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LONDON, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1845.

Both Rouses of Parliament' sat last evening for a
abort time.
In the Rouse of Lords, the Earl of Sr. Gs= MANS
took the oaths and his seat. The Noble Earl took
his sent on the Ministerial side of the House, imme-
diately to the right of the Duke of WELLINGTON.
After the presentation of'petitions,
The Earl of DALHOUSIE gave notice that he should
tomorrow lay before their Lordships papers relating
to the Railway Department of the Board of Trade,
and that he should, at the same time, submit his
try upon the extent of the juriadietion of the
Board of Trade, and the course of proceeding adopted
by them in relation to railways.
The LORD CHANCELLOR presented the answer to
the address.

Lord BROUGHAM gave various notices on the sub-
ject of the law of bankruptcy.
A short conversation ensued between the Marquis
of Noastsis-By and the Duke of WELLINGTON on the
subject of the delay which took place in forwarding
Bills to the Lords from the other House.
In answer to Lord CAMPBELL, the LORD CHAN.
CILLOR stated that it was his intention to bring in a
Bill on the subject of bail in error, and that if no
remedy existed in cases in which a jury might be

improperly empanelled, he would endeavour to de-
vise one.

Lord MONTEAGLE then moved for a series of papers
for the purpose of showing the working of the financial
measures of the Government, and, in doing so, took
occasion to go into the question of the financial state
of the country generally.

The Duke of WELLINGTON had no objection to
grant the papers, but declined giving any answer to
the speech of the Noble Lord, as it must be expected
that her MAJE3TY'S servants would wait until the
financial statement should be made in another place,
before they interfered in these matters.
Their Lordships adjourned shortly after Six o'Clock.

In the House of Commons, after the presentation
of petitions, and the ordering of sundry returns, the
Select Committees on Divorce Bills and on Private
Bills were appointed.
A new writ was ordered for Lewes, in the room
of Captain FITZROY, who had accepted an office under
the Admiralty.

Lord DU:NC AN gave notice, that on the 20th he
should more for a Committee of the whole House to
consider of the repeal of the window-tax.
Mr. Hymn gave notice of a motion for papers on
the subject of Sierra Leone and the Mauritius, and
postponed until the 20th his motion on the subject of
colonial accounts.

Mr. WALLACE gave notice of a Bill to repeal the
Railway Act of last session, and said that to-morrow
he would move certain resolutions on the subject of
railways.
Mr. lltnuE asked questions on the subject of educa-
tion in India, and of the recal of Lord ELLENBO-
ROUGH, but the answers of Mr. BARING to both ques-
tions were inaudible.

In answer to a question from Sir R. INGus, Mr.
BARING stated that the lands of the Temple of Jug-
gernaut would be restored, so as to render payments
to the Temple unnecessary.
Lord DALMENY gate notice, for to-morrow, of a
question on the subject of the Scottish Poor-law.
The Report of the Committee of Supply was
brought up.
The various Railway-law Consolidation Bills were
read a second time.

The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER gave n9tic©
for a Committee of Ways and Means for Wednesday.
The House Adjourned at Five o'clock.

Two petitions relative to Puseyism were presented
to the House of Commons last night by Lord
EBRINGTON, and we hope they will be followed by
many thousands, for it is evident the Protestants of
this country can now look only to the Legislature for
a redress of grievances. One of the petitions was
from a clergyman, the Rector of Stoke Climsland, in
that happy diocese over which Bishop PHILLPOTTS
presides. That gentleman complains that he is placed
in a situation of the greatest difficulty ; that he has
received three pastoral letters from the Bishop, which
were of very uncertain and dfferent import, and he
was, therefore, at a loss to know how he should per-
form his sacred functions with safety or satisfaction,
for if he departed from the Rubric he was liable to
heavy penalties, and if he strictly adhered to
the Book of Common Prayer, and the canons
of the Church, he would cause great discontent
among his parishioners He, therefore, prayed that
the House would take the subject into their serious
consideration, and repeal the Acts of EDWARD V.L. and
ELIZABETH, relative to the ceremonies of the Church,
and adopt others which might remove the present
difficulties and avert the dangers with which the Esta-
blishment was threatened. The other petition was
from laymen, deprecating the attempt of the Bishop
and certain clergy to revise obsolete forms and cere-
monies, which had excited discord and alienation in a
Christian community where there should be only
harmony and peace. They also prayed that the
House would take the subject into consideration, and
grant redress. These, we believe, are the first peti-
tions presented on this painful subject, but, owing
to the recognised practice of the Commons, no remarks
were made. It does not appear that Sir R. PEEL
was present, and possibly Mr. GOULBURN did not
consider himself qualified to give even a hint
as to the course which should be adopted. Lord
EBRINGTON, however, has an easy way to bring the
question forward in a tangible shape. He will be en-
trusted with other petitions, and probably has them
in his possession. Let him, therefore, give notice of
their presentation, and at the same time state his
intention of calling the attention of the Legislature
to one of the most wanton attacks on Protestantism
ever made since the Reformation. There is a noble
field • for his exertions—he will be cheered on by the
whole lay community, and perform the most essen-
tial service to the cause of freedom as well as pure
religion. The present state of the Church is full of
anomalies ; it is not suited to the age. The doctrines
of the Catholic Church are dominant at Oxford, and
rapidly extending through every diocese; the majo-
rity of the Bishops have their faces towards Rome,
and wolves in sheep's clothing have in broad day en-
tered the fold. Can the Legislature stand by idle
while the Church established by law has not only ,
deserted its most sacred functions, but adopted tenets
which are in direct opposition to those of the religion
which its members profess ? The time has fully ar-
rived when the strong arm of the law must restrain
the mischievous vagaries of PnILLroTTs and BLOM-
FIELD.

