The Sun.
London, England, 1847-03-15 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, MARCH 15, 1847.

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HE WEATHEIL—SUN OFFICE, MARCH 14.
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BAROMETER, 30 37.—WIND, S.W., fine.

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BAROMETER, 30.24.
Wind S.S.W., fine sunshiny weather.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON-lIRLDUE THIS DAV.
Nforning .. 16 minutes after 12. I Evening .. 44 minutes after 12.

thus inexorable. The Government merely requires
that the Irish landowners shall in future provide for
the destitute population by a judicious imposition
of poor-rates. The Government sees that it
is but fitting that the men who are deriving
their incomes from the muscular exertions, from
the toil, and drudgery, and ill-remunerated strug-
gles of the peasantry, should be called upon tor
assistance, when that peasantry has been brought
down to a condition bordering upon starvation.
Hence it is that Lord JOHN RUSSELL proposes the
introduction of the poor-law into Ireland, and there-
upon 107 Legislators adjure the Government to pause
before that measure is forced into an enactment. They
are averse to out. door relief to able-bodied labourers.
Why, what in the name of Common Sense has the
Government been doing for the last six months but
giving out-door rand to able-bodied labourers ? And
without doing so, upwards of 3,500,000 Irish must
have died in their cabins, and their decaying holies,
must have bred a plague that would have ravaged the
survivors. But the Irish party, speaking together to the
number of 107, express their abhorrence of all out-
door relief to able-bodied labourers ! Now that
clamour either means that 4,000,000 men shall be
abandoned to death, or that the Government shall
continue to drain its revenues by pampering their
iniquitous and extortionate avarice. Either con-
clusion is as disgraceful as it is criminal and mon-
strous.

It has frequently been our duty to direct the public
attention to cases in which individuals have been
subjected to serious expense and inconvenience, to a
prolonged imprisonment, and the demoralisation con-
sequent upon the intercourse and communication with
the most abandoned characters, while detained in
custody, and to the odium and disgrace necessarily
attendant upon a public trial, through the culpable
negligence of the committing magistrate, who too
often receives the informations, and sends:parties for
trial, without having such evidence before hint as to
afford any reasonable prospect of a conviction. The
Senate has rung within the last week with the in-
dignant remonstrances of Lord BROUGHAM on the
conduct of one of the metropolitan justices, who
committed a child of five years old to prison on a
charge of felony; and on another occasion of another,
who sent three boys, under twelve years of age, to
stand their trial also on a charge of felony, for having
taken the cap from the head of another boy and
flung it into a piece of waste ground, manifestly in
boyish sport. At Chelmsford, on Friday, we
find two persons, a young man and a
woman, Flaced at the bar on a charge
of wilful murder, in its most terrific and horrible
form—by poison ; when the first witness, the medical
man who opined and examined the body of the de-
ceased, at once established the fact that there was no
proof whatsoever that the deceased child had died
from any other than natural causes, whereupon the
Chief Justice, as a matter of course, at once stopped
the case, and directed the jury to acquit the pri-
soners. In this case the cause of the child's death

was investigated before the Coroner and a jury, who
returned a verdict, "That it died of convulsions."
The body was opened, and no trace of poison was
discovered; and yet, notwithstanding these facts, a
magistrate was to be found, who sent two manifestly
innocent persons to a common gaol, on the most
serious charge known to the law, either from gross
ignorance of his duty, or for some unaccountable
reason. !And in another similar case, tried the same
day at the same place, the evidence of the medical
witness entirely negatived the fact of any poison or
corrosive substance being the cause of the death of
the infant, and stated that, according to his opinion,
it might be accounted for by perfectly natural causes.
Under these circumstances the counsel for the prosecu-
tion most properly withdrew from the case, saying
that he could not ask for a conviction. Surely cases

such as these to which we have just alluded are de-
serving of the most grave reprehension. The liberty
of the subject is not to be disregarded in such a
reckless manner by persons clothed with an authority,
for the due and discreet exercise of which they are

manifestly not fitted.
Every member of society surrenders a certain
portion of his natural liberty ; he binds himself
to submit to certain restrictions, and to contribute

to certain expenses for the general benefit; in return
he obtains protection for himself and property, and
the entire power of the State is bound to
be exercised on his behalf to protect him in the en•
joyment of his rights. In every case of grave sus

picion he is subjected to arrest, to be brought before
one of these public functionaries, whose duty it is
fully to inquire, and if there should be sufficient

