The Sun.
London, England, 1849-03-17 00:00:00

ITALY.

The Corriere Mercantile of Genoa announces that
King CHARLES ALBERT has given notice to the
Austrians of the termination of the armistice, and
that he had returned a dignified answer to the re-
monstrances of the French and English Ambassadors.
RADETZKY, it is said, will await the approach- of
CHARLES ALBERT under the walls of Milan, being well
convinced that if he abandons the city to take up an
advanced position, Milan and the whole of Lombardy
will be in instant insurrection.
The Provisional Government of Tuscany has pub-
lished a manifesto (of which the following is a sum-
mary), in answer to the protest of the ex-Grand
Duke :
" Leopold had freely accepted the Ministerial pro-
gramme, and subsequently, though after some hesitation,
signed the Bill for the Italian Constituent Assembly.
He afterwards left Florence, without informing the
Council of Ministers of his intention, but merely com-
municating it to the Minister of Finance, who happened
to call at the Pali Palace the evening before his depar-
ture. The Ministry, on hearing the rumours which were
spreal concerning the intended flight of the Prince, sent
Chevalier Ghigi and Chevalier Punzzi to Siena, to in-
vite him to return immediately to Florence, or else to
accept the resignation of the Ministry. The two Depu-
ties found the Prince in bed and unwell, but he declared
his wish to return as soon as possible to Florence, and
have the counsel cf his Cabinet. The remaining circum-
stances are known—Leopold fled secretly from Siena,
made the place of his retreat a secret, nor did he name a
Provisional Government ; for how could he then hay(
recommended the country to the care of the Slinistry?
He then proceeded to Porto San Stefano, and tried to
excite civil war by his letters and orders to Laugier ;
and la tly, left the Tuscan territory. Hence may be
concluded-Ist, that Leopold of Austria had no reason
of complai:(t against his Ministry; 2d, that in virtue of
the Constitution he could not leave the country, nor
even establish a Provisional Government—the more so
as he had no violence to complain of ; 3d, that Leopold,
by remainimx at Porto San Stefano, intended to return,
not as a constitutional, but as an absolute Sovereign,
placing his hopes in the dread which would seize the
people, the Assembly, and the Ministry, in civil war and
foreign intervention. But none of these calculations
were fulfilled. Leopold left Porto San Stefano' not for
the reasons he giges in his protest of the 20th, but be-
cause there was no room for him there. No armed body
, as he pretends; some Muni-
sent to Gropeto, to maintain
Muni-
cipal lbGuardsebeen
sentoab against ain
were st l)ina
tranquillity there. A Republican Government had not
been, as he pretends, established in Tuscany, the Re
public having merely been proclaimed by the people, as
a desire whie"t would probably be realised by the Re-
presentatives of the people."
This manifesto, which is dated 4th March, is
signed by GUERRAZZI, MAzzom, and MONTANELLI.
The Nazionale, cited by the Concordia of Turin,
announces that a Ministerial crisis has occurred at
Rome ; Sturbinetti has replaced Mazzarelli, Manzoni
has replaced Guiccioli, and Montecchi has taken the
place of Sterbini. The following is now the compo-
sition of the Roman Ministry :—Manzoni, Minister
of Finance; Saffi, of the Interior; Rusconi, Foreign
Affairs ; Lazzarini, Justice ; Montecohi, Public
Works ; Sturbinetti, Instruction ; and Rilliet Con-
stant, Minister of War.
The Corriere Livornese quotes a letter from Naples
of the sth, stating that hostilities are to recommence
in Sicily on the 15th, pursuant to notice from the
Neapolitan Government to the Sicilians. Thirty thou-
sand men are to march from Messina upon Catania
and Augusta, while the naval squadron is to proceed
to Palermo.
The Costituente Italiana of the 9th quotes a letter
from the Neapolitan frontier, stating that GARRI
BALDI'S army is daily recruited with deserters from
the Neapolitan forces with arms and baggage, and
with Calabrians and, men from the Abruzzi, who
enrol themselves under the banners of the Republic.
On hearing ,of the departure of fresh Neapolitan
troops for Sicily, Colonel Ls MAssA. left Rome for
Palermo with a large party of French soldiers, en-
rolled for the Sicilian Government. Father VENTURA
informed him before his departure, that the Nea-
politan Chamber had protested against the last ulti-
matum, on the ground of its not having been ap-
proved'by all the constituted powers of the state, and
that diplomacy had taken advantage of the circum-
stance to propose new c0:22:1.211._

TURKEY.
CONSTANTINGI*LE, FEB. 21.—There is an increas-
ing feeling here that at the beginning of the spring
serious engagements will take place on the northern
frontier. The recruitings and military armaments
are being made on a very extensive scale. Intelli-
gence to the same effect is received from all the pro-
vinces. On the 15th there was a large Cabinet
Council, which the SULTAN attended in person, and
on the 16th Sir STRATFORD CANNING had a long con-
ference with the President of the Council. The
troops on the Russian frontier are mustering in large
numbers, and arrive from both sides.

