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Evening Perform ince at Half-past Eight ; Day Performance at Half-past Two. Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, Is. ; Amphitheatre. Is. 6d. LIEATKE ROYAL, HAYMARK . Mr. B. Webster, Sele Lessee and Manager. Old Brompton. The public is respectfully informed that this Theatre has, during the recess, undergone very extensive repairs and alterations and the whole re-decorated. THIS EVENING. Will be performed the Drama of THE HOUSEKEEPER. After which, THE WONDER. Don Felix, Mr. C. Kean ; Donna Violante, Mrs, C. Kean. To conclude with an Arabian Nights' Entertainment, entitled CAMARALZAMAN AND BADOURA ; or, The Peri who Loved the Frinm Characters by Messrs. Bland, Keeley, Mrs. Keeley, Miss Horton, and Miss Reynolds. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. Under the direction of Madame Celeste During the Recess this Theatre has been entirely re-decorated, the original designs by Digby Wyatt, F.M , executed by Mr. Sang. A new Stage, Curtain, Act Drop, and Chandelier. An approved sys tem of Ventilation, &c., &C. The Private Boxes enlarged, Backs added to the Seats, and Stalls rendered more comfortable. THIS EVENING Will be performed a new Drama, founded on Mr. Dickens's Christ mas Book, entitled THE HAUNTED MAN. Mr. Redlaw, Mr. Hughes : the Phantom, Mr. 0. Smith ; A. Tetterby and Cs , Mr. Wright ; the Boy, Miss E. Chaplin; Milly, Miss Woolgar ; Mrs. Tet terby, Mrs. F. Matthews. To be followed by S WEETIIEARTS AND WIVES. To conclude with TIIE ENCHANTED ISLE. Alonzo, Mr. Paul Bedford; Prospero, Mr. 0. Smith ; Ariel, Miss E. Chaplin. ROYAL LYChUM THEATRE. Under the Management of Madame Vestris. Sole Lessee, Mr. Charles Mahe ,s. THIS EVENIIif, Will be performed a new and original petite Comedy, entitled WHO SPEAKS FIRST ? After which, a new Fairy Extravaganza, entitled THE KING OF THE PEACOCKS. Characters by Messrs. Harley, John Reeve, Selby, 11. Hall, Marshall, and H. Marshall ' • Miss Kathleen Fitzwil 'lam, Miss L. Howard, Mrs. Macnamara, Miss Marshall, Miss L. Marshall, Miss Coleman, and Madame Vestris. To conclude with AN APPEAL TO THE PUBLIC. Dress Boxes, 55.; Upper Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, is. No half-price to any part of the house. The New Box-office, No. 2, Wellington , street, is open to the public every day, from Ten till Six. PRINCESS'S TREAT ft%. Mr. J. M. Maddox, Sole Lessee and %tanager. During the Recess this Theatre has been re-decorated and embel lished In a superb and costly manner by Mr llurwitz. A new Chan delier has been fitted, and the best acriutzt.ment3 have been made for the due Ventilation of the Theatre, and the cottoort and convealonce of the audience. THIS EVENING, Will be performed a new Opera, entitled MARIE, THE FOUND LING OF THE LAKE. To conclude with a new grand Pantomime, entitled BLUFF KING HAL ; or, Harlequin and the Charmed Arrow. Harlequin, Mr. Bologna; Pantaloon, Mr. Paulo; Clown, Mr. Flexmore ; Sprite, Mr. De Barr; Columbine, Miss Fawcett. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Proprietor, Mr. W. Batty. Under the Patronage of her Majesty the Queen, his Royal Highness Prince Albert, &c. Enormous success of the Holiday Novelties, the most astounding in the Metropolis.—A gorgeous Spectacle.—Brilliant Scenes of the Arena.—A new comic Pantomime. THIS EVENING, The curtain will rise at a Quarter to Seven o'clock precisely to the magnificent Spectacle of the WARS OF THE JEWS ; or, The Fall of Jerusalem. To be followed by an inimitable display of SCENES IN THE CIRCLE, supported by the first Equestrian talent of the day. To conclude with a new Equestrian Pantomime, entitled BOLD ROBIN HOOD ; or, The Pretty White Horse and Enchanted Prin cess of Sherwood Forest. Box-office open from Eleven till Five. stage Manager, Mr. W. West. TO CORRESPONDENTS. Co communication can be attended to unless authenti cated by the name and address of the writer. talented communications cannot be returned. TIl14; WEATHER.—Sux OFFICE. FEBRUARY 1. TEC F.RMONETER, Lowest, 29 ; Highest, 32; Noon, 39 . BAR( METER, 30.36. WIND W.S.W.; fine weather. HTGEr WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DAY —Morning, 15 min. after 7 I Evening, 43 min. after 7 To-3fogeow— ornom, 15 min. after 8 I Evening, 56 min. after 8 poly expired. The ports are now not only legally, but actually open. In another column will be found the inaugural address of her Most Gracious MAJEsrY to the Houses of Parliament, and in another column will be found the last Anti-Corn-law speeches of the heroes of the League at a grand banquet, which :s•as last night given in the Free Trade Hall of Manches ter, to celebrate that glorious consummation of their labours. Her MAJESTY, in her royal Speech, congratulates herself and her people on their happy exemption from the troubles and hostili ties which have agitated other nations, and she ex presses her happiness that, during the recent Revo lution, England has been enabled on three several occa sions to assume the blessed part of Mediator. Then, turning her attention nearer borne, her MAJESTY an nounces some proposed retrenchments in the public expenditure, and calls the attention of Parliament to the Navigation Laws--those last vestiges of a system now happily extinct. Finally, under the blessing of PROVIDENCE, she once more Summons the Lords and Commons of the Empire to exert their best energies in the service of the people for which they are called to rule. We cannot doubt but that her MAJESTY'S Speech will be worthily responded to, responded to not merely by the loyal Address of both Houses, in which the letter of the Speech only is answered, but by the Acts of the United Parliament, which may tend to realise those aspirations for the welfare and happiness of her people, which invariably constitute the spirit of all Queen TICTORIA'S discourses. Should, more over, any stimulus to such exertion be wanting— should her Majesty's Speech fail in arousing the pa triotic ardour of our senators, let them contemplate the proceedings which took place last night at Manchester. There they will find at once a stimulus to exertion and an encouragement to perseverence. They will there observe the record of the grand banquet attended in that same city where some ten years ago a group of seven gentlemen met together in a little back room to consider how they, insignificant as they seemed, might overthrow an existing law, supported by the whole, or nearly the whole, wealth and power of the country. The paucity of their re sources, and the apparently invincible might of their opponents nothing daunting that little band, animated by the consciousness of the justice of their cause and confident in their own singleness of purpose, they boldly risked the encounter. Years passed on, but in spite of every obstacle, amid scorn, ridicule, and contumely, they persevered, and last night, in Manchester—no longer seven men in a little back room, but three thousand in the great Free Trade Hall—assembled to celebrate the triumph of that audacity and perseverance. After this who shall despair ? If the cause be but just, perseverance must and will eventually win the battle. With feelings of no little gratification we this day direct the attention of our readers to the speeches of Mr. VILLIERS, Mr. COBDEN, Mr. WILSON, and Colonel Tnomrsort, at the last free-trade meeting. Cordially do we reiterate the exultant sentiments to which those gentlemen have given utterance ; for from the first move of the enterprise we have been with them, heart and hand. But how ever sincerely we sympathize with the jubilations of the Free-traders, still more heartily do we coincide with the would not be Member for South Lancashire, as Mr. Wrnsost happily