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13, Great Marlborough-street. MR. COLBURN WILL PUBLISH DURING THE PRESENT MONTH, THE FOLLOWING . NEW WORKS:— I KING ARTHUR. By the Author of " The New' Timon." TUB COURT and TIMES of JAMES I. Edited by the Author Of " Memoirs of Sophia Dorothea." 2 vols., BYo. ANGELA; or the CAPTAIN'S DAUGHTER. A Novel. By the Author of " Emilia Wyndham," " Two Old Men'e Tales," &c. a Teas. Vt? REMINISCENCES of PRINCE TALLEYRAND; with Extracts Qom his Political Writings. 2 vol e s. , with Portrait. STORY of the PENINSULAR WAR. By the MARQUIS of LONDONDERRY. Complete In one vol., with Portraits, &c. 7s. 6d., )und. MEMOIRS of MADEMOISELLE DE MONTPENSIER, WRITTEN by HERSELF. 3 vols., with Portrait. VII. ADVENTURES of a MEDICAL STUDENT. By the late R. DOUGLAS, Surgeon, R.N. With a Memoir of the Author. 3 vol 3. Orders received by all Booksellers. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Hitler the Management of Mr. B. Webster, sole Lessee. THIS EVENING Will be perform.d Sheridan's Comedy of THE RIVALS. Sir An thony Absolute, Mr. Farren; Captain absolute, Mr. II Farrell: Faulkland, Mr. Creewlck ; acres, •• Webster; ger, Mr. Hudson ; Fag, Me. nrindal ; David, Mr. Keeley ; Sirs. 111.11aprop, Mrs. Glover: Lydia Languish, Mire. Nisbett ; Julia, Miss Fortescue: Lucy, Mrs. Humby. Ti conclude with a New and Original Burlesque Spectacle entitled fHE WORLD UNDERGROUND; or, the Golden Flute and the Braun Waters. Stage Manager, Mr. Farren; Acting Manager, Mr. F. Web :ter. J. T. Archer, Box-book keeper. Boxes, ss. ; Pit, 3s. ; Gallery, 2s. ; Upper Gallery, Is. Doors open at Half-past Six, rertorma.nce to commence at Seven. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPIII. Under the direction o: Madame Celeste. TIIIS EVENING Will be presented an entirely new Piece, entitled the PEARL OF THE OCEAN ; or, the Prince and the Mermaiden. Principal cha racters by Messrs. Waye, P. Bedford, Wright, Munyard, llennaire, Callentord, and Worrell ; Miss Woolgar, Miss Emma Harding, Miss Wen Chaplin, Mrs. Laws, aid Madame Celeste. To be followed by the Farce, entitled THIS HOUSE TO BE SOLD the proper* of the late William Shakspeare), inquire Within. Cha racters by Messri. Wright, Cullentord, Worrell, 0. Smith, Paul Bed gird, Mrs. Laws, &c., &c. To conclude with a COMIC ITALIAN BALLET of ACTION. Boxes, 45.; Pit, 2s. , Gallery, is. Pixiri open at liali-past Six, Performance to commence at Seven, ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Under the Management of Madame Vestric Sole Lessee, Mr. Charles Mathews. THIS EVENING Will be presented new Comic Drama, entitled THE TRA GEDY QUEEN. After witich, a New Fairy Extravaganza, entitled THE GOLDEN BRANCH. To conclude with a Romance of Real Life, called BOX and COX. Principal characters by Mr. Harley, Mr. Buckstone, and Mrs. Mac. namaxa. Dress Boxes, ss. ; tipper Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, Is. No half-price to any part of the house. The New Box-office, No. 2, Wellington-street, is open to the Public every day, from Ten till Six. The Interior of the House has been entirely re-designed by Mr. W. Bradwell of the Colosseum. PRINCESS'S TII E ATRE. Mr. d. M. Maddox, sole Lessee and Manager, Dushess-street, Portland-Place. Madame ANNA THILLON. THIS EVENING Will be presented the Second and Third Acts of A new Comic Opera, entitled TIIE AMBASSADRESS. Duke de Valberg, Mr. Bodda Benedict, Mr. Bark , er ; Fortunatus, Mr. Lef fler • Countess de Fierschomberg, Miss 1, Mars ; Madame ftarneck, Mrs ' . Selby ; Charlette, Miss Anne Romer ; Henrietta 3ladarne Anna Thillon. After which, a new comic Drama, called MY SISTER'S SECRET. To be followed by a new Comic l'iece, entitled THE SULTANA. 'oilman, Mr. Ryder ; Ostnyn, Mr. Compton ; Tuseph, Mr. Henry • Rozaliuta, Madame Anna Thillon; Elmira, Miss Mars ; Ismene, Miss Hodson. To conclude with a new Christmas Pantomime, entitled OLD FATHER TIME ; or, Harlequin and the Feur seasons. Dress Circle, 55.: Bixes, 45.; Pit, 2g. ; Gallery, is. FRENCH PLAYS.—ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. 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ASTLEY'S , ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE, r.,prier, , r and Manager, '•lr. William Batty. Mr. Patty's performing Elephants. ?Juvenile Night on Thursday next, wheat the Paatomirne will he played first. TIIIS EVEZIING, The Grand Spectacle of THE CAMP OF SILESIA. EnttroZy new Scents in the Arena, by the talented Artistes of the I :f9tahlistlment, in Mc iarious modes or equestration. • To conclude with a Grand Equestrian Comic Pantomime entitled HARLEQUIN DOCTOR SYNTAX AND lIIS DAPPER. GREY MARE, in which those popular artistes Ilerr Dentin, Mdlle. Theo. dote, Mr. Anderson, and Mr. Bradbury, as Harlequin, Columbine, Clown, anti Pantaloon, which will exceed in splendour and effect ail former productions at the Amphitheatre, Box-office open !tom 11 till 5 Actin; and stage Manajer, Mr. W West. WEATHEiL—SuN OFFICE, JAN. IS THERMOMETER, Lowest, 30 ; Fligkest,[39 ; Noon, 32 BAROMETER, 29 53.—WIND W.; WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE TII.IB DAY. Mornin7.. 57 mfriutes after 11. I Frening - 38 :r:l"*rs 14, 9 rittlj S7d, .010 • 2. s U • A A .zta 4g t i rr - ' r '— <.? 4 ) , • co' _ kr.Alll; LONDON, TUESDAY. JANUARY 18, 1818 Considerable indignation has been excited in Greece by the publication of a dispatch addressed by Lord PALMERSTON, on the 30th of October, 1847, to Sir E. LyoNs, the Ambassador from her Britannic MAJESTY to the Court of the Hellenic Sovereign. A translation of this document has appeared in the Athenian newspapers, and by a re-translation it has ultimately returned to the population of the United Kingdom. Curiously enough, the indignation of the politicians of Athens has been responded to by that of the politicians of London. So bitterly, so boldly, so bluntly has her MAJESTY's Secretary for Foreign Affairs spoken in reference to the aspersions cast upon our Government by M. GLARAKIS, that a cry of rage has resounded from the ministerial offices of Ring OTHO. An appeal has been made to the other Power s of the European alliance under the dictation of his Minister for Foreign Affairs—the wrath of those Attic statesmen upon whose[shoulders the gar ment of CoLv.yyi has fallen has reverberated among the ruins of the Acropolis. And to this anti-Anglican awl decidedly pro. Gallic of wrath some of journalists the very patri ot i c r i 1 sts of London have replied by yells of sympathy. According to them, Lord PALMERSTON has cuni'orn , ed the dignity of the Bri ish Legislature by employingort worthy f language which, in their estimation, is only a Rumdubber, and could alone have been i nsp i red o Billingsgate. by the atmosphere of Considering the dispatch itself p er se —apart from the intrigues of France and the faithlessness Greece—We must acknowledge th a t the of com munication of Lord PA LME RSTON does appeart too lavishly charact erised b y the p un g enc y of sarcasm and the acidity of invective. At the first blush it has a trifle more of irritability and passion than might b e considered as compatible with the effusions of a states man. The retorts are so tart, the contradictions are so abrupt, the advice is so caustic, that we can imagine M. GLARAKIS wincing under it as he would under a scour g e of scorpions. We can imagine him like the Polyphemus of GAY, chafing his wrath into delirium, and filling the air with mingled threats and lamentations— " Torture, fury, rage, despair, I cannot, cannot , canno t bear !,, And, as Galatea must have gazed upon the agonies of the Sicilian Cyclops, we are, at the