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coerced. They must call upon them, and petition them, and move the people to petition them. The House of Lords would not undertake the Herculean task of fighting both the House of Commons and the country.—(Loud cheers.) He wishei.. l to speak very respectfully of the British Constitution—it was by that Constitution that they must secure their triumph.—( Loud cheers.) They could not afford that the Constitution should be materially injured in any part ; they could not afford to lose a tingle 'vat of its pulse. nor to interrupt the flow of its blood for a j'inglo moment. He would touch no artery or vein that might be found in the Constitution, nor would he touch its power or its vigour so as to produce the least paralysis, even for a single moment ; but if he saw any part of it diseased, he would cry out till he had satisfied it that it was in a condition of malady, and saw that it began to recover. It was only in this way that he would direct their attention to the mode of deal ing with their Lordships in the Upper House. Let the Society then endeavour to send to the House of Commons those men who would work out the objects the Society had in . view. Thanks would never come alone except in one case, and that was after a triumph.--(Cheers arid laughter.) They wanted no further help when the victory was over, and would be then satisfied with thanks. But the Church-rate Abolition Society had not obtained its victory. It had just entered the field ; and, upon the first day that it came before the public, it was laughed at.—( Hear.) All recruits were.—( Laughter.) The cry was, what an awkward squad.—(Great 'laughter.) and that squad had been already laughed at, therefore they need not be at all surprised at the Church-rate Abolition So ciety being laughed at in the outset. But now, that men had come up from all parts of England —now, that they had seen the men of England, the men of Ireland, and of Scotland united, would they laugh now 1—( Cheers.) Now, that they found even his Majesty's Ministers intimating that something was to be done even this very month, would they laugh now ? When, Wellington •marsbflled his raw recruits, at first, no doubt, he understood what they could do, and therefore did not laugh at them; but others, who did not, might be disposed to laugh at them.—( Hear, hear.) But Napoleon did not laugh at them, when they were mustered in the field.—((sheers.) He would just say--" You, the Church Rate Abolition So ciety, look back to your past doings, and I think you will see that for a child so young it has done admirably." If their claims were not conceded during the present session, he would advise them to increase in num bers, as they certainly would in strength, during the recess, to disseminate their opinions, and fo come back again with the fresh summer air invigorated and determined to ask for further concessions. —(Cheers.) They would thus get two or three of Mr. Crawford's instalments. Had they grounds to do this ? Could they meet the ridicule and the sneers of their enemies? Ought they not to abstain from politics; being of a religious society ? Ought they not disclaim agitation while they declared themselves men:of peace? Why not pay homage to the King as head of the Church— ( A laugh)—inasmuch as they professed themselves loyal sub. jests—why not put up with a tyrant majority, or why seek to obtain possession of the majority themselves? They should, he should say, get upon the back of the animal majority, in stead of remaining any longer beneath his feet, where they had already received so much injury. They should tame him so that a child could play with him. He did not think a mi nority had any right to tax a majority of the nation for reli gious purposes. He did not relish the idea of establishing a religion by proclamation.—He concluded an able speech by trusting than the meeting would not only by their voice, but bytheir pockets, assist the laudable object they were met upon. The Rev. Wu. MIJRCELL proposed a vote of thanks to the Chairman, which was seconded by Mr. CHILDS, of Bungay, who deprecated in a spirited speech, for which we regret we have not time or space, the course that had been pursued towards him at Bungay, during which he drew forth the most enthusiastic cheering fromthe meeting. Wsles, he could say that he came from the mountains of Wales, sent there by a constituency that could not be calculated -•nt less than 5,000 men, not to speak certainly, but to act. ' Still, as his friend Mr. Hall had requested him to give some information respectin g th e cause o f dissent, he bad in his hand - ,a paper, the contents of which were of some interest to the Meeting. He had been sent up to the meeting of delegates by 27 congregations. Before he left home, he addressed cir cUlars requesting information with regard to the voluntary principle. Unfortunately he had got returns but from 17, but these 17 would afford r. fair, specimen of the remainder. 01 these 17, but five existed pie‘ious to the present century. Since that time eight of themwerc built, and two had been rebuilt twice, at an expense of 12,000/. There were in the same neigh - bourhood other Dissenters, not connected with the deputation, L , who bad erected chapels at an expense of 4,0001.; and the , Established Church, in the voluntary way, had erected school s-Lars swine at the expense of 3,5001., making altogether 20,000/. -liner hey had collected for their annual expenses, 1,470/., and for deid e otber expenses the stun of 3,000/. He could only say Chat aletethe mountains of Wales, though bleak and barren and ext..o - ied e to the cold blast, yet had a warm heart, and would join heartily e,' in their efforts. Their cry for justice the mountains of Wales • should echo back to the rallies of England, and he would only • add that they would go on ; they had_ put their hands to the plough, and they did not intend to look back until they had driven to the head of the furrow.—( Loud cheers.) The resolution was then put and carried. Mr. M. NILLIPPS begged to intimate to that highly re spectable and numerous meeting, that it was not till 11 o'clock that morning—but a few minutes before his Hon. Friend took tie chair—that he was made aware that the meeting was fixed for this day, and in this place. He knew not why, but it mast have been owing to some irregularity in his constitu ents, that he was not sooner made aware ; but he begged to assure them that though he appeared sin this occasion totally unprepared to address them, yet he was prepared with a piece of information that was infinitely more valuable and more powerful, viz., that lie had received a petition from :38,700 individuals in favour of the object of the meeting.— (Loud cheers.) He bad received a petitiorr to the House of Commons for the total abolition of Church -rates; and he assured them that to the great principle contained in it he was warmly attached. The Dissenters were charged by a portion of the public press, with the desire in seeking for their rights, to put forth their hostility to the Established Church. They were told that in their present endeavours they gave a sample oc e infidelity. He believed he spoke in the presence of those , , ,who attended that meeting as delegates from one million of • . s the inhabitants of England ; and if that were so, how, he .asked, could it be said that they wished to give a specimen of infidelity ? or why should they be charged with the intention of overthrowing the Established Church, while they only sought the attainment of their just rights. A million of Eng . lishmen was rather a strange specimen of infidelity.