The Sun. — London, England, 1841-02-08 00:00:00

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'h Tii F Cli INA SUN," Which Was lately I - 0 7 -PUBLISHED, IS NOW -srtri)ENcE: 9 r(lers - ttt SII; Office, - No; • IN PROGRESS, 111141 RAILWAY SU N. Inth a MAP of all the RAll WAYS in the United Kingdom ; containing all the STA TIONS on each Railway, and a great variety Intbrmation and other particulars connected With Railways. THE CORONATION SUN, pitlNTi D IN LETTE!-tS OF GOLD, W I TH A 4EAUTIFUL PORTRAIT OF c,, E lErt MAJESTY, THE QUEEN, t tli be 'eat by post fre e t o a ll par t s o f th e Em- Price Pitt. SIXPENCE. Sun Office, 112, Strand, London. ALCOCK FOR EAST SURREY te. Pour d e day s only h ave e l apse d s i ne , at one of the l arg e s t n alte ever held in this eounty, THOMAS ALCOCK, was nominated with acelamatiea to be the champion of 14;tiitheral iaterest. A perseaal canvass at this late period is aid Bill y ll impossibi e, b ut he has already visited many districts, the attend meetings in other parts of the comity, so as to fullest opportunity et ascertaining his sentiments. 111 14 - "elighteal to state th at se L ave f oun d th e i n d e p e ndent 142 true to the great cause of civil and religious freedom. atilt 1 . 14 11 s Rim seat in prove that, by a continuance of the `mtertniaatosst sad exertions already displayed, success cod l en and be tise . VllTTEESwillresu lt pronenting the Election of Mr. AL elm aft DAILY at the following places : t ena ta l C erataittoe a• The Bridge House Hotel, Borough.Roth e r, ... Simon the Tanner, Long-lane. Olt it * et....... The Victoria. 1441bstete The Turk's Heag. t 4 The White Hart, Kenningten-cross. tit.r l. ilir .: 811 7 ...• .. Geer. ***** St. Sa_ Newton's Hotel, Blackiriars-roa •,•ar's-g, Olavo }The Central Committee Room. ine ell .... . .... The Red Cap. CZorth ..... The Spread Eagle. ........... The Greyhound. ............ The Sun. s trn d ..... ... The Talbot e ro (it ............ The Swan. It " ••. ...... . . The Crown. ulty le u ; t t. i i c e_ tt a l e arly pia r c ei:e s t e d that all communications which • to secure his election may he made at any of the r,,I,IUEL PALMER, Chairman. efut ~- E oRGE G. DE H. LARPENT, Vise-Chairman. rss 80th January, 1841. tt jtl3t rea .4Y, in 2 vols., p oe t Bvo., with illustrations. R -VaL G I U M. s y .l . EMERSON TENNENT, Esq., M.P. L'Un'o n f a i t l a Force. " — M otto o f _Belgium. Eicha-cl Bentley, New Burlington-street. ''O üblisher i n O r di nary t o h er Majesty. tan7 'tt 2 vols. post Bvo., with Portrait, Autograph, &c., 215. bound. " LIFE of BEETHOVEN. Con, Including his kirb",_,ESPONDES CE WITH HIS FRIENDS, 4 ' -4 •S ON HIS MUSICAL WORKS, &c. R, Edited by IGNACE 13,0 H , Esq. -1117 Calbuna, Publisher, reat Marlborough-street. e . To be had of all Booksellers. t Just ready, in 3 vols., poet Bvs., •EC I L ; ' Or, MEMOIRS OF A COXCOMB: 11,‘Zt vat each .. . e.. A Novel. ... Byron.3 a jo ye ar ne a l i t —such a eoxcamb—each a jewel of %chard Bentley, Ne`w Barlington-dreet. ilk T bE ROYAL, COVENT GARDEN. Hie MANAGEMENT of MADAME TESTRI>, ' TWIS EVENING, FEB. $, Will he repeated Shakspere's ~'ll, M IDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM. Littl e , llB ,!,, Mr. Cooper ; Quince, Mr. Bartley ; Bottom, Mr. "Lr• ' Pr ot,', Mr. Keeley ; Snout, Mr. Meadows ; Snug, Obi s :I', 4 eves ; Hermia, Mrs. Nisisett ; °heron, Madame ' 4l l, Mrs. W. Lacy ; Puck, Miss Marshall; First %Wort. v Eir To conclude wit ~, GRAND CHRISTMAS h PANTOMIME will be 44 E c a . repeated, entitled '.'3ll'LE OF OTRANTO; OR, HARLEQUIN ' 001 AND TER GIANT HELMET. 14 41 4 . 11.1 ,; '', Mr. C. J. S m ith ; Cl e w., Mr. T. Ridgway ; 31 r• Mtmeili • Columbine, Miss Fairlsratiser. • "gillie e - ,.' et ," l *, a New Co medy, P in two acts, entitled The White x Ott tiL l ‘ L 'th Two in the Morning, and the New Pantomime. - " N esdaY, The Midsummer Night's Dream, with the • ll— a rdotria tt . t . , • • - "'Pelted at half-past Six-the performanees t• ,1),,, s • Ql l% Seven o'CAeck. l i'Ltel e , , :•les, is. ,• Secoad Pries, Ea. 64.; First aad Second i;• Seisms( )trice, 2s. ; Pit, 3s. ; Second Prise. "Ite }aery, 4 4 "d plat es for the Box,: to be taken of Mr. Grogan . ex. Ace, from Ten till Fear, where Season Tickets ,4ri vat 7 R lPe io n ap lipcation. °l *-thaft seely of Mr. And: ea's, bookseller 4 *nd-street. • • SOY AL SURREY THE ekTRE. i ncreasin; p o p u l ar ity—Ainsworth', Tower of h L e e c n e: 14 11 The Cask 'Vaulter, and Geosey Gander. 46. seene between the Gallic Cock and the N' E 'i n h gli t sh Bull P wh " dr a g" caused an extraordinary excitement in ri ce, are drawing crowded houtes. 'llll THIS TFNING, FEE. 8. • 444 a Grand Hisiorioal Romano*, founded on and entitled The kl, TiR TOWER OF LONDON. ointments, 1,.t ► — , 1 1 : 14 4 1 ! !inns splendid Costume, anal Arsointme t "eali us tit celebrated George Crinkshanks. " l ek will lie rep i eatel the Grand Traditionary Pantomime, I G AM. entitles IANreJIN AND MY LADY LEE; OR, GOO_ SEY AND TIE SPELL-BOUND GOSLIN G S. 1.7 astonishing and incredible cvelutioss of the Cask )14 1+ bl " he given, as well as Bru,nning s Grand Dierantie i_ v 511,4 Pirilf Syria • this Panteminsits Characters by the unr ' 8-I,°'ehe •Fatailv ; Mr. &salary, the Original Cloma s Colurilsine • and the astonishin Gywnestique, frova ! Francesi's, at Paris. g NEW STRAND THEATRE. , THIS EVENING; FEB. S, J A Tm. Every Evening during the Week, I ) , rf li zh °ll S, ttie Royal Ventriloquist, Modern Magicia rip I mprovisatere, whose wonderful and extriorilioary a d t w i a Zees last sea s on attracted many thousands of surpris edl : l ,ott gpotatorq, has taken the above Theatre for a Lit ; the Eute - tainments are entirely new from these 'Ned Y e ar, the Trick r s, Transformations, and Illusionsp e er: With splendid and gorgeous set of apparatus mad e t .m x . ttv4ll:n.the occasion, and the Ventriloquism g,t•ea ANDlY,',.,ris introduction of a NEW PIECE, enti tled THE AT HOME; sr, Gout versus Fami ly Grier 1 •11; ; 4 W kivh Mr. Jacobs gives his astenishiag imitations of t • imaginary perms! 111 1 °1 1' 211 . Pit is. 6d. ; Gallery, Is. Second price: Pit, 1 1 . • Gallery, 6d. , 4- 11. es Precisely ' at Half-ast Seven e'Clock. Half o'Clock. "* WA TE/I AT LONDON BRIDGB TO.MORROW .•••• 2 Istituto after 4 t Evening 20 stimulus after 4 Publieatiee of the Evening Edition of TIE Styx corn ! • tatialled at 40 minutes after Three. .• . , JC , _____ LONDON: MONDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1841- ~..• - 1•11 . a ° VI differin - . 4111 to N g we rejoiced that in opinion from Mr.. WA n- .; .h e socik on the right of property, _ and • the , or out boldly on Friday which . • truid ortd to know what are the principles'we week, gave . 0 . e the gentlemen at Westminster. Both , l r i i i . s . 11/111lions and his boldness are shared by mv_ ri:h c . 444l r, who denied, on the debate on co ~. rif.'ol`• on last Friday, that property hrt, but who said, using language such as I n, was ot4 fequently.used, that " to deprive aut io c it ti : a n ea' n atural right should be looked upon as • e - „." of legal plunder." Of course, he would -,, end th e am Principle to all men as well as authors, wettld admit, that to deprive the labourers or 'th e ' kw -,, anufacturers of their natural right to buy . done s ett, or trade with whom they please, ' . Site, by the Corn-law, not for the benefit of . the_ as is . e`lite, for the sake of enriching the aristo • ' ' p or, Y . , b u t th e worst description of legal plunder. aftw.. 1 "fiedthen by the high authority of one of thell . . 'makers themselves, we shall have even re p u gnance : r Mince than hitherto to describe the coif less d uet of those who Pl make l take perty • ; 41 0n 6%,-- e class to , give it aws to to another, pro as legal u nd - :- ', - t Out M. M ACAULAY holds " that pripery is : , ArAereature of the law ;" he denies, like Alik , - • .... .. th e Itili itTON, a natural right of property, and at . isf- the§tt rne time with something of the simplicity . I; rr„ , • di .• ur'S. Post, he-objects to a metaphysical i . SC USBIO orikin of pro in the House of ComMonS the th e R. property. We are that not surprised . of ' ' ' g ilt Ron. Gentleman should take this line, 1.,, beca_ 4. , " ' \ . . . u se we recollect that he put forth similar ,:. ()polio n't Edinburgh, with a view to silent 'the C hartist s • We should'lll which he by no means succeeded. 1, 41 T be unjust if we allowed Mr. MAcitu . _: ' an . Y more than the Post, to escape from an stigation of defi n i ti 41 subject by alleging that any ' . • • \ on of Property may serve for the House t r \ 4,Ct, ..r -•s. p 4 • *ol l44 tlor ° , . AN.