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JOSEPH BERRIDGE, Secretary. 11, Waterloo-place, Pail-mall, January 7, 1848. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Un !er. the Management of Mr. B. Webster, sole Lessee. THIS EVENING Will be r erformcd Sheridan's Comedy of THE RIVALS. Sir An thony Absolute, Mr. Farren ; Captain Absolute, Mr. H Fasten; Faulkiand, Mr. Creswick ; Acres, Ic, Webster; sir im clue O'Trig ger, Mr. Hudson ; Fag, Mr. Brindal ; Davi Mr. Keeley ; Malaprop, Mrs. Glover ; Lydia Languish, Mrs. Nisbett ; Julia, Miss Fortescoe Lucy, Mrs. Humby. 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. Weber. Stage T. Archer, Box-book keeper. Boxes, ss. ; pit, 3s. ; Gallery, 2s. ; Upper Gallery, Is. Doors open at Half-past Six, Performance to semmence at Seven. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPIII. Under the TLIIS directio EVENINn o'. Madame Celeste G Will be presented an entirely new Piece, entitled the PEARL OF THE OCEAN ; or, the Prince and the Mermaiden. Principal cha racters by Messrs. Wale, P. Bedford, Wright, Munyard, (.lennaire, Cullenford, and Worrell ; Miss Woolgar, Miss Emma Harding, Miss F..'llen Chaplin, Mrs. Laws, and Madame Celeste. To be followed by the Farce, entitled THIS HOUSE TO BE SOLD :the property of the late William Shakspeare), Inquire Within. Cha racters by 3lessra. Wright, Cullenford, Worrell, 0. Smith, Paul Bed ford. Mrr. Laws, &c.. &c. To conclude with an Italian Pantomime, entitled PIERROT, the Married Man; and POLICHINELLO, the Gay Single Fellow. Boxes, 45.; Pit, 2s. , Gallery, Is. Pnors open at Halt-past Six, Performance to commence at Seven. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Under the 31anagement of Madame Vestris. Sole Lessee, Mr. Charles Mathews. THIS EVENING - ---.— . -- --.— Will be presented new Comic Drama, entitled THE TRA GEDY QUEEN. After which, a New Fairy Extravaganza, entitled THE GOLDEN BRANCH. To conclude with a Romance of Real Life, called BOX and COX. Principal characters by Mr. Harley, Mr. Buckatone, and Mrs. Mac. Damara. Dress Boxes, 55.; Upper Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, ls. No half-price to any part of the house. The Sew Box-office, No. 2, Wellington-street, is open to the Public every day, from Ten till Six. The Interior of the House has been entirely re-designed by Mr. W. Bradweli of the Colosseum. PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Mr. J. M. Maddox, sole Lessee and Maneger, Duchess-street, Portland. place. Madame AN NA Tll I LLON. (By Special Desire.) EVENING Will be presented the Second and Third Acts of A new Comic Opera, entitled THE AMBASSADRESS. Duke de Valberg, Mr. Bodda ; Benedict. Mr. Barker ; Fortunatus, Mr. Lef fler; Countess de Fierschomberg, Miss Villars; Madame Bameck, Mrs. Selby ; Charlotte, Miss Anne Romer; Henriette, Madame Anna Thilion. To be followed by a new Comic Piece. entitled THE SULTANA. Solyman, Mr. Ryder; Osmyn, Mr. Compton.; Yuseph, Mr. Henry ; Roxalana, Madame Anna Thillon ; Elmira, Miss Villars ; loosens, Miss Hodson. To conclude with a new Christmas Pantomime, entitled OLD FATHER TIME; or, Harlequin and the Four Seasons. Dress Circle, 55.: BOxes, 4s. ; Pit, 2s. ;Gallery, Is. FRENCH PLAYS.—ANTIGONE. Lessee, 3lr. John Mitchell, 33, 0;c1 Bond-street. Mr. Mitchell respectfully announces that the celebrated lyrical tragedy of ANTIGONE, from the Greek of Sophocles, with the en tire music of the illustrious composer Mendelssohn, will be produced at ST. JAMES'S THEATRE, TO-MORROW EVENING. Distribution of the Characters.—Creon, M. Bocage, as originally performed by him at the Theatre de l'Odeon, Paris, and by whom the Mise en Scene at this theatre will be conducted ; Hemon, M. Pech ter ; Tiresias, M. Lemonier ; Le Garde, M. St. Marie ; Le Coryphee, M. Henri Alix ; Antigone, 'Mine. Rabut Fechter ; Ismene, Mdlle. Baptiste; Eurydice, Mdlle. Berthe. Previous to the Play anu the Music of Antigone, the Orchestra will perfor ri the Overture, Scherzo, Nocturne, and March, from Men. eleissohn's Music to Shakspeare's Play of the Midsummer Night's Dream. Director of the Music, Mr. Lucas, in the absence M. Jules Benedict, who Is compelled to fulfil an engagement at Stuttgard. For the efficient performance of this celebrated composition the following professors have been expressly engaged, and will consti tute the orchestra :—First Violins—Messrs. Burotte, Deloffre, News ham, Mellon, Thirlwall, Brown, Goffrie, and Morris. Second Violins—Messrs. Ella, Payton, Zerbini, Newsham, jun., ELsmore, and Watson. Tenors—Messrs. Lyon, Glanville, Weslake, and R. Blagrove. Violencellos—Messrs. Lucas, Pilet, L. Phillips, and Guest. Double Basses—Messrs. Howell, Campanile, Severn, and Griffiths. Flutes—Messrs. Ribas and King. Oboes—Messrs. G. Cooke and Nicholson. Clarionettes—Messrs. Boose and Maycock. Corni—Messrs. Charles Harper and Callcott. Bassoons—Messrs. Larkin and Winterbottom. Trumpets—Messrs. Thomas Harper and Handley. Trombones—Messrs. Smithies, Ilea'ey, and Winterbot tom. Drums—Mr. Chipp. Harp—Mr. T. Wright. Conductor— Mr. Lucas. N.B. A numerous and powerful chorus has aleobeen engaged under the superintendence of Mr Grice and Mr. Lee. A new scene has been painted for the subject by Mr. Muir and 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 Royal Library, 33, Old Bend-street ; and at the Box-office of the Theatre, which Is open daily, from l I to 5. Doors open at half-past Seven, performance to commence at Eight. Boxes, 6s. ; I'it, 3s. 6d. ; Amphitheatre, 3s. ; Gallery, 2s ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Lessee, Mrs. F. Dayidge, No. 1, Davidge-terrace, Kensington-road, Surrey. tinder the Management of Mr. Bunn, THIS • EVENING, the performances will commence with the celebrated Opera of TIIE DAUGHTER OF TILE REGIMENT. _ . . Characters by Messrs. H. Phillips, King, Horncastle, Rafter, Att wood. M`Malion, and Miss Poole. To conclude with a new Pantomime, entitled BATTLEDOOR and SHUTTLECOCK ; or, Harlequin Trap, Bat, and 15a11. A diitinet entrance to the private boxes has been made (which have been re-fitted). Private boxes maybe had nightly of all the trincleal Librarians ; and at the Ilox-•tiize of the Theatre, which is open daily from Ten until Four. Boxes, 2s. ; Pit, Is.; Gallery, 6d. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. THIS EVENING _ _ . Will be performed TIIELIG lITERMAN of BAIsTKSIDE ; or, the Drphan of Bermondsey. Characters by Messrs. Dale, Henderson, Hicks, Searle, E onuan, Illggie ; Miss Vincent, Mrs. Lee, and Miss Burroughcliffe. Atter which, the new grand scholastic and instructive Pantomime, entitled TILE WORLD OF WONDERS; or, Harlequin Caxton and the Origin of Printing, with wonderful scenery and decorative ap pointments. Clown, Mr. Paul Herring ; Pantaloon, Mr. Morelli ; Harlequin, M. Lupiuo ; Sprite, Signor Molino; Columbine, Mdlle. Lu;illi. To conclude with THE LORD MAYOR'S FOOL. . . Boxes, is.; fit, Gd.; Gallery, 4,1. v No Halt-price to any part of the house. Doors open at Six, to counneace at Half-past Six. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMI'IIITBEATRE , i',opriet, and Manager mr. William Batty• Mr. Batty's performing Elephants. Grand JuTenile Xight on Thursday next, when the Pa2to2lllllB he played first. THIS EVENING, The Grand Srectaele of TilE CAMP OF SILESIA. Entircis , new Seems in the Arena, by the talented Artistes of the - in lA, sariouA modes of equestration. To conclude with a Grand Equestrian Comic Pantomime entitled HARLEQUIN DOCTOR SYNTAX AI ), HIS DAPPER GREY MARE, in which those popular artistes Herr DeWitt, Mdlle. Theo dose, Mr. Anderson, and Mr. Bradbury, as Harlequin, Columbine, clown, anti Pantaloon, which will exceed in splendour and effect all former productions at the Amphitheatre, Box-othce open from II till 5 Acting and ,stage Mana6er, Mr. W West. WEATLIEII..—SUN OFFICE. JAN. 10 Tifs,nnonET - En, Lowest, 27 ; Iligl:est, 30 ; Noon, 32. BAROMETER, 30 44.