The Sun. — London, England, 1846-01-05 00:00:00

rRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STAEET. Will be rep ea t e d THE THIS CRICKET EVENING ON h:Murray,THr .HEARTH. The Principal eliaract,rs by Messrs. Ryder, Compton, u Courtney, Mrs. —tirlinK, Miss Marshall, Mrs. I °Woke, Miss lirentneil. and Miss comers. To be followed by a New Extravaganza, entitled JEAMES, THE RAILROAD FOOTMAN OF IS ERKELEY-SQUABE. Jeames Plush, Mr. Compton. To conclude with a NCNV Christmas Pantomime, entitled THE KEY OF 'f fIE KINGDOM ; or, WAWA:QUIN AND THE FAIRY BLUE BELL. Harlequin, Mr. W. 11 ;Harvey; Coltunbine, Miss ; Clown, Ur. Flexmore ; Pant a l oon, Air. T. Hill. ROYAL OLYMPIC TREAT SOLE LESSEE AND MANAGERESS, MISS KATE THIS EVENING 'HOWARD . Will be performed THER ESE: ; or, The Orphan of Geneva. c ar , Mr. C. Boyce ; Therese, Miss L. Melville ; Countess, Mrs. C. Boyce. After which a New Ballet, in which Mr. Lec l erq will appear. To be followed by the MARRIED BACHELOR. AM concluding with the new Pantomime, unapproachable for glee and grandeur, called FORTUNATE'S ; or, THE MAGIC CAP. Fortunatus, Miss Hamilton ; Prince Megrim, Mr. Cockrill ; Fairy gaeen, Miss Bromley ; Harlequin, Mr. Smythers ; Pantaloon, Mr Charles ; Clown, Mr. Jefferini ; Columbine, Miss Laidlaw. • NEW STRAND THEATRE. M. PHILLIPPE'S WONDERS and incredible CHINESE D e l:: IXSIONS will be repeated every Evening, doors open a t a qU a t '- pa--t-Sevee,to commence at a quarter before Eight. M. Phillippe will (by desire), and in consequence of the immense overflows which have attended his Morning Performances, give a Grand Juvenile Entertainment every Thursday Morning, commencing at Two o'clock. M. Phillippe's moat Popular Deceptions and Peculiar Experiments will be varied by the Amusing Performances of the Chiarini Family and astounding Feats of the American Brothers. , TT.F.Y'A ROYAL. AMPIIITTIEATRE OF ARTS. PROPRIETOR AND MANAGER, MR. W. RATTY. TILLS EVENING Will be performed the novel Drama of TILE PYRENEES. In o which M. W at ellen the s Cirq u celebrated Dog Emile will app ear, whose per- houses tbr the last nine rmances e months. Olymplque, Paris, has d rawn crowded New Scenes of the Circle, combining the talent of the French English Artistes. xnd Alter which will he repeated a Ne w G rand Comic Equestrian Pan toltiine, called PIA ItLEQUIN DON QUIXOT TE DE LA H MANCA ; or, . Sancti° a, an Panzd Dulcinea of Tobo so , with new scenery, Dresses, Mechanical Changes, &c. DAVIDGE'S ROYAL SLTRREY-------TIIF.A The Immense Sensat ion creatcd by the New Drama of The dicant Son" is unequa lled and unparalleled—The New Gr'anhe ci ieime, with Gorge ous Scener y , Dresses, and Decorations —The Best of the Best, an IL d no Puff! LS EVENING Will be performed TILE MENDICANT SON; or, The Jew of 11,uthwark. Supported by Me.141.41'5. Hughes, Johnson, Rogers, ('dwell, Maynard, Lewis, Heslop ; Mesdames 11. viiiing, militizi; a at Daly. After which, a new Grand Christmas rantomitne, entitled lIARLE QUINI Th e Golden AND TIIE OLD WITCH Oh"fEDDINGTON ; or, Harlequin, Mr. Corznack; e l til u f a i b od in e " ,- . 41 s Y s_ 5 s o l f nit i h 1( 3t ; r4 . e lo e it un i,3e35.19r.. Paul herring; Pantaloon, finNmte, Air. Stilt. ,no AL v B;TOR IA 'I II EA TR I- ..Tir. FIRST N tetirr or Tut; cRicK ET OF THE, ITE.n.i. ran. Another Trlumph tor the Victoria hi the ' eneely successful f tomime or um Tipnnywnchet"—W nith i e 'n E m xtraordnlarY . Professor Hemmings and hi% , THIS E.,;.••;31,v15in,; Infant Sons. Will be produced Tit kl,' CR tcni. Fa til , P li : . Tale of Houle. John Peerybingle, Mr. B. Yeats o le,: HEARTH. A Fairy _ r Fredericks ; 'fackleton, Mr. Searle; ca..t l nTe , The Stranger, M . Mary Peerybingle, Miss Vincent; Be rtha. ,irlllTner, Mr. Herbert Miss Terry, 3 Lee ; Tilly Slowboy. After which, Professor HEMMINGS and his RON% will ... unparalleled feats of Classical Gymnasia than ever yet 1, - ,.."': e more Inbited, and surpassing even the celebrated Risley hi,ti" "'"'n tx - To conclude with a new gorgeous Pantomime, caned Tipp irr. WITCHET; or, HARLEQUIN TIM BOBBIN' and theCOMICA. COMICAL WITCHES of LANCASHIRE. Harlequin, Mr. Chapin° ; Cohan bine, Miss Le Vito; the Two Clowns, Messrs. E. Blanchard and li'Donsld; the Two Pantaloons, lllr. Franklin and the ve Blancbid, the very ging of Pantomime and Prinoe of Panta lo teran Tom one. TO BB HAD OF ALL BOOKSELLERS. Now ready, in 2 vols., post tivo., with numerous Illustrations, A HISTORY OF NEW SOUTH WALES; FROM ITS SETTLEMENT TO THE CLOSE OF THE YEAR 1844. By THOMAS HENRY BRAIM, Esq., Of St. John's College, Cambridge, Principal of Sydney College. MR. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street, Publisher in Ordinary to her Majesty. On Saturday next will be published BURKE'S PEERAGE AND BIEONETAGE For 1.46. A New Edition, corrected throughout from the Personal Communi cations of the Nobility, &c., AND CONTAINING ALL THE NEW CREATIONS. In 1 vol. Bvo. (comprising as much matter as 20 ordinary volumes, with upwards of 1,500 Engravings of Arms, &c.,price 38s. bound. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. Now ready, T WO ROMANCES. By B. DISRAELI, M.P. Author of " Coningsby" and " Sybil." 1. CONTARINI FLEMING. 2. ALROY. 'imprinted, with the permlisironVilTeluthor,ana comprised in 3 vols., with a Portrait of Mr. Disraeli. Henry Colburn, publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. Wow ready, Part price le. 6d., or post frec 2s. 4d., T " NEW TIMON. A ROMANCE OF LONDON. " The ' New Timon' is a composition which displays both beauty and power. It belongs to the school of Crabbe, and would not hare disgraced the master himself."—Literary Gazette. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. THE WEATHER.—Sur OFFICE, JAN. 4. THERMOMETER, Lowest, 33 ; Highest, 42 ; Noon, 44 BAROMETER, 30.04.-WIND S.W., rain. HIGH WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY. Morning .. 18 minutes after 7 J Evening .. 46 minutes after 7. , ,i , ,, , ,t - , ~ .."2 'i,?:.'S ... • 4 S f . ; :t w 4'504 , ' ,i , ..,r1 : r • ~t nu,•,, '• .... , ~ 1 ,?- • .s 9 - --- . 4z. .4 4, ~- ,z 2 -. _,.;40, , • • 'III 'I . ' 'tokS: l ',- ' - - '' r' '' s - 4 - ,a - ego. , :A .-' t . .. f . ;' -... ~.4 1:6 1... : ' - iitilWr i. 4 ' THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. THIS EVENING Will be repeated a (*rand Opera, in three acts, called MARITANA. Ctar'es the Second, Mr. Borrani ; Don Caesar De Bazan, Mr. W. Harrison ; Don Jose de Santarem, Mr. 11. Phillips; Marltana, Mies Romer ; Lazsuillo, Miss Poole. Between the Second and Third Acts of the Opera Professor RISLEY and his SONS will go through a Series of their Classical and Popular Exercises. To conclude with a new grand Christmas comic Fantomine, called HARLEQUIN GULLIVER ; or, Giants and Dwarfs. The New and extensive Scenery under the direction of Mr. Grieve ; the Overture and Music by Mr. 11. Hughes; the Tricks, Transformations, and Decorations by Mr. Biamire ; the Machinery by Mr. B. Shaman; the Dresses by Mr. Bovey, Mrs. Balls, and numerous assistants. The whole produced under the superintendence of Mr. W. West. Scene I. INTERIOR or GUILDHALL. Epoch—Lord Mayor's Day, 1845—between the Dinner and the Ball. Magog and Gog (the City Giants —once at a premium, now at a discount), Mr. S. Jones and Mr. H. Horneastle ; Ge eral Tom Thumb (a Dwarf, bat causing a great panic in the Giant market), Miss Dale. " Who'll kill the Giants? I. says Tom Thumb, is soon as I come, I'll kill the Giants."—Yankee Nursery Tale. The Genius of Pantomine (Chairwoman of the " Christmas Funny Club"), Miss A. Payee.—Flow Tom Thumb takes the Giants down a peg or two—" From words they'd almost come to blows "—Umpire and Referee, the Genius of Pantomime, who gives her decision in a manner (it is hoped) satisfactory to her numerous patrons in boxes, pit, and gallery. Scene 2. COAST OF THE ISLAND OF LlLLlPDT.—Discovered •.D. 1659. "After a storm comes a calm." Gulliver (having a passion for travelling, high and dry on a rock), Mr. W. H. Payne ; Mrs. Gul liver (having a passion for her husband. in the same predicament), Mr. Hance. Extraordinary high tide, and great rush for places. Timely arrival of the Flying Island. Mrs. Gulliver leaves the rock to the tune of " Here we go up, up. up"—Gulliver leaves the rock to the tune of " Here we go down, down, down." The tide having ceased to flow, naturally begins to ebb, and leaves Gulliver to asto uish the Lilliputians ! Peasants (the real "small natives"), Messrs. and Mesdames Tiny, Dumpy, Dot, Weebody, Speck, Short, Small. Trot, Littlejohn. &c. &c. ; Inspector of the A division of Lilliputian Police, Mr. Stumpy; Policemen, Messrs. Move-a-way, Clear-the way, Push-a-long, Walk-on, &e.; Engineer, Mr. Eager ; Stoker, Mr. Hot-birth. How Gulliver, alias the man-mountain, is BOUND over to keep the peace ; and how, "by a long pull, a strong pull, and a pull altogether," he is carried away to the cotut of the Emperor Lil lipat. " And wasn't he a dainty dish To set before the King ?" Old 3155. in the British Museum. Scene 3. Mu OF SCIENCE IN THE PALACE OF THE KIN* or LA kurA.