The Sun. — London, England, 1842-02-07 00:00:00

Just ready, in 3 vols. post Sao., ARAHKA P L A N; Or, THE KOORDISH CHIEF. A ROMANCE of PERSIA and KOORDISTAN. By the Hon. CHARLES STUART SAVILLE. Richard Bentley, New Burlington -street. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. THIS EVENING, FEB. 7, Her Majesty's Servants will perform the Play of THE MERCHANT OF VENICE, from the Text of Shakspeare. Duke, Mr. G. Bennett; Antonio, Mr. Phelps; Bassanio, Mr. Anderson; Lorenzo, Mr. Elton ; Shylock, Mr. Macready ; Portia, Mrs. Warner ; Nerissa, Mrs. Keeley ; Jessica, Miss E. Phillips. After which will be repeated the New Farce, entitled THE WINDMILL—The Marquis de Roueville, Mr. Morris Bar nett ; Sampson Low, Mr. Keeley i • Marian, Mrs Keeley. To conclude with th e G ran d Co mic Christmas Pantomime, ailed HARLEQUIN AND DUKE HUMPHRF.Y'S DIN NER ; OR, JACK CADE, THE LORD OF LONDON STONE. Doors tc be opened at Half. past Six, and the Performance to begin rt Seven o'clock. Boxes 55., Second Price, 2e. 6d. Pit 35., Second Price 2.5. Lower Gallery Is. 6d., Second Pr.ce Is. Upper Gallery Is., Second Price 6d. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN. UNDER the MANAGEMENT of MADAME VESTRIS. THIS EVENING, FEB : 7, Will be produced a New Comedy, entitled THE IRISH HEIRESS.—Lord William Daventry, Mr. W. Farren ; Sir William Stanmore, Mr. G. Vandenhoff; Mr. Percy Ardent, Mr. Charles Mathews ; Major Fuss, Mr. Harley ; Mr. Supple, Mr. Cooper; Lady William Daventry, Mrs. Nisbett; the Hon. Mrs. Bolton Comfort, Mrs. Orger ; Miss Manion, Madame Vestris. After - which will be repeated the New Grand Christmas Pantomime, entitled GUY EARL OF WARWICK ; OR, 'IARLEQUIN AND THE DUN COW. Doors to to opened at half-past Six—the performances to commence at Seven . Dress Boxes, 7 s . ; S econ d P r i ce, 3s. 6d.; First and Second Circles, ss. ; Second Price, 2s. 6d. ; Pit, 35.; Second Price. 21.; Gallery, Is. Tickets and places for the Boxes to be taken of Mr. Grogan at the Box-office: from Ten till Four, where Season Tickets may be had upon application. Private Boxes to be had solely of Mr. Andre ars, bookseller, I'7. New Bond -street. MORNING SUN To-morrow, Elena Überti, with the Pantomime. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Extraordinary attraction. Wonderful success of " Norma." Last week of " Elizabeth Lazarus." Continuation of the most popular, eccentrically grand Pantomime ever produced. THIS EVENING. FEB. 7 Will be acted Haines' wonderfully successful Drama, enti tled ELIZABETH LAZARUS, THE JEWESS, founded on Captain Glasscock's " Land Sharks and Sea Gulls." After which, MRS. NORMA, with Bellini's Music.—Nor. ma, Signor Nevilli ; Agelgisa, Signor Waltoni ; Pollio, Sig nora Martini. To conclude with a Grand Christmas Pantomime, entitled HARLEQUIN AND THE ICE QUEEN; OR, JACK FROST AND KING THAW —With gorgeous and charac teristic Scentry, splendid Properties, ludicrous and Quaint Dresses, ingenious Tricks, magnificent Panorama by Brun ning, &c. Harlequin, M. Huline ; Patch, M. Rochet ; Pan taloon, M. Lehman ; Flip, Signor Feliz Carlo ; Clown, Mr. ; 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. To-morrow the Theatro will be awed, on account of the Funeral of Mr. Davidge. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. UNDER THE DIRECTION OF MR. OSBALDISTON. Extraordinary success of this now unrivalled popular Thea're. Second week of the Grand Romance of " Ivanhoe," with ita Combat of Twelve, Conflagrations, and startling effects. THIS EVENING, FEB. 7, Will be performed, a New Domestic Drama, in Three Acts, entitled THE STORY OF GERALDINE ; OR, THE TWIN ORPHANS OF ST. PRE.—Henri, Mr. E. F. Sa ; Huntingdon, Mr. Dale ; Claud, Mr. Seaman ; Jemmy Cottle. Mr. Gardner ; Davy, Mr. Paul; Geraldine, Miss Vin :lent, the acknowledged Heroine of Domestic Drama. After which, THE WILD IRISH GlRL.—Shelah O'May, Miss Vincent, in which she will &nee her celebrated Donny brook Rant, and sing several humourous chaunts, and a new Medley Epilogue To conclude with the Grand Romance of IVANHOE.— IvanlaPe, Mr. E. F. Saville ; Isaac, Mr. Dale ; the Black knight, Mr. Seaman ; Wamba, Mr. Gardner ; Rebecca, Mrs. Lee. BOIPS, 2s.—Pit, ls.— Gallery, 6d.—Half-price to the Boxes only, at. Half-put Eight. THE VERY LATEST PARLIAMENTARY NEWS WILL DE GIVEN AS USUAL IN THE SECOND, THIRD, AND EXPRESS EDITIONS, OF THE EVENING SUN. 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Sun Office, Feb. 4, 1842. A FULL REPORT o~ SIR R. PEEL'S SPEECH ON TUE CORN LAWS, WILL BE GIVEN IN " - P 441-1 E SUN" OF WEDNESDAY EVENING. WHICE. MAY BE RECEIVED ALL OVER THE - itTNGDoM BY THAT NIGHT'S POST. Orders to be addressed to 112, Strand. THE WEATHER.—Noom, FEBRUARY 5. ROYAL GALLERY OP SCIENCE, ADELAIDE-STREET. Thermometer... 32 Highest 33 Lowest 29 Barometer 29.93.—Wind E.—Freezing Point 2 Deg. 111011 WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY. Morning ..... 0 minutes after 0 I Evening 13 minutes after O. '‘` ' • , Approk vm lags . o ,411 00 : 4: t;t4.4.111 , fti o e. +I S A' 13 • . . It LONDON • MONDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1842. Th e Morning Post of Saturday, repeating some of its observations of a previous d ay, The Government had ascertai ned y t e h a :: s l i t a t — , t a ki ng the home e ce the corn the average of any seven or ten meneement of the present century, not been found sufficie nt. And W e understandSnaat supply has fol lowing the decennial ce nsus, it a ppears that the ppl su actually obtained from abr oad has augmented ' gradually with the increase of the British population. The GO yernment, from the facts before it, not only admits the possibility of an inadequate home supply, which th e sliding scale always recognised, but assumes it as a strong probability to which the policy of the country ought to be adapted. the Proper question is, what policy ? Some- will argue that. - policy would be" additional encouragement of agritult P : r will . r e e „ ,4 t as to increase the home supply. Others the country - . has goner .as far in this way as it ought to now to obtai rtd . -that.the..proper object of attention beneficial, su i tthay.? .thcicastdidwraras and the mot pp on abroad which is necessary to be but the supply of last, added to the present home supply ; meaning by the present supply not that of this year or the the last ten years, inchiding years of grea t argument of the Government. well as of scarcity. This latter we understand to be the , pretending to speak from autho rity, oueJnr informs nal us that the Government is to make the supply of corn, imported from abroad during the last ten years, the rule of its policyi n procuring the future supply, necessary to be added to our home production, on the most ad vantageous terms. Let us at once, therefore, re mind ourreaders,and remind the Government, that a foreign supply of somewhere about one million quarters of wheat per year, on an average of the last ten years, has been required, and has been obtained, under the present Corn-law, when prices have ruled as high as 88s., and fallen as low as 365. It has been obtained, in spite of a sys tem which has almost excluded the flour of the United States from our markets, and has been obtained at an enormous expense of life and property. It has been proved over and over again that during the thirteen years the Corn-laws have been in existence, no inconsiderable number of the people has been starved to death, and great numbers have been prevented from coming into existence. At the same time, we have been obliged to give invariably a much higher price for the corn we have purchased in the foreign markets, than we should have had to give under a different system. To what extent prices would have varied, how low they would permanently have fallen, and to what extent our supplies from abroad would have augmented, had the corn trade been perfectly free, or had corn been sub ject to a small fixed duty on being imported, the facts of the last ten years are no index whatever. To what extent, also, our population would have increased had their command of food not been restricted by the law, it is impossible for any man to tell. If we were to suppose that with a free trade the population would have doubled con tinually in less than thirty years, and that we might, in some shape or other, have gradually imported raw corn and condensed food, till we had reached, by 1841, to an amount equi valent to fifteen or twenty millions of quarters of wheat, we should possibly not exag gerate. But