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raised.—Mr. T. OLLIVANT The question is whether the new Company are going to give the old Company any thing for those ad van t ages which they will de rive from the money already ex p e nded. —Mr. TOOTAL Certainly not. The meeting mutt be quite aware, that every step that has been taken by the Directors has been taken not only with the sanction, but, it may be said, by the orders of the Shareholders. They have expressed their wishes; the Directors have only been the instruments, the tools b 3 which the thing was worked. Every step, from first to last, has been taken with the knowledge, consent, and sanction of the Shareholders.—Mr. ERKRIGGE : I don't make any complaint as to the expenditure of the money.— Mr. TOOTAL : So Cautious were your Directors, that neither verbally nor in print did they say one word to i. flacnce a single Shareholder, with respect to the offer of the London and Birmingham Company. This is shown by the Report of the proceedings of the meeting at which ti,a afar was laid before the Shareholders.-4r. Tootal tl ei I read the following extract from the Report of pro. cee dogs at a meeting of the Company held on the 3 i February, 1840: " The Chairman said, that, with respect to the offer of the London and Birmingham Railway Company, perhaps the most nonvenient mode of bringing it fully before the meeting, would be for some Shareholder to move the adoption or rejection of Abe offer.— Rawson, Esq., wished to know whether thee,- woeld be anything objectionable in the Directors giving the meeting a more full reason for their not going to Parliament thin Session. Of course he did not require any further ex planetion, unless the Directors felt that there would he no im propriety in giving it.— The Chairman said, he thought that all the facts material to be known at that meeting were em bmiied in the Report.—Joseph Birley, Esq., said he would beg to move, that the offer of the London and Birmingham Corn }:any be declined, and that weuld perhaps raise a discussion on the subject. —The motion having been seconded, Mr. Rawson repeated his questicn. He had a good opinion of the line, and he should like the application to Parliament to be prosecuted with all possible despatch. But no doubt the Directors hail good reason for advising, delay. He should at all events like to know whether the Directors were of opinion that the offer of the London and Birmingham Company should be rejected; hee . rtsv, otherwi se , t h e S h are h o ld ers w e old be acting in the. chile as to the sentiments of the Direetors.—Nlr. J. Birley begged ro ask whether it occurred to any one present to move the acceptance of tee offer.—( Hear.) Th e Chairman, ti aft i i ; r , a pause, said, t h at h av i ng b een ca lled upon_ on behalf of t, D • tors, he be gge d t o s t a te, that they had, without the slightest hesitation, come to the unanimous resolution that the offer ought to be declincel.—( Loud cheers. )" So that, until the word was wrung from the Directors, no t an opinion did they express, so desirous were they that the S'iarcholderg should decide, from the opportunities which they had for judging (a; much as others had) as to the course to be pursued. And from first to last the Directors had carefully abstained from leading the Shareholders ; leaving them to decide according to their own jedgment. In accordance with the resoludons of the meeting of Shareholders in February last, the Directors lied carriers out all the necessary preparations for Parliament, by the t nice ofthe Shareholders, and of course at their experme ; yet new one or teo gentlemen complained of the hardshhi io parties wishing to retire from the Crriptny, and ree:mr. ing their raimible proportion of the moneys left. Prat, euuni it sot be very hard on those who remained, if one. thirtl or one.dialf the Shareholders left ? The other half tveuld be a use:cm body ; in a position somethi ng lik e the ',r e d s and th e Liverpool Railway Companies, with rale- Terence to their junction line. The ter) Companies %veld for a each; each Vli-,out. the ether was corn!) irative! valuelc,s ; but the two acting together would make proiAbly an extrem?ly deeirable and voluble arrange ment. If such a proposition were to go out, the Corn pan) and the uedertahing would die a natural death, and, after payin g a b onus to t h e ret i r i ng Sh are h o ld ers, the hardship would be en those who wished to go oti, ech o few 00 hocus, and boat all their money. They had all ernhaiked together, and he hoped most of them would remain t.,gcthar. El' certainly held a considerable num ta-r of !hares in this undertaking; he had done mom the first, ac-il should ae to the last ; and his object now was, to show the hardship to be rather on those who wish to go on, if a considerable number of Shareholders went out; for, by so d sing, they would anniltila-e the undertaking, and leave the remaining Shar,heiders midi a quantity of blarik piper totally useless; whereas, if they went on with it to gether, they would make the preparations already com 'meet: of considerable value used importance.—Mr. RIGOR said he was not one of those who wished to re tire from the Company, but rather to go on ; but he nought that, in justice to those who went out, some thing should be held to them. The Shareholders had paid for all the estimates, the expenses of going to Perna liaineut, and depositing the plans, &c. Those who re mained would derive all the benefit, and he thought in fairness they should give a part to those who retired.—Mr Alderman BROOKS : But suppose we arc upset in Parlia ment again, how would it be then ?—Mr. Bemire asked if the law-clerk had trot read that the Company should nut have power to go to Parliament again, if 31. 10.3. per slaw should have been expended, without calling the Proprietors together to decide the question they were now met to decide. If, on winding up the accounts, only 50s. per share were left, then the Company were bound in honour to pay all those who retired the el. lor., which that clause guaranteed should not be spent before that step was taken.—Mr. WHEELER, having again read the clause (given above), said, that any 20 " Subscribers ha the undertaking" might have taken this step long since it they had thought fit ; but they did not thirik fit, and it was not incumbent on the Directors to do so if they did not. The Directors might have proceeded, without ask ing any further sanction from the Proprietors ; but they . bed come here to day, and devised this mode of enabling those Proprietors who w ere di ssat i s fi e d to w i t hd raw f rom the Company. If it were not for this object, the Directors might have called upon the Shareholders to execute an un dertaking for the coming Session ; and, if they had refused to do this their interest would have been forfeitable by the DirCctors. The Directors had ample powers with respect to the variation of the line ; the powers usually given. —Mr. WRATISLAW dissented from the opinion of Mr. Bright. If any gentleman wished to retire, he did not see that he could fairly ask for any bonus, because everything that had taken place was with the sanction and by the direction of the Shareholders.—Mr BRIGHT : But you dissolve tho Company by a majority.—Mr. WRATISLAW : And a majority in every case must bind.—Mr. BRIGHT; We are a Railway Company in this room ; and just imagine for a moment that there is another Railway Company on the other side of the wall, going to take up the line if we dissolve. If it is decided by a majority to dissolve, I see no peenriety in withhplding from those who retire a portion of the money that has been expended, in order to make a present of the advantage to a new Company. It is not any interest of mine ; I shall not get a farthing either way, nor any one connected with me. Still I think it but fair to give at least half of what has been paid up to those parties who dissent,—Mr. Alderman Biomes: Do you mean that e should pay them money out of funds that do not exist ? We have fought one - battle, and got beaten ; we are going to fight another, and are we to give a belies of 31. los. per share to those that dare not join us ? It is perfectly optional to any Shareholder to stay or go ; anti he can not complain if he has his choice. Besides if, as Mr. Bright says, there is one Company here, and another Company on the other side the wail, any Shareholder may say—" I'll get this benus of 31. 10s. and go out ; but go the day after, and buy shares in the market at less prico.”