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4, ,V fr-1 By MRS. THOMSON, Mithor of " Widows and Widowers," " Ragland Castle," Ice Richard Bentley, New Burlington -street. Now ready at all the Libraries, in 3 vols., T " " CRET_ PASS ION. By the Authdr of SHAKSPEARE AND HIS FRIENDS," " THE YOUTH OF SHAKSPEARE,"- Bre. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough -street. COTTON TWIST REDIVIVITS 1 PHI: WEEKLY CHRONICLE, o f THIS DAY 1 and TO-MORROW, the 27th and 28th inst., will contain No. 1 of a New Series of the LETTERS of COT TON TWIST. FREE TRADE! PLENTY TO DO I HIGH PROFITS! GOOD WAGES I and CHEAP I3READ I Also, No. 20 of the celebrated Articles on IRISH HIS TORY —the only safe Guide to a Knowledge of the Irish Policy, essential to the integrity of the Empire at this impor tant crisis. —Office, 337, Strand. THE NEXT DISTRIBUTION of MONEY DIVIDENDS, AUTYIORISED and GUARANTEED Dr HIS MAJESTY the EMPEROR of AUSTRIA, contain. MONEY DIVIDENDS of £5O £6O £7O £BO £9O £lOO £llO fl2O £l5O £2OO £4OO £6OO #.600 £l,OOO £1,500 £5,000 and £23,000 sterling. Amounting together to £70,170 sterling. Direct for PROSPECTUS with full particulars, WITH. OUT DELAY, to HEINE BROTHERS, at HAMBURGH, Or. to HEINE BROTHERS, at LUBECK. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. THIS EVENING, JANUARY 27, Will be repeated a New Grand Opera, in Three Acts, calledTHE BOHEMIAN GIRL Count Arnheim, Mr. Borrani; Thaddeus, Ms. W. Harrison; Arline, Miss Rainforth; Queen of the Gipsies, Miss Betts. After which, will be repeated a New Grand Comic Christmas Pantomime. entitled HARLEQUIN AND KING PEPIN ; or, VALENTINE AND ORSON. Harlequin, Mr. Howell; Colum bine, Mist; Carson; Clown, ML 7'. Ridgway ; Pantaloon, Mr. Blanchard. Dress Boxes 75., Second Price 3s. lid. ; Upper Circles of Boxes 55., Second Price 38. ; Pit 3e Second Price N.; Middle Gallery 25., Second Price Is.; Upper Gallery Is., Second Price lid. THEATRE ROYAL COVENT-GARDEN. M. JULLIEN S CONCERT& GRAND SPECIAL CONCERT IN HONOUR OF HIE BIRTH-DAY OF MOZART. THIS EVENING JANUARY 27. PROGRAMME FOR THIS EVENING—PART I. Overture, Die Zauberlote —Mozart. liaise, Die Nachtwandler—Strauss. Aria, Come Scoglio—Mozart. grand Jupiter Symphony, the Andante and Finale—Mozart. VAlse, La VAlse a Deux Tems—Jullien. Cavatina, from the Zauberftete, performed on the Bassoon, by M. Baumann—Mozart. Duetto, from Le Nozze dl Figaro, performed on the Oboe and Cla. rionet, by M. Barret and Mr. Lazarus—Mozart. 'She English Quadrille—Jullien. ~~• {E'+ ~. ;'~i~'~" .~_f. PAT 11. Opera, Don Juan, Grand Fant as ia, R with Solos—Mozart. New Quadrille, The Irish Echos—Jullien. Cavatina, from Le Nozze di Figaro, performed on the Ophicleide by M. Prespere—Mozart. Valle, The Metamorphoses (received with great favour at the Nobi. lity's Assemblies)—Koenig. Duet, from Don Juan, performed on two Cornet-a-Pistons, by' U. Laurent and Herr Koenig . BurJetta Quadrille, entitled Dancing for the Million—Jullien. Doors Open at Halt past Seven, commence at Eight o'Clock. Promenade, Is , Upper Boxes, Is.; Dress Circle 2a . dd. ; Private Boxes, 11. Is. Tickets to be obtained at the Box-office of the Theatre; of Mr. Mitchell, old Bond-street; Mr. Andrews, New Bond-street; Mr. Sams, St. James ' s -street ; a nd M. JuWen's Office, 3, Maddox street, Bond-street. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Mit. BENJAMIN WEBSTEIt, LESSEE. RE.ENGAGEMENT OF PROFESSOR RISLEY AND HIS INFANT SON. THIS EVENING, JANUARY 27, Will be repeated the Comedy of THE MEItRY WIVES OF WINDSOR. Sir John Falstaff. Mr. Strickland; Master Slender, Mr. C. Mathews Mr. Ford, Mr. Stuart ; Mr. Page, Mr. Howe; Fenton, Mr. Caul field; Sir Hugh Evans, Mr. Webster; Mrs. Page, Madame Vestris ; Mrs. Ford, Mrs. Ni.,bett; Mrs, Quickly, Mrs. Waver ; Anne Page, Miss Mattley. After which, the Unparalleled Performances oil Professor RISLEY and his SONS. Ti conclude with a New Fairy Extravaganza, entitled THE FAIR ONE WITH THE GOLDEN LOCKS! King Lachrymoso, Mr. .1. Eland; Prince Graceful, Miss P. Horton ; Queen Lucidors, Miss Julia Sennett. Orchestra Stalls. Se. ; Boxes, ss. ; Pit, 25.; Gallery. 95.; Upper Gallery,ls. HalLprice—Boxes, af.; Pit 25.; Gallery, Is. ; Upper Gallery, 6d . Doors opened at Half-past Six, and the Performances commence at Seven. Tickets and Places to be had of Mr I. T. Archer, at the Box &dice, from Ten till Five. THEA'I RE ROYAL HAYMARKET. POSITIVELY THE LAST NIGHT OF PROFESSOR RISLEY AND HIS INFANT SONS. Unprecedented success attending the revival of " The Merry Wives of Windsor," which will be acted every evening till further uotice, thus cast :—Sir John Falstaff. Mr. Strickland ; Slender, Mr. Charles Mathews; Evans, Mr. Webster; Ford, Mr. Stuart; Page, Mr. Howe; Caius, Mr. J. Bland; Pistol, Mr. Brindal; Mrs. Page, Madame Vestris; Mrs. Ford, Mrs. Nisbett ; Dame Quickly, Mrs. Glover. By special request of many families of distinction, and in consequence of the numerous disappointments, arising from the • nightly overflows, of witnessing the extraordinary and unique Per formances of Professor Risley and his Infant Son, Master John Risley, " The Little Wonder," they have been induced to forego their Provincial Engagements, and remain for positively Three Nights only, appearing every evening this week. Master H. Risley (only tour years old) will make his last appearance To-night, and go through a Series of Performances, in conjunction with his Father and Brother, unparalleled for elegance and fearless daring L T. ARCHER, Box-book Keeper. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. The Best Pantomime of the Season—Gorgeous Scenery, THIS EVENING, JANUARY 27, The New Drama, embracing Extraordinary Effects, Powerful Cut, and Novel Scenic Display, called THE BOHEMIANS; or, The Rogues of Paris. Principal Characters by Messrs. Lyon, 0. Smith, Wright, Wieland, Mayna r d, Mrs. Yates, Miss E. St.inley, Mrs. F. Matthews. After which, a New Grand Christmas P an t om i me , ca ll e d H AR. LEQUIN BLUE BEARD; or, The Fairy of the Silver Crescent. Produced with Enormous Splendour and Wonderful Effects! Columbine, Miss Bullen • Harlequin Quicksilver, by the i n i m it a bl e Wieland; Clown, by t he Grimaldi of the day, Mr. T. Matthews, from the Theatres Royal, C oven t -gar d en an d Drury-lane; Panta: loon, Mr. Johnstone. _ _ _ &ilea, 4s. ; Pit, 2S. ; Gallery, Is. ; Eecond price at Nine. Hoop open at Six, commences at a Quarter before Seven o'Clock. PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD.STREET. LESSEE, Mr. J. M. MADDOX. ;rifis EVENING, JANUARY 27, Will be repeated an English version of DON PASQUALE. Principal Characters by Madame Eugenia Garcia, Mr. Allen, Mr. /Swami, and Paul Bedford. After which, A DAY WELL SPENT. •' • •To conclude with the New Musical Burlesque Spectacle, entitled • THE MAGIC MIRROR. Sing. Song, Mrs. H. P. Urattan ; Poo. •' • Poo. Mr. Paul Bedford ; Sloe.Leat, Miss R. Isaacs. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE OF ARTS. • Under the Management of Mr. Batty, Proprietor. Triumphant Success of the Equestrian Novelties and Pantomime. , The succession of crowded houses and i ncrease d d emands for Places at the Box-office. compels the Proprietor to announce that , this Popular Establishment will remain Open a few Nights longer ; '.j., and, by special desire, and in concurrence with the wishes of Astley's Patrons, according to annual custom, for a series of British • National Fetes, peurtraying the Victories of England's Hero-- . ,••• Wellington, with all its Military Ellbcts, New Dresses Scenery, and Appointments, THIS EVENING, JANUARY 27, " Will be performed the Grand National Spectacle of THE BATTLE OF WATERLOO. Napoleon Buonaparte. Mr. Uornersal, his on ginal character. +~~t~ I I New Scenes in the Circle, To conclude with the Pantomime of HARLEQUIN TAM O'SH A NTE Ft. Acting and Stage Manager, Mr. W. D. Broadfoot. Stalk , ss. Boxes, 45.; Upper Boxes, 35. ; Pit, 2 5 . ; G a ll ery, Is.; Upper Gallery,; Bd. Box-otfice open daily from Ten till Four. Stage Boxes, One Ouinta ; Half-price to Ditto, Halt.a-Guinea. Private Boxes, Two Guineas; Half-price to Ditto, One Guinea. Half-price, Halt past Eight. DAVIDUE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. usual, the funniest and most successfUl Pantomime. THIS EVENING, JANUARY 27, • Will be repeated a New Drama, entitled STELLA RITTERS DORF. Supported by Messrs. Saville, Hughes, Hicks R. Honner, Neville, Vale, Smith, Johnson, Lewis ' r estop, Mrs. R. Honner, Mrs. Daly. Mrs. Hughes, Miss Terrey, and Mrs. H. Vining. After which an entirely new Grand Comic Pantomime, with Splendid Scenery, Superb Dresses, Inimitable Properties and Tricks, every thing new and of the most costly des cr ipti on, H A RLE QUIN ORA M MAR, or, Lindley Murray,and AE I 0 U. Harlequin, M r . W. 11. Harvey ; Grotesque, Mr. Stilt; Clown, Mr. Fuller; Panta loon, Mr. Hawkins; Columbines (alternately) 31iss M. R. Fair brother and Miss Sharpe. Places and Private Boxes to be had of Mr. Kerschner, at the Box. o tide, troin Eleven to Four. