The Express. — London, England, 1847-02-16 00:00:00

r TiTAGIIORN'S SECOND PAMPHLET nn SITAR to AUSTRALIA, add to the Right lion. Tart owy, Colonial thoreter7. ?rite Owe Shilling. mouth, War, sad economy. gate eppreoo. MAILS. The auille fur Vigo, Oporto, Lieben, Madre. Cedte, mad Otbralba, tell be made up on the morning of the 17th Irebtllner. w,t1.1. matte., iAthillills all/110 Orr M. en the He , uw .b, will be made up on the meredai ef the reft ia rresii lbe overlord waile for Gibraltar, .Malta, Orgies, th e tehehde : ll Aden,Ctylon. India, ong.hong,awd Mee. 140 8041iiii.0101. RiIAC made up on the morning of the Soth et Feteuare. The overland 601.1 rands, tin Marseilles, to the Mediterranms, t t ftp , Aden, Ceylon, Inas, Hong Kong, he., ill be toade up on the /mune .if the 24th Februare. The nwl. fur New South Wales. Van Diemen's Land, and New Zeeland .rill be mule up on the evening of the let March. The mails fur Ittifeh North America, Bermuda, and the Milted sox:, al.' be mane up on the evening of the 3rd March. The twite for the Braga*, the Riser Plate, Monte Vide% egai, modes, and Buenos Ayres, will be made sp on the owning of the itb Muth. TO CORRESPONDENTS. Mon , of the "DAILY NEWS" and "EXPRESS " pace bra REMOVED Dm 90, PLEET-STREET, to No. 10, pot:TERM-STREET, FLEET.STREE' I', contiguous to the Print:lag aad PUblifbitlit CC. w .. .p o t (M any nay, any coniinankaidon that to cent to oil but thane wbochooce to address on to coadtb nee .111 pad danitceldence 'instead. N EIMER CAN WE UNDERTAKE ID SEMEN ANY X ANUSCRIPT3 WILATEVER. • • Adcarticannit• intended far TA..I/1-rprrac, London ecrolas paper, Mat than office by Taro o'otosk on the day of publication. HIGH WATER AT LONDON-BKII3OE. 3114 DAT —Morumg, R 7 min. pot 2; Afternoon. 32 min. poet 2. To4looon—itonung, 13 min. pot 3; Afternoon. 34 min. past 3. LONDON, TUESDAY, FEB. 16. WE have paid little attention to the gossip of 'M. GeIZOT'S and Lord Nouussiny's personal differences, or to the rumours of the former personage being about to be sacrificed by his master. That he would be sacrificed, if there was any price to be paid, or specific advantage obtained, may be well believed. If England would promise to waive all objec tions against the succession of the Dcc DE MONTPEN (HER to the throne of Spain, for example ; to the gaining of that point, we may feel pretty certain, that not merely M. Cum); but a wilderness of French ministers would be sacrificed. But the English cabinet, though very quiet, seems determined ; and it has just acquired considerable support, in the adhesion of the Prussian cabinet to the views and the judg ment of the British government, with respect to the marriage of the Infanta. We were the first to announce this important fact, which our Paris correspondent forwarded, and enabled as to publish on Thursday last. Important in itself, it is more important from Prussia's taking such an attitude at the very . time, when it also proclaimed a constitu tion. Austria,we learn,refuses to join the court of Berlin in a public condemnation of the Spanish marriage. But this is motived by the circumstance, that the court of Vienna views with equal disapprobation the accession and the intermarriage of the female and the younger branch of the Spanish BOURBONS. Austria trembles lest French enmity should throw its influence to excite the POPE and the King of SARDINIA still more in the path of liberalism. And Prince Merrell:4am therefore, refuses to give any provocation to the French. But the true sentiments of Austria are no secret. Now, this state of things betokens, not a coalition dwar, bat a common understanding of the powers Europe condemnatory of France, and of its dynasty, and of its doings, which is about the most untoward and unwelcome result, that any combina tion of French policy could bring about. It was this that M. G1:17.0T pointed to, when he said in his speech that the influence of England was still exerted to bring the northern powers into disapprobation, and worse than disapprobation, of French con duct. We may feel confident that LOUIS PHILIPPE does not sleep easy under the weight of such results. He sees his own old age besieged by the same enmities, and the same prospects to his de scendantsas LOUISTHEFouRTEENTII,and for precisely the same cause, the inordinate ambition of both monarchs to appropriate Spain and make it a family apanage. How is the French King to allay each a storm? We shall see in time. But for the present his resolve seems to be to brave enmity, carry a bold and me nacing face, and support M. GCIZOT. We have already a striking and unpleasant proof of this. Our readers are all aware of the lamentable and anomalous state of things in the River Plate. An English agent lately went thither, and succeeded in making a satisfactory arrangement, when the pleni potentiaries already accredited there, especially the French minister, succeeded in defeating it Mr. HOOD returned, and Lord How DEN was appointed to use his skill and endeavours in the task. Lord How DEN proceeded to Paris to come to an understanding with the French government, and it was hoped that ere this his lordship would have been on his way to effect and enforce a restoration of peace and of trade. Private letters from Paris, however, now acquaint us, that Lord HowoEN finds the French government completely indisposed to do anything fair or limitable, or to issue such joint instructions as would ensure the success of an attempt similar to that of Mr. HOOD. Every obstacle is thrown in Lord Howneses way. And because the English goveniment will not approve of all M. GUIZOT's doings at Madrid, M. OCIZOT will thwart all British wishes in the Plate, al though those wishes are merely to restore peace and trade in favour of all Europe. Some people surmise, writes our correspondent, that the French cabinet is actuated by the Prince de JOINVILLE, and by the desires of that prince to render Brazil once more mistress of Monte Video. We do not place credit in any such scheme, and merely think that the obstacles thrown by the French govern ment in the way of Lord Rowney are merely traeasseries, chicane, and ill-humour, destined to make the English feel the bad consequences of a breach of the entente eordiak. Be the cause what it may, it will entail upon the British government the necessity of acting for itself, and of at least ceasing the absurd and inglorious task of blockading and coercing Buenos Ayres, in order to produce a peace which the French ministers in Paris and in the Plate are both determined to interrupt. If the French have chosen to marry the Spanish Queen and Princess without esen consulting us, in the midst of common alliances and understandings, surely we may proceed to settle, as far as is in our power, the affairs of La Plata, with out waiting for what is insidiously withheld, French EVERT ministry, that we can remember, has taken a malicious pleasure in the prolongation of au Irish debate, which allows so much venom and impatience and crude political ideas to vent themselves, harm lessly except in the murder of time. It was last year, as it is this, the session troublod with bursts of petulance, with eager hopes of overthrowing the go vernment on the Irish question. Sir ROBERT PEEL allowed them a nine days wonder of a debate, during which the a ewe', of the house disported like por- poises in a summer sea. Each took his jump and had his "say;' and all were in better humour afterwards. We expected such a debate this session, but cer tainly not