The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-01-28 00:00:00

8 THE tIVEIPOO: MINOIMIIMMIII - - - --- --- - - - -- -- - - --. . 1 0 CORRESPONDENTS. large towns, whilst houses, more imposing in size com mencemen t o f th e ag it a ti on h a d surpr i se d th e We have not heard of any step having been taken to convene a ' and construction, have been deteriorating in value, public by its unusual decision, launched a furious county meeting in Lancashire to express its sentiments on and have become ent'rely unremunerative. In our phillippic against the Pope of Rome for another act the Papal Aggression. Nearly every . other county has spo- own town we have hundreds of streets, composed of interference committed by him in Ireland, which ken out boldly. The 114,41 Sheriff or Staffordshire has con vened a county meeting, which wilt be held in Stafford to- of the larger description of property, the rental of country had previously been regarded by the minis- 1 flay. which, where they are tenanted at all, has fallen terial party as his spiritual fief. The indignation of ---- fully one third during the last ten years. Take the Times was splendidly vigorous. But what had : - Ebe Eibtrpool tailbatii. away the window tax, and these houses, from their been the offence committed? His holiness had aim- ( ____ --- . superior eligibility for families, will be sought out, ply created an additional bishop, to take a portion i TUESDAY MORNING, JAN. 28; 1851. and rise in value. But the smaller class of pro- of the duties of the Roman Catholic diocese of • perty, not subject to window tax, will, whilst exile- Cloyne, at the request of the bishop of that diocese ! i THE Dublin University Magazine, for the present riencing no relief from one part of the scheme, be The offence was a feather weight compared with , month, contains an article which, if correct in the directly mulcted by the imposition of the house the wholesale insults which the Times and the interpretation which it puts upon the existing law, duty. In fact cottage property and its occupants whigs had previously swallowed in Ireland; and as a affects the recent Papal usurpation, is highly will he taxed to lighten the pressure upon more the only conclusion to be drawn is that it was important, and discloses some points which have valuable property. Under such circumstances, the eagerly seized hold of to afford an index of the thus far escaped the notice of even legal writers measure, as a whole, we feel confident, will give intention of the premier, to extend his indig and speakers upon the subject. Of course we have w i dely spread dissatisfaction. Take off the window nation to the doings of the Pope in that quer neither the authorities before us, nor the required duty, if the revenue can afford it. Take a part off ter. We may he sanguine in our hopes, derived knowledge to enable us to give an opinion if the revenue cannot afford the whole. But to clog from these signs and portents, that the approach whether our contemporary is fully warranted in the proposed boon by the imposition of a house duty the ing measures of Lord John will be bold and worthy views he takes or ie !Int. Wt d o not, however, is the mere shifting of the burthen from one back of the name which he bears. To our readers, how . remember any previous mention having been made to another. Moreover, it has not the fact to recom- ever, we leave it to draw their own conclusions •of the fact that the Act of Roman Catholic Eman- mend it of enabling us to get rid of any portion of from the circumstances which we have laid before cipation imposed a definite penalty upon parties the officials by whom the duties of collection and them. Assuming as Roman Catholic Archbishops or assessment are performed. . Bishops territorial titles, or that such penalty had Sir Charles Wood, if the merit of this scheme is THE NORTHERN HOSPITAL.—ITS MEDICAL been repealed by any subsequent legislation. We his, is really the most unfortunate of financiers. STAFF. give the argument of the Dublin University, in the Last session he gave us, what he has been little hope that it may he found correct, and thus more thanked for, a repeal of the duty on bricks. This An honorary surgeon will be elected for the Northern stringently bind her Majesty's Government to take y ear h e prac ti ca ll y reverses hi s course , so f ar as Hospital very shortly, to supply the vacancy caused by the prompt steps in a matter so important : two thirds of our population at least are concerned, retirement of Mr. Stubbs, who has for the last ten years " Lord Clarendon, in addressing Dr. Murray, styles by taxing the building itself, which his former been a most exemplary and efficient officer to the institu him Archbishop of Dublin, and places him high in the measure was intended to cheapen. In the indirect Lion. According to one of its rules, he would be shelved Peerage. The assumption of such titles by the Roman shape in which the brick duty was levied, it was as a consulting surgeon after this long experience, and his Catholic bishops in Ireland and England has been erre never felt by the m ass of househ o lders •; in the direct place would be supplied by another, who has all the neously supposed to have been san c ti one d by the Legis lature ; and many, from whom accuracy might have been shape of a tax upon dwellings, it will operate as an hospital experience to acquire, and who, however dill expected on such a subject,* have fallen into serious mis- increase of rent, and be felt as a perpetual blister gently and successfully he may have prosecuted private takes, and made their own misconceptions the foundation upon the backs of thousands of families, into whose of much false reasoning. It is a matter of great moment practice, has much to learn before he can efficiently dis doors the government collector never entered. that the public should rightly apprehend how the law charge those momentous duties. We are glad to perceive stands upon this matter. -------- that a motion is to be brought forward to prolong the " The 10th Geo. IV. chap. 7, the Emancipation Act, A FEW years ago, when it was the fashion to ' eriod of the consulting surgeons services in the hospital, sect. 24, is in these words : declaim against the high prices of agricultural P "'And whereas the Protestant Episcopal Church of England produce, and to hold up in ccntrast the low wages and appoint a junior surgeon, who is to assume the and Ireland, and the doctrine, discipline, and government of agricultural labourers, we were kept by the office of regular surgeon at the end of five years experi thereof, are by the respective Acts of Union of England and „,, . Scotland, and of Great Britain anti Ireland, established per- vir ' Bia-Radical journalists very fully informed as to ence. This we conceive to be a very sensible proposition , manently and inviolably: and whereas the right and title of rick ? " . burnings, and every description of crime and we hope the trustees will sanction it at the general Archbishops to their respective provinces, of Bishops to their sees, and of Deans to their deaneries, as well in England as in which could be assumed to arise from the pressure meeting en , Thursday for its adoption will be good for Ireland, have been settled and established by law ;be it there- of distress amongsttheagriculturalpopulation. The the patients, will increase the efficiency of the medical fore enacted, That if any person, after the commencement of this Act, other than the person (hereunto authorised by law, doings of " Swing," in England, and " Rebecca," staff, and will be of great benefit to the new comer. It shall assume or use the name, style, or title, of Archbishop of in Wales, met us in the columns of every newspaper will benefit the patients because perplexing cases will have any province, Bishop of any bishopric, or Dean of any deanery we took up; and we might almost have been led the benefit of an extended experience. It is well known in England or Ireland, he shall for every such offence forfeit and pay the sum of one hundred pounds.' to believe that the startling