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be affixed to the
and approbation

memorial, with my fullest concurrence ' the Irish soil polluted by blood. If "lister%
of its object. avowed their intention of relying solely on
I remain yours very truly
- - R NORWICH. coercive measures, and declared that they hoped
to appease the disturbed districts by penal enactments
of extraordinary stringency, then, indeed, there
would be justice on the side of the Irish Members
when protesting against such a course. But such is
not the desire of the Executive. Several measures of
great importance have already been announced. The
monster grievance of Ireland is to be abated—the
state of the relations between landlord and tenant is
to be placed upon a better footing—facilities are to be
afforded for the disposal of encumbered estates, and a
more solvent proprietary given to the country by
means thereof. The Grand Jury laws are to be re-
modelled, and although there are many other points
on which legislation is required, we have no
reason to suppose that the Ministers will stay the
progress of the necessary reforms, or that they
will not proceed with all due diligence to the enact-
ment of such laws as may be required by the condi-
tion of the country.. All, however, cannot be done
in a moment. Some time must elapse, even under
the most propitious circumstances, before the benefi-
cial effects of the proposed ameliorations can be fully
realised. In the meantime, from whatever causes
they may have arisen, crime and outrage have at-
tained a fearful height in some localities. The re-
straints not merely of the law are set aside, but every
dictate of religion and morality is violated. Human
life is disregarded, and blood is unhesitatingly shed
on the most trivial pretexts. We do not
believe that the people generally are implicated
as consenting parties in these sanguinary transactions
but that they are intimidated by a few miscreants,,
who, already stained with every crime, and with their
lives forfeited to the offended laws, unhesitatingly
commit any new atrocity. Granting to the fullest
extent that this state of things has arisen in conse-
quence of the bad government and the unjust laws
of former days—assuming that its origin has been
accurately pointed out by the opponents of the Bill—
surely that forms no valid reason why the reign of
terror should continue, and the assassins be permitted
to pursue their murderous course without molesta-
tion, until more equitable laws shall have produced a
better state of society. The contemplated remedial
measures form the strongest grounds for the concession
of the moderate powers demanded. The outlawed
disturbers of the peace must be taught that the law
is sufficiently powerful, and cannot be violated with
impunity—its majesty must be fully vindicated.
They must not be permitted to boast that the mea-
sures which have emanated from the justice and
equity of the United Legislature have been extorted
from their fears, or that a course of reckless ille-
gality will be more effectual in procuring the desired
ameliorations than one of honest industry, and the
proper discharge of the duties incidental to their
several positions. Mr. JOHN O'CorisiELL and his
associates, however, insisted that nothing should be
done to put down those outrages, to protect the
peaceable inhabitants, or to enable the proprietors of
the soil to reside on and improve their properties,
until the other measures were introduced—measures
in which no effectual progress could possibly have
been made until after the recess. They ap-
peared to forget that Parliament had been
assembled under most extraordinary circum-
stances, and at a most unusual season of the
year ; they would make no allowance whatever, but
wasted the public time in opposing a Bill, against
which no valid or sufficient objection could be
assigned, and thereby materially damaged their own
characters and destroyed whatever influence they
might formerly have possessed in the House and with
the country. The loss of the late lamented
LIBERATOR was never more apparent than when the
Member for Limerick attempted to act as leader o:
he Opposition against the present Bill.

always been perfectly sane, and he was restored to
society. All these cases prove that an inquiry before
a jury is the only safeguard for the liberty of the
subject, who may chance to be accused of insanity,
and we confidently trust that the present reforming
Government will not suffer this crying grievance to
remain much longer unredressed.

To the Lord Bishop of

The Yesavio steamer has arrived at Marseilles,
bringing intelligence from Sicily to the Ist. At that
date considerable agitation prevailed in Palermo, and
the Governor, to appease the people, had been obliged
to promise the immediate adoption of measures of
reform.

The Madrid mail had not arrived in Paris when
the post left.

We have received the Paris papers of Sunday.
It was rumoured in Paris that ABD•EL-diADEIR had
made his submission to the Emperor of Morocco,
dissolved his Deira, consented that his officers should
inhabit each by himself such places as the Emperor
and the French Government shall appoint, and had
chosen for his own residence a place in the neigh-
bourhood of Fez. The Journal des Debats and the
Fresse express doubts as to the authenticity of this
intelligence.
M. GUIZOT is evidently trying to back out of the
awkward scrape into which he has got himself by bis
impertinent meddling in the affairs of Switzerland.
The Journal des Debats says—
" We, like the other journals, have published a note
which we are assured has been, or is about to be, ad-
dressed by the Helvetic Diet to the Minister of Foreign
Affairs of France. Although we have reason to believe
that up to the present moment the French Government
has not received any communication of this kind, we
have, nevertheless, no reason to doubt of the document
published by the Swiss journals, neither do we make any
difficulty in acknowledging that the answer of the Diet
is conceived in moderate and proper terms. Our only
regret is, that the acts of the Radical majority are not
more in conformity with its language. The argument
of the Diet goes principally on one point, to wit, that
the five mediating Powers, in proposing to call into a
common conference a representative of the Diet and a
representative of the Sonderbund, appeared to acknow-
ledge in Switzerland the existence of two confederations,
and to place them both on a footing of equality. The
Diet protests with all its strength against that separation,
which, according to it, would compromise the integrity of
Switzerland. On this point we shall make one remark.
The Diet, in addressing principally to the French
Government its protest against that part of the col-
lective note, is deceived to a certain point in the direc-
tion. If we are not deceived, it was not M. Guizot
who had the first idea of dividing the Diet officially into
two parts. He had foreseen the obstacles which such a
proposition would naturally encounter. It was more in
conformity with the spirit of the compact and with the
spirit of the sovereignty of the cantons that all the can-
tons should be individually represented in the con-
ference as they are in the Diet, and we know that a
disposition of that nature formed a part of the project
originally proposed by M. Guizot. It is not- that the
French Government had a fixed opinion on that subject,
as to which side was in the right, but it was not to it
we believe, that the initiative in this official recognition
of the two confederations should be attributed; and,:per-
haps. if the Diet had been better informed on this point,
it would have shown less vivacity in its protest.
" As to the merits of the question, the reasoning is so
worn out on both sides that we believe it to be super-
fluous to revert to them. We will only remark that it
is necessary to understand the meaning of words diffe-
rently from what it has been since the invention of
languages to affirm that there was no civil war in Swit-
zerland. The invasion of the seven cantons of the
Confederation by a Federal army was only, according
to the Diet, a simple measure of order and of interior
police; and the eighth article of the compact deter-
mines that, in every case where a different majority is
not specially required, it is an absolute majority that
decides. But it is that very article that condemns the
Diet, for the first principle, the fundamental basis of
the compact, is precisely the guarantee of the sove-
reignty of the cantons ; that is to say, that in every-
thing having reference to that sovereignty nothing
should be determined excepting with the consent of
those interested. The Diet wished to cover itself with
the compact, but it has rentit too much, and made too
many holes in it, to make it now a mantle. We the
less hesitate to do justice to the moderation adopted by
the Diet in its language, that this very moderation is
the severest censure that can be cast on its acts. To
hear it—it only wants to restore peace to the Confede-
ration, liberty to the oppressed, their country to the
banished ; all which does not prevent at the same
time from occupying militarily the conquered cantons,
proscribing the persons vanquished, and multiplying
confiscations. This is not only unjust, but un-
skilful. The last events have, in a certain
measure, changed the state of things to which
the mediation was to apply, and have neces.
sarily altered its terms. The Diet will now, no doubt
have sent its reply to the Governments, the represents
tives of which had addressed to it the collective note