----Mr. CHAPPELL: Will Mr. Bright look at it in this point of view ? Suppose a number of gentlemen in tend to retire, but that Mr. Bright and many others hold to the New Company, how would he like to give part of his money as a bonus to those who might be induced by this very sum to retire? It is buying a man's retiremeht when he hat a choice either to remain or go out ; and so long as every Shareholder has a choice, there is no injustice done. .Suppose we pay a boatel to retiring Shareholders, and we go to Parliament end get thrown on our backs again, who is there to pay us a bonus? If any gentle:n:ln is of opinion that it is better for him to retire than remain, he has his choice to go cut; I have mine to remain ; and I hope gentlemen generally will remain, that we may perse vere unanimously. Mr. Fee:element : Are we not wasting our time We have paid our money on certain terms ; and, unless there is a clause in the deed directing that parties may pay their money unequally, I for one should thick it exceedingly unjust to pay anything beyond their equal share of the funds in hand to those who go out, and ray objection alone would be sufficient to prevent the Directors having the power to do it.—Mr. BRIGHT said a majority could sell their right to a new Company.—Mr. WusELEa said a majority could bind the Company within time two deeds, and no further and no otherwise, and it was clearly not lawful for any majority, however great, even supposing there were only one dissentient in the Company, to bind the Company to anything beyond the scope or the deeds; and he apprehended, therefore, that any such pay anent would be illegal, as it would be for the London and Birmingham and Midland Couniica Companies to have paid this Company the 20,000/. they offered last year— a payment which, if it had been made, might have been fol loweA in the hands of the parties receiving it, supposing it to be dissented from by any one Shareholder in either of those Compdni. 3.—A SHARETIoLDEn said that in which held considerablepro perty, up a Company it was the duty of the Directors to sell it, as it belonged to this Company , endthe new Company ought to pay for it.—Mr. WHERLIZR said, as to the property in sweep, plans, &c., it was quite competent to any body, if the Ext ens i on Li n e were abandoned, to form a new Com pany, and take advantrec of the plaits which th . ie Com to ra t toy e bad deposit,. d. Those 'Ain!, &c. were right, ; and any portion o f thc publie woul . a n within the purposes of the Standing Orders of thc h our of Commons to use those plans and notices if they thought fit. Therefere, in faet, the Shareholders had nothing to sell.—[A elneartmeeert : 0 yes, the estimates Why, they are ell published, and anybody may have them for the cost cf paver and printing, by going to Ilinsards' the Perliamt wary printers --Mr. Rawson dissented from the law-clerk as to he being illegal ; at least he was sere that came within the scope of equity to give to dissentient Shareholders a portion of the money already expended. We as a Company determine to form a new one, and go en (ler he believed he should go on); and if we refused to dissentients anything bey and their proportion of the fu .de in hand, he . was eertein the Lord Chancellor would tiny sech decoien aside. The Directors ought to smeid es Rt by.rdturs het ween the assentieet and dissentient Se set held re and say what is due to those who go out; a: (I, if they did so, he leas satisfied that aomemoney, be. y end list tv:s due in law, would come to the parties go_ 4:- BURT thouhht gentlem en were westing a yast ecel of time. Thu Company came to a resolution that c,i•tain st, pi and measures should be adop ted ; reel it g 33 110121-i:owl teat every Shareholde r s h ou ld fair },rrlxtrta lea expenses. That proportion hoed [)Cr ie to t Hai quite ridiculou s be .,at. _ ; hat aperarrr to .t chuhe sc , ,me now elume t o say, " We will not go on with the new concern," that they have any claim to have a por tion 4.what had been expended returned to them. These who decided to go on might justly say to them, " All the mosey that hes been cv;ended has been by your own au.hori:y and desire; we will give yogi a fair share of %dant is left, if you choose to retire ; and if you chortse remain, you will participate in any adver"ges nit arises from the undertaking." Really, there is neither eqaay, honour, or juatice in the demand of persons wbo have once given their assent to proceeding with the unddr teking. They have no right to complain of hardship.— Mr. Rnwsote said, he had only come home on Saturday night, and he should like to have time to see a few docu- ' it:lents—Mr. GEORGE SMITH, of Hume, said, that when the old Manchester and Leeds Company had made a survey, they disposed of their property to a new Company !'or 1,800/.—[Mr. WHEELER said they could not do it legally, except under special authority reserved to the Directors.] —He had prepared an amendment, which be had no doubt would find a seconder in Mr, Rawson ; he had not spoken to any one to suppert it, and he would move," That the Directors be and are hereby em powered to open communications with the London and Birmingham, and other Companies whose interests will be affected by this railway, with a view to its abandon ment ; and, as soon as proposals have been received, with a view to enable the Directors to ascertain what opinions the Shareholders city entertain, a meeting shall be con vened to take the same into consideration." He (Mr. Smith) was a proprietor of 200 shares in this under taking, which cost him, with interest, 1,100/. ; and he was quite aware, notwithstanding the letter from the London and Birmingham Company, that an arrang emen t might be made by whi c h th e Sh are h o ld ers o f t hi s Company might receive from th em 3/. 10 s . p er sham.—[The—[The CHAIRMAN —No; they say they will give us nothing.] He had no interest in any adverse line, and had no Railway property, except in the two lines emanating B f i r r o mn gmitlillaatd to L ffi ies c n e( )._ the Extension and the Manchester and Mr. RAWSON said, if he were to second the amendment, it would be with a little addition, Those who intended to go on with the undertaking would not be acting in a straightforward way if they did not give a little time to make inquiry. He really felt quite uncomfortable about another concern he was in, and would not name. He need not reiterate the expression of the high estima tion in which he held the Directors as upright men; but he should like to know a little more before he agreed to a dissolution, and he did not feel prepared to join the new Corepeny till he had had time to inquire. He would propose to add to tile amendment, that a Corn rnittee should be appointed to inquire and re port to a meet inf., of the Shareholders in two or three days.—A SHARE. HOLDER : Is there time for any delay ?—The CHAIRMAN: Certainty not.--Mr. RAWSON : Then I withdraw from eecondirg the amerdment—The CHAIRMAN : Will any one second the mender - lent ;we must dispose of le—A SHARREIOLLER (we think Mr. R. C. Sharp): It appears to me, that the Proprietor has forgotten the letter written by Mr. Glyn —Mr. WRATISLAW : At any rite he has for gotten the resolution we came to twelve months ago.—Mr. G. SMITH No ; but we are in a different position now to what we were them.—Mr. E. Toome: We arc in exactly the same position.—The CHAIRMAN said, there bring no seconder to the amendment, it fell to the ground. He war shout to put the original motion of Mr. Chappell, for the diseeltitien of the Company, when Mr. Oeet- VANT asked if it would not be as well if the sub eteece of the resolution were put into two separate resolutions—the first being that the old Company should be dissolved ; and the second should go to the pint o f forming a new Company.—Mr. WHEELER: It is tint intended to farm a new Company at this meeting at all -- Mr. Or.LIVANT repeated it would be more rettilar to have a resolution simply drels.yeiag; the Company dissolved, and then another expressing :he opinion of the meeting as to a new C , mpany being formed.—Mr. WHEELER sail if the resolution were simply a declaration that the Company was dissolved, then the proceedings of this meeting would appear to have no reference to a variation in this line ; it would bt, in fact, a defunct concern. But now, upon the face of the resolution, the object is suited to be to form a new Company. We craild not legally form a new Company at this meeting; therefore we merely say it is intended to do so, and as that is intended, lwe re solve that the present Company be dissolved.