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EVENING EDITION owaom. TO CORRESPONDENTS. All that An Inhabitant of Wellington-street" states re specting the nuisance of which he complains is probably quite true, but it is sometimes dangerous to state the truth. The parish authorates and the owners of pro perty in that quarter should consult together on the subject. N OTICE. " THE CHINA SUN," Which was RE-PUBLISHED on the 6th INSTANT, with the LATEST NEWS from CHINA, IS NOW ON SALE. Price SIXPENCE. Orders received at the Sun Office, No. 112, Strand. IN IROGRESS, THE ItAiLWAY SUN. With a MAP of all the RAILWAYS in the United kingdom ; containing all the STA TIONS on each Railway, and a great variety of Information and other particulars connected with Railways. THE CORONATION SUN, PRINTED IN LETTERS OF GOLD WITH A BEAUTIFUL PORTRAIT OF HER MAJESTY TIIE QUEEN, Can be sent by post free to all parts of the Empire. Price SIXPENCE. Sun Office, 112, Strand, London. LONDON and WESTMINSTER WATER COMPANY. Watford, Jan. 20, 1841. Various statements having been inserted in the public Papers to the effect that during the execution of the experiment which was ordered to be made by the Chairman of the Select Com mittee of the House of Lords for the Supply of Water for the Metropolis in Bushy Hall Meadows, the wells in this town and neighbourhood were affected by the operations of the steam engines, this is to certify, that throughout the entire period that the Engines were at work we, the undersigned Well owners, found no difference in our supply of water : Robert Stothe, Chalk-hill, John Pope Bushy, lit rt s James Smith Mr. Wm. Dellis William Kemp Richard Mayer George Allen W. Roads Thomas Hanshaw, sen. . DaLiel Warren Thomas Ambrose Hanshaw, R. Toms jun. John Mayes Thomas Christmas Sarah Axton Edward Clisby Shad. Biggs Charles Eames John Miller Francis Colley Joseph Wilkes John Peacock Bailey Smith Samuel Elias George Healey Mary Haly E. Ryden Thomas Wild Joseph , Pigg Henry Kingham S. Mayes Samuel Clisby Mrs. Wilson Joseph Stone William Norwood Geo. Potton George Poulton Eliz. Sutton James Cole S. Nales William Abbott Chas. Whitaker John Holmshead Saml. Groom Robert Copeland Ann Toppin Stephen Tookey : Ann Squire George Pope Memorials and Certificates to the same effect were received from the following individuals : John Chapman, Chalk Hill, , Ann Wilkinson, Chalk Hill, Bushy Bushy William Pugh do A. M. Hawkshaw do Elizabeth But kland do John Spence do J. Sills' do John Bed do W. Pilt on do John Leman do M. Wilkinsoa do Elisha Kem-pster do William Beeson do At a meeting of the Provisional Committee of the London and Westminster Water Works, held at the Office of the Company this day, the above Documents were laid before the Board, and were ordered to be inserted in all the Daily Papers. WINTER, WILLIAMS, and WILLIAMS, Solicitors to the Company. London and Westminster Water Works Office, No. 7, St. Martin's-place, Jan. 21, 1841. lIIHE STATESMAN NEWSPAPER of JL SUNDAY NEXT will contain—A Letter from Colonel Thompson, on the Holy Alliance Whigs—The Leeds Reform Gathering—The great Irish Agitators of the Week—Chartist Traitors—Exposure of Teetotalism—The latest Intelligence from Leeds, and all the various News of the week. TIM FIRST VOLUME OF A GNES STRICKLAND'S LIVES of the QUEENS of ENGLAND, NEW and REVISED EDITION, with ADDITIONS, IS NOW READY for delivery at all the Booksellers', price 10s. 6d. bound, with illustrations. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Gieat Marlborough-street. TYIE NEW HISTORICAL ROMANCE. Now ready at all the Libraries, in 3 vols., OLIVER. CROMWELL. Edited by HORACE SMITH, Esq., Author of " Brambletye House," &c. " The most powerful historical romance we have perund since the light of Scott's genius was extinguished in rayless right."---Caledonian Mercury. 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THE NEXT DISTRIBUTION, contains SEVEN HUN.. DRED DIVIDENDS, amounting to £72,170, Tne Dividends being £25,000 £6OO £l2O £BO 5,000 400 110 70 1,500 200 100 60 1,000 150 90 50 Sterling. 800 THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT GARDEN. UNDER the MANAGEMENT of MADAME VESTRIS. THIS EVENING. JAN. 22 Will be presented Sbakspere's Comedy (with Music) of THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR. Sir John Falstaff, Mr. Bartley ; Master Slender, Mr. C. Ma thors; Ford, Mr. Cooper ; Fenton, Mr. W. Harrison ; Mrs. Ford, Mn_ Nisbett ; Mrs. Page, Madame Vestris ; Ann Page, Miss Rainforth, 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. Nlo.-•tli ; Columbine, Miss Fairbrother. To-morrow, The Midsummer Night's Dream, with The New Pantomime. _ _ Doors to be opened at half-past Six—the performances to commence at Seven o'clock. 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In which the unrivalled Artistes, the Boleno Family; Mr. Sotithlay, the Original Clown; Miss Sharpe, Columbine and the astonishing Gyrcnastique, ii;ig,sior Felix Carlo, from Fran coni's, at Paris, will perform : concluding with Brunning's Grand Dioramie Synopsis of Syria. PRINCESS' THEATRE, OX FOR D-S'FREt. LAST WEEK OF THE SEASON. This splendisi Theatre is OPEN EVERY EVENING with PROMENADE CONCERTS, Under the Direction of Mr. WILLY. THIS EVENING, JAN. 22.—PROGRAMME. PART FIRST. Orerture—Don Juan—Alozarte. Quadrille —Le Carillonneur—Dufrene. Waltz—Die Abenteurer—Lataler. Overture—La Fiancee—Auber. Selo en the Flageolet by Mr. Champion. Selection from the Mountai,: Sylph—Barnett. rata CECOND. Overture— Tancredi—Ro , sini. Quairille—Vendetta—Tolbecque. Ilralso—Der Feen Welt—Labitzky. Grand Selection from Acis and Galatea —Handel. Promenade, Is.—Dress Circle, 2s.—Upper Boxes, 15. 6d. Private Boxes, I!. 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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. '1 o 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, a s mischievous to the community. We have said enough to call forth a letter from Mr. O'CONNELL, 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 or treason. Mr. O'CoN NELL has just as good a right to agitate for the repeal of the Act of Union as Sir R. INGLIS and his friends have 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, an 4 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, then 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 ov.rflowing 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 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'Corr- 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. We arc not favourable to repeal ; Mr. O'CoN NELL is ; and the determined manner in which the Tories are now going to work to injure Ireland, justifies him, with his views, 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 ? Tomy 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 violence, 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 bellion. 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. BRADSHA W 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 continucs 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 down 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 GOs. 