Northern Times. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-02-21 00:00:00

7..'X'ff,',AORDINARY CHARGE OF SEDUCTION. GARDNER 9./. GODFREY. —ln the Court of Comm(4l on .aturilay,_nn_actien—a „ - brought—to- recover C 3 i damages for seduction, and the plea was " Not guilty." It was stated in opening- the case that the action was kwght by a licensed victualler, in Whitechapel-road, and - Se defendant was in practice in Mount-place, Mount attreet,Whitechapel-roaa, London, as a surgeon. The girl, plaintiff's daughter, who - had been in January, IdsB, was not then fifteen years of age. The defendant laud attended the plaintiff's family for some years as a medical man, and he did so during the illness of the plaintiffs wife, who died in March, 1858. Whilst the mother was on her death bed, the defendant was actually mincing her child, who was then of course deprived of Ile care of 'her mother. Another fact in the case was that the defendant in the course of these proceedings had made an affidavit denying distinctly the charge. lifi..earoline Vincent Gardner said : I am the daughter of the plaintiff, who resides at 98, Whitechapel. I was IS last Apnl. Before Christmas, 1857, I was at school st Itedhill, near Edgeware. I came home for the holidays about the 17th or 18th of December, 1857. My father's establishment consisted of my father, mother, housekeeper, beer/maid, and a female servant. I had known Mr. Godfrey before that time. When I returned home, I found he 'was attending m mother, who was confined to her room, zaxl afterwards d ied on the 4th March. From my return 'arsine until the 15th January I was in the constant habit of seeing the defendant at my father's house. About the 15th January the defendant asked my mother to allow sae to visit Mrs_ Godfrey. lie asked for me to go to Mrs. Godfrey to stop for a week or a fortnight. filfee said she could not spare me she was so ill. Mr. Godfrey said, " Let her come for a day." My mother said the maid only spare me for two or three hours. Mr. Godfrey said, " I will come and fetch you at three o'clock." Me came at three o'clocl_c„and I went with him in his cab to his houselii - Fiiisliiry-square. He resided in Fins awry-square, but has a shop at Whitechapel. He intro &teed me to his wife. Whilst I was there Mrs. Godfrey bathe room, and I and Mr. Godfrey were alone. It was a dining room down stairs. He came and kissed me. He did so about three times. I stayed at his house till temthat night. I went away with him in his cab. The cob had two seats, and I sat with my back to the horse. Mr. Godfrey was opposite. He asked me to sit by the side of him. I said I would rather sit where I< was. He then wanted me to sit on his lap. I would rather not. He pulled me on his lap I tried to gel away. He said, "Do not be frightened.". I told Ink he would spoil my dress if he pulled me about. I said, "Leave off doctor, I would rather sit on the otber side." He said, "Never mind, I won't hurt you. I love you too much. I would not do you any harm. I idtemnted to get away from him, and after some strug : 011ie got away. Mr. Godfrey took me to his surgery m Mount-place. It nearly oppoaite my father's house. I waited some little time at his surgery, and he then worker/ with me across torny father's house. As we were going he cauti one d me no t t o , t e ll any one h e ever kissed me, or he would not give me any presents, nor would he take me -to any picnics he might go to After this day I saw him from time to time, when he called to see my mother. He afterwards sent me a ticket for a ball at the London Tavern. I and my brother went, and Mr. Godfrey gave me the use of his cab to take me there and back. About a fortnight after my visit to his house, he called to see my mother, wbo was in the drawing-room on the first-floor, AL I was in the sitting-room, which is the back-room on the first-floor. I was practising my music. He came in and said, " Never mind—it's only me ; go on." I had been in the habit of singing and playing tohim when my mother was there. I sang a song to him. When I had Swished, he said, " I want to speak to you—come here." I went from the piano to him. He sat down on the couch and pulled me on his knee. (The witness then mended the committal of the offence charged in the declaration.) He said, "If you holloa, you will kill your mamma." When he let me go, I opened the door and went into mamma's room. Ye stopped a second or lam, He had made me a present of a scent bottle a short thee before. After a second or two he came into the Trent drawing-room. My mother was ill in tkat room. There was a landine.. between the two- room s . H e did .asst fasten the doo r ; he left it a little way open. When he gave me the scent bottle, he said he would give me a better present another day. A few days after I was in my mother's room when Mr. Godfrey came in. As h( left the room he kissed me. This was in my mother presenc I then went into the sitting-room with Ile wished me to Sing the same song ixn again. I did not do so. I remember havinc , a conversation with Lavinia Spratt, my father's housekeeper. On that day the defendant had called to see my mother. When he left I went with him out of the room on to the stairs. He kissed me on the stairs. It was after that that Lavinia Spratt spoke to me. She sew him kiss me. I told her what had happened to me. I made a request to her, and after that request the defendant never had an opportunity of seeing me alone. I. remember the night my mother died. Before she , died, on the same night, the defendant came over. I was in my mother's room when he came in. I 'was sitting on the sofa. He sat down on the sofa. We - wen not sitting near to each ether. I was a ware my mother was dying. He said "Never mind, don't cry, every one must die, and I will be a pa and ma to you." That was the night of the 4th of March. In the month of ikpril the defendant sent me some medicines. One was Tery dark and thick ; the other was pink. It made me feel very sick. It had no peculiar smell. I did not take all the thick dark mixture. A few days after he sent the medicines he saw me in the presence of Lavini Spratt, the housekeeper. He said she must stand over me and make me take my medicine. This was in consequence of part of the dark stuff not having been ,ken.. He said I was to go to the surgery. He wished me to go over a little after one, or exactly at one. livinia Spratt asked if she should go to. • I said I did not wish to go. To the Judge : I was not aware when I was taking kis medicine that there was anything the matter with Witness continued: The defendant came in August I was in my bed-room, not dressed. Ire did not go into may room. I went out on to the landing. Lavinia Spratt was there. He told her to unfasten my dress, as he wished to listen to my chest. Defendant said to my father if I was not looked after I should have a weak shcst, and go off like my mothar. My mother had died of consumption. After I had been examined by Mr. Debnam I was sent to Lewisham, and lodged with . Mrs. Lucas. Mr. King, the