The Sun. — London, England, 1841-01-26 00:00:00

MORNING EDTTTON. TO ONDNTS. We can no t poss ibl y now CORRESP find room E for a " True Friend to the Negro." The commencement of the Session of Parliament will prevent us inserting the extract sent from Sheffield. Our numerous Correspondents must now have patience with us, for we shall be obliged to exclude their communica tions. The Address to the men of Walsall is excellent, but so many similar productions have appeared that we cannot Sad room for it. NOTICE. " THE CHINA SUN," Which was RE-PUBLISHED on the 6th INSTANT, with the LATEST NEWS from CHINA, IS NOW ON SALE. Price SIXPENCE. Orders received at the Sun Office, No. 112, Strzind. IN PROGRESS, THR RAILWAY SUN. With a MAP of all the RAILWAYS in the United Kingdom ; containing all the STA TIONS on each Railway, and a great variety of Information and other particulars connected with Rail Ways. 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First, She has given them something new ; and, secondly, her lively Pages contain a view of Paris, such as no writer but herself is qualified to afford. The manner in which Mrs. Gore has intro (laced her readers at once into the heart of society in the French capital is admirable. In short, it could scarcely be thought ...possible that a single work could so completely familiarize the reader with the society of a Foreign Capital as this new novel of Greville, and no English person intending to visit Paris should fail to study its sparkling details."—Sun. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. Now ready, and to be had of all Booksellers, and at all the Libraries, in 3 vols., post Bvo., THE SCHOOLFELLOWS ; or, A BY-WAY TO FAME. • B RICHARD JOHNS, Esq. Author of " Legend and Romance, African and European." Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. t , THEATRE ROYAL, . " N DER the MANAGEMENT COVENT of MADAME GARDEN VESTALS. THIS EVENING, JAN. 26. Will be presented Shakspere's Comedy (with Music) of THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR. Sir John Falstaff, Mr. Bartley ; Master Slender, Mr. C. Ma ' t i, l , le ws ; Ford Mr. Cooper ; Fenton, Mr. W. Harrison ; Mrs. ord, Mrs. Nisbett ; Mrs. Page Aladame Vestris; Ann Page, 'Mug Rai a f or th, M rs. Quickly, ' Mrs. C. Jones. After which, The NEW GRAND CHRISTMAS PANTOMIME will be repeated, entitled THE CASTLE OF OTRANTO; OR, HARLEQUIN AND THE GIANT HELMET. „ I lsrlequin, Mr. C. J. Smith ; Clown, Mr. T. Ridgway ; lotaloon, Air. Alorelli ; Columbine, Miss Fairbrother. i- ante T o -morrow, The Midsummer Night's Dre am , w i t h Th e N ew rnime. b oors te be opened at half-past Six—the performances to einrozenee at Seven e'Cleck. Titkrt* a n d p l aces f or t h e Bons to be taken of Mr. Groga n , at the BOX-Offige, from Ten till Four, where Season Tickets Dress Box es , . May oe had upon application. Circle, fis . Second Price, Ss. 61.; First and Second ; Second Price , 6d• ; Pit, Ss.; Second Price, • • ; Gallery, Is Private Bolt; 167, New Bond- street. to e had solely of Mr. Ands ewe, bookseller -street. o A gl in g s e T ent of ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. E the otrth, the Cel e b r ated Cask Vaulter, in addition to triumphantly successful Tower of London, and brip a"4 "ledged best Pantomime, which are attracting hant overflows every evening. Will THIS EVENING, JAN. 23, be acted a Grand Historical Romance, founded on and entitled The Table THE TOWER OF LONDON. aax Vivans splendid Costume, and Appointments, aljerrom the D es i gns of the celebrated George Cruikshanks. which will be repeated the Grand Traditionary Pantomime, RAIi T entitled ci7L-r-QUIN AND MY LADY LEE ; OR, GOOSEY 1 11 ±‘, DER AND THE SPELL-BOUND GOSLINGS. Vault w itioli the astonishing and incradible evolutions of the Cask will be given, as well as Brunning's Grand Dioramia • veiled of Syria ; the Pantomimic Characters by the unri lrled Boleno Family; Mr. Southby, the Original Clown ; '" Sharpe, Columbine ; and the astonishing Gyirnastinue, p±l._carlo, from Fransoni's, at Paris. WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TH IS 1 ,..,;4:,:=2 . 221iimutes after 4 Eveqing 16 minutes after 4. •i";;7:a • - .• . ' - -;-•`• Zb)e -')lux+ LONDON: TUESDA Y, JANUARY 26, IE4I. Lord STANLEY, it appears from his letter to Mr. 'SIEILSON TENNENT, which that gentleman read at the Belfast Protestant meeting, is fully deter tained to go on earning for himself the hatred of the entire Catholic population. The Noble Lord is obstinate in his desire. Some m en would feel a little abashed by opposition—it oily provokes Lord STANLEY'S zeal. It fires his blo od and makes him charge anew. He has been told the Irish do not need his services. His answer Is s - he knows better, They say they want some thing else ; he insists on forcing his nostrum down their throats. Generally it is supposed that a nation is to be governed for its own benefit, and. aieeording- to its own view s . N o suc h t hi ng , sa y s 1:°11.1 STANLEY, it must be ruled as pleases in" W hat I call right and justice must be right and justice ; and my right and my justice shall be the law for the Irish, whether they like it or not. W hat to me is the opinion of the nation ? In `tell a bold confronting of a people's will—there i 8 something almost grand, almost satanic, as MIL TON has drawn Satan, and we are almost tempted half to admire the wild monomania under which the Noble Lord goads the Irish into unrelenting hatred. If the little pettifogging regulations, the little adjustments of registration and franchise, which he and his Orange clique dignify with the ennobling names of right and justice, had any resemblance to securing freedom of opinion, freedom of worship, or • freedom of trade, we should honour the enthusiasm of Lord STANLEY; but when we see the miserable Ob j ec ts - to which all his zeal is directed , we can only cgret the saddest misapplication of great talents, and the strangest perversion of noble words. Of What consequence is it, in a national point of view, whethe r or not a few Irishman, more than the nar. t aw and unjust law enfranchises, vote for Members of t he,... House o f C ommons ? Oh, they commit perjury Not th e y ; t h e law commits perjury, which tempts them to practise that as the only means by which they can exercise the common rights of citi stns. The law is the great offender, and Lord STAN titY means to make it more stringent, and greater offender still. He places the character i)f a statesman in an en ti re l y new li g h t . I t was the boast of our SOMERSES, and our MA RLBO- RouGns, that they had sei:Ured the liberties of En g l and—it was the glory of the elder and the / Olinger P ITT, that, backed by the people of Eng land, they had r es i s t e d an d h um bl e d t h e pr id e of .France. Lord STANLEY has a different ambition. Backed by the Orangemen, his aim is to humble a nd mortify her MAJESTY'S subjects. His pro eQeditigs represent a statesman to the nation as "clever devil," intent only on torturing it. If he Only were concerned, we should leave him to the Inortification he will be sure to suffer ; but he has influence over those over whom the people unfortunately have no influence, and he will bring the Legislature into a conflict with the commonalty. Then the feelings which this self-willed, arrogant aristocrat excites will be directed against the body which he influences, and the authority it exercises will become as much hated as the man. That there may be no mistake as to Lord STAN LEY'S objects—as to the party with which he acts, and as to the motives by which they are all ani• mated, he announces his intention to Mr. EMER' SON TENNENT, says he is in the hands of Mr. TENNENT'S friends—the BA TESONS and the VERNERS—hints that he is the servant of their bi gotry, and his letter is made public by being read at a meeting of ORANGEMEN, and amid the clatter of breaking windows, in order to show their animosity to the leader of their Catholic countrymen. Some men would shrink from such associates and such avowals. Lord STANLEY, who on leaving office in sulted his patron Lord GREY, will stoop to anything, except separating himself from Oxford bigotry, to spring back into power. Associated with defeated Orangemen he is now in his proper place, and we trust the Liberal party will never again be insulted and injured by his aid. We cannot expect that the landlords should em brace the doctrines of free trade, when they are re pudiated by the Liberal Journals. Nor can we hope that Ministers, though urged by some of their friends, will take any step to remove commercial restrictions when their supporters out of doors cla mour for new restraints. In general we have had no abler helpmate in enforcing the repeal of the Corn-law, and no more enlightened advocate of free trade, than the Morning Chronicle, but every now and then something appears in that Journal more hostile to free trade than the writings of the Herald or the Post. In fact, the latter is, on money matters, almost a free trader, and is a convert to the best principles of political economy, before that science was degraded into a jumble of subtleties by a. short-sighted, but clever