—liis Majesty the King of Laputa (very deep in Geome •ry—vide, Flappers at his elbows), Mr. T. Matthews ; Lord High Chancellor Parallelogram and Lord High Chamberlain /Equilateral fond of " Figures," especially Number " One"), Mr. Howell and Mr. Johnson. Lords in Waiting, with their attendant flappers, pages, &c. Mrs. Gulliver makes her " first and only appearance at Court;" and how, having lost her o—, the Flying Island is placed at her disposal to recover the same. Scene 4. MARINE RESIDENCE OF THE EMPEROR OF LualruT.—His " High" Mightiness Golbas to Momaren Afully Ully One, Emperor of Lilliput, Miss Turtle ; her " equally" High Mightiness the Em press of Lilliput, Miss Midgley. The Lilliputian Court (the " high est" families In the land), and Lilliputian Imperial Guard (at least 2 ft. 6 in. in their stockings), servants, policemen, cooks, scallion s , &c. &c.—flow Gulliver, having been let out of " durance vile," not only pockets the affront, but two policemen in the bargain. How he kisses the Emperor's hand, and the Empress's lips. Inspection of the Lilliputian Imperial Guard. How Gulliver swallows his dinner, and is only prevented from swallowing a Lilliputian, by way of desse rt, by the news of the arrival of the Biefascadian fleet. Gulliver re gains his freedom, by towing in the enemy's fleet. The Palace on lire. Arrival of the Lilliputian Fire Brigade. How Gulliver saves the Empress, and is then obliged to save himself, which he does by taking a hop, step, and a jump into Scene 5. COEN-FIELD IN BROBDIGNAG.—LOWOSITetahO (a sub stantial Brobdignag thriller, and member of the Brobdignag Agri cultural Society), Mr. Monster ; Long-in-the-stride (his wife), Mrs. Strapper; Brobdignag Baby (in and out of a go-cart), Miss M . Payne ; A very round Robin (the mother of a very fine family) Mrs. Redbreast ; Prize Pig (with silver medal from the Brobdignag Cattle Show), Mr. Snout. How Gulliver goes a bird's nesting, and gets the worst of it, and how, after paying all proper deference to the "great-tins," he pitches into the " little-un" in the go-cart. Scene 6. BROSDIONAG RED-ROOM AND NURSERY.—Brobdignag " Gemini" (Anglice twins), Masters James and Elliott; Brobdignag Kitten, Mr. rummy. For further particulars of this scene apply . Personally to the principal performers, who can be seen in it every evening till further notice . _....., _ Scene 7. COAST OF THE ISLAND OF LILLTPUT (SS Scene 2), and re-Appearance of the Flying Island ; from which Mrs. Gulliver takes a flying leap into Gulliver's arms —" We may be happy yet." Our old acquaintance, the Rock, Introduces another old acquaintance, the Genius of Pantomime, Transformation of the Characters. I Harlequin ......Mr. Wieland. Clown .... ..Mr. T. Matthews. Pantaloon ...... Mr. Howell. Colu m bi nes • .Mi S 6 Hicks and Miss Lonsdale. Scene 8. END OF COVENTRY -STREET, PICCADILLY.—Writing In Eight Lessons. The Experimental Squadron, with Hornpipe accom paniment. A Sudden Peep into Leicester-square. Wenham Lake Ice. Sliding made easy. A great Fall in Provisions—via. fish, fruit and vegetables. Scene 9. CLOWN'S LODGINGS.—Bed and Window change sides, and Clown " goes down the middle and up again ;" great virtue in a blan ket. "To be well shaken before taken." The principle of elongation Carried out." Clown is tossed up, and Harlequin comes down " heads." Scene 10. EXTERIOR OF GROCERS, FISHMONGERS, ♦ND WINE MER CHANTS' Suovs.—Two active lads, versus active clothes-horse. Cask of West India Produce and barrelled natives. Ladders ad inflnitum, Putting up the shutters—the wrong shop. Try again. Ditto re peated. Great change on the premises, and " business removing." Scene 11. Ilicuakrz-mu, with extensive view of the neighbour hood of London. Railways remember the 30th November. Grand Railway Steeple-chase to the Board of Trade. Arrival of engines from all the country round. " A clear course and no favour." Off they go. Clown and Pantaloon in difficulties, and ending in a "dis- I solution of partnership." 'cene 12. FLIVINSTRERT DURING THE REPAIRS, with Glass Shop, Tillman's, and ilitalway Printing-office. Railway Prospectus and Provisional Committee; publishing made easy. Orders to any amount punctually attended to. The Great Guy for 1845. Great bi .tue of stags ; " they come—they come." No thoroughfare. The shortest cut to the Board of Trade, producing a great smash among the crockery. Scene 13. Erruktoa or TEE BOARD or TRAMP, and Probable Ge neral Railway Terminus. Scene 14. WATCHMAKERS' AND BOOKsiELBRS' SHOPS.—Teaching the young idea how to shoot. Illustrated London Noose. A " pinch of curry powder." Watch on a new movement. Queen's Visit to Germany, and all eyes directed to Scene - 15. Taz Cirw ow COLOGNE, ES It appeared on her Majesty's arrival. Owing to tkis great attraction, immediate application should be made to JOHN PARSONS, Box Book-keeper. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN. M. JULLIEN'S ANNUAL SERIES OF CONCERTS. Last Week of Signor Sivori—Last Week of the Naval Quadrille, the Beethoven Festival commencing onthe 12th. PROGRAMME FOR THIS EVENING. PART I. Overture, " Der Freischutz"—Weber. Quadrille, " The Chimes"—Jullien. Solo, Bassoon, by M. Baumann—Baumann. Symphony in C Minor—Beethoven. Solo, Violin, Grand Concerto in B, by Signor Sivori—Sivori. Julllen's New Quadrille, The British Navy—Jullien. PAkT 11. Fantasia from Adolphe Adam's Ballet, " The Marble Maiden"— Coot*. The New Polka, " The Cricket on the Hearth"—Jullien. Solo, Violin, The celebrated Carnival de Venice, performed by Signor sivori—Paganini. Valle a Deux Tems (Second Set), " The Bridal"—Jullien. Solo, Flute, by Mr. Richardson—Richardson. The Original Napolitaine ; or, Tarenteila des Salons—Jullien. GRAND BAL MASQUE. The unexpected prolongation of this Series of Concerts, added to the universal admiration expressed by the brilliant assembly at the last Bal Masque. induces M. Jullien to announce another Bal Masque, which will take place on Monday, February 2, 1846. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. THIS EVENING Will be performed ROMEO AND JULIET. Romeo, Miss Cush man (her Fourth Appearance at this Theatre); Juliet, Miss Susan Cushman (her Fourth Appearance in England). To conclude with a Grand New Extravaganza, entitled THE BEE AND TILE ORANGE TREE; or, The Four Wishes. Principal Characters by Mr. Iludson, Mr. James Bland, Mr. Caulfield, Mr. Clark, Miss P. Morton, Miss Julia Bennett, Mrs. Caulfield, and Mrs. Stanley. THEATRB ROYAL, ADELPHI. Last Night but One of " The Lioness of the North," in conscrinence of Madame Celeste's Provincial Engagements. THIS EVENING Will be repeated an entirely New Drama, called THE LIONESS DF THE NORM, or, The Prisoner of Shlusselbourg. Alexis itomanouski, Mr. Webster; Triptedernue Krowt, Mr. Wright ; Eliza beth, Madame Celeste. ---- After which, THE CRICKET ON THE MEARTFI. John Peery bingle, Mr. 0. Smith; Caleb Plimuner, Mr. Lambert; Tackleton, Mr. Cullentbrd; Edward, Mr. Selby; Dot, Mrs. Fitzwilliarn; Bertha, :Hiss Woolgar; May Fielding,Misa Taylor. . _ To conclude with an entirely New . and Original Christmas ?aa tamime, called HARLEQUIN AND POONOOWINOKEEWANG FLIBEEDEEFLOBEEDEEBUSKEEBANG; or, The King of the Cannibal Islands. Harlequin, Mr. T. Ireland ; Columbine, Miss Fleming ; Clown, Mr. C. J. Smith; Pantaloon, Mr. Mitcheason. • TfII:ATRI ROYAL, LYCEUM, Succeis Brilliant and Triumphant!--" The Cricket on the Ileart," by Charles Dickens, Esq., written expressly for this Theatre—and the magnificent Burlesque of " The Enchanted Horse" every Evzning! THIS EVENING WILL BE PERFORMED THE CRICKET ON THE HEALTH: A FAIRY TALE OF HOME. Th 3 Principal Characters; by Mr. and Mrs. Keeley, Mr. Emery, Mr. F. Vining, Mr. Meadows, and Miss Grove. After which will be repeated a New Grand Romantic extravnanza, Entitic,l THE ENCHANTED HORSE; or, Prime Firouz Schah of Persia and the Prinecss of Bengal. Principal Characters by Messrs. Keeley, Wigan, F. Matthews, Collier, Turner, Kinloch, &c. ; Mes dames Keeley, Villas, Hodson, Dawson, Howard, Arden, &c. THE SUN, LONDOI4I MONDAY . MORN_ING, JANUARY 5, 1846. at, t rui ng ..