The Sun. — London, England, 1848-01-12 00:00:00

THE SITN. the Church then bid claim to them, and wished to , hold them exclusively for those who professed them selves her members, and in order to further their object they made it incumbent upon all to subscribe to articles to which no conscientious Dissenter could consent, and therefore an insuperable barrier was raised against his admission to participate in the ad vantages of these national institutions. I have in every possible way, by my voice and my vote, en deavoured to remove these obstacles ; and I opposed on one occasion any further grant of public money to pay the professors of Oxford and Cambridge until the grievances complained of by the Dissenters of their exclusion from those Universities were redressed. --(Hear, hear.) I have opposed every vote of public money to the Church. which, in the aggregate, amounts to a considerable sum, and bears all sorts of names, in order that their true purpose may not be easily discovered. I have opposed those grants from year to year, and have always divided the House whenever I could get any one to second my motions. Sometimes I could not get a seconder, and at no time did I ever get more than thirty to divide with me, and I ; have:done those things as a conscientious Church man. I believe that the great principle on which the doctrines of that Church are founded is to "Do unto others as you would be done by," and hence consider that its interests would be in a higher degree promoted by keeping her fingers out of other people's pockets. — (Loud laughter.) I certainly think that her present position is very much: endangered by the course she is pursuing.% Now, gentlemen, the last vote I gave upon this subject was against a grant of public money to maintain and pay a body, called the Ecclesiastical Commission, whose functions are en tirely connected with the Church. They had to deal with large sums of money belonging to the Church, and I say that out of those ample means these Com missioners ought to be paid.—(llear, hear.) I there fore objected to that vote, as I have done to scores of others. We have recently been enabled to draw out some of the proceedings and accounts of the body, and from them we have found that they are as complete jobbers as are to be found in any other public department. They have taken out of these funds (which I say should he devoted to the purposes for which church-rates are levied, and the people relieved from such an exac tion), 143,0001. in the course of the last few years for the erection of seven bishops' palaces—(Cries of " Shame")-143,0001. fur erecting and beautifying seven bishops' palaces ! I think one has been already finished, at a cost of 54,000/. ; and whilst they are carrying on this reckless expenditure, there are a large number of clergymen—members of the Church —educated men—performing duties day by day, and week by week, many of whom receive a miserable stipend of 35., and some as little as is. ld. a day.— (Cries of " Shame.") That is a fact; I don't mention on hearsay, 1 have obtained the fact from their own published accounts. Well, then, I think I have given my friends the Dissenters, for whom I have great respect, cause to he grateful to me.—(Hear, hear.) At the last election, many of them having recon sidered the course they had just taken before the election came forward to support me; but they came too late—unhappily the poison had been disseminated, and those who came with their antidote on the; last (Jay were too late to be of aviil. I think on an occa sien of this sort it is always better for a person 0 - sliding in the situation I do at the present moment to state openly mil that he has got upon his mind. I have done so, end I know that three very gentlemen who were so instrumental in causing me to be de feated are at this moment, Jeri - Jere as .. ardent and . , sincere friends of mine as I can irAist of anywhere, and I am proud of their frienlship and goodwill. There is another body of oil friends of mine of whom I see many here----f mean the freemen. You all know that some hundreds who Lave always supported me on former cecasions went against me at the last election, and nice out of ten of them were freemen.—(Cries of " Shame upon them.") Under these circumstances, I think I have a right to remind the freemen of what I have done for then, ; and, having done so, I will leave it to their reflection to consider whether they have acted rightly in the course they have taken against me. During my first session in Parliament a very important Bill was in troduced—namely, the Municipal Corporation Re form Act, which abolished your old corrupt corpora tions as well as the corporations of all cities of a similar stamp.—(hear, hear.) That was a great good, and we all thought so, and supported it ; but there was a clause in that Bill which proposed to abolish for ever the taking up of a freedom by any person in this realm.—(Cries of " That is true.") Freemen were to be entirely swept away from the date of the passing of the Bill. I remember the late Sir William Follett the most distinguished lawyer of his day—stating in the House of Commons, on the faith of his character as a lawyer, that that clause would completely disfranchise the existing freemen,•and he proposed that nothing contained in the Act should, in any way, interfere with any right or privilege possessed by the existing freemen. The matter came to a division ; I supported him to my utmost, but it was lost by a majority of 43. The next clause took away all your property; it proposed to take away your much cherished Lammas lands ; and I was the very first man in the House of Com mons to move that both these obnoxious clauses should be expunged from the Bill. Numerous discussions took place on the question, and I was never absent. On every one of these occasions I was present, and supported tile abrogation of the clauses both with my voice and my vote.— (Hear, hear.) I recollect on one occasion that the freemen were denounced from every part of the House, every epithet which the English language could convey was hurled against them ; they were described as perpetrators of corruption and infamy of every_ kind ; and the Attorney •General of the day stated, in his place, that he considered the existence of freemen a curse to the country. I made one or two unsuccess ful attempts to address the House, but I did not succeed in catching the Speaker's eye for some time. Many spoke on that occasion, and the lion. Member who spoke before me, stated that unless the freemen were abolished the great principle intended to be carried out by the Reform Bill could not be ac complished.—(Hear, hear.) By-and-bye, when I had an opportunity of addressing the House, I replied to the charges so generally levelled against the freemen. I said, " I believed I represented the largest constituency of freemen, compared with the population and freemen of other towns, in England, and that I had been returned by them to that House without a man asking or receiving from me, in any way, a 3 much as +he value of sixpence, in the shape of bribe or drink, or, in f ac t, i n any s h ape what ever."--(Loud cheers.) I said, looking round me, " I call upon the columuiators of the freemen—l call upon any one to say that he has been returned with equal purity." Not one replied to my challenge. But on the next occasion the Bill came before the House the Attorney-Gsneral, who had said that free men were a mile, and must be destroyed, got up and said that the freemen of such a city as Coventry were an exception to the general censure, as the Member who represented the city had borne his testimony to their integrity, and added that the conduct of the freemen of Coventry was not sufficient to continue the freedom to those town s not one of whose Members had stood up to defend them.—(Cheers.) Well, the control of your property Wi's to be entirely taken away from you. We fought for the exp u l s i on o f th a t c l ause f o r a l ong time, and th e Government of the day said, " Well, as the previous clause (no freee n e destroys freemen root and branch," that existed W were to be subsequently created, and those to : be depriv e d of all the rights they , enjoyed) w e do leaving n tmind, under those circum stances,. Sir 'Wm. Follett told me l' th e freemen their property." ivatel that if the clause were passed even as eeato disfod , y that in isopinion all t old freemen would be rr i chised, h and i ~ I know, he " he said, " well enough (a u have told you . that he was Baba est lawyer of his day)for liat the judges will decide gnst tlieir voting Members of Parlia ment or for exercising any oth erimportant o c d functions." The Bill went up to the House of inut;fw b ith the first clause annihilating the coming freem eno s i . never theless, by the combined exertions respect exto tiff respect and others, this outrageous principle of th e punged.