financier. The Chronicle, however, in its lucubra- Lions dated from the City, is the most determined enemy we know of to free trade in money. Our Contemporary seems to be divided against himself. He knocks down restraints in his leaders, and puts them up again in the next column. Yesterday, for example, he said : Under the system of free banking and competing is sues, so strenuously supported by some writers, we should find the verification of the proverb, " that which is every man's business is no man's business ;" and gold in this country would soon be reckoned among articles of vertu—scarce and curious. There cannot be much doubt that things would come to this end by the means of an issue of paper money, checked by no other instru ment than that of weekly exchanges between the banking establishments. The Crown and Parliament must have a real right of interference and control in the operations of the Bank of England ; and, that as the Bank notes are issued as a representative of coin, the nation has a right to see, through responsible officers appointed by the Crown, that their convertibility into coin is se cured by the retention of an adequate quantity of gold in the coffers of the issuers. The abrogation of the pre sent system, however, by the substitution of a free trade in paper money is quite another affair. It would be a regular jump in the dark, and no ono could tell the con sequence. The people of this country will not run the risk, they like to look before they leap ; and we are satisfied that after taking a proper glance of the precipice they will draw back at once, and firmly refuse to destroy them selves by the attempt. _ _ . What is this but the advocacy of the inter• 'erence of Government with the exchanges of all things, and consequently with the whole course of trade ? What is it but a total want of a reliance on the private pursuits of individuals, as the best means of securing public prosperity, such a reliance being the main pillar of free trade ? What is it but a setting up of the dictates of the Legislature above the discretion of individuals in the management of their own concerns, which ADAri SMITH showed was the height of folly ? The regulation of the exchange is no man's business, but it is the busi of dealers in bullion to send it where it is most valuable ; and whether the Government interfere or not, they will always, if allowed, make what pro fit they can on such transactions, and so regulate the exchange. To have a free trade, too, in paper money, we are told, would be a jump in the dark, and no one could tell the consequences. That is just what the landlords say when we ask for free trade in corn. Every abolition of a restriction must be a jump in the dark. Every law is. To trust to the private interests of individuals must always be, for the Legislature, a jump in the dark, for it cannot regulate them. The supply of provisions for the metropolis is, for the Legislature, a jump in the dark, but the provisions are supplied. According to the new doctrines of the Chronicle, to trust to the merchants, manufacturers, and bankers of the empire would be a jump in the dark ; but till that jump be made, and till the Legislature learn to mistrust it self, notwithstanding the perpetual clamour orhalf ignorant people for its unceasing interference, and learn to trust the private interests of the people, things will not go well in England. We regret to see our able Contemporary fighting in this man ner the battle of the landlords and all other restric tions, who have the warrant of experience for their system, for they have unhappily seen it, and can well say that to set trade free is to take a jump in the dark. 'We refer our readers to the report - of the meet ing at Leicester for the abolition of Church-rates. The speech of that consistent and unflinching Reformer, Mr. HUME, deserves especial attention for the sound advice it contains, and the just cen sure it casts on certain Dissenters, and on Mem bers of the House of Commons calling themselves Liberal. But for the apathy of one party and the selfishness of the other, the Bill introduced by the late CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER would have passed into a law, Church property would have been better managed, and an end put to those unseemly squabbles in churches and chapels about this obnoxious and unjust tax on Dissenters• The Government, it is true, were not to blame mi this score, but they were to blame in not using every exertion to remove the causes of their failure, to extend the suffrage and purify those smaller boroughs now as rotten as Old . Sarum. We there fore do not view their defeat without some mixture of gratification, because it must convince the people , of Leicester, and Leeds, and other large towns, who , are now crying out for Reform, that with such a, House of Commons, or any one returned under the present state of the electoral franchise, no redress,, not even the removal of this miserable impost cant be rationally expected. Let them, therefore, rally their forces, not for petty skirmishes against Church-rates or partial grievances, but against the great grievance, the defective state of the represen tation. Till that is removed they will find tits clergy, the aristocracy, and those who thrive b: / corruption too many for them. Mr. O'CONNELL'S reception at Leeds whict-... , i notwithstanding the efforts made to excite a pirejp,- dice against him by some of the more misguide& Chartists—was in every respect a ttiumpliant one,.li r i will, we hope, help to disabuse him of the strange i notion he has lately taken up, that the majority oi. i Englishmen are indifferent to the welfare of Irelana..i Never was a public man listened to with mo iv; respectful attention by an immense assembly ; al :ill never did his cursory references to the Ares , 3 nt condition of the sister country elicit more he: La+. felt sympathy. Much of this was of -course ov in ; to his own impassioned and persuasile eloqu' n ice ; ,R•'_ THE SU', LONDON, TIYEDik.Y, JANUARY, 2!), 184t1 but more—much more—was attributable to a con viction on the part of his audience that he was pleading the cause, not of sophistry, but of com mon sense—not of ascendancy, but of equal jus tice for his Catholic fellow-countrymen. Yet, flattering as it was, the Hon. and Learned Gentle man's reception at Leeds was not one jot more flattering than it would have been at any other great English town he had visited. Everywhere he would have found the same kindly disposition towards Ireland, combined with the same readiness to assist her in preserving those rights of which Lord STANLEY threatens to dispossess her; for JOHN BULL, if not a very quick-witted, is at any rate a very sagacious, old gentleman ; he knows full well the difference between right and wrong ; can distinguish between a hawk and a hand-saw ; and, above all, is remarkable for his love of fair-play. This is a truth which Mr. O'CONNELL might have known long ago. He need not have travelled to Leeds to ascertain it ; but having once—accord ing to his own confession—found that the case really is as we state it, we trust he will henceforth be cautious how he accuses " the Saxons" of being indifferent to the interests of the sister country. The Conservative party, he should re member, is not England, any more than the noisy Republican faction in Paris, is France. The Hon. and Learned Gentleman's speech was i►n his most lively, spirited, and pointed manner. He told his Leeds audience many useful truths, especially on the subject of the Elective Franchise and the Ballot, which, he observed, must go hand in-hand together, otherwise they would do mote harm than good. "On whatever side,"•said Mr. O'CoNNELL, " the poor man gives his vote, ruin threatens him on the other ; give him the franchise without the protection of the Ballot, and you hut tempt him . to plunge himself and his children into destruction." A shrewd, per `anent hint this to those Reformers of one idea, who conceive - that in the Ballot alone lies a sufficient remedy for all the evils growing, out of the present system of election ! In his al lusions to the House of Lords, the Hon. and Learned Gentleman was, we think, rather too lenient. Considering that this body is essentially Tory in character, and distinguished by its hos tility to Ireland and everything Irish, they were let off much too easily. Their " hereditary wis dom" should have been insisted on with more vigour, and its blessed effects on Reform have been pointed out with more minute ness of detail. The House of Lords is no friend to Mr. O'CONNELL, and he will not disarm its hostility by treating it with forbearance. He had better, therefore, strike hard, whenever the opportunity offers, for it is only by a severe course of discipline that refractory and prejudiced bodies'of men can be rendered amenable to reason. When a Russian officer—says a recent traveller—wishes effectually to reform a disobedient subaltern, he does not gently remonstrate with him, but at once gives him the knout, which effects all the good he could desire ; and in like manner, if Mr. O'CONNELL wishes to render their Lordships more