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE THIS EVENING, JANUARY '27, Will be performed an entirely New Domestic Drama, entitled POVERTY"; or, Mary Graham. Leo nar d, M r . F reer; J essamy Tacit, Mr. Nantz ; Squire Graham, Mr. Dale ; Patty P arro t, Mi ss Arden ; Mary Graham, Miss Vincent. After which NATURE AND ART. In which Hiss Vincent will sustain her Five Original Characters. To conclude with THE MAN IN THE IRON MASK. THE WEATHER.—SuN OFFICE, JAN. 26. THEILBIOMETER, Lowest, 37 ; Highest, 43 • Noen, 42. BAROMETER, 30.35.—W1ND, S .W. NOTE.—The number 32 on the Thermometer denotes the freezing point, and 55 temperate. In Barometers fair is usually placed opposite 30, and rain at 29. HIGH WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY. - Morning 3l minutes after 6. Evening 49 minutes after 6. NEW NOVEL BY MRS. THOMSON. Just - ready, in 3 vol s. post Bvo., THE WHITE MAS K. AN HISTORICAL ROMANCE OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY. e ••• f 0 0. a u t, Oki .t.Vt ;, - lot LONDON: SATURDAY MORNING, JANUARY 27, 1844. ___ The proceedings of the Irish State trials on Thursday were of the most uninteresting de scription—necessary to the case for the Crown, but exceedingly tedious to the portion of the public that happened to be hearers. Not a single witness was called throughout the day, which Was occupied with the reading of articles and reports of speeches from the Freeman and Pilot newspapers. These documents ranged over the whole space of time during which the monster meetings were held, and the dinner s by which those meetings were generally succeeded. Many of them having been given in the indictment, and again in the opening address of the ATTORNEY-GENERAL, they have been, to a consider able extent, omitted in the report. The closing of the case for the Crown only depend s on the extent to which these extracts and speeches may be read. There is no wish on the part of the traverser s to prolong the proceedings needlessly; but their Counsel consider it but fair, that if portions of speeches are - picked out and read, as evidence against their clients, they have a right to have other portions read that may considerably alter or qualify the meaning of the others, when taken by themselves. The prin cipal speeches that have been read by the Clerk of the Crown are those at Mallow, Baltinglass, and Tara. The interest of the proceedings will now ). scarcely revive till the speeches of the counsel for the traversers commence. 1. • Lately Mr. O'CoxNELL has not been much in " the Court. He is busily engaged in the library among books and papers. If the reading of this documentary evidence pro• • - 5 . , - , • '7. ~i ;~~;`. :~a}; ' . ~ d ,xa > ;~~ '~ h~ ~ .a,; .: J ' 4 41; " t 7 . PIM SUN, LONDON, SAI4I7II,DAY PtORNING, J.,.4.NUARY 27, 1844. ceeds no faster, and if it is carried over the whole series of the meetings, it will scarcely be concluded till Saturday. Our Correspondent makes the following remarks relative to the evidence of Mr. HUGHES, the Govern ment reporter : " The position of witness for the Crown, in a Go vernment prosecution, has often been bad enough in Ireland; but it does not follow that the people are destitute of all power of discrimination between the honest witness, and the man who gives his testimony from motives which are neither disinterested nor inde pendent. For this reason, considerable regret has been expressed here to-day, that the Times should have been so misinformed as to state, in a leader of Wednesday, that every attempt is being made in Dublin, to inflame the minds of the people against Mr. BOND HUGHES, by posting the walls with placards, describing him as a spy, a miscreant, &c. Nothing can be more unfounded than such an assertion. I have neither seen any such placard, nor by inquiry can I discover any person who has. Indeed the impression with respect to Mr. HUGHES is quite the reverse of unfavourable. Before his evidence was given, and while it was un known what he was to be called to prove, it cannot be wondered at that some suspicion and ill-feeling ►hould exist respecting him. But from the moment his evidence was published, not a word has been printed or uttered respecting him but what has been complimentary to him. The Dublin Press has been most scrupulous in making the amende to him; men of all parties agree that his evi dence did him credit in every respect; and we may even say that he is rather popular than otherwise. Even among the lower classes the same favourable impres sion exists, and they draw a wide distinction between him and the other witnesses, who swore to the speeches as reporters. That there is any attempt to inflame the minds of the people against him is a mere falsehood, which has been imposed on the Times, and may pass uncontradicted in London ; but read here, with the quiet and peaceable deportment of the people under immediate observation, such state ments appear absolutely absurd." We are not learned in legal lore ; we do not pro fess to understand the subtleties of law; but we do profess to understand the common sense of questions, and to see as far into a millstone as any of our neigh bours. And, looking at the trial now going on in Ireland, with all the appliances and means to boot with which we are endowed, we do think that we can form as good a judgment of the proceedings as any of our contemporaries. It is to u evident that the case for the prosecution is drawi ng t o a close, and that the end of the be ginning i, a t hand. And such an end never was, in our opi n i on , witnessed. The evidence for the Crown might, in truth, have been given for the traversers, and every witness against them might, with far more judgment, have been called for them. The prose cutors have proved that the meetings were peaceable —that no secrecy was used in calling them—that every publicity was given to them—that every reporter for Government or for the press was admitted freely and without restraint—that peace was on the lips, as in the conduct, of the leaders—and that no fear was caused, nor alarm created. What more could there be proved for the defence ? Evidence can only go to facts, not to intent, and intent can only be judged of by those facts. The evidence given for the prosecution indisputably proves the innocence of the accused. We do not think that any English jury would ever call for a defence from persons against whom such evidence only had been given. We are quite sure that no English jury would convict upon such evi dence. Why then should we hesitate or doubt as to an Irish jury ? Why should we fear the result in their hands ? Simply and solely, because when an Irish Attorney-General relies upon a case totally groundless, a mere tale of a tub, to procure him a verdict, we presume he knows his jury. He ought to know it, for he had trouble enough to get it. And if he relies upon the jury, so much the more fear for the traversers. It is not sufficient for us to have seen the case against the tra versers, grow " small by degrees and beautifully less"—to have seen it dwindle away, and melt like snow in the sun; for we feel no confidence in Irish law,'in Irish justice, in Irish juries ; and we feel grateful that, thanks to the Crown officials, no verdict, can damage the accused, nor do good to their persecutors. It may be remembered that when Sir EDWARD COBRINGTON went out to take the command of the Mediterranean fleet, just previous to the " untoward" victory of Navarino, he was reported to have received his instructions in these words, "Go it, NED !" Parodying the pithy language of these instructions, we may say to the monopolists, who are now begin ning to stir in all quarters, "Go it, Neddiee," though we have not the slightest apprehension that another " untoward" victory will be Ilse con sequence of their display of newly-awakened energy. The truth is, they have stirred too late for any efficient purpose. They should have enlisted their recruits, collected their resources, and taken the field months since, when the League was less able to cope with them to advantage than it is at present. They should have torn up the tree by the roots when it was a mere weakly sapling, and nut have waited till it had become a lusty, deep rooted, matured oak, capable of resisting the strongest hurricane that hatred, self-interest, and desperation may let loose against it. The monopolists, we repeat, are too late with their display of energy. The industrious classes have rallied and combined against them; and even in the agricul tural districts—so many years their strong-hold— men's opinions are seriously divided, and the League can already number its converts by hundreds. Yet the monopolists do not seem to be aware of their true position, or else, from politic motives, they are keep ing it concealed from each other ; for they are at