- of Commons, or by referring to the authOrity of , PALEY that property is the creature of law. We had occasion to 'shoW - on Thursday—in an article on the proposed reform of the jurisdiction in - e - quily=lhat - Atife gesal trat - of - ail-our-institution& is to administer . juStee ; and as about nine-tenths of the business of.7:(11 Courts, relates to proper;-, it follows that threat object . of our IAwS is 'to protect property; A. much, greater number of tags, too; is made in relation to property thaniti relation to personS:. Thtis it may be unhesita tingly affirmed that the great mass of our insti tutions relate to property, and it is equally un seemly in the Post to tell us that on such a sub- , ject the Parliament may be contented, with the brief, vague, and incorrect definition of BLACK STONE, and in Mr. MACAULAY to base an elabo borate argument on a definition ofproperty,with out an attempt to prove it, which he knows is contrary to that of our best writers. Considering the .right of property to be the key-stone of all social institutions, we shall endeavour to show that Mr. MAcA (MAY'S assertion, that property •is the. creature of law, is erroneous. We quoted a passage from Mr. LOCKE on Thursday, which expressly states that " the 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." That great philosopher, then, admits that property existed antecedent to Government and antecedent to human law. It was not to have a right of property created, but to preserve their . property previously in existence, to the preser vation of which, not to the creation of which, in Mr. LOCKE'S opinion, there are many things wanting in a state of nature, that men united under Governinent. If men have no natural rights, and if property be not one of them, they are . altogether at the mercy of the law-maker, who, instead of having to make his laws, as BLACK STONE says, to accord with the laws of nature, will have no other guide for his conduct than his own wild imaginations or dreaming fancies. Mr. MACAULAY says expediency, or public utility, is the basis of the legal right of property. 'But how could the utility or the eipedincy of 4 law be ascertained, before it was made ? Every day convinces us that legislatorS' know little or nothing before-hand of what , will be the effects of any enactment.- They must have waited for the experience of the laws, creating property before they could, from such a motive, have passed them. They could have known nothing of public utility and of' public expediency,' When they made laws 'establishing property:: In fact, .the theory of expediency or 'public utility is a modern inven tion, brought forward by interested men to justify existing institutions, and was wholly unknown to those who took possession of the soil by the sword, and made - laws, as was stated in the Edinburgh Review, by the sword to support their posSession. Public good and general expediency are con venient names, behind which landlords and others hide the most selfish -Motives ; but they are not very easily .appreciable by the highest faculties with which any human being was ever endOvied, and certainly are not to be measured by .the _herd of hereditary ig,noramusses, plodding, lawyers, cunning merchants, and un licked youths, the younger sons ofthe - who compose our Legislature. We must prefer Mr. LOCKE'S opinion of the origin of the right of property to that of Mr. -MACAULAY, and Mr. LOCKE'S opinion.is as:follows : " Every man," he Says,' " has a property in his own person that nobody has any 'right to but himself. The labour of his body and the work ef'his hand are his pro perty. Whatsoever, then, be removes out of the state that nature h'eth provided and left it in, he hathlmized his labour with it and joined - to something that is his own, and'. thereby makes it - hiwproperty. It being by him removed from the common state nature bath placed it is, it bath by this labour - something annexed to it-that excludes the com mon right of other men. For the labour being the unques tionable property of the labourer, no man but he can have a right to what that is joined to—at least, where there is enough and as good left in common for others." " He that' is nourished by the acorn he picked up under an oak, or the apple he gathered from the trees in the wood, has certainly appropriated thenf to himself. No body can' der y but the nourishment is his. I ask, then, when they began to be his? When ha digested? Or when he eat, or when he boiled ? Or when he brought them Lome? Or when he picked them up? And, it is plain, . that if the, first gathering made them not his nothing else could. That labour put a distinction between them and common, that added something to them more than nature—the common mother of all—had done, and so they became his private right." " Thus the law of reason makes the deer that In dian's who bath killed it ; it is allowed to be his goods who bath bestowed his labour upon it, though before it was the common right of every one. And amongst those who are accounted the civilised part of mankind—who have made and multiplied laws to deter mine property—this original law of nature for the begin nifty of property in what was before common, still takes vlace ; and by virtue thereof, what fish any one catches in the ocean—that great and still remaining common of man. ltind,--or what ambergris any one takes up here, is, by the labour that removes it out of the common state nature left it, made his property who takes that pains about it."* " But the chief matter of property being now," he goes on, ‘• not Ile fruits of the earth and the beasts that sub sist on it, but the earth itself as that which takes and carries with it all the rest, I think it plain that property in that too is (ought to be ?) acquir , d as the former. As much land as a man plants, cultivates, and can use the products of, so much is his property. He, by his labour, does, as it were, inclose it from the common.'l According to Mr. LOCKE, then, labour, which ADAM SMITH calls the only original purchase money of all wealth, is the source of the natural right of property ; that ;the existing right of pr( perry does not correspond thereto, with all its, lava of succession, is no proof, as Mr. MACAULAY seems to consider it, that such a right Las no existence, but merely that the exist ing right of property requires some revision, in order to be brought into harmony with the natu ral right of property. It suits bread-taxing landowners, pension-eating sinecurists, and tithe fed priests to contend that there is no natural right of property, because that is a convenient theory for their exactions; but the industrious classes cannot admit it, without justifying all that legal plunder of which they now incessantly com plain. They may admit, indeed they must ad mit, that the right of the landowners to re ceive an additional rent from taxing the bread of the poor, that the right of the tithe-owner to receive a large portion of the produce of other mens' industry, and the right of the pensioner to be maintained out of the taxes, are all created by the law, and, therefore, they must admit, -so . fitr as these rights are called a right of property,' that the rights of pro perty is created by the law ; but that right of property the industrious classes are, prepared to assert, whatever Mr. MACAULAY may say, is wither expedient nor useful.':. * Of Civil Government, book ii., chap. 5, sec. 28. Of Civil Government, book ii., chap. 5, sec. 30. The public may find pleasure n perusing Mr. GILBART'S graphic description, inserted in al.- other part ofThe Sun, of the,tactics which should be pursued by Joint-stock and Private Banks, in opposing the formation of one National Bank of Issue, should such a project be entertained. We have heard too much of the evil consequences of the contest in the United States, between the 'Banking power and the Government, to wish for any such contest iii England; but, supposing it to arise, Mr. GILBAuT's tactics seem well cal culated to make the issue doubtful for the Go vernment. We beg our readers not to suppose that by inserting Mr. GILBART'S remarks we assent to all his conclusions. Like other men, he speaks 'for himself and his own interest; and we no more wish to see Joint-stock bankers making laws for the community than land lords. Our laws must not be made to give predominancy to those who, as we stated the other day on Mr. HARDCASTLE'S authority, hav ing before stated it on our own, receive , interest on their debts. It ought never to be forgotten that a banker's promise to pay on demand, ,by which he pretends to assist ti4fie is, in :fuck a loan from the public. Now, the law. 'bust on no account be made to give prirkles and itninu r miles to such borroweis l : ThePoiver of,borrow mg ought on no aeqount to be kited by laim, •.L 4~. _ .: ~. r . 