tractable, he must give them the knout, for he may rely on it, all his moderation will be thrown away, and this is the only hint they will take either from him or from any one else. It was by knouting the collective " hereditary wisdom " that we wrung from it the Reform Bill ; and it is by the knout— and the knout only—that Mr. O'CONNELL will ever be able to induce it to turn a favourable ear to the supplications of Ireland. Mr. O'CONNELL's remark that the: advocates of Reform ought to have a Central Association in in London acting in concert with the Leeds and other provincial societies, is one that de serves every attention. By such means, una nimity of sentiment and opinion will be greatly increased among the Reformers ; their moral in fluence will be multiplied tenfold ; they will be brought more into contact with each other ; their mutual asperities will be softened ; their re solution, instead of flagging as it has so often done of late, will have a constant stimulus imparted to it ; a pe circulation of useful intelligence will be quicker and easier among them ; and instead of moving in separate orbits, they will move altogether as one compact, majestic, irresistible body. The French Journals of Friday have been received, but those of Saturday have not yet arrived. They are wholly occupied, as might be expected, with the debate in the Chamber of Deputies, on the Fortifications Bill, of which on abridged Report will be found im another art of The Sun. The speech of M. DE LA MARTINE against the Bill will be read with pleasure by all having really at heart the.wellare of France. The Austrian Minister and the Papal Internuncio at Berne, have protested against the suppression of the convents in the Canton of Argun, on the ground that ON Act violates the fundamental compact recognised by th e Cosigress of Vienna. It was supposed that the F r vech Minister would unite in this protes. nom Madrid we have advices of the 2.5 th inst. No forth ex interruption of the public tranquillity had taken p l ace . A good deal of business was transacted in the Bourse., The Five per Cents. rose to 301 for cash. BOURSE P —. ARIA, FRIDAY, JAN. 22. . t irst Highest Lowest Last Price Price. Prict. Price fre.ich t. per' •I'ilits 43(, I es . Cents _,.. 10.1 LO ... 112 50 ... 102 50 ... IC2 50 4 per ^.. - ents 3 per i 'ents 77 26 .... 77 f2O ... 77 10 ... 77 '.O 8 iik of r lam e• ...... ..... Lattitte Bank 1. ',WM. Sh lO5O ...1 0 50 ...105 ...Mc, ~ ,eigmn Bank .., 5 per Cei t.. 7 5 8 ,4 ... 05... 08% ... 18 1.0% 3 per Cents' New Lean . 98% ... 95% ... OS% ... 18% ipanish Active Passive .. 6% ... 6ii ... 6% ... 6 1 4 New Dcferrt t Portuguese 3 per Cen. 'a Neapulitan Roman .... 100 ... 100 ... IGO ... 114) MONEY and COMMERCIAL NE WS. CITY, MONDAY EVENING. Accounts from Matamoras of the 7th November, state that a treaty had been concluded at Camargo, on the Gth of that month, between the Mexican Generals Arista and Canales, which will put an end to some in testine troubles. It will probably enable the Mexicans to make a more decided Effort against Texas. M. Rubio de San Luis Potosi had effected an arrangement with the Mexican Government, by which he is em powered to introduce into the Republic, by way of Matamoras, merchandise to the amount of on• million of piastres, in consideration of the sum of 300,000 piastres, to be paid by him, in aid of the cost entailed upon the country by the preparations against Texas It is to be hoped, however, that when the Mexicans learn the recognition of Texas by England, they will be disposed to come to some amicable arrangement with their enterprising neighbours. Consols have ranged from 898 to 90 for immediate transfer, and from 908 to 90-4- for the Account, being about the previous rates. Exchequer Bills remained all day at Gs. to Bs. premium ; and East India Bands rallied again to Bs. and ss. discount. Bank Stock is now slightly influenced by the disposition of some of the holders to realise the large profit of 15 per cenL i which has accrued from the recent steady and rather remarkable advance. It stood comparatively low, con• sidering that it yields a dividend of 7 per cent. per an num. The current value to-day was 1691 to 1681, or a decline on Saturday's prices of about per cent. The Reduced Three-and-a-Half per Cent. Annuities were steady at 984 to 988. the New at 98 to 984, and the Three per Cents. at 90t to 90i. The Foreign Stocks are scarcely dealt in to-day. The Active Spanish Bonds were marked 258 to 251, which were about the same as they closed at last week. Portuguese New Five per Cents. were at 328, and the Three per Cents. at 20} to -a. Peruvian Stock was at 16i, Colombian brought 238, Mexican remained at 281 and Buenos Ayres receded from 22 to 21. The Two-and-a-Half per Cent. Dutch Bonds were steady .at 504 to and the Five per Cents. at 998 to Railway Shares did not fluctuate much. Great Western brought 27, London and Birmingham 85, South-Western 18f,-, and New Manchester and Leeds 3 to 4 premium ; Brighton were 7 to 68, and Black wall 4 discount. Australasia New Bank Shares were 11 premium. (From The Sun of Lan Night.) We have no Liverpool Cotton Market of Saturday. MA NCHESTIM STOCK . EYCLIANCE, JAN. 23.—There has been more business done to-day, but at lower prices. The sales are, Grand Junction, 214; London and Birmingham, (quarters) 27V; London and South Western, .574; Manches ter and Leeds, 76 76i and 76; Manchester and Birmingham Extension, 22. 18s. Gil. ; Manchester and Salford Bank, 10%; Union Bank of Manchester, Ba. The Lapwing packet has arrived with a mail from Rio Janeiro, sailed Nov. 26, by which we have received a Price Current of Nov. 26. Thu intelligence received last night by the Spider packet of the adjustment of the difference between France and the Argentine Republic, and the raising of the blockade of Buenos Ayres, has not produced any effect upon our Money Market. The foregoing convention was ratified by General Rosas on the 3d October. Exchange.—The current rate upon London was 32-1 until the 19th and 20th, on which day fair accounts were negotiated at 33, from which period the whole of the transactions re ported were at 32%. Money came forward comparatively abundant at the latter rate, and it fell to 32a 324. Transac tions were likewise reported at 321 but for a very insignificant sum. Stocks have been 77 and at that price there are purchasers. Specie—Spanish Doubloons improved upon the 19th from D. 26 800 to 27 '2OO and further to 27 400. Discounts—the rate continued high, but money is obtained with rather less difficulty: We hae received eve of Good Hope papers to the 22nd November. From the Frontier we only hear of peace and politeness ; to make the first permanent, men have only to cultivate the latter. SLAVE TRADE.—The Amelia, from Mozambique of 31st October, detained by her Majesty's brig Acorn, came into this port on Thursday evening with ten slaves and 25,000 Spanish dollars on board, all lawful prize. We h4ve heard from good authority that the Portuguese Governor of Mozambique has declared himself against the slave trade, and that he has taken active measures to suppress it. We have received the Journal of Antwerp of Saturday's date ; that of Sunday has not as yet arrived. BOURSE OF AMSTERDAM, JAN. 21.—The prices of the Na tional Funds have varied little, and the affairs have not been of importance. The firmness of the Bourse of London had not any effect here. The Actions of the Society of Commerce opened at 160, got up to 1605, and closed at 160 k oh. Ar (loin's Spanish having got up in London, and being more firm at Antwerp, were better , and d one at 21i 15-16. After the clase Coupons 18 3 / 4 13-16. The Hamburgh paper of the 19th instant has just arrived. Exchange upon London, 13 2 ; Gold, 424 ; Metalliques, 105 ; Bank Actions, 1675. The Siddons packet-ship hat arrived from New York, old slate. Consols opened this minting at the leaving off prices of Sa turday, 90h Buyers for Feb. 25; Money, 89% 90; Exche quer Bills, 6 8 prem. ; Bank Stock, 169 170; India Stock, 250 252. In the Foreign Market Spanish Active as they left off on Saturday, 25i ; Deferred, 12i 13h ; Passive, 6h 6i ; Portu guese same, 325 ; Three per Cents., 205 ; Brazilian, 73 74 ; Colombian same, 235 4 ; Mexican, 285 a ; Dutch Two-and a-I-;,!lf per Cents, 505 p ; Fiie per Cents., 995. s u ,otEs.—Great Western, 26 to 27 prem. ; New, 12 13 p rem . • tendon and Brighton, 7 6 5 dis. ; Bl ackwall, 45 35 ili rml , , gbam, 82 84 prem. ; Southampton, 57 58 per share; Croydo:l, 125 per share; Greenwich, 85 per share; Manchester and Birmingham, 15 14 dis. PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE. RAI LWAYS. Paid. Per Share. Great Western ..... Ditto Fifths ... ..................4 .... 103 London and Brighten „.... 50 ..... 435 to 43 London and Birmingham 90 Ditto 5 Shares , 5 ..... 