—Mr. OLLI vAST thought the notice convening this meeting stated it was for the purpose of dissolving this Company and form. ing a new one.—Mr. WIIEIILAR read the advertisement (given above), and said, that of course the advertisement was worded as widely as possible, because the Directors did not know what course this meeting would like to take. If the meeting had taken n particular turn, it would have become illegal, and then it would have been necessary to adjourn for 21 days, and call another meeting.—Dr. LYON asked if the new Company would have any diffi culty ,:in commenring. the undertaking where the rid Company left eff, in Parliament or elsewhere.—Mr WnEELER None, Sir.—A SnA Rh:HOLDER : Wiil tile new Company have as available the valuable arrangement made with the Grand Junction Company ?—Mr. WHEELER: Most certainly.—Mr. BRIGHT : Was this step determined upon at the last meeting ?—Mr. WHEELER C,rtainly ; and I have the report here which shows it.—The CHAIR mAN then put the motion for the dissolution of the Coin. pany, which passed with three dissentients.—The CHAIR , MAN declared that to be the number; and Mr. RAWSON said, " Oh, there's many more."—Mr. CHAPPELL : Then count them. Another show of hands were taken. and there were found to be first four, and subsequently five dis sentients, whOse names were taken down by Mr. Wheeler, as follows:—Mr. George Smith, Mr. William Rawson, : Mr. Pierpoint, Mr. Shepherd, and the Rev. R. Durn. ford, Rector of Nliddieton.—(lmmediately afterwards, it wasintimated that Mr. Shepherd wished to withdraw his dissent; leaving four dissentients.) I Mr. LBO SCHUSTER moved the third resolution (for j which see the Advertisement), appointing Mr. Higgins ' and Mr. Henry Chadwick auditors of the accounts.—Mr. WHEELER said that the object of this resolution wes, that a resolution having been now come to, by which the Corn pany is dissolved, of course unless the powers of the Pro visional Directors were continued for the purpose of wind ing up the affairs of the Company, they would be from this ' moment fancti officio, and unable to wind up its affairs.— Mr. Josnua P. \VESTHEAD had no objection to second the motion. He supposed both those gentlemen were large Shareholders.—Mr. TOOTAL:: Certainly, they are con siderable Shareholders.—Mr. BRIGHT : Should there be some time fixed when the Shareholders shall be called to , gethcr to roc dye their balances ?—Mr. Toms'. : A circu lar will be sent to each Shareholder, with the Report of the Auditors, as early as possible.—Mr. BRIGHT : What means will you take to collect the dissentients ?—Mr. TOOTAL : A circular will be sent to each Shareholder, with a request that he will communicate to the Directors what his desi - e or intention is. If to take shares in the new Company, he will apply for them ; if to retire, he will say so. A blank form for each decision will be sent, to be filled up. It is very desirable for the interests of the Company, that both those who retire, and those who go on, should give their answers AS early as possible.—Mr. WRATISLA w thought it very desirable the Shareholders should hold together as much as possible, in order that they might again be en. titled to that feeling in Parliament, which was before mani fested in their favour. The House of Commons had passed a resolution, stating, that the Company was exceedingly ili treated the last time ; and he thought on this account it was important that as many Shareholders as possible should enter the new Company.—Mr. OLLIVANT : Of course, in going to Parliament a second time, the Share.. holders will have to sign a new decd. [Mr. TOOTAL : Of course.] And I think it was then stated, that the probable amount cl, posited might be very likely .91. 10e per share. le goine. to Parliament again, we should have to say that we had paid ten per cent, upon our deposits. Of course, then, there would be 41. 103. more to pay per share before we could go to Parlia ment. It was always desirable that these things should meet with candid explanation, and that there should be no misunderstanding. He did not ask this in any hostility, hut in consequence of a circular which he had received. [Mr. NEWBERY—From one of our opponents, no doubt.) Very likely. At the same time, we should know what we arc doing, and when you touch our pockets. [Mr. Tooret.—lt is not hvended to touch your pockets.] But how will you get over it ? [Mr. TooraL— Where would you like to have that question answered?] Mr. OLLI. VAST— It rr.ust be answered, or it will not be satisfactory to the Shareholders.--Mr. TOOTAL—It shall be, most dis fieetly ; but don't ask me to cut your throat and my own. [Mr. Bright having handed the circular alluded to by him, to Mr. Newbery, that gentleman asked if any man put his name to it ; And it was intimated that it was anonymous.] Mr. OLLIVANT— Then, of course, I understand we shall not have to pay any more before we go to Parliament? Mr. WHEELER—Mr. 011ivant is perfectly right as to the operation of the Standing Orders. But the Directors' Report has already stated that the existing deposit has net Leen appropriated in any way ; and they hope to provide a course, which it is nut expedient to state here, by which any further payment by the Shareholders will be obviated. —Mr. °MAYAN T : That makes a great difference, and it is perfectly satisfactory. I like to understand the thing, when it is thrown in my face that I shall have to pay 41. cr 41. 10s. per share, before we can go again to Parlia ment.—Mr. WHEELER read the concluding paragraph of the D:rectore' Report as follows : " It will, of course, follow, as part of this arrangement, that the accounts of your Directors (who are the sole creditors of the Company, no portion of the deposits already - paid having been expended or appropriated) should be audited, and the sum ascertained, to which, after contributing their quota to the expenses incurred, the several retiring Shareholders, if such there be, will be entitled." These deposits aro still intact ; and the particular mode by which it is intended that they shall still remain in.. tact, I em sure, Mr. 011ivant will not call upon the Di rectors to state here ; but it is intended that they shall remain intact till the end of the next Session of Parlia ment.—Mr. OLLIVANT: Well mind you -don't get thrown overboard by your opponents.—Mr. TOOTAL: Oh, they attacked us before.—Mr. Alderman BROOKS Mr. 011ivant is quite right in asking the question.— Mr. OLLIVANT: It is a very important matter, and will weigh considerably with all parties in signing the new decd.—The CnatastAN said, be would put the resolu tion for the appointment of Auditors? —Mr. G. SMITH : Who arc the Auditors ?—Mr. NEWBERY : Two of the very heaviest Pioprictors.—The motion then passed nern. (Ps —The CHAIRMAN said, he believed there was no other business.—Mr. CHAPPELL said, it was d sir ' able that the returns should be made to the circulars as early as possible, and Mr. Wheeler was requested to state the wish of the Directors to that effect in the cir culars.—Mr. Too Tar. said, that, probably in the course of the next day (Tuesday), circulars would be sent to every registered Shareholder in the Company, every gen leman who the decd.—A StiAsetiotnatt asked signed the deed—A SHAREIIOLDER asked how it woulc be with those who merely held sc r ip. —M r. an advertisement to th em , an d t i T i h o c e :o T i T will be here b r c d , : d s g swillneno he enough to call at this office, where every callinformation gill eo course the o dn i o ric 't k e rio w wh o hey°f rs we with their are Seriph° c s, b e unlessve n scrip. Mr. T. ASIITON having loft the Chair, Mr. El. CHAD WICK was called therm°; and Mr. WRATISLAW said, he thought it would be highly improper for the meeting to separate without a vote of thanks to Mr. Ashton, for Ins conduct in presiding over it. lie (Mr. Wratislaw) had certainly never attended a public meeting in his life, where the Chairman seemed so disposed to hear everybody and everything. Every satisfaction had been given by him ; and therefore he begged to propose, that the cordial thanks of this meeting be given to Mr. Ashton, for his conduct in the Chair. —Dr. L vos - had great pleasure in seconding s s of tw !le_l%,.,9ti_`-'ea rd n,--It pass e d u nan i mous ly, an d the meeting then _'_ ab outa o quarter past two o'clock, having occu pied hours and a half.—Manchester Guar dian. ACCIDENTS irM THE FROST .— NO ----- -LR O-- -S T.L t.ltven piTsons, who hadNo less than t withareitL,it , i ii.,,Al the fro6t, were admitted into St. B R l e rth o l ome , day last. 