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THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY _ EVENING, MARCH 2, 1849..

to the trifling sum of sixpence in the pound, and is
to be continued for two years only—the most deter-
mined resistance is offered to the proposition. Why
should there be any distinction on such a point between
the English and Irish tax-payer? Why should a tax be
levied exclusively on Ireland for any purpose what-
ever. The grumblers appear to have forgotten that
such a distinction already exists, and that it is alto-
gether in favour of Ireland ; that an income-tax of
7d. in the pound is levied exclusively on Great
Britain, from which Ireland is exempted ; that a
variety of assessed taxes are also imposed upon
English and Scotch, which are wholly unknown to
the Irish. They might, indeed, have some cause of
complaint if the burdens were equalised, and it was
then endeavoured to subject them exclusively to ad-
ditional taxation, but not until then. It is not fitting
that Irish representatives should taunt the Ministry
with an unconstitutional effort to impose separate
national taxation.
The Honourable Member for Dublin was peculiarly
happy in exposing the inconsistency of the malcon-
tents. In his own peculiar vein, which has invariably
the effect of setting the House in good humour, he
ridiculed the opposition that has been offered to the
national rate in aid. He took up the position that
might be expected from a high-minded and indepen-
dent Irish representative. He said—" He was tired of
hearing his countrymen called beggars—lreland was
perfectly capable of supporting her own, but to
do so she must be fairly treated." This is the
true position to assume. Render every possible as-
sistance to Ireland ; develop her industrial' resources,
but let her maintain the proud independence of sup-
porting her own poverty without claiming assistance
from any other nation.

Every opponent of those intolerant religionists
who are known throughout the United Kingdom,
from Caithness to Cornwall, by the unenviable title
of Agneiiites, has reason to rejoice at an occurrence
which was announced on Wednesday last in the
columns of our contemporary the Scotsman. That
occurrence was nothing less than the removal of the
odium hitherto associated with the working of the
Scottish Central Railway. We congratulate the
shareholders on having ♦indicated their own cha-
racter in the very act of worsting the designs
of a few bigotted malcontents; and we rejoice
in thinking that the indignation elicited by
the treatment of her Grace the Duchess of
SUTHERLAND has been not altogether ineffectual
in leading to the abatement of an intolerable nui-
sance, to the total and permanent abolition of a
system that was becoming every successive week
more and more unendurable.

At the ordinary half-yearly meeting of the share-
holders of the Scottish Central Railway—a meeting
which took place on Tuesday the 27th inst. at Perth
—it was formally decided by a majority of four
thousand shares and two thousand votes that morn-
ing and evening mail trains shall continue running
on Sundays, and that those trains shall carry not
only letter-bags but passengers. Large as this
majority was, it appears to have only consisted nome•
nally of four thousand shares and two
thousand votes—the votes and shares in fa-
vour of the decision being in reality much
'more numerous. Now, the triumph of the share-
holders seems to have been enhanced in importance
by the circumstance of the almost unanimous co-
operation of the directors—the whole of the directors,
with one solitary exception, being disposed to relieve
the line from all hebdomadal obstructions. Never-
theless, from the fact of the directors refraining
altogether from giving in their own votes and the
proxies remaining at their disposal, the majority was
diminished by 4,847. Otherwise the declaration in
favour of Sunday travelling would have been en-
forced by double the number of votes and
shares already mentioned—the
.majority would have
been increased from 4,000 to 8,000 shares, and from
2,000 to 4,000 votes. As it is, the victory has been
complete and conclusive. The Agnewites are en-
tirely hors de combat. We say expressly and inten-
tionally the Agnewiteo, because the saintly minority
were impelled to this encounter with the ungodly
majority of the shareholders by the quondam repre-
sentative of the Wigton burghs.
Sir ANDREW AGNEW—with that genial liberty
of sentiment and that exalted rectitude of
principle for which he has acquired such a
very enviable celebrity—was exceedingly anxi-
ous, indeed, to induce the directors to
repudiate the %orking contract of the Scottish
Central Railway. Repudiation had no shame for
him—not it. It was as harmless and honourable a
course of proceeding to :the sensitive conscience of
the Baronet, as eaves-dropping in a church-pew was
to the architectural benefactor of " Old TROXAS
PINCU." And the best of it is this, that Sir AN-
DREW AGNEW—who wished to dictate, as the saying
is, to the business and bosoms of the directors,
and, by so doing, to domineer, if possible, over
the mass of shareholders—holds just ONE SITARE.
There is a modesty in all this that is
positively bewitching. The idea of a man
holding one wretched share in a large company
like that of the Scottish Central Railway, coolly
arrogating to himself the right not only to decide upon
the best policy open to the directors, but taking upon
himself the office of spiritual guardian of the
shareholders. Why Tainuisal tots WHoLEsomin was
nothing to him. Talk of humility, forsooth, of
moderat;mn, of self-sacrifice I Talk of amenity,
serenity, and meekness 1 Sir ANDREW AGNEW 13
assuredly their living embodiment. His religious
fervour carries him infinitely above all the little petty
suggestions of common sense. His z'al for morality
is very far from being restricted to frail mortals like
himself—it extends to robust steam-engines—steam-
engines of high passions and impetuous impulses.
They must be taught greater sobriety of deportment,
and must learn from Sir ANDRE! and his satellites
not to violate the injunctions of Scripture, by work-
ing on the seventh day—forgetting altogether that
Saturday, and not Sunday, is the scriptural Sabbath.
But the highly moral Baronet, the Baronet whose
morality extends to steam and stokers, is not
only the possessor of one shore in the Scot-
tish Central Railway, but he actually specu-
lated to the amount of 251. sterling in the pur-
chase of that one share, in order to enable him to
interfere thus modestly in the working of the
trains, and in the conduct of the morals of the
Scottish Central Railway. He has evidently been
anxious to eclipse the memorable ZEAL- o'. THE
LAND-BUSY—and he has certainly succeeded admi-
rably in so doing, for his ardour has lifted him
from the mire of liberalty, to the celestial atmo-
sphere of intolerance.