surgeon, attended me. I was anafined on the 10th of October of a weak child, and the child is still alive. Cross-examined by Mr. Chambers : I went to Mrs. Oibb's school, at Redhill. There were 40 girls there. I never told them I was 16. I shall be 16 next April. My father's house is the Black Bull. I was two years at the school. I had been at another school before. I Was at home only at Christmas and Midsummer. When I was at home for the holidays, I used to go to bed about eleven o'clock. There was a gin-shop attached to the toblic house. I never served. I have been in and out. I have never stood there at night time. I have only been to the bar-door. I have not particularly noticed what sort of women came there. I have seen women there. I do not know that all of them were women who used to walk the streets, nor that most of them were. I could )t tell that they were such women barmaid served them at the bar Spratt and the brother who lived in the house. He is 17. Lavinia Spratt slept with me. Lavinia Spratt is sometimes called Mrs. Chalton. She is called Mrs. Spratt also. There was a division in the room, and only we two slept bgether. My father, mother, and brother, slept in the other division. This was only during the alterations. The house was being rebuilt. The division was made by blankets and quilts. After my mother's death we went into one of the new rooms, and my father• and brother lept down s ;he bar •s in the room they. lent in before. I '- death. I - was goin to schoOl again but for my mother serer served, nor ever heard the conversation at . never listened The bar-door was kept shut. I never heard beastly words there. I never went into the bar cept to fetch things. It was in , a street-cab that I the 'defendant to Finsbury-square. going, because he called patients on the waY- There were two at Finsbury-squ are, and • the defendant asked Mrs. Godfrey was. 'they said in fun, " !tirs. Jdfrey was gone out." He asked where she had gonQ, arld then she came out from behind the door. Ile intro duced me, saying, "Miss Gardner —Mrs. Godfrey." He told Mrs. Godfrey to take Me upstairs to take off my things, and she did so. I Caine down and found the two ladies there. I remained with them and Mrs. Godfrey m 'until dinner tim e . W e dined about six. Pr ev i ousl y rs. Godfrey went for s ome lunch for Dr. G o d frey, and whilst she and the two ladies were out of the room - kissed me. When I went home at night the cab did not. stop till we got to I •stopped at .the surgery in "Mount -- hour, whilst he saw Dr. Godf with Dr. G-Cdfrc Mount-place were waiting. I over to my father's, bnt he told me to he took me on his knee in the dab, I did iow at first that it was wrong. I had not been told it was wrong for gentlemen to kiss me, bare heard mother tell Dr. Godfrey when once he kissed me, that it was time he left that off, for I was getting t co OA. When what took place in the sitting-room at my father's occurred, the alterations were not completed. My mother was asleep in the drawing-room. I went sway gently, and closed the door after me. My mother 'was very delicate, and was very easily awoke. I had been in the sitting-room playing the piano ten minutes, when Dr. Godfrey came. The door of that room was shut - als0: ---- Dr - Gotirmy - camc - while I was -singing—and playing. I was singing " Rank and Fame" when he came in. My piano used to wake my mother if I played loudly. When he sat down, and said, "come here," I did not think of what had happened in the cab. I had forgotten it. It was only a few days before that my mother had said I was getting ... toy old to be kissed. I sat on his knee "in front of him. It was hardly so much as two minutes, because I struggled and got away. I walked quickly into my mother's room, and said, " There is the doctor, I thought you would want to see him." Ile went in in I did not speak to hi m . I t oo k two twoor three minutes. and a half bottles of the dark medicine, and threw half a bottle away. It was in August that I went to Mr. Debnam. Nobody bad told me before that I was in the family way. I had not the least idea what was the matter with me. I was confined at Eltham, and Mr. King attended me. My father had never spoken to me about the matter. Lavinia Spratt has always told me. Ido not know where the child is now. I have never inquired. It was taken away by Lavinia Spratt, the next day. I have never asked her for my child.. have never asked my father where my child is. They told me it was a boy. I have heard it said so. I never saw the child. I never suckled it at all. I felt no pain until the child was born. I can hardly tell bow long the pain lasted. It was quick. I was in b e d. I f e l t the pain just as I got to bed. I was going to bed at night. Miss Lucas put me to bed. The doctor came in a quarter of an hour. I was sensible when the child was born. I had had no sweethearts since I left Eltham. I went back to the Black Bull. I stay up stairs and practice the piano. There is no bar parlour now. My father never made use of nasty words in my presence. He never said, " Oh, never mind her, she does not know what they mean." There is a room at the Black Bull which gentlemen use. Since I returned from Eltham the latest I have been up is twelve. Ido not go down stairs at night. I have never attended to a single customer. I have never had any young man that paid attention to me. I never had anything to do with a man except with Dr. Godfrey in my father's sitting-room.' [The case was not concluded.] GREAT NORTHERN RAILIOAY.- HALF YEARLY MEETING. The half-yearly general meeting of the shareholders in this company was held on Saturday at the London Tavern; Mr. Edmund Denison, M.P., in the chair. The report which we published on Tuemlay having been taken as read, The Chairman, in moving its adoption, said I re th oug h t it right to state that the report, as regarded the railway, was read on Friday last, and would have been sent out the following evening had it not been that additional subscrip tions were coming in for their new church at Doncaster, which had been approved of by the Archbishop of York, and which had already secured a very good congregation, of which he himself sometimes formed one. The money subscribed had been judiciously expended, and any other subscriptions that mi g ht b e rece i ve d would be properly applied. He was extremely happy to say that with regard to traffic the past half-year, it had been extremely favour able. Arrangements of an amicable nature had been entered into with the London and North Western and Midland Railways, and he trusted that hereafter agitation between the various companies might be avoided. He was glad that the balance in hand was £147,000, which would enable them to declare a dividend of 2s Gd upon• the whole year. He had every reason to believe that the line would go on increasing every year: Good judges were of opinion that if railway companies gene-- rally would avoid great expenditure and competition, the trade of the conntry would rapidly run up, and all railway property in