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DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. PRICES OF STOCKS TIIII tank Stock 3 per Cent. Rol. • Al N 10, a per Cent. Cons. at 1, 4 34 per Cent MP.; Ilftto RM., r iP*NYs New 3 A Tr. Cent 99 1,41 9 ‘,4 41`e, j. 4 , 5, CAPsentati - 1 Dissent.: - 'kirk Long Annuitiestn expire Jan. a, !grin. ...... ....... 1 . .",; S-tet Oct. lik 1839 l7 1-16 New 5 per Cent India Stock 259 Ditto Bonds South Sea Stock Old Annuities New Ditto B9 Jan. 5, Jan. 5, 1m8(. April b, I9AO Jan. 5, 1870 tVperCent. Annuities, 1ib1... .—..: Exch. BiIls;.£1,000 4l 42 pm. Ditto . ..... ...--500.. Ditto Small 4l 42 pm Ditto Commercial pm • RIUM OF FOREI'.:N FUNDS Austrian Bonds elitian Bonds ' l l% Ditto Account' I Rrasilian Bonds :3lq Ditto Account . .......... Buenas Ayres Bonds Ditto Account ...... Bonds Ditto Account... ......... 41 40N 7olumhian Bonds. Ditto Advertised Pm Bank Stock for Account India Stock for Account Consols for Account 91!it4 Ditto Account Columbian Bands; 1 tk. , I l.l ')N Ditto Account .......- ..... • 33 ti 3 Danish Bonds 76%3j Ditto Account Greek Bonds THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Peruvian Bonds ..... . ..... . 27 Dit• o Account Portuguese Bonds 9O % Ditto Account — Ditto New Bonds _91% 1 Ditto Account ')l' i , Al 4 1 IA 1 Prussian 80nd5....—... ........... . Ditto nomic Dttl.a Account BOlldf ' 5 per cent. Ditto A ecovint I)ittc. 6 per Ditty Account Neapolitan — Ditto Ponds, IP•?2 Russian Bondti, 1821 Ditto Account .. Ditto Metallic — Spanish Bonds 5 1 ,6 Ditto Account 55 , ,i 4 Ditto Bonds, 13.1 Ditto ccotint French, 5 per cent. —f. —c. -- 4 —f per cent • per cent. —l. —c. -- Exchange ..... —c. Dutch, 2 , 4 per cent. 544 Ditto Account M4 Ditt., 5 per cent. IQt•?T Ditto Account' PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Paid. Per Share Cat* Bran , a Mining Company »....« Re.tl del Monte Mining Co.. Regis t ered 11/. IN. (id. _ Ditto Unregistered - United Mexican (Limed at 21. pta.) Australian Company 2% Patent Purifying Sea Water Company 2 MAILS. 3'N; 2a Arrived. ......_ Du Arrived. Due Arnved. Due. a America 0 1 Prance 0 0 Lisbon 0 0 Brazil 0 I: Guern.it.lersey 0 0 Malta 0 0 Buenos Ayrea... 0 0 Hamburg 1 0 Mexico 1 0 Carthagena 0 0 Holland 1 Dublin 1 0 Jamaica 0 0 Sweden 1 0 Flanders HIGH ‘4 ATF.R. Al' LONDON BRIDGE TO.MORROW. Morning 0 minute after 1. Eveninj .30 minute. after I THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. THIS EVENING will be performed the New Comedy, entitled TILE KING'S SEAL Henri Quatre, Mr. Cooper ; Duc de Sully, Mr. Warde; Bertholdus Delfin, Mr. W. Ferree; Gronikind, Mr. Harley. Marchioness de Vcrneiull, Miss E Tree; Louise de Balzac, Miss Clifton; Lena, Mi.K Murray. After which the New Interlude, entitled THE KING'S WORD. Ts conclude with the New Grand Chivalric Entertainment, called KING ARTHUR and the KNIGHTS of the ROUND TABLE. rwhich Mr. Dueroes megniCcent Stud of Horses will be introduced. Arthur, Mr. Diddear ; Sir Roland, Mr. T. P Cooke; John Galadin, Mr. Harley ; Gybe I) igonct, Mr. Webster ; Gabriel, Mr. Bedford. Gyneth, Miss Mton ; Morgans La Faye, Mrs. Vining; Dorothy Stamp, Mrs. Humb7. THRATRF. ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN. THIS EVENING will be performed the Grand Opera of SONNA'SIBULA. Count Ilhodolpho, Mr. Seguin; Elvino, Mr. Templeton; Alesslo, Mr. Webster; Pedro, Mr. A yliffe. Amina (first tjmc), Miss E. lamer ; Lisa, Miss Betts. After which, the New Grand Comic Pantomime, called NAILE6UIN ANI) OUEEN MAB; OR, THE THREE GLASS DISTAFFS. Harlequin, Mr. Ellar ; Pautaloon, Mr. F. Sutton ; Clown, Mr. T Matthews; Whirligig, Mr. W. IL Payne. Columbine, Miss C. Reekic. TORY MISRULE. 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Also, in one large volume, with Portraits of the Reform Ministry, - , price 18s., or with the Appendix, bound in black cloth, 215., THE BLACK BOOK Of Abuses in Church, State, Courts of Law, Corporations, and Public Companies.—No Pat liamentary Candidate or Elector ought to be without this important volume at the existing crisis ; it being a complete picture of the system of Tory misrule and corruption, which it is aISV 501101 to perpetuate. Published by Effingham Wilson, SI, Royal Exchange. THE EDINBURGH REVIEW, No. CXXII will be published on Friday, the 30th of January. CONTENTS: 1. LIFE end POtMS oP ti e Rev. GEORGE CRABBE. 2. The ANCIENT r•rd MO 'ERN NUBIANS. cmuuNcrroN•s POEMS. 4. COLONEL FT.INTETI'S ACCOUNT of PUERTO RICO. 5 On the FREOUENCY of S}IIPWRECKS. 6. (ILASSFORITS LYRICAL TRASSLATIONS. 7. Th- wtrrisn SCIENTIFIC ASSOCIATION. tZ BUP.NEs'S Tit ‘VELs into BOKII A RA. B. The U N IVEIC SITI Es and the DISSENTERS In. 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The publication of THE SUN NEWSPAPER commenced this day at 10 minutes past 3 o'clock. - ~ 4 , fil ,: 4 - 13 ...,..„-,,,_ ~u s'•=s `,=b, xt LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 27, 1835. We have dipped into an article entitled " Appro priation of Church Property," which appears in the last number of the Edinburgh Review, just published. This article is an able, and to our minds, a con vincing one. It advocates a provision for the Ro man Catholic clergy of Ireland ; and points out at some length, and with considerable force of reason ing, the puerile fallacy of Lord STANLEY'S notions of Church Reform. It suggests also to Ministers the course most proper to be pursued on this momentous subject, cautioning them, in particular, not to be diverted from their path by the stale Tory clap-traps of precedent. " Respect for precedent" argues the Reviewer, "is a whole some counterpoise to the desire of change, and is one of the chief cementing powers which give stability to our institutions ; but it may be carried to a superstitious and injurious excess. Where precedent is made a shelter for abuse, or an obstacle to improve ment, let us not assume that its value is supreme. Let us also abstain from hastily assuming that it is a prece dent distinctly applicable in the manner asserted _by those who appeal to it." These are seasonable and judicious remarks, and it is in this enlarged spirit, without adhering servilely to the letter of precedent, that all reforms, to be salutary, must be carried on. The appointment of Lord HEYTESBURY to the high and responsible situation of Governor-General of ndia, is one of the most objectionable that the Tories have yet made. As Sir WILLIAM A'CourtT, his Lordship was notorious for having been in at the death of ahnost.every liberal institution in Europe. Where ever freedom, overpowered by the covert or open as saults of the Holy Alliance, was gradually giving way in a country, there was he present, actively aiding and abetting in its downfall. His Lordship is a sly, shrewd diplomatist of the most bigoted school of Tory ism. He is too old to change—whatever he may allege to the contrary—too proud to acknowledge it his heart the necessity. We take for granted, how ever, that he will hang out the colours of Reform al his mast-head. This is a matter of course. But it wil deceive none who are acquainted with his Lordship's past career. Think of a man whom LI VER.