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Just ready, in post Bvo., T HE " MONSTER" MISERY of IRELAND: A PRACTICAL TREATISE ON THE RELATION OF LANDLORD AND TENANT. WITH SUGGESTIONS for LEGISLATIVE MEA SURES and the MANAGEMENT of LANDED PRO PERTY; the RESULT of ABOVE THIRTY YEARS' EXPERIENCE and STUDY on the SUBJECT. By JOHN WIGGINS, Esq., F.G.S. English Agent to Estates in the South and North of Ireland. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street, (Publisher in Ordinary to her Majesty). THE NEXT DISTRIBUTION of MONEY A. DIVIDENDS, AUTWORISED and GUARANTEED by HIS MAJESTY the EMPEROR of AUSTRIA, contains MONEY DIVIDENDS of _ £5O £6O £7O £BE) £9O £lOO £llO £l2O £l5O £2OO £4OO £6OO £BOO £l,OOO £1,500 £5,000 and £23,000 sterling. Amounting together to £70,170 sterling. Direct for PROSPECTUS with full particulars, WITH OUT DELAY, to HEINE BROTHERS, at HAMBURGH, Or, to HEINE BROTHERS, at LUBECK. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. THIS EVENING, JANUARY 11, Will be repeated a New Grand Opera, is Three Acts, called THE 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, bin; Miss Carson; Clown, Mr. T. Ridgway; Pantaloon, Mr. Blanchard. Dress Boxes 75., Second Price 3s. ; Upper Circles of Boxes 55., Second Price 3s. ; Pit 31, Second Price , s.; Middle t'allery 25., second Price Is.; Upper Gallery Is., Second Price 6d. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-CI-ARDEN M. JULLIEN'S CONCERTS. PROORAMINIE FOR RT T I.HIS EVENING. PA Overture, Oberon—Weber. The Royal Irish Quadrille—Jullien. Sorpnse Symphony—Haydn. Solo, Cornet-a-Piston, Herr Koenig. The celebrated Romance, Adieu—Roch Albert, Valsc, La Valse a Deux Tems—Jullien. Solo, Violin, Master Thirlwall. The English Quadrille—Jullien. PART 11. Overture, Midsummer Night's Dream—Mendelsohn. Opera, Robert le Diable, Grand Fantasia, with Solos for the Oboe, Bassoon, and Clarionet, by M. Barret, M. Baumann, and Mr. Lazarus—Meyerbecr. Burletta Quadrille, entitled Dancing for the Mitts on—Jullien. Solo, Clarionet, Mr. Lazarus —Lazarus. Valse, Bird of Pa-achse, received with the greatest favour at the Nobility's Ball4—Kcenig. The Real Scotch Quadrille—Jullien. Doors Open at Half-past Seven, commence at Eight o'Clock. Promenade, Is , Upper Boxes, Is.; Dress Circle, :Zs. id. ; Private Boxes, U. Is. Tickets to be obtained at the Box-office of the Theatre; of Mr. Mitchell, ( ild Bond-street; Mr. Andrews, New !Sond-street ; Mr. Sams, bt. James's-street; and M. Jullien's Office, 3, Maddox-street, Bond-street. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYNIARKEI. Alit. BENJAMIN WEBSTER. LESSEE. THIS EVENING, JANUARY 11, Will be repeated th 2 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. Niett ; Mrs. Quickly, Airs. Glover ; Anne Page Miss Manley. Alter which, the Unparalleled Performances of Professor RISLEY and his lON. To conclude with a New Fairy Extravaganza, entitled THE FAIR ONE WITH THE GOLDEN LOCKS! King Lachrymose, Mr. J. Bland; Prince Graceful, Miss P. Horton ; Queen Lucidora, Miss Julia Bennett. Orchestra Stalls, ss. ; Boxes, ss. ; Pit, :es. ; Gallery, '2s.; Upplr Gallery, Ir. Half-price-Boxes, Ifs. ; Pit, '2s.; Gallery, Is. ; Upper Gallery, 6d. Doors opened at Half-past Six, and the uerformances commence at Seven. 'tickets and I'lacesl to be had of Mr. I. T. Archer, at the Box office, from Ten till Five. THEAIRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. The Best Pantomime ot the Season—Gorgeous Scenery. THIS EVENING, JANUARY 11, The New Drama, embracing Extraordinary Effects, Powerful Cast, and Novel Scenic Display, called IHE BOHENHANS or, Pse Rogues of raris. Principal Characters by Messrs. Lyon, 0. Smith, Wright, Wieland, Maynard, Mrs. Yates, Mi•s K St iniey, 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 Woudertul Effects: Columbine, Miss t3ul en ; Harlequin Quicksilver, by the inimitable Wieland; Clown, by the Grimaldi of the day, Mr. T. Matthews, from the Theatres Royal, Covent-garden and Drury-lane; Pants loon, Mr. Johnstone. Boxes, 4s ; Pit, 25.; Gallery, Is. ; Second price at Nine. Doors pen at Six, commences at a Quarter before Seven o'Clock. PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET LESSEE, Mr. J. M. MADDOX. THIS EVENING, JANUARY ii, Will be performed LUCREZIA BORGIA. J)on Alphonso, Mr. Burdini; Gennarro, Mr. Allen ; Mattio Orsini, Mrs. 11. P. Grattan; Gubetta, Mr. Walton ; Lucrezia Borgia, Maclaine Eugenia Garcia. After which, A MISTAKEN STORY. To conclude with a New Musical Burlesque spectacle, entitled THE MAGIC MIRROR. Sing Song, Mrs. H. P. Grattan; Poo. Poo, Mr. Paul Bedford ; Sloe-Leat, Miss R. Isaacs. DAYTIME'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. As usual, the funniest and most successful Pantomime. THIS EVENING, JANUARY 11, Wilt be repeated THE BOHEMIANS OF PARIS. Supported by Messrs. Saville, Hughes, Hicks, R. Honner, Johnson, Smith, Mrs. H. 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 and Tricks, every thing new and of the most costly description, HARLEQUIN GRAMMAR, or, Lindley Murray,and AEI 0 U. Harlequin, Mr. W. H Harvey ; Grotesque, Mr. Stilt; Clown, Mr. Fuller; Panta loon, Mr. flaw-ms Columbines (alternately) Miss M. R. lair brother an Miss Sharpe. Places and Private Boxes to be had of Mr. Kerschner, at the Box office, from Eleven to Four. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE OF ARTS. -- Under the Management of Mr. Batty, Proprietor. Triuraphant Success of the Splendid Christmas Holiday Fetes.—West minster-Bridge is now open—Juvenile Nights. THIS EVENING. JANUARY 11, Will be performed a Grand Comic Pantomime, entitled HA RLE QUIN TAM O'SHANTER, and his STEED MEG; or, The Witches of Alloway Kirk. Harlequin, Mr. Gibson ; Columbine, Mdlle. Cushnie ; Clown. Mr. King ; Pantaloon, Mr. Mathews. New Scenes in the Circle, and unequalleu Feats of Horsemanship. To conclude with the splendid French Spectacle of THE VIC TORIES OF MURAT, THE SOLDIER OF FRANCE; or, The General, Prince, and King. Acting and Stage Manager, Mr. W. D. Broadfoot. Stalls. 55.; Boxes, 45.; Upper Boxes, 3s. ; I'it, 25.; Gallery, Is. ; Upper Gallery, M. Box-office open daily from Ten till Four. Stage Boxes, One Guinea; Half.price to Ditto, Halt-a-Guinea. Private Boxes, Two Guineas; Half-price to Ditto, One Guinea. Half-price, Half-past Eight. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. THIS EVENING, JANUARY 11, Will be performed an entirely New Domestic Drama, entitle' POVERTY; or, Mary Graham. Leonard, Mr. Freer; Jessamy Tacit, Mr. Manta; Squire Graham, Mr. Dale; Patty Parrot, Miss Arden ; Mary Graham, Miss Vincent. After which, a New Drama, entitled THE BROKEN PROMISE. Josephe, Miss Vincent; General Morin, Mr. James; Eloise, Miss Arden. To conclude with HARLEQUIN LINCOLN LUCKY OF LAM. BETH ; or, The Three Sisters of Witch Willow Dell. Harlequin, Mr. Chapino ; Clown, Mr. Scarbrow ; Pantaloon, Mr. Morelli; Columbine, Miss M. Schmidt TH E WEATHER.-SUN OFFICE, JAN. 10. THEitZIOMETER, Lowest, 33 ; Highest, 43 ; Noon, 4 BAROMETER, 30.3.—W1ND, N. Norz.—The number 32 on the Thermometer denotes the freezing point, and 55 temperate. In Barometers fair is usually placed opposite 30, and rain at' 29. HIGH WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY. Morning ... 26 minutes after 5. I Evening ... 46 minutes after 5. • I ::• e*.' *). 