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THIS EVENING, FEB. 12, Will be repeated, arranged as a Drama, Handel's ACIS AND GALATEA.—Polypherne, Mr. H. Philips; P. Horton; Damon, Mr. Allen; Galatea, Miss Romer. After which will be repeated the New Comedy ;entitled TILE PRISONER OF WAR. To conclude with the New farce, entitled THE WIND MILL.—The Marquis . de Roueville, slr. Morris Barnett ; Sampson Low, Mr. Keeley ; Marian, Mrs. Keeley. Doors va. be opened at Half. past Six, and the Performance to begin it Seven o'clock. Boxes 55.. Second Price, 2s. 6d. Pit 35., Second Price 2s. Lower Gallery ls. 6d., Second Price Is. Upper Gallery Is., Second Price 6d. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN. UNDER the MANAGEMENT of MADAME VESTRiS. THIS EVENING, FEB. 12, Will be repeated the Opera of ELENA ÜBERTL—The Character of Elena Überti by Miss Adelaide ketnble , Count Übaldo, Mr. W. Harrison ; Sigifredo, Mr. Leffler; Count Guido, Mr. Stretton ; Boemondo, Mr. Clement White ; Gual iero, Mr. Wigan ; Imberga, Miss Grant. After winch will be repeated the New Grand Christmas Pantomime, entitled GUY EARL OF WARWICK ; OR, 11AHLEQUIN AND THE DUN COW. Doors to be opened at half-past Six—the performances to commence at Seven. Dress Boxes, 71. ; Second Price, 3s. 6d.; First and Second Circles, ss. ; Second Price, 21. 6d. ; Pit, 31.; Second Price. 25.; Gallery, ls. Tickets and places for the Boxes to be takes of Mr. Grogan at the Box-office, from Ten till Fear, where Season Tickets may be had upon application. Private Boxes to be had solely of Mr. Andrews, bookseller, 167. New Bond-street. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Extraordinary attraction. Wonderful success of " Norma." Last week of " Elizabeth Lazarus." Continuation of the most popular, eccentrically grand Pantomime ever produced. THIS EVENING. FEB. 12 Will be acted Haines' wonderfully successful Diama, enti tled ELIZABETH LAZARUS, THE JEWESS, founded on Captain Glasscock's " Land Sharks and Sea Gulls." After which, MRS. NORMA, with Belliui's Music.—Nor ma, Signor Nevilli ; Agelgisa, Signor Waltoni ; Pollio, Sig nora Martini. To conclude with a Grand Christmas Pantomime, entitled HARLEQUIN AND THE ICE QUEEN; OR, JACK FROST AND KING THAW —With gorgeous and charac teristic Scenery, splendid Properties, ludicrous and Quaint Dresses, ingenious Tricks, magnificent Panorama by Brun ning, &c. Harlequin, M. Huline ; Patch, M. Rocbet ; Pan taloon, M. Liman ; Flip, Signor Feliz Carlo ; Clown, Mr. Buckingham ; Columbine, Miss Sharpe. Private' and Public Boxes can be had of Messrs. Sams, Ebers, Mitchell, Andrews, and Seguin, during the run of this popu lar Pantomime. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. UNDER THE DIRECTION OF MR. OSBALDISTON. Extraordinary success of this now unrivalled popular Theatre. Second week of the Grand Romance of " Ivanhoe," with its Combat of Twelve, Contlagrations, and startlicg effects. THIS EVENING, FEB. 12, Will be performed, a New Domestic Drama, in Three Acts, entitled THE STORY OF GERALDINE OR, THE TWIN ORPHANS OF ST. PRE.—Henri, Mr. E. F. Sa Dille ; Huntingdon, Mr. Dale ; Claud, Mr. Seaman ; Jemmy Cottle, Mr. Gardner ; Davy, Mr. Paul; Geraldine, Miss Yin zent, the acknowledged Heroine of Domestic Drama. Alter which, TFIE WILD IRISH GlRL.—ShelahO'May, Miss Vincent, in which she will dsnce her celebrated Donny brolk Rant, and sing several humourous chaunts, and a new Medley Epilogue To conclude with the Grand Romance of IVANHOE.— Ivanhoe, Mr. E. F. Saville ; Isaac, Mr. Dale; the Black Knight, Mr. Seamaa; Wamba, Mr. Gardner ; Rebecca, Mrs. Lee. NOTICE TO SUBSCRIMERS. When people do their best they sometimes fail to please. It has been so in our case, we regret to say, more than once. 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Therm:ion* t9r... 49 1 Hi,iiest 5l 1 Lowest 45 Barometer 29.83.—Wind S.W.—Freezing Point 22 Deg. • LONDON ! SA.TURDAY, FEBRUAUY 12, 1842. W e quite agree with the Chairman of the Anti-Corn law Conference, and with several of its members who spoke yesterday, that we ought no longer to inquire into the consequences of the Co rn-laws, but how to get rid of them. Their disastrous and murderous effects are written in the misery of the people. Nevertheless, the landed aristocracy are resolved to retain them. They lave told the empire, by the mouth of Sir R oBERT PEBL, that they will, in spite of justice and remon 'truces, persist in stifling trade and starving the people. Th 6 9 ,l *stion, then, which men have to ask themselves - , 1. 4 1 1 EW Apr. •-•%4 z - 4 " 4 "Ok to• I NL „ 1 ,„. • 2 . :•,11:0 1 '...fta i kskeici4r-r-A6V7 ~~ ~ ~~ • ~ ~'~e is, what must we do to be saved from this great iniquity ? That will test their souls, and, as they answer it, so will they be free men, or the slaves of a grim and blood-smeared idol, which the aristocracy have invested with the benevolent and majestic attri butes of law, and call on them to worship. It was well observed by Mr. COBDEN yesterday, that the people did not require to use physical force when they are unanimous. This is the plain consequence o f the .fact that legislation derives all authority from opinion. The aristocracy has no power to enslave us if we are not willing to be slaves. Government can only coerce the people by the power of the people. There is no means, as Mr. BURKE long ago said, of drawing up an indictment against a nation. If the great majority, then, is determined that the aristocracy shall not plunder us, by that determination the power of their grim idol will be at an end. Let the people then be true to them selves. Let them declare against the bread-taxers. Let them support the noble and courageous proceedings of .the Conference. Let them cast off their respect, amount ing almost to reverence, for those who brutally oppose them. Let them in one word resolve to be free, and the power of their oppressora will be annihilated for ever. We can give, we are happy to say, encouragement to the Conference and hope to the people. We learn from various quarters that intense indignation is felt by the multitude against Sir BoaEnT PEEL. He is looked on, not only as an oppressor, but as a cheat. He has for several months excited hopes that he meant to relieve the natio►ial distress, which were much augmented by his cunning trick of ousting the Duke of BUCKINGHAM from his Cabinet. But now he not only denies relief, he mocks at the national sufferings, by asserting that the law has not caused them. In proportion to their hopes is the indignation of the people at the injury inflicted on them, and at the miserable trick by which Sir Ro- BERT PEEL has hoped to beguile and delude them. Such consequences may inspire the Confere►sce with con fidence, while its present conduct proves that it is the worthy organ of the high and noble resolves of the . people. To prepare our readers for the great crisis which is evidently approaching, when reason shall be brought into violent conflict with the blind obedience which has hi therto been preached as a duty, we have occasionally adverted to the absurd assertion of the Tories, that unless everything called a law be .obeyed, whatever crimes it may ordain, society will fall to pieces. Society is not held together by strife-begetting, demoralising, murder ous laws, such as it has pleased our selfish landlords to make for the purpose of enriching themselves. Nor have such barbarous enactments, rightly uneerstood—tthough the ceremonies have been gone through of crying out " tho Ayes" or " the Contents have it," and of reading a little Norman French, by which the Ministers for the time being give the nominal sanction of the SOVE REIGN to the Bill to which they have obtained the as sent of the two Houses—the proper and just authority of law. Mr. Justice BLACKSTONE says, " This law of nature being coeval with mankind, and dictated by GOD him self, is of course superior in obligation to any other. It is binding over all the globe, in all countries, and at all times : no human laws are of any validity if contrary to this : and such of them as are valid derive all their force and authority, mediately, or immediately, from this original." Founding on this high legal authority, we have no hesitation in affirm ing that the Corn-law, which cuts off the com merce between nations—that is ordained by . the AL MIGHTY, like the different climates soils, and natural properties of different countries, from which it grows, which plunder s one class of the community to enrich another, and which starves a great multitude of human beings, violating the two express commands, " Thou shalt not steal," and "'Thou shalt not murder,"—found ing on the acknowledgedly high authority of Mr. Justice BLACKSTONE, we unhesitatingly assert, that the Corn law, which violates both the revealed law of GOD and the law of nature, is of no force or validity whatever. It follows, as a necessary consequence, that it is wrong in the people to obey such a scandalous embodiment of immoral selfishness of the landowners. They have, by their obstinate adherence to an unjust law, brought man's moral duties and their enactment into conflict. The energetic proceedings of the Conference yesterday has made this important truth apparent, and will make it necessary for the community to choose between obe dience to the moral law, or obedience to the aristocracy. We rejoice to believe that the bulk of the people are ashamed of their long submission, and they will over rule any decision of Parliament which goes to perpetuate the Corn-laws. If Mr. _CVDDEN may be relied on, and we trust and believe lie may, the "Members of the House of Cop:it:nous will be told' the truth on this subject (hiring the ensuing discussion. Ile must, however, be resolute, and pre pared fur much opposition. The