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MORNING EDITION. " THE CHINA SUN," Which was RE-PUBLISHED on the .oth INSTANT, with the LATEST NEWS from CHINA, IS NOW ON SALE. Price SIXPENCE. Orders received at The Sun Offieg, No. 112, Strand. IN PROGRESS, THE RAILWAY SUN With a MAP of all the RAI I WAYS in the United Kingdom ; containing " 1 l . the STA TIONS on each Railway, and eat variety of Information and other partic4l T connected with Railway-F. THE CORONATION SUN, PRINTED IN LETTERS OF GOLD, WITH A BEAUTIFUL PORTRAIT OF HER MAJESTY, THE QUEEN, Can be sent by post free to all parts of the Em pire. Price SI X PENCE. Sun Office, 112, Strand, London. ALCOCK FOR EAST SURREY Fuer days only have elapsed since at one of the largest meetings ever held in this county, THOMAS ALCOCK, Esq., was nominated with acclamation to be the champion of the Liberal interest. A personal canvass at this late period is obviously impassible, bat be has already visited many districts, and will attend meetings in other parts of the minty, se as to afford the fullest. opportunity of ascertaining his sentiments. We are delighted to state that we have found the independent Electors true to the great cause of civil and religious freedom. The returns now seat in prove that, by a continuance of the noble determination and exertions already displayed, success mast, and will be the result. COMMITTEES for promoting the Election . of Mr. AL COCK SIT DAILY at the following places : Central Committee . The Bridge House Hotel, Borough. Bermondsey Simon the Tanner, Long-lane. Rotherhithe Old Kent-road Lambeth ... The White Hart, Kennington-cross. Christchurch ... ...... Neu-tou'd Hotel, Blackfriars-road. St. George, St. Sa- }The Central Committee Room. viones, St. Glare Camberwell Wandsworth .....» The Spread Eagle. Streatham Kingston Richmond .. ..... Reigate Croydon. - - It is particularly requested that all communications which may lead to secure his election may be made at any of the above-men'ioned places. SAMUEL PALMER, Chairman. GEORGE G. DE H. LARPENT, Vice-Chairman. Central Committee-room, 30th January, 1841. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT GARDEN. UNDER the MANAGEMENT of MADAME VESTRIS. THIS EVENING. FEB. 4. Will be repeated Fhakspere's MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM. Theseua, Mr. Cooper ; Quince, Mr. Bartley ; Bottom, Mr. Harley ' • Flute, Mr. eel* y ; Snout, Mr. Meadows ; Snug, Mr. F. Matthews ; Fiermia, Mrs. Nisbett ; Oberen, Madame Vestris ; Titania, Mrs. W. Lacy ; Puck, Miss Marshall; First Fairy, Miss Raiaferth. _ _ _ To eonelude with The NEW GRAND CHRISTMAS PANTOMIME will be repeated, entitled THE CASTLE OF OTRANTO; OR, HARLEQUIN AND THE GIANT HELMET. Harlequin, Mr. C. J. Smith ; Clown, Mr. T. Ridgway; Tontaloon, Mr. Mr••ili ; Columbine, Miss Fairbrother. To-morrow, The Merry Wives of Windsor, with The New Pantomime. Doers to be opened at half-past Six—the performances to eommenee at Seven &Clock. Tiviets and places for the Boat: to be taken of Mr. Grogan, at the Box-office, from Ton till Fear, where Season Tickets way oe had upon application. Dress Boxes, 7s. ; Second Price, as. 641.; First and Second Circles, ss. ; Second Prise, 2s. 6d. ; Pit, as. ; Second Price, 2..; Gallery, Is. Prints Roza to be bad seelv of Mr. And: awe, bookseller 167. New Bond-street. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Continual overflows, signal success of the Cask Vaulter, and increasing desire of the Publie to witness Ainsworth's Tower of London, and the best Pantomime of the Season. THIS EVENING, FEB. 4. _ _ Will be acted a Grand Historical Romance, founded on and entitled THE TOWER OF LONDON. The Tableaax Yivans, splendid Costume, and Appointments, from the Designs of the celebrated George Cruiksbanks. After which Rill be repeated the Grand Traditionary Pantomime, entitled HARLEQUIN AND MY LADY LEE; OR, GOOSEY GANDER AND THE SPELL-BOUND GOSLINGS. Is which the astonishing and incredible evolutions of the Cask Vaulter will be given, as well as Brunning's Greed Dioramie Synopsis of Syria ; the Pantomimist Characters by the unri votied Boleno Family ; Mr. Santhby, the Original Clown ; Visa Sharpe, Columbine ; and the astonishing Gymnastique, Signior Felix Carlo, from Franeoni's, at Paris. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY. •ming....— 0 ■niautee after 0 I Evening 27 mitiutev after 0. gtie LONDON: THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1841. The Lords did not meet yesterday. In the Commons a new writ was moved for St. Albans in the room of the Hon. Mr. GRIMSTON, who has accepted the Chiltern Hundreds, and who is going, report says, into the Church. He is tired of being a Legislator. _ _ A few petitions were presented, but the only business done was the passing a resolutioE moved by Lord Jolt:sr RUSSELL, and con curred in by all parties, of praise for the distinguished and exemplary manner in which JOHN RICKMAN, the late Clerk Assistant to the House, had performed his duties during a long attendance at the table." It is alike honourable to the Commons and Mr. RICKMAN that they have paid this Well-deserved tribute to merit, which, though in a comparatively humble sta tion, was of the most exalted character. The Report of the Committee of Supply was brought up, and the House adjourned. It is a common thing for timid friends and alarmed foes to complain of the heat and violence of the total and immediate repeal party. Even Mr. ALCOCR, we see, who has otherwise em braced our cause with so much good sense, re proaches the Anti-Corn-law party with extreme and violent opinions. We must take leave, therefore, to remind that gentleman, and to re mind our timid friends and our alarmed oppo nents, that the Corn-law facti on refuses, and has long refused, in the most insulting manner, to make the smallest concession to the_ unem _i ir unemployed and half-starved people. Session after session, before the present agitation began, did the bread-taxers, and they do still, resist the attempts to allow foreign corn to be ground in bond. For a considerable Period they resisted the efforts of the shipping interest to allow our shipping to be supplied with foreign produce; and even last session, after they had in the wantonness of power treated the Anti-Corn-law men with the greatest contumely, they united to throw out the Bill for allowing foreign flour to be imported into Ireland, though their conduct on that occasion was justly characterised by Mr. WARLEY as inflicting the use of unwholesome food and typhus fever on the people. Now, con sidering the determined manner in which the bread.taxers have maintained their monopoly, repelling with unflinching severity every attempt to break through it in the slightest degree; con sidering, too, how the law to levy the tax was originally passed, almost at the point of the bay onet, and certainly in open defiance of the in sulted masses ; and, above all, considering the nature of the tax, nothing can be expected from those who oppose it but the most sweeping, un sparing, and vehement condemnation. What is the tax? A law to take away the property of the industrious classes, and give it to the idle owners of rent, a law to pare down the loaves of the poor, at d trarismute the bread filched, by the honolred and revered means of a law, into gewgaws, jewels, and luxuries for ra e rich. It was well observed a few days ago by the Morning Post, that production is not every thing, the distributiou , of wealth is of importance. It is nit *ant. The Legislature cannot by its pareltiotent decrees make a blade of grass or an ear dwbeat gi ow ; it has no influence, ex ceptitubsoctly, over production, which it impedes; SallatkialssaLthst tt eau. do, is to distribute the wealth which is produced differently from the distribution made by nature and justice. The Corn-law directly alters the distribution of wealth, and indirectly, by depriving industry of its reward, impedes production. It alters the dis tribution in the most scandalous.and unjust man ner. It is a swindling violation of the