4 o' ' 4, . • may." , '4l . • ` ..4l4 OlV T 'R • "';' •-•: • 4 . : • ' 4 % , -6 ' r 0 m o ') 91, 77 / g, 7, 7 • . ' Wtt MII4 LONDON: THURSDAY MORNING, JANUARY 11, 1844. As the period fixed for the meeting of Parlia ment approaches, speculation is busy respecting the nature of the topics which will be alluded to in the QUEEN'S speech, and the general character of that—in nine cases out of . ten — most ambigu ous and unsatisfactory production. Will • it be decided in its tone, or the reverse ? Will it be Conservative or Liberal ? Will it bestow a sort of stray smile on the Anti-Corn-law Leaguers, or will it meet them with a repulsive frown? Will it give hopes of the speedy abatement of that gigantic nuisance, the income-tax, or will it lament, in that bland phraseology of which Sir ROBERT PEEL is so great a master, the urgent necessity of its continuance ? Will it hold out the right hand of fellowship to Ireland, or will it—after the good old Tory fashion—still persist in keeping that aggrieved country at arm's length `? Such are among 's the outh quetionsand we doubt that are n whether w hether fore most in everyone m even the Premier himself, who is famous for never making up his mind till the last moment, could Just now give an efficient answer to any THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY MORNING, JANUARY 11, 1844 one of them. Of one thing, however, we think we may venture to assure our readers—namely , . that the Speech in question will exhitit much of that specious show of liberality which the To ries of late years have found it absolutely necessary to their party interests to assume. Moreover, it will carefully keep clear of too much point and meaning, and instead of stating, like parson COLTON'S Lacon, " many things in few words," it will be modelled on the reverse principle, and state " few things in many words." And yet, if ever there was a period when a QUEEN'S Speech should be liberal—not merely in show but in substance—and resolute and ener getic in its tone, that period is the present. The drowsy torpor that has so long hung over the public mind is fast yielding to a conviction of the necessity of brisk action ; the national confidence in the Tories is giving way to distrust, to be fol lowed in due time by utter alienation; Opposi tion, hitherto in a great degree quiescent from a sense of its weakness, is again threatening to exhibit a formidable front; and that powerful confederacy, the Anti-Corn-law League, is daily adding to its moral influence, and enlisting hosts of recruits under its banners. As if these signs of the times were not significant enough to con vince Ministers of the necessity of playing a decided part ; many of their own partisans, on whom they have been in the habit of relying for support, have become lukewarm and distrustful ; andothers have flatly refused to "march through Coventry" with them any longer. Turn to what quarter of the compass we may, we see clouds blackening over the political horizon. Under such circumstances, what is the course of conduct that an enlightened statesman would naturally be expected to pursue? Clearly a bold and libe ral course, grounded on principle, fashioned so as to meet the wants of the age, and carried out with vigour and alacrity. The country has had enough of professions; the delusions of 1841 are dispelled ; and action, not speechifying, is now what is demanded from Ministers. And will the Premier, for the first time in his life, undertake to satisfy this reasonable demand; or will he still pursue his old favourite shilly-shally system, coquetting with this party to-day, with that to-morrow—now throwing a sop to the monopolists, and now to the free traders—and hesitating between two courses of action, like a certain animal between two bundles of hay ? It is impossible to answer this question, and equally impossible is it to doubt—after the significant hints that have more than once escaped him in Parliament—that Sir ROBERT PEEL is quite aware of the right course to be pursued. Other Tory statesmen may have sinned from ignorance, and the desperate ob stinacy which ignorance engenders; but that is certainly not his case. He is not so confirmed an Ignoramus as to mistake the wishes of a party for the convictions of a people. A Parliamentary majority does not blind him to the true state of things, even though it moulds his conduct; for he is well aware of the gross delusion under which that majority was gained, and sees that it is fast giving way to the steady day-light influence of common sense. If then the Premier's failings are not those of ignor ance, in what do they have their origin ? In an inherent want of decision of character—in a nerv ous apprehension of compromising a reputation for prudence and sagacity by too great a display of boldness. Sir R. PEEL is not the man to take the initiative on any great public question. He has nothing of the fearlessness and energy of PITT in his constitu tion. He stands aghast at the idea of heading a movement, but must be dragged into resolute action by the uncontrollable force of events. No man, we think, can doubt what will be the ulti mate policy lie will adopt as regards the corn laws ; hut he will not appear prominently on the stage himself, until, by the strenuous exertions of the Anti-Corn-law League, all is in readiness for the performance of the drama of Repeal. How to restrain under-graduates from running into debt has been recently broached as a question of University reform. A very interesting question it. is, as not a few unhappy parents throughout the country already know to their cost; and ninny a poor curate, atoning by a long life of penance for the thoughtless expenditure of his youth, will be ready enough to assert that, of all the many items of complaint which are alleged against the conduct of his Alma Mater, this one, relating to the financial affairs of her offspring, is by far the most important. Primiumpeettnia qucerenda est. Well, but how are matters to be improved ? There has been no lack of suggestion, and if only a tithe of what has been said to hare been attempted has been carried into practice, we can only wonder at the lamentable deficiency of good resulting, and attribute to the very atmos phere of an university town a tendency to en courage this highly aristocratic epidemic. But, rely upon it, the evil is curable, and it only re quires proper treatment to eradicate this shame ful vice from the constitutions of our university educated youth. One recommends the adoption of public registries, in which the tradesmen might easily ascertain the rank, residence, and resources of the aluminzts he is asked to trust. Another suggests a vigilant system of surveillance on the part of college_tutors. A third would have an Act of Parliament constituting a new Statute of Limitations, for the benefit of all, in statu pu pillari. We don't really know how many recom mendations have even been made beside. We believe his Grace the Duke of WELLINGTON, when he first assumed the Academic toga, and became invested with the office of Chancellor of Oxford, threatened the most severe measures against all in any way concerned in the propaga tion of debt amongst the junior branches of the University. Nevertheless, we have never heard that even his Grace's denunciation had much effect, and we are even inclined to believe that just at the present time there is more credit given to Oxford under-graduates than there was even when his Grace began his Chancellorship. At Cambridge we know very well matters are by no means mending; and, judging from several circumstances that have recently come to our ears, we should fancy the tablets of those engaged in supplying the extra vagancies of the youthful Cantabs are more co piously filled than ever. But then it is the fashion to fasten all the blame upon the tradesmen of Oxford and Cam bridge. Judging from the invectives which have been so unsparingly heaped on this devoted order of men, one would infer that they really were a race of veritable human harpies. Now we happen to know, from some four years' expe rience, something of the character of these gentry, and we confidently assert that they are not the monsters they are represented to be. Our ex- perience is of course confined to the tradesfolk of one university, but we are also able to speak with something of cosmopolite facility of the idiosyncrasies of the race located at the other of the " eyes of England." Indeed we found them all of the very same genus, and, strange to say, that genus is precisely the same as one finds in other parts of the country. Seriously, they have only one pair of eyes; their legs are neither diffe rently constructed, nor more numerous than those of London tradesmen; they have nails, and not talons, as some have alleged, and they do not run about, and inveigle fresh men into sub terranean emporiums for contracting debt. Fathers and mothers, the cure for the evil of which you are all so ready to complain, is in ' your own power, and rely upon it it resides no where else. Set a avholesome example to your offspring under your own roofs—inculcate the moral turpitude of getting into debt, which is now by so many deemed a venial and highly fashionable vice —limit your own expenses to the resources which you have it in your own power to command, and commit the education of your sons to the care of those who at school will enforce your instructions. By doing this you will supply your sons with a healthy bias, which even the noxious influence of bad example will with the greatest difficulty overpower. And if, in addition, you watch over the moral characters