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THIS EVENING, JAN. 20, Her Majesty's Servants will p e rform the Play of THE MERCHANT OF VENICE, from the Text of Shakspeare. Duke, Mr. G. Bennett ; Antonio, Mr. Phelps ; Bassanio, Mr. Anderson; Lorenzo, Mr. Elton; Shylock, Mr. Macready ; Portia, Mrs. Warner ; Nerissa, Mrs. Keeley ; Jessica, Miss E. Phillips. After which will be repeated the New Christmas Pantomime, called HARLEQUIN AND DUKE HUMPHREY'S DIN NER ; OR, JACK CADE, THE LORD OF LONDON STONE. Doors v. 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 Is. 6d., Second Price Is. Upper Gallery Is., Second Price 6d. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN. UNDER the MANAGEMENT of MADAME VESTRIS, THIS EVENING, JAN. 20, Will be repeated Bellini's Opera of NORMA.—Pollio, Mr. W. Harrison • Flavius, Mr. Clement White; Oroveso, Mr. Leffler ; Adalgisa, Miss Rainforth ; Clotilda, Miss Grant ; and Norma by Miss Adelaide Kemble. After which will be repeated the New Grand Chr stmas Pantomime, entitled GUY EARL OF WARWICK; OR, 9ARLEQUIN AND THE DUN COW. Doors to Fe 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, 2 s. 6 d. ; Pit, 35.; Second Price. 25. • Gallery, Is. Tickets and places for the Boxes to be taken Of Mr. Grogan at the Box-office, from Ten till Four, 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. UNDER THE AIANAGEMENT OF MR. DAVIDGE AND MR. WILLIS JONES. Harlequin and the Ice Queen, the acknowledg ed best Panto mime of the Season ; 50,000 persons have a ready witnessed and applauded it to the echo. THIS EVENING, JAN. 20 Will bo repeated Haines' New Drama, entitled ELIZA BETH LAZARUS, founded on Captain Glasscock's " Land Sharks and Sea Gulls." Everything New. After which, A SALT-WATER YARN. To conclude with a Grand Christmas Pantomime, entitled HARLEQUIN AND THE ICE QUEEN; OR, JACK FROST AND KING SHAM.—With gorgeous and charac teristic Scenery, splendid Properties, ludicrous and Quaint Dresses, ingenious Tricks, magnificent Panorama by Brun- Ding, &c. Harlequin ' M. Huline ; Patch, M. Rochet ; Pan taloon, M. Lehman ; Flip, Signor Feliz Carlo ; Clown, Mr. Buckingham ; Columbine, Miss Sharpe. Private and Public Boxes can be had of Messrs. Sams, Ebert., Mitchell, Andrews, and Seguin, during the run of this popu lar Pantomime. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. UNDER THE DIRECTION OF MR. OSBALDISTON. Enormous success of 6‘ Geraldine!" another new and affecting Domestic Drama, for which this Theatre is so widely and so eminently distinguished. THIS EVENING, JAN. 20, Will be performed, a New Domestic Drama, in Three Acts, entitled THE STORY OF GER A.LDINE ; OR, THE TWIN ORPHANS OF ST. PRE.—Henri, Mr. E. F. Sa ville ; Huntingdon, Mr. Dale ; Claud, Mr. Seaman ; Jemmy Cottle, Mr. Gardner ; Davy, Mr. Paul; Geraldine, Miss Vin cent, the acknowledged Heroine of Domestic Drama. After which, a New Grand Romantic Aerial Comic Pan tomime, entitled HARLEQUIN PETER WILKINS ; OR, THE KING OF THE AIR AND THE FLYING IN DIANS.—With new and extensive Scenery, Dresses, Decora tions, Tricks, Transformations, and Effects—A new Nautical Panorama, to be entitled " Our Native Sea-girt Isle !" con sisting of Maritime Views along the Coast of England. Also, a new Grand Dissolving Diorama, by Childe, the Great Illu sionist ' • and the Opening of the Pantomime supported by the Comic Talent of this—the Popular Theatre of London. To conclude with THE LOTTERY TICKET.—Worm -wood, Mr. Gardner; Capias. Mr. James; Charles, Mr. Sea man • Susan, Mrs. Howard. Boxes, 2s.—Pit, ls.— Gallery, 6d.—Half-price to theßoxes only, at Half-put Eight. To-morrow, Geraldine, Harlequin Peter Wilkins, and The Lottery Ticket. 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At the period when the Army Brevet and the Naval promotions were made, the Spectator has tened to praise the Tories for fairness, justice, li berality, and all manner of virtues, particularly praising their disinterestedness and disregard of aristocratic influence in not promoting a son of the Duke of NEWCASTLE and a brother of the Duke of St. ALBAN'S. Last week, however, it found out that the .Tories had promoted both these young Noblemen before the general promotion, and gave them seniority above all the older Mates included in the general pro motion. It had praised its friends, the To ries, too, for having introduced the practice of Gazetting Naval appointments for the first time; but it has now found out that they only Gazette such appointments as the public are sure to approve of—namely, those for gallant conduct or long service—and lead their friends astray by not Gazetting such as are made from family influence. It cannot be otherwise than indignant at being tricked, but it, nevertheless, praises the Board of Admiralty aihaving, on numerous other occasions, looked only to merit. - - _ This renowned Board of Admiralty, however, seems unacquainted with th e claims of the or ne gligent in support i ng them. Ave Navy, profuse promotion, h u t ifare no advocates fore ith er service must be stinted, let it be the land serv i ce. A man is not fit for Much active service at se e. after he has reached his 60th year. Now w e a find that the Naval Captains promoted to be Rear-Admirals in November last all received the former mentioned rank prior to 1808. As not one in a score was made a Post-Captain before he was. 25 years of awe, the youngest of the Ca pta i n s -, , then promoted to be a Rear- Admiral iiinst b e 57 years old. Probably the majority of them 8 are far majority of the Admirals . i above 60 , • while the and Vice-A dmirals must be above 70, and verging on 80. P.) im- I pose on such men the oner9us and active duties of commanding a fleet, is neither just to them, nor worthy of the country. Under such circumstances, when a great pro motion was to be made, the Admiralty should, at least, have procured for the sea-service a share equal to the land-service. But while there were only 40 Post-Captains promoted to be Rear- Admirals, there were very nearly 80 Colonels promoted to be Major-Generals. The promo tion in the other ranks was of like inequa lity ; and, with all deference to this much praised Board of Admiralty, we think such a fact is a strong proof that it has not attended to the interest of the officers at head-quarters. In the Cabinet the Army had its gallant and ve teran Chief to see justice done to it; the Navy had only THOMAS Earl of HA DDINGTON. The Noble Duke was aware that the more the Navy could be kept short, the less grumbling there would be at the expense of the Army ; and he probably induced THOMAS Earl of HADDING TON, not to insist—after he had agreed with his official advisers to a different course—on including in the promotion to Rear-Admirals a considerably larger number of Captains. Should the country require to send large fleets to sea, it will then be necessary, in order to have Admi rals who do not require nurses, to make a large promotion. As the time for the meeting of Parliament approaches, it is incumbent on the Liberal party to form some plan of operation which shall unite the whole, or the greater number of them, under leaders, in order to obtain from the Parliament a specific good for the people. That is neces sary, not only for success, but even to preserve the party from falling into battalions of free companies or sharpshooters, who will injure each other more than the common foe. At the same time it is unhappily true that the Liberal party is somewhat destitute of leaders, and is already split into little sections, each one of which seems to aim at conquering by its own peculiar mis siles, the whole Tory phalanx, expecting to mo nopolize 'for itself all the glory of victory. But whatever may be the views of gentlemen in Parliament, whether they are in office, or desire to get into office, there is but one question which fills the length and breadth of the land. All the community is now divided into Pro and Anti-Corn-law men. That one question, con trary to the expectations of the Tories, and con trary, perhaps, to the wishes of some Whigs, like AARON'S rod, will swallow up all les ser questions. Since 1838 it has grown, month after month, and year after year ; it first caught the Whigs, and now the Tories are fain to say there must be some alteration ; it