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T HE BRIGHTON AND CHICHESTER RAILWAY COMPANY. CAPITAL, 300,0001 0 F £., IN 50 SIX EACH. THOUSAND SHARES . DEPOSIT, £5. PER SHARE. PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE. Captain Kelly, R.N., Deputy Chairman of the London and Brighton Railway Company. Edward Crowley, Esq., a Director of the London and Brighton Railway Company. Lord George Lennox, Bognor. The Hon. George Frederick Hotham, Brighton. Thomas Evans, Esq., Leominster, near Arundel. Robert Watkins, Esq., Arundel. Edwin Henty, Esq., anker, Worthing. Thomas West, Esq., Union Bank, Brighton. James Cordy, Esq., Brighton. George Henty, Esq., Chichester. George 011iver, Esq., Kingston, near Littlehampton. ENGINEER. John Urpeth Rastriek, Esq., F.R. S. F. A.S. C.E. SOLICITORS. Messrs. G. and H. FaidjuiClirighton ; Mesars,F. Cooper and Williams, Brighton, BANKERS. Messrs. Smith, Payne, and Smiths, London. Messrs. Domdy, Chichester. Messrs. Henty, 011iver, and Upperton, Worthing and Arundel. Messrs. Hall, West, and Boner, of the Union Bank, Brighton. The object of the projected line is to form a railway commu nication between Brighton and Chichester, commencing by a junction] with the present branch line of the London and Brighton Railway at Shoreham, and terminating at Chichester, by which means the facility of a railway communication with London will be afforded to the inhabitants of Chichester and Arundel, and the watering- places of Bognor, Littlehampton, and Worthing ; and when the projected Railway to Hastings is made, will open a railway communication extending nearly 70 miles along the coast of Sussex, and connecting the eastern and western divisions of that county. The distance between Shoreham and Chichester is 23 miles, over a country so level that the rails will be laid nearly upon the present surface of the ground, and, consequently, when completed, the road will be maintained at an unusually mode rate expense. The land through which the line is to pass is gricultural, and there are no buildings, except a few cottages, the taken. The estimated expense of the land, earthwork, bridges, and masonry for a double line, and a single line of road laid, with stations, and necessary conveniences to make it complete, is 300,0001. From the very easy description of the work, the line may be opened to the public in twelve months from the commencement of it ; and the gradients being favourable, it will be worked at a cheap rate. There are responsible parties willing to contract tor the exe cution. of the whole of the weeks, including all contingencies, within the estimate, taking 40,000/. in shares as part payment. The necessary notices have been given, the plans and sec tions have been deposited, and it is intended to apply in the ensuing session of Parliament for an Act to carry the works into execution. The existing traffic has been carefully investigated, and cal culations have been made on it in the usual way, whereby it has been ascertained that the proposed line will yield a revenue, chiefly from passenger traffic, of upwards of 40,000/. a year, which, after deducting the expense of working at 40 per cent. upon the receipt, will leave a balance of 24,0001., being 81. per cent. per annum upon the capital. The Plans, Sections, Estimates, and statement of traffic having been submitted to the Directors of the London and Brighton Railway Company, they have agreed (subject to the confirmation of their Proprietors at their general meeting on the 7th of February next), to lease the line for ten years from its completion, at a rent of 12,0001. per annum, being 4/. per cent. upon the estimate, dividing the net profits equally between themselves and the Proprietors of the pro jected Railway ; or, it the Proprietors of the projected line should prefer to keep the line in their own hands, the Brighton Company will find the working power on terms to be agreed on, Applications for Shares to be made on or before Tuesday, the 6th day of February next, in the following form, addressed to the Secretary of the Brighton and Chiehester Railway Com pany, at the London and Brighton Railway Office, London Terminus, London-bridge. Those who have made applica tions for Shares to the solicitor need not repeat them, as the letters already received will be laid before the Provisional Directors. " I request you will allot to me Shares in the Brighton and Chichester Railway Company, and I agree to accept such Shares as may be allotted to me, and to pay the de posit upon the same, and execute the Parliamentary Contract and Subscribers' Agreement, when required 30 to do. " I am, Ike Name. Residence. Trade or Profession." MRS. GRANT OF LAGGAN. Published this day, 3 vols. post Bvo., with Portrait, 31s. bound, MEMOIR and CORRESPONDENCE of the late Mrs. GRANT, of Laggan, Author of " Letters from the Mountains," "Memoirs of an American Lady,' &c., &c. Edited by her Son, J. P. GRANT, Esq. London : Longman, Brown, Green, and Loogmans. Now ready, price 103. 6d., PART 11. OF MR. BURKE'S HISTORY OF THE LANDED GENTRY. _ . " In noticing the first Part of this work, we spoke of the extraordinary labour and diligence which had been bestowed upon it, and its consequent value as an accurate history of the untitled aristocracy of England. It is, indeed, a remarkable monument of industry and research, and contains a mass of curious heraldic and genealogical information, that . can be found no where else. We have had an opportunity of testing its extreme correctness."—John• Bull. _ _ _ Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. 11HE NEXT DISTRIBUTION of MONEY DIVIDENDS. AUTrIORISED and GUARANTEED b t HIS MAJESTY the EMPEROR of AUSTRIA, contain, MONEY DIVIDENDS et - - --- - - - -- -•-- -- £5O £6O £7O £BO £9O £lOO £llO £l2O £l5O £2OO £4OO £6OO £l3OO £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 HAMBUROH, Or. to HEINE BROTHERS, at LUBECK. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. THIS EVENING, JANUARY 24, Will he repeated a New Grand Opera, in Three Acts, calledTHE BOHEMIAN GIRL Count Arnheim, Mr. Borrani; Thaddeus, Mr. W. Harrison; Arline, Miss Raintorth; 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, Miss: Carson; Clown, Mr. T. Ridgway ; Pantaloon, Mr. Blanchard. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN. M. JULLIEN'S CONCERTS. THIS EVENING, JANUARY 24, PROGRAMME FOR THIS EVENING—PART I. Overture, The Ruler of the Spirits—Weber. New Quadrille, entitled the Toy Quadrille, with Solo by Master Thirlwall—Jullien. First Movement of the Grand Symphony—Roth Albert. Valse, La Valse a Deux Tems—Jullien. Solo. Flute, Mr. Richardson. Buffs Quadrille, on Airs by Mr. John Parry—Jullien. PART IL Grand Duet from William Tell, for Ophicleide and Cornelia-Piston, performed by M. I'rospere and Herr Kceoig. Rossini Quadrille. New Quadrille, The Irish Echos—Jullien. solo,Violin, Master Thlrlwall. Valse, Bird of Paradise, received with the greatest favour at the Nobility's Balls—Kcenig. The English Quadrille—Jullien. Doors Open at Halt-past Seven, commence at Eight o'Clock. Promenade, Is , Upper Boxes, Is.; Dress Circle, 2s. dd. ; Private Ilexes, 11. Is. Tickets to be obtained at the Box-office of the Tneatre; of Mr. Mitchell, Old Bond-street; Mr. Andrews, New Bond-street; Mr. Sams, St. James's-street; and M. Jullien's Office, 3, Maddox-street, Bond-street. 31. Jullien regrets that he is unable to give a Concert fe-morruw Evening, Jan.2s. the Theatre having been let for that evening pre vious to his occupation. • THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. MK. BENJAMIN WEBSTER, LESSEE RE.ENGAGEMENT OF PROFESSOR RISLEY AND HIS INFANT SON. THIS EVENING, JANUARY 24, Will be repeated the Comedy of THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR. Sir John Falstaff, Mr. Strickland; Master Slender, Mr. C. Mathews; Mr. Ford, Mr. Stuart; Mr. Page, Mr. Howe; Fenton, Mr. Caulfield; Sir Hugh Evans, Mr. Webster; Mrs. Page, Madame Vestris ; Mrs. Ford, Mrs. Nisbett ; Mrs, Quickly, Mrs. Glover ; Anne Page Miss Mattley. After which, the Unparalleled Performances ot Professor RISLEY and his SON. To conclude with a New Fairy Extravaganza, entitled THE FAIR ONE WITH THE GOLDEN LOCKS! King Lachrvmoso, Mr. J. Bland; Prince Graceltd, Miss P. Horton ; Queen Lucidora, Miss Julia Bennett. THEATRE ROYAL HAYMARKET. POSITIVELY THE LAST NIGHT BUT THREE OF PRO FESSOR RISLEY AND HIS INFANT SONS. Unprecedented success attending the revival of " The Merry Wives of Windsor," which will b" acted every evening till further notice, 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. Brindsl; 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 Four Nights only, appearing every evening this week. Master H. Riley (only lour years old) will make his first and only appearances To-morrow, Friday, and Saturday, and go through a Series of Performances, in conjunction with his Father and Brother, unparalleled for elegance and fearless daring I. T. ARCHER, Box-book Keeper. