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THE NEXT DISTRIBUTION, contains SEVEN HUN DRED DIVIDENDS, amounting to £72,170, Tne Dividends being X 25,000 £6OO £l2O £BO 5,000 400 110 70 1,500 200 1(X) 60 1,000 150 90 50 Sterling. 00 THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT GARDEN. UNDER the MANAGEMENT of MADAME VESTRIS'. THIS EVENING. JAN. 2.2 Will be presented Shakspere's Comedy (with Music) of: THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR. Sir John Falstaff, Mr. Bartley ; Master Slender, Mr. C. Ma thews ; Ford, Mr. Cooper ; lenton Mr. W. Harrison ; M rs . Ford, Mrs_ Nisbett ; M rs . P age , Madame Vestris; Ann Page, Miss Raiuforth, Mrs. Quickly, Mrs. C. Jones. After which, The NEW GRAND CHRISTMAS PANTOMIME will be repeated, entitled THE CASTLE OF OTRANTO; OR, HARLEQUIN AND THE GIANT HELMET. Harlequin, Mr. C. J. Smith ; Clown, Mr. T. Ridgway Pantaloon, Mr. Mo*alli ; Columbine, Miss Fairbrother. To-morrow, The Midsummer Night's Dream, with The New Pantomime. On Monday, the Midsummer Night's Dream, with The New Pantomime. Doors to be opened at half-past Six—the performances to come:mace at Seven o'Clock. Titkett and places for the Bon.; to be taken of Mr. Grogan, at the Box-oilice, from Ten till Four, where Season Tickets airy oe liaJ upon application. Dross Boxes, is. ; Second Price, 33. Gdi; First and Second Circles, ss. ; Second Price, `t s. Gd. ; Pit, 3s. ; Secand Price. f. ; Gallery, Is. Private Boaei t• be had so'ely of Mr, And:zws, bookseller 167, New Bond-street. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Triumphant again ! Overwhelming Success of Ainsxorth's Tower of LAndon. Nightly overflows. Upwards of 57,00 u Persons have already witnessed the best Pantomime in London. THIS EVENING, JAN. 22. Will Le acted a Grand Historical Rcmance, fcunded on and entitled THE TOWER OF LONDON. Tlaa Tableaux Vivans, splendid Costume, and Appointments, from the Designs of tha celebrated George Crnikshanks. after which he repeated the Grand Traditionary Pantomime: entitled HARLEQUIN AND MY LAi)Y LEE; OR, GOOSEY GANDER AND THE SPELLBOUND GOSLINGS. In which the unrivalled Art ist;s, the Bolenu Family; Mr. Southby, the Original Clo.vn ; Miss Sharpe, Columbine ; and the astonishing Gyrenastique, Signior Felix Carlo, from Fran cian's, at Paris, will perform : concluding with Brunning's Grand Dioranaic Synopsis of Syria. PRINCESS' cHEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. LAST WEEK OF THE SEASON. This splendid Theatre is OPEN EVERY EVENING with PROMENADE CONCERTS, Under the Direction of Mr. '✓ILLY. THIS EVENING, JAN. 22.—PROGRAMME. PART FIItST. Ocerturo—Don Juan-111ozarte. Quadrille—Le Carillonneur—Dufrcne. Waltz—Die Abenteurer.Lancer. Overture—La Fiancee—Auber. Solo on the Flageolet by Mr. Champion. Selection from the Mountai , . Sylph—Barnett. PART ZRCOND. Overture—Tancredi—Rossini. Quadrille—Vendetta—Tolbecgue. Waltz—Der Fern Welt—Labitzky. Grand Selection from Acis and Galatea—Handel. Promenade, 13.—Dress Circie, 2s.—Upper Boxes, Is. Gd. Private Boxes, 1/. Is. and 10s. 6.1. each, may be had at the Boz-ofrice, and of Mr. Mitchell, Old Bond-str - eet. Mr. 'WILLY begs respectfully to announce that his BENE FIT will take place on MONDAY, J.tr.r. 25, being the LAST Nicia of the SEASON. mowI,vATER „•I• LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY. wtiwutes alter I. 1 Evening 6 minutes after 2. .A.. 0: , - • - ~,-.....,,,1ki• .\ .. . ." ~..,-,$ 4:7 -, , c 4 :-.-- -- .4 4.. 'tis- ~,41 , -1, 4 , e i • - ' , /,: ek, : - . ,= . 2 , ',i ;:: 4-:"Q• z - 1 ' , 'if.-ISAze -S --AtyN , ,,,, 'T:rie (T[x a.-m. LONDON: FRIDAY, JANUARY 22, 1841. If the Tories could only chain men's tongues and their pens by their denunciations or their sneers, they might rule the empire to the end of time. But though they cry out this is sedition, that is treason, and t'other thing is flat rebellion, nobody heeds them. They have been more suc cessful in chaining our bodies than in chaining our minds, and the community is still free to think and speak in spite of their misplaced exertions. To gain their present ends they are inventing new crimes, and, with a draconian spirit, would drown them in blood. From time to time we have said something against the Repeal of the Union, the agitation of which we regard, for any other purpose than to frighten away the Tory harpies, as mischievous to. the community. We have said enough to call forth a letter from Mr. O'C ONNELL, our reply to which he, prudently, we think, left unnoticed. We are most decidedly opposed to the repeal, and to the agitation to . obtain it ; but we cannot, therefore, allow the Tories unanswered to stigmatize Mr. O'CoNNELL's agitation as sedi tion, or denounce it as treason. The Act of Union is a mere law, like the Corn-law, and may be, though that is hardly possible, as bad a law ; and no attempts peaceably to get the law repealed, can, with the least propriety, be called either sedi tion,Qr treason. Mr. O'CorrwELL has just as good a right to agitate for the repeal of the Act of Union as Sir R. Nous and his friends hare to agitate in order to blister the land with more churches and more parsons. It is on the part of the Tories, there fore, a gross infringement on public liberty to class the agitation for the repeal of a law as a crime, and invoke a punishment on Mr. O'CoNNELL: We grant that Mr. O'CONNELL'S proceedings are very mortifying to the Tories, and not pleasing to many of the Whigs. We readily concede that all the unjust and cruel Protestant landlords, and all the odious sinecure Protestant priests of Ireland, regard his conduct with dread and abhorrence. We can comprehend that the waspish and bigoted ex-Secretary for Ireland, who, when he was there, could not persuade the Irish that insults and kicks were kindness, and who has, ever since the Coer- Act, been justly regarded by them as their most insidious and determined opponent,—we comprehend that he may be overflowing with wrath because the Irish will not be quiet while he endeavours to tie their hands and feet, to put a gag in their mouths, and pick their pockets in the name of religion, while he would flog mon them for grumbling at his petty tyranny,—we can comprehend that the truculent, ex-Whig Secretary for Ireland, who was always a thorough Tory in his heart, and is now properly ranged with the To ries, should be extremely angry that Mr. O'CoN NELL is successful in rousing the Irish to resist the new coercion Lord STANLEY is preparing for them. But with all deference to the lovers of Tory rule by chicane and terror, we cannot believe that to organize resistance to the mischievous schemes of the Tories is either sedition or rebellion. W e are not favourable to repeal ; Mr. O'CONNELL is ; and the determined manner in which the Tories are now going to work to injure lreland, justifies him, with his vievq, in rousing his countrymen by that magic word. If, however, the agitation for repeal be sedition and treason, what name does that conduct deserve which provokes it ? Tory writers and Tory states- men continually make attacks on the Catholics of Ireland, as if they were alien enemies and something worse. Nothing is too calumnious for the Tory Journals to write of the people and their priests, and nothing is too arbitrary for Tory statesmen to propose. They dare not send artillery against the Catholics ;they try the safer method of crushing them by a slow working enactment. It is easier, they have found out, to burke liberty by pretending to protect her, than to slay her by violer.ce, and they are pur suing the former insidious course. They have been detected ; the Irish have been roused against