the country become remunerative. If they could only continue at peace they would secure prosperity for all the shareholders. It had been considered advisable to introduce a bill into parliament for power to con— struct a short branch, to effect a better communication with the North London Railway near the goods'-station in London, and for the purchase of a small plot of land abutting on Maiden-lane. This same bill contained clauses enlarging the company's powers for the redemp tion of the preference stock of the company, and authorised a reduction 'in the number of directors. Several bills promoted by other comphnies contained provisions affecting the interests of this company. It maybe necessary to oppose some of them, and to obtain protective or facility clauses in others, and as it was evident that it was the intention of the legislature to insist on a free and general interchange of traffic between railways, the directors would not fail to ask for such powers as might be necessary to secure unfettered railway communication with places to which the Great Northern line formed a convenient means of access. He (the chair man) and his co-directors had always been ready to promote peace with their competitors, and he felt pleasure in being able to stato, that by friendly conference between the directors of the London and North Western, the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln shire, and the Great Northern Companies, and aided by the advice of their general manager, the unfortunate com petition between Lancashire and London was brought to a close in November last. The basis of an equitable traffic arrangement was then settled, and a further agreement was made with the London and North-Western Company on the 23rd of December, extending the provisions of the past arrangement, and securing to the Great Northern and the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire companies free access to Liverpool. Application would be made to parliament to give validity to these arrangements. Mr. G. H. Packe, the deputy chairman, seconded the motion. Mr. Hughes said the conduct of the directors had been such as it had been for many previous half-years. There .was something in it to be comm en d e d : much to censure. They were to be commended for bringing to a close the reckless competition which had for some time prevailed, but they were much to be censured for not applying the money they had received towards closing the capital account. He trusted that the shareholders would tell the chairman and directors that they were determined that the capital account should be forthwith closed. That course had been adopted by the North Western, and he did not see why it should not be taken on thQ Great Northern. Mr Billings said he held the chairman responsible for the warfare which the company had carried on with the London and North-Western, and he complained that the hon. gentleman managed the affairs of the company very much in the same spirit, and upon the same principle, as the Emperor of the French governed France.' Peace or war rested, it appeared, with the chairman. Ho objected to the proceedings which had taken place in reference to the Doncaster church, and declared that he had been deceived in giving his assent to the agreement ,with the Sheffield and Mancheste r . H e never thought that he was giving his assent to the purchase of canals, and making certain reservations in favour of the Man chester company. He wanted to know whether the com pany had obtained the freehold of the station at Sheffield. The Chairman said no ; but for £25,000 they had redeemed the perpetual right of using a grand station instead of spending £60,000 on the erection of a much less convenient building. Mr. Billings concurred with Mr. Hughes in thinking that the capital account ought to be closed. The London and North Western had passed a resolution to that effect. Mr. Greslin also complained of the despotism practised by the chairman, and censured the outlays on capital account, and the enormous mounts spent iii law char Mr. Scott announced his intention' of moving the fol lowing resolution: " That the meeting. requests the directors, in sending out their dividend accounts for the half-year, to suggest to the B stockholders the propriety and equity of surrendering for the benefit of the A stock their dividends received under the recent decision of the Vice-Chancellor." (Laughter.) Mr. Josiah Wilson analysed 'the accounts, and censured the reckless extravagance of the general expenditure of the company. After - a long discussion, the resolution was unanimously adopted. Resolutions were unanimously adopted, declaring divi dends as follow :—For the balf-year ended 31st Decem ber, 1858, at the rate of £5 per ce n t. per annum upon the Perpetual Preference Stock ; at the rate of £5 per cent. per annum upon the Five per Cent. P re f erence Stock, redeemable at a premium of 10 per cen t . ; a t t h e rate of .E-1 10s. per cent. per annum upon the Four -and a-Half per Cent. Preference Stock ; at the rate of £5 per cent. per annum upon the Five per Cent. Preference Stock, redeemable at a premium of 5 per cent.: at the rate of £6 2s. 6d. per cent. per annum on the Original, Undivided Stock, and upon the A and B Stocks together, at the same rate. Arrears nu B Stock, as de cided by the Court of Chancery, £2 7s Gd per cent. Balance to make up £6 per cent for the year 1858, £2 12s 6d per cent. On A Stock, £1 12s. 6d. per cent., subject to a deduction of is. per cent. for costs on suit." Mr. Charles Turner, of Liverpool, Mr. Charles Chap lain, Major Amswiek, Mr. John Morgan, Mr. Alderman Nicoll, the retirin g directors were re-elected. A A vote of thankstOtVe eeedings. chairman closed the pro- Tire DANunrAN Qtyr.sTroN..- The Daily News says, the cloud in the South of Europe is dark and threatening, but the clouds in the East are big with tempests, and unless Austria, which sends her caveat against discussion of Italian its,wrcng be persuaded to hold her peace on Rouman rights, s not improbable that the solution of the Italian question may be trans-ferred from Rome to Milan, to Jassy, or Bucharest. - MILITARY PROMOTIONS. - WAR-OFFICE, PALL-MALL, FEBRUARY 18. 6th Regiment o Dragoon Guarcts Captain Arthur Cooper, from 6th Foot, to be Capt., paying the difference between Infantry and Cavalry, vice Stillman, who exchanges, receiving the same. 2nd Dragoons : Cornet John Grieve, to be Adjt., vice Lieut. Moodie, w h o res i gns the Adjutantcy only. 4th Light Dragoons : Cornet Russell England to be Lient , by purchase, vice Simpson, who retires. 9th Light Dragoons : Lieut. Robert Mills to be Capt., withoutTurchase, vice Brevet-Major Hamilton, deceased; Cornet William Naper Carleton to be Lieut., without purchase, vice Mills. 10th Light Dragoons : Cornet Thomas Shirley Ball to be Lieut., by purchase, vice Wynniatt, who has retired ; 'Welfred Brougham, gent., to be Cornet, by purchase vice Vandaleur, promoted. Military Train : Cornet Charles Williams, from the 2nd Dragoons to be Lieut., by purchase, vice Cater, promoted. Grenadier Guards; Major and Brevet-Colonel Charles Algernon Lewis to be Lieut.