The Sun. — London, England, 1839-01-21 00:00:00

HIGH WATE. AT L ing 52 nu :nles RIDGE TO-MORROW, enin 19 minutes after 7 NEW BOOKS RELATING TO THE STATE OF AFFAIRS IN THE EAST, Just published by Mr. BENTLEY. I. MR. BAILLIE FRASER'S WINTER JOURNEY (TATAR) From CONSTANTINOPLE to TEHRAN, With TRAVELS through various PARTS of PERSIA, KHO RASAN, he. 2 vols. Bvo., with Plates. " We cordially recommend this amusing book of travels to our readers. Mr. Eraser's hardships in his Tatar ride, his observatkin during his sojourn in the P ers i an c i t i es, an d am , ng the great rner,, and the particulars of hi s t rave l s among t h e Tureoman trilves, are all most interesting."—Times. IL The Hon. MOUNTSTUART ELPHINSTONT'S ACCOUNT of the KINGDOM o f CA UI3UL, an d its D'LPENDENCIES in PERSIA, TARTARY, ar.d INDIA. A New and Revised Edition, Additions. 2 vols. Bvo., with Map and miPrierous Plates, price 28s. 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Tie publication of Tau SUN NEWSPAPER commenced this d a y at 50 minutes past Three o'clock. ~.~r .J ,T s .; 1 1-(71!:bt WITH WHICH THE " T RUE SUN " is NOW INCORPORATED. LONDON : MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY 21, 1539. We cordially echo the recommendation of the Morning Post to the agriculturists, " to exert them selves and to be prepared to lay their petitions for con tinued and unaltered protection upon the tables of both Houses of the Legislature at the earliest possible mo ment. The agricultural classes are called upon," acids our Contemporary, " by every consideration of duty to themselves, and to the nal:ion at large, to hasten for ward with their loud air:t earnest petitions to the Legis lature against any 'alteration whatever of the existing system of Pro`-ection." The manufacturing classes, by asking ; .n the first instance to be heard at the bar Of r ... - arliament, expli c i t l y d ec l are that they want invcs'ogation ; and the petitions of the agricultu rj'As, though they be limited to demanding " con tinued and unaltered protection," cannot fail to promote that which the manufacturers so earnestly desire. We, therefore, reiterate the words of the Post :—Petition, agriculturists, by all means, and from every hamlet and farm in the united empire. Then the world will be quite convinced that the paramount necessity of the matter, and no party intrigue, forces it on Parliament, and forces the Parliament to occupy itself with that one question to the exclusion of every other. So it will be the more speedily and finally settled. The absurdity of the Tory Journals, particularly the Times, stigmatizing the agitation as a trick of the Ministers, is manifest by the fact that wheat is selling in some markets at 90s. the quarter. The discussion is forced on the public by circumstances. If the Tories, however, will call it a party question, and fight against the seasons, we can only rejoice in their folly, and gratefully take as our allies the powers of Nature. In the first week of the present year the average price of six weeks which regulated the duty was 775. 3d. ; the average price of the first week in 1836, was 365. But these sums show the average prices during one-eighth of the year over the whole of England, and the variations in the different markets of- which these averages are the sum, must have been much greater. For example, wheat has within a fortnight been sold in several parts of England for 905., and it was sold, in the beginning of 1836, in some markets, for 325. The difference between the averages in these years is above 100 per cent. ; the difference between the extremes, in three years, is nearly at the rate of 200 per cent. Variations like these remind us of the middle ages, ere commerce had come into existence, and when each country was ex clusively limited to its own narrow resources. They exemplify the wisdom of Lord GRENVILLE'S protest, that Corn-laws " deny us the benefit of that provision which Providence has made for equalizing to man the variations of climate and of seasons." Some important considerations grow out of these variations. It is perfectly clear from the difference be between the extremes and the averages of only six weeks, and of the markets of one single country above referred to, that the averages of the whole corn-grow ing and commercial world, between 1836 and 1839, offer no such disastrous differences as have existed iiln our market. They are wholly caused, therefore, by the Corn-laws, which limit us to our own soil ; and, though trade be the soul of our national greatness, strike off an immense branch of trade. But for the Corn-laws, therefore, and with free trade in corn, the average price of wheat in England through those three years would have gravitated to a point somewhere about 505., and would not have - varied 20 per cent. on either side. The enormous variation beyond that of 100 per cent. on the aver- ages, or 200 per cent. on the extremes, is wholly caused by the Corn-laws. But the price of corn determines, all other prices, which is one reason assigned for up holding the Corn-laws ; and those laws, therefore, have actually caused, within three years, a variation of cent. per cent. in the value of all the property in the kingdom. Against such variations no prudence can guard, to meet them no calculation is equal, and no national prosperity can resist them. No person has yet supposed that the depreciation to be caused by the abolition would equal that caused by the laws themselves, which actually took place in 1335, and 1836. If the landlords have got through that without ruin, they will surely survive the far less depre ciation which will be caused by the total abolition. Every general line of human conduct has its basis on some great natural fact; and thus the great series of transactions called mercantile speculation, which con sists in buying when and where goods are cheap, and selling them when and where they are dear, is based on the variations in the seasons in different years and different countries. Speculation is about commen surate to these variations ; and thus we may be confi dent that the unhealthy speculations which have taken place in this country since 1815, deranging and con.. vulaing all commerce, have had f or th e i r c hi ef cause I those excessive and unnatural variations in prices which have resulted from the Corn-laws. The disas trous convulsions, in fact, of 1826, and, in the Ame rica trade at the close of 1;36, were preceded by years of low prie s caused by an abundance of corn, for which the Corn-laws—by keep ing our Markets at all times above those of other countries—prevented our farmers from finding a vent all - foad. We are puzzled to account for the fact that laws so alien to the well-being of a trading community as the Corn-laws, so destructive to the prosperity of a wealth-seeking people, and so foreign therefore to the customs and pursuits of our country, should so long have been tolerated. It results, we believe, from the national deference to old prejudices and to prescriptive power, which having been all in favour of the landlords, it required the strong proofs which are now afforded of the contemptible folly and suicidal guilt of their legislation to overturn them. No autho rity can now exist which is not based on reason, and we can confidently predict, therefore, whatever