The Sun. — London, England, 1849-01-12 00:00:00

Hope. Put LA, Si., South America It is now blowing a very heavy game from N. W. to N. and N.N.E., with treinei,dons iqualls, and a heavy sea in the Downs. The !'cllowing vessels, all of which !oat anchors and chains and are being supplied, with a large fleet lying in the 1) frwns. are tiding very hea7ily:—Tl , e Northurnlwriand, fr , in C...leuga; George, from St. cents; Goddess, fur f1 , •51,-;:iota Ithrgar,tha, s. WHITSTABLE, JAN. 11.—The Gdedonia, from Au cone, has drove oo }::.re to the eastward. MARGATE, JAN. 11.—Tho St. Pierre, Justine, Hon fleur to London, got on the Forenesa Rock this morning, was assisted off, and is now riding off Kingsgate. PORTSMOUTH. JAN. 11.—It bl.. w a sttong gale here last night, at N.V., with heavy quails, and continues. PENZANCE, JAN. 9.—The Timandra, W4•eks, irom naval:wish, has put in here, with damage, having been on her beam ends, 25th ult., off the Island of Carro. LYTHAM, JAN. 11.—A vessel was totally wrecked near shore last night, and it is feared that all hands have perished. Frtm papf.rs picked up, she arpears to have beets the Varwarts, Iftwk. from Palau to Liverp.:ol, last from St. , rnaway, 4th inst. The coast irOiri hence to Blackpool is strewn with timber and Few duals. PETERHEAD, JAN. 10.—Ii has blown a severe gale all day, and continues, at E. to S.E.—The Citherine, New castle to Aberdeen, was run riihore to-day in South Bay ; crew saved, should the w, :tither moderate the materials and possibly the ve,sel may be saved. The Hero, Sun derland of Newcastle to Fraserburg, was totally wrecks d on the rocks at the entrance of the south harbour; two of the crew drowned. The brig Effort was totally wrecked on the rocks near Stains Castle this morning; crew drowned. A brig foundered off the Buehanness this morning, seven miles south of this; crew drowned. An oar, marked " C. H.," has been washed on shore. CAUTION TO MARINERS PASSING IN OR OUT OF THE MEDITERRANEAN. Gibraltar, Jan. 3, 1849. Sir,—l beg to subjoin, for the information of the Committee, a copy of a dispatch, which I have just had the honour of receiving from his Excellency Vice- Admiral Sir William Parker, on the Mediterranean station, dated 9th ult. I think that every pu bli c i ty s h ou ld be given to the caution against masters of merchant vessels imprudently keeping near to the Riff coast, in passing in or out of the Mediterranean, particularly in the summer season, when calms prevail, which facilitates the capture of ves sels by the row-boats of the Riffians. I have the honour to be, Sir, Your most obedient servant, J. LONGLANDS COWELL, Agent for Lloyd's. Capt. Halsted, R.N., Secretary to Lloyd's. Copy of tiispatch referred to:— " Hibeinia, at Naples, Dec. 9, 1848. " Sir,—ln acknowiedjug the receipt of your letter, of the 20th ult., with the copies of your reports to the se cretary at Lloyd's, I beg to express my satisfaction that the promptitude. zest. and gallantry of Commander M'Cleverty, and the officers and crew of the l'o:yphe taus, enabled them to recover the brig Three Sisters from the Riff pirates. " I entirely agree in your recommendation, that the mastcrs of merchant vesseis should be directed to give the Cape Tres Fercas a wlde berth, and accord with you in thinking, that without the employment of a large force the attempt to de.troy the launches and boats on the Riff coast would not be accomplished, except at the expense of a considerable loss of lite, and that the boats, &c., so destroyed, would soon be replaced by the pirates. _ " I am. Sir, your very humble servant, (Signed) " W. PARKER, Vice. Admiral. " To J. Longlands Cowell, Esq., Agent for Lloyd's." MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE—FRIDAY. We have again to report the arrival of a very limited supply of English Wheat for our market, coastwise as well as by laid carriage. To-day the show of samples was small in the extreme; nevertheless, the demand for all kinds of Wheat of home produce was in a sluggish state, at Monday's prices. Comp ,ratively speaking the imports of Foreign Wheat—the whole of which have gone into bond—have been small. The best qualities, free of duty, sold at full currencies. All other descrip• tions were a slow inquiry. Bonded Wheats were taken to some extent, at full prices. The market was well supplied with Barley, the demand for which was heavy, at the late decline in value. Malt was extremely inac tive, and the quotations were alms st nominal. Oats were mostly held at late rates. Beans, Peas, Indian Corn, and Flour were tisglect,d. ARRIVALS THIS WEEK. NVheat . : Barley. Oats. 1 Flour 1,040 qrs. ' 2,910 qrs. 3,450 qrs. 1 2,360 z‘lc, . -- 1,660 1 -- 9,910 1 7,370 4,420 1-- Malt, 1,610 qrs. SMXTIII'IELD. For the time of year, our market to-day was very moderately supplied with Beasts, both as to number and quality. Owing, however, to the absence of the princi pal buyers, the Beef trade was in a depressed state, at Monday's decline in the quotations—those for the best Scots not exceeding 3s 10d to 4s per 8 lbs., and a clear ance was not effected. The supply of Sheep was un usually small; yet the Mutton trade was in a sluggish state, at unaltered currencies. The primest old Downs were selling at from 4s 8d to 4s 10d per 8 lbs. On the whole, the Veal trade was firm, at about stationary prices. In Pigs—the supply of which was small—next to nothing was done. Mulch Cows were quoted at from 141 to 181 each, including their small calf. Per Sibs. to sink the offal. s. d. to a. d. s. d. to s. d. Inferior Beasts..... 3 0 3 4 Second qual. Sheep 3 8 4 0 Second quality -•.. 3 6 3 8 Coarse-woolled ditto 4 2 4 6 Prime large Oxen.. 3 8 310 Southdown Wether 4 8 410 Prime Scots ••—— 3 10 4 0 Ditto eut of the wool 0 0 0 0 Large coarse Calves 3 6 4 0 Large Hogs Prime small ditto .. 4 2 4 6 Small Porkers Suckling Calves ..18 0 25 0 Quarter old Pigs l6 0 22 0 Inferior Sheep . 3 2 3 6 Lambs •••••• • • • • 0 0 0 0 TOTAL SUPPLY AT MARKET. Sheep. 1 Calves. Phrs, 1,740 111 180 FOREIGN SUPPLY. I Sheep. I Calves. 20 9 SCOTCH.—Beasts, 180 ; Sheep, 90. nriawcaarit .A. WII 1..0 ADE iVii ALL. These markets were heavy, at barely stationary prices. At per stone by the Carcase. s. d. to s. d. F. d. to s. d. Beef ,inferior.• .• •• 2 6 2 8 Mutton, inferior middling .... 210 3 0` middling 3 4 310 --prime large .. 3 2 3 4 prime —— 4 0 4 4 prime 5ma11..3 4 3 G[ Pork, large.... ••• • 3 4 4 0 Vea1........ •• • . 3 4 4 41 —50131 i 4 2 4 6 1302,017G11 SOP MARZET. The show of really ti,;e Hops Here to-day was small, while the demand fur them was steady, at fully list week's quotations. In the middling qualities of New as well as Oid Hops exceedingly little business was trans acted. Prices, however, were about stationary. New Hops —Sussex Pockets, 21 2s to 21 18s ; Weald of Kent ditto, 21 12s to 318 s ; Mid and East ditto, 31 3s to 61 per cwt. English Foreign ...... Beasts. 856 Beasts. 16 Pigs. COLONIAL. SUGAR.—There hasti;i7;;;l77;;; an exceedingly firm market for British Plantation, and prices have risen 6d to is per cwt, although the supply is larger. Within the last two days nearly 2,400 hhds have been sold. Barbadoes fine yellow sold at:4os to 4tis 6d, mid and good mid at 36s to 37s 6d. Jamaica good yellow 37s 6d to 38s, and fine brown 358 6d per cwt. Trinidad ord yellow 34s 6d, good, brown 33s 6d, Berbice mid grey 33s to 35s 6d. REFlNED.—Standard Lumps have been 49s to 50s per cwt. EAST INDIA.-12,348 bags Mauritius went at full rates ter the finer sorts especially; the and superior yellow 39s 6d to 42s 6d, mid and good mid 36s to 37s 6d, good ans fine brown 33s to 345, and low to rine grey 33s to 38s. Bengal, 7,000 bags and 303 cases, about two-thirds sold; good and strong yellow at 40s to 41s, fine 41s 6d to 43s 6d, and ord 36s 6d per cwt. ' • ord strong brown 295, and low to good yellow 33 s to 375. Madras, 2,300 bags, only partly sold at 31s 6d to 338 for mid and good soft vellow. FORElGN.—Havannah has been 6d to is higher; low to good brown, 37s 6d to 393, and low to good grey and yellow, 3 9s 6d to 41 s 6d ; fine 42s to 42s 6d. Maccio has been he'd at 38s 6d to 43s for low to fine white, and at 34s to 38s for low to tine brown. Pernambuco has been sold at 37s 6d, and low to good white at 38s 6d to 40s per cwt. DICOFFEE.—The market has been very brisk. Jamaica has been sold at 23s to 46s for low to mid. A good private busi ness has been done. G-ylon has risen 2s to 3s per cwt. for Plantation sorts, and is for Native, food ord 34s to 35s ; good and fine fine ord, pale, 34s to 475, and fine fine ord to low raid 48s to 545. Peaberry, 51s 6d 57s 6d; Mocha black to fine at 21s to 70s, has been taken in, and o th er sor t s h ave sold at 423 6d t o 2s. Jamaica fine ord is about 43s 6d to 465. Madras fine fine ord. foxey 425. Bengal ord. mixed 325; and Costa Rica fine ord, 355. COCOA.— Bahia has been held at 27s 6d. SmEs.--Pimento has been held at high prices, viz., 3id to 38d per lb. for mid. White Pepper has realised 3id to 4d per lb. Bengal Ginger has been at 21s to 21s 6d; and Jamaica at 60s for good ordinary to 1123 for superior. SALTPETRE.—FuII prices have been obtained : 650 bags, 71 refraction, sold at 253 6d for Bengal; Madras, refraction 14i, went at 255. IticE.—The market has been heavy; 900 bags low white Bengal sold at 9s 6d per cwt, and some packets of better quality at. 103 to 13s. RI -M.—This article is very firm at fuller prices. P roo f Leeward s i s 5 d to Is 6d, Ltemerara 30 to 33 per cent over 2s 2d to 2s sd, and East India is 4 i to is 5d per gallon. Corrost.—The market has been active at full prices. TaLtow.—P.Y.C, has been steady, at 41s 9d to 42s per cwt on the spot. Trta.—The market has been very steady. CocuusicaL.