- POOL looked up to as an oracle, and ELDON swore by as a prodigy ; who was ever ready to lead the forlorn hope of bigotry among the nations of Eu rope ; being appointed to sway the destinies of a mighty . Empire, at the very moment when—thanks to the late Ministry—her domestic affairs are undergoing an active process of Reform ! Could no one be found better qualified to give the necessary impetus to salu tary measures of change, than he who has all his life been their bitterest enemy ? by, if Ministers had thrown a net across either the Treasury or Opposition bench in the House of Commons, at the very first haul they would have caught a score of men better fitted to be a Governor-General than Lord HEYTES BURY He has actually not one solitary qualification for the appointment ; nay, more than this ; he has all the qualifications that should deprive him of it. But he is a dexterous, unleavened Tory, and herein lies his Oreat recommendation with a set of Ministers who—by way of a joke, we suppose I—call themselves Reformers. We consider Lord HEYTESBURY'S appointnient to India as far more offensive than Lord LONDONDERRY'S rumoured one to St. Petersburgh. The forffier is a positive nuisance. The latter a mere joke. To be sure, both diplomatists are Tories. But then the one has brains ; whereas his bitterest enemy never accused the other of such a requisite. Since it was firs . bruited abroad that the PREMIER had delivered himself of another address to the nume rous and enlightened constituency of the far-famed borough of Tamworth, various editions of the said.ad dress:have been given to the public. The Right Hon. Baroliet finding that some parasitically inclined per- sons.-such as are at all times ready to catch whatever falls from a PRENllER—attached, or pre. tended to attach, great importance to this poli tical effusion, has, with his usual tact, availed hiniself of so excellent an opportunity to give it wider circulation by publishing an authorised report. We have at some expense of patience perused this Words , affair, which cannot, in any fair sense, be called a second address. It is, in truth, little else than his two former public addresses, hashed up, virth a spice of egotism thrown in, which by no means adds to the flavour. We think Sir Ro- BErtTauust have been hard pushed for something to say, when he could bring himself to rake up sundry compliffitntary expressions applied to him, years ago, by men whose political ~.sntiments were different from his own; :as a proof that his professions are worthy to be relied' on. Our readers will he amused to find Sir ROBERT thus expressfeg himself :—" I am told T am not a Reformer, arid that if I become a Reformer I must be an apos tate. Now- before I determine whether I am a Re fo;irier or'not, I must have a definition of the term." Sir ROBERT - is not blest with a good memory. 'He has called himself a Reformer, and therefore it is his business to furnish the definition. He surely knows what he is himself, and if he is not a Reformer, he °light not to have assumed the name, which he could only do for the purpose of deception. Sir ROBERT may'endeavour to screen his insincerity by the shallow artifice of throwing ridicule upon the variety of opinions held by the Reformers ; but it will not do. He may rest assured that the people of England will not take it for &anted that, because he holds some opinions in common with Lord ALTHORP and Lord JOHN RUS SELL, he is therefore to be numbered among Re forners of their class. But although he does not favour us with an express definition of a Reformer, he tells us that he has a better title to the name than " nine-tenths of those who call themselves Reformers ;" in proof of which modAt desertion, he enumerates in detail his magnifi cent contributions to the cause of Reform, namely, his ardent love of economy, his commercial improvements, and his alterations in the criminal law. Now with respect to the first of these claims, it must not be forgotten that he and his party declared and asseverated that they had carried retrenchment to to the very uttermost practical extent—that not a far thing more could be spared v:lthout the greatest dan ger to the public Kaylce. Well, the late Ministry carried retrenchment beyond this utmost boundary to the extent of FIVE MILLIONS ANT) A HALF ! If by his commercial improvements Sir ROBERT means his,Currency Bill, the merit of that measure is somewhat equivocal. His new - friend and ally, WIL LIAM COBBETT, Esq., whose support of the Tory Government is hailed as a Godsend by the whole party, will tell him that a more jestructive scheme never was hatched in the 'nfain of man ; and Mr. COBBETT'S opinion on this point is shared by a large proportion of t i ne mercantile community. Of the improvements introduced by Sir ROBERT PEEL into one branch of the law, we are bound to speak in , terms of praise, and even of high praise. But let 'it be remembered that the great merit of mitigating the severity of the Criminal Code, belongs to Sir SAMUEL ROMILLY. It was the unwearied perseverance of that great and good man in the cause of humanity, assisted by a few active philanthropists, that opened men's eyes to the real character of those sanguinary atrocities which were committed under the sanction, and in the name, of law. So deeply was the public feeling enlisted in the question, that before the tardy work of amendment commenced, the law had become it dead letter, and crime went without punish ment. But if Juries would have convicted, and Judges hanged, we fear the still small voice