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 nefited to the full amount of the odium heaped on him ? Does he levy, or does he receive, a pro tection of 265. Bd., when the price of w h eat i s 60s. 6d. ? This seems to us an important question for the agriculturists, and if they will 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 ouoted the clay before yesterday, he bor rowed and confirmed Mr. TOOKE'S statement that' the average duty actually paid on the 9, 9 97,493 quarters of foreign w heat imported and entered for home consumption since the present 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 Corn-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 i u ty. There were not less, we believe, than 1,500,000 quarters so imported ; and, if we in clude them, the average of the period, to 1841, ciil be somewhere about 4s. 6d. The longer the .aw is in existence, the whore skilfully will the ave. P. • , it; ,11/4151r .94 e" . I • ‘ it 415.44.%) ik: Zfle THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 22. 1811. 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. hi. We repeat that the average price of wheat since 1828 has been 565. Id., 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 working agriculturists. The law says that when the price of wheat is 605., foreign wheat imported shall pay a duty of 265.8 d., 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 565. ld., and the duty on foreign wheat ss. sd. ? We arc 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 265. 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 benefit it has conferred on them has been less than fire. This view of the actual operation of the law through long periods demonstrates the perfect im potency of the Legislature to attain its own ends. It has gone a long way to ruin our manufactures, and it has starved to death many thousand people, but its gigantic wickedness has nevertheless not kept up the price of wheat to the height it designed, nor has it been enabled to levy the duty it ordained in proportion to the price. It has decreed that 30s. Bd. shall be levied when wheat is 565. ld. per quarter ; the actual sum levied at that price was ss. sd. 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 corn ror 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, when 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,—those who are 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. We have received the Paris Journals of Wed nesday, together with Tuesday's Papers, which, had the weather been favourable, would have reached us yesterday. M. HUM ANN'S project of law on the Budget, which was presented to the Chamber of Deputies-on Monday, and which will be found in our report of the proceedings of the Chamber of Deputies in another part of The Sun, has opened the eyes of several of the Deputies to the real mis chief of the war policy, and to the immense lora which France must sustain by persisting in main taining what she calls an armed peace. The amount of credits required by the Finance Minister is five hundred and thirty-four millions of francs, being eighty-four millions more than the proposed loan; but so enormous will be the expense of fortifying Paris, and so great the outlay required by the war policy, that the Government will be compelled to withdraw one-half from the amount annually ex pended on roads and bridges, and for a period of eight years to come no new public work whatever can be undertaken. More money will be uselessly sunk in the morasses round Paris, to restore to us a worthless relic of the feudal ages, than would suffice under proper management to cover France with railroads, and give such other aids to commercial and agricultural industry as would in seven years increase her prosperity more than the whole period since the restoration of the Bourbons. Now the Government which assumes the right of doing every thing in France, declares that before the expiration of the year 1848 it can do nothing to improve the state of internal communication. 'Why in less than eight years the progress of steam shall have revo lutionized Europe, and France with her fortified capital, after the example of a frontier town in the thirteenth century, may as well go back to the social habits of that period as to dream of remain ing so long stationary. Such, however, is the glorious prospect which her armed peace policy holds out to her. The Treaty concluded between France and the Argentine Republic, first denounced by M. THIERS' organs, is seized by the Ministerial to cover with obloquy the THIERS Administration, from whom Admiral MACK AU had his instructions. Upon this question the Opposition Press evince a singular absence of both tact and memory. Their blows have recoiled upon themselves. In endeavouring to get out of this scrape, the Constitutionnel of Tuesday has the following defence of the late Go vernment " The insttuctions given to Admiral Mackau signified that he was to demand two things—indemnity for the French who had been injured, and the same treatment for French subjects as that which was shown towards the most favoured nations. As to the Allies of the French, Admiral Mackau had orders to inform them he was negotiating with Roses, and to include them in the Treaty if they consented to his doing so. The instructions laid down only these three bases, and the Chamber approved of them. We have now to look at the Treaty concluded by Admiral Mackau. The fundamental conditions dic tated to him by the Minister are contained in it; but the drawing up of the Treaty is his own, and the spirit of the instructions is in fact compromised by the form. This is our opinion, and it is also that of the Conservative journals, which make of this Treaty a ground of accusation against the Cabinet of the Ist of March ; but if they find that the Treaty does not sufficiently enter into the spirit of the instructions which M. Thiers had given in conformity with his engagements to the Chambers, let those journals employ their influence with the present Ministry to induce it to refuse its ratification. As to the Cabinet of the Ist of March, it will be easy for it to prove that the instructions which it gave were neither more nor less than what it had said in the Chamber, and which there met with approba tion." The Ministry, it appears from the Courrier Francais, will ratify the Treaty, leaving whatever credit may result from it to their predecessors. This journal insists, that by ratifying the Treaty, GUIZOT assumes the odium of it, and that 11. TRIERS is to be held immaculate. The same journal bears the following direct testimony to our repeated observations on the bad state of things necessarily engendered by the French system of colonization in Africa : " Marshal Vallee is to leave Algiers on his return to France this day. Notwithstanding the flattering assur ances of pacification which have been given through certain interested publications, it appears that our affairs in Africa are more embroiled than ever. Abd-el-Kader, I who has been supposed to be completely subdued, has or dered a levy of one man out of every two men of all the tribes under his domination, and he intends to open a new campaign in the spring with 10,000 cavalry, as regular as his cavalry can be, and 5,000 disciplined infantry. The Government is further said to have received an appli cation for an immediate reinforcement of 12,000 men -4,000 of whom are for the province of Oran, which will, it is believed, be the first object of the enemy's at tack. It is reported that the departure of General Bu geaud is fixed for the 28th instant." Here, after ten years' fighting—ten years of con- tinual victories on the part of France, if we may credit the telegraphic despatches, we find the French provinces as exposed to invasion as they were the first day of their occupation. This is the fault of the Government which allows nothing to be ac complished by associations of private individuals. It must have a finger in every man's pie. If the Government of France leave a man a spoon, it in sists on prescribing the way in which he is to carry it to his mouth. The following extracts frotn the Journals of i Tuesday and Wednesday contain all the news they bring of any interest NAVAL PREPARATIONS.