them ; and they call out, therefore, sedition and re bdllion. Their perseverance in deadly hostility to the people of Ireland, which is the main cause of the agitation, is far more worthy of the name of sedition and rebellion than Mr. O'CoNNELL's agi. tation for repeal. Some of their organs announce that an amend• ment will be moved to the address, should the speech from the Throne not contain a condemnation of the repeal agitation. We cannot believe that any Tory of the least weight will propose any such thing. It may possibly be done by Mr. BRADSIrAw or Colonel SIBTHORP, but the statesmen of the Tory party have felt so long the bitterness of disap pointment from declaring open hostility to one-third of the empire, that we apprehend they will neither move nor support any such amendment. For the same reason the Ministers will not be so impolitic as to clothe themselves in the filthy cast-off rags of the Tories. The speech will say nothing of repeal agitation, and the Tories will not, we believe, sup port an address to the Throne, censuring Mr. O'CONNELL'S agitation as sedition and treason. The duty on a quarter of wheat continues to be 265. Bd., while the average price is 60s. 6d. That sum is a measure of the public odium which the Corn-law calls clown on the farmer. There are the figures, and the public denounce with justice the selfish men who in the midst of a rigorous winter, when wheat costs 60s. 6d. apparently levy on it a duty of 265. Bd., and so raise the price to that extent. Is it, however, a fact that the agriculturist is be neflted to the lull amount of the odium heaped on him ? Does he levy, or does he receive, a pro tection of 265. Bd., when the price of wheat is 60s. 6d. ? This seems to us an important question for the agriculturists, and if they wil! do us the favour to attend to us, and we have their interest much at heart, however strongly we detest the conduct of the grasping landlords, and the hypo critical priesthood, we shall endeavour to prove to them that the law which starves the people puts a most grievous cheat on them. In that part of Sir ROBERT PEEL'S speech which we quoted the day before yesterday, he bor rowed and confirmed Mr. TooKE's statement " that the average duty actually paid on the 9,297,493 quarters of foreign IA heat insportecl and entered for home consumption since thopresent Corn-law came into operation, up to the sth of December 1839, is under ss. sd. per quarter." That sum therefore, in fact, has been the real amount of the protection which the Coru•law has conferred on the farmer, through the whole series of years between 1828 and 1839. But every body knows that the great bulk of the corn imported in the last year paid only a nominal duty. There were not less, we believe, than 1.500,000 quarters so imported ; and, if r. , e in clude them, the average of the period, to 1841, will be somewhere about 4s. 6d. The longer the law is in existence, the more skilfully will the ave rages be worked to suit the purposes of the capi talist; and the average of twenty years from 1828, could the law be continued so long, would dwindle into almost nothing, and prove that it gave the agriculturist no protection whatever. When the price is 605., the law means to give the agriculturist a protection of 265. The actual protection afforded him during eleven years has been ss. sd. per quarter. Now, what has been the average price during that time ? Not 70s. nor 60s. ; but 565. ld. We repeat that the averacre price of wheat since 1828 has been 565. ld., and the average duty levied on 9,297,493 quarters has been only ss. 5d., while the law has professed to impose a duty of 265., when the price is at 60s. The law, then, is a lie and a cheat, and the land lords who have made it have most grievously gulled and deluded the n•otking agriculturists. The law says that when the price of wheat is 605., foreign wheat imported shall pay a duty of 26s.8d.,and, believing that, the farmers have agreed to pay rents in proportion. We appeal to practical farmers. Did any man in the kingdom, during the last eleven years, hire a farm and agree to pay rent, on the supposition that the price of wheat would be 56c. ld., and the duty on foreign wheat ss. sd. 2 We are certain he will answer that he hired his land on the supposition that wheat was to be kept by the law at a price above 605., and to insure that a duty was to be levied of 263. Bd. when wheat was at that price, increasing as the price of wheat fell. But the price and the duty have actually been the sums we have stated, and to the extent, above that price and that amount of duty, which the farmers have calculated on, they have been cheated by the law. The hatred it has provoked against them has been as twenty-six—the I benefit it has conferred on them has been less than five. This view of the actual operation of the law through long periods demonstrates the perfect im potency of the Legislature to attain its own Inds. I t h a s gone a long way to ruin our manufactures, lit h ant, .as starved to death many thousand people, but its gigantic wickedness has nevertheless not kept tin the price of wheat to the hc!L, , ht it designed, nor has it been enabled to levy the duty it ordained in proportion to the price. It has decreed that 30s. sd. shall be levied when wheat is 565. ld. per quarter ; the actual sum levied at that price was ss. 54. It has been baffled therefore. It has earned for itself an immense deal of odium, and has been unable to produce the effect it desired, though that is one of arithmetic. It has endangered the peace of the country and the stability of our institutions, while it has not kept up the price of coin nor been able to give the farmer the protection it has pro mised. In short, while it has starved the people it has cheated the farmer. A lesson, as it seems to us, of more importance even than the instruction of the farmers, is taught by these facts. Though meddling quacks go on year after year enacting or demanding laws, as if the power of the Legislature was superior to nature, and could over-rule time and space, it turns out, whe❑ we come to examine effects, that its power is much less than these persons suppose. It cannot control nature. It can only do good by studying her ways ; and when it departs from justice, it is sure, in the end, to be defeated and disgraced. If its power be limited,—if it be, in fact, impotent to attain much that it commands,--4hose who arc now so very eager to set it in motion, and multiply laws, will probably relax their zeal, and the community may be spared some of the disturbance caused by the perpetual interference of the most contemptible and hateful charlatans. The Supplement to the Malta Times of the Gth instant has the following importaUt news from the East : By the arrival of the F: ench 'steam-packet Tanerede we have received advices from Constantinople to the 28th ult. from Smyrna to the 29th ult., and from Egypt to the 26th tilt. The news from Constantinople is very impor tant, but miy be given in a few words:--The Porte re quires Mehemet Ali to give up the Turkish fleet—to re duce his army and navy—to proclaim the Hatti Scheriff— and then the Sultan will most probably reinstate him in the Pachalic of Egypt, and cede to him its hereditary posses sion for his family. Admiral Walker has already left Constantinople for Egypt, to take possession of the fleet. Our Correspondent from Alexandria says—" that all communication with Syria is cut off by the desert, and that there is mnch doubt as to the real position and move ments of Ibrahim Pacha. It is said he has 37,000 troops under him in pretty good eondition somewhere