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LONDON: MONDAY MORNING, JANUARY 1, 1844. In the discussions which are now being carried on by the Press, with reference to the affairs of Ireland one point has been raised which appears to have ex cited a remarkable swell in the already turbid waters of Irish controversy. It has been proposed to endow the Irish Roman Catholic clergy out of the funds pro vided by the State. This proposition, whatever may be its merits, is certainly no new one, it having been mooted as long back as the time of the Union. But, .as might be supposed, the proposition has excited a spirit of energetic resistance on the part of many i even at the present premature stage of its reception. M over, the opponents to the scheme are actuated by various and totally distinct principles. Some, for iastance, regard the project with displeasure, because it appears to them to sanction Popery. Others, less .lisposed to interfere with the religious sentiments of 5,000,000 of their fellow-subjects, object to the plan, simply because it :recognises an Established Church, and is, in fact, a violntion of that independence of religious opinion which they deem best for the general good. We shall refrain at the present time from discussing this branch of the question. But, in the meantime, we would throw out for consideration, a plan for en dowing the Roman Catholic priesthood, which may be effected, we think, without compromising a por tion of that conscientious feeling, which is likely to be invaded by any other mode of payment, We be-. lieve the scheme has never yet been broached. • Any traveller who has visited Ireland, and who has employed his opportunities to any P'arpose, must have remarked one obvious fact, and ',h a t i s the ge nerally inferior condition of the ',ands belonging to the Church. Ou no estates is 'cultivation at a lower mark than those in question, now does it arise ? The cause is chiefly this—the te.,nure upon which these 'ands are let is of a kind r culiarly unfavourable to the interests of agricul' Ure The Bishops' lands which comprise, acres, produciny 4;5,25 . 3 1 . We bel'ieve, ' about 669,000 statute body of me n ca ll e d u per a nnum , are let t o a zdertakers, who take them on :.'.,aces of twenty-one, ?rears' dpration, subject to fine ~, for renewal, which is paid annually. The lands are again re-leased to under-tenants, and the process of under-letting seldom ends there. 'I he fines paid for the renewal of the leases amount to yearly 83,6301. It will be seen that the effect of this tenure is to leave the Middleman in per manent possession of a lease of twenty-one years' duration, so long as the yearly fine is paid. It has sometimes happened that a strong, healthy, and moderate aged Bishop has chosen to " run his life against the lease," that is, he has preferred refusing the yearly payrlent upon the chance of his surviving the term, in which case he has received a very large sum at once in the shape of a permanent renewal fine. The late Bishop of DERBY made such a bargain. - But now what is the effect of this peculiar kind of tenure ? Does it not clearly throw impediments in the way of the improvement of the soil. Is it the Bishop's interest to fertilise, at some considerable cost, an estate which will descend, with all his im provements, to a stranger ? Is it the Middleman's interest to lay out funds on the property ? Clearly not, for, immediately he has done so, there is'a chance of the Bishop's declining the annual renewal fee, and then, at,the expiration of the term, the rental is raised just in proportion to the amount the tenant has in vested in its improvement. To suppose that it is the lower tenant's interest to do anything, is to suppose an absurdity, and therefore it follows conclusively, that no party is interested in the beneficial cultivation of the land. Can a tenure of such a kind be advantageous either for individuals or for the Church ? Is it desirable that 669,000 acres of good pasture and arable land should be left to itself, with no means, no efficient means, employed to develope its latent resources, and this in a country where labour is cheap, and where there is the greatest dearth of employment ? Is it not desir able that some: alteration should be speedily devised whose effect may be, at the same time that it provides employment for a now starving and ill-clad peasantry, to furnish funds also for other useful purposes. It shall be our purpose shortly to prove how this may be effected. A more careful perusal of the American PRESI DENT'S Message than we were on Thursday able to spare to that document, has not only confirmed the impressions which it originally produced in our minds, but has satisfied us that it is as reckless an appeal to party spirit, for the most sordid purposes of elec tioneering intrigue, as ever was promulgated even in the United States. The approaching term of the natural dissolution of Mr. TYLER'S chief magis tracy, and the activity of the canvass carrying on by the friends of the more popular candidates for the va cant chair, seem to have inspired the PRESIDENT with a determination to "go the whole hog" in administer ing to the worst passions and the blindest follies of the Loco-foco, and other anti-British factions of the Republic, whatever may serve to influence the one, or gratify the other. It is really an instructive lesson, to all who would study the grand problem of the form of government best:adaptedto the wants and the interests of civilised communities in the present diffusion of moral and political intelligence—to note the ten dencies of electoral responsibility—a principle of un doubted abstract excellence,—to defeat occasionally the great end of securing a vigorous and unbiassed executive, which should seem to be the first and most natural end of its application. In the "Message" be fore us, we have Mr. President TYLER enlisting into the service of his own political views every topic of national irritation that preoccupies the public mind throughout a vast proportion of the Union, against the rights and the authority, the character, dignity, and power, the prosperity and influence of Great Bri tain. The most offensive strain of that sort of am gance which is best designated by the name of " bragging," is resorted to in the allusions to Mexico; and the ultimate "pleasure" of the United States in regard to Texas, is intimated in a tone of menacing assurance, which well accords with the easy-going lawless insolence that has marked, for so many years, the unauthorised locations of American citizens on its territories. But there is no act, out of those many outrages on national faith and territorial rights and international law, which have been perpetrated within the last seven or eight years by citizens of the United States, which does not find, either by specific mention, or inevitable implication, with a whole class of ana logous offences, an apology, a vindication, or an en couragement in this Message of President TYLER. This is strong language ; but it is easy to justify it. We have marked the several passages which bear us out in each of these charges against it. That part of the Message which we may designate as the monetary portion, is the longest. In addition to the deficiencies of revenue and income, which we noticed on Thursday, there appears to be a deficit on the close of the present fiscal year of other 2,000,000 dollars, arising out of appropriations already made by Congress. What is said of the condition of the States' currency, and of the expedients proper to be resorted to, or already adopted, to meet the emergencies arising out of that condition, is very clearly stated, and evinces abundant good sense. But the inconsistent obliviousness with which the PRESIDENT affects to talk in lofty language of the duties of a government in enforcing the punctual discharge of the public debts, with its nefarious acquiescence in, and unre buking cognizance, of the fraudulent swindle of the repudiating States, we have already remarked upon. So have we, likewise, on the reiterated adjurations of the 44 SUPREME BEING," and the invocations of DIVINE PROVIDENCE—not in a strain of Christian humility and pious faith, but, we are constrained to say, in a strain of downright cant. When the late GEORGE ROSE, Treasurer of the Navy, and one of the most unscrupulous Tory officials that ever became the ready tool of a Minister in this country, ventured to make some startling averments with a boldness which for