The Sun. — London, England, 1845-01-10 00:00:00

THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. THIS EVENING Will be repeated a Grand Opera Seria, called THE DAUGHTER OF ST. MARK. Lusignano, Mr. Burdini ; Andrea Cornaro, Mr. Borrani ; Moncenigo, Mr. Weiss ; Adolphe de Courcy, Mr. NV. Harrison; Catarina Cornaro, Miss Poole To conclude with a Grand Comic Christmas Harlequinade, called PUCK'S PANTOMIME; or, HARLEQUIN AND ROBINSON CRUSOE. Robinson Crusoe. Mr. W H. Payne; Harlequin, Mr. Wieland; Gown , Mr. T. Matthews; rantaloon, Mr. Howell ; Columbine, Miss Carson. The Box.o:tice is open daily, from Ten in the Morning until Six in the Evening, where Private and Family Boxes, Stalls, Places, a id rickets may be had on application to Mr. John Parsons THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Lessee, Mr. B. WEBSTER. "I'HIS EVENING Wilt performcd a New and Original Comedy, in Five Acts, called OLD HEADS AND YOUNG HEARTS. Colonel Rocket Mr. Soickland ' • Littleton Coke, Mr. Charles ~l athe- s ; Tom Coke mr. Webster; Bob, Mr Buckstone ; Jesse Rural, Mr. W. Farren ; the Countess of Ftgrpion, Mrs. W. Clifford ; Lady Alice Hawthorn Madame Vestris; Miss Rocket, Miss Julia , lennett. After which, a New Grand Musical Fairy Extravaganza, entitled GRACIOSA AND PERCINET. King Uxorious, Mr. J. Bland ; Princess Gracicsa, Miss Julia Bennett ; Percinet, Miss P. Horton ; Duchess Grognon, Mrs. Stanley. To conclude with a Grand MOVING DIORAMA; or, NC. FORIAL TOUR IN SWITZERLAND. Private Boxes, Two Guineas and On Guinea and a-Half each. I, ckets and Places to be had of Mr. I. T. Ar cher, at the Box-office, )m l'en till Five o'Clock. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. Under the Direction of Madame CELESTE. THIS EVENING Will be repeated (by special permission of Charles Dickens, l's;.) a New Drama, entitled THE CHIMES. A Goblin Story of Some Bells that Rang an Old Year Out and a New Year In. Toby Veck, Mllr. 0. Smith; Alderman Cute, Mr. Wright; Tugby, Mr. Wilkin son Sir Joseph Bowley, Bart , Mr. P au l Bedford ,• Fern, Mr. Hudson; Richard, Mr. Selby; Meggy Veck, Miss Fortescue ; Mts. Chickenstalker, Mrs. Frank Matthews. After which, NORMA, in which Miss Woolgar, Mr. Paul ford, Mr. Wright, and Miss Reynolds will perform. To conclude with a New Grand Military and Comic Ch , istinas Pantomime, called CAT'S CASTLE; or, Harlequin and the Ki g of the Rats. Harlequin, Mr. T. Ireland ; Columbine, Miss Lons. dale ; Clown. Mr. C. J. Smith ; Pantaloon, Mr. Sanders. Prompter, Mr. Gallot; Principal Painter, Mr. Pitt ; Leader of the Band, Mr. Mellon.—Box-office open from Eleven till Four. Private Boxes to be had at the Theatre, and at all the principal Libraries. PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. LESSEE, Mr. J. M. MADDOX. THIS EVENING Will be repeated an English Version of the celebrated Opera Butts, in Two Acts, called tHE ITALIAN IN ALGIERS. Ihe Music by Rossini. Mustapha, Mr. P. Corti ; Lindor, Mr. Allen; Taddeo, Mr. Leffler; Haly, Mr. Mattacks lsabella, Mdlle. Helen Connell Elvira, Miss Grant ; Zulma, Miss brentnall. To be succeeded by a New Comedietta. entitled THE WIDOW, BEWITCHED. Mr. Clement Furnival, Mr. Walter Lacy; Mrs. Lorimer, Mrs. Stirling To be followed by a new Divertissem snt, called LE SALON DE BA L Principal characters by Mdlle. Caroline RouSset, Mt- s Marshall, Mdlle. Teresine, M. J. Rou'set, Mr. ;Marshall, and Mr. Gilbert. After which will be repeated a New Grand Romantic, and rather Operatic Burlesque Extravaganza, called JOE MILLER AND HIS MEN. Grindofr, Mr. Compton; Lothair, Mr. Oxberry ; Kelmar, Mr. Granby; Riber, Mr, C,orri Golotz, Mr, Walton; Claudine, Miss E. Stanley ; Ravina, Mrs. Fosbroke. sage Manager, Mr. H. I. Wallack. Stage Dire