At length, after a delay of two years, the unfor-
tunate Mrs. CUMMING has had that property restored
to her of which she was deprived, in consequence
of the present most unsati'factory state of the law of
lunacy. Our readers may, perhaps, remember that
this unfortunate lady was, in May, 1845, seized,
and, upon the certificate of two "skilful persons,"
incarcerated in a lunatic asylum, where she remained
a prisoner until the month of September following.
In that month a Commission de Lunatico Inquirendo
was sued out against her at the suit of her
daughters and their husbands, and a jury was
assembled at the Horns at Kennington, to try the
question of her sanity. Before that jury this un-
fortunate lady was brought, without a legal adviser, in
custody of the keeper of the asylum. For one day
she defended herself, and defended herself well too
(no great proof this, by the bye, of insanity), and at
the close of the day's proceedings a solicitor, who hap-
pened by chance to be present, offered his services to
her, which were thankfully accepted. The inquiry
was adjourned in order to enable him to in-
struct counsel ; and when the jury re-assembled
they were astonished to hear that those
who had sued out the commission had
offered to compromise the case (as if it were possible
to compromise a charge of insanity), and that Mrs.
CUMMING, who had for months been incarcerated as a

as soon as that communication shall have been made
officially, it is probable that the Powers will have to
make it the object of new deliberations, on which
the ulterior conduct of the Diet will not be without in-
fluence."

The threat involved in this last sentence will no
doubt be estimated by the Diet at its true worth.
The big words of M. GUIZOT will not fright them
from their propriety. By this time they are perfectly
well acquainted with "him and his means."

Do., (guar. 6 percent)
• • 000000 ••••,
Fast Lancashire
Ditto, New
Ditto, New Quarters 33/4 .....
East Lincolnshire
Edinburgh and Glasgow 50 '
Ditto Half Shares 15 .. •• ...... •••••
Ditto, Quarter Shares 121
r.. •
Edinburgh & Northern 22i......
Ditto, New
Ditto, Newport .....
Ditto, ditto, New • •••• 214 .....
Exeter, Yeovil, & Porch.
57 ...
...
Ditto, New
Glasgow, Dumfries, and •••
Carlisle . ..... •81.65.8 d _
Glasgow,liilmar.,& Ayr 50
Ditto, New ......... •. 40 , .....
Do. Preference Consol l2
Great Northern lOl4 ...... 4%
Do., London and York
Great South. and West.

Accounts have been received from the island of
Bourbon to the 16th. There had been a serious
oneute at St. Denis, the capital of the island, in conse-
quence of the arrival of two priests, the Abbes PoNcn-

LET and MONNE; who had made themselves obnoxious.
The white inhabitants assembled, and threatened to
expel the priests by force. The military interfered,
and dispersed the rioters, not, however, until several
had been killed and wounded. At length the Go-

lunatic, would be set at liberty, if she would make a

vernor sent M. MONNE; the most obnoxious of the
priests, from the island, and tranquillity was in con-
sequence partially restored. It appears that these
priests were abolitionists, and that at one period of
the emeute the slaves threatened to rise in their de•
fence.

disposition of her property in favour of those suing
out the commission. To those terms she consented,
and executed certain deeds, making the required dis-
position of her property. At the time this arrange-
ment was entered into we drew the attention of the
public to the case, and gave it as our opinion that
the agreement was void, inasmuch as, if Mrs

It is said that a lively altercation took place on
Friday between MM. GUIZOT and DUCLIATEL, the
former reproaching the latter with mismanagement in
suffering the Reform dinners to continue, and the
latter retorting on M. GUIZOT his gross blunders in
Swiss affairs.

