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

English . • • • • • Foreign ...... 1 . ARRIVALS THIS WEEK. Wheat. Barley. 1,040 qrs. 2,910 qrs. 9,910 Per Blbs. to sink the offal. s. d. to s. d. Inferior Beasts.. 3 0 3 4 prime quality - • 3 6 3 8 rrime large Oxen.. 3 8 310 Prime Scots ••••. • 3 10 4 0 Prime coarse Calves 3 6 4 0 rrhne small ditto .. 4 2 4 6 Suckling Calves ..18 0 25 0 Inferior Sheep • • 3 2 3 6 Beasts. 856 Beasts. 18 . onn. P! ! t bnrk, }innbo n •l l A rl,l,;(irs . qr m th A mnr;es. arid . E., Yt tLi, , t. al- • in the DCWII3. he r, 1: of v,hieit 106 L anchors and chains and :ire th.ii.g supplied, with a large fleet lying iu the Downs, are riding very heavily :—The Northumberland, from Calcutta; George, from St. Yin cents; Goddess, for Trieste; Anna M3rgaretha, for WHITSTABLE, JAN. 11.—The Caledonia, from An cona, has drove on snore t.) than eastward. MARGATE JAN. P 7 -, , Justine, TT , -1- fleur to London, on the Fo:.e t< s!t iiock was assisted elf, and i s n ow riding >fi PORTSMOUTH, JAN. E.—lt tilLw a strong gale here last night, at N.W., with heavy squalls, and continues. PENZANCE, JAN. 9.—The Timandra, Weeks, from Uavannah, has put in here, with damage, having been on her beam ends, 25th ult., cif the Island of Carro. LYTHAM, JAN. 11.—A vessel was total!) , wrecked near shore last night, and it is feared that all hands have perished. From psp.rs pieltcd up, she al.pears 0, have been the Varwarts, flow Pillau to LivtridA, last from bt , )rnaway, 4th inst. The coast from hence to Blackpool is strewn with timber and new ckals. PETERHEAD, JAN. 10.—It has blown a ivvere gale all day, and continues, at E. to S.E.—The Catherine, New castle to Aberdeen, was run :ishore to-day in South Ba) ; crew saved, should the weather moderate the materials and possibly the vessel may be saved. The Hero, Sun derland of Newcastle to Fraserhurg, was totally wrecked 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 Buchanness this morning, seven miles south of this; crew drowned, An oar, marked " C. R.," has been washed on shore. C. AUTION TO MARINERS PASSING IN OR OUT OF THE MEDITERRANEAN. Gibraltar, Jan. 3, 1849. Sir,---I 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 publicity should be given to the caution against masters of merchant vessels imprudently keeping near to the Riff coast, in passing in or out of the M editerranean, particularly in the summer season, when calms prevail, which facilitates the capture of ves sels by the row-boats of the Ritfians. I have the honour to be, Sir, Your most obedient servant, J. LONGLANDS COWELL, Agent for Lloyd'e. Capt. Halsted, R.N., Secretary to Lloyd's. Copy of uispatch referred to:— " Hibernia. at Naples, Dec. 9, 1848. " acknow:edging 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, zeal, and gallantry of Commander APCleverty, and the officers and crew of the PO!yphe mus, enabled them to recover the brig Three Sisters from the Riff pirates. " I entirely agree in your recommendation, that the masters of merchant vessels should be directed to give the Cape Tres Furcas a wide berth, and accord with you in thinking, that without the employment of a large . force the attempt to destroy 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 land 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 satively speaking the imports of Foreign lVlicat—the whole of which have gone into bond—have been small. The best qualities, free of duty, sold at full currencies. All other de,crap 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 yak, Malt was extremely inac tive, and the quJtations were aim st nominal. Oats were mostly held at late rates. Beats, Peas, Indian Corn, and Flour were neglectA. Oats. Flour 3,450 qrs. I 2,360 sk 1,1;60 -- 4,420 7,370 Malt. 1,610 tin srazTurnezn. For the time of year, our market to-day was very moderately supplied with Beasts, both as to number and quality. Owin g , h owever , 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. Mitch Cows were quoted at from 141 to 181 each, including their small calf. s. d. to 8. d. Second final. Sheep 3 8 4 0 Coarse-woolled ditto 4 2 4 6 :Southdown Nether 4 8 4 10 Ditto out ot the wool 0 0 0 0 Large Hogs •••••. 3 10 4 4 Small Porkers • • 4 6 4 8 quarter old Pigs ..16 0 22 0 Lambs .• •••• .• • • 0 0 0 0 TOTAL SUPPLY AT MARKET. 1 Sheer.. I Calves. I Pigs. 1,740 I 111 180 FOREIGN SUPPLY. I Sheep. I Calves. 1 Pi gs. 20 9 SCOTCH.—Beasts. 180 ; Sheep, 90. IfTEWCIALT23 ELrifl:l LiaamE sTIIII,.Z.L. These markets were heavy, at barely Jtationary prices , At per stone by the Carcase. _ 8. - d. to Y. d. e. (1. to s. a. Beef,inferlor— •••• 2 6 2 8 Mutton, inferior .. 2 8 3 2 middling .. 210 3 0 middling.. 3 4 310 primelarge .. 3 2 3 4 prime .... 4 0 4 4 prime small 3 4 3 6 I Pork ' 1arge ........ 3 4 4 0 Veal•••• •• •• 3 4 4 4 small .. 4 2 4 6 BOROUGH 110 P MARKET. The show of really fine Hops here to-day was small, while the demand for them was steady, at fully last week's quotations. In the middling qualities of New as well as Old Hops exceedingly little business was trans acted. Prices, however, were about stationary. New Hops—Sussex Pockets, 212 s to 21 18s ; Weald of Kent ditto, 2/ 12s to 318 s ; Mid and East ditto, 31 3s to 6/ per cwt. COLONIAL. SUGAR.