The Sun. — London, England, 1837-01-26 00:00:00

- --- --______-____---- C I'ItICES OF STOCKS -THIS DA I AT ()NE C'CLOK. -- tank Stock. ..... ......... 2.0:3% 4!,', (India Stock 258 per Cent. lied. • ....... 89%, 90 897 , 4 j!)itto Bonds :3 •per Cent. Cons. 8 9%%%341,1 !South Sea Stock — 43 per t .... 99 1 A CH Annuities .... .• Ditto Tenß .. .. . osy ; N • • .............. New 3 , , , i per Cent ' )7l / 5 741%% 13 per Cent. Annuities, 1751... -- New 5 per Cent... - j Exch. Bills, .0 POO 9 1 2!) 2 pm. Bank Lon gAnnuiticstoexpire ;Ditto ........ ......500 2O 23 pm. net, 5. ITO 14% 15-1674 I Ditto Small "ut- la. 1859 ...... ........... 14 X ' Ditto CoMmercial — pm. Jan 5, IF6O lt% ; Ditto Advertised —— pm 'kn. .5, .. Stk! ...... , Bank Stock for Account...... 203% 4 April 5, - IS.9(` -- ;India Stock for Acc0unt......... -- Jan. 5, Mo.._ - Consols for Account .... 6974!-ii% 4 nomium • • I ._____ ... Pm. PRICE.% 0F IMBEIGN FUNDS Austrian Bonds.. ....... Bel.; -. tan Bonds Ditto Accaunt Brazilian Bonds Ditto Account Buenos Ayr Bands Ditto Account Chillian Bonds ..... Ditto Account .............. Columbian Bends ......... Ditto Accoubt Columbian Bonds, 18.21 Ditto Account Danish Bonds .. Ditto Acco•int. Greek 80nd5...." - . xionds.. ...... Ditto Bonds, 1625.... Ditto Account Mexican Bonds, 5 per cent Ditto Account Ditto, 6 per cent. . ..... Ditto Account ... Neapolitan .. ... THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Peruvian Bonds — Ditto Account Portuguese Bonds Ditto Account Ditto New Bonds ....... Ditto Account 4 7 1, Ditto, 3 per cent 30 211% 30 Prussian Bonds Russian Bonds, 182'2 Ditto Account Ditto Metallic."... ......... Spanish Bonds Ditto Account Ditto Bonds, leal 2114 5% Ditto Account 23 45i 5% French, 5 per cent.......... —I. —c. 4 per cent —f. --c. 2 per cent. ...... Exchange f. —e. Dutch, 24 per cent. Ditto Account 5. 1 3, Ditto, 5 per cent. lO3 % % 3 Ditto Account .— PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. C andonga Mining Company P 7 aid. Per Sh ar e. ' 7 Great Western R a il way C ompany 3O London and Green .vich itailwav Company 2O London and Southampton Railway Company 3O Colonial - B an k Mexican and South American 41% 21 20 20% 714 fit,4 PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS, DUBLIN, JANUARY 24. 3 per Ccnt. Consols 89% Grand Canal Debs. 6 per cent. 8914 Ditto Reduced --- Ditto, 4 per cent 334 per Cent. Stock 9714 Hibernian Bank 60 $1 Ditto New, 1830 97% j City of Dublin Steam C 0....—. Bankr ,Cent. Debentures 9l N ational Insurance Co ..... .... oyal Stock — Stock Grand Canal Stock l9B City Debent ures, 4 per cent... Rl 34 Ballast Office De b entures, 4 . -- per cent_ MAILS. Arrived. Due. Arrived. Due. Arrived. Due 0 America 0 1 France ........ .... 0 0 Lisbon 0 U Prazil 0 • 1 Gugrri.&Jersey 0 0 Malta 0 DucuosAyres.. 0 0 H am b urg ..... ... 0 0 Mexico 0 0 Carthagena ._.. 0 0 Holland 0 0 Ostend IDublin... 7... 0 0 Jamaica ...... 1 Flanders...—. 1 1 Leeward I s l an d s 0 I Waterford 0 HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. ..... minutes after 5. I Evening...... 35 minutes after 5. This day wa published, THE EDINBUsRGH REVIEW, No. CXXX. CONTENTS. 1. LORD BROUGHAM'S DISCOURSE ON NATURAL THEO LOGY. 2. PAUL DE KOCK'S NOVELS. 3. PRISON DISCIPLINE. 4. THE FRATERNITY OF THUGS, OR SECRET MURDERERS OF INDIA. 5. HAZLITT'S LIFE AND LITERARY REMAINS. C. BOTELHO ON THE PORTUGUESE COLONIES. 7. EVANGELICAL PREACHING. S. LAMARTINE'S JOCELYN. S. LIFE, WRITINGS, AND CHARACTER OF MR. MALTHUS. 10. M. DE CHATEAUBRIAND ON ENGLISH LITERATURE. 11. THE APPROACHING SESSION. London ; Longman and Co. Edinbnroth ; A. and C. Black. ALL those w h o may have MBURGH to write to . us , are lB37 re quested to direct • HEINE BROTHERS in HAMBURGH, which is perfectly su ffi cient for the address, and letters directed in that way will reach us just as well as if directed, HEINE BROTHERS, BANKERS, in HAMBURG. Neither the deno mination of BANKERS, or any other, is required, and letters directed, HEINE BROTHERS in HAMBURG ipti H. will do with ou t any further remark or descron. We further request to observe, that a letter with one inclosure doubles the Postage o l only, but several inclosures would by far increase the same. Thui nly, but or 301., for instance, if remitted in One Bank of Eng land' Note would only cause double Postage, but 101. remitted in two notes, would be liable to a much higher charge. It is there fore most advisable, for any Person having to remit Money to Ham burgh, to forwarl the amount in One Note, or one Bank Post Bill or Cheque ; or having to receive Money from Hamburgh, to receive the same in the same way, whenever possible. As to re mittances from Hamburgh to England for large Sums, amounting to many THOUSANDS, of course they may rather be' remitted in Mills of Exchange. All those giving orders for any Branch of our multifarious Business, that must be executed before FEBRUARY, are advised to lose no time in forwarding the same. HEINE BROTHERS in HAMBURG. The publication of THE SUN NEWSPAPER commenced this day at 10 minutes past Three o' Clock. „ * fit* - 42,4 r~ ~'~ ~ ~~~-~o LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, JANUARY 26, 1837. The Great Protestant Meeting, which has so long been announced, took place at Dublin on Tday last. As f ar as mere numbers are concerned, it ues was Unquestionably a great Meeting, for almost all the Irish bigots of any note made a point of giving ther at lendance. F oremost among them was old Lord Ro- LEN, who, by way of enhancin g the dignified solem uity of the scene, entered the e assembly holdi ng an Oran g pocket h an dk erc hi e f to his aristocratic nose, for which graceful ebullition of party zeal, he was ho toured with three distinct round s of applause. We do not state this fact for the purpose of throw ing r idi cu l e on his Lordship ; for we think the aPPlication of a kerchief. to his nostrils was; under the circumstances, not:only natural, but necessary —Orange Mobs being not more remarkable for the odour of sanctity, th an th e y are f or other- odours of a less " sweet-smelling" character. The speeches delivered at this flagrant Meeting were of . the true bigot com plexion, each orator vicing with the other in the fur y of his den unc i at i ons aga i nst Popery, Lord M(IL CRAVE, the KIN G ' S Mi n i sters, and DANIEL O'CON NELL. We will ven t ure to say—and the assertion we are aware is a daring one—that such an awkward squad of blundering, blood-thirsty Intolerants never before assembled in Dublin. So desperate was their spirit, ao depl ora bl e their infatuation—we should rather say, their sheer madness—that they actually refused to acknowledge the existence of Catholics as Catholics, and insisted on their being called " Papists ;" just a s if---the fools !