The Sun.
London, England, 1849-02-13 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 13, 1849."

Peace—the Romans, in the delirium of their
patriotic ardour, did not charge the fault of
the refusal upon the incongruity of his
duties us an ecclesiastical Monarch, as a Pope and as a
Prince, but raised their infuriated and undiscerning
hands against the noblest of their benefactors. The
fault of the Romans, moreover, was not their deter-
mination at all costs to join the patriotic war against
the alien oppressors of their country—that determi-
nation being honourable to them as freemen and as
lovers of their fatherland—but it was in those
frightful excesses into which they were hurried by a
blind and indiscriminating fury. It was in such
extravagances of atrocity as prompted them to chaunt
a derisive De profundis under the windows of the
Weeping relatives of Rossi, and to deposit
the df,g,zer which had penetrated his heart in
a golden box placed between two lighted wax candles.
" The heart of LIARAT," says CHATEAUBRIAND,
" was placed in a precious pyx, in a rich repository ;
a cenotaph of gauze was erected on the Place du
Carrousel, where the public went to visit the bust,
the bath, the lamp, and writing-desk of the divinity :
the wind, however, changed; the filth poured from
the agate urn into another vase, was emptied into the
common sewer." So may the wind change now, if
the Roman multitude will but listen to their better con-
sciences. GIOBBETI has already declared that he will
not allow the Sardinians to participate in the farce of
the Constituent Assembly; and he is even now em-
ploying his influence for the pacific reconciliation of
Pope Pius IX. and the Roman populace.

With LEOPOLD 11. it is different. He has done
nothing which can be construed into a dereliction of
his own duties as a constitutional sovereign. The
solitary accusation that can be levelled against him is
that he has granted not only everything that prudence
dictated to him as just, but everything that his people
demanded from bim under the eiloneous impression
that it would be beneficial. He has now yielded his
signature to the decree sending thirty-seven Tuscan
deputies to the Constituent Assembly, and the very
circumstance of his having conceded this among so
many other things to his people, has induced them to
rise against him with cries of " Death to LEOPOLD !"
" Viva! Pio Nono !" " Viva! Leopoldo Secundo!" were
the cries which resounded for sixteen months in
Rome and in Florence ; and now Pius IX. is lament-
ing the ingratitude of the Romans at Gaeta, and
LEOPOLD 11. that of the Florentines at Pionabino.
Until the Italians know better how to discriminate
between their foes and their benefactors they may
dream, and only dream, of their nationality. They
must expiate their criminal blunders before they can
expect good fortune to descend upon their patriotism.
They must place more reliance upon the sincerity of
those statesmen who have risked everything to effect
their emancipation. They must not mistake a
cowardly attack upon a building containing
only a few old men and a handful of
Swiss servants armed with halberts for an act of
popular heroism. They must not look upon a Mur-
derer as their national Saviour. They must discri-
minate between the wise recommendations of an
Administrator and the insane excitations of a Dema-
gogue. They must listen rather to the voice of
Git,Bvan than to that of STuRaiNETTI, to the ad-
vive of Lk., roup rather than to the frivolous declama-
tions or CICEROACCHIO. Then they may hope to
realise the z agnificent vi-ions of ithaziNt, to satisfy
the honest expectations of PEPE, and to accomplish
that great work which was commenced under the
venerable auspices of Pio NoNo.

The directors of the London and North-Western
Railway Company have issued their account for the
six months ending the 31st December last, prepara-
tory to the general half yearly meeting which is to
be held on Friday next, the 16th instant. It is a full
and satisfactory document, affording the most valu-
able information as to the position and prospects of
the company. It will be peculiarly acceptable on the
present occasion, inasmuch as the calculations and
estimates put forward by the directors in the latter
end of October last may be closely tested, and their
accuracy subjected to the strictest ordeal. These
calculations have hitherto been proved to be
correct in every particular. The results have
proved in some degree more favourable
than had been anticipated, the directors hav-
ing " endeavoured to avoid giving an undue
colouring to the prospects of the company." This
was a wise precaution. When so many interested
persons were desirous of deteriorating the property
of the shareholders, and of keeping up the railway
panic that had been excited, any variation from the
estimates would be eagerly seized on, and unceasingly
harped on. Many futile attempts were made to im-
peach the estimates contained in the important state-
'pent to which we have alluded. The "Bears" of
the Stock-Exchange and their unprincipled abettors
found their occupation gone. By an organized
system of enormous lying they had suc-
ceeded in reducing the value of every
description of railway property. Even the
shares of the London and North-Western Company
were quoted at a discount but a few days before the
publication of the authorized statement. A great
change, however, immediately followed its appear-
ance : the complete and satisfactory refutation of
" the erroneous statements and calculations" that had
been put forward cast discredit upon the other
assertions and insinuations of the alarmists. An
immediate improvement took place, and, within a
week or ten days, prices of railway stock generally
had risen to the extent of 12 or 15 per cent. Since
that period there has been a steady progressive im-
provement, and, by a reference to the present
quotations, it will be found that the increase has,
lin many instances, amounted to from 30 to 40
per cent. on the prices of the 23d of October last.
g-tth-«'r,,tern shares, which on that day were sold ,
991., wet e yesterday in demand at 137/. to 138/.,
an i ar,, gr,s, ly inistaks,n it the publication of the
r-s,ar hii;anee-sheet will not be productive of very
haieficial results.
The most interesting point to the shareholders will

