The Sun. — London, England, 1849-01-29 00:00:00

Now ready, in 2 vols., 21s. bound, SAM SLICK'S NEW WORK, TEE OLD JUDGE ; Or, Life in a Colony. "Full of the Clockmaker's shrewdness and quaint comdcgities." — Examiner. ' "There Is a fund of wit and wisdom in these amusing volumes." —Sun. " The style efJudge Haliburton is as familiar to us now in England as Is that of Dickens or Thackeray. The Old Judge contains some admirable fun."—Weekly Chronicle. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great ..Nfarlborough-street. On Tuesday, January 30, WITH AN ILLUSTRATION BY LEECH, AI(D A PORTRAIT OF SCHILLER. THE FEBRUARY NUMBER, OF BENTLEY'S MISCELLANY. C ONT ENTS: The Coroner's Clerk. By the Author of "Experiences of a Gaol Chaplam."—Frznk Hamilton. By the Author of " Stories of Waterloe."—The Rouit's Choice. —The Headlong Phrenologist. By Horace Mayhew.—The King who became Young again. By Alfred Crowquill.—Annus Mirabills.—Wayside Pictures in Brittany .—The Watchman. By Lol - d "Maidstene.—A Day's Journey in New Jersey. =The Swedes in Funen. Hans Christian Andersen.—El —Schiller and his Conte Early Life. By Hirnself.—Cacooruia and the Goldfinders.—Kenible's Saxons In Eng land. —The Cossacks. —Paris in 1848 a:'d in the Olsen lime.—Mrs. Romer's Bird of Passagc.-- , emartine's Raphael —Neale's Closing Scene, Beckford and Talleyrand, &c. • Richard Bentley, New Burlington-3trce:. MDLE. JENNY LIND at EXETER-HALL. Mr. BALFE will mire a GRAND CONCERT, THIS EVENING, Jan. 29, on which occasion, in addition to her celebrated arias and cavatinas, 3ltllle. JENNY LIND will sing a NEW BAL LAD, composed expressly by Mr. Balle, entitled " The Lonely Rose." 3ldlle. Vera, Miss Bassano, Hi s burlachcr, Signor Beletti, SLuor F. Lablache, and ignor Lablache will assist. M. Thalberg will perform two of his esteemed compositions. The Orchestra will be selected and conducted by Mr. Balfe. Doors will be opened at Seven o'clock, and commence at Eight o'clock precisely. rrHEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. CIRQUE NATIONAL DE PARIS. EVERY EVENING. M. Dejean begs to announce that a SECOND Grand JUVENILE FETE will take place on WEDNESDAY MORNING next, on which occasion the Boys of the Royal Military Asylum with their Bands trill attend. CHILDREN AT REDUCED PRICES. Extraordinary Performances of the Equestrian Troupe from the Cirque National de Paris. 3ldlls. Caroline, Ducos, Amaglia, &c.—The celebrated Match of 29 Vaulters—Dance of the Four Globes, &c. Commence at Eight o'clock. MORNING PERFORMANCES, EVERY WEDNESDAY AND FRIDAY. Doors open at Half-past One, commence at Two o'clock. The Performances will terminate about Five o'clock. PRICES OF ADMISSION. Dress Circle, 4s. Dress Boxes, 3s. Upper Boxes, 2s. Arena, and Promenade, Is. 6d. Lower Gallery, ls. Children, under twelve years of age, Rill be admitted at the fol lowing reduced prices : Dress Circle, Is. 6d. Dress Boes, 2s. Upper Boxes, Is. 6d. Pit, Arena, and Promenade,x Is. Lower Gallery, 6d. Tickets to be had of Mr. O'Reilly, at the Box-office ; and at Jullien and Co.'s, 214, Regent-street. ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. Season 1819. FRENCH PLAYS and OPERA COMIQUE. THIS EVENING, The Performances will commence at Eight o'clock precisely, with LES DEUX VOLEURS. To conclude with the popular Opera Comique, entitled L'ANIBASSADRICE. Mr. Mitchell begs also 'o announce that, notwithstanding the in creased expenses of the present entertainment, the prices of admis sion are determined as follows: Boxes .. • . • • .. ss. Od. Pit• • • • .. • • 33. Od. Amphitheatre • . 2s. Od. Subscriptions for the season may be arranged James at Mr. Mitc street ;hell's Royal Library, 33, Old Bond - stree t ; Mr. Sams', St. 's- Mr. Andrews', New Bond-street ! and at the Box-office of the Theatre, which is o pen daily from eleven till five. r ;11 , ,ATRF. ROY' A_L, Mr. B. Webster, Sole Lessee and Manager. Old llrompton. The public is respectfully informed that this Theatre has, during the recess, undergone very extensive repairs sad alterations and the Whole re-decorated. THIS EVENING, Will be performed HAMLET. Hamlet, Mr. C. Kean ; Queen, Mrs. Warner ; Ophella, Mrs. C. Kean. To conclude with an Arabian Nights' Entertainment, entitled CAMARALZAMAN AND BADOIJILA ; or, The Peri who Loved the Fringe. Characters by Messrs. Bland, Keeley, Mrs. Keeley, Bliss Horton, and Miss Reynolds. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPIII. nde - •w.e direction of Madame celeste - During the Recess this Theatre has been entirely re-decorated, the Original designs by Rigby Wyatt, Esq., executed by Mr. Sang. A new Stage, Curtain, Act Drop, and Chandelier. An approved sys tem of Ventilation, &c., &c. The Private Boxes enlarged, Backs added to the Seats, and Stalls rendered more comfortable. THIS EVENING Will be performed a new Drama, founded on Mr. Dickens's Christ mas Book, entitled TIIE HAUNTED MAN. Mr. Itedlaw, Mr. Hughes : the Phantom, Mr. 0. Smith ; A. Tetterby and C• , Mr. Wright ; the Boy, Miss E. Chaplin; dilly, Miss Woolgar ; Mrs. Tet terby, Mrs. F. Matthews. T. be followed by THE ENCHANTED ISLE. Alonzo, Mr. Paul Bedford; Prospero, Mr. 0. Smith ; Ariel, Miss E. Chaplin. To conclude with the laughable Farce of SEEING WRIGHT. ROYAL LYCSUM THEATRE. Under the Management of Madam:. Vestry. Sole Lessee. Mr. Charles Mahe vs. THIS EVENING. Will be performed a new and original petite Comedy, entitled - WHO SPEAKS FIRST ? After which, a new Fairy Extravaganza, entitled THE KING OF THE PEACOCKS. Characters by Messrs. Harley, John Reeve, Selby, H. Hall, Marshall, and H. Marshall ; Miss Kathleen Fitzwil- Ram, Miss L. Howard, Mrs. Maenamara, Miss Marshall, Miss L. Marshall, Miss Coleman, and M aflame Vestris. To conclude with AN APPEAL ro 'rue, PUBLIC. Dress ::axes, ss. • Upper Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 2 s. ; Gallery , ls. No Iludf-priee to any part of the house. • The New Lox-wilco, No. 2, Wellington - street, is open to the public every day, from Ten till Six. PRINCESS'S THEA.Tar , .. Mr. J. M. Maddox, Sole Lessee and Manager. During the Recess this Theatre has been re-decorated and embel lished in a superb and costly manner ty Mr Ilurwitz. A new Chan delier has been dtted, and the best arrfut. , ;( men is have been raade for the due Ventilation of the. Theatre, and tha cot.uort and conyeaience of the audience. THIS EVENING, Will be performed a new Opera, entitled BLAME, TEIE FOUND LING OF TIIE LAKE. To conclude with a new grand rentomime, entitled BLUFF RING HAL; or, Harlequin and the Charmed Arrow. Harlequin, Mr. Bologna; Pantaloen, Mr. Paulo ; Clown, Ur. Fleamore ; Sprite, Mr. De Barr ; Columbine, Miss Fawcett. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Proprietor, Mr. W. Batty. Under the P:itronage of her Majesty the Queen, his Royal Highnoss Prince Albert, &c. Enormous success of the Holiday Novelties, the most astounding In the Metropolis.--A gorgeous Spectacle.—Brilliant Scenes of the r Arena.— A new comic Pantomime. THIS EVENING, The curtain will rise at a Quarter to Seven o'clock precisely to the magnificent Spectacle of the WARS OF TILE JEWS t or, V e Fall of Jerusalem. • To be followed by an inlmitalde disp!ay of SCENES IN THE CIRCLE, EPpporteo by the first Equestrian taint of the day. To conclude with a new Equestrian Pantomime, entitled BOLD ROBIN HOOD • or, The Pretty White liorse and Enchanted Prin cess of Sherwood Forest. Boa-office open from Eleven till Five. Stage Manager, Mr. W. West. TO CORRESPONDE.NTS. No communication can be attended to uriess autheati. cared by the name and address of the writer. Rejected communications cannot be returned. WEATHER.—Suzi OFFILT.. JANUARY 28. Tg ;RI,IO3IETER, Lowest, 38, tlighcst. 44 Noon. 43. BAROMETER, 29.45—a fall of more than half an inch since ye3terday. WIND W.N.W.; fresh cull brf.eze, with fine sunshine and clouds; leavy rain last night. JANUARY 29. TaElv.ic-;vir..TER; Lowest, 35; Ltighust, 43; Noon, 39. 29.73. D N.N.E.; hPavy scrv.ll, , , occasional rain. ~A TLIE AT LONDON I Tills DAT 59 nin. are , 4 I Eventtry, 20 min. after 5 To-Moaßow—Moniing, 41 min. after 5 I Evening, 1 min. after 6 ?•-•. A ~-..., ".,:,•,,,,,," frz , v - S4 4 C n i E Li s ' 4, ,,,L , — 4 r • :tt 0' ' .11R6 1 . ...7,-, 1. ' —.." ...9 tuning .11111; LONDON, MONDAY, JANUARY 29, 1849. .