The Sun.
London, England, 1848-02-24 00:00:00

EXECUTION OF CROWE.

The Clare Journal, referring to the execution of John
Crowe, at Ennis, on Saturday last, for procuring the
murder of the late ➢lr. Watson, says—" We have not
witnessed any criminal who met his death with more
apparent unconcern than this unfortunate man. Pre-
vious to his being pinioned by the executioner, he with-
drew for a few moments from his cell to the
water-closet, walking with a firm step, and in passing
along looked out through the window at the crowd. On
returning to his cell he spoke to one of the turnkeys,
remarking ' That it had been the fate of many a better
man; that every man must meet death some time; and
that perhaps he himself might never be better prepared
than he was then.' We heard but very little sympathy
expressed by any person for this unfortunate man. The
base crime of which he had been proved guilty appeared
to excite universal indignation. There can be no doubt
that the wretched man was guilty, but we cannot con-
clude without again protesting, in the name of Christi-
anity, which is scandalized by such exhibitions, against
the inhuman law of capital punishment."
WATERFORD ELECTION.

'WATERFORD, FEE. 21.—Mr. Lamie Murray has
quitted the field, and Sir _Henry Winston Barron has
entered it. These are the principal items of our elec-
tion news. The two gentlemen arrived here on Saturday,
the Banker from London and the Baronet from Dublin.
Mr. Murray seeka to stipulate that his present with-
drawal gives him a claim to be called on at some future
vacancy. In one respect Sir Henry Barron's entrance is
inopportune. It spoils a very pretty stand-up fight be-
tween the Young and Old Irelanders.
A letter from Alderman Meagher was received yester-
day, expressing disapproval of Mr. Thomas F. Meagher
coming forward as a candidate, but the disapproval is
based principally upon an apprehension that the consti-
tuency will object to have father and son in the repre-
sentation. Alderman Meagher says he is ready to resign,
should such objection be made.
Mr. T. F. Meagher held an open-air meeting yester-
day on the hill of Ballybricken, a well-known suburb of
ours. He and his immediate friends went there in pro.
cession, with band and banners, from the Confederate
Clubhouse. Mr. Peter Walsh, victualler, was in the
chair. Mr. Meagher, who continued highly popular, re-
newed his pledge to context the city to his last shilling,
and last drop of blood, if requisite. At nine o'clock in
the evening, when the band was playing through the
streets, the crowd attacked the Repeal Reading-room
(Old Ireland), in King-street. After breaking a few
panes, the assailants nave way before the rush of a small
but determined party of Old Ireland buat.m,o The.
Mayor and some of the constabulary afterwards com-
pleted the clearing of the street by remonstrance with
the people.
Something in the shape of a preliminary voting is
going on this day (Monday), at the Town-hall, as pro-
posed at the stormy meetings of last week. Mr. Costello
will have all the suffrages there, for none but his division
attend. _ _

The election writ did not reach the Sheriff until yes-
:erday afternoon. It appears to have been mis-sent to
the county Sheriff.

LITERATURE.

LITERARY EXTRACTS, 1 Vol. By John Poynder,
Second Series.