in the neighbourhood of Damascus, on which city he has levied very heavy contributions. Nlehemet Ati had asked Ad miral Stopford to communicate a ith his son to announce to him the cessation of hostilities, and the Admiral had kindly placed at his disposal the Hydra to convey the letter." We like not this form of dictating terms to the PACIIA, nor ought the Four Powers to permit it.' Having been invited by the Porte to interfere b - tween the SULTAN and his vassal conqueror, and having pledged themselves to certain conditions in the exercise of that interference, they are bound to fulfil them in the spirit in which they were made. To talk of the indecency of preventing the SULTAN treating one of his own subjects as he pleases is a farce, now that the reduction of that subject to a condition in which he can be the object of Impe rial vengeance has been the act, not of the Porte, but of Foreign Powers. The SULTAN left the settle ment of the dispute between himself and MEHEMET ALL to the Four Powers. They, on behalf of the SULTAN, offered conditions to MEHEMET ALI, which, not being able to refuse, he:has accepted. The principal of these conditions was that, on restoring the fleet and evacuating Syria, the SULTA N would grant him the hereditary administration, civil and military, of the Government of 'Egypt. It now appears that after MEHEMET ALI shall have given up the fleet and evacuated Syria, the SULTAN will consider about giving him the Egyptian Pachalic. This will not do. When MEHEMET ALI has complied with the terms proposed by the Four Powers the hereditary administration of the Pa chalic of Egypt is his, not as a matter of 'tripe rial grace and clemency, but as a right. That right he derives from the convention made bet - .veen him and the representatives of the Porte, the Com manders of the British and Austrian blockading squadrons. It would, therefore, be infamously un just, on the part of the Four Powers, to suffer the Porte to violate the terms of that engagement. COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, THURSDAY.—Her Majesty's private band was in attendance again last evening for quadrilles, and her Majesty, and his Royal Highness Prince Albert, enjoyed the amusement till eleven o'clock. The Queen and Prince Albert walked for some time on the terrace and in the slopes this morning. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, attended by Lady Fanny Howard, promenaded for some time this afternoon. Lord and Lady Levcson took a carriage drive to day to Cumberland LoAge, and Virginia Water. Mr. and Mrs. Harcourt (St. Leonard's Hill), Colonel the Hon. Henry Molyneux and Lieutcnant.Colonel Hall, will have the honour of joining the Royal circle at the Castle at dinner this evening. His Royal 1 - 141iness Prince George of Cambridge arrived in town shortly before six o'clock yc.terday afternoon, from a visit to the Duke of B.:aufort, at his seat at Badminton, Gloucestershire. A Cabinet Council was held at three o'clock, yester day afternoon, at the official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury, in Dawning-street. The Ministers present were Viscount Melbourne, the Lord Chancellor, Marquis of Lansdowne, Earl of Clarendon, Marquis of Normanby, Viscount Palmerston, Lord John Rus scll, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Earl of Minto, Viscount Duncannon, the Right Hon. H. Labouchere, Lord Morpeth, and the Right Hon. 'l'. B. Macaulay. Sir John Hothouse arrived in town in the afternoon, and joined his colleagues at halt-past five o'clock. 'lle Council broke up at six o'clock. Mr. Nottidge, Mr. A. Bainbridge, Mr. Larpent, and Mr. Penryhn, Magistrates of the County of Surrey, nail an interview with the Marquis of Normanby yes terday at the Home-office. Sir Charles Smith transacted business yesterday at the Foreign-office. Mr. J. Shaw Lcfevre and Mr. George Lewis had an interview yesterday with the Marquis of Normanhy at the Home-office. Sir C. F. Williams, Mr. Mut chison, Mr. Loch, and Mr. BAiley, had also interviews with the Noble Marquis yesterday. The Earl of Ranfurly has given 501. in aid o the erection cf a new church at Donoughmore, Ireland. Lady Gardiner has sold Tackley Park, Oxon, to Mr. Manning, the purchase money being, we under stand, 16,0001. The Marquis of Lansdowne has issued cards for a grand dinner at Lansdowne House, tc-mcrrow, to all the corps diplomat/gee. THE ROYAL CHRISTENING —We hinted in our last that it was the intention of the loyal inhabitants of the ' faithful city" to celebrate the birth and christ en i ng of the Princess Royal Ly a ba:l, and we have now the pleasure of stating that at a meeting held at the Guildhall yesterday, it was agreed that a ball should be given (the proceeds to be appropriated to charitable purposes), and the Mayor was requested to convene a public meeting to consider tile subject. His Worship has accordingly called a meeting for Monday next.— Worcester Chronicle BRIGHTON.--The Earl and Countess of Har rington and suite have arrived at the Gloucester, and the Hon. Mrs. Lamb at the Bedford ; Captain Levett, Capt. Burdett, and Major Clarke and family at the Gloucester. Lord Tenterden has taken his departure for London. Viscount Neville has taken a house in Regency-square. di T .rro h emF e a dAroto,ensaiedi state tti:ot between teNwtAohat t i le l t e e r crack a nd coachesLd onn n have have r b e e q e e n e Il i in l such e e a EhoLuErs a A fte n r ß t r im v e ALS.—Sir Astley and ,c Lady Cooper, and fam ly, Coop , er,in i Cotiduit-street, from Kent ; M r . an d M rs . in Chapel -street, Grohvenor-square, from Ayntt, Herts; Sir George Talbot, Bart., and the Mi a oes Talbot, from Leamington Spa, at Mivart's Hefei ; Mr. George and Lady E'izabeth Rep:on, in New Notfolk street, Park-lane, from 13aynard's Park. TIrE HOUSES OV PARLIANIENT.—The pre paraticos for the meeting of both Houses of Parliament ore progressing rapidly towards completion. Most of the benches in the House of Lords are fixed, and the work men have nearly get all the seats in the pnssages leading to the House, which are prepared for the accommodation of parties attending to witness the processions, &c., fixed and decorated. The chair on the throne will be regilded, and another chair will be placed on the throne for Prince Albert. It is, we understand, considered certain that her Majesty will open Parliament in person, accompanied by a wallsnd little and is ot galleries vc. of Ie ' l l : 9 Po f o na r iga t it l si i ii e fign r ia eception of Memiers. The qi Prince the i i l. ll ed e House te he Albert.de of e Commons The o i e m i m t matting on the floor has not, however, yet been laid down. The decorations of the Bude light apparatus are very taste ful, and much improve its appearance. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, THITTISDAY FVF:ING - , ir, over the Funds rather fiat, owing to the expose of the Finance Alinister. The irregularity of the Provincial Mails since the frost and snow have visited us this winter, causes much inconvenience to the merchants. The Post-office List, which, in the regular course, appears early in the day, is now often delayed until the afternoon. We have had a good deal doing in the Funds to-day, and prices have been on the whole rather mare buoyant. Consols at the close had got up from 89i to 89 ; for Money, and from 89-i 90 to 90 and 90k for the Account ; Exchequer Bills still look rather heavy, the Batik broker being supposed to be gradually easing some of them off, the premium was Gs. to Bs. ; Bank Stock. was firm at. 170 to 171, and East India Stock rose, 251 to 252 an( 252 A ; the New Three per Cents, were 98i to 971, and the Three per Cent. Annuities, 90 to 90 ; East India Bonds were 4s. to 103. discount. In Foreign Stocks there was no animation. Spanish Active Bonds were marked at 241 toe ; the Deferred 12 ; Portuguese New Five per Cents. 