upon Irish railways ; a subject more fit to call forth the opinions of the specially informed, than of the general mass of politicians. It is painful to see so many good arguments and good wishes thrown away. Of the good that railways would do to Ireland, there can be no doubt. But when great I English capitalista come forward to point out the good, with the possibility of doing it, and the certainty of its being ultimately profitable, all im partial persons entertain the conviction that capi talists will be found to undertake these philanthropic and profitable speculations without the state either paving them, or encouraging them to do it. The best Irish railroads, like the best French ones, were set a-going by British capital, which acted as an example and &stimulant to the bringing forth and risk ing of native capital. When a chill or a crisis, political or monetary, came, the foreign capitalists sold, and the native ones were so poor and so alarmed, that they shrunk from paying up ; shares were at a discount, and works at a stand. In France all camo right aril!), without government interfering, or when it did interfere, there exist the strongest proofs of its folly in so doing. In Ireland it will be the same. And Lancashire, the milky mother of railways, is far more near to Ireland, more cognizant of Ireland, and more interestml in it, than Westminster with all its assemblage of wisdom. The speeches of Mr. WILLIAM BROWN and of Colonel MURE, however, sufficiently bespoke the sentiments of the English Mid Scotch capitalists of those regions nearest to, most interested in, and best acquainted with, Ireland. The Y strongly deprecated any plan like that of Lord ueoltaa Battalfiett. Sir WiLLZ4M CLAY'S was a very sensible speech on the other side of the question. But, on the whole, the debate, notwithstanding Mr. lltsnsErl's figures, was neither very instructive, nor' convincing, nor enlivening. We cannot dose these few remarks, without ad verting to Mr. Srorrtswoona's proposal to the Irish party, to add his singular rider to Lord GEORGE BENTINCICS bill. Mr. SPOTTISWOODEN volunteered representation of the City was a perfect farce. The notion of an issue of exchequer bills to be infused into Ireland in aid of the local currency, was first broached in the Circular for Bolger. of Saturday last. The proposal did not go to placing this sum at the disposal of private companies on their security, but was sug gested u the means which government might avail themselves of, if railways were to be executed by a specially chartered company, of which government might become the principal shareholders, retaining all the control. With the tact of a City man, who has per ceived the want of elasticity in our currency, the author of this proposal would include only exchequer bills of 10/. value, and would leave the Irish banks to fight out the IL note issues as local currency. The preference shown by the Irish peasantry for notes over gold which the blue-books point out, may give a useful lesson to currency innovators. Ir appears to be a settled matter in old England that nothing is to be gained by the people or conceded by government, except through the instrumentality of agitation. Everything, from negro emancipation and parliamentary reform to the penny postage and the prohibition of the truck system, has been agitated for. This mode of originating legislation has its advan tages: it promotes public discussion, and a thorough sifting of every argument or pseudo-argument. (in the other hand, it has its disadvantages, and of tlwse the worst are the exaggeration and partisan spirit which it necessarily engenders. Cautious truths are not such good materials for speeches meant to deter mine the volition of large meetings, as bold exvge rated averments. And when men have learned to pride themselves in the unwavering advocacy of as abstract opinion, they are apt to deal rather uncan didly at ftmes with any facts that may tell against it. As a corrective of this tendency in the public mind it is sometimes doing good service to administer slight doses of simple statements, unaccompanied with argument or controversial parade. If some of your hot disputants can, by such means, be induced to apprehend facts in their simple reality, without asking themselves at the moment whether they tell for or against their preconceived notions, they may be the more likely to arrive at truth when they afterwards try to reconcile fact and thdory. An interesting and instructive report on the tea-trade, prepared, at the request of government, by Mr. MONTGOMERY MAR TIN, while acting as Colonial Treasurer at Hong Kong, and published in his Chins—Geographical, Political, Commercial, and Social; has tempted us to try the experiment in relation to a controversy in which the disputants on both sides have keenly con tested the laurel due to bounce and exaggeration. In a rapid review which he takes of the European tea trade, Mr. MARTIN places in a strong light the extent to which the quantity of tea consumed in a country is liable to fluctuate with the fluctuating tastes of a nation. "Itis a marked indication," he says, " of the indispensable necessity . of carefully at tending to the importation of a foreign, and indeed an artificial, article, such as tea, that in some countries of Europe the use of tea was formerly considerable, even when its price was great, and the difficulty in procuring it enhanced; but now, when freight, insurance, &c., are low, and tea ex c eedingly cheap, the importation is extr aordinarily lessened. Sweden offers a confirmation of this remark. The Swedish exports of tea at Canton, from 1767 to 1786, were 60,960,4731b5. ; from 1787 to 1806, they were 21,208,4231b5.; decrease on 20 years, 39,752,0521ba. At present, I believe, there is very little tea imported." Frame is another example. From 1783 to 1793 the French exports of tea from Canton amounted to , 15,122,1301b5., an average of a million and a half per annum. For the ensuing ten years they amounted only to 333,33311 s. The restoration of peace and in creased prosperity of the people have not brought back the days of tea-drinking in France. The tea imported into that country from 1820 to 182.1 ranged from about 170,000 to 150,000 lbs. The consumption is almost confined to the English residents. The Danes, too, who at one time imported and consumed considerable quantities of tea, now use very little. The duty on Tea in Denmark is only two per cent. ad valorem. In England the consumption of tea has gone on increasing, till the quantity consumed here amounts to more than double of what is consumed in all other countries (China and Japan excepted), not withstanding our heavy duties. Mr. M tIITIN points out a process by which the price of tea is likely to be materially diminished, even though the duty remains at its present rate. The export trade of tea has hitherto been concentrated in Canton. The Canton merchants are earnestly striving to maintain their monopoly. Their large capitals and extensive credit enabling them to mike advances to the tea cultivators and keep them in their debt—the adherence of the Chinese (and indeed of all mankind) to old-established chan nels of business—and even official edicts, have been brought into play for this purpose. But all these will, in the end, he unavailing against superior ad vantages of local position. Mr. Conant ALCOCK has ascertained that tea can be shipped at Foochoo for 20 per cent. less than the Canton prices. Shipments have already