outset, almost dis• posed to look upon the torments of the Hellenic adminis trator. Such, we repeat, is the commiseration naturally produced in the mind oni.a merely superficial reflection. Let us call to recollection, however, one or two little things not altogether unworthy of remembrance— let us enumerate them first by way of a decent pre liminary—and then let us, honestly, candidly, and conscientiously declare whether we may not deli berately arrive at a very different conclusion. First of all, then, it must never be forgotten that England was principally instrumental in girding the brows of °TIM with a diadem, and in establishing upon a solid basis the constitutional monarchy, which might at Ws' moment A9urishing in the chief city of Atti ca . . r ~>•;. THE Then it must be considered that for a very con siderable time past the interests of Great Britain have been sedulously overlooked by the Ministerial ad visers of the Grecian Monarch, that British plenipo tentiaries have been perpetually rebuffed, that British MITSMITie — e - s have been contumeliously rejected, and that as continually, as wilfully, and as per versely French interests have been consulted, French plenipotentiaries flattered, and French re presentations obeyed. With all this, moreover, Greece is heavily indebted to England, and won't Pay ! England, in short, has not only continued to be the creditor of Greece, but her Government ha s been tricked, insulted, and deceived, at the be hest of an ambassador from the Tuileries. If ever a Minister has been goaded into the composition of a dispatch such as the one indited on the 30th of October, in Downing-street, Lord PALMERSTON is that Minister. Bearing all the foregoing circum stances in mind, it is impossible, indeed, not to con gratulate ourselves upon the fact that a man as bold as the Noble Viscount was just at that particular time in office as Foreign Secretary. COLETTI and the other creatures of M. GUIZOT had so pertina ciously conducted themselves in a spirit of insolent hostility towards Great Britain, that it became abso lutely essential that a different tone should be adopted in our diplomatic correspondence, and that England should evince her determination to crush the policy of a truckling Cabinet by speaking in a voice worthy of her dignity, her glory, and her strength. Lord PALMERSTON has done this k by the production of his proud and resolute dispatch ; he has addressed, through the medium of Sir E. LYONS, that Hellenic statesman who has adopted the principles of the dead COLETTI, in regard to France and England (we moan, of course, M. GLARAKIS, King OTIIO'S Minister for Foreign Affairs), and he has addressed him in terms of such haughtiness, of such emphasis, and of such withering decision, that his precise meaning cannot, by any possibility, be misappre hended. It may be argued, nevertheless, that ex cepting as an expression of sentiments not altogether different from the emotions of spleen, the com munication of Lord PALMERSTON must be re garded as utterly profitless. From this opi nion we most emphatically dissent. We ask any dispassionate man, who has not been utterly blind to the mal-administration of the Greek laws, which mai- administration has latterly and repeatedly led to the disturbance of that most interesting,kingdom—we ask any man who is guided by impartiality, and who is not deaf to reason and experience, whether any dispatch can be designated profitless which contains such wholesome and judicious recommendations as those contained.in the dispatch of the 30th of October ? Lord PALMERSTON uttered golden truths, and wrote with oracular eloquence when he penned the follow ing sentences : " If the Greek Government desires to prevent in surrection, to maintain order and tranquillity, to encourage industry in the kingdom, it is not by arbi trary arrests, nor by illegal violence, nor by the ruin of whole provinces, like that which has recently taken place in Eubwa, that these results can be obtained. The maintenance of tranquillity in Greece, the de velopment of the prosperity of the country, can only be secured by totally different means from those followed of late by the Hellenic Government. The law of uprightness and impartiality ought to be applied, the judges ought to be independent of the caprices and corrupt partiality of the Ministers of the Crown ; justice ought to be administered promptly and equit ably between the citizens, and between the Sovereign and his subjects ; the taxes ought to be impartially levied, honestly accounted for ; the public revenue ought to be faithfully and economically disbursed for the public service, and for that only ; the press should not be shackled; the municipal and parlia mentary elections should be free, and the Chamber of Deputies should not be converted into a derisive legislative assembly, by the exclusion of every man who is not disposed to blindly follow the injunctions of the Ministers of the Crown. If the Hellenic Government would permit the constitution to be a verity ; if it respected the laws and compelled others to obey it; if it guaranteed the security of persons and property, encouraging thereby industr y y, securing to each the fruits of his labour and profits of his capital; in a word, if it admi nistered the affairs of Greece in a way which the ►rinisters of a constitutional king ought to fulfil their high and important functions, free from all external influences, and looking exclusively to the good of the country, it would very soon find that it would have no occasion to repress internal insurrections, and to pursue in other countries, by diplomatic reclamations, Greek fugitives who have sought an asylum against the oppression and injustice which they suffered in their own." In speaking thus it must be remembered that her MAJESTY'S Chief Secretary for Foreign Affairs was speaking as the representative of that England which was principally instrumental in establishing the na tionality of the Greeks. Our Government has main tained silence thus long from a generous anxiety to behold a noble policy adopted at Athens after the decease of COLETTI. Their hopes have been de ceived. Greek statesmen are still the willing tools of the French Cabinet, and the insidious enemies of Great Britain. It is out of a just indignation at this circumstance that Lord PALMERSTON has drawn his words of bitterness; and in so doing he has, to our thinking, acted as becomes his position and his re putation. A proper understanding as to the extent and prin ciples of the license of counsel is of paramount importance to the community, and acting on this opinion we have endeavoured to present the question fairly to the public. We yesterday stated our views as to the duties of an advocate, and we noticed some arguments that had been too hastily put forward by a portion of the press upon this momentous and in teresting subject. We propose now to pursue our investigation still further, and to Fee whether any weight can be attached to the opinions expressed by some of those who prominently dissent from our views. A Contemporary, which arrogates to itself a peculiar authority on the question, lays down the following as the " true rule of professional conduct :" " Counsel is at liberty to reason as much as he will upon the law and .facts, and to influence, as far as he can, the reason of the tribunal that he addresses, but he is not at liberty to mislead it, whether it be judge or jury, upon facts, no matter how the facts come to his knowledge— whether upon the evidence, or whether by pri vate communication. Assuming that the real facts are in his knowledge, he is, we