-Col., without purchase, vice Brevet.-Col. Charles W. Ridley, C. 8., promoted to the rank of Major-General ; Capt. and Lieut.-Col. and Brevet- Col. John Arthur Lambert to be Major, without purchase, vice Lewis; Lieut. and Capt. Sid ne y Burrard to be Capt. and Lieut,Col., without purchase, vice Lambert. Scots Fusileer Guards : Ensign and Lieut. Henry D. Erskine to be Lieut. and Capt., without purchase, vice Scott, deceased. 2nd Regiment of Foot : Cornet George Herbert Wood ard, from the Ist Dragoons, to be Ensign, vice Stokes, promoted. 4th Foot : Assist.-Surg. Joseph Vavasour Lane, from the Staff, to be Assist.-Surg. 6th Foot : Capt. James Stillman, from the 6th Dragoon Guards, to be Capt., vice Cooper, who exchanges. 9th Foot Surg. James Carroll, M 8., from the Staff, to be Stirg. vice Thornton, who exchanges. 11th Foot : Assist.-Surg. Wilton Everet, from the Staff, to be Assist.-Surg. 17th Foot : Surg. James Edmund Clutterbuck, M.D., from the Staff, to be Surg. TO BE ASSISTANT StIRGEONS. Assistant-Surgeon Alexander Allan, M.D., from the Staff l vice Bone, promoted on the Staff. Assistant-Surge - on William Chalmers, from the Staff: 18th Foot : Surg. George William Peake, M.D., from the Staff, to be Surgeon. 21st Foot; Ensign John Blakely to be Instructor in: Musketry ; Surg.• Thomas Llewellyn Nash, M.D., from Staff to be Surgeon. 24th Foot : - Surgeon James Lewis Ifolloway, from the Staff, to be Surgeon. . 25th Foot : Assistant-Surg. Edward Parks Gamble has been permitted to resign his commission. 29th. Foot : Ensigrn William Boycott to , be Instructor in Musketry. 36th FoOt : Lieut. Piederick Willoughby Harris to be Captain by purchase, vice Rainsford, who retires ; Ensign the Hon. Charles J. Fox. Powys, to be Lieut., by pur chase, Tice Harris. 40th Foot : Ensign/ Denis Jackson to be Lieut., by purchase; vice Buckle promoted. , t 44th not : Ensign Augustus Richard Trimmer to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Ingham, promoted. 60th Fbot : Assistant-surg. Alexander Campbell McTavish, from the Staffto be Assistant-Surgeon. 66th Foot : Captain Webster Thomas Gordon to be Major, without purchase; vice Davenport, deceased ; Lieut. Edward James Storey, to be Captain, without purchase, vice Gordon; Ensign James Elowe-Mardon to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Storey, 67th Feet : George Charles Henry Holmes, gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, viee.Creyke, promoted. 68th Foot : Major Henry - Harpur Greer. to. be Lieut- Col., by purchase, vice Blount, who retires,; Brevet- Major Frederick Stuckley Savage to be Major, by pur chase, vice Greer. 82nd Foot : Captain Patrick Hunter, from the 96th Foot, to be• Captain, vice Rgrron, who exchanges. 87th Foet: Captain Robert Gibson, from half-pay un attached, for be Captain, vice Fane, promoted, without purchase, to an unattached majority, - 94th Foot: Captain James ° Buc'hanan has been per mitted to retire from the. service by the sale of his commission, 96th Foot : Captain William Barron, from the 82nd Foot, to be Captain, vice Ffunter, who exchanges. Royal Newfoundland Companies: Captain Thomas Hanrahan, from half-pay unattached, to be- Capt., vice Bravet-Major MacGregor, who exchanges. Mansergh Alma, Esq., to be. Paymaster of Detachments at the Gambia. ITYXTTACIIED Brevet-Major John Forster, from the- 6th Dragoon Guards, to be Mayor, by purchase. Capt. Francis Vane, f;om the 87th Foot, to be Major without purchase. Lieut. Baker Creed Russell, from the 6th Dragoon Guards, to be Capt., by purchase. Lieut. Robert Gibson,. from the 87th Foot, to be Capt., without purchase. HOSPITAL STAFF Inspector-General Daniel Scott, M.D., from half-pay,. to be Inspector-General of Hospitals Surgeon Robert Thornton, from the 9th Foot, to be Surgeon, vice Carroll, who exchanges. THE NORTHERN TIMES MONDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1859 BREVET, Brevet-Major John Cox Gawler, 73rd Foot, to be Lieut.-Col. in the army. The undermentioned promotions to take place conse quent on the 4ecease of Lieutenant-General James Claud Bourchier, K.C., Colonel of the 3rd Dragoon Guards, on the 12th of February, 1859 : Major-Gen. Sir Cliitrles Yorke, K.C.8., Col. of the 33rd Regiment, to be Lieut.-Gen. Brevet-Col. C. W. Ridley, C. 8., of the Grenadier Guards, to be Major-Gen. Brevet Lieut.-Col. John Gray, Capt. on half-pay unattached, to be Col. Major Henry James Day, of the 99th Foot, to be Lieut.-Col. Capt. Thomas Smith, half-pay unattached, Staff Officer of Pensioners, to be Major. MEMORANDA Brevet Lieut.-Col. Frederick J.i'hillott has been per mitted to retire from the service by the sale of an unat tached majority, for the purpose of becoming a settler in Canada. Capt. Frederick Gordon Steward, upon half-pay of the 59th Foot, has been permitted to ret'.re from the service by the sale of his commission, for the purpose of becom ing a settler in New Zealand. COMMISSIONS, Signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the County of Kent. Sir Richard Tufton, Bart., to be Deputy-Lieutenant. Kent Militia Regiment of Artillery : Thomas Farmer Baily, gent., to be Second Lieut., vice Bartram promoted. By the Lord-Lieutenant of the County of Montgomery. The Hon. Sudeley Charles George Hanbury _Proxy to be Deputy-Lieut: Richard Long, Esq., to be Deputy-Lieut. By the Lord-Lieutenant of the West Riding of the County of York, and of theiCity and County of the City of York. 3rd Regiment (Light Infantry) o f W es t Y or k Mili t i a : Thomas William Kinder, Esq., to be Capt., v i ce J o h n Charles Flood, removed from the strength of the Regi ment ; Robert Henry MacLoghlin, gent., to be Ensign, vice Henry Pyne- Hifferman, whose commission has been cancelled.: MEMORANDA West York Rifle Regiment. of Militia : Th e commis sion of Ensign Tho mas Leonard Hill has been cancelled. sth Regiment of West York Militia: Her Majesty has been pleased to accept the resignation of the commission held by Ensign Edward Whitacre Davies. PARROTS.—An extraordinary instance of parrot incu bation in. this country has just taken place at Harrold, Bedfordshire. About three months ago, Mrs. Green, of the Wheatsheaf Inn, received a pair of shell parroquets, from a friend in New South Wales. They are of the genus Euphemia, of Wagler, and are of a beautiful green and blue plumage. About a fortnight ago, the hen laid five eggs, and is sitting regularly on them. FRIGHTFUL DEATH.