It is now certain that Sir ROMMT PEEL will pro-
pose the re-imposition of the income-tax--on the re-
commendation of the Crown (as our constitutional
fiction supposes) " for a limited period." A "limited
period" is a very ambiguous term in the mouth of a
Premier or a player. It means always just as long
a time as the good nature or the prepossessions of the
public—their common patron—can be wheedled into
enduring the speculation undertaken by the one or
by the other. An engagement positively " limited"
to "a very few nights," never prevents a starring
comedian " of the Theatres Royal"—who has made a
hit in the character of Joseph Surface, for example
—from extending marvellously the " limited opportu •
nities " he had at first proposed to afford his provincial
admirers for witnessing his conception of a difficult
character. To read his advertisements, any third
party might suppose that he was about to present the
public with some signal benefit, at his own personal
expense, not theirs; and that the prolongation of the

number of nights on which he had "consented"
(such is the usual strain) to "repeat thtmtilaracter,"

was a concession on his part, the self-denial of which
could not be too highly estimated. In the mean-
time, the number of nights is determined actually by
the amount of the money taken at the doors, or the
sale of the tickets. Let no man suppose that it is
the Premier's meaning to measure his " limited
period" by any other than an analogous scale. Let
none be alarmed lest the duration of Sir ROBERT'S
performance in his favourite character of Income-tax
Reviver, in the tragi-comic farce of Raising the Wind,
should prove too short.

year of peace, and the third year of this revived tax,
which other Ministers have always reserved for
periods of such overwhelming exigency, a condition
of hostilities, for example, between this kingdom and
some formidable enemy like France. It is enough
for our purpose to suggest that at this instant the
aspect of our foreign relations is not so utterly pacific,
so decidedly firm and encouraging, as to put out of the
pale of probability all danger of abrupt
misunderstandings with an European neighbour—of
a precipitated collision with a people equally sensitive
in the New World. Far distant be the day on
which either of these casualties shall eventuate. But
in the meanwhile, let us act upon the wise and self-
evident policy of not exhausting, at a protracted
period of peace, the energies we should be prepared
with to meet the terrible exigencies that will charac-
terise any future war. On every principle of consti-
tutional wisdom, of political expediency, and of finan-
cial prudence, Parliament ought to determine the Pre-
mier's "limited period" on this occasion at one year—
and no more. If the necessity for its continuance at, or
shortly before the close of that period, can be satisfac-
torily demonstrated, Parliament will doubtless renew,
and the English people, with their characteristic
reasonableness, on such demonstration, will .heerfully
pay it. But it is objectionable on every ground, to
entrust a Finance Minister with that sort of credit
margin, on the plea of keeping up a surplus of in-
come, which may be anticipating the most vital and
essential functions of the country's capacity in time
of war, to meet the immediate and positive demands
upon them.

This consideration reminds us that Sir ROBERT
PEEL has shown a marked disinclination to follow
out the recommendation of the Harbours of Re-
fuge Commission in respect of enlarging and im-
proving Dover harbour, on account of the enormous
expense, to which we referred the other day. We
are strongly disposed to recommend to his attention,
as a wholesome compromise, the immediate im-
provement of a neighbouring and very important
point, where such improvement may be effected at
a comparatively small expense. We mean Dunge-
ness. But the Examiner puts its pretensions so well,
that we readily avail ourselves of the language in
which eur able contemporary has noticed them :

" Dungeness is nearly twenty miles to the south-west
of Dover, but with a steam navy it would command the
straits almost as effectually a,s:Dover, and it has in-
comparably superior capabilities for a harbour.
" Vessels that have beat down Channel to the Owers,
perhaps nearly to the Isle of Wight, and that making
bad weather, are then obliged to bear np and run, have
to put back to Dungeness at the least, losing all the
ground they had gained. So the other way, vessels that
hare beat up Channel almost to Dungeness, and then
encountering bad weather are compelled to seek shelter,
have to run back all the way to the Isle of Wight. To
recover the distance so lost will take ships of ordinary
sailing qualities, with contrary winds, several days."