forms of the House, which have been partly constructed to stifle truth, on pretence of preserving order, will be invoked against him. It will be said that it is unparliarnentary to at tribute motives; that he must not, in Parliament, de nounce Parliament itself'; and the young aristocrats who, to the shame of the people, misrepresent them in their own _House, will endeavour to stifle arguments they cannot answer. Let him, however, stick firmly to his points, let him tell the House of Commons in plain terms the ruinous consequences of their law, let him expose the base motives of those who enacted it, and let him fear lessly unveil the effects on the public mind of persisting in such an iniquitous enactment; let him do this and the voice of truth will be more powerful even in' that assembly, than the ferocious tirades of Lord STANLEY, the heavy hypocrisy of Sir JAMES GRAHAM, or the shallow plausibilities of the PREMIER himself. We have never, for one moment, doubted of the ultimate success of our cause. The conduct of the Conference yester day, the encouraging news we receive from all parts of the country, and the expressed determination of the Liberal Members to speak out boldly in the House of Commons, combine to convince us that, in spite of all the monopolists of the empire, complete success is both near arid certain. Among the absurd regulations affecting the newspaper Press of France, is one which prevents the smallest in crease in their size without an increase of the stamp duty. As the increase of stamp-duty would more than swallow up the profits of an increased circulation, the newspapers are not enlarged, and the consequence is that they are totally unsuited to the wants of the community. Thus, no matter how impor tant the debates maybe in the Chambers, they can afford only to give a mere outline of them, nor is that done without sacrificing nearly every other item of intelli gence. No Paris journals will bear a moment's compari son as a vehicle of interesting miscellaneous intelligence with a London daily paper. Each paper there addresses a section of the public. One devotes its columns to reports of law and police investigations and trials ; another at tends to theatrical affitirs ; a third is the oracle of the Chambers; a finial' condescends to notice nothing which is not talked of in fashionable circles ; in a fifth the Feuilleton, or literary department, is the chief feature; and so on of upwards of a score of daily, and five score weekly papers. We grant that the leading depart ment in most of the French daily papers is generally con ducted with great ability. Hence the weight attached to their opinions, which are the inure formidable as they report no facts to contradict them. If they ridi cule a Parliamentary orator the reader cannot divest himself of the impression by turning to the report of a speech, of which the Journal only con tains a meagre outline. For some time past the leading Opposition French Journals have complained much of this evil, and it is,*therefore, with pleasure that we find some of, the Government prints beginning to dwell upon it. The Presse, in particular, recommends that no extra duty be charged on Journals for enlarging their size, and is for placing the French Press on the same footing as the English. In fact, a complete re form of the laws affecting French Journalism has become indispensable. From Madrid the rapers are of the 3d inst. ; bUt the intelligence, with the exception of some paragraphs in our Summary, are of no political interest. The Fives on the Bourse were at 32 for cash. A Toulon letter says that the Prince de Joinville will have the Uranie frigate, besides the Belle Poule, under his command during his voyage round the world. The Palinure brig of war arrived at Toulon on the sth Inst. from Tunis, which she left on the 29th ult. She has brought the French Consul. General to the Regency of Tunis, and M. Pichon, who has been visiting all the ports of the Regencies of Tripoli and Tunis, on a secret mission from the French Government. The Palinure was soon to leave Toulon again for Tunis. A letter from Sfax, in the Regency of Tunis, 14th ult., and published by the Portafoglio of Malta, states that Sidi-Mustapha.Schep.i.Tirear, General.i n-Chie! of the !orces n! the Bey, had arrived at Sfax, for the purpose of raising recruits. He had acted with great rigour, and in order to extort money, allowed the wealthy families to substitute slaves as recruits, on payment of enormous sums for this permission.—Galik. nani's Messenger. Several journals make this morning objections to the project of law for the construction of the great lines of railways. We shall not answer till these objections are more completely .stated ; we cbn. tent ourselves for the present with observing that the objections,hi therto made to this project are almost all at variance, and thus re ciprocally refute each other.—Monfteur, Feb. 10. The Moniteur of this morning has no official part. It quotes from the Messager a lung article on the culture of silk in the French colonies, which the French Government wished to introduce from a consideration of the necessity of finding some employment suited to the free negroes, who form, as it were, a new population springing up without means of procuring a livelihood. Yesterday Marshal Soult paid his first visit to the Palace at one o'clock in the afternoon. The Marshal was received successively by M a dame Adelaide, and the Duke and the King, th, Queen, Duchess of Orlesuss,,...Constitutionntl. SUMMARY OF NEWS AND Public eptiitott. " Who runs may read." FOREIGN. The New York papers of the 19th ult. report the occurrence of a serious riot at Cincinnati on the 12th, in which the Miami Bank, and Bate's and Longee's banking offices were totally destroyed. The riot was occasioned by the refusal of the Miami bank to redeem its notes, by which the working classes were plundered of their earn ings. The mob seized in the vault of the Miami 224,000 dollars, of which only 1,261 dollars were in specie. When the rioters had destroyed the banks, and defeated a handful of military, without either loss of life or limb on either side, they dispersed to their respective homes, a crowd of nearly 4,000 persons looking on with the utmost indifference, Marshal Sault made his first appearance at the Tuileries on Thursday since his iliness. He was most graciously received, suc cessively by the King, Queen, Madame Adelaide, and the Duke and Duchess of Orleans. The Archbishop of Parts has just published his pastoral letter for Lent. In addition to the customary permission to use eggs, butter, and milk, this letter grants a general dispensation of the maigre for the Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday of each week, up to the Thursday in Passion Week inclusively. This dispen. cation is limited to one meal (the dinner) on week days, but ex. tends to two meals on Sundays. The Archbishop recommends to all the faithful who avail themselves of this dispensation to place double alms in the hands of the Cure of their parish, one of which is to be given to the poor, and the other to go towards the purchase of the monastery of the Carmelites, Rue de Vaugirard. In the Chamber of Deputies on Thursday, M. Gatineron's mot►on on electoral reform was introduced. The subject was likely to oc. cupy severaldays. The Palinurd bilit'of war arrived at Toulon on the sth inst. from Tunis, which she left on the 29th ult. She has brought the French t:onsul-Geteral to the Regency of Tunis, and M. Pichon, who has been visiting all the parts of the Regencies of Tripoli and Tunis on a secret mission from the French Government. 'The Chief Judge of Bareelonea had made a report to the Go vernment, from which 'it appears that the tribunals of Catalonia, during the year 1841, judged 3,861 criminal cases, amongst which were 160 assassinations followed by death, 404 burglaries, 308 riots in which wounds were inflicted, 49 cases of arson, 11 cases of per jury, 14 of suborning witnesses, 24 abuses of authority, 8 forge ries, 315 eases of smuggling, 2of poisoning, 1 adultery, 1 bigamy, 12 popular riots, 1 rape, 2 duels. The Madrid El Correo National of the 3d inst. states, that the Town Council of San Lucar de Barameda had addressed a petition' to the Government praying a modification of the prohibitive system, in order to prevent the total ruin of the provision trade. The Municipal Council express a hope that, this measure being adopted, Great Britain would reduce the duties on Spanish wines, and thus facilitate their sale in the only market which is open to them. We find the following in a letter front Cairo, received with the Overland Mail :—" lam convinced you would be much disap pointed with Egypt (excepting of course, the:antiquities). It is treason, I believe, in England or elsewhere, to hold Mehemet Ali cheap; but I am sure that his people are the most wretched in the world. I have seen nothing in the slave States so miserable, no system so cruel, as that practised in this country. His service is so unpopular, that he has formed companies of soldiers of men who have put out their right eyes to avoid conscription. As for the improvements introduced by Europeans in other departments, you look in vain for it. The great desideratum in this country is to irrigate, and the Polytechnic Schools and! Savans have not ap plied the commonest pump, even in the Pacha's own gardens, to obtain water. PUBLIC OPINION. The Morning Post asserts, that the calm consideration given to the plan of Corn-law amendment proposed by Sir Robert Peel, has " already produced the result which we anticipated. The feelings of surprise, not unmingled with alarm, which so considerable a re• duction of the duties at first occasioned, has died away; and we think we may