industri ous man's right of property. To be tender to such an Act is to do that which the law punishes, to compound a felony. Those who entertain a solemn conviction that the law is as we have de scribed it—unjust--would be false to themselves and their own opinions, if they spoke of the bread tax and the bread taxers in any other language than that of the severest moral reprobation. For them to compromise the matter—to be ac cessory to half a felony—would be to share the guilt they denounce. They would be worse than their opponents, for they would sin against con viction. They have not done the cause of un taxed bread any injury, its compromising friends— who have deprived the contest of the sanctity of moral feeling, and degraded it into a huckstering bargain—have inflicted on it many severe injuries. They have given arms into the hands of our 'opponents, and they are to blame that the bread tax is not before now triumphantly repealed. They have made it a question of more or less, of what it costs to raise wheat here and elsewhere, and have killed the enthusiasm which lived in the hearts of the people. If it could be shown that the people had made the law, and thereby created the legal rights which have grown from it, if it could be proved that they had been ever passive under it, that might be some reason for saying that they had been particeps critninis, and were not justified in throwing all the loss of undoing their own act on their coadjutors in guilt. But the original law was passed by a borough-mongering Parliament, in which the people were not represented, and over which they could exercise no influence. It was altogether the work of the landlords, and the effect of undoing the wrong should fall only on them. The people remonstrated loudly against it in 1815, and have never neglected to remon strate against it since, at every fitting opportunity. It is too much, therefore, now to ask them to be moderate in their efforts to throw off this in cubus, and to tell them they must continue to bear part of it for the sake of good-fellowship with the landlords. It is too much to tell them they ought to speak kindly and lady-like to those who fleece them; that it is their duty to bear oppression meekly, and turn, spaniel-like, a beseeching eye to those who kick and spurn them. Nothing was ever yet won from unprin cipled avarice by supplication; but it is essentially timid, and much may be gained from its fears. We hold those Corn-law repealers who tell us to be moderate in our demands and respectful in our language, however well intentioned, to be ignorant of the nature of the contest and the means of victory. Our best friends are those who speak the boldest, and who, in reply to the " No Surrender" of the bread taxers, incessantly and uncompromisingly demand the total and imme diate repeal. The administration of justice, the settling of disputes, and preventing quarrels between indi viduals, the substitution of a calm decision by a third party for the feuds of passion, or the wild justice of revenge, is undoubtedly the chief busi ness of every Government in relation to its own subjects, if not its sole business. We remember, in fact, that Lord BROUGHAM, in that celebrated speech of his on law reform, pronounced some where about 1828, affirmed, quoting some writer even still more celebrated than himself, that the whole end and aim of all our institutions was to get twelve honest men and true into a jury-box, and get from them fair and honest decisions. We may from this statement come to a short and compendious conclusion, that the Government which neglects to provide means for the adminis tration of justice, which allows them to be per verted or corrupted, whatever else may be its merits, is really worthless. It does not answer the object for which all Governments are formed and submitted to, for which taxation is borne, and by which restraints are justified—namely, the upright administration of justice between man and man. The end of its existence is not attained, it must be called barren, like a childless woman, whatever her accomplishments. For many years the Reformers and Radicals, the BROUGIIAMS, HARVEYS, and HUMES, have declared that such was the constitution of our Courts, and such the neglect of our Legislature, that justice was not, and could not be, done be tween man and man. Nay, Lord BROUGHAM went so far in the celebrated speech we have referred to, as to assert that the law, instead of being a staff and a shield to innocence, was a two-edged sword, which frequently smote those it should protect. Nor does it seem, after twelve years of all kinds of ref orm , t o b e i mproved in its charac ter. The night before last the ATTORNEY-GENE RAL—who has of late been distinguished by his zeal against Chartists, who do not reverence the law, and publishers of books which are not agree able to the parsons, and which ignorant Jury men condemn as blasphemous—decribed our Courts of Equity as denying redress and denying justice in all cases which come within their juris diction of a less value than 1001. In these remarks he was borne out by every other person who spoke on the subject, and such cases were men- tioned as differences or disputes between partners, in which there was no means of obtaining re dress. Nay, it was expressly said by the Learned Gentleman, that unless the sum in dispute were large, above 1001., no one but a madman would think of applying to the Court for redress. It is impossible to pronounce a more severe censure on the Legislature than to prove, while it has been busy year after year devising restrictions on our industry, and inventing means of enriching its members, that it has neglected to provide for the due administration of justice. All these, however, may be supposed to be the complaints of ignorant Radicals or of dema gogues aiming at power by promoting public dis content. Conservative writers and speakers who profess to adore all our institutions, and who are ready to sho - ot, hang, or drown all those who question their unparalleled excellence, ttlay say that the representation is not true, that there is nothing wrong, and that the administration of justice is, like every thing else, perfect under the best of landlordocracies. In particular, if they are true to their creed, and to the traditionary praise of our institutions, they will assert that the House of Lords, the last Court of Appeal, in all cases is the fittest, as it is the noblest, tri bunal that ever lICAA invented, worthy to control and correct the fallible judgment of all weaker men, and to put on Radicals and Reformers the curb of law and reason. Now let the reader, then, note the following description of that perfect tribunal, not spoken by HENRY BuouGium, or DANIEL W. HARVEY, or Mr. O'CONNELL, Orally politician of principles verging towards demo cracy, but spoken by that sound 'Conservative lawyer and statesman, the past Tory Lord Chan cellor of Ireland, perhaps the future Tory Lord Chancellor of England, Sir EDWARD BURTEN SHAW SUGDEN. Speaking of the House of Lords he said, and his observations are equally severe on the Court of Privy Council— The composition of the House of Lords as a Court of Appeal was a great anomaly. It owed its establishment to a train of unforeseen circum stances ; its jurisdiction was denied in late times by that House, in the strongest terms, and to the extent of committing persons who sought its protection ; and though it was ultimately established, they were content to leave their authority in the state they found it. What esnald be more absurd than that the decrees of a Judge, whowaa. competent to th e p er f ormance o f hi s tas k, sh ou ld b e reversed b y a body of Peers, who were en tirely ignorant of every matter relating to the adminis tration of the law ? Had this practically been the ' the Oaring absurdity of the practice would have 'mulcted it intolerable ; but the great body of the Peers acquiesced in the decision of the Lord Chancellor ; and he was, in fact, the sole Judge of Appeals in the House of Lords. It was