~~ _ ~~~ O >•~ ~ y The labours of the Financial Reform Association are beginning already to produce beneficial results. The Government recognises the spirit of thrift with which (according to the Lord Provost of Edinburgh) the entire nation has been seized. They respect the voice of public opinion, and measures of economy and. retrenchment are now seriously canvassed, an d, w h erever practicable, brought into operation, w hi c h were wholly despised and disregarded for a long se ries of years, and tinder various Administra tions. The first fruits of the movement may be discovered in the series of Minutes that have just been issued from the Board of Admiralty to the several dockyards, and the new regulations thereby introduced for the management of those gigantic establishments. These Minutes (26 .in number) will be found in extenso in another part lof our impression. Generally speaking they are movements in the right di rect i on. They - a re in tended to produce an improved system of economical management, to remedy obvious defects, and to give a regular and uniform action to all the component parliament parts of the existing system ; + " ..o satisfy and the country that these great national establishments are conducted with the same regard to economy t h e same honest desire to make promotion depe n d ent on merit, and the same scrupulous attention to those minute details of management upon which the /vB 3 r gain of a manufacturing establishment depends, th a t i n a il private enterprises have constituted the secret of success. 7 These are undoubtedly correct princi ples, perfectly unexceptionable in every respect. It is less surprising that the light should at length have fallen upon their Lordships, that, yielding to the in creasing prssure from without, they should so tardily, and at the eleventh hour, have adopted those obvious rules, without which a private firm would speedily be involved in bankruptcy and ruin, than that a pr,vtr,system should su long have been neglected; c ' 7 '' tb`at ("pi abuses which spru n g u p durin g th e pro --ii tricted` n t le of Lord M ELviLL E, and which prevailed o --', dun short tenure of office of his late MAJESTY '''''' fil Lint 4 .- h Admiral, should hare_becu continued without notice or obz,ervation during the quasi-econo • mical regime of Sir J. GRAHAM, whose resumption of office was lately solicited, and also of Lords AUCK LAND, DE GREY, MINTO, HADDINGTON, ELLEN , BOROUGH, and even during the second assumption of office by Lord AUCKLAND as First Lord of the Ad miralty. Surely some persons must have been re sponsible during that entire period for dereliction of duty so scandalous. It would really appear as if the superintendents of the several dockyards had sup posed that there was an unlimited fund on which they could draw ad libitum; that con siderations ofexpenses:were wholly beside the question; that their only duty consisted in providing work, without considering whether that work was really beneficial or otherwise. ' We have read of per sons evekieg evil spirits, who were compelled to keep the attendant demon in constant occupation lest he might turn on his emplo3er, and rend him limb from limb, if there was the slightest cessation of labour. It would seem as if the superintendents and heads of departments considered that some such ne cessity existed, that they were bound to keep the men in full occupation, and if that object were at tained, that they were relieved from every other duty; that there was no necessity for a vigilant supervision over their subordinates, or a cordial and friendly co operation among themselves. Hence the costly and useless experiments—the unnecessary works—the ex• travagant demand for stores—the carelessness of ex penditure, and the absence of any efficient check on malversation of any kind—or of any audit of the large pa 3 ments made annually for wages. The entire system is now to be changed, and all will be right if the new regulations can effect the objects proposed by their Lordships. The first five Minutes regulate the future working strength of the dockyards, the admission of appren tices, the hours of labour, the mode of muster, and the present amount of superintendence. By the first, the number of shipwrights now employed in the several yards are to be reduced to 3,500, and corre sponding reductions are to be made in the other branches of skilled labour according to the scale now in use for regulating the proportions between the shipwrights and other classes of artificers. Now we must confess that we do not quite approve of this working at the base of the column, this sacrificing in the first instance the hard working and badly paid labourers, who maintain their families by their own honest industry. It is, unfortunately, too much the practice, whenever the public indignation has been strongly excited, when an outcry has been raised against the shameless jobs perpetrated, and the overgrown salaries paid to use. less drones and sinecurists, to attempt to pro pitiate public favour by making some show of retrenchment, and cutting off those who have no Parliamentary influence or powerful friends to defend their interests, and to speak out boldly and resolutely on their behalf. The unfortunate ship wrights who are thus driven from employment, and ruthlessly consigned with their families to poverty and destitution, have no friends or relatives in either branch of the Legi-lature, no Noble or Right Hon. Cousins to depict their probable sufferings or the ex treme hardship of their cases. No voices will be up lifted within the walls of Parliament to expatiate on the impropriety of discharging them from the public service, although their conduct had been perfectly unexceptionable during the period that they were retained in the employment of the nation. Nothing will be alleged respecting the grievance of arresting their well-merited hopes of promotion. It is only Post Captains that would have a just cause of complaint, it their chances of obtaining " a flag" were in any degree diminished. For their sakes, the number of Admirals must be retained at 150, or about one for every three vessels in com • mission, including cutters, sloops, ketches, brigs, convict hulks, &c., &c., and about ten times the number that could be engaged in duty on any possible emergency. If any reduction is suggested in that number—if the savings that could thereby be effected are only hinted at, a hundred sympathizing voices are heard in indignant remonstrance. The Secretary of the Navy will own the soft impeach ment, and acknowledge the great hardship to de serving officers; and yet those officers receive good pay, although many of them render no services therefor. We find that the first 70 on the list are paid 143. GI. per diem, the next 100, 12s. and the remaining 362, making in all 532, obtain 103. 6d. per day ; this, be it remembered, is wholly distinct from the pay and allowances when in actual commission. They are, therefore, objects of the deepest sympathy, but no compassion is entertained for the hard working shipwrights or the other classes of artificers that may be engaged. They can only be driven to the workhouse, or compelled to Earn a scanty and precarious subsistence in any manner practicable. They have no fine feelings of ambition to sympathise with, and therefore they may be discharged without compunc tion or remonstrance. In other respects we have no fault to find with the Minutes. They are, as we have stated, steps in tht , right direction, but we trust that they may be speedily followed by some more important reductions in the higher'branches. Again and again we have considered it our duty as journalists to insist upon the necessity of greater caution in the management of the collieries. Again and again our arguments have been enforced by some gha-tly explosion, carrying death and desolation to many honest families, and mutilating limbs that might otherwise have toiled on manfully until the age of decrepitude. Another of these grievous catas trophes has recently started the public anew into an appreciation of the dangers to which we have so fre quently and so earnestly made reference. On Wed nesliay last, in a pit situated in a beautiful dale in Yorkshire—known as the Darley Main Colliery, near Barnsley—t-ighty persons out of one hundred and five labourers, were sudd2nly destroyed by the ignition of the inflammable atmosphere. Up to the latest intelligence received from the neighbourhood the result of the search among the sufferers had proved as follows : Number of men and boys in the pit at the time of _ the explosion ... 105 Dead bodies found up to eight o'clock on Wed nesday ... Ditto found on Wednesday night and Thurs- day ... ••• ••• - ... 70 ... Persons brought out alive, who have since _ died ••• ••• ••• ••• ... 