The Sun.
London, England, 1845-02-04 00:00:00

THE WEATHER.—Strx OrrtcE, FED. 4.
THERMOMETER, Lowest, 34 ; Highest, 42 ; Noon, 40.
BAROMETER, 30.3.—W1ND, W.
No=—The figures which follow the words "Lowest" and
Highest" denote the lowest and highest state of the
Thermometer during the preceding twentyAur hours. All
the other observations are made at noon. Water freezes at
32 ; 55 on Thermometers is marked "Temperate," and on
Barometers "Fair" is generally placed opposite to 30, and
"Rain" at 29 ; but there is no certainty of dry weather
when the mercury falls below 30.

lIIGII WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE TIIIS DAY.
3fornlng .. 43 mtnntes after 11 1 Evening .. 0 rutnntce after 0.

dustry and contract our foreign markets, impoverish
the trade of our greatest staples, and paralyse the
enterprise and speculation of our manufacturers and
shipowners, whilst they burden our consuming
classes with iniquitous and vexatious imposts ;—these
must be largely removed forthwith. The utmost
limits of patience, as well as prudence, have been
reached. This is a work which brooks ne further
delay.
In the foreign relations of the country, Gon
knows, we detect but too many indications that re-
mind us how possible it is that Parliament, even in
the pending session, may be called en to record its
opinions on political measures of the most profound
interest and the most extensive bearing. In Europe
we have not yet concluded all our differences with the
French Government, touching the right of search,
the Otaheite affair, or the trade of the Gambia and
the Senegal. In America we see but one continued
series of ebullitions, dictated by a feeling to
which it is not necessary here to apply a
name, but which seems identified with a
double purpose of unprincipled territorial aggrandise-
ment, and of the manifestation of an attitude of defi-
ance to Great Britain. Neither in the Oregon occu-
pation, nor the annexation of Texas, nor the scanda•
loos tampering with Mexican and Texian authorities,
do we recognise in the bearing of the United States'
Government any cause for satisfying ourselves that
there is no danger of a violent disorganisation, in
1845, of those amicable relations between the Union and
this country which have subsisted now, through so
many years, to the great advantage of both nations,
and the benefit of the civilised world at large. It is
Rot in such elements of disturbing forces, as these,
that we can make out the promise of one of those
"hopeless sessions," whose barrenness of exeitement,
—whose rsutine-torpidity, offer pkrhaps, after all, the
best assurance for the prolonged maintenance of the
peace and reposp of the world—to the two Govern-
ments which are most deeply concerned in pr; serving
them inviolate.