right, therefore, to consider the qualifications Daces nary for the performance of the functions of Lord Chancellor. It sometimes happened that circumstances might render it expedient that that office should be filled by a person not possessed of the greatest share of equity law, who might have to learn the law which he was called on to administer, on whose judgments no de pendence could be placed, not en account of any fault of the individual so filling the office, but because, pre vious to his appointment, his attention had been en tirely engrossed by matters foreign to the study of that law which he was called on to administer ; and it might happen, as it sometimes had happened, that he might decide on a case without calling in the assistance of the other Judges. All appeals from the Court of Chanccry must be appeals to him self. This, of itseif, was a most alarming fact. If a Judge in the Court below was called on to re-hear a cause, as that cause would not be carried to another tribunal, he might change his opinion without any im pugning of his judgment, as other circumstances might have been brought to his knowledge ; but in a case of appeal from his judgment to a Superior Court, unless it was a case of some obvious slip, it would be contrary to human nature to expect that he should reverse his own decision. His authority being impugned before his Peers, he had every motive and every feeling to affirm his own decision. He was, in fact, to all in tents and purposes, a party in the cause. If a Judge had a pecuniary interest in a cause he was not per mitted to sit in judgment on it ; and whilst character and high station were of any value—whilst self-loie was an actuating motive in the human breast, the Lord Chancellor, sitting as the Judge of Appeals in the House of Lords, would have a much stronger motive than any pecuniary one could possibly bo to affirm his own decision. The ancient Grecian had ap pealed from Philip drunk to Philip sober ; but appeals from the Court of Chancery to the House of Lords were appeals from Philip sober to Philip drunk —appeals from a Judge uninfluenced by any motive, with all his passions slumbering, to the same Judge actuated by the strongest possible motives, the passion of self love, to support his own previous judgment. That, reader, is a Conservative's opinion of the highest Court of Appeal, and yet that same Conservative would prosecute any man, if he had the power, and his fellow Conser vatives around him would yell with delight at his malicious achievement, who should speak of that Court out of Parliament in that honest language of indignation which such a miserable imposition, and such a sad piece of humbug de serves. And what is the remedy which this Conservative lawyer proposes? Positively a greater humbug still. He would appoint two Judges, called Assistants, to help the LORD CHANCELLOR, which assistants, unless they hap pen to be Peers, are not to have votes, but only to give their opinions, which may be expected, when there is no motive or interest to counterac t it. To have some influence over the body of Peers, entirely ignorant of law, who now set aside the decision of learned Judges, the LORD CHANCELLOR, a judge of great weight, necessarily a Peer, and.surrounded with all the circumstances which give a man influence with the Peers, presiding, too, over their legislative deliberations, can perhaps guide the votes of the unlearned Peers ; but his authority cannot be possessed by any assistant Judges. They will lessen his power, and excite doubts of his deci sions, but they will not procure respect for their own. The number of Law Lords of late intro duced into the House of Lords, who have taken part in judicial cases, has neither added to the weight of its decisions, nor the respect of the suitors. Little bickering-8 and wrangling have taken place which partake of the legislative rather than the judicial character of the assembly. Such evils will be increased by Sir EDWARD SUG DEN'S two journeymen Judges, and his plan is a greater humbug than he has shown the existing scheme to be, because it will lessen none of its evils, and saddle the country with consider able expense. It is high time that our Legislature should look into this subject. At present, its most im portant duties are neglected, and will be till the administration of justice be rendered cheap and sure. From what the lawyers have already done for the community on this point, it is plain that the reform 'of the Courts must not be left to them. If laymen do not take up the question, all the alterations made by the lawyers will most certainly tend to increase their business, autho rity, and emoluments. There is no more important right than, that of property. "We have Mr. LOCKE'S authority," it has been remarked, for saying —others, as CICERO, having said the same thing before—" That the great and chief end of men's uniting into commonwealths, and putting themselves under Government, is the preservation of their property, to which, in the state of nature, there are many things wanting." We might expect, therefore, that the Legislature should be particularly clear, precise, and definite in its enactments about pro perty, and so it undoubtedly would be if it had any clear notion of that right and its own duties. But the long predominance . of Toryism, which is at once ignorant and arbitrary, has made the Le gislature disregard all kind of principles, and be satisfied with declaring as law the self and the selfish will of a majority. Of this kind of Tory ism we have an example in apaper on Tuesday. Mr. WARBURTON having asserted the foolish and ultra-Tory opinion, in the House of Com mons on Friday evening, that there are no na tural rights, which places all mankind at the mercy of legislators, as ignorant and wicked as our landlords, the Post tells us, in some com ments on the subject, that, "for Parliamen tary purposes, BLA CKSTONE'S brief account of the right of property may serve." What his brief account is, we put at present out of the question ; we quote the phrase to show how, in the opinion of the Tories, the Legislature may content itself with any sort of definition of this most important right, which may answer its present purpose, and save it from the trouble of thinking. It is not to consider what is true and what is good, not to concern itself with ab stract truths—another phrase for vast masses of experience expressed by a single sentence—but is to rest satisfied with any and every miserable subterfuge which the hour may bring forth. TTie brief account of the right of property given by BLACKSTONE ought not to suffice for Parliamentary purposes, for till Parliament is fully and thoroughly aware of the exact bounds of that right—till it has attained precise and clear ideas on the subject, it will very likely go on making laws to violate it, like the Corn-law, and to plunder the industrious poor for the behoof of the idle rich. As BLACKSTONE says, though he himself had no very clear idea of the source and limits of the right of property, for he opines " it is probably founded in nature," "men are so pleased with possession that they are afraid to look back to the means by which it was acquired, as if fearful of some defect in their title ; or at least they rest satisfied with the decision of the laws in their favour, without examining the reason or authority upon which those laws have beenbuilt." This is what the Legislature now does. Considering that amongst those who rest satisfied are the law-makers themselves, considering too, , that they are one and all, of necessity, in posses sion, this passage is a remarkable one, as it shows that they acquiesce in their own decrees for their own advantage, without ever inquiring whether those decrees are conformable to right o a mb e nt o and justi ce , an d without therefore having formed nye d i clear e n c though susete the thatootbhpeieynyiothnaerem, to readycompel to their always it is the duty o f ot h er halter and the bayonet. While we agree with the Post in repudiating Mr. WARBURTON'S