work at Warwick, Spalding, Buckingham, and Heaven knows how many other places, expostulat ing—viiifying—sophisticating—and pouring forth twaddle and fustian with a profusion that bids defi ance to exhaustion. The Poet, meanwhile—the hitherto pence, but now frisky and rejoicing Post— cheers them an in language of congenial beauty, and riotously alluded yesterday to " large funds" at their disposal—funds which are yet in embryo, and which, we greatly fear, are never destined to chip the egg-shell. Go on, gentlemen* of the monopoly persuasion —go on, we say, "fast and furious"—uplift your oriflamme, and rally your clodpoles under that august banner—declaim "a Whole hour by Shrewsbury clock" to every mob you can induce to listen to you —mesmerise all Bucks, and rouse all Lincoln to duck Mr. COBDEN in one of those sleepy, stagnant ditches, which presume to call themselves rivers—draw forth from the shy depths of your reluctant breeches pockets subscriptions that shall show you are at length in earnest—do all this and more ; and when all is done, you shall still have reaped no solid ad vantage—in no respect have strengthened your position—but continue on the same precarious footing as that on which you now stand. To struggle with any chance of success, a confederacy must strictly represent and embody the peculiar spirit of its age. This the Monopolist Association does not do. On the contrary, it is in direct opposition to that spirit; and, as a necessary consequence, must — notwithstanding its exertions —grow weaker and weaker in exact proportion to the progress of en- lightened public opinion. When men are gropi ng about In the dark, nothing is more likely than that they should mistake one thing for another—a dwarf for a giant; but when they come forth into the broad day-light they see things aa they really are, divested of all exaggeration, and reduced to their just dimensions. Now the people are no longer grop ing about in the thick darkness of ignorance; the broad steady light of intelligence has been let in on them, consequently there is not the slightest appre hension that they will mistake the small, trivial circum stance of a monopolist Confederacy for a "great fact" like the League. But, alas, for Sir R.PHSL ! The agitation of the corn-law bigots, though it has no terrors for the free-traders, will be quite imposing enough to alarm his delicate political sensibilities. lie , who is so apt to take fright at phant oms , w i ll be pretty sure to mistake the shadow for the substance; and we should not be at all surprised were he to make another retrogade move towards the monopo lists, on whom last session he had all but brought himself to turn his back. Well, let him do so; it is not one PEEL, nor a hundred PERM, that can stop the triumphant progress of the League ; it moves for ward in spite of him ; and the day is not far distant when we shall see this man of many faces—this ex pounder of solemn plausibilitie\s—dragged an unwilling captive at its chariot wheels. Since the above remarks were written, we have read, with the attention it deserves, an account of the great meeting of the League, NTEich - fOok place at Covent-garden Theatre on Thurs daY night. Whats striking contrast does not this meet ing exhibit to those which the monopolists have of late contrived to get together with such difficulty ! In the one case we find earnestness--sincerity— con fidence—and inflexible determination of purpose; in the other, faint-heartedness, scarce hidden beneath the flimsy disguise of noise and bluster— clumsy special pleading, with whieh conviction has nothing to do, substituted for plain, manly, sound reasoning —and coarse abuse attempted to be palmed off for energetic appeals to the feelings. The League directs its efforts to enlightening the understandings of its audience--the monopolist Confederacy, to the strengthening and confirming of their prejudices. The one states broad, undeniable facts—the other runs riot in the realms of fiction. The one describes things as they are the other, as they are not. Every successive meeting of the League is at tended by enthusiastic crowds—every successive meeting of the Monopolists, by a set of sulky de pendents, to whose intelligence and quick-wittedness we should be sorry to depose on oath at Bow-street. In referring more particularly to the proceedings of the League last night at Covent-garden, we cannot avoid noticing in terms of high praise the admirable speech delivered by Mr. Fox. It was just what such a speech should be—animated—argumentative—full of lively illustrations drawn from the most obvious and familiar sources happily timed and skilfully adapted to the taste and temper of the audience to whom it was addressed. Mr. Fox, speaking the sentiments of the Leaguers, boldly re pudiated the idea that they entertained any thing like a compromise. They were entitled to a full measure of justice, and they would not be put off with light weight. They were the chosen repre sentatives of the interests of the industrious classes, and for those interests they would struggle through all difficulties, and at all hazards. " The total, the un conditional, the immediate abolition of the corn-laws," observed the speaker, " was what they asked of all. They sought no more—they would take no less, whether from Sir R. PEEL on the one side, or from Lord J. RUSSELL on the other." Mr. Ginsox, in the course of a pithy, closely-reasoned address, lashed the Monopolists in such scientific style, and with such evident heartiness as would have drawn bursts of applause from one of Lord CARDIGAN'S drummer-boys ; and Mr. Bouvamstinstituted a suc cessful comparison between Sir ROBERT PEEL and that punctual and dextrous man of figures and ac counts, Mr. Alderman Guam. In point of spirit and energy the meeting was one of the most remarkable that has yet taken place in the metropolis. The strength and force with which the influence of the currency upon the puisiis weal daily grows upon us, has prompted us to redeem our promise of returning to the subject, and we are the more in duced to do so from the perusal of a pamphlet, by Mr. GILLIRRAND HUBBARD, which has just fallen in our way. It is natural to look upon the observations of an official person as possessing more than ordi nary weight, when they refer to the matters with which he is presumed to be daily conversant. For this reason we were inclined to study the opinions contained in these pages with no little respect ; but we must confess that we have seldom been more woefully disappointed than in this instance. Going over a large field, and comprising topics of the most various and extensive importance, and hav ing one definite object in view, we had a right to anticipate straightforward argu ment and logical deduction. The unity of his objects—the demonstration of the necessity and utility of a national bank of issue—gave him an ad mirable opportunity of arriving at it by the clear declaration of premises and the natural deduction of conclusions. The statements of his page of contents would, one would conceive, have helped him mate rially, fur it is to all appearance satisfactory enough, but in the course of considering the texts of his several chapters, he has contrived to mix up so much of ill-arranged-thoughts, and sophisticated argument, as to render his conclusions altogether wide of the truth. It is painful to speak thus severely of, no doubt, a well-intended effort, and the more so in the present case, as it is impossible to follow the authoi through the whole of his range in the confined space of a newspaper article, and our observations must, therefore, have a general bearing, rather than a per sonal reference. Mr. HUBBARD appears, with all the advocates for a metallic currency, to entertain a confused notion of the nature of money. He has been so much accus tomed to the sight of bank-notes and sovereigns that he has learned to consider nothing really of value until it has been converted into these representatives of value, not being satisfied with a bank -note itself, indeed, except insomuch as he has a certainty of turn ing it into sovereigns, thus, at all times, possessing the power of putting what he conceives to be of in trinsic value into his pocket. He forgets that gold itself is but so much shining trash, except in so far as it can be exchanged for commodities, which, as they conduce to physical comfort, or mental elevation, can alone possess the value he desires. Every grain of corn that tends to the bodily sustenance, and every yard of cloth that covers frozn tho eold,possesses an in-, trimic ; value and a piece of printed paper, impressed with an authority possessing the power, legal through enactment, and moral from position, of rendering it available to the community at large, becomes as ser viceable in the purchase of commodities, as the brightest sovereign that ever was. coined—nay, in-. finitely more serviceable—as