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EVENING F'"ITION THE CHINA SUN," Which was RE-PUBLISHED on the Oth INSTANT, with the LATEST NEWS from CHINA, IS NOW ON SALE. Price SIXPENCE. Orders received at The Sun MN), No. 112 itramd. IN PROGRESS, TH E A ILIVA SUN. With a MAP of all the RAll EV AYS in the United Kingdom; containing the STA- TIONS on each Railway, and eat variety of Information and other partienl s connected with Railways. THE CORONATION SUN, 't;itllsi TED IN LETTERS OF GOLD., WITH A BEAUTIFUL PORTRAIT OF HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN, Cir. be sent by post free to all parts of the Em pire. Price SIXPENCE. Sun Office, 112, Strand, London. A LCOCK FOR EAST SURREY Fonr days only have elapsed since at ono of the largest meetings ever held in this county, THOMAS ALCOCK, Esq., was nominated with acclamation to be the champion of the Liberal interest. A personal canvass at this late period is obviously impossible, but he has already visited many districts, and will attend meetings in other parts of the county, se as to aiTord the fullest opportunity et ascertaining his sentiments. V. - e are delighted to state that we have found the independent Eleetors true to the great cause of civil and religious freedom. Tie returns now seat in prove that, by a continuance of the noble determination and exertions already displayed, success must, anti will be the result. COMMITTEES for promoting the Election of "Mr. AL COCK SIT DAILY at the following places : Central Committee . The Bridge House Hotel, Borough. Bermondsey ... Simon the Tanner, Long-lane. Rotherhithe Old Kent-read Lambeth ... The White Hart, Kennington-cross. Christchurch ...... Newton's Hotel, Blackfriars-road. St. Geor.e St. Sa }The Central Committee Room. Tiour's,"gt. ()lave Camberwell Wandswcrth ... The Spread Eagle. • Streatham ...... The Greyhound. _Kingston Richmond Reigate Croydon The Crown. It is particularly requested that all communications which may lead to secure his election may be made at any of the aheye•mentioned places. SAMUEL PALMER, Chairman. GEORGE G. DE H. LARI'ENT, Vice-Chairman. Central Committee-room, 30th January, 1641. THEATP,E ROYAL, COVENT GARDEN. NiDER :he MANAGEMENT or MADAME VESTRIS. THIS EVENING, FEB. 4. Will be repeated :'.lialcspere's MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM. Theseus, Mr. Cooper ; Quince, Mr. Eartley Bottom; Mr. liarley ; Flute, Mr. Kerley ; Snout, Mr. Meadows ; Snug, Mr. F. Matthews ; liermia, Mrs. Nishett ; Oberon, Matlame Vottris ; 'i'itania, Mrs. W. Lacy ; Patel:, Miss Marshall; First Fairy, Miss Ilaincprth. To conclude with The NEW GRAND CHRISTMAS PANTOMIME will be repeated, enti!len THE CASTLE OF OTRANTO; OR, HARLEQUIN AND THE GIANT HELMET. Harlequin, Mr. C. J. Smith ; Clowa, Mr. T. Ridgway; lrutaloon. Mr. Mo- ►tii; Calumbine,_llks Fairbrother. To-morrow, The. 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BALLS IN TWO PIECE', THIS EVENING, WITH SONGS. la consequence the great preparations necessary for the ..pp!iarance of the INCREDIBLES of PARIS. nli.o will most p,:r!'o,m on MoNDAY next, Bth February, the I.• ssee, v.r anxious to evirce his gratitude to a liberal Public, has, ro. cf expenict, entered into an arra.: - igi rattut, for Six Nigitts r „, f, w i t h Ali t :. HONEY, who will a; pear THIS EVENING the Farce of Perfection, and Ring several of her most popular ; ,he rill also appear in the Cen.edy of Seventy and 7cr.te n. flaines's.zrand now domeoi•_: drama, entitled THE EW TREE RUINS, rr the AVRECK, the MISER, and -fte MURDERER, with HARLEQUIN JACK of NEW- P.FRY, or •‘ BA A, BA A, BLACK .SHEEP," and the OLD I ,VO4AN of BERKELEY. TUE INC:IEDIBLES OF PARIS have arrived, and will c2.l' On MONDA V, Feb. 8. 111011 WATER A'r U)" DON BRIDGE 104M011.1t0:V. ..... Si mouth., lfter 0 i Evening 24 mmitraa after I he Publication of the Evening E4ition of TME Su CO a- meno,-(l.a 20 aiiaute: aftrr Thrce _ 4 40- '''ft• 411,‘ .' • 1-`7-flk)t. 'ti2: " ~4 , 0 ~...i f e ,41...,ir,„&--2, , 4 4....\,-, , „.. ~.%,,...t?1 . . ,-. ' ,',..; ..,:-. .. ~?..,84,-, . .., 4g.--•, 1.c!"-,•±- .1.,..." , , /fIL~ E SUN, LONDON, THURSDA Y, FE BR UARY 4, F.‘4l LONDON: THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1841. The Lords did not meet yesterday. In the Ctrnmons a new writ v, as moved for St. ,ilbans i I the room of the Hon. Mr. GRIMSTON ) who has accepted the Chiltern Hundreds, and who is goiaz, rei - ort says, into the Church. He i tired of being a Legislator. A few petitions were presented, but the only buslncss done was the passing a resolution: moved by Lord JOHN RUSSELL, and con curi•cd in by all parties, of praise for the •: distinguished and exemplary manner in which .JOHN Theicans, the late Clerk Assistant to the liotve, had performed hii duties during a long attendance at the table." It is alike honourable to the Commons and Mr. RICKAIAN that they hay paid this well-deserved tribute to merit, tvliich, though in a compa-atively humble sta tion, was of the most exalted character. The Report of the Committee of Supply was brought up, and the House adjourned. It is a common thing for timid friends and alarmed foes to complain of the heat and violence of the total and immediate repeal party. Even Mr. ALcocx, we see, who Las otherwise em btaced on, cause with so much good sense, re proaches the Anti-Corn-law party with extreme and violent opinions. We must take leave, therefore, to remind that gentleman, and to re mind our timid friend 4 and our alarmed oppo nent;, that the Corn-law faction refuses, and has long refused, in the most insulting manner, to make the smallest concession to the unemployed anl half-starved people. Session after session, before the present agitation began, did the bread-taxers, and tl ey do still, resist the attempts to allow foreign corn to be ground in bond. For a oons . derable lie Al they resisted the efforts of the shippin; interest to allow our shipping to be supplied with foreign produce; and even last session, after f - ey had in the wantonness of power treated t 'e Anti-Corn-law men with the greatest contumely, they united to throw out the Bill for allowin; foreign flour to be imported into Ireland, though their conduct on that occasion was justly characterised by Mr. WAILEY as inflicting the us- of unwhojesoine food and typhus fever on the pcople• Now, con siderins the determined manner in which the bread -taxers have maintained their monopoly, repelling with unflinching severity e very attempt to break through it in. the slightest degree; con sidering, too, how the law to levy the tax was originally passed, almost at the point of the bay onet, and certainly in open defiance of the in sulted masses ; and, above all, considering the nature (if the tex, nothing caa be expected from those who oppose it but the most sweeping, un sparing, and vehement condemnation. What is the tax? A law to take aw,:y the property of the industrious classes, and give it to the idle ownsrs of rent, a law to pare d •wn the loaves_ of the poor, and transmute the bread filched, by the honoured and revered means of a law, into gewgaws, jewels, and luxuries for the rich. It was well observed a few days ago by the Morning Post, that production is not every thing, the distribution of wealth is of importance. It is all important. The Legislature cannot by its parchment decrees make a blade of grass or an ear of wheat grow ; it has no influence, ex cept indirectly, over production, which it impedes; all that it does, all that it can do, is to distribute the wealth which is produced differently from the distribution made by nature and justice. Th e Corn-law directly alters the distribution of wealth, and indirectly, by depriving industry of its reward, impedes production. It alters the dis tribution in the most scandalous and unjust man ner. It is a swindling violation of the industri ous man's right of property. To be tender to such an Act is to do that which the law punishes, to compound a felony. Those who entertain a solemn conviction that the law is as we have de scribed it—unjust—would be false to themselves and their own opinions, if