Several years ago it was fashionable in the pub-
lishing world to produce volumes of a miscellaneous
character, called most frequently by their generic
title, "Elegant Extracts." The name was good not
only as an alliteration, but as significant of the con-
tents ; and the custom was good not only as a specu-
lation, but as the means of affording an inexhaustible
fund of instruction and entertainment. We are right
glad that Mr. Poynder has not forgotten this pleasant
old style of compilation, and that he has been indus-
trious enough, and intelligent enough, and—what is
still more—adventurous enough to revive the habit in
our own generation. In the present volume, a goodly
volume of 710 closely printed pages, being the second
series of his undertaking, he has accumulated an ex-
traordinary amount of poetry, anecdote, description,
wit and wisdom. We would by no means pretend
that we have perused the book through from beginning
to end—(we would as soon lead our readers to sup-
pose that we have devoured a whole encyclopmdia
through before writing a critical notice of it)—but
we have examined the work discursively, poring
over it here and there, and digesting the
tid -bits as the leaves opened to our hand
accidentally, and, having scrutinized the volume,
we are prepared to pronounce it excellent in
material and as in arrangement. The scraps are
strung together alphabetically, like the words in a
dictionary. And such scraps !—tho pickings out of
the literaay treasury of Europe. As Tennyson has
exquisitely expressed it--
"Jewels five-words long,
That on the stretched forefinger of all time
Sparkle for ever!"
There are gems in Latin, and gems in French, and
gems in English ; fragments of verse, and snatches of
prose ; apophthegms from Bacon, declamations from
Jay, moralities from Baxter, epigrams from Selden,
aspirations from St. Jerome, aphorisms from Ter-
tullian, metaphors from Horace, dainties from Charles
Lamb, sketches from Alison, pathos from Shakspere,
extravagancies from Hood, couplets from Boileau,
stanzas from Piron, adages from Johnson, and ejacu-
lations from Robert Hall, &c., &c. To afford some
conception of the nature of these extracts, we may
transcribe a few of the briefest, In page 200 we hear
from the lips of St. Augustine that glorious and con-
solitary truth, " The desire of grace is grace." In
page 185 Cicero exclaims, with sarcastic bitterness,
" Summunz omnium malorum staltilia !" In page
161 Seneca remarks, in a tone of sententious
exactitude, " Longum iter est per pracepta : breve
et efficax per exampla." In page 304 Boileau de-
scribes the theoretical moralist as "Anti de la vertu
plutot que vertueux." In page 354, Pope, writing to
a portrait painter (Jarvis), says—
" Beauty, frail flower ! that every season fears,
Blooms in thy colours for a thousand years."
In page 369, Shakspere, in the person of Master
Slender, gives this capital apology for taking pre-
cedence—
" I'd rather bo unmannerly than troublesome."
In page 409 Lord Sidmouth, quoting from an old
ballad, assigns these reasons as some excuse for re-
tirement :

“ I hear a voice you cannot hear,
Which bids me not to stay ;
I see a hand you cannot see,
Which beckons me away.”
In page 417 St. Augustine (again) expresses thus the
secret of true religion, and the panacea of public
happiness, " Unity in thine essential—liberty in
things indifferent—and charity in all things." We
might go on extracting lovely passages from the ex-
tracts until we transferred nearly the whole volume
to our columns. We began
.our examples with St.
Augustine ; we finish with him, and in doing so we
again congratulate Mr. Poynder upon the completion
of the second series of his delightful and most read-
able compilation.

GREEK Lo account as just been pre-
sented to Parliament of the money paid out of the Con-
solidated Fund, under the Acts of 2 and 3 William IV.,
c. 121, &c., for interest. and sinking fund on that part of
the Greek Loan guaranteed by this country under the
authority of the said Acts, and of the amount repaid by
the Greek Government, on account of the Consolidated
Fund for this purpose the sum of 33,583/. 17s. Id.; in
1844, 46,784/. 4s. Bd.; in 1345, 46,4971. 45.; in 1846,
46,4971.45.; and in,1817, 47,1881.95. 7d.; making together
220,550/. 19s. 4d., of which 23,844/. 13s. 4d. has been
repaid by the Greek Government in 1847, thus leaving
196,7061. 56. 11d, unpaid.

FLANDERS AND HAMBURGH
MAIL.

BRUSSELS, FEB. 19.—The Chambers this day re-
sumed the discussion of the project of law relative to
the reimbursement of part of the securieties to the
company of Grand Luxembourg, for the railwayworks.
After a very animated discussion, the project was
finally adopted by 44 votes against 19. The opposi-
tion was founded upon an excessive distrust which
some of the members evinced in regard to the inten-
tions of the society.
COLOGNI3, FEB. 11.-Dr. Mendelssohn has just
been declared guilty, and sentenced to five years' im-
prisonment in the 1-louse of Correction, with for-
feiture of all rights of honour.
The Rhine is now entirely clear of ice, it having
broken up without any serious damage having
been occasioned. Coblentz has now been fixed upon
as the place forithe safety harbour, which into be
erected above the city, near Oberwerth. At Dussel-
dorf active preparations are going on for the comple-
tion of the hall for the assembling of the Provincial
Diet, which is to take place in the spring. It is
hoped that the Diet at Berlin will not assemble till
August.
The theatres begin to be quite out of vogue, and
can scarcely meet their expenses, as the opening of
the political stage presents objects of superior interest,
and consequently attracts the majority of influential
persons.—Allgerneine Zeitung.
BRUSSELS, FEB. 20.—The typhus fever continues
to rage, not only in Flanders, but has spread to the
Nassogne in Luxembourg.
The direct communicatian between Trieste and
Egypt will be open on the 10th of May next.—
Journal du Commerce d'Anvers. _