Unfortunately the ONE SHARE has proved, as they
say in Philadelphia—no
pounds will be better e bought in. The
out at mortgage
h
fibvaerked in the ungodly had better sell out as fast as Sir ANDREW AGNEW
undertakingsu of the
tt
hwaenn t ye
embarked
in the estimationaYnow, when the
Scottish Central Itailway_e„;ei
igton Burghs, be running not
I\Sfuennidhaeyr tforarintshe w
of the ex-
only to Perth but to the Devil.
Cordially, however, do we congratulate the
?:share-
holders, the director:,,, and Scotland generally, upon
this decisive triumph of humanity and right reason
over bigotry and ignorance. The success is the more
gratifying to those who participated in the meeting
of Tuesday, from the acknowldgement made by
the Chairman, Mr. BRUCE of Kennet, that not
one memorial had been received against the travelling
of passengers by mail trains on Sundays. The dis-
gust excited by the whole transaction belongs, there-
fore, exclusively to the miserable clique of which Sir
ANDREW AGNEW 13 the Sir ORACLE. We wish them
joy of their notoriety.

A pamphlet of a very remarkable character has
just been addressed to the Right Honourable the
President of the Board of Control by the Conqueror
of Sinde. We would earnestly direct the attention
of all who are interested in the stability of our empire
in Hindostan, in the enhancement of the glory of
British arms in Asia, and in the success of our present
adventure in the Punjaub, to a document« which
bears so very forcibly upon those great objects of
British aspiration. Sir CHARLES NerIER is not
satisfied with having ameliorated the condition of his
gallant followers while acting as their Commander-in-

"' " A Letter to the Right Hon. Sir J. Hobhouse, &e.,
on the Baggage of the Indian Army. By Sir Charles
James Napier, G.C.8., Lieutenant-U eneral, and Colonel
of the 22d Regiment of Foot." Bvo. pp. 65. Moxon,
i 849.

Chief and as Pro- Consul of a magnificent province,
he is solicitous to witness the extension of the advan-
tages successfully applied by himself to his own
forces, throughout the organization of the whole
Indian army. Having laid aside that sword which
his valour and his genius as a Captain have covered
with renown, he is employing in the behalf of his
fellow- soldiers that pen which his wit and his energy
as a Writer render a weapon almost equally for-
midable. And the earnestness with which the illus-
trious warrior has addressed himself to Sir Joliet
CAM HOBHOUSE in reference to the bag-
gage conveyance during our oriental campaigns,
has been increased and concentrated by a variety
of considerations tending all to the same point :
by considerations of humanity both to our men and to
their beasts of burden ; by considerations of economy,
from the losses perpetually resulting from the present
arrangement, or rather from the present want of ar-
rangement ; by considerations of regard to the health
of the fighting men, the discipline of the camp-
followers, and the honesty of the attendant servants
of the expedition—the Nagurchees (lantern bearers),
the Puckaulias (watermen),
.the Moochets (workers
in leather), the Mahouts and the Coolies. From a
bitter experience of the difficulties which at present
harass the Commander-in-Chief, and of the
miseries which result to the officers and
privates in the Indian army in conse-
quence of the obstacles attendant upon the conveyance
of the baggage, Sir CHARLES insists upon the neces-
sity of organizing what is termed a Baggage Corps, a
corps exclusively devoted to the carriage and protec-
tion of the baggage of our military forces. He not
merely insists upon the necessity of this proceeding,
upon its absolute necessity for the prevention of a
multiplicity of the most grievous disasters, but he
explains its ulterior economy, its many happy effects,
and its complete practicability.
In demonstrating first the necessity, then the eco-
nomy, then the utility, and lastly the practicability of
the Baggage Corps in our Indian armies, the el-
Governor of Sinde gives a vividly and admirably
graphic description of the present condition of our
soldiers in Hindostan. He enlarges, in so many divi-
sions,
upon the quantity, character, and inconvenience
of Indian baggage in its present state: upon the
obstructions thrown in the way of the Commander-
in-Chief ; upon the unnecessary privations of the
bivouac ; upon the danger of want of carriage ; upon
the difference and numerical disproportion of the
fighting men and the camp-followers; upon
the enormous and extravagant quantity of bag-
gage which is now-a-days required by the
luxury of some Sybarite officers ; upon
the difficulty of feeding camp-followers ;
upon the embarrassments which are consequently
always on the increase round the Commander, dimi-
nishing day by day the chances of victory : and,
lastly, upon the nature, the arrangements, the cost,
and the workiig of the Sinde Baggage Corps esta-
blished by himself, in 1145, under the able command
of Lieutenant-Colonel PENNYCUICE, of the 17th Re-
giment.
To illustrate the evils resulting from the present
employment of hired camels and hired camp-fol-
lowers—hired, that is to say, privately, and without
system—Sir CHARLES observes, that supposing the
baggage to require twenty thousand camels, that
these camels being led, as is the customary
' way in the East by a string " fastened through
the nostril of one animal, and tied to
the tail of his leader," would occupy in one long
straggling line a space of about fifty miles in extent.
The difficulties in the way of rapid movement in an
Asiatic campaign must be obvious—" half the ani-
mals in such a case not having quitted the old camp
when the leading animals would have arrived on the
new encamping ground." Then, again, the cruelties
of overloading the unfortunate beasts under the
present management is deplorable. " The more they
are laden," says Sir CHARLES, in one powerful sen-
tence, " the slower they move ; and the slower they
move, the more they are beaten ; and the more they
are beaten, the faster they perish." The poor
camels want the aid and advice of Kebecdar Moll,
the elephant of whom our distinguished
pamphleteer tells such an agreeable anecdote : see
page 14, note. To demonstrate the lavishness of the
expenditure, or rather of the waste, from the want of
a well-organized Baggage Corps, he mentions that in
Lord KEANE'S brief and successful campaign alone
the less of camels was generally estimated at 50,000,
adding, that " if we take them at the average of sixty
rupees for each camel, the loss was 300,0001. sterling
in a few months !" Alluding to the luxury of some
of the regimental officers, Sir CHARLES writes
thus emphatically—" What do es he want ?—his tent,
his bed, a canteen, a second pair of breeches, a second
pair of shoes, half-a-dozen shirts, a second flannel waist-
coat, a couple of towels, and a piece of soap ; all
beyond is mere luxury, and not fit for a
campaign. His regimentals he carries on his back.
An Indian campaign lasts five months. No man takes
the field for comfort ;—he goes to win renown, and no
Sybarite wins renown in war." Within anything like
moderate space, however, it is impossible to enter into
the details given by Sir CHARLES Neriea of the form
and appearance of his proposed Baggage Corps. At
present we can only call the attention of all whose in-
terests are involved in the subject to his clear, terse,
and most conclusive arguments.

