The Sun. — London, England, 1842-01-11 00:00:00

RN ING SUN Just ready, in 3 vols. post Bvo., DE M ° .IC T F° AN. 4 T ; Or, the OLD ENGLISH NOB LEMAN. A NOVEL. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. 13, Great Marlborough-street. MADAME D'ARBLAY'S DIARY AND LETTERS. The FIRST VOLUME will be ready about the 15th inst. Orders received by all Booksellers.- Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough•street. . v _ HIS MAJESTY the EMPEROR of AUSTRIA, !having AUTHORISED and GOA R.ANTEED several DIS TRIBUTIONS of MONEY DIVIDENDS, which (though they are NO LOTTERIES) offer many possibilities of obtain ng LARGE FORTUNES, HEINE BROTHERS, at HAMBURGH and at LUBECK, Are now SELLING ORIGINAL BONDS for the said DIS 711IBUrioNs. Persons desirous to purchase for the Next Distributions may re -eive. PREVIOUS to giving any orders, the PRO SPECTUS and PARTICULARS, upon addressing a line to HEINE BROTHERS. The NEXT DISTRIBUTION contains DIVIDENDS of E 25,000 £6OO £llO £7O 5,000 400 100 60 1,500 200 PO 50 1,000 150 80 Sterling. cOO 120 THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. THIS EVENING, JAN. 11, 'Will lie performed the Play of IllE TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA.—Duke of Milan, Mr. Phelps ; Valentine, Mr. 'Maeread; ; Proteus, Mr Anderson ; Thurio, Mr. Comp ton ; Lauuee, Mr. Keeley Julia, Miss Forteseue ; Silvia, AlisS Elvis ; Lueetta, Miss Turpin. After valid' will be repeated the New Christmas Pantomime, eiled HARLEQUIN AND DUKE HUMPHREY'S DIN NER OR, JACK CAI)E, THE LORD OF LONDON STONE. Doors to be opened at Half. past Six, and the Performance to begin at Seven o'clock. Roars as., Second Price, 2s. 6.1. Pit as., Second Price 2s. Lower Gallery Is. 6d., Second Pr ce Is. Upper Gallery Is., Second Price 6d. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN. UN DER the MANAGEMENT of MADAME VESTRIS. THIS EVENING, JAN. 11, Will be repeated Bellini's Opera of NORMA.—Pollio, Mr. IT. Harrison ; Flavius, Mr. Clement White Groves°, Mr. Leffler ; Adalgisa, Rainforth ; Clotilda, Miss Grant ; and Norma by Miss Adelaide Kemble. After which will be retreated the New Grand Christmas Paotomitre, entitled GUN EARL OF WARWICK ; OR, HABLEQUIN AND THE DUN COW. Doors to Iv opened at half-past Six—the performances to commence at Seven. Dress Boxes, is. ; Second Price, 3s. 6d.; First ?Aid Second Cire'es, ss. ; Second Price, 'ls. 6,1. ; Pit, 35.; Second Price. 4 2.,!.; Gallery, Is. Tickets ant places for the Boxes to b tirk , an of Air. Grogan at the Box-office, from Ten till Fefrur, where S e ason Tickets may be had upon application. l'rvate Boxes to be had so'ely of Mr. Andrews, bookseller, I ; 7 . New Bond-street. To-morrow, Wives ai they were, and Maids as they arc with Guy Earl of Warwick, or Harlequin and the Dun Cow. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. UNDER T:if: MANAGEMENT OF MIL DAVIDGE AND AIR. WILLIS TONES. U F ward; of 30,000 persons have witnessed the Pantomime at this Theatre, pronounce) the bet of the Season. THIS EVENING. JAN. 110_ Will be acted a New Domestic Marna, entitled MADAME LAFFARGE, front Memoirs written by Herself ; supported by the entire Company. Actcr which, a Naut;cal I3urletta, entitled JACK JUNK ; a SEAMAN'S FIRESIDE.—Jack Junk, wiqi Two Songs Mr. Walton. To conclude with a Grand Christmas Pantomime, entitled HARLEQUIN AND THE ICE QUEEN ; OR, JACK FROST AND KING SHAM.—With gorgeous and charac teristic Seen, ry, splendid Properties, ludicrous ani Quaint Dre.ses, ingenious Tricks, magnificent Panorama by Brun- Ding, &c. Harlequin, M. Holine ; Patch, M. Rochet ; Pan taloon, M. Lehman; Flip, Signor Fella 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. TT iDER THE DIRECTION i)1 , NIII. OSBALDISTON. Enormous success, and Second Grand Juvenile Week, in con sequence of the thousands of Children that have witnessed the performance of ttte Pantomime as Second Piece ; and First Week of • ' The Story cf Geraldine !" THIS EVENING, JAN. 11, _ _ . 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 ville ; Huntingdon, Mr. Dale ; Claud, Mr. Seaman ; Jemmy Cottle. Mr. Gardner ; navy, Mr. Paul; Geraldine, Miss Vin cent, the acknowledged Heroine of Domestie 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. AlFo, a naw Grand Di,solving 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 concludewith THE ILLUSTRIOUS STRANGER.— llowboll, M. Gardner ; Gimbo, Mr. Howard ; Aboulifan, 3lr. J4roes ; lin, Mrs. Lee. Box s, Mt,ls.—Gallery, 6d.—Half-price to the Box es only, 'at !lilt-past Eight. JUL RAILWAY SUN JS NOW RE-PUBLISHING, PRICIE. SIXPENCE. TUE C lIIN A SUN, AND TIIE PARLIAMENTARY SUN, ARE STILL ON SALE, PRICE SEX:PENCE EACH. Sun Office. Jan. 11. 1812. TO CORRESPONDENTS, _ _ The ktt.er of the Rev. Mr. Smith would involve us in a rwaroversy, .vhich is interesting only to the parties o}ncerned. THE WEATHER.—Noon, JANUARY.IO. noyAr, GALLERY OF SCIENCE, ADELAIDE-STREET. Thermometer... 27 1 Highest 42 Lowest 25 Iliroinetc; 29.83.—Wind N.—Freezing Point ;2 Deg. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY. ?Morning 41 minutes after 1 I Evening 0 minutes after 2. 45.1: - . 4 2 )1. qiWro, P . • * c , ",1 m taS "i 4 1,70-....•.1 " It 0 ~ Ml° LONDON : TUESDAY, JANUARY 11, 1842. Nile present policy of the Bread-taxers is to turn public attention from their iniquity to some other and less flagrant wickedness. Accordingly `re find the Tory Journals are now bitterly de nouncing the evils of the manufacturing system. Day after day they dwell on the enormities of etilploying women and children in the mills, and on Setting them to work instead of their hus bands awl fathers. We have no recollection that these subjects received any particular share ' 4)f the attention of the Bread-taxers till they re *mired them as a sort of screen for their own, :0!). On the contrary, as long as the increase Of '" fa .torics took away the superfluous hands from :+3t1.1 . 41w ijor,,and, and increased its value, their avarice . i .,,Almintered, an opiate to their humanity. bruiTlOnsow; , when the fitctories no. longer take :ItdaatoWyntlteit:supertitions hands, and the mann -4."iVtltfatifit 'driven by their own necessities to 4 • - , I LIQSt lon thy' bread-tax, every severity or emelt V ver heard of in a factory is remembered, and magnified, in order, if possible, to conceal from the public the misdeeds of the Bread-taxers. On this account too the reports of the noto rious Short Time Committee have been paraded before the public, and it has been attempted to Allow, on the authority of these self-constituted representatives of the working classes, that an improvement of the factory system would be more serviceable to the people than the repeal of the Bread-tax. An extension of trade,;- cording to the Committee, would only increase work, without adding to wages. To turn public attention from the Bread-tax, too, the Tory Journals dwell with emphasis on the injury which has been inflicted on the working classes by excessive speculation and excessive issues of yapes-money. To the same end a letter has appeared in a Journal, Written from Dantzic, giving s a m e account of the discoveries already made by on e Of' Sir 11. PEEL'S missionaries, who has found out for his employer that bread is as dear, a nd meatai , nost as dear, in I)antzicas in England. tie has found out also that the workmen are wal ly as heavily taxed abroad as at home, and that the distress is not owing to the Bread-tax, but to the large proportion at' our people who are employed in manufactures. The sufferings of the in fact,. to be tra2ed by Sir R OBERT peop le are, PEEL'S hired missionaries to nature, the Legis lature is to be exonerated, and the system that crushes the nation to thy earth is to be continued. That such information would be supplied we anticipated, and we are not surprised at the use now made of it. We . are convinced, however, by the present exertions of the Tories, that they begin to be alarined, and they would not TorN' THE SUN, JAPNDON, TUESDAY, JANUARY 11. 