necess..rily be the amount of dividend which they are
to receive on their capital stock. In the former
statement, the directors made their calculation of

the gross revenue that would be required to pay 7 per
cent. per annum ; that was the probable amount of
dividend which they encouraged the shareholders
,to
hope for when the main line and branches were fully
opened, and all the capital of the company had been
rendered productive. That expectation has been
more than fulfilled—a dividend of 31 per cent. will be
declared on Friday next for the half, year ending the
31st Decemher last, and after payment thereof there
will remain to the credit of the company a disposable
balance to be carried to the next account of
71,398/. Os, 2d. It will thus appear that 34 per cent.
might have been paid out of the profits had the direc-
tors considered it desirable, and a large balance still
have been retained. It is, however, always better to in
crease than to diminish the dividends ; and we shall
confidently anticipate that such a❑ increase will
speedily take place.

After the great fact of the exact amount of the
dividend has been ascertained—a question that comes
home to every shareholder—the next points to be
considered relate to the clear profits of the company.
Hive the gross receipts of the company increased or
fallen off? Have the working expenses been kept
within due limits ? The answers to these interro-

gatories will prove no less satisfactory. It will be
found that there has been an improvement of the
gross revenue, while there has been a diminution of
the working expenses.
Thus we find, that the gross revenue for the year
ending 31st June, 1848, amounted to 2,194,0931., or,
on an average, 42,1941. per week, while the gross
revenue for the six months, ending 31st December,
amounted to 1,154,0194 1 ls. 7d., or, on an average,
44,3851. 7s. 4jd. per week—an improvement of

2,1911. 7s. 44d:per week. This goes a considerable
way towards the increase of 6,424/. a week that will

be required when all the lines now in progress of
construction are opened for traffic, and made fully
convertible.

AKain, the working expenses have been esti-
mated at krty4 per cent, on the gross receipts.
Now those charges during the present half-year
amounted to 382,141/, 3s. 7d., little more than 31 per
cent. on the total revenue 41,154,019/. lls. 7d.; and
adfl the parish rated and, taxes, !rnioun.ing to
3071,. 123. 4d., rtnd the duty on passenger trrlfic,
26 125/.1, 10d., we shall find that the total amount,
438,5691. 17s. 9d., does not quite amount to 38 per
cent. on the gross revenue. Here, then, is au im- !

portant saving of 2 per cent. on the receipts, amount-
ing for the past half-year to no less than 22,5801.
on the estimates. The other parts of the account
are equally satisfactory. It appears that the calls io
course of payment amount to 371,202/., and the
calls still to be made to 5,124,3971., which, with the
sum of 15,822,1481., already paid up, will give a total
capital of 21,317,7471. The amount of debentures is-
sued under the seal of the company, which in the last
account, to the 30th June, stood at 9,186,671/.155. 1011
had been increased to 9,626,2671. 19s. 3d., of which
there had been applied in payment of calls
upon shares in, and raised specially for, the use of
subsidiary lines connected with the company, and re-
presented by the capital of the respective under-
takings, 3,559,2621., leaving a balance of 6,067,006/.
appertaining to capital expended on the main line
and branches.

We congratulate the shareholders most heartily on
these very satisfactory accounts, which must have very
beneficial influences, so far as the market value of their
property is concerned.

the Government to call on the Prussian Government
to explain its reasons for continuing the sts.te of siege
of Berlin, which, it was said, the Assembly sees with
regret.

well to imitate instead of brawling aloud to mobs in
the city of London. Instead of Mr. Healey de:erving
the abuse which was heaped upon him, he deserve d well
of his country, it he had, as he firmly believed was the
case, removed the mask from the face of a man in power
—a Member of Parliament, a coroner, and an editor of
a puhlic journal. After alluding to the admissions
which bad been made on the other side, he said if
they came to the conclusion that there was
not a desire on the part of the plaintiff to
implicate, and inculpate some of the parties at the bar..
racks, their judgment might be warped with prejudice,
and they must entertain views entirely opposite to those
held by the majority of parsons. The deceased was a
private in the 7th Hussars, and bore the character of a
confirmed drunkard. Upon the Ist of June, 1846, he
was in u reow with a sergeant and several other soldiers,
and he took up a poker arid struck the sergeant a
violent blow in the chest, and, but fur the interposition
of parties present, he would no doubt have murdered
him on the spot. The sergeant was on duty at the
time, and could it be expected that an event of this kind
would be passed over ? A court-martial was consti-
tuted, and on hearing the charge, it directed that the
prisoner should receive 150 lashes; and though it was
painful to carry out that sentence, it was abso-
lutely required that the act which made
it necessary should be put into operation.
On the 15th of June he was flogged, and after it, being a
man of spirit, he went briskly into his room, whistling
on his way. The healing progress continued to go on
rapidly until the 4th of July, when his back was quite
well, and it was reported he would be fit for duty in the
course of a few days. The weather was then extremely
hot, being 88 degrees in the shade, and though relaxed
very much from his confinement, he insisted, despite of all
remonstrances, to wash out a damp cell. He was en-
gaged in that operation about three-quarters of an hour,
and next day complained of a pain in his side. The
pain extended to his head and left shoulder, and other
symptoms of an impeded circulation made their appear-
ance. Bleeding and other remedies were adopted, but
he did not recover, and upon a post-mortem examination
by Drs. Hall, Warren, and Iteid being made, they ex-
pressed an opinion that his death was in no wise con-
nected with the corporal punishment which he had received
but arose from inflammation of the heart and pleura.'
Notwithstanding, however, the very regular manner in
which proceedings had been taken by the military au-
thorities, Mr. Wakley, instead of holding the scales of
justice as even as possible, stated to the jury that which
he knew was not true, in order to poison their minds and
enlist their prejudices. But Mr. Wakley loved the sweet
voices of the people; he could act live without their ep
plause, and in order to obtain it he hunted out alleged
grievances and abuses of this nature. He knew enough of
human nature, however, to be aware that ambitious
men despised every obstacle to the attainment of any
object they might have in view'. They stooped at
nothing, worthy or ut.worhy, and whether their am
bition was that of the di. magegue who sought to engulph
his country in ruin in order to instal himselt in
authority, or was that of a less aspiring nature, no im•
pediment was too great to surmount, and no circum-
stances coo extraordinary to be taken advantage ot. But
Mr. Wakley 's patriotism was of the modern echool, and
he did not appear to have studied the examples of the
ancients on this subject.
The Court adjourned for ten minutes on the applica-
tion of the Learned Sergeant.
The address for the defence will probably occupy the
whole tiny.