—There has this week been 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: 40s to 40s 6cl, mid and good mid at 36s to 378 6d. Jamaica good yellow 37s 6d to 38s, and fine brown 3 5's 6d per cwt. Trinidad ord yellow 34s 6d, good brown 338 6d, Berbice mid grey 35s to 35s 6d. REFINED.— Standard Lumps have been 49s to 50s per cwt. EAST INDIA.--12,348 bags Mauritius went at full rates fbr the finer sorts especially; fine and superior yellow 39s 6d to 42s 6d, mid and good mid 36s to 37s 6d, good any fine brown 33s to 345, and low to fine grey 33s to 38s. Bengal, 7,000 bags and 300 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. ; or d strong brown 295, and low to good yellow 33s t o 3 75. Madras, 2,300 bags, only partly sold at 3ls 6d to 338 for mid and good soft yellow. FO RElGN.—Havannah has been 6d to Is higher; low to good brown, 37s 6d to 395, and low to good grey and yellow, 39s 6d to 41s 6d; fine 42s to 42s 6d. Maccio has been held at 3is 6d to 434 for low to fine white, and at 34s to 38s for low to fine brown. Pernambuco has been sold at 37s 6d, and low to good white at 38s 6d to 40s per cwt. troFFEx.—The market has been very brisk. Jamaica has been sold at 23s to 46s for low to mid. A good private busi ess has been d one . C ey l on has risen 2s to 35 per cwt. for r r lantation sorts, and is for Native, good ord 34s to 355; good and fine fine ord, pale, 34s to 475, and fine fine ord to lo w Mid 48s to 545. Peaberry, 518 '6d 57s 6d ; Mocha black to fine at 21s to 70s, has been taken in, and other sorts have sold at 42s 6d to 525. Jamaica fine ord is about 43s 6d to 468. Madras fine fine ord. foxey 425. Bengal ord. mixed 328 ; and Costa Rica fine ord, 355. Cocoa.— Bahia has been held at 27s 6d. SPicEs.—Pimento has been held at high prices, viz., 3id to 38d per lb. for mid. White Pepper has realised 30 to 4d per lb. Bengal Ginger has been at 21s to 21s 6d; and Jamaica at 60s for good ordinary to 112 s for superior. SALTPETRE.—FuII prices have been obtained : 650 bags, refraction, sold at 25s 6d for Bengal; Madras, refraction 14i, went at 255. RICE. —The market has been heavy ; 900 bags low white Bengal sold at 9s 6d per cwt, and some packets of better quality at 10s to 13s. Rum, —This article is very firm at fuller prices. Proof 1,-. 2d to Is 5d to i s 6d, isletnerara 30 to 38 per cent o ver to 2s sd, and East India is 4id to is 5d per gallon. I,:o'rrox.—The market has been active at full prices. TALLOW.—P.Y.C. has been steady, at 41s 9d to 42s per cyst on the spot. Tta.--The market has been very steady. _eciftxxats—Sales have been rather pressed, and prices rill the same as last week. vit9:_R,EE!st FRUIT. —The market has been dull this week, T fr is usually the case after the Christmas holidays. w cargoes of Oran one ex Ann ges, ex He ro i ne and Pear l , an d part o f Bee-lin ee Morice, from St. Mich ae l, so ld p u bli c ly by g and Hunt, went at a reduction of 2s to 33 per box. The stock of L emons is reduced to a small quantity, but fresh arrivals from Messina are daily expecte d . N uts o f a ll kinds dull of sale, the high figure having its eflect upon the con • are scarce, and likely sum Ptlon• No ' to c m ° r u ry ue to so r f ß or ra ti z l m So e u ri r a s Grapes of' good q ual i i e l sea s S o e n v . A e ing in first hand ty command a high figure, none remain price d epressed S e . o The stock of chesnuta is large, and the "I use quence. , EATII OF Loan the death of Earl Talbot, whi.ch took place at Ingestre- T4LB ° I--7 : 7 --We have to announce ball, Staffordshire on Wednesday. The Noble Earl, who had been ailing for some time past, and of whose recovery no hopes had been entertained for some weeks, Was in his 72d year, having been born in April, 1777. Ile was Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland for some years under the Liverpool Administration , and up to his death held the Lo rd - Lieutenancy of the county of Stafford. He is succeeded in his title and estates by 'Viscount Ingest 4 captain in the navy, and Member of Parhament for the southern division of Staffordshire. The present Earl i s in his 46th year, and married to Lady Sarah Beresford, daughter of the late Margais of Waterford, by whom h e has a large family. His eldest son will be 19 next April. EMIGRATION. —The number of persons who have 4'eltigrated from Li verpool during the year 1848 is as )11° Yva :—To United States , 127,501; North American Colonies, 2,066 ; West Indies, 199 ; Australia, 298 ; 11"g"4011, 14 ; Falkland Islands, 12; total, 131,121. THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 12, 1849. rpitTaTri4,PV_CF`ViTS T)Av.) .uutt LISe aLiU peatiuu,, hlie apeuls, but no case cailing for a special report came before his Lordship during the morning. • ROLLS' COURT.-(THIS DAY.) Unoppoed cause petitions, and petitions of no interest except to the parties concerned, occupied his Lordship the Master of the Rolls the whole morning. ICE-C CER .