The ludicrous divisions which took place in the
French Chamber of Deputies last week form the
principal topics of remark in the Paris journals.
Those of the Opposition in one respect rejoice at the
anomalous state of the Chamber, while they express
regret that a measure of great importance in com-
mercial affairs, as well as in the relations of private
life—the reduction of the postage on letters—has
been unnecessarily delayed for twelve months. If
the Chamber had evinced more character, and the
concealed votes by ballot had not belied those given
openly, a great boon would have been conferred on
the community, with little or probably no loss to the
revenue. These journals, however, take advantage
of the circumstance to run down the Ministry, by
showing that M. GUIZOT has no longer sufficient
skill to manage the reins of Government, and that in
fact the Chamber is like a ship at sea without a
rudder. The Courrier Francais draws the following
picture of its helpless condition :—" The Chamber of
Deputies has advanced to the state of abstaining
from giving a decision. Until Saturday either side
had at least a majority of one, and the decisions were
valid. Men of serious reflection are afflicted at this
decadence of the Government. 'There is, in fact,
neither Chamber nor Ministry—no will, no impulse,
The Ministry is dead, and the Chamber has abdicated
on its coffin. The most important decisions, the
most useful reforms, are at the mercy of a vote.
Every result is left to chance. Let a Deputy hasten
or delay his attendance, and the decision is changed.
A breakfast prolonged, or a cabriolet too slowly
driven, become the arbiters of our destiny. What is
an Utopia at three o'clock, would be law at a quarter
past three. Would it not be more simple to toss,
and to make hazard the legislator ?" The Constitution-
nel regards the functions of the Chamber, as well as the
Ministryas utterly useless to the country. " We have
before our eyes," it says, " the following political
maxim :—When the majority becomes too feeble on
political questions, it is null on every other question'
and there is no longer a Government." And it says
elsewhere—" The continuation of doubtful majorities
in the Chamber of Deputies on every question sub-
mitted to its consideration, is not the effect of chance.
It is evident that every time the Minister does not
bring into play all the secret springs of Government,
and every time that he does not use a certain force, the
indifferent, the persons having pressing affairs to
attend to, the invalids, and, in fact, the majority,
desert him." Even the Journal des Debuts attacks the
Chamber for its want of boldness and contrasts its timid
and niggardly policy with the lofty and daring principles
avowed and acted upon by the House of Commons,
" The Postal Reform Bill," it says, "has been lost in
the Chamber of Deputies. It wanted but a single
vote in order to have been successful. We foresaw
such a result without believing it, and we regret,;
cerely that we were right. Thus, a legislation wifrch
every one admits to be contrary to the fundamental
principle of equality in taxation, will continue a tax
universally admitted to be injurious to commerce,
and to the development of social intercourse. The
Chamber of Deputies has so willed it. Thus
we are in France—the most timid men in the
world in making useful changes, the most hardy
and the most rash in vain and dangerous inno-
vations. 'We are all fire for revolutions, and all
ice for good and wise reforms. It is not so that
our neighbours, the English, proceed, and they are
not the worse for it. What boldness and what reso-
lution is there in their conceptions of political economy.
They diminish the postage on letters in the proportion
of nine to one, and at the same moment they draw
from their coffers 500,000,000 to indemnify the pro-
prietors of slaves in their colonies. We discuss during
long years the expediency of emancipation of postal
reform and of other subjects more or less worthy of
interest. We make good speeches, we compose better
books, but when it becomes necessary to carry any
of those measures into effect, our heart fails us."
At Toarom's the Three per Cents. closed a.
84f. 85c.

We wish to attract the particular attention of our
readers to an advertisement which appears in another
column, announcing that a fancy dress ball will take
place at the London Tavern, on Wednesday, the 26th
instant, for the benefit of the distressed needlework
women of the metropolis, under the patronage of the
Queen Dowager, the Duke of Cambridge, Lord
Ashley, Mr. Alderman Farebrother, and a Committee
consisting of nobility and gentry. We have no doubt
but the ball will be well attended, and we would
suggest to all those who intend to be present at it, the
propriety of employing those distressed persons for
whose benefit the ball is given in making up their
fancy dresses. We scarcely need add, and of paying
them a proper remunerating price for their labour.

So long as this little ancillary to the legitimate
contributions of the Excise, the Customs, Stamp and
Post-office Duties, Land and Assessed Taxes to the
public income, can bring into the national exchequer
its clear five millions sterling per annum—so long
will her services be retained, and the political ma-
nager be induced to extend the " limited period"
during which it was once imagined, by some, that
this very remarkable performance of his would be re •
pelted. In truth, the income-tax'has every principle
about it of theatrical vitality. It has been, in the
managerial jargon of the day, " a tremendous hit."
It " continues to be played with unabated success,"
and it " draws bumpers" of John Bull's spare cash
" into the treasury."
On all these accounts we implore the representa-

It is rumoured, and we believe upon sufficient au-
thority, that the title of King-Consort is about to be con-
ferred upon his Royal Highness Prince Albert. This, we
presume, would be preliminary to a demand for an increased
grant.— Chronicle.

THE KING— or THE FEENCH.—On Friday, Mr.
Jones had the honour of receiving from his Excellency the
French Ambassador the gold medal so graciously presented
to him by his Majesty Louis Philippe. On Saturday his
Excellency the Count de St. Aulaire and family honoured
Mr. Jones by visiting his studio to inspect the bust of his
Majesty, and were pleased to express their highest approba-
tion of the work.

tives'of the people in the Commons' House of Parlia-
ment to watch vigilantly the course of this matter.
Let them, at all events, in closing with the Political
Manager's terms, stipulate for the strictest and shorte.4
definition of the " limited period" he proposes. The
strongest case that Sir ROBERT and his party could
establish against the Government of their predecessors
was—that these latter could not square the public re-
venue with the public expenditure. They went out
of office, and their successors have worked the finan-
cial problem which they could not solve, by—whe-
ther rightly or injudiciously, is not now the
question re-enacting, in the twenty-eighth
year of profound peace, a tax which had only
been tolerated in former years because it was
imposed to meet the extraordinary expenses of
the extraordinary war in which we were then in.
volved, by extraordinary means. It is now the thirtieth

The Rochester and Gravesend Railway was opened
yesterday with the usual formalities, and, notwithstanding
the intense seventy of the weather, a considerable number of
passengers passed up and down during the day, whilst the
lookers-on mustered in strong force at the various points of
the line where the train was visible.

ROYAL MARINES.—The sentence of the recent
court-martial held at Woolwich, on Sergeant Zachariah Baker,
36th company bf the Royal Marines, has been promulgated
in general orders, and is as follows :—" To be reduced to the
rank and pay of a private; to undergo an imprisonment of
two years, with solitary confinement of eighty-four days in
each ear, agreeably to the provisions of the 10th clause of
the Mutiny Act; to be placed under stoppages (at the end of
his imprisonment) until the amount of his defalcations be
made good, viz. 581. 10s. 21d., and further to forfeit all claims
to pay or pension on his being discharged from her Majesty's
service." The prisoner Baker has been a..ut under au escort
to Maidstone Gaol, where he will undergo the term of his
sentence of imprisonment.

THE STUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY ll, 1845.