they spoke of the bread tax and the bread taxers in any other language than that of the severest moral reprobation. For them to compromise the matter—to be ac cessory to half a felony—would be to sharelW guilt they denounce. They would be worse than. , their opponents, for they would sin against con viction. They have not done the cause of un-d taxedbread any injury; its compromising friends who have deprived the contest of the sanctity of moral feeling, and degraded it into a huckstering bargain have inflicted on it many severe injuries.: They have given arms into the hands of 'our , opponents, and they are to blame that the brea'd tax is not before now triumphantly repealed.' They have made it a question of more or less, of what it costs to raise wheat here and elsewhere, and have killed the enthusiasm which lived in the hearts of the people. If it could be shown that the people had made the law, and thereby created the legal rights which have grown from it, if it could be proved that they had been ever passive under it, that might be some reason for saying that they had been particeps criminis, and were not justified in throwing all the loss of undoing their own act on their coadjutors in guilt. But the original law was passed by a borough-mongering Parliament, -in which the people were not represented, and over which they could exercise no influence. It was altogether the work of the landlords, and the effect of undoing the wrong should fall only on them. The people remonstrated loudly against it in 1815, and have never neglected to remon strate against it since, at every fittingopportunity. It is too much, therefore, now to ask them to be moderate in their efforts to throw off this in cubus, and to tell them they must continue to bear part of it for the sake -of good-fellowship with the landlords. It is too much to tell them they ought to speak kindly and lady-like to those who fleece them; that it is their duty to hear oppression meekly, and turn, spaniel-like, a beseeching eye to those who kick and spurn them. Nothing was ever yet won from unprin cipled avarice by supplication; but it is essentially timid, and much may be gained from its fears. We hold those Corn-law repeaters who tell us to moderate in our demands and respectful in our language, however well intentioned, to be ignorant of the nature of the contest and *the means of victory. Our best friends are those who speak the boldest, and who, in reply to the " No Surrender" of the bread taxers, incessantly and uncompromisingly demand the total and imme diate repeal. The administration of justice, the settling of disputes, and preventing quarrels between indi viduals, the substitution of a calm decision by a third party for the feuds of passion, or the wild j9atice of revenge, is undoubtedly the chief busi ness of every Government in relation to its own sukeets, if not its sole business. We remember in fact, that Lord BROUGHAM, in that celebrated speech of his on law reform, pronounced some where about IS2B, affirmed, quoting same writer even still more celebrated than himself, that the whole end and aim of all our institutions was to get twelve honest men and true into a jury -box. and get from them fair and honest decisions. We may from this statement come to a short and eompendi :us conclusion, that the Government which neglects to provide means for the adminis tration of justice, which allows them to be per verted or corrupted, whatever else may be its merits, is really worthless. It does not answer tile object for which all Governments are formed and submitted to, for which taxation is borne ; and by which restraints are justified—namely, the upright administration of justice between man and man. The end of its existence is not attained, it must be called barren, like a childless woman, whatever her accomplishments. For many years the Reformers and Radicals, the BROUGHAMS, HA nvEvs, and HumEs, have declared that such was the constitution of our Courts, and :inch the neglect of cur Legislature, that justice was not, and could not be, done be tween man and man. Nay, Lord BROUGHAM went so far in the celebrated speech we have referred to, as to assert that the law, instead of being staff and a shield to innocence, was a two-edged sword, which frequently smote those it should protect. Nor does it seem, after twelve years of all kinds of reform, to be improved in its charac ter. The night before last the ATTORNEY-GENE RAL—who has of late been distinguished by his zeal against Chartists, who do not reverence the law, and publishers of books which are not agree able to the parsons, and which ignorant Jury men condemn as blasphemous—described our Courts of Equity as denying redress and denying justice in all cases which come within their juris diction of a less value than 1001. In these remarks lie was borne out by every other person who spoke on the subject, and such cases were men tioned as differences or disputes between partners, 1 in which there was no means of obtaining re dress. Nay, it was expressly said by .the Learned Gentleman, that unless the sum in dispute were large, above 1001., no one but a madman would think of applying to the Court for redress. It is impossible to pronounce a more severe censure on the Legislature than to prove, while it has been busy year after year devising restrictions on our industry, and inventing means of enriching its members,-that it has neglected to provide for the due administration of justice. All these, however, may be supposed to be the complaints of ignorant Radicals or cf dema goguesaiming at power by promoting public dis content. Conservative writers and speakers who profess to adore all our institutions, and who are ready to shoot, hang, or drown all those who question their unparalleled excellence, may eider the justice is, like every say that the represent ation is not true, tha t there is nothing wrong, 0 and d in tli m atthe else, administrationpeeet under hest of landlordocracies. In pa rticular, if th ey are true to their creed, and to the traditionary praise of our institutions, they will assert that the House of Lords, the last Court of Appeal, in all cases is the fittest, as it is the noblest, tri bunal.theat ever was invented, worthy to control and correct the fallible judgment of all weaker men, and to put on Radicals and Reformers the curb of law and reason. Now let the reader, then, note the following description of that perfect tribunal, not spoken by HENRY BROUGHAM, 01' DANIEL W. HARVEY, or Mr. O'CONNELL, or any politician of principles verging towards demo cracy, but spoken by that sound Conservative lawyer and statesman, the past Tory Lord Chan cellor of Ireland, perhaps the future Tory Lord Chancellor c Englan d , Si r O. SHAW SUGDEN. Speakin,,7 of the House of Lords he said, and hi s o b se rvations are equally severe - " - - on the Court of Privy Council— The composition of the House of Lords as a Court of Appeal was a great anomaly. It owed its . establishment to a train of unforeseen circum stances ; its jurisdiction was denied in late times by that House, in the strongest terms, and to the extent of committing persons who sought its protection ; and though it was ultimately established, they were content to leave their authority in the state they found it. What_ could be more absurd than that the decrees of a Judge, who was competent to the performance of his task, should be reversed by a body of Peers, who were en tirely ignorant of every matter relating to the adminis tration of the law ? Had this .