headings, " Incen- that the great majority of affections under which patients " Now that positive statute has never been either ex- diarism" and " Incendiary Fires," were stereotyped in surgical hospitals labour, are of a very serious nature, pressly or irnpliedly repealed ; violated it may have been, for constant use. Strange to say, such an offence and their consequences very perilous. Here are seen the but never abro e ated. is now never mentioned by the journals which " Lord Clarendon either knowi ng ly b ro k e th e l aw offor formerly treated them as godsends ; and,all most fearful contusions and lacerations, which require all the land in ascribing the title of Archbishop of Dublin to that we learn from their columns, we might rea- the skill and decision that human industry can attain in Dr. Murray, or he is profoundly ignorant of the law up on order to save the life of the sufferer. Here also are seen, the subject. sonably infer that our farming districts were a per " The 7th and Bth Victoria, chap. 97, entitled an Act fect Arcadia, and that their labouring masses were in their most forbidding forms, the most fearful effects of for the more effectual application of Charitable Donations in a condition of the most blissful contentedness chronic malignant disease, that require a very high educe and Bequests in Inland, an d taki ng e ff ec t from August, and exemplary morality. Yet it is a fact that Lion of the senses in order to ascertain their nature. This 1844, enacts . incendiarism is still rife throughout the country. cannot be afforded if an officer of the staff retires just at - " ' That persons may by deed vest lands, &c., in the com- i bur missioners named for building or furnishing g any chapel or Darnglaries and nocturnal outrages are „the time when he has begun to be of value to the institu place of religious worship of persons professing the Roman occurring in every part of the kingdom, with a Lion, and his place supplied by a gentleman whose op- Catho'ic religion,. or in trast ,or any Archbishop or Bishop, 02' frequency and atrocity never previously known ; t • • other person in holy orders of the Church of Rowe officiating for have net been co-extensive por unities observation in any district, or having pastoral superintendence of any and in many of the rural districts the labouring with those of the retiring surgeon. Should Mr. Stubbs Congregation of persons professing the Roman Catholic ren- classes are being rapidly wrought up, by their . gion, and for those who shall from time to time so officiate, or retire immediately from active duty, the crises in life of shall succeed to the same pastoral superintendence.'to state of dangerous desperation. For sufferings, a " And in other sections, ' the Arclibishoe Bishop, or e, the information of our f ree -t ra de friends we shall hospital patients are too fearful to contemplate not to de person in holy orders of the Church of Rom e ,' are re - give a short list of these occurrences, and some mend the highest skill which can possibly be obtained, in ferred to, as in the section 15, already transcribed. accounts of the state of the population, taken from order to meet them successfully; and seeing that this is " Now, it is obvious this statute merely applies to a a single publication of Bell's Weekly Messenger. often of little avail, it becomes the duty of the numerous person who is an officiating Archbishop, or Bishop, or A correspondent of that valuable and well- subscribers of the Northern Hospital to secure for the person in holy orders of the Church of Rome. The title the party strictly bears is properly set down for the pug- conducted journal writes : ratients the services of gentlemen experienced in hospital poses of the act, and nothing u,ore. No Archbishop or "In Suffolk, at this time, we are in a state bordering practice, who ought never to be wanting from the surgical Bishop of any diocese is mentioned ;no territorial juris- upon a general break out by day, and the atmosphere staff. The proposed arrangement will, in our opinion, be diction whatsoever is recogni , ed in such persons; and no illumined by incendiary fires by night, sometimes two an excellent one. The newly appointed officer will be intention is expressly declared of repealing the 24th sea- seen at a time, as was the case no later than Saturday tion of the Emancipation Act ; and none such can be evening, the 4th ultimo ; one at B e rmin g h am , i n Suffolk, summoned to all consultations and operations , will operate 'collected by inference from the words, purp ose , or spi r it a n d one at Felta,,-11 •, one th e p rece di ng n i g ht a t Wyver- in the absence of the surgeon for the week, and of course of the Charitable Bequests Act. In truth, this Charitable stone, where £2,000 worth of property, in corn and all such cases will remain under his own care. He will Bequests Act is guardedly drawn up. to avoid having the buildings, was destroyed." fulfil the duties of any honorary surgeon who may be appearance of doing what it is nevertheless perversely, or Two daring burglaries, attended by violence, areandof ignorantly, or falsely asserted to have done. The usage absent from illness, or any other cause, reported as having occurred in one night and in . of the Church of Rome is respected by the statute; but will succeed to the first vacancy which may occur in the all the duties to be performed under this act, and the I one neighbourhood ; and the circumstances by office of honorary surgeon. If such an arrangement as rights to be exercised, may be discharged and exercised, i which the labourers are driven to their commission for all the purposes of the act, without ackn o wled g in g may readily be judged from such statements -as this be adopted, we think it will be satisfactory to the their Bishops to be Bishops of any particular dioceses. 1 th ese ;._.._ subscribers, the public, the patients, and the medical The episcopal station of the Rornish Bishops is not a whit 1 , more fully admitted by this act than it had previously I ' BRIGG.--ne . n hundred persons were received from Profession generally. been. The orders of the Cherch of Rome have beenhouse last k. Kirton into the unioli i wee always recognised, and their Bishops were by George IV. I "LABOUR AT F NCIEIBECK. More than half the styled Roman Catholic Bishops. The Charitable Be-labouringc a b • dependent l• are unemployed, many being on LIVERPOOL EXCHANGE. cuests Act does nothing more. It was foolishly asserted Parish aid. t i hat there might be a difference between an extinct and "AGRICULTURAL LABOURERS AT GRINGLEY.—Much The usual annual meeting of the proprietors of the an existing see, and that, because there was no Protestant privation . experienced by the labourers in agricultural Liverpool Exchange was held yesterday. in the Cotton t is owing want of employment. Sales-room. The chair was occupied by Henry Neumann, Archbishop of Tuam, Dr. Mac Hale might lawfully call PuThtt s . , ~ L Such is the depressed state of agriculture Esq. himself Archbishop of that see. But this is an absurdity, I . , bI'.P.P("•• said that because the 24th section of the act of 10 Geo. IV. makes' High worth and Swindon Un s ioe that there' was on In opening the proceedings, the CHAIRMAN in toe Hig wor . . Saturday last, the 11th, 411 inmates in the union work- ne could not '• " but congratulate the meeting upon the very it an offence for any person, other than the person there- ! unto authorised by law to assume or use the name, style, : house,including "1 ab l e - bodiedand 80able-bodied flattering prospect which their accounts presented. As imen or title of Archbishop of any province, or Bishop of any women. there were some matters of importance to be brought bishopric in England or Ireland ; and could any man ! " SLEAFORD • , —The foll o win g are some of the miserable before the proprietary, he would at once call upon the possessed of reason contend, that by the Charitable Be- ' effects of the so-called f ree trade measures i n the once treasurer to read the statement of accounts for the present quests Act, or by the 10th Geo. IV., Dr. Mac