of hu manity would have pleaded in vain against the " wis dom of our ancestors." Let Sir ROBERT, then,' full credit` for the part he took in this good • ' itork, but I?,t him not attempt to deprive others of justly •due to them. Let him not , Attempt to build on • the )10pour so TFIE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY, JANITARY 27, 1835. the labours of others an exclusive claim to the grati- ' tude and confidence of the people. The three points to which we have now alluded comprise the whole of the Right Hon. BA RONET'S stock in trade as a Reformer. He lays claim to no more, and let their dimensions be swelled to the utmost extent that his most ardent admirers could desire, we apprehend the stock will generally be considered rather scanty, to carry on a brisk and thriving business. To do Sir ROBERT justice he makes the most of his materials. He is very skilful in giving a false colour ing to that which requires to be disguised, and in keeping out of view those points on which the real merits of a question depend. Apparently elated with the consciousness of his own achievements, he exclaims" An apostate indeed 1 Who can justly charge me with the dereliction of any principle supposing I do enforce economy, reduce unnecessary offices, facilitate com mercial enterprize, or remove impediments from the course of justice ?'' We answer, none—nobody ever thought of such a thing. But if a man, who has all his life been an enemy to Parliamentary Reform, who opposed with all his might the Reform Bill, who has over and over again recorded his deliberate conviction that that Bill leads, in its direct and inevitable re sults, to the destruction of the Monarchy and of all our other national institutions, and who has, more over, declared solemnly that it has placed an everlasting barrier between him and office ;—if the man who has said and done all this, turn round, in the twinkling of an eye, and say that he is ready to take office on the condition of following out this Bill, so denounced, to all its natural and legitimate results ;—to him we say that either he has been through his whole past life a hypocrite, or he is guilty of as great a dereliction of principle as ever disgraced the character of a public man. The result of the Elections up to the present day ,s 231 Tories to 403 Reformers—Majority 172. The brave people of Scotland have given a mo,, cheering response to the call made upon them by the Reformers of the British Metropolis. proved to the United Kingdom that their claims to intelligence are well founded—that their sagacity em- They have braces a knowledge of men and measures—and tba' neither rank, pervious services, personal influence, nor a fear of the visitings of aristocratic displeasure, is able to swerve them from a proper discharge of the trust reposed in them, as electors of the British empire. They have not forgotten that their bold deeds in other days entitled the Reformers of England to look forward to their sturdy co-operation, with a degree of placid confidence unusual in times of great excitement ; and they have realised the expectations of those who trusted in them, by hurling from its high pedestal the idol of Toryism in the North. Most heartily do we thank them for the timely assistance they have thus rendered the great and good cause, in which we are all heart and hand engaged. Did they do no more than turn Sir GEORGE 'MURRAY out of Perth, that one act of public virtue—that one brand stamped on the fore head of a renegade to his plighted promises—would of itself entitle them to the thanks of every honest constituency in the kingdOm. Where the conse quences of an act are of no individual importance, the discharge of a public duty entitles no person to thanks ; but the case is very different when men oppose them selves to the arbitrary power of a landed aristocracy, as the gallant Reformers of Scotland have done in this, and almost every instance. That the royal burghs of Scotland have not been behind the more open constituencies in the advocacy of Reform principles, we have a noble proof in the re election of Colonel LEITH HAY, by the electors of the Elgin district. This gallant officer, who repre sented his present constituents, in the two last Parlia ments, was indefatigable in his efforts to promote the true interests of his country, by voting for every mea sure for the reform of our Civil and Ecclesiastical insti- mons. tutions, and by his support of every proposition for ex tending the operation of the Reform Bill. Our readers will find, in another part of The Sun, the honourable and gallant Gentleman's address to his constituents, thanking them for his re-election--a document which at the present moment is deserving of peculiar attention. The sentiments it contains cannot now be represented as put forth to serve electioneering pur poses. Colonel LEITH HAY is not now soliciting the suffrages of the electors, and had he thought it most prudent to conceal his opinions, there were none to find fault with him for so doing. There is another cause for attaching particular importance at the present period to the sentiments of Colonel LEITH HAY, and Reformers of that class ; viz., they formed no part of the ultra-Radical opposition in the Reformed Parliament : on the contrary, they were ranked among the Whig Reformers, and generally voted with the late IVlinistry. Such men are never found opposing a Government through factious motives : they are driven into opposition only when the safety of the country is periled. Now what says the hon. and gallant Gentleman in this address to his constituents with respect to the Tory Administration ? " I have no confidence," he tells them, " in his Majesty's Ministers, and go to Parliament with a firm determination to use my best exertions to obtain their speedy expulsion from that power and influence, which there does not appear to me the slightest prospect of their exercising for the interests of the community, for the stability of the . Monarchy, or the preservation of internal harmony and prosperity. It is the policy of Tory tactics to call us Destructives ! The real De structives are those who attempt to rule this country in direct opposition to the wishes of the people." When such men as Colonel LEITH HAY express themselves in such language as this, the country can not be mistaken in straining every nerve to remove from office the misguided faction who are now in possession of the " high places." The time chosen to give utterance to it is a sufficient test of the hon. Gentleman's sincerity, as well as a secure pledge that the promises made by him to his constituents will be fulfilled to the very letter, and in the true spirit in which they were made and accepted. Colonel LEITH HAY goes into Parliament to oppose the Tories, and he will find himself well supported. Now that the elections have terminated in Scotland, we are happy to congratulate the Reformers of the North on the glorious victory they have achieved. They have done their duty, in many instances under circumstances requiring the greatest moral courage, and Trot unfrcquently by making great private sacrifices. 