—(Hear, hear.) Then with the stamp duty of 1/. upon young men taking ‘1 their freedom. I sa w honest youn g men who had served their masters faithfully for seven years, a n d who, perhaps, had no means of accumulating a little fund to provide implements necessary for the trades, in order to start as independent tradesmen, subject to a tax of 1/. before they could become freemen. I brought in a Bill to abolish that stamp duty ; I was opposed by the present Prim, Minister, and he defeated me twice, and then I told her Majesty's Government that so long as I had a 1 seat in that H eels e I should, F I were allowe(;, to the last day of my existence, never cease to bring in H. einalr Bill on every ~, opportunity that p res ented itseit. Acting up on t hi s ininciple after My secend defeat, I brought • lt - 1 " again at the close of the same session, making a little difference in is torm. Lord John Russell then said, in avoeryolite manner, as he does everything, " The Hn Member for Coventry has really stuck to this measure so well th a t, I t hi n k, we h must now let hi m h ave way."—( Loud cheers.) Of co urse , I . thanked h ( ie w, l ,, nrdship, an d we carried the Bill. And chat was oh th e conditi on o f the freemen at th a t ti me ' Too know; and I think every yowl.. man many of you know that their freed om was taken out to e o u l t iti4 many instances at the expens e o f o n e o f the political parties in the city, on condition th a t they should give their votes to that party as a considerati on for the purchase money ; i.e., they were forced to vote against their convictions—not from their own feelings, but they were forced to do so trans the position in which they stood, and perhaps it was no degranation, be cause it was done by all who had procured their votes by such means. Seeing their deplorable condition, I I stool by them and emancipat e d them.—(Great cheering.) You have also referred to my conduct with respect to railways which affected the city. Many here present will bear testimony that I was ever ready to get you clauses inserted in Bills as they passed through Committee, in order to protect those revenues which were devoted to the superannua tion fund. And then with respect to the Lammas lands, I considered that an arrangement which could be come to between the landowners and the freemen, ' if based on equitable principles, would be of great benefit to both.—(Hear, and cheers.) A. Bill was brought in called the General Inclosure Bill, and in that power was proposed to be taken, that an applica tion, signed by two-thirds of the landowners, should entitle the Commissioners appointed under that Bill to enclose common lands. This would have applied to Lammas as well as to every other description of land belonging to freemen or to burgesses. I intro duced a clause in that Bill, making it imperative that the sanction of two-thirds of the freemen should also be required before any proceedings could be taken to enclose lands belonging to them.—(Cheers.) Now I ask those freemen who turned against me at the last election—it is right I should state that a great many, I dare say 400 or 500, never came for ward—l ask those who turned against me if they have not deserted a friend?—(Cheers)—and those 4 who voted against me, as well as those who did not come to the poll, if they have not neglected their duty ?—(Hear, hear, and loud cheers.) Nay, I will go further, and ask them if they have not neglected to exercise that proudest of all rights to which any Englishman lays claim—namely, having a voice in the making of those laws which dispose of his life, his property, his labour, and everything that is dear to him. Now, my friends, there is only one other subject connected with the late election on which I shall address you. Some of the publicans who voted for me on the former, voted for my Tory opponent on the last occasion, because they allowed themselves to be corrupted by receiving money from the party which arrayed themselves against me. They received money for the purpose of supplying intoxicating drink to some of the corrupt voters, and thereby influencing them to vote for my oppo nent. Yet a great number of the publicans did their duty nobly, and many refused to be bought. Esau was hungry, and he sold his birthright for food, but the parties to whom I refer were not in that state which made the possession of drink an important object to them. I ask, therefore, if there can be anything more degrading than the selling of his birthright by an Englishman—selling, for a miserable considera tion, that elective franchise which he was bound to exercise for the good of his country ?—(Hear, hear.) Gentlemen, I have,now told you everything upon my mind with respect to the proceedings of the last elec tion. Now, lam told that if I had spent but 2001. that I need have had no fear of losing my election. To those who addressed me thus I replied, ' If spending twopence in drink would obtain me a seat for Coventry, or anywhere else—if twopence spent in corrupting the electors would obtain ine the proudest seat in Eng land, I would not take it."—(Hear.) It had been said with truth, " You have been sticking long to the people, and they are never grateful—(Hear) — if you had gone en smoothly with the Liberal party, you would have retained your seat." I said, " I came in for Coventry for the purpose, as far as my very humble abilities would allow me, of raising the condition, the character, and position of the poorer classes of my fellow-countrymen.—(Hear.) I owe everything to their skill and industry, and I should not have been in this position if it had not been for the produce of that skill and industry. I have, there fore, gratitude in my heart for them, and I never will desert them." Look at the late Parliament, and see how many friends of the dis tressed millions are to be found in that House. It is lamentable that there were so few; but it was still more lamentable to see the hard-working man, for a miserable quantity of intoxicating drink for a day or two now and then, which cast him in the lowest abyss of degradation, placing power in the hands of those , who were his bitterest enemies. Often when sickness overtakes them, they are com pelled to seek relief in the workhouse, whereas if they had merely partaken of the just enjoyment to be purchased by their earnings, they might place themselves in a position to enjoy comforts, and to pro vide for accidents, sickness, and old age, without seeking aid from any one. But, as I told you be fore, the hard-wrought, industrious artizans pay all the taxes, with scarcely an exception—for they are thrown upon all their necessaries of life, and they cannot help themselves. I have done all in my power, I have done all that man could do to remove the taxes upon their bread and upon their meat—the taxes on meat are abolished, and on the Ist of Feb. the tax upon bread will expire. I also took an active part in obtaining the reduction of the duty on sugar from 01. to lid., so that now good brown sugar, which formerly cost 6d. and Bd., can now be bought for 3d. and 3iel., and before the stir made about the repeal of the corn-laws I made a tour of the continent of Europe—l visited all the great manufacturing towns, and on my return I told an influential member of the Government, and I stated over and over again in the House, that unless they placed the working men of this country, with regard to the price of food, and unless they removed the taxes from that food, such was the progress that had been made by all the other nations, that in the course of no distant time we should be placed in a position of the utmost difficulty from our inability to compete with them. These were the honest feelings that guided Sir Robert Peel in taking the duty off bread and meat. You have, no doubt, recently seen much correspondence about the defences of the country, and from the stir which has been created you would almost imagine that the French were about to invade the country, and walk in one day, soon, and eat your dinners just as you were sitting down to them. 450,000,0001. lave been taken from your pockets to maintain the army and navy since the peace. What, I ask, has become of all this money, if we are now in a defenceless state ? My friends, we are not defenceless—our strong arms will be found a safe defence whenever we are called out. I say, if .we are defenceless, " Arm the people, let them everywhere have arms in their hands like the people of France." France, and other nations which are termed despotic, keep up national guards. France has a body of 800,000, and, if you are afraid of invasion, constitute the people here a similar body, and they will not only present an invulnerable force against France, but against all the combined nations of the earth, and laugh at them. A benevolent nobleman, very much troubled with the gout, has recently written a very long letter to the Times, stating that the country is really in a very defence less state. Now, under the influence of the gout, he might, perhaps, have fancied that his property, which is reported worth 100,000/. a year, was in danger. The Duke of Wellington has also written a letter, and all sorts of opinions have been expressed. The number of men voted for the army, the artillery, cavalry, and infantry, from 1818 to 1840—embracing a period of 21 years of peace—was annually about 115,000 men ; the difference between the highest and lowest in any of these years was not more than 5,000. - The number voted last year, which I op posed as being totally unnecessary to the extent pro posed, including 10,000 able-bodied pensioners —and we have the authority of Lord Hardinge that there are not 10,000 better men in Europe—was 161,200 men, or 46,000 more for the regular army than during these twenty-one years.