— (Hear, hear, hear.) He hoped they were actuated by no such sentiments, and he saw in the disposition to misrepresent their motives, and to call names the best proof of a bad cause, and of the absence of all argument. He was convinced that justice would prevail, and that truth would conquer.—(Cheers.) He was sure that to their success una nimity among themselves was essentially necessary, and he hoped gentlemen would be ready to sacrifice minor differences in order to secure the triumph of what all so much desired.— (Hear.) The resolution which he should propose was to the effect that the thanks of the meeting should be given to the • Committee of the Church-rate Abolition Society, for their _ zeal and efficiency in discharging the duties com s snitted to their care.—(Cheere,) He was aware of the s e rvices of these gentlemen, beeauCe they arranged many • matters of detail into which a public meeting could not enter, and to their effective co-operation should be attributed the ex cellence of their arrangements that day. He would not tres pass further upon their time than to assure them of the anxiety . of the numerous constituency, whom, however humbly he had the honour to represent, to aid their fellow-countrymen in the effort to put down the grievance so much complained of, and to procure for all classes of the community a full measure of-religious equality and justice.—( Hear, hear, and cheers.) The Rev, Jonas Ilueeev, a delegate from Edinburgh and Glasgow, rose, timid great cheering, to second the resolution. It gave him much pleasure, when he reflected on the approba tion which the exertioes of the Committee of the Church-rate Abolition Society had obtained in Scotland. He visited, only . • a few days ago, Edinburgh, and Perth, and Glasgow.-- (Laughter.) In these three places, very-large and very ef fective meetings had been very lately held ; and from two out of three of these meetings he had been requested to present their sentiments to the Churcherete Abolition Society in England, and to induce that Society, as far as their approba tion could be any indueement, to go on in the career they had so gloriously begun. If only one thing was to be touched on at once, then he had to say that one thing was touched upon there, which was, that they were veady to go along with the Anti-Church-rate Society until Its labours -were brought to a close.—( Cheers.) It was most satisfactory to him to have heard so many Members of Parliameht address the meeting to-day. He was glad that he had waited to hear all of them indeed, he could have waited till every Member of both Houses had addressed the same sentiments to them.--( Cheers.) He was not afraid that the people of the House of Parliament would refuse to do them justice. (Hear.) He was glad to hear not only men from Scotland and England representing the Rose and the Thistle uniting their sentiments together on this great question, but he had been glad also to hear a friend from the land of the Shamrock offering his hearty concurrence in the principles stated. If he was rather in too great a hurry—if Ile had made that blunder, it was one on the right side.—(Cheers.) If the Anti-Church Rate Society could terminate its labours without the assistance of Parliament, but as it could not, that assistance must be re sorted to, and he had no doubt that it would be received. He would say that this Society must be sustained in its • labours ; and the encouragement now given to it must sustain it, in the meeting of so many from various parts of the king dom, to tell how cordially and how readily they harmonised with it in its movements. But it might be asked, what had the Society done to deserve thanks ? It had collected this • raeeting.—( Hear, hear) ;—it had sent out , not its mandate, not its despotic decree, but its advice, and that advice had bee n responded to by the properly thinking —the man hood —the enthusiasm of this meeting.—(Much cheering.) But the Church Rate Society had done more than assemble this meeting ; it had assembled the Members of the House of Commons right and left of him to address the meeting— (Loud cheers)—and of placing the Honourable Chairman where he was, so as to have afforded him the opportunity of so Appropriately addressing the assembly.—( Hear, hear.) The • last field-day in this very room had been occasioned by this society, and so had the present, therefore he had no delicacy, especially - as he was not a member of the committee, in giving his cordial expression of thanks to that committee.—( Cheers. ) I have perceived (continued the Rev. Gentleman)—l do not know why it was—perhaps I might guess the reason, that when anything was said about Church-rates connected with Glasgow, there appeared to be a smile on the faces of all present—(Laughter)—there seemed to be a general feel ing that there was something about Glasgow that made the connection between Church -rates and Glasgow a sort of odd match.—(Hear, hear, and laughter.) Now, I cannot think why Glasgow should be thus treated. It does not appear to me that Glasgow has sunk itself, or that it ever sunk itself; nor do I think it will ever sink itself.—( Hear, hear.) There were days.of the olden times of the Covenant when Glasgow and its vicinity stood high as a bulwark against ecclesiastical .91spression.—( Cheering.) Glasgow has never sunk since, and ,to .the present moment it stands foremost in Scotland, or at least amongst the foremost, to resist o pp res s i o n. A few days ago, w h en I was . i n Glasgow, a petition on the subject of t Which this m ee ti n g has met, was put in circulation. It had °Vgri in circulation •for two or three days ; it was still :going its rounds, and there had been added to it fif teen thousand names.—(" Hear, hear," and much cheering. ) 15 ,000 names had been added to it—fcr what ?—to tell the .;British House of Commons not to oppress their brethren in -England, by an exaction of Church-rates. A gentleman who bad Paid a visit, had an address presented to him with 3,000 name s , which he said he intended to hand do wn to his famil y As an leir-loom, to be kept by them to the end of time. Compared with that, what are we to say of the petition having received 15,000 signatures in so short a space of time? Then what was to be done with this petition with 15, 000 names—per haps th e number might be doubled or more ? He s aw a smile upon th e i r countenances when be spoke of this petition. If he translated right, that smile was caused by the failure of the attempt to Torify that city—(Loud cheers) —in order to pre , vent it ever thinking of Church-rates at all excep t to p a y them. That petition was got up, and ran to the ext ent he ad stated—it-had received that number of signatures even before the Peel box was taken down.