„- nit LONDON, MONDAY. JANUARY 5, 1846. If "coming events cast their shadows before," then is the corn-law doomed. The Lord Mayors of London and Dublin, on Saturday, presented Ad dresses to her MAJESTY against this iniquitous enact ment. The Address presented by the Lord Mayor of London respectfully represents to her MAJESTY " That the blight which has fallen upon the potato has subjected your Majesty's people to great anxiety and distress, and to the danger of famine. That their suf ferings are attributable to erroneous legislation, whit-h, by excluding the importation of food and restricting commerce, shuts out from the nation the bounty of Pro vidence. We therefore humbly pray that your Majesty will be graciously pleased to use the means in your Ma jesty's power to open the ports of this kingdom for the free importation of food." We feel, that had our benevolent QUEEN been left solely to the dictates of her own feelings, her bene volent heart would at once have accorded the prayer of her suppliant and starving people. But, alas! our QUEEN is not left solely to herself. She cannot choose even her own friends; she, equally with her people, must obey the dictators who can obtain a " majority " in our Legislative Assemblies. The duty thus imposed on her is oft-times a painful one, but she performs it, and thus sets an admirable ex ample to her subjects, who feel with her and for her. Her MAJESTY understands the Constitution, and ruling as a Constitutional Sovereign, she sets an exam ple of obedience to the Constitution, which all her subjects are bound to follow. And it is because her MAJESTY rules in obedience to the Constitution, and acts constitutionally only by the advice of her Ministers, that we predicate the speedy repeal of the corn-laws. The answer which her MAJESTY was advised by her Ministers to make to this address, and which, there fore, may be considered as their answer, contains the following passage:— " The wants and sufferings of my people at all times command my warmest sympathy ; and I deeply regret the failure, in the present year, of a full supply of an ar ticle of food on which so many of my subjects are accus tomed to subsist. " I have directed Parliament to assemble on an early day, and I shall gladly sanction any measure which the wisdom of the Legislature may suggest as conducive to the alleviation of this temporary distress, and to the permanent welfare of all classes of my people." This is the answer of the Minister (for the answer was dictated by him) to the Address. In it he ad mits the failure of a full supply of an article of food on which many of the subjects of the QUEEN are accus tomed to subsist. In other words, he admits that there is danger of a famine. Away, then, with all the curry powder, and peas-pudding, and mangel-wurzel nonsense of the protectionist landowners. These men would turn the distress of the people to ac count; they would make their profit by a famine ; they would add to their ill-gotten gains by starving the people. It is in vain for them now to contend that the harvest has not been deficient—that the fear of famine is a bugbear conjured up by the Anti- Corn-law League. We have it from the QUEEICIS own lips that there is a " failure of the full supply of an article of food on which many of her subjects are accustomed to subsist ;" and the natural deduction from that proposition is, that if there be not an ad ditional supply of some other article of food, " many" of her MAJESTY'S subjects must starve. On whom will the guilt of the murder rest ? Clearly on those who uphold a law which prevents the introduction into the country of food for those whose full supply of food has failed. Her MAJESTY has declared her willingness to give her sanction to any measure which the Legislature may suggest for the alleviatio n of this distress. On the Legislature, and on the Le gislature alone, therefore, rests the responsibility of providing food for a starving people. Let them look to it, for the people will not exonerate them. They are responsible collectively, ay, and individually, for whatsoever may happen. The QUEEN will sanction any measure which they may suggest for the alleviation of the distresses of the people. If they fail to suggest such a measure, the guilt be on their own heads. And what measure can they suggest, save the abrogation of that law which, for thirty years past, has plundered the industrious people of this country, to cnrich " a miser able, monopolising," non-productive " minority" of " foolish and of faded gentlemen ?" The QUEEN has declared that she will "sanction any measure that the Legislature may suggest as conducive to the alleviation of this tempoMry distress, and to the permanent welfare of all classes of her people." The only measure which can alleviate the present distress, and conduce to the permanent welfare of all classes of the people, is the total and immediate repeal of the corn -law. Will the oligarchy venture, in opposition to the'clearly-expressed wishes of their SOVEREIGN and her united people, to refuse their assent to such a measure i We give them credit for the Possession of common sense, and therefore we °Pine that they will not. They dare not uphold their uassu opo l y time has at against a starving people; and the length arrived when this murderous law, generated by nurture by fraud, must be av arice, brought f or th by v i o l e nce, bap tised in blood, an d anni hilated by the hands of 1 d ..os...ee. For the last five years the meetin g of the French Chambers has not excited so little interest, or so few apprehensions, as that which has just taken place, and it is gratifying to the friends of peace to find that the amicable relations between England and France formed the main feature in the KING'S Speech, in re ference to foreign affairs. For some time, indeed ever since the Syrian expedition was announced, the session opened with alarming symptoms. Neither the Chambers nor the French public were satisfied with the policy of THIERS and GUIZOT. The one was blamed for the vast excitement he had caused—for the determination evinced to take part with MEHEMET ALI, and oppose the allies, and for the very " mean and shuffling" manner in which he receded from his high-sounding pretensions. The policy of M. GUIZOT for a time was little more welcome to the nation in general, and was loudly blamed by all the organs of the Republican and Legitimatist parties. N. TIMERS h a d shamefully deceived them, and humbled France, and M. GurzoT did nothing whateverley of h to retriev e t s p r r ie e v d e ee h e c e s e r: honour, or efface the disgraceful poi sor. The bad temper caused by these national feelinis had an unfavourable effect on every succeedin g trans action between the two countries, as evinced by the angry discussions about the islands in the Pacific, the Pritchard affair, the right of search, and several others, which it is needless to enumerate. Fortu nately for both nations, these hostile symptoms have allied r w a t c h e E i in g p e l a r n h d a p t s h all arespects o i s t a m l ly o r d e i intimatelysapp edisappeared, with any other European State.: m None e f o u f lly the Great Powers, i n f act, h ave yet bee recon ciled to the present dynasty; th , r Sovereigns keep at a distance from France, not or Le of them deigning to acknowledge corcl: La il y the new state of things, and the most powerful amongst them, from some unexplained grudge, or some stronger feeling, has for years refused to appoint an ambassador to the Court of Versailles. The conduct of England, whether under the ad ministration of the Tories or Whigs, has been totally different. The WELLINGTON Ministry at once con curred in the voice of the French nation, and ac knowledged Louts PHILIPPE ; and both the GREY and MELBOURNE Cabinet did everything in their power (with the exception, perhaps, of the attack on the Pacha of EGYPT) to keep on good terms with France. Since that event, Lord ABERDEEN and M. GUIZOT, all must admit, have managed affairs with praiseworthy skill. They have softened down asperities, diminished national prejudices, and, for the good of every state in Europe, have maintained peace between the two most powerful and civilised States, and thereby guaranteed the peace of Christendom. It is no small compliment to these statesmen that this has been done without any com promise on