•
CUMMING were insane, she was incapable of
executing any legal document, and if she were sane
her execution of the deed having been obtained under
a threat of incarceration, the deed was void, because
the execution of it had been obtained under duress.
An action was brought by Mrs. CUMMING to recover
possession of the deed thus extorted from her, and
the jury found a verdict in her favour. Subsequently
a rule nisi was moved for a new trial—the case
was solemnly argued in the Court of Queen's Bench,
and on Saturday Lord DENMAN, in giving the judg-
ment of the Court, fully confirmed the views we had
all along entertained as to the invalidity of a deed so
obtained. His Lordship said—
On the trial of the issue, it was contended for the
plaintiff that she was not bound by the arrangement,
as it was made at a time when she was under duress. It
appeared from the evidence that she had been confined
in a lunatic asylum, and was brought from the asylum
before the Commissioner; and it was sworn by the clerk
of her attorney, that she acceded to the arrangement
from fear of being taken back to a lunatic asylum. It
was contended that that confinement was illegal ; and
that even if she was in lawful confinement the argreement
was not binding as it was executed under duress. On the
other hand, the defendants contended that the proceeding
was banci fide for the benefit of the plaintiff herself, 'and
that the agreement had been sanctioned by the counsel act-
ing on the part of the plaintiff. Great weight would be due
to this consideration under ordinary circumstances, but
where ene of the parties is alleged to be a lunatic the par-
ties are not on equal terms. The object of the proceed-
ing under the commission was that she might not be de-
clared to be a lunatic, and that the management of her
estates might be taken out of her hands. How then
could the defendants, in the face of their own proceed-
ing, contend that she was in a fit state of mind to give
her consent to such an agreement ? If she was in her
right mind, she was entitled to keep the deeds ; and if
not, she was incapable of giving her assent to the ar-
rangement. We need not question that her counsel did
the best for her under the circumstances ; but as, by
the hypothesis she was incompetent to make a contract,
she was equally incompetent to appoint counsel to act on
her behalf. If her counsel acted on the belief that she
was in a sound state of mind, their proceeding is now
being enforced. It might, perhaps, have been better for
the plaintiff, if this agreement could have been carried
out ; but we have no power to effect that object. The
jury found a true verdict when they decided in favour of
the plaintiff. The rule for a new trial must, therefore,
be discharged."

The Debals states that there is no truth in the re-
ports which speak of an insurrection in Sicily.
The Three per Cents. were done in the passage of
the Opera on Sunday at 75f. 27
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, DEC. 13.
Boulogne and Amiens, 14%—Central of France (Orleans
and Vi,arzon), 15—Dutch Rhenish, 2%—Namur and
Liege, 51/4—Northern of France, 11%—Paris and Lyons,
514—Rouen and Havre, 19—Sambre and Meuse, 7 J.. 4 —Tours
and Nantes, 4—WestFlanders, 114.

MARKET NEWS.—(THIS DAY.)
RAY MARKETS.
SMITIIFIELD,_Meadow Hay, 21 lOs to 31 12s ; Clover,
ditto, 31 103 to 41 15s ; and Straw, 11 5s to 1/ 8s
per load. A full average supply and a heavy demand.
CUMBERLAND.—IIeadow Hay, 21 105 to 3/ 14s ;
Clover ditto, 31 103 to 4/10s; and Straw, 1/ 5s to 1/ lOs
per load, Supply moderate and trade dull.
WHITECHAPRL.—Meadow Hay, 21 8s to 3/ 12s;
Clover ditto, 3/ lOs to 4/ 15s ; and Straw, 1/ 4a to
1/ 8s per load. Trade dull at the above quotation.

COAL INIARKE
♦dair's Main
tiuddle's W. Hartley.. 16s fid
Carr's Hartley
Davison'sWestHartley 17s Od
Dipton Tanfield lss Od
Hasting's Hartley 175 Od
New Tanfield l6s Od
Ord's Redheugh
Original Pontop
South Pontop
Stewart's Hartley
Tanfield Moor 17s Od
Tanfield Moor Butes lss 9d
Townley l6s 6d
West Wylam
West Hartley
Wylam
Wall's End, &c
Framwell Gate .... l9s Od
Hedley
Hebburn
Ships at market

:T.-YESTERDAY.

Walker
Washington
Eden Main . 2os 3d
Harraton Main ...... 161 6d
Belmont 2os 3d
Hetton .
Lambton
Russell's Hetton 20s 9d
Shotten ...... ...... 20s 3d
Stewart's
Whitwell
Hudson's Hartlepool 205 Od
High Thorn ley
Heugh Hall
Leasingthorne Hartley 16s Od
(Adelaide Tees
Denison
Richardson's Tees l9, Od
South Durham l9, 9d
Cowpen Hartley
W. Bartley Netherton 17s Od
, 155—sold, 87.

DEATH OF LADY MONTFORT.—This lady expired
on Friday last, at Lord Montfort's residence i❑ town.
The deceased was daughter of Mr. Watts, and married
in September, 1793, Lord Montfort, by whom she does
not leave any issue.
DEATH OF LADY GAEDNER.—We regret to an-
nounce the death of Lady Gardner, after a short illt,ess.
The melancholy event took place on Wednesday last, at
Kinmell Park, the seat of her father, Lord Dinorben,
near St. Asaph. Her Ladyship had only recently com-
pleted her 33d year.
DEATH OF SIR JOHN LEMAN ROGERS.—This
respected Baronet died on Friday last, at his seat in
Devonshire, in the 68th year of his age. Be had en-
joyed the baronetcy just half a century, having suc-
ceeded his father, the fifth baronet, in 1797.
DHATII OF THE COUNTESS OF KINGSTON.—We
have to record the death of the above estimable lady,
which took place on Thursday last, at ber residence at
St. John's Wood. Her ladyship, who was in her 76th
year of her age, was the only surviving issue of Stephen
First Earl of Mountcashell, and married in May, 1794,
George, third Earl of Kingston, father of the present
Peer.

It is satisfactory to have this solemn decision of
the Court of Queen's Bench declaring the illegality
of all settlements of property obtained by a threat
of incarceration in a lunatic asylum ; but it only
proves the absolute necessity that exists for the in-
stitution of some public preliminary inquiry into the
state of mind of alleged lunatics, before authorising
their incarceration in such an asylum. In this case
Mrs. CummiNo had been incarcerated from May to
September in an asylum upon the authority of a
medical certificate, and there she mi ht have re-
mained until this moment had t
not gan attempt
been made to get the
control of her p
which involved the necessity property
of an inquiry before
jury. Mr. CAMPBELL was incarcerated in an asylum
on the certificate of " skilful persons" for upwards of
consequently
hel y 111.
seven years, at the end of which time he inherited some
be-
came property;nece sasanryin,quainrdy, btehfeor
jeurayjdureyclacroendse

We regret to learn that Viscountess Palmerston has
been confined to her chamber since Friday last, from
an attack of influenza. Iler Ladyship was somewhat
better yesterday.