it is free from the con tingency to which gold, as the circulating medium between nation and nation, is liable, of being at any time withdrawn from the country, by the operations of trade ; while it possesses, moreover, the additiona advantage of accommodating itself with less incur. venience to the various requirements of the social public. The great evil occasioned by the advocates of a metallic currency, consists in their promotion of the notion that gold is of more service as a currency, be cause it possesses, as they conceive, an intrinsic value, not recollecting that the currency of the social system, is, like the vital fluid in the corporeal system, only the medium through which the means of nutriment is conveyed to the whole body politic, and that through the very scantiness of the mass, and through its great liability to waste by depletion, either from abrasion and loss at home, or from draughts for abroad, utterly insufficient for the purposes for which it is designed. The very circumstance of gold being of exchangeable value gives it a double cha- racter, and consequently renders it a cause of dis turbance in the internal circulation. If used solely as the medium of internal currency, so as to prevent this disturbance, its natural action must be to reduce all prices in Britain to the measure of those countries with whom commercial dealings occur, and whose _ taxation is not a third, perh a p s not a fourth, of the imposts of our own Government, and would just in that proportion render our trade, home as well as foreign, more advantageous to others than ourselves. How taxation affects prices is well intimated in the admirable definition given of money in the " Catechism of the Currency," published some years since. It is there stated that "Money is a token of value of certain nominal amount, issued by Government in return for value received, and payable into the Exchequer in taxes, whence it becomes, of necessity, a general legal tender." In the "Essay on Money" this is happily explained, and the origin of the authorised currency stated in the issue of the Exchequer tallies. The reality of the addition to prices, caused by the imposition of taxes, is still more evident in the different effects produced on articles of use by direct and indirect taxation. If the maker of any particular article has been accustomed to dispose of it for 205., and he suddenly finds a tax of ss. put upon it, he must, of course, not only add the same ss. to the price, in order to reap the same reward for hie labour at he did before, but also some thing additional, in order to provide himself with the means for conducting his business, and pay him for the increased capital employed !; in it. This increase and this payment is forced by the State, which imposes the taxes, in its promises to pay, issued fur the articles which its ne cessity demands. Now, so long as these promises to pay can be rendered available to the general ad vantage through a medium by which no loss is in curred, so long the country is benefited by the greater consumption of its commodities; but the moment a medium is employed, which possesses a differen which has a l ways a great ta...11r tendency to appreciation, and little or no tendency to depreciation, that moment the monetary affairs of the country begin to be deranged, and just in proportion to the introduction of such a medium will the great body of the people, who are producers, and who have little opportunity of retaining much, or any of it, be impoverished. The wealthy will obtain the power to oppress the poor; capital will accumulate in few hands; and a condition of apparent affluence will only cover an inconceivable amount of misery, poverty, and distress. The attempt, therefore, to retain a high taxation ' with a metallic currency, which has always a ten dency to establish natural prices, is neither more nor less than obliging the productive portion of the people to pay all the imposts out of their labour ; leaving the rich to acquire, day by day, fresh power, to occasion a series of oscillations in the circulating medium, the slightest vibration of which twinges the heart strings of him whose little may in a moment become a nullity. It was apparently the oversight of this principle which occasioned the monstrous mischief wrought by Sir ROBERT PEEL in carrying out Mr. Hus- KIGSON'S principles of the currency. By the re-esta blishment of a metallic monetary standard, he at once knocked off the taxation-addition from all the commercial produce of the country, while he failed to reduce the taxation by which those prices had been enhanced. Gold became the governing medium, and contracted the circulation, according to its natural habitude. The people have to pay high prices with little money, and the consequence is, that the taxes have since been paid in the goods, and con sequently by the labour of the producers of the goods, instead of in the money of the State. How terribly this has acted will be evident by an inspection of the following table of the proportion of taxation and prices before, through, and after the war ; and a greater indication of national loss, and therefore of individual misfortune, could not well have been de vised. We extract from a valuable pamphlet, enti tled the "Monetary Policy of England and America." "Let us take the average rate of prices at certain successive periods, as they are shown in centessimal parts, in a very useful set of Tables of Curre7c7, Taxation,! and Prices, for fifty-four years, commenc ing in the year 1784 and ending in 1837. In this work the exact prices of eighty-eight different arti cles ofproduce are stated, independent of any particular duties levied on each. The eighty-eight articles of produce collectively are thus expressed as to relative prices, free of duty, at the following periods in centessimal parts. 1784 to 1790 lOO 1791 to 1797 l2l 1798 to 1804 149 1805 to 1811 175 1812 to 1818 lBO 1819 to 1825.. 126 1826 to 1832.. lO5 1833 to 1837 lO5. Say pence, shillings, or pounds sterling. "To the fairness of this statement nothing can be objected ; but it may be urged that, as the taxes (ex clusive of property and income-tax) produced in 1805 to 1818, the sum of fifty-two millions per annum, and the amount now is but forty-eight millions, a reduction in proportion should be made in prices for the same period. Let us, then, take off one-thirteenth (being the difference) from 175, and it will leave 162 as the average comparative sum re ceived by producers in 1805 to 1818, for those com modities which they now sell for 105. It requires, therefore, an addition of 56 per cent. to our present prices to return producers the fair amount of their taxes—to place them in the same relative position as to taxation which they stood in from 1784 to 1790, before the war commenced—from 1791 to 1797, before the Restriction Act was passed—and from 1805 to 1818, when taxation and prices were at the highest. To this extent are they injured by the return to cash payments under our present amount of annual taxa tion." In the eighty-eight articles alluded to are comprised all most necessary for commercial opera tions and social comfort. We think there could not have been more convincing evidence given of the anomalous and injurious state of our currency than this. Alone, it is enough to awaken every man who has a business to conduct or a family to provide for to active exertion to correct the evil ; but there is an almost interminable abundance of testimony equally strong to show the folly that must be evinced, and the ruin that must attend upon a metallic stan dard under our national circumstances. To Mr. ITUUBARD'S notions respecting currency we will return another day. We hear, from indisputable authority, that Mr. ROEBUCK intends to move an amendment to the ad dress upon the subject of the IRISH CHURCH. We are delighted to hear this. No man can do more justice to this subject than the Hon oura bl e M em b er for Bath, and no man has shown a m ore eager d es i re o redress grievancesthan Mr. R OEBUCK. The any man—th e gr i evance great, sub ject beyond m we wish M r. ROEBUCK every t eo worthyp compare r e; of and success in exposing it. Grace's answe rs t a'lo'e are glad to find that the att en ti on o f t h e public has been challenged by a Mornin g C ontemporarrto the - , ralitablo ce - , o l*len - de4Yer'4l\ bis - tAi Duke in an article w hi ch appeared in The of WiniiirGrox, befor e Ali& Seleet.Committee of the month of July last. ve specially HouseofCommlons on " Shipwrecks," i n th e eciauy adverted to his Sun, about two or three months since, on the First Report of that Committee. Rut our -observations were then limited to the necessity for the establish ment of "harbours of refuge." On that point (one of the main objects of the Committee's inquiries) the Duke's opinions were distinct and decisive. He was for the immediate construction of