The Sun. — London, England, 1846-01-24 00:00:00

The THIRD EDITION of The Sun of last night contained — The conclusion of the Day's Proceedings in the Rolls Court. The weekly kccount of the Circulation of the Bank of England. The Course of Exchange. The weekly Average Price of Sugar. The List of Appointments, Bankrupts, &c., from the London Gazette. Parlia,mentary Proceedings of the evening, being a full Report of the Debates in the House of Com mons, up to a Quarter before Seven o'clock. RAILWAY LEGISLATION. TIM THIRD EDITION of "THE SUN" of M.IINDAY EVENING, the '26th inst., will contain a FULL REPORT of SIR ROBERT PEEL'S SPEECH with respect to RAIL WAYS and RAILWAY COMMITTEES. REPEAL oF THE cORN-11_,..A.W5• A FULL REPORT of SIR ROBERT PEEL'S SPEECH on the gubject of the CORN-LAWS _ _ will be given in a THIRD and EXTRAORDI NARY EXPRESS EDITION of " THE SUN " of TUESDAY EVENING, .the Thu INSTANT. SHREWSBURY and BIRMINGHAM RAIL WAY COMPANY. Notice is hereby given to the late Shareholders in the DUDLEY, MADELEY, RROSELEY, and IRON-BRIDGE RAILWAY COM PANY, who have exchanged thtir shares for shares in this Company, that the Parliamentary Deeds will lie for signature at the following places, and must be executed within the pelted there stated, as they are required to be immediately deposited, in order to comtly with the Standing Orders of Parliament. _ . GEORGE KNOX, Secretary. London, Meorgate-street, Jan. 24, 1846. At the Offices of the Shrewsbury and Birmingham Railway Com pany, Monday, Jan 26, to Saturday, 31st--from 10 to 4 Bridgenorth, Jan, 27, at the Crown Hotel —lO to 1 Ironbridge, ditto, at the office of W. R. Anstice, Esq., solicitor -2 to 5 Shrewsbury, Wednesday, Jan. 28, at Messrs. Lexdale and Feele's. solicitors-10 to 3 Birmingham, Thursday and Friday, Jan. 29 and 30, at the Stork Hotel-10 to 4 Dudlo,Satarday,Jan. 31, at Biessrs.Bourne and Wainwrights, sell dtors-10 to 4 Hull, Tuesday, Jan. 27, at the Royal Hotel-10 to 4 Leeds, Wednesday, Jan. 28. at the White Horse Hotel-10 to 4 Manchester, Thursday, Jan. 29, at the Star Hotel-10 to 4 Liverpool, Friday, Jan. 30, at the Greolan Hotel-10 to 4 Warwick, Tuesday, Jan 27, at the Warwick Arms-10 to 3 Stourbridge, Wednesday, Jan. 28, at the office of W. B. Collis, Esq., solicitor-10 to 3 Worcester, Thursday, Jan. 29, at the Star Hotel-10 to 3 Gloncester, Friday, Jan. 30, at the Bell Inn —lO to 3 Bristol, Saturday, Jan. 31, at the Bush Hotel-10 to 3 Newcastle-under-Lyne, Tuesday, Jan. 27, at the Castle Hotel-10 to 3 _ Chester, Wednesday, Jan. 28, at the Royal Hotel-10 to 3 Glasgow, Friday, Jan. 30. at the Wellington Inn-12 to 4 Edinburgh, Saturday, Jan. 31, at the Bull Inn-10 to 3. --------- The Scrip Certificates of those Shareholders in the Dudley, Madeley, Itreseley, and Iron-bridge Railway Company who have not yet exchanged their Scrip, will be received at the above-mentioned places. TO RAILWAY PROPRIETORS AND SHAREHOLDERS. ESSRS. WICKHAM and CO. , Share A uc tioneers, Inform their friends and the public, that their . ÜBLIC SALES OF RAILWAY SHARES, &c., are held every ;‘ ll[ MONDAY and THURSDAY, at the HALL OF COMMERCE, Threapatedle•street, London, to which place, or to the office of the AuctEneers, 28, Threadneedle-street, all favours and instructions are requested to be addressed. All Scrip and Share Certificates must be forwarded to or deposited at the office of the Auctioneers, as above, at least the day preceding the day of public sale, and advices of the result of the sales will be forwarded by the first post after the sale, and the proceeds imme diately disposed of according to instructions. Scsia or CHARGES.—Under 201., Is. per share; nnder 50/., Is. Gd. under 1001., 2s. 6d. ; and ss. for all above. THEATRE ROYSL, DRITRY-LANE. A Jtrrenile Night. Doors open at a Qnartar past Six o'Clock, and to Commence at Seven. THIS EVENING _ Will he performed the First Act of THE DAUGHTER OF ST. MARK. Andrea Cornaro, Mr. Borrani ; Moneenigo, Mr. Weiss ; Adolphe, Mr. D. W. King; Catarina Cornaro, Miss Rainforth. After the Act of the Opera Professor RISLEY and his SONS will go through a Series of their Classical and Popular Exercises. Te be followed by a new grand Christmas Gornto Fantomine, called HARLEQUIN GULLIVER ; or, Giants mid Dwarfs. The whole to conclude with a New Grand Ballet, called THE DEVIL TO PAY, in which Mons. Bretin, Mdlle. Flora Fabbri, Mdlle. T)abas (of the Academie Royale, Paris), Mdlle. Louise, Mr. W. H. Payne, Mona. Deltbrier, Mr. Howell, and Mr. Wieland will appear. THJLATRE ROYAL, HAYMARICAT. THIS EVENING Will be repeated THE CRICKET ON THE HEARTH. A Fairy T4le of Home. John Peerybingle, Mr. Stuart; Tackleton, Mr. Tilbury; Caleb Plummer, Mr. W. Farren ; Stranger, Mr. 11. Holl ; Dot, Miss Fortescue ; Bertha, Mrs. Seymour ; May Fielding, Miss Telbin; Tilly Slowboy, Mr. Buekstone. Between the acts of the Drama the Band will perform the " Ozarina Mazourk," the " Cricket Polka," and the Overture to Afasanlello." After which the laughable Farce of UNCLE JOHN. Uncle John, Mr. W. Farren; Friend Thomas, Mr. Tilbury; Mrs. Hawk, Mrs. W. Cliftbrd; Eliza, Miss Telbin. To conclude with a Grand New Extravaganza, entitled THE BEE AND THE ORANGE TREE; or, The Four Wishes. Principal Characters by Mr. Hudson, Mr. James Bland, Mr. Caulfield, Mr. Clart, Miss P. Horton, Miss Julia Bennett, Mrs. Caultiela, and Mrs. Stanley. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. THIS EVENING WM be perfbrmed THE CRICKETon the HEARTH. John Peery bingie, Mr. 0. Smith; Caleb Plummer, Mr. Lambert; Tackleton, Mr. Cullentbrd ; Edward, Mr. Selby ; Dot, Mrs. Fitzwilliam ; Bertha, Miss Woolgsr ; May Fielding, Miss Taylor. To be followed by a New Farce, entitled THE PHANTOM BEE.AJCFAST. Supported by Mr. Paul Bedford, Mr. Wright. Miss Woelgar, Ste. To conclude with an entirely New and Original Christmas Pau feral/be, called HARLEQUIN AND POONOOWINGKEEWANG FLI•REEDEEFLOBEEDEEBUSICEEBANG; or, The King of the Cannibal Islands. Harlequin, Mr. T. Ireland ; Columbine, Miss Fleming ; Clown. Mr. C. J. Smith; Pantaloon, Mr. littcheeson. THEATRE ROYAL, LYCEUM. UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MRS. KEELEY. The Qricket on the Hearth," and " The Enchanted Horse" every Evening until further notice I THIS EVENING WILL BE PERFORMED THE CRICKET ON THE HEARTH A FAIRY TALE OF HOME. The Prineepal Characters by Mr. and Mrs. Keeley, Mr. Emery, Mr. F. Vhdng., Mr. Meadows, and Miss Grove. Adler whlchwill be repeated a New Grand Romantic extravaganza, entitled THE ENCHANTED HORSE; or, Prince Fireux Schah of Persia and the Princess of Bengal. Principal Characters by Messrs. Keeley, Wigan, F. Matthews, Collier, Turner, Kinloch, &c. ; Mes dames Keeley, Villars, Hodson, Dawson, Howard, Arden, &c. Stills, ss. ; Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, Gd. lik./CESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. TIIIS EVENING Will be performed THE CRICKET ON TIIF lIF. The Principal Characters by Messrs. Ryder, Co n , ton, Leigh Murray, Courtney, Mrs. Stirling, Miss Marshall, Mrs. Fesbroke, Miss Brentnell, and Miss Somers. To be followed by a New Extravaganza, entitled JEAMES, THE RAILROAD FOOTMAN OF BERKELEY-SQUARE. Jeames Plush, Mr. Compton. To conclude with the New Christmas Pantomime, entitled TILE REY OF THE KINGDOM ; or. HARLEQUIN AND THE FAIRY BLUR BELL. Harlequin, Mr. W. H Harvey ; Columbine, Miss Butler; ; ClOwn, Mr. Flexmore ; Pantaloon. Mr. T. Hill. ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE. PMMENiE SUCCESS OF THE NEW BURLESQUE. THIS EVENING Will be pertbrmed the favourite Vaudeville of CAPTAIN cnAR. LOTTE In which Mr. Walter Lacey and Miss Kate Howard will perform To be followed by a DIVERTISSEMENT. Alter which will be repeated THE CRICKET ON OUR OWN rtgARTII. In which Mr. James Browne, Mr. Reimer, Mr. Coekrill, an ld Miss Kate Howard will appear. And concluding with the new Pantomime, unapproachable for glee and grandeur, called FORTT_TNATITS ; or, THE MAGIC CAP. Fertnnatus, Miss Hamilton; Prince Megrim, Mr. Cockrill ; Fairy Queen, Miss Bromley ; Harlequin, Mr. Smythers ; Pantaloon, Mr Charles; Clown, Mr. Jetrerixi ; Columbine, Miss Laidlsw. NEW STRAND THEATRE. M. PSIII:LIPPE'S WONDERS and incredible CIIINESE DE LITBIONS will be repeated every Egening, doors open at a quarter past-Seven, to commence at a quarfer betore Eight . M. Phillippe's most Popular Deceptions and Peenliar Experiments will be varied by the Amusing Performances of the Chiarini Family and astounding Feats of - the American Brothers. M. Philippe will (by desire), and in consequence of the immense overflows which have attended his Morning Performances, give a Grand.hapenile Entertainment every Thursday Morning, commencing at Two dilock. Stalls, 3 9. Boxeqs. ; Pit, is. ; Gallery, 6d. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITEFATRR OF ARTS. - - Proprietor, Mr. IV. RATTY. Crowded nightly to witness the wondrous performance of the doZ Emile. Mundt - eats turned away each eyening. In compliance with the numerous requests at the box-offloe a re-engagement has been entered into for three weeks longer. Continuation of the drama of the DOG of the PYRENEES, attest which period it must be positively withdrawn, in order to snake way for the representation of the last new Parisian spectacle f , f . the ELEPHANT of tha PAGODAS, which has caused so great a Sensation in the French metropolis, in which Mr. Batty will have an opportunity of exhibiting his celebrated pair of trained elephants. The LAST MORNING REPRESENTATION will take place on AY nest, commencing at Half-past One precisely. DAVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Wtil THIS EVENING he performed THE MENDICANT RON; or, The Jew of 64 aih w avit• Supported by Messrs. Hnghes, Johnson, Rogers, (*won, Maynard, *l4 Daly. Lcwis,Heslop; Mesdames Fl Vining, Martin, Mier which, a now Grand Christmas Pantomime, entitled HARLINIJITD THE OLD WITCH OF TEDDINGTON ; or, Tho holden - 3 of Good Queen B ess. H ar l equ i n, M r. C ormae k ; colornlAne, Sralthyss ; Clown, Mr. Patti Herring ; Pantaloon, Mr. Ar,derson; Sprite, Mr. Stilt. ROYAL VICTORIA 11IRATRE. THIS EVENT/CB, will be repeated TnE CRICK ET.O: F T . II_ a, EH v HEARTH. A Fairy Tale ,1 Home. John Peerybingle, Mr. t Caleb'‘ Plummer, fir. Stranger, mr.. Fredericks; Tackleton, Mr. Searle ail . p 4 erybingle, Miss Vincent ; Bertha, firsr, LeeHerbert ; Scary ; Tilly Sl ow b oy, Has Tor Ty. After which, Frefessor HEMMING and his SONS will Ay algid feats of Classienl Gymnasia than ever yet has ° more t2tl been ex itibi*lttrid surpassing even the celebrated Risley himself. To conclude with THE KING'S NV VIER. Fnpported by m e „,. Saville F re dericks, Dale, Searle , H erbert ; Miss Rich ards , Mies Terry,lce- . _ ~emweise ____ CHATHAM, JAN. 28.