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This day is published, No. I. of HE ENGLISH CHARTIST CIRCU LAR, and TEMPERANCE RECORD , prise One f alf Penny, co n t a i n i ng " O ur O pen i ng Address to the Chartists '1), England and Wales ; together with an IMPORTANT RLIAM ENT ARY D OC HAIEN T, comprising an Abstract of Return s to an Order of the House of Commons, on the motion 1),1'r• Hum e , f rom th e severa l G ao l s i n England and Wales, COM. t _ mug the N ame an d Designation of ev er y P erson con fi ned sous C harge s of Printing and Publishing Seditious or Blasphe- L4el or attending Seditious Meetings, or conspiring to t'e such ' lteetings to be held, or for any Offence of a Poli -6141 Nature from January 1, 1839, to June 1, 1840 ; deserib d the Nature, of Offence and where Committed, and whether ,Voted of without Trial ' or Acquittal, or Convicted, and what -'4tence, and when. c.l.ondon J. Cleave, Shoe-lane, Fleet-street ; Watson, 15, .„ 1t -road ; Itetherington 126 Strand ;W. 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Irk:vimch the astonishing and incradible evolutions of the Cask . hyp o t er will be given, as well as Brunning's Grand Diorans!e Nl,ll,'s of Syria ; the Pantemimic Characters by the unri -4140 Family • Mr. Soutliby, the Original Clown ; Nt!i 4a rl'e, Columbine ; ' and the astonishing Gymnastique, Felix Carlo, from Frantioni's, at Paris. 1/4"*.H. WATER LOND ON BRIDGE TOMORROW. ...... 33 nun u I Evening..... minutes after 4. , ,4 hlicati en of tr e Evening Edition of Tna SuN Com menced at 10 minutes after Two. zens. The law is the great offender, and Lord STAN LEY means to make it more stringent, and I a greater offender still. He places the character of a statesman in an entirely new light. It was the boast of our SOMERSES, and our MARLBO- Roucus, that they had secured the liberties of England, —it was the glory of the elder and the young er P ITT , t h at , b ac k e d by the people of Eng land, they had resisted and humbled the pride of France. Lord STANLEY has a different ambition. Backed by the Orangemen, his aim is to humble and mortify her MAJESTY'S subjects. His pro ceedings represent a statesman to the nation as a " clever devil," intent only on torturing it. If he only were concerned, we should leave him to the mortification he will be sure to suffer ; but he has influence over those over whom the people unfortunately have no influence, and he will bring the Legislature into a conflict with the commonalty. Then the feelings which this self-willed, arrogant aristocrat excites will be directed against the body which he influences, and the authority it exercises will become as much hated as the man. That there may be no mistake as to Lord STAN LEY'S objects—as to the party with which he acts, and as to the motives by which they are all ani- mated, he announces his intention to Mr. EMER SON TENNENT, says he is in the hands of Mr. TENNENT'S friends—the BATESONS and the VERNERS—hints that he is the servant of their bi- gotry, and his letter is made public by being read at a meeting of ORANGEMEN, and amid the clatter of breaking windows, in order to show their animosity to the leader of their Catholic countrymen. Some men would shrink from such associates and such avowals. Lord STANLEY, who on leaving office in- suited his patron Lord GnEY, will stoop to anything, except separating himself from Oxford bigotry, to spring back into power. Associated with defeated Orangemen he is now in his proper place, and we trust the Liberal party will never again be insulted and injured by his aid. ‘3 , P' -.4; t. • .) . )e LONDON: TUESDAY, JANUARY 26, IE4I. Lord STANLEY, it appears from his letter to Mr. a t 14 : 1180 N TENNENT, which that gentleman read tic . "' Belfast Protestant meeting, is fully deter e I : 'eti to go on earning for himself the hatred of the :iv"' Catholic population. n'en' di e Noble Lord is obstinate in his desire. Some would feel a little abashed by opposition—it bi ti l Provokes Lord STANLEY'S zeal. It fires his it ;° d d and makes him charge anew. He has been is the I r i sh do not need his services. His answer th..-"l'e knows bett er . Th ey say t h ey want some -11 '?g else h e insi sts on forcing his nostrum down c!r throats. Generally it is supposed that a 4_4,10n is to b e governed for its own benefit, and I:cording to its own views. No such thing, says \ \ ° ,, rd STANLE Y , i t must be ruled as pleases me. ". 4 t I call right and justice must be right and . ; and my right and .m y j us ti ce s h a ll be the \vat ' °r the Irish, wh et h er t h ey lik e i t or not . " to me is th e op i nion of the nation ? In ' ll a bold confronting of a people's ,;(:,o i nething alm ost will—there grand, a l most satan i c , as _Mu ll I N ha s d rawn Satan, and we are a l mos t t em pt e d off to admire the wild monomania under which the 1 5 L or d goads the Irish into unrelenting hatred. ad . the little pettifogging regulations, the little ill ' tu lents of reg i strat i on and franchise, which he nti hls Orange clique dignify with the ennobling euri °f right an d j ust i ce, had any resemblance tog fr - trdri freed om o f opinion, freedom of worship, or °nl of t ra d e, we should honour the enthusiasm th.tOrd STANLEY; b ut when we see the miserable tt 3ee ts to which all his zeal is directed, we can only Vet th e sa d dest misapplication of great talents, , f‘ ri h d t he stran gest perversion of noble words. Of Im at , eQ usequence i s i t , i n a nat i ona l point of view, e a or not a few Irishman, more than the nu thell.l" unjust law enfranchises, vote for Members of ' loll s° of Commons ? Oh, they commit perjury' th em they ; the law commits perjury, which tempts )y h er4 . t° practise that as the only means by IV4 they cm exercise the common right: of citi _ We cannot expect that the landlords should em brace the doctrines of free trade, when they are re pudiated by the Liberal Journals. Nor can we hope that Ministers, though urged by some of their friends, will take any step to remove commercial restrictions when their supporters out of doors cla mour for new restraints. In general we have had no abler helpmate in enforcing the repeal of the Corn-law, and no more enlightened advocate of fre e trade, than the Morning Chronicle, but every now aHd then something appears in that Journal more hostile to free trade than the writings of the Herald or the Post. In fact, the latter is, on money matters, almost a free trader, and is a convert to the best principles of political economy, before that science was degraded into a jumble of subtleties by a short-sighted, but clever financier. The Chronicle, however, in its lucubra tions dated from the City, is the most determined enemy we know of to free trade in money. Our Contemporary seems to be divided against himself. He knocks down restraints in his leaders, and puts them up again in the next column. Yesterday, for example, he said : Under the system of freo banking and competing is sues, so strenuously supported by some writers, we should find the verification of the proverb, " that which is every man's business is no man's business ;" and gold i❑ this country would soon be reckoned among articles of vertu—scarce and