grounds, to remand the prisoner for further evidence,
but if that evidence should not be of such a character
as to afford a fair and reasonable prospect that a jury
will be thereupon satisfied of the guilt of the accused
party, he should at once be discharged from custody
and restored to his family and friends. Injustice is
seldom committed in the final result. Eminent men,
selected for their learning, hold the scales of justice,
who, recollecting the benign principle of the British
law, " That it is better that ninety-nine guilty per-
sons should escape the consequences of their crimes,
than that one innocent person should be subjected to
undeserved punishment," instruct the juries that if

they entertain any reasonable doubt of the prisoner's
guilt they should give him the benefit of that doubt ;
and if, from poverty or other cause, a prisoner
should be unable to obtain professional assistance,
fur his defence, he always finds the presiding judge
ready to act as his advocate, and anxious to discover
and lay before the jury any favourable or mitigating
circumstances. In the earlier stages, however, the
principle appears to be reversed. The momeat a
party is brought before a magistrate he is treated as
if he were actually guilty; even before he is com-
mitted for trial he is subjected to treatment fitting
only for criminals; he is not allowed free intercourse
with his friends, nor full opportunity of preparing
for his defence; he is lucked up in his cell
at the same hours and under the same circumstances
as those who are suffering the punishment due to
their crimes; he ;s nut permitted to obtain, although
willing to pay for them, the comforts to which he

has been accustomed. If he wants to write on the

most private matters to his friends his letters must be

Inspected and read by the prison authorities before
,hey can be forwarded or received. fie,

is treated as a criminal and punished be-

'ore there is sufficient evidence to warrant

an investigation before a jury of his country. The
law authorises his detention and nothing more, but

the regulations of the visiting justices turn that
detention into a serious punishment. Surely there
should be reguations for untried prisoners wholly
different from those to which we have referred.

Another magisterial practice has come to light
within the past week which has elicited the just and
indignant reprehension of the Learned Judge : it

appears that a policeman was disguised and locked
up in a cell with a prisoner at Warminster, in order
to enter into conversation with him, and to report
any statement which might be extracted from him to
the superintendent. There is something so repugnant
to every manly feeling in this abominable spy
system—it has been already so often anirnad-

verted on by many of the judges of the land—
it holds forth such a temptation to per-
jury, and takes such unfair advantage of the

accused, that we had hoped it could not have
obtained the sanction of any English gentlemen at

the present day. We regret to find that we were
mistaken. Most seriously, however, do we hope that

a full and searching inquiry may be directed by the
Home office or the Legislature, and that a warning
may be held out to other occupants of the magis-
terial bench, that they cannot with impunity outrage
the public feelings by a repetition of such unconsti-
tutional conduct.

A !Etter from Berlin, of March 5, states that the
trial of the Poles compromised in the events of
February, 1846, is shortly "to -commence. The in-
dictment divides the prisoners into three- categories,
the first of which comprehends all that were led away_
by the idea that the Government menaced the
Catholic religion. Against this class of persons the
law officers call fur no pimishment, considering the
imprisonment which they have undergone as a suffi-
cient expiation of their conduct. It is, consrquentlyl
against the other two divisions that the proceedings
are to be directed.

The Frankfurter Jouirnal contains a letter from
Lemberg, of the 25th ult., which states that a conflict

had just taken place between the peasantry and the
soldiers. Great distiess exists, and several bands of
peasants were going through the country armed. It
was with one of these that the armed force had come
to a collision. Notling is said in the letter as to the
result.

The Augsburg Gazette publishes a letter from
Posen, of the 2d, a.ating., on the authority of some
persons who had juit arrived from Warsaw, that the
reports which have been mentioned of the movements
of Russian troops towards the frotitier of the kingdom
of Poland, and which have been contradicted by a
Vienna journal, were well founded.
We learn from Warsaw, 2d inst., that an imperial
ukase has been pub ished there for the formation of a
Council of Commere and Manufactures.