—The Poictiers, 74, ordinary guard ship, the crew of which were on Thursday, the 22dinst., paid wages down to six months, arrived. The Rochester, Grandy, master, arrived -on the 21st inst., with stores, from Woolwich. The Cressy, 80 guns : The timbers of the frame for this ship are being removed to the first slip (from whence the Bulldog steam-ship was launched), and the keel will be immediately laid down. The Cumberland, 70 guns, fitted for an advanced ship, is completed, and will be un docked next week. The Raleigh, 50 guns, is nearly com pleted, and is expected to be undocked next week. The Calypso, 20 guns, Captain 11. Worth, and the Sc out, 16 Buns, Commander William Loring, are progressing in their equipments, but no day is yet named for their leaving the ATTEMPT TO SHOOT THE GOVERNOR OF WARE. rumD Housz os• Corm.Ecrtox.— On Friday night last a villain fired a pistol at Mr. Shepherd, the Governor of the House of Correction at Wakefield. About nine o'clock in the evening Mr. Shepherd was returni ng h ome d own Back lane, and when . passing a fi eld which i s di v id ed from the lane by 1 : wall, a p istol was presented and fi re d at him by some eon in the held, who said, as he fired, " D—n th e e , ta k e ," Mr. Shepherd fell down, no doubt from fright, but happily received no injury, the shot having pas.ed into and through the crown of his hsto-Doncaitcr Gazure, COUNT MONTHOLON'S MEMOIRS OF NAPOLEON. Now ready in 2 vols. Svo, price 285. bound, HISTORY OF THE CAPTIVITY OF NAPOLEON, AT ST. HELENA. By GENERAL COUNT MONTHOLON, The Emperor's Companion in Exile and Testamentary Executor. Now first Translated and Published, from the original Manuscript, with the sanction of the Author. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. Now Ready,:Bvo., price 2s. 6d., THE OREGON TERRITORY. Claims thereto of England and America Considered ; its Condition and Prospects. BY A LATB RESIDENT THERE. Non ego sum Tates sed frisci conscius cevi. BY ALEXANDER SIMPSON, ESQ. Richard Bentley, New Burlingtor...----- - - • 30[R. CARTER, THE LION KING, presents Ids compliments to the Nobility, Gantry, and the Public, who have so liberally patronised him on every occasion, and begs to inform them that neither himself, nor any of his lions, tigers, &c., will ever appear at the Marylebone Theatiss, er any ether minor house in London. P.S.—Mr. CARTER'S MAMMOTH HORSE will be exhibited at he Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly , ever y day, from 11 a.st. till 9 P.M.. for a short time previous to h.s departure to America. MEETING OF PARLIAMENT THIRD EDITION OF THE SUN." As usual, the THIRD EDITION of " THE SUN" will contain the very LATEST NEWS of all PROCEEDINGS in PARLIAMENT up to the HOUR qf POST. The RAILWAY COM MITTEES will be very FULLY REPORTED up to the CLOSE of EACH DAY'S PRO CEEDINGS. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE, with the BETTING at TATTERSALL'S up to the HOUR of POST, will also be given; together with ALL OTHER NEWS, RAILWAY, COMMER CIAL, and POLITICAL, to the LATEST PE RIOD, including the " LONDON GAZETTE," "PRICE CURRENT," RAILWAY SHARES, FUNDS, &c. EXPRESS EDITIONS will be PUBLISHED on all EXTRAORDINARY OCCASIONS, and -Subscribers to the Third Edition will frequently receive Express Editions. Orders received by all News Agents, Postmasters, ic., an I at " The Sun" Office, 112, Strand. , l'.S. In eases where any difficulty is experienced isz re ceiving the Third Edition, application to " The Sun' Office will ensure a prompt remedy. N.B. The THIRD EDITION will contain NEWS TWELVE HOURS in ADVANCE. Sun-Office, 112, Strand, London. TRH WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, JAN. 24. TELERMOMWTEI, Lowest, 40; Highest, 50; Noon, 49 BAnostrrEtt, 29.56.—W1ND S.W., changeable. num WATER AT LONDON-RRID(Ig THIS DAY. M +ruing 43 minutes attar 10. I Evening .. 24 minutes after 11 A 4 ., 1ip 4 , -- ..tf , -.4,,,,,, , v g, l , F .r. t 4„ -, ,;, , ~...f.-) ,lir.F. r -- c_, v,- , , , As•iiit - , :_,_ I._ - ,,, ET, , • I i - 7.• ~, D*ol7 ''' ' SECOND EDITION. -11 - 1 1 / 6 LONDON, SATURDAY. JANUARY 24, 1846. The Lords did not sit last evening. The Commons assembled at Four o'Clock. I❑ answer to a question from Lord Jour; RUSSELL, It was stated by the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, that he could not consent to any alteration of the stand ing orders regulating Railway depsits. Mr. MANGLES complained that the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER had taken a very one-sided view of the question, which affected not only railway share holders, but all merchants and traders. Mr. MASTERMAN also considered the reply of the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER as very unsatisfactory. After a few words from Mr. S. CRAWFORD, Sir R. PEEL suggested the propriety of postponing the question until after Monday, and the subject dropped. On th© motion for bringing up the report on the Address. Mr. COLQUROUN rose, and in a long speech attacked Sir B. PEEL, and defended the cause of protection to the lands d interest. Mr. liumE expressed his satisfaction at the conduct of the Government. Sir R. PEEL said that in pursuing the settlement of the great question which now agitates the public mind, on just and equitable terms with that people with whose welfare his own was altogether bound up, he should not allow any personal considerations or private motives to make him swerve from the principles which he -had laid down. In answer to questions from Lord J. RUSSELL on the subject of Oregon, Sir R. PEEL said that a iroposal had been made by the PRESIDENT of the United States, in which it was suggested that a division of that territory should be made ; but the terms that had been proposed for this division were so little likely to be accepted, that Mr. PARENHAM had intimated as much as that the proposal might as well he withdrawn. Now, with respect to that gentleman, he would only say, that though he enter tained for him the highest respect, it would have been much better had he transmitted to the Home Govern ment here the usual accounts of what had come to his knowledge on this question. Since then the offer of this country had been refused on the terms he had stated ; a new course had been adopted, and it had been agreed upon to refer the question to arbitration, but no answer to that offer had yet been received. The O'CONNOR Dort asked if it was intended to in troduce any measure for the settlement of the landlord and tenant question in Ireland ? Sir R. PEEL hoped the question would be repeated in a few days, when he would be prepared to answer it. Mr. BANKES expressed himself at a loss to conceive what could have been the reasons which had induced Sir R. PEEL to change his opinions on the subject of protection. He felt convinced that, when the occasion should arrive, he (Mr. BANEES) should be able to give, to many of the facts and statements of the Right Hon. Baronet, a positive denial. After a few words from Mr. S. CRAWFORD, the mo tion was agreed to, and Sir R. PEEL signified that her Majesty would receive the Address at half-past two this day. Sir R. FREMANTLE obtained leave to bring in a Bill for the 'extension and promotion of public works in Ireland. After which the report was brought up, and the House adjourned. The Chancellor of the Exchequer's answer,!on the sub ject of the railway deposits, appears to us extremely unsatisfactory. So far as reasons are concerned, it was in fact no answer et all. To enable the railway de posits to he paid in Exchequer bills, Government Stock and India Bonds would have no more to do with en couraging speculations than Tenterden's steeple bad to do with Goodwin Sands. The difficulty to be met is not a difficulty as to getting in money for railway pro jeets, but a difficulty as to paying into the Bank money already got : and it is not the railway speculators who are interested in the alteration, but all the moneyedand commercial intereetsof the king dom. Not one railway company in difficulty for want of funds would be helped over the stile by the Chancellor of the Exchequer's consent to the proposed alteration; bat it would give a relief at this moment to the whole commercial credit of the country, and more especially to the metropolis, and we only hope that it is not necessary to save other banks from following in the train of th e two northern banks which have lately failed. These tao banks have failed owing to the difficulty about railway deposits- They have to thank the Chan cellor of the Exchequer. If he had in November given the assurance which the City deputation desired, there would have b een no a l arm or diff i culty about the railway deposit question. The allusion made by Mr. GOULBURN yestLrday to the ra il way speculation