curious. There cannot be much doubt that things would come to this end by the means of an issue of paper money, checked by no other instru ment than that of weekly exchanges between the banking establishments. The Crown and Parliament MUSE have a real right of interference and control in the operations of the Bank of England ; and, that as the Bank notes are issued as a representative of coin, the nation has a right to see, through responsible officers appointed by the Crown, that their convertibility into coin is se cured by the retention of an adequate quantity of gold in the coffers of the issuers. The abrogation of the pre sent system, however, by the substitution of a free trade in paper money is quite another affair. It would be a regular jump in the dark, and no one could tell the con sequence. The people of this country will not run the risk, they like to look before they leap ; and we are satisfied that after taking a proper glance of the precipice they will draw back at once, and firmly refuse to destroy them selves by the attempt. What is this but the advocacy of the inter ference of Government with the exchanges of all things, and consequently with the whole course of trade ? What is it but a total want of a reliance on the private pursuits of individuals, as the best means of securing public prosperity, such a reliance being the main pillar of free trade ? What is it but a setting up of the dictates of the Legislature above the discretion of individuals in the management of their own concerns, which ADAM SMITH showed was the height of folly ? The regulation of the exchange is no man's business, but it is the busi of dealers in bullion to send it where it is most valuable ; and whether the Government interfere or not, they will always, if allowed, make what pro fit they can on such transactions, and so regulate the exchange. To have a free trade, too, in paper money, we are told, would be a jump in the dark, and no one could tell the consequences. That is just what the landlords say when we ask for free trade in corn. Every abolition of a restriction must be a jump in the dark. Every law is. To trust to the private interests of individuals must always be, for the Legislature, a jump in the dark, for it cannot regulate them. The supply of provisions for the metropolis is, for the Legislature, a jump in the dark, but the provisions are supplied. According to the new doctrines of the Chronicle, to trust to the merchants, manufacturers, and bankers of the empire would be a jump in the dark ; but till that jump be made, and till the Legislature learn to mistrust it self, notwithstanding the perpetual clamour of half ignorant people for its unceasing interference, and learn to trust the private -interests of the people, things will not go well int England. We regret to see our able Contemporary fighting in this man ner the battle of the landlords and all other restric- ons, who have the wary ant of experience for their system, for they have unhappily seen it, and can well say that to set trade free is to take a jump in the dark. Nothing can save the man who is so unfortunate as to have in himself a mortal enemy. It is pre cisely the same with a nation. Nothing can pre vent the ruin of a country intent on ruining itself. In therefore endeavouring to place prominently be fore the French people the incalculable evils which will flow from a perseverance in their absurd deter mination to change the capital of European civili zation into a bastioned, turreted, and loop-holed fortress of the thirteenth century, we have an im pression, almost amounting to a conviction, that we arc performing a very fruitless, as well as a very thankless office. As one of the avowed objects of the walls is to enable France to set England the more readily at defiance, we are prepared for hav ing interested motives imputed to us by all parties. We begin, then, by stating at once, that the advice we give to the people of France is not disinterested. As a commercial people, we have a very deep inte rest in promoting the physical prosperity of France, and therefore it is as much our interest as our duty to oppose any scheme of the French Government or the French people, calculated to arrest the pro gress of the national welfare. As an arm of na tional strength, the walls have no terrors whatever for us. France would not be a jot more formidable in a war with England were her capital surrounded with a triple wall of brass an hundrod feet each in thickness, th an she is at this moment. Our battle field is the sea ; and if an English army has paraded the streets of Paris in the well-earned character of a conqueror, it was under circumstances which, in all human probability, can never occur again ; but which, did they occur, would have precisely the same result, were the fortifications of the capital ten times as extensive as M. TRIERS proposes to make them. But there is little chance of persuading a people inoculated with the madness of faction to listen to the dictates of sober reflection, and upon the ques tion of the fortifications of Paris, the bulk of the French people appear to be actually mad. " Give us but walls," shout the Liberals in full chorus, from M. ODILLON BARROT to M. TIMERS ; " Give us but walls," echo the courtiers and legitimists, "and we fling to the winds for eight years to come, all care about canals, railways, roads, bridges, and all other agricultural and commercial improve ments. For our darling walls we are willing to sacrifice everything. What care we for lagging in the rear of Europe instead of marching in the van among the pioneers of popular prosperity, whe❑ we have walls to defend us from enemies which we have yet to make, and who when made can never pene trate so far into our territory as to catch a glimpse of them ? Half theimoney spent in building walls and forts, would cover the face of France with rail ways, and thus in the event of a war enable us to transport our troops and the requisite munitions for a military campaign to any point of our frontier threatened by the enemy; but railroads, though thus useful as ministering to our passion for military glory, do not so exclusively remind us of war as loopholed-walls and towers, and therefore we ,prefer placing walls between us and the foes of France.' It is only a strong sense of public duty that can im pel foreigners to attempt to save:a people thus bent upon their own destruct;on. But as France can not offer to her starving population, asking for bread, the stones forming the walls of Paris, without exposing the rest _of Europe to the direful conse- quences of their famine and despair, it is the duty of honest journalists to place the question before them in its true light. Society is now in the very whirlpool of change. Nothing is stationary. Theworld is undergoing a series of experiments the most momentous, the most wide spread in their results, and the most extensive in their modifications of human thought and action, that ever influenced the destinies of mankind. The invention of gunpowder did not make a greater re volution in the art of war, nor did the discovery of printing more completely change the previous mode of communicating written knowledge, than recent