at least two such harbours between the Downs and Portsmouth ; the one, probably at Dungeness, the other at Dover; but in answer to a question from Admiral Sir CHARLES NAPIER, he allowed that it might be expedient to establish one nearer Beachy Head, if the scientific men, of whose opinions and advice the Committee had the benefit, concurred in such recommendation. His Grace's mention of Dungeness was founded on his better knowledge of that locality, and its obvious capabilities for such a purpose. But the Duke, in several parts of his evidence on the same occasion, fully admitted, and powerfully described, the pressing want of forts and batteries on the coasts of the Chan nel, for the protection more especially of the mighty trade of the port of London. Nothing can be more clear than the mode in which he demonstrates the liability 4 our commerce, coming up Channel, to the depredations of any active mari time enemy, in the:event of war,—but more espe, cially with France. The Duke shows that the app}; cation of steam to armed sailing vessels as a locomo tive power, added to the little draught of war steamers, renders it impossible that in time of war fleets of 400 or 500 merchantmen can ever again venture to lie in the Downs, at one time, awaiting convoy for example ; whilst single vessels will no longer be able to creep along the southern coast of Britain to the entrance of the Thames, with impunity. We subjoin a few of the more interesting passages of his Grace's deposition:— " I should say that, considering the want of protec tion from the weather, and from military attacks, in the Channel, the trade of the port of London will be in a very precarious situation, and will be a very losing one, in a variety of ways, in time of war, if some thing is not done beforehand—if some precautions are not taken. Steam-power in moving ships has made such progress at present, as that it must have a most material effect in maritime warfare—l use the word maritnnewarfare in contradistinction to naval warfare —in all future times. If anybody will just consider the advantage the French coast enjoys over the coast of this country, in observation of what is passing at sea, that is, to the southward, they have the sun in their backs,--they see everything quite clear; and it is possible, from the coast of France, to calculate to a moment at what period a vessel coming up Channel will arrive at particular points, and they may be in readiness to seize her, at any point which may happen to be unguarded, supposing the vessel to be without convoy, and supposing there should be no naval weans at that point to take care of her. I should say that the trade of the port of London would lab Our under a great disadvantage, if it were found that every vessel coming up from Portsmouth was obliged to come up in a convoy; that she should be shut up unless there were a convoy. I have given a good deal of reflec tion to it, and have thought of it a long while, and that is the conclusion to which I have come ; and it is a rational conclusion, for it is founded on what the state o — the commerce of this port, which is the great port of the country, will be by-and-bye ; if something is not done." His Grace contemplates the possibility, even on the Goodwin Sands, if we rightly construe his evidence, of constructing such formidable defences, by means of batteries, as efficiently to protect our commercial marine in making for the Thames. "I am not able to judge of the maritime capacity of the Downs ; but I should suppose, from what I see, that the Downs is safe—not very comfortable, , but safe as a port ; and I believe the holding ground is good. I think it would not be at all difficult to secure it, in a military point of view, for vessels run ning in there. Ido not mean to say that it is im possible to do anything in Trinity Bay. I think it is wonderful what Captain BULLOCK has done upon the Goodwin Sands; and I will not pretend to say how far those measures might be carried out, and how far they might give further security in the Downs. There is no doubt whatever, that a port in the Downs, to give to vessels lying in the Downs perfect security, would be a very desirable object; but I cannot say how far that system of Captain BULLOCK'S can be carried out." " 5,267. In time of war your Grace is aware that it will be impossible, with steam, for the trade to lie at anchor safely in the Downs ?—There have been in stances of privateers coming into the Downs and taking out vessels ; but now mat there is steam, it would be perfectly impossible for 400 or 500 vessels to lie in the Downs. I should say it would be pos sible to give an increase of military security so as to give complete security. I should say that it is a se cure place in the main, but I doubt if it is a very comfortable place." How the sea batteries requisite to give effect to these salutary plans for protecting the commerce of the port of London might be provided, Mr. MITCHELL has recently shown, in a pamphlet, to which we shall hereafter recur more at length. In the mean time we cannot too strongly express our hope that the Legislature will take into its very earliest consideratioi the measures,—and at the ear liest possible period provide the means,—for remedy ing a deficiency of coast defence, which, in reference to the interests to be guarded, will strike with as tonishment every reader who has not previously ac quainted himself with the facts. Yet, if no other re cord existed of the disgrace which has been inflicted upon our national reputation, in times past, by the same infatuated neglect of such primary precautions as were thus authoritatively urged on Parliament in 1843, the lively narrative bequeathed to us by SAMUEL PEPYS in his " Diary" might have illus trated to the existing generation of his countrymen, the reality of the peril they are now incurring, and have so wilfully incurred—and the facility with which an enterprising enemy may take advantage of such a state of things to lay waste our greatest naval arsenals, and threaten London itself. It is not above some hun dred and sixty years ago, since the Dutch burned Chatham to the ground, forcing the passage of the Medway, and afterwards sailing far up the Thames. It is not more than fifteen years since that the late lamented Sir JOSEPH Yonan wrung from the re luctant representative of the Admiralty in Parlia ment, the confession that lie was justified in having described the position of Sheerness, one of our most important and best supplied dockyards, as so ex posed and defenceless, that it would be possible for a foreign fleet to sail up one arm of the Swale, under favour of a foggy morning, destroy all the works and shipping, and capture and sail away with the com missioners, the dockmaster, the pay-clerks, and all other officials doing penance in that muddy and pro. fligate locality. The Madrid journals of the 18th inst. have reachod us, but are totally destitute of news. The Three per Cents. were done at 261 at 60 days, the Five per Cents. at 19k, and the floating debt at 411 for cash, and 42 at 60 days. The discussions in the French Chamber on the address are drawing to a close. The address consists of ten paragraphs, and of these six being the most important had been adopted without amendment. The debate, or rather conversation, on Wednesday, referred almost entirely to the commercial relations of France with the United States, and certain of the South American republics. It will be found under the proper head. While the talk is going on in the Chambers, the Government is actively employed in hastening the completion of hostiles, not only at Paris, but elsewhere, as will be seen from the subjoined paragraph in the Commerce:—" Those of Mont Valerien, St. Denis, Noisy-le-Sec, Rosny, Nogent, Vincennes (the new fortress), Charenton, Ivry, and Issy, are now occupied by the military. They await but their armament. Rouen, like Paris, is about to have its detached forts. There are to be three citadels—one on the immense plateau of Bon secours, a second on Mont Ribondet, and a third on the Havre road, about 600 metres from the gate of Rouen, which opens on that road. The fire of those three points, which command Rouen from a height, comparable with the buttes Montmartre, will com mand not only the whole city and environs, but also the whole course of the Seine from Pont d• l'Archo tVital:igclki ,:, , . R osa, e new antsAm pittiiki -WL' tie, -'§• h ....., .. bassador, presented his credentials to the KING on Tuesday, and made a brief address on the occaeion, to which his Majesty replied— _ - " I accept with the greatest pleasure the sentimente which yon have just expressed in the name of my august niece, her Majesty the Queen of Spain, to whom I . atp united by, so many ties.. I desire most ardently that het. Majesty janty.be able to establish in Spain to temporate, constituVotial monarchy, lo prevent the return of dis orders which every one has deplored. I am most willing to give to the Government of her Majesty the Queen of Spain every kind of moral support, disinterested as that support must be, as France has no other object but to see Spain tranquil and prosperous. To arrive at this result, her Majesty the Queen, notwithstanding her own qualities, will need, on account of her youth and inexperience, the aid of all loyal and enlightened subjects, in the number of whom is distinguished her present Ambassador at this Court." The funds ,continue to decline. On Wednesday the Three per Cents. closed in Paris at 82f. 30c.; the Five per Cents, at 124 f. 65c.; Orleans Railroad shares at 860 f. ; Rouen, 840 f.; Avignon, 697 f. 50e. BOURSE--PARIS, WEDNESDAY, JAN, 24. First Highest Lowest Last Price. Price. Price. Price. French Five per Cents. 