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. The Best Pantomime of the Season—Gorgeous Scenery. THIS EVENING, JANUARY 24, The New Drama, embracing Extraordinary Efiects, Powerful Cast, and Novel Scenic Display, called THE BOHEMIANS ; or, The Rogues of Paris. Principal Characters by Messrs. Lyon, O. Smith, Wright, Wieland, Maynard, Mrs. Yates, Miss E. Slinlcy, Mrs. F. Matthews. After which a New Grand Christmas Pantomime, called HAR LEQUIN BLUE BEARD; or, The Fairy of the Silver Crescent. Produced with Enormous Splendour and Wonderful Effects! Columbine, Miss Bullen ; Harlequin Quicksilver, by the inimitable Wieland; Clown, by the Grimaldi of the day, Mr. T. Matthews, from the Theatres Royal , C ovent g arden and Drury-lane; Pants. loon, Mr. Johnstone. - - PRINCESS'S TH EATRE, H. OXFORD- MADDOX. STREET. LESSEE, Mr. J. M THIS EVENING, JANUARY 24, Will be presented for the fifth time at thin theatre, tha grand opera of the MAID OF JUDAH, Ivanhoe, Mr. Wood; Friar Tuck, Mr. Paul Bedford Rebecca, Mrs. Wood• fo conclude with the New Musical Burlesque Spectacle, entitled THE MAGIC MIRROR. Sing-Song, Mrs. H. P. Grattan; Poo. Poo, Mr. Paul Bedford ; Sloe.Leat, Miss R. Isaacs. AsTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE OF ARTS. Under the Management of Mr. Ratty Proprietor. Triumphant Success of the Equestrian Nove l t ies and Pantomime. FOUR GRAND NATIONAL HOLIDAY CLOSING FETES. The succession qt crowded houses and increased demands for Flaces at the Box.ortce, compels the Proprietor to announce that this Popular Establishment will remain Open a few Nights longer; _ a,d, by srecial de s i re, and in concurrence with the wishes of Astley's Patrons, according to annual custom, for a series of British National Fetes, pourtraying the Victories of .England's Hero— Wellington, with all its Military Effects, New Dre sses S cenery , an d Appointments, THIS EVENING, JANUARY 24, Will be performed the Grand National Spectacic of THE BATTLE OF WATERLOO. Napoleon Buonapirte, Mr. Gomersal, his ori ginal character, • New Scenes in the Circle. To conclude with the Pantomime of HARLEQUIN TAM O'SHANTER. DAV !DOE'S ROYAL SURREY 'THEATRE. As usual, the funniest and most successful Pantomime. THIS EVENING, JANUARY 24, Will be repiated; New Drami, entitled STELLA RIV e ERS. F. DOR Supported by Messrs. Saville, Hughes, Hicks R. Nevire, Vale, Smith, Johnso n, Lewis, , eslo p , Mrs. R. fionnerArrs' • Daly. Mrs. Hughes , Miss Terre y , and Mrs. H. Vining. After which an entirely new Grand Comic Pantomime, with Splendid Scenery, Superb Dresses, Inimitable Properties and 'hicks, every thing new and of the most costly description, HARLEQUIN GrtAMMAR, or, Lindley Murray,and AEI OU. Harlequin, Mr. W. H. Harvey ; Grotesque, Mr. Stilt ;C lown, Mr. Full Mer: • Panta. loon, Mr. Hawkins ; Columbines (alteratly) Miss R. Fair. brither and Miss Sharpe. , ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. THIS EVENING, JANUARY 24, Will be performed an entirely New Domestic Drama, entitled POVERTY,. or, Mary Graham. Leonard, Mr. Freer; Jessar99 Tacit, Mr. Nants ; Squire Graham, Mr. Dale; Patty Parrot, Miss Arden ; Mary Graham, Miss Vincent. After which NATURE AND ART. In which Miss Vincent %will sustain her Five Original Characters. To conclude with THE MAN IN THE IRON MASK. COTTON TWIST REDIVIVUS I TH THE WEEKLY CHRONICLE, of SATUR DAY and SUNDAY, 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! HIGH PROFITS! _ GOOD WAGES ! and CHEAP BREAD Also, No. 20 of the celebrated Articles on IRISH HIS TORY—the only safe Guide to a Knowledge of the I rish Policy, essential to the integrity of the Empire at this impor tant crisis.—Office, 337, Strand. BETTS'S PATENT FRENCH DISTILLED BRANDY having been analyzed by the most eminent Chemists, is certified to be the purest and most wholesome spirit for every purpose. As a beverage its flavour cannot be distinguished from the finest Cognac. For preserves and all other confectionary or domestic uses, it is unrivalled ; and it is prescribed, in preference to Foreign Brandy, by the highest Medical Authorities, at Guy's, St. George's, and the Westmin ster Hospitals ; at the Manchester, Bristol, and Brighton Infir maries • and, indeed, at all the principal Hospitals, Infirmaries, and Public Institutions throughout the Kingdom. The exclu sive Establishment of J. T. Betts and Ce. is the Distillery, 7, Smithfield Bats, leading to St. John-street, where their Patent Brandy, Pale and Coloured, is supplied at Eighteen Shillings pm Gallon, in quantities of not less than,Two Gallons. TO CORRESPONDENTS. We must decline publishing any letters against Lieut. Munro. The seconds were the real culprits. Munro has lost his commission ; he is compelled to flee his country ; and had he not fought the duel, agreeably to the barbarous practice sanctioned in the army, he would have been equally expelled from his regiment. THE WEATHER.-SUN OFFICE, JAN. 24. THERMOMETER, Lowest, 38 ; Highest, 43 ; Noon, 40. BAROMETER, 30.23.—W1ND, S. NOTE.—The number 32 on the Thermometer denotes tie , freezing point, and 55 temperate. In Barometers aiT is usually placed opposite 30, and rain at 29. HIGH WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY. M ... 47 minutes after 4. f Evening ... 4 minutes after 5. .''''r- ',;.`::,ti.t , '''„,,r - - • , , w • ''' .., 4? • . 01t :„...,,5i14 , ': , 1„,-;;•$' .„,,' ,". / , 4 ' s ...'" ill' iP • : .. "4 4/4 . Eii_7 .-" : - 7 . Tht•-•'' , :•:: ' -A,AI 1, , I.' '•- ' ' ' 3 4' ' '''' i s' . -' -.. ; -' i - , . ''.•••: t„ . ,',1 - -. - , ~" 1,0, :,.. . • ‘vt. , ..=7,• di •',-- ' - ‘ Z • '•- . •••• mln :. ,It or' - PtAgi t it',._ . ›.... . t i t'uw '• - 'n SECOND EDITION. einnins As LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 24, 1844, The proceedings in the Irish State trials were resumed on Monday with the examination of three persons in the employment of Mr. Hol brook e, a lithographic printer and engraver, Crow-street. This person was employed to print many of the documents issued by the Repeal Association. Among them the cards of the members and associates, the forms of the awards of arbitrators, and the deeds of submission to such awards. The latter documents were stamped, and much of the cross-exami nation was directed to eliciting whether this stamp was affixed by the authority of the Association or not. The form of the award only was carried at the meeting of the Association, and the Counsel for the traversers con tended that the stamp being part of the document, it could not be adrititted as evidence, unless the whole of it was proved to be authorised by that body as well as part. The Court, however, decided that the document should be admitted as well as the others. Between one and two o'clock a little incident occurred that not only varied the formality of the proceedings, but exhibited in a striking manner the spirit that ani mates the Attorney-General. The usual Monday meeting of the Repeal Asso ciation was announced to be held at two o'clock. Mr. W. S. O'Brien, it was stated, would also attend that meeting. Between one and two o'clock Mr. O'Connell and his son John rose to leave the Court, for the purpose of proceeding to the Conciliation Hall, when the Attorney- General stated that he had no objection to the traversers remaining in the precincts of the Court, but that he would not permit them to attend the meeting ; if they quitted the Court for that purpose, he should call on the Court to enforce their recognisances. Mr. John O'Connell then wrote a letter from the Court, which was read to the meeting, amidst the utmost ex citement ; nothing could exceed the indignation of the assembly at this manifestation of a petty spirit, and the groans of the meeting " for the Attorney-General" were tremendous. In the Court the examination of the witnesses pro- ceeded as before. A Mr. Macnamara was called to swear to the speeches delivered at the monster meeting at Tul lamore, of which he took notes, but their authenticity was much shaken on the cross-examination. The other two witnesses were an inspector of police, named Stewart, and Mr. O'Neil Brown, stipendiary magistrate of King's County. They spoke to details of the management of the meeting at Tullamore. The examination of Mr. Brown, did not elicit any new evidence against the traversers, and at half-past four o'clock the Court adjourned till ten o'clock next morning. One of our Dublin correspondents, who dates his letter Monday, the 22d, makes the following remarks : " There was yesterday some repose for those imme diately connected with the public proceedings of the Queen's Bench, but private discussions and speculations were more frequent than on the days devoted to work. The trials, it is generally supposed, will not occupy more than another fortnight, the Crown being likely to close on Wednesday, at the furthest. The additional evidence to be brought forward on the part of the Crown, will consist, I under stand of the Repeal cards and other documents, the pub lications of the newspapers, and the numbers who at tended the various meetings. Has the Attorney-General no other evidence, is a question asked by every one ? Why we all knew what has been proved months and months ago, and yet no one ever dreamt of a conspiracy. Then comes the question, will the jury convict on such evi dence? Jam informed they will, and that there is scarcely a chance for the traversers. The moment the jury was known, the public voice cried conviction. This in England would appear strange—in Ireland it is quite natural• Given, they say, three men of a certain character as judges—twelve Orangemen for a jury, Daniel O'Connell for a defendant, and, work the problem as you will, an acquittal cannot be the result. The tone and manner of some of the judges are bad, the demeanour of the prosecutor is personal and petulant, the character of the judges Orange, to the full extent of that fearful word. One of the jurymen, Mr. Floyd, is an Englishman by birth, though a long time in Ireland. He is highly Conserva tive, and his business connexion is Conservative ; but there is just the shadow of 'a hope that, not being an Irish Orangeman, some of the fair play for which Englishmen are distinguished may accompany him into the box. I was speaking this morn ing to a gentleman well acquainted with the state of feeling in Ireland, and on my saying that I hardly thought it possible the Crown would punish, even if there was a conviction, his reply was, No one can say what Government will do, Sir ; they appear to be mad; but I assure you it will take all the influence of O'Con nell and the priests to keep the people quiet.' I believe this is a true representation of the