Tim FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We have received the Paris papers of yesterday.
The PRESIDENT of the Republic has dispatched
Colonel MAJoccI, one of his orderly officers, on a
mission to Vienna, the object of which is to endeavour
to induce the Austrian Government to consent to
some settlement of the Italian question otherwise
than by entering the Roman States.
At the sitting of the National Assembly yesterday
a Bill, authorising the State to construct the tem
porary works of the Versailles and Chartres Railway,
was presented by the Minister of Public Works, and
urgency was granted. The Bill for the payment of
the interest on the Greek loan was passed without
discussion, and then the Assembly proceeded to con-
sider the organic law on the Council of State. The
Bth clause fixes the number of Councillors of State ;
and at the second reading the number was reduced by
32. The Committee now moved that the number be
fixed at 40 ; and after a debate, in which AVM.
VIVIEN, BOULATIGNIER, MORTIMER TERNAUX, and
others, took part, the Assembly decided, by a ma-
jority of 37,5 to 355, that the proposition of the Com-
mittee should be adopted.
The measure was still under consideration when
the post left.
We find the following in the Drolt

" The officer charged With making the necessary com-
munications, relative to their trial, went on Monday to
Vincennes, where Blanqui, Flotte, Albert, Beals, So-
brier, Raspail, Quentin, Larger, Borne, and Thomas
are confined, and also to the Conciergeri, where Degr4,
alias the Pompier, and Courtais are detained. With re-
gard to such of the accused parties as are absent, the
notification has been made at their former respective re
sidences. They are eight in number:—Louis Blanc,
Marc Caussidiere, Seigneuret, and Joachim Honneau,
editors of the Commune de Paris; lluber, a currier, ex-
governor of the Chateau du Rainey ; Lavissun, a cap-
tain of the Artillery of the National Guard; Napoleon
Chanal, ex-commissary of the Provisional Government
in the department of the Drome ; and Villain, the
president of the Societi des Droits de l'Homme. Chanal
has announced his intention of surrendering himself on
the day of the opening of tne trial, but nothing is known
as to the intention of the other absentees. The day on
which tha prisoners will be removed to Bourges has not
been fixed, but it is probable that it will take place at the
end of this week. The Government has delayed it as
long as possible, in order to give every facility to the
prisoners to communicate with their counsel. It is not
yet known what line of conduct the accused intend to
assume before the High Court of Justice; but up to the
present time they have determined to offer no defence.
c
One of them, however (Degr4, the Pompier), appears to
Eh' isPdiceafrednce as
to his
M. oußnestehl:
entertain political 'opinions completely opposed to the
oGtehneersr,alancdouhretahiasshcahs confided
M.
mont. The number of witnesses is said to be 2,198."
BOURSE—hulls, THURSDAY, MARCH 1.
THREE O'CLOCK.—The Fends were exceedingly
steady all day, and closed at higher prices than yester-
day. There was no news of any kind stirring. Ex-
change
on London :(30 days), 25 20; ditto (90 days),
2:5 07k.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK-EXCHANGE, lALincn 1.
Boulogne and, Amiens PA—Central of France (Orleans
and Vierzon), 113—Namur and Liege, 9%—Northern 4
France, 101/2 Orleans and Bordeaux, 41%--Paris_ and
Rouen, 21%—Paris and Strasbourg, 414—Rouen and Havre,
13;4—Sambre and Meuse, 514—Tours and Nantet 3.

SPAIN.
Accounts have been received from Madrid to the
evening of the W!cl.ult.
On the morning of that d 47, Senor Motu, the Fi-
nance Minister, brought forward the Budget for
1849, in the Chamber of Deputies. '1 he tutai ru,s
revenue is estimated at 1,372,324,018 reals, and the
expenditure at 1,372,177,674 reala. The Finance

nister, in the course of his speech, stated that the
payment of the Treasury bills would be postponed;
an announcement which, as soon as it became known
on the Bolsa, occasioned a fall of 8 per cent. in that
species of security.

