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PRICES OE STOCKS THI: Bank Stock -23% 3 per Cent. fled. 92N,4 ' ,: 3 per Cent. Cons 91% 2 144 2 344 per Cent lOO% Ditto Red. IOO%N ii }Jew 3V --- x Ce2nt —9 9 ; ',,i DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. New 5 per Cent 1ndia5t0ck........„.... ............. 259 Ditto Bonds 2l 22 pm. South Sza Stock Old Annuities New Ditto . .. 4 per Cent. tAssente Dissent d ed Bank Long Annuitiesto expire J3ll. 3, !860 per Cent. Annuities 1151... - Exch. Bi Ditto 500 'l9 40 pm. Dittn Small Oct. IP, 1859 „. 17 3-16 i i i-', Jan. 5,186 r.. lan. 3, ISM - April 5, 1880 - Jan. 5, 1870 - Ditto Commercial .... Vin Ditto Advertised pm. Bank Stock for Account 2 2 356 India Stock for Account Consols for Account o2ti I 2 . PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Austrian Bonds lill i Peruvian Bonds Belgian Bonds ION 1 Ditto Account — Ditto Account 1045;, i Portuguese Bonds — Brarilian Bonds ...... .. ..... ...... 854 i 1 Ditto Account — Ditto Account —' Ditto New Bonds 4 9 % Is l ti Buenos Ayres Bonds 304 ! 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Stock SAN 4 Hibernian Bank 'Ditto New, 1830 3 1 4, per Cent. Debentures 9l National Insurance Company 91;4( Bank stock 22 City Debentures, 4 per cent... V'. Royal Canal stock Grand Caual Stock MAILS. Arrived. Doe Arrived._ ---- Due Arrived. Due. .. 0 Ameriee...., .... 0 I Prance I 0 Lisbon 0 0 Brazi: . 0 I nuern.&Jersey 0 0 Malta 0 BuenosAyres... " 0 Hamburg I 0 Mexico 0 0 Cartliagena i -) , 0 Holland .. 1 0 Ostend 0 2 :hiblin OI 0 Jamaica I Flanders 11IG11 NN , ATER AT LONDON BRIDGF, TO-MORROW. Morning 35 minutes utter 11. Evening 0 minute:4 after 0 THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. PHIS EVENING will be performed the Tragedy of MACBETH. To conclude with the New Grand Chivalric Entertainment, called KING ARTHUR and the KNIGHTS of the ROUND TABLE. In which Mr. Ducrow's magnificent Stud of Horses will be introduced• Arthur, Mr. Diddear ; Sir Roland, Mr. T. P. Cooke; John Galadin, Mr. Harley ; Gybe Dagonet, Mr. Webster ; Gabriel, Mr. Bedford. Gyneth, Miss Clifton; Morgana La Faye, Mrs. Vining; Dorothy Stump, Mrs. Humby. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN. THIS BVENING will be performed tke Drama of THE BRIGAND. Allesandro Mansaront, Mr. Wallack ; Maria Gracie, Mrs. Vining. After which, the Grand Fairy Ballet of THE REVOLT OF THE HAREM. 3f a h or net, Mr. Howell ; Ismael, Mr. Gilbert ; Myssouf, Mr. W. H. Zulroa, Bailin; Atargul, Madame P. Giubilei ; Mina , M d lle. Burgoin ; t h e G e ,:uus of the Harem, Miss Kenneth. To conclude with the New Grand Comic Pantomime, called HARLEQUIN ANI: QUEEN MAR; OR, TILE THREE GLASS DISTA FFS. Harlequin, Mr. Ellai• f Pantaloon, Mr. F. Sutton ; Clown, Mr. T. Matthews ; Whirligig, Mr. NV. H. Payne. Columbine, Miss C Reekie ALARGE quantity of lIREVIER, and other TYPE, very Suitable for a coth:iry Newspaper, TO BE DISPOSED OF on Reasonable Terms. Address (post paid) to H. 8., 112, Strand, t,;;ldon. HAMBURG, Nov. 26, i 334 HEINE BROTHERS, Contractors for tic: GREAT LOTTERY, published and drawn by authority and under guarantee of the Hamburg Government, beg to inform the public, that the 65th Lottery of 10.000 Tickets will be drawn on the 18th of March next ; and Tickets are now selling at 108 marks banco, or 8/. The prizes are lof 100,000, lof 50,000, lof 30,000, 1 of 20,000, 1 of 10,000, 2 of 5,000, 4 of 3,000, 7 of 2,000, 20 of 1,000, 40 of 500, and 1,500 of 108 marks, which 1,578 money prizes are altogether stated ;n marks banco, and payalile without any deduction whatever; 4,000 ticketsbeing delivered gratis to the holders of the 2,000 first-drawn tickets, as per scheme, those purchasing one ticket, at the trifling cost of 81., may obtain three prizes, and thus, if fortune proves favourable, gain 180,000 marks banco, at the present exchange, equal to 13,0001. sterling. Owing to the gratis-tickets, the number of tickets on sale is a very limited one, so that, of course, they will be cleared off very rapidly, and a rise in price occur very soon. Those desirous to purchase at the present first price of 81., are requested to direct, by one of the first mails, but only for whole tickets, to the above-named Con tractors, Heine Brothers, in Hamburg. Those remitting a 101. note will receive an order for the balance of 2/., together with the ticket, by return of mail ; on the other hand, those preferring to pay Heine Brothers' draft for the cost, are recommended to pay such draft immediately when presented. A full scheme, and every desirable information, being always sent with the ticitets, those giving orders will only have to write a line, ordering the ticket or tickets, adding the money, or an order for the same, or stating the mode of payment that may be more convenient to the orderer, and giving their full and plain directions, to secure the safe receipt of the communications. Those honouring Heine Brothers by pur chasing, may depend on the strictest secrecy, as to their taking a chaise er getting a prize ; such being the undeviating rule of the o ld-established and most lucky Office. The publication of THE SUN NEWSPAPER commenced this day at 5 minutes past 3 o'clock. , e _..',fr i ) '•:, tr (15- 1.4,p4.3 ,,,, ,, ~.7 , _ r 4.0. , , ,, -ti . ,,t_ „... , : i : - , ,,„"re,. 5i „.f , , ','- 4r f---; , ~...i' 5: tlit ZTv ;111:1. LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 9, 1835. Our readers must not b: 1 offended at the daily itera tion of a name, whose owner has done nothing in reality to . engage the public attention I . ol* one half hour of time. The pertinacious sermonising 0 ! the ministerial prints on the theme of the approaching conte:. for the Speaker's chair, the sickening adulation bestowed On Sir CHARLES MANNERS SUTTON, and the vitupe ration thrown at his rival Mr. ABERCROMBY, must be taken as a sufficient evidence of the all-important nature of the subject in the estimation of the Cabinet, and a justificatidn of the persevering efforts of the liberal press, in urging again and again the necessity of Mr. ABERCROMBY'S appointment. The warfare of the Tory journals against their op ponents upon this point is conducted on a tripartite plan—namely, to vaunt the eminent fitness of Sir CHARLES; to decry the pretensions of his competitor; and to establish if possible a schism among the Re formers. Now let us calmly and fairly examine the question as it thus stands before us. Sir CHARLES has s;:nply done his duty; has been well paid for the performance of that duty ; will re ceive a very handsome retiring i;cnsion, and might have secured the honourable distinction of a peerage, had he displayed to the last that