began with the political economists, it now embraces all sincerely religious men ; it was ushered in by science, and heralded forward by feeling, it is now adopted by justice and religion ; it was no bigger than a man's hand, it now fills the atmo sphere, and hides every other object. The vast distress of the working classes, the decay of the capitalists, the resolution of the people, press the question with irresistible force on the attention of Parliament. Even on this question the members of the Li beral party in Parliament seem to be divided. Articles have been written in the public journals, the sources of which are undoubted, and speeches have been delivered recommending totally dif ferent courses. At Edinburgh, Glasgow, Man chester, and Leeds, the sentiment of full justice and no compromise has been loudly cheered; and Members of the House of Commons, and those who influence them, have recommended that on the very first day of the Session, regardless of the plausibilities of Sir ROBERT PEEL, whose avowed object is to gain time, and fritter away the attention - of Parliament over many objects, some notice shall be . given of a measure for the total and imme diate abolition of the Corn-laws. In Lon don three of the most influential of the Liberal Journals have recommended that a fair hearing should be given to Sir ROBERT PEEL, that he should be allowed time to work out his own schemes; that he should be aided in his attempts to achieve any petty improvements he may propose; and in short be helped to impose, by means of Parliament, those chains on the people, he has now been five months in forging. Betwixt these two parties we cannot hesitate to choose, and declare decidedly with the first for immediate action, and for demanding a full m sure of justice. In our judgment, on the very first night'of Session Sir ROBERT PEEL should be pressed name an early day for the discussion ga& Corn-laws, and, if he either postpone it to'lrii in definite or a late period, if he refuse to explain the nature of his measure, or if it fall short of what the people now demand—notice should be immediately given of a motion for an early day for the total and immediate repeal of the Corn laws. The state of the country warrants that course of proceeding, and the public will back the Member, be he who he may, who adopts it, and who forces on the discussion before con senting to a single vote of supply. The people are clear-sighted and resolute, and they will no longer be trifled with. If the Liberals in Par liament, follow the Polite suggestions of the 1 Morning Chronicle, theEtaminer, and the Weekly Chronicle, they will lose the support of all the ear nest portion of the people, already not favourably disposed towards them, for ever. If on the con trary they take a bold and decided course, they will assuredly carry with them those sincere and religious men who Lave latterly throughout the country given a new tone to this contest ; they will most probably increase the boldness and de termination of their friends, and rally around them the great multitude of suffering, but now dis jointed and wavering, capitalists and labourers. A bold heart, energetic in the good cause, taking up just ground in the House of Com mons, will soon make all the suffering classes forget all minor differences, and unite as one man for the total and immediate repeal. Certainly bold measures must also be taken by the people, if they would save themselves from greater evils. At present the ministers of reli gion who denounce the Corn-laws are only threatened with prosecution, and with whipping at the cart's tail—let the Tories gain head in Parliament, and let them fancy themselves safe in their tyranny, and these threats will speedily receive their execution. At present the barracks are only building—let the Tories believe that they can without danger fill them with soldiery, to overawe the people, and free public meetings will be at an end for ever. The Tories are yet smarting under defeat. It is understood, as is na tural, that the leading man of the ultra Pro-Corn law party is Lord STANLEY, and the former ca reer of that Noble Lord assures us that he will spare no exertion, and stick at no means, to give full swing to his own lordly will. Nor must the constituencies be idle at this period. The Liberals of Lambeth take a deep interest in the sufferings of the people of Stock port and Manchester, and they must give their representatives to understand that compromises now, for any party or personal purpose, cannot be tolerated. The bread•taxed martyrs of Shef field must plainly inform their Member that their all is at, stake, and that he must not risk the loss of Corn-law repeal, because Sir R. PEEL says he is favourably disposed to the emigration crotchet. The half-starved electors of Leicester, whose trade has gone to decay, must intimate to thOse whom they send to Parliament, that if they mean to ask future support they must merit it. At Edinburgh, Mr. STURGE emphatically warned the people against traitors in Parliament, and the constituencies may prevent treachery, by at once signifying to their representatives what they must do, or resign their trust. The Liberal party, we believe, would prefer for a leader the Noble Lord who has already ably served them in that capacity ; but if fami interests and party ties link him too close)-- i i the bread-t axers, the L ib era l party v ."" -1 With for another. S ome one, probai , 1 11 lo o k o n u d t of equal experience arul m a y . be the Noble Lord . (r' of equal eloquence to lieve, in r . ••.° l 3O Pe-11 surpass him, we be, ...pellking well), who is not so much shackled by family and party ties, and who will be willing to place himself at the head of those who are determined to achieve the con quest of the Corn-laws. Whether the Noble Lord be the leader of the party, or any other person, it is certain that the whole of the Anti-Corn-law party will only support bold and just,measures ; and it is equally certain that no man can be the leader who does not take a bold and decided course on the opening of Parliament. The series of articles which have appeared in the Morning Post on the discomforts of the fac tory system, all end in the conclusion that our manufactures must be curtailed. Out of its affec tion to the factory operatives, therefore, the Post would put them out of existence, or pre vent them from rearing families, who should, like themselves, find continually extending em ployment in increasing manufactures. This is extremely kind in the Post and the Tories, and cannot fail to recommend them and their schemes of policy to the support of the operatives. The Anti-Corn-law men would-repeal all the ob structions to their getting—a-living, and allow them to take their chance, and fight their way in this world, which has been given to us all. The Pro-Corn-law men have such a desperate love' for the operatives, and such a horror of their deplorable and uncomfortable existence, that they would put an end to it by suppressing the factory system. Pious priests of political Moloch ! their intense love for the people make them sacrifice the operatives, that they may no longer live in the squalid misery of manufac turing towns. They are like monomaniacal mothers, who murder their children lest they should want food. With all deference to the Post, we cannot believe that the factory opera tives will regard the Tories as a loving mother, or be willing to suffer annihilation at their hands. We direct attention to the additional evidence we publish elsewhere, from the Leeds Times and the Manchester Guardian, of the still increasing distress. It will hardly be now supposed by any classes that the Corn-laws keep up wages, but if there still be such a wild visionary in existence, we hope, if he can read, that he will study the account from Wigan of mill-owners announcing that they must lower wages, or shut up their mills. In fact, while the duty on corn is up wards of 20s. per quarter, wages are everywhere falling to the level of the wages of the lumper fed agricultural Irish. The deepest distress per vades the working classes throughout the whole empire. There is no spot, we believe, exempt. It is for the working classes, who at Norwich, Wolverhampton, Bath, and other places, have