—WIND N.E. ; hazy and frosty. Vtning 2int: LONDON, TUESDAY. JANUARY 11, 1848 Our Parisian contemporaries must have derived considerable amusement from the excitement which has recently manifested itself in England at the mere supposition of a French invasion. They must have watched with some curiosity the progre,s of a dis cussion which has agitated the minds, not only of journalists and pamphleters, but which has induced some of th© most distinguished members of our no bility to rush into print, and has elicited even the decided opinion of his Grace the Duke of WELLING TON. Virtually, if not physi ca ll y, there have been quite as startli n g manifestation s of panic at th e prox imity o f our bellicose neig hb ours as there w ere w h en the republi c an forces were preparing t o descend n in 1798, under the command perfidious Albio n upon Pe of the General-in -Chief BONAPARTE , or as th ere were in 180 5 , whe n the Imperial army gathered on the the eagles of th e the heights of B oulo g ne, Emperor and King icAro L EON. Civilians have not, it is true, clanged through the streets with swords d instead of yard measures, a s they di old days" of King GEORGE 111. the "good Lord JOHN has not appeared amo ng the yeomanry of Sussex in a scarlet jack e t an d l ea th e r breeches, as did A Air . PITT, when Great B r i ta i n was threatened by a flotilla crowded with veteran soldiers. War subsidies have not been voted in Parliament. The forty-eight furnace fires of Portsmouth have not been fanned into a fiercer flame than usual. There has been no in crease of activity in the gun factories of Birmingham, or in the shot towers near Waterloo-bridge. Never theless the agitation has been visible and remarkable. It bas extended from private individuals to our here ditary legislators, from nnwarlike quidnuncs to the most celebrated warrior of our generation. 'Mile vve cennot hut c nceive that thes fear, have arisen froan a Ilistorted view of circumstances, and that they have been magnified into a marvellous ex aggeration, we regard them with profound respect, because they have manifestly arisen trom the dictates of prudence rather than from those of pusillanimity, 4 1 °all4l-7rallW '-#4lllll- ' lkkil ' ';- ‘ , r ,.......,,, e ah .a. iiII ... 41,7. ' .•'' , 014 .N'' '• - Alb. ~,, i iie. ~..... "..,,,,, , , , r• . "'",-,,, '.. • , E T . ; ~,,,,, ;,,0 1 ,',,,,, 7 ," '",',, . 0 ,.. ,'',.'' . ' '• , , „, HE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVEN,ING, JANUARY li, 1848, from the principles of a pure and exalted patriotism rather than from a disea:•ed anxiety to evince an un necessary bravado by increasing the national ex penditure. Among both parties there may be discerned much that is apparently reasonable, among those who conceive the notion of an invasion to be a rational possibility, as well as among those who receive it with incredulity and derision. With the former the principal reasons for an interference on the part of the Legislature, and for a comprehensive re-organization of our insular and maritime defences are the following :—The changes effected in naviga tion by the application of the steam-engine to war vessels, and the extraordinary state of preparation in which the naval and military departments of France are, when contrasted with the equally extraordinary absence of preparation observable among ourselves. It is maintained by the Commander-in-Chief that, as matters are at present conducted, an incursion on the part of our neighbours, would in all likeli hood redound to our discredit, by producing a suc cession of sudden and terrible disasters. According to this illustrious authority (and the opinion is cor roborated by his apologists), in consequence of the adoption of steam as a motive-power ordinarily employed on the ocean, the Channel is virtually no longer in existence, Dover and Calais are vir tually connected by a highway as easy of traffic as a macadamised road, cleared by the Rebec caites. Virtually—they maintain—France is as independent of time and tide as she would be in marching her battalions into Piedmont. Virtually, Great Britain is no longer an island. Thus it would appear that every facility is afforded the Cabinet of the Tuileries for dispatching a legion of conquerors to London, under the banners of BUGEAUD, to fulfil the predictions of Punch, and to realise the dream of the Prince DE JOINVILLE. By a very different style of argument, the op ponents of this rather unpleasant hypothesis pro test that England has nothing whatever to dread from the proximity of so many thousand well-armed and well-disciplined French men ; that our position is not a jot more vulnerable than it was during the days of the Directory or the Empire ; that, in short, if steam has effected any appreciable alteration in our regard, as contrasted with France, it has rendered us, if possible, less liable to assaults, and more secure from surprises. True, there are niagnificent works, either completed or in active preparation, at Dunkirk, at Havre, at Calais, at St. Servan, at Cherbourg, at Indre, at l'Orient, at Brest, at Rochfort, and at Toulon ; true, that enormous sums are applied at different times for the prosecution of these noble undertakings, such as 26,000,000 francs for the dockyard at Cher. bourg ; 18,000,000 francs for the breakwater, in all, 44,000,000 francs as a single appropriation ; true, that an extraordinary credit of 93,000,000 francs was voted in 1846 by the Chamber of Deputies ; true, that France has her coasts admirably forti fied, her metropolis unassailable, a standing army of 300,00 A men, a vast and effective militia, and a national guard accustomed to the rules of war, if not to the rigours of a campaign. In defiance of all these facts, acknowledging them and parading them as CARACTACUS was paraded through the streets of Rome behind the triumphal chariot of GEBALL NICUS, the antagonists of those who have originated these ideas as to our national instability insist that a moderate augmentation of our present system of de fences would be sufficient to render our power terrible, ourselves unconquerable, and our island impregnable. How far these latter arguments are based on reason we shall hereafter take into consideration. A division has taken place among the Young Ire lenders that bids fair to occasion a secession from the Irish Confederation similar to that which took place from Conciliation Hall about a year and a half since. Mr. MITCHEL, one of the most eloquent, but also one of the most indiscreet of the physical force party, late editor of the Nation newspaper, has again spoken out and repudiated the timid course 'pursued by his quondam friends and associates. He mani festly pines after the honours of martyrdom, and is taking the most certain means to attain his object. We do not wonder that Mr. Duerr should be un willing longer to identity himself with a gentleman whose notions are of so warlike a character, who will not be restrained or remain contented to bide his time until a fitting opportunity. Mr. Deere has already had too painful an experience of official prosecution, and Lord CLARENDON has too clearly shown that he will not permit the laws to remain a dead letter in his hands, and that it is not merely the misguided *retches who actually commit outrages and thus subject themselves directly to the penalties of the law that will be brought to justice, but that their instigators and abettors of a superior class will also be compelled to answer before a jury of their countrymen for any offences of which they may be guilty. There can be no mistake about Mr. MIT CHEL, and he is fully resolved that there shall be no mistake ; indeed, it is impossible for any language to be more explicit than that which he has used. The domestic traitors and the foreign foes are too clearly indicated ti admit of any doubt as to his meaning. Every constitutional mode of ame liorating the condition of the Irish people is de nounced as a palpable humbug, that should give place to instant preparation for war, and a regular or ganization of a force to resist the domination of the Saxer) enemy. He tells us " that all the symptoms of landlord nationality, which had deluded