285...... to London and South Western 38L 575... .. to Nlanchester and Leeds ( New Sh. ) • ••• •• 29 South Eastern and Dover Accounts from Leghorn of Jan. 1. are of a very unfavoura ble nature respecting commercial affairs in Italy. An extra ordinary panic prevails, owing to the enormous failures which have taken place at Leghorn, Geroa, Boulogne, Mantua, and Turine. This is entirely attributed to the stagnation in com , merciel affairs. The Buenos Ayres papers received this mornin g , althou g h not of a later date than previously receive d, are of some inte rest. It appears that seven British vessel s of war were off the Port of Buenos Ayres—Stag, 46 guns; Curacoa, 24 guns; Rose, 16 guns ; Grecian, 16 guns ; Clio, 16 guns ; CameliOn, 10 guns; Spider, 6 guns ; The above papers contain the con vention on the part of the Argentine Confederation and the Admiral Mackan, which has already appeared. We have just received the Antwerp Journal of yesterday's date. BOURSE OF AMSTERDAM, Jaw. 22.—The national funds continue without variation, as well as no business doing. The attention of the Boirse has been entirely on the Spanish funds, and above all, that of Ardoin's Coupons, which were sought after ; the price, which was yesterday 18%, got up to 19h and 20i. Ardoin's Spanish ales were better, owing to the rise at Antwerp. They were done at 223 after the closing; Two and-a-Half per Cent s. , 50 3-16ths; Five per Cents., 971. The British Funds continue in an inactive state to the pre sent time, and we do not hear of a feature worth noticing, with the exception that Consols are a shade better, soa to 904 for the Account, Money 891 90 ; Exchequer Bills, 8 6 prem. ; India Bonds, 8 5 dis. ; Bank Stock, 1691 1661, lower. In the Foreign Market Spanish Actives, 2.51 ; Deferred, 134 ; Portuguese, 321 ; Three per Cents„ 201 ; Colombian, 23k; Buenos Ayres, 21 ; Dutch 'Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 50111 ; Five per Cents., nothing done. In the Share Market little doing. Great Western, fifths, 10e , London and Brighton, 43; Manchester and Leeds, New Shares 28 ; London and Birmingham, Quarter Shares, 28 1 / 2 ; South- Western, 571; South Eastern and Dover, 121 131. i CLOSING PRICES. ... BRITISH FUNDS. Bank Stock ... 1681 India Stock ......... ... ..250 3 per Cent. Red 904 Ditto Bonds 3 per Cent C0n5....., .. 90 Ditto Old Annuities — 3, per Cent Red........ 087,- Ditto New Annuities... —. New 31 per Cent .. ... 984 Ex. Bills, 1,000/....21d 6pm New 5 per Cent Ditto 5001 spm Lcrig Annuities to expire Ditto Small lO pm Jan. 1860. l3 3-16 Bank Stock for Acct ... 169 Oct 1859 ... ...... India Stock for Acct ... - Jan. 1860 ... ...... 12i Consols for Opg 9Ol FOREIGN FUNDS. A ostrian, 5 per cent Portuguese, 5 per cent. Belgian, 5 per cent _ Ditto, New Ditto..... 32/ Brazilian Bonds .. _.. Prussian, 5 percent.... -- BuenosAyres, 6 per cent 21 Russian, 5 per cent. . . _ Chilian, 6 per cant Colombian, 6 per cent... Spanish, 5 per cent 251 Ditto, 1824 — Ditto, Deferred ... 13 Danish, 3 per cent..... French,s per cent... —f. —c. Greek.lB2s, spercent. Exchange .. Mexican, 5 per cent.... French,3 per cent —f. —c, 1)i to, 6 per cent, 1825 Dutch, 2} per cent 5O; Peruvian,lB2s,6 per ct. Ditto, 5 per cent..... w SHARES. • Great Western Railway (65 paid) 92 Ditto New Shares (50 paid) . Ditto Fifths ( 4 paid) lOl London and Brighton (50 paid) 431 London and Blackwall Railway (22/ pd) 18} London and Birmingham Railway (90 pd) 175 Ditto Quarter Shares ( 5 paid) 29 Ditto New Shares (24 paid) London and South Western 57/ Alanchester and Leeds ( 70 laid) .. ...... Ditto New Shares (25 paid) Northern and Eastern (40 paid) ...... .... 26 North Midland Railway ( . 1.00 paid) 77 Ditto New Shares (40 paid) South Eastern and Dover (28 paid) ... In York and North Midland Railway (50 pd) 72 UNITED STATES. We have received files of New York Papers to the 28th of December inclusive —being six days later than the last arrivals from the United States. We have also received a file of the Montreal Courier to the 18th ult. In none of these Journals do we find any poli tical news of importance. The following extracts from them embody all that is interesting to an English reader : -- . We learn from a high and authentic source, that General Harrison intends positively to appoint Thaddeus Stevens Post. master. General, and Solomon Van Rensselaer Collector of New York. Thomas H. Burrows, late Secretary of State for Penn sylvania, is now on a ♦isit to North Bend, and General Harrison has declared to him that he will make the appointments in ques tlen—and 111 r. Burrows has written to this effect to his friend Stevens, in Washington. There is a general and a remarkable movement among the origi nal friends of General Harrison, that may entirely upset the ar. rangements of Messrs. Clay and Webster. In this movement, ori ginating in Pennsylvania, we learn that the original friends of General Scott in this State, all unite.—New York Herald. STEANIBOAT DISASTER.—Extract of a letter from New Orleans, dated 13th : —We regret to inform you of a disaster to the steamer Cherokee. She blew up when just about to leave the landing at Louisburg, on the Arkansas river, killing sixteen or eighteen pas sengers, some of the cabin and some of the crew—amongst them the Captain, C. Harris, Major Armstrong and ladies (his daughter, 'niece, and Col. Rector's daughter,)miraculously escaped unhurt. Major A. had in charge a:large amount of Government funds, in specie and paper, which is saved, although the boat is a total wreck. SINKING OF A STEAMER.—One of the steamers which ply between St. John and Fredericton, on the St. John river, sunk recently at the whar tat Indian town, where she was moored. She was a tine new boat, called the New Brunswick. The place where she sank is the station above the falls, within about a mile of St. John, where the Fredericton line terminates. She had on board a valuable cargo of supplies and merchandise,—the persons on board narrowly escaped. Serious loss of life might have occurred if this had hap. pened while the New Brunswick was on her course. The St. John boats, generally, carry many passengers. The sinking seems to have been very sudden and unexpected. The cause is not stated. DISASTERS AT SEA in 1840.—We give below the losses sustained during this last year by wreck, which is probably greater in the aggregate than ever before in any one year : Class. No. Value of Vessels. Value of Cargoes. Ships and Barks 67 $1,005.000 $1,675,000 Brigs 19.0 840,000 1,700,000 Schooners 233 Sloops Steamers Unknown ...... . Aggregate 932,000 1,165,000 14,000 21,000 FLA,VDERS MAIL. BRUSSELS, JAN. t23.—The Chamber voted yester day the budget of the' Department of Finance. amount ing to 14,828,535 fra oe..s,and to-day it voted the budget of the Department of the Interior. ROME, JAN. B.—Vaith reference to the previous ac counts of an unpleasant rencontro in the Apollo The atre between two distill ; !uished members of the diplo matic body, when the Queen Royal of Spain visited that theatre, I have t 4 .. state that the dispute was not at all personal bets: , can these gentlemen, but be tween their servants, all 1 became so violent that the armed force had to it terfere. Several of the mili tary who were on duty _have been put under arrest in consequence. The Queen will shortly go to Florence to visit her sister, the Grand Duchess, .and then return . to Rome, where she means to make a song stay. It is expected that the presence of the Queen will have a considerable influence on the affairs of Spain. DUTCIi FUNDS.—AmsTARDA3I, JAN. 22 None'. Bit's. icutat Debt, (2% per Cent ..... 50 sn} t Jilt°, ditto S per cent. . 97% 93 Amok t Svadie,Oi per cent B•,i% H7q Ditto, ditto, 3!<, per cent 7 0 54, 71 IA Commercial Company, 4!:, per cent ...... NOVI 160% Ditto (15:35 and :837) 5 per cent. Loan 13:17, 5 cent. 94% 95 Exchange on London, One month l9 0 'fweinontha ...... 11 91 Dutch Papers, Jan. 23. nELtiIAN I.UNDS—ilitusszt.i, JAN. 23. Actual Debt,2 per Cent. Rothschild's Loan, 5 per C: - ..nt 97 Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent... '0,40) V6 3 per Cent. 89 ----Thirty.scven Loan of City, 18314 4 per Cent l4 Society ot Commerce,,*;,per Cent lt2 Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent ............. National Society . — Exchange on London (short) —Brussels Papers, Jan. 23. AUSTRIAN FU ICDS.—VIENNA, JAN. 13 1 7 iye per Cents.Metalliques Fula per Cents. Three per Cents. Bank Shares —4l l ;:emeitte Zeitung, Jan. IS. HAMBURG 110IISENHALLE, JAN. 19, Bills. Money Austrian 5 per Cents. Rank Shares 1675 Auplo-Itussian Loan 1( 614 !Oo! Russian 5 per Cent. Ist series, Ct.rtificate - Inscription, Ist Se:ic.s lO3 Russian 5 per Cent. Hope and Co. 3d and 4th Selies •»90 96 tut, oin Certi fi cates iii',, te „ , Actual Debt, 2 •,',, per Cent 49 —, 5 per Cent bino.._ -- Poli , li . B. "ndi o no. , L a i n t , s3. 3 4 :i . e t r i, C er ei c A ent. ...... .... - 3, 4 7K ,4 1: 7 '6 4 74 New Ag: Il i c ) k a `i' t t ,t, 101 NS l P : 4 : n : i f a ri a o l!; .. ei : 3 s . l e g Cr . —1 Cents. : G. . — E ' S I ~ , O • ° N-L months, iN I ) ° l3 r 2.. Ids o mo ths, 6. 17? ii. LXlPste. 3.4"; 15.—Two months. 9. 4114. VIENNA. B u EmEN, JA,N, e.....T1N 0 months, fill. 72,000 100,000 405,900 500,000 $3,268,000 $5,161,000 ✓ The above, so far as the vessels go, were total losses. About half a million cargo was saved, the rest lost. Aggregately, there. fore, the actual loss •aried not far from eight million dollars. It has been ascertained that by the destruction of the above, six hundred and eighty-four lives were lost. In addition to the foregoing, thereare now 39 vessels missing. THE N6RTII EASTERN' BOUNDAUX.