The Sun. — London, England, 1842-02-04 00:00:00

LONDON: FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1842. The great expectations which were excited of the opening of Parliament, have scarcely been answered at present by the results. The Speech delivered by her MAJESTY, yesterday, has made us acquainted with little more of deep interest to the people, than the intention of Ministers to take the Corn-laws into consideration, and to take measures to equalise the revenue and the expenditure. On Wednesday, which is very early, Sir RO-. IVERT PEnt. is to submit all his views on the Corn-laws to the House and the country, and till then we must remain in ignorance, as at pre sent, of what he means to propose. We only know now, that he is a convert to the opinion that the Corn-laws must be altered. From the speech of the Earl of MARCH, we learn that the Ministers are to propose new taxes, of such a description as to fall on the rich and not reach the poor. Lord JOHN RUSSELL hinted at a property-tax, which be intimated he should be ready to oppose ; and Sir ROBERT PEEL, who spoke after him, did not deny that he contemplated such a tax. The country only knows at present, therefore, with somewhat more assurance than before the meeting of Par lament—for we have announced both facts-- Aid the Corn-laws are to be taken into consi 'daration by the Tories, and that the price we '" to Pay for a PEEL Administration is a pro- Pert Y-tax. Whatever expectations might have been formed in the country, there were none in the House of Commons after the contents of the Speech were known. We scarcely ever recollect a first night 'which went oil' more tamely. There is now a cowplete coincide nce i n the views of the hitherto eon . flicting parties. Sir ROBERT PEEL avowed that he and (,olleagues, on principle, had drawn his up the ipeech so as to secure, if possible, a unanimous vote of the House. Contrary to everythi ng which the Tories had said only a few months ago, the Speech teemed with satisfaction. Sud denly, as Lord MELBOURNE playfully remarked, the difficulties that had beset the country had vanished. The only evils mentioned • were the distress of the people, which the Whigs Teed in vain on the attention of Parlia _ ,- -the defi c i enc y o f th e rev enue, which they atterinoted to remedy, and the Tories would not allow them, —and the state of the Corn-laws, which the Tories are to take in band, though they regarded that, when done by the Whigs, as trea son against the landlords. Lord MARCH plainly said the landlords had now got an Administration which they could trust, and, being like dogs, who will take, with out whining or complaining, a sound drubbing from those they love, they will cheerfully accept those alterations from the Tories, for attempting which they flew at the throats of the Whigs. On the only debateable topics which interest the country, the Tories have come completely over to the °pink ns of the Whigs, and hence there were compliments, recommendations, and ex pressions of confidence, but no opposition, no amendment, and no debate. Lord JOHN RUSSELL warned Sir ROBERT PEEL of the serious consequences of now passing another Corn-law which should not settle the question, leaving the agitation to be renewed in a year or two. Mr. VILLIERS referred to the immense, the unlooked-for progress which the question has made, and asserted that nothing now would settle it but the repeal of all taxes on food, a motion for which he should, he hoped with the approbation of his friends in the House, and of a great number of persons out of the House, take an early opportunity of bringing forward. If Lord Jour; RUSSELL may congratulate him self on seeing the Tories come round to his opi nions, The Sun has a right to feel great satisfac tion to find first the Whigs, and then the To ries, after obstinately resisting for years every motion, even to inquire into the Corn-laws, come round to opinions which The Sun has steadily advocated for years past. So long ago as 1838, we felt ourselves constrained, though with great reluctance, to differ from Lord BROUGHAM, who then advocated a fixed duty. Last night the Noble Lord emphatically de clared that only the total abolition of all duties could serve and save the country. We record such facts with honest exultation ; they are an assurance to our readers that they may place some confidence in our opinions. We regretted to hear Earl FITZWILLIAM, who possesses great knowledge of the manufacturing districts, observe that he doubted whether it were now possible to restore the country to prosperity, decay has made such rapid strides, and distress has got to such a height. The Noble Earl, however, with his characteristic good sense, declared that though their Lordships could not save the coun try, they ought to do all the good in their power, and not continue legislation which had already pro duced such mischievous consequences. Declara tions like that, and propositions for merely reform ing the Corn-laws, if made in a bona fide spirit, and not with any trickery—if dictated by a real apprehension of danger to accrue from a total re peal, may reconcile even the most suffering of the manufacturers and the most thoroughgoing of the repealers to a modification of the laws which shall promise total repeal at no distant day. We need not repeat our own opinions, they remain unchanged; we speak of prevailing opi nions, the offspring of honest but mistaken timi dity or ignorance. Men have been so long ac customed to coast along in sight of the shores discovered and laid down by their ancestors, that they want boldness and confidence to launch themselves, on the ocean of fate, with justice for their compass, and public happiness the un known land they are in search of, though they know not exactly where it is to be found. In the Times of yesterday there appeared a letter from Lord ASHLEY, announcing that Sir ROBERT PEEL would not give his sanction to a Ten Hours' Bill. Sir ROBERT PEEL tacitly con firmed the statement last night in the House of Commons. In The Sun on Wednesday we an nounced that " the retirement of the Duke of BUCKINGHAM from the Cabinet severed the alli ance between the Tories and the Owenite Char tists," who, it will be remembered, constituted the deputation which waited on the Duke of BUCKINGHAM, and procured from him a recogni tion of the Ten Hours' Bill. Lord ASHLEY'S let ter, and the few words which passed in the House of Commons last night, put an end to this piece of delusion, now that it has served its turn and purpose. Sir ROBERT PEEL and his friends have deceived the working classes, but deceit is no longer useful or practicable. One more piece of humbug is at an end. Nothing can be more satisfactory than the state of the foreign relations of Great Britain, as set forth in the Speech from the Throne. The hollow rumbling of dis tant war thunders, which so disturbed the Tories when out of office, have all happily died away since they took up their abode in Downing -street. Our little wars have led to none of the great ones of which Sir RO BERT PEEL was so painfully apprehensive when nightly occupying the front bench on the Opposition side of the House. Her MAJESTY, speaking the language of the Premier, is made to say that she "receives from all Princes and States the continued assurance of their earnest desire to maintain the most friendly relations with this country." This is all that the most war-abhorring Quaker, or the most Radical Reformer, can desire. The only exception is China, but so very sanguine have our Ministers become, that they express a conviction that our differences with the " Son of Hea ven" will be brought to an early termination, and our commercial relations with that country placed on a sa tisfactory basis—which is what they never were. Now if the Tories believe that such will be the early result of the war with the Celestial Empire, they ought to raise a statue to Captain ELLIOT, whose blundering was chiefly instrumental in provoking it. Respecting the important questions at issue between Great Britain and the United States, the Speech says nothing, not ithstanding the prominent place given to them in the last Presidential message. Nor is a single allusion made to the late events in Spain, or to the disturbed state of Central Asia, in which British interests are so deeply involved. The Royal Speech announces that measures will be submitted to Parliament for the improvement of the ju , risdiction exercised by Ecclesiastical Courts in England and Wales. Why not extend the sphere or operation, and carry the improvement farther north, to a country where the violent proceedings in Ecclesiastical Courts have ( thrown the whole frame of society into confusion ? In Eng land and Wales these Courts may be bad enough, but they are as a drop of the bucket compared with the usurpa tions, the violence, and the worse than Star-Chamber cruelties which have for some years now gained the Church Courts of Scotland such unenviable notoriety. No clergyman, nor layman either, unless he can pro nounce the " Shibboleth" of a dominant party, is safe. The one is excommunicated, the other is deposed as well as excommunicated; and even those who sympathise with them are threatened with the same punishments. While these things are going on, the arm of the law is paralysed, or makes such tardy movements that the sufferers doubt its efficacy in bringing them relief. Such a