The Manheim Jounal gives the following account
of the loans contracted by the German States during
the last two years :—Grand Duchy of Baden 14 mil-
lions of florins; Electoral Hesse, 114 ; Hanover, 84 ;
Austria, 98 ; and Wurtemberg, 12 ; amounting in
all to 1444 millions of florins (296,250,000 f.) To
this must be added loans contracted by Anhalt, Proe-
then, Hamburgh, and Frankfort. As to Austria, her
loans since 1830 are these :—in 1830, 20 milhoni of
florins at 4 per cent., at 97; in 1832, two five per
cent. loans amounting to 94,644,000 florins ; in 1833,
40 millions of florins at five per cent., taken at 89i ;
in 1834, a five per cent. loan of 25 millions at par:
in 1835, a three per cent. loan of 40 millions at 75 ;
in 1839, a five per cent. loan of 30 millions at par ;
in 1841, a five per cent. loan of 38,461,000 florins at
102 ; and in 1847, the late loan of 80 millions ; mak-
ing in all 368,105,000 florins.

Madrid papers have arrived.
Another Ministerial crisis has occurred. The
Minister at War, General ORA.A, having determined
with the consent of his colleagues to dismiss General
BRETON from the government of Catalonia and to
appoint General PAVIA, Governor of Old Castile, in
his room, at the same time conferring the Govern-
ment of Old Castile on General MANUEL DE LA Cots-
CHA, presented to her MAJESTY on the 6th, decrees
for the purpose of carrying out these arrangements.
.Her MAJESTY refused her signature to these, as she
did not approve of the appointment of General CON-
CHA, On the 7th the Duke of SOTOMAYER is said'
to h.itve waited on the QUEEN with the collective re-
signation of the Cabinet. It was stated that NAR-
VAEZ ama. Mors and PIDAL would be the chiefs of the
new AdmiL'istration, and that BRAVO MURILLO would
retain his of:lice of Minister of Justice.
The following document, addressed by Don
ENRIQUE to the Cortes, is published in the Herald° :
"Don Eenrique nee
Bourbon, with the profound respect for
the Cortes which their.
national mission and noble and elevated
character inspires, says that, considering himself as isolated
and cast into oblivion sin ce the marriages of Queen Isabella
11. and her august sister
with two illustrious princes, he has
himself the obligation of not pk'
decided in this case, and exercising his free right, to follow
in all things the dictates of IL's own soul, has imposed upon
icing his affections upon any
but a Spanish lady. The reques's be has addressed to her
Majesty the Queen having rest':te,.l in obtaining the verbal
.
permission, with all the assurances
he could desire, for con-
tracting a marriage with Donna Elem.. Castellvi Shelly Fer-
nandez de Cordova, daughter of their Ebneellencies the Count
and Countess del Castellvi de la Villaneuv.a.v Garces, with the
t of the capital,
sole condition of remaining for some time (A'
he had decided upon having the public and St.demn contract
drawn up, submitting to ad the consequences Of this mar-
riage. But ore the morning of the 7th, although .li:v health
had been suffering since the end of the autumn, and had
been ill on the preceding evening, he was arrested Isty ,sur•
prise, and carried in his bed with all the apparatus of force;
and surrounded by bayonets, to the palace of his father, and
without having obtained permission to take leave of their
Majesties and present his homage to them, was sent off
under escort for Barcelona, where orders had already been
given to allow him only the time necessary for his meal.
He was there charged, in the name of the Minister of Marine,
with a mission for Naples, which would- have been an ho-
nourable one if he had been permitted to prepare for it, and
if the means employed to remove him from the capital, his
family,' and his country had been milder, and less public—
a mission which would have been honourable if he had been
allowed the suite befitting his rank in the navy, and still
more au as an Infante of Spain, and if he bad been furnished
with the elements indispensable for such mi*sions, and
for the labours, investigations, Wens, models, &c., which
have to be addressed to the Government as the result of
them—an honourable mission if he had not been allowed
too short a time to become acquainted with the modern ame-
lioration of so vast an arsenal as that of Toulan in all its
branches, and with the present system of organisation of
the French navy, which must be studied with care in
order to be able to prepare a proper report, and if he had not
been required to remain an unlimited time at Naples, from
which is expected the important information which is to
raise our navy from its present low state, and our arsenals
from the ruin and oblivion in which they have been left----an
honourable mission it any importance were attached to the
results which would ensue from an examination of the
arsenals of England, the great maritime nation of which no
mention is made—an honourable mission, in short, lithe mu-

