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iellas distress wouli have been avoided.—(Hear, hear.) Another evil was the defective legislation in the colonies, by which the emploj 'ers were unable to keep the hands at work, and hi ence t he squatting and idle ness which bad ensi zed. He was convinced that slave labour could never I be put down until free labour was brought into full col npetition with it. It was impossible that any Colonial Minister and his secretary—even if they were erAlowt!d with superhuman talent—could regulate the egatrs of 40 different colonies; and with the constant changes in the Colonial-office the difficulty was intinittsly increased. Acts ought to be passed re gulating tie form of government of each colony, which the Coloyaial Minister should not be suffered to infringe in any way.—(Hear.) In conclusion, he again ex pressed a hope that the Noble Lord would withdraw motion. M r . E. ELLICE said be cordially seconded this appeal. As one deeply interested in the matter, he thanked the Noble Lord for the steps he had taken, and was disposed to have given him his support; but after heariug the speech of the Right Honourable Baronet She Chancellor of the Exchequer, he thought it most advisable that the Committee should not be ap ,sointed. The appointment would only excite groundless expectations of the continuance of a differential duty. Rather let the colonists be told that their position was now ascertained, and that they must adapt themselves to the circumstances. Then the experiment would be fairly trtbd, whether they could exist under the system now introduced .—(Hear, hear,) He had let a portion of his own colonial estates at an extraordinary low rent; he bad nevertheless been appealed to for assistance; but he had told his tenants that they must do the best they could, and must reconcile themselves to the existing state of things. Mr. J. WILSON moved the adjournment of the House.—(" Nu, no 1" and cries of " Go on.") The motion for adjournment being seconded, The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER ex pressed a hope that the debate might be finished now. Mr. T. BARING suggested that time should be given to consider the propositions which had been made by the Chancellor of the Exchequer. The adjournment of the House was then agreed to, and the House shortly afterwards adjourned, at a few minutes after Twehe o'clock. TOTAL ITALY AN OPERA, COVENT-GARDEN THEATRE, Zatablhaled in 1 1 .,47 for the purpose of raudering a more perfect per formance of thr, lyric drama than had hitherto been attained in this oosatry. The Nobil',ty, Gentry, Subscribers, and Patrons of Music are re alleetfally ritiarmed that the SEASON (1448) will COMMENCE the grit WeeY, fn. larch, in the new and commodious edifice constructed lee 744'‘. OPERA. /oft the production of the established works by the great masters of ev Nu school, for the effective representation of the repertoire of sc ares teen Operas mounted last season, and of compositions to be heard for the first time In this country, engagements have been already Agate wall the following eminent artistes : PRIMI SOPRANI. Mde. Grist, and Mde. Persiani, Mde. Ronconi, Mdlle. Steffanini, aad :'astellan (her first appearance), M4olt.C r absal, Mdlle. Anglolina Zoja (of the Scala in Milan, her first appearance in this conntry), and Mde. Palatine Garcia Viardot (her first appearance). CONTRALTO. Mademoiselle Alboni. TENOR'. Signor Mario, and Siam Lavea, Signor Luigi Mei (from Scala, hit first appearance in this country), and Y. Boger (of the Academie Royale de Musice, and of the Opera cloinique, la Paris, his first appearance in this country), PRIM BASSI BARITONI. Signer Tamburini and Signor Itonconi. PRIM' BASSI PROFONDI. _ _ riser 'Karin'. (The ratifhNttion of the engagement of signer Cer mit-tietti, the oelebrated basso, is daily expected). BASSO COMICO. Signor Agostino Revere. ALTRI PRIMI BASSI. Signer Tagliaflco and Signer rolonini. Seeoscio Tenore—Signer Sold! (from the Scala). Mreotor of the Music, Composer, and Conductor—Mr. Costa. ilte Orchestra, comprising the distinguished professors of last se•won, will be increased by additional artistes ; the names of the leatrumentalists forming the entire ercheetra will be published in.a 1113a.re prospectus. The Military Band, which has also been increased, will be ander the direction of Mr. Godfrey, band-master of the Coldstream Iffitarcle. The pewerfni and aumerons Chorus of last year will be further stiweagthened by 94 chosen and experienced singers, and will number 49 voices namely, 40 ladies, and 52 male voices. Chorus Master — Manor Boaeoasiglio. Poet and Translator of the Libretti—Signor ledoggiont. rronsptor—Signor Monterasi. TILE BALLET the rule which gave such satisfaction to the musical public last season, that no divertissement should be suffered between the tilts of operas, w1:11 be strictly adhered to. The performances will terminate wit): a ballet.. Daring the season the following eminent danseuses mill appear : Ifde. flora Tabbri (her first appearance), Mdlle. Leopoidine Brum! (premiere danseuse of the Imperial Theatre in 'Vienna, her first appearance in thin country), Mdlle. Elizabeth Robert (premiere dansease of the Ac entry Royale de Musique in Paris, her first or fa this country), Mdlle. (au . first appearance for frar years), Mdlle. Thierry, of the Fenice, in Venice (her first ap ?muerte* la this country), Millie. Laugher, of the Scala (her first ap pearance in this sountry), Mdlle. Celest Stephan, Mdlle. llonore (her fret appearance), and Mdlle. Lucile Grahn (her first appearance). M. hilvaiu and M. Bretin (their first appearances), M. Gontie, &c., and a nameroua body of Coryphees, Promineuses and Figurantes. Maitre de Ballet—M. Appiani (from the principal theatres is Prance, and Belgium). Regisseur de la Danse—M. O'Bryan. Leader of the Ballet—M. Alfred Mellon. Composer—Signor Beletta. The scenery by Memo. Grieve and Whin. Premiere Artiste Cos tam4tre—Mrs. E. Bailey. ingagemente are pending with other distinguished artistes for opera and ballet. A detailed Prospectus, with the arrangements fbr the season, will lo :ready in a few days, and may then be obtained at the Box-office (ooruot of Bow-street and Bart-street), and at the principal libraries aril must° publishers. Italian Opera, Covent-garden, Jai. 23, 13411. THEATRE ROYAL, HATMAISKET. Ull.or tke Management of Mr. B. Webster, sole Lessee. THIS EVENING Will be peribrmed the Comedy of ASSITRAXCK. Sir Tharceart Courtly, Mr. Farren ; Charles Courtly, Mr. Howe ; Mark Meddle, Mr. Rogers ; Max ileutaway, Mr. Tilbury ; Cool, Mr. larindal ; Mr. Spanker, Mr. Keeley ; Dazzle, Mr. Henry Farren ; Lady Qay spanker, Mrs. Niebett ; Grace Harkaway, Miss Julia Bennett ; Pert, Mrs. After witch, a uew Farce, called DEAREST ELIZABETH. Mr. 370R1A Lax, Mr. Keeley ; Mr. Winch, Mr. Rogers ; Betsy, Mrs. Keeley. To conclude with WHO'S YOUR FRIEND Stags Manager, Mr. Fart - en; Acting hiaaager, Mr. F. Webster. J. T. Archer, Rox-book. keeper. Sexes, es. ; Pit, as. ; Gallery, ls. ; Upper Gallery, is. Nun *pea et Half-past six, Performance to commence at Seven. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. Under the direction of lit s.dame Celeste. THIS EVENING Wil Its presented as entirely new Piece, entitled the rEAra, •Ir ?111 °C RAM ; sr, the Prince and tie Mermaiden. Principal cha raoters by Messrs. Vf aye, P. Bedford, Wright, Munyard, Gleunairs, ?Illeafird, and Worrell ; Miss Woolgar, Miss Emraa Harting, Miss IleaClaplia, Mrs. Laws, sad Madame Celeste. relve renewed by a new sad original Farce, entitled OUR NA TIONAL DIFEN CIIS ; or, the Cockshot Teomanry. Principal Allistacters by )(sears. Lambert, Wright, P. Bedford, Sanders ; Ma- Theme Celesta, Wu Mama Harding, Mrs. Laws, and Miss Woolgar. ys soaalade with A NABOB FOR At HOUR. Boxes, 45.; Pit, 25.; Gallery, Is. Doors open at Half-past Six, Performance to commence at BeTsa. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. T niter the Management of Madame Vestris. hole Lessee, Mr. Charles Mathews. THIS EVENING Will be performed A CURIOUS CASE. Characters by Messrs. C. Mathews, L. Murray, Parselle, Honker, Hughes, aed Mrs. Stirling. After which, a New Falry Extravaganza, entitled TYE GOLDEN Anixcu. Priampal characters by Messrs. H. Hall, Harley, Ker .:go. Madame Yestris, Miss K. Fitxwilliana, and Mrs. Macuamara. Tb oonolude with a Romance of Heal Life, called BOX and COX. Frtaeipal characters by Mr. Harley, Mr. Buckstene, and Mrs. Mac. SIMMELIL. Drees Boxes, Is. ; Upper Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, Is. No Oodt-prtee to any part of the house. T he NIW lox-office, So. 