discoveries in the power and application of steam by land and water is destined to alter and improve the individual, social, civil, and national character of the whole people of Europe. Now, no great member of the European family of nations can fall to leeward without inflicting deep injury upon others. No nation exists for itself, still least of all a nation so central as .France. Therefore in putting herself out of the path of improvement sihe not only ruins herself, but she injures the pros perity of her neighbours. And that she is putting herself out of the path of improvement cannot be denied, seeing that the Finance Minister, M. HUMANN, honestly and distinctly stated that France had to choose between walls and all other commercial and agricultural improvements. If the walls were built, he told them plainly that they must be content with the walls, as the Government would have no money to spend in making railways, improving canals, and erecting bridges. But as regards France the most important point remains to be stated. It is a singular instance of either the corruption or the blindness of the Press, if not of both, that of the Paris daily Journals, the Commerce is the only paper that pro- resses to see, in the fortification of Paris, its true object—namely, to place the republican mob of the capital entirely at the mercy of the Government. The average distance of the proposed forts round Paris, from the centre of the city, is 5,000 metres (a metre if: three feet three inches and a half En glish measure), whereas it has been ascertained that several towns, and Antwerp among the num ber, have been most-:destructively bombarded at 6,000 metres distance; Should, therefore, the po- pulation of any of the faubourgs manifest any dis- position to kick up a revolutionary dust, the Go vernment will be able quickly to lay it, by throwing a few shells from the nearest fortress. This will quickly extinguish the glory of the barricades, by making it a matter of the utmost indifference to the Government whether they blockade the streets or leave them open. Build the walls, and we shall heat. no more of mob-made and mob-banished kings. The system of centralization will be then complete, for the guns of Paris will govern France from Calais to Marseilles. Their voice will travel quicker than the telegraph, however bright the. at mosphere. When danger whispers fear has long ears ; and from the mouth of these guns only sounds of danger to liberal France will proceed. It is la- mentable to see a nation in chains under any cir cumstances, but if there be an occasion calcu- lated to make us distrust humanity itself, it is when we behold a people voluntarily forge fetters for themselves, and even go so far as to fasten them upon their own limbs. This is the case with France now in cla mouring for fortifications. She courts the yoke which will destroy her independence. Her jour nalists are constantly reminding us of the disgrace offered her by the Allies in 1814. The Allies, in their proudest hour of victory and the deepest of her humiliation, never thought of inflicting upon her a wrong equal in magnitude to that which she is now in the act of doing to herself. They dreamed not of compelling the genius of arts, letters, and commerce to seek an asylum elsewhere by proposing to surround Paris with walls and fortresses. Had they done so, we would have been at no loss to account for the mortification which Frenchmen generally feel in alluding to that memorable event in their history. But it was reserved for French tyrants and their parasites, and for French pseudo-liberals of the Republican school, to put the despot's hook in the nostrils of France by degrading her capital from being the centre of European civilization and the stronghold of European freedom into a mere fortress, where the most limited freedom of word or action can only exist by permission of the military Governor. We are told in private communications from Walsall, that Mr. SMITH'S prospects are improving every day. The enthusiasm of the people has been roused by the numerous addresses sent to them from all parts of the country, and by the spirited appeals which have been made to them. They feel that a great cause depends on their votes, and casting aside all minor considerations they are prepared to make any sacrifices which may be demanded of them to ensure success. The Carlton Club foresees defeat, and begins to regret that it has not offered to the acceptance of the electors some man of more weight and of better known liberality as to tzade tha❑ Mr. GLADSTONE. Mr. SMITH, who has started on tfhe Anti-Corn law interest, is a gentleman well known to the pub lic. He has been from the first Chairman of the Anti-Corn-law League. He sucscecded Mr. G. WOOD as President of the Chamber of Commerce of Manchester.. The men of Walsall may be sure that he was not nominated to these two important places by his townsmen without possessing great merit. In fact the memoir of the Chamber of Com merce on the currency, and which was chiefly his production, and his evidence before tl ►e Committee THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY, JANUARY 26, 1841. of the House of Commons, prove that he is a great master of economical science, and that any consti tuency in electing him, even were he not distin guished as the representative of one of the noblest causes in which suffering humanity ever struggled against an odious and sordid tyranny, would confer an honour on itself. On account of his acquire ments, he is a most appropriate Member for any mercantile or manufacturing community, and should the choice of the electors fall on him, they will be praised, and we hope feasted and honoured through out the country. His opponent was never before heard of. The Carlton Club, we are assured, is now sensible that it has insulted the electors, by offering for their suffrages, and for the highest honour which a com munity can confer on an individual, a youth per fectly unknown, who has no other claim on any constituency than that his brother is a Protes tant Papist, and his father a church-building sugar planter and slave master. Not one deed has he ever done to recommend himself to the high honou r of representing Walsall. His name, except as it is borne by two very notorious relatives, is unknown; and to elect him, when there are so many well known Tories in existence, ready to serve their country, would in these times be a disgrace to any constituency, and particularly to a constituency placed like Walsall, in the front of the great fight for the abolition of the bread-tax. It is because the Tories despair of 'Walsall, and have great doubts of Canterbury, that their journals begin to reproach the ten-pound electors as the " worst set of Englishmen in existence." They are stigmatized for joining in the base and sordid cry for cheap bread. They are even denominated the most irreligious part of the population, because it is suspected that the electors of Walsall will not re turn a Tory. As long as the people submit to be the slaves of the Tories, they are praised as honest and religious men ; but when they exhibit a sense of independence and a love of justice, they are de nounced as immoral and