131 :4t their virtue shall not long go unrewarded. The Tories, notwithstanding the influence of the Court, destruction. Indeed , it is now ques avierrdy t h h r e ia p k ros o t f itutionof the liberal press , a re o n the tvioairraiila)ltene shall whether t h h a e v y e a s i l s l e r in e h m i e a windoi r ‘k office h till ert 1 1 the nwe wait to be kicked out by a vote of the House of Com- The result of the late election at Bristol was hailed by the adherents of the present Administration as a glorious proof of re-action. It was trumpeted forth as the triumph of Toryism over liberal principles ; and seemed to surprise those who expected that nothing could impede the salutary working of the Reform Bill in a large Constituency. The apparent mystery is very clearly explained in a little pamphlet just published, entitled " Causes and Consequences of the Return of two Tories to represent the City of Bristol in Parlia ment." From this publication it appears that of all the strong-holds of corruption, Bristol is the strongest. This is her trebly entrenched camp—her impregnable 'ortress, from which not even the Ballot would be able ,o expel her. The Corporation of Bristol is a nest of Tories, and, together with the vestries composed of the same mate- rials, has at its disposal Charities to the annual amount of 20,0001. This immense patronage, distributed by men who look only to the advancement of the interests of their party, among a set of mercenary wretches nick-named freemen, would of itself be sufficient to ac- count for the preference given to the Tory candidates But this is not all. In order to make " assurance doubly sure," the wealthy Tories had establishedby subscription, an Institution to which they gave the name of " the Conservative Operative Society." This is a benefit club, to be entitled to participate i❑ the funds of which, it is only necessary for the freemen to register them selves in the books of the Society as voters in the Blue interest. From this sink alone the Tories raked out about 1000 votes ; and that a similar supply may never be wanting on future occasions, they have formed an Association of Apprentices, who, on paying a nominal subscription, have their freedoms taken up for them, and are in due time drafted into the other battalion. When to these causes we add the Governtne . patronage,—not a little item in such an account ;—the personal influence of the Corporators and Vestrymen, all of them active canvassers in the Tory interest ; the undisguised intimidation resorted to; and though last not least, the hard cash paid down upon the nail—the downright bribery unsparingly and unblushingly prac tised; our wonder is, not that the Tories were success ful, but that. the Reformers were able to make so good a stand as they did. The obstacles they had to en counter were, we believe, insurmountable. But though the loss of the election is a subject of regret, it is the means by which the successful candi dates were returned that calls for the most serious at ;ention from all who profess to love the Consti- Here is a plan deliberately formed, and systematically acted upon, by a junto of powerful and irresponsible men, for the avowed purpose of evading the law—of defeating the objects of the Reform Act. If the nefarious practices of the Bristol Corporators are allowed to pass without con dign punishment, every Tory Corporation in England will follow the example ; and corps of pension ers, under the name of clubmen, will be every where regularly organized, drilled, and kept ready to march to the poll at the first summons. How, then, is this evil to be remedied or prevented ? The answer is obvious—by Corporation Reform. It is to this greatest and most pressing of all Reforms that the attention of the people should now be earnestly and unceasingly turned ; for it is evident, from the oc currences at Bristol, that until the Corporations, at once the receptacles and the sources of corruption, be cleansed, the Reform Act, when it has to contend with tution. them, is a mere non-entity. With respect to Bristol itself, the mere reform of the Corporation will not suffice. The freemen must be disfranchised, and the vestries thrown open►. We direct attention to the intelligence from Swi zerland, contained under the head of German Papers Intelligence from the Spanish frontier will be found in our extracts from the French journals. We have received the whole of the Paris Papers of Sunday, but their contents add nothing to the intelligence received yesterday. The ex citement occasioned by the menaces of the United States, and the unexpected claims of Russia, still continues. We stated yesterday that the claims of Russia to compensation were to be discussed in the Chamber of Deputies on Monday (yesterday) ; so that by to-morrow we shall be able to submit the Mi nisterial defence to our readers. There is no domestic news in any of the Paris papers. THE FUNDS-(THIS DAY). CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. By the express from — Paris v it is stated that two armies are about to be established by the Spanish Government, one in Andalusia, and the other in Castile. Another account from Madrid states that an armistice may be expected to take place between the contending parties. This information has caused an improvement in the Spanish and Portuguese Stocks this morning. We can state that, for several days past, a negocia tion was going forward with General Alm, to put an end to the war in Spain. THE FUNDS. Consols, which left off yesterday at 91k to 91i for the Account, opened at the same price this morning, with little doing. - Exchequer Bills are at the closing price, 41 43 ; India Bonds, 20 22; India Stock, 257 258. In the Foreign Market Spanish have improved : left off yesterday at 54i to 55, opened this morning at Por tuguese, which left off 911, are at present 91i ; all other Foreign Securities may be quoted at the leaving off prices of yesterday. New Spanish Scrip, 1 premium. HALF-PAST ONE. Consols continue steady at 91i to i for the Account, with little doing, as the chief business is in the Foreign Market. Spanish is steady at 55 to -I, but not so good as in the morning ; Portuguese Stock keeps its price of 91 to i ; Spanish Scrip is improving, and may be quoted at 11 j. THREE O'CLOCK. Consols for the Account, 911 I. THE FUNDS.