case ; but it is curi ous to have the peace of Ireland preserved by those who may be punished—for a conspiracy to disturb it." We do not meddle with the evidence given upon the present State trials in Ireland. We do not interfere with the question of legality or illegality of the pro ceedings upon which the jury has to decide. We are entirely opposed to a repeal of the union upon princi ple, and upon a conviction that Ireland may be better served, than by severing its legislative connection with this country ; but we feel it strictly within our province to look at the mode in which that evidence has been obtained—to denounce the unfair proceedings by which the jury-box has been packed with men, who may be free from all bias, but whose selection is evidently most corrupt—and to enter our indignant protest against conduct, which will do more to effect a repeal of the union, than all the harangues of O'CoNwELL, the acts of the Repeal Association, or of the entire population of Ireland. Can any Englishman call to his memory the proceed ings previous to the selection of the jury, without thanking his stars that he was born in this country and not in Ireland ? Can any Englishman see justice totally denied to Irishmen, in their own country, without blushing for the Legislature which has not conferred upon one part of the British empire, the privi leges enjoyed by the other part, and which ought to be common to all ? Can any Englishman see the tricks, the subtleties, the petty acts of tyranny, to which every - officer of the Government has re sorted, previous to, and during the present trials, without feeling a lively sensation of shame for his country, of despisal for his country's rulers, ' and of pity for the objects of the persecution which those rulers have instituted, and are now carrying on ? We do not believe that the Englishman exists, who in his heart approves, either the withholding of all Ine s from the traversers to make an effectual !.efiince, by refusing every information as to the charge against them, and the evidence to support it, or the nefarious packing of the jury box, intended to make all and eve s y defence of no ultimate use and avail. Conviction . ' conviction ! conviction ! per fas aut nefas ; innocent or guilty, no matter ; conviction, was the end, the aim, and the intent. ___ In pursuance of this foregone conclusion, evidence, such as no mortal man ever heard, has been sought for ; the character of the public press 'has been SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 24, 1844 lattempted to be lowered, by clothing Government employes, with the garb of reporters ; and a Home Secretary of State, has sent his own personal attaches, to gain materials for prosecution. Sir JAMES GRAHAM must in future be the English FOUCHE, the director of spies, and the selector of implements, such as his acquaintance with the Carlisle Patriot supplied. And then the jury—a jury not intended to try guilt or innocence, but to convict—it may happen, that the prosecutors have been mistaken; but they believe they are safe in their packed jury list, as Sir C. O'LoGHLIN, indignantly termed it. No Englishman who watches the progress of this trial can avoid pitying the Government which is obliged to use such an Attorney-General as Mr. SMITH, and despising an Attorney-General who can show such want of judgment, as he exhibited on this trial on Monday. Dreading the sympathy which the appearance of Mr. O'CONNELL would create at the Conciliation Hall, and finding that he had gone thither, Mr. Attorney- General SMITH insisted upon Mr. O'CoNNELL's remaining within the precincts of the Court during the trials, and threatened to call him upon his recognizances, if he did not immediately appear. Is there any English Attorney- General who would thus have acted ? None, in our memory. But such a trial for such an offence, never took place in our times, supported by such evidence, and before a jury selected in such a manner. It only wanted Mr. Attorney-General SMITH to make the farce of " Law without Justice" complete in all its parts. And mark the effect of such proceedings. Mr. SMITH O'BRIEN, at the Conciliation Hall, stated openly as follows : " It is true that your leaders are taken from you at the pre sent moment. It is true that means have been taken to pro cure a verdict, of what kind I will not pretend to say, but which will deprive it of all moral worth. But I cannot believe that any jury, however composed, will surrender the rights and liberties of our country. I still feel exultation and hope, when I know that the people are determined to maintain the privi leges which are our birthright. I camehere to tell the Attor ney-General that, though not ambitious of martyrdom, if . he wants another victim I present myself to him."—(Tremendous cheering.) Mr. SMITH O'BRIEN is no visionary, no wild enthu siast—he is a man of large property, and the Member in Parliament for an Irish county ; the conduct of Sir ROBERT PEEL'S Government drove him into the ranks of Repeal—the conduct of that Government will do more injury than years of conciliation can repair, and will drive into opposition to English connection in legis lation, thousands who see in the conduct of that Govern ment, only trickery and injustice. Such a Secretary as Sir J. GRAHAM—such a pro secution as this of O'CoNNELL—conducted by such an Attorney-General, in such a spirit and in such a manner, would sink a stronger vessel than that which Sir R. PEEL commands, even though manned by a better crew, and officered by men of principle, not by renegades The seventh annual dinner of the Buckingham Con servative Association took place in that town on Mon day last. The Duke of BucKINGuAm was in the chair, and among the !guests were Sir THOMAS FREMANTLE and Mr. PIGOTT, the former of whom, notwithstanding that he was urgently solicited to speak out, took care to maintain a discreet reserve respecting the intentions of Ministers as regards the corn-laws. Though the meet ing professed to be friendly to Government, yet it was by no means unanimous on the subject, and Mr. DAY BELL but spoke the sentiments of many of those who were present, when he observed, " it was not necessary to go into a history of the proceedings of the Ad ministration, or examine their acts one by one ; let them look generally at their spirit, and ask themselves whether those acts were of a nature to com mand their confidence. When he stated, at the last an niversary, that they would not then receive the health of the Right Hon. Baronet at the head of the Govern ment with the same enthusiasm as before, some gentle man objected to the observation ; but he must say subsequent events had tended to confirm his views, that their sentiments of regard towards Ministers had under gone some alteration." Considering that the Bucks Association professes to have confidence in Sir ROBERT PEEL, as one who will take special care not to seriously damage the interests of the monopolists, we do not think the above frank and truthfu l observation—which was received with loud cries of " Hear, hear"—wears a very encouraging aspect for the Premier. A gentleman named PIGOTT " gave tongue" with surprising volubility on the subject of the Anti- Corn-law League, which he described as an audacious attempt at fraud and humbug, compared with which all former attempts at knavery were merely so many out bursts of excessive modesty ! He then alluded to what he called the "blasphemous pamphlets" of the League— blasphemous, we presume, because they dare to rail against the omnipotence of monopoly—and added with uncommon unction, "he believed in his con science that a more barefaced attempt to palm off a conspiracy for private purposes as an associ ation for the public good—a more barefaced attempt to render the vital interests of the whole nation subservient to the avarice and ambition of a comparatively small number of the people—was never in our whole history witnessed before." This, it must be confessed, is sound, hearty abuse, not unadorned with such pearls as fall from the lips of Billingsgate fishwomen ; and we must own to having been exceedingly amused with the evident sincerity that pervades it. Strange to say, however, im mediately after having disburthened himself of this load of vituperation, the speaker stated it as his decided con viction that " the League were now powerless, because they were unmasked ; they had not a single class in the country with them." Why then launch the fierce thunders of your indigation against them, Mr. PIGOTT ? Why take such pains to raise them into im portance by pouring forth the full vials of your wrath upon their heads ? If the League be really so insigni ficant as you would have us believe, surely it is lost time and most egregious impolicy to visit them with such truculent abuse ! No man ever dreams of "breaking a butterfly upon a wheel," or condescends to visit with his stormiest indignation those whom he holds in utter contempt, and feels to be utterly powerless. He wisely leaves them to their insignificance, and reserves his denunciation for those whose hostility may be dangerous to him. Whatever he may choose to allege to the contrary, the plain fact is, that Mr. PIGOTT, like the rest of the corn-law advocates, entertains a deep rooted fear of the League. The earnestness and sin cerity of his abuse place this beyond a doubt. And well may he dread this great popular Confederacy, for it is destined ere long to seal the fate of Monopoly! Madrid papers of the 16th have been received. The new Finance Minister is busily engaged in schemes to raise money had for paying the priests and the army. On that day he a long conference with certain ecclesiastical dignitaries, the object of which was to advise on the best means to secure the service of religion, and the maintenance