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Immediately, in 3 vole post Bvo., H A TSWORTH; OR, THE ROMANCE OF A WEEK. Edited by R. PLUMER WARD, Esi. Author of " Tremaine," " De Vere," &c. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. COMPLETION OF THE SHAKSPEARE NOVELS. Now ready, at all the Libraries, In 3 vols., _ _ THE PASSION. By the Author of " The YOUTH of SHAKSPEARE," " SHAKSPEARE and his FRIENDS,' &c " The Shakspeare Novels are now generally known and justly ap predated. They are valuable additions to our literature ; and the two preceding divisions of the design are rendered doubly valuable by this completion of it, which carries us on to the close of the bard's idicitous career. ` The Secret Passion' is fully equal in spirit, vivacity, and truth of painting, to its popular predecessors."—Naval and Military Gazette. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street NEW NOVEL BY MRS. THOMSON. Just ready, in 3 vols. post Bvo., TE W - HITE MASK. An Historical Romance of the Seventeenth Century. By Mrs. THOMSON. Author of " Widows and Widowers," " Ragland Castle," &c. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. • SACRED HARMONIC SOCIETY, EXETER HALL. Un FRIDAY EVENING Next, February 16, 1844, will be repeated HANDEL'S' ORATORIO, " JEPHTHA." PRINCIPAL VOCAL PERFORMERS, Miss Rainfortli, Miss Towers, Miss Poole, Mr. Young, Mr. Brahaul, and Mr. H. Phillips. The Band and Chorus will consist of above Five Hundred Perforniers, Tickets, 3s. each ; Reserved Seats, 55., may be had of the principal Charing-cross ; Mr. Mitchell, 39, Musicsellers ; of Mr. Rowley, 5 3, 'Charing-cross ; and of Mr. Reis, 102, Strand, opposite Exeter Hall. THOMAS BREWER, Hon. Sec ITER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. SEASON 1844. The following outline of the arrangements for the ensuing season is respectfully presented to the Nobility, Snbscribers, and the Public. ENGAGEMENTS FOR THE OPERA. Madame Grist, Madlle. M. Favanti (her first appearance at this Theatre), Madame BOHM, Madame Dai Fiori, and Madame Persian'. Signor Mario, Sig. Conan (his first appearance at this Theatre), Dai Fiori, Sig. Felice (his first appearance at this Theatre), Sig. Fornasari, Sig. F. Lablache, and Sig. lablaehe. Director of the Music, Composer, and Conductor, Sig. Costa. The Repertoire will consist of a Selection of the most admired Works, and amongst the Novelties will be presented Persiani's New Opeia 66 La Fantasma," produced with great success at the Italian ‘Opera, Paris ; and Ricers New Opera, " Corado D'Altamura," pro 'eed with great suecess at the Scala, Milan ' • and now in rehearsal at the Italian Opera, Paris; and an entirely New Opera, composed by M. Costa, expressly for the company, entitled "Don Carlos." THE BALLET. Madlle. Carlotta Grist, Madlle. Adelaide Frasi, of the Teatro Pergola, Florence (her first appearance at this theatre) ; Mad. Guy ,Stephan ; Scheffre, Madlle. Ferdinand, Madlle. Planquet, "Madlle. Barville (their first appearance at this theatre) ; Madlle. Fanny Felssler, and lladlle. Cerito ; M. St. Leon, M. Montassn (his first appearance in this country), M. Coulon, M. Gosselin, M. (4ourlet, M. Venafra, and M. Perrot, and a numerous and efficient 4)Orps de Ballet. Arrangements are also pending with Madlle. Taglioni, and there is every probability that the talent of this eminent artiste will be se cured Sir a limited number of representations. The Orchestra will consist of the same combination of talent which has entitled it to the distinctive merit of being the first hi Europe. The Choruses will be numerous and effective. Leader of the Orchestra, M. Tolbeque. Principal Artiste of the Theatre, Mr. W. Grieve. Maitre de Ballet, M. Perrot. Sons Maitre de Ballet, M. Goaselio. Regisseur tie la Dance, M. Coulon. • Leader of the Ballet, M. Nattaud. Madame Persian' and Signor Fornasari will appear On the First Night of the season, in Herold's chef d'oeuvre of "Zampa." The debnt of Madlle. Favanti will be forthwith arranged. Madame Grist, Signor Mario, and Signor Lablache, will appear at the reopening of the theatre, immediately after Easter. Madlle. Carlotta Grist will arrive in town in a few days, and will appear on the first night of the season, in a New Ballet, founded on Victor lingo's celebrated work of " Notre Dame de Paris," entitled La Esmeralda." The part of Esmeralda, by Madlle. C. Grid ; the part of Pierre Gringoire, by M. Perrot. Madlle. Cerito will arrive in town at the end of April. Among the novelties in the Ballet Department will he produced a New Grand Ballet, entitled " Jeanne d'Arc." Jeanne'd'Are, Madlle. Fanny Elssler. • The Theatre will Open in the first week of March, when will be produced Herold's celebrated Opera of "Zampa :" Camilla, Madame Persian' ; Zampa, Sig. Fornasari. To be followed by a New Ballet, by M. Perrot, with New Scenery, Dresses, &c., entitled " La Esme ralda." The Music by Sig. Pugni. The Scenery by W. Grieve. The Principal Characters by Madlle. Carlotta Grist, 3.ladlle. Adelaide Frasi, Madame Guy Stephan, Madlle. Seheffre, Dladlle. Planquet, Madlle. - Ferdinand, and Madlle. Barville ; 31. Perrot, M. Coulon, 31. liosselin, and 31. St. Leon. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. THIS EVENING, FEBRUARY 1-1, Will be performed Shakspeare's Tragedy of HAMLE F. Clatidius, Mr. Diddear ; Hamlet, Mr. Char?es Kean; First Grave-digger, Mr. Harley ; Gertrude, Mrs. Warner; Ophelia, Miss Romer. After which, will be repeated a New Grand Comic Christmas Pantomime, entitled HARI-Wt./IN AND KING PEPIN ; or, VALENTINE AND ORSON. Harlequin, Mr. Howell; Colum nine, Mis• Carson; Clown, Mr. 1. Mdgway ; Pantaloon, Mr. Blanchard. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENI. O ARDEN. M. JULLIEN'S CONCERTS. THIS EVENING, FEBRUARY PROGRAMME FOR THIS EVENING:-PART I. Overture, Zampa- Herold. Quadrille, bn Chinese Airs, including the National Hymn, composed by Contbcius-Jullien. Symphony, C Minor, Andante, Fague, and Triumphal March • Beethoven. Solo, Clarionet, Mr. Lazarus -Lazarus. Valse, The Garter-Koenig. The Destruction of Pompeii- Roch Albert. PART 11. Duet from William Tell, performed by M. Prosper and Herr Kcerfg - Rossini New Quadrille, The Irish Echoes-Jullien. Solo, Bassoon, M. Baumann. Valse, The Wreath of Roses-Jullien. - I he English Quadrille-JoMen. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Wt. BENJAMIN WEBSTER, LESsEE RE-ENGAGEMENT OF MR. JOHN PARRY. THIS EVENING, FEBRUARY 14, Will be performed WHO'S YOUR FRIEND? or, The Queens berry Fete. Giles Fairland, Mr. Charles Mathews; the Countess of Rosedale, Madame Veitris. After the Drama, Mr. JOHN PARRY will give " La Lezione di Canto," accompanying himself on the Grand Pianoforte After which, a New Comic Drama, entitled USED UP. Sir Charles Coldstream, Bart., Mr. Cha rles Mathews; Sir Adonus Leech, Mr Tilbury; Wurzle, Mr. James Bland; Mary, Miss Julia Bennett; Lady Clutterbuck, Mrs. Humby. To conclude with a New tairy Extravaganza, entitled THE FAIR ONE WITH THE GOLDEN LOCKS! King Lachrymal), Mr. J. Bland; Prince Graceful, Miss P. Horton ; Queen Lucidora, Miss Julia Bennett. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. THIS EVENING, FEBRUARY 14, Will be repeated, by permission of Charles Dickens, Escf, THE 'CHRISTMAS CAROL. Principal Characters—Messrs. 0. Smith, Wright, Lyon, Maynard, Forman, Miss Woolgar. Mrs. F. Ma hews, Miss Chaplin, and Wass Lee. After which, the Tragedy of RICHARD THE THIBD. Ri.. chard, Mr. Wright; Lady Anne, Miss E. Stanley. To conclude with THE WRECK ASHORE. Principal Cha racters—Mrs. Yates, Miss Woolgar, Messrs. Lyon, 0. Smith, and Wright. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE OF ARTS. Under the Management of Mr. Batty, Proprietor. THIS EVENING, FEBRUARY 14, Will be performed the Grand National Spectacle of THE BATTLE 'OF WATERLOO. Napoleon Buonaparte, Mr. Gomersal, his ori ginal character New Scenes in the Circle, and Unequalled Feats of Horsemanship. To conclude with THE HORSE BANDITTI OF BAGDAD. DAVIDOE'S ROYAL SURREY THEAIRE. Enormous hit of " Stella Rittersdorr—more crowded than ever— Increased attraction of the best Pantomime in London, overflow ing with fun. THIS EVENING, I•EBRUARY 11, Will be repeated a New Drama, entitled STELLA RITTERS.. DORF. Supi.orted by Messrs. Saville, Hughes, Hicks, R. Honner, Neville, Vale, Smith, Johnson, Lewis, • eslop, Mrs. 11. Harmer, Mrs. Daly. Mrs. Hughes, Miss Terrey, and Mrs. EL Vining. After which, A CHRISTMAS CAROL, by Boz," with splendid Appointments. To conclude with 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 A ElO U. Harlequin, Mr. W. H. Harvey ; Grotesque, Mr. Stilt; Clown, Mr. Fuller; Pants. loon, Mr. Haws ins ; Columbines (alternately) Miss M. R. Fair prattler and Miss Sharpe. ROYAL NICIORIA THEATRE. THIS EVENING. FEIsRUARY 14, Will be performed A CHRISTMAS CAROL.. Principal Cha. racters—Messrs. Freer, Nantz, Gardner, Paul, Seamai, Miss Vin cent, and Miss Arden. Atter which, THE WILD IRISH GIRL Shelah O'Shay, Miss Vincent. To con hide with THE GNOME OF THE GOLD MINES. sup portedby Messrs. freer, Nantz, Miss Vincent. &c. HIGH WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE - THIS DAY. Morning .. d minutes after 10 I Evening .. 