GERMANY

AND

THE NORTHERN STATES.

AUSTRIA.

At the sitting of the Kremsier Diet on the 2sd
notice was given of two interpellations intended to be
addressed to the Ministry, the first bearing upon the
Berman question, and calling upon Ministers to clear
up the doubts which their circular had occasioned ;
what was the hidden meaning of the phrase, " a
gradual and progressive approximation of the different
unities," and what the Austrian Government under-
stands by a " firm and mighty Germany from without,
strong and free within, organically articulated, yet
united ? " What peculiar form of Government
they propose, and how is the union of all
German Staten with the non-German to be ac-
complished ? The Speaker, in the name of the
Chamber, protested against the note, which, under
the mask of liberal professions, aims at introducing
de note the old Federative Assembly. The next had
reference to certain instructions said to have been
forwarded by the Minister of the Interior to the
different circles, and forbidding the printing of the
German fundamental rights voted in the Frankfort
Assembly, such publication being thought dangerous
at the present moment. SCIIUSELKA, in putting the
question, wished to know whether this step was
taken by the authority of the Minister or not. If so,
the Assembly urged the retractation of this offensive
document, which not only was an infringement upon
the freedom of the press, and a fit accompaniment to
the Government circular on German affairs, but like-
wise insulting to the German nation, and degrading
to the Austrians.

The Minister has convened an agricultural congress
to assemble at Vienna, to deliberate on matters re-
lating to the landed interest.
A terrific battle was fought between the Hun-
garians and the Imperialists on the 13th ult., in the
neighbourhood of Arad. The Imperialists claim the
victory, although, seeing they have not succeeded in
relieving Arad or in expelling the Hungarians from
the citadel, we are inclined to think that the victory
must have been the other way, more especially when
the Imperialists confess that JOVANOTICH, their com-
mander, has been taken prisoner by the Magyars.

the sth of February. It appeared that severed persons
were in the tap room drinking, and that some quarrel
took place which ended in a fight between a person
named Hunt and the deceased. They struc k several
blows, then closed and fell together, the deceased being
undermost, and his head coming in contact with the
fender. The chief question for the jury wont 3be whe-
ther his death was occasioned by that fall or by a sub-
sequent fall which he met with on being struck by
the prisoner Hunton. After the first fall they
both got up without assistance, and the
deceased did not show symptoms of any setrit .us injury,
nor did he complain of any pain or hurt. He was, how.
ever, the worse for liquor at the time. Shortly after-
wards, the deceased and Hunton got up to fight. Only
one blow was struck, but it took effect upon the face of
the deceased, and knocked him down. He almost im-
mediately became insensible, and shortly afterwards
died. The other prisoner was looking on, and called
out " give it him from the shoulder." With respect to
the law of the case, he apprehended that vvh en a person
stood by and witnessed an unlawful proceed ing of that
kind, he was in point of law answerable for• the death
of the deceased. If the jury were of opinion that the
effect of the last fall was the immediate ca am: of death,
there could be no doubt that both the pri,oners were
guilty of manslaughter.
Mr. Morgan, a surgeon, deposed making a post mortem
examination of the body, and said it was his .opinion that
the man's death had been caused by apoplexy arising
from a depression of the brain, which was p roduced by
an external injury on the head. It was impossible to
say whether the injury was caused by the first or
second fall. . _

HIS LORDSHIP hero stated it was his opinion that
there was no case to go to the jury against th e prisoners.
The Fay accordingly:Acquitted them both .
MURDER IN ST. GILES'S.—Jopn Mai*, aged 32,
described as a plasterer, was arraigned on th e Coroner's
inquisition for the wilful murder of his wVe Elizabeth
Alabby.
for the prosecution, and Mr.
Robinsonrriom Ptaheon restthaaetepdmpreeefaennted coef. Mr. PAYNE, it appeared that
the case rested mainly upon the testimony of Mrs.
Gurder, a widow, in whose room the deceased had taken
shelter from her husband. When she was in bed with
Mrs. Gurder and her daughter the prisoner km eked at
the door, and said he wanted something belonging to
him, and must come in, Upon being refused admittance
he forced his way into the room, struck his, wife in the
bed with his fists, dragged her off the bed, a nd knocked
her head twice upon the floor with great violence. She
died almost immediately, and upon a post mortem exami-
nation being made it was found that death
had been occasioned by a rupture of a blood-
vessel in the brain, but it appeared that the
brain had been previously in an unhealthy state, so that
her death might have arisen from natural ca,;uses.
Mrs. Gurder corroborated the above facts, and stated
that the deceased was frequently in the habit of drinking.
William Jury, a policeman, said the prisoner, on be-
ing taken into custody, told him that he had killed the
deceased by kicking her on the neck, but that he did not
mean to do it. He said he had kicked her because she
was frequently in the habit of robbing him.
Mrs. Cayley said she saw the deceased sone time be-
fore her death quarrelling with her husband, and abusing
him while he was coaxing her to go into her room. She
was drunk at the time, and had been so for three weeks
previously. The prisoner had always behaved very
kindly to her.
Mr. Simpson, a surgeon said the brain was in a
very bad state, and suffused from inflammation. Death
arose from a ruptured blood-vessel in the brain, but he
could see no marks of external violence.

The CHIEF BARON asked the jury if they thought it
necessary, after the evidence, to hear the priFoner's
counsel ? It appeared to him that the evidence was not
conclusive.

The jury, after a few minutes' comultation, found a
verdict of Not Guilty.