—their quarrel was with the word, and w 4. the creed In a simil ar p e tty, p uer il e sp i r i t, ai their allusion to O'CONNELL. When one of their crack speakers mentioned the name of the Member for Kilkenny, the whole skull-cracked assembly roared out, " No, no, the Big Beggarman' --- a phrase,. by the bvc, with which we arc by no means disposed to quarrel, for Mr. O'CONNELL has begged tri.ore, and got more, for Ireland from an English Mi tl4trY, than all the Protestants that ever professed to li t e • . her welfare at heart.. DAN begged Catholic 41▪ 4aacipation and got it. DAN begged Irish Reform Iriset it eANIELs now kng unicipal Ref orm , an d w ill get t h at too. I, I7 iN I Y then he is a big B eggarman — an excee di ng l y till j ic e f s g 4 rinan— an d we hope will never cease begging e nt i tie r obtai ne d f or hi s country all that she is justly a 8 'tr e we to . Lord G LENGALL ' S speec h was just suc h Peer re prepa re d to expect f rom hi m . Thi s spr i g h t l y 0 ace wrote a co me d y ; h e h ere spoke a farce ; and W e a re • the la consid era bl e doubt to which of his effusions, writte n or the spoken one, we should assign the Palm of dullness. Both were prodigies of ineptitude and prolixity; and both equally set truth and sense at defiance. But no, we arc mistaken. One observation his Lordship made at the Meetin corre c t g, whi c h was most unquestionably . " Domestic tyranny, said he, "exists t o deal " such an extent that neith er landl or d nor tenant can to al with their lands as th ey please. " In the Pro parts of Ireland this is literally the case, in proof of which we need only refe r to the proceedin g s Colonel B RUEN h ad the rare of th e O rangemen at the last Carl ow e l ect i on, which luck t o make infinitely more noto r i ous , b y hi s clumsy defenc e of them in Parliament. We have no doubt the Protestants ex- Peet that this, their " greatest Meeting" —for so Lord PtODEN styles it—will have the effect of setting all Downing -street in convulsions ; but, alas, their hopes will prove to have been erected, like the fool's palace,: on the sands ; for a protest has been entered against their " exclusive Meeting," signed b y the majority of the most influential Noblemen and Gentl e , i rnen Ireland ; a nd more t h an t hi s, a great Re ar!) Meeting is bein which i n g held this very day in Dublin, numbers, not less than in rank, character, anti influence, will form an edifying contrast to the beggarly show of pseudo-patriots, got up with such difficulty at the Mansion-house. And here, while on the subject of Meetings, we cannot refrain from no ticing a remark let drop by the Times this morning, to the effect, that the late Conservative Meetings have uniformly been distinguished by sobriety, and tempe rance of language ; and the Reform ones by qualities diametrically the reverse. Now, to say nothing of the Dublin Protestant Meeting, where the assembly acted just as if they were all frantic, has our Contempo rary no recollection of the Devonport Conserva tive Meeting, where the assembly acted just as ' if they were all drunk ?—where half the toasts were compelled to be omitted ; where the Chair man was inaudible throughout the latter part of the evening ; and where the assembly were confessedly so " excited"--this was the language of one of their own local organs--that the stewards were compelled to break up the party, and beat a speedy retreat ? Had the Times remembered this and other facts of a similar nature, which, had we time, we could recall to his recollection, sure we are he would never have dreamed of giving utterance to such a disastrous boast. A very clever pamphlet, entitled " A Voice from Ireland," has just been published by RIDGWAY. The writer takes a plain, honest, straightforward view of the abuses that exist in the Government of that country, and shows, by the incontestable evidence of facts, that proper and sufficient remedies must be promptly applied, if Englishmen intend to render the Union between Great Britain and Ireland more sub stantial than a sheet of blotted parchment. 'Till the Irish people be allowed the full and rightful enjoyment of the same laws and the same institutions as the in habitants of Great Britain—till an equal respect be paid by the Legislature to the moral and religious feelings of the majority of the Irish nation—till the Government shall have learned that the will of the go verned is entitled to more respect than its notions of what is abstractedly right or wrong, he maintains—. very ju s tl y , i n our opinion—that Ireland never will be tranquil, or her people happy. In the foremost ground of Irish abuses that require an immediate removal, the writer places—or rather points out as already occupying such a position—the Irish Church Estab- lishment. To attempt to prolong its existence in any other form, and under another name, he contends is useless. The times for a reformation of this Institu- Lion, as a dominant, tax levying, religious hierarchy, are gone for ever. The doom of the Church as a political State ally is scaled. Opinions, whether religious or political, must henceforth stand on their own merits, and draw support from the voluntary suffrages-of those who hold them. The political fiction which supposes • . the interests of fifteen hundred Protestarit clergymen to outweigh the moral and religious feelings of seven millions of their fellow-countrymen must be for ever erased from the Council-book of the British Legis lature. The right of the people of to believe whatever religious tenets they please, is one of the first boasted blessings of Protestantism ; and to tax them for so believing is persecution in its most hateful form. This doctrine, though new and unpalateable to the bigoted partizans of eccle siastical abuse, • is recognized as the only rational and safe basis of future legislation by nineteen twentieths of the people of England, Ireland, and Scotland. But great and manifold as are the evils which hourly flow from the dominance of a State religion in Ireland —a religion detested by thirteen-fourteenths of the whole population—their eradication would go but a short way towards removing the mass of misery that like a moral leprosy disfigures the entire face of that country. The removal of the hunger and nakedness of the people.ought to precede every plan for the re moval of grievances originating in sectarian feelings. Before we legislate for Irishmen as Roman Catholics, let us bethink ourselves that they are men—that they are human beings and fellow-subjects, without a neces sary supply of food or raiment—and that many of them are without a roof under which to lay their heads. The first great duty of Parliament is to take care to pre vent the famishing poor of Ireland from perish ing for want of food. To delay. any longer the giving of a good Poor Law to Ireland is to become re sponsible before Heaven for the lives of the thousands that annually perish from sheer want of bread. There is no longer room for equivocation, or for an affecta tion of ignorance upo❑ this