of these young linen, when they from time to time revisit the parental abode, you will have done the most, and that will be effectual for repressing the tendency to contract debt during their university career. We have never concurred in that sort of unrea soning outcry which has been so universally excited against the new poor-law by a large class of individuals, whose humanity—for which we are willing to give them full credit—has, in that outcry, prompted them to a course of in justice,—which they themselves can have had no intention of committing. This injustice has consisted in denouncing, on account of partial defects of application, the whole prin ciple of the measure—because of occasional delinquencies in the official subordinates charged with duties of supervision and superintendence, the whole system of its economy and manage ment—and, by reason of a few examples of care lessness on the part of boards of guardians, and of more inexcusable harshness on that of relieving officers, the whole body of official functionaries in any way connected with pauper management and parochial relief. At the same time, it is evident, from the most cursory consideration of its multifarious enact ments and provisions, that there is not, on the statute, book one Act of Parliament more open to abuse, to evasion, to overstrained construction against the candidates for, or actual recipients of, poor-law relief. On this account we hold that they who have excited so general a jealousy and vigilance in thejpublic mind, touching its prac tical working, have done, and continue to do, good service to the public cause. In the Times we read, under the heading of " Last Days of an English Peasant," one of those very cases of " official delinquency" in su bordinate functionaries, of " carelessness in the board of guardians," and of " inexcusable harsh ness" in the party who should have been the " re lieving officer," which too fatally—excepted cases although they be—confirm the prejudice of that large community we speak of against the "rule" under which they occur. If we may assume the facts to be true, this is one of those instances of the maladministration of a law, necessarily more or less stringent and painful in its ap plication, that are calculated to elevate a local and individual wrong into an element of fearful and hostile operation against the best interests of society. It is a case apt to incite every better feeling of our nature to an indiscriminating and passionate resent ment, among the labouring poor, and within the particular district of the vicinity in which it hap pened. Now we have not only the account published on the responsibility of the correspon dent by whom it has been communicated to the Times, but we have before us, also, a succinct summary of the evidence given before the Coro ner's inquest, on the collapsed and exhausted frame of the unhappy deceased. We know not how to condense the state ment for our present purpose, and render it, ' at the same time, sufficiently intelligible to enable the reader to form his judgment upon it. But we will endeavour to do so, thus :—On the afternoon of the 20th of December last, " a raw, damp, and foggy day," an open cart arrived at the gate of the Billericay poor-law union house, accompanied by the assistant overseer of South Weald. On the porter of the union attempting to remove from the cart its pauper passenger, he found the venerable man in his last mortal agony. The assistant surgeon of the establish ment immediately attempted to administer some hot brandy and water, but the dying man was unable to swallow it ; so he was removed to a bed in the infirmary, where at eight o'clock the same evening he expired. The medical officer, who said at once that his removal would prove the immediate precursor of his death, deposed be fore the Coroner that, on thepauper being taken out of the cart, he was quite stiff, insensible, and in a state of collapse, his extremities cold, and no chance of his revival after rejecting the prof fered stimulant : " He was suffering from old age and general debility ; but witness was of opinion that his removal on a damp, foggy day, and the time he was on the road, hastened his death. Ile might not have lived many days, but an old person in his con dition could not bear removing." The poor sufferer proved to be one JONATHAN pauper of ninety years, must appear an amazing spirit of contumacy to a parochial relieving officer !") Had the parish pro vided a proper nurse, GATES declared she would have kept the poor man to th, Ist. The district surgeon never saw him fter his first visit, till the morning he Wfka re moved, when, according to the evidence of the assistant surgeon at the union, he was in a condition altogether unfit for so barbarous an experiment. On the certificate of the former, however, dated four days previously, and signed " CORNELIUS BULLER, surgeon," impoeting "that JONATHAN WHITE could be safely re moved," the removal took place on the 26th." From the evidence, at the inquest, of RACHEL BRADFORD, it is clear that WHITE was in articulo mortis when carried into the cart. He could swallow but a drop of the cordial administered to him ; his eyes welt , closed, his teeth clenched, and he was speech less. The man who drove the cart deposed to the same extinction of all active functions and perception, and " did not think him in a state fit to be removed." The relieving officer deposed, in opposition to RACHEL BRADFORD, that he had never received any order " or application" for nourishment. He admitted, however, that he inquired of the two women whether the doctor had ordered him any—that they replied in the negative; and that he observed, " should the doctor order it, the sick man should have it." Mrs. GATES pressed for a nurse, and he (ALEX ANDER) suggested that the man" should go into the house, but was informed that he objected to do so. On the 26th of December witness re ported the case to the board, and applied for a nurse. The board made an order to remove WHITE into the house. Witness at the same time reported that he had seen the doctor, and that the man was capable of being removed." We have no hesitation in declaring it to be our strong conviction, notwithstanding the ver dict of wholesale acquittal of all parties con cerned, involved in the finding of the Coroner's inquest, that the gravest blame attaches to the union surgeon of the district, the assistant over seer, the relieving officer, and the board itself. Under the new poor-law, the board may freely dispense out-door relief to parties in the condition of JONATHAN WHITE. There was, in this case, an evident reluctance, even in the last hopeless extremity of his disease, to exceed, in appor tioning relief to this dying man of ninety years, the miserable pittance of two shillings and a quartern loaf and a half per week ! The very medical officer who declared him to be in that state that medicine could do nothing, that nourishment was what he wanted, orders no nourishment, and certifies that. his removal, in that inclement season, may be effected with safety. The proffered bounty of the clergyman is averted by the menace that its extension shall be followed by the withdrawal of the starving pittance of the union ; the dying man's terror of being taken off to the union house is shame fully worked upon by the threat that the only alternative will be the cutting off from him of the bounty of his parish. He weeps, he raves, he remonstrates, he prays, he supplicates ! The grey hairs of a century are moistened with the tears of his last anguish. The surgeon, the officials, are alike inexorable. He is borne, in a dying state, from the home of his long remote infancy and the fields of his ancient labours, to the dreaded portals, which he is carried through—unresisting, unconscious, helpless— only to turn upon his face—and die 1 A more barbarous and heartless proceeding, as it seems to us, could not disgrace a Christian land ! Is it supposed that the poor will long submit—ought they to submit —to the con temptuous, hard-handed, begrudging, revolting administration of charity decreed by the law, and provided by the nation, but dishonoured and poisoned, as it were, in this mode of throw ing it to, or forcing it upon, human beings, as if they were dogs? . Why could not the village labourer of ninety years have been permitted some little " nourish ment," in addition 'to the disgraceful pittance assigned for his weekly wants, in the