declared that they want justice, not charity, to consider how they can remove the dire plague which smites only them. This is for them a question of life or death ; and, as they now de mean themselves, so will they obtain relief, or be thinned down to the exact numbers which will suit the avarice of the law-makers. The times are critical; but we have been informed that a plan will shortly be laid before them by which they may probably extort from the Tories that justice which the Whigs so unadvisedly de nied them. Their success, we believe, will depend on themselves, for it is only by their errors or their consent that they can be com pelled to remain the half-starved slaves of the landowners. We call attention to the very important com munication we have received from Nottingham. Our anticipations are beginning to be real ised. The Ministers cannot be otherwise than alarmed at the fearful respon sibility they have incurred by so long pre venting relief from reaching-the suffering people. It is clear, however, that they must now give way. Facts are stronger than sophistry, and majorities, however numerous, only make themselves contemptible in contending against truth. A few weeks', or perhaps days', steady perseverance in the good cause, and unflinching adherence to principle, will consummate our triumph. We copy from the Liverpool Courier of Wed nesday the following painful intelligence respect ing the failure of the Niger Expedition : It is with feelings of no ordinary concern—feelings which we are sure will be participated in through the length and breadth of the land—that we have to com municate the melancholy tidings of the total abandon ment, under circumstances of the most disastrous cha racter, of the Niger Expedition. The Lady Combermere arrived yesterday at this port, from Africa, having sailed from Bonny on the 19th of October, and from Clarence, Fernando Po, on the 26th. Capt. Midgely reports, that 'the vessels forming the Expeditioa had returned to the latter port that all the commanders and most of the crews had died ; and that all further attempts to explore the Niger had, of course, been given up. We despaired of the success of this expedition from the very first moment that the announce ment appeared that it was about to be under taken; nor did we lose any time in making the Admiralty and the country acquainted with the extent of our fears. The result, therefore, while i t distresses, has not disappointed us. To the country the loss of sixty thousand pounds, the cost of the expedition, may not appear too great for such an experiment; but what has been gained to compensat 4 e for the loss of the gal lant officers and seamen who perished in the exploration of the Niger ? The previous failures of attempts to penetrate the interior of Atrica ought to have convinced the Go vernment of the inutility of the Niger route ; for, even supposing the first dangers surmounted, and regions discovered beyond them, opening chan nels for profitable trade, they would not be the less beyond the reach of the most enterprising merchantman. As public attention will be di rected with a painful earnestness to discover whether the cause or causes _of the failure of the expedition may not yet be removed, the following extract from a letter signed " A Surgeon," and dated from Cheltenham, which appears in the Times of this. day, may be con sidefed worthy of attention. Man is naturally subject to no disease arising from a particular climate for which Heaven has not bountifully provided an efficacious, and very simple remedy, did we but know it. If ever Africa be entirely explored, our impression is that it will be first so by missionaries, and individual travellers, not by expeditions fitted out at the expense of nations The most distinctive characteristic in the personal habits of the natives of Africa, as contrasted with those who visit them, is, that the common custom of the one people is to anoint their bodies freely, while the other are at great pains to remove everything of the kind which even the natural secretion of the skin provides. The one people anoints, the other washes. They are both equally exposed to the influence of malaria—the one es capes, the other is nearly annihilated. It has been noticed in those parts of Turkey where the plague (not the same as the African fever, certainly, but still a fever) is most prevalen that there is a class of persons wh o possess an immunity from its attacks, and this class consists of those who are engaged in the practical part of the oil trade. It is quite im possible for these persons to keep themselves clean ; their clothes imbibe the oil, and they seem conse quently to move about clad as it were in an ar mour plague-proof. One more example will suf fice ; it is the fact ment i one d as having been observed in London at the time of th e great plague—viz., th at no tallow-chandler was known to suffer from it. It has been supposed that the effluvium of the melted fat might be the cause why these persons escaped the destruc tion which raged around them. I am, however, dis posed to attach great weight to the fact of the clothes of these men being in the same condition as those of the oil traders, because here are' examples of three totally distinct classes of men having no one thing on earth in common except greasy skins and freedom from infection. Surely this cannot be mere chance; indeed, I think it not at all unlikely that the practice of anointing, so com mon to several nations of antiquity, took its rise from some similar observations and experience. As the cleanly habits of Europeans may be somewhat shocked at the idea of wearing clothes saturated With palm oil, it may be as well to state that I (IP .) not appre hend it to be at all necessary to uP.•,* it t o any such when rubbed in without givi extent. The skin will retain it certain quantity of oil of soiling the dress, and " I ' 6 •sufficient; ',:.,rhaps that might be but, however, the e• • • uantity and the most convenient mode of applym- rise to the inconvenience ascertained _g It ar e ma tt ers th a t cou ld ve ry soon b e I would oy those immediately concerned in using it. be only add, that I think it important that it should used in the evening as well as in the morning, be cause it would appear that the influence of malaria is most powerful between the hours of sunset and sunriso. From Madrid the news is of the 11th inst. In the Chamber of Deputies on the Ipth an ate tack was made upon the Minister of Finance for admitting goods into the Basque provinces dur ing the past month at an abatement of duty THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY, JANUARY_ 20, 1842. of from fifteen to twenty percent., but such was the unanimity of the Chamber in repelling it, that , the motion had to be withdrawn. The citizens were in raptures with the firmness displayed by the REGENT in the case of M. SALVANDY, and talked with seeming pleasure of a probable rupture with France. The Five per Cent. Actives were on the 11th at 33 per cent. cash. The whole of the French Journals of Tuesday have reached us, but there is nothing in their contents of much interest. On that day the Court of Peers condemned the responsible Editor of the Siecle to one month's imprisonment and a fine of ten thousand francs, for an exceedingly temperate article, written and avowed by M. CHAMBOLLE, a member of the Chamber of Deputies, reflecting on the indecent attacks of the Peers upon the liberty of the Press. As the Siecle is a supporter of the dynasty of July, this act of persecution may serve for a warning to the ultra-Liberal Journals. Compared with the present enslaved condition of the Press of France, the German Censorship may be re garded as an encouragement to the licen tiousness of public writers. Wherefore, then, does not the French Press, since it can not shake off the crushing nightmare of the Peerage and the September laws, seek refuge in demanding the restoration of the Cen sorship ? Why does it not implore chains to es cape the scorpion 'tortures to which every lordly apostate in the State hospital of incurables now dooms it at his pleasure ? While we pity we almost despise the Press of France. When an ally is to be abused, how loftily it elevates its crest; but what a contempti ble