it has pleased the ALMIGHTY to suffer us to be visited in these years with a Corn law plague, and no man can tell to what a height prosperity would have reached here and in other countries had that plague been annihilated. According to the Post, however, these possible facts are not to be taken into consideration, and the facts which have grown up or been called into existence by the operation of the present Corn-laws, are to be made exclusively the basis of the new policy. Whatever that may be, it is to be founded on the consequences of the old law. Sir ROBERT PEEL and his statistical ad visers, will not go beyond that for their data to frame the new law. The old vice, if we may so speak, is to lay down the rule for the new virtue. Under some other guise, some mockery of an alteration, the old system is, by its consequences, to be entailed on the country in a new form ; and its oppo nents, who have been fighting so manfully against it, unless they are on their guard, will be entrapped by this delusive mode of going to work, into giving their sanction to the old law in a new dress. The facts of the last ten years are not to be re jected as elements of our judgment, but they are not exclusively to be relied on, and, in truth, arc of little value unless they are compared with the facts which would, we believe, have been called into existence had there been no Corn-law. We know, for example, that population, under fa vourable circumstances, doubles itself in twenty three years; we know, too, for it is a continua l subject of complaint, that the productive me.. chanical povier of Great Britain is boundless ; we are certain, therefore, that had there been no Corn-law, the produce of our machi nery would have commanded food of one kind. .or-another froM all parts of the world; and:We - CertainAat the trade and population of ~ Great Britain would have been greatly increased.' If we now, therefore, consent to a law, based— not on the possible progress of the Last ten or twenty years—but on the actual progress, made under the Corn-law, shall we not be stinting and regulating the future by the injustice of the past? Shall we not wilfully, suicidally, and in opposition to our own better knowledge, cut down the national progress of the next ten years to the slow progress, full of misery, of the last ten years? If the measure of the Government be founded, as.the Post says, on the necessity of obtaining in future such a supply as we have al ready obtained, it will neither satisfy the justice of the case nor arrest that decay which some Noble Lords, who spoke on Thursday, even seemed to think could not be averted. When a new law is to be framed on statistical documents, such as have been ordered to be laid be fore the House, the fact must immediately suggest itself to every man that the law of 1815, and the law of 1828, were both framed on similar docu ments. On both occasions Committees sat, made long investigations, gathered returns of prices and quantities sold and produced abroad and at home ; agents were sent out, and witnesses brought to town, and every expedient that art could suggest, was had recourse to, in order to obtain the best information. The men who made the laws were animated, we are continually assured, by the highest and holiest motives, and the results of their scrupulous honesty and great exertions to obtain information, were two laws; the first of which was condemned as valueless in 1827, and the second of which, passed in 1828,. is now - condemned in 1842 by own ad vocates. When such disgraceful failures, at tended in both cases with the most lamentable consequences to the, community, have occurred within our own recollection ---whe n the very men who are now to tinker up the last abordon were the authors of4he failurewhen PEEL and WEL, LINOTON, as now, were members of the Govern ments which passed the Act of 1815, and the Ac of 1828, we do think, and we must assert, tha they ought to be extremely cautious in wha they do, and the people ought to be extremely slow in placing confidence in them. Common sense and science alike declare, that the State ought not to tamper with the food of the people. Their observations are fully confirmed by expe rience; and the only object which the Legisla ture ought now to aim at, is to abolish, with the least possible damage to all parties, all the laws Which interfere with the supply of the markets. The regular Tory Journals, and that more dis graced class of Journals, which, professing a semi- Liberatism are the toadies of the Tories, are full of exultation at the activity and vigour of the Ministry. "but cast our readers," says one of the former class, _ cast their eyes over the documents moved for, and the notices of motion already given, and they will find ample evidence already of the untiring industry with which the recess has been improved, and public business matured for the early deliberation of the collective wisdom of the empire.' " The active appearance," says one of the worst of the latter class, "which Ministers gave to the session at its opening, was kept up last night in the House of Com mons, by the introduction at an unexpected early stage of two practicalweasures." " The language of Sir Robert Peel is that of a man who is clearing the ground for action, determined to ef fect those improvements of regulation and application which were equally h o p e l ess before." " The veriest parti san must see that the good public cause is advanced. The men of business are in a better state to do business ; mere party quarrels have given place to the real ques tions and difficulties of the day, and, for the first time these ter years, they are brought under actual consideration." Taking no notice of the monstrous injustice of gassing over the new Poor-law, the Commuta tion of Tithe Acts, the Municipal Reforms, both of England and Ireland, the Penny Postage, Scc., as not the real questions and difficulties of the day, which this writer so scandalously forgets in order to praise the Tories, we wish to call attention merely to the diligence which is ascribed to the Ministry by these Tory writers. The Devil is said to be busy when a tempest rages, and the, diligence of the Tories may he something_ like that of his Satanic Majesty. What portion of the people lave asked Lord STANLEY to meddle with the Passengers' Act, his Bill for . reforming which is called a practical measure ? 1 From what has transpired, we believe that it is mainly dictated by a wish, the impurity of which we need not further notice, to people the Mauri tius and some other colonies with a new race of slaves. Who, too, has asked Lord STANLEY to meddle with the land of the colonies by Act of Parliament? We believe nobody. The man is smitten in fact by the largest and the most foolish ambition that ever found its way into a human heart—the ambition of apportioning capital and labour to the soil of the globe; and he is active in carrying out that foolish ambition. A more meddling, mischievous statesman than Lord STANLEY, never cursed any country, and we de precate his practical measures and his activity as full of mischief. His Passengers Act will be injurious to our shipping, and his plan for selling land will give the United States an additional advantage over Australia. What, too, does Sir ROBERT PEEL'S determi nation amount to? To this, merely, that he will, after having broken up the Whig Government, and staved off reform and the Corn-laws, and relief for distress, for eight months, now adopt some modification of the Corn-laws like that re commended by the Whigs. He used his in fluence and power when out of office to prevent reform, and his mischievous success is actually set down as a fault of the Whigs. By pre venting every reduction in the Sugar-duties, and every alteration in the Corn-laws, he and his friends inflicted great calamities on the country, and that he is now determined to act as he would not allow the Whigs to act, stamps his former conduct as factious, and stamps him a man who sacrifices the welfare of the country to gratify his own ambition. We laugh too at the writer who ascribes determina tion to the avowed tool of the Monopolists, who is at the same time so timid that he yields to the pressure of the anti-monopolists. We have no great love for the Whigs, but more scanda lous injustice than the Journal we have quoted has been guilty of towards the Whigs we have not of late seen. A great many petitions, already numerously signed, for the total repeal of the Corn-laws, are