4 ' • • or Confined to it j the bost .guarantec that it will be exercised with safety will be found in its univcr.ial diffusion. i 4 methods. The consviucne.: of Cal , spiern Las iron, tint forein nations lv,ve refused to ,ccive French produce, and ' thence, hr.ve arisen an over stock of produce et borne, commercial difficulties, sod in cessant derangement in the material and political condi tion of the pe , ple. - The Bill to. regulate the Customs' eLities now ccini.i&2ra!ion in the - Chamber of'Depu ties invoices many important questions, such as tho itn pertation of cast metal, coal, spun flax, linen, &c., to which it 43 to be hoped that the Chamber of Deputies will give more attention than in former years. The following paragraphs include all the gene ral news of any interest in the French Jour- T We agree, indeed, Avitti Mr, ciLnatrl that the: law a54,43.444int4444aais "requires. -44-14e14' formed.. He,' • how(hdr thinks`' 'only of the bankis ; he tvi3l allow us to add, On behalf of - that as Joint-Stock Panks have necessaiily a long purse, a summary remedy should be given to all the individitals who have claims on them. They should be compelled by some easy process, to pay on demand every promise which is presented for payment, and the property of all those members of the bank whose names and credit give credit and influe,ice to the Bank should be answerable for every note issued. We approve of the iinprovements proposed by Mr. Gt LBA wr, but ive - reqUiro. additional securities for the public. The Tories liave cried out against Lord Mon- PETH'S proposition to make the franchise in Ire land depend on being rated to the poor in the sum of 51. annually, with a fourteen years' inte rest in the holdings, as Universal Suffrage. It is unfortunately no such thing. The present suf frage is one of 101. value, with fourteen years' lease, and that. gives • a miserably small con stituency. As Lord MORPETII said, his plan may in time increase the constitu ency, which will depend, however, on the landlords granting leases, but it seems doubtful whether it will immediately augment it. In the course of his speech, the Noble Lord quoted five places in which the number of ten-pound electors now is respectively 200; 348, 223, 66, and 167 . , and on these respectively the number of these electorS who would not be rated at 31., is 17, 6, 17, 20, 0, so that, in those cases, the constitu ency would be decreased by these numbers, though the new test might let in some who do not now possess the franchise. We do not admire the test for the degree in which it will enlarge the con stituency, but for the simplicity it will introduce into the whole system of registration, and because it will immediately put an end to the innume rable vexations which now annually grow out of the present system. . . Admiring the test for its simplicity, we would rather see it adopted in England, and made the basis of our registration, than see the new Bill establishing a Court of A ppeal proposed by Lord J. RUSSELL pass into a law. Whether car ried for Ireland or not, it will not be for gotten in England, and will probably be a rallying cry throughout the land. We recom mend it to the consideration of our Leeds friends as something which the Whigs, having proposed it for Ireland, will be ready to give to England, and which all parties may unite to accomplish. The simplicity of the test of rating, if we must have any test, should recommend it to all classes, many of whom now scarcely know on what the franchise depends. _ The Paris papers of Thursday and Friday have arrived, but those of Saturday have not yet reached us. The Moniteur of Thursday published the following official despatch, confirming the news from Egypt given in the Evening edition of The Sun of Saturday : " Alexandria, Jan. 23. " THE CONSUL GENERAL TO THE MINISTER FOR FOREIGN ABFAIrtS. " The Turkish fleet has entirely left the port of Alex andria this day. News had been received of the arrival of Ibrahim at Ramie, not far from Gaza. His army must now be on the Egyptian territory.. The Envoy of the Porte has in!ormed Mehemet Ali that he had learned that the firman granting to the Pacha the hereditary in. veetiture of Egypt, had been signed by the Sultan. All the engagements tkat have mutually been agreed upon are consequently fulfilled." Notwithstanding this satisfactory solution of the Ea3tern question, France is relaxing none of her preparations for war. Already have these prepar..tions cost her a sum equal* to twenty nine mlllions sterling! On Thursday the Committee. was appointed to ex .mine the project of law demanding a mil lion of francs (40,0007.) for secret service. As 'a vote for the secret service Bill is tantamount to a vote of confidence in the Government, M. GuizoT has no reason, from what took place on. Thursday, to suppose that the passing of the Fortifications' Bill has in the least weakened his majority. In fact, on no occasion since the meeting of the Chambers was his triumph so complete, as not a single member of the Oppo sition was appointed a member of the Committee on the Bill. It was understood in well-informed quarters in Paris, that M. GUIZOT had addressed diplomatic notes to the Four Powers, stating the terms upon which France would adopt the Treaty of July. These were the dosing of the Straits of the DardanePe3 against vessels of war of all nations ; the grant of the Pachalic of Egypt in perpetuity to MEHEMET ALI; and gua rantees for the better government of the Chris tian population of Syria. Considering that these propositions were made before the submission of INIEnEmErr ALT, they are sufficiently reasonable and moderate. Count D'ARGOUT, Governor of the Bank of France, has just made his annual Report to the • proprietors, of which the following is a sum mary : " The total amount of operations for the Central Bank and its branch banks was 2,915,000,0001., giving an in crease over 1839 of 7.000,000 1 . The dividends of 1840 have amounted to 139 f. on each share (originally 1,200 i. ) being 51. less than in 1839. The total value of the ad vances and loans to canal companies, holders of re'ates, on mint bonds, and on bullion, was 349,667,000 f., being 87,789,000 1 . more than in 1839. The discounts amounted to 932,280,000 f., being 121,417,0001. less• than in 1839. The greatest amount of bills in the hands of the Bank at any one time was 201 millions in January ; and the smallest 130 millions in June. Tue num ber of commercial bills of exchange discounted by the Central Bank is stated to have amounted to 610,600, being 27,800 less than in 1839. The average amount of this value was lowered, too, from 1.6391. to 1,t171., ann the average time of their maturity from 52 2-3 d a y s to 56 4-sth days. Out of this number of bills 266 024 were from I,ooof. to 200 f. in value, and 63,247 under 200 f. 'Tile accounts current varied from 54 millions in January to 90 millions in October, and fell main to 61 millions in Dc cemher. In January, the Trekiimy was creditor of the Bank for.l7omillions ; in November for 105 millions, and in December for 114 millione..'4he average amount of the money kept in reserve by the Bank, during the year, was 238,900,000 f., and the average amount of its notes in circulation 221.900,0001. Dur ing the course of the year, the amount of bills upon which payment was deferred, was only 48,4931. ; and of this, 32,7071. had been recovered. Two new branch banks at Grenoble and Angouleme, having been founded during the year, their total number is now six ; and the operations of the four firs: of those for that period, amounted to 170,000,0001., having been more than doubled within three years. The total expense of the management of the central establishment, including salaries and charges of a ll ki n ds. wait only 971,000 f , being a reduction on 1530 of 49,000 f." M. Moreau has been re-elected censor of the Bank of France for three years, and Messrs. J. Perier, Dosne, and Lebeuf regents for five years. The Lyons papers mention that several small f..iluros have just taken place at Chalons-sur. Saone, aryl :have caused much uneasiness among the merchants and elalers of that place. The Chanber of Deputies was occupied on Thursday with the CuStoms' Bill. The following summary of an article in the Pie se on the sub ject of this Bill is important, as expressing the enlightened views of one portion of the French Cabinet The present French customs law is founded on the principle of prohibition, more or less disguised under the name of proteCting duties. The great argument upon which this system is founded, is that France ought to be. protected, according to the economical jargon of the pro hibition school, from the consequences of becoming tribut ary to foreigners. Nothing can be more absurd than the system of prohibition which wishes to force the nation to produce at an enormous cost what might be purchased elsewhere in greater quantities, of better quality, and cheaper. With certain exceptions, nations ought to confine themselves to cultivating or producing such ebject* only as are suited to the nature of their soil and the genius of their inhabitants. It is only society in its infant state which endeavours to provide itself with the objects of second order as well, as the objects of first necessity. A nation which would obstinately persevere in such a ruinous and chimerical Otmrse might be compared to an individual whir, notwithstanding, the resources which the various pro fessions afford, would endeavour to become his own tailor, hatter;' and shoemaker. Such, to make use of a vul gar simile, it precisely what France has done, thank' to the system of2prohibitiotr. Under pretence of not bc6)rhiog tributary fo fps-elvers, she has laid an excessive duty on articles which might be obtained abroad at a moderate price, in order to produce those articles herself by artifi- ,~ i 1 1 1-1141 SrN, LONDON, M( D4' FVERTI ARY 'PAL MARIC.ETS.