The Sun.
London, England, 1850-02-13 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, WIEDNZSDAY EVENING, FEERtTARY ls, lose

poured into the Excise ! These 16400/. were subse.
quently increased to no less than 29,0001., which
amount was heightened through seventeen years' in-
fliction " in the chronic form of interest and compound
interest," to the enormous sum already mentioned,
of 82,0001. Thirty-two thousand pounds
dead weight of taxation on a single work, and that
work the " Penny Cycloptedia"—a work calculated so
directly to promote the cause of popular education !
Surely never were imposts more cruelly, more un-
warrantably, or more injudiciously applied! Nor
is this all. After exposing the miserable effects of
the paper duty upon any one adventuring upon a
scheme so magnificent as that which has, notwithstand-
ing all losses and obstructions, been actually realised
in the " Penny,Cyclopmdia," Mr. CHARLES KNIGHT
declares in so many words that unless the paper duty
be abolished he will be wholly debarred from at-
tempting the publication of a new edition of this
splendid work, a work in every respect honourable to
the national enterprize and the national abilities. Of
itself this is a sufficiently sorrowful and impressive
declaration. But, while pronouncing it, Mr. CHARLES
KNIGHT must not be regarded as. numbered
amongst the class of grumblers. He has nobly earned
for himself in this matter the right of remonstrance.
During the last twenty years, he says, "upon a tole-
rably accurate calculation, I have, from my own
unaided resources, expended Eighty Thousand Pounds
upcn Copyright and Editorial Labour 1 " Again,
says he, "During the same period I have paid Fifty
Thousand Pounds Paper Duty 1 "—the latter sum
being a double charge " by the inevitable opera-
tion of a tax upon raw material." Having
fought so gallantly, and for so long a period, against
all the crushing obstructions of excessive taxation,
in the good cause of popular education, in the cause
which is identical with the intellectual development
and moral elevation of the masses, Mr. CHARLES
KNIGHT has assuredly a right at last to appeal to the
sense, and the justice, and the prudence of the Legis-
lature.

Beyond the enforcement of his most powerful
arguments against the intolerable duty upon paper by
reference to the fortunes and misfortunes incident to
his own great enterprise of the " Penny,Cyclopmdia,"
Mr. CHARLES KNIGHT demonstrates very clearly
the impossibility of a good cheap periodical
competing, under the present system of taxation,
with the bad and vicious catch-penny publications
now pouring in such poisonous quantities
from the printing-press. At the first blush,
it may appear absurd to argue the matter,
one effusion having apparently precisely the same
chance as the other. A moment's consideration,
however, will show that the fact is quite otherwise.
While the former, called for the nonce by our distin-
guished pamphleteer, " The Fountain," has to pay
so much for good paper, so much for efficient editors
and contributors, so much again for the proper labour of
compositors, and so much for the work of correction,
the latter, called by him for the nonce, on the other
hand, " The Sewer," would be issued in reams of vile
paper, from manufactories, where large bodies of chil-
dren are employed to arrange types at the wages
of ehirtmakers from copy furnished by the most ig-
norant, at the " wages of scavengers." Both " The
Sewer " and " The Fountain " being published
at the same price, say a penny per weekly
number, it must be sufficiently obvious from
the previous considerations that the balance•
sheets would, with an equal circulation, pre-
sent to view a very striking and deplorable difference.
Without the duties on paper, the tables would be
very speedily turned ; with.it, " the Sewer would reek
on—the Fountain would cease to flow." After the
hint afforded by the promised motion of Mr. MILNER
GIBSON, and especially after the damning facts
disclosed in the remarkable pamphlet of Mr.
CHARLES KNIGHT—no one can possibly have
the temerity to deny the necessity for some im-
mediate and comprehensive alteration. Not without
cause did the printers, paper-makers, and publishers of
Great Britain, wait yesterday upon the Prime
Minister of England, through the medium of an im-
portant deputation ; not without reason do they re-
monstrate with the Legislature against an im-
post as unnecessarily severe in its operations upon
themselves as it is detrimental to the interests, the
morality, and the enlightenment of the vast body of
the community.

Among the many causes exciting to disease, there
is not, perhaps, one more fatal than an insufficient
supply of water ; to quote the worth of Mr. SIMON'S
report, "its unrestricted supply is the first essential
(,f decency, of comfort, and of health, and any limita-
tion to its use in the metropolis is a barrier which
must maintain thousands in a state of the most un-
wholesome filth and degradation." That the supply
of water to the inhabitants of the metropolis is re-
stricted and insufficient, and that thousands of them
must consequently remain in a state of the most un-
wholesome filth and degradation, is, alas! but too
evident. It appears from the statement* of the Ex.,
ccutive Committee of the Metropolitan Parochia
Water-Supply Association that there are at present
in the metropolis not fewer than 80,000 houses, with
a population of 640,000 persons, without a supply of
water. The Health of Towns Report for 1845, thus
adverts to the insufficiency of water supply to the
metropolitan poor :
Although there is no portion of the town into which
the mains and pipes of some water companies are not
carried, yet we find that large numbers of the houses of
the poorer classes receive no supply. In the district
supplied by the New River Company, containing about
900,000 persons, about one-third are unsupplied; and in
the district of the Southwark Company. 30,000 persons
have no supply, although the pipes of more than one
company are carried into some parts. A still greater
proportion can obtain water only from stand-pipes, com-
mon to a large number of persons, and supplied only at
intermittent periods. We have already pointed out the
evils of this system, and we have; no reason to believe
them to he less injurious in London than elsewhere.
They are attributable to the same causes—the natural
reluctance of the companies to supply the poor except
through the medium of the landlord, and the expense of
a separate cistern or water-but: for each house neces-
sarily entailed by the system of intermittent supply."