last hours of his misery, in the pangs of his last illness ? Why was he not allowed to die in peace, and with the consolation—(dear, at all times, to the hope of rustic age)—of knowing that his bones should be gathered to the dust of his fathers in the same churchyard, among whose green knolls —two centuries before—they, like him, had gam bolled in c hildhood, or meditated in age ? We have heard Sir ROBERT PEEL eloquent on the subject of permitting this hope, in all possible circumstances, to the rural poor—and in his pic ture of the pleasure with which they descry the tower of their village church rearing itself amidst its clump of ancient trees. Did lie ever k neighbouring on the church Braintree, of South Weald, or of the o tree, answering and loex ceeding, in all the beauties of its locality and accompaniments , —thi s description built on a fine eminence, and belted with bold oaks and towering beeches? If be has once remarked that interesting object, he may appreciate the additional affliction which broke the heart of this old pauper, in the last moments of his con sciousness, at the thought of finding a grave be tween the dreary walls of a poor-law union house, instead of in the churchyard of his native parish. The accounts from Madrid are to the 2d inst. Mr. BULWER had been presented to the Pre sident of the Council, GONZALES BRAVO, and the first interview, the friends of the Ministry say, was very satisfactory. The capital con tinued tranquil, and the accounts from the pro vinces were also favourable. We learn from the Phare des Pyrenees of the sth inst. that the fort of Figueras had capitulated. The terms were agreed to on the 30th ult., between the Baron DE MEER and General AMETLER, and would be carried into effect on receiving the QUEEN'S sanction. The Three per Cents. were done on the 2d inst. at 231 cash, 2.3 t at 60 days, with the current coupon. The Fives at 181, at 54 days. On Monday the Duke of BROGLIE presented to the French Chamber of Peers the draft of the address in reply to the KING'S speech. It accords entirely with the sentiments expressed by his MAJESTY. The name of the Duke of BORDEAUX is not even alluded to, but a few words are added at the close of the address, which evidently refer to the exhibitio►►s in lielgrave-square. These are—" France promised to be faithful to the KING. The KING has observed his oath—where is the Frenchman that could forget or betray his allegiance 7" This called up the Duke of RICHELIEU, who stated, that in going to London to pay his respects to an unfortunate Prince he was fulfilling a duty of honour, while at the same time he was entirely innocent of any ' criminal intention. M. GuizoT, in adverting to the same subject, said the French Government, when the Prince visited Vienna, Berlin, and other Conti nental capitals, had remonstrated against his presence there, and their remonstrances were immediately attended to. The same course had beenadopted when the Prince went to England —a note was transmitted to the English Government, which was replied to in the most satisfactory manner, but in a country which enjoys liberty of publicity to such an extent there were not the same means of repression. The Queen of EEG LAND, however, and the Ministers, did every thing in their power to mark their disapproba tion. Her MAJESTY would not receive the Duke of BORDE Aux at Court, and manifested her dis pleasure against those parties who, presuming on the liberal institutions of the country, had exhi- hited " such scandalous scenes." The address was adopted, with some slight additions, by a large majority. Most of the papers give an ac count of the reception of M. RATTI MENTON by the Chinese authorities at Canton, with copies of two State papers—one addressed to M. GUIZOT, by KY-INa, High Imperial Commissioner, and KY-KoNG, Viceroy of the Two Kwangs, and the other to M. ItATTI MENTON, both showing the most friendly disposition towards the French nation—no other country, they say, shall be more favoured. BOURSE—PAms, MONDAY, JAN. 8. First Highest Lowest Last Price. Price. Price. Price. French Five per Cents. 124 30... 124 30... 124 25... 124 30 Threes B2 50... 82 55... 82 45.. 82 55 Bank of Frances 3210 ...3210 ...3210 ...3210 LatEtte Bank I,ooof 1110 ..1110 ...1110 5,000 f 5075 —.5075 ...5075 ...5075 Belgian Bank 698 75... 698 75 .. 698 75... 698 75 Belgian Fives 1840 loB* ... 108* ... 108 ... 108 1842 lO9 ... 109 ... 109 ... 109 Spanish Active . ..... 291 ... 291 ... 291 ... 291 Passive Old Deferred 51 ... 51 ... 51 ... 51 Portuguese Fives ... Neapolitan Roman ...... 1041 1041 .. 1041 ... 104/ RAILWAY SHARES. Versailles, L. 8... .... 180 ... 180 ... 178 75... 178 75 Rouen Rouen to Havre 642 50... 648 75... 640 ... 647 50 Orleans. Strasburg to Bale 213 75... 213 75... 2 12 5 0 ... 213 75 Avignon to Marseilles 670 ... 672 50... 670 ... 672 50 RAILWAY SHARES, FOR THE ACCOUNT. Versailles, L.B lBO ... 180 ... 175 ... 175 Rouen Rouen to Havre......, 645 ... 650 ... 645 650 Orleans 835 ... 836 25... 830 ... 835 Avignon to Marseilles 670 ... 672 50... 670 .. 672 50 WHITE, who had passed a long life of nine years (!) as a labourer in the same parish hi which he had been born—South Weald, Essex ; and this, industrious, hoary-headed, time-ho noured representative of that race, whom GOLD SMITH, in his ingenuous simplicity, described as - "A bold peasantry, their country's pride," (! ) had been, on that inclement morning, forcibly removed from his sick bed to the union house of Billericay, through such weather as we have described—the journey occupying four hours, and the conveyance in which was stretched this ancient husbandman being an open cart! So much for the respect paid to a class that may have formed " its country's pride"—precisely at the commencement of his mortal pilgrimage, but who are fast sinking, in our days, into the same forgotten gulf as the hundred years he had so nearly numbered! On the inquest, two benevolent women of his own class, we believe, whose recollection and know• ledge of the deceased extended to the utmos period !which their memories could recur to, de. posed to the sad incidents which marked his declining years ; his long sickness, his decay, his gradual utter helplessness; their own generous humanity in tending and nursing hint being rather elicited from, than deposed to, by them. When the little means which themselves and others of his friends and neighbours could spare for his nourishment and sustentation had become exhausted, his land lady sent to the officers of the union, residing at Ilgrave, to come and see the old man. The mes senger returned with an order for the union sur geon of the district to attend him. The medical officer, on visiting him, observed—" Medicine is of no use,—he must have all the nourish ment he can get :" but he gave no or- der for any ! On a Friday, four days be fore poor WHITE was removed, the landlady, a Mrs. GATES, sent to the same surgeon for an order for nourishment; but—obtained none. The " relieving officer" (ALEXANDER), who called also, on that day, declared that he had received no such order. The assistant overseer told Mrs. GATES that WHITE ought to be removed to the union house; but that unless he himself consented, he must not be removed. In answer to an applica tion made by both of them at his bedside, the sick man declared "he would rather stop another week ;" and so strong was his aversion to go thi ther that one of the two benevolent neighbours we allude to, and who sate up with him, deposed that she forbore further to mention the subject, because of the mental distress it occasioned to him. On the Monday (the day preceding his removal), the assistant overseer, BERNARD, told the landlady (GATES), that if WHITE was still unwilling to be removed to the union, all his allowance would be taken off. (This was-25., and one quartern and a-half of bread per week :—and he was ninety years old 1) When this communication was made to the old man, he wept bitterly, and despondingly ex claimed, "If I must, I must." GATES told the assistant overseer, that if they attempted to remove him, she was sure he would die on the road ; but he said he should come for the man at eleven next morning. That night WHITE was alternately sensible and delirious; but he put up his last prayers—doubtless feeling that he should not survive to repeat them in the union. The clergyman of the parish, who had visited him, offered half a sovereign for his relief, "if he might be allowed to remain