established to exercise the juris diction instead, to have the same powers throughout England as the Prerogative Court of Canterbury. One of the Vice-Chancellors will be made judge of the new cour , , and any other of the equity judges may supply his place in case of absence. An appeal will lie to the Court of . Appeal in Cha ncer y, an d t h ence (or imme• diately, without so appealing) to the House of Lords, from all orders or decrees of the Court of Probate. In the Court of Probate the rules of evidence in common law courts are to be observed, and issues may be directed to common law courts. The second measure, the DP vorce and Matrimonial Causes Bill, abolishes the exist• ing jurisdiction of the Ecclesiastical Courts, and esta blishes a " Court of Marriage and Divorce," so called. The judges of this court will include the Lord Chancellor, the Cnief Judges of the three Common Law Courts, and the Dean of the Arches, three to be a quorum. The . Dean of the Arches (who must be always present) will be called the "Judge Ordinary" of the Court, and have full authority t o h ear and determine all matters, except petitions for dissolving a marriage. The new Court is require , 1 to act on the "principles" of the old Ecclesi astical Courts. A wife whose husband has deserted her for the space of two years may obtain a divorce a tnensct et thoro, and in such cases alimony will be awarded to the bereft lady. Husbands and wives who cannot agree upon other matters may "agree" thus far—viz., to live separately, as if sole and unmarried, and they may also by deed make any arrangement concerning their pre' perty. The wife thus divorced will be considered, ae to property, a feine sole. Of course the parties may hereafter cohabit, but no suit may be referred for restitution of conjugal rights. If the wife commit adultery, or the husband commit incest, bigamy, or adultery, with cruelty, a petition for dissolving the union may be presented to the Court, and the Court, if satisfied, may dissolve the marriage; but in this case also alimony may be ordered for the wife at the die• cretion of the Court. When the time allowed for appeal expires the parties will be free to marry again, as if the prior marriage had been dissolved by death. A n a ppeal will lie to the House of Lords from the decision of the new Court. tADYERTISEMENT.]-IVo are happy to quo:,e the followin interesting information from Du Barry's Report on cures of Indigestion (Dyspepsia), Flatulency, Constipation, Ner vous, Bilious, and Liver Complaints, Cough, Asthma. Consumption, and Debility, without medicine by D 3 Barry's Revalcnta Arabica Food : Eight years' dyspep• sia, nervousness, debility, with cramps, spasms, and nausea, for which my servant had consulted the advice of many, have been effectually removed by Du Barry's Revalental Arabica Food in a very short time. I shall be happy to answer auy inquiries. Rev. JOHN W. FLAVELL, Ridling' ton Rectory, Norfolk. From the Dowager Countess of Castle. stuart.—Cure 52,612. Rosstrevor, County of Down, Ireland, 9th December, 1854.—The Dowager Countess of Castlestuart feels induced, in the interest of suffering humanity, to state that Du Barry's excellent Revalenta Arabica Food has care(' her, after all medicines had failed, of indigestion, bile, great nervousness and irritability, of many years' standing. This food deserves the confidence of all sufferers, and may be con sidered a real blessing. Inquiries will be cheerfully answered. Cure No. 1,609. Three years excessive nervousness, with pains in my neck and left arm, and general debility, which rendered my life very :miserable, has been radically removed by Du Barry's Revalenta Arabica Food. ALEXANDER STUART, Archdeacon of Ross, Skibbereen. Supported by testimonials from the celebrated Professors of Chemistry Dr. Andrew Ure ; Dr. Shorland ; Dr. Harvey; Dr. Campbell ; Dr. Gattiker ; Dr. Wurzor; Dr. Ingram; Lord Stuart do Decies; the Dowager Countess of Castle. stuart ; Major-Gen. Thomas King, and many other respectable persons, whose health has been restored by it, after all other means of cure had failed. For further particulars respect,• ing this invaluable food our readers aro referred to Du Barry g advertisement in another part of this paper; BIRTHS. OP A SOX. On the 14th inst., at Southwold, Essex, the wife of Vr• Palmer, Esq. On the 13th inst., at 20, Hereford-street, Parkdanes Mrs. Cyril Randolph. Off' • DAUGHTZIU On the 11th inst., at 13, Dean's-yard, Westminster, Mrs. Cureton. On the 13th inst., at 32, Oxford-square, the wife 01 Lionel B. Cohen, Esq. MARRIED. On the 12th inst., at Allerthorpe, John George Bowe! Thoroton, youngest son of the late Colonel HildyarJ, of Flintham Hall, Notts, and Wenestead Hall, Yorkshire , to Caroline, eldest daughter of Robert Denison, Esq., of Waplinton Manor, Yorkshire. On the 12th inst., at St. George's, Camberwell, Rupert' son of Henry Rain 3, Esq., of the Crescent, Bridge-street , Blackfriars, t o El iza Mary Ann, daughter of E. T. Clark/ Esq., of the Coburg-road, Camberwell. D.IIE D. On the 12th inst., at Thirsk, the Rev. Ewd. Sox jeantsoel rector of Kirby Knowle. On the 13th inst., Hamilton, the eldest son of William Woodgate, Esq., of Swaylands, Penshurst, and Lincoln's!' i nn - fields, aged 21. On the 12th inst., at Gosport, Georgina Eliza, wife of Captain Potter, aged 63. On the 11th inst., at 21, Rutland-square, Dublin, GO' O'Kelly, E sq., o f B arre t t ' s -t own, co. Kild are, secon d ,On of George Bourke O'Kelly, Esq., of Acton, Middlese%. On the 11th inst. at Chenies Rectory, Alfred Job o i sou of Lord and Lady Wriothesley Russell, aged 23.. On the 11 t h j us t., a t Clapham-common, Mr. Willie" Blunden, aged 72. On the 7th inst., at Dundas Castle, J a mes Adam, infant son of Adam Dundas, Esq., R.N. LONDON : Printed and Published by MURDO YOUNG. of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sun Office, No. 112, Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the COun ty of Middlesex. Monday, February 16, JAL THE SITN, LONDON, MONDAY__ EVENING, F=EBRUARY 16, 185 7 Price 51. Os 178 Paid. "IEB. Paid. Paid. Paid. Price. 75% 440 Price. Price. 3 76 20!i 51,j 1193