32 ; and the Three per Cents. at 20-a to being ail within a fraction or so of the previous rates ; Mexican Bonds were 281- Colombian 231 to ; Buenos Ay res 20 to 21 ; Bra zilian 73 ; and Peruvian 16 ; French Three per Cents. were done at 77 francs ; Belgian Bonds at 99 to 98i ; Austrian 109 to 109± ; and Dutch Two-and-a-half per Cents. at 501. The Railway Shares were dull. Great Western were 26 to 27% ; the New 121, to 13 ;. the Efths the London and Birmingham 83 ; and the Grcenwied scrip premium ; Brighton were 61; Greenwich 11 7 1 ; and Midland Counties '2O discount. The large public sales of cotton to-day went off with considerable spirit. (Rom The Sun of Last Niglit ) LIVES:POOL COTTON MARKET, WEDNESDAY. - The sales to day are 5,000 bags, el:icfly American, with a very firm market. LIVERP,;OL SHARE MARKET, JAN, 20.—Grand Junction, 11.0 f Shares, 951; Great Western, Half Shares, 63 ; Ditto, Fifths 10 i l i ; Great North of England, 521; Lon don and Birmingham, 172; Ditto, 321. Shares, 58; South Western, 571; Midland Counties, New Shares, 15;1- MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, JANUARY 20.—A steady market to-day. Local Bulk. Shares continue in demand at higher rates:—South Eastern and Dover, 14 to 13i., Gosport Junction 461; Manchester and Birming. ham, ; London and South Weitern, 57,1 to fre); Eastern Countioc, 8 . 1 to 9 ; ninchester and Lccds, .78 to 781 ; Ditto Halves, 29 to 294. We have received the Journal of Antwerp of yester day's date : Bourse op AMSTERDAM, JAN. 18.—The Bourse wai, insignificant . , and without variation. The actions of the Society of Commerce were weAlt and fell from 162 to 161 ; 1. Ardoin's Spanish sustained the price of 22 1-16th to after the close. A letter dated Frankfort, Jan. 12, has the following:— " Prince Felix Lichnowsky left here this morning for London, is engage the English Government to assist hint in the demand he is going to make of the French Govern ment, for the liberation of Don Carlos. From London he is going to Paris, and afterwards to &urges." BRUSSELS, JAN. 17.—We arc happy to state that the waters from the inundations have fallen more than a foot since the morning. The Quebec Papers state that there Was a proccsaion of some hundreds of ship-carpenters ; they went to Anse-der, Meres, to cheer Messrs. Black and l.,ampson, at whose yards carpenters work at star - a sa. 'per The Woodstock ( New firunswiek ) 71htel, of the WI of December, hasthefollorVirtg:— " The Maine anthorities have been playing a game on this part of the province that is anything but creditable; their spies and pedlars have been prowling about the country, endeavouring to poiion the minds, and lure from their allegiam7c, the French population, who, we are happy to learn have their e:,.es opened, not, however, with out generally getting well fleeced beforehand. We learn that these invasions of our country and our liberties will no longer be suffered with i m p un ity." The Quebec papers state, " We are happy to learn that the ship-carpenters are at work in all the yards, and we trust that the difficulty between them and their employers will be entirely forgotten, or at least forgiven. The Montreal Gazette says that his Excellency the Governor-General has caused a communication to be made to Dr. Rolph, intimating to him that he ap proved of his appointment es agent in England for the Toronto Emigrant Association, and would give him all the aid in his Lordship's power. There being ni,artivals this morning of any importance, the speculators in the various funds are inactive, and up to the present time there is not a feature in either of the mar kets worth noticing. Consols may be quoted at the leaving off prices of yesterday,. 89i 90 for the Account; Money, 89 i; Exchequer Bills, 6 8 prem. ; India Stock, 250 252 ; Bank Stuck, 169 171. In the Foreign Market Spanish Actives the same as they left off, 24q c; Deferred, 121 1-; Passive, 63 ; Portu guese the same, 321 ; Three per Cents.. 201- • Brazilian, 73 74 ; Buenos Ayres, 19 .21 ; Colombian, 231 f; Mexi can, 28. H i ; Dutch Two-and-a. Half per Cents., 50i 31; Five per Cents., 981 991. SIIARES.—Great Western, 26 28 prom. ; New, 12 13 prem. ; London and Brtlitori, 64 4 disc. ; Blackwall, 42 3i disc. ; Birmingham, 82 84 prem. ; Southampton, 57 58 per share ' • Croydon, 121 per share ; Greenwich, 81 per share ; Manchester and Birmingham, 16 15 disc. PRICES OF SHARES THIS . DAY AT ONE. RAILWAYS. Paid. Per Share. Great Western London and 11:rminghain London and Greenwich ..... ...... 20 Midland Counties lOO - PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS, DUBLIN, JAN. 19. 3 per Cent. Consols ...... 891, !Bank 5t0ck......., ...... Three and Half Stock 97,1 ' Grand Canal Stock Ditto Reduced ...... Ditto Debs. fi per cent — Ditto New, 1830 ...... 98„ Ditto 4 per cent 36- per Cent. Debs. 13y the Flanders mail recaivod this morning we hear of a failure at Rotterdam of a house which sp ecu l ate d l arge l y in tobacco; but we understand it will not cause any great mischief here, as its insolvency has been suspected for some time past. g We have a great dearth of intelligence in the City, in consequence of which every thing- is very dull. The ench mail is still due; also three Hamburgh and one Dutch. Consuls continue inactive, and may he quoted at the early price of the morning, 89-h 90 for the Account ; Exchequer Bills 8 6 prem. ; Bank Stock, 170 171 ; India Stock, 252 251; India Bonds, 4 die. In the Foreign Market some business has been done. Spanish Active 241 ; Portuguese 324 ; Brazilian, 73 ; Buenos Ayres, 201 ; Colombian, 23 1 4; Mexican, 28-1 ; Russian, 1131 ; Dutch Two_al.(l-a- Half per Cents. 50; i 1- ; Five per Cents. 981, have bern 99k. In the Money Kirket little doing. Great Western, 92L 911, 921 ; London and Birmingham, 173 ; Midland Counties, 80 CLOSING PRICES. BRITISH FUNDS. Bank Mock 3 per Cent. Red 904. Ditto Bonds 3 per Cent Cons ...... .. 891 Ditto Old Annuities 3 per Cent Red..— .. 119,i Ditto New Annuities... New 31 per Cent .. ... 98 Ex. Bills, 1,000/....2 Ad 6pm New 5 per Cent , Ditto 500/ Bpm Long Annuities to expire Ditto Small Bpm Jan. 1860 Oct 1859 Jan. 1860 ... FOREIGN FUNDS. - A estrian, 5 per cent... 109 Portuguese, 5 per cent. Belgian, 5 per cent 9l Ditto, New Ditto..... 32 1 3razilian Bonds .. BuenosAyres, 6 per cent 21 Russian, 5 per cent. .. 1131 Chilian, 6.per e.nt Columbian, 6 per cent ... Spanish, 5 per cent 241 Ditto, 1824 — Ditto, Deferred • ... 1.) - ..1 4 - 1111) ish, 3 per cant. .... 781 French,s per cent... —f. —c. Greek, 1825, 5 percept. Exchange... ilexiean, 5 per cent.... 2.33 French,3 per cent 77f. —c. Ditto, 6 per cent, 1825. Dutch, 21 per cent 503 Peruvian,lt22s, 6 per et. 16 Ditto, 5 per cent..... 98:1 SHARES. Great Western Railway (65 paid) 92/ Ditto New Shares (50 paid) ...... ... 63 Ditto Fifths( 4 paid) lO London and Brighton Railway 5() paid) ... 43& London and Birmingham Railway (90 pd) 173 London anti Greenwich Railway (20 paid) 8) Ditto Scrip. (•2 paid) ... 41 Midland Counties Railway (MO paid) ...... 80 A LAW SUIT FOR A PENNY.