Hale is , flourishing and highly cultivated district around Sleaford : year. _ , Hussain]) (treasurer) then read a report of authorised to assume the title of Archbishop of Tuam ? The farmers are now, on all hands, reducing the wages of Mr. YOUN Gfrom which it appeared that. the sum divis- The popular misconception arose from reading the act, 1 able-bodied labourers to 9s. per week,. and, what is still the accounts, dividends for the year was £6,800, which was to 10 Geo. IV., as if it enacted that no person shall assume' more serious, are not employing any i t e hing like their usual !hie as to the payment of dividends and to the the title that belongs to another; whereas the words are number even at l a is as r e ed w u a c s tion c . hvi T st l ma n s u l m s b 4 e s r of inmates rsiattteos beappropriated inereaseof the contingent fund. After the reading of very different, being that 'lf any person, other than the in the union ; I 118 ditto 1847, 132 ; ditto 1848, 181 ; ditto the accounts, person thereunto authorised by law, shall assume the , 1816 '' 214 ditto 'lB5O, 249. So melancholy a ' Mr. E. ARNAUD asked i f the sum to be divisible amongst title of Archbishop of any province in Englander Ireland, 1849, spectacle the ; ' above would not be exhibited if the farmers were the proprietors was greater or as .. . . smaller than last year ? ' he shall for any such offence forfeit one hundred pounds.' realising a remunerating price for their produce.ln addi • The CHAIRMAN explained that it was the same, but So that the true construction is obvious.under the corn tion to this miserable feature of the condition of the that, from circumstances wlich had come " The same principle exactly applies to the case of ld h ei hbourhood the quarter sessions, which were held on mittee's notice, he eontemplated that a changewo9 . ave Cardinal Wiseman, who meekly calls himself Archbishop . 11 'rigs • g 2d instant, , graced by sogreatnumber of to be made in the present offices in Exchange-build , of Westminster. It is the same case in principle as that . the were . a . therefore, it would be necessary to maintain the of Dr. Afar Hale assuming tile title of Archbishop of Prisoners that the magistrates . . were occupied until eight or and that, possible, ' Tuam. Neither is authorised by law to assume the title nine o'clock at night in disposing of them." contingent fund at as high a rate as Dint Mr. TINNE made some suggestions in a senatory . p the of has presumed to take, and, in our poor judgment, When we find such a state of things in two of in both are equally guilty of having violated the very letter the leading agricultural counties of England, need offices, view, relative to the proposed improvements o ffices, and suggested that the alterations should be made of the law. ' 1 we wonder, with a few more years of free trade, to as soon as possible. But there is another act which has been chiefly see the poorer soils of the kingdom suffered to go After some desultory conversation the resolutions (to _ dwelt upon as having it is alleged given out of cultivation, the capital of the landowner be found in our advertising columns) were duly proposed, impunity to Romanists in assuming the powers eaten up with the burden of pauperism, and crime s econded, t,s eei special and resolu passed. tion recommended the Committee to which they now claim to exercise. We refer to the ' and outrage overspreading the whole face of the Into consideration the proposed change in the Act 9 and 10, Vic., chap. 59, entitled. "An Act to country. The agricultural labourers will not starve take officers, and report to a general meeting. 0 relieve her Majesty's subjects from certain penalties t o please the free-trade manufacturer and theper share • The dividend declared this year is £8 . 1 s. ~ and disabilities in regard to religious opinions," mercantile community. and £3 33. to non-resident• proprietors in lieu of t eir which became law in 1846. Again we feel in jug- right of nomination. Thiess= of £174 2s. 9d. being lice bound to allow our contemporary to speak for carried over to the reserved fund, and the usual routine himself : During the past ten days rumours have been business disposed of, the meeting separated. 2 2 Xi,.., +llia ia no Aot of PArßarnanf ~.~.na - -----. During the past ten days rumours have been assed ex !e yto rife of serious dissensions amongst the ministry, ! , rious 1 . al 2s to on the subject chiefly of the steps to be taken to ?dience t, sta- put down the recent Papal aggression. Lord 1846, we r orally Clarendon, it was said, had tendered his resigna bet the tion to her Majesty. Again, it was stated that , (se i ` ." Lord Grey was refractory upon the same question ; and disposed to retire in a pet if his views were not alty is preserved, deferred to. A further report added that the Edward VI. and Queen had expressed herself dissatisfied with the 1. Therefore it milk-and-waterish quality of the speech which bad as in the day the title of been drawn up for her, and insisted upon some thing of a more decided character. Of course this act interpretation of the law of report must be little better than surmise ; but of "Whatthe substantial correctness of the former, and of !W . have the law ng a b ou t f or th e the fact that there have been serious difficulties in - the Cabinet, we conceive that there are very strong evidences, notwithstanding the authoritative con tradictions put forth by the government journals. • • We shall explain, as briefly as we can, our grounds :t of Par relievc ABSTRACT OF THE LOG OF THE NIAGARA ,nd as i Jan. 15.—Wind S.W. At noon received mails; at 12 20 p.m full speed down the harbour. Jan. 16.—Wind variable, die. 233 miles, lat. 43 11., lon 65 45. Light winds and cloudy; at 11 15 made Sambro Light Jan. 17.—Wind S., dis. 54 miles, hit. 44 SO, lon. 62 22 . At 3 40 a.m. arrived at Halifax ; at 4 40 a.m. started full speed. Jan. 18.—Wind N.W., dis. from Sambro 232 miles, lat 45 37, lon. 57 8. Fresh breezes and gloomy. Jan. 19.—Wind N.W., die. 264 miles, lat. 46 42, lon 51 2. Strong breezes and squally Jan. 20.--Wind N.W., dis Fresh ' -ales and squally. Jan. 21.—Wind N.W. to S.S.W., dis. 243 miles, lat. 49 27, lon. 39 13. Strong breeze and gloomy. Jan. 22.—Wind E.S.E., dis. 240 miles, lat. 50 50, lon. 33 22. Fresh gales, heavy squalls ; midnight more moderate. Jan. 23.—Wind W. to S.W., die. 200 miles, lat. 51;15, lon. 28 15. Moderate breezes and cloudy. Jan. 24.—Wind S.S.W., dis. 242 miles, lat. 51 33, ton. 21 46. Strong breezes and squalls; at midnight heavy gales and hard itle of Arch linvo hnpn iishop, when not is as much an offence • _59 miles, lat. 48 6, fon. 44 58 sed, to an-anted by Inn ,chi Is a e, the la officer iree montl squalls )usy with the que Wind W., dis. 213 miles, lat. 51 32, long. 16 7 Moderate gales and cloudy. s opinion. ent of any At the first outset of this agitation it was gene. rally believed that the indignation of her Majesty, part of the princiv 1 of . the national debt, by will( the Chancellor of th one half of his surplus I scouted on all sides. Exchequer frittered away ast year, appears to be ion in, or the and the celebrated letter — of the Premier, w weie directed exclusively against usurpation of the Royal X reduc some item of taxation is the universal and the question is, which particular item or items can be most advantageously dealt -- claimants are is a difficult one s are pretty an in number, and their m balanced. hall not here enter into a comparison of the remcval of any one e advantages offered by of the taxe ❑ed over the rtst. Our object is to refer to the probable effect of an operation which is reported to be in the contemplation of 1 the Chancellor of the Exchequer—viz., the entire removal of the window duties, end the imposition, with a view of regaining a part of the amount which this tax brings in to the revenue, of an inhabited house duty. Most sincerely thankful the country will be for the first part of the opera tion. A more impolitic and injurious tax than a duty upon light and ventilation never defaced the statute book of a civilised nation. It has reduced the permanent value of the realised capital invested in buildings by millions of pounds, by the tempta tion held out to construct them upon the worst plan, both as to form and arrangement, for the sake of evading or decreasing the pressure of the duty; and has thrown back the science of archi tecture, as regards its application to dwellings, at least a century. But the public will not relish at all the re, -imposition of a house duty, which, in effect, will produce a complete revolution in the value of such property throughout the kingdom. A very cursory examination will show that this must be the inevitable result. For many years past the middle classes through out the kingdom have been studying how to eco nomize in their dwellings, by contracting their dimensions and number of windows in order to evade taxation ; and, as the result, cottage erec tions, plain and ornamental, have sprung up in large numters, especially is the suburbs of our At 3 30 p.m. passed barque Avon. of Windsor, N.a, standing to the westward ; at 3 10 p.m. (Greenwich time) abreast of Old Head of Kinsale; fresh breeze and cloudy. . Jan. a7.