—In compliance with an order of the Minister of Marine, a board of superior officers bad been appointed to visit the gun-boats Cyclope, Vulcain, and Volcan, which, after the campaign of Mexico had been disarmed, and decided which of those vessels shall be im mediately put in readiness for sea service. The second division of the squadron, under the command of Rear-Ad miral Casy, was about to sail from Toulon for the purpose of exercising the crews. That division is to consist of the Souverain, three-decker, and the Marengo, Alger, and Suffren. The first and third divisions, under Vice-Admi ral Hugon and Rear-Admiral Renault de la Susse, were taking in provisions, and would shortly follow the second division. They were composed of fourteen sail of the line, of which two are three-deckers. SWITZERLAND.—There appears still to exist in Svvit serland much agitation. The march of the Government was, however, firm and decided. The suppression of the convents in the canton of Argau had been adopted in the Grand Council by a majority of 115 against 15. One of the chiefs of the insurrection, Dr Bayer, physician to the convent of Muri, had sought refuge in Lucerne. All the German cantons had placed their contingents of troops under arms in the course of 48 hours. The Grand Coun cil of Berne agreed, on the 14th, to a partial rcvisbn of the Constitution by a majority of 55 against 26, unless that the people demand a more sweeping or total reform. The Legislative Council of Neufchatel decided, on the 11th, that the authorities should be called the next day to an account for having surrendered Borcl at the request of the French Government. THE FORTIFICATIONS OF PARIS•—It was reported in Paris that the Ministry was in an unsatisfactory state ; that Mar shal Soult and MM. Humann and Teste ware opposed to the proposed fortifications (although the Marshal would willingly accept one portion of the plan—theforts detaches) —and that the other members of the Cabinet warmly sup ported the measure. The approaching discussion in the ' Deputies continued, therefore, to be looked to with much interest. PORTUGUESE SLAVE-TRADE.--ThC 200 slaves and young Arabs found on board the ship taken by the Prcvoyante, and carried into the island of Bourbon, were in a perfect state of nakedness and starvation, so that the magistrates of the island were forced to clothe as well as feed them. The Arabs were free men, whom the Portuguese pirates had carried off by force, and reduced to slavery. A letter from Bayonne of the 16th instant :mentions the arrival in that town of M. Ramirez Arrcllano, the Pope's Nuncio lately expelled from Madrid. The Regency has granted a delay of 30 days to the Bilboa merchants, to introduce into the kingdom the g00...1s and merchandise existing in the entrepol, and which were imported in Spanish vessels, on payment of the re duced duties formerly levied on those articles. This delay once expired, they are to be subjected to the duties they woald be liable to pay if imported in foreign vessels. The following late intelligence from the Turkish capital, and which has also the merit of being more favourable than the previous accounts, is from the Austrian Observer of the 13th inst. It is ex tracted from a letter from Constantinople, dated the 30th of December—being two days later than the advices received direct from the same quarter : The Sultan has accepted the submission of Meheme Ali, tendered by him in a despatch forwarded to the Gaud Vizier, through the medium of Captain Fan. shawe, and which fact Resehid Pacha, Minister for Fo reign Affairs, has notified to the representatives of the Four Allied Powers, in a note addressed to them on the 27th of December, adding that " his Highness now only awaits on the part of the Pacba of Egypt the fulfilment of the conditions imposed upon him by the London Convention, dated November 14, before which his submission could not be considered as complete. The Sultan reinstates him as Pacha of Egypt, and adop•s the other measures relative to his I.c-investiture ;" that, " con sequently, the Porte bad resolved on sending Vice-Admi ral Walker, who bas been raised to the rank of Pacha under the name of IYaver Is ha and Mazhuni Bey, a member of the Imperial Council, in the capeeity of Commissioners, to Alexandria to receive the Ottoman fleet, and insure the performance of the promise made by Mehemet Ali to evacuate all the points occupied by his troops out of Egypt." "In the meantime, the internuncio of his Majesty the Emperor of Austria, and the Ambassador of her Britannic Majesty, were requested to send, on their side, Commis sioners to be present at the restoration of the Ottoman fleet, agreeably to the fourth paragraph of the Separate Act of the 15th of July." BO UR SE.•—••PARIS, WEDNESDAY, JAN. 20. r int Highest I.owcst Last Price Price. Prics.. Price French 5 per Cents ll2 25 ... 112 40 ... 112 10 ... 112 50 4% per Cents ..... 4 per Cents 99 ... 99 ... 99 .. 99 3 per Cents 77 25 . 77 30 ... 77 15 ... 77 33 Bank of trance gelgian Bank S per Cents 28% ... 08% ... ptim ... lA% 3 rcr Cents 69 ... 69 ... 69 ... 6 9 Spanish Active 2 5% ... 25% ... 25% ... 25% Passive 6 I A ... 6% ... ti! ... 0% New Deferred Portuguese 3 per Cents 20% ... 20% ... ip% ... 20% Neapolitan Roaian lOO ... 100 ... 100 ... 100 The Madrid papers received are of the 12th instant. The Regency received an extraordinary express from Lisbon on that day, with despatches from the Spanish Charge d'Affaires, to the effect that the Portuguese Cabinet would support the question of the navigation of the Douro before the Cortes, and if they failed to carry it that they would retire from office. There was some talk .of Spain putting two or three ships of the line and five or six frigates into commission to oppose the Portuguese navy. The first question we would ask, is, where are the ships to come fr9m ? Private letters from the Spanish capital speak confidently of the maintenance of peace between Portugal and Spain. General Cu AcoNA, the War Minister, was se riously indisposed on the 12th. The duties of his office were performed, ad interim, by the Minister of Marine. A good deal of business was done on the Bourse on the 12th. The Fives were at 28i for cash, and 201 at 60 days. GERMANY. BERLIN, JAN. 15.