—Sales have been rather pressed, and prices rule the same as last week. w _qREEN F RUIT. —The market has been dull this week, Twoh which is u sua ll y the case after the Christmas holidays. One elfin cargoes of O ranges, ex Heroine and Pearl, and part of nondee Morice, f rom S t. Michael, sold pu bli c l y b y The st g oc a k o Hunt, went at a togareductin of 2s to 3s per box. fresh arrival.; from is reduced kinds nu dull Messina are daily expected. .Nots of all coomdm ltiof sale, the the high figure having its effect upon are scarce, aPnd°ll No inquiry for Brazils. Seville Sours Grapes of good' likely to continue so for the season. Almeria in g in first hmlqausality, command a high figure, none remain.• price depressed c • ons i e li g e o : o to oe cl . t. of chesnuts is large, and the ____ DEATH or LORD TALI3oT.—We have to announce the death of Earl Talbot, which took place at lugestre hall, Staffordshire, on Wednesday. who had been ailing for The Noble Earl, some iitne past, and of whose recovery no hopes had been entertained fur some weeks, was in his 72d }ear, havirig been born in April, 1777. He was Lord-Li, urenant of Ireland for some years under the Liverpool Administration. ar;cl up to his death held the Lo rd-Lieutenuricy of the county of Stafford. He is succeeded in his title and estates by Viscount Ingestrc, a captain in the navy, and Member of Parliament fur the Southern division of Staffordshire. The pr, s,itir Earl ii in his 46th year, and married to Lady Sarah B, resforel, daughter of the late Marquis of Waterford, by whom he has a large family. His eldest son will be 19 next April. EMIGR ATION. —The num b er of persons who have *lini,,rated from Lilerpool durinir the year 1848 is as f°ll(7 ws :—To U n i te d St -res. 1' 3 7,501; North Am er:can Colonies 2,066 ; %Vest Indies, 199 ; Australia., R"g-liong, 14 ; Falkland Islands, 12; total, 131,121. THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, JAN UARY l2, . 1849, CII.ANCERY.-(THIS DA'..) The Lord Chancellor sat to-day in :he Old Fief!, Lin coin's Ina, and heard cause and lenalie petitions, anti appeals, but no case ea:ling for a special report came before his Lordship during the morning. ROLLS' COURT.—(THIS DAY.) Un po:.ed cruse petitions, and petitions of na itAerest exctpt to the parties concerned, occupied his Lordship the Muster or the Rolls the whole morning. VICE-CHANCERY.-(THIG DAY.) (Before the VICE-CHANCELLOR of ENGLAND.) The hearing of cruse petitions, short causes, and peti ticris, occupied his Honour the Vice-Chancellor of Eng land the whole day. The Vice. Chancellors Knight Bruce and Wigram also heard cause petitions and short causes. QUEEN'S BENCH.-(THIS DAY.) (Sittings in Banco.) THE QUALIFICATION FOR THE OFFICE OF MAYOR-THE MAYORALTY OF CARLISLE-THE QUEEN V. DICKSON. Some time ago a rule was grant(4l in this Court, calling upon Mr. Dickson, the prostnt Mayor f Carlisle, to show cause wby a quo warrant() should not issue, de manding the r'glit and authority by which he held that office. The application was made on the affidavit of an inhabitant named Potter, who alleged that the overseer having omitted Mr. Dickson's name from the burgess list, which was necessary before a person could be elected either a councillor or mayor, he was ineligible to hold the office. Mr. MARTIN this morning appeared in opposition to the rule, and contended at acme length that though Mr. Diekson's name was omitted, he was not disqualified, under the Municipal Corporation Act, from holding the office. Mr. Dickson, he said, believed his name had been on the list since the passing of that Act, and only discovered the neglect of the overseer when he was a candidate for the office of mayor. The acts prescribed the following routine for the preparation of the lists:—The overseer was directed to make out a list of burgesses entitled to vote on the sth of Septem ber, which was to be deposited with the town-clerk on the 18th of September. It was to be revised on the 17th of October, and completed on the 22d of the same month. A list was then to be made out by the town cl which was called the burgess roll. That list was finally revised arid completed by the overseers and assessors; so that the Act made the utmost provision for the prevention of mistakes or omissions. And if the mere omission was to be considered as a dis qualification, an overseer desirous that a cer tain party should be elected, might attain that end by omitting the name of a person likely to be elected from the list. Now the Legislature clearly drew a distinction between parties being entitled to be on the burgess list and of burgesses who were entitled to be on the burgess roll, which was the final document. It did not go the length of say ing that parties " en titled" to be on the list, but who had been omitted, were not qualified. The application was made to the Court hy a person who was in very needy circumstances; and the office being not one of emolument, but of great la bour and responsibility, he trusted their Lordships would put a liberal construction on the Act, and dis charge the rule. Mr. Justice PATTESON said the contention of the plaintiff was that Mr. Dickson was on the list on the 4th of September, but that on the 9th of November he was not, as hy had not taken the proper Parliamentary steps to qualify. Sir. Justice COLERIDGE said the defendant could not now be placed on the rolls of last year, since the list was final ; there was no remedy in that respect. The Court ultimatPly thought that the arguments should take place, and that in the meantime the quo %ar rant° should issue. BAIL COURT.-(THIS DAY.) IN RE SCOTT. Mr. ROBINSON moved the Court to enlarge a rule nisi, calling upon Montague Douglas Scott, au attorney of the court, to show cause why he should not be struck off the rolls. Air. Scott had been convicted of felony at the Old Bailey, and is now undergoing imprisonment in Cold Bath-fields. it was a rule established by the authorities of that prison, that no process should be served on any prisoner while in their custody, and the present motion was for an enlargement of the rule till atter the liberation of Mr. Scott.—Application granted. COMMON PLEAS.—(THIS DAY.) (Sittings in Banco.) CATLIN V DIAMOND STEAM-PACKET COMPANY. This action was tried beture Mr. Justice Cresswell in he course of last term, when a verdict was found for the plaintiff—dsmages 9001. Mr. MONTAGU CHAMBERS now applied for a rule nisi for a new trial, on the ground of misdirection and ex cessive damages. The action was brought to recover compensation in damages for the loss of the plaintiff's leg, in consequence of an accident which happened to him whilst a passenger in the Solis of the Thames steamboat, which was at the time running between London and Gravesend. The facts of the case were these :—The Sons of the Thames left London. bridge for Gravesend at nine o'clock in the morning ; another boat called the Sapphire, belonging to the defendants, started at ten o'clock for the same destination, and overtcok the other at Northfleet. It was proved at the trial that the regular course of navigation at this point and at that state of the tide was to steer directly across to Northfleet. But in consequence of a manoeuvre on the part of the Sons of the Thames to reach Roaherville pier first, the Sapphire was obliged to keep the Essex shore, by which the speed of both was made equal. In trying thus to reach the pier the boats came into collision, and the anchor of the Sons of the Thames, which was in the bow of the boat, was suddenly thrown upon the plaintiff, and the result was the accident for which he sought compensation. The Learned Counsel stated that the anchor had been im properly stowed away, and that there was negligence and want of ordinary care on the part of the crew of the Sons of the Thames, and contended that evidence of these facts ought to have been taken into consideration in the summing up of the Learned Judge who tried the case. He also contended that the proprietors of the boat in which the :accident happened were the responsible parties ; they, like a coach proprietor, having made a contract to carry the plaintiff, and thus made themselves liable for his safety. Mr. Justice CRESSWELL said the whole of the facts were laid before the jury, and he was not dissatisfied with their verdict. Indeed hail it been the other way he should nut have been satisfied. The whole matter was purely one tur the decision of the jury. The CHIEF JUSTICE granted a rule, on the ground of misdirection, but not on the other, saying that was im possible ; the Court could estimate whether 9001. was sufficient compensation or not for so serious au injury as the plaintiff had sustained.—Rule granted on the first point. BANKRUPTCY. —(THIS DAY.) (Before Mr. Commissioner GOLTLI3URN.) IN RE SHACRELL. This bankrupt was for many years publisher and part proprietor of the John Bull newspaper, and had latterly carried on business as a naptha manufacturer, &c., at %Vandsa orth. The official assignee reported favourably of the bank rupt's at - lairs, as there was a strong probability of the creditor; receiving 20s. in the pound. The bankrupt was opposed on the ground of having given ac2ommodation bills, but His HONOUR considered that as the creditors gene rally were satisfied, and as the opposing creditor had not made out his case (although it was one in which inquiry was proper), the bankrupt was fully entitled to his cer tificate. SECONDARIES".-(THIS DAY.) (Before Mr. Secondary POTTER.) • BENJAMIN V. MONEY. This was an action on a bill of exchange. The plain tiff is a bill discounter in Houndsditch, and the defendant was stated to be the chief clerk of one of the judges. The amount was under 20/.. but there was no plea or dispute as to the jurisdictom of the Court. Mr. BUCHANAN called witnesses to prove the accept ante of the bill, and that it had been endorsed to the present plaintiff. The jury gave a verdict for the amount claimed. This was the only case. BOW-STREET.