-(THIS DAy ). CORN EXCHANGE Ia the past week there was a fair arrival of Barley and Data, but not much other grain, The fresh supplies were ,:nall, sad as the severity of the frost iaterrupts business, very been -- done here, and prices of 'An trtichni svere as last quoted. There was a better sale for flour t)an of .late, at no alteration in value. AR.D OF St-'IP. Beans, Sinai nCW) 43. 455. (old) .45' 4 , r. ---- Tick (new) 37 34,. (old) 42. 445. IL,rrow (new) 404. 4ls ------ (old) 443. 4Cr. Brank • Oats, Feed New. "203.23 x. Poland New 25x.23*, Potatoe — 3.— A. 'Jaw 264. 30s. Scotch OA. 30S. Irish 18s. ... 245. Hour Town (per Sack).... 50s. 5'4. ---- Seconds 46=.485. - Nerth Country 45, 462, Bran lli 1'2.. )NOON OULU NI; I ASl' «EES ;arley. Oats. Floi , •, ;773 qrs. 5,095 gm 8,63 i ^acxs, 7,29 S rls ~: nals LIBERATION OF THE JAMES WATT STEAMER:—The Gazette des Tribunaux states, that on the 21 instant, the Cour Royale of Rouen, on appeal, had reversed the judg ment of the President of the Ci%il Tribunal, who on the complaint of the French Company, owners of the steam boat Phenix, ordered the British steam-boat, James Watt, to fieleized as security for the loss of the Phenix, sunk by a collision with a steam-boat belonging to the English Company. The James Watt has, iu consequence of this judgment, been permitted to sail on her usual service. Tug FRENCH FLEET —We quote the following from a Toulon letter of the Ist inst. On the day after the first consist'ng of the Ocean, Admiral Hugon's ship. the Jena, Neptune, Triton, and Genereux, went out of port, it was dispersed by a violent gale. The day be fore yesterday the Genereux reached the Island of Hyeres, having lost several of her men, and a considerable part of her sails. Captain Verdier has hail his shoulder dislocated. The Gencreux can give no account of her consorts." Madrid Papers of the 29th ult. have come to hand. Among the many grave affairs that em ploy the attention of the Regency, we find that of Court notices, prescribing the order in which the Grandees of Spain were to attend a Levee to be hoiden by the/Most Serene !Infanta MARIA Loufs.t, sister of Queen IsAnELLA 11., on the 30th ult. the Infanta LoufsA is a puling, ptinny child of nine years of age, whose infantine, caprices occupy the grave heads of the Regency! In the land which commemorates the martyrdom of MEG°, this display of devotion to the most con temptible forms of despotism is really ,too bad. But, perhaps, we mistake the object of the Re gency, which may be to render Court etiquette as contemptible as it is silly and vexatious. If such be their object they 'are' going the right way to work ; and that it really is, would appear from an article in the. Castellano, which states that intrigues were on foot for the establish ment of a republic. The same Journal of the 29th has the following account of the state of the Money Market : The funds continue to decline, arising, no doubt, from the news from the provinces, where the state of things is regarded in a different light from that of 'Madrid. The vacillkting nature of public tranquillity,the impotent and im provident Governnient, the oppressed state of the Treasury, and the ill-managed division of the revenue, are sufficient reasons for speculators to take alarm, and to lose confi dence. The present disorder is a sad guarantee for the future. In the Four per Cents. twenty bargains were effected at 241 at sixty days. In the New Five por Cents. forty-one operations were transacted for 28,480,000 teals, at 284 for cash ; 28 1-16, k, 3-16, and 30, at'sixty days; and at 284, 11-16, 13-16, 15-16, 291, and 30, at different periods. In the debt without interest business was done at 6k for cash.. B :SE.— I 9 Aras, FEIDAY, FED. 5. • First Highest Lowest Last Price Price. Pries , Price te. ch cc Cents ll'2 55 112 70 ... 112 60 per I:Oils 102 50 102 50 1119 50 ... 102 50 4 per gents 3 per Cents 7ti Li ... .70 ... 76 65 ... 7o 65 k of enttiCe L ilitte Link 1,11001. Sh lO5O —1 , 50 —lllso' _IMo 5001. SVares 1140 ...5140 57; 50 57' 50 ... 577 50 ... 577 50 5 I.er 09% ... 99% ... 9J% • 3 oer Cents 6B 10 623 10 .315 10 ... CS i 0 Ncw'Loan 98% 98% ... tirq„ Active. 125- ... c 5% *25% l'assirc 6/Ai (114 6 1 . 6 1 4 161 1 , 0... 1111 6 . ... 101 60 'Ol 6. t'Je an • F.AILWAY SHARES. • St t 1 e! Mai Ve:railies,lt, It 235 3:35 ... 532 50 232 51) Orleans 5 ,. . , 4,0 co flats Innen We have received this morning Belgian and German J ournals of the latest dates. The fol- lowing are extracts from them : BRUS.nE.L3, Fee. 4.—We learn that the Minister of Public 'sVorks is eng:gcd on the means of introducing into Belgi.:m one of the greatest improvements that have been made in ow'' time, namely, a uniform rate of postage to letters. A principal clerk of the Post-ofce was see short time ago -to England, to study the new system his t report is said to indicate the meats of introducing .1 'artiong e 4, bUt with modifications, which would'prevent the enormous diminution of the receipts vrhiela has taken place in Englithd. M. itogier will thus have the honour of introducing the two greatest measures which have taken place in the administration •of Belgium—the com pletion of Our rail-roads, and a reduced uniform rate uf postage, which Fr:wee has just rejected. ' We most confess that if the representative system have the serious defect of wasting the time in debate, the Bel gian Chlmbers, which talks much, at least finds time to do something. I: is not the case in France ; there nothing or less than nothing is really done, for the erec tion of the fortification is spending its money in the worst possible manner; they might as well make ducks and drakes with it. The frost was very severe during the night. This morn ing the mercury in Rcauther's thermometer was 9 below zero. All the canals arc frozen over, so that the navi gation is totally stopped, for the second time within two months. Bat'ssims, FEB. s.—The King will set out to- morrow for London, where he is expected on Monday. He is to be one of the godfathers to the Princess Royal of England, whose christening is fixed for Feb. 10. M. Von de Wege, who has been here on leave of Os- Bence, le.t Brussels to-day with his family to return to his post. VIENNA, JAN. 27.—Major-General Von Hess, who has lately returned from the south of Germany, is on the point of setting cut for Berlin, to confer on some points not suffi ciently discussed relative to the measures which have lately become necessary in Germany. 6 ELUL AZ! I , UNDS—glitussistA, FEB. r'.. - ro Actual Dela, 2 .;, per Cent. Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cent ii7% Loan rel Thirty 3iillions, 4 per Cent. 6e% ------(1 . 4o) 97 ------- 3 per Cent. .— . Thirty seven ..• fiS% Loan of City, 1831:, 4 per Cent B2 Society of Colt - an,rce, 4 %per Cent IC2 Bank of Flelgitan, 5 per Cent - 87% Nationa I Society . — Exchange en London (short) —Brussels Papers, Feb. 5. AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VignBs, Jaw, 27 five per Cents. Metalliques Pour per Cent 5........ .............. . lO3 Three p.r Cents. Bank Sham ll3O —..ittgerncirie Zeitung Feb. 1 DUTCII FUNDS.—AMSTERDAII, FEB. S Moiler. 81l 8. .ctoai Dsht, t: per Cent ..htto, ditto 5 per CCM. ,I , ,iti t Svntlic, 4 4 per cent 8 6 ,4 ' IIN nitro, ditto, - 3% per cent 711 34 71 Commercial Company, 4% p , r cent Ditto (i 635 and 1837) 5 per cent. Loan I/:37, 5 per cent. 94% 95 Exchange on London, One month l2 Twn months Dutch Papers, Feb. 6. HA 11BUltG BORSENHALLE, Fin. 2. Bills. Money Austrian 5 per Cents. :tank share. - it tfOo.rtussiati Loan .. 106% . ioN it wsizn 5 per Cent. !St series, Certificate ...... 102% 102% Inscription, Ist Se:i•:s lO3 Rustitit 5 per Cent. Hopi and Co. 3d and 4th Scats ... 96 34 96 Ditto in Certificates Dutch Actual Debt, 2% per Cent 48% '', Onto 5 per Cent Polish liond. New ticket a 157 156 Anglo-I)anith Loan, 3 per Cert... 144 74 • N ,wegian Loan, 1831, 4 per Cent.... III Spanish, New 5 per Cents. la% 3.I2CCHANUE6 ON LONDON. 'Damao, FEB. :1-13 s.—Two months, 13 3 . sTouttitou4. JAN. 21.—Seventy.five days, 11 :8. CHRISTIANIA. JAN.:O —Three months. 4 50 PRUSSIAN FUNDS.— 132aLib, FHB. 2. ... , _.. • - _ Brno. - Money. St. Schuh'. Sch., 4 , v per cent. lts.% I. 3% Prlnsisit English Limn, IS3 II , 4 ver cent 100 A I( ot4 NYC! , ango on London, three months...—. • 1750 ...Pf'' titSioll Sr/ 0 ciimcite, Feb S. ri;il - E WEATHER. ROYAL GALLERY OF SCINCE, ADELAIDE STREET. Noce. FEE. 8. Barometer 2 9 ,425 In. Thermometer Highest....., . 