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Mr. Cooper; Quince, Mr. Bartley; Bottom, Mr. Mr. V; Flute, Mr. Keeley ; Snout, Mr. Meadows ; Snug, y„“_.• Mws M r s . ermia, Mrs. Nisbett ; Oberon, Madame ; ia W. Lac • • Puck, Miss Marshall; First ."4, Titanainforth The N D ... After which, "- , T GRAND CHRISTMAS PANTOMIME will be T KO repeated, entitled CASTLE OF OTRANTO; OR, HARLEQUIN H ot AND THE GIANT HELMET. P ao , ; t4 lniu, Mr. C. J. Smith; Clown, Mr. T. Ridgway; N 6: 1 ° 0 ,. 1 1, Mr. ; Columbine, Miss Fairbrother. " al ° ll day the Midsummer Night's Dream, with The err . ntonurne. bo or sto be o p ene d at h a l f-past S i x—the per f ormances to itiepAtmpice at Seven o'Clock. • at th •E b ete and places for the Bons to be where Season Ti ckets taken of Mr. Grogan, ' Tx-office, from T en till Four, lo r " ne upon application. eireh.;""zeg 71. ; Second Price, 3s. 6d. • First and Second Sh "s• ; Sec on d P ries, 2 s . 6d. ; Pit, is.; Second Price. Gallery, J. 167 1 1, v itte 801 1 . 1 to be had solely of Mr. Andreas, bookseller noe ndstreet. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. A,7lZilient of th e C e l e b rate d C as k V au lt er , i n a dditi on t o tl l - e - ' wp rth's t r i ump h ant l y successful Tower of London, and bra ack nowledged b es t Pantomime, which are attracting 'ant overflows every evening. Will k_ THIS EVENING, JAN. 30. 7 acted a Grand Historical Romance, founded on and entitled The I , L , THE va TOWER OF LONDON. kit"auicaan Vins, splendid Costume, and Appointments, , the Designs of the celebrated George Cruikshanks. wh ich will be repeated the Grand Traditionary Pantomime, entitled GAN''''illt - AND MY LADY LEE; OR, GOOSEY VaZ,.'‘DER AND THE SPELL-BOUND GOSLINGS. _mch the astonishing and incredible evolutions of the Cask 8,, `al' will be given, as well as Brunning's Grand Dioramic v i k t ris of Sy ria ; t h e Pantomimic Characters by the unri kits 8 13 1", 4w° Family; Mr. S ou thby, th e Original Clo.en; arl)e, Columbine ' • and the astonishing Gymnastique, fromFraneoni's, at Paris. 11.4- 11 `l7 TER AT LONDON BRID G E HIS miltutes after 6 E v ening :9T r:AY. rrilbutes after a In tl: l aid lie Lords yesterday Viscount DmicArmor?, and on the table the ordinances of the Governor 41. , SPecial Council of Lower Canada. os'ho Marquis of NORMANDY who observed that `' e ir Lordships frequently complained of wanting B t rile A t hing to do before Easter, in order to give (1 1411 elnPloyment, presented a Bill for better l is r4ining and improving large towns. The Bill t t he result of the Commissions of Inqu iry . •• areot by the present Ministry, and its o Jeet benevolent and beneficial so far as they : can h e til e , t l tooomlished by legislation. It will afford . disti n nunes of the poor a g ood opportunity to lignish thems elves in the cause of their clients. ' . q 7 1 ; 4 t LLENBOHOUGH praised the Noble Mar ituf,t::3,l' b ringing forward the Bill, and promised • we .° best attention. Such a measure in princi -423, most en- Agreeable to ,the demands of the e'Lehed philanthropists of the day, and will no ...o s cb t for it give general satisfaction, while . it w ill earn • dui ' Ministers, who have herein showe d more or, gfrehee than the world has giyen them credit beaeral applause. hp,-‘4ll Iir IIARNCLIFFE, after adverting to the I.llnsness of the crime committed by M . r. Tit°") after quoting some of Chief Justice • sta il : l)4VB o bservations , and a ft erTeferring to the . ' --colients recently Lade as to the treatment Fir th . the-floh wadingreceived at Van Diemen's Land, put questions to the Marquis of NOR -41.4.1113i? : Were the statements true ? Had Mr. than l' an d his companions been better treated be other other prisoners? Had any instructions % eel ' se " from her MAJESTY'S Government on d eg e subject? And, had. Ministers received any patches from Sir JQIIN FRANKLYN ? In the Present state of his knowledge he pronounced no Z Pini cal) but the matter, he said, ought not to be !eft Without further information. the The Marquis o f . N ORMANDY, after admitting t heino u sness of th e o ff ence, proceeded to , . !ate that the usual code of instructions had bee s adhered to in the treatment of these per - is ." Ile knew nothing about FROST having per bee" a allowed to wear his own clothes, but there !, . "as in this country a letter from him, complain .l,'4: 4 lli g of having been compelled to wear a convict -, t,,,„ fire s .. t":1d: . 1.,. ' Sir J OHN FRANKLYN had announced that ' l3 iii,_ tt"°Bl', WILLIAMS, and JONES had, on their !,.... ' rural,r been sent to Tasman's Peninsula, and, being so sent ' there was the usual punish ,lll, eat for convicts who had misconducted themselves on the voyage out, he had . 1 formed them that they were not sent thither to ene tortured. If FROST had been employed as a because it was a more 40.atelltarkble jotccuNpvaastion for him intended as 11 01.a-Your, it was a total misconception of instruc ns sent from home. The Government were, he affirmed, actuated by the same feelings as the the Lord, and anxious to uphold the laws of • t h e c " n trY• He 'was ready to lay any further Governor orniation befOre the House which reached the ~e nt on the subject; and he wished it to a7endunderstood, that the offences of Mr. FROST treatedhis companions were not of a class to be b elie With leniency. W e have been anxious to cos'neve that the Ministers were guilty of an act 15's mercy an d` consideration to these political °tenders, e are compelled, on the showing , ~--- 7 / 1 / /// • • F ,:4 ' .; • ny , ft 4 044 V.•. ',74 4 .411 fir 8,4.: ;-- •AL' 11 , -.4E* ' 40 1 4 11 4 7hje „' flts LONDON: SATURDAY, JANUARY 30, 1841. of the Marquis of NORiVIANBY, to pronounce them wholly innocent. Even the Tories must be satisfied with his declaration; its effect on the masses time must show. After Lord BROUGHAM had reminded their Lordships that the Judges were not unanimous on the technical question mooted at the trial, their Lordships adjourned till Monday. In the Commons the SPEAKER reported her MAJESTY'S Answer to the Address, which ran in the usual complimentary strain. The petitions presented, and the notices given, are scarcely susceptible of abridgement ; and we refer for them to our report, merely adding, that a motion of Mr. DIVETT to print a petition from Mr. SALOMONS to repeal the disabling oaths im posed on the Jews, was adjourned till Monday. Mr. MAcKINNON seems, looking to the Report from the Lords, to have been too late for the fair, in giving notice of his intention to call the attention of the House to the Report on the health of towns. He seems time enough, how ever, in proposing to move for a Committee to inquire into the necessity of importing labourers (slaves, qy.) into the West India Islands. Captain POLHILL, with that petty fussiness which now distinguishes the Tories, asked whe ther Lord JoHN RUSSELL was aware that a letter had been written, signed G. E. ANSON, return ing thanks, on behalf of PRINCE ALBERT, for an Address of Congratulation from the Loyal REPEAL Association. Lord JoHN replied, No. Mr. PoLHILL said he would repeat the question on Tuesday ; but Ile was told by Lord JOHN that Ministers would be prepared to reply to a question concerning any act done by their ad vice, but not to reply to a question touching an act done by Prince ALBERT. The Prince may learn from this what a tyrant whip the Tories would hold over him 'had they the power. A Society sends him a loyal, hearty congratulation on the birth of his first child ; his Secretary, by his order, returns a civil answer; and this gentle manly act, because the Tories dislike the Society, is construed by them into an act of treason against their high mightinesses, their bigotry and politi cal fanaticism. So be it. The