say, not at liberty to mislead the tribunal that he ad dresses upon the facts," and this is stated to be the "true rule" to guide counsel for the future! What does this mean ? How can a counsel mislead any tribunal upon "facts " which are not legally before them? If by " facts" the evidence is intended, doubtless counsel should not (as we have already stated) mislead upon, or misstate that evi dence ; but if by " facts " counsel's private information or belief is meant, how can he mislead about those things of which the Court and jury are utterly ig norant ? Again, says our Contemporary, "If counsel de fending a prisoner knows from a confidential com munication made to him by his client, that that client is guilty, we conceive that, though by the rules of the profession he is not called upon in any, the remotest degree, to divulge such knowledge, on the other hand, he ought not to endeavour to induce the Court to receive as true any evidence, which being inconsistent with the evidence of which he has private knowledge, he must know to be untrue." We cannot quite understand this. We had always sup posed that the evidence was something produced in open court, and accessible to all parties ; but here we are told " the evidence of which he (the advocate for the defence) has private knowledge." This we confess to be wholly beyond our comprehension ! ! We suppose it to mean that if a counsel believes his client to be guilty, he must not in defending him urge upon the consideration of the Court any evidence tending to prove his innocence. If we are correct in this interpretation, we must say it appears to us ' to be neither professional nor constitutional, but equally opposed to the spirit of the law and to the principl e s Furthercanbe on tie noprofes h s a i v o e n a t l h r e ul f e ol w lo h w ic i h n of ri a n d e v r o e ca i c s y a . nd upon counsel misrepresentations, to disgrace ffi e n c i u n l g t ftorosmaybiletgiflisucnord himselfer t b o y sa m , v:e k a ing miscreantdown right a n little o t jaufstteirfi,ed in n t i r s eas di waso g un " se a l nd from the evidence that M'CABE was guilty." Now let us for a moment suppose (merely for the sake o the argument, for the fact was otherwise) that Mr. SEICAL01;11 not only believed in Itzw's guilt, but also SUN, LONDON, in APCABE's innocence, but that in " reasoning from the evidence before the Court," he said, " The evi dence of A and of B is as follows (stating it exactly as it was given), this evidence tends to prove M'CADE guilty, for it says that he was at such a place at such an hour, &c., but it is no proof against REID, ;for his name is not even mentioned." This would be an attempt to " save a miscreant," but would it be a downright misrepresentation ? Certainly not. A counsel misrepresents when he endeavours to deceive a jury into the opinion that a witness has said what that witness did not actually say, but when a counsel states truly that which a witness has really spoken, then no matter what argument he may deduce from such testimony, it is an abuse of language to call it a misrepresentation. We must also earnestly protest against our Con temporary's assertion, " That the true line of a coun sel's professional duty is far from satisfactory if viewed with the eye of the divine or the moralist." Differing in so many points from our Contemporary, we must record our dissent on this also. Another Contemporary (we rejoice to say) stands singular and alone in the extreme severity of its attacks upon Mr. DIGBY SEYMOUR—we say upon Mr. DIGBY SEYMOUR, for the attack is altogether personal. It is not so much his opinion as himself that is impeached, and from what motive we cannot pretend to determine. From first to last it pro ceeds upon the assumption that the Learned Gentle man is wholly destitute of truth and honour. A long argument is written to prove that he did that which he declared he did not do —that he knew that of which he positively denied the knowledge. His manly and straight forward letter is styled "Jesuitical." His speech, the very extracts from which it quoted, in order to assail him—one of uncommon merit—is pronounced a " piece of hypocrisy," " profane," " disgusting," and " a pollution ;" and to-give a finish to the rest we find the following :—" The assassin client is content with one murder. The Counsel, who becomes an accom• plice after the fact, for the purpose of destroying the innocent, takes the penalty of a double murder on his soul." Was ever such language uttered so in excusably—was ever so painful an exhibition of ill feeling against a young advocate, whose only offence is that he has expressed an opinion upon which he himself has never acted? for when Mr. DIGBY SEYMOUR defended REID he believed APCABE to be guilty. "Assuming that to be true, which I deny," are his words, when charged with having a confes sion which exculpated M'CABE. The Learned Gentleman says, " REID'S statements were such that I did not believe them, and in no single point did I vary the line of defence I had already resolved to follow." "We deny the truth of this assertion " says our Contemporary. When a member of a liberal profession writes to the press, in vindication of his own conduct, should he be met with abuse in place of fair play—with insult in place of argument ? But "he could not have acted irrespec tive of that confession." Why ? Had REID confessed before his last trial, when Mr. DIGBY SEYMOUR was only junior to that eminent advocate Mr. Sergeant WILKINS ?—and did the line of defence vary materially on the two occasions ? Again, it is said, there could have been no concert between the two men. Whence this knowledge ? REID had not denied it. "He did not at all excul pate M'CABE from the suspicion of being engaged with him," are the words of the Learned Counsel. On the trial there was abundant evidence of concert given. Mr. DIGBY SEYMOUR wrestled gallantly with that evidence, and argued ably that concert was not sufficiently proved ; but there is a difference between argument and knowledge, and the jury recorded their verdict in opposition to that argument, finding that concert to have existed. The danger in which M'CADE was placed is a further ground for vituperation ; but another Contem porary, who has taken a correct view of the subject, has shown the absurdity of the supposition that M'CABE could have been really in danger. "Mr. I)lw:tit SEYMOUR would have taken a verdict for REID on the third indictment, and then have stated all he knew, if he had any private information exculpatory of M'CABE, which he had not; or should the Crown refuse this, then the Learned Counsel might still disclose what he knew after the trial to the proper authorities, for it could be no evidence against REID, and so M`CAmes life would be spared." Our Con temporary concludes with this observation :—"We are quite contented to see the guilty escape if the legal evidence of guilt is insufficient. It is for the benefit of society, we think, that the counsel should even represent the client from whom he has taken a fee to the extent of giving him every advantage of his knowledge of law, of his skill in sifting evidence, of his means of giving due significance to facts—hut not to the extent of lying for him." Does the counsel who, convinced in his own mind of his client's guilt, says to the jury—" Such a witness rather proves another to be guilty than my client"—does he lie in saying so ? If so, the juryman who has a perfect moral certainty of a prisoner's guilt, but yet, considering the evidence imperfect, consents to a verdict of " not guilty," utters a lie when he reverences his oath. For our