,aaq Lcus


THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 14, 1847.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, QUARTER TO THREE.
The Cotton Market at Liverpool yesterday was very
flat, at the previous rates. Sales 3,000 bales. American
realised 4d. to 6d. per lb.—Railway Shares had not been
dealt in to any extent, and prices were lower.
There have no: been any late colonial advices an-
nounced this morning.
A somewhat uneasy feeling has been engendered in
City circles at the early adjournment of Parliament for
the Christmas holidays, and the unstable position of
M. Guizot, the Premier of the French Ministry.
To this, probably, more than to any other cir-
cumstance, may be ascribed the reaction in our
Funds this morning, to which more especial atten-
tion will be directed hereafter. Should a change
in the advisers of Louis Philippe occur, pending the
recess, and any hitch occur in consequence—say in the
affairs of Switzerland—prompt replies of our Foreign
Minister, of our status with the new Cabinet at the
Tuileries, would have to be postponed until the early
part of February in the coming year.
The accounts from the United States, received this
morning by a steamer arrived at Havre from New
Orleans, are considered, as far as the condition of the
markets there, as favourable. Specie, it is said, must
come forward, and that to a very considerable amount,
to this country. The letters, of course, have net yet
been delivered.
At New York freight had been engaged for 2,000
barrels of naval stores for London.
The advices from Bombay by special overland express
state, that the news of several of the large failures here
had arrived, but without any visible effect being pro-
duced. To new houses consignments were in progress.
In the Consol Market the business transactions have
been few. For Money the price is 85} without the
dividend, while for the Account it has advanced from
84i to 851. The premium upon Exchequer-bills has
run up from 6s. to lOs. India Bonds still remain at a
very heavy discount. Bank Stock is flat at 186*.
In the Foreign Bond Market Buenos Ayres Bonds have
been sold at 31, Russian at 10?, Spanish Five per Cents.
for Account at 17i, and the Dutch Two-and-a-Half per
Cents.. at 55*. •
The Railway Shares are steady.

Ditto Sheffield. and
Lincolnshire 71,4..—, ...... .........
Manchest. &Southampt 2J;is • .. — --
51ildand lOO lO7 108...........
Do. Consolidated Pref.loo
Do. 401. Shares
Do. 501. Shares lO
Do. Birm., and Derbyloo
Midland Consol. Brist. &
Binning., 6 per cent. 100 ......
Midlnd, Brist. &Glocstr. 34 ......
Ditto, ditto 71.9s — ........
Midlnd, Leicest. & Swan-
nington, 8 per ct.guar.loo ......
Midland Great Western
Irish B5 —
Newcastle and Carlisle...100
Do. Quarters
Newmrk et & Che-

Ur%
42%
8
81%

ONE CLOSING
PRICES OF BItITISH FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES
Bank Stock
3 per Cent. Reduced Anne 84%1ii% 843%
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities 85% 85%
New 314 per Cent. Anne. 86% 86 861 i 86%
India Bonds, 1,0001.
Ditto under 1,0001... .—.— 18 dis
Consols for Account... ...... 85 85% 84% 85xd 85Axd
Exchequer Bills. ad.

1,0001.
5001.
Small ...... 13 9 p 9 p
ox-E ctosniti
O'CLOCK PRICES.
80

PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS.
Brazilian Bonds —
Ditto, Small Bl
Buenos Ayres Bonds, 6 per Cent 3l
Chilian Bonds 6 per Cent.....
Ditto 3 Der Cent —
Mexican, 5 per Cent. 1846 —
Ditto. Account' ..... ... ....
Ditto, Small —
Russian Bonds ..... lO7
Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840.
Ditto, Account
Ditto. 3 per Cent —
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Dutch, 2% per Cent., 12 Guild 55%
Ditto. 4 Der Cent. Certificates

pAiD. LIISO/NENEBO3,CLDrii.
.. 'CPR011812C85211°61171847597:77:1:414:83::
PRICES or
RAILWAY SHARES
Aberdeen
Amber., Lott., Boston,
and Eastern Junction 2%
Ayrshire and Galloway.. 2%
Belfast & County Down 10
Birmingham and Ox-
ford Junction'-- l4 ...... 1734..
Birmingham, Wolver-
hampton, and Dudley 10 ... .. 13%.... .... ..... 114::
Birmmg.,Wolverh'pton,
and Stour Valley 101. 145....
Birkenhead, Lancashire,
and Cheshire June.— 7%.
Boston, Stamfd, & Birm. 5
Bristol and Exeter
Ditto; Thirds
Buckinghamshire 10/. 4s. —
Caledonian
Ditto, Half Shares 33/4 l% l%
Ditto, Clydesdale June 50 ......
Chester and Holyhead... 37% 21% 21 ..
~;
Ditto, Preference .. 8
Clarence
Do. Ist Class, 6 per Ct. 10 - •••••••••• .....
Do. 2d Class, 5 per Ct. 10
Do. Government Loan,
4 per Cent. lO ..... ..
Dublin and BelfastJunc. 20 —
Dundalk & Enniskillen 15
East Anglia, 25/., L. k
E. and L. and D....... 25
Do., 181., E. & H.... 18
Do., 3/.105., E. &H. 2
Eastern Counties
Ditto (B) 20
Ditto,Latension, 6 par
Cent, No. 1....... 6/. 13s. 4d... ...
Ditto ditto, No. 2... 61. 13s. 4d...
Do., York Extension.. 10 ......
Do., North. & Eastern 50
Do., Quarters
Do., New ... 23
Eastern Union 5O .. ... ... ......
Ditto, Quarter Shares 121, —
•••
Ditto, Thirds ........13s. 4d —