—(THIS DAY.) The Rev. henry Charles Seller, of Send, near Guild ford, who was on Wednesday committed from this Court for trial for an indecent assault upon Samuel Cooper, a private of the Fusilier Guards, was this morning admitted to bail by Mr. Jardine, himself in 500/., and two sureties in 2501. each, forty-eight hours notice of bail having been given. CLERKEN WE LL.—(T HIS DAY.) George Robson, a cab-driver, was charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt, for neglecting to pay, according to the order of this court, thirteen weeks' allowance, amounting to 11. 12s. 6d., to Sarah Lander, for the maintenance of hii and her illegitimate child. The woman stated that since the order was made by the magistrate, the de fendant had paid the allowance only once, and that was in one sue, for seven weeks, for which she obtained a warrant against him. He had kept out of the way ever since. Three months were again in arrear on the 24111 of November, and she obtained another warrant, but he could not be found until this morning. The MAGISTRATE observed to the prisoner that no doubt on this occasion he thought he had succeeded in cheating the young woman. The Act of Parlia meut, indeed, contained a clause to the effect that the Magistrates could only enforce the payment of thir- teen weeks' allowance. But in this case the complainant having duly taken out the warrant in November, when the thirteen weeks were in arrear, could take out a fresh warrant (after the satisfaction of this one) for the ar rears accruing since November. The defendant said he had been out of work and could not pay, nor would he make any premise. He was sent to the House of Correction for two months. DIED.—At ChE sham, on the 10th instant, after a short illness, aged 62, Mr. W. H. Marshall, solicitor, third son of th© late Mr. John Marshall, solicitor, of Amersham. DOVER, FRIDAY MORNING.—An agent at Dover informs us that, owing to the heavy sea in the Channel, the Calais, Boulogne, and Ostend mails had not arrived, nor was it expected that the steamers would be able to make the harbour until late in the day. TH E OLDEST VOTER IN AMERICA.—Mr. Hughes, a revolutionary soldier, in the 107th year of his age, was the siake n to the' pod in Pe ckbridge County, Virginia, a e late election , by a friend, in a carriage drawn by four dun horses. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. TATTERSALL'S.—YESTERDAY. NORTHAMPTONSHIRE STAKES. 250 to 10 apt Mr. Bouverie's War Eagle—taken LIVERPOOL STEEPLECHASE. 20 to 1 agst Mr. C. Price's The iron Duke—taken METROPOLITAN HANDICAP. 30 to 1 agst Mr. J. B. Day's The Tartar—taken 30 to 1 agst Lord Eglinton's Lugar—taken 50 to 1 agst Lord Eglinton's Eryx—taken CHESTER CUP. 40 to 1 agst Lord Chesterfield's Mrs. Taft—offers to take 50 to 1 50 to 1 agst Mr. Greville's Geraldine—taken to 201. 50 to 1 agst Mr. Merry's Chanticleer—taken 50 to 1 agst Mr. Osbaldestun's Fugleman-3,000 to 45 taken 1.000 to 10 agst Mr. Courtenay's The Impostor (late Lanesborough—taken and afterward, aid Chanticleer and Fugleman were backed for a good deal of money, and their supporters, we believe, would have gone on at 50 to 1. DERBY., sto 1 agst Scott's lot—taken to 1001. 30 to 1 agst Lord Stanley s btrongbow—takn to 251. 33 to 1 agst Mr. A. Nichol's Nunnykirk—taken 1,000 to 25 agst Mr. Watt's Chatterer taken and afterwards offered OAKS. 5 to 1 agst Lord Stanley's Escalade—taken to 1001. LYCEUM THEATRE. A new farce entitled Who Speaks Firsts the idea of which is evidently taken from the old Scotch song, " Get up and bar the door," was produced here last evening with that success which seems invariably to attend all pieces produced at this theatre. Mr. Ernest Militant (Mr. Roxby) and his lady Mrs. Ernest Militant (Mrs. Yates) having had a desperate quarrel, determine, like the gudeman and his wife in the song, that whoever speaks first, shall be con sidered to have give❑ in and shall be from that time forth the obedient one. This silent system has con tinued for a week, when a strange gentleman with his portmanteau in his hand arrives at the Militant domicile, announces himself as Captain Charles (Mr. Charles Mathews), and having learned the state of affairs from the servants, iastals himself as Major Domo, and, after exhibiting divers specimens of the coolest possible assurance with the benevolent inten tion of putting an end to this absurd quarrel, he at length, as in the Scottish scng, forces the first word from Mr. Ernest Militant by kissing his wife in his presence. The ice having been broken, explanations follow, and Captain Charles proves to be the brother of Mrs. Militant, who for fifteen years had been absent from England. The whole weight of the piece fell upon Mr. Charles Mathews, who carried it oft with that cool and easy manner which may be called the sublime of impudence. He was excessively di verting. Mrs. Yates, as Mrs. Militant, was prettily petulant but ladylike withal; and Meadows and Miss Marshall, as the servants (the first a doting old man, the second a pert and flippant chambermaid to whom the old dotard makes hot love) were excellent. The piece was perfectly successful. The house was crowded. IRELAND. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) WRIT OF ERROR. DUBLIN, THURSDAY EVENING.—In the Court of Queen's Bench this day the Lord Chief• Justice stated again at the sitting of their Lordships, that judgment would not be pronounced in the case of the Queen versus O'Brien, Meagher, &c., until Tuesday next, in consequence of the indisposition of Mr. Justice Moore. An order was made to bring up the prisoners on that day. The prisoners Goswatz, English, and others, who were convicted for illegally drilling and training, will also be brought up on Tuesday, to assign errors. MR. DUFFY'S TRIAL. At the sitting of the Commission Court this day, the Attorney-General, having stated his objections to the adoption of any of the courses suggested by the Bench last day, called on the Judges for final judgment. Mr. Butt offered to go to trial if the Attorney- General would give no evidence, or enter a nolle prosequi on the bad counts. The Attornney- General refused to do so, and the Court appointed Saturday next to hear argument as to what the proper form of judgment should be. CHARGE OF UTTERING FORGED CHEQUES. Thomas Ford was charged at the Mansion-house yea terday with having uttered a forged cheque for 300/. Mr. Evison, a cashier in Messrs. Smith, Payne, and Smith's banking-house, stated that, on the sth January, the cheque for 3001. produced, purporting to be the cheque of Mr. Blackburn, a customer of the house, was presented by Thomas Taylor, a porter, for payment. The porter, upon being questioned, said he had received the cheque from Mr. Blackburn's clerk. The genuine. ness of it being doubted, the porter was detained. T. Taylor, the porter who presented the cheque, said —I received a letter in answer to an advertisement for a situation on Wednesday, and went to the Bell and Crown lon, Holborn, to see Mr. Thompson. the writer of it, according to the advertisement. The prisoner came out to me as Mr. Thompson, and said he thought he knew of a situation that would suit me. This took place in the passage of the Bell and Crown. He asked me for a reference as to character, and I gave him the name and address of Mr. Osborn, my former em ployer. He told me he would write to me, and nest day I received a letter appointing to meet me at the same place on Friday evening, when the prisoner said he had spoken to the governors and all was right, and I might consider myself engaged. He said he would take me to the establishment, but did not say what it was. He told me then to make my way to a public-house at the corner of Mark-lane. Before I left him he asked me if I had the note he wrote to me on Thursday, as he wished to write the. address upon it. I handed it to him, and he put it in his pocket, and, on another piece of paper, he wrote the address of the house in Mark-lane, and gave it to me. He met me there, and I got up and walked with him into Fenchurch-street. He gave me a 51. note to get changed at Masterman's bank, which I did, meeting him at the Corn-exchange Hotel according to appointment. He then told me he would take me — to his chambers, and I walked with him to Mincing-lane, when we stopped at an archway ; he asked me to stop there a minute, and he went in at the first door on the right, and when he came out he gave me a cheque on Messrs. Smith, Payne„and Smith's banking-house for: 3001. Ile told me to say, if they asked me who sen t me, that it was Mr. Blackburn's clerk. I was to take the money to him to the coffee-room. At the desire of the clerk at the bankers', .1 put my name on the cheque, and I identify it now. Mr. Bush (for the prosecution)—When you first saw the prisoner, how was he dressed? Witness—He was dressed in a dark over-coat, and he had a whitish hand kerchief, with blue spots or stripes upon it, round his neck ; and he had black curly hair, turning in behind. I think he had whiskers. The pockets of the coat were outside. The hair was a regular row round of curls turned in, and appeared to be natural hair. I saw him four or five times, and he was always dressed in the same way. Had no doubt at all about his identity. Mr. 1). Forrester produced a black wig, curled and turning in, according to the witness's description, be hind, and two handkerchiefs. Witness—That wig is like the hair which I saw the prisoner wear. The witness then pointed