—( T H DAY.) (13i4.re the VICE-CHANCELLOR Of ENGLAND.) The hearing of cruse petitions, short causes, and peti tions, 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 BENC H.-(THIS DAY.) (Sittings in Bahen.) THE QUALIFICATION FOR THE OFFICE OF MAYOR-THE MAYORALTY OF CARLISLE-THE QUEEN V. DICKSON. Some time ago a rule was granted in this Court, calling upon Mr. Dickson, the present Mayor of Carlisle, to show cause why a quo warranto should not issue, de manding the r'.ght and authority by which he held that officy. The applicAtion was made on the affidavit of an inhabitant named Potter, who alleged that the overseer baring 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 some length that though Mr. Dickson'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, Vk hich 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 naf nth. A list was then to be made out by the towu cle which was called the burgess roll. That list was finally revised and 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 quatification, 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 saying that parties " en titled" to be on the list, but who had been omitted, were not qualified. The application was made to the Court by 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 he had not taken the proper Parliamentary steps to qualify. 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 ultimately thought that the arguments should take place, and that in the meantime the quo war rauto 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 ihe court, to show cause why he should not be struck off the rolls. Mr. Scott had been convicted of felony at the Old Bailey, and is now undergoing imprisonment in Cold Bath-field,;. 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 mice till after the liberation of Mr. Scott.—Application granted. COMMON PLEAS.—(THIS DAY.) (Sittings in Banco.) CATLIN V. DIAMOND STEAM-PACKET COMPANY. This action was tried betore Mr. Justice Cresswell in the course of last term, when a verdict was found for the plaintiff—damages 9001. Mr. MONTAGU CHAMBERS HOW applied for a rule nisi for a new trial, on the ground of misdirection nod ex cessive damages. The action was brought to recover compensation in damages for the loss of the plaintiff's let, in consequence of an accident which happened to him whilst a passenger in the Sons of the Thames steam-boat, 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 mariceuvre on the part of the Sons of the Thames to reach Rosherville 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 eare 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 CRESWELL said the whole of the facts were laid 1)f-fore the jury, and he was not dissatisfied with their verdict. Indeed had it been the other way he shoukl nut have been satisfied. The whole matter was purely one for the decision of the jury. The CHIEF JUSTICE grunted 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 c , mpensation or not for so serious an injury as the plaintiff had sustained.--Rule granted on the first point. BANKRUPTCY. —(THIS DAY.) (Before Mr. Commissioner GotaatunN.) IN RE SHACKELL. This bankrupt was for many years publisher and part proprietor of the John Bull newspaper, and had latterly carried on business as a uaptha manufacturer, &c., at Wandsworth. The official assignee reported favourably of the bank rupt's atiairs. as there was a strong probability of the creditors receiving 20!. in the pound. The bankrupt was opposed on the ground of having given accommodation 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. SECO►NDARIES'.-(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 b, the chief clerk of one of the judges. The amount was under 20/., but there was no plea or dispute as to the jurisdiction of the Court. Mr. BUCIIANAN called witnesses to prove the accept ance 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. Berry 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 5001., and two sureties in 2501. each, forty-eight hours notice of bail having been given. CLERKEN WELL.-(THIS DAY.) George _Robson, a cab-driver, was charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt, for neglecting to pay, according to the order or this court, thirteen weeks' allowance, amounting . to 1/.125. 6d., to S ara h L ander, for the maintenance o f his 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 sun, 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 24th 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 che:sting the young woman. The Act of Parlia• went, 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 promise. He was sent to the House of Correction for two months. DIEM—At Chesham, on the 10th instant, after a short illness, aged 62, Mr. W. 11. Marshall, solicitor, third son of tho late Mr. John Marshall, solicitor, of Amersham. DOYER, 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. THE OLDEST VOTER IN AMERICA.—Mr. Hughes, tour dun a wa rev olutionury soldier, in the 107th year of his age, horses. a t t s h t e a ke n to th e pod in Bt . ckbridge Cou nt y , Virginia, .