the time silenced the incredulity of the Opposition, GEORGE THE THIRD was accustomed to ask his Ministers whether ROSE " had called GoD to witness" the truth of what he had stated ? If answered in the affirmative, the good-natured Mo narch would remark with an amusing air of mingled uneasiness and shrewdness, "Then I know its a lie !" We feel just the same suspicions of what lurks beneath the puritanical phraseology of JOHN TYLER. Perhaps he was striving to produce the same personal impressions of his moral probity, among other quali fications for high authority, as OLIVER CROMWELL. When OLIVER gave an account of his advancement, he said, " I am a person that from my first employ ment was suddenly preferred and lifted up from lower trusts to greater, from my first being a captain of a troop of horse, and I did labour as well as I could to discharge my trust, and GOD blessed me as it pleased him." In one of the passages relative to commercial negotiations, the PRESIDENT says, "From its origin, the importance of the German Union has never been lost sight of by the United States. The industry, morality, and other valuable qualities of the German nation have always been well known and appreciated." Why, the " force of canting can no further go." As if the morality of their customers formed one millioneth of a cent in the considerations that would weigh with a federal government which justifies the maintenance of negro slavery in its most cruel forms in Alabama, or Georgia, or Carolina, on the plea that it is necessary to be retained, in order to enable its planters —among the worst slave masters in the world—to raise tobacco and cotton on terms suffi ciently cheap to command a market. Again, we find the " CREATOR" invoked in a paragraph of maudlin sensibility about the guilt of Mexico in continuing at war with Texas, and turning nature's solitudes into scenes of desolation. This from the heroes of Pen sicola—the exterminators of Florida—the unrelenting destroyers of the red men, in all the countries to the west and north-west of their own ample dominions, where ever they can find them. A further complaint against Mexico is, that she has made predatory incursions, the result of which has been to carry off certain Texian authorities, " thus leaving crime to go un punished, and immorality to pass unreproved." Is President TYLER aware of the moral condition and social Government of the Illinois district—that vaunted United States' Paradise—at this moment ? What immorality is there there which is reproved ? —what crime which is punished ? Does he know what is at this moment the condition, civil, social, and moral, of those vast hordes of emigrants, European and American—British, Scotch, Irish, French, Ger man, Dutch,. who are "settled "—in the most mourn ful sense of the term—along a vast line of the banks of the Mississippi ? We doubt whether any territory of the whole world, inhabited by civilized men, or their descendants, can produce the parallel of .u•h A eon- TO BE COMPLETED IN ELEVEN MONTHLY ONE SHILLING PARTS. NOTICE.—WINDSon CASTLE, WITH 110 ILLUSTRATIONS, By G. 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THIS EVENING, JANUARY I, Will he repeated a New Grand Opera, in Three Acts, called THE BOHEMIAN GIRL. Count Antheim, Mr. Borrani; Thaddeus, Mr. W. Harrison; Arline, Miss Rainforth; Queen of the Gipsies, Miss Betts. After which, will be rerated a New Grand Comic Christmas Pantomime, entitled HARLEQUIN AND KING PEPIN ; or, VALENTINE AND ORSON. Harlequin, Mr. Howc11; Colum bine, Mk- , Carson; Clown, Mr. T. Ridgway; Pantaloon, Mr. Blanchard. I)resi Boxes 75., Second Price 3.5. 6d.._ Upper Circles of Boxes 55., Vecond Price ; Pit 3s , Second PrTce us. ; Middle Gallery 25., :•econd Price Is. ; Upper Gallery Is., Second Price 6d. THEATRE ROYAL, ,COVENT-GARDEN. M. JULLIEN'S CONCERTS. PROGRAMME FOR THIS EVENING. PART L Overture, Der Vampyr. New Quadrille, entitled the Toy Quadrille—Jnllien. Sa!o, Clarionet, Mr. Lazarus—Lazarus. Nmfonia in C Minor, The Andante, Allegro, and Finale—Beethoven. Valse, Clementine, composed expressly for her Majesty's State Balls . —Jullien. Solo, Violin, Master Thirlwall (his third appearance). The Real Scotch Quadrille—Jul l'A ItT 11. Opera, Robert le Diable, Grand Fantasia, with Solos for the Oboe, Bassoon, and ClarioHet, by M. Barret, M. Baumann, and Mr. Lazarus—Meyerbecr. Solo, Cornet-a-Piston, Herr Koenig. Val se, Sch on nenbru n ner Lan ner. The English Quadrille—Jullien. Doors Open at Half-past Seven, commence at Eight o'Clock. Promenade, Is , Upper Boxes, Is.; Dress Circle, 2s. 6d. ; Private Boxes, U. 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; and M. Jullien's Office, 3, Maddox-sttect, Bond-street. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. MIL BENJAMIN WEBSTER, LESSEE. THIS EVENING, JANUARY 1, Will be performed PATTER VERSUS CLATTER. Captain Patter, Mr. Charles Mathews. To oe followed by WHO'S YOUR FRIEND? or, The Queens berry Fete. Giles Fairland, Mr. Charles Mathews ; the Countess of Rosedale, Madame Vestris. After which, the Unparail,led Performances of Professor RISLEY and his SON. To conclude with a New Fairy Extravaganza, entitled THE FAIR ONE WITH THE GOLDEN LOCKS! King Lachrymoso, Mr. J. Bland; Prince Graceful, Miss P. Horton; Queen Lucidora, Miss Julia Bennett. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. The Bpst Pantomime of the Season—Gorgeous Scenery. THIS EVENING, JANUARY 1, The New Drama, embracing Extraordinary Effects, Powerful Cast, and Novel Scenic Display, called THE BOHEMIANS; or, The Rogues of Paris. Principal Characters by Messrs. Lyon, 0. Smith, Wright, Wieland, Maynard, Dirs. Yates, Mi:s E. Stanley, Mrs. F. Matthews. After which a New Grand Christmas Pantomime, called HAIL LEQUIN BLUE BEARD; or, The Fairy of the Silver Crescent. Produced with Enormous Splendour and Wonderful Effects ! Columbine, Miss dullen ; Harlequin Quicksilver, by the inimitable Wieland (his sixth appearance in that character); Clown, by the Grimaldi of the day, Mr. T. Matthews, from the Theatres Royal, Covent-garden and Drury-lane; Pantaloon, Mr. Johnstone, (their sixth appearance on the Adolph' stage.) Boxes, 45. ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery. Is. ; Second price at Nine. Doors open at Six, commences at a Quarter before Seven o'Clock. PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD.STREET. LESSEE, Mr. J. M. MADDOX. THIS EVENING, JANUARY Will be performed LUCREZIA BORGIA. Don Alphonso, Mr. Burdini ; Gennarro, Mr. Allen ; MatHo Orsini, Mrs. H. P. Grattan; Gubetta, Mr. Walton ; Lucreva Borgia, Madame Eugenia Garcia. To be followed by the Farce of MY WIFE'S OUT, in which Mr. and Mrs. Keeley and Mr. W. Lacy will perform. To conclude with a New Musical Burlesque spectacle, entitled THE MAGIC MIRROR. Sing Song, Mrs. H. P. Grattan; Poo. Poo, Mr. Paul Bedford ; Sloe-Leaf, Miss R. Isaacs. DAV 'DOE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. As usual, the funniest and most successful Pantomime. THIS EVENING, JANUARY I, Will be repeated THE BOHEMIANS OF PARIS. Supported by Messrs. Saville Hughes, Hicks, IL Bonner, Johnson, Smith, Mrs. 11. Vining, and all the Members of the First Company in the World. After which an entirely new Grand Comic Pantomime, with Splendid Scenery, Superb Dresses, Inimitable Properties a nd Tricks, every thing new and of the most costly description, HARLEQUIN GRAMMAR, or, Lindley Murray,and A EIO U. Harlequin, Mr. W. H. Harvey ; Grotesque, Mr. Stilt; Clown, Mr. Fuller ; Panta loon, Mr. Hawkins ; Columbin es (alternately) Miss M. R. Fair brother and Miss Sharpe Places and Private Boxes to be had of Mr. Kerschner, at the Box_ dice, from Eleven to Four. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AiIIrHITHEATRE OF ARTS. Under the Management of Mr. Batty. Proprietor. Triumphant Success of the Splendid Christmas Holiday Fetes.—West. . . . . minsterlßridge is now open. THIS EVENING, JANUARY 1, Will be performed the splendid French Spectacle of THE VIC TORIES OF MURAT, THE SOLDIER OF FRANCE; or, The General, Prince, and King. New Scenes in the Circle, and unequalled Feats of Horsemanship. To conclude with a Grand Comic Pantomime, entitled HA ((LE VU 1:4 TAM O'SH AN TER , and his STEED MEG ; or, The Witches of Alloway Kirk. Harlequin Mr. Gibson ; Columbine, Cushnie ; Clown. Mr. King; Pantaloon, Mr. Mathews. Acting and Stage Manager, Mr. W. D. Broadfoot. Stalls, 55.; poxes, 45.; Upper Boxes, 35.; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, Is.; Upper Gallery, r'4l. Box-office open daily from '1 en till Four. Stage Boxes, One Guinea; Half price to Ditto, Hall.a.Guinea. Private Boxes, Two Guineas; Half-price to Ditto, One Guinea. Half-price, Half-past ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. THIS EVENING, JANUARY• I, Will be iserlermed THE CROSS ROADS OF LIFE; or, The Srnrnps of London. Devereux, Mr. Freer ; Frank Danvers, Mr. Natitz ; Louisa, Miss Vincent. After which, HARLEQUIN LINCOLN LUCKY OF LAM. BEM; or, The Three Sisters of Witch Willow Dell. Harlequin, ?Ir. Chapino ; Clown, Mr. Scatbrow ; Pantaloon, Mr. Morelli; olumbine, Miss M. Schmidt To conclude with THE LAST WITNESS. I it E WEATHER.