I 15 ELAND.
(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
THE LORD-LIEUTENANT.
DUBLIN, FRIDAY EVENING.--LOrd Clarendon leaves
Dublin on the 24th inst., on a visit to his estates in
England. It is not known bow long his Excellency will
be absent from the seat of Government.
POTATO CULTURE.
Accounts from the provinces speak in rather alarming
terms of an almost universal return " by the peasantry"
to the culture of the potato. Whole tracks are being
laid down with the fatal root, nor does there
appear to be any lack in the supply of seed, manure, &c.,
which seem to spring up as if by magic, notwithstanding
the complaints of inability to till the soil.
THE CORN TRADE.
We had
a fair demand for all kinds of grain at market
t°-(11Y, and currencies of Tuesday were generally sup-
ported.
There was an improved demand for Indian corn, and
we auvance our extreme quotations Is. per quarter.

TROOPS FOR INDIA.—An intimation has just been
received by the Court of Directors of the East India
Company,
are ready to embark for India. The following ships
to the effect that the 75th and s7th regiments
have been appointed by the East India Company to con-
vey the 87th to Calcutta :—Plantagfnet, Time and
Smith, Dalhousie,
Essex, and Lady Macdonald. The
Plantag( net is to sail, if possible, on the 11th of next
month, from Gravesend. The other ships are to sail on
he 19th and 20th of next month. The regiment will
remain at Weedon, its present quarters, until its embar-
kation. It is understood that ships have not yet been
decided upon for conveyance of the 75th Foot, which is
now stationed of Kilkenny.

CHANCERY.-(THIS DAY.)
(Before the LORD CHANCELLOR.)
STEWART V. FORBES.
Th.,l Court was ()coupled throughout the morning in
hearing the arguments of ccuns,l in this cause, which
was part heard on a previous du).

VICE-CHAN CERY.-(THIS DAY.)
(Before Vice• Cha%CeIIOrWIGRAM.)
BROMLEY V. NY RIGIIT.—JUDGMEN T.

His HONOUR gave judgment i❑ this cause this morn.
ing, which had reference to the construction of a will.
The testator, Thomas Bromley, by his will, made on the
10th of February, 1825, gave to his wife, Mary
Bromley, 5001, to be paid to her by his trustees, within
two months after his decease; secondly, he
gave to her his household goods and other
effects ; thirdly, he gave to his trustees all
his re it and personal estate, in trust to pay the income to
his wife for her life, and after. her decease, upon trust,
within the expiration of ten years from the death of his
wife, in case the testator survived his wire, to sell and
convert the property into money, and invest the proceeds
in Government or other securities, at interest; and he
declared his will to be that the income to arise from such
conversion should be held upon trust for the purpose of
answering and satisfying the several annuities and lega-
cies afterwards bequeathed in his will. The testator
baring made a large provision by his will for his wife in
the first year, then he suspended the distribution of
his residuary estate for ten years, and then divided it;
then he gave annuities to certain parties, among others,
to Mary and Agnus Bromley, his sister Elizabeth Brom-
ley, his brother Henry Bromley, two ladies named Cow-
ley, and the four children of Major Bromley—to be paid
at the expiration of ten years from his death, and then at
the end of ten years he gave certain pecuniary legacies to
the same parties to whom he had previously given an-
nuities. The testator then went on to dispose of the
residue of his estate. The testator died, leaving his
widow surviving.him. The widow is since dead, and
the ten years within the expiration of which the pro•
party was to be converted has expired. Henry Brom-
ley, one of the legatees in the will, died in the testator's
lifetime. Mary and Agnus Bromley (other legatees)
outlived the testator, but both of them died before the
expiration of the ten years. At the end of the ten years
two only out of the four children of Major Bromley were
living; and the object of the suit was to ascertain the
rights of the different parties, and to have the estate ad-
Ministered under the direction of the Court. The first
question was, of what did the residue consist ?—did it
include the real as well cs the personal estate, and
had the legacies of Mary and Agnes Bromley
fallen in or not. Of Henry Bromley's legacy there could
be no doubt; he having died in the testator's lifetime, his
legacy lapsed as a matter of course. The second ques-
tion was, who were the residuary legatees entitled to
share in the residue under the will; thirdly, with refer-
ence to which of the legacies given by the will, the pro•
portion in which the residue n-as to be divided among
the residuary legatees—there being beside legacies, pro-
perty so called, annuities for ten years, and annuities for
life, and also specific legacies; fourthly, was any part of
the residue estate undisposed of; and fifthly, to whom
did that residue, if undisposed of, belong? The con-
struction of the will was to aided by reason and
Probability. With respect to the first question,
as to what the residue consisted of, whether of
real or personal estate, there could be no reason-
able doubt ; it was impossible that it comprised
real as well as personal estate. With respect to the
legacies of Mary and Agnus Bromley, who survived the
testator and died before the expiration of the ten years,
he (the Vice-Chancellor) thought, though not without
hesitation, that the legacies to those ladies were vested,
and not contingent on their outliving the terms of ten
years. His opinion, therefore, was, with regard to those
two legacies to Mary and Agnus, that they did not fall
into the residue. The residue would therefore consist
`of real and personal estate, not increased by the lapse of
Henry's legacy, but not affected by the death of Mary
and Agnus. Secondly, as to who were the persons en-
titled to share in the residue, Henry must of
course be excluded, as he died in the life-
time of the testator. Next, as to the legatees,
the children of Major Bromley—the argument on one
side was, that the residue was given to the legatees
named i❑ the will, and it was said that the children of
Major Bromley were described, but not named. To that
argument he (the Vice-Chancellor) confessed he could
not accede. With respect to the legatees, Mary and
Agnus Bromley, it was not argued that they lost their
'shares of the residue because they died within ten years;
but it was in the highest degree improbable that the
testator intended Elizabeth Bromley to share in the
residue. Then came the unfortunate question about
the widow of the testator, and whether she was to be
entitled to share in the residue as a legatee
of the testator. That such was the intention
of the testator could not be imagined, for the
estate was not to be converted into money, for
the purpose of the division of the residue, possibly, until
ten years after his widow's death. He thought that the
words of the residuary clause were sufficient to exclude
the wife from a share in the residue. The third question
was, in what way the shares of the residue were to be
measured. He confessed he had much difficulty in be-
lieving that the testator, who did, in a sense, continue
the annuities, by subscribing a gross sum for them
after the expiration of ten years, could have contem-
plated a retrospective valuaticn of the expired annuities
as the measure of interest of his legatees in his reside-•
iry interest. The fourth point was, whether any part
of the residuary estate was undisposed or. That ap-
plied only to Henry's legacy. Henry was a legatee of
the residue, in proportion at the amount of the legacy
given to him, which legecy lapsed by his death. He (the
Vice-Chancellor) thought Henry's share remained un-
disposed of.
His Honour, the Vice-Chancellor Knight Bruce, was
occupied in hearing short causes of no public interest,
and the Courtrose shortly after 11 o'clock.