2 Persons found alive, and still living ... 25 Persons still missing and supposed to be dead 3 -105 The details of the calamity are, moreover, as is usual upon all such occasions, sufficiently horrify ing. Some were charred and distorted, some had their bones shattered, others their flesh lacerated, others their clothes burnt and blackened as with gunpowder, while the majority of the unfortunate creatures who were killed had received so many bruises and dis• figurements as to be wholly unrecognizable by their nearest and dearest relatives. While we are still shuddering from the relation of these hideous suffer ings, while we are still conscious that the relicts and children of the poor men who have perished while labouring for their maintenance are yet bewailing their misfortunes, it may not be idle to revert to the subject so intimately connected with the catastrophe-- the origin of all these sufferings and the cause of all these misfortunes. We mean the culpable negligence with which the collieries are too frequently con ducted. . Without intending by any means to include in our censure all the collieries in the northern and midland counties, we are, nevertheless, compelled to regard the ill•arranged collieries as the rule, and the well arranged collieries as the exception. Even in those cases where the accident can never be positively traced to its source, it is invariably conjectured by all expe.. rienced men that it has arisen from an insufficiency of nake ventilation, coupled with the careless exposure of a d light. In the vast majority of these explosions we may safely aver, without any dread of contradic osights. tion, that th e cause o f the calam i ty h as b een the simultaneou sv concurrence of these two dangerous er lhceirrecum is s no fear, s fear, there can be no fear under ordinary take place, in consequence of f ha th t the detonation estrikingout ca o n f a spark from the collision of a pebble a in he a a n vi i ly n.m iro a n n e a d ged l s t. u g a a l i t n ie st s t m he ay na o i c i c o u f r sh p o o e w . de S r u m ch ag c a a - - zine when the attendant fails to slip on the flannel slippers before his entrance, but in a coal-pit—the mere supposition is preposterous. Now taki ng thi s negation for granted—and no one we conjecture will have the temerity to gdinsay its correctness—it is manifest that there are no insurmountable obstacles to the prevention of any such occurrences as this ex plosion at the Barley Main Colliery. For the ven tilation of the mine the proprietors should be held responsible under the heaviest penalties; and the possibility of uncovering to the subterranean atmosphere the lights contained in the Davy lanterns might be wholly precluded by having the " catch" of the wire•guaze effectively padlocked. Supposing by any improbable chance that the light should be come extinguished, it would surely be preferable for the miner to grope his way from the darkness than to hazard his own life and those of his companions by negligently uncloaking the smouldering wick. Any thing, in short, would be better than the constant endangerment of the existence of a whole community through the foolish inattention of an indolent over seer, or the absua temerity of an ignorant workman. Until some brecautions of the nature here f suggested shall have been taken, we shall continue to insist upon the urgent defamed for interference on the part of the Executive ; and shall never tire of bring ing the perilous position of the unfortunate colliers of Derbyshire and Staffordshire, and the other mining counties, under the consideration of the Home Secre tary. Unhappily, we are in no expectation that there will be any dearth of opportunities. Numerous and appalling as these explosions have been, we are satisfied, from a deplorable experience, that the ca tastrophe which took place at Darley Main Col liery on Wednesday will be anything but the last of the same description. Unless the Government interferes, promptly and peremptorily, these casualties will continue to be cf perpetual recurrence. By mulcting the owners of the pits of heavy penalties, wherever it shall be proved that there has been a gross insufficiency of ventilation, and by rendering the padlock an essential accompaniment of the Davy lantern, we may put an end at once to the possibility of these destructive explosions. Not otherwise. THE FRENCH REPUBLIC We have received the Paris papers of Saturday and yesterday. Paris was on Saturday in a more agitated state than it has been since June last. The reactionary proceedings of the Ministers have excited a spirit of detestation towards themselves and their measures which is only equalled in intensity by that with which M. GUIZOT and his Ministry were regarded twelve months since, and we are sorry to perceive that their sins are in some degree visited upon the PRESIDENT of the Republic. The appointment of M. LHERMINIER. one of the most violent of the parti pretre, to a professorship in that university, the au thority of which he has for years past been endeavour ing to destroy, has excited the just and natural indig nation of the students against the obscurantist Minister of Public Instruction, M. DE FALLOUX, who seems to have taken M. DE FRAYSSINONS as his model, and to have accepted office solely for the pur pose of disorganizing the University of France. The students assembled on Saturday at twelve o'clock, a deputation of them presented themselves at the entrance to the National Assembly to hand in a protest against the nomination of M. LHERMINIER to the chair of Legislation in the College of France. The Questors on learning their object ordered the gates to be closed, and the guard to turn out. One of the officers of the Assembly then advanced to the de putation, received the protest from them, w hich was af, erwards presented to the Assembly by M. MARTIN BERNARD. The deputation then returned and re joined their fellow-students who were awaiting their arrival at the office of the Democratic Pacifique in the Rue de Beaune. While these young men (about 1,000 in number) were quietly waiting in the court yard of the house in which the office of the Demo cratic Pacifique is situated, four of the Gardiens de Paris arrived and attempted to arrest the student who appeared to be acting as leader—his comrades rushed forward and rescued him, and a crowd assembling, the porter closed the gates of the house. Soldiers soon after arrived and occupied the whole of the street. They entered the court of the house, and arrested twelve of the students. The remainder formed themselves into a procession, and proceeded to the quarter of the University, singing " A bas Fel loux," to the air of Des Lampions. The Gardes Mobiles, too, incensed at the recent reductions made in their pay and appointments, are by no means well affected to the present Ministry— indeed, they are on the verge of open insurrection. Several of the officers of the Gardes Mobiles were ar rested on Saturday by order of General CHANGAR NIER. Open war has at length been proclaimed be tween the Ministry and the Assembly, and it will be a war a routran c e. It will be in the recollection of our readers that M. LEON FAUCHER on Friday pre sented a measure to the National Assembly for the suppression of the clubs nominally, but really for the suppression of every public meeting of every sort and description. The law presented was in direct breach of one of the articles of the Constitution, and the in tention with which it was presented was to lay a trap for the Assembly. The National thus exposes the flagrant attempt on the part of the Minister to violate the law and to com promise the Assembly : " ART. 8 OF THE CONSTI- " BILL PRESENTED BY 31 TUTION. LEON FAUCHER. " Citivns have a right to " Clubs are prohibited. meet together, to assemble Will be considered as such peaceably,qnd without arms, every public meeting which to petition, to manifest their shall be held periodically, opinions by the press or or at irregular intervals, otherwise; the exercise of for the discussion of politi these rights has only for cal questions." limit the rights or liberty of others, and public secu rity." This simple comparison is sufficient to characterise the Bill, and to show its unc,:nstitutional character. It is that policy a ontrance which M. Guiast practised a year back with the success and results which are known to every one. It is the right of meeting, the violation of which by the old Government led to the revolution of February, violated