of the clergy. The Minister of War had demanded 2,000,000 reals for certain corps d'arrnee. The Finance Minister promised compliance, but where is the money to come from ? Reports of an intended in surrection in the Biscayan provinces prevailed at Ma drid, the object of Aich was to effect a marriage be tween the eldest son of Don CARLOS and the QUEEN. The Three per Cents. were done on the 16th at 26k, at 60 days ; the Five per Cents. at 191, at 60 days. On Monday, M. TIMERS delivered another speech in the Chamber of Deputies, against the policy pursued by the GUIZOT Cabinet, but it was of a very mild character. The ex-Minister evidently has no wish to quarrel with the KING or his Cabinet, and merely;makes an opposition speech to please his friends. In reviewing the state of affairs since 1837, he said—" The Whigs were an enter prising race, but their chiefs were not men of a very con ciliatory disposition. in 1837 they urged France to join them in an armed intervention in Spain, but Austria, having been consulted, was of a contrary opinion, and her advice was unfortunately attended to. Hence the origin of the dissolution of the alliance, and the result was, that in Belgium France was deserted by England ; in Italy England openly declared against her, and France was obliged to evacuate Ancona. In Spain the hostility of England was also manifested; and in the East she was found in league with the continental Powers of Europe." M. TRIERS then proceeded to justify the line of policy he had adopted when thus abandoned by England, and contended, that had France "maintained an independent and dignified attitude, and trusted to her immense re sources, the Powers of Europe would never have dared to attack France, and she would not have suffered any humiliation." No Power in Europe dreamt of attacking France. She isolated herself from all, raised a war-cry which alarmed neighbouring States, but did no injury to any nation but France. That war-cry laid the foundation of the new bastiles, which will render the short administration of M. THIERS immortal. M. GUIZOT briefly replied, and contended successfully that France had made no conces sions to England, and that the relations between the two countries were benevolent and loyal, not only in words but deeds. The report about a change of Ministry turns out to be mere gossip. The Funds continued firm on Monday. 11OURSE—PABIs, MONDAY, JAN. 22. First Highest Lowest Last Price. Price. Price. Price. French Five per Cents. 124 85... 124 85... 124 75... 124 85 Threes. B2 65... 82 65... 82 55.. 82 60 Bank of France 3272 40...3272 50...3270 ...3270 Lafritte Bank I,ooof 1112 50 ..1112 50...1112 50...1112 50 Belgian Bank 697 50... 697 50... 695 ... 695 1841 1080 mlOBO mlOBO ...1000 Belgian Fives ........... 107 ... 107 ... 107 ... 107 1840.... 109 ... 109 ... 108/ ... 109 1842.... 110 k ... 110 k ... 110 k ... 110 k Dutch 2k per Cents... 554 ... 554 ••• 5 51 55 Spanish Active .. 30k ... 30k • ... 30k ... 301 Passive ...... 5* 51 ... 51 51 Portuguese Fives 46k 46k ... 46i Neapolitan Roman ... . ..... 105 k ... 1050 .. 105 k ... 1051 ----- RAILWAY SHARES. Versailles, R.B 340 ... 342 50.. 340 ... 342 50 L. 8... Rouen Rouen to Havre 665 ... 665 ... 660 ... 662 50 Orleans. Strasburg to Bale. . . Avignon to Marseilles 685 ... 690 • • 685 ... 690 RAILWAY SHARES, FOR THE ACCOUNT. Versailles, R.B 342 50... 342 50... 340 ... 340 L. 8... Rouen Rouen to Havre... .. . , 665 ... 665 ... 662 50 .. 662 50 Orleans . 862 50... 867 50... 860 ... 867 50 Strasburg to Bale 2?.5 ... 235 ... 230 ... 232 50 Avignon to Marseilles 682 50... 690 ... 682 50 .. 690 The Chancellor of the Exchequer, and several other Cabinet Ministers, had a meeting this morning at Sir Robert Peel's private residence in Whitechall-gardens. The meeting broke up at half-past one o'clock. SIR H. POTTINGER AND THE AMEERS OF SINDE. We find the following in the Chronicle of this morn ing :—" A most diligent Correspondent of The Sun has induced that journal to fill three of its columns with extracts from Sir Henry Pottinger's correspondence, which prove Sir Henry's extreme distrust of, and se rious complaints of, Noor Mahomed Khan, the chief of the rulers of Sinde, at the date of that correspondence, viz., 1838 and 1839. These extracts are adduced by the writer in order to place Sir Henry in contradiction with his more recent letters, in which he laments the treatment of the present Ameers. Now, the fact is, that Noor Mahomed died in 1841. The present, or late, Ameers were another generation, and had as much to do with the Ameers whom Sir Henry Pottinger spoke of in 1838, as the state and policy and fears of Sinde, at the time when we were preparing an expe dition to Caubul, has to do with the Sinde of 1843, after the English Governor-General had solemnly declared that the Indus was the irrevocable frontier of the empire." We know not what to make of this article. The ob ject of our " diligent:Correspondent" was to show that the whole tenor of Sir Henry Pottinger's correspondence relative to Sinde was at variance with the letter published in the Chronicle ; but, convincing as the extracts are, that the letter is a forgery, they are still surpassed by the remarks of our Contemporary. " Now the fact is," says the writer, " Noor Mahomed died in 1841. The present, or late, Ameers were another generation," &c. How, then, can Sir Henry Pottinger call them his " old friends ?" In 1841 these were all dead men, the new generation had begun to reign, and he, therefore, could have no personal knowledge of them, or of the affairs of Sinde; for in August of that year he was on the opposite coast of Asia, at the distance of five thousand miles, and was actively engaged in drawing up counter-procla mations to those of Lin, or Keshen, or Elepoo. His opinion respecting events which occurred after his de parture, and when his old friends, the Ameers, were dead, is no authority whatever. But, taking it for granted that all but one of these friends survived what becomes of this deliberate opinion recorded in his dispatches—" It would be better at once to take posses. sion of Sinde by force, than to leave it nominally with the Ameers, and yet deal with it as though it were our own 2" This act of taking possession by force is de scribed in the letter as " the most unprincipled and disgraceful that has ever stamped the annals of our em pire in India," while the same authority, in published dispatches, declares it " explicit and dignified," as com pared with the policy pursued under the government of Lord AUCKLAND. The Chronicle may choose either of the horns. LAW INTELLIGENCE QUEEN'S BENCH.--(THIS DAY.) (Sittings in Banco.) The Court took the Crown paper to-day, and was occupied the whole morning in listening to arguments in cases of disputed settlements of paupers. EXCHEQUER-(THIS DAY). ( Sittings in Banco. ) The Court took the special paper to-day, and was occupied the whole morning in listening to arguments relative to techni cal points of pleading. POLICE INTELLIGENCE BOW-STREET.-(THIS DAY.) Two strong, hearty-looking men, who gave their names John Scott and John King, the one dressed like a boatman, and the other like an agricultural labourer, were charged, before Mr. Twyford, with begging in Holborn. One of the Meudicity Society's officers stated, that he was passing along Holborn, yesterday, when he saw the defendants standing there. One had a spade in his hand, and upon it was written " We are in great distress, we can get no work, and we want bread." The same prisoners were taken before Mr. Long, about three weeks ago, when they were discharged, and sent to the MendicitY Society, and there they were given five days work. When Scott the officer took them into custody yes terday, the prisoner, , was holding up the spade, and the other prisoner was leaning upon him, as though overcome by exhaustion. The prisoners said they were utterly destitute, and could get no work. They had lately been engaged on the Paris and Rouen Railway, but the works 'had been stopped there, and they had come ever to England. Mr. T w Foto said that a case of systematic begging had been prover . and he . should punish it accordingly. The pri soners must te imprisoned in the House of Correction for a month. MARYLEBONE.-(THIS DAY.) Joseph Itetts, a sailor, who said that he was engaged as cook and baker on board the . Token, East India merchantman, was charged with having twice attempted to commit suicide. John Fletcher, 7, Salisbury-street, said that the prisoner slept in his house on Monday night, and on the succeeding morning he got intoxicated. at a very early hour, and then pulled but some time after was advised by first a knife out of his pocket and threatened to do some injury ttthhoteiosgs the aPivesesCet:hsalemcm a ttempt, rip to himself. The w . eapon was taken from him, and he then opened a razor, with which ltioe tha:tepmripsotendertaogcauint,hwishtohrtohaetn. Fortunately they were enabl i : op d n t p o u w bi r i e c s . t h.o it us f e rom nex h t im d . eer 7 x i , t h n e e r s e s hal k e e efp p tro t ael t rni l ede i e e am m wteaed i nt n , The second attempt was fully proved by witnesses. Mr. RAWLINSON—Who was the constable who gave such the man was recovered from his such foolish a dvice? --Sergeant Hawker came forward and said that he was the person. The MAGlsTßATzw:shed to learn why he gave such advice ? own the T t a r e d i svncee prisonerr was quite rational, and made a laugh of the at dSreurngkeaenntstHataew, ker—lYhY , tempt. Mr. 11.AwLINsorr--.Yo.ur are sinking part of the story, Sir. Give me the whole of it, if you please.