29 Lowest Wind E.—Freezing Point 32 Deg. The wind now is greatly moderated, but the cold is still very intense, and owing to the severity of the weather vast rumbas of persons are thrown out of employment. The Thames above bridge is no longer navigable. The ica which has been accumulating for some days past has now so connected itself as to become one vast and conti nuous field. The barges moored on either bank from Westminster-bridge to Putney aro barricaded, and many are at anchor in the middle of the stream. At four o'clock yesterday the ice was so connected at and above Battersea-bridge that a man might have easily crossed the river upon it. As a proof of the severity of the weather, and a prog nosticati, n of its continuance, a great many sea-gulls were observed fling and hovering over London-bridge yester day afternoon; about Eve o'clock upwards of a dozen were . counted at one time. Large numbers of snipes have, dur ing the week, been seen in the marshes of Tottenham and Hackney, and in the adjoining low lands of Essex, and occaSionally some wild duck. ~ ; • - , BRISTOL SUGAR MARKET, FEB. 5.--.ouf cffices have been very barely supplied with sampreitince our last, and nearly everyth►ng on show taken at rather higher prices. The stock in first hands is now reduced to. a few hundred hogsheads, and there teems every probability of our being absolutely destitute of sugars before arrivals of any consequence come to Land.—Bristol Mercury, APPROACHING MARRIAGE IN HIGH LIFE.: —The marriage of the EArl of Eglinton with Mcs. Ceckei ell, sister-in-law of Sir Charles Cockerel!, , Bart., will be solemnised in the course of the ensuing week. •'e ' e PRICES ON 1.. Wheat,Red (old) —s. —s. --While (old) --e. --s. Red(184 , :l) s2s 545. ----- Fine 555. 575. Superfine 5Ss. 645. (184 5 ) 545. 595. Fine 10s. --- Superfine 655. 1;8s., ------Foreienfree 5 Li. :Os. 38s. 40s. 3arl4y 2lB. 375. -- Grinding • 6s. t - 2Ss. Dialling 2ss. Ault Ws, Os,' Fine New 6::s. 635.! ecase, Grey, New 3,.5. -- Maple New - 40, 425. White 345. 3:ls. Boilers 37s. 38,. ARRIVALS OF GRAIN IN L W heat. ' English I 2,2.i7 qrs. Irish Fureign Lb 0 SMITHFIELD. The supply of Cattle was pretty good, but the trade was dull, the best quality being full 44 per stone lover, ~ncl other sorts in proportion. The supply of Sheep was short and trade languid. Veal was not a good trade, and lower prices were submitted to; little demand for, Pork and the supply short. Beasts, 2,862 ; Sheep, 1,896; Pigs, 341 ; Calves, 35. 13.. cf, 3s 44 to 43 8d ; :I:utton, 3s 8d to ss; Veal, 4s to 5. 10i ; 3 • Si to 4s 81. TEA MARKET. The Market firm, prices itruicir,g up, and a large busi. ness done. Company's Congou is 7id per lb. cash, buyers. • TALLOW MARKET. An increase of demand for this article, but, in conse quence of the cold weather, holders asked advanced priers, 47s on the spot, or 464 91 to deliver during next month• PROVISION MARKET. The demand for Butter was good, and prices being firm, owing to the snrcrity of the frost, the best Irish brings 108 s to 109 s, and fine Dutch 114 s; fine Bacon firm at 50s, for prime quality landed, and a good demand exists. Lard steady at 70s to 72i landed, with firmness amongst the holders. ',LOY D'S H IPPIN G.-(T HIS DAY.) Faa. B.—lt blew a fresh gale from the Eastward on Saturday night and Sunday morning, but moderated to wards noon, but again commenced at • about 4 p.m., and' blew very hard with squalls, until 9 p.m., when it moderated to a light breezc, the wind drawing to the southward, and early this morning there was alight fall of drizzling rain, but immediately after the wind shifted to the eastward, and commenced freezing. Wind this day at noon,- light breezes from N.E. to S.E. with hazy weather. DIAL, FIB. 6.—Wind E. 7, E. strong breeze.—Siiled the Arcturus, Hill, for Calcutta. • MILFORD, FRB. 6.L-Prince Leopold, • Somerscales, from Cardiff to Liverpool, assisted in here leaky, must discharge to • • repair. NEWPORT, FEI. 7.—The Maidstone, Clark, hence to Locdon, was driven from her anchors at Lavernach Point, dui in; a heavy gale, sth inst., at E. S.E., and went on shore, and is expected to become a wreck, crew saved. A timber brig is reported to be on shore at Breaksea Point. CARDIFF, FED. 6.—Several vessels are on shore on Pcnartb Beach. One, a schooner, the sea making a clear breach over her. Two brigs between Lavernach and Penarth Poit. One light brig, supposed the Jessie of Vhitehaven. WELLs, FEB. 7.--:-The Dryden, Spoof, from Abo to Gib raltar, is on shot e near Thornham, and net expected to be got off, crew raved. • MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS CITY, 7' WEL YE 0' CL 0 C.K. • LIVERPOOL COTTON MAIIKET, SATURDAY.—The sales of cotton to-day arc 5,000 bags, at yeiterday's . quotations MANCLIESTER. STOCI EXCHANGE, FEB. 6.—The Share Market is still depressed. Our sales are—Manchester and Birmingham, 25; nmichester ,and . Birmingham ExtenSion, 2i; Stafford and Rugby, 3} 3i ; Lancaster and Pres ton, 30 ; Manchester and Leeds, 70 ; Manchester and Liver pool District Bank, IIA ; Manchester and Salford Bank, 10i. • Extract of a letter, per the Cambridge, from New York - , dated Jan. 8: • •' The Garrick is ashore about twenty miles north of Sandy Hook. The third mate has reached this city this mornmg, and reports the ship still ashore, but will rio doubt be got off with little damage. All on board are safe, and the storm has now cleared up. Ship not bilged. We have received Cape of Good Hope Papers to the 29th of November.- The following is an extract from the Graham's Journal of Nov. 19 :-- ' 1 So many accounts hate reached us from Natal, and from the country to the west of the Druakberg, purport ing that a system of domestic slavery amongst the emi grants is becoming very general, that it would be absurd to affect to believe that they are altogether baseless. It is affirmed that a traffic irt native children is a matter of every day occurrence, and that the authorities, if they do not openly countenance it, take no measures to suppress it, or to punish those who are engaged in such nefarious deal ings. We • are assured that amongst the emigrants, the sale of native servants take. place under the very eye of the Government. It behoves•the emigrants to look carefully to themselves in this matter. SMALL Pox.—We are rquested to state, for the infor mation of the public, that the rumour of small pox having aga n appeared in Cape Town is unfounded. From the Bombay. Papers received this morning, it is stated from Agra Uenbar, Dec. 19, that Colonel Stod dart had been released from confinement by the King, who had ordered him to drill a battalion of infantry ; he was then engaged in enrolling them. We have received the Journal of Antwerp of Satur day's date. BOURSE OF AMsmftDAM, Fan. 3.—The affairs in Na tional Funds have been insignificant; although some of the prices were firm little variation took place. Integrales 50 1.16 , h ; Society of Commerce 1591. In the Foreign Funds little has been done ; Ardoin's Spanish rather weaker, 22 5-16ths ; Coupons 20f. TN( /UNTIL Consols opened this morning heavy ; hat off on Satur day et 69 sellers for the Account, opened this morning at 68a l, since which the Market has a firmer appearance, and they may be quoted at- present 881 for the Account ; Exchequer Bills 5 7 premium; Bank Stock 163 164; India btock 245 247. In the Foreign Market Spanish Active rather a shade lower, left off at 244, opened 23i 24- , -; Deferred, 12 : f 1 1 ,-; Passive, 6 i 1 ,-; Portuguese same us they left off, 311 32 ; Three-per-Cents., 19:i l 20; Brazilian 74 ; Colombian 24 23 ; Mexican, 271- ; Chilian, 63 65 ; 14.21gian, OS 99 ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 49i ; Fire per Cents., 981 991. SHARES. —Great Western, 241 2.51 prem. ; New, 11 12 prem. ; London and Brighton, 7 7 dis. ; wall, 41- 3 dis. ; Birmingham, 84 86 prem. ; South srapto,i, 57 58 per share Croydon, 14 per share ; Greenwich, 84 i per share; Manchester and Birmingham, 15i 14 dis. PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE. RA ILWAYS. Paid. Par Share. Eastern Counties Ditto Debentures Lircat Western Ditto Fifths London and Brighton London and South Western 3Bl .. to JOINT STOCK UANKC. National of Ireland l7l 115,1 to PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS, DUBLIN, FEB. 4. 3 per Cent. Consols Three and half Stock 97 Grand Canal Stork Ditto Reduced Ditto New, 1630 ...... 