now safely say that the amended scale, as proposed by the Right Hon. Baronet, will have the unanimous support of the great party which defeated the Whig Government after the general election of last suinmer." The Times anticipates the accession of the whole Whig party, at no very great distance of time, to the Anti.Poor.law cause ; adding, " they will not be deterred from joining us by any parti cular squeamishness on the score of consistency, or by the fear of involving themselves in any censure which they may cast upon Sir Robert Peel for maintaining the present despotisms." The Adveriser continues its expression of bitter disappointment with Sir Robert Peel's Corn.law project, and goes on to observe : "The GevernMent must I,e reclaimed, in its present circumstances it is an usurpation—a most unrighteous usurpation; it must be considered , extinguished ; the people must be their own executive. For this purpose, we say, there must be an avoidance of passion. All power is new in the people's hands. They have only to exer cise it." The Herald is of opinion that the recent debate on the resigna. t on of the two Scotch and Irish judges, " will not satisfy moderate and temperate men. The Government will stand absolved in their judgment, but that absolution will include the censure of the resigning judges." The Chronicle,. alluding to Sir Robert Peel's Corn-law Amend ment.ineasure, states that "these are mischiefs peculiar to a sliding scale of corn-duties which adhere to it in every shape in which it can be cast. In no way can it be reconciled with the spirit of our commercial treaties, or with the most advantageous charaeter of our commercial intercourse with foreign countries." PARLIA.MENTAELY. The great demand made on our columns compels us to refer our readers to our report ofthe proceedings in Parliament instead of in. sorting a summary of them. MONEY-TRADE-COMMERCE. A dividend, at the rate of 41.155. per cent. was declared yester day at the meeting of the London and Birmingham Railway Com pany, held in the latter town. A. system called "plugging," and other devices, having been re. sorted to in different parts of the kingdom, to the great detriment of the sovereigns now in circulation, it is stated,on the best autho rity, that they will all be called in, for the purpose of being re coined. The sugar cultivation at Bombay, under the superintendence of the Jooneer Company, has made great progress since IBlg. In that year from canes grown, by the ryots 1,2771b5. of sugar, and 5071b5., of molasses were produced ; in the present Year' it' hair in creased to 52.0001b5. sWgar, 7,0001b5. molasses, and 4,000 gal, rum. corardkisdx.e.x. xtr.roitivz. Of the 583 persons who comprise the Conference now sitting in London, 115 are Ministers of different religious denominations. Of these 47 are Independents, 2$ Baptists, 3 Scotch Baptists, 1 General Baptist, 1 Roman Catholic Priest, I Unitarian, 1 Ing hamite, Sof the Established Church, 4 Wesleyans, I Methodist A ssociiitiOn,Ll Primitive Methodist, '2 Methodist (New Connec tion), I ,Presbyterian, I English Presbyterian, 4 of the Secession Church, 1 United Secession, and I of Lady Huntingdon's Connec. tion, with 16 whose principles are not stated. ,ECCLESIASTICAL. On Wednesday next Sir Andrew Leith Hay will call the atten , Lion of the House to the present state of the Church of Scotland. NAVAL. AND MILIT.A.NLY. Accounts have been received from the North of the melancholy death of Captain Slater, R.N., who has long been engaged in the Admiralty surveys in the North of Scotland. It appears, from a statement, signed by Captain Hay and Lieutenants Kortright and Williams, that on the 2d inst. Captain Slater having occasion to visit certain points at Holburn-head, near Thurso, rode too near the edge of the cliff, when the horse started, and the unfortunate rider was precipitated , over the precipice, a height of nearly 310 feet. The whip was foundon the spot, and the horse and dog which had accompanied him returned home, but the body of the deceased has not been discovered. LAW AND POLICE. In the Court of Bankruptcy, Mr. De Wylde, Winchester -street, and Mr. Toplis, surveyor, Bridge-street, were appointed assignees for the estate of Seddon and Seddon, the well-known upholsterers of Gray's Inn-road. A fiat was issued against them some time ago, but it was ultimately superseded. Thomas Godsell, a watchmaker, in the Kent-road. was brought to Union-hall, charged with pawning a number of watches intrusted to him for repairs. The prisoner admitted that, being in thin. *tildes, he had pledged the watches, and was remanded. lit the Court of Queen's Bench yesterday, Miss Fountain, a governess, brought an action against a lady of the name of Boodle, for a libel. It appeared that the plaintiff had taught in Mrs. Boodle's family for some time, and, on leaving, had referred to the defendant for a character, which was given in away that prevented the plaintiff from getting a situation. The Jury returned a ver dict for the plaintiff—Damages 60!. At Thames-street yesterday, (eorge Fernley, a fellowship porter, J. Fernley, a house and ornamental painter, William Thomas Fern. ley, a boy, Elisabeth Fernley, Abp de Soiza, a Jewess, and Charles Bennett, a young man, aged twenty-one years, were charged with committing several daring burglaries in the east of the metropolis. Four charges against them were heard at great length,when the evi dence being considered sufficient, the Magistrate committed all the prisoners. They will be brought up again, however, on Friday, as they are implicated in other robberies. LIVERALIVT Axa SCITaTTIFIC. At a meeting of the Society of Antiques ians, held on Thursday, an account of the tumuli on Breach Down. near Canterbury, exca vated by Lord Conyngharn in October last, related the objects dis covered to consist of spearheads, umbos of shields, swords, knives, a golden bulla, chrystal beads, /cc. THEivrst.xcam. St. James's Theatre was well filled last night, and in the French play of " L'Homme de Soixante Ans," Perlet particularly distin guished himself. It is in contemplation to have German operas at Covent.garden Theatre early in May. COURT--FASHIONABLE. The Earl of Beverley will give a grand dinner today in Portman. square. Lord and Lady Arundel have arrived at Wardour Castle, from a visit to Mr. Weld, at Lulworth Castle. The Earl of Albemarle will remain at Brighton until the New. market first Spring meeting. The Right Hon. Lord Ashburton embarked, on Tuesday, on board the Warspite frigate, at Spithead. . - . The Marchioness of. Lansdowne commenced her soirees, on Thursday evening, at Lansdowne House. Viscount and Viscountess Beresford commenced their dinner parties in Cavendish-square, on Thursday evening. Lord and Lady Lyndhurst dine with the Earl of Beverley today CHANCERY COURT-(THIS DAY). On the application of Mr. Stuart, the LORD CIIINCZLLOR directed a cause, which had been transferred from the Vice-Chancellor of England to Vice-Chancellor Knight Bruce, to be re.transferred. Mr. LLOYD, who had opp osed the application, expressed his fear that the cause, which w as , h e said, of a pressing nature, would not hearing for a long ti me . The a—There is no room for any suc h appre . h come n on fo hate some days ago di rected an inquiry to be made, oLoan . I c r hAca and I find that there are now but 180 causes remaining to be heard, which will in all probability be disposed of in the four or five weeks to come of the present sittings, so that afterwards we shall only have to hear causes is they arise from day to day. MARLBOROUGH-STREET:(TI Ils DAY.) Two fashionably dressed young men, named S tuckey and Simp ion were charged with the following outr age . ' Mr. George William, Esq., residing at No. 32, Oxed on.. tr e Haymarket, stated, that between one and two o'clock this morning y las family and himself were aroused from their beds b person knocking incessantly and w ith tremendous violence at — to force their street.door ; and on opening it he found the two defendants stand_ ing on the steps, both in a very intoxicated state. The defe n d ant said ) i d you," , , o n seeing i l and .then witness, e t s liy bothh, you attemptedse" Oh, old , you let lodgings way into the pas Sage, but he repelled them and shut the door, when they commenced knocking violently against it, and continued so doing until the policeman came up and took them into custody. The defendants pleaded intoxication, and were fined 40s. each. DISPATCH.—We were favoured ,yesterday by Messrs. Willmer and Smith with copies of the London Standa'rd, Sun, and Courier of Wednesday, in the third edi. tions•of.which appeared the speech of Sir Robert Peel on the CkirwisAis: The speech was concluded in the House of Com mons-a:little before eight in the evening. and on the following morning at six full reports of it werein,Liverpool.—Liverpool Mercury. NECK AND NECK.