It is to the insufficiency of the supply of water that
is in a great measure to be attributed that fearful
epidemic from the visitations of which the metropolis
now periodically suffers, and there can be no doubt
that the ravages of cholera ware caused quite as much
by a scanty supply of water as by insufficient drain-
age, indeed without an illimitable supply of water
perfect drainage is impossible. Under the present
system we can have no perfect supply of water to the
metropolis. Private companies look only to their divi-
dends, and will not, and indeed cannot, furnish a con-
stant and unintermitting supply of water at a cheap
rate. There are at present no less:than ten private
water companies, and consequently the establishments
of each, with a numerous staff of officers, to be sup-
ported by the public, who are therefore obliged
to pay ten times as much for an insufficient supply as
they would have to pay for an unlimited supply under
a properly organized system. To remedy this evil, a
Metropolitan Parochial Water-Supply Association has
been organized, of which Mr. JAMES WILD, M.P., is
chairman, and the executive committee of which is
composed of representatives of the different boards of
guardians of the metropolis. " This association"—
we quote from their address, dated. Central Offices,
30, Bucklersbury, Ist Feb., 1850—
" This Association has been founded for the practical
application of the following principles:—
" 1. That water, a primary necessary of life, and es-
sential of health—an indispensable element of domestic
comfort and decent social hat•itF, furnished by Provi-
dence for human use, without skill or labour—is not a
proper object of mercantile profit or private specula-
tion.
" 2. That its unlimited and pure supply ought to be
secured to the community at the bare cost of its conve-
nient distribution.
"3. That it is equally the interest and the duty of
the community. as a protection from contagion and dis-
ease; as a Mitt' from the pressure of rites caused b;
the bad health and debility of the poor ; and as an in-
strument of the devation of the morals of the labuuring
classes, by affording them every
faci;ity for the improve-
ment of their domestic habits, to enforce the introduc-
tion of an abundant cons eyed suppiy of pug e water into
evk ry house in the cut tropolis, without exception or dis-
Lir,ctiott of class, on the principle of constant service and
high pressure.
"4. That economy in cost of distribution, in survey,
collection, and manapment, uniformity of plan, is,ses-
meat, and regulation, and the requisitions of sanitary
Police and domestic morals, equally suggest that tLe
necessary supply should be in the hands and under the
control of the public, managed by a parochial repre-
sentation, which shall embrace the whole area of distri-
bution, regulated by a competent commission chosen by

• " Supply of Water to the Metropolis. The Case
of the Rate-payers and Consumers stated by the Execu-
tive Committee cf the Metropolitan Parochial Water-
Supply Association." London: Henry Renshaw.

the consumers, and paid for by a parish rate on the ad-
justment of an equal assessment.
" 5. That the example of all civilized nations, some of
whom made the duty of personal and domiciliary puri-
fication doctrines of their religion, and all of whom, by
the establishment of national canals, aqueducts, drains
and sewers, and ',lle police, censors, and cut ators, con-
stituted the means of cleanliness and purification an im-
portant part of their ;public admiui:trAion, leads to the
conclusion, that the supply of water ti large cities can-
not taMy or economically be left to the hazards of pri-
vate enterprise, or the disjointed action of conflicting
bodice. The right of the indigent to be furnished with
a competent supply of wholesome water is as clear as the
duty of the community to place the poor beyond the
want of b:ead; and the time has long since arrived
when, with the past experience of the ravages of
pestilence, the rep ,rts of Parliamentary Commis-
sioners, the remonstrances of sewage boards and the repre-
sentations of the sanitary inspectors and Re;istrar-
General, all leading to oce conclusion—it is imperative
upon a community, with the present consumption of two
millions and a quarter, and the annual increase of 45,000
additional inhabitants to provide In-, immediately, by
large, combined, and effectual administrative arrange-
ments, controlled by parochial authority and regulated
by the wishes and wants of the inhabitants, to correct
the evils of the existing system, and to secure by extent,
unifirmity, and foresighted economy of plan, an ample
and permanent system of water supply to the metropolis.
With the full enforcement of these general princi-
ples, the objects of this association will be attained. It
leaves to the wisdom of Parliament the adjustment of
all other details. It ccncedes to the existing water
companies the merit of having partially supplied a pub-
lic want, which the public and the Legislature had ne-
glected to meet, or in the regulation of any provision
tor which they had not had the prudence to interfere.
The question of compensation, or cf its amount, is not
embraced within the functions of the association, which
does not consider it to be within its province to suggest
either the sources or the method of supply, further than
is indicated in the foregoing declaration of the basis of
its constitution."

The association acts most wisely in confining its
efforts to the assertion of the great principle that it is
the duty of the Legislature to adopt measures for in-
suring to the inhabitants of the metropolis (we go
further, and say of all large towns,) an unlimited and
constant supply of pure water, leaving the adjustment
of all details to the wisdom of Parliament. Had they
meddled with details they would have been met and
harassed upon these questions of detail by those who
are interested in upholding the present system, and
thus would their strength have been in a great mea-
sure frittered away and much valuable time have been
lost. As it is, by confining themselves to the enforce •
ment of general principles, the Metropolitan Paro-
chial Water-Supply Association have taken up an
impregnable position. The formation of this associ-
ation is a giant's stride in the right direction in the
cause of sanitary reform, and we hope that in every
parish in the metropolis meetings will be called to
promote the objects of the association, to adopt peti-
tions to the Legislature in conformity with its prin-
ciples, and to appoint deputations to wait upon the
Members for the district, calling on them to present
the petitions and to support them in their places in
Parliament.