-SUN OFFICE, DEC. 30. TILEQMOMETER, Lowest, 39 ; Highest, 46 ; Noon, 43. BAP:WTI:TER, 30.37.—W1ND, S. NOTE.—The nualber 32 on the Thermometer denotes the freezing point, and 55 temperate. In Barometers la'r is usually placed opposite 30, and rain at 29. wit LVATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY. o rk tng 25 minutes . atter_lo. Evening ... 1 minute after 11. , N. \ : .7 ' , l-. '' ''' ,, •.1 r"" r ":7;.' ''s'i..*-!q!,, ; • tilf _ - , 4tv :444:i--:, ,- -0-t,4;', i ' 4 :-.7,„ ' • :, 4 :. 3 ......., -"' ----,--- ~• 44., ‘ .._. . i t. itto ,§nat THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY MORNING, JANUARY 1, 1844 dition as exists in that region of audacious profli gacy, of unrestrained violence, of utter abandon ment, and undisguised licentiousness, of the subver sion of all rights of property, all notions of order and religion ? The fortunate few who have returned in rags and poverty, in abject indigence, yet still re joicing to have escaped at all, and once more to have set foot on their native land, have supplied ample details on these subjects to undeceive their townsmen of Glasgow or Dublin, Liverpool or London. But, enough of these matters of domestic American history. Let us pass, in conclusion, to the hostile spirit in which other parts of the "Message" are con ceived. An apparently designed distinction is taken in the mode of announcing the progress of diplomatic relations with other States from that employed in speaking of Great Britain. Thus, as to the former, it seems, " since the last adjournment of Congress the Executive has relaxed no effort to render inde structible the relations of amity which so happily exist between the United. States and other countries ;" and of t_ latter—" The treaty lately, concluded with Great Britain has tended ,greatly to increase the good understanding which a reciprocity of interest is calculated to encourage, and it is most ardently to be hoped that nothing may transpire to interrupt the relations of amity which it is so obviously the policy, of both nations to cultivate." _ _ _ The same tone is preserved throughout the Message with regard to the relations between the two countries. It is a sorry compliment to give credit to this great country for no higher motive in maintaining rela tions of peace than mere " reciprocity of interest." Then, again, the atrocious misconduct of the Ame rican authorities in dealing with the case of Mr. M'LEOD, is not even glanced at in the following garbled and disingenuous statement of the affair : The hazards incident to this state of things were greatly heightened by the arrest and imprisonment of a subject of Great Britain, who, acting as it was alleged as a part of a military force, had aided in the commission of an act violative of the territorial juris diction of the United States, and involving the murder of a citizen of the state of New York." The notices of the condition of the United States' army, of the proposed mode of strengthening and en larging it, of the state of the public works, the forts on the sea coast, and the navy; the strong recom mendation to have the forts on the lakes, and the approaches thereto, put immediately in an efficient state ; the display of diplomatic strength and influence in the recapitulation of treaties entered into with Foreign Powers ; the, continual allusions to some sup posed case of necessity, contemplated, or of probably proximate occurrence, as calling for the infusion of all possible strength—all these various departments of the public service are all conceived in a spirit which we cannot but consider as one of intended distance and unfriendliness towards this country. The ill concealed intentions and views about the Oregon and the Texas (which latter, it should seem, by a recent political revelation, some havenot hesitated to consider as part of the United States' territory), are specimens of the most unprincipled political doctrine we ever saw promulgated in a State paper. On the whole, we cannot think that on the great majority of the American nation, shrewd and sensible as they are, a manifesto so abundant in boastful and impudent language, is likely to have much influence ; or that JOHN TYLER'S presidency is likely to be resuscitated by the people. By the way, if we may be forgiven for once more alluding to the offensive feature we have denounced .as of such perpetual repetition in this Message, we must own we have been amused with one instance, in which the PRESIDENT at the same time helps himself to a more than Archi-Epis copal designation. The old Scotch Covenanters, and the English Puritans before them, were scandalised among other abominations of the hierarchy, by their profane assumption of spiritual excellence. They could not tolerate a bishop's announcing himself to be " CHARLES —by Divine permission Lord Bishop of LONDON or SARUM." Fox, the Quaker, and other eminent Dissenters, protested against the "blasphemous" distinctions taken in all their public acts by the Primates of our Church, each calling himself "By Divine Providence, Lord Archbishop of —." But JOHN TYLER leaves bishops and archbishops far in the back ground; he " goes ahead" thus :—" When by a dispensation of Divine Providence I succeeded to the Presidential Chair." After this, the fanaticism of the great, but cruel ALVA himself expressed itself in terms of absolute personal modesty ! Our readers may perhaps remember that early e in the course of the last session of Parliament, Mr. BANKES, fired with an ambitious desire to extinguish Mr. COBDEN and the manufacturers, gave a most flattering sketch of the state of the labourers in Dor setshire, the object of which was to show the marked contrast that existed between them and the poor, ill paid, half-starved operatives who were compelled to labour unceasingly from hour to hour in the manu facturing districts, with scarcely enough wages to keep body and soul together. In his eagerness to make this contrast tell more forcibly with the House, the Hon. Member represented Dorsetshire as a per fect Paradise, where the blythe voice of content and happiness was heard from morning till night; where the land abounded in milk and honey ; and where the grateful and flourishing peasan try were allowed—oh gracious permission !—to supply themselves liberally with fire-wood from the useless sticks in his own park. Never, ac cording to his bwn aceount, was there so happy, so prosperous a county as that which, in the ecstasy of its gratitude, had returned Mr. BANKES as its repre sentative to Parliament. Arcadia might be all very well in its way, but what was it to Dorsetshire ? The inhabitants of the Yale of Cashmere were, no doubt, contented with their lot, but•the inhabitants of Dor setshire beat them hollow in the fullness of their felicity. Such, in substance, if not in words, was the Hon. Member's description of his native county Now, what says:Mr. OSBORNE on the subject—he who is a resident in this Eden, and Chairman of the Blandford Board of Guardians ? Here are the Hon. and Rev. Gentleman's own words : " It had been broadly stated that every seventh man in the county of Dorset was a pauper. He wished with all his heart that he could at once fling back the statement as false, and say that it was not the case ; but, unhappily, he could not do so. He was obliged to own, upon a careful examination made up to that time of the relief afforded in the three last quarters, as compared with others preceding—he was sorry, he said, to be obliged to own, that that state ment was but too true.