The Sun.
London, England, 1847-05-06 00:00:00

TILE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, MAY 6, 1547.

Sir G. GREY hoped no objection would be offered
to the second reading of the Bill.
After a short conversation, in which Mr. BRIGHT,
Mr. NEWDEG ATE, and some other Hon. Members took
part, the Bill was read a second time.
Sir H. HALFORD moved the second reading of the
Hosiery Manufacture Bill ; and if the motion were
carried, he would move that the Bill be referred to a
Select Committee.
Mr. WYNN ELLIS considered the Bill would aggra-
vate the evils it professed to remedy, and would
I therefore vote against it.
Mr. GISBORNE said this was a corollary to the Fac-
tory Bill. They had entered upon a course which
they could not carry out, and all such attempts to
regulate wages by law must eventually prove not only
unsuccessful, but positively injurious.
At the suggestion of Mr. MILNER GIBSON, the de-
bate was adjourned to to-morrow (this day.)
On the motion of Mr. WAKLEY the second reading
of the Medical Registration Bill was postponed to
Monday.
Mr. SHARMAN CRAWFORD postponed the second
reading of the Tenants' (Ireland) Bill to to-morrow
(this day).
The County Buildings Act passed through com-
mittee.
The Naval Service of Boys Bill passed through
Committee, and the House adjourned at six o'clock.

the country the various abuses that still exist in
our Courts of Law, with a view to their correc- 1
tion and amendment. Much has of late years been

Muret de Bord. The indignation was too general, and
the scandal too flagrant, to permit the Ministry to remain
silent. M. Dumon accordingly announced, in a solemn tone,
that the facts should be legally investigated. Messrs.
L' Herbette and Cremieux contended that the Ministry should
not confine itself to a mere judiciary prosecution, and that
more signal reparation was required. They, however, ob-
served that flip Administration had itself excited those cu-
pidities, and tb a certain extent justified those suspicions, by
professing and practising the doctrine of 'material interests.'
• Ministers,' said M. Cremieux, 'had voluntarily exposed po-
litical men to temptation, to distrust, and to calumnies, when
they rejected a proposition having for its object to exclude
members of both Chambers from all participation in enter-
prises within the gift of the Government.' After having do-
quently dwelt upon those premises M. Cremieux deposited
the following proposition in the hands of the President :
No member of either Chamber shall be lessee or adminis-
trator of any railroad concession or any other concession, made
in virtue of the law or by the Government.' "
The Presse makes this accusation one of the
grounds of a violent attack upon the Ministry.
The Debats thus drily announces the intention of
the Ministry :
"As to the incident which occurred at the commencement
of the sitting with respect to the letters of General Despans
CubiZres, Miniiter of War, of the Cabinet of Ist of March, we
shall content ourselves by indicating it. These letters were
produced in a process still pending before the Tribunal of
First Instance. The infamous imputations they contain will
be cleared up. The guilty parties, whoever they may be, will
not escape the punishment they merit. The Ministry has taken
an engagement to bring these dark intrigues before justice—
it is all that it can do, and it will do it. We congratulate the
lion. M. Muret de Bord on having elicited the explanations
of the Government."
The National and the Courrier Francais have also
articles on the same subject. The article in the latter
journal concludes with the following address to the

done ; extensive and valuable alterations have been
introduced, and each succeeding year has seen
some of the remaining impurities swept away and
abolished. But much still remains to be effected—
there is still a wide field and ample opportunities for
the labour of legal reformers. It is not merely in the
principles of the law that these changes are required.
There are many points in the practice, in the manner
in which its machinery is brought into operation,
apparently of trivial importance in themselves, which
practically are productive ofconsiderable inconvenience,
and which, in many instances, amount to a denial of
justice to the suitor. The number and amount of

J-
the fees demanded in every stage of the proceedings
—both at law or in equity—may be enumerated as
among the more prominent of these grievances
No matter how well-founded may be the claim of the

injured party, he is prevented from seeking redress
unless he is prepared to advance large sums for the
payment of those fees, which he must, under the
most favourable circumstances, be satisfied to lie
out of for a considerable period. The poor man's
progress is arrested at the very threshold of the temple
of justice. There is no entrance for him unless he

~
is prepared to pay heavy perquisites to the greedy
janitors by whom the portal is guarded. But this is
not all ; there are many bars, at each of which a
heavy toll is demanded before the seeker for justice
is suffered to proceed on his journey. Even if
dragged before the tribunals by unjust and un-
warranted claims, he is not permitted to defend
himself unless he is prepared to comply with the
extortionate demands made upon his purse. If he
does not appear he is condemned by default, and
perhaps deprived of his property, or made to expiate
faults of which he was never guilty. If he
appears he must pay, and that heavily,
before he is allowed to answer the charge.
It is- not merely an amount sufficient to pay the ex-
penses attendant on the administration of justice
that is levied from the pockets of the suitors, but
considerable sums are each year paid into 'the na-
tional exchequer. in the Court of Chancery alone
no less than a quarter of a million sterling is annually
abstracted from the litigants ; while from the other
law courts, in the three years ending in 1843, after
payment of the salaries of officers, and the amount of
compensations, more than 100,0001. sterling were ap-
plied to the general purposes of the country. Surely
such a state of things should not be sanctic,ned or
tolerated. A sweeping and efficient measure of re-
form should promptly be enacted, and the entire
system of fees forthwith abolished.
Every British citizen surrenders a certain portion
of his natural liberty in return: for the protection
afforded by the State to his person and property—he
submits to many restrictions for the common weal—
he contributes according to his means to the general
expense—is taxed in almost every possible manner, but
the moment he calls upon the nation to perform its part
of the contract to afford him redress, he is totally
denied that protection, unless he pays largely for it.
The justice that should be open to every claimant, to
the poor as well as to the rich, is withheld until it is
purchased by the suitor.
These fees are relics of the olden time, when
jobbing pervaded every portion of the State
machine. Friends, relatives, or dependents of the
leading members of the predominant party were to be
provided for. Sinecures were created, new fees were
levied from the public to make up the necessary
amount. A payment by fees was always preferred
to a fixed salary. There were not in those bygone
days so many prying and inquisitive legislators who
would find out the aggregate amount of those much-
loved fees. It would not do to have a prothonatory
or clerk receiving, for trifling duties, a certain
sum, exceeding the amount payable to the chief
judge of the court o f which he was an infe-
rior officer ; but let him be remunerated by fees,
and it could easily be managed. There need, then,
be no assignable limits to the amount which he might
extract from the pockets of the people. This prac-
tice, of late years, has been materially checked ;
almost all the officers are now paid by fixed salaries,
but still the fees are levied and collected, and mani-
fold opportunities for peculation are still permitted
to exi*t. AVe trust that the Select Committee, list
night conceded to Mr. WATSON, will by their report
exposé all the abuses of the system, and tend to its
otal and permanent abolition.