1832. trouble themselves to get up this counter irritation, if they did not tremble for their own monopoly. The Anti-Bread-taxers will not suffer themserves to be deluded by the tactics of the Tories; and, encouraged by the tricks and subterfuges of their opponents, they will steadily pursue their great object, and demand justice. The working classes, too, we trust, will not suffer the cunning Tories to divert them from obtain ing the abolition of the Bread-tax, which is the master grievance, to get some little melioration of I the factory system. They will recollect that the faults even of that system are to be traced to the Bread-taxers, in whose hands exclusively, and not in the hands of the millowners, has been the power of making laws for the spinners and weavers, and for the masters and workmen, as well as for the agricultural labourers. In truth, the Tories do not take much pains to conceal their desire to delude and degrade the working men of England. Their Dantzic correspondent, or missionary, ascribes the dis tress of our people in part to the more numerous wants of the English workmen. The Tories blame the people for their extravagance,- and would make them, as has been recommended in the Journal of the TVorhing Glasses, to limit their enjoyments, and lower their standard ofsubAst ence. If the working classes can be deceived by this transparent trickery of the Tories, they will completelyprove the case of their opponents, demonstrate that they are utterly destitute of political discernment, and quite unworthy to be entrusted with the franchise. Whatever may be the faults and the oppression committed by the millowners, let them be made answerable, but let the people never forget that the Bread-tax is a deliberate robbery, enacted with all the solemn pomp of law by the Parliament, and which can, and ought, to be abolished by the Parliament. " Has the great experiment of negro emanci pation succeeded ?" is an important question, on which the Immigration and Agricultural Society of Trinidad has undertaken to throw light. Mr. W. HARDING BURNLEY, its President, has just published the result of its investigations. We are not much surprised, however, that the ques tion should still remain in doubt and obscurity, when, as Mr. BURNLEY says, seventeen Gover nors are writing and forwarding despatches by every packet, while numerous journals, hun dreds of letters, and many ocular wit nesses, are continually bearing testimony to the fact, on one side or the other. What darkenine , of counsel by many words, particularly as parties are still arrayed against each other, and the angry feelings occa sioned by the struggle to effect emancipation have not yet died away ! Nevertheless, it is a most interesting question, and we are grateful to Mr. BURNLEY for supplying us with much infor mation, and an opportunity to say a few words on the subject. • For what was the experiment made ? To be nefit the sugar planters? No. To enable them to heap up fortunes? No. To extend the culti vation of sugar colonies ? Not even that. It was made to benefit the negroes, to promote their happiness, freedom, and civilization. We must consider the object of emancipation before we can answer the question, has it succeeded ? and we must inquire of the emancipated slave, not of his master. We only get indications of its influence on the condition of the former slaves from the complaints of their masters, and those indications seem to us to prove that the great ex periment has been eminently successful. Seven years have passed away since slavery was abolished, and what were the objections made to the abolition ? That the slaves would be riotous in their freedom—would not work— would not obey the laws—and would throw off the dominion of the planters. Have any of these fears, these predictions, been realised ? Where is the colony that has run into disorder, or gone out of cultivation, or been given up wholly to the former slaves? What West Indian pro prietor has been ruined by it? We have heard of none ; but we find many proofs Nat the negroes have been benefited. Mr.BURN LEY complains, for example, that they are not subject, in Trinidad, to as stringent a system as the labourers of England, though here a rigorous climate calls for continuous exertion, while i❑ the tropics nature invites to indolence, and the absolute wants of life are few. This means that the negroes are not condemned and compelled to work for the capitalist and the planter in Trinidad, as the labourers of England are compelled to work : even the Tories now com plain of this. In Trinidad there has been a continual rise in wages for the last three years, to attract labourers from the neighbouring islands; and a similar rise would be a great blessing to the toil-worn people of England. M r.BURN LEY'S com plaint of this is a testimony to the benefit which emancipation has conferred on the negroes. Mr. BURNLEY, however, in common with other gentlemen in his sphere of life, fancies that the negroes will not take care of themselves; and, though they now marry, attend to their dress, go to church, are not coerced by the plan ters—for, wanting their services, he is even afraid to inform against them—he supposes that a time will come when the planters will be ruined, and when the labouring classes of Trinidad will be in a state of helpless destitution. We have a great suspicion of all such benevolent fears, and Mr. BURNLEY does not disguise that they dic tate to him to subject the negro to the salutary yoke of our civilization. In truth, the condition of the labourers in Tri nidad seems one of freedom, and consequently one of happiness. The planter can no longer command them as if they were slaves; and when be orders the steam in the engine -boiler to be raised in the morning, he is uncertain whether a sufficient number of hands can be procured to carry on the work of the day. But while the negro does not work excessively in Trinidad, he seems not to fall into poverty. He imitates his former, ntasters, and gambles for dollars, as if he-were opulent as well as free. On the whole, we conclude that Mr. IItuNLEY has satisfac torily proved, so far as the experiment has yet gone, and looking to the object for which it was made, not to enrich the planters, but to benefit the negroes, that the great experiment of negro emancipation has been eminently successful. Mr. BURNLEY and the Immigration Society of Trinidad, suggest a curious mode of extending the cultivation of sugar in Trinidad, extinguish ing the Slave-trade, and of reducing the wages of the now independent labourers, the considera tion of which we must postpone till a future day. There have been great meetings of the people at Dundee and at Bolton; and at both the decay of trade and the public distress were the painful themes most dwelt on. We supply a brief account of the former, which is remark able, because it was attended by several land owners, who go heartily along with their manufacturing neighbours in demanding the abolition of the Corn-laws. Such men - may, if any can, reconcile the people to sub mit to landowners' legislation some time longer; but we are afraid they are too few, and not sufficiently numerous, to redeem the mass, and revive in the minds of the people the senti ment of respectful obedience to the laws. The reader will see that decay and distress are nearly as great in Dundee and its neighbourhood as in Manchester and Leeds. In all Europe, according to the united testi. mony of every traveller, there is no people so generally poor as the Irish. In Ireland there are few or no manufactures, and the Irish coming over to England in swarms, settling i n all our manufacturing towns, have contributed to beat down wages in England to the level of wages in Ireland. When these facts are no torious, when the purely agricultural Irish are not only extremely poor themselves, but the cause of making the manufacturing Engli3h poor, it really 'requires a front of brass in our Tory writers to describe the manufactures of England as the cause of our people's distress. We do not accuse the Tory writers so much of a desire to deceive, as of ignorance Of the deceptions they practise. The fact, we be lieve, is, that the Tories have been so long accus tomed to speak of things as they wish to find them, and as they think they ought to be, that they have lost the power to discriminate between the suggestions of their own fancy and actual facts. They have talked themselves into a be lief that their laws and their rule must confer blessings on mankind, and they therefore ascribe all the miseries of the people to something else— be it what it may—than to Tory enactments. The article in another part of the Paper, on " Cures of Deafness," taken from Chambers' Journal, is full of interest. That weekly pub lication transferred from The Sun an account of Dr. TURNBULL'S remarkable success in curing many diseases hitherto considered incurable, and at the same time contained some remarks of the Editor, in which he described these cures as unreal mockeries." We were rather surprised to find in a journal which deserves the highest praise for the good sense and intelligence which pervades its columns, such a remark, and wil lingly attributed it to the weakness of human nature and the prejudice which men who have made a noise in the world generally entertain against competitors. We are glad to find, how ever, that this was not the reason for the super cilious treatment of the " first merely human being who caused the deaf to