5G minutes after 10, Morning 24111. LONDON, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1844. • Lord BROUGHAM gave notice that en Thursday next he should bring under the notice of the House of Lads the inventions of Lord DUNDONALD, and ad vert to the expenses he had been put to in bringing them to perfection. Lord STOURTON gave notice that on Friday he would call the attention of their Lordships to the mode in which Catholic oaths were interpreted. The Marquis of NORMANBY brought forward his motion on -the State of Ireland, and justified the course he had adopted, on the ground that all ad mitted the affairs of that country imperiously de manded the immediate attention of Parliament. 'I he conduct of the Government, instead of conciliating the people, had been the very reverse, and it had roused up against them many who were formerly their supporters. After commenting on the mistaken policy o f the Government, with respect to the cry for a repeal of the union, he said the best way to repress the agitation was to remove the grievances. With respect to the payment of the Catholic clergy, he thought the present moment was Most unfortunate time for such a proposition. If the clergy, too, were to be paid they should be paid an in come for religious duties, and not have a bribe for poll paying a high comp li ment to the flea' apostacy. After 'irish nation for their domestic virtues, and their gra titude for the due- administrati on o f j ustice, he ad verted to the state of the franchise, to the character of the*lrish Attorney-General, and the egregious injus tice and impolicy of excluding CatholicS from juries, and more especially that jury which had condemned the traversers. The Noble Marquis concluded by moving a resolution to the effect that the House would examine into the cause of discontent prevailing in Ire land, in order to secure to all classes of her MAJESTY'S subjects the practical enjoyment of equal rights. Lord WHAENCLIFFE replied to the:charges brought against the Government, and was followed by the Marquis of CLANRICARDE, the Earl cd.RODEN, the Earl of DEVON, the Marquis of WESTMEATH, and tcrd HowDEN. The debate, on the motion of Lord C A - Nk PREM., was then adjourned till Thursday. In the Commons Mr. WALLACE postponed his motion on the judicial establishment for Scotland, till the 27th-inst. Lo.V Jour: MANNERS gave notice that, on the 29th, he should move an address to the Crown in favour of the liberation of Don CARLOS from cap tivity. Sir E. COLEBROOKE gave notice of a motion re lative to the treatment of the Ameers of Sinde, for the 27th. _ _ In answer to a question from Mr. LEADER, Lord STANLEY said Sir CHARLES METCALFE did reserve his consent to a Bill for suppressing Orange Societies in Canada, but the Bill had not beeh transmitted to Government, and he could not, therefore, give any further information on the subject. It would be re ceived probably by the next mail. Sir JAMES GRAHAM, in answer to a question from Mr. C. BERKELEY, said a Bill on Charitable Be quests would be introduced this session at the instance of the Government. Mr. HumE suggested, in reference to adjourned debates, and particularly to the motion of Lord J. RUSSELL on the state of Ireland, that before the ad journed discussion commenced, time should be given for disposing of the regular business of the day. A conversation took place between Mr. HORSMAN and Sir J. GRAHAM relative to the number of troops in Ireland, when the Home Secretary said that on the motion of the Member for Coventry a return would be laid on the table of the rank and file sta tioned in that country from January, 1835, to January, 1843. Lord JOHN RUSSELL brought forward his motion for a Committee of the whole House on the state of Ireland. That country, he said, was not governed as it ought to be. The Government of Ireland should be a ,Government of peace; now it was a Govern ment of force. After adverting to the verdict re ceived that day against Mr. O'CONNELL, the instru ment of Catholic Emancipation, he said, if the favourite of the Irish nation were imprisoned, would that cir cumstance be a guarantee for the peace of the country. The Noble Lord entered at great length into the grievances of which Ireland had just reason to com plain, and more especially to the exclusion of Catho lics from juries and all places of trust, as well as to the undefined and imperfect state of the Parliament ary franchise. The exclusion of Catholics from high offices, whether on the bench or in the State, was a glaring injustice, and could not be palliated even by the present Government. Sir ROBERT PEEL had de clared that after the passing of the Catholic Bill all classes would be placed on the same foot ing; yet, though he had since his return to office had the appointment of five or six Judges, not one was a Roman Catholic. The conduct of the Go vernment, in regard to the late prosecutions, was quite; in ,keeping with all their other proceed ings towards the Irish people. The Noble Lord con cluded by moving for a Committee of the whole House, to take into consideration the state of Ireland. Sir JAMES GRAHAM, in a long speech, opposed the motion, and when he concluded the debate was adjourned. The verdict of the jury, which has been so anxi ously expected, is at length delivered, and does not differ from that which we have always anticipated. A jury chosen from an imperfect list \ of special jurors, whose religious creed and political opinions formed the test of fitness to serve, and upon whom the Crown officials calculated, with undeviating reliance all through the trial, for a verdict in accor dance with the purposes for which these pro secutions were instituted, could not give any verdict but that of GUILTY against all the traversers. And this they have done. They have not disappointed the calculations of the Government, nor have they disap pointed• us. We - never had any expectations of an acquittal. We never placed any reliance upon the chances of justice from an Irish jury, con stituted and selected like that which for twenty four days has sat on the case of O'CoxNELL. The ends of the Crown, as to a conviction, are now gained—the purposes for which the Crown officials plotted in secret, and employed all the arts of espionage, are attained—the objects for which the jury was put in the box are achieved. And what then ? Does any man in the three kingdoms attach the slightest importance to this verdict, as having any moral effect, or any beneficial result? Does any honest, conscientious Tory, in his own heart, ap prove it, or look to it as a successful vindication of the law by legal means ? Does any Irish man feel that he has one grievance the less, or that there is any one more reason why he should cease to agitate for a redress of his griev ances ? We dislike Repeal—but we hate injustice. Trial by Jury ought to be free from taint, otherwise ver dicts avail not, and are of no effect. This verdict may be made an instrument of oppression, but it will not gain respect for the means by which it has been procured. The Earl of CLARENDON on Monday entitled him self to the best thanks of the public at large for the course he adopted, the British sentiments he avowed, and the statesman-like views he announced in re ference to the present condition of affairs in Spain, and to our relations with that kingdom. The Noble Earl, after a speech delivered by the Earl of ABER DEEN, in reply, declared himself perfectly satisfied with the explanations of the Foreign Secretary ; but we must take leave to protest that the discussion thus excited has not at all relieved our own mind from the painful impression which passing events in Spain—and, above all, the unprincipled excesses indulged in by the de facto authorities of that outraged country — have produced upon it. Lord CLARENDON truly de scribed the result of the late extraordinary move ments to have been—the overthrow of all her former institutions, and the establishment, in their stead, of " a military despotism of the most ferocious descrip tion." He observed, with great truth, that this " revolution had been brought about by one of the most wicked and profligate confederacies which had been ever organised ; and he foresaw that a re-action must soon inevitably follow, the certain tendency of which will be a chronic state of civil arfare." His Lordship expressed an opi nion that foreign influence had been extensively used to bring about the downfal of the ex-REGENT, and he referred to the extreme solicitude that had been manifested in France—especially in Paris, for Es- PARTERO'S removal. Many circumstances of grave suspicion corroborate the existence of the feeling; and more notably, the facts that the intended outbreak of the late discontents in the Basque provinces had been known, in Paris itself, long before the event; and that the same agency seemed to be apparent in the insurrection that developed itself in Barcelona accompanied with the demand of an apology on the part of the REGENT'S Government, for the accusations which had been made against the French Consul re specting his participation therein. Then the prema ture accession of .the young QUEEN to the throne, and other acts to which she had been induced, by her counsellors, to give her sanction, really had involved greater violations of the Spanish Constitution than had ever been committed throughout all the despotic reign of 'FERDINAND VII. But a " cordial understanding" had been stated, by the King of the FRENCH himself, to exist between his Government and that of Great Britain, on all subjects of foreign policy in general—on the affairs of Spain in particular. " On what policy was this good understanding bastd ?" asked the Noble Earl, in continuation. And then he adverted to the claim which the