c to r , M r . E m d en, Machinist, Mr. Edmund BradwelL Dress Circle, ss. ; Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 25.; Gallo Is. Half-price at Nine o'clock—Dress Circle,2s. 6d. ; Boxes, 2s. ; Pit, IL; Gallery, ed. Private Boxes, Two Guineas and One Guinea and a-Half ; Pro ~w 3oxes, Two eluineas and a-H I M Doors to be opened at Half. plat Six, and the Performances to com mence a t S even o ' c l oc k . '1 he Box-office, under the direction of Mr. W. Massingh'm. Private Boxes and Free Admissloas for the Season to be bad at the T•leatte. Ai 4. A THE ROYAL LYCEUM, LATE ENGLISH OPEi<A. HOUSE. Under the Management of Mrs. KEELEY. THIS EVENING Will be repeated THE CHIMES; A -Goblin Story. Principal Characters by Messrs. F. Vining, Meadows, Diddear, F. Matthews, Collier, Emery, Turner, and Keeley; Miss Walcott, Miss Arde 1, Miss Grove, and 'lrs. Keeley. Atter which, a New Farce, called TO PERSONS ABOUT TO MI ARR Y. Supported by Messrs. F. Matthews, Meadows, and Stoker Wss Arden, and Mrs. Wigan. To conclude with a New Grand Operatic, Historical, Romantic Pantomimical, Burlesque Extravaganza, entitled VALENTINE AND ORSON. Principal Characters by Messrs. F. Matthews; Meadows, Wigan, Collier, furner, Kinloch, Yarnold, and Keeley Mrs. Wigan, Miss Arden, Miss Fairbrother, Miss Grove, NCrs Usher, Miss James, Miss Turner, and Mrs. Keeley. PRICES OF ADM ISSlON.—Balcouy Poxes, Upper Boxes, ; Pit, 25.; Gallery, 6d. Second Price—Balcony Boxes, ; iipner fioxss, Is. ; Pit, /s. Pnvatc Boxes on the It3leony Tier ..nolding eight persons), Two Guineas. Private Boxes on the Seco.,d Fier (holding eight persons), One Guinea and a-Half. Private Bmcei on the Pit Tier (holding six persons), One Guiren. T ie rox.o!licci s open from Ten to Four o'Clock, under the direc tion of Mr. Grogan, late of Covent garden Theatre. Nightly Overflows t the Grand Christmas Holiday Noveltie., and I reble Ritation of Entertainments at ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE OF ARTS. Proprietor and Manager, Mr. W. BATTY. Brilliant Success of the New Pantomime THIS EVENING Will be repeated a New Spectacle, entitled THE ROYAL PO HUNT; or, The Race-Hone and Life's Course of Man and Steed ; intr•Aucing unequalled National Fetes. Real Fox-chase on the Stage and in the Circle by living Fo c and real Pack of Hounds, purchased by Mr. Batty of Mr. Tattersall, to realise this novel production. Epsom Races and other Sporting Features. New Scenes of the Circle, and entire change in the Feats of Horse manship.To conclude with a Grand Comic Christmas Equestrian PantomimP, c. lied HARLEQUIN AND JOHNNY GILPIN'S R I D E; or, the Black Witch of Edmonton. Harlequin, Mr. H. Lewis. Columbine, Mrs. J. W. Colyer ; Clown, NI r. T. B arr y ; Pantaloon, Mr. Bradbury. acting and stage.manager, Mr. W. D. Broadfoot. Box-office open from Eleven till Five. Lessons in the Art et Riding by Mr. R. Smith daily. DA VIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE As usual, the best Pantomime of the Semis I A more brilliant triumph than ever before achi eve d I Laughter, Wonder, an t i Delight !! ! The First Pantemimic Performers of the Age, an:i Everything New!!!! THIS EVENING Will be repeated THE SEVEN AGES OF MAN; or, The End of Crime. Principal Characters by Mr. Henry Core (from *he Theatre Royal Edinburgh), Messrs. H. Hughes, Neville, R Hourer, 1 ewis, Hesiop, and Seaman, Mrs. R. Honner, Mrs. Lewis, Mrs. W. Daly, and Miss Martin. After which, Herr Joseph Gouldsmith and Marie Gouldsmith, from the Teatre Berlin, will perform most wonderful Gymnastique Feats on the horizontal corde and miraculous evolutions, suspended by a double rope. To conclude with an Original Worldly Comic Pantomime, called POUNDS, : - HILLINGS, AND PENCE; or, HARLEQUIN Z. S. D. Harlequin, Mr. H. Harvey; Clown, Mr. T. Ridgway; Pantaloon, Mr. Henry Core; Columbine, Miss Slaiter. Places and Private Boxes to be had of Mr. Kerschner, at the Boc ci/ice, from Eleven to Four. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE Extraordinary Success of " Marianne; or, The Child of Crime," and the New Comic Pantomime. THIS EVENING Will be repeated MARIANNE ; or, the Child of Charity. Su., ported by Mr. Osbaldiston, Henry Howard, J. T. Johnson, T H. Higgie, J. Herbert, E. Jones, W. Searle, Miss Vincent, Miss E Terrey, and Miss Treble. After which, the laughable Drama, entitled WILFUL MURDER. To conclude with a New Grand Christmas Pantomime, entit!cd HARLEQUIN HOT CODLINS ; or, The Little Old Wonsan and the Demon of the Metal Mine. Harlequin, M. Chaphyo ; Clown, Mr. Blanchard; Pantaloon, Mr. Coney; Columbite, Le Vile, THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, JAN. 9. THERMOMETER, Lowest, 31 ; Highest, 33 ; Noon, :32. BAROMETER, 30.15.—W1ND, E. NoTE.—The figures which follow the words "Lowest" and " Highest" denote the lowest and highest state of the Thermometer during the preceding twenty-four hours. Al; the other observations are made at noon. Water freezes at 32 ; 55 on Thermometers is marked "Temperate," and on Barometers "Fair" is generally placed opposite to 30, and " Rain" at 29 ; but there is no certainty of dry weather when the mercury falls below 30. iiIGH WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY. mrr Ing fi minutes after 3 Evening 29minutes after 3. gas. personal interest in the maintenance of the game-laws is far greater than might be supposed, and hardly less formidable is their influence both within and without , the walls of Parliament. There are hundreds of country gentlemen who—in the utter absence of that " absolute wisdom" which Lord BROUGHAM attrilauted to the late Alderman WOOD—look upon these laws as the palladium of the Constitution, and would just as soon lose their right arm as consent to their abolition• The breed of Squire WESTERNS is not yet extinct among us, and not a few of our provincial squire archy, unfitted by nature, habit, and inclination, for higher and more intellectual occupations, devote their whole time to field sports, and seem to think that the great duty of their existence consists in strictly pre • serving game and exterminating poachers. With men like these it is idle to reason, for they possess no reasoning faculties to which an appeal can be made, and their selfish opposition is only to be neutralised by bringing the whole overwhelming power of public opinion to bear directly upon them. They must be coerced into a sullen submission to the claims of justice, common sense, and humanity, and have the wholesome truth forcibly impressed on them, that the life of a hare or a pheasant is not for an instant to be put into competition with that of a human being. Among the public questions that it is expected will occupy the serious attention of Parliament during the session now so close at hand, few are of more pressing importance than the game-laws. We talk of the necessity of educating the lower classes of the community and instilling into them proper views of religion and morality, but so long as these laws are permitted to remain on the statute-book in their present stringency, one of the most prolific sources of demoralisation will still exist among the masses, and all our attempts at instructing and elevating their minds will be utterly unavailing. The game-laws then must be abolished—wholly and entirely abolished. It will not do to tamper with this cancer in the con stitution of society—it must be cut out altogether— " Immedicabile vulnus Ease recidendum est, ne pars