—Sergeant Hawker tried to explain. as it appears, by Mr. IlawLiNsotz—lt is very evident to me that you are omitting part of the statement for . the pur pose . of justifying your b h s is eg rn ue a n tt t e c r o - 4o u o c l t i . sh advice, isnsutexpressed his sorrow for his conduct, and said that, if permitted to depart, he would make all baste join his first instance, acted unwisely, to see hi m ship, but Docks, and if the ship had dr o pp e d Mr. RAWLINSON said that he would order Sergeant Haw k, to Gravesend, he would see him downer h a u e f ew r e :n w o t b o ff h y o b t t h y had, E e i o a s n r s t ne t t ai Indi a h nm e ge rt. SU PAMAny P,P I; • ' S AND tittiatt Optitiott. " Who runs may read." FOREIGN. The debate in the French Chamber of Deputies on the Address has hitherto been considered favourable to the Ministry, and there is no reason to doubt that the vote will be in their favour. The Funds and Shares on Monday closed as follows :—The Three per Cents. at 82f. 65c. ; the Fives at 124 f. 90c. ; Orleans Railroad Shares, 867 f. 50c. ; Rouen, 850 f. ; Havre, 662 f. 50c. ; Avignon, 690 f. ; Spanish Actives, 30i. It was stated on the Bourse that Government would execute all the railroad lines, even to the supply of the rails. The Commerce states that Count Mole and M. Hippo lyte Passy had a long private audience of the King yes terday at the Tuileries. The Augsburg Gazette mentions a report that Count d'Appony, the Austrian Ambassador in Paris, is about to be appointed to an eminent post in Vienna, and to be replaced in Paris by the Prince de Schwartzenberg. A letter from home of the 4th states that several slight shocks of earthquake had just been experienced there, but they had not caused any injury. Heritte, the sailor who was condemned to death lately for the murder of an officer on board the Fleche brig at Toulon, was executed on the 16th. He displayed much fortitude and contrition. A letter from Stuttgard states that the King of Wur temberg had just escaped a great danger. His .111a;esty had gone out to drivein his carriage and pair as usual, when the horses having run away, and the coachman being unable to pull them in, the whole equipage would have been precipitated into the Neckar, had not a but cher's man, who was near, rushed forward, and, cling- ing to the head of one of the horses, forced them to stop. The King made the man a present of one hundred ducats (451.) The Government of Baden, says a Frankfort paper, has suppressed all the pamphlets which have been pub lished relative to the late duels of MM. de Goeler, de Haber, Werefkin, and Sarachaga, and has also pro hibited the journals from again alluding to the subject. A Saint Petersburgh letter of the Bth, in a German journal, mentions a report that the Russian Government has addressed remonstrances to the Porte, relative to the treaty of the Dardanelles. The Russian Government complains that foreign vessels, laden with arms and ammunition, are allowed to pass, contrary to the stipula tions of the treaty. We read in the Journid des Chemins de Ter :—" The Company for carrying on the Lyons Railroad has been definitively constituted. The capital, which is completed, has been raised, one-third in London, a third in Paris, and a third in the localities traversed by the railroad." LAW AND POLICE. In the Court of Bankruptcy, G. D. Clark appeared on Lis adjourned last examination, having been in business as an agent for patents, and connected with a paper called the Inventor's Advocate. It appeared his debts and liabilities amount to nearly 20,000 L, while the assets at present received are scarcely sufficient to pay 3d. or 4d. in the pound. He had been adjourned sine die, in consequence of the unsatisfactory state of his balance sheet, particularly as connected with his affairs in Brussels. The same objection was made ; and, after a long discussion, he was once more remanded sine die, his accounts being as barren as ever of the explanations which the assignees require relative to that business. In the Insolvent Court Charles Neall, alias Hall, formerly of Southampton, and who had been a bankrupt at Epping, and took the benefit of the Act in 1837, was remanded from the vesting order for twelve months, for contracting debts without reasonable expectations of payment, with some of the opposing creditors, and with others in a fraudulent manner. William Horsford was brought up at Marylebone, in custody, charged with having committed a most brutal assault upon Alfred, his son, by striking him upon the head with a shovel. The particulars, which transpired on the 15th instant, have already appeared, and it will be remembered that the sufferer was, after the infliction of the wounds, conveyed to the University College Hos pital. Evidence was given that he could not yet be con sidered out of danger,_ and the prisoner was further re manded until the 30th inst. A powerful Irishman, named Michael Meaney, alias Linkey Meaney, who has been in frequent broils, was charged at the Thames-office, before Mr. Broderip, with committing a brutal assault on a young woman, servant to Mr. Lawson, of the Hoop and Grapes, High-street, Shadwell. The Magistrate, after severely commenting on the cowardly and brutal conduct of the prisoner, fined him 51., and in default of payment, committed him to the House of Correction for two months. COURT-FASHIONABLE. The Duke of Cambridge arrived at Brighton on Mon day evening, where a special train was in readiness to convey his Royal Highness to Shoreham. On alighting from the train at Shoreham his Royal Highness pro ceeded at once in a carriage and four to Arundel, on a visit to the Duke and Duchess of Norfolk. General Sir Edward and Lady Harriet Paget and family, at the Marquis of Anglesey's, Cowes. Castle, and Rear-Admiral Sir William and Lady Montagu, at Earl De Grey's villa, are among the few f'amilies of rank still at the Isle of Wight. Captain Brabazon Ponsonby, Mr. Pigot, and Mr. Burr, are cruising in the Mediterranean in their respective yachts. On Tuesday evening a sumptuous banquet was given to the Lord Mayor, the Sheriffs, the Recorder, and other gentlemen connected with the City of London, by the Stationers' Company, at their hall in Ludgate-street, C. Baldwin, Esq., the master of the Company, presiding. Among the guests were the Rev. Dr. Croly, Mr. Lockhart, Mr. Sergeant Talfourd, Mr. Alderman Hum phery, UP., and Mr. Benjamin Hawes, M.P. RILSCELL.A.Nzous. The Duke of Brunswick, now residing in London, has issued a proclamation, beginning with these words : " We, Charles, by the grace of God, Sovereign Duke of Brunswick and Luneburg, & c., do hereby declare," &c. It sets forth that he has not abdicated, and never will abdicate, his legitimate rights to the sovereignty of Brunswick. The number of sudden deaths that have recently oc curred at the east end of the metropolis, is truly appalling. Scarcely a day passes without an occurrence of this kind. Within the space of fifteen days, no less than seventeen cases have been brought under the notice of the authorities. From a return made to the visiting justices of the House of Correction, Coldbath-fields, it appears that out of 1,094 prisoners confined in that prison, on the 13th instant, viz., 834 males and 260 females, it was ascer tained that nine males could read and write well, with a knowledge of other languages and arithmetic ; 92 males and 25 females could read and write well, with arith metic ; 258 males and 60 females could read and write a little ; 274 males and 105 females could only read a little ; and 209 males and 70 females could neither read nor write at all. Mr. Lumley, manager of her Majesty's Theatre, is expected in town from Paris, this week, in order to commence his preparations for the ensuing season. We understand that the obsequies of Lady Burdett have been deferred ; in all probability until those of Sir Francis are performed. CLERKENWELL-(THIS DAY.) An elderly gentleman came before Mr. Combo with a [news paper in his hand, and stated that he wished to have a statement which was made in that Court, and which appeared in the public newspapers, rectified. Mr. Comm said he could not allow the public time to be frittered away in explanations of paragraphs in newspapers. V. , hat was the precise nature of the gentleman's application. The applicant said his name was Seers, and the same indi vidual against whom the Rev. Mr. Evans, minister of John's Chapel, Bedford-row, complained before his Worship a few days ago. Air. Evans on th a t o c casion stated, that he (Mr. Seers) was in the habit of disturbing his congregation during the hours of divine service by standing up and addressing them. Now, he wished t o rect if y this. Mr. Comm said the Rev. Mr. Evans had certainly applied to him for protection against the disturbance alluded to. He (Mr. Combe) told him to warn the intruder, whoever he might be, of the i m p ro p r i ety o f hi s con duct, and to warn him that if he persevered, he would be taken into custody ; and he would now recommend Mr. S eers , if he had committed the disturb ance, not to repeat it. The applicant thanked the Magistrate, anti left the Court. UNION HALL.-(THIS DAY.) lVilliarn Holder, a respectable -looking man, a traveller, in the employment of Mr. Flockton, the extensive turpentine manufacturer, in Bermondsey, was brought before Mr. Cot tingham, charged with embezzling moneys to a considerable amount, the property of his employer. Mr. Flockton stated that the prisoner had been in his employ for some length of time. He was usually engaged in soliciting orders for goods and collecting money from the customers. Of late, it had been discovered that he had received various sums of money, which it was his duty to have accounted for, but which he had not done. The complainant added, that if the prisoner was remanded, he would bring several cases against him. The prisoner, who said nothing in his defence, was remanded. Thomas Barker and Ann Barker, his wife, were charged on suspicion with committing a robbery under the following cir cumstances:— It appeared the prisoner and his wife lived in Providence.. row, Walworth, and that on Monday night last she alarmed the neighbourhood by saying that her house was entered and robbed while she was out. A neighbour having entered the hou se found some of the rooms in a state of confusion, and the pro perty of a Mr. Ellis, a lodger, con sisting of clothes and jewel lery, removed. From subsequent examination of the premises by the police, it was strongly suspected that the house had not been entered by thieves, no marks of violence nor footmarks being observed, and therefore the suspi c ion rested against th e prisoners, who were accordingly given into custody. The prisoners, who declared their innocence of the alleged offence, were remanded. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITIIEATRE.—The grand spectacle of the Battle of Waterloo has been revived at this theatre with more than its pristine splendour ; and, what is better than all, with Gomersal as Napoleon. He appears with undiminished powers, and his resemblance to the portraits of the Emperor is as great as ever. He was much applauded throughout by a very crowded house ; and there is no doubt but that this piece will have as great a run on its revival as it had when originally produced. MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DA CORN EXCHANGE-WEDNESDAY. Since our last report a very limited quantity of English wheat has come fresh to hand, and the stands exhibited in consequence a scanty number of samples of that grain. Fine qualities moved off steadily, other kinds slowly at late rates. In foreign wheat, both free and in bond, very little was doing, yet we can notice no alteration in figures. The supply of barley and malt being extensive, the sale for those articles was slow at barely previous figures. Oats, beans, peas, and flour were dull at late rates. ARRIVALS. Wheat. Barley. Oats. Flour English 1,530 qrs 2,540 qrs. 2,120 qrs. 2,020 sacks. Irish -- 400 1 4,l Foreign 1,920 1,680 - Malt, .3,410 qrs. WIIITZCHAPEL. Cur market was not to say heavily supplied with any kind of meat, yet the general demand ruled inactive, and previous rates were with difficulty supported. Beef, from 2s 4d to 3s 4d ; Mutton, 2s tici to 3s ; Veal, 4s to OS ;_ and Pork, 2s 10d to 4s per 81bs by the carcass. MONEY AND COMMERCIAL NEWS CITY, QUARTER The Cotton Market at Liverpool, yesterday, was very dull. Sales 3,000 bales—viz., 400 bales Egyptian, at 7d to 81hd ; 100 Pernam, at bid ; 200 Surat, at 3.4 d ; and the rest Ame rican, at 5d to 6id.—Shares were not so good, but still the demand was fair. Eastern Counties were 108 ; Edinburgh and Glasgow. 59*; Grand Junction, 235 ; North Midland Half, 464 ; Paris and Lyons. 2/. 1 ls. 6d. The statement made in some quarters, and assumed from authority, that Queen Christina will soon take her depar ture from Paris to Madrid, to use her influence in strengthen ing the Government of her daughter, has caused much conver sation in City circles, more especially among the Spanish merchants and the bondholders. Notwithstanding all that has been said against Queen Christina, a belief is expressed pretty freely that ad; antsges would result horn the presence of that individual in the capital of the country of which Donna 'lsabella is now the reigning Queen. The value of the Bonds has been but little affected by the report in question. The appointment of Mr. Montgomery Martin to the post of Treasurer of Hong-Kong, officially gazetted last night, has given much satisfaction to the mercantile interest. Some commercial letters were received from Malta by the last mail, which are of interest. The transactions in our manu factures had been much increased. It is represented that asdi tional facilities were to be given to parties settling in - the island, which is well known to possess advantages relative to health, which are much to be desired by individuals who require a mild climate. The Funds are firm this morning. The Government broker purchased 20,000/. to 25,0001. stock, principally in the Three per Cents. of 1726. These constant investments in the Three per Cents., to the exclusion of the Three-and-a-Half iy.r Cents., tends to strengthen the belief that the reduc tion of the interest upon the latter is resolved upon. Consols for Account have been quoted at 971, and for Money at 97 1 4. The present price is within a frac tion of the highest that has ruled since business commenced. The purchase in the Three per Cents, of 1726 was at 961, and in Consols at 97 1 %. Bank Stock has been sold again at 194. A slight improvement has taken place in Exchequer Bills, which are now worth 68s. premium. For India Bonds 80s. premium have been paid, for India Stock 2771 ; for the Three and-a -Half per Cents. Reduced 103; and for the Reduced Three per Cents. 978 to 98. A slight improvement has taken place in the Spanish Bond Market this morning, the Three per Cents. being worth 311 31%, and the Five per Cents. 22/. Dutch Stock has im proved to 558 for the Two-and-a-Half per Cents. ' and to 1008 for the Five per Cents. Portuguese Converted Bonds have been sold at 464 for Money, and at 474 for Account. Colom bian, ex Venezuelan, have risen to 12; Mexican, from 331 to 34b ; and Brazilian to 78. A considerable amount of business has been transacted in the Railway Share Market to-day, and very generally at ad vanced prices. The London and Birmingham have touched 145 premium, and the South Western, 35/ premium. The latest quotations of the other Shares are annexed. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. (From the Official List.) Bank Stock 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 9B 97/ 3 per Cent. Consols. Annuities: ... 97ai 3 tier Cent. Annuities, 1726 38 per Cent. Reduced Annuities New 38 per Cent. Annuities lOll 102 Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan. 1860 Ditto 30 Years, Expire 10th Oct. 1859 India Stock for Opening 277* India Bonds, 1,000 Ditto under 1,000 South Sea Stock Ditto New Annuities 9si Bank Stock for Account Consols for Account Exchequer Bills, 14d. lid. 1000/. 5001. Ditto Small FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent. ... 78 Chilian Bonds, 6 per Cent lO4l Columbian Bonds Mexican Bonds, 1837, 5 per Cent~. Ditto for the Account. Ditto Deferred Stock... lOO Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent Ditto Converted 464 Ditto for the Account 47i4 Spanish Bonds, Five per Cent. Ditto for the Account Ditto Passive Bonds Ditto Deferred Ditto Three per Cent. ..... 311/ Ditto for the Account Dutch 21 per Cent . ..... 55 541 55* Dutch 5 per Cent. PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY Al StAILWAYS.AVS. Paid. Per Share. Eastern Counties Edinburgh and Glasgow Great Western Ditto Fifths Hull and Selby London and Brighton London and Birmingham Stock 245 ...... to 244 Ditto 1 Shares Ditto New Thirds 2 - London and South Western 41% ..• .• -77 Ditto Eighth 5.........,. ..... to London and Croydon ( Trunk)... 134 154 to Manchester and Leeds Ditto New Shares Norwich and Brandon Newcastle and Darlington Junct l5 ...... 30 Northern and Eastern Paris and Orleans Paris and Rouen . 20 .. 32* to South Eastern and Dover... Ditto Scrip... ......... West London, Old Shares 2O Ditto First Class Preferred .. 10 York and North Midland... SO Ditto New Shares.. - JOINT STOCK BANKS. Australasia National Provincial of England. COURSE OF EXCHAN Amsterdam CF. 12 64 Ditto, at sight Rotterdam ...... ...2 U l2 6i Antwerp :25 65 Harnburgh M.B. 13 15 ~ 80 ~ 40 35 GE.—( YESTERDAY.) [Gibraltar . (Leghorn...... . ... 30 85 Genoa :l5 95 Milan Venice 47 Altona Paris, 3 days' sight ... 25 70 Palermo, per oz 1184 Ditto, 3 months 25 90 I isbon Marseilles Bourdeaux 25 95 Rio Janeiro 23 Frankfort on Maine ...122 Bahia Petersburgh, 3 Us. ... 364 Buenos Ayres Berlin... Vienna, effec. fl. 3 M 958 Philadelphia 4€ Trieste, ditto ... 959 PRICES OF BULLION, PER OZ Madrid Cadiz Bilbao ... 36 New Doubloons 0 0 10 Barcelona Seville . ...... Silver in Bars... 0 0 0 AIANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, JAN. 23.—We have had an extensive business to-day in Railway Shares, at full prices, and our market closes firmly. The transactions are— Dublin and Drogheda, 56% ; Eastern Counties, Debentures, Registered, 111. 16s. 3d. ; London and Birmingham, New Quarters, 30/ 30%; South Western, 774 cum New ; North Midland, Naives, 464 ; ditto Thirds, 304; Sheffield and Man chester, Quarters. 4 3 4 ; South Eastern, Scrip, 364 ; Eastern Counties, Perpetual, 16s. ; Rochdale Canal, 614. A letter from our Correspondent at Constantinople, dated the 3d instant, announces the dismissal of Sir Baldwin Walker from the Ottoman navy, owing to the resentment of the Capudan Pacha, whose infamous conduct, while lately cruising in the Archipelago, would appear to have justly roused the indignation of our gallant countryman.—Post. ACCIDENT BY THE CARRIAGE OF THE EARL OF ABERDEEN.— On Monday evening an accident of a very serious nature, and which it is feared will terminate fatally, occurred between Slough and Windsor to a man named Heath, a shoemaker, residing at the former place, who was run over by the carriage of the e-arl of Aberdeen: It appears that his Lordship was riding post from the Slough terminus to join her Majesty and the Ro3al circle at dinner at Windsor Castle, when ileatit was seen approaching on the footpath, which stands about a foot above the road; being rather tipsy he missed his footing and staggered forward towards the horses. The postilion repeatedly called to him to get out of the way, and in endeavouring to do so he fell back, and before the horses could be stopped the wheels of the carriage passed over both his legs, breaking the right and severely injuring the left. The horses being pulled up, his Lordship alighted, when the poor fellow begged to be conveyed home, which was done, when he said that for what had happened no blame was attri butable to any person but himself. His Lordship immediately dispatched a messenger fur two medical gentlemen, who promptly attended. i•, is Lordship gave directions that every assistance which the case required should be rendered. The sufferer, from his advanced age (upwards of threescore), is not expected to survie. SERIOUS OMNIBUS ACClDENT.