been made direct for England from Ningpo and Shanghae. The tea-growing populations in the vicinity of these ports will save at least as much in the purchase of English goods sea-borne to their immediate neighbourhood, not laden with the heavy cost of land-carriage from Canton. To main tain their ground, the Canton merchants must lower their prices to those of their competitors in the northern ports. Mr. MARTIN corroborates the statements of all his predecessors respecting the comparatively li mited range within whfeh tens suited to the English market are produced. The tea consumed in Europe and America is chiefly grown south of' the Yang-tee-Kiang. Between the 27th and 31st degrees of north latitude, and from the sea-coast inland for five or six hundred miles, may be considered adapted to the culture of this class of teas. But not every soil, or every exposure within this district, pro duces tea fit for our English markets: the plant must face the south ; the soil must consist of the minute debris of granite and a ferruginous sandstone. Be yond the district indicated, teas are no doubt grown, but coarse in quality, fit only to be made up with an admixture of some glutinous matter into the " brick tea" of which the inhabitants of Tibet and Tartary make a kind of soup. Even the existing demand for tea to export is sufficient to make the adulteration of tea in China a profitable trade. Mr. MARTIN visited a "tea manufactory," north of Canton, where he found 500 persons employed in converting the greatest refuse of tea, or the leaves which had passed through the tea-pots of the Chinese, into teas for exportation. The proprietor told him that the green tea thus prepared was largely sold to the Americans. An extensive importation of such spurious wares might go far to destroy the national relish fur tea. Mr. MARTIN'S account of the fluctuations caused by speculation in the tea market during the late misunderstanding with China, is entertaining. The railway share market has scarcely at any time been more wild than the tea market in some of its paroxysms. In the beginning of June 1839, congou was about le. per lb., on the 2nd of December it was 2s. 7d.; on the 16th of January, 1840, 3s. 2d. ; in April, 2s. In August, 1841, the siege of Canton, its surrender, the local truce, the indemnity of six millions, &c., caused large operations in what arc called "time ,bargains;" a gambling called " pate and calls " came into play--one person purchasing from another the right to buy from or ea to him a specified quantity of tea at a certain price on a given day. Expresses were established between Marseilles and London; forged letters were palmed off upon newspapers, and published in second editions : for tunes were made at GARRAWAY'S in the morning, and loot ere night. Incidentally Mr. MARTIN touches on the morality of tea-drinking : Row far the emotive use of strong tea inCbins,"bessys. "by alternately elevating and depressing the nervy= system, may have led to the craving desire for opium as a counter. stimulant, is deserving of consideration. Certain it is, that string coffee (among the Turks and Persians) and strong tea (among the Chinese) are aimrlar in their elementary qualities, and followed or preceded by the use of opium or similar deleterious stimulating narcotics. It is slatted that in the manufacturing districts of Great Britain, where tea is very largely consumed at all meals, opium is now being in troduced.' We are inclined to think tea, like every thing else, as wholesome in moderation, and pernicious only in THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 16, 1847. THE new trial panted at Belize in the case of the Qt EEN against Lieut. CONNELL and Mr. SIMONS, has terminated in an unanimous verdict of acquittal, re turned after a comparatively brief deliberation of the jury. The evidence is not reported lathe local news papers; but from what wo have been able to learn of the circumstances of the unfortunate affray, it is no more than justice to the gentlemen accused to say, that we entirely concur in the verdict. It ought also to be observed, that the charge on this second trial was simply for manslaughter in the case of Mr. CON NELL, and abetting in the ease of Mr. SYMONS ; and that, consequently, the acquittal exonerates the ac cused even from these minor shades of culpability. This termination of these protracted trials however does not, in the slightest degree, modify the expres sion of unmitigated disapprobation elicited from us in the outset, in respect to the mismanagement of the police at Belize. The evidence on which we charged the police officers with shameless laxity, or utter absence of discipline,—with brutal callousness, in locking up two men, one of them suffering from a wound, which proved fatal in less than twenty hours beyond human hearing, in a cell worse than a dog, kennel,—remains uncontradicted. And we may now say, in addition, that all the unmerited annoyance to which Messrs. CONNELL and St atoNs have been subjected, and all the pain suffered by their families, have been owing to the neglect of duty on the part of the police. lied the officers been at their posts the whole of the transaction would have been known : no mystery would have appearei to cling to it. Had the police conducted themselves with com mon humanity, the excitement which appears to have biassed a part of the inhabitants at Belize, would never have been excited. _ _ _ We are glad to observe that the beginning of a reform is being made by the superintendent. At Col. FANCAUST'S request six experienced officers of the Jamaica police are to be drafted to Belize as the nucleus of a force. This is so far well, but much more is required. The dog-kennels of cells in which pri soners are locked, must be abolished : a more humane and attentive gaoler appointed. Nor is the police the only institution that requires amendment in Honduras. The cession of that territory cannot now be contem plated by any British ministry: why then are the settlers still denied the power to acquire a permanent right of property in land ? The settlement is suffici ently numerous and wealthy to support regularly organised courts of justice : why then is the public meeting not confined exclusively to the business of legislation ? , Why are the judicial functions not left exclusively to the professional judge. Lastly, why is the settlement kept a dependency of Jamaica—with which it has no natural connection—instead of having a governor of its own, communicating directly with the Secretary of State for the Colonies. As it is, Belize is the only entrepot for our trade with Central America. Were the settlement properly organized that traffic would receive a great expan sion, and the natural capabilities of the country itself would be developed. But under the interim arrange ments still affectedly kept up, as if Spain could ever claim the territory again—as if it were not ours by preicriptive right—a lawless spirit of adventure is necessarily kept alive unfavourable alike to the settlers' advancement in wealth and in morality. On Sunday the letter of Lord Normanby to Lord Palmerston, of the 6th inst., and the answer of the latter of the 11th (published in the Paris journals), caused some sensation. They elicited comments from all the more independent portion of the Paris press. 