THIS DAY'S NEWS.

CHANCERY.--(THIS DAY.)
The Lord Chancellor sat in Lincoln's•lnn Hall to-day
shortly after ten o'clock.

Lei RE CLARK4-11.1tiltitlirT FETITION.
Upon this matter being called on, it was ordered to stand
over to the next petition day, in consequence of the absence
of Mr. M. D. Hill, who was engaged in the Court c f Queen's
Bench in the case of the Baron de Bode.

EXrARTE VAN SANDAU RE MARTIN.-BAN'KRITT rETITION.
This case stood on the paper to-day for further directions,
the Court of Queen's Bench having decided in favour of the
demurrer put in by Mr. Van Saudau to the plea filed by
Messrs. Turner and Henshman.

Mr. SWANSTON, on the case being called on, asked that it
might stand over for a few days, in consequence of the illness
of Mr. K. Parker. _ _ _

Mr. BAGSHAWE and Mr. ROLT, for Mr. Van Sandau, sub-
mitted that the postponement of the case would be highly
injurious to their clients.
After some further discussion, the casewas ordered peremp-
torily to stand for hearing on Friday next.
The LORD CHANCELLOR, in the course of the discussion,
intimated to Mr. Swanston that one of the points he would
have to consider and argue was, the power of the Court of
Review to commit.
THE MARQUIS OF 11E1 TFORD V. LORD lAMTHER.
The Court was occupied the remainder of the morning with
the further arguments in this part-heard case.

VICE-CHANCERY.-(THIS DAY.)
(Before the VICE-CHANCELLOR of ENGLAND.)
WILSON V. WILSON.—JUDGMENT.
His HONOUR gave judgment to-day in this case, which
was argued before him a short time since for seven days, and
upon which occasion we gave a statement of the facts. His
Honour, atter going through the case at considerable length,
directed on the original bill a reference to the Master to
settle an agreement according to the articles of agree-
ment that had been drawn up between the parties,
giving the plaintiff his costs in the original suit
up to the hearing. The Court also ordered the cross-bill to
be dismissed with costs, on the ground that;although it al-
leged fraud none had been proved. The relief prayed by the
original bill was granted, and cross-bill dismissed with costs.
The original bill was tiled by Mrs. Wilson for the specific per-
formance of articles of separation which had been agreed to
between herself and her husband, the defendant. The de-
fendant filed a cross-bill, stating that the agreement was
obtained by fraud and misrepresentation. The hear-
ing of the original bill was objected to on the ground
that the Court had no jurisdiction. His Honour, however,
decided that it had, and that it was not against public policy,
or the public weal, that it should have such jurisdiction. The
Court, therefore, decreed the specific performance of the arti-
cles, and made the orders we have already stated.
His Hosoun gave judgment in two or three other case,k,
some of which involved points of practice, but none calling
for any particular report.

Messrs. Morrison and Co. and Messrs. Porson and Co., and a
detainer was lodged against him, with the governor of the
gaol, that he might be indicted for the offence when his term
of imprisonment had expired. The visiting justices, however,
after he had been imprisoned for fourteen months,
recommended his liberation, on the ground of good conduct.
This wasinentioned to Messrs. Morrison and Co., who aban-
doned their intention of prosecuting him, on the understand-
ing that lie should leave the country, and it was believed
that he had gone to America. As he had not fulfilled that
agreement, Messrs. Morrison and Co. had felt it their duty
to come forward and to prosecute the prisoner. As it was
necessary that witnesses should be in attendance to prove
the charge against the prisoner, he should ask the Alderman
to remand him to a future day.
A gentleman from Messrs. Ashurst's, the solicitors,.identified
the prisoner as the person who had obtained the property,
worth upwards of forty pounds, from Messrs. Morrison
and Co.

Sir P. LAurtiE said that when a man got out of prison
through the instrumentality of his friends, on the understand-
ing that he should leave the country, and did not keep that
agreement, his opinion was that lie ought to be severely
punished.
. .

The prisoner said he was only liberated in May, last year,
and that he could not raise sufficient money to carry him to
America.

Sir P. LAURIP: added that when once a man had the mis-
fortune to get into prison and was liberated, he was frequently
compelled to resort to his former practises for a living, as,
from having lost his character, no one would employ him,
and the best thing that could be done for him was to send
him out of the country—elsewhere he might be reclaimed,
and become an useful member of society.
The prisoner was again remanded.

BO W-STREET.—(THIS DAY.)
Lawrence Donoughue was charged by a person named
Hugget with assaulting him the previous evening, while
drinking at a public-house in Newton-street, Holborn, occu-
pied by a Mr. Frogarty.
The complainant said that he went into the house with a
friend to have a pot of ale. They sat down in the front room
on the first-floor, where the defendant and a number of others
were drinking. This was about eleven o'clock. They had
not been long in when an altercation took place respecting
Catholics and Protestants, on which the defendant ruse from
his seat and struck the complainant over the eye a severe
blow. He had not given him the least provocation,
or taken any part whatever in the conver•.ation.
In fact, he had never seen the party before. He
expected his friend presently in Court, who would bear out
the statement he had made. The friend referred to not
making his appearance Donoughue was called upon for his
defence, when he denied that he had struck complainant
without provocation, but rather that he was struck first, and
had only returned the blow in defence, as he would show by
a witness whom he had brought.
John Frogarty was then called, who stated that he was the
father of the landlord of the public-house, and was present
during the time that the alleged assault was said to have
been committed. The fact was, the company into which the
complainant had intruded himself was a cock-and-hen club,
the regulations of which required that every; person who
entered the room should pay sixpence. For this
they were allowed some drink. The complainant
paid the sixpence on entering the room, but his companion
refused. The latter was repeatedly requested to do so. but
would not, and made use of the most blackguard language,
when Donoughue rose, backed by several of the company, to
put him down stairs. Ilugget now interfered, and began to
strike about him right and left. It was then that the defen-
dant resorted to blows, but not before he had been
struck once or twice himself. They were a pair of the big-
gest blackguards he had ever seen, and he had been at
thousands of cock-and-hen clubs in his life.
The constable who took the defendant into custody said
that there was a regular row in the house when he was
called in.