CLERKEN WELL.-('PHIS DAY.)
➢ir. Pickard Brylie, of the Red Lion public-house, St.
John-street-road, was charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt,
with keeping his house opts bf•tween the hours of twelve
o'clock on Saturday night and one o'clock on Sunday
afternoon, " not being for the accommodation of tra-
vellers."

The defendant pleaded Guilty, but said that he
thought the law allowed him to serve such customers as
he was in the habit of receiving at that time on Satur-
day nights, as they were " strictly travellers."
The inspector of police stated that the defendant,
whose house was otherwise very well conducted, la-
boured under a mistake as to the meaning of the Act in
this particular. The class of customers, whom he en-
tertained during the illegal hours were drovers, and he
had been told, to no purpose, that the Act did not apply
to them under the circumstances.

The defendant said that they were at those times
waiting to start upon their journey, having put up their
cattle in his layers.

The Chief Clerk observed that certainly drovers were
at proper times to be considered as travellers. But the
defendant ought to know very well that such was not
the case after twelve o'clock on Saturday night, as the
law expressly forbade them to travel with their cattle on
Sunday.

Mr: TYRIVHITT said that, as the defendant had evi-
dently been labouring under a mistake, he should not
this time inflict the penalty of 51. As he had been cau.
tioned, however, he would fine him 40s.

INSTITUTION FOR THE DEAF AND DUMB.—At a
meeting this day of the committee of the above valuable
charity, it was stated that the progress of teaching trades
to the deaf and dumb, at the termination of their course
of education at other schools, continued singularly suc-
cessful and encouraging, superintended as the two prin-
cipal departments were by hearing masters, fully quali-
fied for the arduous task imposed upon them. It ap-
pears that several clergymen in the provincial districts
have made applications for the admission of youths, who
although educated, exhibit unmistakeable symptoms of
being unable to learn any trade or occupation, unless
placed under the direction of those who from experience
can sympathise with the afflictions of the deaf and dumb,
and accustom themselves to their habits and manners.
In conclusion, a hope was expressed that the beneficial
workings of the institution would not only continue, but
augment as the necessity increased—a necessity that only
required to be more generally known to ensure a more
widely-extended co-operation on the part of the bene-
volent and humane.

THE ATTEMPTED MURDER OF MR. SOUTHGATE.—
Yesterday Alfred Ayres, the gipsy in custody on suspi-
cion of being the offender, after undergoing a lengthened
examination before the magistrates at Epsom, was dis-
charged for want of sufficient evidence.
DEATH or COLONEL T. Gooca.—We have
!to re-
cord the demise of this gentleman, who expired on the
14th instant, in the 76th year of his age. The deceased
gentleman was brother to the prei.ent Sir Thomas Gooch,
Bart., and was uncle to Mr. E. S. Gooch, M.P. for East
Suffolk. His brother William was also an officer of rank
in the army. Colonel Gooch was married to a daughter
of Sir Robert Barker, Bart., and relict of Philip Webb,
Esq., of Milford-place, Sussex. This family is of great
importance in Suffolk, and maternally the deceased was
descended from William of Wainfleet, the founder of
Magdalene College, Oxford.