state of things is at utter variance with good order and the prac tice of true religion—two of the main objects for which the Kirk was established, and for which its ministers are paid by express enactments of the Legislature. or disobey the law as suits These rebellious priests obey their purposes. They accept the State money—they col lect their stipends to the uttermost farthing, not one of which they could levy but for the law which they set at defiance. A speedy and effectual remedy for these crying abuses is imperatively demanded on the part of the nume ous ministers of the Scottish Church who have borne their sufferings with such Christian patience, and who, con scious of their own rectitude, have, with unexampled submission, left their case in the hands of the Govern ment and the Legislature. They therefore have reason to complain, that a hile the small grievances of the English Church have a conspicuous place allotted to them in the QUEEN'S Speech, their cruel deprivations and persecutions are passed over without notice. In justice, then, to a respectable and useful class, Sir ROBERT PEEL and Lord ABERDEEN are bound to state explicitly and without delay, whether the Kirk or the Constitution is to rule in Scotland Madrid journals of, the 27th ult. have reached us. We regret to learn from them that the Archbishop of TOLEDO has resigned his pastoral functions rather than support the project of law submitted to the Chambers, forbidding appeals to Rome, and virtually vesting the supremacy of the Spanish Church in the Government. This Prelate was a Liberal in politics, and hitherto lent the weight of his episcopal authority to the constitutional cause. M. Or OZAGA defendee .he conduct of the Government on the etiquette question, but manifested much tact and de licaeY in alluding to the conduct Of the bench Go- I < • .)A. gr, * 0 etg c§Ull,& EVENING SUN THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. THIS EVENING, FEB. 4, Will be performed the Play of THE TWO GENTLEMEN OF TERONA.—Duke of Milan, Mr. Phelps ; Valentine, Mr. Macread7 ' • Proteus, Mr And erson ; Thurio, Mr. Comp ton ; Lattice, Mr. Keeley ; Julia, Miss Fortescue ; Silvia, Miss Ellis ; Lucetta, Miss Turpin. After which will be repeated the New Farce, entitled THE. WINDMILL—The Marquis de Roueville, Mr. Morris Bar nett ; Sampson Low, Mr. Keeley • Marian, Mrs Keeley. To condufle with the Grand C omic Christmas Pantomime, coned HARLEQUIN AND DUKE HUMPHREY'S DIN NER ; OR, JACK CADE, THE LORD OF LONDON STONE. Doors tA, be opened at Half past Six, and the Performance to begin st Seven o'clock. Boxes 55., Second Price, 2s. 6d. Pit 35., Second Price 2s. Lower Gallery Is. 6d., Second Price Is. Upper Gallery Is., Second Price 6d.._ THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT -GARDEN. UNDER the MANAGEMENT of MADAME VESTRIS. MIS EVENING, FEB. 4, Will be performed Sheridan's Comedy of THE SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL.—Sir Peter Teazle, Mr. W. Farren ; Sir Oliver Surface, Mr. I 3 artl e y ; Sir Benjamin Backbite, ; Sir Barley ; Joseph Surface, Mr. Cooper ; Charles Surface, Mr. Charles Mathews ' • Moses, Mr. Meadows; Lady Teazle, Ma e ine Vestris ; Lady Sneerwell, Mrs. Orger ; Maria, Miss Cooper ; Mrs. Candour. Mrs. Glover; After which will be repeated the New Grand Christmas Pantomime, entitled GUY EARL OF WARWICK ; OR. nLI. ALEQUIN AND THE DUN COW. Doors to be opened at half-past Six—the performances to nensmence at Seven. Dress Boxes, 7s. ; Second Price, 3s. 6d. ; First and Second Circles, ss. ; Second Price, 2s. 6d. ; Pit, 35.; Second Priem. 2,.; Gallery, ls. Tickets and places for the y=es to be taken of Mr. Grogan at the Box-office, from Ten Fear, where Season Tickets may be had upon application. Private Boxes to be had solely of Mr. Andrews, bookseller, 167. New Bond-street. To-morrow, Elena Überti, with the Pantomime. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. The only Pantomime Onti;e --- SurieYside of the water, over ky a Quarter past Eleven. Attraction beyond conception. Crowded Houses nightly. Great hit of " Norma." THIS EVENING. FEB. 4, Will be acted Haines' wonderfully successful Drama, enti tled ELIZABETH LAZARUS, THE JEWESS, founded en Captain Glasscock's " Land Sharks and Sea Gulls." After which, MRS. NORMA, with Bellini's Music. 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 sing, be. Hatlequin, M. Huline ; Patch, M. Rochet ; Pan taloon, M. Lehman ; Flip, Signor Felia 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. Gntinued triumph of " Geraldine!" Immense success of " The Wild Irish Girl !" and revival of the Grand Romance of " Ivanhoe," with all its original splendour—Combat of Twelve, Conflagrations, and startlicg effects. THIS EVENING, FEB. 4, 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 ; Huntingdon, Mr. Dab ; Claud, Mr. Seaman ; Jemmy Cottle, Mr. Gardner ; Davy, Mr. Paul; Geraldine, Miss Vin sent, the acknowledged Heroine of Domestic Drama. After which, TH E WILD IRISH GlRL.—Shelah O'May, Miss Vincent, in which she will dance her celebrated Donny brook Rant, and sing several humourous chaunts, and a new Medley Epilogue To conclude with the Grand Romance of IVANHOE.— Ivanhoe, Mr. E. F. 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And by the Western Trains to Reading, Oxford, Salisbury, Portsmouth, Gosport, Southamp ton, Bath, Bristol, Gloucester, Cheltenham, and other places. *,,* Orders will be supplied by all News• agents; and should any difficulty occur in obtain ing the Latest or any other Edition, application to the Sun-office direct will ensure immediate attention. Sin Office, 112, Strand. We re g ret that, owing to an accident, some of our Sub scribers supplied by those very respectable Agents, Mr. Marlborough and Messrs. Woodward and Castles, were disappointed in receiving their papers as early as usual. No blame whatever applies to those Agents, who are always very punctual and attentive. THE WEATHER.—NooN, FEBRUARY 4. arEvAL GALLERY OF SCIENCE, ADELAIDE-STREET. Thermometer... 34 I Highest 44 j Lowest 34 Barometer 30.05.—Wind E.—Freezing Point 22 Deg. HIGH WATER kT LONDON BRIDGE TOMORROW. Morning minutes after 9 I Evening l2 minutes after In. fIIE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 184`z: vcrnment towards himself personally as the Represen tative of Spain. He assured the Chamber that all difficulties would be soon overcome, and that there was no reason to dread any further unfriendly act on the part of France. The Bourse at Madrid, on the 26th, was at 32 for cash, and 32i 1 for account 60 days. The Paris Journals of Wednesday devote their lead ing columns to the question of the Budget, respecting which, however, they write with an appearance of great indifference. The Ministerial organs are pleased, as they always are, with everything done by the Cabinet ; and the Opposition papers treat the whole question with an air of lofty indifference, as if they were above the consideration of the mere details of taxation. Upon the prosecution of the Press they are more earnest, and de nounce the conduct of the Government with energy and spirit. There is no news in these papers of any political inte rest. We subjoin the only interesting extracts found in them : A letter from Toulon, quoted by the Temps, says that the Prince de Joinville is shortly expected in that port, to sail in the Belle Poule on a voyage round the world. His Royal Highness will visit the French East India settlements and the China seas. The Journal de la Haye publishes an article on the respon sibility of printers, occasioned by a recent trial in Holland. It shows that the Dutch law, as fixed by the High Court, esta blishes the maxim, that the author being known, the printer cannot be considered responsible. M. Gualtier, ex-banker at Anjers, whose trial we reported the day before yesterday, has been condemned by the Correc tional Tribunal of Anjers to two years' imprisonment, a fine of 25,000 f., suspension of civil rights for ten years, and the costs. The moment the sentence was pronounced, M. Gualtier in a loud voice declared he should appeal.— Constitutionnel. The Gazette de. Tribunaux says, " It is stated that a for mal motion will be made in a few days in the Chamber of De puties to revise the 24th article of the law of the 27th May, 1840, relative to printers. This motion cannot fail to be taken into serious consideration. It has been said after accounts from Vienna that Prince Leopold, youngest son of Duke Ferdinand of Saxe Coburg, was one of the candidates for the hand of the Queen of Spain. The Presse says on this subject :—" It is certain that one of the first acts of the new English Ministry was to propose a Prince of Coburg as consort of the young Queen of Spain, but it is equally certain that the Continental Powers rejected this plan, which tended to evince the preponderance of England in Spain, as it already exists in Portugal."