—Mr. David Hinebeliffe, an operative fancy weaver, residing at Mold-green, Hudders field, was mar r i e d on t h e same d ay our G rac i ous Queen was united to Prince Albert ; his wife was delivered of a daughter the same day . the Princess Royal was born ; _and she also gave b;rth to a son th e same day the P r i nce o f Wales came into the wor ld Cheltenham Examiner. AMEBIC A.N NEWS (EXPRESS FROM LIVERPOOL.) LIVERPOOL, FRIDAY EVENING. By the arrival of the packet-ship Columbus, Captain Cobb, from New 1 ork, to-day, we have papers from that city to the 19th ult., inclusive. They are remarkably barren of news. The sitting of the Recorder at Phila delphia, to consider the evidence in the matter of Ni cholas Biddle, Esq., and others, the former President and late officers of the Bank, had resulted in his deciding that there was suffiaient evidence to cause him to re quire the parties to be bound in two sureties each, to answer the charge at the - ensuing General Sessions. This result had caused a considerable sensation. In the Senate, the repeal of the Banki - upt-law of last session was under consideration, and had only been ad journed upon a point of form. It was said now that the repeal would undoubtedly be carried by a consider able majority of that body. In Cincinnati a very serious riot had occurred, in con sequence of the excitement caused by the stoppage of a fraudulent bank. The mob broke into the closed pre mises, destroyed the furniture, books, and papers, and plundered it also of some money. They were attacked b y th e city guard, and driven away, lint returned and plundered several other banks and exchange offices which, they supposed, participated in'the fraud. The business report at New York is cheerful ; there was a lively demand for cotton, for export, at steady prices, but without advance.. Very few bills were drawn for this packet, the rate being, however, the same as at the last advices, 108 c. 1081 c. for bills on London. There is no news by this arrival from Canada, nor had any tidings of the Halifax and Boston packet, which sailed hence on the - 4th of January, reached Boston when the ac counts left. NEW YORK MONEY MARKET, JAN. 18. We notice a much better feeling in the Money Market to day. Stocks of every description were firm, and in most in stances an advance was obtained. Illinois Sixes improved Indiana Sterling Bonds 14 , Fulton Bank Delaware and Hud son 3i-, and 'Mohawk 1. Seventy-four Shares Bank of Mobile were sold by auction at 65 per cent. 90 days ; 50 Shares Com. mercial Bank of Manchester, Miss., at 20 dollars ; 200 Planters' and Merchants' Bank of Mobile 25 dollars; and 44 Shares of ditto at 27 dollars 50 cents ; all 90 days. RATE OF SALES AT THE STOCK EXCHANGE. 5,000 Dolls. United States' Sixes, of 44 7,000 Ditto New York of Fives '5B . 1,000 Ditto Illinois Sixes of '7O 1,000 Ditto Indiana Sterling Bonds 3,000 Ditto Corporation Six per Cent. Bonds of '44 95 239 Shares Mechanics' Bank ... 65 70 Ditto Fulton Bank 25 Ditto Ohio Life and Trust 50 Ditto Bank of Commerce Scrip 30 Ditto Auburn and Rochester ~ 10 Ditto Boston and Providence 25 Ditto Stonington 20 Ditto Delaware and Hudson.. 125 Ditto Harlem 25 Ditto Mohawk ......... 50 Ditto - Long Island 25 Ditto Patterson 25 Ditto State Bank ...... SALES AT THE SECOND BOARD. 300 Shares Long Island 20 Ditto Mohawk CO Ditto Delaware and Hudson 96 50 Ditto Harlem Railroad 100 Ditto Farmers' Loan 26 1000 Dollar Corporation Bonds Sir per Cent of '43 .°5 2O s3O ds 16 96.4 s3O ds 57 MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS CITY. TWELVE O'CLOCK. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, FEB. (1. --prices of Artie rican descriptions took a start at an Ad. to id. per lb. during Saturday and Monday last, and a considerable business was transacted at that advance. On Tuesday, however, the excite ment ceased, and the market has been quiet since ; and as hol ders have supplied the demand freely, prices have gradually receded to the quotations of this week, which we now adopt. All other descriptions have been stationary in price throughout the week. The public sale of Sea Islands to-day went off very heavily indeed ; the few sold were on much the same terms as last sale. There have been taken on speculation 2,600 Ame rican and 300 Surat; and for exportation 800 American and 50 Surat. The prices declared by the Committee of Brokers, for fine cottonslare—Bowed 54d. ; Mobile, 5Ad. ; Orleans, sd. LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, FEB. 11.—The transactions at the Stock Exchange this_ day have been to a limited ex tent. The business c omprises- 7 Eastern Counties, 84 ; De bentures, 10A; Grand Junction, Half Shares, 92i ; London and Birmingham, 172 A ; Midland Counties , 82 ; Quarter Shares, 20k; North Midland Thirds , 15 A. MANCHESTER STOCK EXC HANGE, FEB. 11 . — We have no improvement to notice in our Market to. day. Our sales are— Bristol and Exeter, 37; Manchester, Bolton, and Bury, 51 ex dividend ; and Manchester and Salford Bank, 9/. 18s. 9d. There are numerous arrivals to-day from all quarters, but the only one of a later date is the packet - ship Columbus, from New York. The news brought by it will be found in another part of this paper. TIII fiJNDs. The English and Foreign Securities opened, without any alteration from the closing prices of yesterday. Consols are 891 for Money, and 891 891 for the Account; Three per Cents. Reduced, 89189* ; Exchequer Bills, 23 25 prem. Spanish Active Stock, 24111 ; Portuguese Fives, 321 ; ditto Threes, I 91; Mexican Bonds, 321. Very little business doing. PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE. R, sLWAYS. Paid. Per Share. Bristol and Exeter 7O ...., 37 Eastern Counties Great Western London and Brighton 50 . . . 36} Worth Midland, (New) South Eastern and Dover 10114 T iTQCIC XANKS.- • Colonial COURSE OF EXCHAN Amsterdam CF. 12 7i Ditto, at sight Rotterdam .........2 U l2 7i Antwerp l2 7 Hamburgh M. B. 13 13 Altona Paris, 3 days' sight Ditto, 3 months 25 85 Marseilles ........ . 25 90 Bourdeaux 25 90 Frankfort on Maine... 151- Petersburgh, 3Us ... 37 Berlin... 7 Vienna, effec. ii. 3 M 953 Trieste, ditto 9 54 Madrid Cadiz Bilbao ................. 36 B a rcelona .............. 36 Seville ............ 36 25 tGE--k Y ESI ERD ) Gibraltar 46 Leghorn ,Genoa ll] Han Venice 47 'Naples Palermo, per oz 190 Lisbon Oporto 521 Rio Janeiro 27 Bahia Buenos Ayres New York, 21 days sight 4t4 'Philadelphia 46 PRICES OF BULLION, PER OZ. Foreign Gold, bars £3 17 9 Portugal Gold C0m...3 17 5 New Doubloons 0 0 0 New Dollars 0 4 94 Silver in Bars 0 4 114 HALF-PAST ONE. The only alteration to notice in the English Securities since .he opening, is a further improvement in Exchequer Bills, they are now quoted at 26 prem. The following are the only quotations in the Foreign Mar ket :—Colombian Bonds, 22; Mexican, 324 ; Portuguese Three per Cents., 191; Spanish Active Stock, 244 a ; Dutch Two-and-a-half per Cents., 514 ; Ditto, Fives, 1014. There has been equally as little business transacted in the Share Market. Bristol and Exeter are 37 ; Great Western, 854 ; London and Brighton, 354 ; North Midland, New, 344 ; South Eastern and Dover, 26. LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY.) LONDON, FEB 12.—Wind this day at noon S. DEAL, FEE. 11.—Wind S.W.—Arrd. Baros, Amsterdam, for Batavia ; Cape packet, Sennab, and*Joshua Carrot, Porter, Cape, Asia, China, Singapore • Hamilton, Singapore ; Enter prise, Moxey, Demerara. Ar rd. from the River, Shatford, for .Mauritius ; Libra and Amy, Wexford. LIVERPOOL FEB. 11.—Wi n d S. W., f res h. —Arrd. Mary Muir, Payne , Lima; Sealby, Kendal, Tampico, sailed: Dec. 12 ; Columbus, Cole, New York, sailed 19th ult. ; Oberlin, Knight, do. ; Lady Milton, St. John's, New Brunswick. COWES, FEB. 11.—Arrd. Ocean, Patterson, Rio. SonTH a 3l rroN, FEB. 1 I.—Arrd. F a l con , nyth, Odessa. FALMOUTH, FED..IO. —Wind S.W. to S. S. W.—Arrd. Fox, Dunstan, Kertch. WoaxiNcToN, FEB. 10.—The Eleanora, Jackson, from England, which arrived at Calcutta previous to Dec. 22, expe rienced a hurricane Nov. 15, in the Bay of Bengal, and was obliged to lie to , for twelve hours on the 17th ; picked up 20 men from the wreck of a brig, which foundered on the night of the 15th. She was laden with teak from Moulmein. SWANSEA, FEB. 10.—Arrd. Suepta, Auteibridge, Cuba. BILSTON, FED. I.l.—Arrd. Nature, Lock, Messina. It blew a heavy gale last night at W. S. W. MILFORD, FEB. 10.—Arrd. Ann Grant, Sierra Leone. Orp PEN ZANCE, FILL 10.—Mauilton, Fregarthen, Mau ritius. . . OFF EASTEOURN E,:FE a. 11.-Hesperia, Maltin, Mauritius, sailed 4th Nov. EAST INDIA SHIPPING. Arrivals in China previous to Nov. 15.—Carleton, Singa pore; Rajah, Hobart Town ; Orwell, Sydney; Tartar, Lon don ; Mary Ann, Webb, Liverpool ; Belhaven and Frankfield, Manilla ; island Queen, Lady Grant, and Allalevie, Bombay; Wanderer, Bengal; Earl of Hardwieke, London • Corowaddo, Boston; Guisachan, Bombay; W. S. Ham ilton, Young Queen, and Jelin o' Gaunt, Liverpool ; Cleveland, Duchess of Northumberland, and Earl Grey, Singapore ; Forester, ; General Kyd, Madras ; John Bartlett, Sourabaya ; Sa muel Winter,. Calcutta ; Wave, Sandwich Islands, and La Belle Alliance, England ; Henry, Spratt, Phil a d e l p hi a; A nn ,d Vinsitiart,. Madras; Falcon, Calcutta ; Cordelia, Liverpool; In c • r °ollb a a z. ' Yd l e; el' Ryan, 12 t 1 , 1 0 1o t h Calcutta; Luminary Penang and Singapore ; Defiance and dia, Penang. Majesty's Ship Nimrod, Departures from China...-. tier Oct. 7, to Northward ; to London; Forfarshire, of Derry, 14th, and Neptune, 16 th, Manilla; Charlotte, 4th, Nov. 4th, to London ; Danaide t Valparaiso, 13th, to New York ; City London; d L o o n n ; d London ; . Middleburgh to Batavia, and Caledonia, 6th, to B Anne Jaae, Nov. Bth, Y L h to Calcutta ; Lither- Poppy, 10th, to Calcutta; Blake Fa tima, 13th, to England ; Bob B o b 1 t ' vious to Oct. 20, to Liverpool. land. —Eliza Stewart, Alexander Ships Loading for Eng Elephants, Posthumous and Baring, John Tomkinson, land to Liverpool; Ann, Griffiths, to London; Penang, Park field.pre- da.— Octo Arrivals in the Straits o f Sun .., ictori M a, orr rom 17th, son, f S 14, fr m Manilla to New York ; Queen V China ; Bussorah Merchant , y . n to 20th, and Asia, 21st, from China to London. Is. 100. cash. MS „ A e Fe K s C u T s T ta .i i i ne i d!and p a lt fa Y ir .)