's Hospital on Satur- FRAN CE. MODERN FRENCH POLITENESS TOWARDS A SOVE REIGN, A LADY, A WIFE, AND A MOTHER. PARIS, JAN. 12.—Yeti will perceive by the journals of the last three days that the very proper interference of the Government in preventing a theatrical performance at the Theatre de la Renaissance on Saturday night last has awakened all the civisme and all the patriotism of the Paris press, The theatrical piece in question was entitled II etait one fois un Roi et one Urine (" There was once upon atime a King and:Queen"). It is the production of M. Leon Gozlan, and contained, in its original shape, several phrases, passages, and situations, referring so directly and so offensively to her Majesty Queen Victoria and Prince Albert that the censors determined, at first sight, on reject ing it altogether, but after much negotiation, and very ample omissions and alterations, to which the author yielded with good will, the Minister submitted it to Lord Gran ville, or read to his Lordship the passages in the work that, it was felt, referred to her Majesty. Lord Gran ville is reported to have said, that he could wish dial no such piecs should be performed, but that he saw nothing calling for his interference, and there fore left it to the Government to decide upon the expediency of permitting or prohibiting it. ' The Minister, in consequence, sent for M. Gazian, who consented to make all the alterations In his work that were required, and thereupon the permission was given. Subsequently, however, and upon this you may rely, the Go vernment was informed, on unques'ionably authority, that a body of 509 young men, students and others, had been organized for the purpose of turning the performance of the piece to their political purposes. They were to take possession of the pit, and to seize upon every incident or situation in the performance that could be tortured into any meaning referable to England, her sovereign, or her people, and to make of it a vehicle for the expression of their dislike of ad. This would of itself have fully justi fied the Mlnister of the Interior in prohibiting the perfor mance, and at 4 o'clock in the afternoon he recalled the permission lie had given : but the inforreation went fur thee. It stated that the malcontents, after having had it, as they reckoned, all their own way at the theatre, were to proceed to the hotel of the British Embassy, and demo lish the windows, This outrage would of itself have been productive of serious consequences ; but who is there bold enough to soy that the proceedings of this band of patriots would hare been marked by violence and insult only ? Who is there who has seen how rcck'ess, how frantic, lioa , ferocious, how ungovernable, how irresistible, is a French mob, who will say that the lives of every British subject in Paris would not have bk en in jeopardy the moment the Representative of Great Britain should have been outraged ? You in London have no idea of the extremity of dislike enter. tained here for even the most unuff.nding Englishman or Iri,bain, for let me tel y':u there is uo distinctiuo made). Tnere is no clay on which facts in) not come to my knowledge proving how deadly is the feclisis raised against you in the breasts of the people by the liberal Newspapers, the supporters of M. Thiera, those.. Journals which, while cantiegly end hypocritically deal irg cut cheap and small-scale humanity, and advocat ing the • administering of warm None! waistcoats and boa rolls and coffee to convicted pickpockets and cut throat!, denounce to the most savage populace in the uni verse (when once inflamed) thousands of persons who, pre sumiirg on the alleged civilization and hospitality of Paris, have trusted their lives to their safeguard. The 500 per ions who were to have composed this sacred band meant not, possibly, to have done more than merely to break the windows of Lord Granville's residence, but as there. are in Paris 4.400 liberated convicts, and as these are nearly to a man irreclaimable, and cspable of any crime in the catalogue, and as the whole of the lower orders are in a state of excited:sn, produced by the press, be yond anything you can conceive, who is there who can venture to say that a number of those villains and des peradoes, or of those madmen, might not mix themselves up in the affair, and give to it a cnaracter and an exten sion not contemplated by the original actors in it? (From the Messager.) Several papers continue to comment on the subject of the piece prohibited by the Minister of the Interior to be performed at the theatre of the Renaissanhe the day be fore yesterday. The facts are these :—The censors had at first interdicted the piece. For the interest of all parties the Director of the Beaux Arts endeavoured, by retrench ment, to do away with what appeared objectionable. Oa Friday he consulted the Minister as to the best measure to take. The Minister, after having read the first scenes, thought the representation could not be permitted, and in timated so to the Director. The next day, two honourable deputies accompanied the author and the director to the Minister, to solicit his permission. The Minister stated his objections wishing to conciliate. It is true,he consented to the representation of the piece, but stipulated the retrenchment of the passages which appeared to make allusions which he wished to avoid- In this case he yielded from a desire to avoid injuring the work of a man of talent, and the interests of theatrical en terprise. Soon after this interview the Minister was in formed that, however they might retrench, there existed intvntions to cause scandal by allusions to great personages. The Minister found it necessary to recall his decision, and at three o'clock he sent an order to the Director of the Beaux Arts to forbid the representation. How can it be said that the Director of the Renaissance has been drawn into expenses and losses by the Administration ? The Director had incurred those expenses before obtaining the authorisation, and when he might expect, from the first opinion of the censors, a refusal. It was not the permis sion of a moment which engaged him to make these ex penses. Dates are sufficient to show that. Besides, there is a rule, known to all Directors, that a piece must not be rehearsed till it has been authorissd. Directors who act contrary to thir rule do it at their own risk. As to public order, that has not been compromised; the suspension was signified in time to occasion no trouble. Let us now come to the thing itself. We render full jus tice to the intentions of the author, but the result of the atrical representations does not depend upon intentions; the probable effect must be appreciated by the Government. The piece in question has no reference to present cir cumstances. It contains nothing against the English nation or its Government. But the two principal per sons represent the respective situations of the Queen of England, and the Prince her husband. The Government was informed that these analogies would be eagerly seized upon and become a subject of scandal. An article in the National prove ;that it was not misinformed. Acting from a desire of not subjecting a young Queen and her husband the Prince to allusions, and perhaps to the jokes of which some papers have spoken, is it not committing a cowardly action, a lowering of France before foreigners, a wanting in nationality and patriotism ? We leave the public to decide upon this question. Political circumstances arc so totally foreign to the decision taken by the authorities, that, in our opinion, were France even at war with Eng land, as she now is at peace, the French Governmen t should show the same respect, the same propriety. Thi s should be the line of conduct dictated by its own dignity. In reply to the above, the Gazette des Tribunaux ob; serves:— " The Messager has forgotten to include the fact that, on the ith instant, the manuscript was returned to the author with the visa (approbation) of the censors, and also that of M. Cave. It, therefore, this act be connected with the verbal assent of the Minister, given two days I afterwards in the presence of two Honourable Deputies, it will be impossible to reconcile it with the interdiction pro nounced three hours later." To which the Constitutionnel adds— .' We do not understand the anxiety of the Minister to interdict the piece beforehand, especially since the prac tice of our censorships allows of the representations s.l a piece being suspended. The effect which the drama would have produced on the public might, at least, have been waited for. We know what respect should be paid to thrones ; but, when the English stage pays so little respect to the honour of France, we do not comprehend the exces sive delicacy which desires to preserve English royalty from possible allusions at the expense of French interests." NOTICE. " THE CHINA SUN," Which was RE-PUBLISHED on WEDNES DAY LAST, with the LATEST NEWS from CHINA, IS NOW ON SALE. Price SIXPENCE. Orders received at the Sun Office, No. 112, Strand. BELGIUM. BRUS3RLS, JAN. lo.