hear." The Edi tors of the Journal, as became honourable men, have instituted a strict and laborious inquiry; they have collected evidence from every quar ter whence they could get information, and so convinced are they of the erroneous opinions which they promulgated, that they have or dered that " not one other copy of the num bers containing these notices shall be given out to the public, but that a new edition of the numbers shall be prepared, from which the notices in question, shall be omitted." They further confirm their own opinions by the evidence of persons who witnessed the operations, and of many who were operated upon ; among others, the late President of the Court of Ses sion, who says, " Dr. TURNBULL, did me all the good he ever pretended lie could do, and that benefit still continues." The profession, in ge neral, however, did not act so honourably, for they either kept aloof, or threw every obstacle in the way, affording another remarkable proof of that cruel persecuting spirit which would crucify every rival. The non•patronage party in Scotland, com monly called the " Non-Intrusion " men, and sometimes the " wild" men, have lately been circulating reports of the favourable disposition of Sir ROBERT PEEL and the Earl of ABER DEEN to their scheme of getting the whole of the Kirk patronage into their own hands. We never believed a word of the statements, because the present Government could not with any consistency or gratitude have given additional power to that unfeeling section of the Church which had cruelly deposed many of the most worthy men on the Establishment, and for their own selfish purposes had thrown the whole religious community in the north into the greatest confusion and dis may. The present Government may be bad enough in sortie respects, they are guilty of many delinquencies, but they never desert their friends, and we, therefore, argued, as on a matter of fact, that not only would the Strathbogie mi nisters be protected, but that means would be adopted for depriving their persecutors of power to do further mischief. The following letter to certain Non-Intrusionists bears out our statement, and will be a " heavy blow and great discouragement" to CANDLISH, CUNNINGHAM, and Co. It was sent as an answer to certain parishioners, who wished to take the patronage from the Crown, and confer it on a party in the parish, instigated, no doubt by some " Non-Intrusionist " minister : Whitehall, Jan. 3, 1842. SIR—I am directed •by Secretary Sir James Graham to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the Ist inst., stating that you arc - requested by the parishioners of the parish of Kettle, noiv- vacant by the death of the Rev. Dr. Barclay, to inquire whether the Government will allow the male • communicants to send up a list or choice of four or five persons, and will give thti.presentation to one of the persons ehosen by them ; and to inform you; that Sir James Graham'does not require any. list of per sons, chosen by the parishioners in the vacant parish of Kettle, to be sent to guide him in advising the Crown as to the presentation of a minister.-11 am, Sir, your obedient servant, _ _ (Signed) IT. MANNERS SVTTON. Mr. Thomas Arnikit, Chapel, Kettle, Fife. Letters and papers from Madrid of the Ist inst. state that M. SALVANDY had not then left the capital, and was still negotiating about the deli very of his credentials. He had received de spatches from his Government, approving of his conduct, and ordering him to persevere till .he received further orders from the KING, his master. Upon this question, we quote the fol lowing excellent letter from Madrid, dated the Ist inst., which is a triumphant answer to every thing which has been said by the French press upon the subject:— The old year has ended without bringing M. Sal vandy's quarretwith the Spanish Government to a con clusion. The new begins with it as its most interesting feature. The question is still unsettled. M. Salvandy, it is said, has received instructions from his Government during the week, not indeed final, but looking upon his conduct as in the right, and telling him to persevere in it till he receives further orders. The Spanish Government, on the other hand, 'will not yield, and indeed cannot do so without a violation of the Constitution and all precedent. The argument stands thus pretty much between them. 31. Salvandy holds to his point that his credentials being addressed to Queen Isabel, he will not present them to the Regent. Were any other person than Espartero Regent, he would, he says, act in the same way. He ekes out his case by quoting the case of Cellarnar, the Ambassador of Philip the Fifth of Spain, who insisted and presented his credentials to Louis the Fifteenth of France, then a minor *of five years of age, instead of de livering them to the French Regent, the Duke of Orleans. To the first of these arguments, the 59th article of the Spanish Constitution gives a triumphant reply. It dis tinctly states that the " Regency of Spain is to exercise all the'authority of the .King, in whose name the acts of the Government are to be published." If, therefore, the receiving of Ambassadors be one of the attributes of a Spanish Sovereign, so must it also be of a Spanish Re gent. With the Spanish people this view ,of the matter must and will be held conclusive. They cannot compli ment it away without degradation. The historical in stance quoted by M. Salvandy is not less unhappy. Philip of Spain, as everyone knows, was himself a can didate for the Regency and guardianship of Louis XV., in opposition to his relative, the Duke of Orleans. It was therefore natural that he would wish to offend the Duke of Orleans• by instructing his Ambassador; Cellamar, to present his credentials to the young King only. A more inconclusive reference could scarcely, indeed, be made ; nuaatis mutandig, it is Louis Philippe sending an Ambassador to Madrid to annoy the Regent Espar tero. But, say the Spaniards, if historical citations of this kind are to be valid, in the altered circumstances of both nations, they might adduce the instance of the French Ambassador Rotemburg, being obliged to go upon his knees to beg pardon of Isabel Farnese, the second wife of the same Philipe, who gave orders to Cellamar not to deliver his credentials to any one but the minor Louis XV. In modern precedents, as regards the two countries, Spain has much the best of the argu ment. No less than five Ambassadors of France have since the death of Ferdinand presented their creden tials to the . Regent of Spain. These were MM. Ray neval, Latour Mabourg, the Duke of Fezensac, Marquis de Rumigny, and Mathieu de la Redorte. Not one of these seems to have made any objection to presenting their credentials to the Regent. But, remarks M. Salvandy, the letters of these individuals were addressed to the Regent, Maria Christina, not to Queen Isabel. True ; but it could only have been as Regent that they were addressed to that favoured lady. And again, why was there an alteration made in the mode of directing these letters V novr ? Espartero is Regent, if Maria Christina was so. The same authorities precisely —namely, the representa tives of the nation, called the Cortes—made the ono and the other Regents. Put this is not all. The converse of the practice of France is equally against its present proceeding. Not Only did the French Government per mit French Ambassadors to present their credentials to b s n p t an th is e h K A in m g b o a f ssa th d e on Fje x n n e r h afi d o i r d es re ctoi S v p e a the nih lettersßeg Regent, nt of , wit, and signed and addressed by a Spanish Regent. Nay, did not Louis Philippe receive at his court Senor °image., whose credentials were g iven by Espartero as Spanish Regent, and to whom Dl. Salvandy will not now deliver his ? The French Journals of Friday and Saturday dwell upon the diplomatic fracas between the Courts of Russia and France. It is altogether a very ridiculous business. The Liberal and . Mi nisterial papers having expressed their opinion upon it, the Royalist journals bring up the rear, but with a strong leaning on the side of the Auto crat. The Quotidienne says:— M. Guizot, Professor of the Sorbonne, has believed and said that M. de Pahlen left Paris to avoid having to ad dress the King on New Year's Day. This was a mal adresse in itself, and an engagement to commit a second ; in fact, M. Guizot's journals have taken care to inform us that M. Casimir Perier had received orders not to appear on the occasion of the fete-day of the Emperor. Now this was an aggression. A want of taste led M. Guizot to an act of rudeness, and this unsea sonable affectation of pride has appeared. very singular in a Minister who has so little susceptibility when