again by a Ministry of that revolu tion itself, or rather by a Ministry of the counter-revo lution. It is the Constitution slighted in its spirit, and in its lt ter. What is the object of the Ministry, wheth. r with respect to the Ass( mbty, or with respect to the repub lican masses, in presenting such a Bill? Let us first speak of the Assembly. The Ministry lays a trap for it. It thinks that it ((pally attains its object, whether the As sembly rejects or sanctiors the Bill. It it be rejected, the Ministry hopes that the Assembly will thus render itself suspected by a certain part of the country of ' anarchical tendencies ; if on the contrary, it sanctions the prosisions submitted to it, the Ministry hopes that in so giving itself an example of violation, it will render ulterior violations more easy ; it hopes also that the As sembly, will become unpopular with the energetic, and, at the same time, sincere opinions which have looked on the Pt public as a bona fide Government. But the Mi • nistry will fall into its own snare. The Assembly, which has already passed a law to regulate the clubs, and which may modtly it if necessary, will know how both to re cognise, and cause it to be recognised, this double prin ciple—respect for individual right, and punishment of attacks made on the right of society. It will thus show .hat it is neither anarchical nor counter-revolutionary. As to the masses, as to those energetic and sinecre opi nions of which we spoke just now, it would appear that the design is, by this audacious policy, to drive them to despair. Such, no doubt, is not the design of the Mi nistry; it is blinded by its false ideas, as to the normal conditions of democratic societies, and, in virtue of these ideas, it comes to decisions of which it does not measure all the signification and all the importance. However that may be, the good sense of the masses will show more l i respect for the law and the Constitution than the reac tionary system of the Ministry." The bureau appointed to consider the urgency of M. LEON FAUCHER'S proposition reported on Satur day against its urgency, the members of the bureau declaring their hostility not only to the urgency of thermeasure but to the details of the measure itself. M. SENARD was the reporter. In his report, M. SE NARD clearly lays down that the Committee proposed the rejection of the " urgency," because it did not ap prove of the principles of the Bill itself. It was not, he said, the tutelary regulation of a right consecrated by the Constitution that was demanded; it was the right itself that was contested • for the exposé des motifs read by the Minister o f the Interior had frankly admitted that the whole pith of the mea sure was in the words " the clubs are pro hibited." However much the disorders which had resulted from the clubs might be deplored, and however anxious the Assembly might be to put an end to them, the Committee could not accept a measure which would have the effect of an nulling a right consecrated by the Constitution. So far the report was opposed to the principles of the Bill. As regards the urgency of the measure, M. SENARD also declared that the explanations given by the Minister of the Interior did not justify its neces sity, as it appeared that the clubs, instead of in creasing, were rapidly diminishing. On the 28th of July, when the decree regulating the clubs was passed, there were thirty-seven clubs existing in Paris, while at the present day there were only eleven ; and of these five had been closed within the last few days by judiciary decisions. He therefore thought that there were no grounds for urgency ; but that, on the contrary, if the Assembly should think fit ultimately to adopt the measure, it ought to do so after solemnly considering the question, with all the usual forms and guarantees. The. Assembly confirmed the decision of the Com of 76 40t to raittee, and determin?d by majority THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY . EVENING, JANUARY 29, 1849 , grant " urgen7y" to the demarri of the Miniaters. The numbers were— For confirming the report of the Committee 418 Against it • • ... 342 Majority against Alinister3 This w,"3 - not the only check receive 1 by the Ministers in the course of the sitting of Saturday. M. DEZEIMERIS presented the report of the Corn mittE e on M. BILLAuLr's proposition on the budget, which was entirely in favour of M. BILLAULT'S views, and in the discussion on the Council of State Bill they were again defeated. The Ministers were de sirous of having the Connell of State elected by the new Assembly, but the clause enacting that they should be elected by the present Assembly was car ried in opposition to them. During the course of the sitting M. LEDRU ROSLIN presented the following proposition, signed by 48 Members, for the impeachment of the Mi nisters _ " Considering that the anti-Republican policy of the Ministry has just manifested itst-lf by a fact which is an attack upon the rights of citiz , :as and on ilia funda mental principle of the sovereignty of the purl, ; " Considering that the right of meeting is a natural right, and a poliical right written and consecrated in the Constitution of the French Republic ; that, by the project of law presented yesterday, the 26th of January, for the suppession of the clubs, the Ministry have rendered themselves guilty of al act which is a flagrant violation of Articles 8 and 51 of the Constitution ; " Considering that the Ministry is responsible for its acts, according to Article 68 of the Constitution ;—the undersigned Representatives of Vie people demand tho immediate impeachment of the Ministers, and their trial before the High Court of the Nation, to be there ju'lged in conformity with Article 91 of theCorbtituti , n. (tiers follows the Signatures.) " Paris, Jan. 27, 1849." But it is not the Ministers alone who are held re sponsible by the Republicans for these attempted violations of the Constitution ; the more advanced members of the Republican party, and among them M. PROUDHON, are determined that the responsibility of the PRESIDENT shall be alreality. M. PROLIDHON, in his journal Le People, thus speaks of the PRE SIDENT : " Behold him, then, this President! he who ought to exert every nerve towards the strengthening of our re publican institutions, but who, by his apathy and his intrigues, and scattering around him corruption and despair, is incessantly occupied in the disorganization of the Republic. Behold him, this equivocating Republi- CAD, who complained of being calumniated, and who drives from their places all true Republicans, and hands over prefectures, the bench, &e., to hordes of reactionists, to monarchists, proved through thirty years of treason ! Fur him even the Republicans of the morrow are of too sombre a colour. Absolutists by race and of the old stuck are the men for him. Louis Bonapat to has set on foot the question of the dissolution of the Assembly.' Very good! Monday next, thin Assembly will, in its turn, set on foot the question of the dismissal of the President!" Le People of Friday, in which the above appeared, was seized at the Post-office, and an application was made to the National Assembly, on Saturday, for leave to prosecute M. Pnoupuorr, who, in Le People of Saturday, thus returns to the attack : "We said yesterday, The struggle is between the National Assembly and Louis Bonaparte. Louis Bo naparte has laid down the question of the dissolution of the Assembly. On Monday next the Assembly will lay down the question of the dismissal of the Presi dent.' The Prucureur of the Republic, a subaltern of the President of the Republic, has considered this judg ment disquieting fur his superior, and has seized our number. Let him seize this also! for we cannot refrain from saying, The fiction of royal inviolability was abolished by the Constitution of December 4—the Pre sident of the Republic is responsible.' Yes, and it is not we aho sly it—it is the force of things. On Monday a decisive battle will take place between the revolution and the counter revolution —between the revolution, re presented by the National Assembly—and the counter revolution, represented by Louis Bonaparte. Is it possible to deny tnis? If the Assembly were dissolved the counter-revolution would meet with co more obsta cles: the Constitution would be destroyed—two cham bers would be re- established — the inviolability and re eligibility of the President would be declered—his civil list would be increased tenfold—monarchy be restored —corruption reconstructed —and the people again en chained. On the contrary, Louis Bonaparte conquered, having resigned or being dismissed, the counter-revolu tion would be cast down—all its hopes be ruined irrevo cably and for ever." The Reforme publishes the following protest of the Republican journalists against the Bill for tne sup pression of clubs : .