The Sun. — London, England, 1849-01-29 00:00:00

Now ready, in 2 vols., 21s. bound, SAM SLICK'S NEW WORK, TUE OLD JUDGE ; Or, Life in a Colony. " Full of the Clockmaker's shrewdness and quaint comleallties." — Examiner. " There is a hind of wit and wisdom in these amusing volumes." —Sun. " The style efJudge Hallburton is as familiar to us now in England as is that of Dickens or Thackeray. The Old Judge contains some admirable fun."—Weekly Chronicle. floury Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. On Tuesday, January O, WITH AN ILLUSTRATION BY LEECH, AND A PORTRAIT OF SCHILLER. THE FEBRUARY NUMBICR, OF BENTLEY'S AIISCELLANY. CONTENTS : The Coroner's Clerk. By the Author of " Experiences of a Gaol Chaplatn."—Frank Ila.r.ilton. By the Author of " Stories of Waterloo."—The Roue's Choice. —The Headlong Phrenologist. By Horace 34ayhcw.—The Kirg who became Young again. By Alfred Crowquill—Annul Mirabilis.—Wayside rictures in Brittany. —The Watchman: By Lord Maidstone. —A Day's Journey•in New Jersey. —The Swedes in Funen. By Hans Christian Andersen.—El lorado. —Schiller and his Contemporaries.—Chateaubriand's Early Life By Himself.—Calltormia and the Goldflnders.—Kemble's Saxons in Eng land.—The Cossacks.— Paris in 1848 and in the Olden Time.—Mrs. R o mer's Bird of Passage.-- amartine's Raphael —Neale's Closing Scene, Beckford and T.Oleyrand, &c. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-sires:. MDLE. JENNY LIND at EXETER-HALL. Mr. AMIE will. give a GRAND CONCERT. THIS EVENING, Jan. 29, on which occasion, in a idition to her celebrated arias and cavatinas, Mdlle. JENNY LIND ill sing a NEW BAL LAD, composed expressly by Jl r. Belle, entitled " The Lonely Rose." Mdlle. Vera, Miss Ilassano, Mi. s Durlacher, Signor Beletti, Slinor F. Lablache, and - lgnor Lablache will assist. M. Thalberg will perform two of his esteemed compositions. The Orchestra will be selected anti conducted by Mr. Balfe. Doors will be opened at Seven o'clock, and commence at Eight o'clock precisely. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE CIRQUE NATION 1L DE PARIS. EVERY EVENING. M. DeJean begs to announce that a SECOND Grand JUVENILE FETE will take place on WEDNESDAY MORNING next, on which occasion the Boys of the 'loyal Military Asylum with their Banda will attend. CHILDREN AT REDUCED PRICES. Extraordinary Performances of the Equestrian Troupe from the Cirtote National de Paris. Jl 'Caroline, Ducos, Amaglia, &c.—The celebrated Match of 29 Vaulters—Dance of the Four Globes, &c. Commence at Eight o'clock. MORNING PERFORMANCES, EVERY WEDNESDAY AND FRIDAY. Doors open at Half-past One, commence at Two o'clock. The Performances will terminate about Five o'clock. PRICES or ADMISSION. Dress Circle, 4s. Dress Boxe , , 3s. Upper Boxes, 2s. Pit, Arena, and Promenade. Is. 6d. Lower Gallery, ls. Children, under twelve years of age, vA.I be admitted at the fol lowing reduced prices : Dress Circle, 2s. Gd. Dress Boxes, 2s. Upper Boxes, ls. CA. Pit, Arena, and Promenade. Is. Lower Gallery, 6d. Tickets to be had of Mr. O'Reilly, at the Box-eflice ; and at Jullien and Co.'s, 214, Regent-street. T. JAMES'S THEATRE. Season 1849. FREIC El PLAYS and OPERA COMIQUE. THIS EVE NLN(4, The Perlormances will commence at Eight o'clock precisely, with LES DEUX VOLEURS. To conclude with the popular Opera Comique, entitled L'.A.MBASSADRICE. Mr. Mitchell begs also 4 o announce that, notwithstanding the in creased expenses of the present entertainment, the prices of admis sion are determined as follows : Boxes .. • • • . .. ss. Od. Pit •• •• •• • 3s •• • Od • Amphitheatre .. • • 25. Dd. Subscriptions for the season may be arranged at Mr. Mitchell's Royal Library, 33, Old Bond-street; Mr. Sams', St. James's-street; Mr. Andrew?, New Bond-street ! and at the Box-office of the Theatre, which is open daily from eleven till live. THEATRE ROYAL. XMAIta.X., Mr. B. Webster, Sole Lessee and Manager. Old llrompton. The public is respectfully informed that this Theatre has, during the recess, undergone very extensive repairs and alterations and the whole re-decorated. THIS EVENING. Will be performed HAMLET. Hamlet, Mr. C. Kean ; Queen, Mrs. Warner ; Ophelia, Mrs. C. Kean. To conclude with an Ar.,bian Nights' Entertainment, entitled CAMARALZANIAN AND BADOURA ; or, The Teri who Loved the Frill:T. Characters by Messrs. Bland, Keeley, Mrs. Keeley, Miss Horion, and Miss Reynolds. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPIII. ruder the direction o: Madame celeste During the Recess this Theatre has been entirely re-decorated, the original designs by Dhiby Wyatt, Esq , exteuted by Mr. Sang. A new Stage, Curtain, Act Drop, and Chandelier. An approved sys tem of Ventilation, &c., &c. The Private Boxes enlarged, Backs added to the Seats, and Stalls rendered mere comfortable. THIS EVENING Will be performed a new Drama, founded on Mr. Dickens's Christ mas Book, entitled TIIE HAUNTF:D MAN. Mr. Itedlaw, Mr. Hughes : the Phantom, Mr. 0. Smith ; A. Tetterby and Cs , Mr. Wright ; the Boy, Miss E. Chaplin ; .hilly, Miss Woolgar; Mrs. Tet terby, Mrs. F. Matthews. To be followed by THE ENCHANTED ISLE. Alonzo, Mr. Paul Bedford; Prospero, Mr. 0. Smith ; Arid, Miss E. Chaplin. To conclude with the laughable Farce of SEEING WRIGHT. ROYAL LYCY.IIM THE.AT!Z E. 'Under the Management of Madam.. Vestris. Sole Lessee, Mr. Chat he g. THIS EVEN'S Will be performed a new and original petite Comedy, entitled WIIO SPEAKS FIRST? After which, a new Fairy Extravagitoza, entitled THE KING OF TILE PEACOCKS. Characters by Messrs. Harley, John Reeve, Selby, H. Hall, Marshall, aid Y. Marshall ; Miss Kathleen Fitawil 'lam, Miss L. Howard, Mrs. Macnamsra, Miss Nlarshall, Miss L. Marshall, Miss Coleman, and Madame S'estris To conclude with AN APPEA I' 4 'rift: PUBLIC. Dress tioxec, 55.; Upper Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 2s Gallery, Is. No %air-price to any part of the house. The New I.lox-office , No. 5, Wellingto street, is *pen to the public every day, from Ten till Six. PRINCESS'S TREAT 1: 1 :. J. M. Maddox., Sole Lessee•and \•.antger. During the Recess this Theatre has been re,lecAwated and embel . Wilted In a superb and costly manlier ty Mr liurwits. A new Chan delier has been fitted, and the best air :n: men is have been made for the due Ventilation of the Theatre, and the eouuvrt and convenience • •t the audience. TII IS EVE\ING. Will be performed a new Opera, entitled MARIE, THE FOUND LING OF TRH LAKE. To conclude with a new grand Pantomime, entitled BLUFF KING HAL ; or, Harlequin and the Charmed Arrow. Harlequin, Mr. Bologna; Pantaloon, Mr. Paulo; Clown, 3lr. Flexmore ; Sprite, Mr. De Barr ; Columbine, Miss Fawcett. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Proprietor, Ur. W. Batty. Under ttil P.,tronap of her Majesty the Queen, his Royal Highness Prince Albert, &c. Enormous success of the Holiday Novelties, the most astounding in the Atetropolls.—A gorgeous Spectacle.—Brilliant Scenes of the gAreua.—A new comic Pantomime. Tlll4 EVENING, The curtain will rise at a Quarter to Seven o'clock precisely to the magnificent Spectacle of the WARS OF THE JEWS ; or, Tt.e Fall of Jerusalem. To be followed by an inimita,ll* display of SCENES IN TILE CIRCLE, Eupported by the first Equestrian talent of the (lay. To conclude with a new Equestrian Pantomime, entitled BOLD ROBIN HOOD • or, The Pretty White llorse and E n c h a nted Pr in. owls efSherwoo Forest. Boa-office open from Eleven till Five. ~ t age Manager, Mr. W. West. TO CORRESPONOI4:,NTS. No communication can be attended to nuless autheati , sated by the name and address of the writer. tleiected communications cannot be returned. THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE. JANUARY 28. ?.StratOMETER, Lowest, 33; Highest 44 Noon, 43 BAROMETER, 29.45—a fall of more than half an inch since ye3terday. WIND W.N.W.; fresh cold hr,:eze, with fine sunshine and clouds; heavy rain last night. JANUARY 29. TIIERMOWSTY.at, Lowest, 35; Ilighost, 43; Noon, 39, BAReMETEP, 29.73. WIND N.N.E.; heavy squttllA, with occaFional rain. HIGH WATER AT LONDON 1:1;.11,01.:. DAY orning, 59 ,in. Ailey 4 I Evenin , 20 ietin. after i To• •Nfosaow—Morning, 41 min. After 5 Evening, 1 min. after 6 vtilwi • 4 ,5° a 77. Nil:. s 7 0 , , ;"•!: 11 / 4 , 7' . , • ' • • ' • t oo - - 4 . 14s*" '"Y ,.. .4 44111110 11. 