•late election, by a f r i en d, i n a carr i age drawn by SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. ' N SHIRE STAKES. 250 to 10 ag 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 agtt Mr. Greville's Geraldine—taken to 201. 50 to 1 agst Mr. Merry's Chanticleer—taken 50 to 1 agst Mr. Osbaldeston's Fugleman-3,000 to 45 taken 1,000 to 10 agst Mr. Courtenay's The Impostor (late Lancsborough—taken and afterwards offd Chanticleer and Fugleinan 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 strongbow—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 First f 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 given 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, instals himself as Major Pomo, 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 song, 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 off 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. AIR. 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. Air. Butt offered to go to trial if the Attorney- General could give no evidence, or enter a nolle prosequi on the bad counts. _ . The Attornney-Creneral 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 yes terday with having uttered a forged cheque for 3001. 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 Ina, Holborn, to see Mr. Thompson, the writer of it, according to the advertisement The prisoner came out to me as Mr. Thompson, and said be 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 next 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 Murk-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 accord'. to appointment. He then told me he would take me to his chambers, and 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. He told me to say, if they a s k e d me w h o sent 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', I 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 bis neck ; and he had black curly hair, turning in Mind. I think he had whiskers. The pockets of the coat were oetside. The Bair was a regular row round of curls turned in, and appeared to be natural hair. I saw him four or fire times, and he was always dressed in the same way. Had to doubt at all about his identity. _ _ _ Mr. D. Forrester prcduced 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 eifness then pointed at one of the hanukerchiets produced, and said he believed that was the handkerchief the prisoner wore. Mr. G. Black burn 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 m ice, nor have I authorised any one to draw or sign it. (Here two cheques were produced.) These two cheques, each of w:aich is for 31., I paid to Mr. Raiford, of Isling ton. One was drawn on the 2d of December, the other on the Ist of January. D. 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 mo without hesitation. This menaoran 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, which exactly agrees with the description given of a coat the prisoner wore when the witness communicated with him. The prisoner was then remanded. EMPLOYMENT OF THE POOR.—A meeting was held yesterday in Willis's Rooms, for the purpose of taking into consideration the condition of the mechanics and operatives thrown out 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 otherwko. Those artizans, he remarked, who were reduced to penury suffered from the depressing influences of our enormous and unequal taxation and oar excessive national expenditure. Toe only measure by which the evil could be met would 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. H. Huggins 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 another 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. Atter a rote of thanks to the chairman the meeting separated. THE DRAMA AT WINDSOR. z.. 1. cLi...nded by her Majesty, at Windsor Castle, proceed, as they com meoced, 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 d'muvres of the stage, the play represented last evening was Hamlet, Mr. Charles Kean, of course, taking the great part. The u sua l act i ng vers i on o f 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 coffin 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. Rosencrantz, (courtiers Mr. Conway. Guildenstein, ) Mr. Boyce. Osrick (a courtier) • . Mr. A. Wigan. ▪ .. Marcellus (an offi cer ) ▪ Mr. J. Howard. Bernardo (an offi cer ) ▪ Mr. Clifford. Francisco (a soldier) Mr. A. Brindal. Ghost of Hamlet' s F a th er ▪ • First Actor ... Mr. Vandenhoff. ... 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—• El s i nore . 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 Ruilens-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 Ophelia, 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, TUURSDAY. 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 ber 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. H. 