had nothing to do with the question ; and it i s rat h er too h ard that the moneyedinterests of the country should be sacrificed, by the Chancellor of the Exchequer's i gnorance, to a mis applied moral ardour. Hallway companies that have invested their funds in alproved securities until the time came for paying the deposits have, under the present law, but to sell out in order to deposit with the Accountant-General, and then, after having deposited, buy in again. What is the use, at best, of this buying in and selling out? But it is not merely that it is useless, but absolutely . a loss to the companies, and no ea rthl y purpose of good. Over and above th eva l t u h e e o b f r brokerage s a e g c e u r e i x ti p e e s n f s a ci s l a w, n ' h d e , n w a h l e l nar all a s erlel baying out, in again, rises ; so that there is no saying what loss may not be incurred by railway companies. And this We have at length some precise information concern ing the negotiations carried on at Washington for the settlement of the Oregon question, and regret to find that it is anything but satisfactory. " A proposal," said Sir ROBERT PEEL, " had been made on the part of the British Minister to the PRESIDENT of the United States, that there should be a division of the territory, but the terms offered by Mr. BerellasieN were so little likely to be accepted, that Mr. PAItENHAM had intimated that they might as well be withdrawn." The Right Hon. Baronet seemed rather disposed to blame the British Minister for not communicating the fact to the home Government, and asking for further instructions. Many persons, on the cant: ary, will consider that Mr. PAKEN HAM acted with proper decision and spirit. The terms offered were such as England could not/ accept with honour. They would have deprived us of the naviga tion of the Columbia and ruiasd the Hudson's Bay Com pany; they would, in fact, have shut us out from nli communication with the Pacific, and given every portion of the territory of the slightest USe for commercial sal other purposes to the United States. This was a fact so palpable, that Mr. PAKENHAM rejected the offer at once, as totally inconsistent with his instructions a. d wi h what he knew to he the rights of England. And what now is Sir ROBERT PEEL'S scheme ? To rete r the matter to arbitration. Tnis has been offered again and again, and uniformly rejected, and to renew the pro posal after such remarkable displays of legislatorial rancour and hostility to England appears utterly useltss for any purpose but delay. England has no wish fur delay; her object is to settle this question at once ; and as fur arbitration, it would only add to the evil by placing England in a worse position. Every one knoas, what time was occupied by the late King of HOLLAND in deciding the eastern boundary question, and what was the result. The American Government refused ti abide by their original agreement, the decision of the arbiter was rejected, and the work, after a tedious delay of many years, was to be commenced anew. Can ws hope for any other conclusion of a second arbitra.- tion, even if the Americans would accede to it ? And in the meantime will they be idle ? Wilt they not be pouring into the Oregon additional settlers, erecting forts, and strengthening themselves in many other respects for a rupture ? Could this benefit Eng land, or give more effect to her demands ? Quite the reverse. Even Mr. HUME, so anxious to live on good terms with America, and so well known for his propel) city to cut down our naval and military establishment , . views the question wish an impartial eye, denounces tin people of that country fur "setting at nought all the rulek, of civilisation in enforcing their alleged claims," and ap proves of such measures as may be necessary to maintain the honour and character of the nation. "Under existing circumstances," said he, " I hold it to bu my duty to girt the Ministers my cordial support in their plans for strengthening the defences of the country." When a severe economist, like Mr. HumE, uses such language, there must bo real danger, and we confidently trust the Government will not despise it. Never did a Parliamentary session affJrd a better opportunity for the consideration of that vast constitu tional problem—" Political consistency"—than the pre - sent. Without doing so in action, the Prime Minister has virtually walked forth from the midst of his former colleagues, and seated himself upon the benches of the Opposition. Nevertheless, in proceeding thus, he has relinquished his original principles with all hsnour, and truthfulness, and propriety : to him no single thought of tergiversation can be ascribed ; his character cannot be impugned as inconsistent. And in this respect the language of Mr. DISRAELI, on Thursday night, was impregnated with veracity—the position of Sir ROBERT PEEL at this moment is without one solitary parallel ite the records of history or the experience of nations. There is, however, something like an antithesis in the instance of EDMUND BURKE—the antithesis of unneces sary desertion, to a candid acknowledgment of error— the antithesis of a man seeking emolument and place by a combination with those in power, to one risking his continuance in office by a secession from his most influential supporters. As the Right Hon. Baronet hinted in his explanatory address, the conduct of a true and patriotic statesman should be ever directed by an anxiety for the prosperity and happiness of the people entrusted to his government. No system of principles, however illusory or specious, should be per sisted in under every and any circumstances by a Minister desirous of discharging his duties without par tiality. No sense of personal obligation should in any particular impede the development of whatever views hi may consider beneficial to the multitude. No fear of contumely or vituperation should prevent him from fol lowing the dictates of his reason. He should stand apart from the trammels of party: his principles should be mculded upon :a gigantic and cosmopolitan scale: his survey should be enlarged not only to the compass of all classes, it should extend beyond the confines e.f his own generation, and calculate the contingencies of futurity. In all these. respects, as far as the present momentous question ot commercial policy is concerned, the Premier cannot dread the searching eye of analysis. The character upon this point, tallies to a tittle. There are, however' some collateral facts in connexion with a great conver sion similar to that of Sir ROBERT PEEL, which rendee the consistency of the individual somewhat dubious. .A sudden desertion to those against whom, and against whose creed a Minister had been waging an implacable and unrelenting ear during the whole of his previous career, would undoubtedly subject him, and with a con siderable show of justice, to the charge of dishonesty, and the accusation of being unconscientious. In the present First Lord of the Treasury, however, this aspersion cannot by the most artful and subtle reason ing hold good for an instant. His conversion upon the subject of freedom to trade, and the abolition of exclusive protection to agriculture, is not of that abrupt nature which it may be conceived to be by the superficial observer. His whole conduct throughout his Ministerial existence has displayed a decided leaning towards these ends. He has not aban doned the protectionists with one sudden bound into the territory of their opponents ; he has not even to undo what he had already accomplished, but rather to enlarge the enlargement he had himself made ; to shake into ruin the tower and its very foundations, the buttresses of which he had previously demolished ; to extend the parole of his tariff into the complete and permanent emancipation of free trade. If his concessions in regard to wool, and sugar, and glass, and cattle, and divers other articles of home industry and foreign produce, had not in some measure prepared the protectionists for a still further evidence of his desire to diminish whatever im posts might appear to him as arduous and superfluous, they must have been most miserably shortsighted indeed. Besides the various gradations we have enumerated, Sir ROBERT PEEL has shown by his general bearing a tendency to that grand alteration of his opinions which he announced with such candour and simplicity on Thursday night last. It is on this ac count, therefore, besides the numerous other conclusive reasons he himself advanced in his explanation, that we now regard Sir ROBERT PEEL as a thoroughly conscien tious and consistent politician. Had he still adhered to an impossibility, like the existing corn-laws ; had he per sisted in propping up a decayed and rotten fabric, like the present commercial system—knowing meanwhile its utter meanness and impolicy—then he might justly have been branded as a small•hearted, callous, bigoted, and inconsistent statesman. As it is, ho proves himself to be the very converse. What to him the vitupera tions of a few disappointed men ! What to him the scurrility of the searchers after aggran- disement ! What to him the sneers and scoff ; and ridicule of those who are only influenced through the pocket 1 The laborious days and nights which, during the recent recess, ho ha, consumed in planning this act of Ministerial magnanimity are now being recompensed with fruition —the fruition of popular gratitude and the applause every discriminating intellect. With the bitterness and the spleen of his new enemies he cannot, by possibility, be affected. However brilliant their animosity may be, it is contemptible; and in this way the showy onslaught of Mr. BENJAMIN DISRAELI was but the glitter of a dying faction. When both the