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We have received the Paris journals of yesterday.
The Assembly was occupied with the discussion of
the clauses of the Education Bill on Monday. The
sixth clause was passed at the conclusion of the
sitting.
General CIIANGARNIER attended the Council of
Ministers which was held at the Elysee on Monday.
It is said that France is to be divided into four
military districts, to be placed under the command of
military chiefs who will have very extensive powers,
and, among others, that of placing their districts in a
state of siege. These important commands will, it is
said, be entrusted to Generals CIIANGARNIER, DE
CASTELLANF, MAGNAN, ROSTOLAN, and GEMEAU.
The near approach of the elections creates some
excitement in Paris, and M. CARLIER, the Prefect
of Police, has addressed a circular to his sub •
ordinates, pointing out to them the line of
conduct which he considers it adviseable to adopt.
lie recommends the strictest legality, as also tole-
rance during the addresses of the different candidates,
but at the same time firmness and decision in the
maintenance of order. lie also dwells on the neces-
sity of enlightening the minds of the ignorant elec-
tors on the great social question of the day.
The various parties are busily engaged in arranging
the lists of candidates. The Socialists will, it is
said, support MM. GoUDCHAUX and MALORMET, but
they object to N. MAREAST, although the pure Re-
publicans would probably support his candidature ; M.
EMILE DE GIRARDIN is endeavouring to find favour in
the eyes of the Reds, but hitherto he has not met with
much success. The Ministerial candidate will be
General LAHITTF, the Minister for Foreign Affairs
Tne Legitimatists talk of starting the Count DE
CHABROL ; and the Bonapartists intend to put for-
ward M. THAYER and the DUO DB PADOUF. The
Republican candidates will have the benefit of the
support of M. EMILE DE GIRARDIN, who, in the
Pre.vse of Monday, makes the following declaration :
" Paris has to elect thrt e representatives. We de-
clare, in advance, that whoeser may be the tht eo candi-
dates of the Opposition, our ce -operation and our vote
shall be fully given to them. If all intermediary
opinion has disappeared, it is not our fault, but that of
the reaction. Is is it alone, therefore, which must be
accused. Between two dangers—that of going back •
wards and that cf going forwavds—WO have chosen the
ley t, and have given the pt.( f:rei.ce to the future instead
t f tI e past. Triellvolu iou, ythic:t has t ice—!n 1830
1813—broken irons its ma} be directed, but
it cannot be stepped. On this point all illusions should
be dissipated, all fears be resigned, all resistance be en-
lightened."
The Assemblee Nationale says :—" The Cercle
Constitutionnel, which for a short time past has had
its sittings in the Rue 'faitbout, in the house of the
Marchioness of HERTFORD, the mother of Lord SEY-
MOUR, has been obliged to remove and to seek another
place for its meetings. The motive for the can-
celing of the lease has not arisen from any difference
between the contracting parties, but from the alarm
caused to the Marchioness by the agitation which pre-
vailed for some days in consequence of the cutting
down of the trees of liberty. The Marchioness feared
that, in the event of any disturbance, the house might
be attacked, under the pretext that it was the place
of meeting of the moderate party."
The final number of votes given et the election of
the Charente has now come to hand. Lieut.-Col.
EDGAR NET obtained 58,750 votes, and M. BA-
BAUD-LARIDIERB 24,297.

The judicial inquiry into the late disturbance at
the Cane St. Martin is nearly terminated. The
number of persons arrested who have been amnestied
at Belle• Isle amounts to 50.

M. LEOUTRE, ex-responsible editor of the:Reforme,
was on Saturday condemned by the Court of Assizes
to four months' imprisonment and 3,0001. fine for an
article published in that journal on the 13th August
last, tending to excite civil war, and excusing acts
declared crimes and misdemeanours by the law.
A letter from Marseilles of the 7th states that
great agitation had been felt in that city for the last
two or three days. The troops had been all confined
to their barracks, and ammunition had been distri-
buted to the National Guards. The accounts from
other parts of the department were also rather alarm-
ing. It was said to be the intention of the Reds to
seize on the arsenal and the prefecture. All the
posts in Marseilles had been doubled.
Accounts have been received from Algiers to the
th instant. Perfect tranquillity prevailed in the
colony, even in the province of Constantine, where
the late disturbances took place. The troops sent
out for the expedition of the Ziban were gradually
returning to quarters. The only fact of interest
mentioned in these journals is an account of the con-
duct of the natives to the crew of the Grand schooner
bound for Phillippeville with wine, but wrecked on
the coast of the Guerbes, between Bona and Phi-
lippeville. The natives treated the shipwrecked men
in the kindest manner exercised towards them a ge-
nerous hospitality, and appointed men to watch on
the shore to prevent theft during the process of saving
the cargo.
A letter from Toulon of the 17th, says :—" The
Spanish war steamer Vulcano, Captain Busquilo,
cast anchor in our roadsted on the 3rd. This steamer
coming from Terracina and going to Spain, had on
board 400 soldiers and officers. The iron steamer the
Nerve!, arrived on the 4th from Civita Vecchia, and
landed 300 military passengers. The Eclaireur
steamer, also from Civita Vecchia, arrived here yes-
terday with the mail. There is nothing new from
tEe Roman States. The early arrival of the POPE
Zt Bologna was announced. is for the return of his Ho-1
liness to Rome, it appears to be indefinitely adjourned.
The French army makes no movement, and nothing
at present announces that it is shortly to leave the
Roman States. The Tenare steamer has left this
port—some persons say for the coast of Italy—
others assert that it is to carry dispatches to our
lanlmssaeor at Athens. It is again rumoured that
the sqmdron of the Mediterranean will soon return,
but this appears to us to be entirely unfounded. It
is not very probable in fact that the Government of
the Republic can have sent an order to these naval
fo: ces to return at the moment at which the English as-
sume a menacing attitude towards Greece. The Zenobie
frigate, the Pomone fiigatc, and the steam corvette
Peony, are to be put to sea immediately after taking
on board marines, artillery, and infantry. These
vessels form part of the expedition which is to be
sent to La Plata. The expedition is to be under sail
before the lath."