—SIIERRIFF COURT, El:Ms/Et:ROlL—Yesterday the following case came on for trial before Sheriff Tait : —A farmer's wife and daughter had lately occasion to come to Edinburgh, which they did in one of their own carts. The carter, to pro tect the clothes of the ladies, took the precaution of strea,ieg the bottom of the vehicle with two small bags of straw, for which, on entering the city, Messrs, Boyd and Latta, the tacksmen, insisted upon charging one penny in name el custom, which was paid. The farmer, however, being persuaded of the illegality of the charge, brought an action before the Small Debt Sheriff Court for the recovery of the penny. The case was argued on both sides at great length. On the one hand, the tacksmen contended that straw was an article subject to custom, however small the quantity—that even a straw scat, or a chaff bed was liable. In support of which they banded up the new Act of Parliament, which the Sheriff care fully examined, The pursuer, on the other hand, main tained that straw was only subject to custom if brought to the market for sale. The Sheriff was clearly of the same spinion, and decerned for recovery of Cie penny with costs...— Scotsman. CUELTENHANI.—The frost being entirely gone, Lori! Segravela hounds went out for the first time on Monday lest since their return to the Chelt-nham kennel this month. The meet was at Stancomb, when a fox was almost immediately found, and afforded excellent sport. He made for Foxeote, when seeing the pursuit too hot, he retraced his steps to Stancomb, where, seeing the g ame earl up, he became " resigned tc his fate," and died game, On Tuesday the gallant pack afforded some excellent sport to a very numcroUr held. The weather was eticeedirtgly unfavourable, and the cold and sleet combined made the h i : S i T y E. successful FiNA scent bad. Hazleton was therendezvous, and there were twolor chi ce capital runs, btr;Nraster Reynard seemed to set t h e i n s i p la u m rsu A e n rs nu a n t l d s e t fi e e e n p e l e e , and succeeded in lading their ef forts to take him captive. We rejoice to learn that Messrs. ELECTION FOR THE Ok t : Griffiths and Ballinger, of this town, have been exceed- LincoLbotsazincioni!s:s.iu:bseriptions for the Chel ,p'ehoelL/ictLeEn....../i a ot n F i c E sßte r ri a dt n la l yp in G er E .. af ternoon, at Four o'Clock, the numbers were : Gibbs ......... ....... 2,745 Ledger Majority for Gibbs . LITERATURE. TIPPOO s ur, TA, Coniesstuas ui a Teare " lYi ich a!eeees.i eeesiderable notice last year—it was indeed the best romance of the season—was remarkable, not only for the wild and striking character of its inci dents, which, strange as they were, had their foun lation in fact, but also for the perfect knowledge of oriental scenery, usages, &c., which it displayed in every page. Precisely the same qualifications are to be found in the present romance, which is from the oe M nof the same author, Capt a i n eadows "Taylor, - who has resided several years in India, visited many of its most celebrated cities and most picturesque landscapes, and turned his opportunities of close lbservation to the lest account. In the narrative before us he has undertaken to dlneare the for tunes of the famous Tippoo Saib, the most for aiidable of the native princes, with the sole excep tion of his father, H vder Ali, that England ever warred against in the East ; and the capture of whose stronghold at Seringapatam was one of the proudest military achievements recorded in modern British history. The eventful career of this soldier king is traced, even down to :he moment of his defeat end death, with great minuteness and accuracy, and t he leading features of his characterare pourtrayed with such force and vividness, though without the slightest attempt at overcharging the portrait, that we feel persuaded the author must have long and diligently r,tudied his subject. We ate introduced to Tippoo st he council-board ; at his wild elephant hunts ; on his throne of state, when he is receiving the ame bassadors of other Powers; at the head of his army; and in his last desperate charge on his enemies within the walls of Seringapatam. In each and all of these circumstances his character is maintained ..eith perfect consistency, and with a spirit that never dagi. Of the subordinate personages of the story, the most effective are Ryman Khan —one of the Sultan's best officers and most confidential advisers —and his protegee, Kasim Ali, a young Synd war rior, who, after rescuing his patron's wife, Amneena, from drowning " in the raging waters of the Toomhnddra," afterwards falls in love with her, and on the Khan's death, marries her, though not before the secret of his attachment has been made known to his patron, who of course becomes quite frantic with jealousy, and inflicts a severe wound on Amneena with. his sword. If we have one fault to find with the story, it is that the author too often and too abruptly shifts the scene to England, which injures its effect as a continuous narrative, and breaks up the interest at the very moment when it is most exciting. We have also a little too much of the Flay ward and . Compton families in the first volume, though the character of young *Herbert Compton is afterwards brought out with infinite skill ; and the details of his interview with Tippoo, when he refuses to enter into his service, are as exciting as anything that modern fiction has to chow. Captain Taylor's descriptions all exhibit graphic talent of a high and rare order, and have the additional recommendation of being correct in point of locality ;—indeed he assures us in his preface that there is scarcely a spot mentioned in his tale, so far as India is concerned, " of which the reality does not exist." We shall hope ere long to have another Eastern romance from his pen. THE SPORTSMAN IN FRANCE. 2 VoLs, CoThurn, London, 1841. The taste for sporting works, like that for fashionable and naval novels, is, we suspect, fast passing away ; nor can we wonder at it when we consider how many prosy, common-place produc tions of this sort have of late issued from the press. Tiger-hunting in India, bear-hunting in Norway and Sweden, salmon-fishing in Ireland, deer stalking in Scotland ; of each and all. of these sports we have already had enough, and more than enough, especially as the details have had little talent to recommend *them, though we must make an exception in favour of the sport ing sketches of Messrs. Apperley, Lloyd, and Scrope, which possess every quality that such sketches ought to possess. We fear we cannot make a fourth exception in favour of the volumes before us, which are devoted to the subject of field-sports in France, but are penned in such a meagre and lifeless style as satisfies us that the author is far more at home with his gurt than his pen. He is not, however, devoid of a certain species of humour, ajid, despite the Meets of his manner, contrives to amuse us with his details of the droll mishaps of ail eccentric little French Marquis, who would fain have been thought a sportsman, but possessed not pne requisite for the character. But the portion of - the author's volumes that will excite the most general interest is that wherein he describes the boar-hunta of Lower Brittany, which will give the reader a very fair idea of the nature of this ex citing sport. We quote an account of a tragical adventure that occurred during one of these boar hunts : " I had been waiting patiently for upwards of an hour, when a rustling at some little distance aroused my attention. I perceived a juvenile boar about thirty yards from me, and saluted the gentleman with the contents of my left bar:el, and turned itim over. My aide-de-camp Jaequot, despatched him with a kind of hatchet, and dragged the animal to the spot where I was stationed. In the course of an hour afterwards I killed another boar, about three-parts grown ; and from the number of shots I heard, I conjectured that my companions in arms had met with equally good