—lf there was one subject more than another which ought to shame the upper and middle Classes of society, it was the statements that had been made at the other end of the county. He stood there, ready to avow and produce cases ten times worse in that union than any one case which he had heard in any other part of the county, and those cases, unfortunately, were not confined to that union. He had the certificate of the medical man of a neighbouring union, which went infinitely beyond anything he had reported." As Mr. BANKES was present at the Blandford agricultural dinner where these pithy remarks were made, of course our readers will conclude that he rose indignantly to deny their truth, and prove the accuracy of his own glowing descriptions. Alas, he did no such thing. H e merely observed—" Whether it be the fact or not that the peasantry have been neglected and left with out inducements to amend, the fact at present stands in favour of their amendment. We can take no credit for this, we can only humbly attribute it to the Giver of all Good. And, if we have done nothing for them before, let us begin now and borrow from them the example of amended conduct." What, the haughty, aristocratic landholders of Dorsetshire con descend to take a hint, as regards excellence of con duct, from their poor, ignorant, half-starved la bourers ! We thought they would have themselves set an example of moral and _social worth, instead of following ingloriously in the wake of their inferiors. But, passing this consideration, how does Mr. BANKES reconcile his present diffident doubts, " if we have done nothing for them before," with his former ravishing description of the happiness and prosperity of the Dorsetshire labourers ? Was he only indulging in a poetical mood at the time? 'We strongly suspect that this was the case, and that his glowing sketch was merely intended to catch the ears of the country-gentleman portion , of the House, who, as is well known, are among the most refined, sensitive, and imaginative beings on earth. Before Mr. BANKES presumes to sneer again at the destitute condition of the operatives in the manufacturing districts, we trust he will take into his serious consideration the far worse state of the labourers in his own native county of Dorset. The Madrid papers of the 22d add little to the pre vious intelligence from Spain. The Congress was to meet on the 23d, when some discussion was expected relative to the atrocious attack made on the editors and printers of two Opposition journals. The Ministry say they have made every effort to discover the of fenders, but without success. According to the Es pectador, the proprietors and editors of all the Madrid journals had a meeting for the purpose of protesting against the outrages, and after a long talk of eight hours, adopted a, modified resolution to that effect. The late elections in Catalonia and the Balearic Islands have gone decidedly in favour of the Ministry. Notwithstanding the flight of OLOZAGA, the prosecu tion against him is still to be carried on. The son of Don FRANCIS° DE PAULA has been promoted by the QUEEN to the rank of Lieutenant in the navy, as ap pears from the following Royal decree : " Taking into consideration the remarkable application with which hnsig■n Don Henrigne, Infante of Spain, my very dearly and well beloved cousin, has commenced and continued his studies in the navy, and as a proof of the esteem with which his progress in the noble profession of navigation inspires tue, I confer upon him the rank of Lieutenant. " Given at Madrid on the 20th day of December,lB43. " Countersigned by the Minister of the Navy and Co lonies. " J. F. PORTILLO." The Queen of PORTUGAL had just conferred the Cross of the Royal Order of Christ on the late Minis ters, J. M. LorEz and J. DE FRIAS. The Three per Cents. were done on the 22d at at 60 days, and the Fives at 201 cash with five coupons, and 201 at 60 days. The Paris papers are chiefly occupied with com ments on the KING'S speech, extracts from which will be found under that head. The election of President of the Chamber of Deputies has been quietly settled in favour of M. SAUZET, the President of last ses sion. He obtained 170 votes out of 300, while M. DUPIN hid only 82. The remainder were given for OmLoN BARROT, with the exception of five to M. DUPONT, one to M. DUFAURE, one to M. GARNERON, and one to M. LAFFITTE. The affair was decided by a resolution of the Ministerial party, adopted at a meeting held in LEMARDELAY'S rooms late on Wednesday evening. The proceedings were con dncted in a business-like manner, and the re sult was a unanimous resolution to support the late President, as there. were no grounds for setting him aside. M. BIGNON took the chair, and in a few words pointed out the object of this meeting—namely, to come to an understanding upon the candidates for - the Presidency of the Chamber, who this year were two men equally honourable—M. Durpi and M. SAUZET. On all similar occasions it had been agreed that every species of personality should be carefully avoided in the discussion, because the great object of the meeting was to draw closer the bonds which united the Conservative party. In conclu sion, he announced that he believed he was obliged to prevent the introduction of any other matter of de bate. A Member then proposed that, in order to avoid what had been with so much propriety forbidden by M. BIGNON as to personalities, the simple ques tion should be put, whether any circumstances had arisen since the last session of a nature to form any ground for making any change in the composition of the Bureau of the Chamber; adding, that he himself did not think there was any cause for any ?itch change. Another Member suggested that it would be better to proceed at once to a ballot, without any discussion at all. A third Member supported this proposition, but wished that the question should be confined to the nomination of the President, without comprising the other Members of the Bureau. This restriction was adopted, and the Chairman put the question in the following terms :—" This meeting is of opinion that there are no grounds for changing the President of the Chamber." M. BIGNON demanded whether any one of the meeting wished to oppose the adoption of this resolution. No one desiring to, speak, the proposition was unanimously adopted, and at ten o'clock the meeting broke up. The Measager of Wednesday evening denies that the Archbishop of PARIS had interfered_ to prevent the inauguration of the monument to MOLIERE. " The National," it says, " of this morning alludes to a pre tended intervention of the Archbishop of PARIS on the subject of the inauguration of the monument of MOLIERE. If we had not already contradicted such reports, 'it was because we could scarcely suppose that the credulity or malevolence of certain journals could go so far. If a contradiction be required, we give it in the most formal manner. Because an inau guration ceremony, the practical difficulties of which are recognised by all men of common sense, and which, besides, the authorities never for one moment thought of interdicting, does not take place, it must not thence be concluded that MOLIERE'S glory must suffer, or that a slight is cast on it by the Govern ment. Wai it not the present Minister of the In terior who presented the Bill to the Chamber, which called on them to contribute towards the erection of the monument ?" A letter from Palermo of the lath inst. says " The sales of the finances of the kingdom of the Two Sicilies inspires so much confidence, that the Five per Cents, are up at 112 a. The King, it is said, intends to appropriate a sum of a million of ducats as a sinking fund. The Government contemplates the free admission of foreigners, but the measure is said to be opposed by the Minister of the Finances. Several violent shocks of earthquake are said to have been felt last evening at eleven o'clock in several parts of the island, and to a wide extent. The Government has directed an inquiry relative to the eruption of Mount Etna, but it must be some time before any one can approach it. It is ascer tained that at least forty-five persons have perished by it, and ten others are in a dangerous state." BOURSE—Yews, THURSDAY, DEC. 28. First Highest Lowest Last Price. Pi:ice. Price. French Five per Cents. 123 60... 123 60... 123 55 .. 123 60 Four per Cents. 104 50.. 104 50... 104 50... 104 50 Threes. ......... el 90... 82 ... 81 85.. 82 Bank of France. ....... 3250 —.3250 ...3240 Laffitte Bank 5,000f...5075 ...5075 ...5075 Belgian Bank ...... •• 7 55 ••• 755 755 755 Belgian Fives ........ 105 105 ... 105 ... 105 1840.... 1071 ... 107 k 107 k ... 1.07 i 1842.... 10ei 1081 108 It ... 1081 Spanish Active Neapolitan Roman ...... ............ 1041 ... 1041 .. 104* ... 1041 RAILWAY SHARES. Versailles, R.B 312 50... 