—Commerce. A young soldier shot himself at Verdun a few days since in a fit of melancholy, brought on by disappointed love. He loaded his musket so heavily, that his head was blown entirely to pieces. The snow has been drifted this winter, as the Courrier de Lyon states, to a considerable depth among the mountains in the department of the Drome, and the cold has been very in•. tense. A young man and a woman, on different days during the course of last month, perished in the snow among the mountains. The former, overcome by fatigue, was caught in a storm and frozen to death ; the latter fell over a precipice into a snow drift, and has not since been seen. All efforts to find her body have proved fruitless. The Mayor of Rouen having refused some time since to enregister the marriage of a Swiss with a Prussian female, because they did not present authorization from the compe tent persons in their own countries, an action was brought against him by the parties ; and the Tribunal de Premiere Instance of that city has given a decision in favour of the plaintiffs, ordering the Mayor to make the registration forth with. The Mayor founded his refusal on a Ministerial cir cular issued in 1831. A few days ago, says a letter from Alost (in Belgium), a young man of one of the most respectable families in that place shot an old female servant of the family through the head. He was taken into custody and sent to prison, but it is said that he is insane. The woman, who is not dead, but who is not expected to survive, as the wound was very serious, is the widow of a man who was murdered a few years ago, and, on the day when she was shot, her sister died suddenly at Wetteren. The Gazette des Tribunaux says that the damage done to the workshops and manufactory of M. Pihet by the fire en Sunday evening was very considerable, but that the precise amount is not known. The accident is attributed to a beam which was in contact with one of the chimneys of a forge, and had become ignited in consequence of some flaw 'in the brickwork. The greatest man in the 43d regiment of the line, quartered at Bayonne, has deserted its ranks—the Tambour-major of that corps having, for some cause not yet known, abandoned his drums and crossed the Spanish frontier. The Minister of Public Instruction has confirmed the deci sion of the Rector of the Academy of Strasburg, in suspending the lectures of M. Ferrari, Professor of Philosophy, for sup porting Socialist doctrines. " The Abbe de Lamennais," says the Moniteur Purisien, " is reported is be on the point of leaving Paris, to take up his residence in the East." BOURSE-PARIS, WEDNESDAY, FEB. 2. 11181 Highest Lowest Last Price Price. Pricy. Price. ' t rench 5 per Cents ll9 ... 119 ... 1 9 ... 119 414 per Cents. 3 per Cent- 79 7J .... 79 90 ... ;9 70 ... 711 90 Loan lank of ?lance . Lattlite Bank 1,0001. Shares 1017 50 ...INC ...1017 50 ...le-20 5,0(2W. Shares 1030 ...5020 ...5030 ...503J Belgian 5 per Cents. 5 per Cents., 1840 105% ... 105% ... 105 1 4 ... 105 1 4 Dutch 2) per Cents. ii..rusti Astute 14% ... g. 1% ... `24 3 i ... .24% Passive 5% ... 5% ... 5% ... 5% `feapolitan aornan...... RAILWAY SHARES. tit, aermain Vecsailles.K. A . 345 ... 245 ... 945 ... 345 L. 8..— 2lO ... 212 50 .. 210 ... 212 50 Rouen .......... ............. ....... 505 ... 505 ... 5.2 50 ... 505 Orle.ins .. 542 50 ... 5t7„50 —7542 50 ... 516 25 tlea.ti lA DI 1 If NDs—lsaussaLs , Fr.n. 2. Actual Debt, 2% per Cent. Rothschild's Loan, 5 per C , nt lO2 Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent. 94 --------------- 3 per Cent. -----.Thirty.seven----- 72N .------- (1W) 102% Loan of City, 1232, 4 per Cent. 45 > 4 Society et Commerce, 4 4 per Cent.. ........ Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent.. ........... .......• 70% NationalSeciety. Exchange on Lonilem (short) — —Brussels Papers, !Feb. 2. AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, JAN. 25. tiveper Coats. Metalliques lout per Cent 5........................„. Three par Cents. ..... ...... ................... ..... .. ..... Bank Shares • ..... ..... ...... .»..........»................ .. 1613 —Alleemeine Zeltung. Jan. 29.: NAVAL AND MILITARY. Amongst the invalids suffering under fever, who arrived at Liverpool with Captain Trotter, is Mr. Ansell, from the Horticultural Gardens, at Chiswick, who went out as gardener to the Niger expedition. Mr. Fraser, the naturalist to the expedition from the Zoological Society, remains an invalid at Ascension. SUMMARY OF NEWS AND littblit eptnton. , 6 Who runs may read." FOREIGN. According to the returns laid before the French Cham bers the retention of French Africa costs France about sixty-seven millions of francs annually ! Her colonies only produce to France a direct income of six millions of francs per annum. This of course re fers only to direct income. No estimate can be formed of the commercial advantages of the colonies to the mother country. The French Minister of Marine's budget is of consi derable importance. The war policy of M. Thiers obliged the Minister of Marine to arm no fewer than 225 vessels. He has endeavoured, by a new organisation, to reconcile this increase with the Treasury without dimi nishing in any great manner the naval strength of France. He consequently divides the vessels into three cate gories :-Ist. The ships at sea ; 2dly. The vessels in the roads ; and idly. In commission at the ports. Thus there will be 140 vessels ; of which there are eight ships of the line, 12 frigates, 8 corvettes, 21 brigs, 26 smaller vessels, 30 gabares, and 35 steamers, always at sea ; four vessels of which, one of the first rank, and three of the third rank, will be in the roads ; fourteen vessels, of which six are ships of the line, three frigates, three steamers, are to be in commission at the ports. The Minister of Marine, Admiral Duperre, contends that this organisation presents celerity of execution, strength of discipline, and economy. Thus, although the budget of the navy is divested of more than thirty-seven millions of francs, the Minister keeps up 158 armed vessels, and 22,589 sailors, and 20 302 infantry and artillery for the service of the ports Apt, colonies. The French Min ter for Foreign Affairs, in his budget, proposes various increases in his department, principally the creation of two Consuls of the first class, one at Canton, with a salary of 40,000 francs (1,6000 ; and the other at Port Louis, in the Mauritius, at 20,000 francs (8001.) Ten Consuls of the second class, at salaries varying from 10,000 to 20,000 franc namely— Moscow, Newcastle, Mazatlan (Mexico), Monterez (capital of California), Panama, Jerusalem, Jedda (lied Sea), Erzeroum,Mossul, and Janina. The Prefect of I'olice gave 415 permissions to hold public balls in Paris during 1839 ; in 1840 this number amounted to 628 ; and in 1841 to 650. During the pre sent year it is said that 703 public dancing-places are open in the capital. The Swabian Mercury gives the following table of the increase of the population in the capitals of the German States, between 1821 and 1841 :—Vienna, from 273,242 to 357,927 ; Berlin, from 192,217 to 315,541 ; Munich, from 60,024 to 106,351; Dresden, from 52,000 to 80,989; Hanover, from 24,000 to 29,000 ; Stuttgardt, from 27,600 to 42,217 ; Carlsruhe, from 16,021 to 23,434 ; Cassel, from 23,692 to 31,349 ; Darmstadt, from 15,450 to 29,007 ; and Weimar, from 8,917 to 11,485. The Archbishop of Toledo has resigned his pastoral trust, because, though a Progressista, he does not ap prove of the Government's last projects of law submitted to the Cortes on the subject of the existing relations with the Court of Rome. PARLIAMENTARY. MEETING OF PARLIAMENT. We gave her Majesty's Speech yesterday in the whole of our Evening Edition, and conveyed to every part of the empire the intentions of the Ministers. Her Majesty, we may add, was never more enthusiastically received, and never did a greater crowd wait on any Sovereign on going to meet her Parliament. In the Upper House, after the Marquis of Clanricarde had stated that he would on Monday ask a question about the marriage law of Ireland, the Marquis of Aber-, corn moved an Address is answer to the Speech from the Throne, which was of the usual character. The Earl of Dalhousie seconded the motion. Viscount Melbourne made a very happy attack on the Tories, all whose forebodings of evil had been disap pointed, and who now found, after they had been some time in office, that the difficulties they had imagined did not exist. The Earl of Ripon defended the change in th e m i n d of the Ministers, from the lugubrious to the sunny. Their own merit and advent to power had miraculously put all things to rights. Lord Brougham declared against the Corn-laws, gave an explanation of the law as it affected th e case o f t h e Creole, expressed a warm desire to see a cordial friend ship with the United States, and advocated an extension of the Suffrage, though it were ever so gradual. lie de clared, with great truth anti great emphasis, that neither the Throne, the Aristocracy, nor our Insti tutions, would be safe while our representation was wholly confined to property, and numbers were, by being excluded from all share in it, placed in conflict with the other orders of the State. Earl Fitzwilliam insisted on the necessity of making the alteration in the Corn-laws a comprehensive mea sure, and called for an explanation, which he said would be asked by the country, of the causes why the farmers' friend had left the Cabinet. The Duke of Wellington declined to enter into any description of the measure which the Government was to bring forward on the Corn-laws. The Duke of Buckingham said, that when a measure was proposed of which he could not approve, he had thought it his duty, as an honest man, to leave the Ca binet. He should oppose his late Colleagues' measure on the Corn-laws with all his power when it came to that House, but on other subjects he should continue to give them