at one of the handkerchiefs produced, and said he believed that was the handkerchief thi• prisoner wore. Mr. G. Blackburn said—l have kept an account at Messrs Smith, Payne, and Smith's since 1825. The signature to the cheque produced is not mine, nor is the filling up of it mine, nor have I authorised any one to draw or sign it. (Here two cheques were produced.) These two cheques, each of which is for 31., I paid to Mr. Halford, of Isling ton. One was drawn on the 2d of December, the other on the Ist of January. I). Forrester—l searched the prisoner. He gave me the name of Thomas Ford, Aldenham-street, Somer's town. I went there and saw his wife, who said that Ford was her name. I found in a box the black curled wig produced. I saw the handkerchief produced round Mrs. Ford's neck, and I asked her for it, and she gave it to me without hesitation. This memoran• dum-book was with, other papers found in the pri soner's pocket. Two leaves had been torn, and upon comparing the torn leaves I find that they exactly dove tail with the two pieces of paper which I received from Taylor, and which that witness stated the prisoner had given to him, the one containing the address of the public-house, the other the account of the way in which the cheque was to be paid. Amongst some duplicates found was one for a coat , w hi c h exactly agrees with the description given of a coat the prisoner wore when the witness communicated with him. The prisoner was then remanded. EMPLOYMENT 01' THE P00R.,--A meeting was held yesterday in Willis's Rooms, for the purpose of taking into consideration the condition of the mechanics and operatives thrown ont of employment, and of devising some means of relieving their destitution by providing employment for them. Mr. F. Smedley, the high bailiff; presided. He explained the circumstances under which the meeting had been called, and stated that Lord Ashley, the Bishop of Norwich, and Lord Dudley Stuart had been prevented by other engagements from attend ing. Mr. C. Lushington, M.P., proposed the first reso lution, deploring the extent of destitution, and enforcing the necessity of measures for its alleviation, by charity or otherwib.e. Those artizans, he remarked, who were reduced to penury suffered from the depressing influences of our enormous and unequal taxation and our excessive national expenditure. The only measure by which the evil could be met wculd be some sweeping and general measure for the relief of the poor, joined to an imme diate and extensive reduction in taxation and expendi ture. The Rev. S. Jones seconded the resolution. Mr. A. 11. iloggins did not entirely agree with Mr. Lushing ton as to the relief of destitution being dependent upon financial reform. After some remarks by Mr. A. Camp bell and Mr. Kydd, the resolution was carried nem. con. Mr. C. Cochrane, in proposing onother resolution, ad verted to the employment of " street orderlies," and expressed his conviction that it would be better at once to attempt to alleviate misery by extending such a sys tem than to await the mere doubtful result of an at tempt at general reform. A ter a vote of thanks to the chairman the mooting sepsymted. THE DRAMA AT WINDSOR. The dramatic entertainments commanded by her Majesty, at Windsor Castle, proceed, as they com menced, with entire success. All the pieces repre sented—serious and comic—have gone off in a man ner which has called forth the distinctly expressed approbation of the Court—a circumstance which, while it cannot but be most gratifying to the actors engaged, forms also a very flattering tribute to the managerial zeal and tact of the director, Mr. Charles Kean. Proceeding upon the system of alternating light and amusing vaudeville with the classic chef crceuvres of the stage, the play represented last evening was Hamlet, Mr. Charles Kean, of course, taking the great part. The umal acting version of the tragedy was given, with, however, some excisions, partly prompted by a sense of the peculiar circumstances under which the representation took place—partly by the physical necessities of the little theatre in the Rubens-room. The ghost part was slightly shortened, and the whole of the gravediggers' scene was left out, as the very scanty space at the " wings" of the theatre rendered the introduction of the ceffin a matter of physical impossibility. The tragedy, therefore, proceeded, necessarily curtailed of its en tire proportions. The following is the bill, printed for the use of the Court : " Her Majesty's Servants will perform at Windsor, on Thursday, Jan. 11, 1849, Shakspere's tragedy of HAMLET. Claudius, King of Denmark ... Mr. Diddear. Hamlet, (son to the former and nephew to the present King) ... Mr. Charles Kean. / Polonius (Lord Chamberlain) ... Mr. W. Farren. Horatio (friend to Hamlet) . Mr. Howe. Laertes (son to P o l on i us) ... Mr. Leigh Murray Rosenerantz, Mr. Conway. Mr. Boyce. Osrick G uiid" (a st eini(courtiers) .. courtier) ... ... Mr. A. Wigan. Marcellus (an officer) ••• •• Mr. J. Howard. • Bernardo (an officer) -) . ... Mr. Clifford. Francisco (a soldier Mr. A. Brindal. , ••• •• Ghost of Hamlet's Father ••• Mr. Vandenhoff. First Actor ••• . Mr. G. Cooke. Second Actor ... •..... :: Mr. Clark. Gertrude (Queen of Denmark and mother of Hamlet) ... ... Mrs. Warner. Ophelia (daughter of Polonius) ... Mrs. Charles Kean, Actress ... ... ... ... Mrs. F. Saville. Scene—Elsinore. Director ... ... Mr. Charles Kean. Assistant Director ... Mr. George Ellis. The theatre arranged and the scenery painted by Mr. Thomas Grieve. The audience last night was larger than any which has yet assembled in the Rullens-room. Her Majesty and the Prince occupied their former places, and amidst the Court circle were placed Sir Robert Peel and the Earl of Carlisle. The tragedy was listened to with the deepest attention, Mr. Kean's studious and graceful interpretation of the character of Hamlet, and Mrs. Kean's exquisitely tender and touching Opbelia, frequently drawing down loud and warm expressions of approbation. At the fall of the curtain, a message from her Majesty, communicated by Colonel Phipps, announced the gratifying intelligence that the Royal party had been delighted by the performance. It was one in which deep interest was evidently felt, and the liveliest marks of satisfaction evinced, during its progress. COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, THURSDAY. Prince Albert enjoyed the sport of shooting this morning. His Royal Highness was accompanied by his Serene Highness Prince Lowenstein, the Mar quis of Douglas and Earl Fortescue, and was at tended by the Earl of Morley, Colonel the Hon. A. N. Hood, and Captain the Hon. A. Gordon. The Duke of Norfolk and the Ladies Mary and Adeliza Fitzalan Howard, are expected to arrive at the Castle this evening, on a visit to her Majesty and his Royal Highness. The royal dinner party at the Castle this evening will include her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, their Serene Highnesses the Princesses Amelia and Elise of Hohenlohe Schillingsfurst, his Serene High ness Prince Lowenstein, the Marquis and Mar chioness of Douglas, Lady Fanny Howard, Baroness de Speth, the Duke of Norfolk, and the Ladies Mary and Adeliza F. Howard, the Earl and Countess For tescue, the Earl of Carlisle, Lord James P. Murray, the Right Hon. Sir Robert and Lady Peel, and Sir James Clark. Her Majesty will afterwards have an evening party. The following had the honour of receiving invita tions :—The Countess of Mansfield and the Ladies Murray, the Dowager Lady Lyttelton, Hon. Miss Lyttelton, and Miss Carew, the Right Hon. IL and Mrs. Labouchere, General and Lady Isabella Wemyss, Miss Meynell, Mr. and the Hon. Mrs. G. E. Anson, the Hon. Mrs. C. B. Phipps and Miss Bathurst, Hon. Henry Ashley, Sir George and Lady Couper, Miss and Mr. Ramsay Couper, the Dean of Windsor and Lady Charlotte Neville Grenville and two Misses Neville Grenville, the Provost of Eton and the Hon. Mrs. Hodgson, the Rev. Dr. Hawtrey, the Rev. W. and Mrs. Canning, Colonel and Mrs. Challoner, Mr. and Mrs. Peter Wells, Mr. Glover, the commanding officer of the 2d Life Guards, and two officers of the 23 Life Guards, the commanding officer of the Coldstream Guards, and two officers of the Cold stream Guards. The Queen's private band attended on Wednesday evening in the Castle, and performed the following pieces : Overture--" Der Freischutz" . Weber. Trio in D minor ; allegro motto vivace ; andante ; scherzo • finale. Piano forte, violin, and violoncello (Madame Dulaen M. Saint on , an d H. Chipp) Mendelssohn. Marien Walzer . ..... Morceau pour le Clavecin—pianoforte (Madame Dulcken) Scarlatti. Triumphal March . . Ries A deputation, consisting of the Lord Mayor, Mr. Pattison, Wood, Mr. Deputy H arr i son, M r. J ohn D i xon, Mr. M.P., Mr. Masterman, M.P., M r . John T. B. Hall, Mr. R. Taylor, and the City Remem brances, had an interview with Lord John Russell yesterday, at his official residence in Downing-street. Mr. M. T. Baines had an interview with Sir George Grey yesterday, at the Home-office. COWES, ISLE OF WIGHT. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) COWES, JAN. 11. DESTRUCTION OF THE CASTLE AND BANNERS TA VERN, NEWPORT . — The above inn was destroyed by fire this dad•. The Newport engines were early on the spot, but as the wind was blowing a gale nothing could stop the flames; the chimneys alone remain. The fur niture was saved. THE NATIONAL PROVINCIAL BANK OF ENGLAND.— The branch of this establishment at Cowes, which has been opened about four years, was closed on Wednesday, there not bein g business enough to support i t . THE ISLE OF WIGHT QUARTER SESSIONS.