own parts, we have repeatedly spoken of Mr. MORT SEYMOUR in terms of eulogy, as a young man of great promise—as an able and accomplished advocate. We noticed his conduct on the recent trial. He browbeat and confused no witness ; he misquoted no evidence; he made no adjurations ; he expressed no private conviction. He was cool, honest, and intrepid. He failed, but not until he had made an impression in York, such as cannot speedily be effaced or forgotten, and he lost a verdict solely because the weight of fresh testimony procured since the former trial was immense—the case for the Crown was irresistible, and human ingenuity or eloquence could not secure one. If he erred in the opinion he uttered, take it at the worst as an error of overzeal, " he sins at virtue's side ;" but we believe he did not err, and we know he can point to many high authorities who agree with him, and chiefly to the brightest ornament of his pro fession in this or any age. He can quote the deliberate opinion uttered on the trial of Queen CAROLINE, by the Queen Consort's then Attorney-General, in the presence and hearing of the Princes of the Blood, the Peers of the realm, spiritual and temporal, the Judges of the land, the heads of the law, and the lights of literature—an opinion never called in ques tion, and which remains to this day a matter of record "I once before," said Mr., now Lord Brougham, " took leave to remind your Lordships—which was unnecessary, but there are many whom it may be needful to remind—that an advocate, by the sacred duty which he owes his client, knows, in the dis charge of that office but one person in the world, that client and none other. To save that client by all expedient means—to protect that client at all hazards and costs to all others, and among others to himself, is the highest and most unquestioned of his duties; and he must not regard the alarm, the suffer ing, the torment, the destruction, which he may bring upon Any other. Nay, separating even the duties of a patriot from those of an advocate, and casting them, if need be, to the wind, he must go on reckless of the consequences, if his fate it should un happily be to involve his country in confusion for his client's protection !" We have now laid our views upon this controversy before the public. We hope no necessity may arise for recurring to the subject. Meanwhile, we have the satisfaction of knowing that, in the absence of all authorities against us, our opinion has three living authorities to support it, differing, no doubt, greatly in relative fame, age, position, and experience, but agreeing in this, that they are members of the same honourable profession—the Right Honourable Lord BROUGHAM, Mr. Commissioner PHILLIPS, and Mr. DIGBY SEYMOUR. On the 9th inst. a grand military display took place at Milan. The city was filled with Austrian troops, evidently for the purpose of intimidating the inhabitants. A sullen tranquillity prevailed in the city. The people evidently " bide their time." Letters from Genoa of the 11th state that great dissatisfaction was felt at the refusal of the KING to receive the deputation sent to bim from that city to pray for the establishment of a civic guard and the expulsion of the Jesuits. Madrid papers of the 11th have arrived. They state that there is every probability that no further steps will be taken in the proposed impeach mont of SALAMANCA, but that the matter will be allowed to drop. MADRID BOLSA, JAN. 11.—The Spanish Three per Cents. were 26/ cash ; Five per Cents., 151. We have received the Paris papers of yesterday, but, with the exception of an authoritative contradic tion of the rumours in circulation respecting the un favourable state of the KING'S health, they contain no matters of domestic interest. The Journal des Debats states that AI3D-EL-KADEIt has written a letter, throwing himself upon the mercy of the KING, and declaring his willingness to submit himself in all things to the commands of his MA- JESTY. The Siecle urges thelaecessity of keeping faith with the ex-Eaetn. The Constitutionnel explicitly denies that any vio lence had been offered to the monks of St. Bernard by the Federal troops. The same journal publishes copies of the protest of the POPE addressed to the Swiss Diet, accompanied with the most eager denials of the charge of sacrilege, no wil ful desecration of sacred places having been committed at all. The irregularities that gave rise to the charge were such as were necessarily incident upon a con fused state of affairs. As the POPE invokes rights secured by the Federal Pact, it is said that the Diet have resolved upon not replying to his protest, for the purpose of remarking that they did not recognise the Pors as a Sovereign Power, and to show that they do net recognise the right of any one to inter vene in the religious concerns of the country. The Constitutionnel thus comments on the inconse quential policy of M. GUIZOT :—" We are in the full current of c ounter-revolntion. Our liberties at home all filched away, while abroad we are the ally of abso lutism . ..... ....... While cunning and corruption have taken away the conquests of our fathers at home; while our grand revolution is publicly insulted and calumniated ; while reaction marches with brazen as surance ; and Jesuitism, the mania of being noble, and the traffic of conscience, are preparing the return of the old regime. France has broken off abroad with all the liberal traditions of her past history ; you seek in vain for marks of sympathy with Italy ; the men who declaim against the Swiss Diet give their hands to the butchers of Gallicia. It is between the official jacquerie of Tarnow and the massacres of Milan that they come to proclaim an alliance with Austria and the necessity of her assent to all changes in Italy" BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT,THE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, JAN. 17. Boulogne and Amiens, 1358—Central of France (Orleans and Vierzon), 14 1 %—.Namur and Liege, 6 / 2 —Northern of France, 11—Orleans and Bordeaux, 4%. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. TATTERSALL'S.—YESTERDAY, TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS STAKES. 5 to 1 agst Mr. Mostyn's Surplico—taken CHESTER CUP. 50 to 1 agst Mr. Henderson's Lady Hylda—taken (1,000 to 15 laid once) .50 to 1 Agit Mr. Mostyn's Swallow—taken 1,000 to 15 agst Mr. P. Kearey's Magnet (Irish)—taken (1,000 to 20 also taken) 1,000 to 15 agat Mr. Disney's Keleshe—taken 1,000 to 15 agst Mr. F. Clarke's Joe o' Sot—taken 1,000 to 10 agst Capt. Kennedy's Sir Talton Sykes—t. NEWMARKET HANDICAP. Even on the field agst twenty DERBY. 10 to 1 agst Mr. Mostyn's Surplice-1,100 to 100 t. 13 to 1 agst Mr. Greville's Glendower—taken to 251. 20 to 1 agst Mr. Bowes's Springy Jack—t to 1001. 22 to 1 asst Edie Ochiltree and Whitstone--taken 25 to 1 agst Mr. J. Day's Nil Desperandum—taken to 100/. 30 to 1 agst Mr. B. Green's Beverlac 1,000 to 30 agst Mr. Medley's Besborough—taken and afterwards offered 40 to 1 agst Col. Anson's Corsican—take 50 to 1 .50 to 1 agst Mr. Wigram's Keraun—taken to 225/. 2,000 to 30 agst Sir J. B. Mills's Deerstalker—taken 1,000 to 10 agst Mr. J. Scott's Brockett taken and afterwards offered Having specified the amounts for which the horses quoted were backed, it is only necessary to add, that Springy Jack was apparently in better favour than on Thursday last, and that 20 to 1 could not be got at the close. Sc veral offers were made to lay against and back lots, but no business done. LIVERPOOL STEEPLECHASE. 