—CLOSING PRICES. Rank Stook "24 3 per Cent. Red 9l! 3 per Cent. Cons 1 1.4 31, per Cent. 3 1 ,4 per Cent Red '9% New 3!4_ per Cent Mil 4 per Cent. ANsented — Dissented — Long Annuities to expire Jaa IStin l7 3-16 oct. 1959 l7 1-16 Jan. leso — _ _ BRITISH FUNDS. I n dia Stock 159 Ditto Bonds.— "I pm South Sea Stock Ditto Old Annuities Ditto New Annuities Ex. Bills. I 0144/.... Ditto 5)41/ 42 pm. Ditto wil 42 pm. Bank Stock for Act. India Stock rm . Opg. Consols for Opg. FUNDS. Portuguese Bonds, 5 per cent 9014 Ditto, New Ditto 91% Prussian, 5 per cent i Russian Bonds, 5 per cent. 1 0 43!4 Ditto, Metallic Spanish, 5 per cent 5474 Ditto, ItS'3 French, 5 per cent Exchange French, 3 per cent Dutch, 1 : per cent 54 4 Ditto. 5 per cent .... 101 OREIG Austrian, 5 per cent — B e l g ian, 5 per cent. 93% Brazilian Bond s Buenos Ayres, 6 per cant Chißan, 6 per cent 4134 Columbian, 6 ter cent Ditto, I 5714 324.1 Danish Circe% Bonds, 162.5. 5 per cent — Mexican, 5 per cent Prot B'2s—, D i tto , 19 - 25, 6 per c Peruvian, 6 per cent DEATH FROM THE BITE OF A RAT.—Last week, the infant son of Mr. Passmore, saddler, of Truro, died i n consequence of having been bitten by a rat. The poor b a b e , which lay asleep in a cradle,in an adjoining room, was heard by its father to cry, and on his going to look after it, a large rat escaped from the cradle.. On examination it was found that the rat had severely bitten two of the fingers. Every attention was paid to the case, but in vain ; a severe inflammation took place, and mortification at length terminated the life of the innocent Sufferer. COU LAII. The Archbishop of Canterbury had a long interview yes terday with Sir Robert Peel and Mr. Secretary Goulburn. Mr. John Gladstone has been appointed Under Secretary of State for the Colonial Department. Mr. Gladstone had an interview yesterday with the Earl of Aberdeen, and after wards transacted business at the Colonial-office. The Duke of Wellington attended yesterday at the Foreign office. His Grace was visited by Baron Ompteda, the Hano verian Minister ; M. de Moraes Sarmento, the Portuguese Mi. nistcr ; and Count Seckendorf, the Prussia Charge d'Affaires. A deputation from the City, including Mr. Alderman Vena bles, Mr. Alderman Harmer, and the City Remembrancer, had an interview yesterday with Sir R. Peel, at the Treasury. The Lord Chancellor visited Mr. Secretary Goulburn yes terday at the Home-office. Lord Sandon, Mr. Hume, M. P., and Mr. S. Wortley, had interviews yesterday with the Earl of Aberdeen. Earl Granville and the Right Hon. H. Ellis transacted business yesterday at the Foreign-office. Mr. Antrobus, and a deputation from the Tea Trade, had an interview yesterday with Sir Robert Peel. Sir Henry Halford gave a grand dinner last evening at his residence in Curzon-street. Amongst the company were the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Bishop of London, the Lord Chancellor, the Duke of Wellington, Sir R. Peel, Mr. Secre tary Goulburn, the Earl of Aberdeen, the Right Hon. C. W. Wynn, Lord Abinger, the Right Hon. Sir C. Tindal, and Sir C. M. Sutton. The party assembled at Lord Melbourne's seat, Rocket-hall, is expected to separate to-day. The companion of Sir John Hobhouse to the scat at the Noble ex-Premier, in Herts, on Saturday, was Mr. Poulett Thomson. Lord John Russell was to have been at the meeting, but his Lordship could not leave Woburn, from indisposition. On dit : That that the subject discussed by the distinguished party was the course to be pursued by the Opposition on the meeting of Par liament. Sir Henry Halford, as President of the College of Physicians, gave his annual banquet last evening, at his resi dence in Curzon-street, which was attended by Sir Robert Peel, the Right Hon. Mr. Goulburn, the Archbishop of Can terbury, the Bishop of London, Lord Lyndhurst, Sir Charles Manners Sutton, Lord Abinger, and several other of the new Reformers. The eating, drinking, and toasting being over, the company adjourned to the rooms in Pall mall East to assist in a conversazione, at which upwards of seven hundred individuals were assembled. The Learned President gave a lecture illustrative of the circumstances immediately attendant upon the last moments of the leading members of the Royal Family of Enteland, from the time of Henry VIII. to that of the late lamented Duke of Gloucester. The object of Sir Henry seemed to be to impress upon his auditors the fervent attachment which had prevailed amongst the Princes of our own generation to the Church of England ; and in this it was admitted by all that he was erninentl; successful. The proof of their attachment to, and consolation in, religion, was not, however, by any means so convincing. • - - THOMAS CAMPBELL, ESQ.—We are happy in being authorised to remove the anxiety which our information has occasioned in the friends and admirers of " the polished and spirited Campbell." We understane, that he has been en joying with all a poet's ecstacy, the novelties of Algiers, and the splendour of its neighbouring scenery, which he has fre quently explored in his rides among the hills amidst the mag nificence of the lofty palm and banana, and the luxuriance of the vine, the fig-tree and the myrtle. He is recovered from his illness, which was the effect of severe cold, and he returns by way of Tunis, Sicily, Greece, Italy, to England, in the end of the month of May.—Caledonian Mercury. - - - - • On Wednesday last an important case was decided by thy Mayor of Leeds, by which former decisions establishing the right of Wesleyan itinerant and local preachers to exemp tion from turnpike tolls, in fulfilling their appointments, ac cording to the directions of their printed quarterly or half quarterly plans, were confirmed.