-practically been the case, the glaring absurdity of the practice would have rendered it intolerable ; but the great body of the Peers acquiesced in the decision of the Lord Chancellor ; and he was, in fact, the sole Judge of Appeals in the House of Lords. It was right, therefore, to consider the qualifications neees eery for the performance of the functions of Lord Chancellor. It sometimes happened that circumstances might render it expedient that that office should be filled by a person not possessed of the greatest share of equity law, who might have to learn the law which he was called on to administer, on whose judgments no de pendence could be placed, pot en account of any fault of the individual so filling the office, but because, pre vious to his appointment, his attention had been en tirely engrossed by matters foreign to the study of that law which he was called on to administer ; and it might happen, as it .sometimes had happened, that he might decide on a case without calling in the assistance of the other Judges. .All appeals from the Court of Chancery must be appeals to him self. This, of itseif, was a most alarming fact. If a Judge in the ; Court Lelow was called on to re-hear a cause, as that cause would not be carried to another tribunal, he might change his opinion without any im ..pugeisig of his judgment, as other circumstances might ~ have been: brought to his knowledge ; but in a case of appealfreat his judgment to a Superior Court, unless it was to ea of some obvious slip, it would be contrary to :hamati nature to expect that be should reverse his owe{ decision. His authority being impugned before his, Peers, he had every motive and every feeling to :affirm:lda own decision. He was, in fact, to all in tents 'and'purposes, a party in the cause. If a Judge haiii.,dpeenniary interest in a cause he was not per : anittod jci - sit in judgment on it ; and whilst character and: high station were of any value—whilst self-loVe .. was ; an aetuating motive in the human breast, the Lord Chancellor;:sitting as the Judge of Appeals in the House •of Lords; would have a much stronger motive than any pecuniary one • could possibly be to [Arm his own decision. The ancient Grecian had ap pealed from Phi ip drunk to Philip sober; but appeals from the Court of Chancery to the House of Lords were appeals from Philip sober to Philip drunk —appeals from a Judge uninfluenced by any motive, with all his passions slumbering, to the same Judge actuated by the strongest possible motives, the passion of self love, to support his own previous judgment. That, reader, is a Conservative's opinion of the highest Court of Appeal, and • yet that same Conservative would prosecute any man, if he had the power, and his fellow Conser vatives around him would yell with delight at his malicious achievement, who should speak of thal Court out of Parliament in that honest language of indignation which such a miserable imposition, ancl e such a sad piece of humbug de serves. And what is the remedy which this Conservative lawyer proposes? Positively a greater humbug still. He would appoint two Judges, called Assistants, to help the • LORD CIIANCELLOR, which assistants, unless they hap pen to be Peers, are net to have votes, but only to give their opinions, which may be expected, when there is no motive or interest to counteract it, to have some influence over the " body of Peers, entirely • ignorant of law, who now eett aside the decision of learned Judges." The LORD CI-fANOELLOR, a judge of great weight, • necessarily a Peer, and surrounded:with all the circumstances which give a man influence with . the. Peers, presiding, too, over their legislatiVe deliberations, can perhaps guide the votes of the tmlearned Peers ; but his authority cannot be possessed by any assistant Judges. They will lessen' his power, and excite doubts of his -deci sions, but they will not procure respect for their own. The number of Law Lords of late intro duced into the House .of Lords, who have taken part in judicial cases, has neither added to the weight of its decisions, nor the respect of the suitors. Little bickerhage and wranglings have taken place which partake of the legislative rather than the judicial character of the assembly. Such - evils will be increased by Sir EDWARD SUG DEN'S two journeymen Judges, and his plan is a greater humbug than he has shown the existing scheme to be, because it will lessen none of its evils, and saddle the country with consider able expense. - . It is high time that our Legislature should look into this subject. At present, its most im portant duties ire neglected, and will be till the administration of justice be rendered cheap and sure. From what the lawyers have already done for the community on this point, it is plain that the reform of the Courts must not be left to them. If laymen do not take up the question, all the alterations made by the lawyers will most certainly tend to increase their business, autho rity, and emoluments. There is no more important right than that of property. "We have Mr. LOCKE'S authority,' , it has been remarked, for saying—others, as CICERO, having said the same thing before—" That the great and chief end of men's uniting into commonwealths, and putting themselves under Government, is the preservation of their property, to which, in the state of nature, there are many things wanting." We might expect, therefore, that the Legislature should be particularly clear, precise, and definite in its enactments about pro perty, and so it undoubtedly would be if it had any clear notion of that right-and its own duties. But the long predominance of Toryism. which is .tt once ignorant and arbitrary, has made the Le gislature disregard all kind of principles, and be atisied with declaring as law the self and the .401 fish will of a majority. Of this kind of Tory ism we have an example in apaper on Tuesday. Mr. WARBURTON having asserted the foolish and ultra-Tory opinion, in the House of Com mons on Friday evening, that there are no na tural tights, which places all mankind at the mercy of legislators, as ignorant and wicked as our landlords, the Post tells us, in some com ments on the subject, that, "for Parliamen tary purposes, BLACKSTONE'S brief account of the right of property may serve." What his brief account is, we put at present out of the question ; .we quote the phrase to show ho*, in the opinion of the Tories, the Legislature may content itself with any sort of definition of this most important right, which may answer its present purpose, and save it from the trouble of thinking. It is not to consider what is true and what is good, not to concern itself with ab stract truths—another phrase for vast masses of experience expressed by a single sentence—but is to rest satisfied with any and every miserable subterfuge which the hour may bring forth. The brief account of the right of property given by BLACKSTONE ought not to suffice for Parliamentary purposes, for till Parliament is fully and thoroughly aware of the exact, bounds of that right—till it has attained precise and clear ideas on the subject, it will very likely go on making laws to violate it, like the Corn-law, and t') plunder the industrious poor for the behoof of the idle rich. As BLACKSTONE says, though he himself had no very clear idea of the source and limits of the right of property, for_he opines "it is probably founded in nature," "men are so I p o l o e k as b ed ack w i t t o h ti p l eosmseesasniosnbytlNlvahtictillie it y w a a r s e a a c f g r u a i i r d ed to , as if fearful of some defect in their title; or at least they rest sat i s fi e d w i t h t h e decision of the laws in their favour, hupa to t iN l • l i ev t hhoicuht Legislature examining dhoa t e h yse e . b re e as en o b n u o u r t. a „ u rr th h o is r i i s ty w - Considering that amongst those who rest satisfied remarkable - o i n n o as s s e s it are the law-makers themselves, consid er i ng too, that th t e h y is ai p •e as o s n a e ge an i c s l all, a of necessity, shows that they acquiesce in their own decrees for their own advantage, without ever inquiring whether those decrees are conformable to right and justice., and without therefore having formed any clear opinion that it is the duty of other men to obey them, though to compel their obedience they are always ready to use the halter and the bayonet. While we agree with the Post in repudiating Mr. WARBURTON'S philosophy, we feel grateful to him for calling attention to the subject, by blurting out in the House of Commons, and so making known to,the whole world, the abomi nable principle on which law-makers act, though few or none of them have