may be the number of squires in the two Houses of Parlia ment, that their substantial power is at an end. The Court of Queen's Bench has decided to-day against the Canadian prisoners, and has found the re turn to the writ sufficient ; but at the same time it ha granted a rule nisi to Mr. HILL, who moved for an attachment against Mr. BA TCHELOR, the Liverpool gaoler. We have neither time nor space to do any thing more than refer to our report, which gives the particulars. In another place will be found so:ne news from India, which arrived by the Marseilles mail this morning. A Madras Paper of the 24th November goes further than the information there given, and asserts positively that a war with the Burman Empire is unavoidable, and has been resolved upon. The in habitants of Rangoon have been strictly prohibited from supplying any of the wants of Col. BENSON and his suite, or from holding any communication with him ; and he was indebted to the supplies he had carried with him for the means of subsistence. The merchants of Ran goon were in the greatest alarm. We regard the lengthened and important discussions on the Address, in the French Chamber of Deputies, with the most lively interest. The subjects of debate affect not France more than Great Britain, and the other western Constitutional Governments with which the King of the FRENCH was once intimately allied ; and the eloquent and able leaders of the Opposition cannot fail to attract the praise and esteem of all the friends of liberty and peace, by their attempt to ob tain now, by moral force, what was obtained in the three days of July by a revolution, and a great sacri fice of human life. This is not the first time the French have followed in the steps of the English. ' They, like the English, had a revolution, cut off their King's head—had a republic ; a restoration, and a second revolution ; and, like the English in 1830, they are now employing constitutu tional means, and without bloodshed, to control the power and despotism of the Crown by the people's representatives. As far as we can judge from appearance their success is all but certain. For the last three years the KING has been everything in the Constitution. He presided and dominated in the Ca•• binet ; he made the House of Peers and the majority of the House of Representatives, and ruled alone as much as BONAPARTE, and more than CHARLES X. Even the Carlists admit that the only change produced by the revolution of July is the change which is visible in the palace. For CHARLES X. and the Duke of ANGOULEME, and the Duke of BORDEAUX, they have Louis PHILIPPE and the Duke of ORLEANS, and the Count of PARIS, and, true to their principles, and in accordance with the principles of justice, they vow hostility to a dynasty which is not one whit more liberal, which courts with more eagerness the Holy Alliance, and which rejects with more scorn the popular will than the legitimate family which, on the plea of despotism, the ORLEANS branch ousted from the throne. The juste mi lieu party, with TRIERS at their head, and the anti-monarchical section represented by ODIL LON BARROT are equally indignant, and men of all parties, except the weak Government party, attribute the present isolated position of France, and more particularly the coldness which has sprung up between the British and French Governments, to the right cause—the selfish, hesitating, faithless, and de spotical policy of Louis PHILIPPE. The French Government Papers charged this on the British Go- vernment, but the recent discussions in the French Chamber have completely disproved the imputation, and convinced us that the intimacy and sympathy be tween the people of th e t wo coun t r i es , a l i k e anxious for liberty, are too powerful to be dissolved either by the crooked policy of the Court or by the wicked machinations of the enemies of liberty in England and Fra nce , i n ra ki ng up causes of jealousy be tween these two nations—the great bulwarks of European freedom. All these parties assert that France, in other words the KING, and not England, is to blame, and that a different line of policy, would have preserved England as before " a powerful and faithful ally." Nothing can be more unanimous than their opinion on this point. The Carlists say he "con cluded a portion of a treaty and promised lying suc cours ; in every point around, alliances had been de stroyed or weakened, and guarantees trampled under foot ; the consequence of which was, that France was isolated from Italy, Belgium, Switzerland Spain, and England." The monarchy-men tell him, that " Eng land had been obliged to sign treaties elsewhere, to replace the hollow ones of the Quadruple Alliance," and the anti-monarchy-men describe him as "yielding to the Holy Alliance, and promising to be humble and sage in order to satisfy foreign despots, without caring for the sentiments of the country, or of old friends that supported him when these same despots would have crushed him to the dust." Never was a criminal con victed on more clear evidence. When so many men have combined against the system, and when the Chamber representing, so imperfectly as it does, the liberal opinions of the nation, have deserted his Go vernment, we look with anxiety to the next moves in the game. The frequent visits of SOULT to the Tuileries lately augur well. SOULT can tell Lours PHILIPPE that England has been his best friend, that the reception he met with from the people here is a proof of their desire to be on good terms with France, and that the only way to preserve the alliance, and perhaps his Crown, is to revert to the principles which placed him on the throne. The Paris Journals of Friday and Saturday have been duly received. Their contents, however are un important. On Saturday the last paragraph of the Address was under discussion, but the Chamber had not come to any decision upon it wh en th e ma ils left Paris for London. It was still the prevailing opinion that whatever might be the Ministerial majority upon the final vote, Count MOLE would assuredly resign after the presentation of the Address to his Majesty. A coalition Cabinet is still talked of, but a coa lition which would include MOLE and TRIERS in one administration is impossible, and a coalition which would exclude M. THIERS appears to us imprac ticable. Were SOULT and Timms to unite cor dially, the tomer contoning himself with the War Department, and leaving to THIERs the management of Foreign affairs, they could easily form a strong Go- - vernment, and one which would i m p ar t di gn ity. to the Royal Councils. The KING personally dislikes M. GUIZOT, the oracle of the Doctrinaires, and therefore there Might be some difficulty about him ; but to a Cabi net including THIERS, SOULT, DUCEIATEL, Hu . MANN, and possibly MAUGUIN and ODILLON BAR ROT among its members, the opposition of GUIZoT, were he in opposition, would be no longer formidable. For our own part, we are persuaded that a period has arrived when the system of foreign policy of which M. THIERS is the representative, ought to be adopted by France ; and though we are not unmindful of the apos tacy of this Minister upon the question of the liberty of the Press when he was before in office, there is not at present a member of either Chambei whom we would more gladly sec at the head of the Foreign