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. Frodwell of the Ceeosseurn. rREINCH PLATS.—ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. Levee, Mr. John Kitchell, 33, Old Bond-street. MONS. BOCAGE'S BENEFIT. THIS EVENING, Vita Entertainments will commence at Half-past SeTen, with A new Cotnedie=vaadeville entitled UN TOF.O DE JEUNES FILLBS. M richelin, M. Tourillon ; Octave, M. Mentaland ; „Sitars, X. Jeasat ; Marot ; Fanchstte, lidlle. Aline tirange. lila: which. Mollere't Corned!, of LE TAItTUFFE. La Tartaffe, M. Dosage. To conclude with LES DEUX MENAGES. Bourdeuil, M. Bocage. Boxes, 'tells, tickets, and seaaon prospectuses, may be had at Mr. 1111031ILL'a Librairy, Beu, 32, C4d BenSl-strAet. , 4a. ; Pit, Is. 34.; Impiltheatre, 2d. ; Gallery, Is PRIIICESS'S TFIEATRE. M. M. Ma!idea, sole Lessee and Manager, Dushesi-itreet, Portland- place. Illomeasaat a) Mrs. Mowatt and Mr. Davenport, from Americo. THIS EVENING Will be presented Shakspeare's Play of AS YOU LILE IT. Due, Mr. Ryder i litke Freilerick, Mr. Conway ; Jacques, Davenport ; Cirlando, Mr. Conway; Ameins, Mr. Barker; Rosalind, Mrs. Mowatt ; Celia, Miss Tillers ; Phcebe, Miss Somers; Audrey, Miss Drama Stanley. To de witk a new Christmas Pantomime, satitled OLD TATAIV I IIMB ; er, Ilarlequia and the Fear Seasons. Dress Circle, Ss.: Bowes, 45.; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, is. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. jiesvee, Mr.. F. Davidge, ..ii;.i,Davidge-terrace, Kensington-read, Surrey. under the Management of Mr. Bean. TITS ETENING, the performances will eomatence witla tke nolebrated Opera of GIALTATUS TUB THIRD. Gustavo/ the Third. Mr. F. Tining; Count Ribbing, Mr. Horns:m..3- RA ; Count de Horn, Mr. Jones ; Colonel Lillienhorn, Mr. Rafter t Captain Ankerstrom, Mr. H. Phillips ; Oscar, Miss Pool.; Madame Ankorstrom, Mies. R. Isaacs. To conclude w a sew Pantomime, entitled BATTLICDOOR aid SHUTTLECOCK ; or, Harlequin Trap, Bat, and all. A distinct entrance to the private boxes has been made (which leave been re-fitted). Private boxes may bo had nightly of all the principal Librarians ; and at the Box-office et tho Theatre, which is *pen daily (roue 'Pen until Four. 73°- "*. 21 . ; Pit, ls. ; Gallery, 6d. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. THIS EVENING will be pok-Onned JAXIA EYRS ' • or, the Secrets of Thernfield manor. p r i n cipal characters by Messrs . Hicks, Dale, Searle, Rig -06. roman , miss rineent, Mrs. G. Lee, and Miss Burronglicliffe. To **winds with the groncis o ch N olastie and instructive Pantomime, , , ery - awes' 4 , fi g WORLD OF w PERS; or, Harl equ i n Caxton an d aul Herring ; I antaloon, Mr. M ore ll p i • Deintmenia• ; Sprite, Signor Moline; Celambine, ildlle'. ale Origin e hinting, jar . I with wonderful scenery and decorative a tu a l ers dn, if. Lap in,. Zestllli, Bozo., to. ; rts, 6d. ; Gallery, 4d. No lialt-prico le axY part DI tae house. Doors span at !lx, to commence at Half-past gtx. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMI'IIITHEATRE, Proprietor and Manager, dlr. William Batty. Mr. Batty's perforining Elephants. THIS EVENING , The Gland Spectacle of TIM CAMP OF SILESIA.. Artistes of Entirely new Scenes in the Arena, by the talented tAo listubllshrnent, in the carious modes et eiltiostratio n. T. cesoludo with a Grand Equestrian Comic Pantomime entitled BAR/Z(4171N DOCTOR 8/7TAX AND HIS DAPPER GREY MARI, in which those popular artistes llerr Delequin,ntin, Mdlle. Theo *ere, Mr. Ando/sin, and Mr. Bradbury, as Har Columbine, *town, Rad Pantaloon, which will exceed in splendour and elect oil tomer productions! at the Airiphltheetre. Bei-office open Rom 11 till Acting and Stage Manager, Mr. W West. DEATH. OF Dlt. }:7l , ltAl.—Our obituary records the death of Dr. James Jeffray, who for the long period of fifty-seven years, occupied the chair of anatomy in the University of Glasgow, and had reached, when he died, the great age pf 89. His death withdraws entirely into the depths of the past a generat i on o f l earne d men , w hose names, including those ,of Young, Jardine, and Richardson, shed lustre on our university, an d are h e ld is reverenc e b y all who enjoyed the advantage of their instruction. The professorship of anatomy is in the gift of the Crown, and is one of the most lucrative o ffi ces is Idle utriversiey.—Glasgow Owoxicte. THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 4, 1848. 13, Great Marlborough-street. MR. COLBUR N ' S NEW PUB L I , CATIONS. ____L_ _ . ... JUST READY. I. KING ARTHUR. By the Author of " The New Timou." cost Svo., 58, THE COURT and TIMES of JAMES I. Edited by the Altbor of " Memoirs of Sophia Dorothea." t vols., 'lvo. ANGELA. A Novel. 13y the Author of " Emilia Wyndham," &o. 3 vole. THE FOLLOWING ARE NOW READY. IT. REMINISCENCES of PRINCE TALLETRIND ; with Extracts from his Political Writings. 2 vols., with Portrait. V. JAMES THE SECOND. An Historical Romance. Edited by W. H. Ainswortla, Esq. 3 vole., with Illustrations. MEMOIRS of MADEMOISELLE DE MOICTPENIIIIII, Written by Herself. 3 vole., with Portrait. 'II. ADVENTURES of a MEDICAL STUDENT. Ey the late R. DOUGLAE, Surgeon, R.E. With a Memoir of the Author. 3 rola, VIII. LEONORA. A Lore Story. 3 vols. " In ' Leonora' Lady Boothby has proved the universality of her talent in depicting character, both as a novelist and an actress."— Jerrold's Paper, Tir ZOOLOGICAL RECREATIONS. ET W. J. Brodorip, Esq., F.R.S., &o. 1 vol., 10s. 6d. boand. I. EMILIA. ITYNDHAM. CHEAP EDITION. Forming the New Tolame of " Colburn's Standard Novels." Henry Colburn, Publisher, :3, Great Marlborough-street. ACTON Vr/ARBURTON, ESQ. Just ready, in 3 ►ols. post Svo., with Engra►isgs, ROLLO AND HIS RACE; Or, FOi7;TSTEPS OF THE" NORMANS. By ACTON WARBURTON, Esq. • Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street, (Publisher in Ordinary to her Majesty). NIEETINGoF PARE lAMENT 11.11; WRATH Kii.—SuN OFFICE, FEE. 4. 'IIIRNOMETER, Lowest, 35 ; Highest, 41 ; Noon, 42, BAROMETER, 30.2.—W1ND S.S.W.; hazy, with rain. WATEP. AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY. Morffing.. 26 minutes after 1. ; Evening .. iSO mirintrs after 1. Brazil. The High Tory leader of the Protectionists takes avowedly as hi ,s model the Locofoco President of the American republic, and attempts to justify his proposed scheme of piracy and robbery by quoting, as a precedent, the Yankee invasion of Mexico. There is, notwithstanding, a certain degree of consistency about Lord GxonciE BENTINCK and we are not surprised at fill:ling the apologist for the massacres in. G-al l 2icia, and the defender of the spoliators of Cracow, coming forward with a proposition for the perpetration of a snug little bit of territorial robbery on his own account. Of one admission, however, which was made by Lord GEORGE BENTINCIL, and by which his clients are equally bound, for it - was evident that they also made the same admission, we take especial note. He asks for protection against all sugar, free labour as well as slave labour. Like an hone!: man, as he is, he hates a sham, and krlf.:, - ,v . ing that the morality crotchet about the distinc tion between free-labour sugar and slave-labour sugar is a sham, and was never intended by Lord SANDON and those who supported him for any thing else but a sham, he at once gives it up. This debate, even if . _ it should lead to no other result, has done good service by consigning this sham to the tomb of the Ca pulets. We yesterday pointed out some of the advantages possessed by the Australian colonies for the purposes of emigration, and particularly alluded to the great demand for labour, which enables the emigrant to obtain immediate employment, with such remunera- tion as would place him in the enjoyment of all the comforts suitable to his condition, and far more than he had ever possessed at home. The colonists would also have their chief wants supplied, and be enabled at once to obtain the labour necessary for the due de velopment of the resources of their country, and an opportunity for the profitable disposal of the surplus stock of provisions, which are now wasted and lest for want of consumers. There is also an abundance of land remaining unoccupied from the deficiency of population ; so that any well disposed and industrious man might in a few years save and lay by a sum of money sufficient to enable him to become a landed proprietor, and to cultivate his own farm for his own use. A very few plain facts will prove the facility with which this desideratum may be attained. We find that Australia is nearly as large as Europe, and yet that the inka- bitants of this vast territory do not equal in number those