formal step of going into a Committee of Supply was taken, when Mr. HUME announced his intention of bringing the finances of the coun try under the consideration of the House, and Mr. O'CONNELL announced his of asking a ques tion on Monday about the treaty with Texas. The adjourned debate on the Copyright Bill was resumed, lid Mr. Sergeant TALFOURD moved for leave to bring in his Bill, which he said was justified by the previous sanction of large majorities of the House. Mr. WARBURTON opposed the motion in a long speech, in which he made the astounding declaration that he acknowledged no natural rights, but only Nights growing out of conveni ence and expediency, which pretty doctrine places the lives and properties of all men and women at the mercy of the fancies of the Legis lature. Because the Hon. Member could quote many instances, unhappily, of legislation and of the constitution of society violating the natural rights of men, he jumped to the conclu sion that they do not exist. According to this doctrine, a babe has no right to the breast of its mother, though nature, not the Legislature, has prepared that for its nourishment. Mr. WAR BURTON'S doctrine is Toryism, essaying to do all things, even to eradicate sin, by legislation run mad. There are, however, many of his observa tions which will disturb the stagnant pool of the public mind. We commend them to the atten tive consideration of the reader. He denied the WAT TYLER doctrine, that whatever a man pro duces by the labour of his hands is his. He de nied, therefore, that men have an absolute right of property in the production of their own minds. He spoke for the public, and in their behalf re sisted the motion. After a few words from Mr. HUME, the motion avas carried by, 142 to 30,, and leave given to bring in the Bill, which was brought up and read a first time. Lord JOHN RUSSELL moved for leave to bring in a Bill to continue the Poor-law Commis sion for ten years. Mr. GRIMSDITCH objected to the motion, be cause the Noble Lord had before promised that he would not renew the power of the Commis sioners without first altering the law. Mr. WAKLEY declared that he would oppose the Bill in every stage, if the power of the Com missioners was to be continued as at present. ➢lr. HODGSON HINDE concurred with Mr. WA KLEy, and thought a Committee should ex amine the rules and regulations made by the Commissioners, before continuing their power. To re-appoint them for ten years, was to appoint them for life. After several short speeches of little import ance Lord JOHN RUSSELL defended the new law, and took a rapid view of the faults of the old law and the opinions expressd against it. He was for preserving the Guardians and Commissioners as at present, but he thought the number of As sistant-Commissioners might be reduced to twelve. He believed that the Report before the House supplied all necessary information, and should deceive the House if he held out any hope of a relaxation in the law. Leave was given, and the Bill was brought in and read a first time. On the motion of Lord ASHLEY, the Factories, Committee was re-appointed. The House adjourned at Half-past Seven. MT. DANIEL HARDCASTLE, alias Mr. PAGE, the great Currency Doctor of the Times, put forth yesterday in that journal a curious theory, which, as the journal says that his & lucubrations always excite much public attention, is worthy of notice. The purport of the communication is to " show that gold is in fact a much cheaper medium of circulation than paper." This para doxical assertion, so contrary to the received opinion, would have been more satisfactorily made out had the said learned DANIEL proved, in the first instance, that the prime cost of the metals and of paper respectively has no infiu ence on the subsequent coSt. But this is a point which is—we think most unfortunately for Mr. HARDCASTLE'S argument, as the whole theory hinges on it—postponed for future dis cussion. The writer says : Besides the argument we have disposed of in the fore going observations, that paper money saves the expense of coinage and the loss by wear on metallic money, others are brought forward, as 1. That the material of which paper money is constitu ted being of little value, while gold and silver are very va luable, by using the former instead of the latter, we gain all the difference in the cost of the material, and this gain, they say, is measured by the annual interest on the amount of the difference in the value of the material. 2. That paper is much mute convenient in the making of payments. 3. That it is impossible to carry on the large transac tions of the country by means of metallic money. These points we will discuss on a future occasion, and show that they have no sure holding, but arc all vanity, and less than nothing, Now, the prime cost of the instrument of cir cnlation is the main consideration in the dispute as to the comparative cheapness or dearnesS of the two species of currency, and, till we see that branch of Mr. HARDCASTLE'S argument, we can give no opinion whatever on his curious theory. He has certainly brought together a great number of facts to show that the relative expense of keeping in circulation an equal quan tity of paper money and metallic money, looking 1 only to the wear and tear of the latter—making no estimate whatever of losses for sinking ofships, burning of buildings, destruction by war, care lessness, &c. &c , is much greater for the former than the latter. But the highest estimate of ex pense for the former is 21 per cent, while the in terest of capital varies from 3 to 10 per cent., and the advantage of the use of paper is that it substitutes an absolutely valueless material, the loss of which is . of no consequence, for one of great intrinsic value, which bears interest in the market. The 22 per cent. represents the wilole cost of a pap er currency ; to the expense of coin age for a metallic currency, and wear and tear, - which alone is considered by Mr. HARDCASTLE, must be added the current rate of interest for the whole sum in circulation, and all the losses of the - precious metals. The substitution, however, of a valueless for a costly instrument he is after . wards to consider, and, till that be considered, Mr. HARDCASTLE'S arguments, proofs, and theory, are essentially incomplete and defective. The proper mode of making the comparison between paper and gold is to find out the whole sum of labour required to extract a given quan tity of ore from the mine, to convert it into bul lion, to bring it to the place where it is to circu late, to assay and stamp it, to count it in making payments, &c. &c. ; and also to find out the whole sum of labour required to make a quantity of paper whiCh represents that given value of bul lion, to engrave it, write on it, issue it, make pay ments with it, &c. &c. ; and, making the compa rison now mentally, we have no doubt whatever, in spite of Mr. HARDCASTLE'S ingenious remarks, that any given amount of payments, and the larger the more favourable to paper, may be made, or commodities be exchanged, at a much less expense of labour, by means of a paper cir culation than by means of a bullion circulation. Mr. HARDCASTLE, we are afraid, has a new scheme of paper currency of his own to fall back on, as subsidiary to his bullion currency. For example, he says : At Hamburgh they have no paper money whatever, and by liquidating the great bulk of their transactions by means of bars of silver lying in a bank of deposit, they not only save the expense of paper, but they also save the loss of . coin by wear, and the expense of coinage, and they even save the expense of banking. For the bank at Hamburgh is the bank of the city; every citizen of good fame and reputation, however huttible, has a right