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MORNING _EDITION. " THE CHINA SUN 5 Which was RE-PUBLISHED on the 6th INSTANT, with the LATEST NEWS from CHINA, IS NOW ON SALE. Price SIXPENCE. Orders received at The Sun Office, No. 112, Strand. appointed. A similar Committee was also ap pointed by the House of Lords. In due time these Committees made their re ports, includingseveral suggestions for the equali zation ofduties on the produce ofthe East and West Indies, and for the improvement of the trade with India. The drift of Lord ELLENBOROUGH'S observations last night was to recommend the Government to carry the suggestions of the Committee into effect. But the Ministers have already given notice of their intention to intro duce into the House of Commons a measure to assimilate the duties on East India and West India rum, in pursuance of the suggestions of the Committee. This is a trifling measure ; but as far as it goes we approve of it. We make no sort of objection to giving our East Indian fellow subjects all they ask. We are, in fact, strenuous advocates for abolishing all discriminating duties whatever, considering that it is wholly beyond the sphere of legislation to direct or encourage any particular species of industry ; but we wish to impress on our readers that the Legislature treats questions very differently, as they affect or not its own Members, In this case the motion recommended by a few opulent East India merchants, and by the reason of the thing, was scarcely made before it was acceded to, and the suggestions of the Committee scarcely ripe, before it is proposed to give them the effect of law. In the case of the Corn-law, however, to repeal which many hun dred thousand inhabitants of this part of the empire petitioned last Session, a Committee was refused, all inquiry was refused, and the Peers and the Commons, having a personal pecuniary interest in maintaining the law, steadily resisted even the smallest attempt to give effect to the prayers of the people. Their humble supplica tions went for nothing; those who spoke for their cause were derided and scarcely listened to and both Houses passed away from the subject with ill-concealed disgust that the supposed ad vantages of their Members should be assailed, and with ill-concealed contempt for the pe titioning people. The few rich merchants trading to India, not coming into collision with the landlords, were immediately attended to; the millions hungering for bread, the manu facturers stopping work because they can get no profit, but coming into collision with the land lords, who compose the Legislature, prayed in vain. Such is human nature. The smallest personal inconvenience weighs more with every individual than the welfare of millions, and he will, if he have the power—let him be called Emperor, King, Consul, President, Peer, or Representative—disregard or betray the public welfare and gratify his personal feelings. At the same time, there runs through the oratory of the speakers on the subject a large vein of hypocrisy. On both sides they referred to the people in our Colonies and in our Indian Empire. Now, it is well known that the wages of the labourers, semi -slaves as they still are in both dependencies, will not be affected one doit either way by any altera tion in our discriminating duties. It is mon strously preposterous to suppose that the wel fare of some 80,000,000 labourers in India can be influenced by the admission of a few barrels of rum, or hundred weights of sugar, more or less into our country. But the few European sugar planters, the few merchants trading to India, will be enriched by the change ; and while these alone, amounting at most to a few thousand, not to say hundred, Europeans, and their connections, will be benefited, the change is hypocritically described as demanded by the welfare of the people of India. This is the hypocrisy of the matter, to which is added a spice of pseudo bene- volence. The poor Hindoos, it is said, are our fellow subjects ; the Legislature is bound to take care of their interests, just as it pays attention to the negroes, and for their pretended benefit mulcts the suffering labourers of England, their wives and families. The Hindoos have no means of appeal ing to' the justice of the Legislature, they are dependent on its bounty. To them the Legisla ture is, therefore, kindly disposed; to the peti tioning people who appeal to its justice, and have some power to disturb its equanimity, it assumes the character of a severe and rigid master. At home its authority is at stake, and it stickles for that at the expense of justice. The people some times assume the character of teachers, and they can expect nothing from the benevolence of the Legislature. It expects them, in fact, to help themselves. They are freemen, and must decide their own fate. What they can not command they will never obtain. The inhabitants of India, and of the Colonies, are thoroughly slaves. Submission, were it violated, would be instantly restored, if possible, by the sword; but as long as they are submissive, the Legislature feels benevolently disposed to wards them. Between the people here and the Legislature there is a struggle for power ; they are something like rivals; they approach to an equality ; the Corn-law -starved people may ac cordingly, at some time or other, command justice from the Legislature—they will never receive it as a favour, The turning point of the late Presidential elec tion in the United States was the currency. The VAN BUREN party was defeated by the advocates of a national bank and paper money. Accord ingly it has been predicted that General HARRY... SON will no sooner be installed in office than a total change will be made in the monied system of the United States. We have ventured to doubt the probability of such a change, and we must now refer to the intelligence from America, in another part of our Journal, as tending to confirm our opinion. The great opponent of General JACKSON and Mr. VAN BUREN was the monied interest as re_ presented by the United States Bank. The Bank and the President were the two con tending powers. In the first instance Mr. VAN BUREN has been defeated because his sub treasury scheme has not answered all the ex pectations of his countrymen. But now, in the full tide of success, comes the "panic in the Money Market;" the United States Bank returns show that " it haslnot got the means of standing for an hour before the slightest dispo sition to discredit it." " The question now is," says the New Yorh Herald, "will the Bank stand the storm V' Whether it stand the storm or not, the Americans are too sagacious not to learn wisdom by the lesson which the condition of the Bank teaches, and much too cautious to over turn a system of currency, in order to set up anew bubble banks. A modification of the pre sent scheme may be admitted, but we may rest satisfied, after the exposure of the Bank of the United States, that the party of which it is the representative, will be unable to carry any such sweeping change as that our over-sanguine money speculators have expected and announced. In the article which we copy from the Times, the condition of Louis PHILIPPE is represented to be very precarious, painful, and tormenti ng . He is surrounded by a mass of intrigue, complex and embarrassing, from which all pretence, even, of generous motives or patriotic spirit, is banished by common consent. The Times gives that as a description of Fre nc h sta t esmen, b ut to us it seems of more general application. It is not only in France that statesmen want a fixed principle tor their guidance, such a want is felt everywhere. Our own statesmen talk of holding fast by the Con stitution ; of maintaining the institutions of the country ; of resisting all progress towards demo cracy and republicanism ; of upholding the Church; but almost every day sees them com pelled, whether they he Whigs or Tories, to make or consent to some innovations which weaken and tend to destroy the institutions of the coun:l.s. Great changes have been made the last f()17 - • years ; the chanvei have deprived ti le i nstitutions of the sanction of i that for them- I rescriptiort, without winning IN PROGRESS, THE RAILWAY 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 particttlars connected with Railways. 