—(Great laughter.) T he Pavilion still stood as a triumph of Toryism, yet the petitions had circulated round it, and gathered in a • few days no less than 15,000 signatures. It had been stated in Glasgow in order that the national religion is necessary that the nat i on m i g h t h ave an opportun i t y o f p a ying homage to Chri s tianity —then Church-rates are to be considered as an homag e to Christianity ; so said the man who once was in P i rer--(lmmense cheering. If he were to ask the Hon. ember f or D un d a lk what he thought of the homage presented to Christianity by the coercive system in Ireland, the mind of the * lit "on ' Gentleman would immediatel y revert to the mur •of the Ry ans . W as t h at an h omage to Christianity ? Were the distress warrants, and the execution of them—were the scrits of rebellion—homage paid to Christianity ? Would the Ae thor of Christianity, looking down from his throne of glory and newer—what would he think of such homage, paid to Christianity? It was such homage as was practised in iruidical worship, when tapers were lighted to do homage to the noonday sun ; but still there was a difference, for there teas som e ana l ogy i n that homage, but in this there was none , t s irii% in direct opposition to Christianity, They might make a bre e d:. but would it be practicable? Let them examine it till they . besi reason to hope so. When they looked at the House of Conmons they might say that they were sure of ,t _majority.—(Louti cheers.) If t h ey got a ma j or i ty o f the u ernmons, they had ii hope which lie was sure would not r ove a f or l orn h o p e .—(M uc h c h eering.) But they must k beyond ; an d, I se wou ld a sk, w h o ever turned away from e ' l l l B _ Work becaus e the heaviest end was to come ?=( Loud eers.) They must expect this question to be discussed, and he - hoped it would be passed by the Hou se o f C ommons oil then it would find its way to the other Ho use .—(Ch eers , and laughter.) That House was made to keep the people in order; it was ma d e to cure the other House of its folly— (Lau h t dish (Laughter)_ —and to take care that they should nouri e b an d wisdom ; and he was very willing to allow, that 4 ' 4,1 11 ma ny occasio ns , t h at H ouse had acted well i ts part, e had reason t o h o p e that oa the present occasi on tiattietyL no would act w e ll t h eir part.—(Reisesaed cheering.) ge.th es vr were they to make them do so? They Pause' or that day, n o t for the pUrpose of coercion, but to pro test la against coercion. —.(Loud cheers.) He saki !hat the Al se o Lords should not coerce them, and it wag very natu that the House of Lords should say that they would not be I The CHAIRMAN shortly returned thanks, after which the mmense multitude quietly separated about four o'clock. Resolution moved by Mr. WARD. " That the exaction of a Church-rate for the support of the fa brics and worship of the Church of England from those who con scientiously dissent from its communion, is unjust, because it com pels them to pay for an institution from which they derive no be nefit ; is dishonourable to the Establishment, since it implies a suspicion of the zeal and attachment of its members ; is unneces sary, because the Church possesses property originally granted for the purpose, and now amply sufficient to maintain its buildings and its worship. It is injurious to the interests of true religion—as it blends worldly power with the maintenance of Christianity ; and is unscriptural—since it is opposed to the voluntary support which is recognised by the doctrines and principles of the New Testament, and sanctioned by the practice of the primitive Churches. That the imposition and exaction of Church-rates create divisions and animosities in nearly all the parishes in the kingdo m ." Second Resolution, moved by Mr. III N OLET. " That this meeting conceive it to be a duty devolving on them, as citizens and Christians, to employ all lawful and constitutional means to effect the total abolition of Church-rates. That they would most seriously deprecate the imposition of the expenses, hitherto defrayed by Church-rates, upon the Land Tax, the Con solidated Fund, or any other branch of the national revenue, be cause, by such a transfer, the magnitude of the evil of which they complain would be greatly increased, as the opponents of Church rates would be deprived of the power they now possess--the resist ing the making of , a R a t e ; b ecause th e app li cat i on o f any portion of the national revenue to ecclesiastical purposes would tend greatly to embarrass the collection of the general taxation, and because it would subject the inhabitants of Scotland and Ireland to the sup port of the Episcopal Church of England." LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY. DEAL, Fan. I.—Wind S. E., light airs, and hazy.—Arrived the Martha, Martin, from Rio Janeiro ; Columbia, Pilcher, from the River Gambia ; Abbotsford, Baxter, from Jersey ; Mary, Cummings, from Newport. Sailed the British Tar, for Sierra Leone ; Nymph, for Rio Grande ; Enterprise, for To bago ; Socrates, for Jamaica. PORTSMOUTH, FEB. I.—Wind S. S. W.—Arrived the Jessy, Graham, from Sunderland; Mischief (yacht), from Marseilles in twenty-one days. Reports that his Majesty's ships Tyne and Orestes were on shore at Malaga, the former a total wreck. Sailed the Turk, Penton, for Terceira. COWES, Fan. I.—Arrived the Stratheden, Cheape, from Calcutta—sailed Sept. 14 ; Cape, N ov . 24 ; St. Helena, Dec. 5. Off port, the Stentor, from Valparaiso ; Grog, Alex. ander, from Santander. GUERNSEY, JAN. 30.—Arrived the John Jones, from St. Michaels. LIVERPOOL, JAN. 31.—Wind 5.5.. E., moderate.—Arrived the Chieftain, from Paraiba; Brechin Castle, from La Gu) ra ; and Roscoe, from New York. HOLYHEAD, JAN. 31.—Arrived the Jesse Maria, Dunne, from Halifax; Packet from the Mediterranean; Catherine, Todridge, from Alicante ; and Madrid, Manners, from Corunna. WATERFORD, JAN. 31.—Arrived tho Wakefield, Pritcham, 'rom Charleston. KINSALE, JAN. 30. —Arrived the Isadore, Pitt, from St. John's, New Brunswick. . GLOSTER, FEB. 1. —Arris ed the Hebe, Partridge, from Cadiz. DOVER, FEB. I.—Arrived tho Troughton, Thompson, from Honduras. DARTMOUTH, JAN. 31.—Arrived the Dartmouth, Hamlin, 'rom Waterford, in a leaky state, having been assisted off .he rocks. FALMOUTH, JAN. 31.—Arrived the Manchester steamer, from Malaga, left 17th ult. ; Gibraltar, 18 ; Cadiz, 20th ; Lisbon, 26th, and off Oporto, 27th ; and John, Way, from Gergenti. CADlZ.—Arrived the Swift, Cocks, from London, bound to Smyrna, towed in dismasted. GRIMSBY, FEB. I.—The Marianne, from Hamburg to Rio Janeiro, was towed into this port yesterday, having carried away her fore-topmast, and being lightly ballasted in her bottom, the cargo having rendered the vessel unmanageable, she will have to discharge, by taking in more ballast. • LOWESTOFT, FEB. I.—The Astrea; Richardson, was got off the beach last night, and brought into harbour this morning. A very large bowsprit, with gammon-knee attached, painted green at the hull and white at the end, has been picked up. The Mexico, from Liverpool to New York, is wrecked near the latter port. The Tarnaric, from Liverpool to New York, was on shore near Fire Island. The Rieto, from Hamburg to Boston, was on shore near Highlands Ist ult. . , ' '• e ": . J 1 . 