We have always been sceptical as to the amount of
public benefit likely to result from the constitution of
the Board for the transaction of railway business—
created ander Minute of the Lords of the Committee
of Privy Council for Trade, in August last. The
grounds assigned for this innovation on the practice
of former years are, in themselves, not merely
specious, but very sound ones. It had long been felt
that it was necessary to economise the time of Parlia-
ment, to the extent of relieving it from the unprofit-
able but indispensable preliminary discussions de-
manded by the terminal points, selected lines of pro-
jection, proposed levels, gradients, eic., and by the
probable expenses of the cuttings, embankments, con-
structions, plant, and all other details connected with
railroads, for which parties came forward to obtain the
sanction of the Legislature. It was acknowledged
as a grievous fact, within the experience of both
Houses, that, after devoting from week to week, and
month to month, the labour of many hours a day to
such investigations, and to the hearing of counsel for
consenting as well as for opposing parties, the exami-
nation of surveys, plans, and specifications, and the
conflicting allegations of innumerable petitions ; it
had been frequently discovered, after the Select Com-
mittees had reported in favour of a particular Railway
Bill ; and Parliament, acting on such report, had
passed such Bill through all its stages ;—petitions
and projects came before the House of Commons for
constructing, between the extreme termini of such
specific railroad, "a competing line," as it was called.
In some cases this competing line was found to be so
much better than that which had been already ap-
proved of and reported on, that it was found im-
possible to refuse the permission prayed for to bring
in a Bill for its accompliahment. In many more it
resulted that, though, in some particulars, the "corn-,
peting line" might offer preferable advantages, it
was not, as a whole, as much entitled to legislative
sanction as that which had been already affirmed.
Thus, after attaining to the stage of a first, or a
second reading, or even to the maturity of entering a
"Committee of the whole House," it was dropped, or,
upon vote, thrown out. In all such instances the
great evil was, that a vast amount of valuable time,
which was abstracted from the due consideration and
routine of the most important public and official busi-
ness, was fruitlessly sacrificed to the formal enter-
tainment of Railroad Bills, and inquiries that proved
either utterly abortive, or were mere repetitions of
those previously devoted to similar schemes, better or
wozse, as the case might be, but at any rate which
had been earlier brought forward. It must be obvious
that such a mode of transacting this description of
business was calculated to encourage a spirit of
gambling speculation on the issue of any pending
Railway Dill, and to promote the most hopeless,
and, at the same time, the most expensive litigation
between parties to originally proposed, and
parties to competing lines. Nor can it be
denied that that mischievous accumulation of
public business, the arrests of which it is found, at
the close of every session, to sweep off with an un-
considering rapidity and wholesale dealing► of which
it is impossible to exaggerate the mischief, the in-
convenience, or the indecorums, has been greatly
owing to the absorbing occupation of railway busi-
ness. So far, therefore, as related to the economy
of Parliamentary time, the discouragement of specu-
lative litigation, and the diminution of legal expenses
in the process of soliciting and carrying Railroad-
Bills through.the Legislature, the new Board may
be pronounced an useful and a successful experiment.
But it remains yet to be proved whether it will effect
any such dispatch of the public and official business
of the country in Parliament, or work any such
diminution of gambling in railway scrip, as can
compensate for that vicious principle of its constitu-
tion to which we have, in a former article, directed
attention—namely, the indirect, but virtual, inter-
position which its arbitrary findings carry—with the
disposition and employment of private capital.
That men should expend large sums of money in
the bootless agitation of particular schemes for its
investment, both without and within the walls of
Parliament, is bad. That capitalists should make
ducks and drakes of their money by throwing it into
concerns which in the nature of things never can re-
pay them (whether from the excessive expenses at-
tendant on the construction of the proposed work, or
the disproportionate paucity of the passengers and
traffic to be reasonably calculated upon)--this, also,
is bad. But both the one and the other are evils, the
inevitable tendency of which is to correct themselves,
and the utmost possible extent of which is measured,
perhaps, by the loss sustained by the individual
parties. But to legitimate, by Act of Parliament, or
Minute of the Committee of Lords of the Privy
Council for Trade, or any ether authority, the inter-
ference of a Select Board, delegated without either
the election or consent, the control or the nomina-
tion, of the persons whose interests it is, in effect,
to report upon, by recommending Parliament to
grant the Bill craved by A B, but to refuse that ap-
plied for by C ;—this is really to hazard—at the
least—an evil of far more serious and extensive mis-
chief. It is to oppose the authority and influence of
a publi3ly-recorded official opinion to the free opinion
and unbiassed action of the capitalist; a policy not
only at direct variance with the first principles of free
trade, but directly opposed to that noble spirit which
has consolidated and extended the commerce of this
country to a degree never before witnessed by the
world. What would have become of those great
public—aye, national works, in Great Britain, which
present to the admiration of the foreigner the glorious
anomaly of such achievements consummated neither
by the public will, nor by the national funds, but by
individual enterprise and by private capital, if this
sort of pseudo-paternal and protective authority had
existed among us, when the New River, the Bridge-
water Canal, the Docks of London, Bristol, Liver-
pool, the noblest bridges of the metropolis, or the
two finest railroads in the world, the Great Western
and the London and Birmingham, were constructed ?
The consideration of competing lines—the nervous
apprehensions of such a self-assumed official respon.
sibility would have crushed these magnificent under.