us into the Irish Council, and had kept us vainly moving the aristocracy in the ranks of their countrymen were a deliberate fraud —Here, in fact, a demon stration intended to act upon the English, and that the Disarming Bill was the first fruit of a new and more strict alliance between traitors at home, and foes abroad." He then states what he wished to have said through the columns of the Nation, " Sayings which must speedily have led to very decisive doings," had not Mr. DUYVY wisely demurred and refused to permit the paper, of which he is the proprietor, to be made the medium for the publication of such doctrines. He also gives a rather startling exposition of what he conceives to be "Te nant Right," and the only means by which it can be obtained, in which we doubt not that the views of many of the frieze-coated assistants of the Holy Cross demonstration are set forth. We must, however, suffer the Learned Gentleman to speak for himself. " I desired (said be) to preach to them 'that every farmer in Ireland has a right to his land in perpetuiey, (let law say what it will)--that no landlord who denies that right ought to receive any rent—that tenant-right, however, though the universal right of all Irish farmers, never bad been and never could be recognised by English ,law—(vve should think not, if his definition is to be received as the correct onej— that there was and will be no other way of establishing and securing that right except as in Ulster—by successful intimidation, that is to say, by the determined public opinion of armed men ; that therefore, the power calling itself a Govern ment, which called on the people of Ireland to deliver up their arms under any pretext, must be the mortal enemy of that people, their rights, their liberties, and their lives. I desired to warn my countrymen accordingly, that if they should carry their guns to the police-stations, when ordered by Lord CLARENDON, they would be putting arms in the hands of their deadly foes, and committing virtual suicide. I desired to preach to them that the country is actually in a state of war—a war of 'property' against poverty'—a war of 'law' against ' life ; 3 and that their safety lay, not in trusting to any laws or legislation of the enemies' Parliament, but solely in their determination to stand upon their own indi vidual rights, to defend those to the last, and sell their lives and lands as dear as they could." This is speaking out with a vengeance. It would indeed be impossible, as the Premier might say, to intimate more plainly his intention to violate the law himself and encourage others to do likewise. There is no concealment or mental reservation here : the farmers are to hold their lands in perpetuity ; any landlord who ventures to dispute this sum mary alienation of his property is to receive no rent. The trifling return that for a time may be m a d e merely as a favour is to be withhel d, and the ri ght is to be secured by " successful intimidation," or, in other words, a repetition and increase of those agra rian outrages that have already brought disgrace on too many districts, and for the practice of which two unhappy and misguided men are at this moment awaiting the extreme penalty of the offended laws. The poor-law too, that which for the first time has recognised the legal right of the peasant to a maintenance out of the land on which he was born, was to have been denounced, the guardians exhorted " not to act under it, but in defiance to it, and the rate-payers to offer steady and deliberate passive resistance to it;" and, "in order to stop the fatal traffic with England, that the people should determine to suffer no cattle or grain to leave the country." Such are the objects for which the most prominent member of the Young Irelanders desire( to agitate, and the manner in which the) were to be attained may be gathered from the following passage :—" I desired that 'the Nation' and the Confederation' should rather employ them selves in promulgating sound instruction upon military a f fairs—upon the natural lines of defence which make the island so strong, and the method of making those available—upon the construction and defence of field works, and especially upon the use of proper arms, not with a view to any immediate insurrection' [not until, we suppose, the organization was complete, and that the instruction had been attended with the desired results], " but in order that the stupid legal and constitutional shouting, voting, and agitating, that have made our country an abomination to the whole earth should be changed into the deliberate study of the theory and practice of guerilla warfare, and that the true and only method of regenerating Ireland might in course of time recommend itself to a nation so long abused and deluded by legal humbug." We suppose the writer would have felt very indig nant if the stupid Saxon should have objected to support his countrymen in idleness during the period that they were to be so occupied, so that they might have full leisure to attend to their interesting pur suits. It remains to be seen in what manner the Confederation will act, whether Mr. MITCH3II, will still remain a member of their body, and thus have their tacit sanction to his aspirations. The revelations he has just made will certainly lead to a valuable result, as they will compel an explicit avowal of the real objects of the Association. The Bale Gazette of the 7th states that a mutiny broke out in the garrison of Bale on the preceding day, in consequence of the punishment of two sol diers for breach of discipline. Their comrades de manded the dismissal of thirty foreigners serving in the garrison, and the liberation of the two soldiers who had been imprisoned. A council was summoned to deliberate on the steps to be taken, but the result is not stated. Madrid papers of the 3d have arrived. The question of the impeachment of SALAMANCA was on that day to be considered in the Chamber of Deputies. ESPARTERO was expected in Madrid on the 6th. MADRID BOLSA, JAN. 3.—The Three per Cents. 261 to 27, at 50 days, ex dividend ; and after the Balsa, 26 7-16 to cash; Five per Cents., 151 buyers; Passive, 5i sellers, 4j. buyers after the close. that he earnestly insists upon being sent to the Pachalic of Acre, and there join an uncle, who is a wealthy landowner. We, however, are able to affirm that the autograph letter of Abd-el-Kader does not contain either of these s things. It is simply an official letter, in which he renews his submission to the King himself. Not a word of Paris, Egypt, Mecca, or any other place. The decrees of God have, he says, decided the fate of ♦bd-el-Bader. Driven to a surrender, he has chose* from among his enemies that one which he knew to be the most powerful, the most moderate, the most just. He has been guided alone by the interests of his country, and by his desire to save from violence the women, the children, and the faithful servants of his deira. It is said that this letter, in which all the Arab style of etiquette is prodigally displayed, bears the stamp of great finesse and a certain degree of firmness. On the promise giVen to him by the Duke d'Aumale, the Emir says not a word, and this is assuredly the most astute manner of showing that it is held to be good ; for not to renew a demand is to show a belief that it cannot be refused" A small pyramid is to be erected on the spot where ABD-EL-KADER surrendered to the Duke D'AUMALE• PARIS BOURSE, JAN. 10. -The market has been dull to day, but prices have varied but little. The Threes, at the close, were called at 75f. 5c.; Fives, 117 f. 20c.; and New Loan, at 75f. 95c. ; for the end of the month. Three per Cents., for cash, 75f.; for account, 751. 5c.; Five per Cents., for cash, 117 f. 10c.; for account, 117 f. 20c. ; New Loan, 75f. 95c.; Bank of France shares, 3,215 f.; Neapolitan, 1021. ; Spanish not quoted. RAILWAYS.-The Share Market has been also dull, and prices at the close were generally somewhat lower. For cash, Paris and Orleans closed at 1,1981. 