—On Thursday evening a long inquiry took place at . St. George's Workhouse, Mount street, Grosvenor-square, London, before Mr. Bedford, coroner for Westminster, touching the death of William Venor, aged 37, an engineer employed at Smith's Dis tillery, Thames-bank, who was killed, upon the premises on Tuesday morning last, under circumstances of a most appalling and lamentable nature. It appeared from the evidence given by a number of witnEsses that the deceased was an engine driver. On the day in question, at five a.m., the bell was rung by Lawford, the foreman, to stop the engine. No answer was given, and the ring of the bell was repeat e d, b u t wlthoutany reply. Suspicion was then raised that something was wrong, and on entering the engine -room a sight of a most horribie description presented itself. The mutilated remains of the unfdrtu nate deceased were discovered under the flywheel of the engine, the head was quite severed, the brains and pieces of the skull lying about. No direct cause for the calamity could be assigned, as none of the engine work had given 'way or been disorganised. The deceased was seen about ten minntes before the frightful occurrence, when he was quite sober. He had full, control over the engine room. Mr. Smith, the proprietor of the distillery, in answer to questions from the coroner and jury, said that every precaution was used to prevent accidents. The, present was the first that had occurred in the establish ment. A verdict of " Accidental death" was returned, The deceased has left a widow and family. gortgt)gßy• AND COMMERCIAL. . --LIVERPOOL, Saturday--Evening The Liverpool Cotton Market has been rather quieter to-day, the sales amounting to 8,000 bales, of which about a fourth were taken for speculation and export. "Prices have been firm. The, private accounts from New York, by the Etna, which were delivered this morning, show that the.unsettled state of European politics was beginning to act unfavourably upon the New York Money Market, and further advices were awaited with great anxiety. Capitalists and Bankers were gradually contracting their operations, and ad vancing the rate of interest for loans. Very few banks would advance below six per cent., and some of the more conservative managers demanded even a higher rate.. The Stock Market was dull, and prices showed a downward movement. It is remarked that unless some new speculative movement should take place, Railway Stocks would fall to their natural level. The reply of the Secretary of the Treasury had been sent to the House, reiterating the views he had already expressed as to the necessity for a change in the tariff, and against a loan, but it was expected it would have but little effect on Congress. Some compromise was, , however, anticipated. The Senate committee on the Post-office it is said would report in favour of, a weekly line of steam-ships, from New York to England and France, for the purpose of conveying mails. Advices from Havannah of the 27th of January, state that the market for Sugar was characterised by a strong speculative feeling, consequent upon the stock not exceeding- 18,000 boxes of the new crop. Holders were very firm. Adirices from Cincinnati, of the 2nd inst., furnish the report of the Pork packing of the Western States of America for the past year, and from it we learn that there has been an increase in the number of 228,000 hogs, but a decrease in weight of 69 per cent, and a decrease in lard of 7k per cent. The net increase in the crop, as compared. with last year, was 79,000 hogs,. or 3f per cent. The London Stock Market has again been heavy, and the tendency of prices for public securities downward. Consols declined about one-eighth per cent., and closed at 951 to 954 for both Money and, the Account.. The Three per Cents. Reduced have been dealt in at 96}; the New Three per Cents., at 954 to 9 , 63; India Bonds,. at 15s to 18s prem. ; and Exchequer Bills at 36s to 39 prem. The following were the closing prices : Consols for Money, 951 to 95t ; Do. Account,. 951 to 95! ; Exchequer Bills, 36 to 39 ; Bank Stock, 227 to 229 ; Three per Cents., 954 to 96. The London Railway Share Market was also heavy, many of the leading Stocks showing a decline varying from s to 1, per cent. The principal movement was in North British, which, has again fallen no less than l:? per cent., owing to , a rumour that the dividend will be a disappointment. Lon don;. and North Western stock is no w quo t e d 95/ to 951; Lancashire and Yorkshire, 95-1- to 95i,; Midland, 1011 to 1:01: 4 1 South Eastern; 22 1-16 to 22 3-16 per share ; Caledonian, 841 to ao •' Great Western, 561 to 56 3 , ; Eastern Counties,. 1.2 to 121 per share ; North British, 58 to 581 ; and York ancENorth Midland,. 78/ to 781. French Railway Shares were steady at yesterday's closing suotaions. Lombardo-Venetian shares dull, the old being quoted 9-16' to 11-16 prem., and the new 1-16 to 3-16 prem. East Indian Railway Stock continues in. demand. ThelollOwing were the closing prices —Ambergate Nottingham, and FAstern Junction, 6k, ; Cale donians, 841, 85 ; Eastern Counties, 601, 60/ ; East Lancashire, 95, 96; Edinburgh and Glasgow, 71, 72 ; Great Northern, 1011, 105 ; Do.. A. 88, 90 ; Great Westerns, 561, 561 ; Great irestern of Canada, 15/, 16 ; Grand Trunk of Canada, 291, 301; Great Southern and Western, lig, 106; Lancashire and Yorkshire, 951, 95; q ' ; London and North. Western, 951, 951;: London and South Western, 921, 921 ; Leeds Northern, 483 ; Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln, 371 ' 38/ ; Midland Stock, 1011, 1011 ; North British, 581, 501 ; South Eastern and Dover, 731, 74.1; York, Newcastle, and Derwick, 93/, 931; York and North Midland, 784, 79. The movements of the Precious Metals during the past week have been of importance. The im ports have amounted to about £4613, com prising £114,490 from the United States, .by the Europa, and £15,000 by the Etna; £l5O from the Peninsula, by the Alhambra ; £178,859 from Mexico and the. West Indies, by the La Plata; £58,114 from the Brazils, by the Avon ; about £60,000 in 'gold from Russia ; and £30,000 in silver from the Continent. The exports have been £175,281 to the East Indies and China by the Ceylon, chiefly in silver ; and shipments to the Continent, through the London Custom House, estimated at £10,005, making , a total of £185,286. Some further arrivals from Australia may soon be expected, the Red Jacket having been 79 days at sea with £146,444. The steamer Ceylon will take out £175,281 in specie for the East, all silver except 2,365 sovereigns. The official particulars are as follows : For Madras, sovereigns, £2,365 ; for Calcutta, silver, £80,650 ; for Penang, silver, £1,500 ; for Hong Kong, silver, £42,430; and for Shang hae, silver, £48,336. The total would have been larger were it not for the fact that some con siderable sums were to-day countermanded for the next vessel for Bombay, whence the exchange comes higher. The demand for money continues moderate, and the market is essentially, easy, but no actual alteration can be made in the general quotations for best commercial bills, although there are ex ceptional cases in which slightly reduced rates are accepted. The applications at the Bank yesterday have been exceedingly small. On the Stock Exchange there was scarcely any demand, and abundant supplies offering. The English Funds opened this morning without alte ration, but the market was languid, and a few speculative sales soon caused a decline of 8, at which they remained In the Produce Markets during the week, the general tone has rather