__- n d K el Ti nd. Russian at 48s. TEA Tallow, 50s. per cwt. busi ness The was market transacted. %va s 3 firm, Ar ni C I Fl y.? P i tw a h "..) a ' P T ric H es E of M Fre A e Trade itK E T: ' sfra C Air o ß and very full rates paid. to 48s. 3d. on the spot, and 48s. is ti l d n . te to 1 4 1 9 s s . . t f o or w d s e . li ; ve c ry ar i o n li t n h a e last three months of the year. RICE MARKET. l 1 :4,. tgooold3,d. ernmia(stiddii middling g or t oßgeonogdal; T R7c ' e ll 28s. to 365. ; Patna 16s. to 20s. per cwt. SPIRIT MARKET. Rum held firmly, but the Market was quiet. Proof Lee wards Is. Ilicl. to 2e., and Calcutta at Is. 4d. at the high duty. Brandy held firmly and a fair business done. Corn Spirits ,dull of sale at 9s. 9d. cash. WHITECHAPEL MARKET. An indifferent supply, and a dull t rade at the following prices : -Beef 2 s . 4d . to 3s. 10d• , Mutton 2s. 4d. to 3s. 10d. ; ;Veal 3s. 4(1. to 51. 4d. ; Pork 3s. Bd. to ss. 2d. ; Lamb 6s. to 7s. " Clover 2/. to 5/. sB. , 16 s. • Bay 2/. to 4/. 6s. ; Str aw I/. to 11. 18 5 . : .........................."••••-11", 'fhe Emperor of Russia has written to the Queen of Holland, hfs . sister, and has informed her Majesty that the iEmpeets 'and ti* Grand Duchess Olga will visit the baths of Ems in May.' " PORTUGAL. Letters from Lisbon, of the i7th inst., state that the Chartist insurrection is spreading over the north of Portugal. The Charter has been proclaimed in Coim bra, Valencia, Braga, Guimaraes, Vianna, Villa Real, Aveiro, Chaves, Varzim, Villa Nova da [Gaya, Villa Nova da Famalicas, Villa da Santo Thyrso, Gondomar, Lonzada, Amarante, Baiao, Santa Cruz, Barrosas, Pare des, Negrellos, Benivioa, Villa da Feira, and in Castello Branco. The Municipal Chambers, or Councils, of all the towns have proclaimed the Charter, and forwarded in telligence of their adhesion to the Provisional Junta at Oporto. An academic battalion has been enrolled at Coimbra by order of the Junta, and supplied by them with 300 stands of arms. A grand re ' view took rplace at Oporto during the course of the past week, and the Te Deum was sung upon Sun day in honour of the movement 1 The Barons de Val longa and de Leirea reached Oporto on the Ist instant, with a poriion of the troops under their command, and the Bth and 9th Regiments were hourly expected. The Junta had allocated 20 eoliths of reis out of the seized public funds, for pay and loans to the soldiers in Oporto. The three provinces of the north, which have now al most universally given in their adhesion to the revolt at Oporto, contain more than half the.population of the kingdom. The QUEEN is still without a Cabinet, the Duke of PAL3IELLA being unable to form one. Her MAJESTY is at the bottom of these revolutionary move ments. BANKRUPTCY-(THIS DAY) BANKRUPTCY.-DEOLARATION OF DIVIDEND Mr. ASUURST this morning, on behalf of Messrs. Cook and Gladstone, consented to have his clients' claim delayed for three months, to allow the assignees time to examine more minutely into the case. Mr. Soca then stated that the assets amounted to 5,0001. After a short conversation, it was arranged that a dividend of 2s. in the pound should be declared. Mr. ASMURST said that the dividend was like an ounce of silver spread over Salisbury Plain. SPURTING INTELLIGENCE. (RECEIVED THIS DAY.) LATEST BETTING AT MANCHESTER-FRIDAY, CHESTER Cur.-13 to 1 agst Marshal Soult (t)-13 to I agst Vulcan (t)--16 to 1 agst Jolly Tar-17 to 1 agst Alice Hawthorne (t)-20 to 1 agst Isellona-20 to 1 agst Rhodanthe —22 to 1 agst Cruiskeen-33 to 1 agst Ermengardis (t). DERBY.-13 to I agst Chatham-24 to 1 agst Wiseacre -40 tot agst Joanna c. —45 tot agstDirce-50 tot agst Meteor(t). HEREFORD STEEPLE CHASE. Handicap Sweepstakes of 15 sous. each, 10 ft. and 5 only declared, with 1001. added. 4 miles. 21 subs., 8 declared. Mr. Tollett's Tom Tug, list Oliver Baron Rothschild:B Consul, 12st 31b Mr. Loft's b g by Creeper, Ilst 101 b Cel. Charritie's Kangaroo, list 4 The following also started, but were not placed :—Mr. El more's Gay Lad, 12st 81b ; Mr. Ekin's Luck's All, 12st 31b ; Mr. Tilbury's Lazzaroni, lOst 111 b ; Mr. H. Williams' Charles XII., 10st 121 b; Mr. Creswell's Bibury, lOst 71b; and Mr. Lechmere's Black Bess, lOst 71b. Won cleverly by two or three lengths. The Sweepstakes of 3 sous, each, and 20 added, two miles and a half, 9 subs., were won by Mr. Vever's hr m by Mazeppa, list (Oliver) beating Mr. Walker's Tommy, list, and seven others, after a pretty race, by two lengths. The third chase was won by Mr. Maule's b g Sir Harry (Owner), beating Mr. Hill's Cripple, and six others, after two good heats. _ COURSING. BELFORD, FEB. 4 AND s.—The first prize of 40/. was won by Mr. Raimes' Atlas, and the second (101.) by his Beauty. Moto, FEE. 1 AND 2.—The Cup was won by Mr. Rigby's Sweep, the Mold Stakes by Mr. Roper's Falkland, the Con solation Stakes by Mr. Roper's Gunton, and the Denham Stakes by Mr. Hancock's Bugle. Co URT CIRCULAR. BRIGHTON, FRIDAY. The Queen and Prince Albert, accompanied by their Serene Highnesses the Prince Ferdinand and the Prince Leopold of Saxe Cobourg, took an airing, at ten o'clock this morning, in a carriage and four, preceded by outriders ; his Serene High ness the Prince Augustus of Saxe Coburg accompanying the Royal party on horseback, and the Hon. Colonel Grey, Equerry in Waiting en the Queen, attending also on horseback. Her Royal Highness the Princess Royal, was taken an air ing, on the Marine Parade, soon after one o'clock this afternoon. - ller Royal Highness the Duchess of. Kent, attended by Lady Fanny Howard, arrived in the afternoon at the Pavilion, on a visit to her Majesty. The Royal dinner party at the Pavilion this evening is ex pected to include her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, their Serene Highnesses the Prince Ferdinand of Saxe Co burg, and the Princes Augustus and Leopold of Saxe Coburg, the Viscountess Jocelyn, Lady Fanny Howard, Hon. Miss Paget, Hon. Miss Liddell, Baroness Lehzen, the Earl of Liver pool, the Earl Delawarr, Baron Stockmar, Sir Geo. Cou per, Bart., le Capitaine Comte de Degenfeld Schomberg, le Capitaine de Zaitsch, the Earl of Norton, Hon Captain Duncombe ' Colonel the Hon. Cha r l es G re y, C o l one l Wylde, and Dr. Pra'torius. The band of the Coldstream Guards attended at the Pavilion during dinner yesterday evening. The ball in the the Town Hall last night in honour of her Majesty's visit, as also in celebration of the Royal marriage was very fully attended. Her Majesty, who was desirous of wit nessing the fireworks, having ordered their discharge before dinner, to enable the inhabitants to attend the ball. The Royal party were observed at the windows . of the Pavilion viewing them. The High Constable also ordered the illuminations to commence early, and by eleven o'clock the streets were com paratively clear. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, attended by Lady Fanny Howard, left her residence, Clarence-house, St. James's, at eight o'clock yesterday morning, on a visit to her Majesty at the Pavilion, at Brighton. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge left town yes terday morning, to honour Lord Willoughby D'Eresby with a visit at his seat, Grimsthorpe, Lincolnshire. His Royal High ness travelled ky the London and Birmingham Railway. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester visited her Majesty the Queen Dowager yesterday at Marlborough-house. After the dinner party at Gloucester House, on Thursday, her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester had an evening party. The lower suite of state rooms were opened for the reception of the company. Among those present were the Baron de Neumann, Austrian Minister, the Dowager Duchess of Richmond, the Duke and Duchess of Richmond, the Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch, the Earl and Countess of Cawdor, and Lady Elizabeth Campbell, the Earl of Beverley and Lady Louisa Percy, the Lady Clementina Villiers, Lady De Clifford, Lord and Lady Mahon, Lord Fitzgerald, Baron Lebzeltern, and Sir Archibald Murray. A Cabinet Council was held yesterday afternoon at the Fo reign-office. It was attended by Sir Robert Peel, the Duke of Wellington, Lord Wharncliffe, the Duke of Buccleuch, the Earl of Aberdeen, Lord Stanley, Sir James Graham, the Chan cellor of the Exchequer, the Earl of Haddington, the Earl of Ripon, Lord Fitzgerald, Sir Henry Hardinge, and Sir Edward Knatchbull. The Council sat two hours. A Deputation, consisting of the Right Hon. Stephen Lush ington, Sir Fowell Buxton, Sir Thomas Dyke Arland, and Sir Robert H. Inglis had an interview with Lord Stanley yester. day, at the Colonial-office. Despatches from the Governors of Barbadoes, British Guiana, and Antigua, were received yesterday afternoon at the Colonial-office. The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council at yesterday, The Lords preslt were Lord Wyntord, Lord Brougham, Lord Campbell, and Mr. Justice Erskine. An Appeal from the High Court of Admiralty, " Stuart v Tremonuer," was heard; and another Appeal from the Court was commenced. PADDINGTON ANTI-CORN-LAW ASSOCIATION. A very largely-attended meeting •f the members of this Branch Association was held last evening at the Bayswater Tavern, Pad dington--Mr. B. H. SMART in the Chair. Several very excellent addresses were delivered by gentlemen present, and the following Resolution, moved by Mr. Havnox, and seconded by Mr. WRIGHT, was carried with loud cheers and other demonstrations of approbation : " That this meeting views with contempt and indignation the proposition of Sir H. Peel, and pledges Itself to accept nothing less than the total and immediate repeal of the Corn and Provision. laws ; and further pledges itself never to desist from agitation til those objects be obtained." THEATRES IN INDIA.