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 arid 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 offioor of the 2d Life Guards, and two officers of the 2d 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 viol once ll o (M a d ame Dulcken M. Sainton, and Chipp) Mendelssohn, Marien Walzer . .... Morceau pour le Clavecin—pianoforte (Madame Dulcken) Scarlatti. Triumphal March . . Ries A deputation, consisting of the Lord Mayor, Mr. Pattison, M.P., Mr. Masterman, M.P., Mr. John Wood, Mr. Deputy Harrison, Mr. John Dixon, Mr. T. H. Hall, Mr. R. Taylor, and the City Remem brancer, 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 day. Th© N ewport engines were early on the spot, but as the wi n d was blowing stop the flames; th e c hi mneys alone remain. The fur niture was saved. a gale nothing could 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 being business ennugh to suppor t it. THE ISLE OF WIGHT QUARTER SESSIONS.—These sessions were ope ne d on Tuesday, when the chairman, in addressing the gra n d j ury, congratulated them on the lightness of the cal en d ar, there being only eight pri soners for trial, and a ll o f 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 Havannab, 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 five 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 got in 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 ACCIDENT ATFRESHWATER.--A public meeting of the inhabitants of Cowes was held at the Town-hall, on Monday la st, to arrange the b e st means for relieving the two widows and their children. A donation of ten pounds wa s . handed in by M r . M oore , house-agent, being the gift of her Majesty the Queen- Dowager. Her Majesty's charity is unbounded; and in this instance her noble example was followed in so liberal a manner, that great Lopes are entertained that more permanent assistance will be rendered than the families of the two unfortunate pilots could have expected. A highly-respectable c ommittee was appoi n t e d, an d 60 1 . was in a short time subscr ibed. An appeal h as a l so been made through the Hampsh ire 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'clock this morning with considerable spirit until towards noon, when it be came languid, but Mr. Willyams kept a-head. ELEVEN O'CLOCK. For Mr. Willyams Mr. Smith • •• ••• TWELVE O'CLOCK. For Mr. Willyams Mr. Smith ... 198 •.. 179 •.. 233 •.. 217 FOUR O'CLOCK. For Mr. Willyam3 ... ... ... 240 Mr. Smith ... ... ... 224 Close of the poll—majority 16 for Mr. Wrillyams. DEATH OF MR. ANTHONY BLARE.--We regret to state that the Right. lion. 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 confidence of the Marquis Wellesley when Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, and for many• years held the important office of Chief Remembrancer of Ireland. He was in his 63d year. RECORDEASHIP OF PONTEFRACT.—Mr..I3. Boothby' of the Northern Circuit, has received the a ppointment of Recorder of Pontefract, on the recommendation of the Right Hon. Sir George Grey. , In the reign of Charles 11. no provin Mal town in the kingdom contained 30,000 inhabit ants, . and only four provincial towns contained so many 118 10, 000. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY. TIMES. —Mr. 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 masterly 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 for all in the Legislature. 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 ence, and power; and they are a l so to l earn t h e p o li c y 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 select and prefer the particular statesmen likely to carry out their pacific intentions; they are to forego some other important considerations out of re gard to this special p o i n t. S uc h , and more, is the alte , 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 .Reine le vent." It is a matter of time, anl 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 masses 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 1835. Take the number which was then found sufficient. All the rest will follow." We admire the bold and sim ple 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-hall, 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 vie 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 ceelo. 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 Sclayonians, 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 Cloubtedly do so with a very good he;;t. - Mr. Cobden views all 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 not 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 hovered on the coast of Holland to compel its King to renounce halt his kingdom, when Napier blew u p A cre 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 tish 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 fur 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 me ans o f 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. Ile would rather talk of reducing our expenditure in the time to come than of the reduction which had taken place in our income in time past. He prefers applause 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. He 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 10,000,0001. in our army and navy estimates, with the best disposition to go striking off more and more as often as it may be found necessary to push ahead in order 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. . _ 