The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-02-01 00:00:00

LONDON.

The Express says the stock markets have worn a verf
depressed appearance to-day; some impression appearing
to be produced in the house by political complications on
the Continent. The Montenegrin difficulty and the attl•
tude of France towards Austria are referred to with
uneasiness, the more especially as the French funds have
given way heavily, notwithstanding Government pUt'
chases.

VAN DIZMEN'S LAND.—GoId has been found upon
the territory of the Van Diemen's Land Company, and 6
fine specimen of quartz has been received.

QUEEN'S BENCH.-MONDAY.
THE ACHILLI CASE.

SENTENCE ON DR. NrOrmAN.—The court was denstlf
crowded. Dr, Newman occupied a seat in front of tb.
Queen's Council.

Sir F. Thesiger moved the judgment of the court.
A number of affidavits, in mitigation of the sentenced
were handed in and read,—one from Dr. Newman, staftil
that he had no personal knowledge of Achilli, and could
not have any personal feeling in the publication of the
alleged libel ; and be denied any knowledge of the article
in the Dublin Review. As Achilli had made statemente
strongly affecting the church to which he had formerll
belonged, he thought it right to inquire into the accu9S°
tion made in that article regarding Achilli's character.
He then stated his inquiries abroad, with the view of show'
ing that he (Newman) had reasons for setting up the dif'
ferent pleas put upon the record.
Sir F. Thesiger objected to these statements, but the
court declared them admissable. The- affidavit of Mr,
Harding, of Lincoln's-Inn-Fields, who collected evidence
abroad, stated he had no instructions but to elicit the
truth. He believed defendant's pleas were capable of being
proved, if all the witnesses had been in attendance.
Mr. Babington, the medical adviser of Dr.- Newman,
stated that the defendant was in bad health, and impri'
sonment would produce a degree of feebleness, frbrn whicb
he probably would never recover. Similar affidavits-frooi
other medical gentlemen were also read.
The Attorney-General addressed the court in mitiga•
tion, showing that defendant was not actuated by-I:oldie
or ill-will. The counsel on the same side followed.
Sir F. Thesiger was then heard in aggravation of the
punishment, also Sir F. Kelly.

Justice Coleridge sentenced Dr. Newman to pay a,ffne
of £lOO to the Queen, and. to be confined in the Queenl
Bench Prison, in the first crass of misdemeanants, r.ntil
the fine be paid.
_

The lenient nature of the sentence appeared to occasiaa
considerable sensation.

FUNDS, STOCK, AND> SHARE MARKET.

Consols lower on speculative sales for account. Railway
shares heavy and town, from the same cause: nothing doing.
French shares were lower in the morning, but recovered $
little on better prices from Paris. Gold Mines dull and steady.
although a shade lower. Land shares without alteration.

CLOSING
Consols, Account .. l 9911. I
Do. Money ...-.I
Three &Qr per Cents 103
FOREIGN
Mexicans 22i 3 I
Do. Threes

PRICgS

Spanish New Deferred 22k 2
Do. Threes ....., 462

RAILWAY
London Stock., 119 20 '
Do. Quarters _ 105 6
Midland Stock

Do. Halves 2930-
North Staffordshire
S. Eastern and Dover 77 8
Amberg.,Nottingham,
and B. Junction 6i 2
Caledonian
Do. Preference 104 6
Eastern Counties ..., 124 2
East Lancashire 74 6
Manches., Sheff., and
Lincolnshire 81 90
Edinburgh & Glasgow 76 8
Great Northern 74i 5}
Do.

Do. 8..... 117-19
East Anglian •..- " 4

Noveau Monde
Agua Fria
Cordeliera
Ave Maria
enrcnn,a
Port Philip

par ipsn

LAND'S
Australian Agricultural 230 40
South Australian