leader of the Opposition and the Prime Minister himself admit the excellence of a hitherto unacknowledged principle, their txample cannot but be imitated by many of their political ad• harents. "Oct'lum non curabis sine toto capite, Nec caput sine toto corpora, Nee, totum corpus sine animk" We have received Madrid journals of the 15th. The discussion in the Chamber of I.Lputies on the At'dress had not been brought to a conclusion, but the speeches contain nothing of interest to the English reader. Ac counts from Barcelona of the same date announce that the Political Chief of that city had caused to be arrested 46 individuals, and had them confined in the citadel. On the Madrid Bourse the Three per Cents. were quoted at 344, and the Fives at 24, both for Account. The speech of M. GUIZOT, in the French (Member of Deputies, in reply to M. TniEas on the relations of France with the United States, has excited considerable interest, and nearly all the journals comment upon it . The speech, which will be found at length in another part of the paper, forms an admirable reply to the hos tile attacks of M. TniEns both on the French Govern ment and England. He adhered to his former assertions respecting the balance of power and the aggrandisement of the United States. " In a political point of view," said he, " the unmeasured greatness of that power was a most objectionable circumstance, as, after having ab sorbed Texas, they might turn their views towards Mexico, and thus destroy the balance of power on the American continent. The counsels which France had given to Texas when menaced by the United Statts she would equally have given, had England shown any de sign to obtain possession of that country. France had used most moderate language, and such as ought not to give any offence to the Cabinet of Washington. As to the affair of the Oregon, France most ardently wished for an amicable arrangement of the differences between England and the United States; but if, unfortunately, hostilities should ensue, the policy of France would be to observe a sirict neutrality." The Journal des Debuts contains a long article on the speech, and calls attention especially to t;at part of it which refutes M. TRIERS' arguments on the subject of England. " The good understanding between the two Governments, and the friendly relations between the two Sovereigns, are not the only fruits," says that jour nal, "of the policy of the present Cabinet. Evidence of a friendly feeling in both nations is to be found in the journals, and in the various manifestations to which circumstances occasionally give rise. Even M. Timms himself is a proof of the admirable change that has been effected, for he has been received in England with as much cordiality as if the part that he took in foment ing discord when he was last in office had been entirely forgotten. But, supposing even that the feeling of discontent and irritation of which M. THIERS talks, did really exist, to whom would it be owing ? To himself and his policy." The National asserts that the . speech of M. GUIZOT was a lame de fence of a wretched policy, and the s proceeds to abuse not only M. GUIZOT, but also M. TmEas, for the modest feeling that they have both proclaimed to the Ft ench nation. It is quite indignant at seeing France remain passive, whilst other countries are increasing their power and adding to their possessions. The Cannier Francais condemns the policy of M. GuizoT, and ex presses its astonishment at the language which he has uttered, and which, it says, is degrading to the French nation. "After having, to please England," it says, " taken an officious and improper part in the Texas affair, he anlounces that France will remain perfectly neutral on the question of the Oregon territory, whereas it is her interest to prevent either England or the United States from taking possession of it." We regret to find from the Paris papers that the accounts received at Marseillos, of a serious calamity having befallen a division of the French army in Africa, are to a certain extent confirmed, but the loss of life is not so great as was at first belLved. An offi cial account of the disaster has been received by the Government, and is thus abridged in the papers : " The Minister of War has received a report from Gene• ral Levasseur, dated Setif, the 10th instant, giving an ac count of a melancholy catastrophe which had befallen the column of men, 1,200 strong, under his orders. The Ge neral was returning to Constantine, after several suc ceesful attacks upon the rebel tribes, when his troops were, on the 3d, caught in a snow-storm of such vio lence and long duration, that a great number lost their lives from cold and exhaustion, and a considerable num ber reached Setif in such a state of suffering, that they were immediately placed in the hospital. The General says that he was not able, at the time of writing his re port, to give a correct return of the dead. as many who had been given up for lost were hourly coming in ; but, according to a letter from Setif, of the Bth, in the Semaphore of Mar seilles, the number who had perished amounted to a hun dred, and many of those who had arrived at Setif and had entered the hospital were in such a sad state, with their hands and feet frozen, that their recovery was considered impos sible. According to the report of General Levasseur, how ever, the cases in the hospital were not serious. The Sema phore adds, that fears of a similar disaster were entertained for a column which had left Setif some time ago, under General d'Arbouville." The Algjrie gives a sketch of the disastrous affair, which corresponds with the above, but it includes a statement that thirty officers had been taken into the hospital at Setif, with their extremities frozen—the detachment of the African chas seurs had five men and several horses killed by the cold ; of the waggon-train fifteen are dead; of the 43d of the line, which was making its first campaign in Africa, the grenadier company has almost entirely disappeared, and nearly all the muleteers put in requisition have perished. The Alg&ie states that on the Bth more than one-third of the column had not got back to Setif, consequently the fate of 800 men re mained unknown. "'The Courri , ,r Francais, after giving the lamentable ac counts from Setif, adds the following :—" It is said that an epidemic disease has attacked the village of Foudouk, and carried off no fewer than 400 victims. Such a visitation is the more surprising as this small colony is situated to the east of the plain of Metidja, in a well-watered and fertile country, believed to be peculiarly healthy. It is to be feared that the Marabouts who go about preaching in all parts of Algeria will avail theniselves of this sad news, by holding it out to their fanatical hearers as a prognostic of the coming vengeance of the Prophet upon the infidels.' " The Three per Cents. closed on the Paris Bourse on Thursday, at 83f. 10c. ; the Five per Cents. 121 f. 55c ; the Orleans Railroad Shares, 1,263 f. 75c. ; Rouen, 1,0301. ; Havre, 747 f. 50c. ; Avignon, 9851. ; Vierzon, 710 f ; Bordeaux, 6461. ; Boulogne, 555 r. ; Troyes and Montereau, 4571, 50c. ; Basle, 2551.; Groat Northern, 756 f. 25c. ; Fatnpoux, 505 f.; Spanish Three per Cents., 38%.S The following aro the quotations for other lines : Paris and Lyons, definitive, 625 f. ; the Paris and Strasburg, defini tive, 550 f. ; Tours and Nantes, definitive, 575 f. ; Lyons and Avignon (Talabot), 510 r. ; ditto (Lecointe), 506 f. 50c, ; ditto (Corn. pagni• Meridionale), 503 f. 50c. ; Bordeaux and Cotta (Mackenzie), 502 f. boc. ;* ditto (Espeleta), 508 f. ; Charleroi (Kysaens), 498 f.; Caeu (Delamarre), 502 f. 50c. Lyons, JAN. 20.—Marseiiles and Avignon, 990 f.; Paris and Or leans, 1,262 f. 50c.; Paris and Rouen, 1,035 f. BUSINESS I)ONE IN F ... ORED;N RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, JAL 23. Bordeaux, Toulouse, and Cetts (Mackenzie's), 216—Ditto (Es plota's), 216 —Calcutta and Diamond Harbour, IA p.—Ceylon, 1 Dutch Rhenish, B—East Indian, li/—Great Northern of France Constituted, 14N —Great Western Bengal, 1 Luxembourg, 2% Madras, 16 p.—Orleans and Vierzon, 17% Orleans and Bordeaux, 11% —Paris andiLyons (Eafiltte's), 2% —Rouen and Havre, 28. It is strongly rumoured that the statement of the Commercial policy of the Government, now fixed for Tue.,day, will be deferred for a week. We are unable to state the reason for the postponement, but we hear there is little doubt of it. SIGNS OF THE TIMES.—The recent meeting at Norwich, where the protectionist party was so signally defeated, caused no heartburning nor jealousy on the side of the discomfited leaders of the agriculturist. The principal actor on that side, desired that his opinion of Mr.Cobden should be conveyed to that gentleman in the following terms:—" Tell Richard Cobden from me, that ho is the lionestest man in the House of Commons—if not almost the only one." We vouch for this fact. is what the Chancellor of the Exchequer treats as a time-honoured institution, and will not touch. THE QUEEN'S SPEECH. We are indebted to our much-valued and enterprising friend, Mr. Murdo Young, the spirited proprietor of The London Sun, for an early edition of that journal, containing the Queen's Speech at the opening of Parliament yQsterday. Besides the Speech from the Throne, the Third Edition of The Sun of last night contains nearly nine columns of Parliamentary debate! This, indeed, is enterprise.—Hull Advertiser. We are indebted to the Proprietors of The Sun for an ex pressed copy of that paper, containing the important Par liamentary intelligence inserted in another colu►n.—Sornelset County Gazette. " THE SUN."