tive of an exile long prepared for could have been better con-
cealed from the nation ; and if, in thus removing Don Henry
de Bourbon from ii:s mother country, his family, and his affec-
tions, an Infante of Cat;!ille, the:near relation of kings, had not
been compelled to present himself in foreign countries with-
out any suite, and without ai.Y other resources than those
which in a moment of confusion Atifl surprise, and of very
natural regret for his family, his august tii'Oter bad been able to
procure for him for his arrival at Barcelow, and his first
exigencies. Reduced as Infante of Spain, anti as commo-
dore, to his sole person this order itself proves the impos-
sibility of ary good result, and places it in a grave position,
for it is there said that her Majesty feels confident that he
will fulfil his mission as he ought to do. It is therefore
far from being honourable. It is thus that he has been torn
from his mother country, from his family, and from the
person whom he had chosen to form his domestic happi,
ness, without having fallen into any fault which bad
tarnished his honour, and which deserved the application
bf measures so little honourable, so severe, and so far
from conciliatory. Strongly convinced that his enemies
alone could hope for a retractation of his public and sacred
oaths, in order that he might lose his influence in the face of
the world, and be regarded as unworthy of his position, and
exposed, from weakness, to every ungenerous and unworthy
action, firm in his noble design, faithful to his word, re-
solved to seek in domestic life the calm of which he is so
much in reed, and of which he has been for a long time de-
prived; disengaged from the superstitions of past days, which
are in opposition to the Constitutional system, he has the
honour to make known to the Cortes and-to the nation, that
conforming himself to what is prescribed by the laws and
Royal pragmatic, he is decided as a man of honour to so.
iemnize his marriage with the above-named lady Dona
Elena de Caste:lvi Shelly Fernand. z de Cordova.
ENRIQUE MARIA DE BOURBON.
" Toulon, Feb. 24."
On the 7th, TRISTANY, at the head of a Carlist
possession of Tarassa, a small town,
from Barcelona. Ile was, however,
ebiagnhdt, lge
aa
gi till eeds
shortly afterward, driven out by the QUEEN'S troops'
with the loss of 15 men.

The followir.g is an extract from a letter from the
frontiers of Catalonia, dated March 5 :
" It is now impossible to disguise the fact that the Carlist
party seriously intend again to raise the standard of civil
war in Spain ; a great movement may, therefore, be speedily
expected. It appears that it has only been hitherto delayed
by the severity of the weather and the deep snow which
still covers the mountains. The Carlist chiefs have decided
that their troops shall all be clothed alike; their dress is to
be the blouse, pantaloons of olive velvet, with caps of grey
felt. A merchant of Cerdagne, whose name remains no
longer a mystery, has entered into a contractfor their supply.
A number of packages of caps have already been rent to the
Carlists. I only state facts to you, which I might multiply,
4nd which are of incontrovertible exactitude. The great
expenses into which the party enter make it to be supposed
that they have abundance of money; and the resolution
to which they have come to have a regular uniform leads
one to suppose that they intend to carry on the campaign
openly."

We have received the Paris papers of Friday and
Saturday. On Friday Marshal SOULT announced to
the Chambers the death of M. MARTIN (du Nord),
Keeper of the Seals, and Minister of Justice and Re-
ligious Worship. He is succeeded in his offices by
M. HEBERT.

The high price of bread continues to produce
considerable alarm in Paris. On this subject the
National says-
" At this moment it would be useless to dissemble the
gravity of the state of the country. The crisis has become
general, and more than two months must elapse before any
reduction in the prices of corn can restore activity to busi-
ness, or security to its dealings. On every side the rise
continues to go progressively on. From the end of January
to the end of February, in different regions, this rise was
from 2f. 79c. to 61. 9c., being upon the average 3f. 86e.,
or more than double the increase of from December to
January. The average price of corn at the end of February
was 33t. 78c. the hectolitre. Since the beginning of March
this rise has been universal throughout France. In the
circle of Paris, during the first week, wheats have reached
from 41f. to 43f. ; in the Nord from 38f. to 41f.; in Nor-
mandy from aBf. to 40f.; in the West from 32f. to 36f. ;
in the Centre from 40f. to 41f. In the East, in Alsace.
Franche Comte, Champagne. and Lorraine, it is still worse.
In the Vosges, at Raun l'Etape, wheat has been sold at
45f. 80c. the hectolitre. There has been no fall except at
Marseilles, and there it cannot last. At Dijon there have
been no variations of prices. Since that period the state of
the markets has become still worse. At Paris, flour, which
was sold at 107 f. to 108 f. the 157 kilogrammes from Satur-
day to Monday
rose between 3f. and 4t, and on Wednesday
the dealers demanded from 116 f. to 117 f. Certain choice
marks were even held up to from 118 f. to 120 f. the 157 kilo-
grammes; thus the rate tor the assize on the 10th was
671. 27e., which makes bread come to ,7c. the kilogramme,
or nearly it: 15c. the 2 ki'ogrammes, or 41b. loat, being four
centimes higher than for the present fortnight. Out of
Paris, but at our very gates, as in Champagne, for instance,
the price of flour is from 1201. to 1221. the 157 kilos. In the
Allier, at the last market of Montlucon, rye was quoted at
• 41f. the hectolitre and wheat at 49f. and 50f. And this is the
case in all other parts. W hat should most particularly
occupy our attention is the fact, that we can no longer rely
upon the home produce fur the general supply. Our harvest
(4 1846 is consumed, and if there be any reserves at all, they
are in very small quantities, purchased by individuals at the
beginning of the winter for their personal wants.... Private
granaries are exhausted, and the dealers have no resource
but foreign countries. As we have often observed, the
nature of things will not permit us to hope that the
arrivals will be .sufficiently numerous, and the wheats im-
perted considerable enough to put at once a stop to the rise,
and then cause a fall before the middle or perhaps the end

