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`THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 9, 1849.

to give up the fort, and that no officer ever came for-
ward to take possession of it. All that occurred was
the arrival of a colonel, who did not belong to the
Guard Mobile,who without troops orany written order,
came and made a simple demand to the men to
withdraw from the fort. M. Huot declares that the
idea of resisting the proper authorities would
never have occurred to him, and he protests
against the supposition that he endeavoured
to produce any agitation amongst his men.
Barbes has written to the Reforme a letter, dated
the 6th, in which he speaks of the visit of M.
Berenger, President of the High Court of Jus-
tice, to Vincennes, to interrogate the prisoners
for the last time. Barbee, not recognising the
validity of the jurisdiction, refused to answer.
On the point of legal defenders, he declared that
he had intended to be assisted by MM. Martin
Bernard and Quignot, his companions in confine-
ment at St. Michel, but that they were to act
only in the quality of advisers on the trial.
M. Berenger replied that if Barbes persisted
in choosing M. Martin Bernard, the Court would
be obliged to assign him an advocate ex officio,
since, as M. Martin Bernard is a reyresentative
of the people, and not a member of the bar, the Court
would find itself disarmed of all disciplinary power
against him. Barbes protested against the decision,
and he expresses a hope in his letter that M. Boinvil-
Hers, who has been appointed his advocate by the
Court, will not come to Vincennes, to meet with a
rofusal in person. _ _

We read in the Corsaire :—" A representative of
the Moderate party went a few days ago to the
Princess Demideff, and told her that a plot was
being formed against M. Louis Bonaparte, her
cousin. According to his account, General Chan-
gamier and Marshal Bugeaud had entered into an
engagement to place the Prince de Joinville on the
throne. The representative recommended the Princess
to advise the President of the Republic to name Ge-
neral Bedeau to be Commander-in-Chief of all the
forces in the capital. On this being communicated to
him, M. Louis Bonaparte sent immediately for Ge-
neral Changarnier, and told him the whole story, and
the General was the first to laugh at the rumour."

SPAIN.
THE MADRID MAIL TAKEN BY THE CAB.

LISTS.

The Memorial Bordelais, of the 6th instant, quotes
the following letter, accounting for the non arrival of
the Madrid mail of the Ist :

" W e hasten to publish, in the interest of the mer-
chants of our city, who maintain such impor-
tant relations with Spain, the following letter,
communicated to us last night by she Prefect of the
Gironde :—The conductor of the mail, just ar-
rived from Bayonne, informs us that the Madrid
mail did not reach Bayonne yesterday, 4th February.
That mail was attacked and plundered by a Carlist band,
beyond Vittoria, where the remnants of the carriage
we re found dispersed on the road. We have received no
certain informtien respecting the fate of the dispatches.
Notice of this occurrence was brought to Bayonne by an
express, sent by the director of the Vittoria post-office,
the hearer of the correspondence from that town only."
Madrid journals of the 24 have arrived.
It was said MORON would supersede BRAVO
Muum.c. as Minister for Public Works.
The 13olsa was closed on the 21.

without purchase, vice Peard, appointed to the 10th
Foot, Feb. 9.
74th Foot—Captain Edward Francis French, from
half-pay Unattached, to be Captain, vice Brevet Major
Charles Hugh Lyle Tinling, who exchanges, receiving
the difference ; Lieutenant Denis Godley to be
Captain, by purchase, vice French, who retires; En-
sign Charles Thomas Lindow to be Lieutenant,
by purchase, vice Godley ; William Henry Addison
Gent., to be Ensign by purchase, vice Lindon, Feb. 9.
76th Foot—Ensign John Dunlop to be Quartermaster,
vice John William Preston, who retires upon half-pay ;
George Reynell Gresson, Gent., to be Ensign by pur-
chase, vice Dunlop, appointed Quartermaster, Feb. 9.
85th Foot—Ensign James Brown Young, from the
26th Foot. to be Ensign, vice Thistlethwayte, who ex-
changes, Feb. 9.
88th Foot—Lieutenant William Belfield, from the
17th Foot, to be Paymayster, vice David Cahill, who
retires upon half-pay; Henry Thompson, Gent., to be
Ensign, by purchase, vice Daunt, appointed to the 9th
Foot, Feb. 9.
2d West India Regiment—Ensign George Ellis to be
Lisutenant, without purchase, vice Wedderburn, de-
ceased, Oct. 29, 1848; Lloyd Richter Creak Drou€l,
Gent., to be Ensign, vice Ellie, Feb. 9.
Royal Canadian Rifle Regiment--Major Robert
Muter to be Lieutenant-Colonel, by purchase, vice New-
ton, who retires; Captain Patrick Leonard M'Dougall to
be Major, by purchase, vice Muter ; Lieutenant
George Deare to be Captain, by purchase, vice M'Dou-
gall; Ensign Robert Berney Ficklin to be Lieutenant,
by purchase, vice Deere; Alfred John Lane, Gent., to
be Ensign, by purchase. vice Ficklin, Feb. 9.
BREVET.—Captain Edward Francis French, of the
74th Foot. to be Major in the Army, Jan. 10, 1837.