—We are indebted for the report of Sir Ro bert Peel's speech, in our columns, to an Express Edition of The Sun of Thursday.—Leeds Mercury. We gratefully acknowledge the kindness of the pro prietor of The Sun newspaper, in transmitting copies of his paper, yesterday evening, by express, from which we tran scribe her Majesty's Speech. The Sun's energy on all similar occasions merits the warmest acknowledgment.—Nottingham Review. Andnow, good reader, referring you to the Parliamentary intelligence—for the rest we ask thee to join with us in cor dial thanks to Murdo Young, the brilliant Sun light of the Pres 3, for that Express Edition of Lis, which enables us to convey to thee, within 18 or 19 hours after the speech of the Minister was delivered, a summary of its contents 200 miles from town.— Western Times. (FROM A CORRESPONDENT DERRY, FRIDAY NIGIIT.—I do not recollect any former Queen's Speech causing so much anxiety, and exciting so much attention as the one delivered on Thursday by our be loved Queen. "What will the Queen be made to say?" was in everybody's mouth, and great numbers of people waited the arrival of Tie Sun express, on Thursday evening, with the utmost impatience. To-day has been the usual weekly market. The contents of the Speech, indicating, as they do, the advent of a large measure of free trade, have been read with great satisfaction by everybody who is not a monopolist, and many farmers exclaim, "Nell, better have it settled at once than go on by driblet's." The Tory monopolist squires are perfectly rampant. They abuse Peel unmercifully, allege that he has betrayed them, and would infinitely prefer an open foe to an enemy, like Peel, in the garb of a professed "friend." They thilik there will be a fight for it yet on the hustings, and hope still to defeat his measure, be it what it may. The general—all but universal —hope is, that Peel's measure will be at once comprehensive and final, and that it will be clogged by no unseemly provisions. Should this hope be disappointed, the working classes will meet en masse, and speak in term s no t to b e m i sun derstood. Ali parties concur that a "crisis" has arrived of no trifling character, and the free-traders here are resolved to persevere with determination and r:gour. " Hurrah for free trade I" We are desired to correct an account, which first ap peared in a country paper, of a late me : a ncholy event near H ighworth, Wilts. The reverend gentleman who fell from his horse and expired was the Rev. G. Thomas, of Bishops town, near Swindon, and not the Rev. Vaughan Thomas, of reolNin.reyNn,i- evening, r r at hpeurb, N ul ir t el E ,on E s, T ee e l o N tfi G ntga INVERURY.—On in n t s t i i d e er l a 'o ti w ffi n i O T l C f‘ t o l r Nr s dT d . leing' jute the evil tendencies of the corn-laws. Mr. Gordon of the Commercial Inn, in the chair. Speeches were delivered b y the chairman, Messrs. John limes, Cock, Roy, and others. The audience was numerous and respectable. Resolutions condemnatory passed o f th e ex i s ti n g corn-laws wereassed without a disentient voice ; and a memorial to both Houses of Par lattitietanenhtlieielortninimtnoluasf Majesty's now in the course of signature in the district. — North of Scotland Gazette. HER . MAJESTY'S THEATRE.—The rumour of the in stall, was ern c s o eat ii t. : e,p ' sr e r r eel t l,, i hee n iie g : at contemplatedt t er l x i e e .ist p i i n pit of he i t Majesty's arose fTheatreroin into several htu,drcd more bow wade tor stad3 thun The composer Verdi is expected in town this season, having been retained by . Mr. Lumley to produce a new opera LONDON, JAN. 24 —Wind this day at noon, W. by li f g r lai t r b s : LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY.) ilcs and hazy. lirnmr, JAN. 23. — The Melrose, Of Stindertand, sprung a leak the morning of the 2 1 st, and foundered , about ibrty til land ; crew, except the carpenter, saved. OFF DuNGENriss, JAN. 19.—Gerardoint, Witsch, Batavia. DUBLIN, JAN. 2 I.—Sid. Lady Mary, Scott, Trinidad. Coax, JAN. 20.—Arrd. Adirondack, Shiply, New York ; Syrian, Cannon, St. John's, New Brtlnswick. .MILFORD, JAN. 22.—1 t blew a very heavy gale last eight and the early part of the clay from S.S.W. to W.N.W. The Milford Packet, Rees, hence to Bristol, drove on the rocks off Pell Point, but has been got off. JERSEY, JAN. 21.—The schooner Aurore, of this port, bound to Rio Janeiro, broke from her moorings on the night of the 19th inst. ' has fallen over and bilged, and tills with the tide , and is su pp osed to have received considerable damage. SWANSEA, JAN. 22.—The Reliance, Alexander, from Sulind and Cork to Antwerp, has put in here with considerable damage, and it is expected must discharge. LIVERPOOL, JAN. 23.—Wind S.E., light.—Acrd. Charles, Buenos Ayres, sld. 29th October; llarwan, Carless, Mobile; Vincet Dorn ling, New York; John Baring, Sherman, ditto; Perseverance, Burnett, St. John's, New Brunswick ; Chieftain, dney, sld. 23d May ; Mayflower, Crabtree, New Orleans : Oregon, Gladder, Charles ton ; South Carolina, Hamilton, ditto ; Ashburton, Howland, New York ; Concordia, Dorr, Boston. Put back 23d Mastery, for River Gambia. . _ _ CLYDE, JAN. 21.—Ski. Juno, Gibbs, Newfoundland ; 22d, William, Lyon, Trinidad; Ilynford, WAlpine, Savannah. 'DEAL, JAN. 23. —The ship Tullocb Castle and barque Osbert, of London, are reported to have been in contact off the North Forelanl, and to have put back to the River with damage. FALMOUTH, JAN. 23.—The Preciesa, Jacobson, from Cardiff to Constantinople, put in here 21st instant, leaky and sails split, has been surveyed, and will partly discharge. L'VIONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, QUARTER TO THREE. The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were 7,000 bales, nearly all to the trade, and for wh.ch full prices were obtained. Shares have been heavy. The Bank of England weekly return to the 17th inst. pre sents the following leading features:- Notes issued-Increase £32,710 Other deposits-ditto Seven-day and other bills-ditto 11,473 Bul lion-Decrease The following are a few of the prices for Railway Shares realised yesterday afternoon at Messrs. Lamond's auction :- Calcutta and St. George's Point, lls. 6d.-Great North sad South Wales and Worcester, 6s. 6d.-North Jamaica, 25.- West End and Southern Counties, 9s. 6d.-Liverpool and Leeds, 11. 195.-Reading and Reigate, 11.-Chester and Man chesor, 1/. 55.-Madrid and Valencia, 11. 4s. 6d.-North ampton, Bedford, and Cambridge, 1/. 75.-Direct Western, 2L -Manchester, Huddersfield, and Great Grimsby, 11. 165.- Cambridge and Oxford, 195.-Dublin and Armagh (Inland), 12s. 6d.-Worcester, Hereford, Ross, and Gloucester, 1/. 12s. -Newport and Abergavenny, 11. 155.-Southampton, Man chester, and Oxford, 19s. 6(1.-Direct East and West Junc tion, 19s. 6d.-Kentish Coast, Is. 6d.-London and Man chester (Rastrick's), 4/. ls. 6d. The Public Securities have been rather firmer, but there has not been much doing. Consols have teen 91 1 % to 94 for present transfer, and 94% to % for time. Exchequer bills have been 19s. to 225. premium ; New Three-and-a- Quarter per Cents. are 96% to 1 1 1 , and the Three per Cents. 94Y 2 to Bank Stock is quiet at 205. Spanish Bonds and the Peninsular investmen's generally are quite neglected. Brazil Stock is at 82 1 4. Venezuela Bonds are 42 1 ,1. The Share market has been rather drooping again. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. (From the Official List.) Bank Stock .. • • •• .. 205 Three per Cent. Reduced Annuities .. " Three pa* Cent. Consols Annuities 94 1 , 4 94 New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cent. Anns. 96 %l, 4 Long Annuities, Expire Jan. 5, 1860 •• 10% Ditto, 30 years, Jan. 5, 1860 .. 10 3-16 Consols for Account .. • • • . • • •• 94 %%% Exchequer Bills. I%d. 1,000/. .. .. • . - 22 19 21 - 50)1. •• - 20 22 - - pm. Ditto, Small • • - .... 20 22 - - pm. PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK. Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent • • .. 82% Danish Bonds, 3 per Cent •• 89y, Equador Bonds • . • • • • • • • • 3% Granada, 1 per Cent. ......- Ditto, Deferred • • • • .. Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent. • • • • - Ditto, Passive Bonds .. • • .. 63z 3 / 4 Venezuel t Bonds, 2 per Cent • • .. 421,8 Ditto, Deferred • • • • .. Dividends on the above payable in London. BUSINESS DONE IN RAILWAY SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK RAILWAYS. PAID. PER SHARE. Aberdeen • • • • • • • • • • 5 .... to Amber., Notting., Boston, & Eastrn Jn. 2% .. 3 .. .. to 2% Bideford and Tavistock 1 OS .. to Birmingham and Gloucester • . ..100 .. • .150 .• • . to Birmingham and Oxford Junction • • 2 .• • • 3 •• • • to 3 Bristol and Exeter • . • • • • .. 70 •••• 84 83 to 84% Buckinghamshire • • .. • • .. • • 425. •• • • %% p.. to Caledonian • . .. 10 ••.. 1 % to Ditto Extension .• • .. .. 2% •• • • 31i IA •• to 3 - - Chester and Manchester .. 425. .... dis •.to Direct Manchester (Rastrick's) 5 1 ,E •• • • 4 .... to Direct Northern • • • • • • 21 .• • • 214 •• • • to Dublin and Belfast Junction .. 5 .... 6% ••.. ti Eastern Counties .. • • .. 141. 16s. Od. •• .. 22 % % to Do., Perpetual, 5 per Ct. No. 1, 61. 13s. 4d... .. p • • to Ditto, ditto .. .N 0.2, 61. 13s. 4d..• p.. to Edinburgh and Glasgow • • .. 50 .• •• •••• to Ditto, Half Shares • • • • .. .. 5 .. .. 15 •• • • to Moue. ' Aoeryst., & Cent. of Wales • 1% fl .. ••to Goole, Doncaster, and Sheftleld, kc... 425. .. • • 1% p.• to Grand Union (Nottingham and Lynn) 1U .... to Great Southern and Western (Ireland) 15 — .... 22 . ...• to Great North of England • . .• • • 100 ••. • .... to Ditto, New • • • • .. .. 5 .... 50% .... to Ditto, New • • • • .. •• • • 33% 33 to 32 Great Western • • • • .. 85 .. • • .... to Ditto, Mall' Shares • • • • .. .. 50 .... 