the honesty to give their thoughts and their deeds a tongue. They proceed on the supposition that man - has no natural rights, and no correlative natural duties, and so they make laws to create rights, and impose duties. That is the great object and sum of legislation. A reasonable public writer adopting the opinion of the Post,- that Mr: WARBURTON was in error, would have readily taken the opportunity to place a correct view of the subject before the public ; but our Contemporary flippantly contents himself with performing the easier task of sneering at Mr. WARBURTON, and advising him " to carry his learning to University College, in the parish of St. Pancras." Mr. WARBURTON'S erroneous opinions on the subject will be of no use any where, but it is clear that the Post is unable to rectify them. Mr. WARBURTON'S opinion is the reproduction of the opinion of HOBBES, BENTHAM, and MILL. We quote from a writer who has examined the subject : With an extraordinary species of quaker-like humility, these reasoners assume, as tho basis of their system the principle which all spirited men, and even ot h er philoso phers, contemptuously reject—not merely " questioning," as Mr. Burke says, marking it with his detestation— '. whether man has any rights by nature," but broadly and boldly asserting that he has none ; and " that all the pro perty he enjoys is the alms of Government, and life itself derived from its favour and indulgence."* 4 6 La loi," says M. Dumont, in the true spirit of these -doctrines, "me defend-elle de vous titer? Elle m' impose tobl gation de ne pas vous tucr ; elle vous accords le aroit de n'etre pas tue par moi."t Men, therefore, according to the. system which affirms ' that there are no natural laws and natural rights, had.no right even to lite—that blessed gift of a bounteous Creator I—and n o ono was under an obligation not to kill another till the legislator created this right, and imposed this dwy. Mothers, according to the same dogma, might devour their offspring, and children, if their parents would allow them to grow to maturity, might fat up their parents—if he should, unhappily, forget to prohibit so unhallowed a feast I Suck deductions would be. shocking, if they were not eminently absurd ; and yet, Sir, you, who know on what principles Mr. Bentham reasons, must admit that they are the legitimate results of a system denominated, from the seat and centro of civilisation, the Philosophy of Westminster. Mr. WARBURTON'S doctrines are, then, identical with those of Mr. BENTHAM and Mr. MlLL—with what is called the philosophy of Westminster, and which is briefly refuted in the passage we have quoted. No; it is not true that men have no natural rights; it is not true that property is not a natural right; especially it is not true, though Mr. W.A RBURTON, like the Post, sneers at WAT TYLER doctrines,—it is not true, except in a state of slavery, that a man's own body and his limbs, and what he produces by his own ex ertions, are not his own, and are another per son's. He may make over that produce for a consideration, but it is utterly impossible to di vest him of the right to possess it, without _committing one of those crimes against his per son or against his property which we have al ways supposed Mr. WARBURTON to regard with great abhorrence. Among the natural rights of man, there is a natural right of property, a na ' tural right also to the free use of his limbs and his intelligence, or to the free exercise of honest industry ; and it is the wanton or the selfish in fringement of these . and other rights by the Le gislature which causes most of the misery of the people, and most of the discontent with the Government. * Letter on the Affairs of America. Traites de Legislation —pr. edit. We have not, till now, found an opportunity to express our deep regret that Mr. lIETIT TON, for the offence of selling a book in the way of his trade, ofthe contents of which he was igno rant, sh l ould have been sentenced, on Saturday last, to four months' imprisonment. The Jurors who pronounced a book to be blasphemy which criticized another book, and even, we admit, derided its contents, have now the satisfaction of knowing that their verdict has consigned an honest and industriOus tradesmen to prison for four months. They have torn him from_ his family, and shut him up in gaol—a Most praise worthy deed in the Jurors, is it not? It must be satisfactory, too, we presume, to the Judges—who have a stern and BnuTus-like pleasure in performing a painful duty—to have sacrificed their kindly feelings on the altar of the country, in doOrninga fellow-creature to four months' incarceration for selling a book. They must see a delightful adaptation of punishment to crime in this lengthened period of imprison ment for such an action, or they would not have done violence to themselves by pronouncing it>. For selling a book which displeases persons by its remarks, the just and appropriate punishment is four months' imprisonment—to knock a man down may be atoned for by paying a fine of a few shillings, especially if the assailant be wealthy and money no object. If the discrepancies we every day witness do not teach men blasphemy, they will at least make them discontented subjects, and we are afraid that such punishment as that inflicted on Mr. HETHERINGTON, however gratifying to Judges or Jurors, will not tend to convince the people of the wisdom of our laws. They will not he made more religious by this'mode of vindicating the Bible, nor more contented by seeing an honest man dragged to a gaol for an offence for which a shil ling fine would have been an adequate penalty. settlement e x o t f .co t 1 1 . 1 he persisting E l s pt c a t rl ti Thev es t proposedi n absurdrbey m o and ruinous plan of fortifying M., THIERS, and supported by the present French Government. It forms a complete and t • trium phant answer to the gasconade of the ex-Premier about the secret designs of the Allies who signed the Treaty of July. It clearly and un answerably demonstrates that England had n o selfish views—that she was actuated by no feel ings or motives hostile to the glory and , peace of France. This demonstration is made in time to spire misguided and inflamed France the enor mous expenses to, which the erection of those bastiles of liberty; detached forts, must cost her. And incurably blind must be the French people indeed, if, after learning how easily the Eastern question has been settled, they do not open their eyes to the horrors of the precipice over which M. THIERS and the Government is now driving them. But fortify Paris, and the enslavement of France is complete. Under the suns of the fortresses will expire that liberty to obtain which France passed thuough the bloody ordeal of two revolutions. Commerce, which reserves her richest treasures for the land in which- she enjoys the greatest freedom, will soon desert a capital environed with the frowning strongholds of military and regal despotism. Sciences, fine arts, and letters will follow in the wake of freedom and commerce. The men now so clamorous for walls and fortresses will be the first to feel that, instead of raising a rampart against the approach of an allied hostile army, they have been putting chains upon their own limbs, and gags in their own'mouths. The censorship o f the press will be performed by an expert gunner, and even freedom of thought will be regulated by the distance of the thinker's domicile from the nearest fortress. But M. THIERS wants the walls to justify to the Chambers his im mense armaments carried on without a legisla tive sanction, and likewise to dispose the KING to admit him once more to his councils and to these personal objects the liberty, and the moral and physical improvement of France, are basely and treacherously sacrificed. The Paris Journals of Tuesday announce that the Fortificatio ns Bill passed the Chambe r of Deputies article by article on Monday; and on the whole Bill being put to the vote, it was car ried by a majority of seventy-five-237 votes being given for the Bill, and 175 against it. The doom of Paris appears sealed. The