designated him, in his asser tion that this reform, the achievement of which we now celebrate, must be the precursor of many more. " I never supposed," said Mr. VILLIERS, that the repeal of the corn-laws was to be a substi tute for other reforms. I just supposed the other thing ! I never supposed that because the corn-laws were not repealed, that was any reason why we should not advocate a better constitution of Parliament, or a greater amount of retrenchment." Mr. VILLIERS is, therefore, again ready to devote his whole energies to the promotion of necessary reforms. He is again ready to exercise that unwearying ardour, and that indomitable perseverance to which the triumph of free-trade is mainly due. It is well now, in the hour of victory, that we should call to mind the past exertions by which that victory was attained. The ipeople of England, who are almost wholly exempt from that most despicable of national failings—popular ingratitude, will, no doubt, on this day, call; gratefully to mind the " unadorned eloquence" of RICHARD ConnEß, by which the truths of free-trade were so happily dif fused throughout the length and breadth of the land, and the marvellous fortitude of CHARLES PELHAM VILLIERS--one of the first supporters, if not the very first supporter, of the cause, and throughout the struggle one of its ablest and most persevering defenders.' Others have been glad to join hands with the winning band, but the latter champion stood almost alone, when to be a free-trader was con sidered not a glory but a disgrace. Neither on this auspicious day will the services of that Minister who sacrificed for free-trade power and party, his friends' affection, and his own reiterated pledges be forgotten. That memory which Sir ROBERT PEEL invoked on quitting office will for ever cherish his name when the defunct Corn-laws are alluded to. For all these considerations we cannot but think this free-trade Jubilee singularly well-timed. May it inspire our Legislators with confidence in the prosecution of popular measures, and may it impress upon them the awful responsibility of those who can achieve great things. Viewed in this light, the Free- trade Banquet forms an excellent supplement to her MA... JESTY'S Speech. THE FRENCH REPUBLIC. We have received the Paris papers of yesterday. The proposition of M. RATEAU for the immediate dissolu tion of the Assembly will be discussed on Saturday. M. DUFAURE is to propose an amendment of a conciliatory cha racter, which will probably be adopted instead of the original proposition. . . The wound in General CHANGERNIER'S head was the re sult of an accident. He was himself discharging a pistol which had been loaded some time, and the recoil was so great that the butt end of the pistol struck him on the forehead. During the sitting of the National Assembly on Tuesday, M. Sarrans rose to put two interpellations, the one re garding Colonel Forestier, commanding the 6th legion of National Guards, who had been put under arrest for offering his services is the President of the Assembly; the next con cerned the letter of General Changarnier, which he under stood was most improper in its tone and language, and amounted to a denial of the rights of the President of the Assembly to look to its defence. _ _ _ M. Lean Faucher, Minister of the Interior, said he would be happy to give explanations on each of the acts brought under notice by the honourable member. With regard, first, to the letter of General Changarnier to the President of the Assembly, he considered that the latter had already dis posed of all objections by his own personal expression of satis faction yesterday. The President was surely the best judge of what was due to his own dignity, and when he had declared himself satisfied he could not understand how any one else had a right to show more susceptibility than the party most interested. With regard to the arrest of Colonel Forestier he would at once declare that if it had been caused by the tender of services made by that officer to the Presi dent of the Assembly, it would have been wholly unjtisti fiable. He had himself spoken to the President of the Council, having been under the impression that the arrest of the Colonel was on account of a supposed breach of discip line, but he was enabled to inform the Assembly that be had it from the head of the Cabinet that Colonel Forestier was put under arrest for having entered into a connexion with men in a state of revolt, and for having excited to acts of violence against the Government.—( Sensation.) Deville—lt is not true. The Minister—The matter was now in the hands of the Procureur-General, and would soon be brought to trial. He came now to the objections that had been raised against the military precautions taken yesterday for sake of order. His answer was, that the precaution taken were for the purpose of say the blood of Frenchmen from being shed.— (Cheer ing on the right.) A Voice on the Left—lt was a provocation. The Minister, in continuation, said, that sad eventuality had been prevented, and he felt sure that the country would do justice to their motives.—(Cheers and murmurs.) The secret societies had been at work, and had attempted to bring over som e o f th e G ar d e M o bil e to the side of revolt. 100 arrests had b een ma d e. —(M ovement). The parties ar restedcircumwstoaunlcdes be he br w ou o g u h ld t b r e e f f o r r a e in t e fr t o r m ibun fu a r l t s h . but he could not avoid ex p ress i ng his surpriseerija Under remarks;dt r e ] such an _ g p r u o a l g o n e g h e l t d h b e y s i t l a o t n e . o ß f e p a r g e t e a n t t i a o t n i v e t h s , a t a s h i a t d w 3 a . s e s c t a e l r c d u a l y a t e b d e e t n o g th u e ag h e tin as iste a r n , w en o c u o l u d rag n e o ! de t n h o e un s e t e ree s ts u . ch il l e a , n hesitate observed t to denounce ment to disorder.—(Tremendous uproar for some minutes.) They bad been asked to show where was the danger? He would reply, in the clubs, where the eternal foes of order had taken refuge.—(Renewed uproar.) Yes, the conspirators were there. Those conspirators who were so accustomed to plot, that if they were in ;power they would conspire again s t each other.—(Loud cheering from one side, and murmurs on the other.) He felt satisfied that he had done his duty, an d he was sure the country would think the same.—(Great agitation.) M. Marrast, taking the tribune o f orators, sa id he was stir. prised to hear such an affirmati o n as that he had receiv ed Changarnier. an improper letter from G e ner al He could assure the Assembly that had suc h been the case he would have known how to recall General Changarnier to a sense of President. He had shown the letter the respect due to their in the bureau of which he was a member, and the bureau saw nothing of a kind in it that called fur censure or remark. He would, if the Assembly desired so, produce the letter.—(Cries of " Yea, yes, read.") The letter runs thus— Dieugew le President,—The enemies,:and without doubt ',.04 .