sincera trahatur." We have laboured very earnestly to produce a conviction on the minds of others which has long possessed our own—namely, that the most alarming symptom in our social condition is the absence of an efficient principle of distribution in relation to our unrivalled and perpetually augmenting power of production. By means of the enormous masses of capital accumulated in a few hands, we can set on foot the most gigantic enterprises, in which, the money basis being provided, the utmost ascertained capacities of machinery and industrial u labour can he developed to their full extent, and worked to the utmost realisable profit. Thus it is we see in England the most delicate and costly articles of luxury, and fabrics of the cheapest and nsost inferior kinds, produced with equal facility. The cotton printing works, the silk factories, the power-looms, the mills, continue almost uninterruptedly the process of incalculably multiplying their various products, and especially those commodities in the class of cheap clothing and raiment which are most univer sally in demand. A comparatively small per centage on the enormous capital sunk and weekly wages dis bursed by the millowner or the manufacturer, is found I sufficient ratio of profit to maintain all these great works and extensive machineries in motion. But the result is not to " distribute" them among the great bulk of the population. Least of all do those classes which compose the industrial community benefit by the low prices of the articles, of which their own labour or supervision has been the main element in the production. Their wages are so deplorably re duced that low prices do not extend to them that power of purchase or consumption which high prices, with whatever evils they may be in the opinion of many authorities clogged, would certainly give to them. The condition, then, of the industrial com munity is an anomaly no less positive than this— extreme destitution, with low prices of all com modities and necessaries of life, in place of compara tive competency and comfort, under high prices, of these articles. The explanation of the anomaly consists in this fact—that the wages of their labour are reduced in a far greater ratio than the prices of such commodities. The numbers of hats, caps, coats, gown stuffs, shirts, blankets, stockings, cotton goods, may be all infinitely increased, and vastly reduced in price, but the reduction of price only carries them readily to the foreign consumer. Our own industrial classes acquire but a very minute proportion of the increase. A longer daily term of work, and di minished pay for the product, have paralysed their powers of home consumption among the most meri torious, the most overtaxed, and the most underpaid body of our natiee population. An individual, who signs himself "Mires EMERITUS," has addressed a letter to the Morning Post on the subject of " Currency and Labour," which is a sensible and well-reasofied paper, so far as it goes, but which its able writer will pardon us for saying, does not go far enough. It enunciates several pro positions as to the baneful effects of Sir ROBERT PEEL'S legislation on the market of labour, in almost all of which we fully concur; but, strange to say, except that it contains one or two incidental allusions to our " monetary system," it is utterly silent as to the "currency." This is the more to be lamented (in our judgment, at least), because we hold the scheme of currency, established through the immediate instrumentality of Sir ROBERT PEEL, to be primarily responsible for that depression of labour or prices of which "MILES" complains. His premises are that the nation is composed of two classes—those whose pro perty lies in their