101
1
15

_.....ei aesterford 18% — .....
Do. Extension .........21. 12s —
Newport, Abergaveany,
and Hereford
Newry and Enniskillen 7 — - .....
Newry, Warrenpoint,
and Rostrevor 12% — .. ........ -..
Norfolk -.100
Do. New 201. .. 5 - ••• •••••• •••
Do. Extension
..
Do. Scrip, 1847, North
of Norfolk
Do. do. Wayeney Val. 2

euey Vat.
Northern Counties Union 4 .....
North British ... .... 25 ......
Do. Half Sharesi l2 %...... 12
Do. Quarters 4% — . .. ..
Do. Extension
•-•
Ditt•N Thirds 2 ...... 2 ... ........ ...
Nort' Staffordshire 7%•••”. 7%
North
,Wales
••
North Western. IS
Oxford, Worcester, and
Wolverhampton ...... 35 ...
Reading, Guildford, and
Reigate
Royston and Hitchin ... 1% — ...
Scottish Central
Scottish Midland 171% —
Ditto, New 10 —
Sheffield, Rotherham,
and Goole
Shrewsbury and Bina-. 6
Ditto ditto, Class A. 6 —
Shrewsbury & Chester
(Nor. W. Min.) l6
Ditto Halves ... ditto 8
Ditto Oswestry ...... 12
Ditto New
Shrewsbury and Herefd 2 ......
Shropshire Union
south Devon 4O ...... 24 ... ..... .
Do. Preference
South Staffordshire 4
south Eastern & Dover. 33% 3114 31 ..
Do., No. 1 20
Do., Nc. 2.
Do,, No. 3.. ..... ...... :5 ...... 9% ... .••
Do., No. 4
South Wales -
south Yorkshire, Don-
caster, and Goole -
Swans. & Loughor & Ca-
meron's Stm. C0a1.... 4
Taw Vale Extension ... 4
Thames Haven Dock
and Railway ........... 17%
Vale of Neatti ... .. 4
Waterford and Kilkenny 13%. . — -
Waterford and Limerick 40
Waterfd,Wxfrd,Wichlw,
and Dublin
West Cornwall .. 4 ... .. ..... ....
Whitehaven & Furness 12
Windsor, Staines, and
South Western ..... .- 52& ......
Wilts, Somerset,& Wey-
mouth
York, Newcastle, and
Berwick. .... -
....
Do. Original New and
Berwick .. ... 25
Do. North ShieldsPur. 25 —
Do. Extension No. 1. 10
Do. do. No. 2.
De G.N E.Preterence 8 ...... 9% . 9,A
York and North Midland 50
Ditto Preference
Do. Ditto,
and W est Rid-
ing Extension

FOREIGN RAILWAYS.
Anglo-Belgian... 4 —
Barbadoes 1
Boulogne and Amiens... 20
Central of France (Or-
leans and Vierzon) ... 14 ' - ............ •11111
Central of Spain ........ 2
Ceylon .. .... ss.
Demerara
Dendre Valley
Direct Bombay and
Madras
Dutch Rhenish
East Indian ... ..... .... 1%
Great Indian Peninsular 58.
Great Southern of Madras 5L -
Great Western Bengal... ss.
Great Western Canada... 3% ......
Italian and Austrian.... 4 —..—
Jamaica S.Mid. Junction 1
Louvain ala Sambre ... 7 ...
Luxembourg. ..... ••••• .. 6 .•• - •• ••
Lyons and Avignon
Madras 1 —
Madras. Nellore, and ••
Arcot
Madrid and Valentia.... 2 ... ..
Namur aad Liege , l4 ......
Northern of France. .....
Orleans and Bordeaux 6 —
Over Yasel 4/ 34 4d . ...
Paris and Lyons ...... ... 10 ...... 514 sl,i
Paris and Orleans 2O
Paris and Rouen
Paris and Strasbourg 8
Rouen and Havre 2O —
Sambre and Meuse ... .. 18 ...... 74 61/8 .....
Strasbourg and Bale ... 14
Tours aad Nantes ...... 8
Tourtiay, Jurbise, Lan-
den, and Hasselt....... 16
West Flanders ...... .... 81/4
- - -- -