the national dignity is really concerned. Certain, however it is, that M. de Kisseleff, by way of reprisal, received orders to be ill on New Year's Day. In diplomacy, ad dress consists in believing in appearances, and acting as if no belief was placed in them. M. Guizot, then, has conducted himself . like the greatest novice among diplomatists, for he has acted as if he believed that M. de Pahlen left Paris for the purpose of offering a sort of insult to Louis Philippe. The question has become.seri7 ous, for M. Guizot has commeneed•with reprisals of eti quette, and these ma}' lead to reprisals of politics. This it is to confide the affairs of A great nation to starch pro fessors, who think it is very grand to disregard the cour tesies due from Government to Government, seven when there is no attachment existing between them. It would be a sad thing, however, to see France involvt A in a quar rel with Itussia, merely because M. Guizot had not tact enongb to appear to place faith in the motives assigned for the:departure of Vii. de Pahlen. In the old monarchy, diplomacy was placed in the hands of men tutored, as it were, to elegance, propriety, and dignity. In the present day, the absence of these qualities is a recommendation, and, therefore, M. Guizot is a Minister. The Gazette de France regards the conduct of Russia. as hostile to the KING personally, .but expresses no displeasure thereat. It briefly re marks :--- What is the use of such suppositions as to the causes of the quasi-rupture between the Emperor Nicholas and the Government of Louis Philippe ? It would seem to us that for the last ten years the Emperor Nicholas has been sufficiently candid for no person to mistake his meaning. He has explained himself often enough, and in plain terms, as to the nature of his antipathies. Every body knows that these antipathies rest upon considera tions which are purely moral and personal. The France, alluding to the article in the De bats, which appeared in The Sun of Saturday re commending the =recal of the French legation from St. Petersbnrgh observes : The difference between the two Cabinets is a puerile one in appearance, but it is only the pretext of a long conceived resolution. Russia is of too much weight in the balance of Europe for this war of reprisals not to be followed by the recal of all that remains of the em bassy in Paris. This word, imprudently pronounced, may produce consequences which it is easy to foresee. And again the Quotidienne of Saturday, com menting on the same article in the Debats, has the following : The Emperor of Russia has his warning, lie has only to recal his envoys. This would not be war, says the Debuts, but merely rupture. We are beginning to grow proud. This is surely making the most of the personal dislikes of two Monarchs. But then the Debella contends that Louis PHILIPPE is France—that in fact the KING and country are one and indivisible. This is rather questionable doctrine to preach one week after all the public functionaries in France had congratulated his MAJESTY on his escape for another year from the regicidal bullets of his beloved subjects. In writing about the identification of Louis PHILIPPE and France, the Court organs ought to carefully abstain from making people laugh. The National has a long article on the treaty of the great Powers for the suppression of the slave trade, and the right of maritime search set up as the most effectual means of putting an end to this traffic. The National, like some other Paris Journals, declares that, as far as England is con cerned, this display of humanity in favour of the blacks is mere affectation, and that the real motive of her conducts is the desire to keep up and even increase her maritime superiority. The National reminds its readers that in the last cen tury England entered into a treaty with Spain, in which she stipulated for the monopoly of the sale of all the negroes, in the Spanish colonies, and reserved to herself the right of introducing 4,800 slaves at a fixed price per head annually. " This," says the National, "is what England did a hundred years ago;" and then it goes on to state that her policy and her principles are unchanged, and, therefore, that her philanthropy, at this moment, is only put on to cover designs of an ambitious nature. The National omits all notice of the change which has come over the people of England, on the subject of the slave trade, not merely within the last hundred, but within the last thirty years, and that wh a t thirty years ago would have been eiilier legal, or was permitted by custom, is now offensive to the laws, and highly so to the feelings of the nation. The National, overlooking this fact and the ar- guments of the English slave abolitionists, that the English Government is necessarily the organ, on this question, of the feeling of the people of England, says, "The English Government, in plac ing itself at the head of a crusade against the slave trade, has two objects in view, both in reference to its interest. One is to destroy, for along period at least, the cultivation of the productions of the slave c olonies, in or d er to compe l con sumers, to r eceive them exc l us i ve l y f ront I n di a , the other to usurp the sovereignty of the seas by means of the right of maritime search." The National then expresses its admiration of the resistance to the principle of the right of search which is made by the PRESIDENT of the United America. Th e lVational does not, • Shota:'eesve7r,f Arn bestow its censure exclusively On Eng land. It doubts the sincerity : of all the Govern ments which are in alliance. for the stippression of th e s lave trade, and observes that 'astonishment must be excited at this sudden tendernes4for the blacks by States which allow their own white thc poverty and wretchedness, and which encourage to i pinein the traffic in human flesh at home in the system of raising substitutes for persons called upon to serve in the army. In such a state of things, says the National, it is au- thorised in regarding the philanthropic declara tions of the Governments which are associated for the suppression of negro slavery as a mere cloak of hypocrisy. The Moniteur of Brussels states that an official com munication has been made to the Belgian Government by the Belgian Consul at Alexandria, of an arrange ment made between Mehemet Ali and the English Com-. pany, Called the Oriental and Peninsular Steam Packet Company, without the intervention of the British Go vernment, for the conveyance of goods and passengers to and from India through Egypt. It is to last for one year, subject to renewal by consent of both parties, and is (111 the following conditions :—Mehemet Ali engages to build warehouses for goods and establishments for passengers, at his expense, on the line from Suez to Alexandria, for which the Company is to pay a sum to be fixed at the end of the first year. The Pacha gua rantees the security of passengers and merchandise. The free passage by Suez is granted to all other nations, but without any privilege. We regret to learn by the Gazette of Posen, the death at Krzemuniec (Volhytua) of the Countess Kicka, born Countess Krosnowska. a ad 1 The Hanover Gozetle says:—" Mr. liolmes the Eng lish engineer, who remained in this country till the au tumn, taking the levels for the railroad between Kiel and Gluckstadt, laying down the plans and making the estimates, will return again in a few months. The project of this line is highly approved, not only at Gluck stadt and Kiel, but at every place by which it is to pass. We are assured that the - plan is in great favour at Lon don, where many commercial houses have signified their intention of becoming shareholders." .The Scheldt, as the Antwerp papers mention, com menced floating down ice on the sth inst. The Committee of the Chamber of Deputies on the Address sat yesterday till five o'clock. The Ministers of War and Finance attended to give explanations. The Commerce says,—" It 'was stated in the Salle des Con ferences that the Committee heard with much complai sance the explanations of Marshal Soult as to keeping up a costly and expensive list of commissioned and non commissioned officers, and that no member of the Com mittee bad remarked on a preceding which is in contra diction to his solemn promises. What we have heard, however, leads us to hope that this expenditure, which is ruinous to the treasury, and without profit to the army, will not be allowed to escape without public dis cussion. M. Humann is said to have spoken for a long time on the impossibility of establishing an equilibrium between the receipts and the expenditure. It is said that he was warmly questioned by H. M. Passy, and defended by M. Lacave-Laplaeme. The Committee . will this day hear the Ministers of the Interior and Finance on the question of the census. The Bordeaux Papers state that two public meetings have been held in that city for the purpose of concertino. measures to make a demonstration of satisfaction to g Lacordaire, the Dominican preacher, on account of the course of sermons he has been preaching in the Cathe dral. An address is to be presented to him by numer ous deputation of the inhabitants. ~ The only talk of Brusselsa,y"osuanygs th eo e u C pl e e tir dr ie e r ss ß ed dg in e, f‘r ‘ vo ‘ i, icuithsrhohhtfhoe horses, recentrsheneesses,pehtaceh nephew os elopementfisttheer containing..Bisister-in-law siha Bishop f 00 ff a Ghent.one of young, our O b beauti f ul, u t ief Ministers,ul, break ing up of the first Court ball, four post-carriages with the same manner as the intended bride and bridegroom, started at the same moment in different directions, so that it was impossible for the pursuers to know which road to take. The real fugitives reached London in safety, and the b anns h av ing been previously published and every other preparation made, they were married as soon as they alighted. They are expected immediately back at Brussels to pay their wedding visits; and set up an establishment." BOURSE-PARIS, SATURDAY, JAN. 8. First Highest Lowest • Last Price Priec Prica. Price. rrench 5 nes Cent 5........... 117 55 ... 117 55 ... 117 45 117 I'o 3 per Canty 7B 60 78 60 ... 78 40 ... 78 40 Bank of r'rance Latfitte Bank 1.0001. Srares 1017 50 ...1020 ...1017 50 ...IWO var. Stares ;6017 50 ...5020 ...5017 bt) ...5020 , elzinn Rank Belgian 5 per Cents. S per centr., 1840 103% ... 103% .. 103% 143% Active 25% ... 25% ... '25% ... 25% Pnrsive 5% 5j 54 4 New Deferred Portilgueses per Cents. 27% ... 27% ... 27i4 27% ,eapnlit-n (omen... . RAILWAY SHARES. St. Germain SW ... BM ... t,}o ... /1•10 lit mines. L. 15 243 75 ... 203 75 ... 202 50 ~. 202 50 It. 13 337 50 ... 537 50 ... 337 50 ... 337 50 It °nen 470 ... 470 ... 470 ... 470 Lfrieans .. 5lO ... 511 25 ... 5 10 ... 511 25 itT3tburg to Bale 2,7 50 ... 227 50 ... 227 50 .. 227 50 BELGIAN 1 [lNDS—Bethune, JAN. 3. Actual Debt, 2N per Cent. Rothschild's Loan, 5 per CGnt lOl% Loan ot Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent. 92% ---- Spec Cent. --Thirty.teven------- 7 1 14 ----(1340)...... ..... .. Loan of City, 1232, 4 per Cent • l)5 Society of Commerce, 4 s,iper Cent 97 Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent....... ...... Nations ISociety . — Exchange on Londea (shot t) - --Brussels Papers, Jan. 8. SUMMARY OF NEWS AND vptutott. " Who runs may read." FOREIGN. The French Journals are gall occupied with the reci procal insults offered to each other by the Sovereigns of Russia and France. They could hardly be employed upon a more contemptible theme. Private letters from St. Petersburgh of the 22d ult. state that the abrupt manner in which M. Perier, the Charge d'Affaires in the: absence of M. Barante, ab sented himself from the fete day df the Emperor, had caused a great sensation, and the effect of it had been to .exclude M. Perier from all in vitations in society which had taken part with the Czar. M. Nesselrode, on gettinc , into his car riage to attend the Levee, had placed in his hands a brief and stiff note of M. Perier, accounting for his- ab sence. . The Emperor was furious, and at first was dis posed. to order the passports for M. Perier and suite, but on the representations of Count Nesselrode and others, the retaliation was confined for the present to the in structions sent to M. Kisseleff, in Paris, nut to attend the Tuileries on New Year's Day. Baron de Bourquenay, the French Envoy, arrived on the 17th at Constantinople, in the ,Cameleon steamer, which saluted the Seraglio by 21 guns ; the salute was responded to from the batteries of Topkane. The Court of Peers on Saturday enrolled the letters of grace which save Q , tenisset, Colombier, and Brazier, alias Just, from a scaffold, and destine the first to trans portation or imprisonment for life in a fortress, and the latter to hard labour for life in the galleys. The pri soners are indebted for their lives to the prayers of the Dukes d'Aumale and NemoUre. . _ _ The following singular paragraph is quoted from the Augsburg Gazette :—" The village of Madana, which is about fourteen German miles (60 English) from. Rusts chalc, in Wallachia, offers at the present moment a curious ethnographical . singuhtrity, having been inhabited by wom-n only for the last thirty years. At one period this feminine population amounted to 2,000 ; the ladies did not live as war riors, like the Amazons of old, but they .avoided all con tact with men, and drove away from their territories all who: approached- with matrimonial. intentions. This anti-social settlement is now supposed ,to be on the de cline ; at least; no more recruits are made from . the dis appointed or, the love-crossed, and the members of the population are rapidly decreasing. These women are nearly all Mahainetans." The National Guards of Madrid were reviewed by, the Regent on New Year'S Day.. They were dressed in new uniforms, and presented a very fine appearance. PUBLIC OPINION. The Times has uleading article on the subject of the constitution of the Court of Bankruptcy, wherein it ex presses its opinion that. the Commissioners ought not to be entrusted with the power of commitment for contempt, adding, " the more we see the irritability in these gene rally useful and valuable athninistrators of the law, the greater is our repugnance to the project of increasing their power over the liberty of suitor, spectator, or witness." The Morning Herald contains some remarks on the subject of the approaching Dublin election, in the course of which it states that a great probability exists that Lord . Morpeth will be returned for . that. city. ”,It is =pos.: Bible," observes our -Contemporary, " that the Conserva tive.electors of the Irish metropolis can ever be taken by surprise, except by their own supineness and intestinal discords; and for them to permit the election of a Radical candidate, when they have the ability to prevent it, is to desert the cause of good government:" The Post is loud in its reprobation of the manufac turing system, which, it states , _'t is enough. to bring a curse upon any country," and observes, in, addition, "that what it looks to at present is a gradually increasing con viction of the public mind that the system is fraught with terror and inhumanity ; and that a set of men counte nancing one another in cruelty, and competing with one in cheapness, have degraded the English work ing-people to a position in which they ought not to be placed." . _ The Advertiser speaks , of a project entertained by some of the members of the Anti-Corn-law League, for uniting the middle with the working classes, in an endeavour to obtain sound Radical Reform, and observes, "it is more likely to succeed than any similar project we have yet heard of " The Chronicle, speculating on the measures to be pro pounded in the approaching session , of Parliament, states that Sir R. Peel's ancient language of vague and nega tive generalities must now be exchanged for that of positive and explicit explanation of practical measures ; and that instead of amending and opposing, he must make his own suggestions, and propound his own plans. Our Contemporary, however, expresses himself by no means sanguine as to the efficiency of Sir Robert Peel's measures. Alludin g to the desperate efforts made by the Tories to get a Tory candidate for Dublin, the Darn Evening Post says . :—" They have been scouring the empire— they have been refused by Attwood, by Crichton, by Jocelyn, by Blaekburne, by Colquhoun, &c. &c. And now we are told confidently that the fraudulent mana gers of the concern have actually laid violent hands on a youth who has barely reached his majority, for the pur pose of delivering him over, pinioned and skewered, to be plucked and excoriated by the famishing Orange free men of Dublin." In an article on the present state of the finances, the Birmingham Journal makes the following remarks : " The pinch is severe ; but it is not yet severe enough to produce that general and determined combination amongst the suffering, which is essential to a thorough and permanent change. Things must be worse before they are effectively better. And we consider it not merely probable, but almost certain, that, before the worst come, there will be a glimmering of revival." We take the following from the Bolton Free Press : " Partly from ignorance of the exact value of money, and partly from want of sympathy, and of due respect for human nature in the persons of the poor, our gran dees receive, with a degree of apathy which is fearfully