---I stopped at the house of Major to whom I had a letter of introduction, and was immediately shown in. 1) was, for the time being, the director of the private theatricals, the most popular and de lightful amusement in Calcutta. A black man, to whom a part had been allotted in one of the performances was with him. He was about to jatvab him (send him away), when I begged he might stay. The following dialogue actually took place in my presence. " Tell me, why do you object to play this part? It ,is the only one you can per form, on account of your colour; it is the part of a black • man." " Yes, massa, me know ; all berry good ; but me no understandee not English, massa." " You mistake me : it is English, but as a foreigner would speak it." " Can't you give me, massa, what I makee out ? me no learny this." "My dear fellow, you must. It is your part ; it is broken English, written expressly for a black character." " Yes, yes, mama, berry good; but if tame thing to massa, give me de good English, I breaky mysel." P—. burst out laughing. heartily shared his mirth, and left bins after a quarter of an hour's visit, still vainly endeavouring to convince the Indian that the author's broken English was better than his own..— " My First Morning in Calcutta," in Bentley's Miscellany . tia- January. The Saint Etienne papers state that the Marseilles mails are totally unable to get over the hill and through the wood, called De la Republique, near that town, and are obliged to go round by Lyons. On the 28th ult., the mail was de tained forty-eight hours in this passage by the snow, which was drifted between the hills to a depth unparalleled, except in the Alps. The continued labour of forty-eight men was required to disengage the carriage. GALLANT CONDUCT.—Lord Frederick Beau clerk, who was a passenger on board the Merlin steam-packet, and on the point of starting for Liverpool, from Kingstown, on the night of the ith, at half-past ten, p.m., at which hour an unfortunate woman fell between the vessel and the quay, and ssas on the point of being drowned, when his Lordship without hesitation, jumped overboard, and held her op until assistance was brought, and thus saved her life.— From a Passenger on board the Merlin. lAt an inquest held at Brighton on Tuesday, on the body of James Bringer, aged 38, servant at the Gloucester Hotel, the Jury returned a special verdict to the effect that the deceased died from being po soned through eating sprats." It happened sprats on the Friday previous had been abundant, but in a state not fit for human fowl. A young woman, named Clotilde Falcoz, only 24 years of age, who had been seduced and abandoned by a young man, came front Paris a few days since to Noyers, in the Saone et Loire, ai.d there, in the hotel where she took up her abode, destroyed herself with the fumes of charcoal. She had brought a brazier and a supply of charcoal with her from Paris in her trunk. Belore carrying her fatal design into exe cution, she wrote a long letter of four pages to her faithless lover, in which site begged that he would have her buried by the side of his own mother. " We have received from Bahia," says the Moniteur Parisien, " some details of an unfortunate quarrel there, in which a Brazilian sailor, who was attacked by five English sailors, while trying to get away from them, killed one of his assailants, grievously woundeu two others, and thusescaped It is said that a Frenchman is compromised in this affair, as having excited the English sailors to make so cowardly an attack. (From Me Votes Ond Proceedengs of the House of Commons.) FAIDAY, FEB. 11. COURT OF SESSION (SCOTLAND.) Motion made, and Question put, " That an humble Ad dress be presented to her Majesty, that she will be graciously pleased to give directions that there be laid before this House, a Return of the number of Jury Cases in the first division of the Court of Session, from the Ist (lay of January, 1839, till the 31st day of July, 1841 ; specifying those in which the late Lord President of the Court of Session presided, and those in which any other and what Judge presided :"—Mr. Fox Maule. —The House divided : MINORITY—AYES, Granger, I'. C. iirey, Sir G. Grosvenor, Lord R Guest, J. J. Hall, Sir B. Harris, John Q Hastier, A. Hatton, Captain V, Hawes, B. Hay, Sir A. L. Heathcoat, John Heneag,, E. Hill, Lord Marcia Hindley, Charles Holds worth 'l'. Howard, C. W, G. Howard, H. Hutt, W. Jardine, William Johnson, General Johnstone, Alex. Labouchere, H. Larpent, Sir G. Layard, Captain Leader, J. T. Mangles, IL O. Marshall, W. • Martin, John Maule, Hon. Fox' Mitchell, 'l'. A. Morris, David Mentz, G. F. Napier, Sir Charles O'Brien, W. Snlitla O'Connell, D. O'Connell, J, O'Connell, J. Connor Dor Ogle, S. C. H 113. Aglionby. H. A.• Aldan), William Armstrong, Sir A. Barelay, David Baring, F. T. Barnard. E. G. Bell, John Bernal, R. Blake, Sir Valentine Bowes, J. Bowring, Dr. Brodie, W. B. Brotherton, J. Browne, W. Bryan, George Buller, C. 13usibild, William Byng, G. S. Childers, J. W. Clay, Sr W. Colborne, W. Ridley Cowper, Hon W. Dalrymple, Captain Dawson, Hon. T. V. Dennistoun, J. Duncan, George buncombe, T. S. Dundos, David Easthope, Sir John Ebrington, Viscount Elphinstone, Howard Ferguson, Colonel Fitzalan, Lord Forster, Matthew Fox, Charles Richard French, F. Gibson, T. M. Gill, 'Fhemas Gordon, Lord F. Palmerston, Viscount Pendarves,,E. W. Philips, Mark Pinney, W. Plumridge, Captain Ponsonby, Hon. John Powell, Caleb Rawdon, J. D. Reade, W. M. Reddington, T. N. Ricardo, John Lewis Rundle, John Russell, Lord John Scholefield, J. Scott, Robert Smith, Vernon Sombre, 1), 0 Dyce Somerville, Sir W. Statistield, W. R Strickland, Sir G. Strutt, Edwaid Thornely, Thomas Townley,:Johu Troubridge, Sir T. Tufnell, Henry Tulle, H. M. Villiers, Charles P. Wall, B. Ward, H. G. Wawn, John T, White, Luke White, Henry Wilson, Matthew Wood, G.W. Yorke, H. Redhead TELLERS Roebuck, J A. Wakley, Thomas Acland, Sir Thomas Aciand, T. D. Ackers, James Adare, Lord Alexander, N. Allix, John Peter Antrobus, Edmund Arkwright, George Ashley, Lord A stall, William Baillie, Colonel Baillie, H. J. Baird, William Balfour, J. M. Baring, W. B. Baskerville, 'l'. B. M. Beckett, William sell, M. Beresford, Major Blakemore, R. Boldero, Henry G. Borth w ick, Peter 98tfield, Beriah Broadley, Henry Broadwood, H. Bruce, Lord E. Buck, Lewis W. Buckley, Edmund Isaller, Sir J. B. Y. Campbell, A. Chelsea, Visconnt Chetwode o Sir John Christmas, William Christopher, It. A. Clerk, Sir G. B. H. Collett, W. Bickford Colville, C. B. Connolly, Colonel Corry, H. L. Cresswell, Baker Cripps, J. Crosse, T. Bright Darner, Hon. Dawson Denison, E. Beckett Douglas, Sir C. E. Drummond, H. H. Duncombe, 0. .JORITY-NOLS, Egerton, W. 7'. Eliot, Lord 139. Manners, Lord C. March, Earl of Marsham, Viscount Martin, C. W. Marton, G. R. Manes; R. M. Morgan, Octavius Mundy, E. Miller Neville, Ralph Nicholl, J Northland, Lord O'Brien, A. Stafford Peel, Sir R. Pollock, Sir F. Praed, W. T. Pringle, A. Rae, Sir William Rashleigh, William Reid, Sir J. It. Rous, Hon. Captain Rushbrooke, Colonel Sandon, Lord Sheppard, Thomas Shirley, Evelyn J. Shirley, E. P. Smith, Abel Somerset, Lord 0. Stanley, Lord Stanley, _Edward Sutton, Henry M. Taylor, 'f. E. Tennent, J. E. Thompson, Ald. Tollemache, John Trollope, Sir John Trotter, John Vernor, W. Waddington, H. 8. Walsh, Sir J. Whitmore, T. C. Wodehouse, Edmond Wood, Colonel T Wortley, J. Stuart Young, John Emljn, Viscount , Escott, Bickham Feilden, W. Ferrand, W. B. Fitzroy, Caplain Follett, Sir W. W. Forbes, William Fuller, A. E. ~ Gaskell, J. M. Gladstone, W. E. Gordon, Hon. W. Goulburn, H. Graham, Sir J. Grant, Sir A. C. Greena 1, Peter Greene, T. G. G rim sa It c h T. Grogan, Edward Halton!, H. Hamilton, W. J. Hamilton, Lord C. Hawked, T. Heneaso Herne7t, Hon. S. Hodgson, R. Holmes, W. A'Court Hope, Alexander Hope, G. W. Hughes, W. 13. Jernsyn, Earl Johnson, W. Kemble, Henry Sli E. Law, Hon. C. E. Leicester, Earl of , Lincoln Earl of Litton, E. Lockhart, William Lopes, Sir Ralph Lyall, George Lygoi, General Mackenzie, Thomas Mackinnon, W. A. Mahon, Lord Mainwaring, T TELLERS, Fremantle, Sir T. Baring, H. B. RAILWAY RETURNS. We extract from the Railway Magazine the sums received on the principal Railways of Great Britain for the week ending on the day of the month prefixed to each. The return includes the money received for passengers, parcels, carriages, horses, mails, and mer chandize : Week ended Name of Railway. Miles Total. Opened. £. s. d. Feb. 5 Birmingham & Derby Junct. - 364 1,030 17 6 4 Birmingham and Gloucester 55 1,392 0 8 ... Brandling Junction 25 No returns 4 Chester and Birkenhead .. 6 Dundee and Arbroath 6 Eastern Counties 5 Glasgow and Ayr .. 5 Glasgow, Paisley, & Greatmeli 24 654 5 0 Jan. 29 Grand Junct., Chester & Crewe 1031 7,105 0 9 Feb. 5 Great North of England 45 1,241 R 1 6 Great Western 5 Hull and y . 31 709 9 8 5 Lancast. 8 imlb Preston Junction 20i 475 12 3 4 Liverpool and Manchester 3l 4,272 5 6 5 London and Birmingham__ 114 14,582 4 9 10 London and Blackwall 5 London and Brighton 5 Ditto Shoreham Branch 8 London and Croydon loi 291 2 di 10 Liindon and Greenwich 34 825 12 0 6 London and South Western 3 Manchester, Bolton, and Bury 10 618 9 9 7 Manchester & Birmingham 5 Manchester and Leeds 7 Midland Counties .. 57 2,380 2 3i 5 Newcastle and Carlisle 3 Newcastle and North Shields 7 308 18 8 6 Northern and Eastern — 27 900 3 9 5 North Midland 4 North Unien 6 Preston and Wyre - 202 11 9 7 Shield and ManchesVer.....; 7 243 r 9 9 6Ulster - 20 494 7 9 5 York and North Midland 23 1,314 0 11 MORTALITY in the METROPOLIS. The following are the results of " A Table of Mortality in the Metropolis, showing the Number of Deaths from all Causes Registered in the week ending Feb. 5, 1842." The Table is issued from the Office of the Registrar-General Weekly Average 1838-9-40-1. Total. Pour Pour WinterslYears Epidemic, Endemic, & Contagious Diseases 132 199 190 Diseases of the Brain, Nerves, and Senses 152 160 149 Diseases of the Lungs, and other Organs of Respiration I.Nseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs of Digestion Diseases of the Kidneys, &c. 4 5 4 Childbed, Diseases of the Uterus, &e l2 11 10 Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Muscles 8 7 6 Diseases of the Skin, &c Diseases of Uncertain Seat lO7 115 104 0'.