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London, Hugh Cunningham, St. Martin's-place, Trafalgar square. Preparing for publication, in 2 vols. Bvo., with Portraits, &c., _ THE LIFE OF ADMIRAL VISCOUNT KEPPEL, FIRST LORD of the ADMIRALTY in 1782-3. By the Hon. AUGUSTUS KEPPEL, Rector of Warham, Norfolk. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. THE NEW NOVEL Now ready at all the Libraries, in 3 vols., THE SCHOOL FOR WIVES A NOVEL. By the Authoress of " Temptation." Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. 13 Great Marlborough-street. THE FIRST - VOLUME OF MADAME D'ARBLAY'S DIARY AND LETTERS, Will be ready for delivery with the Magazines, Feb. 1. Orders received by all Booksellers. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. HIS MAJESTY the EMPEROR of AUSTRIA, naving AUTHORISED and GUARANTEED several DIS TRIBUTIONS of MONEY DIVIDENDS, which (thou gh hey are NO LOTTERIES) offer many possibilities of °baili ng LARGE FORTUNES, HEINE BROTHERS, at HAMBURGH and at LUBECK, Are now SELLING ORIGINAL BONDS for the said DIS -7/I.IBU HONS. Persons desirous to purchase for the Next Distributions may revive, PREVIOUS to giving any orders, the PRO SPECTUS and PARTICULARS,upon_ addressing a line to . HEINE BROTHERS. The NEXT DISTRIBUTION contains DIVIDENDS of £25,000 £6OO £llO £7O 5,000 400 100 60 1,500 . 200 90 50 1,000 150 80 Sterling. 800 120 THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. THIS EVENING, JAN. 27, Her Majesty's Servants will perform the Play of THE MERCHANT OF VENICE, from the Text of Shakspeare. Dtke, Mr. 0. Bennett ; Antonio, Mr. Phelps; Bassanio, Mr. Anderson; Lorenzo, Mr. Elton; Shylock, Mr. Macready ; Portia. Mrs. Warner ; Neris.a, Mrs. Keeley ; Jessica, Miss E. Phillips. After which will he repeated the New Christmas Pantomime, caled HARLEQUIN AND DUKE HUMPHRF.Y'S DIN NER OR, JACK CADE, THE LORD OF LONDON STONE. Doors tt be opened at Ha'f past Six, and the Performance to begin ;t Seven o'clock. Boxes 55., Second Price, Z. 6d. Pit 35., Second Price 2s. Lower Gallery Is. 6d., Second Pr ee Is. Upper Gallery Is., Second Price 6d. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN. • UNDER the MANAGEMENT of MADAME ViSTRIS. THIS EVENING, JAN. 27, Will be repeated Bellini's Opera of NORMA.—Pollio, Mr. W. Harrison; Flavius, Mr. Clement White, Oroveso, Mr. Leffler ; Adalgisa, Miss Rainforth ; Clotilda, Miss Grant ; And Norma, by Miss Adelaide Kemble. After which will be repeated the New Grand Christmas Pantomime, entitled GUY EARL OF WARWICK ; OR. IARLEQUIN AND THE DUN COW. Doors to he opened at half-past Six—the performances to commence at Seven. Dress Boxes, 7s. ; Second Price, 3s. 6d.; First and Second Circles, ss. ; Second Price, 2s. 6d. ; Pit, 35.; Second Price. 27.; Gallery, Is. Tickets and places for the Boxes to be taken of Mr. Grogan at the Box-office, from Ten till Four, where Season Tickets may be had upon application. Private Boxes to be had solely of Mr. Andrews, bookseller, 167. New Bond-street. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. UNDER TrIE MANAGEMENT OF MR. DAVIDGE AND MR. WILLIS JONES. Amazing attraction. First appearance of Mrs. Norma, and crowded Houses to witness Harlequin and the lee Queen, the best Pantomime of the Season. THIS EVENING, JAN. 27 _ _ Will he acted Haines' wonderfully successful Drama, enti tled ELIZABETH LAZARUS, THE JEWESS, founded on Captain Glasscock's " Land Sharks and Sea Gulls." After which, MRS. NORMA, with Bellini's Music. To conclude with a Grand Christmas Pantomime, entitled HARLEQUIN AND THE ICE QUEEN; OR, JACK FROST AND KING THAW —With gorgeous and charac teristic Scenery, splendid Properties, ludicrous and Quaint Dresses, ingenious Tricks, magnificent Panorama by Brun ning, &c. Ha►lequin, M. Huline ; Patch, M. Rocket ; Pan taloon, M. Lehman ; Flip, Signor Feliz Carlo ; Clown, Mr. BuckinghaM ; Columbine, Miss Sharpe. Private and Public Boxes can be had of Messrs. Sams, Ebel", Mitchell, Andrews, and Seguin, during the run of this popu lar Pantomime. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. UNDER THE DIRECTION OF MR. OSRALDISTON. FOR the BENEFIT of the SOUTHWARK PHILAN THROPIC INSTITUTION. On which occasion Miss Francis Cobham will appear as Julia in " The Hnnchback." THIS EVENING, JAN. 27. Will be performed THE HUNCHBACK.—Master Walter, Mr.- Dale ; Sir Thomas Clifford, Mr. E. F. Saville ; Modus, Mi. Osbaldiston; Julia, Miss F. Cobham. After which, NATURE AND A RT. —Gabbleton, Mr. Gardner; Eliza Proscenia Ardent, Miss Vincent. To conclude with the Grand Romantic Aerial Comic Pan tomime, entitled HARLEQUIN PETER WILKINS; OR, THE KING OF THE AIR AND THE FLYING IN DIANS.—With new and extensive Scenery, Dresses, Decora tions, Tricks, Transformations, and Effects—A new Nautical Panorama, to be entitled " Our Native Sea-girt Isle !" con sisting of Maritime 'trims along the Coast of England. Also, a new Grand Dissolving Diorama, by Childe, the Great Illu sionist ; and the Opening of the Pantomime supported by the Comic Talent of this—the Popular Theatre of London. Boxes, 2s.—Pit, ls.—Gallery, 6d.—Half-price to the Boxes •nly, at, half-past Eight. THE RAILWAY SUN JS NOW RE-PUBLISHING, PRICE SIXPENCE. TIIE CHINA SUN, AND THE PARLIAMENTARY SUN, ARE STILL ON SALE, PRICE SIXPENCE EACH. Sun Office, Jan. 27, 1842. THE WEAtiIER.—Noon, JANUARY 26. ROYAL GALLERY OF SCIENCE, ADELAIDE-STREET. The rmometer... 40 Highest 4O Lowest 26 Barometer 29.39.—Wind S.W.—Freezing Point 22 Deg. HIGH NV ATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY. Morning...... 4 minutes after 2. I Evening ......27 minutes after 2. LONDON. THURSDAY, JANUARY 27, 1842. Reports are current that a considerable num ..- ber of persons, both in Parliament and out of Parliament; who have hitherto supported the Whigs, are not disinclined to transfer their glanc e to Sir ROBERT PEEL. They see that a Whig, or Liberal Ministry is at present .an im possibility; they are convinced that the Govern ment, with all the aid they can give it, will still have a difficult task to perform; and they think it a duty to strength en the Government, in who-. soevcr's hands it may be placed. The law, too, which Sir ROBERT PEEL took office to maintain, is regarded with approbation by a considerable number of Whigs, who are ready to sacrifice their party to preserve the tax on the people's bread. Hence Sir ROBERT PEEL'S Ministry is strengthened by sinister interests fromall parties. ' Many men, also, are quite convinced that something must be done, and as Sir ROBERT is the only man who has the power to carry mea sures through Parliament, they rely on him to do that something. It is felt by the timid, and known by the intelligent, that as society is not in health and at ease, they hope that Sir ROBERT PEEL will restore it. He gathers around him, then, not only the corrupt, but also the timid and the doubtful, from the ranks of his political opponents, as Mr. PITT did in 1791 and 1792, and may possibly have as strong a Parliamentary majority as that Minister had. But between his situation and that of Mr. PITT there are some striking differences. Mr. PITT was the representative of the popular hatred against France, and the popular attach ment to our institutions. The enterprise he engaged in of resisting our old enemy, and preserving our institutions, had the hearty support of the multitude, as well as the Parliament. There was something ennobling and glorious in his undertaking. But Sir ROBERT PEEL is nearly unsupported by the multitude. Attachment to our institutions has been driven from the minds of the lower classes by long suf fering. He is the representative, then, only of a class. He takes office to preserve a system of acknowledged wrong. He is the defender, not of his country, but of monopoly. His undertaking is base, and according to the testimony of all the Ministers, who met in conference at Manches er and Edinburgh, it is also iniquitous. He en lists against him the sympathies of the virtuous, the independent, and upright; and however strong he may be in Parliament, he is weak in the country and in the unrighteousness of his cause. Mr. PITT, supported as he was, could not boast of much success. He put down the antagonists of our institutions, but the heirs of his power were compelled to reform the institutions them selves. He and his successors loaded the coun try with debt, which has ever since rendered the task of governing it one of extreme difficulty. It has become impossible, in fact, for the indus try of the people