PARIS BOURSE, FEB. 12.—There were comparatively
few speculators at the Bourse, and there was but little
bu.icess tianas4ted. The Five per Cents. opened at
96f. 50c., rose to 96f. 60e., fell subsequently to 961.

25e., and closed at 961. 50e. the Three per Cents. closed
at 58f. 60c.; Orleans Railroad Shares at 810 f. ; Rouen,
575 f.; Itivre, 250 f.; Great Northern, 4661. 25e.; Avig-
non, 212 f. 50c.; Vierzon, 320 f.; Basle. 1151.; Bordeaux,
4111. 25e.; Paris and Strasburg, 358 f. 75c.; Tours and
Nante7, 265 f.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT TIIE
LONDON STOCK-EXCHANGE, FEB. 12.
Boulogne and Amiens, 714—East Indian, 3%4—Namur and
Liege, VA—Paris and Rouen, :43%.

salt, and imposed a tax on mortgages. The Tuscan
budget for 1850 is fixed at 35.000,000 francs.

THE AFFAIrtS OF GREECE.
TELEGRAPHIC DISPATCH.

FROM THE GOVERNOR OF TRIESTE TO PRINCE
SCHWARTZENEERG, PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL.

" FEB. 4, SEVEN O'CLOCK, EVENING.

" The Greek Minister ZOGRAPHOS has just arrived
here from the Levant, by the Lloyd steamer Europe ;
he is going to St. Petersburgh. Another of the
Ministers, M. TRIKUPIS, is ex route for Paris, and
perhaps for London. _ _ _

" lire learn from Syra, of 30th January, as
follows :—The Governor of Syra has received an
official notice that after this day no Greek vessel will
be permitted to quit the harbour of Syra till the
Greek Government shall have satisfied the demands
of England. An English steam frigate has been
lying at anchor at the mouth of the harbour since the
morning. I learn from the Austrian Consul at
Athens, that on the 29th of January thirty English
vessels entered the harbour cf the Piraeus, and
commanded that all the Greek vessels lying there
should weigh anchor, and be taken in tow by two
English steamers to Salamis."— Wiener Zeitung,
Feb. 6.

A telegraphic dispatch, received in Munich, says—
" The compulsory measures of the English are re-
doubled—all the Greek trading vessels have been for-
bidden to leave the Greek harbours.
" The Ambassadors of France and Russia have
put in a protest.
" The vessels lying in the Pincus have been towed
to-day, by British seamen, to Salamis. In Athens
and throughout the country everything is very quiet,
and the greatest enthusiasm is manifested for the
KING and the Government. M. TAIKUPIS Will set
off to day, as Ambassador for Paris, ZOGRAPHOS, via
Vienna, to St. Petersburgh."

SECONDARIES`.—(THIS DAY.)
(Before Mr. Secondary POTTER )
WARD V. PRITCHARD.
This was an acticn brought on a guarantee. Defen-
dant suffered judgment to go by default. It appeared
that the plaintiff had advanced 1501. to the def,n(lbnt
and others on their entering into a guarantee for the
repayment, of the'amount, and also effecting a policy of
in:Airaziee, and keeping up the payments thereon.
The Learned SECONDARY held, that as the deed was
set forth in the declaration, and defendant had, by not
pleading, admitted the breach, the production of the
deed was sufficient to entitle the plaintiff to a verdict.
Verdict for the amount claimed, and interest at 5 per
cent.
The parties in the other cases not being in attendance,
the jury were discharged.

BOW-STREET.--(THIS DAY.)
An elderly man named .Neal, and a young man named
Keef, were charged with assaulting the police.
relice-constable F 119 stated, that while on duty last
night, betwen seven and eight o'clock, he saw Reef kick-
ing at a public house door in Brownlow-street, and per-
ceivi► g that he was drunk, he requested him to go away,
but instead of doing so, he became very abusive, and
ultimately he attempted to take him into custody. The
prisoner, however,• resisted, and during the struggle
Neal came up, and demanded that Keef should be re-
leased. He told him that his demand could not be com-
plied with, and thereupon Keef took hold of his coat
collar at, the back, and Neal in front, and after
violently shaking, and nearly throtling him, they
tore the collar completely off. They would
have proceeded to further violence had not several
other officers come up and stopped them. Neal went
quietly to the station, but Keef resisted to the last, and
it required the strength of three officers to carry him to
Bow-street. On his way to the station-house Neal struck
a boy with his stick, and knocked him down.
Keef said he was a plasterer, residing in Short's-
gardens. He had been attending an arbitration, on sub-
poena, and having drank rather too freely, he was quite
unconscious of what had occurred.