COMMON PLEAS.-(THIS DAY.)
(Sittings at Nisi Prius in Guildhall, before the LORD
CHIEF JUSTICE.)
The London Nisi Prins Sittings, after term, com-
menced this morning at Guildhall, before the Lord Chief
Justice.

The cause list contains the names of 93 cases, of which
48 are special juries, 51 remandants, and 42 new causes.
(Sittings in Banco, before Justices COLTMAN, MAULS,
CRESSWELL, and V% ILLIABIS.)
MONEYPENNY •. DEARING.

This was a question as to the construction of a will.
The case was argued before the Court of Exchequer
about two years ago, and thence carried before Vice-
Chancellor Wigram, who, ❑ot being satisfied with the
decision by the Court of Exchequer, directed an issue to
this court. The testator, Mr. James Moneypenny, of
Msython-hall, in the county of Kent, made his will in
1804, whereby he devised his real estate, which was of
considerty,le value, and of the tenure of gavelkind, in a
certain order of succession, and under certain limita-
tions, one of which was a limitation " to Philip Money-
penny and his issue." How these words were to be
construed formed the subject of controversy between the
parties._

Mr. llonsoN, who appeared for the eldest son of the
second brother of the testator, and was heard on the
preceding day, contended that by the limitation "to
Philip Moneypenny and his issue," Philip Moneypenny
took an estate or life, and his first and other sous suc-
cessively in tail male.
Mr. MALINS, on behalf of one of the defendants, this
morning contended that the limitation " to Philip
Moneypenny this issue" created an estate tail. In sup-
port of this position he cited the case of " Dor v.
Featherstone" (1 Barnewall and Alderson), where the
property was devised to the parents for life, with re-
mainder to the heirs of the body of the wife by the
husband, to be equally divided among them, share and
share alike. There it was held that the intention of the
testator being that the husband and wife and all the issue
should take; that intention could only be effectuated by
giving thew an estate tail, and accordingly an immediate
estate tail was givi-n. the eas, of
stone e. Frathet st n" (3 Ultike and Finelly, 67), which
eas a writ of error trom the hi; g's Bench in Ireland,
there was a devise in these words, " I give and devise to
my kinsman, William Featherstone, and his heirs male,
according to their seniority of age, and their respee-
, tively attaining the age of 21 years, all my real and per-
sonal estate ri,)t hereinbefore disposed of, the elder sur-
viving son of the said Wre. Featherstone and the heirs
mule of his budy lawfully b gotien always to be preferred
to the second el. younger sons." In that case the question
was what estate William Featherstone would have taken if
he had survived the testator, for he died in the life time
of the testator, leaving the appellant, his son, him sur-
viving? If it was an estate tail, there was a lapse, and
the appellant took nothing; therefore that was a case
which particularly called fur the merciful interpretation
of the Court; for if it was an estate tail, in consequence
of the rule of, law that an estate tail failed, by lapse, in
consequence of the first taker dying in the life time of
the testator, the intention of the testator was frustrated,
and the property went over, to the disappointment of
the objects of the testator's bounty. Then, if the words
" to William Featherstone and his heirs male" created
an estate tail, upon the same principle he (Mr. Malins)
contended that the words " to Philip Moneypenny and
his issue," created an estate tail. The decision of the
House of Lords, confirming the decision of the Court of
Queen's Bench in Ireland, was delivered by the late Mr.
Justice Tindal, who said that William Featherstone
would have taken an estate tail if he had
survived the testator, and the consequence
was that as he died in his life time there was a failure of
the devise, and the appellant took no interest whatever.
Their Lordships would observe that that deciwon pro.
ceeded entirely on the ground that the testator had some
notion of modifying the course in which the parties were
to take, and the qualification which the successive takers
were to have, yet it corresponded on the whole with a
clear devolution of an estate tail. In this case, whatever
the intention of the testator might have been, if Philip
Moneypenny took an estate tail, it would go to his eldest
son, and from the grandson to all the heirs male of his
body, so by the giving Philip Moneypenny an estate
tail in genet al, the devise effectuated the complete inten-
tion of the testator. It was impossible by any construc-
tion to effectuate the whole intention of the testator.