his support. The Address was agreed to, nem. con. In the Commons, new writs were moved for the Western Division of Cornwall, for Leominster, Bandon- Bri.lge, Dublin liniversity, King's Lynn, and Liverpool. Notices were given of motions, on the part of Ministers, for Bills to apply grants of the two last Sessions to the ser vice of 1841, to amend the Passengers Act, to regulate the sale and survey of lands in New Zealand and Aus tralia, to regulate the salaries of Bishops in Jamaica and Barbadoes, and to consolidate the laws on Colonial Trade, to amend the Railway Act, and to provide for the more effectual suppression of lunatic asylums. Tho Mi nisters arc chalking out plenty of work for themselves and for Parliament. The Earl of March, Member for West Surrey, in a neat, but very short speech, and much to the purpose, moved the Address. Mr. Becket, the Member for Leeds, seconded the motion, and assured the House that the distress in Leeds was increasing. Mr. Ewart reminded Sir Robert Peel of the necessity for giving the people relief on the articles of sugar and coffee as well as corn. He expressed his approbation of a property-tax. Lord John Russell, while he expressed his cordial concurrence in most parts of the Address, could not refrain from pointing out to the House the satis faction he felt at finding the Tories had embraced the opinions of the late Alinisters. The Noble Lord broadly and boldly asserted the principle that taxation should be got rid of which mas not levied for the pur poses of State, and happily ridiculed the attempts which had been made to deceive the people about Corn-laws and Short-time Bills. Sir Robert Peel followed Lord Johnßussell, but while he justified himself for receiving the Short-time Commit tee Deputation, not knowing the persons, he took no notice of Lord John Russell's remarks on the Corn-laws and a property-tax. Mr. Villiers expressed, in a few and pithy sentences, his satisfaction that the landlords had been made aware that there was a power greater than theirs. Mr,Esteourt deplored the banishment from the Cabinet of the farmers' friend, and the friend of Lord Ashley's friends. The Address was agreed to without amendment. The Commons rose at-Seven, and the Lords at Eight o'Clock. PUBLIC OPINION'. cipae have l leadingenartuicnldeserofthoeurheMadoronfinF, Spirit temporar i es nePrn w of the Public Journals ;" we need therofore only state here that the Chronicle contains a second article on the pernicious effects produced by the Corn-laws, wherein our Contemporary remarks :—" Corn does not reach the rate at which the ports arc open and the warehouses un locked, but by an ascending scale of suffering. Priva tions among the poor, of graduated severity, are the steps of the ladder from whose top the approach of foreign supply is to be discerned." The Herald, in remarking on the speech of the mover of the Address in the House of Lords, takes occasion to observe that " the necessity for expanding and invigo rating the sources of income without (so long as it may be possible to avoid it) the imposition of any new fiscal burdens on the people, becomes the most sacred of prin ciples among those which should govern the policy and measwes of her Majesty's servants." The Post, in an article on the subject of free trade, expresses itself to the effect that the monopoly enjoyed by the Canadian timber-trade entails no loss on this country. IVIONET—TEADZI — COM MERCE. The journeymen shipwrights of Limerick, aware of the work which the late hurricane has prepared for them, struck last week, and refused to go to work at 7s. 6d. a-day. The glove trade of Worcester is reviving, and during the past week many orders have been received by the manufacturers there, both on foreign and home account. There now at work in Belgium 1,300 steam-engines, with a total power of 33,100 horses. A meeting of the iron trade, held on Friday at Wol verhampton, advanced the price of manufactured iron 10s. per ton. A letter from Genei'a states, " our clock and watch trade is more flourishing this winter than it has been for several years past." Ea c loss iits'X'SCl.A.2.. The members of the Marylebone Tradesmen and Ope ratives Protestant Association, had addressed a memo rial against Puseyism to the Bishop of London, stating that there are at present, in their borough, places of wor ship and officiating? clergy who follow the ceremonies of the Romish Church, and praying his Lordship to ac quaint them with the measures he will adopt against them, by the time of their next meeting, on the 28th inst. ..... - LXTERA.R.Ir A.NII. C TIFIC The progress of literature in Russia may be gathered from th e fact that there are at the present clay Russi an 5,000 to 6,000 roubles fo r merely authors w h o h ave b oug ht estates several square leagues in ext ent w i th the pro d uce a their pens : th ere are others who r ece i ve f ro m giving their names to periodicals : many of these latter circulate 20,000 copies. The largest modern un dertaking is the great National Encyclopedia, on which several hundred literary men are employed, at the rate of from 100 to 200 roubles a sheet. A very splendid jewel has been presented by the King of thetha that French,s to recentM i Miss w Costello,or kon i n i ton F r ic o, n e o e o , f his "A s estimation swozaer j of among the Becagegi and Vines." THE KING OF PRUSSIA. His Majesty the King of Prussia took leave this morning of the Queen, at Buckingham Palace, and left, accompanied by Prince Albert, with an escort of the Life Guards, at half-past nine o'clock for Woolwich, to review the Royal Artillery. After the review his Ma jesty will embark in the Firebrand steam-packet for the Continent, accompanied by the Baron de Humboldt and all his suite. The dejeuner which it was expected the King would have partaken of with the officers of the gar rison, is, it is unde rs t oo d, counterman d e d , an d t h e K i ng will lunch on board. The Queen and Prince Albert are expected to leave town to-morrow for Windsor Castle. Mr. Beckett, the Member for Leeds, who yes terday seconded the Address to the Throne, in the House of Commons, appeared in the regi mentals of a hussar regiment. When the bur gess who represents the great clothing and com mercial town of Leeds wears such frippery in the House of Commons, there seems to us some rea son to despair of the country. If the men of Leeds have a cornet, or even a captain of hussars, for their representative, what can be expected from towns less distinguished by the religious and sober feelings of the inhabitants MAURITIUS SLAVE-TRADE.—Amongst the no• tires given last night in the name of the Vice- President of the Board of Trade for regulating the trade of the colonies, ohe was understood to embrace the revival of the Slave-trade (as the exportation of Hill Coolies from India has been called) between India and the Mauritius. Re membering the odium which connected itself with the name of Gladstone, the father, from engaging in that trade some three or four years ago, we must say that it is indecent now to have the son meddling with it, or in any way min gling with it as a legislator. There has been a great deal of legislation for classes ; are we now to have laws made to enrich individuals ? Is Gladstone, the son, as a law-maker and a mem ber of the Government, to make laws which, at some cost to humanity and the reputation of the country, may enrich Gladstone, the father? THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN IN AND OUT.—Lord Mel bourne congratulated Ministers last night, on the " more comfortable views which they took of affairs now, than they dia on the twenty-fourth of August last." This " comfortable" change of opinion is very easily ac counted for. Office—to borrow a phrase from a fickle Contemporary —" has done it all!" When Ministers were " withering in the cold shade of Opposition, "their views of things were naturally enough tinged with the gloomy and inclement character of the climate they dwelt in ; public affairs were desperate, because their own condi tion appeared so ; but now that they are inhaling the Talk n is o th o f of the m sunn t y h e h u s e w o e f e t t h s e u i r n s l h o c i n a e l i t o y f ; o ffi a c u e d , August e metamorphosest a m b e c o o : p m clu e h aols the et so r t e O hc p oo t r i d m e d i s t by s o O f v F i d e 1 - b bTtt hhraheulemeiarrrryeyeospaaslirii Pessimists i o a 1 n ls d t ak e basking the in se wrought by Office ! One transformation alone this mighty necro mancer is unable to e ff ect— i t cannot transform Sir James Graham into an honest statesman ! ig THE SUN. —Our evening Contemporary The Sun, has recommenced its spirit e d system of ex presses, by which it frequently far outstr i p s t h e other Evening Journals. We are indebted to k for the very early receipt of the Queen's Speech, which reached our office before six o'clock.—Chelmsford Chronicle. THE QUEEN'S SPEECH.—Yesterday evenin g a large and most respectable public meeting was held at the King's Arms Tavern, Phillip-lane, Wood-street, A. Fairborn, Esq ,in the Chair, for the purpose of a public discussion on the Queen's Speech, delivered on the opening of the present Session of Parliament ; when, after a long and able rebate, the meeting came to a vote, by the immense majority of at least eight to one, that her Majesty's Speech merited the marked disapprobation of the meeting. An extraordinary instance of the uncertain effects of lightning occurred a few days since, at Meuvaines, in Nor mandy, when the electric fluid struck. a small cottage, and shivered t o p i eces most of the furniture ; b ut t h ough all the living things in it received a most violent shock, no man or animal experienced the slightest injury. The cottage was roofed with thatch, and this was not set on fire. OPENING or PARLIAMENT.