of June. Two days ago bargains were made at Havre for
' the delivery of American flour, at the period we have
mentioned, at 52f. the barrel, while in January the price
was from 46f. to 48f. London follows in the same progre:-
sion. In Belgium we are forestalled, the northern store-
houses are inadequate to the demands upon them, and as
long as this f 'reign competition shall keep up the prices, it
will be impossible to stop the rise here. Nevertheless, the
arrivals are becoming multiplied, and the Mayor of davre
has just published an encouraging list of ships laden with
corn shortly expected in that port. We eagerly accept these
promises, but we must not delude ourselves in the anticipa-
tions of their consequences. The wants of France are un-
questionably very great, though they may be exaggerated by
fear. Many municipalities and private associations, more
alarmed for public order and security than frightened at an
apprehended dearth, have formed themselves into mercan-
tile corn comparlies, and make purchases at the ports. From
this it results that the quantities of wheat imported, though
presenting an important mass, disappear the moment
they are landed and disseminated throughout the country.
Hence arises a natural consequence ; speculation not being
affected by the importations, as it would be if the corn re-
mained for a time at the port of its arrival, the prices do
not give way, the demands are made in quick succession,
and the high price continues. This clearly explains why,
notwithstanding the numerous arrivals, the prices have not
been reduced, nor probably will be reduced yet. In the
last case the population is fed, the imported corn i 3
brought into general consumption, only it is paid dearly for,
more dearly even than it is really worth. We have a pro-
found conviction that there is no real danger of a Jerrth—it
has, indeed, become impossible; but we may expect that the
prices will become excessively high. -In a word, the
country will have all the wheat necessary for its 3U stenance„
but it will cost enormously dear. Let it not be said, that
it did not depend upon any one to save France From these
sacrifices. If the operations which have been practised
within the last one or two months had been commenced
in October or November, we should have received ',before the
seas were shut up by the ice all the corn we lia•re need of,
and even more, instead of being embarrassed and distressed
in March and April, and even until June, and them a find our-
selves in July encumbered with a superabunda nee. The
dealers would have had enough to supply all demands,
and the prices could not have risen beyond a certain
limit. Corn would have been undoubtedly bold at a
high price, but to the natural causes of the demness there
would not have been added that panic wlsic.h creates
factitious prices, and deceives all !foresight. • If the Ministry,
better informed or more sincere, bad not kept ui p too long,
by imprudent circulars, a deceitful security—if it : had taken
the initiative in such energetic measures as provic lent minds
advised them to take, the evil would have been CO nsiderably
alleviated. It is its inexcusable want of care and! its igno-
rance which have brought on the crisis. Nothincr now re-
mains for the country but to bear the consequence of the
faults committed by its Government. May this be at least
a profitable lesson to all ; and when the evil ders have
paszed may it please Almighty God to teach us ,to seek
from an experience so severely taught to take all due means
to prevent their return, which would be worth more than
incessantly talking of repression. It is legitimate, no
doubt, to take precautions against disturbances, but the
first duty of a Government is to prevent the causes which
provoke them, and sometimes
,give them the ssetnblance• of
justification." •

From the. provinces the accounts of the scarcity
are deplorable. At Bayonne fire bakers have been
compelled to shut up their shops, from inability to
procure flour.