Department. TIIIERS thoroughly understands the present position of France with respect to Foreign Powers, and he rightly comprehend s the principl es t h at should guide her in the formation an d strengthening of friendly alliances. Unlike that " dreamer of dreams," LAMARTINE, he knows the amalgamation of the inte rests of free and despotic states to be impossible, and therefore it is that he looks to Engl an d i nstea d o f Russia for that sympathy which is the surest guaran tee the aggressive designs of the CZAR in the East and West. We regret to announce the indisposition of the QUEEN of the French, brought on by her grief for the loss of her daughter. The Duke of \VURTEMBUItG and his infant son arrived in Paris on Friday. Great preparations are making for the solemn interment of the Duchess at Dreux, the family burying-place of the House of Orleans. A French Journal corrects the accounts published in England of the strength of the French navy by the following statement:- At the close of the last year the French Let consisted of 231 ships :-viz., 24 of the line; 37 ft igates; 22 corvettes; 8 corvettes av:zos ; 19 brigs : 74 small vessels, such as schooners, cutters, bombards, &c : 14 corvettes of burden ; and 29 steam-boats. We have besides, 27 ships of the line and 26 frigates building, and other s ma ll er vesse l s arme d or building, 31 ships of - the line and 63 frigates. We have likewise 3 frigates under repair, the Calypso, Magicienne, and Atalanti, and 9 steam-boats building. BOURSE-Pißts, SATURDAY, JAN 19. HALF-PAST THREE.-The declaration of the Finance Minister yester day that the Government was prepared for the conversion of the Five per Cents. has not had any effect on the market generally or on that stock in particular. For the Account the Three per Cents, opened at 78f. 70c., declined to 78f. 63c., and rallied to close at 78f. 85c.. an improvement of 10c. The Five per Cents. 110 f. 40c., fell to 110 f. 30c., and closed at 110 f. 50c., an improvement of 15c. For money the Three and Five per Cents. have risen sc. The Bank of France shares have declined 10f. The Lafitte Bank shares are unaltered. The Belgian Five per Cents. are h lower. The Belgian Bank shares are 21. 50e., h'gher. The Spanish Active, after having been 18Af., closes as yes terday at 18f. The Portuguese Three per Cents, for the account, after having been done at 23f. close as per Monday at 22 LE Nothing in rail way shares deserving particular notice. First Highest I owest La.,t Price. Price. Price. Price. French 5 per Cents. 4 per Cents. 3pv r Cents. 7B 65 ... 7. CO ... 7d 65 78 80 Bank of France 265 i ...2650 -.2611 _26-10 Lafitte Bank I,ooof. Sh :•,000 f. Sh. ~ 5260 Belgian 5 per Cents. 3 per Cents. 66 40 ... 66 40 ... 66 40 66 40 Ilai k t9o 593 590 590 Spanish Acti.e Portuguese 5 per Cents 34 3 per Cents. Don Migue' Roman lOO% ... 101 ... ICO% 101 EXCHANGE ON LONDON One month, paper, 25f 10c , m ney, 25f 7%c. ; three months, paper, 24f. 92%c., money, 24f. 911 c. RAILWAY SHARES. St. Germain 595 ... 595 595 • 595 Versailles, LB. Rouen St'asburgh to Bale 317 80 ... 347 50 .., 317 50 ... 317 50 Bordeaux to La 'I este 4lO ... 410 ... 410 ~. 410 DUTCH FUNDS.-AMSTERDAM, JAN. 18. Money. Bills. Actual Debt, 2% per Cent Ditto, ditto 5 per cent. A mort Smdic,4y.i, per cent 94 95 Ditto, ditto, 3% pe r cen t. 79)4 SO4 Commercial Company, 4% per c,:nt 1754 176 Ditto (1532 and 1933) 5 per cent. Loan 1836, 4 per cent. Ditto 1837, 5 per cent. 98% 991 4 Exchange on London, One month l2 02% Two mon ' , .hs BELGIAN 4. UNDS-ERMSBELS, JAN.IB Actual Debt, 2% per Cent. liothsehild's Loan, 5 per Cent. 98% Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent. 3 per Cent. 6 7 14 Loan of City, 1832, 4 per Cent Society of Commerce, 4 %per Cent ll5 Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent 6l National Society . -Brussels Papers, Jan. 18. AUSTRIAN FUNDS.-Vntaim, JAN. 9. Five per Cents. Metalliques Four per Cents. 101% Three per Cents. Bank Shares 1479 -AllgemeineZeitung, Jan. IL HAMBURG BORSEN HALLE, JAN. 15. Austrian Metal' B iques, 5 per cent. 06 105% Ditto ditto 3 p er cent. Ditto ditto 21 per cent, Liao Bank Shares 1492 1,90 Anglo-Russian Loan 107• 1u7% Russian 5 per cents. Metal. Paper Inscription, 6 per cent 124 104 Russian Inscription, Hope and Co., 3d and 4th Series Ditto, Certificates Portuguese Regency Bends.s per cent Ditto, 3 per cent Dutch 2% per Cents. Ditto 5 per Cents 99.7i 91N, Polish Bonds, 3 per c en t s . New Tickets 1554 151 3 Anglo_Danish Loan, :3 per cents 71% 71% Norwegian Loan of 1534, 4 per cents. Spanish, in piastres, 3 per Cents Cortes Loan, 5 per Cent Greek 4 per cents. 1513, guaranteed by France - EXCHANGES ON LONDON. HAMBURG, JAN. '5.-13 53 4 ; two months, 13 4, -Hamburg Papers, Jan 15. PRUSSIAN FUNDS.-BERLIN, JAN. 12. Bills. t. Schuld. Sch., 4 per cent lO3 Prussian English Loan, 1830, 4 per cent 102% Exchange on London, three months 6 19% -Prussia's State Gazette, Jen. 13. M Money. 102!‘ 101% ,e _acrid Journals received are to the 13th inst. They bring no intelligence from the theatre of war. Things remain exactly where they were three months ago. As for the Ch am b ers , t h ey meet, debate, decide nothing, and adjourn. THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.) CORN-EXCHANGE. Last week's arrivals consisted of a moderate quantity of English Wheat, good of Barley, and fair of most other Grain, with a good return of Flour and of Foreign Wheat. The trade throughout the week was generally heavy for most articles. This morning the fresh supply of Wheat from Essex and Suffolk is small, but fair from Kent; of Barley there is a good quantity, and of other Corn moderate. The weather continues very mild, and the buyers show little di s p os i t i on to do business. The Wheat trade has been very dull to-d a y, an d pr i ces all declined Is. a 2s. for English, and ls. per. qr. for foreign. Fine are hardly so good in value. Beans have met a slack d eman d at Barley has well maintained last week's terms ; other qualities p kde and. mTh e m ill ers in making a n y sa l es forme r r a t es . B o ili ng an d G re y Pease are sold Is.er qr.l ower . Oats suppo r t th e i r pr i ces w ith a slack complain th at t h ere i s a great difficulty :_____7: (old) ............ 485.50.. of Flour, but they do not offer at less terms than last week. White (old) Wheat, Red (old) Beans, Small (new) ............ 43s 45s ---___lled 1838) 6Bl. 72a. --- Tick (new) ............ 37s 40- Fine . . 73s. 74 ; ....---- (old) ............ 42-.44a ------- Superfine.. 7ss. 7631 ---- Harrow (new) ......... 40 .435. ....... ............... BOARD OF SHIP. ----White (1838) 7os. 7 25. ------- (old) ........ . 4 is. Cis --- Fine 7ls. 788. Brank . ..... -5..--3 Superfine ...... ...Elk 82.5. Oats, Feed R-Foreign free ......... 86, 8,56. ----New 2sx. oa, 8ye.... ............................. 425. 45; - Poland ..--S. ---3 , arley ........................ 383. 44, _.-------New 275.325. - Grinding .............. .3Ss 425. Potatoe 30,335. - Malting ................ 425. 45s -•--- vem ais.33% Pease, Grey, New ............ "" ms s 40s . F• lour Town Malt .............................. .555. 651 . S coter ' 3+1..31s its sack) • 6 2 ..8 70t Ma-Fine New.. ........... Xiii. 70s . Irish 245. 25 ,20 a - Maple New .......... 10, 41s . Seconds ,65 - White ..... .. .......... .41s. 40s . -• North Country 585.621 -. Boilers .................. 