—(Hear, hear.) Then we have 6,500 marines on shore and 4,500 on board of ship, constituting a most efficient body ; in fact, there are none superior to them. We have 12,000 Irish police, and their commander, who had served in the Peninsula, stated before a Parliamentary Committee that he had seen what soldiers could do, and that with his 12,000 men he would undertake to fight any army of the same extent in Europe, and lick them.— (Laughter.) These men are armed like soldiers, and I remember once in Ireland passing a man who was in the custody of three men wbo carried guns and naked bayonets, and, thinking that the man was a great criminal, I inquired the cause of his arrest, when one of the policemen replied, " Why, sir, he has been beating his wife."—(Laughter.) I passed on, saying I hoped they would punish him well. Then we have 14,000 yeomanry who may be made good soldiers at any time, and the militia staff is 1,300. That gives 195,000 men now in service, and paid for by the people; for the yeomanry cost a good deal, and the Irish Police are now paid out of the taxes. The average number of men included in the above calculation, in India and the Colonies, during these 21 Y e ars amounted to 60,000 on the average. I esti mate that th ere are 7 5,000 i n serv i ce th ere a t p resen t, but a s we are at peace with every Power, that number, I t hi nk, might be reduced with safety ; but without them an we havean Ireland .aforce of 120,000ther there, then, e service in Great B r it ground for fe ar f rom France Is or from any other cf:a efer ? There is not. That worths' and estimable fe- . 4deiearf, whose pci,,ition with parti e s I knew well, wil' )-e '''`'ti'S .re excited, i s used as a pilot balloon to ascertain public feeling on the neuter. Now mind what I tell you—the income-tax expires in a few months their finances ar e not e q ual to th eir expenditure ; they e, l s i n screws t ab l f e i, e. , 0 r n you ; a n d as they want y a tl nd iink they w ill f r i g h ten are spending more re l tai increase the ineonie - tax, they you into osuiptiance by declaring that we are i n a defenceless state. The..r. calculations and statements will go f or th to the world, and I challenge any one to dispute their accuracy : if any one dispute the m . I will meet him, and show that ley figures are correct. When the i ncome -t a x was proposed in 18-12 by Sir Robert Peel's Government, there was a deficiency in the revenue. Sir Robert Peel said then with t ruth, " We cannot get more from our taxes ; we have squeezed the . - _)rsinws dry ; if you increase the taxes by one-fourth, by one-half, or if you double them, or put una b t l a e x e t s o articles, upon,a pay tTe l m il f ew they the people will be cannot pay them, and , therefore, as a natural consequence, less consumption • ' will take place, and instead of an increase there will be a greater deficiency in the revenue." God knows the labouring man has little enough money to purchase tea and sugar at their present price, but it you double their present cost he must content himself with one-half.—(Hear, hear.) I said at that time that the income-tax upon trades and professions was a grievance surrounded by every species of oppression and injustice, and I proposed to raise more than would meet the deficiency that might be created without doing any injustice, like that inflicted by the income-tax. I proposed that landed property and every kind of ieaf property should pay the same legacy and probate duty as all other kinds of pro perty. I will put a case. The Duke of Northum berland died a short time ago, leaving behinclThim, some say, property of the annual value of 150,0001., on which he did not pay sixpence of duty ; but if a poor, hard-working labouring man dies, and leaves his house pretty comfortably furnished, they will come and value every article, even the wearing ap parel he has left behind him ; and if all is worth 201., probate and legacy duty must be paid upon it.--(Hear, hear.) I say, deal with the Duke of Northumberland as you deal with the hard-working man, for he can a thousand times better afford it. I also suggested that all the salaries of public officers, which were greatly increased during the war, on account of the high price of provisions and the depreciation of paper money, should be taxed on a gradually increasingl scale from 1501., those re ceiving 1,5001. a year being taxed 201. per cent., for now everything is reduced to something like one-half of its cost during the war. If both these suggestions had been carried out, 1,500,0001. more than would cover the deficiency that existed at that time would have been raised. My advice was un heeded. Peel said, " We will have an income tax ;" he raised 5,000,0001., and they immediately set about creating 600 new places, which swallowed up in salaries during the first three years 225,0001. Now they are again in difficulties. I proposed also, in 1842, that trades and professions should only pay one half of the amount of real property—namely, 3Ncl. in the pound instead of 7d. Well, we failed in that. Then I proposed that the inquisitorial system adopted with regard to ascertaining the profits of trade should be placed on a different footing. I thought that the tradesman, who was full of anxiety from year to year, should not pay so much as the rich man, who merely casts up his banker's book to see bow much has been paid in by his agent, or who goes twice a year to receive his dividends. In 1835 I supported a proposition that trades and professions should be ex empt from the tax altogether; but we were not suc cessful in our endeavours. Well, you will see how the gentleman who has supplanted me in the repre sentation will act ; and I hope he will publish his votes as I have mine ; if not, I hope you will do so for him, and that you will compare them with mine ; and if you find that his acts and votes have tended more to promote the public good than mine, I shall be the very first to rejoice that the opportunity has been afforded to him. But, gentlemen, I will only say, in conclusion (the Hon. Gentleman's voice here failed him repeatedly), how gratified I am to see so many of my old friends again, and especially for this mark of your esteem and friendship. Since my first connexion with you, I ) have never received anything but the most kind and friendly feelings, and I can assure you that I shall carry the recollection of thi .lay with feelings of proud gratitude to the last hour of my existence.--(The lion. Gentleman resumed his eeat amidst loud cheers, and was greeted on taking his seat by many of the assembly, and several females who crowded round him, and shook him cordially by the band.) A vote of thanks having been voted to the Chair roan, the meeting separated ut half-past three o'clock. In the evening Mr. Williams was entertained by his supporters at the Castle. Mr. Clark occupied the chair. About 140 sat down to dinner, and several able and eloquent speeches were delivered by Mr. Williams, Mr. 13ucknay, Mr. Browett, and others. The speakers regretted that Coventry was now a political nullity, and confidently looked forward to the day when the disgrace the town had brought upon itself, by the rejection of Mr. Williams, would be removed by his re-election. One gentleman sug gested that they should not separate without esta blishing a Liberal Association to defend their in terests, and to fight the Liberal battle in the Regis tration Courts. The company did not separate until a late hour. COURT CIRCULAR. Her Majesty and Prince Albert, accompanied by the Prince of Wales, Prince Alfred, the Princess Royal, the Princess Alice, and the Princess Helena, and attended by the Viscountess Canning, the Mar quis of Ormonde, Mr. G. E. Anson, Major-General Wemyas, Major-General Bowles, and Lieutenant- Colonel Seymour, arrived at Claremont soon after four o'clock on Monday afternoon, from Windsor Castle. Yesterday morning the Royal Children took their usual airings in Claremont Park. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge visited her _Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester yesterday, at Gloucester House. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge arrived in town yesterday, from her residence at Kew. The Right lion. Dr. Lushington had an interview with Sir George Grey yesterday, at the Home-office. Mr. Palliser had also an interview yesterday with the Right Hon. Baronet. Mr. J. S. Brickwood, Public Works, South Sea Ifouse, had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday, at his official residence in Downing-street. Earl - Grey arrived in town yesterday, from his seat, How ie k Ilall, Northumberland. ROYAL HUMANE SOCIETY. The general half-yearly meeting of this society was held yesterday, at the office, 3, Trafalgar-square, Mr. B. B. Cabbell, M.P., being in the chair. Mr. J. Charlier read the report of the committee, by which it appeared that since July last 96 cases out of 99 had been treated successfully. During the past year 111 .• persons had been rewarded for their courage and humanity with sums of money, 21 silver and 43 bronze medals had been awarded, and four certificates on vellum, and six on paper had been given. The committee recommended that four silver medals should be distributed thus—one to Daniel Fisher, quarter-master of the Spiteful, for having saved from drowning, in the Straits of Sunda, John Haggarty, seaman of the Ringdove, Captain Sir W. lioste, who saw the occurrence, and recommended Fisher to the notice of the society ; one to the Rev E. L. Davis, for having saved William Patrie from drown ing in the Kingsbridge water, recommended by the rector of South Poole ; one to James Mulqueeny, private of the 46th regiment, for having saved James Webb and other soldiers from drowning whilst bath ing in the sea at Guernsey ; and one to Charles Weltch, boatman, for having saved a mechanic in the Southampton water. The meeting ratified the award of the silver medals to these intrepid individuals. The report stated that 225,850 persons had bathed in the Serpentine last year. That there had been twenty-five casualties amongst them, one only prov ing fatal. Forty persons had bathed in the above river since the Ist of the present month. The past year's income of the society was 2,5731. 18s., which has been nearly expended, leaving but a small balance of 271. 2s. The Duke of Norfolk was nominated president for the current year. DR. HAMPDEN'S APPOINTMENT. GLOUCESTER, TUESDAY NIGHT.—One of the most important meetings of the clergy which has ever been held here has taken place to-day in the chapter-room of the cathedral. The meeting was called by the Archdeacon of Gloucester, in compliance with a requisition presented to him by about fifty of the clergy of the archdeaconry. The requisition requested the Archdeacon to convene the meeting " for the purpose of proposing an address of respect and sym pathy (on the occasion of the warning c f the thirteen prelates, including the Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol) to the night Rev. the Lord Bishop of the diocese; more. over, expressive of the thanks of the clergy to his Lord ship and the other bishops for their faithful services to God's church on this behalf, entreating them not to relax in their efforts so long as any measures remain of which their judgment may approve for obtaining the object which has been the subject of an address from a majority of the episcopal bench." About 100 clergy attended. The chair was taken by Dr. Selwyn, Canon of Glouces ter Cathedral. The proceedings occupied from twelve to five o'clock. The address was carried by seventy-two votes to twenty-five, several parties having left before the meeting came to a division. _ _ CITY COMNIISSIOMIRS Or SENVEM—Yesterday the Commissioners were for a considerable time discussing the propriety of accomplishing an immediate reduction in taro price of gas for the lighting of the streets, &c., and concluded by a resolution to adopt such measures as will lead to so desirable an object. They were also en gaged in making arrangements for flushing the drains in the eastern parts of the metropolis, and they had before them the model of an engine for emptying cesspools and abating nuisances of other descriptions. LAUNCIIES.---On Saturday forenoon, a little be fore high water (half past eleven o'clock) a splendid new iron steamer, the Can,bria, was launched from the building-yard of Mr. John Laird, at Birkenhead. Th e Cambria, has been built for Government, and is intended for the passage between Dublin and Holyhead. She is a sister vessel to the St. Columba, launched from the arse yard a few months ago. The Cambria is of 700 tons, builders' measurement, 193 feet in length, 27 feet beam, with a depth of bold of nearly 15 feet. Her en gines, which are to be 370-horse power, are to be titted up by Messrs. Forrester and Co., the same firm who t aah rt i „ te:: a u s re i furnished the Sr. Columba. She is sharp built both fore and aft, and is altogether a noble specimen of naval . aun O clrd at f u ro rd m ay the r" b r uil n dro ' g- a y b r u d t of Messrs. Cato, Miller, and Cu. a fine schooner, of 247 tons, the property of Messrs. Wilson and Dawson, and intended fear the Mediterranean trade.--Liverpool Mercury. bei:itiful white-plumaged' pheasant was shot in the neighbourhood of 6untlerlaud un Thursday last. It ig A perfect curiosity, LONDON, WIIDNESDAY EVENIN'G, JANUARY 12, 1848. Now ready, L IVES OF THE QUEENS. VOL. XI. BY AGNES STRICKLAND. " The Eleventh Volume of this truly charn ,, ng history per:ectly sustains the'authoress' reputation, in point alike of truthfulness, di ligence, and style. On the whole we must pronounce Miss dttick laud, beyond comparison, the meet entertaining historian in the English langaage. Tho considerable number of new documents to which she has had access, and the curious nature of some of these documents, impal t to her production a character of which it would be hard to determine whether the utility or the entertainment predo minated. The present volume is occupied with the reigns of Mary 11. and of Queen Anne. A more interesting or exciting era has not been in the English annals, and we heartily recommend both lives to the attention of the public."—Morning Post. Henry Colthtru, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. THE NEW NOVEL,! In 3 vols. post live., MR. N THE MEDICAL PRACTITIONER, By the Author of " Margaret Capel," Is NOW READY AT ALL THE LIBRARIES. Richard Bentley, New Barlington-street. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Under the Management of Mr. B. Webster, sole Lessee. THIS EVENING Will be performed Shakspeare's Comedy of MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING. Pedro, Mr. H. Vandenhoff ; Don John, Mr. Brindal ; Benedick, Mr. Webster; Antonio, Mr. Tilbury; Leonato, Mr. Ro gers; Dogberry, Mr. Farren ; Verges, Mr. Keeley ; Friar, Mr. Gough; Beatrice, Mrs. Nisbett ; Hero, Mrs. Seymour. To conclude with a New and Original Burlesque Spectacle entitled THE WORLD UNDERGROUND; or, the Golden Flute and the Brazen Waters. stage manager, Mr. Farren; Acting Manager, Mr. F. Web:ter. J. T. Archer, Box-book keeper. Boxes, ss. ; Pit, as. ; Gallery, 2s. ; Upper Gallery, Is. Doors open at Half-past Six, Performance to commence at Seven. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. Under the direction of Madame Celeste. THIS EVENING Will be presented an entirely new Piece, entitled the PEARL OF THE OCEAN ;'or, the Prince and the Mermakien. Principal cha racters by Messrs. Wale, P. Bedford, Wright, Manyard, Glennaire, "jullenford, and Worrell ; Miss Woolgar, Miss Emma Harding, Miss :lien Chaplin, Mrs. Laws, and Madame Celeste. To be followed by a new Farce entitled THE TIPPERARY LE IACY. TUrtlelll Green, Mr. Wright ; Bob Gills. Mr. Munyard ; ...anty Scrimmage, Mr. Paul Bedford; Chubblock, Mr. Cullenford ; Policeman.` Mr. Sanders ; Lizzy Chubblock, Miss Woolgar. To conc!ude with an Italian Pant mime, entitled PIERROT, the Married Men; and POLICHLNELLO, the Gay Single Fellow. Boxes, 45.; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, le. Pqors open at Half-past Six, Performance to commence at Seven. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Under the Managememt of - Madame Vestris. • Sole Lessee, Mr. Charles Mathews. TIIIS EVENING _ _ Will be p , esented new Comte Drama, entitled THE TRA GEDY QUEEN. After which; a New Fairy Extrartganza, entitled THE GOLDEN 13RANC11.. • To conclude With a Romance of Real Life, called BOX and COX. Principal characters by Mr. Healey, Mr. Buckstone, and Mrs. Mac. Isamaxa,' Dress VQXOg, r ss. , Unper B•xes, 4s. ; Pit, 2s. ; Grliery, le. - No half-price to itny'vart of the house. • The Nov .Box-oflice, No. '2, Wellington-street, is open to the Public every' day; from Ten till Six. -The Interior the House has been entirely re-designed by Mr. W. Bradwell of the;Cciosseum. THE -WEATHER—Sus OFFICE, JAN. 12. TarRNOMET in, Lowest, 30 ; Highest, 33 ; Noon, 35, 84..40ETER, 30.44,—W1ND S.W.; fine, ' ' HIG.II 16"4.TER AT LO - NDON-BEIDGE THIS DAY. corning.. 