lii p

225
Gr(olarteslanordth)o7 ....... .....
a••n•d.- ....... .......
....---
..
Ditto, New 401. ......... 5 ...... _
Ditto, New 30/.
Ditto, New 15/.. ........ 6% ....... _
Great Western B5 ...... 97 98
Ditto, % Shares 5O ...... _
Ditto, 14 Shares
Ditto, Fifth 5............ 20 ...... 22% 223i
Ditto, New 17/.......... 7 ...... 8 7%. .... ..... 7%
Eludderstield & blanches. 22 ....._ _
.........
...
..
Ditto, Thirds
49
Ditto, 14 Shares.-- •• 12%
4pswich & Bury St. Edm. 15 ......
lluDllitaton,diSiaelifby........ ... 0
Shares....
...
es... .
.. 5 .
25
.....
... ..
4,
............»
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Do., do., and Norwich 15 ...... _
Do., do., Extens. Scrip
(late
Lancaster
55
Ditto, Thirds lO ......
Lancashire & Yorkshire 93 ••
Ditto, ditto
CanadniCb. Carlisle... 50 50214 ...... 55
Ditto % Shares . ... 38 .....
Do. Quarter Shares.. 14% —
..
Do. Fifths 8 ..... SM, 7%
Do. Sixteenths ...... .. 614 ......
Do. Thirds (Reg.)....101. 4s.
...
Do. Liverp. and Bury 34
•••• .....
Ditto 14 (late Hud- ••••
dersfield and Shelf.) 33
Do.( Wakefield,Ponte-
tract. & Goole
Do. ( W. Riding Union) 41.25 —
Do. (Preston & Wyre) 25
Do. % Shares (A) 9
Ditto ditto (B) ... 114
Leeds and Bradford .....• 50
Leicester and Bedford... 16s.
Leeds, Dewsbury, &c.... 37% — ••••••••••••••••
Do., Branch % Shares 12%.. »•
DoNew Branch( blue) 2%
Do. Extension (green) 2%.• •••
Do.NewExten. (pink) 2% ......
Leeds and Thirsk ......... 36 ...... 20
Ditto, New ............. 17% ...... —•-• ..... ••••••
Do., Prefer., 6 per Ct. 3% ..... '
Liverpool, Crosby and
Southport .... .... ...... 2 .....
Liverp., blnchstr& New-
castle Junction 2%
London and Blackwall..l6/.1.35. 4d- ...... Do.. New, No. 1
Do.••»•• •••
• •
....4—:
Do. Extension 17% ......
London, Brighton, and
22
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Coastno..
52.
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..........
515003 s .
..:. ... . . . 4d..... _ .
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Do. Consol. Eighths.. 30 ......
Do. Guarant. 5 per et. 9 ...... ...."
"
Loudon and Greenwich 121 15s 4d.• •
Ditto, Preference ... 18/ I;'s 2d...
London and N. Western 100 l5l 150% 150%
Do., Quarters L. &B. 17 ......
Do., d0., New
Ditto Fifths ..... .... 2 ..... .
Do. 14 Shares (G. J.) 25
Do 40/.Shares(L.l%) 15
Do. 40/. (M. & B.) ... 40
Do. 10/. (bl. & B.) A. 7%...... 1114— ..
Do. 10/. (M. & 13.) B. 7%...... _
Do. 10/. (M. & B.) C. 1
Load. &,S. Western 41/. 6s. 8d...54 53% 541,4 x.n. 54%x.n.
Do. New ConsoL Bths 40 ...... --•
Do. New 50/. ... ..... 32%.. .. 29 •••• •••
ex new ... 29x.rL
Do. New 401 . 26 ...... --
Do. Tenths (Consol ) 50 •••••• "" -----.
Ditto ditto ...... 4O ... ..... •••
Ditto, Thirds 81.65. 8d...•
London, Salisbury, and
Yeovil ..... .... ........ 1% ....- • --
Londorlerry&Coleraine 27% ..... • ---
Londonderry and Ennis-
killen ...... ... ........... 23% •••••• ". ..... •-•
blanch ester,Buxton,and
Mati0ck..........„_.. 3 ......
Manchester, Sheffield,
and Lincolnshire lOO ...... ...
Do. Quarters (No. 1) 13 ...... •••
Ditto ditto (No. 2)... 25
Ditto ditto (No. 3)... 7%......
Ditto and Grimsby.... 25
Ditto ditto . ........ 7
Ditto ditto

JOINT STOCK BANKS,
Australasia
••• ••
British North American 50
Colonial 25
Provincial of Ireland ... 25

MINES.
Anglo Mexican lOO
British Iron l2
Bolonos Scrip
Brazilian Cocaes & Cuiba 30 ... • •
Galvanized Iron
......
Ditto. New 4
Real id Monte, Unreg.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING—(THIS DAY.)
LONDON, DEC. 14. —Wind E.S.E., light breeze and
cloudy.
OBr RAMSGATE, DEC. 13.—Margaret West, Batavia.
OFP DOVER, DEC. 12.—Wanderer, Tims Prince
Edward's Island. ,
OFF SrIOREIIAM, DEL 13.—Wind S.S.E.—Arrd.
Nancy, Pond, Quebec.
MUMBLES, DEC. 11.—Arrd. Hero, Harrison, Dal-
housie, for Port Talbot. Sid. British Queen, Boston.
LIVERPOOL, DEC. 13.—Wind E.S.E.—Arrd. Nemesis,
late Brown, Calcutta ; Earl of Chester, Blackstone,
Bombay; Stiriingshire, Rattray, Maranham, sailed 10th
ult.; Wanderer, Jenkins, Laguna ; Actaeon, Daly, New
Orleans ; Anne and Jane, Swift, Calcutta ; Mersey,
Sham way, Mobile; William Prim, Michaels, Charleston;
Esther May, Boston; Maid of Erin, Egan, Pictou.
FaLluouTß,DEc. 12.—The Robins brig, of and for
Glasgow, from Berbice, was brought in here, having
been fallen in with by the barque British Isles, Robson,
of and for London, from Cuba, 17th tilt., lat. 38 N., lon.
56 W.; foremast and bowsprit only standing, and aban-
doned with the exception of two seamen, who were
taken on board the British Isles, when the chief officer,
three seamen, and a boy were put on board, and sue •
ceeded in bringing her in hero, with the assistance of a
pilot only. It is supposed that the ground tier of sugar
is washed out. Cargo consists of rum, sugar, wine, &o.
PETERHEAD, Doc. 9.—The Clipper, Stott, bound to
London, has put back leaky and must discharge.
The Prince of Wales, Wilson, which arrived is the
river to-day, was struck by a sea on the 6th inst., in lat.
47 N., lop. 10 W., blowing a heavy gale at the time
from N.N. W., when she lost bulwarks, water-casks, ttc. •
cutwater started, and has three feet of water in her
hold.

WEYMOUTH, DEC. 10.--. The American ship which
was burnt to the water's edge, and the wreck of which
afterwards came on shore on Rimmeridge Ledge, is the
R. G. Shaw.
IartISTOL, DEC. 11.—The Amity, Waters, from Car-
diff to this port, is on shore benesped above the river's
mouth.