465. 475 . B• ran lO, 11 . ARRIVALS OF GRAIN IN LONDON DURING LAST WEEK. Wheat. 1 B arley. caste. tin , I I 11,033 qrs. ' English 4,001 qrs 1 3,015 irs 7,f80 s•c N. Irish -- 1 * c2;',84 Foreign - - S MITHFIELD. For the better descriptions of Beef and Mutton higher prices were obtained. Veal was bought up at the advanced rates of ss. 6d. to 6s. 6d. per stone. In Pork prices were fully supported. Beef 4s. to 4s. Bd. ; Mutton 4s. 4d. to ss. ; Veal ss. 6d. to 6s. 6d. ; Pork 4s 2,991 ; Sheep 24,070 ; Calves 58. ; 4d. to ss. 4d. Beasts Pigs 370. HOP MARKET. This market is improving. for the good and fi ne qualities, and ood _generally pri p ces are higher. NEWC ASTLE CORN EXCHANGE, JAN. 19. Our farmers brou g h t a very large supply of Wheat to mar ket to-day, but we had none from Norfolk or Suffolk ; the de mand was limited, and prices must be noted ls. to 2s. per quarter cheaper. Th e b est Malting Barley maintained its value. For Ry e , a declin e o f is. pe r quarter h as b een su b m i t t e d to. Oats sold rath er f ree l y at last week's rates. Beans were looking lower, and Whi te Pease also ruled Is. per quarter cheaper. The sale of' Flour has been exceedingly dull this week, at a decline of 2s. to 3s. per sack. GLOUCESTER, JAN. 20.—Arrived the Neptune, Munro, Wyburg, The Thomas Scott a•:d Brtmdcr have not sailed as reported. The Commodcre, from London to Exeter, was on shore near We: mouth, yesterday —cargo and crew saved. The Zebra, Hughes, from Apswich to Liverpool, sunk at Newhavei the 17th inst.—crew saved. mast—crew saved, - brie. MONEY AND COMMERCIAL NEWS Ditto Red. 100%% I New Ditto New 3% per Cent 100% 100 14 9d% 3 per Cent. Annuities, 1751 — New 5 per Cent. Bank Long Annuities toexpire Ditto 500 Jan. 5, 1860 — Ditto Small 63 70 pm Oct. 10, 1859 ... Ditto Commercial pm. Jan. 5, 1860 — Ditto Advertised .I . :n. 5, 1880 — Bank Stock for Account — April 5, 1880 - India Stock for Account Jan. 5. 11170 - Consols for Account 92% PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Austrian Bonds — I Peruvian Bonds _ Belgian Bonds Ditto Account Brazilian Bonds Ditto Account Buenos Ayres Bonds Ditto Account Chilian Bonds Otto Account Columbian Bonds —; Ditto Account Ditto Account — I Ditto Metallic — Columbian Bonds, 1824 — ' Spanish Bonds — Ditto Account .8% 14 ) Ditto Account — Danish Bonds Ditto Account — Ditto Account. lB% 18 i, 1 Greek Bonds — French, 5 per cent. Ditto Bonds, 1825 — ---- 4 per cent ... ...... —f. —c. Ditto Account — --- 3 per cent. —f —c. Mexican Bonds, 5 per Cent — ---- Exchange. Ditto Account — Dutch, 2% per cent. ...... ..54%%% Ditto, 6 per Cent — ' Ditto Account 54% Ditto Account Neapolitan I Ditto Acc0unt....„........... 102% PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Blaenavon Iron and C oa l Paid. Per Share,4o 42% Great Western Rail way C ompany 65 77 Brighton Railway 14 1034 T 4 1 endon and Birmingham Railway Company 9O 168 London and Croydon Railway Company 2O Ditto New Scrip London Grand Junction Railway 5 Australian Company 27% • London and Westminster Bank 2O Provincial Bank of Ireland 25 PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS, DUBLIN, JAN. 19. 3 per Cent. Consols 3% per Cent. Stock Ditto Reduced Ditto New, 1930 3% per Cent. Debentures Bank Stock ... Royal Canal Stock Grand Canal Stock '24'4 43ii 3 HALF-PAST ONE. LIVERPOOL COTTON-MARKET, JAN. 19.—The demand for Cotton has been very good. From the trade and speculators about 7,000 bales have changed hands, of which 3,000 are on speculation, without change in prices. At the first meeting of the Havre shareholders of the Bank, on the 11th inst., which had only been ten months in activity, the statement was that the number of bills discounted was 9,202, and the value of them 23,283,1191. Value of the notes issued at same period was 27,947,0001. The amount of notes remaining in circulation at the beginning of the year was 1,588,5001. Accounts have been received from Calcutta of the 21st of November. We do not hear as yet what news the letters bring. Consols are not quite so good as in th e morn i ng , an d may be quoted at present 92 a for the Account ; Money, 922 ex dividend ; Exchequer Bills, 68 70 ; India Bonds, 64 66 ; Bank Stock, 203 ; Spanish Active, 16e ; Portuguese, 34 35+ ; Three per Cents. ; 221 ; Belgian rathe r l ower, 98 1 99i; Br zilian, 7Th 78; Colombian, 281 ; Mexican, 241 ; Dutch Two-and-a- Ralf, 541 i; Five per Cents., 1024. THREE O'CLOCK. Consols for th• Account, 921. Paris is now abundantly supplied with wheat and flour. The reserve stores now contain 60,000 bags of flour, the Halle 10,394, and in the entrepot and private stores, 30,000—in all, 140,394 bags. The consumption of Paris being 2,000 bags per day, the supply of the capital is thereby insured for 70 days. It is to be observed also that at this moment the arrivals exceed the daily consumption. Finally, the prices are moderate—at the last market they were, on an average. 57f. 50c, ; the rate of the tax was 68f. 9c. Jo?tonal des Delats. DEPLORABLE IGNORANCE AND SUPERSTI TION. --A child, called 'larding, the son of a labouring man, was so severely burnt last week, that it died the day after the accident. It appeared on the inquest that the parents, in stead of callin g i n a surgeon, had recourse to a conjuror, who, it seems, had wrought some wonderful cures.—Cornwall Gaz. VALUABLE MINERAL DISCOvERY.—A rich lode of lead and silver ore has been discovered on the Rodd estate at Chri stow.—Cornwall Gazette. MALIBRAN AND DE BERIOT.—Our readers will remembor that a great noise was made when De Beriot left the corpse of his wife (the ever to be lamented Malibran) at Manchester, to be followed to the grave by strangers. Is not the following a very similar case ? and yet no notice has been taken of it. In the Morning Post of the 11th inst. the death of the Duchess of Wurtemberg, daughter of the King and Queen of France, was announced, stating that The Duke of Wurtemberg„ with the young prince, his son, left Pisa immediately / after the Duchess died, and came to P The Duke de Nemours, the Duchess's brother, tentailieci at Pisa to attend the religious ceremonies which were to be per formed in the Cathedral, for the repose of the soul of the departed P rincess." —Musical World. New. Old. Wheat, North urniserland .............. ..... 625. 81s 7 l- 82 . 1 Norfolk and 5uff01k..,,,. ..... ... 7 5 , su sis. 85 Berwick and Scotch ............ ... 723. 79; -1 -e, Fon ign ............................... .. -s. -s. - 8. -8 . Rye, Norfolk sod Suffolk ... .............. . 495. 53s -s. 8 Foreign ................. .. ... ... ......... -a. -s -s. - B . Barley, Malting, Norfolk and Suffolk... 465. 49s .-1. -4. Grinding and Feeding, ........... P6s. 40s. Malt, Norfolk and mil tlolk ................. . 64s t 94 . -s. -s. _BLa . n .... ., l S i tri ci a , l .. . : ................................................ .. .................. .. 7s s . . 7 S s 4 4Z:. 4 1.. I Pc , a4e, White ................................... !,;=. 52!.. . ........ (4ray ................ ................. 42. 4:) oats, Northumberland, I - otatoe ...... ... 275. 28 $ 29s 31s. Feed . o• 9 5s 264 28s ---.. ........ ... -is - Foreign ......... . ......................... -s. -6 -s. -s. Flour (per sack) ................................. 575. 