either side tending in the slightest degree to tarnish national honour or independence ; and other nations, with the exception we fear of one, rejoice as much in the result as the two prin cipals. We confidently hope that the people of France will see the advantages thus gained for their country, and be only more impelled to cultivate the arts of peace so warmly cherished by the SOVE REIGN, and already so productive of the greatest bless ings, whether as regards the increase of imports and exports, the vast undertakings for the establishment of railways, and the modification of taxes. Already the Government has announced proposed changes with regard to the importation of iron and cotton ; the enor mous salt-tax will probably be greatly reduced, and a radical change made in the system of postage. One great load, however, must long be borne—the enor mous expense of maintaining an army in Africa; but this great expense may turn out the greatest blessing, and compel the Chambers to revise the whole scheme, and put an end to a system, not only ruinous to France, but fatal to the honour of the French army, and disgrace ful to the people who submit to it. Some measures will be adopted this session for put ting an end to the horrible razzias, and mas sacres, and unheard-of cruelties practised by BUGEAUD, if we may jwige from the remarks made in a brief speech of M. SAPEY, given in another part of The Sun, and the reception it received from the Chambers. This is only what Europe has a right to expect from a nation which boasts, perhaps justly of the great services it has rendered to civilisation The Anti-Corn-law meeting recently held at Ilfra combe, a report of which we have given in another column, is a most remarkable one. It was an inde pendent meeting, fully and ably attended by the towns men of the place, without any external aid whatever. It was the spontaneous expression of the feelings of the inhabitants of the town of Ilfracombe against the corn-law—their emphatic protest against the "unjust, unrighteous, iniquitous tax upon food." This pro test is the more important, coming, as it does, from a town which is the seaport of a district ex clusively agricultural. There are no manufacturers residing in the neighbourhood of Ilfracombe to stimulate the townsmen to meet and declare in favour of free trade. There were no practised de baters present, the prestige of whose names might per chance have frighted the protectionists from their pro priety—the speakers were all townsmen with whom their fellow -townsmen were in habits of intercourse, and yet in a town, the capital of a district purely agricultural, the protectionists of the district dared not to meet the inhabitants of the town, and Ilfracombe pronounced unanimously and energetically against the corn-laws. We have said that the meeting had no external aid, and, truth to say, it needed none. The opening speech of Mr. DICKENSON, the worthy portreeve of the town, is one of the most logical arguments against the corn-laws that it has ever been our good fortune to read, and it is as eloquent as it is logical. The " wages protection fallacy " was admirably exposed by him. Mr. BLIGH, too, went into some statistics with regard to the labourers of Devonshire, which are most important, coming as they do from a gen tleman who is daily an eye-witness of the scenes which he describes, and who, living in the midst of the district in which these things are taking place, cannot be suspected of exaggeration, in asmuch as he would thereby lay himself open to instant contradiction and exposure. " The last plea," said Mr. BLIGH, " that I shall notice is, that they would continue this tax for the benefit of the labourers. There are about 20,000 of these poor fel lows in the county of Devon existing upon Bs. per week. Let us for a moment consider this bene fited class. Upon an average they have four children, making a family of six ; deduct ls. a week for rent, ls. for fire and candles, 21. for clothes, shoes, and bedding, they had a balance of 4s. left to furnish' food for 21 meals for six human beings, that is, less than 2jd. per meal." Now is it not the vilest hypocrisy to talk of the corn-laws keeping up the rate of wages after this ? The example which Ilfracombe has thus set in holding a town's meeting without external aid is a noble one, and will, we trust, be generally followed by the inhabitants of other places. A few more of those spontaneous independent meetings will effectually put the screw upon Sir ROBERT PEEL; and although we know, from experience, that he is made of squeezable materials yet, if the pressure be not kept up, he is, like Indian rubber, apt to rebound; therefore, to quote the elo quent words of Mr. Jorizs, the proposer of the second resolution, "We would importune them, as they value their country's welfare and happiness, to surround the Throne with petition upon petition— vsith remonstrance upon remonstrance —yea, upon this matter we would have them become perfect O'Connellites, and agitate ! agitate !! agitate!! ! and never hold their peace until the statute-book shall be relieved of one of the foulest blots that ever disgraced its pages." The Paris papers are chiefly occupied with the re marks on the KING'S Speech and the sessional busi ness of the Chamber of Deputies. Some of the Op position journals continue to blame that part of the Speech which relates to England ; and the Siecle in particular, which asserts that M. GUIZOT has placed the dynasty and nation under the protectorate of that country, to which the Government paper, the Journal des Debats, thus replies :—" As regards the English alliance, all sensible men consider it to be the safest guarantee or the pcacc tho world. Thie , our opinion, has been repeatedly expressed by M. TniEns himself. But England stands as much in need of our alliance as we do of hers ; neither country deemed itself obliged to place itself under the protectorate of the other. England did not place herself under our protectorate by consenting to the abolition of the right of search, and Queen VICTORIA did not come to France the first to make the homage of her crown to the KING of the FRENCH, no more than Louis PHILIPPE, in returning the visit of the Queen of GREAT BRITAIN, proclaimed himself her liege subject. England and France are united be cause they have but one and the same interest, one and the same object—the maintenance of the peace of the world—because everything tends to unite them, placed, a s th ey b oth are, at t h e h ea d o f th e f ree and civilised nations. The two Governments inspire each other with mutual confidence ; they have given each other pledges of mutual loyalty ; and if the Bri tish Cabinet consented to a very great sacrifice in its opinion—that of the right of search—it was, because it knew that the French Cabinet, the Cabinet of the 29th of October, concealed no arriere pence, anti from character, present a and d appearances, the l abou rtNnowoyafdhri prosecuted with similar ardour the abolition of the odious slave-trade. The alliance is consequently honourable on both sides—it is free ;it rests on a mu tual exchange of good offices. The Speech from the Throne expressed nothing else ; it might have ex pressed. the same truth in still stronger terms, without wounding in the least the dignity of France.' The prospects of the session, as far as one can judge vo b a in.faebdwltyhttheab:keandffebaviyorts country.d: sn chieflyTnAephcziconnected T l o e v i n n e b m t b e ee r ep r e n t interests the Chamber, occupied the President's chair till the appointment of M. SAUZET. On addressing the eteoit with the indeed, internal rsean seniorpaampl eavappears emerrrsypi Chambersi\ar to peaceable e a pro bably ol Members before he resigned the office, he made some judicious remarks, which deserve to be quoted : " The principal measure," said he, " for which the gratitude of France would be due to the present Chamber, was the establishment of the vast network of railways, which must afford such rapid and ad vantageous openings to the produce of the country, and, at the same time, increase the well-being of the working-classes. In speaking of these great lines of communication, he could not but express his regret that the somewhat too ardent impulse that had marked their commencement, had given birth to an over-excited spirit of speculation, whit had produced a crisis in the money-market. He had no doubt that the Minister of Finance would take the pro per steps to prevent such a state of things