315 ... 312 50... 315 L. 8... Rouen Rouen to Havre 630 ... 635 ... 630 ... 635 Orleans. .. .. . 835 ... 840 ... 835 ... 840 Strasburg . to 212 50... 212 50... 211 25... 212 50 Avignon to Marseilles 630 ..• 632 50... 628 75... 628 75 his life and manners had been given, it was agreed that the House should go in mourning, as a mark of respect due to his memory If we remember right this is the member who brought in a Bill for occupy ing the Oregon Territory. Mr. John Quincey Adams had been chosen Chair man of the Committee of Manufacturers. The ap pointment of Mr. Holmes, of Virginia, as Chairman of the Committee. on Commerce, was said to exhibit the hostile feeling of the House against the existing tariff. A long batch of documents—the Report of the Navy, the Report •of the Treasury, &c.—which usually accompany the President's Message, had been published, and occupy much space in the American papers. They possess little interest. NEW YORK. DEC. 14.—MONEY MARKETS.—StMCs are still on the advance. Long Island rose per cent. ; Paterson 2 ; Harlem ?, ; Norwich 2 ; Farmers' Loan 2 ; Canton 1 ; Illinois 2 ; Indiana 2 ; Indiana Sterling 2 ; Ohio Sixes ;1- ; ICentucky very firm at former quotations ; Vicksburg Bank improved 11 ; Pennsylvania FiveS de clined 4 ; North American Trust sold at 12, which is 2 per cent, above the first sales. Considerable activity prevailed in Wall-street, and • operations were very ex tensive. FROM NEW GRENADA.—Frorn Carthagena adder's are to the 25th November. The Gov:Tour of Santa Martha and two or three of his friends were assassinated at the Cienaga on the 14th November, by a party of rebels, who landed from that place at Jamai.m, on the 10th inst. The party consisted of some eight or ten in dividuals, who were banished from New Grenada at the close of the late revolution. DisasTEns, &c.—Packet ship Hibernia, at New York from Liverpool, had heavy weather all the passage ; 17th ult., lat. 47.30., lon. 24.30., sprung the foremast, mizen-mast head, and main-yard, carried away cross, jack and mizen topsail yard during the passage ; 24th, in a heavy gale, the second officer and one seaman, while in the act of furling the fore topsail, fell from the yard on deck ; Bth inst., whilst lying-to in a heavy gale from the westward, lost main topsail. STEAM-BOAT EXPLOSION.—Thursday morning, Dec. 7, about one o'clock, the steamer Warren collapsed a flue while lying at the wharf. at Freeport, on the Alleghany river. There were, at the time of the acci dent, about eighteen. or twenty persons on board, of which number about twelve were scalded—four or five not expected to survive. TEXAS, DEC. 2.—The United States schooner Flirt returned' to Galveston from Vera Cruz on Nov. 22. She brought letters from the United States Minister in . Mexico to General Murphy, our Charge in Texas ; but the nature of the dispatches had not transpired. Th 6, Flirt reports that two of the Mexican vessels of war were at sea, and the remainder, including the three steamers. were lying under the fort of San Juan d'Ull.)a. A second attempt was made, on the 22d, to sell the vessels of the Texian navy by public auction, but without success—no bid being offered. Nearly the entire popu lation of Galveston, including the military companies, in their parade dress, attended at the place where the sale was to ,be held, but there was no violence or dis turbance of the peace. Colonel Hays arrived at Washington on the 23d, and reports that all is quiet in the west. all the Mexican troops having been withdrawn from this side of the Pio Grande. Some small traders have been into Bexar, but business was limited. It is estimated that 2,000 bales of cotton will be raised in Bastrop county this year. There is nearly twice as much wheat there as can be consumed by the settlers. Corn is selling at a bit a bushel, and pork can be readily purchased at a cent a pound. FROM SlSAL.—Captain Buckman, of the brig Trojan, from Sisal, Nov. 12, reports that the Yucatan Commis sioners had returned from Mexico without effecting a treaty. It was generally believed that the Mexican troops would march against Yucatan in about thirty days. CANADA.—We have received the Kingston Whig of the sth inst. It contains news to the afternoon of that day. There is considerable excitement in Canada owing to the troubles of the Government. It now appears that the late minority are throwing every obstacle in the way of the Governor-General. . _ . (From the Kingston Whig, Dee. 5.) A message was sent down, yesterday, by his Excel lency the Governor-General to the Legislative Assembly, expressing a hope that the important measures now be fore them may be proceeded with to their termination. The members opposing the Governor have shown a dis position to sneak off and embarrass him, Lafontaine found great fault with the dress of the Secretary who brought down the message. It is contemptible for the House to be debating about the buttons of Mr. Rawson. Lafontaine, Baldwin, and Co., had better bring forward some better ground of complaint against the Governor- General. Every step now taken by the late Ministry, and their supporters, is with a view of insulting the Governor- General. A Committee of the whole House is now sitting on the Bill providing for the incorporation of townships, towns, counties, and cities in Upper Canada ; and are expunging all the clauses relating to patronage. They have put forth the lion. Member for Kingston as leader of the van. The debate on Mr. Price's motion, on the resignation of the members of the late Executive Council, com menced on Friday and was adjourned to the following day, when it terminated. The passing of this mo tion by the House is a direct insult to the representa tive Of the Queen. It assumes the statement of Mr. Baldwin—that he resigned in consequence of some ob jections having been raised by his Excellency to the re solutions of the 3d of September, 1841, to be correct ; whereas, his Excellency informs us that he subscribes to those resolutions, and protests against Mr. Baldwin's ex planation as omitting entirely the actual and prominen t circumstances which led to their resignation. Mr. Wakefield took a prominent part in opposing the motion of Mr. Price. His not having been able to prevail upon Mr. Lafontaine to allow the Irish Colonization Bill to pass into a law, is assigned by some as the reason for his having deserted the ex-Ministry. I❑ order to bring discredit upon the bold stand which has been made by Sir Charles Metcalfe, a report has been industriously circulated by the gentlemen who have left the treasury benches for their country's good, that Edward Gibbon Wakefield is a secret, a " back-door" adviser of his Ex cellency. Nothing can be more false. Sir Charles Met calfe is too wise to be led by the advice of any such man He has been sent to this province as Governor, to regain and assert the prerogative of the Crown. He has his in structions from the British Government, and requires the advice of no one on that subject, but trusts to his own energy and the good sense of the people. The following is the Address presented to Sir Charles Metcalfe by the Legislative Assembly : " May it please your Excellency,—We, her Majesty's dutiful and loyal subjects of the Commons of Canada, in Provincial Parliament assembled, humbly beg leave to represent to your Excellency the deep regret we feel at the retirement of certain members of the Provincial Ad ministration, on the question of their right to be con sulted on what we unhesitatingly avow to be the prero gative of the Cro . en appointments to office ; and further to . assure you Excellency that their adrocacy of this principle entitles them to our confidence, being in strict accordance with the principles embraced in' the resolu tions adopted by the Legislative Assembly on the 3d day or September, 1841. " That this House; in dutiful submission to their gracious Sovereign, and with the utmost respect for the exalted station and high character of your Excellency, is most anxious to guard against any misconstruction which possi bly might be placed upon the affirmative declaration of their opinion upon this delicate and most vitally important constitutional question, and, therefore, most humbly beg leave to disclaim, in a negative form, any desire that the head of the Government should be called upon to enter into any stipulation as to the terms upon which a pro yincial Administration may deem it prudent either to accept or continue in office, that mutual confidence, which is essential to the well being of any Government necessarily presumes that they are understood, while a due respect for the prerogative of the Crown and proper constitutional delicacy towards her Majesty's representa tive, forbid their being expressed." REPLY OF SIR CHARLES MEICALFE. " The Governor-General observes with concern from the first portion of the Address of the Legislative As sembly of the 2d instant, that an impression has been made in the House, which has led to a misapprehension of his sentiments and views. "While it is his bounden duty to maintain unimpaired the prerogative of the Crown, he recognises the resolu tions adopted by the Legislative Assembly on the 3cl of September, 1841, as constituting the guide according to which the administration of the Government of this province has since been, and is to be, conducted. " In expressing hisentire concurrence in the second and concluding portion of the Address, he is happy to per ceive that the House of Assembly disapprove and dis countenance any attempt to require the Ilead of the Go vernment to enter into any stipulation as to his exercise of the prerogative of the Crown. C. T. METCALFE. " Government House, Kingston, Dec. 4, 18.13." DUTCH AND FLANDERS MAIL. THE HAGUE, DEC. M.