impartial n Cutrality which is blazoned forth as one of his especial attribti of character, but to the merit of which, unfortunately for himself, he has by his recent conduct now forfeited all claim. If these were not prospective rewards suffi ciently powerful to induce any man to act faith fully we know not what stronger stimulants he could reasonably require. Sir CHARLES gained the approbation of all parties for the manner, generally considered, in which he discharged that duty, and in. curred the only reproach which has been justly visited upon him, by a most unbecoming, impolitic, and un expected act of partiality, personal and political. With this approbation, tempered with the merited reproach, he might have gone on his way rejoicing, and the public would have thought no more about him. 13ut for no other imaginable reason than that he has become the great card that is to decide the Tory game, is Sir CHARLES all at once thrust forth as a man of surpassing excellence, his negative virtues and accom pliShmeilts chaunted out in grandiloquent strains, two year old praises of his present opponents raked up, as though that which, from circumstances, was reasonable just then, In tist, from altered circumstances, be so ply, consequentially, that no other note ; and all to im honest or fitting m3n can be found in the three king doms to do the simple (and very absurdly magnified) duty which he has done. Thus stands the case as re gards Sir CHARLES, his merits, and deserts. Now let us take that of his opponent. All that Tory ingenuity has been able to allege against Mr. ABERCROMBY is found in --the " dis qualifying" pension which was justly assigned to him, upon the abolition of his office as Chief Baron of the Scotch Exchequer, and of that useless Court itself. Without alluding to the badness of grace, that any personal attack on the score of pension holding must come from Tory lips, the triumphant re futation which the recent plain statement of facts has given to the slander of jobbing, silences for ever the only real ground of opposition to his appointment. Even had Mr. ABERCRONIBY'S pension been acquired by jobbing, the public would look with a very lenient eve upon the man who, for a life pension of 2,000/. a-year, contributed to effect an annual saving to the country of 25,000/., by the suppression of a useless judicial Court ! Another objection, to be sure, was put forth a day or two ago, which, as an exquisite sample of logic and propriety, may be simply noticed for the fun of the thing. Because Mr. ABERCROMBY —says a Tory print—is just as likely to make a bad Speaker as a good one, therefore he ought to be re jected upon the strength of the uncertainty ! Such an " argument" as this, coming, too, from the pen of a supporter of a Government that only " asks a fair trial," and, because untried, is just as likely to make a bad Government as a good one, is exceedingly amusing. It would be ignoble to break such a fly as this on the wheel, and we leave the silliness immangled. Then as to the desired schism among the Reformers. At the very moment these cunning and insinuating Tories are labouring with all their might to produce a split in that " miserable faction " the Anti-Tories—as alike represented by the " Russell section of the Op position," the coronetted Caries, and the extreme De structives—the Reformers are challenged, in the un conscious innocence of simplicity, to deny the actual constitution of two separate Committees—the one cpn listing of Lords DUNCANNON and RUSSELL, in con junction with Messrs. SPRING RICE, (who won't be jealous, notwithstanding Tory attempts to make him so,) and METHUEN ; the other, of Messrs. O'CoN NELL, HUME, WARBURTON, and GILLON-110W at this time engaged in promoting the election of Mr. ABERCROMBY !—whilst sedulously employed in hatching a jealous quarrel between their opponents, their alarm burns a hole in the pocket of their discretion, and out slips a challenge to deny the exis tence of the much dreaded union. Why should the challenge be accepted ? There is no denial to be given to the Union ! It does exist, so firm and indis soluble, that the Tories cannot withstand itt combined strength. They see it, acknowledge it, quail before it, and, in truth, well may they ! The question that now agitates the press is not one ci person, but of principle ; the rejection of Sir CIIARL'ES SUTTON is the rejection of the Tories, and hence the all-absorbing import of the decision to both parties. As for the qualifications of a Speaker, there are twenty gentleman among the newly-returned Members who are equally, if not superiorly, qualified to Sir CHARLES, long as he has officiated ; the real contest, however, is not between this man or that man, but between the real Reformers and mock Re formers ! If the sincere wishes of Sir CHARLES'S heart could be disclosed, we venture to assert that he would far rather slide quietly into the Upper House, than harrass himself about the Speakership ; but this may not be—he has been made the index-hand of the Tory weather-glass to announce foul or fair, as the political atmosphere shall determine—and he must point I The Quarterly Review, in its remarks on the Peel-Administration, makes allusion to an imagined difficulty in constructing a new Cabinet upon the dis solution of the present ! Selecting the person of Lord STANLEY, and supposing the case of his being called upon for that purpose, the writer speciously enquires where his Lordship would have to look for colleagues ? Now it seems to be forgotten, or the fact is purposely unnoticed, that Sir ROBERT PEEL is at this moment —standing as he does in the strength of his " belief' in being able to carry on the KING'S Government— associated with persons whom, two excepted, the nation and himself regard as but automata, and of whose pernicious tendencies the Ministerial prints have publicly asserted there need be no dread, under the mas terly control of such men as Sir ROBERT and the Duke. This assertion, indeed, taken as it may be for a tacit con fession of the political nonentity of subordinate officials, in the estimation of the twin Prime Ministers, at once quashes any argument on the difficulty of framing a new ,Idministration. If the personal character of a Premier is Alone to be considered a sufficient guarantee of its policy an.. wisdom, the choice of puppets to re present certain offices, supposed by the Constitution as a necessarily integral portion of the Government, is a matter of small moment : the difficulty evaporates, and Lord STANLEY might take office to-morrow morning, with as strong a confidence of being able to manage state affairs as that enunciated by Sir ROBERT PEEL. Although the