54 mutes after 5. I Evening .. 19 minutes after G. The Government policy with respect to the Bank Charter Act is too plain to admit of any doubt. The fearful extremity to which the operation of that fatal law had reduced the country was so manifest that no person could be found with sufficient hardihood to deny the existence of a wide-spread and universal distress, of a general want of confidence which led to a total cessation of credit, and induced all those who had the command of money to withdraw it from circulation and hoard it up in their private coffers, in order that they might have it in readiness at the period when their own exigencies might require its production. Fatal as were the results of this line of conduct, we can scarcely censure the parties by whom it was adopted. They were too well aware of the stringent regulations contained in the Act of 1844 to hesitate upon the course which the instinct of self-preservation induced them to pursue. They knew, that however fair the future prospects of the country might be—however certain the arrival of a period when the storm would cease, and there would be a partial restoration of prosperity, although but for a brief and passing season—that the Bank di rectors could not act upon that knowledge, that they were deprived of every species of discretion, and that no matter what might be the consequences to the com mercial and manufacturing interests, and indeed to all classes of society, even the very humblest, they were utterly powerless, and could only issue a limited amount of notes, unless an interposition of the Go vernment should take place, and, by suspending the law, enable the directors to bring into circulation an amount adequate to the wants of the nation. When the Bank itself was visibly trembling and hoarding up its own resources, it was by no means sur prising that the example should be followed, and that every man should look to himself alone, and that " sauve qui pent" should become the universal rule of action. The general ;remonstrances that flowed in from every quarter on this untoward state of affairs compelled even the Chancellor of the Exchequer to assent to the suspension of the law, and although the tardy concession was only granted at the eleventh hour, and was also ac companied by a condition as to the minimum rate of discount, which materially reduced the value of the boon, still its effects were almost magical, and the happy results became immediately apparent. The panic cerised, confidence was partially restored. The Bank had at length the power of relieving the wants of those, who had good security to offer, and it was universtally believed that the fate of PEEL'S Act was sealed, :and that immediately upon the meeting of the Legislature, which had been summoned for an early period, the exciting cause of all these evils would be erased from the statute-book. We need, not noN v inform our readers how futile was this expects tion. On the very day of the opening Speech from the Throne the Ministerial letter was withdri iwn, and the provisions of the Act re-eetab- . lished i n all their integrity, and during the debate' which subsequently ensued the Chancellor of: the Exchequer avowed his unshaken confidence in that very 1 aw which he had himself consented to suspend, and d eclared that the safety of the country was owing to its operation. True, he moved for, and obtained, a Cor nmittee " to inquire into the causes of the corn mere ial distress, and how far it had been affected by the ' Jaws for regulating the issue of bank-notes pay able on demand." But when that Committee WWI. nominated, and it was found to consist of pe''sons, a large majority of whom were the teiowed supporters of those laws, it became manifest thrat the only object was to get rid of the question, viith the hope that some trifling improvement might induce the. people to remain quiet under their suffer ings, and still to endure the continuance of that law ; and this opinion received additional confirmation in the decided refusal to interfere in any manner with the law until the report of that Committee had been obtainer 1. A certain degree of improvement has since taken place. There is greater easiness in the money mark( 'and better prices are obtainable for every descr! iption of property ; but this is in spite of tl me law, and not in any manner owing to its resu' its. The opponents of the Act of 1844 have ever mai astained that in periods of ordinary prosperity it rer nains a dead letter, and has no effect whatever, but ee a the approach of adversity the difficulties of the fJountry are fearfully aggravated by its operation. "ihe Bank has now an amount of bullion in its vaults which renders it to a certain extent independent of the law, but we may still asc. ibe the high rate of in terest that is still maintained (the minimum being 5 per cent., and that when there is nearly thirteen m;llions of specie in both departments) to its con- tinuance. This, then, is the proper time for legisla tion on the subject. A great improvement can only be effected when there is an ab sence 'of that excitement and irritation that might possib ji lead to the adoption of rash and ill•consi- come forward and state your objections, and you shall . dered measures, and the attempt to effect an imme be heard !" exclaimed the Appatitor-General. " You diate escape from existing evils might involve are not permitted to appear here!" was the ejacula- us in errors of a very different description. tion of the Vicar-General hermediately the Proctor There is no la el: of persons to press these matters on already alluded to mentioned his first objections— the public attention. Public journalists of every "You are not permitted to appear here ; end we shade and variety of political feeling have discussed are bound to proceed without suffering any the question, and with one great, and a very few hinderance or delay !" Was there ever a minor exceptions, they have exposed the injustice and more egregious absurdity, a more gigantic hum- impolicy of the existing laws, The movement bug, or a more transparent farce ? The opposer i has not been restricted to the daily or weekly press, is first courted to break silence, and then peremp- the monthly and quarterly organs of public opinion torily desired to hold his peace; he is lured into have also joined in the debate, and in several cases publicity, to be instantaneously snubbed in the pre- most ably and efficiently. We have seldom read a sence of her MAJESTY'S lieges ; he is entreated to more convincing document than " the History and enter his protestation, and before he has half expressed Exposition of the Currency Question," contained in the his opinions against the Bishop. elect, he is told that present number of the Westminster Review, which the ceremonies cannot be interrupted. Dr. contains a chronological sketch of the principal events ADDAMS was sufficiently good-natured to treat of British history relating to the currency ; a perusal the matter with all possible seriousness, and of which will enable any person to come to a correct to consider it as became a man well conclusion on the most important question of the versed in ecclesiastical history. In this character present day. We shall on a future occasion allude he was followed by Dr. HARDING and Dr. Pam"- to this admirable article at greater length than our MORE; but not all the aptest quotations from FULLER, space this day will enable us to devote thereto. not all the most appropriate facts and the most lo gical arguments, could exercise any influence what ever upon the obstinacy of the Vicar-General and his clerical colleagues. The seductive adjurations of the Apparitor-General were only repeated again and again, to be again and again succeeded by the con tradiction of the superior celebrant. The Church was gentle in language only to be discourteous in act; he made promises only to be broken, and called forth the opponents of Dr. Haerepeer by as surances of her suavity (" and you shall be heard!") only to repulse them with bitterness and ignominy. Yet, obnoxious as these anomalous formalities un questionably are, it is satisfactory that even they have brought this deplorable controversy to a conclusion. It is consolatory to reflect that anything, however, reprehensible in itself, has silenced those intolerable bickerings which have latterly reflected so much disgrace upon the Establishment, and exposed its most secret divisions to the contempt of the com munity. Dr. HeMF•DEN has at length been in ducted into the episcopal dignity. The representative