walls will perfect the system of centralization established by NAPOLEON, and France will be made to feel under the ORLEANS dynasty a despotism more oppressive and more powerful than she ever ex perienced under the galling yoke of the BOUR BONS, even in the palmy days of Louis XIV. and his successor. Under the old regime, the despotism of the SOVEREIGN was tempered and • ameliorated by a system of local Go- I vernment, which has now disappeared in France. The Commune formed on the model of a well-regulated family—the Province with its federal rights and privileges—the Provincial Parliaments, with their powers of refusing to register the Royal decrees, and thus rendering them inoperative—were all so many bulwarks of liberty no longer existing in France. And what has France obtained in lieu of them? A parch ment acknowledgment of the popular Sove reignty. A charter or constitution, two Cham bers, in which, so long as placemen, pensioners, prefects, and other officers, arc admissible, the Crown can easily command a majority; and, to crown all, fourteen forts round Paris, a strong wall of circumvallation, eighty bastions, and '2,600 pieces of cannon! With the charter and the Chambers France might have been content, the corporate rights which she enjoyed under the Bourbons, but the fortresses, the bastions, and the wall, of cir cumvallation, virtually abolish the Charter, by placing all power in the hands of the KING, and reduce the Chambers to mere Courts for the registration of the Acts of the Cabinet. It is stated in the best informed political cir cles in Paris, that the energy displayed by M. TRIERS in getting the Bill passed, has entirely reinstated him in the good graces of the KING, and that a time is actually fixed for his return to office. M. TRIERS set a trap for GUIZOT and SOULT, and both have been now caught in it. By supporting the Fortifications' Bill they have admitted that all the expenses to which he put France in warlike preparations against the Allies, were justified under the then existing circumstances. They have even done more. They have, by now supporting the Bill, assumed as a fact that France is still me naced by the Four Powers, and requires to guard against a sudden invasion of her territory. It is not enough, in the opinion of the KING and courtiers to have fortresses—it is requisite that they should be so placed and constructed as to command every faubourg of the capital. With so pliant a tool as TRIERS at the head of the Mi nistry, this could be easily accomplished. But after the exposures that have been made of the duplicity of M. TRIERS, as Foreign Minister, it is impossible to conceive how he could have the audacity to accept, or the KING so much dis regard of the feelings of his Allies as to offer him, that office. If to his smattering knowledge of so many things, M. TRIERS had added a smat tering of strategy, and the details of the Com missariat, the Ministry of War would be now the grand object of his ambition. There he could build fortresses after the KING'S own heart — such as would have delighted the founders of the Bastile, had they appeared in their day. But M. TRIERS at present would be well content with the Ministry of the Interior; but if he have a seat in in the Cabinet during the life-time of Louis PHILIPPE, then will the KING forfeit the confidence and respect of every honest patriot in Europe. The KING and the Minister will be then on a level in all that regards aban donment of principle and reckless disregard of personal character. The much talked-of Treaty of Commerce be tween England and France is again on the tapir. The following article upon it appears in the C'ourrier Francais of Tuesday : A kurnal stated on Sunday that the British Govern ment wanted to know M. Guizot's intentions on the sub ject. of the Treaty of Commerce, the conclusion of which Lad been swpended by the late events. It appears, in het, that Lard Palmerston, has represented to the French Cabinet, in a very urgent note, that the time had arrived for signirg that convention, in case the Ministry of the 29th October adopted the basis laid down by the Ist March. • As the Treaty in question is limited to stipulating recipro cal reductions in the customs' duties, and as those reforms are for the interest of both countries, there is no impedi. mint to take it into consideration. We shall not advise concessions to be made at this moment to England. But if the British Government admits our wines, our brandies, and cur silks, at moderate duties, we have no reasonable. tno!ive for rejecting the stuffs or merchandise which it may scud us in exchange for our produce. The Treaty of Commerce concluded between France, and Holland, of which a summary has appeared in The Sun, was laid before the Cham ber of Deputies on Tuesday. During the same sitting DUCIIATEL, Minister of the. Interior, brought fo.rward his Bill for secret service money, the debates upon which usually test the stability . of the Cabinet—as a vote in support of that Bill is a vote of confidence in Ministers'. The sum demanded is a million of francs (40,0001. sterling). • The passing of the Fortifications Bill had no observable effect on the Funds, which through out the day were very languid, M. Humann, the Minister cf Finance, has refused to be present at the Sitting of the Chamber, because he consi ders the law for fortifying Paris is likely to prove the ruin of France. It was reported yesterday evening that the passng of the law would cause M. Testc to resign. M. Humann says that fortifying of Paris would oblige the Government next year to impose again the duty cf forty millions on spirituous liquors, from which they were relieved immediately after the revo!ution.—Quutidienne. BREST, JAN. 30.—The corvette of burden, Ailicr, Cap tain Herbert, is now fitting out here; it i 5 to go to Nc v, - Zniand.—Le Commerce. BOURSE —Pan's, TUFSPI-Y, FEu. 2 OPFNING PRICY, —Fire per Ceriti, 112 f 65c ; Four• arcs a-Ilalf 1021 50 • ; Three per Cents., 761 `is; Bank of France 3,245; Neapolitan, 102`.; Roinan, 1001 ; S;.)a nish Active, 254; atf..!red, 13 Passive, 61 ; Belgian Five per Cents., 98a ; B •lgian Bank, 875. Clc4ing Prices—Five per Cents., 112 f 60.;; Three per Cents., 701 80c ; Bank of France, 3,250 ; Neapolitan, 1021, Madrid Papers of the 215th ult. have reached us. The Castellano of that date gives the fol lowing list of Candidates as likely to be returned to the next Cortes by the Capital:— Don Augustin Arguelles, Don Juan Batista Alons6, Dan Juan Francisco Morate, Don Manuel Gil Santi. bone; Don Vincent Collantes, U.in Carlos Martin del Romerral, Don Francisco Javierferu Montaos, Don Juar. Alvarez y Mendizabal, Don Raman 11adrio Bavila, ane Don Pedro Mendez Pizo. There were some reports of a reduction of the army, which we trust are well founded. Then was no political gossip afloat of the slightest ir.. terest. The Madrid Fives, 201 for cash, and 29' 4 ' for sixty days. Bargains were transacted to the amount of 31,800,000 reals. Debt with intest for cash. Belgian and German Journals of the latest dates have arrived this morning. It was re ported in Brussels, on Sunday, that the Govern ment was preparing a general measure for repair ing all individual losses sustained during the Re volution, and also the losses sustained by the late dreadful inundations. The King of PRUSSIA has fixed the 28th o: February for the opening of the Provincial As. semblies of Brandenburg, Pomerania, Prussia, Posen, Silesia, Saxony, and Westphalia. Th( Assembly of the province of the Rhine will meet in May next, according to established usage. A letter which we have received from St. Petersburgb says that a. great sensation has been caused by the new that the young Prince Gallitzen and Count Von Stackel berg, both of them belonging to the Russian Legation al Rome, have embraced the Roman Catholic religion. I is said that, besides being deprived of their titles of no bility, they arc both threatened with the confiscation o their property. Prince Gallitzen has great estates Russia.