11EW COURT.
(Before the COMMON SERGEANT.)
James Edinglon, aged 48, a respectably dressed man,
though described in tho calendar as a labourer, was
placed at the bar, charged with stealing a bank post bill,
value 501., the property of Wm. Abbott.
Mr. Payne prosecuted, and Mr. Clarkson defended
the prisoner, who pleaded Not Guilty.
Mr. Wm. Abbott, the prosecutor, is a proctor in Dote-
tors' Commons, and in the latter end of January last
received the 501. bill in question from a client of his, re-
siding at Newport, in the Isle of Wight, in the way of
business. The prosecutor has a managing clerk, named
Wheeler, who lives in his house, rent free, and receives
a salary of 250/. a-year, exclusive of certain perquisites.
Wheeler is empowered by the prosecutor to open all
letters that come by the early post, addressed to his
employer, and if the bill in question arrived by the early
post, the letter in which it was enclosed would be opened
by Wheeler, as a matter of course. Wheeler himself
proved that the bill came enclosed in a letter by the
early post on the 2eth of January, and that he handed
it over to his employer, on his coming to the office. Mr,
Abbott, the prosecutor, on the other hand, could not
say that he had ever had the bill in his possession,
though he appeared to have been informed by Wheeler
of its arrival. The bill became payable on Saturday, the
3d of February, and when Mr. Abbott was about to
send it to the bank to get it exchanged for cash, it was
no where to be found. Now, it was proved that Wheeler
had been on habits of intirutcy with the prisoner, had
been drinking with him on more than one occasion,
at the Bell, public-house, in Great Carter-lane,
and had once sold him a pony and chaise.
Wheeler, when examined, repudiated his acquaintance
with the prisoner, and said, with an air of affected in-
dignation, he would not associate with such a man,
though he reluctantly admitted, on be!ng pressed, that
he had the transaction about the pony and chaise with
him, and had drunk wine with him at the Bell public-
house. On Sunday, the 3d of February, the day after
the bill was missed by Mr. Abbott, the prisoner went to
the Bell public-house in Great Carter-lane, and showed
the bill in question to Mr. Welltidge, the landlord, to
whom he owed some money and with whom he lodged,
stating that when he got the bill cashed on the Monday
morning he would pay Mr. Wallridge what he owed him,
and would have paid him at once had he not been in
liquor on the Saturday, which prevented his getting the
bill cashed. On presenting the bill for payment at the
London and Westminster Bank on the Monday morning
the payment of it was stopped, and the prisoner was taken
into custody. The prisoner accounted for having the
bill in his possession, by stating that Wheeler had given
it to him. A little incident was related on the trial by
Wallridge, the landlord of the " Bell," with a view to
negative the idea of the prisoner's dishonesty: He said,
that on the day after the prisoner was taken into cus-
tody, the latter asked him for the loan of a shilling,
which the landlord agreed to lend him, and tcok out of
his pocket and gave the prisoner, what he thought were
two sixpenses; but it turned out that the landlord had
given him a half-sovereign and a sixpence, instead of
two sixpences, whereupon the prisoner returned the
landlord the half sovereign given him by mistake.
Mr. CLARKSON having addressed the jury, on the pri-
soner's behalf, and

The COMMON SERGEANT having summed up, the jury
returned a verdict of Not Guilty.

iVIARLBROS-STREET--(THIS DAY.)
James Percy, a young man of rather seedy appear-
ance, was placed at the bar charged with having obtained
ss. 6d. from Mr. James Gill, 9, Middleton's-buildings,
Foley-place, by fraudulent and false pretences.
The prosecutor deposed that the prisoner occupied
apartments in his house. On the 18th of last month a
person by the name of James was indebted to him
3/. 11s., and the prisoner, who represented himself as a
solicitor's clerk, undertook to recover the debt. Witness
asked him the name of his employer. The prisoner said
he was clerk to Mr. Medina, solicitor, 3, Crosby-hall,
and that his employer allowed hint a commission upon all
business introduced by him (prisoner). Witness in conse-
quence of these representations directed the prisoner to
issue a writ against Mr. James. The prisoner then said he
should want some money to go on with, and witness gave
him ss. 6d., and received from the prisoner the receipt
produced. Witness was subsequently informed that the
prisoner was not what he represented himself to be, and
on calling upon Mr. James he found that the prisoner
had not issued the writ, but that he had threatened to
serve him with one if the money was not paid. Witness
then called at Crosby Hall, but could not find any gen-
tleman named Mecina at No. 8. There was a solicitor
by that name at No. 14, but he was not in town. Wit-
ness, in consequence of this, gave the prisoner in charge.
Mr. George James, umbrella-maker, S, Paddington.
street, stated that about a fortnight ago he owed Mr.
Gill 31. 1 la., which had since been paid. On Monday
week the prisoner called upon him, and said, Mr. Gill
had authorised him to serve witness with a copy of a
writ. He then produced a strip of parchment like a
writ, and said he had not got the copy with him, and
that he supposed witness only wanted time to pay the
money, and if he would give him (prisoner) ss. he would
allow him any length of time Ile liked. Witness asked
the prisoner what court the writ was in? He replied,
that it was in the Court of Common Pleas, and that the
expenses would be very heavy. This so frightened wit-
ness that he consented to give the prisoner 2s. 6d. down,
and the other 2s, 6d. in a week. The prisoner never
served witness with a writ. Witness called upon Mr.
Gill on Monday, and paid the money.
Mr. Gill said the prisoner sent him in a bill of costs
amounting;to 21. 6s. Bd., made out in the name of Medina,
Crosby Hall. This, of course, he declined paying.
The prisoner, in defence, denied ever representing
himself as Mr. Medina's clerk, but he admitted receiving
the money from Mr. Gill. He had no excuse to offer.
In reply to Mr. Haithavicx, the prisoner said he was
formerly in the employ of Mr. Levy, Chancery-lane, and
of Mr. Swayne, Red Lion-square. He was now out of
employ.
The prisoner was then remanded till to-morrow, and
the constable was desired to call upon Mr. Medina, and
request his attendance.

