The Sun. — London, England, 1866-01-17 00:00:00

The Insurrection in Spain. (From the Correspondent of the Times.) Jan. 12 I went all yesterday about town inquiring what were the causes and what the effects of the commo tion which had so nearly turned Madrid topsy turvy on the previous evening between 5 and 6 o'clock. All I could find out was that there had been much ado about very little. Some very pal pable design to create a disturbance there had been. There are men in Madrid, and their name is legion, who consider themselves bound, and who would, no doubt, be fain to do something for Prim. Nay, if the choice were between him and O'Donnell—if the difference could be settled by a mere show of hands or even by a poll—l have not the slightest hesita tion in asserting that the former would carry the day by at least 99 votes out of 100 against the latter ; and this, not because Prim is thought to be by any means the better man of the two ; not be cause in the opinion of these people there is much to choose between them, but simply because Spain lies on a bed of suffering—a move from one side to the other is either a real or a fancied relief, and any change is hailed as clear gain, for things can hardly be made worse than they are. But if many of the people at large, and especially the leaders of the Progresista party, are in their heart of hearts bent on mischief, they are also aware that in their country revolutions are as much the work of soldiers as masses arethe business of priests —and that the quarrel between the Duke of Tetuan and the Marquis of Castillejos is not to be decided by laymen. Which of those two military chiefs muster more sabres and bayonets may be matter of doubt, but there can never be any about the fact that the people of Spain, like the Senate of Rome in the worst times of the Empire, must always be on the side of the "gros bataillons." Well, but if the soldiers are to raise a Prime Mi nister, as the old Praetorians did an Emperor, on their shields, to power, could not, at least thought the Progresistas, something be done to try the sol diers' temper, something to bring about that pro nunciamiento to which they are supposed to be so strongly inclined ? This was the plan of operations laid out for Wednesday evening, and the result was, as I said, " much cry and little wool." In the first place there was no firing. Those few random shots which I and others with me heard were not musketry fire, but were ptjards, by which attempts were made to create alarm. Whenever and wherever one of those reports was heard there was a rush and a run, and the natural huddling together of the terrified multitude afforded an opportunity for setting up the cries " Viva Prim !" " Down with the Government !" cries, however, which the crowd, only anxious to get out of the turmoil, did not stop to echo. Some wretches of the very lowest classes had been plied with wine till they reeled with it, and it was these that by their hisses so very nearly brought about a collision between the mob and the Civil Guards at the Puerta del Sol. Finally a band of mere urchins from school—not students from the University, but mere schoolboys, the oldest hardly 12 or 13 years old, upon being relieved from their day's task, and coming forth into their street, Calle Ancha de San Bernardo, set up the cry of " Viva Prim !" and came on, a puny disorderly phalanx, towards the Puerta del Sol. They were met by half a squadron, or patrol of cavalry, such as may be seen daily riding about the streets in these troubled times, and began hooting and hissing at them. The good-natured troopers went their way, heedless of the taunts ; though their officer, nettled at the word " Cobarde I Cobarde r that was flung in his teeth, had laid his hand on his sword, and half drawn it ; but he simply shook his head and rode on. The forbearance of the cavalry was imitated by the foot soldiers and Civil Guards on duty at the Puerta del Sol, who contented them selves with merely showing their bayonets to the juvenile rioters, and, having cleared the square, allowed them to hiss to their hearts' content, and with full impunity, in the side streets. Things thus passed off with happy smoothness on Wednesday evening, and Madrid en fut quitte pour la peur. Yesterday morning, however, Senor Don Isidoro iloyos, Marques de Zornosa, and Captain General of New Castile, after a brief allusion to the attempted disturbance of the evening, " orders and commands" that "any group uttering seditious cries or in any manner disturbing the tranquillity of the neighbourhood should be dispersed by the public force, who are to make use of their arms." Thanks, perhaps, to these measures, profound tranquillity reigned in Madrid yesterday. A con siderable force of Civil Guards paraded the Calle Ancha de San Bernardo and the purlieus of the University. In the evening towards dark a very ill looking crowd had been gradually gathering at the Puerta del Sol, butupon a column of about 200 Civil Guards marching out of the Palacio de la Goberna cion, and forming in front of the house the would be rioters slunk away. For the first time I noticed yesterday that cannon have been drawn up in the courtyard of the Government House. The elements of mischief are indeed astir in Ma drid, and things are hardly likely to terminate with out bloodshed here any more than they did in Bar celona, where we are told seven persons were killed. Of serious disturbance, leading to any great change, however, we hear not one syllable, nor are welikely to hear. The whole country is in an expectant atti tude, ready to submit to such fate as the fortune of arms may award. Little doubt ought we to enter tain as to what the upshot of the military move ment may be if we were to believe the oft repeated official assertions that Prim and the insurgents are in full retreat upon Portugal, along the crest of the Sierra de Toledo, with Zabala's 3olunin march ing on their right flank on the Tagus, and that of Echague equally pressing upon them on the left along the valley of the Guadiana. A more miserable plight than these insurgents have been brought to or more hopeless straits, if we believe these Government bulleti ns , can hardly be imagined, yet Prim still holds on, and is still a long way from the Portuguese frontier, and the 48 hours within which O'Donnell had engaged to raise the state of siege have stretched to ten days, and no one knows what the morrow may bring ; for O'Donnell himself is well aware that there is not one regiment—not one man, from the drummer to the Field-Marshal, on whom full reliance may be put from morning to night. To such a state has Spain been brought by the supineness of her people and by their proneness to acknowledge the ascendancy of any chief, who ever he may be, who has . khe greatest number of troops to overawe them with ! _ . It is probably owing to their fear of shocking the army b y any deed of severe justice thattheGovern- Govern ment, aft er trying and convicting those two sergeants, who were found in yesterday's " flagrant conspiracy" at the Pueblo office, as I informed you in my letter, after sentencing them to be shot, and appoint ing the day and hour of execution, allowed them to escape from confinement. The captain -general of New Castile applied yes terday to the Senate for Permission to proceed against Don Juan Prim, blarques de los Castillejos, a s guilty of treason and rebellion, praying that the Senate might please to wa i ve in his case the privi leges and immunities to which he would be entitled as a member of the House. The demand was re ferred to the Sections, who would appoint a commis sion to consider and report upon it. Notwithstanding the unsettled state of Madrid the Queen has been drivin g out these last t wo evenings both in the town and the neighbourhood, and even walking in her favourite promenade of the Retiro. She has a lot of madonnas to pay h er devotions to, a novena, or nine-days' visits, to as many churches boasting miraculous images, whose assistance in her forthcoming confinement is to be propitiated. On Wednesday her Majesty drove to the Church of the Salesas Viejas ; yester day to that of our Lady of Loretto. A few days ago the Queen publi s h e d a d ecree a ppointing all the 'ptirlias. and ceremonies which are to be observed, t`uag the " auspicious event of her confinement," namin g all the persons, Ministe rs o f State, Court dignitaries, deputations from the Senate and Con gress, com • • ml ' Blol lB of the Body of Grandees, Cap tains-General o f the Army and Navy, Knights Grand Crosse s and Grand.rat C e ordons of the various Orders, prelates, magist diplomatists who are to b e i n &c., and foreign attendance, and or- dering that immediately upon the expected infant coming into the world there should be ringing of bells, salvoes of artillery, &c., and dir.