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THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, MARCH 8, 1849

to introduce such a measure has hitherto been opposed
with the most determined hostility, as if the system
were perfection itself, and that it were little better
than sacrilege to sanction any innovation. Mr.
DRUMMOND has, however, at length succeeded in
bringing his Bill fairly before the House and country-
The principle of the measure has been sanctioned.
Alterations will undoubtedly be necessary in the de-
tails, but these minutia may be fairly considered in
the Committee to which it will be referred, and
which Mr. DRUMMOND does not propose they shall,
go into until the Courts shall have moved to
Westminster, in order that the House might have
the opinion of lawyers on those points, wherever
their knowledge would be useful.
The measure appears to be founded on the admi-
rable reports of the Society for Promoting the
Amendment of the Law, whose invaluable labours
have been productive of so ranch benefit to the
country. That enlightened body have already expa-
tiated on the vast advantages to be derived from " a
general register of titles," under which landed property
might be transferable like stock in the public funds,
and by which the necessity of retrospective deductions
of title—a necessity which entails such enormous
expense and inconvenience to the owners of property
—might be obviated. Under the present system the
poorer classes are precluded from the acquisition of
land; the expenses and difficulty attendant upon a
transfer act as a complete prohibition to any dealing
with respect thereto. As the society most truly state,
in their second report on registration, " Practically
speaking, small properties cannot be dealt with except
as articles of luxury—the large proprietor is debarred
from selling, and the poor man from buying by
the expense of the transfer. Retrospective titles,
then, are not merely a legal inconvenience,
but a great social evil." This great social evil must
be averted. The eminent lawyers who compose the
committee of the society conceive that the object
could be effected by a well-devised system of
registration, and a judicious carrying out of the prin-
ciple of insurance of titles, by which not only perfect
security might be afforded against the possibility of
loss of any description, but great facilities would be
conferred for transferring or incumbering the proper-
ties insured.

There is, we are happy to state, every pros-
pect of these desiderata being speedily attained.
The principle of the Bill for establishing a general
register has just received the sanction of the House
of Commons, and any defects will doubtless be reme-
died in Committee, while a company is in course of
formation for the purpose of guaranteeing against any
losses arising from defective titles, and thereby to
enable parties to transfer or charge their properties in
a much shorter time and at one-fourth of the expense
that must be submitted to under the present system.
The prospectus of the company, which is a very
clear and well-arranged document, is now
before us, and it explains, in the most satisfactory
manner, the mode in which this novel species of
assurance may be carried into effect, and the benefi-
cial results that may be expected to flow therefrom,
by which the saleable value of land may be improved
by several years' purchase.
By a reference to our advertising columns, our
readers will perceive that copies of this prospectus
may be obtained at the office of The Legal
Title Insurance Company, and we would
heartily commend it as well worthy of a
calm and attentive perusal. The company
does not contemplate the slightest interference with
the business of any existing society. The established
and well-recognised principles of insurance, the
doctrine " that the average of uncertainties may be
easily measured," is applied in a novel and ingenious
mode, by which the proprietors will undoubtedly realise
considerable profits, and vast advantages will result to
the community in general.

In spite of the garbled accounts of the Hungarian
war which have appeared in the reactionary news-
papers both in England and Germany, the truth

glares through the flimsy screen of falsehood and mis-
representations. WINDISCHGEITZ, so far from being
victorious, has in reality met with a succession of
reverses. BEM, instead of being killed or conquered,
is in bodily health while his mind is in that state of
exhilaration which is peculiar to even the most phleg-
matic captain when his forces are proving triumphant.

JELLACHICH, in place of retaining his romantic
popularity amongst his followers, is deserted by them
in whole regiments. KOSSUTH, at the very time he is
spoken of as a fugitive, skulking in the back streets of
Berlin, is in the zenith of his power as supreme

ruler over the Provisional Government. While it is

solemnly announced in the journals of Vienna that
the Imperialists hold an unbroken military cordon
from Waitzen to Losonez, and from Hatvan to

Saolnok, it actually appears that the Hungarians
have complete possession not only of the northern
and southern districts of the kingdom, but of the
mountainous tracks of Transylvania and the Car-
pathians. According to the Government organ of
the Austrians (the Wiener Zeitung) the Patitcz-

MARSHAL has marched towards Gyongyos, driving
the insurgents before him in four different directions ;
whereas, according to the Government organ of the
Magyars (the Iozlony), the Hungarian army has
advanced instead of retrograding, has assumed the
offensive instead of the defensive, has been success-
ful instead of unsuccessful.