90 .• .. Ditto, Quarter Shares • • .. .... 19 ••.• to 20 Hull and Selby . • • • •• .. •• 50 .•• • •••. to Ditto, Half Shares • • • • • • • • 7 •• •• 27 .. to Leicester and Bedf,,rd .. • • • • 225. •• • • 3 4 p • ..• to Leiest., Tam.,l3ir., Ea Trent Val. June. 425. .. • . IA p.... to Ditto, Fifths • • • • .. • • • • 2 .. • • 23,i •• • • to 23 London and Madman • • 161. 13s. 4d. •• • • 9 1 ,0 •• • • to 9 Ditto, New • • • • • • • . • • 1% •• • • _3 •• • . to London and Brighton •• •. .. SO ••.. 67 •• •- to ,y 4 Ditto ditto Fifths • • • • .. .. 10 .• • • 20s, •••• to 20 London and Croydon • • • • 131. 15s. 9d. •• • • 22 1 A • • to London, Hounslow, and Western .. 2 .... 1 .. to London and South .Western 411. G.. 10d. ••• • ... to Ditto, New Consolidated Eighths •. 28 .• 42 •••• to London and York • • • • • - 234 .... 4 1 ,4 .. to London and Windsor • • • • .• 1 •• .. to •••• to London, Warwick, and Kidderminster 2 •• • • •• .. to Manch.3sler and Leeds • • .. 82 •• • • .. • • to Ditto, Fifths • • • • .. • . 1 •• • • 12% .• • • to Manchester and Birmingham .. .. 40 .• • • 774 •• .• to Ditto, New Quarter Shares • . .. 2 •• • • 91 .. • • to Manchester, Buxton, and Matlock .. 425. •• • • 2 p...• to IN p Manch ster and Southampton .. 2 •• • • 3 .... to Midland • • ••100 ••••152 .... to 153 Ditto, New • • • .. .. 12 ••• • 28 .. ••to 29 Ditto, Birmingham and Derby • • 100 .. • •122% .... to 122 .Newcastle and Darlington Junction .. 25 •• •• •• • • to Ditto, New, Brandling .. .. 20 .. • • 53% .•to Newcastle and Berwick .. 10 .• • • 21% to 21 Newark, Sheffield, and Boston .. 2% .. • • 2% % % to North British .• •• 17% —• • 24% •• • • to Ditto, Half Shares • .. .. 3 .... 7 %•• to Ditto, Carlisle Extension .. la .... 3% .. • . to 3 North Keat and Direct Dover .. 2% .... 3% .• • to North Staffordshire • • .. . 425..... 3% p.. to Norwich and Brandon • . .. 18 .... 25 .... to Notnampton, Banbury, & Cheltnam. 2 ... 2% to Preston and Wyre . • • - • • • • • • 25 .... 35 .... to Richmond • • • • • • • • • • .. 10 .- .. 15%.••. to 16% Shrewsbury and Birmingham .. 2%.... 4 •• •• to Shropshire Union • • • •- .. 425. .... t 4 p•- to SornersetAhlre Midland • • .. .. .. • . 3 •• • • to South Midland • • • •• .• 425. ...• 3p••• . to 2% p South Eastern and Dover • • -. .. 38 % 38 3 ,E • • to Ditto, New, No. 1 • • • • .• •• 16 19% %.• to Ditto, New, No. 2 • • .. • • • • 10 •• • 1315.... to Ditto, New, No. 4 •• • • • • •• 2% •• • • 4%% • • to South Wales .. .. • • • . •• 2% •• •• 3% •• • . to Trent Valley and Holyhead Junction • • • • . • .. to Welsh Midland .. • • .. • • 2 1 A •• • 2 ••• • to 15, ... __ Wilts, Somerset, and Weymouth .. 2 1 A.. • • 3.7 i -• t 1 Yarmouth and Norwich .. . • .. 20 •• • • 27 •• • • to York and Carlisle .. •• • • • . •• _29i.... 3 .• • • to York and North Midland • • • • • . 50 • .. • to Ditto, Extension • • • • .. .. 15 •• • . 40 .. • • to FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Bord., Toulouse, & Cetle (Mackenzie) 2 ... 2 .... to Ditto, ditto (Esrelete) • • • . .. 2 •• .. 2 .... to Demerara .. .. .. 2 .... to -- Dutch Rhenish • • .. .. 5 .. • 8 .• .. to 7% ---- ----- East Indi in .• .. 55. •• .. 1% .. to Great Northern of France Connitute.i 5 •••• 15 14 3 1, • • to 14% Great Indian Peninsular • • .. ss. •• .. 2 /, to tireat Western Bengal .• .• ss. •• • • •••• to I Jamaica South blidland Juitc , ion • . 1 .• .. 4 .... to Luxembourg .. • • • • .. .• .. 4 .• .. 2%.. to Namur and Liege • • • • • • • 4•• • • 3 14 •••• • to — Paris and Lyons (Laltte's) • • .. 2 .• 2% ••.. to West Flanders • • • • • • • • • • 4 •• • • 5 • • ••to MINES. Real del Monte, Unregistered • • • • •• .• 4 •• • • to MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.) COVENT-6ARDEZif. For the time of year the supplies of both Fruit and "Vege tables were again abundant, owing to which the demand was in a sluggish state, but no material alteration took place in prices. NEWPORT. Beef, from 2s 8d to 3s 8d; Mutton, 3s 6d to 4s 8d; Veal 4s 6d to 53 4d ; and Pork, N 10.1 to 5s 2d per 81bs. BILLINGSGATE. We had fair average supplies of Fish on offer to-day. Generally speaking the demand ruled inactive, at but little variation in pricei._ WHITZCHAPE36. Beef, from N 6d to 3s 6d ; Mutton, 3s 6d to 4s 6d ; Veal, 3s 10d to 5s 8d ; and Pork, 4s to 58 per 61b3. NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL. Although the supplies of each kind of Meat were but mode rate, the demand was somewhat inattive, at our quotations. Beef from 2s 6d to 3s 6d ; Mutton, 3s 4d to 4s 6d ; Veal, 4s 8d to 5s 8d ; and Pork, 38 8d to 58 2d per 81bs by the carcase. Turkeys, 3s 6d to 8s ; Geese, 4s to 6s 6d ; Ducks, Is 3d to 2s 3d ; Tame Rabbits,ls 6d to Is 10d ; Wild ditto, 6d to 10d ; Pigeons, 6d to 10d ; and Roasting Pigs, 7s 6d to 108 each ; Fowls, 3s 6d to 8s 6d per couple ; Phea sants, 3s 6d to 4s 6d ; Partridges, 2s to 2s 6d ; Hares, 43 to 3s 6d ; Woodcocks, 2s to 2s 6d ; Grouse is 6d to Is 8d ; Snipes, Sd to Is ; Teal, Is 3d to is 6d ; Wild Ducks, 2s to 2s 8d; Widgeons, is 6d to 2s; and Plovers, 8d each. HUNGERFORD. For most descriptions of produce the demand was heavy, and previous currencies were not supported. DREAD. The prices of Wheaten Bread in the metropolis are from 9d to 9/d; of Household ditto, 7i to 3/d per 4lbs loaf. HIDE MARKET. Market Hides, 561 b to 641 b, *1 to 3d per lb ; do. 641 L to 721 b, 3d to SlAd ; do. 721 b to SOlb, 3d to 3t" d ; do. SOlb t.BSlb, 34d to 3Nd ; do. 88Ib to 961 b, 8 1 Ad to 4d ; Calf Skins, each, 3s 6d to 7s ; Horn Hides, 13s ; Polled Sheep, 5s 6d ; Half breds, 3s 6d to 4s 6d ; Downs, 28 10d to 3s 8d ; Lambs, 35 to 4s. Nair SMITHFIELD.—Meadow Hay, 3/ 8s to 4/ 8s; Clover ditto, 41 8s to 5155; Oat Straw, 1/ 103 to 1/ 12s; Wheat Straw, 1/ 12s to 1/ 14s per load. Trade rather dull, at but little variation in prices. CUMBKRLAND.—Meadow Hay, 31 5s to 41 12s; Clover date, 41 5s to 61 12s ; Oat Straw, I/ lls to 1/ 12s; Wheat Straw, 1/ 14s to 1/ 15s per load. Supply moderate, and trade somewhat brisk. WITITECHAPEL.—Meadow Hay, 3/ 58 to 4/ 10s; Clover ditto, 4/ 8s to 51 166 ; Oat straw, 1/ lOs to I/ 12s ; Wheat Straw, 1/ 12s to 1/ I4s per load. A moderate supply, and a steady demand. EXTENSIVE FIRE IN CLERKENVVELL.--AbOßt half past two o'clock yesterday morning, a lire took place at the Hoop and Adze public-house,. near Sutton - street, Clerken well. The persons residing gon the prem ises were soon roused, and the engine soon reacned the spot. By that time, such was the rapidity of the flames, that eve r y fl oor was on fire. Water was instantly supplied from the New River mains, and several engines were set to work ; but notwithstanding this powerful aid, in about half an hour nothing of the property was left but the walls. An inquiry was made as to its origin, but nothing decisive could be obtained on the subject. Sir George Murray is improving in health. It was said at the Clubs, last ni , 4ht, that the free- Laty on both the llotn 11N '! made a calcula tion of their joint strength, and that the odds in their favour, as against the protectionists, are about 300 to 250. Of course, there are waverers, and trimmers, and doubters, over and above. IMPERIAL PARLIAMEINT. (Ti - lIS DAY). nOUSE OF LORDS PRESENTATION OF THE ADDRESS TO HER MAJESTY. The House met to-day at one o'clock, for the purpose of proceeding in state to Buckingham Palace, with the Address in answer to her Majesty's 6peeth. The at tendance of Peers was scanty in the extreme, fot when the Lord Chanodlor took his seat on the Woolsack there were only present the Earl of Home, Viscount Hawarden, Lord Mont t agle, the Earl of Shaftesbury, and the Earl of Redesdale. At two o'clock their Lord ships left the House, and proceeded in state to Bucking ham Palace. The House adjourned till Monday s at half•past Four. HOUSE OF COMMONS. The Speaker, In his state robes, took the chair Kt halt-past one o'clock, at *high time there were about sixty Members present. There Were only three Mem bers in uniform, the mover and seconder of the Address, and Mr. Cardwell. Lord Francis Egerton and kr, Cardwell were dressed in the Windsor uniform, and Mr. Beckett Denison as a Deputy Li , -ntenant. THE JthDRESS. Colonel DAWSON DAMEII appeared at the bar of the House, and said her Majesty had been most gra ciously pleased to appoint half-past two o'clock for the reception of the deputation of the House with the Ad dress. RAILWAY BILLS. Several petitions in favour of railway Bills were then presented, and ordered to lie on the table. Atbangst them were several in favour of the North British Rail way Bills, Nos. I, 2,3, and 4. Mr. CAI DWELL moved that copies of the army and navy estimates be laid on the table.—Ordered. U OPLY. Mr. CARDWELL then moved that that portion of the Address relating to supply b 3 read. This being done, the lIoN. GENTLEMAN said, on Mon day night ho would move that a supply be granttd to her Majesty. The Speaker, in his state carriage, accompanied by ale movers and seconders, and the Members, left at two ,3'clock precisely for the Palace, and the House was ad journed till a Quarter to Four o'clock on Monday. CHANCERY.-(THIS DAY.) CHRIST'S HOSPITAL V. GRAINGER, AND OTHERS.