'Le Commerce says that the parliamentary intem perance of M. Guizot has led to the present diplo matic confusion, and gives it as certain that Lord Nor manby is about immediately to depart for England on a ronye of three months. La Refin-me observes that the despatch of Lord Normanby gives the strongest contradiction in language almost insulting to the minister of perpetual peace. " Things being thus involved we see (says La Reforme)bat two con sequences possible • either Lord Normanby must de mand his passpo rt, and all relation between the two governments must erase, or, as seems much more probable, M. Guizot will be sacrificed in spite of hie parliamentary triumph." - - - L'Union Mnnarchnine says that it is a real and unequivocal declaration of diplomatic war. "We shall see on what footing M. Guizot will consider his relations with England to stand after so rude a blow," and adds the announcement of the retirement of Lord Normanby to England en eonge. • • •• The rumours which were prevalent in Path in all political and commercial circles for several days pre viously, prepared the public in some degree for these documents. Indeed the departure of Lord Normanby formed the chief subject of conversation during the latter part of the week. More precise details have reached us respecting the reported adhesion of I'rnsaia mentioned in our former Parts correspond ence. It appears that the letter received by Count d'Arnim, the Prussian minister at Paris, from Berlin expressed the adhesion of that cabinet to the inter pretation given by Lord Palmerston to the articles of the treaty of Utrecht, relative to the exclusion of the Orleans family from the throne of Spain—that if it should be called on to give its opinion it would blame the abolition of the Salique law in Spain and the change of the order of succession in favour of Queen Isabella, whom it does not acknowledge. This letter has been communicated to M. Guizot. On the other hand we learn that Austria has writ ten to its ambassadors at London and Paris to the same effect, but adding that England and Fiance, having acknowledged the present order of things in Spain, with them it considers that the rights of Isa bella and her sister must be sacred ; that with them the order of succession, as settled by the treaty of Utrecht, can have no force, and that they therefore cannot now appeal to that treaty, and therefore it considers that in the contin gency of Queen Isabella dying without children it will be only consistent in states which, like England, have accepted the Spanish revolution, to acknowledge the right of succession in the children of the Duchess of Montpensier. Such is the substance of a note ad dressed in duplicate to Count d'Appony at Paris and the Austrian ambassador in London, and which has been communicated to M. Guizot. As to Russia we are assured that that cabinet adheres in all respects to the opinion of Austria, and has transmitted a similar note to its ministers in Paris and in London. The law which liberates the coasting-navigation of France, so far as relatesto the transport of grain from all restriction, throwing it equally open to all foreign bottom., has been adopted without opposition by the Chambers. - - -------- The report mentioned in our Paris correspondence of yesterday that the Emperor of Russia had closed the ports of his empire to the exportation of grain having been contradicted in an equivocal and evasive manner by the Journal des Delnzia, La Reforrne, a journal which has devoted itself specially to this question of subsistence, reasserts the fact, and takes the Debate to task for the couree it has pursued on a question of such vital importance, respecting which the commerce of the country ought not to be left a moment in suspense. It is, in short, confidently stated that the closing of the Russian ports against the emission of grain has been officially notified to the French government. The organ of that government is in a condition at once to affirm or deny the truth of so important a statement. The .Thurnal des Minds, however, I does neither; it only ventures timidly to say that "letters from St. Petersburg have nut confirmed the news." The consequence of this is that most serious anxiety prevails on the sub ject in l'aris. Supplies of grain from Southern Russia and Poland appear to be indispensable to avert a famine in France, andas La Rolforme observes a ukase of the autocrat, which would shut the ports of Russia with an acknowledged superabundance in that country, would be a preliminary act of war. Tae price of bread for the last fortnight of Febru ary will be fi3e. per kilog., being equivalent to nearly 2id. per lb. This is a price to which it never at tained even in the scarce season of 1820, when it never exceed 521 e. per kilog., a price which it only maintained for fifteen days. Advices to the Bth inst., from Madrid, had been received in Paris. The Infant Don Enrique left Madrid on the 7th, under the guard of a brigadier of cavalry, Don Raffaele Mayaldc, Colonel of the Regiment of Maria Christina. Ile was to await at Barcelona the orders of the Queen. his banishment was said to be caused by the project of marriage attributed to him. F. P —lllne.per-Centp .Tf roar p...r rpm... : rive.yer• Cents ,24. Poulton. coup..., a , Boot of et. rcrdlnas& at. Ya chant Pt Loakke, 371. MONTREAL, J.ts. 28. After an unusually long and severe passage the Hibernia landed Lord Elgin safely at Ruston, on Monday, the 23. h instant On the following day he was to leave for Montreal, where he was hourly expected. A difficult, but brilliant career is before him, and, for what precise reason I know not, but so it is, the hopes of all parties run high in his favour. His career will be " brilliant" should he succeed where so many have failed ; it will be " difficult " only in the selection of the path to follow. On the 12th inst. a public meeting was convened by the Mayor, at which the heads of the Liberal and Conservative parties were present, with their fol lowers, and at which a non-committal address of congratulation, which had been preriuusly agreed upon, was submitted to the citizens, and adopted. A meeting has been called for the let of February to promote a subscription for the erection of a monu ment to the memory of Lord Metallic. Some French newspapers have ventured to hint that the statue, if it be one, will need a solid pedestal. Similar efforts have been made to commemorate predecessors of the deceased nobleman, but there is no such monu ment to departed greatness iu the land, excepting only in the cases of Wolfe and Montt:aim, of Nelson, and of Brook. The St. Lawrence and Atlantic Railroad has been located to a point in the township of Acton, in the midst of a hard wood forest, 15 miles beyond that village, and 45 miles from the river St. Lawrence. Contracts for the grading and construction of this road have been made at rates much under the esti mate of the chief engineer, and so confident are the contractors of the success of the project, that they have agreed to accept one-fourth of the payment of their work in stock ut par. Mr. Galt, a member of the board, is on his way to England, to make arrange. meats for the iron required for the rails. UNITED STATES & MEXICO. from that pressure of business which prevents him from reading even the leading foreign journals. It was believed in Washington that there would be a supplementary se-sion, the present hitting terminat• ing next month ; there was even a hint thrown out that congress might be called together is May to ratiThe a peaoe. fy governor of New York had pardoned the anti rent convicts. A new steamer was launched : she vrnq to run be tween New York and Bremen, touching at South- ampton. The packet-ship Garrick, Trask, from Liverpool, 14th nit, for New York, went ashore on Deal Beach, coast of New Jersey, on the night of the 2tith instant. She went on during thick weather, and at the time was going at the rate of 81 knots per hour. Two steamers from New York took off the passengers, 3:18 in number. The Garrick was got off on the 2ttth. After discharging her cargo, she was towed to New York. Some accounts say she received but little damage : others say none. COMMERCIAL NEWS. The commercial news is important. The following is from the New York Express and the New York Courierand Enquirer, papers which have a reputation for accuracy. -• • _ _ (From .k.'