—The Moniteur Beige promul gates the law which fixes the Budget of the Department of Justice, for the year 1841, at the sum of 11,060,507 f. Captain Eenem, of the Artillery, who was with the . . . troop; of Ibrahim Pacha, in the crripaign in Syria, has returned to Brussels, having spent above a year in Egypt and Syria. OSTEND, JAN. 6.—Since the navigation of the Scheldt bas been interrupted by the ice, we gave received in our port the Soho and I'rincesa Victoria steamers, which landed their cargoes. The greater part of the goods has been sent to Antwerp by the railway. Of thirteen other ships which have put in here, ten are landing their car goes; these goods will be forwarded to their destination by the railway, on which 100 to 120,000 kilogrammes are daily dispatched. BRUSSELS, JAN. 12.—We are assured, that in conse. quence of the discussion of the Commissioners for fixing the frontier line, it is proposed to :detach the village of Tintangc from Belgium, and to annex it to the German portion of the province of Luxemburg. We hope that the Government will not consent to this cession. The inciting of the snow, caused - 1:y a sudden thaw and pretty copious rain, gives reason to fear that the Seine will again °vet flow its banks; it has risen five feet since yesterday. A letter from the Hegue, addressed to the Orga»e, states that the present King of Holland has ordered an ac t of justice, which has been too long delayed. Before the separation of the northern and southern provinces the Go vernment of the kingdom of the Netherlands was indebted to several Belgian contractors for articles furnished to towns in the northern part of the kingdom. After the re volution King Willarn 1. refused to pay them, and re ferred them to the Belgian Government, which would not acknowledge itself indebted for articles supplied to Holland. The present Kind of Holland has just given orders that all the accounts shall be settled as soon as possible; and by a second decree fixes the manner is which the affair shall be conducted. The contractors are to produce, be sides the proofs of their claims, a certificate from the Minister of Finance of Belgium, that they have not re ceived anything on account of them from the Belgian Government. rtELGIA 2.! I. U NDS—Baussitu, JAN. 12. Actual Delit, 2S per Cent. Rothschild's Loan, 5 per C9nt 1,6% Loan of Thirty Million:, 4 per Cent , 9(i% 3 per Cent. •• G s % Loan of City, 1832, 4 p er Cent ........... Socletyof Comma:re, 4 5siper Cent Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent... .......... 87% National Society ................... .......... Exchange on LondoA (shot t) ................ 11 85 —Brussels Papers, Jan. 1 2. AUSTRIAN FUNl 3 3.—VviNys, JAN 2. • f iveper 'Pt ............ 10(44, pc. CLa... ....... ................. .......... ..... 103 Three p,r Cents. Bank shams .................. •••••••••••••••••• ..... :610 Zeitusg, Jan. 7. atoms. LONDON: THURSDAY, JANUARY 14, r 41. We arc glad to see by the Walsall Letter-Bag that spirited addresses are pouring in on the Wal sall electors from all parts of the kingdom. They cannot be deaf to the prayers of their suffering c o u ntrymen. Th e y must feel that they have a great duty to perform, and so feeling we are persuaded that they will perform it nobly. Wh e n did a body of Englishmen fail to do their duty ? They have conquered on the ocean, they have carried their victorious arms to the very heart of Asia, and their s6!l!ricr e victor:4)ns arts, foundi'ig new empires, to the very opposite extremities of the globe. They will not conquer abroad to be laves at home. Their avaricious, selfish tyrants, who would remorselessly destroy the country's greatness and the people's liberty for their own purposes, are now divided amongst themselves, and freedom will be won—the freedom of industry, the freedom of eating untaxed bread—by success at Walsall. The hardy race who have conquered the elements, and made wind and fire their hand maids, will not quail before an iniquitous bread taxer. They will be victorious over him as they are over the stubborn metal which they may be said to fashion into bread. On. the electors of Walsall the fate of the bread tax now depends. They have it in their power to c7ush it. Let them at once signify to the gentle man bread-taxer - who is a candidate, that they will not have him ; let them drive Mr. GLADSTONE from the field, hopeless of success ; let them at once convince him that to go to the poll would only add disgrace to his expense ; and they will, by the Kama act, convince all the landlords of the emp'rc, aiready wavering, that the bread-tax must be, and then. it will be, abolished. Men of Walsall, lose: not the opportunity of acquiring great renown Yesterday the Times made a grand discovery, or rather two discoveries, that this nation is Conserva !l've, and does not trouble itself about theories of Go%termnent. As a consequence, it is proud to fol low its national leaders. Unfortunately for the reputation of our Contemporary the great body of the people have at this moment thrown off all res pect for their natural leaders ; they have framed !or themselves a new Constitution, and they aim at a levolution. The wonderful discovery of the 7iines comes half a century too late. It speaks historically. What it now says might have been tru t , fifty years ago ; but the subsequent long domination of the Tories, pretending to rule in .spite of the people, denying all Reform, and su:; porting a mixed CASTLEREAGH despotism, umr.lc up of military principles disguised in civil fortl—an armed soldier without regimentals—has t an end to real Conservatism and contentedness, an,E: made the bulk of the people eagerly canvass tlwories of government. It is at the same time true, and the fact is worthy of attention, that many of the middle classes, satisfied with their recently-acquired share of the representation, fearing that they will lose in importance by the suffrage being more exten sively diffused, and not a little alarmed by the progress, and still more by the demands, of the bulk of the people, have become Tories. Even n; tiny of those who still support the Whigs out of gratitude, are in their hearts so much Tories, that thcy would at once forsake the Whigs were they to pi , opose further concessions to the democracy. Of that we daily see proofs. If that be what the :rimes means by the increase of Conservatism, we admit it ; but we cannot believe that it is a circum stance favourable to the stability of the Con- sGtution. The Liberal Members of the middle classes were the links which connected the aristocracy with the working classes. As long as the latter mild hope for the assistance of the middle classes, they looked to them for aid. As the middle classes deserted their Liberal principles and turned Tories, the people separated from them, and the rupture I>etween the upper and lower classes became com plete. Such a statement may he gratifying to the Tories, but it threatens mischief to the community. The Whigs are unable, even if they be willing, to take any measures to satisfy the bulk of the people ; the Tories would only put an extinguisher on all hope, and could only take measures to exas perate and control the working classes. From neither class of statesmen, while the electoral body continues of its present opinion, can the community expect measures calculated to heal our present divisions. This forebodes no pleasant futurity, and is more a matter of sorrow than exultation. We hive before asked, and we should like to have the question answered, if the people are not to be contented, how are they to be governed ? The utmost amount - of constraint and coercion which can be conveniently is already employed. More troops and more police would only more impoverish and aggravate the evils. Ireland is speaking with a voice of her own. If the Irish be not convinced that the Imperial Legislature is disposed to do them justice —if it go on countenancing Lord STANLEY'S political bigotry—*ey will become almost unanimous