the etiquette and in the practice of Parliament it is
not very usual for Members to turn round and re-
pudiate the recommendations, suggestions, or reports
of official departments. Now, with all our respect
for Major-General PASLET, and the Earl of DAL-
IIOUSIE, and Mr. G. S. PORTER (with whose talents
and knowledge everybody must be, to some extent,
acquainted), not to mention their colleagues, Mr. D.
O'BRIEN and Mr. S. Lama (who may be less before
the world); we, for our parts, shall be always greatly
disinclined to accept their opinion on the merits of a
railroad scheme, when it happens to be opposed to
the more valuable, because practical and tested, opi-
nions of first-rate engineers of high professional cha-
racter, and as much respected for their disinterested-
ness and integrity as for their engineering science and
success. Yet, on a division, we venture to predict
that three men out of fire in the House of Commons
will follow where -the report of Lord DALuousts,
Gen. PAsLeY, and their official colleagues lead them,
rather than the most decisive and distinct report
which carries no higher vouchers than such names as
BRUNEL or STEPHENSON, LOCKE, GILES, CUBITT
&c. Any guarantee which the Board is supposed to
offer for the adoption of the best of competing lines,
or the adoption of the good and rejection of the bad
of original schemes, is, therefore, illusory. As for
the moderation of the Board, we see not much matter
for hope, in gazetted notices, that exhibit, as it ap-
pears to us, a proportion of about two •thirds rejected
to one of approved application. Meantime the
gambling speculations in "railroad scrip" are carried
on more extensively than ever. It is only the stage
which is allied in respect of them. It is no longer
whether a Government Bill will reach a third reading
in the Commons, or—pass the House of Lords, and
receive the royal assent ;—but whether it will be
_ _ _ _ _

recommended by the Board of Trade, or thrown out
We hope some Members will bring the question of
the continuance of this Board, upon its present con-
stitution, under the early notice of Parliament.

The accounts from Madrid are to the 27th ult.
The Senate on that day passed the Bill for con-
verting the claims of Government contractors in
Three per Cent. Stock ; and in the Deputies a
lengthened discussion took place on the Bill against
the slave trade. The Minister of Foreign Affairs, in
reply to some remarks from Senor Isruaryz, spoke
strongly in favour of the measure, and contended that
in place of injuring Cuba, as was said, it would be
the surest means of preserving that important colony.
The House then adjourned to the 29th.

The Three per Cents. closed at 32 for cash, and 32}
at 60 days ; the Five per Cents. at 23i for cash, and
23i at 60 days ; the Coupons at 26i- at 60 days, and
the Debt, without interest, at 6i at 60 days.

The journal des Debats announces that the or-
donnance appointing M. DE SALYA(DT Minister o
Public Instruction, was signed on Monday, and that
the new Minister had been sworn into office. The

appointment is generally approved of, and as M. DE
SALVANDY had already filled the same department
under Count MOLE with much satisfaction to lite
public, and is well acquainted with its duties
hopes are entertained that the Education Bill, which
caused such alarm to M. VILLEMAIN, will be carried
through the Chambers without any material altera-
tions. Ix adverting to this addition to the Ministry,
the Globe says:—" The Cabinet, which had waited
until the position of affairs was clearly defined, to
complete itself in a significant manner, considered
that the moment had arrived to do so, and we are
entirely of its opinion. On his side, M. DE SAL-
VANDY, in persevering in the line of policy he had so
vigorously and loyally supported, gives an additional
proof of his convictions, and adds example to pre-
cept. We congratulate both M. DE SALYANDT for
having the honour to militate at the head of a majo-
rity so glorious and so convinced, by the side t,f
colleagues already so honourably tried ; and the
Cabinet, for having secured the co-operation of
a man of talent, occupying an eminent position
in the Chamber and public opinion." The Sleek
denies the statements of some of the Opposi-
tion journals, that M. MIRES and the rest bf
the coalition had resolved to abstain from voting in
the Chamber. They are to attend and vote as usual,
and probably will oppose the Secret Service Mond),
Bill. The Journal dee Debate alludes with much
satisfaction to the remarks made by the Com& tutionn'el
on the meeting ofOonservatives in the Rue Richelieu:
—“ We shall not," it says, " endeavour to reply to
the gross insults which the journal of M. Tutees ad-
dresses to the meeting of the Conservative part.
We have no need to prove that a meeting which had
at its head Marshal SEBASTIAN' and Marshal Bd-
GEAUD, M. DR SALVANDT, and General JACQU/i-
MINOT, is not a club of Ministerial Jacobins directed
by- a committee of public safety. The insults Of
that journal prove but one thing, which is, that it is
dissatisfied with what has occurred within the fait
two days, and we admit that it has cause to be so.
Yes, the 213 .Conservative Deputies would have ful-
filled M. Tunisia' object better if they had dissolved
immediately after the vote of Monday, and if they had
surrendered without resistance to the 205 of the
coalition. M. Timms and M. BILLAULT would not
have been at the head of affairs. But in place of
sepatating, the 213 Conservatives counted their
votes, and they found they were still the masters.
They have rallied and have undertaken to make head
against the coalition. They believed they were oori-
querors, and they find that they have to recomtnence.
Nothing is more pleasant than such great anger and
such invectives. M. LITERS and M. BILLAULT ex-
pect that they have .a right to make coalitions against
the majority, and that the Deputies of the majority
should not have a right to assemble and to unite
against them. It is to be permitted, in order to over-
throw the Ministry, that the pilgrims to Belgrave-
square should unite with the Republicans, and it is
not to be permitted to the majority to organise them-
selves in order to defend their principles against a
crowd of all opinions."
The Three per Cents. were quoted on Sunday at
at 85f. 100. •