.raress.) The commercial advicee brought by the Hibernia have caused an excitement in our markets never before known, and an advance in prices, as unexpected to many as it has been weloo I.e. Previous to the arrival of the steamer. dates of the 12th December had been re ceived from Liverpool, advising an advance in cotton, which at once operated upon our markets, and an edema was soon nu:diligent. This increase of price continued upon the news of the Hibernia, and priers clove full one cent per pound higher than before the Dem. Upon the prices of breadstuff, the effect of the news was still mere marked. Flour, at the receipt of the news, M. horn I dots 82,M. ; dolt per barrel, at which rate it closes firm and in good demand. Wheat closes at 1 dol. 59e. the bushel, and Indian corn at I dot., • price it had not borne dace 1839. Rye, oats, ant all grains are In equally good demand at similar advances 'in price, and the ammnt of trimness is only re. strieted by the slat storks and the small tonnage in oar ports. 'This demand for broaddulh at each largely improved rates tare given • buoyancy to the feeling. of merchants rarely noticed, and they with good mama =deiced* a largely Increased banner, form the Lamm ' are mite richer by the rim of produce, so will they in turn eoswme more goods of ell kinds The stocks of Meade/lifts at the north are i nturz s gz . wing km, an The d the est, ttrade hat w ili c. g . r . ain will soon be Orleans turned to t lar Il leading staples, will soon haves shame to seal the psalm* their fields to Europe, at higher rates than ever. Already the receipts of breadatuffe and provisions have ineremed beyond f t mar years, no we haw shown in a table below, that is worth ClllllilWi., girini, as It wilt, some idea of the large amount of the necessaries of life in that minket - - Fannara ANT CAMIXICE. —ln the early part of the season, at the routhern porta, heights hay e ruled mush Either than at prennt, but all things now indicate another advance, and a perm.ment high rate for the remainder of the sear. This imprenion is iusuiined by the Bata of ship. in port at the leading southern cites, and by the accu mulation of stocks beyond the bulk of former ram Nos Orleans (tallest°. ..... .."'"871; . 9 .71 . 5247667. 13nri Tota• 111 44 t 3 2 is 10 7 17 43 lF 12 43 23 13 37 62 366 To above the amount of Cotton that remains to go forward, we give the etoeke at the four ports at the bet dates. 1847. -- - New Orloom 175,5118 bales. 132,998 balm. 42,570 bake ineresse. Mobile Sursonak ..... 58,904 „ 15,435 „ 41,149 „ increase. Cbarkston ... . 36,339 „ 31,181 „ 22,158 „ inerrant. leek, Jan. 11147,376092 „ Increase in 1047,90,916 „ nth, divided maw the weals at thorn ports, gives to each 1,029 Who, wad, tabs out the brim% Waves, owtea, 1,24 u bake each, Idea Y men Yea • full cargo all romml foe the cotton meets there. OstweL \swam, las played but a suboadlaate pert in freight. this year, sad the}on pest trade has been done le Wavy change artirlea Nor is the lets lesm lamps all calculated to Um face of things. The Oath erne at es abroad, bet the heavy weeks will follow It, Ina balk thew bin born. Our pep* of numb fe thee lees Mk year by the for of them kr government p In the thin, which he benefited those left in Weltbris Ithelene. The "nth freights are fat sten bine, too, the small wet OM any the s 1 of Cuba, or that when we are In the MUM el the thr maybe trade, we shall sce high rates paid there, ft einupeed .0. the Mee psid for other uncles. The mo bs= ef the thiselsh felrwa ow be imported into England under the SSW MEW SO" Ng hes lay been turned that way, tatting up seal laweigge, sekas• Wesel mrequence, enhancing the peo6lo et the eilw anion Ithisewer wit 7 base been the ruble of sLip swam In yews ire try, they see et the bigiwat rate this year. A merles el meths the thrown this the bands of the ship owners a once berme, idea wit etineetWe the building of thine to an extent that In flame yeas wth Terme the pleas toe foie emerge The ereilewest et the Eschenge *retinues as mat se ever, and is only limited by the with of meth All the oorn at marbet hail been bought up at • eyed ocousele ere made for delivery, at the same price within the aem Yg month. Freights are eownently improving, and the demand kw meth Is %Loathed. rtuck. or Como, Nay You, arrtlIDAT, JAS. 30. IW. —.-- .—....____.. N. Orleans. Oplied& Florida. MvOde & Texas. Interior Ordinary Middling _........ ..... 1 1211 2 a 12 1 191 121 Goal Mlddlisp... . . 1 124 12 a 121 121 13 ..... Middling Pair Fair....... Fall l air IS 13 4 WM. IN 14 14 141 Mr ..... --.... bales. 2J,000 10,000 .... 10,000 _ . Receipts aim the Ist Wit —.... = it ty Elpl do. ener. d do. o. • Taken on epoeulatian en Stock in City 22,000 Amount on pale 9,000 Iteoclpta at porta of tee U. 4 since Sept. 1, ISM... ...... " Exports from U. S. since Sept 1, 1003 — , , 3140183 ."' same period last year year beton - Ezehaagev. I AIWA . Paris London 1 061 to 1 OR I HAVINI — to 1 23 e. - - - . iFrom the Courier and Enquirer.] A few comparative figures wilt illustrate better than words the extent of the rue-and Wise given may serve so the measure of almest all others Deacons Flour, Jn. 73, MI. 62e. to Idol. 681 e. per bd. Jan 40, 7dL, sake. Wheat, „ 141. 104. to Idol. 124. per bus. 601bs. 141. Nara Indian Coen, 72c. to 79e. Bales. „ Mite. 141. „ Cotton, January 234. Cpland hand Florida. M0h 4700 ne and N. 0. 0500 s Interior none. none Fine Ord. to good ord. Mid. to good mid. Mid. frik to fair Full fair to good fair l2l . 12 13j .. 13j 17 Cotton, Jan. 30. Upland and Florida. Mar. 0,100 and N.O. ,900 Inferior Ordinary to goad ordinary II to If lli ;to 124 Middling to Rost middling 1 ... 121 121 ... 13 Makting fair to fair l2 134 131 ... 13j Fully (air to good fair l3 .14 14 . . lid line noin s inal. nominal. U.S. Mx per Cent. Stork of 1b56 96 ord., 96 soled, 100 sales. Ohio „ „ „ 014 ... 92 ... 94j .. Magitnitry ~ ~ „ 974 ... 97 ... 994 ... rant 8 Indiana „ 34 . 35 ... 39 sales. The iinguenta of beend-otuNs to Enrope carotin. unabated, and del=r o : by th e difficulty of procuring sweets. Freight of guar to . 1 has advanced to 70. per barrel-4r haring been the coreautikelght in past year.; for Indian corn 224. sterling are paid a prim almost equal to the cart in ordinary times of the corn. The MO pekes ruling hoe new will bring forward every bushel of corn and hand of dour that can be hurried to market, by river and rail road. Car rivers ave now closed by ice, but all rearmds that tend to the mug are worked to their utmost capacity to throw supplies on the gang& ?rem New Orleans a large quantity of Boar and bag* meg will be sent forward, if newels shall be them in sufficient nimiter. Up IM the UM of this month, the exports from New Orleans van a 1. kids. psis t- My .... 105,23e barrel,. 