Court of France was understood to set up to the right of selecting a consort for the Queen of SPAIN, and to the limitation of that choice to some member of the house of BOURBON. He hoped that whatever might be the fact, as to this hitherto un heard of pretension, it was not true (confidently as the allegation had been made) that the right had been exercised, and the selection made, in the person of the Count DE TRAPANI, brother to the reigning King of NAPLES. This Prince had been educated in the College of Jesuits at Rome, and destined for holy orders. Now the Court of Naples, it was noto rious, was the only Court of Europe which had avowedly conspired on behalf of Don Ciumos. The Noble Earl contended that, without imputing to the French Government any actual connexion with the movement against the ex-REGENT, yet had it acted as it should have done towards its own sub jects who were known to be intriguing against ESPAIITERO (to whose constitutional Government he paid a well-merited tribute), his Regency would never have been subverted. We think so too, and never felt a doubt on the matter. The Noble Secretary for Foreign Affairs remarked, that in the ten years which had elapsed since the death of FERDINAND VII. there had been so many political movements and constitutional changes in Spain that it was impassible for anybody, he believed, to give, as to many of these, any intelligible account. He was one who thought that there had been a disposition at all times, in the government of this country, to inter meddle too much with that of Spain. He was quite satisfied that the French Government had had nothing to do with the downfal of ESFARTERO'S authority; and since, in the short space of six weeks, there was not a village in Spain which had not joined in the insurrection against it, the origin of so powerful a feeling must be sought in causes more domestic and more popular, within the Spanish kingdom itself. The marriage of the QUEEN he looked upon as a purely Spanish question, on which the Spanish people and Government only were entitled to decide. As for the remaining question of the Noble Earl, he had been asked by him on what basis the good understanding subsisting betwean France and England was raised? " It was raised on the basis of an anxious desire to maintain the complete independence of Spain—(Hear, hear)—a desire to promote in Spain the establishment of the constitutional system—a desire to check, by all proper and legitimate means, every description of violence and revolution—(Hear, hear)—a desire to develope the jest natural resources of that fine country—(Hear, hear)—and to promote and extend its happiness and prosperity." On a future occasion we shall inquire how far these objects are likely to be attained by the policy of Lord ABERDEEN. The business of Parliament has begun—not with• out the exhibition of some incipient symptoms of languor even at this- early stage of its sittings, if we may judge from the adjournments and "No House" interruptions that have already interposed in the progress of public business. The debate on the affairs of Sinde appears to have interested all parties in a degree commensurate with the import ance of the transactions upon which it was founded. But, without disparaging the gravity of the topics_ urged on Friday night, or on the discussion upon the " Address" to the Throne at the re-assembling of the two Houses; or the subjects of any speeches delivered, subsequently, in either of them, we must own that we had expected to find, ere this, one or two vital questions of nearer domestic concernment, and of even superior interest, occupying the primary attention of the Legislature. Let us instance one of these—the income, or property-tax (for, like the object of CLEVELAND'S apostrophe, it is " both or either.") We can but marvel at the fortune of a Minister, who, after such an experiment as he has induced the country to submit to in this monstrous infliction, is permitted by the Legislature, in the second or third year of its protracted application, to pass unchal lenged for his hazardous emriricism. Yes; this statesman-like expedient for arresting the internal decay of our financial system, in the nine-and twentieth year of an unbroken peace between Great Britain and all the other Powers of Europe. is the very "Elixir," that noona but a political empiric, would have ventured to recommend to his distracted patients. Sir ROBERT PEEL has caught the mantle of the late Mr. ST. JOHN Lor). His treatment is founded on a theory of counter-irritation. Has the Public Treasury a morbid tendency to decline, year after year? His first care is to exhaust the sources which alone sustain it. Is the public income, with a taxation of more than 43,000,0001. sterling inadequate to meet the public expendi ture ? He claps on another tax-blister, in the technical hope that "it may RISE." Do the Customs and the Excise, and other bvinches of direct and indirect contribution, annually decrease 4n productiveness, becoming " small by degrees and beautifully less," and showing diminished means as to our capacity, both of foreign and domestic con sumption ? Our Premier draws upon the remaining capital of those diminished means to make good the deficient product of their contribution to revenue. Since the fiscal duties of all kinds appropriated to the public service, and paid out of the profits of the capital invested in the trade, or absorbed by the con sumption which yield them, are already too heavy to permit of that consumption, or to carry on their trade to the former extent of either, the " Stat• Doctor" (it is his own sobriquet) depletes the capital still further by drawing off five millions of what he must really suppose to be superabundant vitality in his unhappy patient ! When a man complained to a quack of the counter-irritant school that he suffered from severe shooting pains in his shin bone, the quack applied himself to the case by an external exasperation of the complainant's shoulder-blade, or his cranium—no matter which. It was evident that the artificial or superinduced agony, must either expel or neutralise the original pain. It was like an equator of powers in algebra; plus skin, minus shoulder In this manner Sir ROBERT proceeds to prescribe for the financial evils resulting from diminished consumption of exciseable articles, by diminishing the means of consuming them, as to the largest number of consumers ; and he seeks to bring up the waning revenue of the Customs, derived en tirely from the energy with which commerce may be enabled to pursue its active functions, by further in cisions into the capital that represents the legs upon which it walks, and by persisting to retain the clumsy fetters which, under the notion of preserving the straightness and vigour of its limbs, have absurdly cramped and deformed them. Let it be conceded that, like other empirics, our modern Dr. WARD is very lucky. His " pills" have not yet killed whom they cannot cure. Nay, more —the constitution of the patient, which, on their own candid and manly admission, had assumed some alarming aspects under the attendance of such men as MELBOURNE, RUSSELL, and PALMERSTON, has ac tually rallied under the perilous operations of PEEL. This is one of those fortunate vindications of physical strength against physic, of which the rarity makes us sceptical as to the reality. Yet the fact is, that trade is reviving, that the Customs are improving, that the Excise is on the " look up." Is the im provement organic and constitutional, or accidental only and transient ? Can the " patient" retrieve his former condition under the exhausting processes he is sub;ected to, aggravated by the additional bleeding of the income-tax, and the paralyzing ligatures of so many tight monopolies ? We doubt and dread the issue. But if any think it dangerous at this time ex tensively to alter the treatment and utterly to discard the " doctor," at least let us entreat of the Legisla ture to watch the effect, if it will not discontinue the annual practice of this " income" phlebotomizing Be it remembered that the essential premises, predi cated by the Tamworth practitioner, of his proposed remedy have been suspiciously underrated. The pro duct of the new tax has largely exceeded his avowed anticipations on the subject, and this excess of its product has not elicited any announcement as to the accelerated termination of the experiment. Parlia ment itself, without distinction of party, seems dis posed to congratulate the Premier on the language of the Speech from the Throne, on the auspicious dis tinction of this year in the fact of the revenue being fully adequate to defray all the charges of the expenditure. Ministers assume a lofty tone of self gratulation at having achieved this re sult ; and the Opposition forbear to remind them that it has been accomplished by the revival in a period of profound peace of the most odious and inquisitorial of taxes ever resorted to in time of war. Even the economists—apt to watch with jealous vigilance the increase of customary, or the in troduction of new items of charge on the estimates— abstain from showing that by how much the antici pated product is exceeded by the actual receipt on account of the income-tax, by so much is a case of irresistible force made out for the reduction of the rate of per centage. They forget to insist that, in the alternative of retaining the present per cent ge, yielding this excess ,of product, a case as unanswer able is