MILFORD, DEC. 10.--A vessel, said to be a brig, was
seen to go down in St. Bride's Bay 6th inst. A. large
boom has been picked up on Newgate Sands, in the same
bay, and some bees wax has been picked up. The Flirt,
Roberts, from Odessa to Liverpool, which arrived here
Bth instant, is leaky, and it is expected will discharge.
The Lady Eleanor, Mills, from Liverpool to Galway ;
the Jane (schooner), of Cork ; and the Agenoria, of
Colchester, are discharging to repair.
LLANMADOCK, NEAR SWANSEA, DEC. 12..—The Mi-
nion, Elliot, of Limerick, from Quebec, which was on
shore on the Lagenny Sands on the 10th instant has
become a total wreck, rigging and part of cargo saved.
RANGLOSS, VALENTIA, DEC. 11.—The poop rail of a
large vessel, painted light green and lead colour, and
made of American elm was picked up here on the 9th
inst.; the weather here continues very strong.
DEAL, DEC. 13.—The JEgir, Antwerp to Smyrna, Was
in contact this afternoon in the Downs, with the Fanny,
of Prince Edward's Island, and has sustained damage.
The Margaret West, De Boer, from Batavia, which
arrived off Ramsgate to-day, was struck by a sca in
lat. 46 N., and lon. 19 W., and sustained considerable
damage. The outward bound, which sailed this morn-
ing, have mostly put back, and anchored on the South
Foreland.
BEAUMARIS, DEC. 11.—The Mary, of Newry, which
was ashore under Trecastle, has been got off, and beached
Opposite this port. ,
DUNDEE, DEC. 11.—The Adah, Clark, from Arch-
angel, which got on shore at the entrance of the river,
is leaky; nearly the whole of her cargo has been landed
in a damaged state.
WICK, DEC. 10.—The wreck of a Norwegian
schooner, bound to this place, has been fallen in with
by another Norwegian vessel, which arrived here last
week. The crew are said to have been five in number.
NOTICE TO MARINERS.
QUARANTINE REGULATIONS.
GENOA, DEC. 9.—The Board of Health published a
decree on the 3d inst., rescinding the suspension of free
pratique to all vessels arriving from French ports in the
Mediterranean; and, at the same time, ordered Quaran-
tine to be performed by all vessels arriving from the
lonian Islands which shall have sailed from those islands
between the 18th and 30th ult.

•
QUEEN'S BENCH.—(THIS DAY.)
(Sittings at Nisi Prius, in Guildhall, before the LORD
CHIEF JUSTICE and a Special Jury.)
BAILEY AND ANOTHER w. CRITCHLEY.
This was on action to recover 6301., being the balance
of 1,3001., the amount of an advertising agent's bill.
The plaintiffs wore the well known advertising agents of
the City, and the defendant was ens of the provisional
committeemen of the Paris and Strasburg Railway.
The sum sought to be recovered was the balance of the
plaintiffs' account for advertising the railway in the
English newspapers. The defendant contended that as
ho did not act upon the managing committee, or instruct
the plaintiffs to advertise the scheme, he was not liable.
The jury returned a verdict for the plaintiffs.
CR

IMINAL COURT.—(THIS DAY.)
OLD COURT.
(Before the COMMON-SBRGMANT and Mr. Alderman
Gums.)
James Harditnan, a barman, was indicted for stealing
four sovereigns, the property of William Rowland
Scares, his master. When the case was called on
neither the prosecutor nor any of his witnesses were in
attendance.
The COMMON-SERGEANT (addressing the jury) said,
that if the prisoner's witnesses happened to be absent,
through any mistake or neglect on their part, or not
expecting the trial to come on from the state of the
paper, the prisoner would have no delay on that ac-
count. It was but even justice that the prosecutor
should also be required to attend, and that the trial
should proceed.
The case therefore being left to the jury without any
evidence, the prisoner was acquitted, and the Court di-
rected the recognisances of the prosecutor and his wit-
nesses to be estreated.
Several other cases were called on, in none of which
were the parties in attendance. In some the prisoners
obtained delay on account of want of preparation, in one
case upon affidavit. In another it was stated that it
was arranged between counsel, with the assent of one of
the judges, to come on at a particular hour. At
this the Common-Sergeant expressed great displeasure,
and at half-past nine said angrily that he " would wait
no longer." Mr. Alderman Gibbs said, "Nor I," and
both immediately left the court. The jury seemed at a
loss what they were to do, and were about to imitate
the movement of the bench and retire also. But, on
the intimation (as it appeared) of the officer of the
court, they kept their places, until the return of the
Learned Sergeant, at ten o'clock.
Again the counsel were unprepared to proceed with a
case which stood next on the paper, and a long discus-
sion took place, in which Mr. Ballantine, Mr. Clarkson,
and Mr. O'Brien took part.
Mr. BALLANTINE submitted that it must sometimes
occur that counsel may be elsewhere engaged in a case
that occupies an unexpected length of time, when
another of equal importance, and in which he is en-
gaged, may be called in this court. That was the
position in which he was himself placed. A case of
importance was proceeding in another court, which had
occupied from eleven o'clock yesterday, and would yet
occupy many hours.
Mr. CLARKSON said that there was another cause of
delay, in the great distances to which the jurisdiction
of the court extended, and which rendered it impossible
for witnesses to arrive at an early hour upon the short
notice given of the day of trial after the committal of a
prisoner. In a case just now called on the witnesses
had to come from a distance of fifteen miles.
After much further discussion the court was again
adjourned for an hour. In the mean time the jury drew
up the following memorandum, which was signed by
twenty-seven of the jurors in attendance, and was pre-
sented to the Common-Sergeant on his return with the
Alderman:—
" It appearing to the jury assembled this 14th day of
December that the hour of nine o'clock is alike inconve-
nient to all parties concerned, more especially at this
season of the year, they beg respectfully to suggest to
the authorities of the court that no earlier hour than ten
o'clock should in future be appointed for the commence-
ment of business."
Mr. PAYNE said the suggestion had the support of the
whole of the bar.
The COMMON. SERGEANT said he would lay it before
the Judges and the Court of Aldermen, and the other
members of the commission.
John Wakeman was indicted for stealing a quantity of
oats, the property of George Robinson, his master, from
a granary at Chiswick.
The defence was that the prisoner, who was a carter in
the employment of the prosecutor, took the oats (three
pecks) for the use of his horse.
The jury found him Guilty, and he was sentenced to
imprisonment for six months, with hard labour.
Ann Barrow, a married woman. was indicted for
stealing 30 yards of lace, value 101., the property of
William Goodman and another.
It appeared from the evidence that the prisoner, on the
19th of November, made a purchase at the shop of
Messrs. Goodman and Taylor, of Uxbridge, the prose-
cutors, and went away without suspicion. In the course
of the next day the prisoner and her husband were
given into custody for attempting to pass bad moiley.
They were placed in a cart to be carried to the station-
house, and one of the witnesses saw the prisoner stoop
down and let something fall from her muff. On his re-
turn from the station-house he found the lace in ques-
tion, tied up in a silk handkerchief. Upon inquiry at
the shop of the prosecutor, it was found that a corre-
sponding quantity of lace was missing from the stock.
Mr, PAYNE addressed the jury for the defence.
The jury returned a verdict of Guilty.
There were two other cases of a similar nature against
the prisoner, and
The COMMON-SERGEANT observing that she was a
common shoplifter, sentenced her to be transported for
seven years.
The Court was occupied the remainder of the day
with indictments for passing bad money.