Neal said he simply interfered because ho knew Reef
was just at home, and if the officer had not laid hands
upon him he would have gone away quietly. The fact
was, some one in the public-house cabal him a bulldog,
which exasperated him, but had the officer been more
mild in his manner, no disturbance would have taken
place.
Mr. HENRY fined Reef 10s., or seven days' imprison-
ment, and Neal is., or three days.
The fines were paid.

MARLBRO'-STREET-(THIS DAY.)

LOOKING 01:12' FOR ♦ BREAKFAST.—John Crawley, a
member cf the prize ring, was charged before Mr.
Bingham with creating a disturbance and using indecent
language at the house of Mr. Benjamin Caunt, Coach
and Horses, St. Martin's-lane.

Mrs. Caunt stated that on the previous evening the
prisoner came into her house and called for a glass of
wine. Seeing that he was already in liquor, she refused
to serve him, and told him to go home and call again
when he was sober. He said " he'd be d—d if he would
go; he had come out for a row, and had made
it all square with the constable outside for a
dollar, and he was determined to get a break-
fast at some one's expense, so he might as well
have a jolly row in her (witness's) house." He then
became so violent, and made use of such filthy language
towards her, that she sent fur a constable and gave
him in charge.
The prisoner, in defence, said he had been engaged
to spar at Ben Caunt's benefit, at the National Baths,
and called at Caunt's house last night fur the purpose
of getting his money. On telling the purport of his
visit to Mrs. Count, she abused him, and threatened to
kick him out.

This was denied by Mrs. Caunt's barmaid, who was
present the whole of the time.
Mr. Bitianast fined' him 6s. for being drunk, and, in
addition, ordered him to find one surety to keep the
peace towards the complainant for two months.
A CLERGYMAN CHARGED WITH FRAUD.—A well-
dressed man, who stated that his name was Richard
Willis,aad that he was a clergyman, residing at Min-
ster, Kent, was brought before Mr. Bingham, charged
with fraudulently obtaining the sum of 51. from Mr.
Hind, hotel-keeper, No. 30, Leicester-square.
It appeared from the evidence, that in the month of
July last the prisoner went to the prosecutor's house and
dined there. His bill came to Bs., and in payment he
gave the waiter a cheque for 51., made payable at Messrs.
Currie, Cornhill. Not having the least suspicion of the
prisoner, who was dressed very respectably, the waiter
handed the prisoner the difference, after deduct-
ing the Bs., and the prisoner left the house.
The prosecutor payed the cheque away, and in a
day or so after it was returned to him, marked " Not
known; no effects." Nothing more was seen of the pri-
soner till yesterday, when the waiter met him in the
street, and gave him in charge.
The prisoner said he thought it was all right, as he
had an idea that he had an account at Currie's.
Mr. BINGHAM remanded him till Tuesday.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING—(THIS DAY.)
LONDON, FEB. 13.—Wind, at noon, W.N.W., light
pleasant breeze, and fine clear dry weather.
DEAL, EEL 12.—A.K., Wind W.S.W., strong; p.m.,
W.N.W., strong and squally; 6 P. 51., N.W., moderate.—
Arrd. Sophia, Manilla; Agnes, Nassau. Arrd. from the
River, Hebrides, Port Natal; Amazon, Trinidad.

LIVERPOOL, FEB. 12.—1 t blew hard again last night,
moderated this morning, but has again commenced
blowing from N.W. to W.N.W with rain and snow.—
The Maria, from Chester, has been brought in here from
Hoylake, where she was stranded, Feb. 5., and all her
crew drowned. Arrd. Williams, .Maracaebo; Queen
Dowager, Laguna. Sld., Dec. 25., Ontario, Charleston;
Aimee, Charleston; Jenny Lind, INewfoundland. Off
Port, Philadelphia, supposed from New York.
RAMSGAIE, FED. 12.—The John and Isabella, Sun-
derland to Portsmouth, has put in to-day, leaky, having
struck the ground in Dungeness-roads.
RHTL, FEB. 12.—The Ellen *loop, of Bangor, came on
shore last night, abandoned in Abergele Bay.
CARNARTON, FEB. 12.—The report of a vessel called
the Reinder, from Australia, having boen lost in the
Bay. is unfout,ded.
Alri.ronD, irks. 11.-11,e Black Prince, Oporto.
Newfoundland, is on the rucks. and likely to bee sue
wreck; crew saved. Tito lauilie Liverpool to Genoa,
is much stia,ned, and must be caulked.
CLYDE, FEB. 11.—Arrd. Urgent, Mauritius; Huguenot,
Savannah; Franconia, Liverpool, for New Orleans,
leaky. Sid. Minerva, Batavia; Clydesdale, Trinidad;
Isabella, ditto; Charles M‘Lachlan. Boston.
RAMSGATE, FEB. 12.—Arrd. Pandora, from Hartle-
pool, with bows stove, having been in contact with the
Prudence, of ;Newport ; the Milena, ,Newcastle to
Guernsey, leaky, having struck the ground at Dun-
geness.
GALWAY, FEB. 10.—The San Spiridon, which drove
on shore at Hare Island sth iust, has become a complete
wreck; some cf her materials have been saved. An
Austrian brig, coal laden, is reported to be on shore
near Clifden; crew saved.

RAMSGATE, FEB. 12. Wind squally.—Arrd. Sea
Nymph, Blyth, for Havre, leaky; Prudence, from Har-
tlepool, with stern damaged from contact with the
Paneora.