—Yesterday was the filth occasion upon which her Majesty has opened Parlia ment in person since her accession to the Throne of G rut Britain. The first Session of the present Parliament, which only lasted about six weeks, was opened by commission, in con sequence of the state of h er M a j esty ' s health at that period. Among the personages of distinction who have of Prussia, at Lond on , i s th e son o f p be r e in n ev.e ese oli n gn ted ac t the King .o LAW AND PO LICE. At the conclusion of the examination of the bankrupt Hitchcock yesterday, Commissioner Holroyd entered into the leading points in the case, and said there was no doubt that the bankrupt had been guilty of fraud in the admitted concealment of large portions of the property of the creditors, while he certainly could not commend the conduct of Messrs. Cook and Gladstone. Their conduct, as to the:referenees, must be disaroved of by every one, particularly in regard to Mr. Wheeler. lle could not believe the bankrupt's statements when he said his concealments were all urged upon him by Cook and Gladstone, for they had made large payments from the proceeds of sales of goods sent from his premises in Regent-street. The case altogether was a very extra ordinary one, and under all the circumstances the final examination of the bankrupt must be adjourned sine die. The Court did not rise until a quarter after five. In the Court of Excise yesterday, Solomon Slade Lee, keeper of a cigar and oyster shop, opposite the Surrey 'Theatre, was charged on three informations with selling wines and spirits without license. Several Excise offi cers were examined on the occasion, some of whom gave no very favourable account of the company in the house on the occasions referred to, the sth and 12th of Decem ber last. The Court fined the defendant for the first in formation 101, on the second 251., and on the third 151. The affair of Captain Gordon and Major Verity again came before the sitting Magistrate at Kensington yes terday, when the agent for the Captain said it was the intention of his client to carry the case to the Sessions, and the Major was therefore bound over to appear in his own recognizances for 50u1., and two sureties for 25C/. each. This clay at Marlborough-street, a desperate cha racter of the name of Smith, who had been repeatedly arrested for felony, and a woman of the town, were charged with assaulting a police-constable, between two and three o'clock, in Seven Dials. The policeman, on seeing them lurking about, desired them to move on, when they made an atrocious attack upon him, but were finally overpowered with the assistance of another po liceman. Sentenced to the treadmill for two months. COURT--FASHIONABLE. A grand dinner has been lately given at Hamburgh by the British residents in that city, in honour of the Christening of the Prince of Wales. The number of German guests was very great. The Baron de Hugel (Wurtemburg Minister at this Court) left the Brunswick Hotel, Jermyn-street, yes terday, for his official residence, Park-place, St. James's. The Hon. Mr. Drummond gave an elegant dejeuner at Long's Hotel, yesterday, on the occasion of Lord Ray leigh's marriage with Miss Vickers. 2VIISCZLZATTEOUS. The Archduke Frederic of Austria, nephew to the Emperor, a young prince in his 21st year, who distin guished himself in the late naval operations on the coast of Syria, and also Prince Leopold of Sicily, brother to the King of Naples, are expected to visit this country in the spring; That famous old horse, Independence, formerly the property of the late Mr. Beardsworlh, died on Sunday week, at llednesford, aged twenty-six years. In the course of his racing career he won not less than forty races ! Further accounts of the late hurricane in Ireland, state the following damage and loss of life :—The Sarah schooner wrecked off Rostoontown, and four out of five hands perished ; a large barque, the Urania, totally wrecked off Great Saltee Island, her cargo lost, and six out of 17 drowned ; at Limerick Mr. Alton, a ship master, swept away with the vessel ; at Clonmel, 600 fine trees, nearly a century old, struck prostrate ; at Sligo, a max named Hart, killed by the falling in of the gable of his house ; at Tralee, the bodies of two men washed ashore at Blennerville. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, FEB. 3.—We have had a very good demand for Cotton to-day, and a fair business has been transacted. The sales consist of 5,000 bales, of which ex porters have taken 600. American descriptions sold to-day chiefly 5 1 1 to 51-,. LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, FEB. 3.—The transactions at the Stock Exchange this day are as follow : Eastern Counties, 8i; Grand Junction, 186; Half Shards, 921; Quarter ditto, 261. 1 Is. 3d. , Liverpool and Manchester, 191 ; London and Brighton, 35; ; Paris and Rouen, 13i. There are no later arrivals to-day from any quarter. MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, FEB. 3.—The market continues without change, and prices firm. Some transac tions have taken place in Manchester and Birmingham, at 2.83 and 28k, with a good inquiry ; Liverpool and Manchester, 189%; and Leeds Quarter Shares, at 4/. Of. 6d. THE UNDS. The Speech of her Majesty has given universal satisfaction in the City, and a buoyancy to the British Securities. Consols have advanced to 89i 3 for Money, and 893 for the Account • Three per Cents. Reduced, ta9/ ; Ditto Three-and-a-Half, 99 8 ; Exchequer 8i115,17 19 prem. Spanish Active Stock opened at 24 A ; Portuguese, Fives, 33i ; Ditto, Threes, 194 20. Brazil Bonds, fell 2 per cent. yesterday in consequence of the accounts received of an insur rection having hroken out—they are now quoted at 62 64. PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE. WAYS. Paid. Per Share. Birmingham and Gloucester 100 ...:.. 62 Great Western Ditto Fifths London anc Brighton 50 ...... 361 .. to London and Birmingham 90 17 0 1...... to North Midland ... ...100 Ditto Thirds HALF-PAST ONE. The English securities continue firm, but there has been but little business transacted. Consols are 89 i i for Money, and 891 4 for the Account. Exchequer Bills 17, 19, and India Bonds lls. prem. Brazilian Bonds are heavy at 62% 63% ; Buenos Ayres Bonds arc quoted at 18%; Mexican Bonds are firm at m ; Spani , h Active Stock 24i a; Dutch Two-and-a- Half per Cents. 514 i ; ditto Fives 1041 4. The following are the only quotations in the Shari) Market : —Birmingham and Gloucester, 624 ; Great Western Fifths, 9i ; London and Brighton, 3:1 3 / 4 ; London and Birmingham, 170 ; Paris and Rouen, 164. TWO O'CLOCK- Consuls, 891 ; Colombian, 21; 221 ; Mexican, 301 ; Spanish, 241 QUARTER TO THREE. The points in the debate of last night which most occupy attention here are of course those relating more particularly to financial and mercantile matters. The announcement that the important question of the Corn duties is to be early brought under discussion, leads to a good deal of speculation and guess work among the city quidnuncs as to what the plan of the Premier will really be, and the announcement on the part of the Pre sident of the Board of Trade that certain measures will be submitted to the House for consolidating the fo reign trade of the country puts the commercial interest also on the qui vice. The Corn Market is in the meantime in a dull state, and the same may be said of trade in general. LLOYD'S SHIPPING—(THIS DAY. LoNnosr, FEB. 4.—Wind this day at noon N. E. DEA a, FEB. 3.—Wind easterly,light.—Arrd. Princess Royal, India. Arrd. from the River, Scaleby Castle, for Bombay ; Careb, for Demerara. LIVERPOOL, FEB. 3.—Wind variable and mode rate.—Arrd. Hampden, Spooner, New Orleans; Samarang, Savannah. Sld. Pursuit, New Orleans ; Verginian, New York; Jenny Jones, Constantinople. PORTSMOUTH, kan. 3.—Arrd. Toronto, London, New York. OFF DARTMOUTH, JAN. 2.—John Romilly, Kendall, Bahia. FALMOUTH, FEB. 2.—Wind W. to W. S. W.—Arrd. Med way (steamer) London for West Indies. Ski. Florence, Maderia, Lady Mary Wood (steamer) Gibraltar. BRISTOL, FEB. 3.—Arrd. Spec, Malta; Aristides, New foundland. DuBLIN, FAB. I.—Sld. Garonne, Antigua ; Carlton, Savannah. BEuvricic, FEB. 2.—The Zealous, M'Kenzie, from Wemyss to Perth, sunk off coldinghain Bay on the 30th ult., crew saved. Some of the stores have been saved; her foretopmast is seen at low water. SHIELDS, Fre. 2.—The Ocean, of Hartlool, London, on the rocks near Tynemouth, has been ep bo Fold with und herto cargo. GtoircEsTEß, FIR. 3.—Arrd. Mersey, Green, Leghorn Sid. Alexandrina, Messina. THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE. This week's arrivals of Wheat have bean small, but good of Barley and Oats. There was lather more done in Foreign Wheat at Monday's prices. Barley still dull of sale. Beans and Peas as last reported. The Oat trade dull at previous prices. Flour as last stated. SMITHFIELD. The supply was moderate ; the demand for Beef, Mutton, and Veal, was good ; for Pork middling, at Monday's prices. Beasts, 568 ; Sheep, 1,850 ; Pigs, 324 ; Calves, 138. Beef, 3s. 6d. to 4s. Ed. ; Mutton, 4s. to ss. ; Veal, ss. to Gs. 6d. ; Pork, 4s 4d. to ss. 2d. COLONIAL MARKE f. The oyerations were few, and in pikes little variation took place. TEA MARKET. The market was dull, but prices were sustained. TALLOW MARKET. The market was dull, but prices keep up. P. Y. Caudle 48s. 3d. on the spot, and 485.6 d. for delivery. OIL MARKET. Prices on the decline, and the market dull. Cod Oil offered at 291. 