ERRATUM in the Gazette of the 15th Deeember, 1848.

Royal Monmouth Militia—Richard Arthur Laurence,
Gent., to be Lieutenant, vice Benjamin Hogsflesh, re-
signed, and not vice J. Steuart M‘Gregor, whose com-
mission remains uncancelled.

Commission signed by the Lot d-Lieutenant of Glouces-
tershire, and of the City of Gleucester and County of
the same City, and of the City and County of the City

of Bristol.

The Royal Gloucestershire Regiment of Ilussar Yeo-
manry.—Edward Colston, Gent., to be Lieutenant, vice
Austin, who retires, Feb. 6.
WHITEHALL, JAN. 23.
The Lord Chamberlain has appointed John Banfield,
of St. Mary's, Scilly, in the county of Cornwall, Gent.,
to be a Master Extraordinary In the High Court of
Chancery.
WHITEHALL, JANUARY 27, 1849.
The Lord Chancellor has appointed Joseph Wright,
of Doncaster, in the county of York, Gent., to be a
Master Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery.

WHITEHALL, FEB. 3.
The Lord Chancellor has appointed William Roby,
of Liverpool, in the county of Lancaster, Gent., to be a
Master Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery.

CONFERENCE.

Their Lordships then proceeded to appoint the Lord
Privy Seal, Lord Hawarden, Lord Beaumont, and seve-
ral other Noble Lords to manage a conference with the
Commons on the subject of ingrossing Bills. Their
L irdships, so appointed, left the House, and alter an ab-
sence of ten minutes returned and reported that the
conference had been held.

degraded certain districts of Ireland, when the
Government felt it to be their duty to ap-
peal to this House for extraordinary powers to aid
in the repression of agrarian crime in the southern dis-
triets of Ireland, he did not hesitate to respond to that
appeal ; and when, in the last year, political excitement
had been so heightened in various districts throughout
the country, then be thought it but an act of
mercy to many young and hasty men engaged
in the rebellion at that mull-sent, that restrictions
should be imposed upon them calculated to preserve
their honour and their lives. When he thought it his
duty to give hie support to the propos.tion of the Go-
vernment, he did so on plain and palpable grounds He did
say the absence of political excitement was essential totthe
industrial progression and social improvement of Ireland;
and he felt that amid the political disturbance and social
disruption in those rural districts of Ireland, no party suf•
fered so much as the poor labouring classes of that ceuntry
—(clear, hear)—and he felt, that every matt, practi-
cally acquainted with the condition end eircumstaeces,
of certain districts in Ireland was bound to give his un-
qualified sum rt to the measure of her Majesty's Go-
vernment. But he believed in no country, ur at no time,
was such a matter brought forward as that which had
now been placed before the House. I there
were facts notorious public in Ireland to justify
the introduction of this Bill, he should have no hesitation
in giving it at once his unqualified support. If he could
trace anything to justify the Herne Secretary in holding
up to the llcuse and to the country any portion' of her
Majesty's subjects in Ireland as disloyal or dis-
affected, ho should have no hesitation in giving
his support to that Bill. Jf he had any grounds to jus
tify him in apprehending that any considerable portion
of the Irish people were at this moment disloyal
or disaffected, he should have no hesitation to
give unqualified support to this measure, but while
he had no small opportunities of judging of
He understood that the measure was introduced as a
social and not as a political measure, and it was de-
decidedly understood also that it should in no way in-
terfere with the question of the Repeal of the Union.
He had been led to believe that under the suspension of
the Habeas Corpus Act only 120 individuals were
imprisoned, and he helieved that only 109
persons were retained in prison under the
the feelings of the people in the southern districts of
Ireland, he was bound to say, from his extensive acquaint-
ance with the feelings of the poorer classes in
the proclaimed districts of Ireland, he felt
it his duty emphatically to declare that
those poor people were unalterably attached
to the institutions of this country, and that they were
devoted and loyal to the person and the crown of the
Queen—(Hear, hear)—and if there were any discontent
and disaffection among the people of Ireland, that dis-
content and disaffection arising from the policy of the
existing Cabinet. —(llca, hear.) He complained of the
grounds on which the present Bill was introduced. It
seemed to him that the letter of the Lord- Lieutenant had
been read for the purpose of persuading the House to
a continuance of the coercive legislation on
Ireland, as calculatee to stimulate the industry and to
develop the resources of that country. He had
already said he acknowledged that public tranquillity
and social order were essential to the progress of in-
dustry in Ireland; but it would be idle and puerile to
contend that the existence- of: &espial order alone
ever could secure of the people of leeke,nd
the blessings and consequences of industrial occupatienS.
(Hear, hear.) He averred that if they deserved to
scare capital from Ireland—(llear, hear)—if they de•
sired to hunt froth the country the independent end in-
dustrious portion of its population, they would continue
that miserable system of coercion—(Hear, hear)—that
miserable make-shift, they would continue to snepend
the constitution of that country, and to place the people
at the mercy of a pelitical dictator.—(Hear, hear.)