sport. I have now the painful task of recording a tragical ad venture, which will never be effaced from my memory. A huge boar, of savage aspect, came rooting and snort. log up the path, at the head of which I was standing. I took a deliberate aim at the brute and hit him in the chest ; he staggered, and turned down a small opening in the wood on his left. Poor Jacquot, in his anxiety to assist in the capture, followed the boar, and found him at bay a short distance from the spot where he had beer, wounded, end where we had lost sight of him. 1 had scarcely reloaded ere I heard a discordant and horrible scream from my faithful follower. I rushed to the pot, end found poor Jacquot on the ground, strug gling with his bristled antagonist ! I was horror-stricken at the moment, but, recovering my presence of mind, shot the savage beast instantly,. having discharged both harrele within ten yards of him. I found this poor fellow with his thigh dreadfully lacerated, and his in testines protruding from the lower region of the abdo uten. It appeared that poor Jacquot had been fool hardy, or had conceived the animal to be mere seri ously wounded than it turned out he had been. He had the temerity to approach the brute, with the view cf despatching him with his hatchet, when the boar sprung up, and, rushing between his legs, upset and gored him in the horrible manner I have described." CHAUCER'S POEMS MODERNIZED. Whitaker, London, 1841. The idea of modernizing ChaUcer's Poems—a task in which both Dryden and Pope signally failed--is one that deserves every encouragement ; for, except to the well-instructed few, the language of this earliest of our great poets is newly, if not quite, unintelligible, and as dissonant as it is puzzling. Though his name is still rife among us, yet not one reader in a thousand ever ventures upon a poem of Chaucer, which is much to be regretted, for he will amply repay the task of a careful rural, abounding, as he does,flin humour, pathos, picturesque description, and, above all, in spirited and circumstantial delineation of character. The labour of reading him, too, and getting at his pre cise meaning, is by no means so great as is gene rally imagined ; and as for his verse, though tit first it may appear harsh and untuneable, yet by a little attention to accentuation, it is soon found t o " discourse most excellent music. , To those, how ever, who may shrink from the task of acquainting themselves with his works, except in a modernized version, we would recommend this little volume, which is from the pen of various writers, among whom we may mention Messrs. Wordsworth, Leigh Hunt, and Robert Bell, each of whom has acquit ted himself with spirit a n d di scret i on i n the difficult experiment of giving somewhat of a mo dern air to the choice old Saxon English of Chaucer. The volume is introduced by an Essay on the genius of this fine poet, which, though a little too flowery and verbose in places, coniains much sound observation, especially on the subjec . t of versification, and the changes that havo taken place in it since the days of Elizabeth. Speaking incidentally of Pope's paraphrase of the " Wife of Bath's Prologue," the Essayist remarks that " the licentious humour of Chaucer being divested of its rithimtiress and obscurity, becomes yet more licen tious in proportion to the fine tonches of skill with which it is brought into the light," That the paraphrase is more licentious than the original, is perfectly true ; but not so that this increased licen tiousness exhibits " fine touches of skill." On the contrary, it is remarkable for nothing so much as it t s clumsy and revolting character. There is no neat, ingenious insinuation ; is coarse, direflt plain-speaking. But the versification of the " Prologue" is exquisite, and far more varied in its cadences than Pope's poems usually are. By 'A rnm - k- div " of It ,3:! - ; ;;;! ail ranks, j , .)yed it ver: it would seem that the Ls , iyist that swearing was a fashionable peculiarity chiefly characteristic of Chaucer's age. But the fact is not so. In the days of Eliza beth both men and women of the highest rank swore like troopers ; and even the Virgin Queen herself never stuck at a good round oath when she was in a passion. But it was in the reign of Charles 11. that swearing was brought to its utmost possible perfection. In those chaste and pious times, high-born dames and Maids of Honour rapped out a hearty curse at every second word ; and none was more distinguished for these pleonastic elegancies of language than that astound ing vixen, the Duchess of Cleveland. At present swearing is proscribed in all select circles ; and in deed is seldom heard anywhere, except among sailors, cabmen, Billingsgate fish-women, or elderly choleric gentlemen with excessively red faces, who wear creaking shoes and a pig-tail. Without :Tl , .it' i 3 THE MOREA. Saunders and Colley, London, 1841. We noticed this volume of poems some months ago in The Sun, and need now only say that our faourable opinion of them has been confirmed, and that they have reached a second edition. INDE - PENDENT WEST MIDDLE SEX ASSURANCE COMPANY. We give the following particulars relative to this " concern" from the Glasgow Argus : On the authority of a letter received in Edinburgh, we (Glasgow Argus) announced on Monday the stop page of the above concern, and the flight of the manag ing directors, which has since been confirmed from other sources. The history of this establishment places in a very strong light the defective state of the law regard ing joint stock companies, and proves the necessity of some legislative enactment, by which they may be brought under proper control. It has long been matter of public notoriety that the Independent West Middle sex Company was a concern established without capital, by individuals of even worse than doubtful reputation. The Dublin and Quarterly Reviews, in articles pub lished some time back, showed that their rates were of the most fallacious description, and that it was impoa sible they could exist as a company, and make good the promises which they held out. So long, however, as any portion of the public remained to be gulled, the concern went on, in defiance of every exposure, and there was no provision in the law by which the par ties could be laid hold of. The Independent West Middlesex Assurance Com pany was established in 1836, by four individuals, whose characters will not bear a very close investigation. One of them had, at one period, kept the tap of' a tavern in Aldermanbury, London, He afterwards became shopman to a small tallow-chandler in Upper Berkeley street, where he subsequently carried on business on his own account, but without success. Atter moving about from place to place, the same bad fortune following him, he was known as a house-agent at the period when the Company was started. Another of the party was origi nally a footman, and afterwards got engaged in several concerns, none of which succeeded. He kept a petty furnishing-shop for a short time in Gloucester, where he became insolvent about 1827. Towards the end of 1829 he spent several months in Whitecross-street pri son, from which he was released under the Insolvent Deb tors' Act. At this period his clothes were in pawn, and he was in such a state of utter destitution, that he excited the compassion of the Governor of the prison, who gene rously advanced him upwards of 41. to relieve his clothes, receiving his written obligation to repay the same when demanded. At an after period, when he Was discovered to be living in an elegant house of Con naught-terrace, and driving his carriage and pair, the Governor sent to him for the money, which he refused to pay, alleging that he was freed from it by the statute of limitations. From the time he left Wh itecross-street Prison, he acted as shopman to the tallow-chandler pre viously mentioned. The third was an attorney in very poor circumstances, who, in 1831, went through th' e Bankruptcy Court. He was one of the Directors "tend the Salicitor for the notorious Equitable Loan re oroo puny, which was blown up in . 