1,000 to 50 agst Mr. Brettel's The Curate—taken SOMERSETSHIRE STAKES. Giselle and Tom Jolly are struck out. INTELLIGENCE EXTRA. NEW MARKET STEEPLECHASE. Nominations for the Newmarket Open Handicap. Mr. Elliott's Nottingham, Mr. Abel's Jerry (h b), Mr. Walker's br g by Medora, Mr. R. Clifton's Maho met, Mr. Windsor's Novice (h b), Captain Baruett's Boxkeeper, Mr. E. Carey's Blue Bell, Mr. E. Carey's Blue Pill, Mr. Elmore's Gazeley, Mr. Death's Lady Helen, Mr. J. Elmore's The British Yeoman, Mr. T. Wesley's Gayhurst, Mr. Sait's The Rejected, Mr. Sait's The Doctor, Mr. Bevill's Roulette, Mr. J. Anderson's Profligate, Mr. Tilbury's Chronometer, Mr. F. Wilson's Khondooz, Mr. C. C. Brook's Eagle, Mr. I'. P. Bolt's Railroad, Captain Little's Chandler, Mr. Young's The Witch. TUESDAY 44=YENING, JANUARY 18, 1848, MONEY and COMMERCIAL :SEWS. CITY, QUARTER TO THREE. The Cotton Market at Liverpool yesterday was rather firmer, the sales being 6,000 bales. Railway Shares have been steady. The Money Market becomes daily easier in the City, and there will soon be greater difficulty than ever in employing cash, for confidence in mercantile securities is by no means restored. The continued failures on the Continent, and the heavy losses which have been sus tained here, indispose parties from taking bills except upon strict scrutiny, and money must therefore either accumulate or be placed in funded and railway secu rities. A revival of trade we confidently hope for, but it will be insufficient to absorb the surplus accumulating in the Bank of England, even under the stimulus of a reduction in the rate of interest. There have been reports of the Bank having before it further applications for assistance, but they are not well authenticated. The accounts from Paris and Madrid are more favourable this morning, and there is an absence of the unfounded rumours about the health of the Queen of Spain. The annexed statement exhibits the amount of specie exported into and exported from New York in each month of the past year. The American writer made an estimate for December, but the return for all the other months are official : Importation. Exportation. January ... 90,874 73,728 February 1,235,122 ... ... 4,000 March ... 1,329,458 ... 243,887 April ... 3,397,064 ... 73,558 May 1,326,697 ... ... 158,000 Juno 547,813 ... 134,300 July ... ... 294,219 ... 27,670 August ... 195,555 ... 66,000 September ... 94,546 ... 350,925 October ... 100,773 674,548 , November ... 58,915 ... 1,455,946 December ... 80,000 ... 1,700,000* Total dolls. 8,751,036 ... ... 4,962,592 * Estimated. This shows an excess of imports for the year of 3,788,444 dolls. Tho;movement has been just reversed since last May. The exports in November and Decem ber were about as large as the import in February and March, and should the shipments continue through January and February of 1848 as large as they have been during the past two months, the above balance will be completely drained. The above table merely shows the extent of the exportation to foreign ports, it does not include any shipments to Mexico ; it gives us no idea of the im sense amount already sent to the army in that action. The external drain for the re gulation of balances of trade and exchanges only is ex hibited in the above statement. According to these re turns the drain has just commenced. The first indica tions were visible in September, when the exports ex ceeded the imports more than two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, and the excess of exports over imports has since increased with great rapidity. After all the fuss made, England will soon recover its lost, but unfortunately dearly bought, specie. It would have returned to us, much more harmlessly, and quite as surely, though, perhaps, more slowly, without Peel's Bill, which at present distresses us first, and then our best customers. A very favourable statement was laid before the pro prietors of the St. ;Katherine Docks, held this after noon. The increase in the number of ships that entered the docks in the year 1847 over 1846, with cargoes, was 724, of 190,857 tons. In the previous year the numbers were 673, and the tonnage 171,481 tons. There had been an increase i❑ the earnings. The capital of the company was now rather over 1,750,0004 A reduction in the dividend was recommended at the last Court, if the earnings did not most materially increase, rather than further to encroach upon the Rest, which was now rendered quite low enough. The proprietors would therefore have looked to the contingency of a reduction of the dividend to 4 per cent• per annum. The earnings have been larger than in any year since the opening of the St. Katherine Docks. The dividend of 2 per cent. for the last half-year was agreed to, after some discussion re lative to the company's affairs. The Public Securities have been fluctuating this morning, and appear to be rather on the decline. Consols have ranged from 861 to 871, being now 87 to 871. The New Three and-a Quarter per Cents. are 881 to 88 ; and the Three per Cents. 87 to 87i. Exchequer-bills have been 255. to 275. premium. Bank Stock is at 197. The settlement of the Account has led to a heavy failure. The Foreign Secnrities are entirely nominal. Spanish Five per Cents. are 181 to 1114, and the Three per Cents. 28} to 291. Portuguese Four per Cents. are 25} to 261. Chilian Bonds have been at 90. Railway Shares are good generally, with a moderate business doing. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. (From the Official List.) Bank Stock 197 3 per Coat. Reduced Annuities 87% 87 3 per Cent. Consols Anna.. ........ ...87 87% 86% 87 1 / i New 3 1 4 per Cent. Arias Long Annuities, Exp. Jan. sth, 1860 8 13-16 15-16 Do. 30 Tears, Expire Oct. 10,1859 8% : 1 /4 India Stock 233 Consols for Account, Feb. 26 87 145 88 % 87 % Exchequer Bills. 2d. 1,000/. Small PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK. Chilian Bonds, 6 per Cent 9O Spanish Bonds, 6 per Cent,lB4o ... Ditto Passive Bonds 4 Dividends on the above payable in London. Dutch 2 1 / 2 per Cent.,l2 Guild 54 RUMNESS DONE IN RAILWAY !MARES AT ONE O'CLOCK RAILWAYS. PAID. riga &was. Aberdeen Amber., Notting., Boston, &c. 2% — ..„.. to Ayrshire and Galloway Belfast and Ccunty Down .. 10 .. Birmingnam & Oxford June... 20 ..... 1it4% 1 M.,„ to Birmingham, NN'ol.,& Dudley 10 ... . Birrning., Wel., & Stour Val. 101.145.... Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Junction Boston, Stand., & Birming... 5 - ...... to Bristol and Exeter Do., Thirds Buckinghamshire lO/. 4s Caledonian Ditto, Half Shares Ditto,;Clydesdale Junction 50 Chester and Holyhead 3 7 1/ ..... Ditto, ('reference Clarence. Do., let Class, 6 per Cent... 10 Do., 2d Class, 5 per Cent... 10 Do., Gov. Loan, 4 per Cent. 10 Dublin and Belfast Junction.. 25 Dundalk and Enniskillen ... East Anglia, 25/. L. & E., awl L. & D 25 ...... Ditto, 18/., E. &11 l* ..... Ditto, 31. 10s., E. & 11... 2 Eastern Counties Ditto, ditto (B) ... 20 ..... 15 3 % to Do. Perpet., 5 per ct. No. 1,6/. 13s. 4d. Do., do N0.2,6/. 13s. 4d... par Do., York Extension ...... 10 .... Do., Northern & Eastern... 50 Do., Quarter ....... Do., New East ersn Union. ... 50 Ditto, Quarter Shares Ditto., Thirds l3s. 4d — to Ditto (guar. 6 per cent.) ... East Lancashire --.— Ditto, New Do., New Quarters East Lincolnshire ... 12% 12% to Edinburgh and Glasgow 5O W4...... tfo Ditto, Halt Shares Ditto, Quarter Shares 1 2 14 _ _. Edinburgh and Northern ... 22i,4 ...... Ditto, New........ ..... 3%. Ditto, New p0rt..... l 2— — ...... to Ditto, ditto, New 2IA — ...... to Exeter, Yeovil, & Dorchester 2% ...... to Ditto, New Glasg., Dumfries, & Carlisle..Bl. 6e.8d... to Glasgow, Kilmarnock, & Ayr 50 ...... to Ditto, New D 0 . 