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COMMITTEES for promoting the Election: of Mr. AL COCK SIT DAILY at the following places : Central Committee . The Bridge House Hotel, Borough. Bermondsey g -lane. Botherhithe Old Kent-road Lambeth .. The White Hart, Kennington-cross. Christchurch ...... Newton's Hotel, Blackfriars-road. St. George, St. Sa- 1_ The Central Committee Room. riour's, St. Olave f Camberwell Wandsworth ... The Spread Eagle. Str'atham Kingston Richmond ..... The Talbot. Re'gtte Croydon The Crown. It isiparticularly requested that all communications which may lead to secure his election nay be made at any of the above-mentioned places. SAM UEI. PALMER, Chairman. GEORGE G. DE H. LARPENT, Vice-Chairman . Central Committee-room, 30th January, 1841. Jost ready, in 3 vols., post Svo., C EC Or, MEMOIRS OF A COXCOMB. A Novel. " He was such a delight—such a coxcomb—such a jewel of e man."—Byron's Journal. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT GARDEN. I; NDER the MANAGEMENT of MADAME VESTRIS THIS EVENING. FEB. 2. FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE WESTERN JEWISH CHARITIES. Will be repeated, Beaumont and Fletcher's Comedy of THE SPANISH CURATE. Don Henrique, Mr. Cooper; Don Juan, Mr. Anderson ; Leandro, Mr. Chas. Mathews ; Lopez (the Curate), Mr. W. Farren ; Bartoha, Mr. Bartley ; Diego, Mr. Keeley ; Ama rante, Madame Vestris; Jacintha, Mrs. W. West. After whico, the New Farce, in One Act, entitled BROTHER BEN. Commodore Cutlass, gr; Barliey7iienjamin Bowles, Mr. Charles Mathews; Mr. Shuffleton, Mr. Harley; Dorothy, C. Jones. To conclude with 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. ; Columbine, Miss Fairbrother. ' - To-morrow, The Midsummer Night's Dream, with The New Pantomime. Doors to be opened at half-past Six—the performances to eommence at Seven o'Clock. Tickets and places for the Boxes to be taken of Mr. Grogan at the Box-office, from Ten till Fear, where Season Tickets may oe had upon application. Dress Boxes, is. ; Second Price, 3s. 6d.; First and Second Cireles, ss. ; Second Price, 23. 6d. ; Pit, 3s. ; Second Price, 2'.; Gallery, Is. Private Boat s to be had seely of Mr. Andr aws, bookseller 167. New Bond-street. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Continual overflows, signal succes ;Of the Cask Vaulter, and increasing desire Of the Public to witness Ainsworth's Tewer of London, and the best Pantomime of the Season. THIS EVENING, FEB. 2. _ _ Will be acted a Grand Historical Romance, founded on and entitled THE TOWER OF LONDON. The Tableas.x Vivans, splendid Costume, and Appointments, from the Designs of the celebrated George Crnikshanks. After which will be repeated the Grand Traditionary Pantomime, entitled HARLEQUIN AND MY LADY LEE; OR, GOOSEY GANDER AND THE SPELL-BOUND GOSLINGS. In which the astonishing and incredible evolutions of the Cask Vaulter will be given, as well as Brunning's Grand Dioramic Synopsis of Syria ; the Pantomimic Characters by the unri valled Boleno Family; Mr. Southby, the Original Clown; Miss Sharpe, Columbine ; and the astonishing Gymnastique, Signior Felix Carlo, from Franeoni's, at Paris. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY. 1tUrning......40 minutes after 9 I Evening 27 minutes alter 10. ' .fb ) .-.l'' - ‘7-Arete&,&r -4 Ci " • ‘,,' , _ ... *1r1ir4..... sv.t• ,vv," ~ •, , ,Vt_i7';'....`. , " . 7.. , '-",. .7.77...,7, 5'. 4 ''',' _' • tit ~nn, LONDON: TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1841. In the House of Lords, last night, Lord ELLEN BOROUGH presented a petition from the East India and China Association for an alteration in the laws which now regulate the trade of our In dian empire. The Noble Baron enforced the prayer of the petition, and inquired what part ot the Report of the Committee of last Session the Government meant to carry into effect. The Marquis of LANSDOWNE admitted the pro priety of doing full justice to the inhabitants of our Indian empire. It was the intention of Go vernment, he said, to propose a measure to Par liament to equalize the East India and West India runt. Other duties were so connected with questions of revenue, that it was necessary to be very cautious in proceeding to remove the re strictions on Indian trade. The petition was, of course, laid on the table. Lord BROUGHAM gave notice that lie would to - mo rrow move the second reading of the Copy hold Bill; and the Earl of RIPON gave notice that on Monday he should call their Lordships. attention to our relations with Persia. The Earl of SHAFTESBURY brought up the Re port of the Committee appointed to search for precedents in the case of the Earl of CARDIGAN, which recommended that the trial should take place on the 16th instant, at the bar of that House—not in Westminster Hall ; that all the Judges be ordered to attend; and that the LORD CH ANCELLOR do write to all the Peers to ac.. quaint them that their presence was required on that day, except members of the Royal family, who are to be informed of the trial, and may attend or not as they please. These recom mendations were adopted and an address carried to her MAJESTY to give orders to make the ne- ' cessary preparations, and to appoint a High Steward to preside at the trial. The Peers then adjourned. The Commons did not assemble in sufficient number to form a House, and adjourned till this day. A short conversation which took place last night in the House of Lords on Lord ELLEN-- BOROUGH presenting a petition from the East India and China Association, indicates the dif ferent manner in which both Houses of Parlia ment treat questions, as they have or have not a strong personal interest in them. In the early part of last Session a petition was pre sented to the House of Commons by the Chair man of the East India Company for an inquiry into the duties levied on the produce of our East India possessions. It was represented that the duties lei l, on East and West India produce were IN .:4 fitul t•ust to th e f ormer , an d a Co 0,-... • ~ ? -1 4-.• . - •\l-ttfor to inquire • • into the sub , h 7 ":4 .. it* • ' 1 -. - ". i i -'T . erest, that of the West Indies, consisting' , ti ,q. T 4,' . f e , ri . son , , the !ILIk of the Members:V(ll44 1 4 tral, the motion was assented to, Ala to,-!diranaittee immediately ~.)-:::./ .'• -.40 / %-. I , , THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 2,184 t. If Acts of Parliament could fix men's opinions it might be reasonable to declare that the Church shall be upheld, and the House of Peers shall be preserved ; but as long as opinion is formed and determined by circumstances and events, and as long as institutions depend on opinion, it is pue rile in statesmen to say, as if they could command the universe, Our institutions shall be maintained. How, if the nations will not have the institutions, can they be maintained ? But it is plain from the discussions of the press that opinion as to political institutions and political principles is everywhere unsettled, and till it he settled it is little better than absurd to talk of giving permanence to in stitutions. This unsettled state of opinion is shared by statesmen both at home and abroad. They are in a situation in which they are bound to act. They are lashed, in fact, into exertion by the public demands and by the fears of rivals. There are about a thousand legis lators, now assembled in and about West minster, looking for something, having occa sionally something to. recommend or to censure, and without, as long as opinion is unsettled, compass or chart to guide them, and even with out a knowledge of the port they are to steer for. This is the source, we believe, of the intrigue which flows about power, which may, from the more disturbed state of opinion in France, rise higher there than here, but which is as visible here as there. It takes, indeed, a somewhat different form in the two countries. In France the Monarch stands for much more than in England. In England the Parliament must be won, the con stituencies must be bribed, or seduced, or cheated, and in England intrigues are directed to this end. In France they are directed