—Wind S.'N' at 4 52 p.m. arrived. At 8 a.m. abreast of South Stack ; _ Prerogative in Great Britain. For years stich ' _ the e urpation had been tolerated in Ireland ; and, by THE INQUEST ON THE EXHUMED REMAINS OF THE present and a preceding Whig Government, MAN WALKER.—A coroner's inquest was held yesterday had been even encouraged. Precedence had been o ra n ti t i l e l r e s body of 'Walker, the report of whose death, under given to the Pope's nominees over the nobility, suspicious circumstances, was reported in our last impressOn inci and the hierarchy of the Established Church in y r ho /lfred Whittle, who had made an examination of fullness ; and, so perfectly did these men feel the Dr. Brett, was to the effect that death was the result o b i ullness of their triumph, that they had dared to lApfe ; the contents of the stomach had been analysed set up I dle authority of the Pope and his Cardinals poison. t ) leading to the discovery of the smallest particle over tie authority of her Majesty in Ireland, and o w f it 1 Q n t . ate A me r n e t la t t o ive of the deceased's named Smith the effect that deceased was in pos to promulgate his condemnation issued, with made p a -' ... session of a sum of threats of anathema upon those who might refusa had a a d m n o o u t n b tin g to £5O shortly to acknowledge it, against the Colleges which had before his death, but whi o c n h e joryiniteteleine,cco n u a nted for, it was also stated that Mr. Lunt, th e c en e a r c wd e en a rr s ei e l d t.g lodged, had dismissed the person t n wh l s r e been recently founded and endowed for the better his litriloend attendance ot,f3 tut (l n o e n s ti deceased. ons t o i%, r .L 6 Some on t 'o r f ei the a . education of the youth of that country. It was V: l i i i tire to the disposition concluded that a ministry which had submitted et i i t oo is in th a e and encouraged such usurpation in the sister isle, intention of deceased's- frien s s pr t e u sse bri t n h e es a e n , as a the money of d which deceased was possessed, but the coroner would abstain from a practical repudiation of their own past policy ; and that any repressive measure, court of law for the recovery of the " money referred to. The which might be resorted to, would be framed to jury without hesitation returned a verdict of `° died from meet the case of Great Britain alone. . natural causes." Straws thrown up against the wind, however, ROBBERY or £BO F . ;. : ( , ) i l l .l . TH PERSON.—A Londoner, determine its direction, and a while ago hints were who gave his name as Fairey, and who had the aearance of areapectable t i r n a n des let fall that a more thorough-going course wouldyesterday , a prostitute, named Catherine Evans, be resorted to; and that the case of Ireland wouldg an hi d m one f u d es for £25 each, four five pound notes, not be overlooked in the measures to be brought ten pound h o e u g n fein n a o l t e e. A man named Frederick Mason, and forward. Day after day we heard of cabinet coup- another n amed Bal s er, w ere also in custody as cils holding long sittings ; and the well-informed accomplices. It arrived a here from London a few days p a p go, and wa . s m a e ir t e in l such matters suggested that such frequent and whom vr he ong deliberations could not be required merely to tr ie d known t in London. On Saturday y night so tTe skeih h o e rn atre, and his friend took him to a br y oth e e n i t in o frame a royal speech, or to decide upon the parties s t t o ree a t on coming out. Prosecutor thought he by whom the address was to be moved and was going - respectable t lodging-house. While there, seconded. Rumours got out of disagreements and the girl Evans ) : I;n i cn c t o e ntriva i t i o get posses sien of his cheques and ' approaching resignations : and it was regarded as r o e vgred his loss, and insisted on having his property os res i t s o c significant of the tendency of Lord John Russell's which thenel the cheques were brought up, but not the n u o l a n opinions, that the parties mentioned as refractory—h er in custody of the police. Upon . ing the ga re ve rn d Clarendon and Ear ) Grey—were those who gs p whic ites w , er tl e xe a police discovered the notes in two had been most actively encouraging and aggran- stockin a i lpl u a n n ILL o t f i dirty clothes in the lower part of the ho m u o se ng dizing Romanism in Ireland and in our colonies. p ro prietor of the house, the woman Baker, w a s taken u le I). lason . and At this crisis the most powerful - organ of the she were, however, discharged. Evans was commuted government, the Times, whose course since the for trial. ' • natural], Crown 1 lON THE tIVERPOOL STANDARD. LATER FROM AMERICA. ARRIVAL OF THE NIAGARA By the arrival of the British and North American Royal Mail steam-ship Niagara, Capt. Leitch, commander, we have received advices from New York to the 14th instant, and by telegraph, via Halifax, to the 16th instant inclu sive. The Niagara arrived in the river last night at five o'clock, having left Boston on the 15th instant at noon, and Halifax at 4 a.m. on the 17th. She has brought £31,000 in specie, and 83 passengers, a list of whom we append. The Niagara was telegraphed off Holyhead yes terday morning. During the voyage it will be seen that though she encountered rather severe weather, she has made an excellent passage. Both houses of Congress were busily engaged with a variety of business. In the Senate, the patent laws, the slavery question, the tariff, military land warrants, French spoliations, and the distribution of the public lands, were all discussed ; and in the House, Whitney's railroad scheme, Mr. Chandler's resolution respecting silver coin, the repeal of the Fugitive Slave Bill, and other matters, were touched upon. The most important subject of the day was the motion of Mr. McLanahan, of Pennsylvania, to suspend the rules in order to offer a resolution that it is inexpedient and improper to repeal the Fugitive Slave Law, passed at the last session. The vote to suspend the rules wes taken amid a great deal of excitement ; and al though the result was that the rules were not suspended, there Wi S a vote in favour of doing so, of one hundred and twenty-three to eighty-four, which does not augur well for the prospect of slavery abolition. Three petitions. praying for the repeal of the same law, were presented in the Senate by Mr. Cooper, of Pennsyl vania. In presenting them, that gentleman took occasion to say, that while he considered it his duty to bring them before that body, he believed the great mass of the people of his State were satisfied with the settle ment made at last session, and desired to carry out the compromise measures in good faith. _ A very flattering compliment has been paid, at Philadel phia, to Captain Matthews, of the steam propeller City of Glasgow. About eight hundred gentlemen sat down to a splendid banquet. A miniature steam-ship occupied the centre table, and fired a salute of thirteen guns