THE MINISTERIAL CHANGES.
(prom the Times)
We understand that Sir George Clerk is to be
the Vice-President of the Board of Trade, and that Mr.
Cardwell will succeed Sir George Clerk as Secretary to
the Treasury in the Finance Department. We believe
also that Lord Jocelyn will be appointed to office—we
presume to the Lordship of the Adm;raity, vacant by
the nomination of Mr. Corry to be Secretary to that Board.
Of the fact that Lord Jocelyn is destined for some offi-
cial situation, we hare ao doubt.

(From the Morning Post.)
The feet of Sir Thomas Fremantle's appointment to
the office of Chief Secretary for Ireland is placed beyond
doubt. The lion. Baronet was only prevented from
kissing hands yesterday, on his appointment, by the ill-
ness of a member of his family.
It is perfectly understood that the Right Hon. Sidney
Herbert will succeed Sir Thomas Fremantle as Secretary
at War ; that the Right Hon. Henry Thomas Corry will
take the place of Mr. Herbert as Secretary to the Ad-
miralty ; and we believe we may now add that Lord
Viscount Jocelyn will be appointed a Lord of the Admi-
ralty in the room of Mr. Corry.
We hare reason to believe that Sir George Clerk,
Bart., will retire from office as one of the Secretaries
to the Treasury, and that Mr. Cardwell will succeed
to the Hon. Baronet. Whether Sir George is des-
tined to preside over the Board of Customs on the an-
ticipated retirement of Mr. Dean, or to become Pay.
master of the Forces, in the possible event of Sir Edward
linatchbull's resignation, we are not yet in a situation
to state with certainty. .
A rumoar prevails that the continued ill-health of
the Earl of Ripon will, at no distant period, occasion
another vacancy in the Cabinet.

takings in the germ. And, again, the Railway
Board of Privy Council, or by whatever other title

we are to recognise it, can only be tolerable so long
as its "Reports" carry with them the concurrence of

a large proportion of public opinion. Their powers
are powers which will only be tolerable in virtue of
extreme moderation in their (exercise. Their "Reports"
to Parliament, however, in name but preliminary
incidents in the history and progress of any given
Railway Bill, will, in effect, in ninety-nine cases out
of a hundred, be decisive of the fate of such Bill. By

AIR LIBRARY OF THH DUKE OF SUSElEX.—Yea-
terday the sale of the library of the late Duke of Sussex was
continued at Messrs. Evans's rooms, in Pall-mall. The
number of lots disposed of during the four days have been
969, realising a aunt of from 400/. to 500/. Among the lots
disposed of, those which fetched the highest prices are the
books containing noted of the late illustrious Duke. Yester-
day, lot 526, Europe, or a General Survey of the Present
Situation of the Principal Powers, with Conjectures on their
thture Prospects, by a Citizen of the United 'States,
with Manuscript Notes by the Duke of Sussex, pub-
lished in 1822, was bought by Mr. Boone for 2/. ss.
Lot 768, Histoire Secrette de la Duchess d'llancryer,
Epouse de George 1., London, 1732. A Home-troth, pr
Memoirs of the Court of II (anover), with the names filled up
in MS., by the Duke of Sussex, sold for 2/. 65., to Mr. Mur-
ray. Lot 829, Various Tracts relating to Gustavus Adol-
phus, King of Sweden, in 5 vols., sold for 9/. 17s. 6d. This
very curious collection was made by Sir Robert Gordon, of
Gordonstoun, and was bought at his sale by the Messrs.
Longman for 18/. 10s. The most attractive portion of the
safe yesterday was the disposal of various editions of Frois-
sard's Chronicles. The first lot, 923, Froissard Croniques,
4 vols. in three, very scarce edition, printed by Verard, at
Paris, in 1518, sold for 5/. 12s. 6d. 'Lot 924, Froissard Cro-
niques, par Sauvage, 4 vols. in two, fine copy, Sir M. Sykes',
printed at Lyons, 1559, sold for Si. Lot 926, Froissard's
Chronicles, translated by Lord Berners,
2 vols., imperfect,
printed by Myddleton and Pynson, in 1525, sold for 9/. 108.,
to M. Pickering.
The sixth anniversary of the marriage of her
Majesty, on Monday next, will
be celebrated by public
dinners at Windsor, Egham, &c. ; and a ball in honour
of the event will take place at the jotter town.