to answer all the demands made on it by the burdens he laid on us, and by the expenses of the goverbing classes and notwithstanding the great alterations made in the Constitution, it is almost universally felt that still greater alterations are required. He began the war with France, but he did not live to see its splendid conclusion. His succes sors had all the honourof that, while his policy is charged with having half-beggared the nation, and ruptured the attachment of the people to the law. If such, with Mr. PITT'S great talents, comparatively noble objects, and almost universal support, was the result of his policy,what will be the fate of Sir ROBERT PEEL? We cannot ex actly foresee, but it seems . likely that he must either give up, his base and iniquitous policy be fore he has been nine months in office, or the end will be infinitely disastrous. His majority cannot repeal the laws of nature, and make a legislative crime productive of national benefit. Mr. WEBB HALL, who has for many years been one of the foremost champions of the agriculturists, and whose pamphlet, pointing out the degradation to which the present system drags down the farmers, was, a few months back, noticed in The Sun, has published a letter to Sir ROBERT PEEL, of which the following are the _principal passages:— The present Corn-laws, Sir, since they have awoke from a period of inoperation, during which the protected farmers cried out loudly for relief, and were heard before a Committee of the House of Commons, I believe to have scourged the land with opposite evils. I have never considered them to be founded on any principle except that of the old man and his ass. They have attempted to please everybody ; they have, at times, pleased nobody ; and they have injured most grievously, in various ways, the country into the bargain. The alternations of this complicated evil have been so irrelevant as to be an engine of corruption worse than ten state lotteries such as were swept away as a national nuisance. But this is not the whole evil. The wholesale trade in English corn which used to exist, and which tends so much to equalise prices, has had its very foucda tion sapped, and has been long abandoned. There is no element left for commercial judgment, and speculation and fraud have taken its place. Sir, I have placed in your hands, in a printed publi cation of my own, a description to prove that the cost of growing wheat is affected by the state of dependence in which the farmers generally are, and the excessive com petition amongst themselves, resulting in much ruin. Occasional high prices foster this competition,and equally with the commercial transactions above alluded to, tend to substitute speculation, servitude, and fraud, for judg ment, independence, and skill. Not only is this question very different from what it was twenty years ago, but it is differing everyday from increase of the population. The cultivators o f th e so il have introduced and are introducing at this time many improvements. lam just returned from inspecting the first manufactured portion, for sale, of a manure that has enabled wheat to be grown on a poor soil four successive years on the same laud, and of superior quality of grain —the history of which I have communicated already to the as world. A steady field for th e i r exert i on, and enough of competition from abroad to moderate the competition for taking estates at home, at any hazard, I am firmly convinced is the mode best adopted to have our country tilled by a class of men who can think, and act, and improve. A large portion of the cost of growing agricultural pro duce is wages. To this extent low prices of food con tribute to economy of culture. Without the industry of the country being active, the wool, butter, and cheese, are also in far less request. What course shall the Legislature then pursue ? I will suggest one which shall be at least simple, com mercial, and unexciting. Destroy the averages entirely; place a duty of 10s. per quarter on wheat—reduce this ls. per quarter until it reaches ss. per quarter, and there let it rest ; and the question of the Corn-laws might be settled for ever, with as little consideration of burden as penny postage; and I, for one, fear not the result. _We rejoice to add Mr. WEBB HALL to the number of practical farmers who have entered the list against the Corn-laws. His tes timony confirms the opinion which we have frequently expressed, that a great part of the cost of growing agricultural produce consists in wages, to which must be added the feed of work ing cattle, the price of seed corn, and of the young stock which the farmer has to buy. Mr. WEBB HALL also shows, as we have done, that unless the manufacturing industry of the country be active, the price of wool, butter, and cheese falls for the farmers inconveniently low. The practical agriculturists, therefore, are beginning to find out that they cannot prosper while the manufacturers go to decay. At a recent meeting of the B r i gg Agricultural Association, the Chairman, W. SKIPWORTH, Esq., alluded to " the gradual declension in the prices of corn, additional proofs of which they had experienced at that day's market." Not withstanding the people are actually in want of food, the price of corn is too low for the squires. The Corn-laws have done their deadly work. They have so impoverished and so starved the people out of existence, that the short supply of last harvest, combined with the grain imported from abroad, is now fully equal to the effective demand of the people. The ruin, therefore, which the squires have inflicted on the manu facturers will soon pay them a fearful visit. It is so obvious that agriculture itself has im proved and thriven by the growth of manufac turing !owns; it is so certain, that their increase, instead of diminishing, has added greatly to the numbers of the sturdy agricultural popula tion, that we cannot imagine any policy more insane, even in the most sentimental Arcadians, than that which would devote our manufacturing towns to decay and destruction. Now that those towns can no longer drain off the superfluous population of the landlords' estates, how they will dispose of the rural popu -teflon puzzles us to imagine. They must at once begin and restrict, if they do not forbid, marriage, or they will soon be eaten up by paupers. The manufacturing towns have threatened to send back to the landlords' estates the population born on them which those towns have provided for. They will have no occasion to take such an ex treme measure; it will be only necessary for them not in future to receive the surplus rural population, and the landowners will scion find an abundant crop of paupers to share their rent• As to Mr. WEBB HALL'S schemes of reform ing the Corn-law, it has the merit of simplicity; but it is not so simple and grand a scheme as that of total repeal. Till the duty had settled down to 55., as proposed by Mr. WEBB HALL, the value of land would be uncertain, the probable price of grain would defy calculation, and both trade and agriculture would be injured. Mr. WEBB HALL is content with a ss. fixed duty, shaming the Whigs, who proposed an Bs. duty, and shaming the Conservative merchant, Mr. HUBBARD, who has proposed a 10s. duty, but not shaming the League, which demands justice, and a total repeal. A fixed duty would keep up prices here above the level of other countries, and keep the supply of food short. It would therefore contribute to in jure our trade, and beat down wages. It is wh•n food is abundant and cheap that the mass of the labourers can contend with advantage against the capitalists and landlords; and if some capi talists and manufacturers do not support a fixed duty, because it would keep the labouring classes more at their mercy, there is no doubt that such would be its effect. While we give . giteat *raise to Mr. WEBB HALL'S comparative libe rality, his scheme is neither so simple, so com prehensive, nor so useful, as the great measure of total repeal. We have not expressed any hopes or wishes on the subject of the vacancy at Liverpool, being fully convinced that the independent electors of that town would act with energy and discretion. We now learn with satisfaction, that they mean to bring forward a gentleman of high standing and considerable influence, of much experience in foreign and colonial affairs, and possessing an intimate acquaintance with our commercial and diplomatic relations. Such a man, if he possess some eloquence, for the