—These sessions were opened on Tuesday, when the chairman, in addressing the grand jury, congratulated them on the lightness of the calendar, there being only eight pri soners for trial, and all of them on trifling charges—the value of the whole of the articles for which they were prosecuted not exceeding ten shillings. One bill was ignored, one prisoner acquitted, and the others sentenced to from one week to four months imprisonment. Arrived the barque Timondra, from Havannah, with sugar for orders, with loss of main and mizen-masts, and deck swept. She experienced a heavy gale of wind on Christmas morning, when about 1,000 miles to the west ward of Scilly, when a sea swept tive of the crew over board, but by the return sea they were providentially thrown on board again. The captain had his arm broken, and one of the apprentices his leg. Part of the cargo was thrown overboard. Had the ship not gotin side of the Wight last night it is more than probable she would be now a wreck on the coast of France, as the gale has set in from the N.N.W. THE LATE ACCID E NT AT FRESHWATER.—A public meeting of the inhabitants of Cowes was held at the Town-hall, on Monday last, to arrange the best means for relieving the two widows and their children. A donation of ten pounds was handed in by Mr. Moore, house-agent, being the gift of her Maje s ty th e Q ueen - Dowager. Her Majesty's charity is unb oun d e d ; an d i n this instance her noble example was followed in so liberal a manner, that great hopes are entertai ne d th at more permanent assistance wil l be render e d t h an t h e fam i l i es of the two unfortunate pilots could have expected. A highly-respectable committee was app o i n t e d, an d 601. was in a short time subscribed. An appeal has also been made through the Hampshire and the National Provincial banks in the neighbouring towns, for aid for the two widows and their fourteen orphans. TRURO ELECTION. CLOSE OF THE POLL. TRURO, WEDNESDAY, FOUR P.M.—The voting for a representative proceeded from ten o'cl oc k t hi s morn i ng with considerable spirit until towards noon, when it be came languid, but Mr. Willyams kept ahead. ELEVEN OCLOCK. For Mr. Willyams Mr. Smith ••• ••• TWELVE O'CLOCK. For Mr. Willyams Mr. Smith ••• ••• FOUR O'CLOCK. For Mr. Willyams Mr. Smith ••• 198 ... 179 -• ... 233 ... 217 ... 240 ... 224 Close of the poll—majority 16 for Mr. Willy-1;3-s. DEATH OF M. ANTHONY - BLAKE.—We regret to state that the Right. Hon. Anthony Richard Blake died on Wednesday at his residence in the Albany. Mr. Blake was one of the earliest Roman Catholics who was made a Privy Conncillor after the Emancipation Act. He was in the confidencri of the Marquis Wellesley when Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, and for many years held the important office of Chief Remembrancer of Ireland. Ile was in his 63d year. RECORDERSHIPOF PONTEFRACT.--Mr, B. Boothby' of the Northern Circuit, has received the appointment of Recorder of Pontefract, on the recommendation of the Right Hon. Sir George Grey. In the reign of Charles 11. no provincial town in the kingdom contained 30,000 inhabitants, and only four proviksial towns contained so many as 10,000. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC J OURNA LS. FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY. TIMES.—Nr. Cobden has given us one of his best speeches. It is superfluous to praise what everybody will read with pleasure, and with the agreeable convic tion that he is learning a good deal of truth in a very lucid form. We will not, therefore, repeat what we have often said before as to the masts ray way in which Mr. Cobden manages his subject when he is once mounted on the box with the reins in his hands. What we have to say refers rather to the matter than to the man. The seven years' agitation which Mr. Cobden, aided by the elements and Sir Robert Peel, brought to so triumphant an issue was against an Act of Parliament. It was rather a siege than a campaign. It all pointed to a vote once fur all in the Legiseature. The corn-laws having been repealed, the field•marshal laid down his baton. In the present instance it is not a statute, or a vote, but the mind of the nation that is to be changed. The British people are to be made not only peace able, but determined to prefer peace to glory, influ• once, and power; and they are also to learn the policy which will keep them out of quarrels; they are to be come humble and meek, disposed to put up with trifling affronts, and not quick to avenge an injured neighbour; they are to se!ezt and prefer the particular statesman likely to carry out their pacific intentions; they are to forego some other important considerations out of re gard to this special point. Such, and more, is the alte t ration to be effected in the national habits. A work of this extensive and ethical character is not to be accom plished by Ayes and Noes, and "La Belize le veut." It is a matter of time, and requires other agency than meetings and a league. We do not for a moment deny that Mr. Cobden appreciates the peculiar difficulties of his task. On the contrary, he has gone very largely into the question of national interventions, and the mischievous itch for meddling and mixing with our neighbours' affairs. He has also laboured very hard to give the subject that concentration which existed of itself in the last financial contest, by referring us to the particular votes which determine the number of our soldiers and sailors, and thus, as he says, govern all the other military and naval expenditure. With the muses in his favour Mr. Cobden prefers a pitched battle to a war of ma noeuvres or a guerilla campaign. So he sets about settling the day and the occasion on which he will force the enemy to give battle. " Let it be on the vote for the numerical strength of the army. We will fall back on 1335. Take the number which was then found sufficient. All the rest will follow." We admire the bold and aim pie strategy of this course, which is quite of a piece with Mr. Cobden's character; and if he succeed, we believe we have pointed out the secret of his success. But we must express a misgiving that the victory will not be perfect and final. It is easier to destroy than to construct—to rase a city to the ground than to reform its inhabitants. Let us suppose that Mr. Cobden makes such good use of his time between this and 1850 as to carry the budget of 1835. There will then be a great disbanding of regiments, reducing of complements, putting ships out of commission, and officers on half-pay, shutting up of dockyards, selling of stores, emigration of ship wrights, decay of Devonport and Portsmouth, remon strances of the United Service Gazette, dis affection at Cheltenham and Bath, and widely received prophecies of national ruin. In the midst of the general wreck there will be economical banquets in free-trade halls, a pacific tea party in our own Exeter-hull, and a testimonial to Mr. Robertson Gladstone, for want of a better. In the course of the ensuing twelvemonth, the Foreign Secretary of the day ; encouraged by numerous precedents of comparative immunity, interferes in the private arrangements of some King or Queen so far as not merely to get his Ambassador kicked out, or his Minister told by a gentleman from St. Petersburgh to mind what he is about, but goes a step further, or re ceives even more brusque or contemptuous treatment. In fine, let a shot be fired—let an Englishman be killed, by some despotic hand. Immediately the tire will break forth. In a few weeks or a few days there will be a collision ;—either a brilliant vic tory, or a stinging defeat. It cannot be forgotten how often a long war has been entered upon with a very short notice. In case of such an event, the people of this country will give themselves little concern about the rights of the question. They will at once decide to refuse amends or to demand reprisals, accordingly as we have acted on the aggressive or defensive. There will be war till we are tired out; and if so, we need not say that there will also be soldiers and sailors, to any num ber required, and at any expense. There are, however, the exciting as well as the predisposing causes to be taken into account. If there is such a magazine of passion in this country, as the experience of many ages would lead us to expect, the probability of war depends on the chance of provocation. On this we differ from Mr. Cobden Coto cal°. He says there is revolution in Europe, but not war. We reply that there have been two wars—the invasion of Schleswig-Holstein by the Prussians and their German allies, and the invasion of the Austrian empire by the King of Sardinia and his Italian allies. But there has also been a war of nationalities, not less contagious, between the Magyars and the Sclavonians, as well as between Naples and Sicily. Every one of these incidents has threatened what remains of the European settlements of 1814 and 1815, which one at least of the contracting parties professes itself bound to maintain. It will un doubtedly do so with a very good heart. Mr. Cobden views alt these events with a political bias, and ignores their tendency to disturb the tranquillity of Europe. We are sorry to say that we cannot trust either the as pect of Europe or the condition of France, or the good sense or good temper of our own people at home. In the abstract, of course, all people wish for peace; but they do nut pursue it with perseverance or preserve it with care. When Canning sent 5,000 men to establish a constitutional sovereign at Lisbon, when some thousand men and half a million of money were sent to Spain to back up Christina and her daughter against Don Carlos, when Codrington, to the annoyance and perplexity of his Government, destroyed the Turko-Egyptian fleet at Navarino, when a British fleet h overe d on the coast of Holland to compel its King to renounce half his kingdom, when Napier blew up Acre and transferred Syria from Mehemet Ali to the Turks, when Affghanistan was invaded and subsequently chas tised, the British public left the rights of the several questions alone, and indulged in all the pleasurable emotions of power and success which such feats were likely to inspire. It would be so again to-morrow. But what is still more important, even in cold blood the Bri title people are not so devoted to peace as to prepare for it beforehand. They choose their representatives and their Governments for other reasons; and when a Par liament is once assembled, and a Cabinet once installed, the question is taken out of the hands of the people. Mr. Cobden himself would not vote for a pacific Protec tionist to the exclusion of a bellicose Free-trader. Mr Bright would not vote for a warm Churchman known for his peaceful and economical inclinations, if the rival candidate was a Liberal Dissenter. In fact, the British people do not care for peace more than for any. thing else. They desire triumph and glory, commercial ascendancy, and undisputed possession, even more than peace ; and till Mr. Cobden effects a change in their natures, he must leave them the means of carrying on war. HERALD.