to sup plant a Minister in the good graces of the KING, and to control the appointments of Pre fects and the Parliamentary majorities. Here the gold of the Carlton Club bribes the consti_ tuencies ; then the fears of timid men of pro perty are appealed to; next, loud -sounding ap peals on behalf of the Church and of Chris tianity are put forth; afterwards, Bills are proposed, under the pretext of promoting morality and preventing perjury, to disfranchise opponents; and the timid men of property and the friends of the Church, who have some alarm, perhaps, for their salvation, gather round the Bills, and are used to break up a Government, or obtain power for a rival. In all that, the intrigue is as disgust ing as any intrigue carried on in France to get place ; and is as destitute of generous motive or patriotic spirit as the passive watchfulness of M. MOLE, or the restless activity of M. THIERS. By the packet-ship Cambridge, wind-bound off Cork, at which harbour one of the passen gers landed, and proceeded immediately to Li verpool, we have received New York papers of the 9th of January. We extract from the New York Herald of that date a somewhat dismal account of the state of the Money Market, which we would fain believe is rather exagge rated. If the United States Bank be in the dangerous position represented, it is fortunate that the danger is discovered while Congress is in Session, when some remedy more effective than General JACKSON and Mr. VAN BUREN'S cash currency system may be adopted. If the immediate resumption ofspecie payments threaten to compel the United States Bank to stop pay ment altogether, the Legislature must see the necessity of affording that institution such fair protection as will enable it to keep faith with all its creditors. Thy falling off in the bank busi ness dwelt upon by the Herald is accounted for by the uncertain state of the law, and the con stant intermeddling of Congress with affairs which were best left to the control of merchants, bankers, ancLmen of business : (From the New York _Herald, Jan. 8.) PANIC IN THE MONEY MARKET. The panic caused by the United States Bank returns is so intense as to have a great influence upon the question of resumption. The anxious inquiry now is, will the bank in its weak condition stand the storm? and if not, will the other banks be able to stand without her ? All confidence in the institution is gone ; and the same alarm which bad seized the stockholders will extend to the billholders and depositors the instant the bank opens its doors for the pay ment of specie. It has raised a whirlwind, which even a strong institution would find a difficulty in braving. The United States Bank has not the means of standing for an bour before the slightest disposition to discredit it. According to its returns, its immediate assets and liabilities are as follow : Specie at New York and Philadelphia 11,725,087 Bank -notes, ditto ditt o 707,441 Foreign Bills and Balances --_-_, $3,468,461 Circulation booramomairap—...mt... 9,336,000 Deposits due in New York and Philadelphia— 1,869,022 $11,205, Beyond this th ere i s not t h e sl i ghtest means available 022 by the bank, except at the greatest sacrifice, and the mass of its securities are such that they are daily becoming worse. During the past year, the bank seems to have tried to raise its credit. It is now worse off by several millions of dollars than it was this time last year, and that of actual cash. The report of the Dividend Committee states, that the actual money paid out during the last six months, for expenses, interest, and foreign loans, &c. was $400,000 more than the gross profits. The same expenses are net only going on, but increasing the interest on loans, &c. Protested paper is constantly accumulating, law expenses and agency disbursements are growing heavier, while the business of the bank is falling off at the rate of 7,000,000 per annum. The loans decreased this amount from January, 1840, to the date of the latest statement. The excess of the expenses over the profits for the next six months must be over $500,000. The stock last Ja nuary sold at 80, and is now at N. If the bank last year had, as we advised, boldly resumed its payments, its credit would have revived, and resump tion would easily have been sustained, the effect of which would have been a revival of business, that would have carried up the value of her securities, and placed her in a comparatively safe position. The private interest of the speculators that misdirect her would, however, then have suffered. The bank has gone on from worse to worse, until she is driven to a resumption amidst a panic, raised entirely by the publication of her true position. United States declined 24 per cent. North American Trust and Banking declined I per cent. Delawares and Hudsons receded i per cent. Vicksburg improved par cent. Bills on the South were worse. Sales on Philadelphia, 1 per cent. discount. Baltimore, to 1 discount. Mobile, 5} to 6} discount. The Proceedings of Congress were exciting little interest. Tranquillity prevailed in Canada, and no outrages disgraced the frontier : ea o p o s esthat On the C am b r id ge passing Sandy Hook she saw the dLeisvnerrtpeodo, an n n d d t hNew CaptainY°rk n p f a t c h k u e t&inanlbr i GarrickPidg u p n shore, she must become a total wreck. FURTHER PARTICULARS RESPECTING THE GARRICK. The Gulick was seen ashore on the woodland about twenty•five miles south of Sandy Hook. Oa the evening of the 7th, a vessel called the Porte Bluni passed near the Garrick, when Captain Pederson se: his signal, which was immediately answered by Captain Palmer, wh o hoisted Mr. Collins's signal, of New Yolk; the wind at the time was blowing violently from S. S. W. Another ves sel confirms the report, and the Captain states that the passengers and crew had crowded on the , quarter deck - and the sea was making complete breaches over her. Captain Pederson was of opinion that a ll the passengers and crew might possibly have been landed, otherwise they must have suffered se verely during the night. The latest reports state that a schooner passed the Garrick sufficiently near to discover her name. Tile vessel was a total wreck, and not a single individual t‘as seen on board, but the schcon , r could ant pos4thly render ‘V‘, llei;r that only twelve pa; , ,,tugcrs wn•e on board. The Levant mail has arrived, bringing advices from Constantinople of the 7th, Alexandria of selves ; the changes are already found not to an swer the intended purpose, and men's minds, however fast the leaders of both political parties may clinch and rivet our institutions, are en tirely unsettled, and there is no solid foundation on which to fix them. Take for example the Church. That rests, and must rest, wholly on opinion. No coer cion, no bribery, can prop it up against the sense of the community. However loud the parsons may preach, and whatever sums of money they may coax out of the pockets of indolent gentlemen and timid ladies, however much they may say in praise of their own call ing, —when the people desert it, when it is proved to be inefficacious, when its claims to promote morality are ascertained to be hollow, when the multitude instead of listening to the parsons ock at them and their doctrines, no State arti fice can uphold the Church. If statesmen cannot unlearn the people the experience of the last half century, if they cannot revive in the hearts of the people a voluntary respect for the clergy, if they cannot suppress knowledge, their assertion that they will support the Church will be mere idle talk. An article recently appeared in the Hampshire Telegraph, reflecting on the System of Instruc tion pursued on board her Majesty's ship Excel lent, specifying in particular that the measure ment of distance is neglected, and expressing a trust that after the late " exhibition at Acre," the officers in future will be instructed in this respect. We have thought it our duty to inquire into a question _bearing so directly on a point involving the efficiency of our navy. We are informed from authority on which we implicitly rely, that the fullest and most clear instructions, both theo retical and practical, are given in this branch on board