—York Chronicle. The Court of Directors of the East India Company will give a sumptuous entertainment to Lord Heytesbury, the newly-appointed Governor-General of India, to-morrow even ing, at the Albion Tavern. His Lordship, accompanied 133 his brother, Captain A'Court, R.N., has arrived at the Bur lington Hotel, from Heytesbury, Wiltshire, to make prepara tions for his departure for Calcutta. Lord W. Bentinck cannot arrive in England till July, as he was not to leave until March. FREEDOM OF ELECTION.—A Queen's County freeholder, named CasHn, residing at Ballyprophy, had his house visited, by an armed party, on the eve of the polling, and a notice posted, requiring him to vote for Lalor and Cas sidy, at the peril of his life. The party, the better to ratify their threat, fired a bullet through his door.—Limerick Sen tinel. By a decision lately come to at the Admiralty would appear that the project for a steam communication with India by the way of Egypt is about to be revived, with the es pecial support of the present Administration. Orders have been given that a regular communication with Alexandria, through the Mediterranean steam-packets, is to be kept, up. A steam-vessel is to be in readiness at Malta for the arrival of the mail from England, and start with the letters for Alexan dria, whence she will return immediately to Malta, bringing the letters to go to England by the next packet. This arrange ment will be on foot on the Ist of March next, and will remove one of the great impediments to the long talked of communi cation with India. It is expected that a Company will be formed in Liverpool for this purpose. In the Court-house of Trim on Thursday an affray took place between Grattan and an attorney named Gibson, an agent for Mr. Plunkett. Grattan told him he was a liar ; Gibson replied and told Grattan he was a liar, whereupon Grattan seized a hat, and violently struck Gibson in the face. Gibson took up a hat and retaliated, by striking Grattan with the hat also in the face. The High Sheriff here rose, and told Mr. Grattan he would not allow him to commit a breach of the peace or riot in his presence. Soon after order was restored and the polling resumed. Mr. Gibson, it is said, has lodged informations against Mr. Grattan for an assault.— Dublin Evening Packet. It has been determined, provided the Courts, &c. arc ready for the reception of the Judges, that the ensuing Spring Assizes for Lancashire shall be held at Liverpool. This ar rangement will doubtless be a very great accommodation to the inhabitants of Liverpool, and is one which, we think, should have been long ago effected ; but when we recollect that Li verpool is situated in the southern extremity of the county, and when we bear in mind the immense expense which must be incurred in bringing prisoners, witnesses, &c., from Lancaster and the northern districts of the county, we cannot help sug gesting that the Assizes should be held at Lancaster also. By adopting this course, we need hardly point out how great a benefit would be conferred on suitors in general, and on the county at large. " TOUGH YARNS," by the " Old Sailor," Embel lished by the inimitable CRUIKSHANK.—" We congratulate the lovers of wit, and the admirers of our British Tars, and the literary commonwealth, with the possession of a volume, that will tend, as did the songs of Dibdin, to foster that indomitable spirit among our seamen, that has borne England triumphant through a scene of dangers, over which no other nation could have triumphed but England, nor England without her uncon querable navy."—Metropolitan Magazine. ECONOMY.—The Bishop of Peterborough, during the late suspension of the privilege of franking, caused an ad vertisement to be inserted in the Northampton Mercury, ad dressed to the clergy of his diocese, requesting them to ab stain from writing to him till the privilege was restored, except in urgent cases ; and desiring them in such cases to write on a single sheet, without enclosures.—Cambrian. ANECDOTE OF JUDGE TAUNTON.—His Lord ship was very quick and smart at rapartee. One of the neatest specimens of his talent in this department occurred at cham bers not long since. An attorney applied to enlarge a rule for some purpose. It was granted. The opposing attorney observed, that in the whole course of his experience he had never heard of a rule being enlarged under such circumstances. " I shall have the pleasure, then," said the Judge, " of enlarg ing the rule and your experience at the same time." THE CHAPEAU DE PAILLE.—This chief-d'muvre of Rubens was sold at Antwerp, in 1822, by public auction. The occasion attracted crowds to Antwerp, and the inns were so full that many persons could scarcely obtain lodgings. The moderns, in this instance, surpassed the enthusiasm of the an cients. Never was such interest known to be before created for a single picture. When it was brought forward by the auctioneer, the bravos were loud and continued. The sale did not proceed for an hour ; the biddings then commenced : it was finally knocked down at 3,0001. It is now in the pos session of Sir Robert Peel. The last census of Rome for 1834 gives the number of parishes 54, 39 Bishops, 1,424 Priests, 1,857 men be longing to religious orders, 1,359 women of the same class, 598 seminarists or students in colleges, 32,522 families, 210 Protestants or Infidels without counting Jews, 108,553 fit for communion, 41,460 unfit, 1,379 marriages, 4,454 baptisms, 3,480 deaths, 78,456 men, 71,560 women—in the whole 150,061 individuals. The increase of the last year over 1833 amounts to 96 persons ; in 1825 the population was only 138,738 souls; and in 1829, 144,541. THE SPIRIT OF LITIGATION.—The spirit of li tigation was, perhaps, never carried to a greater extent than in a cause between two eminent potters, Handley-green, Staffordshire, for a sum of 2/. 9s. Id. After being in Chan cery for eleven years, it was put an end to by John Moreton and Randal Wilbraham, Esqrs., to whom it was referred, when they determined that the complainant filed his bill with out any cause, and that he was indebted to the defendant at the same time the sum for which be had brought this action. This they awarded him to pay, with one thousand guineas costs. M R . BULWER ' S PELHAM.