to open an account with the bank upon depositing the trifling sum of 100 marks (about 80 ; the profits of the bank are trifling, and if even they were more considerable, nobody would virtually pay anything ; for- part of the profits of the bank are bestowed on the poor, and the remainder is applied to other expenses of the city ; and. as if the money which is applied to these purposes should not be forthcoming out of the profits of the bank, it must be supplied by a tax on the citizens, so is it true to say that their banking operations arc carried on without any expense whatever, and so, that besid, s saving the expense of paper ; the loss by wear on the coin, and the expense of coinage, the citizens of Ham burgh avoid all the risk and expense of banking. There is not now existing, or ever has been, or can be, a more simple, cheap, and solid system of currency than that which obtains at Hamburgh. But I/E,n the citizens have opened their ac counts with the Bank, how do they make pay ments ? Of course by means of transferring credit on the books of the Bank from one person to another. These transfers are made by order of the parties keeping deposits, which orders are virtually and truly a paper currency, though con fined to the books of the Bank. Nay, if we are not misinformed, they are so used by the diffe rent merchants who lend each other credits at the Bank, as our merchants give checks on their bankers. Whether the banking system of Ham burgh be superior to our banking system is a question we shall not now discuss, though we may remark that we have it in fact already amongst us; but it is, we believe, from considering that this system of deposits and of banking is preferable to our system, and by proposing to adopt it, that Mr. HARDCASTLE is to get over the objection to his theory, that gold costs less than paper. He would substitute another system of banking, another species of paper money for that which is in use amongst us, and show if he can that his paper money is the cheapest. No European nation is now without a paper currency ; and the natural manner in which it has grown into gene ral use, and been substituted for metallic money, is a prima facie reason for believing that Mr. HARDCASTLE'S theory is unsound. For one observation the public ought to feel grateful to Mr. HARDCASTLE, because it places the wrong practised by the Legislature in giving a monopoly to the Bank of England in a clear light. " The promissory note of a banker," says Mr. HARDCASTLE, " is a debt, and yet upon this debt he gains interest. Now, that a man should pay interest on a debt is in many cases plainly reasonable, but that he should receive interest on a debt; *atid - rfrandth -every - extension and multi plication of his debts his income should increase, is against all reason, and justice, and honesty, and common sense." That is admirably true. How then does the Legislature act with regard to the borrowing Bank of England? It guarantees to it a monopoly of borrowing from the public, and at the same time acting in the name of the pub lic, and on behalf of the public, gives to the Bank interest on the very money the Bank borrows from the public at no interest. This is a regular juggle, by which the Bank, through the instru mentality of the Legislature, which is constituted to protect the public, annually juggles the public out of a great portion of its large income. We cannot, however, conclude, with Mr. HARD CASTLE, " that there ought to be no paper money whatever, or it should be issued for the benefit of the Government." On the contrary, we be lieve that there must be paper money, and that it ought not to be issued by the Government. It originates mercantile credit; and, when .most genuine and valid, represents commodities on their way to market, none of which are produced or possessed by Government. Government re ceives revenue, but produces none. Paper money has, we readily admit, like metallic money, been much abused both by Governments and indivi duals. The proper remedy for the abuse is to leave it perfectly free, and leave each individual to borrow from the public, on his own promises to pay, as much as the public will lend him. Pri vate banks, into the credit of which the public of every locality can inquire, and which may be made to embrace the whole community as share holders, with a perfectly free trade in banking, are the best means of preVenting the abuses of the paper-money system. But whether this be correct or not, the subject is now attracting so much attention, and so much light is thrown on it every day, that the law concerning it, by which one company is now enabled to plunder the community, cannot be much longer cond.= nued. The declarations of' the Tory leaders, on the first day of the Session, in favour of preserving peace' with France, have given very general satisfaction. They have been everywhere read and admired, particularly the noble assertion which the speech of Lord BROUGHAM excited the Duke of WELLINGTON to make. To us they were doubly welcome, because they not only assured us that peace would, if possible, be preserved, but they gave a complete contradiction to the many sentiments of indignation and wrath against France to which the Tory journals have lately given utterance, and which they have endea voured to make common throughout the land. It is now plain that those journals were speak ing without communication with their leaders, and no more expressed their opinions, and were no more in their confidence, than is the Standard respected by the Duke of WELLINGTON. They may be displeased, with this public rebuke, but the nation at large is comforted and assured by learning that the Tories, not less than the Whigs, desire to preserve the peace of Europe, and continue the most friendly relations with France. The Tory leaders have not only done honour to themselves by their declarations, but they must have strengthened the Ministers in their determination and desire to cherish, if possible, the good understanding between the two coun tries. That Sir ROBERT PEEL might take a somewhat different view from the Ministers, as to the courtesy due to M. G UIZOT and the French Monarch, seems to us no matter of re proach; nor do we see anything in the language in which he expressed his difference of opinion deserving of censure. It is at the same time true that the incorrectness of his view was ably exposed by Lord PA LMERSTON, who demon strated that to have communicated the Treaty, with a view to obtain the concurrence of France, would have been an insult, by implying a doubt of her sincerity and truth. Resting satisfied with the success of Lord PAL MERSTON, and seeing much to admire in the decla ration of Sir R. PEEL, we not only have not joined TH E'SUN. LONDON. SATURDAY, JAN CJA RY 30, IX4I. our Liberal Contempories in carping at what Sir R. PEEL said, but we have thought, and continue to think, that their attacks are unjust. It is also doing an injustice to our own cause—the cause of peace, and the cause of the Ministers, when Sir R. PEEL and the Duke of WELLING TON spoke so strongly in their favour—to dwell with pertinacity on the very small difference of opinion which Sir IL PEEL manifested. We will freely confess that we were too much pleased with the honourable, humane, and statesmanlike declarations of both, to look for little hooks of discrepancy on which to hang carping objec tions and quibbling censure. We must return once more to Walsall. There are, we believe, in the borough many little tradesmen, nailers and locksmiths, who are necessarily, in some measure, dependent for accommodation on bankers and iron masters, and who are likely to suffer if they honestly vote for Mr. SMITH. To force men, who are made dependent by the Corr laws, to vote