irreligious. Naturally the Tories hate the people, and hate every exhibi- tion of popular power. They are tyrants by Divine right ; and though necessity sometimes so far dic tates their conduct as to compel them to speak the people fair, they take every opportunity of exhibit- ing their contempt and hatred. For any popular constituency to vote for a Tory, is to rote for an enemy—to vote for an oppressor—to vote for a ty rant, and to vote for " chains and slavery," as well as dear bread and little employment. To make out a case for themselves the Tories harp on the dictation of the Anti-Corn-law League, and sneeringly ask if the men of Walsall will suffer the League to dictate whom they shall elect ? The League, however, has only recom mended ; it has given advice ; it has joined the bulk of the town constituencies of England ; it has, in conjunction with the starving weavers, im- plored and supplicated the Walsall electors to choose a bread-tax repealer; it has, with the ma- jority of the people, appealed to the Walsall men peacefully to relieve the nation from a most grind ing tyranny. The Tories call this dictation ! We can conceive nothing more honourable, more en- nobling, than such an appeal and supplication. A great nation asks the electors of Walsall to give a just, honest, and enlightened vote. The Tories would bribe or browbeat them into giving a dis- honest vote. Between these two we cannot doubt but that the men of Walsall will make a right choice. Before we leave the subject of elections, we must remind the electors of Canterbury that almost as much is now in their power as in the power of the electors of Walsall. The contest is not in words between a bread-tax and an anti-bread-tax candi- date at Canterbury, but it is in fact. By the neces sities of their position the Whigs must become re pealers, while the Tories will remain bread-taxers ; and for the electors of Canterbury to return Mr. SM YTII E, 15 to vote for the continuance of the bread- tax. Though they do not suffer equally to the manufacturers, they must be convinced, by the state of the rural population in their neighbourhood, and throughout Kent, that the Corn-law is a dreadful curse to the country, and they, we are sure, will never vote, by electing Mr. SAITTHE, for starving the old, the feeble, and the helpless. It is usually reckoned the h e i g h t o f b ar b ar i ty i n savages t o kill their infants and th e i r age d peop l e , but that bar. barity is daily practised by the Corn-law, and will be sanctioned by the electors of Canterbury if they vote for Mr. SMYTHE. To the electors of Kirlaldy we must say, that we highly honour their independent spirit in resolv ing to choose for themselves. It is an excellent sign when they refuse to be handed over from uncle to nephew. We wish every constituency in the empire would in like manner think and act for itself, and would, as the lirkaldy Burghs pro pose, choose the most:worthy man they can find as their representative. At the same time we revere those old attachments founded on mutual and reci procal knowledge, which sometimes connect a par ticular district with one family. If a member of such a family should possess the requisite qualification, should be a staunch Corn-law repealer, ready to pledge himself to the total and immediate repeal, and should be a proper person to represent the burgh, it would be alike honourable, we think, to him and the constituency to prefer him to a stran ger. But the Kirkaldy constituency have begun independently, and will end, we have no doubt, w i se ly. Either Colonel FERGUSON or Dr. Bow- RING would serve the good cause, and the honest electors of the united Burghs of Kirkaldy have only to take care and return one or the other, and keep out a bread-taxer. It appears from a police report of yesterday that a respectable publican, against whom only one complaint had been made for the last fourteen years, was fined for serving refreshments after twelve o'clock on Saturday night, to persons frequent ing the Adelphi Theatre. Two other publi cans were summoned under similar charges, but Mr. JARDINE, the magistrate, convinced of the absurdity of the law, or rather of its interpretation, found plausible reasons for dismissing the cases, have opposed the c l ause i n t h e N and twu at a p l l e o r t l s i h e e e w s A o a u m e l td: time remarked t h at t h e licensed had they known t h e o bj ect o f it, but they were deceived by the ambiguity of the phrases. This is a fine compliment to the framers of the Bill. We really thought the Police Com mistioners had become ashamed of their med dling interference with the convenience and comfort of respectable tradesmen who fre quent months charges no theatrest have onSaturday been licans on that account , but the crusade is again re newed, and all of them are now to be fined for the brought against pub heinous offence of supplying refreshments to those who have been confined in a theatre for five hours, who have no accommodation at home like Mr. II AwEs, or Mr. Fox MA tar:, or Lord NOR MANBY, and who are therefore obliged to go to bed hungry and thirsty because their representatives say the Sunday would be dese crated if a drop of beer is sold to the most thirsty of them after twelve o'clock. Nothing that SWIFT ever wrote in ridicule of absurd legislation, is half so ridiculous as this. It is a mock ery of the Sabbath. It punishes the pro prietors of theatres, publicans, and trades men, and only gratifies the miserable caprice of a hypocritical lawgiver. We therefore call on:the licensed victuallers of London, and the countless numbers that frequent their houses, to get up peti tions against this tyrannical Act, and present them to Parliament by any of the City Members but Mr• HAWES, and in a very short period, even with this House of Commons, they will get rid of the nuisance. The Paris Journals of Saturday, due yesterday, together with the whole of the Papers of Sunday, have been received. They are filled with reports of the debate in the Chamber of Deputies on the For tifications Bill. A snmmary of these Reports will be found in another part of The Sun. As we have in a separate article given an opinion of the whole question, we shall reserve the remarks suggested by the singular speech of Marshal SOULT till to-mor row. Rumours of the existense of a political in trigue for modifying the Cabinet, at the bottom of which was the Marshal, prevailed in Paris on Sun day. We attach no credit to them: The Gazette of Buenos Aires states that on the 7th of November, after some conference between Ad miral Mackau and General Rosas, .the Government had ordered 622 persons to be set at liberty, wbo were confined for civil and political offences in the city and the country. A letter from Toulon, of the 20th of January, says— " We are assured that the squadron, under the cent ime:3d of Vice-Admiral Hugon, is to sail to-morrow for the Hieras islands. The bad weather and the want of some supplies which remain to be taken on board are the only causes that have delayed the departure of the ships. _ Of ten steam-boats, which are at this moment in the port of Toulon, none are undergoing repairs. We ask, what has been the project of having at Toulon a great number of packet-boats for the service of the port. It is high time: to thing of regulating the mails, and consequently to ensure the number of steam-boats.