97i Ditto 4 per cent per Cent. Debs. HAI,F-PA ST ONE. The private letters received this morning by the India mail chiefly relate to commercial affairs, and there does not appear to be any further intelligence than what has already . been published. • It is stated that Mr. Jaudon intends to publish an ex planatory note respecting the statement of the United States Bank, which will be sent to all the shareholders. The British Market has been in an inactive state during the whole of the morning; although the Market has rathet improved since the opening, still there is no spirit for speculating; the monied interest aro waiting to fiscal-win, or' have some 'hint respecting, the wants of Ministers. Consols have been fluctuating from ati to 88a. at which price they are at present ; Exchequer Bills 5 7 prem. ; Bank Stook 164 ; India Stock 246. In the Foreiga Market scarcely a bargain doing except in Spanish Active, which has been 23i, at present 24k ; Deferred 12} ; Portuguese 32 ; Dutch Two-and-a- Half per Cents. 50; Five per Cents. 98i. In the Share Market little business doing, prices rather lower. Eat ern Counties 71; Great Western 89i; Ditto Fifths 9; s l ; London and Brighton 43: South Western 57i. ; THE TENTH OF FEBRUARY.—This is a day of peculiarly auspicious character, one of those which the ancients delighted to mark with " a white atone"—a dies alba—a happy day 1 On the tenth of February of the past year our young and beloved Sovereign bestowed her hand and heart on the man of her choice, and formed an alliance rarely accomplished on a Throne—one of affection and love. On the same day in the present year, the youthful and Royal pair appear at the altar to consecrate, by the most hallowed and interesting of ceremonies, the infant pledge of their union and their affection. The felicitous event will of course be celebrated by every de monstration of joy —balls, parties, and fetes will he the order of the day, and among the most favourite requisites for the Toilet the indispensable articles produced by Messrs. Rowland, their unrivalled Kalydor for the skin and face, their invaluable Macassar Oil . for the hair, and their equally celebrated Odonto for the teeth and gums, cannot fail to be in extensive requisition. BENGAL.—CHOLERA AT DACCA.—The fol lowing is an extract of a letter from Dacca, dated sth December, 1840:—" Cholera is raging with the greatest violence just now in this city and its environs, and the number of deaths cannot be less than fifty daily. A dis pensary in this city, under the management of one of the students of the Medical College, who have passed exami , nation, would be a great desideratum."—Hurharu, Dec. 9. NUPTIAL FESTIVITIES.—Grand entertain ments were given by Lord Sudeley, on the marriage ol the Hon. Henry Hanbury Tracy with the Hon. Miss Shir. ley, sister of Viscount Tamworth, both on his estates in Gloucestershire and Montgomeryshire. At Gregynog hall, in the latter county, the festivities lasted several days and did not terminate until Friday : the rejoicings of th, tenantry being kept up at Newton and the neighhhurim', villages, Kith good Welsh cheer — feasting , d ancin g , a n d t he charming minstrelsy of that ancient province. , • 4. EVE NT I N niTioN Wl , O ila.4 itl ci,t-ud his cpittion on i.,n !hat prcsttitt; d stud ih.td subcniard to ia order thu.t thAt opinion and there prldeiv;LA might Fan hilly known, and Le had shewn himself ettltched . 'to *tlroks. libtral" - priticiplcs which reptOd make the House cf Comrrinsi the true re prcsentai,cs of tai people, vah cl, would_ improve the con nection botweci, the constituencies , and tise• P4rliatinent, An l g:re full sift-et to the principles of the Reform ilia. rhere was one queiticn to which some cf the v,entlemen opposite had alluded. and he most heartily rejoiced that Mr. Alcock had stzted his opinions openly and fairly upon that question. He had bccn attacked for those opinions, but he did rejoice that on the subject' of the Corn-lows, Mr. Alcock had frankly stated his opinions, in the full conviction that those opinions were thorouglilyleon accted 'with the interests of the whole nation. (Cries of " eve want cheap bread.") Mr. Alcock had en equal intenfst with gentlemen opposite in the pros:writy of the agricultural interest—(Cries of " none, none") — and had stood forward fur the county, openly statint; _very man :rho stood for so s &rge a constituency must do, What his opinions ware. Ut concluded by se ek:ll6llg the norninutiou. Mr. Avraont . s and Mr. AL.CCCK then severally ad dressed the el,cLori, and at show or hands `,hating been t?ken, the Under Sheiiff declared it to be in favour of Mr. Ale , ck. The announcement was received with great cheering. Mr. WESTMA_COTT and Mr. CcArifs afterwards ad. dreased some observation to the frecholdcra, and the meeting 'separated. GENERAL sTEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY. TO THE EDITOR OF7II 'StIIV. Chief Office, 69, Lombard strcct,'Lomisrt SlR,—The Directors of the G:ncral S.c.tm Novigatiori Company having observed sevoral statements bath in the English and French newspaprrs, respecting proceedings now pendeing in We Courts of France, spiast this Com pany by the owners of the l'Oeaix •Scccm.rh'p, I am desired to declare that no such statements have been authorized or:sanctioned by tlals Company. In feet, the paragrephs refer' e i to conto:n many inac, curacies pet judicial to the interests of this Company; but as the case. is ; under legal investigation ; the Directors consider it improper to publish any ex-parte representa, tjon, and therefore content themselves at present ‘‘ l ll. l stating that in ; the whale proceedings in this cate have acted implicitly under the advice and on this opinion of their well known distinguished Freaeh Advocates, M. Dapir, Pa is, M. Desfrortaice, of [Lyre, ai.d NI: Des Champs, of /Luca, end that they look forward with confi dence to the decision of the French Tribunals. I em, Sir, your mast obedient servant, February 8,.1 ii4l. JOHN WILSON, Sce-etary., AML RICA4I COLONIZATION 'SOCIETY. `Agreeably to public noticc, th P,.... R. C ur l ey, a Szeretary to. the American s.oioni ,e z..tion society a dd ri. ,„ e d tol' audience on two successive e venings. (7oursd and Friday) last week, in the Egyptian Hall , Piccadilly y , ex w sanlc o n f la t r h g e ed oo b i e o I,''.er.,.lence of this So 4cr d race in Am er i ca cpileatiyninJwtahred3vieall classes and Africa, and reply ing to va . sious objections urged against it. At the clue of the second lecture, Mr. Gurley was invited by one of his auditors, Mr. John Scoble, of the Anti-Slavery society, to enter on a debate with him. The chalhinge was readily accepted fur Monday evening, when a highly interesting discussion took 'place, which was aejourned to Wednesday, Daniel Lister, Esq , prcsi'ding on - both occasions. At the close of• Mr. Guticy's reP)y to Mr. Scoble's first speech on Wednetdar, the 'latter, cinniltd at the course of the Chairman, (which was i‘u.,tained by the meeting), suddenly left the Platferni, Mr. Gurley was tcqueted .toiproceed in his stalcinents. 'At the conclusion of his remarks, on the motion of Dr', Costello. seconded be A. B. Wright, Esq., the ineoting expr. red their thanks to Mr. Gurley for the valuable facts and views he had so eloquently submitted to their considezaftoa, ma adjourned till Vriday evening. At this third ine, ling, Mr. Lister having b: en again called to the chair, Dr. Costello reviewed in a brief, but pertinent and able manner, the course of the several meetings. •The Chairman also Made a few observations express:re of his regret that: anything should have occurred which should have - hhen" Utter ed by Mr. Scoblc cause sufficient to render his retreat, necessary. Mr. Marley then, at the. request or the, meeting, submitted variou s fa c t s . and doer}. ments vindicating the American Colonizatioa Society and the Colony of Liberia from objection and reproach,, and showing its . tendency to suppress the African Slave Trade, and . introduce civirrition and, Christianity among the native' popidation. Elliott Cresson, Esq., followed Mr. dinky with many facts and statements in corrobo ration of his views, and of the beneficent policy of the Society. • Lieutenant-Colonel It D,gndas Can pbell, late Gove r n o r of Sierra Lere, then rose slid expressed in a very earnest and emphatic manner, regal d tor the American Colo nization Society.arld from his personal observation; on the coast of Afaita.and reports from English naval oili6ers; who had , visited-Liberia, his conliction of the good character of the, people hi that colony and of the great benefits to be an tieipated:from the multiplication of similar establishments.. Colonel Campbell than moved a resolution, That the American Colonization Sictety is descrying of • .high tsp_ . probation, end that this Society,.and.the.eolony•of Liberia are contributing essentially to the.