figure it cuts when some domestic tyrant places his iron heel upon its head! If the French Journals were not traitors to each other, they would simultaneously cease to appear, and leave all France without an organ of opinion, rather than submit to the tyranny of those contemptible tools of IGovernment—the members of the French Peerage. The Breton of Nantes contains an account of a de structive fire which broke out in that city, at ten o'clock on the night of the 11th inst., on the premises of an ar mourer named Chenard, situated near the Fosse. At eleven o'clock at night, by which time the fire had made considerable progress, about eight pounds of gunpowder which were in the warehouse exploded, but without causing any additional injury. The fire was now rag ing with great fury, for the evening was so cold that very few persons were in the streets to give assistance, and the cries of " fire" were scarcely heard at a distance. By the time, however, that the flames had communicated with the adjoining warehouses, which were filled with colo nial produce, a considefable crowd, able and willing to render assistance, had collected together, and the firemen with their engines were on the spot, with a body of mili tary, to assist in extinguishing the fire and to maintain order. Bales of cotton, bags of sugar and coffee, and casks of wine and spirits, were removed with all possible promptitude, but unfortunately the fire continued to rage and to destroy a vast amount of property. The danger to the Rue de Biaise becoming imminent, the inhabitants began to remove their effects, many of which were thrown out of window, and several persons leaped out upon matresses which were placed in the street to break their fall. One woman resolved to perish in the flames rather than abandon her property, and obstinately resisted all the entreaties of the people to leave her most perilous situation. At length a ladder was raised to the window by two gendarmes, and she was torn away just as the flames were about to destroy her. The Prefect, the Mayor, and other municipal authorities, were on the spot, rendering the most zealous and judicious assistance, which was the case also with the military. By half-past two in the morning, the fire had extended to several other warehouses, and was still raging furiously, although the firemen, notwithstanding the intensity of the cold, worked with unceasing zeal, and the engines were iu good order. At four o'clock they had succeeded in pre venting the further progress of the flames, but the fire still raged in all the buildings which it had attacked. By nine in the morning, the fire was nearly got under, and, fortunately, no loss of life, or any very serious acci dents, accompanied the vast destruction of property which had taken place. The Breton states that the warehouses which were attacked formed a large square, surrounded by sheds, and that it is impossible to esti mate the loss of property at less than six or seven hun dred thousand francs. Great as this calamity is, how ever, it is almost astonishing that it was not more extensive, for immediately adjoining the quarter in which the fire raged, were immense timber-yards and ware ' houses filled with combustible materials. The Archbishop of Paris has published a pastoral letter, ordering a general collection to be made in all the churches of his diocese, for the raising of a fund to pur chase the buildings of the Carmelite convent, Rue de Vaugirard, for purposes connected with the diocese. The Prefect of the Seine has obtained a vote from the Municipal Council for the erection of a palace for the Archhishop of _Paris on the Quai Napoleon, opposite to the Hotel de Ville. The plan has been submitted to the Minister of Public Worship, and the execution of it is to be intrusted to Messrs. Lassus and Violet Leduc, the architects. The building will harmonise in style with the church of Notro Dame , and be in accordance with the design for improving this quarter of the city. having gi ven p e rmission for e N u a s n u c a y l , midnight mass in the church th e T p h e e rf m or a m g of St. Epore, on Christmas Eve, it was attended by a i a s h tr c a e te o s f o th f crowd, who committed the irregularities which have but too frequently disgraced this solemnity. The police, when somewhat irritated by what had taken place, ob served that Mr. C. Beales, a young Englishman, about eighteen rears of age, the son of a gentleman of great respectability at Cambridge, was sitting with his cap on. The officers took it off, and in attempting to put it into the hands of the wearer, it fell to the ground. This gave rise to an altercation which ended in the arrest of Mr. Beales, and his being brought before the Correctional Tribunal of the town on tho 31st ult. Mr. C. Beale's defence was, that he entered the church out of curiosity to see the ceremony, and, so little disposed was he to dis turb it, or commit any offence, that he placed himself near the door, uncovered, and among a party of the gendarmes on duty ; but observing that they wore their hats, and feeling cold in his head, he conceived that he too might put on his cap. He declared that, if they had told him civilly to take it off, instead of rudely throwing it un warned on the ground, he should have obeye. The Court, however, fined him 200 f. Several Apposition papers in the departments have been recently given up, in consequence, it is said, of the Royal Courts confining the privilege of publishing judicial ad vertisements only to the Ministerial journals. A Minis terial paper, the Presse of Versailles, has also ceased to appear. On the 10th instant the house of the porter at the powder-magazine of Marseilles was destroyed by an ex plosion. It was one storey high, and was completely knocked to "'pieces by the force of only six pounds of powder, which became accidentally ignited within it. i‘lost fortunately no injury was done to the central maga zine, which was quite eloSe at hand, but detached, or otherwise the consequences might have been more disas trous. The wife and daughter of the porter were so severely injured that their lives are despaired of. It appears that, contrary to the rule prescribed to him, he had allowed his wife and daughter to aid him in taking powder out of the magazine, and that these females were impriidently making up the powder into packets while they bad chaufferettes wider their feet. Some of the powder falling upon one of the chaufferettes caused the explosion. M. Jules de Joly, architect of the Chamber of Depu ties, has just received from the Emperor of Russia ta, splendid ring set in brilliants, in testimony of the satis faction of his Majesty at M. de Joly's work descriptive of that edifice: The .journal de Frankfort states that Princess Mary of Prussia, youngest daughter of Prince William, and just betrothed to the Prince Royal of Bavaria, has boon suddenly attacked with the measles, and compelled to keep her bed by a violent fever. The Phare of Bayonne states that the Duke of San Carlos, who was accused of participation in the late movement in Spain, has succeeded in crossing the French frontier, and has arrived at that place Prince Paul Esterhazy set out from Vienna, for Lon don, on the 9th inst. His Excellency is charged with the special compliments of the Emperor of Austria to her Britannic Majesty, on the birth of the Prince of Wales. It was affirmed to-day that Cabrera was to arrive at Paris this afternoon. Russian This morning there was a great bu stle at the Legation, and it was said that in structions had arr i ved which were not without importanc e for the Russians re ria re siding at Paris. The Austrian Ambassador had a pretty long conference this morning with Lord Cowley. _ The Tonnirre steamer which w as sent to Mahon to effect the salvage of the Brandon , has returned the crew to Tou lon. It has only been able to bring back , vessel is totally lost. We learn with pleasure, and think it our duty to state, that the Spanish troops which were in the neighbourhood of the place, when the vessel was wrecked, behaved with great hospitality to our countrymen. The crew of the Br andon were perfectly well received on shore.—Commerce . /34I'TBSE-134,f1ig, TUESDAY, JANT. 18. First kitg.hest Lowest Last Price. Price. Price. r Pri ce P us 117 90 . 