The Sun.
London, England, 1845-02-10 00:00:00

Queen ISABELLA. This, it appears, is to a certain
extent true, as the Court of Rome, before the recog-
nition, demands that all the unsold Church lands shall
be restored to the clergy. The envoy not having
powers to that extent, has returned for instructions,
and will again proceed to Rome in a fortnight.
CANTER°, formerly Minister of Finance, had returned
to Madrid.

On the Ist inst. the Three per Cents. closed at 33
for cash, and 33f for 60 days ; the Five per Cents. at
241 at 60 days, and the Coupons at 26i for the 28th
of March.

The Paris papers are occupied with some curious
discussions and results in the Chamber of Deputies,
and with remarks on the debates in the English Par-
liament on the QUEEN's Speech. The old saying,
" They manage affairs differently in France" was
never better, nor more ludicrously illustrated than
on a motion brought forward in the Chamber of De-
puties on the 6th. M. LHERBETTE introduced a Bill
relative to the appointment of public functionaries,
the object of which is thus stated in the first clause—
that "no person should be admitted into a Govern-
ment situation unless he had proved his fitness to fill
it by a special or public examination, a diploma in
one of the faculties, or a concurs, the form of exa-
mination being decided by royal ordinance?'
After a brief discussion this clause was adopted
by a large majority, and the four remain-
ing clauses received equal support, yet when
the question was put, that the Bill be
adopted, and the sense of the House was taken by
ballot, the majority was converted into a minority—
there being for the Bill, 157, and against, 156 ; ma-
jority against it, 1. The Bill consequently was lost.
The result excited some sensation in the Chamber
next day. M. ST. PRIEST brought forward his mo-
tion for the reduction of postage on letters, and the
result was equally 'remarkable. He proposed to fix,
from January 1, 1846, a uniform tax of six sous for
all letters carried more than forty kilometres (about
twenty-five English miles), and four sous for all
shorter distances. M. MONIER DE LA SIZERANNE
proposed as an amendment that the postage of all
letters mot weighing more than a quarter of an ounce,
for whatever distance, should be only four sous. After
a discussion, in which this amendment was strongly
opposed by the Minister of Finance, the Chamber
adopted it by a majority of one, the numbers being
130 to 129. On Saturday the discussion was resumed,
and the two remaining clauses were adopted, but when
the whole Bill was tested by the ballot, it was also
rejected, the numbers for it being 170, and against
170, and as an absolute majority of 171 was required,
the President announced that the Bill was lost. On
the same day Colonel DE BRICQUEVILLE moved that
the remains of General BERTRAND be laid near those
of NAPOLEON, in the Hotel des Invalides. The mo-
tion was unanimausly agreed to, with the addition
that those of DUROC should be equally honoured.
We find little of interest in the remarks of the papers
on the debates in Parliament, though the contrast
between those of the Ministerial and Opposition jour-
nals is curious. The Journal des Debats says:—" It
is with as much astonishment as regret that we see
a man so enlightened and so high-minded as Lord J.
RUSSELL employing his talents and influence in de-
preciating the work of peace so happily accomplished
by the two Governments. It has been generally re-
marked that his speech was steeped in bitterness to a
degree altogether unusual with him. The leader of
the Opposition did not, it is true, condemn the con-
clusion of the Otaheite affair, and joined with the rest
of the world in rejoicing at the preservation of peace,
but he severely criticised the manner in which the
negotiations were conducted, and the appointment of
Commissioners for revising the treaties on the right of
search. Sir R. PEEL gave a most complete answer to
this attack; he called upon Lord J. RUSSELL to make
specific motions on which the House might categorically
declare its sentiments on both questions. The papers
re!ating to the right of search were to be laid before
the House on Wednesday, and therefore it is probable
that a day will be fixed for discussing this question-
We cannot, naturally, express any surprise at the
language of Lord PALMERSTON. All that the Oppo-
sition here has urged against M. GulzoT was even
more acrimoniously advanced by him against Lord
Aberdeen. His Lordship attempted to prove that
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by the French Government. Neither of the two
Cabinets wishes to triumph over the other. Both
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says, " and principally those of the Whig Opposition,
express themselves in terms most honourable to the
French nation, and the political parties into which
our Chambers are divided. We have not found in
one of their speeches any of those stale calumnies that
used to be cast upon the pretended war party.
Henceforth in England, as well as in France, the
mal-address and weaknesses of M. GUIZOT may be
condemned, without driving the two countries into a
war with each other. The high-toned speech with
which M. TIMERS opened in our Chamber the debate
on the Address, has exercised a happy influence on both
sides of the Channel ; he enlightened the statesmen,
and silenced the declaimers."