— Le Commerce. The news received to-day from Portugal is highly satisfactory. The Government propose for settling the Douro question has been adopted by the Chamber of Deputies, and no doubt is enter tained of its receiving the sanction of the Peers A detailed account will be found in another column' Madrid Papers of the 17th inst. have reache us. They are destitute of any political news of exciting interest. The late rise in the Funds is ac counted for by the Regency entertaining a project for capitalizing the unpaid interest of the Foreign debt, as well as the interest to become due for two years, paying an interest of 2i per cent. on the capital so created. In 1843, the Government would be able to resume the regular payment of the interest. This is holding out but a poor prospect to the pub lic creditors, especially as interest for , four years is already due on most of this debt. LLO YD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY.) LONDON, JAN. 26.—There has been a light fall of rain during the night.—Wind this day at noon, light westerly airs, and hazy weather. DEAL, JAN. 25.-- Wind W. S. W.—Arrived the John M‘Lellan, MlDonald, from Calcutta; Meg Merrilies, Cape of Good Hope ; Mary Appleby, Mackie, Bahia. LIVERPOOL, JAN. 25.—Wind, variable.—Arrived the Margaret Elizabeth, from Bahia ; Albatros, Alexander and Eliza, Bellord, Taganrog. Sailed the Gondolier, Oliver, for China ;. John Bull. Ormond, Singapore ; Carey, Ni cholson, Calcutta ; Shannon, Killock, Bombay; Hindi( y, Weldy, Monte Video: Portia, Joss, Rio Janeiro; Ann and Jane, Cocks, Berbice, - Richmond, Cockrane, Bar badoes; Derwent, Harper, Antigua; Sutherland, Ha. vannah ; Pactolus, Kinnaird ; Queen of the Isles, Tilley; Commerce, Jones ; Rajah ,Bangs, and Deucalion, Howes; New Orleans; Henry Leeds, Jones, Mobile; Rob Ray, March, Philadelphia; St. Mark, Alexander, Savannah ; Cistrian, Barker, Africa ; William Rathbone, Dances, do. Off port, the Walter, from New Orleans. Th e Morgan, Williams, from Pwllheli to this port, struck on the Beacon Rock, near Puffin Island, yesterday, and sank in deep water—crew saved. SHOREHAM, JAN. 25. —The Grace, Crozier, of this port, has been surveyed; five of the hold beams arc sprung, knees split, &c., and must be docked. BRIDLINGTON, JAN. 25.—The Sceptre, Ainsley, was as sisted in hero yesterday, with damage, having been in contact with a galliot off Whitby. The master and three of the crew of the former were left on board the latter. YARMOUTH, JAN. 25. —The Herring, Stoddart, from Quebec, reports, that on Friday night the Dudgeon, bear ing about N. by W., distant eight miles, saw a vessel an fire about eight miles to windward, and next morning savr a boat marked " Robert, of London," which they sup posed belonged to her. FALMOUT'I . I, JAN. 24.—Wind N. to N.W., strong gales and squally.—Arrived the Royal Tar (steamer), Brooks, from Gibraltar, left 14th inst., Cadiz, 15th, Lisbon, 18th, Oporto, 19th, and Vigo, 20th. MILFORD, JAN. 23.—The Ann and Eliza, Messeracy, from Jersey to this port, is on shore in West Angle Bay, and bilged ; cargo and materials washed out. The Me laritho, Ace, from Newport to Charleston, must discharge to repair. DOVER, JAN. 25.—Arrived off, the Ten, Smith, from Mauritius ; British Isles, Muirhead, Demerara ; Lady Cornwall, Burney, Rio Janeiro. The Lorell Russell, Alex ander, from Yarmouth to Bristol, has put in here leaky, pumps choked, cargo shifted and supposed damaged. BEACIIY HEAD, JAN. 15.—Arrived off the Johanna, Clausen, from Para. CON/ES, JAN, 25. —Arrived the Sophia Eliza, Mehren!, From Rio Janeiro. PENZANCE, JAN. 24. —The Ranvier, from Marseilles to Rouen, has bean got off after discharging and brought in. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. LIVERPOOL COTTON MAEKET, MoNosr..--The sales to day are 4,000 bags, with a steady market, including 300 Egyptians, gid. to and 300 Surat, 41d. to sifd. per lb. _ LIVERPOOL SITARS MARKET, JAN. 25.1EaStCTI1 Coun ties Debentures, 5 ; Grand Junction Quarter Shares, 52 ; Great Western Fifths, 10i 10. MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, JAN. 25..—We have had a dull market to-day. The prices are :—Manchester and Leeds, 76 ; Manchester and Birmingham Extension, 21. 169.3 d. ; London and South Western, 57 to 58; Man chester and Birmingham, 25 to 25i; London and Bir mingham, 172 to 173; Ditto, Quarter Shares, 27} to 28; Manchester and Leeds, Halves, 27} to 2S. Arrivals this morning—The Royal Tar, sailed from Lis bon the 18th January, Cadiz the 15th, Gibraltar the 14th, Oporto the 19th, Vigo the 20th; and two French mails. Our only arrival of consequence this morning is from Lisbon. It is generally known that their dispute Spain is left to arbitration.' She is still arming with double vigour, for the purpose of obtaining favourable terms. Consols opened the same as they left off, at 90 for the Account; Money, 89i 90; Exchequer Bills, 5 7 prem. ; Bank Stock, 1681 1691; India Stock, 250 2bl. In the Foreign Market Spanish Active, which left off at 25k may be quoted at present rather lower, 24k 25i ; Deferred 12k 13k ; Passive 6k I; Portuguese as they left off, 324; Three per Cents. 201 ; Brazilian 73 74; Colombian 234- i; Mexican 281 4; Chihli 57 60 ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. sC,q,', i ; Five per Cents. 991. SHARES.—Great Western 27 28 prem. ; New Ditto 13 14 prem. ; London and Brighton 61 die. ; Black wall 41 3 dis. ; Birmingham 85 87 prem. ; Southampton 57 58 per share; Croydon 12} per share ; Greenwich 81 4 per share; Manchester and Birmingham 15 14 dis. ; South Eastern and Dover 15 14 die. PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE. RAILWAYS. Paid. Per Sharo. Great Western Ditto New London and Brighten London and Birmingham London and South Western 3Bi 5l ... .. to HALF--PAST ONE. There does not appear to have been any spirit for specu lating during the course of the morning in the British Market. Consols at present aro a;shade lower than in tho early part of the morning, and may be quoted 901, for the Account ; Money 891, Exchequer Bills lower, 73 5 prem., India Bonds 5 dis., Bank Stock 168; Mi. In the Foreign Market, Spanish Actives 241 lower ; Portuguese, 321 ; Brazilian, 731 ; Colombian, 23; Mexican, 281 ; Dutch Two-and-a- Half per Cents., no thing done. The Share Market is also inactive. Great Western, New, 63; London and Brighton, 431 ; London and Birmingham, 177 182 ; South- Western, 58. CLOSING PRICES. BRITISH FUNDS. Bank Stock ... 1631 India Stock ......... ... .. 3 per Cent. Red 9Ol Ditto Bonds ...... ...... 5 die 3 per Cent Cons ...... 31 per Cent Red 9Bl Ditto New Annuities... New 31 per Cent .. New 5 per Cent . Long Annuities to expire Ditto Small 6pm Jan. 1860. I3A Bank Stock for Acct ... Oct 1859 - Jan. 1860 FOREIGN FUNDS. A ustrian, 5 per cent..