philosophy, we feel grateful to him for calling attention to the subject, by blurting out in the House of Commons, and so making known to the whole world, the abomi nable principle on which law-makers act, "though few or none of them have the honesty to give their thoughts and their deeds a tongue. They proceed on the supposition that man has no natural rights, and no correlative natural duties, and so they make laws to create rights, and impose duties. That is the great object and sum of legislation. A reasonable public writer, adopting the opinion of the Post, that Mr. WARBURTON was in error, would have readily taken the opportunity to place a correct view • • - • :44•'• 4, • Ari 1 1 .... P :7 17 ' • THE SUN. LONDON, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1841. of the subject before the public ; but our Contemporary flippantly contents himself with performing the easier task of sneering at Mr. WARBURTON, and advising him " to carry his learning to University College, in the parish of St. Pancras." Mr. tWARBURTON'S erroneous opinions on the subject will be of no use any where, but it is clear that the Post is un,ible to rectify them. Mr. WARBURTON'S opinion is the reproduction of the opinion of HOBBES, BENTHAM, and MILL. We quote from a writer who has examined the subject : With an extraordinary species of quaker-like humility, these reasoners assume, as the basis of their system, the principle which all spirited men, and even other philoso phers, contemptuously reject —not merely " questioning," u Mr. Burke says, marking it with his detestation— " whether man has any rights by nature," but broadly and boldly asserting that be has none ; and " that all the pro perty he enjoys is the alms of Government, and life itself derived from its favour and indulgence."• "La loi," says M. Dumont, in the true spirit of these doctrines, "me defend-elle de rous tuert Elle m' impose l'oblgation de ne pas vous tuer ; elle vow, accorde le aroit de n'etre pas tue par moi."f Men, therefore, according to the system which affirms that there are no natural laws and natural rights, had no right even to life—that blessed gift of a bounteous Creator hand no one was under an obligation not to kill another till the legislator created this right, and imposed this duty. Mothers, according to the same dogma, might devour their offspring, and children, if their parents would allow them to grow to maturity, might cat up their parents—if he should, unhappily, forget to prohibit so unhallowed a feast I Such deductions would be shocking, if they were not eminently absurd ; and yet, Sir, you, who know on what principles Mr. Bentham reasons, must admit that they arc the legitimate results of a system denominated, from the seat and centre of civilization, the Philosophy of Westminster. Mr. WARBURTON'S doctrines are, then, identical with those of Mr. BENTIIAM and Mr. MlLL—with what is called the philosophy of Westminster, and which is briefly refuted in the passage we have quoted. No 3it is not time that men have no natural rights; it is not true that property is not a natural right; especially it is not true, though Mr. 'WARBURTON, like the Post, sneers at WAT TYLER doctrines,--it is not true, except in a state of slavery, that a man's oWn body and his limbs, and what he produces by his own ex ertions, are not his own, and are another per son's. He may make over that produce for a consideration, but it is utterly impossible to di vest him of the right to possess it, without committing one of those crimes against his per son or against his property which we have al ways supposed Mr. WARBURTON to regard with great abhorrence. Among the natural rights of man, there is a natural right of property, a na tural right also to the free use of his limbs and his intelligence, or to the free exercise of honest industry ; and it is the wanton or the selfish in fringement of these and other rights by the Le gislature which causes most of the misery of the people, and most of the discontent with the Government. • Letter on the Affairs of America. f Traites de Legislation—pr. edit. We have not, till now, found an opportunity to express our deep regret that Mr. HETHERING TON, for the offence of selling a book in the way of his trade, of the contents of which he was igno rant, should have been sentenced, on Saturday last, to four months' imprisonment. The Jurors who pronounced a book to be blasphemy which criticized another book, and even, We admit, derided its contents, have now the satisfaction of knowing that their verdict has consigned an honest and industrious tradesmen to prison for four months. They have torn him from his family, and shut him up in gaol—a most praise worthy deed in the Jurors, is it not? It must be satisfactory, too, we presume, to the Judges—who have a stern and BRurus-like pleasure in performing a painful duty—to have sacrificed their kindly feelings on the altar of the country, in dooming a fellow-creature to four months' incarceration for selling a book. They must see a delightful adaptation of punishment to crime in this lengthened period of imprison ment for such an action, or they would not have done violence to themselves by pronouncing it, For selling a book which displeases persons by its remarks, the just and apiaropritlte punishment is four_ months' imprisonment —to knock a man down may be atoned for by paying a fine of a few shillings, especially if the assailant be wealthy and money no object. If the discrepancies we every day witness do not teach men blasphemy, they will at least make them discontented subjects, and we are afraid that such punishment as that inflicted on Mr. HETHERINGTON, however gratifying to Judges or Jurors, will not tend to convince the people of the wisdom of our laws. They will not be made more religious by this mode of vindicating the Bible, nor more contented by seeing an honest man dragged to a gaol for an offence for which a shil ling fine would have been an adequate penalty. The Earl of ABERDEEN, last Session, tried to settle the Kirk, and failed. In conjunction with the Duke of RICHMOND, it is said, he will make a second attempt this Session; while Mr. RO BERT STEUART is to try his hand at the same hopeless task in the Commons. What sort of a thing the joint-stock concern may be, we have no means of judging ; but if it is either so incon sistent, so unjust to the people, or so partial to the clergy, as that proposed by a Non-In trusionist, the Kirk, as far as these parties are concerned, will remain as unsettled as ever. The Hon. Member for Haddington, in order to clear the way for his machinery, proposes to re peal the 10th of Queen ANNE, which he describes as " a gross violation of the Treaty of Union." Having removed this obstacle, he will introduces in place of it, a new Bill, which is equally a gross violation of the Union, taking the presentation from the present patron, conferring it on the Ten-Pound Heritors and the Kirk-Session, and allowing only those persons to moderate in the call whom the clergy shall consider fit and holy men. Independent of the inconsistency of introducing a new Bill to supersede the Acts of 1649 and 1690, which Mr. STEUART considers utterly defective, though sealed by the Union, on what principle of common sense or justice can he transfer the right of presentation from patrons to heritors only of a certain class ? This is robbing the patron, and conferring a boon on Parliamen tary electors, while the non-electors are treated as the common herd, and only such of them a are agreeable to the clergy will be allowed to • hold up their han.irS foi theirr - favourite candidate. Nay, more, their ".sweet voices" are no t to set - - tie the election ; for according to c l ause fi ve, if only a minority of the whole subscrib e t h e call, ‘i the sufficiency of the call is to be judged of by the Church Courts," and the General A ssem bl y, that is the Church, (the great majority of the Assembly consisting' of clergymen,) is t o ma k e up the roll of persons entitled to sealin g ordi nances, the test of the electoral