—Yesterday evening, about six o'clock, an accident of an alarming and serious nature occurred in the Westminster-road. One of the Atlas om nibuses, which runs between the Elephant and Castle and Pad dington, while on its journey, stopped near the Obelisk at the top of the London-road, for the purpose of taking some luggage on the roof; at that instant the horses, a pair of fine spirited animals, took fright, and the driver was unfortunately thrown from the box into the road, and by the fall received such severe injuries on the head as to make it necessary to convey him in stantly to the nearest surgeon. The uncontrolled horses gal loped furiously up the Westminster-road ; providentially no other personal accident occurred in their career, but on arriving near the Female Orphan Asylum, the animals deviated from their course, and dashed violently across the foot pavement into the shop front of Messrs. White and Co., tailors and drapers, Hercules House, Mount -street, dashing to pieces some valuable panes of plate glass in the window. The only passenger the omnibus contained was a lady, who had fainted during the time the vehicle was on its impetuous course, and was removed in that condition, but without receiving further injury. IRISH SOAP.—The lords of the Treasury having had before them a letter addressed to Sir Robert Peel, by the Irish Soap Company at Cork, representing that by the Excise regulations soap-makers in Ireland are prohibited from export ing soap to England, in packages containing less than 30 lb. weight ; and requesting that the permission now restricted to packages of that size and upwards, may be extended to packages of and above 10 lb. weight ; and their Lordships having also had before them a memorandum prepared by the Chairman of the Board of Excise, from which it appears that no risk would attach to the revenue by compliance with the application, they have authorised the Commi,sioners of Customs to permit the exportation of soap, from Ireland to England, in packages of U.'llt 1•Lla Uca l: forwarded to the collectors and controllers of the several ports of the United Kingdom, for their information and government. I LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY LONDON, JAN. 24.—Wind light southerly breeze, hazy. BRISTOL, JAN. 23.—Sid. Lucy, Antigua ; Coronet, New Orleans. ALDERNEY, JAN. 18.—Part of a boat, marked out side " Ann and Mary, South Shields," and inside " Thomas Purvis," has been picked up here. OFF SEAFORD, JAN. 18.—Diana, W ieting, New Orleans. POOLE, JAN. 23.—Arrd. Flora, Veal, Newfoundland. OFF THE WIGHT, JAN. 23.—Fortfield, Singapore. FALMOUTH, JAN. 23.—Wind N.E., moderate.—Sld. H.M. steamers Volcano, Hecate, and Dwarf, Cork. SCILLY, JAN. 16.—Arrd. Brilliant, Cain, Honduras, and sailed 18th for London. GRANGEMOUTH, JAN. 20.—Sld. Harbinger, New York. LIVERPOOL, JAN. 23.—Wind easterly, variable and light.—Sld. Tamerlane, Calcutta ; Mazzie, Mauritius ; Ada, Cape of Good Hope ; Reliance, Ceara ; Arethusa, Sierra Leone ; Panope, Africa ; Jessamine, Hayti ; Celia Large, Jamaica ; Wonder, Cuba ; Fanny and Rienzi, New Orleans ; Royal Albert, Mobile ; Duke of Cornwall, Apalachiola ; Marianne, Baltimore. DUBLIN, JAN. 21.—Arrd. John and Mary, Wright, St. John's, New Brunswick. Sld. Abeon, Savannah. SYDNEY, NEW SOUTH WALES.—Arrd. Trinidad, Manilla. BOULOGNE, JAN. 22.—A vessel, under water and apparently, with both anchors down, dismasted and stripped, was fallen in with about mid-channel yesterday by the City of Boulo ge, arrived here. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. (RECEIVED THIS DAY.) BETTING AT MANCHESTER-TUESDAY. CHESTER CUP-100 to 7 agst Sir Robert (taker: and after wards offered)-20 to 1 agst Cattonite (offered)-25 to 1 agst The Prior (offered)-30 to 1 agst Pagan-30 to 1 agst Collina-30 to 1 agst Hooton-30 to 1 agst What-50 to 1 agst Reciprocity-50 to 1 agst Heslington. Only one bet made. DERBT.-5i to 1 agst Scott's lot (offered)-10 to 1 agst Colonel Peel's lot (offered)-7 to 1 agst The Ugly Buck (offers to take)-74 to 1 agst Rattan ( offers to take)— 17 to 1 agst Loadstone-20 to 1 agst Cockamaroo-22 to lagst Leander -25 to 1 agst 'f'Auld Squire-27 to 1 agst Running Rein.-27 to 1 agst Orlando-27 to 1 agst lonian-35 to 1 agst Voltri (offered)-40 to 1 agst Campunero-45 to 1 agst Sadole Bow —5O to 1 agst Lancet—looo to 15 agst Mount Charles (taken). COURSING. PILLING MEETING.—The Hornby Cup, by (9) Subs. of 21.55. each, were won by Mr. Walmsley's Wanton, Mr. Lamb's Luck's• All ran up. The Pilling Hall Stakes of 21. ss. each, (7 subs.) were won by Mr. Lamb's Landrail, Mr. Walmsley's Witch ran up. The Equestrian, hired convict shit), is at present moored opposite the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, to re ceive convicts to the number of 400, and when all are on board from the various prisons and convict ships, will sail for the penal settlement of Van Diemen's Land. Detachments of the 58th and 80th Regiments are on board the Equestrian convict ship as guards over the prisoners, the former regiment being about to proceed to New South Wales, and the latter being already at that colonial station. Tim HON. CAPTAIN Rous, M.P.—The answer to inquiries yesterday, at the Hon. and Gallant Member's new mansion, in Upper Grosvenor-street, was that he was going on favourably, at Ilenham Hall, the seat of his brother, the Earl of Stradbroke, where he had arrived, with Mrs. Rous, from Rendlesham Hall, and he is expected in town on Monday next. Mr. Alexander has been in attendance or: l.c ga!!.' and hopes are still entertained that the Fight of the injured eye will be reotorcdt, DAMAGING A PICTURE IN NATIONAL GALLERY. William Adams, a lame young man using crutches. was brought to Bow-street, yesterday, charged with wilfully damaging a valuable picture, by striking at it with one of' his crutches. Mr. Edward Grant, breeches maker, 0, Piccadilly', said he was in the first great room of the National Gallery abaut three o'clock that day, when he saw the pri soner deliberately lift up his crutch and strike it through the canvas of one of the paintings. The prisoner took aim, and struck just as if he was knocking down a bullock. There were three er four persons in the room at the time. Francis Morris said he was on duty at the Gallery, when he was called to take the prisoner into custody for damaging a picture. He found the prisoner before the picture in ques tion, which was broken to pieces from the force of the prison er's blow. Mr. G. Thwaites, secretary to the trustees, and assistant. keeper, said he was sent for in consequence of what the pri ,oner had done. He found that great damage had been done. to a valuable painting, by P. F. Aloia, of Jupiter and Leda. The painting was one of the best specimens of an excellent painter, and was worth from 1201. to 150/. It had been part of Lord Farnborough's collection, and had formerly been in the Orleans collection. The damage was so extensive that, although the painting might be mended, it would in future be comparatively valueless as a work of art. Air. Maltby—Did the prisoner say . anything? Mr. Grant —He did not say a word. He stood before the picture for some time, without speaking. Theis he lifted his crutch and struck at it. Mr. Maltby—What have you to say, relisoner, to the charge of damaging this picture ? Defendant—l have nothing to say. Mr. Maltby asked Mr. Thwaites if he could account in any way for she prisoner's conduct? Mr. Thwaites- 4 cannot give the slightest reason for his action. He was, lam told, in the gallery about three quarters of an hour before this occurred. Our usual pr.ctice is to take away sticks and umbrel;as ; but crutches or sticks used in cases of lameness we allow to be taken into the gallery. 111 r. Maltby asked the prisoner to state what he ‘vas? — The prisoner said he was a watch finisher, living at No.. 13, Paradise- , treet, Westminster. He repeated he had no m0 ,,10 for what he did. Air. Thwaites said he had no reason to suspect that the pri soner's intellects were unsound. At the station•house the pri soner expressed his sorrow for destroying a picture of such great value. Mr. Maltby, after some consideration, finding that his juris diction only extended to cases where the value was under 51., decided upon remanding the prisoner until the following day, in order to ascertain what law reached the case. TB LATE HOURS OF BUSINESS. The Annual Meeting of the " Metropolitan Drapers' Asso-- - ciation" was held last evening in Exeter Hall ; J. E. Tennent, Esq., M. P., in the chair. The meeting was fully and respect ably attended. By the Report of the proceedings of the Asso ciation during the past year, it appears that there are in London 15,000 milliners and dressmakers, 16,796 clothiers and linens drarers' assistants, 12,831 grocers, and 2,1;00 chemists—total,,. 