118 mob 5 , per Cants ii e • 1 1 7 4 , 9 , 0 "' jay 25 ": 107 a .... 107 25 4% per Cents. ...... I v l .- '''..% ''.. lo? 20 ..... 102 21 .... 102 '.O 4 per Cents ....ft.', 102 ~,,4 v "' 78 e l 78 90 "' 79 95 8 pet Cents. ............ 78 Y u "' —". 711 35 79 45 "mu .. 79 50 ... •• •3375 Sank of France .... , .. •1300 ...5 1175 .. 0340 ""c25 Witte Bank I.ooof. S hare r 1093 •••" 6 —19'25 ' -- i; B elgian sank ~ ........ A 73 ... 1 75 .. 772 50 ... 77, Neve '";:* 1 6 5 w legs —1025 ...1025 /Mean 5 per Cent 5........ .-" irialA .„ 104% ... 1044 .. 1041§4 a per conts. 1 63fi ... 103,t, ... 1 0 5ri ... log 3 pet Cents ...„,..... 72 t 3... Ig 23 ..• 7g 23 .• •72 28 t Spanish Active ...... ... ........ 2 1 1 "' 15 5 ..., 25 ". 2 , 6 4 paiiii.......a.„ 1 ... 0.,- ci.iz ... th Portugueses percents. .. . 21 ••• ', "• m o .* Dutch 2% per Cent 5..,,,.., ,, /.2,,.. ~. it ..,°‘ ..• 107 in i 52 Neapolitan ....... .. ..... N.H... 107 eu -. 1 `,,,,Th . , "' to ''' i i na ln i Ci R0eutu........................ 104 ... ''''',. N. .., .". 74 RAILWAY SHANE& Versailles, R. B. .......... 3 37 50 .. 340 ... 337 50 ... MO 4Ln.......... 205 9,5 .. 208 25 .. 200 25 ... 2011 25 gown ••••••••fr,"”a”,, ass ... 485 N. 485 ... 483 Orleans . ;.... '"" .15 bl 5 N. M 5 pp. 315 ............. .. ... Straeburer9/We,.. —",-- ga o ~, 230 ... 2,Pi 75 .. W 3 75 It is announced. that Lard Ashburton_ is to leave London on the. 28tk to remain- three months at liVa*hiegton, then to visit Philadel phia, and return to England about the end of' July. This is a nice arrangement for a party of' pleasure. It looks very little like business. How can Lord Ashburton and the Tories tell whether he may transact all the affairs, for which he is going to Washington, in three weeks or six months? Is he to stay three months at Washington, and then travel into Pennsylvania, whether the American Govern ment will negotiate with him or not? Such a nice arrangement, so suitable to enable the Noble Lord to visit his transatlantic possessions, seems very like a nefarious job. Lord Ashbur ton is to visit America at the expense of the country. PROJECTED ADDRESS OF THE ANTI-CORN-LAW LEAGUE. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sin,—The leading Ministerial organ protests it was not he; it was " the matronly." It is hard to settle such differences ; the probability being, there was a little of both. One thing is clear; that jealousies are felt in one or more portions of the Tory camp, at the visit of the King of Prussia. And a single word in the protest alluded to, is decisive of the reasons why. An error is dreaded somewhere, which is to consist in taking certain events or things to " imply a political predilection for Prussian opi nions on matters of commerce and administration." And as nobody supposes the danger of anti-libe ral opinions on commerce to be the subject of alarm, it. must needs be the danger of liberal. Suppose then the Anti-Cern-law League or a delegation from them, were to present themselves to the King of Prussia and to say— " Persuaded that your Majesty will lose no opportunity of becoming acquainted with the pro gress of opinion in the country which you visit, the representatives of a considerable portion of the commercial classes in Great Britain, present themselves as the advocates of principles which your Majesty will assuredly not hear from the ' administrators of the government." " Seeing in your Majesty the sovereign of a foreign state, they are conscious that as citizens of a state which is foreign in respect of your Ma jesty's dominions, they are bound to advance no arguments but those in which they believe the in terests of all independent countries to be equally concerned." " What they would announce as the belief of the commercial classes of Great Britain, or such portions of them as they represent, is that no commodity is ever created in one country, when it might have been obtained at a cheaper rate from another country through the intervention of foreign commerce, without incurring a na tional or aggregate loss, equal to the ,difference of price concerned." " They know how far they are from the pro bability of seeing a government in their own country, by which this arithmetical truth shall be admitted. But they do not despair of gaining supporters in other countries, where the frame and organization of the government have been less expressly directed to the suppression of the principle." " The ground on which the remonstrants rest their conviction of the fallacy which now go verns nations, is that there has been an over looking of one of the parties concerned. Every consumer who gives three shillings to a home fabric, for what he might have ob tained through foreign trade for two, takes the third shilling from the custom of some honest trader, to whom it would have been precisely as beneficial as to the dishonest. This honest trader, is the man who has been overlooked. And, setting off his loss against the other trader's gain, the final result is that the consumer gets nothing for his shilling, instead of what he might have had for it from the honest trader. It mat ters not within what circle, national, colonial, or federative, the folly takes its range; he who re jects a cheaper road by foreign commerce, courts aggregate loss to his community, and not gain." " The French government has invented a term for the prosecution of this national loss. It styles it ' conquest.' The remonstrants believe, that it is such conquest as a cultivator would make out of his fen or his sand, by expending his resources on them with the consequence of leaving uncultivated some portions of his better soil." " Resisting the admission, that a trade on which there is a loss at every turn, is . gainful to a nation, the remonstrants equally resist the de lusion which has been attempted on them,under the name of ' Reciprocity." " They know that if a foreign government would remove the impediments to the , introduc tion of British commodities, at the same, time that the home government would remove the impediments to foreign produce, the advan tages to the inhabitants of their own and of that foreign country, would on each side be two instead of one. And they are well aware that two governments actu ated by zeal for the interests of their respec tive nations, might employ the contemporaneous removal of restrictions on the two sides, as a pow erful machine for diminishing the opposition on both. But they absolutely and totally deny, that the inability to obtain the gain whic would arise from the removal of foreign restrictions, is any reason for preserving the loss which results from continuing those at home. They know the mockery this may meet from the interested ,• but they look into their ledgers, and they find that it is true." "In all countries, there are proverbial ex pressions, for that species of revenge a man takes for his sufferings, where the consequences of his anger fall on his own proper person. The remonstrants believe, that when a government shall be found sufficiently intelligent to disavow this proverbial impolicy in the matter called of Reciprocity,' it will take the lead among the commercial states of Europe, and justly claim the pre-eminence, which a man with one eye is said to have among the blind." " The certainty that your Majesty will not hear anything of this nature from the govern ment appointed to watch their interests, is the reason of the remonstrants taking the liberty to introduce it in the present form. If they shall have succeeded in their desire to involve no prin ciple which is not common in its operation to independent states, they will rejoice in having discharged a courtesy, which the position of your esty as their nation's guest, appeared to call for at their hands." I should like to know, whether something of this kind, would not be very germane to the occasion, and be a fitting use to make, of what the Tory vessels have permitted to leak out. Yours very sincerely, T. PERRONET THOMPSON. Blackheath, Jan. 20, 1842: THE STRAW BEGINS TO MOVE. SIR ROBERT PEEL SOLICITING DEPUTATIONS OF THE MERCHANTS AND MANUFACTURERS. NOTTINGHAM, JAN. 19.