1 'THE sun, LONDO-N-T-`"IIIITR;SDAI% FEBRUARY 2., 1837 '° • " . . clamour§ 'and attacs,of. Sir GEORGE and his party, for prejudging the question. We believe the Govern 'meat have come. to no resolution on the subject ; and it is'not unlikely that when they bring their plan forward, it will have the same fate as the appointment of the Commissioners—it will give entire satisfaction to neither party, and be therefore, as Lord I MELBourtNE said on that occasion, a good plan. The Paris Papers of Tuesday contain no intelli• gence of any interest. The Charte of Monday night has the following unimportant despatch as the latest news received by the Government front Spain The Government yesterday received the following tele graphic despatch, dated Narbonne, Jan. 28 : " On the 20th, the municipality of Barcelona was replaced by the preceding Corporation. ,General Serrano has approved of the measures adoptel by General Parreno for the restora tion of order. Barcelona was quiet on the 24th, but the public mind was not at rest. Cabrera on the 16th approached Va, lencia with seven battalions. The rebel bands are becoming formidable in this kingdom. The relaxed discipline of the Queen's troops prevents them from acting. Valencia remained undisturbed up to the 20th, thanks to the firmness of Scguesa, the Governor. Three of the gates have been kept shut since the 17th.' " Letters from Bilboa of the 22d ult. state that rumours were in circulation that Don CARLOS was resolved to withdraw for a time out of Spain. We attach no credit to such reports. Don CA RLOS will leave Spain when he is driven out of it, or when the prolongation of the contest seems to him utterly hope less; but no sooner. The factious could not hold out an hour were he to quit the kingdom, now that the Spanish Cabinet would have an opportunity of cor recting the mistaken notions of the peasantry respect ing their fueros. The project of law proposed by Ministers, for ex tending the jurisdiction of Courts Martial to the trial of conspirators for crimes against the State, is violently .opposed in the Committees by the most influential Mem bers ofthe Chamber of Deputies. It has increased the unpopularity of the KING with the Army, and if passed, may lead to fatal consequences. Everything at pre sent passing in Paris would incline us to anticipate the approach of a crisis. PARtS, JAN. 31.—Rear-Admiral .11assieu de Clerval takes the functions of Major-General of the Marine. It was thought at first that he would confine himself to the command of all the vessels employed as transports on the coast of Africa, but this Is reserved for Admiral Hugon. A squadron of observation is talked of, as some say, at the Balearic islands ; or, as others believe,-on the coast of Sicily; the command of which would be taken by M. de Clerval. The hare, of Bayonne, announces that the telegraph has transmitted orders to that city for the supply of clothing to the Foreign Legion, the expense of which the French Government takes upon itself, in consideration of the financial embarrass ments of the Government at Madrid. The desertions from the ranks of the Carlists, which dimi nished during the siege of Bilboa, becomes more frequent since the deliverance of that city, it is chiefly among the de. serters from the Foreign Legion, of which the Pretender has formed a separate corps. Five of them arrived at Bayonne on the 25th, escorted by gendarmes. There is a repot% of another affray on the 22d at Pampe lune, between the soldiers of different regiments. On the 23d of January there was a report, but rather vague, of a protocol relative to the affairs of Spain, which Lord Pal merston was said to have communicated to the French Cabinet. It is needless to say that the letters from Madrid continue to speak of an approaching modification of the Ministry. It is not likely that a change so often announced will not take place. These letters express some uneasiness respecting the situation of Valencia and Cadiz. The Countess Le Homo, wife of 'the Belgian Minister, pur chased for 371,000 francs the Hotel Roederer, in the Rue Faubourg St. Honore, which was hired by Count Pozzo di Borgo before lie purchased the Hotel de Blacas.--Journal du Commerce, Jan. 31. FRENCH kUNDS—Psnis, J. 31. Five per Cents., 1091. lac. ICc. fhree per Cents., 79f. 75e. Bank Actions, 203 , I. 2,4421 50c. Rente de Naples, 9Sf. 40c. s'.c 59e. Roman Five per Cents., 102. Spanish Actives, 2. - pVi' 2 % l 4. Spanish Passives, t 1•%%. Belgian' Loan, rive per Cents, tO3 .I"ortuguese Loan, Three per Cents, 31 30%. EXCHANGE ON LONDON. One month,: paper, 25c. 3nc ; money, 251.30 c. Three mouths, paper, 25f. ; money, 251. 12%e. —Conn if uthentiguc. LAST PRICES. Five per Cents.. 109 f. 15c. Three per Cents. 79f. 70c. Rank Actions, 2,142 f. 50c. Rente de Naples, 9Sf, 6.5 c. Roman Five per Vents., 10-2„ Belgian Loan,•to3. Belgian SoCiety, 1,562 f. 50c. Portuguese Three per Cents., :30%. Spanish Actives, 2514. Spanish Passives, tts, Miguelites, I Brussels and German Papers have been received. The latter bring advices from Constantinople to the sth ult. inclusive, the object of which is clearly to induce our Government to accelerate the removal of Lord PONSONBY from the Turkish capital. The Brussels Papers are barren of intelligence. !SELMAN FUNDS—BRUSSELS, JAN, 30. Actual Debt, 2% per Cent. Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cent............„ Loan of Thirty Millions..... 92N L oan 0 1 city, 1832. 4 per Cent lOll4 Society of Commerce, 454 per Cent 132 Bank of Belgium, S per Cent l3O —Brussels Papers, Jan. 31. DUTCH FUNDS.—A)uvrEanau, JAN. 30. Actual Debt, 2 1.. 2 per Cent. Do do. 5 pyr tent. ...., .... 10114 Amort Syndic C..; pet Cent., Do. • do. 3% per Cent. Commercial Company, 4% per Cent 179% New ditto. 102% —Journal du Commerce &Anvers, Jan. 31. AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIE NNA , 'JAN. 23. Five per Cents. bletallique s Four per Cents. 99 Three per Cents. Balk Shares 7 54 1`..64;,i —4llgemeinc Zeitung, J an . 2°. The Manchester steamer, M'LEOD, arrived at Fal mouth on Tuesday last, from the Tagus, whence she sailed on the 26th ult. We' have thus been put in possession of intelligence from Lisbon up to the mo ment of her departure. The QUEEN, contrary to re ports previously conveyed to this country, was to open the Cortes in person on the 27th. The rumours of a counter-revolution had then died away, it having been ascertained that Ministers were likely to be supported by an overwhelming majority. Only five of the old Nobility have been returned by the Electors---4 sufficient proof that all that has been reported here of their amazing popularity was a_ pure invention of the Royalists. Portugal plainly ' intimates that she sets but a low value on lordly wisdoin; when out of upWatds, of two liundre,cl, of • her ,old hereditary Peers she chooses but .five,, as : worthy:to represent her in the constitutional Conned's 'Qf :the - nation. - The five ex cepted Lords from the general rule of exclusion are— FnoNTEIRA, LOULE, LUMIAJIES, TAIPA, and FONTE ARCADA. The QUEEN'S pregnancy is no longer considered doubtful. The birth of an heir to the Portuguese throne would put an end to the intrigues which cer tain designing courtiers are actively carrying on in every corner of the kingdom. It would also tend to terminate scenes in the Palace which cannot be sup posed to contribute to the happiness of the most dis tinguished members of the Royal Family. There were rumours in circulation in Lisbon of an entire change being likely to take place in the diplo matic corps, but we cannot vouch for their correctness, neither are we acquainted with the source whence they emanated. W e s h a ll t h erefore take no further notice of reports, whi c h , if true, are not, politically speaking, of much importance; but which, whether or no, may turn out to have no foundation in fact. A Royal Decree for the organization of the Army has been issued. The entire military force is to con sist of thirty battalions of infantry, and six regiments of cavalry. The infantry will comprise a force of 24,000 strong, and the cavalry a body of between 6,000 and 7,000. The difficulty of maintaining such a force in the present paralysed state of the national resources cannot be overcome but by the greatest exertions of the Cortes. In our opinion so great an army is dispro portioned to the wants of the country. Five thousand cavalry and fifteen thousand infantry, w e ll dis c ipli ne d and appointed, ought to be more than a sufficient force to preserve the internal tranquillity of Portn2al, 4rici to check every movement e,c I..ciender MIGUEL. Mcqe wcre six En , lish and two French ships of war in the Tagus when the steamer sailed on the 2t4th ult.