Duke of WELLINGTON'S name has not been much bandied about lately, in the discussions upon the unweaned Government, the public have not forgotten that he is co-Minister with Sir ROBERT ; that, though nominally subordinate, he is the arch spirit that directs its councils ; and that the Worshipful Company of fill-gaps represent nothing more then the real bias of the man who chose them. In canvassing the propriety of a Tory Government to conduct the affairs of an Anti-Tory nation, every / *,:martial examiner is of course sensible that, if Tory conver ,_; - 2on to Reform be sincere, they must, as Re formers, fala;,fy by their future acts the whole tenor of their past politics or, if insincere, that they seek by means of hypocrisy to ::..!;./Yde the public confidence : but whether sincere or insinrer,2, that it were incon- . sistent with common sense and common r nrudence to entrust them exclusively with the government of .! . . be country—for whilst in the one case their deceit would disqualify them wholly, they would, in the other, be naturally desirous to restrict their reforms to the least possible minimum, in order thereby to diminish the amount of their own self-condemnation. Their sin cerity, however, was doubted from their selection of parsons who—emphatically Tory in practice and in principle—were either to exercise the functions of State Councillors, and for such a purpose no choice could be more infelicitously suspicious, or who were not, and that was too great an infraction of the Constitution to allay public mistrust. But the Tories need not be at all disturbed by any question of " difficulty" in selecting proper persons to compose a supplanting Cabinet, whether the number to compose it for the future shall consist of two, or of two dozen. When the present ministers shall be exiled from office—and let that first of all be secured --there will be no lack of " men good and true" to be constructed into a Government, consonant with the public wish, men whose life-long concurrence of prac- THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1835. tice with principle will afford the best assurance of lonesty of purpose, and unmistakeable intentions. Madrid Papers to the 29th ult. have been received. As we anticipated, immediately after the report of the insurrection of the 18th had reached us, the Spanish Government has violated its solemn faith pledged to the insurgents of the 2d regiment of Light Infantry. During the march of the late insurgents to Valladolid, the Government gave orders that CALDERO, the leader of the little band, should he sent to the Island of Majorca, to have his conduct inquired into by the proper authorities ; that the eerjeants should be dis missed and conveyed to their respective homes by the police ; and that the private soldiers should be draughted into other regiments. CALDER() required no time to deliberate on the nature of this unexpected communication. He knew well that an order to proceed to Majorca was precisely the same as being sentenced to be shot, and instantly made his escape into France. His followers were dis banded, and the sentence of the authorities at Madrid immediately enforced. We cannot sufficiently lament the blind treachery of the Government on this occasion. In the present state of the war in the Basque Provinces, an act like this is calculated to close the door against every hope of a surrender on the part of the rebels. The oaths and solemn protestations of the Government being thus proved worthless, there is no security for those who lay down their arms that they will be treated with any de gree of clemency. Can it he supposed that any pro mise made by the officer of a division, will be trusted after it is known that tt solemn promise made by the Government, sanctioned by the Legislature, and wit nessed by the Representatives of all the Great Powers in Europe, has been basely flung to the winds, the very instant the Cabinet felt itself able to play the traitor ? The supposition involves a moral impossibility. No man can now trust to the honor of Spain, nationally or indivi dually. In money transactions Spain has done all in her power to play the swindler on a most extensive scale ; and here we have her unblushingly pull off the mask which concealed the deformity of her moral character, and which led the rest of Europe to believe that, though poor and distracted, she still retained that chi valrous sense of honour which constituted her pride and her glory in past ages. The conduct of the government in the case of CALDERO and the insur gents of the 18th ult. has entirely destroyed that last impression of the greatness of the Spanish cha racter. In treating with the rebels on their own terms, the ministry displayed the cringing mean ness of dastardly slaves ; and in violating those pledges which the bravery of five hundred hungry men wrung from the leaders of eight thousand well disci plined troops, they have evinced all the duplicity and blpod-thirstiness of assassins. General LLAUDER left Madrid on the 26th ult., to assume the command of Catalonia, accompa nied by one hundred and fifty men, his customary body guard, since his arrival in Madrid. The QUEEN RE GENT still regards him as her most faithful and effi cient friend, in stemming the torrent of revolutionary principles, which he has prevailed upon her to believe are fast overflowing all Spain. The departure of LLAUDER from Madrid to assume the Captain-Gene ralship, is a triumph over the Government on the part of the late Minister ; and one too, the consequences of which are looked forward to with considerable appre hension by the liberal party. General QUESADA, who is the avowed enemy of LLAUDER, and who is equally an object of hatred to the Ex-Minister, has upbraided the Government with the imbecility of its conduct, in permitting LLAUDER to assume the command of a province after his late treacherous conduct in the capital, and has even gone so far as to assert that LLAUDER is prepared to throw himself into the arms of Don CA RLOS. An appre hension of this nature is not confined to General QUESADA. LLAUDER is a man capable of baseness even greater than this, when smarting under the chas tisement which the voice of the country inflicted on an intriguing tyrant, who is only not dangerous, because his understanding and his capacity are not equal to his inclinations to play the tyrant. He is not dreaded, because, however strong may be his propensities to mischief, and however confirmed his will to crush free dom in the bud, his countrymen know that he wants talents to execute his projects, so that his stolidity serves the country in the room of a counteracting good principle. To a nation it