of a third class English county. That the pro- portion of population to the area is in Ireland as 3,600 to 1, and in England as 3,120 to 1 ; or, in other words, that each Australian has a quantity of land equal to that enjoyed by 3,600 Irish or 3,120 English. This will appear from the fad that in Ire land there are 300 persons for each square mile, and in England 260; while in Australia there are 12 square miles for each individual. The land, too, is of the most fertile description, which would yield ample returns for the amount of labour that may be expended thereon; in fact, the inferior soils need not be brought into cultivation for very many years. We have as yet only pointed out the benefits to two classes, the emigrants themselves and the co- lonists, from selecting Australia ; but there is ano ther, of no less importance, viz., the advantages to the parent state, which more than counterbalance the expenditure that might be required from the Govern ment to grant the necessary assistance. We find that there is no part of the world which takes one-half the amount of British manufactures, in proportion to its population, as Australia, while it also supplies us, in return, with the largest amount of the raw material used in one of our principal manufactures, and, with a little encouragement, cotton also might be produced in great quantities, as there are boundless tracts of land well adapted for its easy and rapid growth —so that we might in time be come independent of America in that most essential article. Its mineral treasures are also most abundant; very valuable mines have recently been discovered, and others may be hoped for. The consumption of British manufactures by each inha bitant of Australia may be calculated at from 71. to 101. annually, while each person in the United States takes only to the amount of ss. Bd. One emigrant to Australia, therefore, is equally valuable in occasion ing a demand for the products of our national in dustry as thirty to the United States, or four to Canada, even if those sent to the latter country remained there. But it is well known that fully one half have crossed the frontier and established them selves in the United States, so that we cannot hope that those who may be sent to the British possessions is North America will remain permanently under our laws and institutions. Within the last 22 years no less than 800,000 British subjects have become citizens of the United States ; they have there consumed to the value of 200, per annum of our manufactures, whereas had the same numbers gone to Australia, the demand would have amounted to no less than 6,000,0001. sterling per annum. Our manufacturers may readily conceive what extraordi nary advantages they would derive from so beneficial a connexion. America, too, is becoming to a certain extent overstocked. Regulations have been adopted in the United States to check the flood of emigration thither, at least of those classes whom it would be desirable for this country to send away. Active and intelligent men, possessed of a moderate capital, are received with open arms, but destitute paupers will not now be welcomed as heretofore; while well founded remonstrances have been forwarded from Canada at the •- distressed multitudes which have arrived, and whom it is necessary to main tain in idleness for at least a year before they can support themselves by their own exertions. The numbers that went to Canada have been as greatly too many, as those to New South Wales have been too few for the requirements of the colony. Within the first nine months of the last year" . 240,000 persons have crossed the Atlantic, an amount more than equal to the whole Australian population, while only 100 have gone to New South Wales. What, then, can be the causes that have led to this extraordinary preference, when every circumstance is so greatly in favour of the latter colony ? Simply the greater length of the voyage, and consequent ad dition to the original outlay, and, secondly, the vexatious and impolitic regulations re specting the sales of land which have been established by our Colonial Office. New rules might readily be introduced which would re move this last objection, and the increased expense is more apparent than real, because the outlay does not cease with the arrival of the emigrant in America; he must, as we have already stated, be maintained for a considerable period, whereas he is provided for im mediately on landing in Australia, great competition existing among the colonists as to who shall first ob tain the benefit of his services. It will, therefore, be found that the settlement of a family there will cost very little more than in British North America. Those proprietors whose object is to clear their es tates at the least possible charge to themselves, without taking into their consideration the future welfare of the party they are desirous of removing, or the other, and not less important, points of creating a market for our commerce and supporting the colonial revenues, may seek only the cheapest mode of attaining their purpose ; but the Government should have higher objects in view, and should encourage that colonization which is the most beneficial at all times to all parties, and ultimately the most econo mical, where the emigrant himself, the land from which he takes his departure and that to which he goes, will alike be served. Should any emigration, therefore, be supported or encouraged from the public purse, we trust it may be that which will combine all these advantages, and that the tide of emigration may be directed to our Australian colonies by every legiti mate and practicable means. A letter from Turin, of the 30th ult., says— " Several Bishops have protested against th• new law on the press, because religious tracts and the publica tions of the episcopacy are not free from the censor ship. The Bishop of PIQNEROL (an intolerant bigot, who is continually persecuting the harmless Vaudois (Vallenses) that compose the greater part of the population of his diocese) has proved the most obsti nate in this contest. On seeing that the Ministry rejected his pretensions, he went to the LING. CHARLES ALBERT was firm. Monsignor CIIA<•RAZ offered his resignation, which was accepted. The fate of the Bishop of BIGNEROL, who, having been tutor to the young Princes, was bold enough to I speak to the KIN. in no ♦ery respectful terms, seems to have produced a salutary warning upon the other less courageous prelates." A letter from Genoa of the 28th ult. says—" All goes on smoothly here. The progress, is slow, but every day imparts us some new and useful reform from our beloved KING. The Jesuits, whose colleges are shut up, can no longer act as confessors nor preach. Their churches are almost deserted. Their cunning and mischievous ministry will soon become useless amongst us. We indulge ourselves in the reasonable hope that they will be replaced by the ordinary clergy, who enjoy and deserve the general veneration of the population. 'Masses of Requiem' have been celebrated in several churches in comme moration of the deplorable events of Milan and Pavia. All the town assisted in deep mourning." A recent decree of the Duke of PARMA orders that all functionaries shall take an oath to serve him and his successors by all the means in their power, and never to belong to any association, public or private, which may be contrary to his interests, or those of his allies. Madrid journals of the 28th ult. have arrived. On the 27th General &TARTER° paid a visit to the QUEEN, to take leave on his departure for Logrono. He stopped some time with her AlmErr!, and was most favourably received. The Marquis DR REMISIA died on the 27th. MADRID BoLIA, JAN. 27.—The Three per Cents. were done at 27 at fifty days ; the Five per Cents., at 16-i for paper; and tic° Debt without Interest, at 51. We have received the Paris papers of yesterday. The Journal des Debats publiahes the following as the text of the telegraphic dispatch announcing the proclamation of the Neapolitan constitution "NAmns, JAN. 29.