fur the future. _ The Hon. Deputy then referred to the necessity of discussing, in the course of the session, the best means of keeping up such a reserve fur the army as would, without entailing any expense on the nation, afford the means of raising a large moveable force at a moment's warning. He hoped, also, that the navy would be placed on such a footing as was suitable to the dignity of France. He trusted that, in consider- ing the wants of Africa, it would be borne in mind that conquest had run its course, and that the spirit of order and civilisation ought at length to prevail in its turn. The wish of the Council s -G enera l called loudly for two reforms—the diminution of the duty on salt, and a uniform postage of letters ;" of both of these measures he acknowledged himself to be a warm advocate. But what, above all, ought, he observed, to occupy the attention of the Chamber, was the financial condition of the kingdom, and he trusted that zealous Efforts would be made to confine the expenditure within the limits of the receipts. The Hon. Deputy, after dwelling on the necessity of carrying on the dis cussions without having recourse to useless recrimi nations, concluded by thanking the Chamber for the indulgence which they had manifested towards him during the course of their preparatory proceedings. This address was well received. The Committee on the Address in the Peers met on Wednesday, and having expressed a desire to obtain explanations from the President of the Council and the Minister of the Interior, it was agreed that they should attend the Committee on Saturday. 'We subjoin some miscel laneous extracts from the papers : "On Wednesday, at one o'clock, on the occasion of the approaching new year, the King received tbe Arch bishop of Paris and his clergy. At eight in the evening his Majesty received the ladies of the corps diplo matique, and at half-past eight the Council of State. " According to the official reports of administration of criminal justice in France during the eight years, from 1836 to 1843 inclusively, 47 parricides have obtained the benefit of the law which authorises juries to return with their verdicts of guilty a declaration of the exist ence of extenuating circumstances. Of these, the greatest culprits, 19 have had their punishments reduced from death to hard labour for a limited number ofyears, at the expiration of which they are let loose again upon society, with the indelible stain of their father's blood upon their heads. During the same period of eight years there were convicted of wilful murder, including poisonings and infanticides, 1,307 persons, who by the same finding of extenuating circumstances escaped the capital punish ment which would have been their doom but for the law which puts it in the power of the jury, by the addition of the above-mentioned finding to their verdicts, to re duce this penalty. During the first fortnight of December the average price of the hectolitre of wheat was, —at Toulouse, Gray, Lyor.s, and Marseilles, 24f. Bc. ; at Marans and Bor Beaux, 21f. 81c.; at L aurent and Le Grand Letups, 22f. 27c.; at Mulhausen and Strasburgh, 24f. 96c.; at Ber gues, Arras, Roye, Soissons, Paris and Rouen, 21f. 53c.; at Saumur and Nantes, 191 44c.; at Metz, Verdun, and Charleville, 21f. 13c.; and at St. Lo, Paimpol, Quimper, and Henneb on , 19f. 94c." " The price of bread for the first fortnight of the pre sent month remains fixed at 38 centimes the kilogramme (about 7d. for the 41b. loaf). " There issued from the French press, during the year 1845, 6,521 books of various kinds, 1,405 prints, 492 pieces of music, and 104 maps—in all 8,520 works. " M. Alfred Marcy Monge, who perished in the wreck of the Papin steamer, was a grandson of the celebrated mathematician of that name. M. Marey Monge was ad. mitted into the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1840, as a junior in the Consular Department, and was soon after wards appointed provisional consul at Belgrade. Thence he was removed as Consul to Corunna. An accident si milar to that by which he lost his life gave him an oppor tunity in 1844 of distinguishing himself. The Vedette Government steamer, on the 15th October in that year, while at anchor off Corunna, was in danger of being lost, from a sudden and violent gale of wind coming on. The state of the sea was so tremendous that no one else had courage to face it ; but M. Monge jumped into a boat, and, being followed by others encouraged by his example, the Vedette was reached, and brought safe into port. For this bold and humane act he was invested with the Order of the Legion of Honour. In June last he was appointed Consul at Mogadore, in the room of M. H. Jorelle, and was going there when he met his fate, being only 31 years of age. He has left two brothers, the eldest a Major-General serving with dis tinction in Africa, and the youngest attached to the French mission in China." New Year's-day was observed at the Paris Bourse as a close holiday. At TORTONI'S the Three per Cents. were quoted at 83f. 15c. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, JAN. 2. Anglo-Belgian — Madrid and Valencia... Barbadoes Boulogne and Amiens.. 12% Namur and Liege 3 34 Bordeaux &Mediterran North Jamaica ... Bordeaux and Toulouse Orleans and Vierzon 1744 Do. & Cette (Espeleta) Orleans and Bordeaux 11% Do. ( Mackenzie's ) 2 Over Yss e l •• Callao, Linea, and Pa- Parit & Lyons (Laffit te) 2 citio Coast Central of Spain Ceylon . Demerara Dendre Valley ...... Dutch Rhenish ... 7 3 A Dieppe & Paris Juact. Dijon and Mulhouse East Indian ...... l% Grt Northern of France Constituted 1 4 34 Great Indian Peninsular N Do. Pepin le Halleur — Great Paris and Lyons 2% Great Western Bengal Great Western Canada Jamaica S. Mid. Junction Ditto (Ganneron's). 34 1 Ditto (Calon's).—. — 2% Ditto (Sad Est) Paris and Orleans — Paris and Rouen Paris and Strasburg (Ganneroles) Do. (Compe de L'Est) Do. Do. (Ayrnard's)...... Paris and St. Quentin. Rouen and Havre.— Royal North of Spain. Sambre and Meuse .... Strasburg and Bale .... Tournay,Jurbise, Lan den, and Hasselt ... Tours and Nantes Do. North Midland Do. Extension (Mackenzie's) ---- Do. (Lefebvre's) Jerse♦ Louvain and Jemappe — Lyons and Avignon 2 14 Luxembourg Do. Trinidad Verona and Ancona 134 West Flanders slh Madrid journals of the 25th ult. have been re ceived, but, owing to the severity of the weather, those of the 26th had not reached Paris at the depar ture of the English mail on the Ist inst. The accounts of the state of the capital and provinces are satisfactory. The Minister of Finance is proceeding with great firmness in reforming the gross abuses in his depart ment, and, of course, has excited enemies among the jobbers and plunderers. A paper called the Universal, indeed, appears to have been established for the pur pose of attacking the new system ; but we trust with out effect. He has already done wonders. He has taken up his official residence at the Custom-house, where he is actively endeavouring to complete his financial schemes. It is affirmed that he intends doing away with the provincial intendants and other agents of his department, and establishing " receivers-general" of the taxez, as is the once in France. Tt is also said that he contemplates opening to each Ministerial de partment a separate credit, in order that each Secre tary of State may positively know what resources he may dispose of. The Bourse, of course, was closed on Christmas-day. THE MINISTRY.—The following are the new Ministers of the Cabinet :—The Earl of Dalhousie, President of the Board of Trade ; the Earl of Ellen borough, First Lord of the Admiralty ; the Earl of St. Germans, Postmaster• General, and the Right Hon. W. Gladstone, Secretary for the Colonies. The Earl of lladdington has been appointed Lord Privy Seal, in the room of the Duke of Buccleuch, who succeeds Lord Wharncliffe as Lord President of the Council. It is not probable that the election for the West Riding of Yorkshire will take place until after the meeting of Parliament. No writ of summons has yet been issued calling Lord \Vharncliffe to the House of Peers, and until that be done, no vacancy can be declared. SUSSEX HOSPITAL, BRIGHTON.