established for the Minister's abridging the term during which this iniquitous impost shall be levied on our overburdened country. Finally, per haps, from very weariness, they cease to expose the juggle of a surplus income, derived not from the legi timate yield of previously-imposed taxation, more or less equal, but from the screw force brought to bear upon private property and income, by the application of that perilous and unnatural high pressure which the most inapt of financial Ministers has ever ven tured to invoke under similar circumstances. Surely some Member of the House of Commons will presently call on the Premier for an explicit statement of the views entertained by her Majesty's Government on these points. The country has a right to demand how much longer it is intended to charge upon her a growing tax, which she consented to bear only on the express assurance, that it would be so charged for a very limited period, and on the express assumption, that its annual produce would re present a sum greatly inferior to that which it is now realizing. And should the Member, who may make this demand, be met with one of those petulant " flings" of official ill-humour, or personal arrogance, with which Mr. PATTISON, the representative of London re turned, instead of " BARING the preferred," was res ponded to the other evening, on his question touching the sugar duties, we trust he will not lose so fair an opportunity of apprising the Premier with what sen timents of disgust and indignation the public at large regard the Right Hon. Baronet's whole scheme of income-tax—with what hostile suspicion they scan all his acts in connexion therewith. Let him lay bare to the Right Hon. Baronet's observation, and the judgment of the Legislature, the whole iniquity of that character istic selfishness and egoisme which must have devised the principle and determined the scope of this tax — a principle and a scope of common application to the ducal rent-roll of hundreds of thousands per annum, and the starving salary of 150/. a year. Let him show how the inheritors of splendid patrimonies,' the recipients of large public salaries, the dispensers of official patronage, have responded to that " impera tive State necessity" which has been relied upon for the justification of this intolerable expedient. Let him illustrate the fairness and equity with which only sevenpence in the pound is abstracted from the redundant income of the great proprietors and large capitalists, and wealthy nobles, in whose revenues this amount creates scarcely any sensible diminution ; and so much as 7d. in the pound is equally taken from the small tradesmen, the ill-paid clerk, the toiling artisan, or the thrifty small annui tant, to diminish their respective pittances below that point at which they had hitherto managed to maintain themselves out of the reach of debt and its concomi tant disquietudes. The tyranny of Sir ROBERT, as a financier, is the exact converse , of Procrustes as a destroyer of his species. The tyrant lopped off limb and member from all whose proportions exceeded the limits of his iron bed. The Minister cuts down, after one and the same measurement, all incomes which can be made to come within the limits of his not less cruel " standard." Accounts from Madrid of the sth, leave no doubt that Carthagena had followed the example of Ali cant, and that the movement had been successful. The garrison, together with about 1,200 military prisoners, who had been marched to the place from Catalonia, for safe custody, had joined the insur gents. Reports prevailed at Madrid, and supposed to be well-founded, that similar risings had taken place in Valencia, Murcia, Jareda, Elche, Santander, and Bilbao. According to the Government papers, how ever, Murcia, up to the 3d remained quiet. One of these journals, the Castellano, says the gold of Eng land has done it all. The following is the extract in which this wicked accusation appears : " General Roncali has left Valencia with 10,000 men. He is marching to Alicant, whither he must have arrived on the 3d or the 4th. The Council of Ministers sits continually, and is adopting the most vigorous measures to stifle the in surrection which has broken out on those two points, and will perhaps break out elsewhere, for it is evident that the Ali cant and Carthagena movements are but the exeqution of a plan concerted at Madrid, whence the emissaries of the Re volutionists had started a few days before, nor is it doubful that these movements have been provoked with the gold of England, which is interested in subverting the monarchic and religious institutions of our country." The same journal relates another story equally en titled to credit—namely, that the Finance Minister had received offers for a loan of 1,000,000,000 of reals, on good conditions, but that he refused to enter into any negotiation of the kind until the funds were much higher than they are at present. On the sth the Three per Cents. were done at 27i for cash, and 28k, at 60 days; and the Five per Cents. at 20, for cash, and 20 15-16, at 60 days. The intelligence in the French papers, of any in terest, relates chiefly to Spain, but it , furnishes no new facts relative to the outbreak at Alicant. The Journal des Debate infers, from the preparations of the Spanish Government, that a vast conspiracy ex tends its ramifications throughout the south-east of Spain—a conspiracy directed by M. LINAGE and other Esparterists residing at Gibraltar, and acting in concert with the Exaltado party against the com mon enemy, which is the Government. The Com merce states that the French and English Ambassa dors at Madrid had applied to the Minister for Fo reign Affairs for explanations relative to the \ arrest of was, that letters had reply y sed them ; but it is not b th e e en D se e i p z u ed tie w s, hic a h nd co t ni he pr r o e m p said whether the letters had been written by the De puties. According to a letter in another paper, Lo- PEZ and MADGE had made their escape from the BRAVO Government, and numerous arrests had taken place in the provinces. Great complaints are made against the French Ministers for delaying the publi cation of the telegraphic dispatches, and well grounded suspicions are excited that the state of affairs in Spain is worse than they would lead the public to believe. It is said that Queen CHRISTINA Will * not leave for Madrid for some weeks. On Sunday the Funds remained stationary, the Three per Cents. closing at 81f. 90c. The vacancy created in the representation in Parlia ment of the northern division of the couuty of Wilts, by the death of Sir Fracis Burdett, Bart., was on Monday supplied by the election of Mr. Sotheron, the late Con servative M.P. for Devizes. Mr. Eldridge, of Puckeridge House, in the same county, who had stood forward to contest this honour, as the avowed advocate of free trade principles, and in compliance with a requisition to that effect, which had been addressed to him by the North Wilts Reform 'Association, declined to go to the poll. He has alleged, in a frank and handsome manner, his reasons for this determination. They seem to have been the indifferent chances of ultimate success, which his late appearance in the field held out to him, and his unwil lingness, under this impression, to subject his opponent a E il ldridge and to their pro to the expenses whic h a continu ance of the contest would iAg. benefit to the great in the county, from the y among the pvgenerrriet:asresil.ig,pureelissttthadiiosonuvtahtobocalauentgeychdhtca,borwunttmeerrrvo. however, many signa tures attached to the requisition forwarded to Mr. Sotheron, and the strong feeling which the Anti-Mo nopolist party have created in the great body of the Wiltshire people in favour of their doctrines, that had not the nomination of Monday been unopposed, and the election thereupon consummated, Mr. Sotheron's re turn would have been very doubtful. V't r ,',„--,, .u 1 • . - A --- 4 - . . :- / , , t., 1 `°:", - '-. ' 7. _ i 1t',../ : :: . AI ' i, -'-ft! ' : - 41, 1 * ''' '. ` "s- •.„: 1 i ••,.,' .-.,? ~, • • .., - ~.., - _ -.. -,,,,,,,, • ,' i" , •:;! ...._..e .,.. , rar 410111*,.(c1f... - - .:` - e,... • ••, . % '. -. 4••:- , . - ..4% - ...- . . k Vitt ' e• - TilE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY l4, 1844. COURT CIRCULAR. - WINDSOR, TUESDAY.—TheNeverity of the weather to-day has prevented her Majesty and Prince Albert taking their accustomed walks. . . . The Royal Family have not been taken their customary airings in the Park during the day. Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cam bridge, attended by Baroness Ahlefeldt and Baron Knese beck, arrived at their residence at Kew on Monday evening, from a visit to her Majesty the Queen Dowager, at her re sidence, Witley Court, Worcestershire. The Duke of Cam bridge arrived in town from Kew yesterday morning, and visited her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester, at Gloucester House. A Cabinet Council was held at one o'clock yesterday after noon at the Foreign Office. It was attended by Sir Robert Peel, the Duke of Wellington, the Lord Chancellor, Lord Wharncliffe, the Duke of Buccleuch , Ea rl of Aberdeen,Lord Stanley, Sir James Graham, the Chancel lor of the Exchequer, Earl of Haddington, Earl of Ripon, the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, Sir Henry Hardinge, and Sir Edward Knatch bull. The Council sat three hours. The Governor of the Bank of England had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday, at his offi cial residence in Downing-street. The Ecclesiastical Commission for England had a meeting yesterday afternoon, at the office, in Whitehall-place. The Commissioners present were the Archbishop ,off Canterbury, the Bishop of London, the Bishop of Exeter he Bishop of Lichfield, the Bishop of Ripon, the Bishop of Rochester, the Bishop of Salisbury, the Judge of the Prerogative Court, the Earl of Devon, the Earl of Chichester, the n Earl of Harrowby. the Right Hon. H. Hobhouse, the Rigt Hon. Sir George Grey, and the Right Hon. John Nicholl D.C.L. Mr. Everett, the American Minister, transacted business yesterday, at the Foreign-office. The Archbishop of Canterbury had an interview with Lord Stanley, at the Colonial-office, yesterday'. Mr. John Wood, Chairman of the Excise, had an inter view with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday. Lord Adolphus Fi',zclarence left his residence, in St. James's Palace, yesterday, for Portsmouth. The Hon. Francis and Lady Ann Charteris arrrived at Farrance's Hotel, Belgrave-str iet, on Monday. In the parish of St. Mary, Islington, there have been o f f ered DESERTION OF FAMILIES DT . THE IR PAREN TS. — during the week rewards for the apprehension of seven men who have deserted their wives and families, leaving them bur dens upon the parish. QUEER ITEMS IN OLD ACCOUNTS.—In the ac counts of the expenses of some old municipal pageants and processions for the city of Chester, we find the following items :—" Paid for keeping hell head (a representation of the mouth of hell) Bd. ; for making hell mouth and cloth for it, 4s. ; for keeping of fire at hell mouth, 4d. ; (a charge for coals to keep up hell-fire), paid to the demon, 21d. ; while the bishops had but 12d. and the angels only Bd. each. There were other little perquisites to the bishops, however, for one item runs thus :—" Paid Pilate, the bishops and knights, to drink between the stages, 9d." Other payments gravely set down as ordinary matter of account are still more grotesque, as for instance—" Paid for setting of the world on fire, sd. ;" and "paid for half a yard of Red Sea, 6d,"—Chester Chronicle. SUMMARY OF NEWS AND Vubltr eTplthttott. " Who runs may read." WOZ.EXON. Both the French Chambers sat on Saturday, but the de bates are without interest. In the Deputies, the discussion was resumed on the new Game Bill, which is encountering great resistance from the Opposition, and is the theme of many an angry article in the journals before us. On Monday the bureaux of the Deputies were to examine the proposition revived by the Opposition on the occasion of M. de Salvandy's resignation, for declaring certain offices and promotions in compatible with a seat in the Chamber. The Journal des Debate announces the death of Prince Louis de Hohenlohe, at Munich, on the 16th ult., aged 70. The Prince de Joinville was to leave Paris, for Toulon, on Sunday last. The insurgents of Alicant have shot the old political chief Ceruti, as well as a very influential man, named Bernaben. AND POLICE LAW . At the Central Uiiminal Court, Lieutenant Grant surren dered to take his trial as accessory to the murder of Lieu tenant-Colonel Fawcett, in the Camden-town duel. The in dictment contains four counts, and the prisoner pleaded Not Guilty. The Court ordered the trial to stand over till this morning, and Lieutenant Grant was removed in custody to Newgate. Thomas Frost, a letter-carrier, was transported for seven years, for stealing a letter containing one sovereign. The case of Ranger v. the Great Western Railway Com pany came on again before the Vice-Chancellor of England. The object of the hearing was the final settlement of his Honour's decree in the case. In the New Court, Old Bailey, William Harris, a linen draper, aged 32, a person of very respectable appearance, was indicted for feloniously receiving, in the month of January last, a quantity of lace, of the value of 241., the property of Messrs. James Marshall and Co., he knowing the same to have been stolen by some evil-disposed person, whose name is unknown. The evidence did not bring home the charge, and the jury acquitted the prisoner. Joseph Henry Smith, a youth of respectable appearance and connexions, was charged, at Marlborough-street, with stealing an umbrella from the shop of Mr. Holmes, No. 2, Sidney's-alley, on Saturday night. He was remanded. The case of Lord Paget v. the Earl of Cardigan is entered in the Common Pleas as a special jury case. COllllT—r.a.suxoreAnx.E. In consequence of the recent bereavement in the Royal Family, by the demise of the Duke of Saxe Cobourg, her Majesty and her Royal Consort, - and illustrious family, are not expected at Buckingham Palace for the season until after the Easter recess. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge paid a visit to Wor cester, on the 9th, accompanied by the Earl and Countess of Sheffield, the Earl Denbigh, Lord Fielding, Baroness Ahle feldt, Baron Knesebeck, &c., to inspeet the porcelain manu factory and warerooms of Messrs. Chamberlain and Co. A Public dinner took place on Monday at Egham, and also at Windsor, to celebrath the anniversary of her Majesty 42 marriage. The Duke of Buccleuch has subscribed 50/. in addition to his former subscription of 100/., and the Earl of Stair, 10/. 10s., towards the completion of Sir Walter Scott's monument at Edinburgh MISCELLANEOUS. The Pro-Corn lairds of Fife, says the Fife Herald of Thurs day, held, or rather attempted to hold, a hole-and-corner meeting in the county-hall to-day, the result of which was only to render doubly sure the assurance afforded by the late meeting with the League deputation, that the monopolists are a miserable minority of the inhabitants of the county. The Anti-Leaguers were fairly beaten, and the chairman, in high dudgeon, dissolved the meeting without coming to a vote. For several days past, in conseqence of severe snow storms in Scotland, the northern mails have not arrived at the Ge neral Post-office until several hours after their stated time. From Carlisle to the north of Scotland the snow is lying on many of the roads to the depth of 10 inches. On Saturday Mr. Nicholas Maher'was elected Member for Tipperary without any opposition, Mr. O'Connell has addressed a letter to the Irise Catholic Bishops, entreating them to use all their influence to main tain •in every district in Ireland the most perfect order and imperturbable tranquillity. MONE Y AND COMMERCIAL NEWS CITY, TUESDAY EVENDIG. The verdict in the Irish State trials having reached the City by express, the Funds rather declined just before the close, although there was not much done. Consols realised 97* j, the Three per Cents. Reduced 98, and the Three-and-a-Half per Cents. 103. Spanish Bonds were also rather lower, the Active being 22& to 23, and the Three per Cent. 31i to 32. Portuguese Converted were flat at 46. Mexican Deferred receded to 11k. Brazilian were 78i to 79*. The additional transactions in Railway Shares have been these :—Eastern Counties, New, were 12; ; Brighton, 5; to ; Greenwich Preference, 1*; Manchester and Birmingham, *; and South Eastern, 151 discount ; Great Western have been 35* to *; Guildford Junction, I*: Lancaster and Car lisle. *; Manchester and Leeds Quarter, 8 ; Norwich and Braudon, 2 ; Paris and Rouen, 12* ; South Eastern Scrip, 9i to / ; Yarmouth and Norwich, 51: and York and North Mid land Scarborough Branch, 18 premium. The Exchange upon Paris. Hamburgh, and Antwerp, was rather better this afternoon. On Frankfort it was scarcely so high. The following is the official return of the exports of bullion from the port of London for the week ending Thursday last : Silver coin to Victoria and Canton... 22,000 ounces. (From The Sun of Last Night.) There was a fair demand for Cotton at Liverpool yesterday. Sales-5,000 bales, exclusive of 1,500 by speculators; 1,200 Surat sold at 4d to 4id ; 300 of Maranham at sid to bid ; 350 of Pernambuco, at 6id to 6id; 20 Egyptian, at 9d; and the rest American at Sid. to 7d. for Orleans. Shares were rather dull, and the market generally was not so good. Birmingham and Gloucester, 70i ; Eastern Counties, ex New, 10i ; Grand Junction, 227 ; South Western Eighths, £3. 9s. ; Midland Counties, 91i ; Paris and Lyons, 3 ; South Eastern, 34i. From Saxony we learn that the Stocking trade was re viving. _ - _ - There are no tidings yet of the West India mail, nor have we any late ship arrivals. The Funds look very steady, and there is rather more doing. Consols for immediate transfer are 971 to 4, and for time the same. Exchequer Bills bring 675. to 695., and India Bonds 82s. to 84s. premium. The Commissioners have taken Consols at 974 India Stock has risen to 2774 and 2784. Bank Stock is 1934 to 1924. The New Three-and-a-Half per Cents. realise 102 to 4. Spanish Bonds are not quite so good, the accounts this morning representing the revolutionary, spirit as rather on the advance. The Five per Cents. are 234 to 23, and the Three per Cents 328 to 32. Mexican Bonds are rather dull at 341 to for the Five per Cents. Columbian are 128 to 4, and Peru vian 274 to 28. Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. are 55 to 4. The Share market is inactive, and prices are not buoyant. Brighton have been down to 54 discount ; Great Western, New, and one or two others are also lower. MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, FEB. 12.