-suppression of the African Sltte Trade, and the civilization of Africa. Mr. Guest,'lr 'secOnding tha motion, .suggkgted by way of amendment, " That in the lectures and debates to whi c h the meeting had listened for several evenings, Mr. Gurley had triumphantly vindicated the American Colonization Society from all reproach, and established its character as a puce and b nevulent institution." PETTY VAUGUAN, E:q., proposed to add, " l'hat the Arnelican Colonization Siciew is worthy of the approba tion and support of English philanthropy. The original resolution of Colonel:Campbell, and the..amendments, were then unanimously adopted. A Committee was appointed„ and a subscription opened on the motion of Dr. Hodgkin, to tarry forward these objects. That.ks having been voted to the Ch-airman for his able sersices, the meeting was adjourned till Wednesday 10th inst., at eight o'clock iu I • the same place. It is stated that the fitting up of the House of Lords for the trial of I.,rd Cardigau will cost 2,0001. The public have tl us to pay 2,000/. - because Lord Carcii dandlocot , i , s u a r., p t ke r, c ie e s r . if i c eu i d ra riLia:; o_; ra s t h h c e u r id to t o ,e ir r r , a l t e lo g -c a a te l gar, was pivalqi to call out and shoot Mr. Tucke.t. This ii t e lY o f° ld r Bailey. A tlozen duels by Peers in the cour se o f th e year would be at,tenelett with an expense and interruptioa of the buripes's •of Parliament that would compel the public to'call for tin abrogation of the abserd privilege of the Peers,:i...-Rxertniner. • , .I.,ROCKrORD S. This celebrated societe no longer 'exists. True, the hone star is where it did, and, don%diess, the new Cub will long bear the charmed name of Crockford's; but the Crockford's is no more, and the late proprietor has no longer any interest in Coe manage ment or table. The millionaire retires to enjoy in peace his prii.eoly fortune. The new club is it the hands of a committee. The -Duke of Buccicuch is employing al those workeich upon his estate at Bowirill that cannot work at their usual ernploprout owing to the severity of the wea ther, by digging out the rabbits from their burrows, with which his estate at Bowhill obouuds. The Marquis of Lotlian is employing all his sa oilmen in a similar way at present upon his estate at Mounteviot and elsewhere. €IR MOSES MoNTEFimiu.•,--Mr. Wire, who arcorepanied Sir Moses Montefiore in his mission to the East, !antler! at Daver on Friday evening, lie left Sir Moses end Lady Montefiore et . Geena, where they were detained hr an accident which occurred to one of their servants on the • read from Genoa to Savona. While coanging horses, in descending a mountain, the fore horses. riot being detached irons the carriage, moved on ; the servant ran to - stop Jlson, lest the carriage, in %chic,. were Sir Moses ana . .„Lady, Niolitefiore, should be thrown over a preeipice,• near turee hundred feet deers, into the fe3. The hcrses 4 ",klek'N, the servant, knocked him down, and both of thCarriage-wheels passed over his body, by which an ii.clination was given to the carriage, ar,d the wheels Pot lucked in a drain, and turned it against a rock on tile opposite side of the precipice. The escape was almost miraculous. Sir Moses end Lady Nlontetioro were unhurt; but the servant, although no bones were broken, was severely bruised, and his right leg was dreael fully lacerated. The party returned to Genoa, where Dr. Brunet, an eminent English surgeon, dressed the wounds of Sir Moses's servant, whose master and mistress deter mined not to proceed on their journey homewards until he should be able to accompany therm—CM:enter. Dr. Channing, in his lecture on war, proposes to alter altogether the military equipments of officers and men, to strip them of all their finery, so attractive to thu vanity of the young—to rem ove all gaudy colours, all laces, feathers, epaulettes, e. &c , and to adopt the most sombre colours for uniforms, as best suited to the dreadful. trade of human carnage. 'Dili be thinks, would check,, vonsiderably, the love for m ilitary career. lioo UNlON.—Tbere was a meeting of Ma gistrates on Friday, ty whom it war determined after some , a charges of cruelty .that have discussion, to investiv te fresh been preferred agams • t 11:1:s, the late master, whose trial. is fixed to take place at the next A.ss.z..e. We revret to hear that Charles Young, tho late eminent tragedian, met with a severe accident a fort night a o ,t,it e on a visit to Lord Dacre, at the 800, in g 11" • t • fell • d • -1 horse an (01, led his foot; but Hertfordshire. though he is yet unable to be moved, it is believed that in a few v ecks lac will be suilicicatly recovered to return • h e i s s t e L r o d r a d y , h i n the p t l s n r lc e h • rsp6r , i t e h s at ) to town. The answers to i re sidence of Lord Panmute w as better, and lad almost entirely recovered from his recent sc v s cr i e it atti .l ick sT of L t E h y e g c ou o t. o — P S E l l i t l . d2 — " P WC "Pe r r e . gtet much to find that this Nestor of surgery, in lieu of improving in his licidth, as was hoped, has retrog,r4ded. tie is now much worse than at th e b eg i nn i ng o f the week, and fears are entertained respecting the esent. On inquiring late yosterdsy, we learn that he was not any better. Dr. Holland and Dr. Chambers are his medical advi;ers. The Lancet says his complaint is assuming a dropsical tendency. —Observer. MELANCHOLY SIIIPWRECNI—We regret to learn that, on . Wednesday night, a small sloop, v.nich was in the habit of conveying stores f:oni Fife to Graviton Pier, sunk near BurritiSland, and a man and boy, who were on board of her, perished. —Edinburgh Courant. FROST AND SNOW.—llie countty papers re ceived in town to-day c ontain notices of the extreme seve rity of the weather, and of a fall Gf snow to the full as deep in many parts of t'le country as occurred in the pre ce.iing- storm a week or two ago. In Leland the frost appears to have b:en sr verer, and the fall of snow greater even than in e ither England or Sectinnd We latnentto ebservo that in va:lon pins of the country poor people have perished, some of then, lacing t2en frozen to deato while o thers have, we fear, died from privatioW of the corn mon comforts and nece:,s:riet of life. EAST SURREY ELECTION. EXPIZESS-(THIS DAY.) The neminati n of candidates for the E stern Division of Su rey ok place ais morningat Croyd• n and 'Torn an ea , ly hour the town presented the u;uel animat.A appear aece which it his been proverbial 'Curing it:; clee tioncering phrases. Notwitly,tan - ling tl e inclemency of the weather, a drizzling sleet hoi:ng fallen all the morning, which froze es it fell, the windows were erpw,.led with ladies, d splaying flags and handkerchiefs decorated with the colour cf their favourite candidat those of Antrobus greatly predomintting. Several bann!..rs ,i,id flags were displayed fr e m the principal inns and ho•, tels, while d bands of music paraded the streets, and gror:ps of idle partisans collected, and burraed or hooted as the parties, decorated with the badges of their political Mends or opponents passed. At half-past nine the pro cession of Mr. Antrobus, which had been formed at Streatham and Honiten Heath, entered the town, headed by a band of music, and a variety of flags and banners, en te-ed the town. The procession extended upwards of a mile in length, and ex'tibited a variety of orange and purple decorations. Among the inscriptions on the flags were- 4 . Antrobus for East Surrey," Church at d State," " Church and Queen," " United for our Queen and country," &c. &c. Mr. Alcock's procession was also formed at Thornton Heath, the standard-bearer and carriages displaying a va riety of white and blue banners and cockades. On the banners were " Victoria, the People's Queen," " Liberty and Independence," " The Repeal of the Bread-tax," &c. A strong body of the P division of Metropolitan pol'ce arrived in the . course of the morning, and assisted mate rially in prestrving order at the hustings. At ten o'clock Mr. ABBOTS', the Under-Sheriff, entered the Court-house, and having read the precept, adjourned the Court to the Fair field, a short distance outside the kown, where hustings had been erected, and a line of waggons drawn up on either side, in the form of a semicircle, to accommodate the friends of the Candidates. At eleven o'clock the Candidates and their friends, arrived on the groundiand were re ceived with cheers and hootings by the vast body who were assembled in front of the hustiugs. The Under-Sheriff, Mr. Abbott, appeared on the. hustings shortly after 11 o'clock, and having again read the precept and the writ, _ _ . Mr. A. K. BARCLAY came forward amidst the greatest uproar and confusion to propose Mr. Antrobus as a fit and proper person to represent the county of East Surrey in Parliament. fie believed Mr. An trobus was a man eminently calculated to represent the county, and of this be was sure, that if he wasiclected he would most faithfully discharge his duty, and would do all in his power to benefit his county.—(Great uprofr and confusion.) He, it was true, was one of those parties who were denominated Conserve tives.—(Cries of " Tory.") And they were distinguished for their loyalty to their Sovereign.