The Sun.
London, England, 1849-02-19 00:00:00

BARBADOES.

Viscount DRUMLANRIG moved for returns of the
strength, in rank and file, of the service companies of
the 66th Regiment when they arrived at Barbadoes; of
the names of all officers who accompanied the service
companies to Barbadoes, their period of service in the
army, at this date. And of the number of rank and file,
together with number of officers attacked by illness since
their arrival, and number of deaths and recoveries;
specifying the name of the officers, up to this date.—
Agreed to.

POOR-RATES.
Sir HENRY WILLOUGHBY asked the Chief Com-
missioner for the administration of the poor-laws, if auy
information has been received that poor-rates have been
expended in aid of wages, under the head of insufficient
earnings, in some parts of Lancashire, especially at
Ashton-under-Lyne, during the last twelve mouths, and
whether any order has been issued on that subject by
the commission.
Mr. BAINES replied that no information to that effect
had been received by the poor-law board, nor had they
is,ued any order to such a proceeding.
EXPULSION OF ENGLISH FROM FRANCE.
Mr. BAILLIE COCHRANE said he wished to put a
question to thr Noble Lord at the head of the Govern-
ment, which was of great importance to some of the
poorer classes in this country. It was to know
whether the workmen who were driven out of
Paris at the period of the revolution this time last year
had ever been paid the money which they had deposited
in the French savings'-banks?
Lord J. RUSSELL said at the period referred to by
the Honourable Member communications had passed
between this and the French Government on the sub-
ject of those deposits. No notice, however, having been
given of the question, ho was not now prepared to an-
swer it.

Mr. Alderman SIDNEY wished to know whether it
was from the failure of the separate system or from any
other cause that prisoners were not now confined in
separate cells in the Pentonville prison, and whether the
Government were prepared to recommenp to the ma-
gistracy of the country ono uniform system of prison
discipline ?
Sir G. GREY was understood to reply, that although
several prisoners had been removed from separate cells,
the general system adopted in the prison was to con-
fine them separately. With regard to the other ques-
tion, it was not the intention of the Government to en-
force ;any general system in the gaols throughout the
country.
TURNPIKES.
Mr. HENLEY wished to know whether any returns
would be laid on the table of the House, with reference
to turnpike trusts and highways.
Mr. CORNEWALL LEWIS said that all returns
on the subject were laid on the table of the House last
session.

EXEAIPTION OF BOROUGHS FROM COUNTY

RATES.

Mr. MUNTZ wished to know whether it was the in-
tention of the Government this session to bring in a Bill
to exempt borough corporations which had their own
goals from the county rates?
Sir GEORGE GREY said the corporation of
Birmingham had applied to be exempted from
the county-rate, but no representation had been re-
ceived from any other borough, although there
were several which were similarly circumstanced.
He understood that the question as to the liability of
corporations had been before the Queen's Bench, and
that the Judges had decided that they were liable. The
matter had, however, been carried to a higher court—
the Exchequer Chamber—and if that Court con-
firmed the decision of the Queen's Bench, he
thought that some general Act ought to be introduced
in order to alter the law with respect to the liability of
boroughs so situated to the county rate.
EMIGRATION TO AUSTRALIA.