DEATH OF SIR JOHN SHELLY SIDNEY, BART.-
This venerable and much respected Baronet, the father
of Lord de Lisle and Dudley, died on the 14th inst., at
Penshurst, Kent, in the 78th year of his age. The de-
ceased was born in 1771, being the son of Sir B. Shelly,
He married 1799 the daughter of the late Sir H. Hurd-
lake, Bart., of Wingerworth-hall, county of Derby, by
whom, who died in 1811, he has had, amongst other
issue, a son Philip, created Lord do Lisle and Dudley,
who succeeds to the family property. The deceased in
1793 assumed the surname and arms of Sidney, tosnark
his descent from the Sidneys, Earls of Leicester. The
family is ono of the oldest in the empire, and can trace
au undisputed succession in a direct line from the Con-
queror. _

- We understand from authority that the steamer
Bombay, engaged to carry out troops and stores for the
insurgents at Pal( rmo, was yesterday seized by the Cus-
tom-house authot ities at Blackwell.

A woman named Martha Jones was indicted at
Stafford for the wilful murder of her own child and her
niece. The pc or woman had been subject to paroxysms
of insanity, and during one of them she seized a knife
and cut the throats of the children. During the trial
she paid no attention to the proceedings, but looked
about the court with a vacant and idiotic stare. She
was acquitted on the ground of insanity, and ordered to
be detained during her Majesty's pleasure.
Two lads, the one 17 and the other only 16 years
of age, named George Miller and Henry Sheepwasb,
were yesterday sentenced to death at Maidstone for the
wilful murder of an old man named William Law. They
broke into the old man's cottage by night, for the pur-
pose of robbing him. The old man awoke during
the tima they were in his bedroom, and they beat him
on the head with an iron bar and fractured his skull.
They acknowledged their guilt.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, (21.1.41?" Ell 7'o 7HItEE.
In the Cotton Market Liverpool, yesterday, there
was not much anitnali-n. Railway Shares were dull,
but at the clu-e 10,.ked ssanewhat better.
It will be observed by the weekly return of the Bank
of England, made up to Saturday last, that there was
once more a retrograde movement in respect to the busi-
ness of the Corporation. Allowing for the effect of an
increase in the deposits, we have still to look to the sum
of the other securities, and finding them in decline, we
conclude that there is less discount business doing.
The Government 'account progresses well, and there
is no reason to assume that it will not, before
the Dividends are made payable, have reached the-usual
sum. The assets are accumulating, and the bullion
which was last week diminished is again on the increase.
A comparison with the previous week's return gives the
following result:—
Notes Issued ... 28,548,245
Increase ... 233,690
Rest ••• ••• ... 3,858,509
Increase ... 3,141
Public Deposits 6.667,141
Increase ... ..„ 526,569
Other Deposits ... ... 9,997,665
)verease „, 89

Seven Day and other Bills 1,091,513
Decrease 36,489
Government securities ... No alteration
Other Securities 10,698,753
Decrease 97 016
Netes ... 10,645,925
Increase ... ... 703,480
... 15.297,212
Increase 120,358
Active Circulation 17,902.320
D. crease ... ... 469,790
There has been more firmness in the foreign ex-
change.% than from the unsettled sate of continental
aff Ars might peibaps have been expected, and upon one
or two places bills wcre taken yesterday afternoon at
prices rather in favour of the sellers of bills.
The Funds are still under the influence of the foreign
news, and there have been one or two heavy speculative
transactions. The quarter whence most is apprehended
appears now to be Russia, as it is conceived that Sar-
dinia may listen to the remonstrances of France, and the
affair of the Pope be settled by joint intervention. On
this subject all is mere surmise at present. Consols
have been as low as 90it for money, and since 904; they
are now about 90i 4. For time the quotations have been
901 to 90i. Exchequer-bills are 395. to 41s. prem.
The Foreign Securities are flat, if we except Peruvian,
which has been in demand on Dutch account, and is now
59 to 59k. Mexican Bonds are 28 to 28,-1, and Grenada
17k to 1771-. Spanish Five per Cents. are 151 to 16k,
and Portuguese Four per Cents. 261 to 274.
Shares are heavy, and generally lower.
ON a CL,?SING
CAI 17F ir FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES.
I,er Cent. Reduced AT:I18 ...... 91 91
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities 901% 90%
India Bonds, 1,0001.
Consols for Account.. 9O%IAIN 5/N 90%
Exchequer Bills. & 2d.
1,000/. June 39 p 39 p
5001. June ... 43 40 p 40:p
Small, June
Ditto Advertised, March 1.1/(1 36 39p 89 p

PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. ONE CLOSESG
O'CLOCK. PRICES.