-JUDG- NENT. The LORD CIIANCELLoR gave judgment this morning in this case, which was argued before his Lordship a short time tince, upon an appeal from the decision of the Vice-Chancellor of England, giving the plaintiffs liberty to amend their bill a second time, after the expiration of .he time prescribed by order of the Court. The bill was filed by the governors of Christ's Hospital on the nature of at cross bill to an information by the Attorney-Gene ral for the better administration of a charity, founded by a person named Kenrick, in the town of Reading. The bill filed by the governors of Christ's Hospital, claimed the whole estates belonging to that charity, under a clause of forfeiture in the will of the founder, on the ground that those estates had not been ad ministered according to his expressed intentions. Kenrick by his will, dated in 1684, oirected that a sum of 75,0001. should be invested in the purchase of land, and that the income should be applied for the better em ployment of the poor of Reading. When new trustees were appointed in the place of the Corporation, who had managed the estates up to the pass ing of the Municipal Corporation Act, an information was filed for a new scheme, and then it was that Christ's Hospital was advised there had been a forfeiture, because the income had not been properly applied, and a claim was made in their behalf for the whole.property, which now produced upwards of 2,000.'. a-year, in addition to a sum of 10,0001. in the public funds. To the claims of Christ's Hospital, or rather to the will put in by that body, an answer was put in by the trustees, the corporation of Reading and the Attu' ney-General, ho were all made defendants. The answer was pro nounced sufficient, and such being the case there was a limited time, according to the order of the Court, within which the plaintiffs would be at liberty to amend their bill should they think it net essary. The plaintiffs took from the 20th of February, 1845, to the 4th of December, in the same year, and, they applied to the Vice-Chancellor of England for leave to amend on the affidavit of the clerk of their solicitor, in which it was known that it had become necessary to go through above 21,000 papers and deeds ; that he had at various times occupied twenty days in that examination ; that it had become necessary to vary and limit the case made by the bill; and that the amendments so required to be made were material. The Vice-Chancellor, in conformity with the practice under the 13th and 15th of the orders of 1828, as modified by the orders of 1831, and still further modified by the 68th of the new orders of May. 1845, gave the plaintiffs leave to amend a second time, and from that order the defendants appealed. When the case came before his Lordship it was argued on behalf of the appellants that the Vice-Chancellor had no jurisdiction to make such an order of amendment ; and that even if he had, that his Honour had violated the exigency of the 68th order, by giving leave to amend an insufficient affidavit sworn by a clerk, instead of by the solicitor of the plaintiff himself, that affidavit not stating any grounds for amendment, or averring or showing that any reasonable diligence had been used to procure the means of making the amendment earlier. The question raised by the appeal, although one of mere practice, was of vast importance to the profession, be cause' if the new orders of May last, which bad been framed with so much care and attention, -were not strictly maintained, it would be much better that they should be abrogated at once. The words of the 68th of the new order were—" After the plaintiff has filed or undertaken to file a replication, or after the expi ration of four weeks from the tia.e when the answer or last answer is deemed sufficient, a special order for leave to amend a bill was not to be granted without further affidavit showing that the matter of the proposed amendment is material, and could not with reasonable diligence have been sooner introduced into such bill. The amendment had not been made in compliance with that order, because the' proper course fur the plaintiff would have been in the first instance to have gone before the Master. In support of the decision of the Court below, it was submitted that the new orders had not superseded, but merely modified the old ones, and that the Court, under `the 21st of the new orders of May, had an express leave to exercise its discretion. With respect to got , g before the Master, the plaintiffs had merely adopted the practice as it ex isted under the old order, by coming at once to the Court, when after the expiration of the ordinary time they asked for extraordinary indulgence. The LORD CHANCELLOR, this mot fling, at considerable length gave judgment, reversing the decision of the, Court below. ROLLS' COURT.—(THIS DAY.) His LORDSHIP sat at ten o'clock, and resumed the bearing of motions, which were quite uninteresting. BAIL COURT.-(THIS DAY.) (Sittings in Banco, 'befora Mr. Justice WILLIAMS.) Mr. CLARKSON applied for a writ of certiorari to re move a certain indictment from the Court of Middlesex Quarter Sessions. The Learned Counsel said, that the indictment on which this applicatii,n was founded was of rather a novel character. The party was charged with exposing his person, and the first count charged him with " exposing his person in a certain public place in the view of a child of tender age-to wit twelve years." Tho second count charged him with exposing, &c., in a certain public place in the view of several of her Ma jesty's subjects ; and the third, charged a common assa ult. Mr. Justice WILLI tms—A common assault ? Mr. CLARKSON—Yes, my Lord, a common assault. It would not be necessary to detail all the circumstances, as they were of a very indecent character, and his Lord ship would see them in the depositions. It would appeal that a party in Paddington churchyard had beckoned ton girl on the footpath outside, and when she came he had exposed his person to her. A gravedigger had followed, and had seen the party expose his person to the girl, who did not appear to be at all unwilling to submit to the treatment to which she was subjected. He (Mr. Clarkson) was aware that the first count had often been held valid in the " junior courts," a 3 he would term them, but he had frequently had great doubts as to it legality. A girl of the age of twelve years was not by the English law one bit more protected than any woman of full age, except in the case of mar riage or abduction, where the party had money, and was in fact under some sort of legal guardianship. The second count was wholly unsupported by the evi dente ; and the third was an absurd one. The question he wished to raise before the Court of Queen's Bench new lawt that to t was one of considerable importance, as und er t h e cir cumstances it we uld be necessary to ma meet these cases. His Lordship was gkueite a a n h those great eo u r s r ) e ,gd s iplnffieccmsctuucttthtoetdcoat to oeobsnt aapoisetnirctshefooenrbsposrtuewiscilehllitwe,presided )cs, tot h o r ati v nr e ti g,d r i juries in the courts of quarter sessions ( an d h e sa id so i n t a I t v u a r s a natural a f e t h e l e i r i like a legitimate legal determination. The application was granted. XCHEQUER.--(THIS DAY.) (Sittings in Banco.) EX PARTE THE DERBY, UTTOXETER, AND STAFFORD SHIRE RAILWAY. Mr. JAMES said he had to move their Lordships for a rule nisi to show cause why the plaintiff in this case should not deliver to the defendant.; a further and beite: puticular of the nature of his demand. The plaintiff was art engineer, and the defendants provisional com mitteemen of the Derby, Uttoxeter, and Staffordshire Railway, and the claim, which amounted to 3,7741. 45., was alleged to be for preparing the necessary levels and surveys of that line. The cause of action set forth in the declaration was simply for work stud labour done, and upon no special contract, but the particulars of the demand,.whieh consisted of six items, were of so general a character that the defendants had some diffi culty in shaping their defence. One item, for instance, was for surveying 36 miles of the proposed line, 1,4601., and another was for preparing and delivering books of reference, &c., 6301., but the terms of these items were so general and indefinite, that the defendants had no means of ascertaining either the amount of the work done, or whether the charges for it were fair and reason able. The LORD CHIEF BAnoN—The particular is similar to that of an electioneering agent for contivfAinf , ugrecti thi,t lint of being simply for work and labour done, and not upon a special contract, the particulars ought to be more defi nite and explicit of the extent and nature of the work and • labour done. Mr. Baron PARKE—You gave the plaintiff hi s i nos tr Lions, and ought to know whether he has follewed out or not. Mr. JAMES said the defendan t could not t ga ther freZ the 'rtieulars whether he had or not, and Or o the defendants nor their solicito r had seen all ( 31 work alleged to have been done, because from theo &finite nature of the particulars they were et where to look fur it. In the first item there was 1- 10 tba per mile specified. old The CHIEF` BARON—If you divide the amount 60%04 by thirty-six you will easily ascertain that. if 6 aunt by charges a hundred guineas for a certain cure, can IS; ine, upon him to divide his demand into charges for reew e attendance, &c. ? Certainly not. Mr. JAMES differed from the opinion of his t o hot the case his Lordship had put was not analogoio the one they were discussing. .I he doctor's,etteemV4 be on the general contract, but hev it was ree %od labour done. Not knowing, however, the Det,_:i s stl extent of the work and !about done, the deit`i,,hr could not ascertain, by appealing to other engineert, thee* the charges were usual and fair At tel ° The i.ARD CHIEF BARON—Does Your awes- - f i slit that the defendants are ignorant of the nature e" work and labour done ? ihe tin Mr. JAMES said he had no affidavit made by 6~ i s r fendants themselves, but they wer e certsieltoliged quainted with the amount or extent o f the work to have been done. thee, r The LORD CHIEF Ballow—You had better, „rife vide yourself with such an affidavit, and make i"" plieation to a Judge at Chambers. Mr. JAMES thanked his Lordship for the 511 P and promised to act upon it. ‘pt INCEST and-SUSPECTEL7•M C-9 fc D GRgEUVVICH POLICE COURT.