to the lower sorts not much has been passing. There
is a brisker sale for flowery Pekoe, and better rates are
paid. In consequence of a slight reduction having, been
acceded to for Scented ()ra• go Pt koe, several parcels
were disposed of at is 2d to Is 8d for good to fine.
Other Teas are bald vtith firmness, aad low '1: wank a y is
wanted by exporters at 6d to 6id.
RicE.,—To-day a good sale was experienced for East
Irdia Rice. At auction 3,500 bags of Arracan at sale
all sold at full rates—good clean plump 3 ellow went at
Bs, and damage,' 6s to 7s 61, but 1,421 bags of Penang
were tak. n in at 9s for mid y.-llowiah rather mixed.

PICES.—To-day at public sale 13 pkgs Nottbegs
went at former rates—good middling and Loni brown
2s I Id to 3s 3d, middling 2s 74, mouldy is 2d to 2,10 d,
very low Gd to 9d,; 600 bags wild in the shell 3FI; 2
pkgs Mace sold 2s 7d, damaged 2s 2d; 10 bales Madras
ginger 23s to 25s 6d, and 17 pkgs Preserved Jamaica
10d per lb.

SPiwers.—There is yet much dulness in the market
fur Leeward Island Rum, and sellers are 4:rifling to ac-
cept former low rates by reason of an abundant supply ;
superior kinds are much wanted, and which reali,e stiff
prise,. Few parcels are to be met with. Erfst India
is liti le want( d. Orders for Leeward Island arc small, and
sellers are ready to accept Is 4d to is 4:1(1 proof. Fine
Demerera is scarce and yet much in demand. Biandy,
is still held with, firmness, and coatinut s excellent de-
mand. For Geneva the rates asked are Is 10d to is lid
for ord, and 2:-; 4tl to 3s 3d fgrAill,k9inswriblo sort.
afteinoen the demand was better
for Cochineal, and 86 bags Honduras at auction, all sold ;-
silvers at 3s 9(1 to 4s 8d for ordinary to fine, which are
stiffer rates; black went at 4$ 6d to 5a 5d for low to
good, being full prices.
TALLOW—To-day the public sales of tallow went off
at better rates. Of New South Wales 140 cks mostly
sold at 37s to 38s; 643 cks South American 34s 9,1 to
38s 3d; 11 cks N.rth American 40s 6d; 31 chts East
India 42s to 42s 6d; 70 cks Russian, soap tallow 36s 9d
to 375; second sort P. Y. candle 38s 3d to 393 3d.

OILS.—To-day prices were not supported for Sperm
Oil, and 120 tuns at auction only in part sold at 801 5s
to 80s 15s for fine Colonial, and Headmatter 83/10s.

PRICES OF SHARES

.N BANKS, ASSURANCE, AN'D OTHER COM.

PANIES' STOCK.
LONDON, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 9.
JOINT-STOCIL piLTIXS.

Dividend
Name of Company. per

1 Annum.

lastralasia ..........
Britsh.North American Si. per cent.
Ceylon ........ • • • 71. pzr cent.
:lonunercial of London 61. per cent.
....
Gloucestershire ...• • • 151 per cent.
lonian •.• . . • .••• • .• 6/. per cent.
Londn and Westmlnstr 6/. per cent.
London Joint-Stock ...
Provincial of Ireland

61. per cent.
81. per cent.
s'. per cent.
51. per cent.
61. per cent.
B'. per cent.
51. per. cent
61. per cent.

Ditto,
National of Iroland
Nat. Provncial of Eng.

Ditto, Now. • . . • ._.
South Australia .. • • ..
Union of Australia •• ..

Union et L0nd0n.....
TRIon of Madrid

Amount
of
Share.

A s. d.
40 0 0
50 0 0
25 0 0
100 0 0
100 0 0

25 0 0
100 0 0

50 0 0
100 0 0
10 0 0
SO 0 0
100 0 0
20 0 0

25 0 0

Z s. d.
40 0 0
50 0 0
25 0 0
20 0 0
25 0 0

25 0 0
20 0 0
13 0 0
10 0 0
25 0 0
10 0 0
22 10 0
35 0 0
10 0 0
22 10 0
25 0 0
2 10 '0
10 0 0
40 0 0

Prici,