10;•• • •,•••• . ' sz Pr ATIA's LONDON, MONDAY, JANUARY 29 1849, Thri labours of the Financial Reform Association are beginning already to produce beneficial r esu lt s . Die Government recogni ses the spirit of thrift with Talich (according to the Lord Provost of Edinburgh) the entire nation has been seized. They respect the voice of public opinion, and measures of ec onomy and retrenchment are now seriously canvassed, a n d, - wherever practicable, brought i nto operation, which were wholly despised and disregarded for a long sse ries or years, and under various Admini tra tions. The first fruits of the movement may he discovered in the series of Minutes that, have just been issued from the Bard of Admiralty to the several dockyards, and the new TrJgulations introduced intluced for the management of those gigantic es t a bli shments. These Mi nutes (26 in number) will be found in extenso in another part lof our impression. Generally speaking they are movements in the right direction. They are in tended to produce an improved system of economical management, to remedy obviou s d e f ects, and to give a. 'regular and uniform action to all the component parts of the existing system ; "to satisfy Parliament and the country that these great national establishments are conducted with the same regard to economy —the same honest desire to make promotion dependent on merit, and the same scrupulous attention to those ininu'e details of management upon which the loss or gain of a manufacturing establishment depends, that in all private enterprises have constituted the secret of -success." These are undoubte,lly correct princi ples, perfectly unexceptionable in every respect. It is less surprising that the light should at length have fallen upon their Lordships, that, yielding to the in creasing pressure from without, they should so tardily, and at the eleventh hour, have adopted those obvious rules, without which a private firm would speedily be involved in bankruptcy and ruin, than that a proper system should so lone have been neglected ; that the abuses which sprung up during the pro trseted rule of Lord MELVILLE, and which prevailed during the short tenure of office of his late MAJESTY as Lord High Admiral, should bare been continued SUN. without notice or ob. ervation during the quasi-econo • mical regime of Sir J. GRAHAM, whose resumption of office was lately solicited, and also of Lords AUCK LAND, Da GREY, MINTO, HADDINGTON, ELLEN• BOROUGH, and even during the second assumption of office by Lord AUCKLAND as First Lord of the Ad miralty. Surely some persons must have been re sponsible during that entire period for dereliction of duty so scandalous. It would really appear as if the superintendents of the several dockyards had sup posed that there was en unlimited fund on which they could draw ad libitum ; that con siderations ofexpenses;were wholly beside the question; that their only duty consisted in providing work, without considering whether that work was really beneficial or otherwise. We have read of per sons evoking evil spirits, who were compelled to keep the attendant demon in constant occupation lest he might turn on his ernplo3er, and rend him limb from limb, if there was the slightest cessation of labour. It would seem as if the superintendents and heads of departments considered that some such ne cessity exi.ted, that they were bound to keep the men in full occupation, and if that object were at tained, that they were relieved from every other duty; that there was no necessity for a vigilant supervision over their subordinates, or a cordial and friendly co operation among themselves. Hence the costly and useless experiments—the unnecessary works—the ex travagant demand for stores—the carelessness of ex penditure, and the absence of any efficient check on malversation of any kind—or of any audit of the large pa) meats made annually for wages. The entire system is now to be changed, and all will be right if the new regulations can effect the objects proposed by their Lordships. The first five Minutes regulate the future working strength of the dockyards, the admission of appren tices, the hours of labour, the mode of muster, and the present amount of superintendence. By the first, the number of shipwrights now employed in the several yards are to be reduced to 3,500, and corre sponding reductions are to be made in the other branches of skilled labour according to the scale now in use for regulating the proportions between the shipwrights and other classes of artificers. Now we must confess that we do not quite approve of this working at the base of the column, this sacrificing in the first instance the hard working and badly paid labourers, who maintain their families by their own honest industry. It is, unfortunately, too much the practice, whenever the public indignation has been strongly excited, when an outcry has been raised against the shameless jobs perpetrated, and the overgrown salaries paid to use less drones and sinecurists, to attempt to pro pitiate public favour by making some show of retrenchment, and cutting off those who have no Parliamentary influence or powerful friends to defend their interests, and to speak out boldly and resolutely on their behalf. The unfortunate ship wrights who are tl:us driven from employment, and ruthlessly consigned with their families to poverty and destitution, have no friends or relatives in either branch of the Legi•+lature, no Noble or Right Hon. Cousins to depict their probable sufferings or the ex treme hardship of their cases. No voices will be up lifted within the walls of Parliament to expatiate on the impropriety of discharging them from the public service, although their conduct had been perfectly unexceptionable during the period that they were retained in the employment of the nation. v othing will be alleged respecting the grievance of - arresting their well•merited hopes of promotion. It Is only Post Captains that would have a just cause of complaint, if their chances of obtaining " a flag" were in any degree diminished. For their sakes, the number of Admirals must be retained at 150, or about one for every three vessels in com• mission, including cutter?, sloops, ketches, brigs, convict hulks, Sec., &c., and about ten times the number that could bs engaged in duty on any possible emergency. If any reduction is suggested in that number—if the savings that could thereby be effected are only hinted at, a hundred sympathizing voices are heard in indignant remonstrance. The Secretary of the Navy will own the soft impeach ment, and acknowledge the great hardship to de serving officers; and yet those officers receive good pay, although many of them render no servi:es therefor. We find that the first 70 on the list are paid 14s. 61 per diem, the next 100, 12s. 6d., and the remaining 362, making in all 532, obtain. 10s. 6d. per day ; this, be it remembered, is wholly distinct from the pay and allowances when in actual commission. They are, therefore, objects of the deepest sympathy, but no compassion is entertained for the bard working shipwrights or the other classes of artificers that may be engaged. They can only be driven to the workhouse, or 'compelled to earn a scanty and precarious subsistence in any manner practicable. , They have no fine feelings of ambition to sympathise with, and therefore they may be discharged without compunc tion or remonstrance. In other respects we have no fault to find with the Minutes. They are, as we have stated, steps in the right direction, but we trust that they may be speedily followed by some more important reductions in the higher branches. Again and again we have considered it our duty as journalists to insist upon the necessity of greater caution in the management of the collieries. Again and again our arguments have been enforced by some ghastly explosion, carrying death and desolation to many honest families, and mutilating limbs that might otherwise have toiled on manfully until the age of decrepitude. Another of these grievous catas trophes has recently started the public anew into an appreciation of the dangers to which we have so fre quently and so earnestly made reference. On Wed nesday last, in a pit situated in a beautiful dale in Yorkshire—known as the Darley Main Colliery, near Barnsley—eighty persons out of one hundred and five labourers, were suddenly destroyed by the ignition of the inflammable atmosphere. Up to the latest intelligence received from the neighbourhood the result of the search among the sufferers had proved as follows : Number of men and boys in the pit at the time of the explosion Dead bodies found up to eight o'clock on WI. d uesday Ditto found on Wednesday night am! Thurs- Persons brought out alive, who have since died Persons found alive, and still living ... 