Since the Schwartzenburg Ministry has called in
the assistance of Russia, the cause of the young
EMPEROR has not merely darkened throughout Hun-
gary, but has sunk immeasurably in the estimation of
the whole empire. The apparent assistance derived

from NICHOLAS has been in reality the cause of many
severe disasters to the forces of FRANCIS JOSEPH.
The appearance of the dragoons of St. Puter6burgh
in Transylvania has only had the erfect of exaspe-
rating to madness the national feeling of the Hun-
garians. One of the most heroic of the tribes of
that brave race has risen, indeed, against the mer-
cenaries, and inflicted upon them condign chas-
tisement for their interposition. This tribe was

the tribe of the Szeklers ; and they appear
only to have been prevented from annihilating their
antagonists by the arrival of aid from the garrison of
Cronstadt. Saxe then, namely, on the 15th ult., a
pitched battle has taken place at Hermannstadt be-
tween the Austrians, under General PUCHNEIt, and
the Hungarians under General 13ese. The action
resulted in the latter proving signally victorious,
following up the discomfiture of his opponents by
taking the fortress of Ilermannstadt by storm—and
this, be it remembered, in the teeth of the garrison
of Russian auxiliaries. In celebration of this
triumph of the national arms a solemn Te Down
was chaunted on the 20th ultimo in the
church of Debrecain. It is in that city that
the Provisional Government, presided over by Kos-
sum, is assembled—a Government which has been
recently completed by the appointment of General
L. MESSAROS as Minister of the War Department.
Besid€s directing the operations of the Administra-
tion, the renowned liossum is endeavouring to excite
still further the enthusiasm of his countrymen. To
this end he is distributing rewards and promotions to
whoever distinguish themselves against the common
enemy—having within the last few weeks conferred
the title and baton of a Field-Marshal on General
Kis. So great is the ardour displaying among the
whole Magyar race that not all the battalions
of Russia can enable the Austrian EMPEROR to extin-
guish it. lf the forces of Wiriniscncaa.Ts find it
impossible to keep to themselves the towns of Zyps,
or to preserve Transylvania without assistance from Sr.
may rest assured that it will be
Petdifficultersbutrog ha ,they
n
extraordinary degree to wrest from the
power of 13em and KOSSUTH the whole of the magni-
ficent territories of Hungary, especially when there is
every likelihood that even the Croatians will rise
against the oppressors of so many nationalities. n
another victory which took place on 26th ult.
at Zibakhaza 2,000 of the fellow-countrymen
of JELLACHICII deserted from the ranks of the
Imperialists—harbingers of additional defection from
the cause of Austria, and of additional advantage
to the Hungarians. From the experience, therefore,
which has been derived from the reactionary news-
p iperS as to the want of exactitude in their declara-
tions, it must surely be unnecessary to warn the
public from all their erroneous and unauthentic nar-
ratives. Whatever may be sai 1 either by the
Wiener Zeitung, or by some of our own contempo-
raries, as to the tr:utnphs of WINDISCHGRATZ, it is
certain that the colossal power of Austria has
failed to do more than goad on the inhabitants of

Hungary to a condition of patriotic enthusiasm that
gives promise of proving altogether irresistible.

Actuated with the same determined views as the
promoters of the Anti-Corn-law League, the
agriculturists are combining in an agitation against
the taxes upon malt and hops. It will be observed
that a numerous and influential meeting in further-
ance of this extension of the principles of free trade
was held yesterday in Blackfr)ars, with Mr. W.
SHAW, editor of the Farmers' Journal, as chairman.
Although the different speakers appeared to recoil
from anything that might be construed into a
suggestion as to the mode in which this
obnoxious impost shall be removed, although, indeed,
one of the resolutions went directly to maintain the
impolicy of any such suggestion in the present stage
of the movement, the proceedings of the assembly
were far from being unmarked by observations of a
practical character. The orators grew eloquent when
dilating upon the grinding influence of the malt and
hop duties, not merely upon agriculturists and
brewers, but ir.directly upon all classes of the
population.

It is eminently gratifying to witness the rapid
and almost unconscious acceptance of the ideas of
political economy advocated by the memorable
"League" and its organs, and to see foremost among
the converts to the new philosophy founded by
ADAM SMITH, and accepted by HUSKISSON, the
farmers of old England. Yet the change cannot be
regarded as very surprising, seeing, that before the
farmers became neophytes to the creed of Free
Trade, the orators and journalists of the " League"
had to proselytize not only one, but a hundred sec-
tions of the community. The shopkeepers, or as
they call them in France the bourgeoisie, were, out-
and-out, for Protection. But EBENEZER ELLIOT
sang his songs, and W. J. Fox. delivered his lectures,
and Colonel TIIOMPSON wrote his catechisms,
and JOHN BRIGHT proposed his resolutions, and
RICHARD COBDEN spoke his orations, and the
shopkeepers soon found out that the shoe did pinch,
and they found out moreover where it pinched, and
they were converted. So it was with the gentlemen
of the three kingdoms, so it was with the merchants,
so it was with the manufacturers, and so, at last, it
was v‘i,h the Members of the Imperial Parliament.
Every one in turn offered allegiance to the newly
discovered principles, and the sentiment, contagious
from its truthfulness, spread rapidly from the little
back room at Manchester to the workshops,
to the factories, to the warehouses, to
the city offices, to the country houses, to the coffee-
shops and the public-houses, and ultimately in the
very chambers of the Lords and Commons at West-
minster. It has since then gained fresh admirers,
and those admirers are, as the Hon. Gentleman the
representative of the West Riding foretold from the
floor of the Lower House, the farmers and agricultu-
rists of England. They have found out after all
that Free Trade is no such bad thing—
that it offers cherries worth the having, if they
only make up their minds to jump. Now
that the barrier of Monopoly has been broken down
a new light has flooded in upon them, and they
are earnestly and heartily for the abolition of the
malt and hop duties. Surely we need scarcely assert
that the effort has our good wishes, and that the
change that has " come o'er the spirit of the dream"
of the agriculturists has our felicitations. Having re-
cognised the justice of their claims upon the attention
of the Legislature, it is to be hoped that the agricul-
turists will not lightly diminish their agitation.