1838. The fourth 'was an apothecary, and had a small shop in the neighbriurhoad of where the first-mentioned of the Our resided. In 1832 he spent several months in the Queen's Bench Prison, where he was in a state of the utmost destitu tion, and was known by his fellow-prisoners under' the name of " Poor Jemmy." The four individuals, of whom we have given some account, are believed to have been the sole originators of this precious concern. They subsequently admitted, as Managing Directors, a journeyman blacksmith along with the porter of the establishment-, and the two lat ter, in conjunction with one of the four, signed all the policies and annuity bonds. Prospectuses were issued, by which the Company professed to be constituted un der various Acts of Parliament, and an imposing array of names appeared as Directors, many of which , were chosen as being identical with those of well-known and highl3-respectable gentlemen in London. Suspicion was at an early period excited by the low rates at which the new Company transacted business ; and it soon be ' came known that the individuals who'were put forth as Directors, were not the well-known gentlemen of the same names. At the outset, Messrs. Coutts and Co. were an nounced as the bankers of the concern, but they soon ordered their names to be withdrawn from the adver tisement. The Company then put forward the Bank of England, who, after making inquiry r egar di tsg t h e parties, ord ere d t h e accoun t t o be shut. The Western Bank of Scotland, who had been announced as the Scottish bankers, were obliged to threaten proceedings before they could get their names withdrawn. Not withstanding these adverse circumstances, and in the face of the exposure made in Glasgow, the Company still went on, and their gains, from what has transpired, must have been considerable. It appears by a search made at the Enrolment-office, Chancery-lane, Lon . don, where all annuity bonds are :registered, that down to the month of November, 1840, the sum of 98,0001. had been paid into the concern for the pur chase of annuities. The money received in the shape of premiums tOr tiro and life assurances must also have been large, and although no correct approximation can be made, it does not seem improbable to estimate their total gains at somewhere about 200,0001. That money was, flowing at a rapid rate into the ex chequer was soon made manifest by the altered circum stances of the concoctors of the scheme. The ex tallow-chandler and house-agent built nine splendid houses as an investment at Maida Hill, to the west of London, in one of which he took up his residence, keeping several male servants, and driving into town in hie carriage. He further purchased various properties in different parts of the metropolis, at a coit, as has been ascertained, of upwards of 20,0001. The ex, foMuLin purchased an elegant house in Connaught- Terrace, where he lived in considerable splendour, and drove his carriage and pair. In Glasgow, premises wens purchased for the use of the concern in Ingram- street, and eevcral turns of money were lent out upon heritable securities, a portion of which, it is hoped, may be made available for the behoof of the sufferers in this quarter. Between three and four thousand pounds is understood to be about the amount re ceived by the Company here in the annuity branch of their business, included in which is a sum sank for the behoof of the children of the late John Tait, editor of the Liberator newspaper. On Tuesday last the office was finally closed, the individual who, for some time, has acted as agent, and who is understood to be the son of the ex-footman, having hurriedly taken his departure from GI ,sgow. Although the Independent West Middlesex Assur ance Company displayed the utmost eagerness to procure business, their conduct was different when losses by fire took place, or when individuals died who had their lives insured with the concern. At Johnstone, in the neigh. bourhood of Paisley, a fire occurred in the prerr,,ises of Messrs. Allan and Watson, cotton•piwmers, who were insured with the West Middlesex, and payment was refused of the claim of about 1,600/. on various un founded pret noes. Legal proceedings were in e s oueee quenee instituted, and funds, which the cclncetn had in Scotland were fortunately arrested, cian a different re suit might have ensued. After a protracted and ex pensivelitigation, and within a few days of the time fixed for the trial, the Middlesex abandoned the case, and allowed decreet to be passed against them, and ?elesass, Allan end Watson ultimately recoveeesi the whole of their demand, and the expeneee iecurred. We give these merely as peamples of the manner in ns;hich the Middles, sex proceeded, and might quote numerous cites of a si milar nature from all parts of the country, in which se tions are at this moment pending. We trust that, even in the present Unetrtain state of the law, means will be found LO punish the guilty authors of th.; plot, and, at all eventz, that Parliament will speedily direct its attention to ;owe measure by which the public may by protcoted fors the frauds that it is clear car, 4e p,rac;tiSed by p.crsous assuming the deoigna- Lien of joint cock companies, Fouit LIVES LOST.---IsLAY, JAR. 14.-- Oil Thursday, the 7th current, when Donald Mathieson, John M'Queen, Alexander Currie, and John Keith, were crossing the trackless waste which lies between Airdthal lay and Kiiiagary, they lost their way and perished. Their friend 9 Rnd neighbours went oot in search of them, but up to 10. h no trace could be fennel. Oa Sabbath the 10th, the Proaig shepherd discovered the horse, which they had along with then - , buried Mow the snow in a wild and romantic valley called Gleann do' Phroaig, and the remains of the unfortunate men were fouud on the 12th in the same glen. Alexander Currie and John Ke,ith were found together, but Donald Mathieson and John M'Queen were hl-otat a mile torn eaph other. Currie, Keith; and -M'Queen were unmarried, but Donald Mathieson has left a widow and three young children, and also his aged pa• rents, to lament his loss.--Scottish Guardian, NEW ZE'7,AI...AND. Ti CC,"1:;11 - 11 ti? ..- f r01 ., 2 , nf 4 A local legislature, to be composed fur the presen t ` the chief otliccrs of t h e local goverranent aud smile ()f , the chief inhabitants, i s t o b e const i tuted to ma ke Inc" for the peace, order, and good government of the colOY; With respect to all l an d s acqu i re d i n t h e colony or', any other title than the. of grants mule in the and on behalf oo' lwr 11.1-ljesty, it iv proposed ti-W titles of the c!ttiniv!ts should he subjected to in"'' r tigation of a conan:3sion to b e const i tute d for Oh' pane. The basis of that inquiry wilt be the sisiztV. on behalf of the Crown of a title to all lands situate!'