question. The man who has seen Ireland, or who has studied her condition in the Reports of the Poor Law Commissioners, and who has yet his opiniOns to form respecting the neces sity of a legal provision for the Irish poor, must be so stupid or so dishonest, that it would be a waste of time to argue the question with him. Longer delay in the passing of some measure for the legal support of the poor of Ireland will be understood as indicative of dishonesty on the part of the Legislature. And what is more important still, if a Poor Law be not speedily established in Ireland, machinery is in course of pre paration which will deprive the landlords of more than would be levied upon their estates by the heaviest poor -rate. The landlords may rely upon it, that if the pool be not provided for during the next Session of Parliament, they will be the first to suffer from a state of things far from being modelled to promote their pecuniary interests. We have not room to-day for any extracts from " A Voice from Ireland," but we shall take care, on a subsequent occasion, to make our readers sufficiently acquainted with the more important opinions and poli tical convictions of the writer. We only wish that he had laid more stress upon the necessity--the imme diate necessity—of a good Poor Law for a country so overru n with wretchedness, produced by famine. With a Poor Law, Ireland may continue to have many grievances to redress ; but without one, she never can be prosperous or happy. It is the only measure that will convince landlords that they have other duties to perform, besides spending . incomes wrung from a starving people in sloth and dissipation in foreign countries. It will convince them that their very ex istence depends upon the prosperity of their tenantry ; and that to quadruple their incomes, they will have only to foster industry, and to encourage enterprise. Their own moral improvement will not be less marked than the speedy change which will become apparent in the Physical condition of the cultivators of their estates. They will delight in performing thosegood offices to their tenantry which art now so generally neglected by them ; and in return the people will look up to them as their natural protectors, instead of regarding them as op pressors and tyrants. e hare received, translated from the German, A Geographical, Statistical, and Commercial Account of the Russian Ports of the Black Sea, the Sea of Asoph, and the Danube, with an official report of the European commerce of Russia in 1835. These is no Power in the world that better understands how to turn the most trifling feature in the national character of an ally to her own advantage than does Russia. As the English ore proverbial for their respect for estab lished institutions, and their matter-of-fact—or rather matte r - of-money -mod e s of estimating the worth of ex ternal changes, Russia overwhelms us from year to year with accounts of her growing settlements J on the Black Sea, and with statistical tables, intended to per suade us that we are vast gainers by her improve ments. She is careful not to say one word about her right to the newly=establish e d ports ; her object is achieved if s h e can prevail upon England to regard then as her's now beyond all dispute : and to silence THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 26, 1837. all opposition on the part of those disposed to respect the rights of nations, she adroitly points to the Bri tish Merchant's ledger, and triumphantly asks, if the balance of trade be not in his favour ? Russia would accustom us to the idea that the Black Sea belongs to her, in order to prepare us for her ultimate seizure of the entire coast right and left of the Crimea. She would persuade us, that we owe to her beneficence the privilege of carrying merchandise in waters which Eu ropean treaties have recognised as subject to the do minion of the Grand Porte, the better to prevent any alarm consequent upon her seizure of Circassia—the prelude of course to a grand attack upon the metro polis of the Ottoman Empire. Finding that she can not just now seize upon Constantinople by the way of . Silistria, Varna, and Bourgas, Russia moves in an opposite direction, where she has reason to believe her operations will escape the notice of Western Europe. Once possessed of Circassia, in which she is now waging a most cruel and unjust war, most of the diffi culties that oppose her progress will be removed. But she is well aware that extreme caution can alone screen her vast projects from observation ; and that were the drift of them rightly perceived by England and France, these Powers would soon unite to check her in an in famous career of conquests achieved, not by the sword alone, but by the blackest treachery. Every engine, therefore, is set at work to deceive foreigners respect ing her political and social institutions. The Ear- PERores love of civilization and 'zeal• for religion are everywhere cited as the motives for acts which, if. rightly understood, would fill the public mind of Eng. land with horror. To save appearances hundreds o thousands of wretched families are annually draft& from the interior of the empire, by virtue of an Impe• rial Ukase, to inhabit desolate stations on the coast o. the Black Sea, in order that Western Europe may be humbugged with accounts of the flourishing state of the Russian acquisitions in that quarter. This is a most important fact of which the people of England appear to have no knowledge whatever. It is enough for them to be told that aTtown was built some few years back, and that its population has amazingly in creased, to jump at once at the conclusion that it must be a very flourishing place. But population increases and decreases in Russia after a fashion unknown in free countries. The EMPEROR populates and depo pulates at his pleasure, without troubling his loving subjects about the matter. No mistake can be greater than that of supposing, that because the Russian ports on the Black Sea are rapidly increasing in popu lation, such increase is a consequence of the happiness of the people, and a proof of the superiority of Rus sian over Turkish civil institutions ; and yet this is an error into which all English travellers constantly fall. Whatever we witness is intended to deceive us ; our national vanity is flattered by an outward semb lance of candour ; our common sense is perpetually appealed to ; the EMPEROR'S love of peace, civili zation, and universal happiness is continually rung in our ears by officials appointed for that purpose ; and we return to England lamenting that any portion of our fellow-subjects should so misconceive the benevo lent designs of so paternal a Monarch as the Emperor NICHOLAS. As the Tract before us i s en ti re l y o f a practical character, and is addressed exclusively to comteercial men, we recommend it to the notice of all merchant's engaged in export or