25 Persona still missing and supposed to be dead 3 —lO3 ... 103 ... 5 The details of the calamity are, moreover, as is usual up.n all such occasions, sufficiently horrify ing. Some were charred and distorted, same had their bones shattered, others their flesh lacerated, others their clothes burnt and blackened as with gunpowder, while the majority of the unfortunate creatures who were killed had received so many bruises and dis• figurements as to be wholly unrecognizable by their nearest and dearest relatives. While we are still shuddering from the relation of these hideous suffer ings, while we are still conscious that the relicts and children of the poor men who have perished while labouring for their maintenance are yet bewailing their misfortunes, it may not be idle to revert to the subject so intimately connected with the catastrophe— the origin of all these sufferings and the cause of all these misfortunes. We mean the culpable negligence with which the collieries are too frequently con ducted. Without intending m e in our censure all the collieries by. n any the m n ea o n rt s b l e o rn in a chi nd d id 5 the ill•arranged collieries the rule, and the well alcompelled to regard counties, we are, nevertheless , Even in those cases where the acc ident can never be positively traced arranged collieries as the exception. to its source, it is invariably ccnjectured by all expe rienefd men that it has arisen from an inoujiciency qf rentilation, coupled with the careleos exposure of a naked light. In the vast majority of these explosions we may safely aver, without any dread of contradic tion, that the cause of the calamity has been the simultaneous concurrence of these two dangerous oversights. There is to fear, there can be .no fear under ordinary circumstances that the detcnatiDn can take place, in consequence of the striking out of a spark from the collision of a pebble against the nail of a heavily ironed shoe. Suoh ca sualties may occur in an ill -managed powder Maga zine when the attendant fails to slip on the flannel slippers before his entrance, but in a coal-pit--the mere bupposition is preposterous. Now taking this assertion for granted—and no one we conjecture h ill , LONbON, have the temerity to glinsay its correctness—it is manifest that there are no insurmountable obstacles to the prevention of any such occurrences as this ex plosion at the Darley Main Colliery. For the ven tilation of the mine the proprietors should be held responsible under the heaviest penalties; and the possibility of uncovering to the subterranean atmosphere the lights contained in the Davy lanterns might be wholly precluded by having the " catch " of the wire-guaze effectively padlocked. Supposing by any improbable chance that the light should be come extinguished, it would surely be preferable for the miner to grope his way from the darkness than to hazard his own life' and those of his companions by negligently uncloakieg the smouldering wick. Any thing, in short, would be better than the constant endangerment of theikistence of a whole community through the foolish' jyit l tntion of an indolent over seer, or the absurd, : temerity of an ignorant workman. Until sonwprecautions of the nature here suggested shall have b6n taken, we shall continue to insist upon the urgent demar d for interference on the part of the Executive ; and shall never tire of bring ing the perilous position of the unfortunate colliers of Derbyshire and Staffordshire, and the other mining counties, under the consideration of the Home Secre tary. Unhappily, we are in no expectation that there will be any dearth of opportunities. Numerous and appalling as these explosions have been, we are satisfied, from a deplorable experience, that the ca tastrophe which took place at Darley Main Col liery on Wednesday will be anything but the last of the same description. Unless the Government interferes, promptly and peremptorily, these casualties will continue to be of perpetual recurrence. By mulcting the owners of the pits of heavy penalties, wherever it shall be proved that there has been a gross insufficiency of ventilation, and by rendering the padlock an essential accompaniment of the Davy lantern, we may put an end at once to the possibility of these destructive explosions. Not otherwise. THE FRENCH REPUBLIC We have received the Paris papers of Saturday and yesterday. Paris was on Saturday in a more agitated state than it has been since June last. The reactionary proceedings of the Ministers have excited a spirit of detestation towards themselves and their measures which is only equalled in intensity by that with which M. GUIZOT and his Ministry were regarded twelve months since, and we are sorry to perceive that their sins are in some degree visited upon the PRESIDENT of the Republic. The appointment of M. LHERMINIER one of the most violent of the parti pretre, to a professorship in that university, the au thority of which he has for years past been endeavour ing to destroy, has excited the just and natural indig nation of the students against the obscurantist Minister of Public Instruction, M. DE FALLOUX, who seems to have taken M. DE FRAYSSINOIS as his model, and to have accepted office solely for the pur pose of disorganizing the University of France. The students assembled on Saturday at twelve o'clock, a deputation of them presented themselves at the entrance to the Natiorral Assembly to hand in a protest against the nomination of M. LHERMINIER to the chair of Legislation in the College of France. The Questors on learning their object ordered the gates to be closed, and the guard to turn out. One of the officers of the Asseinbly then advanced to the de putation, received the protest from them, which was afterwards presented to the Assembly by M. MARTIN BERNARD. The deputation then returned and re joined their fellow-students who were awaiting their arrival at the office of the Democratie Pacifique in the Rue de Beaune. While these young men (about 1,000 in number) were quietly waiting in the court yard of the house in which the office of the Demo• cratie Pacifique is situated, four of the Gardiens de Paris arrived and attempted to arrest the student who appeared to be acting as leader—his comrades rushed forward and rescued him, and a crowd assembling, the porter closed the gates of the house. Soldiers soon after arrived and occupied the whole of the street. They entered the court of the house, and arrested twelve of the students. The remainder formed themselves into a procession, and proceeded to the quarter of the University, singing " A bas lour," to the air of Des Lampions. The Gerdes Mobiles, too, incensed at the recent reductions made in their pay and appointments, are by no means well affected to the present Ministry— icdeed, they are on the verge of open insurrection. Several of the officers of the Gerdes Mobiles were ar rested on Saturday by order of General CHANGAR. MLR. Open war has at length been proclaimed be tween the Ministry end the Assembly, and it will be a war a routrance. It will be in the recollection of our readers that M. LEON FAUCHER on Friday pre sented a measure to the National Assembly for the suppression of the clubs nominally, but really for the suppression of every public meeting of every sort and description. The law presented was in direct breach of one of the articles of the Constitution, and the in tention with which it was presented was to lay a trap for the Assembly. The National thus exposes the fligrant attempt on the part of the Minister to violate the law and to com promise the Assembly : . ART. 8 OF THE CuNSTI- a BILL PRESENTED BY N. TUTION. LEON FAL:WIER. . . " Cit!znis have a right to " Clubs are prohibited. meet together, to assemble Will be considered as such peaceably,and without arms, every public meeting which to petition, to manifest their shall be held periodically, opinions by the press or or at irregular intervals, otherwise; the exercise of for the discussion of politi these rights has only for cal questions." limit the rights or liberty' of others, and public secu rity." Thais simple comparison is sufficient to characterise the Bill, and to show its unconstitutional character. It is that policy a outrance which M. Guizot practised a year back with the success