Intelligence is arriving now with such rapidity, and
of such an extraordinary character, from the different
quarters of the habitable globe, that it can neither be
uninteresting nor unprofitable to take a comprehen-
sive but cursory glance at its peculiarities. Recent
alterations in the Legislatures of Foreign countries
have assimilated, or are gradually assimilating, so
many millions of the human race with ourselves,
that it is with peculiar emotions we take into consi-
deration the liberal institutions which have recently
sprung into existence. Our sympathies are conse-
quently enlisted in an especial manner in the relations
subsisting between the kingdoms beyond our
shores. When Prussia is obtaining an elective
Parliament from the sagacious generosity of its en-
lightened SOVEREIGN, and when the inhabitants even
of the Papal States are receiving the boon of a
species of representative Conclave from their illus-
I trious ruler, we may, without affectation, con-
gratulate ourselves upon the progress, both politi-
cal and social, of our own generation; and we may
be permitted, without subjecting ourselves to ridi-
cule, to speak with something like exultation of
the progressive regeneration of mankind which is
being effected under the auspices of Christianity.
Although we are startled by the account of ap-
palling butcheries in the Chinese empire—butcheries
of such a frightful magnitude that we should be dis-
posed to regard the rumours with incredulity but for
our recollection of the sanguinary temperament of
the Budhists and the extraordinary numerical
strength of the subjects of the Celestial EMPEROR—
although we are told of the massacre of 1.30,638
individuals in the departments of Chang-Chao
and Tseven-Chao, we must acknowledge that the in-
formation received frmi the Asiatic dominions is
generally of a more bloodless character than hereto-
fore. The dispatches just arrived from India, in
anticipation of the Overland Mail, are almost of a kind
to cause exultation and gratitude, even in the sudden
and mysterious death, already mentioned, of the in-
famous AKBAR KHAN. Reports are divided as to
whether that ruthless chieftain has fallen a victim to
his own inordinate intemperance or to poison, admi-
nistered to him at the instigation of his parental
enemy. No individual among his contemporaries
was held in such universal and merited execra-

Ministry :
" Ah, you who are accused of having sold your support
for forty-five shares in a mining concern, what would you I
not do at this rate if your support was put up to auction, to
deliver your country to a foreign Power? Do -"on forget
that venality on so mean a scale is more ignominious than
treason ?"
Several of the journals have rather long leading ar-
ticles on the Russian investment in the foreign funds,
which the Riforme quaintly characterises as a new
invasion of the civilised world by Cossacks in the
shape of metal.
According to a" return presented to the Chamber of
Deputies on'Munda.y by the Minister of Marine, no
fewer than 111 sailing ships of war had been built in
France from 1830 to 1846, namely,. 6 ships of the
line, 24 frigates, 28 corvettes, 24 brigs, and 34
smaller vessels. The number of steamers constructed
during the same period amounted to 70, namely, 4
large frigates of 450 to 540 horse-power, 14 frigates
of 450 ditto, 2 corvettes of 300 to 400 ditto, 13 of
220 ditto, 30 of 160 ditto, and 7 of 120 ditto.
In the course of the debate in the Chamber on
Monday the Minister of Marine, in allusion to the
French fleet in the Mediterranean, said—
" At no former period has France sent to sea a squadron
in which the least of the ships is a 100-gun ship, a squadron
which reckons three three-deckers, that is, three ships of the
greatest power, and to which we took care to attach as
many steamers of 450 horse-power as there are ships; so
that, at the same instant, the Commander.in•Chief of that
naval force can employ a 450 horse-power steamer to tow
each of those large ships. Thus, the most imposing float-
. ing mass, a 120-gun ship, was never rendered more efficient,
more adapted to resist all the difficulties of the sea and
weather, and better able to proceed with rapidity to the
points where it might be necessary to make a demonstra-
tion."

General NARVAEZ is expected in Paris on Friday.
The Three per Cents. closed on the Paris Bourse on
Tuesday at 78f. 15c.; the Five per Cents., 1151 95c.: the
Orleans Railroad Shares, 1,233 f. 75c; Rouen, 946 f. 25c.•
Havre, 667 f. 50c ; Great Northern, 615 f. ; Avignon, 767 f.
50c.; Vierzon, 581 f. 25c. ; Bordeaux, 512 f. 50c.; Basle,
193 f. 75c.; Paris and Strasburg, 426 f. 25c. ; Tours and
Nantes, 417 f. 50c. • Paris and Lyons, 432 f. 50c.; Lyons and
Avignon, 450 f. ; Bordeaux and Cette, 442 f. 50c.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, MAY 5.

Anglo-Belgian, 3 Central of France (Orleans and Vier-
zon), 14%—Northern of France, 12—Paris and Lyons, 4%
—Paris and Strasbourg, 1%.

THE UNITED STATES
AND MEXICO.

tion as the deceased Wuzeer, and no one
will be so totally devoid of persons to bewail
his disappearance. Among the significant cir-
cumstances which are now transpiring in our
Oriental possessions, or in their immediate vici•
nity, must be mentioned the reformation already vi-
sible in the behaviour ; f his Highness GROOLAB
SINGH. At present he, is described as enacting
the part of a reformed rake ; he has apparently sown
the last handful of his wild oats, and is now engaged
in weeding out the tares and thistles. Besides this sin-
gular phenomenon in the physiology of Eastern princes
we must record the question which has recently been
agitated in the provisional government of Lahore,
namely, whether or not the young Maharaja
DHILLEEP is to receive, the advantages of an English
education. Unhappily the proposition has for the
time been abandoned in consideration of certain reli-
gious prejudices prevalent among the inhabitants of
the Punjaub, and likewise in consequence of a defi-
ciency of revenue.
Travelling in imagination from this metropolis, in
a totally opposite direction, we discern in the ac-
counts arriving from the United States a vague pro-
bability of a conclusion to the warfare that has been so
long desolating the provinces of Mexico. The usual
exaggeration is of course perceptible in the braggart
narratives of native prowess anclgeneralship contained
in the Yankee newspapers. According to these vain-
glorious scribblers, SANTA ANNA has yielded to the
inferior numbers but the superior determination of the
men commanded by old ZACHARY TAYLOR ; accord-
ing to them, also, the disturbances which recently
prevailed in California have been suppressed ; Vera
Cruz and the Castle of San Juan d'Ulloa, with a gar-
rison of four thousand men, have been delivered into
the hands of the American assailants, under General
SCOTT, and the capital of Chihuahua has at last capi-
tulated to the division of Colonel DONIPHAN. Not to
mention the circumstance of these incredible assurances
having been preceded by a hiatus of nine days alto-
gether unaccounted for, we must observe that the
statements received from New York are so flagrantly
contradictory, and so ludicrously incongruous, that it
is impossible to place any reliance whatever upon the
accuracy of the American dispatches until they shall
have been confirmed by others coming directly
from the Mexican frontier.
While these remarkable events are presumed to be
occurring on the opposite shores of the Atlantic, a
very fortunate change is visible in the political tem-
perament of the Iberians. Scarcely has Queen Is 1-
DELLA scattered the Afrancesado faction derisively
to the winds, and invoked the loyalty of the Spanish
multitude than Queen MARIA DA GLORIA releases
herself from the thraldom of her evil adviser.
The propositions forwarded to Lisbon by Lord
PALMERSTON have at length met with the cordial ac-
ceptance of the Lusitairian SOVEREIGN. All differ-
ences are, by the English intervention, to be amicably
arranged between the AloNAßcn and the people of
Portugal. Civil war in that kingdom may already
be counted among the bygones, and there is every.
reasonable probability that the Junta of Oporto will
waive all exorbitant demands for the satisfaction of
granting tranquillity and constitutional freedom to
their countrymen. Not merely is the Saldanha
Ministry dismissed, but an entirely new one, under
the direction of ILDEFONSO LEOPOLDO BAYARD, as
head of the Department for Foreign Affairs, has
been formed by the personal exertion and selection of
MARIA DA GLORIA herself. A termination to the
woes that have been during so many months inflicted
upon the Portuguese through the obstinacy of the
Court party may, therefore, be confidently antici-
pated ; and it must never be forgotten that whatever
a ivantages arise from the settlement of the late ani-
mosities will be attributable, first, to the justice of the
popular clamour; secondly, to the decisive conduct of
the Junta of Oporto; thirdly, to the courage, the ardour,
and the perseverance of the insurgent commanders
DAS ANTAS, SA DA BANDEIRA, and their subordinate
assistants, and, finally, to the well-timed and judicious
interposition of the British Government.
Before dismissing the consideration of the state in
which the various foreign dominions in the two he-
mispheres are placed, it must be recorded that matters
continue quite as unsettled as ever in countries bor-
e d‘ers:urinlgidmoeenrlttaohuretderiniavgnedrstPiiill remains
liang OTRo. ta.lnu TnUardEkjueffysot,ret d moreover,
between
arreeOyer,
making
the
Sublime
for the tranquillisation of Kurdistan, but ctherwise the
Ottoman
Governsumdeußussian. Consolatory news is
t. encompassed with difficulties,
both
Grecian
opposite
character shores
of
arriving, however, from the
thanthe
Levant,—news of a more consolatory
that of territorial aggrandisement or diplomatic suc-
cess—the apprcaching corn and rice harvests o;
Egypt promise to be unusually prolific. With
this encouraging announcement we conclude our
summary.
____-........--