10s. per tun. SINGULAR MESMERIC INFLUENCE.--ThiS town ( Southampton) has recently been the theatre of an operation equally novel in nature, and interesting and import ant in its results. We allude to the extraction of a tooth and several stumps, from a patient in the state of mesmeric trance, which took place yestt rday morning at the residence of the operator, Mr. Prideaux, before a select party of medical men, who had been invited to be present. It appears that Mr. Prideaux usually entrances the patient who was the subject of this ope. ration in about five minutes ; but on the present occasion, frcm the presence of strangers, the slight interruption caused by the arrival of some of the spectators, after the entranc ing manipulations had commenced, the process occupied about twenty minutes. Shortly after perfect sleep- talking was in duced, the patient, at the request of the operator, arose from her seat by the fire and walked to the operating chair at the other end of the room, when the teeth and stumps were removed by Mr. P., without the slightest manifestation of sensibility to pain on the part of the patient, whose hands were quietly re posing in her lap during the whole time ; indeed, on being re stored to consciousness (an operation effected in a few seconds), it was not till after an examination of the mouth with the tongue that she could credit the reality of the painless release from her tormentors. At a subsequent part of the day a similar operation was performed by Mr. Prideaux on another patient, with similar results ; and he informed us that on one occasion he had operated on a lady for three hours, total insensibility to pain being evinced during the whole period. Mr. Prideaux expresses his confi dent expectation, than in the course of a few years the productio n o f t h e mesmeric trance wil l be genera ll y resorted to in all cases of severe surgical operations, and a l so that, per sons as the scien ce a d vances means will be discovered by w hi c h all shouldi sons may b e certainly subjected to its influence; andfe boon, these exp ec t at i ons be realised, great indeed will be which thi s at present embryo science, is destined to confer upon suffering humanity.--Hanzyshire A short p rayer reac h es h eaven — a hint to those who want favours Dot to molest others with long letters and laid complaints> LAW INTELLIGENCE. - QUEEN'S BENCH-(THIS DAY.) This Court was engaged the whole morning with cases in the new trial paper, none of which were of any public interest. EXCHEQUER -(THIS DAY.) REVENUE CASES.-THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL V. SHEMARD. This was an information filed by her M.ijesty's Attorney- General against the defendant for having, in the month of March last, malted various quantities of barley, without having served the usual notice with the Excise. The defendant was an inhabitant of Mendlesham, who had for some time carried on conjointly the business of a farmer and malt ster. At the commencement of March last, he withdrew his notice, because, as he had stated, a sufficient quantity of barley had not been sent to him to induce him to continue to carry on the business. On the 31st of the same month, the Ex cise officers of the district, in consequence of certain informa tion they had received, proceeded to the premises of the de fendant, where they found a large quantity of barley in progress of fermentation. A farmer from the neighbourhood stated in evidence that he had a short time previously sent some barley to the defendant to be malted, which defendant had received. It was attempted to be shown that the barley had been wet by the servant of the defendant without his permission. This allegat ion did not appear to have been supported by evidence. The Jury instantly returned a verdict for the Crown upon two counts, NI ith a penalty of 2001. on each. THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL V. TILLSLEY. This was an information ;filed against the defendant, who was a brick-maker in Staffordshire, charging him with having in the month of September last manufactured a quantity of bricks upon which the duty had net been paid. It appeared from the statement of Counsel and the evidence adduced, that after bricks are moulded, they are raised into hacks or heaps, when they arc counted by the Excise officers, and when the amount of duty on them is then ascertained. The makers are in no case at liberty to take them to the kiln to be dried :until this has been done. In the month of September last the Excise-officers thought they had reason to suspect that the quantity of bricks in the kilns of the defendant was greater than that for which the duty had previously been paid. They proceeded to the spot, and mentioned their suspicions to him, when he told them that there were then in the kilns, besides the fresh bricks, 3,000 more, which had before been burnt., but which had been found too so t. The officers on drawing. the kilns found that the entire number of bricks in them at the time amounted to 54,681, while the number of unburnt bricks on the premises of the defendant. upon which the duty had been paid, amounted only to 42,815, leaving a surplus of 11,866. The officers of the Excise proved the case fur the Crown. They admitted that it was not unusual to dry a second time in the kilns bricks which had already been burnt, and on which the duty had been paid. Last season was-very wet, and as the bricks were consequently softer than they generally are, a greater number of them required to be re-burnt. They wore told by the foreman of the defendant that his bricks that sea son should be unusually hard, as they were to be used by a Caral Company. Shaw Whalley, foreman to the defendant, deposed that to his knowledge no bricks on which the duty had not been paid had been placed in the kiln at the period in question; but a great number had been put in to be re-burnt. The Jury, after deliberating for some time in their box, re turned a verdict for the defendant. BAIL COURT.-(THIS DAY.) VEITCH V. RUSSELL. In this action, which has been before the Court for three days, the plaintiff is a medical gentleman, residing at Rich mond, and the defendant, a lady, at 1% hose request the plaintiff attended for a considerable period of the ye, rs 1839 and 1840 on her brother. The parties had been on friendly terms, and defend ant having requested Dr. Veitch to send his bill, ha sent one ac cordingly, amounting to 150 guineas, to which Mrs. Russell object, das being too high, and offered 701. It appeared from some letters of Mrs. Russell that she conceived some reduction was due for her kindness to the plaintiff's daughter, who had been boarding in her neighbourhood at Bayswater, and for hospitality afforded to t he plaintiff himself. It was proved for the plaintiff that the expenses of cab hire in visiting Mrs. Russel's brother cost him 50/. and it was stated that he was at other expenses of the same description to a large amount, but which he was not in a position to prove. The Attorney General and Mr. Peacock appeared for the plaintiff, and Messrs, Thesiger, Warren, and Bovill for the defendants. His Loanstur, in his charge to the Jury, left it to them to say whether, from the evidence in the case, they were of opinion that there was any implied contract to pay, beyond the f ac t o f mere attendance, which fact w ou ld not of itself constitute any legal right on the part of the plaintiff. Such a state of things may haw arisen with the Greek and Roman orators, or it may have originated in the middle ages with the monks, who professed physic, and who were dead in law ; or as appeared more probable to him, it originated from the extreme difficulty of estimating set vices merely intellectual; and if they were of opinion that such implied contract did exist, to what amount ? The Jury returned, after an absence of about twenty mi nutes, with a verdict for the defendant. INSOLVENT COURT.-THIS DAY IN THE MATTER OF THOMAS ATKINSON. The: insolvent in this case was a member of the Society of Friends, and in conjunction with a person named Kennet, the proprietor of extensive salt mines in Cornwall. 11;s discharge was opposed by Mr. Cooke, on behalf of Mr. Thomas Williams, who claimed as a creditor for 5851. I2s. 9d. Also for Mr. Bennett of Manchester. After a short hearing The COURT ordered the case to stand over to next Thurs day, and in the mean time the insolvent was to file certain books in detailing the partnership accounts. IN RE lIENRY LOUIS DELPLANQUE. The insolvent described himself as a dancing master, and had been in the habit of teaching at various schools and private families in the neighbourhood of Kensington, Hammersmith, and other suburban districts. In the insolvent's examination, he stated that a short time before last Easter, he applied to this Court to be discharged, but the arrest being a friendly one, the detaining creditor dis charged him. His reason for being arrested was to endeavour to induce his creditors to compound their claims. His debt with the opposing creditor, Mr. Richardson, of the Bell and Anchor, Hammersmith, was for board and lodging and for the keep of a horse and gig, which, upon being unable to meet Mr. Richardson's demands, he took away and sold to a friend. He was in custody at present, at the suit of an attorney named Cross. Mr. Commissioner BowaN remanded the case until the de taining creditor was present to give evidence, and in the mean time let the insolvent produce any book of pupils he may have kept. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. TAT TERSALL'S—YESTER DA Y. Owing to the absence of several members, at the opening of Parliament, the attendance was smaller than on Monday, and the betting much less animated. In one instance, however, it was interesting, inasmuch as a bet of 11 to ragainst Chatham to 251. served, in some measure, to calm the fears of his backers, excited by his decline on Monday, and a report thrt, in consequence of sickness in the stable, he had been sent to Marson's. Auckland was backed for about 1501., at 23 to 1, and amongst others the Diree colt and the Artful Dodger were in frequent demand. The Chester Cup betting was confined to Lanercost, who was backed for upwards of 1001. at ten to 1. CHESTER CUP. 1000 to 100 agat Mr. Kirby's I,anercost—taken 20 to 1 gst Mr. Greville's Rory O'More DERBY. 10 to 2 agst Col. Anson's Attila—taken 11 to 1 agst Col. Peel's Chatham 23 to 1 agat Lord Westminster's Auckland 40 to 1 agst Lord Chesterfield's Dirce colt 40 to 1 agst Mr. Ramshay's Moss Trooper 50 to 1 agst Mr. Scott's Artful Dodger—taken freely 50 to 1 agst Mr. Pettit's Espartero—taken 50 to 1 agst Mr. Gregory's Defier—taken 50 to agst Mr. Bowes' Meteor—taken 1000 to 15 agst Mr. G. Clark's William le Gros—taken 1000 to 10 agst Duke of Bedford's Misnomer colt—taken 1000 to 100 agst Chatham and Policy—taken 1000 to 15 agst the Dire. colt, William le Gros, and the Artful Dodger—taken in one bet NEWMARKET NEW COURSING MEETING. - - WEDNESDAY. ALLINGTON-111 11 .L. - Titr. ALLINGTON-DILL STAKES.— Mr. Edwards's Antoinette, beat Mr. Inskip's Isa ; Mr. Do beck's Diana, beat Mr. Bagge's Taglioni ; Mr. Inskip's Illa, beat Mr. Bryant's Edith ; Mr. Finch's Gossip, beat Mr. Gil lett's Grecian Queen (dr.); Mr. Vipan's Victories, beat Mr. Tyson's Filagree. THE Cur.—Mr. Edward's Arsenic, beat Mr. King's Rain forth ; Mr. Tyson's Fantail, beat Mr. 'fhorp's Nic INVac ; Mr. Vipan's Vulcan, beat Mr. Dennis's Burwell; Mr. Bagge's The Toad, beat Mr. Batt's Crucifix, Jun. ; Mr. Finch's Gibraltar, heat Mr. Nash's Cibber ; Captain Daintree's Knab, beat Mr. Vipan's Violante ; Mr. Dobede's Dunallen, beat Mr. Inskip's Iliona ; Mr. Gillett's Ganymede, beat 11r. Bryant's Ella. Criirrr:Nria 31 STAKES —Mr. Edward's Arctic, beat Mr. Gillett's Genuine ; Mr. Vipan's Victor, beat Mr. Finch's Ge. niu.,; Mr. Nash's Caleb, beat Mr. Dobede's Douglas ; Mr. Dobede's Defiance, beat Mr. Vipan's Violence; Mr. Inskip's Ibrahim, beat Captain Daintree's Kimbolton ; Mr. Aloody's Railroad, beat Mr. Inskip's Irishman ; Mr. Fyson's Fake away, beat Captain Daintree's Kilkenny. POET STAKES.-Mr. Fyson's Finesse, beat Mr. Finch's Gambler ; Mr. Gillet's Go-to, beat Mr. Vipan's Vesuvius ; Mr. Bagge's Telegraph, beat Alr. Vipan's Verbena ; Mr. Do bcde's Delia, beat Captain Daintree's Kathleen ; Mr. Ed ward's A B C, beat Mr. Gillett's Ghita ; Mr. Inskip's lanthe, beat Mr. Nash's Cadiz; Mr. Fyson's Fly, beat Mr. Finch's Garry Owen ; Mr. Nash's Curiosity, beat Captain Daintree's Kessohgoa. (RECEIVED THIS DAY.) TILURSDAY. Chippinghani Field.—Ties for Allington Hill Stakes.—Mr. Inskip's Illa beat Mr. Dobede's Diana ; Mr. Finch's Gossip beat Er. Edwards's Antoinette; Mr. Vipan's Vietorina ran a bye. First Ties . for the Cup.—Capt. Daintree's Knab beat Mr. Gillett's Ganymede ; Mr. Edwards's Arsenic beat Mr. Bagge's The Toad; Mr. Dobcde's Dunallan heat Mr. Fyson's Fan tail ; Mr. Vipan's Vulcan beat Mr. Fleck's Gibraltar. First Ties for the Chippenham Stakes.—Mr. Edwards's Arctic beat Mr. Fyson's Fakeav,ay ; Mr. Moody's Railroad beat Mr. Nash's Caleb ; Mr. Dobede's Defiance beat Mr. In skip's Ibrahim ; Mr. Vipan's Victor ran a bye. First Ties for Port Stakes.—Mr. Bagge's Telegraph beat Mr. Inskip's lanthe ; Mr. Fyson's Finesse beat Mr. Dobedo's Delia ; Mr. Edwards's A B U beat Mr. Nash's Curiosity ; Mr. Fyson's Fly beat Mr. Gillett's Go-to. The Rutland Stakes.—Mr. Fyson's Frederica boat Captain Daintree's Kathleen ; Mr. Gillett's Grecian Queen beat Mr. Dobede's Dartford ; Mr. Batt's Crucifix Junior beat Mr. In skip's therm. INTELLIGENCE EXTRA.—CHESTER, 1842. Acceptances for the Trades' Plate : - -Lanercost, 9st 91b; Satirist, Bst 71b ; Vulcan, Bst bib ; The Squire, Bst bib ; Bel lona, Bst ; The Dean, Bst 21b ; Crui.skeen, ',lst ; Johnny, Bst ; Clinker, 7st ; Ararat, 7st 121 b ; Portrait, 7st I Ilb ; Black Beck, 7.,t 101 b ; The Lord Mayor, 7st 91b ; Cormorant, 7st. 91b; Retriever, 7st Bib; Nancy Dawson, 7st 71b; IthAlanthe, 7st 71b ; Disclosure, ist 71h ; Rory O'More, 7st bib ; Hum ming Bird, ist 51b ; The Young-'in, 7st bb s ; Pagan, 7st bib ; Marshal Soult, 7st 41b; All Four's, 7st bib; Ermengardis, 7st 21b ; George, 7st ; The Maid, 7st; 13illingham Lass, 6st 131 b ; Zelmyra, Est 121 b ; Jolly Tar, 6st 101 b ; Sister to Glen coe, Est 71b ; Alice Hawthorn, 6st ; Rebecca, bst 71b ; Fid ha ern, sst ; Brother to Harpurhay, sst ; Topsail, Tripoli, and Proof Print. Acceptances for the Cheshire Stakes :—Satirist, Bst 81b ; Bellona, B,t bib ; Cruiskeen, Bst :alb ; Stnollett, 7st 10lb; I he Yount;-*un, 7st. 71b ; George, 7st bib; Miss Kitty Cockle, 7st : Moonbeam, Est 121 b ; Alice Hawthorn, fist Blb ; c by Laurel out of Shoehorn, 6st 61b. MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE.—Yesterday .he police received information of the mysterious disappear ance of a youth, thirteen years of age. lie is described as being under five feet in height, fair complexion , and having a remarkableimpediment in his speech when uttering words be ginning with 13, P, or T. His name is not given in the hand bills issued, but it is requested that any information respecting him may be given t o Al r. Carey, 30, Little Bell-alley, Moor gate, at 154, New Bond -street, and 2, Prospect Cottage, Ber mondsey. PARLIAMENTARY NOTICES NOTICES OF MOTIONS FOR TIIIS EVENING 1. Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer — B ill for the apPlicla,-,4 to the Service of the year 1541 of the sums granted 111 Caber the two last Sessions of Parliament. 2. Lord Stanley—B ill to amend the Act 5 and 6 Will. 4, tn. regulating the carriage of Passengers in Merchant Vessels. Sal. 3. Lord Stanley—Bill for regulating the Survey and .." Land belonging to the Crown in the Australian Colon le andfo" Zealand. 4. Sir George Clerk—Sessional Orders, Committees, B r e . NOTICES OF MOTIONS GIVEN ON THURSDAY, F e b ". 7; c. L Mr. Wallace—To move, that the usag e which rim,:oor vailed of late years, of abstaining from discuss in g the Ke•• la - 0 , of the people at the time of their presentation, shall not be tiotied in the present Parliament, but that the practice whi ch r i o merly prevailed in the House, of discussing Petitions ar th e of their presentation, shall be restored. Monday, Feb. I. u n til 2. Mr. Manners Sutton — Bill to expla in and continue prl. the first day of August, one thousand eight hundred a ,„ Ao p • three, the Act to. amend the laws relating to Loan So cieties.nd day, Feb. 7. 3. Sir Roberr Harry Inglis—Reappointment of Library C °°. mittee. Monday, Feb. 7. c SS, °Pt 4. Lord Stanley—Bill to amend the Act 6 Geo.. , - . he p. making provision for the salaries of certain Bishops and ° , t iiio clesiastical Dignitaries and Ministers in the Diocese of to and in the Diocese of Barbadoes and the Leeward Islalsda, a 0 , enalile her Majesty to separate such Diocese. Tuesday' Feb. 5. Mr. Gladstone—Bill to amend and conso lidate the Por lating to the Trade of the British Possessions abroad, 11 " 41 i° to ot% certain alterations in the Duties now by Law payable 0'11;0 wares, and merchandizes imported and brought into the Si. Possessions in America and the Mauritius. Tuesday, F eb. ofar. 6. Mr. Gladstone—Bill for the better regul ation of It. Tuesday, Feb. 8. 7. Mr. Wallace—Address, praying her Majesty ." be ie tRP ciously pleased to command that an immediate and (104 d o. quiry be made into the nature and extent of the misery apdiosla tution, under which the inhabitants of Paisley an d ether to o rte Renfrewshire have been suffering for so long a Ber t4 _,.' clod ° still enduring ; and further, that her M ijesty w ill be S r , - vie pleased to command that the said inquiry be prosecute" before rousty, so that the results may be laid as soon as Peasiiriricsiest this House, with a view to its providing with all sPee u the longer continuance of the intolerable distress ; 1 ', 311 , 1 101 0 , ° : the evident and imminent dan;:er of disease and pcatt' eu : dest P ; ing in its usual course, thereby causing more punier"' Or" -from cold and hunger and actual starvation, than hitherto, ei Il as increasing the ruinous tendencies of these appalling ertl'of Npo moral character of all who are directly affected by thei % - live within the range of their influence. Tuesday , Feb' `Iola" 8. Sir Robert Peel—Committee of the whole House ro vi 7 dote the Laws relating to the Importation of Foreign Corn. • ° day P. , Feb. 9 t" Mr. D'lsracli—To call the attention of the Hour- h o nor Consular Establishment of the Empire, with a cle w t° I" ,t 10 Thursday, Feb. 10. 