—Mr. Cobden deserves infinite credit. His coolness is not to be surpassed. Free trade, as the thing is called, has proved a dead failure; prophecies of plenty have degenerated into the merest moonshine; employ ment has not been easier to find, and more profitable when secured; exports have by no means kept on a level with imports; the West Indian colonies rejoice in no thing but stagnation, idleness, and want; quartern loaves have not been procured for the asking; disaster, in fine, has accompanied every step taken in the direction re commended by the Member for the West Riding ; yet the Honourable Gentleman once more presents himself on the platform, takes off his great coat, and proceeds to harangue the discriminating multitude with all the audacity of success, and without thinking it in the slight est degree necessary to refer to his doings in the past, by way of securing confidence and respect for the future. Mr. Cobden is modest. He evidently wishes bygones to be bygones. He would rather talk et reducing our expenditure in the time to come than of the reduction which had taken place in our income in time past. He prefersapplause for his magnificent promises to groans for his miserable performances. It is far more agreeable to animate the hopes of an auditory than to confront its despair. Ho is aware of the national pride, and knowing how painful and humiliating it is to the best of us to retrace a false step, he is eternally for going on. Hence, whilst in 1846 he was for simply repealing the corn-laws, which he told us would amount to a national redemption from all anxiety and trouble, he is now for striking off at once, and without inquiry, say 10,000,000/. in our army and navy estiruetes, with the best disposition to go striking off more and more as often as it may be found necessary to push ahead in ender to prevent his victims from ever looking back. Mr. Cobden confessed as much on Wed nesday night.; He would never be quiet, he said, until he had got rid of this 10,000,0001. " Ile did not say he would stop there.—(Cheers.) That was the least they intended to do, and it was something worth the struggle; but he repeated he would not stop there."—(Cheers.) The more Mr. Cobden won't stop the more he is cheered. How significant is the applause! What a key it affords to the whole secret of the demagogue's influence and strength! The gentlemen who followed the Member for the West Riding " did not say they would stop there" either. Mr. Milner Gibson, for instance, is not content with cutting off the 10,000,0001. to begin with. Mr. Bright, with a very keen eye to the main chance—peculiar, perhaps, to his cloth—heartily approved of all the propositions of his friends, and in the form of a resolution ventured to introduce another of his own. We presume that Conservatives are too much occupied with their own internal feuds to give attention to the undisguised and daring designs of the common foe. If they had leisure and heart for vigorous and united ac tion, we might warn them of their danger, and rouse them to a sense of duty. Nothing can be clearer, from the language of these democrats and the whole tenor of their proceedings, that all their aims have merged into one, and that minor considerations have been lost sight of in the grand and fixed resolution to destroy the aris tocratic element that now exists in the country. The warfare is not of interest against interest, or of elms against class. It is the battle of Democracy against Aristocracy. Aristocracy is at a discount throughout Europe. Why should it exist for another hour in England ? The farmers need no warning from h u t s . We do not believe that they are to be eh c i rg y in Would that we could say as much for the party danger! Would that we could see som e ,n the disposition of the meet the wily and uscrupulous enemy osition to on are concerned, assailed ! As far as Cobden and 111 menreclaimed. Will the sword is unsheatLed, andrights r a i n s d p privileges of the the trupeople e guardians of et(liecroTservatives, who are the peopleenlightened the upholders of' the lawful guarantees of or th e e r, Queen on her throne as well as of claims to all—?f his cottage—suffer ignominious defeat the labourer In ? Will they leave the land to the mercy without a blow will they, by w •- iselegislation, d Democrats, or of hire and stea dy co-operati on in the work of right andjustic e , d give peace to the empire and security to its institutions? Parliament is about to re•opeu ; it may be worth while to consider these questions before the Ist of February arrivt s. LI)VERTISER.—The Manchester Financial Reform meeting eas held on Wednesday evening. It will be regarded hereafter as a great historical event. Whether for the numbers who attended, the enthusiasm mani fested, or the unanimity which characterised the pro ceedings, we make bold to say, that never, on any for mer occasion, did a meeting of her Majesty's subjects take place which could be at all compared to it. Such a demonstration from such a quarter, in favour of financial reform, was all that was wanting to give consistency and ( fleet to th e movement whic has been recently making in favour of retrenchment in the national ex penditure. The success of the new agitation is now a moral certainty. All doubts on that head have vanished. The fears of the Ministry, and those who feed and fatten on the public finances, are more than verified. The face of many a siuecurist will turn pale as he reads the report which appears in the papers of the proceedings at Man chester on Wednesday evening. There will be confusion worse confounded in those aristocratic families who have hitherto regarded the money wrung, by means of taxation, from the half-starving masses, as a legitimate subjcct for plunder. Mr. Cobden was present, and very appro priately took the lead. He was the lion of the evening. and his speech was the speech of the evening. It was one of the boldest, most straightforward, and most prac tical specches which the Hon. Gentleman ever delivered. It lasted an hour and a quarter, and was received throughout with an enthusiasm never surpassed in the annals of popular oratory. Thu speech of Mr. Cobden will obtain an extensive publicity by moans of the news paper press; but it must be printed in a separate and cheap form, and be circulated, in hundreds of thousands, throughout the length and breadth of the land. Mr. Cobden adheres to all the positions he advanced in his memorable letter. He does not retract a hair's-breadth. He even goes farther than he was then prepared to do. He now fixes on 10,000,000/., as the minimum amount of the reduction he proposes. That :um is not to be re garded as the full and final saving of the public money which he contemplates. He will accept of that amount in the first instance, and then look about him, and see what further reductions can be made in the national expenditure, without impairing the efficiency of the public service. Mr. Cobden assailed with terrible force the wanton extravagance which prevails in our military and naval establishments. Under these two heads ime mense savings may be effected. Will it be believed that while, in 1835, we only spent 11,000,0001. in the maire tenance of the army, navy, and ordnance, the cost is now upwards of 18,000,000/.? The people of these realms will scarcely know whether they ought to feel more sur prised or more indignant at this enormous addition to our military and naval expenditure ; and this, too, in a time of profound peace. If circumstances had unhap pily involved us in a war with France, or any other of the leading Powers of Europe, what, we ask our readers, must in that case have been the amount of our expendi ture for army, navy, and ordnance ? It Gould not have been less than from 20,000,0001. to 22,000,000/. to begin with. And supposing such a war to have lasted for some time, the amount must, before the close of 1850, have swelled to at least 25,000,000/. Mr. Cobden placed this great financial movement in a new light. He said, with much humour, but not with more humour than truth, that whereas, in the Anti-Corn-law movement, the League were regarded as the farmers' foes, they must now be considered the farmers' friends; for the object of the present agitation was to reduce the tax on malt, hops, butter, cheese, timber, paper, salt, and house windows. In all of these respects the farmers would be largely