—We are glad to learn that a very talented young gentleman, Mr. Edssard Parson, was unanimously elected surgeon to the Sussex Hospital, at Bri g ht o n, in a manner a s hi g hly gratifying to his feelings, as it was honourable to the patrons of that very useful establishment. Mr. Parson officiated for some considerable time at the hospital during- the absenc e of the former surgeon. DRUAY•LANE THEATRE. —It gives us great pleasure to record the brilliant success which has attended the pre sent holiday performances at this theatre. At the same time, we are free to confess that it would indeed be a matter of perfect surprise if such entertainments as Maritana, The Devil to Pay, and Harlequin Gulliver, with all the eminent performers who support them, did not draw all London. We hear that the last week's receipts are without precedent. A great number of empty boxes, in which soap had been packed, with American directions on them, as well as candles in a loose state, have been picked up this week along our beach to the westward between this town and Shoreham. —Brighton Herald. ONE CLOSING PRICES OF BRITISH FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES. Bank Stock 203 204 204 3 per Cent. Reduced New 34 per Cents Long Annuities toexpire Jan.lB6o 10 7-16 10 7-16 Consols for Account .. ...... Exchequer Bills, 1,0001., 1d 2B pm. 28 Ditto 5001. Ditto Small ONE CLOSING PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK PRICES Brazilian Bonds Mexican, 5 per Cent. 1837 3 1 5 /8 31% Ditto, Account Ditto, Deferred ... 17% 17 5 8 Peruvian Bonds, 6 per Cents 4 l lj_ 41% Portuguese 5 per Cents. — Ditto 3 per Cent. •• Portuguese Bonds, 4 per Cent .. 58 Ditto. Account 59 Russian Bonds . 112% Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840. Ditto, Account 29 Dividends on the above payable in London. French Rentes, 3 per Cent. Exchange —f. —c. 25f. 70c. Belgian 41 ,4 per Cent - ..... 97 Dutch, 21. E per Cent . Ditto, 4 par Cent. Certificates 94 94 PAID. BUSINESS DONE PRICES OF RATLWAY SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK. Aberdeen •• 5 Aberdeen, Banff, & Elgin 2% Armagh, Coleraine, and Portrush l% Aylesbury and Thame.. 1% Belfast & County Down 2% Bideford andTavistock... 1,6 - • ••I Birmin. and Gloucester. 100 Ditto New 17% — ..... ...... Birmingham and Ox ford Junction Birmingham & Leicester Direct 42s. — ••• Boston, Stamtd, & Birm. 225. — Bridgewater & Minehead 425. ... .. Bristo) and Exeter 7O Ditto, New Bristol and Gloucester... 30 ...... ... Bristol and Liver. June . 21,4...... Buckinghamshire Caledonian Ditto Extension .., 2 l / 2...... 3 3a ••• Cambrian & Grand Janc 42s ...... .... ..... Cambridge and Lincoln I% 3IA Do. New Cambridge and Oxford.. I% — Canterbury and Dover.. I% — Central Kent 2 14 ...... Chelmsford and Bury IN.—. -- , Chester and Holyhead... 15 Chester and Manchester 425. Cheltexharn and Oxford 2 ...... • Clydesdale Junction Cork Blackrock, and Passages Cork and Killarney ... 2% Cork and Waterford ... 11 4 — Cornwall Coventry, Nuneaton, Bir. and Leicester... _ CLOSING PRICE'S. Dartmouth, Torbay, and Exeter Derby and Crewe — Derby, Gainsbro', and Great Grimsby IN ...... Derby, Uttoxeter, and Stafford Direct Manchester (Remington's) Ditto (Rastrick's) 5 14.— 44 Direct Northern Direct Norwich 1 Dublin and Armagh l% Dublin and BelfastJunc. 5 Dublin, Belfast, and Coleraine Dublin and Galway..... 4 Dudley, Madely, and Broseley Dundalk & Enniskillen 2% Eastern Counties 141. 165....... 22 1,1 % Ditto New 61. 16s. Ditto Perpetual, 5 per Cent, No. 1.......61. 13s. 4d.... p Ditto ditto,No. 2... 41. 13s. 4d... p EastDereh'in andNoech 1 Eastern Union 25 .. ... Ditto, Quarter Shares 33 , ,i — Ditto Extension Do. Ipswich and Bury 4 — Do. Exten'n to Norw'h 2 1 / 2 Do., Camb. and Ely.. 2%...... East Lincolnshire East & West of England 1y,.. . . . . Edinburgh and Glasgow 50 ..... Ditto Half Shares ... _ 5 __. Ditto, Quarter Shares 12 1 ,E ...... Ditto, New ... 71 /Q — Edinburgh & Northern.. 1 1 4 — Edinburgh and Perth... 3 Ely and Huntingdon ... 5 Enniskillen and Sligo ... 2% — Essex and Suffolk .. ... 1% - , Exeter, Dorchester, and Weymouth Exeter, Yeovil, & Dorset 2% Glonc.,Abetystwith, and Central of Wales 1%...... 1 1 ,E , Goole and Doncaster .. 425. Grand Junction ....100 Ditto Half Shares Ditto Quarters 25 Grand Union .. l% 2 14 Great Eastern &Western 2 ix, ... .. • 1 )4 % .. . GreatGrimsby and Shef field Great South. and West (Ireland) Ditto Extension ...... 12% — Great Munster 2l,x ...... Great North of Scotland 2%...... Great North of Englimd..loo Ditto New 5 — Do. New .... »........ 2 29 Great Western BO Ditto % Shares 5O Ditto !-,,f Shares 2% lB% 19% .. Ditto Fifths Guildford, Fare'm, Ports. 5 Harwich Hull and Selby 5O Ditto 1 4 Shares Do. Half Shares Inverness and E1gin...... 1 Ipswich, Norwich, and Yarmouth ...... .. ..... 2 • •., Irish North Midland l% Isle ofAxholme 2% Killarney Junctions l l4 Kendal and Windermere 1 1 4 — . Lancaster and Carlisle... 30 Larne, Belfast, and Bal lvmena 2% ...... ...... Leeds and Carlisle Leeds and West Riding Junction Leicester & Birmingham 225. 5/ /8 p...... ••••••. Leicester and Bedford... 225. Leicester and Tamworth 425. Liverp. and Manchester.loo ... Do. 1 / Shares Do. Quarters 25 Liverpool & Leeds Direct 2% .. ... 2% Lpool., Mnchstr, & New castle Junction Landon and Birmillgilm loo 222 Do. Thirds Do. li Shares Ditto Fifths ••• •••I Ditto Extension ...... IV, l3-.. London and Blackwell. 16/. 133.4 d 94 . Do. New Ditto Extension .....: :d ...... . London and Brighton... 50 Do. consolidated Bths... 40 Ditto, Fifths London and Croydon, 13/. 15s. 9d. 22 1 4 Do. Guaranteed 5 per Cent... - ••• •• •• •••• Lon., Chel., 0x.,G10., and Hereford London and Greenwich 12115 s 4d... Do. Preference ...18/17s 2d — London Hounslow. and Western - •••••••• ••• Lond. & S.Western 411 6s 10d 76 Do. New Consol. Bths 20 Do. New Do. New London & South Essex 2 3 % — London and York 2% 4% London and Windsor ... 1 London, Warwick, and Kidderminster '2% London, Salisbury, and Yeovil ..... .......... .. 2%...... 2% Londonderry& Coleraine 5 ...... 5 1 4 - ... ..... Londonderry and Ennis killen ••• 5 Lynn and Ely Lynn and Dereham Manchester and Leeds .. 76 Ditto % Shares Do. Quarters 2 Do. Fifths 1 • .... 13 1 4 ••• Do. Sixteenths ... 5 1 ,4 — Manchester and Birmin. 40 Do Quarters 4 ...... 12 Do. New Quarters ... 2 Do. Continuation and Welsh Junction Manchester,Buxton,and Matlock 425. 2 % 34 p ........ Manchester, Birm., and Mould Junction Manchester and Rugby Direct .. ..... Stanchest. & Southampt 2 3 3 / %% Midland 100 .....152 Do. Fifths 2 ...... ..._ . Do. New [MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. (From The Sun of Saturday Keening.) The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were 5,000 bales, all to the trade. The market is steady at the late ad vance. There are net any arrivals in the City this morning of the least public interest. The Bank of England returns have not exhibited much alteration, but still there were some features. The statement will stand thus : Notes Issued—Decrease X47,820 Public Deposits—lncrease 290,365 Other Deposits—Decrease Seven day and other Bills—lncrease Other Securities—Decrease . Bullion—Decrease It may be remarked in addition, that the bullion was 13,325,8864, and the note issues were 26,771,510/. There has been very little business transacted in the Pub lic Securities to-day. Consols for the Account have only been quoted at 94% ; the Reduced Three per Cents at 94i % ; and the New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. have receded to 964 ; Exchequer- bills are steady at 28s. premium. A good amount of business has been transacted in the Foreign Funds to-day, but prices remain very nearly the same as yesterday. Brazilians have been quoted at 82 and 82% ; Mexican at 31 1 / 2 % ; Peruvian at 41 1 ,2 ; Portu guese at 58 and 59; Spanish at sow, and Dutch Four per Cents. at 94. The Railway Share Market is rather lower to-day. Still some steady buyers are coming in for investment. Midland,Birm.,Derby...100 Midld. & East. Counties 2%...... Midland Great Western (Irish) Do. Extens. to Sligo... 2% Newcastle and Darling ton Junction Do. New Brandling... 20 Newcastle and Berwick 10 Newcastle and Carlisle...100 Newport& Abergaveany 2%...... New Ross and Carlow... 22s Newry and Enniskill en 2% . ..... Newark, Sheffield, and , . Boston ... .. .. ......... 2%,, ... 3 1 / 9 Norfolk Extension 2 North British ... ..... ... 17 1 ,x Do. Half Shares Do. Eaten. to Carlisle PA 3% VI- • Do. Ext. to Dalkeith 25 Ditto ditto North Devon North of Norfolk .. - ...._ Northern and Eastern... 45 •••••• Do. Scrip Do. Quarter Shares... 12% — Do. New N. Kent & Direct Dover 2% 3 4 1 /8 .. • •••••• North StatlorcLshire 42s. ...... 