labour, and those whose property consists in money or land ; i.e., the producing and the unproducing classes. That to the welfare of the former, as the more important, but the least at leisure to watch their own interests, an enlightened statesman will undoubtedly look, in the first place, as a duty towards those who are themselves the founda tion and origin of all wealth and prosperity in the State. That the latter class, in respect of their more fortunate condition and superior education, he may properly leave to take care of their own inte rests. But, contrary to the exigencies of these pre mises, the legislative consideration and attention of the Premier, are, according to "MILES," exclusively devoted to the interests of a section of the latter class; namely, the moneyed capitalists —only, " MILES" next assumes that the fixed, certain liabilities of the State, amounting, annually, to about .50,000,0001., their pressure on the producing classes must be inversely as the value of labour compared to money—that is, that with wages of 2s. a day a man can with more facility pay a fired or given amount of taxation than if he has only Is. a day for wages. This, too, is very certain ; and "MILES" justly infers, that to increase the value of money is to increase the difficulty of meeting the additional engagements. No doubt of it. But he might have as well added that herein, also, is to be noted an ingredient of enormous iniquity in Sir R. PEEL'S monetary legislation. With this fixed taxation all other commodities but gold have a fluctuating value, whether as to the relations between Government and the people, or the people and the market of the world ; and consequently they are all directly or in directly affected by taxation. Gold alone is, as be tween Government and people, estimated at a fixed value, and the standard of prices as to all other articles is thus regulated by the fixed Government value of gold. Now, if instead of this fixed Mint or Government value of gold, which makes all other prices cheap because itself is low, gold (already a free commodity in the open market) were left to fluctuate in price according to the laws of demand and supply, like all other commodities, in trans actions of all kinds, it would be, like them, affected, inediately or immediately, by taxation; and the wages of labour would not be arbitrarily reduced to the minimum scale, at which the Mint price of gold has been so unwarrantably as well as absurdly fixed by Sir It. PEEL. But what would in that case be the result? That capital would be taxed. The capitalist would complain that the nominal amount of his securities in the hands of the Government or the Bank of England could not be realised in gold except at a certain per centage of depreciation. This is, in fact, what ought to have been tile case, and just what Sir R. PEEL meant to avoid. The industrial community, as we have often shown, pay at least 30,000,0001. of taxes out of their diminished wages —diminished by the natural or gold prices established by the standard Mint price of gold. The capitalist gets for his gold, or paper convertible on demand, by law, into gold, se much a greater proportion of com modities as is represented by the two elements— • 2 Nit ),N Y AND C . /- 1. ,1. :1 !:'''..'', '- 17 Consols closed precis e ly Ctahrey; im'ie w being 1001 3 for M o ney an d A ccoun t. Bank Sti.cli. 1 7 t ; aa ß s SD i A n Y ti k i ; e vr ra ll o 7 in • 211, Reduced Th ree p er C,. n t s . t ouc h e d 101, and So' Sea Stock was marked 1163. The Foreign Bonds we re tilt as le Bards S n t i b s e ls chiefly, the kb , - per Cent , . being 263 to 27, an d tor t Three per Cents. 3r,3 3. 