--Major Graham and his party have just passed through this city on their return from running the meridian line north of the Monument, at the head of the St. Croix river. We understand the line has been run as far north as the Aroostook river, at which place the new line is about ha'f a mile east of the old line. The line has been run with great care and accuracy, and solely by astronomical observations. One portion of the party has been engaged in taking a line from the tide water at Calais to the Monument, and thence following Major Graham. This party Has not yet reached the Aroostook. The line as now run does not touch any part of Mars Hill, but passes considerably to the east of it. The survey, we understand, will be resumed in March, and carried through in the course of the season to the St. Lawrence river.—Bangor Whig, Dec. 22. MURDER.—An awful murder has just come to light—the par. ticulars resemble the case of Mr. Suydam, except that the mur derer has fled, and probably to New York. The deceased and his wife were old people, living together in the suburbs of Philadelphia, on the the dividends of some railroad stock. Last Monday the old man went to receive his half year's due, and never returned. He was decoyed into the adjoining house of one Hoffman, mur. dered and robbed; his body was buried in the cellar, and the floor carefully replaced. There is great excitement about it in the city. The supposed murderer, as soon as the body was discovered, started off to bring the Coroner, and has not been since found. A DREADFUL CASE.—One of the most appalling cases that we ever remember, occurred a day or two ago in the lower part of Philadelphia county. A drunkard named Jarvis, resided in an un finished house in Sixth-street, near Catherine, and his daughter, a girl of nineteen, together with a little boy, absolutely perished with hunger and cold. The female was alive when discovered, but all the efforts of the neighbours proved vain, and she expired on Sunday morning. The little boy was dead when discovered, and two other children were perishing with want in one corner of the room. The wretched father is said to be utt• - ly lost to all sense of shame.—Philud. Inq. Dec. 23. _ _ . MURDER.-A most shocking murder was committed in the town ship of Roxborough, Upper Canada, a few days ago by a man named who has been some time deranged ; his wife, who was his unfortunate victim, thought he was getting better, but it seems his improvement was only temporary, for, *after inducing his children to leave the house, he took up an axe, which he generally carried him, and struck it into his wife's head—he then went to a neighbour's house and mentioned what he had done. The unfor. tunate woman was instantly deprived of life, and her miserable husband has been committed to the gaol in this place to await his trial.— Cornwall Observer. IMPORTANT FROM Mexico.—By the arrival yesterday, of the Androscoggin, Captain Churchill, from Tobacco, in 31 days, we have highly important news from that quarter. It appears from the statement of Captain Churchill, that the Texans have virtually made war upen Mexico. When he left, Commodore Moore was near Tobacco with a sloop of war Austin, schooner San Bernard and steamer Zavalla. An officer of the Texan Navy informed him that it was the intention of Commodore Moore to take possession of the place. It also appears that about the 20th of November, a battle had been fought between the Cen tralists and Federalists, and that the latter were victorious. MONEY MARKET, Dsc. 27. The weather yesterday was very inclement, and but little out door business was transacted. At the Stock Board there was some depression : United States Bank fell per cent. ; Vicksburg ; North American Trust and Banking Company ; Delaware and Hudson ; Harlem ; Long Island I ; Stonington 1 per cent. Sales of Indiana s's 73i ; Ohio 6 per cents. 96k; bills on Phila delphia 1 die.; Baltimore la IA; New Orleans 14 dis. A sale of Union Bank Stock was made at New Orleans, Dec. 16, at 19 'a 20. On the same day 30,000 dollars specie arrived from Matamoras. In relation to the Wayne County Bank, the Albany Argus has the following:— The notes of this bank being no longer redeemed by the agent, are selling at a discount of 124 per cent., and in some cases probably much larger. The Comptroller is authorised to raise money on a six per cent. stock for the redemption of these notes at par. We recently gave a statement of the trade between this country and France, in reference to the future policy of this Government, in regard to the tariff. While the attention of the dominant party seems turned to narrow restrictive measures, with a view only to raise money for present expenditure in the intercourse be tween this country and the old nations of Europe—a large and lucrative business with other nations is about to be thrown away for want of encouragement. It has been the policy of Great Britain always Ito encourage the new and growing markets for her manufactures in countries, the natural products of which she excludes by high duties. This has been brought about by the immense loans she has made to such countries in their necessi. ties. The actual transfer of the capital so loaned has been made in the shape of manufactured goods. This, within the last three years has been the case in regard to this country, to the extent of more than 10(1,000,000 dollars, while our flour and grain has been excluded from her market. For many years the same sys. tem has been pursued in regard to the Brazils. England has sent to that chuntry nearly 5,000,001) dollars of coton goods, while its coffee and sugar have been almost prohibited from her markets by high discriminating duties in favour of the British Colonies. At the same time the United States have sent scarcely $500,000, whila they have taken nearly one-third of the coffee exported from Rio. The result has been that exchange is heavily in favour of England and against the United States, lead. ing to a constant export of the precious metals from this country to the Brazils. This has caused a great derangement in the finances of Brazil. She is now in the London market for a new loan of •,000,0001., to be applied to arrearages of interest. The facility of borrowing in the London market has seriously injured her, while the British manufactures have profited by it. The course of an irredeemable paper currency, united with the facility of obtaining loans in England, have plunged her into nearly inevitable ruin. At the same time she is possessed of almost boundless resources, which, if properly applied with a sound cur rency, would render her one of the most prosperous of nations. The population of the Brazils, according to the best authorities, is 1,400,000 inhabitants, or 2,400,000 free persons and 2,000,000 slaves, and the area of the empire is 288,000 square leagues. The debt is as follows : Foreign debt due in England ~£6,000,000 Internal Total funded debt £9,756,000 Circulation of Bank paper Annual interest due abroad ... £loo,ooo . _ _ Deficit of revenue for the last two years, 16,560 con tos, or The constant depreciation of the currency, and the increasing foreign indebtedness, have produced an enormous exchange in fa vour of England. The cost of production in this country is an nually about •20 per cent• higher than in England, and the effect of an increased tariff will be to increase the cost as much more under our present system of currency. This will effectually exclude our manufactures from the foreign markets, and leave a clear fold to the English producers. It is only with a cheap currency and a per fectly free trade, that the Eastern producers can thrive. A few years of a steady and low currency, would enable them entirely to supplant the English not only in the Brazils, but the Chinese and other foreign markets. The existing treaty with the Brazils will expire in one year, and a new one should be formed on the Ameri. can reciprocity system. RATE OF SALES AT THE STOCK EXCHANGE. 50 shares U. S. Bank opg 00 do. Del. and Hud. .25 30. N. Am. Trust ... 25 do. D. Dock Bank 091 s6O 60 36 do. Mcch Bkg Ass 844 10 do. Seventh Ward Bk 10 do. Vicksburg Ilk :!5 do. Mohawk It 01 do. Paterson It 24 do. Boston and Prov 100 do. Stonington It 10 69% 2~ 50 do. Harlem it 100 do. L Island 11 25 do. Canton Co blo 2.. q SECOND BOARD. 10 do. N. A. Trust... 25 do. Canton Co -1i 20 do. Ilailem It SALES AT PHILADELPHIA, SATURDAY, SECOND BOARD. 50 do. U. S. s 65 s3O 10 50 do. Vicksburg STATE OF TRADE. The past week has been a broken one, and yesterday the incle mency of the weather prevented the transaction of much out-door business. The markets present no material change in their general features. Freights are dull. " Corros.