75c. ; Paris and Rouen, 9021.50 c. ; Rouen and Havre, 435 f. ; Avignon, 562 f. 50c. ; Strasburg and Bale, 160 f. ; Nantes, 386 f. 25c. ; Northern, 537 f. 50c. ; Bordeaux, 4761. 25c. ; Paris and Strasburg, 406 f. 25c.; Paris and Lyons, 387 f. 50c. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, JAN. 10. Northern of France, 11%—Orleans and Bordeaux, 5 Paris and Lyons, 5%. CONFIRMATION OF THE ELEC- TION OF DR. lIAAIPDEN.—(THIS DAY.) This morning having been appointed by the ecclesiastical authorities tor confirming the election of Dr. Hampden to the see of Hereford, there was an exceedingly full attendance of the clergy at the Church of St. Mary-le-Bow, where it had been an nounced the ceremony would take place. Shortly after eleven o'clock the Commissioner, the Right Hon. Sir J. Lushington, Sir John Dodson, Queen's Advocate, and Dr. Burnsby entered the church, and took their seats at the table prepared for them, while Dr. Hampden attended by his chaplain, and several friends, took up their position in an adjacent pew. There were alsu present, Dr. Addams, Dr. R. Philli more, Dr. 'laming, Dr. Byford, Dr. Seymour, and other Learned Gentlemen. The Vicar• General (Dr. Barnaby) presided. The Conge de elire, and preliminary documents connected with the election having been read, The PROCTOR for Dr. Hampt rose and said : Right Worshipful Sirs, I present to your Worships the Rev. Renn Dickson Hampden, D.D., who has been elected Bishop of the see of Hereford, in order that you may confirm his election. The VICAR •GENERAL then directed the Apparitor to cite all who were desirous of opposing the confirma tion to appear ; and that officer having made the usual proclamation intimating that all who s could, would, or might, object to the performance of the ceremonial, would be heard upon coming forward. Dr. SEYMOUR advanced to the table at which the Commissioners were sitting, and said he appeared to oppose the confirmation on behalf of the Rev. Robert Webster Hunter, the Rev. J. J. Clark, and others whose proxies he produced. Dr. LUSHINGTON said the Learned Gentleman could not be permitted to appear. Dr. ADDAMS protested, on behalf of the Dean and Chapter of Hereford, against this denial of a hearing after the terms of the proclamation, and insisted upon his right to oppose the proceedings. He claimed the right of appearing under the provisions of the Act of Henry VIII. Dr. LUSHINGTON admitted that the Learned Ad vocate bad a right to argue upon the construction of the Act in question, and it would be for the Com missioners to decide whether the Learned Advocate's construction was a proper and just one. A lengthened argument then ensued upon the provisions of the Act, in which Dr. Addams, Dr. Seymour. Dr. Harding, and others, took part, who contended that, under the provision of the Act, they had a right to oppose the eloction, and urged that it was an error to suppose that a writ of preemunire could apply in this case. It was only applicable in a case where the right or supremacy of the Pope was set up against the authority of the Crown. Dr. HARDING said it was a mockery of justice to proclaim that all parties would be heard, and then when opponents appeared, to refuse to listen to them. This sentiment elicited a burst of applause, but it was repressed, and intimation thrown out that these expressions of opinion on the part of the public could not be allowed. Eventually the Commissioners decided that the Learned Advocates could Hot be heard, nor could the protests of their clients be received; and the ceremo nial of confirming the election was proceeded with in the usual form, and in the name of the Queen and the Church Dr. Hampden was proclaimed Bishop of the see of Hereford. The church, during the whole of the proceedings, was densely thronged, while hundreds were obliged to go away disappointed at being unable to obtain even standing room. The proceedings occupied up wards of two hours. LAMEETH PALACE IRON BRIDGE.—In 1826 Mr. Thomas Motley, civil engineer, of Bristol, suggested a plan for the construction of a bridge across the Thames, from the Parliament Houses to the pslace of the Archbishop of Canterbury. The plan is here portrayed in an excellent lithographic engraving, and we cannot but wish that the vision of the designer may be realized, and an elegant and appropriate structure, such as the one which he has sketched, substituted in the place of the dilapidated heap of stones which has:so long disfigured the capital, and impeded the navigation of the silent highway. EXTENSIVE FIRE AT ST. SAVIOUR'S CHURCH. — (THIS DAY )—Shortly before nine o'clock this morning a dense volume of smoke was seen to issue from the vaults under St. Saviour's Church, Borough. The police aroused the parish authorities, and the keys having been obtained, efforts were made to enter, but it was found to be impossible. The engines from the A, B, and D brigade stations, as well as those belonging to the West of England and County Companies, arrived with a strong force of firemen, but their endeavours to arrest the pro gress of the fire were frustrated, and upwards of an hour and a half elapsed before they were successful. On en tering the vaults a most appalling scene presented itself —the last remains of several deceased persons partly consumed. The fire originated, it was said, among some straw in the vaults, but from what cause, or by whom occasioned, has not been ascertained. SHOCKING ACCIDENT FROM FIRE.—On Wednes day morning, about three o'clock, Mr. Lewis, of the Bunch of Grapes Tavern. Westgate-street, Bath, was roused out of sleep by dreadful screams from his ser vant, a young 'Woman named Harriet Davey, who at tempted to force in his bed-room door. Mr. Lewis, on looking in that direction, was horrified by the appear ante of an extraordinary light through the crevices, and as soon as possible, partially dressed, went out of his room ; but by this time the young woman had gone down stairs, where he found her with her dress in a blaze, and making ineffectual efforts to put it out. He rendered her all the assistance in his power by tearing off her garments and endeavour to extinguish the fire, and in doing so he burnt his own hands. After having done this, the thought struck him that as she had been to her bed-room for the purpose of retiring to rest, something might have been set on fire there also, and on going up to ascertain if that were the case, he found the room filled with smoke, and the bed-clothes burning. He immediately rolled them up together, and by that means succeeded in preventing further ill effects from the accident. 'He then returned down stairs to the young woman, and the sufferer was conveyed to the United Hospital, burnt about the neck, throat, and different parts of the body in a shocking manner. She was long in a dangerous state from the injuries she sustained, but hopes are now entertained of her ultimate recovery. LIBERAL CONDUCT or MESSES. CLAUDE SCOTT AND Co.—At a meeting of the Marylebone vestry held on Saturday, Mr. G. Daniel regretted that at the twelfth hour the Commissioners of Baths and Washhouses were doomed to disappointment. Having affixed their con poration seal to all the preparatory measures required, and having received the approval of the Treasury, they applied to the Board of Public Works for the loan of 3,0001., who replied that they could not advance that sum.—(Great astonishment.) The Rev. Dr. Spry, their chairman, then applied to Messrs. Claude Scott and Co., their bankers, who instantly,. and in the handsomest manner, consented to advance the required sum on the same conditions that they expected the loan from Government.—(Hear.) In conclusion, he moved that the commissioners be authorised to negotiate for the loan with their bankers. Messrs. Haikes, An derson, Glazier, and the Chairman, having lauded the liberality of Claude Scott and Co., the motion passed nem. con. ALTX CATION IN itE RIVER STEAM-BOATS —For some t►me the iron steam-packets between London bridge and Chelsea have been running at a penny fare for the whole distance, whilst the Citizens' company have been charging their usual fare, twopence. An amalgamation has now taken place between them, and yesterday morning they commenced running at two pence to Lambeth and threepence to Chelsea, their boats calling alternately Bt the varicus piers. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS• Cl7y, QUARTER TO THREE. In the Cotton Market at Liverpool, yesterday, the sales were moderate, and included 3,000 bales of Ame rican at 40. to 6d. per lb. Prices were heavy, but there was very little doing. Railway Shares improved steadily, with a good business doing. In some instances prices advanced again. Emigration from Bremen in the past year has gone on to a great extent v About 33,000 persons embarked in 255 ships, to the United States, Texas, Brasil, and South Australia. One hundred vessels were destined to New York alone. We are assured that the drafts of the North-Western Bank of India were duly accepted by Messrs. Glyn and Co. yesterday, and when required delivered to the holders. The assertion to the contrary is incorrect. At a half•yearly meeting of the proprietors of the Colonial Bank, held this afternoon, it was resolved that there should not be a dividend declared; that the profits made of 22,0001 and over should go to write off bad and doubtful debts, leaving that item at 1,0001. only. The state of credit in the West Indies, the failures here, and the difficulties that have surrounded the Money Market were by the meeting held ample reasons for the nonpayment of a dividend on the present occasion. It is most emphatically stated in the report of the directors that, if the last Act relative to the admission of foreign sugars be not altered very materially, the cultivation of sugar plantations in the West Indies must cease• There are not any later accounts received from the colonies to-day. It may he interesting to remark that the present condition of the Colonial Markets wears a brighter appearance. Ihe list of sales by public auction, as announced, was very considerably added to yesterday ar.d to-day. There is a fair prospect of business soon becoming animated, and it is to be hoped at more remunerative values to the holders than has been the case for a considerable time past. The Stock Market is still rising. Consols are 861 to 87* for Transfer, and 864 to 87i for Account. The New Three and-a. Quarter per Cents, have been 874 to 881. Bank Stock is 192* to 195, and India Stock 232 to 235. Exchequer-bills are up to 205., and 235. premium. The purchases making are on account of parties out of the house, but speculators are also operating for the rise. In the Foreign Market the dealings have been limited. Spanish Active Bonds have been marked 191: Portu guese Four per Cents., 26* to 27; and Mexican, 18*. Dutch Two-and•a-Half per Cents. have been 544 to *. French Three per Cents. aro 75, with the exchange at 25 70. Railway Shares are very steadily supported, and in some cases higher. BKIIISEL FUNDS THIS DAY AT Oh O'CLOCK. (From the Official List.) Bank Stock 194 192 195 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities B67i 87% 3 per Cent. Consols Anns 86% 87% New 3% per Cent. Anis. 8 7 3 /4 88%% Long Annuities, Exp. Jan. sth, 1860 B% % Do. 30 Y ears, Expire Oct. 10, 1859 8 9-16 Do. 30 Years, Expire Jan. 5, 1860 8 9-16 India Stock 232 235 Consols for Account ... 8 4% 87 10/s Exchequer Bills. 3d. 1,000/. 5001. Small PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK. Chilian Bonds, 6 per Cent........ . 88% Mexican Bonds, 1846, 5 per Cent. Ditto for the Account ....... 18% Portuguese Bonds, 4 per Cent Ditto for the Account 26% 27 Spanish Bonds, 6 per Cent, 1840 Ditto for the Account 19% Ditto Passive Bonds 4 14 Dividends on the above payable in London. French Rentes, 3, per Cent 7sf. —c. Exchange. 2sf. 70c. Dutch 2 % per Cent., 12 Guild 5 4 144 z d Ditto 4 Der Cent. Certificates Ditto for the Account 65% BUSINESS DONE IN RAILWAY SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK RAILWAY/. ram). Psi SHARI. Aberdeen Amber., Notting., Boston, &c. 2% to Ayrshire and Galloway Belfast and County Down .. 10 .. Birmingham & Oxford Junc... 20 Birmingham, W 01.,& Dudley 10 ... . 144 to Birming., Wol., & Stour Val. 101.145.... Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Junction.. 7 3 /4 to Boston, Stamf., & Birming... 6 Bristol and Exeter Do., Thirds . ..... to Buckinghamshire.. Caledonian Ditto, Half Shares Ditto. Clydesdale Junction N . to Chester and H01yhead......... 37%..... Ditto, Preference l2 Clarence. _ _ _ Midiand 100 ll2 Ditto, Consol. Preference...100 Ditto, 401. Shares Ditto, 50/. 5hare5........... 15 -.13% 3 / 4 x. int to -- Midland, Birm., and Derby...loo ....• 861 to Midland, Consol. Bristol and Birmingham 6 per cent.... 100 1211,E to 120 Midland, Bristol and Glouc. 36 Ditto ditto ill. 35.6 d. .. . to Midland, Leices. and Swan nington (8 per ct.gua.)....100 .... • ...... to Uidld. Great Western (Irish) 35 Newcastle and Carlisle Ditto Quarter Shares - ...... to -- Newmarket and Chesterford 18 1 ,4 — Ditto Extension Newport Abergy., and Heref. 6 Norfolk 100 Ditto New 20/. Ditto Extension Do. Scrip, 1847,N. of Norflk '2 Do. do. Waveney Valley... 2 Newry and Enniskillen Newry, Warrenpoint, and Rost revor :s'orthern Counties Union North British Ditto Half Shares.. 1 2 1,4 Do. Quarters 4 3 /4 Ditto. Extension Ditto Thirds ... ......... - .... 2 ...... 2 North Staffordshire... North Wales North Western Oxford, Worcester, and Wol verhampton Reading, Guildfd., & Reigate 7% — ...... to Royston and Hitchin Scottish Central ..., 20 Scottish Midland ... ......... ... '2O Ditto, New Sheffield, Rotherham, sad Goole Shrewsbury and Birmingham 6 Ditto, ditto, Class B. 8 Shrewsbury and Chester ( Nor. W. MM.) Ditto Halves, Ditto... 8 _. ... to Ditto, Oswestry l2 ... _ Ditto (New) 1 Ditto 8 per Cent. Pref 5 ...... 8 .... to Shrewsbury and Hereford Shropshire Union South Devon ....... ...... ... 40 Ditto. Preference South Staffordshire 4 South Eastern and Dover 33 1 Ditto, New, No. 1 - VittO, New, N 0.2 Ditto, New, No. 3 2O Ditto New, .No. 4. ...... ... .. 7 1 ,( South Wales South Yorkshire, Doncaster, and Goole Swans. and Loughor and Ca meron's Stm. Coal Chames Haven Dock and Railway 17% — to raw Vale Extension Vale of Neath Waterford and Kilkenny 1314...... ---to Waterford and Limerick Waterford, W exford,W icklw, and Dublin West Cornwall .Vhitehavon and Furness l2 ... .. Windsor, Staines, and South Western s2s. Wilts,Somerset,&Weymouth 80 fork, Newcastle, and Berwick 25 ... . 35 .. ... to 34 3 / Do. Original New & Ber'ck 25 Do. NortliShields Purchass 25 Do. Extol. No.l (Y. & N.) 10 Do. do. No. 2, New & B. 16 Do. G. N. E. Pur. or Pref. S York and North Midland .. 50 ...... 74% to 75 Ditto, Preference ditto East and West Riding Extension FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Boulogne and Amiens 2O ...... ...... to Central of France ( Orleans and Vierzon) Central of Spain ... 2 Ceylon .... ss. Demerara. Dendre Valley Direct Bombay and Madras ss. .... Dutch Rhenish .. -.. 7 East Indian ... . l l4 — Great Indian Peninsular ss. Italian and Anstrian Jsznaica S. Midland Junction 1 Louvain a la Sambre Luxembourg Lyons and Avignon (Con stituted) Madrid and Valentia Namur and Liege Northern of France. l 6 Orleans and Bordeaux ... .. 6 Over Yasel 4135 4d — Paris and Lyons Paris and Orleans... Paris and Rouen ... ..... ...... 20 Paris & Strasbourg ...... ..... S Rouen and Havre ... 21 Sambre and Meuse Strasburg and Bale ..... ...... 14 Tours & Nantes ... .. ...... .. i 'lournay, Jurbise, Landen, and Hassell ... ... .. 141 ...... ...... to West Flanders 5% — to JOINT STOCK BANKS. Australasia - British North American .... 60 Colonial Commercial of London London Joint Stock London and Westminster. .. 20 National Provincial of Engld. 35 ' Ditto New National of Ireland 22% — ... .. to Provincial of Ireland Ditto, New Union of Australia Ditto, New 2% to Union of London ... 10 Union of Madrid MINES. Anglo Alexican .. 100 Astrian Mining Company ... 11 Australian Blaenaryon Iron and Coal ... 50 Bolar,os Scrip British Iron Bitazilian Imperial ... .. ... 