matters but little whether a man will not do evil, or knows not how to do it. The revolt of LLAUDER, would however, in the present state of affairs, be productive of very serious conse quences to the constitutional cause. As Captain- General his example would have great weight with an ignorant peasantry, who can be supposed to know but little of the cause espoused by their immediate rulers. In the Biscayan Provinces the labourers are reduced to the greatest misery, from the constant sys tem of plundering the cottages, pursued by the soldiers, whether Royalists or Carlists. The famine among them is very great, and, as a matter of course, is fol lowed by the usual disorders and distempers which al ways are found moving in the wake of hunger. The rumours of the several skirmishes, which are reported to have taken place between the Carlists and the QUEEN'S troops, are, in reality, not worth notice. A war so conducted might continue in full vigour from this to doomsday. The Express from Paris, with the French jour nals of Saturday, which ought to have reached us this morning, has not yet arrived. We presume the delay is entirely owing to the high wind yesterday. We have received pri vate letters, detailing some particulars respecting the stability of the French Government, but they differ in no material point from the statements contained in T h e s it „ of Saturday. Brussels and German F ii. , ers have been rec e iv e d. The Brussels Chambers of Legislation are occupied with a project for the abolition of capital punishments, which will shortly be passed into a law. The German States are all in the greatest anxiety respecting the fate of the Tory Administration in this country ; and it is even asserted that if Ow Liberals succeed in driving Sir ROBERT PEEL and his Col, leagues from office, the Northern despots will declare war against Englund, This we know to be mere smoke. The Northern Despots tii'6 in no condition to go to war with liberal Europe, neither dare they venture on such a step. The next war in Europe will, as we have already .014 u : 44spryed, be a war of principles, not of Monarchical prejudices and jealousies ; and the longgr the Despots keep out of the field, the better it will be f9;c ,4p:;;:i4plves. We presume this bugbear has been called into requisition, in order to deter some trembling Whig from vot7 ing against: the re-appointment of Sir C. M. SUTTON to the Speakership of the House of Commons ; but we can assure those who have fa bricated it, that it will produce no other effect than to cause the people to laugh heartily at a threat which, if even serious, we are powerful enough to despise. As to the anxiety of the petty aristocrats who claim the privilege of a seat at the Imperial Council board, we presume it originates in a hope that the Tories will now, as in the good old times belonging to ancestry, tax the people of England, to pension the mothers, brothers, and all the pauper relatives of their august Highnesses. With regard to their puissant wrath, it is about as terrible in out ears as the threat of an in vasion headed by an ebony chief of the Sandwich Islands. Arrivals from Washington state that the House of Representatives has so far departed from the example of the Senate, as to decline voting altogether on the part of the PRESIDENT'S message with regard to France, until the decision of the Chamber of Deputies shall be ascertained. This is just as we expected. So the question stands over, and the message is neither approved of, nor the contrary. We do not recollect meeting with a more shameless misrepresentation of facts, than that which a morning journal exhibits in its remarks on the cruel treatment of the paupers of Freshford, by the overseers of that parish. The circumstances of the case are briefly these. A complaint of the ill-treatment of the poor is made to the magistrates of the district, who reply that they have now no power to interfere. The com plaint is then directed to the Poor Law Commissioners, who state, in answer, that an Assistant Commissioner shall be sent, as soon as possible, to enquire into the matter ; and, in the mean time, they send to the parish officers a copy of the charges brought against them. An Assistant Commissioner is afterwards sent to investigate the matter—the misconduct of the overseer is proved—that officer is dismissed, and the necessary steps taken to ensure to the poor in future the comforts which they require. Out of these materials, the journal to which we have alluded manufactures an outrageous attack upon the new Poor Law, and the Poor Law Commissioners. Now, it must be obvious to every impartial person, (and this is the Ob server's fair and just view of the matter,) that this case furnishes an eminent proof of the good effects to be expected from the operation of the new system. " The Magistrates," says our contemporary, " found that under the heartless Poor Law Act, they had no power to remedy the shocking evil to which these hu mane gentlemen had called their attention ;" but he forgets to inform his readers that these shocking evils had existed a year and a half, without any humane interference on the part of the Magistrates—those " na tural guardians of the poor," as he denominates them. The complainants, finding no succour was to be obtained from the Magistrates, apply to the Board in London, and it is charged as a high crime and misdemeanour against the Board, that they did not send down an Assistant Commissioner instanter, when, in fact, they had none unoccupied at the moment. This charge, if it amount to anything, amounts to this, that there ought to be an Assistant Commissioner for every parish; although, if we recollect right, the ten or twelve that were appointed were considered by some of the oppo nents of the measure as far too numerous for the duties to be performed. But the Commissioners sent papers—they ought not to have sent papers to the parish officers ! Now, if they could not send a person to investigate the sub ject at once, surely the best step they could take was to interpose their authority by means of writing. This they did, and for this they are censured I Two of the paupers had died before the Assistant Com missioner arrived, and the " Christian reader" is very significantly told to mark this, as if it was owing to the Commissioners. The verdict in the one case attributed the death to " natural causes," in the other to the " visitation of God," and in both cases the Jury passed a severe censure on the parish officers. If the Commissioners had allowed these men to retain their offices, and the old system to continue, as the Magistrates had done, there might have been good reason for finding fault with them ; but they have, in this case, proved the efficiency of the new Poor Law, and that is an offence not to be forgiven. We could have wished that our contemporary had reserved a little of his disapprobation for the clergy man, whose duty it is to attend to the spiritual con cerns of the paupers of Freshford. It appears from the report, that this Reverend Gentleman " had not visited them since he had been a non-resident, neither did he visit the poorhouse when he did reside at Freshford ! ! !" DINNER TO THE RIGHT HON. C. GRANT, M.P. —INVERNESS, JAN. 26.