of the Primate and Metropolitan of all England has confirmed the selection of the SOVEREIGN and ac quiesced in the appointment of the Prime Minister. No further dissensions as to the meaning of a con tested passage in the Banzpton Lectures can henceforth destroy the peace of mind of the Regius Professor of Divinity, or harass the conscience of the Lord Bishop of HEREFORD. • The verbal and actual installation of Dr. HAMPDEN has afforded the most conclusive response to the fiery protests of Bishop PHILLPOTTS, and the milder, but not less emphatic,lob jections of Dean MERENVET lIER. Supposing Dr. HAMPDEN did formerly hold doctrines such as are only reconcileable with those of Socinianism, he has since expressly proclaimed his belief in the divinity of CHRIST, and his orthodox idea as to the oneness of the Trinity. If an ecclesiastic were repulsed from the fold of Christianity because he once entertained notions of an heretical character, then ought Pane the Apostle to have been rejected because he had originally been a Pharisee, and CONSTANTINE denied the glory of being the first of the Christian Emperors because he had worehip i ped the pagan deities before his eyes had been greeted with the celestial promises. In hoc sign winces ! But the cases even so far are not analogous, for the Socinianism of Dr. HAMPDEN at any period of his ministration has yet to be proven. Howbeit the terrors of prcemunire have been so far avoided, and the recommendations contained in the conga (Mire have been fulfilled and consummated. A letter from Berne, of the 6th, says, that on the day on which SIEGWART MuLLER fled from Lucerne, a French emissary arrived in that:city, having made a long detour by way ofPiedmont,Valais,Furka, and Uri. He was the bearer of directions from M. GUIZOT to the Council of War of the Sonderbund to retire into the primitive cantons, and to maintain themselves there by an obstinate resistance, if only for a few days, which would give France an opportunity of putting in practice her threat of an armed intervention. Austria has expelled from the university of Pavia, every Swiss student who was in arms against the Sonderbund. The venerable Bishop of SOLEURE has addressed a circular to his clergy, directing them to abstain from exciting dis orders. A letter from Rome of the 94 says— " The underhand schemes of the Jesuit party tend ing to irritate the people against the Sovereign, and the Sovereign against the people, by means of false rumours and insinuations cleverly combined, have already been spoken of. This plan, so often and so vainly employed, has just again failed, as you will see from the following recital :—On the Ist, Rome was sad and full of care ; the people who are gene rally so joyous and animated in the solemn fetes were silent and disquieted. Certain words said in a low tone, some phrases exchanged between the citizens, spread rapidly over all the city, and gave an air of painful anxiety to every face. The words which thus checked all gaiety were to the effect that Pius IX. would not receive the congratulations of his people ; that he refused to present himself to witness the proof of their affections. The excuse put forward was that he:ss es ill and suffering. But the people asked themselves in what respect they could have dis pleased him, and intimated that even if he were ill he might have received a deputation which could have passed silently before him as a mark of the public grief. In a short time the people became distrustful, and it then seemed to them impossible that the Pope, who is so sure of the affection of his subjects, could have refused to receive the homage of his people. It was probable, said they, that these rumours were machinations of the men of the 16th July of the enemies of the people and the Sovereign.' The people then hastened to the Palace Corsini to see the Prince Corsini, the Senator. They told him the rumour which afflicted Rome, described to him the public grief, and with one voice supplicated him to conduct them to the Quirinal to ascertain the truth, and to express their good wishes, love, confidence, and de votedness towards Pius IX. The Prince Corsini corn plied with these prayers, for he shared the senti ments which agitated the people. He went alone to the Quirinal, the people in obedience to his desire having refrained from following him. At first a re fusal was given to receive him. His firmness, his obstinacy triumphed over the refusal ; and, leaving the Secretary of State occupied in giving orders to prevent an imaginary revolution which lying reports had predicted for the night, he arrived in the presence of the Sovereign Pontiff. There the veil was torn away ! The Pope and the people of Rome again found themselves worthy of each other; both had been shamefully deceived. What 1' said the Sovereign Pontiff, my people refused to come, and express to me their good wishes ? What! my people, on whose affection I have so many rights, shows itself so little affectionate—so cold towards me ?" But, Holy Father,' answered the senator, you forbade the people to come to the Quirinal, and your people, al ways obedient to your orders, have refrained from coming, knowing you to be suffering and ill, but have sent me to express its grief to you, and to state the wishes which it forms for your Holiness On this, the Pope said that it was false he was ill, or that he had given any order, and he added, As my people are prevented from coming to me, I will go to-morrow and see them !"fo-day, Sunday. Rome presents an imposing and sublime, aspect ! The Holy Father is traversing all the city,' accom panied by universal acclamations, stopping before the posts of the civic guards, greeting and blessing the multitude, which, if possible, is more animated than ever. orne is in the midst of a fete, a grand fête, for she has just sealed her alliance with the best of sovereigns, to deceive whom an attempt has been made—she has just baffled in a striking manner, the underhand plots of her enemies, and has given them a lesson which, it is to be hoped, will not be for gotten." Another letter of the same date states that on the Ist of January a rumour was spread that the people intended to attack the Jesuit establishments. The guard were consequently called out; but after being under arms for some time they *ere dis missed, it appearing that there was no ground for the alarm. The Liberal party says that it is the enemies of Reform who are trying to get up riots, in order to throw discredit on the Liberal movement. The disturbances at Milan, on the 3d and 4th in• stant, were of a very serious character. A collision took place between the people and the Austrian troops. The latter attacked :the people, who to the amount of 30,000 were peaceably assembled OA the Corso, fired upon them, and killed five. The people became exasperated and attacked the different mili tary posts, disarming the sentinels ; after which they proceeded to the barracks, where a terrific conflict took place, and several were killed on both sides: The fighting was going on when the accounts were sent off ; the result therefore is not known. The correspondent of the National says that, on the sth Marshal RADETSKY marched 20,000 Aus trian troops into the city, and tranquillity was re stored. N. Madrid papers of the sth have arrived. '.tair SANCHEZ SILVA, in the Chamber of Deputies on thi 4111, read the act of accusation against SALA MADICA.; SEIJAS LOGANO then addressed the Chum ..beiin,itipport of the accusation, after which SALA.' Aims heard at considerable length in his defence, and'coricluded by demanding a ballot on the question. Tha chamber was then addressed by PIDAL, after "which the debate was adjourned. It is expected that there will be a large majority in favour of the im peachment. Several banks and public companies had announced the payment of dividends :—The Bank of St. Fer dinand, 5 per cent. on the capital ; the Spanish Colonial Bank, 5 per cent.; Progressista Bank, 6 per cent.; the Iris Company, a payment to make up 10 per cent. ; the General Spanish Commercial Company, 5 per cent.; Phcanix, 6 per cent., and the Gas Company, the interest on the second half year. MADRID BOLSA, JAN. s.—Three per Cents. 