—The new and cheap edition of this celebrated work, forming the commencement of the improved collection of " Colburn's Modern Novelists," to be published monthly, on the plan of the Waverley Novels, is introduced by a remarkable preface, in which the author ex plains the objects which he proposed to himself in writing his tale. "It struck me," be observes, " that it would be a new, an useful, and perhaps a happy moral, to show in what manner we might redeem and brighten the common-places of life, to prove (what is really the fact) that the lessons of society do not necessarily corrupt, and that we may be both men of the world, and even, to a certain degree, men of pleasure, and yet do something wiser, nobler, better." CHANCERY (THIS DAY)• LEE V. ENTICKNAP. The arguments having been concluded this morning in this case— The LORD CHANCELLOR gave judgment, affirming the decree of the Vice-Chancellor. In the course of the argument the Lord Chancellor decided that no party, whatever their inte rest in the decision of the cause might be, could be heard in the arguments upon the appeal, either from the judgment of the Master of the Rolls, or the Vice-Chancellor, unless those parties had joined in the original petition of appeal. It is generally understood that his Lordship will clear the appeal paper during the present week, there being only five or six appeals set down for hearing. VICE-CHANCERY.-(THIS DAY.) His HoNoua, in coming into Court, stated that, after the last day of term ( Saturday) the Court would adjourn to the 16th of February, the first seal. On that and the two follow in days, the Court would hear motions, and his Honour would the g n proceed with the cause of the Attorney-General V. Pearson. ROLLS' COURT. 2 -(THIS DAY.) ATTORNEY-GENERAL U. HANKEY AND OTHERS. This was an information filed by the Attorney- General at the relation of the Charity Commissioners, against the de fendants, three gentlemen of the name of Hankey, and a Mr. Robert Long, praying that those gentlemen, as trustees of certain Charities, might acconet for the funds they had re ceived in the administration of the Charity Estates, and that Mr. Robert Long and one of the Mr. Hankeys might be re moved from being trustees. Mr. PEMBERTON, with whom was Mr. WILLIAM RUSSELL apreared for their relators, and stated that the grounds upon which the information was filed were the following :—ln the year 1727 a lady of the name of Ashton by her will devised certain property to trustees, in the first place to pay the rents to her daughter Elizabeth, and after her decease then upon trust in the first place to pay 6/. a year to the inhabitants of aix almshouses in Dunstable; then for the purpose of providing bread to the amount of 2s. a week, to be distributed among the poor of Dunstable eve! y urtday ; then t'ie testatrix gave 1001. a year, to be dividA among the poor c'ebtors confined in the prison of Ludgate, and other prisons in Loedoa, the amount to be given to each person not to exceed 51., and the residue of her property she directed to be applied to the relief of thirty poor clergymen and thirty widows of poor clergymen. After the death of the testatrix, 3 bill was filed for the purpose of establishing he r will, and ulti mately the property became vested in the present defendants , Abuses bad crept into the management of the Charity property. One of the estates mentioned in the will had entirely disap peared previous to the present defendants becoming trustees; another part of the real estate had been sold and converted into the personal estate. In 1799 one of the defendants became connected with the charity not in the character of trustee, but as receiver under the order of the Court. That gentleman , who, from that period down to 1808, had acted as Solicitor for the trustees, had never accounted for a single shil ling he had received during that period. In the year 1808, Mr. Long, though filling the character of receiver, and manager of the estates was appointed one of the trustees , from that time to 1827 that gentleman had continued not o nly to receive the whole income of the charity, but to fill the office of trustee, receiving 151 . a year , t he sum the testatrix had provided for each of her trustees, and also 50/. a year) his salary as receiver. Added to this, Mr. Long distributed the Charity funds just as he thought proper, and settled 10 accounts with his co-trustees, producing no vouchers, but taking credit to himself for all that he had paid. The surplus of the estate which was to be divided among the poor clergymen and widows, had been distribute d in a manner inconsistent with the trusts, the trustees dividing the surplus in equal parts among themselves, and each girieg those parts to the objects they tho u g ht most proper, with out any consultation with their co-trustees. Upon the charity undergoing examination by the charity commissionergt the mismanagement was discove red ; p revious to this I‘l.' Long, who had resided in Lo ndon, went to Devonshire, leaving the three Messrs. Hankey , his co trustees, behin d him. Upon the Charity Commissioners applying to theta they stated their utter ignorance of the manrer in which the charity had been carried on, having left everything to Mr. Long. That Gentleman, vibe ° he left London, took all the deeds and documents connected with the charity with hint; repeated applications had bee° made to him for an account of the Charity propertl . This Mr. Long said he was aiAe to give. accounts, however, had been obtained, that gentlema n stating that his health was in too bad a state to al low of his coming up to London ; on one occasion, when at tempting to come to town he was thrown off the coach at WIZ' ton, and on another occasion he only got as far as Bath, and a third time he reached Cheltenham, where the Learned Counsel believed be now was. Under such cir.. cumstances, the Chancery Commissioners felt themselve s called upon to file the present information , praying that Mr. Long might be removed from being trustee, and that lets salary might be disallowed. With respect to the Meore' Hankeys, he believed those gentlemen were not all desirous t remain trustees—one, therefore, of them would consent to be removed. There would then be a scheme for the future rege," lation of the Charity property, an enquiry of what it c onsistee, and what had become of that part which had disappeared, re serving further directions and costs. Mr. BICKERSTETH and Mr. WALKER appeared for Mess . rt Hankey, and submitted to any order the Court night proper. proper. Those gentlemen had done all in their power to o tam an account from Mr. Long. Mr. TINNEY and Mr. RICHARDS appeared for Mr. Long' They did not resist the removal of that gentleman as trustee' the great mistake he had made was becoming a trustee In 1808, but he submitted that he ougl:t to have an opportulla of showing how he had applied the Charity Funds. In a S course he had adopted, however wrong it might Mr. Long had not in view his own private emolument. , The MASTER OF THE ROLLS ordered the remova l of .V.