preparing, we observe, in a number of places. The petitioners, however, should re member, that Sir ROBERT PEEL has fixed the day after to-morrow to bring forward the subject, and consequently the petitions cannot be too soon forwarded. They ought, therefore, to lose no time in strengthening the hands of their friends in the House of Commons, by hundreds and thousands of signatures fur the repeal of the Corn-laws. ' We look on it as a fortunate coincidence that , the Anti-Corn-law Conference assembles to morrow. It will be enabled to take charge of all petitions, and enforce the wrongs of the peo ple on the attention of Members of both Houses. The Deputies from all quarters must bring with them a great mass of information as to their particular districts, which they may make of great use by imparting it to Members of Parliament, and to the people of London. The latter are in general, we believe, ignorant of the sad condition of the manufacturing districts, or it would be impossible for them to exhibit so much indifference, not to say apathy, on this vital ques tion. If the deputies were to employ themselves while in town in meeting the inhabitants of various districts of the metropolis, and informing them, by lectures or in conversation, of the actual condi tion of the people in the distant places, they would strengthen their cause by all the generous sympathies of man's nature. The people of Lon don are not aware of the intensity of the distress, and, from ignorance, do not make the exertions expected and required of them. We made allusion, in the course of last week, to a Bill submitted to the Spanish Cortes by the Minister of Grace and Justice, M. GONZALES, on the subject of the Spanish Church, which we stated was likely to create a great sensation in the Roman Catholic world. A Weekly Contem porary, the Tablet, usually well informed upon such matters, will not suffer us to suppose our. selves mistaken as to the religious commotion created by the anti-Papal proceedings of the Spanish Cabinet. So eager is the Tablet to pro cure manifestations of sympathy with the cause of the Papacy, that it calls upon the Irish Mem bers of the House of Commons to record their hostility to, and horror of; the conduct of Es- PARTERO and his colleagues. This is very foolish, and very absurd. The Irish Members of the House of Commons have enough to do at home, without troubling themselves with the affairs of the Spanish Church ; and, even had they an over-abundance of time for such pursuits, we fear they would hardly convince the Spanish Legislature of their superior competence for assuming the discharge of so very uncalled-for a task. A nation of Roman Catholics, upon whom the threats of the Sovereign PONTIFF can make no impression, would hear with laughter or con tempt the fulminations of even so great a man as the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor of Dublin, with his train borne up by the whole Repeal Asso ciation. We had better let the Spanish people alone. Whether they choose to have little Church or much Church, is entirely their own affair. The POPE was the first to attack them; the priests were the worst tools of the monster FER DINAND ; and CARLOS' seven years' war against the Constitution, would not have lasted as many weeks, but for the ecclesiastics of the kingdom, who assisted him with their wealth and influence, at the instigation of the Holy See. But the brave Spaniards proved more than a match for the POPE and the PRETENDER; and now an outcry is raised, because they strip the PONTIFF of the means of fomenting fresh rebellions in the land! They would be simpletons, indeed, were they to leave power in hands which have so cruelly wielded it to their detriment. A numerous meeting was held in Sunderland, on Friday, the 28th ult., to make arrangements for the erection of a monument to the late Earl of DURHAM, when it was unanimously resolved that the proposed testimonial be of an architec tural character, and be erected on Painshaw Hill, on the Durham estate, and in the immediate vicinity of the family mansion. About 3,0001. have already been subscribed, and, as the lists will he kept open for-some time, many additional sums are tipected. To no - statesman of the pre sent time do .Reformers owe a greater debt of gratitude tinw.to JOHN GEORGE LAMEITON, who drew up the second great 'Charter of English liberty ) afterwards so cruelly mangled in Com mittees ,of the Houses of Parliament. Had the Reform Bill which he produced become the law of the land, the people of the United Kingdom would have been exempted from the mischievous consequences of the Chandos clause, and fifty others, which have now restored the Tories to power. His labours in Canada, too, deserve the highest praise, because they paved the way tbr the calm and contentment which now reign in that formerly distracted colony. The exertion he made to satisfy all parties greatly impaired his constitution, and the ingra titude with which his well•arranged plans were received by his political foes, and also by some of his political friends, broke down a constitution not naturally strong. It is altogether a melan choly tale, and his countrymen have justly tes tified their sympathy for his untimely end, by paying even this vain tribute, the only one in their power, to his departed merit. Mr. WALLACE'S motion to vindicate and assert the right of Members, in the people's House of Parliamew, to address the House on the presentation of the peti tions of the people, will come on upon Monday ; and it is highly important to have this right restored. The practice is sanctioned, we believe, by the earliest and past times of freedom of speech, which privilege is cautiously guarded by every Speaker of the House of Commons, when called upon to attend the Crown, on each succeed ing Speech from the MoNaacit at the opening of every &ssion of Parliament. The right, then, is clear, and the whole question is involved in the expediency or inexpediency, as regards the personal convenience and comfort of Members, of exercising the right, or compromising it, with a view to expedite public business generally. No one can, in these SUN, lON, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 184`z. og BR PA p rvi 1,14 kaTa ea .44 g L:t vi* AND I%WU eiPtlitOn• " Who runs may read." • PORI:11CM, The Constitutionne?publishes a report, to which we at tach no credit, that the Convention between France and the Great Powers relative to the suppression of the slave trade and the right of search was ratified several days before the debate on the Address. - The same Journal states that the French Cabinet has settled the basis of the Belgian commercial treaty, and that its conclusion may be shortly expected. A letter frOfn Valencia, in the Debuts, states that the Bishop of Calahorra has arrived • there on his way to Majorca, where he is to reside in exile from his diocese for four years, by order of Espartero's Government, for haVing protested against the confiscation of his episcopal property. The Bishops of Pampeluna, La Seu d'Urgel, and Palentia, with the Archbishops of Seville, Saragossa, and Cordova, have been removed from their dioceses for similar reasons. A strange scene took place in the French Chamber of Deputies on Thursday. M. Dussolier, a deputy, ad dressed a letter to the President, stating that hiving as certained that h e was i n error i n attr i buting a case of departmental bribery to the Government in the debate on the address, which had provoked an angry discussion, he considered it due to his conscience and the Ministry to resign his seat. The Chamber opposed this, but sub sequently agreed to refer the letter, and the feeling pro duced by it, to the Minister of the Interior. The Presse gives the following ugly account of M. Isambert's acquaintance with the contents of a letter ad dressed to the Minister of Justice, which made such a noise during the debate:—" M. Isambert was at the Mi nistry of Justice, talking with his cousin, who is Secre tary-General of that department. The latter was called out of the room for a moment to speak to the Minister, and during his absence M. Isambert took up the private communication in question and read it." A Constantinople letter of the 12th ult., in the Augs kargh Gazette, says that the Baron de Bourqueney had presented a note to the Porte on the affair of Tunis, and had shown that the effect of a Turkish expedition against the Bey of that pla ce wou ld b e v i ewed w i th a very evil eye at - Paris, and