benefited. In some of them, the benefit would be almost exclusively theirs. In the matter of malt, for instance, they would be enormous gainers. The advantages they would derive from the remission of that tax would al most reconcile them to the repeal of the corn-laws. When, therefore, the agricultural part of our population, once clearly comprehend the nature and objects of the pre sent movement, it is but reasonable to infer, that they will rally round the standard of financial reform, and become the most trusty and faithful of the forces with whom to do battle with the aristocracy. The latter will thus have to fight against unequal odds. With both the manufacturing and the agricultural classes marshalled against them, what can they do, or what can they ex pect ? Their signal and speedy discomfiture must ap pear certain to themselves. Better, therefore, to give up the unequal contest at once. Mr. Cobden, in the con clusion of his speech, made a vow. He solemnly pledged himself that he will never give up the enterprise in which he has embarked until he has succeeded in com pelling Government to recur to the expenditure of 1835, —thus reducing the cost of our various establishments to the extent of 10,000,000/. " He would never cease the advocacy of this question till lie saw the cost of our armies reduced to 10,000,000!.; until he saw the expenditure of the country reduced to what it was in 1835, at least. He did not say he would stop there. That was the least they intended to do, and it was something worth the struggle; and he repeated he would not stop there; and he sincerely believed that, with the assistance of the people and the growing ten dency for peace throughout the world, they would not long continue to witness the horrid waste of 10,000,000/. on a fighting establishment in time of peace; but they would live to see the day when one-half of that sum would be considered enough; nor did ho think that time would be long in arriving." What Mr. Cobden says, he will do. What he under takes, he will perform. He enters into no enterprise rashly. He proceeds with caution. He comes to no conclusion without due previous deliberation. Ho has carefully counted the cost, and weighed the consequences, before unreservedly committing him self with the present movement. Ho is not the man to falter, or draw back. " Onward " will be his motto, until success crowns his efforts. His triumph will be quite as signal, and much more speedy, than that which he achieved in his conflict with the corn monopolists. The proceedings at the Man chester magnificent meeting acquire an additional value from the specific character of the resolution which Mr. Cobden moved and carried, amidst deafening acclamations, and without a dissentient voice, although it was computed that 8,000 persons were present. The resolution was this :—" That this meeting resolves to co-operate with the Liverpool Reform Association, and other bodies, in their efforts to reduce the public ex penditure to at least the standard of 1835, and to se cure a more equitable and economical system of taxa tion." This is no vague, general resolution. It is as definite as the most devoted admirer to the specific could d( sire. The meeting fairly and fully committed itself, nut merely to the principle of financial reform, but to the minimum extent to which that reform shall be carried. Manchester, the place in which the Anti-Corn law League had its origin, and where it started up at once into a giant's proportions—Manchester " goes' for a reduction of 10,000,000/. a year, at the least, in our public expenditure. The country will follow the exam ple of Manchester. From Land's-end to John O'Groat'a, the cry bill now be raised for national retrenchment to the tune of 10,000,000/. per annum. That cry, so uni versal and so loud as we know it will be, will make itself heard within the walls ofl'arliament. It will be heard, and in part, at least, responded to before the close of the approaching session. CHOLERA AMONG THE PAUPER CHILDREN AT TOOTING. The following are the official reports of the number of new cases which have occurred at the establishmen of Mr. Drouet, at Tooting, during tho day (}'ester day):— " Surrey Hall, Tooting, Jan. 11, 1849. " Number of fresh Cases presenting choleretic symp toms, 7; fresh cases of diarrhoea, 4; deaths, 7; under treatment, 103. 44 have been removed to eunTaletceut wards. " The greater number of cases under treatment are proceeding rapidly towards convalescence. In a. few cases symptoms of fever of a typhoid character have presented themselves. " No sanitary measures have been adopted to-day re specting the ditches or drains. Many think that by stirring up the mud from the bottom of them, would be the means of producing a great amount of stench, and of stirring up an amount of noxious material that would be very injurious, and likely to give rise to further in crease of disease. (signs:!) "W. J. KlTE,Resident Surgeon." ST. I'ANCRAS WORKHOUSE OFFICIAL REPORT.-IN CREASE OF CASES.—Tho following is the official report of Mr. Bird and Mr. Wilkinson, the surgeons appointed by the board of directors to attend the pauper children removed from Tooting to St. Pancras Workhouse, which shows an alarming increase, no less than 127 children out of the 200 removed having been attacked:— " To the Directors of the Poor of St. Pancras. " Temporary Hospital, St. Pancras Workhouse, Thursday, Jan. 11, 1849. " It is with regret that we have to report an increase, both in the number of cases of cholera and its severity, during last night, which we are inclined to attribute to the very great decrease of temperature, owing to the new plan of ventilation. " We have, therefore, felt it necessary to restore the wards to their original temperature, by stopping up the zinc perforations. "In closing this report we are sorry to add, that many of the cases are of a severe character, and promise speedily to go icto a state of collapse. under " Number of new cases, 40; convalescent, 11; _ treatment, 116; deaths, 7; still in a collapsed state, 5. „ (Signed) "H. BIRD, 1 Surgeons. " "c W . WiLraNSON e , d symptoms the of Mr. Bird adds, that he has ordered bak ed m utton and potatoes, with porter, to b© who is convalescent. He is premonitory only means of checking thee only to administer opium the disease is calomel, ps. " The disease differs from that p e g r i f v e e c n tly t° conv id owth-elns3tlll.2er,einarteheergtn:ra patients. perceived it only in t UNwil i o the Holborn Union, the follow ing r. Jack 1 absence of cram IVith respect to the state of the children li°LnfNho given belongingto s y t a l tal, Grry n ': ps, the u 1 1 111 ; 1 1 21 road; report evening Free h tly o • s p M i surgeon o eof diarrhoea among O n e new cas e . the girls has h we but not any amongst th e boys. taken p , All the old cases are doing well, and those who have Rot b.l i. een at tacked appear iu alma uetter health than when ad mitted. (Signed) " Taos. CARR JACKSON, Hoe urg eon. 4‘ Royal Free Il os p: ta l , Jan. 11,"1849,'8 S y.x." The children at the Ogle -street establishment, taken by the Strand Union, are reported to be in a favourable condition, Only two or three fresh cases of diarrheest having made their appearance. It is said that Mr. Pie ' rce Butler, despairing of success in his suit against his wife, has made a proposi tion for a compromise. The terms are understood to be, that the parties are to live apart; Mr. Butler to provide his wife a suitable allowance, and allow at least one of the ctiildrea to live with her.-46.20.2n Evening Transcript. OUR GREAT FINANCIAL it] FORMERS. (From the Weekly Dispatch.) Mr. Editor,—lt is with the greatest pleasure that have seen Mr. Macgregor, the Member for Glasgow, tering upon the task of financial reform. It is true tl his budget differs from Mr. Cobden's, and I am anxious as any one can be that the public attenti shall be fixed upon one plan, and that all the energ of the people shall be bent to carry it. Our enemi motto will be " Divide a n d conquer. " But Ido i fear but that upon a clear c ons id eration of the t• perfectly to harmoni ; a l d et e ter to the t as k o f s i lo s p a ro d po l si ing where they absolutely agree, and h ow , w i th a vc t t h io tbre s fo t r h e ey de m v a o y te b t e hi m s little conciliation, the agreement may be made pc feet. One thing is quite clear from the careful perusal both, that each of our most able friends would do all t: other suggests, if it were, in his own opinion, feasibl, that there would, therefore, be no compromise of pri ciple whatever in either, should he contend for all th his coadjutor proposes, that each sees the same goc and finally the same amount of good, is prospect, a that the eliflereuce is simply in the means to attain it• in the amount which can be attained now, and in the pc tion that is to be worked for first. Every earnest effc ought to be made to ensure the full benefit of Mr. Ma gregor's services to the public cause. Let it be remei bored that he has been a Radical free-trade suggest to the Conservative Peel Government, that every at which Sir Robert has taken in the right road has bel prepared by the labour of love expended upon it 1 our faithful, old, bnt almost unrecognized ally, that / convincing digest, intended only for perusal by a fi officials, which found its way into the public pre. heralded, as I predicted it would before the reform to place, the greatest changes which Sir Robert P. made in the tariff, with the one exception of the COI law repeal. That paper contained the soundest al most uncompromising doctrines, the ablest and bold. propositions, such as have not yet been fully carried 01 Let us congratulate ourselves that, having done so