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The France thus animadverts on the inconsistency
exhibited by the Chamber of Deputies on two im-
portant propositions :
"We proceed from astonishment to astonishment, and the
representative government is a see-saw which an atom
causes to incline now to one side, and again to the other.
The day before yesterday, the proposition relative to func-
tionaries was rejected by a majority of one; and, yesterday,
post-office reform, contained in an amendment of M. Monier
de la Sizeranne, was adopted by a majority of one.
Perhaps to-day another ballot will abolish tliat of yes-
terday. We are in the reign of the half minus one,
and this one, which gives the law, can at its
pleasure overturn Ministries, and adopt or reject
propositions. There may be in the Chamber thus divided,
a man, an unknown, as powerful as Bonaparte and the Com-
mittee of public safety. The Chamber cannot any longer,
after these two days, proceed seriously. Votes and ballots
are nothing more than a mystification. What ought to
be the value of those reforms adopted or rejected by a ma-
jority of one ? Propositions are incomplete, ill-combined,
and they prove abortive ; the Chamber is floating, unde-
cided, and weary, before it has fought. Is it the fault of the
Chamber ? Is it the fault of the propositions ? How is
this hesitating, irresolute position to be got out of ? By a
dissolution of the Chamber, or a Ministerial crisis. The
first means appears to us alone to possess any efficacy."
THE BOURSE-.-FRIDAY, FEB. 8.

_
First Highest Lowest Last
Price. Price. Price. Price.
Trench rive perCenta...... 122 50 .. 122 50 122 30 .• 122 30
108 N.. 108 20 108 20 .. 108 20
Three per Centa....• 84 95 .. 84 95 .. 84 80 .• 84 80
New Loan •••• • • • 86 86 .• 86 •• 86
Bank of France .. 3285 ..3285 .• 3280 ..3280
Gouin Bank, I,ooof. Shares— 1085 ..1085 .• 1085 .• 1085
Belgian Bank .............. 650 .. 650 •• 650 • • 650
Belgian Fives, 1840 ........ 104%, .. 104 y, •• 104% •• 104%
1842 ........ 106% .. 106 106% 106361
Four-and-a-Half . 10336 .. 1033:; .. 103% .. 10336
Spanish Threes • • .......... 41 v .. 414 • • 41 34 • • 41%
Active 3934 .. 39)4
Passive .• 6% .. .. 6% ••
Portuguese Five per Cents.. 591 A • • 594 .. 59% • • 594
Neapolitan ..99 60 .. 99 60 • • 99 60 • • 99 60
ROzlan •• .•

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St. Germain .........1.1. .11 178(11Y 811
AIOEBEOS. ..1080 ..10i0
Versailles, R. 8.........., „ 570 .. 580 • • 580 • • 585
L. 8............, 417 50 .. 420 .. 410 .• 415
Rouen • • lll2 50 ..1117 50 ..1112 .50 ..1117 50
Rouen to llavre 905 .. 905 •• 905 .. 905
Orleans •
Strasburg to Bale.
Avignon to Marseilles.— 357 50 .. 955 •• 950 •• 952 50
Bordeaux to Teste ..