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 4 1845.

THIS DAY'S NEWS.

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

THE ATTORNEY GENERAL V. PORTER.

This was an information filed by her Majesty's At-
torney-General against the defendant for the recovery of
penalties which he was alleged to have incurred by
evading the payment of the Customs' duties.
The Solicitor-General, Mr. Jervia, and Mr. Wilde,
conducted the case for the Crown ; Sir Thomas Wilde,
Mr. Cockburn, Mr. liumfrey, and Mr. Hindmarsh, ap-
peared for the defendant.
Mr. Porter, the defendant in this information, had
been associated in business with Mr. Foster, as ware-
houseman, in Cheapside. The transaction from which
the present information arose, was the landing. on the
29th of March, 1842, of two cases of goods, Nos. 36
and 57, from the Harlequin steamer, from Boulogne. The
principal ground of action, however, was the last case.
This information, in its leading features, is closely
assimilated with those of the Attorney-General v. Dean
lb id Candy, so frequently before the Court of Exchequer,
and with which our readers have been made so familiar.
The cases from Boulogne contained gloves, silks, satins,
and a variety of haberdashery, on which a duty of
1201. st. 2d. was plid on the 2d of April 1842;
the goods having been cleared by Mr. Noble, the prin-
cipal clerk of the defendant, but who ha• since left the
country. From the size of the cases, and the calcula-
tion of their cubrical contents ,it was contended, on be-
half of the Crown, that they could hold, and had held, a
quantity of goods, the duty on which would be
3121. 4s. 10d. The difference, therefore, between these
two sums was the amount which it was argued the de-
fendant ought to have paid, and he was now sued for
his default, and the penalties thereby incurred.
[The case was proceeding when we went to press.]

CRIMINAL COURT-(THIS DAY.)
(Before the RECORDER.)
The Court was opened this morning at ten o'clock,
but no case of any interest was tried up to the time of
going to press.

BOW-STREET.-(THIS DAY.)
John Neil and Richard Fleddon were charged before
Mr. Jardine with an assault on James Saville, the pro-
prietor, and George Smith, the waiter, of a coffee-shop
in High street, St. Giles's,
Mr. Saville said, that about four o'clock this morning
he was roused by a row in his shop. He saw the pri-
soners in the shop struggling with the waiter. He de-
sired them to leave, but they refused, and he helped the
waiter to turn them out. A policeman coming up at the
moment when he turned the prisoners out, he gave them
in charge.

John-Smith, waiter in Mr. Sarille's shop, said that
between three and four o'clok this morning the prisoners
came in and asked for some coffee and bacon. When he
serred them they refused to pay beforehand, and he
would not leave the tray with them. They tried to
snatch it from him. The master then came down
and assisted witness to turn them out.

Policeman, F 23, said that he took the prisoners in
custody, having seen them break one of prosecutor's
windows.