import trade with Russia on the Black Sea. The description which it contains of the several harbours on the coast cannot fail to be of immense service ; and as out enjoyment of the privi lege of vexing the waters of the Black Sea with Brkish keels may be of short duration, the wisest thing our [nerehants can do is to make the most of the boasted Tuesday to receive two projects of law, the one intro duced by M. BERNARD, Minister of War, for regu lating the futitre trial of soldiers accused of conspi racies against the State, and the other bl, , M. P ozA NEL, Minister of Marine, for the establishment of a convict colony in the Island of Bourbon, the climate of which he described as " salubrious—nav, delicious," amid the loud laughter and cheers of the Deputies. The object of General BERNARD'S project of law is to substitute trial by Court-martial for trial by Jury, in every case where soldiers are mixed up in a treason able accusation with civilians. The latter will con tinue to be tried by the ordinary tribunals ; the former in every instance by a Court-martial. The police are more than usually on the alert in Paris. Not a day passes in which persons are not dragged from their homes to be examined respecting regicidal plots and conspiracies. The French begin to find that Louis PUILIPPE'S safety is likely to cost them more annoyances than a King is worth in these times. There is no other news of any moment in these papers. CIIANCERY COURT._ (THIS DAY The LORD CHANCELLOR, after disposing of all the appeal motions in his paper, none of which occupied many minutes, and were of no public importance, proceeded with the part heard case of Milligan v. Mitchell, which was opened yester day, and the question in which related to the right of a Scotch Presbyterian congregation at Woolwich to elect their minis ter. The reading of the evidence on behalf of the plaintiffs occupied the Court till our reporter left. munificence of the EMPEROR. That the trade is as profitable as Russia represents it may be true enough, as far as regards Great Britain ; but we shall soon see an end of it, if our Government remain indiffe rent to the sinister designs of Russia in the East. " We perceive, by a statement in one of the Scotch organs of Toryism, that Lord STORMONT has an nounced his intention to contest the representation of the county of Perth at the next election. We are likewise indebted to the same sage authority ; for the important information that his Lordship will be sup ported by all the electors, except the Whigs and Ra dicals I Who shall doubt it ? We - do not wish to undervalue our Contemporary's sagacity, but we can not help thinking that he might have made this dis covery without the aid of the second sight. But be that as it may, how comes it that Lord S rwtmoNT has deserted his first love ? After the vows and protestations of eternal fidelity which the . Noble Lord has so often made in another quarter, we were not prepared for so flagrant a breach of his plighted troth. Oh, faithless swain ! Oh, cruel Lord SToRmoNT, thus to sport with the affections of one who has given so many proofs of a devoted attachment ! But a thought suddenly strikes us, that we may per- 'haps be condemning Lord STORMONT unjustly, which of all things is the last that we should wish to do. It is possible that the Noble Lord may-have perceived some symptoms of alienation in the 4uarter to which we have alluded. There may have been a re action in a certain City, by no means favourable to a continuance of the connexion commenced under the happiest auspices. Under these circunt stances, the Noble Lord may think himself acquitted of his en gagements, and perfectly at liberty to contract a liaison elsewhere. Oh, that cursed Municipal Re form Bill, what havoc has it not made with the best feelings of the human heart ? How many good old Tory ties has it not wantonly and cruelly severed ? To be serious, however, with Lord STORMONT and his, foolish abettors in this project to storm the county of Perth, we would, with all the respect due to the son of a Tory Peer, ask him how he. can ,be so silly as for a moment to. suppose qiat:lie .has the least chance of succeeding in so wild a scheme ? Were: there nothing else to deter him from embarking in this dangerous adventure, has he not the fear of Sir GEORGE MURRAY'S failure before his eyes ? Lct him not be deluded by the specious plausibilities of his so called friends in the north. They are not his friends who urge him on to an encounter that must inevitably end in his discomfiture, When he is told, as we find he is, that he will be supported by every man who has " the independent mind and the religious principles of a Scotchman," let him recollect that it was because Sir GEORGE MURRAY'S princi ples and conduct were offensive to the independent minds and religious principles of the electors of Perth shire that he wzs rejected by them, and a man of more congenial principles substituted in his stead. Is he prepared to be more liberal than Sir GEORGE ? His public professions say quite the contrary. On Monday last a dinner was given by the Re formers of Exeter, in honour of their excellent repre presentative, Mr. DrvETT. The company assembled on this occasion was both numerous and select. Up wards of 520 gentlemen sat down to table—J. TYRRELL, Esq., in the Chair. The toast that was received with the greatest enthusiasm was,, " The health of his Majesty's Ministers," which the Chairman prefaced by a short but admirable speech. A very handsome piece of plate was presented to Mr. DIVETT by his constituents, as a mark of their re spect for his character, and satisfaction with his public conduct. Our limits will not permit us to enter more into detail at present, but we shall take another oppor tunity of noticing this interesting meeting. . The whole of the Paris Papers of Tuesday have been received. The Chamber of Deputies sat on VICE-CHANCERY.-(THIS DAY.) The V►CE CHANCELLOR tool[ motions to-day, none of which were of the least public iuterest. ROLLS - - COURT.-(THIS DAY.) SHAW V. WRIGHT. Mr. PEMBERTON was heard in reply this morning in this case, which took up the w h o l e o f t h e morn i ng. is LORDSHIP stated he should give judgment to-morrow. KING'S 'BENCH.-(TIIIS DAY.) TILE KING V. TIIE TRUSTEES OF THE PARISI! OF ST. PANCRAS. In this case, which has been for a considerable time before the Court, a rule for a mandamus had been obtained, directed to the Church Trustees of the parish of St. Pancras, and calling upon them to submit a statement of their accounts to the parochial auditors. The judgment of the Court had been in favour of the mandamus, but as the mandatory part of the writ required the trustees to appear at any time or place the auditors might direct, which was going beyond the powers of the Act of Parliament, the entire proceedings became void. Another mandamus was then moved for, and the defendants in their turn set forth that they were not bound to obey. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL, was now hoard against the re turn, and Sir W. FOLLETT in support of it ; and after a very length ened argument, which turned entirely upon the construction of Hobhouse's Act, Ist and 2d William IV., Chap. 60, and a Local Act, Lord DENMAN said the Court would take time to consider its judgment. BAIL COURT. THE KING V. THE VICE-CHANCELLOR OF CAMBRIDGE. Mr. Amos applied for a rule for a quo warranto, directed to the late Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge, calling upon him to show by what authority he took recogni• zances, and granted licences to householders within the bo rough, for tha sale of beer and spirits. This case excited con siderable interest in Cambridge, and it was desirable that the matter in dispute should be settled. It appeared that the Vice- Chancellor claimed the right of granting those licenses, and there could be no question if there was a power of granting there was a power of transferring them also. He assumed to do that under his seal without notice, and in his own cham bers, which could only be done by Justices at General Ses sio as. Formerly two Magistrates could receive recogni zances and grant licenses, but at present there must be notice of the intention to apply at Quarter Sessions. The writ was moved for against the late Vice. Chancellor, for the purpose of having the right tried before the month of April, when several hundred licences would be applied for. Mr. Justice PATTESON thought the rule was an unusual one in such a case. Counsel would ngt apply for a quo warranto against a Justice of the Peace to SHow his authority for impri soning a man. __ Astos—The Vice-Chancellor assumed the fur.ctions of a Justice of the Peace. There was a precedent in 2d Chitty, where a Justice of the Peace was required to state by what authority he acted. Mr. Justice PATTESON having referred to the case quoted, found that the Magistrate, against wham the rule was granted, was elected under the Corporation Charter. He said, how ever, Mr. Amos might take a rule nisi ; if it were not the proper one the fault did not rest with the Court. EXCHEQUER COURT.-(THIS DAY.) The . Court was occupied the whole morning with cases, the only points in which were points of practice, which were of no interest to the general reader. According to a letter of the 31st ult., from Goritz, published in the F,ymconian Mercury, the family of Charles X. devote themselves exclusively to their religious exercises, and go to church three times a day. The Duke de Bour deaux sometimes goes out accompanied by the Duke de Blacas and a Portuguese officer, an envoy from Don Miguel. lie is said to have rather too much cntbonpoint for his age. The Duchess d'Angouleme, who is now designated as Queen Maria Theresa, receives twice a week. The ladies of her household, and those admitted to her society, are in general dressed in a very simple style. They. work, and enter into conversation in a low tone of voice, seated round a well lighted table. The two " children of France," the brother and sister, retire at half-past eight in the evening. lllade• mo'selle is extremely beautiful. Strangers are daily arriving at Goritz ; most of them are recognised as French by their mourning costume. Political refugees, who have hitherto found an asy lum in Switzerland, will in, future, it is said, be expelled without exception from that country. The Directory, at least, has formally declared that all the necessary measures on that subject have been taken, and will be carried into effect as promptly as possible. The friendly rela tions, which were for a short time interrupted, between the Swiss Republic and the bordering States may, there fore, be considered as perfectly restored. A ship from Naples lately suffered shipwreck on the Sicilian coast, near Messina ; the crew, however, and the greater part of the cargo were saved. It may be readily imagined how astonished the captain was when, by order of the Board of Health at Messina, not only the goods which had been saved, but even. the remains of his ship, were burnt. Nay, the captain himself, and the sailors, were in danger of being shot, because, disregarding the sanitary regulations, they had sgt foot on shore, whither they had been driven by the fury of the elements, from which they had saved themselVes with extraordinary difficulty and labour.— French Paper. When M. Dupin said in the Chamber, " As a ma gistrate I would not give up Barabbas, though a whole , people should cry. 4 Give 'up. Daeabliae".-111. Thiers smiled , with an air of safety and satisfaction—Charivari. M. Thiers said in the Chlt`Mber that he desired to enter Spain at the head of 50,000 French. He would have spoken more truly if he had said " at the head of 50,000 franCS."—. Charivari. Between six and seven o'clock yesterday morning, a female about 30 years of age, whose apparel was indicative of extreme want and misery, wag discovered lying in the area of an unfinished house in White Conduit-fields Is lington, in a state of insensibility. She was removed to the work-house, where every necessary assistance was rendered her, but it was found to be impossible to restore her to a state of consciousness. She is not expected to survive. There was not any money in her pocket, nor was anything found about her which would lead to the discovery of who she was. The Noubelle Mineric quotes a letter from Goritz, of which the following is an extract.:—" 'The Duke of Angouleme has decidedly taken the title of King, not that he thought much of. it personally, for he had an idea of abdicating it ; but it has been suggested to him that the young Duke of. Bordeaux is young, impatient, and may be surrounded by injudicious friends, who may lead him to commit some imprudence. Besides, the young Prince, who has a considerable fortune. cannot be left without ccntroul to the exclusive 'influence of his mother, the Countess Luchessi Palli, whose conduct is too martial. The Duke of Bordeaux is of small stature, with rather an ex pressive head... He is of a full habit of body, and lately had some fainting , fits. ,During. the absence of his gover nor, M. de Bouille, his under-governor is M. Mounier, an officer of artillery. • His tutor; the Bishop of Hermopolis, is very ill, and it is thought will not long survive Charles the Tenth." On Sunday morning last the family of Mr. Bennett, 2, Henry -street, Albany-street, Rogent's-park, was plunged into a state of deep affliction by the occurrenc e of the fol lowing calamity :—Mr. Bennett's youngest (laughter, aged four years, was vtanding before the fire, when a blazing coal flew out of the grate, and setting light to her clothes, she was in a few seconds enveloped in flames, and before she could be divested of her burning clothes she was burnt and scorched in a very dreadful manner all over her person. She was removed to the North London Hospital, but is not expected to survive. LITERATURE. THE DUCHESS DE LA VALLIERS AND MADAME DE MAINTENON. 