‘ The undersigned, considering that the right of meet ing and association is a natural right, anterior and pos terior to it positive law, and recognised, moreover, by the Constitution; "Considering that the law presented by the Ministry has also for its object to regulate the exercise of that right as the Constitution re quires, but that it suppresses it in an absolute manner, and thus di prices the sovereigu people of their most important political prerogattves; Consideling that the Ministry, by the mere fact of the presentation of that law, attacks both the Constitu tion and the natural rights of nein:— " Pro' est with all their e:,ergy, and call on tke As sembly to impeach the Ministers who have dated to at tempt that coup d'iat. "(Signed) the Rdforme:—Charles R b yrollos, chief editor; V. Le :utre, director; Alexis Lagarde, Ca) la, P. Coq. " / epublique :—Eugene B;reste, chief editor; Chatard, Her é. " Peuple:—Darimon, sub-editor; Langlois, Faure, Vasbewer, Duchene, Madier de Moutjar, senior, advocate of the Peuple. " b evolution Dentocratique et Sociale:—Charles Deles cluze, chief editor; Amiable L-maitre, Goumain Cornille, D. Pilatte, Martin, Castille, 13. Dehseluze, A. Carr& U. Eiji. " Traval Affranchi:—Toussenel. " Clubs : t'es,ier du Nt,t;ty, Bernard, Garnet, E. Madier de Montjan, jun., J. B. Bocquet. In consequence of these manifestations great un easiness has been created in the minds both of the PRESIDENT and of his Ministers, and a conference, at which not only the whole of the Ministry, but MM. JEROME and NAPOLEON BONArARTE, and MM. VIELLABD and ABBATUCCI were present, was held yesterday at the Elpee. The members of the Bona parte family and the personal friends of the PRE SIDENT recommended that he should dismiss his present Ministry, and send for MM. BILLAULT and DE LAMAItTINE. Their advice was, however, re jected, and the PRESIDENT determined to commit himself with his present Cabinet in a struggle against the Republic, and in support of reaction. The plans discussed and, according to report, approved of, were these— . _ " 1. To strengthen the Ministry by bringing Mar shal Bugeaud into the Cabinet as Minister of War, and giving or.lers to the Prefects of the different departments to get petitions signed, praying for the dissolution of the AsLTatbly, and to have them sent to Paris, with deputy- Lions from all parts of France. . " 2. To give the National Assembly notice of the re signation of the President of the Republic (who would for the present be replaced by the Vice-President); and to announce an air,. eal to the country for the 15th of February, in o:der that the country may have an oppor tunity of determining between the Assembly and the President, who, in the present state of feeling in France, would evident:y be re-elected. "3. To dismiss the National Assembly by a coup d'etut, which it is calculated might be done with the assistance of the army and the portion of the National Guard which would support the President." These are the three modes agitated in the Council. It was also resolved, that the closing of the clubs, at least temporarily, should be persisted in. It is evident that the reactionary party are deter mined, if possible, to bring about a oivil war between Paris and the departments. The struggle may be a long and bloody one, but it must terminate eventually, as all such struggles have ever terminated, in favour of Paris. Witness Lyons turned into Ville Affranchie in the first revolution ; witness the destruction of the Girondins ; witness the never failing result of every war in La Vendee. _ _ A dispute occurred on Saturday between 11.1. TRELAT and M. TRIERS, which ended in a hostile message from the latter gentleman. Thanks, how ever, to the intervention of Marshal BUGEAUD and M. HECKERERS on the one side, and to that of MM. GREvY and RECURT on the other, the affair was amicably arranged. Some heavy sales in Five per Cents. were effected yesterday in the Passage de l'Opira, which gradually brought down.prices to 74f. 10c. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK-EXCHANGE. JAN. 27. Boulogne and Amiens, 8 ex exchange - Central of France (Orleans and Tierzon), 7% —Luxembourg (74), th —Northern of Frame, 7% ex diva- Orleans and Bordeaux, 2 1 4 ex div.—Paris and Orleans, 2S—Rouen and Havre, 9 3 / 4 —Samlge and Meuse, 3%• SPAIN. - Madrid journals of the 22d have arrived. The Gaeta contains the following project of law re-organiiig the Bank of San Fernando PROJECT OF LAW. "Art. 1. The Spanish Bank of San Fernando, estab li=hed in Madrid in virtue of the royal decree of Feb. 25, 1847, for the term of twenty-five years, shall be re-or ganised with the capital of 200,000,000 of rtals in hand (epetivo), represent,cl by 100,000 transferable shares of 2,000 reals vellon etch. " Art. 2. The bank shall have the extusire faculty of issuing notes to an amount equal to one half of its paid up capital. To issue a greater number of notes, a law will be required. The notes shall be payable to bearer and at sight, at the establishment in Madrid, and at those which it may form i#the provinces. "Art. 3. '1 he b an k s h a ll b e obliged to keep constantly inits treasury, and in specie and bullion, a third part at least of the amount of the notes issued, in order that it may at all times maintain with the other values an effective guarantee superior to the amount of notes in circulation. pun " i A bh r e t d . 4 a . ec T o h rd e i v n :u t e o o : f ,b e ca l c a h ws note shall not exceed 4,000 reals, nor' be less than 500. Their falsification shall be " Art. 5. The bank shall be able to establish, with Royal approbation, subaltern establishments iq okb, towns of the kingiclm 0 , 6 it Loy think proper. " Art. 6. There shall in future be but one sole bank of issue and discount; the Bank of San Fernando will, therefore, have to come to an accord with those of Ca'iiz and Barcelona, in order to find means to realize the union of the latter with the first, without the least in jury to their respective interests, and with the app:V:a- tion of the Government. This object being obtained, the banks of Cadiz and Barcelona shall act as discount establishments of the Bank of San Fernando, and their shareholders shell receive shares of that eztablishinent. " Art. 7. The Bank shall hare a fund of reserve equi valent to 20 per cent. on its effective capital, or forty millions of reals, formed of the net profits resulting from its operations, deducting 6 per cent. for the pay ment of the annual interest of its capital. The profits that may result after satisfying the expenses and inee rest shall be applied, one half to the shareholders, and the other to the fund of reserve, until the latter reaches forty millions, when the whole profits shall be divided among the shareholders. " Art. 8. The shareholders shall only answer for the amcunt of their respective shams. " Art. 9. Foreigners may be shareholders of the Bank, and take part in all the operations of exchange and busi ness, but shall not obtain any charge in its governne-nt and administration, un'e.is they should be domiciled in the kingdom, and possess a letter of naturalization ac cording to the laws. "Art. 10. The funds which exit in the bank belonging to foreigurs shall not be suiel..et to reprisals in case of war witty their respective power. "Art. 11. A year before the expiration of the term of twewy-five years conc..ded to the bank, the Government may propose its continuation to the Cortes, if the general assembly of shareholders should solicit it. " Art. 12. In case the capital of the bank should be reduced to one-half before the completio❑ of the twenty five years, the dissolution and liquidation of the company shall immediately take place. " Art. 13. Toe bank shall occupy itself in discounting, drawing, lending, keeping current accounts, collecting payments, receiving deposit:, contracting with the Go vernment and its deßiendencies competently authorised, wish corporations and with individuals, without the es tabishment being ever uncovered. " Art. 14. The bank shall not be able to make loans upon its own shares, neither shall it deal . in the public funds. " Art. 15. The premium, the conditions and guaran