—The Stale Gazette says " anc . 4.l accounts from Frauenburg announce that Rudolph Kuh. napfel arrested on suspicion of being the murderer of the Bishop of Ermcland, has confessed his crime." His Imperial Highness the Archduke Frederick will re turn to Vienna, from the expedition to Syria, about the 15th of this month. The young Prince will return with the Englieh Order of the Bath, which is hardly ever con ferred on any foreigner, and with that of St. Andrew of Russia, which includes in it all the Orders of the empire. Of the two Roman Catholic Archbishoprics and six Bishoprics in the kingdom of Prussia the half are now de prived of their chief pastors. These arc the Archbishopric of Cologne and the Bishoprics of Troves, Brelau, and Ermeland. POLISH FRONTIERS, JAN 3 . —The Senate of Cracow, on the di' - solution of the Commission of Inquiry, has ad dressed a request to the respective Courts to under.ake the regular trial and sentence of their subjects confined in the prisons of Cracow for high treason or disturbing the public tranquillity, and then to withdraw the Austritin garrison, as there is no reason to apprehend that the tranquillity of the republic will be interrupted. I hear that tho Aus rian Government has at once declared its readiness to accede t their request, and that negotiations with Russia ;nd Prussia have been ope:ned, which it is to be hoped will soon have favourable result. VIENNA, JAN. 11.—General Buren von Hesse having ac complidied his mission to the South German Courts, has returned to Vienna, and has already had the honour to make a verbal report of the success of it to his Highness Prince Metternich. BRUSSELS, JAN. 20.—The average price of wheat last week was 19f. 4c., and th':t. of Rye I If. SI c. per hectolitre. - -, - iIELGI AN I UNDS—BRUSbEI.d, JAN. %,',". Actual De , t,254 per Cent. Itothscliild'. Lean, 5 per C.nt l/7 Loan of Thirty Millions, 1 per ('ent. (1 4' ,) !t'eX --------- 3 per Cent. - -----Thirty.geven-- - ---- .. -9 Loan of City, 18:1•2, 4 p e r Cent !I 11'..1 Society of COrIIIII,ICC, -i!, per Cent Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent.... .......... Nationa I S9ciety . ............ Exchange on Lon t low (ilmit) .................. 11 V 5 --Brussels Payers, Jan. 20. AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—ViuNNA, JAN.II Five per Coats. Mctalliqucs :8 Folgr per Cents. 'Three r: r Cents. .•...., .... •• Hank :Shams l7oo .4"gemeine Zrio ,- i..f. Jan. 10 _ Mr. J. Shaw Lefevre and Mr. George Lewis bail an interview yesterday with the M,rqui,4 a Normanby at the Home-office. Sir C. F. Williams, Mr. 'Murchison, Mr. Lech, and Mr. Bailey, had also interviews with, the Noble Netrqui3 Ntorday. THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY). CORN EXCHANGE. This week's reported hrrivais of all Grain has been small. The Wheat and Barley trade have continued dull since Monday, but lower prices have not been taken. Beans and Peas unvaried. Oats decreasing in quantity for sale, and 6d. per quarter advance has been obtained on Monday's prices. The Flour trade dull. SMITHFIELD MARKET. The supply of cattle was short, and the trade brisk ; few good Down sheep at market, and those sold quickly the supply of catv,s was moderate, and the trade: dull. No alterAtion in the price of pork. Beasts, 479 Sheep, 2,320; Pigs, 430; Calves, 129; Beef, 3,4 8d to ss; Hutton ; 3s 8d to ss; Veal, 4s to 53 10d; Pork, 3s 6d to ss. COLONIAL MARKET. Prices were firm for nearly all articles, and a fair amount of business was transacted, principally to supply the wants of the home trade. The arrivals of produce were small. TEA MARKET. The market was in a dull state, and prices on the de cline, for free trade., Company's Congou flit at Is. bid. cash ; large auction have been declared. TALLOW MARKET. The demand for Russian was steady, and prices were firm at 46s on the spot, and 46i 3d to 46! 6d for delivery. METAL MARKEL Tin is rather cheaper ; Copper in good request ; Eng• ish Lead and Iron sold freely. YD'S SHIPPING.-(T HIS DAY. LONDON, JAN. 22.—1 t has been a sharp frost throughout the night, and continues. Wind this day at noon, light westerly airs, and fine. DEAL, JAN. '2 1. Wind W. N. W.—Arrived Matchless, Yap, from Berbice ; Cid, Havannah. Sailed Countess of Durham, Johnstone, for South Australia, Adolphe, Wal ker, Havannah ; Gambia, Penlevriek, River Gambia ; Edward, Mailer, Rio Janeiro. DOVER, JAN. 21.—Arrived off, Progress, Schmidt, from Manilla. PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 21. —Wind N. W.—Arrived Geo, Heinrick, from Singapore___ FALMOUTH, JAN. ' 26.—Wind N. to N.E.—Arrived Na. tire, Martin, from Newfoundland, with loss of bulwarks sails, &c. Sailed Lyra packet on, a cruise with supplies for the homeward bound. LIVF.RP.)OI., JAN. 21.-IVind N. W.—Off port the Leo nora, from Derncr,:ra ; Niagara, Cole, bound to New York, has put back with loss of rudder, &c., having struck on the Bar of the Victoria Channel; Boyne, Forster, Alexandria to this port, was towed into Beaumaris yesterday dismasted, having been in contact with another vessel. SUNDERLAND, JAN. 20.—The Cato, of Portsmouth, was driven to sea 18th inst., hut has since been fallen in with, abandoned, and brought in here. _ _ _ WHITBY, JAN. 207—The vessel wrecked on Abraham Nike was the Perseverance, Roberts, of Lynn, part of the cargo and materials saved. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, THURSDAY. ..-. The Cotton sales to day amount to 5,000 bags, chiefly Ameri can description, at full prices. MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, JANUARY 21.—We have had very little doing to day ; na material change in prices:—Great Western, Ilalves, 62; Manchester and B rmingham, 25 ; Bank of Manchester, €q and 91. 31, 9,4 Manchester Assurance, 84 ; London and South Western, 571 to SSI-; Manchester and Leeds, 77 to 75 ; Ditto Halves, 281- to 291 ; Midland Counties ( Quarters) 14i to 15; Eastern Counties, 84 to 9 ; Do. Debentures 5 to 51. We have received the Journal of Antwerp of yester day's date : BOURSE OF AMSTERDAM, JAN. 19.—Little busiacsa doing, and the prices are weak. The Actions of the Su• ciety of Commerce opened at 161, and fell to 1601, got up again to 1611, and remained at 161h-_ The Coupons of Ardoin have again got up to-day, and done at 22 3-16 After the closing of the Bourse, Coupons 194-. Accounts from Antwerp state that the navigation is again open ; some vessels coming from Flushing arc in sight. HANOVER, JAN. 11.—The loss caused by the incendiary of the Royal Chateau is very considerable ; a great quart. tity of valuable furniture, clocks, and pictures, let down from the windows, have been much damaged. It was re marked that the engines were exclusively confided to the military of the garrison. The King opened his wine cel lars to the soldiers to refresh them. The Gazette of High Germany has the following:— "In a short time a Congress will be held by the Allied Poweni, at which Franco will take a part, which it is thought will be held in Lond.m." INI I NDATIONS.