1 3,, ritiguese Con‘ened For 601 for Money ; Colombian nrougi.t 143 ; 1 3,- • 1 0 ° per Cent.. were 10:i-3 ; and Chilian, 101 t , 4 , . h oe The additional transacti o ns i n R a il ws y Sher" o ft hero th' se :—Birmingnain and al —..,,weser r. New•,., l _l; 71 ; Caro,r.!ge and Linc.:ln, 1 ; ("huruct V alio, 1 ,11 1 ; Edinlmrgn and Gi•lsgow, 11 ; Gn•at North of Engi oir New, 21 ; Great We4ern, 86 to 873 ; Hans ich, I 1 4; mingham, Thirch, 37 to 3 ; Ditto, Qu rter, 25 t o } Brighton, 13 3 ; South-Western, 363 to 351 ; .11 Eighths, 193; London and York, li to f; 3ilancheste',44l Birrninghlm, 13 ; Midland, 18 ; Newcastle and 8e . r ,; 04 , 63 ; North British, 3 ; Northern and Eutern, 14 ; 1 ; Scrip, 113 ; Norwich and Brandon, 6 ; Ditto, New, ',' Portsmouth Direct, 33 ; Richmond and West-end, 5 1 6 i South Wales, I 3 • York and North Midland, 5 5 I g o , Ditto, Half, 28 ; Ditto. Scarborough Branch, 223 ( ; ) ,v,,, u , Selby Scrip 483 ; Ditto Extension, 12 to 11 . i. ; B 11 1 i and Amiens, 23 ; Great Northern of France, 1 1 ; p ties Paris and Stra s bourg, 3 3 p rem i um. E as t ern Cti,,,,,4 have been 9t093 ; and Blackwell, 93 discount. P l i Northern and Ely and Bedford were a t par. 11°Ap oi, ti e and Western Batik Shares were 7, and Union of tralia 21 premium. (Fron The Sun of Last Night.) „ s ool A moderate business was don e i n C o tt on at LiYel $ 1 yesterday. Sales 4,000 bales, all to the tratle,l l 4; previous rates, including 300 P ernam a t 53d. to ' to 200 Maranham, at 43d. to 50. ; 200 Bahia, at 54 t o 51d. ; a few bales Egyptian at 11d. ; and til°_,, o e American, at 34d. to 43d. per lb.—Sh ares were °8 40 4 what better. Birmin g h am an d Gl oucester; 102 ; 1)"ol and Gloucester, 39i 401 ; Caledonian, 43 ; Chet r o S4 Birkenhead, 37 ; Chester and Holyhead, 53 ; .r',. oil Counties, 153 ; Churnet Vall e y, 43 4 ; Edinbut6„;ol Glasgow, 62 ; Glasgow and Dumfries, 21s. 6d. ; Ye( Junction, 227 ; Ditto, Halves, 1133 ; Gre a t North 0 ' te e land, New, 63 ; Great Western, 167 ; Gr e at We l a sii Fifths, 383 ; Lancaster and Carlisle, 14 ; London 5i Brighton, 52 ; London and South Western, Ne w ' l l6i Manchester and Leeds, 124 ; Midl an d Counti:st 'roil South Eastern, 413 ; South Eastern, Ne w , ISt; 6 SI and Lyons, 735. 6d. ; Boulogne and Amiens, 91. bo * France, Northern of Fr ance , 753 ; C entral of lig' et Accounts from various parts, in many instances bardOA ' ever of old date, have be en rece i ve d to-day. Fr° - e Cape there are dates to Nov. 12, b u t the latest ri 00 seen from the frontier are Oct. 31. Th ere was 11 restlessness still on the part of the Kafers, but 0 ,00, yeomanry corps had been f o r me d a t Graham's too which, together with oth er p recau ti ons, wou ld no '• oil Prove a bit of a curb to thieving. T.he weathq,t been rather severe. At Natal th e f armeri st ill olnr - A dislike to British ruts, ' ci Papers, &c., to Nov. 23, from Rio d e Janeiro. lie the commencement of the new era in our commer c roies lations with Brazil, by the i m p os iti on o f higher l' A 0 but the effect, of course, has not yet been discove4 fie shippers had all got their goods in previously. .1 net 0 cure will, perhaps, " a tale unfold " that may P lo d without its effect on high duty advocates, whet '. England or Brazil. -for' Advices of Oct. 16, from Buenos Ayres, and - JO' from Monte Video, state that Roses was in hop es - 00 01 taining reparation for the insult offered to the Arg e 0, flag by the United States C ommo d ore, and thllt)6l, Brazilian Admiral bad threatened the Governele..l the besieged town with the seizure of Rat Island , P t ok, an apology were offered for certain indignities 0 jects of the empire. °M ils The Funds are firm again t o -d a y . an d w i t h a in,rhor business doing. The Government broker took Ne w' If 1 1 ' and-a-Quarter and Thr e e p e r Ce nt. R e d uce d . Console, 1003 j ex-dividend for Money and the 17th big...o chequer Bills have been fi rm a t 63 5. to 655. Pre,,'"if Bank Stock is worth 211 t o 212 ; an d India SW' f 3 The New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. are 1' , There is a very dull market for the Foreig,o; aro Spanish Five per Cents. have gone back to 273 TOO the Three per C e nt s . nom i na ll y are a b out 361. ijos# Two-and-a-Half per C e nt s . are 633 3. Mexican, realise 343 3. Portuguese 'C onverte d are 60 3 to 61 • it The Railway Share market i s no t b r i s k , b ut price d .' steady generally. PRICE OF BRITISH FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOO Bank Stock (From the Official Li s t.) 11 212 2 e yi 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities ~ 1.0 °, 1i 3 per Cent. Consols A nna New 3 1 4 per. Cent. Annutie s Long Annuities, Expire sth J an . 18 60 l2 3" Do. 30 Years, Expire Oct. 10, 1859 l2 ,. Ditto 30 Years, Expire Jan. 1860 . ~,,, India Stock 2B9S r Consols for Opening India Stock 289 Exchequer Bills. 1 3 4 d. I%d. 1 1,0001. 5001. ... ••• Ditto Small — Ditto. Advertised .......„ „„ _ pin• 'F PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLIO Mexican Bonds, 1837, 5 per Cent. Ditto for the Account ... 31 3 4 Ditto Deferred Stock l5 Portuguese Bonds ' 5 per Cent — Ditto Converted 61,1 Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent., 1840 27 hill- Ditto for the Account. 27r Ditto Passive Bo n d s 6 li Dutch 2% per Cents Ditto 4 per Cent. C er tifi cates PRICE OF SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCIC._„, RAILWAYS. P AID . Plat Saal" - Birmingham and Gloucester 1 00' lO 2 Bristol and. Exeter . 70 Bristol and Gloucester 3O •.. to 41 40 1 ,4 , Caledonian 5 .. ._. tO Cambridge and Lincoln Churnet Valley 2. . a ... 4 Direct Northern 2% ... .. ... 2% to Eastern Counties Ely and Bedford Great Western - Ditto, Half Shares Ditto, Fifths Hull and Selby Lancaster and Carlisle London and Birmingham —lOO — Ditto New Thirds Ditto Quarters. London and Brighton 5O ...... 51% ... to . --- i Ditto Loan Notes lO - London and Greenwich ...... 12 3 / 4 ...... 10% th% .to t•"! London and South Western.. 41%..... Ditto,New — ...... 5% 3 4... to ''''' London and Croydon ...... - - Ditto Guaranteed 5 per Ct. 2 London and Y0rk........ ...... 2%..... 4 1 4 1 A to --• Manchester and Leeds - 70 Midland - Midland, Birm. and Derby ...100 Newcastle & Darlington t) unc. 24 ...... 63 1 A : to 6-1 Newcastle and Berwick North British South Devon South Eastern and Dove r ... 33% 411, Ditto New .. 34,_, to --" Trent Valley FRENCH RAILWAYS. _, Boulogne and Amiens Great Northern of France ... 4 Paris and Rouen Rouen and Havre CLOSING PRICES. , , BRITISH FUNDS. Bank Stock 3 per Cent. Reduced ' .... 101 3 per Cent. Consols Noy New 34 per Cent Long Annuities toexpireJan.lB6o 12 Ditto 30 years, Oct.lo, 1859 Ditto 30 years, Jan. 5, 1860 India Stock for Account ...... 289 1 ,( : .. India Bonds, 1,0004. ... ..... • • Ditto under 1,0004 ............... 78 .. South Sea Stock 1167i , Ditto New Annuities . . .... 99% Consols India Stock for Account...... . . ... 289 • • Exchequer Bills, 1,0001., 1%d.... 65 'Pot • ' Ditto 5001. Ditto Small ... 66 pal- FOREIGN FUNDS. , Chilian Bonds 6 per Cent. Columbian Bonds 6 per Cent 14% Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840. Ditto 3 per Cent. Venezuela Bonds, 2 per Cent 45 ' ' t Belgian Bonds, 4% per Cent IO 2 IA • ' I Dutch, 2% per Ce n t . SHARES. , i i ~,,, Birmingham and Gl ouces t er , 100 pa id ........- l't A Ditto New Shares, 17% paid 25 t Bristol and Exeter, 70 paid 77 , tl Cambridge and Lincoln, 1% paid . 4 Churnet Valley, 2 paid t 2 Direct Northern, 2% paid . 