and results which are known to every one. It is the right of meeting, the violation of which by the old Government led to the revolution of ' February, violated again by a Ministry of that revolu tion itself, or rather by a Ministry of the counter-revo lution. It is the Constitution slighted in its spirit, and in its letter. What is the object of the Ministry, whether with respect to the Assembly, or with respect to the repub lican masses, in presenting such a Bill? Let us first speak of the Assembly. The Ministry lays a trap for it. It thinks that it Equally attains its object, whether the As sembly rejects or sanctions the Bill. If it be rejected, the Ministry hopes that the Assembly will thus render itself suspected by a certain part of the country of anarchical tendencies ; if on the contrary, it sanctions the proiisions submitted to it, the Ministry hopes that in so giving itself an example of violation, it will render ulterior violations mere easy ; it hopes also that the As sembly will become unpopular with the energetic, and, at the same time, sincere opinions which have looked on the It• public as a bona fide Government. But the Mi nistry will fall into its own snare. The Assembly, which has already passed a law to regulate the clubs, and which may mod:ay it if necessary, will know how both to re cognise, and cause it to be recognised, this double prin ciple—respect for individual right, and punishment of attacks made on the right of society. It will thus show :hat it is neither anarchical nor counter-revolutionary. As to the masses, as to those energetic and sincere opi nions of which we spoke just now, it would appear that the design is, by this audacious policy, to drive them to despair. Such, no doubt, is not the design of the Mi nistry; it is blinded by its false ideas, as to the normal conditions of democratic societies, and, in virtue of these ideas, it comes to decisions of which it does not measure all the signification and all the importance. However that may be, the good sense of the masses will show more reTect for the law and the Constitution than the reac tionary system of the Ministry." The bureau appointed to consider the urgency of M. LEON FAUCHER'S proposition reported on Satur day against its urgency, the members of the bureau declaring their hostility not only to the urgency of the measure but to the details of the measure itself. M. SENARD was the reporter. In his report, M. SE NARD clearly lays down that the Committee proposed the rejection of the " urgency," because it did not ap prove of the principles of the Bill itself. It was not, he said, the tutelary regulation of a right consecrated by the Constitution that was demanded ; it was the right itself that was contested ; for the exposé des motifs read by the Mi n i s t er o the Interior had frxilily admitted that the whole pith of the mea sure was in the words " the clubs are pro hibited." However . much the disorders which had resulted from the clubs might he deplored, and however anxious the Assembly might be to put an end to them, the Committee could not accept a in.:asure which would have the effect of an nulling a right consecrated by the Corstitution. So far the report was opposed to the principles of the B,: . As regards the urgency of the measure, Al. S ENAR 'D also declared that the explanations given by the , ter of the Interior did not justify it s noces ,it l‘h y,a in s i t :Appeared that the clubs, instead of in creasing,rapidly diminishing. On the 28th o f jul, decree regulating the clubs wa s passed, there were y v v thirty-seven clubs existing in . Se N n er t t ile day there were onl y eleven while at the' eleven ; and of these five had been . closed within the last few days by judicia.`l decisions. He therefore present should think t to do so thought that there were no groun ds for ur g ency ; but hat, on the contrary, if the .Assem bl y fit ultimately to adopt the measure , it ought a usual forms and guarantees. after solemnly considering the qatstion, with all the The Assembly confirmed the decision of the Com mittee, and decerrnined by a m ajority of 76 not to MONDAY EVENING. JANUARY 29, 1149 grant "urgemy" to the demankt of the i‘linistrrs. The numbers wEre— For confirming the r; port of the Committee 413 Against it ••• ... 342 Msjority against 'Ministers 76 This was not the only check received by the Ministers hi the course of the siring of Sty. arjay. 111. DEZEIMERIS presented the report of tl:e Com mittee on M. I.3lLnAuLi's proposition on the budg.et, which was entirely in favour of M. BILLAULT'S and in the discussion on the Council of State Bill they were again defeated. The Ministers were de sirous of having the Conncil of State elected by the new Assembly, but the clause enacting that they should be elected by the present Assembly was car ried in opposition to them. During the course of the sitting M. LEDBU Posxiv presented the following proposition, signed by 48 Members, for the impeachment of the Mi nisters : "Considering that the anti-Republican pulley of the Ministry has just manifested its, If by a fact which is an attack upon the rights of citiz?ns and on the funda taental princirle of the sovereignty of the peopl-; " Considering thct the right of meeting is a natural right, and a political right written end consecrated in the Constitution of the French Republic ; "Considering that, by the project of law presented yesterday, the 26th of January, tor the suppression o` the clubs, the Ministry have rendered themselves guilty of act which is a flagrant violation of Articles 8 and 51 of the Constitution ; " Considering that the Ministry is responsi'ble for its acts, according to Article 68 of the Constitution ;—the undersigned Representatives of the people demand the immediate impeachment of the Ministers, and their trial before the High Court of the Nation, to be there ju iged inconformity with Article 91 of the Con ;tituii,m. (lien., follows the Signatures.) " Paris, Jan. 27, 1849." But it is not the Ministers alone who are held re sponsible by the Republicans for these attempted violations of the Constitution; the more advanced members of the Republican party, and among them M. PROUDHON, are determined that the responsibility of the PRESIDENT shall be a!reality. M. PROUDHON, in his journal Le Peuple, thus speaks of the PRE SIDENT Behold him, then, this President'. he who ought to exert every nerve towards the strengthening of our re publican instituti ons , b ut w h o , by hi s ap a lhy and his intrigues, and scatt e ri ng around him corruption and despair, is ince ssant l y occupied in the disorganization of the Republic. Behold him, this equivocating Republi can, is Ito cc.mplained of being calumniated, and who drives from their places all true Republicans, and hands over prefectures, the bench, &c., to hordes of reactionists, to monarchists, proved through thirty years of trrason ! For him even the Republicans of the morrow are of too sombre a colour. Absolutists by race and of the old stock are the men for him. 'Lou's i3onapat to has set on foot the question of the dissuletion of the Assezab y.' Very good! M,:nday next, the Ai-se mbly will, in its turn, set on foot the question of the dismissal of tne President!" Le Peuple of Friday, in which the above appeared, was seized at the Post office, and an application was made to the National Assembly, on Saturoay, for leave to prosecute M. PROUDIION, who, in Le Peuple of Saturday, thus returns to the attack : We said yesterd ,y, • The strugg.e is between the National Assembly and Louis Bolesuarte. Louis naparte has laid down the question of the dissolution of the Assembly. On Monday next the Assembly aid lay down the question of the dismissal of the Presi dent.' The Procureur of the Republic, a subaltern of the President of the Republic, hes considered this judg ment disquieting for his superior, and has seized our number. Let him seize this alsol for we cannot refrain from saying, • Tug fiction of royal inviolability was abolished by the Constitution of December 4 t u Pre sident of the Republic is responsible.' Yes, and it is not we who say it—it is the force of things. On Monday a decisive battle will take place between the revolution and the counter revultiiiou—betw can the revolution, re presented by the National Assembly—and the counter revolution, represented by Louis Bonaparte. Is it possible to deny this? If the Assembly were dissolved the counter-revolution would meet with no more