NEW COURT.
(Before the RECORDER and Mr. Alderman 11. HuGHEs.)
The Court was occupied the whole morning with the
trial (continued from yesterday) of Burr, Brewer, Ralfe,
and Carter, who were indicted for conspiring to defraud
Mr. Kerrie, of Jamaica, by cheating him of large sums
of money at cards.
The prosecution was conducted by Mr. M. Chambers,
Mr. Ballantine, and Mr. Huddleston. The prisoners,
Barr, Ralfe, and Brewer, were defended by Mr. Clark-
son, Mr. Bodkin, Mr. Sergeant Wilkins, Mr. Sergeant
Allen, and Mr. Parry. Mr. Prendergast appeared for
Carter, who has not been taken into custody.
The evidence added nothing to the full details already
published in the Bow-street police report of The Sun.
The trial had not concluded when we went to press.

MARRIAGE IN HIGH LIFE.—On Saturday, the
11th, by special license, at the church of Holy Trinity,
Brompton, by the Rev. W. J. Irons, vicar of Brompton,
the Hon. Robert Fitzmaurice Tilson Deane, eldest son of
the Right Hon. Baron Muskerry, of Springfield Castle,
county of Limerick, to Elizabath Geraldine, eldest
daughter of Hamilton Knox Grogan Morgan, Esq., of
Johnstown Castle, M.P. for the county of Wexford.
The ceremony was attended by a number of the distin-
guished relatives of the bride and bridegroom. After
partaking of a splendid dejeune given on the occasion
by Mr. and Mrs. S. C. Hall, et their beautiful cottage
in Old Brompton, the happy couple left town in a car-
riage
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Ferrard, county of Antrim, Ireland.
RAGGED ScuooLs.—Yesterday the fourth anni-
versary meeting of the subscribers to the Union-mews
Ragged School was held in the Portland Rooms, Foley-
street, Portland-place, and was attended by a large
number of the neighbouring gentry. The chair was
taken by Sir William Baynes, Bart., in the absence of
Mr. B. B. Cabbell, who was to preside. The secretary
read the report, which stated that the attendance of chil-
dren had considerably increased during the last year.
The average number on Sunday evenings was ninety
boys and forty girls, and on week days forty of the for-
mer and thirty of the latter. The report stated that the
year's receipts amounted to 561., and the expenses to 691.
The report was unanimously adopted.
FIRE AT BERMONDSEY.—Yesterday morning, be-
tween ten and eleven o'clock, a very alarming fire broke
out upon the premises in the occupation of Mr. Har-
board, rope-manufacturer, situate on Jamaica-level,
Bermondsey. It commenced in the tar-house, and was
occasioned from the leakage of one of the coppers filled
with that combustible material. In the space of a few
minutes the building became fired from the bottom, and
penetrating the sides, another similar erection used as
the stabling, and also the yarn-house, became ignited.
Three engines soon reached the spot, and owing to the
combined exertions of all parties present, the fire was
eventually extinguished, but not until considerable da-
mage was done not only in that portion of the premises
where the flames began, but also to the furniture in the
private house, by removal and water. The adjoining
sustainedproperty,
soOmMellp damageiedby b
yM
firer. R iacnhda rd
water.son, Fortunately likewise
Mr. Harboard was insured in the Sun Fire-office.r
SOUTHAMPTON, MONDAY, DEo.l3.—lhe fears en-
tertained for the safety of the American steamer Wash-
ington were groundless, as intelligence has come to hand
from Bremen that she arrived off the Weser on Sunday,
the sth instant, in 42
.hours from Cowes-roads, thus
making an unusually quick passage. The Washington
was to leave Bremen for Southampton on the lath (to-
day) with the United States mail from Germany, and is
expected at Southampton on Wednesday, to load for
New York, her day of departure being fixed for Satur-
day, the 18th instant. The Peninsular and Oriental
Company's steamer Montrose is expected to-morrow
(Tuesday), with the Spanish and Portuguese mails, &c.
ATTEMPT AT HIGHWAY ROBBERY NEAR ABER•
AVON.—ONE OFr TME ROBBERS SHOT.—As Captain Dean
Lovering, of breath, was on his way home from Port
'Talbot (where his ship was lying), on Friday night last,
he was attacked by two men, who demanded
his "money
or his life." He replied that he had no money, when
they exclaimed, with an oath, that he had a "very good
coat on his back," and that he must also have money
about him, and that he had better give up both. Captain
Lovering had fortunately been persuaded by his mate,
on leaving the ship, to take a pistol with him, which he
did; and on the robbers continuing to demand his
money and coat, threatening instant death, he proeeeded
apparently to take off his coat, but drew out the pistol,
and fired it at ono of the men, whom he wounded in the
leg. On seeing his companion drop, the other said, in
the most determined manner, "D—n you, you have not
finished us both yet," and attacked Mr.
.Lowering
fiercely, when a violent struggle took place, which ended
in the defeat of the villain, as Captain Lowering used
the butt end of the pistol most effectively. The police
are on the alert, and will no doubt come upon the track
of the robbers.—Cambrian.
We are informed that Messrs. Heywood have re-
solved to adopt in their future banking arrangements the
recent example of Messrs. Jones, Loyd, and Co.—Li.
verpool Albion.