The prisoners said that they had not committed any
assault on the prosecutor. They refuted to pay for the
coffee before they had taken it, and the waiter imme-
diately attacked them.
The policeman said that the prisoners were drunk at
the time, and Mr. JARDINE fined the prisoners lOs.
each, and in default of payment, sentenced them to 14
days' imprisonment.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.—(THIS DAY.)
LONDON, FEB. 4.—Wind northerly, moderate breeze,
and fine, but hazy.
DEAL, FED. 3.—Wind, N.W. by W., light breeze, very
thick weather.--Arrd. George Canning, Ichaboe.
OFF THE WIGHT, FEB. 3.—Augustus, South Australia,
Ski. Sept. 12.
PLYMOUTH, FED. 3.—The Caroline, M'Cornish, arrd.
here from Girgenti, is discharging her cargo, being
leaky.
SCILLY, JAN. 29.—The Northumbria, Harrison, from
Cardiff to London, ashore on Crow Sound, has been as-
sisted off, and is now in St. Mary's Pool, and it is ex •
pepected must discharge her cargo.
MALDON, JAM. 31.—The Mary Ann, Mulley, of this
port, drifted ashore at high water, on the 27th instant,
and lay very bad, and has received considerable damage.
HAYLE, JAN. 31.—The Anne and Betty, from
Kinsale and Thurso, has put in here, with cargo heated,
and must discharge.
BOWMORE, ISLAY, JAN. 31.—The Lion and the Mary
Ann, ashore near here, are complete wrecks.
LOtTonswimot, JAN. 30.—Arrd. Ellison, Liverpool to
Newcastle, cargo shifted, loss of bulwarks, &c., having
experienced a heavy gale from W.S.W. to N., 25th inst.,
off the Lewis Islands.

CORK, FEB. I.—The crew of the Thomas Laurie,
which was abandoned Nov. 18, off Ichaboe, were picked
up and landed at St.Holena by the Crescent, arrived here.
CLAY, FEB. 3.—The Breeze, of Plymouth, from Mar-
seilles to Wisbeach, is ashore to the westward of Blake-
ney ; cargo discharging in a damaged state; crew saved.
A head-board, mazked " Livorno," has been picked up
on Clay Beach.
LIVERPOOL, FED. 3.—Wind N.W., light.--Sld. Gowan,
Newfoundland.

Hum., FEB. 3.—Wind N.N.E.—Arrd. The Jeanie,
Shields for Rouen, leaky, ani must discharge to repair.
A sloop, with black masts, is sunk off Trasithorpe, in
about four fathoms.

MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.)
NAT wzAßiniTs.
SMITIIFIELD.—Coarse Meadow Hay, 31 lOs to 41 108 ,
Useful ditto, 41 12s to 51 3s ; fine Upland ditto, Si 4s to
518 s; Clover Hay, 4/ lOs to 61; Oat Straw, 1/ 14s to
11 16s ; Wheat Straw, 11 16s to 1/ 18s per load. A
fair average supply, and steady inquiry.
OtilithEttLAND.—Coarse Meadow Hay, 31 128 to 41125;
Useful ditto, 4/ 14s to 51 4s ; fine Upland ditto, 51 5s to
5/ Ws; Clover Hay, 4/ 108 to 5/ 18s; Oat Straw, 11 163
to 1/ 18s ; Wheat Straw, 11 188 to 21 per load. Supply
moderately good, and trade firm.
WRIT ECHAPEL.—CO4LrSe Meadow Hay, 31:12s to 41125;
Useful ditto, 4/ 14s to Si 3s ; fine Upland ditto, Si 4s to
51 los; Clover Hay, 41 10s to 6135; Oat Straw, 11 13s to
1/ 15s ; Wheat Straw, 11 15s to 11 17s per load. Both
Hay and Straw moved off slowly, at last week's quota-
tions.

FLANDERS MAIL.
(RECEIVED THIS DAY.)
BnossELs, FED. I.—The Chamber of Representatives
in its sitting to•day, after a short general discussion on
the budget of the Department of the Interior, voted the
first two articles of the budget, and adjourned till Thurs-
day next.
The speech of AI. Elsyde Burdinne, at the opening of
the sitting, related especially to the agricultural situation
of the country.
The King arrived this afternoon about fire o'clock
from Ardenne.

A letter from Vienna of the 24th of January, says that
the Duke Ferdinand of Saxe Coburg, whose health had
improved a little, has had a relapse, and that he is so
seriously ill that fears arc entertained for his life.
The latest accounts from St. Petersburgh, state that
the Empress of Russia intends to visit Germany in the
spring for the benat of her health, which is very indif-
ferent. Prince Adam of Wurtemburg has obtained his
discharge from the service of Russia, in which he held
the rank of Adjutant-General and of Lieutenant-
General.