obsta cles: the Constitution would be destroyed—two chain bers would be re established — the inviolability and re eligibility of the President would be decle.recl—his civil list would be increased tenfold—monarchy be restortd —corruption reconstructed—and the people again en chained. On the contrary, Louis Bonaparte conquered, having resigned or being dismissed, the counter-revolu tion would be cast down—all its hopes be ruined irrevo cably and for ever." _ . The Reform publishes the following protest of the Republican journalists against the Bill for tne sup pression of clubs : The undersigned, considering that the right of meet ing and association is a natural right, antericr and pos terior to a positive law, and recognised, moreover, by the Constitution; "Considering that the law prrsented by the Ministry has also for its object to regulate the exercise of that right as the Con:titution re quires, but that it suppresses it in an absolute manner, end thus deprives the sovereign people of their most important political prerogatives; `• Considering that the Ministry, by the mere fact of the presentation of that law, attacks both the Constitu tion and the natural rights of rnan:—_ _ " Protest with all their c:lergy, and call on the As sembly to impeach the Ministers who have dui% d to at tempt that coup d'itat. "(Signed) The INfonne:—Charles R Vyrolles, chief editor; V. LiS iutre, din.ctor; Alexis Lagarde, Ca) la, P. Coq. " 1. doublique:—Eugene Barest°, chief editor; Chatard, Ilene " I'euple :—Darimon, sub-editor; Lang Faur, , , Vasben.er, Duchene, Ma;lier de Moutjar, senior, advocate of the I'euple. " evolution Democrutique et Sociule :—Charl,s Doles eduze, chic:l - editor; AtmOie L -maitre, Goutnain D. l'ilatte, Martin, Castiile,ll. Del,schize, A. Carle, 11. I3iji. Travel Affrunchi : —Teussenel. " aub3:— fes!ier du :11 , aay, Barnard, Garnet, E. Madier de Montjan, jun., J. 13. Bocquet. In consequence of these manifestations great un , easiness has been created in the minds both of the PRESIDENT and of his Minisers, and a conference, at which not only the whole of the Ministry, but MM. JEROME and NAPOLEON BONAPARTE, and MM. VIELLARD and ABBATUCCI were present, was held yesterday at the Elysee. The members of the Bona parte family and the personal friends of the PRE SIDENT recommended that he should distni,s his present Ministry, and send for MM. BILLAULT and DR LAMARTINE. Their advice was, however, re jected, and the PRESIDENT determined to commit himself with his present Cabinet in a struggle against the Republic, and in support of reaction. The plans discussed and, according to report, approved of, were these— " 1. To strengthen the Ministry by bringing Mar shal Bugeaud into the Cabinet ai Minister of War, and giving or.iere to the Prefects f.f the diffe.rent departments to get petitions signed, praying for the dissolution of the Assembly, and to have them sent to Paris, with deputa'. tions from all parts of France. " 2. To give the National Assembly notice of the re signation of the President of the Republtu (who would for the present be replaced by the Vice-President); and to announce an api.eal to the country for the 15th of February, in order that the country may have an oppor tunity of determining between the Assembly and the President, who, in the present state of feeling in Franco, would evidently be re-elected. "3. To dismiss the National Assembly by a COUP (eclat, which it is calculated might be done with the assistance of the army and the portion of the National Guard which would support the President." These are the three Modes agitated in the Council. It was also resolved, that the closing of the clubs, at least temporarily, should be persisted in. It is evident that the reactionary party are deter mined, if possible, to bring about a civil war between Paris and the departments. The struggle may be a long and bloody one, but it must terminate eventually, as all such struggles have ever terminated, in favour of Paris. Witness Lyons turned into Ville Affranchie in the first revolution ; witness the destruction of the Girondins ; witness the never failing result of every war in La Vendee. A dispute occurred on Saturday between M. TRELAT and M. TMERS, which ended in a hostile message from the latter gentleman. Thanks, how ever, to the intervention of Marshal I3UGEAUD and M. lIECKERERS on the one side, and to that of M. GREYT and RECURT on the other, the affair was amicably arranged. Some heavy sales in Five per Cents. were effected yesterday in the Passage de l'Ofera, which gradually brought down prices to 74f. 10c. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK-EXCIIANGE. JAN. 27. Boulogne and Amiens, 8 ex exchange Central of France (Orleans and Tierzon), 7%—Luxembourg (7/.), ',' —Northern of Franee, 7% ex div. Orleans and Bordeaux, 2 ex div.—Paris and Orleans, 23—Rouen and Hav:e, 9%—Sambre and Meuse, VA. At I. 6. Then sh-,:h itt u:7 ts.,t. one tg ok hack of iiiuo and de6ceunt; the Bank o oaa Fernando will. there hire, have to come to an accord with thos,, of Cadiz and Barcelona, in order to find means to realize the tr:ion of the Etter with the first, without 111,, , leltst in jury to their rei-pvetivo inttrt sts, and cv);h th , vpir - 6 - a ti , m of the Govcruicent. This object the barks of Cadiz and BareeloNt ;hall act as di-ccAint estaVshments of the BAlk of Stai Fetrwid, and their sh,t; hohler6 shhllreceivt•si;ars of . thatettablishment. • Art. 7. The Bank shalt have a fund of reserve equi valent to 20 per cent. on it. effective capitd, or f,rty millions of reeds, formed of the net profits resulting from its operations, deducting 6 per cent. for the pay ment of the annual interest cf its capital. The profits that may result after satisfying the exfenses and mire rest shall be applied, one half to the shareholders, and the other to the fund of reserve, until the latter reaches forty millions, when the whole profits shall he divided among the shareholders. " A - rt. 8. The shark holders F.hall only answer for the amount of their respective share. " Art. 9. Foreigners may be shareholders of the Bank, and Like part in all the operations of exchange and busi ness, but shall not obtain any charge in its govertin•nt and administration, un:ess they should be domiciled in the kinglorn, and possess a letter of naturalization ac cording to the laws. "Art. 10. The funds which exist in the bank belonging to foreignA.s shall not be suhj, , ct to reprisals ia case of war with their respective powers. " Art. 11. A year before the expiration of the term of twenl-five years conc , ded to the bank, the Government may propose its continuation to the Cortes, if the general assembly of shareholders should solicit it. " Art. 12. In case the capital of the bank should be reduced to one-half before the completion of the twenty five years, the dissolution and liquidation of the company shall immediately take place. " Art. 13. The bank shall occupy itself in discounting, drswing, lending, keeping current accounts, collecting payments, receiving deposits, contracting with theGu vernment and its dependencies competently authorised, with corporations and with individuals, without the es tabdshineut being ever uncovered. " Art. 14. The bank sIL.II not be able to make lozne upon its own shares, neither shall it deal in the public funds. " Art. 15. The premium, the conditions and guaran tees of the operations expressed in Art. 13, snail be fixed in each case by the brink conformably to what its regulations provide. In loans on public stoi.ks a reso lotion shall be previously made, which may fix the value of the elleets on which the loans have to be mado. This resolution shall be renewed every fifteen days. "Art. 16. The Royal Council (better known as the Connell of State) take cognizance in future of all the infractions of the laws and regulations that rule in the bank. " Art. 17. Thi' Government shall cause th' new sta tutes that are to rule at the bank to be formed with re ti-rei,ce to the preceding bas's. (SiAltd) " ALEJA.NDRO MON. " Madrid. Jan 19 1849." The Clamor Publico says, that NAUVAEZ has re solved to resign. Nothing is known of the movements of CABRERA since he entered the Sierra de Monserey. The insurrection in Guipu,coa appears to be ga thering strength. AuRENno ii at Onate, organizing his recruits ; and the detachments of EGANA, MAZO, and LANUMBE have entered Guipuscoa from France. AQUIRRA and LANZAN are also in that province. From Navarre we learn that two companies of the QUEEN'S troops, stationed at Oeliagavia have re tired into Pampeluna, fearing an attack from the Carlis:s. The Progressis•as of N.favarre have also risen, and it is said, that SALAMANCA has crossed the frontier. The Progressista insurrection is also pro gressing in Huesca and Arragon. The Carlists have defeated the QUEEN'S troops at E spinal. MADRID BOLSA, JAN. 22.