- hening ""Atitts LONDON, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1849. Writing, as we necessarily do, before the Speech from the Throne has been articulated by the silvery voice of our young and beloved SOVEREIGN, we are, of course, compelled to allude only in the language of anticipation to the remarks contained in that Mi nisterial document. Cautious as these Royal orations are upon all oc casions, it can be no matter of astonishment, nor do we think that it can, among reasonable men, be any matter of regret that that rhetorical caution is ob served in the present instance with more than usual scrupulosity. The extraordinary situation of affairs upon the Continent, and the dubious posture of affairs at home—we refer in the latter instance to the changes inevitable upon the final expiration of the principles of commercial monopoly upon this first day of February—render it in a manner incumbent upon her MAJESTY to speak only in phrases of careful and premeditated obscurity. There will doubtless be an express recommenda tion of those subordinate reductions in our expendi ture, with which the Cabinet vainly expects to " sop" the Cerberus of financial agitation. And coupled with the hinted diminution of our disbursements in regard to the operative departments of the dockyards, there may also be the indication of a hope that such modifications may be made in the existings law re lating to navigation as might secure the extension of commerce and the facilitation of traffic, without in any manner jeopardising the mercantile enterprise of Great Britain. Of all the paragraphs composing the Speech from the Throne, those which will be examined with the largest amount of curiosity will unquestionably: be the ones referring to the state of our foreign relations. In lieu of the ordinary and almost stereotyped decla rations that her MAJESTY continues to receive from all foreign states the assurance of their unbroken friend ship, it will, without doubt, be intimated that the maintenance of such feelings of amity is amongst the most earnest of all the aspirations of the British monarchy. No allusion (or, if any, the faintest) will, as a matter of policy, not to say of common reason and delicacy, be made to the spread of revolution throughout the European races ; and if any solicitude whatever is expressed as to the successful issue, or the auspicious progress, of English interven tion bet*een the belligerent powers of the continent, that solicitude will have a secret bearing upon the Sicilian and Schleswig-Holstein questions, as well as upon the fortunate prevention of bloodshed by the inter position of the squadrons in the Mediterranean. It may likewise be - safely averred as a fact deserving of felicitation, that the most cordial understanding con tinues to be maintained between the Governments of Great Britain and the French Republic. Ireland will, according to what has latterly become an invariable usage, constitute a prominent subject for observation ; and wishes will doubtless be avowed for the contrivance by the Legislature of such altera tions in the Poor-laws now established over that island as may tend best to forward the interests of humanity among the impoverished population. No notice of any very expicit character is anticipated in reference to the mitigation of the punishment of the Irish rebels, headed by the late representative of Limerick. The allusion to the necessity for economy, o f w hi c h we have already spoken, will, as might be reasonably expected, come as a sort of supplemental recom mendation Councils Commons tthe b Ie ;sis blessings in invoking t to upon n r Of DIVINE PROVIDENCE the N will not e o r nlybe th l e Aj N Es a T ti T on s givin g w ord s t o the hopes entertained EE by Ad ministrators, but articulating her own royal and patriotic aspirations. Such is, in perspective, the nature of that Speech from the Throne which will be published simultane ously with our anticipative observations. It will be the inaugu ration of a session of no trivial importance, and will be redeemed in a great measure from the cus mary chars , e of inanity and indistinctness in consi deration of the wonderful character of the events with which its d elivery is contemporaneous. The open. ing of Parliament is always art important event, bvt t, Tzis opening of Parliament is more than ordinarily au, 3picious. To-day the Members of the Legisla cure a ssemble at Westminster, and to-day Free T rade be comes veritably the law of the land. With t' tie last ci ay of clanliATY Ole last hours of -Mono. _ 411,,, .- 4 Z. A 4 le" , ov .v..,,,A t 4 • Pr .....„). `i, ''".t - V .s t. vAt , ,_,__ 4 t ‘ , .4ti e — , . )401, : , , ..-r , z Ilvilik ar, ;p,,,v.i.. - . . c. ~.,,,,, ....;,.. „ II 00 r „ . 0;.. , "V... 1 4... 5 .r, f -,.. ~, —:, ~ v4/14 ~,, ' , . ;kik ,4:1. ' 4"- ie 2 !, '; 1 '1: -", ._lt`'‘:ty 4T ' 3 ' ° S s , s ‘ ,,0 7 1... , : — ' . — '_, 5.,1. 4?.•- "v. ,1,........, . - • - the maligners, of the Garde Mobile, attribute to it most culpable intentions. The Government has deemed it neces sary to adopt measures of precaution. Responsible as the Government is for the safe yof the National Assembly, it has deemed it to be its duty to have troops placed in the positions necessary for the Assembly's defence. " Accept the assurance of my respect, " UILINGARNIER." M. Marrast, in reply to a question, gave the date January 29th, eleven o'clock, morning, and proceeded to mention, that with respect to arrest of Colonel Forestier, it yes caused by the letter of that officer to him, the President of the Assembly, and yet that letter was conceived i❑ most respectful terms. Conceiving there was some mistake, he applied at once to the President of the Council, and received from him a letter which he would read. M. Marrast then read the letter of M. Odilon Barrot, which was in precisely the same sense as the explanation given by the At inister of the Interior. M. Bac said he would second the motion of M. Sarrans. He contended that if there had been no collision yesterday, it was owing to the prudence of the people.-- (Laughter on one side, and cheers on the other.) He went on to insinuate that the Gevernment got up the agitation, which he thought proved by a country paper that announced an insurrection in Paris. M. Odilon Barrot said that, with regard to the article of the newspaper which spoke in such disrespectful terms of the Assembly, referred to by the last speaker, he had to say that the subject was under the notice of the law officers of the Republic. Colonel Guinard, of the National Guard Artillery, defended Colonel Forestier against what had been alleged by the Mi nister of the Interior, and concluded by declaring that he was ready to defend the Assembly. The Minister of the Interior declined saying anything further on a case now submitted to the tribunals. M. Flocon would suggest an inquiry ; but the cries of" the order of the day" became so great, the President said the order of the day might be passed, as it would not interfere with ulterior inquiry.—(Great uproar, in the midst of which the order of the day was put and carried.) The remaining proceedings up to post hour possessed no interest. BOURSE.—Rants, WEDNESDAY, JAN. 31. THREE O'CLOCK. —The Bourse was greatly agitated to-day with the affair of the military demonstration of Monday. It was generally supposed that we are on the eve of further troubles, and the corsequence was, that the Funds were weak, and the business done limited. There was no news of any kind. Exchange on Londen (30 days), 25 321 to 35; ditto (90 days), 25 z2l to 25. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT TEE LONDON STOCK-EXCHANGE. JAN. 31. _ _ Boulogne and Amiens, B—Central of France (Orleans and Tierzon), 8' ex div.—Luxembourg (10/.), 2~o— and Liege, 64—Northern of France, 7 5 /—Orleans and Bordeaux, 2 1 ,4 Rouen and Havre, 9 1 / 2 —Sambre and Meuse, 3%—Tours and Nantes, DA. SPAIN. Madrid journals of the 24th have arrived. The Intendant of the Palace, VISTA HERMOSA, has re signed. MADRID Bows, JAN. 24.