franchise. In the present temper .of the Scotch clergy, such a power would lead to the most intolerable tyranny, for the Assembly may, and in all probability would, enact that the following persons shall be excluded :—all Chartists and Voluntaries ; all who neglect family worship, or who walk or travel by railroad, steam-boat, or stage-coach, on a Sunday ; all who obey the law of the land in-pre ference to the spurious law of the General As sembly.; and all other sinners of a similar de scription. So that, as •in the case of DAVIOT, where there are only five persons entitled to sealing ordinances, the great boon for which Mr. STEUART and the arrogant Non-Intrusionists are contending would be confined to a few select righteous men, mixed up with not a few hypo crites and time-servers. There are other great defects and incongruities in this new plan for set tling the Kirk, one of which only we will specify, as it shows on what dangerous ground these Non- Intrusionists will venture to secure their darli ng object. For the purpose possibly of conciliating the Lords, the Bishops, and the other patrons .of valuable English livings, Mr. STEUART assert s that the right of patronage in Scotland is n o original inheritance as in England, desce n di ng with the property of the. Church, but at the same time admits that the ,Crowtt bestowed a I portion of the patronage sometimes as caprice or pleasure dictated, but generally " to the chief heritors of the respective parishes." These gifts he would annul by an Act of Par liament, without seeming at all aware that on the same principle the houses of BeJtbrd and Abercorn, and many other houses too, might be stripped of vast estates conlin-red on them at the caprice or pleasure of an unmitigated tyrant. Looking, therefore, at the difficulty of settling the Kirk to the satisfaction of the unreasonable party who now dominate in the Scotch Church, we would advise Mr. STEUART to leave them to themselves, and follow the prudent conduct of Lord MELBOURNE, who knows that he could not introduce any Bill without increasing to a Vast extent the hostility that already exists between the clergy of the Established Church and all classes of Dissenters. The following is the out line of the Bill : I.—To repeal the Act of the 10th of Queen Anne, called the Patronage Act ; and so much of the Act of the 3d of William and Mary as is inconsistent with this Act. lI.—To abolish patronage, as at present exercised in Scotland, whether by her Majesty or by lay patrons. I I I.—To vest the right of presentations in the fieritors and Kirk-sessions (the Heritors to have a 101, qualifica tion ; the Kirk-sessions to be elected by the congregation). IV.—The presentee to preach before the congregation. and a call to be moderated in by :he Presbytery ; the call to he subscribed by male communicants, or male persong ellitled to sealing ordinances. V.—lf the call be subscribed by an absolute majority of those entitled, the Presbytery to proceed to the trials ; if only a minority of the whole subsetibe the call, time to be affonled fur objections being lodged, and the auffi eiency of the call to be judged of by the Church Courts. Vl.—The General Assembly to make the necessary regulations for moderating in calls, and for making up the roll of communicants or persons entitled to sealing ordinances. Copy thereof to be transmitted to Secretary of State. VII.— Act not to commence or take effect until it has been certified to the Quten in Council that the General Assembly has passed an Act for vesting the election of elders in male communicants, and persons entitled to seal ing ordinances. Thereafter the commencement of the Act to be proclaimed. Vlll.—Provision to suspend all pending suits for twelve. months after the passing of this Act ; if any new sumn,ons is raised, Act to be pleaded, and proceedings to be barred for twelve months. IX.—All suits to terminate upon the Act coming into operation, and presentations to be made anew• under the authority of this Act. X.—Clauses to provide compensation to Patrons may, if necessary, be here aided. XI. —Act to remain in force so long as the Act of As sembly for reforming Kirk Sessions remains unrepealec. The settlement of the . Eastern question re moves every pretext for persisting in the absurd and ruinous plan of fortifying Paris, proposed by M. THIERS, and supported by the present French Government. It forms a complete and trium phant answer to the gasconade of the ex-Premier about the secret designs of the Allies who signed the Treaty of July. It clearly and un answerably demonstrates that England had no selfish views—that she was actuated by no feel ings or motives hostile to the glory and peace of France. This demonstration is made in time to spare misguided and inflamed France the enor mous expenses to which the erection of those bastiles of liberty, detached forts, must cost her. And incurably blind must be the French people indeed, if, after learning how easily the Eastern question has been settled,- they do not open their eyes to the horrors of the precipice over which M. THIERS and the Government is now driving them. But fortify Paris, and the enslavement of France is complete. Under the guns of the fortresses will expire that liberty to obtain which France passed thuough the bloody ordeal of two revolutions. Commerce, which reserves her richest treasures for the land in which she enjoys the greatest freedom, will soon desert a capital environcd with the frowning strongholds of military and regal despotism. Sciences, fine arts, and letters will follow in the wake of freedom and commerce. The men now so clamorous for walls and fortresses will be the first to feel that, instead of raising a rampart against the approach of an allied hostile army, they have been putting chains upon their own limbs, and gags in their own mouths. The censorship of the press will be performed by an expert gunner, and even freedom of thought will be regulated by the distance of the thinker'i domicile from the nearest fortress. But M. TRIERS wants the walls to justify to the Chambers his im mense armaments carried on without a legisla tive sanction, and likewise to dispose the KING to admit him once more to his councils ; and to these personal objects the liberty, and the moral and physical improvement of France, arc basely and treacherously sacrificed. The rejection of General SCHNEIDER'S amend ment on the Fortifications of Paris Bill by a ma jority of sixty-one votes, disposes us to believe that the Bill, as prepared by the Committee, will be adopted. General SCHNEIDER'S amend ment embodied the proposal of Marshal SDI:LT for erecting detached forts without any wall of circumvallation. When put to the vote on Saturday it was rejected, 175 voting for it, and 236 voting against it. On Monday the debate was resumed, when the following three articles of the Bill were adopted by large majorities:— Att. 1. of the Government project of law, as approved of by the Committee, was put to the vote, and carried by a large majority :—it was as follows :--" A sum of 140,000,000 f. is specially allotted to the works of the for tifications of Paris." Art. 2. 'nese works comprise-1. A continuous line of enclosure, embracing the two banks of the Seine, ba.- tioned and terraced with ten metres of cncarpment fronted with masonry. 