prisoners' advocates had arrived, and some of them
were with the families of their clients. Some of the
learned gentlemen felt themselves in a somewhat deli-
cate position, having been named by the judges to
act, though it was expected some of the prisoners
themselves would decline their services. M.
BOINVILLIZRS, jun., who had been nominated
counsel for BARRES, had resolved it was said only
to present himself as an act of respect to the judges.
M. MARTIN BERNARD, one of the secorides pointed
out by BARBES, in the fault of counsel, arrived in
the city yesterday. The prisoners SORRIER, COUR-
TAIS, THOMAS, and BORME had conferred with their
advocates. RASPAIL, it was said, was preparing to
make a full exposition of his doctrines in the course
of the trial. The judges had received the visits of the
public authorities. The court is small, but from the
arrangements made would, it was believed, be found
suitable. The architects had, however, neglected to
provide places for the journalists, of whom there were
a great number, representing not only the Parisian
and departmental press, but also journals of different
countries of Europe, and even of the United States.

The National has an article on the affairs of Italy,
in which it says it can scarcely credit the report that
the POPE a Christian priest, has called upon the
Powers of Europe to inflict the horrors of war upon
the Roman people for the restoration of his temporal
authority. Alluding to the French Government, in
connexion with this affair, the National says:—

"It must explain itself; it must tell us whether,
charged as it is to represent the French Republic abroad,
it intends to use its power only to oppose the expansion
of the Republican spirit in :Europe. Can the French
Republic refuse to acknowledge in the Roman people the
right in virtue of which we ourselves exist?"
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK-EXCHANGE, MARCH 7.
Boulogne and Amiens, 916—Namur and Liege, 774—
Northern of France, 11N—Rouen and Havre, 13—Sambre
and Meuse, s—Tours and Nantes, 2%.

friendly words and sentiments of cordiality which they
severally have expressed towards me, and on account of
the manifest signification which their presence here
gives to the aspect of affairs in Tuscany. While I ad-
dress my sincerest thanks to the honourable members of
the diplomatic body, I am forced to announce to them
that my further stay in this last port of Tuscany has
now become impossible. It has been known here for
some days past that an armed force threatened to come
to drive me hence. It is certain that the threat has
been carried into execution. The public papers have an-
nounced it, and a strong detachment of armed men under
the command of men who are not Tuscans, is on its way
to Grosseto. Still more, the salvos of artillery fired
at Orbetello, in the vicinity, announce the consummation
of the crime—the proclamation of the Republic. I must,
therefore, adopt a resolution, however bitter to my
heart; it is the only one I can adopt. I leave my well-
beloved country, but my heart remains. I pray God to
enlighten the minds of the ill-disposed and mistaken
men, and to console the honest minded, who are more
numerous than will perhaps be believed. I invite the
diplomatic body to publish the irresistible motive which
forces me to leave Tuscany, and the sentiments with
which lam inspired in this supreme moment. I rely
upon Providence for the advent of better times.
Porto San Stefano, Feb. 20." " LEOPOLD.
By a circular of the Minister of War of Tuscany,
of the 24th ult., to the commandants of the garrisons,
orders are given that the volunteers inscribed in the
lists lately opened be immediately sent to Florence to
be incorporated.

The Nova Febbrajo of Bologna, of the 24th ult., an-
nounces the departure from Modena of six companies
of Modenese troops and four of Austrians, with two
pieces of cannon, in the direction of Massa.

HOUSE OF LORDS.-(THIS DAY.)
The House sat to-day to hear appeals. The Peers
present were the L,Jrd Chancellor, Lord Brougham, and
Lord Campbell.

BAKER V. TIICKER.
The further arguments in this part-heard appeal oceu.
pied their Lordships the whole morning.

ROLLS' COURT-(THIS DAY.)
Ilis Lordship the Master of the Rolls was occupied
the whole morning. with motions of no general interest.