61s. -s. --s. THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY, JANITARV 21, 1639 LL* i YD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY.) DEAL, JAN. 19.—Wind W.S.W., blowing very hard this Morning, —Several of the outward bound, which sailed yesterday, put back, arid several proceeded for Ramsgate harbour. This afternocn the wind suddenly shifted to N.N. W., cold and strong, but moderated. 20. Wind WA W., moderate.—Put back, Earl Stanhope, for Launceston. Arrived the Good Intent, from Hartlepool, and proceeded for the river; Mary, Lima; Egyptian, Honduras. Caine down from the river and remain, the Louisa Maria, St. Mary ; Nereid, Odessa. PORTSMOUTH; JAN. 19.—Wind S.S. W. to N.N.W., squally.—`2o. W. to W.S. W., fine.—Arrived the Victoria, from Cherbourg ; Superb, Young, Youghall ; John, Jersey; L'Actif, Cape da Hougue; L'Ex ample, ditto. Put back Los Tres Hermanus, for Cadiz. It blew very hard yesterday from S. W, to W.S. W. until two p.m., when it suddenly shifted to N.N. W., and moderated. PLYmouTit, JAN. 20.—Wind W.—Arrived the Mellish, Jones, from London ; Dart, Portsmouth ; Diligence packet, Westward ; Eliza bcih, Whitmore, London; Victorie, Jersey ; Flamer, London ; Tagus. steamer, do. ; Corallie, Bourdeaux. FALbIOUTII, JAN: 19.—Wind S.W. to N. N.W., strong gales and squally.— Arri ved the Thames steamer, Willis, from London ; John Cooke, Shoreham ; Liverpool steamer, Gibraltar 10th inst., Cadiz 11th, Lisbon 14th, Oporto 15th, and Vigo 16th, with mails; Duke of Montrose, Nantes ; Amphitrite, M`Neil, Newcastle. Sailed the Cathe rine, Thompson, Rotterdam; Liverpool steamer, London. LIVERPOOL, JAX. 19 AND 20.—Wind W.N.W.--Arrived the Mi nerva, from Newfoundland; Victory, Jervis, Denia ; Water Lilly, Leggett, put back, leaky; Speedwell, Inverness; Latona, Walter, Louth ; Rosalind,: Calcutta; Centurion, Matuitius;lNori Sociedade, Lisbon; Orleans, Baltimore, with tobacco from the Grace; Ann, Ro berts, Sligo; Hamilton, Londonderry; Eliza, Thomas, Norway, Port land, Dublin ; Lovet, Thomas, Swansea ; Star, London. BRISTOL, JAN. 19. Arrived the Rapid from Cephalonia; Triurn pliante, St. Übes ; Convivial, Lisbon. JERSEE, JAN.—Arrived Mary, from Canaries ; Express, Stettin. CREEK, JAN. 20.—Arrived the Musrta, from Leghorn. NEWHAVEN, JAN. 20.—Arrived the Viscount Melbourne, from St. Petersburgh. RAMSGATE, JAN. :.o.—Arrived the Urania, from Jersey, with loss of anchor and cable, and full of water, havillg struck on the West Per ; Mary, Cork, with damage and loss of anchor and cable; Aldborough, Drew, London, assisted in, grounded outside ; William the Fourth, Rees, do. with damage to hull and spars ; Taunton (transport) do., with damage and loss of anchor and cable; Henry, Thomas, do. , with loss of anchor and cable; Kate, Griffith, do., with do., do.; Maulden, Caster, Ipswich, do. do.; Freedom, Cox, London, with damage; Mary Ann, Tucker, do., bows damaged ; Perseve rance, Richards, do., loss of anchor and cable; Poll, London, with P.:boom carried away; Felicity , Winsor, do., with loss of anchor and cable. The Energy, Clarke, from Sunderland to the Mediterranean, waen shore at the back of Ramsgate Pie: the 19th instant, with loss of :wan- The Ceres, Back, from S!:ields, foundered off Ordness, after being in contact with the Rainbow, of Hartlepool —crew saved. The Ditchburn, of Sunderland, sunk the 15th instant, at Cromer S. W. 25 miles—two of the crew saved. The Arminia, Cuff, bound to Sunderland, was on shore near Itye: the 1 7th instant. The Ceres, of Arundel, was on shore at Newhaven yesterday. The Oxford, from New York, whirls was on shore at Bootle Bay, has been got off. CITY (THIS DAY), TWELVE O'CLOCK. We have received the Journal of Commerce of Antwerp of the 18th inst., bringing dates from Brussels of the 18th inst. " Yesterday was sent off four estafettes by General Hurel, Chief of the Etat Major, for the commanders of the different Corps d'Armee, M. Romberg, Military Intendant, was sent to Venloo. The Ist regiment of Lancers, coming from Tourney, was expected yesterday evening at Brussels." LIEGE, JAN. 17.—8 y an order of the Governor of this pro vince, the barriers placed on the roads of the province of Liege are to be shut on the 17th, at midnight. The Prince of Hesse Homburg, Military Governor of Luxembourg, is dangerously ill ; he is beloved by the inha bitants of Luxembourg, who will greatly regret his death. Dutch prices of the 17th of January :—Two-and-a- Half per Cents., 54i; Five per Cents., 101 i-. We have received the Gibraltar Chronicle to the 10th of January ; as usual, the news from the theatre of war in Spain has been anticipated by the French Papers. For a double post day our arrivals this morning are few. Two French. one Ostend, with a Lisbon mail, have arrived ; the latter by the Liverpool steamer, sailed from Gibraltar 10th January, Cadiz 11th Jan., Lisbon 14th Jan., Oporto 15:h Jan., and Vigo 16th Jan. Three foreign mails are due. The news from Lisbon is of minor importance. The information of most importance at present on the tapis is the affair between Belgium and Holland. According to the various accounts received from both parties of the military movements for the commencement of hostilities, it cannot be long before we shall hear of an event of some importance. It is difficult as yet to say who will fire the first shot. The bad weather throws rather a damp on the British and Foreign markets for speculating to any extent. THE FUNDS. Consols opened at the same price they left off on Saturday, 92;1 f for the Account ; Money, 92f, with very little doine• as yet. Exchequer Bills, 68 70 • India Bonds, 64 66; Bank Stock, 2021 203 ; Indi a Stock, 2561- 257 i. The Foreign Market at present is inactive. Spanish, a shade higher, 18,t ; Portuguese, 35 36; Three per Cents., 22 23; Belgian, flya ; Brazilian, 77i 78; Colombian, 9 81 Mexican, 24i ; Dutch Two-and-a-half per Cents, .541 ; Five per Cents, 102-i f. PRICES OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Bank Stock ::03 India Stock :3 per Cent. Red. gni% Ditto Bonds 33 ?. per Cent Old Annuities EAST INDIES. The India Overland Mail, via Marseilles, has arrived thi. morning, bringing letters avid papers from Bomb iy to thy sth December, Calcutta 23d November, and Madras 24th Nov. The camp at Kurnaul broke up on the Bth of No. vember. A letter from that quarter of the same date says " Major. General Duncan marched yesterday morning with Brigadier Roberts' brigade. This morning the camp' broke up, and that vast plot of ground, which only two days ago was instinct with life and animation, sending forth the hum of a hundred thousand human beings, is now a dreary plain scarcely diversified by broken kedgeree pots, big holes, broken bottles, and deserted cooking places. The corps which marched this day were the 3d Buffs (thirty-three officers, and 608 men strong)—the 42d, 43d, 2d, sth, and 53d Regiments of Native Infantry, and a company of Sappers. They proceed by Pehvah and Khytul, according to the divisions to which they respectively belong. Acounts from Agra state that the 28th N. 1., while on march, mutinied, and they have consequently been ejected from the army of the Indus. and the 20th Regiment substituted. A report prevailed at Umbalah that 30,000 Dooranees from Cabool had reached Shikarpoor, with the view of opposing the progress of our army to the northward. Mr. Stocqueler, the