(., ing her " much beloved and august consort" (E' Re mi au gusto, nti mug (mad() oposo) to pre.3!nt the new born to the foreign Diplomatic Core :.; and to all the assembled company. By a more recent decree, her Majesty authorises the same " much beloved and august Consort" to confer, after baptism, on the new-born child, if it be an Infante,•the Order of the Golden Fleece and the Grand Crosses of Charles 111., of Isabel La Catolica, and of St. John of Jerusalem, and if it be an infanta the Band of the Noble Ladies of the Queen Maria Luisa. JANUARY 13. "The insurrection," as we are assured by the of ficial organs, " may be looked upon as thoroughly at an end." They add that "the rebels who were led by Prim have continued their disastrous march as far as Valdelusillos, where they slept the night of the 11th." Valdelusillos is a small place about 13 leagues from Toledo. " They have, therefore," say the same papers, "abandoned the road of El Horcajo, which is extremely difficult, and are ad vancing with forced marches upon Trujillo, appa rently with a view to cross the frontier as soon as they can." You will observe that the bulletin talks of the "insurgents who were led by Prim," insinuating that Prim is no longer at their head, either because he is ill or because he has forsaken his followers. The report of Prim's illness did, in fact, circulate about town yesterday. More recent intelligence has been published to the effect that the rebels passed yesterday through Aldeanueva, at 16 kilometres' distance from Puente del Arzobispo. Unable to reach the Tagus, it is added, it is likely that they will make for Puerto de San Vincente and Sierra de Guadalupe, to enter the valley of the Guadiana. In this case the Zabala division would be advantageously situated to close the way against them, while that of Gen. Echague would be close on the track of them. From all this rigmarole it may be inferred that the movements of the insurgents have as completely bewildered their pursuers as their reports strive to hoodwink and mystify the readers. A gentleman who has grown old in Spain, and has acquired a surprising experience of the affairs of this singular country, warned me on my first arrival against the imprudence not only of believing what I was told, but even of trusting the evidence of my own senses, for " things are not what they seem in Spain. All that you are witnessing here," my friend continued, " is but a vast play of thimble rig. The cups are raised before you openly enough. Aye ! but where is the pea ?" Well, I owe the gentleman this justice—that his shrewdness has seldom, if ever, been at fault. From the beginning he expressed his suspicions about some collusion between Prim and the Government. Of course, I laughed at this, and asked if Prim would carry the joke so far as to allow himself to be taken and shot; but my friend stoutly contended that there would be no taking and no shooting, and, what was more, no fighting in the affair. There is not a little, certainly, in the movements and conduct of both parties that admits of no easy explanation. The slowness of Zabala's march, the evident unwillingness of Prim himself to attack either Zabala at Tembleque, or Concha at Daimiel, the zealous hurry of this latter in volunteering his services, his offensive bravado, and the sudden dis appearance, not only of himself, but of his column from the scene of action, his lame and contradictory disavowal of his blundering proclamation, and the enormous praises bestowed by the Government on his barren achievements, may well induce the least suspicious to suspect foul play in the whole trans action. The conjectures ventured upon by thinking men are endless. Those who incline to believe in a secret understanding between Prim and O'Donnell imagine that the object of the latter was, and is, to frighten the Queen and to lead her to that abdication'which he was charged with attempting to force upon her at La Granja. Their strongest arguments in this surmise rest upon the facts that an encounter has been carefully avoided by both parties, that the blundering Concha, who was probably in earnest and not in the secret, has been brusquely recalled, and then patted on the back to soothe his wounded amour propre ; and, finally, that the sergeants ar rested at the Pueblo's office and threatened to be shot have been, like most other prisoners in this affair, suffered to break from prison. There is no lack of men of this way of thinking who stoutly tell yeu that Prim and 'cabala, with the officers of their re spective staffs, have had a friendly dinner together when about to meet at Madridejos. Those, on the contrary, who look upon Prim and O'Donnell as bona fide enemies suspect that the in surrectionary movement was contrived by Queen Christina, possibly with the connivance of Queen Isa bella herself, but certainlywith the knowledge and con sent of Espartero, and of all those Progresistas who, as you may remember, were said to be meditating some such movement weeks ago, when the Queen- Mother's journey to Madrid was first announced. The object of Prim and of this extensive association would be to emancipate the Queen from the thral dom of O'Donnell and inaugurate a Liberal Govern ment, of which the clever Queen Christina should be the soul. That Prim's attempt relies on the sup ' port of a " vast conspiracy" we have learnt from the words of O'Donnell and his colleague at the Home-office. We know, besides, that large funds said to be from Paris, have been and are supplied in support of an enterprise which without such aid would long since have succumbed. I am aware of officers s ho have been tempted to join the insur gents by heavy bribes. The offer of £9OO in cash was made to one to help him to pay his debts, coupled with the promise of £9OO to be handed to him on the enterprise turning out successful. Even private soldiers, to my knowledge, have been plied with the promise of £6O at the end of the war, and a remis sion of two years of their time of service. Suspi cious to that effect are also roused by the fact that both at Madrid and Barcelona notorious characters mixed up with all revolutionary schemes, barricade builders for the Seine, and runaway de'portes from Cayenne have been and are seen prowling about the streets. People whose conjectures take that direc tionlay great stress upon the fact that Prim, although now and then visible at the head of his troops, fre quently also disappears, and is periodically ab sen t. There are men in Madrid who stoutly contend that Prim was here, ai;al had an interview with the Queen at the Palace on Monday last, the Bth. There are others who are sure that an incessant correspon dence is kept up between the Court and Log - rono ; between the Queen at Madrid, the Queen at Paris, and the old Duke de la Victoria. They, at any rate, insist on the fact that the Queen firmly with holds her signature by which O'Donnell would have her declare Prim as fallen from his rank and honours, and branded as a traitor. I have bri e fl y summed up all