VICE-CHANCERY.--(THIS DAY.)
(Before the VICE-CHANCELLOR Of ENGLAND )
The Court took motions and causes to-day, but no
case calling for particular notice came before his Honour
during the day.
(Before Vice-Chancellor NVIGRAM.)
DE VISME V. DE VISME.—.TUDGMENT.
Vice-Chancellor WIGRAM gave judgment in this case
this morning. He said the petitioner was a purchaser
under a decree of the Court, and one of the conditions of
sale was, that if the completion of the purchase was de-
layed by any cause whatever, the purchaser was to pay
interest at 51. per cent. on the purchase money, amount-
ing to 7,6471., until the completion of the purchase. By
the seventh condition of sale also, the vendor was to de-
liver his abstract of title on a given day. The petitioner
complained that the completion of the purchase was de-
layed by the act of the vendor in not having du'y deli-
vered an abstract of his title by the time recognised
miner the seventh condition of sale; and he alleged that
he had sustained danefiges under the condition
of sale which required him to pay interest
at Si. per cent. until the completion of the
contract; and the petitioner accordingly prayed that it
might be referred to the master, to whom those causes
stood re erred, to inquire and state whether the 7th
condition of sale of the estates, as to the delivery by the
vendor of an abstract of his tide within the time therein
mentioned was or was not duly complied with by hive;
and if the master should hid that that condition was not
complied with then, that he me might state what
damages Mr. Benjamin Hook, the purchaser, had sus-
tained, or what compensation ho or the petitioners, or
his legal representatives, were entitled to either by way
of the reduction of the interest on the purchase money
or otherwise by reason of such condition not having
been duly performed by the vendor. He (the Vice-
Chancellor) regretted to say that he had not
been able to find a way to grant the
relief prayed for by this petition. If the
petitioners were not now entitled to relief there might
have been some way by which the purchaser might, in
some earlier stage of the cause, either have obtained
such relief, or have avoided the damage which he said
he had sustained. It could not be that the vendor, who
stipulated for a high rate of interest in case of delay in
completing the contract, could not take advantage of his
own wrongful act, unless the terms of the contract we re
so plain and so strong that there was no escaping from
them. This Court could not give the relief prayed for
unless a court of law would give it on an action for a
breach of the contract, after the contract had not
been completed. He (the Vice-Chancellor) appre-
hended the purchaser in such a case would be
told at law that he ought to have complained
of such breach of the contract when it
occurred, and that having proceeded to complete the con-
tract, after notice of the breach, he could not afterwards
complain. By an order in the cause, bearing date on the
17th of July, 1847, set out in the petition, and made on
the motion of Benjamin Hook, the purchaser, who de-
clared by his counsel that ho was content with the like,
it was directed that Benjamin Hook, on or before the
end of August, should pay into court a certain sum of
money, which he had done; and it was ordered that the
said Benjamin Hook should be let into possession of the
estate, and the receipt of the rents sad profits, on pay-
ment of the purchase-money for certain lots, according
to the conditions of sale. It was under the reservation
contained in this order that the present ap-
plication was made ; and if the purchaser
might. if necessary, give up the purchase and reconvey
the estate, the question would arise whether, at the time
of making the order of the 17th of July, 1847, the pur-
chaser was in a condition which entitled him to ask for
the compensation which he prayed; but if he insisted at
all events, in retaining the conveyance, he (the Vice-
Chancellor) would not hold him entitled to compensa-
tion, if, as he assumed, the completion of the purchase,
under ordinary circumstances, would deprive him of a
right; and, therefore, he (the Vice-Chancellor) could
not give the relief which was asked by this petition.
The petition must, therefore, be dismissed with costs.
(Before Vice-Chancellor KNIGHT BRUCE.)
MARSHALL V. BOYCE.
This was a part-heard cause, and came before the
Court for further directions.
The question had reference to the construction of a
bequest in a will. The testator gave a legacy of 1,000/.
stock to his executors, in trust to receive the dividends
arising therefrom, and invest the same dividends in the
purchase of more stock, until the children of William
Marshall, of Islington, should respectively attain the age
of twenty•one, and as and when each child should attain
that age, to sell out and pay to him an equal portion of
that stock, as also the accumulat-d:stock. The question
was, whether the children of William Marshall, living at
,the death of the testator, were the only ones to take, or
whether other children of his, born after the testator's
death, should be permitted to share iu his bounty.
Mr. PARKER submitted that those children living, at
the death of the testator, were the only persons who
could take on the death of the testator. He contended
that under the words of the bequest, there was a gift to
those children immediate on the death of the testator,
and that the only thing which remained to be done WILS
to allow the dividends to accumulate until each child
should attain 21, and then to divide them.
His HONOUR understood that the children living at
the date of the will, and at the date of the death, were
exactly the same persons.
Mr. PARKER said that was so ; the testator made
his will on the 18th, and died on the 21st of the same
month.
Mr. RUSSELL, for the defendants, submitted that
when a man spoke of ten children of a person, he meant
the children who were then living, unless there was
something to show there was another intention. In this
case there was nothing to show that the testator meant
to depart from the natural meaning of the words.
His Hoetoun said, had this case stood clear of autho-
rity, he doubted very much whether he should have
thought it right to take the plaintiff's view of the case.
It did not by any means stand clear of authority. He
was of opinion that he ought not to contravene or re-
strain the cases of " Davidson er. Dallas" and " Saunders
v. Volcy," cited in the cause, and that he should be con-
travening one or two, if not all of those cases, were he
to say every child was to take except the three born at
the date of the will, who were also the only three living
at the death; and he must, consequently—not, perhaps,
without a slight degree of regret—decide in their
favour.