enterprising editor of the Englishman Newspaper, had left Calcutta, to join the grand army destined for Cundahar, for the purpose of being present at the projected interview between Lord Auckland and Runjeet Singh, and sup plying authentic accounts to the public of the progress of eur troops against the rulers of Candahar and Cabool. The agent to the Governor-General had applied for a rein forcement of 2,000 men, and a battering train, to proceed against the Fort of Jhansi. Major-General Sir Thomas Aubury proposed to command the force in person. Accounts from Rangoon to the 3d of November state that our affairs with the Burmese were not of the most satisfactory nature. Up to the 25th October Colonel Benson had not been publicly acknowledged nor permitted to deliver his credentials, although he had been three weeks at Amera poora ; and his suite had also been treated with marked neglect and insult. The Portuguese Governor of Goa, the Baron Sabroza, died at that city on the 14th October, from the effects of an accident which happpened to him a short time before. This event, it is supposed, will be the signal for a general dis turbance at the settlement, as there were several claimants to the Governorship. THE PRISONERS. QUEEN'S BE - -Cif. 1) -4 V.) The Canadian prisoners were again brought up this morn ing. and, at the sitting of the Court, it was densely crowded" in every part. Lord DENMAN—We are now to pronounce our judgmen t on the validity of the return to the writ of habeas corpus for bringing up the body of Randall Wixon, in custody of t he Keeper of her Majesty's gaol of Liverpool. The writ se s issued by Mr. Justice Littledale, returnable forthwith before himself at Chambers in vacation ; but the term being so nee= at hand, it was thought expedient to hear the argument to full Court. Every point that could arise on the facts of the case, has been amply discussed ; and as some doubt was ex pressed at the time relative to the right of my Learned fire; titer to issue this writ, we desire to state now again our deliberata opinion that he has done no more than the law justifies en requires. We deserve herein neither praise on the one Ina° d, nor censure on the other. We have introduced no innoCet tion, and have been merely abiding by established practices Lord Coke, Lord Hall, and Chief Baron Cumming, in the °. rules upon the subject, appear to assign to Chancery th officia justiciw—the power to issue writs of habeas corpus 1 ° vacation ; but in Hale's Pleas of the Crown there are cases cow taining four writs of the very same form as that now brougbthr fose us, some of th e m earli er than the Act of the 31st Ctrs. I ' 4 and one of them as early as the 43d of Elizabeth. Mr. Jr* tice Wilmot in his answer refers to other cases previous t° the passing of the Habeas Corpus Act, and observes that the great men by whom it was formed would not allow such 1 ! ° anomaly to remain in existence. His and their judgment to 1758 affirmed that power ' and the Maintaining Bill introduc e into the House o f Lords was suffered to fall to the ground, probably because it was considered unnecessat In 1765 we have Blackstone' s va l ua bl e test i mony o f t h e ge nere' operation of the law at that time, and the practice that he ° since prevailed has been uniform and in var i a bl e . T rue , i n decid ing Croley's case Lord Eldon, expressed an opinion upon the power of the Judge in vacation to issue such writs, observing that there was much good principle for it, but very little po w f tiee—that doubt assisted his Lordship's argument in favour 0 overruling the objections. Lord Nottingham, in Jenks' eeso: in page 65 of the same report, enters f u lly i n t o t hi s case , an° holding that the Lord Chancellor had power to issue writs in time of vacation, enters fully into the whole argument, and states that without that power the remedy would fail. But we have to obi serve that the same ill consequences would follow in crimin ° cases, notwithstanding the power of issuing writs in vacat loo by the Chancellor, unless the Judges also had the power,: restrain the interference which might take place with liberty of the subject. Lord Nottingham, in his judgrne°„ which is reported by S wans t on , re f ers t o p rece d en t s actual brought before him, an d sa y s th a t Ch ar l es J us ti n R a insfo had refused the writ of habeas corpus in J en k s ' case , but 0 0 t because he had not the power to do so, but because he did 0 " , like to grant it in opposition to a warrant issued under the authority of the Privy Council. In fact, there. had been °° decision against the doctrine ; and in its fav o ur th ere is gre' , authority, principle, necessity, early precedence, and custo.' down to the present time. I now proceed to examine this .re turn, which in substance is, that after the late insurrection"! Upper Canada last year, an Act was passed by the Legislature which authorized the granting of a pardon by the Governor t u t such persons guilty of high treason as should b e f o r e ar r a igntne n . confess their guilt and petition for pardon ; on such CO ° ,l ditions as might seem fit, that R an d a ll Wi xon was so p a rdon!, on condition of being transported V an Di eman ' s L an d, an d that for want of the means of conveying him there direct, c e d was transmitted first to Quebec, and thence to England, an there kept in safe custody in the Liverpool borough gaol, beleg a secure place to detain him, until a conveyance was r eady, ' I/ order that he might fulfil the conditions of his pardon. The : are some general observations, which are material t o make 1, this point. The return must necessarily be received as true,.. l all the particulars which appear on it in the present state $ which it is to be examined. We arc sitting here on it as te general demurrer, or, indeed, as upon a writ of error upon judgment pronounced in some other Court. We must Ow bear in mind, that the matter for our decision is not to h e , decided by the code under w hi c h th,e laws of that oth e r country require its Ministers to proceed in certai n cases . T he question is whether, under the circumstanc es , th e prisone r unjustly complains that he is injured, and has a right to ba set free. The difficulty of having to decide upon laws fram e in a foreign country is excluded from this case, because th e . province of Upper Canada is neither a foreign State province independent of this country in its Legisl a tion. '- relation of master and slave is not recognised in that count r y as legal, but the acts of Parliament recognise that the law England and nono other shall there prevail. The cons e i quence is that we can take judicial notice of their legs proceedings—we can understand the language in which th e n are couched, and in all the forms and practices we must. 0 1 4, every reasonable intentrnent in support of their validity. gt pardon is said to be void for two important vices; first, Th, by the law of England no man can contract l u' his own imprisonm en t. Thi s di c t um o f Mr. Justi ce Hubbard is founded on an old authority, and te cited by Hailey, i n hi s case o f J ames Somerset, v"e'd this point was made out, that ev en if a s l ave neve r , his freedom, the law would hold the bargain to be void ; it has no application to the present, which is the case of a