before the company sat down. Governor Johnston and all the lead ing gentry of the city were present. Captain Matthews' health was very warmly received ; and the most glowing anticipations were held out of the glorious future for Phi ladelphia and Pennsylvania from the establishment of this as a pioneer of a new line of steamers. The steam-ship Ohio, which it was feared had been almost wrecked, was raised on a berth in less than two hours from •the time the pumps were started. When raised, it was found that her hull had received little if any injury. The trial of General Henderson, for participation in the Cuban invasion, had commenced at New Orleans. Con siderable difficulty was encountered in procuring a jury. From the Philadelphia journals we learn that the annual message of Governor Johnstone was delivered to the Penn sylvanian Legislature on the Bth inst. The message stated that the actual indebtedness of the State on the 30th of November last was 40,310,094 dots. It has been di minished a little more tl-an half a million since the 30th of November, 1848. The treasury receipts during the past year were 4,438,131 ; the payments were 4,558,193 d. The message recommended a system of banking founded on State Stocks. It also discussed the Fugitive Slave Law, and came to the conclusion that it was the duty of every citizen to obey its provisions. He objected, how ever, to some of its provisions, and maintained that they ought to be amended. Mr. Wm. Hughes, the gentleman who made himself so conspicuous recently, in attempting to recover Crafts, the fugitive slave, from Boston, was killed recently, by a bro ther of the owner of Crafts. We have no particulars of the matter, further than that a quarrel occurred between the parties on political matters, which resulted in the death of Mr. Hughes. A despatch from St. Louis states that there is yet some probability of the re-election of Col. Benton to the United States Senate. By the arrival at New York of the brig Masardis, Capt. Hampton, in 20 days from Balize, Honduras, we learn that several passengers have come from California, through San Salvador and Guatemala, from which states we have dates respectively to the 15th and 22nd November. The arrival of Californians from across the country, is noticed in the Honduras Watchman. San Salvador has been blockaded by a British ship-of war, as Mr. Chatfield had previously intimated. Traders landed on Tiger Island, and passed thence through Hon duras to San Miguel. On the 28th November the Presi dent of the Republic of Guatemala published a proclama tion in allusion to the invasion of Chiquimula by a mill tEry force from the state of Salvador. The Gaceta del Salvador of the 19th November says that the British Government only seeks for a pretext to take possession of their territory. but that they will not permit their rignts to he trampled on. The Isthmus of Panama seems to be infested by a gang of robbers, headed by a sort of Robin Hood. A well known character in New York, named Dandy Cox; had been attacked and almost killed. On the 24th ult. the specie train was attacked at a spot called Guayabal, by an armed party consisting of ten persons. About 100,000 dollars were taken, but the robbers were pursued and nearly all the booty was recovered. An encounter took place and one or two of the parties were severely wounded. The first Presbyterian church in Utica has been de stroyed by fire. The loss amounts to £30,000. Parodi was to sing on the 21st instant at a concert at New York, got up for the benefit of the Italian refugees. Miss Charlotte Cushman was still at Louisville. The Niagara steam-ship, which had been seized by the This gentleman gave a Lecture on Mesmerism, at the Concert-hall, last night. The lecture itself, consisting of a brief history of the rise and progress of Mesmerism, or as he believed it to be more properly called Animal- Magnetism, we have not space to do more than refer to. The experiments which followed were very curious and interesting. Captain Hudson's first experiment was unon a young man, named George, whom be had had with him for about six months ; when put into the coma, or sleep, by dividing what he considers to be the stream of magnetism, towards any particular phrenologicalorgans, he produced laughter, tune, language, &c. In one case, where four or five organs were excited at once, the effect produced upon the patient was most singular. When George was put into the second stage, he appeared to be powerfully affected by music. The second patient was a very interesting child, named "'Little Mary," who, in addition to being phrenologically affected, either by the touch or by the will of the operator, displayed clairvoy ance to a most singular extent. To test this power two or three of the audience were brought upon the platform, before whom she was very securely bandaged. Yet in this state, when put into the mesmeric sleep, she deci phered readily business cards and other documents which were handed her from various carts of the room. What- iorities customs am,. Boston, tbr having some smuggled silks and laces on board, was quickly released on the necessary securities being entered into. It is scarcely necessary to say that the ship's officers were not impli cated. ever might be our opinion upon the science of magnetism, we are bound to say that, as to this little girl being se curely blinded, there seemed scarcely a doubt. Great complaints are made in the New York papers of a scarcity of silver and copper coin. Jenny Lind arrived at Havana on the Bth instant, and, strange to say, her advent created no excitement or even curiosity. The authorities had refused to allow the tickets to be sold by auction, and the prices for the Ist and 2nd tier of boxes were fixed at 17 dollars each. Advices from Havana to the 11th inst. state that com mercial affairs are just taking a start after the long Christmas holidays, but nothing to communicate of specialLinterest. Exchange on London is current at '9 per cent. p.m., and New York a to 2+ per cent. dis., and likely to decline. In a few days the sugar market will have assumed a settled tone. Molasses 31 rls. per keg, by contract for delivery. The election of president is already attracting a good deal of attention. The whigs have Mr. Webster, Mr. Clay, Mr. Fillmore, and General Scott; the democrats have General Cass, Commodore Stockton, Mr. Buchanan, Woodbury, and General Houston, and General Wool. The lumber trade of Canada with the United States is fast increasing. There were received in Lake Champlain the past year, from St. John's, no less than 31,785,941 feet of sawed lumber, and 1,660,000 (cubic) feet of square timber. In 1849, 12,000,000 feet of the former, and 1,150,000 of the latter. In 1847, there were received but 7,000,000 feet of lumber, and 310,000 of timber. PAPAL AGGRESSION.-Our readers should remember that the addresses to the Queen and the Primate will be forwarded to London on Friday- next. No lover of the Church of England, or of the Protestant institutions of the country, should delay attaching his signature to these all important documents, as every town in the kingdom will send up an immense number of names,—and the united petitions will exercise an incalculable influence on the royal mind, and that of our ever to be revered Archbishop of Canterbury. DISTRESSING CASE OF SUICIDE.—On Saturday last, a young married woman, the wife of a corporal in the regi ment at present quartered here, and whose name is Sweeney, put a period to her existence under circumstances of a heart-rending nature. Deceased was a native of Dover, and had not been married more than a few weeks. At the time of the marriage, it appeared, her husband had been selected as one of several corporals for another step in rank, namely, that of serjeant • his marriage, however, which had' been contracted without the consent of his commanding officer, delayed this, and he further incurred the displeasure of Isis superiors ; this circumstance preyed on the mind of his young wife. On Saturday he appeared in the barrack-room, a little after the proper time, for which he was reprimanded by his serjeant ; his wife, who was apprised of this at once, went to the lodgings which had been provided for her in Crown-street by her hus band, and took a dose of arsenic. The utmost attention of the regimental surgeon was unavailing, and she ex pired on the following day. THE INDIAN COLLECTION.