332,090 bushels. Thin were u.New Wham., at the same date, of all kind, including susion mad prints-11 I. ships 44 barques, 93 brig., and 39 salbalissn. 11.1eissipts at New Orleans this year greatly exceed is... GM* so kr bularcr noir .. .. . ..- ..... 8441•1 binds. against 236,340 log year. lillos .........—... 11....8 mein „ 224.030 Oaf 1fi5a1.—........ . 4171 bola. „ 1,907 Moat Mpg% Inesa, ba., the excess is in the eine proportion. Ezports, Receipts, 'se. of f 4epteus azirvi; potis of the U. P. from Use Is ber—lin thourad Wes.) Exported froze U.S. 111 111 Vessels op Hr G. S. , Fr. --.:- ARRIVAL OF THE HIBERNIA. The North American steamer, Hibernia, Captain Kyrie, arrived at Liverpool yesterday morning, bringing news from Boston to the Ist fast, and from Halifax to the 3rd. There had been no battle in Mexico, nor was there any likelihood of one. The report of Santa Anna's movements was a false one • and an opinion gained ground in America that he had no such resources in material and cavalry as those alleged. The following is the latest aocountwhich is given in the IVoshington Union: MONTIREY, Dec. 24, 1846.-1 send you a few lines by Major Van Buren, who leaver in half en hour for New Orleans. We have had something of a stampied throughout this district last week, occasioned by a letter from General Worth, who received information that Santa Anna was bearing down upon him with great strength. This, how ever, appears not to have been the ease, and we are again enjoying a feeling of security. The effect produced is, nevertheless, good ; for it has caused some 5,000 troops to be concentr ated near Sakai°. Generals Wool and Worth are there, and General Butler exercising chief command. General Taylor has again left ua with the division of Toiggs for Victoria. After going as far as Montemorelos, 60 miles, General Wentworth's letter brought trim beck to this place, but he did not remain long witn us. This place mazy be considered safe from any probable attack. The New Yurk Erpress says : It now appears that the movement of Mexican troops towards Ssltallo, was not the main body of Santa Anna's army, but a small detachment, which rumour swelled into a general advance of the whole Mexican force, prior to a deci sive battle. Since that time we have had a rumour of an engagement between General Quitman's division and some Mi mean troops, near 'Victoria, but it is not credited, and all our military mei entente are more in doubt than ever. The inactivity of Santa Anna occasioned strong surmises that he was not in earnest in his hostility to the Americans, and only desired to put himself in a position of strength with the army, in order to o :er awe his own capital. The dates from the city of Mexico were up to the close of December, and although the Congress assem bled there in the beginning of the month, it does not appear that the proposals for negotiation instead of war, had been disposed of, even, if they had been considered at all. "We have," • says the New York Gassier and Inquirer, "received by the way of Havana and New Orleans, a rumour that these pacific overtures had been rejected, by a large majority, and that war was resolved on while a single American battalion occu pied Mexican soil. However probable this result— I and we deem it highly so—there is no reliable account that it has been determined on. The election of Santa Anna, president ad interim, and of Gomez Ferias, as vice-president, both to hold until a popular election under a constitution yet to be adopted, shall occur, indicates a settled purpose to fight rather than treat. Gomez Ferias took the oath of office" on the 24th of December, as vice-president and acting presi dent, Santa Anna being absent with the army. On this occasion he pledged himself solemnly to continue the war with vigour and constancy till the country was freed from the invaders." In the mtan time great activity prevailed on the' side of the Americans. The blockade of the Mexi can coast wee rigidly enforced, and the materials of war were being despatched from New Orleans to the army. A communication from that city appeared in a Charleston paper, which seemed to emanate from a mili tary source, and which stated that a march would be made direct upon Mexico by Gen. Scott. "The distance is only 250 miles, and the road is said to present no serious obstacles to the march of troops. Gen. Scott will advance at once on San Luis Potosi, simulta neously with the Tuepan movement. It is supposed that Santa Anna will not fight at Potosi,when he finds 9,000 men advancing from Tampon, but will fall back on Queretaro, end thence to Tulancingo, to oppose our advance from Tuepan. At this point he can make a strong stand. But here the double howitzer brigade will act with great efficiency." Congress had passed the new loan and treasury bill, and both had been signed by the President. The Express says : These bills authorise the issue of twenty-eight millions of government paper, bearing a rote of interest not over its per cent. These notes will be paid out in all directions, end the funding of our war debt, and the provision of means for its repayment, left to store quiet times, and, in all proba bility to another administration. The new Note and Loan Bill is of a mixed character, and enables the treasury to ob. rain the money for the use of the government upon more favourable terms than by a loan. Ike law allows the issue of notes at small as fifty dollars, and at a rate not exceeding air per cent. The notes, after a certain thee, as ae be funded, and the accruing isteseit 1i in wary. These notes will become • eirculatleg enrreney, add will increase to their amount the business narrow of the country. The revenue from the tariff is not saddlsetory to the administration, and from present appearances the duties will be increased on many leading articles. It is stated that the secretary will ask for an increase of ten per cent. on iron, and a reduction of ten per cent. on small manufactures of iron, and an advance of thirty per cent. on refined surer, with a tax of twenty per cent. upon tea and coffee. I'h• success of the request is, as we have before said, doubtful; for the tariff once opened, it would be altered much more than the administration would care to have it. The angrier and Enquirer adds, An amendment was made in the Senate—which has been concurred in by the house--to the bill as it panted the house, taking from the Secretary of the Treasury the authority given hint by the 4th section, to hypothecate three notes as security fir borrowing money. He is forbidden now to hy pothecate them under any circumstances. As these Trea sury notes, when of small size, will be a very convenient currency,of equal value throughout all the states, and as they are payable to all public creditors, who must take them, or abide their time for payment in some other form—it seems reasonable to suppose that, if due caution be observed in the issue of such notes, a considerable amount of them may be put out and circulated without depreciation. The other feature, too, in these notes, of being convertible at will into a six per cent. stock of long term—while drawing until 60 converted six per cent. interest, will render them favourites for investments of floating capital always in the market awaiting profitable employment. Peace with Mexico, at any time before the redemption of these notes, would at once carry up stocks, and thus make a good operation for those who should fund the notes held by them. The Ten Regiments Bill was still before Con gress, and it appears from sundry discussions that the rejecton of lieut.