—The water in the Grand Basin of the port of Antwerp overflowed the environs of the country and the stocks. Several quarters of the town are inun dated. The waters hare interrupted the communication with the town, and the inhabitants IN ere obliged to take refuge in their garrets. The railroad is covered with water, as well as the fields where the mills are situated, and a great number of houses situated in the environs have bt‘en abandoned by the inhabitants. BRUSSELS, JAN. 19.—From all quarters we have ac counts that the waters have fallen. Ten o'clock at night —The Seine, which fell about 40 centimetres since Sa tu• day last, the 16. h instant, at four o'clock in the even ing, augmented again during this day, owing to the heavy rain. LIEGE, JAN. 19 —We announce with pleasure that the waters of the Meuse, although we have bad weather, have diminished since yecerday. AMSTERDAM PRICES, JAN. 19 —Two•and R- Half per Cents., 50 s.l6ths ; Five per Cents , 98; Ardoin's Spanish, 221-. The French Mail of Wednesday, has arrived, but its contents arc of a meagre description. THE FUNDS. Consols, which left off yesterday at 90 for the 25th of February, opened this morning rather better, at 90A for the Account; Money, 89i The Market at present is in. active, owing to the scarcity of continental intelligence. Exchequer Bills, 6 8 prcm. ; Bank Stock, 169 171 ; India Stock, 251 253. In the Foreign Market Spanish Actives the same as they left off, 244 4; Deferred, 124 4 ; P.rsivc, 6 i 1 14 ; Portu guese also the same, 324; Three per Cents. 204; Bra zilian, 734 744, rather better; Mexican, 284.; Colom bian, 234 4; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., same as it closed, 502- 4; Five per Cents., 984 994. SHARES.—Great Western, 26 27 prcm. ; New, 114 12i prcm. ; London and Brthton, 61 6 disc. ; Blackwafl, 4 al. disc. ; Birmingham, 82 84 prem. ; Southampton, 57 58 per share ; Croydon, 124 per share ; Greenwich, 84 per share; Nlanchester and Birmingham, 13 14 disc. ; South Eastern and Dover, 15 144 disc. PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE. RAILWAYS. Paid. Per Share. Cheltenham and Great Western. 62/ COI.-- to London and Brighten Slanchesterand Leeds (Nt w Sh. ) 25 ....,. 30 Midland Counties North Midland Ditto New JOINT ETOCK BANXS. Australasia MINES. Rhymney Iron - HALF-PAST ONE. The British Market continues in the same dull and in.. animate state as it was during the whole of yest, rday without a feature worth noticing to the present hour. The ~peculators, both in the British and Foreign Markets, are entirely inactive, and, it is expected, will continue so until they gain some information respecting her Majesty's Speech at the opening of Parliament. Money continues easy in the house. A report prevails that there will be a new election in Durham. Consols may be quoted at present as in the early part of the morning,' 90k for the 25th Feb. ; Money, 891; Exchequer Bills 6 6 prem. ; Bank Stock, 1701 1691, rather lower; Iz,dia Bonds, 5 dis. In the Foreign Market Spanish Active a shade higher, 24i ti ; Deferred, 124 ; Brazilian, 74 ; Buenos Ayres, 2li, improved ; Danish, 783; Dutch Two.ard-a-Half per Cents. 50a ; Five per Cents. 99k. In Shares little doing.—Cheltenham and Great West ern, 30i ; London and Brighton, 433 ; Manchester and Leeds, New Shares, 29 ; Midland Counties, 79 ; North Midland, 79 ; Ditto, New, 38. UNSOUND ANNUITY AND AS SURANCE COMPANIES. ( From the Notiinghain Review.) Under this head we have an announcement in the Lon. don Sun newspaper, of the stoppage of the Independent and West Middlesex Annuity Company. Probably some of our readers will recollect, that in the years 1839 and 1840, many advertisements from this Corn. pany were inserted in the Nottingham papers. In the month of December, 1839, certain circumstances were brought to our knowledge which convinced us that the Company was u:sound, that its promises were delusions._ that no man of capital was connected therewith, and all those parties who entrusted their money with it, would most probably be swindled. Under such circumstances, though we might have received pounds by continuing to advertise, yet we could not conscientiously lend ourselves to any such such deception, ar.d we discontinued the ad vertisement from that moment. We would have done more if we could ; we would have warned our readers against the Company by name, but the conscquchce,would have been an expensive prosecution, the libel laws of England arc in such a shameful state, that we could not expose what we knew, without ruin to ourselves, but we did wh a t we cou ld. W e gave notice again and again, that bubble companies were afloat ; we wrote several articles for the express purpose of putting our, townsmen on their guard, and when the Royal Lan casto.ian Annuity Sr;ciety broke down, again we lifted up the Warning voice, and we have the consolation of knowing that our admonitions were not altogether in vain. THE NEW HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT.--, Abut 170 masons are dal.y cnga,;ed at the new howes of Parliament, and there arc about 100 other workmen in full occupation. The works are progressing rapidly. The average height cf all the walls is now about fifteen feet, and they already present a striking appearance when viewed from the riser. Mr. Barry, the architect, pays, it is said, the closest attention to all the works, which are, for the most part, executed under his personal superinten dence. _ _ A TALL FAMILY.—A person of the name of Walker, or Melmorby, near Ripon, and seven sons, mea sure in height sixteen yards, being art aver?ge of two yards each—the youngest fourteen years of age. flow many yards f :rther they will grow we dare not stentute to assort. York Courant. RIIULI, AND SELBY RAILWAY.-011 Monday, owing to the frost, the trail on this railway was two hem in running two mile' I—,Sheifield Patriot. ROLLS' couliT—(TiliS DAY.) Lord,l4, the Mast,ruf tlie Runs, this day heard CROSBY V. Titcobj, , ct of this bill .gas to iahre a sum of 1,000/, teeur,.?,l for the benefit of the plaintiff, a rw.rricd woman, end paid to her in such way as the Court might think right, upon the true construction of the bill bequeathing that sum to her. His LORDSHIP was of opinion that the 1,000/ must be brought into Court, but defe:red his judgment upon the other point until Monday. QUEEN'S BENCH.-(THIS DAY.) - -~---- (Sittings in Banco.) NF,W The following new rule was this day read by the Master: " Hilary Term, 1841.—1 t is ordered that a party en titled to appear to a declaration on ejectment, may appear, and plead thereto at any time after the service of such de claration, and Mote the end of the fourth day of the Term in which the tenant is required by the notice to ap pear in town cases, and before the end of the fourth day after the term in which the tenant is required by the notice to appear in country cases, and may proceed to compel the plaintiff to reply thereto, and sign judgment of non pross, notwithstanding such plaintiff, may not have ob tained a rule of judgment on such service of declaration. And that a plaintiff who may have omitted to obtain a rule for judgment within the time prescribed by the present rules and practice, shall be entitled on production of such plea to an order of a Judge for leave to draw up a rule fur judgment as of the time at which such rule for judgment would have been obtained." The Court was occupied all day with cases from the special paper, none of Is hich were of any general interest. BAIL COURT.