men of Liverpool like a little show as well as substance, will very pro bably succeed. The Tories, too, are divided, it is said, between Sir HOWARD DOUGLAS and Mr. HERRIES, which is a good augury. A contest, however, we are assured, will ensue, and the opinions of the second, if not the first commer cial town in the empire, concerning the great trading questions now at issue, will be looked to with great interest by the empire at large. A letter, signed " An Operative," elsewhere inserted, recommending the people to attend on the opening of Parliament and express their opi nions, reminds us that in 1830 they contributed to break up the W ELLINGTON Administration. Whatever motives the working classes then had to dislike the Tories, they have now abundant reason to hate the starvationists. Their senti ments require only to be firmly, temperately, and respectfully expressed, and they will have more influence in 1842 than they had in 1830. The Chartists throughout the land, and many persons who are not actually Chartists, demand Universal Suffrage ; but it is not necessary to have a vote in electing a Member of Parliament, for a man, and even for a woman, to have an in fluential voice in public affairs. On occasions like that which will be offered to them this day week, the working classes can convey their opinions with all due respect and decorum to the Throne itself. Halt' a million voices, earnestly and solennily lifted up along the whole line from Buckingham gate to the halls of Parliament, in one continuous cry of "Down with the Corn-law," would carry hope to the starving thousands, and even mil lions, in every part of the kingdom. It might not reach the ears of his Prussian MAJESTY, but it would penetrate to Berlin, and find an echo in every capital of Europe. It would dry the tears of many mothers now weeping over their starv ing children, and in a short time give bread to the hungry throughout the land. The meanest man in the empire has as good a right to entertain opinions on any political sub ject, and to make them prevalent, if he can, by peaceful and proper means, as the proudest Duke of the House of Lords. We are well con vinced, too, from the trouble and expense great Noblemen sometimes incur to hire the cheers of the multitude, that their opinions, properly ex pressed on suitable occasions, give them great power in th e State. The swinish multitude, as the ingenious and industrious workmen of England are called by scribblers and quasi -statesmen, who do not conceal their desire to starve the ma nufacturing classes out of existence, may, by a proper and respectful expression of opinion, save their countrymen and countrywomen in the ma nufacturing districts from hunger, despair, and death. They may do more; they may contribute to put down for ever one of the most iniquitous laws that ever was enacted—a law that is alike condemned by science, morality, and religiosn. A great people, let it be remembered, cannot be enslaved and starved against their own will. The Madrid Papers received are of the 16th instant, but they bring no news of the slightest interest. The following are the only extracts:— Count Requena, lately sentenced to transportation for the part which he had taken in the revolt of October last, was embarked at Cadiz for Porto Rico on the 7th. The family of General Concha had received a letter from him, mentioning his having safely reached a foreign country, after escaping the most imminent dangers. It was said that the Duke of San Carlos, another Christino conspirator, had travelled in M. de Salvandy's carriage from Madrid to Bayonne. The Gazette announces that 766 lots of national pro perty were sold in the month of October last, for a sum of 31,920,000 reals. The whole of the national property disposed of since the commencement, had pro duced 1,681,644,000 reals. The whole of the Paris Journals have reached us, together with the opening of ad journed debate in the Chamber of Deputies on that day on the right of search question, now the all-absorbing theme of public attention. All parties in the Chamber had been for some time preparing themselves for the struggle on the question of the Treaty of the Five Powers recog nising the pre-existing right of maritime search. The Debats is the great defender of the Ministry, but, strange to say, its defence is not based on the merits of the treaty itself. On the contrary, this journal admits that the right of search is an exorbitant right, and might have been dispensed with in the first instance, viz., in 1831, when the primitive convention between France and England for the suppression of the slave-trade was entered into, at which time, says theDebats, the sympathy excited in France for our fellow-creatures, whose misfortune is to differ from us in the colour of their skin, was so intense that, in the grand work of humanity, all considerations of prudence and precaution, as regarded any real or supposed French interests, disappeared. The principle of the right of search, says the Debats, was esta blished in 1831, at which period not a voice was raised in the Chambers against the proposed means of execution. A second convention was entered into in 1833, and the right of search was on that occasion again recognised and con firmed; but every precaution was taken to conciliate the great sacrifice made in the cause of humanity with the honour and indepen ence of the French flag, and the in terests of French trade. To thi s t reaty, says our French Contem porary, M. futE tts was a party, for he was then a member of the Cabinet. The question, there fore, as far as the opposition of M. TRIERS and those who vote with him systematically is con cerned, is not whether the right of search ought to have been conceded, but whether in this new treaty the precautions and stipulations which 111. THIERS regarded as all-sufficient, in 1833, are respected or departed from in 1842. The Debats shows that they are not. It says— In order to exercise the right of search, it is not suf ficient that the cruizer should have the warrant of its Government. If it be an English cruizer, it must, to have the right of searching a French ship, be pro vided with a warrant from the French Government. These warrants may be granted or refused by either of the Governments ; the number of them may be extended or restricted. Let us suppose, for example, that the English Government, from a motive of ambition or in opposition to our trade, should desire to augment the number of its cruizers, it would depend upon our Government to check it at once by refusing to. deliver any more warrants. We shall therefore always have in our hands an easy means of fixing the number of English cruizers, and the duration of the warrants is only for one year. During the ten years that the right of search has been mutually practised by England and France, has the number of English cruizers considerably exceeded that of French cruizers ? No ! England has had 124 cruizers, and France 105. The Debats then proceeds to mention other guarantees_in the treaty against the abuse of the ,o ff 40 , " se - iet x, , 0 .irc 4,4 , ot, PP' tie7,!hk , ^ IA.* 0, 0 nn THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 27, 1842. powers of the treaty, but as they are more fully stated in the report of the discussion in the Chamber, it is unnecessary to give them here. The Presse, although it is, generally speaking, friendly to the present Ministry, had expressed its disapprobation of the new treaty for the sup pression of the Slave-trade, on the ground of its recognising the right of maritime search, which this journal supposed to have been stipu lated for by the English Government, in order to confirm and perpetuate its maritime prepon derance, The Presse, however, professes to be tranquillized by the explanations which have been given on the subject. It says Although we retain our opinion as to the principle, and could have desired that France should not, in 1831 or 1833, have made a concession which had been so long refused, we must declare in good faith that, after having attentively listened to the different speakers, we regard the nature of the concession as changed by the clauses of the late treaty as they are stated by the Minister for Foreign Affairs. The Constitutionnel gives an analysis of the debate, in the course of which it repeats its cen sure of the treaty. This journal describes the speech of M. TRIERS as one of great power, and declares that " the feeble reply of M. GutzoTilid not destroy