-general was not out of hos tility to government, but from the circumstance that he was to be a civilian—a kind of political superin tendent. Pending the debate on the bill, a private letter waspu blished in New York, from General Taylor, justi fying himself, and censuring the admi nistration. t was written to, and made public by, General Gaines, to be used, it was conjectured, for " political capital." Congresshas been alsooecupied by cert sin resolutions prop )sed by Mr. Miles, declaring the necessity of an additional revenue of from five to ten millions; pro posing to raise this sum by increase of duties on articles of the tariff of 1846, and including tea and coffee. A bill was brought in for creating the office • ' . .-•*- , e•eretary of state, to relieve the secretary Sots.. Misuse= ..... Same Moe b 11 0 - 11 .•• Da. 1643.8... Do. 114.1-4 " 1011 13 424 08, 81. 1110 It 3121 9601 82 03 19 1137 l$& 47i 14$ 110 1193 110, 39 1431 Sal 4441 786 3I 36, 211 011 211 . 4 29 41 111, 24 43 31, 192' 246 25 3. 1071 2311 39, 19 289 3311 231 l2l 1711 2341 18423:: Do. 18414.. (180-7 Doling the four I 18434 • weeks codoig j 18144 Y in the slavelll4.l-4 . 118 W 1841-2 .. The above tables aze made up to Use tame ltaturday at all Southern =We mn no longer my that Me reeelpte and errata of the weeks (betvreen the steamers) fall short of thole In the awry. wading week. of former mamas. The reseipts of the bar weeks exceed those or .11 the Lot lee smarm except 1.842-43. Uwe made up our tables to the /stem dates from the mush foe this meson mid sorreeponding data foe former ammo" they would stand thus:— 1415-7. 11123.8. 18.14.5. Receipts Export to Cheat Britain bhowlng that both receipts and expiate are gxiaing upon last sea There has been much speculation bore of tote, end on irregularity of perm, which makes quotation difficult ; but middling qualities of Uplands gr i leans e and I r i r . sornewliem The kaaia r f tween 12L da 13) (ethn tion ical:. the expectation of room favourable accounta the Treen Europe ! but we apprehend the deficiency in the export of our season so fiefs chiefly regiirded, and the probable import of Europe in its year, lost sight of. Thus: 1846-7. 1643.6. To Gt. Britain. France. Gt. Britain. France. Exports as above 211 46 338 101 Of whlctithemarrived in Europe up to Dee. 31 48 20 1O To arrive after Jan. t... 165 67 175 on Tug ..e see that. although the export of our mown 4 very de fiant, the arrivals is Liverpool and Ram together from lot Janu ary to the aid of February, are unlikely to fall more than .5,000 or 10,000 bales shurt of laet year. As respects the crop, we can only my th►t the astlzoltes have risen is the lad ten cap, but we cannot vet feel any covlltienee in mom than two millions of bake—perhapo rather under than over that amount, but ewe day givie information on this point. The amount of experts of flour, corn, corn Will. wheat, and barley, from this port glow 25th Dec. up to 79th Wet., wi— nner. Dors. Meal. Wheat. Parley. 105,060 Mb. 459,105 ho. lk 500 LAMA. 55,060 Inc. 40,5015 bc. NEWS FROM PORTUGAL. We hose received front Portugal to the following dates:—Gibraltar. Feb. 6; Cadiz, 7: l.sbou, 10 ; Oporto. I t ; and Vigo, 12. The hews is interesting. Saldenha was at Agueda with hits army, about 11 leagues south of Oporto. The pro , laces in general had, it is said, become fa vourable to the Miguelite cause. For a complete summary of news, we refer to ola sorrespondnit's letter. OPORTO, Fee, P. If the stninle now going on in this distracted country dote not progress more rapidls than it has done during the 1 of six weeks, the period et which we may look for its ter:niaation is I fear very far distant. It quite ob vious from t.: caution and hesitation i.f Saldanha ;is not ex tending h's march beyond Agueda, 10am he 6611 remained on Sunday last (the 7th), that he fears to piece the Douro between his forces and the Lisbon government. In the meantime the Junta are gathering strength mid confidence, to much so as to prompt them to send mit a small body of about IGO men, with directions to proem.' cautiously towards Aveiro, a small port and fishing town art the coact, and within four leagues of Agueda, where 8.0 !ambit has established his bead quarters. This force left Oporto on the 6th, and arrived at Aveiro about two in the mraing of `Sunday, sur prising the mi.itary governor, a commissary of the Queen's forces, and about half a-doren stanch Cahralistas, who, together with all the booty the men could lay handsel', were conveyed .0 Oporto, to which place the expedition returned in safety ea Sunday afternoon. It was said that the object which these men had in view was to endeavour to seize Saldanha, during a visit he was expected to make to the military governor of Aveira, but this is not probable, as Saldanha was not likely to remain all night absent from his own head-quarters, and the time of arrival at Asiero wu planned to be in the middle of the night. The out posts of the duke's cavalry, were stationed only six miles from the place were t'ida ern*, de main was being executed. This incident, together with the particulars of the death of Macdoenell, the Miguelite general are the only occurrences that I have to narrate. The manner of Mudonnell's death reflects no credit on the sol diery by whom he was cut off. It i ppears that Vinhacs, who command. a brigade in the upper Douro provide*, having obtained a reinforcement of cavalry under the com mand of Col. Laps, pursued the force under 3fsedonnell and dispersed it, the Miguelite general and some of his One ediate officers flying in the direction of Chaves ; the snow, how ever, blocked up the mountain defiles and compelled him to return and proceed by the main read, where he was perceived by some of the cat airy, and being:over...aen, the old man drew his sword and made a fight for his life, but finding himself overmatched he lowered his weapon and was immediately cut down, coo of his aides cutleries the sante fate. The soldiery stripped him, ar.d hit his body in the road with mutely any toverMg upon it. in the: course of the evening he was buried in the churchyard of the little town of dahroso ' near which he was slam. This account was furnished to me by one of the messengers who convey commissions to the wine country. and who stated, likewise, that there was found on the General 60 Spanish doubloo ns (tines guinea pieces), a nassive gold chain, and a watch. The death of Mactlonnel placed the command pf the Miguelite forces in the hands of Bernardino Coelho, who, as I have already stated (in my last), has scot in his a d hesion to the Junta; and in the .V,sciortal of Oporto the: o is contained a procla mation issued by this officer, the eeutimentscf which are in strict accordance wits those exprees,d by General PlMuu in his proclamation. With respect to the general diapo•ltion of the forces at the command of the Junta and their strength, I may state that Das Antes and Baron d'Almargt in effected 0 junction of the two brigades which left this exy a week or ten days since, and the united force, consisting of about 2,000 men, including 800 cavalry, are at this moment at Braga. Genera: Pause was on the 3d inst. at Valenni in the upper Beira, with a considerable force. Brigadiers Berner dice and Cesar Vaseoncellos are in another part of the same province i Minim), where Duo Antes is now stationed; the first is et Guimusens, with 700 