The friend of the complainant having now come into
Court, was called upon, when he repeated a similar story to
that of the latter, with the admission that he had not paid
the sixpence required of him, but said he was ignorant of its
being a club as represented.
Mr. JARDINE said the evidence was so conflicting that he
must dismiss the case, and cautioned Mr.Frogarty, that if these
cock-and-hen clubs originated any more such rows, the
license of his house would be in jeopardy. Such clubs were
illegal, and he trusted warning would be taken to prevent oc-
currences of that kind.

FLANDERS MAIL.
(RECEIVED THIS I)AY.)
BRUSSELS, FEB. 8 —The Chamber of Representatives con-
tinued to-day the debate on the Budget of the Minister of the
Interior.

The Minister of Public Works, on a question being put by
M. Brwuckere, promised to acquaint the Chamber in a few
days with the resolutions which the engineers shall have
proposed to him respecting the tunnel of Cumpitch.
M. de Brwuckere desires that the tunnel may not be re•
constructed.

At the close of the sitting, the Minister of Public Works
brought forward a modification of the law as to railroads--
a modification which is rendered necessary by the convention
concluded between the State and Richards and Co, on the
iron railway 4 L'Entre, Sombre, and Meuse.
The King gave audience to-day successively to Lieut.-
General Lellierer, and M. Solvyns, Secretary of Legation at
Constantinople
We learn from Ratisbon that the Rev. Diepentsock has
refused to accept the dignity of Prime Bishop of Breslau, to
which he had been elected by the chapter of that city. The
two members of the chapter who were sent to him to induce
him to accept this high post left our city yesterday without
having been able to prevail upon him.—Brussels Papers,
Feb. 9.

MARKET NEWS.-(TiIIS DAY.

UAT IKELIZKETS.

3/1085ti0548/t(1058;
ittosse;
fulSdrstmlitto,Fl4/72;—toC(5)a/r4sse; lfinreaedliowplalinay,
ditto, d
Clover Hay, 4/ 10s to 6l; Oat Straw, 1/ 128 to 1/ 15., ;
Wheat Straw, I/ 15s to 1/ 17s per load. Supply rather
limited, and trade steady.
CUMBERLAND.—Coarse Meadow Hay, 3l 12s to 4/ 128 ;
useful ditto, 4/143 to 5/68; fine Upland ditto, 5/ 8s to 5/ 12s;
Clover Hay, 4/ las to 5/ 18s; Oat Straw, 1/ 14s to 11 16s ;
Wheat Straw, 1/ 16s to 1/ ISs per load. A moderate supply,
and an active demand.

WHITECHAPEL.—Coarse Meadow Hay, 31 10s to' 41 15s ;
useful ditto, 4/ 168 to 5/ 4s ; fine Upland ditto, 5/ 5s to
Si 12s; Clover Hay, 4/ 103 to 61; Oat Straw, 1/13s to 1/ 15i ;
Wheat Straw, 11 16s to 11 17s per load. Both Hay and
Straw moved off slowly, at late rates.

COLOMAL.
SUGAR.—The market for British Plantation is firmer, and
higher rates have been again obtained, but only about 300
hhds have been disposed of, in consequence of the high prices
asked, and many holders having withdrawn their sugar from
the market. The public sales have only offered 4,815 bags
50 casks Bengal (about two-thirds brown Khaur) which
sold briskly at 428 to 46s 6d for low soft to good brown, low
and mid t ellow 49s to 51s 6d, and low to mid white Benares
60s 6d to 635, which prices fully establish an advance of Is to
2s per cwt.
COFFEE.-155 bales Mysore, at auction, found buyers, 56s
to 68s 6d for ord to mid quality, being previous rates.
UK—The quantity landed last week was 308 puns 26
hhds, at the East and West India Docks, and 204 puns 32
hhds were taken for consumption.
SALTPETIE.-680 bags Bengal sold at 26s to 27s for 5%
to 4 per cent. refraction.
TEA.—There is a fair demand.
TALLOW.—P.Y.C. is 39s 6d to 40s, and Town 43s 6(1 per
cwt.

COAL lITAUSET.
Prices per ton at the close of the market :—Buddle's West
Hartley, 16s 3d ; Carr's West Hartley, 16s 6d ; Hasting's
West fiartley, 165 9d; Holywell Main, 16s 6d; Nelson's
West Hartley, 17s; Old Pontop, 17s; Ord's Redheugh,
15s 6d; Tantield Moor, 19s 6d; Taylor's West Hartley, 16s;
%Vest Hartley, 16s 6d ; West Wylam, 16s9d ; Wylatn, 16s;
W.E., Bell Robson, 17s ; W. E., Clark and Co., 16s 6d ; Clen-
nell, 16s 6d; Gosforth, 18s 6d ; Killingworth, 17s 6d ; Wharn-
cliffe, 18s ; Belmont, 19s 3d ; Braddyll's Hetton, 20s 6d ;
East Hetton, 188; Haswell, 21s ; Hetton, 20s 6d ; Heughall,
18s 6d ; Lambton, 20s 6d ; Leasingthome, 19s 6d ; Lumley,
18s 6d ; Pemberton, 18s ; Shotton, 20s ; Stewart's, 20s 6d ;
Caradoc, 20s; Hartlepool, 208 3d ; High Thornley, 18s6d;
Kelloe, 19s 6(1; Trimulon, 19s 6(1; Adelaide, 25s ; Bitchburn,
183 6(1 ; South Durham, 188 3d ; Seymour Tees, 19s 3d ;
Tees, 20s ; Tenant's 17s 6d; West Hetton, 17s ; West Tees,
18s; Clackmannan, 17s; Gdrnant Stone, 235; Gyndraeth,
19s ; Hartley, 198 6d ; Llangennech, 21s 6d ; Morgan's Stone,
238; Snapethorpe, 18s.—Ships arrived, 111.