Mr. SCOTT wished- to ask the following questions of
the Hou. Gentleman the Under-Secretary of State for
the Home Department .—l. How many free passages
to the Australian colonies it is the present intention of
the Colonial-office to give to Dorset and Wilts? 2.
Whether it is intended to do the same in other and
what counties? 3. How much these free passages will
(at the average cost per head of each statute adult) cost
the colony to which they go? 4. How many more emi-
grants might have gone if the grant had been made to
assisted insted instead of free passengers? 5. Whether
it is intended that they should have the preference over
previous applicants for assisted passages, and sail shortly
while these latter are detained? 6. The amount of co-
lonial funds at present available for emigration?
Mr. HAWES, who was very indistinctly heard in the
gallery, was understood to reply that it was not the in-
tention of the Colonial-office to apportion the number of
emigrants to be sent from Wilts and Dorset. The
boon of the Government would extend in common to
all the countries, and not to one or two in particular.
Ships had been recently fitted out for emigrants at Ply-
mouth, but it happened that there were very few
applicants. The cost of the conveyance of each
emigrant was 141. 4s. per head. No preference
would be given by the colonial office to any parties. The
funds in hand amounted to 50,000/.
Mr. SCOTT inquired if there would be any objec-
tion to lay on the table the correspondence that
had taken place with respect to emigration from
Wiltshire and Dorsetshire. It would be well, he
thought, to have it distinctly known whether
or not, the public money had bean applied to clearing
the estates of particular parties.
Mr. HUME would make inquiry if there was
any correspondence. He wished, however, to
assure the Honourable Member that no favour
had been shown to any particular parties.
THE ANNUITY TAX (SCOTLAND).
Mr. HUME referred to the Commission appointed
last year to inquire into the operation of this tax,
and inquired if any report had been presented, and, if so,
whether it would be laid on the table of the House; and
further whether any measure on the subject was intended
to be introduced by the Government during the present
session ?
Lord J. RUSSELL replied that the report was in the
course of preparation, and that it would be laid on the
table.
THE FISHEnIES OF SCOTLAND.
Mr. HUME inquired whether the Commissioner ap-
pointed last session to inquire into the necessity of con-
tinuing the Fisheries Board of Scotland, and generally
into the fisheries of that country, had concluded his re-
port, and, if so, when it would he presented to the
House?
Mr. LABOUCHERE replied that Mr. John Lefevre
had been appointed to discharge that task, and that he
had prepared a report, which would be laid on the table
of the House. The report in effect recommended that
the Board should be continued, and pointed out how its
expenses might be curtailed. The Government intended
to carry out his recommendations.
=THE NEW HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT.
Mr. GREENE corrected an error into which
to the on of the
he had fallen, in reply
Honourable Member for Middlesexquestion of the
he had fallen, in reply
Honourable Member for Middlesex respecting the
new Houses of Parliament. He had stated
that some additional expenses had been incurred at the
instance of the Woods and Forests, ,and that he had
' seen a return prepared by Mr. Barry at the request of
the Commissioners for Building the New Houses of
mPar-
liament, in order that they might be inserted in it. He
had since been informed by the Noble Earl the Chief
Commissioner of Woods and Forests, that no such ad-
ditional expense had bcen contracted or paid by that
department.
Mr. SCOTT moved for the following returns :—Re-
turn of the expenses at each of the depots or other
establishments for the reception of emigrants during the
years 1847 and 1848 respectively; distinguishing in each
case whether the payments are made from Imperial or Co-
lonial Funds, and defining:-1. The amount paid for rent
of depot and the name of the owner. 2. Cost per head of
each emigrant for depot expenses, specifying the charge
for lodging and rations. 3. Cost of bedding and utensils
for each emigrant, by whom supplied, and whether by
public or private contract. 4. Expense of establish.
ments of naval agents at London and Plymouth
respectively, with the number of clerks and the amount
paid to each; also any additional sums paid for other
and what superintendence at the aforesaid depots. 5.
The amount paid to each selecting agent in Great Bri-
tain and Ireland, and at what per centage. 6. The
amount per head for the conveyance of emigrants
to the depots at London or Plymouth ; and the
commission paid to agents for shipping emigrants at
the outports of Great Britain or Ireland on their way to
the said depOts. 7. Average amount paid as per con-
tract for the conveyance of emigrants to each of the
Australian colonies, per statute adult. 8. Charge, if
any, stating the several items and the amount borne by
each of the Australian colonies for the maintecance of
the Colonial Land and Emigration Commissioners De-
partment.
HABEAS CORPUS SUSPENSION (IRELAND)

BILL.•
On the order of the day being read for the third read-
ing of this Bill,
Mr. OSBORNE rose to present a petition from inha•

bilants in the parish of St. Pancras, calling on the House
not to' pass the Bill, and to cease to administer the affairs
of Ireland altogether, and to allow the people of that
country to administer the government themselves.—
(Hear, and laughter.)