may tried for crime, and enabled to obtain a pardon by which hl'' life would be spared, binding himself by conditions to underg o a less severe punishment. The second objection was t° ate enactment that the prisoner may be pardoned on such O n , tions as may seem fit, as if this introduced a power of pun' s ment before unheard of, and even legalised torture. Bat olon are of opinion that these are implicitly excluded from enactment, unless so expressed. No doubt transportation W intended to be substituted for that mode of punishmeT 6 and it appears from former acts that that system h` been in force in Canada. In the Act of the sth 0 ( George IV., there is a provision for the transportation c' criminals to penal settlements f o r offences committ e d in th e Co:onies belonging to his Majesty, while it is notorious, th at the substitution of that punishment for loss of life, has bee n the established practice of that country. Another objection drawn from a different provision of the Act is, that the pardel had tha same effect as an attainder, and implied a forfeiture ° property, but could not affect the person. Objections We/ then raised to the conditions of the pardon, and the time en, place of transpo r t a ti on , th a t term o f f ourteen years. heilt reckoned from the arrival of the prisoner in Van Diemen(-1 Land, and this depending upon accident, or being postpone for wilful delay, was void for uncertainty. The answer to h, e t given to that is, that as the transportation may be for lifc, 1 , may a fortiori, be for a shorter period. It is the n sa id, the the power to remove convicts to Van Diemen's Land 6 1 ' 111 Canada to their place of destination should appear in the letters patent granting pardon. We don't think that neer* sary. Her Majesty has the power to make that place are' ceptacle for persons transported for certain offences, and W e must presume that all due preparations are made for that Pu t i pose. The return is challenged for the want of every one of the numerous documents from whence the gaoler derived bie right to imprisonment—that it should set forth the indictmen t for high treason, the petition, confession, pardon, and assent' although the assent is not required by the Act. We are too that it is our duty to obtain these papers and to inspect tber°' but that we are not to receive their description from a W' who knows nothing of them, that we might judge whether the description be correct, and ,whether they are su bjea to those manifold objections. One answ er h as se rved for all. The authority is stated to the Court, a° 4 we are bound to receive it as true. The par' , who makes the return has probably never seen the documents , but at his peril he places confidence in the captain of the vee sel who brought the prisoners, or some other person, and he is bound by the assertions which he has made on their credit. The last head of objection is that the authority to transmit the prisoners to the various successive custodies does not ar pear. The prisoners were charged with treason committed iv Upper Canada, and on their confession a pardon was granted. It was asked how then could the Government of Lower Ca' nada receive them and transmit them to England, and bow could the gaoler of Liverpool restrain them in this country , more especially as Sir John Colborne's letters patent are directed to such persons in England as are authorized to receive them; and there was no warrant to the gaoler- So soon as the petition had been presented, and a pardon granted, the Crown had a right to enforce the conditions of that pardon, and to take the necessary steps for that purpose. He had sufficient authority, and no warrant could enlarge it , Sir John Colborne had no more authority to remove those persons than the person who now detains them, and as it was physically impossible to embark them at once from Upper Cs nada to Van Diemen's Land, in every stage of the proceed ings in which the prisoners were confined, under the condi tions of the pardon by which they had lawfully bound them selves, they were lawfully bound. In the statute of the sth of Geo. IV., the section before quoted shows that transports from the colonies under a commuted sentence have been pre viously received in England on their passage to a penal settle ment,. and the result is that the p erson ma ki ng t h e return i s j us ty fied in rendering assistance to the captain of the vessel by whom the prisoners were brought from Lower Canada, and detaining them in custody in order thst their sentence might be carried into effect. We have selected in the present instance the case most open to object 'on, a d the consequence of our deci sion is, that the cas s of Finlay Maleclm, John G. Packer, Robert Walker, Paul Bedford, Leonard Watson, James Brown, Ira Anderson, and William Alves must be dis posed of in the same manner, and for substanfially the same reasons, the objections not appearing so strong in those cases as they do in the present. Then there are three other pri soners, John Grant, William Reynold, and Lynus Wilson Miller, who have not been pardoned under the Legislative Act, but having been cony cted some of them of treason ow ° others of felony, we have anxiously considered whether the allegations with respect to them were sufficient on the prin ciples already cited, and we think that they are. In coming to this opieien we hare principally relied on Barnes' case, and also the case of th , . King v. Saddis. These three persons, therefore must also be remanded. Mr. M. D. Htee—My Lords, your Lorships having deter mined that this return is sufficient, it now becomes my duty to submit to the Court, that the sufficiency of the return, sup posing it to be true, does render it necessary, on the part of the Crown, to show that it is true. My Lords, lam about to submit observations to your Lordships, and also to make a motion which I trust will have the effect of convincing your Lordships that the law is so ; and moreover, I will put the Court into a mode of calling upon the gaoler of Liverpool, or whoever represents him, to prove the truth of his return. My Lords, I need hardly say to your Lordships, that this parch ment that has been read—and which is called a return--is in plain iang:lstft, tn , ,ro than the un,uppurted statement ; , t ! , c1..