—The Three per Cents. closed on the 22d instant at 20 cash the Five per Cents., at 9/ cash ; Debt without interest, 3/ cash. Coupon's, 6 paper. GE,MAN AND THE NORTHERN STATES. AUSTRIA. A Vienna letter of the 20th inst. announces that two police agents had notified to the editor of the Vienna Gazette that the Ministry required him to cease to conduct the journal This was stated to have been done ia consequence of his having published an objectionable article on the nobility in the non official part of the paper. It was stated at Vienna, on the 20th, that intelli gence had been received that the imperial troops had occupied Schemnitz and Kremnitz. The Austrian Diet at Kremsier, in the sitting of the 19th, adopted th e c l ause in ;he Bill on funda mental rights, which guarantees indivi tual liberty, declares that no citizen can be tried by other than his natural judgi , s, and specifics the cases in which arrests may be effected without judicial warrants. On the 18th a man named DRESSLER was shot at Presburg, in execution of the sentence of a court martial, !or having spoken caluminously of the im pirinl house, and baying excited to revolt against the Government. itnony li<•ry;.right acid loyal s.nti . . ._ Almihtyg= confirm,: to stretch . ~ut his i.i,•,,ci.iiii_r, mini over us: Mat lie make lc'iown to tilt , Kitig and the pe0p1,..: what is His will, um' had us in th,. , wsy which alone can enicluo. , to per (.an, , nt h,toroties.:!" WALLACII A letter from Bucharest of the 21 states that in telligenee had been received from Jassy that Prince ST , tURDZA had given in his resignarnin, and that ROSNOWANT had been installed ut KaLnakan. HAMB URGH. JAN. 24.—A gigantic enterprise is at this moment in contemplation, namely, to unite the Baltic and the North Sea, from Kiel to the mouth of the Elbe. Without such communication between the two seas, independent of the foreign ports of the Sound and the two Belts, the maritime power of Germany cannot prosper as it should. A few months since the Central Power sent Captain MOnIaG, Deputy to the National Assembly, to the places, for the purpose of obtaining exact information. The captain has accomplished his tnission with great zeal and skill. Ile proposes that the line of communication should go from Kiel, one of the best ports of Europe, if not of the world, to Bruntstattel, at the northern mouth of the Elbe, and on the other side to Cuxhaven, the southern mouth—and that this junction should be effec!ed by means of a canal of a perfectly simple construction, without sluices—which should traverse the soil of Germany alone, and be protected against every attack by the Eider and the Oder Canal. The result of the preparatory examination shows that the ground itself offers but few obstacles, the country being very flat, and in no p trt much above the level of the sea. The proposal that the work should be carried on by the Imperial troops, who will probaßy be assembled in great numbers in the Duchies during the spring, is highly approved. SPAIN. Madrid journals of the 22d have arrived. The Gaceta contains the following project of law re organilir:g the Bank of San Fernando : " PROJECT OF LAW. "Art. 1. The Spanish l3auk of San Fernando, estab• 16.hed in Madrid in virtue of the royal decri e of Feb. 25, 1847, for the term of twenty-five' }ears, shall be re•or ganised with the capital of 200,000,000 of r, Ids in hand (eitctivo), representtd by 100,000 transferable shares of 2,000 reals vellon each. " Art. 2. The bank shall have the exlusive faculty of issuing notes to an amount equal to enc half of its paid up capital. To issue a greater number of notes, a law will be required. The notes shall be payable to bearer and at sight, at the establishment in Madrid, and at those which it may form in the provinces. "Art. 3. 1 be bank shall be obliged to keep constantly in its treasury, rind in specie and bullion, a third part at least of the amount of the notes issued, in order that it may at all times maintain with the other values an effective guarantee superior to the amount of notes in circulation. " Art. 4. The value of each note shall not exceed 4,000 real;, nor be less than 500. Their falsification shall be punished according to the laws. "Art. 5. The bank shall b© able to establish, with Royal approbation, subaltern establishments in such towns Of the kingdom al it may think proper. PRUSSIA. Accounts received this morning from Prussia show that so far as had been ascertained the liberal prty hive gained more triumphs in the elections. At Berlin they have two-thirds ; at Potsdam 80 out of 140; Magdeburg 237 out of 275; Treves 73 out of 96 ; Munster 75 out of 98, In some parts of Berlin the elections caused great agitation, and at the Casino of Fredertchstadt there was a fight, which had to be put down by the public force. The victory of the liberal party was not expected. The King of PRUSSIA has just conferred on M. GUIZOT, member of the French Academy, the order of merit for the arts and sciences. The Duke of SAXE COBURG has arrived at Berlin. SCHLES WIG-HOLSTEIN. WARLIKE PREPARATIONS OF DENMARK. ALTONA, JAN. 23.—The Danish Diet, in its sit ting of the 19th, resolved that all the men of the year 1826 who are amenable for service shall enter the army, and that those who, on the 10th of September, 1848, purchased their dismissal shall have their money returned to them, and re-enter the service. The earnestness with which Denmark is pursuing the re inforcement of the army was proved also in a recent sitting of the Diet, on occasion of the discussion of the sth paragraph of the Wehr Law, when the Minister of War declared that he could not possibly spare the men who had been called in by virtue of the ordinance of Sept. 23, 1848. The Minister of Finance declared at the same time that until further notice no obstacle would be opposed to the exportation of horses, either to the duchies of Schleswig and Holstein or abroad. Baron PECIILIN, the former Danish Ambassador to the Confederation, is gone to 011mutz, for the pur pose of conveying the congratulations of the KING to the young EMPEROR. A small detachment of Holstein Jagers, who were stationed at Fohrballum, on the boundary of the Danish Enclave Ballum, was attacked on the evening of the 18th by a band of peasants, armed like the Landsturm, consisting of several hundred men. The Schleswig-Holsteiners were obliged to yield to superior force, and quit the field. Several shots were fired. Troops were immediately sent to their assist ance from Flensburg. The Jager corps were the executive body charged with superintending the col lecting of the taxes.—Cologne Gazette, Jan. 27. BAVARIA. OPENING OF THE CHAMBERS. MUNICH, JAN. 22.—The KING opened the Cham ber this day, with the following speech from the throne : " Councillors of the State, and Deputies of the King dom,—This is the sec( nd Diet I have opened since my accession to the throne. The first has scarcely termi nated its important work. The country may, lam per sualed, look back with satisfaction upon these months, tbr much has been affected in this short period. Nearly all the fundamental laws have come into operation, or are on the point of doing so. It will be the duty of the present Diet to continue the work which has been com• • menced in the fullest comprehension of the interest of the people, and a due appreciation of the requirements of the times. " The following projects of law will be submitted to y ou: - " The prescribed report respecting the expenditure of `the public Exchequer, and the state of the liquidation framed for 1845.46 and 1846-47; the survey of the re quirements of the State, and its total income; a project of law relative to a general system of exchange for Ger many; projects of law relative to the administration of ju-tic‘t. penal Laws, and adjudication of transgressions of the press in the Palatinate; project of law on the order of baAness in the two Chambers of the Diet; a poll:* penal law; the revision of the commercial edicts; revision of the district laws; rev Lion of the provincial laws; a law relative to the formation