—The friends and supporters of Mr. Grant, the representative of this county, invited him to a public dinner on Wednesday last, in the Northern Meeting Rooms. 'I he chair was taken by J. M. Grant, Esq., of Glenmoriston ; on the right sat the Right Hon. C. Grant, T. A. Fraser, Esq., of Lovat, Major Fraser, of Newton, Arthur Robertson, Esq., of Inches, &c. On his left were J. A. Stewart Mac kenzie, Esq., of Seaforth, M. P., William Grant, Esq., Rev. Mr. Beith, of Glenelg, Hugh Davidson, Esq., of Cantray, &c. The croupiers were John Gollan, Esq., of Gollan field, and George France, Esq., Lovat, by Beauly. SUDDEN DEA TII.—ThiS afternoon, at about a quarter to three o'clock, as Mr. T. Baker, of Upper Stam ford-street, was walking near Waterloo Bridge, he fell down in a fit of apoplexy, and expired. A medical gentleman was instantly on the spot, and bled him, but to no effect. _ _ We are glad to announce that H. Hunt, Esq., the ex-member for Preston, who lately was seized with a paralytic attack at the Swan Inn, Alresford, is now in a progressive state of recovery.—Salisbury Herald. NUTRITIOUS FOOD.—Onions can never be suf ficiently recommended. They possess more nourishment than any other vegetable. It is a well known fact, that a High lander, with a few raw onions in his pocket, and a crust of bread or a bit of cake can work or travel to an almost incre dible extent, for two or three days together, without any other food. The French are aware of this ; the soup de l'onion is now u niversally in use after all violent exertions, as the best of all restoratives. BELL ROCK.—The sea has been observed to run higher on the Bell Rock during the late gales than it has hi therto been known to do. The monthly returns from the lighthouse for January, bears that on the 17th the springs rose 116 feet, and drifted over the building ; and on the 18th and 19th they rose 110 feet. It is worthy of remark, that the ground swell or heaviest sea preceded the highest wind by two days. Several large masses of rock, called " travellers," by the lightkeepers, have been thrown from the deep upon the rock : one of which measures eight feet six inches In length, two feet six inches in breath, and four feet in thickness--or about five and a half tons. The visitation of these travellers is a source of great interest to the lightkeepers, who proceed t o break them up with large hammers, when at all manage pFeypnt 1.40 d r if t i ng upon t h e cast- i ron ra i lways or 04, t/ landing wharfi.,-.4:ditiNtr9ig gymiNg Courant. SMALL Pox.—This fatal and distressing distemper is at present very prevalent in some parts of Ross-shire, and attacks persons of all ages. A rather curious case occurred a f e w days since at Scuddel tirid g p. A ming woman was seized with the distemper on the day fixed for her marriage : the bridegroom and minister arrived; and the damsel thinking it best not to lose sight of her intended, insisted that she should be taken out of bed and married, which was accordingly done. Hav i ng ep_ ure4 her swain, she again retired t o h er a p ar t men t. jnverriessCouriO. ‘ .: 77 "" VA —" Jack," said a farmer Li. .uIL • Me t in the neighbourhood of Glasgow , the other day , to lis ploughman, " but you're an unto slow feeder ;" " Vera ma ? ister !' said Jack, flourishing the spoon, " but lam a real sure one."--SkOetcl hfergurY KING'S BENCH-(THIS DA Y.) THE KING V. \VIGLEY. The ATTORNEY-GENEkAI, stated the case. It was an indict - ment for perjury, brought by Mr. O'Gorman Mahon, formerly M. P. for the County of Clare, against an attorney named Wigley, residii:g in Essex -street, near the Temple. The per jury was alleged to have been committed by the defendant in an answer which he had put in tot Bill in Chancery, filed by the prosecutor. It appeared that in the year 1826 the prosecutor became acquainted with a Mr. Steele, and had accommodated him with various sums of money, and had on some occasions put his name to papers, which turned out to be blank stam..)s, one of which was filled up for 8001., and another for 5001., l'or neither of which had the prosecutor received any consid.ra tion. The 5001. bill was the one with regard to which the alleged perjury had been committed. That bill had never been presented to O'Gorman Mahon for pay ment —he was ignorant of its existence, and under pretence of procuring his signature to a document, which would have the effect of releasing a large sum from Chancery, and out of which the money advanced by O'Gorman was to be repaid, he was induced to put his name to a paper which turned out to be a cognovit in an action at the suit of a person named Grier son. Upon that cognovit judgment had been entered up, and the first thing O'Gorman Mahon ever heard of the bill or the plaintiff was the Sheriff's-officers taking possession of his effects, as he was then a Member of Parliament, and his per son was privileged from arrest. The prosecutor came to Lon don, and endeavoured to ascertain who Grierson was, but with out effect, and on his return to Ireland he was arrested at the suit of the defendant Wigley upon the same 5001. bill. A bill was then filed in Chancery in Ireland by the prosecutor for the purpose of obtaining information, and the answer put in by the defendant in London to that bill was the foundation of the present indictment. The answer stated that S. Grierson was the holder of the bill, and had it from tile defendant ; that the defendant was obliged to take up the bill, and was now the bona fide holder of it. This was charged by the indictment as the al leged perjury, and he (the Attorney-General) would call Mr. Grierson to prove that he never did hold the bill, nor ever re ceived it from the defendant, and further that he had never authorised the defendant to carry on any action in his name. O'Gorman Mahon would detail what he knew of the trans action, which was very little indeed, and although it might be urged that on the bill being first presented to him he had pronounced it a forgery, that was but the natural influence which he would draw, as he had never to his knowledge put his name to such a bill. However that evidence might satisfy