—50 at length the Corn-law men and their Prime Minister are coming to their senses, and are inclined to pay some'attention to the cries of woe and misery that echo through the land. The Midland Counties' great meeting of merchants and manu facturers, inserted in The Sun at great length, has excited the fears of Sir Robert Peel. The tales of distress related there, and the tremen dous blows aimed at the sliding scale by . Mr. Cripps (an American manufacturer now resident in Nottingham), have made too great an impres sion to be disregarded by the Premier and his supporters. Some statistical details given by,Mr. Cripps to Mr. Mitchell, the High Sheriff of Lei. cestershire, have been forwarded by that gentle man to the Duke of Rutland, who, as Lord Lieutenant of the county, has transmitted them to Sir Robert Peel. Sir Robert Peel has sent for Mr. Mitchell, John Head, Esq., of Notting. ham, and Chairman of the Derby meeting, Mr. Biggs, of Leicester, and Mr. Cripps. The Depu tation saw Sir Robert on Wednesday, and de clared to him the evil workings of the Corn laws. He heard them patiently, but made no pro mise. The triumph is, however, great. Sir Robert sees he can no longer trifle with the dis tress, and therefore he calls in the manufacturers to consult them. The deputation were to wait on the town Members on Wednesday night, as well as many Anti-Corn-law Members of Par liament. The agitation works well. Thousands are becoming converts to repeal. The Mayor of Derby has convened a meeting for Monday, to petition for a total repeal. Mr. Curtis, the Ame rican lecturer, is lecturing in Nottingham, to crowded audiences, against the Corn-laws. FLEET DITCH.—When the late improvements on Blackfriars-bridgo were commenced, an attempt was made at the same time to abate the nuisance in Chatham place, and indeed in the whole region from Printing ' ',Ouse-square to the Temple, caused by the effluvia *ng from that noxious stream the Fleet river. The 18gni ' '‘ , e , stream, from the termination of this cloaca bed 4. , metropolis towards the river was deepened maxima of to, , * great expense for the escape of the Water and covered ovi_er :nst part of London, and in order to "Ming from t he "nth- more salubrious. The attempt, render the neighbourhoola- a, At low water now the however, has completely fail -• n d if some thing is not effluvia is absolutely insufferable, the stagnation, dons-to, correct the bad effects caused v, - „ man b e i ngs . the place-wilibe unfit for the habitation of ht._ e d tc , Property ip that quarter cannot fail to be deteriora,... • great extent, if tha nuisance continues. The City autnv whabavetha , xealegementof the property, would do well toionave tile floodgate, as well as the covered way, and allnw the waxer free cOurgeas formerly. SUMMARY OF NEWS AND Public eptutott. " Who runs may read." ronnzoN. The Courrier Francais states, that Count Pahlen will not return to Paris to resume his functions as Ambassa dor to the Court of France. Letters from St. Peters burgh leave no doubt upon the Emperor's intentions on that subject. The Russian Government would merely retain a Charge d'Affaires at Paris. It is added, that M. Cassimir Perier (the French Minister at the Russian Court) finds his position so unpleasant at St. Peters burgh that he has requested to be recalled. The French Government is much displeased with M. de Salvandy's precipitate departure from Madrid, and still more with his absurd conduct while there. He him self so dreads the ridicule of being pointed at as a diplo matic harlequin, that he is said to be quite ill in conse quence. In the Chamber of Peers on Tuesday, the editor of the Siecle appeared at the bar in conformity with the re solution of tho Chamber. After having heard the de fence of the editor, the President sentenced him to im prisonment for ono month, and a fine of 10,000 f. This is indeed sharp practice. Imprisonment for a month and a fina of 10,000 f, for speaking the truth of the Chamber of Peers I The people of France richly deserve to be made slaves and wear the garb of felons, if they tolerate such monstrous abuses of the charter by a conclave of political apostates so utterly contemptible as the Chamber of Peers! The Univers contains a letter from Cayenne of the Ist of November last, announcing that "the proceedings instituted against the Captain of a French slave ship, captured off Bahia in September by the British ship-of war Rose, were progressing with activity. Upwards of 200 letters had been found concealed in the, hold, with orders for bales (meaning children) of 12 years of age." The Univers expresses astonishment that the Govern ment should allow a case of that nature to be tried in a colony where slavery exists, where the magistrates are slave-owners, and whero the inhabitants daily deplore their inability to recruit their black labourers.' The investments in the Savings' Banks of Paris, on the 16th and 17th inst., amount-pa. to 1,014.733 f.. and the sums withdrawn to 581,000 f. This excess of lodgments was, we are told, caused by " the funding of the New• Year's gifts received by the lower and middle classes." From Madrid, a letter of the 11th inst. states that Count de Salvandy's avant courier was robbed at a short distance from the city gates by highwaymen, who took from him the money with which he was provided to pay the postilions as far as Bayonne. He returned and ap prised the Count of his danger, who immediately applied for, and was provided with, an escort of five hussars. The Augsburgh Gazette of the 14th inst., announces the departure of Prince Paul Esterhazy frem Vienna for London on the 9th inst. The Prince was commissioned to present a congratulatory address to Queen Victoria on the birth of the Prince of Wales. PUBLIC OPINION. The Morning Advertiser has a leading article on the subject of the insidious encroachments of Puseyism ; in which, after stating , that the Paseyitee will be signally defeated in the approaching contest for the Oxford Pro fessorship of Poetry, our Contemporary goes on to say that " one of their present most cherished designs is to overrun the whole of Scotland with Puseyite, alias Roman Catholic, principles in their most despotic acceptation. Of course, they are too deeply versed in the arts of Jesuitism to do this openly and honestly ; they know that in that case the Scotch would reject their proposals with abhorrence. The contemplated Episcopal. College in Perth is one of the moans to be employed with the view of Romanizing Scotland." The Chronicle is of opinion that Government will do nothing, as regards an alteration. in the Corn-laws ; and says that the refusal of all concession is supposed to be mainly attributable to the Duke—not of Buckingham — but of Wellington I " Thus much," adds the Chronicle, " we may, we think, be sure of, that a fortnight ago the chances were in favour of a relaxation of. the.inonopoly of food ; and that now there is no great likelilioaof its being ever seriously attempted by the Government. Tho' hopes of a relaxation, however, have.,been ;so ,general and so strong, that much and serious AliaaPpointment will be felt when it is believed that Government_means to do nothing in the matter." The ; Herald stat e s that the affair of the Creole may be reasonably regarded as a step towards the abolition of slavery in the;United States, as it will increase the risk of the slave trade now carried on along the American coasts ; and that the success of the mutiny will doubtless stimulate similar risings. The Times insists that the lower classes have a great fancy for aristocratic Government ; observing that " though very democratical in some of their theories, they are doggedly aristocratical in their habits. They are jealous of their superiors, but they are much more jealous of their equals. They do not much like to be governed at all ; but if any thing so odious as a Government is perforce to be endured, it must be one conducted by. per , sons who were born to it." The Post renews its attack on the question of Corn law Repeal, and remarks :—" Let the price of corn be permanently lowered, and down must come, permanently, the price of meat. The price of meat being permanently lowered expensive modes of rearing.cattle must be aban- . doned—hence the abandonment of our inferior soils would be inevitable." _ We take the following from the Worcestershire Clu•o -nicle---" While we look with the deepest sorrow and anxiety at the long annals of wretchedness and the con- comitant catalogue of crime which each succeeding day serves to develop, we cannot but attribute the greater part of this misery, and the vast amount of guilt it en genders, as flowing primarily from those laws which cramp the commercial enterprise of our country, dimi nish the demand for our manufactures, by preventing their being exchanged with foreigners for the produce of the soil, and thus crowd the labour market with unem ployed workmen. The York Courant thus remarks on the heartless conduct of the Tory Government.