Queen CHRISTINA, Wilo arrived at Bayonne on the
11th, was to leave for Paris on Sunday.
The Moniteur publii.shes a dispatch of Marshal
BUGEAUD, dated AumAle, the Ist inst., confirming
the previous account of the submission of the cele-
brated califa of Abdel Kader, Thaieb Ben Salem, of
Bou Chareb, of Meder.h, Sid Abderrehaman, former
chief of Dellys, Bel Kassem and his brother Ahmed
Ben Salem, 6cc. " The: amen claimed by those chiefs
who had hitherto given proofs of the greatest fidelity
to the Emir, cannot fail,." says the Marshal, " to pro-
duce a strong moral effect over all the native popu-
lation, who must now renounce the hope of seeing
ABDEL KADER again at their head. The eastern
frontier of the province .of Algiers was but 18 leagues
distant from that city; it is now removed to 50
leagues."

Don ENRIQUE remains, at Toulon.
The Three per Cents. close a on the Paris Bourse on Satur-
day at 77f. 70c.; the Five per Cents., 115 f. 65c. ; the Orleans
Rallroad Shares, J,2631: 75e. ; Rouen, 857 f. 50c.; Havre,
672 f. 50c. ' • Great Northern, 613 f. 75c. ; Avignon, 810 f. ;
Vierzon, 560 f.; Bordeaux, 5l:Of.; Boulogne, 4001 ; Troyes
and blontereau, 300 f.; Basle, 200 f. ' • Dieppe, 325 t. ; Paris
and Strasburg. 443 f. 75e.; N yftes, 442 f. 50c. ; Paris and
Lyonii, 455 f.; Lyons and Avjipla.
475 f.; Cette, 451 f. 25c.
MAnsEn.r.E.s, MARCH 8.--DiXst .illes and Avignon, 825 f.;
Northern, 622 f 50c.; Paris and L.vons, 4901.

RITSINESS DONE: IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT TrIE
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LONDON STOCK EXCHA AI ARCM 13.
Boulogne and Amiens, 13%—Orleans and Bordeaux, 634—Paris
and Lyons, 7—Paris and Orleans, 48%—PA ris and Strasbourg, 2%.

AILWAY COMALETTEES.

(THIS DAY.)

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

GROUP I. •
The Select Committee appointed to consider tfr% merits of
the Bills comprised in this group, re-assembled in X 'one
at the usual hour this morning; Lord Granville Some,-set iu
the chair.
TUE NORMS KENT MrANTZ.
Mr. Thomas Philpott, town-councillor ot.Canterbury, gaits
general evidence in favour of this line. As to the idea of
competition, it was preposterous. The lines would never
pay, and in the end an amalgamation would throw the 1
cost of the railway upon the public. The people of Canter-
bury suffered from an instance of that nature during the old
coach system. There was once a severe competition in coach
travelling between Canterbury and London, but eventually a
union of interests took place, and the public had to pay, in
the shape of increased charges and reduced speed, for the
former folly. Besides, Kent had nothing to fear from mono-
poly, because, should the railway company misbehave them-
selves, there was still the old river communication open to
them.

Mr. M. J. Knatchbull, son of Sir E. Knatchbull, the late
Member for the county of Kent, and Mr. Cooper, alderman of
Canterbury, gave con oborative evidence.

VICE-CHANCERY-(THIS DAY.)

(Adore Sir L. SRADWELL.)
BIRCH v: JOY.

This cause came on for futher directions on petition. It
appeared that the plaintiff entered into an agreement with a
Mr. Colquhoun for the puchase of certain leasehold and free-
hold estates in the county of Norfolk, which were liable to
certain incumbrances. One of the incumbrancera was the
present defendant, who was the personal representative of
Mr. Colquhoun. The plaintiff was put in possession of the
property ; but Mr. Colquhoun having become embarrassed,
was obliged to leave the country before any conveyance
was executed, and in two years afterwards Joy filed a
bill, in which he alleged that the purchase-money, instead
of 95,0001., the sum paid by the plaintiff in the present suit
110,0001., and that he (Joy's) annuity of 300/. per annum,
was not redeemable; therefore that he was entitled to its
payment, together with the interest which had accrued,
which was resisted by birch. The bill of the defendant came
before the Court in 1830, and his Honeur decreed that his
annuity had ceased in 1824. In 1831 this decree was con-
firmed by the then Lord Chancellor, but in 1836 was altered
by the House of Lords, who directed that Joy should have
a reference to the Master, to ascertain what lien or claim he
had on the purchase money. The BLister's report, in 1841,
found that the estate was liable to certain incumbrances,
among the rest, to the annuity of Joy, and 5,600/. also due
to hint.