these strange fancies with which men's brains are swarming about me, not because I believe that any importance should be at tached to them, not because I do not look upon them as egregiously absurd, but because the affair of Prim's insurrection involves not a little mystery, and there certainly is more in it than meets the eye. That we have been now ten days in a state of siege is a fact of which we have ocular evidence, and, although O'Donnell promised we should be rid of it at the end of two days, not only does it continue in all its vigour, but it assumes every day a more aggravated and threatening character. On the Gth inst. I met in the Calle del Arsenal a IZand . state carriage, drawn by six ho rses hi g hl y yarlaened, and accompanied by a number of run ning footmen in gorgeous livery, preceded and fol lowed by a glittering escort. That coach conveyed to the most excellent Dowager Duchess de Hijar, Mistress of the Itobes of the Most Holy Virgin of Atocha, the dress which, accordin g to custom, her Majesty send s as a present to the said Most Holy Virgin on the occasion of her entrance into the cent ninthm gown ont o h f of moire her antique,pre gn ancy. roue-coloured wnl tfr i e lm gi t imhified with magnificent blonde, and t u ft s of green , and marabouts. Likewise a g reen court mantleeorsf sea-green moire antique, also trimmed with blonde and tufts of green and rose feathers and marabouts. While she is so liberal to the miraculous image, the Queen herself humbly and devoutly puts on Sor Patrocinio's cast-off chemises. THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 17, 1866. Parliamentary Reform. DEPUTATION TO EARL RUSSELL A deputation from the Reform League waited on Earl Russell yesterday, at his official residence, Downing-street, for the purpose of laying before his lordship a statement of their opinions respecting the question of Parliamentary Reform. The depu tation included Mr. Edmond Beaks, Captain Dresser Rogers, C.C., Mr. Edward Owen Green ing (Manchester), Mr. J. Scott (Belfast), Mr. C. Keen (Maidstone), Mr. Samuel Plimsoll (Derby), Mr. H. J. Slack, Dr. Perfitt, Mr. M. E. Marsden, Mr. T. Allsop (Plymouth), Mr. Geo. J. Floyd (Greenwich), Mr. H. Webber, Mr. J. A. Nicholay, Mr. Thackstone (Maidstone), Mr. Holyoake, Mr. R. Moore, Mr. J. R. Taylor Ellis (liveryman, Cooks' Company), Mr. G. M. Murphy (Lambeth), Messrs. Leno, Facey, Culley, Odger, Hales, Howell, Bradlaugh, Ellis, Bainbridge, Truscott, Finber, Henrietta, Campbell, Lucraft, Cremer, Potts, Connolly, Bubb, Bowan, Burgess, Bell, Hartwell, Lester, Whitehair, and Booker. Mr. EDMOND BEALES introduced the deputation, which he said waited upon his lordship in compli ance with a resolution passed unanimously at a very large public meeting of the inhabitants, but more especially those of the working classes of the me tropolitan districts, held at St. Martin's-hall on the 12th December last, and convened by the council of the Reform League, of which he (Mr. Beales) was president. The numbers attending that meet ing were so great that, the large hall being unable to hold them, two supplemental meetings were held at the same time, one in the smaller hall, and one for a short time in the adjoining street. The speakers at all these meetings were, with the excep tion of himself as chairman of the principal meet ing, working men, and at each of the meetings a resolution was unanimously adopted appointing a deputation to wait upon his lordship, as the head of the Government, and on the Chancellor of the Exchequer, as leader of the House of Commons, and respectfully urge upon their consideration that the measure of parliamentary reform alone calculated to be satisfactory to the great body of the people, as giving them their due electoral right, would be one founded on the principle of residential and registered man hood suffrage, protected in its free and efficient exercise by the instrumentality of the ballot ; and especially that any continued restriction of the suffrage to householders, or a merely rating fran chise, would still shut out from the pale of the con stitution, particularly in the metropolitan districts, large numbers of persons abundantly qualified and entitled, in point of intelligence, ability, and trust worthiness, to be admitted within it. (Hear, hear.) And as it was highly desirable that his lordship and Mr. Gladstone should hear from the lips of working men themselves their reasons for asking for the ex tension and mode of suffrage to which he had re ferred, he would content himself with saying with regard to it, that it was a mode of suffrage which appeared to him to be entirely and in fact most consistent with the theory and principles of our own constitution, and of all real representative govern ments most calculated to render the House of Com mons practically and truly the House of the Com mons of the United Kingdom, and imperatively required to raise our countrymen in this the oldest representative country, or at least one of the oldest representative countries in the world, from being now left behind in the progress of freedom, and placed in this respect in a position of degrading inferiority to the people not only of our own colo nies and of the United States of America, but almost of every Continental State in which the principle of representation is now in operation. He would only further add that whilst considering it their duty to make known clearly and distinctly to his lordship and the Chancellor of the Exchequer the feelings and desires of the working classes on a subject so important to them, and so materially affecting their rights, character, and interests, they did so with sentiments of profound respect and attachment for yourselves personally, of deep gratitude for your many and great and ever memorable labours in the cause of civil and religious liberty. Mr. ODGER, as representing a large portion of the working men of the metropolis, said that the work ing men who originated this movement did so with great repugnance, as they would much rather con tinue to devote their individual attention to those questions more immediately affecting their social condition ; but finding that a large number of his class were beginning to grow hopeless on the sub ject, four or live governments having from time to time failed in their promises to the people, and that many of his class had in consequence sought Ame rica and the colonies, where those privileges they sought for, and to whichthey felt they were entitled, were not withheld, it was thought that no further time should be lost, and the present movement was the consequence. After touching upon various points in connection with the question, Mr. Odgers concluded by hoping that the Government would take up the matter with some earnestness, and in troduce a bill with the same vigour and force which characterised the bill of 1832, and stand or fall by it. If the Government did that he believed they would gain for themselves the thanks and gratitude of the people. Mr. Connolly (stonemason), Mr. Greening (Man chester), Capt. Dresser Rogers, Mr. De Gwyther (representing the Marylebone district), Mr. E. 