the minds of the jury, he was aware that it would, legally speaking, require two witnesses to contradict the defendant before a conviction could take place. That he would endea vour to supply, by a conversation and by a correspondence be tween Grierson and the defendant, at the time of the bill be coming due, and in which not the slightest allusion to this bill was made. It would be for his Lordship to say whether that evidence would be sufficient to supply the place of a second witness. He did not conceal from himself that this was a defect in his case, but it would be for the Court to decide upon that point. He was satisfied that he fully represented his hon. client's feelings when he said, that if the result of the trial should prove that Mr. Wigley was innocent, and that O'Gorman Mahon was placed in the same position in which he stood when his connexion with these parties first commenced, no person would rejoice more than O'Gorman Mahon to find Mr. Wigley unstained, and himself unwronged. • _ . . _ Mr. Justice COIIRIDGE observed, that if his opinion was now to be taken (the Attorney-General assented) he thought that such evidence would not be sufficient to make out a case. Whc , re there was only one witness there must be strong confirma tive circumstantial evidence in support of it, and that was clearly not the case in the present instance. Lord Tenterden had even gone so far as to say that nothing short of two witnesses would suffice to sustaia such an indictment, but giving the case the fullest latitude, there was nothing which would autho rize him to send it to the jury. The Jury, under his Lordship's 'direction, immediately re turned a verdict of acquittal. Shortly after the case had terminated, O'Gorman Mahon, who had been sitting behind his counsel during the proceed ings, and who had just left the Court, returned and addressed Mr. Justice Coleridge, and complained that he had been ar rested, as he was leaving tho Court, at the suit of Wigley (as we understood him) for a sum of 30,0001. This money he had previously paid into Court, knowing that such a proceeding was meditated on the part of the gang. Mr. PLATT—These are very hard words, my Lord. O'Gorman Mahon—l can apply no other terms to such a set of fellows. Mr. Justice COLERIDGE requested that O'Gorman Mahon would not again repeat such expressions in presence of the Court, and informed him that he had its protection to depart without molestation. O'Gorman Mahon then bowed and retired. ASSAULT BY MR. O'GORMAN MAHON UPON AN ATTORNEY. A few minutes after O'Gorman Mahon had left the Court, that gentleman returned in custody of two policemen, and the Court was immediately crowded with persons who had wit nessed the affray that had taken place outside. Mr. PLATT said—My Lord, you have but just granted your protection to Mr. O'Gorman Mahon, and I have now to pre sent to you my client Mr. Wigley, with the bones of his face broken by that gentleman. I ask your Lordship, is such conduct to be endured in a British Court of Justice? The ATTORNEY GENERAL said he was instructed that the assault had been committed in the first instance by Mr. Wig ley, and what the other had done was in consequence of that assault. The matter was one which could not be inquired into by the Court, further than it would be necessary to vindicate its dignity from the contempt which had been shown. Mr. PLATT contended that the Court had a right to examine witnesses, and inquire into all the circumstances. The Learned Counsel observed that such was the course pursued by Mr. Justice Littledale on a similar occasion. He now required that O'Gorman Mahon be committed for assaulting a gentle man within the precincts of that Court. O'GoRMAN MAHON said that just as he had got outside the Court, Mr. Wigley, whom, on his honour as a gentleman, he never saw before, although he had been some time his prose cutor, came upon his left side, and said that he was a greater scoundrel than any of the party. He had attacked and insulted him in that gross manner, and, added Mr. O'Gorman Mahon, "my manhood rose, and I knocked the down." I con. fess that I have done so, and if your Lordship thinks proper to punish me, I shall submit to it. Mr. PLATT again entreated of his Lordship to hear the evidence of the persons present. Mr. Justice COLERIDGE retired for a few minutes, and on his return the following witnesses were examined : George Samuel Ford--I know both the parties. I was subptenaed here by O'Gorman Mahon, but could not get into the Court, and was standing in the passage. When the rush to the door took place I heard some words between O'Gorman Mahon and Mr. Wigley. I saw Mr. Wigley struck on the face and head. Wigley endeavoured to retreat from O'Gor man Mahon, down the passage, but the plaintiff followed him, striking him until he came to the end of the passage. I should say seven or eight times in all ; a policeman then interfered, and put an end to the assault. I certainly did not see Wigley strike, either before he was struck, or during the time 0•Go:_ man Mahon was beating him. I did not see Wiglev push against the other. On his cross-examination by O'Gorman Mah Win stated that he could not see what occurred ' the witness 1- • .etween the parties until they had got into the passage. Policeman A 105 saw the °' .. .. rtes leaving th e Court, and went round another w a ythepassage; heard the words, " You are a villain"--,q you are a scoundrel"—." you are the biggest or t;;;::-r.7. - est scou n drel ;" but does n o t k now by whom th:i were first used. Mahon and Wigley were talking to gether. Wigley went down the passage, the other followed him, and struck him several blows on the face ; did not see Wigley strike the other. By O'Gorman Mahon—From the position in which he was, witness could not see what occurred in the recess before they got into the passage. Mr. PLATT said the medical gentleman, Mr. M'Cann of Parliament-street, by whom Mr. Wigley's wound had been examined, was in attendance. The COURT said that evidence was unnecessary. For the def gice.—Acton Swenar deposed that he was just behind Mr. O'Gorman Mahon when he was leaving the Court, and heard Wigley say to him, "you are the greatest scoundrel or the party." Did not hear Mr. O'Gorman Mahon say any thing. The assault was then committed. John Roland Ottiwell, an Irish barrister, was leaving the Court in company with O'Gorman Mahon, and detailed the circumstances connected with the arrest, which he stated was done in the most insulting manner, for the purpose of provok ing Mr. O'Gorman Mahon. When O'Gorman was going out the second time, it struck witness that a plan was laid to pro voke him. Mr. Wigley followed so closely that he rushed past 0 Gorman Mahon, and most unquestionably thereby, in his (witness's) opinion, committed an assault.