14 Shares (5 per ct.gua.) 12% ..... _ Great Northern . .. 10% ...... to Do. London & York Exten. 2 1 / 2 ...... to Gt. South. & West. (Ireland) 37% — ..... to Great North of England 100 - ...... to -- Ditto, New 40/ 6 ...... ••••• •••••• to Ditto, New 30/ ... 30 . .. .. _ .„ ... to , to Ditto, New 151 Great Western Ditto, Half Shares 20 ...... Ditto, Quarter Shares ...... to i t s --- Ditto, Fifths Do. New 171 v %..... to Huddersfield and Manchetter 24 .. ... IIu D I l i t tand( Ditto, half Shares ......... . 5 'S 'Thi r d sel) .................................... 5:0 to Ditto,to -.... 1 p atiduarurt;rsSthilrdehisn.n..na.3 11 I'll . 1 ,: 77. Do. do. and Norwich se . 6 Lancaster and CEamxCtbea.nrlsinled...E. Ely) 2% ...... - D D :( . .l , 'a l d t ,h e o. i ( rds 10 .... -- Lancashire and Yorkshire ... 22 93 Di t t o , ditto ...... to Ditto Half Shares - 38 ...... -- .• ... to Ditto Quarters Ditto Fifths Ditto Sixteenths Ditto Thirds (Reg.) ... 101. 4s De. Liverpool and Bury... 38 ..• .., — . ... to Do. (Rudders. and Sheff.) 33 - Do., Wakefield, Pontefract, and Goole 47% — Do., West Riding Union —4l. 25.... . .... Do., Preston and Wyre ... 25 ...... Do., do., Half Shares (A) 9 Ditto ditto Leeds and Bradford tro •• ... ..... 0 ...... Leicester and Bedford l6s. Leeds, Dewsbury, & Manches. 42 1 Do., Branch 1 / 2 Shares 1214 — to Ditto, New Branch (blue).. 2% — to Ditto, Extension (green)... 2% Do., New Exten. (pink)... 2% — ...... to Leeds and Thirsk ........ ...... 36 .... to Ditto, New Do., do., Prefer., 6 per Cent. 3%. .... ...... to Liverpeol. Crosby, and South port. • 2 Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle Junction 2 14 — to London & Blackwall...l6/. 13s. 4d — to Ditto New, No. 1.. Ditto New, No. 2 , q. 13s. 4d.... Do. Extension Lond., Bright., & South Coast 50 ....• 43 1 ,a... to ..... Do. Consolidated Eighths... 30 Do. Guaranteed 5 per Cent. 9 . ..... De. Pref. Cony. 5 per Cent. 50 ...... Ditto, ditto 1852 50 ..... London and Greenwich... 121.155. 4d... _ Ditto Preference lBl 17s 2d... —... to London & North iVestern.....loo 153 Do. Quarter ......L. and B. 22 Do. do. New .. .... ...... 2 ,to Do. do. Fifths Do. Quarters Do. 401. Shares L. &M. 15 Do. 40/. Sharcs...M. and B. 40 ...... 60% to Do. 10/.... M. and B. (A.) 7%..... Do. 10/. .. M. and B. O.) 7% to Do. 10/. ... M. and B. (C.) 1 London and S. Western.... 41..165 8d 55 55% to 54 , ,c4 Do. New Consolidat e d 6th s. 40 Ditto New 501. Ditto New 40/............ .. 26 Do. Tenths (Consolidated) 50 ...... Do. Tenths (Consolidated) 40 Ditto, Thirds el. 6s. 8d ... London, Salisbury, & Yeovil 1% Londonderry and Coleraine... 27% ...... io Londonderry - and Enniskillen 25 tVlsiich, Bux ;on, &CiNlatloz..k 8 ...... ...... to Manchr, Sheffield, and Linc.loo ...... to Ditto 1 4 Shares (No. 1) ... 13 ...... Ditto, ditto (No. 2) 25 ..... .... Ditto, % Shares (No. 3)... 7% . -- to Ditto Grimsby to -- Ditto, ditto. Ditto, ditto ... Ditto, Sheffield, and Line. 71 ,-'2•-•-•• ...... to Nlanchesterand Soutluunpton 2 1 4 — ..... ~ ..o Mid.and lOO .... ___ __ ..._ ..... Ditto, Consol. Preference...100 Ditto, 40/.; Shares Ditto, 501. Sharer l5 - Midland, Birm., and Derby...l(X ..... 88 Midland, Consol. Bristol and Birmingham 5 per ceat....100 124 - Midland, Bristol and Glotte. 36 Ditto ditto 11/. 38.6 d. .. Mialand, Leices. and Swan- nington (8 per ct.gua.)....100 .... . IV idld. Great" Western (Irish) 85 Newcastle and Carlisle lOO ...... Ditto Quarter Shares Newmarket and Chesterferd 16 1 / 2 — Ditto Extension Newport Abergy., and Heref. 6 Norfolk ......... .......... ..... 100 Ditto New 201. 5 - ...... to Ditto Extension - Do. Scrip, 1347, N. of Norflk 2 - Do. do. Waveuey Valley... 2 Newry and Enniskillen ...... 7 :\ cwr y , Warrenpoint, and Rostreyor - ..... to ..iorthern Counties Union .... 4 North British .. ......... ..... 25 .. Ditto Half Shares. l2t, Do. Quarters Ditto, Extension % — ..... to Ditto Thirds ... ........... ...• 2 North Staffordshire... North Wales 31,4 North Western Oxford, Worcester, and Wol verhampton . Reading, Guildfd., & Reigate 71 z i ...... 7%xi..- to Royston and Hitchin Scottish Central Scottish Midland ... ... 20 Ditto, New lO - Sheffield, Rotherham, and Goole Shrewsbury and Birmingham 7 Ditto, ditto, Class B. 4 - ..•.... to —. Shrewsbury and Chester (Nor. W. Min.) Ditto Halves, Ditto... 8 ••• •• •—to Ditto, Oswestry to -- Ditto (New) 1 Ditto 8 per Cent. Prof Shrewsbury and Hereford ... 2 Shropshire Union . South Devon ....... ...... ... 40 Ditto, Preference 2O ...... ...... to —.. South Staffordshire 4 South Eastern and Dover 33 1 4 Ditto, New, No. 1 Ditto, New, No. 2 l7 Ditto, New, No. 3 Ditto New, 4............ 7% —w.. to ..... SJuth Wales - South Yorkshire, Doncaster, and Goole Swans. and Loughor and Ca meron's Sun. Coal .. 4 (lames Heron Dock and Railway 17% raw Yale Extension Vale of Neath Waterford and Kilkenny l 3l Waterford and Limerick ... .. 40 .•• .. Waterford, Wexford, Wicklw, and Dublin - West Cornwall Niiiteliaven and Furness l2 ..... Windsor, Staines, and South ._ Western 523. Wilts, Somerset,&We3 mouth 80 ...... to l'ork, Newcastle, and Berwick 25 ... . 85 Do. Original New & Ber'ck 25 .. to Do. North Shields PJrchase 25 3 1 ,4 1)0. Exten. No. 1 (Y. is N.) 15 Do. do. No. 2, New &B. 10 Do. G. N. E. Pur. or Pref. 8 York and North Midland .. 50 Ditto, Preferenco lO Ditto East and West Riding Extension 25 WA...". to FOREIGN RAILWAYb. Boulogne and Amiens 2O .....• 13%...... to - Central of France ( Orleans and Vierzos) Central of Spain ... Ceylon .. Demerara. Dendro Valley Direct Bombay and Madras is. ..... Datch Rhenish East Indian - Great Indian Peninsular 5 3. ..... . ...... to Italian and Anstriaa .......... 4 Jamaica S. Midland Junction 1 Louvain ala Sambre ......... 6 Luxembourg Lyons and Avignon (Con stituted) Madrid and Valentia - Namur and Liege... . l6 ...... ..• .to Northern of France. Orleans and Bordeaux ... .. 6 Over Yssel 4135 4d .. ..... to Paris and Lyons Paris and Orleans... Paris and Rouen .. Paris & Strasbourg ..........• 8 Rouen and Havre 2O Sambre and Meuse Strasburg and Bale l4 Tours & Nantes .. 8 to Tournay, Jurbise, Landen, and Hassel t West Flanders JOINT STOCK BANKS. Australasia British North American .... 50 Colonial Commercial of London - London Joint Stock .... ...... 10 Loadon and Westminster... 20 National Provincial of Engld. 85 , Ditto New National of Ireland 22 %• — ... .. to Provincial of Ireland Ditto, New Union of Australia Ditto, New 2%•••••• Union of London ........ ...... 10 ...... Union of Madrid MINES. Anglo Mexican lOO - Astrian Mining Company ... 11 - Australian Blaenaryon Iron and Coal ... 60 Bolanos Scrip .................. '—— 13citish Iron .................... 10 ..... to o alcizilian Imperial ....• ....• Galvanized Iron ... ............ 10 Ditto, New to Real del Monte, Unregistered —. .. 13 2 to LLOYD'S SHIPPING—(THIS DAY.) LONDON, JAN. 18.—Wind W., light breeze, and cloudy. —ller Majesty's ship Snake was lost on a coral reef near Mozambique 29th August; crew saved. RAMSGATE, JAN. 17.—Wind S.S.W., a gale.—Arrd. Renner, Back, Cuba, for llamburgh. DEAL, JAN. 17.—Wind S.S.W., strong and squally.— Arrd. Reflector, Withycomb, Mauritius; Symmetry, Sharp, St. John's, New Brunswick. OFF THE WIGLIT, JAN. 14.—Walvisch, Batavia. SOUTHAMPTON, JAN. 17.--Sld. Forth steamer, West Indies. Or ToanAv, JAN. 17.—Thomas Arbuthnot, Thump son, Sidney, New South Wales. FALMOUTH, JAN. 17.—Wind W.S.W fresb.—Arrd. Vibelia, Dufriek, Rio Grand e , sa il e d Oct . . 24. LIVERPOOL, JAN. 17.—Wind N.N.E , modern.-IG.Arrd. Pink, Y oung, Demerara; Margaret,. Jackson, Laguna. 