(BY SPECIAL EXPRESS.)

LIVERPOOL, THURSDAY MORNING, 6 o'CLocrc

Since the departure of the mail last night, at:eight
o'clock, we have had two arrivals from the United
States—the Prince Albert last night, and the Arcole
Captain Foodless, the former with papers to the 9th,
and the latter to the 14th. The news brought by
the Arcole is of great importance, and details the
bombardment and capture of the Castle of San Juan
d'Ulloa, with the loss on the side -of the Mexicans
of 1,000, and 15 Americans kill 4 and 5
.O wounded.
The character of the commercial-:news is not ma-

terially changed since the forrner:advices were re-
ceived. Money was easy, freights were lower,
business very brisk, and the people of the Union full
of activity and good humour, at the prospect of
realising a large amount of dollars, and of their trade
with Europe, and the glory obtained in their conflict
with the republic of Mexico.

Intelligence has been received from Lisbon of the
29th of April.
The QUEEN has accepted the terms proposed by
the British Government, and Colonel 'WYLDE left
Lisbon on the 29th for St. Übes, to put a stop to
further hostilities. A complete amnesty is extended
to all, so that not only the leaders of the Junta forces
but the prisoners of Torres Vedras will be enabled to
return to Lisbon. If the terms are net accepted
there will be an armed intervention by England in
support of the QUEEN. The following Ministerial
appointments have been made :
Finance and, ad interim, Marine and Colonies—

There had been several arrivals out at New York
and Boston, with later intelligence from England,
and although the accounts conveyed out reported a
declining market in grain, holders seemed disinclined
to press sales till the arrival of advices by the Cam-
bria, which was anxiously looked for.
The Hudson was quite open, and large quantities
of flour and grain were passing down from Albany
and the west to New York, for exportation to
Europe. Large amounts of bullion continued to ar-
rive out at New York, and advices of further ship-
ments had been received at the chief commercial cities
of the Union.

Count TOJAL.
Interior—FRANCISCO TAVARES DE ALMEIDA
PROENCA.
Justice and Ecclesiastical 6 Affairs MANOEL
DUARTE LEITAO.

(From the Times.)

Foreign Affairs and, ad interim, War—ILDEFONSO
LEOPOLDO BAYARD•

There remain two places to be filled up.
This is a coalition Ministry. TOJAL, one of the
old Ministers, has always been in favour of accepting
the terms proposed by Lord PALMERSTON ; BA-
YARD is not of very decided political opinions.
LEITAO is a moderate Septembrista; and PROENCA,
a moderate Chartist.

The news from Oporto is to the 29th. All was
quiet there, and SALDANIZA had not moved from his
old quarters. CABAL and his troops have definitively
evacuated the province of Tras• os-Montes. A
corvette, of twenty guns, belonging to the blockading
squadron, had surrendered to the Junta ; she is called
the Eighth of July. The Falcon steamer was load-

ing with wine for London, intending to force the
blockade. The capture of the Royal Tar by the
Junta's steamer Mindello was known at Oporto. It
is said that the Junta will not accept
any terms of accommodation unless their troops
are allowed to garrison Lisbon and Oporto as gua-
rantees against any future coup d'etat. The troops of
the Junta occupy the provinces of Tras os-Montes
_ _

and the Minho: The Jackal steamer has been sent
to Viana to release the British shipping detained
there by the Governor of the Castle.
The Oporto Bank has been compelled to make good
by monthly instalments the remainder of the forced
loan of 200 contos.

Madrid journals of the 29th ult. have arrived.
A deputation, consisting of OLOZACA, MENDIZABAL,
CORTINA, and other Progressista leaders, waited on
the QUEEN on the 28th, to petition her MAJESTY to
extend the benefit of the amnesty to ESPARTERO.
The QUEEN replied that personally she desired union,
but that the question must be referred to the Council
of Ministers. The dignity of Grandee of
Spain has been conferred, together with
the title of Duke of SARAGOSSA, on the
son of General P.A.LAFOX. The Committee in
the case of A VIRINETA and Cuico have determined
to recommend the Chamber to pass the Bill of In-
demnity demanded by the Government, abstaining,
however, at the same time, from giving any opinion
as to the legality of their arrest.
MADRID BOLSA, Aram 29.—The Three per Cents.
were done at 31k, for cash; the Five per Cents. at
19 ; the Debt, without interest, at si; and the
Coupons at 16.

We have received the Paris papers of Tuesday.

In the Chamber of Deputies, on Monday, a letter
of General CUBIERES was read, accusing the Ministry
of corruption. This letter had been produced in the
course of a process still pending before the courts of
law, and the attention of the Chamber was directed
to it by M. AIURET DE BORD.

On this subject the Siècle says—
" We quoted yesterday a correspondence, in which a Peer
of France, a Lieutenant-General, a former Minister (General
Cubieres), and, subsequently, a shareholder in a mining com-
pany, declares that' the Government is placed in corrupt and
rapacious hands ;,
it had' that
been necessary to obtain the ' in order to insure the success of a
legitimate claim
secure that inte-
rested support of one of the members of the Council;' and
chat
ure
to the t(thseuppGoretneraifl)
th'ehadcomitpaniyn
whoisuldpowerth ec consent
to sacrifice fifty _ shares.' That fact was denounced
Chamber I Deputies on Monday by M.

Mr. WT A TSON deserves much credit for the persever-
4nee and energy he has exhibited in bringing before