DARING ROBBERY IN THE WATFRLOO-ROAD --
Last night, between the hours of eleven and twelve o'clock, a
most daring robbery was committed between the terminus of
the Dover station and the Waterloo-road. It appeared that
a French lady and gentleman arrived by the last up-train
from Dever, and on their arriving at the station, the
gentleman desired a fly to be sent for, in order to be
taken to one of the West-end foreign hotels. He gave
particular directions about his luggage, of which he had
a large quantity, and directed that two large boxes should be
placed on the top of the carriage. One of these boxes con-
tained plate, linen, silk, and valuable shawls and costly furs.
The gentleman himself saw this box properly secured, and
stated that it contained some exceedingly valuable property,
and when the carriage left the railway station both boxes
were safe. There was no person on the box with the driver, nor
could any person have taken it off the fly without the driver's
knowledge. The fly stopped nowhere on the road, but when it
arrived in the Waterloo-road, the box containing the whole
of this valuable property was missed, and the mystery is, in
what manner the robbery could have been effected. The
police were immediately on the alert, but hitherto no clue has
been obtained to the perpetrators of one of the most daring and
expert carriage robberies that has taken place for some time.
EARLY LAMBING.—Miss °stens, of Fleetharn, has
three ewes which have lambed unusually early this year;
the first, on the 12th January, had one lamb, another on
the 15th had three, and a third on the 18th had one. The
ewes with their lambs are all doing well.—Berwick Warder.
THE IRON TRADE.—The make of iron in the
United Kingdom at the present time is near 1,400,000 tons
annually. Scotland furnishes almost one-third part of the
supply—being 450,000 tons annually, or at the rate of 9,000
tons per week. But in the course of two months there will
be nine new furnaces put in operation in this neighbourhood
alone, and their combined yield may be calculated at 1,350
tons weekly, or 70,000 tons, per annum. Three new iron
works have also been arranged fur, which may be completed,
and have twelve furnaces—the number we believe contem-
plated—going within twelve months. They will give a
yield, if at all successful, of 1,800 tons weekly, or 93,000 tons
by the year. We have already said, that the present large
stock of iron is out of the hands of the iron masters; and also,
that their make for a considerable time to come is sold up;
but the money sought by the present holders will have an
immediate tendency to reduce the consumption.—Glasgow
Constitutional.
DEATH PROM THE INTENSE COLD.—Last night
Mr. Payne held an inquest at the Catherine Wheel, Bishops-
gate-street, en the body of James Fouke, aged fifty-two, a
fellowship porter. It appeared that the deceased lived with
his wife and son at No. 11, Angel-alley, Bisbopsgate-street.
A few weeks ago he had threatening symptoms of apoplexy,
for which he underwent medical treatment. On. Thursday
last he was again suffering from the attack, when he went
to bed. At nine o'clock he got up and proceeded to the
open air, having only on him a jacket and a night dress.
He was almost immediately seized with a shivering fit, and
was taken in to his bed again by his wife. He remained in-
sensible till two o'clock, and then died. The surgeon who had
attended him said that the deceased probably died from the
conjoint effects of the cold and a rupture of a blood-vessel on
the brain. Verdict—" Natural death."
DEATH OF A GIRL BY FlRE.—Yesterday Mr.
Wakley, M.P., held an inquest at the Middlesex Hospital, on
the body of Catherine Reeves, aged 10. It appeared that
deceased was staying with her sister,a servant to a beerseller,
named Halls, residing in North-street, Manchester-square,
and that on the morning of Sunday week, whilst standing on
the parlour-fender, looking at herself in the glass over the
mantelpiece, her clothes became ignit,(l. IL !ister's master
came to her a-;,i4auce
L;;,,t ivith
promptitude, and then coaveyed deeeabed to that Hospital,
in which she died on Saturday last from the effect of thel
burns. Verdict,—." Accidental death."