—The Lords of the Treasury have granted Mr. Catlin, the owner of the North Ameri can Indian Collection, the privilege of retaining his col lection in this eountry without being subject to the duties due on the several articles, for a further period of time, in order to give him an opportunity of exhibiting it in the metropolis during the ensuing summer, at the expiration of which the collection will be taken from this country. ABOLITION OF THE DUTY ON PAPER.—It affords us great pleasure to learn that the exertions of the society in London, for the removal of this tax, are being responded to most heartily, both as regards the numbers of signa tures to memorials to the Chancellor of the Exchequer and petitions to the House of Commons, as well as pecun iary aid. The subscriptions already received amount to upwards of £7OO, a list of which, will most probably ap pear in our next number. An aggregate conference of gentlemen deeply interested in this important question, will take place to-morrow, at the King's Arms Hotel, New Palace-yard, London, at which the attendance of all persons desirous of obtaining the speedy abolition of this obnoxious tax is earnestly desired, as a deputation will then be formed to wait upon the Chancellor of the Exchequer on the following day, with an immense num ber of numerously-signed memorials from all parts of the kingdom, and to add the weight of their ;personal repre sentations to the statements of the memorialists. We need scarcely repeat that we cordially wish the movement every success. STEAM PROPELLERS VERSUS SAILING SHIPS.—A great many sailing vessels, packet ships and others, are arriving at this port every day, from different parts of Europe, after very long voyages, varying from forty to seventy days. Last week there were due more than seventy ves sels, and but very few packet ships were in port. Since then, however, several have arrived, and all of them re- NEW YORK, JAN. 14. port having experienced a succession of gales from the Alone v.—There is a fair degree of activity prevailing westward, which were the cause of their detention. In in the Money Market, with no change in rates. A considerable spite of those gales and contrary winds, the propeller City portion of the mo ne y l oa ned on call belonged to importers, who had accumul a t e d it t o pay duties upon goods arriving this of Glasgow made the passage to Philadelphia from Gies month. As this is called for, its place is supplied without difti- gow in twenty days. If any proof were wanted of the culty from other sources, but the movement necessarily creates superiority of steam over sails in our trade with Europe, more activity in the market. Exchange is active, but irregu- the quick passage of the City of Glasgow, in defiance of tar ; bilis on London 110 to 1103 ; Paris, 5 , 11 4 to 5,07 3 ; A ms- wind, weather and sea furnishes d furnishes us with it. It is as 20 terdam, 411 to 421; Hamburgh, 37 to 371 ; Bremen, 80 to 80 to r . • n point ' ASHES.—Tbere is very small business in pots at 45,623 ; s so much of above sails, speeds ths t pearls are nominally at ds,623. iff tl e i r e en w c o e nd w e h r ic i h s p th la e c r e e s ar s e te n a o m t DREADSTUFFS.—Shippers are doing nothing in flour, and more propellers on the route between this country and the trade is confined to the Eastern and home demand. The I Europe than there are. The mercantile community of sales are 3300 bbls. at d 4,813 to d 4,873 for common to straight State ; d 4,873 to 5 dots. for mixed to good Michigan, Indiana, appreciate steam as a motive power, in the transportation &c. ; and (15,064 to d 5.123 for pure Genesee. Southern is • • • and merchandise. On both sides of the At- England and the United States are beginning m t e o rc p b r a o n p t e s rl in y of emigrants hardly so firm, with sales of 1400 bbls. at 5 doll. to d 5,123. steam-ships of Rye flour closed at (13,873, with small sales. Corn meal sold to the extent of 500 Ws. at Quotations given above. Wheat ltahltpicrolibnoebsiloitfy propellersis, that withinha ve fi been rteen cyoonatrrsa therected for, will and continues inact ive; th e only sales we notice are 1500 bushels be a sailing vessel, packet-ship, or otherwise, regularly red and white Long Island at I dol. to 41,05. Small sates of plying between the principal seaports of the United States rye were made at 78 dots. to SO dots. Barley is scarce and and those of the old world. This will not be mostly the quiet. Oats closed with less firmness, being more freely offered at 543 dots. for canal ; 51 doll. to 52 dots. for river, and 48 dots. to 50 doll. for Jersey. Corn is still higher, and parcels offered r bothesl t o f entercountries rise,pwlwill bbou forced to employ compulsion. sell freely. Th e sales to-day reac h 12,000 bushels, including some kind, instead of sailing vessels, in carrying their 1200 Southern white at 74 dots., 3 000 ditto at 7 5 dots. , and new merchandise, and those who first enter into the business Southern yellow at 73 dots. n o o f d c o o n u b rs t e, bo ta i k li e gh t e h r e f c o r r e a am few of ye t a h r e s. tr u a n de tii o F r r e e g ig u h lo ts r COFFEE..—The market is firm at the improvement noticed. • The sales to-day i nc l u d e 500 bags Java on private terms ; 203 i ' bags Rio at ii dots. to Ili do's. ; and 100 ba g s La g ua Y ra at competition s entered into ; but they will gradu a lly settle dots. down as the number of propellers increases, until they • PROVISIONS.—Pork closes with less firmness ; the sales are reach a point not much greater than what at present rules. 600 bbla at 4112 18 to dl2 25 for mess; (1925 for prime ; 14 dots. —New York Herald. PASSENGERS FOR INDlA. — Amongst the cargo taken for new mess; dll 44 to 411 50 for sour mess ; 7 dots. for coin out by the Indus, which left Southampton on Monday mon sour prime, and 9 dole. for rumps. Small sales of beef with the India mail, was specie to the value of £300,000, have been made at our quotations; 180 tibia of beef hams were sold at 31. Lard is without change; 700 kegs were sold at 7i, and 200 bbla at 8. destined for India. The specie consisted of gold and sib. Day GOODS. —The aggregate value of foreign dry goods put ver, but principally silver, a great portion of which was in upon the market during. the week was 1,866,470 dol. This shows Indian rupees. The transit of Indian passengers and cargo an enormous increase on the previous week. The payment of duties at the Custom-h ou se have, for the past week, been large, across the Egyptian desert, the management of which has and we have no doubt that the daily receipts for some time to been in the' bands of the Pacha of Egypt about four years, come will alrOunt to between three and four hundred thousand has just begun to be renumerative to his highness ; and dollars. This will' draw heavily on the haul:s, amt r-! , 0 1 v the management has never been so 9atisfactol7 to the swell the deposits in the Sub-Treasury, 1.0:4 as it is at present. LATEST TELEGRAPHIC REPORT rid HALIFAX. ' NEW YORK, JANUARY 16, 7 P.M. Mr. Clay yesterday earnestly advocated in the Senate the bill for establishing a line of government steamers for transporting negroes to the coast of Africa. Steamer City of Glasgow, sailed from Philadelphia to-day. News from Havti states, that the American Consul has sent for a ship-of-war to enforce his demand for the release of the master of the brig Leander. New Orleans telegraph advices give the sales on the 14th of 4,000 bales of cotton at 13 cents for middling. Sugar had declined ; 1,800 hogs heads sold at cents. Stock market firm to-day : go vernment 6's of 62 coupons sold 1111; of 67 ; Ohio 6's 156; Pennsylvania s's 954. Cotton market dull in absence of European advices ; sellers accepted of cent lower rates. Flour dull : 'Western Canal, 41 to 5 ; Can adian, 44 ; Indian corn lower, owing to arrivals, 66 to 68 cents. Nothing of steamer Atlantic. Exchange on Eng land dull at 10 to 101. PASSENGERS PER R. M. STEAM-SHIP NIAGARA. — From Boston : Mrs. Elliott, Miss Curtis, Miss George, Mr. Hemming and three children, Mr. Brough and lady, Messrs. J. Torrey, Bishop, Stirling, Roy, Provan, Harris, Stewart, Oliver, Elliott, Merrill, Binmore, Greenshields, Lay, Turner, Roy, Peter, Davis, jun., Holland. Herdon, Logan, Kenney, Morse, Glover, T. Le Clair, Garner, Cook, J. W. Wallack, Foulds, Lewis, Seymour, Halford, Kaupe, Urquhart, Smith, Valentine, Bermand, Miller, Fraser, Taylor, Hescroff, Nanne, Sanquinett, Wagner, Schwarin, Wright, Tsdoin, Prevost, Lieutenant Nangle, and Captain Griffin. From Halifax: Miss Nordbeck, Messrs. M`Donald. Culloden, Uniacke, Ritchie, Hegar, Lord, Crevar, M`Philan, Murray, Playfair, Purvis, 0. Dwyer, Doherty, Borring, Julian, Duggan, Hill, P a y mer , Meachner, M`K e l v i e , Captain M'Coay, and Captain Partridge. FREIGHTS.