-(THIS DAY.) ( B lore Mr. Justice WiLLIA HS. ) THE QUEEN V. THE JU , TICRS OF CAERNARVON. Sir F. POLLOCK moved in this case for a rule to show cause why a writ of mandamus should not issue directed to the defendants, and commanding them to hear and determine a certain appeal for the removal of a pauper named Roberts from one parish to another. When the ai)peal came on for hearing, objection was taken that the notice did not sufficiently di,:elose the I , ,,rotiad, of the appeal. He ap prehended that such an objection could not be sustained, and as the present was in the nature of a Court of Appeal, when the Magistrates at sessions refused to hear and de tel mine (in which case that Court could not interfere) ho submitted that he was entitled to the rule prayed for.— Rule granted. causes. SANDERSON V. PARKER. Mr. ERLE moved in this case for a rule to show cause why the writ of capias ad satisfaciendum against the de fendant should not be set aside for irregularity, and why all proceedings against the sureties should not be stayed. The application was founded on the Act Ist and 2ud Vic toria, chap. 110, sec. 8. An action was brought again at the defendant, and a bond for his appearance was given by two persons. While the action was proceeding, the de fendant was rendered by his two bondsmen, and committed by an order of Mr. Justice Coleridge. Now, the plaintiff contended that the bondsmen had no power to render the defendant before judgment, and having subsequently ob tained judgment against him, sued out a writ of capias ad satisfimiendum, and served the bondsmen with notice that proceedings would be taken against them. He submitted to the Court that such proceedings were irregular, inas much as, in the case of " Ouston and Coates," it had been distinctly held by the Court that the bondsmen might ren der at any time before judgment as well as after, and that such render was to be taken as a dicharge of bail. The COURT granted the rule. TIIE QUEEN CROXON. Mr. WATSON moved in this case for it writ of certiorar bring up the depositions taken before the Magistrates of the county of Bucks, against James Croxoii, and to show cause why the defendant should not be admitted to bail. The defendant had been charged on the oath alibis father in-law James Leigh, of Little Marlow, timber merchant, with uttering two forged bills of exchange, dated August 1840, and his depositions were to the effect that he could not write himself, and had never authorized the defendant or any other party to accept bills for him. On the other hand he l:ad the affidavits of John Griffiths, Henry Griffiths, and another, who deposed that they knew the prosecutor, and had frequently discounted bills for the defendant, ac cepted by Leigh, some of which were dishonoured, but all eventually paid by Leigh. They also deposed that the daughter of the prosecutor, who swore that she Lad never been authorized to accept bills for her father, had done so repeatedly, and that these bills were paid by Leigh. The COURT, after hearing some additional facts set forth in the affic'avits, granted the role. EXCHEQUER COURT-THIS DA Y (Sittings in Banco.) LAW AND PENNELL V. THE DUKE OP MARLBOROUGH. Mr. WHATELEY showed cause against a rule obtained by Mr. Thomas, for the purpose of setting aside an order of Mr. Baron Rolfo under these circumstances Noble defendant had entered into a bond to pay 2001. as an an nuity to Mrs Pennell, payable half-yearly at the common Dining-hall of Lincoln's Inn, upon lives. By somo ar rangement the money was paid through Gosling and Shr.rpe, the bankers, who obtained joint receipts upon such occa sions. On the first payment for 1838 becoming due, a receipt was tendered signed by Mrs. Pennell only, when payment was refused. An action was thereupon commenced for recovering the penalty of the bond. Upon application to the Learned Baron, he made an order that, upon pay ment of the arears of the annuity and costs, the plaintiff should be satisfied. The answer of the noble defendant was made by an affidavit of the barkers' clerk, which stated that the money was, and had always been in their hands, ready to be paid upon the production of a proper receipt. Mr. THOMAS, fur the plaintiff, contended that the money ought to have been tendered ro the plaintiffs—there was no evidence that his clients had ever entered into any agreement. Mr. &won PARKE.—You received the money from the bankers upon several occasions, and gave the proper re ceipts—surely that is evidence of an arrangement. Mr. THOMAS denied that it was so. Suppose the case of a landlord whose tenant wrote to him, saying that if be called so and so, his rent would be paid, and that he bad received it in that manner one, two, or three times ; would that bind him for ever ? The COURT said the action appeared to be brought against good faith. There had been an arrangement and no notice had been given for putting an end to it. The rule must, therefore, be discharged, but without costs, Rule discharged. THE QUEEN V. LORD CHURCHILL: Sir W. FOLLETT moved for a rule nisi to set aside an order obtained by the Attorney-General to change the venue in this case from Oxfordshire to Herefordshire. This is to bo a trial at bar, the lands in dispute lie in Ox fordsh:re, and the quesion is, from what county the jury should conic. The Attorney-G.:neral had obtained the rule absolute in the first instance as part of the pre rogative of the Crown, to lay the venue in any county it pleased. The Learned Counsel now contended that there was no precedent for such an extension of the prerogative of the Cron n, and tl.e Court would ri,,t in these days favotir any attempt for such a purpose. The Crown had a right to try in the Exche quer or any other Court, and could as a matter of right demand a trial at bar; but there was no authority for say ing that it. had a right to have a Jury from any other county than that in which the lands in dispute were situ ated.—.. Rule granted. ELECTLON FOR THE OFFICE OF tRIDGEMASTER. • The following pithy article on the result of the late con test, is copied fiom our Contemporary. the Morning Ad vertiser. We know little more about the two candidates, than that they are both respectable men ; and we are con fident that Mr. Gibbs would be the last man to retain an office obtained according to very current report, and to one or two undisputed facts, by such unfair means : " The eltction for Bridgernaster terminated yesterday in favour of Mr. Gibbs, and against Mr. Ledger. It was all but apparent that such would be the result, from the bribery, corruption, and perjury employed upon the occasion; but although elected by numbers, Mr. Gibbs has no more right to the place than the Emperor of China, who knows nothing about the matter. Two men arc already in prison upon charges of perjury which they have confessed, and 500 more, if we are not misinformed, are nearly in the same predicament. Their votes, at least, must be struck °iron a scrutiny, and we now put it to the Lord Mayor whether he will disgrace his own private character as a gentleman, or his high and important office as Lord Mayor, by swearing in a success ful candidate whose success has resulted from the employ ment of the foulest means? We believe that he is incapable of deteriorating his character either in the one or in the other respect. His plain course is to withhold his sanction, so that the matter may be thorougly sifted. By doing so he will please both parties, if they are honest and sincere. " A protest, if we are rightly informed, will be lodged with him to morrow, as well as a requisition for a special Court of Common Council. We trust, for his own sake, that he will listen to the one and grant the other." _ . JAMES SMITH'S " COMIC MISCELLANIES, LETTERS, AND MEmorns."