The argument was proceeding when we went to Press,

SHERIFFS' COURT.-(THIS DAY.

ANDREW V. KING.

This was a writ or inquiry to assess damages in an
action for libel, the defendant having allowed judgment
to go by default. . _

Mr. cVARREN appeared for the plaintiff, who he stated
to be a gentleman of station and who had retired from
the East India Company, as an army surgeon. The de-
fendant was a literary gentleman and a physician, and
ale() secretary to the Statistical and Ethnological
Societies. The two libels were contained in two letters
written on the 20th October last, by the defendant, to
General Briggs and General White, in terms distinctly
charging the plaintiff with being "a swindler," and
stating that " he had swindled the defendant to a
large amount." On receiving these letters the plaintiff
commissioned a friend, Mr. Langbourne, of the
firm of lienkin, Vickermann, Langb urne, and Co , the
solicitors to apply to the defendant, kr an explenati, a
of his extraordinary conduct. Four letters were written
by Mr. Langbourne in very temperate terms asking for
proof of the charge which the defendant had made
against the plaintiff; but the defendant took no notice of
the letters, and this action was commenced. The de-
feruiant did not appear in Court on the inquisition.
The Learned Counsel fur the plaintiff, who was attended
into Court by various distinguished military and
other friends of the plaintiff, read the cor-
respondence above adverted to, and highly com-
mended the plaintiff for the moral courage lie had
shown in not violating the laws of God and man by
calling his traducer to " the stern and bloody ordeal"
to which gentlemen are tno apt to appeal on such occa-
sions. lie had preferred trusting his character and
honour to an impartial jury of his fellow countrymen,
and concluded by calling on the jury to give, not such
small damages as would serve only to barb the arrow
of calumny, and afford matter of exultation to the
plaintiff's traducer, but such damages as would show
that trial by jury was a real protection to gentlemen.
Toe UNDER SHERIFF briefly summed up, stating that
he concurred in the observations of the Learned Counsel,
that this was a very serious case, from the deliberate
nature of the oflence by the defendant, and the station
in society occupied by both parties. Such outrages
certainly ought not to be committed with impunity.
The jury retired, and after some ab,ence, returned
with a verdict—Damages, 500/.
The Learned Counsel had offered in his address to
accept ;an apology and withdraw; but it: appeared as
above-stated; that the defendant had instructed no
one to represent him in court.