—Our mar ket is not quite so firm to-day, particularly in South Eastern Shares, which have been more freely offered. The sales are :—Manchester and Birmingham, 394 ; Sheffield and Manchester, 634 ; Ditto, Quarters, 74 South Easterns, 354 ; Ditto, Scrip, 354 4 ; Manchester Assurance, 10. CLOSING PRICES. I3RITISH FUNDS. Bank Stock 3 per Cent. Red. 3 per Cent. Cons 97* 3 3 / 4 per Cent. Red lO3 New 3 3 / 4 per Cent New 5 per Cent Long Annuities to expire Jan. 1860• l2/ Oct. 1859 Ditto Bonds Ditto Old Annuities — Ditto New Annuities Ex. Bills, 1,000/. 1/d 69 pm Ditto 5001 67 pm Ditto Small 67 pm Bank Stock for Acct 1931 India Stock for Acct — Jan. 1860 ' • FOREIG A istriau, 5 per cent per cent Brazilian 13 ienos A yi es 6 per cent — Cnilian, b per cent. Colombian, 6 per cent — Ditto 1824 Cuba Bonds, 6 per cent 93 Danish, 3 per sent Greek, 1825, 5 per cent — Mexican, 5 per cent. Ditto, 6 per cent. 1837 Periv 1116.1825,6 per ct. Consols for Acct...... 971 FUNDS. Portuguese, 5 per cent. Ditto, New Ditto Prussian, 5 per cent Russian, 5 per cent — Ditto, Metallic ..... Spanish, 5 per cent 23 Ditto, 3 per cent 32 Ditto, Deferred.... .. 13i French, 5 per cent. —f. —e. Exchange.......... —f. —c. French, 3 per cent. —f. —c. Dutch, 21 per cent. 55i Ditto, 5 per r.Pnt . , :t ... 101 i COURSE OF EXCIIAN Amsterdam Ditto, at sight Rotterdam ...2 U. 12 6i Antwerp -25 95 Hamburgh M.B. 13 15 Altona Paris, 3 days' sight Ditto, 3 months 25 85 Marseilles Bourdeaux 25 90 GE.—(YESTERDAY.) Gibraltar .. .. — Leghorn .... 30 75 Genoa 25 95 Milan Venice ... 47 Naples Palermo, per oz 1181 I isbon Oporto 53 Rio Janeiro 23 Frankfort on Maine ...122 Petersburgh, 3 Us. ... 36i Berlin Bahia Buenos Ayres — New York, 2I days sight Vienna, effee. tl. 3M. 955 Trieste, litto Madrid . Cadiz Bilbao Philadelphia. ..... ......,.. PRICES OF BULLION, PER OZ, Foreign Gold, bars £3 17 9 Portugal Gold Cola.. 3 17 5 ,New Doubloons V 0 Barcelona New Dollars 0 4 9 Seville Silver in Bars ..... 0 41 l CURIOUS PH ENOMENON.—A good many years since a breast-wall or quay was built at Ardentallan, in Argyllshire, for shipping stones from a quarry at which much work has been done. When Mr. David Smith, builder, at Oban, was erecting the beacon of Skervuil, in Jura Sound, for the Northern Lights' Board, he fitted the courses of blocks for that work to their places on the quay, and has occasionally had upwards of 200 tons of stones upon it at a time, without accident. The quarry has lately been worked for the repairs of the Caledonian Canal, and on the 23d ult. there were between 170 and 180 tons of dressed stones lying upon the quay ready for shipment, when, to the astonishment of the quarriers, the crane upon the quay was observed to move and shake without any visible cause, and some openings ap peared at the surface of the quay, which were rapidly widening ; the men on the instant cried out for the foreman, who rushed to the spot, and saw the quay, with its crane and the cairn of blocks upon it, moving outwards from the shore, and sinking in the deep water; and in less than two hours the whole had proceeded seaward about 50 yards, and settled with a depth of 11 feet water over them. The whole mass is now so completely absorbed in mud and clay, that although the height of the quarry and materials could not be less than 20 feet, it has not lessened the depth of water at the entrance of the place.— Scotsman. A GLIMPSE AT SPANISH LIFE AS IT IS.—Between Pancorbo and Burgos we passed several half-ruined villages, which appeared parched—almost calcined—by the sun. I doubt if Decamps, the painter, ever encountered, during his rambles in the heart of Asia Minor, anything more burnt and tawny, more crumbling and decayed, th an t h ese wretched collection of hovels. Wandering about among their dilapi. dated walls, were a few jackasses, of that philosophical and contemplative aspect peculiar to the Spanish donkey, who is fully aware of his own utility, considers himself as part of the family ' to which he belongs ; and, moreover, h av i ng rea d Don Quixote, a ssumes an addition a l d egree of importance, on account of the possibility of his being lineally descended from Sancho's celebrated Dapple. Besides the asses, the only living things visible were souse magnificent dogs of va rious breeds ; amongst others, several enormous greyhounds, uch as one sees introduced in the paintings of Paul Veronese and Velasquez ; and here and there a group of peasant chil dren, whose eyes sparkled, like black diamonds, through their filthy rags and long tangledhair.— Gautier's Travels in Spain. TUESDAY NIGHT'S GAZETTE. ERRATUM in the list of Sheriffs appointed by her Majesty in Council, for the year 1844, published in the Second Sup plement to the Gazette of the 30th of January last : Leicestershire.—For Archibald Algernon Henry St. Mawr, Esq., commonly called Lord Archibald Algernon Henry St. Mawr, of Burton on the Wolds; read, Archibald Algernon Henry Maur, Esq. commonly called Lord Archibald Alger non Henry St. Maur, of Burton on the Wolds. DOWNING-STREET, FEB. 9, 1844. The Queen has been pleased to appoint Major Henry Cres wicke Rawlinson, of the Ist Bombay Grenadiers, in the service of the East India Company, to be a Companion of the Most Honourable Military Order of the Bath. ST. JAMES'S-PALACE, J. 31. The Queen has been pleased, on the nomination of Lord Forester, to appoint Henry Sibley Hodgson, Esq., as one of her Majesty's Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at• Arms, vice Blewitt, who retires. WHITEHALL, FEB. 13, 1844. The Queen has been pleased to present the Reverend Regi nald Hobhouse, Master of Arts, to the rectory of St. Ives, in the county of Cornwall, and diocese of Exeter, the same being void by the death of the Reverend John Jope. The Queen has been pleased to present the Reverend John Lamont to the church of Croich, in the parish of Kincardine, in the pre•bytery of Tain, and shire of Ross. vacant in conse quence of the Reverend Gustavus Aird, late minister thereof, having ceased to be a minister of the Church of Scotland. 03 - Emission by the Lord Lioutenant of GlamorgaQtire. Royal Glatnorgan Light Infantry Battalion of Militia—J. N. Lucas, Esq. to be Alajor, Feb. 5 CROWN-OFFICE, FEB. 13. MEMBERS RETURNED TO SERVE IN THIS PRESENT PARLIAMENT. DEVIZES—WiIIiam Heald Ludlow Bruges, of Seend, in the County of Wilts, Esq., in the room of Thomas Henry Sutton Sotheron, Esq., who has accepted the Chiltern Hundreds. WILTSHIRE NORTHERN DIVISION Thomas Henry Sutton Sotheron, of Bowden-park, in the said County of Wilts, Esq., in the room of Sir Francis Burdett, Bart., deceased. WHITEHALL, FEB. 2. The Lord Chancellor has appointed Robert Azlack White, of Grantham, in the county of Lincoln, Gent., to be a Master Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery. WHITEHALL, FEB. 5. The Lord Chancellor has appointed Thomas Sismey, of the town of Huntingdon, Gent., to be a Master Extraordinary in the High Court of CLancery. The following places have been duly authorized for solemniz ing marriages therein, pursuant to the Act of the 6th and 7th William IV., cap. 85:— Independent Chapel, East Retford, Nottinghamshire. St. Wilfrid's Church, Hulme, Lancashire. Roman Catholic Chapel, Richmond, Surrey. Ducie Chapel, Cheetham, Lancashire. 3AN. JOSEPH RHODES, woolstapler, Leeds. BANKRUPTS. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF EXCHEQUER, Feb.:l3. (Sittings at Nisi Prius, before Lord ABINGER and Com- mon Juries.) JUGGING r. RAMSAY. Mr. Miller appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. Peacock fur the defendant. The defendant, who is a working jeweller, rented a , house in Pentonville, which belonged to the defendant. The house, by an agreement, was rented to him at 281 a year. The dendant took possession of the premises in the spring of 1842, and the rent falling due at Lady day and Midsummer, was regularly paid, but subse quently and up to the present time he had not continued his payments, and a distress was levied on his goods, which were sold for 101. The defendant still continued his occupation of the premises, and refused to give aP possession, or to allow ingress to the house, th e garden gate being constantly locked and the shutters of the house closed. A notice to quit wa s served in the following manner:—The bell was r un g . ' and in a few minutes a head peered out of the first floor window, and a female voice requested the mission person at the gate. He told his tale, and, on bei n g informed by the - female, who stated she was• the o nl y. adult person in the h o u se a t th e ti me , th a t s he could n ot , leave the apartment in whi c h s h e t h en was , for fear 0, the children under her c are f a lli ng i n t o the fire, or otherwise doing themselv es some gr i evous bodily W in ' he threw the n o ti ce i n t o t h e gar d en , w hi c h it was pre sumed was picked up by th e d e f en d ant ' s w ife (the de c i fondant being f rom home at the time), who P asse through the garde n a f ew h ours a f terwar d s . of the The girl stated that she forgot to tell her master or, mistress of Ih e occurrence , so many papers being left at. the house that ultimately she took no notice of them. The jury immediately gave a verdict for the plaintiff-- damages ls. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH Feb. 13 . Lord Denman sat a t Ni s i P r i us t hi s morning,' wit h ° Middlesex common jury. Two cases were disposed during the morning, neither of which presented any fea tures of interest. CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT' OLD COURT. (Before Mr. Justice C RESSWELL and Mr. Justice COLERIDGE.) Upon the Learned J u d ges t a ki ng th e i r seats, g r ' Francis, one of the jurors, who sat in this Court e,„, 13 Saturday, in a case of a f e l on i ous assau lt against *- Italian, named Maribello, in conjunction with six foreig jurors, when a verdi c t o f gu ilty was re t ur ned, begg. ll permission to make a tew observations to the Court, reference to a remark made by Mr. Wilkins, the couns el for the prisoner on that occasion. Mr. Justice COLERIDGE having intimated that the Court would hear what he had to say. Mr. FRANCIS we n t on t o s t a t e , th a t upon the trial in question, the jury, a ft er a ver y care f u l cons id e ration 01 all the facts of the case, felt themselves compelled tn .. „ re a: turn a verdict of guilty ; and u p on th e i r doing s°, *i t t while the foreign jurors we r e i n th e ac t o f leaving b. box, Mr. Wilkins said to a person near him, loud enoug for all the jury to hear, " For G o d' s sa k e let thein t r i ; they are a set of hard-hearted wretch es ." Since th e Mr. Wilkins had objected to him as a juror in another i e 7,,, in which he was concerned, and he felt it to be his "Ve to state to the Court what had taken place, because considered a most unjust and improper attack had r be r e o made upon the jury, who were only desirous to per ° c h their duty ; but if they were to be subjected to s li de attacks as this from counsel, he considered the n i e d, pendence of juries would, to a great extent, be destr o y or, at all events, materially endangered. al' Mr. Justice OLERIDGE said that the observat ion _ 4 . to luded to was not made loud enou g h for the Co n ", hear, for, if it had, it would most certainly hay. a e d i d taken notice of as a very impr o per proceeding. desire not believe that Mr. Wilkins was actuated by any to offend the jury, and he was satisfi e d, f r om his k__, T l be ledge of him, that if he were then present, he No w the the first man to disclaim such an object. Counsel i n for excitement of the moment, and actuated by a feeling? their clients, might make a harsh observation , N v id be they would probably afterwards regret ; and it Nvoll' u .o well that jurors should not pay attention to whet s said, under such circumstances, to third parties. the opinion expressed by Mr. Francis that such P di d, ceedings might affect the independence of juries, he not see how it could possibly have that effect. Mr. FRANCIS said, that having made the fact know; to the Court, he had now only to make an the Learned Judges for intruding upon their attentionn to, Mr. Justice COLERIDGE said he had no onces i° of apologise. He was perfectly justified in doing sn: jou there could be no doubt that the observation in que st must have been very offensive to the jury. re- The conversation then dropped, and Mr. Francis tired. rice Henry Newman was indicted for forging an acceptance apology. to a bill of exchange for 201., with intent to defraud' The jury returned a verdict of Not Guilty. _ p i n t, Charlotte Scott was indicted for forging a re'sl i a with intent to defraud Nicholas, Baron Besley, others, the trustees of the St. Martin's Saving's Baul; r. Mr. Doane conducted the prosecution, and Ballantine appeared for the prisoner. on This case was similar to the one disposed o f Friday. A sum of 601. had been paid in the bank ". 7 an old woman named Anne Lee, and after her death the prisoner produced an order for the payment of tile" amount, but in consequence of it appearing that 1 depositor could not write, some suspicion was . and an inquiry took place. It was then ascertained O il ; the prisoner had signed the order, and she said that tta deceased had authorised her to do so. It also turn out that the deceased had been buried as a pauper , t. that she had amassed the money by means of begg t ' . letters and other impositions during her lifetime. ea . The jury found the prisoner guilty, and she wa s 9 tenced to two years imprisonment and hard labour. THE QUEEN V. HOLT. the p rod The defendant in this case is Thomas Holt , prietor andpublisher of the Age newspaper, who hat,,, bee t . • indicted for a libel upon the character of Lord w• or The case had been removed out of this Court by a Wqbe certiorari, and brought back again by a procedendo . , v r isoPf defendant, at present a prisoner in the Queen s was brought up in custody to plead, The Clerk addressed hi m , and said, " Thoras9,- vot s you are indicted for a lib e l a nd misdemeanor ; "°' plead guilty or not guilty ?" The defendant pleaded not guilty. e 014 After a short conversation between Mr. Do°llder the Court, the prisoner was removed ; and it was °- stood that the case would be tried this da. fe lcr George Gifford, 71, a seaman, was inydicted fo r w ith. niously stabbing and wounding Henry Howar d ' intent to do him some grievous bodily harm. ~•c h The affray took place in a brothel, during wu l prisoner stabbed the prosecutor with a sword. The jury found him Guilty of the assault, 0 was sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment- POLICE INTELLIGENCE' (YESTERDAY.) MARLBOROUGH-STREET. o f ag e ' Thomas Robinson, between 50 and 60 yea rs w hop dressed in the style called shabby-genteel, al l ' he ha d manners and appearance at once indicated th at owi n g seen better days, was placed at the bar on the foli charge : t a, 41° Police-constable, No. 85 of the C division, sta -e r i s one r between 9 and 10 o'clock last night, he saw the t cohr beg of several gentlemen passing along the OPe"; for nade and also Regent-street—some he followe d , Il l t int considerable distance, entreating them to Pre, 14 halfpenny towards enabling him to get a 14.-",itl oar ing ; he begged of fourteen persons altogether,a ness then took him into custody. bleb r The prisoner produced a number of letters , w .„ eo t said would prove the correctness of the sta teLm ste ll. was about to make. He had formerly been in s a t 340 1 ; sive way of business as a wo o ll en manufacturer sse d o/ , chester, and was at one peri o d o f his life posised, 1( 0 great wealth. He, however, ultimately faifbiolf everything but an annuity of Va. per annum , w o o t ° was still in the receipt of. A short time ago l be P re- London to endeavour to procure a situation, h av viously arranged with a friend of his in town t o o him some money while here on his annuity. 1- ,' be ing d i however, had put him off from day to day, an w itlic'" arrears at his lodgings he could not retain t heul d to be paying, and was, therefore, last night constrainer, 0,00 a penny, which, with 3d. he had in his Pe c ! c bt. 0 have enabled him to procure shelter for th e lug te ro lt Mr. MALTB Y ordered that the untortuna should be detained un t il i nqu i r i es m ight be Wil de. th George Goodwin was c h arg ed, UNION-HALL before Mr. Tray, threatening to stab J ames B u tterworth w ith - knife. n d The complainant stated that, between t w° ! l e r -1 31 jho o'clock that morning, as he was Walking °S o vert" t , friars-bridge, he had an altercation with the Pris. t, t hret e drew his knife out of his pocket, and, ofleh ila gp i saw tfe ened to rip up his bowels. The moment l i ti l e ent); e r ‘‘eapon in the prisoner's hands he (cornP houses otb treated, and, calling for the police, gave t bp into custody. On their way to the station prisoner also threatened to stab the po l i cera' - ' _ f wrested the knife from him. his h r e oe s e ii °, The prisoner endeavoured to palliate th o e firs using a knife by saying he was struck in not stance by the man who made the charge agl a sti fy the p t . Mr. TnAILL said that nothing could notify the soner in drawing out a knife against any tow t acts were of frequent occurrence alnong s to n to 10, beings ; but in the streets of London for . a ~,o cti sai o, duct himself with such violence was qulte,',ff il e nd 0 ' He, therefore, adjudged the prisoner to find Da to pay a fine of ss. fof intoxication. MARKET NEWS.—(YES EE 15 , to / 3 1 1 0 , 3° o" A ditto, 3 1/ S" useful ditto, 3/ 5s to 3/ lOs ; fine Uphill. 63 to oti SMITIIFIELD.—Coarse i lefd " ow E H T ay S ,. 31 16s; Clover Hay, 31 to 5l; Oat Straw,L,h JOY Wheat Straw, 11 8s to 11 lOs per load. o‘ -T o ` rts . usef a Straw met a very dull sale, at the above qu s tav to 3 1100 'o 4/ ; CUMBERLAND.—Coarse Meadow Hay,2/1, s 09 toe* ditto, 3/ lOs to 3/ 16s ; Clover Hay, 315 s to 4/ 15s ;Oat Straw, 1 / 7s , e deritt" Straw, 11 9s to 1/ 12s per load. SupP l Y 3/ 50 trade dull. Prices barely stationary. fie Upland ditt to 1 19 g ; 01 1 oarse 21 I°s t 3 ') / IP ta ; WHITECI Meadow Hay, useful ditto IAPEL.