in his lodging another fortnight." How was this Christian-like charity responded to by the official functionary ? The assistant overseer said, " If that were done, the parish would have nothing further to do with the case." Hereupon the clergyman ad vised GATES to interfere no further; but the overseer, on hearing this from her, on the day of the removal, asked, " Why had she not taken the money 2—the man could not live many days." [ (Doubtless this tenacity of life, in a chargeable SUMMARY OF NEVI'S AND Vubtir Opinion. " TJ7ia runs may real." rOREIGN. The French Funds continue to rise. On Monday the Three per Cents. closed at 82f. 70c., and the Fives at 124 f. 40c. On Saturday evening the King received at dinner General Bertrand, Count d'Ossuna, Lord Brougham, and the Ministers of Hanover, Denmark, and the Netherlands. M. Bergeron, who was condemned for an assault on M. de Girardin, was on Saturday set at liberty, after a confinement of three years and two months at Ste. Pelagie. The following paragraph appears in the Hanthurgh Corres pondent, under the date of Hanover, Dec. 30 :--" M. Perier, the French Ambassador, is decidedly going to Brunswick. It is thought that the advances made by the King of Hanover to the Duke de Bourdeaux are the direct cause of this change. The King was not present at th*last evening party given by M. Perier." 64 We are informed," says the Constitutionuel, "that a supernumerary at the Court of Accounts, the brother of a newly appointed Conseiller Referendaire, has been suspended by the First President for having made the journey to London." Lord Brougham had arrived at the Hotel Meurtee, from his seat in the south of France. M. Dastugue, cure Sentous (Hautes-Pyrenees), died a few days ago, aged 100. The (,'ourrier Francais announces, that a joint stock com pany has been formed in the department of the Seine et Oise, for the destruction of rats. The following is an extract from the deed prepared by M. Baget, a notary at Nauphle-le-Chatean, and registered en the 17th of December, 1843:—" M. Charles Adrien Paris, a destroyer of rats, residing at Nauphle-le- Chateau; and M. Edine Frege, likewise a destroyer of rats, re siding at Paris, have established between them a company in their joint names for the destruction of rats and mice, to extend to all France." The name of the company is " Paris and Frege," to continue 20 years, from the 17th of December,lB43. Capital, 500,000 f. (20,0001. ) A letter from Stuttgard states that the King of Wurtemberg has ordered a grant to be made to the Jews for keeping up their places of worship, schools, and hospitals, in the same way as those granted to other religious sects. The preamble of the Act declares that all citizens, of whatever persuasion, have a right to share in the benefits of the Government, as they all contribute to its support. . We perceive, by an Athens letter of the 21st, in the Augs burg Gazette, that considerable excitement prevailed in that city, that troops were patrolling the streets to maintain order, that an unsuccessful attempt had been made on the 11th to set fire to the Hall of the National Assembly, and that on the likth the hotel of the Minister for Foreign Affairs was burnt to the ground.. But the accounts in the German papers from Athens are often greatly exaggerated to the prejudice of the new Government. A letter from Naples announces the death in that city of two enormously wealthy persons, the Marquis Maseura, and the Director-General of Taxes. They have bequeathed their for tunes to the clergy, and principally the Jesuits, to the entire exelusion of their relations. The Suabian Mercury states, under the head of Darmstadt, that M. de Haber, who recently killed M. Sacharaga in a duel, intends to surrender to take his trial at the assises of Alrey. His extreme punishment, if found guilty, will, according to law, be three years' imprisonment in a fortress. LAW AND POLICE. At the Surrey Sessions Charles William F;:ter was sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment, for ill-using his child, a girl six years of age. Mr. Ba..ber and Mr. Fletcher, the parties implicated in the charges uf forgin; wills, were again examined at the Mansion house. A third case was brought against them, but the evi dence not being completed they were once more remanded. An elderly man, named Conolly, poorly clad, was charged at Bow-street, before Mr. Jardine, with feloniously breaking and entering the house of Mr. Mark Wheeler, japanner, No. 8, New-street, Holborn, in the parish of St. Giles, and stealing therefrom a variety of property. He was committed for trial. Jane Perring, a fierce-looking woman, was charged at Clerkenwell, by police-constable 36 E, with having stabbed and wounded George Perring, her husband, with a table-knife, by whic'a his life is placed in danger. She was remanded till the fate of her husband should be known. William Johnston, an athletic Seotchman, and stonemason by 'trade, was charged at Lambeth-street, with committing a murderous assault upon his wife eighteen days ago, and for which he has since remained in prison. He was committed for trial. COURT--FASECION.faILE ! The Queen and Prince Albert, escorted by a detachment of the Light Dragoons, stationed at Hampton-court, arrived at Claremont, on Tuesday, from Windsor Castle, shortly after tour o'clock, in a close travelling carriage and four. The Princess Royal rode in the carriage with her illustrious parents. The Prince of Wales, with his attendants, followed in another of the royal carriages and four. The Earl of Haddington entertained Sir Robert Peel, Sir James Graham, Lord Stanley, and several other Cabinet Minis ters at dinner on Tuesday evening, at his Lordship's official resi dence at the Admiralty. The Earl of Aberdeen received the whole of the Cabinet Ministers at dinner last evening at Argyll-house. The Earl and Countess of Wilton have arrived at Eaton-hall, on a visit to the Marquis and Marchioness of Westminster, from Egerton Lodge, Melton Mowbray. The Earl and Coun tess Grosvenor, Lord Be!grave and the Ladies Grosvenor, Lord and Lady Prudhoe, and Lord and Lady Robert Grosvenor are among the members of the Marquis's family assembled there. 1 he Marquis and Marchioness of Breadalbane are prolonging their visit to the Duke and Duchess of Hamilton, at Holyrood House, where the Marquis of Douglas and his illustrious Marchioness are also residing with the Duke and liuchess. The accouchernent of the Marchioness (Princess Mary of Baden) is daily expected. The Duke and Duchess of Roxburgh, who have been on a visit to the Earl of Selkirk, at St. Mary's, Kirkcudbright, have returned to Floors Castle, near Kelso. The Duke and Duchess have ordered excellent soup to be given to the poor twice a week during the winter months. The Earl of Durham and Lady Mary Lambton are at Howick Hall, Earl Grey's seat, in Northumberland. The Hon. Capt. Grey, R.N., has arrived there from Gibraltar, having obtained leave of absence from his ship, by permission of the Admiralty, to visit his venerable father. IYIXSCELLANEOUS. The quantity of sherry wines imported from Spain in 1839 was 36,341 butts, and it gradually decreased till 1842 when the number was 25,096. During the last year there kas been an increase of 4,217 butts, the total quantity imported being 29,313. At a free• trade meeting held at Ashton on Monday evening the total amount subscribed was announced to be 4,3381. 2s. 4ed. A general meeting of the Royal Humane Society was held on Tuesday afternoon at the Society's offices, 3, Trafalgar.. square, Charing-cross, Sir Edward Codrington, Bart., in the chair. From the Secretary's Report it appeared that the total roceipts of the Society for the past year, including subscrip tions, dividends, sums received from an Auxiliary Society, &c., amounted to 2,503/. 15s. 4d. The disbursements amounted to 2,253/. 