men Caesar Vanoncellos is at Penafiel, having under his orders the 7th regiment of barrettes-, and the popular battalion of Ammanthe, with about ail horse. Of Saldanha's movements there is no intelligence save that he remains in the position which he has so long occupied. Laps has returned to Vises; Sola, another of the Queen's officers, is at Guards in the Beira. The blockade of Oporto, which his been a mare farce fur so many weeks,. has again lammed something of a real form by the appaition of the frigate Dons Mona, and the brig Serra do Pillar off the Bar: the inconvenit ece and IPA to which this subjects our merchants are very great. There is some talk here of a requisition being made by the Queen to the admiral for the purpose .f sending our men-id-war steamers out of the liver at and during the period when this city shall be invested, and the Spanioh brig which has so - long constituted a tallying pond for the fugitives of the Queen's party. is oleo expected to leave the Douro. The English inhabitants have, I be lieve, reenoustrated against - this proceeding on the part of our own vessels, hut the result of their remonstrances has yet to be seen. In other respects the city is quite tranr,uil, nor are there any symptoms of disorder or apprehension to be perceived. It will be seen that the expected visit of Colonel Wylde has not taken place. The foreign ministers resident at Lisbon have (nearly alit sent a remonstrance to the government, against sending the unfortunate prisoners made at Torres Vedras to the coast of Africa. I am happy to be able to state that the Duke has not suf fered the slightest change in his treatment, nor as long as the Junta posuesses any authority will his captors visit on him the cruelties practised on Domfini and his compa nions.—lle Oroam, Fan. 9.—For metal, 263.; fir new crowns, Ad.; for notes, 44d. ; dlwesint on notes, 23 par cent. Feetonge in lit , builk 27, 55id. DUICOURt on note*, 1,100 and 1, - "10 ler nwidore at 4,300 Teta erbt eourt. Lord John Russell had an audience of the Queen, yesterday, at Buckingham Palace.—H.R.H. Primo, Albert rode out un horseback, yesterday, accompanied by Count A. Meusdorff, and attended by the &ma ry in Waiting, Capt. the Hon. A. H. Gordon. —The Royal dinner party Duchess at Buckingham Palace included 11.11. H. the Duchess of Kent, Count A. Mensdorff, their Extellencies Count and Countess Dietrichstein, the Duchess of Suther land. and Lady C. Leveson Gower, Lady P. Howard, Baroness de Speth, the Earl of Minto, and Lady E. Eliot, Lord and Lady Beauvale. and Colonel the Honouratlo C. B. Phipps. In the evening the following had the honour of joining the royal circle :—H.S.H. Prince Loewenstein, Sir Henry Wheat.' ley, the Milian Wheatley, Mr. G. E. Anson, Colonel Sey mour, and Captain Francis Seymour. Her Majesty it:Netted, yesterday, the full-length portrait of H.R. 11. :he Duke of Cambridge, which was submitted by Mr. D.ilten. Their A.R. lI.H. the DucheFs of Curnbridge and the Princess Mary, and H.B.H. Prince Frederick of Heave, visited and inspected the Colosseum and the Polytechnic Institution yesterday. A deputation front the Indi t and Australia• Mail Packet Company bad en interview with the Earl of Claren don, yesterday, at the Office of the Board of Trade. The deputation was accompanied by Viscount Sandou, M.P., Mr. J. Pettiest, M.P.., Sir 11. Douglas, Bart., M.P., Mr. W. Hut, M.P. Mr. W. Moffatt, M.P., and Mr. R. M. Martin ; and consisted of Means. J. Somas, D. Pugh, E. sexton, R. Ford, T. Wilson, J. Montafiore, T. Browne, F. W. Green, and J. Yates.—Mr. Halswall bad en interv,ew with Earl Grey, yesterday, at the Colonial-office.—Lord Stradbroke had au interview with Sir G. Grey yesterday. Lord Port man had also an interview, yesterday, with the right hon. baronet, at the Home-offiee.- -The chairman of the Stamps and Taxes had an interview with the Chancellor of the Ex chuer, yesterday. THE SPFAKER'S LEVERS.—The Speaker will hold two levees only in the present session. Tho first, on Satur day the 20th, and the second, on Saturday the 27th of February, _at 10 o'clock. THE MEXICAN ANBASSADOR.—Doctor I)on Jose Maria Luis Mora Is appointed Minister Plenipotentiary and Envoy Extraordinary Item Mexico to the court of Great Britain. His Excellency is sew In Paris, but may be daily expected. PUBLIC DINNER TO MR. WAHLEY. A dinner wee given last evening at the Angel Inn, Islington, to Thomas Wakley, Esq.,!ld.P., by his constitu ents, the inhabittnts of Finsbury, about seventy of whom were present. The chair was taken by Mr. Vielden, M.P., who, on the cloth being removed, proposed a toast which he said used to be t'rank in past times—"'The People, the source of all political power," entering at some length . into tbtir present compered with their past com..,ion. A great struggle was then made for reform, and they had obtained a Reform Bill, which he rnointeined had not meliorated the condition of the people, because it had not gone far enough. He went through the principal measures which have been since paired, commenting upon them r altogether insufficient for the purpose, and co..demiaing the Poor-law Amendment Bill in severe terms. The system et annual parliaments arm the great cure for evils of the kind, and that system the people had a right to demand. He concluded by proposing cordially the toast which he had given them. " The People" was, acoordingly, drunk with great enthusiasm, and was followed by the health of the Queen, with appropriate honours. The CRAIMIAN then proposed the health of the guest of the company and his own friend, Mr. Wakley, of whose con duct, in public and in private life, he volt.: in the highest terns. Mr. WAILIXT, in expreeshi le his acknowledgments, spoke of the duties of a member at legislature who did justice to his ounstiteenta, which he discribed to be severe in the extrema, but the herdahips of which he had gone through for many years, holding at the sometime the no lees onerous office of coroner for the county. He agreed with his hon. friend the chairman es to the insufficiency of reform in par liament, decline espeoially upon 1,-* sity for an equitable poor-law for insuficiency of the presetst government for remedying its disuses. Tee b' marred to some accusations made ranee to ths late logging case allegei that he kept heck attain ts. applied for a criminal information Queen's Bench against kin maligners ; granted. but subsequently ditcbarged. declaim he was about to appeal by tied r that lir. Wilson—the witneta whom eampetatt man; and he sasurrd thee ail piewal friend, he knew nothing udbjeet until he heard them in court. eat the whole case should be upon friagalaira, the necta- r; for that ocuutry, sof Ma • remnant and other measnain su lt sb. Tre bon. gen - *HS • • . node against ht at Hounslow, wee, l Min medical ibe formation in that it of taligners ; the 14. Mai wan istbarged, and agiinbi whin[ by civil act, ...t. firodiatalawl whom he called-fwanithigiii, • ' rd them that altraareyait : • tothing of bit op Ll t e l. i court. Ifc was , • ' inriatagated and in tit :tteht highest' nage I .j TAW* in the, h roue' °heroes um's gni the ,Lessons n then th refe it was y. He ourt of t which 1 nt,ineci I,ghly he woo on this •• 7 .4mined MegN I • • Y lg the and Mail 'Tea- The Mr. r. W. artin ; on, R. h Earl Ihroke I Port ,l hon. it.,mpe he II hold 271!I of I Jove lry and ; Great * daily •l inn, Inctitu f venom hich be de, the th into , qdnioe..l d tbir not ad not a l eas um* hem ing the Atm of k with I of thit