—Three per Cents., 19 13-16 buyers, sellers ; Five per Cents., 9 buyers, 10 sellers ; Coupons, 6 sellers; Passive Debt, 34 buyers, L- sellers; Bank Shares, 57 buyers, 60 sellers. The premium on silver for notes bas fallen, according to the Stock List, to -A- per cent., but people have to pay 1 percent. and upwards at the dis count shops. In large mercantile transactions the case may be different. Exchange on London, 49. GERMANY AND THE NORTHERN STATES. AUSTRIA. Count FRANZ COLLOREDO WVLLSEN hns been appointed Ambassador to London. On the 35th Vienna was vi,ited by a fearful storom, which did much damage. ITALY. The Genoa Gagette of the 23d publishes the following . " PROCLAMATION. " LIGATION DE BOLOGNO. " To-morrow the entire Roman people will rise as one man, and rave the country. The cannon will hail this happy day, and will remind the population that the future detiny of the country depends upod their will. Europe. filled with admiration, wil► silently behold this grand spec tacle, a nation in the centre of Italy, establishing its rights, and creating a firm and stable Government, not withstanding the snares that are within the plots and machinations without; and thus accomplishing the solemn act which must bring back the regeneration of our whole country. " Bologna, Jan. 20, 1549. CARLO PERTS, President. " Flour, Lieut.-Colonel." MALTA. Accounts from Malta of the 22d announce the death of the Rev. Sir CECIL A. Btsitor on the 19th, in his 27th year. He leaves a widow in an advanced state of pregnoncy. GREECE. COLOCOTRONI, the Foreign Minister, died on the l2th instant at Athens. LIIIDOS is appointed Foreign Minister ad interim. TURKE Y. ABBAC bas arrived at Constantinople. He was invested by the SULTAN with the Government of Egypt on the 16th. THE 0 s'ENIN G PARLIAMENT. TIER MAJESTY'S OVER LAND MAIL We have received, by Extraordinary Express, in anticipa_ tion of the Overland Mail, advices from Bombay to January 3, and Calcutta Decemblc 23. The London Mail of tie 7th of November, by express from Bombay, reached Moult, Agra, and Madras on the 14th, Delhi on the 15th, Calcutta on the 16th, arld Colombo (by the P. and 0. Co.'s steamer Lady Mary Wood, on the 18th Dec.—The London Mail of the 24th November reached Bombay, by the steamer Sesostris, at noon on the 28th De cember. &mistAur.—We gave in the last issue intelligence from Moultan to the 3d, and from the army of the Chenaub to the 6th of December. The only movements which have occurred since then at the former of these places are two renconnoitres by the Engineers, one on the 6sh and another on the 13th, when no serious molestation was offered. On the 11th the detach ment of Bombay troops under Major Hallett. consisting of the 3d Native Infantry, Turnbull's Battery, and 500 of the Sinde Horse, arrived in camp. On the 15th the Ist Lancers joined. On the 16th the party just named, with the exception of the Sinde Horse, were sent out to Shere Shah- ke-puttun, to escort in the Bombay bat tering train. The main coiumn had not commenced cross ing the river on the 18th, but were all expected in camp be fore Christmas, when operations would immediately be re commenced. Narrrain Singh. who had marched out in the direction of Jhung—a large trading town, about ninety miles up the river—ontthe Ist of December, had been compelled to return by Sheikh Emaum-ood-deep, who had been sent out to watch him. On the morning of the 18th the Sinde horse with two ether corps were sent out from the camp uncO He was then at Sirdarpore, acollecting grain, and trying to with few a m view les of from attacking 3iooita n h , raise reinfcrcernents, with a force of about 2,000 men. Moolraj had 2,000 picked troops in the fortrees, 3,000 in the town, and about 2,000 in the suburbs ; or, including those under Narrain Singh, 9,000 in all. General VV hush had 8,000 Bengal troops, and the Rom Lay column, 8,030 strong, was expected before Christmas. His artillery amounted to nearly 100 guns, of which seventy are of the largest calibre. The allies, under Major Edwardes, and Colonel Cortlandt, amount to nbout 12,000, so that the be cieging army is apout 28,000 strong, or more than three times as numerous as the besieged. Frem the Commander. in-Chief's camp, we have news up to the 21st ultimo. So soon as it was discovered that the Seikhs, after their re tirement on the. night of the 3d, had taken up a strong position on the Jhelum, two marches a-head of us, it was resolved to leave them alone till after the fall of Moul nor are they likely to have taken the field till New Y ear ' s -d a y a t a ll even t s. last fortnight, arms accordingly, the troops ; t h a a n ci rested For th on e their This is said to be in consequence of orders from the Gover nor-General. Jubbar Khan, of Cabool, familiarly known as the good Nawaub," is said to h ave arr i ve d at P es h awur with an army of Afighans . , and to be in communication with Chuttur Singh. His purposes are not known. He is thought more likely to act a friendly part towards us than a hostile one. Chuttur Singh had not yet joined the main force. Major Law rence was in the camp of Shere Singh. His interpreter had been made use of for the purpose of negotiating f o r an amnesty, to which Major !qackeaon, now in political charge w;th the Commander-in-Chief, had replied that he could enter on no terms with rebels in arms. Attock, under Lieutenant Herbert, still held out ; and Captain Abbott continued to maintain him. i self in the Hazareh country. Lieutonant Robin s4n, the assistant of the latter, had made his way to General Thackwell's camp. There had been no military movement of any note during the f or tnight. The present procrastina tion and deloy was and is the subject of universal complaint It is said that the Governor-General waits for instruc tions from home. Sir Henry Lawrence reached Kotree on the Indus on the 15th, since which time he has not been heard from, further than that the steamer he was in had been aground for a couple of days after leaving that station. He expected to be with the Commander-in-Chief by the 10th January at latest. ---It has been intimated that three regiments will immediately be sent out from England, and an augmentation of the Bengalaarmy is talked (of. Our army at present amounts to above 250,000 men, being stronger by 50 t on0 men and 834 officers than is was on its last pece establishment ten years Vince, when the Pnnjaub, Scinde, and Gwalior, were all unsubdued, and the Affghan war was in prospect. For two years we have had 52,000 men with 100 guns on the frontier beyond Meerut, where 24,000 men with 60 guns were all that Lord Ellenborough considered necessary; leaving the garrison for the rest of India still 20,000 stronger than it was in 1837, when it was considered quite adequate for the duties assigned to it. Out of a free income of sixtee n millions, our army costs ten millions annually. The Com missioner in Scinde was still absent from Kurrachee, from which place_two native regiments were to proceed upward as soon as conveyance could be procured—the 24th for Hydrabad, and the 27th for Shikarpore. Major-General Auchmuty was on a visit to the Ameer of Khyrpore, his head-quarters being at S u kkur.—The substance of a letter from the Governor-General to the Nizam of Hyder abad has been published, in which his Loadship plainly in timates his disapproval of the manne r i n which matters have been conducted by that Prince for a long time past, and suggests the expediency of a speedy reform. Th e Governor-General was at Loodhiana on the 19th ult. It was reported that his Lordship intended proceeding to La hore.—A corps of Irregular t Horse . has been ordered to be raised in Rajpootana.—Every thing continues tranquil throughout the Company's dominion ; not so In Ceylon, where by last accounts (13th December) the re-appearance of rebellion was momentarily expected. BOOTS WANTED.—In our last paper we inserted an advertisement, " Boots Wanted for a respectable Hotel in town?' In reply to this announcement, we have just received the following letter:—" Kilmarnock, 25th Jan.