—(Laughter.) He jostled against Mahon, and then said, " you are the greatest scoundrel of the party." Witness then detailed the assault. Mr. Justice COLRIDGF, observed that it appeared beyond contradiction that Mr. Mahon had been guilty of a gross con tempt of Court by a very outrageous assault within its pre cincts. Had it been proved that Mr. Wigley had assaulted him, he would stand in the same predicament, but the evidence did not warrant him in such a conclusion. It was extremely im proper in Mr. Wigley to make use of the language he had done, but as lie had not done anything more, the Court could not take further notice of it. He therefore adjudged that O'Gorman Mahon should be committed for three days, and at the end of that time he should be entitled to the same privi leges as when leaving the Court. O'Gorman Mahon then retired in custody of the officers. We understand that Mr. Wigley's jaw -bone, and the tem poral arch under the eye are both fractured, and that that gen tleman is in a very precarious state. EXCHEQUER COURT.--(THIS DAY.) CUTTELL V. EASTWOOD. Mr. Sergeant MEREWETHER (with .WhOM was Mr. GOD sox) stated that this action was brought for the purpose of re covering a sum of 2501. upon a bill of exchange given in the year 1825 for the settlement of an account which then stood between the parties. The defendant had pleaded the Statute of Limitation, but he would prove the payment of iutore“ upon the bill within six years of the time the fiction was com menced ; having done so, he trusted lie would have their verdict. He called a Mr. I t loyd, who deposed that in the ru , .!..nth of le t 24, he called upon the defendant for payment of the bill in question. He had often done so before, but ie membered the particular date of the last t;-- very few days after he went to P- because in a Good Friday, which _ .once, and arrived there on In hi. - _ in the first week in April. ' _ vrosS-examination by Mr. Sergeant BONIPAS, the vvitnes said his name had been Lloyd for the last twelve or fifteen years ; before that it had been Levi. He had been in the \Vest Indies, but was not obliged to run away to that coun try in consequence of being charged with robbing a pours'-box. He never was so charged. He had never been in prison in the West Indies; but was once in custody hi Demerara, and along with others charged with assaulting a woman. He gave a promissory note for 300 guilders in order to settle the matter, so far as he was conckTred, but he had never paid it, nor ever would. He did not run away from Demerara, but he did not, as the law required, give a month's notice of his intention of leaving the country. After arriving in this country, he was made a bankrupt by the name of Levi, and the plaintiff ap pointed assignee. At the last examination, he had a gold watch in his pocket, which the Commissioner wanted, but as he proved satisfactorily that he had borrowed it that morning from Mr. Cuttell, the assignee, it was returned to him. Ile was bankrupt again in 1830 ; had been twice in prison for debt, and another time, on the complaint . of a Mrs. Edwards, who charged him with illegally taking a gold watch out of pawn ; he was however discharged the next day, but would not swear that the complainant was before the Ma2-istrate when he was so discharged. He had often referred parties to the plaintiff under the name of " Lloyd," and he had twice been a witness for him. Nothing had ever been paid under either of the commissions. He was now a traveller in the employ of Messrs. Piggott and Co., map-sellers, and had been so for two years. Mr. Sergeant MEREWETHER called other two witnesses, but failed to make out any case. After Mr. Sergeani BOMPAS had addressed the Jury, and the LEARNED JUDGE had summed up, they almost instantly re turned a verdict for the defendant. COMMON-PLEAS.-(THIS DAY.) WEBB V. NNEEDON. This was an action for a libel brought by the plaintiff, an attorney at Reading, against the defendant, who is also an at torney of the same place. The alleged libel was a report of certain proceedings in the C ons i s t or y Courf of London, in which both parties were concerned, and which was furnished by the defendant to the Reading Mercury, and published in that paper. The report contained certain statements with respect to the plaintiff's character, which were said to have been made by the Judge of the Consistory Court, the late Sir John Nichol, and which the plaintiff alleged to be untrue. It was for this the present action was brought. The plaintiff was examining his witnesses when our Reporter left the Court. INSOLVENT COURT-(THIS DAY). A young man, named John Pearse, applied to be discharged, and was unopp ose d. .4pon his petition The insolvent had been peculiarly 'unfortunate ; he com menced business in London as a su r , peon, some time ago ; be was proceeded against by the Apothecaries' Company, for penalties, and he was co 7elled in consequence to sell his property ; he took a trip with his family to France ; he visited Boulogne, where he intended to set up as a surgeon ; he pur chased some fixtu-,es, but the Prefet of the place refused his license, unless he obtained a permit from the anthorities at Paris ; he, in 'zonsequence, sold the fixtures, and, in Novem ber last, ret'.(rned to England ; he took up hi s a b o d e i n the louse of Mr. Ruthven, the sheriff's officer, who had advanced him some cash to go to France ; he remained a few weeks in hi.:„ house, and was then arrested by him. He now appeared, as a (fernier resort, before this Court for his discharge ; his debts were stated at about 5001., including his liability to the Apothecaries' Company, and he had 181. owing to him., The COURT ordered him to be discharged. LONDON SESSIONS..-(THIS DAY.) This morning at nine o'clock these sessions were held by adjournment from the General Quarter Sessions of the Peace, before the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor, the Recorder, Al dermen Kelly, Brown, Pirie, Marshall, and other principal authorities. The only business brought before the Court, was a question between the parishes of Shoreditch and Bishopsgatv, as to which two pauper children belonged. No evidence being given by the respondent parish, the Court allowed the appeal. The Loan MAYOR then proceeded to the Council Chamber, for the purpose of administering what is called " the long oath" to the members of the Common Council, and afemards to all beadles and constables acting in and kr the city and suburbs of London. This tedious and monotonous ceremony -hould have been performed on the 2d instant (Plough Monday), but for the municipal authorities being obliged to attend the opening of the Central Criminal Court on that day. SURREY SESSIONS.