of the Chamber of the Councillors of State, a law on ai,ociations and meetings, a law on the armament of the country, a law on the position of the Jews (relative to their emancipation), a law against tumults and the obligation of making com pensation for damages caused thereby, a law on the changing of religion of minors, and several other pro jects of law of lessimportance. _ _ " I have faithfully rind con'cientiously kept the pro raises made on my accession to the throne, and I will maintain them. Governing as a constitutional King, in the sense and spirit of the administrations, this is the groundwork, the foundation, on which we stand, and which we may not quit. Truth was and ever shall he the basis of my government. Equality and legitimate liberty reign in the government of the state and in the Church. Anarchy shall be subdued with all my power, and I reckon upon your co-operation. All the nations of Germany are convinced of the necessity of a vigo• rous and comprehensive tlky, embracing the whole of Germany. I also am animated with the desire, and trust, with your assistance, to reach this goal. " The requisite new laws and alteration in the Con stitution shall be submitted to you. Bavaria could not remain unscathed amid the storms of the tim-s; but Oven iu the midst of these she gave au heuelsrable les• ITALY. The Contemporaneo of Rome, of the 19th inst., state 3 that, in consequence of the Duke of LORENZO SFORZ,I having resigned the command of the National Guard of Rome, the Provisional Government had appoißted General FERRARI to those functions. The General had commanded the division of troops which returned from Venice. The Corriere Mercantile of Genoa of the 224 quotes a letter from Gaeta, of the 13-,h, announcing that the Holy FATHER is seriously indisposed. The Rivista Indipendente of Florence, of the 18th, states that 1,500 Spaniards have landed at Naples. King CHARLES ALBERT, accompanied by his Mi• nister of War, left Turin on the 24th for the for tress of Alessandria. IRELAND. DUBLIN, SUNDAY EVENING.—The northern papers report frfsh acts of incrndiarism. A stack of oats, the produce of six acres, the property of Cap tain Garner, who resides within two miles of Belfast, was consumed on Friday in the open day. It is sup posed that the deed was perpetrated by means of com bustibles thrown over the wall 'y a person who was seen driving rapidly past the premises, at the time the fire broke out, in a gig or tax-cart. An investigation, by order of the Government, has been held, to inquire into the circumstances con netted with the late affray between the incendiaries and the two girls Mlreagh; the inquiry was private but it appears that there are some doubts whether the whole thing was not a fabrication. Six, however, out of the eleven magistrates, were satisfied of the truth fulness of the statement made by the M'Veaghs. A Cork Repeal paper announces, that secret socie • ties are extending themselves through that county, they are composed chiefly of the humbler classes. The paid guardians of the Athlone Unioi who were appointed about a year ago are to be superseded, the Commissioners having sent down an order authorising the election of a Board of Guardians on the 25th of March next. The change does not ap pear to have given satisfaction. THE UNITED STATES. LIVERPOOL, SUNDAY EVENING. The packet ship Waterloo has arrived with accounts from New York to the 12th instant. Money was easy, and loans on call were made at 5 to 6 per cent. per annum ; Treasury Sixes were quoted at 108 ; United States Sixes, 1071; ditto Fives, 99t. Exchange on England, 81 to 9, *sing heavy. Cotton—The sales are 2,300 bales at firm prices— Upland and Florida good ordinary, GI ; middling to good middling, 6i to 7; middling fair to fair, 7 to n ; fully fair to good fair, 7 to 74. Bread stuffs—Tle excessive cold weather had caused a slight advance in flour. Genessee was quoted at 6 dolls. to 6 dolls. 121 c. ; extra ditto, 61 dolls. to 7 dolls. 25c.; Southern, 5 dolls. 56c. to 5 dolls. 62ic. Corn Meal-3 dolts. 12ie. for Brandywine. The supply of grain is light. Sales of prime Southern corn here made at 62g. Provisions—Pork was firm, with sales of mess al 16 dolls. to 16 dolls. 50c., and prime at 14 dolls. 25c. to 15 dulls. Beef in good demand at 17 dolls. 25c, for prime mess. Cheese-6 to 6i. laird-7/ to 7,1-. Freights—Cotton to Liverpool id. freely offertd and 5-15 hs to id. asked. Mr. Calhoun's Southern manifesto had been pub lished. The South is urged to unite and to prepare for a concerted defence of its rights, in case alleged aggressions should be pursued by the North. No immediate or definite measure or resistance is recom mended, but harmony and preparation are forcibly presented as necessary on the crisis. The Hon. A. H. Sevier had died. At Baltimore the weather was intensely cold; the harbour was frozen, and markets stationary. The Board of Health at New Orleans on the 10th pro nounced the cholera no longer epidemic in that city. The malady was rapidly disappearing. Business was resuming its accustomed channels, and citizens were returning. SOUTH AUSTRALIA We have received files of papers from Adelaide to the Bth August inclusive. The Forfurshire, with the new Lieutenant• Go. vernor, Sir H. Young, on board, arrived at Adelaide on the Ist August. The Forlarshire sailed from Plymouth on the 27th April. The A ustralian papers are otherwise devoid of intelligence. The Abberton, which left Plymouth on the 24th April, had arrived, as also the barque Gratitude, which left London on the 14th of the same month. MADLLE. JENNY LIND AT BALFE'S CONCERT AT EXETER HALL.—In addition to Signor Lablactie and M.demeiselle Vera, who will appear for the first time at Exeter Hall this evening, at Balk's concert, ade moiselle Jenny Lind will sing several of her most popular arias and cavatinas, and also, for the first time, a new ballad composed expressly for her by Billie, entitled " The Lonely Rose." Even Exeter Hall, vast as is its area, will:not be sufficiently large to accommodate all who would fain be there to-night. _ .. FRENCH PLAYS.—St. James's Theatre was, on Friday evt:ning attended by the Duchess of Inverness, the Prince of Orange, the Russian Ambassador, the Ba roness Brunnow and Madlle. Olge de Lechner,lthe:E4rl and Countess Granville, the Marquis of Augleses, Lady A. Pagel, Lord C. Paget, Mr. Spencer de Horsey, Miss de Horsey Lord Brougham, Lord Wm. Lennox, Earl of Besborough, Lord Cranbourne, Sir Andr.•w Barnard, the Hon. Stuart Wortley, Mons. Eugene de Gerlaohe, Mrs. Dyne Sombre, the Countess de Landsfeldt, Mrs. Dennistoun, Mrs. Milner Gibson, Sir Henry Webb, Lady Quentin, and not the least of the distinguished person ages present, Marine. Jenny Lipd, &c. — REDUCTION IN THE ARMY.—In the early part of last week we stated that there was a probability that a reduction in the army, to the extent of ten thousand men, would be propostd in the estimates to br submitter? to Parliament in the ensuing F4e:sion. We are informed that the contemplated arrangement will be carried out in the f Bowing nrat:ner, viz. : Three regiment's 41,000 men each, who, having be. n sent to India, will no longer reintiu charge upon the British el , tablishtnent ... 3,000 Sever► rejments o: 1,000 men each to be re duced to 750 ... ••• ••• ••• ••• 1,750 Thirty-six r..,;lintnts o`' ROO men each to be re- dueed to 750 ••• ••• ... 1,800 Fourteen doillits ot 460 tn , n tach to be redueel _ _ to 230 .:. ... 3 220 deio . :oi 400 tut n to be reduced to 170 —Chronicle. 10,000 We are enabled to state that there is no founda lion whatever for the report - Which we e. pied fmtn tn 4. Corsatre. to the afect that some conanunicat.on hid taken place between the ex-King: L qua Pnilippe and the President of the French Republic wi h respec to the conditional return of the ez-so.) al Faunly of France._ Times. - The Countess of Jersey and Lady Clementina Villiers left Middleton Park, near Bicester, on Saturda) lust, for Belvoir Castle, on a viFit to the Duke of Rut • land. The Earl of Jersey has nearly recovered from !at attack of goat, and t% ill join the circle visiung the Duke of Rutlaud iu the course of the intl. • t 1.1 - 4 iaa 11 ;t A L z Ci t V. /I.ll' f El? Til lIEE. TIIO Sales of COtto'l at L SaTurday were e.tirnat,d st 12.000 tilt d 6 000 American on sp cuMiou. Pr:. t-s of “i na were fully Th , • r a 311;1. to 5i 1., 2 000 R enaia _ . 