mu( to convert our then opponents, and to make them our fe and useful friends, Mr. Macgregor has now , at the ve. effectual period, thrown off all tr amme l s of office, .p himself into the ranks of the popular party, and foe, the vast benefit of his official experience, trained jud, ment, clear observation, and unequalled classification statistics to the avowed service of the people. Mr. Cobden proposes to go back to the expenditure 1835. I think he does so wisely. But the very wise scheme must be founded on the supposition that it w be wisely carried out. Mr. Cobden's proposal SU poses peace, non-interference, real honest economy, ti conscientious saving a prudent man would make in h own concerns. I am not at all disposed to trust t] Whigs with the working of this budget. Aristocn of any party cannot work economical reform; th. divide mankind into two classes —gentry who cane exist upon less than genteel stipends, and works who ought to be happy on 9s. a week. The id , runs throughout their system —Bishops with the thousands, Curates with their tens Colonels wi their pay and tailors' cabbage, privates wit] out the decencies of life. Ono of each of tl inferior classes is, now and then, moved into the super' one, for the name of the thing; but there are essential two peoples, nobles and serfs, and the savings whit might be made from the superfluously paid will be ke up to keep them abreast of their class. The poverty Great Britain is ceased by having to maintain the fines of gentility in its servants. The Dorsetshire peasant at the Spitalfields weaver must pay for their protectio justice, and police, on the scale of lords, because the pr. lessors of these Government trades are of the lord class themselves. Therefore, Sir, cut the Whigs down L ten millions, and if they see that they can get no bett. bargain, they will take it, because above all they will kec office: they would do that if their own salaries were, tl only things voted; but they will take care that the econ. my shall fail. They will strip dockyards, sell stores, redut necessary force, run up debt and increased expense f the future, but not take a bit of gold lace from a tawcb uniform, or subtract a supernumerary Lord-in-Waitin from a !court pageant. They will not go to their Wen with a will. Like the Prince President of the Frenc Republic, who holds his levees in the gardens of the Pi leis Bourbon, to show how much he requires the use 1 the Tuileries, and chooses to forget that a Republica President needs no such farces at all, they will make parade of insufficiency, instead of an effort at good pr( riding. Democratic economy will be found to requir a democratic Ministry. Else our plan will be disgrace and betrayed, by being confided to those who hate i and who aro only anxious to supersede it, and get to the plunder of the old extravagance. Else, if we can depose the many-headed dynasty the Whigs—that self-marrying family which rules a with the curses of many hungry monarchs—l do nc see that Mr. Macgregor might not easily approach M Cobden's measure of expenditure. Mr. Cobden's nay: estimate exceeds Mr. Macgregor's by 200,0001 ; the mai diff'erence is in the army and the ordnance. Mr. Cot. den, on the estimate of 1835, gives us 4,039,429/. for a army, 1,151,914/. for the ordnance. Mr. Macgregor talc. 6,000,0001. for the army, 1,750,0004 for the ordnana Here, indeed, is a difference of two and a-ha] millions. But, besides the question how far th colonies may be made to pay for their own defence, on , great point in politica is perfectly clear, which fac ought to set the matter at rest. France is disarming. 1 any trickery or treachery of the Thiers and Mole schoo should baffle the reductions in the army, which Cavaigna. and Lamoriciere will frankly work for, it is beyond at dispute that the French navy cannot be hostilely in creased. The revenue will not do it. I put out of con sideration the intelligence and friendship for England o the right-minded French people, their perception of tht necessity and humanity of peace. I will suppose th intriguers to be able to overbear such sense with an) insane war-cry which a mere mob could echo. Witl our fleet reasonably, naturally superior, according to th( extent of our colonies and seaboard, we have no need t. fear war. What old woman dreads it from any other quar ter? What panic-monger manufactures the fear elsewhere: Which of the Free States would not look to Englant with love and hope, if our conduct permitted such asser tion? Which of the despots will dare to utter a breath against us when we could reply with a blast that should annihilate him? But to be thus strong we must be De mocratic. A Democracy is always powerful, and always feared. We must have a Democratic Ministry to corn. bine and wield this irresistible power. We should then be as safe from any dream of aggression as the United States of America. Even under a limb of our many jointed Oligarchy, a navy, honestly worth the 6,200,000 E proposed, would keep us quite secure, though neither perhaps feared nor respected, Settle this question of expenditure as the nation has right to expect it to be settled, in the most rigorous spirit of saving, and Mr. Cobden and Mr. Macgregor's plans may soon be made one. Both would reduce the duty on tea to ls. per pound ; both would abolish the duty on hops, paper, soap. Both would relieve us from the tax on health and light—on our cheerfulness, on our ca pacity for work—from the accursed window duty. Both would make the Crown lands available for something better than dishonest jobbery. Both would adjust the legacy and probate duties to real as well as personal pro perty. Both would repeal the timber duties altogether. All duties on butter, cheese, and other provisions, and on all raw material, are eschewed by both reformers. Mr. Cobden would get rid of 100 articles subject to Customs; Mr. Macgregor of all but eight—viz., tobacco, sugar, spirits, wines, spices, fruits, tea at ls. per lb. (also Mr. Cobden's plan), and manufactured silk. Mr. Macgregor would, besides, repeal the taxes on bricks, hackney and stage carriages, post-horses, post-horse licenses; he would get rid of those hindrances to provident foresight, the burthens on marine and fire insurances; he would abolish the assessed taxes on dogs, servants, horses, car• riages, horse-dealers, hair powder, armorial bearings, and he would get rid of the famous Whig blunder, the 10 per cent. additional. Mr. Cobden, on the other hand, would abolish the advertisement duty, and (which is the main difference in this part of the budget) the malt duty. Indeed iu this and one other feature ate all the remaining essential differences. While Mr. Cobden would hereafter justly apportion the scale of income-tax to fixed and uncertain incomes, Mr. Mac: gregor, aware of the difficulties of detail, but determined to do something e ff ec t ua l an d at once , wo uld cuten2e. the Gordian knot ; he would i mme di a t e ly turn the income tax r tax of three per cent. into a p ro p e rty-tax of five cent., and raise th e r e by 11,000,000/. of 5,600,000/. Thi s h e wou ld i m p o se on all rea lised plpro perty, much or little, not maiming the gro wing ant, fruit. 1 but insisting upon a f a ir share of ripenedthe. cannot but believe that this bold andsimple device must win all Mr. Cobden's sympathyit is so masterly, is looks like his own. hues visibly approach. and the two p Mr. C bd ' Agreed upon this, not prevent o Ell 8 eco- This substitution need then his removal of the malt millions, and rf tl norny of ten ent duty are perfectly secures st tax and the advertisiesmera his proposed proof. few plain figures 1 1 all his proposed remis- Mr , Macgregor, wit iv©s us a revenue •t a xation, glve- sub stituting sions of t -tax at 5 per cent. for Pr°P er Y income-tax a , 3, and putting p r ob ate and real as well as p ersonal l e gacy f propertY , •• • s• • •.. £52,000,000 Mr" e c bden's proposed exp en di ture, accord- ...______. (0 t h e scale of 1835, amounts to ••• 40,171,096 Add to this for difference between gross and net tio income, includi ng charges of collec n ... R s,ooo,oooepeal of malt-tax ... . Repeal of advertisement duty proposed ... by a M M • ,in ddition to r. ac gregor's li s t o f repeals - ... 4,500,000 160,000 11:A thus Total outlay £49 831 096 you have less than fifty millions of expendi ture, with an income of fifty- two, allowing a margin of two millions, besides such reductions as might have been made in 1835, and were not made, for all that may be really necessary iu expense, above the scale of 1635, and with every amelioration of burthens suggested by our two most eminent Reformers. Let my readers just turn back to the list and see what they would gain. The people of Eegland cannot afford that two such men should differ even in appearance. We must not give our enemies that comfort. The enthusiastic, single winded, eloquent, acute leader of corn-law repeal, and the silent, learned, practical, experienced prompter of many reforms, must present one plan to the House of Commons, either as a complete whole, or in inexpedient parts, with the implicit faith of the whole people to back it. Two such champions need fear no opposition. The Times may affect fright, and deprecate the enormous change. It an immense is ase the revolution one; g less suffice, would need, an d or even is b a o felt. l should exact. Let me conjure these two great states. men to agree, as they so readily may, and confer a double benefit on their country. Nothing is too much to expect from their patriotism in the way of effort, or from their wisdom in point of success. CAUSTIC. Salisbury has STlYscribed 2,000-77 G" the purpose of h av i, g t h e pe=t agricultural show hold Nisi city.