—There is very little flour going forward, and freights are easy; small engagements are making to Liverpool at lid to 8d; cotton at id; 180 tons wood at 10s. COTTON TRADE The movement in this staple in this country,up to the lateest dates, in each of the past three years, have been as annexed:— MOVEMENTS OF COTTON IN THE UNITED STATES Bales. Receipts at port since Sept. 1. 1850 951,500 Corresponding dates last year 963,000 Do. do. year before 987,000 Exports from the United States since Sept.], 1850 Corresponding dates last year Do. do. year before 504,000 Exports to Great Britain since Sept. 1, 1950 Corresponding dates last year 275,000 Do. do. year before 352,000 Stock in New York and ports of receipt 468,000 Corresponding dates last year 466,000 _ Do, do. year before 460,000 . .. . Receipts at this port since Jan. 1, 27,000. Exports, 6,000. Taken by spinners, 5,000. Taken on speculation, 8000. Amount on sale, 10,000. Whole stock in city, 35,000. In relation to the movements in this and the southern mar kets, T. J. Stewart's circular, of this date, says:— " My•last report of this market was issued on the evening of the 31st ultimo, for the steamer Africa, of the Ist instant. The sales for the week closing Monday, 6th instant, were 8,000 bales, at an advance of three-quarters of a cent on grades be low middling fair, and half a cent OR the higher qualities of upland cotton, in which the bulk of the business was done, buyers being tempted by the previous relative cheapness of that growth. On Tuesday morning, 7th instant, the letters per Niagara came to hand, the sales reaching 3,000 bales, and being written uniformly full of confidence for the immediate future, from the fact, that the advances obtained at Liverpool, previous to the departure of the last two steamers, were solely and entirely owing to the prosperous state of the home trade, the light stocks of all descriptions of goods, the changing of looms from the lighter to the heavier description of fabrics the demand from the continent being better than was anti cipated at this late stage of the season, and the certainty now breaking upon manufacturers there, that our prosperous coun try would be lavish consumers or more of their fabrics than last year—of this latter fact there can be no doubt whatever, although at certain periods, the import markets may be glutted with specific styles. The causes assigned for these advances being so healthy and durable, holders of our staple asked and obtained still higher prices, as will appear below, and from such sections of the South a s time has permitted us to receive advices, the same state of things appears to follow the receipt of the letter mails. From Charleston, S.C,. my correspondents write—" Here, all is enthusiasm; we have advanced from 12; to 124 cents for ordinary fair, and 131 for strictly fair, the heaviest buyers being wealthy residents of the interior of the State, who, having themselves witnessed the short ness in their own localities, are investing at our cur rent prices, to hold until the wants of the spinners abroad require them to send their own orders, instead of being fur nished by marginal shippers from this side, as hereto fore." On Wednesday, Bth instant, a very decided speculative feeling was apparent, and the sales reached nearly 4,000 bales at a small improvement, buyers being well supplied by those who had purchased at the period of our depression. On Thursday, 9th, the weather was inclement, which restricted the sales to 2,000 bales, with a tame market. On Friday, 10th, it was perceptible that a check had been given to prices, as the business only reached 1,200 bales, with the turn in favour of the buyer. On Saturday, 11th, the same indisposition to buy freely was apparent, and generally attributed to the absence of the Atlantic's advices, now over due ; those who wished to realize lead to do so on a spiritless market, and to make concessions, which, in the last two days, have amounted to ic. on Uplands and Floridas, and c. on Orleans styles, the sales reaching about 1,500 bales. The market was quiet this morning, the sales reported on 'Change only amounting to 800 baies, at prices again a shade easier, to which my quotations conform. The continued absence of the steamer Atlantic has not been without its effect." The closing quotations in this market were as annexed LIVERPOOL CLASSIFICATION. N. Orleans, Florida. Mobile&Texas. None. None. 12j to -- 13 to 13/ 13 to 131 13 to 13* 13A to 13/ 131 to 132 132 to 14 132 to 14 14 to 14i 14 to 14i 14k to 141 14i to 141 10 to 14} 142 to I4i 14} to 142 14i to 15i 15 to —• None, Nominal. Nominal. None. Nominal. Nominal. None. Nominal. NEW ORLEANS, January 8, 1851. Uplands, Inferior Ordinary Mildling Good middling Middling. fair Fair Fully fair Good fair Fine Cotton, no change—market firm. Sales of 6000' barrels of Flour have taken place at .84 83 for Ohio. Corn is quoted at 64 cts. to 68 cts. ; Whiskey, 27i cts.; Mess Pork, 812 ; prime, Bacon, 39 ; Sides, 82a. _ NEW ORLEANS, January 11, 1851. Sales of Sugar are making at to 5} cts. for fair. Molasses at cts. Ohio Flour, Ft 32k. Corn, 68 cts. Lard. 7 , 1 F cts. Mess Pork, 811 87i. Rio Coffee, 10i to 10i cts. Whiskey, 264 cts. CAPTAIN HUDSON'S LECTURE ON MESMERISM LAST NIGHT, Jan. 28,1g51. LATEST INTELLIGENCE, BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. LONDON, MONDAY NIGHT. FIRE AT THE NEW HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT. About three o'clock this afternoon a fire broke out in the clock tower at the north end of the new Palace at Westminster, but was soon extinguished. The damage was confined to building materials in the interior, and is of a very trifling character. THE GOLD QUESTION.—The Commercial Daily List hears from good authority that an eminent London firm has entered into an arrangement with the Dutch Govern ment for the purpose of the two million three hundred thousand pounds Dutch gold coin which were advertised to be disposed„of. CABINET COUNCIL.—A Council will be held at the Foreign Office to-morrow afternoon. THE FRENCH CRISIS PARIS, SUNDAY EVENING.—The advises are unsatts. factory. The interpollations to be addressed to the new Cabinet Ministry on Monday were looked forward to with great anxiety. It is understood that the chief object of the Majority will be to prove that the President never made any serious proposals to Odillon Barrot or Leon; Faucher to form a Parliamentary Cabinet, but that he had already determined upon the present Ministry. It is not known whether Odillon Barrot or Faucher will offer explanations, or the exact nature of the resolution likely to be come to; but the attitude of the Majority is one of decided hosti.ity to the Executive. Thiers is actively leading the Orleanist party against the President. The Legitimists are highly elated, and the Mountain league with the Monarchists in order to produce confusion. Thiers will probably speak on Monday. Several meetings of Representatives took place to-day, but no resolutions have been come to. A good deal of discouragement was visible amongst speculators to-day, and the Funds are lower, being quoted 94, 70. The French Minister at Berlin has been recalled, in consequence of the ministerial crisis. SWITZERLAND.