against their convictions by any kind of pecuniary coercion, is a scandalous tyranny, and the members of the League can employ themselves no more usefully than in ascertaining the names of those persons who use this kind of compulsion, and of those who are exposed to it. The former, if indeed any men can now dare to affront the honest enthusiasm of the people by such conduct, and risk the personal consequences, should be held up to general opprobrium. Tl:e latter may be assured that the public will throw its shield over them. Their associates in this good cause will come to their relief from every part of the empire, and save them harmless from the consequences of doing their duty. It was suggested sometime ago that a subcrip tion should be entemdlnto, to ensure the electors of Walsall against personal loss for the votes they may give. Such a subscription will, we trust, be set on foot, so that the electors may rely on being protected against the injustice of any overbearing monied or landed tyrant who may pretend to command their votes. Let them, then, fearlessly do their duty, and rely on receiving not only protection, but applause from their countrymen. The Tories show the respect in which they hold the electors by the candidate they offer to their choice. Mr. GLADSTONE, a young naval officer, has never acquired any distinction either in his profession or .out of it. He is conspicuous only as the representative of his father's purse, heavy with the sweat, and tears, and blood of toiling slaves. He is the type of a double monopoly, that of corn and that of sugar, and his supporters vote to enrich West India planters, and English landowners, by levying a tax on the sugar and the bread of the people. To constrain men against their con sciences to vote in favour of such a double iniquity is a species of tyranny scarcely to be surpassed. To resist it is the bounden duty of every man. Throughout the empire, accordingly, there are many throbbing hearts anxious to be placed in the post of honour like the men of Walsall; but they alone can fill that, carrying with them, however, to the contest the sympathy and the prayers of millions of their fellow-creatures. GOD grant success to the righteous cause ! We call public attention to the letter in an other place, headed "Tithe Commutation Ex penses." The subject is likely, we understand, to be brought before Parliament in the shape of an amendment in the Tithe Commutation Act. Certainly the principle complained of: that of imposing the whole expenses of the commuta tion on tenants for life, while they can reap only a small portion of the benefit—is unjust. Whether Parliament will be able to find a remedy for its own wrong, may be doubtful ; though there does not seem to be an insuperable obstacle to fixing on each estate the expense of the commutation, so that every succeeding pos sessor should pay in proportion to the advantage he derives from the commutation. We have received the whole of t ParmJour nals of Wednesday. The speech of M. TILLERS which occupies more than eight columns of the Afoniteur, is too long to allow us to give even a summary of it to-day. This speech, which occupied three hours in the delivery, and which, says the Constituti o /me t , re f u t e d every objection made to the C omm i ttee ' s p l an of fbrtifying closed the general debate upon the Bill, which the Chamber proceeded to discuss, article by article. If all France was inspired by the sen timents of M. THIERS, WC should not long con tinue to enjoy the blessings of peace. Instead of contending, like M. GuizoT, that the fortifica-,. tion of the capital was a guarantee of peace to Europe, he proved that the idea was never enter tained but when France indulged in dreams of conquest: He assured the Chambers that if it employed all the resources that national grandeur, art, and a long peace had placed at its disposal, France might brave, not only Europe, but the world. In a still more Vandal spirit he alluded to the stripping of the Louvre of works of art in 1815, and asked the Chamber in what it differed to France whether these works were destroyed by the cannon of a besieging army, or carried away in triumph to adorn other ca pitals ? M. TIIIERS chose to forget that the works of art of which the Allies deprived Paris, were those of which they had been disgracefully pillaged by her. Not a picture, nor a statue, nor a relic of antiquity to which France could es taLoblish other than a robber's title, were taken froM her. But whether or no, who but a Vandal would destroy an immortal work of art rather than witness its humanizing and ennobling effect upon the mind of an enemy ? M. TRIERS had also the hardihood to affirm that the Eng lish and the Allies within the lines of Torres Vedras amounted to 70,000 men, that MA SSE NA'S force was 40,000 ; and that had Marshal SOULT ably supported 11.1AssENA the lines would have been forced. This brought the Marshal upon his legs, who in substance told the ex-Pre mier that he knew nothing of what he was talk ing about. The bulk of the Allies were engaged with him, and yet MASSENA could not force the lines because they were impregnable. On Wednesday the discussion of the Bill fzrticle by article was commenced: M. BEA LTMONT moved an amendment upon 4 the first article for reducing the grant from an hundred and forty millions of francs to twenty millions. It was rejected. M. JANVIER next moved its reduction to thirty-five millions, and upon this amendment the Chamber was debating up to the departure of the mails for London The Univers of this morning has the following para graph : " The letters ascribed to the King, of which those published by the Gazette de France a few days ago, and those which the Government prosecutes, are said to be one hundred and ninety-three in number. It is affirmed that 20,000 francs were paid for them by the two honourable gentlemen whom the Morning Post accuses of having purchased them." The affair of the National is to come on before the Court of Assize on the 13th of February nut. We find the following account in a letter from Bilbao of the 19th A frightful event has just spread consterna tion in the country. " On Sunday, the 1 7thlinst., the i n h a bi tants of a small e village, in the district of Sopnata, i n t h e E ncurtaciones, wT a er e ee it o the aftotrecjejddignrtghouenpons ma ss ; rs six armed m en entere d the church. present to f a ll d own w i th their fc h d, they called Don Augustin San Gine, dragged him out of the church, and after they had mur dered him, found their way into his house, where they seized his son, whom they also assassinated. They fled into the mountains before the few inhabitants could recover from their terror. The motives of these murders are unknown. THE Ex-KING or HoLLAND.—We learn (says the Journal des Flandres) from very good authority, that the at Liege. This union, w hi ch we have always marriage of the ex-King William to the Count ess d'Oultre mont is definitely fixed. The outfit of the b r id e i s actu ally preparing as probable, will b e solemnized next Spring. The damage done by the inundation at D egn i e an d Thiel, and the environs , is considerable. considere d ßßUSSELS, JAN. 27.—Some journals have stated that the University of Brussels had sent an address to M. de Lamennais. This is a mistake. B RUSSELS , JAN. 27.—The average price of Wheat lest week was 18f. 35c., and that of Rye, llf. bBc. BO UR SE.— Km, WEDNESDAY, JAN. 27. First Highest Lowest Last Price Price. Pricy. Price French 5 per Cents 4 per Cents p 99 ... 90. go S per Centa.....N.gq 17 10 mpg 77 13 u , 77 10 „, 71 15 rank of France ~ t htte Isank. 50001. Srares 5119. 50 ...5112 50 ...5112 50 ...5112 50 4 ogian sank 5 I,cr Cents 08.74 ... D 9 84 ... 98' ... 0 5 3 4 New Loan 9 S% ... 