—The King of Naples, by a pro clamation, dated this day, has solemnly promised a constitution on the basis of the French charter. His Majesty kas been received with the loudest acclama tions by his people. Yesterday the King appointed a new Ministry, under the presidency of the Duke de Serra Capriole. Naples is tranquil." The whole of the sitting of the Chamber on Wed nesday was occupied by the speech of M. TIIIERS on the affairs of Switzerland, which is represented as being one of the most brilliant orations ever uttered by confessedly the most brilliant orator of the present day. It was not only a brilliant oration, but was a masterpiece of reasoning. It was a complete defence of the Federal Diet—and an expose of the calumnies and the murders and intrigues of the Jesuit party in Switzerland. Among other things, M. TRIERS showed that the assassins of the Valaisans during the rule of the Sonderbund had been conducted and aided by the monks of St. Bernard, and that after the fall of the Sonderbund, although the monks had been ac cused of the most reprehensible acts of counter revolution, the Government of Valais adopted no measures against them. " Being conscious of the mischief they had done," continued M. TRIERS, " the monks themselves fled the convent." Having vindi cated the Liberals of Switzerland from the calum nies of M. MONTALAMBURT and the Jesuits, and those of M. GulzoT and the Conservatives, M. TRIERS indignantly protested against the attempted inter ference of Austria and France, and strenuously maintained the right of Switzerland, as an indepen dent nation, to remodel her institutions. The effect produced by this speech, both on the Chambers and the public, was intense. That the Constitutionnel should praise the speech of M. TIIIBRS is a matter of course, and, therefore, we do not quote its observations on the subject; but that the speech has produced a great sensation is evident, from the observations of the papers which are in general 'opposed to M. Tuinits. ThelPresse, in the course of a long article, says— _ .. " hI. Thiers, in this speech, proved himself to be a complete statesman. In power, M. Thiers com mitted great faults which for a long time rendered his position extremely difficult. But the policy of M. Guirot has afforded him too many opportunities to extricate himself, and it cannot be a trifling cause of humiliation to those who hare decried him to find him so ` great whet measured by the standard of their own acts." The Siècle is rapturous in its approbation of this last display of the powers of I\l. TinEsts as a parlia mentary orator. The emotion of all who heard the speech, the reiterated acclamations of the Opposition and of the public galleries, and the mute admiration of the Centres, at each instant ready to break out into open applause—all this, says the Slick, proves the power and effect of the speech which M. TniExs delivered yesterday. The National also expresses its admiration of the speech. And the Courrier Francais too, that journal which, as it still says, " has an invincible repugnance for the political principles of M. Timms," has honeyed words as will be seen by the following extract from the speech of Tuesday :-- "We feel, as our readers know, an invincible re pugnance for the political principles of M. Theirs — if M. Theirs has principles. We have no confidence in his means of government, of which he showed us the impuissance in 1840. That said, we are liberty to praise the speech which he has just delivered on the Swiss question. This speech is remarkable in every respect. Ind if it be true that the French tribune has still some influence on the resolutions which the Swiss Diet may take, and on the conduct which the Powers may adopt, this speech may be considered as a veritable evert." The debate was resumed yesterday by M. GllsoT, who vindicated the right of the three Powers to in terfere in,-the affairs of Switzerland; and who 'was left speaking when the post left. ' The students of the University of France, to the number of 2,000, proceeded in grand procession yesterday to the Chamber of Deputies, to entrust to M. CABILIEUX, for presentation, their petition against the suspension of the lectures of M. Micuxurr by order of the government. The petition was pre sented to the Chamber; and the students, having deposited a copy of it at the office of the National, quietly dispersed. The Three per Cents. closed on the Paris Bourse yesterday at 74f. 50c.; New Loan, 75f. 10c. ; Five per Cents., 117 f.; Orleans Railroad Shares, 1,185 f.; Rouen, Posf. ; Havre, 440 f. ; Great Northern, 535 f. ; Avignon, 652 f. 50c. ; Vierzon, 512 f. 60c, ; Bordeaux, 480 f. ; Dieppe, 255 f.; Basle, 158 f. 75c. ; Paris and Strasburg, 406 f. 25c.; Tours and Nantes, 386 f. 25c. • Paris and Lyons, 3gof. ; Belgian Two-and -a Half, 50i. Alizsithrss, JAN. 28.—Marseilles and Avignon, 545 f.; Northern, 522 f. 50c. 11USINE6S DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT Till LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, Fs.. 3- Boulogne and Amiens, 11%—Sambre aid Meuse, 7 1 Airw West Flanders, E. THE ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURT......:The Lord Primate has been going on favourably since Tuesday until last evening. In reply to inquiries at the Palace, at a late hour last night, we regret to learn that his Grace was not quite so well ILLNESS OF PRINCE ALEXANDER OF THE NETHER LANDS.—THE HAGUE, Fan. 2.—On Sunday last earnest prayers to Almighty God were put up in all the churches of the kingdom for the re - esta blishment of the health of his Royal Highness Prince Frederick of the Netherlands, who is at the time in a most critical state in Madeira. The Right Hon. the Speaker of the House of Commons commences his Parliamentary dinners on Saturday, the loth inst., when the Viscounto. Gentle man will receive Lord John Russell, Pelmet-a ton, Viscount Morpeth, Sir Charles Wood, Sir George Grey, and the principal members of the G ber overnment this club THE CA RLTON CLUB.—The mems of occupied the saloons of their new club-house for the first time last evening. The greater part of the old building will be pulled down and altered to correspond with the new wing. When completed the club will be one of the finest specimens of architecture in the metropolis. TIM ARMS or THE AXE or MANCIIESTER.—The arms granted to the see of Manchester passed the seals of the College of Arms on Saturday last. They are thus technically described :—.‘ Or, on a pale engrailed ules, three mitres of the first; a canton gules, char g ed with three bendlets enhanced, or." The arms will make a rich and showy blazon; the two colours used being red and gold, those of the old arms of Manchester, or, more strictly speaking, of the Grelles, Greslets, or Gres leYs, the ancient Barons of M anchester. These arms are preserved in the canton (a square shield i n t h e upper right hand corner of the field). The grant of a charge of three mitres of gold on a broad red upright bar in the cent re of the shield is a rich one, heraldically, and worthy of the extent and importance of th e see of Manchester. TiH MURDER AT DUNDRX.—The magistrates re sumed their investigation at eleven o'clock yesterday (Wednesday), at the Angel Inn, Ashton, but very little additional information of any importance was got at. The Bev. Mr. Mirehouse then informed the prisoners that though they would be brought up again this day week, to hear the depositions read through, they must consider themselves as committed for trial to the county gaol at the next assizes. The proceedings did not ter minate until after five o'clock. QUEEN'S BENCH.—(THIS DAY.) Sittings at Nisi Prius at Westminster, before Mr. Justice ENLH and a Common Jury.) COBUETT V. HUDSON. _ . . This action was brought by the plaintiff, William Cobbett, in forma pauperis, against Captain Hudson, the keeper of the Queen's Bench prison, for having made a false return to a writ of habeas corpus, and for having illegally detained him in custody. The circumstances out of which the action arose have been repeatedly brought under the attention of the Court. The defendant conducted his own case in person, and Mr. 'Watson, Q.C., appeared for the plaintiff. Mr. WATSON stated that the plaintiff was in the custody of Captain Hudson, by virtue of an attach ment issued against him out of the Court of Chancery for 411. odd, and that he could be liberated en the payment of the sum. The writ was issued in 1842, and was at the suit of Jessie Oldfield. The Learned JUDGE, in summing up, expressed an opinion that the plaintiff was legally detained in cus tody by the defendant. The jury found a verdict for the defendant. SECONDARIES'.—(THIS (Before Mr. Secondary PoTTEE.) xLWES v. BLWES. This was an action to recover the sum of 530/. 18s., for arrears of rent, and waste and dilapidation. The plaintiff is sister to defendant, and it ap peared that the latter had been in occupation of some premises in Cloak-lane and in Friar's alley, City. The defendant had been in pos session for many years, and the amount claimed was a balance during six years. It also appeared that the plaintiff offered to forego the mat if defendant would give up possession. He gave up the key, but after wards re-entered by means of another key, and removed several things, and did what was, in the opinion of the witness, wilful damage to the amount of between 301. and 401. The defendant did not plead to the action, and the jury gate a verdict for 530/. 