would put the French Cabinet in such a state as to be unable to foresee the consequences. The Grand Vizier, this letter adds, is not at all troubled by this communication of the French Minister : the latter,. nevertheless, expects a favourable answer. The day of the Prince of Wales' christening was ce lebrated at Halle by a dinner given at the hotel of the Crown Prince. Dr. Gesemin presided. Dr. Davison was present, as w as P r i vy C ounc ill or Del b ruck. Dr. Davison gave the King of Prussia's health, Dr. Gese min that of Queen Victoria. Professor Leo gave the health of the young Prince of Wales ; Professor Fried lander gave as a toast " 041 England." The Crown Prince of Hanover is still very much in disposed. PUBLIC OPiNXON. The Times, after playing fast and loose with the Corn laws—that is to say, boldly advocating a change one day, and the next venturing nothing beyond a timid. halting, doubtful opinion on the subject ; at one time treating it as the question of questions ; at another, suf fering it to drop to leeward as though it were a thing of no account ; now coquetting with the sliding scale, and now with a fixed duty—the Times, after thus .capriciously flirting with the Corn-laws, has at length thought fit to adopt The Sun's views on the subject—views which for years we have consistently maintained, alike through good and evil report. For proofs of the justice of our assertion we refer our readers to an article in the Times, which will be found under the head of Spirit of the Public Journals." The Post makes a few remarks on the subject of the sliding scale ; and, alluding to the Corn-law generally, and the long continuance of the impost, says that if, for the last seven years, it has required revision, and has not been revised, the fault lies with the Whigs, and not with the Conservatives. The Chronicle urges on Sir Robert Peel the absolute necessity of his settling the question of . the Corn-laws once and for all, and adds, " Every alteration of a law affecting so many interests is necessarily attended with injurious effects to individuals ; and if any half-measure be now introduced, the continued distress of the country must, ere long, compel a re-consideration of the question, and the adoption of further changes." The Herald contains an article suggested by Lords Melbourne's and Brougham's speeches on Wednesday night, wherein it observes—" The Opposition Peers seem resolved on extensive alterations in the Corn-law, on the boyish principle of shutting their eyes, opening their mouths, and seeing what the gods will send them. The present law requires amendment, that is admitted by every one ; but the principle on whi c h it oug h t to b e amended is not an expectation of advantages which no one actually foresees, or can name." The Advertiser is of opinion that, as there is no longer any attempt made by the Tories to deny the gross error of their assertion that there is no want of food, there may be some reason to hope that the Tory Government will not longer delay to legislate for the re lief of the people's necessities. MONEY—TRA COERCE. The number of unemployed m e n M at M at Paisley on the roll is 14,657. During the last week 120 have found employ ment, but there have been 160 new claimants for relief. The expulsion of the Presbyterian tenantry on the Lizard estate, in Ireland, is determined to be acted upon by the Ironmongers' Company. The people are fear fully excited, and express themselves determined to re tain possession as long as they can. REFORM. After a lecture delivered by Colonel Thompson on the Corn-laws, on Wednesday in Marylebone, the Chair man stated that "At Retford he had seen thepoor gathered round a butcher's shop, waiting to buy the offal meat, but they were told they could not have it, as it was wanted for the hounds of a gentleman in the neighbourhood." At an Anti-Corn-law meeting held in Leicester-square on Friday evening, Mr. Leader, M.P., stated it to be his opinion that the voice of the people had compelled the attention of a Tory Government to these laws, but he warned them against expecting much from the Ministry. The secession of the Duke of Buckingham from the Cabinet was one of those cleverly played political tricks to make people think that something great was to be done. NAVAL Arr MIZZTARY. About 400 of the 72d Highlanders will proceed by the Brighton Railway, to do duty during her Majesty's stay at the Pavilion. All obstruction caused by the Croydon slip, it was expected, would be removed by this day, so that the trains can proceed continuously throughout the whole line. LAW' AND PO LICE. A commission of lunacy was held on Friday at South all, Middlesex, upon Mr. Richard Strong, .formerly merchant in the City, when a verdict was returned that he had been of unsound mind since the 20th of Octo ber, 1839. At the Central Criminal Court, Jtimes Hopkins was indicted for the abduction of Mary Ann Howell, a girl under sixteen years of age, living with her parents in Rochester-row, Westminster. The particulars of the erase have already appeared in The Sun. After evidence had been heard, a number of highly -respectable gentle. men and tradesmen, who had known the prisoner front ten to forty years, gave hi m a hi gh character for moral conduct and decency of bet aviour. The Jury consulted for a few teinott,s, and returned a verdict ui guilty. He was again indicted for taking improper liberties with the girl, and found guilty, when Baron Gurney sentenced him to be imprisoned for 18 months. At the sitting of the Insolvent Debtors' Court on Fri day, Mr. Williams, long connected with the well-kno wn beef-house, i n Old B a il e y, appeare d for adjudication. The Chief Commissioner, on looking - over the schedule, told the insolvent he wa, in great luck in not being op posed, and then ordered his discharge. At Clerkenwell on Friday, William Whiting,' a re spectable looking young man, appeared to answer a charge made by Sir Henry Ellis, of carrying off a volume of Garrick's plays from the British Museum. It would appear from the evidence, that the young man on giving the voucher, belived it entitled him to take the book out of the reading room. He was remanded till the Magis trate communicated with the firm by which the youth was employed. Charles Dulledge, cad to some omnibus drivers at Whitechapel, was fined, at Lambeth-street, 51. for exer cising the calling of a driver without a license. The penalty and expenses were paid, as was supposed, by the proprietors, as the defendant had been employed during the temporary illness of the usual driver. It was, how ever, the second offence. 0 ITIPIT 0111'11.3374E The King of Prussia, after taking leave of Prince Albert, the Duke of Wellington, and the noblemen and officers at Woolwich on Friday, embarked at two o'clock on board the Firebrand, commanded by Sir George Cockburn, to return to his own dominions. At a numerous public meeting, held in the Town-hall, Brighton, on the 3d inst., it was unanimously resolved that the public authorities be requested to attend at the northern entrance to the town to receive her Majesty and her Royal Consort on their arrival, and that there be a general illumination and a display of fireworks on the Steyne, and a public ball atthe Town-hall in the evening. During the last fortnight considerable alterations have been made in the interior of the Pavilion at Brighton ; among others, the Royal Nursery is to be immediately connected with her Majesty's apartment. The Countess St. Aulaire was expected to leave Paris on Thursday evening for Manchester House. The Countess of Chesterfield, with her young family, arrived in t own on Friday afternoon from Bretby Park. The Viscountess Palmerston recommenced her soirees Saturday evening. Th e y w ill take place. every Satur day during the month. The Prince of' Wales and the Princess Royal will ac company their Royal parents to Brighton. The Duchess of Kent will also form one of the Royal party. THEATRICAL. The principal ortnament on Mr. Ducrow's eoffin is that of " Genius weeping over her favourite child !" Begging Genius's pardon, she must be a great fool to do any such thing. The idea is an absolute burlesque on sensibility. MISCELLANEOUS. • The King of Prussia was much amused on Friday with the curious clothing recently taken from the Chinese— part of which represented, in form and marks, the skins of tigers, and which the Chinese in their wars put on, crawling upon all fours, at the moment of attack—on his inspecting them in the Repository at