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 bad 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, arid 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 class 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 us. We do not believe that they are to be caught. Would that we could say as much for the party chiefly in danger! Would that we could see some disposition to meet the wily and uscrupulous enemy on the part of the assailed ! As far as Cobden and his men sir? concerned, the sword is unsheathed, and war is proclaimed. Will the true guardians of the rights privilegesandandwh,are the of the people—will enlightened Conservatives, of the lawful guarantees of order, and theupholders claims of all—of the Q ueen on her throne as well as of the labourer in his cottage—s u ff e r ignominious defeat without a blow ? W ill they leave the land to the mercy of hired Democr ats, or will they, by_ w legislation, and steady co ration in the work of right andjustice, give peace to the empire and security to its institutions? Parliament is about to re- open ; it may be worth while to consider these questions before the Ist of February arrives. ADVERTISER.—The Manchester Financial Reform meeting was 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 rinancial reform, was all that was wanting to give consistency and effect to the movement which 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 sinecurist 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 legiti ma t e su bj ect f or 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 speeches 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. The speech of Mr. Cobden will obtain an extensive publicity by means 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. Ho even goes farther than he was then prepared to do. He now fixes on 10,000,0001., as the minimum amount of the reduction he proposes. That sum 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 saviags may be effected. Will it be believed that while, in 15335, we only spent 11,000,0001. in the main tenance of the army, navy, and ordnance, the cost is now upwards of 18,000,0001.? 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 oould 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 1ea5t25,000,000/. 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 thmselves. Better, therefore, to give up the unequal contest at once. Mr. Cobden, in the con clusion ()This 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 10,000,0001. " He would never cease the advocacy of this question till he saw the cost of our armies reduced to 10,000,0001.; 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 ho 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 he 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. He has carefully counted the cost, and weighed the consequences, before unreservedly committing him self with the present movement. He 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 Mane 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 desire. The meeting fairly and fully committed itself, not merely to the principle of financial reform, but to the minimum extent to which that reform shall bo _ _ carried. Manchester, the place in which 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 10,000,0001. a year, at the least, in our public expenditure. The country will follow the exam ple of Alanchester. From Land's-end to John O'Groat's, the cry will 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 of Parliament. 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 establishment of Mr.. Drouet, at Tooting, during the day (yester day):— _ _ _ " Surrey Hall, Tooting, Jan. 11, 1849. " Number of fresh cases presenting choleretie symp toms, 7; fresh cases of diarrhoea, 4; deaths, 7; under treatment, 103. 44 have been removed to convalescent 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. (Signed) " W. J. KITE, Resident Surgeon." ST. PANCRAS WORKHOUSE OFFICIAL REPORT.—IN CREASE OF CASES.—The 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, n o l ess th an 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 into a state of collapse. " Number of new cases, 40; convalescent, 11; under treatment, 116; deaths, 7; still in a collapsed state, 5. (Signed) "IL BIRD, Surgeons• " " W. WILKINSON, I , Y 1 Mr. Bird adds, that he has ordered baked mchuiltdtoan..aa Ind potatoes, with porter, to be given to each . _ , , the who is convalescent. He is perfectly convinced that only means of checking the premonitory y_ the disease is calomel, and only to oadiffers from that when there are °ramps. The diseas of cramps, having of 1831-2, in the general ab sence t perceived it only in two p dru i s n ia t e P r t °'ns opium of afierne:Pect to the state of the HOLBORN UNION.-- by Mr. Jackson, the house children report was givenbelonging lastto 0 Hospital, Gray's Inn•r oa d. etvlhFVeonitilinhgolborn Union, the tono,ing ._...“ One no w cats_ among the girls has b r thoseeet t e r who health ha t v lian e il() % t . b h e e e n n ad mitted. takenaucrkg at tacked 1 appear pe o dpe f o:i an t h rg e iwn . lei; much but not any amongst the boys. All the old cases are o u 'a u f e i nhd d i a rrh ma witted. (Signed) " Taos. CARR JACKSON, liott e Surg .6 Royal Free Hospital, J an . 