ominous, the appalling statements of misery arising from low wages, now published throughout the length and breadth of the land. In. the relative position of the higher and lower classes of. society in this respect, England, at the present moment, forcibly reminds one of the intolerable . state of things in France, which brought forth her bloody revolution of half a cen tury acro." The Manchester Times remarks,_ in reference to the approaching struggle on the Corn-law question : " There will be a desperate struggle, for the monopolists are strong and firmly banded together, and will fight as if for life and death. In the meantime there is a strong corps de reserve in course of organization for the Corn law repealers. Thousands of electors have already signed the declaration issued by Joseph-Sturge, of the right to complete serage; and we have the fullest conviction that this new movement' will proceed with all the quiet moral energy which characterised the Obits to abolish slavery." The Cumbriari says :—" It will one day become in credible to the historian that such a monopoly, as now exists in the article of its food, was endured by a nation calling itself free. The Corn-laws have worked well only fo'r the monopolists, without benefiting the farmer in the slightest degree, and producing incalculable misery to the people." The Scotsman, speaking of the selfish conduct of the landowners, remarks as follows :—" They have plun dered the class whom it was their duty to cherish and protect, and, adding insult to injury, their orators and journalists are now spitting out their malice and con tempt against it." The Devonport Telegraph thus alludes to Sir James Graham's address to his constituents :—" Nearly all that Sir James Graham has to state, respecting the Mi nisterial policy, is that the Government will endeavour to meet the wishes of the public.' Thus are stern necessities put off by a paltry common place which means anything or nothing ; it is, indeed, perfectly in keeping with the most unpopular Member of the Mi nistry. Such gross apostacy as that of Sir James Graham may meet with political success, but never with respect." MONEY—TRADE —COMMERCE. he Canton treasure, brought by the Conway, is in dollars of Sycee silver, and weighs upwards of 60 tons. The dollars are ordered to ba conducted to the Mint. The distress at Paisley is on the increase. A letter quoted by a Ministerial paper says—' , The number of claimants on our funds is increasing. The people are actually dying of starvation—no beds to lie on, no cover ing even—the boards only to rest on. These are facts." Dullness has pervaded the trade of Leeds and Hud dersfield during the last week. At Rochdale there has been another failure of a manufacturer. At Bradford the sales of wool, and other goods have been limited. The. total number of signatures obtained to the me morial of the women of England, for the repeal of the Corn-laws, in Manchester, Salford, and Hulme, amounts already to sixty-five thousand woman. In many large towns, villages, and country districts the memorial has been adopted, and th e ca nvass is carr i e d on with spirit. NAVAL AND MILITARY. The late chivalrous and unfortunate Don Diego Leon, by his will has bequeathed his sword to General Evans. ECCLESIASTICAL. The inhabitants of the city of Worcester are signing a memorial to the Archbishop of Canterbury on the sub ject of the spread of Puseyism. TheTis'iop of Chichester, who died on Friday, was sixty years of - age. - In 1803 he gained the prize for a Latin poem at Oxford ; and has enjoyed his Bishopric but fifteen months. At the meeting of the Presbytery of Glasgow, held on Wednesday last, Dr. M'Leod gave notice that, at next meeting, he would bring under the notice of the Presbytery the demoralizing effects of the Church agi tation, the formation of Church Defence Associations, and other forms of the present controversy. The parish of Kettle, in Fife, of which the Crown is patron, having become vacant by the death of Dr. Bar clay, the father of the Scotch Church, certain parishioners made application to the Home Secretary, with a view of submitting a list of candidates out of which he might • choose one, on the Non-Intrusion principle ; but they received a sad rebuff. Sir James Graham directed the Under-Secretary to write that he did not require their assistance in advising the Crown. pirrm Juvrs. The King of Prussia has ordered his Court Jeweller to take several decorations of the Red Eagle to London, and a decoration of the Black Eagle, in diamonds, valued at nearly 2,000/. is also making : but for whom it is in tended is not known. LxTExamr AND SCIENTIFIC. _ _ Miss Isabel Hill, whose literary labours gave her a good position in the world of letters, died on Thursday at Brighton. THEIITRICAL. The Queen and Prince Albert, accompanied by the Kings of Prussia and Belgium, will very soon after their arrival honour Drury Lane and Covent Garden with their presence. Mercadante's opera, Elena Meth, will be produced at Covent Garden on Saturday next, when Miss Adelaide Kemble will sustain the principal female character of Elena. Private theatricals have been performed during the Christmas season at Ravensworth Castle. The pieces selected were the popular.burlesque of BornbastcsFurioso, and the glee of Witches and chorus in Macbeth.. Rubini, the singer, after visiting London, will ,go to St. Petersburgh, whither he has, received a personal in vitation from the Emperor Nicholas. SPORTING. Lord Castlereagh and Captain Lyon have sailed with the Earl of Dysart to Tunis, to enjoy a fortnight's shooting and boar-hunting in the neighbourhood. AS ZEI 0 N. 11.13 The Duke and Duchess of Buckingham have been en tertaining a distinguished party at Stowe. The Marquis of Exeter comes to town at the end of . the week to attend th e l a yi ng o f t h e fi rst stone o f th e Royal Exchange. The French Ambassador dined with the Earl and Countess of Jersey on Saturday in Berkeley-square. The Earl of Derby is expected to leave Knowsley Hall, Lancashire, early in February for town. • The Earl of Westmoreland arrived from Ostend on Saturday. Lord Rendlesham is rapidly recovering from the effects of his recent accident. . Colonel and Lady Alice Peel left town on Saturday on a visit to the Duke and Duchess of .Montrose at belby Hall, Northamptonshire, Miss Burdett Coutts has returned to her villa at Roc hamp tOn. IVCISCEnI.II:IATEOUS. Capital punishment , and the bastinado are likely•, through the interposition of the Diet, to be abolished in Hungary. recording to the present distribution of tickets to witness the laying of the first stone of the Royal Ex change, the spectacle will be limited to 12,000 persons out pi a metropolis of nearly 2,000,000. Yesterday in 1643, the execution of Archbishop Laud took place on Tower-hill. Laud, in addition to being Archbishop of Canterbury, was Chancellor of the University of Oxford. According to his biographer lfeylin, Laud's conduct was " rash and precipitate, for he attempted more alterations in the Church in one year than a prudent man world have done in a great many." The Right Hon. Lord ranmure has given the hand some sum of 1001. to the Royal Infirmary of . Dundee, in addition to his former munificent donations. RATIVIGUR, O c Tun DAY. It is reported that under a contemplated arrangement all persons in the Civil Departments of the Government who have served upwards of thirty years, shall have the option of retiring upon the proportionate scale under the Order in Council for the regulation of Pensions. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS CITY, MONDAY EVENING. The broker acting on account of the Bank of England, sold Stock early in the day to the amount of, 150,0001., and this depressed the market for the liviti Securities, but afterwards there were one or two, spisitl l investments, which rallied it to about its former Point' the payment of the dividends bringing more Money into play. Consols were 89 at the close this afternoon, for present transfer, and 89 to 891 for Account. Exchequer Bills are 225. to 18s: premium, and India bonds Bs. to 10s. premium. Bank Stock Was at 1671, and . theNeW Three-and-a-Half per Cents. realized 981 to 98. The Foreign Bonds were a little better,. though the transactions were of no importance. Spanish 'Active were.at 25 to 25+, and Portuguese New, at 32+, the lat ter neglected. Mexican „Stock . realized 29 to 291 ; and Colombian 21i. Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. are 51 t 0 .54: The market for Shares Was pretty steady. Great Western were 221, the NeW 101 ; London and Birming ham 791 premium ; g r i g; hton,,l2i i - discount. (]from- The Sun of Last ; Night.) LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET; JAN. B.