—ln this article the transactions have been exceedingly limited. The stock on hand is very small, and the prices arc such ae to deter skippers from entering the market, in the present state of the markets abroad. In the southern markets, generally, there has been more doing at improved prices. The holders are very firm, but buyers on foreign account consider the present rates above their limits. The following is a table of transactions at the din. rent ports for the week previous to the date affixed : S"..i.ICKS, SALE AND PRICES OF COTTON, AND REMARKS. Stock. Sales. Prices. Remarks. New York, Dec. 26 8,300 1,300 9 a firm. New Orleans, Dec. 16 106,592 17,000 '1 al2 falling. Mobile, Dec, 16 17,796 4,000 S a 104 advance Augusta, D.:c. 17 6,000 8 a 94 firm. Savannah, Dec. 18 9,152 2,672 9 alq firm. Charleston, Dec IS 18,936 8,426 8 a 10} advance :lie BRISTOL SUGAR MARKET, JAN. 22.—We have experienced a considerable revival in the demand during the past week, both in West India and Bengal su gars, and prices may be quoted about Is. higher on low qualities, and 2s. on the finer, from the loxest point before Christmas.—Bristol Mercury. WARD ofFAIMINGD ON WITHOUT Yesterday, at eleven o'clock, the inhabitants of this po pulous Ward congregated in great numbers in the New Court Justice Hall, Old Bailey, for the purpose of electing sixteen fit and proper persons to represent them in the Court of Comm on Council, the f ormer e l ec ti o n hav'ng been deelar . d null and void . After some discussion the show of hands was in favour of the following sixteen gen tlemen :—Blackett,Anderton, Cl emm i tt , Obb ar d, W e lls, Burn,' n Harding, Hod gson , Ramshaw, Taylor, Gal loway,Barnard, W o ll at t, an d G res h a m. A poll w for Messrs. B ec k w i t h, P r i c e, Marriott, s and Charles. At the close of the poll, at lour o'clock, the nu mbers were as f ollows , viz.: — Ba rnard, 31 ; Wollatt, 28 ; Ta y lor, 28 ; Hodgson , 26 ; Wells , 25 ; Bl a ckest, 2 4 ; B edford, 24 ; Gresham, 2 3; Anderton , 22 ; Beckwith, 21 ; Gallowa y , 21 ; Obbard , 20 ; Ukiah 18; a, ect, E Bedford, demandedd k ins, Burn, 18; Ramsbaw, 18 ; Harding, 17 ; Charles, 16 ; Sweet, 3 ; and Clemmitt, 3. Price, 14 ; M arriot, 12 ; N e i r g . j a . e l e r e nn has np t , b , e; e n ,it,io ,arlously pleased to ap point to S. Mauve, 149, Strand, end Lecturer on his . r gy at King's College, London, Mineralogist in Ordinary to her Majesty. poiTnth ~. . ~ FRANCE. CHA MIII7II OF DEPUTIES. COSTINUATWN OF THURSDAY'S DEBATE. M. de Lamartine said he ascended the tribune with regret, being about to combat the opinion', not only of friends, but of the majo rity, or seeming majority, of that Chamber. lie was comoled, however, by the recollection that majorities were often mistaken. He listened with reverence to military men who treated the subject, but he denied it to be a purely military question—it was also a po lifical one. It le pretende I (said M. Lainartine) that, by its geo graphical position, Paris is nut sufficiently covered, and this void it is wished should be filled up. For my own part, I do not ask where is the strength of Paris ?—but where lies the strength of France ? I find the secret of that strength in a remark which drop ped from the mouth of Louis XIV., while struggling with reverses. Go, said he, to Marshal Villars, go and give battle, and if you are conquered, i will run through my capital, your letter in my hand, I will draw together my people,and we will go and bury ourselves beneath the reins of the monarchy.—(Sensation.) The characteris' ic of a French soldier is not to fight behind walls, but to meet the enemy in the open field ; all our generals will tell you that the French soldier is the first soldier in the world when advancing. All . soldiers fight well. I appeal to your generals whether, when they have gone over in a field of battle the lines of dead, they have net fout.d the Russians, the Prussians, and the English dead in their places, and wounded in front like our own ; but what makes the superiority of the French soldier? It is his enthusiasm. The Co n mittee has spoken of war as it was carried on two hundred years ago ; but new systems, new instruments of war have been invented. Frederic the Great, elevated tactics, active and scientific manoeuvres in the field, above the passive force of fortresses ; and he was right, for the genius of war is there, and not in walls. Napoleon carried this further, by the immense masses which he moved. Armies now concentrate the whole force and life of a nation; when these are eonquered, nothing remains behind for walls to protect and save. With such masses def Lat has no morrow. In wars of this na. ture, a march is made as far as Moscow, then a retreat to Leipeic, then to Waterloo, and at length St. Helena is reached, which has just restored to us illustrious ashes, and at the same time read us some terrible lessons. The authority of Vauban was brought forward. Do you know in what manner he justified the idea of fortifying Paris? Vauban said that the great population of such a capital as Paris (then 200,000), together with all who would crowd thither, might create disorder and uneasiness, but when he considered the pacific sweetness of the Parisians, he had no fears of them. He said that in England the turbulence of the popula. tion would not permit the thought of such a means of defence, as it would cause uneasiness. 'I his is what he said in his time, and then he proposed a project which was at the same time the most gigantic and the most incredible in the world. He wished that in case of, invasion the King should issue an ordonnance which should force all the inhabitants within a circuit of sixty leagues to come and shut themselves up in Paris, taking care at the same time to bring provisions with them sufficient for twelve months' con sumption for each person. He then added that in this case it would be also necessary to bring into Paris numerous flocks of sheep, withoit thinking at all of where they were to be kept, or where nourishment was to be found to support them. It was also necessary, said he, to store up in Paris a very large quan tity of barley and hops, for the people of Paris were very fond of beer.---(Laughter). These, Gentlemen, are what Vauban called his reveries, and really I think the name was well chosen. But a more serious and a more important opinion has been adduced in support of the measure —that of Napoleon. Napoleon in the height of his glory—Napoleon holding the world in his hand, and having France beneath his feet—Napoleon on the victorious field of battle, thought not of moving a stone towards fortifying Paris. At what epoch, I then, did the Emperor speak of the fortification of Paris ? You know that Napoleon at St. Helena was speaking to the party which he thought he had left in France. He explained his acts, and accused himself whh his errors. If you would also con sult another great man, turn to Hannibal. See that general in his old age endeavouring to explain his ill.fortune. Ile die cussed whatever he had done, he proved to admiration that, if lie had pun sued such and such a line of conduct, he should have crushed his mortal enemy, Rome. The Hon. Member who spoke last at firms that the events of 1814 and 1815 prove the truth of his sys tem ; I have the sad advantage of going back a few years farther than he, and I shall invoke no other authority. I well remember, and you all remember with me, that under all these great circum stances there was not a moment when the Emperor Napoleon had to regret not having fortified Paris. When at Fontainebleau, with 43,000 men, he learnt the capitulation of Paris, no you believe that fortifications would at that time have prevented that capitulation ? Do you remember the lassitude and the oppression of the country. do you remember the decbcance pronounced by the Senate, and the word of abdication uttered from the mouths of his most devoted friends, from the mouth of Ney, le brave des braves? The fali of Napoleon was then more a question of policy than a military ques tion. From Moscow to Paris, from 1814 to 1815, Napoleon had time to fortify Paris, but he did not attempt it. There has been of late years a great propensity to falsify history. Napoleon, great and monu mental as he was, was not the beacon of indcpcndeuce and liberty. Paris, you admit, cannot hold out above 40 days. Is this time enough to recompose and get together a fresh army ? Will you shut up an army in Paris ? The Emperor has told you that an army, shut up in fortifications, is lost as an army. Do ysu wish merely to protect the Government ? Shut up a King in the Tulle. ries, in the midst of a million and a half of famishing and excited Parisians, and what must be the consequence P And on the other hand, if the King quits Paris it is abandoned, and both he and it are lost. We shut up the nationality of France and the Govern. ment in Paris. Is this, in the event of sedition, for the purpose of giving effectual support to the Government? The Honourable Reporter has not admitted this hypothesis. It is not French ; such a Government could not exist. There is here a mystery, which I cannot solve. Some are certainly duped, perhaps all parties are duped. What is certain is that there is a concert of interests and passions, and concealed views for the purpose of mutual deception. There is here an unhappy association, a bitter idea of despotism, with some sinister foresight of revolution. I do not know which is the successful duper, but I know that my country is deceived. Let us be upon our guard.