The Philadelphia correspondent of the Journal of. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
tcrtal
„.escae it :Ic,
:aianned beforeilad u
nt:
eir.
HOUSEl,heHotise
sOaFto-dLayOatßteD. So,c.--10,k(
Commerce writes as follows : CITY, QUARTER TO THREE. -11 and
" The illumination next Monday will be on the most The sales of cotton in the Liverpool market yesterday Scotch appeals. The Peers present were the Lord Chafe._
extensive scale. All the districts have followed the lead were 4,000 bales, including 3,000 'Wei of Ameei.ean on spe- celior, len d Brougham, Lerd Campbell, and the Earl of
of the city, and made appropriations for the purpose. culation at 614 d. to eiesd. per lb. The market was very dull Clancartv.
(alneedliteineletgoa?n.d. per lb. lower than on Friday last. Shares
We have bad no general illumination here sine% La TIIE TAFF VALE RAILWAY COMPANY V. taxoN.
TtolheisSr EDnglAis Y.)
Fayette's visit, twenty odd years ago." The further arguments in this
The accounts from America note a rise in the exchange, pointed to be resumed to-day. .
but corn was high and cotton firm.
The New Orleans Commercial Times of the 7th Lordships upon appeal from the decree of
ultimo, has the following late intelligence from : There is rather an important statement made in the City 11 Fviand. The fll ' the facts of the case
ce or of en e owing are
this morning,
MexiCo : viz., that the Bank of England has acceded to out of which the appeal arises :
the representations of an influential deputat' nf m M Mr. W. Nixen was a railwavlr'clorent the pli e,acli
ce were.c ;aaepi
,l-r..
"We have been permitted to peruse several private chester, and acknowledging the importance ofm infusing' altilfe- taken part of the works of the- Taff Vale Railway for that
letters, of a very late date, from the city of Mexico, into our textile manufactories, as a means of promoting the company for the sum of 7,395/., subject to*deduction trials}'.-
written by persons of the highest respectability, and execution of the orders received from America, has deter- crease proportioned to the work to be done. . Even..
whose. sources of information are ample. They state as mined to afford reasonable and legitimate assistance to the becoming short of cash to carry cut his contract,
he aPPill'ee,a
a matter of positive certainty, that negotiations for traders of. that district. Thie, in contradistinction to David Storm, another railroad contractor, for assista_
a...
peace between the United States and Mexico are under toil the policy" observed generally 'towards Liverpool, where which was accorded, upon an agreement and a powdernotf
50t j
advisement, and that the return of Santa Anna, who quarters of the cotton speculation being fixed, torney to Storm, appointing him his superintenl ,!ted, "
the
ecasions 1 unceasing anxiety to the Bank, is a line of con, director of these works till they should be comp e
all
sums
was hourly expected, would be the signal for the com- duct which, supposing it to have been resolved upon as his attorney to demand and have of the company tun
mencement of overtures." stated, would give very general' satisfaction here. It is et mono • which should become due to Nixon from the con"
The New Orleans Della of the same date adds— further said, that a largeamount of the merchants' billsli eine un3dr the nt t ith an alwance of 51. per cent.
"La Patric has received a letter dated Tampico, held by the Batik haying run out, anti been
ex- liquidated, there is more disposition n
March 24, 1847, from which we make the following grant discoupnutnaccucoani3-' to theTaffnVeasle Rail:ea )any on the Bth of Deceinber,
parts
on :111 adzee c "Threac circumstancesceiu were formally notified
tract:— modation on fresh paper.
1838. The works wereycarrield out and completed, par e
"'Private letters from the capital, written on the night We have received from Messrs. J. S. Tripp and Co. some under a new centract, when Nixon and storm becam
of the 18th, state that General Santa Anna has just ar- remarks upon railway matters, which seem to deserve atten- joint contractors with the company ; Nixon having
tio,i,eT They observe that—
rived in that city. It is also stated that the revolution
against the administration of Gomez Ferias had at length o form a correct estimate of any particular railway, it acting all money matters with the company,
the management of the working part, Storlinvhetrraenus:
been terminated in a favourable manner to the Govern- is essFinial that the half-.3 early accounts should be made tinned to pay him various sums on account of work done.
ment, and that Generals Pena, Barragan, and Sales, out in the fullest, simplest, mid most distinct manner, In Decembele 1840, Storm became bankrupt, and four of e
, without any concealment or mstification.
who were the heads of the opposition to Gomez Ferias, " Each half-yearly statement should recapitulate sepa-
had been shot. Ido not know if this last information rarely and eistit,ctl capital
y the authorised to be raised by re_egsapien's' tdeut thes . Tb(actramßeailhlivs.a ,asC4ogni-r,easn. • andNi" thenti filed
gbnits'es hiltnf
be correct. We are anxiously awaiting the mail
to con- shares, and by loan—the capital already raised by shares and the contract, but that he had not receive,' any part o •
that Storm, stating that he )and Stormi had received 9. 7.3241.
~,. :
firm or negative the report.' " by loan—the suns expended, the sum on hand—the amount since become payable for work done by the Com Pa-e - rill
The subjoined intelligence respecting a State loan and rate of interest received from and paid to bankers for he had, on finding, on the 16; ii December, 1840, that St°
is from the correspondence of the Journal of Com-f the
balances—protit and loss upon the sale and purchase of was embarrassed in circumstances, given notice to the Coln-
shares and securities with the company's funds—particulars pant
merce :—, mottes
of reserved shares on hard, and those disposed of; length of contract; and also to render him an account of rel nom.
not to pay him any more money on account 0
,_
" WASHINGTON, APRIL 14. miles open, date when opened, and cost per mile; revenue paid since April 11, in respect of the contract. The '
ad been
account; expenses ditto; dividends, balance, and reserved PanTlatter since
fund. asserted that a larger sum than the 9,236/. h
paid to Nixon, or Storm, or the assignees of the
an.
_,
" Reasonable as it is to insist upon such statements and his bankruptcy, and that little remained due on accoe.
__tuori
easy as it would be to furnish them, we have yet to learn the contract. This Nixon denied, or else alleged
atbdt " "
after
why they should in any instance be withheld. It is noto- such greater sum was paid in their own wrong, n _ an,
rious large balances are left in bankers' hands, and the in- notice not to pay anything more to Storm. The ComP
__-,..
terest chargeable upon these balances is not sufficiently ex- put in their answer to this bill, denying they had
and
plained. Companies purchase and sell shares, the profit and loss nexion or privity with the accounts between 1"2".11 their
upon which transactions seldom appear in the accounts. For Storm ; nor were those parties, or any one or more ia
it
example, the Great Western holOhares in the Oxford, Worces- right entitled to institute a suit in equity contract'
example,
ter, and Wolverhampton, the Wilts, Somerset, and Wey- the appellants in respect of the allege.d cfen.ease,
mouth, South Devon, and South Wales Railways, all ofof t.e.
The Vice-Chancellor of England, upon hearing the h
which are now at a large discount, and many of which the thought there was nothing to take this case 0
debt,t, _nd
Great Western Company sold in 1845 at a considerable pre- ordinary one of a person making a mortgage of his el,at
mium.' The Bristol and Exeter Company at one time.hav- ordered that it should be referred to the Master to see ;lin
ing raised more money than was sufficient for their imme_ sum was due to Nixon, and what works were ilone b,..Y:fied
diate wants, invested a portion of this temporary surplus in
the purchase ef'their vsVn shares, which were then at a large under the contract, as well extra as those therein sPes" this
further directions and costs being reserved.- An fr.:l-r'.
decree the present appeal was brought.. - ,iyeeedflY
discourit, and which they afterwards resold at a good profit:"
' The Funds have been decidedly better 6-day, and the ad- Sir F. KELLY and Mr. SItAltT wer'Theard o,ll..fiiit had
vance is 141 to % per,cent., though with a good .of flue- last on behalf of the appellants,
Intendconning that iv., oder
t uat ion. Consols have realised 87% to 86'A for transfer, and taken place was, at the utmost, a egal liabilitY,tef. ;t
8734 to 4 for time. Exchequer-bills have been. as. to Bs, a contract, and furnished no ground for equitable ;ant
for discount. New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. have was against 'all principle of equity that because twepv;;,, sc.
been 884 to 8734. Bank Stock is worth 188 to 1.88%. contractors or partners had a dispute as te'
The Foreign Bonds have been neglected again. Mexican
are 191/, to 20; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. have been made
defendants theire tionrsa sshuoi
tulidn beetiut
ihteyr
they
sreetnadeeprlsedrhtein liablerers;:dtibus:
57q/4.
Railway Shares still follow in some respect the movement partners had been made by Mr. Robert Stephenson, We' ,
partners
; and finally, that though an award, by desire. o_i
re.
eo.
in the Stocks, but are not so susceptible of the rallying in- ference had not been impugned by the bill in sonny e'
fluency which has been exerted upon the latter.
DRITISII FUNDS. ONE CLOSING to the reference and award. • 1115 t
CI'CLOCK. PRICES. Mr. BETHELL was about to address there Lordships
Bank Stock 189 morning on behalf of the respondents, when . Lordships
Three per Cent. Reduced Annuities .. .., 88% 85% 86% 86th The LORD CHANCELLOR intimated that their _
_...
Three per Cent. Consols Annuities .. .. 87% 86% 87 87% thought it unnecessary to hear the Learned GentleeMa"
Three per Cent. Annuities, 1726 .. .. 85%
New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cent. Anna. 881,4 87% 88 f the
t 0
New Five per Cent. Annuities ... .. .. 117 recommended their- Lordships to affirm the judginen
8858% The Learned Lord, after going through the facts of th case'
117
Court below with costs.
Long Annuities, Expire Jan. 5, 1860 .. 8 15-16 9 1-16 9 1-16
Ditto. 30 years, Oct. 10, 1859 .. 834
Ditto, 30 years, Jan. 5, 1860 .. • • Lord BROUGHAM and Lord CAMPBELL agree
9 1-16 opinion expressed by the Learned Lord on the
India Stock .. .. • •• •• ,
••
.. 242
Consols for May 27 .. •• .. .. .. 87% 34 %4 % 87% WOOD v. YOUNG.
Exchequer Bills. lie d. 2d. Judgment of the Court below affirmed, evith costs.
1,000/... .. fore them
5001. -. .. ing with the arguments in this case, which carne beef
the fist;
Ditto, Small .••• _ Their Lordships were occupied the remainder of the Morn'
upon appeal against an interlocutor of the Lorda disallowed
a
es, division of the Court of Session, by which they
u,"ent of,
doorsaitc..-I•the
—•••,,,, , bill of exceptions taken by the appellants to a j 01.6_"... trial,
Lord Robertson pronounced in the course of
aaklanri
; by to
whereby his Lordship sustained an objection
nt.,,.... on the
respondent to a witness tendered by the app-w
ground of interest. _
DAY)'
ROLLS' COURT.—(THIS
MARSHALL V. LYSTER. ,_ Master's
This cause came on for further directions on tuee_
married
report. It appeared that Sir Thomas Elmsley
rCr
_teirts,lot
a ward of Chancery, and upon her attaining he
..,thwich it wa.e
year, a marriage settlement was executed, by rue estate for
covenanted that 5,000/. should be charged on e",.enoeiated
Iris wife, and that a sum of 10,000/. should be si-
eared that
as a provision for the younger children. It all Thomas
Lady Croft married twice after the death of P....triaae,, eta
Croft, and that one daughter by her first insue'efseriage
also married. The plaintiff was the trustee to the
interest
settlement. There was nothing of any pub
'after sane
in the cause, which was ordered. to stand over (
_, next
of the arguments had been heard) till the third day e"
term.
.----.------e--------
____,