Mr. Bethell, Q.C., and Mr. Parker were heard to-day for
the plaintiff.

MARLBR.O'-STREET-(THIS DAY.

Rester Baggett and Joseph Baggett, tier son, were place it
before Mr. Bingham, charged with obtaining the sum of 201.
by means of a forged order, from the Provident institution
Savings' Bank, Saint illartin's-place.
Joseph Baggett, butcher, No. 7, Market-street, Newport•
market, stated that the prisoners were his wife and son, and
that his wife had been in the habit of drinking to excess.
On Wednesday last he was informed that his wife had lost
eleven pounds, and knowing that she could not, from her
habits be possessed of eleven pence, he made inquiries, which
led him to search for his savings' bank book. On finding it,
and referring to it, he was astounded to find that she
had been to the bank and drawn 201. out without his consent
or knowledge. The prisoner, after obtaining the money,
absconded. lie then gave information to the police, who
took her into custody last night.
Mr. Edward Boodle, comptroller and secretary to the
Provident Institution Savings' Bank, St. Martin's-place, said
that on the 26th ult. a female came to the bank and apiled
for the payment of 201., and the same time producing an
order purporting to be signed by the prosecutor. Through
some informality in the wording of the order, he
refused to pay the• money. On the 6th in-
stant, the female prisoner, accompanied by the boy,
came to the bank, and brought a letter purporting to have
been wntten by the prisoner's son, by his authority, which
stated that the prosecutor was, in very ill health, that the
bearers were his wife and son, and requested that the money
might be paid to them. The money was paid, the female
prisoner giving him a receipt for the same.
In reply to Mr. Bingham, the prosecutor said that he
could not write, and that he never gave his son any autho-
rity to write the letter and order produced for him, or to his
wife to draw the money from the bank.
Mr. BINGHAM remanded them till Wednesday next.

SOUTHWARK.-(THIS DAY.)
Thomas Harding Faith, a powerful man, was charged
with assaulting a police constable.
The defendant forced his way into the station-house, and
smashed the windows, in consequence of being refused ad-
mission, and bit the policeman's leg. It was further stated,
that previously to his being locked up he went into a public-
house, and, being a man of great strength, insisted on
drinking out of the glasses of all in the room, without con-
tributing to the payment.
In answer to the charge, the defendant said he must have
been mad at the time, or he would never have insisted on
being taken to the station-house. He regretted all that had
occurred. _ _ .

Ile MAGISTRATE said, that he should fine the defendant
205., or 21 days' imprisonment.