HER MAJESTY'S INDISPOSITION.—Her Majesty,
through slight indisposition, was unable to attend the
performance of " Israel in Egypt" last night at Exeter-
hall. On inquiry at Buckingham Palace this morning,
it was ascertained that her Majesty bad only experienced
the inconvenience of n slight cold. His Royal High-
ness Prince Albert will attend Exeter hall this evening,
at the London Sacred Harmonic Concert, as:also several
of the'royal household.
A short time ago the command of the army in
India was offered to Sir George Napier, but he was com-
pelled to decline this distinguished post on account of
the precarious state of his health. We are now able to
state that Sir W. Gomm has been ordered to proceed to
India to assume the command in chief, in the place of
Lord Gough, whose period of service has expired.
Dr. Wolff tins offered to go out to Lahore and
Afghani.►tan, in search of INiajue Lawrence and his
wife, who have been taken prisoners by the Sei

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, QUARTER TO THREE.
The Cotton Market at Liverpool yesterday was tame,
although prices kept very steady, compared with last
Friday's quotations. Prices of American were extreme,
whilst all other kinds were unaltered. The sal( s were
estimated at 5,000 bales, of which 500 were taken for
export, and 100 on speculation.—ln Railway Shares
rather more business was doing, but at lower quotations.
The arrivals this morning furnish nothing later of im-
portance, but we ex feet, in the course of the afternoon,
accounts of one day's later date from America, pct.
Washington Irving, sailing packet. The next steamer
is not expected until Monday or Tuesday, and those
who look with interest to Californian news are all on
the qui vice.
The French Funds come higher again, but there is
some solicitude still about the affairs of Italy, and a fear
even that Austria and Russia will prove jealous rivals
in the matter of supremacy. The financial position of
the different countries ought to be the best bail for their
good behaviour.
In the produce markets this week a good business has
been done, and as stocks run out, the holders evince
greater firmness, and an apparent determination to
feed the wants of consumption more gradually. Sugar
has been dearer, and Coffee rather dull. Spices in lair
request. Dry Hides have been in good request for
export, and at rather higher prices. Salted also have
gone off at full rates.
The current rate of discount upon first-class bills
having a month or so to run is 24 to 24 per cent.,
and there is said to have been recently more demand,
although the rate is not enhanced.
Merchants, brokers, and all men of business in the
City, may be saved much time by consulting the London
Mercantile Directory, which is adapted peculiarly for
their use, and comprises only such information as is ser-
viceable to them. At the outports as well as in London
the want is felt. The work is made up after the begin-
ning of the year, no inconsiderable recommendation, be-
cause many changes of firms occur at that period.
The official trade returns for the month ending the
sth January have just been completed, and exhibit a
most favourable result. There is an increase, exceeding
half a million sterling, in the exports, but the deficiency
on previous months no.akes the loss for the year 4 mil-
lions sterling. This upon a trade like that of England
is, after all, not by any means more _than was to be ex-
pected under the adverse circumstances in which Europe
has been placed.
The Funds opened with an improving uppearance this
morning, but have gone back since, and apparently from
the cause frequently noticed of late under this head,
viz., a full supply of Money Stock. Consols have been
924 to and are now 92 to 4. The New Three-and- a-
Quarter per Cents. have realised 934 to 934. Bank
Stock is worth 196. Exchequer-bills have been 395. to
425. premium. The speculators are more nearly balanced
in opinion than they were, and although the disposition
is rather to go for the rise, the supply of Stock for im-
mediate transfer deters bold operations.
The Foreign Stock Market has been buoyant on
the whole. Spanish Five per Cents. have realised 184
to 18i, and the Three per Cents 294. Portuguse Four
per Cents. have been marked 26. Brazil Stock hasbeen
quoted 82} to 834. Equador Bonds have been at 34,
and Grenada at 17k. Mexican have realised 264 4, and
Venezuela 261. Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. have
been 484 to 494.
In Railway Shares the dealings have been moderate.
Caledonian are higher, and also North-W: stern,
Brighton, and Midland; Great Northern and Eastern
Counties are a little firmer. The French shares much
the same.

ONE CLOSING
piticts OF BRITISH FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES.
Bank Stock
II per Cent. Reduced M11e..... 921/21A 92
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities 92%1/4 % 92 91%
New 314 per Cent. Anns..... . 93%4_ I% 93
Long Ann s. to expire Jan. 1860
Ditto, 30 years, Oct. 10. 1859
Ditto 30 years, Jan. 5, 1860 8 11-16 8 11-16
India Bonds, 1,0001. - P
Ditto under 1,0001...
Consols for Account 92% 92 92
Exchequer Bills. 2%d. & 2d.
1,000/. June 39 42 p 41 p
Small. June
Ditto Advertised, June 33 36 32 p 32 p
PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS ov-E CLOSING
O'CLOCK. PRICES
Brazilian Bonds
Ditto, Small B4 84
Do., New, 1843 ..........
Danish Bonds, 1825, 3 per Cent —
Ditto, 5 per cent. Scrip, 1849 7% 814 p 814 p
Equa;lor Bonds , . 3 M 3 M
Grenada Bonds, 1 per Cent.
Mexican, 5 per Cent. 1846 2654 26%
Ditto, Account
Portuguese 5 per Cents. ...
Ditto, 4 per Cent — .....
Ditto, Account 26 26
Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840.
Ditto, Account 18%14% 1734
Ditto 3 per Cent 2914 29M
Venezuela Bonds, 2M per Cent —
Ditto, Account .. . 26% 26%
Ditto Deferred - ... 7% 7%
. _ -