Brazilian Bonds —

804

Ditto, Small... BO%
Buenos Ayres Bonds, 6 per Cent.
Equador Bonds
Grenada Bonds, 1 per Cent.
Mexican, 5 per Cent. 1846 2B 28
Ditto, Account
Peruvian Bonds, 6 per Cents —
Ditto, Account ... 591/s 59118
Ditto, 4 per Cent
Russian Bonds -
Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840.
Ditto, Account l6 16
Ditto, Passive
Ditto 3 Der Cent — 283/4
Dutch 2% per Cent., 12 Guild 49 48% 48%
Ditto, 4 per Cent. Certificates 79 79
1•1, ICES OF BUSINESS DONE CLOSING
!RAILWAY PAID. SHARES. AT ONE O'CLOCK. PRICES.]
Birkenhead, Lancashire,
and Cheshire June-- 10
Auckinghamshire ... 164 4s.
Caledonian
Do. New 10/. Pref..... 10 ... - 111/ ..... ......... 1114
Chester and Holyhead... 50
Ditto, Preference
past Anglia, 251., L &
E. and L. and D...... 25
Eastern Comities........ 20 ...... 10%1 % . .....
Do. New Guaranteed
6 per Cent. .
East Lincolnshire ...... 25
Great Northern - 11
Do., !,.2 A Deferred ... 121 h
Do. Extension 2% ...... ..... ...
treat South. and West
(Ireland)
Great Western 100 ...... 95
Ditto, % Shares
Ditto, Fifths ..... 20
Ditto, New 171........ 15 ... - 12% ... ........ ....
Lancashire & Yorkshire 93
Do. Quarter Shares... 17% —
Do. Fifths... ... 10
Ditto, Thirds.....- ... 15
Do. New, Gua.6 nerct. 7% 9A
Do. (W. Riding dnion) 8 .. -'A %
4% x.d
Leeds and Bradford
London & Black wa11...13/. 6s. 8d slu .
L -a, don, Brighton, and
South Coast
London and N. Wetern 100
0:1to, Fi11tc1..... - .. 2
Do. 10'. IM. & B.) C. I
Do. Thirds
Midlan:i -100 .....783/4 78 79 78% 78%
Do., do., 604 Shares... 25 ... - --
Do. kirm., and Derbyloo
North Briti.th .. .... ... 25 ..... .. ...... 143/4 x.i
Ditto, Halves .. - 6% x.n
North Staffordshire 17% 14%14 14%
Oxford, Worcester, and
Wolverhampton ...~ 50
Royston and Hitchin ... 31/2
Scottish Central
Shrewsbury and-Birm lO
Ditto ditto. Class B. 6 —

36
95
1914
19
127/8

36%
..... 134

Shropshire Union
Ssiuth Eastern
Do., Registered No. 4 10
South Wales.... lB
South Yorkshire, Don-
caster, and Gole
Wear Valley 6 per Cent.
Guaranteed ... .. ...... 50 ......
Do. do. do. ... 25
Wilts, Somerset,& Wey-
mouth
York, Newcastle, and
Berwick. .... . 25 ..
Do. Original New and.
Berwick .. ...... ... .. 25 ..... . 2414,34 ..... .... 245/
Do. Newcastle Eaten. 20 ...... 18 17V, ...... ... _ 181/2
Do. G.N.E.Preterence 8 ... . 73A % . 7:1:I
York and North Midland 50 ...... 49 48 .....
Ditto, Preference ...... 10
Do. East and West Rid-
ing Extension
FOREIGN RAILWAYS.
Boulogne and Amiens... 20
Namur and Liege ...... 20 ... .. 8
Northern of France
Orleans and Bordeaux.. 7
Paris and Rouen 2O .00 •• -
Rouen and Havre
Sambre and Meuse 2O ... "
Tours and Nantes .. 9 ...... ......... ...

834
8
103/4
314
20./4
111 A
4%

MINES.

Australian 3

A SCENE ON THE LIVERPOOL EXCHANGE.—
Yesterday, the quietude which usually prevails, even
during business hours, on 'Change, at Liverpool, was dis-
turbed by a circumstance of somewhat rare occurrence.
An agent, extensively engaged, and whose place of business
is not 100 miles from John-street, was observed suddenly
to give a " gentleman" of questionable appearance " leg
bail." All eyes were at once directed to the pursuit
which soon commenced ; the agent ran round Nelson's
Monument, hotly pursued by the other. The chase
continued for some time, at last the gentleman
broke cover and darted across the flags," dodged" for
some time round the pillars of the piazzas, but was at
last run down by the eager hound, who turned out to be
a limb of the law, in the shape of a sheriff's officer, and
who conducted his prey quietly to a sponging-house.—
Liverpool Moroury of Friday.
SERIOUS COLLISION AT SEA.—A collision, which
resulted in loss of life to one person, and serious injury
to others, took place on Saturday afternoon last off this
port. It appears that the pilot of the ship Eliz
with five other persons, including two women, left
that vessel in a punt belonging to the steam-tug
Defiance, which was lying about six miles
outside the Bell-buoy, waiting to receive them.
Before they got on board, however, an American ship,
the Charles Carroll, approached the steamer to leeward,
under full sail, there being a fine breeze from the N.W.,
and struck her amidships, smashing the boat to atoms,
killing one poor fellow, a rigger, and much injuring his
wife, who remained fully half an hour in the water,
clinging to the remains of the boat, before the steamer,
in its crippled state, could pick her up. She is now
Tying in the Northern Hospital.—Liverpool Mercury.
The Earl of Aberdeen gave a grand dinner at
Argyll•house to his Excellency Count Colloredo, his
Excellency Baron Brunnow, his Excellency Court Re-
ventlow, Count de Flahault, Count Duchatel, M. Guizat,
the Earl of Jersey, the Earl Lincoln, the Right Hon. Sir
James Graham, the Hon. Edward Ellice, the Right Hon.
W. E. Gladstone, and a distinguished circle, on Wednes-
day last.