15s. 4d., leaving a balance of 2501. in the treasurer's hands. The entire number of cases of recovery from drowning which had come under the Committee's notice during the past year was 170, rewards having been distributed amongst 156 persons. Very extensive alterations are being made in the interior of the Court of Queen's Bench, Dublin, preparatory to the com ing trials. The gallery has been extended back to the ex treme end of the Court, and new stairs have been erected to the side boxes. One of the side galleries, including the jury box attached, will be appropriated to the reporters. Both the High and Sub-Sheriff In,ve ordered that one of the galleries should be reserved exclusively for the reporters, and that no person, no matter what his rank or station, would be permitted to interfere with them, or disturb them in the discharge of the important hasty which they had to perform. Several very valuable and highly important additions have recently been made to the Print-room of the British Museum, Amongst the new collection, are 20 volumes of engravings, by the celebrated Raphael Morgan, purchased, at a cost of 1,500/ from the house of Pucklo and Co. ; a collection of prints after Rembrandt, selected by and p urc h ased from 111 r. Smith, for 450/. The registration of the coal-whippers is still going on with great activity under the new Act. During the six days the office has been .pened upwards of 1,500 men have enrolled their names, and paid the registration fee of 4d. each. The new law is likely to work well. LLOYD'S SHIPPING. LONDON, JAN. Northerly breeze, and cloudy at times. DEAL, JAN. 9.—Wind A.at. E.S.E., strong ; r.m. S. by E., moderate.—Acrd. Emily, Hemble, Valparaiso. SoUTHA AMON, JAN. 9.—Arrd. Clyde steamer ' West Indies—l e ft G rena d a O c t. 24, J acm el 8, Jamaica Nov. 1, Tampico 21, Vera Cruz Dec. 3, Havannah 12, Nassau 15, and Bermuda 23; has on freight 236,500 dollars, gold and gold dust 4,661 oz., silver 3,024 oz., platina 152 oz., British coin 1,4631,, 196 serons cechineal, 6 !crone and 50 cases gum copal. RAMSGATE, JAN. 9.—The wreck of the Hercules, sunk near the Brake Sand, has been sold for 13/. OFF Dovaa, JAN. 7.—General Vanden Bosch, Vubeek, Batavia, for Holland; Loo Loo, Holland, for Batavia; Jonge, Cornelius, Rotterdam, for Batavia. PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 9.—Wind E.—Arrd. Mary Banna tyne, London, for China. Ski. Malacca, Madras and Calcutta.; Zenobia, Cape of Good Hope ; British Monarch, Jamaica. RAMSGATE, JAN. 9. = Sld. Gleaner, for Boston. COWES, JAN. 9.—Sld. Caroline, Jamaica; Symmetry, Ceylon ; Achilles, ditto ; volunteer, Mauritius ; Osborne, Cape Coast Castle; M'Queen, St. Kitt's; Lanarkshire, Sa vannah. PTA-mount, JAN. 9. —Wind E. S.E.—Sld. Justina, Calcutta. FALMOUTH, JAN. 9.—Wind S. te S. S,E. fresh breeeses.— Arrd. Elizabeth, late Cork, Havanna, with decks swept, loss of bulwarks, stanchions, &c., and dead light sfeve, on the 21st and 22d inst., in lat. 37, lon. 43. Sid. Maria, Nassau. BLSSTOL, JAN. 9.—Sld. Anna, 'Watson, Calcutta; Ajax, for Trinidad; Yorkshire and Pallas, New Orleans. MARGATE, JAN. 9.—The Ocean, on shore, near Kings gate, broke up last night. LtvEitrooc, JAN. 9,—Wind S.S.E. fresh, with snow.— The John Cumming, hence to New York, which put into Milford, the Ist instant, leaky, with cargo shifted, &c., h as been towed round to this port. Sid. Syria, China ; Dryad, Singapore; Cicely, Pernambuco; Swiftsure, Africa; Rapid, ' Demerara • Kyainte, Antigua ; Baibadian, Jamaica; Shenan doah, Philadelphia ; Blackness, New York. SIIIELDs, JAN. 9.—The Ann and Assiduous (not Citizen) have been got off the Herd Sand, The Harmony will remain till next springs. SUNDERLAND, JAN. B.—The sloop Castow, of Newcastle, foundered to-day at the entrance of the harbour, after being in contact with the Speedy packet, of Frebey— one man drowned. CLYDE-Arrd. Grange, Cook, and John Scott, Demerara. TELLIGENCE. CHESTER,.--TUISDAY. 33 to 1 agst Running Rein 35 to 1 agst VoUri 40 to 1 agst Campanero 60 to 1 agst Bebington (t 50 to 1 agst Saddle Bow 50 to 1 agst Telemachus 60 to 1 agst Lancet 5000 to 75agstMonntCharleai 1000 to 15 agst Apprentice (I :11. cur. 30 to 1 eget Ballinkeele (t SUGAR. The following figures are extracted from a Liverpool Circular, published by brokers of eminence in that port : Importation of British Sugars into the United Kingdom, charged with a duty of 245., and 5 per cent. per cwt., during the years ended the 31st of December, 1843 and 1542 : Wan INDIA. EAST INDIA. MAURITIUS. MOLASSES. Hhds. Trs. Bags. Mats. Puncheons. 1843 141,100 13,640 659,435 365,145 55,560 1842 185,910 15,985 525,500 553,670 40,590 [ncrease 5,190 133,935 14,970 Decrease 2,345 188,525 Computing as asual, the hogshead at 15 cwt., the tierce at 10 cwt., the East India bag at 11 cwt., the Mauritius mat at 1 cwt. , net weights ; and the Molasses puncheon at 10 cwt.,— and that each cwt. of Molasses contains one-third sugar—the 'proportion of sugar on which the duty is computed, shows that the excess of British sugars imported into the United Kingdom its 1843, is 7,941 tons over the weight imported in 1842. The Stocks of British sugars on hand, at the close of the years 1843 and 1842, are thus stated by the same document :-.-- WEST INDIA. EAST INDIA. MAURTrIUS. MOLLS'S% HUI. TM Bags. Mats. Puncheons. 1843 32,550 1,600 '125,150 78,750 27,000 1842 31,573 3,750 101,200 69,770 12,150 23,950 8,980 15,850 Increase 977 Decrease 2,150 Computing the various packages to contain the weights of sugPr as given above, and 1 cwt. of molasses to contain one third of 1 cwt. of sugar, the weight of British sugars in stock on the 31st of December, 1843, exceeded the weight in stock on the 31st of December, 1842, by 4,843 tons. Country dealers will, now that this surplus quantity of sugar in the country is ascertained, be extremely cautious how they purchase ; especially as large arrivals both of East India and Mauritius sugars are daily expected. MATCHES AGAINST TIME. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN, SlR,—The kindness with which you gave in sertion, a short time since, to a few observations of mine, elicited by the death of a pony, which had been killed by its inhuman task-master, Burke, in a match against a Bedford coach, leads me to hope that you may permit some remarks on " matches against time" to appear in The Sun. In every match against time, and upon the issue of which sums of money depend, there must always be the probability of the animal's being unable to accomplish the tack ; and the persons who stake their money on the result be come parties to the cruelty which they must know will be inflicted in the attempt to perform the feat which forms the subject of the wager. That such cruelty will be perpetrated, with utter dis regard to the sufferings of the animals employed in the task, the recent conduct of Burke too . clearly shows. The persons, therefore, who knowing that great cruelty must in all probabi - - lity be practised, encourage by their wagers a reckless barbarian to undertake such feats,. ap pear to me to share largely in his guilt, and richly deserve to be the objects of public i►idig nation. I fear, however, that they generally belong to a class, which nothing short of a Legis lative enactment, inflicting adequate penalties for becoming parties to wanton cruelty, will reach. But there is another and -a numerous class, who, without reflecting, or being suffi ciently aware of the suffering that is caused in these matches against time, unthinkingly en courage them by being present when they take place, and by probably laying some trifling bet on the result. To such I would hold up the spectacle of the poor pony, a creature, I have heard, of intelligence and docility rare even in the horse; and who, that has had this generous animal under his observation and care, needs to be reminded of his qualities. To such persons I would show the poor inadequately protected, yet noble animal, struggling even to death to accom plish a task to which its powers were unequal, and I would ask them, and I would ask the public, whether it is not high time that such scenes should cease have the honour to be, Sir, your most obedient servant, January 4, 1844. G. M. LONDON PEACE SOCIETY.—A public meeting in aid of the objects of this society, was held in the Mansion house Chapel, Camberwell, on Tuesday, Jan. 9, 1844, John S. Elliott, Esq., of Denmark-hill, presided, and opened the meeting with an effective address in aid of the principles of the Society. Three resolutions were moved and seconded, and cordially adopted. The speakers were Mr. Rigaud, Rev. G. Rogers, Rev. H. Richard, Rev. J. Burnet, Rev. J. Jefferson, and Rev. J. Neller. The UNITED SERVICE MAGAZINE FOR JANUARY contains two articles relating to matters of colonial go vernment, which are well deserving of attention. The first is " A Voice from Ca ffre Land," written on the spot, which describes, in powerful colours, the state of anarchy and insecurity which prevails in our colony on the southern coast of Africa. The other articles to which we would call attention is one on the subject of " Sla very in Sinde," written by Captain Hart, of the Bombay Native Infantry. The gallant author writes in a calm and dispassionate spirit, and describes the peculiar con dition of the slaves in Sinde, and the inconveniences and dangers which would result, not only to the new Go vernment, but to the slaves and their masters, from their sudden emancipation, a measure directed in an edict re cently issued by the Governor-General of India, but which Sir Charles Napier, the local Governor of the province, has seen it recessary to defer promulgating. —Morning Chronicle. THE IRISH SQUADRON.