We have learnt a circumstance respecting the motion
of M. Osy, which is not uninteresting. In the evening
of the day before yesterday M. Osy hesitated, and
thought of withdrawing his motion. If he persisted, it
was because it was represented to him that a third trans-
formation would expose him, if not to ridicule, atleast to
the accusation of groping in the dark, which would fall
on the whole opposition.

BELGIAN FUNDS.—BRussEts, FHB. 1.
Actual Debt, 234 per Cent
Rothschild's Loan, Five per Cent •
Loan of Thirty Millions, Four per Cent 98%
Ditto Three per Cent.... —
Ditto Thirty-seven Millions, ditto 79
Ditto, ditto, 1840.. ..... . • •• . • 10614
Ditto, ditto, 1844. 102%
Ditto of the City, 1843 • . • • .. • . 102;;i
Bank of Belgium.
Brussels Papers. Feb. 2.
lIAMBURGII BORSENIIALLE, JAN. 30.
Bills. Money.
113

Austrian .5 per Cents • • • • • • • ..... •
Bank Shares ........
Anglo•llussian Loan
Russian 5 per Cent., Ilamb. Certificate. 1051 A 105.44
Ditto let series Inscription•..... •• •• .• • 10514
Ditto, Hope and Co., 3d and 4th series.. 995(
Ditto, In Certificate . 99%
Now 4 per Cent., Hope and Co• .•• • • • 92 9l
Ditto Stleglitz ••••••••••• • • • • • • • • • • • 90N
Spanish New 5 per Cent.• •••••• • • • • • • 22 21
Ditto 3 per Cent ••••••••• • • • • • • • • • 40
.Anglo-Portuguese Loan, 2% per Cent••
Dutch Actual Debt, 2% per Cent ••.• • • 6314 63
Polish New 4 per Cent. Loan, 1844.. • • 87% 87
Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cent ••• • • • 87% 57%
National Bank Shares
exchange on London.
Petersburgh, Three months ...... 37 15-16
Bremen, Two months.. •.

•Ilarnburgh Borsenhalle, Jan. 30.
PRUSSIAN PUNDS.—Bramv, JAW. 31.
Bills.

St. Schnld Sch., 3% per Cent •• •• • • • • • • 100
Truss. English Bonds, 1830, 4 per Cent..
Exchange on London, 2 months • • 628
-Universal Prussian Gazette; Jan. 31.
AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—Tinian, Jaw. 26.
S. per Cent.3letalliqucs......
4 per Cent. ditto. .
2 per Cent. ditto ........... • •. • 78
Loan, 1834 18814
' Ditto, 1839 ..
. -Bank Shares .....
Esterhazy's Loan ••.••• • • • • • 57
Allgentelne &Rung, Jan. 28.

Money.
99}4

[A DVEATISEWERT.]—NUAIDER ONE, SAINT PAUL'S
ClluPrityAnD,--:rhe best of everything is good enough for
anybody, and 'the best of teas and coffees are sold at Number
One, Saiat Paul's Churchyard. Here are two very bold and
very straightforward assertions. We respectfully call upon
tb'e reader -to prove their truth. It may easily 'be done by a
single trial of our four-and-sixpenny black tea, which is in-
deed good .enough for any and everybody, and will guarantee
the quality of all other articles sold by Dakin and Company,
1 'ea merchants, at Number One, Saint Paul's Churchyard,
L ondon. .

O.W7ULLY SUDDEN DEATH.—Yesterday an inquest
was oaken before. ltrir. Baker, at the Duke of Marlborough,
Lo frer East SuY:thfield, on the body of John Nettleship, aged
for ty-eight, coal porter. It appeared that on Saturday morn-
ia :,141L d.:ceased was in front of the bar of the above public-
ho' Lift , in conversation with the barmaid, when, feeling
dllll. 'tali, he asked for threepenny worth of brandy. Having
tank it , hefell back and almostinstantly expired. A surgeon
wassenl for, but all medical aid was unavailing. Verdict—
, runtaik n of God. Deceased has left a widow and four children.
'Afr. Tufnell, M.P., has paired off with Sir C.
(Cool
L.A atil the owl of the present month.

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