2 Vols. Co/burn, London, 1837. These volumes are a translation from the French crf Madams: tie Geniis, but are by no means among the most fortunate samples of her talent. The sentiment that pervades them—especially the former tale—is mawkish and lackadaisical to a degree, throughout ; our sympathies arc attempted to be enlisted on behalf of courtly vice.--a defect to which far too many of the French novelists are addiete;l. Madame de Maintenon is a tale, or historiette, of a far healthier character, and accordingly we give it the preference, though we are far from approving the - authoress's choice of subject. Madame de Geniis wrote many clever works—the Tales of the Castle, for instance--but she was also ca pable of many dull ones, as these volumes abundantly betoken. Nevertheless, we should not wonder if they were to be popular among boarding-school misses ; for their love-scenes, without number, are coloured after the most approved watering-place fashion. LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY DEAL, JAN. 25.—Wind nearly calm, with an appearance of an easterly wind.—Arrived the John, from Rio Janeiro ; H. H. Agnes, Stell, from Honduras; Lavinia, from Cadiz ; Canton, Waterhouse, from St. Vincent's ; Forester, Arthur, from Tobago ; Vesper, Fraser, from Sydney. Sailed the Nautilus, for Sierra Leone ; Jane Sheriff, Manson, Antigua. PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 25.—Wind W. N. W., fine, with light airs.—His Majesty's ship Sparrowhawk is come into harbour from Spithead. Sailed the William Thomas, Hook; and Emma, Mitchell, for Sunderland ' • Ellen Hope, Jenkins, Cork. FALMOUTH, JAN. 24.—Wind W. to N., fresh breezes, and fine.—Arrived the Tyrian packet,- from St. Thomas's—sailed 26th Dec. ; Jeremiah, M'Laven, from Gergenti--sailed 13th Dec. Sailed the Admiral Moorson, J-ladnett, for St. Vin cent's; Frederick, Steller, for New York ; Ranger packet, for Lisbon ; Mabella, Meyhre, for Longsound; Catherine, Han ning, for Liverpool. SHIELDS, JAN. 23.—Arrived the Friendship, Embleton, from Honfluer ; Isabella, Rankin, from ditto; Commerce, from Boulogne; Unity, Trickers, from Abbeville; and Hopewell, Minto, from ditto. JAMAlCA.—Arrived the Rapid, Thomas, from Liverpool. BOMBAY—Arrived the Havannah packet, Gotham, Liverpool. BRISTOL, JAN. 2: i . --Arrived the New V o l un t eer , f rom De merara; Resolution, Hobie, from Messina; Shannon, from ditto ; and Hirondelle, from St. Michaels'. LIVERPOOL, JAN. 24.—Arrived the Ganges, from Calcutta ; Reply, Lomax, from ditto ; Charlotte, Wellcut, from Sa vannah ' • Dependent, Simpson, f rom Phil a d e l p hi a; J o h n , Smith, from Prince Edward's Island ; Azores packet, Hayes, from St. Michael's; Charlotte, Habenot, from ditto; and Phoenix, from Trieste. The Prince Regent, bound to Mo bile, put back leaky. A very disastrous typhoon ocurrred in the China seas on the 31st of July, during which the Aurora, late John. Bigar, is reported to have foundered ; the Adelaide is thoughralso to have been lost, from the circumstance of a. ship's poop having been picked up resembling her's. Strong apprehensions are entertained respecting the Hormasgec Ro mangee and Harmody, both from Bombay to China, and also for the American ship Girard, from China to Manilla. CLYDE, JAN. 23.—Arrived the Esseq , uibo , Tayl or , f rom Demerara; Ellen, Nicol, from ditto ; St. Vincent, Brown, from ditto; Jean Hastie, Robertson, from ditto; Roger Stewart, from Charleston - Oxford, from Savannah ; and Science, 'lVl'Lellan, from Honduras. The following is posted at Lloyd's this day : NOTICE. " Genorat Post (Mee, 25th Jan.,"1837. " Prices Current and Commercial Lists, published regu larly within the United Kingdom, may be forwarded to the British Colonies by packet, at the reduced charge of One Penny each. 6' These publications will be subjected to all the regulations which apply to Newspapers. They may be sent without a cover, or be made up in covers; open at the ends or sides, and they must have no other writing, or mark for reference, or of any other kind than the address of the party for whom they are intended, either upon the paper itself or the cover. "By command, "`V. S. MABERLEY." THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.) CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.' We have received Jamaica papers to the 16th December. They state that the Colonial Bank Bill was read a second time: ' The Assembly was to adjourn on the 17th December, and re-assemble on the 7th July. The greatest harmony pre vailed between the Assembly and the new Governor. The crops have much improved, owing to the warm weather. They finally state that the Local Bank Bill had passed the Committee,- of the Assembly. The following are extracts from the Colonial papers I— " BRIDGE TOWN, BARBADOES, OCT. 2tr—His Excellency the Governor-General met the Legislative Body for the first time since his assumption of the Government. His Excel lency made the following speech : " My Lord Bishop, Mr. President, and Gentlemen of the Council— " I request your Honourable Board and House to be so in dulgent as to ascribe solely to indispensable avocations in my late Government, the involuntary delay that incapacitated ►r.e from more promptly assuming the administration of this ancient and loyal colony, and of the Windward Islands. " Mr. Speaker, and Gentlemen of the Assembly— " It will be an object of my solicitude to evince due respect for the constitutional rights of the people, and to cultivate on all occasions the most amicable relations with your Honourable louse. My Lord Bishop, Mr. President, and Gentlemen of tt e Council— " If my position is in some respects exposed to embarrass ment, not so seriously affecting in modern times preceding Governors, the regret with which this difference may inspire me, springs from no selfish source. Although recently landed on these shores, my oath of office has already divested me of the character of a stranger; and as the dutiful representative of a most gracious Sovereign, personally endeared to West Indians, I will not yield to any member of this community in zealously endeavouring to preserve the internal tranquillity, and to promote the prosperity of Harbadoes. (Signed) " E. J. MURRAY MACGREGOR." By a Spanish schooner arrived from Cuba, wo learn that 10,000 men had been I.lneled by order of Governor Tacon at "Thane, and were ready to march on St. Jago. The Nimrod was at St. Jako for the protection of British subjects. Late in the afternoon of yesterday, the Consul Market as sumed a very heavy appearance, owing to a special meeting of the Bank Directors taking place, which was not usual on Wednesdays; and in consequence of which a report prevailed, on their breaking up, that they had determined on raising the rate of interest on discounts from sto 51- per cent. It was also stated that the Directors resolved not to press into cir culation immediately any portion of the dead weight ; and it is anticipated that money will become scarce to-day, as the loans which ought to have been repaid to the Bank on the 16th inst., must be acquitted. The amount, however, is not to a great extent. Consols opened this morning heavy at 894 for the Account —same for Money. Exchequer Bills, 20 22 ; India Bonds, 16 18; Bank Stock, 203- 2041 ; India Stock, 256 258. In the Foreign Market, Spanish Active, 241 25 ; Passive, 64 7 ; Deferred, 11# s ; Portuguese, 47f 48 ; Three per Cents., 30f ; Columbian, 251;- Mexican, 24 25 ; Dutch, 541 55. HALF-PAST ONE O'CLOQR. Letters from St. Sebastian of the 17th instant, state that seven thousand Spanish troops were daily expected there The Consol Market continues very heavy at present with very little doing, and 'Consols' may be quoted at 89} for the Account, 891 for Money. 