18s. CRIMINAL COURT.—(THIS DAY OLD COUPT. (Before Mr. Baron ALDERSON and Mr. Justice VAUGHAN WILLIAMS) MURDER or Two CHILDREN wasT LUKE'S.— Harriet Parker, widow, aged 88, placed in the dock and indicted for the wilful murder of two chil dren, named Amelia and Robert Henry Blake. The prisoner pleaded Not Guilty. The features of the prisoner were somewhat of a repulsive character. She was accommodated with a seat during the trial, and upon being put forward to the bar she seemed to be deeply affected. Mr. BODKIN opened the case for the prosecution, and called Robert Henry Blake, the father of the deceased children, who stated he lived in Cubitt's-court, Golden lane, St. Luke's, where he had resided for the last two years. The prisoner during that time had cohabited with him. He had a wife living, and he remembered going home on the evening of the 31st of December, when he told the prisoner he was going to the theatre. The prisoner wished to go with him, but he told her he could not allow her to do so, because he was going with a friend. After tea he put his two children to bed, and then retired to a public-house in Golden-lane, whether the prisoner followed him. Upon leaving the public house the prisoner still followed him, and he told her to go home, but she refused. He then, in company with his friend Hulett, strolled down Golden•lane, the prisoner still keeping at his heels. Hulett called his attention to the fact that the prisoner was swinging a handker chief about with a heavy substance like lead fastened to the end of it, and upon his remonstrating with her upon her conduct, she told him that he would find the very devil in her that night. He and his friend then went to a second public-house, but the prisoner still following him, he returned to the first public house, which was known b y the name of the Duke of Bedford. On his return a woman named Jane Jones, whom he had known for a few days called after him, but he took no notice of the call, and entered the public-house, still followed by the prisoner. While the prisoner was engaged with the landlord in conversation, he slipped out of the house, and went with the woman Jane Jones. On his return home the following morning he was horror-stricken by finding in his bed-room the life less bodies of his two murdered children. Upon cross-examination by Mr. CLARKSON, the - witness admitted that on several days previous to the murder he had been idling about getting drunk. The prisoner was of a most jealous disposition. He did not endeavour to make the prisoner drunk to enable him to get away from her. Stephen Hulett, a turner, living at the Duke of Bedford public-house in Golden-lane, corroborated the evidence of the last witness, and then went on to say that about a quarter of an hour after Blake retired, the prisoner discovered his absence and followed him. Soon afterwards she returned and told him that he would find in the morning that it was a good job for him that he did not go with Blake. Between eight and nine o'clock on the same evening he went to Blake's house and knocked at the door. The prisoner asked, "Is that you Steve," and upon his answering that it was, she admitted him, when he endeavoured to reason with her upon the folly of her being so jealous and passionate. She replied that she had something dark upon her mind, and before morning she would do something that should put a stop to it. Cross-examined —During the whole of the night the prisoner appeared to be greatly excited. Jane Jones proved that Blake was with her from seven o'clock on the night of the murder till ten o'clock the next morning. Charles Adams, the proprietor of the Duke of Bedford, proved that the prisoner was at his house after Blake had left, acco mpanied by one of the deceased children, when she said, " will have re venge on the children if I don't on Blake," and she added, " Mark the time—it is now twenty-five mi nutes to eight o'clock." Willi a m Grubb, who lived in the same house with the prisoner, saw the children, alive about twelve o'clock on the night of the murder. " I have going t Jeremiah Donough—On the night of the 31st of December heard a noise in Blake's room. He listened, and heard a child cry " Murder, murder !" Jane Moore, another tenant of the house No. 9, rememembered being awoke about a quarter to four o'clock on the morning of Jan. 1 by a loud knocking at the door. It was thee prisoner who came in and, throwing herself in a chair,she said, " Oh, Mrs. S a h n e d t a h m en n sa o i w d, Moore, I have done it." Witness asked what it was she had done. The prisoner replied "Blake Caine home to-night to take me to the play, and in going out he met with a strump,e,t,:and, taking her arm, he give myself up." Witness's husband then got ulp ° , went out, and returned with a couple of policemen. children,t r s s . John Moore, the husband of the last witness, cor roborated her testimony. He found the t a m a u id rd s e h r e ed wa t s he his t wmois two children lying upon the bed dead, Standen, a police-officer, also saw the dead John G. Fowler, a police- officer, was on d uty c Cubitt's-court about fourio'clock on the m near the Ist of January. The prisoner came morning of and said, " Policeman, I give myself up to hi m Witness asked what for, when she replied,uP to you." would tell him when they got to the that she On the road to the station-house they station-house. officer, whom he told that theprisoner ey met another herself into his custody. The ofFioer for anything that had happened asked if it was and the prisoner replied, " Yes, it Cubitt's-court, ac knowledged having murdered the children,was," and ac that she intended to have done it remarking nine and that now she had done it, the months since, while she knew perfectly well what more to her sorrow, On cross-examination, the she was ab ou t. witness a ppeared to be in a state of tness stated that sh e great Harriet Heyward, the excitement. searcher at Cl er k en we ll police-station, proved that t the murderess. the prisoner said she was Several police-officers wh de posed to the confessions madeo were at the station, by the prisoner. (The trial had no t concluded when our report left.) MIDDLESEX SESSIONS. (THIS DAY.) THE PARISH OF ST. LUKE'S AGAINST GORE.—This case was resumed this mulling, having been adjourned at a late lour yesterday. Mr. PRENTICJI, for the defendant, called several witnesses who had been brought up to the business of scavengers ' of whom most had been, as they s a id, " born in the dust yard." Their evidence was to the effect that the employment was healthy, as proved in Some of the persons of their children and relati ons. . f t r h a e m m es ap a p n e d al r e u d dd f; c c o o u n n fi____=:: own robust - MARLBRIY-STREET—(THIS DAY) Jane peacock, a girl of about sixteen years of age, was placed before Mr. Hardwick, charged with ob taining by fraudulent means a quantity of drapery, from Mr. Robert Siemington, linendraper, 13, Moor street, Soho. William Stock, a shopman in the employ of the prosecutor, said, yesterday morning the prison er came into his ma ster's shop, arid asked look to w would she some dresses. He showed her some, when she picked out two worth fifteen shillings. Sh e said wou ld keep one for herself, and the othe r she mother, subsequently as p k ic h k e e r d iofut sh e sh likedawl t a h n e d pa se t- - se veral yards tt v ea e rk r ntSh r he d re s of flannel, which she said were for her mother. Knowing her mother to be a customer of theirs, he let her have the goods, whi c h were worth 21. 76. 4d. A few minu tes after the prisoner had left the shop, her sister came and told him not to let her have anything on her mother's account. He said she had already done so, and had taken the goods away. The prisoner came again in the evening, when he gave her in charge. The prisoner's father, who is a highly respecable licensed victualler, in the neighbourhood, said the prisoner was never authorised to go to the prosecutoi's shop for the goods. She had voluntarily left his house, and had absented herself for a fortnight, during which time she had obtained money by getting goods from his tradesmen and then pledging them. Although so young, she was one of the most incorrigible drun kards that ever had a head on. Her depravity was such that they really could not do anything with her. The prisoner, who admitted the charge, was re manded till Wednesday next. MARKET NEWS. -(THIS DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE-FRIDAY. A fair average quantity of Englisk Wheat has been received up to our market this week, coastwise as well as by land carriage, and the show of samples of that grain to-day was tolerably good. As the attendance of buyers was small, and the weather very damp, the de mand for all kinds of Wheat of home produce was heavy; and to have effected large sales, rather lower rates must have been submitted to. In Foreign Wheat, the show of which was by no means large, very little business was doing. In prices we have no change to report. The imports are only 190 quarters. Barley was in short supply and steady request, at full prices. Fine Malt was quite as dear, but other qualities were somewhat neglected. Oats, Beans, Peas, and Flour were unaltered in value. English ...... Wheat. 