Woolwich, subse quent to the review. Saturday is the anniversary of the death of Cato, who died before the Christian era in 46 : also of Galvani, after whom Galvanism is' named, in 1799. Yesterday was the anniversary of the death of Richard Lander, on his expedition up the Niger in 1834. A Morning Contemporary mentions the death . of Mr. Gardener, the Hypnologist, who, it may be remembered, viris famous for his remedies for producing sleep. His deatbe understand , was occasioned by the Bishop of I ~`. days, witness the. mode of presenting petitions to the Hoifse of Commons, and the manner in which they are received by the Clerk, at the table, without regretting the cause of such a departure from what so long held a high place in the' minds of free-born and enlightened Englishmen, and that expediency should have stepped in virtually to abrogate a usage and a right congenial to the spirit of Magna Charta. No one will deny the great inconvenience which fol lowed the lengthened. discussions which for a time took place on the presentation of petitions, for some years after the passing of the Reform Bill. At that period the whole energies of the nation were called into action, and were deeply excited; and, consequently, petitions, to the House of Commons especially, may be said to have been almost innumerable. But this state of things has long gone by, the petitions have decreased in proportion, and of late years exist only on great and particular and try ing occasions. It is well known that the people have felt extreme dis gust at the manner in which their petitions have been treated, and that from one end of the kingdom to the other they have been advised to hold both Houses of Parliament in contempt, and to petition no more. Extremes are always bad. For years past no Mem ber of the House of Commons has been permitted in any way whatever to explain, and far less to discuss, the peti tions intrusted to him, even by his own constituents. Can this possibly be right ? Is it due to a suffering, and starving, and patient people thus to treat them ? This is no party question, and we believe the result will prove it so, for we are greatly mistaken if Mr. WALLACE'S motion does not meet with general support from the Conservative side of the House. We wish Mr. WAL LACE good speed ; he is engaged in a righteous cause, and will find himself supported on a division by the liberal and independent Members. Let every advocate, then, of freedom of speech and fair play be in his place on Monday by five o'clock, so that the Member for Greenock may have their countenance, and that support which his motion deserves. The Madrid Papers received are to the 28th ult. On the 27th the Chamber of Deputies was still occupied with the Address, the debate upon which was of no in terest out of Spain. One sale was effected in the Five per Cents. for cash on the Madrid Bourse on the 27th ult., which was done at 32. There were three bargains made at 32i and 32i, at 60 days, to the amount of 14,960,000 reals. We have received the whole of the Paris Jour nals. Two subjects—the legal responsibility of the printers of newspapers, and the propositions for electoral reform, which have been brought before the bureaux of the Chamber, with the view to discussion in the Chamber itself—nearly engross the original columns of the Paris Journals. Our Contemporaries differ as to the degree of responsibility which should weigh upon the printer in all other cases than that of newspapers, but they are quite agreed as to the hardship of the addition which has been made by the Legislature as regards the responsi bility of printers, to the other important guarantees against abuses of the Press. The Constitutionnel says there can be no objection to this responsibility in other cases than that of the journals, for without it facilities would be afforded to anonymous pamphleteers, and others, attacking religion, morality, and social order ; and who, having entered into none of the engagements, without which a journal cannot be published, would set the law, as applicable only to themselves, at defiance. But considering that before a daily journal can be published a deposit must be made of so large a sum as one hundred thousand francs, in order that, in the event of a convic tion for libel, there may be always a fund at hand ou t of which to take the damages, and that there must also be a registered editor, legally responsible for the con tents of the journal, they contend that the law of which they complain should either be repealed, or at least be re garded by the Government and by the tribunals as a dead letter. Two or three of the Paris journals observe that to enforce this law is to re-establish a censorship , viz. the censorship of the printer who is employed by the newspaper proprietors ; for, say they, if the printer of a newspaper is to be held responsible for the articles which appear in it, he will take care not to allow any article to appear until he shall have read it carefully, and ascertained, even to the satisfaction of his timidity, that it contains neither absolute nor constructive libel. In order that this observation may be fully understood by our readers, it may be proper to remark that in France the number of printers is limited, and that the projectors of a newspaper cannot, as in England, make use of their own types, and give to any person the nominal title of printer of the paper, for which all that i s necessary is to take out a licence, which cannot be refused, and which costs only one shilling. In France, an established printer having his own types and presses must be employed, and if the law declaring the respon sibility of printers for works to which their names arc affixed is to be rigidly enforced in the case of daily journals, it is but natural to suppose that the print( r will insist upon controlling the lucubrations of the writer, and on excluding everything which may appear to his timidity to be susceptible of prosecution. The observations of the journals on the propositions for electoral reform are without novelty, and, therefore, without interest. The public have had so much argu- • ment on this question already, that it will be quite suffi cient for us to notice the comments of the Paris Press, when the question shall again come, but in a more direct shape than hitherto, before the Chamber. The Courrier Francais has an article on the budget of 1843, in which it endeavours to show that the Minis try are relieving the Treasury at the cost of the dignity and security of the country. This is a repetition of the old charge, but the Courrier now endeavours to give force to it by reference to figures. Our Contemporary begins with the economy which has been effected in the department of the Minister of War. Here, it says, less than 30 millions are saved annually, whilst the army is improperly weakened by the reduction of 82,000 men, and the expense of calling them up again would, adds the Courrier, more than double the amount of the saving effected by the reduction. This we imagine must depend entirely upon the period at which an additional force might be considered necessary. If, next year, fir instance, the 82,000 men now reduced should be again incorporated in the army, the saving would be nominal, but the duration of peace would render an increase of the army unnecessary, and an annual saving of only 30 millions, which is the estimate of the Courrier, but which is not exactly that of the Government, would, if frequently repeated, form a very important item. The chief com plaint of the Courrier, however, is directed against what has been done in the naval department. It says : " The Budget of the Marine for 1842 amounted to 136 mil lions, including an expenditure of fourteen millions for the transatlantic mail steamers, nearly six millions for the colonial service, and a first credit of 4,400,000 fr. for extraordinary works. Thus in reality the real amount of the ordinary expen diture of this Budget was only 112 millions. The Budget of 1843 being fixed at 98,763,0'26 fr. the Ministry pretends to have effected an economy of about thirty-sevenmillions, which is reduced to twenty-five millions, if we deduct the twelve millions of credit opened for the building of transatlantic stea mers, and which credit is almost exhausted. Let us n'iw see to what extent our navy has been reduced and dislocated in order to obtain this reduction of twenty-five millions. The primitive Budget for 1841 supposed the existence of 130 armed vessels, of which eight