THE ROBBERY AT THE ST. PANCRAS VESTRY.—
This morning several skeleton keys were found in the
garden in front of the gutta percha depot, two doors
from the vestry room. It %%ill he recoil, cud a number
of skeleton keys were found in this locality immediately
after the discovery of the robbery.
OBSTRUCTING MEMBERS IN THEIR PROGRESS TO
THE HOUSE.—Yesterday, in consequence of several of
the Pe.rs having been stopped in their passage to the
House by brewers' drays and hackney carriages congre-
gated in the streets leading thereto, the Usher of the
Black Rod, by order of the llouse, made a communica-
tion to the Commissioners of Police, riluestiug them to
poyclat all such cbstigeikohs.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWt.
CI IY. QUARTER TO THREE.
There was an active dem:ins:Hot- Cotton at Liverpool
yesterday, and the market closed with spirit. Prices of
all kinds are extreme, and there was a heavy run on
Brazil. Inmuditt, 3,000 i...merican and 500 Pernam,
taken by speculators, the sales were 12,000 bales, and
comprised 8,000 American (of which 500 were saw-
ginned) at 31d. to 6d.; 2,000 Pernam and Maranham at
4id. to 50.; 500 Bahia at 5d.; 500 Egyptian at sid.
to 6id.; 500 Surat at 3d. to 4d.; and 200 Sea Island at
Bd. to Is. 2d. per lb. Railway Shares were dull and
prices lower owing to the settlement.
Accounts from Belgium state that there had been in-
creased exertions made recently to export grain from
that country to England, and that French produce also
came in transits( for the same purpose. At Harlebeke,
the country people manifested great dissatisfaction when
a considerable quantity was carted off for shipment, but
their opposition was overcome.
It is stated in letters from Vienna that the great
banking houses of Sina, Rothschild, and Stieglitz, had
united to take the Austrian loan of 50,000,000 florins.
The debate on the Navigation-laws is expected to be
the engrossing subject in Parliament this week, and
there is a strong feeling in the City that the matter
should be got out of hand as speedily as possible,
for the sake of the shipowners themselves as
well as of the public and the mercantile com-
munity. ; Free trade is incomplete without the
boon of greater freedom for the navigation
of every sea which English vessels plough, and out East
India possessions more particularly are pining fur the
development of their immense, and as yet but nail-tried.
resources. As the Mercantile Journal aptly states:—
" We need hardly say that colonies, which are no longer
adapted to colonisatien, instead of being sources of
strength, are elements of weakness, and, therefore, for
our own sakes as well as theirs. it would be wise to
leave them to themselves, when the work of colonise •
tion has reached a certain point. They can gain
nothing by being mixed up with our foreign, politics, and
we lose a great deal by involving them in our quarrels.
But. calve qui coute, says Mr. Young, we ln.f maintain
our ab-olute Laval superiority, go on iher, :slna our
maritime force as France and America increase theirs.
Pari ratione, France and America should respond by a
still further increase, and we, again, by a further in-
crease, and so on, ad infinitum. We wonder that even Mr.
Young did not see the absurdity of such a proposition.
The game of retaliatory and restrictive duties would
soon cease, like all over-strained exertion, by the actual
exhaustion of the parties engaged.
The excitement in the English Stock Market continues
very gi eat, and there is the utmost confidence manifested
in the maintenance of the current quotations, and of their
enhancement yet by 1 or 2 per cent. The adjustment
of the Consul account having been effected, everything is
again in the ascendant, and the rise since }este' day
moreing exceeds 1 per cent. While money can be bor-
rowed on stock at 1 to 2 per cent., with a margin of
only 2 per cent. below the present rates, and while the
quotations continue to rise so steadily at Paris and else-
where, we cannot expect that there should be much
inclination to speculate for a fall in prices, however,
prudence may deter many from operating for a rise.
Consuls have been 931 to 944 for Transfer, .and 94 to
941 for March. Bank Stuck nas been done as high as
197. Exchequer Bills have been rather lower, owing to
sales made, and probably with a view to the investment
of the proceeds in Consols.
The Foreign Securities have been more buoyant in
sympathy with the English Funds. Spanish Five per
Cents, are 18 to and the Three per Cents. 30 to I.
Portuguese Four per Cents. have been marked 254, and
Brazilian Bonds 80i to 82. Mexican Stock has been
25 to 25k. Russian Bonds have realised 1091. Dutch
Two-and-a-Halt per Cents. have been 501.
Railway Shares hare been looking up, and Midland,
rth-Western, Great Northern and the York lines are
higher. The French shares are still advancing. Great
Western are steady.
13R111SH 06 TB lei DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
(From the Official List.)
Bank Stock 196% 197 195
i per Cent. Reduced 94 94%
8 per Cent. Consols Anns.. ..... 933,8 94% 93%%
New 3% per Cent. Aims. 95% 95 95% 95
Long Annuities, Exp. Jan. sth, 1860 94, 1-16
Do. 30 Years, Expire Jan. 5, 1860.. 83/4 13-16
India Stock
Do. Bonds, 1000/ 52 50 p
Ditto under 1.000/
South Sea Stock 102
3 per Cent. Annuities, 1751
uonsols for Account
o:xchequer Bills. 21Ad. 2d.
March. June.
I,OOW.
500/.
Small 43 46 p
PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent
Ditto for the Account ... 82
Cuba, 6 per Cent B4
Equador Bonds
Mexican Bont4s, 1846, 5 per Cent 254 25
Ditto for the Account 25 'Bl/i;
Peruvian Bonds, 6 per Cent 49
Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent
Ditto 4 per Cent.
Russian Bonds. 1822,5 per Cent 109%
Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent,lB4o llitVe 18
Ditto Passive Bonds
Spanish Bonds, 3 per Cent 30% 30
Dividends on the above payable in London.
French Rentes, 3 per Cent 49f. 25c.
Exchange .....
.1 riff Colt., 12. build 5OO
791/4'.ti

4 r,

.)
Yaiv. Yrs. ,tiiiATifc.

!.irtninghatn & Oxford J unct.,
calls duly pd, or with guar. 20
''aledonian
Ditto, Quarter Shares 1114.— 5 ...... to
hester and lioiyhead 5O ..... 2214..... to
a,3t Anglia, 251. L. & E.,
;No U. & 1)
imto. 18/., E. Sr U lB ... 21/2 to
E intern Counties .... -
Do., do N 0.2,6/. 13s. 4d... 'A. p to % p
,astern Union, Clans A (late
E. U. Shares) ........... 25
.....

Ditto Scrip (gua. 6 per ct.) 20 ...... 18% ... to
tast Lancashire
Do., 6 per. Cent. Preference
Quarter Shares 614 714 to
r,ast Lincolnshire ... 25
Edinburgh and Glasgow
Great Northern
D0.',2 A Deferred ..... ... 121,i
Do. IA B 6 per Cent. Guar. 6i/
ireat Western 100 lOO ... to
Ditto, Quarter Shares
Do. New 171 .
Lancashire and Yorkshire
Ditto fief Shares
Ditto Quarters
Ditto Fifths

Do., Preston and Wyre ... 25
Do., do., Half Shares (A) 914 143
London Blackwall ......131. 6s. 8d..../ 5
Lond., Bright., & South Coast 50 ..... 35%
Do., New, guar. 6 per cent. 5 ...... 6 to
London & North Western...loU ......188 =39
D 7. New

Do. Fifths - -J/4. IA to 9
Do. 10/.... M. and B. (C.) 1 - to
'.ondon and S. Western...—. 50 ..