8,890 qrs. AARITALS. ißarley. 3,510 qrs. Irl;h. • • • . • . • . Foreign ...... Oats. I Flans. 20S qrs. I tote Av. 2,060 I -- ISO I -- Malt, 2,290 era. SMITZIFIELD. The number of Beasts here to-day was tolerably good, but of very middling quality. Prime Scots, &c., were in fair request, at fully Monday's quotations. In all other kinds a limited amount of business was transacted, but we have no decline to notice in their value. Only about 320 head of each kind of foreign stock were in the market. Although the supply of Sheep was very small, the mutton trade was in a sluggish state, at unaltered figures. Prime small Calves moved off steadily, other wise, the veal trade was dull. Pigs were a slow sale, but not cheaper. Milch Cows were quoted at from 141. to 171. each, including their small calf. .a. ? L. 1 •t: It . '„:4 - 2: j :"'m ."-:, 04f s'i ,' ' •.• 0 51 "" •U' - 4 _, . ''t -'"' %•-••••• ' ••• ''sVZOll-.SF A V .---n , ....1'11)i, .1. A , -..ftiir. •- 7 , 4 ''' ,1. . - '• lir 44...% - • ••'' fili4l.N ..4,, ' • ' li t , - . '';;;Ai,„„P C ' k ' 4 l .,, i' ' s ' , , ... 1----- ~ s r. :.. . 0 1 . .:‘ , .' . . . THE THIRD EDITIONS "THE SUN" CONTAIN, AS USUAL, THE LATEST PARLIAMENTARY INTELLIGENCE, ALL OTHER NEWS UP TO TILE HOUR OF POST. Orders received by all Newsmen, and at the Sun-office, 112, Strand. etrenini: LONDON, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 18411 Lord GZORGB BEISTINCIei motion last evening has produced one good effect at least—it has elicited a distinct declaration from the Chancellor of the Ex- chequer that her MAJESTY'S Ministers will not de part from the Act of 1846, establishing free trade in sugar. The West Indian proprietors must now be convinced that they can never hope for a restoration of the protective duty (a restoration of which, as we demonstrated yesterday, can never benefit them, although it may benefit the black population of the colonies, veho possess a monopoly of the labour mar ket), and that therefore they must, instead of being any longer led away by the fallacy of protection, turn their attention to other and more efficient measures of relief. The other measures de- manded by the West Indian proprietors are a repeal of the navigation-laws—the admis- sion of molasses into breweries and distilleries in this country—the admission of rum upon an equality with British spirits—and free admission to the coast of Africa, for the purpose of getting free labour wherever it can be found. Of these demands the Chancellor of the Exchequer is prepared to grant the admission of molasses for distillation, but not for brewing ; the admission of cane-juice for distilling and brewing, if a duty can be fixed by which the revenue will not lose; and, with regard to increasing the supply of labour, he is willing to grant a loan for the purpose of facilitating the immigration of free labourers into the West India colonies, and to remove the captured negroes to the West Indies almost wholly at the expense of the mother country. He will further grant an additional five years for the repayment of what is called the " Hurricane" loan, and will grant a special loan to the Island of Tobago, to enable the pro prietors of that island to repair the damage occasioned by the late hurricane. _ We could have wished, however, that the Chancellor of the Exchequer had consented to place rum on an equality with British:spirits, albeit Lord G. BJNTINCL, true to his anti-free-trade prejudices, urged the pro position so gingerly, that, it was evident he did not heartily desire its adoption. Nevertheless, we should be desirous of seeing rum treated in every respect as British distilled spirits. The colonies are inte gral, parts of the empire, and the West India distiller is entitled to have the British market as free to him as it is to the !British distiller. It is not one whit less' absurd :to protect the distiller of Middlesex against the dis tiller of Jamaica, than it would be to protect the cider maker of Devonshire against the cider maker of Herefordshire. We hope the Chancellor of the Exchequer will reconsider his decision on this point, and we also trust he will admit molasses into breweries as well as into distilleries. We have no doubt but that such measures would be sufficient to restore the West India colonies to prosperity. And of all these measures by far the most important is that which secures to the West Indian proprietors an adequate supply c f labo u r, w hi c h thr ow s the West Indian labour market open to all the world. The West Indian proprietors have never, from the first coloniza tion of the islands down to the present hour, enjoyed the advantages of a free-labour market. They have ever been the victims of Government meddling. In their early days they were obliged by law to cultivate their 'estates by slave labour, and instead of being permitted to regulate the supply by the demand, the labour market was absolutely glutted by the British Government, who, to promote the in terests of the British slave-traders, forced the un fortunate planters to purchase, and consequently to maintain, more than double the number of labourers they required. The mother country, at length awakened to the iniquity of the slave-trade, decreed its abolition, and then came the reaction in the West Indies. The labour market was now as much under supplied as it had been before over supplied ; and then came emancipation, which found the slaves each in possession of a provision-ground sufficient by its produce to maintain himself and his family, in many instances without any labour, in all with the smallest possible amount of labour, and that of the slightest possible character, and which at once converted a labouring population of slaves into a non. labouring population of small proprietors, who, enjoying the monopoly of the labour market, only work when they please, how they please, for whom they please, and for what wages they please. We repeat the West Indians have never enjoyed the advantages of a labour market perfectly free. Give them that, and there can be no doubt of the restoration of their former pro sperity. We do not share at all in the apprehensions of the Chancellor of the Exchequer on this head. We could have wished the West Indian proprietors a more consistent advocate than Lord GEORGE Bais- Tisicx. With regard to the placing of rum upon an equality with British spirits, albeit he did not ac tually oppose it, he advocated it so feebly as to induce those who were opposed to it to wax strong in their opposition. He, moreover, was altogether opposed to his clients on the question of the repeal of the navi gation-laws, and concluded by a proposition which we are firmly convinced was never suggested by any West Indian proprietor, and will never meet with the sanction of any member of that body. Lord GEORGE BRNTINCIC, the leader of the Protectionists, the man who denounces Lord PALMERSTON'S policy as essentially a war policy, coolly proposes that, for the purpose of putting down the slave-trade, we should seize Cuba and blockade For albs. to sink the offal. s. d. to C. d. a. d. to s. d. Inferior Beasts 8 4 8 it Second quality ditto BIS 4 4 second quality -• • • 310 4 0 Coarse-woolled ditto 4 6 4 8 Prime large Oxen— 4 2 4 4 Southdown Nether 410 5 0 Primo Soots Large coarse Calves 4 2 410 Large Hogs •. .• 4 0 4 Prime small ditto Stickling Calves —25 I 27 I Quarter old Pigs •• 18 I 24 Inferior Sheep • • . 3 4 8 8 Lambs ..... • 0 9 • • SUPPLY AT MARKET. I Sheep. I Calves. I Pigs. 1,880 102 231 DTEWGATE 21:37D LEADEN/1113M. We had a slow trade, this morning, yet prices were generally supported. Beasts. 821 At per etoste by the Carcase. s. d. to s • •i d ___ 1. d. to s, d. lieet,inferior.. —• • 3 2 3 4 Mutton, inferior •• 3 4 8 6 middling .... 3 6 3 8 middling.. 3 8 4 I priraelarge .. 310 4 0 prime .... 4 2 4 4 prime small .