STUTTGARD.—The discussions on the disturbances
of the 3d of May last were carried on with much
warmth and asperity in the Chamber of Deputies on
the Bth and 9th. Romer gave a detailed account of
the sad disturbances, to which the Minister of War
and the Minister of Interior replied at some length ;
the latter stated that, after the strictest investigation,
he could not find that the soldiers were to blame ;
the mob was ordered to disperse, and three signals
were given before the soldiery fired upon the people.
Romer contested the legality and necessity of the
steps he had taken, and contended that they fired
when all necessity for doing so was past, though he ac-
kowledged that they had been ill-used and pelted with
stones by the populace. The Minister much regretted
the subsequent meeting of the judiciary advocates and
the summonses in the public journals to meet on a
stated day for referring complaints. Baron Von
Varnbuler drew attention :to the excited state of the
mind of the poor at that time from want and famine.
Other members urged that the subject might now
rest in peace, as the critical state of the times called
for unity. Romer's friends endeavoured to prove the
legality of his proceedings, though they regretted his
having taken this step. The Chambers adjourned
for six weeks.
COPENHAGEN, JULY 12.—An edict, published by
his Majesty on the Bth instant, enjoins the ministers
of the various churches throughout the country, as
well as at Copenhagen, to preach a funeral sermon
on the day of the interment of his late Majesty
Christian VIII.— Universal Prussian Gazette, Feb. 18.
PRUSSIAN FUNDS.—Blaurr, Fan. 18.
Bills. Money.

gt.Schnld Sch., 334 per Cent • • • • .• • 92
Pruss.English Bonds, 1830, 4 per Cent.. •• • .
Foreign Exchanges • .
Exchange on London, .£1 Sterling, 3 Months
HAMBURGH BORSENHALLE, la.
Bills. Money.
Austrian 5 per Cents •. • • • • • • • • • • 102%
Bank Shares • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 1580
Anglo-Russian Loan •••••••• • • • • • • • • 108% 106
Russian 5 per Cent., Hamb. Certificate. 102
Ditto Ist series Inscription. ••• •• • ....• 102%
Ditto, Hope and Co., 3d and 4th series • • 95
Ditto, in Certificate ••••••••• • • • • • • • • • 95
New 4 per Cent., Hope and Co• ••• • • • 87
Ditto Stieglitz .• ••••••••.• • • • • • • • • 86%
Spanish New 5 per Cent •• • •
Ditto 3 per Cent .... ••• • • . ........ 24% 24
Anglo-Portuguese Loan, 234 per Cent• •
Dutch Actual Debt, 234 per Cent 55
Ditto 3 per Cent. ••••••••• • • • .• • •
Polish New 4 per Cent. Loan, 1844 79
Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cent ••• • • • 83 823{
ational Bank Shares.• • • • • •
AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, Fus. 14.
5 per Cent. Metalliques.• •. 1011 i
4 per Cent. ditto • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • . 85%
3 per Cent. ditto.• •••• • • ••••.• • • •• 61
Loan, 1834 ..... .151
Ditto, 1839 .......................... 110
Bank Shares • . • .
EsteriaazT's Loan . .• ... .• 57%
RAILWAYS.
The Northern, or Ferdinand 130%
Ologgnitz -. • • .... • • • .• • • •• 107
Vienna—Milan • • ..................... 85}.i
Leghorn ••••••••••••••• • •• • • • • • • • • •• • • 73
Oldenburg ••.••.••••.••• • • • . •• .. • • • ••
. _

resth Bridge .. • • ...... ••••••••• • • • •• ••

Apennines ......