—e(Great laughter and hisses.) The cry for the Ballot was in his opinion an absurd cry. He believed that the people , of England did not desire the Ballot or wished to have the Constitution tampered with; all that was 're quired was, that the institutions of the country should be improved, and, for those improvements Mr. Antrobtis would always be found a most strenuous advocate. The worthy. Gentleman concluded by proposing Mr. Antrobus, but the noise and confusion that took place during the whole of the speech, rendered it impossible - to catch one sentence in ten. Mr. PAINTER then came forward to second the nomina tion of Mr. Antrobus. He believed that there was but one opinion of Mr. Antrobus—he was a straightfor ward,, honest, and independent man.—(Great confusion.) It appeared to him peculiarly fit that the electors'of ,Sur rey shoal I elect a Member that was unconnected' a ith coremercs a wkieh Mr. Antrubus was.-2(Great confusion.) The I lectors of Surrey, and Mr. Mitrobus among them, were for practical measures of RAirrn; but fhey did not go so far as to adopt those tteasarek were r q4'red by the Democratic party. Mr. Paint: r Con6luded by second ing the nomination of Mr. Antrobus. • 7 • The Rev. Mr. COURTNEY then came forward to propose Thomas, Ateock, Esq., of Ringwood Lodge. as a•• fit and proper person to represent the county in Parliament.-- (Loud cheers and hisses.) He trusted they would allow him, ou the plea of age and infirmity and actual ill ness, ib be covered.—(Laud cries of " Yes,") Arid now as he had many personal and intimate frjen'ds on the opposite side, considering, also, that lioWever strong ' his political opinions n I feelings mgat be, he Lever bad in his life, and he never should bay any thing personally offensive to any man.-:-( Great intearhp tion.) He was sure they would acknowledge the great disadvantage they laboured under in speaking in the -open air, but if they were; to be put down by clamour it was all mockery. He and his friends had done all they could to keep the people on their side of the hustings quiet, but he regretted they had been so far unsuccessful that he had nut heard a single word that either of the opposite gen tlemen' had said. He consequently laboured trader the disaVantage of not being able to answer them. He would te)l them- why he supported: Mr. Alceck, 'and why he opposed Mr. Antrobus. He had never teen the latter gentleman till he had come upon the hustings that day r aa (No, nor nobody else.) He supported Mr. Atcock because he knew that on all important questions that should come before the Legislature he would support her Majesty's present Ministers—( Loud cheers) —sinking all minor points ; and he believed that the weal and woe ef. Eng- , Lind, nay the weal or woo of the empire, rested on the issue Of the present contest.—(Renewed cheers.) If Ilia side prevailed it would be weal—if the other, woe. He 'solemnly protested, and his opinions were no' those of yesterday, or of last year, but were the opi lions of fifty years' growth, and no man could charge him with inconsistency--(Cheers and great upreer for acme minutes)—he had, often come forward before to his own aersonal detriment—( Hear, hear)—but looking at that banner before him, on which was inscribed " Church and State," let it not be supposed that they wished to fight under any other banner.—( Loud cheers and hisses.) Who was there around him who wished it.— Renewed cheers ) He had not asked personal) ntke individually, or secretly for a single vote ; bu, although he had not done so secretly. lie now came for ward openly, and in the face ef day, to implore them to give their votes for his friend, and not for the opposite gentleman.—( Loud cheering, hooting, and hissin g .) Ile appealed to his own parishioners as to what had been his conduct in that respect.—( Great uproar.) Considering the inclemency of the weather he was anxious to be very short, but his physicial poecrs would not enable him to speak in the open air in the midst of clamour._(Uproar.) Ile asked them to hear him patiently—don't let them ouerrel with him fur his opinions as he never had and Lever should quarrel with them for theirs.—( Laud cheers.) He asserted his right as a free-born Briton to state his opinions openly and fairly. (Loud cheers.) They were all freemen born, but did they all stand there as freemen and freeholders.—(Loud cries of " No, no.") If there was any one over whom undue influence had been exercised he most emphatically denounced it --(Great cheering ) Wherever undue influence was used, whether on his tide or the other, he denounced it as a hese, ungenerous, and unconstitutional.—(Vehement cheers followed by great uproar and hooting, Which lasted for some minutes. Mr. Antrobus came forward and endeavoured, as appeared to us to obtain a hearing for the Rev. Gentleman.) All,he asked from them was a clear stlege 'and no favour. If they wished for the peace, the prosperity, and the happiness of the country,.they would vote for Mr. Alcock.—[ A large game coek was here held up in the midst of the crowd, pcf occasioned great laughter and cheering it was stitimately pulled to pieces and flung from one side to the other, to the great amusement of the mob.] If the electors were loud of cock-fig :dug, they would not find his friend a shy cock.—(Great cheering and uproar.) Let them not verify the words of the Duke of Wellington, that all countypeetirgs were a farce.--( Cheers.) Did they wish that to be a met) election, or did they wish to hear the arguments on both sides.—( Cheers.) Was the present a time a dismiss her Majesty's Ministers, when they were triumphant in all quarters. There was peace in the Le vent—everything was settled there —they had extended their conquests in India ; and now that they had accom plished the peace of Europe, the Tory Press wanted to produce a conflict between them and America. They were nut satisfied with the Ministers having conf..rred peaea by the energy and decision of their Councils, and the travery and discipline of their fleets which ware supposed to be in an unfit state for war.—( Hear, 11(10—hut they now wished to fix a quarrel between England and the -Ameri cans, they were also jealous of the high cernpliment which the Duke of Wellington had paid to the foreign policy of Ministers, more especially as they knew and every body knew, that nobody could do more th an the illus trious Duke to preserve the peace of Europe.—(Cheers ) The Noble Duke, with his usual magnanimity, had given his unqualified approval of the policy of Ministers on the Eastern question, be had gone even further, and ap proved of the speech of her Majesty, and bad demon strated that there had been no want of courtesy towards France, and that he had explained by the experience of his own diplomatic life as regarded the Treaty of Verona. —(Cheers.) While they felt proud of the support of tee great and illustrious leader of the opposite party, who had always been above party views, and who had come forward to give his unprejudiced and manly support to that which he believed to be calculated to proserre the peacd of Europe, they did not on that account detract from their in dependent cow se of action. What had the Tory Press said of the Noble Duke's speech ? Why that he had been guilty of fulsome flattery.—( Cries of " Shame.") Bat while they bad his support it matte:ed little what were the barkings of such paltry underlings. In refer ence to the American question, the St. James's aronirle (he did not know whether his friend Mr. Baldwin were present or not)—( Cries of "He is. )" That paper had said that the American quarrel was ()icing to their having a weak and contemptible Ministry. After all the Govern ment had done for the peace of Europe, that little petty quarrel was brought forward as a counterpoise to the great success of their arms in the. Levant. He would not occupy their attention longer, but would pee pose Mr. Alcock as a fit and proper person eo represent them in Parliament. • Sir E. COLEBROOK had great plensure in sc,con3ing nomination of Mr. Alcock—(Cheers)—for he believed that that gentleman possessed every qu alification for re presenting the county of Surrey in Parliament, whether as regarded his private character or his public principles. He has taken every opportunity of ascertaining Mr. Alcock's opinions. Ile had been delighted with the open and frank manner in which he bad a vowed . bieopinion2. (Hear, hear.) However m uch he might be attacked or misrepresented—however much he might, be borne down for a time by misrepresentations to any p ar t dy ne . constituency of the county. Mr. Alcockwould, on all occasions, prove an u nflinching advocate of their rights. —(Loud cheers.) He felt that the present election would be a great contest—that they would h ave to decide vvbether their votes and privileges, which many of them had acquired by the Reform Bill, should be placed in the hands of those who, however, much they plight now pretend to be Conservative, and to hold moderate views, had foyer shown th a t at t ac hment to th e constitution of the country as to make the House of Commons a full and fair representation of the people.—(Cheers.) On the other band, they had ✓ ~ J