MONEY AND COMMERCIAL NE Vv S
CITY, QUARTER TO THREE.
Large speculative purchases were made in Cotton at Liver-
pool, yesterday, and prices rose %d. per lb. on the supposition
that there may be a reduction in the duty. About 12,000
bales found buyers.—Shares were quieter. Birmingham and
Gloucester, 131 133 ; Bristol and Gloucester, 5714 58 ; Cale-
donian, 6% 34 ; Chester and Birkenhead, 3914 ; Ditto
and Holyhead, 8; Churnet Valley, 7% %; Eastern Counties,
1734 1/2 ; Glasgow and Dumfries, 11/ ; Grand Junction, 220;
Grand Junction, Half, 110; Great Southern and Western,
12%; Great Western, Half, 1011/, ;,/, ; Harwich, 2% ;
Liverpool and Manchester, New, 38 ; London and Birming-
ham, 32/. Shares, 431/2 43 ; Ditto Quarter Shares, 284 291,A ;
Ditto and South-Western, Eighths, 13; Ditto and York, 6
514 ; Manchester and Birmingham, 651,4 661/, ; Midland
Counties, 40/. shares, 84 71/2 ; Newcastle and Berwick. 16
15%; North British, 14%; Preston and Wyre, 22 ; Shef-
field and Lincoln, 355. 6d. ; Shrewsbury and Grand Junction,
514 • South-Eastern, 48 ; Ditto, No. 2, New, 19% ; Trent
Valley, 154 16 ; Ulster, 44 ; Paris and Strasburg, 3 ;
Orleans, Tours, and Bordeaux, 7%; Northern of France,
53A ; Boulogne and Amiens, 5.
Competition is at all times allowable, no doubt, but there
should also be fairness with it, even in railway matters, where
so little attention is paid to that requisite. There are two
lines proposed to the Belgian Government to connect the
Sambre and Meuse, the Central and the Western, and the
former appears, or is stated to be highly approved by a ma-
jority of the Chambers. Within the last few days, however,
there have been various attempts to depreciate, in the estima-
tion ef the public, the plan of the Central line,
and without pretending to favour one or the other
of the projects, it must be stated that the means resorted to
by the Western Company to accomplish their object are far
from creditable. The list of intended shareholders in the
Central line has been calumniously misrepresented, highly
respectable parties being described as " unknown," &c. The
Directors of the Central line had an interview yesterday with
the Belgian Ambassador, which was understood to be of a
very satisfactory character.
The well-known firm of Keeling and Hunt have issued a
very good circular on the state of the provision trade, in
which they correctly infer that the large amount of money
likely to be put in circulation by the the construction of new
railways will have an important effect on the consumption of
various articles, especially should these be relieved by a
reduction of duties. Tire duty on the lowest description of
cheese is now 100 per cent., and on the finer kinds of butter
and cheese only 20 to 30 per cent.—a manifest injustice to
the poorer classes. Were it not for the weekly sup-
plies of Dutch, it is stated by Messrs. K. and H., that
the price of English fresh butter in the London market
would in all probability be 2s. 6d. per lb. Even during the
last six months there has been a decided advance, viz., from
7d. to 9d. and 10d. per lb. It is considered that a duty of 10s.
per cwt. would more than double the consumption, and keep
the English market permanently steady, for it is reckoned that
the decrease in the corsumption of butter, cheese, and bacon
in the agricultural counties has amounted during the past 20
years,to 50s. and 755. per cent., while there has been an increase
in the consumption in the manufacturing districts. Butter
would evidently be an important auxiliary to the consump-
tion of coffee, &c.
The advices by the steamer from the West Indies are con-
sidered very satisfactory, the weather generally being fa-
vourable.
Stocks are firmer to-day. Consols 99% 34 for Money,
and 99% % for Account. Exchequer-bills are 565. to 535.
premium. Bank Stock is 2121,4. New Three-and-a-Quarter
per Cents. are 103% to 104, and the Three per Cents. 100%
to N.
The Foreign Bonds are very dull, and rather fiat in price.
Mexican have receded, owing to the news from the republic
of Santa Anna being still in arms. The quotations have
been 35% to 14. Spanish Five per Cents. are 284 to %, and
the Three per Cents. 41% to %. Portuguese Converted are
59. Buenos Ayres realise 44, and Brazilian, New, 88. Aus-
trian Bonds have been firm at 116, and Dutch Two •and-a
Half per Cents. at 6318.
The Share Market is in much the same position as yester-
day. A moderate business is doing, and the quotations, with
a few exceptions, are steady. Churnet Valley have risen
again.
BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
(From the Official List.)
Bank Stock 2121/2
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 10004%14
3 per Cent. Consols Anus 99%%
New 34 per Cent. Annuties
Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan. 1860 .. 12 3-16 1-16
Ditto 30 Years, Expire Jan. 5, 1860 ... 11% 13-16
South Sea Stock 116%
Bank Stock err Account,.
Consols for Account
Exchequer Bills. I%d 114 d.
1,000/.
500/.
Ditto Small
PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Austrian Bonds, 5 per Cent. ll6
Brazilian Bonds, s:per Cent —
Ditto New Bonds, 1829 and 1839 88
Buenos Ayres Bonds, 6 per Cent 44
Mexican Bonds, 1837, 5 per Cent —
Ditto for the Account.
Ditto Deferred Stock - 161,4 %
Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent —
Ditto Converted 59
Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent., 1840 —
Ditto for the Account.
Ditto 3 per Cent
Ditto for the Account ..
Dutch 2% per Cents
.. 63%
PRICE OF SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK.
RAILWAYS. PAID. PER SHARE.
Birmingham and Gloucester 100 136 135... to 136
Ditto, tialf Shares ...._ .. 3
Bristol and Exeter
Ditto New
Bristol and Gloucester
Caledonian
Cambridge and Lincoln
Cluster and Holyhead
Churnet Valley
Cornwall ...
Direct Northern ... ......... .. 2% 24 to
Dublin and Belfast Junction 2% 53/4 to
Eastern Counties
Eastern Union
Ditto Extension
Edinburgh ancl:Glasgow .....,50
Ditto New Quarters .... ... 214 5% to
Great North of England 100 l7l ...... to
Great Western
Ditto Fifths
Guildford, Farnham, Portins. 21/2 4% to
Lancaster and Carlisle... l5 ...... 30
London and Birmingham ...100
London and 8right0n.......... 50
London and South Western.. 41
Ditto, New 212
London and Croydon
London and Y0r.k........ ...... 2%... .. 604% to
Mancheikei and Leeds 73 .....138
Manchester and Birmingham 40
Ditto Quarters
Midland lOO 125 124... to 126
Ditto New
Midland, Binn. and Derby ...100
Newark and Sheffield
North British
Richmond and West End Junc. 1
Rugby, Worcester, and Tring 1
Shrews.,Wolver., Dud., Birm. 21/2 5%%... to 5%
South Eastern and Dover ... 3314. ..,... to
Ditto New, No. 3 2l/...... 114 to 1011
Staines and Richmond........ 1
South Wales
Trent Valley 2 ...151/2 15 16% to 15%
Waterford and Kilkenny 1 ...... 34.-- to —1
York and North Midland
...