—C , 3/ 6s to 3/ lOs ; fi ne Upland , (11 1, t rls to 1 0 0 -9 31175; Clover Hay, 3l to 5/ 59; Oat Straw,'` fu ji av' Wheat Straw, 11 8s to 1/ 109 per load. s supply, and a heavy demand. BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED. JOHN FAULKNER, builder, Danvers-street, Chelsea, to surrender Feb. 22, at half-past eleven, and March 22, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Whit more, official assig nee, Basingliall-street ; Ward, Lincoln's Inn-fields. JOHN MILNER, engine manufacturer, Brook-street, New road. Feb. 22, at half-past one, and March 29, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Follett, official assignee, Basinghall street ; Rivington, Fenchurch-buildings. THOMAS AMOS. builder, Kingsland-road, Middlesex, Feb. 27, and March 26, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Groom, official assignee, Abchurch-lane ; J. and W. Sheffield, Leadenhall-street. EDWARD MANSFIELD MARKS, upholsterer, Mon. timer-street, Cavendish-square, Feb. t , t, and March 26, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Edwards, official as signee, Frederick's-place, Old Jewry • Ivimey, Chancery-lane. GEORGE FIELD, packer, Bond -court, Walbrook, Feb. 21, at two, and March 27, at eleven, at the Court of Bank ruptcy. Lackington, official assignee, Coleman-street; Cot trill, Throgmorton-street. ROBERT TURNER, fancy cloth manufacturer, Al mondbury, Yorkshire, Feb. 26, and March 27, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court. Young, official assignee, Leeds ; Robinson, Huddersfield ; Bond, Leeds ; Clark and Co., Lin coln's Inn-fields, London. THOMAS HIGGIN SON, pawnbroker, Liverpool, Feb. 23, at twelve, and March 20, at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court. Cazenove, official assignee, Liverpool ; Thompson, Liverpool ; Norris, Allen, and Simpson, Bartlett's-buildings, Holborn, London. JOHN HOOSSE BARRY, merchant, Liverpool, Feb. 27, and March 27, at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court. Turner, official assignee, Liverpool ; Sharp and Jackson, Bed ford-row, London • Miller and Peel, Liverpool. THOMAS LAY, grocer, Dudley, Worcestershire, Feb. 21, at twelve, and March 25, at eleven, at the Birmingham. Dis trict Court. Bittleston, official assignee, Birmingham; Collis, Stourbridge; Smith, Birmingham. RICHARD LANG, tallow chandler, Mill-bridge, York shire, Feb. 24, and March 26, a t e le ven , a t th e L ee d s District Court. Hope, official assignee, Leeds ; Jaques and Edwards, Ely-place, London ; Watts, Dewsbury. NOTICES OF INSOLVENCY. E. Pitber, cattle-dealer, Webb's-lane, Hammersmith. J. Simmons, wheelwright, Hardingstone, Northamptonshire S. Tarry, shoemaker, Alaseby, Northamptonshire. J. Wheeler, soap-boiler, Bugbrook, Northamptonshire. W. Copson, hatter, Grantham, Lincolnshire. M. Westphal, commission agent, Woodstock-st., Uanover-sq. H. Carman, draper, Holywell, Flintshire. W. Thomas, stone merchant, Cardiff. J. Tummond, tea dealer, York. J. Lilley, grocer, Birmingham. C. Iligginson, schoolmaster, Filkins, Oxfordshire. W. Dawson, saddler, Chesterfield. IL Pool, clothes dea ler, Manchester. W. Brown, baker, Waterloo-road, Surrey. T. Rolfe, jun., journeyman wine-cooper, Great St. Helen's, Bishopsgate. street. R. Williams, shoe manufacturer, New Brentford. J. Hargreaves, shoemaker, Blackburn, Lancashire. H. Rogers, parish clerk, Melverley, Shropshire. J. Pritchard, tailor, South-row, New-road, St. Pancras. W. Hinehlift, haberdasher, Chelsea. J. T. Morgaia, butcher, F'eckenham, Worcester. G. Taylor, butcher, Poynton, Cheshire. J. Woodhouse, Chorlton-upon-Medlock, Lancashire. J. Willey, butcher, Manchester. D. Bates, card maker, Huddersfield, Yorkshire. C. A. Petterson, book-keeper, Leeds. T. Owen, retail beer seller, Liverpool. W. South, jun., brick maker, Reedness, Yorkshire. J. Jackson, grocer, Skipton, Yorkshire. J. Croft, patten maker, Leeds. J. Davies, miller, Dyserth, Flintshire. W. Cooper, corn dealer, Ryde, isle of Wight. T. Bland, market gardener, Christchurch, Monmouthshire. D. White, Gloucester-place, Walworth. C. Nurse, plane maker, Maidstone, Kent. J. Laws, ginger beer maker, Wells-street, Cripplegate. R. Mayes, grazier, Ravensden, Bedfordshire. C. S. Shannan, tea dealer, Bedford. J. Peachey, pawnbroker, Wellington.street, St. Luke's. W. Pearce, hosier, Nottingham. J. Campbell, Boston, Lincolnshire. J. Hambson, warehouseman, Hulme, Lancashire. J. Marsland, weaver, Bradford, Yorkshire. B. Wood, waterman, Mirfield, Yorkshire. J. Mantle, perfumer, Bedford. R. Bremridge, boot maker, Hampton. J. Bond, tailor, Ardwick, Lancashire. . . C. T. Oliver, clerk, White Hart -court, Bishopsgate-street. H. C. Carpenter, clerk, Coborn-street, Mile-end. B. Smith, builder, Northampton. F. W. Winsor, warehouseman, Trafalgar-place, Walworth. W. Hemming, coachman, Birmingham. R. Bassam, blacksmith, Hingham, Norfolk. J. Hands, stationer, Birmingham. T. S. Atkins, tax surveyor, Leicester. D. Armfield, provision dealer, Prestbury, Cheshire. J. Fryer, grocer, Chorley, Lancashire. W. Prockter, card maker, Rochdale, Lancashire. C. Knowles, schoolmaster, Gawsworth, Cheshire. T. Leach, labourer, Tongend, Lancashire. R. Forrester, town carter, Chatham. G. Penny, grocer, Totnes, Devonshire. H. Cope, coal higler, Old Radford, Nottinghamshire. W. P. Stokes, compositor, Haberdashers'-siceet, Horton. J. Bills, lodging-house keeper, West-ham, Essex. W. Kington, Newington. E. C. Pulliblank, comedian, Edwardes-square, Kensington. J. W. Turnbull, glove manufacturer; Exeter. SECOND NOTICES. J. Routh, Camberwell-grove, Feb. 19, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Graham, official assignee. R. Routh, Camberwell-grove, Feb. 19, at half-past twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Turquand, official assignee. E. A. Evans, tobacconist, Great Surrey-street, Blackfriars road, Feb. 19, at half-past eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Graham, official assignee. T. B. Day, Hanover-square, Clapham-road, March 6, at half-past eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Lackington, of ficial assignee. J. Mullins, Schoolmaster, Lewes, Sussex, Feb. 24, at half past twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Groom, official assignee. R. Levick, clerk, High Holborn, Feb. 17, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Edwards, official assignee. J. Smallshaw, gunner, R.N., Landport, Hampshire, March 5, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Johnson, official assignee. J. Cox, miller, Ipswich, Feb. 17, at one, Court of Bank ruptcy. Edwards, official assignee. W. Pullin, plasterer, Tuck-street, Shoreditch, Feb. 27, at half-past twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Johnson, official assignee. R. G. Cattell, jeweller, Buxton-street, Clerkenwell, Feb. 24, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Groom, official assignee. J. Mort, jun., grocer, Little Bolton, Lancashire, Feb. 20, at twelve, at the Manchester District Court. Stanway, official assignee. W. Forster, whitesmith, Warrington, Lancashire, Feb. 19, at twelve, at the Manchester District Court. Stanway, official assignee. G. Berkeley, farmer, Eastington Longdon, Worcestershire, Feb. 21, at one, at the Birmingham District Court. Valpy, official assignee. I. Robson, farmer, Thornton, Yorkshire, Feb. 17, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court. Fearne, official assignee. G. Buckley, woollen-cloth spinner, Almondbury, Yorkshire, Feb. 19, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court. Young, of ficial assignee. G. Foulds, stone mason, Bingley, Yorkshire, Feb. 19, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court. Young, o ffi cial ass i gnee. T. Pycock, farmer, Atterby, Lincolnshire, Feb. 17, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court. Fearne, official assignee. T. Joy, beer seller, Liversedge, Yorkshire. Feb. 17, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court. Hope, of f icial assignee. W. Peat, jun, Yeadon, Yorkshire, Feb. 17, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court. Hope, official assignee. R. S. Taylor, veterinary surgeon, York, Feb. 17, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court. Fearne, official assignee. J. Hallam, jun., piece maker, Skipton, Yorkshire, Feb. 17, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court. Hope, official assignee. T. Corlass, licensed victualler, Keighley, Yorkshire, Feb. 17, at eleven. at the Leeds District Court. Fearne,officialassignee. B. Woffenden, woollen yarn maker, Dewsbury, Yorkshire, Feb. 17, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court. Fearne, of ficial assignee. M. S. Lotinga, surgeon, Bishopwearmouth, Durham, Feb. 26, at twelve, at the Newcastle-upon-Tyne District Court. Baker, official assignee. C. Armitage, engraver, Sheffield, Feb. 17, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court. Hope, official assignee. J. Walker, table knife manufacturer, Sheffield, Feb. 17, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court. Fearne, official assignee. S. Walker and J. Walker, jun., cloth weavers, Greetland, Yorkshire, Feb. 19, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court. Freeman, official assignee. r Dividends, &c., To-morrow.] FATAL OCCURRENCE AT LOCHMTIDEN.—OH TUGS day several young persons having incautiously ventured upon _All' - _ _____..----_—_-- .. / G. a the ice on the Kirk Loch, for the purpose of skating and 1 a CAR D 1 • fin amusement it unfortunately gave way, when no less than I LORD W. PAGET V. THE EARL --r ri~'e ly ia been Chief dust's , five of them were precipitated into the water, three of whom, CRLM QON.—This celebrated case has ,,,_ :e f t he , melancholy to relate, were drowned, the other two having for trial, by a special jury, before the Lord (- , .. l ;,, do esdai with great difficulty succeeded in getting out. The unfortu- the Court of Common Pleas, at Guildhall, on 1Y ' or nate youths that have perished are, a son of Mr. Paterson, of 21st instant. ____--- U•7G, Locherbriggs, a boarder at the public school here, a son of ---_- ---„„ --- „0 yO.',, the William Gibson, slater, and the other a son of Mr. William London : Printed and Published by Wl' Harkness, and a brother of the two lads who were saved.— No. 112, Strand, at The Sun Office, .Dumfries Standard. 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