27,1 at 50 days, 261 cash; Five per Cents., 15i for the 10th of Feb. ; Passive Debt, cash. We have received the Paris papers of yQsterday. The debate on the Address commenced in the Chamber of Peers on Monday. The discussion was commenced by Count D'ALTON SIIEE, who declared, that in the conduct of foreign affairs, the Ministers had so acted as to be unworthy of the confidence of the Chamber ; and with regard to Switzerland, he declared that the conduct of M. GUIZOT was incon sistent with the principles of liberty which the revo lution of July had sanctioned. After a short speech from M. VILLIER DU TEIMAGE in favour of the Minis ters, M. MuyNaas declared that, although he was a Conservative, be felt bound to protest against the language which bad been applied to the reform meet ;igs. Certainly, grave abuses existed in the Admi nistration, and some reform was necessary. This closed the general discussion, and the Chamber pro ceeded to consider the Address paragraph by para graph. Having passed the first paragraph, they adjourned. On Tuesday the discussion on the Address VirPS re sumed. The first four paragraphs were agreed to. In the discussion on the fifth, the Marquis DE Bois stigmatised M. Guizor As a broker of corruption. M. GUIZOT said that he should not reply to the per- sonaiities of M. DE BOISSY, but denied that the Mi nistry had anything to do with the acts of corruption of which the Noble Peer complained. Count 141oLE began to address the Chamber, and was left speaking at post h0u7... The Deputy for the Gironde, M. llErtvE, com mitted suicide on Tuesday. The Covrrier Francais has the following "We are informed as a fact that the Council of Ministers has ratified the convention made between Abd-el-Kader and the Duke d'Aumale. This news is said to have arrived at Toulon, and has been an nounced to A bd-el-Kader, who has signified his option in favour of St. Jean d'Acre. Immediately thereupon a steamer is said to have been sent off to Constantinople, with dispatches from the French Government to our Ambassador. It is stated that these dispatches enjoin M. de Bourqueney to come to an arran g ement with the Porte for keeping a strict watch over Abd-el-Kader." On the other hand, it is said that the KING has invited AID•EL-KADER to Paris, and that it is in tended to endeavour to persuade him to remain in France. The joint note of Austria, Prussia, and France has been presented to the Diet. After declaring that " the Powers merely guaranteed the neutrality of Switzerland, and granted her an augmentation of territory, and other advantages, on condition that the cantonal Sovereignty should be maintained as the principal basis of the federal compact," the three Cabinets declare— " 1. That the cantonal Sovereignty cannot be con sidered really to exist so long as cer t a i n can t ons shall continue to be occupied by the federal troops, and after the acts which accompanied that occu- pation. " 2. That it is only when the cantons thus occu pied shall have recovered their independence, and freely elected their Governments, that the Confedera tion can be considered as restored to a regular con dition, conformable to the treaties. "3. That the reduction to a peace footing of the military force of all the cantons is the necessary guarantee of their mutual liberty. "4. That no alteration can be introduced into the constitution without the unanimous consent of the 22 cantons." In conclusion, the note states that " the engage ments of the great Powers with the Confederation and of the Confederation with the great Powers are mutual," and that " neither can be eluded without and suspending the others ;" and that situation of affairs in Switzerland were compromising " if the actual to endure, the great Powers would deem themselves bound to take it into their serious consideration, and in future to consult only their duties as members of the great European,family, and the interests of their own respective States." In speaking of this note the Constituti onne l says— " The dispatch of Lord Palmerston, of the 27th December, appears to be a complete answer to this note. Thus M. Guizot declares that the sovereignty of the cantons is violated by the military occupation of the insurgent cantons ; he protests against the elections which have just been made in those cantons, and on the other hand he makes the inviolability of the Swiss territory subordinate to the maintenance of the sovereignty of the cantons us understood by the Powers. England affirms, on the contrary, that the inviolability remains complete, and that it will be re spected by the Powers. This shows how serious the difference is." The attempt on the part of M. GUIZOT to suppress this dispatch of Lord PALMERSTON, of the 27th De cember, is commented on severely in these papers as another instance of that want of good faith for which M. GUIZOT has become proverbial. Even the Presse—the English-hating Presse—is, in this in stance, compelled to do justice to the policy of Lord PALMERSTON. It says— " The English Cabinet demonstrates, what indeed is incontestable,:that the inviolability of the Helvetic territory, and the neutrality of the people who inhabit it, were stipulated in 1815, less for the interest of Switzerland than for the advantage of the Powers in the midst of which that country is placed. It was a guarantee which Austria gave herself against the pos sibility of seeing France one day borrowing this in termediate territory, in order to strike a more direct blow at her in case of rupture—it was to interdict the twenty-two cantons, in a permanent manner, from having the faculty to serve as an advanced guard against her. Up to the present time, the idea prevailed that Lord Palmerston, in withdrawing from the concert to which he had at first adhered, had only been anxious to thwart the views of M. Guizot ; but it is now clear that his withdrawal had another object. An intervention, according to the English Government, would be a violation of treaties, and would open against those who should attempt it a positive right to others to commence reprisals. Certainly, after that declaration, we are perfectly sure that the intervention will be at once abandoned, and M. Guizot, lately so enterprising, will more than ever confine himself to piping forth, on his innocent reed, about the troubled happiness of Switzerland. But is it not worthy of notice, the strange tact with which another grave difficulty has been raised up with England? It would have been certainly very awkward if the Minister of Foreign Affairs had per sisted to the end in not presenting Lord Palmerston's dispatch of December 27, since it is a necessary epi logue in the business. If it is the Committee on the Address in the Chamber of Peers which called for that supplement of the documents, thanks be rendered to it ! The adversaries of the policy followed in the Swiss question cannot but rejoice at what has now been done." From the tenor of this article in the Presse, it would seem that the views of Russia on the Swiss question coincide with those of England. It will be observed that no Russian Minister attended the conferences. The Marquis D'ARAaoN, Peer of France, died on Sunday. Palm BOURSE, JAN. 11.-The market opened dull at about the closing quotations of yesterday, and remained at that figure for some time.. Towards the close the heaviness appeared to increase, and prices gave way, Threes having been last called at 74f. 85c.; Fives, at 116 f. 90c.; and New Loan, at 75f. 90c., for the end of the month. The market closed as follows :-Three per Cents., for cash, 74f. 90c.; for account, 74f. 85c.; Five per Cents., for cash, 116 f 85c.; for account, 116 f. 90c.; New Loan, for cash, 75f. 80c.; for account, 75f. 90c.; Bank of France shares, 3,210 f.; Neapolitan, 102 f.; Spanish Threes 29i; Ditto, Fives, not quoted. RAILWAYS.-The Share Market has been also heavy. Most of the lines have been offered through out the day, and the closing quotations are generally lower than yesterday. For cash, Paris and Orleans left off at 1,195 f. ; Paris and Rouen, 901 f. 50c. ; Rouen and Havre, 438 f. 75c. ; Vierzon, 5201.; Strasburg and Bale, 161 f. 25c.; Boulogne, 370 f.; Dieppe, 255 f.; Nantes, 385 f. ; Northern, 5361. 25c.; Paris and Strasburg, 4051. ; Paris and Lyons, 387 f 50c. ; Montereau, 260 f. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE. JAN. 11. Northern of France, 11 3 / 4 —Orleans and Bordeaux, 5 1 4 —Paris and Lyons, 5 1 / 2 —Paris and Rouen, 34%. MARKET NEWS.- (THIS DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE-WEDNESDAY. We have again to report the arrival of a very moderate supply of English Wheat for our market coastwise. To-day the show of samples of that grain was small, and all descriptions commanded a steady, though not to say brisk, inquiry, at fully Monday's quotations. The im ports of foreign Wheat, since Saturday, have been under 6,000 quarters, almost wholly from Russia. Fine dry samples were in moderate request, at full prices ; but all other qualities were neglected. Barley :was somewhat firmer than of late, and prices were well supported. Al though the supply of Malt was small, the trade was heavy at lute rates. There was more disposition mani fested to purchase Oats , but without any improvement in value. Beans, Peas, and Indian Corn were a slow sa l e . Flour was held at very full prices. Vacat. 1,290 qrs. ARRIVALS. I Barley. 4,'100 English ...... trlsh. •• • • •• •• Foreign ...... F10ur.63 0:i 2, 9 76 a 0 " (ir5. 