-(THIS D,AY.) These Sessions commenced to-day before R. 1 - 1 EDGER, Esq., Chairman, and a Bench of Magistrates. ST. JOHN HORSLEYDOWti V. THE COUNTY RATE. This was an appeal on the part P. r a the parish of St. John, Horsleydown, against the assessment of 40,4101. to the county rate. The grounds o f a pp ea l tvem the great depreciation of the value of property in the parish since the establishment of the St. Katharine Docks. The appellants contended that they ought to be assessed only to the extent of 34,1531. to the county rate. Several witnesses stated, that since the erection of th e St. Katharine ;Jocks, the general property in the parish of St. John, liorsleydown. had been deteriorated at least one-third, and the granary property 35 per cent. Mr. JEMMETT and Mr. CHAMBERS appeared for the appel lants ; and Mr. OrisLow and Mr. GASLEE for the respondents. The COURT ordered the assessment in future to be made to the amount of 35,906/., thereby reducing the rate between fear and five thousand pounds. THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.) CITY. TWELVE 0' CL 0 CK. St. John's and New Brunswick papers have been received at the North and South American Coffee House to the 11th January. The New Brunswick papers of the 11th January state that a meeting of persons interested in the trade rAnd commerce of that city was held on Thursday last. The Chamber of Commerce was revived. TOE SEASON.—During the greater part of he month of De" cember, and thus far in January, the cold ha,',4 been intense , and the winds being generally high from, the northward and eastward, the crews of several vessels, lately arrived, which the contrary winds had detained in . the bay and on the co ast, have suffered much from the fros; . . The General Assembly of the Province, whi c h was pro rogued until Thursday the . , 15th, has been further p roro gue(' to the 20th January. , We have receive i 1 the Journal du Commerce of Antwerp 0 the 7th instant, bringing accounts of the prices of Amster dam of the bth instant—Two and a half per Cents, 55 9-16. l'cw.,r3 from Vienna state that orders have been given to sell 'cen thousand horses be!onging to the train of artillery, Oa `..0 send home a part of the Lan , lw. - ehr ; also the f. ontier rest' ments are to be sent to the ordinary cantonments. THE FUNDS. The Consol Market on Saturday closed rather heavy, owing, to the operations of the Bank Di rec t ors aga i nst t h e exports 01 precious metals to Spain and Portugal, by selling during the week a large amount of Exchequer Bills, which had an e ffect on the Market. Consols, which left on Saturday at 92,1 to for the Account, opened this morning at the same price' Exchequer Bils, 39 40 ; India Bonds, 21 23 ; India Stock, 258-9 ; Bank Stock, 223-4. On Saturday, the business of the Foreign Market was 011 rather a limited scale, and most of the prices left off rather heavy. They opened this morning at—Spanish Bonds, 56i i ‘ ; Spanish Scrip, 3a a prem. ; Portuguese, 92a ; D utc h, 551 1' Owing to the boisterous weather, with contr,ry winds, vl e . have a great dearth of a rr i va l s t hi s morn i ng. One P ren c , mail, one due ; one Ostend, on e d ue . Al so t h e D utc h m all is due, and the express from Paris. HALF-PAST ONE. Consols, which were in the early part of the morning at 94-a for the Account, have since turned heavy, and may be, quoted at present 91-4 92. The receding of the market 15 attributed to the near approach of the election for a SpealEe r to the House of Commons. The foreign securities have improved since the morning' caused by the arrival of the exp ress f rom F ar i s, with big prices both of the French Writes and the Cortts Bonds. Spanish, 563 ; Spani s h S cr i p , 3 3 ; Portuguese, 9 2 r Letters have been received from Jamaica, of the 19th D e " cember, stating that all was tranquil there. THREE O' CLOCK* Consols for the Account 91i 9:2. At a meeting held last Saturday at Mr. Ginge.ds' Fountain Tavern, New-street, Broad-street, Golden-r 4 quare' it was agreed by upwards of two hundred voters of W e sttnifs ster, that the Secretary should write to Sir F. Burdett et Colonel Evans, and request them to attend in their p l ac es the House of Commons on th e 19th instart, and give thel, votes in favour of the people, an d conse,rquently. against To r ! Manners Sutton. We regret to state that Mr ; 'Sandford, the active 1111 . 6 worthy manager of our theatre, Was seized with an appoplet,l fit on Wednesday morning last, while in the act of dressios c i having just stepped out of hi s b e d . It is with concern we a.,a that he has since sh ow n no s i gns of sensibility, except in ei'le instance, when a blister was applied to his breast, and fna,,,,t e now lies in a deplorable state, with no hope of recovery. theatre is in consequence closed.—Mr. Sangford is -since de —Devonport Telegraph. 4 HIGHWAY ROBBERY.—OH Monc l . a y evening as Mr. William Binns, of Ripponden, surveyor of the 1 -111 " and Rochdale turnpike road, was returning from Rochena' he was attacked by four men in the garb of navi g ators or e 0 cavators, not far dista n t f rom th e C oach and Horses 10, 1.4 ° 0 the Lancashire side of Blackstor e Edge, who dragged g from his hors e an d a ft er as away the pockot from nere struggle succeeded in teal, smallclothes, and robbing him ° canvass purse marked W. 8., two five pound notes three s e a YOMP 9, an` l _, some silver. Also a pen-knife, silver pence„ca!e, aP d ... several valuable memorandums. Aft er baying t o P r 7.ed him of his property, and having every opportul te b, . escape, one of the vill a ins, w hil s t M r . B. l a y i n the ° A iv gathered a large stone which he dashed. upon his hee`iiir,:a te . :.-..:,. /n o• to deprive him of life also, n o t w ithstanding 6 1, Mr. B. pursued them, but wit!i;Jut effect, as they deea r :d uo , across the moors. A coach immediately afterwards d; , oce in which Mr. was conveyed home, surgical assir,rance4d, cured, and although dreadfully cut and bruised abw i t the I' d. „.• we are happy to say no serious consequences ari,) anticipat e Halifax Express. Hi, Majes afternoon, at tended by th rretary of St of the Du c t Trade the the Qu'een's' At the Co Ice of She nutted to the ril l for the p The H on. In Waiting. In the eye] the Pavilion. Y es terday on Divin e set Of Kent and hous e h o ld , I a ta t e n t Royalrs. d ' ITT Kewt wereehhr e eatpig ) E h ' fi nui aa e tr o hn Dukeali c ( ed A The w nkn c S d t de a The L or d s held a meetir and deciding 4 DP.aling ag *in% T R IS DAY• R o Lo It kulay. f :t,::