. . New Zealand which have heretofore been granted c : t tt!e chiefs of th ose i s l an d s , accor di ng to the custody the country, and in return for some udequato 0 01 deration. An account of all the just and moderate thri Company hith er t o i ncurre d i n forwarding; the ec''' nization of New Zealand to be made out, and the CI to grant the C om p any as many acres of land as be equal to four times the number of pounds ster'"'' which they sh a ll b e f oun d to have expended i n the manner stilted. The I,inds to be taken by the C' )/ ": party in the nei g hb our h oo d o f the i r respective s ettle ments at Port Nicholson and New Plymouth. The Company t o f orego a ll c l a i m to any lands -01; chased or acq u i re d b y t h em i n N ew Zealand, other 01, the lands so t o b e grante d to t h em, and other that , °' l lands which th e y ma y h erea f ter acquire from the (,t o ' lo, or other persons deriving their title from the Cr( 0 1 ,: It is prop ose d t o app i y to a ll other British saibi.`to the rule to which the l‘ew Zealand C om p an y i subject n respect of the lands claimed by them arr t :4 the colony. That is, all other p ersons c l a i m ing 16 01 there, will have confirmed to them by grants, um' , ?S o public seal, as many acres as s h a l l b e equal to ' rn times the number of pounds sterling invested by L I t o in the man n e r ment i one d i n t h e arrangement w• 111 New Zealand Company. This advantage, hi iiee c c , will be orfered only to. those whose lands At/ er c i: it quired befor e th e s t h d ay o f J anuary, 1840, t of the prcelamation issued by Sir George Gipp subject. , Lord John Russell will instruct the Gov, irtv' t s New Zealand to recommend to the local legisli tter e at' enactment of a law to incorporate as a muoiei ?al v ie d settlers who h ave at t h e c h arge of the Company ,lesard to Port Ni c h o l son an d settled themselvestb ere °' that vicinity. For the present her Majesty's Goveramei >t 0 ; , that all sum s o f money w hi ch shall be paid by the uh;11, pan for the pu rc h ase o f l and in New Zeal tad, si whenever such money shall be paid in this f : ount-rl' A laid out in the removal of emigrants to New/ Zee l tilr being left to the Comp an y, f rom t i me to tail ie. t"o mine whether su c h money s h a ll b e so lab , "„-ilt 1 out of Commissioners of Colonial Lands and D ai ;*ratic ll o 'ci by the Company th emse l ves , un d er t h e sup er iateeuAr, and with the concurrence and sanction it t bole missioners. 0 /11 The native res erves ma d e b y t h e Corn la 01 sanctioned by the Crown. With regard to the incorporatir of t h e Cora t it her Majesty will be advised to gr ant a O M rtC r t r ee term of 40 years. The charter t aitions as may appear to her IV.„j estl t s G ov .erole e ;ep be necessary for the good „ , Gov . canent of the C° °/ al' o contain nil see'd and for the security ot tti e pi : 6 j e in dealing and to contain provisions, the charter , and 1 ng . the Crot;et ' P urc ' es': the :lands and other P 1 7 of the Company on just and equitable terms, in" sy public inter es t should, equire such resumption : 0 i 5 c ar chase.—East 17zdic4 Telegraph. INNER Ta MR. O'C ONNELL IN f,04, —Yesterday ~c r V t g the promised entertainment t i O'Connell ',wee 'given in a pavilion, erected uP OO ,-,1,0 4 :, of the late, Viet' oria Theatre, a t th e l ower end of e ir ter-street. Tie pavilion was elegantly decorat ed r'l f estooßibr and devices, and was eerta;nly ha g( ' e Rued up for the occasion. Robert IVl'Dowell, E ScO AIA e o sided, 'and amon gs t th e gentlemen present- "re..... 0% M‘Mr elan, Esq., Cabra House (county Dtivin) ; o , f" M.` 3 3 alien (do.) ; J o h n M‘Adam, Esq. ; John taw e Esq. ; Henry :Varney, Esq. ; E. O'R F . apt. Boyd : James M'Conkey, Esq. ; Job " e;sq., solicitor; ?Alderman Smith (Drogheda); ' Markey, J.P. ; Joins Sinclair, Esq. ; Thonlgt,f $4 Esq. ;R. D. B rowne, M.P. (Mayo); John 111af r e , 41 ir; (Killileagh) ; Ri g h t R ev. Dr. Denvir ; Right I f Ife / 0 MlLoughlin (Derry); Samuel Carson, Esq. 0" Charles M•Alli ster, E sq. (Belfast), &c. 46 co us 61 loyal and corertitutional toasts having , ta rt[. , given,-'l4l,orles G. D a ffy, E sq . , ono o f t h e sec" d. read letteis of apology from H. Grattan, E° l ''' , Right Rev. Dr. Bl a k e , G . E nsor, Esq. D. R. „s el Right Rev. D ."r. Kernan (R oman Catholic co . 01' rtn 01 Clogher), and Jelin, O'Connell, Esq. To the 10‘ . "People," the Rev. M r . D orr i an re pli e d in A • considerable e lo quence , an d was l ou dly cheere , ;' O'Neill F a ll s s p o k e to t h e toas t of "Lord Melbouill , e , her Majesty's Ministers," amidst continued plaudits• tr , sentiment of the ." Lord Lietteenant and prosperity I 1 7 land," w as a bly respondeci - t4 - by the Rev. Dr. Cier- 14 j), next toast on the list was " Our illustrious gue lr ' O'Connell;" and on it s announcement the cheerer ,g t r tremendous, accompanierl with waving of hon e ui . from all p ar t s o f t h e how. e. The H onoura bl e and e Gentleman d e p recate d , in the strongest tel.; idea of invading Uleter, or of gene r a ting' '— amongst the Reformers of the North. On the he exhort.ed them to unity, and referred to the c 151 A. B. Ki ng , i n or d er to shoiv that he was re g justice to all classes of men—even Orrregemcd• reuse to Dr. Cook's. challenge, he 'said that challenge him to a competition as te. w ho would for the advancement of human libcr ty all over t and in regard to Universal Suffrag. e , he declar an adherent of Mr. S. Crawford, Triennial were established by the Revel' etion of 1638, principle he was willing to abi precating, in a n i mate d term'', all persecution grounds. Th e l ate h our • at which the pro minced, puts it w h o ll y ov tof our power to tailed report, b u t we me .y remark that all ' quiet and peaceable me' "d,., He conclu have been presmet tat t he entertainment. , Letter. miler. Nearly I,OOC We are Inform ed that the ,admit the crown jewels td' shillings t o sixpeo ce, and with the u s aal the Tower, has Leen • crease of visitors., and also th a t a su it a b' completed for tb eir reception. The ten to meet the PAP . acs of the people in al acc, - ss to r tiny objects of curiosit: then , great c' :edit, and the results mu all promoters of national improverre highly satiaf actory. 308 E 1 '1 Any ANLY THE Po Peter Leo .rie and ;he Press have Mr. Ads' 3 benevolent in. entions of " .ing to their advantage," f sovereig n. Like some other public had ber,ome somewhat notori, Gus, a g letters have been retiirne( thoritje , 8, finding a great ac; !um letter department, directed the ir ecssrery steps for compelling Mr lett e rg , and pay the double pos tr was found to amount to the suit/ CAt;ons were made without sue.: seeiceor, probably conceiving tl equally unavailing, the suit ha Post Office abandoned the clai to prepay all his future coirest the department a eeitisiderabk lieving the public frog: future hittetly of Sir Peter Lauri , books e owing to which circu already lost between 9,00( other individuals have lost to haitdsome fortunes. • PARIS THEATRIC/ has decidedly dis..ppeared has cancelled the engage Miss Fanny Elssler settle' has joat left for Germany Taglioni, who will re-apt at the Opera. The arri of the world is announce This young virtuoso Nvi7 tion to song, that sto cl her, and that Niesdarrie dot, Smite, arid Dora cuyptiees. Mademe Meyerbeer awaits for baptists. An intrig, would deprive the L aPPrOuebmg season, cell hare mistaken h of the co.operatioe Grisi, who enjoys r eiety. It one yea tre- 15,000 er,e," N w. a Malibrax m and ye had been given I DREADFU BRIQIITO.N RAIL place on the L feared, will en, sent, impossibr so many storiz inquiry. Fe , Hospital, ant' that the met' ing in of a s' havo Leer. t WHAI years of la cireumster seas, whi The what Original) Greenlai abandon Straits, At the being ( ships t which in 18: E hear On due De ha ar MORNING EDITION TUE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 22, 1841. MORNING EDITION.