—Allgemeine Zeitung, Jan. 29 Major-General Sir Henry Wheatley, G.C.H. Privy purse to the Queen, has forwarded, through Si( Mitthew Tierney, Bart., Her Majesty's gracious annua , bounty of 1001. to the Sussex County Hospital, and 201 to the Brighten Dispensary. This severe winter has 5, increased the demands on these charities for relief to th( sick poor, that we earnestly entreat the benevolent to en able the Governors to answer the calls. —Brightoi, Gazette. The Earl of Cardigan returned to the barracks last Thursday, for the purpose of mustering his troops a' the end of the month, according to his usual practice. O, Saturday morning the regiment passed through the tow, in marching order. His Lordship took bis departure o: Monday for London, having resided at the barracks during his stay in Brighton. —Brighton Gazette. It is stated that during the late severe frost, gentleman at Whitcombe, Gl ou cestershire, had a rick o' barley attacked and plundered by a large number of rooks, and such was the boldness of the depredators, that nearl) one-third of the contents 'was carried off before they coulc be forced to relinquish the attack. HOUSE - Or LORDS-(THIS DAY.) The House sat to-day for the purpose of hearing Ap peals. The Peers present were the Lord Chancellor, Lord Brougham, the Marquis of Bute, and Lord Ellen torougli. CALLAGHAN V. CALLAGHAN. This case, which was part-beard on Tuesday, came before their Lordships upon appeal from the decision of the L rd Chancellor of Ireland, dismissing a bill for the specific performance of an agreement' to make a lease to the dc 7 , foldout. .Mr. S.rgeant• JACKS',N, with whom was Mr. JACOB, on the part of the appellant, occupied their Lordships on his behalf the greater part of Tuesday, end nut having concluded on that day fie resumedhis arguments this =m ing, but had not finished them when our reporter left. The case appears likely to occupy their Lordships sevEral days. QUEEN'S BENCH.-(THLS DAY.) LCC-KWOOD V. W;OD. Lord DENMAN gave judgment in this case, which was an action of debt to recover certain market tolls and stall age, claimed by the plaintiff as proprietor of a market in the town of Easingwold. The declaration alleged that the plaintiff was proprietor of the market in question, and w!s entitled to claim tolls and stallage ; that the defendant brought certain goods into the market, and exposed them for sale. The defendant pleaded that he was never in debted. The eve was tried before Mr. Justice Parke at the Yorkshire Assizes, and a verdict was had for the plain tiff, damages Is., as far as related to the stallage. For the plaintiff a charter was produced, granted to one Hall in the time of Charles 1., and which conferred upon him the tolls and profits of the market, and witnesses proved that the plaintiff, to whom the market at present be longed, was in the receipt of market tolls and stallage. In 1646 an agreement was entered into between certain inhabitants of Easingwold and Hull, by which is consideration of certain land and houses, granted to Hull, the inhabitants were to be exempted from all charge fur tolls. Mr. Justice Parke was of opinion that that deed did not exempt the inhabitants from the charge for stallage, and the question for the Court now was whether the ex emption claimed by the defendant from the ordinary mar ket tolls extended to an exemption from stallage. After going at some length through the authorities bearing upon the case, the Learned Judge said the Court was of opinion that no ground had been shown for entering a verdict for the defendant, but as there was some question as to whether the defendant came within the designation of an inhabitant of Easingwold, and was thereby entitled to exemption from tolls, there ought to be a new trial. THE BIRMINGHAM, BRISTOL, AND THAMR3 JUNCTION RAIL- WAY COMPANY V. lIOLFORD. This was an action to recover a sum of 4601. 181 , being the arrears of calls upon fifty sharev, with interest, which the defendant held in the above Railway Company, and mhich he had refused to pay. The case was tried before Chief Justice Tindal at the Essex Summer Assizes, in the year 1839, and a verdict was had for the plain tiffs for the sum claimed. A rule for a nonsuit or a new trial was subsequently obtained, on the ground that the registry book bad not been kept accord. tog to the Act of Parliament (6th William IV.), and had been improperiy admitted in evidence ; and also on the ground that a sufficient number of duly qualified Directors were not present, or did not vote in favour of the motion at the time the calls were made. Mr. TUESIGEI: now appeared to thew cause against the rule, arid contended that, although some objection might be taken to the of iginal book, yet the book containing the register of shares, and which was in existence at the time these calls were made, was kept according to the form prescribed by the Act of Parliament. With regard to a sufficient number of qualified Directors not being present, the evidence was that five constituted a quorum—that there were never less than eight present ; and although some of these Directors held shares in trust for other parties, on which the calls were not paid up, the calls being made - unanimously there was a sufficient qualified number assenting►. Mr. PLAIT and Mr. PEACOCK were heard in support of the rule. The COURT took time to consider its decision. COMMON PLEAS.-4THIS DA, V.) (Sittings at Nisi Prius, before Mr. Justice ERSKINE and a Common Jury.) RITCHIE AND ANOTHER V. WILSON. The plaintiff's in this case are timber merchants, and bring this action of assumptit against the defendant for materials furnished by them for the building of certain houses upon his property, in the ncighbourhod of Kennington. The defence was that the timber was sup. plied upon the credit of the builder who contracted for the work, and who had received the full amount of his con tract, but had become insolvent without paying the plain. tiffs. The case was tried before in this Court, when we reported the particulars at length. The present is a new ial ; it has occupied all the morning, and was not con cluded when we %Tent to press. CRIMINAL COURT.-(THIS DAY.) OLD COUR7. (Before Mr. Justice WILLIAMS and Mr. Justice COLTMAN.) Mary Ann Hoskins, a widow, aged thirty-nine, was lc dieted for the wilful traveler of her illegitimate child at Greenwich on the Ist of January last. Mr. Ballantine appeared for the prisoner, and Mr. Espinasse for the prosecution. Same of the particulars of the case, which possessed little interest, have already appeared. The following is the evidence of one of the surgeons who examined the body :—Mr. Cooper raid—l am a surgeon at Greenwich. I assisted in examining the child. Before I arrived Mr. Keble had examined its chest. lie drew my attention to the neck of the child. On the back of the gullet there was clotted Wood, and in the gullet itself. We found the lungs also very much gorged with blood. The appearances were such as might be expected to pro. teed from suffocation. In my judgment, from the appear. ante of the luags and the mark on the neck, some pr es sure mast have been made on that part, which led to suffs,eation. I think there must have been a pressure on , the neck over the windpipe. The marks 1 have de scribed might, it is possible, have been produced by vio lence inflicted immediately after death. By a Juror—Death from pressure, such as I suppose, would have been instantaneous. The pressure might have been made by the . mother while in the act of being delivered as well as at any otht r time. I im agine that the pressure which would have pro duced the marks.- would have led to instantaneous death.. The mere exposure of the child mi g ht h ave produced in it a state of exhaustion : I merely. give it as my opinion that life would not remain after such violence as I suppose bad taken place. The Counsel for the defence then addressed the Jury, and Mr. Justice WILLIAMS having summed up, The Jury, after a few moments' consultation, returned a verdict of " Not Guilty." MARLBORO UGH-ST RE ET.