2, b6O -- 300 I 5,t:20 Malt. 3,750 ars. I.VRITECHAPEL. We had a moderate demand this morning, and prices were well supported. Beef from 3s 4d to 4s 4d; Mut ton, 33 Gd to 4s Gd ; Veal, 4s 4d to Es 4d; and Pork, 3s Ed to 5s 2d per Elba. by the carcase. HEALTH OF THE TOWN OF DniuwALL—Unfounded reports of typhus lever being very prevalent in the town of Dingwall, have been widely circulated throughou the country for the last few days, thereby creating a de gree of terror in the minds of the people, of a most in jurious kind. We :ire happy, to state, however, that, so tar from this being the case, only one or two cases have occurred, which were confined to one family, and that the town of Dingwall has not been in a more healthy state than at present fur a considerable time past.— Ross-shire Advertiser. EARL OF CARLISLE.—We have much pleasure in stating that the health of .this venerable nobleman is improving. The accounts received in town last evening describe the Noble Earl to have much improved. Vis count Morpeth and other members of the family are still in attendance at Castle Reward. ' f , •: ' ''. . -,,,,- t, • ~ .....1,, r —. IN, ~ T0.:1?,4,- ...: . c ßi l, \;\ - . ~ V ci; • ' 2 ' • r(01k ', ~, a .' r-,--,- ~. . . -- - . PRINCESS'S THEATRE. • Mr. J.M. :Maddox, sole Lessee and Manager, Duchess•street, , Portland•place. Engagemant IA Mrs. Mowatt and Mr. Davenport, from America. 'rtil3 EVEIII ti G MUCH ADO'7AI3OIJT :NOTHING. Benediek, Mr. Davenport ; lidatrice, Mrs. Mowatt. •I'o conclude• with a new Christmas Pantomime, entitled OLD FATHER. 'flaw ; or, Harlequin and the Four Seasons : 13Oxes, 49.; Pit, 29. ; Gallery, is. ' . TRENCH PLAYS.—ANTIGONE. l e ess4e, Mr. John 31itchell, 33, Old Bond-street. Mr. Mitchell respectfully announces that the celebrated lyrical tragedy of ANTI.GONE, from the Greek of Sophocles, with the en tire music of th 4 illustrious composer Mendelssohn, will 1.,c produced at JA_AigS'S TIIEXTkE, THIS EVENING, Distribution .flf the Characters.—Creon, M. 13,eage, as originally performed by him at the Theatre de Macon, Paris, and by whom the .Ntise en Scene at this theatre will be conducted ; Hernon, M. Feat ter; Tireelas," 31; - Lemonier ;Le Garde, M. St. Marie; Cory {Awe, \l. Henri Alia; Antigone, Muse. Rabut Pechter ; Ismene, Baptiste Eurydice, Mdlle. Berthe. Previous to tlhr Play anu the Music of Antigone, the Orchestra will perform the ,Overt tire, Scherzo, Nocturne, and March, from Men deissuhn's Mu to Shaks,,eare's Play of the Midsummer Night's Dream. • Director of the Music, Mr. Lucas, in the absence M. Jules Benedict, who is compelled to Will an engagement at Stuttgaia. For the,etlicit , nt performance of this celebrated composition the following profes . sors have been expressly engaged, and will consti tute the oreheSfaa :—First Violins—Messrs. Burotte, Deloffre, News ham, Mellon, • Thirl wall, Brown, Goffrie, and Morris. Second Violins—Mews... Ella, Payton, Zerbini, Neweharn, just., Elsmore, and IVation., - Tenors—Messrs. Lyon, Glanville, Weslake, and R. Blagrove. ylolencellos—Messrs. Lucas. Filet, L. Phillips, and Guest. Donbre Basses—Messrs. Howell, Campanile, Severn, and Griffiths. "Fletes—Messrs. Ribes and King. Oboes—Messrs. G. Cooke and Nicholson. Clarionettes-31essrs. Boole and Mayeock. Cerni—Messrs.; , Charles Harper and Callcott. Bassoons—Messrs. Larkin and Wifiterbottom. Trumpets—Messrs. Thomas Herper and Handley. TroMbones—Messrs. Smithies, Ilea!ey, and Winterbot torn. Drums—Mr. Chipp. Harp—Mr. T. Wright. Conductor — Mr. Lucas. N.ll. A numerous and powerful chorus has alsobeen engaged under the superintendence of Mr. Grice and Mr. Lee. A new scene has been painted for the subject by Mr. Muir aad assistants, A detailed prospectus of the general arrangements, and of the pieces which Will be produced during the season, may be had at Mr. 'Mitchell's Reyol Library, 33, Old Bond-street ; and at the Box-office of the Theatre, which is open dolly, from 11 to 5. Doors open athalf-past Seven, Performance to commence at Eight. 80xe5,..65.;' Pit, 3s. 6d.; Amphitheatre, 35.; Gallery, 2s LOYAL SURREY THEATRE. Lessee, Mrs. F. Davidge, No. 1, Davidbe•terrace, Kensington-road, Surrey. Under the Management of Mr. Bunn. TIIIS EVENING, the performances will commence with the celebrated Opera of THE BOHEMIAN GIRL. Count Arnheim, Mr. Stretton ; Devilshoof, Mr. 11. Fforncastle ; .Arline, Min Rainforth. To conclude with a new Pantomime, entitled BATTLEDOOR and SHUTTLECOCK ; or, Harlequin Trap, Bat, and nail. A distinct entrance to the private boxes has been made (which have been re-fitted). Private boxes may be had nightly of all the srincipal Librarians ; and at the Box-of:lice of the Theatre, which is open daily from Ten until Four. Boxes, 25.; Pit, is.; Gallery, 6d. .ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. THIS EVENING Will be performed THE LIGHTE.RMAN of BANKSIDF. ; or, the )rphan of ,Bermondscy. Cheractors by Messrs. Dale, Henderson, Clicks, Searle, Vermeil, Illggic ; Miss V.ncent, Mrs. Lee, and Miss Burrougheliffe. Atter which, the new grand scholastic and instructive Pantomime, entitled THE WOULD OF WONDERS ; or, Harlequin Caxton and the Origin of Priating, with wonderful seer:;ry and decorative ap pointments. Clown, Mr. Paul. Herring ; Pantaloon, Mr. Morelli ; Harlequin, M. Lupin ; Sprite, Signor Melillo; Columbine, Mdlle. Lutilli. 20 nehide with THE LORD MAYOR'S FOOL. Boxes, ks. , ; „Mt, 6d. ; Gallery, 4d. /co Hall-price to any pall of the house. - 1 - S - Oott open at Six, to commence at Half-past Six. ASTLEY'tit ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE, Proprietor and Manager, Mr. William Batty. Mr. Batty's performing Elephants. Grand Juvenile Night on Thursday next, when the Pantomime trill • . be played first. THIS EVENING, ' The Grand spectacle of THE CAMP OF SILESIA . •Filtirply - ne* Scenes in the Arena, by the talented Artistes of Establigfirent, in the various modes of equestration. To conclude with a Grand Equestrian Comic Pantomime entitled HARLEQUIN , -DOCTOR SYNTAX AND HIS DAPPER GREY MARE, in wtkii:h those popular artist s Herr Derlir, m ( pie. Theo dore, Mr. Andgrson, and Mr. Bradbury, as Harlequin, Columbine, Clown, antiParitaloon, which will exceed in splendour and effect alt former productions at. the Amphitheatre, • Bon-office open from I I till 5 • ';Mting and Stage Manager, Mr. W West. ettnillil :77)1M LONDON, WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 12, 1848 Again have the voices of certain " contumacious " dissentients been raised against the appointment of 'Dr. RENN' DICKSON HAMPDEN to the Bishopric of Hereford. Again have those voices been silenced, by the obdurate interposition of the ecclesiastical authorities. The author of the most celebrated of all the Bampton Lectures ever delivered, has not only been nominated by her MAJESTY, and accepted by the Dean and Chapter of the Cathedral Church of the diocese, but he was yesterday solemnly confirmed by the Vicar T General of the Archbishop of CANTER BURY, the Primate and Metropolitan of all England. This ceremony—remarkable under any circumstances, but especially remarkable in this instance, in conse quence of the theological disputes which have accom panied the elevation -of the Regius Professor of Divinity = took place in the church of St. Mary-le-Bow, in the city of London. Great was the bustle of Doctors' Commons on the occasion,' and greater still the disturbance of Cheapside. ' The passions which have raged during the last ten weeks so fiercely in the bosoms of divines, and have agitated so severely the consciences of the episcopacy, were in some measure reflected in the multitude which surrounded the sacred edifice and greeted the. Bishop elect as he descended from hi B carriage, with mingled hootings and acclamations. Of all the'ridiculous customs, preserved during many past generations, not one, we may very safely aver, is one - quarter so frivolous and preposterous as that which yesterday disgraced the forms of episcopal confirmation. A glance at the report of the pro ceedings will- indicate the particulars to which we are making immediate reference. After the letters 'latent of our Sovereign Lady the Qu GEN, issiied under the Great Seal, and requiring the nomination of Dr. IlmarDEN to the see of Hereford, had been formally read by the Public Notary and Principal Registrar of the pro vinee of S:lantrbury, the voice of the Apparitor- General resounded through the building with theft, words :--- si " Oyez, . ow:, oyez! all ye who may, or shall, or will object to. the consecration of the Rev. B am Dickson Hat4den, Doctor in Divinity, as lord Bishop of thoi Episcopal See of Hereford, nor, come forward an4,Atate your objections, and you ,'shall be heard." •4, Scarcely-4as this proclamation uttered., when a Proctor 1-60,#ted himself to oppo se th e said, confirma tion, and fo . x ith the unfortunat e diswatie n t wps coittmelioßsly'requeated to hold his tongue. «Now 11 I