THE RIVER PLATE.

By the Petrel packet, which arrived yesterday at
Falmouth with mails from Rio de Janeiro, we have
advices from Rio to the 9th January. She brings
a 3inail Aright ur gum. hacnange 274 to 25d., at
which a fair amount of business had been done on
the morning of the Bth.
Ships of war at Rio, the Grecian, Griffin, Spider,
and Crescent. _ _ _

In coffee, extensive business had been done since
the 10th December, and sales amounted to about
200,000 bags. The demand was chiefly for clean
green, good first and fine superior qualities, which,
owing to their great scarcity, were likely to improve
in price ; the lower descriptions, on the contrary,
were neglected, and not saleable, unless at a very
considerable reduction. The stock on hand was about
75,000 bags, and consisted principally of the latter
qualities.
Superior washed and pulped
were quoted
35200 to 3sBoo per arroba.
.
Superiors 25900 to 3sloo „
Ist good
Ist ordinary
The shipment of last year amounted to 1,650,300
bags, being an increase of 130,568 bags on those of
184 G. The quantity of washed coffee shipped last
year amounted to as much as that in 1846—about
50,000 bags. The shipments in December were
115,832 bags for the United States, 2 for Africa,
20,331 for Antwerp, 9,109 for Bremen, 3,841 the
Channel, 2,150 for Copenhagen, 1,522 for Genoa,
3,200 for Gibraltar, 52,872 for namburgh, 2,422
for Liverpool, 1,982 for Malta, 2,764 for Marseilles,
2,250 for Sweden, 16,148 for Trieste.
Freights to England, 505.; English Channel, 50s.
to 525. 6d. ; llamburgh direct, 455. to 50s.
In stock there had been no alteration in the price
for some weeks. The sales for the opening, both of
general and provincial, were considerable—at 87 to
88 the former, and 86 to 86} the latter. A few
sellers had appeared a few days previous to the
packet's sailing, in consequence of the payment of the
dividends being partly made in silver, to which great
objection was evinced by small holders.
Statement of domestic funded debt of Brazil:—
Issued 6 per cent. up Re.
to 1547
Ditto in 1847 14,2005000

50,354,400e000

Redeemed 6 per cent.
up to 1842.

46,7 12,400,5000

Issued 5 per cent. up
to 1847
Ditto in 1847

Redeemed 5 per cent
up to 1842

1,249,400000

161,2005000

Issued 4 per cent. up to 1847

1,088,2005000
119,6006'000

Total Rs. 47,920,200 $OOO

REMOVAL OF SMITHFIELD MARKET.—On Tuesday
an:investigation, commenced on Monday, was proceeded
with before F. H. Goldfinch, Esq., and W. H. Hoskins,
Esq., commissioners, appointed by the Commissioners
of Woods and Forests,junder the:lmprovement of Towns
Act, for the purpose of receiving evidence with reference
to the establishment of the New Smithfield, or Great
Metropolitan Cattle-market and Abattoirs. The mar-
ket is proposed to be erected on a piece of ground, con-
sisting of 57 acres, situate between the Camden-road and
Maiden-lane, the ;proposed East and West India Dock
Railway passing through it. The first abattoir on a
vacant piece of ground, at present in use as a brickfield,
between the New North-road, Shepperton-street, Isling-
ton, and the Regent's canal ; the second at Bethnal-
green, by the side of the Eastern Counties Railway,
and extending to the Regent's-canal; the third by the
side of the Surrey-canal, in the Old Kent-road; the
fourth at Battersea, between the River Thames and the
South-Western Railway; the fifth between tho Kens-
ington-canal and the London and Westminster Ceme-
tery; and the sixth at Westbourne-green, on a piece of
land between the Regent's-canal and the Great Western
Railway. The evidence taken on Monday consisted
principally of the estimates of Mr. Galloway, the en-
gineer to the company, from which it appeared that the
entire expense of purchasing the land and the erection
of the buildings in the different localities would not
exceed 371,5001., leaving a surplus out of the capital of
the company (400,0001.) of 28,5001. to meet allcontin •
gencies, which would be amply sufficient. On Tuesday
several witnesses were examined in reference to the
eligibility of the proposed sites and arrangements, and
the meeting adjourned.
MUTINY AND SHIPWRECK. The captain of the
Joseph Albino, lately arrived, reports that the Samuel
Smith, of about 500 tons, from Penang, bound to
London, struck on the N.W. end of Rodrigues, on the
15th instant, and became a total wreck on the 18th;
about 80 tuns of the cargo were saved, and the masts cut
away. According to a statement sent by the police
magistrate and the captain, the chief officer and crew of
the Samuel Smith had been in a state of mutiny since
the vessel left Penang, and at the time the Joseph
Albino left Rodrigues the captain, officers, and police
were obliged to protect themselves with fire-arms, and
they asked assistance from the Government here. The
captain had his wife, sister, and four children with him.
The Government:schooner Legere is to leave this day
4 with some aid.—From the Mauritius Papers, Nov. 25.