—The following vessels compose the squadron on the coast of Ireland, under the command of Rear-Admiral Bowles :—The Caledonia, 120, flag-ship, Captain Milne Cook ; Fox, 42, Captain Sir F. H. Blackwood, Shannon ; Hyacinth, 18, Com mander F. Scott ; Iris, 26, Captain R. Mundy ; Lynx, 3, Commander J. T. Nott ; Snipe, 2, Commander G. Raymond ; The Flamer, 6, Commander G. J. Postle ; Comet, 2, Commander G. A. Frazer ; Dee, 2, Master- Commander T. Driver ; Meteor, 2, Commander G. Butler ; Pluto, 2, Commander Jeayes ; Stromboli, 6, Commander Hon. E. Plunkett; Tartarus, 2, Commander H. T. Austen ; Rhadainanthus, 2, Master-Commander T. Lane ; Volcano, 2, Commander C. J. Featherstone. y; and tathkeere possessionfo re hope of to the s theatre e h ag e e there ster ling will ree. The remains of Lord Grey's grandson, who died a mid shipman on board the Fox frigate, were interred at Tarbert (Lower Shannon) with naval honours. We understand that the Lyceum Theatre has been let to a party of gentlemen whe, under the management of Mr. R. Peake, are determined to restore the drama to what it was in comedy, days oft tragedy, and nwde far Rumour says, that a very strong comedy company is already attendedea e's t a to. the It beadis reportedo f the establish m ent, that at the formed, and great care kat been taken in the selection of pro , vincial performers likely to prove attractive. With such a name as Mr. can be little doubt the amusement and comfort of the public will be wellPeake's open under high ttronage. LICENSED VICTUALLERS' ASYLUM. —THE AN NUAL BALL.—Tuesday the yearly ball, in aid of the Asylum Endowment Fund took place in the London Tavern, Bishops gate-street. The company was numerous and extremely brilliant. The annual return of these balls, fitly at this seation of the year, when all our best feelings are about us, is pleasing in the highest degree. At these joyous assemblies the fair advocates of benevolence auspiciously shine ; grace and beauty are made the handmaidens of melting charity ! About eight o'clock the doors of the ball-room were thrown open for the reception of company, and the pleasures of the dance did not close : until an early hour in the morning. Among the general company were Alderman Sir James Duke, Mr. Kees ley, Governor of the Incorporated Society of Licensed Victuallers, Mr. Valentine, son of the magistrate, and several other gentlemen who have warmly interested themselves in the cause of the trade. Mr. Bessell, whose magic direction has given eclat to many previous balls, was absent; but the circum stance was little to be regretted, by the excellent, indeed punctilious, observance of Mr. Wilson, who officiated as mas ter of the ceremonies. To the Stewards the utmost praise must be given for the marked attention they paid to the com fort of the company. A like compliment is eminently due to . Messrs. Bathe and Breach, the proprietors of the London Ta vern, who supplied refreshments with no sparing hand. SPLEDY J USTI CE.—On Thursday last, before day light, a burglary was committed at the house of Mrs. Edward Stephen Jackson, printer, 15, Lower Charles street, St. John-street-road. The man was captured in tke house, having in his attempt to escape nearly forestalled the hangman's office by falling head foremost down a flight of stairs, was taken before a magistrate at Clerkenwell the same morning, and committed to Newgate. Upon that evening, a record of a previous conviction was brought against him, and a true bill found. On the next day he was brought up for trial, and transported for ten years. This man can have no cause to complain of the tardiness of the law. CHESTERTON.—On Sunday, at twelve o'clock, several persons, male and female, were baptised by im mersion opposite Wheeler's Holt, Mr. Roberts, baptist minister, officiated. An immense concourse of spectators assembled SPORTING IN BETTING AT MAN( K bi to I agst Scott's lot 7 to 1 agst the Ugly Buck (offers to take) 7} to 1 agst Rattan (ditto) 18 to 1 agst Loadstene (offered) 20 to 1 agst Cockamaroo (t) 25 to 1 agst Orlando (ditto) 28 to 1 agst lonian 30 to 1 agst Leander CAUSE 25 to 1 offered on the field I HEARTLESS OMNIBUS RonnEnr.-:-Last week a poor woman, living at Hackney, proceeded to Peckham to re ceive 21., a yearly gratuity of a charitable lady residing there, and on her return home in a Peckham omnibus, a gentlemanly-looking fellow entered into conversation with her on the mildness of the season, and its conse quent blessing to the pour, &c., when she foolishly re counted the charitable deeds of her benefactress, and explained the nature of her errand. Her sympathising fellow-passenger left at the Elephant and Castle, and on her arrival at Gracechurch-street the poor woman found her pocket had been cut, and the 21. and a 6d. abstrac ted. A few benevolent individuals at Ilackney are aVini io restiwo anaciwut. _ E virS rtiONE Y AND COMMERCIAL N CITY, WEDNESDAY tvrin,„_ 6 The market for the English Securities closed na b . again this afternoon, Consols being 961 to E v : c __„4 quer Bills remained the same, but Ind ia Bonds ad nei to 80s. and 82s. premium. The heavy stock remain' about the same. n the There were not half-a-dozen additiona l bargains', to Foreign Market this afternoon, and we have only per notice a slight rally in Spanish Bond s, the Fir e r o Cents. having been done at 21 + 1 , an d the Three .,l ; Cents. at 30/ Venezuela, for Account, were lfutch Five per Cents., 100+; and Portuguese Conyers 4,44. 110 ° . The additional transactionts in Railway Share , been these:—Eastern Counties Scrip were 4 8 1 ,10 burgh and Glasgow, New, 1+; Great Western, 3;14, 32+; South Western, 32+; Manchester and Leeds , 15; Midland Counties, Quarters, 61; Rouen and 1 1 L ` 3o , and South Eastern Scrip, 11 premium. Birraingdisco%t„ , and Gloucester were 36, and North Mi dland, 9 I Australasia Bank Shares were +, and Union of tralia, 11 premium. British North American, ex wore 10 discount. (From The Sun of Last Night.) firla• The Liverpool Cotton Market yesterday' w t ' iat ioa , Sales about 5,000 bags, including 2,500 on spe t l re tc• Prices as before.—The sales in Railway Stock v" „ t oo lerably numerous, but the market had some apPe i t io llf ; of depression. Eastern Counties were 101 Edinudfo. and Glasgow, 57 ; Grand Junction , 233 ; Great :TA tern, IlaV, 69 ; Birmingham, 237 , ditto , Q uartet, sn d Brighton, 43 ; South Western, 75 ; Manchestaa oid Leeds, 101 ; North Midland, Thirds , 30+ ; Pavi 010 , Rouen, 321 ; South Eastern, 35 1 ; Pa r i s end Li 31. ss. 6d. orb The contents of the West India letter s and Pe=ooo, which were delivered at a late hour yesterday a fter gbort are on the whole looked upon as satisfactory. t it crops are in some places anticipated. M uch regrecor expressed that the new Governor of Havannah ha d c t he menced a system tending to foster and perpetuate slave-trade. We have not heard the sums received from S °11 :1, America on account of the Mexican Mining Cni"„lier but the advises, as respects the condition of thtitolf tablishtnents in which so many millions of -D'ilope capital have been sunk, mostly we fear beyond th e , if 0 ( of redemption, are favourable for the holde rs of a ie the principal adventures. 0 111 The amounts actually laid out by the Gayer not Brokers yesterday in aid of the Sinking Fun d fiver of publicly announced, but in conformity with the n i " d notification of the Lords of the Treasury, it is asa lep , that Exchequer Bills, as well as Stock, will be t s t he until the whole amount placed at the disposal of io Commissioners for the reduction of the Debt' )01 the present quarter, has been absorbed. A flat tSL has ruled this morning for Stocks. t In our remarks yesterday relative to the payale°o the dividends, a misprint occurred. The qu estion , by many receiving their interest was, if the soverli;" offered were " heavy." This word was printed oto o 1 The public do now receive full weight gold from the • 114 o rf England. It is confidently expected that the c plaints of the scarcity of silver will soon w e l At present, in all quarters—bankers as w e ," t hii as in other quarters, the utmost inconveniences Atte respect is still experienced. The Bank even are M(7),! nacious in giving any large sum of silver i n eaciter# for notes, even though required by the priv ate be° of the City, their favoured friends. 