" The loan was rated yesterday, and the bidders
notified of the acceptance of their proposals. Con-
coran and Riggs, of this city, obtained fourteen millions
and seven hundred, thousand dollars, at one-eighth
of one per cent. advance. Elisha Riggs, of New
York, obtained one million four hundred thousaed
dollars, at the same rate. Of the remaining
sum nineteen hundred thousand dollars about
two hundred thousand dollars was taken in this city, at
about a quarter of one per cent. advance. The rest is
scattered among individuals, trustees, &c.. at a quarter,
half, and one, and even two per cent. The premium
does not average half of one per cent., nor even a I
quarter. The New Yorkers bid at par, or less than
one-eighth advanCe, except Mr. Elisha Riggs, as above
stated. Conccran and. Riggs have sold some pertion of
their stock at two-and-a• half per cent advance. The
secretary of the Treasury will call in the whole of the
,
loan, but at such times as the money may be Wanted ;
thus saving interest, and avoiding any disturbance cf the
money market by the sudden withdrawal of such an
amount in specie. If there should be peace with Mexico,
in the course even of thirty days, still the expenses of
the war will be continued for at least two or three years.
If we do not retain the military possession of the country,
with a very 1 trge force, we shall soon find that we shall
have the whole work to do over again. The revenue
harvest, now so rich that it will yield by estimate
30,000,000 between Ist December last and Ist December
next, may not be so good the next year. There is
reason to suppose that the present halcyon times will
not continue for ever. So, after all, the New Yorkers may
have been right in declining to bid above par for the loan.
The Secretary of the Treasury calculates, as I learn, upon
a revenue of $15,000,000 from the "military contri-
butions" imposed upon Mexico, for the first year, after the
opening of the Mexican ports to trade. I consulted one or
two men here, who were, for a long time, resident mer-
chants in different parts of Mexico, as to the prospects
of revenue from the system lately adopted, and was
assured that, by the Ist of January Next, the imports
into Mexico, under the rates of duty fixed by the Trea-
sury order, would, in all probability, amount to
6,000,000. Should the war continue, this sum will help
to defray its expenses. Even should it cease, I presume
it wilt be stipulated in the treaty that we shall continue
to collect and retain these revenues for a certain length
of time—during the whole time that we may be obliged
to sustain a military force in Mexico, with a view to
enforce the fulfilment of the terms of any trt aty of peace.

In New Jersey the grain and hay crops are healthy,
and instead of being frozen up as reported, the wheat
and rye fields present an unprecedented appearance
of fertility.
At Boston, on the 14th, the ship Morea cleared out
with breadstuffs valued at 21,500 dolls:, for the relief
committee at dasgow.

8 3 8 dim
8 3 8 dis
8 3 8 dis
ONE
O'CLOCK.

9 dis
9 dis
9 dis
CLOSIN()
PRICES,

FOREIGN FUNDS.
Danish, 3 per Cent •• • • • •
Mexican Bonds, 1846, 5 per Cent .. 19%
Ditto, for the Account .. 19% 20
Portuguese Four per Cent ..

. • THE MARKETS.
NEW YORK, APRIL 15.
Flour—Sales, 2,000 Gennessee, in lots, at 7 dolls. Mc. ; 500
Buffalo, at 7 dolls. 69c.; 500 Michigan, at 7 dolls. 62c.
Corn-4,500 bushels northern yellow on the spot, 95c.

Ditto, for the Account ..
Russian Bonds
Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent
Ditto, Three per Cent
Ditto, for the Account
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Dutch Two-and-a-Halt per Cent .. 5734
Ditto. 4 Der Cent. Certificates .. 8734 14
PRICES OF BUSINESS CLOSING
PAID. DONE Al' PRICES.
RAILWAY SHARES. ONE O'CLOCK.