17. Camilla, Fox, Callao; Peruvian, Todd, Bonny, sailed Nov. 21; Maypo, Metcalf, Africa; San Roman, Laguna. Sld. Adriana, Africa. CORK, JAN. 15.—Wind N.W.—Arrd. Ann M.Lester, M'Lean, Callao; Sarah, Fletcher, St. John's, New Brunswick. Sld. Betsey, Valparaiso. Off port, Marie Laura, Ratsey, Mauritius, and sailed for Bristol. LIMERICK, JAN. 16.—Wind northerly.—Arrd. Peru, Walker, Demerara. HULL, JAN. 17.—1 t blew very heavily at S. to S.S.E. from two to eight A.M. today, but has since been mo derate. LOWESTOFT, JAN. 17.—The Glencairn Castle sank on the Holm Sand this morning during a strong ga l e; crew saved. DEAL, JAN. 17.—The Hilda has been off the Good win Sands, and proceeded for Margate Roads. LIVERPOOL, JAN. 17.—The John Troughton, for Trieste, has put back leaky, having struck on the bar. The Neptune, St. Petersburgh to Boston, put in yes terday with decks swept, leaky, &c., and will discharge. MILFORD, JAN. 16. Wind N.W.—Sld. Lemuel, Vukeman, West Coast of Africa. CLYDE, JAN. 15—S1d. Nonpariel, Havana. DUNDEE, JAN. 14.—Arrd. Czar, Moor, St. John's, New Drunswick; Selma, Pattillo, ditto. HUNTING APPOINTMENTS. Mr. Lumley's hds., Thurs., Bodsack Priory; Fri., Ileadon Clump-10i. The Rufford hds., Thurs., Laxton Village; Sat., Ruf ford Abbey-10i. The Earl of II are wood's hds., Wed., llarowood Bridge; Fri., Marston Village-101. The Ilolderness hds., Thurs., Beeford; Sat., Scarbo rough-101. Her Majesty's stag hds., Fri., Riching's Park-11. Mr. Horndon's hds., Thurs., Capman's well. The Devon hds., Thurs., Godston Gate. Mr. Furse's hds., Fri., Winswell Water-10. MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.) coLoNxiii. SUGAR.—The Market for British Plantation is steady, 650 hhds having been sold at previous rates. The public sales have comprised 700 bags Mauritius, 2,400 bags Bengal, 600 bags Madras, and 320 bags China, all of which found buyers, with the exception of the low qualities of Madras and China. Bengal selling briskly at an advance of about 6d. per cwt. The prices obtained were 38s to 38s 6d for mid yellow Mauritius, whilst other kinds fully maintained the pre vious currency ; Bengal, 29s to 31s for brown, with Mauritius kind at 39s to 41s; low to fine white at 41s id to 478 6d; and Madras, 35s to 44s 6d. Privately, 250 cases BAhia have been sold for refining in bond, at prices ranging from 35s 6d to 43s for low brown to tine strong white. The quantity of British Plantation landed last week at the East and West India Docks was 1,333 hhds, 33 tierces, 357 barrels ; there were taken fur home consumption 1,568 hhds, 250 tierces, 576 barrels. The stock in the same places is 17,592 hhds, 1,652 tierces, 4,166 barrels. COFFEE.-225 casks Jamaica, 600 bags Plantation Ceylon, and 217 bags Madras at auction was very dull of sale at previous rates, but importers, nearly the whole being unwilling to accept lower rates. Cocos.-330 bags Trinidad were about half sold at 46s for mid greyish red. Rust.—The quantity landed last week at the East and West India Docks was 252 puns 99 hhds, there were taken for home consumption 290 puns 9 hhds, and ex ported 342 puns 72 hhds. The stock in the same places is 14,270 puns 2,252 hhds. RICE.-3,200 bags Bengal only partly sold at 15s for good white. SPICES.-518 boxes Cassia Lignea, and 260 bags black Pepper were offered by auction ; the former sold very readily at 62s 6d to 70s, according to quality, being very high prices, whilst the latter sold without alteration in value, viz., 2id to lid for clean Sumatra. TALLOW.—P.Y.C. is 45s 3d to 45s 6d per cwt. on the spot, and Town 49s 6d per cwt. TEA.—The market for Tea is firm. There are public sales on Thursday. HAY MARKETS. SMITHFIELD.—Meadow Hay, 21 lOs to 31 15s ; Clover, ditto, 3/ 10s to 41 15s ; and Straw, 11 4s to 11 9s per load. A fair average supply, and a dull trade. CumncaLAND.—Meadow Hay, 21 lOs to 31 15s ; Clover ditto, 31 lOs to 4/12s; and Straw, 1/ 5s to 1/ lOs per load. A slow trade, at the above quotations, WHITECHAPHL.—Meadow Hay, 21 102 to 3/ 15s; Clover ditto, 31 lOs to 41 15s ; and Straw, 1/ 4s to 1/ 9s per load. Trade dull, at about last week's cur rencies., ; T. - Y EST E RDA T. Framwell Gate 2os Od Killingworth 2ls 3d Ramsay lss Od . Eden Main 22s Od 'Belmont 22s Od !Haswell 238 Od Illetton .. L Lambton i t Russell's Iletton l!Shotten ['S, tewart's 23s Od I !‘N r hitiv ell 20s 6d . Hudson's Hartlepool 2ls 6d High Thornley iTrimdon !Adelaide Tees !Denison !Seymour Tees Tees IWest Pease Cowpen Hartley W. Hartley Netherton 198 Od ! Sidney's Hartley 4—sold, 103. COAL MARK E' Bate's W. Hartley 18s Od middle's W. Hartley 19s Od Carr's Hartley Chester Main l9a Od Dipton Tanfield ...... 15s Odi Iledley's Hartley Hasting's Hartley l9s Odi Holywell Main North Percy Hartley lBs Od New Tanfield l7e Od; Original Pontop 16s Od; Original Tanfield lss 6d' Pontop Windsor .... Itavensworth's Pelaw l6s Gd South Pontop Tantield Moor Butes l6s Od! West Hartley' West Wvlam Walker's Primrose Wall's End, &c. Brown's Gas . l6s 6d, Clennell Clarice and Co. Arrivals, 434 The Marquis of Clanricarde, on Friday, departed for Harewood House, Yorkshire, on a visit to the Earl and Countess of Hare wood, where the Marchioness and Lady Emily De Burgh had previously arrived. Via. count and Lady Elizabeth Lascelles are:also among the guests at liarewood. INTERKEITITING, JAN. 15.—5141. Princess Royal, St. Thomas. NEWPORT, JAN. 14.—The Alona of Goole has been hauled into the floating dock leaky and must discharge. LOCH RYAN, JAN. 14.—The Active, of and from Liverpool to Westport has put in hero leaky, and with pumps choked. FRASERBURGII, 'JAN. 14.—The Sovereign, of Ar broath, which arrived here leaky on the 29th ult., and subsequently sunk in the harbour, has been weighed. NEWCASTLE, JAN. 17.—The )Slagle, Hansen, hence to Messina with coals, which was in contact with the Oline Cecilie Schmidt, sth inst., put back this morning with considerable damage, and part of the cago thrown over board. HARWICH, JAN. 15.—The Victoria and Albert, Barnes, ofßamsgate, got on the Andrews sand last night. but was assisted off and brought in here. CHANCERY.—(THIS DAY.) The Lord Chancellor sat to-day at eleven o'clock. IN THE MATTER OF UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, OXFORD. The arguments in this case were resumed this morning, and occupied his Lordship the whole day. The case, which has been now argued for two days, and seems likely to occupy another, comes before the Court, upon a petition presented to the Lord Chan cellor as the representative of her Majesty, who is the visitor of University College, Oxford, by the Rev. Mr. Moorson, scholar of the college, for the purpose of setting aside two elections to fellowships in the college—first, that of Mr. Bright on the foundation of King Henry IV., and the other that of Mr. Conington on the foundation of William of Durham. The petition also prayed that the petitioner might be declared entitled to one of the fellowships. The question with respect to the fellowship on the founda tion of King Henry was, whether it was necessary that the person holding it should be in priest's orders at the time of the expiration of the six months of probation ? If so, whether Mr. Bright was disquali fied, he not being at that time of the age required for priest's orders ? The main point raised on the petition was the meaning of the word sacerdos in the statutes of the college, revised in the reign of George 11., whether it meant simply priest, or was a generic term, and included deacon. The question under the foundation of William of Durham was, whether a general preference was to be given to natives of the diocese of York and Durham when qualified, or only when candidates should happen to be ccertis perebus, Mr. Conington being a native of the province of Canterbury. 