WATERFORD, FEB. 11.—Wind N.E. to W.S.W.—
Arrd. Alabama, for Galatz, leaky, &e.
PETERHEAD, FEB. 11.—Wind S.—Sld. Traveller,
Greenland.

HARTLEPOOL, FEL 12.—Wind S.W.—Sld. Leipzig,
Calcutta.

WAINFLEET, FEB. 11.—The Talisman, of Boston.
London to Lynn, struck on the Inner Knock to-day and
is likely to become a wreck; crew, except one man,
saved.

WELLS, FEB. 12.—The Jane and Ellen has been
floated off shore, is leaky, and will require caulking.

MARKET NEWS.-( THIS DAY.)

CORN EXCHANGE-WEDNESDAY
The present week's arrival of English Wheat for
our market, coastwise, has been only 450 quarters. By
land carriage, the receipts have fallen off. To-day, the
show of samples of both red and white was small.
Selected qualities sold steadily, at full prices. In all
other ;kinds next to nothing was doing. No Foreign
Wheat has come to hand since our last. Granaried
samples moved off to a fair extent, at previous cur-
rencies. The show of Barley in both English and
Foreign was but moderate. All descriptions were a
slow sale but not cheaper. Malt—the supply of which
was good—ruled very dull, and late rates were with
difficulty Supported. We had a good show of English
Oats; but that of Foreign was small. On the whole
a lair business was doing in them, at fall prices. Beans,
Pear, Indian Corn, and Flour commanded very little
attention.

ARRIVALS THIS WEEK.

Wheat.
--- -- __
Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. Sacks.
Englisk •• •• •• 450 1,010 4,540 1,020 40
scotch.. ••
Irish •• •• •• .
Foreign •• •• •• , —•— —

Barley.

Oats.

Malt. I Flour.

BO7iLOUGII HOP IYZELEZALET.
For all kinds of Hops, both Old and New, the demand
is heavy, at barely stationary prices.
NIVELITECIIAPZL.

Prime Beef and Mutton commanded a steady sale, at
full prices. In all other kinds of Meat very little busi.
ness was transacted. Beef, from 2s 6d to 33 4d;
Mutton, 2s 10d to 36 8d; Veal, 3s to 48; and Pork,
2s 10d to 4s per 81138., by the carease.

WEDNESDAY CONCERT9.—MII. STAMAIERS'S BEN E•
FlT.—The seventeenth of the London Wednesday Con-
certs for the preent season takes place this evening at
Exeter Hall. The performances are for the benefit of
Mr. Stammers, the director, to whose enterprize we are
indebted for the establishment of these delightful weekly
musical reunions. All the notabilities of the Londo❑
Wednesday concerts (including Messrs. Sims Reeves,
Fora:o4, and Ernst) will app( ar on the occasion, and
there can be no doubt but that the hall will be crowded
to excess.

LAUNCHES ON THE WEAL—The Sunderland ship-
builders are emulous of the skill of the Yankee gaiter-
maker, who threw his productions over his shoulder as
he finished them, aad bad a gaiter continually in the air!
There is everlastingly in Sunderland a ship rushing out
of air iato water--seeking, as our friends the penny-a-
liners periphrastically, if not philosophically affirn, " its
native element." Only on Monday last, Rogerson and
Wilkinson, and Briggs and Candlish, and Haswell and
Naseby, and the veteran Laing, were all shoving new
ships into the Wear; and it comforts us to know that
Mr. Laing's splendid barque, the Talavara, 916 tons,
classed at Lloyd's A 1, 13 years, has found a purchaser
in Mr. David Dunbar, who had once a crochet in his
head (new happily expelled) that shipping was going to
the dogs.— Gateshead Observer.