2. And exterior casemated works. Art. 3. The funds allotted to these works are to be employed simultaneously towards the execution of the en closed and exterior works, and divided between different estimates, and in proportions determined in the subsequent articles. These articles embrace the whole substance of the Bill which, if passed and carried into full effect, will reduce the capital of European re finement to a level with Strasburgh, or any other fortified town on the frontier. But it is useless to remonstrate with a people bent upon the de struction of their own independence. The Commerce states that the ball at the Tui leries, on Wednesday, presented a greater show of English than of French uniforms, and that one English officer had the bad taste to wear a Waterloo medal. We can scarcely believe that any officer in the British army could be guilty of such a Piece of braggart insolence as this. No brave man, with a spark of generous and manly feeling, could thus abuse the distinguished hos pitality of the KING Of the FRENCH, and thus offer a studied and cowardly insult to a nation, where it was impossible it could be resented. This man, whoever he was, should be known. The chances are fifty to one that he never fought at Waterloo, and that he is not more a braggart than a coward. The Journal des Debats of Monday devotes five columns to an account of the relations be tween France and Buenos Ayres. The Chamber of Peers sat on Monday to de bate upon a number of Bills of local interest. It was reported," says the Cour rier Francais, " in the diplomatic salons of Paris on Saturday evening, that Lord Granville had been recalled by his Government, and re placed by Lard Clarendon in the post of Ambassador of Great Britain in France. Most of the editors of the journals who published the letters attributed to King Louis Philippe had been inter rogated by the Judge of Instruction. The Marquis de Larochejaquelin, who was supposed to be the possessor of the originals, and M. Auguste Johanet, had been likewise summoned to appear before that Magistrate. The Messayer states that the editor of the Gazette de Fiance had served a citation on the editor of the illessager to appear on the 12th of March to answor for having stated that the letters published by the Gazette, {Airport ing to have been written by his Majesty Louis Philippe, when Duke of Orleans, were false. M. Esquires, the author, and M. Legallois, the printer of the Evangile du Peuple, were tried for libel on Satur day at the Assize Court. M. Legallois w; , s acquitted, and M. Esquires, having been found guilty by the Jury, was sentenced to eight months' imprisonment, and to pay a fine of 500 francs. The Observateur Suisse of the 28:11 states positively that the Pope's Nuncio in Berne entered a formal protest on the 21st against the suppression of the Argovian con vents. The cantons of Uri, Schweitz, and Unterwalden had likewise reproved the measure, as contrary to the 12th article of the Federal Compact, and called for an extraor dinary meeting of the Diet !o Inquire into the affair. Zug, Zurich, Neufchatel, and Friburg would, it was expected, address a similar application to the Vorort. The Toulonnais of the 27th announces that Marshal Valve has caused apartments to be taken for him at an hotel at Ayeres, where he intends to pass the winter with his family, on account of his grauddaughter, who is is ill Lealth. The same paper spe;:ki of a letter of General Bugeaud, in which the rtes Governor of Algeria announces that an expedition will take place in the spring. The &wineHe des Pyromers of Jan. 23th says that a letter from Toulouse states that the Prefect had been in formed that Dun Miguel had passed, or would pass, through 'hat city ; it is believed that the Magistiates of Bayonne have received similar notice, and that this is the cause of the extraordinary movement of the police officers for some days past. The Austrian Observer of the 25th of January contains the news from the East publivhed yesterday evening by the Messager, The Austrian Journal adds the following lines, which the Messager has omitted to copy : " The Sultan resolved to grant to Mehemet Ali the he. reditary investiture of the Pachalick of Egypt, on condition that the submission of the Viceroy shell be sincere and complete. This resolution of the Sultan is expressed in the form of a Hatti Seheriff, dispatched on the 12th to the Imperil Commissknor Mislounabey, at Alexandria."—Le Corn merce, Feb. 1. BOURSE.-PAM, MONDAY, FED. 1. first Highest Lowest 1 ast Price I'rice. Price, Price Frei ch l', per I cntc ll2 70 ... 11 !. 70 ... 112 55 ... 112 65 4X, per Cents lO2 50 .., 11'2 50 ... 102 50 ... 102 :0 4 pet cents 3 per Cents 77 .... 77 15 ... 7F, 90 ... 77 15 3ar► of r ranee trillitte n..k 1,p4)0t. sh IOA ...1 , :so ..low ...ity“) t' soo. 81 ores 5115 ...5117 50 . . 5115 ..5117 50 selg , an /Sank 5 per c , iiti V S I4 ... !8 ... 98 1 . i ... L 94 New Loan 98% ... 98% ... 9.8.:S ... 1'..6% ipanish Active. ras:kive New Dcferrei Neapolttan Bolan PAU-WAY SHARES, St Germain ye sailles,R. B 441 25 ~. 443 75 ... 441 25 ... 443 75 L. 1.1 ...... 321 tri ... 325 ... 321 25 .. 32 25 Orleans .. Sfr-ichurg to Bale 248 75 ... 248 75 ... 240 75 .. 2 8 75 3ouen I , ELUIAN I•LINDS—naUSSELd. JAN. V. Actual Detst, 2% per Cent. Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cant 96li Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent. 62 --- (I 40) 9 6 1% 3 per Cent. —Tiiirty,OVen ••••• ~ ...... F 9 Loan of City, i 85:!, .1 per Cent 9O Society of Commerce, 4' 7 ,i, per Cent li 2 Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent .... .. 67 Nationol Society . FXChange on 1.1,11,10 m (stint t) Brussels Papers, Jan. 30. AUSTRIAN FUND:.i.—ViviNA, JAN.2I. , i iveinr Ccitt. fifetallives Foict per Cents. nue p,r Cents Bank Shares —Ailgemeine Zeiltnig, Jan. 86, The Moniteur of Monday officially announces MEHEMET ALL'S unconditional surrender of the Turkish fleet to Admiral WALKER on the 14th ult. On the 12th a steamer left Constantinople, having a Turkish officer on board, bearing the Imperial _Finnan conferring upon MEHEMET ALI the hereditary Pachalic of Egypt. A glance at these dates shows that both the SULTAN and the Viet:nor acted with good faith, for on the 14th the latter could know nothing of the coming of the Finnan, nor the former, when granting the Finnan that MEHEMET ALI, without seeing it would restore the fleet. The Presse, rfter copying the note of the Messager, announcing that the Sultan has granted to Mehemet Ali the hereditary investiture of the Pachalic cf Egypt, adds, " We believe that we may affirm that the conduct of the Divan cn this important occasion, has been in consequence especially of the urgent representation of Austria and Prussia, which have reed to contend, if not with the influ ence of England, yet at least with the prepossessions of its Amba.sador, Lord Ponsonby, who has preserved till the very last moment his animosity to the Viceroy." Madrid Journals of the 24th ult. have reached us. On the previous day the Duke DE LA VIC TORIA reviewed eight battalions of the National Guards of the capital, who received him with loud and repeated cheers. All parties were pre paring for the elections, which were expected to go in favour of the Ultra-Liberal candidates. Fives, Active, 29/ for cash. PRESENTATION OF THE CITY ADDRESSES TO THE QUEEN, PRINCE ALBERT, AND THE DUCHESS OF KENT. Yesterday the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Com mons of the City of London, assembled at Guildhall, for the purpose of going in state to Buckingham Palace, to present the Addresses voted by the Courts of Aldermen and Common Council on the birth of the Princess Royal. Tnere were about eighty assembled on the occasion. The Queen received the members of both Courts very graciously. The Recorder then read the following addresses, to which her Meijesty was graciously pleased to return the answers attached to them. " To the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty. The humble Address of the Court of Lord Mayor and Aldermen of the City of London. " We, your Majesty's most dutVul and loyal subjects, the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of the City of London, humbly approach your Majesty to offer our heartfelt congratulations on your Majesty having given birth to a presumptive heiress to the throne of those realms. " Affectionately attached to your Majesty's sacred person, and yielaing to none of the subjects of your Majesty in devotion to your Majesty's illustrious house, we most unkigncdly rejoice in the recent interposition of Providence on behalf of your Majesty, and in the event which promises that the Crown shall (we trust at a very distant day) devolve upon one lineally descended from your Majesty. " We fervently pray