the Excellent, and at the Fire-barns on Southsca Common. On reference to the book of questions on naval gunnery, emanating from the Excellent, and issued for the instruction of the junior officers of the navy, we observe that the rules for firing are based on the knowledge of the distance, and that the simplest and most useful methods of as certaining it are given there, to which are added tables for facilitating the process. It so happens that the tbllowing words, ex tracted from this work, rebut directly this sin gular charge : " But it is indispensable that the distance should, in all cases, be correctly ascertained, and a simple and practical way has been shown of obtaining it." A comparison has been drawn between the Commander of the Stromboli, and Lieutenant, now Commander, GRENFELL, for the purpose of proving that proper instruction is not given in the Excellent; the inconsist enc y o f the writer will be obvious when the simple fact is stated that both these officers were educated intheExcellent. We have received the whole of the Paris Journals of Friday and Saturday. They are still occupied with the interminable debate in the Chamber of Deputies on the Fortifications Bill. A brief but sufficiently explicit report of the proceedings in the Chamber will be found in another part of The Sun. The debates in both Houses of Parliament on the Address in answer to her MAJESTY'S Speech from the Throne, have put the Ministerial Journals in better humour lath the Government of this country than even we anticipated. The Journal des Debats of Friday and Satur day devotes seven of its columns to the speeches delivered in the Houses of Lords and Commons, in addition to which it has the following remarks upon the subject, 'which are worthy of notice, as indicating on the part of the Court a disposition to cultivate more friendly relations with this country : We publish at length the debates of the English Par. !lament, in order that the country may judge how little truth there is in the daily declaration of fallen parties. When we see every day repeated that France is degraded from the rank which she occupied in the world, we expe rience a feeling of jealousy and sadness at seeing her sta tion and her influence vindicated by those very adversaries who combated them, and whose glory has come of our mistakes. Why should the blows which strike us always be dealt by ourselves? For while the French press and Parliament declare that France is humbled and degraded, the English press and Parliament represent us strong, great. and respected as ever. Thus the foreigner is more French than ourselves, and provides us with the modesty, the dignity, and the patriotism which we have not shown ourselves. What particularly attracts our attention is the unanimity with which men of all parties, without any , exception—Tories, Whigs, and Radicals—express their re spect for France, their sympathies for its people, their regret to see it separated from England and Europe, and their desire to see it re-enter on honourable terms into the European confederation. The speech of Lord Pal merston had peculiar interest: Wo will not, yielding to the kind of intimidation which surrounds his name, re cicve with mistrust the sentiments which he expressed in accents of sincerity ; nor shall we bumble the pride of France, in showing too much gratitude for his cordial words. In times past they might have found an echo here. But to-day, how much passion and awakened enmity will they have to pierce through, how much hatred will they have to overcome I The wound still bleeds, and requires time and efforts to heal it. The Eng lish Government expresses the firm hope of seeing France rejoin the Councils of Europe. All honourable men here have the same desire. What country would embrace a policy of universal enmity? And after, and in despite of all, can we forget that the English nation is the only one which can repeat in concert with France the word of liberty, which still frightens the rest of the Continent— the only nation which in the day of universal incertitude stretched out the hand to us without asking where we came from, or whither were we going ; the only nation in fine to whose friendship onr past revolutions are no bar? There is very little general news of any inter est in the Journals of Friday and Saturday, from which, however we subjoin a few extracts : The Oreste brig arrived at Brest on the 26th of January from Monte Video. The Droit had stated that in the domiciliary visit made in the residence of M. Auguste Johannet, editor of La France, the latter owned that the letters had been in his hand, but that they were no longer in his possession. M. Johannet has written to that paper, declaring that he said no such thing. The Commissary asked M. Johannet if he believed that these letters existed, and that they were not forgeries. Johannet replied that the policy of the journal in which he was employed would not allow him to doubt their authority, about which nobody had to answer but himself till the day of trial. The Commissary continued his search, which led to no result.— The Constitutionnel. On Friday evening the Ministers came to the Tuileries. There was a great movement, in consequence of the im pression made by the debates in the Chamber. At noon, Lord Granville arrived at the office of Foreign Affairs. Though M. Guizot was not there his Excellency went in with a voluminous correspondence in his hand, and stopped there half an hour. M. Guizot was at that time at the Department of the Interior, in close correspondence with M. Duchatel. At one o'clock they both proceeded in the carriage of M. Guizot to the Palais Bourbon, where several Ministers of the Commission of Fortifications had been assembled since twelve o'clock.—Le Commerce. Bet:sins, JAN. 30.—The Senate will be convoked for the I.sth of February, or sooner, in order to be able to vote in time the budget of the expenditure, in which pro. vincial votes of credit have been voted for the first two months of this year. A letter from the frontiers of Italy of the 17th of January to the Cologne Gazette says, " Letters frem Rome state that two eminent persons belonging to the Russian Lega tion, one a Protestant and the other of the Greek religion, have embraced the Catholic faith. This news, which needs confirmation, has caused a great sensation at Rome. The recal of those two persons to Russia is considered as inevitable." A letter from Charleroy of the 26th announces that a powder mill had blown up that morning ; two persons were killed, and seven seriously injured ; the neighbouring build ings had not sustained any damage. The cause of the ac cident is not ascertained. B 0 URSE..—PARIs, SATURDA Y, JAN. 30. , --- - --• fleet Highest Lowest Last re. ric, P French 5 per Cents ll 2Price 5O ... 1 1 2 70 . .. 1 12 50 ... 112 rice 70 4% per Cents ...... 4 per Cents 99 ... 09 ... P 9 ~ 99 3 per Cents 77 10 . 77 15 ... 77 10 ... 77 15 B .nA of r ranee owlgian Bank 5 per Cents... VEIi ... VSW ... LSD ... IPN 3 per Cents: 6B 50 —. 68 5 0 —. g 8 A ... 66 J 1 Dutch N per Cents 51% „. 51 1 ,i ••• 5 1iii .„ 51% spaii,,h Active 25% ... 251 i ... 251, ... 25i, Passive 6N ... 61i - 6'l ... 6.?,i Neapolitan !lii7lar .... 1007,‘ .., 160% ... ROA, ... HAJA, • - -- - ' --- RAILWAY SHARES. :it. Germain Ve B L.B. ..... 485 48.5 ... 485 .485 Orleans .. Straf , tiurf, to Bak- ••• ••• 21i 75 244 75 ... 247 50 2 H 75 teuen FREE TRADE.—Society has cut away, one after another, all its imaginary safeguards, and has now nothing left but Free Trade. Free Trade is our last sheet anchor, which we must put our trust in or go to pieces. If the condition of the lower classes be not rendered more comfortable titan it is at present by means of Free Trade, a great democratic struggle may ulti mately come ; in which, after the loss of millions of lives, it will be admitted as a great truth fur evermore that " Property has its duties as well as its rights," which are not perfectly fuifilled by yielding to human beings, reduc•d to mere money. making machines, a pit. tance on which they cannot by any possibility exist. Capi. tal, in return for the security which society guarantees to it, o,ses more to society than this. The moral and phy sical condition of the masses cannot be so totally overlooked as it has hitherts been without the greatest risks. Quid Leyes sine Moribus? What are laws without morals ? So long as riches are the only deity that we worship, we fear that the masses must continue to be the slaves of the capitalists were the constituency of the kingdom ten thou sand or ten millions.