—" There is a sort of heartlessness in the Government, seeming to be all alert to the gay and the festive, whilst a censurable and almost unaccountable state of apathy is manifested to the dark part of the picture. Their policy at present seems to be, to keep the evil in the distance—to throw veil over it—and to attempt to conceal the fact 1 But this will not avail, and if the deaf ear is still turned to those honest men who give them every information as to the true state of the case, they may expect to hear the groan of anguish rising above the noise of rejoicing, and calling in tones that will not be resisted, for that succour for which they have a just claim at the hands of their rulers !" MONEY—IMADICI—COMIVIERC E. Distress in Manchester and its vicinity is greatly in creasing. At Skipton, out of a population of 16,610, there are 4,038 individuals subsisting on an average of only 17d. per week a head, and 1,697 on an average of only 1044. per week. 'the condition of Wigan is becoming much worse, and the reduction of wages increasing. Two of the largest cotton-spinners have given notice of an intention to reduce them, as also the agent of Lord Belcarras. The colliers on his Lordship's estate exceed 2,000 in number. The now Austrian bank-notes are are said to be al most too fine and beautiful for bills of credit. The en gravings on them, by the principal Viennese artists, equal the steel-plates of our English Annuals, and in crease in beauty in proportion to the sums they represent. Further examination into the affairs of Messrs. Hop kins and Drewett's bankruptcy, at Arundel, has been adjourned to the 14th of next month ; the total amount of debts proved, to the present time, is 32,4181. 6s. 10d. The quantity of sugar brought direct to the port of Bristol from the 'West Indies, has been so inadequate to the demand, that from 2,000 to 3,000 hogsheads have arrived there from London and Liverpool. A crowded meeting of the working-men of Leeds was held on Tuesday, when a resolution was passed, thank ing the Short-time Committees of the West Riding of Yorkshire, and the deputation for their conduct in the conference with Ministers on the Ten-hours-bill, and other measures calculated to benefit the working-classes. A Chartist amendment was moved, censuring the depu tation for not pressing on Ministers the subject of the People's Charter, but negatived. The best bread at the present moment is dearer in London than Paris by fourpence, and the fraction of a farthing, the four-pound loaf; and the second-best three pence halfpenny and one-fifth of a farthing. NAVA.X. AND .The Provost and Council of Wick have resolved to erect a lighthouse on the Craighead, Elginshire, and a beacon on the Covesea Skorries. The 13th Light Dragoons have been selected to act as a guard of honour to the King of Prussia. LAW AND POLICE. In the case of Pools v. Palmer, respecting a claim of 137/. made by the plaintiff for professional :services, a rule had been obtained for a new trial, on the ground that Lord Abinger had rejected the evidence ten dered by the defendant. The plaintiff had been em ployed to sell an estate at Norwood ; and, after survey ing it and making plans, the defendant refused to pay the charges, on the plea that he had not signed the do cument until after the work had been performed. The Jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff-801. damages. The action was tried a second time yesterday, at nisi prius, in the City, before Baron Rolfe, when the Jury gave a similar verdict, with 100/. damages. At an inquest held before Mr. Wakley yesterday, on a child found in the streets, it was remarked by him, on a reward being offered for the discovery of the parties who exposed it, that he regretted to say, in not a single case of exposure in which he had "held an inquest since he been in office, had the offenders been found. At Guildhall, James Duncan, charged with stealing a gold watch when employed by the Parcels Delivery Com pany, was brought up for re-examination. The solicitor for the prosecution not considering the evidence respect ing the watch sufficiently strong, brought a charge for stealing several almanacs, and having adduced evidence, the prisoner was fully committed. Brookes, a well-sinker, Squires, a blacksmith, and Hard wick and Attwood, blacksmith apprentices, forming four of a most desperate gang of burglars who have for some months past infested the neighbourhood of Worcester, were on Tuesday last committed to take their trial on two clear cases of robbery and burglary before the War wickshire Magistrates. C OURT-resHIONABLZ. Prince Paul Estherhazy set out from Vienna for Lon don on the 9th inst. Lord Chesterfield arrived at Chesterfield House, by the rail-road, on Tuesday evening. The Duke and Duchess of Sutherland leave Trentham Hall to-day for town. • The Marquis of Lansdowne left town yesterday for Windsor, and thence proceeds to Bowood. - The Earl of Verulam left Gorhambury for Grosvenor -are, on Tuesday last. 4 Lady Dinorben minmenced their din douse, South &die/ 4 ifeet• nor Parties at but, EVENING SUN The Countess of Charleville had an evening party in St. Georg e's-place, on Tuesday last. MISCELLANEOUS. It is forgotten by many that the present King of Prus sia accompanied his father to this count"ry, in 1814, when be was only nine years of ago ; ho had previously stood by the side of his royal parent on the field of battle. One hundred and fifty-six murders haves been com mitted in England within the last two years—one hun dred and three men, and fifty-three females, being in the proportion to the population of five to a million. . The greatest number has taken place in Lancashire and , Cheshire, if infants be excluded ; and in Essex, Suffolk, and Norfolk, there .have been fewer than in any other county. • .0 The frost has been severe enough in the North during - the past week, to freeze over the Esthwaite and other lakes. The ferrymen at Windermere Lake have been obliged to row nearly all night in order to keep a Ps" sage open. :f RUMOURS OT THE DAY. a le! A general belief now prevails that the Pri n ce of W will be christened, Albert Edward. We should be eau if this were only a rumour, and so, we believe, would the, whole of the community. There appears to be a strong 1 -It feeling against adopting a new name in the line of our kings. Edward was the name of the Prince's grand" -` B _,, °l father, the Duke of Kent, and one, too, for which the "‘"`" public have perhaps a greater veneration than any o ther.,:ia r ~ If the nation were polled, ninety-nine out of a hundrecl-ye •4 , c would vote for Edward VII. . - - r THE DUKE OF CLEVELAND. ash Sir H. Halford and Dr. Chambers visited their Noble , d patient this morning, and soon after their departure .0* bulletin, of which the following is a copy, was- ex..,,,.1 bited:—" Ilis Grace the Duke of Cleeeland continues,:ip much the same to-day. . " St. James's-square, 20th January, 1842." .100 MONEY and COMMERCIAL NE/N55:44 CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. Off LIVER POOL COTTON MARKET, JAN. 1,--We ha" A l had a very dull and indifferent Cotton Market to-dal , 'lli' and the rates have a declining tendency. The sales . are Pt not more than 2,500 bales to the trade. LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, JAN. 19.—The trans- ir ,;;do actions at the Stock Exchange this day .coinprise" Eastern Counties, ; London and Birmingham, 170; krs intto. Nc,, 29 , London and South Western, 58 t 1 ;' 7 ,1` 7 , Manchester and Leeds, Quarter Shares, 3/. 