—lndependently of the great amusement to be found in this work, the result of the au thor's own genius, perhaps no production has ever appeared in which a greater number of persons figured, eminent for wit, beauty, accomplishments, and eccentricities. Among o!hcrs will be found Lady Bles:ington, Lord Byron, Countess Guiecioli. Thomas Moore, Lady Harrington, Ro gers, Maria Edgeworth, Count D'Orsay, Miss Torre Holme, Sir Walter Scott, Theodore Hook, Miss Pope, Sir E. L. Bulwer, Mrs. Somerville, Lord AbinAcr, Lord Hertford, Mrs. Llne Fox. Professor Wilson, Jack Bannis ter, Mrs. Austin, Miss Kelly, Charles Lamb, Lockhart, Southey, Miss O'Neil, Miss FArren, Charles Mathews, Mrs. Jordan, Miss Foote, K'J'r n, Charley Young, John Wilson Croker, Madame Vcstris, Miss Paton, Signor Garcia, Mrs. Siddons, &c. EFFECTS OF THE THAW.--'!'he COUlltry papers received in town to-day Iring lamentable accounts of the fatal and devaqating effects produced by the sud den thaw. Scarcely any part of the country has enjoyed immunity from inundation, while whole districts, east, north, south, and west, have been laid under water. The destruction to life and property has been great. Similar distressing accounts are received from France, the N et h er .. lands, and many other places on t he Continent. his l..aorning, b e t ween D EAT it 11 n i ne an d ten o'clock, a respectable married woman named, Hrxriet Burrows, who resided at No. 6, Flask-row, Pirn was accidently burnt to death under the following distressing clrcuaistances, appeared that the deceased was engaged shout r;ocr,e cu!in&ry operatien near tile fire, when her ilpYoll igeiied and in Lil instant her clothes were all in !Lai: ; every assistance- via promptly rendered but without effect, as site was in a few minutes burnt to death. The body is at the house awaiting an lapost, EVEN INU )ITI Oi THE FIFE LUNGHS. K' r ke , 'ld V, I January, 1811 ' The, ft:llowing corrcsp:.r.di nc,, has taken place betficen Colunel Ferguson's and Dr. Bowring'i Committecs:--- TO COLONEL FITGL'EON'S ELECTION COMMITTEES The Committee appointed by the friends of Dr. lin v f r ring are motions to remove coy impression entertained to any quarter, that, in calling on that gentleman to stand 66 a candidate for the district, they have been actuteed by feelings of personal hostili•y or factious opposition. 'P ict ' motives can be expressed in very few words. Considcriag that the constituency are emitted to have for their repre sentative the man who, fi oin his experience, talent, jot!" grity, and industry, was best qualified to attend to their interests in Parlirment, they, after mature deliberat ioo, fixed ma Dr. Bowring as the man on wham that honour should, in their opinion, be conferred. Such being their motives, they are desirous that nothil should occur to divide or injure the Liberal interest , * P i they have a proposal to make, o f suc h a nat u re as, tha t the friends of Colonel Ferguson decline to accept they will bring on themselves the responsibility of any oi; pion that may occur. Colonel F e r g uson has said tha t I ', is favourable to an extension of the franchise, and he " distinctly pledged himself in f a vour of the Ballot. vi; Bowring's Committee, acting on a suggestion clog expressed in the Doctor's address of Saturday last, n b r , ready to refer the question of the representation tow bi c ever of these tests Colonel Ferguson's Committee sir* prefer. They will, therefore, either— First— Agree that the question, whether Colonel F e ti f ; of it guson or Dr. Bowring shall be the representative district, be referrol to a general vote of the whole Win o male population, taken in such form as the tvto cand id° may amicably arrange; or, Second—lf this proposal sh o uld be declined, p r i; flooring's Committee will ag r ee to submit the questio u a Vote of the Electors taken by Ballot. If Colonel Fergu s o n ' s C omm itt ee will agree to st e i l l o by eith, r of these pr o pos a ls, on th e un d e rst a nding,tbat iL t o Colonel is found to b e i n t he mi n ority he shall %vitt; frcin the field, Dr. Bowring's Committee pledge t" 01 - : selves to adopt the name a lt e rnative, and to insure hil l mediately retiring if the majority be found against hill' o f The Committee in conclusion, take this oortualtiro, strongly urging the propriety of one or other of these P w posals being adopted, as a means admirably suited( saving such a constituency as this from the evils of contest ; and they have the satisfaction of reminding t' o , friends of the other party, that, on the occasion of a s°lll ol what sim'lar division in the neighbouring constitueugol . Cupar, a reference to the Ballot, made by Mr. Ellic e Fir accepted s of by th e o th er p ar ty, was th e mean s of n ' r ' ng these evils. • B direction of the Committee. (Signed) ALEX. REID, •ChairPlini. EXCERPT from the MINUTES of the Committee fot ro ducting the Election of Colonel FERGUSON, 10 j ary, 1841 : Reid, il l 1)1 Inter atia,—A Communication from Dr. eeia• name of Dr. Bowring's Committee, addressed 0 0 Meeting, was rtad : and the Committee hav;ng 4 and deliberately considered the same, the following lution was unanimously adopted, viz. ; ' lO " That this Committee decline any discussion ! is to I'6o motives which have influenced Dr. Bowring's 101 bring him forward for the purpose of opposing a Li dl4 Candidate who has already been favourably rece iv i e bo s the electors. In the propositions now submitted t 0 trt olt this Committee can see only a scheme which might I I? in still farther disuniting the Liberal interest lo u r, Burghs. They resolve, therefore, to reject all 01, positions; and they will rely, with perfect corm' Co; upon the good sense of the constituency to establishot. lonel Ferguson's claims to represent them in Parliatioll The Committee request the Chairman to coma° the above Res,lution to Dr. Bowring's Committec',o, (Signed) JAMES RUSSELL , " METROPOLITAN ANTI-Ca" LAW ASSOCIATION. A A meeting of the Committee of this Association tg place yesterday, at their new Board-room, 4 48 ',ti0 131 S:rsnd, to take into consideration the plan of or'; st sr for the year 1841. As the formation of a large 0 . 