4% p North Wales North and South Wales and Worcester Northern and Southern Connecting 1% Norwich and Brand0n... 16 Ditto New... 3 Northampton, Banbury, and Cheltenham Nottingham and Boston 1% 2 % 14 Not tingm,, Erewsh. Val- ley, and Manchester.. 1% Nottirlgham and Mans- field - Oxford, Gosport, Ports mouth, & Southamptn 425. — ,„ Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Oxford, Witney, and Cheltenham.— Perth and Inverness ... 2% Pilbrow Atmospheric ... 1 ••• Portsmouth Direct 3% 4 l/ Preston and Wyre Do. V, Shares Reading, Guildford, and Reigate Richmond Rugby, Derby, and Man chester ......... . 2% Rugby and Huntingdon 2 Rugby, Leamington,azd Warwick - ......... .•.... Rugby, Warwick. and Worcester.... ...425. Scottish Central Scottish Midland 5 Do. Extension Sheffield & Manchester 100 Do. Quarter Shares... . 8 Shrewsbury and Birm... 21, 4 4N .. Shropshire Mineral 425....... Shropshire Union Shrewsbury & Hereford 2% Shrews., Wolverhamp , & S. Staffordsl.. June. 2 1 4 Sligo and Shannon l% Somersetshire Midland 2% 2 1h.... ... ..... South Devon... 25 . .... South Midland 425....... 3 1 ,134 p ••• ...... South & Midlands Jane 425...... South Staffordshire June. 2 1 4 — south Eastern & Dover 33E 2s 4d... —* .. Do., No. 1. l2 Do., No. 2. Do~ No. 3 Do., N~ 4 Southampton, Manches ter. & Oxford Junction 425. .... . St. Alban's, Hatfield, and , Hertford Junction ... Staines and Richmond... 1 Staffordsh. & Shropshire 2 3 / 4 south Vb , ales .... ... 2% 4 14 4 Taw Vale Extension ... ••• •• •• Tean and Dove Valley 1% 1%...... ... Trent Valley 5 .... . Trent Valley and Holy head Junction Tring, Reading, and Basingstoke Ulverstone and Furness 2 1 / 2 ...... .. Vale of Neath ... .. ...... 2 ...... 3 3 / 4 . Warwick & Cheltenham 1% Warwick and Worcester 428 — Waterford and Kilkenny 3 ...... Waterford and Limerick 7% Waterfd,Wxfrd,Wicklw, and Dublin lY aterford,Wexford, and Valentia Waveney Va11ey......... 2 - •••••. ......... Welch Midland West Cornwall .. 2 ... . West Yorkshire WestLondon,Old Shares 20 West End and Southern Counties .. l l /2 Nexford and Carlow ... 2% Wisbeach and St. Ives... 2 Wilts, Somerset, and Southampton Wilts, Somerset, & Wey mouth Worcester,Hereford,Ross and Gloucester 7 425. ...... ...... Worcester, Tinbury, and Ludlow 2,4 Worcester, Shrewsbury, and Crewe Union ... .. 1% — •........ ..... Worcester and S. Wales 425. Worcester, Warwick, and Rugby - Yarmouth and Norwich. 20 Ditto, New York and Carlisle York and Lancaster 2 % ork aisel North Midland 50 — Dittig 1 ,4 Shares .. 25 Ditto Scarboro' Branch. 25 Do. Selby Do. Extension FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Anglo-Belgian Barbadoes 1 Boulogne and A miens... 10 ...... 12 ...... Bordeaux & Mediterran. 2 Bordeaux, Toulouse, and Cette (Mackenzie's)... 2 .. ... Do. (Espelete's) ..... 2 .... . 2 ........ Calais, Dunkrk, and West Flanders ******* -- •• -• • •• • --• Callao, Lima, and Pacific Coast 1 .. ••• --- ..• .....•...... Central of Spain ... - Ceylonss.ll4l Demerara Dendre Valley - Dijon and Mulhouse Dutch Rhenish East Indian ... ..... .... ss. - Eastern Belgian Junctn. 2% - Fampeux & Ilazebroak 2 Great North. of France Constituted ... 5 ...,,.15 14% .... Great Indian Peninsular ss. Great Paris and L yons 2 - .- Great Western Bengal... ss. — Great Western Canada... 3 1 4 Jamaica S.Mid. Junction 1 Jamaica North Midl an d 1 Do. Extension 1 Jersey Louvain and Jemeppe... 4 ... . ••• Lyons and Avignon Luxembourg... 4 Madrid and Valentin.... 2 ... Mauritius .. Namur and Liege North Jamaica... ...... ... 1 Orleans and Vierzon ... 10 .. 18 ..... Orleans and Bordeaux... 6 ... ...... 11% Over Yssel 4l3s 4d Paris &Lyons(Laffitte's) 2 Paris and Lyons (Gan neron's) 3 Paris & Lyons, (Calon's) 2 ..--- 2 34 ..... Paris &Lyons (Sud E s t) 2 Paris and Orleans 2O Paris and Rouen 20 Paris and Strasbourg 2 D (G ann erou's) ~ •••.• o. (Compe de L , Est) 2 Do (Avmard's) - • Paris and St. Quentin ...... Rouen and Ilavre 1;oyal North of Spain ... 2 Sambre and Meuse ...... 6 ...... 64 Strasbourg and Bale ... 14 St. Laurence & Atlantic Tournay, Jurblse, Lan den, and Hasselt. 4 Tours and Nantes (Mac- . kenzie's) ... Do. do. (Lefebvre's \ 2' Ditto (O'Neill's) - '"'2 Trinidad - 2 1 / 2 Verona and Ancona... 3 West Flanders .. 4 ...; MINES. 10 ...... - 85 7% ~, 114 p .. 154 - 31/2 4% 4% 2 5 / a 22 IA 8p ...... N P 314 1 1 / 2 2% p VA 1-,3 95 18% 37 51% 2% % n 1i p P 2 3 / 4 4% 222 IN 9 1 , 2 4 1 4 ...... 68 1/2 23 22, - 19% 4% 64 13% 2 3 / 1 p 3 % 152 58 1 / 2 British Iron ..... Real del Monte Unregd. 16% 4% 35% N 1 / 2 p 3 % P 3974 16 10% 13 1% 21 ..... 1% 80 4114 12% 8 1% 14% 2% 2 3 % 11/n 25 1 /0 . 4 GREAT BRITAIN AND AMERICA. We hive been favoured with the, sight of a private letter from Mr. Goodrich, an ex-senator of Ma,sachu setts, and well:known as a writer under the signature of " Peter Parley," from which we extract the following:— " Congress has assembled, and is now attracting at tention. The President's message will have been re ceived and discussed in England before this reaches you. Our people have taken it quietly, and it has excited much less sensatnn than I anricipated. The stock market shows, however, that there is some uneasiness in rely tion to the Oregon question. My own .expectation is. that John Bull will utter a tremendous growl when he reads the President's manifesto, and I am not without my fears that we shall at least have a year or two of very awkward relations betwe. n your country and ours. Our strong hope is, that Webster and Calhoun will act to gether in resisting all warlike measures, and that the vexed question will be negotiated or arbitrated to a happy result. It would be a blunder as well as a crime to get the two countries at loggerheads upon such a paltry bone of contention." ATTEMPTED SUICIDE. - On Friday afternoon, at Out two o'clock, a most determined attempt at suicide was made by Mr. H. Thurstell, a gentleman residing in Albany-street, Regent's-park, who, from extensive losses caused by railway Fpeculation, has been for some time past in a very desponding state of mind. On returning home yesterday his landlady observed that he appeared more than usually depressed, and he had scarcely entered his room when she heard the report of fire-arms. She immediately ran to his room when, she found Mr. Thurstell lying on the ground bl eed i ng from a wound in his throat. Medical assist ince was obtained, when it was ascertained that he had fired a loaded pistol into his mouth, but the ball taking a downward direction had come out through his throat, and some hopes are given of his re covery. COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, SUNDAY.—The Queen held a Court_ yesterday afternoon at the Castle, for the reception. on the throne, of addresses from the Corporations of !.• the cities of London and Dublin. At a quarter past two o'clock the Lord Mayor and Corporation of London arrived at the Castle, having travelled from town by the Great Western Railway. The City procession was preceded by the City Mar shals on horseback. The Lord Mayor and Sheriffs came with their state equipages, and the other mem bers of the Corporation occupied numerous carriages. The deputation consisted of the Lord Mayor, seven Aldermen, two Sheriffs, 110 Common Council, and the City officers. The Aldermen present were Humphery, H oo per, Sir George Carroll, William Hunter, Wood, Hughes Hughes, and Sidney. The Sheriffs, Messrs. Chaplin and Laurie. Among the Common Council were Mr. William Johnson, seconder of the Address ; Deputies Prit chard, Peacock, Johnson, Bridge, Lorkin, and West- wood ; Messrs. Anderton, Bennock, Snelling, T. J. Holt, Norris, W. Cash, and W. Chadwick. • City Officera—The Recorder, the Remembrance, the Comptroller, Mr. Laurie, City Pleader ; the Soli citor, Mr. Under-Sheriff Birchum, Mr. Under-She riff Wire, mover of the Address ; Mr. Secretary Potter, the High Bailiff of Southwark, the Bridge Comptroller, and Mr. Temple, Keeper of Guildhall. The Lord Mayor was attended oy his Chaplain, the Rev. Mr. Farebrother, and the Sword-bearer and Mace-bearer. His Lordship wore his gold collar over his state robe, and all the members of the depu don wore their respective robes. The Corporation alighted at the state entrance, and passed up the grand staircase. The state apartments had been prepared for the reception of the Corporations. The Addresses were received in the Throne or Garter-room, which is fitted up for Investitures of the Most Noble Order of the Garter, the furniture being of purple velvet pat terned with the star of the order, and the beautiful carpet of garter blue, having the different