Ditto. Thirds l5 ...... .. to
Kanch , Buxton, & Matlock 41/2 2
A idland lOO ...... 91 93 ... to 92

Ditto. 501. Shares..... ...... 25
Midland, Consol. Bristol and
Birmingham, 6 per cent.... 100 124 ...... to
North British •• ...
Ditto Vali Shares— ..... 121/2 7% Cu
Do. Quarters VA...... 3544 -,o
North Staffordshire... .. ...... 15
Scottish Midland .. ....... .... 25 . 14 ...... to 131/i
Shrewsbury and Birmingkam 10
Ditto. ditto. Class B. 6
Ditto, New Guaranteed 8
Shrewsbury and Chester
(Nor. 14. Ain.)
Ditto 8 per Cent. Pref....... 10
Shropshire Union...
South Devon .
Ditto, Preference
South Eastern
Ditto, Registered No. 4.... 10

Ditto: Scrip No. 4..
Wear Valley 6 per Cent.
Guaranteed ..... 50 ......
Do. do. do.
VVilts,Somerset,&Weymouth 40 ...... to
1 ork, Newcastle, arid Berwick 25
to

Do. Original New & Berick 25 ...... '.!B3a to
Do. Exten. No.l (Y. & N.) 20
Do. do. No. 2, New &B. 20 ... 215/R,4 9i28 to
Do. G. N. E. Par. or Pref. 8 91/, to
York and North Midland .. 50 ...... .56

FOREIGN RAILWAYS
Boulogne and Amiens 2O .. 95,81A3/4 t
Central of France (Orleans

and Vierzon)
(Mem; and Bordeaux 7 ....• 8141/2... to
Paris & Strasbour 9 23/4...... to
tieuen and Havre ...... '4,tl 10y8 ll
-,anture and Ahluse
fours & Nantes ... .. 9 -

MINES.
Barrossa Range Mining Corn. 285....... 1/4 pm .. to
United Mexican
JOINT STOCK laANKS.
London Joint Stock ..... 10

Advices from Vienna mention that pending the
contract for the loan it was expected an issue of Trea-
sury notes would be resorted to to the extent of
25,000,000 florins (2.500,0001.), bearing 3 per cent. in-
terest, and in ♦arious arro.unts down to 5 florins. The
loan itself, it is said, will be partly in 5 per cent, and
partly in 2i per cent. stock, to suit both the home and
foreign markets. It was still believed that a St. Peters-
burgh house will be amongst tha largest takers, and also
that considerable sums will be taken by the barkers at
Vienna, Frankfort, &c. The funds were steady at 84g.
Exchange on London had again become more unfavour-
able, having rises to 11 20, and an advance had also oc-
curred is the premium on gold, which was now 17.
Speculative contracts for wool of the next clip continued
to be largely made at improving prices.
MARRIAGE IN HIGH LlYE.—Commodore Henry
Eden, R.N. superintendent of her Majesty's dockyard,
Woolwich, and formerly private secretary to the late
Earl of Auckland, was married on the Bth instant, at
Armagh Cathedral, to Elizabeth Harriet Georgiana
Berestord, daughter of the late Lord George Berestord,
niece of the Lord Primate of Ireland, and cousin of the
Marquis of Waterford. The bride, who was attend( d
by Miss G. H. and Miss M. E. Beresford, as bridesmaids,
was given away by the Marquis of Waterford. Afier
the ceremony the bridal party were entertained by his
Grace the Archbishop at a splendid dejeuner at the pa-
lace, Armagh, to which a large number of the
gentry of the neighbourhood had the honour of being
invited. The attachment of the gallant commodore
to the lady to whom ha is now united, has been of ten
years' standing.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DA Y.:
LONDON, FEB. 13.—Wind S.W., light brat ze, fillet
and trusty.

PLYMOUTH, FEB. 1 I.—A ship's longboat, marked on
the outside " Hannah Grayson, of Wokington," was
picked up off Lundy Island, 9th inst., by the Briton ar-
riv. d her,. Std. 12, Margaret, B rmuda.

ROTHESAY, ISLE OF IfUTE: FEB. 10 —A large brig,
outward bound, got on shore this day on Foreland Point,
and is filling with water; crew saved.

HULL, FEB. 11.—The Perseverance smack, of Scar-
borough, Foreman, in entering the. Humber, 9th inst.,
struck on a wreck on the Hale, filled, and sunk;
crew saved.

OFF PORTLAND, FES. 9.—Oscifia, Smith, New York,
for Amsterdam.

OFF RA2eB HEAD.—Thetis, Batavia, abort of provi-
sions, bound up channel.
BEAIIMARIS, FEB. 12.—Wind W. Arrd. Kathleen,
Blompied, New Calabar. ,
PAnsTow, FEB. 11.—Wind N.—Arrd. Chieftain,
Green, Callao.

MUNBLES, FEB. 9.—Sld. Burtel, New Orleans.
LIVERPOOL, 12.—Wind S.—Arrd. 11th, Agnes
lhes, Rio Grande. Sld. Spray, Pernambuco ;
12th, Emigrant, Sydney, New South Wales; Crown,
Hong-Kong; Queen, Calcutta; John Matthei, ditto;
Jenny Wren, ditto; Benjamin Boyd, Africa; Eliza, Riu
Grande; Duke of York, Rio Janeiro; Renown, Bahia;
Urgent, ditto; Tinamara, Ceara; Xeregsns, Port,au
Prince; .Cailo Mauran, New Orleans; Calcutta, ditto;
Rowland, ditto; A,loslern, ditto; Ashland, ditto; Lord
Seaton, ditto; Monmouth, ditto. OfF port, Index. The
schooner wrecked on Taylor's Bank 11th inst., i. under-
sto,cl to be the Mary, Smith, of and for Workington,
from this port. The Standard barque, for Belfast, was
in contact with the James Corner, for Baltimore (al
anchor in Boothe Bay), and has lost mizen-mast.
EXMOUTH, FEB. 10.—Arrd. Cape Breton, Rio Grande.
OFF THE WIGHT, FEB. 12.—Gladiator, New :York.

MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.)

SUGAR.—The market for Uritali Plantation:continues firm,
and the sales are 700 hhds at previous rates. The public
sales have comprised 4,341 bags. Mauritius,
and 1,342 bags
Manilla; the Mauritius mostly sold with spirit at rather
higher prices for strong new; mid to tine yeilovi
brought 37s to 40s, and brown of similar descrir
tion, 33s 6d to 35s 6d. Tho Bengal nearly all
found bu3ers at full rates, viz., 40s to 42s 6d tot
mid to good white Benares; 37s to 38s 6d for low white; 415
6d to 42s for grainy white Dacca and Dhobah ; and 37s 6d to
38s 6d for yellow. The Manilla was all withdrawn at 32s
for low brown, duty paid. 500 chests white Havannah sold
privately at the extreme price of 335. The stock of British
Plantation in the port of London on the Ist inst. was 24,024
hhds 4,731 times, against 20,451 hhds 2,600 tierces at this
time last year. The stock of Mauritius is considerably larger;
also Bengal and Madras.
COFFEE.—The market continues very firm. Priva,ely 1,000
bags, good ord Native Ceylon realised 355. The stock of
British Plantation in the port of London on the Ist instant,
was 2,331 casks, 2,876 barrels and bags, against 2,180 cask*
2.877 barrels and bags at this tidle last year. The stock of
Ceylon is larger, but that of East India and foreign sorts de'
creased.

RuM.—Tlle stock in the port of London on the Ist instant
was 28,020 puns 6,568 hhds, against 17,570 puns 4,398 bbd
to the corresponding period of 1847.
RIOE.-4.900 bags Arracan at auction, nearly all sold At
8s for mid to good white, being rather easier prices.
SALTPETRE.-1,400 bags Bengal at auction sold steadily,
from 25s 6d to 26s 6d for 14i to 6i per cent. refraction.
TALLOW.—P.Y.C. is 40s 9d to 41s per cwt. on the spot,
an i Town 435.

TEA.—The market has been very firm, and the deliveries
are large.

EMT MARKETS.

SMITHFIELD.—Meadow Hay, 21 10st/7:31 12a ; Clover ditto,
3/ lUs to 4/ 13,; and Straw, 113 s to 11 93_ per load. SupPli
rather limited, and trade firm.

CvmuEßLAND.—Meadow Hay, 21 13s to Si 14s; Clover
ditto. 3/ lOs to 4l 10s; and Straw, 11 4s to 11 lOs per load.
A moderate supply and a steady demand, at full prices.
WIIITECHAPEL. —Meadow Hay, 21 12s to 31135; Clover
ditto, 3/ los to 41 l?s; and Straw, 11 3s to 11 9s per load.
Both Hay and Straw moved off freely, at oar quotations.

SPORTIN G IN TELLIGENCE.
TATTERSALL'S.—YESTERDAY.
LIVERPOOL STEEPLECHASE.
8 to 1 agst Mr. Brettle's The Curate—taken
12 to 1 agst Mr. T. Mason's Prince George—taken
20 to 1 ag,t Mr. Coghlan na Edward the First—at°
to 751.
20 to 1 agst Mr. J. Bateman's Napoleon—taken
20 to 1 agst Lord Chesterfield's The Victim
20 to 1 agst Captain Little's Chandler
25 to 1 agst Mr. Buchanan's Alfred—taken
• NORTHAMPTONSHIRE STAKES.
15 to 1 agat Mr. Bouverie's War Eagle
15 to 1 agst Lord Clifden's Footstool
15 to 1 agst Mr. Harrison's Pyrrhus the First
25 to 1 agst Lord Bateman's Goodwood—taken
METROPOLITAN HANDICAP.
8 to 1 agst Lord Eglinton's Lugar—taken freely
10 to 1 agst Lord Stanley's Canezou
14 to 1 agst Mr. Gregory's Loupgarou
15 to 1 agst Mr. B. Green's Flatcatcher—taken
16 to 1 agat Colonel Peel's Dacia—taken
17 to 1 agst Mr. S. L. Fox's Executor
20 to 1 agst Colonel Anson's Backbiter—taken
20 to 1 apt Mr. Gratwicke's Do-the-Boys—taken
20 to 1 agst Mr. J. Clarke's Maid of Lyme—taken
Lugar was backed for all that could be got on at 10r
9, and 8 to 1, and in one bet at 1,000 to 140. No others
were in force.
TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS STAKES.
5 to 1 Mr. F Coirk'A Ms. siiloer
5 to 1 apt Lord Stanley's Uriel—tAen
.5 to 1 agst Lord Clitden's Honeycomb—taken
5 to 1 agst Mr. A. Nichol's Nunnykirk—taken
CHESTER CUP.
20 to 1 agst Mr. J. 13. Day's The Tartar—taken
20 zo 1 agst Mr. F. Clarke's Joe o'Sot
40 to 1 agst Lord Howth's Pee, -o'-Day Boy
40 to 1 agst Lord Chesterfield's Lady Wildair—tkil
50 to 1 agst Duke of Richmond's halo—taken
50 to 1 agst Mr. M. Blake's Ballmafad—taken
3,000 to 60 agst Mr. Adams's Ellerdie—taken
3,000 to 60 agst Lord Eglinton's Lugar—taken
1,000 to 20 agst Colonel Peel's lodine—taken
50 to 1 agst Mr. Gregory's Clermont
50 to 1 agst Mr. Maughan's hathtnines
2,000 so 30 agst Lord Eglinton's Eagle's Plume—taken
3,000 to 45 agst Mr. Isaac Day's Conquest—taken
John Day's two favourites, The Tartar and Joc o'Set;
Lady Wildair, and Halo, eere most frequently inquirea
atter; business, however, was flat, and the prices shoW
very little change.