19s. ; IC o r7n" -1 Midland, Thirds, 16! ; York and North 3fidlaqufit):: tax New, 311. MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, JAN. market to-day has evinced more life, but there has ,P t; very little stock offered-:—Edinburgh and Glasgowlg .0.9" London and Birmingham Quarters, 35i ; Bank of *s e eij.ire chester, . - , ;(4 9 ° 1 There are no later arrivals to-day from any quarter. ;11 1 THE FUNDS. Both the English and Foreign Securities opened hill: Consols are 891 for money, and 891 1 for the acco urw Exchequer Bills 16.18. Spanish Active Stock, 24 25 ; Portuguese Five per Cents. 344 ; ditto Threes, 201 4 -' Not much business doing at present. PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE. RAILWAYS. Paid. Per Share. Great Western 65 London and Brighton 50 ...... 374 - to 38 London and Birmingham 9O 1694 to PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS, DUBLIN, JAN. 1 °' 7 5,... 3 per Cent. Consols ...... 89 Bank ( Stock ...... ...... 1 Three and Half Stock 9B& 'Grand Canal Stock. ......•• Ditto Reduced ...... Ditto Debs. 6 per c ent... Ditto New 1830... 94 Ditto 4 per cent. ......••• 3 4per Cent. Dabs.- 414 Royal Canal Stock ..... HALF-PAST 011V.o. The transactions in the English Funds have been ; l e' 4 5 mited, and prices remain without alteration. Coos l el) for Money were last quoted at 891, and for the Aceenrg•t3 89i • Exchequer Bills 16 18 prem. ; Three per Ceelpits Reduced 891 ; New Three-and-a-Half per Cents. 991(2,;.84 In the Foreign Market there is also but little finyet Mexican Stock, 291 301; Brazilian, 65; Spanish, 241 Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. 51/ ; Do. Fives, 107iro; In the Share Market, Great Western are quoted at 8 .. 1 't London and Brighton, 38 ; London and Birmingham, ,6'!:,is HALF PAST TW"' . Consols, Account, 891 ; Mexican, 29! 30 ; Spa.T4slo 241 25. The accounts from the (2 gA nt ß in T en E t ß am TO vn T er l y Er i i. ' it v i l your of an improvement in trade, and it gives us pres s ?e to observe that the exchanges there continue 0 11 . ..,'"- l iVis side. This is more decidedly the case at Hatnkt l lo, where the rate for bills on London, dated three 11 1 °T has advanced to 13 61, higher than we remember to l oB° ot seen it for some time past. As it is probable'w e want less corn this year from abroad, we may / . 1.0 P 6 -4 , 1 secure that balance. THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY'). COLONIAL MARKET. na A fair business was transacted for the home trade g very full rates were paid. The Cotton sales Went but with spirit at firm prices. In Sugar not much done, s.. prices were firm. Coffee sold steadily at full rtite Cocoa neglected. TEA MARKET.. . of The demand was good, and rather higher rates ' Oll 9 paid ; the biddings were brisk at the public sales. CO W ' an 's Congou is. 10 d. to is ild. cash.. TALLOW MARKET. Prices firm, and the demand good, at 48s. 3d. op' spot, and 48s. 6d. for delivery in the two next raonths• WHITE HA PEL 11A MARKET. The supply was good, and the fine qualities re . aul: made the highest quotation ; the middling and ordiniftro, sorts a dull trade. Clover, 21. 10s. to 5/. Bs. ; 2 7 i ig 41. 6s. ; Straw, 11. 12s. to 11. 16s. LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DANT o L O NDON, JAN. 20.---Wind this day at noon S. t oP. les. DEAL, JAN. 19.—Wind, N.N.E.—.Arrd. Ach' South Seas. Aro!. LIVERPOOL, JAN. 19.—Wind, S., moderate.---,- 0 ; Alcyone, Demerara ; Emblem, New York ; Richardson, Charleston ; Holden Borden, Recd, 0 ,1; York ; Science, Baker, Odessa. Sld. Navigator I'm! John Blake, Buenos Ayres; Albion, Moran, Sava ni lid: Warringford, Demerara; Lancashire, New York; El le 0" r Mobile.; Simpson, Constantinople. Arrd. off—Loe hln o ll; and Medford, New Orleans ; Royal 'Sovereign/ bound to New York, has put back, with deck s''. o loss of cook-house, boats, &c., part of cargo t hi n overboard, and crew, except three hands, disabled , ing been struck by a sea on the 4th instant, in lat. lon. 33, during a hurricane, and the chief mate, tio:eio men, and one passenger, washed overboard. The Brooklyee. Plain, Brown, bound to Philadelphia, has put back , lath loss of mizenmast, in a gale from N.W., on th e - instant, in lat. 50, lon. 18. . to DuNnAn, JAN. 17.—Robert Nairn, from Stettin I Leith, is ashore near Scargall, and it is feared the l' ese and cargo will be lost. OFF DOVER, JAN. 19.—Achilles, from Rio. 12 ,00 PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 19. Wind E. -- The e re George, De Grachy, from Swansea, which put ill and 13th inst., with damage, has discharged. her ear' joy is under repair. The Isadore, from Cardiff to Le e nd ; ashore near Ryde, is embedded six feet in the 5 !"...der about half the cargo has been discharged, the rem .t is under water, but every exertion is making to get at low water. _ PLYMOUTH, JAN. 19.—Arrd.Dove, Sables. OFF FALMOUTH, JAN. 18.—Tepula, CoRK, JAN.I 7.—Arrd. Abercrombie, R o bi n son,r. saile d DUBLIN, JAN. 17.--Arrd. Minearlo, Legh° rn. .• Wanderer, Trinidad. BELGIUM. BRUSSELS, JAN. 18.—The King of Prussia, trace under the name of Comte de Zollern, will proceed (1 4 1 ,5 . 0 from Liege to Ostend by rail - road. The Kin of Belgians, with several persons of his suite, will Lacken on Thursday nex t for Ostend, where h if have an interview with the King of Prussia. Therr,,,a to be a grand dinner on that day, to whichoohthe fell the cig k s:v.4l' military authorities will be invite day the King of Prussia and his suite will embar L.e, London. The King of the Belgians will , probably, let turn to Brussels, for it does .not seem to have bee ett t decided that his Majesty will go to London to be p ro 7 at the christening of the. Prince of Wales. The Minister of Foreign Affairs has just creatuv',4o institution of naval engineers, who are to go and _tent the art of ship building at L'Orient, in the d e p tis , of Morbihan. The Russian Government has received from its bassador at Teheran some interesting informatiel l ' bfeli English have entered the province of Seistan, of._ 0 0$ they claim a part as depending on Affghanigtan; ,1 5 of country of heaths and mountains, ill cultiv.at ol ;.o s ,o little importance; but the frontiers between the C °tl ;" which the English think to occupy, and Persia, beOlone defined, the English will easily find, if they desirearito pretext to enter Persia, the last barrier which sq' them from Russia. 'r' he per; As for any serious resistance on the part of t 110 . sians, it is not to be thought of. A ccor dingly an A ir sian Government has given orders to reinforce tUcijo, risons in the provinces formerly belonging to_ e. -r,400 and now subject - to Russia. It is resolved not to b by surprise by any events that may occur. 01:1.01All UNDS—Bauome, JAN. 16. Actual Debt, 2% per Cent. ........ Rothschild's Lean, 5 per Cent • 91 Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent......... 3per Cent ......... ••• .... ixt4 (1E40) i -4 Loan of City, 11T32, 4 per Cent Society of Commerce, 4 per Cent.... .... , rf oL Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent ..... National Society. •••••0• ........ 11•• Exchange on London (short) —Brussels Papers, Jas. 18. AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—Vustriva, JAN. 11. ic 6W rtveper Cents. Metalliques Four per Cents. 75% Three lira Cents. , lsc9 Bank Shares ... ............. ....Alleernense Zellrrtj, Jan. 14. HAMBURG BORSENHALLE, JAN. I/. I c a Austrian 5 per Cents. Bank Share. ........„,.,,„,«• l66° 10 9 fii Anglo-Russian Loan WOO Russian 5 per Cent. Ist series, Certificate Inscription, lst Series l(3 Russian 5 per Cent. Hope and Co. 9d and 4th ed Series ..... . ... ............ Ditto in Certificates New 4 per Cent. (1840) Btl4 50i Dutch Actual Debt, 2% per Cent 5076 Ditto 5 per Cent 1 64 Polish Bonds - New ticket Anglo- yani!its Loan ,9 Jo ib Nciwegian Lsan, 1634, 4 per Cent 183 e Spanish, New 5 per Cents . EXCHANGES ON LONDON. HAMBURG, JAN. 11.-13 B.—Two months, 13 026► PETERSBURGG, JAN. 4.—Two months, &Ili pence STOCKHOLM, JAB. 7.—Seventy-flve days, 12. 1 0 . LRCM, JAN. W.—Two mo .ths, B. 10. ritusslAN FUNDS.— Baimirt. Jo" 11 . aronel' Bids. jo St. Schuld. Sch., 4 per cent. .............. 1 01 S, 10 1 :4 Prussian English Loan, 1830, 4 per cent .. . ...1 02 % 690 Exchange on Landon, three months...... ...Prussian 81.1 a Omits, Jan. ilia LA The e itiled Itr. Poin ted Th e Perti 14 , t ere3t e (t ue a , Jag The( , aa k r , 74titi