that your Majesty may long reign over a free, a loyal, and a grateful people ; and that the illustrious Princess, on whose birth it is our happiness to felicitate your Majesty, may be spared to be a blessing to your Majesty, and your illustrious Con sort, and to exemplify the good effects of an education founded on the principles of the Protestant Religion, so happily established in this highly-fAvoured country. (Signed by order of the Court) " H. WOODTHORPE." To which Address her Majesty was pleased to return the following most gracious Answer : " I thank you for your congratulation on the birth of the Princess Royal. " I receive your assurances of the satisfaction you derive from the prospect thus afforded of a direct suc cession to the Crown, as an additional proof of your attachment to my person, family, and government." "To the Queen's Most. Excellent Majesty. " The ..amble Address of the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Commons of the City of Lou- don, in Common Council assembled. " Most Gracious Sovereign,— We, your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal subjects, the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Commons, in Common Council assembled, embrace the earliest opportunity of approaching your Majesty with our sincere and dutiful congratulations on the birth of the Princess Royal, presumptive heiress to the throne of these realms. " An event so important to the kingdom, under such auspicious circumstances, has filled us with the most grateful sentiments towards that Divine Providence which has thus crowned your Majesty's domestic hap piness, and afforded to your people a prospect of per manence and stability to the blessings they enjoy under your Majesty's mild and beneficent reign and govern ment. May the same Gracious Providence continue to watch over your Majesty and your Royal Infant ; and long may our Majesty be in the enjoyment of maternal happiness, to be the guardian and protector, the orna ment and delight, of your people. (Signed, by order of the Court) " HENRY WOODTHORPE." To which Address her Majesty was pleased to re turn the following most gracious Answer : " I receive with peculiar satisfaction, upon the pre sent occasion, the loyal congratulations of the Lord /slayor, Aldermen, and Common Council of the City of London. " I am most grateful to Divine Providence that an event so deeply interesting to myself should be wel comed by my people as a promise of the stability of those blessings which it is the study of my life to secure to all classes of my faithful subjects." The Addresses to Prince Albert and the Duchess of Kent, and the answers to them, were in a similar tone and spirit. THE SIR EDWARD BANKS STEAMER.— Great apprehensions have been cnterta'n•d for the safety of the large and powerful steamship Sir Edward Banks, belonging to the General Steam Navigation Company, and trading between London and Rotterdam. It appears that she got upon the sands called the Slim Hook, a mile below Gorec Island, on• the coast of Holland, at three o'clock in the morning of Sunday, the 24th ult., during very thick weather, and a severe gale from the north_ west. The passengers arid the mail had been previously landed. The vessel has settled on the sands, and all the efforts to get her afloat again have proved unavailing. The engines, boilers, and cabin furniture have been taken out to lighten the steamer, and the Jolliffe and Melville steam ships, of the General Steam Navigation Company, have been sent to her assistance. Sl.e has been kf pt in an up right position, and it is hoped that she will be afloat again on Friday or Saturday. On the latter day there will be a lofty tide, the moon being then at the full, and if there is no wind the Sir Edward Banks can be towed ufrand saved, but should another gale take place before that time it is feared she will go to pieces. STATE OF PARTIES IN TILE HOUSE OF COMMONS.-After the last general election we gave a tabular stdtem...nt, caleulatiz4; the majority of Ministers at twenty-two, the test being, where applicable, the vdtes of members on the luish Church and Corporation questions. We find that since then there have been 94 vacancies or changes occasioned in the following manner 19 by the death of members, 25 by resignation, 12 by the accessions to the peerage and creations, 25 by accept ance of office, and 13 by the decisions of Committees. We find, moreover, that in ten instances Tories have been suc ceeded by Reformers—in fifteen, Reformers by Tories— thus reducing the ministerial majority to 17. How this may be effected by the coming elections it would be idle at present to Spoculate....Liverpoo/ Mercury. MORNING M 31(?NEY and COMMERCIAL /*1t%19 -- 40 ,--_ ENIG . CITY, WEDNESDAY C. ...y-- 1 i n . The English Stocks are effected by a slight file creased demand for money, and by t h e exertions 0 0 , , jobbers to keep the market in their favour , in case 1,, new loan. For immediate transfer, Consols been 891 to 89k, being i per cent. lower than yesterday ,6:e for time 894. The market closed rather heavily.lo7, chequer Bills were at 33. to 6s. premium , an d- ee. Bonds at 10s. discount. Bank Stock was flit be( a c i e d out alteration, being marked 16.5 ; and the ile du e Threeeand-a-Half per Cents. were done at 01 la E 0 The financial decrees of Spain still occupy a large sl l o of attention in the City, and on the whole they 41 ) : 01/ to have produced a favourable impression• T h'e s Cto anxiety is respecting the ability of the Governol.4l act up to them, seeing there is still so heave a Int l o st expenditure going on, as compared with the 0 ,. 01 of the people. There was very little t o in any of the Foreign Stocks to-day, and SP: the Active Bonds were reduced, by sales ain nn reei• jobbers themselves, from 9 4,1- and f to 24 an d se; Portuguese New Five per Cents. were heavY at era and the Three per Cents. at 20 to 1. Peruvisoooo at 161, ; Colombi .n at a decline to 221 ; li rBs . ll m 'NI a rally to 72 and 724 ; Chilian at 63 ; 13 " eti°1 .i.dici . at 2l and ; and Belgian Three per Cents at 681, e re id dend ; French Fiv e p er C en t. Relates were Owl , ;TII P 112 f. ; and the Three per Cents. at 77f. D the- d t he and:a-Half per C e nt s , range d from .50 to 1 ; ID Five per Cents. from 99 to 98,i Shares again receded slightly . in • area l Western were 27k, the New 12 to 11f, the F "' 11 0 to i; and the South Western IS premium.- .01 Brighton were 7ie to 6i ; the North Midland gs'odos the Midland Counties 20 to 201 discount. I".sel Joint Stock Bank New Shares were 2 Pren 3l°4l ' Provincial Bank of Ireland 18i premium. ericlt l No papers have yet reached town by the Om' 2.01 Packet from New York. This delay appears tolled value. rho' some annoyance to the merchants and others in° in Atecrican affairs. ; e i de The_ feature in the produce markets. - to .daV tel vlr pe l exposition at public s a l e o f 2,000 packages 0f e 111 . of that sunk in the Wes tminster , Indianian, L - is Goodwin Sands, and since recovered' (af t e 4r • b e gj 'elri 4 the salt water some time), and washed and Ic a "' o of under the superintendence of her Majesty e t so oll Excise. There were 11,500 chests in all, t 51.0.; were recovered without damage. The tea -1000,9 signed to th e em i nent fi rms o f M e ssrs. ' l7r- flor Co., and to Messrs. Baring •Brothers, and so o g e p eei" to be taken for home consumption, upon 03 ' 1. '110 application, for the bent& of the underwiitere• bore have been all along many grav e doubts as t° , t ; itie b priety of her Majesty's Ex c i se not condetonn44oo an article as unfit for entry, and the trade 1; 6°4 of i l ' a ferment to know who would become the 1.41100; should it be offered by auction. Tr" d '7 roiaa ru i Thompson, the brokers appointed, brought 1 tor i 0' and there was a large attendance of Spenr; t , a f ed u , the trade, many present from curiosity, an tl i - Wry from the better motive of expressing the ir - e -ga 1 1 '' tion that the article had not been destroeeee ...e' to -,,tiolr- the such circumstances it was natural to ""e Oral " stormy debate," which, accordingly, arose u. e fae , 1 sale had fairly began, and lasted for som e agsto t. „; short., it was found , after a great deal 1 :" ...,--- 0 4 7 pro et con., that there was a feeling to t i _ A e r l 'of• °P course adopted, and the whole was wit h #l' we hope, to be given to the public in any otue* -.", (From The S. un of Last Night. ) I'b' Si ff LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, TUESHAA" .. .csi bl it to-day are 5,000 bags , of which 1,000 of Ame'.i itil r been taken on speculation; 100 Peitiallo• i so oo . 