.. .. 109

Amber., Notting., Boston, and
Eastern Junction .. .. 2% .. • . I% .•••• • •• "
Birmingham and Oxford Junction 10 .... 17% 17 ••• • • •
Binning., Wolver., land Dudley.. S 10 .. •••• • • • •
Caledonian .. 30 .... • • -••• • • •
Ditto, Half Shares 2% •• .. 2 1% •••• • • • •
Eastern Counties .. .. 20 .... 19 19% 1853 ..
Do. Perpet., 5 per Cent. No. 1. 61. 13s. 4d. 14 % p •.. •
Ditto, York Extension • . • • 6k•• • • - •• • -" • •
East Lancashire ~. 17 ••• • ••••• • • • •
Ditto New .. • • •• .. • • 7%• • • 5 % 633 •••• • • •
East Lincolnshire .. • • •
.. 6% .. • . ... • •
Ely and Huntingdon • . .. 15 .. 14% ......
Exeter, Yeevil, and Dorchester .. 2% .. 1',4 ••• • .. . •
Great Northern • • • • .. -• 3% •. • . 2%1 .. ••.• • •
Do., London & York Extension 2% .... .• .... •• • •
Great North of England . ..100 •••••• • • • •
Ditto, New. . .. 25 .... .. •••• • • •
Great Western ..........85 ....111 .. ••• - • •
Ditto, Quarter Shares .. 12% .... 16 .• •••• • • • •
Ditto, Fifths - ... • . .. 20 .... 26 .•••• • • • • •
Ditto, New •. 7% • • • • •• " • • •
Hull and Selby 50 ....102 .• •• ••• • •
Lancaster and Carlisle .. 50 ... 59% 60% .•
Leeds, Dewsbury. & Manchester 32% •••• " • •
Ditto, Branch Hall Shares .. • • 7%• • ..
Leeds and Thirsk • • .. .. 26 .• •• •• • • • •
• • • •
Ditto, Preference 6 per Cent... 3% •• • • 381 ••••• • • • • •
Liverp., Manch., & Newc. J unet. 2% .. • . %• • ••• • • •
London and Blackwell .. 161. 13s. 4d. ••••• • • • • •
Ditto, New, No. 2. • • • • 11. 13s. 4d. p.. •.• • • •
London, Brighton, and S Coffst • • 50 .... 51 507; 511 A
Ditto, Consol. Eighths .. .. 10 10% .... ••• • • •
Gordon an North-Western ..100 .•.•171 172% .• •• ..
Ditto, 401. Shares M. &B. • . 40 .... 66 .. ••• • • • •
Ditto, 101. Shares M. &B. (C) 1 •• .. 6% .. ••.• • • • •
London and South-Western 41/. 6s. 10d.. • ••••• • • • • •
Ditto, Scrip... .. • • .. .. 5 4% .. •••• • • • •
Lynn and Dcreham .. 20 20% • • • • • • . • . •
Manchester and Leeds .. .. 82 •• .. —.........—
Ditto, Ilalf Shares .. • . .. 38 .... 44% 44%
Ditto, Fifths 5 .... ..
gad
Ditto, Thirds (Beg.) ..71. 48..... p•• •• •• •• % p
Manchester, Buxton,- & Matlock 425. •• .. dis. •• • • ...14 di`.
Manchester and Southampton .. 2 .• • %••••• • • • • •
Midiard .. • • ..100 116 ••• • • .... 115
Ditto, New ~ .. 36 .• 38% •• • • 38%
Ditto, New 6 8% 714 8.... 8
Newcastle and Berwick .. .. 20 .... 25% 24% • • 21%
Ditto, New .. • • • .. . 5 .... 6% ••• • • .
Norfolk .. •• .• .. —lOO ....122 124. •.• • •
Northern Counties Union .. 4 .... 1% ••••• • • • • • IIA
North British .. .. 25 .• 30% .• ••• • •
Ditto, Half Shares .. . 12% —•• • •
Ditto, Quarter Shares •• .. 2%.... 31/4.. •••• • • • -3%
Northern and Eastern .. 50 .... 55 .. •. • •
North Staffordshire .. 5 .• 7.•••••••
Ditto Scrip (late Churnet and
Blythe) . . • .. 2 ••
North Western • • • • .. .. 4 .. •• • •
Oxford,Worcest.,& Wolverhmptn. 22% .... 13 .. .. 13
Preston and Wyre .. 25 .... ••••• • • • •
Ditto, Half Shares (B) ••.. i —••••• • • • • • 1%
Scottish Central •• .. . 17% .... 23 1,4 •%
••
• • • • • • • 1,3%
Shrewsbury and Birmingham • . .... 3 •••• • • .. 374
Ditto, Class B .. • • .. 3 •• .. 2% %••• • • • 2%
Shropshire Union .. 425. .... dis. • • • dis.
South Eastern and Dovor 33%....• 35% 36% .• • . 36%
Ditto. New (iss. at 321.) No. 1. 20 ... •• • . •• • . 20%
Do., New (do. 151.) .. No. 4. 5.•..4%••• • • • • • • • 4%
West Riding Union • • .. ..41.2s 1,4 r
York and Newcastle .. • . .. 25 .... 34%% •••• • • .. 34%
1 Ditto, New.. • • .. .. 0 14
Ditto, Preference • • • . .. 4 .• 6% .. • .....
York and North Midland .. 50 .. •••••• ••
Ditto, Extension .......25 .... 40% ••..•• • • • •
Ditto. Preference • • .. .. 2 .... 10% .....• •• • •
Do. E, and W. Riding Eaten -• 10 •• .- %a.• • • • •
FOREIGN RAILWAYS.
Boulogne and Amiens .. t‘O ••••• • • • • •
Central of France (Orleans and
Vierzon) • • • • .. • • 12 .... 1134 .•• • • •
Demerara • • . ....
Dutch Rhenish .• • . .. 7 .... 3% • • .... •• • .
Namur and Liege • • •• .. 10 •• .. .. ••••• • ••
Northern of Franco •• • . .. 8 .... 12 11% -•• • • •
Paris and Lyons • • • • .. 8 .... 4 .. •••• .. • .
Tours and Nantes .. .. • •
West Flanders .• • • • •

Whisky dull, at 28c.
Pearl Ashes better, 60 barrels sold at 6 dolls. 50c.; pots,
5 dolls.
Sterling crowds up ; the rate is 5 dolls. to 5% dolls.; and
some 5% dolls. premium ; francs, 5 dolls. 42ic. to 43ic.
Freights quite dull ; plenty of ships. but no produce.
P.S. P.vening.—Holders of cotton are firm, and yet buyers
are off almost entirely. Good brands of Gennessee flour sold
at 7 dolls. 88c., and extra 8 dolls. to 8 dolls. boc. Northern
rye brought 91 cents, delivered ; some 10,000 bush yellow
northern corn sold at 95 cents; a parcel of southern mixed
at 90 cents, to a distiller ; 2,000 bush barley at 74 cents;
river oats at 49 cents; Corn., meal is cheaper ; sales at
4,75 dolls., and some at 4,69 dolls.
Fish-550 qtls cod fish sold a little over 3,88 dolls. ; a
parcel of green dried hake brought about 2,62 dolls. ; pickled
cod, 3,50 dolls. ; small sales of_Halifax mackerel at 10,75.
dolls, 7,12 dolls., and •5,12 dolls.
There are buyers of old pork at 12,75 dolls. and 14,75 dolls.
There is some demand for beaus at 1.:5 to 150 cents, and
for peas at 100 c. to 150 c. Small quantities of butter are
coming in—winter-made sells at 22c., prime fresh at 28c.
Freights are in confusion. A London vessel, to fill up.
took flour at 4s. a barrel, and corn was engaged for Liverpool
at 1541.; flour was shipped for Havre at 125 c.
Letters were received to-day, later from Havre, though
only to Dlarch 13. They mention a sale of 1,500 barrels of
flour at 60f., and say that cotton had declined materially.
PHILADELPHIA, APRIL 15.