11Ir. Cooper and M r . Ad ams were counse l for the petitioner; and Mr. Bethel!, Dr. Twiss, and Mr. Roundell Palmer appeared for the college. The arguments on behalf of the college occupied the whole day. BANKRUPTCY.—(THIS DAY.) (Before Mr. Commissioner HoLaoitn.) IN RE A. H. CHAMBERS, THE ELDER. In this case in which the bankrupt and his partners formerly carried on business as bankers, in Bond• street, to-day was named, at the audit meeting, for a final dividend under the estate, but the time not having expired under the notice in the Gazette, the dividend meeting did not take place, but will be held on the 25th instant. IN RE YEATES. In this case the bankrupt was described as a stock and share broker in Lothbury, and to-day was ap pointed for his last examination. The assignees applied for an adjournment in con• sequence of the accounts requiring investigation. His HONOUR said he invariably granted an adjourn• ment if required, but the first was always at the ex• pense of the estate. The 15th of February was then named for the ad journment day. CLERKENWELL.—( THIS DAY.) Two men, named Riley and 3PRae, were charged with a murderous assault on several constables. It appeared from the evidence that at midnight the attention of three officers of the N division of police was drawn to a disturbance in Rose and Crown court, High-street, Islington, and on going there, in the hope of quelling it, they were met by the pH. soners, and other disorderly characters, and attacked with brick-bats and stones; and the first-named pri soner went into his house and brought out a pick. axe, which he raised and aimed at policeman Col lard, 421 N, and would, in all human probahility, have occasioned his death, had not Sergeant Webb, 12 G, seized him and thrown him down. After a most desperate affray, in which the complainants were seriously injured, the prisoners were captured. Mr. TYRWHITT severely and deservedly admonished them, and committed them to the House of Corree• tion tor a month without fine. IMPROVEMENT OF MANUFAC- -- TURING OPERATIVES. - A meeting . of the Society for the promotion of the religious, moral, and intellectual improvement of men employed in manufactories was held in Free. masons' Hall yesterday evening. Edwin Lankester, Esq., M.D., was called to the chair. The proceed ings were opened by a prayer by the Rev. Mr. Baines, of Poplar. Apologies were received from the Earl of Radnor, president of the society ; Lord Robert Grosvenor, M.P, ; and the Rev. 11. Christ mas. The CHAIRMAN addressed the meeting at some length on the importance of improving the intellec tual and moral education of the working classes, and dwelt on the fact that, except at Ipswich, there was no real mechanics' institution in the kingdom ; that is, no institution in which the working classes were not kept out by the working classes getting in. He was anxious, in the establishment of mechanics' institutions, to provide, not alone lectures and classes, but also libraries and museums. To the last named he thought that working men would be found willing to contribute specimens of natural history. Works of art would also form a most useful branch of the museum of a mechanics' institute. Mr. AUSTIN, the secretary, read the first annual report of the committee. The donations and sub scriptions during the year amounted to 2291. ss. 2d., and with that sum the committee had been enabled to effect much good. The auxiliary societies had in creased from 1 to 7, the numbers from 27 to 237; the factories to which access had been gained, from 5 to 63 ; the libraries, from 1 to 10 ; and the average weekly issue of boiks to 986 volumes. The balance in hand was 101. 4s. 4d., and the outstanding liabilities amounted to 35/. 145. 4d. Mr. W. D. OWEN moved the adoption of the report, and impressed on the meeting the necessity of every man selecting some object morally and intellectually worthy of his pursuits, and devoting all his energies to the attainment of it as the only means of securing happiness. The Rev. Mr. I3AINEs seconded the motion in a speech of considerable length. Mr. NISBETT moved the second resolution, express ing the thanks of the meeting to the forty-seven clergymen and other gentlemen who had gratuitously given their services as lecturers during the past year. Mr. AUSTIN seconded the motion, which was agreed to. The President, Vice-President, and other officers of the society were then re-elected. On the motion of Mr. Hopkins the thanks of the meeting were voted to the Chairman. The assemblage then retired. FATAL ACCIDENT. —A distressing accident, at tended with the loss of life, occurred at Brompton, next Chatham, to David Carlisle, a labourer in Chatham Dockyard, and who resided in a court leading into West-court-street. On Friday evening he arrived home from work, and found one of his neighbours at the well endeavouring to get up a bucket which had fallen to the bottom, in consequence of the rope breaking; grappling irons were procured and an additional rope, when Car lisle succeeded in getting hold of the bucket and drew it up to the top of the well, and ha his releasing the grap pling irons from tho bucket, he, by some cause, pitched head foremost into the well. This circumstance brought together several persons and a fresh rope was procured, and Smith Whitelaw, a carpenter, lodging in the same court, descended by the rope to the bottom of the well, a depth of one hundred feet, and there found the man coiled up and lying in about 21 feet of water, and dead. A rope was fastened round his body, and was then drawn up. The head was covered with blood. The rope was again let down, when Whitelaw was drawn up. An inquest was held the following day, by J. Ilinde, Esq., when a verdict of " Accidental . death" was returned. The jury expressed their feelings Tory strongly at the dilapidated and insecure state of the framework and covering of the well, and being the property of a clerk of Chatham Dockyard, the jury directed the Coroner to write to him concerning the insecure state of the well, and to proN ide the tenants with a sound one. The Coroner pr om i se d th e j ury t h a t he would comply w ith their wishes. §OUTHAINIPTON, JAN. 17. —The Royal Mail Steam-packet Company's ship Forth, T. Sturdie, com mander, sailed to-day with the usual West India mails and seventy-five passengers. She Ina a full general cargo, and the following specie on freight:-1,5561. to Barbalovs, 1,0421. to Trinidad, 5651. to St. Thomas's, 4881. to Chagres, and 300/. to Tobago. The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company's ship Jupiter, Captain 11. Meehan, sailed to-day with the mails for Vigo, Oporto, Lisbon, Cadiz, and Gibraltar, twenty passengers, and a large cargo of bale goods. The Ilin dostan, Captain Lewis, will leave on the 20th with the East India and China mails for Malta and Alexandria. The Avon is due on the 22d with inward Wcst India mails, and the Madrid, with Spanish and Portuguese mails, on the 24th instant. HARMONIC HALL, SOUTIIWARK-BRIDGE-ROAD.— The proprietor of this unique theatre of harmony yes terday produced a variety of novelties, which notwith standing the unfavourable state of the weather, had the desired effect of attracting a full audience. In addition to the numerous fair vocalists, and those of the comic vein, several of the finest naval melodies of Dibdin were given with great effect by Mr. Pearce, who also sung the affecting composition of " The Ship on Fire," and at its conclusion was rewarded by many an applaud ing hand aild may a tearful eye° p mill