Dividends on the above payable-in London.
French, 3 per Cent -f. —c. 52f. 25c.
Exchange f. —c. 25f. 20c.
Dutch 2% per Cent., 12 Guild 4B 494 494
Ditto, 4 per Cent. Certificates 79%1A 79%

PRICES OF PAID. BUSINESS DONE CLOSING
RAILWAY SHARES. AT ONE O'CLOCK. PRICES.
Aberdeen 5O •-••••— ........ .........
Do. Preference
Caledonian
Do. New 10/. Pref..... 10
Chester and Holyhead... 50
Ditto, Preference...... 15
Fast Anglia, 25/., L. &
E. and L. and D...... 25 ...... 3%...
Do., 18/.2 E. & 11.... 18
Do., 3/. 108.
Eastern C,otllaties... ..... 20 ...... 10A1/2 lO%
Do. New Guaranteed
6 per Cent.. .. lO ...... 11% ll%
Ditto, Extension, 5 per
Cent., No. 1 61.135. 4d.... % p l4 P
Do. Quarters ~....... 1214 52 ex d 52 ex d
East Lincolnshire ...... 25
Edinburgh and Glasgow 50 ...... 44 45
Great Northern
Do., 1/42 A Deferred ... 121 h 5
Do., %B 6 per Cent... 6%. 6% 6%
Great South. and West.

(Ireland)
Great North of England.loo ......231 230 x,d. 230 x.d

Ditto,New, 40r 4O

Ditto, ditto
Ditto, New, 30/
Great Western 100 ...... 981/2 x.d 98 1/2x.d
Hull and Selby .. ...... 50 ......
Ditto, Half Shares ... 25 ...... 50 x.d 5O x.d.
Lancaster and Carlisle... 50
Ditto, Thirds
Lancashire & Yorkshire 93
Do. Fifths
Do. Thirds l5 ..„. 914 ... ... 9
London & Black wa11...13/. 63.8 d.... 5% x.d 6 x.d.
Lon ion, Brighton, and
South Coast 5O ..... 86 35% .. 35%
Ditto, New 51., guar.
6 per cent. ..
London and N. Western 100 .....,138 139 x.d l37x.d

Ditto, New ...... ...... 7
14114. &S. Western
Do., New Scrip, 1848,
Pref. 7 per Cent. on
Deposit, and 5 per
Cent. on Calls
Manchester, Sheffield,
and Lincolnshiro 100

Ditto, New 101. Pref... 10
Midland ... ...100 ...... 851% 85 x.d. —84% x.d.
Do., do., 50/. Shares... 25 ... .. 19
Norfolk ...... 100
vorth British ...•....... 25
Ditto, Quarters
Ditto, Thirds .... . 8k —4:
North Staffordshire 171,E —
Oxford, Worcester, and

Wolverhampton
Scottish Central
Shrewsbury and Birm... 10
...._
Shropshire Union
S)nth Eastern
Do., Scrip No 4
York, Newcastle, and
Borwick.
Do. Original New and
.... _

Bcirwick .. ...... ... .. 25 2s' ex. div.... 25 IA x.d
Do. Newcastle Ester. 20
Do. G.N.E.Preterence 8
York and North Midland 50
Ditte, Preference ...... 10
Do. East and West Rid-

ing Extension
FOREIGN RAILWAYS.

Boulogne and Amiens... 20
Central of France (Or-
leans and Vierzoa)... 18
Namur and Liege ...... 20 ... .. 8%%... ...
Northern of France...... 13
Orleans and Bordeaux... 7
Paris and Strasbourg ... 10
Rouen and Havre
Sambre and Meuse 2O ..... 5Li, IA 5
Tours and Nantes .. 9 ...... 2% 3 ...... ..... 2%
MInS.
. _.

Australian.
Brazilian Imperial ......
Do. St. John Del Rey 15

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY.)
LONDON, MARCH 2.—Wind at noon, W.S.W. Fresh
breeze and fine clear dry weather.
FlAawicit, MARCH I.—The W. M. of Dover, Ant-
werp to Newhaven, got on shore on the Cork Sand, and
has become a total wreck; crew and part ,of materials
saved.

YARMOUTH, MARCH I.—The William, scbooner, of
Woodbridge, was assisted into harbour this day by ON o
smacks, dismasted.

WARREN POINT, FEB. 28.—The Lively, Bangor to
Dundalk, has been driven on shore inside Curlington
bar, near Greencastle; vessel nearly covered at high
water; a flit has been sent to take the cargo out.
WHITBY, MARCH I.—The Admiral Bingham (iron
schooner), has put in here after being on shore on Red-
car Rocks.

RAMSGATE, MARCH I.—The Dutch ship Eppin, which
went on shore yesterday, has been assisted off this day,
and towed into the harbour.

DEAL, MARCH I.—The foreign ship, reported as com-
ing in with loss of fore topmast, jib boom, &c., proves to
be the Criminal Rath Brand, from Newcastle to Lisbon.
Several vessels have lost anchors and chains, but are get-
ting, supplied. The Gustaf, from Baltimore to Bremen,
has arrived here with rudder damaged, having been
struck by a heavy sea.