We have had a dull, chilly day, but the flour market has
been active at improved prices. Sales at 6 dolls. 87c. and
7 dolls, for shipping hands, and at the close nothing but the
highest price accepted. The sales at 7 dolls. will amount to
about 25,000 barrels. Sales of 12,000 bushels of wheat at
1 doll. 57c. for white, and 1 doll. 50c. to 1 doll, 51c. for red.
Corn is in request at 95 to 97 for Pennsylvania. Meal
meets steady sales at yesterday's quotations, 4 dolls. 62c.
There is no variation in cotton. Light sales of Upland at
12L, 131, and 13.

ALBANY, APRIL 14.
Flour—Market firm, on the spot the sales very small, and
confined to the filling of orders and to the trade. Range for
Gennessee and good brands, Michigan and Ohio, 7 dolls. 62ic.
to 7 dolls. 75c. ; and mixed brands, 7 dolls. 50c. to 7 dolls.
62ic., with small sales. Sale of a parcel of rye flour at 5
dolls. 25c. Grain—Demand limited. Buyers and sellers
are principally engaged in shipping former sales. Sales of
450 bushels of rye, 80c. for 601 b. on the spot, and 450 bushels
of corn, 95c. per 601 b. at the railroad. Seeds—Sales confined
to the retail trade.

18A
P
VA

_----
.- MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.
(THIS DAY.)
tt.9
Eliza Johnson, who was found guilty yesterday of a Pe,- -
act of felony, and-who stated that that she was indricea tO
commit 'the crime merely through the hope of getting tran-
sported, as the melancholy and degraded life she r sf.
~ mem o
compelled to follow here, to enable her to get's
victuals," was such that she would gladly meet any
chanca:
that might present itself to her in another country, w
brought up for judgment. ..7
looking at the
The Learned ASSISTANT-JUDGE said that,
position in which the prisoner stood, and the wishes she ex-
pressed, perhaps, the most merciful course would be to
grant
her request. ~At the same time, rhe ,ohould make a represen4
tation of all the facts under whien,the sentence was passed to
the proper authorities.
The prisoncr was then sentenced to seven years' transpor-
tation.
The case of Madanie de Souza was adjourned to the bail
day of the next session

BOSTON, Arm. 14.

Ashes, stock of pearl extremely light, with a moderate
demand ; prices well sustained ; sales, 6ic. to 6 1-3 e. ; pots,
4%8c. to sc. Sheathing copper at 221/2c. to 23c. Coffee in
fair demand, 5,000 to 6,000 bags Rio at 71/4c. to 3/4c ; prin-
cipal sales at 71/2c. for southern markets; St. Domingo, 614 c.
to 64c. ; Java, 91/2c. ; Sumatra, 63/4c. to 7c. Cotton, sales
of the week very trifling, market closing unsettled ; a few
sales at 14 c. per pound below quoted rates. No change in
domestics. Flour Market dull; the decline is very trifling;
sales of Gennessee at 8 dolls. ; Ohio round hoop, 7 dolls. 62c. ;
demand moderate for Southern ; sales Phil., 7 dolls. 37c. to
to 7 dolls. 50c.; Howard-street, 7 dolls. 371/2c. ; sales of
white corn pretty large at 90c. to 911 c. per measure, market
closing at the former; stock of yellow light, sales small,
at 1,03 dolls. to 1,05 c. Pork-sales of the week, 2,000
barrels old prime and mess, principally week,
2, at
12 dolls. to 12 dolls. 50e. for prime, and 15 dolls. cash,
for mess • and 3,000 new, in lots to the trade, and for export
at 13 dolls. 50c. to 14 for prime, mess at 16 dolls. IG, 50c. to
17 ; and clear and extra clear at 18 dolls. 18, 50c. to 19,. 4
mos., being an advance of full 50c. Mess beef in fair de-
mand, and with a light stock prices are fully sustained;
sales, common and good, at 12,50 to 13,50. Large quantity
of pickled hams lately bought up for export makes holders
firmer for smoked; considerable sales of smoked at 10c. cash,
and 101/2c. to 11c , 4m.; pickled ditto, 9c. per pound, cash.
Lard firm ; barrels and kegs at 101/2 to 11. Rice in fair de-
mand, sales 300 casks for exports at 4%c. to 4%c. Sugar in
good demand; sales, Cuba brown and yellow, at 711 e. to
81/Ic. ; Muscovado Cuba, 63/4c. to 73/4c., 6 months, for com-
men,and good; late import Manilla sold previous to arrival
on private terms for refining. Tallow rather more doing;
sales of the week 40,0001 b., at 81Ad. to 9c. 40 hhds. Ken-
.
tucky :tobacco leaf at ne. to 4c.. Wootin steady demand for
domestic, prices firm; Smyrna, '9c. to 13c., 6 months, as to
quality.

MINES.

BALTIMORE, APRIL 14.

Sales of Stocks-1,0b5 dolls. United States Mill Treasury
notes, 1023/4 ; 1,500 dolls. ditto Sixes ditto, 102%; 3,000
dolls. Dlaryland Sixes, 85; 2,300 dolls. ditto, 85'A ; 5,000
dolls. ditto, 85%; 25 shares Firemen's Insurance, 17%;
United States Sixes, '67, closed 102% asked, 1023/4 bid;
ditto Sixes, '56, 1031% bid, none in market; 5 2-5 United
States Treasury notes, 1021.
Stocks—First Board-10 Bank of Pennsylvania, 290;
5,000 States. Fives, 5 days, 72i ; 5 North Bank of Kentucky,
963/4 ; 75 New Orleans canal, 65 ; 100 Morris, 211 A • 59 of
Susquehanna Canal, 65; 500 County Sixes, 99; 14 dank of
Kentucky, 76 ; 100 Susquehanna Bonds, 53 ; 100 Girard,
11%.
Second Board-4,000 Texian Ten per Cent. Bonds, 25 ;
84,500 ditto Eight per Cent. Bonds, 24%; 1,100 ditto, 243/4'
;
1,100 Navigation Sixes, '65, 89% • 400 ditto, '56, 761 A •
3,500 United States Fives, '53, 95 ; 100 United States Bank,
4 4 ; 20,000 State Fives, 72%; 100 Morris, 213/4 ; 812 Sus-
quehanna Canal Bonds, 53 ; 200 Reading, 30.

Real del Monte, Unrezistered 3IA ..........

APPALLING DISCOVERY.—This morning the col-
lector of assessed taxes, with his broker, was proceeding to
levy for land and property-tax on the premises, situate at
No. 10, Cannon-street, City, from which the furniture had
been previously removed ; after taking the counter,
&c., below, they proceeded up stairs, when, to their horror
and surprise, they discovered the corpse of a woman laid out
in a middle room on the second floor. Whether it be the
body of Mary Ann Bobbett, who had been keeping the
house, which was a beer-shop or not, the jury this evening,
no doubt, will decide. The churchwardens have given the
barman and servant-girl into custody, they having calla at
the house some time after the discovery was made.
A DETERMINED SUICIDE.—Yesterday afternoon
alarm was excited by a strong
smell of smoke and sulphur
from a house in Greyhound-court, Water-lane, Strand, oc-
cupied by a shoemaker named Daviss. Two engines
instantly on the spot, and several parties forced open the
room whence the smoke escaped, when they beheld Davias
lying insensible on the floor, enveloped in a dense smoke
which emanated from a pot close by him. filled with brimstone
and charcoal. The unfortunate man had closed the chimney,
and covered every cranny with paper. He was taken to
the hospital in a hopeless state. Domestic quarrels ehl
ismand o
at dis-
tress-
are alleged to be the causes w • inducedqu
tempt the rash act.
" shop-market
lt is proposed to establish at Maid-
obtain support for the
stone, and steps have been
itakt
enbe realised. The example
project, which appears like y .
of Lewes is in favour of.othe plan.
..--1-t. seems that grass is allowed
ItOYAL 1-IATLYEST.
to grow along the fortifications of Paris, and that it is cut
l every year. Louis Philippe is determined to mako hay as
long as the ALM gailaeA".4l43Ch.