—Lisbon wastraquil, anA appearo to COURT CIRCULAR. A Cabinet Council was held at two o'clock yesterday after noon at the Foreign Office. It was attended by Viscount Melbourne, Viscount Duncannon, Lord John Russell, Viscount Palmerston, Marquis of Lansdowne, Lord Glenelg, the Chan cellor of the Exchequer, Earl of 'Mint°, Sir John Hobhouse, Lord Holland and Mr. Poulett Thompson. The Council sat till half past three o'clock. The Grecian Minister transacted business yesterday at the Foreign Office. Mr. Mayers, agent for Barbadocs, transacted business yes terday at the Colonial Office. The Judicial Committee of his Majesty's Privy Council sat yesterday. The Lords present were, Lord Brougham, Sir J. Park, Sir John Nichol!, and the Hon. T. Erskine. The Hon. W. Bathurst was the Clerk of the Council in Waiting. Mr. Burge was heard on a motion, " Patterson and others v. an award of the Commissioners of the West India Compensa tion Fund." Dr. Adams was then heard in " Thomas Moulden Sher wood, Esq., v. Robert Ray, Esq." The case, which was one respecting the nullity of a marriage, had been in the Consis tory Court of London, and afterwards in the Arches' Court of Canterbury; from the decree of the Judge in the latter Court, the case was brought on appeal before the Privy Council. Mr. Austin followed on the same side. One great improvement in Mr. Colburn's New Monthly Magazine and Huniourist, introduced since the new editorship of Mr. Theodore Hook, is the omission of the dry mercantile and political matter, by which means greater space is devoted to articles of an exclusively literary character. The present number for February presents an extraordinary variety of attractions. It Contains the following contributions by some of our most celebrated writers;—The Gurney Papers, by the - Editor—The Blind Man's Bride, by the Hon, Mrs. Norton— Second Epistle from the Grand Kentucky Ballooners—Shrove Tide—The Yard- Ann Orel—A Hazy Night—The Theatre firiyal, Little Pedlingtop—at. Valentine's Day—The Wi dower-11r, Peppercorn at Hoine,—lleereations in Natural History--Torn gmitb's Return—The Blue Knight—The Irishman in Egypt—Twelfth Night at Clavering Hall—The History of a Radical—Chigwell—An Old- Fashioned Recipe for making Time stand still—Memoir of the Author of " The Subatterp,!? with a Portrait), &c. &c. Caclogair House, P4,;catillv, is undergoing re-ein sptlliiiiiivei rreyioßli to 1404 ih.F44n*ri p fasbiona ble world, PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Great Western Railway Comp an y Paid. Per Share4l%..l Brighton (Rennie's) 3 2 1 4 Brighton (Cundy' s ) tndon and, Birmingham Railway Company 75 135 London and South am pt on R a il way Company Manchester South Union Railway COmpany 5 South Brighton, Lewes, an d N ew h aven Ra i lway 2 6 London and Westminster Bank 2 PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS, DUBLIN, JANUARY 31. 3 per Cent. Consols R9 , Grand Canal Deb.. ti per cent. BE3c, Ditto Reduced ---1 Ditto, 4 per cent CO :33,a' per Cent. Stock A, 97 Hibernian Bank - Ditto New, 1839 97h City of Dublin St eam C 0....... 3 , ,i per Cent : Debentures 9Gf i c National Insurance C 0.32 Bank Stock , - City Debentures, 4 pe r cent... --.... Royal Canal Stock . 34% Ballast Office Debentures, 4 Grand Canal Stock - per cent MAILS. ----------- -- Arrived. Due. Arrived. Due. Arrived. Due 0 Arnerica.......... 0 1 France 0 0 Lisbon 1 0 Brazil 0 Buenos Ayres.. 0 0 H am b urg ..... ... 1 0 Mexico ...... n carthagena ..... 0 0 Holland ......».. 1 0 Ostend 0 2 Dublin...• ...... 0 0 J ama i ca .... ...... 0 0 Sweden ... 0 1 Flanders HIGH. WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TOMORROW. M0rning.....,... 2 m !lutes after 0 1 Evening......4o minutes after 0. HAMBURG H, JAN. 10, 1i37., _Ex.A LL those who ma y h ave to wr i te to us are re quested to direct HEINE BROTHERS in HAMBURGH, which is perfectly sufficient for the address, and letters directed in that way will reach us just as well as if directed, HEINE BROTHERS, BANKERS, in HAMBURG. Neither the dello. mination of BANKERS, or any other, is required, and letters directed, HEINE BROTHERS in lIAMBURGII. will do without any further remark or description. We further request to observe, that a letter with one inclosure doubles the Postage only, but several inclosures would Ly far increase the same. Thus 101., 20/ , 0r.30/., for instan ce , if rem i tte d i n O ne Bank of Eng land Note would only cause double Postage, but 10/. remitted in ZWO notes, would be liable to a much higher charge. It is there fore most advisable, for any Person having to remit Money to Ham burgh, to forwari the amount in One Note, or one Bank Post Bill or Cheque ; or having to receive Money from liamturgh, to receive the same in the same way, whenever possible. As to re mittances from Hamburgh to England for large Sums, amounting to many THOUSANDS, of course they may rather be remitted in Bills of Exchange. All those giving orders for any Branch of our multifarious Business, that must be executed before FEBRUARY, are advised to lose no time in forwarding the same. HEINE BROTHERS in HAMBURG. The publication of THR SI,N NEWSPAPER commenced this day at 10 minutes past Four o' Clod. 4' I - . 1 17 1 7. CI QT, - 1 LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING. FEBRUARY 2, 1837. The House of Lords did not sit yesterday. In the Commons, several notices of motions were given, and some petitions were presented. Among the former were the following :—Mr. Serjeant TALFOURD, a bill for the better security of copyright (20th of April), and a bill to regulate the custody of children of tender years (25th of April) ; Mr. WALTER, to call the attention of the House to the New Poor Law, and submit a motion calculated to produce certain .changes therein (20th inst.) ; the ATTORNEY-GE NERAL, a bill for the total abolition of Church-rates in Edinburgh ; Major FANCOURT, a select Commit tee to inquire into, and report on, the question of military punishments (23d inst.); Mr. O'CONNELL, a bill to amend the law of libel ; Lord JOHN Rus- SELL, a bill to suspend for four months the operation of the Acts regulating the registration of births and marriages. On the usual Sessional Orders being read, Mr. EWART moved an amendment that no order from a Member should be necessary for admission into the Strangers' Gallery. Lord JOHN RUSSELL opposed the amendment, and on a division it was lost by a majority of 161. Mr. WARD'S motion for assimilat. ing the mode of taking divisions in Committee, to that at present employed in taking divisions of the House, was agreed to. On the motion of Lord JOHN RUSSELL, a Com mittee of Privileges was appointed, to which the let ters of the LORD CHANCELLOR: and Mr. LECH MERE CHARLTON were referred, to consider the mat ters therein stated, and to report their proceedings and opinions to the House. The Committee sit to-day. The Report of the Address was agreed to, after a short debate, possessing no interest. Mr. Hums then moved for and—after some discussion—obtained, the re-appointment of the committee appointed last session to assist the SPEAKER in causing to be printed, ar ranged, and distributed, the Votes and other Parlia mentary Papers. The House adjourned about seven o'clock. In framing the KING'S Speech, Ministers evidently endeavoured to avoid the introduction