124 65... 124 65... 124 50... 124 55 Foot. per Cents. 106 ... 106 ... 106 ... 106 "Threes. - 82 45... 82 45... 82 10.. 82 10 Bank of France. 3270 —.3272 50 ..3270 ...8270 Laffitte Bank 5,000 f 5070 —.5070 ...5070 ...5070 Belgian 8ank..... 690 ... 690 690 ... 690 Belgian Fives lO7 ... 107 ... 107 ... 107 1840 109 ... 109 ... 108; ... 108/ 1842 110 ... 110 ... 109/ ... 109/ Dutch 2; per Cents 551 ... 554 ... 55 Spanish Passive 5 4 ... 5 ... 5i ... 5/ Portuguese Fives ... 46; ... 464 ... 46; ... 464 Neapolitan ..... lO6 90... 106 90... 106 75... 106 75 Roman ...... 1064 ... 1051 .. 1054 ... 1054 RAILWAY SHARES. St. Germain B3O 830 ... 830 ... 830 Versailles, R.B 340 .. 349 ... 338 75... 338 75 L. 8... 167 60... 170 167 50... 170 Rouen Rouen to Havre 662 60.., 662 50.., 662 50... 662 50 Orleans. Strasburg to 8a1e... 230 ... 230 ... 227 50... 230 Avignon to Marseilles 700 ... 700 . . G 97 55... 697 50 RAILWAY SHARES, FOR THE ACCOUNT. St. Germain B3O 830 ... 825 .. 825 Versailles, R.B 338 75... 338 76... 338 75... 338 75 L.B„. 172 50.., 172 50... 168 75... 172 50 Rouen 845 ... $45 ... 840 ... 840 Orleans . 660 ... 860 ... 855 ... 880 Strasburg to Bale 2.2.0 ... 240 ... 227 50... 230 Avignon to Marseilles 700 ... 700 ... 697 50 .. 697 60 We have not been unobservant of the struggles made to captivate the public, particularly that part of it locally interested, by the three rival lines :of railway to Epsom ; nor have we failed to note,las the opening of Parliament approaches, the relative merits of each are brought out in colours,: made brighter by the dark sha dows thrown around its competitors. Two of these lines have the connexion of Epsom with the metropolis for their sole object, and their comparative merits are estimated by the probable utility of a West-end, or City terminus, for the good people of Epsom ; but the third, the Middlesex and Surrey Grand Junction, coin- ' prehends a much more extended field of action and utility by uniting, by an apparently direct and easy transit, the great Northern, Western, and Southern lines of communication, and affording in its . progress, to Epsom amongst other places, not only th e means of access to London by railway, but, by a continuous line, to every other part of England. When so much private interest is exerted to promote its own fav our it e sc h eme, the public must think for itself, keeping in view the axiom that the undertaking which gives the greatest amount of public convenience and usefulness, is that which will yield the surest return to the inventing Owe bolder. • ' 1 :: - •r~" SUMMARY ii;iF AND Publtt (latnton Who run, ~ay I'OgLEXGN. On Monday evening the King of the French received Prince Paul of Wurtemberg, the. Belgian Ambassador, and the Princess de Ligne, the Prussian, Danish, and Saxon Ministers, the Prince and Princess de Wagram, the Duke de Marmier, the Marquis and. Marchioness de Dalmatie, the Prince de Tuffakin, the Marquis de Tur got, the Marquis de Langle, the Marquis de St. Didier, and a number of other distinguished personages. The ball, in aid of the British Charitable Fund, is fixed for the 9th of February. At the head of the list of lady patronesses are Lady Cowley, the Marchioness of Londonderry, and Lady Jane Peel. " Yesterday evening, after the Chamber of Deputies' vote," says La Putrie, of Tuesday, "Lord Cowley im mediately dispatched a courier to London, in order to nform Lord Aberdeen of the esult of the discussion on M. Billault's amendment. The Cabinet was, according to the result, to determine what words should be inserted in the Queen's Speech to Parliament, in reply to the entente cordiale announced in his Majesty's Speech to the Chambers." " Of nearly 33,000,000 persons in France," says the m Refore," there are 27,000,000 w h o d o not drink wine —there are 31000,000 who never taste sugar—there are 20,000,000 who never wear shoes—there are 31,000,000 who never eat meat—there are 18,000,000 who nevereat wheaten bread—and, finally, there are 4,000,000 clothed in rags." Can it be true that only 2,000,000 of French men eat meat ? The Count de Bastard, one of the- Vice-Presidents of the Chamber of Peers, and a President of the Court of Cassation, died at Paris on Tuesday. The Univers states that the Bishop of Versailles is to succeed to the Archbishopric of Rouen, rendered vacant by the death of the Prince de Croi. A letter from Vienna, Jan. 15, in the Wurzburgh Gazette, says :—" The French envoys and ministers have been ordered to quit the residence of the Courts where they are accredited, as soon as they shall be informed of the arrival of the Duke de Bordeaux, and to give notice I at once of this instruction to the Ministers of Foreign Affairs." The Dowager Princess of Hohenlohe died on the 10th inst., at the Chateau de Kapferzell, in Germany. The severe measures adopted by the Russian Govern ment relative to Catholic establishments in Poland and Lithuania will be put into execution in the month of May. All the property of the chapters, parishes, and churches are to be confiscated to the treasury. The Catholic clergy are to be paid by the State, and, in con sequence, their independence will completely disappear. The Italian Savans will hold their sixth congress this year at Milan, and the day of meeting is fixed for Sep tember 12. Count Boromeo is President, M. Gahrio Piola, the mathematician, C. Bassi, the naturalist, Assessors, and Cesar Cantu, the historian, Secretary- General. The Commission appointed at Lyons, to deliberate on the works most urgently required to aid the navigation of the Rhone, has just decided that an annual sum shall be laid aside for the works in the following proportion : —3,000,000 f. for the part between Lyons and Arles, and 500,000 f. for the Upper Rhone. This grant is to be continued until the navigation shall be pronounced per fectly easy and safe. A letter from St. Petersburg, in the Augsburgh Gazette, states that the Emperor of Russia has definitively ad hered to the resolutions of the Conference of London on the affairs of Greece. Mr. Samuel Clegg, the inventor of the Atmospheric Railroad, has arrived at Berlin, where he has been in vited by the Prussian Government, to direct the con struction of an atmospheric railroad from the capital to CharlOttenburg. PUBLIC OPINION. The Chronicle, alluding to the Anti-Corn-law League meeting last night, observes :—" The League professes to be non-political ; free trade, they say, is of no party; and the abolition of all monopolies by the Tories would be received with as much enthusiasm as if it were ac complished by the Whigs. Yet, when Mr. Bouverie, last night, ran a parallel between Sir Robert Peel and Mr. Alderman Gibbs, shouts of laughter burst from every quarter ; which were repeated when Mr. Burnett called him a "man of all work," and recommended the free traders to make as much use of him as they could. How is this? We always understood that Sir It Peel was regarded, in the City, as an exceedingly respectable man, and not to be named in conjunction with such a functionary as Mr. Alderman Gibbs. Yet how eagerly was the Peel and Gibbs association caught up by the free traders last night. There must be a great change for the worse passing over English society. The middle classes of this country have been hitherto re garded as shrewd, intelligent, practical, and discerning not to be imposed on for any l engt h o f t i me; and though occasionally liable to be led astray by some sudden im pulse, always recovering their senses at last. Yet here they are, blindly following the nefarious gang of " raga muffin " cotton-spinners, who are banded together in order to destroyßritish agriculture, ruin the landed inte rest, beggar the tenant-farmer, and starve the comfortable agricultural labourer! For this purpose the commercial and manufacturing community gave the League 60.0001. a year ago, and are now engaged in rapidly doubling the amount." The Times remarks, in an article on the su bj ec t o f na tional education : —" The rejection of the Ministerial Education Bill of last session appears to be de veloping into results more and more