Mr. FEARGUS O'CONNOR then rose to address
the House, but the noise consequent upon a groat number
of the Members simultaneously leaving the House was so
great that for some moments the Hon. Member was
wholly inaudible in the gallery. He was understood to
say that he was very much surprised to find, after the
statement of the Right Hon. the Secretary for the
Home Department, that no English Gentleman in the
House had thought it his duty iu the House to do more
than give a passive acquiescence to thispElill. There was a
time when this Bill would not have been allowed to pass,
without some mare urgent reasons having been assigned
for its necessity than had been assigned by the Hon. Baro-
net the Secretary for the Home Department. Notwith,
standing many gentlemen that had attempted to express
the views on this Bill, there was not one from first to
last who had touched it. The Honourable Member for
Bandon assigned as a reason for supporting the
Bill that he was foreman of a grand jnry in
Ireland. The Right Hon. Baronet, the Member for
Tam worth, in accordance with his usual maxim, said he
would return good for evil. The Government bad op-
posed the Right Hon. Baronet on the appropriation clause,
and he retorted by supporting the present measure.
The Hon. Member for Buckinghamshire entered into a
dissertation on free trade, and the Honourable Gen-
tleman said he was not only prepared to give his
assent to the stopping of agitation for the re-
peal of the union, but to put down all agitation.
But now it seemed quite unnecessary to make out any
reason for the passing such a measure as this. Such
used not to be the case formerly ; and oh, for
the days of Fox, Pitt, Romilly, and all their
noble compeers. But their days were passed, and
an epoch seemed to have arrived when private in-
terests were in the eyes of Members of Parliament
ipnarroaamd os uunpto
nt ot h theo
ncsot
intstet eorna, tai
no
wohfe hae
affecting the interests of Irelaud was to be introduced
mmatotestr vsietariaollys
to their notice, scarcely a House could be formed,
yet a private Bill was to occupy their attention
upwards of 170 members were ready to tender their
votes. Such was the feeling, or rather the comparative
feeling with which great national grievances in Ire-
land and petty advantages in England were viewed.
So much for the sympathy of England for Ireland.
Lord Clarendon says that the object of this Bill is to
put a stop to the agitation which, for thirty years, has
distracted Ireland. The Right Honourable the Secre-
tary of • Ireland says that this Bill is simply to
reoal capital to the country. The Noble Lord at the
head of the Government says that it has no-
thing whatever to do with the agitation for re-
peal, but simply to enforce the views of the Lord-
Lieutenant. To which of those authorities was he to
refer. In none could he place any reliance, for
when Lord Stanley, then a Member of that House, had
expressed his opinion that a very sufficient reason ought
to be assigned before any suspension of the
liberties of the country took place.—(Hear, hear )
The Whigs had ever made Ireland their battle field,
the late Mr. C. Buller had warned them of the adop-
tion of this course ; he had said as long as Mr.
O'Connell lived, Ireland would be in an inci-
pient rebellion, but when he was gone it would
become an open one.—(hear) If such a measure
as this was proposed at the outbreak of the French re-
volution in February last, it might have been tolerable,
but at the present moment it ras uncalled for.
It was to the Right Honourable Baronet the Member
for Tamworth that the people of Ireland looked for the