of topics likely to excite discussion, and they succeeded to the fullest extent. On the report being brought up yesterday, it was discovered, however, that there bad been some im portant omissions. Mr. PLUMPTRE_,complained that no allusion had been made to the prevailing disease, and asserted that at no time, even:in,al t iapion plutige,cl in the deepest ignorance, tiad. t ui occasion; like the pre sent been allowed to pass without some recognition of GoD's dispensations. Mr. HORACE Twiss improved on the text, and argued most logically that the name of the DIVINE BEING might very properly have been introduced, because the Established Church had been adverted to in a way which"made it impossible for any man to know what the intentions of Ministers were. How such an inference can be drawn from the premises we leave the Hon. Member to prove. Our only object, however, in adverting to the circumstance, is to protest against the practice, so long observed by the Tories, of introducing the sacred name in every KING'S Speech ; and not unfrequently, too, when measures were recom mended at utter variance with the first principle of morality, "to do unto others as we wish others to do unto us." The unhappy people of Ireland can best tell how that name has been profaned by mixing it up with plans, the great object of which was to refuse them their just rights, to deprive them of their liber ties, and punish them, because they claimed the privi lege of worshipping GOD according to the dictates of their conscience. The saline system was adopted by the Spanish Inquisition—it was adopted by CATHA• RINE of Russia—it is still practised by the Thugs Of India ; and we therefore attach no blame to Ministers, because they have not thought proper to follow such examples. Sir GEORGE CLERK complained of another omis sion—that no mention had been made of the inten tions of Ministers with regard to the Church of Scot land. Had the Report of the Commissioners been agreed to, there might have been some ground of com plaint ; but for Ministers to recommend any plan on such a delicate subject, without weighing that Report with the utmost attention, would have been the height of indipcpticm 4 anti w9tild have stil - ijected they to the PRICES OF STOCKS 'THIS DAY AT ONE -O'CLOCK. flank 5t0ck......„.. .............. . (India 5t0eR.....-.... m. IS 17 19 i n per Cent. Red. 89.7 ( 8%; IDitto Eonds per Cent. Cons. % per Cent. 4/ 3 i %% (South Sea Stoc k p 98N %Old Annuities Ditto Reci......... ...... 93'ifi 7; SIA New Ditto — ew 3% per Cert.. 97%% i 3 per Cent. Annuities, 1751 New sper Cent. ..13 tok Lo ng A nnu l t i estoexpire ,Ditto 500 2l 24 pm Jan, 5, lelif , l4; 5-16 Ditto Small Oct 10, lic:o l4 11-'6 Ditto Commercial........ 17 13m. P Jan. 5, PO9 ll 9-16 D itto Advertisedp Jan. 5, .63 ' ...... .... ,.. .-- !Bank Stock for Account..... -- m April 3, IGT ... ....... ~ 1 India Stock for Account ...... ... 25,3 Jan. 5, 1571'...... ........ ...... , Consols for Account... Bok, N % Oinnium — pm. ! PRICES or FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Austrian Bonds Ditto Account... Brazilian Bonds Ditto Account , ..... .. ....... . . 851/ 1 Ditto New Bonds .. ..... ... , 48 , 4 4 Buenos Ayres Bonds — Ditto Account Ditto Account ......... ......... Di tto, 3 per cent Chillian Bonds —l Prussian Bonds Ditto Account • Russian Bonds, 19'22 ....... 109% 10 1 /, Columbian Bonds Ditto Accout.i. ... ....... ..... —1 Dit to Metallic ..... Columbian Bonds, 141 gAM i Spanish Bonds _ Ditto Account Ditto Account 3 —1 Ditto Account 25% 4% 5% Greek 80nd5....................... ' French, 5 per cen t .......... —t. —c. Ditto Bonds , IS 5 Ditto Account -. '2 per cent.. —f. —c. Mexican Bones, 5 per cent —.--- Exchange _f. —c. Ditto Account . — Dutch, 214 per cent 53% 43% Ditto, 6 per cent ......-..... '2 , 1 4 , Ditto Accou n t 5'33,, 4 Ditto Account .. ..... ........ —,' Ditto, 5 rer cent 103!4, 3 Neapolitan — P Ditto Account — Nev York Papers, to the Bth inst., have ,been re ceived. They bring an account of the loss of the Mexico, an American brig, hound from Liverpool to New York,• in the vicinity of the harbour of her desti nation. Most of her crew, including 200 steerage pas sengers, from Ireland, were unhappily drowned. We beg the earnest attention of our readers to the ample and interesting report of the proceedings which took place at the great meeting of Dissenting Delegates, ALmbers of Parliament, and other friends to the abolition of Church. rates, held this day at the London Tavern. This numerous and most respectable assem bly have adopted the only tone which will ever be listened to with attention by the legislature. There has been patience long enough—forbearance enough, and to spare. The Dissenters feel that it is now high time that active and energetic measures should be taken, to assert in the face of the world the right which is the inalienable inheritance of every human being—the right of yielding to their Maker that tribute, and that only, which conscience dictates to be due. What have the Dissenters gained by their passive endurance of the evil for which they now seek a remedy ? Just this—to be accused of in sincerity in the cause they are now advocating. " Why," ask the hypocrites who bring forward this charge—" why have you never stirred this question till now, if you find it so great a grievance to pay Church-rate. How happens it that you have never made this discovery before ?" Now, to this it is quite. sufficient answer, that there is a time for everything. • The Dissenters, GOD knows ! have had enough to complain of. They tried for more than a century to get the repeal of a cruel law, by which they were ex cluded from all offices of trust, and stigmatised as " aliens" from the privileges of the Constitution, though they had been principally instrumental in establishing that Constitution on its present basis. But they did not succeed until the year 1828. To have agitated the abolition of, Church -rates, while the Test and Corporation Acts hung over their heads—not to mention many other heavy grievances —would have been hopeless, and they, therefore, wisely abstained. But does that prove they did not feel -the pressure of the burden ? Assuredly not. While there was no chance of relief, what was the use of complaining ? That time, how ever, has now happily passed-away, and a new order of things begun. Now they have some chance of fair play-110W- -they have some chance of 'getting the waggon out of the mire, and, therefore, they put their shoulders to the wheel. The charge we have alluded to—the charge of " not agitating sooner" —comes, too, with admirable grace from those who are constantly heaping abuse upon the Dissenters for being " political agitators." The CIIAIRMAN of the Meeting made an eloque? introductory speech ; and was followed by Mr, WARD, the Hon.. Member for St. Alban's, who strongly urged upon the Dissenters the necessity of continuing their exertions with the same spirit with which they had commenced, and they ‘vould extort a satisfaCtOry arrangement of the great question at issue in spite of all opposition. With regard to the nature of the measure about to be introduced, the - Hon. Mem ber observed, that— " When he said he believed that the Bill of the Government would be a good Bill, this sufficiently implied that the princi ple on which the former Bill vtas founded would be entirely abandoned.—( Hear, hear, and loud cheers.) That not one. half of the Church-rates, nor one-twentieth of the Church. rates, nqr any part of the Church -rates, should be charged on the Consolidated Fund.