—The Second Chamber of the States-General received in its sitting to-day Royal Messages with the following projects of law :- 1. A project of law, authorising the State to charge a part of its debt (22 millions of florins) to the Society of Commerce. This sum is to be paid by means of the extraordinary tax, or, if that should be insufficient, by, other means to be determined by the 2. The project Of law for imposing an extraordinary tax on property, and also for a voluntary loan. This project is divided into two parts. The first relates to the voluntary loan. This loan to the State is to be for 150 millions of florins at 3 per cent interest. In scriptions will not be received for 100 florins, and the multiples of that sum. The instalments are to be paid before the Ist of April, 1844, for one quarter, and before the Ist of July and the Ist of October, 1844, the Ist of January, the Ist of April, the Ist of July, and the Ist of October, 1843, per one-eighth. Every instalment is to be paid 30 per cent. in cash, and 70 per cent. at the option of the parties in terested, either in cash or in bonds, payable by the State, or by its transmarine possessions. These bonds will be renewed in payment at the following rates : a. The inscriptions in the great hool; of the Na tional Debt Two-and-a-llalf per Cents. on the certi ficates of that debt at 5G per cent. b. The inscription in the great book of the Na tional Debt Five per Cents., and the certificates of that debt at 100 per cent. c. The bonds of the Syndecato Four-and-afhulf per Cent. at 96 per cent. d. The bond of the same nature at 31 per cent. at 82 per cent. e. The Zosrenten of the domain (redeemable annui ties) Five per Cent., at 100 per cent. The Zosrenten of the transmarine possessions are Five per Cent. at 100 per cent. The bonds must be accompanied with the coupons not yet due. Receipts will be 'delivered for the payments to be made, which will be converted into inscriptions in the great book to be opened for that purpose.. The second division of .the project of law contains very detailed regulations relative to the tax on pro perty, whi...!li will be of necessity imposed in case the voluntary loan shoul'l not be effected. The 'tax will be 1i per cent. „ TIIE HAGUE, DEC. 29.—Advice has been received this afternoon, by express, from Helvoetsluy.s, that the mortal remains of his late Majesty -King William Frederick have arrived here, and were immediately conveyed to Rotterdam. The Minister. of Marine and Governor of South Holland immediately pro 7 .ceeded to Rotterdam, to be present at the 'arrival of the steamer with the body, which they are to receive.' in the name of the King, and.see it deposited in the great hall prepared for it. BRUSSELS, DEC. 27.—The average price of wheat last Week was 171. 69c., and that of rye 111. 35c. per hectolitre. The duty on importation remains. there fore at 37f. 50c. per 100 kilogrammes on wheat, and 211. 50e. on rye, and the export duty on both at 25c. Count d'Arschot and M. Wyns, burgomaster of Brussels, have visited the Theatre de la .Monnaie, to direct the . final arrangements for the grand Pa which their Majesties will give to the inhabitants of BruJSelS. Their Majesties came yesterday to the palace of Brussels, and bad a grand dinner, to which the Duke of VaPrifinois, Prince of Monaco ' and several of the Foreign Ministers and peisons of distinction were in vited. Their Majesties returned to Lacken at ten o'clock. IVe Jearm from Charleroi that . a mill and 6,000 sheaves of corn have been destroyed by an incendiaiy fire in the commune of Raves; the fire was kindled by means of lucifer matches; . a. bex, of which was found on the spot. BRUSS'ELS, bEC. - 28.---The budget of the depart ment of Foreign Affairs and of the Marine, did not give occasion to many obserVatiOns in the Senate. . The principal speakers were on the sum asked for our Ministers of Forc:ign Courts, which was thought rather high; and to the , iaffairs of the British Queen. The result was the adoption of the budget of the Marine unanimously, and of that of Foreign Affairs, with only one disseotienVpiCe. The Mortiteur of to-day (the 28th) publishes the text of the law which taxes the maximum of 80,000 tom for the army in 1844, and -at..10,000 men, the amount of the body for the same year. RAILWAY SHARES, FOR THE ACCOUNT. Versai:les, R.B 317 50... 317 50.. 317 50... 317 50 L.B. 179 ... 177 50... 170 ... 177 50 Rouen Rouen to Havre... .. Orleans Strasburg to Bale 212 50;;; 2111 75... 212 50... 213 75 Avignon to Marseilles t3O ... 632 50... 630 , 630 AMERICAN NE WS. ARRIVAL OF THE ACADIA STEAM-SHIP. LIVERPOOL, DEC. 3C. The Acadia, Captain Ririe, which sailed from Bos ton on the 16th of December, arrived here this morn ing, at eight o'clock, bringing intelligence eight days later than that brought by the last packet. The wea ther throughout the passage was very indifferent, she having encountered several strong gales, which, how ever, being from IV. to N.W., were in some degree favourable. Between Boston and Halifax, at 10 30 p.m., on the 18th, she passed the steam-ship, Hibernia. The news to the. English reader is but of little im portance ; the completing of the Congressional offices, and party squabbles, seem to occupy the attention of the American press. " A most perfect union," says the New York Herald, " has at length been completed among all the elements of the democratic party of the House of Representa tives. These members, numbering nearly 126, have had several caucuses, and have almost completed their arrangements for the Presidential campaign. " In addition to the election of Mr. Jones, the new Van Buren Speaker, we have already mentioned that all the other officers of the House nominated are Van Buren men, including Blair and Rives as the printers of that body. From the consultations among all the elements of that party, we learn that the following is the arrangements for the next campaign, entered into, and agreedupon, by the combined democracy of Con gress :—President in 1844, Martin Van Buren ; Vice • President in 1844, a Southern man ; the succession in 1848, John C. Calhoun ; Secretary of State, 1844, Thomas 11. Benton ; Secretary of the Treasury, 1844, James Buchanan; Secretary of War, Colonel John son. In the debate on Tuesday, Dec. 12, the death of Lewis Field Linn, on the 3d Oct., in the 48th year of his age, was announced. After a brief sketch of PUNCH'S. ALMANACK. We have just seen a , copy of Punch'sAinianack for 1844, which abounds in jokes, puns, and drolleries of all descriptions, and is embellished with a v?riety of engra,V ings worthy to vie, in point of humour, with. the best of George Cruikshank. MUSIC. A CHRISTMAS CAROL, written and composed by Douglas Thompson, Esq. Nelson. This seasonable composition will find its way to many a Christmas musical party, being well adapted to voices of moderate le k nge, simple' and characteristic in its melody, which the pianoforte accompaniment supports very effectively, without presenting any difficulty to a player of ordinary skill. The writer and composer, Mr. Douglas Thompson, is already favourably known to the musical world as the author of several pretty songs, which have been set to music by Alexander Lee and others. The present "Carol" will add considerably to his reputation. It is dedicated to the author of " A Christmas Carol in Prose." The title-phge is a sin gularly pretty and appropriate design, from the pencil of Brandard, and is an admirable specimen of litho graphic printing. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. BETTING AT MANCHESTER-FRIDAY. DERBY.-3 to lon the field agst two (offered)— offers to take 7 to 1 about The Ugly Buck-300 to 10 agst Voltri (taken). Nothing else, mentioned. TWO THOUSAND GUINEA STAKES.-2 to 1 agst Ugly Buck (taken). COURSING. LYTHAM . 013E14 MEETING, DEC. 27 AND 28.—The Great Clifton Cup stakes, of 10 guineas each, mere won by Mr. Bake's Birdlime ; Mr. Hornby's Hermit ran up. The Talbot Puppy Stakes, of 21.55. each (16 dogs), were won by Mr:' ourt's Clarence; Mr. Brown's Diana ran up. The Lytham Stakes of 21. ss. each (16 Subs.), were won by Mr. Sharp's Star; Mr. Hornby's Howqiia ran up. The Consolation Stakes (8 dogs) were won by Mr. Wood's Doctor; Mr. Sweeny's Vespa, ran up. The Stakes were won by Mr. Blake's Blazer, and the Blackpool Stakes by Mr. Woolf 's Champagne. A UDLEDI (CHESHIRE) MEETlNG.—Tfie — Combermere Stakes were won by Mr. W. U. Court's Envelope, and the Puppy Stakes bv, Mr. Edleston's Early Dooned. BELMONT, DEC. 47.—The First Cup (8 dogs) was won by Mr. Richards' Priam, and the second by Mr. Grif fith's Blue Bonnet. _ BRISTOL CLUB.—The Cup was won by Mr. B. Pring's Barrier; the Oaks, by Mr. Palmer's Wee Pet; the Derby, by Mr. Palmer's Nutwith ; the Fiskerton. Delamere Stakei, by Mr. Millet's Active ; and the Bapton Stakes, by Mr. Miller's Spider. • BASHALL MEETING.—The Bashall Eaves Stakes were won by Mr. Forrest's Pink ; the Blackridge Sakes, by Mr. Garnett's Grisi ; and the Pike Stakes, by Mr. Hodg- Soil ' s Zingaro. ALTCAR COURSING MEETING, DEC. 28, AND 29.—The Sefton Club (16 dogs) was won by Mr. A. Graham's Sir Edward ; Mr. Jefferson's Lowther • ran up. The Mulyneux Plate (16 dogs) was divided by Mr.•Aderus's Matchless and Mr. Slater's Scrutiny. The Croxteth Purse (12 dogs) was won by Mr. Teinple's Titania (late Woskie),; Mr. Standish's Stranger ran up. The Altcar Stakes (12 dogs) were won by Mr. Hunt's Trapball; Mr. Richmond's Lockett ran up. LLOYD'S SHIPPING. LONDON, "1 )I'.C. 30.—Wind, light southerly breeze. DEAL, DEC. 29.- —Wind S.S. %V., moderate and cloudy. ---.Sld David Lym, British Monarch, and Castor, Jamaica. OFF DOVER, DEC. 23.—Charles Le Maud, Rio for Antwerp. PORTSMOUTH, DEC. 29.—Wind, E.N.E.—SId. Ganges, Sydney, New South "Wales ; Maria Fanny, Texas ; Echo, Charleston, COWES, DEC. 29. —Sid. Helena, Valparaiso ; Jenne Evariste, St. Thomas ; James M`Queen, St. Kitts.; Marion, Jamaica. YARMOUTH, ISLE OF WIGHT, DEC. 29.—Sid. Justina, Calcutta. PLYMOUTH, DEC. 29.-,•Wind E.N.E. —Arrd. Konig Willem, Singer, Surinam for Amsterdam ; Robert, Lou don for llavannah, master sick. FALMOUTH, DEC. 29.—Arrd. Mazeppa, Middleton, St. John's, New: Brunswick. OFF THE LIZARD, DEC. 27.—Oscar, of Torquay, America. • BRISTOL, DEC. 29.—Arrd. Cosmo, New York. MILFORD, DEC. 28.—Arrd. George Ramsay, Quebec, for London. Ski. Spence, Trinidad ; Monarch, St. Lucia. OFF_ SCILLY, DEC. 24. Calcutta, Quebec:. LIVERPOOL. DEC. 29.—Wind light.—Arrd. Dyson, Stewart, Arica (Sept. 9) ; Clio, St. Domingo ; Emily, Pernambuco ; Fanny, New Orleans ; Asia, St. John's, New Brunswick ; Tamerlane, Quebec, leaky, and master washed overboard on the 3d inst., in lon. 52. Arrd. off, Annabelle, Arica ; Sandbach and Medina. Sld. Ann and Jenny Jones, Constantinople. • The Eliza and Esther, from Larne, is on shore on the North Batt.. The Juno, M'Allay, arrived in the River from Grange mouth, was in contact with the Tyne, of Newcastle, off the Cross Sand, and was obliged to slip from an anchor and ninety fathoms of chain. ADMIRAL SIR CHARLES ROWLEY, . G.C.B.—We are happy to hear that the health of this distinguished officer is so far improved as to - afford a prospect of his being able to resume his-command at no very distant time. MIDDLESEX. HOSPITAL.—The election of an anis taut physician took place on Thursday last, when Dr. Seth Thompson proved the successful candidate. At the close of the poll the numbers were found to be— Dr. Seth Thompson - Dr. Woodfall 242 - Majority --126 Dr. Crawford, the former assistant, was, as a matter of course, elected physician. Dr. Thompson, had nut been a pupil of the hospital, but had the support (we believe unanimous) of the medical officers. —Medici:l Gazette. r, 'rim QUEEN'S AND THE PRINCEA,ONSOUT S NEW YEAR'S GIFTS TO THE POOR OF WINDSOR.—On Mon day next (\ew Year's day) nearly two hundred pairs of blankets, and a large quantity of meat, bread, plum pud ding, potatoes, coals, and ale will be given to the poor and needy residents. of Windsor by her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert. It is expected that the distribut'on of the blankets, meat, pudding, and bread, will take place in the new Riding-School, and that her Majesty, his Royal Highness Prince Albert, ann several members of the Royal household will be present, to be spectators of the gratifying scene. DEATH OF THE DOWAGER MARCHIONESS OF CLAN- ItICARDE.-11,r Ladyship, whose demise at Southamp• ton, in the 77th year of her age, was announced in The Sun of Saturday, was Lady Urania Anne Paulet, daugh ter of George, twelfth Marquis of Winchester. After the death of her first husband, Henry, twelfth Earl, and first Marquis of Clanricarde, the Marchioness was mar ried, on the 23. h October, 1729, to Colima Peter King ton, who died on the 14th July, 1807 ; and on the 22d May, 1813, her Ladyship became the wife of Vice•Ad ndral the lion.. Sir Joseph Sydney Yorke, K.C.13., father of the present Earl of llarwicke. Sir Joseph, it will be remembered, was ,unfortunately drowned by the upsetting of a:boat in the, Southampton water, on the sth May, 1831. SiPMARY OF NEWS AND bltr Opinion. " 6 Who runs muy reait" • PORZZGN. • M. Sauzet, the former President of the rreneb Cham ber of Deputies, has been reelected, by a large majority. The Budget was to be presented in a few days. The Ministry, notwithstanding the silence of the Royal speech on the subject, have decided upon presenting te, the Chamber a proposition to fix the amount of pensiom to the Duke of Nemours, in case he should be raised to. the Regency. The Chamber of Peers, it is said, has decided to adopt the addition of a paragraph in answer to the speech, con demnatory of the Beigrave-square demonstrations. The Duke Of Broglie will be the Peer appointed to draw up the address. A discussion is expected, which will oblige the Duke de Richelieu, one of those who made a pil grie:age to London, to defend himself. The Archbishop of Laodicea, Procurator-General of the Maronites, and lately consecrated at Rome has ar rived in F ranc e from Italy, on his way to London. The Court of Cessation held on Tuesday an extra- . ordinary sitting for the installation of M. Teste, late Minister of Public Works. M. Dupin, the Procureur- • Gunoral, called for the reading of the Royal Ordonnance appointing M. Teste President of the Civil Chamber, in • ttie place of M. Buyer, named Honorary Prosideut. M. Teste was then introduced in the official robes, took the oath, and then seated himself on the bench next to Count. Portalis, first President. According to the usages of the Court, no speeches were delivered. The .population of Paris, when the census was taken in 1841, was 912,530. By including the troops in gar rison, and the average of strangers making only a passing stay in the town, the amount of the inhabitants of Paris may now be reckoned at about 1,200,000. • A letter from Rome announces the death of Cardinal Spada in his 56th year. The Royal Court of Paris has just decided that, as in England, all slaves become free on touching the soil of France. What a contrast to the liffrible system of slavery in Jonathan's land I • • A fire broke out in Paris, on Thursday morning, in the workshops of the foundry, in the Rues Menilinontant and Saint Sebastian, on the banks of the Canal Saint Martin. , Notwithstanding the promptitude with which assistance was rendered by the firemen and the civil and military authorities, the flames spread with such rapidity that the whole building was speedily destroyed. A letter from Hamburgh, of the 22d, says, the year is dravking to its close as it commenced—with fog and rain, and without frost. There has not been as yet the slightest interruption to the navigation of the Elbe, nor is there any indicatioh of an approaching