• Portuguese, 5 per cent. Belgian, 5 per cent 9Bi Ditto, New Ditto..... Brazilian Bow's... .. - Prussian, 5 per cent.... BuenosAyres, 6 per cent Russian, 5 per cent. . . Chilian, 6 per (Nut — Ditto, Metallic Colombian, 6 per cent... Spanish, 5 per cent 2h4 Ditto, 1824 23,i Ditto, - Deferred ... I'2 Danish, 3 per cent..... French,s per cent... —f. —c. Groek.lB2s, spercent. Exchange .. Mexican, 5 per cent.... 284 French,3 per cent —f. —c. 1)i to, 6 per cent, 1825 Dutch, 2i per cent soi Poruvian,lB2s,6 per ct. 153 Ditto, 5 per cent..... SHARES. Birmingham and Gloucester Railway (100 p) 80 Eastern Counties Railway (23 paid).....,.. 8.1 Great Western Railway (65 paid) — Ditto New Shares (50 paid) . London and Brighton (50 paid) 433 London and Birmingham Railway (90 pd) 182 Ditto Quarter Shares ( 5 paid) 3l London and South Western ...... ~. bik OPENING OF PAR_LI AMEN T. THE QUEEN'S SPEECH MY LORDS AND GENTLEMEN, I have the satisfaction to receive from Foreign Powers assurances of their friendly disposition, and of their earnest desire to maintain peace. The position of affairs in the Levant had long been a cause of uneasiness, and a source of dan ger to the general tranquillity. With a view to avert the evils which a continuance of that state of things was calculated to occasion, I Concluded with the Emperor of Austria, the King of Prussia, the Emperor of Russia, and the Sultan, a Covention intended to effect a pacification of - the Levant; to maintain the integrity and independence of the Ottoman Empire; and thereby to afford additio nal security to the peace of Europe. I have given directions that this Convention shall be laid before you. I rejoice to be able to inform you that the measures which have been adapted in execution of these engagements have been attended with signal success; and I trust that the objects which the contracting parties had in view are on the eve of being completely accomplished. In the course of these transactions my Naval Forces have co-operated with those of the Em peror of Austria, and with the Land and Sea Forces of the Sultan, and have displayed upon all occasions their accustomed gallantry and skill. Having deemed it necessary to send to the coast of China a naval and military force, t 3 demand reparation and redress for injuries inflicted upon some of my subjects by the officers of the Emperor of China, and for indigni ties offered to an Agent of my Crown, I at the same time appointed Plenipotentiaries to treat upon these matters with the Chinese Go vernment. These Plenipotentiaries were, by the last ac counts, in negotiation with the Government of China ; and it will be a source of much gratifica tion to me, if that Government shall be induced by its own sense of justice to bring these matters to a speedy settlement by an amicable arrange ment. Serious differences have arisen between Spain and Portugal about the execution of a Treaty concluded by those Powers in 1835, for re gulating the navigation of the Douro. But both parties have accepted my mediation, and I hope to be able to effect a reconciliation between them upon terms honourable to both. I have concluded with the Argentine Republic and with the Republic of Hayti, treaties for the suppression of the Slave Trade, which I have di rected to be laid before you. GENTLEMEN OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS, I have directed the estimates for the year to be laid before you. However sensible of the importance of adher ing to the principles] of economy, I feel it to be my duty to recommend that adequate provision be made for the exigencies of the public service. MY LORDS AND GENTLEMEN, Measures will be submitted to you without de lay which have for their object the more speedy and effectual administration of justice. The vital importance of this subject is sufficient to ensure for it your early and most serious consideration. The Powers of the Commissioners appointed under the Act for the amendment of the laws relating to the Poor,'expire at the termination of the present year. I feel assured that you will earnestly direct your attention to enactments which so deeply concern the interests of the community, It is always with entire confidence that I recur to the advice and assistance of my Parliament. I place my reliance upon your wisdom, loyalty, and patriotism, and I humbly implore of Divine Providence that all your Coun cils may be so directed as to advance the great interests of morality and religion, to pre serve peace, and to promote, by enlightened legislation, the welfare and happiness of all classes of my subjects. The Marquis and Marchioness of Douro leave Strathfieldsayo to-day-, for town. The Duke of Wellington visited the Marquis of Wellesley, at Kingston House, on Sunday last. His Grace stayed with his venerable brother for nearly an hour. We understand the Noble Marquis is in a feeble state. The Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch, who, with their family, arc at Dalkcith Palace, near Edinburgh, do not contemplate coming to Montagu House before the first week in April. HOLDERNESSE HOUSE.—Orders have been re ceived from the Marquis and Marchioness of Londonderry, to prepare for their reception early in March. It is rumoured that amongst the honours which will be dispensed by her Majesty immediately upon the christening of the Princess, Viscount Melbourne will be created a Marquis, and that an English earldom will be conferred upon Lord Palmerston. The Earl of Liverpool will leave Pitchford Hall, near Shrowsbury, this morning, for Fife House. The Noble Earl dines with the Duke of Wellington, at Ain ley House, to-morrow evening. The Earl of Harrington, we hear, is suffering from ill health. The Noble Earl and Countess arc at Brighton, where they repaired at the solicitation of the Earl's medical attendants. The Earl of Ilchester, accompanied by Vis count Stavordale and Lady Caroline Strangways, arrived in town on Saturday last, from a tour of several months on the Continent. The Marquis of Abercorn has arrived in Lan cashire, from Baron's Court, Ireland, and the Mar chioness has joined tho Noble Marquis, from Scotland. The Noble Marquis and Marchioness are expected to ar rive at Dudley House to-day, for the season. The Duke of Wellington gave a grand banquet last evening, at Apslcy House, to a large party of his political supporters in the House of Lords. Among the distinguished guests were, the Dukes of Rutland, Beau fort, Buckingham, and Dorset; Marquises of Bute, Downshire, Hertford, and Salisbury ; Earls of Aberdeen, Jersey, De Grey, Shaftesbury, Devon, Clanwilliam, Cbes terield, Delawarr, Haddington, Ripon, Tankerville, Verulam, Wicklow, and Harrowby ; Viscounts Beresford, Canterbury, and Strangford ; Lords Lyndhurst, Cowley, Stewart de Rotbesay, Maryborough, Wharncliffo, &c. Covers were laid for 46, and 42 sat down to dinner. The Noble and Gallant Duke gives a similar banquet to-mor row evening. _ _ A man - of the name of Clifford, suspected of having robbed Mr. Cass, the commercial traveller, at the One Bell Inn, Bury St. Edmunds, on Monday the 18th, was committed on Tuesday to take his trial for stealing several books from the waiter. THE DUKE OF SUSSEX.