— [Here N. de Lamartine said that he had some observations of another order to make, but that the hour was so advanced, that it was his duty to conclude. There was, however, so general a cry for him to proceed that he did so.] I thank the Chamber for consenting to hear me for a short time longer, for I have a few words to address to the authors of this bill, and to the revivers of it, who have assumed a responsibility the effects of which they would feel if the country possessed those institutions which are alone the safeguard of a nation against ministerial abuses.—(Sensation.) M. de Itemusat—Lnpeach us. M. de Lamartme—l say that those who assumed the initiative of such a measure without a vote of the Chambers—without urgency—without necessity—inasmuch as the works could not be completed under three years—l say that the Chambers and the country would have visited the authors of this mad project with a terrible impeachment, if the country had sufficient faith in the strength of its institutions. Some voices here exclaimed, " What prevents you from bring_ ing forward the Impeachment yourself ?" M. de Lamartine—You say impeach us, but you know well that the hour of impeachment is passed. The present Ministry, to which I am deeply attached, by presenting your Bill, covered you with a Bill of indemnity.—(Disapprobation at the Left.) I make this observation for my country. I wish it to understand that where there is no respect for the Parliamentary forms of a country, ! there is no respect for liberty. Who are the men who support this project out of the Chamber p They arc the most violent organs of ideas of perturbation; they call themselves the friends of liberty, and they crap their hands at the idea of this monument of tyranny which you propose to raise round Paris. I have said this monument of tyranny. They know very well that it is not your tyranny that I mean, but their own. They are delighted at seeing prepared for them those arms, the use of which you' know. Great measures and deplorable revolutions have had for origin less sinister measures, less formidable preparations. But these lessons are of old date, and are forgotten. Nothing is talked of but war, the glory of war, the necessity of war, the funeral ceremonies of war. I object to the Bill as false in policy and tac tics, and injurious to humanity. I object to it also as injurious to the dignity of my country. I say false in tactics, for Paris ought not to be isolated from France. It is false in policy, for it is dan gerous to sacrifice all France to its capital. It is injurious to liberty, for in all free nations nothing of this kind is permitted. It is injurious to humanity, for it tends to make us retrograde to those barbarous times when the population who took no part in war, women, children, and old men, were not on that account exposed to its disasters. The project, in short, offers no guarantee for na tional honour and internal security. Nobody is deceived into a belief that a " place de guerre" can be made a city containing 1,580,000 inhabitants. The Chamber adjourned. SITTING OF FRIDAY. M. de Salvandy, one of the Vice-Presidents, took the chair at one o'clock, and the debate upon the Paris Fortification Bill was resumed. M. Carnot requested permission to say a few words in explana_ tion of what had been related by M. Golberry at the former sitting as to the opinion given by his illustrious ancestor, Carnot, when consulted by the Emperor Napoleon, relative to the fortifica tions of Paris ; he was represented to have said that they would cost '200,000,000, and require three years for their completion, but that, when finished, an army of 60,000 men could take Paris in twenty-four hours. That anecdote was told for the first time by (he believed) Sir Walter Scott, by no means a good historian — (Laughter)—and it was his duty to rectify the false conclusions drawn from the general opinion expressed by Carnot ; the fact was that he had not much confidence in the project proposed at that period for fortify big Paris, but he never objected to a proper plan of fortification for Paris, he merely expressed his fears that atten - lion to fortresses alumo might create a neglect of general means of defence, thereby render Paris the great centre of attack, and expose other and important parts of France to the chances of war. M: MoxiLa ne SIZEILAIN addressed the Chamber in favour of the project of law its amended by the Committee, contending that a proper line of fortifications round Paris was indispensably neeessary. M. Pacilis (de l'Arrige) read a written speech against the pro ject of law, but spoke in so low a tone that but few of his ob servations were audible in the reporter's gallery. Marshal &Aim', President of the Council, next spoke in sup_ port of the project of law. For some time after the revolution of July, die political position of the country was precarious ; there were not only rumours of war, but war itself was by no means improbable. It was, therefore, the duty of the Govern. ment, to Adopt measures for the defence of the country, and es pecially to protect Paris front another coup de main. [Left Speaking.] MORNING EDITION. COURT CIRCULAR. The Queen held a Court and Privy Council at three o'clock, yesterday afternoon, at Buckkgham Palace. At the Court Mr. George Simpson, Governor of thy Hudson's B ty Company's Settlements, and Mr. Rober: Horsford, elicitor-General of Antigua, were presentetl to her Majesty by Lord John Russell, her Mojesty'r Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies. The following Foreign Ministers had audiences of her Majesty : His Excellency Chekib Effendi, the Turkish Ambas sador ; Baron de Blome, the Danish Minister ; Baron de Cetto, the Bavarian Minister ; Count de Pollou, the Sardinian Minister ; Baron da Torre tie Moncorvo, the Portuguese Minister ; M. de Montezuma, the Brazli . an Minister ; Count de Keih nanscgge , th e Hanoveran Minister ; Baron de Nieumann, the Austrian Ministe,'. Their Excellencies were respectively introduced by Viscount Palmerston, G.C.8., her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and conducted by Sir Robert Chester, Master of the Ceremonies. The Privy Council was attended by his Royal High ness P. lace Albert, the Lord Chancellor, the Lord Privy Seal, the First Lord of the Treasury, the Se.cre taries of State for the Home, Foreign. and Colonial Departments, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the First Lord of the Admiralty, the Chief Commissioner of the Woods and Forests, the President of the India Board, the President of the Board of Trade, the Chief Secretary for Ireland, the Secretary at War, the Lord Steward, the Lord Chamberlain, and the Master of the Horse. Her Majesty's Speech on opening the Session of Par liament this day, was arranged and agreed upon. Mr. C. Greville vies the Clerk of the Council in Waiting. Her Majesty gave audirnce to the Marquis of Nor manby, the Earl of Uxbridge, the Earl of Albemarle, Viscount Palmerston, and Viscount Melbourne. The Court was attended by the Comptroller of the Household ; Lord Hill, Gold Stick in Waiting ; the Earl of Listowel, Lo:d in Waiting ; Mr. Ric!, Groom in Waiting ; Lord Alfr.id Paget, Equerry hi Wa;ting ; and Colonel Bouverie, Equerry in Waiting on Prince Albeit. . _ His Excellency M. de Montizuma, the Brazilian Minister, attended by M. Macedo, Secretary of Lega tion, after having presented his credentials to the Queen yesterday afternoon, had an audience of his Royal Highness Prince Albert, at 13eckinham Palace. rue Duchess of Kent visited the Queen yesterday, and lunched with her Majesty and Prince Albert. Mr. George Ilayter had the honour of submitting to his Royal Highness Prince Albert yesterday, a splendid whole length portrait of her Meje.ty seated on the Throne, in the Imperial Dalmatie Robes, previously to its being presented to the Goldsmlth's Company. His Royal Highness Prince Albert, attended by Colonel Bouverie, Equerry in Wei ing, paid visits yes terday afternoon to the Duchess of Gloucester, at Gloucester House, and the Duke of Cambridge, at C3mbsidge House. Baron de Moncorvo, the Portuguese Minister, had an audience of her Royal Highness the Duelicss of Kent yesterday, at Ingcstre House, Belgravc-square. Prince George of Cambridge went to Coombe Wood yesterday, and spent the forenoon shooting, returning to town in the afternoon. The Marquis of Lansdowne was prevented fror, at tending the Privy Council yesterday afternoon, by an attack of gout. Full dress dinner parties were giren last evening by Viscount Melbourne and Lord John Russell, the for mer at his official residenca in Downing-street, to a large party of Peers, and the latter at the Foreign office, Downing-street, to a numerous party of Mem bers of the House of Commons. In the course of the evening, both Ministers read the Qacen's Speech to their respective guests. Viscount Melbourne's dinner party included tae Lord Chancellor, the Dukes of Belford, S iinerset, Norfolk, Devonshire, and Cleveland ; Marquises of Anglesea, lleadfort, and Normanby ; Earls of Ducic, Lovelace, Lichfield, Fingal!, Albemarle, Uxbridge, Cla rendon, and Lehester ; Viscount Duncannon ; Lords Beaumont, 11Ionteagle, Lurgan, S _grave, Portman, Carrington, Sudeley, Kinnaird, Poi( imorc, Byron, Foley, and S:rafford. Lord John Russell's dinner party included Viscount Palmerston ; Lords Dalmeny, Morpeth, Seymour, and Alfred Paget ; Right Honourables R. L. Sheil, G. Stevens Byng, F. T. Biring, H. Labouchere, Sir J. Hobhouse, and T. B. Macaulay ; Honourables Fox Manic, Colonel Anson, W. Cowper, and E. A. Stan ley ; Sirs G. Grey, Bait., Hussey Vivian, Bart., Thomas Wilde, J. Campbell. R. S. Donkin, H. Parnell, Bart., 'l'. Troubridge, and Charles Adam ; Messieurs Edward Horsman, R. Bernal, Horny Tuffnell, William Clay, R. Gordon, R. More O'Ferrall, John Parker, Henry Rich, and Thomas Wyse. Lord Adolphus Fitzclarcnce has returned to town from a visit to the Duke of Beaufort at Badminton, Gloucestershire, HOLLAND. THE HAGUE, JAN. 21.