MARGATE, MARCH I.—The Lady Macdonald, Elder,
from Calcutta to London, has arrived off here, with loss
of mainmast cut away during a gale ; has also been tup-
plied with an anchor and chain. '.11,0 Poole to
London, sank in the Princes Channel 3-,:sterclay during
a strong gale from S.W.; crew saved.

WET-1013TR, MARCH I.—The vessel reported yester-

day riding in the West Bay with masts cut away, has
been towed round Portland, but from the wind blowing
so heavy from the northward she could not be got into
the bay, and is now standing to the eastward; name yet
unknowrt

HOLYHEAD, MARCH I.—The Margaret and Rachel,
Liverpool to Dublin, ran on the rocks in the bay to the
eastward of this harbour this morning, during a heavy
gale from N.W.
OFF DOVER, MARCH I.—Reliance, Drake, &.nt a
Tomas, with damage to sails and spars.
LOWESTOFFE, MARCH I.—Several vessels parted from
their anchors yesterday.
SOUTHWOLD, MARCH I.—The Adriana Petronella,
Rotterdam to Abbeville, has been brought in with con-
siderable damage from stress of weather.
HASTINGS, MARCH I.—lt blew a heavy gale yester-
day. A dismasted brig, of about 200 tuns, is being
brought in.
DARTMOUTH, MARCH 1 —Wind N.N.W.—Arrd.
Nam), East Indies, with damage.
PLYMOUTH, MARCH I.—Wind N.N.W.—Arrd. Ellen,
Wiseman, Rio Grande.
PORTSMOUTH, MARCH N.N.W. to W.N.W.
—Arrd. her Majesty's ship Electra, Bermuda, sailed 10th
February; Charles Ferdinand, Charleston. Put back,
Prince Albert, New York. The wind moderated at
P.M. yesterday, but freshened at 3 A.m , and blew hard
at N.N.W. till 2 P M.,.when it moderated, and now, 7
P.M., is at W.N.W., with a more settled appearance.
ILFRACOMBE, MARCH I.—lt blew a heavy gale at
S.S.W. on 28th ult. At 11 30 A.M. it subsided to a
calm, with a heavy fall of snow, and afterwards blew a
heavy gale at W.N.W.
CoRK, FEB. 27.—Wind S.W.—Arrd. Crescent,
Meckerson, St. Domingo.
. _ _

LIMERICY, FEB. 28.—Wind W.—Arrd. Arethusa,
Crowell, Norfolk, United States.

SHIELDS, MARCH I.—The Spray, from London, was
towed in here yesterday, dismasted, having been run into
whilst at anchor, by the George the Fourth, of London.
Several colliers have arrived here with loss of bowsprits,
having run foul of each other. Some stores have been
landed from the Sarah, of Wisbeach, which sank yes.
terday off Shartness Point.

PEIEBREAD, FEB. 13.—The Industry, from London,
was wrecked on the rocks yesterday; crew, part of ma-
terials, and cargo rived.

YA.RMOUTH,-ISIA.RCEL I.—The Marsden, Antwerp to
London, was struck by a heavy sea yesterday 'off South-
wold, when she struck on the Barnard Sands, but came
off making water, and has been assisted into harbour this
day; the cargo (wheat) is being discharged.

MARKET NEWS.-( THIS DAY.)

CORN EXCHANGE-FRIDAY.

Scarcely any English Wheat has been received up to
our market this week, coastwise or by land carriage.
To-day the show of samples of both Red and White was
small; yet, from the pressure of foreign Wheat for sale,
the demand fur all descriptions was in a very inactive
state, the millers bu 3 ing only in retail, at about Mon-
day's quotations. The factors gener illy were not
disposed to accept lower rates; hence the whole of the
parcels were not disposed of. Nearly 21,000 quarters of
foreign Wheat have come to hand. selected parcels
moved off slowly, at unaltered quotations. The value
of the middling and inferior kinds was almost nominal.
Floating cargoss were offering at a trifle less money.
A large quantity of English Barley-4,180 quarters—
has come to hand, but the show of foreign was small.
Malting samples sold at full prices. Grinding and dis-
tilling sorts were almost unsaleable. The Malt trade
was exceedingly depressed; at almost nominal currencies.
Oats, Beans, Peas, and Indian Corn without alteration.
Flour moved off slowly at Monday's prices.

ARRIVALS THIS WEEK.
Wheat. Barley. Oats. I Flour.
2,290 qrs. 4,180 qrs. 7,850 qrs. I 3,310 sks.
3,420 I ----

English ......

1ri5h.........

Foreign ...... I 20,750 I 1,600
Malt, 5,510 qrs.
snirnirzELD.
The supply of Beasts on offer in to•day's market being
very moderate, and the attendance of buyers on the in-
crease, the demand for Beef was steady, at, in most in-
stances, an advance in the quotations realised on Monday
of 2d per Blbs. The primest Scots sold at 3s 8d per
81bs, and at which a good clearance was effected.
During the present week 150 Oxen have arrived at
Southampton from Spain; 60 were here this morning in
very middling condition. With Sheep we were scantily
supplied, the total number not exceeding 1,760 head;
hence the sale for that description of stock was tolerably
firm, at an improvement in value of 2d per 81bs. The
primest old Downs, in the wool, found buyers at 4s 8d
per 81bs. Calves were in short supply and ready de-
mand, at 2d per Blbs more money. The Pork trade was
firm, at extreme currencies. Milch Cows sold at from
141 to 171 15s each, including their small Calf.