SHOCKING DlSCOYERT.—Yesterday morning about
ten o'clock the workmen employed pulling down the
houses for the formation of the new street from Wal-
brook to Queen-street, Southwark-bridge, on entering
the house No. 1, Castle-court, for that purpose, to their
horror found in one of the upper rooms the corpse of a
woman with three ehildren crouched around it, the eldest
apparently not ten years, all seeming, on the point of
death; the foetid odour that issued from the apartment,
for the moment, compelled the men to retire, on return.
ing they questioned the children; but all they could
glean from them was, that they were starving. In-
formation was instantly forwarded to the police-station,
in Bow-lane, and the children, who had scarcely a vestige
of clothing, and were literally covered with vermin, were
removed to the City Workhouse, in Cannon-street,
where they received every attention, but from the dread-
ful state of exhaustion of the two youngest, they are not
expected to survive. The corpse of the unfortunate
woman is merely covered with a ragged gown, no cloth-
ing, furniture, or bedding, was in the room; and it is
supposed that finding the house empty she with her chil-
dren crept in for shelter, and are believed to have been
thus for 6917119 days totally without food.

LLOYD'S SIIIPPING.—(THIS DAY.)
LONDON, MARCH 17. Wind this (12. y at noon
w 1q,.,;11t airs, Co'd
SUNDERLAND, MARCH 16 --Wind N.W.-15th, 51d.
N, Yo:k.
Smco, Alaiicn 15.—Wind W.N.W.—Sa Dromaharr,
New Yurk.

OFF CORK, MARCH 14.—Brilliant, Craig, Mauritius
for Clyde; Aim, Reed, New Orleans for Liverpool.
I)umAN, MARCH 14.—Sid. AnnahQlla, Demerara.
BRISTOL, MARCH 16.—Wind N.W.—Arrd. Sappho,
Mildreth,

PLYMOUTH, MA ncit 16. Wind variable.— Arrd.
Friends, WEdrlingliam, Dunkirk.
LOWESTOFT, MARCH 15.—The Gabrielle towed in
here a derelict on the 22d ult., and the Jessie Ann,
Hinds, having loth undergone repairs sailed this day.
FALMOUTH, MARCH 10.—A ship dismasted and aban-
doned, was pass,,d on the 24th December, in lat. 44 N.,
long. 16 W., by the Tonge Tan, spoken with 25th
January, by H. N. M. steamer Merapie, arrived at this
port. _ _

The Warringsford, from Liverpool to Baltimore, was
spoken on the 15th February, in lat. 34, long. 68, with
lws of spars, nth, &c., and short of provisions, and sup-
plied by the Isaac New ten, arrd. at Liverpool.
HULL, MARCH 17.—Arid. Rob Roy (s.), liamburgh.
DEAL, 111ARCI1 16 —Wind N.W . to Isl.N.E.—Arrd.
Fri zepore, Niasterten, Hong Kong; Phcenicien, Sproat,
Calcutta; St. Croix, Blatopit (1 Honduras, arid priceeded
for Chatham; Mary, Reddng, St, Mitt's. Arrd. from
the River and sailer, Alligator, Dunn, China; Can line,
Stueapore; Georx,e Fyfe, Murray, Bombay; Fal-
Parnells, ('ape Palmas; David Luckie, Close, De-
ructart ; al.(' Alfred, Pemberton, Antigua;
Lisboa, Briton, St. Joht.'s, New Brunswick.
MARCH 16. —S:d. Elizabeth, New York, and
not on tl:e 13 11 as revrted.
SHIELDS, MARCH 16.—Wind N. to S.E.—Sld. 15114
Sarah Flaming, TOM., llorpluras; Siboon, Dick, New
York; Thoznfts and 11,,,hert, Rochelle and Quebec. 16th,
Xenophon, RA.chestrr, Limerick and Quebec.-
ABERDEEN, MARCII 15. Wind variable.—Arrd.
Union. Robertson. Greenland.

LERWICK, MAncu 13.—Wind N.—Sld. 6th, North of
Seet!and, Gray, Greenland.

BELFAST, MARCH 15.—WriEd N.N.W.—SILI. 14tb,
Rainbow, New York.

LIVERPOOL, MARCH 16 —Wind N.N.W.-15th,
Arrd., Sir Henry Pottinger, Snowean, Calcutta; Zebron,
Crockett, Virginia. 16th, Dublin, Skofield, Mobile;
Isaac Newton, Lush, Mti,bile. Shl. 15th, George Dean,
Si( rra Leone; W 3 e, Rio Grande; Feliciano, Rio Janeiro;
Ada, 13,..hia; Bona Dea, Savannah; Eagle, Halifax.
16th, Courier, Sydney, New South Wales; Matilda, Cal.
cutta; Royal Ally rt, Bombay; Christina, San Francisco;
Charles Brownell, Valparaiso; Trypht,na, Rio Janeiro;
Howard, Mobile; Sterling, Savannah; Swatara, Phila-
delphia; Europe, Philadelphia; Albert, New York;
Larne, New York; Mayflower, New York; Emperor,
New York; Montezuma, New York; Athens, Boston;
Broosa, Boston; Infanta, St. John's, New Brunswick;
Harriott, St. John's, New Brunswick. Off port, Lord
'Maidstone, Bridgetown.
HARTLEPOOL, MARCH 16.—The Thames, from Glas-
gow to London, with a cargo of pig iron, has put in here
dismasted, &c. The James Jessie, from Finddorn to
Woodbridge, put in here on the 10th inst. with damage,
and has commenced to discharge to repair.