MOSEY ADO COMMERCIAL NE, ~
CITY. C21.-.TARTER TO IBIS.:
at
There was a dull and heavy market for CotLuoo t„
Liverpool yesterday, and the sr:les were ord:l's;:td;
2,000 bales. American descriptions were 1-16 d•
per lb. lower.—lZail% ay Shares were dull, and I" I
had a downward tendency. od tla
The Indigo anctions commenced yestorilay, a ,44
quantity declared is 14,369 chests. This includes
B,_*
chests of Bengal. Oude, &c., 1,164 of MlllllB3, 316,0 d
liurpah, and 3,790 chests of various kinds, in !ene.
tainel-;. The qualities of the Bengal are about ord.
f ,urth good and fine, and three-fourths mid. sod, ?rd,
The Madras is one-third mid. and ord., and twe'l'rd.,
good and fine. The Kurpah two thirds raid. a°d °ton,
and one-third good and fine. The Oude, BiEnlaPa full
and Manilla chiefly ord. The sa li -room presented a
buyers,
appearance, including a f tir att ,ndatce t f for .i --'
but of the borne trade very few, the latter consal61;0!
that the advance which has taken place since laLstty co'.
Ler sales would not be maitt,ained; th. re,,uli, "n-rthe
of thisthe first day has not only so far establisheosso
late ris,,, but has even gone be) and it. The ing a
opened with a parcel i f Bengal, which, a`ier try" sod
f w lots at full 9d. per lb. advance, was withdrawn') to,
other parcels were offered which sold readily sl6'l' l'o. lb.
per a . above October tett s for Bengal ; 4d. 6,-) 6cl' Podde.
above for Madras and Kurpah; and 4d. per lb. for
wilt.
1,022 chests passed to-day, of which 251 were
drawn, 206 bought in, and 565 sold. isted
The rates at which bills of exchange were neg,"m sties,
yesterday aftarnoon, on the principal coutinento:s 621
were all higher. Ninety days' papkr was done 0 '',l 56
to 674 on Paris, at 13 121 to 134 on Hamburg'', '
to 40 on Trieste, and 12 24 to 3on Amsterdallo- a the
The accounts from abroad are tolerably 14"d' Ingle'
French Rentes continue to advance. In France. Welog,
nevertheless, how unsettled is the state of public :liege;
otherwise it would not be necessary to form the .104
plans for re-organizing the army stud distil
0304
it into four great divisions under the „,e°°l pl.
of generals of known firmness and ab",i' desire
fear of anarchy triumphs even over the Aoriti
of liberty, so strongly felt by the large %00
of Frenchmen. We are of opinion that in Baler o be
more is being made of the threatening attiteueo for
Socialists than is really justified by circumesoc ,iielf
trade in France is described as being still COSlPOrateolill
prosperous, the deposits in the savings' banks sreLetalli
increasing, and the operatives and artisans sr° %al°
well employed, and, one would imagine, ee lha.,e-030115'
not much disposed to join in new political 01°'.-teadili
Finally, we should note that the Rentes ha l'' It Ore
tended upwards, and that sales of English P,t'..10 0
stated to have been made recently (mjudicionstadi ie
think) for the purpose of investing the Pt w-
...I :
French securities. e a seeu
There is a very flat market again for Eng"°-
that
ties, and the Bull account is made to tell ant'sOn'
Great efforts are made also to keep the markel• i vi:
point which will bring fewest "options" into reolor
the 16th ult., the first day of tho new mean" 185d111
were 961 to 97, and from that time hare Wei; thoog/
declining, being at their lowest point this as': 951 la
they were done on the 7th inst. also ‘5,,,,,.' 011,
The " puts " will be available, thereir,„o Fa
those who have " calls " are debarred ""015
fog, because there is no rise since they ported 1"..a
Rumour avers that an eminent firm has 0101-edact
versely to prices because of its hostility to 01 m.- isits,
in the rate of interest on Consols, and to OIL S°,'i•
supposing the Government had the chance, *l-iS e"t
banks are likewise said t 3 be inimical. With his
ed,-'
lent surplus, the Chancellor of the Exchequer ,---seewnt
withstanding be yet in a position to carry °ll'neelalehil
operation of scarcely less importance,Ciat-a be PH.--
of part of the Irish loan, and such is believe'. ''„ CO'
intention. The New Three•and-a-Quarter Per, blit, 105:
have realised 974 to 984. and the Three per ',,,e at R`
duced Annuities 954 to i. India Stock has be Ceti'
Exchequer-bills have been 555. to 58s. premium'
sols now are 961 4.
.aalcia 0
fl
In the Foreign Market preparations are •••" to
i b
to-morrow's settlement. Russian Scrip beadsl -eop
premium, being rather higher. Mexican Geelloi
touched 294 4. Equador are fiat at 3i 1/6 0 to
realise 18k; and Buenos Ayres have rallied ts'ii 89 0,-
61. Peruvian Stock is still rising; the Ae,ti:er r9:11,.
83, and the Deferred 37 to 374. Spanish Fiv''„,,„rer 0J:
are neglected at 184, and Porte nese Four r" Cep
have been 354 ex dividend. Dutchg Four Per
have been 864. 0"
ed ° elil
Rails ay Shares have been rather deyresaWestici- of
but they are not very much pressed for sale. boos is
rather say that there was a temporary 14,,,tisgskils
buyers, and tt,a.t the result of the ensuing W-0 1",0
being looked to before parties make investle ; tle,,diFf
we know that efforts are being made 0.. d ei0515, 0
prices, and that a small rate of interest id Plhoreoll-
instancai to induce lathes not to take their 6- 0.6
.0%,
next account day. t,,,cp..:,
ONE rts' 95.74
PR.uND„ O'CLOCK:, • 95'4
31 or Cent. Reduced Anis ... 95% 3/4 'l2 i 4 A
J per Cent. Consols Annuities::: • 05% ;vs i 967°R 9-3,11
New 114 per Cent. Anna .. .. -•
98%4 9,' 16 " SP
Long Arms. to expire Jan.lB6o B'ifi 8 ...•
65
Ditto 30 years, Jan. 5, 1860. . 8% 86 P
India Stock
India Bonds, 1,0004
•89 86 P 93$
Ditto under 1,000 c.. ...... , 89 86 P 0
3 per Cent. Annuities, 1751 . .7,7. 93S
95.`41„Nd 0 r
a
onsols for Account
xelieciuer Bills. I 1/44'`- 5$ i
1,0007. June 55 58 P DO f
5001. June
Small. June
o,lrilP'
I'Slig,?
89A
razilian Bonds —
.. ......
—1 61
Ditto, Account
Buenos Ayres Bonds, 6 per Cent... '9 ."
Ditto, Account . .................. ..• 59 61
58
Chilian Bonds 6 per Cent •••••
79
Do., 3 per cent .. — ' 10
Danish Bonds, 1825,3 per Cent. .. --- 4.1
Ditto 5 per Cent.
Equador Bonds .
Grenada Bonds, 11/2 per Cent lBl4
2'24
Mexican, s per Cent. 1846, with Coupons-83
Ditto, Ex Jan. Coupons ... ..... . 29Y % 80
Peruvian Bonds, 4 per Cent
Ditto, Account
Ditto Deferred . . .....
37
37-4. 31 ''.s
Portiiiiiie: o ~er C;11-;:, ..
..............
3.--. -d
.'
I:
Ditto,4per)Cent. ............. '''' - Ijl°."
2P
itu3sian
torld3 . ................. 3., ,'2 1-
Ditto Scrip .. - ."
—2l.‘ lis. *2
P 128';
SveD.bnieitt
Venezuela
uool
e:
l:Paapßsesori
nvce.s2t ..
.8,74.6 .• • 13! ill •
paws,' .. per Cent. 36%
• 35
Ditto,!) Dividends On
13
/4 per Cent
....- rondor. ....,L
n the above payable in
Dutch 2% per Cent., 12 Guild "14 86P
t 1
ri,CO3:ka
Ditto, 4 Der Cent. C • • ' " 867 v
ertiheateB OO pi ii D
PRICES OF BUSIOS' rILOCIC * q"
,;AILWAY SHARES. PAID. AT 0,0; 0'- .. I,
......... ic
;;uckinghamdaire
Caledonian
....
Ditto, New 104 Prof... 10
.0, ,i.
3hester and Holyhead... 50
Ditto, Preference
eastern Comities— ..... 20
'W '
. 0
Ditto,Extension,s per P .....
Cent., No.l 6/.135. 4d.... ja % P••• ' ... . ...
Ditto ditto, No. 2...61. 13s. 4d... is %a P .....
Eastern Union, Class A

PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS.

cgrE
cycL

•..1..-
*"

(late E. U. Shares) 25 -
..... ,g,
Do. Scrip (6 per cent.) 20 .„ 13F4 ..... ...0
East Lancashire
ti.dinburgh and Glasgow 50 ..„ 2B 27 Ye '
..
.....
great Northern - .........
Great Western 100 ...... 66 65 ..... ......
Ditto, % Shares 5O ...... 3 11/4.. ,••••• :: ....
Ditto, LA Shares
Ditto, Fifths .. 20
Ditto. New 171......,. 15
Lancashire Yorkshire 100 - ....... „ ......
Do. Quarters ........ 23% l2 -".. .......
Do. Fifths... ......... ... 10
Leeds and Bradford 5O lOO ........ ...0
_
Loudon & Black wa11...111. 6s. 3d 414."".".112,,1
Lo Mon and N Western 100 113% 114' .„.
Ditto, New Quarters.. 12
.
Ditto,Fifth, l2 ... .. 13 ....... .. .
... ....
London ':,.1%,,,,0t0rn lOO _ . ..... •
......
....
Do.. New Preference. 5
Midland ... .1(0 „... 43% .......
uo.Consol. Bristol and 1 .........
Do., do., 50/. Shares 30
Do. Birm., and Derby 1( 0
...
Binning., 6 per ct.... 100 .... 123 ..,;,'
..,„.•
N-orth BritiNh ... .... ... 25 .... , 11 lON
... ..."
Ditto, Quarters
Reading, Guildford, and •
Reigate ..
..,„,
Royston and Hitchin ... 4%..... sie ." ..0
Tiropshire Union
.......
.. „..
South Staffordshire B% 4%!6"* ...."
&lath Eastern ..
N6ueathr Valley f, per Cent. 34331)6
1199'4
.9..:::'''
. .1..
Guaranteed ... .. ...... 50
........
0' ~...•••'I
Do. do. do. ... 25
York, Newcastle, and f 156
Berwick. ...• ••••••••••• 25
..
Do. G.N.E.Preturcoce 8 ... - 2 „..."
York and North Midland 50 .....„
... .
19%V w.; .
FOREIGN RAIL A:,
..........
Boulogne and Amiens... 20 .... .... ....»714rA1
Ditch Rhenish ..~„„ 8
Paris and Orleans ...... 20 .... 8134 "
...
MINES.
.... .. .......
Anglo-Mexican lOO ...... --- i , .......
Australian.

154
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BIRTHS. o,inerrt° lifo
On the 7th inst., at Clarendon-square, w" ,
wife of Mr. H. P. Davis of a dau liter.
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tonifnsaitndsat.u,gahotterFlerry-side, a
J. Reddie, Es q ,Admiralty, of a sloin. Brayton, the the
~ at ns ow-vi IV, .1101,
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Oa the 10th inst., at 17.dbroke-square, "" gillgi
wife of G. H. Ullathorne, Esq ,of a sov• :r of SC' 1
cr.
unOionn the.g ro:tel:
ainndst.E,stshexe
Esq.,t Hofaamdpsatuegandiero.n the 11th inst., the wife fool
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MARRIED. 00 Sorr)
On the 11th inst., at the Church of the f it' AO"
Paddington, Charles Goring, EFq. only 5011.Z.giiretrrl,
Dent Goring, Bart., of Iligliden, Sussex, t° `11,:;.q. e'
second daughter of the late Jones Panton, jun.' '
Gwyn, Anglesey.

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At Trevandrum, on the 17th Decenagen 59 00
Esq., ER.S., F. R. A, S , director of his High° goli,li°
yf Travancore's Observatory, agcd 49 years. ~,,, de , 1.,.
On the 7th inst., at Brompton, Miss Fran7l,rt,.;eof
tenet', niece of the late Captain Sir Robertßarels:iVilds for'iod,
Oa the Atli inst., aged 84, Mr. V‘.3'ik of Pgligea
and for nearly half a century a clerk in the a1341J011115°13'114/rt'
N2v74.3:ll()aulit,gSe6ttaffsrrlf
At Dudley', on the 9th lust. Frederick ~.. 5,1., of
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