9 8 % ... 98 % ••• 98 7'4 zpznish Active 251,i ... 2(1 ... 25% ... 2 5 % Passive 6 3is ••• 6 !4 ... 6 % ... 6 N , Portuguese 3 per Ceti* 2l ... 21 ... 21 ' ... 21 Roman lBl ... 101% ... 101 ... 101 RAILWAY SHARES. St. Germain Ve , sailles. B 4:35 ... 435 ... 435 ... 4:1 L 8.... ............ Orleans . Strasburg to Bale Rouen MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS CITY, FRIDAY EVENING. It was said in the City, this afternoon, that the Chancellor of the Exchequer would probably make known in the House this evening his intentions with regard to meeting the expenditure of the country, and this acted unfavourably on the Stock Market. The quotations of Consols for immediate transfer were 894 to 891, and for the account 89-3- to 89k. Exchequer Bills continued at 4s. to 6s. premium ; and India Bonds at 10s. to ss. discount. Bank Stock was sent down from 168 and 169 to 167 k and 166, but whether this arises from any expectation of the financial arrange ments of Mr. Baring affecting the position of the Di rectors, we are unable to state. India Stock was dull at 248 ; the New Three-and-a-Halt per Cents realised 981 to 974 ; and the Three per Cents. 90i to 89, 1 . When Forei gn St a t es, w hi c h h ave o f ten deceived us before, begin to make a show of doing justice to us in regard to our claims on them for money lent, we begin to suspect some coming project for a new loan ; and as the busy emissaries of Spain are trumpeting forth the good intentions of M. Gamboa (which we ourselves do not pretend to dispute) we conceive that the pubic should be cautious in dealing in Spanish Stock at pre sent, and bide their time. No doubt their suspense will only be of limited duration. To-cay Active Spanish Bonds were at 2.5 to 2.1 ; the New Portuguese Five per Cents. at 324 to 31-; , ,, being a slight decline ; and the Three per Cents. at 201 to 20-4 ; Danish at 781 ; Chilian at 60 ; and Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents, at 504 to Shares were in more demand to-doe. Great Western were 29 to 27; 4 i, the New at 131. the Fifths 6 tb 6i, the London and Birmingham 89, the Quarter 25, the Thirds 28, and the York and North Midland 22 prem. Brighton were 6to 6i, Greenwich New 3 to 2.3, Eastern Counties and North Midland 23 dis count. Australian Bank New Shares were 11 prem. This afternoon the Foreign Exchanges were flat again, and three months paper was generally quoted at a further slight reduction on each of the fol lowing cities :—llamburgli 13 to 7 ; Frankfort 14 8A- ; Amsterdam 12 2to ; Trieste 10 to 10 1, and Paris 25 50 to 55. /( From The Sun of Last Night.) A liamhurgh mail, of the date of the 22d instant, has arrived, bringing the Exchange in London at 13 2. Gold 423, 1 i ; Metal, 105 ; Bank Actions, 1,675. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, TIICRSDAY.—The sales to-day arc 6,000 bags, of which 500 Peruvians, 8i 91; 200 Bahias, B.} 9 ; 30 Egyptians, 111 ; 800 Surats, ; 80 Sea Islands, 16d. to 18d. The remainder Ameri cans without any change in prices. A few hundred Ame ricans have been taken on speculation. LIVERPOOL SIIARE LIST, JAN 28.—Grand Junction Quarter Shares, 521,-; Great Western, 92 ; Ditto Fifths, 10-h.; Lancaster and Preston Three Quarter Shares. 18 ; London and Birmingham, 178; Ditto 32/. Shares, 591 ; South Western, 58 ; Manchester, Bolton, Bury, 51. We have received the Journal of Antwerp of yesterday's date. MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, JAN. 28.—Our Mar ket in Railway Stock still continues languid, but Bank Shares are in good demand. Manchester and Leeds, 75 ; Ditto, Halves 32 to 32i; Manchester and Birmingham, 25 25i; London and Birmingham, 179 to 181 ; Ditto, Quarters, 30 to 30 . 1 ; Midland Counties, Quarter, 141- to 15 ; Union Bank of Manchester, 8s ; South Lancashire Bank, 5. BOVR;E OF AMSTERDAM, JAN. 26.—The national funds were more firm to-day. The Actions of the Society of Commerce opened at 1611, and got up to 1611. In Ardoin's Spanish a good deal was done ; after the closing they were 22 11-16 to Coupons 20: 1 1 9-16. This being settling day in the Foreign Market, the brokers and jobbers arc chiefly employed in paying and receiving the various balances. Up to the present time the Account is going off well. In the British Market little doing as yet, but Consols continue firm at present at 89i for the Account; Money, 89i- 1; Exchequer Bills 4 6; Bank Stock 167 169; India Stock 24S 250. In the Foreign Market Spanish Active may be quoted a shade higher, left efF247,- 25 , at present 24j 25k ; De ferred 124 13 ; Passive 6A- Portuguese same as they left off, 321 ; Three per Cents. 201 ; Brazilian 73 74 ; Colombian 231 ; Mexican 284 ; Danish 78 79; Buenos Ayres 20 22; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. 501 ; Five per Cents. 981 991. SHARES.—Great Western 271 261- prem. ; New 13 14 prem. ; London and Brighton 6 :i t 54 dis. ; Blackwalll4l 36 dis. ; Southampton 571 581 per share; Croydon 121 per share; Greenwich 81 ti per share; Manchester and Birmingham 15 14 dis. ; South Eastern and Dover 15,1 144 dis. PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE. RAILWAY'S. Paid. Per Share. Cheltenham and Great Western. 621- 10 . to Great Western Ditto New .. - to Ditto Fifths - -full and Selby London and Brighton North Midland JOINT STOCK BANKS. Union of Australia.. Ditto New Shares For a length of time past we have not had a week so unproductive, both for intelligence and speculating in the Funds, as the present one, although money continues plentiful, and at an easy rate ; in the house there is scarce a bargain doing of any magnitude. Discounts may be ob tained out of the house from 4.1- to 4i per cent. The settling of the Foreign Account not being to a large extent, is going off well to the present hour. Consols may be quoted a shade better than in the early part of the morning, 891 kr the Account ; Money 891 ; Exchequer Bills, 6 4 prem. ; Bank Stock, 1671 166, rather lower; India Bonds 10 5 dis. ; India Stock 218. In the Foreign Market the only business doing is in Spanish Active, wh!ch reached 25i. the previous part of the morning ; at present a shade lower, 25 ; Passive 6+ ; Portuguese, 32+ ; Three per(Cents. 201 ; Chilian 60; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 501 h ; Five per Cents. 991. In the Share Market little doing, but the prices arc rather better. Cheltenham and Great Western 30; Great Western, 94; London and Brighton, 432 44; North Midland 77. CLOSING PRICES. BRITISH FUNDS. Bank Stock ... 167 India Stock ......... 3 per Cent. Red 691, Ditto Bonds 3 per Cent C0n5........ 89i Ditto Old Annuities — 3J- per Cent Red...... 984 Ditto New Annuities... 861 I\ fi ew 31- per Cent .. 97i Ex. Bills, 1,000/....21d 6pm New 5 per Cent ...... ! Ditto 500/ 4pm Long Annuities to expire Ditto Small 6pm Jan. 1860. l3 3-16 Bank Stock for Acct —.166 Oct 1859... lndia Stock for Acct 248 Jan. 1860 ...... Consols for Opg B9a FOREIGN FUNDS. A ustrian, 5 per cent Portuguese, 5 per cent. Belgian, 5 per cent — Ditto, New Ditto.... 31 Brazilian Bonds .. l'russian, 5 per cent.... BuenosAyres, 6 per cent Russian, 5 per cent. . . Chilian, 6 per cent Colombian, 6 per cent... Spanish, 5 per cent 2. 5 ,1 Ditto, 1824 Ditto, Deferred ... Danish, 3 per cent. 'd - ei French, 5 per cent... —f. Greek,lB2s, 5 per cent. Exchange .. Mexican, 5 per cent.... French, 3 per cent —f. —c. Di , to, 6 per cent, 1825 Dutch, 2 per cent son Peruvian,lB2s,6 per et. Ditto, 5 per cent..... 999 SHARES. Cheltenham and Great Western (62a paid) 30 Eastern Counties Railway (23 paid).....