11 0 It is reported that 100,0 001 . in the Three-an-4'OV per Cents. have been taken for an Irish bankin . , / g s totl cern, and that difficulties are to be raised by sPec"' Joe in the Funds, to any plan brought forward for the r‘deotb tion of the interest of the Three-and-a-Half per cot' The Commissioners took about 30,0001. Three P er , a so Consols this morning, at 96+. In this was included tot amount for the Savings' Banks, and an amount!, the redemption of the debt. No pus ) was made, however, in the Unfunded n au " from fall in Consols for the Account has taken pia° beta 97 to 961 This is about + per cent. lower then, terday. The Three-and- a-Half per Cents. Redueeollo touched 1024, and are now 1021, Bank Stock ha s 6 1; from 1871 -+ to 1861. Exchequer Bills from 6 9 t° lo 4 and Reduced Three per Cents. to 97 +. A t 00e nl yesterday the last-mentioned Stock was 98. As it was known pretty well yesterday that a otr , remittance came in the West India mail srfioice4 for the Mexican dividends, the bonds have not an; el beyond the highest price of yesterday. Indeauhstoo; have rather receded, viz., from 321 to 32+. Span i ra is a trifle higher. The Three per Cents. ar e at °lre. the Fives at 21+, with the coupons. Dutch Stoelcgo, tb a shade lower, and so are Austrian and Belgian 13°°it A fall from 138 to 134 has taken plae c or London and Birmingham Railway shares, an,%0119',1 Westerns are also cheaper. Croydon, Mid land ties, and Paris and Orleans the same. Nortberi%l/1 Eastern Shares have advanced. The range tali prices this morning are annexed. be MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, JAN. 9. -- , Wre rie es' had rather more business doing to-day, at steangotol'i The following are our quotations :—Bolton and 25+ ; Eastern Counties, 11 11 1-16 ; Manchesb: step Leeds , 1021 ; Ditto, Half Shares, 451 ; South M 541; 358 ; Ditto, Scrip, 3G+ ; Sheffield and Manchester' Do. Quarters, 4i; Manchester Assurance, 94. CLOSING PRICES. BRITISH FUNDS. 0 '0 B Stock 1866 India Stock ..........• • 3 t..r . rent. Red. 3. rent. Cons. 31 ( - Amt. Red... 1021 'Ditto New Annuities 61 0,A9 31 per Cent. ... 101 h Ex. Bills, 1,000/. lid' 61/1 I.er Gen', — I Ditto 500/....• '6l ? Long, Annuities to expire ! Ditto Small ••••.. 181 Jan. 1860 ...... 12 11-16 Bank Stock for Acct• Oct. 1559 Jan. ti , Oo FOREIGN FUNDS. lett-lan, 5 per cent.... Portuguese, 5 Per Cent* / Belgian. 5 per cent Ditto, 1•Iew Ditto ......... Brazilian Bonds ..nmsAyres6 per cent \ Russian, 5 per tent. ....' / Crtilian, 6 per cent — I)itto, Metallic ......• ..” / Colonibian, 6 per cent — !Spanish, 5 per cent...•" Ditto 1524 !Ditto, 3 per cent......." / Cuba Bonds, 6 per cent lll !Ditto Deferred.... • , Danish, 3 per sent — !Ft-CIA, 5 per cent. •••-'" / 6 ' sAt ; Rr Greek, 1825, 5 per cent. Exchange..........! , /4. tslexiczn, 5 per cent French, Railways 3 ( per ioo p tent.d) — Ditto, 6 per cent. 1k3.37 !Dutch, 21 per cent. , SHARES. 0; Peruvian, 1825,6 perct. Ditto, 5 per cent.... '- Birmingham and Glouee Eastern Counties (2,3 paid) l3 b Ditto r Scrip gh a and d ( a 6 s g s 08w ( d paid)spal E d............ 10 ........ Ditto New Shares (14 paid).,. ........ 96} Great Western (65 paid) 3l London and So u th W es t ern (4116 a 10d d) 7 Manchester and Leeds (70 paid) Ditto New Shares (30 paid) . .............. tt e Midland Counties Railway (100 paid) ..... . Ditto Quarter Shares ( 15 paid) ......... V i k Northern and Eastern (45 paid) .. .......... gt North Midland (100 paid) Rouen and Havre ( 6 paid) South Eastern and Dover (50 paid) ... ••• •• 35b 3 6 Ditto Scrip (25 paid) York and Scarboro' Branch (26 paid) ..... de r 11 ' On Wednesday evening, a meeting of the 00 dg ic land Anti-Corn-law Association was held at the t ,or• Hotel, Thomas Thompson, Esq., in the c i ' rc iess' e was resolved, on the motion of Mr. George l' s "P e4- o seconded by Mr. Joshua Wilson, " That th e es tea lt , tiro Committee of this Association be req u i s ite take immediate steps for completing all rer o rars, o . rangements for the reception of Colonel 'I, ' be 1, 6 Messrs. Cobden, Bright, &c., and that they a l ; s „ ° z of t t ' quested to report the same to the next mee t • - • - asO u r i , Association, to be held on Wednesday, the 10th, l it 5 11 The above-named gentlemen are expected to 1550).;,.0 derland on the 24th inst.-- Tyne Mercury o f r ry. tie r oug, h e A GOOD SERVANT.—At the Duke of Idarl"° of. rent audit, held last week at Waddesdon , on,„a°` - 1/ tenants paid a 51. Bank of England note thet a se , hie issued 30 years, bearing the name of Henry Il u r. e are aware tho Bank never re-issue their 1 34 1 3 '?, 0 e. note must, therefore, have been out the whole t' „ ri p, simple interest at 4 per cent. was 61 . , and at u° „y interest el., while it did not cost he Comp any Aylesbury News. I) i t THE MURDER NEAR WEST CALDER." 3-1,1.0,5. be ep the active superintendent of our county police. ov g ' o f engaged during the whole of last week in rcu, tr at( l , r os vestigations, with a view to discover the perP; r ho ipg the murder of the old man, John Geddee 4 C orp ip found in his house near West Calder on Sundn, - week, in the horribly mangled state alreadY.,l,7 a previous paper. We understood that . I )",: n bsb t - bo few days ago got a clue which will in an r.- "V bring home the charge of murder to a rel st h i n lrer'd unfortunate victim, named James Bryce, it 13 w.„ - „tch t ,be has been ascertained that Bryce pledged SliVe r c e the deceased a great number - of y - ears - ago, and tll , 6 l;itil l g b lB murder was committed he has been seen otil l watch and also displaying the possession of it I. l r - 0 r P° tscruaaTedeoedrf i n t : io o m n va e: or . i . o A u l i n p L h i te s e t s hi i i n s s t i h n o ce w t o r s a t ee ; d a ß nd ri o ' u n e Coatbridge, between Airdrie 5 7 e hsti to , gow. Still Byrce has contrived to keep out of the of justice. But, as Mr. List is now being t° s ti - s pe 6 ;of the Glasgow police, there is little doubt the 5 wet'. ci - me murderer will soon be in safe custody. Able 501. has been o ff ere d f or hi s apprehension.-- it Mercury. r 00 CAUTIOUS OTERMUCII.—About three . 1 0 three o'clock on Sunday last, a man named 13L'ecie'`,0 of the house, 19, Cross-street, St. Gec lr g a rgl ij oi ed East, came in breathless haste to the Arbohis Station-house, and stated that a lodger 01. „ pti o ki Rayner had hung himself, and he wanteu officer to attend to the case. On being: gi ri spe c o nd by Sergeant Shaw, who acted for th°,. ra t,neof Butler said, that his lodger was a bumb o3l o , diff i a did not appear to labour under any peennuit lapelled or immediate want, and so far from the a , c .10 031 0, 0 0 to be premeditated, Rayner, who was a _, O laid in provision for the Sunday on the previseke ho p, • The landlord ,• finding that he did not n', ; , r o ` ) o tlf pearance at the usual hour, wen t to . 11 ,,pfir for little before three o'clock, but found it tr P o r pp ea titio • empty, whilst a razor ready oiled and _ s eit roli Owes shaving lay upon the table. On further e s, ,do or, , bO l found his lodger hanging behind a clo,s, which he contrived to suspend himself. er g? ,, Pi e d; Well, and you cut him down at o nce_ t joc o l oe, —" What !me cut him down ? Oh, no ; for without a public officer, and so I cam e 11 ,1 e of th e ic e Sergeant Shaw at once directed a consta,n_ ce, A n coo , division, named Hams, to hasten to the P lu la ce, .lif into the matter. Dr. Hawkins, of Colleg e- P t ' thfu. ipt ie ruercial-road, was called in, who pronounn ,„ can i ne had been extinct for seine hours, and this t r t he over-much landlord in some measure escape" „ v e t o which must have otherwise attached to hi s u .. s4- don' u d i A precision in waiting for a public officer to o c body. A coroner's inquest has been sine.. Pt' verdict of " Temporary Insanity" returned ...............,... nis Ro' )-esterday. Claremon General Anson. The unl ing prever Walk. Major -1 honour of Claremont