—Gentlemen, I have just seen an advertise ment. and have to say that I am just your man, and I trusht the bargain will be for both our benefits. At the sale of a man who brok lately, neer haun this, J bought a hunder pair, and they are at your bidding for three shillings the pair, a' o'er heed.—Your servant, J. T.— N.B. I have also en hand aboot fifty pair o' shoe, if they are Pi Onted. " —Glasgow Coatitutional SPEECH. MY LORDS AND GENTLEMEN, The period being arrived at which the busi ness of Parliament is usually resumed, I have called you together for the discharge of your important duties. It is satisfactory to me to be enabled to state that both in the north and in the south of Europe the contending parties have consented to a suspen sion of arms for the purpose of negotiating terms of peaoe. E The hostilities carried on in the island of Sicily were attended with circumstances so revolting, tha the British and French Admirals were impelled by motives of humanity to interpose, and to stop the further effusion of blood. I have availed myself of the interval thus obtained to propose, in conjunction with France, to the King of Naples an arrangement calcu lated to produce a permanent settlement of affairs in Sicily. The negotiation on these matters is still pending. It has been my anxious endeavour in offering my good offices to the various contending Powers to prevent the extension of the calamities of war, and to lay the foundations for lasting and honourable peace. It is my constant desire to maintain with all Foreign States the most friendly relations. As soon as the interests of the public service will permit I shall direct the papers connected with these transactions to be laid before you. A rebellion of a formidable character has broken out in the Punjaub, and the Governor-General of India has been compelled, for the preservation of the peace of the country, to assemble a considerable force, which is now engaged in military operations against the insurgents. But the tranquillity of British India has not been affected by these unprovoked disturbances. I again commend toyour attention the restrictions imposed on commerce by the Navigation Laws. If you shall find that these laws are in whole or in part unnecessary for the maintenance of our mari time power, while they fetter trade and industry, you will no doubt deem it right to repeal or modify their provisions. Lieutenant of the county of Staard, the Noble Marquis took the oaths appointed to be taken thereupon. The Queen's Speech, on opening the session of Parliament was arranged and agreed upon. The Hon. William Bathurst was the Clerk of the Council in Waiting. After the Council the following Foreign Ambassadors and .., Ministers had audiences of her Majesty:— Mehemet Pacha, Ambassador from the Sultan, to deliver his credentials. , Admiral Cecille, Ambassador from the French Republic, to deliv. r his credentials. Count de Revel, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Pleni potentiary from the King of Sardinia, to deliver to the Queen his letter of recall. Senor Osma, Minister Plenipotentiary from the Republic of Peru, to deliver his credentials. Senor Castellon, on a special mission from the Republic of Nicaragua, to present his credentials. Senor Molina, Minister Plenipotentiary from the Republic of Costa-Rica, to present his credentials. Marquis de Sauli, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary from the King of Sardinia, to present his credentials. Their. Excellencies were respectively introduced to the Queen by Viscount Palmerston, G. C. 8., her Majesty's prin cipal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and cofiducted by Colonel the Hon. Sir Edward Cust, K.C.H., her Majesty's Master of the Ceremonies. The Bishop of Sodor and Man bad an audience of the Queen, and delivered to her Majesty the Ensigns of the Order of the Bath, worn by his brother the late Earl of Auckland. The Earl of Carlisle had an audience, and delivered to her Majesty the Ensigns of the most noble Order of the Garter, worn by his father, the late Earl of Carlisle. Sir Elanali Armitage was preented to the Queen, at an audience, by Sir George Grey, her Majesty's principal Se cretary of State for the Home Department. The Queen gave audiences to Earl Grey and Sir John Hobhouse. The Court was attended-by Viscount Comber mere, Gold Stick in Waiting; Lewd Elphinstene, Lord in Waning; the Treasurer of the Household, the Vice-Cham berlain, the Comptroller of the Household, and Captain the Hon. Joseph Denman, Groom in Waiting. Her Majesty and Prince Albert hunoured the performance of the French Plays with their presence yesterday evening. The Royal suite consisted of the Viscountess Jocelyn, Lord Elphinstone, Lieutenant-Colonel the Hon. C. B. Phipps, and Captain the Hon. A. Gordon. The Lord Mayor had, an interview with Sir George Grey yesterday, at the Home Office. Lord Ashley had also an in terview with the Right Hon. Baronet. Lord John Russell, First Lord of the Treasury, gave a Par liamentary dinner yesterday evening to a numerous party of Members of the House of Commons. The guests assembled at seven o'clock, at his Lordship's official residence in Down ing -street, and appeared in uniforms and Court costumes. The Noble Premier read to his distinguished company por tions of her Majesty's Speech to be delivered In Parliament this day. The invitations comprised the Right Hon. the Speaker; the Mover of the Address, Lord Harry Vane; the Seconder of the Address, Mr. E H. Bunbury ; Cabinet Ministers, Sir George Grey, Viscount Palmerston, Sir Charles Wood, Sir Francis Baring, Sir John Hobhouse, and the Right Hon. H. Labouchere ; Officers of the Queen's Household, Lord Marcus Hill, Lord Edward Howard, the Right Hon. W. Sebright Lascelles, Lord Alfred Paget, Lieut.-Colonel the Hon. Robert Boyle; Master of the Mint, the Right Hon. R. Lalor Sheil ; Secretary at War, the Right Hon. Fox Manic; Chief Secretary for Ireland, the Right Hon. Sir William Somerville; the Judge Advocate •General, the Right Hon. W. G. Hayter ; the Attorney-General, the Soli• citor-General, the Solicitor-General for Scotland;, Poor-law Commission, Mr. M.\ T. Baines and Viscount Ebrington ; Under Secretaries of State, Mr. G. Cornwall Lewis (Home), Mr. B. Hawes (Coronies); Treasury Board, Mr. Rich, Mr W. Gibson Craig, Mrl R. M. Bellew, Mr. J. Parker, Mr. H. Tufnell ; Admiralty Board, Admiral hondas, Lord John Hay, Hon. Captain'Berkely, (R.N. ; Hon. Wm. Cowper, Mr. R. G. Ward; India Board, Mr. J. Wilson; Ordnance De partment, Colonel the Hon. George Anson, Lord C. Paget; Private Secretary to Lord John Russell, Mr. Wm. Grey ; and the Hon. J. Elliot. Lady John Russell gave a full dress soirée to a party of one hundred and fifty of the principal Nobility and Gentry in town, yesterday evening, at her. residence, Chesham place. Dispatches were sent off yesterday evening from the Co lonial-office for the Governor of New South Wales. ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. FRENCH PLAYS. Boildien's chef d'auvre, La Dame Blanche was produced here last evening for the first time at this theatre. This ex cellent opera was originally produced at the Theatre Fey desu, in 1825, and was at once and completely successful, bringing back the public from the operas of Rossini, which were then performing at the Grand Opera, sending back Robin de Bois to his native forests of Germany, and vindi cating completely the supaemacy of the French school of operatic music in Paris. For many subsequent sea ions La Dame Blanche reigned supreme, and up to he present day La Dame Blanche always se cures good houses. The hero, Georges Brown, was originally represented by Parchard, who, in the cavatina Ah I quel plaisir d'etre soldat" invariably excited the martial penchants of his audience to the highest pitch of enthusiasm. When Parchard quitted the stage, the part of Georges Brown was sustained by Roger, who was superior even to Parchard in the part. The following was the cast last evening :—Gaveston, •incien intendant des Comtes d'Avenel, Monsieur Buguet ; Georges, jeune officier Anglais, Monsieur Bonnamy (Premier Tenor from the Theatre of Lyons); Dikson, fermier des Comtes d'Avenel, Monsieur Soyer ; Mac-Irton, juge de paix du Canton, Monsieur Chateaufort ; Gabriel, valet du ferme de Dikson, Monsieur Josset ; Anna, pupille de Gaveston, Mdlle. Charton (from the Opera Comique, Paris); Jenny, femme de Dikson, Mdlle. Guichard; Marguerite, ancienne domestique des Comtes d'Avenel, Madame Mancini. The overture was admirably performed by the orchestra, and the opening chorus," Sonnez cornemuse et musette." was most effectively given ; then came the far-famed " Ah I quel d'etu soldats," which was given with great spirit by M. Bunnamy. The concerted music which follows was well rendered and well acted, and Mademoiselle Guichard gave the couplets, " D'iu voyez ce beau demaine," ending with the refrain, "Prenez garde— La Dame Blanche vous regarde, La Dame Blanche vous entend," with great expression. The refrain uas beautifully rendered, the finale to the first act is one of the most beautiful pieces of concerted music ever composed—superior to Auber, equal. to Mozart—it is only to be surpassed in the French school by the finale to the second act. These finales, so different in character and treatment, yet both so exquisitely treated, were given last evening in a manner that was as near an approach to perfection as may be. We have a vivid recol lection of the manner in which La Dame Blanche was played at the Opera Comique, when originally produced, and we give the preference decidedly, as far as these two females are concerned, to the performance of last evening. Madame Marini infused a great deal of character and homely pathos into the opening couplets of the second act, " Pauvre Dame Marguerite." The trio which follows was well given by Madame Mancini, Mademoiselle Charton, and M. Buguet. The concluding duet, " A ]a donee esperance,'. being exquisitely rendered by the two last-named artistes The great scene of the second act, however, was that in which the Dame Blanche appears to Georges, and it was superbly rendered by Madlle. Charton, who was very effec tively supported by M. Bonnamy. The music is welfknown in all our drawing-rooms—it is the duet, " Tenjours soumis ma puissance ;" it was rapturously applauded, and its re petition enthusiastically redemanded ; as a specimen of fine dramatic singing and acting we have never seen any thing equal to this dud as rendered by Madlle. Charton. This young lady is one of the finest dramatic sin- '' ers of the day. She is not only all that Conti Damoureau was, but greater th,qin Conti Damoureau ever was, even at her greatest. We have already alluded to the splendid finale to the second act, towards the perfect rendering of which M. Buguet contributed in so small degree; his superb bass v: rice telling with the most happy effect. The third act opens' with the air 't Comma aux jours demon jeune age," which afforded Mademoiselle Charton an opportunity of introducing t hat foriture of which she is so lavish when occasion requires, and in the use of which she exhibits such exquisite taste. i7. - Ter execution of this most difficult music was finished, her intOnation perfect, and she was applauded to the echo. The cheros, " Chantes joyeux menestrel," in which the air " Robin Adair" is intro duced, which follows soon after, was most effectively given— it was moreover excellently acted, and the dramatic effect, there fore, was well brought out. The finale was given with great spirit and effect, and the curtain tell amidst enthusiastic and well-merited applause. Mademoiselle Charton anti M. Bon many were called for at the conclusio ea The other ci2aracters were well sustained; the opera was excellently put on the stage, and we never, in the whole course of our dramatic experience, saw a piece go off more effectively. There was no flagging from the commencement to the conclusion of the finale. Her Majesty, accompanied by his Royal Highness Prince Albert, and attended by their suite, honoured the performance with her presence. Her Majesty remained until nearly the conclusion, and seemed much delighted with the performances. The audience was numerous, brilliant, and fashionable. Among the company present were the Viscountess Jocelyn, Lord Elphinstone, the Hon. Colonel Phipps and the Hon. Captain Gordon, in attendance on her Majesty and the Prince; also the Baron and Baroness Brunnow and Mdlle. Olga de Lechner, the Turkish Ambassador and suite, Lady Cottenham, Lord Alfred Churchill, Countess of Essex, the Earl of Belfast, Sir Henry Webb, Mr. Standish Standish, Mrs. Dennistoun, Mr. Henry Grevifle, Miss Beauclere, Mr. Brunel, Mr. Lepenthany O'Kelly, &c. LLOYD'S Siiiit'YliN DAY.) LONDON, FFD. I.—Wind this day at noon, W.S.W., moderate breeze and dull, hazy weather. PLYMOUTH, JAN. 31.—S1d. Her Majesty's ship Racer, eastward. lints Tor., JAN. 31.—Wind W.N.W.—Arrc!. Monmouth, Evans, Cuba. Sld. 30th, Galeed, Newport and Lisbon. CORK, JAN. 29. Wind S.W.—Arrd. Conceicao de Chmin har, Carnina, Caminha. LYNN, JAN. 30.—The Jason, Whincop, in coming up to this port, grounded near the Custom-house and remains. HARTLEPGGL, JAN. 30.—The John, Frond, of Poole, was towed into this poat to-day, having been obliged to cut away her mast yesterday during a gale. MILFGED ' JAN. 28.—The Lune, Stone, f r om P or t T a lbot to Liverpool, has arrived here with cargo shifted and pumps choked, and is discharging her cargo. PWLHELLI, JAN. 30.—The greater part of the palm oil of the Cestrian, Armstrong, from Bonny to Liverpool, which was abondoned 10th inst. on Barmouth Cause Way:, has come ashore between Cricieth and Port Madoc. _ _ PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 31.—The Despatch, Owen, from Lon don to Algoa Bay, was put in here with loss of bowsprit, having been in contact with the Margaret West, of London, off Bury Head, and must repair. HASTINGS, JAN. 30.—The Perseverance schooner, of this port, went on shore near St. Leonard, on the 28th inst., and in attempting to get off was carried over again, and became a complete wreck ; crew saved. TUE FIRE IN LINCOLN'S-INN. — Many documents of great value' and importance have been rescued from the debris of this fire; and one which is said to involve the re ceipt of upwards of 70,0001. a year has been preserved intact. There are many others, however, still missing, and of the recovery of which there exists now no hopes, and their loss must entail the most serious consequences upon those con cerned. A contemporary, in alluding to the frequency of these frightful calamities, calls attention to a patented pro cess of Messrs. Fox and Barrett, of Leicester square, which has been applied with the most marked success to the erec tion of buildings perfectly fire-proof, at a cost no greater than by the ordinary means. The new lunatic asylum at Colney Batch is to be thus built, and as the principle ap pears eminently calculated for the praiseworthy objects it has in view, too much publicity cannot be ft froided to it. Li.sKEArlp.