in demanding repeal, and some circumstance will give them so much power that they must either be put down by the sword or repeal must be granted, The Chartists are increasing in order and organiza tion. We know nothing of their numbers, but we believe that they are far from contemptible. To keep the millions out of the pale of the Constitution will be as impossible for any length of time as it was perpetually to exclude the Catholics. The latter were excluded on account of their religion ; the former are now excluded on account of their poverty—a less valid reason, for Christianity praises poverty and denounces wealth. The millions, then, have greater claims than had the Catholics, and nothing is re quired but organization and leaders to make them irresistible. The middle gasses, to the satisfaction of the Tories, have deserted them, but leaders of then' own class they will easily find, and, thus cut off from ail sympathy with the upper classes, the quarrel will only be the more embittered if not the more deadly. The Times exults at the people being opposed to perpetual change. If the fact were so, its exultation would be misplaced. Compare Eng iand with Italy in the reign of CHARLES the FIRST, and compare the two now, and it is apparent that the English Constitution has under gone as great a change in spirit, if not in form, as the community has made progress in arts and knowledge. The monarch now holds only a nomi nal power—then he was almost despotic ; the no bility have equally sunk in the scale; they are out shone in wealth by the middle classes, with whom they hare been obliged to share their power. Dissent is almost as powerful as the prelacy, which, in the days of the first CHARLES, was al most equal to the Sovereign. It is good that the Constitution has so changed. If it had been sta tionary, as the Times represents it, while the society had made such prodigious progress, it would have become wholly unfit for our purposes, and some re volution would before now have shattered it to Since the commencement of this ecn tury, society has made a more rapid progress than ever before. It moves, like population, with an accelerating ratio. Our numerous colonies and our trade place it beyond the control of Government. If our institutions, therefore, be not changed to cor respond with social progress, they will every day become more and more onerous, more and more hampering, till they be burst by a convulsion. This is what the Tories, by measures of coercion, seem anxious to bring about. They seem to court a revolution, as a homage to their wisdom, because they have predicted it. They may have the power to realize their prophecy, but it will be ruin to themselves. Having pointed out the source of the conflict of opinion now prevalent between the upper and lower classes, in respect to their claims to make laws for one another, we shall now, and occasionally hereafter, notice aome of the consequences and in- ft..t.ncTs to wilich that (Were/Ice of opinion Ica , li. i efiw iowor cia sse fot. c;ampli:; ill c!li.lil - 2 `'llli share of representation, seem to have one great advantage over property. They have not been tried CV( - TV and found wanting. Property has been entrusted igN i h the power of legislation, and whatever it may have done for itself, it is the universal opinion of !abour that property has cheated and degraded it. There is no chance, therefore, of ever again inducing labour to submit to the exclusive claims of property, while labour, never having been tried, can call fancy to its aid, and make promises of bliss which no experience can test. It has indeed broken loose at times from the restraints imposed by property, and has then worked terrible destruction, but it has never been quietly and orderly installed into the office of a law maker, and has, therefore, never been tried. Perhaps the United States may be considered an exception to the remark ; and if it be, experience can have nothing to say against entrust ing industry with the power of making laws. On one point it has, we think, a decided :supe riority over property. Property never yet has had any respect for industry.. In fact it may be said of property generally throughout Europe, that it ex ists by a violation of the rights of industry, and has therefore a continual tendency to preserve and maintain itself at the expense of industry. On the contrary, industry has a great, a marked, and an inherent respect for property. It aspires to pos sess property. There is in this circumstance a strong reason to believe, were industry, equally with property, entrusted with the power of making laws, industry would inflict no injury on property, but would protect and preserve its rights. Industry and poverty have no special influence over property. Wants and privations may some times rouse its sympathies, but, in general, pro perty looks on industry and poverty as encroachers, or even as criminals, and makes laws for them accord ingly. Property, however, has a great influence over industry and poverty, and that influence would not be destroyed, we doubt even if it would be much lessened, by separating from it the exclusive po.ier to make laws. To speak in perfectly plain terms, if universal suffrage were established to•mor row, and no property qualification were required in the representative, the agricultural labourers, the workers in factories, the men who go down into the bowels of the earth to procure us coals and metals, would remain much under the influence of the landowners, the clergy, the factory owners, and the mine owners. If the opulent classes chose to exert themselves, as universal suffrage would compel them, they would be able to control to a very con siderable extent the votes of the industrious classes. No example has yet occurred of any person having been elected for Scotland, though no property qua lification is required as a representative, destitute of property below the average rank of the represen tatives who are required to have a property quali fication. Reason and experience, then, combine to prove that it would be far safer and better for the whole to share the power of making laws equally amongst all classes than to monopolize it by pro perty, and that it would be better and safer for property to allow numbers an equal share than it is for numbers to vest the power exclusively in pro perty. The latter is certain to lead to the oppres sion of the many ; giving the many the power to make laws does not, in like manner, even threaten to be oppressive to the few. We drew attention o❑ Friday to the fact that the Morning Post bad become a free trader, and on principle an advocate for the repeal of the Corn laws, without knowing it. Our Contemporary was eloquent in favour of free competition, which it pro nounced to be the main principle of abundance and steadiness of supply. We now learn from the Dublin Evening Mail that the Standard is also a convert to free trade. We should certainly have recorded the fact before, had we noticed it, though we scarcely regret that we did not, as the quotation we are now about to submit from the former wil l show that both these Pro-Corn-law Journals assen t to the grand doctrines of free trade. The capitals, with the rest of the quotation, are from the Dublin Evening Mail : The third and last of our positions, which meets with the aslant of the Standard, is one which, wherever it is conceded, ought to put an end to all thoughts o f giving more than a mere preference, ccutcris paribus, to any article of home manufacture ; and we can only express our astonishment that our Contemporary, with all his faculties of mind, and with his eyes so fully open to the great and universal truth which we are about to enun ciate in his own words, could, for a moment, contemplate the irrational course of " submitting to the sacrifice of using goods of inferior quality, or higher priced, than the goods of established manufacturers," which be, al mast in the same breath, recommends : " The young manufacturer cannot be blind to his own interest, or to THE TRUTH THAT MEN WILL NOT PERMANENTLY CONTENT THEMSELVES WITH THE WORSE AND DEARER ARTICLE, \V HEN THEY CAN HAVE THE BETTER AND CHEAPER." This great leading principle, not of national policy nor of political oconomy alone, but of human nature in every age and in every country, laughs to scorn all the inte rested nonsense of the Butts and the O'Connells, who might as soon think to eradicate the seeds of vegetation from the earth, as to make a community of men act sys tematically in a voluntary opposition to their