21 Galvanized Iron Ditto, New Real del Monte, Unregistered . .. 13 ‘ to LLOYD'S SHIPPING—(THIS DAY.) LONDON, JAN. 11.—Wind this day at noon N.E., light breeze, and frosty weather. DEAL, JAN. 10.—Wind E.N.E., fresh. —P.M., mode rate.—Sid. 'Eger, Surinam. PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 10.—Wind N E.—Off port, Inde fatigable, Rokmer, Havannah. COWES, JAN. 10.—Wind N.E.—Arrd. Isabella, Tilley' Rio Janeiro. DARTMOUTH, JAN. 10.—Wind E.N.E.—Arrd. City of MtNaught, Calcutta. PLYMOUTH, JAN. 9.—Arrd. Wanderer, Priest, Hong- Kong; Duke te Roxburgh, Collard, Singapore; Alex ander, Edie, Sierra Leone, for Havre. FALMOUTH, JAN. B.—W N.E., fresh.—Arrd. Sophia, Blyth, Mauritius. GLOUCESTER, JAN. 10.—Wind E.—Arrd. Persevere. ante, Robinsom,lSt. John's,'; New Brunswick. PENARTH ROADS, JAN. 9.—Sld. Clunine, Callao; W. Barber, Valparaiso. NEATH, JAN. B.—Arrd. Hannah Shea, Miramichi. ROTHESAY, ISLE OF BUTE, JAN. s.—Sld. Madawasha, New York; St. George, St. Vincent's; Mary and Ann, Trinidad; Retreat, Trinidad; Queen, Syndey and Port Philip. NEWPORT, JAN. 10.—Wind N.E.—Sailed Adolphe, Warren, St. Thomas ; Black River packet, Jamaica. HULL, JAN. 10.—Arrived Agatha Catharina, As musden, Port Plata; Washington, Matson, New York, for Han3burgb; Favourite, Youens, St. John's, New Brunswick. CORE, JAN. 9.—Wind N.W.—Arrd. Kinnear, Heard, Manilla. Off port, Kent, Smith, Nova Scotia. GRAVESEND, JAN. 9. —The Three Betseys, from Hartlepool, sank, after being in contact with the Victoria, in S.W. Reach to-day; crew saved. BRIXTON, ISLE OF WIGHT, JAN. 9. The Llan Ruwney has parted. Should the weather continue fine the greater part of her cargo will be saved. FALMOUTH, JAN. 9.—The Isabella, from Rio Janeiro, arrived off here yesterday; was in contact last night i off the Lizard, and sustained some damage to bulwarks, rigging, &c. LIVERPOOL, JAN. 10. The schooner George and Frances, the Clyde to Runcorn, struck on the West Hoyle on Bth instant, and became a total wreck; crew saved. BIDEFORD, JAN. 9.—Arrd. Susannah, Meader, Prince Edward's Island. NEWHAVEN, JAN. B.—Sld.. Minerva, Havannah LIVERPOOL, JAN. 10.—Wind S.E.—Sld. Alexandria, Brazils; Lucille, Hayti; Covenanter, Apalachicola. KINGSTOWN.—Arrd. Margaret, Hardcastle, St. John's, New Brunswick. WEXFORD.—Arrd. Mookkee, Hawlin, St. John's, New Brunswick. BELFAST, JAN. B.—Wind S.E.-7. Arrd. Sobraon, Hetherington, Demerara. 8. Standard, Ritchie, Qw-bec; 7. Sld. Sobraon, Roche, Mobile. 8. Sir Colin Camp bell, New Orleans. STRANGFORD, JAN. 7.—The Isabella has been hove off Gunn Island, and brought in here to-day, with consider. able damage. SHIELDS, JAN. 10.—The Cecilia, Danish schooner, hence to Flinsburg, has put back leaky, having been in contact, sth inst., with a Danish brig, suppossd to have foundered. LEITH, JAN. 9.—The Halfe, Griefawalde, to the east coast, has put in here with two feet water in her hold. PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 10 —The Emma, of this port, took the ground on entering the Camber; was got off after lightening, and into the Camber with pumps going. CORK, JAN. 9.—The Courier, Newport to Boston, has put in with cargo shifted, and must discharge. LIMERICK, JAN. B.—The Resolution brig, of Car digan, broke adrift from the quay to-day, and is sup, posed to have received much damage. SKIBBEREEN, JAN. 7.—The Cambria, of Gloucester, from Quebec, has:come ashore in Dunmanaen's Bay, north of Crookhaven, waterlogged, dismasted, and abandoned, and lies in a dangerous position. HARWICH, JAN. 10.—The Hasp, Vanderzee, from Sunderland to Amsterdam, has been assisted in here, w ith loss of sails and considerable damage; has put back in consequence of the ice. Encountered strong gales. WESTMINSTER HALL.—This ancient Hall is itself again, the internal erection for the purpose of exhibit ing the Cartoons, and other works of art for the decora tion of the New Houses of Parliament being entirely ratuoved. MARKET NEWS.--(THIS I)AY.) HAY MARKETS. SMITHFIELD.--Meadow Hay, 21 lOs to 31 14s ; Clow, ditto, $/ 103 to 4/ 15s ; and Straw, 11 5s to 11 lOs per load. A moderate supply, and a steady demand, at full prices. CUMBERLAND.—Meadow Hay, 21 lOs to 31 15s ; Clover ditto, 3/ 10s to 41125; and Straw, 1/ 5s to 11 10s per load. Trade steady, at fully late rates. WHITECHAPILL.—Meadow Hay, 2110 s to 31 15•; Clover ditto, 31 lOs to 4/ 15s ; and Straw, 1/ 3s to 11 lOs per load. Supply good, and trade dull. COLONIAL. ScGAR.—The demand for British Plantation continues good, and 820 hhds have been sold at steady prices, in cluding 100 hhds Barbadoes by auction, at 38s to 46 for low to fine yellow. The public sales have comprised 513 bags Mauritius, 2,300 bags Bengal, 3,000 bags Madras, 250 baskets, and 50 cases Penang, which went off heavily, but generally maintained former prices. Mauritius brought chiefly 365 to 38s 6i for greyish yellow, Bengal 30s 6d to 355, Mauritius kind 39s 6d to 425, and white Benares 45s 6d to 48s; Madras 283 to 355, for very low soft to mid yellow, and Penang 29s to 33s for ord to good greyish brown. The stock of British Plantation in the port Of London on the Ist instant was 25,721 hhds, 3,409 tierces against 6,225 hhds 763 tierces at this time last year. The deliveries for home consumption were 82,665 hhds 11,234 tierces, against 75,480 hhds 9,907 tierces to the corresponding period of 1846. Of Foreign and East India sorts the stocks are larger than at this time last year. COFFEE.—The stock of British in the Port of London is 2,405 hhds 3,078 barrels and bags, against 2,257 hhds, 1,920 barrels and bags at this time last year. The de liveries for home consumption were 3,441 hhds 3,063 barrels and bags to the corresponding period of 1846. Rum.—The stock of this article in the port of London on the Ist inst. was 18,464 runs 4,701 hhds against 12,443 puns 2,669 hhds at this time last year. The de liveries for home consumption were 15,779 puns 3,517 hhds against 12,673 puns 2,721 hhds to the correspond ing period of 1846. RICE.-1,500 bags Bengal and 1,500 bags Madras were principally realised at rather higher prices. SALTPETRE.-4,900 bags Bengal were nearly all bought in at prices above the present market value; but about one-fourth has since been placed at about former rates. TALLOW.—P.Y.C. is 44s 9d to 45s per cwt on the spot, and Town 49s 6d per cwt. TEA.—The market is rather improving, and there is sit increased consumption. We have received the Paris papers of Monday. The following is the Address in answer to the Speech which is to be proposed in the Chamber of Peers : " Sire,—The Chamber of Peers unite with your Majesty in rendering thanks to Divine Providence. An abundant harvest has put an end to the privations and sufferings which the dearness of provisions had imposed upon the poor and labouring classes. Their courageous patience, and the charitable sympathy which was everywhere shown towards them, is an honour to our c'.untry. Never did the quiet of the people, and the freedom of transactions, contribute in so great a measure to diminish the evil consequences of a deficiency.in the supply of food. The commerce of France, with from accustomed prudence, succeeded in escaping from the effects of that crisis. The call in the price of provisions will increase the consump- tion of other articles of production, the welfare will increase, the national prosperity will resume its course. " One of the first duties of the Legislature is to re-establish the equilibrium between the expenses and receipts. 