ensigns of the order wrought in gold colour. The Corporation of London were received on their arrival in St. George's flail, and were conducted to the Waterloo Chamber, where a most sumptuous collation was served on a long range of tables er tending round the sides, and covered with the greatest variety of refreshments and delicacies. The centre of each table was elegantly ornamented with handsome silver vases, richly chased and a number of ornamental designs. The Queen's pages attended at the tables on the guests, including the whole of the Corporation and officers, supplying the numerous party with champagne and other choice wines. On leaving the Waterloo Chamber, the Corporation re. entered St. Gorge's Hall. The Queen and Prince Albert left their apartments , and were conducted by the Lord Steward and the Vice-Chamberlain to the Throne-room Her Majesty being seated on the throne, Sir )Villiam Martins and the Hon. Frederick Byng, the Gentlemen Ushers in Waiting, ushered the Lord Mayor and deputation into the Grand Reception or Ball-room, fitnal up in the gorgeous style of Louis Quatorze. At the door of the Throne -room the Corperati ni were met by the Vice Chamberlain, who conducted them to the pre' sence of her Majesty. The Recorder then read the following Address Most Gracious Sovereign,.— We, your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal subj( ett the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Commons of the City 01 London, in Common Council assembled, humbly approach your royal person, respectfully to represent to your Majesty That great, powerful, and wealthy as this nation is, by far the largest portion of your Majesty's subjects in Ire' land, and a great portion of your Majesty's subjects in England, Scotland, and Wales, have long been reduce(' for their principal food to potatoes. That all classes—but especially the poor—have been: and are, great sufferers from this result of the nation.' economy. That the blight which has fallen upon the potato beg subjected your Majesty's people to great anxiety 14 04 distress, and to the danger of famine. That their sufferings are attributable to erroneou s legislation, which, by excluding the importation of food , and restricting commerce, shuts out from the nation th e , 1 bounty of Providence. We, therefore, humbly pray that your Majesty will h i graciously pleased t o use th e means i n your M a j es ti° i t power to open the ports of this kingdom for the free Or IM portation of food. Her Majesty having received the Address, NO II pleased to return the following most gra cious answer : The motives which have induced you to present tb ig Address are duly appreciated by me. The wants a n d su ff er i ngs o f my peop l e at all tioeo command my warmest sympathy, and I deeply regret the failure in the present ye ar o f a f ull supply of an art icle of food on which so many of my su bj ects are accustome d to subsist. I have directed Parliament to assemble on an cell day, and I shall gladly sanction any measure which th e wisdom of the Legislature may suggest as conducive t° the alleviation of this temporary distress, and to the Per manent welfare of all classes of my people. The Lord Mayor and the Senior Alderman, M r ' Humphery, had the honour to kiss hands. Mr. David Williams Wire, the mover, and Ml' William Johnson, the seconder of the Address, ad, vanced, and had also the honour to kiss hands. The deputation then retired from the royal pre sence. His Royal Highness Prince Albert remained by the side of her Majesty during the reception of th e Address. The Ladies in Waiting, the Viscountes s Jocelyn and the Countess of Charlemont, were be' hind the Queen, on her right. The Lord Steward, Sir Robert Peel, Sir James Graham, and the Earl of Dalhousie, stood on the Queen's right. The Vice' Chamberlain and the Duke of Wellington stood t'n her Majesty's left. Tne Cabinet Ministers, the Duke of Buccleuch' the Right Honourable W. E. Gladstone, Lord Gran' vine Somerset, the Earl of Lincoln, and the Righ t Honourable Sidney Herbert, and also the Gentlemen of the Household inWaiting, were ranged on either side of the throne. Her Alajesty's [honourable Corps of Gentlemen-AP Arms lined the apartment. The Lord Mayor and deputation from the Corp' ration of the City of Dublin arrived at the Castle at half-past two o'clock. His Lordship and the mein' bers of the Corporation appeared in their respectiv e , municipal r o b es o f o ffi ce , an d the officers carried their badges. His Lordship was accompanied hi Mr. Thomas Reynolds, Marshal of Dublin; Mr. Co" P. Shannon, Town Councillor; Mr. Thomas L. Sin' noll, thigh Constable; Rev. Edward H. Nelson , Chaplain; Mr. Duckworth Nelson, Physician siv i Surgeon; Mr. T. J. Beasley, Secretary ; Mr. Thortiti e Ackiw, S word- bearer ; and Mr. James Curran, Mace' bearer. His Lordship and the deputation, on alighting II the; state entrance, were conducted by th e grow staircase through the Guard Chamber to S t. George's Hall and the Wateiloo Chamber, w here they partook of the collation. Returning to S t ' George's. Hall, the deputation were summoned to the presence of the Sovereign, and were conducted IV the Vice -Chamberlain to the presence of the Quer n on the throne. • _ _ The: Lord Mayor read the following Address frail the Corporation of the city of Dublin : M We, the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, an d B urgesse s ~ and pipt please your Majesty-- of Dublin, roach your Majesty w i t h feelings of loyOfi aprofounday 'respect for y our Ma j esty ' s person siv throne, but impell, d by au luipt-rative sen se o f duty. I°e ~, 1 can not refrain longer f rom l ay i ng before your Majes ty that which must cause much pain and anguish t0,,,. 11 monarch who fe e l s acute l y for the sufferings of b"" people. We assure yo ur M a j esty t h at we would not addre o i - 4 , you on th e d est i tut i on of our country, but we are deer/ impressed with the awful responsibility that would ot: tech to u s i n t h e eyes o f an all - rul i ng Providence if vfr were silent, and (lid not make known to your Majesti c the melancholy situati, n to which the inh a bi tant s p . 0/ Ireland m a y b e re duced, and the dan ger t h at exists or whole people under your Majesty's sway falling v ictioP to the scourge of famine, and pestilence, its usual con' comitant, if measures shall not be promptly taken bs your Majesty's Government, under the blessing of tnereiful God, to avert from Ireland such a calamity. We beg to inform your Majesty th at, f rom causes o ve r which your people of Ireland have had no control, the have been reduced for many, v ery many years, to 1 0 ° to the potato crop as the only source from whenc e , 0 draw their daily sustenance. To them, b e y on d the people of all other nations, was assigned —as their 011 i food—the poorest fo o d i n t h e world, and of that, for t he vast majority of th em, their supply was scanty ; bt their wretchedness did not terminate even at this pointi for them th ere was st i ll a st( p lower in the depths ea misery. Their supply of food was not only scanty 61) 4 of the worst ki n d , b ut o f late years they were compeltei to eke out existence on the very worst species L i that food. Alas ! food, unfitted for the brute aninr ° ,.: was and is the food of the vast majority of your subjee" in Ireland. May it please your Majesty, this state of destitutieeti of your people, although known to its, who live arnonr, 0 and form a porti on o f t h em h ere, rests not on our 0 derpe. Commissioners app o i nte d b y your Majesty, 1,1 their report now published to the wor!d, have announc e i, that the agricultural labourers ul Ireland and their fa° 3 o lies are calculated to amo un t to more than four m illio o of hum a n beings, w h ose on l y food is the potato, wbtlie only drink is water, wh ose h ouses are pervious to p, to whom a bed or a bl anket i s a luxury unknewiii and who are more wretched than any other people Europe. no This statement i s to o true but it is confined to ° n class alone—a gr i cu l tura i lab tirers. We are compelled, ..dd, th a t t hi s d e , cr i ption of the des ' itution of four le lions of y our su bj ects, w h en i t says they are 0° wretched than any other people in Europe, 6140 3% 11% ...._ 2% 3 1 /, 2 24 64 ""I'llo( ) ... ' Ti le ."' Wkil t Quteen %Va ra 10 the f droveloll lute 4 C01„7: 1 1e 1 44, he Roy a And Yeste i i ll ep • t he th a „ nu, tern ( V• " 0 Ear l 411 d L' ut on . 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