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.
(THIS DAY.)
(Before Mr. Sergeant ADAM, the Assistant-Judge.)
THE CASINOS.-----It having been understood that the
informations laid by the common informer, Stowell,
against the lessees of the Casinos at the Adelaide Gal-
lery, Strand, and the Walhalla, Leicester-square, would
positively:come on for hearing this (Thursday) morning,
the court at an early hour was crowded. The several
defendants appeared in propril persona.
Mr. Parry appeared for the informer; and Mr. Clark-
son and Mr. Ballantine for the defendants.
The Learned Counsel, after consulting together, de-
termined on a further postponement of the trial of the
indictments till Thursday, April 26.
The ASSISTANT-JUDGE most willingly acceded to the
arrangement of the counsel, and ordered an adjournment
of the case till April 26.

DINNER AT THE MANSION-HOUSE. Yesterday
evening the Lord Mayor entertained at dinner the Com-
mon Councilmen and about forty other gentlemen of the
ward of Farringdon Without.
ARCHITECTURAL EXHIBITION.—Yesterday a pri-
vate view was afforded of nearly two hundred architec-
tural designs, in the gallery (53, Pall-mall), of the New
Society of Painters in Water Colours. The subjects are,
as might be imagined, of a strangely miscellaneous cha-
racter—ranging from the colossal plan of a cathedral
down almost to a Pecksniffian pump. Several of the
drawings are marvellously clever; but, to our mind, the
gem of the whole exhibition, indisputably and beyond
all question, is the view painted by Mr. Allom, of
"London from London-bridge to Blackfriars-bridge,"
according to a proposed plan of improvement. The con-
ception is magnificent, and would, if adopted, render the
metropolis of England the most picturesque and magni-
ficent capital in Europe.
SOUTHAMPTON, WEDNESDAY MIDNIGHT. -- The
Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company's
ship Erin, Captain Russell, arrived at nine o'clock, P.m.,
from Constantinople, Malta, and Gibraltar. She brings
thirty -eight passengers and specie of the value of 130,000/.,
and a large cargo of silk, goats' hair, and sundries. Sir
Charles Napier's squadron was at Gibraltar on the 2d
instant. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's
steamer Montrose bad arrived at Gibraltar from tO
Italian ports.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWs

CITY, QUARTER TO TIII?EE.
The Cotton Market at Liverpool was dull and languid
yesterday. The sales were estimated at 3,500 bales, all
to the trade. Prices of American compared with Friday's
rate;, were*d. per lb. lower.—Railway Shares were very
dull.

The Continental advices received to-day are chi, fly
interesting as regards money matters. At Paris the rise
in prices is again important, but no doubt the failure of
a large Bear speculator, who, although a Frenchman, is
well known in London, and has operated largely
in Consols, is one cause of the sudden improvement.
The differences on the French account are said to be
enormous, but here the party has hitherto paid his way,
although a great loser.
The last portion of the loan for completing the
drying of the Harlem Lake is about to be contracted in
Holland.

The Mexican Bondholders receive by nearly every
mail fair evidence of the disposition of the Government
to act up to its promises, and of the productiveness of
the Customs revenue, which, however, is not yet what
it may be expected to be. The committee in Loudon
has received the tollowing:—
(From Messrs. Manning and Mackintosh.)
" Mexic-, Jan. 13, 1849.
" Sir,—We had the pleasure of addressing: you on the
13th ult., as per annexed duplicate, expecting the far-
rival of Mr. Robertson ; but up to the present time,
havieg no tidings of the steamer with tee December
mails, we presume she has been again detained in qua-
rantine in the Havannah.