'We flatter ourselves that this hope will be realised. "If a reduction in the salt duties and in the postage of letters is compatible with the good state of our finances, we will give our due attention to the project which is to regulate the conditions for such reduction. "A complete and true equilibrium can only exist in our budgets when the extraordinary expenses can be provided for by the excess of the revenues. Nevertheless, it is requisite to terminate the great enterprises already commenced; they are destined to facilitate communications, and will contribute to the progress of the national prosperity. The future will profit by them ; it is just that it should contribute its share, and it has been necessary to have recourse to public credit for the assistance of the present. "We will resume the examination already com menced of the useful projects of laws which, by the orders of your Majesty, had been presented to us for deliberation ; and we will eagerly welcome the new propositions, whose object will be th e amelioration of the social and moral condition of the people, " We believe, with your Majesty, that the peace of the world is assured. It is essential to all govern ments and people. This universal necessity is the guarantee of the good relations which exist between states. Our well wishes will accompany the progress which every country may accomplish by its own and independent action. This progress will be the better assured, as realised on a good understanding between the governments and the people, and without disturb ing the international relations. " The Swiss cantons, those ancient and faithful friends of France, have been troubled by internal dissensions. It is to be regretted that it was not possil de for a friendly mediation to prevent the outbreak of civil war. We hope that it will leave no evil symptoms behind (traces funestes), and that the rights of all bill be respected. The Helvetic Confederation will recognise that the position which is guaranteed to it by treaties, conformable to all its historical traditions, is the basis on which its tran quillity rests, and the pledge of security given to the neighbouring states. " We rejoice to hear that the hopes, often deceived, of the re-establishment of our commercial relations with the republics of La Plata, may at last be realised. Sire, our Princes, your well-loved children, ani mated by a patriotic zeal, fulfil, under the direction of your government, the duties of servants of tl,e state. The installation of the new Governor of Algeria has been signalized by a happy event. It was prepared by the war which his illustrious prede cessor conducted with skilful activity, and by the forestalling wisdom which presided over our relations with Morocco. Ano less glorious task is still re served to your worthy son. To strengthen oar establishment in Africa, to foster its development, to watch with zealous care over its internal safety, to endow it with a just and regular administration; such are the benefits which the colony and the mother•country expect from the wisdom, the firm ness, and the judgment of which he has already given proofs. " Noisy manifestations, in which were blindly mingled vague ideas of reform and progress, passions hostile to our monarchical constitution, opinions sub versive of social order, and detestable souvenirs have disquieted rather than alarmed the public mind (ont inguieteplutot que trouble lee espritsj, The Govern ment has found it necessary to turn its attention to it. We are persuaded that such agitations, tolerated by a system of liberty, are powerless against public order. Yes, Sire, the union of the great powers of the State, the action of the laws, the common sense of the public, will suffice to preserve the peace of the country, to recal to order the misguided, to dissipate insensate hopes. The seventeen years in which our beloved country has at length enjoyed both order and liberty are something more than a phasis of our revolutions. This period is the commencement of a lasting era, and will leave as a legacy to future generations the maintenance of the Charte, the blessings of your reign, and the glory of your name. " Sire, may the thought of what you are to France sustain your strength and good courage, and alle viate the sorrows which befal you in your dearest affections." The Count DE PoNToss, who was the French Am bassador in Switzerland before M. Bois LE COMTF, has declared that in the debate on the Address, he shall attack the policy pursued by M. GUI OT in regard to Switzerland. The French Consulate at Canton has been elevated into a Legation. The Free Trade Association have recommenced their meetings. The first was held on Friday. The National has the following on the subject of the letter of A BD-EL•KADEU to the KING : " Much has been said about a letter written by A.bd•el Kader to Louis Philippe, of which many versions have been given. According to some, the Emir has desired to be brought to Paris; others, that it expresses a wish to be allowed to go to Mecca, and there end his days, having formally renounced his stipulation for going into Egypt; others again affirm r~ Do., lat Class, 6 per Cent... 10' Do., 2d Class, 5 per Cent... 10 Do., Goy. Loan, 4 per Cent. 10 Dublin and Belfast Junction.. 20 Oundalk and Enniskillen ... 16 East Anglia, 251. L. & E., aid L. & D., Ditto, 181., E. & H lB ...... Ditto, 31. 103., E. & H... 2 Eastern,_ Counties Ditto, ditto (B) Do. Perpet., 5 per ct. No. 1,6/. 13s. 4d... to Do., do N 0.2,61. 13s. 4d... par Do., York Extension Do., Northern & Eastern SO Do., Quarter .... .. ........... 12 1 / 1 ... .. Do., New East ersn Union. 5O Ditto, Quarter Shares ...... 12 1 ,4 — Ditto., Thirds 13s. 4d — ...... to Ditto (guar. 6 per cent.) ... East Lancashire Ditto, New ..................13 Do., New Quarters' B 3 /4 to East Lincolnshire 1 2 1,4 — Edinburgh and Glasgow Ditto, Hall Shares to Ditto, Qvrter Shares 1 2 1,0 Edinburgh and Northern ... 22% — Ditto, New 3% — ...... to Ditto; New port - ail ix - ••.••• to Ditto, ditto, New ... 2 1 A — ...... to Exeter, Yeovil, & Dorchester 2% — to Ditto, New Glasg., Dumfries, & Carlisle..B/. 65.8 d... to Glasgow, Kilmarnock, & Ayr 50 Ditto, New Do. , 1 1 Shares (5 per ct.gua.) 12% ..... .• ... to Great Northern.... .......... ... 10% 4%x.int. to Do. London & York Exten. 2% — ...... to Gt. South. & West. (Ireland) 35 Great North of England 100 Ditto, Nt w 40/ b Ditto, Now 30/. Ditto, New 151. ..... ... ...... 6 1 / 2 — . ... to Great Western B5 ...... 97 Ditto, Half Shares Ditto, Quarter Shares 17% — Ditto, Fifths 2O Do. New 17/ Hudder.field and Manchester 24 .. ... Dittc, Thirds 8 [lull and Selby Ditto, Half Shares Ditto, Quarter Shares .. 12% — to Ipswich & Bury St. Edmunds 17% — to Do. do. and Norwich Do., do., Extension Scrip (late (Comb. and Ely) 2% — to Lancaster and Carlisle.... ....50 Do., Thirds lO - ' to Lancashire and Yorkshire ... 93 ..... ...... to Ditto, ditto —. 82 Ditto Half Shares - 38 Ditto Quarters 14% ...... 12 Ditto Fifths Ditto Sixteenths ........... 0A...—. Ditto Thirds (Reg.) ... 101.4 s 6 die.... , to Do. Liverpool and Bury... 34 Do. (Huddere. and Sheff.) 33 Do., Wakefield, Pontefract, _. . and G001e....... .. ....... 47 1 / — Do., West Riding Union ...41. 25.... . VA dis to Do., Preston and Wyre ... 25 Do., do., Half Shares (A) 9 Ditto ditto ........ ......(B) 1 1 4 — to Leeds and Bradtord 5O ..... .. ... to . —a, Leicester and Bedford l6s. Leeds, Dewsbury, & Munches. 37 1 % — to Do., Branch 1 / 2 Shares 1 2 1.E — to Ditto, New Branch (blue).. 2% _....... to 2 1 4 21 A, . Ditto, Extension (green)... 2 1 ) 4 — Do., New Exten. (pink)... 2.14 — Leeds and Thirsk ..... ... ... ... 36 Ditto, New Do., do., Prefer., 6 per Cent 3%. .... ...... to Liverpool. Crosby, and South port. Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle Junction 2 1,4 — ...... to London 4 Blackwall...l6/. 13s. 4d — Ditto New, No. 1.. Ditto New, No. 2 4l. 13s. 4d.... Do. Extension Lond., Bright., & South Coast 50 ... Do. Consolidated Eighths... 30 Do. Guaranteed 5 per Cent. 9 . ..... Do. Pref. Cony. 5 per Cent. 50 ...... Ditto, ditto 1852 50 ..... London and Greenwich... 12/.155. 4d.. Ditto Preference lB/ 17s 2d... ...... to London kNorth Western 100...152 151 1 / 152% to 153 Do. Quarter .....L. and B. 22 Do. do. New ...... .... ...... 2 Do. do. Fifths ... .. 2 ... 11 3 / 4 to Do. Quarters Do. 401. Shares L. &M. 15 .. Do. 401. Shares...M. and B. 40 .. .. Do. 10/.... M. and B. (A.) 7i. ..•• Do. 10/. .. M. and B. (B.) 7 1 / Q ...... Do. 101.... M. and B. (C.) 1 London and S. Western.... 41.. 65 8d... Do.N ow Consolidated Bths. 40 Ditto New 50/. ...... ---- 32 '4 .. to Ditto New 40/. ..