MARKET NEWS.—(THIS DAY )
COVENT-GARDEN.
Increased supplies of Vegetables were on sale, and
those of fruit were tolerably good. A steady business
was doing in most articles, at our quotations. Fruit--
Pine-apples (Queen's), 5s to 7s; and Foreign Grapes
(black and white), Ls to is 6d per lb; Apples, 4s to 61
per bushel; ditto Eating, 4s to 6s per half sieve; Pears,
12s to 18s per half sieve; Lemons, 5s to lOs; and
Oranges, 8s to 14s per 100; Chesnuts 2s to 48 per peck;
hot-house Grapes, 1/ Is per lb. Vegetables—Spinach, Is
9d to 2s per junk; Horseradish, 2s 6d to 3s 6d; and
Celery, 9d to Is per bundle ; Asparagus, 3s to 6s
per 100; Onions, 2s to 2s 6d; and Ash-leaved kidney
Potatoes, 6s to 8s per bushel; Cape Brocoli, 12s to 185
per dozen bundles ; Mushrooms, 9d to is per pottle;
Spanish Onions, 10s to 15s per box; Endive, is to
Is 3d per score; Savoy Cabbages, 6d to if d per dozen;
Turnips, is to Is 6d; Carrots, 2s 6d to 4s; and Greens,
Is to Is 6d per dozen bunches; Parsley, is 6d to is 9d per
half sieve; Forced Sea Dail 9d to is Gd per punnet;
Cucumbers 5s to 7s per brace; Forced Rhubarb, 5s to
9s per dozen bundles ; Beet-root, is to Is 3d per
dozen ; Brussels Sprouts, is to is Gd ; and Jerusalem
Artichokes, is to is 3d per half sieve; Parsnips, 6d to
9d per dozen ; Cornish White Brocoli, is 6d to 3s per
dozen; Turnip Greens, 6d to 8d per bushel; Leeks, 8d
to is per dozen bunches; New Potatoes, 8d to Is per lb;
French Beans, 2s 6d to ,3s 6d per 100; Radishes, 4d to
6d per punnet; Red Cabbages, 2s to 3s 6d per dozen;
Shallots, 4d per lb.

NE gi(7GATE AND LEADENICALL.
POULTRY—Turbeys, 4s to 10s; Geese, 4s 6d to d 6s 6;
Ducks, 2s to 3s 6d; Tame Rabbits, is 2d to Is 9d;
Wili ditto, 10d to is ; PLeons, 10d to is Id; and
Roasting Pigs, 5s to 8s each; Surrey Fowls, 7s to 10s ;
ditto Chickens, 4s to 6s 6tl; Barn-door Fowls, 3s 6d to
is per couple; English Eggs, 7s 6d to 9s; French ditto,
7s to 8s per 100. Fresh Butter, is to is 4d per lb.
GAME.—thres, 2s to 3s ; Woodcocks, 3s to 45;
Ptarmigan, is to Is 9d; Snips, 10d to is 3d; Teal, 93 to
Is 3d; Wild Ducks, Is Gd to 2i; Widgeons, 10d to ls 3d;
and Plovers, 6d to is each.

WaITECYIAPEL.
Beef, from 2.$ 4d to 3$ 2d; Mutton, 2s 10d to 3s 8d;
Veal, 3s Gd to 43 8d; 2.11 d rk, 3s to 45 per Blbs.

NEWPORT.
13eLf from 2s 6d to 3s 4d; Mutton, 3s 2d to 4s; Veal,
3s 8d to 4s 8d; and Purk 3s 4d to 4s 4d per Bibs.

BILLINGSGATE. -
Turbots, 5s to lls ; Cod Fish, 3s 6d to 7s; Whitings
CI to 6d; Lobsters, Is 4d to 2s 9d ; and Crabs, 6d to
2s each; Soles, 6d to 2s 3d ler pair; Eels, 6d to is 24
and Salmon, is 3,1 to 1, 8.1 per lb; Haddocks, 4d to 6d
each; Thames Flounders, is to is 6d, and Smelts, 111
to is Gd per dozen; mackerel,6d toed each; Oysters, 135
to 25s per bushel.

BREAD.
The price; of Wheaten Bread in the Metropolis ire
'rom 7d to 7id; of Household ditto, 5d to 6id per
4lbs loaf.

RIDE MARKET.
Market hides, 561 b to 6416, lid to lid; ditto, 641 b to
lid to qt; ditto, 72113 to 801 b, qd to 2.1; ditto,
8016 to 8816,2 id to 2id; ditto, 881 b to 961 b, 24d to 33;
ditto, 961 b to 10416, 3d to 34d; ditto, 10416 to 11216,
to 4d; Calf Skins, each, 5s to 5s 6d; Horse Hideo,
7s 6d; Polled &eq., 5s 6i to 6s 4d; Kent and half"
bre'ls, 4i 10d to 5s 4d; Downs, 3s 10d to 5s Od; Shesr"
ings, 6d.