—(THIs DAY.) Gcorgc Harrison, n fashionably-dressed young man, who has been for a long while well known to the police as one of the swell nob, W 33 pl iced at the b.lr Le!ore Long, the I.rec Magictrate, on a charge of Hony. I Mr. Jame'.; Dubelieu, a gentleman residing, at IS. Bury strect,'_ St. Jtmts'e, stated that Le Was last night at Mulan;s Dukhan's Cone, rt, at she Itmover-square Concert-rooms, and noticed that the prisoner was close behind him. In a short time after this he missed his pocket-book, which contained 91. 10s. in gold; and a foreign bill of exchange for a large amount from his coat pockets. He directly made inquiry of the persons around him if they had seen hint drop anything, and was informed that the prisoner had but a few seconds previously hastily quitted the room. He was pursued and brought back by the police, and] in the passage witness saw his pocket-bo o k, pith the contents in it, fall at the prisoner's feet. Police constable No 36 of the A Division, stated that on bringing the pr.soncr back he distinctly saw him drop the pocket-bock. The prisoner made no defence, and was fully committed for trial. CLOY D'S HIPPIN G.-(THIS DAY. LONDON, FEB. 4.—lt blew a fresh gale this morning early. —Wiad this day at noon, fresh breezes and moderate squalls, at times to E. to N.E., and frosty weather. SHEERNESS, FEB. 3.—The Prima, Butler, of Jersey, re ported to have been run down at sea by a steamer, is in this harbour weatherbound ; she has received some damage in her upper works. The Robert and Ann, Alo@re, bound to Shields, has come in with loss of anchor and cable. PoaTsmourn, FEB. 3. —Wind E., Strong breezes.—Ar.. rived the Factory, Jensen, from Batavi a . COWES, FEB, —The Armadillo Benedict, from Newcastle to New York, which arrived here leaky, has come into the harbour to discharge. PLYMOUTH, lqn. 3. —Wind N.E.—Sailed her Majesty's ship Endymion, for the East Indies. FALMOUTH, FEB. 2.—Wit d N.E. to E N.E., strong gales. —Sailed the Superb, Wilson, for Trinidad. JERSEY, JAN. 30.—Sailed the Duke:of Gloucester, Solby, for Rio Janeiro; Agenor:a, Le Gresley, GUERNSEY, JAN. 30.—Sailed the Pilot, Billi n , H anover. Muroftn, Fru 2.—Sailed the Matthew King, Smith, for Barbadoes. The Eliza and Nancy, Gillard, arrived to-day from Dublin, reports having seen, 31st ult., about two miles north of the Bishops, a mast-head, about five feet above wa ter. Supposed to be the foremast of the Pomona of Jersey. HULL, FEB. 2.—Wind N.E., fresh gales.—The Assume, from St. Domingo to Hamburgh, and the Trinidad, Brown, rom Honduras, fell foul of each other in the Roads yesterday, an the Ebb, and both received trifling damage. It blew very 'lard this morning about two, and has since been squally. DRO7.IIEDA, FEB. I.—The Jane, Clarke. from Troon to Dublin, was totally wrecked in the Bay, this morning—crew irowned. DUNDALK, FEB. I.—The Ocean, Morgan, from Cardiff to this port, was brought in here this morning, having struck on the North Bull. Her stcrnpost and several butts are started. Had discharged thirty tons of cargo to get off. STRANICAER., FEB. 2.—The Betsy, from Liverpool to Glou cester, was run down off the Craig of 101sa, on the night of the ;Ist ult., by the Lune, Pearson, from Glasgow to Ulverstone, the former sunk, crew saved. The latter has put in here to repair. SOUTHWOLD, FEB. 3.—A large part of the wrork of a vessel, warently of about 250 tons, came on shore to the east ward yesterday. Tne wreck appears to be on one side and the bottom sheathed with:a white metal and white moulding ; on the top of the sheathing waterways, bulwarks, and stancheons green, between decks red, two masts gone at the deck, paint e d white, a piece of bowsprit and a piece of sail, marked " Josoph Lamkton, sail maker, —on." YARMOUTH, Fall. 3.—A barque of about 200 or 300 tons was driven on shore at Coalhive, on the Ist instant; her threo lower masts by the board, and her bowsprit, yards, and sails, :n the water. it is reported her bottom is zinced. KINSALE, JAN. 31.—Arrived the Se; ab, Trotman, from the Cape of Good Hope. Sailed, Prince of Waterl6o, Edwards, Savannah. Influenza in a very severe form has made its ap ( crane°, prtieniarly at the eastern parts of the rnetropo is. Many of the metropolitan and City police-force are .uffering severely from this disorder, EVENING EDITION. THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY). --- COLONIAL MARKET. The operations were on a small scale, by private treatY, (1 . the Public Sales went off without spirit, but in prices no 3,! rittion of moment occurred. TEA MARKET. I'rices were firm, but not much business was done in d "g Fr 7" • Trade. Company's Congou produced 15. 61,1. O A' , ' an in fa r request. • TALLOW MAR KET. Prices for P. Y. Candle were steady on the spot, and '°- f t demand prevailed; the delivtni from - the warehouses was g HAY 111 ARKET. tray ( ' A good demand prevailed for all kinds of Ha)? S Aicada and the supply was ,mall. Clover, 4/. 16 s. to 61.; 3/. 15s. to 51. ; Straw, li. 14s. to 11 s. MONEY and . COMMERCIAL . CITY, TIVELYE ('CL° Cf ; LI VF.RFOOL COTTON MARKET, WEDNESDAY.-- ince _uar, repent of Friday last a very fair extent of business b.,_ been done, and there was rather an improved IS" in t t ia -; market. Up to yesterday prices were snore s teady ,n_ a r during last week, bit still the trade did n ot push t . / . 7 o ' s purchases willingly, speculators showing mere dispo'lL.,3„ to bey. The sales to the latter during three days, 1 3 . , : Saturday, Minday, and yesterday, arc about 4,59 P all American; to-day g they arc not in the market , " l ":, lot in cuns,quence of the report from Manchester hei,ng so favourable, is fl ft, and -the business doing reoue S o with a d.fliculty in obtaining. the prices of yesterdaY; sales to-day arc about 2,000 to 2 500 bales o_f_aollukotatliail:o:s. .MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, FEB. 3. are— Manchester at d Bit minyham, 25 '1 • Ditto 1,50:, tension, 21. 16s. 61. ; Stafford and Rugby , 31. I ° s ' ; s o uth don and Birmingham, 177 to 179; London and ~,i tto Western, 574 to 581 i; Manchester and Lee ds, 73; v il e • b„ Halves, 31 to 32 ; Manchester Assurauce, 9to O f ; "- dale Cana!, 85. e ster' We have received the Journal of Antwerp 01 Ict day's date, c ape- VIENNA, JANUARY 24. The Austrian F und' wine rieneed a considerab'e rise on 'Change yesterd4 cr • o f to the news from Trieste, by an extraordinary CO it the Ottoman fleet having been given up by Meheme e s.. The Bark Actions got up from 1,64 0 to 1,642 divi ß dend. Bil f OURSE OF A MSTERD 4AI. JAN. 30.---Twn -a ne SP "• is • In d per Cents, 491; Five per Cents., 97; r 22 5-16. By the above date it appears that the mail f rel° sterdarn had not arrived at Antwerp SOCIETY OF PUBLIC EFFECTS, A I;IST ' ERVAM, 31.1i.0ca The firmness which prevailed yesterday in eur r t i on" prevailed this day, sus t a i ne d b y th'e improvement u:sad don and Paris, Bu s i ness w as animated inktegrAlea, d ay the liquidation in the Society of Commerce of f e do in'i contributed .to the activity of the transactions. noes, .panish was likea ise sought thee a bove all tha "eor-tbe t:/hich improved 1 per cent. The decree relatio4dra flaance plan of the Regency, published in the it Gazelle of the 22.1, had a happy infl uence on the Pr' cupons r. mained at 214; Ardoin's, 22/ 9 16.11°' COnso-The British Market contiaues rather heavy, 1 % r a e iss qut nee of the Supplies coming on to-morrow in tb et t he of Commons, and the speculators not knowing el- ) ;0 1, OS mersurca Ministers intend to adopt in raising th e zp .."- y etis • well as the amount t'aey will require at present; is very uncertain if they will fund or raise it by a I° 4 ll e CtOn t ' • Coasols opened this morning at 894 for the I: - l'he rt present may be quoted at 8(4. Money, 8 , 9 i !4 • 4 * 6 pie . • M rkat is • • " p...sentinactive. Exchequer aniurn'; Bank Stock, 164 166; led a Stock, 24 6 ;" aff et In the Po Market Spanish Active, which left 1 / 6 4; , 244 -a, at present 241; Deferred, oa i x ,„„ Portuguese same as they left off, 3 - 1 8 ; i 1 32; T hrce' 22l Cents., 194 294 ; Brazilian 72 73 ; Colombian 'race's, 20 23 ; Mexica n, 271 ; Chilian,.63 65 ; Buenos Ar e , oft 22 ; Dutch Tao end-a• Half per C'ents., Same a l the/ off, 504; Five per Cents., 98k 99. - Ili a SHARES. —Great Western, 25 26 prem. ipso' • 12 prem. ; London and Brighton, 7 64 u la.. ! Sou tb.' wall, 44 - 32- dig. ; Birmingham. 