'We are waiting to hear the result of the meeting of the Bank Directors. • Exchcqtier Bills 21 22 prem., India Bonds 16 18, Bank Stock 2034 4,1, India Stock 266 8. The Foreign Market is also heavy. SpaniPh, 24 25 ; Passive, 61 7 ; Deferred, 1111- i; Portuguese, 47i 48; Three per Cents, 301; Columbian, 24 ; Dutch, Two-and-a- Half, 541 55. _ _ THREE 0' CL 0 CK. Consols for the Account, 891. THE FUNDS.—CLOSING PRICES. BRITISH FUNDS. Bank Stock _____ _._ 201 g 3 per Cent. Red. ........ ....... 9O 3 per Cent COlO 89% Ig per Ccnt. :45,, per Cent. Red 09.14 New 354 per Cent. :97% 3 tier Cent. Msented Dissented Long Annuities t 5 expire Jae MO l5 - Onini im India Stock ...........• 253 ditto l6 pm South Sea Stock Ditto Old Annuities Ditto New ...... Bills, IWO/ ... 23 pm Ditto 500/ 24 pm. Ditto 50(t/ 23 pm . 13?nk Stock for Opg. 2043 - Oct 1650 14% Jan. 1860 llj Ind►a Stock for Act. ...... — Consols for Act. FUN Ds. Portuguese Bonds, 5 per cent. Ditto, New Ditto 47% Prussian, 5 per cent. Russian B.lids, 5 per tent Di, to, Metallic Spanish, 5 per cent Ditto. Consolidated. ' ‘26 3 4 French, 5 per cent ......... —f. —c. Exchange -f —c. French, 3 per sent. —L —e. Dutch, 2 per cent s3g, Ditto, 5 per • RES. (Rennie's) of Shares since our One o deck .st. FOREIG Austrian, 5 per cent — Belgian, 5 per cent --• Br,ailian Bends - . 85 Buenas Ayres, 0 per cent — - Chilian, 6 per cent — Cmlonibian, 6 per cent. — Ditto, 1".31 - 25% aunsh, 3 per cent ......... 9 GI eel: Bowls, I- , e5, 5 per tem. Mexican, 5 per cent__ ..... ..„ Ditto, 6 per cent:, 1825 Peruv tan, 18d5, 6 per cent ~, SHA. Loneon and Brighton Railway No other variations in the Prices LIVE AND LEARN.—The physicians, it is said, in reference to 'the prevailing influenza, have discovered that they had committed a great mistake in lowering their patients ; and now, after the .first attack, prescribe a more generous regimen. An account of the sporting excursions of Charles X., just published, specifies, among other curious articles, the number of head of game killed by the ex-King in each year. In one season from 20,000 to 25,000 h ea d were killed, of which the King killed from 8,000 .to 10,000 ; the Dauphin, from 7,000 to 8,000, and the Officieres des Chasses, 5;000 to 6,000. The number of pheasarts killed each year by -the Royal sportsmen was 8,000, each bird cost'nearly 20 francs to the peasantry. l-~ - - --- -- - ~--~" ---« THE PEEL BANQUET EXPRESS, Oa the principle of " fair play and no favour," we give the following from the Herald and Advertiser of this morning : We have no wish to aggravate the unhappy state of excite ment to which the Puddle-Dock Oracle, of Printing-house square; is liable, by reviving the recollection of " the biter bit"—the cause of the mental rnalady,'which has led to the old Sybil's malicious hallucinations. As long as she confines her self to that scurrility which is her accustomed and appropriate weapon, her unclean alacrity in using it will not disturb the equanimity of our temper. All we request of her friends is, that, to prevent serious consequences, when the fit is upon her, they will keep " brickbats and bludgeons" put of her reach, with which, in the " fine fren z y" of lfer demncratic days, s h e had no small practice.-111orning Herald. We have been much amused during the last %rect.: . at a con test between our morning contemporaries relative to Ole ex , press of the Glasgow dinner to Sir Robert Peel. Thet,o can be no queition but that the Morning Herald has outstripped the Times and Post, and laid .before its readers in every great town in the kingdom a report of the speech of Sir Robert Peel b e ,':-we noon on Monday. It will be recollected that the dinner took place or, Friday at Glasgow, and th a t t h e report was circulated Arough all I ,•arts of England upon the forenoon of the Monday following. Ti; a Times and Post appear not to understand this, but if they wore as well accustomed to these matters as we are, they v:Tould at once understand its practicability, and even the facility of its accomplish ment. We had ourselves an intention of doing the very thing that has been accomplished by our contemporary, as a gentleman belonging to that establishment can vouch for ; and to show that we might flare done so, it is only neceessary for us to say that we received our express of the dinner at '2Q mi nutes before two on Sunday morning,which would have given us ample time to have sent it to all parts of the country. Having said thus much, we have only to wonder at the virulent attacks that have been made upon the Herald, for having given the report to the public, out of London, at au earlier period than the papers we have named. It has been alleged that the Herald did not print in Londde,, and that they were, there fore, guilty of a fraud ! In what ? In having supplied early intelligence by ingenuity and well-combined arrangement. This is the head and front of their offending ! For our own part we are not of that snarling disposition which would cause us to quarrel with our contemporary, and assert that he could not do that which was perfectly practicable, merely because we did not choose to do it ourselves. We could have done it. It was quite practicable. We received the report in ample time—indeed as much as 16 or 18 hours before it reached the Times or Post, but some circumstances oc- curred which induced us to forego the advantage. We arc not angry with the . Herald for what it has done, for, as far . . as we know, it dealt fairly by its rivals ; but we may be per mitted to ask who it was that meanly tampered, or rather, en deavoured to tamper, with our arrangements? Who it was that had the villainy to assert, in order to defeat our arrange ments, that we were not to be trusted—that we would not pay our engagements? We cannot look upon this as fair rivalry, and we confess ourselves at a loss to conceive how any Man of gentlemanly feeling could condescend to such means of de feating a rival. We are still more at a loss to conceive how any man, encased in such a crystal dwelling, could for a mo ment attempt to wage warfare against those whose habitations are not composed of such penetrable materials.