redress of their grievances, and not to the Noble Lord
at the head of the present Government.—(Hear, bear.)
Government could not receive the allegiance of the
people of Ireland until they pur.sued a more liberal prin-
ciple towards them. The proceedings of the Government
proved this. They have had five sessions of Oyer and
Terminer in Dublin, and yet there still remained five pri-
soners to be disposed of, so bungling and clumsy bad been
the course of the law officer. But-it was said this Bill
was to be followed by remedial measures. What
were they ? He had a right to an answer to
hat question for this Bill would not put a stop
to the agitation fur the repeal of the union—
(Hear)—but it would prevent every man in
Ireland, no matter whether he was loyal or not, making
a single struggle in defence of his rights. Why what a
farce this mode of legislation was. It was urged
that the measure was proposed to receive the
protection of the loyal and well-disposed in Ire-
land! What nonsense! Instead of its affording any
such protection it would make the loyal discontented,
and unless some measures for removing the social evils
of Ireland, and extending the sufferages of her
people were shortly preposed, Government would
yet have great difficulty in preserving the
tranquillity. He knew that this question was tiresome
to Members who had already formed their opinions upon
it; but the Bill aimed a blow at the constitution
of the country in crippling the rights of
the people, and be the consequence what they
might, he would still persist in opposing it in
every stage. But sooner or later the cause of the Irish
people would triumph. True they were now
much opposed ; but what great cause had suc-
ceeded without opposition? Look at the Established
Church and the Christian religion. Were they
funded without oppressn. No, but their dependencies
had to put up with the severest persecution before they
succeeded, and so it must ever bd, so it had been with
the people of Ireland, but succeed they would and
must eventually. But what rendered this BID
the more disgusting was, that it came
from a Minister who was the descendant of the great
Russell, who perished on the scaffold in defence of the
rights of the people; and the Noble Lord might depend
upon it that the time was fast coming when the contempt
of the people of England for measures of this nature
and sympathy for the sufferings of the Irish people
would hurl him from the power he had so long strug-
gled for, and so much abused. He would ask English-
men if they would tolerate such a violation of the Con
stitution when universal tranquillity prevailed throughout
the country ? He referred to the case of several men who
had been arrested under the powers granted to
the Lord-Lieutenant, and were taken to Belfaet
where they were kept eight weeks without seeing the open
air, and were obliged to associate with thieves and pick-
pockets. They were removed to a prison in Dublin, where
they were subjected to the most strict regulations being
refused to see their friends and to write letters except
with the permission of the authorities, and
being compelled to fill the most menial offices.
Ireland was not over-populated—the land could sustain
its own people as well as the land of Belgium
maintained its people. The old feudal system
which they had not had the manliness to destroy,
was the bane of that country, and until this
system were abolished the corn-laws would be found
utterly inoperative. It was true the Irish were hungry
and weak, but the time might come when they would
burst their bonds and take those rights which they
now denied them.