—The present Christ mas is the first, for many years past, that his Royal High ness the Duke of Sussex has passed at Kensington Pa lace, the Royal Duke having always spent the holidays at the splendid mansion of his old friend Lord Dinorben, near St. Asaph's. Circumstances connected with his Grand Mastership of the Fraternity of Freemasons kept the Royal Duke in town to a later period than usual, previous to Christmas, and the state of his health, since the demise of his late illustrious sister, has given such anxiety to his medical attendants, as to induce them to advise him to abandon his intended winter visit this year altogether.—Court Journal. DEATH or PEELISM.—On the 17th instant, of mortification, sifter a lingering illness of five years, Tho Glasgow Peel Club." The disease had been per ceptible almost at birth ; and though the symptoms were deemed gentle at first, it proved of so malignant a charac ter as to baffle the ingenuity of the collected empirics of the district, backed by the whole faculty of the College. The title is extinct—for although thero are several claim ants, the grounds of claim are understood to be, in all cases, either spurious or utterly untenable. " Sic transit gloria mundi !"—.Glasgow Rt . - formers Gazette, BRISTOL SUGAR MARKEF, JAN. 22.—We have experienced a considerable revival in the demand during the past week, both in West India and Bengal lws,u gars, and prices may be quoted about Is. higher on qualities, and 2s. on the finer, from the lowes point before Christmas.—Bristol Mercury. Sett COLIN CAMPBELL.—It is understood that Sir Colin Campbell departs for his Government of Ceylon on the 30th inst. Holding himself high rank in the army, he will assume the command of the troops in the island, and Sir R. Arbuthnot, the present commander of the forces, will proceed to Hindostan. Mr. Mackenzie, the former Governor, being a civilian, a military com mander was required ; but by the new arrangement, a saving will be effected of 2,590/. per annum —the amount of Sir R Arbuthnot's salary—the two departments now centering in the same person. The Queen has been graciously pleased to ap point Mr. J. Tennant, successor to S. Si awe, 149, Strand, and Lecturer on Mineralogy at King's College, London, Mineralogist in Ordinary to her Majesty. DEATH OF HATFIELD, THE LUNATIC. — James Hatfield, who was tried at the Old Bailey, in the month cf September, 1802, for firing a loaded pistol, in Drury-lane Theatre, at his Majesty KinglGeorge 111., and acquitted on the ground of insanity, died on Saturday, the 23d inst., in the 69th yeax of his age. S U. N. - EVENING EDI -:. :=;tittl4 - .:‘ BAIL COURT.-(THIS _ j_ l ti~i ~.., A , rJ ''f~ C -_f..~~ ‘ l 4l.:4Aigla (Before Mr. Justice WILLIAMS.) THE ROCHDALE CHURCH-RATE MANDAMUS.—THE QUEEN or THE PROSECUTI O N OF W. BRIERLY V. THE JUSTICES or ROCHDALE. Mr. COWLING applied for a rule calling upon tip Ma gistrates of Rochdale to show cause why a mandamtit should not issue, ordering them to hear the complaint of William Briefly, one of the churchwardens of Rochdale, against William'Butterivorth, for the 'non-payment of Church rates. It ippeared that a Church-rate had been made for the parish of Rochdale, to winch Butterworth had been assessed. Brierly, the Churchwarden, haclsummoned him under the Act 53 Geo. 111., cap. 129, Wore the Magis trates, when Buttervjoh's attorney sock a pre !biker,' objectick2Arit the Magistrates could not proceed to hear the complaint of Brierly; inasmuch as by the law every application for Church .rates ought to be made by all the churchwardens. The attorney for Brierly referred them to the 7th section of the Act in question, and contended that under that section the Magistrates were bound to hear the case on the ap plication of one churchwarden alone. The Magis trates, however, decided *in favour of the objection, and dismissed the case. Now Rochdale w as a l arge parish, divid e d into tendistricts, each of which had a separate churchwarden, and Brierly was the - church warden of the district in which Butterworth tesidcd, and in which the property, in respect of which he was as sessed, was situated. Now, surely, it could never b e con tended that the ten .churehw'ardens were to demand the Church-rates of every individual in the parish, and under the 7th section he contended that the summons of one churchwarden was quite sufficient. —Rul e nisi granted. THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY). COLONIAL. MARKET. There was a limitedibusiness transacted, but prices w are firm and but few parcels of goods, were offered for sale. TEA MARKET. The public sales went off heavily, and a small part only of that offered at public sale found buyers at a fall of Id. to lid. Company's Congou, flat at Is, 6i. WHITECHAPEL HAY MARKET. The supply was moderate; the demand not very brisk, but prices were fully supported.. Clover, 41. 14s. to 61. ; Meadow Hay, 3/ 15s. to 5/, ; Straw, 345. q 86s. THE WEATHER. ROYAL GALLERY OF SCIENCE, ADELAIW STRE ET. NOON. JAN. 26. Barometer 3O 04 In. Thermometer . 48 Deg. Highest 59.5 Lowest r Wind W. N. W.—Freezing Point 32 Dog. FRENCH COPYRIGHT BILL. CHAPTER THE RIGHT OP AUTHORS OVER THEIR WRITINGS. Art. 1. The exclusive right of publishing a work, or of authorising its publicatidn, by typography, engrating, li thograpby, or any other method, is secured to the author for his life, and to his represent a ti ves f or 30 years from the day of decease. _ Art. 2. The author may yield the whole or part of his exclusive right, not only for the whole or part of the dura tion of his life, but also for the whole or part of the 30 years following his decease. When no act of cession can be produced, the cession is presumed to be made for one edition only. Art. 3. After the decease of the author, the exclusive right for all the time not disposed of by him shall be t. ansmitted, according to the regulations of civil law, to the heirs then existing. The exclusive right will be con sidered, with respect to the sponse surviving, as common property, unless contrary matrimonial arrangements shall exist. Art. 4. The proprietor:by inheritance,or otherwise, of a posthumous work, shall enjoy the exclusive right of publishing or authorising its publication during th e 30 years from its edition. This right shall be transferable to the heirs of the aforesaid proprietor within the limiti of the 30 years above specified. Art. 5. The editor of au anonymous or pseudonymttui work shall enjoy the exclusive right, for 30 years from the day of the first publication. If before the expiration of this time the author proves his quality, he will be reinstated into the rights secured by articles 1 and 2. Should this quality he proved after the decease of the author, and before 30 years have expired since the first publication, the heirs of the author will enjoy exclusive rights moil the expiration of the said term of 30 years. Art. 6. The exclusive right of the State over works published by its order, or at its expOnse, shall last for the term of 30 years from the day when the last part of the work shall have been published. The right of academies and other learned bodies over works published in their name, and by their exertions, shall last 30 years from the date of the publication of the last volume of the work. The exclusive right of the academies over dictionaries composed for them shall last 30 years from the date of the last edition published by them. CliaPTßk 11 LON DRAMATIC WORKS. Art. 7. The dramatic works of living authors cannot be performed at any theatre without the consent of the said author. Art. 8. After the death of the author, and in the ab sence of any agreement with him, or his heirs or execu tors, the right of performing the piece shall belong to the theatre who shall be duly authorised, on the payment to the heirs of the author the same sum as was received by the author in his life-time. The right to the receipt of this payment shall last for thirty years from the death of the author. Art. 9. Anonymous dramatic works cannot be repre sented without the authority of the parties who shall, be legal heirs and possessors of the said piece. Theii= right to remuneration shall last thirty years front the day cf the first representation. Art. 10. The printing, &c., of dramatic works, the rights of the author, and of his heirs and executors, shell be governed conformably to chapter 1 of the present Bill. CHAPTER 111,. MUSICAI. WORKS. Art. 11.