own indi vidual interests. Now, if ail this is true of Mr. O'CoNNELL's scheme to foster and force manufactures in Ireland, it is equally true of the landlords' scheme to foster and force agriculture in the whole empire. In the teeth of their united declaration, " that men will not permanently content themselves with the worse and dearer article," our Pro-Corn-law Contempo raries persist in endeavouring to make our manufac turers contented with worse and dearer corn grown in England, when they could, except for the law made by the landlords to enrich themselves, have tine better and the cheaper corn grown in Poland and Russia. These gentlemen are usefully engaged in refuting their own arguments, and we willingly and cheerfully leave them to their work, merely re minding them of the saying, invested with some authority, that " a house divided against itself can not stand." Against Mr. O ' CONNELL, they strenuously espouse the doctrines of free trade ; • against the Anti-Corn-law League, they as strenuously espouse the system of restrictions, pro tections, and bounties. The case of Mr. FROST is now before the pub lic by his own letter, and we cannot see in that the least ground for the censure which the Tory journals have heaped on the Ministers. -FROST is sent to one of the worst penal settlements, the place of punishment for those who are too wicked to live with other convicts. There is no mercy in that. But Mr. FROST is not chained with thieves and murderers, and is not compelled, like them, to work in irons. Now that is quite consistent with general policy and general practice. It never has been customary to treat those convicted of political offences as if they were thieves or highwaymen. Probably those who made the laws had an eye to themselves in founding the distinction, for while they could never . dread being - punished as thieves, they never could tell to what accusations, in the tur moils of party, they might be exposed. Certain it is, however, a distinction between political offenders and other offenders has always been observed, and loud and just would be the remonstrances were men like Mr. FROST to be ironed with thieves and murderers. In Mr. FROST'S letter we see ❑o proof of any mercy or kind treatment more than is usual in cages like his ; and we repeat that if the Govern ment had shown either mercy or kindness with a view to soothing the masses at home, we should not have been disposed to blame them. Beyond he neeessary constraint to keep Mr. FROST safe, hardship ioilietcd upon hiw pei,,unal Lsire ui vengeance, which ought, for the common and general good, , to be reprobated. To thirst for the man's blood is to have the passions of a tiger ; -to desire that be should be exposed to the terrible cruelties inflicter; on the twice-convicted felons which lately excited the sympathy of the Post and the Herald, indi cates a nature at least as depraved as that of Mr. FROST. A young gentleman, called the Hon. G. P. S. SMYTHE, has started for Canterbury on the T o ry interest. We read his speech the day before yes terday, but it seemed to us so utterly contemptible as to be unworthy of notice. Our surprise was considerable, therefore, yesterday, on seeing that a Liberal Morning Contemporary had bestowed a long comment on the wretched production. One merit, indeed, Mr. SmyTnE has—he is admirably' adapted to the mental capacity of those he wooes. Ile and the Tory electors who believed in - mod THOM, and the Rev. Members of the Chapt,r, among whose followers were found THOM'S °." ciples, are worthy of each other. Canterbut is the proper place for a gentleman of Mr. SMYT principles and talents to offer himself on tic Tory interest ; but the Liberals of that city will seve we trust, from the disgrace of having such a ,-ellrc* sentative. We have little more than room to call the at • tention of the public to the Report of the meeting held at Manchester on Monday, to take into con sideration the propriety of dissolving " the Man chester and Birmingham Extension Railway Com pany," and forming another on a much more en larged and comprehensive scale. The line, "s originally laid down, made no provision for the transfer of traffic from the Great Junction ; a: 4 consequently the town of Liverpool, and the vz: 6 t floating population, whose route to and from Lon don traverses that place, would have been practicallY excluded from the benefit of that line. The new plan' therefore, is to obviate these defects, and to afford an opening by the Trent Line for the traffic between London and Liverpool, as well as a vast proportion of that from Scotland and Ireland. The Company was accordingly dissovled ; another will be formed in a few days, and the most active measures will be adopted for carrying a new Bill through Parliament this Session. This is a mea sure of such national importance that we trust ne personal interests on the part of landed proprie' tors, or other Railway Companies, will be allowed to throw obstructions in the way of its speedy com pletion. The Madrid Journals, of the sth instant, have arrived. By driving the POPE'S Nuncio from the capital, the Regency has got itself into a very dan gerous dispute with the clergy, which, in the pre' sent distracted state of Spain, it was the excess of folly to have provoked. Queen CHRISTINA had sent some elegant presents from Rome to the • Duchess of VICTORIA, to whom she again rec% ll. mended the care of her children. The agitatiog about the Douro question was subsiding, nor was longer doubted that an amicable arrangement woklk be made through the mediation of Great Britarr, The Fives were, on the sth, at 28i- on the Bout for cash. There is no political news worth recording in (ll* French journals of Tuesday. In the circumstan ce of the Frenca Government having prevented the i representation at th e Th eatre d e l a R ena i ssan c,' a libel upon her Majesty Queen VICTORIA ar'c. Prince ALBERT, the French Opposition journals fl" 4 matter for a fresh attack upon the SouLT-Guize r : Cabinet. We have elsewhere given a long accou nt of this projected base an d c ow a rdly a ttack upli one of the most deservedly popular Sovereigns an'. most virtuous and exemplary w o men i n the world, nor do we believe that there is a man of honour or a virtuous wife and mother in France, who W ill ' not blush that so scoundrelly an attempt had made to asperse the immaculate purity of the mestic life of the'Queen of ENGLAND. We are 00 1 1 surprised that alter the infamous celebrity Frail ° , has obtained for th e cowar dl y a t roc i t i es com mitte r. less upon the persoa than the pure reputation of the beautiful and unfortunate MARIE ANTOV NETTE, there should be found a man of letters I ,°. Paris so utterly lost to all sense of shame-... 50 en t i tirely forgetful of every principle of honour an . virtue that dignifi e s man h oo d— as t o cour t for in s country any additional notoriety in this respec t ' But much as it grieves us that such an a utho r should be found in Paris for the sake . of Fran ce ' herself, we are still more grieved that the suppre si on of his mean and malignant &andel should obtain for hi m th e s y mpa thy ° any portion of the French daily press. Mos t certain we are, that were the British stage to b e . prostituted to any attack upon the domestic c hase' ter of the King and Queen of the FRENCH, th e indignation of a London audience would ln di ! suffer it to let the actors and actresses escape oi l " their lives. But, thank GOD, disaffected as a re our people, our very mobs know how to resPe c ! domestic virtue in the highest as well as the lowe r ' rank of life. The French Government received on Tuesday telegraphic despatch from Brest, which stated 0 1 a treaty of peace had been concluded betw,oc s France and Buenos Ayres. It was certainly ilig h f time for the settlement of a quarrel the origin °. which was so trifling, and whose continuance l` as so injurious to the commercial interests of Fran ce ' England, and the United States. The last ee' counts from Buenos Ayres stated that the (peel° would be settled through the mediation of i'4 MANDEVILLE, the British Minister, but no po - • ticulars regarding the ultimate arrangement appea r in the French Journals. The following telegraphic dispatch from French Africa was likewise received by the Governroe ° on Tuesday afternoon : " TOULON, JAN. 11, 1841— ALGIERS, JAN. 6; " MARSHAL VALLEE TO THE MINISTER OF WAR- j " The province of Algiers is perfectly tranq u il. The weather has interrupted cur communications with 111.;dea", " A slight engagement lately