—We have had a moderate demand :for Cotton to-day ; the sales computed to he 4,000 bales ; nearly 400: of Which have been taken for export.. There is nothing doing in specu lation, and the Market continues steady at yesterday's prices. LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, JAN. 9.—The follow ing are the present prices for Railway Stock, which has been most in demand during the week —Eastern Coun ties, 9 ; Grand Junction,. '1951 196 ;: Ditto, Quarter Shares, 481 ; Great Western, New, 601..; Liverpool and Manchester, 198 ; Ditto, Half Shares, 92 ; London and Birmingham, 170. . . MANCHESTER STOCK . EXCHANGE, JAN. B.—Our Market is very inactive, but prices continue firm. Man chester and Birmingham, 28 f ; Manchester Assurance, 9+. There are no later arrivals to-day from any quarter. The English Stock Market opened rather flat, this morning. Consols opened at 89* ex div., for money and account. Exchequer Bills are 20 22; Spanish Active Stock 25k; Portuguese Five per Cents, 32+ ; ditto Threes, 191 1. There has been but little business doing in the Stock Exchange up to the present time. Consols are now 89i fOr the Account, and 89 for Money. Exchequer Bills, 18 20 prem ; India Bonds, 8 10, ; Bank Stock, 1671 ; Spanish Active Stock, ;25* ; Passive. 5f ; Deferred, 121; Portuguese Five per Cents. 32+ ; Colombian Bonds, 21i; Dutch Two-and-Half per Cents. 51,; .Ditto. Fives. 1001. Very little doing in shares. Great Western' New are quoted at 602 ; London and Brighton, 37 ; Ditto and South Western, 59 ; York and North Midland New, 311. The Bank broker. has appeared as a seller of Consols to some extent to-day, but what is the precise object may be easily imagined—viz., to strengthen the position of the Corporation while the dividends are in course of payment. The interest on the New Stock created by the last funding is paying with the rest, although some of the. Exchequer bills received as instalments for the scrip are known ,to have turned out forgeries. Of course the Bank of England will not suffer the losi in this case, and if no arrangement has already been made for that purpose, will come upon the Government for in demnification. _ _ Consols, 89* ; Mexican, 29+ ; Spanish, 25k CLOSING PRICES: BRITISH FUNDS. Wink Stock 1671 India Stock .. . ...247 3 per Cent Red. B9! Ditto Bonds .. . 10 pm 3 per Cent Cons B9' Ditto Old Annuities ... 3i per Cent Red.. ..... New 3i per Cent • 984 Ex. Bills, 1,000/....21d 20 pro New 5 per Cent Ditto 5001— ... .. 18 pni .Long Annuities to expi re . Ditto 5ma11...... 18 pm Jan. 1860 ... 12h 'Bank Stock for Acct... Oct - 1859 Jan. 1860. —. Consols for Open B9h FOREIGN FUNDS. . _ Austrian, 5 per cent -- Portuguese, 5 per cent. Belgian, b per cent -- Ditto, New Ditto — Brazilian 80nd5.... Prussian, 5 per cent. Buenos Ayres, 6 per eel -- Russian, 5 per cent — Chilian, 6 per cent...:.. Ditto, Aletallic.. Colombian, 6 per cent.. Spanish, 6 per cent 2s* Ditto, 1824.' Ditto, Deferred .. 12i __ _ . Danish, 3 per cent Bl* I FrenCh, 5 per cent. —f. —c. Greek, 1825, 5 per cent -- , Exchange —l. —c, Mexican, 5 per cent.... iFrench, 3 percent —f. — c Ditto, 6 per cent. 1637 -- Dutch, 2i per cent 5l Peruvian,l62s, 6 per ct. Ditto, 5 per cent. ...... 100 A SIIARES. Birmingham and Gloucester Rail•vay (100 p) 64i Bristol and Exeter (30 paid) .. , Great Western Railway( 65 paid) Ditto New Shares (50 paid) ......... London And Brighton (50 paid) 37a London and Blickwall Railway (25 paid)... Ditto New Shares ( paid) London and Birmingham (90) ......... London and South Western London and Croydon Railway (Trunk) lli Manchester and Birmingham (40 paid) ..... 28i North Midland Railway (100) Ditto Thirds (15 paid) York and North Midland Railway (50 paid) Ditto New Shares (15 paid 3l* UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. OXFORD, JAN. B.—llilary or Lent Term commences on Friday next, and being the first day of term, a con gregation will be holden for conferring degrees, &c. The Latin sermon which precedes each term will be preached by the Rev. T. Patteson, of Exeter College, on Thursday, at St. Mary's. In consequence of the resignation of the Rev. G. E. Howman, the Rev. H. Pearson, of Balliol College, has been presented to the Vicarage of Sonning in the county of Berks. _ The Rev. W. Renaud, of Exeter College, has been presented to the Curacy of Norton-by-Daventry, in the county of Northampton. The Rev. G. Webster, of Exeter College, has been presented to the Curacy of St. Peter's Mancroft, Norwich. J. W. Goodenough was-on Tuesday last admitted an Actual Fellow of New College, as lounde r ' s ki n ; an d H. M. White has been adMitted an Actual Fellow of the same College, after being two years a probationary one. CAMBRIDGE, JAN. B.—John Parker Birkett; 8.A., of Jesus College, in this University, has beep appointed by Dr. "Wordsworth to the Mathematical Mastership at Harrow, vacated by the Rev..J. W. Colenso, M.A. The Rev. William Procter, M.A., of Catherine hall, has been preferred to the Vicarage of Bishop Burton, Yorkshire.. _ The examination for Mathematical Honours com menced on Wednesday and will terminate on Tuesday next : there are 120 candidates. The examination of those gentlemen who are not Questionists in honours will commence on Wednesclty. MORNING 7 FIVN. COURT CIRCULAR. , WINDSOR, MoNnay.—The Queen and Prince . .ttlue took their accustomed walk to-day in the morning, an again in the afternoon. iked Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent also wilt out in the forenoon: v ia Mr. George Edward and the Ho n . Airs. Alison‘. O . have the honour of dining w ith h er M a je s ty tii;s. ev-eal* at the Castle. Her Majesty and Prince Albert, attandetl by the Pq r Suite, will leave the C as tl e t o - morrow a fter lunch, te Claremont. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent is expet ted to leave the Castle for town to-morrow. w° The Queen will hold a P r i v y C otnc il. a t h a lf-past t o'clock on Saturday a ft ernoon th e 15 t h i ns t., a t NVil s s' Castle. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, attended by Colonel Ideate 'and Colonel J ones , l e ft .his reside nt at Kew yesterday morning, to honour. Colonel WP ham with a visit at his seat Petworth House,,Susscx; A „ Their Royal Highnesses the D uc h es s o f Canibrilv and the Princess Augusta of Cambridge, , attende", 1 '„ Lady Augusta Somerset, arrived in town y- es terday ir () o f Kew, and visited her Royal Highness the .Duchess Gloucester, at Gloucester House. . • ~ I IA Deputation from the New Zealand Company, c °l " sisting of Mr. Somes, Governor, Mr. Alderman TI1 0 1; son, M. P., Mr. Alderman Copeland, M. P., Mr.: Cfiariti Buller, M. P., and Mr. John Abel Smith, Directors , ai lt Mr. Ward, Secretary, had an interview with Lord soo' ley yesterday at the Colonial-office. The Agent for Jamaica had an interview 1 , 14 11 th° Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday at his officio . re ' sidence in Downing-street. The Duke of Wellington arrived in town yesterti# afternoon, from his seat, Strathfieldsaye; Hants. The Spanish Minister transacted business yesterw 7 at the Foreign-office. The Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone had an intervie yesterday with Sir Robert Pe e l, at hi s official residor ,, in Downing -street. A deputation respecting Trinidad, including Me i s. o C. Marryatt, Davidson, Cowan, and Macgregor, ho'..t. interview yesterday with Lord Stanley at the Coloc w office. The sitting of the Judicial Committee of the Ili/ Council, appointed yesterday mo r ni ng f or the furs" e o bearing of the Appeal " Deare and Mayhew v. ElvvY, ll was postponed owing to the absence of Lord Wle . "„ cliff::, occasioned by the decease of the Countess of P l.