86 88 prom *,,. shar a er amploa, 57 53 per share ; Croydon, 121 P-e,ebsPn Greenwich, 84 per share; Manchester and nil -I ' ll 4o' • 154 144 din. ; and South Elst,sn and Dover, HALF-PA ST. 100 To the preterit hour we arc without any Pap e" °r • from the Can.bri ige, New York packet ship: iistlir The British mai ket still continues heavy, with vcrioitba doing'; the fluctuation has been during. the .cour A occooet;, morning, from 894 4, and at present 894 for the • Money, 894 ; Exchequer Bills lower 5 3 PT: '1300 .1 ." Stock 248 ; Bank Stock also lower, 1644 ; • 10 6 discount. • o use' ve' Money is at the rate of 4 per cent • the Hti The Foreign. Market is also inacti lo ve. SP aej a cb , Ac beit er) 244 ; Deferred 124 ; Portuguese 32. a abr: e „siad -r, Teree per Cents. 20; Moxitan 274; Dutch Half per Very little Cen has b ts. 50 n done 4 ; Five per C the Sh ar ents. 98 e i• mar ket , st a• ee the morning. London and Birmingham , 17 ,,, a 73. Western BJuds, 124 ; Manchester and Lee ds, CLOSING PRICES. ,„ • BRITISH FUNDS. ,2 4 ' do : Bank Stack • • 164 India Stock ......... •• ' 1 3 per Cent. Bee 894 Ditto Bonds ............ 3 per Cent C 005...- 89 , Ditto Old Annuities ••• 34 per Cent Red 9 83 Ditto New A n nuitiel: c i . bp° New 34 per Cent 974 Ex. Bills, 1,000/•••• 21 4 1 4 : New 5 per Cent Ditto 50 0, .......... Long Annuities to expire Ditto Small ...... Jan. 1860 Oct 1859 lndia Stock for Acct 69i Jan. 1860 ... Consols for Acct. .•••"" • . FOR EGGN FUNDS. Austrian, 5 per cent... Portuguese, 5 per c ent ' ' Belgian, 5 per cent — Ditto, New Ditto.••• ' Brazilian Bore's ...... 7 9 1' Prussian, 5 per Lent''''-' 11 BuenosAyres, 6 per cent 21 .- Russian, 5 per cent; • ' Chilian, 6 per cant Colombian, 6 per cent Spanish, pc ' r 12 ' • Ditto, 1824 2l Ditto, Deferred ..... ••••,;,. Danish, 3 per cant. Frencl,s per cent.ell'i. Greek.lB2s, spercont. Exchange ......... Mexican, 5 per French,3 per c e nt. 111 .. 5 0 , Di to, 6 per cent, 1825 Dutch, 24 per c ent ..." 9. Peruvian,lB2s,6 per et. Ditto, 5 per c ent... s• SHARES. 904 Great Western Railway (65 paid) ..... . ...... Ditto New Shares (50 paid) ...... •••••• 9i Ditto Fifths ( 4 paid) ........... Gosport Junction Railway (40 pd) ...... ••• '43 London ono n and Brighton (50 paid) ............... 151 London L atrlidd Birminghamßlaeicwalllia l i t iv, ai a l y way ( ( 2 9 2 0 i p q 17 0 a London and Green w i c h R a il wa y (20 1 ,4 ' 6 ' I'l#- • London and Croydon Railway (Trunk) ••"' Manchester and Lceds (70 1;.t(1) '''''''''7 s North M:filat-d itailway (100 paid) ......... 13 South East: in asd Doric (26 paid) ~••• ••• 75 5 0 York and North Midl an d Railway ( pd) f° rye THE COLLIERS' TURN-OUT u last, 29, thee' was a meeting of turn-e-t,iy r ty which was numerously attended and lasted 11°''srario; whole day, at Li: Hulten, near this boro e g h ',,d to at were the opinions put forth by those who ven tn. press any on the occasion ; tire majority, howcr e . i r ip g ti ) ;bo inclined to continue the tu r n- cu ,, b u t were unv o sumo. work at the to.; !us agreed to by the ern P l O h e e first ilv7ttnee, num , ly, an advance of 10d• beant co to P ro , ,itrce tons. Oa Saturday, many of them ploYf (I pre their tools ; they visited their former hat o v s and the result to s, nearly all the m'a in he 0%01 tor resumed work on Monday me n , are, longing to W. Ifulton, Esq., at Farnwe rt ` e h e (to t e m ' .topped. When the men asked, and ter n ' e I '4 • :be second advance, Mr. Ilulton ordered time NI: g t be r ho baskets ; &c., to be removed, and declared tld g ive t o f , should stand idle a long time before he we a l, a iren 6 te s price demanded. The men arc, it is stated. returning to work at those pits also, and it 15 li o f Ogi s e ,re their wish will be complied with. Nurnb ets e:spr;ll, throwntPi on Ye t o d be materially i e u a t n t t a d o k: taken n r r tionh:ges otherltmah labour oi ee urrsdepartments have wee _ vateeed hope, especially ns the weather and inclement, that in our next paper we shall 1,-be ;m general a a n r k d teiuttshr the fear -out to have o b feacboei Cr i i e n ho e g e: n ege. 0 : : 1 1 1: iroe s to say the turn-out is entirely at an end--i' - e tfes Press. The correspondent of a Merninc , PelPe r ', l s ter, - additional particulars from * M alic e - , 5 - arne u ee Tuesday : At Wigan the turn out bo atte" c e more scrim aspect. Some of the repel to le§ k to the pits have been out, and some of thcaispisegeef the locol railways about the pits have beell„ill g but happily, I am i n f orme d, w ithout pv o°° h - a ie bbe serious consequences ; for, as those expedients , d for practised heforo, every caution has been 01) 01 1 0 0 e s detection of their repetition. Such is the vig l bbe roP,„J. practised at the pits in this neighbourhood , that; 8 1100 0 : are tested by a double weight before the men ar dsit s pl to descend to the pits. A gentleman conneet° hat are). of the Wigan collieries has just informed line 700 men have marched in the di rec ti o n of St' A c t n' e v e ilo cause a turn out of the colliers in that district• tetintte the united colliers seam both formidable and " e ;the ig ; but the masters are not less so. A meeting „ — t ee t s * -e I took place a few days ago, when each came t ," ; ,, of, - „ty ing provided with a statement of the qua tt ,; l l es ,° :,rl then got and lying in store. Upon a gen e 'pre y d , - tion it was found that amongst the vat i°u .e .a s elso. there was a reedy supply of 500,000 tons lt wsv turn adequate to three months' consumption. e d ee t arranged that a mutual compact should be " ter , 0 61° bi the masters, and that those most pressed for th e tic s rd of their contracts should be supplied at the ° t b e rs, others possessing a surplus quantity, Among h ° eee tioge Balcarres has offered 60,000 tons to tree stl e c l,'o 105 cies. As a matter of precaution, his Levus"libe et of clued the pit machinery of all his colliers Nenieneour, ped of the roping. For the safety and °°n ei v r eled , of Manchester the gas directors have, I am Ja h . "l, otoC or e, chased from Lord Francis Egerton his W " f l : et fo r tv cannel, so that, should we be deprived or ' l ilt. A 1. 06 we shall at all events be favoured with gludig.‘„nebest,al mour has this day been very general in °l' d e ire'; j : and has gained credence even in well-inform 0 0 0 that the turn-out of the colliers is the r esult ° I. a y, T. hi e , h the so" understanding between the men and their tnacter''..easl°l at all events is riot generally the case, though toc list ilea advantageously occurred to clear off leg The coil a ts in many instanc es o f ver y i n f er i o r quality.. f t he 1 3°. e le con of the contest i s lik e ly t o be a comprom m° ° A l c ov e of in dispute, and th e p u bli c w ill h a ve to pay th e " SOO C i ol he shape of an advanced price for their coals' be rep el' the masters admit that the claims set up by bat fr ica not without sonic degree of justifilble pretensn- rho on the other hand, allege that were the toel Wei 1 .4 yielding more than the ordinary necessaries e e .. , :es be on 00 0° would only work half their time, and the eelli " partially worked. COrn t %ed , OPEDIENCE TO THE LETTER."' • c l 0- people, anxious that their negrocs should i ti' y e t w hey li vie . l al e sr,„. sod testify by their appearance how speed bet r o 14 0 proaching civilization, gave oul, uniong As t P be then:•__ s ios, boots were to be usN.I but upon dress e" eti 17, sonic boot many which had tops to °Toes, ' pear at church only in boots." The ne. t his c • a to 51, 6 following order was passed The labourers a ry o tt" warm climate too happy, in literal ob?dienc v _ ,h e u „ mend, left di all their Christian habiliments, save top only boo linen round the waist, and came veritably 'n !—Sporting Magazine. IA Ilex istr a Fropo ; th e L; ft t i° ority Itel ar' a Party wa cf t s si te Col Lo b 0) % It o, Cell o ec eoi uu t i f Alb, 4511 L} LI