improved, and prices have been steady. There has been more inquiry for export, partly on the favourable commercial advices from the United States, but the Con tinential trade is quiet. The Tra Market is very firm ; common Congou was bought this morning at ls. per lb., but cannot now be obtained at that price. Fine mixing kinds, recently arrived, have been sold at full rates, those under 2s. 2d. per lb. being most sought after. Times City Article, Friday Evening. Extreme dulness prevailed today throughout the Stock Exchange. The continued armament in France, and the absence of any recovery on the Paris Bourse, contributed to :check all tendency to animation. The Funds, however, closed as good as yesterday, a reduction of aper cent., which took place towards the middle of the day, promg merely temporary. Sales in preparation for the Indian loan appear to have been effected to some extent, yet without prejudicing the market. With the exception of the Indian Railway Shares, the other markets were heavy. Further large sales of Lombardo= Venetian shares on orders from Vienna had considerable effect upon the Stock Market generally. The Discount Market was rather more active, but the best bills were freely taken at 24-, and even 2 per cent. The operations in gold at the Bank to-day were unimportant. The steamer Ceylon will take out, on the 20th inst., £175,281 in specie for the East, all silver, except 2,365 sovs. Some considerable sums were to-day countermanded for the neat vessel for Bombay, whence the exchange comes higher. On 'Cliang,e, this afternoon, a fresh rise took place in the rates for bills on Austria. Paper on Holland was likewise quoted more favourable for this country. The other exchanges remain firm.- .Daily .Arcws City Article, Friday Evening. THE INDIAN Loan.—The Times says a rumour has been circulated that the new Indian Loan,of £1,000,000 will be in the form of 41 per cent. debenture's redeemable in ten years, and to be issued a t par. It is scarcely probable, however, that the real terms will be allowed to transpire until they are formally advertised. JEWS IN THE lONIAN ISLAND3.—It is, perhaps, not generally known that the Yews in the lonian Islands are greatly oppressed. Sir Moses Montefiore, consequently by direction of the Board of Deputies, addressed a memo rial in behalf of his unfortunate brethren to the Lord High Commissioner, through the medium of the Home Secretary. From information received by the worthy baronet, we have reason to believe that by E. Lytton Bulwer forwarded it to Corfu ; but as Mr. Gladstone has been re-called, it will probably come into the hands of his successor, Colonel Sir Henry Storks. Let us hope that his Excellency will take it into favourable considera tion.—Jewish Chronicle, SATURDAY'S MARKETS. LivEapoor—_COTTON..—,There—has-- been a moderate demand for cotton to-day, and prices are without change. The sales—including 780 Pernambuco at 7 , 1 d to 8 11-16 d, 60 Maranham at 7:4-d to 8d; 300 Egyptian at 71c1 to bid, 1,500 Surat, at 5d .to 6d—are reported 8,000 bales, of • which 2,000 are-on speculation and for export. LONDON PRODUCE.—Sugar steady ; :moderate quantity advertised for sale next week. Coffee firm. Tea firm ; 20,000 packages for sale on Tuesday. Common - congou 130. Rice steady. Saltpetre firm, but active. Tallow quiet, with very little doing; 52s 6d on the spot, 52s 3d for March, and 52s to 52s 3d for the last three months. LONDON' TaLLow.—The market is steady. Annexed are.the prices.:—Petersburgh Y.C. on the snot, 52s 6d ; . March, 52s 6d ; April, 52s 3d to 52s 6d ; April to June, 525,3 d ; October to. December, 52s 3d. Market Averages : .Town tallow, 54s 3d ; fat by ditto, 2s 10d ; yellow ,Russian, 54s ; melted stuff, 40s ; rough ditto, 24s ; tallow greaves, 163 ; goOd dregs, 7s. LONDON MINING.--Firmness continues to prevail in the mining market. • • The transactions this morning have been principally in shares in the East Wheal Russell, East Basset, Great South Tolgus, Vale: of Towey, Ding Dong, and Tincroft. The bargains officially reported in the Stock Exchange comprise East Basset at 205,, and East Wheal Russell at 101, showing in the latter instance a fresh advance. Foreign and colonial minin g shares are well supported. Subjoined is our usual weekly report of the metal market :—"This week has shown improvement in metals as compared with three or four weeks past. Copper ha:i found purchasers at current rates - for English and £ll4 for Burra Burra, and confidence in the future course of the market for this metal prevails. Iron finds a steady but rather limited demand for most descriptions. Scotch pig is a shade better in price, and the shipments show rather more favourably. Tin has been a little easier to buy, and some business has followed in conse quence. Spelter is further depressed in price, but is gain ing a little attention. Lead is wholly without change. Tin plates have sold more freely, and are less easy to buy.' I)OSCASTER CATTLE.—OnIy a few hogs exhibited at the sheep market. In the beast market a fair show and a steady market generally prevailing, and anything fresh met with ready sale without any advancing prices. There was also a good pig market, .small sorts meeting with an active inquiry, and fully sustaining the rise of the past few weeks. Strong sorts, though not lower in price, were bad to get rid of, whilst pork readily met with purchasers at 6s per stone. NEWCASTLE CORN. —Rather less supply of home growth wheat, with slow demand at last week's rates ; south country and foreign without much inquiry, and Tuesday's rates cannot be obtained. Flour difficult to quit, even at lower rates. Malting barley dull, and prices with difficulty maintained. Oats in large supply from the growers, and fine qualities are-taken off at f u ll ra t es , b u t for ordinary sorts there is no- improvement. Beans and peas unaltered. DROGHEDA Contr.—There was a fair supply of oats and barley, but of wheat small, at market to-day. Oats must be quoted 6d higher on the week. No change in wheat or barley. White wheat, 21s 6d to 24s 6cl; red do., 21s to 235; oats, 11s to , 13s; barley, 13s. 6d to 16s 6d. CARLISLE CORN. —There was-an average supply of all kinds of wheat, which was taken: off at about last - week's rates. Oats and barley the same-as last week. BRADFORD WORSTED, Thursday.—For English wool inquiries have been pretty nume r o u s to-d a y, Taut only a moderate business is doing. , Good Lincolnshire parcel wethers may be quoted at 17Ad to 18d, and hogs 19d to 20d per Ib, according to quality.. Skins wools are, if anything, a shade lower than last week, and in. other descriptions prices have undergone no change. LEEDS WOOL. (ENGLISH AND, FOREIGN) ' Feb. 18.— There is a little i m p rovement i n t h e demand for combing wool, and prices are somewhat firmer. In colonial there is a. moderate business, and prices are unaltered. The demand for low wool is also moderate, and prices are steady. HALIFAX, Friday. Evening.