-e " the mother of Lady Wharncliffe. CURES OF DEAFNESS. . (From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal.) t In the Journal for September 28, 1839 (No. 400) , e , f 4 , v peered a paragraph, quoted from a London :09 respecting some remarkable cures of deafness perfle by Dr. Turnbull, of Russell-square. Being soon a t e. assured, by authority of the highest kind, that thes e leged cures were an unreal mockery, and that the pee graph must have been designed as a 'mere puff, W e ' ee , ensuingour publication of the Bth of February , 0 pressed our regret for having admitted . it, desc4i n go at the same time by the opprobious term which we ji b e heard applied to it. Thus the matter rested till the 0 1 ginning of the present winter, when we were some° b e surprised to be assured by a friend that, as far a i . ey could judge, we had gone farther wrong in our rub e ll a don of the Bth February than in that of the 28th ' - ',:ii tember, for he, having lately been in Aberdeen , ," 0 1 seen and conversed with persons who had been• curesd congenital deafness by Dr. Turnbull; mid had also fu or e that, in consequence of these eurese there was sr. t h e than favourable opinion of him ameingst some °' e re principal professors of the northern , university. re ' were induced by this information to hold our cceiden'd, tion of the original paragraph as liable to: review ;4 0 1 being anxious that no remediable injustice should he et the door of this work, we determined to satisfy °la se si of the character of Dr. Turnbull's pr ac ti ce , in or der w make all possible reparation in the even t o f our b ez e l, found in error. This opportunity occurre d s oon w oe on Dr. Turnbull visiting, or rath er r ev isiting,' hid burgh. We on that occasion went several times t ° ible surgical room, in order to witness and make all p os ' n r investigations into his mode of practice. It s oon, re peareethat, to arrive at thorough conviction, evoitla, i e quire considerably more trouble than we had a n ` t y pated, or could conveniently spare time for ; but . o p wish to do what was fair and proper on the oeeni and the interest of the investigation itself, made d' cheerfully overlook this difficulty. Amongst othet e ,P:ol, cures which seethed necessary for making up - our PRO we studied the most recent and approved 'worwle. aural' surgery, in order to ascertain in what resPee s p el :urnbull'e practice differed from that whichie 0, 11 e - r ibeethe -profession: We also s o u ght inte rv iew s wits'i n et 'sons.: who *ere said to have been cured by Dr. '-ro l ' 10 with ~ their - friends, and with indifferent parties o f knewethem before as well as since th ese cures wel' t he rected; We - wrote 'to various places, to ascertain de, present condition' of persons who had been cured ill ed i l early - part , of . elm past year. We carefully insr e te o written evidence subenitted to us. In short, we or a ' o e; no 'exertion which we thought at all likely eo hi e :: r e' our means of forming a judgment for ourselves W it'' , i 0 pid to the character of this gentleman's practiciol aural surgery: The conclusion at which we ar r ie e was, that Dr. Turnbull unquestionably had, in the 0 10 1 of the year, in Scotland, performed many cures Viol!' the scope of ordinary medical practice, and laeden 0„ several cures of congenital deafness. It appeared teoce at the same time, that he had failed in several inst%e where he had made the attempt, but that this u ' i Dil more than what might be reasonably expected from own professions, which were, that 'his methods w er n ef yet only probationary, and that he could not consequence make sure of succeeding in every case. On these- gr u t r e we felt assured that the communications made to'n' te e specting the original paragraph were , h oweve r lin iP e et tionally, unjust, in as far as a man capable of curing: o e, genital deafness alone (to say nothing of his other, e o ff was entitled 'to be respectfully, and:not-conturneh° spoken of. beli l . Being of this opinion, we feel it of course incte n or upon us to lose rio time in begging our readers to CO der the notice of the Bth of February, 1840, and n ee tition of it oil the ensuing 4th of April, as withdrew fi ee Condemned. So earnestly do we feel on this poin t eeer we have ordered that not one other copy of the leu n 'bec' containing those notices shall be given out to the pure.but that a new-edition of the numbers shall be pref. t " t ei from which the notices in question shall be ora l o . While thus stating our own convictions, we are ne the that many respectable persons persist in allegro dells whole of 1)r. Turnbull's practice to be a system or ci. If sion. We do not quarrel with them on this gronn e ig is a point on which conscientious men may fairly ';' (I° We do not even ask-that any one shall believe aS,? V upon our word, but would recommend all who feel I r e terest in the matter to inquire and j u d ge f or t heln' e of e Let the case stand unjudged for any thing t h at w el' e ' to say about it ; but l e t us a l so l ay before our rea d 1 tll view of the evidence on which we ha v e fornle' s o6 opinion which ind uc e s us now t o re t rac t w h a t we ecu :l C l an injurious statement. Having twice before ant i er mere authority, and been led thereby to bandy our colii' ders backwards and forwards between two opposi t :p e t'' elusions, we feel it to be necessary that a third ''" o • c er the case should appear to have been adopted on a re p' ably large basis of fact. s Let us first explain that the deafne ss of the el°,,,e' '4 to' persons called deaf-mutes has hitherto been quite in' fil e: ble. 'With respect to certain modifications of de" produced by cold, and other similarly accidental 0%40 there has long been - a medical practice attende d t i:o 4 some measure of success : for example, in London eO O is an institution called the Royal Dispensary for II , e s of the Ear, where, since its c ommencemen t in 18 1 er li' e t cording to a statement by its s ur g eon , M r . C ur tis,* t` 0, 1 thousand cages have been c ure d or re li eve d. But for OP' complete deafness which is born with a human being; ; 5 5 ' prevents the future ac qu i remen t o f s peec h , there l' , ' knowledgedly no cur e w h a t ever upon the medical ny er tic This is fully own e d by one o f th e first writers 50 1 ' 1 ;0', titioners of the day on aur a l sur g ery, D r . Wilhelmeit , ' rner, of Berlin, who, in a work on the subject, o , t;ier` ) l an English translation appeared i n 1837, s a ys, ellY are convincing proofs of the entire failure of all re m , 0 attempts hitherto made for the restoration of hear/e l deaf-mutes. !I` * * e * The deaf-dumb, w i ' tit' they be completely deaf, or merely dull of hearing" incurable." • • . . I ,, e t, The condemnation thus pronounced will appear], distressing one, when it is known that, in civiliz.u'e`eo 4 l munities, one person in about every sixteen hunaTieei deaf-mute. It affords, by the wtee, a curious mince illustration of what we lately explained under the tii 0 : " The Regularity of Irregular Things," that in 910 1 six European states—France, Spain, Italy, Austrisecg iy sia, and Prussia—the proportion given by statis ts hob exactly one to every 1,585 of the population. The IV number in Great Britain alone is 12,394, an d in ffel e " 20,189. We must the more deplore the despair c u r ie e'', dical. science on this subject, when we consider Yi jet°' serious drawback deaf-muteness must in every etil n o tr to the pleasures of life, and what an insurmounta p e er( struction it must be to nearly every effort of ro w el and a legitimate ambition. Even the partial - deaf° o f elderly persons and others is an evil to themselveseeh magnitude of which it cannot be supposed that tleo i ' ie 0 enjoy full powers of hearing are able to form an iq,e", c Without further preface, we shall proceed to Pi. I', / outline of the evidence on which we conclude thinses Turnbull cures congenital and other extreme et. ht deafness. During his recent brief residence in Edinbure' D b ' e riP e Turnbull effected the entire cure of Miss Cs t 4o ll , t l Walker, of Kelso, a young lady known to ee rin; Mends of our own as having been deaf and dun , " ce olyf her whole life up to that period, and who had f 3 r de?, ingly received her education in the Institution ' l ' o tV e , mutes in Edinburgh. We saw this yonng Per s° , 'O r r , a week, and next time about a month, after he pe , and found that she heard as well as any ordinnr,Y, ee. ,a el son. At the time when we saw her last, she ! ori el , ginning to use her voice to some little purpose, in ' en V i : that her friends forbade her to speak to thein 1 , 3 1 0 0 1 :Pe fingers, alleging that they could understand whs t e s don n , . Robert Kerse, a boy of ten years of 'age, gr a ' e sto u o Sir Thomas M. Brisbane's fisherman at Macke cio , e, had been to a great extent deaf from infancy, 'red,' discharge of matter from his ears and frequent e,_a el .; . en He came to Dr. Turnbull on "the 10th' of Noveniny 10 f! --, 95t .li e i went home on the 16th, quite cured. Sir Thole oil communication with which we have been felf t ee‘ i e him, says, "The clay after the boy's retpen, 1 e elig' o l that he should be brought IP Pee, in eider the s ieel 4 :., examine him, In the hall of entry I heye R I the. d' e ' l clock, from which I gradually withdrew him till but A „ tance was 24 feet, when be still heard its beats, ~w, , 01 it , eii ~ farther :in fact, I could not well hear it InP rro feet." Sir Thomas likewise induced Mr. Wee the r o e _ ,. e vost of Kelso, and Mr. Armstrgu l t o c o unty f ) ---' ----, toi .pr l * The Present State of Aural Surgery, Sm. BY "° ' d e ~i , risen Curtis, Esq. 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