5:1., - ari 1,050 Sur iios Ma, firm, with a fa:r 8,000 Am, IAIP , at. 4a , 1, to The Con:irk n;411 amv.l tereit nqn t'.)ll any tocr e4utile det:tils tiny t i ffi r d, all:, the vien , t“ken i s not so favourable as of L.te. Y.eltQ ii;" 111 UnitA States advices of ;he 13th" instant report favourably of tho produce markets. A good. business was likely to be done upon th, re-opening of the navi gation, and the Csli'ornian trade would bo much looked after, perhaps overdone, for, with ail their riches, the gold finders could not be ex pected to eat and drink, or use clothing and necessaries to d.,uble the extent of their most ex travagant wants. The shipments to C;4ltfornia, unless emigration goes on rapidly, will soon outrun the con sumption, for ev. - ry Pacific port wee exporting to the land of promise, and tie are in the &id with 13roq.er Jonathan. The following is part of a report upon the iron trade, received this morning from Birmingham:— The excitement of quarter-day has now subsided into a state of quiet activity. Both manufac turers and lig makers have sold freely, and the works of the district are fully employed upon the or ler3 then or previously taken. The rates at which contracts were concluded upn that occasion appear to have given very general satisfaction, and are being gradually acceded to by parties who are in the habit of waiting till the close of the month to avail them selves of any shade of advantage that might be obtained in a wavering market; we have not, how ever, heard of the slightest disposition to give way, but the tone of those who cherished extreme opinions of ap proaching high prices is rather moderated, while confi dence is steadily reviving, and a well-maintained firmness ch , trac!erises the every-day transactions of the trade. There is no alteration to-day in the Corn Market. The embarrassment of anoilier East India firm of great respectsbility, that of Robert ligltutun and Co., became known after banking [tours on Ssturday. Scot land will Lutfer probably more than our own manufae• turing districts. The Paris news had a partial effect upon the Funds on Saturday, causing a reaction from 914 to 91k 4. This morning thEre is a further decided change for the worse, and more attention is paid to the state of affairs in France. No one can form a definit ~ p inion as to the future, but the idea seems to be that the Assembly will avoid a ci,llision„ if it be really ascer tained that the voice of the country demands a disso lution. Consols opened at 90i to 91, taiclied 91*, and have since been marked 9oi 4. The New Three and-a- Quarter per s. have b; en 91:1 to 92k, and the Three per Cents. 904 to 91+. Bank Stock is worth 194. Ex• chequer-hills have been 445. to 50s. premium, according to the date. It is stated that the Scaleswig-llolstein truce has been broken by some peasants. In the Foreign Ala:kei th , re is likewise a reaction. Nlexiesn are down to 25+ Aid 25. We still conceive that this is the result of over bpEculation for the rise having caused too rapid au advaneo. Equadur Bondi are 2i to 3. CniftEn 91, and Grenada 151. Spanish Five per Cents. have I.hen 144 to 154, and Purtugne,e Four per Cents. 261 to 271 liiitc;; Two-run-a-11%h per Cents. 49 to 492; U - ,e Five per Cents. have be, n 771 and 784. AL Atusier.atn, on the 27th instant, the matket was firm, t)13:4 prices were rather on the advance. Railway Shares ii4ve been Are ird by the reaction in the Fuods, and as the fortnight's account has to be ad justed to-morrow and on Wednesday, prices will flan tuate ace,rding as thu spctilaturs are Bulls or Bears. The mist pi lc. ptible reaction is in Caledonian, Great Northern, Brighton, blitiland, North Stafford, South- Eastuxo, and Ltie York lines, but the others are lower. French Shares droop. 0 <E ou):1 , 11si 0 , • k .4.1 r: A- - LIND, :'CLOCK. , RIC ES. ' enk Stock ... 194 193 3 0 Cent. Reduce,: Anns 9l th, l i f 90qi 90% 3 iAt C ant. Consols Annuities 9l 91 1 4 92 , 4 9034 :,,v, 3m per Cent. Anne....... :2 93 % 92,4 91 3 % 91 ~ ~crig Aube. to expire J an. 1860 1:(!ia Bonk, I,uout. Ditto under 1,0001... .... 43_p Cin3olS for Account 9l 90% 91,4 90% 9015 tt,,, ct; equer Bills. 2%d. & 2a. 1,0001. March ...... 1,0001. June 5O 43 p 51 p 5001. Match 45 47 44 p 44 P 500/. June Small, June P RICES OF FOREIGN FIHNDS o CLOSa a O'CLOCK. rRICES. Chilian Bonds 6 per Cent.... ....... 91 91 Equador Bonds Grenada Boads, 1 per Cent. 14% 15, .:,.s. xican, .:, per Cent. 1846 25% 26 25 24 "fit Ditto, Account 25 % 1A 25,s Peruvian Bonds, 6 per Cents — 49 t'ortugueee h per Cents. — Ditto, 4 per Cent 27 27 1 ,4 26 1 ,4 2 6 S Litt°, Account —27 A 4 panisti 5 per Cent. 1840. Ditto, Passive Ditto, 3 per Cent ..... ....... Venezuela Bonds, 2 1 4 per Cent — 19,4 i.»vi ends on the above payable in London French Rentes, 5 per Cent. Exchange —f. —c. 25f. 40c. Dutch 2% per Cent., 12 Guild. Ditto, 4 per Cent. Certificates 78% 77 IA 7.; 73 Vs f RICES OF pAm. BUSINESS DONE C LOSLI G Ai L WAY SHARES. AT ONE O'CLOCK. PEW Et 4. berdeca ... f.O ...... 21 20 ...... ..... 20 Amber. Mott., Boston, and Eastern Junction 4M ...... ...... ... ..- 13 rehire and Galloway.. 7% — - eifas , & County Down 20!4, ..... Berks & Hants E.xtene. (Gt. \V est. Per.s per ct.) 5 .... ..••. . • • ..... irmffigbani and Ox rd Jurct., calls duly pad, or witi a guaran. 20 - Do, withoutguara tee 20 ... . -- ~ i : iiii;,g, V Olv erifton, and Dudley, calls duly pd, or wita guarantee 11 ...,,,, Do. withoutguarantee 10 . i. ming., wolvertepton, . and Stcur Valley IN. 145... ... .. . .....• iirkenhean, Lancashire, ant: Cheshire Cheshire Jung 10 ...... -. 0 ton. Starntd 4 liirm. 5 . .... •. ...- ris!ol ..nd E: , :ete Ditto, l'hir , I' ' ‘'.nckinghtunshire... 161. 4a. ..... 2LA tits. ,i dis ... ... '„,. i , . aledonisn Lit:. Quarter Share s 11 1 ,4 .... .. 4.4 .)B ; , 4 Do. Ne 4 tot. Pref.. . 7%... .. 8 , ,-4 Ditto, , ...lydesdaleJunc 50 bester .!,!:; tinlynead... 50 • 23 1 4 1 Ditto, Preference - tarence Do. Ist Class, 6 per et Do. 2d Class, 5 per Ut. 10 .. . Do. Government Loan, 4 per Cent. _ Direct London & Ports mouth ~.- •• - uhlinand Belfast June. 35 ..... 04... ,undalk & Enniskillen 22% . — __ .. sat Anglia. 254, L. & E. and L. and D...... 25 ..... 4%. Do., 181., E. & i i .... 18 ...... 23i 3 ••.. 21 s De., 3.. tOs. .... •••—• % Eaztern Conk:ties... Do. New Guarunteed 6 per Ctnt. .... ...... 10 ...... 11% ll% Ditto,Extenston,s per Cent., No. 1.......6/. 13s. 4d.... 1 4 p.... l4 P Ditto ditto, No. 2...61. 13s. 4d... % p % P Do. North. or. h.asteru 5U ~.... Do., 5 per cent. .-. Do. Quarters Do. New Eastern Union, Clang A (late E. U. Shares) 25 Ditto, Class A, ditto... 3 % Ditto, Class B (I. & and B.) 22% — Ditto, Class C, ditto... 20 . .... 6% Do. Scrip (6 percent.) 20 Ditto (C. &E.) guar. 5 per cent. .... ...... 21,4 — East Lancashire Ditto, New ...... •••••• 21 Ditto, New Quarters 6 1 4 — Do., 6 per Cent. Pre ference Quarters 6 1 , _ "" - tN 19 I`o l 4 A Last Line()lns - hire ...... 25 cunburgh and Glasgow 50 Ditto,THait Share; ... 20 .. — .... Edinburgh and Northern 25 Ditto, Newport l5 .• ••• •••.•• 000000000 Txeter,Yeovil, & Dorch 2% . . .... Exeter and Exmouth... 218. tilir.gow, Dumfries, and Carlisle ....... ... —B4 6s. 8d — ... ' Glasgow,Kilmar., & Ayr 50 ...... Do•Preferenee Consul. Great Northern Do., 7z A Deferred Do., 1 / 2 B 6 per Cent guaranteed ... Do. Extension 2 l /2 ...... ireat South. and West. ( lreliind) rent North of England 100 ...... ..... Ditto, New, 401. ..... ... 40 ..... Ditto, ditto 25 liar°, New, 301 3O DIU°, New, 151— ...... 14 .. . Great Western 100 5 0 2, 1 - t 3 .. 21% i I 9A D Y: ' .' t t 1 U ): 1 ,4 ./2 allures 6".ar 1 Ditto, lain... ~..... 20 .... U Aderstield and .11,aneh. SU 0.... Ditto, thirds .... ull and Stlby •• •••• iiitto, Halt' Shares ... 25 •••••• .... 1 'MCI 174 Share. Alic,:::A •er Had C:trii4; e i.•:.i.to, Thirds La.i...-asii ire & Yorkshire 93 lAt CO, ftiLLO iii Ditto, t y2 Slier Do. Quarter Sh ares bo. Fin h , .... ... 10 1:.0. SixtEeliti , s 6 14 — , i illra .; i ,, 14.)..... 13 ••••• 5 3 . 4 ....... ..... •••• o. :—.w,!;l:. 0 per (...' 43 9 4,i ,•. 000000 34 it to 1 4 (late Hud dersfield and Shed.) 43 •• ..........• ;o.( W,,koth.,ll,roti 7; 1 4 7i 2 X .. . . “tioir st. Do.( W. Union) •• I.)o.(i're,:ston yro ) Du. .Sharoa(l)... 94 , Leeci,3 amt Bradford SO Leade, DON t bUry, 50 . Do.. ij.df :Shares Do., o.lu , 6crip••• .... •• Lads e.f.; ; . ..... • , ~. 4o •• • ...... Do., Prefer., 1.) ptr LA. SI A4 - .............. . ..-~ ~" A BE I Nor Nor' or Nov 021 fo Rea( R. 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