DERBY
4to 1 agst Lord Eglinton's Flying Dutchman
14 to 1 agst Lord Chtden's Honeycomb
20 to 1 agst Mr. Gully's Osterley
20 to 1 agst Mr. A. Nicholl's Nunnykirk-5,000 to
200 taken
20 to 1 agst Lord Stanley's Uriel—taken and after'
wards offered
30 to 1 agst Lord Eglinton's Elthiron—taken to 50' ,
50 to 1 agst Mr. W. Jones's Magician
4,000 to 60 agst Mr. Woffer:don's Langton—taken and
afterwards offered
1,000 to 15 agst Mr. Bowes's Thringarth
The only horses backed were Nunn) kirk, Uriel,
ron, and Langton.
LIVERPOOL SPRING MEETING AND STEEPLE

CHASE.
Acceptances for the Spring Cup.
st lb at lb
Mogador, 5 yr 5......... 8 7 Rodney, 3 yrs
Farewell, 4 yrs 7 5 Lillie, 3 yrs
Prince Charlie, 4 yrs.. 6 11 B f The Flapper, by
Caledon, 4 yr 5......... 6 8 Touchstone, out of
Reality, 4 yrs

Acceptances for
st 11
Subduer, aged
Postilion, 4 yrs ll 2
Acceptances for the Gra]
Han
st lh st 1b
Chandler, aged l2 2La Sylphide, aged... 10 9
The Curate, aged
Proceed, aged ll 11 Napoleon, 6 yrs lO 8
Tho Doctor, aged.... 11 7 Peter Simple, aged lO 8
St. Leger, aged
Wolverhampton,aged 11 5 Chatham, aged lO 6
Briti,h Yeoman,aged 11 4 Fisticuff, aged lO 6
Mathew, aged ll 2 Coriander, aged
Arab Robber, 6 yrs.. 11 2 Alfred, 5 yrs lO 4
6.„
Mulligan, 4 yrs
The Iron Duke, 5 yrs 11 0 Jerry, aged llll
5
,
Kiltane, aged ll 0 Vulture, aged lO 4
Fat her Mat hew, aged 10 13 Thurgarton, aged
Salute, aged
The Victim, aged ... 10 11 spem Gregis, 5 yrs 919
Prince George, aged 10 10 ,Equinox, aged , 9 19
Subduer, aged lO 10 Khondooz, aged 9 19
. 4
Sir John, aged
Ed ward the First, agd 10 10 Sparta. age,i
Crown Pl'lliet. hlt ' 28 (4h i s pa) 5 sovn. each.

the Welter Cup.

st lb
,Prince Charlie, 4 yrs 10 9
Rodney, 3 yrs ...... 10 "'
.nd National Steeplechase
dicap.

CARDIGAN ELECTION.-011 saturusy Pryse Prysei
Esq.. was elected member for Cardigan by a majority °
eight votes.
The election of a representative for the Southern
Divi,iun Staffordshire has been fixed by the Hon. ~,
G ugh, the High Sheriff, to take place at Lichfield, 011
Monday, the 12Th inst.
The General Steam Navigation Company's stearn.
ship Waterwiich arrived at London bridge Wharf orl
Sunday afternoon with an immense c irgo of Yorkshire
goods. The passage: trom Hull was performed in twenty''
two toairs.

BIRTHS.
On the Sth inst., at Pontypool-park, Monmouthshire, the

lady of Capel Hanbury Leigh. Esq., of a daughter.
On the 9th inst., at Park-hill, Clapham, Mrs. Joseph Hu--
son, jun., of a daughter.
On the 9th inst., at Frittenden, the Lady Harriet Af°°re'
of a son.
On the 9th inst., at Dorset square, the wife of J. Isaacs'
Di., of a it,ugliter.

MED.
Virrittle
On the Bth of January last, at Water-house Farm,
Essex, Benjamin Wing, Esq., aged tO.
On the Bth ir.st., at the Vicarage, Canwick, aged 23'
George, second son of the Rev. G. Quilter. eS
On the Bth inst., at Cheltenham, aged 63, Major Joint.
Burke, formerly of' the 44th and late of the 77th Itegioll.
On the 9th inst., Eliza Partridge, relict of the Rev. R•
B. Phillipson. -upton
On the 9th inst , in Edward-street, Hampstead-road,
Calderwood, Esq, of her Majeqy's Ordnance, aged 59.
On the I 1 th inst., at Queen Elizabeth-row, Greenwlew
Jelin Alexander, Esq., aged 86. • 5--
Acona
On the 10th inst., in Eaton-square, Georgians,.
daughter of J. W. Childers, Esq ,

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