RAILWAYS FOR THE ACCOUNT, FEB. 15.
RRlenn to" .1.1.1;vr.13...e 905 905 .. 900 .. 902 50
St. aennain '• •• • lOBO ..1083 75 —1077 50 "1077 50
Versailles, R. 8.•.
gOrtrlaseanoorgs ..to.. ... ....... 1316172
5500
• 570 .. 571 25 .. 560 .. 566 25
.. 316 25 . 317 50
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5500 :1410108 75 7.1411137 50
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7755 —ll6O ••1163 75
Avignon to Marseilles 957 50 .. 957 50 .. 950 • 952 50
Mulhau.sen!to Thann 263 75 .. 272 53 .. 263 75 .. 270

EAST CORNWALL.—By the following address from
Sir William Trelawny, to the electors, it will
be seen that there will be no contest for
the Eastern Division of Cornwall. Mr. Carew
will now be returned without opposition. We
regret this; but in the present state of parties, what
honest Liberal will spend money for a seat in the

House of Commons ? -
Gentlemen,—My struggle through a long life has been to
obtain for the people a free, full, and fair representation in the
Commons House. That not being obtained, and finding that no
other person would come forward on the present occasion as a
candidate, I yielded to the wishes of many influential and tried
friends of the people to offer myself, with the hope that the
inhabitants would use their influence on the electors, and that
the electors would feel, as they ought to feel, that they are

not entrusted with the franchise for their own beneßt or the
Leneiit of their 1111-ilords or employers, but for the g,,c,.1 of
the whole community.
Flaying just seen a list of so many electors pledged to my
Honourable Friend and opponent, and being convinced that
it would require a larger sum of money to contest the Divi-
sion than a candidate should be called on to expend at any
time, and particularly towards the close of a Parliament, I at
once withdraw from the contest, returning my warmest
thanks to the gentlemen and yeomen who have so zealously
interested themselves in our common cause, and remaining
ever, Gentlemen, your faithful friend,
W. L. S.A.LESBURY TRELAWNY.
Harewood, Saturday, Feb. 8, 1845.

NATIONAL DEBT.—Accounts have just been issued
from the National Debt-office, showing the results of
operations undertaken from 1822 to 1844, for re-
ducing the charge on the debt, and the terms on
which the reduction has been made. The total an•
nual interest saved during that period amounts to
3,051,8001. Also, accounts of the unredeemed public
debt, from 1817 to 1844, and the amount of un-
funded debt in Exchequer-bills, from which it appears
that in 1817 the capital of the unredeemed Funded
Debt was 796,200,1911., and the annual charge
29,842,0141. ; while in 1844 the former was
772,169,092/., and the latter 28,516,8821. The
amount of capital in Exchequer-bills in 1817 was
44,650,3001., and the interest 2,173,927/., while in
1844 they were respectively 18,407,300/., and
594,0511.

We have this week to record the death of Mr. Anlrew
Franklin, of Tavistock-street, Covent-garden, in his 90th
year. Near seventy years since Mr. Franklin com-
menced his literary labours in connexion with the Morn-
ing Post newspaper, and subsequently joined the Morning
Advertiser, where he continued till old age compelled
him, a few years since, to relinquish his editorial duties
and retire into private life, taking with him the respect
and esteem of all who had the pleasure of his acquaint-
ance.

FALL OF SNOW.—The weather within the last few
days has been excessively cold. For several nights the
thermometer has been many degrees below freezing, and
on Sunday morning it had fallen to 21. In the course
of last night there was a fall of snow which covered the
ground for several inches in depth. The temperature is
now more mild, but it still snows heavily, with an ap-
pearance of continuance.

THIS DAY'S NEWS.

CHANCERY.-(THIS DAY.)
The LORD CHANCELLOR sat in Lincoln's Inn-hall today,
and took motions, it being the first seal after Hilary Term.
This was the first day of his Lordship's sittings since the
last day of term.

fIOGARTII'S PICTURE OF PAUL BEFORE FESTUS.
This invaluable painting, by that great master Hogarth,
and which has adorned Lincoln's Inn-hall for so many years,
has been removed from its long resting. place over the judg-
ment-seat, in order to be placed up in the New Hall now in
the course of erection, and very near its completion.
The Lord Chancellor took his seat shortly after eleven
o'clock.