251,100 ; that 211. have been paid for a prize essay on the late' hours of business ; and that from the gratui`ous circulation ofi . tracts the Association have cause to congratulate the public OM the successful prosecution of their labours. Perhaps there is: no system extant so pernicious, so utterly destructive of social' comfort, morals, and intellect as the present system of late hours of business. It appears that young men and women of a tender age are obliged to labour unremittingly in a vitiated atmosphere for seventeen hours a day, and that frequently on Saturday nights their labours are prolonged to 1 and 2 o'clock the next morning. It behoves, then, the mothers of families for the future to deal only with those who do not employ the young and dependent, to unseasonable hours—to deal only wit& those who close at a 'reasonable hour. It is almost impossible to conceive the misery, distress of mind and body entailed on thousands by the present system of hours of business adopted& by the generality of the trades of the metropolis. Many of the linendrapers, in an extensive way of business, now close at seven o'clock; and from their statements it appears that they have no reason to regret the adoption of this improved plan. It also appears that the young men employed in these houses of busi ness, which are closed at seven o'clock in the evening, are, as was evidenced in their address to the meeting, a highly intel ligent class of men ; that they do not abuse the time placed in their bands. Several gentlemen of acknowledged talent add, essed the meeting. Resolutions, condemnatory of the late hour system, were passed, without one dissenting voice, and the meeting separated at a late hour. On Wednesday last, the 17th instant Captain Be- , noit de Kolesinski, a Polish refugee, happened to pass along the east end of the Serpentine, when he saw an unfortunate woman struggling in the water. He immediately rushed into the rive r , __ and succeeded in saving her from her perilous situa tion. Upon her being brought to the bank she was conveyed to the receiving-house of the Royal Humane Society, and placed in a warm bath, after which she recovered from the effect of her immersion. The Committee of the Royal Humane had-• tution, fully appreciating such gallant conduct, have addressed a letter to the Literary Association of the Friends of Poland ex pressive of their thanks to Captain de Kolesinski for his prompt. act of humanity. MEDICAL TREATMENT OF THE POOR.—An inves tigation (at the instance of Mr. Payne, the deputy coroner), took place before the board of guardians, at St. George-the-. Martyr's, Southwark, respecting the manner in which the me dical officers of the union had treated two out-door casual poor who had died. Mr. Bathurst in the one case. and Mr. Ken dell in the other, had prescribed without either of them seeing their patient ; and the latter had allowed, it appeared, his assistant, an apprentice only 20 years of age, to attend the paupers. In the former case the board, in spite of great °Diu" sition from Messrs. Boxer, Gladwell, and others, passed a re solution acquitting Mr. Bathurst, who said he had every afternoon to see some 40 patients. In the other case a similar resolution was agreed to, but accompanied by a caution against allowing any one who had not passed the College of Surgeons to visit the sick poor. Lady Dash oort King died on Friday, in Upper Montague-street, at an advanced age. Her Ladyship was daughter of Theodore H. Broadhead, Esq., and married, 1789 s Sir John Dashwoed King, Bart., by,whom she has left a nume• rous family. MELANCHOLY SUlClDE.—Yesterday afternoon, at about a quarter past three o'clock, a young woman, respectably dressed, was observed to mount the balustrade at the west-side of Waterloo-bridge. For a few moments she excited no atten tion, seeming to be enjoying the view which that locality pre sents. After a brief interval, however, her intentions became fearfully altered : she mounted the top of the parapet, and for $ short time stared wildly round her, and in a moment or two she became quite calm, ~and with a most perfect coolness untied her bonnet and threw it deliberately from her into the road ; then turning her face towards the river, sh e threw her hands behind her and jumped forward. She made no turn in her descent, but went straight into the water ; her clothes became inflated by her fails nor did she appear to sink more than a couple of feet beyond her own depth, when she immediately rose to the sur face. It was remarked by several persons, who, as well as the writer of this paragraph, were witnesses of the transaction, that neither in her spring from the bridge, nor when she rose to the surface of the water, did she utter any manner of ejaculation- As soon as the circumstance became known, boats were put out from both sides of the bridge, and after some time she Was picked up, but life was quite extinct. The unfortunate woman appeared about 20 or 21 years of age, and apparently in perfect health. A gentleman who witnessed the transaction rushed forward to prevent, if possible, the fatal catastrophes and was within arm's-length of grasping her clothes when she precipitated herself into the river.. The body was subsequently taken to the bone-house, Wat erloo.road. GENERAL POST-OFFIE.—INCREASE OF MORNING MAlLS.—Yesterday the following notification was posted up at the General Post-office, St. Martin's-le-Grand, and the various Branch offices in the metropolis :—" In addition to the names of places in England already published, to which letters In the morning mails are forwarded, the following have been affixed to the list, viz., Brampton, Gateshead, Newcastle on-Tyne, North Shiells, Rickmansworth, Salisbury, South Shields, Stockbridge, Sunderland, all Ireland, all Scotland.! For all the places the letter-boxes at the receiving-houses will be open till 7 A.M. for newspapers, and 8 A.M. for letters. And those at the Branch offices at Charing-cross, Old Caven dish-street, and Blackman•street, Borough, for the receptiois of newspapers till half-past 7, A. M., and for letters, 8 .A• At the General Post-office, and the Branch-office in Lombard" street, the boxes will close for newspapers at a quarter before 8, A.M., and for letters at half-past 8, L. AP`" BERLEY, Secretary." THE NELSON STATUE.—Yesterday and the daY before, the recently-boxed-up statue of the hero of the Nile, in Trafalgar-square, was uncovered, so that his head and shoulder, were visible. It is to be hoped the column will now soon be completed, as the grand terrace, steps, and level part of the centre, of the square, appear to .be ready to be thrown often to the public • and it will be a great relief when the unsigh tll hoarding that has so long disfigured this part of the metropolis is at length removed "fur good." THE LATE NEFARIOUS AFFAIR AT NEWCASTLE. Louis, the Assistant Tithe Commissioner, who escaped fro. custody while charged with an unnatural tffence, has not bel l since apprehended. Carter, the police• constable, out of who se custody the person charged with the offence e s ca ped, was t ; - have been brought up before the Magistrates at Newcastle, °- Tuesday, when the evidence against him would be gone int ° ' and if it is thought capable of sustaining the charge of his 10" ing wilfully permitted the prisoner's escape, he would be co ld, milted for trial for the offence, which is an indictable one. SHIPMENT OF CIGARS TO THE ISLE OF MAN. diversity of practice having prevailed at the ports of Levan , and Liverpool, in regard to cigars allowed to be shinr;/ under licence, to the Isle of Man,. the officers at the pot! o f London requiring that the shipment be made in packag e s a t not 1 ss than three hundred pounds weight each, whereas, Liverpool, shipments are permitted in packages under th s ,,„ l weight ; and as cigars may now be legady imported and e'a, portent in packages of not less than one hundred lai n " t ',eight net, the Board of Customs have i.sued directions ths cigars be in future allowed to be exported to the Isle of 11 .! a h l under license, in packages of one h un d re d p oun d s net wVg. and upwards, and that th e t erms o f t h e li cense b e altered a c cordingly. flt IRE METROPO LIS _ Yester d ay , IMP RO V EMENTS one o'clock, by o r d er o f th e C omm i ss i oners o f Woods 1 , 3 . „ Forests, the twenty- secon d sa l e o f h ouses t o b e removed for estste' improvements at the west-end, took place in Thorners t in Bloomsbury, on which occasion many houses situate „I Thorney-street, Duke -street, -and Castle-street, were iltsl7 - 0 of by auction, the c o nditions of the purchase being the the should be cleared away in twenty-four days. These are . 3 . 12 hoe of street to communicate with Oxford-street and H opi° in There are several others which have been bought, andoar,r,e_..ed the possession of the Commissioners. Another sale is Jr d.. for Friday next, when some houses in Pluautree-street, p c (' the street, and Short's-gardens, will be sold to make way Ilb e re line of street from Bow-street, Covent-garden. ."_ bo ut Middle-row, Holborn, formerly stood, a foot-paveinsn , _! , 1 , 3 4 eight feet wide has been laid down, adjoining the hou ses ' the effect of the removal of the clump of houses has high ly proved the locality.; Such is the peaceable state of Carmarthensh e dfs! present, that the magistrates have deemed it advisableetn _ be pense with the aid of the London police, and they ar.4ty, removed to the metropolis as speedily as possible, three left Carmarthen for London on I uesda7.-L5:,........"1e? T. On the Bth inst., at BIR Annett's ES • crecent, Charles Home, of a son. the Devon, On the 20th inst., at Newport, near Barnstaple , Hon. Mrs. Butler, of a son. MARBIED. e ' On the 23d inst., at St. George's, Hanover-square, eld es t Stirlinc , of olme-hill, Perth, Esq., to Christian,_e_n.o. Islington, Airs' daughter of the late David Erskine, Esq., of Elambagar, " DIED. On the 21st inst., Elizabeth, the wife of Peter Barlow, F. R. S. , Woolwich. On the 21st inst., at Cheltenham, Captain George Conies late of the 97th Regiment, aged 40. War - On the 21st inst., Mr. Thomas Gaisford , of Kineton, wickshire, surgeon. Ot •Y 1 .I.lu A Üblibilell IJ 10 . ' 1 j No. 112, Strand, at The Sun Office, No. 112, St,„,_ran the County of htiddlesen. Wsdnvoday, Murat: I , _