tees of the operations expressed in Art. 13, shall be fixed in each case by the bank conformably to what its regulations provide. In loans on public stocks a reso lution shall be previously made, winch may fix the value of the etieets on which the luaus have to be made. This resolution shall be renewed every fifteen days. "Art. 16. The Royal Council (better known as the Council of State) stall take cognizance in future of all the infractions of the laws and regulations that rule in the hank. " Art. 17. The Government shall cause the new sta tutes that are to rule at the bank to be formed with re ference to the preceding bests. (Sivied) " ALEJA.NDRO MON. " Madrid, Jan. 19, 1849." The Clamor Publico says, that NARTAEZ has re solved to resign. Nothing is known of the movements of CABRERA since he entered the Sierra de Monserey. The insurrection in Guipuscoa appears to be ga thering strength. ARRENDO is at Onate, organizing his recruits ; and the detachments of EGANA, MAZo, and LANUMBE have entered Guipuscoa from France. AQUIRRA and LANZAN are also in that province. From Navarre we learn that two companies of the QUEEN'S troops, stationed at Ochagavia have re tired into Pampeluna, fearing an attack from the Carlists. The Progressistas of Narvarre have also risen, and it is said, that SALAMANCA has crossed the frontier. The Progressista insurrection is also pro gressing in Huesca and Arragon. The Carlists have defeated the QUEEN'S troops at Espinal. MADRID BOLSA, JAN. 22.—The Three per Cents. closed on the 22d instant at 20 cash ; the Five per Cents., at 9i cash ; Debt without interest, 3 i 7 ,- cash. Coupons, 6 paper. GERMANY AND THE NORTHERN STATES. AUSTRIA. A Vienna letter of the 20th inst. announces that two police agents had notified to the editor of the Vienna Gazette that the Ministry required him to cease to conduct the journal. This was stated to have been done ir. consequence of his having published an objectionable article on the nobility in the non official part of the paper. It was stated at Vienna, on the 20th, that intelli gence had been received that the imperial troops had occupied Schemnitz and Kremnitz. Tfie Austrian Diet at Krenisier, in the sitting of the 19th, adopted the clause in the Bill on funda mental rights, which guarantees indivi lual liberty, declares that no citizen can be tried by other than his natural judgks, and specifies the cases in which arrests may Le effected without judicial warrants. On the HU a man named DRESSLER was shot at Presburg, in execution of the sentence of a court martial, ;or having spoken caluminously of the int house, and having excited to revolt against the Government. PRUSSIA. Accounts roceivA this morning from Prussia show that so far as had been ascertained the liberal party have gained more triumphs in the elections. At Berlin they have two-thirds ; at Potsdam 80 out of 140; Magdeburg 237 out ol 275; Treves 73 out of 96; Munster 75 out of 98. In some parts of Berlin the elections caused great agitation, and at the Casino of Frederichstadt there was a fight, which had to be put down by the public force. The victory of the liberal party was not expected. The King of PRU.'_'SIA has just conferred on M. GUIZOT, member of the French Academy, the order of merit for the arts and sciences. The Duke of SAXE Counno has arrived at Berlin. SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN. WARLIKE PREPARATIONS OF DENMARK, AI.ToNA, JAN. 23.—The Danish Diet, in its sit ting of the 19th, resolved that all the men of the year 1826 vi ho are amenable for service shall enter the army, and that those who, on the. 10th of September, 1848, purchased their dismissal shall have their money returned to them, and re-enter the service. The earnestness with which Denmark is pursuing the re inforcement of the army was proved also in a recent sitting of the Di,t, on occasion of the discussion of the sth paragraph of the Wehr Law, when the Minister of War declared that he could not possibly spare the men who had been called in by virtue of the ordinance of Sept. 23, 1848. The Minister of Finance declared at the same time that until further notice no obstacle would be opposed to the exportation of horses, either to the duchies of Schleswig and holstein or abroad. Baron PECHLIN, the former Danish Ambasador to the Confederation, is gone to 011mutz, for the pur pose of conveying the congratulations of the KING to the young EMPEROR.. A small detachment of Holstein Jagers, who were stationed at Fohrballum, on the boundary of the Danish Enclave Ballum, was attacked on the evening of the 18th by a band of peasants, armed like the Landsturm, consisting of several hundred men. The Schleswig-Holsteiners were obliged to yield to supe►ior force, and quit the field. Several shots were fired. Troops were immediately sent to their assist ance from Flensburg. The Jager corps were the executive body charged with superintending the col lecting of the taxes.—Cologne Gazette, Jan. 27. BA V A RIA. OPENING OF THE CHAMBERS. MUNICH, JAN. 22.—The KING opened the Cham ber this day, with the following speech from the throne : " Councillors of the State, and Deputies of the King dom,—This is the second Diet I have opened siuce my accession to the throne. The first has scarcely termi nated its important work. The country may, lam per suaded, look lx.ek with satisfaction upon these months, ior much has been affected in this short period. Nearly all the fundamental laws have come into operation, or are on the point of doing so. It will be the duty of the present Diet to continue the work which has been com menced in the fullest comprehension of the interest of the people, and a due appreciation of the requirements of the times. " The fullowing:projects of law will be submitted to you: -- " The prescribed report respecting the expenditure of the public Exchequer, and the state of the liquidation framed for 1845.46 and 1846-47; the survey of the re quirements of the State, and its total income; a project of law relative to a general system of exchange for Ger mauy ; projects of law relative to the administration of jthtice, penal laws, and adjudication of transgressions of the press in the Palatinate; project of law on the order of business in the two Chambers of the Diet; a police penal law; the revision of the commercial edicts; revision of the district laws; revision of the provincial laws; a law relative to the formation of the Chamber of the Councillors of State, a law on associations and meetings, a law on the armament of the country, a law on the position of the Jews (relative to their emancipation), a law against tumults and the obligation of making com pensation for damages caused thereby, a law on the changing of religion of minors, and several other pro jects of law of less importance. " I have faithfully mid conscientiously kept the pro mises made on my accession to the throne, and I wi►l maintain them. Governing as a constitutional King, in the sense and spirit of the administrations, this is the groundwork, the foundation, on which we stand, and which we may not quit. Truth was and ever shall be the basis of my government. Equality and legitimate liberty reign in the government of the State and in the Church. Anarchy shall be subdued with all my power, and I reckon upon your co-operation. All the nations of Germany are convinced of the necessity of a vigo rous and comprehensive maity, embracing the whole of Germany. I also am animated with the desire, and trust, with your assistance, to reach this goal. " The requisite new laws and alteration in the Con stitution shall be submitted to you. Bavaria could not remain unscathed amid the storms of the times; but even in the midst of these *he give eat hoottable tes• timony of her uprieit and loy i sentiment?. May the Ahnighty continue to stretch uut hip prois:ctini4 arena over us! May fin make liluryvn to the Kin:f, and the priople what is His will, and had us in tile way which alone can cpnduco to perri - ,anent happiness!" WALLACHIA. A letter from 13ucharest of the 21 states that in telligence had been received from Jassy that Prince STOURDZA had given in his resignation, an :l that RosNowANT had been installed at Kaitnakan. HAMB URG H. JAN. 24.