one of his arguments." The Cham ber, adds the Constitutionnel, " was evidently under the impression of a sense of a great duty to the country, and the majority appearing doubt ful, an adjournment to Monday was loudly called for from the Ministerial benches." This state ment does not exactly coincide with what passed in the Chamber. M. GUIZOT having replied to M. THIERS, and M. BERRYER having signified his intention of speaking, there was a call for an adjournment to Monday. The Debats states that the first call for adjournment was from the Left, and that there came immediately from the Mi nisterial benches a call for a division at once. This is a very different statement from that of the Constitutionnel. The Courrier Francais, al though as violent as ever in its opposition to the exercise of the right of search, and declaring that it is not convinced by anything that M. GUIZOT has said, admits that his speech was one . of great ability. Ot the other Opposition jour nals, we may briefly observe that they repeat the expressions of disapprobation which they used when the treaty was first announced. The Globe, although on most other other subjects a supporter of the Ministry, abuses it harshly enough on this, for the Globe is the organ of the West India interests, and violently opposes the attempt of what it ironically calls "pious Eng land," to put an end to the slavery of a portion of the human race. The Marseilles Papers state that criminal proceedings have been commenced against General Levasseur, and all the parties concerned in the late fatal duel with Com mandant Arrighi, in that place. The Reparateur of Lyons states that the notary, whose absconding has already been mentioned by us, is M. Ro ier. He is said to have left his affairs in great disorder, with a large defalcation. The Minister of the Interior has just granted an annual pension of 1,500 f. to the widow of the late M. Alexandre Duval, the author. The Minister of War has just decided that all sol diers whose time of service will expire at the end of this year, and who are now with their families on furlough, together with all the men of the class of 1835, not now incorporated and remaining with their families for a legal cause, shall remain at home until their time of li beration from service expires. Those who have re-en gaged themselves are, of course, excepted from this re gulation. - PARIS, JAN. 23.—The King has received from his Ma jesty the Emperor of Austria the answer to the letters recalling the Count de St. Aulaire. His Majesty has likewise received from the Diet of the German Confederation the answer to the letters re calling the Baron Deffaudis. These two letters were delivered to the Minister for Foreign Affairs, by M. de Thom, Charge d'Affaires of his Imperial Majesty.—Le Afoniteur. La Presse says that General Butenieff has just hired a hotel in the suburb of St. Honore, which he has fur nished with great magnificence. M. Dupoty is succeeded in the editorship of the Journal du Peuple by M. Felix Avril. The laws rela tive to the Press are made in such a manner that it has been necessary to pay into the Treasury another sum of 100,000 francs as security. The preceding security of 100,000 francs will not be returned till three months afterwards. And it is while the laws against the editors of journals are so severe, and when such securities are required from them that it is wished to make the prin ters responsible. Quenisset, Colombier, and Brazier leave Paris to-day (the 23d) or to-morrow. Though condemned to hard labour for life, we are assured that Colombier is to be taken to Mont St. Michel, with Quenisset. Bourcheron goes to Derelens. BOURSEr-PARIS, MONDAY, JAN. 24. First Highest Lowest Last Price Price. Pricy. Price. French 5 per Cents.... ..... llB 10 ... 118 10 ... 1 8 ... 118 5 414 per Cents. lO7 25 ... 107 25 ... 107 25 ... 107 25 4 per Cents ' 102 50 ... li/ 50 .« 102 51 ... 102 50 3 per Cent. 79 10 79 5 ... :9 ... 79 5 Loan .......... 79 50 ... 79 2C ... 79 10 ... 79 15 dank of France Laltitte Bank I,ooof. 51. ares 1025 ...10/5 ...1025 ...1C9.5 5,t501. Shares 5027 1:0 ...5027 50 ...5020 ...SMI Reigian Bank Belgian 5 per Cents. 5 per Cent.., 1840.- 105 % ... zosg ... 1053 ... 105% Spanish Active $4 «. 95% ... tiss ... 15 ,i, New Deferred 1214 .•• 12% ••• 1• s r ••• 1214 Portugueses per Cents. ... ift ... 29 ... 29 •teapolitan Roman.... RAILWAY SHARES. St. Germain .. ..... .... 872 50 ... 872 50 ... 870 ... 870 Versailles, R. is 315 ... 345 ... 315 ... 345 L.B 2lO ~, 212 50 .. 210 ... 211 50 Bonen ........ Orleans • • Strasburg to Bale 230 ... 230 . 230 ... 230 AUSTRIAN F UND3,-Viatota, JAN. 15. riveper Coats. Metalliques Four per Cent 5.............. ... .... ..•.. ......... ... Three pr Cents. •••••••••••••••• .......... ••••••••••• Bank shares ... ...... .... ..... ........... —Allgemeine Zeituag, J an, 19. CITY OF DUBLIN ELECTION. STATE OF THE POLL. TUESDAY.-FIRST D AY. -HALF-PAST THREE. Gregory 930 Morpeth 742 Majority lBB The Committee of Mr. Gregory, at four o'clock, claimed a majority of 206 over Lord Morpeth. --- REPRESENTATION or ROSS-SHIRE AND CLACKMANNAN.—The Right Hon. Col. Abercromby has resigned the representation of the united counties of Clackmannan and Kinross, and Gen. Morison has started in the Liberal interest. This step, on the part of the Gallant Colonel, has, we regret to say, been caused by the state of his health. A more zealous and inde pendent Member than Col. Abercromby the House did not contain ; but, ever alive to the interests of his coun try, he felt that this was no time for a Member to be absent from his post, and therefore voluntarily placed in the hands of his constituency the seat which they had, at last election, so cordially committed to his keeping. While all, even the political opponents of Col. Aber cromby, must lament the cause of his retirement from public life, it is still satisfactory to him, and to the Li beral party, that a worthy successor has been found. Gen. Morison has long served his country in India, and latterly was a member of the Supreme Council of the Governor-General, along with our distinguished Mem ber, the Right Hon. T. B. Macaulay. The selection for this high appointment is a sufficient testimony o f hi s inciples, dd talents and spirit i n p u blic affai rs . A s to t h e li b erality of his straightforward address only t o re f er to his own ; from whi c h i t w ill b e seen that he is not a Reformer of yesterday. In the words of a Correspondent, "he is' one of the right sort." It i s understood that he will be allowed to walk the course, as did his gallant predecessor at the last election.—Caledo nian Mercury. THE END OP MORTALITY.--There is some thing peculiarly humbling in the dissolution of frail mor tality! While the executor pries, with authority, into the formerly secluded secretaire, and searches knowingly for the last will and testament of the frail departed, there is something of a sickening character to see the legal re presentative looking into the pocket-book or the purse of the dead, and conning over the private memoranda of a depepulated spirit. The loved or the paid, who watched about the couch of the flying soul, are all gone to some other occupation, or but occasionally renew the sacrifi cial homage of tearful regret or attentive consideration to the last relies of once dignified man. He who deals in black does his part, and the people meet, and the last garb or wooden receptacle is brought down the stairs, where once the living being moved upwards with all the sprightliness of health, and all the buoyancy of a mind at ease. Then the chamber is cleared, the house is ven tilated, the chair is put into its accustomed place, the garments, which lately warmed the living limb, laid by, Things move on as if the a bsent one had never heel).— Essex Herald. PAISLEY, J AN . Paisley itilbgb hat e now reached the pltch s the, as regards business; they can scarcely be worse. We anticipate no more failures in this town ) because all *fie *eh ness to any extent (Ottgept It Very tew capitalists, who have for a long time been lying on their oars, rather than pursuing their usual vocations) already have fail e d. We anticipate no further throwing of our workmen, because, so far as the trade of Pais ley is concerned scarcely any of them are on , . ployed, at least three-fourths of the few weavers who have work being employed by Glasgow ware houses. The number on the relief list of Paisley, Johnstone, &c., is 16,770. In Paisley the increased ac cumulation of misery is every week becoming more ap parent, from t h e protracted sufferings of the people. Several thousands of our lately industrious and inde pendent operatives are now as destitute and helpless as common beggars. —Glasgow Post. A human skeleton, in a perfect state, was found on Monday by some labourers, who were digging gravel in a pit at Stibbington, adjacent to Wansford. Such things are very common in the parish. The deposit is thought to be referable to a very ancient period.