-‘n is a v,,luare'r in thi. , ; matter, as far as it ap pears betur, tile Court—in revert of whom, as to his con nection with the prisoners, the Court knows nothing more than that he is detaining the subjects of the Queen COURT CIRCULAR. Her Majesty and her august mother attended Divine Ser vice yesterday morning, in the Chapel Royal, St. James's. The sermon was preached by Sir John Seymour, who took his text from the 9th chapter of the Epistle to the Romans, and the 11th and 12th verses. The prayers were read by the Rev. Mr. Haden, the lessons by the Rev. Mr. Povah, and the altar service by the Rev. Messrs. Haden and Povah. The musical service was Boyce in C. The sanctus and responses Croft in A, and the Anthem, " Why do the heathen" ( Kent). Mr. J. B. Sale presided at the organ.. The Rev. Dr. Short was the Deputy Clerk of the Closet in waiting. In her Majesty's suite were the Countess of Charle moot, Hon. Miss Spring Rice, Hon. Mr. Paget, Hon. Mrs. George Campbell, Lord Lilford, Right Hon. George S. Byng, Hon. C. A. Murray, Lord Alfred Paget, and Colonel Arm strong. Lady Flora Hastings was in waiting on the Duchess of Kent. After the service her Majesty and suite returned in three carriages to the new Palace. The Queen had a dinner party on Saturday evening. Among the company were the Duke of Argyle, Marquis and Marchioness of Breadalbanc, Viscount and Viscountess Howick, Mons. Van Praet, Right Hon. C. Poulett Thomson, Viscount Melbourne, Viscount Palmerston, and the Right Hon. George S. Byng. The band of the Ist Life Guards were in attendance at the Palace during the evening. Viscount Melbourne had an audience of her Majesty on Saturday. A Cabinet Council was held at the official residence of Vis count Melbourne, in Downing street, on Saturday afternoon. All the Ministers were present except the Earl of Minto. The Council sat two hours. The Attorney-General had an interview with Lord John Russell on Saturday, at the Home-office. Sir R. Wilmot Horton and Mr. Lyall had interviews with Lord Glenelg on Saturday, at the Colonial Office. Sir Robert W. Horton had an interview with the Chancel lor of the Exchequer on Saturday, in Downing-street. The Mayor of Manchester., accompanied by one of the Al dermen and the Town Clerk of Manchester, had an interview with Lord John Russell on Saturday, at the Home Office. The Secretary of War transacted business on Saturday at the Horse Guards. M. Dedel, the Netherlands Minister, had an interview with Lord Palmerston, at tho Foreign Office, last Saturday. The Turkish, Russian, Austrian, Prussian, and French Ambassadors, transacted business on Saturday at the Foreign Department. Despatches, dated the 20th of October, were received on Saturday in Downing-street, from the Governor of the Mau ritius. Despatches were forwarded on Saturday from the Foreign Department for the British Ambassadors resident at the Courts of Berlin and Vienna. FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE. ARRIVALS. The Dowager Lady Brownlow and Miss Cust in Hill street; Lord Tenterden in Portman-square; the Hon. Mrs. Blackwood in Hyde-street, Manchester-square ; Ludy M. Sykes in St. James's-place; the Hon. Mrs. Harbord in Park street; Mrs. Calvert in St. James's-place; Mr. Raikes and the Hon. Mrs. Currie in Hyde Park-terrace; the Hon. Cap tain de Roos in Piccadilly; Count Bathyany in Portland pland ; Mr. J. G. Currie in Brook-street ; the Hon. Miss Montague in Brook-street ; Lord and Lady Colville in Port land-place ; the Hon. Mrs. Carleton in Berkeley-square ; Mrs. Townsend in Hanover-square; Mrs. Charles Mills at Camelford House ; Mrs. Morris in B«...lgrave-square ; Mrs. Bevan in Bryanston-square ; Mrs. Fremantle in Eaton-square; Mrs. Hylton Joliffe iu Pall-mall ; Mr. Dent in Hyde Park. terrace; Mrs. Shelley in Park-street ; Mrs. Davies in Park lane ; Mr. Rogers in St. James's-place ; Mrs. Hankey in Grosvenor-square; Mr. and Mrs. Douglas in Portman square..„- Mrs. Broadh ea d i n B er k e l ey -square ; Lady Parker in Parr-lane ; Major Simpson in Seymour-street ; Mr. Chi chester in Seymour-street ; Sir Wm. and Lady Chatterton, in Seymour-place, Mayfair, from Down-hall, Essex, the seat of J. Selwin Esq. ; Mr. and Mrs. Assheton Smith, at Thomas's Hotel, from their seat in. Hampshire; Captain and Mrs. Garth, and Mr. Garth, at ditto, from Haines Hill, Berk shire ; John Woodhouse, Esq., at Marshall Thompson's Hotel, from Oxford; J. Antony, Esq., at ditto, from the Continent; J. Cox, Esq., at ditto, from the Continent ; the Rev. Mr. Burrell at ditto. DEPARTURES. Sir Robert and Lady Ha;land, from Thomas's Hotel, for Orwell Park, Suffolk ; the Hon. Alexander and Lady Anne Murray and family, from ditto, for Twickenham. CHANGES. The Duke of Newcastle and the Ladies Pelham Clinton. at Clumber Park, from Drayton Manor, Staffordshire; Lord Oxmantown, at Parson's Town, King's County, from the seat of the Earl of Charleville, Tullamore Forest ; Lord and Lady Bloomfield, at Woolwich, from Dublin ; the Right Hon. Henry Labouchere, at Hylands, Essex, from Paris ; Lady Dover and family, at Roehampton, from Gowran Castle, Kil kenny ; the Hon. John Brabazon Ponsonby, M. P., at Bes borough House, from Garry Hill, Kilkenny; the Marquis of Cholmondeley, at Cholmondeley Castle, from Vale Royal, Cheshire • Sir Harrey and Lady V arne y, a t R ome , f rom Flo rence ; Cheshire; H. Carden, Bart., at Rome, from a tour; Count d'Assombcrg, on a visit to Mr. and Mrs. Cooper, at their villa at Highgate, from Brussels ; Lord Decies, at Melton Mowbray; the Hon. and Rev. the Dean of Windsor, and Mrs. Hobart and family, at Brighton, from Windsor ; the Hon. Wm. Henby, from Brighton, on a tour; Baron Ostini, on a visit to Mr. and Lady Caroline Maxse, at Midhurst; Mr. Lyne Stephens, at Paris, from a tour. It is said that Lord Vernon is either to move or se cond the Address to the Throne in the House of Peers, in an swer to her Majesty's speech.— Observer. Their loyal Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridge and the Princess Augusta and suite occupied the Queen's box at Drury lane. on Friday evening, the juvenile night, to see the pantomime and the ballet of the Spirit of the Air. His Imperial Highness the Grand Duke Alexander of Russia, after his approaching visit to Vienna, is expected to proceed to Paris and London. His Highness, in the event of his coming to town, will be, it is expected, the guest of Count Pozzo di Borgo, in Dover-street. The whole of the splendid pi c t ures an d cost l y furn i ture o f the mansion, sele c t e d by the Princess Lieven, are undergoing regilaing, and other preparations on an extensive scale will be made. The Grand Duke is expected at Vienna on the 19th February, from Italy. Lord and Lady Howick will give a grand dinner to morrow evening at their residence, in Whitehall-place. In the latter part of the evening her Ladyship will have a soiree. The Marquis and Marchioness of Anglesey are entertaining a distinguished party at Beaudescrt. The family intend coming to town at the close of the present month. Lord and Lady Rolle are receiving a select party at Bricton Lodge, near Sidmouth. Lord and Lady Clinton, Lady Charles Somerset, Hon. Misses Somerset, Sir Thomas and Lady Wheler, Mr. I. Ireton, M. P., &c., are among the guests. The seat of the Marquis and Marchioness of Lon donderry, near Stockton-on-Tees, has been the scene of great festivities durin g the past week. The Noble Marquis and fa. mily intend leaving for Holdernesse House early in the ensuing month. WOBURN ABBEY. —The Duke a►►d Duchess of Bedford have bee❑ entertaining a si•lect party. There was a representation of Colman's Polly Honeycon►be at the' Abbey Theatre on Tuesday last ; the principal characters being sus tained by the Marchioness of Abercorn, Lord Russell, Lady Georgiana Russell, Lord Cosmo Russell, and the Hon. Mrs. Russell. The Earl and Countess of Normanton gave a grand blll at Sommerley House, near Ringwood, Hants, on Thurs day last. Lord and Lady Ingestrie are expected to arrive at he London Hotel, in the course of the present week, from :ngestrie Hall, Staffordshire. The DIO:c of Somerset has given a piece of ground tor Lew church, at Iloiheach, Devote. The Cinque Ports have it in contemplation to in vite-their Lord Warden, the Duke of Wellington, to a public entertainment in the ensuing summer. Til t to rote 0 ~e Ur th, gn ha' 4 413 so n( re se enol at 4