• 4 8 4 2 Perk, 1arge........ 3 8 4 0 Teal ••••••..• • • • • . 4 2 i ll 5ma11........ 4 3 It 2 . - - Lamb. Os Od to Sa Sd. 33OROVVII HOP MARKET. Although our market is by no means brisk, last week's prices are well supported in every instance. The supply of Hops on offer is good, but the stocks in dealers' hands are very small. New Hops—Sussex pockets, 21 15s t• 21 6s; Weald of Kent ditto, 31 to 31 10s; Mid and East Kent ditto, 3l 6s to 6/ 12s per ewt. PARLIAMENTARY BUSINESS. From the Votes and Proceedings of the House of Commons, TFiU ESDAY, FEL 3. The following petitions Railways were presented, and the Bills ordered to be brought in:— London and Enniskillen (Relinquishment of Line be tween Omagh and Enniskillen, &c.) London and Coleraine (Deviation of Line, and Amend ment of Act). London and Blackwall Connecting Branch, &c. London and Blackwall Improvement and Branches to the St. Katharine's and London Docks. London and North-Western (Branches and Extensions from Leamington, &c.) Exeter, Yeovil, and Dorchester Railway and Branches. Aberdare Railway Act Amendment (Lease of Line and Works to the Taff Vale Railway Company). Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire (Station at Sheffield - and Branch to the Sheffield Canal). East Lincolnshire (Alteration of Great Grimsby Branch). Great Northern (Isle of Aiholnie Extension). London, Brighton, and South Coast (Extension of time in respect of Littlehathpton and Steyning Branches, &c.) Manchester, Buxton, Matlock, and Midlands Junction Deviation and Branches. Midland (Gloucester and Stonehenge Junction). Whitehayen Junction. Whitehaven Junction (Extension, Alteration, and Branches, &c.) Whitehaven and Furness Junction (Extension or Devi ation Line from Silecroft to Foxfield, &c.) York, Newcastle and Berwick (Deviation and abandon ment of part of the Thirsk and Mahon Branch). London and South. Western Railway Company's Acts Amendment, Extension, Deviation, and New Works. Windsor, Staibes, and South-Western Railway Act (No. 1), 1147 (Slough Extension and Devia.tior.s, No. 2). London and South-Western Railway Company and Southampton and Dorchester Railway Company Amalgamation. Exeter and Cowley Bridge Junction. London and South-Western, Exeter and Crediton, Taw Vale Railway and Dock, and Bodmin and Wadebridge Railway Companies' Arrangements. London, Brighton, and South Coast (London-bridge and New Cross Stations, &c.) Bristol and Exeter (Taunton and Castle Cary Branch). Bristol and Exeter (Branch from Bleadon to Wells, Glastonbury, and Street). Direct London and Portsmouth. Fleetwood, Preston, and West Riding Junction (Burnley and Colliery Branches). TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Si ,—ln the month of November last there ap peared in your paper a report of an application to the Court of Queen's Bench, by Mr. Whateley, Q.C., headed—" Misconduct of a Staffordshire Attorney." The report was (though I have no doubt unin tentionally so) incorrect; and although no name was mentioned, the circumstances were so well known in this neighbourhood, that there was no difficulty in identifying me with the transaction. The matter was fully argued, on the 29th instant, before Mr. Justice Erle, by Mr. Sergeant Talfourd and Mr. Whitmore on my behalf, and Mr. Whateley and Mr. Grey for Mr. Clementson, on whose behalf the rule was obtained. The Judge took home the affidavits, and promised his judgment on the 31st, when he discharged the rule, with all costs, and stated " that he saw no intentional concealments in the case, and no misappropriation of client's money." I have not seen any report of this case in your paper; and, as it was a question of character, and as I have suffered much from the effects of the applica tion alone, and more from the many garbled and false statements affecting my conduct in the transactions, I trust that you will do me the justice to obtain from your reporter the argument and decision, and to give, at all events, the effect of the latter, in your earliest publication.—l am, Sir, yours, respectfully, SAMUEL ARNOT, Solicitor. Hanley, Staffordshire, Feb. 2, 1848. THE TEA DUTIES. On Wednesday a deputation from Liverpool waited on the Premier, in the name of a meeting held a few days since, to bring the subject of the tea duties under the notice of the Government. Mr. R. Glad stone, Mr. Brodribb, Mr. J. R. Jeffery, Mr. Crossley, and Mr. Littledale, severally addressed his Lordship to enforce the views of the deputation. Lord John Russell having attentively listened to their statements, which occupied upwards of an hour and a half, replied that he fully . appreciated the im portance of the moral and social bearings of this question, but he was obliged also to weigh well the financial bearings, and in doing so he felt constrained to dissent from one of the resolutions of the meeting represented by the deputation, viz.," That this meeting is of opinion that no direct loss would accrue to the revenue from a considerable reduction of the duty on tea ; but that even if a temporary deficiency were to arise, the considerations of a social and moral charac ter inseparably connected with great questions are of paramount importance to those of a mere fiscal nature." The argument here used had been applied in the instance of the reduction of the rate of postage, but the result in that case hardly justified a repeti tion in the instance now under discussion. The motive on the part of the executive which led to the postage reduction partook unquestionably more of a moral and social than of a merely financial nature; that reduction was made, too, at the time when the revenue of the country could comparatively well afford it ; and though very great advantages to the commu nity had arisen from the measure, the revenue had as yet failed to realise the expectations on that score which were formed of it by its most sanguine friends. He thought it not impossible that the desired reduction in the tea duties would be found ' to produce a somewhat similar result, for the two questions were parallel, and were supported, to a great extent, by similar arguments ; and while he was prepared to admit that the consumption of tea would greatly increase if the tax upon it rendered it more accessible than at present to the public, he must guard against being supposed to acquiesce in the extent of the consumption assumed by the mem bers of that and a late deputation. However, it was in its financial aspect merely that the subject would have to be considered by her Majesty's First Minister and the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and it would be for them, being responsible for the revenue of the country, to see if any means could be hit upon whereby the question could be safely dealt with. Mr. R. Gladstone was about to indicate wherein the analogy between the reduction in the duties on tea and in the rate of postage did not apply ; but Lord J. Russell declined further discussion on that point as inopportune. The deputation withdrew, much gratifieel by the courtesy with which they had been received by the Noble Premier. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. PORTSMOUTH, FEB. B.—Her Majesty's ship Ace teeon, 26, Captain G. Mansell, arrived from the coast of Africa this morning, after a tedious passage of nearly eight weeks from Ascension. She sailed on the 11th of December, leaving there her Majesty's steam-frigate Penelope, Commodore Sir Charles Hotham, K.C.8., and the Tortoise receiving ship, The Ranger had gone to St. Helena; the Britomart to cruise off the south coast of Africa, and the Fly ing Fish to the same part, with provisions for the squadron, and was afterwards to come to England. The Actaeon brought from Ascension Captain Hunt, R.M., invalided from illness, and Mr. Crofton, sur geon ; also a number of marines who had served their period of embarkation en the island. She sailed on tte 11th December from Ascension, and on the 4th January got to the Yerd Islands, and at Port Praya, St. Jago, again saw her Majesty's steamer Penelope. The Commodore had been from the island to Sierie Leone and St. Jago to visit the station ; all on board were well. She had unfortunately lost two men by accident, but otherwise all was right. The Penelope only remained a short time at Port Prays, Sir Charles Hotham being anxious to go to other pfirta of hit command. The Actaeon having landed her sl;iperra meraries and invalids, is to be mustered and inspO'cted by Admiral Sir Charles Ogle, the eommander-.