—Merlin We are now enabled to confirm the intelligence which ate some time since announced, that the Governor ship of Greenwich Hospital has been offered to and ac cepted by Admiral the Hon. Sir Robert Stopford, G. C. 8., G. C. M. C. The successor to this gallant officer in command of the Mediterranean Fleet has not yet been fixed on.—Naval and Military Gazette. DESERTION OFISEAMEN.—The Port 2f Tyne Pilot has an account of what t, - ,ok place Leture the Ma gistrate. at North Shields, on Tueadi:v last, in reference to a charge against a captain of n vessel belonging to that port having ;11gal:v detained end secret, a.sailur-dessc th^ at nrandieli. The party cLarp,,d !:c:s to answer to two informations of a like character'to the oFe which Wag 41 not proven" on Tuesday. the same date, Athens of the 10th, and Malta of the 16th ult. The news from these several places will be found in another part of the Sun. The most facts stated in them are that Admiral WALKER, Commodore NAPIER, Captain FA N SHAWE, and a Turkish officer of high rank, were hourly expepted to arrive at Alexandria to claim the surrender of the fleet, and to announce to MEHEMET ALI his pardon and restoration to the hereditary government of Egypt—that the plague had broken out at Alexandria and Acre —and that IBRA HIM PACHA was still at Damascus, awaiting the issue of the negotiations between MEHEMET Au and the SULTAN, and watched by a Turkish and Syrian force of 15,000 men, ready to enter the city on its being evacuated by the Egyptians. The reports alluded to in the letters from Smyrna and Alex andria, of a great victory obtained by IBRA HIM over the Syrians, is unfounded. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS ( From The Sun of Last Night.) MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, JAN. 30.—There has been a little more activity in our Market to-day. Manches ter and Leeds, Halves, 32, 324, 32k; Bristol and Exeter, 24, with New ; Manchester and Birmingham, 24i; Do. Extension, 21. 16s. 6d., 21. 17s. 6d. ; South Lan cashire Bank, 51. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, SATURDAY.—The sales this day arc 6,000 bags, of which 2,000 have been taken on speculation, chiefly Americans, at Friday's quotations. The Jersey Gazette of Tuesday last publishes the fol low in!? :—" We are glad to inform our readers that the French Post-office is re-established; since its temporary abrogation the annoyance and losses suffered by persons who havo commercial relations with France, were quite intolerable; letters were frequently ono week at the General Post-Office before being delivered. We have received the Journal of Antwerp of yesterday's date. BOURSE or AMSTERDAM, JAN. 29.—The Bourse was weak to-day, and the prices in general were lower. The Integrals fell to 49i; the Actions of the Society of Com merce also lower to 15* Ardoin's Spanish was offered 22 9-16; Coupons were also less sought after at 20i. Accounts received from Naples of the 12th January state that a violent shock of an earthquake took place at Reggio during the night of the 4th inst., which caused great ravage. The palace of the Intendant, that of Jus tice, and the cuisine of San Agostino, with the prison San Francino, as sell as the residence of the Governor of the province, were in complete ruins. Several private houses were thrown down. The inhabitants took refuge in the country, where they built huts. It was also felt at Mes sing, where it must have done some damage; we are not yet in possession of the details. Our chief arrival this morning is from the United States, bringing very unfavourable accounts reppecting the United States Bank, which caused a great panic at New York, and it was doubtful whether it would resume payments. This is certainly an unfortunate event for the shareholders in this country, who hold them to• a large amount. Not being in possession as yet of the American papers, we cannot give any further particulars en the subject. Consols, which left off on Saturday at 89i for for Feb. 25. opened this morning at the same quotation, since which the above event hai had a little effect on the British mar ket, and Consols are flat at 89k; for Money, 89a ; Ex chequer Bills, 4 6 prcin. ; Bank Stock, 165 167; India Stock, 246 248 In the Foreign Market Spanish Active opened at 241 24k, a shade lower that. they left off on Saturday; De ferred, 124 13; Passive. 6i 64; Portuguese left off at 32i, at present 32k; Three per-Cents. 20k; Brazilian, 72f 73} ; Columbian, 22?-, 234 ; Mexican, 274 28/ ; Dutch Two-and-a-half per Ceuta., 504; Five per Cents., 981- 991. SHARES.—Great Western, 271 28k prem. ; New, 13 14 prem. ; London and Brighton, 6f 6 dig. ° • Blaekwall, 431 dis .; Southampton, 54 58f per shar e ; Birmingham, 88 90 prem. ; Croydon, 12} per share; Greenwich, 81.1 share; Manchester and Birmingham, 15 14 dis. PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE. RAILWAYS. Paid. Per Share. Great Western Ditto New London and Blackwall South Eastern and Dover A French paper received this morning states, that a grand ball was given by!theo Com t the day before yesterday; the English uniforms were more numerous than those of the French; an English officer who was present hod before him the medal of Waterloo, two of the French officers followed him for a long time, making a number of allu sions to it, but the English officer remained silent. The British Market has been inactive during the morn ing, and we do not hear of a feature worth notice. The unfovourable intelligence from America has no: had any effect on the market to the present time. Some persons do not believe the whole of the statement respecting the United States Bank in the New York Herald, and are waiting the arrival of the files of the papers. United States Bank Shares are quoted in our market at 121. 10s, Consols at present 891, have been 894 for the Ac count ; Exchequer Bills, 5 6 prem.; India Stock, 248 ; Bank Stock nothing done. In the Foreign Market the chief business doing was in Spanish Active, which has fluctuated during the morni ng I from 24k * ,at present 24 4 ; Deferred I2i ; Portu guese, 31i ; ower Colombian 224 ; Mexican 27k, also lower; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. 50, shade lower; Five per Cents. 99. In Shares little doing. Great Western, New, 63 ; London and Blackwell 18k ; Manchester and Leeds New Shares 27; South Eastern and Dover 13. CLOSING PRICES. BRITISH FUNDS. Bank Steck 3 per Cent. Red B9a Ditto Bonds 3 per Cent Cons ...... .. 89* Ditto Old Annuities — 34 per Cent Red...... .. 98i Ditto New Annuities , New 3i per Cent .. ... 97i Ex. Bills, 1,000/....2id 6pm New 5 per Cent Ditto 500/ 6pm Long Annuities to expire Ditto Small 7pm Jan. 1860. l3b Bank Stock for Acct ... Oct 1859 lndia Stock for Acct ... Jan. 1860 l2i Consols for Acct B9i FOREIGN FUNDS. A ustrian, 5 per cent... Portuguese, 5 per cent. Belgian, 5 per cent Ditto, New Ditto.... Brazilian Bonds .. .. .. Prussian, 5 per cent.... BuenosAyres, 6 per cent -- Russian, 5 per cent. . . Chilian 6 per cent — Ditto, Metallic ' — Colombian, 6 per cent — Spanish, 5 per cent 2 41 Ditto, 1824 - Ditto, Deferred .. 