'Marsden, Mr. J. R. Taylor, Mr. Bradiaugh, and Dr. Perfitt, also addressed his lordship, after which Earl RUSSELL—I shall not be able, having an im portant engagenlent, to listen to you any longer. I have heard the opinions you hold stated with great ability, and I am 'very happy to find that some of the working men hAvefio ably stated those opinions. I have been always of opinion that great injustice has been done to the• working man by attempting not only to deprecate their ;talents, but their habits of life. With r.c.,ga,rd. to this question, while I have listened with great respect, as I am bound to do—it being part of my duty—to the state ments that have been made, it is impossible for ine to say that I agree with the sentiments that have been expressed. I consider that it will be our duty to introduce a measure that will, in our opinion, improve the repr. , 3sentation, and that will be likely to obtain Ole assent of Parlia ment. That is what we shall endeavour to do, and we will stand by the meas,ire which we think is calculated for that purpose, al 'ld which we expect to carry. The deputation then withdrew. MEETING IN MAItYLE 130 NE. A public meeting of the inhabitant. s of the borough of Marylebone, in furtherance of the reform move ment, was held last evening at the Literary and Scientific Institute, Edwards• street, Poi tman-square —Mr. T. A. Nicholay in the chair. The meeting was largely attended. The chairman, in 0 'pening the proceedings, referred to the deputation NI 'hick had that day waited upon Earl Russell, and el Tressed his regret that the Premier had declared agt-, inst a complete suffrage, such as that advocated b Y the Reform League. He, however, was glad to heal ` the noble lord say that the Government intended to stand or fall by the reform bill they were going to introduce into Parliament. Mr. De Gwyther move 'd and Mr. Blackmore seconded a resolution declaring' the necessity of a large and comprehensive measure of reform, which was carried unanimously. Mr. Davidson moved, Mr. Finlon seconded, and Dr. Brewer supported the second resolution, to the effect that no reform bill would be satisfactory that did not acknowledge the principle of registered and re sidential manhood suffrage. This resolution was carried amidst loud cheers. Mr. Yates moved, Mr. Wynne seconded, and Mr. E. Beales supported the third resolution, in favour of the vote Iv ballot. The last speaker said he deeply regretted the course taken- by Earl Russell that day in reply to the de putation he had had the honour to introduce to his lordship. While acknowledging the ability with which the working men on that deputation hhad urged their views, his lordship said he entirely ,dissented from them. It was quite evident, therefore, that if the working classes desired the franchise they must rely on themselves alone for its attainment• The proceedings closed with a vc ,te of thanks to the chairman. MEETINGS IN SCOTLAI i'D. A public meeting of the inhabitant, lof Edinburgh, called " for the purpose of considering the pro priety of memorialising her Majesty's Government in favour of Parliamentary reform," was held on Monday night in the Music-hall of that city. The chair was filled by Bailie Russell ; and resolu tions declaring the opinion of the meeting that the time is peculiarly favourable for carrying a measure of parliamentary reform, and that the Government should be memorialised to introduce next session and use their best exertions to have passed into law a new Reform Bill ; calling for a large extension of the franchise in boroughs and counties, and a more equitable distribution of seats, as essential to a satis factory settlement of the question ; and demanding a rectification of the inadequacy of representation under which Scotland suffers as compa re d w ith th e other parts of the United Kingdom —were m o v ed and supported by Mr. John Miller, of Leithen ; Mr. Duncan M‘Laren, M.P. ; Mr. A. M. Dunlop, M.P. ; Messrs. Guthrie Smith and Adam Gifford, advo cates, and others, including two working men. A similar meeting was also held on Monday night in Dundee, at which Mr. W. E. Baxter, M.P., and Sir David Baxter, were the chief speakers. The reso lutions adopted there were :—" That the question of parliamentary reform should no longer be delayed," and that Government should be memorialised " to bring forward a Reform Bill in the approaching session of Parliament. That this meeting cannot regard with acceptance any measure of reform which shall not largely extend the franchise both in coun ties and boroughs. That whenever the question of the redistribution of seats comes to be considered, seeing that Dundee contains upwards of 100,000 in habitants, that it is the centre of the linen and jute manufacture in Scotland, and that many borough constituencies possessing less than a fifth part of its wealth and population have nevertheless doubled its representation, this meeting is of opinion that no measure dealing with the rearrangement of the con stituencies can be considered satisfactory which does not give a second member to D undee." A memorial in accordance with the resolutions was unanimously adopted, and it was also agreed that copies of the re solutions and memorial should be sent to the Earl of Dalhousie, lord-lieutenant of the county, the Earl of Airlie, the Earl of Camperdown, and Lord Kinnaird, with a request that they would use their influence in the House of Lords to pass a liberal re form measure. A committee was appointed to watch the progress of any reform bill that might be brought forward in the present Parliament, with power to adopt such measures in reference thereto as might to them seem proper and necessary. The Opening of the Prussian Chambers. BERLIN, Jan. 15. The following is the full text of the Speech from the Throne with which Count von Bismarck opened the session of the Prussian Chambers to-day : Illustrious, noble, and honourable gentlemen of both Houses of the Diet,—His Majesty the King has deigned to commission me to open the Diet of the monarchy in his name. During the last session, as in previous years, in default of the necessary agree ment of both Houses of the Diet, together and with the Crown, the law upon the budget, as provided by Art. 99 of the constitution, has not come to pass. In the past year, also, the administration of the state had, therefore, to be carried on without such law. The statement of revenue and expenditure which has served as guide to the financial depart ment during the year which has expired has been officially published. The budget for the current year will be immediately laid before the Diet. You will convince yourselves therefrom that our finances continue to occupy a favourable position. In the majority of the branches of administration experience shows an increase of the estimates of revenue, which has afforded the means of providing in the budget for numerous additions to the expenditure, and for setting aside a sufficient sum for the further im provement of the salaries of the lower classes of officials, without disturbing the balance between expenditure and revenue. In accordance with the reserve in sec. 8 of the land-tax law of May 21, 1861, the draft of a bill settling the conditions of the definitive distribution, and levy of the land-tax in the six eastern provinces, will be laid before the Chambers of the Diet for constitutional delibe ration. The p reparations for putting in execu tion the law upon the land-tat compensation are being zealously carried on, and it may be expected that the payment of the sums devoted to that pur pose will take place in the course of the year. The condition of the finances permits of the gradual re duction of the additional tax upon legal procedure, with the object of discontinuing it altogether in a few years. A bill for the execution of this measure will be laid before you. The economical position of the country may be characterised as upon the whole satisfactory. It is true that the last harvest was in places below the average ; but if necessaries of life have risen in price, the free action of trade, combined with increased means of communication, have sufficed to supply the deficiency of corn in some districts. The traffic upon the railways, the ac tivity in mining operations, the briskness of com merce, and the facility of occupation generally per vading the labouring classes, all afford proofs of steadily increasing development. In the interests of these your co-operation will be requested. Bills will be laid before you for the purpose of securing increased capability of performance in some depart ments of the state by extraordinary appliances, for extending the circle of operations of the Prussian Bank, and for removing the