0 ,0 1 of Auxiliary Associations is an entirely new f e atareboic present state of organizaion of the metropolis, th e t ter e men of these local bodies have been invited to e-ihol and they mustered in considerable force, attrite te n i tp doubt, by the peculiarly deliberative characte r " meeting. , p e Ar After the usual routine business of the Cornrelt gone throuJAMgh, obt r : Mr. ES WILSON, one of the moat active 111 o 'o explained the general views of the Committee as to or course of proceedings to be adapted. The coreP A l n e silis i e l ganisation of the metropolis by means of the 11 ;40 1 , Associations was not lost sight of, and it was 6 0 2 o f that the general objects of the Association would "e promoted thereby. ter Among other things, it was determined that Irtrr should be immediately commenced in the several yi eolitan districts ; and the Chairmen of the Aux a gree' suciations were conferred with, and some early data o f ir, upon for the commencement of this effective mode, l ieu atruction. It was further proposed that after the mode, of lectures some mode of ascertaining the state der in each locality should be adopted. d cfs The antu9l meeting of the Association must, we k r ,., stand by their rules, take place in the month of, ary. At that time the second half-yearly ecteor•repO; laid before the public, and there seemed to 13 ,, e a rs 'of feeling in favour of a dinner among the t netni^',"„ 00 Association, to take place a day o r two !ter t" - after meeting. it g r The election movements were also discussed woo, length. The address of the Metropolitan Agse c ,,,,. - 100 0 ," the t lectors of Wel still has alreael7 appeared in our 11 ,isti% and several of the Chairmen of the Auxiliary elosd'ul,'" reported that addresses to Walsall bad been colli e octir bodies they represented. A considerable numbe r° to t A o t were read, calling the attention of the Committee vacancies in Reigate, Canterbury and East Sur re d l o making many valuable st ggestions as to the beat - 011/ promoting Anti-Corn-law interests. 10 •tls The mode cf proceeding by petition w as -„ br bitt discussed, as was also the plan of operations 15"gow walls of the House. On the whole there seals and renewed spirit on the part of the Associations, %cto" Auxiliary Associations show that this spirit i s g e diffused throughout the metropolis. 1 40 STATE OF TRADE AT NOT HAM. • ) 'Ol (From the Nottingham Review of this da t sitil, The fancy bobbin-net trade, notwithstanding iro orders may be now centemplated, is still extter pa! t . except for first. rate patterns, which are made 1'0 1 2, 0 0 2 i without needlework. Some small excitement 1-atil:a respecting the renewed trial on Sneath's patent f°,r6ololA,l" on circular bolt machines known in the Court e i t t his no Pleas as Fisher v. Dewick. The singularity. e' ; 01 0 0 tinued litigation is evident; first, that the pite l/ jed t ot considered valueless, as most of the machines lio ‘ , ll- por 1 " 0 1 the patentee, are either broken up, or are stanaine, o o oc e of demand for the article. Second, The i1e,1% re l 4 of Litchfield used by Dewick (though certaiel blance), is so decidedly superior, as to render fabric Invention Invention nearly abortive, both in speed and in Doubts having ari.en as to the cut-up hose 1:0-00 f b its effects upon the employment of the popul4t-,011:" Midland Counties ; we herewith subjoin a stateee # A, listied by Mr. Felicia, in the Times London 1 1, e Pro some time since, in the correctness of whic h :leo which will prove that it is not steam power that 1 1 0 , 016 the population out of remunerative wages or.erlow but the mere operation of the scissors, the thr eo sf l P and treble slur-cock. ce Mr. Felkin states that 10,500 frames prot-toc 9 leor, full fashioned cotton hose, 420,000 dozens; 6, "; - 8 0, produce yearly, cotton cut-up stockings,'Stc. , " 0, doz. ; total dozens, 2,400,000. ; 0 1 16 0 If the 17,100 flames were all making full fasb°,oo,ol, by the same ratio, they would produce yeatll'ooou doz. ; leaving a deficiency in the supply of 1,7 1 0%, to —which would require an additional 45, 400 frailly built, to make the same number of hose. the Cut-up hose wete not made previous to 180 9 ; • 10,, tern began by making cut • up gloves. A Bill PI o ciT i o duced into Parliament in 1812 to prevent th e P ost ° The Framework-knitters Company was itle° r P 1664, to prevent the making of fraudulent hosietie'oo P; s4 11 The making of warp tattings is not by 8, to 1 / 1 11 1 proved. The serious reduction in wages 0 0°1 0 , pis paralyzed this once important body of vvorktttescloe same may be said of the warp blond workmen. 1 1 ° 1 00' abatement has had an effect the manufacturers ul • poet ; many of the workmen have left the boil ° v ibe profitable, and have taken drawer and cut-up fratnesgit,oh• a few years since, would have been ranked er_°co impossibilities, no one then supposing that tt s t 1 minded workmen would have submitted to 'Or; has ben considered a minor branch of the trade./ ,ce is The imitations of the French jacquard leces'tritOoe afraid, protseed very slowly; indeed, the war.P io o o ,/ excessively flat, The silk netted workme n in tbl9oo iOOO, s t d of them, unemployed. Great complaints, tb st , 0 1 of the orders going to Mansfield; it is asserteow hofcdt is owing to the masters at that place giving. f iog t o ed long credit, which they are eeabled to do by g i „ oft ", 111 in lieu of wages. The silk glove hands 01°, 14 be ir held out to them by many of the hosiers, that • orders will come rattling in shortly. .._r_.....,—..... - -- „ q g $ % Or DEATH OF THE DOWAGER CouNi--,15,4 '-igO afterHenrya short illness, we: youngest daughter of Lo s.f iii.si', of f n n d A t aunt the i t3 l th 1 0 0 7 f 1. 6 Earl Ba t " Ofe -I whom whom her Ladyship had a family of seven childre°' rel eP 9 the e Henrylc e p m re b s e e r n , t i D 7 6 11 5 k. e sh ° oo 4 o A 00 if Earl B s l u t r h v u i survive , t t h h e e i r Hon. amiable ‘v il l iam mother, Lennox nam B e 1 4 y ur e osta P t C 1,50 1e rl if; to the Privy Council , Lady Louisa Georgians, i(dio es or Lady of the Bedchamber ) to her Royal " "pone oli Duchcss of Gloucester ; Lady Emily Charlotte- 4 to I " ii , and the Hon. and Rev. Charles Bat - burst , elar rie— '01; 4° 0 The Bertie, youngest daughxr of the Earl o f At , ' i fg day'es,d f e ro cc m as ß c d rig C h o t u o l n it . ess had only returned to town ore TV ' A t THE HOUSES OF PARLIANIENT%---, 0101`1,-0 parations for the meeting of both Houses of ~,,l- ki, :t i o r:v arc progressing rapidly towards completion. i''' ) ;, 0 0 ,:,g benches in the House of Lords are fixed, an d 1: icsa,' ; ' o ll tin have nearly got all the seats - in the pasgag' fl y' ,1 to the House, which are prepred for the accoter:" fte,j, of parties attending to witness the proccs.ions, for Z g ila c c o "rid decorated. The chair on the t hrone will b. f r - ('fi be r and another chair will be placed opnertsloien.,thar.coc;:adth::::::: Albert. It is, we understand, corriidered ecrtal", r id . 11 ; Ml,j , sty will open Parliament in Prince Al'oert. The paiminp: of the wel!s ''''''.."o : ' , ..i,e in the Ikut , e cf Commons iq itishcil, and little is to 10, quired to be done in it for the reception of gc n ' in ddo /l or matting on the floor hes not, hownene, yet been ve ry ti til. The decorations of the Bude li'ght apparat:o4" '" ful, and muck *rove its appcarancs. .... i 1~ a 1