IN THE CASE OF FRANK, A LUNATIC.
This case stood on the paper to-day to be spoke to in the
minutes. The case came before the Court sometime since
upon petition, praying that a certain sum that had been paid
might be reimbursed,' in order to satisfy a solicitor's bill.
On the case coming on, the Court pronounced its order, but
the parties not agreeing as to the minutes of the order, it
stood on the paper to be spoke to to-day. After some short
discussion, the Court finally settled the decree.

HMIS V. CROLE.

Mr. WAKEFIELD replied to-day in this part-heard appeal
motion, and

The LORD CHANCELLOR postponed his judgment.

VICE-CHANUERY.—(THiS DAY.)
¶Before the VICE-CHANCELLOR Of ENGLAND.)
This being the first seal after Hilary Term, his Honour the
Vice-Chancellor of England took motions to- day, none of
which possessed any points of interest to the public.

QUEEN'S BENCH.-(T CIS DAY.)
(Sittings in Banco after Term.)
THE BARON DE BODE V. THE QUEEN.
The arguments in this case were resumed this morning by
Mr. Kelly, who, on the part of the Crown, contended that
there was not a single instance to be found in which a petition
of right was brought against the Crown for a pecuniary de-
mand—that such a form of proceeding could only be had re-
course to in the case of land or land and chattels, and that,
even supposing a petition of right wee the proper remedy,
it could not be brought for unliquidated damages.
There was no probability of the case being brought to a
conclusion to-day.

EXCHEQUER.-(THIS DAY.)
(Before the Lord CHIEF BARON and a Special Jury.)

THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL V. REILLY.

This was an information filed by the Attorney-General to
recover penalties alleged to have been incurred by removing
goods on which the duty had not been paid at the Custom-
house, and by fraudulently collusion for that purpose with
the importer and the servants of the wharfinger. The infor-
mation contained four counts.
The Solicitor-General, Mr. Jervis. and Mr Wilde appeared
for the plaintiff, and Mr. Humfrey for the defendant.
It appeared from the evidence for the prosecution that the
defendant, being a carman, was in the habit of carting
goods for Messrs. Cordingley and Co., importers of silks
and French goods, in Paternoster-rcw. When Messrs.
Cordingley intended their goods to pay duty, they
were in the habit of marking them U C, on other
occasions they marked them AK. In October, 1840, the
defendant brought a bill of lading to a persen named Goold,
an agent for him, to pass the sight entry for some goods im-
ported in the name of Madame Metzler, by the City of Bou-
logne steamer, from Boulogne. Mr.Goold not being a licensed
agent, employed a Mr. Arnott to do it for him, and through these
parties the goods were passed. The defendant was seen to be
interfere in the transaction through all its stages, in the sight
entry, the perfect entry, the landing, and the payment of the
duty. The main feature of the fraud in question was, that a
large case, occupying 26 feet, and containing two cases,
having been landed, the larger one was set aside and the
smaller one only brought forward to be charged with duty.
The single penalty for which the Crown went was 7721. 16s.
The case was proceeding when we went to press.

COMMON PLEAS.-(THIS DAY.)
(Sittings at Nisi Prius.)
Three special jury cases, and one common jury case of no
importance, were disposed of in little more than an hour, and
the Court rose at half past eleven o'clock.

CRIMINAL COURT.-(THIS DAY.
OLD COURT.

PERJURY.— William A. Kennett, a young man of gentle-
manly appearance, was indicted for perjury.
Mr. Doane was for the prosecution ; Mr. Clarkson, with
Mr. Bodkin, appeared fur the defence.
The evidence in the case showed that the defendant's bro-
ther and another person were connected with a Loan Society
in St. Pancras, to which one James Potter acted in the ca-
pacity of secretary. On the 30th of February last year, a
person named Watts applied for a loan of 301., and produced
as security two men, Spriggins and Adams. The propietors
of the Society objected to the security produced, and a third
name, White, was mentioned. The two first-named
securities, and the principal, Watts, signed that night,
and the secretary being incapable, either from ab-
sence or intoxication, of witnessing the signature, the de-
fendant signed the bill. On the succeeding day White
signed, and the money was handed over to Watts. The re-
payments to this society not having been kept up, an action
was brought in the Sheriff's Court, and the defendant having
there sworn that he had seen Watts sign his name, it was
alleged that in taking this oath he had been guilty of perjury.
The jury were ably addressed by Mr. Clarkson, who called
a number of witnesses, and they gave the defendant a first-
rate character.