---Stam ford Afereury. SUMMARY OF NEWS AND publtt Optnion, " Who runs may read." FOREIGN. The French Chamber of Deputies was occupied on Monday with the Right of Search question. M. Berryer delivered a very powerful speech against it. Several of the Paris Journals state that a Royal or donnance, promoting the Prince de Joinville to the rank of Rear-Admiral was issued on Saturday. The Moniteur is silent on the subject. All the influence of the French Cabinet was exercised to keep M. de Salvandy from making a fool of himself by reading his despatches on the Etiquette question in the Chamber of Deputies. A Government which owes its existence to the hurling of the paving stones of Paris at the heads of the champions of legitimacy naturally shrunk from such a test of ridicule. As the Cameleon, French Government steamer, was on her way from Alexandria to Toulon, she fell in with and took in tow, off Cape Sepet, the Mermaid, from Liverpool for Leghorn, which had been disabled by a storm. The Journal du Havre mentions a rumour that the British schooner Camilla, which'used to ply with passen gers during the winter between that port and Southamp ton, was run down a few days since in the Channel by a three-masted vessel, in a thick fog. The Captain and all the crew of the Camilla are said to have perished. PUBLIC OPINION. In an article on the subject of the Oxford Professor ship of Poetry, the Morning Post takes occasion to ex press its regret for the defeat of Mr. Williams, observing, " We think that he and his academical friends had fair reason to look for another result. But as to the great theological cause with which the late contest has been associated, the result of the late Poetry Professorship election matters not a jot. Theological truth is not all dependent on popularity." The Advertiser, contrasting the rejoicings at Windsor on Tut aday with the distresses existing at Manchester, Bolton, and elsewhere, states that this frightful state of things is wholly the effect of class legislation—the result of passing laws for the benefit of the few, instead of for the interest of the many. "It is the adoption," adds the Advertiser, "by Parliame n t o f th ose narrow monopo li st principles by the Premier, and embodied in his measures, which has produced the appalling commercial crisis in which the country is now placed." The Times, alluding to the stability of our institutions, in an article suggested by the Royal Christening, says, " The continuance of our prosperity must be expected to depend on the fidelity of ourselves and our rulers to our Protestant faith ; and the prayer that our Prince may lead the rest of his life according to the beginning, which he made yesterday, is one in which not only every cha ritable Christian, and every loyal subject, but every real patriot, must fervently join." The subject of the principal leading article in the Herald is the Royal Christening, wherein, speaking of the visit of the King of rrussia, our Contemporary re marks that immediate political or commercial results are not to be expected ; but if there be not hereafter a kinder there will most certainly be a more thorough under.. standing between England and Germany, for that the reception given to his Majesty will have, for the greater part of Germany, a national interest. The Chronicle contains a leading article, suggested by a memorial addressed to Sir Robert Peel by the American Chamber of Commerce at Liverpool, from which we make the following extract :—" The plain question is, shall we allow the great agricultural people of the United States to take our manufactures ? What a question to be mooted, while both capitalists and work people are in their present condition ! The discussion should be cut short by the procession of starving thou-. sands to church to thank God for the existence of such a market for the products of their industry. But we cannot choose as to the medium of payment. We must be content to exchange for that which they have to offer. And the hungry wretch who cannot get work or potatoes, would be well content to labour for American flour. You shall not,' is the reply of Monopoly." The Hants Independent observes :—"Poor-laws and not Corn-laws keep up the standard of wages. The latter aggravate ten-fold the severity of the former but Corn-laws render Poor-laws the more necessar y. It is the only protection the labourer has against starvation, for where a legal provision for the poor exists, wages, however excessive th e su pply over d eman d, cannot fall so low as to produce actual famine." The Cambridge Advertiser thus alludes to the mis government of the Tories:—" The late Government cannot be justly blamed for the financial deficiencies of the country. If the saddle is to be places upon the right horse, the burden of the blame must rest exclu sively upon the Tory Governments, to whom the people are indebted for those legislative enactments, of which it is the professed object to advance the interests of particular individuals, to the total exclusion of whatever is beneficial to the great bulk of the community." The Brighton Guardian observes, in an article sug gested by the late ceremony of laying the first stone of the - Royal Exchang,e :--- 60 But while the heads of the State and the public mind honour commerce, we find the Mi nisters, both of the Throne and of Religion, conspiring to put an end by law to one great branch of trade. They have passed laws to prevent as much as possible all trade in corn between England and other countries. In doing that, they violate the very principles they consecrated on Monday week, and prove that they are most incon sistent." We take the following from the Dublin Pilot :—" Lord Elicit and family sailed for England on Saturday even ing. It is said that his Lordship has been so disgusted with the rampant Orang.ism of the law department— as manifested in the advice tendered to the Lord Lieu tenant in reference to the removahof Sheriffs Porter and Browne—that he will not return to this country. It was very generally . rumoured . yesterday that a serious dif ference of opinion had arisen between Lord Eliot and the Lord Lieutenant, respecting the propriety of substi tuting Sir Edward Borough for the present Sheriffs." COMMERCIAL REFORM. At a meeting of the West Hackney Anti-Corn-law Association, held on Monday, more than 150 females attended the demonstration against the Corn-laws. PUBLIC IMPROVEMENTS. At the fourth annual meeting of the Adult Instruction Institution, held in the Commercial-road, on Monday evening, it was stated, that since the last report, 108 ad ditional scholars had been admitted to the school, many of whom on admission could neither read nor write. Of men, 145 had attended the writing and other classes. PUBLIC REJOICINGS. The residence of the Chevalier Bunsen, the Prussian Ambassador. at Carlton-gardens, was brilliantly illu minated on Tuesday night, Its base Was formed of the Prussian motto—" Gott mit uns," " God with us," in white lamp-. The debtors on Tuesday in Whitecross-street prison were feasted to the number of 382 ; in the Marsbalsea from 45 to 50 were regaled with beer ; in the Fleet there are about 130 ; in the Queen's Bench, 140 ; in the City prisons the Lord Mayor's bounty was also distri buted ; no allowance was made in Horsemonger-gaol, where there are about 120. Holidays, roast beef, and plum-pudding, were on Tues day given to the boys and girls of the following charita ble institutions :—Christ's Hospital, 750 children; Welsh Charity School, 190 ; Freemasons' School, 65 ; Philan thropic Society's School, 50; Yorkshire Society's School, 50; Deaf and Dumb School, 280; School for the Indigent Blind, 140; Caledonian Asylum, 78; Marylebone School, 115; St. Ann's School, Brixton, 300; Foundling Hospital, 250 ; British Orphan School, Clapham, 100 ; Clapton Orphan Asylum, 430 ; Westminster National School, 500; the boys of the Royal Naval Asylum, Greenwich, as also those at Wandsworth, Clapham, Richmond, Kingston, Kew, &c. &c. 1::t. The