—Business here shows very little variation from. what has been its course the last fort night ; the generally more cheerful feeling which has before been alluded. to continues to pr6vail, and there are constant sales of long wool passing, although in small -parcels. The following appeared in cur Extra Edition of Satur day. BOROUGH Hop. We continue to have a steady demand for nearly all new hops, at very Pall prices. Other kinds have a slow sale, at late rites. LONDON STOCK. —Consols opened steady at 95 to 94, but were not maintained, declining t 0 ,951 to 95i, at which price they are now steady and inactive. There is scarcely a bargain doing. Shares also very inactive, and prices have given way a little. Canadian unchanged. ;, French same as at the closo-of yesterday. THE LONDON GAZETTE.,--Fnrney-, Fx.B. 18 rAUTlvraustilYS • DISSOLVER Merriman and Matthews, Nottingham, lace manu facturers ; F. Warner and Son, Leicester, manufacturers of gloves; Buckley - and Tolleys, Gauxholme, near Tod morden, Lancashire, bailer-makers ; A Stott and J. C. Brierley, Oldham, cotton waste dealers ; Coombes and Stephenson, Birmingham, drapers ; J. Carr and Son, Leeds, manufacturing chymists ; Da Costa and Co., St. Thomas's, merchants ; Pettet and Widdowson, Warwick and Bir mingham, fellmongers. DECLARATIONS OF DITIDENDS. _ _ G. G. Pike, Birmingham, grocer —second div. of 44d, and first div. on new proofs, any Thursday, at Mr. Bin nears, Birmingham. W. N. Syke s , W e lli ngton -street and elsewhere, wholesale tobaceorust—first div. of ls, on Monday, Feb. 21, and three following Mondays, at Mr. Harris's, Nottingham. J. Jobson, Derby, stove grate manufacturer—first div. of 7s 6d, on Monday, Feb. 21, and three following Mondays, at Mr. Harris's, Not tingham. DIVIDENDS March.l4, W. Marston, Manchester, yarn merchant; March 14, S. Butler, C. Baker, and C. E. Butler, Bir mingham, wire drawers ; March 16, R. Henderson, New castle-upon-Tyne, cabinet-maker. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. HIGH WATER. Even. Height 2 3 .... 19 5 THIS DAY WIND At LrvzstrooL,--W.S.W.—Gentle breeze, TIGLYHEAD,-W.S.W.- Ditto. ARRIVED. _ . ... _. Arabia (r.m.s) ....Boston Montezuma - Mobile Alliance Charleston Ellen Maria Mobile Bramley-Moore—San Felipe Gezina Seville Beaver (ss) ....Bordeaux Perthshire Honduras Bolton New Orleans Panama Galveston Cannata Madras Tamaulipas (ss) . , Bordeaux Conqueror Surinam Susan G Owens ..Baltimore Cintra (ss) Lisbon Union Drogheda Eloise Charleston Venus.... ....... Dublin Esther Monte Video Syren Dublin Mary Hammond—Savannah Don Francisco .. Havannah S A I B D Metcalf. .Philadelphia Amyntas Genoa Equity Pocahontas ....Melbourne J S Parsons.. New Orleans Europa (ss) ....New York Ebro (ss) Corunna Gartsherrie ....Kurrachee Fairy Newfoundland Dodo (ss) Rotterdam Leucothia , Bciston Mermaid Boston Picayune .... New Orleans Toulon New Orleans Robt Kelly ....New York Arizona New Orleans Sea Rover Kingston Jamaica Kingston LE D . James Jardine Adelaide Enoch Talbot ..N Orleans Queen of the Ex ..B Ayres Jane ...... St John, NB Cordelia . .. New Orleans Esmeralda . . New Orleans Lancastria .... Rio Janeiro Thessalia (ss) Constantinople Gannet (ss) Dunkirk Martha J Ward . . Mobile Pleiades ....Philadelphia Louisa Bahia Underwriter ....New York Star of the West ..N York Austin and Ellen .Benin Beni Adams ..New Orleans W V Kent ....Charleston MARATIME EXTRACTS, LIVERPOOL FEB. 20. The Arabia bring s 132 p assengers , a n d 69,804 dollars in specie. The steam-tug Retriever, arrived at Queenstown, reports having left the Austin and Ellen, from Liverpool to Benin, at 10 a.m. Feb. 19. Wi n d W , light breeze. BELFAST, Feb. 19.—The Carslan (ss), from Bristol to Belfast, on coming.up the river on Thursday night was in contact with the Charles (schooner), of Belfast,and had bulwarks. stave, and boat damaged. The rumour that a mast., supposed from a large vessel, with five bodies attached to it, had been driven on the Connemara Coast, and that pieces of trunks, boxes, &c., were washing up, is entirely without foundation. The wreck; apparently of a schooner, with lower mast head above water, was passed on the 17th o f F e b ruary, W. by N. I- N. of Ormshead, distant 12 miles, by the Rhone (8.5.), arrived here. The 'Greenland, Bates, which sailed 17th instant for San Francisco, has put back. The brig Berzegns, hence to Rio 'Janeiro, put into Beaumaris on the 18th instant, The Compeer, Osborne, sailed from Liverpool on the sth Nov. for St. Michael's, and has not since been heard of. LAGUNA DE TERMLNOS, Dec. 9.—The Julie, Beer, of Liverpool, from Vera Cruz (ballast), in making the har bour on the Ist Dec. ran on shore on a haul; to the eastward of Laguna Bar, but assistance was sent, and she was floated this morning, and has come tip here apparently without damage; she will be ourTeYed to-morrovr. • - OUTIIORTS. f • GRAVESEND, Feb; 20 : Arrived c Lima, Matilda, Ode ssa ; Nilius, Elborg ; Australia, Bremen Clarence, St. Michael's' (N. 8.) ; - Elderly, Belize, Daniel Webster, New Y or k ; Lindo, Cronstadt. Sailed : Fist for Mogadore ; Asia, Grenada ; Jane Leech, Calcut ta ; Enterprise, Batavia ; J ona h, C a l cu tt a ; D ons t on , Sydney' :Aurifera, Cape of Good H o p e ; A re d a l e ( ss ), C a nterbaY; Guadeane, Leghorn Sadore, Calcutta. from Oport o DEAL, Feb. 19.—Arrived : The Auriga, from Cape of Good Hope ; Maria Lehmen, K a lli n b urg ; Robins, M l ' York ; Ann, Odessa ; Madagascar, Havannah ; Chieftainf Canton ; Plymouth Rock, New York ; Enterprise, Sie rrs Leone. Sailed : The Almora, for Bombay; Leo, Ostend; Barcelona, Santander ; Pchertyne, Port Natal ; Elea n°r ' Alice, Poonah, Traveller, Elizabeth, Highbury, Boroil Credeua, Prince Rupert, 'Pride of the Thnmes, 1: 101 , 44 , Lyons, Lydford, Ada, Zephyr, an d M anger t o n, yr"' several others, outward bound ; nearly the whole of the outward bound have sailed for their destinations. Passe d ' The Earl of Elgin, from Calcutta for London ; Portmui, London; Aredale (ss), London, Wellington; Forest, London, Mogadore ; City of Calcutta, London , Clyde ; Lea, London, Malta ; Thomas and John, Loude n ' Swansea; Madre Meembelle, Hull, Corfu ; John Mor e l Shields, Barcelona ; Aurora (barque), Hull, Coustanti' nople ; Cordelia, London, Berbice ; Francis Mar/ London, Nante s ; G rere , Shi e ld s , C ons t an ti nop l e ; Richard and Harriett, Hull, Ad en ; V enus , S ev ill e L o ndon; Raehael (barqu e ), Gl asgow , London.; Sarah an d AO , Sunderland, St. Nazaire ; Mary Marsden, London, AsPiri wall ; John Gray, Ibrail, Lynn ; Repeater, Shields, Lisbon; Vreca, Shields, Algiers ; Snowdrop, Shields! Havre ; Toronto, Sunderland, Carthagena. Anchored : The Leine and Tamis (ss), from London to Pari s ; Aclelphi, Shields, Toulon ; Pedigree, Hartlepool, Madras; Clarence, St. John's, London ; Francis Berkeley, Shields, Bahia ; Apollo, Shields, Cadiz. FALMOUTH, Feb. 19.—Arrived : The Ellen Finley, for Livepool. BELFAST, Feb. 19.—Arrived The Anne Jane, from Dieppe. QUEENSTOWN, Feb. 19.—Arrived: The Regulus, from New Orleans ; Marion's Bride, from Trieste ; ()maw ], from Mobile. Sailed : Agnes Garland, for London; Leopold, for London; M'Kerman, for New York. LIMERICK, Feb. 19.