-A circular address of the Minister kt Finance to the Registration 011 ice, announces that the jus detract tus is not to be levied with respect to the following Statcs,:witl, which the Government has successively concluded treaties recipro catty abolishing that law as duty :- "1. ILinover ; 2. Saxe Weimar ; 3. Prussia ; 4. Bavaria; 5. Wittemberg ; G. Waldeck; 7. Holstein-Oldenburg; 8. The Two Sicilics ; 9. Hesse Darmstadt ; 10. Hesse.Cassel ; 11. Sar dinia ; 12. Hamburgh ; 13. Denmark ; 14. Bremen; 15. Swedes and Norway ; 16. Shaumburg.Leppe ; 17. Brunswick ; 18. Russia, 19. Poland ; 29. Saxe-Altenburg; 21. Leppe ; 22. Mecklenburg- Schwerin ; 23. Switzerland ; 24. Hohenzollern-Sgmaringen ; 25. Reuss (the younger branch) ; 26. Liechtenstein ; 27. Reuss (the elder branch); 20. Saxe-Meiningen-Hildberghausen ; 29. S37CC Cobourg-Gotha ; 30. The Kingdom of Saxony ; 31. Belgium (;7th Article of the Treaty) ; 32. Lubeck; 33. Frankfort ; 34. Austria. and the States belonging to it, 'Phis claim is likewise not applicable to th e following States, though no preventive Treaties have been made with thesis n:3U the subject:-1. France; 2 . Great Britain an d Ireland; 3 : Is:IS; 4. Baden ; 5. Portugal; 6 . Anhalt-Goethen; .7. Ihe 'sN in del; States ; S. Spain ; 9. Tuscany ; 10. The Princ i p al. del ; 11. The United States of Nor th America; U. Brazil; 13. Mexico ; 14. Colombia. Principality of S t. In the following States a jus detractus continues to be levied as follows :- 1 . Mecklenburg-Strelitz lO per cent. 2. Anhalt-13 er nburg lO 10 3. Anhalt-Dessau 15 4- Ilesse Homburg • SI It COLIN CA M PB EL L.—lt s understood that Sir Colin Campbell departs for his G:fiernment of• Ceylon on the 30th inst. Ilolding himself high rank in t h e ar my, he will assume the command of the troops in the island, and Sir R. Arbuthnot, the present commander of the forces, will proceed to Ilin , Listan. Mr. Mackenzie, the former Governor, being a civilian, a military com mander was required ; but by the new arrangement, a saving will be effected of 2,5001. per annum—the amount of Sir R Arbuthnot's salary—the two departments now centering in the same person. We regret to announce the stoppage of the Newport Docks, North Devon Journal. °wing to the failure of the contractors.— VICTORIA THEATRE. This very pretty theatre was last night atteriLd by a crowded and fashionable audience. In the boxes we per ceived Col. Stanhope and his lady, Mr. T. B. Sheridan, Lord Seymour, and several persons of distinguished ton. The successful drama, entitled The Kw nee Ruins, from the prolific pen of Mr. J. T. lia)ws, was repeated, and &kited the greatest applause throughout. The author himself, sustained, with great ability, the part of Cain Kynon, in which it is difficult to determine whether deep pathos or homely simplicity predominate. The pantomime of Jack of Newbury, contir.u:s to be re ceived with mingled laughter and applats and to be performed with as much life and drollery, as in the first week of its presentation. From tic appearance of the house last night, and the graii. a ion mani fested by the audience, we have no doubt that the exertions of the manager, and his talented company, will be rewarded by the elevation of the Victoria theatre to that he‘ght of public favour, which its very name ought to secure. WAR PREPARATIONS IN GERMANY. NCREMISCRG, JAN. 14 —Preparationsare already making for the exercising of the 9th Corps of the Federal army next summer, which are the more necessary as many of the troops must bo drawn from a considerable distance. It is composed of the contingents of Saxony, Ile se, Cassel, and Luxemburg, and cor.sists of 24,274 men. FIWNI TIIL MAINE, JAN. —lt is now decided that the preliminary works for the construction of the forte se; of Rastadt and IJim, as well as ,he forts of the Black Forest, particularly at Freuverstadt and Donanschwingen, and on the `lt to de Pont at Ge:m;rsiielm, shall positively be commenced in the spring. The military preparations will' several German States, are solely for the purpose of restoring the corps of the army to the pan.: establish ment. We hear that ten corps of the army of the German Confederation, tcgethcr with the reserve, are to be raised to the amount fixed in the act of the Confedera tion, which is 300,000 men. A private letter: from M. Guizot to a German states man, which we have seen, contain extremely pacific assur ances ; but, at the same time, express a wish that France may be restored from the isolated estimation in which it now is to a participation in the affairs of the world as was the case before the 15th of July last year.—Liamburg Papers, Jan. 17. ROYAL ASYLUM, MANOR HALL, CHELSEA. Oa Friday last the Committee of the Sheriffs Fund, accompanied by Dr. Stebbing,., the Lord Mayor's Chaplain, the o.dinary of Newgate, and several members of the Common Council, paid a visit to the Royal Asylum, pi tronised by the Queen, and established for the reception and reformation of penitent females discharged from the metr)politan prisons. The Committee were received by Mrs. Fry, Miss Heave, Mrs. Pirie, and the other benev..)- lent ladies who established the institution, and after having insp:eted the Asylum, Dr. Stubbing and Sir James WIC.. hams severally addressed the inmates in a most impressive style ; i.nd Mrs. Fry afterwards gave to the visitors a very interesting account of the associations formed on the Con. tinent, for the purpose of reclaiming and watching over the conduct of unfortunate females, after having served out their time of imprisonment. The ladies present, it appeared, had many of them engaged in thethe establishment of a similar institution in London, called Patronage Society, to s Isich i the Asylum was considered an auxi- Ham, By the rules of the Institution, prsoners who dur. ing the time of their confi nement evinced signs of refor omtah..eiro,n,i, w be procured, or unt il the y could be restored to their friends. , The most gratifyin s tatements Were made of th e success .ieseiricelte on ie d th which had rewardc'd the exertions of the ladies. A great frome irdischarge t clnp ttt i 0 ny until situation s could placed in the Asylum, or number of the females had been restored to their families., end had become valinble members of society ; and a still larger numbers continued in the came situattuns as servants for years, and gave the most complete satisfaction ; and so soon as the inni..tes were considered qualified to be placed out, there were never wanting families to receive them. THE SWINBURNE CORRESPONDENCE.—The author of this work, Henry Swinturne, Esq. a son of Sir John Swinturne, Bart., p osses sed o f a handsome inde pendent fortune, whilst making what was styled the Grand Tour, was received at the several Courts ha visited—par ticularly at P ar i s , N a pl e s, Rome, Madrid, bond vicuna, with unusual respect, and having a mind capable of making the most of tha advantages he enjoyed (exhibited by him in his admirable work on Spaio), his description of the numberless objects of interests presented to him in his travels—his antedates of the many distingaisbed pub lic characters with whom he associated, and his criticisms on ',Le works of art every where thrown upon to his in spection, will doubtless unie to make his correspondence, about to be submitted to the public, at once the most entertining and the most perfect picture of the Continent, towards the close of the last century, that has ever appeared. TAISIWJRTII--POLITICAL SUICIDE.—Sir R. Peel delivered a lecture " on the Advantages of Kno - v• lodge to the Working Clas . 42s," to ttie subscribers to the neWly-estatilihed library and reading room, on Wednesday last, in the Town-hall. If Sir Robert's lectures become the bistrument of converting the humble burgesses of Tam worth to that great " knowldge" of their paramount in terests which alone ceo give thorn solid " advantages," he will be the instrument of their moral and political emanci pation, and of a death-blow to the faction by which as himself is sustained.—Stagbrdshire Examiner. tr," ~~ ae 64 " in ts • I J knic W eY ass. pc , r t coo' o,,cs its bl tly! ° ‘ ustice't 40° ' • o sd e use o f um hoc ere nu , laT;i oa IE OI