(1 Age, or Natural Decay lO4 90 69 Deaths by Violence, Privation, or Intem perance Causes not specified 6 7 7 Deaths from all causes Average Weekly Deaths Population Average Deaths .enu- Weekly in merated Peat he the • Ib4l. )838-9-4r;-1. Week. West—Kensington, St.'George ( Hanover-square), Westmin- Four Four ster, St. Martin in the Fields, Ye . rs.jWint!rs. St. James North—St. Mary-le-bone, St Pancras, Islington, Hackney 365,660 162 182 197 Central—Saint Giles and Saint George, Strand, Clerkenwell, Holborn, St. Luke, East Lon don, West London, City of London 373,806 188 213 212 East—Shoreditch,Whitechapel, Bethnal Green, St. George ---- in the East, Stepney, Poplar 392,496 206 223 205 South—St Saviour, St. Olave, St. George( Southwark ),Ber mond:ey, Newington, Lam beth, Camberwell, Rother hitke, Greenwich 438,060 221 243 263 CA(ISZS OF DEATH. DISTRICT& --- - - Total 1,870,727 912 1017 1025 It is slated that under the term Metropolis are comprised the 32 districts herein mentioned, which include the City of Lon don with and without the walls, the City and Liberties of Westminster, the out-parishes within the Bills of Mortality-- and the parishes of St. Marylebone, St. Pancras, Kensington, Fulham, Hammersmith Cbapelry), St. Luke (Chelsea), Pad dington, St. Mary (Stoke Newington), St. Leonard (Brom ley), St. Mary-le-bow, Camberwell, Greenwich, St. Nicholas and St. Paul (Deptford), and Woolwich. The population, as enumerated in 1831, was 1,594,890; and in June 1841, was 1,870,727. The weekly average for 1838, 1839,1840, and 1841, was obtained by dividing the deaths in the four years by 208, and the deaths in the four winters by 52. TEMPERLTUkE IN THE WEEKS ENDING Jan. 29. Feb. 5. 45° 49° 27 33 37 41 10, 1842. Highest Lowest Daily Mean . General Register Oftiae, Feb. ROYAL INSTITUTION.—Mr. Richard King, the surgeon and naturalist, as well as for a great part of the time the sole conductor of the expedition in search of Sir John Ross, and author of the narrative of the journey, delivered a lecture last evening at the Royal Institution, " On the Boundaries of the Polar lieas:' After taking a very rapid review of the progress of disco.. very from the 15th century to 1818, he dwelt somewhat at length upon the surveys made since that period by Ross, Parry, Back, and Messrs. Pease and Simpson. The survey of the latter officers, lit appears, has fully confirmed the views the lecturer entertained in 1836 of the polar coast south of the isthmus of Boothia, wherein he differed with Sir George Back. The melancholy suicide of Mr. Simpson has given Mr. King an opportunity of again urging the Government to adopt his plan at a cost of 1,000/. only. This pl an was given at length in The Sun. of January 15, 1836 , but a part of the contemplated survey at that time has since been made, and a new line of coast has in consequence risen, in Mr. King's opinion, into importance in relation to the long-agitated question of aN. W. passage. Mr. King proposes that the Government should despatch an expedition, consisting of one officer and six men, toward. the close of April, from Montreal, in Lower Canada, by the usual route of the fur traders to the Athabasca Lake, and, having obtained an Indian guide, make direct for the Fish River by a route well known to the Indians. On the head waters of that stream it is proposed the expedition should winter, and having as. certained the position of a tributary to the Great Fish River, which takes its rise close to the proposed wintering ground, in the ensuing spring follow its course, and afterwards the main stream to the Arc. tic Sea. By coasting along the eastern boundary of the Great Fish River estuary, Mr. K. is of opinion there will be no difficulty in reach ing the land of Boothia Felix, or, in case of its insularity, the Ilecla and Fury Strait. In the latter case the northern configuration of America will he complete; but if the former should prove to be as Sir John Ross has described, it will be necessary to follow that land to its northern limit, which will determine its connection with, or separation from, the land of Cape Walker. If separated from that land, and the dividing sea prove of any extent, the grand problem of a practical passage from the Atlantic into the Pa. eine by the Arctic Ocean is at once solved. Then the tending of the coast line of the Gulf of Boothia is but of minor importance; nevertheless, if the season be not trio far spent, Mr. King con siders it desirable to add its boundaries to our knowledge. A few Li lys ago, aA some men were lamming in the powder to blow up a portion of the rack of the tunnel for the Paris and Rouen Railway, at Rolleboise, an explosion took place, and the iron rod, which had been used as a rammer, entered the breast a t workmen, and killed him. Another severely injured. THE GREAT ANTI-CORN-LAvv CONFERENCE• (THIS DAY.) Halt -past -dAatyt,hpatutrismuaenwt etonoatideejodurthnmenenJl ing Members of Parliament on the platform :---Mr..wiTe7, M.P., Mr. Scholefield, M.P., Dr. Bowring, Al• 13-111. S: lea nistouu, M.P., Sir George Strickland, - - _ • M. P. ; i t that" tbe e° A P. A. TAYLOR, Esq., on taking the Chair, said; whom the gods meant to destroy, they first depri ve. g iu ok i their senses," that was the old observation of v eil Latin poet, and it seemed to him to be ye 11. applicable at the present time. Notwithstanding . :11 des indications that had been expressed, notwithstandinfZi -bad dissatisfaction which the measures of Sir Robert 77 ,0 i w . M.P.M.P., Mr. cu .;;:.,, created throughout the country, there were gentleme!_ bwof fatuated, from their position, as to be entirely If.' e r„ o siile judging of what was passing in the minds and hearts et. ~rn - c v of of this great couutry ; that, dissatisfied with the stnlti c 1 44 Sir Robert Peel's measures, Mr. Christopher ha,t l . _ Ro bert come forward to increase the duty, proposed by 0.1 . '„ i , 0- Peel, ss. a quarter; and Colonel Sibthorp had aetuti, late posed that the duty should be laid on corn on its eneV e aia• the country, and not on its being sold, aft.eeA o4 las ing out of bond.—( Loud cries of " Shame.'? . master thought, was evidence of the throes of the monopo ists. „ t or the Delegates would leave London to-day, but althotlinabo work in that room would be closed that morning their /04 would commence elsewhere—( Cheers)—when they *7-it i at at their homes. He trusted the Delegates had imbibed/0 room a large amount of boldness and confidenee—(Cl2., , for he believed they would be both needed—(Cbee' t illlo that they would transplant it among their e onstituelloo neighbours when they arrived at their own localities. , etjald cheering.) He believed boldness would be wanting, fne i talts7: not persuade himself that Sir R. Peel would have dare'"4ol l # duce such a measure into the country without beingelefoi of) impose it and carry it out by force and coercion. lit t eett" doubt that Sir Robert Peel thought he would stifle pir t ifiel nion. and probably would denounce Anti-Corn-lass Id* as seditious.—( Cries of " Let him.") Sir Robert w e . 4110 doubt contemplate one of two things ; either that' ' t os shown the Tories all he could do, and that he expeetV,li i tes driven out of power, or that he would resort to means . fu.. A V the people into silence.—( Cheers.) He (the Chairine'revel. understood what had taken place in that room, if Oe_Litigl could crush down the feelings of indignation so often' ellpialt in every part of the country.—(Cheers.) Even if opPz e it did come, they must look to the martyrs of old; and P,i et ali like them. Persecution, they might depend upon 1 /' - 0 4 0 Soon be its own antagonist. 'they m us t l oo k further the present time of their disappointment; and if they did int , might be assured that Imre prosperous and hopeful days llat come. He thought it could be said with truth that alp of the Cern-laws did contain within itself the germ °f admirable reforms.—( Hear, and cheering.) In the e_ i i ef lo of the Corn-laws was the germ of reform on the franFSite (Chews.) He had always felt it would be one of the viral wise things they (the Anti-Corn-lawAssociation ) could be .j lia of, to met ge the:Association of the Corn-laws into the of the franchise.—(Cheers.) He was satisfied that, !',71 In could be more pleasing to their opponents than to balit them from the consideration of the Corn-laws and plee e ot tlitlg upon generalities. Nothing would please th em better--t :oat would more effectually damage the cause of pr og ress and,e: a tio But there was no reason why they should not go on pa",,Vli, why the one agitation should not bCen c o ura ged as sie ll .lll 4 other, and he thought it would be seen that much infle't, e at , been given to the cause of the franchise reform by this mel e ; l o4 --(Loud cheers.) He thought there was another reform t" oy , —rather a mental reform than one which would lead tf ais ei thing more substantial. One of the g rea t ev il s of met". iof moral obligations in this country had been a servile 1[ 1 : 0 00 , reverence for aristocracy.—(Loud cheers.) A man n! pail rises a little in trade above his fellow merchants, than ne 00 over the place whence he sprung, and appr oac h es with ver e s j i taje, the purlieus of aristocracy ; the poo r un til l a t e ly had ifils t respected the rank, and tinsel, and po wer o f gre at raelA,,./t/ not this received a great shock? He believed it had.--(`':dik It was seen that the considerations of the aristocracy 0 ways been based on sordid and selfish views; this C o .oe had tended to shake that prestige, and much good PP,- jilt expected from that.