—Authors of musical publications, their heti and executors, shall enjoy for the publicatio n nf their worlr the exclusive right laid down in ch a p ter 1 Of the present Bill. For such of their works as may be eveis•uted at the theatres or public concerts they will enjoy the rights esta blished by chapter 2. CHAPTER 1 V.-01 , DESIGNS, PICTURES, &C. Art. 12. The authors of designs, pictures, geographi cal, topographical, and hydrographical charts and maps, plans, and architectural designs, shall alosse have the right of reproducing them, or of authorising their reproduction, by means of engraving, lithography, or any other mode whatever. This right is guaranteed to the said authors and their executors, conformably to the rules established in chapter 1 of the present Bill. Art. 13. The authors of works of art mentioned in the preceding article may cede the exclusive right to such re- I production, without giving up their property and right in the original work. But in the event of the sale of the said work the exclusive right of reproduction, by means of engraving, ke., b ecomes t h at o f t h e purc h aser, unless a special stipulation to the contrary is made at the time or sale. Art. 14. The exclusive right over designs for articles of manufacture, stated in the law of the ISth March, 1806, can in no case extend beyond the period of five years. CHAPTER V.—GENERAL ENACTMENTS. Art. 15. In the event of the rights, which are the object of the present law, forming part of any succession (cn des herence), a royal ordonnanoe may, if not claimed by ihe creditors, assign them to the relatives for a period not ex ceeding 30 years, or order the forfeiture of the said rights to the public domain. Art. 16. The heirs and executors of the author, whose, exclusive right resulting from prior laws shall not be done away with by the promulgation of the present law, shall enjoy the advantages which it secures, as far as concern s the publication, reproduction, and representation of the works. Art. 17. The deposit of copies prescribed by article 14 of the law of the 21st of October, 1814, is fixed at live copies, as well of printed works as of engravings, litho graphic drawings, charts, musical works, and other works which are reproduced by typography, lithography, en graving, or any other mode. (The other parts of this ar ticle merely explain where the said copies ane to be de posited. CHAPTER VI.—=PENAL ENACTMENAPs. Art. 18. Whoever, to the injary of the rights guaran teed by the present law to authors and their representa tives, shall publish, print, engrave, or reproduce, in . any manner, or by any process, works, designs, paintings, sculpturing, musical works, and any other productions of the arts or talent 13,1 ready published or m editated, shall be liable to the penalties attached to the crime of counterfeit. Art. 10. Any one found guilty of the above offence shall incur a fine of 300 f. to 2,000 f. to the State, and be, be sides, condemned to pay to the party aggrieved such da mages as may be fixed on by the tribunals, agreeably to the value of the original work. The counterfeiter may aio be sentenced to imprisonment for a term not exceeding one year. Art. 20. Whoever shall introduce into the French terri_ tory works from foreign countries, knowing them to be counterfeit, shall be liable to the punishment spccifiedia in da o m n i t i h g s e . s, from also to an imorisoninen: the preceding article. ii oe ~ ershall sell one copy of a work, know. counterfeit, all be li a bl e to a fi ne o f f r 5 ink noto Art. fA. e i r rtt x t to . c t. o c i..) 2 e .hl d ( 2 );( i )! ° d i g e r . c ; r i7 e r e l e t s e h the destruction of all the mould:,, which m ay b e used in effecting the said cou plates, . Arts. 23, 2 , 1, and 25, merely state the relative bearing of the enactments of different articles with each other; the different forms to be observed for carrying lite enact• ments into effect, and other details for its due execution. TIIE SCHOOLFELLOWS. —Of Rl] Stignla4s. - which a youth of sensitive mind can be subjected, that): illegitimacy is perhaps the most torturing, not only ()Luis own account, but as it affects his maternal parent, towards whom the impulses of his heart are almost morbidly acute. It is this feeling that chiefly gives the peculiar , and pig nant interest which fills every page of the torthcomin: r l; Novel called " The Schoolfellows," a story of tlreats originality, nobler purpose, and more impressive intere , l than any which has appeared for year,. A prebendal stall In the Cathodal Church Durham has become vacant by the death of the Rev. Dr S. Smith, of Dry Drayton, Cambridgeshire. The office will not be filled up, but its revenues will pass into the hands of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, under the pro. visions of the bill passed in the last Session of Parliament for the regulation of Cathedral Duties and Revenue, The present is the first stall that has lapsed in Durham Cathedral since the new law came into operation.—Suw. derland Herald. Tom Rounding, of Woodford-Wells, so well known in the sporting world, died yesterday at an advanced age' u„, THEA TRE ROYAL, COVENT GARDEN. ' 4 DER the MANAGEMENT of MADAME VESTRIS. T HIS EVENING, JAN. 26. Wi ll be prevented Shakspere's Comedy (with Music) of sir Job HE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR. thews ; 4P alataff, Mr. Bartley; Master Slender, Mr. C. Ma- Fo r d Mr• M r s ; Fenton, Mr. W. Harrison ; Mrs. . 5 , 48 , Mrs. Nisbett Pag Mrs. Madame Vestris ; Ann Page, Rainforth, Mrs. Quiekly, e C. Jones. NEW After which, GRAND CHRISTMAS PANTOMIME will be repeated, entitled CASTLE OF OTRANTO ; OR, HARLEQUIN Ih ri AND THE GIANT HELMET. Patta,'eltlin, Mr. C. J. Smith ; Clown, Mr. T. Ridgway ; ' ° °e, Mr, ; Columbine, Miss Fairbrother. l' aat - tr r Ovt The Midsummer Night's Dream, with The New boor I" ' t4 anp, s , t° be opened at half-past Six—the performances to 11.1, 4 * at Seven o'Clock. at th e and places for the Boxcs to be taken of Mr. Grogan, eta -uea-office, from Ten till Four, where Season Tickets I t ne had upon application. %les, 7s. ; Second Price, 3s. 6d .; First and Second ; bs. s ee . n Price, 2s. 6d. ; 3s , ; Second Price, q,faller y, l• rivate Llext..4 to be had solely if Mr. Andrews, bookseller gond-street.