EAT IVIARICCTS.
SMITELFIELD.—Meadow Hay, 21 13s to 31 15s; Clover
ditto, 31 12s to 41 153 ; and Straw, 11 3s to 11 94 pe,r,
load. Both Hay and Straw moved off st-adily, at fell
prices.

CUMBERLAND.—Meadow Hay, 21 15s to 31 163
Clover ditto, 31 155 to 41 10s ; sad Straw, 11 43 t°
1/10s per load. Trade firm, at our quotations.
WIIITECHAPEL.—Meadow hay, 21 12s to Si 145,1
Clover ditto, 3/ 16s to 4/ 16s; and Straw, 1/ 2s to 1117 a
per load. A moderate supply, and a steady demand.

MARCH.-DREADFUL ACCIDENT.-011 Wednesdal
se'nnight Wotnbwell's menagerie of wild beasts arrived
here, and whilst the! keepers were at dinner some boys
endeavoured to obtain peeps at the inmates of the vela
from openings iu the sides. One little fellow got be-
neath the booth in which the Polar bear was encased,
and perceiving some straw to protrude from a crevice in
the bottom, thrust up his hand to remove it, when al
animal seized his hand, and commenced gnawing and
tearing it. The boy's screams attracted many pers°,l3.
to the spot, who commenced beating on the sides of the
booth to drive off the animal from his victim; and Or
gentlemen tried in vain to draw the boy's hand from the
animal's grasp. Perceiving that the more they pulled
the further the savage brute drew in the poor sufferer
limb, one of the gentlemen ran for the assistance of the
keeper, on whose arrival a side of the booth was openeu
and no sooner did the light visit the van, and the anal al
.-1-
hear the keeper's voice, than it released its hold. “.
,"
poor boy's hand and arm were dreadfully lacerated, we
bone and flesh being literally gnawed and torn 010°'
sively, and the hand pre:enting a shapeless, bloodlesg'
blanched, and mangled appearance. We hear that Its 3"
putation is necess.try.—Stamford Mercury.
REPEAL OF THE WINDOW•TAX.-011 Thursday S
meeting of the rate-payers was held in the vestry.ro°tli..
of the parish of St. Paul, Covent-garden, for the purpos*
of petitioning Parliament to repeal the window-ta%;
Richard Spice, churchwarden, in the chair. Mr. Wtilke
proposed " That the window-tax is unequal and opPre;;
sive, varying from 5 per cent, to 30 per cent. on t
rental, bearing particularly on tradesmen and h°te
keepers, whose houses constitute their means of liYing'd
which was cordially agreed to. It was then proP°~h®
and carried that a petition from the rate-payers of to
parish of St. Paul, Covent-garden, be entrusted to Gene?o
Sir De Lacy Evans and Charles Lnshington, Esq:, t,`a
be presented to Parliament, praying for a repeal of tP-
window- tax.

BIRTHS.
On the 15th inst., the wife of Sir Alexander Duff Gordol3'
Bart., of a son.
On the 14th inst., at Harriatsham Rectory, the wife of the
J. C. B. Ridded, of a son.
On the 11th inst., the wile of Bulkley J. M. Praed, Egq'
of a son.
On the 14th inst., at New Cross, the wife of A. ••• S.
Eames, Esq., Secretary of the Royal Naval School. °'
son, stillborn.

MARRIED. lace,
C. R.
On tNicoll, Esq ~ the 13th ,A
ssistaat All Souls'
eon ChurcGhre,
nadier Guaru* to
Sarah Foy, daughter of Sir Alegxander Morison, 31—"°
f
Cavendish-square.
On the 13th inst., at St. Mary's. Wimbledon, the 11evn-e,
Fisher, M.A., vicar of Steeple Bumpstead, Essex, t° Anon,
second daughter of the late Major-General Hogg, of the
East India Company. liter
Oa the 13th inst., at Ryde, Isle of Wight, Eliza, u2l3°°z
Mann' ot
of the late Sir John Gibbons, Bart., to tfie Rev. T.
West Cowes, Isle of Wight.
On the 14th inst., J. Q. Henriques, Esq., of Glouce
place, Portman-square, .to Elizabeth, only daughter of
,s.te
Waley, Esq., of Devomhire-place.

On the 12th inst., Emma,LIED
youngest daughter of William
Andrews, E-q., of Gothic-lodge, Romford, aged 24.
On the 13th inst., at Selwood• terrace, Queen's —riot*
Brompton, Mr. James S. Russell, aged 48.
On the 14th inst., at Paradise-row, Stoke Newingtorit
Mary Burslem, widow, aged 83.
On the 10th inst., at York street, St. James's-square, Air'
George Faulkner, of Lewisham, Kent.
At Rotterdam, on the 234 ult., James Macdonald, Esq•
On the zth inst., at Camden-town, Frederick, fourth so
of R. Broughton, Esq., of Brixton

London: Printed and Published by MITEDO'YOUNGr
No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sun Office, No. 1"I
Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the countY
Middlesex, .saturday, March 17, 1849.