—Arrived : The Varticola, Taganrog; Victory (s.s.), for London. WATERFORD, Feb. 19.—Arrived The Malvina Ss from Belfast ; Camilla (s.), from Bristol ; Malakoff (s• from Milford. Sailed : Shamrock (s), for Bristol; Mal (s),• for Liverpool ; Thomas Mahoney, for Dungarvall; Courier (s.), for Milford; Reinembrance, for Shields-; Malvina (s.), for London ; Crimean, for Bristol. GREENOCK, Feb. 19.—Arrived : The Pegrless, from St. John's, N.B. VESSEL'S REPORT, Report of the barque Perthshire, Robertson, freill Gulf Dulce (Honduras), at Liverpool. Sailed Dec. 27: Left there, the brig Elizabeth. On the 15th of February, when 200 miles W. by IC. ef t Clear, passed the wreck of a ship with only one vvi s standing, it blowing a h eav y ga l e w ith ra i n. Did u°t observe the vessel until we had passed her, she being thei distant. six or se v en m il es , b ear i ng N.W . b y N ., t h e Win d about W. by N. She appeared to be about 300 tons, 611 timber laden, as a great quantity of deals were floating all round her, and, to the best of our knowledge, ther e seemed to be nobody on board. FOREIGN PORTS Rose, and Doris ) hence at Genoa, Feb. 14. Manchester, hence at Mazanilla, Feb. 19. Julius Caesar, hence at Helvoet, Feb. 17. Hope, hence at St. Nazaire, Feb. 16. Livorno. Packet, hence at Texel, Feb. 15. Stinky - , hence at Remedios, Jan. 18. Albanian (ss), from Corfu at Messina, and saile • Feb Bth for Liverpool. AMERICAN SHIPPING. Kangaroo (ss), and, Asia (s), Lott, both hence at SO York, 7th Feb. Malakoff, Hattrick, hence at Savannah 3rd Feb. J. Y. Boyd, Thomas,hence at New Orleans 29th Jan. Aquilla, Oliver, hence at New Orleans 4th Feb. Mackinaw, Hammer ' hence at Hampton-reads Bth Fey; Metropolis, and Edward Hymen, from Havre at New Orleans. Nicholas Biddle,, from Boston at Savannah 7th Feb. Peter Maxwell, cleared at Mobile for Liverpool 2 8 t' Jan. Crimea, Nason; Windermere, Harding; and 0. I.l * Hayes, Payne—all hence at New Orleans- Feb. 5. William: Lord, cleared at New Orleansfor Liverpo ol sth Feb, Minstrel, Norton, from Penang at Boston. Muscong-as, Carter, from Marseilles at Charleston oth0 th Jan. City of Manchester, Wood, hence at Charleston 30th Admiral, Mathews, hence at Savannah 30th Jan. Harmony, from London at Savannah 2nd Feb. 'Roger Stewart, Turner ; a n d Culloden, Ilarvey---°°!„), hence at Mobile 28th Jan. . Agamemnon. Lawson, from London at Mobile 2 at h Jan. J. Gilchrist, Gilchrist, from London at New Orleans Tb.orwaldsen, Brown, hence at New Orleans 2nd F Maryland, from Bremen at Galveston. George Durke, Durke, hence at Havannah. E. Soullard, and Lucy Th ompson —b oth cleare d a t Savannah for Liverpool 30th Jan. Ellen Oliver, cleared at Savannah for Newcastle 2 01 Jan. Queen, Hawes, cleared at Savannah for Glasgow 2 8 t 4 Jan. Margaret Ann, cleared at Mobile for Liverpool 27th Jan. Timour, Campbell, cleared at Mobile for Liverpool 28th Jan. Barnabas Webb, and P e t er M arcy, Th ompson —both cleared at New Orleans for Liverpool 19th Jan. Belle Wood, B us h, an d Margaret Pollock—both cleared at New Orleans for Liverpool 25th Jan. BOSTON, Jan. 31.—The English brig Brill, Crowel l ' which - left Marseille s October 17th, arrived here to-d°, During the voya ge th e crew h ave experienced great suffer" ing, and fo r s i x wee k s h a d noth i ng but biscuits to subsw upon. BALTIMORE, Feb. 3.—The Laurel, British barqu e : M‘Dougall, from St. Thomas, in ballast, arrived here 16 ,' instant, after being, on sh ore i n Ch esapeake Bay, b u t had floated off without damage. The Marion, Hugg, fro, Rio Janeiro, which arrived to-day, ex p er i ence d hea v y 7 gales from N.N.E. t o N.W., an d on J anuary 25, in lAk• 25,,N., long. 65 W., sprung a leak, but was kept free by the pumps. The North Carolina (s), hence for Norfolk► was burnt and totally lost January 29, off Smith's Point' in Chesapeake Bay ; crew and passengers, except tyro persons, saved. NEW Youic, Feb. 5 : The Dandy Jim (brig), Hoffman , at this, port 31st ult., from St. John's (N.F.), Jan. ?i experienced ver y h eavy weat h er ; stove bulwarks, 111 sails, sprung mainmast, and is leaking about 400 stroke s per hour. Jan. 27, lat. 40 06, lon. 67 48, passed a piece of the side o f a l arge vessel. The brig Crest of t°` Ocean, Balsdon, at New York, Feb 2, from Palermo, some heavy weather, carried away jibboom, &c. Vernon, British barque, from Messina for Boston (oranges and lemons), in attempting to run in duri ng a snow storni on the morning of th e 3r of February, went on sh° te on the beach near Little Nahaut. At high water the se ll was breaking over her stern, and pieees were coining o n shore. The wat er was e bbi ng an d fl ow i ng throug h her bottom, and was probably bilged, and would prove a tots! loss; cargo frozen, and rendered worthless ; the hull Wa s t , being stripped. Th e G reat W estern, Farber, w hi arrived from Liverpool on the 30th o f J anuary, re ports that on the 14th in lat. 44, lon. 59, Joseph seaman, fell from the mizen topgallant yard overboard' in a thick snow s t orm , and was drowned. The T. Lucas brig, Perkins, of Bath, from Havre, report' s ' Jan. 8, lat. 43, lon. 28, Wm. Long, of Mass a seawall , fell from the foretopsaily ar d to the deck and . was killed' The St. Agnes, British brig, Campbell, from hence (general cargo), discharged at Bermuda, i ll attempting to get un d er weigh Jan. 10, in COt; sequence of th e th reaten i ng appearance of t u weather drifted on t o a reef, carrying away the rudder and damaging her bottom, but a sudden squall_ o s caused her to sw i ng to h er anchors, when she slipped on! of them and put tea, and was afterwards brought to; safe anchorage at the riding-place. A survey 11$ directed a new rudder to be fixed to enable her to r eturn to port to finish discharging, w hi c h s h e was d o i n g ; s l . was leaking 800 s t ro k es per h our, and it'was though t ; she might b e condemned. The Caroline, British schoon e o r from Fortune Bay (N.F.) f or Boston (herrings), went o shore on Deer Island during a snow storm Feb. 3 ; creW saved. By last accounts she was on her beam en(l 3 , her bottom badly stove, and cargo washing out. iz . "- k. Sicilian (barque), from Messi na , arr i ve d at Boston, isi,';he ing badly, having been on sh ore on C a lf Island. lb brig Ocean Isle, at Philadelphia, from Inagus, ` cl 6 salt, had to throw overboard, J an. 1 5 , i n l at. 34, lon•rr.e7, a portion of her cargo, in consequence of a leak. ship George Hurlbut, Masson, at this port, from Nal'', and CherboUrg, reports 20th ult., kat 43, • 48, ","; struck by a whirlwind, which took 'the P'sosereefed tal tr , and maintopsail clean from, the boltron e . was ten dap Comoro, from Calcutta, reporty_u; between lon. 40 and 45, with strork , keslerly ,tosi since been reported. Feb. 2, has probably hauled off in the. Bay, of "'"" no t to sea, as she h°,..s, th Carolina, front Ch . 1% Mobile Bar , lit g, wrecker: on were reportg4 10.0 'have been picked up in a boat. 11 ? two of the crew of the 01111, .4, !k,