' We have the satisfaction to inform you that on the
26th of December there were bills on the merchants, still
running for the bondholders' proportion of the duties,
amounting in Vera Cruz to 225,000 dolls., and in
Tampico to 60,000 dolls., and subsequent to that date
many vessels have arrived at both ports.
" The new tariff is again under discussion in Con-
gress, and will probably he carried into effect.
" G. R. Robinson, Esq., Chairman et the
Committee of Spanish American Bondholders."
(From Messrs. Manning, Mackintosh, and Co.)
" Vera Cruz, Jan. 15, 1849.
" Gentlemen,—We inclose you a copy of our last re-
spects, which we confirm :

Dolls. c

"By our letter of the 15th ult. you will
have seen the bondholders' proportion of
imports pending on the 30th November was 191,813 66
The duties for December amount to ... 48,060 00

Forming a total of ...
.. 239,873 66
Of the 19,363 dolls. 53c. we remitted per Te-
viot, the proportion of import duties was... 14,323 18

So that the bondholders' proportion of im-
port duties to be remitted was, on the 31st
December last .. ... 225,550 48
" Of this amount we have received about 30,000
dollars, which, with any further collections, will be
remitted by the first steamer.
" We remain, &e.,
(Signed) " MANNING, MACKINTOSH, and Cu.
" To the Chairman and Committee of

Mexican Bondholders."
(From Mr. W. P. Robertson.)
" Campeachy, Jan. 19, 1849.
" Dear Sir,—These few lines are merely to say that,
after a frightful shipwreck of the Forth steamer, on the
coral reefs of Alacranes, we arrived safely here yester-
day—not one life, providentially, having been lost. The
principal letters go by Captain Sturdee, late Comman-
der of the Forth, who sails to-morrow for Ilavannah.
" I most unfortunately lost all my papers, offi.:ial dis-
patches included, in the wreck. Pray send me imme-
diately a duplicate set.—l am, dear Sir, &e.,
(Signed) " W. P. ROBERTSON.
" G. R. Robinson, Esq."
" The City Bank of Montreal has called a general
meeting of stockholders, to take place on the 30th March
next at noon, in order to take into consideration, and
decido on the propriety either of assessing them elves, to
make good the losses incurred, or of reducing the
value of the shares of the Bank ; and to, con
suit and decide on the expediency of effecting an
arrangement with some other banking institution, or
individuals, and generally to devise and adopt such other
course, in relation to the said Bank, as may, under the
circumstances, be deemed expedient."
There has been a very quiet market for the
Public Securities, but the quotations are better,
Consols having been 914 y, and since 91*
The great improvement in France is one cause of
the rally. Exchequer-•bills have been 425. *to
455., and India Bonds 535. to 565. premium. Bank
Stock is worth 193 to 194 i. The New Three- and-a-
Quarter per Cents. have been 92} to I. The state
of the account is still acting upon the market, and
some fluctuation may be expected, even independent of
political events.
In the Foreign Market, the transactions have been of
no moment, but Mexican are buoyant on account of the
information received by the Committee of Spanish Ame-
rican Bondholders. The rates are 261 to 27*. Grenada
stock has been at 171. Spanish Three per Cents. have been
steady at 291; French Five per Cents. at 84 50 ex
dividend, with the Exchange at 25 20; and Dutch Two-
and-a. Half per Cents. at 49*.
Railway Shares are flatter this morning, and both, as
respects the home and foreign lines, lower prices have
Itetn.sabmitted to.

ONE
Pat E. S oF isEITiSli FUNDS. O'CLOCK.
dank Stock 193 19414
3 per Cent. Reduced Ar.ns ...... 9ll, 14
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities 91%5/8
New 3% per Cent. Ann 5...... . 9214 5,8
Long Anns. to expire Jan.lB6o ..• 9
ndia Bondi., Looot. .... .•• --
Ditto under 1,0001... .-.... 56 F 3 p
Consols for Account 9IV4 %
t,..xelicriuer Hills. 244 d. & 2d.
1,000/. June 45 42 p
5001. June .••

PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS.

CLOSING
PRICES.
19414
91:fixi
91%
92%4

ONE
O'CLOCK.

53 p
9138

42 p
46 p

CLOSIN
PRIC ES.