were to be ships of the line, and an effective force of 22,464 seamen. In order to be prepared for events, the Ministry of the Ist March had ordered for 1841, and the Budget of 1842 had also provided for a force of 22.5 vessels, of which twenty were to be ships of the line, twenty two frigates, and thirty-five steamers, and the number of sea men was to be 45,474. The Budget of 1843 proves that a disarmament has taken place, or is to take place, although another name has jesuitically been given to it. In the first place the number of vessels is reduced to 158, and instead of 45,474 seamen afloat, there are to be only 28,230. Our feet, therefore, is reduced two-fifths, whilst scarcely one-fifth is economised on the amount of the Budget." To the English men of war proceeding to the Chinese seas, the passage of which by the Azores, or the Canaries, we have announced, we must add, the Siren brig, and the transports, Belleisle, Sapphi re , and Apollo. The last three have troops on board. The Belleisle alone, an old ship of the line, con verted into a transport, has on board the 98th Regiment, con sisting of 750 men. The Admiralty appe ar t o i n t en d t o r e-inforce the squadron of Admiral Sir Ch ar l es Ad am , on t h e coast of the United States and the Gulf of M ex i co . B es ides the Illustrious, of 74 guns, which has joined him, the Implacable, likewise, of 74 guns, will, it i s sa id, soon f o ll ow. The Warspite, a 50-gun frigate, which is going to take Lord Ashburton to the United States will remain attached to the same station. The Vin dictive frigate was likewise intended for the same destination, but was nearly lest on Wednesday last,on entering Portsmouth harbour. She received so much damage that it will take some time to repair; but it is thought that the Admiralty will send in her stead one of the vessels of the same class. It is to he observed that all the vessels which we hare men tioned are r ea l men of war, each provide d w i t h a cons id era bl e Artillery. Th e squadron of Sir C. Adam i s now compose d , of the line the Illustrious a 26. g schooners or cutters , carrying un frigate, three of 26 guns, a brig of 16 or 20 guns, seven each from 2 t o 6 guns ; and nine steamers, severa l o f w hi c h are of 200-h orse power.-- Constitutionnel. . 130 U 11 SE—PA1tIS. THURSDAY, FEB. 3 . F irst Highest Lowest Last Price. Price Price. Pres. retich 5 per Cents ...... ll9 10 ... 1.0 ... 119 4 per Cents ........ 103 ..• 10 8 ." " 3 per Cen t ,,_ ........ 79 85 _„ so ... ... 80 Loan l5 ... 80 95 ••• 0 1 0 15 80 25 4lnk of France •••• ••• .. 3340 Belgian 5 per Cents. .... 10434 Latfitte Bank 1.0001. Share, 1020 ...11'211 ...1017 50 ...le2o 5.0001. Shares 50 90 ... 50 . o ...5030 , linen Bank 5 per Cents., 1840 105% ~. 105% 105, i 1145% Activ e ys 95% 25 Passive Old Deferred Dutch 2% per Cents. ........... 52 . 14 .. ••• 52% svapotitae ,_ 197 a.) ••• I n 7 'O7 55 10434 ... 104% 10434 ...........•. 104 „„ 104 IC4 104 RAILWAY It ' Germain 897 so 897 50 ... 890 590 Veraailics. ri. ............ . 7 342 50 242 50 ... 341 25 341 2 5 212 50 ... 212 50 .. 211 25 211 25 Rouen ........ 5 0 5 506 25 ... 5 0 5 ... 305 Urie.ais .................... .... 547 so 5t7 50 ... 545 343 itrasburgtonale..... .... 2ll ,_ 230 • 2 30 ... 230 . .• ipanish .it - Th ree hundr e d ish a bi tants of Clerkenwell we re summoned on Sat rd y Cl er kenwell Court, for po or rates, and ordited to pay th em i n seven days. .Exeter's last published charge to his clergy) ) of w.hieli he had rar_dily taken kb tiver-close in the hope that it wo uld Noduce a temporary, instead Of an eternal, sleep ! In this month occur the anniversaries of the death of the Duke of Kent, and the marriage of his daughter, Queen Victoria. The Kentish Observer states that some more officers of the army have been fitted * Canterbury for indulging in the aristocratic p as ti me o f wrenc hi ng knockers off street:. doors ! This is another striking proof of the spread of civilization among the military. I . 4mi - 40m:a oi - TnE DAY. " I have just heard," says a Dublin correspondent, " that letters reached town this morning, announcing the resignation of Lord Eliot." The Marquis of Abercorn is to get the Blue Ribbon, which the Corn-law Duke, it is said, indignantly rejects. COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, SUNDAY.—Her Majesty and Prince Albert, accompanied by the Princes Ferdinand, Augustus, and Leopold of Saxe Coburg, and at tended by the Royal Suite, arrived at the Castle yes, terday afternoon, escorted by a party of the Royal Horse Guards. General and the Lady Isabella Wemyss had the honour of joining the Royal dinner party last evening This morning the Queen and Prince Albert, the Royal Suite, and the Household, attended Divine Service in the Private Chapel of the Castle. The Rev. Lord Wriothesley Russell officiated. her Majesty and Prince Albert took their usual walk in the forenoon. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales and the Princess Royal have taken airings to-day. The Viscountess Jocelyn has succeeded the Dow ager Lady Lyttelton as the Lady in Waiting on her Majesty. Lady Lyttelton left to-day. General and the Lady Isabella Wemyss have taken eir departure from the Castle. The Queen held a Court on. Saturday afternoon at Buckingham Palace, for the reception of Addresses from both Houses of Parliament. Her Majesty's Hon. Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms were on duty, and lined the Th rone R oom a t th e pre sentation of both Addresses, commanded by their Lieutenant, the Hon. Sir Edward Butler. Mr. Henry Robinson, Standard Bearer ; and Mr. James Bunce Curling, Clerk of the Cheque of the Corps, were also present. Shortly before one o'clock, the Peers arrived from the House of Lords ; the _Lord Chancellor was attended by the Sergeant-at-Arms, and preceded by his Purse bearer and Secretaries, and by Sir Augustus Clifford, Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod, and followed by Mr. John William Birch, Clerk-Assistant of the Par liament. His Lordship and, the Peers were ushered to the Green Drawing-room. The Deputation was conducted by the Lord Cham berlain to the presence of her Majesty. The Queen received the Address on the Throne, his Royal High ness Prince Albert standing by her side, and was attended by the principal Cabinet Ministers, the Mis tress of the Robes, the Lady in Waiting, the Lord Steward, the Lord Chamberlain, the Master of. the Horse, and also by the Officers of the Royal House hold. The ',Ord Chancellor advanced to the foot of the Throne, supported by the Marquis of Abercorn, the mover, and the Earl of Dalhousie, the seconder of the Address, followed by the other Peers, including the Bishop of Worcester, the Dukes of Argyle, Rut land, and Richmond, the Marquises of Anglesey. Normanby, Cholmondeley, Camden, and Lansdowne, Earls of Wilton, Shaftesbury, Clarendon, and Ennis killen, Viscounts Hawarden and Sydney, Lords Clif ford, de Tabley, and Ashburton. The Lord Chancellor read the address, to which her Majesty returned a most gracious answer. The Peers then retired from the Royal presence. At half -past one o'clock the Commons arrived at the Palace, headed by their Speaker in his stat e coac h. The Right Hon. G en tl eman wore his state robes, and was attended by the Sergeant-at 7 -Arms, and by his Secretary and Chaplain. A numerous body of Mem bers attended, with a few exceptions all habited in Court dress. The deputation assembled in the Library. After the reception of the Lords' Address, the Com mons were conducted by Sir William Martins, 'and Captain Green, the Gentlemen Ushers in Waiting; to the Green Drawing-room, and were then conducted by the Lord Chamberlain to the Royal presence. The Speaker advanced, supported by the Earl of March, the mover, and M r . B ec k e tt , th e seconder of the Address, and follOvved by the other 'MeMber'S, consisting of— . -•-!. • - "••-,. • z f The Earl of Lincoln. . VISCOUNTS—CheIsea, Palmerston, Emlyn, Sandon, and Northland. LORDS —John Russell, Granville Somerset, Mahon, Dalmeny, Eliot, Howard, and Marcus Hill. • RlGirr HONOURABLES —Sir Edward Knatchbull, Sir H. Hardinge, H. Lowry Corry, and Sir Wm. Rae. HoNounABLE----Sidney Herbert. SlRS—Frederick Pollock, Frederick Trench, Thos. Fremantle, Philip Egerton, George Clerk, William Heathcote, John Yarde Buller, Thomas Dyke Acland, R. H. Inglis, John-Mordaunt, and Charles H. Coote. COLONELS—Hugh Baillie, T. Wood, Peel, Sib thorp, Verner, Rushbrooke, and Acton. CAPTAINS— Rous, ;Boldero (Clerk of the Ordnance), Brownlow Layard, and Hawkes, Dr. Bowring. O'Conor Don. MEssiErrhs—Byng; Rice Clayton, H. Tufnell, Gally Knight, Emerson 1. ennent (Secretary to the India Board), Nicholl (Judge Advocate-General), H. Man ners Sutton, John Neeld, Buck, Waddington, Bus field, Pusey, Summers Harford, W. Aldam, John Young, W. Williams, Ralph Neville, Darby, Pringle, Gaskell, George Hope, Sanderson, Hardy, D. Mor ris, Broadwood, Matthew Forster Henry Broadl e y, Holdsworth, Crosse, Frederick Hodgson, J. Bailey, R. Scott, Edward Litton, William G. Johnson, Brotherton, T. Seaton Foreman, Thornely, Mart yn, Richard Blakemore, Joseph Bailey, Baskerville, Be riah Botfield, H. Hamilton Lindsay, W. pusfield, Ferraud, W. Rashleigh, jun., Joseph Bailey, jun., Joseph Scholefield, 4 5. W. Henley, George Rennie, Pendarves, F. French, Collins, and W. B. Baring. The Speaker read the Address, and her Majesty returned a most gracious answer. The Commons then withdrew from the Queen's presence. The Court was attended by the Lord President, the Lord Privy Seal, the First Lord of the Trea sury, the Secretaries of State for the Home, Fo reign, and Colonial Departments, the First Lord of the Admiralty, the President of the Board of Con trol, the Duke of Wellington; the Duchess of Buccleugh, Mistress of the Robes ; the Viscountess Jocelyn, Lady in Waiting . ; the Lord Steward, the Lord Chamberlain, the Master of the Horse, the .Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen. at Arms, the Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard ; Vis count Corhbermere, G.C.8., Gold Stick in Waiting ; .the Treasurer of the Household, the Vice-Chamber lain, the Comptroller of the Household, Colonel the Honourable Charles Grey, Equerry in Waiting; Sir Benjamin Smith, and the Field Officer in waiting. The Yeomen of the Guard lined the Grand Hall, commanded by Captain William Bellairs, the Exon in Waiting. The Queen's Guard of the Scots Fusilier Guards, with the Band of the Regiment, was on duty on the Palace Lawn. Lord Ashburton was presented to the Queen at an audience, by the Earl of Aberdeen, her Majesty's principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, to take leave on his departure for the United States. Sir Robert Peel an& the Earl De La Warr, had 'audiences of her Majesty. The Earl of Morton and the Hon. Captain Dun combe were the Lord and Groom in Waiting. After the presentation of Addresses to the Queen, his Royal Highness Prince Albert received Addresses of Congratulation from both Houses of Parliament. The Address from the House of Lords was pre sented to his Royal Highness by the Marquis of Exe ter and Lord Colville. The Address from the House of Commons, con gratulating his Royal Highness on the birth of a Prince, Heir Apparent to the British Throne, was presented by the following Deputation : The Earl of Lincoln, Lord John Russell, Lord Dalmeny, Sir Thomas Dyke Acland, Sir Charles H. Coote,• and Mr. George Byng. His .Royal Highness was attended by the following Officers of his Household : -The Marquis of Exeter, K.G., Groom of the Stole ; Lord George Lennox, Lord in Waiting; and Colonel Wylde, Equerry in Waiting. Prince Albert paid a visit, on Saturday, to the office of the Duchy of Cornwall. His Royal Highness was attended by Mr. George Edward Anson and Colonel Wylde. Her 'Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited the Queen on Saturday, and remained to lunch with her Majesty and Prince Albert. The Queen inspected, on Saturday, a Sketch of the Christening of his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, taken at the ceremony by Mr. Charles Deane, of which her Majesty was graciously pleased to express her approbation. The Queen and Prince Albert inspected, on Sa turday, specimens of Calotype Portraiture (produced Satti edBY ' on paper by the action of light during very short sit- The Queen received, at one o'clock on before a fte tings), submitted b_X Mr. Henry Collen, of which her the Address from the House of Peers, and Majesty and his , Royal Highness were graciously that from the House of Commons. ShortlY ded Atte o ple s xl to express their approbation. Albert, i _ ce f o r three o'clock her Majesty and Prince His Serene Highness Prince Ferdinand of Saxe by the Royal Suite, left Buckingham r a d w to re- Coburg, accompanied by the Princes Augustus and Windsor Castle, where the Court is expected e _ -0 1 . Leopold of Saxe Coburg, and attended by Capt. Fran- main until Thursday or Friday next, when , h '.;,„„ is cis Seymour, went on Saturday morning to the jesty and his Royal Highness will proceed to the o'7 Thames Tunnel, after inspecting which, the three Pavilion at Brighton. w und er- Princes proceeded to visit and inspect the Tower,. re- As the Croydon Line is again open, - e ~,. train, turning to Buckingham Palace at half-past two o'clock. stand the Brighton Company are about to start 11 later of The Queen and Prince Albert, accompanied by his than four o'clock in the afternoon, for the accum m ,.o, to be Serene Highness Prince Ferdinand of Saxe Coburg, Court during its stay at the Pavilion. It isl rr," ring the . , hoped that this train may af'erwards be the inged (l i u i • aw l, left Buckingham Palace at three o'clock on Saturday genera..Y ' 0 - er e summer f . or the convordence of the pu blic afternoon, in a carriage and four, escorted by a party of Hussars, and followed bir their Serene Highnesses the , goaumhat diminished the traffic would bes very 4.9 perhaps, if the heavy fares on the Brighton B eil Vetibil Princes Augustus andldeopolcl of Saxe Coburg , and 1 intressed. MORNING SUN the ladies and gentlemen of the Royal suite in four car-, riagee, and four, for Windsor Castle. tlie l i i r er c iV a l r a r j ia e g st e y b a y nd t P he rin i t A d I c b ha ert iti ld i g i e air ri ti ; l ;te l C i Steward, the Master of the Horse, the GrOOrri Stole to Prince Albert, and the Master of the hold. The Royal suite consisted - of the folloWin&:eiwin The Viscountess Jocelyn lion. Miss Paget,: Miss Liddell, tAft of Morton Hon. Captain Dun' fag, combe, Colonel the Hon. Ch a rle s Grey, CaptainFrancital l, Seymour, Colonel Wylde, Dr. Proc,torius, Count 4 4 , : i,-fisef Dagenfeld Schomberg, and Count de Zit - Will , Bt l Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent afletifilir (c ,g Divine Service 7 . esterday morning .in the Chug' Royal, St. James s. Lady Fanny Howard was Waiting on her Royal Highness. - Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Dticho's Cambridge, Prince George, and the Princess Augustfi „ft' of Cambridge, attended Divine Service yesterclat morning in Grosvenor Chapel, South Audley-stre 6l ' Lady Augusta Somerset and Major Stephens wer e in Waiting on their Royal Highnesses. 1 - Her Royal Highness the - Duchess of Kent visi ted ' her Majesty the Queen Dowager yesterday, at Marl borough House. Captain Meynell, Groom in W a iti ng t o the Queen' arrived in town yesterd a y afternoon, from attendi n g his Majesty th e Ki ng o f Prussia to the Contine nt. th Captain Meynell called at Marlborough House, th e residence of the Q u e en D owager , an d a l so at e residences of the Royal F am ily, a ft er hi s arr ival. ,- Her Royal Highn ess th e D uc h ess o f K en t, a ttendee: by Lady Fanny H owar d an d Si r G eorge C o uper, au°, their Royal Hi g h nesses th e D u k e an d Duchess of. Cambridge, and the Princess Augusta of Cambridge; attended by Lady Augusta Sornerset, honourea Covent Garden Theatre with their presence on Saito ; day evening. A deputation of coach and omnibus proprietors, Consisting of Mr. William King, Fulham ; Mr. George Chancellor, Chelsea ; Mr. Hudson, Chelsea • Giles, Bow; Mr. Fardell, Blackwall; Mr. Rich's' Clapham ; Mr. Balls, Bri x t on ; 3l r . Al exan der 11 milton, Hampstead ; Mr. Blare, P a ddi n gton ; ' Mr. Fell, Fulham, had an interview with the Chan; 37, cellor of the Exch equer on Saturday, at his offiei n ` residence in Downing-street. Despatches from the Governor of South Australia were received yesterday at the Colonial-office. t , Lord Stanley had a dinner party on Saturday his residence, in St. James's-square. The compal l Y, included the Earl o f Cl are , th e E ar l o f M arc h, Ml' and Lady Jemima Eliot, Lord and Lady 3falw n ' Lord George Bentirick, Lord Emlyn, Lord Reel e , s ; dale, Lord Fitzgerald, Mr. and Lady liarr c ' e , )0P Baring, Mr. and Lady Georgiana Wortley, Si r rrri James and Lady Graham, Sir William Follett, 0 ' t . " Charles Douglas, and Mr. Thesiger. iG / L ; The Earl of Mi n t o a n d L or d M e l gun d h ave arriartm ;1 P. at Farra.nce's Hotel, Belgrave-street, from Min t° , l;ip r,llO House, Hawi c k. / e Mr. Hedwo r th L am bt on , M.P., an d hi s l a dy, v arrived at th e i r res id ence , i n Ch es t er - stree t, for Ow season, from St. Leonard's. The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat on Saturday. The Lords present were Lord Wynfordt Lord Brougham, Lord Campbell, Mr. Baron Park e ' and the Judge of the Admiralty Court. 