—As an extraordinary proof of the mildness of the season, a ripe strawberry may be seen at J. Abraham's, watchmaker, gatlicr( d on 'Tuesday trom a hedge at Venslooe, in this neighbourhood, and the flowers of spring, buttercup and primroses, are common in the SON locality, MAGAZINE DAY. BLA Cli WO OD. Thanks to the uetiring industry of the poet-nossliat, Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton, we may now always feel assured of listening to the accents of genius in Black wood. While North is lyiug dormant in the folds of his shooting jacket,'while Warren is forgetful of the seduc tions orromance, and is paying reverential homage ex clusively to the austere phantom of the law, while the •Noctes are assuming to them elves month after month more of the semblance of antiquity, while the centric butions of Jerrold and of Barham are remembered only by a select few, while Simmons neglects the chords of his molian lyre, and W. E. A. is scarcely ever audible for eight weeks consecutively—it is more than a consolation, it is an exquisite and ample compensation to meet with the effusions of such a mind as that which has recently celebrated the glories of the Saxon Harold and of the Cyrnrian Arthur. " The Caxtons" continues to be the grand feature in Ebony. It recounts in this (the tenth) in stalment the removal of Pisistratus to Cambridge ; and those who On rich the recollections of Alma Mater will revert with joy to the revival of old and pleasant remi niscences. Ot the rest of the mister-magazine we may speak in general terms of commendation. Among other excellences it certainly possesses that of being singularly miscellaneous. From the first article to the last it con trives to be attractive, even in the very head ings—from the " Cossacks in the Caucasus" to the Carlists in Catalonia," The latter will be perused with profound interest by every one whose, heart beats with sympathy for the nationality of the Peninsula, no matter whether the reader be of the party of liabella or of Montemolin. Those who bear in recollection the frequent and picturesque commemora tions of the Carlist hero Zumalacarregui, which have appeared in the pages of Maga, will turn with a cer tainty of entertainment, at the very least, to the present narrative, in the same organ, of the adventures and vicissitudes of the renowned leader of the Montemo litiists—Cabrera. In a paper relating to " Modern Biography " we have a very rational estimate of the merits and demerits of Beattie's Life of poor Tom Camp bell. Delta chaunts, as Delta only could chaunt, the " Covenanter's Night Hymn ;" and all who have lingered over the mention of the cruel persecution of those sectaries among the moors and mountains of Caledonia, in the History of England by Mr. Macaulay, will appre ciate to the fullest extent the earnest passion breathed into every syllable of this song of secluded adoration. " Dalmatia and Montent gro" are delineated in a clever contribution, in which—be sure of that—we hear some what of the eccentric magistrate, half-bishop, half-prince —the Vladiks. In "American Thoughts on European Revolutions," we can detect, or we are much mistaken, the cunning hand that fired the petard among the literary pirates of tho United States by contributing an article to Blackwood, and retaining the American copy right of the contribution. The " Poetry of Sacred and Legendary Art" affords the magazine a . graceful theme for criticism on a recent work by Mr. Jameson, and does not as might at first be con jectured present an opportunity for passing an eulogium upon William Edmonstoune Aytoun, the gifted' Professor of Rhetoric and Belles Lettres in the Univer sity of Edinburgh, who has created for himself many admirers through the poetic fragments adorned with 'his initials. " Statistical Accounts of Scotland" contain agreeable stores of information, and stores that arc not exclusively valuable to the habitants of the " land o' cakes," but in a particular manner to every subject, English, Irish, Scotch, or colonial, of our Sovereign Lady Victoria. A severe and searching com ment upon our "English Universities and their Re forms " completes the contents of the number for February—a number which is memorable as the four hundredth of this celebrated publication. BENTLEYS MISCELLANY. One of the most capital articles in Bentley's Aliecellany —and the number for February contains a variety—is from the pen of Alfred Crowquill, and tells of a "King who became young again." The astonishing metamor phosis of King Humdrum is rendered peculiarly striking by the inimitable manner in which it is related. We have read nothing like it since Hood's mourner "went and told the sexton, and the sex ton tolled the bell;" or since Madame Mantalini " wrung her heads with grief and rung the bell for her husband, and fell into a chair and a fit of hysterics simulta neously." As an example of the felicitous and telling manner of this narrative, let us 'quote one singularly effective observation. Speaking of King Humdrum's tyrannical propensities, his historian remarks en peasant, that " Rulers are all very well, but they should not be always. drawing lines for other people to go by." Another vi ry interesting paper, " a fantastic tale of feeling," by Horace Maybe vv, is entitled "The Headstrong Phrenologist." It is a hu morous but well nigh lamentable history of one Karl Von Wassergruell, the hapless victim of a master passion— belief in phrenological science. Innumerable and some times irremediable are the misfortunes which this sci ence entails upon its votary. On one occasion he re= fuses an eligible situation because his phrenological ob servations assure him that the individual under whom he would have to act is an evil- disposed man. Again heem broils himself in a serious quarrel with an officer, a stranger to him, because he volunteers to inform him that he has " the most perfect monkey's head that, in all his experi ence, he ever recollected seeing." But the crowning catastrophe is Karl's phrenological examination of the head of his lady-love—an examination which, in spite of his devoted affection, compels the unhappy philoso pher to insist upon 4n immediate separation—his lifer would uotbe safe w ith her. For the very marvellous denoue ment of this very marvellous tale, we would refer our readers to the Miscellany, pag e 154.- The magazine abounds this month in these llght and agreeable articles, which are undoubtedly the most pleasant description of ma gazine papers. Nevertheless, more serious tastes are not' unprovided for, as Charles Whitehead's interesting " Sketch of Schiller" (accompanied with a very beauti fully-engraved portrait of the great German) may testify. Christian Andersen has written a pleasing account of the " Visit of the Swedes to Funen, in 1848," which, in many respects, reminds us of the recent visit of the French National Guards to Eng land. Leech's terrible illustration, " The discovery ot. Rafforde's body," greatly increases the gloomy interest of the " Coroner's Clerk," the eventful narrative now emanating from the pen of the author of "Experiences of a Gaol Chaplain." We have not space sufficient to do more than enumerate the remaining contents of this agreeable number of Bentley—they consist of 3 tale by the author of the famous " Stories of Waterloo, " Wayside Pictures through France, Belgium, and Ger many," " The Bye Lanes and Downs of England," by Sylvanus; " A Day's Gunning in New Jersey," &c. &o. Among the poetical contributions the most meritorious are " The Watchmen," by Lord Maidstone, and " The Annus Mirabilis. 1848," of which it is said— " Convulsion rock'd thy cradle, and thy toys Were thrones on fire, and sceptres wrench'd from kings." LITERATURE. 