( LEFT SPEAKING.)

RAILWAY stiAE,E MAIMETS.

LIVERPOOL, FEB. 17.

STOCK EXCHANGE.—The market for shares has been steady t•-
day, and prices firm. A lair amount of business has been done. The
sales are—Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Chester (late C. and B.),
271. 103 Shares, 6 per cent., 1849, 1434 ex int.—Lancashire and
Yorkshire (late Manchester and Birmingham), 111,4—Ditto, Fifths,
38s. 9d. dis.—Ditto, 101. Preference, 6 per cent., 2 p.—Ditto, Halves
(late Liverpool and Bury), B;s', c. dis.—London and North-Western,
142%—Ditto, New Quarters, 61. Ss, 9d. p.—Manchester, Sheffield,
and Lincolnshire, 41—Ditto, 101. Preference, 11% —Midland Stock,
92—Ditto, New Half Shares, 4% dis.—Midland (Birmingham and
Derby), 64 c.—North Staffordshire, 2% die.—Slarewsbury, Os-
westry, and Chester, 314 dis.—South-Eastern and Dover, No. 4,
Thirds, 7% c.—York, Newcastle, and Berwick (G. N. E. Purchase),
6 per cent. guaranteed, 1% p.
BIRMINGHAM, Fra. 17.

STOCK Excnewox.—The business done in the stock Exchange to-
day has been as follows :—Shrewsbury and Birmingham (A), i Is. 3d.
dia.—Ditto (B), 217, dis.—Shropshire Union, 2% dis.—South
Staffordshire, 58s. 9d. dis.
YORK, FEE. 16. _ .

STocK EXCHANGE.—The busineui transacted to-day was as fol-
lows:—Great Northern, 10—North British, Quarters, 3% —York,
Newcastle, and Berwick No. 2 (late New, Berwicks), 21—Ditto (0,
N. B. Purchase), 9%.
GLASGOW, Fan. 16. _

&rocs Excastrox.—The following are to-day's transactions :
Aberdeen, Preference, 535. 9d. —Caledonian, Preference, 111. 6e.—
Edinburgh and Northern, 12—Ditto, Preference, 17—Glasgow, Kil•
marnock, and Ayr, 54—Ditto, Halves, No. 1, 7—Great Northern,
Halves, 4 per cent. (A), Al. 17s.—North British, Thirds, 953.—
Scottish Central, 22—Wiieontown, Morningside, and Coltness, New
51% ex dir.

THE WEATHEE.—We alluded in our paper of
Monday to the extraordinary height of the barometer
on the preceding day, when the mercury verged so
closely on thirty-one inches that the registrar at
the Exchange newsroom declared that he fully ex-
pected it to run above the scale. On Monday
the mercury had slightly subsided, but still it con-
tinued at a point which would ordinarily be deemed high.
Throughout the entire week it has marked an unusual
degree of atmospheric pressure, the average, we should
think being fully 30i inches. On Monday the air was
somewhat damp, but the succeeding days have been ex
ceedingly fine and clear, with bracing airs from southwest
to northwest. Yesterday a little rain fell, but the day was,
on the whole, fine. The nights have been remarkably
beautiful, and extremely favourable for astronomical ob
servations. The splendid planets Venus and Jupiter have
been seen in their fullest effulgence, and glimpses have
been obtained of Mercury and Saturn. The constellation
Orion, with his beautiful neighbour, Sirius, attending
upon him like an orderly, the Pleiades, shining in a
cluster like brilliant diamond points, and the long-drawn
Ursa Major, slowly dragging up at the curve of his long
tail the brightly- burning Arcturus, have presented a
series of delightful objects amid the galaxy that have
given double interest to star-gazing.—Liverpool Albion.
DEATH OF THE Ray. Da. WA7..SH.-1)T. Walsh,
Bishop of Cambysopolis, and Vicar Apostolic of the
London district, expired yesterday evening at his resi-
dence, in Golden-square.
A gentleman at Southampton was holding a parrot
on his finger, and in its fright and eagerness to avoid
falling to the ground, it caught hold of his finger with
its beak and bit it violently. His hand and arm became
inflamed and swelled dreadfully, and he has since been
obliged to have his finger amputated.

PUBLIC ROADS BILL.—The Bill to "consolidate
and amend the laws relating to public roads in England
and North Wales" consists of no less than 186 clauses.
It is under the management, in the House of Commons,
of Mr. G. Cornewall Lewis and Sir G. Grey, her Ma-
jesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Home De-
partment. It was ordered to be printed on the 13th
inst., and now awaits a second reading.
SHIPS' STORES.—The Customs authorities, having
resumed the consideration of an order issued by them in
October last, directing that onithe repacking of goods for
shipment as stores, the parties should be required to re-
pack the whole contents of the original packages at one
and the same time ; and, as it would appear, that this
regulation, if carried strictly into effect, might operate
in some respects, to the inconveniewe of trade, it has
been resolved by them that the order referred to be re-
scinded.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, Feb. 17.

(Sittings at Nisi Prins, at Guildhall, before the Lord
Chief Justice WILDE, and a Special Jury.)
cox V. JAMES.