--( 1111 ' " 11 0" A young woman ; of respectable appeara n ce, ? ra d Ann Maria Richardson, was placed at the WI o ers by police-sergeant Wilson with concealing the b T v erecb male child ; of which she had been recently e' l ' he( the body of which was found in a 'garden attached t h e , 0 0 father's former residence, on Royal Gr eculvic Thursday afternoon. t ore The case excited an unsual degree o f inters pit h . fact of the father of the prisoner having, IT M u th short period, held the lucrative situatio n of Pu— toel‘ tent at the Royal Observatory. )1 Police-sergeant Wilson, 39 R, deposed tbit I,:e the prisoner into custody last night, in conseglie lee inform ation he received, and in reply to ques tieng Cl3l ll voluntarily stated that she had been delivered of in September last, at a house in Weston Thomas's-street, Borough. She was attend `I tio t Wood, a medical gentleman. of Union-street, ee or the child died ten days after its birth. She had ied• tificate of the birth, but she believed her fs tbe ' t atb et e f Her father was not in town. She said her owl', ; ,"a was the father of her child. When the 0130 died father took it away in a coffin, and buried it iv th e i Ssaf ef attached to his house, the hole being dug by t i '- who worked on the premises. Aft , S ill Charles Pearce, a labourer in the emp lo y of e- t Fee cock, who was doing some repairs for the Prestbea prietor of the property, deposed to haying see — Dr , sr cess-pool in the garden, by order of his ine s h t i ld, finding a coffin containing the body of a wale e l'„ 1101"" Mr. John iliscoek stated that the proper Hill had recently been purchased by Mr• yl'iortilei butcher, of the prisoner's father. He directed theh.o witness to search the cess - pool, and was told hY,)cofer the discovery he had made. He desired the WO : ""pst .9/ up the body again, and gave informat ion to thete' se)" officers, who had it removed in order that an - might be held upon it. tbil t A ll. Mr. Oak Mitchell, a medical gentleman', stat- -- ..goie had, .in compliance with instruct ions he bsd b o° 4 made a peel mortem exa mination of the body, w"res'er much decomposed, but was not so far g one as t ° I to co to l i ' an examination being made. He saw sufficient r vince him that the child had not only ban h e „ - o gor but that it had lived some days. He was nnei tift wo° in making an analysis of the stomach. h gr es The prisoner, who appeared to bear op w it i 5.5° titude, was remanded for a week, and a n t for *the apprehension of the father. LITERATURE. H o rn?' a BALLAD ROMANCES. By B. 11. "! for tlo ll w f Apart from the eccentricity of its being It ag a',`',o epic," Orion was sufficiently remarkable to 41r :, r e t i sympathies with Mr. Horne as a poetical 0 41 701 fi ,r t : mediocre capacity. There was a freshness a n h i c h cl o couch strength about many of its passages to. i t ° culated swiftly through our perceptive facilß'e" Pr A heart ; there was a clear manifestatilfoitiv", its writer, walking forth amidst the,. , dic i° 4 6, of nature, was not wholly impervious to " 1- g oc, influences; that he could estimate—and thst °- oitti nary extent—the more celestial attributes 0 1 The subtlest variations of character, the 1 13 °,trid7bi phases of passion, were to him no inexpliesr a itL4 He could analyse with considerable persPi c ii i — j fr,b) b•isom impulses of his fellow-creatures, and co b with more than usual accuracy the devious h i e l r i of opinion. In this combination a p h ir - fe e intellect had something in it whi c _A - /1 : 1 1 liary demanded our regard; and assuricsli sufficient to have warded off the terrible 01)sle g r et r o malignant ridicule of Blackwood Mr. B. 1 1 . su ° , f el", no marvel in the world of letters ; it is true tP e og l e nothing dazzling in his literary . ling in his originality, nothing prodigious in tbe § ell e of his intellect. But there was enough delicaci timent, force of imagination, and propriety of "'ail'', aspect, nothing.ot entitle him to our regard, and to dina r O r cism of its barbed javelins. Hence it 1° ,0", we derive much pleasure from his ore , ii Would 50 0; in the character of one who us seven good English ballads. The effort is O t si bil, ° o lent as in his former volume of poetry ; and, P,, s ter, h / 9 this very account, more is achieved. Some of 05 2 1 ;,J are familar tnough in themselves, such for instanc,:otinue h' end of " Bedd Gelert," but even those are 01 2 . ' 0 rs u iJ with such a newness of imaginary as to render tP: e , 03 ,4 than acceptable. One ballad in particular,. a narration in the manner of Walter Scott, andjltter 1 ;e , to some of his most ; successful poems. / 11 e :d ae ;of belief advisedly, after an attentive perusal , tI " peat the opinion in all truth of mind an d c r t e judgment. The tale in question is entitled Heart," and excellently appropriate is the title', o l f e4 l thy for the hero, " Ludolt," is aroused at the bflor mencernent ; from the moment King Ottocar his intentions of marriage, and the Knigt4 troubled at the casualty, and " Bowing vaguely in the air, . fo if " Went pausing down the marble stair., tl Nor is this sentim nt diminished, when BAllat, 0 0 " pal tner of his sorrows, participates in ever y Inticipatton :- While something like a boding crept Into her heart—alone, she wept." be c ' e(e il i f The thought! ulness and ingenuity with which t is f e jt ) personages in the story combat each others YieW t b te e c ik iotnething admirable ; and the many d e tails vvb i 6 lo I leighten the vividness of the picture are c lever l P - olei Crem the painting of the scenery to the r l3e i Elidda's variable countenance, and " the pain t 7, 01 50 50; across her face." For picturesqueness of desc n % co oi tecount of the tournament is, perhaps, the P 3— pee ~ ;uous point in the composition, opening with 11' tone n - :o,t characteristic. " The crimson banners stream and flare, The trumpets smite the brassy air; The war-steeds neigh, and romp, and 0 10 And snuff the exalting battle-day. A charger's hoofs with gusty bounds A moment beat redoubling sounds, His teal-llack armour, thick inlaid With diamonds, cast a fretful shade," ---'"' 0 11 111. e r * And, again, what can be more sinip'e, wore o r-more superbly poeti c than the foll ow ing, j oy code—wiq\ its great cr u shin g climax. Ludo ll r iecl ) ing in a moody reverie ; his bride has been ga r Mtn by a band of soldiers : " And while 'twas done, Three knights rode by at set of sun, o nes They check'd their steeds, and thus saki" Ih;lv changed is Ludolf-Lseeiethere! Mute, passie, with a lingering stare, He suffers men to seize his bride, While standing fondly at his side; Then silent droops all pale and lone, And sits upon a boundary stone!' The second said, ' His spirit lost, orst : Now, ghost-like, strays round Lindell It is not Ludolf that we see.' The third advanced right bitterly— Thou art a recreant knight,' he said i„ , 0 0 1 ; And budolf rose, and struck him deadoo lP oo There are a hundred other beauties which we be 5, ingly particularise in that single " Legend of: 0 3, 0 1 10 0 but it will suffice to say, that these " Ballad -Lb" f o r? ieq by B. H. Horne, (with the exception of th c oddity at the end) are Scattered among with OC e they are coloured with the tints of natur alo receive vitality from the heart. - AllO ° II THE PRYINGS OF A POST- ~0 5 0 A humorous scrambling together ofTh e 1 drollery are these 6` Pryings of a Postman: the r . S, ception is rather errant and unsystematic, b et "d o„ . tion betokens no contemptible share of fu v e it ) " f a !ion in the writer. Whoever it be, he has fel %pee,: Or, ludicrous, a tolerable amount of hatred for We e a Ir o n A decided affection for the natural, as evideeciliitai, actions and sentiments of others. The 11 1 ° s t, eh story in the English language, told in tu iyA r ,„" o l . A' einstla, is, without any question, M5.:1 . 9 03 %4 Jr first novel " Evelina." Yet, no twithsta o ": 9 or ot te' greater amount of truthfulness and veraci t y . z ole to a fiction by narrating it in a very cancel * f thee° spondence between the various characters 19 0 , 1 4 1 , cbs that style of composition always bears the errhiii, i , ts t o i over carelessness and want of :ymmetrY% i s fri' c li chief fault ire the volume bofore us ; its s atire _ 5 00, i 01 4 , away in an idle and chit-chatty strain ; it I°sc . fa ce : t ile its point from a want of condensation. I`i be 14 1 e; 0 6 portraitures of society may still, however, ipso $ from its pages. It is a book to be dippe d breakfast- table. THE BARON'S YULE FEAST. I :15 A Ch r"l ( Lityine. By Thomas Cooper. n c essiso o an ß im ice . ntly we found curtelves under the -- e ra po s- g e ..., ativt:rting very foreibl pc, a pro 6 e e° ; - 10 I t l i V by j Thomas Cooper, which .Y w u a; ntarnished `',. con' e lti, iga, • ll, i li.v t fl i ntt e :eltr, s itdip, a i,np n ,p,g d io,t,ci.d.l r ,t.u i : fe with sol iei sin s. - I n utterin g o l l l:rb i tPae nation we divested it of all ap , ranee of o' r peo t ' D O t. : 11, pii,sri_ai conviction, P t r o is i o t n s a i t i t il l ; P o , e r a e a s ti it a d v e i r i y ) ; p e r ? ss e ti ll ye , o - , ,v e, , .). ule F.•*y,,,t,' (m ?y , ~1 1 ve.i ~,,,:jy. 4, .. •, . .. ~.< vtriilawitt;y ttan:ll-draohLsoCsh:rii.,s:lll:6:sCit!ibriis2:::)! “a.t.nuor. to cusiiiibute tow,lrdi Clio 1 al i '' ' ° per ee tlif entertainment," in vt hieh agreeaWe labour br oil onr 0 many popular names engaged, was an 0133bi i t n i glr &II? of commendation and triumph ; and ello rP3 i3 Wi i w" embodied theyeveriee of his imagiusti 9l2. '' TILE SUN, LONDON, SATURI)AY JANCTA"Ri /1. 1846. .