1?E1lIAl?KABL.E AND ECCENTRIC C 11,4- RACTERS. " Variety is charming," says the adage, and so, it seems, thinks the compiler of " Bentley's Cabinet Li brary." The interesting narrative of " What I saw in California," which we noticed the other day, is now followed by a volume by Mr. Fairholt, the author of " The Home of Shakespere," which contains the history of some eight or ten individuals justly designated " re markable and eccentric." Mr. Fairholt very truthfully observes in his preface, that " the biography of the simplest individual, if well and truly told, has a fuel' nation." It a simple biography, well told, be thus attractive, how great must be the charm of these most extraordinary biographies, narrated as they are in the most interesting manner. Among the characters here portrayed are the Chevalier D'Eon, Peter the Wild Boy, and John Elwes, the miser, who, after a life of penury, died possessed of 800,0001. Some of the anecd ites to be found in this hitter history are of a very amusing, albeit a somewhat melancholy character. Among others, we read t,f three miserly baronets, disputing over the reckoning at an inn, when a wag, pao,ing by, called out to a friend , r Heaven's sake, step up stairs, and assist the peer! Here are three baronets, worth a millioe of money, q uo.. relling about a fat thing." Count Ankastrom, Elizabeth Canning, Jeffrey Hudson, and Antonio Magliabechip are other characters: portrayed. We refrain from quot ing any of the interesting anecdotes with which the volume abounds; thry will be better appreciated when perused together with the narratives to which they refer. The little volume is also bountifully adorned with pm' torial embellishments. FORTY DAYS IN THE DESERT. NOZRANI•IN EGYPT AND SYRIA. THE PIPE OF REPOSE. By I? Ferguson.. ? BELO OCHISTAN AND AFFGHANISTA-Iv, By ( 'olonel Stacy. CAMPAIGN IN NE TV MEXICO. By F. Edwards. In these days, when every one travels and evert one writes, almost every spot of earth has its histni rian. Nevertheless, so great is the diversity naiiire, and so various the opinions of men, that mile' as has been written about every known-country ° II the globe, much remains, and much will alivsk it remain to be said of them. T o h ave read one be' of travels in any particular country, so far fro? satisfying, only stimulates our curiosity. This 3 : peculiarly . the case with regar d t o th e E as t. A-' , te i ", Chateaubrihnd and Laroartine had related their tra ve 'i in the Holy Land, it mi g ht have been supposed tb fl . o no inferior pilgrim, would presume to chronicle 1 1, 1 0 pilgrimage. On the c on trary the charms of t' o subject seem to h ale overcome th e diffidenc e o.f a hundred amateur au th ors , an d the charms 0 f . t ' o sui . lect are such as t o ren d er " Travels in the a i wa. ys . attyactive, no matter who may indite their' Accoi'dingly the three volumes of Eastern wandering, now be fore us will, we doubt not, be attractive Ore multitude of' readers. " Forty Days in the De,b e _ n d is chiefly dc scriptive of that part of the Holy Len s. which which was the scene of the Israelites' wandering Wady Feiratl is described at some length,. an c.ls in most interests rig manner. This volume, which_le_bes legantly got ui', is illustrated by numerous of rev narkable places which struck .the tras ~. "`a va attention on his way. " Nozrani EPP_ b ors e- Syria' ' has reached its second edition, and is attrgc: quentiy independent of criticism.. The us _ jo t f tion of -this very attractive bock is the religie? z,. : l " ft re n f e d s e t r e i d n g b s y i f t s a Christieauthor. he meditations suggested by the scene ot_I! zro eaestivcer'll'helawlillri:rgretshyeimiocNn'vnyaimous with Nazaten•T• „ I-I y', w an . : erings ve in nowise diminished Irrtby ow era of observation, Every objcet " GENTLEMEN OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS, I have directed the Estimates for the service of the year to be laid before you; they will be framed with the most anxious attention to ' a wise economy. The present aspect of affairs has enabled me tc. make large reductions on the Estimates of last year MY LORDS AND GENTLEMEN, I observe with satisfaction that this portion of the United Kingdom has remained tranquil amidst the convulsions which have disturbed so many parts Europe. The insurrection in Ireland has not been renewed but a spirit of disaffection still exists, and I am compelled, to my great regret, to ask for a con tinuance, for a limited time, of those powers which in the last session, you deemed necessary for the preservation of the public tranquillity. I have great satisfaction in stating that corn e is reviving from those shocks which at the commence• ment of last session I had to deplore. The condition of the manufacturing districts is likewise more encouraging than it has been for a considerable period. It is aleo gratifying to me to observe that the state of the Revenue is one of progressive im provement. I have to lament, however, that another failure• in the Potato Crop has caused very severe distress in some parts of Ireland. The operation of the Laws for the Relief of the Poor in Ireland will properly be a subject of your inquiry, and any measures by which those laws may be beneficially amended, and the condition of the people may be improved, will receive my cordial assent. It is with pride and thankfulness that I advert to the loyal spirit of my people, and that attachment to our institutions which has ani• mated them during a period of commercial difficulty, deficient production of food, and political revolution. I look to the protection of Almighty God for fa vour in our continued progress, and I trust that you will assist me in upholding the fabric of the Consti tution, founded as it is upon the principles of free dom and of justice. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. INTELLIGENCE EXTRA. LIVERPOOL GREAT NATIONAL STEEPLE CHASE. 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COURT CIRCULAR. The Qaeen and Prince Albert left Windsor Castle at three minutes before eleven o'clock yesterday morning, attended by Lady Portman, Lord Elphinstone, Major-General Bowles, Captain the Hon. Joseph Denman, Lieutenant-Colonel the Hon. Chtales B. Phipps, and Captain the Hon. Alexander Gordon, and proceeded to the Slough station of the Great Western Railway, travelling to Paddington by a special train, and afterwards proceeding to Buckingham Palace, where the: august party arrived at five minutes before twelve o'clock. Her Ma;:esty and his Royal Highness were received at the Palace by the Viscount Jocelyn, Earl Fortescue, the Mar quis of B. readalbane, the Duke of Norfolk, Lord Edward Howard. a nd Colonel Wylde. The Ro• ral Standard was immediately displayed from the top of the new front of the Palace. The Queen went shortly before one o'clock to Gloucester house, to isit her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester. Her Majes. ty was attended by the Viscountess Jocelyn, Lady in Waitin: and Lieut.-Colonel the Hon. C. B. Phipps, Equerry i a Waiting. At hall -past three o'clock her Majesty held a Court and Privy Coancil. Before the Council the Queen gave audience to Lord John Russell, and the Marquis of Lansdowne. The Privy Council was attended by his Royal Highness Prince Albert, the Marquis of Lansdowne, Lord President; the L and Chancellor, the Earl of Minto, Lord Privy Seal ; Lord John Russell, First Lord of the Treasury; Sir - George Grey, Sect etary of State for the Home Department; Vis count Pal merston, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs; Earl Grey , Secretary of State for the Colonies; Sir Charles Wood, Ch mcellor of the Exchequer; Sir John Hobhouse, President .of the Board of Controul for the affairs of India; Lord Camp bell, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster; the Earl of Cm-lisle Chief Commission er o f th e W oo d s and Forests; the Earl Fortescue, Lord Steward; the Marquis of Breadalbane, Lord Chamberlain; and the Duke of Norfolk, Master of the l lorse. Her Majesty having been pleased to appoint the most Honourable Hell ry William Alarquis of Anglesey to be Lord 1 11 1.1 1 ar 15 3 a r 11.1 Trim ' LONDON, _ THIMSDA 'V EVENING, v:ErRITArty 1, WO,