Dublin election commenced its polling on Tues. day. Lord Morpeth was proposed by the Hon. H. Caul. field, and Mr. Gregory by Sir J. K. James. ECCtESZASTXCAL. The annual value of tho see of Chichester, to which Dr. Gilbert will be shortly consecrated, is 4,200/. per annum. LAW AND PO LICE, At Marylebone Police Court on Mr. Hutch ings, landlord of the Coach and Horses, Welbeck-street; appeared on an information of Miller, an inspector, who charged him with keeping his house open for the sale of liquors before one in the afternoon of Sunday, the 16th instant. A sergeant and a police-constable were ex amined, and a number of respectable witnesses were called to prove that no liquors were sold, when Mr. Raw linson dismissed the case. Joseph Morgan, the youth charged with wounding dangerously Mrs. Brown, the wife of a carpenter, while shooting at sparrows, again appeared on his bail at Lambeth -street. The unfortunate woman was carried into Court, and appeared to be suffering much, when the Magistrate expressed his regret that she had been brought out in such a condition, and remanded the pri soner for a month, James Murphy, a man about 40 years of age, Whose clothes were in a most ragged condition, was committed at 'Thames -street Police-court, on a charge of stealing a half quartern loaf. When searched, the police-constable found on him Is. sjd. in money, six red herrings, and fire pounds of potatoes. The plea of hunger was there fore disproved, and the Magistrate, after stating that the practice of stealing bread from shops was become very Common said, he should commit the prisoner to Newgate, and bind over the witnesses to prosecute. PINE Akira, to the Faubourg lit, Germain is a noble mansion, within the walls of which are accumulated in numera bl e treasures of the times of Louis XIII. and Louis XIV., and aftitifig tile iidinting§ is the belebrated picture of Lady Jane Grey, which has raised the fame and fortune of Praul Delaroche. Here the Princess Matilda de Demi doff is ndw dailif_gining grand con cer t s . !lift ElitY ./1/03 0 Mr. Fox, the British Minister at present resident in America; and a 'teak telatite of Lord Holland, is up wards tif GO years of age ; he has the reputation of being learned, and is rarely out of his house, except when tempted by book-auctions. He is a good entomologist, and has frequently • correspondence and cases of insects sent him from most parts of the world. MIS C ELLAIMIOIIB. The reporter of a Morning Contemporary, in his de scription of the Royal Christening, after stating that " the heart-stirring cheers of the people rent the air with an emulative ardour," and that at the sight of the young Prince they " burst forth with a joy almost fran tic," modestly adds, " we de not pretend tt be any .judges of fine or precocious children but several old ladies near us protested that a finer boy they had never laid eyes on than the Prince."--There is a good deal of the-old lady in this description, which is remarkable for its superannuated eloquence. - .This day is the anniversary of the birth of the Duke i of Sussex, who was born in 1773 ; and 0-morrow will. be the anniversary of the death of Peter the Great, who died in 1723. The Court of King's Bench, in April, 1788, decided that a womanis competent to serve the office of overseer of the poor. A Morning Contemporary gives the following impor tant national intelligence :—" The Duke of Wellington retired to rest at ten o'clock, rose yesterday at six o'clock and breakfasted at eight o'clock !!!" The Augsburg Gazette says, " the village of Madana,, in Wallachia, has been inhabited by women only for the last thirty years !"—A philosopher fond of peace and quiet, and hating gossip, could not do better than take up his residence in this she-village ! Baron Humboldt, in accordance with the wishes of many men of science in this country, was waited upon by Mr. Murchison, for the purpose of requesting him to fix a day to commemorate his arrival by a public festi val, but he declined, as his stay was limited with the King of Prussia to but eight or nine days. After the Christening on Tuesday, crowds of persons dipped their handkerchiefs in the font, in order to preserve a sort of imaginary relic of the water of the river Jordan, in which the Prince had been baptized. This water was brought over to this country by Mr. Scoles, of Argyll place, who in the year 1825 travelled in the East. COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, WEDNESDAY.—The presentation of new colours to the 72d Highlanders, now stationed at Wind sor, by Field-Marshal the Duke of Wellington, took place this morning in the grand Quadrangle of the Castle. His Royal Highness Prince Albert, his Majesty the King of Prussia, Major-General Wemyss, Colonel Bouverie, and a large party from the Castle, were pre sent at the presentation. Her Majesty and all the ladies in the Castle witnessed the ceremony from the windows overlooking the Quadrangle. On presenting the colours the Noble Duke addressed the regiment at some length. About four o'clock the King of Prussia and the Noble men and Gentlemen of his suite visited Eton College. His Majesty was received by the Rev. Dr. Hodgson the Provost, the Fellows, and the Head Master of the Col lege, who conducted their august visitor to the school, when a rapturous welcome from the scholars greeted him. His Majesty and suite were afterwards conducted to the Chapel and the Library. Mr. Mitchell, the organist, during his Majesty's stay in.the Chapel, played several choice pieces on the organ. His Majesty and suite afterwards returned to the Library. The Queen and Prince Albert took their usual walk early this morning. The Duchess of Kent also walked out, attended by Lady Fanny Howard. All the guests invited to the State Banquet took their departure to-day, except the Duke of Wellington, the Duke of Buccleuch, the Marquis of Exeter, and the Earl of Liverpool, and the other great Officers of State. . - The Marchioness of Exeter arrived on a visit to her Majesty. Major-General and the Lady Isabella Wemyss, Count Goltz Count Schlippenbach, Mr. George Edward and the lion Mrs. Anson, and Lieut. Annesley, will have the honour of dining with her Majesty and the Illustrious Party at the Castle this evening. Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and the Princess Augusta of Cambridge, at tended by Lady Augusta Somerset and Colonel Jones, arrived at their residence at Kew yesterday morning from a visit to her Majesty at Windsor Castle. His Serene Highness Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar arrived at Marlborough House, Pall-mall, yesterday af ternoon, from a visit to her Majesty at Windsor Castle. His Royal Highness Prince George of Cambridge re turned to town yesterday from a visit to her Majesty at Windsor Castle. His Royal Highness visited her Ma jesty the Queen Dowager in the afternoon at Marlbo rough House, and in the evening went to Kew. Lord Wharncliffe, Lord Stanley, Sir James Graham, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and other Cabinet Ministers, arrived in town yesterday from attending the ceremony of the baptism of his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales. His Royal. Highness the Duke of Sussex returned to his residence at Kensington Palace yesterday, from a visit to her Majesty at Windsor Castle. Mr. Wickham, Chairman of the Stamps and Taxes, bad an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday, at his official residence in Downing-street. Lord Granville Somerset arrived in town yesterday, from a visit to the Queen at Windsor Castle. The Earl of Ripon returned to his residence at Putney yesterday, from attending the ceremony of the Royal christening. Viscount Melbourne is suffering from attack of gout, which has detained his Lordship in town, and prevented his attending the baptism of his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, and the State Banquet given in honour of the event. MONEI and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, WEDNESDAY E VENING. No alteration of any moment occurred to-day in the market for British Stocks, and although business was rather dull, prices did not give way. 