(l Long, referring it to the Master to appoint new trustees, an 85' to take an account against the trustees from 1808 . The M ter to be at liberty to state any matters specially , and to sP' prove of a scheme for the future regulation of the Charity. -• KING'S BENCH-(THIS DAY.) SWEARING IN OF MR. JUSTICE COLERIDGE. The new Judge, Mr. Justice COLERIDGE, appeared L i : Court this morning for the first time since his elevatio n to Or Bench. The usual oaths were administered by the p roPe officer, and his Lordship, after bowing to the other Juc and the Gentlemen of the Bar, took his scat to the left of Justice Williams. The court and galleries were extra" crowed. ASV DOE ON THE DEMISE OF SPILSBURT V. BATTEN, BART., OTHERS. .0 0 This was a case from the special paper, and was an ac t 1 0 of ejectment, brought to recover certain estates in the Gaul le of Derby and Nottingham. The question turned upon i t . 0 validity of a will, executed by a Miss Lydia Hannah War u ,,l the year 1787. The arguments were of a very uninter es 7 nature, and the case is not likely to terminate till a late ir:4l BAIL COURT.-(THIS DAY.) LADBROoK V. HUNTER AND ANOTHER. In this case a rule had been obtained by Mr. Lewis, and on the plaintiff to show cause why one of the defendants in nh action should not be discharged out of the custody of '- Sheriff, on the ground of a misnomer. Mr. Ilurr now showed cause against the rule. The ac ti l was brought to recover a sum of 1731. due upon two Bills °°' Exchange acceptedby the defendants, who carried on busi ness 4 the firm of Hunter and Phillips. A writ of capias had be en Sos o out, and the defendants arrested. The learned counsel statealt-by he had affidavits to shew that due diligence had been use de the plaintiff in endeavouring to ascertain the name of th e t he fendant Phillips by searching the Directories, applying a t ,e, bankers of the firm, and inquiring of the efendant H0;0 who stated that the name of his partner was James, which , w it the name inserted in ;he writ, although it now appeared "de. his name was William. It was laid down, " that where t ot fendant is described in a process by a wrong name, or wit ocii any Christian name, he shall not be discharged out of en s A ` if it appear to the Court that due diligence has been nses 'n endeavouring to ascertain the same." In this case he e e t he tended that due diligence had been used, and therefore rule should be discharged. . that!t ue t Mr. RICHARDS, in support of the rule, contendeL diligence had not been used, and ho trusted that the ti would not discharge it upon such an affidavit as had beel l i read. coif Mr. JUSTICE PATTISON observed that the only questioinbe• whether the Court was satisfied that due diligenc e bad the used ? In this case it appeared to him that such had W i t i bo el ca se, and therefore the rule must be discharged, bu t wl costs.—Rule discharged. A dispute arose one evening last week, in t he Se p (fp: tier at the theatre at Rheims, between two females, wh e loc e of them was so violent in her gestures, that she lost her 10 09 and fell over into the pit. Though she came down head,l most, and fainted from the fright, she received no matelot. jury herself, nor did any of those amongst whom she alig t r 4 0' A POLAR WINTER —About the middle 0 ' A vember we began to feel the approach of a polar wintf,Fi e feeble gleam of light still faintly tinged the horizon, vr''' fbe opposite direction assumed the sombre shade of night' f ic°' almost dazzling whiteness of the grotesque hummocks 46 that lay scattered in irregular masses on the p lain, {0 strange strange contrast with the soft, purple shade of tvviligit he full moon shed its pale lustre on the lonely scene , eel `„lToer lours which it reflected on the ice were chaste berme cs'sbool tion. The planets twinkled in their orbs, and JuPiterbeuee' brilliantly at the hour our friends in the English co, might be taking a meridian altitude of the sun. Th e ,a borealis was often visible, and on one occasion it foil ° , jive ° most perfect arch I ever beheld, rising in a sing Le brilliant light in the south east, passing through the s po eit! and terminating at the verge of the horizon in th e s c gor point ; thus dividing the circle into two equal arts'p P'' its coruscations were beautiful. The thermo m eter abl time stood at 30 deg. of Fahrenheit below Zero ; gind o¢ty the wind blew, the cutting pain inflicted by t he c°' e°11" face—the only part of the person exposed, can only neec to g r a pared to the pricking of so many hundred of the flnast n T o h t e th fr e os w t ar a m cc t r of ul t a h t e ed ha s r o Ld r b a e p e id n ly co o n n st t a h n e tl e y ye -lashes,,tb, g o. ein ploye% ?o o 46/1 tersial margin of the lids would have been frozn. :L t d r' Account of the Polar Expedition in 1894, in the UM Bice Journal. • This I piece s in States, in and simile World in c tained of not before sated to ti been publ of name s , We calm( Some o f prose skei give them, supposing the public perhaps, with a si least degri cations,b bearing at means wig fame ; but Let the ai roux ambi our meed A volu cultivated P o Werfull3 si mple an' lin g," tha 46 d, hol Wild wave Way of nu A Talc We re( disciples Most Sulu thin slice less learns eleared th of hot ws 4pplicatio Presume I present fi te coMmen at leisure- Selves in t l eaves, w, the y will Rh o, like qua podr a re not lil Much tin are ant books, aln liSeMel h l'este r d tti ldred b il t; th, t iv S Itll °Z an' az 9 ti 11 t, 18 t, fy , 3 6 t 1 -0 to 4t 2 2 t av li T, St. p,t' DI Al a 4413 12, st t hei ts or f 18 elp 20t 2 2 ti 25 t 2 St - , 3 5 t