/6 P
511,4
10!.

406
10%
204

MARLBRO'-STREET—(THIS DAY.)
Ann Maria Scott, a woman of colour, was placed before Mr.
Hardwick, charged with stealing from the person of William
Cameron, servant, No. 23, Grosvenor•square, a purse Oil"
taining a sovereign and ten shillings in silver.
The complainant stated that on the preceding night, ahnti.t.'":
eleven o'clock, he was walking along North Audley-s.treetro
when the defendant came u to him and requksted
stand something to drink. lie told her he baCtlot go!, o_uif.
change, but would give her a penny to get half a plol.°o
beer. She said " That* not enough, give me some snore.
He refused to do so, when she made use of an
thatinclelcthe
epithet and followed him for some distance. Seeing ci-.40
prisoner was determined to follow him, he stopp.ed an
.sp;._
to her, and eventually took out his purse, containing ._1•;-'04;
and gave her a shilling. He had no sooner defendant
put
purse in his trousers pocket than the defendsn! bands
a heif
_...gt ,
her arms round him, and putting one
into his pocket, pulled out the purse. Complains:l),cl', a
hold of her, and taxed her with robbing n?_,
stoutly denied. Whilst he was struggling
came up, and endeavoured to hustle him and het
..tn.e;;;Tent
away ; but, fortunately, a police-constable a,l that
the prisoner.
came up, into whose care he at once consigne
3 Of its contents,
The purse was subsequently found, emptie—
close by where the prisoner had been standing- _of t
s-
Police-constable 19 C', said he received charre
sbe was
prisoner, and conveyed her to the station, 11
LAVW ;be WI'S !!...
Witt ue.r,_t_if.flnerit
searched, but no money was found upon ov.•
the ..,..gb,
notorious thief, and had been repeatedly before '4'"''
trates at this Court for a sirriler offence.
she alleged to.
ed waS
The prisoner, denied the charge, which „
trumped up by complainant in consequence of her refits"
comply with his wishes. heard Wl°
htchoemledicmirdo'
intnksiothAatebitDrsleefnow,
.caast ethteomaidjduireys.ex
rdhr
tectritilti a
lhesoaui dg,h
thought
hhaet
shouldafte after wnhoatt
beh edho
doing
his .f
at Clerkenwell.,
WORSHIP-STREET.--(THIS.)
This morning a middle-aged woman was charg,
ed Wriiitelit
being concerned, with four other females, named P'1:1" •tie
Young, Jane Samuels, Mary Anne Simmons', and Ca.l7,eprire•
High-street,
in i
,didg,Stone,,itivae. i
:tn.
according
propertyooroenwred, tii nu r
3igac suo Annet
dxsotictostooedhnnj,?
noises of Ma
secutrix, who, upon coming down stairs in the
tees° bad
found that the shutters at one corm* of the prenci the.
been forced open, and a large portion of the stock I._ Wax
warehouse abstracted. From si communication whicn.Aa.
made to witness, he proceeded to a house in 130740
man's-alley, where • were found upwards four0 Los
discovered
rtltnhdeea
ddntaTes
oomobbfnywuet
statement
ogtle7rfptoawfsei and
trenilhsersddgeeeoesrsfae
Wednesday
sbi
D°rbbbncoea.ael loc)'nrntl
oysdtil
nns a,
i°oll;:tnnufba
yh
fdtti:hbei
of
et lictorierigr
ei,
of boots and shoes, and the above P. be
were taken into custody. The present prisoner, who ni_ ',;s - .4
landlady of the house, was at the time abgent, byteup9n_.,6
sending an officer there last evening,she 'had arriv d. p_urob,
and upon being questioned as to her knowledge of tPe_.t it. ,
berg, she replied thatidae knew nothing
The parties had obtaint-d'of her a lodging for the
night
.1_1,:i.,
svhateeer.o!")_4
had brought s,orne large Packages with them. or
ro:fble
Bray, 43 11, discovered, in a draw a jemruy and other hour_',.
ing into the _room she herself occupit.4,4tOlice,•-con ....
d
remainder of the boots and shoes. The jemmy produce
breaking implements, and in a cupboard were discovered the
exactly corresponded with the hol e made in the shutter.
Mr. As-Horn asked the prisoner it she had anything to sal
in her defence?
The prisoner, who replied that she should reserve her de.
"
fence, was ordered to be brought up again on the same dill
as the other prisoners. _ _

_
COMMISSION or LUNACY.—Yesterday a commission
de lunatico inquirendo was opened at the Tyssen ArinstPsl-
stoinn,ribueifroerienlNtol r.tChoem:atisesioofnemrinWdinofsloAwrthaunrdEadwsaprdecial Ply,
Georg-
to
Tumour, Esq., aged 43, late an officer in the 17th Regifeett
of the llonourable East India Company's" Madras Infantr.7,
now of Pembroke House Lunatic Asylum, a gentleman
Evv.iiTlivarn:so,uro,toliS,ehnrlebwroskbuer3ll,uagnd, from the East
sessed of property under the will of his father (the late I‘e•
pang, of upwards of 10,0001. The evidence of Mr.
alleged lunatic
witnesses, tended to show Rouge,
Dr.
the
had been ent since
an inmate of the above establisbna .
__.
India Ger
the 28th November, 1835, and had thrSonguistio:t'beaennd ot°t:::
snakes, boa constrictors, and other reptiles,
sound mind, and he la,Joured under the delusion that
being Alpced in his bed-room by persons who svished to I_,
jure him; that there was a magnificent service of plate Ir%
quently placed at the bottom of his bed—the heraldic ine,igtAlt
of the Somerset family on the ceiling. He also imaglPeu bon
he heard voices, and that parties who conspired against At
came occasionally to his bedside and pulled his whiskers.s__
the conclusion of the evidence the alleged lunatic, a ein. Ir_!!,.
ably fine, healthy-looking man, was introduced, and Kit
r°'
were consta !:iy..
waiting for the questions of the Learned Commisioner,
_?..,.,`",
ceeded at a most extraordinary rapid rate, descrng efra
of the most extravagant delusions. The inquiry hAdvass
the unsonn
been finished, a verdict was returned dating
of mind from 28:11 November, 1835. Iter4
BELL FOR TILE IiONIAN CATUOLIC CAvisn 8
MONTREAL:—A bell, equal in size to' any, bell in
iatirlia;
except the Russian monster, and about twice as large the
famous " Tom of. Lincoln," has just been completed
,A1!01'000
foundry of Messrs. Mears, W hitechapel, for the 1%.0 of ~
Catholic Cathedral, Montreal. This gigantic speoln`,olf,
casting weighs four tons thirteen hundred weight and e.:4,
and its dimensions are as follow f—Diameter at the tefeet
8 feet 7 ifiches ; height to the top of the crown, 8 folio
inches; thickness at the sound bow, 8 inches. The„sego'
is a copy of the inscription upon thu monster ell•-•" Aro
tiamini duns VCl3iO omnes spiritus.laudet Dominurn. r I,oii.
Domini 1847. Fundatm Marianopolis, 206. F • irja the
tificatus L Regni Victorire Britanniarum 10." , Ltrio,
opposite side " Ex piissimo Mercatorto, it&l'cl°
ArUtcunaque, Diariapop9liWulenhituu."
..,
. .
,
, ' A