—( Hear, hear.) The Church 14 7 : $ likely to be reformed till the feeling of veneration for that, tution was considerably increased. It had been pretty e a ' e r seen in the agitation of this question, that the high and able priesthood, the right reverend Fathers in God TO whole of the hierarchy, down to the humble curate, Its" their stand against the su ff rage—(Hear)—and when SP' -;,i, die Peel brought forward his motion for Church Extension. House, he would be met by the national cry of " D!' e t. ;l 4l church over the affections of the people before Y'', 4 L,44! Church Extension." Agitation had its good if it ha d t'4 the good of bringing man to man, and letting heart ennt", E X „ with heart—of the re-actio n of' one's own thoughts sr , * - wite power and force o n th e h eart o f anot h er. T he work t i l! th engaged in to-day was for th e goo d o f f uture genera tions i .i .,. were labouring for their son s . Th e i r t i me f or exe rtion 7' • come soon, and they would h ave th e i r fi e ld o f l a b o ur ee We i .1 0 those who were now engaged in this praiseworthy eau s ti'' must fulfil their duty in their succee di ng age , that en which all men were sent into the wor ld—t o l eav e it be.. when they entered it.—( Cheers.) The Chairman th e : p it 1 60 the following communications, which were met with 10%4 continued cheering from the enthusiastic and very, 5. , .. ~bOO - ~ audience :- 0 4 A , k aga o 6 , TO THE CHAIRMAN OF THE ANTI - H O R N L A * dHI.m.-- ' is , Sir,—The writer is a plain farmer, who had ocessie!', 't i London last Saturday, and who was subsequently req`!.ll P" many of his friends and neighbours, favourable to a reer c l Corn.laws, to attend the meetings of the deputies at tbe 4 41, Anchor. •He has done so, and from what he has the ie ii A, more fully than ever convinced of the n:iegsinsittiyr::::::t' Jlat:e That they are ruinous to the interests of commerce anu,low" tures we have innumerable and melancholy proofs, and la ur n z i ap o r n eo o orn f f.o.t t : h hh e abeter w iwire r e,fi l si te tttrec . ittli a md tv n hea d erac a lwiyass d rus a o i tn l io y nt whtinehehciiertnr:7asolrntga importation n mn of number of he b e longs, he a few facts. the By yourself, Sir, and t o a great majority of the denudes, Co' law of 1815 must be well remembered. It was to ,of foreign corn when the average price of our wheat for tbe tit six weeks of the quarter was at or above eighty 0W 114 1 0 4, under that price to exclude it a lt oget h er ; thus, . e e a legislative measurecould effect it, to keep the price of n r t olit about 80s. per quarter. Under the f u l 1 i mpress ion that suc h be the case, hundreds of farms we r e t a k en , an d agr eement' d eets/ into, for longer or shorter periods, but you may judge of the s oilt and disappointment experienced whe n muc h o f th e 'crop a I 40.' 1 sold at little over half the price that was generally exp ectediki, nature o f the law just come into operation, and in the pric e ~. It kinds of farm produce a proportionate depression took Pis ce eq . eief; next crop of 1816 was a very defective one, and the enyt. a fer, was an advance of price, so that the average price of wheat w: i eff was 948., and consequently the. ports opened for the edit e 5 ilis, foreign corn, and remained open until February 181ni 'Leh . ", price of wheat came below 80s. Now, Sir, as OPen 1 46 was generally thought, had reduced our prices to belovi : v oile naturally expected that by shutting out for e i gn p ro duce i ed tot effect would have been produced ; however, we were don ni re ienr: perience another and worse disappointment; prices kePt h air, / receding till December 1822, when th e average pr i ce a w. - A ng: sBs. per quarter.Th is was emphati ca ll y called 'the year ofstr ie " le distress," and to great numbers it vas a year of distress-, provincial newspaper not fewer than , 150 sales of f1 01° 14 4 r 2 were advertised in one w ee k, an d hundreds and thousands mers fell to rise no more. Meetings were now held all tb e ir, over, and notwithstanding former disappointments, th%,, 0 3 - ' P tence of Parliament was still confided in and solicited, ti 1 "704 tone rather subdued. In 1815, wheat could not on any . e ,fr be raised for less than 80s., but now 655. was t o be the 1 0 e : 0 01 01 thousands of petitions were poured in to the House of C:rili praying for its assistance to secure that object. In that as 7 l o / 0 in 1823, a slight alteration was made i n th e l aw , but ', i came into operation it is unnecessary to notice it. The nos Olt movement was the enactment of the Slidi ng S c ale Lese , oir., whatever might be its effects, was at least expected td o ll7, prices. But another disappointment I U n der this tan",, , t 1 scale wheat has been sold at 84s. and at 325. So much f ° ` Or laws and steady prices. It certainly has been co ‘ ing and slippery enough , for as the price °`ipr. slides up, the price of labour slides down. A . • 4 the price of flour and of piece -work in gradt bi 7 frOl e 1531 tour was 2s. 10 1 ,4 d. per stone, and a certain piece e a..P s 14s. Ad. ; in 1834 Is. B id. was the price of flour; and 1 61 ; 1 0 - Id the same work; but in 1840 flour was Ss. 6d. per stonei 0 .0- 3 r same work reduced to As. Now, Sir, this is in some ine si , o 4l case in the agricultural districts; but then the farmers ch , : o pOt least of two evils. They must either give wages that Wil l _reet man and his family, or they must be supported at a nine". o lp e xpense by the parish. This subject as regards agricult as : he much enlarged upon, and you will be glad to know that ° fi dife, conviction of the frightful evils of the system is now talc!, ~r 1 )' sion of the minds of many farmers, • • , (Signed) , CA LVT3 A P O 4 _(Loud cheers,) The Chairman said he had also r e II; letter from Nottingham, which, with the perrnissi °° 97l . meeting he would read.—(Cheers.) He thou reaithe,l4 l ... ing communication :—. -- 0/ 1 i TO THE CHAIRMAN OF TRH ANTI - CORN . LAW DlstenaTs. o, ..4l/ At a crowded meeting of the members of the Nottinglk7i.i A ,— Corn.faw Association, held on Thursday evening, Febi . .4„ , -00 the following Resolutions were unanimously adopted w i tos ?ii . 'nation : That this meeting views, with unmixed feelings 012: , e,O: and disgust, the measures proposed by Si r Robert 1-'7%;;;;00 adjustment of the Corn.laws. That in bringing forward such a measure calculated tl istd, the remaining commerce of the country; and the ' 1116 701k, • poor, to the selfish interests of an unfeeling and svar i .4 #1 51 5 # this meeting consider it addin g i nsu l t to misery, ntoa g r A viik,s 4 and a flagrant trifling with the opinions and acknoWli 4 7 ' , ''';)lo . the millions. That finding petitioning has ceased to become ereet..',o l l wit the prayers of a f am i s hi ng people are treated with con 1"1,, P e contempt, this meeting hesitates not in declaring that :de/ ...im , are determined no l onger to be trifled with. Tha t .,tiif er o atie e Sir It. Peel's m easure as disgraceful to himself as 3 in ; ' , ce , suiting to the Majesty of Heaven—and calculated ; l' i c oo , anarchy and contu s i on i n th e l an d of our birth. T" t peir therefore, to themsel ves , an d t rem bli ng for the fate °.eoare, oath, moss country, this me e tin g d enounces t h e propose d tS; o pt. reprobation and scorn, and warns the House of Comm less the Corn and Provision.laws are forthwith totao% f osu; eo• diately abolished—the security of property, an d the $ ° ,44 611 ' leges of a heartless aristo c r ac y, w ill b e greatly an d de' at two dangered. a ce • That a public meeting be held in the Market - PTA reP - o lt o'clock on Monday a ft ernoon, t o express the inclig n' t flee ei r 'a e oft tion of the people of Nottin g h am , on t h e co ld a nd 0 10" offered to their sufferings by Sir Robert Peel's proP° s ` .- e fe. the Corn-laws. of That these resolutions be tran sm itt e d t o the Che;riven gates now assembled in the metropolis. s . 01 1 Nottingham, Committee.room, Feb. 11, 1842. see'i e Mr. O'CoNsFm. here entered the room, an d nign" former occasions, received with loud and repeat° arlfor d tir tions of applause. the • CO P. " The following letter from the Secretary 0 . , AO' United Club, addressed to the Secretary of ti le 18 4 ' law League was then re a d by the Chairman. 10, ~ o'ol o Bradf Feb. ord, Yorkshire, of t he f. Slit,— At a numerous meeting of the Membe r ' t disse n f ts c ooli Club last night, it was resolved without the slig hte :diisein a Ist. That this meeting receives with the gre at° 0 4 the proposition of Government on the Corn law , 4 $ total the 20. That this Club will accept no measure short immediate repeal of the Corn-laws. 1-1 topped twig It was proposed that since the Government 6 a it ei a6 , o ge" plies of the people, and refused relief to their dist ret a ! i hts pi to stop the supplies of Government.—(The rea ding o ot tis i l the was followed by a burst of applause, every on e o t fr° ,3l ol loudly cheering) —and that a requisition should be 0- v ote Electors calling on Messrs. Bustield and Hardy t v d i hst the supplies. This was demurred to on the gO nn „, pr01 4°' ,.,, ment had not yet committed itself to the Governtrieh;ps worluila of and was yet to be tried by Mr. Villiers. It PeLorse should the consideration of the Deputies whether such * the Corp' vdopted as the ultimatum. wi fe on The 'fleeting adjourned till the vote of t he I law motion should be given. unpi e , Place 1 who , Place. Purp c Aver. 5. .Ite r, .!bbatic Ponfe, Jot ] bY7III 0; 1 7 4 .th c. o 4 tilk‘a .J 44, t EVENING SUN THE StN, LONDON, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1842. EVENING S r 4 0...121 h I forw UIE • ',Pule