12 Danish, 3 per cent ..... French,s per cent — f —c, , Greek.lB2s, 5 percent. Exchange —f —c. Mexican, 5 per cent.... 2i7 French,3 per cent —f. —c. Di to, 6 per cent, 1825 Dutch, 2 per cent 5O Peruvian,lB2s,6 per ct. Ditto, 5 per cent..... 984 F 0 .1E ARTS. BRITISH INSTITUTION. There are several excellent pictures in this ex hibition, not a few indifferent ones, and two or three little better than mere daubs. Sorry are we that we must:number Mr. Turner among the daubers; but whatinjustiee can be said in praise of his picture (No. 104) entitled " Snow-storm, Avalanche, and Inundation in the Alps," where the cohniring.Seems laid on hap-hazard, without the slightest regard to truth or propriety of effect, and the speettitor is absolutely puzzled to make out what on earth he IS looking at ? No. 112, " Blue Lights to warn Steatii-boats of Shoal water," by the same artist, is a little—and but a little better, Mr. Turner should beware how he perils his reputation by indulging in such caprices of art as those we have jtigt alluded to. He is a triumphant master of colouring when he pleases, and in his earlier and better days produced some landscapes, chiefly Italian , worthy .to vie with any that tnoderri times have witnessed ; but whether success has spoiled him, or he has be come utterly indifferent to fame, we know not, but certainly some of his recent pictures have been remarkable for nothing so much as fantastic absurdity, As for the fine poetic fancy that lie once infused into his productions, of late years we have been unable td detect eifen a glimmer ing of it. No. 159, " Eagle and Illttelt Cock in a Highland Glen" is from the pencil of Lee, one of the chastest and most spirited artists of the day, and who, we are Klad to see has lately been made an Academician. The figure of the royal bird is drawn with great freedom and vigour of expression, and the wild, misty character of the narrow mountain glen, with the foaming, stream leaping from rock to rock hi the midst of it, and sending up its showers of spray on all sides, is truthfully and forcibly sketched. No. 236, " Hampton Ferry, Middlesex, with the Bell Inn," is an agreeable sylvan scene, by Mrs. Arnold, painted with much of the natural simplicity of Gainsborough. No. 240, " The Eve of the Deluge," is by Martin, but certainly not in his most impressive manner, for in the first place, it is too stiff and formal in style ; and secondly, it does not convey the idea which the artist would wish to express. No. 310, "A Frolic," is one of Knight's lively, unexaggerated delineations of English domestic lite. The figure and face of the naked little boy, whom his young brother is drenching with water, scooped up in the hollow of his hand from the wash-tub, are full of appropriate expression. No. 341, " Napoleon Bonaparte in the prison of Nice," contains one striking figure, that of the young hero a n d f u t ure Consul and Em peror, who is painted with strict regard to the exact descriptions th a t th e D uc h ess D'Abrantes has given of him in his younger and obscurer days. No. 3.50, " Statues of the Vocal Mem non on the Plain of Thebes " is one of Roberts's fine Oriental sketches. The perspective is ad mirably defined. Altogether the collection may he pronounced neitherbetter nor worse than usual. The following ,tidvertiseinent ;s literally copied frriai a Nrw Jersey - Paper To Lc Aohi, on thy of .rdy, 131 soil at !me, Or proptcy 4sf eJlitleLt about to retire from business. Nute...-1.14 cheats are rich out obstinate.". CITY, MONDAY EVENING. We had, in addition to the intelligence from Ame rica, some unfavourable reports in circulation respect/ ing the stoppage of one or two houses in the City, and this depressed Stocks. Consols for immediate transfer opened in the morning at 89k, receded gradually to 89k, and closed at 891 tot. For the Account the current quotations of the morning were 89i up I, after wards 891 to and at the close of business 80i to . Exchequer Bills ranged from 4s. to 6s. premium ; East India Stock was steady at 248, the New Tnree-and-a- Half per Cents. brought 97/ to and the Three per Cents. 89i to Excepting in Spanish Bonds for the account, the transactions in the foreign market were very unimport ant. The news by the Lisbon mail led to no activity in Portuguese Stock, which was heavy at 311, and the Three per Cents. were not dealt in. Spanish Ac tive Bonds were marked 244 to for immediate trans fer, and 241 to 1 for time ; Mexican Stock receded to 274 to ; and Colombian. 22i to ; Peruvian was at 16 ; and Dutch Two-and-a-half per Cents. were dull at .50. The Share Market partook of the same dull charac ter as those for Stocks. Great Western Railway were at 28 to 27, the New at 121 to 13, the Fifth at 61 to 6f, Blackwell 4, and North Midland 25 discount. MAGAZINES CONTINUED. MONTHLY MAGAZINE. There is more variety in this .N umber than usual, fbr, generally speaking, the Monthly Magazine is not remarkable for the variety of its contents. The first article, " Foreign Aids to Self-Intelligence," is of a metaphysical cha racter, and mixes up much that is sound in thought with much that is perplexing.• " Ge nius," says the writer, "cannot exist separate from imagination; it is as necessary to the ma thematician as to the poet." An imaginative mathematician, the very basis of whose study is sober, practical matter-of-fact, is an incongruity which we profess not to understand. " Our London Newspapers," is a rambling, desultory sort of essay, containing, inter alia, much small talk about syncretism. " Alexander Pope," is a criticism—surely superfluous —on this great poet. The remark that his "letters glisten with artificial sprightliness, and some of them are a continued tissue of metaphor and conceit," is a just one. " Critique upon a Newly-Discovered Epic," is a sprightly, quizzical article. NEW .111011'TILLY MAGAZINE. The Editor's story of " Fathers and Sons" runs its course rejoicing ; the most spirited portion of the present chapter is a dialogue between a silly, heartless Baronet, and his still more heartless son, on the subject of the latter's wordly prospect s . "Morals and Mariners of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries," is necessarily slight and superficial from the limits within which it is con tracted, but nevertheless it is a very readable essay. The writer's inferences have been chiefly suggested by the well known pages of Brantome —the reckless panegyrist of that infamous woman, Catherine de Medicis. " Brighton" is a prose sketch of the manners and peculiarities prevalent at this most fashionable of watering places, which we are informed, is famous " for the number of its widows dressed in all 'the panoply of their new condition, and bearing un consciously on their persons signs of their sense of independence.. The women, in general, form a decided majority of the population, a circum stance the more extraordinary, because the men are few; more especially there is a dearth of the species beau, which it is difficult to explain. It should seem as if Brighton were tabooed by the clubs; nay, there is rarely so much as a fresh-co loured curate, or a fortune-hunting Paddy, to be en countered in the evening associations of the place Brighton, therefore, is the paradise of CI dowager-dandy, of the Emeritus professor o: flirtation, and the unmarried practitioner of physic, a fact by no means to be disregarded by those whom it may concern." The " Life and Adventures of Charles Chesterfield" displays much of Mrs. Trollope's sharpest satirical vein, who, in the mock-sentimental Ode to the Moon, which is read to an indulgent critic by Mrs. Sher bourne, quizzes in a very happy manner the maudlin, lackadaisical sentimentality of our Album and Annual poetesses. The " Golden Legend of Miss Kilmansegg," by Tom Hood, is concluded this month, and inculcates the trite moral—enforced by Horace nearly two thousand years ago—that gold is everything in this hard, mercenary world of ours. The rhymes in this legend evince much ingenuity and humour. From " A Ball at the Tuileries" we extract a passing description of the present King and Queen of France : But here comes the King, accompanied by the Queen, the Princess Adelaide, and the Princess Clementine. Now for a good, but respectful stare. They are roceed ing up, across, and around the gallery. Let us mark them well. The band plays the " Marseillaise." This is not the tune which the King, as an Orleans, or as a gentle man, loves; but it is the tune of his guests; for the "citi zens" are here, who made him a king t The King looks much older of late. Still he walks well; he smiles through his wrinkles, and looks gay in sp!te of his cares. He seems to know all his guests ; and yet this is impos sible. What does he sly ? He is now speaking to General Jacqueminot. He says_" The scene is ravishing, my char General lam never so happy as when surrounded by the national guards." The Queen adds in a most mild and charming