change in that respect. PIISLIC OPINION. The. Times of 'Saturday observes, in reference to the allusion , toTexas in the'American President's speech:— " TherAecierican statesman, it seems, is so greedy of dis- ' honesty that he cannot bear to give any one else a chance of committing it—nay, the very possibility of its slipping through his fingers imposes on him the high obligation,' of gulping it in a hurry, and calling upon the patriotism of his countrymen to stand by him in the course of action.' rhat such views as these should be current among the people is, perhaps, what the holders of Pennsylvanian bonds might expect—discreditable, but natural ; but that they should be deliberately promul gated by the highest authority in the United States, in his most solemn official manifesto, is an additional and unnecessary dishonour, arising, as we have said, front the practice of requiring from that personage an anhual palaver in extenso, for the satisfaction of an unprin cipled, though ' free and enlightened' public. A states- . man in his place in the Senate of the Congress may per haps venture on a course of independent honesty—he has opportunity of defending, explaining, recommend ing, or enforcing the obnoxious sentiment ; an European Sovereign does not commit himself to anything which it is necessary to defend ; but an American President pos sesses neither advantage—he is obliged to fill up his message by saying something, while he has neither space nor opportunity to defend, and therefore does not dare to breathe, a sentiment which may affront the pre judices or passions of the populace to whom he is ree sponsible." We take the following from the Chronicle :—" The efforts to increase the means of popular education, which have been commenced on so large a scale by the Con gregational Dissenters, and of which we gave some ac count on Tuesday the 19th instant, have assumed form very indicative of the divided state of opinion in this country. The feelings manifested during the progress of the agitation against the Factories Bill, led us, most reluctantly, to the couclusion, that a system of education which should combine all classes, was, in the circumstances of England, wholly impracticable. Every movement that has since taken place, has confirmed this impression ; and it is now tolerably clear, that of all those who take any active interest in the education of the poor, the overwhelming majority are in favour of carrying it on, not upon any united or comprehensive scheme, but by as many different systems as there are different sects in the community. Immediately upon the failure of the Factories Bill, the advocates of exclusive Church Education, who appear to regard the. Govern ment Bill with almost as little favour as the Dissenter*, commenced that noble subscription for educational pur poses with which the public is familiar. By that sub scription the exclusive party evinced a thorough com prehension of the new position of the question ; and if its future measures be conceived and executed with the same spirit and vigour, there is very little doubt that it will be able to get into its schools a large majority of the juvenile population, and that it will attain its object of moulding their minds, as far as such a thing can be done by mere schooling, The Herald, speakinglf the objects and influence of the public press, justly remarks :—" The English press, as now conducted, gives daily to the public a complete and a' bird's eye' view of their own affairs 4 it make% the country thoroughly and easily acquainted with its actual condition ; and, through its ~olumns, may now be watched and noted the growth of events and of society. Were the press simply to throw undigested intelligence before the public, it might entertain, but it would net instruct. Its duty, arising out of its primary object, the circulation of news, is to apply principles to events, to guide circumstances into wholesome courses, to correct misconceptions, to refute error, to promote truth, and to censure and denounce, in the name of the moral law, the abuse of power. It does in the latter :particular for modern times, what the Church did in the middle ages. But.when it censures and denounces the abuse of power it does not 'seek to injure the proper use of authority ; on the contrary, its censures of the former strengthen and protect the latter. Its language may occasionally be strong, and its condemnation sweeping ; but the tone of the age in which we live is one of exaggeration ; and were the press at all times to weigh out its sentences by the scales of courtesy in use in private life, it would sacrifice success to politesse." The Post says :—" In Mr. Tyler's speech much stress is laid on the successful enforcement of certain claims urged by the United States against foreign nations. Mr- Tyler tells his countrymen that England has consented to give " full satisfaction' 'to the United States ' in the case of the William and Francis,' as well as in the case of the Tigris and Sea-mew.' Mr. Tyler expresses , moreover, his confident hope that England will grant restitution of certain export duties unfairly levied on American goods. Mr. Tyler does not, however, inti mate, on the other hand, that his countrymen are pre pared to'pay the heavy debts which are due by them to our merchants and capi.alists. International law does not pr'ovide for the security of debts due by. one country to another ; and as the national law of the debtor country cannot be appealed to by foreign creditors, the grand result seems to be, that, for trade debts between different countries there exists no legal security what ever. This tact constitutes an instructive commentary on the value of our vaunted foreign trade I It is well, per' haps, that there does exist no security for debts such 9. 0 those which the United States owe to England. The nun-existence of security May lead, ultimately, to the regulation of our foreign trade by sound principles-0 well as the overthrow of the pernicious system of lending money to foreign States." LAW AND POLICE. At the Winchester Assizes James Feltham was indicted for having set fire to a stable and other buildings, :the property of J. Bennett, and situate in the parish of Al dermoer. The jury, after a long investigation, acquitted the prisoner. Charles Hughes was charged, at Union-hall, with throwing a youth, named Parrett, down the gallery seats of the Surrey Th ea tre, by whi c h h e rece i ve d a com pound fracture of the right ar m . Th e b o y was near l y tu mbled into the pit, being stopped only by the iron rail along the front. The full fine of 51. was inflicted, and the pri" soner was sent to prison for six weeks in default ° I payment. Edward Armstrong, the man charged with using threatening language, in reference to the Queen, and who , gave himself up to the police for fear he should be in: duced to "'do something desperate," was re-examine d at Clerkenwell. Minute inquiries have been made into his case, and it appears that his wildness of manner was all assumed. He was sent to the House of Correction as an impostor. Henry Paine, a person of good address, and a military air, and wearing moustaches and a military coat, wjl ° stated himself a retired captain from the 7th Native Bengal Cavalry, was re-examined at Woolwich, on o charge of obtaining money under false pretences from Sir John Webb, Director-General of the O ro ' 'lance Medical Department. His documents were prove d to be all forgeries, and he was committed to three m onths ' hard labour, as a rogue and vagabond. At the assizes at Stafford, Sarah Westwood, aged was arraigned upon a charge of having murdered h er husband, John Westwood, by the administration O; • arsenic. The evidence was conclusive, and she ,_vvf d found guilty, and sentenced to death. Upon being as, whether she h a d anyt hi ng t o urge i n s t a y of ex ecution. . she affirmed that s h e was pregna n t. A jury of matron a therefore enipannelled to ascertain the truth of this assertion, and a medical man was sworn to assist th em in their inve s ti gat i on . O n re t urn i ng into Courg about twenty minutes, they negatived the allegation. COURT—PASIIIONABLE. o f The Duke of B or d eaux p asse d the greater Pal i Thursday, at Bri sto l, visiting the Great Western eott , n, works, the G ot hi c Ch urc h, and the Great We s t ern ~a t steamer. On F r id a y h e l e ft f o r Exeter, and slept 1 " night at Ugbrook, the seat of Lord Clifford. 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