obstacles still im peding the free utilisation of the power of labour. The customs and commercial treaties which formed an object of your deliberations in the recent session have since been supplemented by renewal of the treaties with Luxemborg, Anhalt, and:Bremen. A navigation treaty has been concluded with Great Britain, and a commercial treaty with Italy, the rati fication of which by all states of the Zollverein is confidently hoped for by the Government. The aforesaid treaties will be laid before you. The royal order from which the formation of the Upper Cham ber was to result has been completed by the decree of the 10th November in the preceding year ; and firm foundations, corresponding to the importance of the position of that Chamber in the organism of the state, and incapable of alteration except by law, have now been given to it. After fruitless negotia tions for many years as to bills for alleviating and shortening the time of service in the militia, as well as for a juster distribution of the obligation to mili tary service generally, his Majesty's Government cannot now expect a satisfactory result from their repetition. It will therefore be obliged to leave the law upon obligation to military service in its pre sent position. While the Government regrets that this determination is forced upon it, it remains con vinced of the necessity of upholding the present organisation of the army, called into being with the co-operation of the former Diet, since that time brought to the test of practice, and admissible ac cording to the existing laws, and of further request ing the necessary supplies for that purpose in future. As in the preceding y ear his Majesty's Government still adheres to the intention of promoting the rapid and powerful development of the Prussian navy - . The application of extraordinary means remains in dispensable to the cre%tion of proper harbour estab lishments, the building of ships, and their armament. A bill for this purpose will, therefore, again be laid before the Diet, especially as the chief objections 'wised to the measure last year have been met by the se Olement of the relations to possession to Kiel, which have taken place in the meantime. The rela cons 0 f Prussia to all foreign States are of a peace ful and .Friendly character. After his Majesty the Emperor of Austria had ceded, by the treaty con cluded at Glitstein and Salzburg, his portion of rights of sovereigntsr to the Duchy of Lauenburg to his M ajesty the King, that duchy has been united to the Prussian crown, and it is his Maj esty's desire to allow it to enjoy all advantages of protection and care afforded to it by the union, while treating with con sideration its peculiar state of affairs. The final de cision as to the future of the two other Elbe duchies has been reserved for further agreement by the same treaty, but in the possession of Sleswig and the position acquired in Holstein Prussia has obtained a sufficient guarantee that this deci sion can only follow in a manner correspog tondin the national interests of Germany and the just claims of Prussia. Resting upon his own conviction, strengthened by the opinion of the legal advisers of the Crown, his Majesty is determined to hold fast this pledge under all circumstances until the attain ment of the desired end, and knows himself sup ported in this resolution by the assent of his people. It is the intention of the Government to invite by a special bill the co-operation of the Legislature in preparing to execute the canal which is to unite the Baltic and the German Ocean. The importance of this work, and with it the development of the naval power of the country, in the position of Prussia and its utilisation in the general interest of Germany, assures his Majesty's Government anew that upon Consideration of the respective bills differences of opinion upon home questionS and the positions of parties will be subordinated to duty towards the common Fatherland, and that both Houses of the Diet will unanimously and early offertheir assistance to the Crown in helping to promote the solution of those national problems which is now in a higher degree incumbent upon Prussia on account of her relations to the Elbe duchies. Now that the har bour hitherto wanting to the future German fleet has been secured by the arrangements of the treaty of Gastein relating to the harbour of Kiel, it will be the task of the Prussian Legislature to place the Government in a position to open negotiations with its allies upon a basis worthy of Prussia. In the course of the past year his Majesty the King has received in four provinces the renewed homage of the inhabitants of those portions of the country which were newly united to or again accoired by the Prus sian monarchy half a century ago. The spirit in which the jubilee was everywhere celebrated bore testimony to the elevating consciousness of our peo ple what great things God had done for Prussia, how much progressive development, how much blessing, and prosperity in all branches of the public welfare, had -been granted within that period to our:country. The population of those provinces enthusiastically evidenced their gratitude for the faithful and parental rule of our princes, and again upon their parts promised to remain true to them. With thankfulness to God, and with the vow still to pro mote in future the happy condition of all portions of the land, his Majesty expressed his renewed and thorough conviction that a bond of confidence will continue to embrace Prince and people now and for all futurity, and that the beneficent hand of Provi dence will still be extended over Prussia. His Ma jesty's Government is conscious of not being defi cient in the will to serve its royal master in this sense. It is filled with the conviction that upon an unprejudiced, passionless, and purely technical exa mination of that it has been privileged to attain, as well as of that it still strives after with the assist ance of the Legislature, objects and points enough must be found in them in which all parties are agreed. If, gentlemen, you are guided by the desire of seeking and holding fast these points of union, blessing and result will not fail to attend your de liberations. In his Majesty's name I now declare the Diet of the monarchy opened. Court of Aldermen. A Court of Aldermen was held yesterday at Guild. hall. The Lord Mayor presided. His LORDSHIP, on takinghis seat, announced that, in conformity with their request, he had had an in terview with the Lord Chief Justice, in reference to the suggestion that was made by the Committee of General Purposes, that during the absence of the Recorder upon the commission relating to the late outbreak in Jamaica some arrangement should, if practicable, be made that more than the ordinary number of judges should attend the sittings of the Central Criminal Court. His lordship stated thathe had met the Lord Chief Justice by appointment upon the subject, and his lordship had received him most kindly and courteously, and he had stated that some difficulty might arise at the next session of the Central Criminal Court owing to the judges having to act in banco at the same time as the sit tings of that court ; but that, having regard to the other high and important duties that devolved upon them, the judges would do all in their power to meet the wishes of the court. (Hear, hear.) The TOWN CLERK also read a letter from Mr. Waddington, from the Home-office, which enclosed one from Mr. Rogers, the secretary to Mr. Secretary Cardwell, expressing the satisfaction of the latter at the readiness with which the Corporation had as sented to the request of the Government that the Recorder should act upon the Jamaica commission. The communications were ordered to be recorded upon the journals of the court. THE CITY PIZISONS. Mr. Alderman and Sheriff GIBBONS handed in a statement of the condition of the different prisons and the number of