unlooked for and uncounted upon. Few persons, we suppose, anticipated that in the defeat of that measure there would have originated, on the part of the national Church an effort whose vigour and suc cess has given proof of the existence in that body of greater vitality, more real earnestness, and more power ful energy, than at any period of her history since the rebellion of 1640. We have all eady noticed the pro gress of the educational movement, which was thus commenced within the Church, and have expressed our satisfaction at the testimony which it bears to the general character of the cause of sound education throughout the country. It has shown at least that zt•al for the cause of the poor—zeal for the great cause of Christianity—the zeal of dispelling the darkness of ignorance, and alleviating, by destroying it, the misery of vicc—is still to be found within the pale of the Church of England, not in empty words, but in deeds of self denial and of mercy—not in the mere selfishness of teaching order and civilisation for the sake of preserving to their possessors those constituted privileges and en joyments whose very being depends upon peace and tranquillity,—but for the poor's sake themselves, for the sake of charity, and for the sake of truth. It is much, we say, to have done this. No political mo vement could have borne such witness as thi s .' The Herald says :—" We have been compelled occa sionally to dissent from the views and to object to the practices of the Rev. Dr. Hook, the Vicar of Leeds ; but, though our opinion of both is only confirmed by re3ection and experience, we cannot forbear joining ,Lamour Contemporaries in expressions of admiration at ‘;', • +lll.l teryev.mwAtiir,-)xppopop t,atraW 04or.tvit* t 6- •rtstii . 'l4 Leel what its population an extent have long substantially deprived it of, the parochial system of the Church of England, at the sacrifice by him self of patronage. Dr. Hook's vicarage now em braces an area of thirty-two miles in circumference, and contains 160,000 inhabitants; from it he receives the ordinary ecclesiastical dues; In this enormous .parish. there are Merril:churches -and chapels, to nearly all of which the Vicar presents. When Dr. Hook was in- ' ducted into this living he found Dissent rampant there- I in, and the Church despised, disregarded, and forsaken: by his own exertions, by the employment of five or six curates, and by the able assistance of several of the ministers of district churches, the influence and autho rity of the Church have been somewhat restored. This restoration has taken place contemporaneously with Dr. Hook's incumbency, and there can be little doubt that the impetus was given by him. The Tractarian views adopted by lir. Hook have, however, of late years, checked this movement, have prevented the establish ment of that vnanimity amongst the clergy so desirable in a large town like Leeds, and have cooled the, at one time, growing enthusiasm of' its churchmen. Still it would be exceedingly uncandid to detract one jot from . the merits of Dr.. Hook." We - quote the following from the Advirtiser :--" The Ministers would no doubt be delighted to grant as a boon to the Dublin Corporation that escape of the traversers from amercement, which, if not given by a verdict of the jury, must be enforced by the irresis tible tide of public opinion. We trust that the tra versers will firmly abide by the position they have taken, and spurn the proffer of, as they have already done the application for, any such degrading clemency. What ! Pray for an act of amnesty for Mr. O'Con nell, and the other gentlemen now on their trial for sedition and conspiracy, at the present stage of the law presecutions ? What ! before a verdict has been re turned ? Before the jury, constituted as that jury is, has pronounced whether Mr. O'Connell and the rest of the gentlemen-before, the bar, be guilty or not guilty ? Before' it can be stated that they have com promised themselves in acts of sedition and conspiracy ? Before Government itself dare to condemn them ? Be fore public opinion has ceased to regard them in any other light than, if convicted, as martyrs to the principle o f free discussion, the most wrongfully and unjustly dealt with of men—if unconvicted, as triumphant witness of the virtue of our Bill of Rights, and the reality of human truth and liberty ? What ! Pray for an act of amnesty to Mr. O'Connell and his brother compatriots at such a moment, and this by the Dublin Corporation ? Why, we confess, the world may well be mystified and con founded by the proceedi ng . W e may well be forgiven for owning that we do not see through the enigma." LAW AND POLICE. In the case of Lord W. Paget against the Earl of Car digan, a motion was made in the Court of Common Pleas to enter up judgment as in the ease of a non suit. In support of the motion, Mr. Sergeant Channell produced the affidavit of the Earl of Cardigan, denying most distinctly that he had been guilty of the imputati ons charged in Vie letter o f 'Lord William Paget, or that he had ever given authority to any person on his behalf to interfere with any of the witnesses subpcenaed to ap pear on the part of the plaintiff. There were similar affidavits from Mr. Powell, the solicitor of the Earl of Cardigan, and his chief c l er k. Th e C ourt granted the rule. At Worship-street, John Davis, alias James Blythe, Henry Robinson, and George Hirt, were brought before Mr. Bingham for the completion of the former charges, and to answer a fresh charge of burglary committed in the r►arehouse of Messrs. Wood and Co., warehousemen, in Red Lion-court, Watling-street. There are now five distinct, extensive, and cleverly executed burglaries clearly established a°ainst the prisoners. They were fully committed to &nate for trial ; Hirt on ono 1 The remains of the late Countess Dowager of Cla re were interred in th e cemetery at K ensa l- greo n en Tuesda y morning. The funeral was strictly private. ALARMING INCREASE OF SMALL-PDX.--Th il r s i d side, fno o m al les a s salo t ou h nt a hg n wt s al e ire v k e . n e o c ul a rn s t e s s ita o ino f ds E alleys n , Want branchingsal - gxo off' from o e e Vaal; less that, four fatal cases have occur n r e e a d r in Cardinal Cup.alley, in the same vicinity, two co" %. occurred. On Wednesdalast the parochial authorities of j ag uar; Saviour's, Southw.trk, instituted an official medical the result of which has not yet been made public, b,°,t ulti s understood that some most distressing disclosures wi" condition du S r o in in g er t s h e e t- w w e h e ar k , av l mately made regarding the unwholesome and filthy c0m1!,,,, of the habitations of the poor on the southern back °' fiver Thames. The clouted cr eam f or w hi c h Devonshire „ Is" e ale s ; brated is mad e as f o ll ows : —Th e m ilk is strained into s " lhs.f: i h dish, containing a sm a ll p or ti on o f w arm water. is goo it is allowed to stand from six to twelve hours, when " i r ;iste dually heated over a slow fire or hot plate, grea t caro or observed that it be not allowed to boil, or that the 'lam as cream be not broken. The dish is than allowed to cool dairy, after which the cream is taken off for use. „t CHINESE JESTS.—A man of letters, who sPe;,.., great part of the night i n st u dy, kept a kettle o n th to make tea, as a stimulus when be should bo vreiTn , One night, hearing a thi e f br ea king in through the "'rod he took post by it with tho kettle in his hand er' when the thief had thrust both his legs t h rou gh b° "5 ture, the stud e nt se i ze d th em , and pou red the water upon them. The robber roared out fo r werethY; " Wait.' replied the other, coolly, "until -I emPtY kettle." ~~ charge of receiving, and Robinson upon three, and Davis upon five charges of buro.lary. Samuel Glass, conductor of Price's omnibus, running from Chelsea to Islington, was charged before 2SI. Rawlinson, at Marylebone, with having conducted him self in a shameful and outrageous manner towards Mr. David Landsberg, a gentleman residing at 131, George' place, St. John street-road, Clerkenwell. Mr. Ravain son sentenced the defendant to two months' imprison ment with hard labour in the House of Correction. In the Court of Excise Samuel Massey Gilbert, keeper - of refreshment-rooms, No. 6, New Basing" hall- street, City, was charged with selling spirit° without a license. There were four informations again.