-- - - Ditto Debentures ( 2 ),aid) Great Western Railway (65 paid) q.), Ditto New Shares (50 paid) Ditto Fifths ( 4 paid) Hull and Selby (50 paid) London and Bri g hton (50 paid) - London and Birmingham Railway (90 pd) 179 Ditto Quarter Shares ( 5 paid) Ditto Thirds (32 pad) 6O London and Greenwich Railway (2U paid) Ditto New Shares (20paid) ... North Midland Railway (100 paid) 77 Ditto New Shares (40 paid) South Eastoin and Dover (26 paid) ..... ... 13 York and North Midland Railway (50 pd) 72 COURSE OF EXCHANGE—( YESTERDAY. ) Amsterdam C F. 12 54. Gibraltar Ditto, at sight Rotterdam 2 U. 12 6 I Genoa 25 80 Antwerp l2 51 Milan .. Hamburgh........M. B. 13 10 Venice 47 Altona ............. ....... 13 lq Naples 3 ll Paris, 3 days' sight 25 45 Pa ermo, per 07 120 Ditto, 3 months 25 70 Lisbon.....i Marseilles.... 25 75 ;Oporto . . Bourdeaux„. . . .. 25 75 !Rio Janeiro 28 Frankfort on Maine.. ..14(.1: 'Bahia 27 Petersburgh, 3 U 5...... 371 Buenos Ayres — Berlin 7 0 I New York ,21 days' sight 461 Vienna, effcc. fl. 8 M lO 3 'Philadelphia Trieste, ditto Madrid Cadiz 35? Foreign Gold, bars.. 317 9 Billgoa 351 New Doubloons 0 0 0: Barcelona ... 35/ New Dollars 0 4 101 Seville 35/ (Silver in Bars 0 5 Oti SUPPLIES, Szc., OF WllEAT.—Thursday there were ordered to he prepared for the House of Lords, on the motion of Earl Filzwilliarn, three very important accounts regarding the supplies, &c., of wheat An account of the total quantity of wheat entered for home consumption from June 1, 1840, to Jan. 1, 1841; specifying the quan tity entered, together with the amount of revenue received thereon in each week during the said petiod. 2. State ment of the several rates of duty at which such total quan tity has been entered, and of the portions of the said total which have been entered, at each several rate of duty ; and 3. Account of the total revenue received upon the raid wheat entered for borne consumption, specifying the amount received at each several rate of duty. ERRATUM.—In the remarks of the Earl of Haddington on the Non-intrusion question, which appeared in the Second Edition of The Sun of last evening, and in the Morning Edition, for " the question could be settled," read " the question could not be settled " without the in tervention of Parliament, LITERATURE. MOORE'S POETICAL WORKS: VoL. IV. Longman, London, 1841. The far-famed " Irish Melodies" are concludes in this yolume, which contains also " Sacred Songs," " National Airs," and a graceful little rhymed trifle, entitled the " Summer Fete," which was suggested by a fashionable entertainment given some years since at Boyle Farm. In his preface to the " Melodies," Mr. Moore relates several curious particulars regardinn the great Irish outbreak of 1797, the leaders of which, strange to say, were almost all Protestants. Among them was Robert Emmet, with whom, observes our author, "I formed an acquaintance, which soon grew into in timacy ; he was my senior by one class in the University, and I found him in full reputation, not only for his learning and eloquence, but also for the blamelessness of his life, at 4) ,the grave sua vity of his manners." Of this generous young patriot, who was passionately fond—and no wonder —of the national music, Mr. Moore tells the fol lowing characteristic anecdote :—" Though never regularly instructed in music, I could play over the old Irish ai,s with tolerable facility on the piano forte. Robert Emmet used sometimes to sit by me, when I was thus engaged : and I remember one day his starting up as from a reverie, when I had just finished that spirited tune called the Red Fox, and exclaiming Oh, that I were at the head of twenty thousand men, marching to that air !' Here is another amusing anecdote, which regards our author himself:— " Towards the latter end of the year 1797, the cele brated newspaper called " The Press" was set up by Arthur O'Connor, Thomas Addis Emmett, and other chiefs of the United Irish conspiracy, with the view of preparing and ripening the public mind for the great crisis then fast approaching. This memorable journal, according to the impression I at present retain of it, was far more distinguished for earnestness of Furpose arid intrepidity, than for any great display of literary talent ;—the bold letters written by Emmet (the elder), under the signature of " Montanus," being the only compositions I can now call to mind, as entitled to praise for their literary merit. It required, however, but a small sprinkling of talent to make bold writing at that time palatable ; and, from the experience of my own home, 1 can answer for the avidity with which every line of this daring journal was devoured. It used to come out, I think, twice a week, and on the evening of publication I always read it aloud to our small circle after supper. _ " It inay easily be conceived that, what with my ar dour for the national cause, and a grossing conscious ness of some little turn for authorship, I was naturally eager to become a contributor to those patriotic and popular columns. But the constant anxiety about me which 1 know my own family felt—a feeling more wakeful far than even their zeal in the public cause— withheld me from hazarding any step that might cause them alarm. I had ventured, indeed, one evening to pop privately into the letter-box of the Press a short fragment in imitation of Ossian. But this, though in serted, passed off quietly ; and nobody was, in any seise of the phrase, the wiser for it. I was soon tempted, however, to try a more daring flight. Without communicating my secret to any one but Ed ward Hudson, I addressed a long letter, in prose, to the *X * * of * *, in which a profusion of bad flowers of rhetoric was enwreathed plentifully with that weed e hich Shakspeare calls " the cockle of rebellion," and, in the same manner as before, committed it trem blingly to the chances of the letter-box. I hardly ex pected my prose would be honoured with insertion, when, 10, on the next evening of publication, when seated as usual in my little corner by the fire, I un folded the paper for the purpose of reading it to my select auditory, there was my own Letter staring me full in the face, being honoured with so conspicuous a place as to be one of the first articles my audience would expect to hear. Assuming an outward appearance of case, while every nerve within me was trembling, I con trived to accomplish the reading of the Letter without raising in either of my auditors a suspicion that it was my own. I enjoyed the pleasure, too, of hearing it a good deal praised by them; and might have been tempted by this to acknowledge myself the author, had I not found that the language and sentiments of the article were considered by both to be " very bold." " I was not destined, however, to remain long unde tected. On the following day, Mr. Edward Hudson, —the only one, as I have said, entrusted with my secret, called to pay us a morning visit, and had not been long in the room, conversing with my mother, when look;ng significantly at me, he said, " Well, you saw --" Here he stopped ; but the mother's eye had followed his, with the rapidity of lightning, to mine, and at once she perceived the whole truth. " That Letter was yours, then ?" she asked of me c4erly ; and, without hesitation, of course, I acknowledged the fact ; when in the most earnest manner she entreated of me nes er again to have any connexion with that paper ; and, as every wish of hers was to me law, I readily pledged the solemn promise she required." We wish Mr. Moore had been a little more com municative of the personal recollections of Isis youth, especially of that portion of it which was spent in Ireland, for even from the brief glimpses he affords us of iris early life, we can see that he must have come into contact with many singular charac ters ; and sketches of these, drawn by one so obser vant, sagacious, and quick-witted as himself, would have been read with groat interest and curiosity by the majority of the public. In