prisoners at present confined therein. It appeared by this statement that there are at present in Newgate 65, in the debtors' prison 77, and at Holloway 321 prisoners. THE LATE CHAPLAIN OF THE DEBTORS' PRISON. Mr. CONSTABLE, the governor of Whitecross street prison, reported to the court the death*of the Rev. Mr. Carver, the chaplain of that prison. Mr. Alderman CHALLIS said that the duties of the chaplain of Whitecross-street prison were very light, and only occupied a few hours in the week ; and he moved that the subject be referred to the consideration of the Gaol Committee, for them to report with regard to the appointment of a successor, and what other steps should be taken in reference to the matter. _ _ . Alderman Sir J. DUKE said he thought it right to inform the court that, with the concurrence of Mr. Alderman Waterlow, they had, as visiting justices, appointed the Rev. Mr. Jones, the chaplain of New gate, pro tern., to perform the same duty at White cross-street prison. (Hear, hear.) The motion of Alderman CHALLIS was agreed to. SALE OF THE FREEDOM OF THE CITY. The CHAMBERLAIN (Mr. B. Scott) brought before the court the subject of the sale of the freedom of the City to " foreigners," as they are termed, and he made a formal application to be allowed to make twenty-five sales of that description. He explained that by the term " foreigners," according to very old custom in the City of London, was meant persons who did not carry on business in the City, and did not reside, and special sales were made to such persons of the freedom of the City, and they were charged £25, in addition to the usual fee of £2 18s. 4d. A similar application had not been made since the time when his predecessor, Mr. Alderman Brown, held the office of Chamberlain, and at that time the sale of 25 such freedoms as those he referred to was sanctioned by the court. Those freedoms had all been disposed of, and it was therefore neces sary that he should bring the matter before the court ; but he thought it right at the same time to state that his own opinion was adverse to the prac tice, and he considered it was not at all in accordance with modern usage. (Hear, hear.) Alderman WILSON sail that the practice of selling the freedom of the City to foreigners, as they were termed, was a very ancient one, but he thought it was a question whether at the present time it should be continued; he would therefore move that the matter be referred to the General Purposes Com mittee, for them to make a report as to what they considered ought to be done in the matter. The motion was agreed to. THE NEW LUNATIC ASYLUM. Alderman WILSON brought up a report from the committee of visiting justices of the new lunatic asylum, which stated that the building was nearly ready for the reception of the prisoners proposed to be sent there, and asking for the sanction o► the court for permission to draw out of the City's cash the sums that were necessary to carry out the preliminary arrangements. All that was asked for was the sum of £5OO, and it was explained that when the building was in full operation the expenses that were incurred would be repaid by the parishes to whom the pauper lunatics that were sent to the asylumn belonged. Alderman DAKIN, the chairman of the committee appointed to superintend the erection of the asylum, said he had great satisfaction in informing the court that there was every reason to believe that the build ing would be fully ready for the reception of its in tended inmates by February next. (Hear, hear.) The motion of Alderman WILSON was then agreed to, and the court shortly afterwards adjourned. Her Majestyls paddlewheel steamship Dee, Com mander RaymOud, was yesterday hauled out of basin at Woolwich, laden, with dockyard stores, and sailed for Portgaoutb. land Devonport. SPIRIT OP THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. TIMES.—It would be a great pity if any legal scruples were allowed to spoil our interest in the exploits of the Bulldog, which was destroyed in the harbour of Cape Haytien. Capt. Wake, her com mander, who has just been tried by a court-martial at Devonport, has really told his story so well, and is so evidently a naval officer of the right sort, that one would be glad to waive all misgivings as to the propriety of the course which he adopted. Being off the harbour of Cape Haytien, on the morning of the 18th of October he observed the Voldrogue, a steamer belonging to the Haytian insurgents, to gether with three schooners, chasing a vessel bearing English colours. He promptly hastened to the rescue, and found that the ship pursued by the in surgent flotilla was the Jamaica Packet, which had been chartered by the Haytian Government. He thereupon sent a lieutenant on board the Voldrogue to explain that he would himself examine the papers of the Jamaica Packet, and should feel bound to protect her in the event of her proving entitled to carry the British flag. This incensed the captain of the Voldrogue, who used violent language to the lieutenant, and afterwards nearly ran into the Bull dog in his attempt to close with the packet, despite Capt. Wake's message. The Voldrogue then sheered off, and Capt. Wake, after satisfying himself that the packet had a claim to his protection, in vain signalled to the Voldrogue to make known the result of his inquiries. On the morning of the 19th he re turned to Cape Haytien, and informed the Revolu tionary Council, through Mr. Dutton, the English Vice-Consul, of what had taken place, and of the grounds upon which he had acted. The Council received these representations, according to Cap tain Wake, in a manner so insolent and defiant as to leave him no alternative but a resort to force. To the reasons which he alleges in support of this opinion we shall presently revert. Suffice it now to say, that on the 22d of October his patience was exhausted, and that, having first communicated with the President at L'Acul, taken on board the Vice-Consul and a British merchant, and advised all foreigners to seek refuge on board the American ship Da Soto, he prepared for action on the 23d. His plan was to run down the Voldrogue, partly because it would take less time, and partly because he " disliked extremely the idea of ,firing into a ship so very inferior in force," to bombard Fort Picolet, and then to return to Jamaica. Unluckily, during the night of the 22d, while the Bulldog was off L'Acul, the Voldrogue had shifted her anchorage. .Captain Wake, who had carefully studied the soundings beforehand, and knew that there was no shoal water between him self and the place where he had left the Voldrogue, but who had failed to detect the change in her posi tion, ordered his ship to be steered directly at her. The Bulldog was close upon the Voldrogue, and already within reach of grape and musketry from her decks, as well as of the fire of the shore bat teries, when a sudden shock was felt, and Captain Wake found himself aground in 12i feet of water. He had, in fact, run upon an unseen spit of shoal, behind which his enemy had craftily retired. In this emergency he seems to have displayed the utmost resource and gallantry. Stranded as he was, he managed to sink both the Voldrogue and a large schooner, and to silence all the batteries except one. He then waited anxiously for the rise of the tide, with " the water started in the tanks, the foremost boilers blown out, the port guns run aft, the steam got on, the stream cable laid out astern, the ship's company sent aft with shot in their hands, and the engines reversed, but all to no purpose." Then, and not till then, he decided on blowing up the IBulldog, under cover of the night, rather than risk her falling into the hands of the insurgents. Of course, the two questions for the court-martial were, whether Captain Wake was to blame for the grounding of his ship, and whether he afterwards employed all possible means of getting her off before sacrificing her. The