In this case, which had not concluded when our report
Left,

The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE left it to the jury to say
whether the language of the advertisement was false and
intended to deceive, and whether the plaintiff had been
thereby induced to pay his money, observing that it ap•
peared to him the scheme was a perfectly Lona Me one,
and one which at one time promised to be successful.
The jury immediately returned a verdict for the de-
fendant.

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.

NORTHERN ClRCUlT.—Lancaster, Feb. 16.

Mr. Baron ALDERSON concluded the criminal business
last night by sitting till 11 o'clock; and this morning
only one civil case remained to be tried before Mr.
Justice COLERIDGE, which was the case of
YATES V. lIESKETH, BART., AND OTHERS.
This was an action brought by the plaintiff, a butcher
at Preston, against the defendants, as Sheriff of Lan-
caster, his officers, and one William Hardwick, for
having improperly seized the plaintiff's goods. It ap-
peared that in 1848 the defendant Hardwick obtained
a judgment in the Court of Common Pleas at Lancaster,
against Thomas Addison, a surveyor of Preston. The
wife of Addison was a sister of the plaintiff Yates, and
was separated from her husband, living with her brother,
the plaintiff, and assisting him in carrying on his busi-
ness. Under the impression that the plaintiff and Ad-
dison were partners, a quantity of the plaintiff's property
was seized, to redeem which the plaintiff had to pay the
judgment debt of 1441., the defendant Hardwick returning
him half of it, supposing him to be a partner with Ad-
dison. The action was brought to recover the sum of
741., the other half of the money so paid. The plead-
ings raised the issue of a partnership between the plain-
tiff and Addison. The evidence, however, gone into, dis-
proved this plea of the defendants, and the counsel for
the defendants thereupon agreed to pay the 741. if the
plaintiff would not demand any costs. This proposal
was accepted, and terminated the case.

•
Mr. Atherton and Mr. Catterall appeared for the
plaintiff, and Mr. .tegar and Mr. James for the de-
fendants.

Tnis concluded the business of this assize.
Appleby, Feb. 17.
The commission was opened here last night. There
was not a single cause to try, but the calendar of the
prisoners exhibited twelve cases. Most of these were
for larcenies of a minor description. Two were for
night poaching, one for concealinent of birth, one for
sheepstealing, and one for giving a false notice to the
registrar of marriages at Kendal by a married man in
order to get married. Most of the prisoners pleaded
guilty.
CROWN COURT.—(Before Mr. Justice COLERIDGE.)
Isabella harton, a young woman about 22 years of
age, was indicted for having, on the 15th of August last,
in the parish of St. Lawrence, Appleby, been delivered
of a child, and with having then secretly buried the
same with the intent to unlawfully conceal the birth.
The prisoner pleaded Guilty.
Mr. DIKEs, the Counsel for the prosecution, begged
to state to his Lordship the circumstances under which
the prisoner had been living. Her father was a cob-
bler, occupying a very small shop in the town of Ap-
pleby, and he had been twice married. By his first
wife he had two sons, now twenty• four and twenty-five
years or age; by his second marriage the prisoner and
three younger children. There were only two rooms in
his cottage, . no occupied by the man and his wife and
his youngest ehild; in the other room were two beds, in
one of which slept the two young men, and in the other
the prisoner and the other two young children—altoge-
ther five young persons in one room.
His LORDSUIP, after commenting on the deplorable
position in which the prisoner bad placed herself, said,
—The Counsel for the prosecution has stated certain
circumstances which I deeply regret to hear of as ex-
isting in such a country as this ; and I speak of it
the more, because I know that in the north of Eng-
land the habit of suffering persons of different sexes
to inhabit the same room prevails much more largely,
and even with less excuse for it, than in the south of
England. Where it does prevail, one Cannot but see that
it gives opportunities and facilities for the indulgence
of the natural passions of youth which must often lead to
lamentable results, such as we now witness. His Lord-
ship having referred to the length of time during which
the prisoner had been in custody, since August last,
sentenced her to be imprisoned one month to hard labour.
(Before Mr. Baron ALDERSON.)