particular, his one or two hasty and passing references to Emmet make us anxious to know more of this generous young enthusiast, and we have no doubt that we share this anxiety in common with hundreds of others. Mr. Moore need not be apprehensive of becoming too much of a gossip or an egotist ; we shall always be eager to read what he has to record of his personal experiences, for few men of his time have seen more, and can relate what they have seen in so lively and attractive a manner. To resume our extracts. Speaking of that popular Irish Me lody, " Dear Harp of my country," our author says--quoting the authority of a late number of the Quarterly Review : " A young and promising poetess, Lucretia Davidson, who died very early from nervous excitement, was particu larly sensitive to music. There was one song—it was Moore's Farewell to his Harp—to which she took a spe cial fancy. She wished to hear it only at twilight, thus— with that same perilous love of excitement which made her place the iEulian harp in the window when she was composing—seeking to increase the Effect which the song produced upon a nervous system already diseasedly suscep tible; for it is said that whenever she heard this song, she became cold, pale, and ahrost fainting ; et it was her favourite of all songs, and gave occasion to some verses addressed in her fifteenth year to her sister." We well know the song in question, arid are not at all surprised at the Effect it produced on the sus ceptible feelings of a young poetess. Thou g h somewhat monotonous, it breathes the very soul of tender melancholy—indeed we know of but one air that can compare with it in plaintiveness, and that one, strange to say, is a French air, " Waters of Elle." We quote the closing portion of Mr. Aloore's preface : Of the translations that have appeared of the Melodies in different languages, I shall here mention such as have come to my knowledge. Cantus Hibernici," Nicholas Lce Torre, London, 1835. Italian —G. Fiecliia, Torino, 1836.—Adele Cuiti, Milano, 1836. French —Madame 13elloc, Paris, 1823.—Loeve \Tel mars, Paris, 1829. Russian.—Several detached Melodies, by the popular Russian poet Koziol'. Polish.—Selections, in the same manner, by Niernee wich, Kosmian, and others. I have now exhausted not so much my own recollections, as the patience, I fear, of my readers on this subject. We are told of painters calling those last touches of the pencil which they give to some favourite picture the " ultima basia ;" and with the same sort of affectionate feeling do I now take leave of the Irish Melodies,—the only woi k of my pen, as I very sincerely believe, whose fame (thanks to the sweet music in which it is embalmed) may boast a chance of prolonging its existence to a day much beyond our own. 7'llE NEW TALE OF A TUB. Colnaghi, London, 1841. There is a good deal of spirit and drollery iii this little poetical extravaganza, which is from the pen of Mr. Bayley, and refers to the adventitreE,, that betel two Bengalese gentlemen during a pic-nic dinner, which, in the exuberance of their animal spirits, they determined on taking in the dangerous vicinity of a Bengal jungle. While they were sitting enjoying.; themselves beneath the shadow of a large till; which had contained their provender, but was now empty, they were startled by the unexpected approach of a lame tiger who seemed anxious to make a third in rpose evinced in every fea their party. The brute came on, with a steady determination of pu t u re of his intellige nt and expressive counte nance, and after chasing the revellers two or three times roun d the tub, he mad e an attempt to jump over it, but lalling sho r t i n hi s spring, l, this over b a l a nced the tub, ‘vhich i nstantly rolled ( e ) e v i e n r . s , e a , i availedid shut lii ill). themselves The to the -utmost of ßeugalese of I )\ \N ", h P u r e es t pg upon the tub providential chance, ;11111 thisi!ie i i r ri l t v e c r i c g ss i t i i t i ; ig an (l occupation, one of them hap pened to seethe tiger's long, st l i . :', l t v h e i r c e ke e :e g :l ig t e a d il popping out of a hole e in the side of the wood. and assist Quick as lightnincr, sturdy grasp, caught d.iY hold of it with a hampered the a , ii rna l' s mo his companion, sue seeded in tying a double knot on it; w hi c h so had no diadifficultyl ements, that the Ben galese in making their escape., MORNING EDITION. 1' greatly to the annoyance of thetiger, wh o se t o ff after them, with the tub banging and bumpin g away in his rear. The conception of this inci dent is highly comic and Fotesque, and the author has worked it out with equal humour. Indeed we know not when we have met with a piece of drollery so much to our taste. It is il lustrated with several plates, which, however, arc not remarkable for humour. COURT CIRCULAR. Sir Robert and Lady Gardiner had the honour of joining the Royal Party at Claremont last evening, and dining with her Majesty and his Royal Highness Princo Albert. The Royal party consisted of Lady Portman, Baroness Lehzen, Earl of Listowel, Hon. C. A. Mur ray, Lord Alfred Paget, Colonel Bouverie, and Dr. Prwtorius. The Duchess of Kent took a carriage airing yes terday. Her Royal Highness visited the Duchess of Gloucester at Gloucester House. The Duke of Cambridge and Prince George, at tended by Baron Knesebeck, left town for Richmond on Thursday morning. Their Royal Highnesses spent the day shooting in the Park, and in the afternoon re turned to Cambridge House. Prince George of Cambridge left town at half-past eight o'clock yesterday morning on a visit to her Ma jesty the Queen Dowager at Sudbury Hall. Tile Duke of Cambridge visited the Duchess of Gloucester yesterday at Gloucester House. A deputation consisting of Joseph Somes, Esq., Go. vcrnor of the New Zealand Company, Mr. Alderman Piric, Mr. H. A. Aglionby, and Mr. James Robert Gowan, Directors of the Company, had an interview with Lord John Russell yesterday at the Colonial-office. The Prussian Minister transacted business yesterday at the Foreign-office. Sir Colin Campbell, Governor of Ceylon, had an in terview yesterday with Lord John Russell at the Co- Dr. Southwood Smith, Mr. Sanford, M.P., Mr. John Shaw Lefevre, and Mr. Blount, had interviews with the Marquis of Normanby yesterday at the H ome-office. Mr. Featherstonhaugh had yesterday an interview with Lord John Russell at the Colonial-office. FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE. ARRIVALS. The Dawagcr Duchess of Marlborough, in Park-lane, from Blenheim, Oxon ; the Earl and Countess of Rosa lyn, in Grosvenor-place, from their seat in Scotland; Lord Foley, in Portman-square, from a Continental tour ; Mr. and Lady Elizabeth Drummond, in Brvanston square, from 1321voir Castle, the scat of the. Duke of Rut• lard ; Lord and Lady Southampton, in Great Stanhope.. street, front their seat in Northamptonshire ; the Hon. George and Lady Agnes Byng, in Eaton-square, from Herts; Sir Augustus Clifford, Bart., in Eaton.squarc, from Leamington Spa ; the Marquis of Granby, M. P., at ilia Brunswick Hotel, Jermyn-strect; Lord Napier, at ditto ; G. S. Harcourt, Esq., M,P., at ditto; Mr. and Mrs. Staveley, at ditto; the Rev. George Hill, at ditto; the Earl of Charleville, in St. George's-place, from Char leville Forest, his scat in Ireland ; the Right lion. Frede rick S"iaw, from Dublin; the Bishop of Rochester and Lady Sarah and Miss Murray, from the Deanery, Wor cester ; Earl Fitzwilliam, at Mortimer House, from Mil ton House, near Peterborough ; Viscount Grimston, in Grosvenor-square, from Ireland ; the Hon. George Rico Trevor, M. P., in Stratton -street, from Brighton; Sir Charles Lamb, Bart., and Lady Montgomerie, in Bond street, from Beaufort, Sussex ; Lady Elizabeth Fielding and family in Sackville-street, from Laycock Abbey, Wilts ; the Earl and Countess of Mount Edgecumbe, from Brighton ; the Right Hon. L. Sheil, from Ireland; the Marquis of Tweeddale, from Tester House, his seat in Iliddingtonshire. MEDICAL REFORM. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. lately read in your valuable Paper a long ar ticle taken from the Quarterly on Medical Reform, which is all very %Nell in its way, but it appears to me that one main step in the reformation of the practice of this science would be to compel physicians by law to write their pre scriptions in good English instead of bad Latin; to abolish those cabalistic flourishes, and instead thereof to state the quantities of their nostrums at length. I grant you this would be a serious blow and great discouragement to the profession, but why are our lives to be endangered by an extra cross or pothook, or why aro we to be dependent on the classical education of a chemist's boy, who may frequently read aquafortis fur aqua fortis ? The Rey. Sydney Smith is, we hear, about to take the Corn-laws under his patronage, and is inditing a pamphlet thereon.—Cheltenliain Examiner. The Earl and Countest, of Winchilsea and the members of that family have been placed in mourning by the death of Mr. John Finch Hatton, son of the Hon. Edward Finch Hav on, and uncle to the Earl of Win chilsea. The deceased gentleman was in his Stith year. The Duke of Richmond has been elected Presi dent of the Highland and Agricultural Society of Scot land, and the Duke of 11,xburghe, Earl of Erroll, and Earl of Harrington, Vice-Presidents. Viscount Ken mure, Lord Frederic Fitzclarerce, Sir floury Dalrymple, Bart., arc among the new members enrolled. LORDS' APPEALS —The Lord Chancellor be gins the hearing of appeals, before the House of Lords, early this Session—namely, on Tuesday next. There arc three appeals set down for that daynamely, " Sir W. Elliott v Cleghorn," " C:awford v. Edward (pauper) ex parte," and " Parr v. the Attorney. General." METROPOLITAN AND RURAL POLICE.—On Tuesday there were required to be prepared for the Par. liament, on the motion of the Marqu;s of Salisbury, Ist, a report of the number of police employed in the metropolitan police on the 31st of December, 1840; 23, the distribu tion of the force in the different districts, specifying the number in each district on the 31st of Deeembier, 1846; and 3d, theAotal expense of the forces during the year 1840, distinguishing the amount paid by Government and that paid by rates levied on the different parishes and dis• tricts An address was ordered to be presented to her Majesty to give directiJus for.hwith for the preparation of such accounts. NEW WORKS.—The following interesting new works have just been published by Mr. Colburn, of Great Marlborough-street, and may be had at all the book sellers' :-1. Mr. James's new work, " Letters Illustratisa of the Court and Times of William III.," 3 vols. See, —2. The Sportsman in France, comprising Rambles through Picardy and Normandy, and Boar Shooting in Lower Brittany, by Frederic Tolfrey, Esq.-i - V. vols. small See. with twelve illustrations ' 21s. bound.-3. The first volume of the new and revis e d edition of Agnes Strick land's " Lives of the Queens. of England," with illustra tions, los. 6d. bound.-4. - 'The late James Smith's Comic Miscellanies, Memoirs, - and Letters, second edition, 2 vols. post Bvo., with-reittrait, 21s. bound.-5. The third and concluding volume, in See., of Lady Blessington's " Idler in Italy."-6. The Hon. Mrs. Norton's New Poetical Works, second edition, 1 vol., with fine portrait, 10s. 6d. bound.-7. Major Napier's Scenes and Sports in Foreign Lands, 2 vols. post Svo., with illustrations, 21s. bound.— ti. The History of the Turf, from the Earliest Period, by J. C. Whyte, Eq., 2 vols. Svo., with illustrations, 28s. bound.-9. Trollope's Summer in Brittany, 2 vols. Bvo., with illustrations.—And, 10. Raumer's Italy and the Italians, 2 vols post Bvo., 21s. bound. STORM AT N A A N P D L E i s , which raged at Naples during the night of the 4th and the following day caused a great many serious losses. Three ships, two of them belonging to the Neapolitan navy, perished in this port. They had just arrived from Cala bria, and were crushed by larger ships, which were driven from their anchors: The crews were saved. The French brig Les Enfans Cheris, from Marseilles, made an attempt during the night to get into the harbour; but finding this impossible, the Captain tried to come to en anchorage at the entrance. He sans driven, however, on the rocks. His signils of distress brought him succour, and all on board were saver'. Every vessel in our port has suffered, aed even the largest ships of war were in danger. The storm was so violent that it was not possible to remain on the Mole, over which the waves broke. From Cosonsa, in Calabria, we learn that on the 27th ult., in the morning, there was a strong shock of earthquake at half-past six which lasted fifteen seconds. The winter has commenced, and the summits of our mountains, including Vesuvius, full verdure, and the gardens r ial e r tti e iel c en w sp e l r e e bri d en s v: b i lt t oh h oem s n i o t, or a h ng .a e c s iipno c oatu o hnsF n s3 t ,,r i ; n l:: u on e ler:ec t oei o Esdss i riu.,pn i .s p goe l kse n e,; : t i n b 1 ) 1 c of Bolton against and other flowers. 1.1--P li'4l C Al e o t mi f rightedsl temPe“ a. meadows rwei b dth ut ar t a ce h r s ° c eps decidedly,iTl l Two lo" ivieE' ar WestP because Middles ex aßgSSe' matters lnsurance bad come sufficiently infamous to stamp the word " swindler" upon the " Company " •• and we termed swi ndlers because their persons. The agent here resigned the frauds were Snown to us, and the disreputable sad ruinous all partics concerned in similar nefarious nature of their schemes had already involved many credu hioeunsoubruotf honest persons. connected with the parties, and since that time the " West Middlesex" has had no agent in this town. We were unable to follow up our ex posure of the scoundrels, for every step we took is order to put the public on their guard, was, according to the statutes, a breach of that glorious piece of legisla ture termed thC " Law of Libel." We were, at the time, threatened with an action of libel by the solicitor of the Company, which action, if the directors of the base and foul conspiracy against the public, called the " West Mid dlesex Insurance Office," had thought proper to proceed with, we must unavailingly have fought against to our oww cost, for the " greater the truth the greater the libel," and however satisfactorily we might have convicted the Company of fraud, we could not have escaped the perils of such a prosecution. And thus, wherever bodies of daring swindlers make their appearance, however conclu. sive the evidence of fraud against them, the Press can only stand between the public and imposition upon its own for while the p ublic are be ne f ited by the discovery,repon ib ii i t ti . :e discoverers are the victims, and they who should be protected in the discharge of tilt it useful duties, are either imprisoned or punished by monetary penalties for their thankless trouble. Such is the law of libel I Boltsn Chronicle. We are informed, on authority, that several false tickets of invitation to a grand ball, to Le given at the Tuileiies on Wednesday last, were fabricated for the purpose of passing into the King's presence evil-disposed persons, by whoa it is possible that his life would have boen attempt d that evening. 'lle police, informed of the fact in time, were taking measures to prevent the in trusion of improper characters to the ball. -.. Morning Herald. '''' *,•.,-.-...-. ~;' x j~+ P °l ' vasice,l 038 10 , 1 Wed ° 'd , In 60 01 5 100 I. Lo' `..v .