last is obviously a ques tion for seamen, and the court-martial have decided against him, but few landsmen will be inclined to impugn the captain's defence. The Bulldog was imbedded two feet deep for two-thirds of her length in a bank of sand and coral ; she was short of ammunition, provisions, and coal ; her boats were much disabled with shot, and her crew were too much fatigued even to go through the labour, pro bably useless, of lightening her in the night. In the meantime she was threatened with an attack from the shore, and was certain to be exposed to a re newed fire in the morning, which, for want of ammunition,' she would soon have been :unable to return. Assuming that he evinced no discretion in getting into such a predicament, he seems to have got out of it like a brave and resolute man, but we must candidly own that Captain Wake's six reasons for " taking upon himself the responsibility of vindi cating the honour of the British flag" do not appear to us as conclusive as could be desired. " Refusing to allow an officer of the Bulldog to land on duty, and_repelling his landing by an armed force," was an act of gross discourtesy, no doubt, and so was the notice given by General Salnave that Captain Wake himself should not be permitted to come on shore, on peril of Ms life ; not to speak of " hoisting the red flag, and pointing guns at her Majesty's ship Bulldog." Still graver outrages were the invasion of the British Consulate on two occasions by an armed force, and the seizure of political refugees there. On the other hand, it must be a very extreme aggression which can make it proper for a naval officer without instructions to commence war against a de facto Government. The Haytian rebels are, in deed, entitled to so little respect that we can hardly bring ourselves to regard thorn as a civilised nation, but the same zeal for the honour of his flag which prompted Captain Wake to chastise General Salnave and his followers might compromise us very seriously if it were displayed against the sub ject of a great European Power. If one of her Majesty's ships be deliberately fired upon, or if violence be offered to her accredited representative, and no redress can be obtained, it may be right and necessary to enforce satisfaction on the spot, but in most cases it is far better to wait for orders from home: While, however, we entertain much doubt as to the regularity of Captain Wake's proceedings, but one opinion can exist as to the spirit which ac tuated him throughout. His fault, if it be one, is so entirely on the right side, that few of his country men will join in the " severe reprimand" which the court-martial has felt it its duty to administer. The courage which he showed in encountering, with a sloop of six guns, so many ships and batteries, of which the collective force must have greatly over matched his own armament, and the humanity which led him to save the crew of the Voldrogue in his own boats when he was himself in a position of the utmost difficulty, are worthy of the best days of our navy. He erred, indeed, as a diplomatist, but he more than repaired his error in his proper capa city of a naval officer. POST.—The meeting of the Prussian Chambers, even if it be a mere matter of form, witnesses to an intelligible hesitation on the part of the Government to commit itself to a direct and °vett violation of the constitution. Substantially it amounts to an ad mission which the deputies are not called to express any opinion upon, but to the import and significance of which they cannot be insensible. With Govern ments as With individuals, the reluctance to deviate from a lawfid course, whether it be motived by a sense of right or by an apprehension of the conse quences of wrongdoing, indicates a perception of the equity of things that may eventually be turned to good account. Probably the influence of the Court has in some degree controlled the policy of the Ca binet. The King of Prussiamay doubtless feel bound to consider suggestions that could not be suitably addressed to his Ministers ; and political questions when they relate to the prerogatives of the Crown must necessarily be looked at from a personal point of view. The doctrine of divine right, how ever it may be propounded in public discourses, ad mits of colloquial argument, and, after all, in their family councils, Sovereigns are much as other men are. It is well for the nation, too, that the inte rests of the reigning dynasty are identified with its welfare and security. The King and his Ministers may entertain little if any respect for the constitu tion, and may entirely fail to perceive the utility of. Parliamentary government ; but that which possi bly appears to them to be an idle and troublesome ceremony is not practically a serious inconvenience ; and if it pleases or deceives the country, and serves to inspire confidence as regards the future, they may well be disposed to let it alone. There are trees and branches of trees in the political forest that it would be rash to attempt to break, but which, with care and perseverance, may be bent to the desired end. Count Bismarck is a diplomatist as well as a soldier, and he has established a reputation which must be sustained by elasticity as well as by effron tery. From the concluding sentence of the most in teresting paragraph in the royal speech it may, too, be inferred that the Government does not despair of effecting a reconciliation with the Chambers on a basis that would materially diminish their weight in the scale. It must be remarked that all through this protracted struggle the King has confidently presumed upon the Unfaltering support of the peo ple, and, though patit;Tce may be misconceived, the assumption seems to be founded on facts which cannot be controverted. Th e G a dtt'in Convention is certainly regard e d by th e P russ i ans a s P. diplo matic success, and the Government may not n reasonably conclude that measures which give general satisfaction to the nation will ultimately bring about the union of parties. No doubt the deputies can deal with the budget as they have dealt with former budgets, but, if they refuse to vote supplies for the construction of the North Sea and Baltic Canal, it will be perfectly A understood that they all the same desire to see the Duthie's of the Elbe annexed to rrufzia. Third cumstance would, however, deprive their vote of the moral force it might otherwise possess, and in deed go far to justify the proceedings of the Minis try. Count Bismarck looks to the end without considering the means. If his policy commends itself to national approbation that is all he has to care for. He must be satisfied that, in any contin gency which may be contemplated, Parliamentary support would scarcely answer to his purpose. If the Prussians allow their Government to settle its own budget and to collect the taxes, there can be no difficulty about money; and if Russia and Aus tria should be exacting or obstinate, their opposition must be met by action to which the Chambers could only be consenting parties. The strength of the position which Prussia has taken up consists simply in the understanding that she is prepared to defend it, and the King reckons upon the patriotic ambition of the country. Count Bismarck's policy—the po-* Hey of territorial aggrandisement—presents some thing that is really tangible, whereas the constitu tional policy, as it is philosophically expounded, is an unproductive and inanimate theory. Moreover, upon the whole, the government of Prussia may be supposed to correspond with the requirements of the people. If there are any grievances they are worn carelessly, and do not touch the heart of the nation. At all events, if the Prussians have domestic wrongs, it is manifest that they are content to bear with them on conditions which are not irreconcilable with political immorality. It has become evident that they would compass land and sea to enlarge their