—A gigantic enterprise is at this moment in contemplation, namely, to unite the Baltic and the North Sea, from Kiel to the mouth of the Elbe. Without such communication between the two seas, independent of the foreign ports of the Sound and the two Belts, the maritime power of Germany cannot proiper as it should. A few months since the Central Power sent Captain McitiNc, Deputy to the National Assembly, to the place , , for the purpose of obtaining exact information. The captain has accomplished Ib:.s mission with great zeal and skill. He proposes that the line of communication should go from Kiel, one of the best ports of Europe, if not of the world, to Bruntstlt el, at the northern mouth of the Elbe, and on the other side to Cuxlniven, the :southern mt,uth—and that this juncion should he erne-ed by means of a canal of a verfewly simple construction, without sluices—which should traverse the soil of Germany alone, and be protected against every attack by the Eider and the Oder Canal. The result of the preparatory examination shows that the ground itself offers but few obstacles, the country being very flat, and in no pirt much above the level of the sea. The proposal that the work should be carried on by the Imperial troop•, who will probably be assembled in great numbers in the Duchies during the spring, is highly approved. ITALY. The Contemporaneo of Rome, of the 19th inst., states that, in consequence of the Duke of LORENZO SronzA. having resigned the command of the National Guard of Rome, the Provisional Government had appointed General FERRARI to those functions. The General had commanded the division of troops which returned from Venice. The Corriere Mercantile of Genoa of the 22d quotes a letter from Gaeta, of the 13th, announcing that the Holy FATHER is seriously indisposed. The Rivista Indipentlente of Florence, of the 18th, states that 1,500 Spaniards have landed at Naples. King CHARLES ALBERT, accompanied by his Mi nister of War, left Turin on the 24th for the for tress of Alessandria. IRELAND. DUBLIN, SUNDAY EVENING.—The northern papers report fresh acts of incendiarism. A stack of oats, the produce of six acres, the property of Cap tain Garner, who resides within two miles of Belfast, was consumed on Friday in the open day. It is sup posed that the deed was perpetrated by means of com bustibles thrown over the wall by a person who was seen driving rapidly past the premises, at the time the fire broke out, in a gig or tax-cart. An investigation, by order of the Government, has been held, to inquire into the circumstances con nected with the late affray between the incendiaries and the two girls M'Veagh; the inquiry was private but it appears that there are some doubts whether the whole thing was not a fabrication. Six, however, out of the eleven magistrates, were satisfied of the truth fulness of the statement made by the 11I'Veaghs. A Cork Repeal paper announces, that secret socie. ties are extending themselves through that county, they are composed chiefly of the humbler classes. The paid guardians of the Athlone Uniou who were appointed about a year ago are to be superseded, the Commissioners having sent down an order authorising the election of a Board of Guardians on the 25th of March next. The change does not ap pear to have given satisfaction. THE UNITED STATES LIVERPOOL, SUNDAY EVENING. The packet ship Waterloo hai arrived with accounts from New York to the 12th instant. Money was easy, and loans on call were made at 5 to 6 per cent. per annum ; Treasury Sixes were quoted at 108 ; United States Sixes, 104; ditto Fives, 994. Exchange on England, 81; to 9, closing heavy. Cotton—The sales are 2,300 bales at firm prices— Upland and Florida good ordinary, 6 a ; middling to good middling, 6a to 7; middling fair to fair, 7 to 7i ; fully fair to good fair, 71 to 7. Bread stuffs—rre excessive cold weather had caused a slight advance in flour. Genessee w.is quote! at 6 dolls. to 6 dolls. 1210. ; extra ditto, 6 dolls. to 7 dolls. 25c.; Southern, 5 dolls. 56c. to 5 dolls. 62ic. Corn Meal-3 dolls, 12c. for Brandywine. The supply of grain is light. Sales of prime Southern corn here made at 62c. Provisions—Pork was firm, with sales of mess at 16 dolls. to 16 dolls. 50c., and prime at 14 dolls. 25c. to 15 dulls. Beef in good demand at 17 dulls. 25c, for prime mess. Cheese-6 to 61w. Lard-7i to 7,1. Freights—Cotton to Liverpool id. freely offered and s.lsths to cl. asked. Mr. Calhoun's Southern manifesto had been pub lished. The South is urged to unite and to prepare for a concerted defence of its rights, in case alleged aggressions should be pursued by the North. No immediate or definite measure or resistance is recom mended, but harmony and preparation are forcibly presented as necessary on the crisis. The Hon. A. H. Sevier had died. At Baltimore the weather was intensely cold; the harbour was frozen, and markets stationary. The Board of Health at New Orleans on the 10th pro nounced the cholera no longer epidemic in that city. The malady was rapidly disappearing. Business was resuming its accustomed channels, and citizens were returning. SOUTH AUSTRALIA. We have received files of papers from Adelaide to the Bth August inclusive. The Forfarshire, with the new Lieutenant-Go. vernor, Sir H. Young, on board, arrived at Adelaide on the Ist August. The Porlarshire sailed from Plymouth on the 27th April. The Australian papers are otherwise devoid of intelligence. The Abberton, which left Plymouth on the 24th April, had arrived, as also the barque Gratitude, which left London on the 14th of the same month. MADLLE. JENNY LIND AT BALFE'S CONCERT AT EXETER HALL.—Iu addition to Signor Labliche and M.,dertoiselle Vera, who will appear for the first time at Exeter Hall this evening, at concert, :viade moi,elle Jenny Liad will sing several of her most popular arias and cavatinas, and also, for the first time, a new ballad composed expressly for her by Balfe, entitled " The Lonely Rose." Even Exeter Flail, vast as is its area, will.not be sufficiently large to accommodate all who would lain be there to night. FRENCH PLAYS.—St. James's Theatre was, on Friday evening attended by the Duchess of Inverness, the Prince of Orange, the Russian Ambassador, the Ba roness Brunnow and Madlle. Olge de Lechner,lthe:Earl and Countess Granville, the Marquis of Angleses, Lady A. Paget, Lord C. Paget, Mr. Spencer de Horsey, Miss de Horsey Lord Brougham, Lord Wm. Lennox, Ea:lof Besborough, Lord Cranbourne, Sir Andrew Barnard, the Hon. Stuart Wortley, Mons. Eugene de Gerlache, Mrs. Dyce Sombre, the Countess de Landsfeldt, Mrs. Denni4oun, Mrs. Milner Gibson, Sir Henry Webb, Lady Quentin, and not the least of the distinguished person ages present, Madlle. Jenny Lied, &c. REDUCTION IN THE ARMY.—In the early part of last week we stated that there was a probability that a reduction in the army, to the extent of ten thousand men, would be proposed in the estimates to be submitted to Parliament in the ensuing session. We are informed that the contemplated arrangement will be carried out in the f Hawing m . anner, viz.:— - Three regiments of 1,000 men each, who, having bean sent to India, will no longer remain a charge upon tha British establishment ... 3,000 Seven regiments of 1,000 men each to be re- duced to 750 ... ". 1,750 Thirty-six regiments of ROO men each to be re- duced to 750 .., 1,800 Fourteen devils of 460 men each to be reduced to 230 ••• ... 3 220 One depot of 400 men to be reduced to 170 230 —Chronicle. 10,000 'We are enabled to state . that there is n o founda tion whatever for the report which we copied from the Corsutre, to the effect that some communicationh a d taken place bptween the ex-King Los Philippe an d the President of the French Republic with respect t o t h e conditional return of the ex-Royal Family of France.