'We hear no thing further at present of the renewal of sales by the Government broker. Consols for immediate transfer were marked 89 to 891, closing buyers at the latter price; and for the Account BCI to Exchequer Bills were quoted 17s. to 19s. premium, and East India Bonds 10s. to 12s. premium. Bank Stock was firm at 168, and India Stock at 248. The 157,,w Three-and-a-Half per Cents. were at 984 to 98i, and the Three per Cent. Annuities at 89i to 89g. Spanish Stock was dull of sale to-day, but the quota tion nominally was fully supported, being 258 to 1.. The other Foreign Securities did not attract much attention. Portuguese Three per Cent. Bonds were marked 20 Mexican Stock was at 29i ; Belgian Bonds realised 1024 to 103* ; Russian 115+ to 4 ; Danish 814 ; and Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. 511 to t. In none of the principal Shares was there a revival as regards the market value, but still a slightly increased disposition was manifested to enter into business. Great Western were 21i, Liverpool and Manchester 98 to 99, London and Birmingham 79 to 80, and South Western 19* to 20* premium. Brighton were 13+ to 124, Black wall 138, and Midland Counties 20 discount. Colonial Bank Shares were 2 premium. (From The Sun of Last Night.) _ _ LI VERPOOL JAN. 25.—This day being kept a close holiday, there is no Cotton or Share Market to report. By the arrival of the Isabella Watson, from the Cape of Good Hope, papers to the 2d of December have been received at the North and South American Coffee house, but they do not contain any news of the least interest. No intelligence from the frontier. There has been but little business transacted up to the present time. Consols are 89R- for Money, and 891 for the Account ; Exchequer Bills 17 19 prem. Spanish Active Stock opened pretty firm at 258 i; Portuguese Five per Cents. are 33i 34 ; Ditto Threes, 191 .2t, The En fish Market continues steady, with but a very moderate business doing. Consols for Money are 89+ ; and for the Account, 89t1- I ; Bank Stock, 168 ; Three per Cents. Reduced, 89+ 1; Three-and-a-Half per Cents. Reduced, 99+ ; New Three and-a-Half per Cents., 984 ; Exchequer Bills, 17s. to 19s. premium. In the Foreign Market the operations have been very limited, and without variation. Spanish Active Stock is 25i ; Mexican 29i ; Russian 115 : ti, ; Dutch Two-and a-Half per Cents. 511 i ; and the Five per Cents. 101 k g. The Share Market presents no alteration, and scarcely anything. done. Great Western are quoted 861 ; Liver pool and Manchester, 198 ; London and Brighton, 37 ; London and Birmingham, 169 ; London and South Western, 59. Consols, Money, 89i ; Ditto Account, 891 I ; Colom bian, 21k221 ; Mexican, 29s ; Spanish, 251 The trade of the ports of Boulogne and Calais appears to have wry steadily increased for some years past, and last year there was again an augmentation. The Customs' revenue of the former port was in 1840 1,566,000 francs, and in 1841 1,815,000 francs. For Calais, it amounted to 990,000 francs in 1840, and to 1,359,000 francs last year. The number of vessels visiting the port of Flushing last year was 2,751, of which 218 were British, 266 Bel gian, and 159 Hamburgh. • CLOING PRICES. BRITISH FUNDS. sink Stock l6B India Stock .... ... 3 per Cent Red. B9i Ditto Bonds 3 per Cent Cons B9 Ditto Old Annuities ... .. Si per Cent Red.. 99h ,Ditto New Annuities... New 3i per Cent New 5 per Cent. Long Annuities toexpire Ditto Small l7 pm Jan. 1 860 ..... ..... 12i Bank Stock for Acct -- Oct 1859. ........ India Stock for Acct — Jan. 1860. ..,..... 121 Consols for Acct B9i FOItEIGN FUNDS. Austrian, 5 pa,. vent.... Portuguese, 5 per cent. Belgian, 5 pei cent lO4 Di tto, New Ditto — Brazilian 80nd5.... Prussian, 5 per cent — Buenos Ayres ti per cei Russian, 5 per cent ll5/ Chilian, 6 per cent..... Ditto, (Metallic . •••• Colombian, 6 pet cent.. Spanish, 5 per cent ...•. 25' Ditto, Int.— Ditto, . ... ..... Deferred .. . Danish, 3 per cent Bl French, 5 per cent. —1 ..... e. Greek, 1825, 5 per cent 'Exchange Mexican, 5 per cent.... 29); French, 3 per cent — ..• -...e Ditto, 6 per cent. 1837 Dutch, 2i per cent 51i Feruvian,lB2s, /per ct. Ditto, 5 per cent... - . 101 k SHARES. Cheltenham and Great Western (72/ paid) I , li Great Western ilaay NorthofEng w l a an ( 6dR5 paid)ailway (100 pd) :( 6 i Great i Liverpool and Manchester Railway (100) 198 London and Brighton (50 paid) :18i - London and Blackwall Railway (25 paid)... 11 8 . London and Birmingham (90) ...... .. .•• 169 Ditto New Shares (2 paid) London and South Wester n London and Croydon Railway ( Trunk) ..... 12 Manchester and Leeds (70 paid) ... .. ..... Ditto New Shares (30 paid) Midland Counties Railway (100 paid) Northern and Eastern (40 paid) ..... .... 33 Yorkiind North Midland Railway (50 paid) 92i SURREY THEATRE.—What there may be in Miss Kemble's Norma, suggestive of the ridiculous, it is difficult to determine, but it would seem that its per formance is likely to revive the d a y s o f b ur l esque in their former glory. Following the Adelphi example, a travestie of Bellini's opera was on Monday produced at this house. Here the Druidess is transformed into a mistress of a parish school, the Roman Consul into the parish beadle, and the priestess of Esus into No. 1, on the girls' side. Allowing always for the absence of raul Bedford and Wright, who are not to be found at every theatre, there is quite as much fun in the Surrey travestie as in that of the house on " the other side the water." The charity-school idea is clever and original, and has the additional merit of being well worked out. The piece was favourably received. Mr. Thomas Brown, a noted training groom, died at Lewes on Sunday last, at the advanced age of eighty-eight. He was well known at the Epsom, Can terbury, and other races, and had been the proprietor of the racing livery stables in Lewes upwards of 30 years. MORNING SUN CHRISTENING OF THE PRINCE OF WALES' THE BANQUET ROOM. ST. GEORGE'S HALL. We utterly despair of being able by words to er e (mit readers a sufficiently strong idea of the Splendour, the richness, the magnificence of the many miracles of 1114 which on Tuesday afternoon we saw placed before us. In have some notion of the magnitude of the room, and to judge of the magnificence of her Majesty's plate, va: lued by some as worth 1,500,0001., and by o thers 0 - 5 5 worth upwards of 2,000,0004 we set before our readr', in the first place, an account of the gorgeous apartment in which the Banquet was celebrated. On entering this singularly striking room the sl:'e t r o tor's eyes were perfectly dazzled by the brilliance of t t li e ' gold which glittered before him. We entered from end opposite to the Waterloo Chamber, and on a ser7 be which extended nearly two-thirds of the width sling room, was fixed a beaufet of plate, almost too dazz i . l ,,il to look upon. The centrepiece was the celebrated settert of Achilles, on which it mere only a vain task to it words of commendation at this time of day. to say' were thirty-three other massive pieces of plate, tov,l2e nothing of the minor chalices and goblets which e , l e interspersed among them. We want words to t able, their unrivalled splendour. Looking up the table, saw four distinct avenues formed between the silverFs lt plates ranged on each side of it, by the tureens , the Tiler; the salt-cellars, and the chandeliers. The s alt-ee" were singularly elegant and diversified. The chandeliebeci with their numerous branches, rested on e he y mirrors, to which they gave, and from whic r u - borrowed, light when their branches were burning. THE BANQUET TABLE. the The table for the banquet, which was laid betwe en 0 3 beaufets, had a succession of gold candelabra to, epergnes, reaching from one extremity to the other , : nig gether with a great variety of vases and other (gore of gold plate. The candelabra,, which were of roe size, contained wax lights; that in the middle e` an y table, opposite to the Queen's seat, was larger than the other, and is known as the St. Georg upper division containing a splendid carving ° I di , George Candelabre,„ st. George slaying the dragon, in full relief. The lowqodi vision has four figures in full relief, Ireland, s h ci l t he bearing the arms of England, Scotland, al l 0 6 .0 Prince of Wales's plume. The Tower salt-cellar, 0, known as one of the choicest gems of art in the Plich sion of the Crown, was near this candelabra, ne ar %re also were two others, one on either side, having a re,rnes sentation of the Garden of the Hesperides. The <bill were embellished with sculptured subjects, many °l from Flaxman's designs, and all of the most sot;gild execution, " Dancing nymphs," " Piping fau ns ' t the several allegorical marine pieces, were amo n g' number. rrilE EXTRAORDINARY ORNAMENTS OF '- BANQUET TABLE AND SIDEBOABP': gold