> chief, and will then go in the harbour to be paid off. Her Majesty's brig Sealark, on her passage to Ply mouth, has put in here with a damaged rudder. She has been taken into harbour to have it repaired. She is to go to the Coast of Africa, calling at the Cape de Verds. Dispatches from Lord Palmerston for his Excel lency Sir H. Seymour, at Lisbon, to go out in her Majesty's steamer Stromboli, came down this morn ing, and soon after they were embarked she put to sea. The Stromboli is afterwards to go to Gibraltar and the Mediterranean. 3.—PROMOTIONS.—Henry Edmonds, Thomas S. Wells, assistant-surgeons to be surgeons. APPOINTMENTS.—To the Agincourt, John Dunlop, surgeon ; Ernest Elliott, assistant-surgeon. To the Anna Maria, convict ship, Henry Baker, surgeon. superintendent. To the Blenheim, Abraham B . Brad ford, surgeon. To the Caledonia, James Taylor, sur geon ; James Hardy, midshipman. To the Chem. ' pion, John M. Hayes, commander. To the Enter prise, John Robertson (B), surgeon. To the Ocean, William Remphry, clerk. To the Powerful, Thomas R. Dunn, surgeon; Frederick Manger, ass.Litant surgeon ; Herbert P. de Kautzow, midshipman. To the Queen, James Browne (B), surgeon. To that Scout, Frederick E. Johnston, commander. To the Star, Philip R. Crouch, lieutenant. RIVER PLATE AND BRAZILS. The mails from Rio de Janeiro, Monte Video, and Buenos Ayres, of the 11 th of December from the former, and 18th and 22d November from the latter respectively, were received yesterday, having been transferred from the Express sailing packet at sea teethe Avon West India steam-packet, arrived. at Southampton. The Rio Jor•nals do Commercio by this conveyance are nearly destitute of commercial or political news, their columns being taken up with the elections for the Chamber of Deputies now in progress, and extracts from the French, English, and Portuguese periodicals, received here by the Fury steamer, Express packet, and Antelope, the latter having arrived out on the 4th of December, having sailed on the 23d of October from Liverpool. She had proceeded to the River Plate. The Exchange had risen to 28, and the Six per Cents. to 89. The receipts of the Custom-house were, in the month of November, On imports.... 510,776 milreis. On exports 228,129 „ Total Which exhibits a strong proof that the formj: were decreasing, and the latter increasing, and account& satisfactorily for the advance in the price of the funds and the rate of the Exchange. Coffee imported into the United States in Brazilian bottoms had been exonerated from any " differential" duty from that in American shipping. From Monte Video there is nothing authentic, whilst from Buenos Ayres the blockade of the coast ing trade from the Oriental Republic had been put a complete stop to. On the other hand, the French were endeavouring to render the blockade effective as regards the entrance of foreign vessels from abroad. The consequent stagnation may be well imagined. The exchange at Buenos Ayres had fallen to 2s. per dollar. In Entre Rios, Urquiza was at the head of 9,000 troops, and was still threatening Corrientes, but it was strongly suspected that his movement would be to wards Monte Videa, with a view of assisting Oribe to gain possession thereof. _ _ eaptiin Marquis Lisboa, brother of his Excellency the Brazilian envoy here, is a passenger on board the Express, having been appointed to the command-of the Brazilian steam-frigate the Affonso, now fitting out at Liverpool. The gallant captain is accompanied by three or tour other officers in the Brazilian navy % in order to join the same vessel. ARRITAL OP SPECIE.—The packet-ship Patrick Henry arrived at Liverpool yesterday, with 21,5001. in specie on freight. REPEAL OF THE WINDOW-TAX.—Several meetings have been held within the last few days in different parishes in the metropolis, to petition Parliament for the repeal of the window tax. Two meetings were held last night for 'that purpose, one by the tax-payers of the parish of St. Paul, Covent-garden, Mr. T. G. Beck, one of the churchwardens, in the chair; and the other in the Vestry-room of St. Anne's, Soho, presided over by Mr. Sampson, churchwarden. Resolutions in furtherance of the objects of the meeting s were unanimously adopted. DErLozABLE ACCIDENT.—A melancholy occur rence took place on Wednesday off Cullercoats, on the coast of Northumberland. A vessel having been ob served in the offing, making for Shields harbour, a party of seven pilots put off from Cullercoats to board her. The sea was rough, and the weather squally, when the boat unfortunately capsized, and all hands perished. Five of the party were related to each other. The acci dent was witnessed from the vessel, but the boat was at such a distance, and such was the state of the weather, that no assistance could be rendered. MANCHESTER, SHEFFIELD, LINCOLNSHIRE RAILWAY.—The following is a summary of the Traffis for the Week, ending January 29, 1114$ . —Amount received for passengers parcels, and goods, 2,0471.78 4d., Corresponding week in 1847, 1,7341. 4s. 4d.—lacreaso, 3131. 3s. Yesterday morning Mr. W. Payne held an inquest in the Bridewell prison, near Bridge-street, Blackfriars, on the body of Henri Meier, aged thirty-six, a native of Hareburgh, who died under very melancholy circum stances. Mr. George Cootes, the assistant-surgeon to the prison, deposed that the deceased was admitted on the 16t of January from the Mansion House, having been sent by the Lord Mayor to undergo a sentence of fourteen days for vagrancy. Deceased was a German confectioner, and had been wandering about the City in a state of starvation and ill health. Witness was of opinion that the deceased had died from inflammation of the chest, which he had no doubt was caused by want of food and exposure to the inclement weather. The jury being satisfied, unanimously returned a verdict of " Death from inflammation of the chest, brought on by exposure and want of suffici.nt food." M E LANCHOLY CATASTRO/11111.—Our Ballinahinch correspondent writes us yesterday the following account of a most lamentable casualty in kis neighbourhood:— " On Saturday last three young men, brothers, named Jones, sons of a widow residing at Ballyeeel, went to Loughaghery Lough, some three or four miles from Ballynahinch, to amuse themselves. One of the young mere, who had a fowling-piece, shot a bird on a little island in the Lough, aid his brother, on going on the ice to reach the island for the dead fowl, after being a short way out, felt the ice break under him. The brother who had fired ran on the lee to assist hire, and had pushed forward the butt of the gun for his sinking relative to seise, when the iee gave way with him also, and both went down. The other brother, who was re maining on the bank, ran to the assistance of the two, but he also went down, and thus the three have perished. The bodies have not yet been found."—Bunner aJ Water. It is now stated that the Syston and Peterborough Railway will be opened thr oug h out on t h e let Matc h. Mr. Ellis, one of the most active directors of the Mid land Company, was in Stamford last week, making ar rangements, and he said he was assured by the con tractors that everything would be in readiness by the date mentioned. There is no longer any obstruction at Manton tunnel, which is nearly completed: tho un finished portions of the line are in detached places, and very small in extent. There is a probability that Mr. North, the late station-master at Stamford for the Eastern Counties Company, will be the new station master, a deputation (including the Mayor and Mr. Charles Lowe) having waited upon Mr. Ellis, and pro sented a recommendation in his behalf signed by more than 250 of their fellow-townsmen; and Mr. Ellis having promised that deference should be paid to the wishes of the inhabitants of Stamford.—Lincoln Mercury. RIRT/LB. On the 29th ult., at the Rhysnant, near Oswestry, the lagy of E. S. R. Trevor, Esq., of a daughter. On the 29th ult., at W ostbourne- park-road, Bayswater, the lady of Major Houghton James, 13th Regiment of Bombay Native Infantry, of a eon and heir. On the 30th ult., at Claybrooke Hall, the lady of lii Evarard, Esq., of a son and heir. MARRIED. On the 81st ult., at Cheshunt, Ilerts, Ewen Baillie , son of Edward Harrold, Esq., of Cheshunt, to Alicia Cathe rine, youngest daughter of the late Robert Dell, Esq., of Mickleover House, Derby. B 1 Ell. On the *oth ult., Edward, youngest son of William Bashall, Esq.. of Farington Lodge. On the 31st tilt., at Greve-hill-terrace, Camberwell' 11 * Adams, R.N., aged 80. London : Printed aid Published by AAM° - YOUNG , At No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Nun Office, No. 112 Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, is the county 01 Middlesex, Friday, Febrnary 4, 114. a r I t ,' i , 1 0 1 , , , 1 r ■ N ni