9.-id. ; 150 Swats, 41d. to 41d., and a few 81" li. • 10id. per lb. r Co ll° It LIVERPOOL SHARE LIST, FEU 2.--Eaale - g lOO4 deben•ures, 4 8 ; Grand J unc ti o n Quarter - tal' - 0 01 Great Western, Fifths, 201 ; Lancastir and L ep.°•ertogot MANCII ESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, FEL 2. ! P T it be quoted as follows :-Manchester and Leeds,_ ~„iu : te rktr and Preston New, 18 7 ; London and Sout h W erth DT I . 584; Manchester and Birmingham, 24 7 2.5 i; So uth r° ' and Dover, 13 to 134 ; hull Selb y, g 43k to ...-"; cheater and Liverpool District Bank, 11 • . :s 0 c 00 1 1/ g.. ." Accounts from Jamaica state that the - e ci l t esee:s, Company, notwithstanding the loss of their 01 :01. 1 :0 mores murticaulis by the drought, are doing very rect a second cargo ; they are already hatching ~..i i n`d e ttal o e The agricultural prospects of the island arc 'reaqr s e o. The weather of late bad been much sunr e f a llen 'ls Estates during, the last two years which had 'b a ils° , 200 hhds. to 20 or 30, now promise to yield 8$ - i i : 0 0 , ' li We have a complete blank morning both 10 , arrivals and speculations in the British N n li ce' ' 'JO the present time there is not a feature worth 11 0 ,u,„ro, Consols opened at the leaving o ff prices ali o :fro 891 i for the Account ; Money, 89/ ~• Ez, ch l a 50, ..,4 1 / 1 4 6 prem. ; Bank Stock, 164 166; India 0 ° " -- 4 1 'ill In the Foreign Market Spanish Active beg 00 2 241 i, at present 241 1; Deferred, 121 1; P lkhierol Portuguese" same as they left off, 314 3 2 ; a , pi Cents. 201,; Brazilian , 72 73 ; Colombian stt 4 fitf7 l Mexican same, 271 28; China°, 60 65 ; Dur a g,.. a-half per Cents., 50,i; Five.per Cents., gef - M I A SHARES. —Great Western, 26 Prem' 'l3lsP I/ ~e , 13 prem. ; London and Brighton, dis.; . . l e l 0, 43 dis. ; Birmingham, 87 89 prem. ; ou:1010; 4 0 11 , per share ; Croydon, 124 per share ; Gr ee i ldio l . per share; Manchester and Birmingham, 15 .'-' ': f es. South Eastern and Dover, 15-1 as yetre m the fl 4 dis. AO We have received no pi p ers packet ship Cambridge. A I . Or. PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY ''' - ste• Per Sb .° RAILWAYS. Paid.to At i Great Western London and Brighten London and South Western 3Bl ..... . 571... 'to E ' s London and Croydon (Trunk) 134.. . .. 1 2 7"''' 10.1" fr North Midland Letters from Perpignan state that 7, 0° 1 ' le 111 J ,Il fugees have entered Spain by Perthus. t h e 00 Accounts from Liverpool states that a et °, senor ° el / to meet the Cambridge off Holyhead; probability, the papers and letters by her gi ll ll° '. 0 11 by the train at three o'clock this afteenomee , ceese jl o i The British market continues inactive, an ~f tbf,d t be quoted a shade lower than in the early Pa rt , "SI, ing, 894 for the Account ; Money, 894, 1 g (liB', Bills lower 6 3 prem. ; Bank Stock, 165 ; - - s(l' 10 discount. cousirt# l , hi the Foreign Market Spanish Active enne l w eiPe t ei owing to the heavy sale of the above Stof' r ees:./f place yesterday, which still hangs over the 11 ',1 V . ; 00' fluctuated from 241 down to 24, at present 2' 4 t ceeveP 124 ; Passive 6 ; Portuguese 314 ; Three pe C e oo' Colombian 221 ; Dutch Two-and-a. Half per iio . 4 0 1 0 Five per Cents. 984. the .04 In Shares scarcely anything doing, b u t d o' are lower. Great Western 904 ; London le41 ;1 0 1 , 43 424 ; South Western 57/ ; North Wi l t id I, The Foreign Exchanges were rather d e P -s day afternoon. CLOSING PRICES. / BRITISH FUNDS. , .10 Bulk Stock ... 165 India Stock ...... .„,.," i 3 per Cent. Red 594 Ditto Bonds •";,ics , " ro," 3 per Cent Cons ...... li per Cent Red ...... . 11 0 41 . , I ' . , 6? New 3i per Cent a 11..." New 5 per Cent ... Long Annuities to expire Ditto S cn- Acct '''! 4 ' Jan. 1860 Oct 1859 — India Stock O r , ... " Jzn. 1660 ... Consols for t ,. 0 FORE6GN FUNDS. ace' A ustrian, 5 per cent... Portuguese , ri b.P ao ,..• ", / Belgian, 5 per cent — Ditto, New iii Cer ,t '''. /. Brazilian Bonds ...... Prussian, 5 per e _ . .,,, . ~ o -. C P . 0 io BuenosAyres, 6 per cent c C o h l i o li m an b , ja 6 n, p 6 er pe c ß 5 Russian, ~. re t ent ..31i Ditto, sp a ni, h ) : l s c e T de .......... Ditto, 1824 22i Ditto, Deferre • t Danish, 3 per cent — French ,5 per O n / ;'1 Greek,lB2s, spercent — Exchange .• •••;;;::: • ,‘ Mexican, 5 per cent — French, 3 per ce , n tso' . Di to, 6 per cent, 1825 Dutch, 211 Pe r ' Peruvian,lB2s,6 per ct. Ditto, 5 p er cent., sl SHARES. • 9 1/1 Bristol and Exeter (60 paid) ........... •••.% 41 , Great Western Railway (65 paid) .• v,l Ditto New Shares (50 paid) ...... . 4.11 Ditto Fifths ( 4 paid) .. ••• ........... " London an Brighton (50 p..a..id) ............ London and South West ern ...... .••••• ..... i London and Croydon R a il wa y (Trunk)'';,,. 'P Midland Counties Railway (100 paid) I North Midland R a il way 000 C O 10 lf 00 AN INCIDENT FOR A FARCE• — , ; , bo p ,) 3 1 do T— went on Tuesday morning to " o p on receive a sum of 10,000 f., which be 10°1 00 ' 1 0 0 '4 ( presence of several ether persons ies the r ° the afro eat h a banker, who replied that he had already ° "%05 D r to the ount's hotel. M. de T , holea v t - iot ° ti 1 0- for business to transact at his banker's, and 0 4.13 ;0ed „tel s h if room, where he said aloud he should be an,t l Con,: s t fr e • On his return home M. de T asked tft• i ii the rouleau of bank-notes. -She infornie ° ," 0 1 0 • j; had been sent back to the banker's by a P et h - r otiP; oa c i in the Count's name for them, and evai';', - / l'ji/ own carriage. For a moment the Count "" v pie — 'l o l,l but perceiving a packet on the chiinneioaelif it up, opened it, and found all s 11; minished by even a single note. It mr . p a be 4 . l l ; e l• r u e l o, turn of the Countess to be mystifieu, • ( IV ' lieved that she had given all to the stranC er ' the lo se however, was soon discovered. She ha d ati roueodbel the demand another packet, containing 00 0 he 0 0 tickets for the Civil List Ball in the efe d tbe l , n o%'''o l these were now missing, she was conv ince cosee-he given that instead of the bank-notes. T he se lietot t 'op being questioned, stated that the person i‘ i„g-P - r et tl ',o brought to the hotel came out of the handistelid re n ts which he desired the carriage might ientn e 5t 10 1 ' 1 11 It was evident, therefore, that the thief In u • tl' e ecl " 1 0 51 r` some one who bad heard all that had P as s ,„0 er's room. It was ascertained afterwards' as to ts be anticipated, that not one of the ball -tie GeloY sented at the Salle Favart in the evening'''. ‘ l ,, t o ' files , eng er n se';`, l o 7,1 THE FIRE IN FINSBURY-SaliJt for 0 stock " vestige of Mr. Painter's valuable . n t he be 0 0 been saved. The property is insured ' pt . ally England Fire Office, but not to the full e%te d tni It an be t i 11V belonging to the fi re brigade had a diffien to t or duty to perform, but they exerted themsclie rn so oic o j , uith their accustomed zeal. The flames we., of on o , ducd as to silence all apprehension of Nebe l, ' 0 101 1) 1 ( A four o'clock, but portions of the timber- vre,! . w ben o f ing continued burning until eight o'clo b " f aln oo ginec were still playing upon them. „ 7 6 an d 1 pr o perty destroyed is estimated at 10,00 vb not inclutio tho buildings. -- C( bz. PO Al to ill 11 ~k Vr( lel ju g to i in ey to r e , hi, et lii for KF mi A t , Mr, th e te` Per, Bh, Rm hid .14 w o th e h e st r et, it) 40: . so! h e tr a au] Pll r t) , Sc th In !ill .4;