—/Ifurning Advertiser. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. Fil.eiNC'E. The Phare says," It is affirmed that all the arrangements arc made that the 48th Regiment of the Line may set out from Bayonne on the 10th of next montf, for Port Vendres, where it will be embarked for Bona, in of der to participate in the revenge which our troops mean to .take at Constantine. By that time the 48th will complete its battalions to the war establishment, by reinforcements from the , regiments in the interior.—Journal du Commerce. FRENCH FUNDS.—Psnts, JAN. 21, Five per Cents., 169 f. 15c. 10c. 2k. Four per Cents., 101 f. Three per Cents. 79f. 95c. 80f. flank Actions, 2,315 f. 2,370 f. 2,375 f. Rente de Naples, 98f. 80c. 70c. boc. Roman Five per Cents., 102 , 4%. Spanish Actives, 26% 27 26%31%. Spanish Differes, 113. Spanish Passives, 7%;13. Belgian Loan, Five per Lents . 103. Portuguese Loan, Five per Cents. 50. Portuguese Three per Cents. 31% 32. Haytian Loan, 375 f. EXCHANGE ON LONDON. One month, paper, 251. 27.4 c.; money, 251. 27 1 . 2 e. Three months, paper, 25f. 10e. ; money, 25f. 734 c. Authemtsgue. • BOURSE, HALF-PAST POUR.—There was very little business done to. day. The French funds rose a few centimes, in the expectation of the Consols arriving better to-morrow from London. The Spanish Actives remained pretty firm, and were down at one time to 27. The new security called the " Belgian General Society" was in great demand, and rose from 1,550 to 1,570. LAST PRICES. Five per Cents., 109 f. 30c. — Three per Cents. 80f. sc. Rank Actium, 2,375 f. Rentc de Naples ' 99f. sc. Roman Five per Cents., 102%. Belgian Loan, 103. Belgian Society, 1,570 f. Portuguese Three per Cents., 32. Haytian Loan, 375 f. Spanish 'Actives, 26%. Spanish Passives, 7%. spmish Differes, VLi. New Difrercs, 117;._ BELGIUM. BRUSSELS, JAN. 22.—A fact of the highest importance has been stated to us. The administration of the city of Luxem berg has announced prosecutions against the purchasers of forests belonging to the domains of the province, who do not reside within the territory ( Rayon) of the fortress. It is even in contemplation to prevent the proprietors from selling timber till they have-paid the price to the Dutch Government. should seem that the authorities of Luxemberg (the city) have claimed the intervention of the German Confederation, and required some detachments of Prussian troops to be sent, in order to prevent the proposed felling of timber. This is perhaps one of the subjects for which the Military Government of Luxembcrg has applied to the German Diet, as the Jour rink announce. We are positively informed that one of the encroachments committed by the agents of the revolutionary Government of Belgium of IN hich the military government of, Luxemburg complains is, that the Custohi-house officers at Wasserbilligen act a dreits de visite on articles coming from Prussia, and de signed for the garrison of Luxemberg. It is well known that according to the treaties they are exempt from import duties. The military government of Luxemberg confounds the droit de visite paid to the officers, with the import duties which we paid to the public treasury.—Echo du Luxemberg. IT EI.UI AN 1 UNDS—Baussets, J!.x. i 74. Actual Debt, 2!•i per Cent. Rothschild's Loan, a per Cent. 10(1% Loan of Thirty Millions ... 92 1 , , ,,,- Loan of City, 1832.4 per Cent..... - 101,4 Society of Commerce, 4 , , per Cent. Bank of IlAgium, 5 per Cent 1:29 —Brussels Papers, Jan. 2.5. pUTCII FUNDS.—ANISTE ROAM, JAN. 23. Actual Debt, 2 ~., per Cent. Do do. 5 p. , r Cent. Amort Syndic 4 per Cent., Do. do. 34 per Cent • •Commercial Company, 4k, per Cent IS4N, New ditto —Journal du Commerce d' /lacers, Jan. 25. AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, JAN 16. Five per Cents. Metalliques Four per Cents. 'Three per Cents. Bank Shares 1367;44 —Alli:emeine Zeitung, Jan. 21. MEETINGS OF CREDITORS TO-MORROW. J. Wi gfield, saddler, Smithfield G.-Pettit, car t .Jenttr, notherhithe J. Hinton, carpenter, Macclesfield-street Soho -2 1 W. Ponnycad, grocer, Rosemary-lane o I W. Catton, plumber, Smthwark J. 11. Yates, victualler, King-street, St. James's 11. 13enattar, merchant, Fish-street-hill 2 12 Yesterday morning, between nine and ten o'clock, a decently dressdcl female, about 25 years of age, carrying ; an infant in her arms, was observed staggering along Hunter street, Brunswick-square, in a state of intoxication. She had proceeded but a short distance when she fell with great force on the pavement. The infant fell from. her arms, and had its right thigh LrAen. The woman was found to be insensible, and on being removed to the-hospital it was as certained that she had received a 'concussion of the brain. The Irish Master of the Rolls was but icd on Satur day at Rathfarnham. The funeral was private, as requested by the deceased. Some particulais of his will have transpired. His eldest son, Sir Beresford M'Mahon, has been left 1,0001. per annum ; the second eldest SOU per annum. Lady M`Mabon has a jointure of 1,3001. a year. The rest, residue, and remainder of his property, amounting to between 200,000/. and 300,000/. is willed to the younger children by the. second marriage. • The tenants of the Duke of Norfolk carrying on business in the Strand, have received an order to repair their premises, by making new fronts to their houses. Seve ral of the leases have 'but a few years to run. In the Bury St. Edmund's paper there is recorded • the deaths of twelve persons, whose ages collectively amount to 995 years. Many of the late arrivals of corn from Ireland hav ing been many weeks at sea, and much • damaged on the voyage, have been unsaleable on any terms. The Emperor of Russia, by purchasing for his lega tion the Palace of the Dulie of Courlan'd, the last owner of which was the . Duchess of Dino; niece of Talleyrand, has become a eitizen of Berlin ; and the Magistrates intend, in consequence, to present his Imperial freedom Majesty freedom of the city. • It haS been unanimously resolved immediately to appropriate Sir R. P ee l' s mun ifi cen t d ona ti on o f 2001. to t h e principal charities of Glasgow, as follows :—To the Royal Infirmary, 103/. ; Deaf and Dumb Institution, 52/. 10s. Blind Asylum, 521. 10s.—Edinburgh Advertiser. Monday morning, between 10 and 11 o'clock, an explosion which caused considerable damage and destruc tion of property took place on the premises of Messrs. Bentley and Co., shipbrokcrs, Rotherhithe. The explosion was occasioned by the escape of gas from the pipes on the pr - emises. "Provincial Papers received this week teem with ac counts of the extensive spread of the prevailing influenza, accompanied by numerous instances of its fatal results.