—(Cheers.) He looked upon that as the only position on which a good Bill could be founded, and whatever his feelings might be towards the present Govern ment, if the Bill announced by Lord J. Ruissell, to be intro. duced on the 27th of the present month, placed one single fraction of charge on that Fund, he should feel himself, how ' ever, reluctantly compelled to oppose it."—(Tremendous cheering.) In the following passage we find Mr. WARD cor roborating the opinion which we have always expressed on this point : "It (the payment of Church-rate out of the national reve nue) would place the DissexterS, as regarded Church -rates, in a worse situation than they were in at present ; for any transfer of the Church-rate to the Consolidated fund would deprive them of that control which they now had over it. For instance, they had now the power to grant the Church rate or not, according as the majority of their numbers went. (Cheers.) It would be unjust and impolitic to take that power out of the hands of the majority, and make Church rates similar to tithes." After noticing some of the arguments so often ad duced in favour of Church -rates, the Hon. Member thus adverts to that of their being established : " One other plan to which he should advert as a reason in favour of Church-rates was, that it was an established system —( Hear and laughter)—that it worked well. The proof of its working well was to be found in that large and influential meeting--( Cheers) in the anxiety which brought together 400 delegates from the remotest parts of the country to oppose and put it down—(Cheers—and yet they would be told that it worked well.—(Cheers.) That was the old plea for every abuse. For the last 300 years it was never proposed to do away with any grievance, but they were told that the system worked well. They were assured that the rotten boroughs worked well.—(Cheers.) That the Test Acts worked well. --(Continued cheers.) They were now assured that the monstrous evils of tho Irish Church worked well."—(Tremen dous chering.) Sir CULLING E. SMITH, as a zealous Member of the Church of England, strongly advocated the aboli tion of Church -rates, which he considered decidedly injurious to her interests. " To the Members of the Church of England," observed Sir C. E. SMITH. " He said that it was for their interest that an alteration should be made. The great and ruling motive with him was the absolute injustice inflicted upon Dissenters, and upon that principle he never would be a party to injustice. He would never cease to advocate the question, merely because his individual interest was concerned. The claim was a para mount one." Mr. HUME, who was received with loud cheers, in alluding to the variety of dissenting grievances which still remained to be redressed, strongly recom mended the concentration of their energies to one ob ject at a time. The Honourable Gentleman said that, " He believed that not one shilling would be placed ih the Consolidated Fund by the Bill now in preparation. The Members of the House of Commons would not be called upon, therefore, to oppose that part of it, but they would be called upon to give their best assistacce to the Ministry, to carry the question.—(Cheers.) He could not look to the proceedings of the past year, without some suspicion that the same power which had already strangled many good and beneficial measures would be brought into action on the present occasion. He was satisfied that the conduct of the Ministry could only be strengthened by all friends to the question being united, and he congatulated the friends of civil body andore reli him." gious liberty on seei ng such a united and strong bef Mr. HINDLEY, M.P., a member of the Dissenters' Committee at Manchester, in seconding one of the Resolutions, said that he need not tell the meeting of the spirit of the Dissenters in that town : " He need say that though none of that body was able to be present in consequence of illness, yet they were there in spirit. They were determined to fight the battle, and they would not take any thing less than total abolition.—( Cheers.) If they wished for any further pioof of the spirit of Manchester, he had the pleasure to tell them that there had arrived in this city this week a petition from Manchester, signed by upwards of 35,000 people.—(Tremendous cheering.)" The following instance of the weight with which Church-rates press upon the DisSenters, was . given by Mr. HINDLEY, and it is, we think ; an admirable illustration of the " working of'the system" I . " lie lived in the towns* of Duttonficld, Whlch contained about 20,000 people, all of whom were supplied with spiritual food from pastors of their 01Vh appointment, and who were paid b themselves.--( Loud cheers.) Th e y li ve d seven miles &Jut the parish church of Stockport. Even its bells they had never heard, The Minister not one of the people of the township had ever seep, except when they were about to he pnited. m the bonds of bely matrimouy.L--( Laughter.) Xet in lEi32—,he did not know whether his Hon. Friend the Member for Middlesex was then in the House—they came from Steekgort and obtained a Dili from Parliament to build feel satisfied that no further attempt would be made to deprive them of the Constitution. The Ex-Empress of BRA zu was about to depart o❑ a visit to Gcrmany for two months. The QUEEN readily consented to a separation which circumstances have recently rendered no longer painful to her. a Church in Stockport, or • rather to pull down the old Church and rebuild, and they obtained twelve thousand pounds for this purpose. This was not enough in these palmy days of Toryism, when the churchwardens met over their wine and discussed the interests of the National Church. —( Great laughter.) A few years afterwards they obtained another Bill, for 12,0001. more ; but this was riot enough—(Great laughter)—and they paid, and continued to pay, and they were found so willing to pay, that actually, without an Act of Parliament, they came for 9,000/. more. —( Laughter.) Still their spirit was not roused, a n d they paid the money. But in i!e. first Reform Parliament they again came forward to obtain a Bill for 7,0001. additional, and then they were determine:l not to pay—(Lond cheers)— aed, to the honour of the Reformed Parliament, the Bill could n,t be obtained. —(Great cheering.) " Air. A Ls•roN expressed himself in the most decided manner on the subject of the Dissenters' grievances. He would have no bit-by-bit remedy, but an " en tire abolition of Church-rates." As an instance of the unpopularity of this rate, he stated a striking fact. He was, he said, chief propricor of a " very large parish in the county of nett ford ;" he .had also great influence there, because lie was considered an honest man—" Yet," added the Hon. Gentleman, " with all that influence, and all that; attachment which I know the parishioners feel towards me, I am quite confident that if I were to call upon them to create a' Church-rate in vestry, I should have no success whatever." This, be it served, is not the language of theory, hut of expe rience, and as such, is worth all the arguments that Archdeacon BATHURST, an expert sophist, we grant, has ever ypt brought forward on the subject. Mr. GILLON'S remarks were in admirable keeping with the spirit 'of the Meeting. He did not mince matters ; but called things by their right names. In a word, he spoke out like a man. He, too, was for the entire abolition of the Church-rate. He, too, would hear of no compromise —no surrender ; but insisted