borders, and those who fail to respect the rights of their neighbours can hardly complain if their own rights are withheld from them. Nor is it altogether compatible with the commonsense of jus tice to tolerate a Government which ministers to the passion of aggrandisement with the deliberate inten tion to dismiss it when the process of annexation has been carried as far as it may be. The Prussians are looking forward to a change which will, they believe, place them firmly on a constitutional foot ing, but meantime they are getting all they can out of despotism. When they have rectified their fron tiers, absorbed some adjacent vineyards, and cut the famous canal which is to open the Baltic, then — like those who, having acquiredwealth fraudulently, practise righteousness when the temptation to sin may be comfortably resisted —they purpose to enter into the full enjoyment of Parliamentary govern ment. We can only hope that they may not be de ceiving themselves. It is, however, an exceedingly dangerous game to play. Wrongdoing has already had an unusually long innings. Count Bismarck may advise the King to declare that he will maintain the claims of Prussia under all circumstances, but there are Powers that may think they are entitled to be consulted, and it is not even certain that Aus tria will make further concessions. Policy and sympathy have combined to interest Russia in the question which the Gastein Convention has not solved, and the Governments of Paris and Vienna may, sooner or later, come to an understanding on other matters. But, given that Prussia is permitted to satisfy her claims, and it does not follow that the enlarged State would be a constitutional State. On the contrary, the authority of the Crown might be consolidated by an extension of territory and by the prestige of success, and, if Parliamentary institu tions are inoperative in the present comparatively limited area, it may be doubted if they could cover the space to be occupied by a great North German kingdom, constituted upon the principle of conquest, and which must therefore be constantly ready to vindicate its title by the sword. COUNTRY MARKETS GAINSBOROUGH-TUEODAY. A fair supply of wheat, which sold slowly at about recent prices. Barley a scanty show ; best sorts had an upward tendency ; runs mado lato rates. Oats and boano fully maintained their value. NEWCASTLE-TUESDAY. Old wheat maintains fully late rates. New more inquired for, and choice samples bring rather more money. Flour in limited request, at Saturday's full quotations. Sprulg corn unaltered. LEEDS-TUESDAY. There is not a large show of grain this week. We have not much doing in wheat to-day, and prices are about the same as Tuesday last. Fine barley without change ; other sorts slow sale. Oats and beans rather cheaper. The average prices for the week ending Jan. 15 were :---- Wheat, 49s 2id per qr. ; barley, 37s 81d ; and Gate/ 26s Od. SHEFFIELD-TUESDAY. -- - ---- - ----- We had a fair supply of wheat at our corn market to-day. The demand was very slow, and prices remained much the same as in the week previous. • Red wheat, per load of 3 imp. bushels 17s 6d to 190 Od White do do l9s 8d 21s Od New red do do l7s Od 38s 01 New white do do !Bs 6d 208 61 Beans do do l7s Od 190 al P Ern ets,z, b [ r qra icy, ~ .. 4os Od 42s Od per qr 318 Od 34s Od Malting barley, I 0 : ' 4s Od 3 , i.s Od Oats, do 26s Od 29s Od F10ur....1s 9d to 21 id per 141 b. LIVERPOOL-TUESDAY. At our market to-day there was a fair inquiry for wheat, and in some instances Friday's prices were exceeded, an d all descriptions closed fully id. to 2d. per cental on the week. Flour firm and unchanged. Indian corn Gd. Per qr. dearer on the week, but hardly so saleable as on Frid}9' Oats ld. per bushel dearer. Barley, Leans, and peas un changed. Oatmeal in good request at 6d. per load ad vance. MARKET HARBOROUGIL—T UESDAY. No material change in the price of wheat. Last week prices were fully supported for barley. Beans firm at lat e rates. Old white wheat, 50s to 56s ; new red. 42s to 52s per r 9 a stone. Barley, fine, 868; othor kinds, 27s to 29s per Oats, new, 22s to 24s ; old, 26s to 308 per qr. Beans, 0 ' 1. " 49s to 525; new, 428 to 45s per qr. The Price of Gold. he s The quotation of gold at Paris is about 1 per milk —d ~ a nd exchange on London is 25.15 per £1 sterling. v 4 comparing these rates with the English Mint price of 17s. 10Id. per ounce for standard gold, it appears that gold ig nearly 2-10ths per cent. dearer in Paris than in London. u By advlccs from Hamburg the price of gold is 424 per mar , and the short exchange on London is 13.41 per £1 etcriin Standard gold at the English Mint price is, therefore, at about the same price in London and Hamburg. The course of exchange at New York on London for blllO at 60 days' sight is 109 to lc% per cent. At these rates thfi A t e is no pro fi t on the importation of gold from the Unit v ' States. Foreign Mail Packet List MAILS DUE. Australia and New Zealand, via Southampton Jan. 13 * Ditto, via Marseilles Feb. 13. Brazil and Cape Verds. by British packet Feb. 4 * Ditto, by French packet . Jan. 21 Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena.... Jan. 21 ' China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton.. Jan. 13 ' Ditto, via Marseilles Jan. 27 ' Falkland Islands Gibraltar, via Southampton India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton.... Jan. 181 Ditto, via Marseilles Jan. 27 India (Bombay), via Southampton.. Jan- 26 '- Ditto, via Marseilles Jan. 20 Mauritius, via Southampton Feb. j 3 Ditto, via Marseilles Feb. 7 ' Newfoundland •4 I Jan , 17 ' Portugal Ditto, by private ship to Lisbon United States and British North America, byßri tish packet Jan 25 ' ....... ... • Ditto, by 'United States packet, via Southamp ton Ditto, is Cork Ditto, by Canadian packet, via Londonderry,. Jan. ig• West Coast of Africa. Madeira, and Teneriffe Feb. 11 ' West Indies and Pacific (except Bahamas, Cuba, and ba Mexicodan Mexi c o ......... ................ j. Jan. an 2 2 9 9 : Cu Bahamas, via New York. Feb. S• Bermuda, ditto Jan. 11 Births. e COBBOLD.—On the 15th inst., at Ufford, Suffolk, the of Ernest St. G. Cobbold, Esq., of a son. DENISON.—On the 14th inst., at Meanwood Park, T. A-s OCI6 the Hon. Mrs. Wm. Beckett Denison, of a son. ers , EDIVARDS.—On the 13th inst., at 5, Edwardes-91 11 .pr Kensington, the wife of T. J. Edwards, Esq., berm"' at-law, of a daughter. e n VILLIERS.—On the 15th inst., at Adisham Rectory,"- the Lady Victoria Villiers, of a son. Marriages. „I s e HULBERT—AnNsicK.--On the 15th inst. at at St. Niener" Church, Brighton, James S. Hulbert,' 11, Clarenc o- 0 0, race, Regent's-park, Middlesex, Esq., to Anna Til d i ot the widow of the late Brigadier Arnsick, Cometst m sef of Artillery, Madras, and daughter of the late P. +" Esq., Sheriff-Substitute of Banff, N.B. e% SPURWAY—PARKINSON.—On the 15th inst., at St.6oP tie -- ire Exeter, Captain John SporwAy, R.N., of Spring - J, Park, Somorsetshiro, to Sarah Anne, relict of the is K. Parkinson, Esq., of Milverton, Somerset. Deaths. DAITGLISIL—On the 14th inst., at Furze Bank, Great „ 61' vern, John Dauglisli, Esq., M.D., Edinburgh, aged 4 ' . 13°' GREENWELL.—On the 16th inst., at 20, Park-squar e, gent's-park, S. Greenwell, Esq, 4 , 4 04 HARDCASTLE.—On the 15th inst., at 2, Bernard -P. -- Russell-square, Miss S. Hardeastle, aged 76. HOWARD.—On the 13th inst., at 2, Sussex-terracst mouth, Mrs. Howard, aged 89. MGREGOR.—On the 18th inst., at Ryde, , M'Gregor, M.D., K.C.8., l a t e I nspector-Ge neral Hospitals, and Honorary Physician to the Queen, 74. PARR.—On the 14th inst., at his residence , Upper ment-street, Liverpool, John H. Parr, 1.1801. London : Printed and Published by WILLIAIIA.NDe n. of No. 112, Strand, Punter, at Tin Son Oincel Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the v.— ilicidlties-TWediteocby, Jour,' 17, 1800. 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