1 ,, An appeal f rom B r iti s h G u i ana, " C ameron V. Representatives of Gilland," and " Cameron V. the Representatives of Fraser," rt-heard at a form er meeting, was resumed and concluded; their LordshiP4 reversing the decision of the Court below. Mr. Burge, Queen's Counsel; was heard on all a r , peal from Trinidad, " Montelambert v. Montalenther'' The Court reversed the decision of the Court below. Their Lordships then rose. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEW S. (From The Sun of Saturday Evening.) •0 LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, FEB. 4.—There has more doing in the Cotton market this week, with rather_a", improved tone at the close of it. Prices of American and !-:1 ° 0 rat are the same as on this day week, but we may remark t_l' f ,, 3 ordinary qualities of the former description are slightly w,, u ' otit to buy. Brazils continue 'very dull of sale, but change of prices. Egyptian the same. Sea Islands are w' 0 0 , 46 7 ,11 out change. '1 here have been taken on speculation 20 ,, ' 3 1J1 1 ,„ American, and f o r exportat i on 1,800 American, 800 Lag 02 1;,./ r 130 Maranham, and 100 Surat. Forwarded into the collo unsold during January:-1,660 American, 220 Peru:mist T, Bahia, and 400 Su ra t. 700 S ea I s l ands are advertised f or auc tion on Friday next. LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, FEB. 4.—The busineesti,!! the Stock, Exchange this day consist of - transactions . 1 ,, t0 Grand Junction, 4854 ; Half Shares, 921; Quarter Ol L _ n j '26/. 11 s. 3d.,` Liverpool and Manchester, 191 ; London !,,d Birmingham, Thirds, 574; North Midland, 704; London a ° Birmingham, 170; London and South Western, 594 ; chaster and Leeds, 764. ▪ r iot hlANerresveit STOCK EXCHANGE, FEE. 4.—The 111-- is firm to-day, and' Stock very sparingly offered, with o? „, buyers. North Midla n d, Thi r d s , 164 ; London and Birmr., o ? ham, 170 ; Ditto, N ew (321. Shares). 284 to 284 ; Main s ter and Birmingh am , 284 t o 284 ; M anc h ester an d L ee 75 1 h to 7,4 ; Ditto, Quarter Sh ares , 4 to 44 ; Lancaster a n d Preston, 29 1 ,4 to 30. The English Securities continue firm, with a fnrther e r r dency upwards. Consols are 89K 4 for Money, and 894,,6 10 , tbe _Account; Th ree per C ents. Reduced, 894 90; , Three and-a-Half, 994 ; Exchequer Bills, 17 19, an d Bonds, 9 11 rem. e Spanish Active Stock opened at 244 ; Passive, 54 ;„ 4t , 0 , ferred, 12a 4; Portuguese Five per Cents. 336 ; Threes, 194 20. Late yesterday afternoon Mexican Bs i t i ' oo advanced 1 per ce n t., c l os i ng at 314 4 , at which qu otat ion s they opened this m orn i ng ; it i s now t h e genera l op i n i on ' dividend will be forthwith advertised. s set s The Quarterly Ave ra g es o f th e wee kl y li a bili t i es an d , lot of the Bank of England, p u b.i s h e d i n t h e G aze tt e or night, show a t 'ec rease i n th e c i rcu l at i on of 2,0001., arf,a, increase in the deposit s o f 558,0001., i n securities •200sov" and in bullion 458,0001., compared.with the last returns. The Hamburgh mail has just arrived. Gold comes " schilling lower, 429 ' • Exchange the same, 136% . .„ail By the arrival o f her Majesty's packet Linnet with a c f . from the B raz il s , p apers from ,Rio de Janiero to D EC . 25 t been received a t th e N or th an d S out h Amer i can Coffee•• "",..nuie fie but they do not contain any political news of interest. te d mention whatever i s ma d e o f th e i nsurrect i on wh i Ch was Ode to have taken place: —" Exchange has had a tendency t° 0, dine throughout the month, and closed to-day, D ec ember th , '2 1 ,4 per cent. lower than the first quotation of the !t e st The current ra t e t o -d ay .is 29 1 4. The Six p er C e nt. Stock fell early in the month to 71 1 / 2 and 71, in the antic' i ll§ tion of a further creation, but when the determination of by Excellency the Minister of Finance to supply the Treastql, the issue of Exchequer bills became known, the market ' hi s proved, and th e c l os i ng quotation this day was 74. Specie 14 been in acti ve d emand throughout the month, both for es e and speculation." By the same arrival papers from Buenos Ayres to the 11 d • , . December, h ave been received, from which we take the ! Ls lowing : "Th e P ostmaster- General has issued a notice tha t communication with C i t;, and Peru, so long int erru pted by th e war in the interior; has been re-ope ne d. P e d ern era, with it fugitives who escaped from the field of Monte Grande, ba'll,s seems, taken ref uge i n B o li v i a. As regards the fate: _, Madrid th e same uncerta i nty yet prevails, but positive inf tion is shortly expected. Exchange on„London 3d." iish There has been a f a i r b us i ness transacted in the Dobbs% securities, and a slight d ec li ne upon t h e open i ng quot atiolloj taken place. Consols are now tiN for Money, and 01 0. for the Account. E xc h equer Bill s are fi rm at 17s. 19s. rhea The principal business doing in the Foreign Market ha', 3 1; in Mexican Bonds, which have farther advanced to Sl i t, 4; Deferred, 94 ; Colombian Bonds are 224 ; Peruvian, 1 6 / 1 ,1; Spanish Active, 244; Dutch Two-and•a-Half per Cents. °•° do. Fives, 1014 There has been rather more business doing in Shares,s4::, prices have improved. Great Western are 864 ;_ Ditt° 3 61; soi ; London and Brighton, 334 ; Northern and Easterot„ o , South Eastern and Dover, 27 ; Y or k an d N orth Mi dl an d, s . l ; Consols, Money, 894 4 ; Account, 894 ; Colombian , 2 " Mexican, 314 32 ; Spanish, 244 4. o of The arrivals from South America daily bring intelligeo i c bet • more or less interest. The Argentine Republic is now al l be restored to the enjoyment of perfect tranquillity, and it is we r hoped Rosas will turn his attention immediately to clod) id . 4. , [1 :1' cial pursuits, more likely than the triumphs of war to au ti orel: l eaV the permanent interests of his fellow-citizens. The ~„,soff' with Monte Video cannot but be injurious to British L'''" meree end which way it may. d to • ?, '1 ha improved position o f th e B an k of E ngland i n regal .4°,0.101 its stock of bullion gives much satisfaction in the City. ti CLOSING PRICES. BRITISH FUNDS. Bank Stock India Stock ' ▪ f, 'tiill{t fit y fr;llP;l l 3 per Cent Red. 889944 'DittolNtto Oldßo A nds ................. 3 per Cent Con s 34 per Cent Red 994 ;Ditto New Annuities..• pti) ~ 06 , 1001 , New 34 per Cent • 984 'EL Bills, 1,000/....2id P re oil; 0 1 I New 5 per Cent. - 1„ c , A Ditto 5001... • .... Long Annuities Loexpire Ditto Small ....... 'al Jan. 1860.......... 124 ;Bank Stock for ACct... ',41,1 0 , 7 f Oct 1859. 124 'lndia Stock for Acet...• 6 7; i i l' af u c i Jan. 1860. ........ Consols for Acct ......... • , ios FOIIEIGN FUNDS. • , tiP Austrian, sv. rent 'Portuguese 5 per ,cent• IJ 3 4 , Belgi e n, 5 pea cent — Ditto, New , Ditto....••••• .) .L Brazilian Bonds-- Prussian, 5 per cent. • " 1 16 ` Buenos Ayres ti percent Russian, 5 per cent..." Chilian, 6 per cent—. -• 71 Ditto, Metallic .....» •••• Colombian, 6 pet cent.. Spanish, 5 per cent. ••• j Ditto, 18`24 ?24 Ditto, Deferred.... • ):: Greek, 18:45, 5 p er cen t — Danish, 3 per cent E F r x e c n h c a h n , g s e r per cent. i• ~e. Mexican, 5 pe r cen t 324 French, 3 per cent. • 6 11 ,e 1 Ditto, 6 per cen:.. 1837 Dutch, 24 per cent. - 1011 • o ti Peruvian,lB2s, f:p er et. .—Ditto, 5 per cent... l SHARES. 53 rIT Birmingham an d D er b y R a i lway (1000) 8 61 1 ,0 0 Great Western Railway ( 65 paid) ........... Ditto New Shares (50 paid) , ........ 94 Ditto Fifth (4 paid) tISt London and Brighton (50 paid) ; ~0 ) London and Birmingham (90) ...... .e • •• Ditto Thirds (32 paid) 28i , Ditto New Shares ( 2 paid) .... 60 London and South Western .................. 763. Manchester and L ee d s (70 paid) ...... .• 4 Ditto Quarter Shares ( 2 paid) ..........•• Midland Counties R a il way ( lOU pa id) ...... 204 ;, , Ditto Quarter Shares (15 paid)... ...... ..• North Midland Railway (100) ............... O.', • Ditto Thirds (15 paid) ..... ..............