—A telegraphic despatch from Berne, reports an engagement, in the environs of that city, be tween the troops of the Banton and the Socialists. The latter were completely defeated. LATEST BETTING, TATTERSALL'S IViaNDAT. CHESTER C11P..--12 to 1 ant Rhesus-14 to I agst Cos sack-18 to 1 azst Italian-25 to 1 each agst Harricot and Lady Evelyn-28 to 1 agst Wallflower-33 to 1 agst Mon• tague-50 to 1 agst Woolwich. SOHTHAM STEEPLE-CHASE.-3 to 1 agst British Yeo• man-4 to 1 each agst St. Helier and Verax. Two THOUSAND GUINEAS .STAKES.-5 to 4 against Grecian. • DERBY.-25 to 1 nest Lamartine-28 to 1 agst Constel lation-40 to 1 agst Marlboro Buck. LONDON MONEY AND SHARE MARKETS. -YESTERDAY. The English market has been steady throughout the day, with little eoing. Money easy.—Foreign market rather neg lected, but prices steady.—Railway shares scarcely so buoyant as on Saturday, and in some instances lower, closing at not quite its strongest point. Theapproach of the account renders dealers more cautious, as from the vitality apparent in the market, if much of the stock now open is then taken up, a fur ther rise will ensue, while sales made to close or large quanti ties carried over at high rates will certainly depress the mar kets, and, perhaps, considerably. The following are the closing prices: Consols Account, 963 3 ; Ditto Money, 963 1; Three and-a-Quarter per Cents., 9^3 9 ; Bank Stock, 214 15 ; Exche quer Bills. L. and S., 57 60.—Foreign Stock : Mexicans, 33 3. Railway Shares : London Stock, 1244 5 ; Ditto Quarters, 333 ; Midland Stock, 50 3 ; Ditto Halves, 193 19 dis.;• North Staffords, 811 die.; South Eastern and Dover, 2313; Caledonians, 103 3 1, Ditto Preference, 53 3; Eastern Counties, 63 2 ; East Lanca shire, 12 3 ; Great Northern. 1731; Lancashire and Yorkshire, 58 7 ; Great Western, 82 3; York, Newcastle, and Berwick, 19 3; York and North Midland, 23 3. . - LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE —The Globe states that specu lators in English securities manifest little anxiety to promote business by their operations, and the chief support of prices-is to be found in the investments made through the government brokers. MANCHESTER SHARE MARKET, -YESTERDAY The following are the closing prices :—London Stock, 1244 Ditto Quarters, 3j ; Ditto £lO Shares, M. and 8.C., 2 9-16 v 11-16 ; West Riding, 5i dis ; Lancashire and Yorkshire, £2O; 1 Dis. East Lancashire, 12i. LONDON CORN MARKET -YESTERDAY Very . little wheat on offer from the neighbouring counties. and though trade is by no means animated the currency of Monday last is fully supported. For Foreign full terms are de manded, but the sales are limited. Flour and Malt sold at quite previous rates. Barley, Beans, and Peas met a toler oble retail demand at the full prices of Monday last. Fresh arrivals of Oats small. Good Corn in some instances rather higher. English White Wheat. Do. Red do Qrs, English Wheat If Barley „ Oats . Malt Flour . „ Beans. „ Peas... Irish Oats. „ Malt ARRIVALS, 2402 ... 8786 .... 4626 9016 4344 scks, 968 445 .... Foreign 1,969 quarters 435. to 48g. 38s. „ 446., 50 quarters, GLASGOW CORN MARKET.-YESTERDAY --- The market continues in the saile inanimate state. N 0 change in prices. Supply of fresh Flo ur an d Wheat is still coming in LONDON PRODUCE MARKET-YESTERDAY Sugar: There is more disposition to operate in Forei-n, and in some cases previous rates are refused. Refined is firmer. Home trade : Demand better. Brown lumps, 495. to 50s. In crushed there is a good deal doing.—Coffee: Demand is in creasing, and prices are on the advance. Native Ceylon, 495. to 50s. Market is firm.—Tea: Common Congou, in good de mand, at 111 to 112. Sellers not free.—lndigo firm. Several parcels East India are sold at full rates.—Spirits Rum is in firm demand much better. Proof Lewards Is. Bd. to Is. 9d. East India Is. 7d. Brandy dull, and rather lower.—Cotton rather more doing at full terms.—lron :- Scotch Pigs quiet, at 435. to 455., but rails and bars sell well at late rates. LONDON TALLOW MARKET.-YESTERDAY, (Weekly. Return.)—There is decidedly more doing, and et better prices. Fine New Y.C. on the spot is 375. 6d. to 37 - s. 9d• The stock on hand is now 49,632 casks, against 42,143 at the corresponding period last year, being an increase of 7 ! 4 89 , casks. The deliveries last week were 2,403 casks, against 2,465 last year. SMITHFIELD CATTLE MARKET.-YESTERDA.Y Beasts, 363 ; sheep and lambs, 24,640; calves, 145; pigg.! 280. Holland beasts, 485; sheep, 1,210; calves, 100. Norfoll . and Suffolk beasts. 2,100. Leicester, Lincoln. and NortharnlY ton beasts, 900. Scotch beasts, 400. Beef, 2s. 2.d. to 38. gd.; mutton, 3s. 2d. to 4s. 4d. ; veal, 3s. 6d. to ss. ; pork, 2s. 10d. to 3s. 6d. There is a good supply of beasts and sheep. Trade is as on Monday last. Calves maintained Friday's rates. GLASGOW PIG IRON MARKET—YESTERDAY. No change in the market since last day's prices. CONTINENTAL PRODUCE MARKETS. Advices state that there was little doing in any description§ of produce. Coffee is rather firmer in Holland, owing to the announcement that the Dutch East India societies will only offer 270,000 packages in the spring for sale. Sugar unchange"' Indigo is well supported. Accounts from France mention th at the planting of tobacco this year i s t o b e commence d i n five of the communes of the cantons of Montreal and Champagne. „ HAMBURGH, Jan. 24.—Sales of Sugar and Coffee re,trictea to requirements for consumption, without change in prices' Cassia Lignea inquired for; sales 2,000 chests, at 102. TRIESTE, Jan. 22.—Moderate business in Coffee. HAvnE, Jan. 25.—Cotton dull ; sales 184 bales ; Louisiant 4 107 f. 50c. Herald of to-day will cont a i n th e first el Langdale will bewill succeeded r e t irefrom by s th ir e J R o o h l n is ß al o m m o i s ll t y i . mtne: d a i s aLT e te r oh i lre e Yd s 'ML ol id rn o n r i i n g g inal controversial letters, by the Rev. Jog' Bavlee and the Roman Catholic bishop, Dr. Brown. Field-Marshal Grosvenor, who died a few days since+ commanded the Guard at the Bank during the London riots in 1780—now 71 years ago. In the Lords, the address in reply to her MajestYl speech will be moved by Lord Effingham, and second& by Lord Overstone. Lord John Russell has been slightly indisposed during the last few days, but has recovered. On Wednesday the noble lord gives a dinner party at his residence in Chesham-place, Belgrave-square. At Southwark Police-court, on Saturday, a respectable: looking young woman, only eighteen years of age, 0' committed for trial charged with killing her husbanclV striking him on the head with a poker. A correspondent of the Nation, writing from H o bart Town, stoes that the captain of the vessel who had 11 0- dertaken to carry off Smith O'Brien has plundered- the, friends of the unfortunate gentl eman o f £l,lOO wor th of property ; that he was a convict under sentence of 14 years' transportation for piracy, and that, according t ° general belief, he " sold the pass." A MERMAID IN SCOTLAND.—In the hyberberean vile lage of Shieldiiig, on the western shore of Scotland, lady appeared the other morning whose visit is likely t° throw the sea serpent into the shade. It, appears that a l number of women had risen pretty early, as their cus toel is, to go for fuel to the Gascan, when the attention (3 :, one was attracted by a number of seamews which wer e hovering and screaming near the church. On a furthe r t ; inspection she discovered a lady sitting on the rock, wit h a comb and glass in her hand, singing one of her rnadr': gals in a plaintive voice, and duly pointed her out to th e others, who all maintain that they saw the strange apPi l i rition. The probability is, that this mermaid was one °, the Razaay white s ea l s , w hi c h are known to sit f req uent on rocks during night, uttering plaintive sounds ; but S superstitious are the fishers here that not a single boo' has put to sea since. LIVERPOOL TUESDAY, JAN. 28, 1851. 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