11," 1849, P.M." eon. The children at the Ogl e - street establishment, taken by the Strand Union, are reported to be in a favourable condition, only two or three fresh cases of diarrhoea having made their appearance. It is said that Mr. Pierce Buler, 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 children to live with her.—Boston Evening Transcript. OUR GREAT FINANCIAL RE FORMERS. (From the Weekly Dispatch.) Mr. Editor,—lt is with the greatest pleasure that I have seen Mr. Macgregor, the Member for Glasgow, en tering upon the task of financial reform. It is true that his budget differs from Mr. Cobden's, and I am as anxious as any one can be that the public attention shall be fixed upon one plan, and that all the energies of the people shall be bent to carry it. Our enemies' motto will be " Divide and conquer." But Ido not fear but that upon a clear consideration of the two propositions they may be made perfectly to harmonise, and I therefore devote this letter to the task of show ing where they absolutely agree, and how, with a very little conciliation, the agreement may be made per fect. One thing is quite clear from the careful perusal of both, that each of our most able friends would do all the other suggests, if it were, in his own opinion, feasible ; that there would, therefore, be no compromise of prin ciple whatever in either, should he contend for all that his coadjutor proposes, that each sees the same good, and finally the same amount of good, he prospect, and that the differeuc© is simply in the means to attain it— in the amount which can be attained now, and in the por tion that is to be worked for first. Every earnest effort ought to be made to ensure the full benefit of Mr. Mac gregor's services to the public cause. Let it be remem bered that he has been a Radical free-trade suggestor to the Conservative Peel Government, that every step which Sir Robert has taken in the right road has been prepared by the labour of love expended upon it by our faithful, old, bnt almost unrecognized ally, that his convincing digest, intended only for perusal by a few officials, which found its way into the public press, heralded, as I predicted it would before the reform took place, the greatest changes which Sir Robert Peel made in the tariff, with the ono exception of the corn law repeal. That paper contained the soundest and most uncompromising doctrines, the ablest and boldest propositions, such as have not yet been fully carried out. Let us congratulate ourselves that, haying done so much to convert our then opponents, and to make them our fast and useful friends, Mr. Macgregor has now, at the very effectual period, thrown off all trammels of office, put himself into the ranks of the popular party, and given the vast benefit of his official experience, trained judg ment, clear observation, and unequalled classification of statistics to the avowed service of the people. Mr. Cobden proposes to go baok to the expenditure of 1835. I think he does so wisely. But the very wisest scheme must be founded on the supposition that it will be wisely carried out. Mr. Cobden's proposal sup poses peace, non-interference, real honest economy, the conscientious saving a prudent man would make in his own concerns. I am not at all disposed to trust the Whigs with the working of this budget. Aristocrats of any party cannot work economical reform; they divide mankind into two classes —gentry who cannot exist upon less than genteel stipends, and workers who ought to be happy on 9s. a week. The idea runs throughout their system Bishops with their thousands, Curates with their tens Colonels with their pay and tailors' cabbage, privates with out the decencies of life. One of each of the inferior classes is, now and then, moved into the superior one, for the name of the thing; but there are essentially two peoples, nobles and serfs, an d t h e sav i ngs which might be made from the superfluously paid will be kept up to keep them abreast of their class. The poverty of Great Britain is caused by having to maintain the finery of gentility in its servants. The Dorsetahire peasant and the Spitalfields weaver must pay for their protection, justice, and police, on the scale of lords, because the pro fessors of these Government trades are of the lordly class themselves. Therefore, Sir, cut the Whigs down by ten millions, and if they see that they can get no better bargain, they will take it, because above all they will keep office: they would do that if their own salaries were the only things voted; but they will take care that the econo my shall fail. They will strip dockyards, sell stores, reduce necessary force, run up debt and increased expense for the future, but not take a bit of gold lace from a tawdry uniform, or subtract a supernumerary Lord-in-Waiting from a !court pageant. They will not go to their work with a will. Like the Prince President of the French Republic, who holds his levees in the