Ditto, Extension
FRENCH RAILWAYS.
Boulogne and Amiens
Great Northern of France ... 4
Lyons and Avignon
Orleans and Vierzon
Orleans and Bordeaux ... .. 2
Paris and Lyons
Paris and Rouen .. 2O „..... 4`2
Strasburg and Bale
Tours and Nantes .. 1
Toulouse
.2
JOINT STOCK BANKS.
National of Ireland ..6 171,E l6l
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE. FEB' 10.— Considerable
activity has prevailed in our market to day, with some fluc-
tuations in prices :—Bii mingham and Gloucester, New Shares,
5% ; Bristol and Exeter, 82 ex new; Manchester and Birm-
ingham 67 66; Ditto, Quarter Shares, 10% % ; South. Eastern
Scrip, 83/ 1/ premium ; Blackburn, Burffley, and Accrington,
6%; Blackburn, Darwen, and Bolton, 4 1-16; Caledonian,
7 ; Cambridge and Lincoln, 3% %; Churnet Valley, 73/4 % ;
Glasgow and - Dumfries,• 31s. 361. ; Huddersfield and Man-
chester Railway ana Canal 54 %; Huddersfield and Shef-
field Junction, 4% ; Leeds and West Riding Junction, 51,E % ;
Liverpool, Ormakirk, aim Preston, 3 1 -16 ; London and Wor-
cester, Oxford and Rugby, 44 % ; London and York, 64 6 ;
Manchester and Buxton, 3% ; Newark and Sheffield, 24 %;
Shrewsbury, Wolverhampton, Dudley, &c., 614 %; Trent
Valley,l6 IA 17 ; Great Northern of France, English, 5 15 16 ;
Tours and Nantes, 2%; Union Bank of Manchester, 10%.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.--(THIS DAY )
LONDON, FEB. 11.—Wind Easterly, fresh breeze, and fine
overhead. There was a heavy fall of snow last night.
SHEERNESS, FED. 10.—The Edward Robinson has been
weighed to• day, and laid on hard ground on the shore.
FALMOUTH, FEB. 10.—Wind E., moderate.—Arrd. Her-
schel, Robertson, Ichaboe, left Dec. 10 ; City of Adelaide,
Funch, Ichaboe. Off, Dispatch, Williams, Gambia, left 4th
ult., Bona Vista, 13th.

MARYPORT, FEB. 6.—Arrd. Atlas, Dublin, boat stove, &c.,
having been in contact with a schooner off St. Bees Head.
IcHanox, DEC. I.—Arrd. Lalla Rookh, of Liverpool. Load-
ing Palermo and Hampden ; to sail Dec. 8 ; Doris, Rae ; and
on 10th, Elizabeth, Hughes.
DEAL, FEB. 10.—Wind S. by E., moderate ; P.M., fresh
breeze.—Arrd. Lady Anne, Africa.
DOVER, FEB. 10.—P.K. Wind S.S.E., fresh.—Arrd. Emma
and Louise, Callao for Hamburgh.
RYE, FEB. 10 —The Bee,- Penny, of Newcastle, from
Rouen, is ashore in the entrance of this harbour, but has not
received much damage; crew saved.
LYNN, FEB. 9.—The Breakwater, ashore in here, ha,3 been
got off after discharging her cargo.
SouniAstrrox, FEB. 10.—Arrd. Dee steamer, West Indies,
left Tampico Dec. 22, Vera Cruz 2d ult., Havannah 10th,
Bermuda 21st; on freight 157,946 dollars, 7,240 ounces wad
dust, and 15 serons cochineal. A large ship, apparently
American, masts hanging over her sides, was seen on the Co-
lerados Reef, off Buona Vista, by the Severn steamer, on her
voyage from Havannah to Jamaica.
LIVERPOOL, FEB. 10.—Wind S., moderate.—Arrd. La
Bonne Mere and Statesman, Ichaboe ; Acastus, Hayes, Val-
paraiso, with loss of topmast, sails, &c., having encountered
a gale, which continued fifteen days, off Cape Horn, at
W.S W., and had to throw part of cargo overboard ; Car-
nation, Grant, Paraiba; Erin, Newfoundland. Sld. Bruley,
Aden; Margaret Elizabeth, Bahia; Sylph, Africa; Pales-
tine and Truskin, Charleston; Shenandoah, Philadelphia;
General Parkhill, New York ; Byron, Boston. The Ayles-
ford. from Cadiz to Monte Video, struck on the English
Bank in the River Plate on the 22d ult., and was expected
to become a wreck; crew and passengers saved.
Coax, FEB. s.—Arrd. Guard, Pain, and William Sorlie,
M'Kenzie, Ichaboe.

. - -
SCARBOROUGH, FRB. 10.—The Unity, Shaw, of Wisbeach,
from London to Aliddleshorough, is ashore to the s,nthward,
and expected to become a wreck ; crew saved.

THE LATE MURDERS AT SHAPWICK.-13.
Caines, Esq., coroner for this county, has laid the circum-
stances of the above diabolical transaction before Sir James
Graham, in ci.der to a-qct,rtziti tl:u pro!:1-;,(y
ot4er bodice 4vii:ch died
ner to the other unfortunate victims.— Sofficrsit 02unty
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