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ROYAL BOTANIC SOCIETY, REGENT'S PARS.—At
a meeting of fellows held on Saturday, at the gardens of
the society, George Bishop, Esq., in the chair, a [allot
took place, and the following ladies and gentlemen were
placed upon the list of the society :—Viscount Templeton,
Wm. Sewell, Esq., H. Blanchard, Esq., H. Wilson, Esq.,
Wheen, Esq., W. Thornthwaite, Esq., Henry Goodford,
Esq., Lieut. Fletcher Compton Hayes, Mrs. Levein. Mrs.
Cafe, W. Hutt, Esq., M.P., J. Tullock, Esq., George
Chapman, Esq., J. 11. Peele, Esq., B. Kennedy, Esq., c,
Morgan Smith, Esq., Joseph Sykes, Esq., C. J. Shou-
bridge, Esq., Mrs. Gruniog, Miss S. E. Amory, A. J.
Valpy, Esq. J.. Fergusson, Esq„ E. Budd, Esq.. W. Fin-
nelly, Esq., 'Ed. Cane, Esq., S. Kennedy, Esq., E. Bilke, Esq.,
J. BilkP Esq , George Paton, Esq., J. Williams, Esq., Mrs.
George Hill, and Mrs. Basch. The most interesting fea-
ture of the gardens, and, indeed,• a novel one in the me-
tropolis at this season of the year, is the :large conserva-
tory, which throughout the winter hie- exhibited a con-
stant succession of flowers, and has proved a most agree-
able resort for the fellows.
A .PuzzLE.—A letter last week passed through the
Halifax post-office, directed to " Mr. John hieCabege lane, ale.
fackes." Notwithstanding the novelty of the orthography,
the letter was drily delivered—according to ths di/
edict.
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MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CF'FY, QUARTER TO THREE.
There was a lull market tor Cotton at Liverpool on Satur-
day; sales abo, it 2,000 bales. Buyers had an abundant
choice, and pric es were rather in their favour. The Railway
Share Market s ras very flat.
The account
.s received to-day from the Continental grain
markets, none
,e continued purchases for exportation to Eng-
land, with m. ach firmness in prices. Up to the 9th inst., the
weather was milder, and the ice was breaking up, but the
navigation ' ,a not expected to be free again for some time.
In Belgium . about 100 waggons laden with grain had been
seized_ by the authorities when about to pass the frontier
r' into ran• se, contrary to the recent law prohibiting exports.
Neve: thtile as, a large quantity was known to have been con-
veyed sine e the law came into operation.
The C, an Market does not appear to have assumed any
very de sided feature this morning. Some parties call it a
shade f tearer for wheat than on Friday, but at least it may be
quoted firm, in the absence of extensive dealings, for which
the. qt deter state of the markets at Liverpool and in Ireland
will .y artly account.
&e :coma! s from the fair of Frankfort-on. the-Oder, dated
the :2d inst., stated that the quantity of goods brought there
w: is 75,000 cwt. The market falling earlier in the year than
um ua,', and the scarcity of money and dearness of food being
felt also, caused business to be rather slack. The chief
ta ansactions were in Berlin calicoes, mousselines de laine, and
sitagle dyed woollens. In cloth, buckskins, and other
xticles, there was not much done. Silks were dull of sale,
as also iron and steel fabrics, porcelain, glass, &c. In raw
products, such as skins, furs, bristles, &c., a fair business was
done.
There is no news yet of the steamer from Boston, but she
is hourly looked for.
The fineness of 'the weather was expected to have operated
favourably upon the English Stock Market, and at the
opening there was rather a firmer appearance, but buyers do
not come forward freely, despite the impression in some
quarters that the operations for a decline in pricts
have been carried too far. The continued export
of the precious metals and the firm state of the corn
market act very injuriously still upon the value of
funded property, because few can predict the extent of the
drain or the rise that may take place. Evidently from the
increase shown in its "other securities," the Bank of Eng-
land was tolerably liberal in its discounts up to the 6th inst.
Consols after being 88i,' to !4, have just dropped to 87%
for transfer to-morrow, and time bargains have been effected j
at 88% to 88. Consuls Scrip has been done at Ito 1% dis-
count. Exchequer-bills are par to 4 premium.
The Foreign Market has been very dull, and there is no
speculation going on. Spanish Five per Cents, realise 223/4,
and the Three per Cents. 34%. The Deferred have been
16. Brazil Stock is marked 851/2, and Mexican 21%. Dutch
Two-and-a-Half per Cents. are 57%.
Shares are affected by the heavy condition of the Stock
Market; but the sales have not been to any extent, and thus
the decline is rather checked. The settlement is going on
favourably.
t3ltiTiSll FUNDS

CLOSING
FRIO ES.-
Three per Cent. Reduced Annuities :. .. Cx div 871 A
'fhree per Cent. Consols Annuities .. .. 88%1A 87% 88%
New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cent. Amis. ex div 89
Long Annuities, Expire Jan. S, 1860 ..
Ditto, 30 years, Jan. 5, 1860 .. •• 9 3-16 9 3-16
Consols for Account, April 15 .. .. .. 88% %88 88% 88 1,4
Consols, Scrip .. .. .. •• • • • 1l % dis 1 dis.
Exchequer Bills. ili d. 1 k 6 d.
1,0001..: .. •• • . 4 p par pm. " par
5001.. .. .... 2 4 1 pm. 1 p
Ditto, Small .... 2 5 pm. 5 p
ONE CLOSINt,
FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES.
Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent .. .. 85% 85%
Mexican Bonds, 1846, 5 per Cent .. 21% 21%
Ditto, for the Account .. .. .. 21 '
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Portuguese Four per Cent
bpanish Bonds, 5 per Cent
Ditto, for the Account .. ..
Ditto, t'assive Bonds .. .. ..
Ditto, Deterred .. .. .. .. 16
Ditto, Three per Cent .. • . 34%
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Dutch Two-and-a-11 all per Cent .. 57%
Ditto. for the Account .. .. ..
Ditto. 4 per Cent. Certificates

ONE
O'CLOCK.

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PRICES OF
RAILWAY SHARES.

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