gardens of the Pa lais Bourbon, to show how much he requires the use of the Tuileries, b and chooses to forget that a Ripublican President needs no such far ces at all, they will make a parade of insufficiency, instead of an effort at good pro• vidiug. Democratic economy will be found to require a democratic Ministry. Else our plan will be disgraced and betrayed, by being confided to those who eate it, and who are only anxious to supersede it, and get back to the plunder of the old extravagance. Else, if we can depose the many -headed dynasty of the Whigs—that self-marrying family which rules us with the curses of many hungry monarchs—l do not see that Mr. Macgregor might not easily approach Mr. Cobden's measure of expenditure. Mr. Cobden's naval estimate exceeds Mr. Macgregor's by 200,0001; the main difference is in the army and the ordnance. Mr. Cob den, on the estimate of 1835, gives us 4,039,4291. for the army, 1,151,914/. for the ordnance. Mr. Macgregor takes 6,000,000/. for the army, 1,750,000/. for the ordnance. Here, indeed, is a difference of two and a-half millions. But, besides the question how far the colonies may be made to pay for their own defence, one great point in politics is perfectly clear, which fact ought to set the matter at rest. France is disarming. If any trickery or treachery of the Thiers and Molt school should baffle the reductions in the army, which Cavaignac and Lamoricilie will frankly work for, it is beyond all 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 of the right-minded French people, their perception of the necessity and humanity of peace. I will suppose the intriguers to be able to overbear such sense with any insane war-cry which a mere mob could echo. With our fleet reasonably, naturally superior, according to the extent of our colonies and seaboard, we have no need to fear war. What old woman dreads it from any other quar ter? What panic -monger manufactures thefear elsewhere? Which of the Free States would not look to England 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 bo thus strong we must be De mocratic. A Democracy is always powerful, and always feared. We must have a Democratic Ministry to com 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 6,200,0001. proposed, would keep us quite secure, though neither perhaps feared nor respected. Settle this question of expenditure as the nation has a right to expect it to bo 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 Is. 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, pin), and manufacturedk. M r. wines, a spices,fruits,teaat si l l s.per lb Macgregor would, Cobden 's 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 in this and one other feature are 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 th e difficulties of detail, but determined to do something effectual and at once, would cut the Gordian knot ; he would immediately turn the income taxe of three per cent. into a property-tax of five, P o l instead cent., and raise thereby 11,000,000/. 5,600,0001. This he would impose on all realised n, pro perty, much or little, not maiming the growing plan t , but u pon ne th atfair this bold and simp le it ll approach. sln looks a like Mr. Agreed upon this, and the two de vice en fr 's lu eco nomymustl his own.Cobd en's sympathy l:an it s l y S is s i o b ;asee ri X and th© advertisement duty roof. needThiss o u f bs te ti n tu m ti i o l n lions, an d not pre ve nten h arei s will sum uP the perfectly secure. A few plain figures propos removal of the malt taxs per cent. for Mr s . jo l n a s c o g f re t g ax or a , ti w en it , h ..g a jav i: at putting probate and income-tax at 3 2 ; cal as well as personal legacy duties eu • .•• £52,000,000 property, of ° s hi ll a revenue, sub stituting property -tai tiboeiti.ween proposed expenditure, accord-le of 1835, amounts to 40,171,096 gross an d net income, including charge s o f collee. Re t p i e ° a n l of advertisement duty t his for differ a e d n d e: to Mr. Mac ••• R eg p r e e a g l or o , f s m li a st lt o -t f a r x epeals ••• Mr to . e th ° e bd s e I s ' : ..• ••• ••• ••• 5,000,000 ••• 4,500,000 Mr. Cobden, in proposed by Add to 160,000 And th us y Total outlay ... ....C49,831,096 ou have less than fifty millions of expendi ture, with an i ncome of fifty two, allowing a margin of two millions, besides such reductions as might have bee , made in 1535, an d were not made, for a l l t h at may really necessary in expense above the scale of 1835, an . 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 England cannot afford that two such men should differ even in appearance. We must not give our enemies that comfort. The enthusiastic, single minded, 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 is an immense one; nothing less would suffice, or even be felt. It is the revolution we need, and should exact. Let me conjure these two great states men to agree, as, they so readily may, and confer 8 , 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 bas subscribed 2,000/. for the purpose of having the next agricultural show held in that city.