Brazilian Bonds .
Equador Bonds
Grenada Bowls, 1 per Cent. l7l/4 171/4
mextcan, 5 per Cent. 1846 57% 27%
Ditto. Account 26%1 27 27
Peruvian Bonds, 6 per Cents 5l 52
Portuguese 5 per Cents.
Ditto, 4 per Cent —
Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840.
Ditto, Account : 17%
Ditto 3 per Cent 29%
Dividends on the above payable in London.
French Rentes, 5 per Cent.
Exchange 2sf. 50c. 25f. 25c.
French, 3 per Cent
Exchange —25 f. 20c.
Dutch 21,4 per Cant., 12 Guild 49% 49%
PRICES OF PAID. BUSINESS DONE CLOSING
RAILWAY SHARES. AT ONE O'CLOCK. PRICES.
A berdeen 5O .... . —,..
Do. Preference
Boston, Stamfd & Birm. 5
... .. 4% . 4%
Caledonian 5O ..... 23%54 ex d... 23% ex d
Ditto, Quarter Shares 1114...... 5x d 5 is d
Do. New 10/. Pref.—. 10 ... .. 111/4 . ...... 1114
chaster and Holyhead... 50 ...... 20% % ...... .. 20%
Ditto, Preference
Dublin and Belfast June. 35
East Anglia, 25/., L. &
E. and L. and D...... 25
Do., 3/. 10s.
Eastern Counties........ 20 ...... 10A :',10,4
Do. New Guaranteed
6 per Cent. .. .
Do. North. & Eastern 50
Do. New
Eastern Union, Class A
(late E. U. Shares) 25
Edinburgh and Glasgow 50
Ditto, Half Shares ... 20 ..
Exeter,Yeovil, & Dorch. 2% l%
Great Northern
Great Western 100 ...... 97 x.d. ......... 97x.d
Ditto, 1,4 Shares
Ditto, 14 Shares
Ditto, Fifths ... 20
Ditto, New 171........ 15 ...
Hull and Selby .. ...... 50 lOll/4 x.d 10114 x .d
Ditto, Half Shares ... 25 ...... 501,E x.d 50% x.d.
ancaster and Carlis1e... 50
Lancashire & Yorkshire 93 '
...............
Do. Fifths... ......... ... 10
„........
.... 714
Do. Thirds l5
..... 8% B%
Leeds and Bradford
London & Blackwall...l3/. 68.8 d.... 5%% x.d 5% x.d.
Lou ton, Brighton, and
South Coast
Ditto, New 5/., guar.
6 per cent. ......... 5
London and N. Western 100 137 x d. ..... ..... 13614x.d
Lend. &6. Western 5O ...... 38 38 N.' x.d. _38% x.d.
Manchester.Buxton,and
:"Matlock.... 4%. 1%% l%
Manchester, Sheffield,
and Lincolnshire...100
Ditto, New 101. Pref... 10
Midland ...... ........ ...100... 82 821, 811% x.d 81% x.d.
Do., do., 50/. Shares ~. 25 ... .. 1714%......
Do. Birm., and Derbyloo
Nswmarket
North British ... .... ... 25 ......
Ditto, Quarters
Ditto Extension
...... .•.
North Staffordshire 17% 14% %
.. ... ~
Oxford, Worcester, and
Wolverhampton ...... 50
Reading, Guildford, and
Reigate 12% 133%4 ..... ....,. 13 4,,,
Royston and Hitchin ... 3% 3% % ...... ..... • 33/4
Scottish Central
Shrewsbury and Birm
South Eastern
Do., No. 2.
Do., Registered No. 4 10 .... 71/8
Do., Scrip No 4
South Yorkshire, Dow•
caster, and Goole
Waterford and Kilkenny 20 .
W.lts, Somerset,& Wey-
mouth
York, Newcastle, and
Berwick. . . ...
14). Newcastle E K ter 2O lB% 19 ex.div. 19 x.d
Do. G.N.L.Preference 8 ... 87%
York .nd North Midland 50 ...... ex.div. .. x.d
Dit:e, Preference
FOREIGN RAILWAYS.
Boulogne and Amiens... 20
Central of Fiance (Or-
leans and Vier..on) ... 18
Demerara .... ........ ...... 171/2-- ... ......... ...
Namur and Liege
Northern of France
Pars and Rouen ...
Pouen and Havre f 2O ...... 121 p, ..............
Tours and Nantes .. 9 ...... 21/2........ .....
MINES.

1714
297

31/
4 IA
14y

12'ki
81/2

1114
2114
123/4
2%

Australian
Brazilian Imperial 241/2
Do. St.JohnDel Rey 15 ...... 10% .
JOINT STOCK BANKS,
Australasia
London & Westminster. 20
Union of Australia
24%