James 71ameets, aged 42, was indicted for an attempt
feloniously and unlawfully to Marry Eleanor Bland, his
former wife, Mary Benson. being then alive. The pri-
soner pleaded " Not guilty."
Mr. Ramshay and Mr. Bell appeared for the prose-
cution.

It appeared from the evidence that, on October 6, the
prisoner went to the superintendent registrar's office
at Kendal, and there gave notice of his intention to
marry Eleanor Bland, representing himself as a bachelor.
After the 21 days' notice required by law had expired,
the prisoner and Eleanor Bland appeared at the regis-
trar's office for the purpose of being married. The su-
perintendent, however, having received some information
that the prisoner was a married man, refused to marry
them, and subseqaently ascertained that he had been
married at Kendal in July, 1825, to Mary Benson, who
was now alive. He was thereupon taken into custody.
These facts having been proved, witnesses were called to
prove the identity of the .prisoner with the James
Thomas who was married in 1825. A witness named
Ledbeater, who acted as bridegroom's-man on that occa-
sion, thought the prisoner the same man, but after an
absence of 24 years would not swear to him positively.
A witness named Starkie, who shortly after the pri-
soner's marriage had worked three months with him,
was positive as to his indentity, and a policeman believed
he was the same man. His
_father-in-law, who is alive
and well, was not called.
The prisoner, in his defence, called Eleanor Bland her-
self, who said she was a spinster aged 45, and that she
had known the James Thomas who was married in 1825
to Mary Benson, and kept company with him, and had
a child by him, when the superior attractions of Mary
Benson made him jilt her. The prisoner was not the
same man, but another and a different James Thomas.
Would not swear she had not said, " Well, if he was
married in 1825 he was drunk at the time, and it was
not a legal marriage."
Mr. RisisnAr having replied,
Ilia LORDSIIP summed up, and dwelt strongly on the
difficulty of identifying a man after an absence of 24
years, and the slender testimony against the prisoner,
when his father-in.law might have been brought to give
evidence as to his identity if he were the real James
Thomas.

The jury found the prisoner Guilty, ana
His LORDSHIP sentenced him to be imprisoned for
three months, with bard 14hour.
This case finished the assizes, which concluded at
three o'clock.

BANK OF FRAN CE.
The following is a return of the bituation of the Bank
of France up to Feb. 15:—

ASSETS.

Cash and ingots ... . . ... f. 161,012,675 73
Ditto in branch banks ... . . 127,050,955 00
Bills past due ••• ••• ••• 53,339 57
Bills falling due in Paris, of which
15,678,149 f. 29e. arc from the branch

banks ... 55,284,272 95
Bills in the branch banks ... 94,498,070 21
Advances on coins and ingots... ... 19,269,026 00
Ditto on French public securities ... 31,491,720 35
Ditto by branch banks... ... 1,551,338 00
Ditto to the State on Bons du Tresor... 50,000,000 00
Ditto on the loan of 150 millions ... 50,000,000 00
Rentes of the reserve fund ... 10,000,000 00
Rentes, disposable funds ... ... 42,581,488 13
Investments of the new branch banks in
the public funds ... 12,806,741 39
Hotel and furniture of the Bank ... 4,000,000 00
Real property of the branch banks ... 2,273,731 00
Loan of 10,000,000 f. to the city of Paris 7,000,000 00
Interest in National Discount Bank 200,000 00
Ditto branch banks ... ..„ 230,000 00
Bills protested at Paris •.. ... 9,133,697 13
Ditto at the branches ... ••• 4,736,669 00
Expenses of administration of the Bank 127,501 36
Ditto of the branches ... 136,557 00
Miscellaneous ... 536,966 32
Adiance to the department of the

Seine 2,000,000 00
Loan of 3,000,000 f. to the City of Mar-
seilles ... ... ... ... .... 750,000 00

E 686,730,749 14