° the defendant, and the penalties were laid at 4001. The Court commented on the injustice done to the licensed victualler by the proceedings of the defendant , and inflicted two fines of 101. each. Two other informs' tions were withdrawn. At Marlborough -street, Thomas Sergeant, a person holding a confidential situation in the employ of Messrs. Tucker and Co., the extensive tallow and wax chandlers , in South Molton-street, was brought before Mr. Hard wick for final examination, charged with having carried on a system of embezzlement for a considerable period. It was arranged, with consent of counsel -on both sides, that the prisoner should be fully committed on all the charges, but should be remanded pro _forma for a day or two before the sessions commenced, in order to afford him additional facilities for meeting his trial. COVET - -P.A.SIZIONABLE. Her Majesty and the Court are expected to alril'e At Buckingham Palace on Wednesday next, the day pl• ceding the meeting of Parliament, from Windsor Castle' Her Majesty and the Prince Consort, according to pre sent arrangements, will remain in town until to-money se'nnight, and then return to the Castle. A visit to the Royal Pavilion, at Brighton, early in the ensuing month , by the Court, is spoken of in the Court circles, previous to her Majesty coming to town for the season. The Duke and Duchess of Beaufort intend to leaire Badminton on Monday next for Town. The Marquis and Marchioness of Sligo and the La' dies Brown arrived in Mansfield-street, Portland-pleee' in the preceeding week from the Isle of Wight. The Duke of Grafton is passing the winter at Euston Hall in improved health. The Earl and Countess Grosvenor and Lady Elizabeth Grosvenor are expected in Grosvenor-square in the 01. suing week from th e M arqu i s o f Westminster's, r,a , . too Hall, en route to Motcombe House, Dorset, until after Eater. His Lordship's birthday will be celebrated at Eaton to-day, with the usual festiyities. The Earl of Cawdor is expected at South Audio''' street, on 'Wednesday next, from Stackpole Court, near Pembroke, where the Countess and the junior branches of the family intend to remain till the middle of August. - Lord and Lady Ashburton and the Hon. Misses Bar' ing were expected to arrive at Bath House, Bolton street, at the end of April, from Naples, where they an passing the winter. The Earl of Radnor has passed through London, frous his estates at Folkestone, in Kent. Viscount Duncannon and the Hon. Miss Ponsonby ar e expected at the family mansion in Cavendish-square, 0 . 11 Tuesday, from W o b urn Abb ey, where a large polit i c' party is now assembled. _ Lord Brougham has left town for Roehampton. Colonel and Lady Alice Peel will take possession 0 their new mansion in Park-place, formerly occupied by the Duke of Beauf or t, on t h e return of her Ladyship from Paris, at the close of the ensuing month. ATISCELLANEOTTS. It is confidently stated that a new writ for Dahl will be moved for immediately on the opening of the or suing session, and the Anti-Corn-law Lague are actively preparing for a canvass. - - A correspondent of the Times says—lt is generallf believed that Mr. Sotheron will be solicited to fill the vacancy in the representation of Wiltshire, caused the death of Sir Francis Burdett. Should he consent to du so, his success is considered certain. Mr. Ludlo w Bruges, of Seend, near Devizes, is expected to fill th e vacancy in that borough in the event of Mr. Sotheroa vacating it for the county. The Cour de la Premiere Instance of Paris pronounc 44 a judgment on Sat ur d a y l ast , confirming the paten"'., taken in that country by Messrs. Elkington and 1 0 Ruolz for the electro process of depositing the vitriol! metals. This, with the verdict of the Cour Royale July last, confirms th e w h o l e o f t h e c l a i ms made P 1 our countrymen for these discoveries." Most of the influential gentlemen and farmers in th e neighbourhood of Lewes have determined on attentoug the meeting at Steyning next Monday. As the dal a l e ; proaches, the subj ec t o f t h e corn -l aws nearly engro ss all conversation. A meeting was held at Maidstone on Thursday for it ' s purpose of f orm i ng an A ssoc i at i on of the West gerlir farmers, to resist the progress of the Anti-Corn' 1S League. Lord Strangford was in the chair. About 6ov' was collected before the meeting separated. PROJECTED IMPROVEMENTS IN THE POST-OFFICE. The Lords of her Majesty's Treasury having decide d ; in accordance with th e recommen d at i ons of the Selee Committee on Postage, to increase the public acconnn°i dation by an ext ens i ve c h ange i n t h e administrat i on the Post-office department of the public service, har intimated their intention of devoting the whole of th e surplus revenue in carrying out the remaining details 0 the penny postage measure. Accordingly Lord Viscount Lowther, acting in con' formity with these instructions, has caused to be estate lished a permanent Board, consisting of the heads of On executive departments, for the purpose of arranging the working of the plan. The following, we are informed, are among the pri., ll :, cipal propositions r ecommen d e d f or adoption as speech-17 as possible : Prepayment in cases of all inland correspondence 1 1 the medium of stamps ; the institution of the more fre; quent dispatch and d e li very o f L ondon distr i ct Po letters, and the abridgment of the letter-carriers' wal ks ; so as to facilit a t e both, and an incr ease i n th e number e t officers tantion..unt to th e p ro j ecte d extension 0- f the duties of the office. These preliminary measures, we hear, are to e° ll3e into operatio n ear l y i n t h e spring. The April quarto.' , named, but the period is not yet definitively fixed. Other, and still more i mportant alterations have ue"„0 suggested, and w ill f orm part of the practice as soon " the introductory portion above noticed has been int re. duced, the c hi e f o f which, we understand, are the f l • lowing The separation of the inland from the foreign O rra ; spondence, s o as t o secure s i mplicity in all the workitt: arrangements, by obtainin g a un if orm and rapid de very of all inl an d l e t ters inward; the eventual consom d dation of th e t wo corps of letter-carriers—general 8 . 11 ,,, twopenny •, the establishme n t o f a ddi t i ona l rec eict houses in the metropolis ; the increase of arrivals fr° the provi nces by th e morn i ng mails, and the establishment of post-offices throughout th e U n i te d Ki ng do m in p ro portion to the density of the letter-writing p o pulation , As it is manif es t th a t th e extensive alterations abo ve ' enumerated are calcul a t e d materially to affect the IT comes of all officers connected with the departm en t' ai4 whose sala r i es d e p en d, i n a great measure, upon /.10r realisation of f ees an d gratu i t i es from the public, e a • 'what is/Tailed' the' t' early delivery," eve are i nform, o that it is-in . contempl a ti on to substitute fi xe d salaries A lieu of the present sliding scale of wages, proportion, to the length of service and amount of duty perforral; by each officer. It is estimated by Colonel Mshe„ that the carrying out of this propositionulone wiul - 0 1 volve an additional outlay of 4,500 t per annum, 11 _,„ that the adoption of the whole of the projected alter"' tions will absorb the whole of the present net revenue. [lt is high time certainly t o pro j ect i mprovem ents . ill the Post-office. W e w ill g i ve on l y one instance of Dn..'„ management, t o s h ow h ow s l ugg i sh the author i t i es are' though all around them are mov i ng at ra il roa d spee d An inland mail, bringing letters from Ireland or anYln l o . of England, reac h es L on d on about one o ' cloc k, The letters remain at St. Martin's-k -Grand till thr ee those for for the West-end are transmitted to Ore Charinre- Post-office, where th e y rema i n another hour, and not delivered till half-past four, thus occupying t hre hours and a half in the delivery, or about the time r e ; Stuhi quired to convey th em 100 m il es b y railroad.—ED. FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE' ARRIVALS. gsri Lord Cantalupe, in Upper Grosvenor-street, from k , Delawarr's, B uc kh urst , Sussex ; Sir J. and Lady I °La., land, in P a ll ma ll ; M r. and the Hon. Mrs. Eden sp ing, from Trafalgar Hou,e, Isle of Wight ; Clis D r s 's- Home Drumm on d, E sq., at Fenton's Hotel, St. J a mes street, from the N or th ; Burn, Esq , at ditto , Jr ditto ; Sir Alex an d er an d Lady Hood * and -- lin o n the Pulteney Hot e l, Alb emarle -street, from ComPnd a Castle, Som erset ; L. Gwyn, Esq., Mrs. Powell , Miss Butle r , a t ditto, from Paris ; Lieut.-Col. 11111 1 ,04 ; 0 . Ist Dragoon Guards, in South Auillepstreet, from s' hampton. The Right Hon. Yates DEPARTURES Peel, from. Fenton ' s Hote l , fa r o Bonehill Cottage, near Tamworth ; Swift, Esfl„"„ i fi ll. the Burlington Hotel, for Liverpool ; Sir Wi"e — ; M.P.,forhis seat , near Joliffe, Bart., Rotel, Col. and Mrs. Austin, from the Pulteney Sevenoaks. f: itn Dino !toci g ident Share Selby "e and Ith tek . • Ph ster j 4 11.1(; mark e at i nn . and 48 t 49 tarit e 4 a Per ( per Per u ew L ew 5 , 1 1 A Ja n. Oct . 4 . .;" "t• • Ne Na • Pa W e tal k i e tait tee and ti that t orrip e . d oeurn he ld at To In te made to t th e y r .. 41 40 , 4 1 1 14% ;g, 48 0 1111 . iri 1(e: _ ken ( attra disp E % I A .A.l a, .• Ma Mi