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.
WEST CORNWALL RAILWAY.

The half-yearly meeting of this company was held on
Tuesday at the offices, 35, Broad-street-buildings; Cap-
tain W. S. Moorsom in the chair.

The report stated, that although the prospects of the
undertakinr, had been somewhat impeded by the late
crisis in the commercial world, yet the directors had
every confidence that it would, by reason of its remu-
nerative properties, eventually rise above all difficulties.
That legal proceedings were pending against a gentle-
man for enforcing the performance of a contract for the
disposal of the unappropriated shares of the company.
This circumstance created delay and rendered it obliga-
tory to call upon the proprietors for another instalment
of 21. per share, to meet the liabilities of the company
(about 15,0001.) Since August last payment in respect
of the first call of 21. per share had been made upon
2,430 additional shares, giving a total to the present date
of 10,210 shares upon which the first call had been paid,
leaving 5,725 shares in arrear, irrespective of the shares
engaged to be taken by the gentleman alluded to. The
call of 2/. due on the Ist of February has been paid on
2,675 shares. The directors have not thought proper to
enter into contracts for the execution of any portion of
the works, and have thus been enabled to relieve the
proprietors from calls for a period of twelve months, al-
though they have received the sanction of the proprietors
to enter into such contracts if a favourable opportunity
should occur and the means be placed at their disposal.
The directors obtained an estimate from Mr. Brunel of
the cost of the works on the portion extending from
Hoyle to Penzance, upon which estimate the traffic re-
turns show that a net revenue of 81. per cent. may be ex-
pected. That the suspension of all progress of the works
would not relieve the proprietors from calls which must
be made to pay off the liabilities of the company as they
fall due. The directors havo applied for an extension of
time for the purchase of land, and the construction of
works. The traffic on that portion of the undertaking
which lately formed the Hoyle Railway had increased,
the traffic upon which in 1846 amounted to 11,7831., and
in 1547 to 14,045/., while the expenditure, it was stated,
had decreased. That the solicitor's accounts for the
Parliamentary. business of the company in 1845 and 1846
have been revised and satisfactorily settled. That Messrs.
Russell, Barlow, and Mowatt had retired from the di-
rection, and that Captain Moorsom and Mr. Emery had
been elected. That Mr. J. Alston, Mr. E. Turner, M.P.,
and Captain W. J. Moorsom retire by rotation, but are
eligible for re-election.
The capital account to the 31st December showed that
180,5221. had been received, and 178,9621. expended,
leaving a balance of 1,560/. at the banker's. The traffic
account from the 2d of November, 1846, to the 31st of
December, 1847, stated that 15,936/. had been received,
and 12,6901. expended in working expenses, rates, and
taxes, leaving a balance of 3,245 Z, out of which a sum
of 2,209/. was taken to pay one year's interest on loan
and debentures.
After a discussion of three hours' duration, in the
course of which it appeared to be the general opinion of
the shareholders that the undertaking had not been
properly managed, the report was unanimously adopted,
and a resolution passed, appointing a committee of
shareholders to inquire into the company's affairs, and
report the result to an adjourned meeting to be held on
the sth of April next, the directors pledging themselves
not to enter into any contracts for extending the line
until after such meeting.
The proceedings concluded with a unanimous vote of
thanks to the Chairman and directors.