One witness, White, the third security, was called on the
part of the prosecution, to prove that the name of Watts was
not upon the bill when his (White's) was appended. The
witness on his cross-examination, however, contradicted him-
self in every important particular.
Mr. CLARKSON (to the jury)—Can' you credit this
witness ; and yet it is upon such evidence that it is sought to
ruin the character of the young man standing before you.
The Learned Counsel made some further observations having
reference to the last witness, when he, in a state of great ex-
citement, again re-entered the witness•box.

Witness.LWhat is that you say, Sir? v I am to be believed
on my oath—believed before you, Sir.
Mr. CLARKSON continued, though frequently interrupted,
to address the jury, but his remarks were of so bitingly
sarcastic a character, that the wrath of the unfortunate
listener in the box fairly exploded, by his giving the Learned
Counsel the lie direct.

The RECORDER severely reprimanded him, and said, that
in the event of such another indiscretion, he should be com-
mitted to prison. The Recorder then summed up, and
The jury at once returned a verdict of Not Guilty, and
said that Mr. Kennett's character was wholly unimpeached.

NEW COURT.

(Before Mr. COMMISSIONER BULLOCK and Mr. ALDERMAN

COPELAND.).
William Stannard, aged 19, was indicted for unlawfully
and carnally knowing Elizabeth Appleton, a child under
twelve years of age. A second count charged him with a
common assault. The prisoner had pleaded that he was not
guilty.
The facts of the case disclosed an amount of profligacy
rare:y heard in a court of justice. The brother of the
child, the child herself, and the prisoner, all slept, and used
in common one room in a street in Seven Dials. The child
slept in the same bed with the prisoner and her
brother, by his (the brother's) direction. She swore
that the prisoner had twice committed the offence
charged against him, but admitted, on being questioned
by the prisoner, :that a man some time before: had
taken her into a cart, and committed a like offence. The
disclosure of these facts excited much disgust and astonish-
ment amongst all present.

After much deliberation, the jury returned a verdict of—
Nut Guilty.

Thomas Dunlop, a respectably-dressed young man, was
indicted for obtaining a quarter of a dozen of shirts, value 95.,
by means of false representation, from Messrs. Porson and
Co., of St. Paul's-churchyard.

There not being sufficient evidence to substantiate the
charge, and an excellent character being given to the pri-
soner, the jury Acquitted him.

BOW-STREET.-(THIS DAY.)
Henry Thompson, was charged by Alexander Crow, a
licensed waterman, at the cab-stand opposite the Lyceum
Theatre, Strand, with officiating without a license on Satur-
day evening, at the box entrance of the above theatre, to the
injury of himself and the other regular watermen on the
stand. The defendant was seen to open several cab doors
during the evening, and to receive money, and though warned
of the illegality of his conduct he still persisted. At last he
was given into custody by the complainant, in order if possi-
ble to put an end to the practice, as more than a dozen
others were in the habit nightly of doing the same thing.
Mr. [TALL said that the defendant had rendered himself
liable to a penalty of 5:., or two months' imprisonment with
hard labour. He would, however, as this was the first of-
fence, mitigate the fine, with the intimation that if the
offence was repeated the full penalty would be enforced, as it
was necessary to protect the regular licensed Waterman, else
no respectable party would be got to officiate in that capa-
city. The defendant was fined 205., or fifteen days' im-
prisonment.
Patrick Crawley, a ferocious looking Irishman was placed
in the dock charged with committing a gross assault upon a
young man named Vincent, and his mother, an aged woman,
of nearly 70 years, as they were walking up Portugal-street,
during yesterday afternoon (Sunday). The defendant, it