took place at Mostagarie" .4 in which the Arabs were defeated. " The Constantine mail has not arrived." The question of the fortification of Paris has lo st none of its interest for the French people. Th e f are as eager to se e P ar i s surroun d e d b y strong o'ol's as if an allied army was again within a day's mare of the bank s o f t h e S e i ne . The correspondent. of a Contemporary, writing:upon this popular man ta for defensive walls on the part of a nation of heroes' has the following just observations : It is true that Paris is France, and that a person in 1 9° 1: session of the capital commands, by the system of cce".. isation latterly adopted, the whole of the departmoot' True, so far as Paris is in communication with the p ro ; vinces; but no longer true when Paris is i so lated, s I cut off by a foreign army from its usual support in tbie interior. In such a case, if ever it should occur, f r i will be an agglutieation of human beings shut ' within walls, depending for their daily food on ouPP II , c • from the outside, and having no means of being licved front any other quarter. A beaten army-- 11 : 9 we suppose the French army beaten, if the All' e pierce so far as the capit a l would retreat fig ht ; ing on Paris, and take refuge in it. The of :France is left at the mercy of the enemy; 5° and Pars can. only hold out as l ong as it h as progiv ° l; to maintain itself, Th e r i ver , t h e great artery o f sullr, l 6 , both above a n d below the city, would be barred . t "i enemy—the roads leading in all directions would be. cy up. A bl oc k a d e would be established within a distVicer safe from sallies of the garrisen, and what is to becom e le ,11 Paris in th e course of a few weeks? A million of Pcl o • will not willi ng ly s t arve , an d th e ga t es w ill b e opener. the enemy th e momen t p rov i s i on b eg i ns to f a il. Be ° lest that the French is not Spanish nature. Part will rot bear the same privations endured at Saragoss' Gerona, or Astorga ; and even if they would a blockading ;1•,:a force would take core to leeve them t o th e ir last O re' ; . 1 " ' suti, I ,; ( c ii 4 I:ctild ;JP , „ y re ( All this is well known to the French ment, and would be been at a glance by the Pe 0 la tit si 'gn til t , . . 'w ant WI Cork, c o t , ritin r etie UoPta enot the A 1, At I t ei,ch I'ty~~ ~~~Y , 4 11 1 44 JZot V I ka l r, IN PROGRESS, THE HALLWAY 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. 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Clarke, Esq., Vincent-square, Westminster. Colonel Dacre, 2d, York-place, Portman-square. Thos. de Year, Esq., Lisle-street, and Kensington. C. M. Elderton, Esq., Lincoln's Inn-fields. William Evans, Esq., Milbank. William Gristhenwaite, Esq., Camberwell-grove, Robert Keate, Esq., Surgeon to the Queen. Captain MacDougal, Fir Grove, North Brixton. G. Mackintosh, Esq., Upper Seymour-street. P. Morrison, Esq., Princes-street, !lank. Dr. Paris, Dover-street, P.R. S., F.L.S. Jeremiah Pilcher, Esq., 46, Russell-square. Dr. Hamilton Roe, Hanover-square. James Ruddell Todd, Esq., Portland-place. Joseph Workman, Esq., Greenwich. With Power to add to their Number. BANKERS. Messrs. Jones, Loyd, and Co., Lothbury Messrs. Drummond and Co., Charing-cross. ENGINP:KR.—Robert Stephenson, Esq. SOLICITORS.—Messrs. Winter, Williams, and Williams, 16, Bedford-row. The Sub-Committee, for the consAeratien of the applica tions for Shares, hereby give Notice, that they will receive no more applications from the country after Tuesday, the 26th day of January instant (being the first day of the meeting of Parliament) or from persons residing in or near the metropolis after Saturday, the 30th day of January instant. In the mean time applications may continue to be made to any of the following Members of the Sub-Committee--Wm. Chap lin, Esq., Lad- lane and Euston-square; Thomas De Vear, Esq., Lisle-street and Kensington ; er Captain MacDougal, Fir-grove, North Brixton ; the Solicitors, Alessi s. Winter, Williams, aed Williams; to W. S. Northhouse, Esq., Parliamentary 4, Parliament-street ; M. E. Wilkinson, Esq., Guildhall-yard, or G. W. Blanch, Esq., 7, St. Martin's Place. By order of the Sub. Committee Committee Room, Jan. 14, 1841. SECOND and CHEAPER EDITION, in One Vol., post Bvo., with Fine Portrait of the Authoress, after a Drawing by E. Landseer, R. A., 10 s . 6d. b oun d, T HE HON. MRS. NORTON'S POE TICAL WORKS. " This lady is the Byron of oar modern poetesses. "—Quar terly Review. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street, and to be had of all Booksellers. T "-E Just ready, 3 vols., post Bvo., SCHOOLFELLOWS; or, A BY-WAY TO FAME. By RICHARD JOIIN, Esq. j , Author of " Legend and Romance, African and European." Richard Bentley, New Burlington -street. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT GARDEN. ‘ I NDER the MANAGEMENT of MADAME VESTRI. THIS EVENING. JAN. 14. Will be repeated Shakspere's MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM. Theseus, Mr. Cooper; Quince, Mr. Bartley; Bottom, Mr. Harley ; Flute, Mr. Keeley ' - Snout, Mr. Meadows • ' Snug, Mr. F. Matthews ; Hermia, Mrs. Nisbett ; Oberon, Madame Vestris ; Titania, Mrs. W. Lacy Puck, Miss Marshall; First Fairy, Miss Rainforth. 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. Morelli ; Columbine, Miss Fairbrother. To-morrow, The Merry Wives of Windsor, with The New Pantomime. On Saturday, The Midsummer Night's Dream, with the New Pantomime. . _ Doors to be opened at half-vast Six—the performances to commence at Seven o'Clock. Titkets and plat tm foe'the - Boxtl to be taken of Mr. Grogan nt Dress ss. ; Second the Box-office, front Teri-till Four, w h ere Season Tickets no had u p on app lication. circles, Boxes,ec7o s. nd ; Price, Secon 2s. 6 Second Price, ; Pit, e,3s. 3 6d.; First and Second s. ; Second Price. ; Gallery, Is. Fri :ate Boat. to be had so'ely of Mr. And:airs, bookseller :67, New Bond-street. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. t riumphant Success—lmmense Novelty—Crowded llouses Second Night of Ainsworth's Tower of London. THIS EVENING, JAN. 14, Will be acted a Grand Historical Romance, founded on and entitled THE TOWER OF LONDON. The Tableaax Vivans, splendid Costume, and Appointments, from the Designs of th:, celebrated George Crnikshanks. After which will be repeated the Grand Traditionary Pantemime, entitled HARLEQUIN AND MY LADY LEE ; OR, GOOSEY GANDER AND THE SPELL-BOUND GOSLINGS. In which the unrivalled Artistes, the Bolen° Family; Mr. Southby, the Original Closn; Miss Sharp e , C o l um bi ne ; an d the astoni s hi ng Gymnastique, Signior Felix Carlo, from Fran coni's, at Paris, will perform : concluding with Brunning's Grand Dioramic Synopsis of Syria. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. NOVEL AND UNPRECEDENTED ATTRACTION. Arrival in England of M. LAROCHE and M. NOEL, sur named by their own countrymen The Incredibles of Paris. The LESSEE begs respectfully to inform his numerous Friends and the Public that he ha‘, at considerable expense, en tered into an engagement with the above talented and Wonder ful Artistes, who will exhibit their truly astonishing Perfor mances, for the first time in England, on MONDAY NEXT, the 18th January, when will also be performed Mr. Haines' highly successful Drama, entitled the YEW TREE RUINS, or the WRECK, the MISER, and the MURDERER. The whole to conclude with the New Grand Comic Pantomime of HARLEQUIN JACK of NEWBERRY, or .‘ I3AA, BA A, BLACK SHEEP," and the OLD WO !1 AN of BERKELE Y. Mr. Haines' New Drama, and the Pantomime, every Even ing till further notice. TO CORRESPONDENTS. The extract sent us as from Mr. Ruda pamphlet is an extract from Mr. Baines' " History of the Cotton Manufactory," quoted by Mr. Rudall. We will endeavour to find room to-morrow for the letter of " Vigil" from Bath, and some others which the length of the discussion on the Manchester and Bir mingham Extension Railway prevents us fron► inserting to.day. 111611 WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO.MORROW. rnimittes after 7. t Evening ......:Amittutes after 7. The 1 üblication of e Evenin g Edition of Ti is Sun corm. mo.yeed 20 minutes after Three. _ J ' , '4 ' 47, -!:=? • I ,fa slpr, f iQ L; SIe MRS. GORE'S NEW NOVEL. Now ready at all the Libraries, in 3 vols. post Bvo., G _ REVIL L E, Or, A SEASON IN PARIS. By MRS. GORE, Author of " Mothers and Daughters," " The Peeress," &c. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. .EVENING EDI` lON- THE SUN, LONDON,TEIURsDAY, JANUARY 14, 1841. EVENING ED ITI 0 v