1 4 10. Dr. Bowring—To move for Copies of any Comps vile addressed from Bolton to the Home.office, during the lat e the subject of Mr. Mott's Report. Thursday, Feb. 10 ', WI: 11. Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer—To call the aur th t the House to the subject of the late frauds connected wi t " - e of Exchequr Bills Tuesday, Feb. 15. 0 1 ' 12. Lord Granville Somerset—Bill to provide for ty - to la effectual inspection of houses licensed by the Ditetro;oo°‘ Quarter Sessions for the reception of insane persona t ° and Wales. Thursday, Feb. 17. • - - • CORN LAWS. EDINBURGH, FEB 2.—At the meeting of the r r eWil oties eil held yesterday, Mr. BLACK moved " That a Petiol" presented by the Town Council to both Houses of Yaso 11(rj praying for a total and immediate repeal of the Cer n , s intro vision -laws, and for the repeal of all protective daftotJo on commodities for the purpose of raising their P rl ce i s their natural level." the Mr. MELVILLE said he was not prepared to g o e a to •i length of Mr. Black's motion, and therefore begg , pose the following amendment :—" That the Counei n ' t o_l into consideration the great evils attending the pfl e ar ly laws, and their severe pressure on all classes, partle". 01, least able to bear it, the poor and labouring port.ooo,4lte community; resolve to petition Parliament for 0,1 to modification of these laws by the imposition of a nle'l er t i tt sla r duty in the meantime, preparatory to a total and gra I I lition of all duties on the necessaries of life." ejer"liej On a division the amendment was carried by $ Of only one, the numbers for the original motion he ln % for the amendment 13. STATE OF PAISLEY. 1 0," The following is an extract from a letter received tb ing from a Lady in Paisley:— 1 0 17 "Paisley, 31st Jan'''o by , 4 " Enclosed is a very valuable little tract, wri ti f fic ol* Burns, to be circulated in every house in town, I f c slOe'e the relative duties of rich and poor in this season ° er teto and suffering. The Doctor is unwearied in his el hss mitigate the distress. Since his wife's death he st ei known repeatedly to leave his house before b rea kfast.. to r t; return till evening, and not h av i ng broken his fast an diet Hying himself even the comm on necessaries of lif e ' for ( lie might be ab!ts to give to those who have been wanting th e There are many cases where, from extreme delicset ? ties are unwilling to let their case be known to We e sse , These are in his own parish, and for supplying the se . ..1 I, Doctor is much out of pocket. Last Sunday se ve ; hearers were offended. They say he is now as bed t t ter, for he insists that the poor have a right to den l- b o isilni , and if refused, to take it : and that they are not to be disco the sight of God if they help themselves ; that fathell be tiny lies are not in the midst of plenty to submit and sec t. Po of their bosom and tender offspring dying of weneritg prayer he alluded to the mummery and extravaga nce t i e r at Court—so much so, that two of his elders eaP re torsl' iN selves astonished at the Doctor having ' gone so far of A A. hasjust finished the distribution of the proeel o orit bazaar in her district. She and Miss S. have had i tt pi o o l worst districts in the town. She generally sets ou t .; otij i the morning, and she returns at six to tea, quite vr i " — ajelPi. overcome with the scenes she has witnesses!. I I ne- distr l t e you before that the town was divided into thirty-one co f l • y The one that A. and Miss S. visit is inhabited by ° lo t dF t y once in a day, were /mem' weavers. But, °h 4 110 1 1 4 0 tution now 1 A. says they generally have a tea-cwo:ticso mantel-piece, filled with perhaps 200 and 30 01 : oere; and this tells how well plenished their houses ° Pc- pa rted 1 7,/ ngre says you can scarcely see a stool to sit on, WI , t 6 r everything to keep them fiom s'arving. Blar. ns end they are most anxious for, as the bits 0' W i e " : but or well enough when running about during the O Y e ' e sreA tl tha cauld frosty nichts,' what wi' the cauld , 24 0 ;jel gitlier, they ran harly thol through the nieh t l, 100 blankets, shoes and stockings, and flannel pettic ee cr in demand. A. wants six dozen pair of shoes ° r oe dr' alone. '1 his is giving trade to the shoemakers in although they are restricted in their profit." 10 0 GREAT NORTH OF ENGLAND RA 0 2 ' Traffic returns for thie week, ending Jan. 2 9 1 7 6 Passengers 094 8 9 Merchandise £1,06 5 I ,tort Darlington, Feb. 2. W. O'BRIEN, 56 ' _ . no u RUSTIC SIMPLICITY.---A elergrnall, htIM county, a few days sinc e , mee ti ng a b oy w h os e fe c ;e4,,,,• but of whose name he was ignorant, thus add re mt . " What's your name?" "Ben."--" How old 0100 0 wor six years old w h en p i g d o l e d!" — Ch e l ms ford J O THE WEATHER.—The thermomete r ? . , c Zoological Gardens, in the Regent's Park, which t _. ° o/1 01 morning at two o'clock was 27 deg. F., was at the r yesterday morning 41 deg., being the tninimoln r p - r etl $ l '24 hours. Nearly every vestige of ice has disaPP e neighbourhood of the metropolis. st MELANCHOLY OCCURRENCE,--Lill 00%0,1 as a private of the 12th Lancers, who had been it t ofi: P ies; the station-house of the C division of police for,;:ottPit was being led home by a sergeant and three of h' G ,; the e the barracks, the unfortunate man, when elose,'"eitbspie:, Bridge, made a race from his companions, and Ths . A ~ himself or was precipitated over the Liffey Wall. man on duty ran for ropes and a boat, and eve r, Tbe made to save the wretched sufferer, but in vain' • o ttr has not yet been found.—Dublin Mail. o A lei y DEDEATHOF A CENTENARIAN.---4 , A „ °9 d gitte' f e o ing week, at the house of her nephew, in Blackf ri tokiter Aan Linwood, widow of a cabinet-maker, in herb d lar ° having been baptized at the Holy Trinity Chute pool, on the 6th of July, 1742. She had lives. to e' r reigns, and was the vigorous old lady who sdhe. i r r esstaf r : t herself at the tea patty on the Coronation of her rshe jesty, whom many of our readers will recollect. n, sr sided near 94 years in the house where she was b° r 4 7; 0,41 ejected from it by a gale of wind unroofing it 9 1 1 0 ,01_ 0 14 ago, on which occasion, being very deaf, she wee t oeti' relatives in bed, and quite unconscious of the des off' had been going on around her.—Liverpool Tipto e ' C, The Speaker of the House of Co'' mences his Parliamentary dinners en Saturday ee e residence in Eaton-square, and, as usual, they vvl pitt every Saturday until Easter. A '4 14 It is said that Mr. Whitmore, of AP oie near Bridgnorth, and not Viscount Newport, 0 rietfstated, will be the Conservative candidate for s ou th . —Worceeterthire Chronicle. The Princes Alexander and Paul of W° 1 4 11 berg have arrived in Paris. A . B co l l o /1' RYE.—On Friday last a sloop W 0 , 8 1: 0 0 1 ' e t ' o f . t s sunk about four miles south o f our h ar b our . I "'a e b e sible at low water. Two oars, two sou'westers, 0 .4 to g v hatches, have been pi c k e d up. Th e vessel alW.Tereirssott/ James, of Hastings : and th e crew it i s fearTote' An attempt has been ma d e t o get he r up , but w" . " Or Brighton Gazette. 11 11°C 0 .% It has been recently ascertained that sil f Oeofs e A quantity of excellent peat exists in the marsh ee t h% OP* (Ain). This discovery is a very valuable one for o f the . tories of the district, and, above all, for the foundered cote as the peat is free from sulphur, and will make g °° TO itr i c PATENT LEVER WATCHE S I r ei Ot t : ist i o brated construction (the most accurate on w•-' w i t h 6, 0 foo t be made) is now offered at the following price'.' oiled eic to improvements, i. e. the detached escapement , J o holes, hand to mark the seconds, and maintainingl tinue going while winding up. SILVER CASES. EVENING SUN 0 £6 66 .. With double-bottomed cases, capped ....... A l 6 v With hunting cases, capped ... ....... ......... ••• 0 GOLD CASES. 2 I 0 Size for Ladies, with elegant gold dial ••••' Xl l4 1 4 0 Ditto, in double backed cases.• ~ 13 0 Size for Gentlemen, enamelled dial .....•••• l' 1 7 ' oo 17 0 1 0 Ditto, extra full size, capped•••• t he c bot A pamphlet, containing observations resPectinhge p rice' fi t constructions on which Watches are made, wi th i , of n .1 .17° in gold and silver cases, and a variety of b k i e d te c hr hain s t is to L 11 0 ; signs, which have just been completed in gol d le tter do sent, gratis nd postage free, on application L'Y Londo n, wo n Cox :Savory a , Wat chi na ker, 7, Cornl'il l t from Graccehurch-street. ' fd o Cil° . BIRTHS. . On the 2d inst , in Belgrave-square, the Count.' so ell' william, of a so n .. Wic k . On the l s t i ns t ,at Streatham-hill, Mn. Fr" of a tliughter. _ c ot rraP e ilf MARRIED- , 11 0 , f M co > nl er s* sec O m i: d th a e au 2 g d ht i e n r st o ., f at SethS t. s G t e e o p r h g e e n ' s v C a a r t d n , be E r , w q e . to Samuel Simon Wayte, Esq., of DIED On the 12th ult., at Palermo, F. G. Hare, Esq.' n fscl;7/. On the Withßoyston, llerts, spin' or; CO: On the 25th ult., at Ma.deburg Mrs. HOMO ;ife sliV On the 29th lilt., at B "I ,al sir tain William Webh ' , It 1•1 'u ciangliter of Mo ir loughby Lake, K. C. B. London: Printed an d Published by murtr)o,,,. No. 112, Strand, at The Sun Office, No. 11 4: -I,Lig, the County of Middlesex, Friday, FebruarY