-..... .. -. 26 Do. Tenths (Consolidated) 50 Do. Tenths (Consolidated) 40 Ditto, Thirds 8/. 6s. 8d ... ...... to Lendon, Salisbury, & Yeovil 1 1 ,E ...... Londonderry and Coleraine... 27 1 / 4 — Londonderry and Enniskillen 23 3 4 Manch. Bu:ston, & Matlock 3 Manehr, Sheffield, and Linc.100 Ditto 4. Shares (No. 1) ... 13 Ditto, ditto (No. 2) 25 Ditto, 1 3 Shares (No. 3)... 7%...... Ditto Grimsby 25 — to Ditto, ditto. ... Ditto, ditto ... Ditto, Sheffield, and Line. 7 6...... Manchestersadso4thampto4 VA .7! is .. t 4.. COAL AIARKE' YESTEnruy. Bate's West Hartley... 24s 6d Braddyll's Hetton 26s Od Chester Main 23s Od Bell Hasting's Hartley 24s 6d Haswell 265 Od New Tan field 2ls Od Keepier North Percy Hartley.. 24s 6d Lambton South Derwent Hart.. 21s OdShotten Tanfield Moor ..... ... 20s 6dStewart's, re-shipped 2ss 3d Tanfield Moor Butes... 19s Od'Caradoc Townley 23s Odlfludson's Hartlepool... 25s 3d Twizel 'Main Walker's Primrose ... 20s Od Heugh hall Wylam 23s Od Trimdon Wall's End, &e. Adelaide Tees Bell and Brown 24s 9dißrown's Deanery Bewicke and Co 24s 9d l l Denison 24s Od Clarke and Co. Elm Park Frarnwell Gate 24, Od Seymour Tees ...... .. 25s Od Gosforth 24s 9d South Durham 24, 6d Heaton Hedley Killingworth 24s 3d Woodefield .. .. 21s Od Riddell's 9 4s 6d Whitworth 2l, Od Walker Washington Wh,rncliffe 24s 9dDerwentwater Hartley 24s Od Willington 23s 6dSidney's Hartley Eden Main 2ss OdSir J. Hope's steam ... 21s Od Belmont 2ss 6dAlbert 22s Od Arrivals, 167. CHANCERY.—(THIS DAY.) This was the first day of Hilary Term, and we are happy to say the Lord Chancellor has recovered sufficiently from his severe indisposition as to be able to sit in his Court at Westminster to-day. His Lord ship looked much better than we had anticipated, but rather thinner about the face than when he last sat in Michaelmas Term. His Lordship, who sat at eleven o'clock, was occu pied the whole morning with an appeal motion from the decision of the Vice-Chancellor IVigram, in the case of Hirst v. Robinson, in which the Court below had granted an injunction, resting the proceedings on an action of ejectment. IN TILE MATTER OF UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, OXFORD. On the application of Mr. COOPER, his LoaDsnir ordered this matter to stand on the paper for argu ment on Saturday next. VICE-CHANCERY.—(THIS DAY.) (Before the VICE-CHANCELLOR Of ENGLAND.) This being the first day of Hilary Term, his Honour the Vice• Chancellor of England sat in his court at Westminster to-day, at ten o'clock. THE ATTORNEY- GEN ERAL v. GRAINGER. CHRIST'S HOSPITAL v. His HONOUR gave judgment to-day in this case, which was argued before him in the course of the last term. The case came before his Honour upon an information filed by the Attorney-General at the relation of Christ's Hospital, under the following circumstances :—A gentleman named John Kendrick, of the city of London, draper, by his will, executed on the 29th of December, 1624, bequeathed 7,500/. to the mayor and burgesses of Reading, and directed them, out of that sum, to purchase land worth 50/. a year, the rent of which was to be paid to his sister for life, and, after her death, to the overseers of the poor of the town, to he distributed among the poor of the place in the manner therein described. Another portion of the money was to be applied in the pur chase of a plot of ground, and the erection of a workhouse, to be occupied by such persons as should be appointed by the corporation for employing and handling the stock of the money which he left for that purpose. And he directed that the residue of the fund should be employed in clothing, either in making coloured or white cloths, as the times should require, and also in working wool, hemp, flax, iron, grinding Brazil wool and other stuffs for dyes, as to the corporation should seem expedient. The testator concluded by declaring that if the corporation should omit, neg lect, or fail to perform the premises according to his will, or should not employ the fund according to intent and meaning of his said devise, for the good of the poor, and such neglect should continue for a year, it was his will that the legacy of 7, 5001. should thence be void, frustrate, and of no effect, and should be paid by the corporation to the Mayor, commonalty, and citizens of London, for the use of Christ's Hospital. Shortly after the testator's death the corporation of Reading received the legacy, and proceeded to apply it in conformity with the injunctions of the will. An information was, however, in the reign of Charles 1., filed at the instigation of Archbishop Lnud in the Court of Exchequer for the management of the cha rity; and the decree of that Court, after reciting that a literal compliance with the testator's wishes in the application of the money in manufactures men tioned, had had the effect of reducing the condition of the general body of the poorer classes of the town, and was calculated to drive them out of their trades to the detriment of the revenues of his Majesty, or dered that the 7,500/. should be laid out in the pur chase of lands, and that the rents should from time to time be lent to poor clothiers on good security, or to other poor tradesmen, and the rest employed in ap prenticing poor children, marryi ng p oor ma id s o f honest conversation, and in other similar purposes; and it provided that if the corporation should neglect to perform the premises according to the decree, the money should go to Christ's Hospital. In 1838, the Charity Commissioners examined into the state of this charity, and reported that its property , had been altogether diverted from its original destina tion. An information was therefore filed, for the pur pose of having a scheme settled for the future manage ment of its funds, when the corporation of London se up a claim to the property under that provision, both in the will of the testator and in the decree of the Court of Exchequer, which decreed that the 7,500/. should be handed to them if the corporation of Read ing neglected the duties imposed upon them, and commenced this suit. His Honour in giving judg ment, observed that the case appeared to be very plain and simple, because he conceived that he was bound by the decree of the Court of Exchequer made in the year 1639. It was very plain to his mind that the things which were prescribed by that decree to be done had not been done ; and it followed therefore, as a necessary consequence that the 7,5001. had gone over to Christ's Hospital. The estate and the property which was now vested in the corporation of Reading, notwithstanding the 71st section of the Municipal Reform Act, must be conveyed to Christ's Hospital, ar.d those gentlemen who called themselves the trus tees, must pay the costs. Christ's Hospital must pay the corporation of Reading the costs, as they were trustees merely as the holders of the estate through the infirmity of the Municipal Corporation Act. It was singular, considering the phalanx of talent that was concerned in the preparation of that measure, that by the provision of the 71st section that which in other parts of it was declared should cease was continued. His Honour remembered well, for he was Deputy Speaker at the time that Lord John Russell brought up the Bill from the House of Commons. Lord Campbell was Attorney-General, at the time it was discussed in the House of Commons, and Lord Lyndhurst and Lord Plunkett took part in the dis cussion in the house of Lords, and how such a blunder as the one he had adverted to could have crept into it he could not conceive. Decree in favour of Christ's Hospital. CARTER V. BARNARD-JUDGMENT. His Hoeoua also gave judgment in this case, on which the suit was misconstrued for the specific performance of an alleged agreement, .dated the 30th of May, 1845, for the lease of part of a house, situ ated at 126, Bishopsgate-street, and 61, Cornhill. The plaintiff was the lessee of the house in question, and the defendants were the trustees of the Australa sian Colonial and General Life and Annuity Assur_