that the remedy should be in exact proportion to the grievance. The Dissenters were deeply aggrieved. Let their grievances, then, be redressed without the least delay. No mean course could be pursued with safety. Ministers must either act in a prompt, decided spirit, or at once confess their incompetency to grapple with the subject. We cry " Hear, hear" to Mr. GILLoN. The Dis senters must be relieved ; and as a strong Ministerial inducement to relieve them, we record, in the words of GILLON, the 'auspicious fact that " the Scotch. Dissenters, to a man, are determined to congregate 'to gether, and bring forward their full and powerful force in favour of the abolition of Church-rates." Mr. HAWES also was for the entire abolition of Church -rates, but observe], at the same time, that "he was not sanguine enough to hope that the measure would pass through the House of Commons without great opposition ; and this he was certain of, that it would not pass through the House of Lords." Then, bestir yourselves, Englishmen, for depend on it this is not a question affecting the Dissenters only, but your own interests generally. In the con duct pursued towards them, you may read undeniable tokens of the conduct the Lords will pursue towards you. Their intolerance is not partial, but universal. It em braces the entire people in its comprehensive range, and the Dissenters are but the ad . ..anced guard of that vast community whom thiir Lordships would fain make head against, and put to the route as their worst enemies. But. • the meeting of • this day will, we trust, read then a useful lesson —and im press on. them the .salutary fact, that after years and years of persecution, borne with exemplary patience, the time is come, when the Many must, and will, have their wrongs redressed by the Few ! HE FUNDS. -(THIS DAY.) C ITY'CLOCK. A rumour is ab roa d t h at the , American ship O Republic . h as arrived at Liverpool from New York, when c e she sailed on the 7th of January, bringing an accolint of the loss of a transport vessel from Liverpool, bounrt to New York, having on board about three hundred -passengers ; nearly all of whom have perished. By the New York papers to the Bth of Ja nuary, received this morning in the Oil, it would appear this report is greatly exaggerated. From a New York irapar of the 6th of January, we copy the following account of this shipwreck and loss of life : " Intelligence has just been received from Hempstead Beach, that the bark Mexico, from Liverpool, boarded two days ago by the news' boats, not being able to get a pilot, was driven ashore last night on Hempsted Beach, a few miles east of Rockaway ; and out of 116 persons, passengers and crew, only eight are saved. This vessel was below on Sunday evening, and announced in our paper of yesterday as still below, with a flag of distress flying ; but none being there to relieve her distress, no pilot to take charge, she, with more than 100 human beings, perished in sight almost of port." Exchange from New York comes 109-to 109-; Bank Shares, 115 115} ex. div. An opinion still prevails in the City that the preliminaries for the disposal of the whole amount of the dead weight, 585,7401., have been settled with the Bank of England, and that in a few days it will be transferred to other hands. It is stated that negociations have been carried on between the Directors of the Bank of England and the Managers of the Equitable Assurance Association for the purchase. During yesterday afternoon this report caused a heavy market in Con sols, attended with a great scarcity of money. • THE FUNDS. Consols closed at 89i for the Account, and opened this morning 893- / for Account ; Money the same. Exchequer Bills, 17 19 ; India Bonds, 16 18 ; Bank Stock, 207 208. In the Foreign Market, Spanish Active, 251 • Passive, 61 to 71; Port uguese, 48 to 481 ; Three per dents., 304 to 311-. We extract the subjoined from the New York Express of the 7th ult : " This has been a holiday week. On Monday all business was laid aside, and little has been done. Our rivers are closed. The principal topic of conversation has been the nu merous distructive losses, both of lives and property. The loss of lives has been greater in the same period of time than has been known. The underwriters have suffered severely ; but as they laid up a large surplus, they have been enabled to pay their losses, and most of them make good dividends. " The Cotton Market was firm, but no political_ news of im portance ; and the new year has commenced with much brighter prospects. Should the Money Mr:kot get relieved, there will be a great spring trade. " ExcHA roe.—Foreign Bills on Etrgland• stand at WI, which is about 2 per cent, below par. —Money.—The Banks have now made up their yearly retorts, and there is a mani fest change in the Money Marl:.et. , . Accounts have been received from Rio Janerio, stating that the Government had detected the robbers of the Treasury, and have recovered 120,L00mil recs, and had a clue to the remainder. HALF -PAST ONE O'CLOCK. We have received the Journal of Commerce of Antwerp of yesterday's date, which states from the Hague that the frigate Bellona, on board which was Prince Frederick of the Nether lands, had arrived at itio Janeiro on the 29th November, after a favourable Toyage. He was received with all the honours due to his rank. They were to sail again on the 11th December for Batavia. The Funds at Amsterdam on the 30th January were, Five per Cents., 104 ; Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 53 13-16. This day being Thursday, the Bank Directors usually meet ; but up to the present time we do not learn that any communi cation has been made to the public, respecting the rate of inte rest. We must therefore wait the breaking -up of the Court to hear the result. Consols may be quoted at 894 / for the Account ; Exche quer Bills, 18 20 ; India Bonds, 18 19 ; Bank Stock, 207 208. Spanish Active, 25i 4 ; Passive, 7; Deferred, 111 ; Por tuguese, 48}; Three per Cents., 31. Private letters from Lisbon received this morninr, state, that while the P r i nce was walking, with two English ' Noble men, stones were thrown at him. Lord Dillon, who was with him, immediately seized the person. On being examined the man was found to be insane. THREE 0' CL 0 CIL Consols for the Account, 891 a. TILE INFLUENZA.—The weather still continues in a changeable and unsettled state, now exhibiting mvAch mild ness, and again displaying all the severity of mid-Kinter. It is, we suppose, owing to this cause that the influenza has scarcely, if at all, abated amongst us, its sever:Ay being more felt by the aged and the infirm, than by the other classes of the community. We regret to state that in many cases it has proved fatal ; and that the mortality in the city, chiefly from this cause, still continues to a considerable extent. In the West Church burying-ground yesterday, nineteen corpses were interred, being the largest number that ever occurred in that churchyard in one day. In the Calton and Canongate bury ilia-grounds,. we unders,tand, the number of funerals is on the decline.—Edinbut . o Courant. A paragraph having recently appeared in a provin cial(taper (the Bristol, we believe), stating that Sir Charles C. 13., Rear-Admiral of the White, had lately died, we take the earliest opportunity of contradicting, the report; and, from information, are enabled to state that Sir Charles is in perfect health, and now superintendent of the dockyard, Pent broke, not having yet been superseded. Lord Vernon has arrived in town from Derby shire,