574
10 IA

1.1.0 YD'ti 611 EPPIN G.—(THIS DAY.)
LONDON, MARCH 8. —Wind at noon, W.N.W., light
breeze and fine.
STATE OF WIND AND WEATHER AT THE PROVINCIAL
PORTS THIS MORNING, AT 9 A.M.
Colchester W. by N., fine.
Gosport
Gloucester S.W., fine.
Hull
Liverpool ..
Lowestoffe NV. N. W., cloudy.
Portsmouth
Southampton.... S.S.W., fine.
Yarmouth
LYTHAM, MARCH 7.—The Simpson, Higgins, front
Wexford to Preston, got ashore S.E. of the Lighthouse,
and remains leaky with slight damage, cargo dis'
charging.
LIVERPOOL, MARCH 6.—WindW.N.W.—Arrd. Agent,
Mills, Charleston; Niagara steamer, Stone, Boston.
7th, Ripley, Atkins, St. Domingo; Unicorn, Thain, New
Orleans; Hero of Sidon, Fleck, ditto; T. H. Perkinh
Conn. Mobile; Samuel, Leighton, Savannah; Bolton
Abbey, Barker, Charleston; Elizabeth Wilthew, Grif-
fiths, Boston. Sid. 6th, Courier, Dunn, Sydney, New
South Wales; G. Dean, Spuring, Sierra Leone; St'
George, Hutchison, Savannah; Cromwell, Barker, Boa
ton; Stephen, St. Stephens, New Brunswick. Put back,
7th, Courier, Sidney, New South Wales; George Rain'
say, Baltimore; Janet, New York, with loss of foretely,
mast. Mem. The Courier, for Calcutta, did not oil
yesterday as reported. Off port, Blarney stkamer•
Blytheswood.
FALMOUTH, MARCH 7.—Wind W.S.W.—SId. Crane
packet, Madeira and Brazils. Off Port. sth, Tritons
Olie, Batavia for Amsterdam.
ALLOA, FEB. 26.—Signet, Thomson, St. John's, New
Brunswick. 27th, Johanna, Riddoch, St. John's, New
Brunswick. March 1, William Dawson, White, 6t•
John's, New Brunswick.
KINGSTOWN, MARCH 7.—Sid. Sumatra, Harvey, Tri-
nidad ; Catherine, M.Kenzie, Trinidad.
BRIGUTON.--Arrd. National, Voets, Rio Janeiro for
Antwerp.
SOUTHAMPTON, MARCH 7.—Sld. Madrid steamer'
Gibraltar.
DEAL, MARCH 7.—Wind W.S.W.—Arrd. Cresle•
Wessels, Cape Haytien, Rotterdam. Arrd. from the
River, Berhampore, Smith, New Zealand; Empress,
Goole, Sydney. New South Wales; George Brown'
Higgins, New York; Jessie, Coysh, St. John's, New
toundland. Put back, Lady Clarke, for Sydney. New
South Wales; Venus, for Cape Palmas; St. George, i°'„
Valparaiso and St. Francisco; Catherine Elizabeth, for
[3arbadoes. It has been blowing very strong
from the W.S.W., attended with heavy squalls through'
out the day.
QUARANTINE NOTICES.
Harana, Feb. 7.
The Board of Health has altered the quarantine re'
gulations as follows:
Vessels from New Orleans, or from ports within 15°
miles, with a foul bill of health, will undergo quarantine
for 20 days.
Vessels from British ports where cholera is known t°
exist, 15 days.
Those from New York with clean bill of health, or
from ports within 150 miles with ditto, and from Port'
within 150 miles from British ports, where cholera ea'
ists, 8 days.
Vessels from all other ports are now free from Vs'
rantine.
(Signed) PICARD and ALBERS, Lloyd'sAgente•
Capt. G. A. Halsted, R.N., Secretary, Lloyd's.
Lisbon. Feb. 28.
Sir,—The Board of Health has declared Liverpool to
be an infected port.
(Signed) CHARLES JAUNCEY, Lloyd's Agent.
Capt. G. A. Halsted, R.N., Secretary, Lloyd's.

MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.)

NEWGATE AND LEADEiramAzz.
These markets were tolerable steady, to -day, 01A,
prices were well supported. Beef, from 2s Sd to 33 81
Mutton, 3s 4d to 4s 2d ; Arc a!, 3s 10d to 4s 10d ;
Pork, 2s 10d to 4s 4d per 81bs by the carcase.

MEAT IVIARICETIS.
SOUTHALL, MARCH 7.—The general trade to-asl,
was steady, at improved quotations, owing chiefly to t. 13"
falling off in the supply. Beef, from 38 2d to 45; Mutt°ll2,
3s 10d to 4s 10d; Veal, 4s to 4s 8d; and Pork, 3s 6d w
4s per Sibs., to sink the offal.
RODIFORD, MARCH 7.—Prime Beasts and Sheep 03°2'
mended a steady sale, at higher prices. The value of other
kinds of stock was well supported. Beef, from 3s 4d to 4,6,1
Mutton, 4s to 4s 10d; Veal, 4s to 41 6d; and Pork, 3`
4d to Ss 10d per Blbs. Suckling Calves, 183 to 0/2
quarter old store Pigs, 17s to 21s; and Mulch 03"
with their small Calf, 141 to 181 each.
LEWES, MARCH 6 —Our market was firm, at very
full prices :—Beef from 3s 6d to 4s 2d ; Mutton, 4s,id
4s 10d ; Veal, 4s to 4s 6d ; and Pork, 3s 8d to 0
per 81bs.

NAY MAIMETS.
wet
SMITIIFIELD.—Meadow Hay, 2/ lOs to 31125; ni win.
ditto, 3/ lOs to 41 12s ; and Straw, 11 2s to I/ gs
load. A lair average supply, and a sluggish demand-
CUMBERLAND.—Meadow Hay, 21 12s to 31 135;
Clover ditto, 3/ 10s to 41 lOs ; and Straw, 113 s
11 lOs per load. Supply moderately good, and trade
rather dull.
HITECHAPEL.—Meadow Hay, 21 8s to 3/ 10s ;
Clover ditto, 3/ lOs to 41 14s; and Straw, 1/ 2s to 1191
per load. Trade dull, at but little alteration in prioeS•