— Times. The Countess of Jersey and Lady Clementina Villiers left Middleton Park, near Bicester, on Saturday last, for Belvoir Castle, on a visit to the Duke of Rut land. The Earl of Jersey has nearly recovered from an attack of gout, and will join the circle visiting the Duke of Rutlaud in the course of the week. ITONEY arld C . :, - ) 7 III.I.IERCIAL NEWS. Q /:7•ER U) THREE. The sales of Colene at Telverpool on Sennelay were estimate - al at 12,000 ba!en and included 6,0t)0 American on speculation. Prices of ell descripiiene were fully maintained. The tr neiactions inclieled 8,000 American, at 30. to 51'1., 2 000 Pernam and Maranhain, of 4id. to 51, and 1,000 Surat, at 2id. to 3:1. Railways remained firm, with a fair amouet of basitnne doh,* The Continental arrivals to-day excite far more in terest from their peli , ical contents than (rem any mer cantile details they aft)rd, and the view taken is not so favourable as of late. Unit. d States advices of the 13th instant report favourably of the produce markets. A good business was likely to be done upon the re-opening of the navi gation, and the Californian trade would be much looked after, perhaps overdone, for, with all their riches, the gold finders could not be ex pected to eat and drink, or use clothing and necessaries to double the extent of' their most ex travagant wants. The shipments to celifornie, unless emigration goes on rapidly, will soon outrun the con snraption, for ete ry Pacific port was exp or ti ng t o t h e land of promise, and we ere, in the field with BroLLer Joeethae. The folio Piny is part of a report upon the iron trade, received this morning from Birmingham:— The excitement of quarter-day has now subsided into e state of quiet activity. Both manufac turers aed pig makers 'have sold freely, and the werks of the di,:rict are fully employed upon the orlers then or prevemly taken. The rates at which contracts wore concluded upen tha,t occasion appear to have given very general satisfaction, and are being gradually acceded to by parties who are in the habit of waiting till the close of • the month to avail them selves of any shade of advantage that might be obtained in a wavering market; we have not, how ever, heard of the slightest disposition to give way, but the tone of those who cherished extreme opinions of ap proaching high prices is rather moderated, while confi dence is etre& ly reviving, and a well-maintained firmness eheracieri,ea the every-thy transactions of the trade. Thera is no alteration to-day in the Corn Market. The embarrassment of another East India firm of great respectability, that of Robert Eglinton and Co., became known after banking hours on Saturday. Scot land will suffer probably more than our own manufac turing districts. The Paris news had a partial effect upon the Funds on Saturday, causing a reaction from 914 a to 91k I. This morning there is a further decided chan,.e for the worse, and more attention is paid to the state of affairs in France. u one can form a definite (pinion as to the future, but the idea seems to be that the Assembly will avoid a collision, if it be really ascer tained that the voice of the country demands a disso lution. Consols opened at 90 to 91, touched 91*, and have since been marked 901 4. The New Three-and-a- Quarter par Gen 's. have been 91:1 to 92k, and the Three per Cents. 904 to 911. Bank Stock is worth 194. Ex chequer-bills have been 44a. to 50e. premium, according to the date. It is stated that the Schleswig-Holstein truce has been broken by some peasants. In the Foreign Market there is likewise a reaction. Mexican are down to 251 and 25. We still conceive that this is the result of over speculation for the rise having caused too rapid an advance. Equador Bonds are 2i to 3. Clailian 91, and Grenada 14. Spanish Five per Cents. have been lq to 154, and Portuguese Four per Cents. 261 to 27k. nutce Two-and-a-Half per C en t s . 49 to 49 4 - . ; the Five per Cents. have been 77k and 78k. At Amsterdam, on the 27th instant, the mat ket was firm, ant prices were rather on the advance. Railway Shares have been affected by the reaction in the Funds, and as the fortnight's account has to be ad justed to-morrow and on Wednesday, prices will fiac tuate according as the speculators are Bulls or Bears. The most perceptible reaction is in Caledonian, Great Northern, Brighton, Midland, North Stafford, South- Eastern, and the York lines, but the others are lower. French Shares droop. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. (From the Official List.) Bank Stock 194 a per Cent. Reduced Annuities 9l% l ei 90 3 /e ) per Cent. Consols Anns 9l 91% 90% New 3 1 4 per Cent. Antis 92 911 , 8 92% 91% Long Annuities, Exp. Jan. sth, 1880... 8 15-16 India Stock Do. Bonds, 10001 Consols for Account 9l 907, 91 1 4 90% exchequer Bills. 2V,d. 2d. Mach. June. 1,000/. 500/ 45 47 44p 48 p Small 4B p • RICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK. Chilian Bonds, 6 per Cent....,,., • 91 Equador Bonds 3 2 Grenada, 1 per Cent. . Mexican Bongs, 1346, 5 per Cent 25% 26 25 Ditto for the Account .... Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent Ditto 4 per Cent. Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent, 1840 Ditto Passive Bonds 3% Dividends on the above payable in London. Dutch 2% per Cent.,l2 Guild 49 4 3 /4 49 „ Ditto 4 ear Cent. Certific a tes 78% 77% 7831 • e s • none, res RAILWAY s,llAllEi AT ONE (YeLtieg RAILWAYS. PAID. POI SHARE. erch.‘en Notting., Boston, Sr.c 4 1% — Xyrshire and Galloway BAfast and Ccunty Down .. 20 Berlis and Hants Extension (Gt. West. Perpet. 5 per et.) 5 calls duly pd, or with guar. 20 - Do., withouta guarantee... 20 ... millet:aux, 4 01., 4.x. Dudley, calls duly pd, or with guar. 10 ... . 1)0., witnout a guarantee... 10 Y,iryNing., Wel., &.6tour Val. 13/.143.... irkeundad, Lanea6lnre, and Cheshir. J unction jo6wn, *tarot., & Binning... 5 ;:istol and Exeter ___ D0., Third iuclungliana3hire l6l. 4s 2% dis. to alctioniqn Ditto, Quarter Shares l l l/...... 4z l / 1 to Ditto, New 10!. Preference 7 1 / 2 8%...... to Ditto, Clydesdale Junction 50 [tester and liolyhcad .. 5O ..... 25 Ditto, Preferen , c krence. .... - Do., let Class, 6 per Cent... 10 - . •.. to Do., 2d Class, 5 per Cent... 10 Do., Gov. Loan, 4 par Cent. 10 ...... to Direct London & Portsmouth 51 — ...... to -- l)ublin and Belfast Junction.. 35 - Dundalk and Enniskillen ... 22% - ',!:ast Anglia, 25/. L. & E., awl L. & D Ditto, 18/. ' E. & H Ditto, 3/. 1 01 ~ E. & 11... -3% 2% %... to Eastern Counties .... Do. New Guarant. 6 per il:t. 10 Do. Perpet.,s per ct. No. 1,6/. 13s. 4d 4 p to Do., d 0....... ......... N 0.2,6/. 13s. 4d... % p to Do., ,Northern & Eastern... 50 Do., 5 per cont. Do., Quarter 124... .. - Do., 1". , ; ew Eastern Union, Class A (late E. U. Shares) ......... .. 25 Ditto, ditto, Class A, ditto 3 1 / 2 , - Ditto, do, Class B (I. &B) 22 ...... - Ditto, do, Class C, ditto... 20 Ditto Scrip (gua. 6 per ct.) 20 ...... to -- Ditto (C. & E.), 5 per ct. 2% — .. to -- ~ ast Lancashire - ...... to Ditto, New ... 2l - Do., New Quarters Do., 6 per Cent. Preference Quarter Shares - ,ast Lincolnshire ......... ..... 25 - ~ dinburgh and Glasgow 5O — - Ditto, flail Shares - Ediuburgh and Northern ... 25 - Ditto, New port l5 o.xeter, Yeovil, & Dorchester 2% — .... to Exeter and Exm0uth........ 218. - ••• .. to ,titsg., Dumfries, & Carlisle-8/. 6s.Bd — ..... to -- ;lasgow, Kilmarnock, & Ayr 50 - ..•... to ---- Do. Preference Consolidated ..- — ..... to Great Northern Do. I A2 A Deferred ..... ... 12% 4% to Do. %LI 6 per Cent. Guar. 6 1 / 2 4 l / 2%,... to Do. Extension ... jt. South. & West. (Ireland) 45 - .._ 'ireat North ot. England 100 Ditto, is t. w 401. Ditto, ditto Ditto, New 30/. ......... ...... 30 ..„ ~ Ditto, New 151. l4 ...... . 'real Western 100 Ditto, Halt Shares Ditto, Quarter Shama 23 Ditto, Fifths Do. New 17/ l5 .. ... 14 2 to Huddersfield and Manchester 30 ..... Ditto, 'Thirds lO - !lull and Selby 5O — - Ditto, flail Shares .. ...... 2 . 5 .....„ - Ditto, Quarter Shares 12% 22 - .aneaster and Carlisle.... ... 50 - Do.,Tlairds lO ...... - micashire and Yorkshire ... 93 Ditto, ditto - Ditto half Shares ... 43 ...... Ditto Quarters ,. 17% l B l4 to —• g j ' Ditto if - I" Ditto S:N.teenths - Ditto Thirds (Reg.) - Do., New tivar. 6 per cent. 7% — ...... to -- Do. Liverpool and Bury... 43 - Do. (Rudders. and Sheif.) 43 - Do., Waketield,Ponteiract. and Goole 5O - Do., West Riding Union... 7 .... . 276 3 4 to -- Do., Preston and Wyre ... 25 - •• ••• to .."." Do., do., —.Half Shares (A) 9% - Leeds and I3radtord 5O .....100 ..... to -- Lteds,Dcwsbury,& blanches Do., Half Shares - ...... to -- Ditto, Blue (scrip) ..... .... 2% — to Leeds and Thirsk ... ..... 5O - Ditto, New - Do.,do.,Prefer., 6per Cent. 3t/..... ...... tO -- Liverpool, Crosby, and Soul h cost. Liverpool, Manche3ter, and _Newcastlc Junction 2%...... to London& Blackwell ......131.65. 8d.... 5 Do. hsteniion - Loud., Bright., & South Coast 50 ...... 35%36 % to -- Do. GueTanteed 5 per Cent. 9 ..... - Do. Pret. Cony. 5 per Cent. 50 to -- Ditto, ditto 1852 50 ..... ...... to --- Do., New, guar. 6 per cent. 5 ...... ...... to -• London and (ireenwich... 124 152. 4d.„ .. to -- Ditto Preference - ondon & North Western.....loo ......134 ...... to Do. Quarters (L. end B.) 22 - Do. New Do. Fifths - Do. 40,. Shares... L. & M 25 ...... ..... to Do. 10/.... M. and B. (A.) 10 .... . to Do. 10/, .. M. and B. (B.) 10 Dv. 10/. Al. and D. (C.) 1 , bi Cobs Zen, Real D, D ( S ant I:nit LL Li kind stil P i 441 d b - I '-" i P a n A C I •qtrl D ;), ! 1,,, T, f kro b„t ar i d c outl 44(.1