Opposite the Queen's chair, was a magnifieen'ooir chandelier, standing nearly five feet high, rous branches, on which was a splendid carving ? iv . P . George slaying the Dragon, with a Victory droPP.; v o lis crown of laurel on his head from above. Near, I ,' no ica the celebrated Tower salt-cellar, which is so well the as one of the choicest gems of art in the possession ('3OOl Crown. Behind the table we found another sid e ,,rers equally gorgeous, containing some of the largest s ," ‘ tea in the world. One of them, valued as w ort P O O thousand guineas, was formt d out of the golden 5 sl og boxes received by George the Fourth. I:‘,ll'eto be amongst them two immense gold bottles, sai cog' Scotch, with massive chains of the same met a ' , ors: taming from four to six quarts each. Thei r t ' to manship was exquisite. We had also pointed ou w hich the celebrated gold cup of Gustavus Adolphus,' ja s with f now belongs to the Royal plate chest of England sar recess opposite to the Queen's chair, and which ua s ., l oll mounted with the Prince's plume, we were partici:3lde, struck with the golden dogs of George IV., th e g, :ta d tiger's head, once the property of 'Yippee several enamelled drinking cups, especially one re f `` contains an emerald said to be worth 500/ This contained also three celebrated cups by Cellini. THE NAUTILUS CUP. • t of i/ The Nautilus cup is singularly elegant. A Prl th e , is engraved in Mr. Shaw's beautiful specimen„,``p boo,' dresses and decorations of the middle ages?' of it is formed of a nautilus shell mounted on a silver gilt, with a cover of the same material, t iw ges it e t being left in its natural colour to represent the o f the the figures, and the rows of beads in various nart s i f o ot cup and lid. The height of the whole cup le ..', o ant e ' inches. On the cover of the cup is a Jupiter oar on an eagle, wielding a sceptre and brandishing' %ear derbolt. The profile of the Jupiter is said te vr oce• close resemblance to that of Francis 1., King 0 f dof The bowl is held in the arms and rests on the ne t ' ~f the Triton, who is mounted on a sea-horse. The bayi e rea v cup is ornamented with sea nymphs playing ° ll musical instruments. Nothing can be more el" '" 11 , than the workmanship of the different figures:,,, cup was bought at the sale of Wansted- house SC'" by Messrs. Rundell and Bridge, and was by thCA - ba tlC s to George IV. There was a cup of the time of to 11., which also excited great admiration. It is 51 " re' have belonged once to Charles 11., and to have beenbil, sented by him to a Master of Queen's Co lle g e , farthe r, who had rendered important se rvices to - U,_ fam ily Charles I. It remained in the•possess ion of In based until about 20 years ago, when it was Purc film George IV. It is of silver gilt, except the,. t34' joi work, which is left in plain silver. It stands li. inches hgih. rf THE SILVER-GILT FOUNTAIN A -- TANKARD. f Briti sh Among other rarities also were two trop hies 0 i , og to valour—we mean the silver-gilt fountain belouP 1 4%0 Queen Elizabeth, which was taken in one of the P o sia captured from the Spanish Armada, and the 5 1 r aa a of Napoleon captured at Waterloo, with his cip r. r oo it. crown (how soon his brown became a cipher !) t ri t ard , ,t 1 Both are singularly elegant ; as is also the Per, t hotie j of which there is only one now left in this c ountrY' u dtsr b in former days they were very common. Fdaeb,,,,t e ac h had many pegs in the inside. It was expected "Jose' toper would drink from peg to peg. If any Ma ll I. o ol ol° he was considered low in spirit ; and hence our c phrase of " being a . peg too low." na jo, When irradiated in the evening by a thousa nd e l, ... ; tb i e whose light was reflected from above and bel°,111" -. polished surfaces on which they fell, its g lare n 'i t i t fiance was overpowering, and overwhelmed us limited admiration. THE STATE BANQUET' c ede d About half-past seven o'clock her Majesty, P. O ett" by the Lord Steward and the Lord Chamberhll;oo tered the Banqueting Hall, leaning on the 111133,..a the King of Prussia, followed by Prince Albert p lain Duchess of Kent. Her Majesty was dressed ii ,; ye ri ti , white satin, having a robe of a very thin textur e " det s a plain white wreath round her head, and a ban h is diamonds across her forehead. The King 0. the uniform h CP . ifi tP wore same military he wore at t red, with silver epaulettes, but appeared deeortitorter' the riband, star, and - jewel of the order of the in the with which his . Majesty had been invested rout, morning ; the garter itself his Majesty w ere in the knee. Her Majesty took her station,„ fl r e ,; middle of the table with her back to t %g place, but protected by a low screen, 10 1 . 1 , 1 ", 0 King of Prussia on her right hand ; l if „ 1 "acl it t i 3 - bert conducted the Duchess of Kent r e l ," e table, took his place directly opposite W " 1 „ - a t jesty, the Duchess of Kent being opposite t';i ti che s of Prussia. The Duke of Sussex conducted the - ' - 'Quee e : of Cambridge ; the Duke sitting at the left of t he f fr% ' end the Duchess of Cambridge next the King ° sia. The Duke of Sussex was dressed in the ort of the Captain-General of the Artillery ColnP e° (C o l : military boots. Prince Albert and the Duk e °a t 03 ',:t bridge each wore a Field Marshal's uniform, Al i 0 tary boots, and both the Royal Dukes and Pri lle- of were decorated with the insignia of the Order° t 0 Garter. The Duke of Cambridge took his Pled cl°6s table on the opposite side to that of the Queen , 3 cobtl' r e to Prince Albert. Duke Ferdinand, of Saxe ho yO O/le o the Princess Augusta of Cambridge, and to }the Princess of Saxe-Coburg, were arranged nesters, centre of the table; then came the Cabinet Mi n ' s " t remainder of the company filling up each end• f" )°.' There were about eighty attendants, page s "a11e 5t5. 0 . men, in their State dresses, in waiting upon the b - , ro ue The Yeomen of the Guard were on duty at the el l i ier e l; A military band was stationed in one of the g e ts w t and received her Majesty an d her illustrious g ees " God save the Queen." (ea I ' l In addition to the brilliant illumination ea ena le i - 0 such a profusion of wax lights on the table and t Oi l there were fo ur l am p s pl ac ed ag ainst each of t shields with th e C ross o f St. George, which li n J O° on each pier, on both walls, extending down length of th e a p ar tment, which threw a most 'A 1 , brilliancy over the magnificent scene. thi e As soon as the guests were seated, a BishoP,,, (W e e dien e e e l. the Archbishop of Canterbury) said grace. ' 1 .' 60 0 I , then proceeded with activity, and during its cen,_ e b oa the following pieces of music were performed by t'i March, " Triomphale"—Ries. Overture, " Op. 24"—Mendelssohn. Waltz, " Jubel Klange aus Albion" Ch , ,rus, " Schmuckt die Altare"—Beet hoven. Quadrille, " Polichinelle"—Musard. Overture, " Les Diamans de la Couronne' th e Galop, " Rococo"—Labitzky. "tun e ' A short time before the dinner was cone_ani bagpipers of the 72d Regiment playe d chT raa rch , e and at the conclusion of it two of the PiP el , tu eled it ; round the room, playing one of their national gro__ At a quarter before nine o'clock dinner Was ov , e ' t, Co o , : said, the cloth removed,' and a magnificent doss. taining every delicacy both in and out of se c !,, a isiteV t —Labitzky placed upon the table. Several pieces of most .2 ` . . ct iou prepared confectionary, modelled under t he uu the P rL it Mr. Mawditt, were then served up, and fo re mod , fusion of flowers with which they were d ee f- r r ung uP seemed as if a gay parterre had suddenly ,',11,11,„ among the other gay illusions of the beetle. , L i c i erPe i n ; sparkled brightly on the board. The Earl c:: Lord Steward, then announced as a toas t, rose ° grince Highness the Prince of Wales." The eo in P ne iZ drank it standing, her Majesty and . h t e i r Ol e o , standing at the same time, and bowing The bands then played Rule Britanuta._ o ded „ minutes elapsed, and the Lord Steward an opt% next toast—" The King of Prussia." T he t she 6s/ij oa d again rose, the King of -Prussia standing , 11 , se% st time and bowing thanks. - The Duke et 1-1 ,7 we e e e„.. awhile after the other guests were seated ! 811 " 5 _ w as in w, not help suspecting that e rtivi t d dined, in spite of Court etiquette, to favo t u psi party with a speech. At last he, too, 64 a his "Royal ligbe COI 0 li Lo In' ant sa t , the thi: me Let cc, till