manner, " and by their families." That is quite sufficient for General Jacqueminot ; away he pro ceeds to repeat the King's kind sayings, and the Queen's benevolent post-scriptum— and now both speeches a re in the mouths of the assembled thousands, and the band strikes up the French air—" One is never so happy as in the midst ef one's family." The Queen smiles more than she speaks. She looks all grace and graciousness ; but her smiles cannot hide her one secret sorrow. That sorrow is the fear ef poignards and pistols ; not for her own life, but of those directed against her husband. Her life is one of constant unmi tigated-care. At home she dreads the intrusion of some armed band; abroad she fears each sound, and sees a traitor in each face. Yet all who approach her, love her. DUBLIN UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE. We may generally calculate on at least one or two amusing articles in the Dublin Magazine, and this month's number has not disappointed us. The " Gallery of Illustrious Irishmen " contains a full-length portrait of Archbishop Ussher, ac companied by a memoir of this eminent scholar and divine, who may justly be pronounced the greatest ornament that the Protestant Church of Ireland ever had, and who, " between the age age of fifteen and sixteen, had drawn up in Latin a Chronicle of the Bible, as far as the book of Kings, exact enough, both for manner and mat ter, to make the ground-work of his celebrated annals—a prodigious literary achievement for so young a student." " Raising the Wind" is a lively story, essentially Irish in the character of its incidents. The duel scene between the two competitors for the fair hand of Miss Mary Bur ton, is a truly humorous and graphic sketch. " German Ghosts and Ghost-seers" is excellent fire-side reading on a long winter night. The " Non-Intrusion Question is a prosy, formal dissertation on a theme already worn-out. The reminiscences of " Charles O'Malley, the Irish Dragoon," refer to the epoch of the battle of Talavera, which is described in a spirited, off hand style. SMALLWOOD'S MAGAZINE. This, so far as it has proceeded, bids fair to be one of the best cheap Magazines. Its articles are judiciously selected, and do not repel the reader by their long-windedness. The cleverest paper in the Number before us, is a prose tale, entitled, " The Dentist of Frankfort," the inci dents in which are ingeniously handled. NEW SPORTING MAGAZINE. We have here some more " Scenes in the Sporting World, Pictorial and Descriptive," penned, as before, by Wildrake, who gives a brief, but animated sketch, of a wolf-hunt by dogs on the ice in Canada. This, according to his account, must be a very exciting sport, and not unaccompanied with danger—its chief attrac tion, perhaps, in the estimation of adventurous sportsmen. " The Statutes affecting the Turf" is a serviceable article, from the pen of a gen tleman who signs himself a " Barrister-at-law." The embellishments are not less than five in number. The most interesting is, the " Sleigh Meeting on the St. Laurence, with Quebec in the distance." SPORTING REVIEW. In this Number there is a map of the " Various Meets of the Belvoir Hounds," which may prove useful to those who are in the habit of sporting over that fine district. In addition to this, there is an able sketch of a " Fox Chase," engraved by Prior, from an original design by Davis. Among the literary contents, the article that has most pleased us is Nimrod's " Month in Leicestershire." COURT CIRCULAR. Viscount Melbourne arrived at Claremont on Sun• day afternoon from town, on a visit to the Queen, and joined the Royal Circle at dinner. His Lordship took his departure from Claremont at nine o'clock yesterday morning, and returned to town. The Hon. Berkeley and Mrs. Paget, and Miss Paget arrived at Claremont Park yesterday, and joined the Royal Dinner Party, which included Lady Port man, Baroness Lehzen, Earl of Listowel, Hon. C.:A. Murray, Lord Allred Paget, and Col. Bouverie. The Duchf:ss of Gloucester had a select party at dinner yesterday evening at Gloucester House. His Royal Highness Prince George of Cambridge returned to town last evening, from a visit to Her Ma jesty the Queen Davrager ai Sudbury Hall. The Duke of Cambridge visited the Duchess of Gloucester yesterday. Mr. Wallace, M.P., Mr. Featherstonhaugh, and Mr. John Shaw Lefevre, had interviews with Lord John Russell yesterday, at the Colonial-office. The Lord Steward had an interview with his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge yesterday, at Cam bridge House. Lord Augustus Loftus has arrived at Farrance's Hotel, from Berlin. The Duke of Wellington, Lady Burgbersb, Lord Maryborough, and Sir Charles Begot, honoured Mr. Salter with a visit to his studio in Pall-mall, on Satur day, to inspect his picture of the " Waterloo Banquet," previous to its being exhibited. The Army Estimates will be presented by the Secretary-at- War to- Parliament next week. They d‘.) not ;nclude any increase of our forces ; but it is under stood that an augmentation will be proposed by Lori John Russell, and that the same will be provided for in a Supplementary Army Fittim:Ate We trust that tho aug. nictitation will he fifteen thousand men, as a ic6s number 6ct furtikh the feri!e. tCr India, or furnish sufficient reliefs for the corps now in the Colonies. ....11 7 aral and Military Gazette. MORNING EDITION• WARLIKE S YMPTOMS FRANCE. The following are some of the statements made by the Correspondent of a Morning Paper relative to public feeling in the s o uth o f France. We are in ' clined to think the warlike symptoms are much eior gerated : You are aware that Perpignan is the capital town of the 21st military divi s i on , which includes within its circle the departments o f th e E ast ern Pyrenees, of the Aude, and of the Arriege. The ancient fortification: of the place were au gmente d b y V au ban, and the ci tadel commenced under Charles IX. d e f e nds the town• rihe, ramparts, which arc o f b r i c k, are l o fty and flAnkea with bastions, ravelins, cannon-proof "'Vets, and a deep fosse. The Place d'Ar *nes forms an imin euse square, the left side of which is composed of ve r y handsome barracks. This department is now garrisoned by four regimen ts of infantry, of three battalions each—namely, the 13th and 47th Infantry of the Line, and the 13th and 16k Light Infantry. There arc, besides, the Ist and 16th Regiments of Chasseurs and an establishment of the sr tillery attached to Perpignan, Pratz de Maim garde, Mont Louis Coliiure, Port Vendres, Fort del Bains, Villefranche, and Salees, all in the departmenci of the Eastern Pyrenees. The whole effective force of the army now spread over this department aloe i j little short of 12,000 men. The Lieutenant-General commanding is the Count de Castellano. The troops are for the most part in good order, and have been for the last four mobt Lis incessantly exercised ; but the °6 ; cers complain much, that notwithstanding the frais de representation allowed to General Gastellane, few any of them are invited to his inhospitable boa!). This produces a want of cordial social feel' ing between the parties ; but if aay eemer gency were to arisa requiring the co-operatio n the superior and subordinate officers, it would not. • 13elle in the least interfere with the exigencies of the service' 1 allude to this circumstance because an opinion Pad vails in England that there is not that good feeling ein i i intimate social un i on b etween t h e officers of the PO% • army which prevails in England. This is, I thiak , some degree a mistake. There certainly is "t 91 f tone of quiet g en tl eman l y f ee li ng among the offiO r :, • the line in F rance w hi c h o b ta i ns i n our own (for the French officers in this branch of the service are neither so well born, nor so well bred, as In 0 i land,) but the mere fact of the offi;:ers not messing 1 0 , gether in common, as in England, but accordiogo, rank, operates not in any degree to produce e° ,r o ness, reserve, or absence of intercommunication. or • any one acquainted w i t h t h e const i tut i on an d the 13- 5 f. of the French army a g e nera l mess o f a ll t he 06cer d . together would appear iinpossibi e . Th e temper:ooP frame of mind of so ldie rs an d c i t i zens at Perpigee- bt. decidedly warlike. Much allowance must be und o is edly made for the v e h emen t an d v i vac i ous t e mpers of the people o f th e sout h, an d I am not dispose se , visit occasional ebullitions of wounded vanity w e to verely ; but it seems to me, with every dispositi ° , ll o make allowanc es f or h ea t e d an d exacer b ate d feeling' ti the settled porpoise of this peopl e i s t o i nsu lt and v ieua a s us by every means possible. In the affair of P. A. external manner s an d convent i ona l d e li cacy t h e Fr ell- 0 1 man of the present day, if he be not a Carlist Acid bred up i n t h e tra di t i ons of a b ygone school, is bebley the most savage p eo pl e i n or out o f Europe. Dei""jos of sentiment, res p ect f or t h e f eel i ngs of others , he le none. Th o u g h i t ' ivere easy f or me on any ocea9nse pass in any part o f F rance as a Frenchman, tt100g" language of conversation is as familiar to me as 0 1 1 1. ° 00 and the language of style still more familiar, yet I and never attempted to conceal that I am in hear, ;j o t soul a thorough Englishman. One would think , under these circumstances, professing, at the ' - e0 time, to like the language, literature, and social sY st 'd, of France, and desirous of pleasing and being 1 31 . 11 : 0 1 I might be permitt e d t o pass t h roug h t h e sou th va t " i t , , offensive remark ; but no—far, very far, fr el % s Though I have never in F renc h soc i e ty breath e 0 word against France o r F renc h men , I h ave been 010 b, than twice, between Carcassonne and Perpignall' ruptly addressed in the following fashion : N o es Nous allons bi en t ot vous vo i r a L on d res . allons bruler la Tour de Londres. hoes° Messieurs, J e ne d oute nu ll ement d e vo tre velJnte! Je ne desire rnieux que vous venessia ° h i e!) voir la ha s . Eh, mon Di eu ! vous avez ete si „I've% reussi depuis Crecy jusq' Waterloo, que v ous bientot vous nutres prendre encore l'initiatif." ;,hte This is the u n i versa l pit c h- p l a i ster w hi c h st"vft way silences those boasting braggarts, on w hat ; e l speeches would be thrown away. But, though si l6P e l; for a seas on , th e y are ne i t h er tranqu il nor resig'„od' on the contr a ry, th e memory o f d e fe at maddePslal galls them, an d, as f ar as my o b se r vat i on exten w " think they will never rest quiet till they have no v e P t , P :pe tunity of wipin g out f rom t h e pu bli c l aw of 3- 0 0 what they call the accursed treaties of 181 5 * this subject, as on the frontiers of .the Rhin u e' Frenchmen ar e unan i mo u s . T he Carlist, the P.: l a partist, and the Republi can • mee t -h ere a CO t ground. Nay, in secret conclave, the Louis PhiliPilj • professes his symp a thy an d con fid ence , b u t prudenlo • considerations induce him t o h o ld hi s tongue an d " 1)1 4 his time." Jud ge , th ere f ore , f or yourse lf w h et h er tb% • are elements of p eace , an d w h et h er i n suc h a seas° k and in such a t em p er o f th e pu bli c m i n d a sPs' • emitted may not produce an universal conflagratio a ',, It is not for me to speculate, much less to proph7 s; but, notwithst an di ng a t emporary l u ll, i t strikes roe the chances of a prolonged peace are every day ul „ o 4'. • Dishing. All the activity a n d ener g y, a ll the youog .; s r, ° vigorous blond o f F rance , ve h ement ly l ong s for "of The monied inter es ts, th e b an k ers , th e ca pitalists , to some of the lar ge s h o pk ee p ers . d es i re p ea ce, b" kO O great mass of the proprietors are neutral, and lc'e cy • with calm indifference, for "le sal (according to t he pression of N a p o l eon ) 71C t rem bl e vas ." I‘l lo / tb jot are, no doubt, among this class, who look to Ivo r o ld the realization of their hopes of a return o f the ~t be dynasty —some, but v er y fe w , f or a restora tion ot fee Imperial sway ; but, I repeat, the great mass, with a 0 1. exceptions, is indifferent, while the schools, the sibs versities, the clerks, the workmen, and 30,000 si bs officiers, forming the bone and sinew of the arint il s, stuff, in a word, o f w hi c h f uture H oc hes. t • and Murats will be made, are one and all for Pr ° t bs and immediate war. For the present month, or next three months, or even year, these turbulent oP i pte may be kept under ; but I tell you, in their OW" Jr guage, ravenir est a eux, and that the man, or the 1 10 nasty who seeks to cur b th em , w ill u l t ; ma t e ly t hs the attempt. These men arc impelled by two 01 ,a, strangest p ass i ons — se lfi s h ness , and a sense of to t , t he however imaginary and unfounded. Uniting 14. of suggestions of a calculating self-interest the f e rociti 4c l the military spirit, and the hoarded venom of a " I°4l ' o o, • hate," all the stronger for being repressed for a 150 ; od they long for the mament when the lust of rapioeid• the thirst for r evenge may b e s i mu l t a neous l y gret.Hbat This, you will say, i s b u t a g l oomy p i cture ; hu t ,: joo I have observed f or t h e l ast f our mont h s a ff o rd proof that the colours are not overcharged. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE' TATTERSALL'S—YESTERDAY. beg' There was a good att en d ance t hi s a f ternoon , but de o ness progreesed languidly, and without any serious 41,03 on the quotations. P a l tamon ' s price ; was 15 to o§ o. to nearly 1001., and o ff ere d current l y up to ' the " hie • Coronation was in force at 18 to 1, at which fig ur- e nee • backers would have go n e o n ; o n e p arty , i n d ee d, 00 ' 9 40 , tent with a point less. The o dd s quo t e d b e low at ke st Marshal Soult and Knight of the Whistle were npo with some spirit ; and so frequent were th e o rk' quince about Prince Caradoc that no one l'e n ' t he to advance upon 25 to 1' • we have no doubt...el. two points more would have satisfied his il l ; f io, Chameleon was not named at a price, but as 6 to r asa taken between him and Coronation, and no one rcell e ite to an offer to back him against Ralph, we are en tit ' infer that last week's odds would not have beotl„ 0 al , , Ralph was lather out of favou r , an d t h e R osa lie • 5 o f though backed on commission, is not by any t ° better favourite. Some outs id ers were b ac k e d, .. °l3 ,Ael them, Ermengardis, with su ffi cient animation to g IE - 00 a decided lift. If we add that 850 to 200, and 900 °Lola were laid against Scott's lot, and that 30 to I bed have been taken abo u t W a h a b, we s h a ll h ave tr 0 0 : 00 . upon all that is worthy of any notice beyond what tained in the following list of the closing prices THE DERBY. 13 to 3 agst Scott's lot—taken 15 to 1 agst Palmmon 18 to 1 agat Coronation--taken 18 to 1 agst Eringo 25 to 1 agat Soult—taken 25 to 1 agat Ralf—taken and afterwards offered 25 to 1 agst Prince Caradoc—taken 30 to 1 agat Rosalie—taken 30 to 1 agat Knight of the Whistle—taken 33 to 1 agst Mongolian—taken to 601. 40 to 1 agat Joachim—taken to 501. 50 to 1 agst Morning Star —taken • 50 to 1 agst Armengardis 50 to 1 agat Knightsbridge. 50 to 1 agst Darioletta colt 5000 to 75 agst Nebros—taken 1000 to 15 agat Jack Sheppard—taken 1000 to 15 agst Tonquin 3000 to 30 agst Finchley—taken 20 to 1 agst All the Mares—taken e n 1300 to 100 agat Prince Caradoc and Ralph--- 600 to 500 on Coronation agat Camelion--tak en 200 even between Rosalie c. and ken_ for Walaab--ta 1000 to 5 agst Eringo, Lampoon, and HOW' Derby, Oaks, and St. Leger. We understand that Lord Panmure, I**l.o°ts at - Maule's father, is seriously indisposed at his in . . " ,", r jr. land. His Lordship is now an old man, being up of seventy. in , ha CONSISTENCY. — Richard Godson , M.%" o ot ' rem itted the sum of 10 0 guineas to William lose Esq., solicitor, of Kidderminster, for the relief 0 000 . poor of that borough during the present i n clement 1 %,,0• Mr. Godson votes for the Lit:ad-tax, by uhieh pear are deprived ut many hundred times the am p " 00 now bestows to su.,tsiti their Eves under its tosi rder operatiaa.....Stafardshire Examiner. Th e l ack at betithet be E ttl,, t4n : s!"I or ti o4 or 1 4 J ere Four o,c )44 1 . 1,t, IT ANt) 1101,3 1 . L th c' rt.) t4it . a Wily , P A n~