1. l5 4 Eastern Counties, 25 paid..—... ........... .. • ... .. 61 it , Edinburgh and Glasgow, 50 paid -- * Great North of England, 100 p a id ••• 26 ; lei Ditto, New Shares, 5 paid Great Western, 75 paid ~, 16 7 II 71, , Harwich, I paid 1 4 London and Birmingham (Stock) ... ... —.... 11 Ditto, New Thirds, 2 paid 2,7 ' Ditto Quarter Shares, 2 p a id ... II London and Blackwall, 16% 51 London and Brighton, 50 paid ... ......... 1 London and Greenwich, 12% p a id London ae South Western, 41/ paid 414 London and York. 2% paid ....- Manehes , et old Leeds, 70 p a id Ditto Sixteenths, li paid Manchester and Birmingham, 40 paid ........... • t e I 7 iti Midland, 100 paid N,,,,,,. I, and I;erwick, 1% paid North British, 7% 'mid 59„,", ,) Northern and Eastern, 45 paid 4174 ' . 1 4, Ditto Scrip, 30 paid Norwich and Brandon, 8 p a id e k Ditto New, 1 paid ... I e I N Portsmouth D 1 irect, 1 paid Richmond and W es t E n d J unct i on, 1 paid.....• 4 .1. , k i South Eastern and D over , 333 pa id South Wales, 2 1 / a paid _:,.1 . it York and North Midland, 50 paid .............. .. 1 3 ° It l Ditto Half Shares, 25 paid ... .......... ••••.•• 523 1 1 1 1., Ditto Scarboro' Bran c h, 10 p a id .•••• 0 li t Ditto, Selby Scrip, 21 paid - ..... ii, ' 4 * Ditto Extension... FRENCH RAILWAYS. 44 IN Boulogne and An-lens, 2 paid 2T4. Paris and Strasbourg, 2 paid . ....-• 14. _ ,-..M70-....,. 4-% . , , r.,4 -- kli ~,,t:' , ,, i 1',44° - 4V , `•• -., , -;. • . • a ie . , , N -e•-•. 4414 ;,- -•- - ,4 1 , —,, , • --- 1;: - - w— ,4- - ... 4 a ~47 / -•- --*" - ' - ....., „ •!m--- f - ;.' • . •< 27•••,f i w:* .• ••„Vt,, , „;' , ~„ , , , E v •,,,, ,;,..,:,;„,„-kr •m 0 s „,.. ---4, k g•-••,,.- *, ... 1 .f , 0 4 .•' " •e• ..,,„, ,t, _ et' 110 7 -3, rniin. . in LONDON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 10, 1845. Another striking illustration of the mischievous working of the game-laws has recently occurred in the neighbourhood of the city of Worcester. It seems that one Thomas STAITE, who had been hired to watch the game in the preserves of the Earl ef COVENTRY, was met on the night of the 19th of De cember, while in the discharge of his perilous duty, by a gang of poachers, by whom he was so roughly used, together with others of his party, that he died shorty after of the severe blows he received in the scuffle. An inquest was immediately held on the body of the murdered man, which, from a deficiency of positive evidence, was adjourned to the 7th el January, on which day the jury returned a verdict of wilful murder against two of the poachers, JOSEPH TURVEY and FRANCIS DINGLEY, and some other persons at present unknown. On the close of the inquiry a very important and significant circumstance occurred. One of the jurors deemed it to be his bounden duty to address some strong remarks to thy Coroner and his fellow-jurymen on the subject of the game-laws, which were so intimately connected with the investigation. He observed that the ghastly spectacle which they had witnessed at the commence ment of their proceedings in the mangled corpse of STAITE, to say nothing of the revolting details given by the several witnesses who had been examined, could not fail to have excited in them emotions of the deepest sorrow and disgust; and though he was per fectly aware that th e i r d ut i es as jurors were limited to an inquiry as to how the luckless gamekeeper came by his death, yet he thought that they could not con scientiously overlook the cause which had led to so fatal a catastrophe ; and he therefore proposed that they should append to their verdict a declaration of their sentiments to the following effect :—" That the 1 1 jury cannot but deplore the continuance of laws so immoral in their tendency, so fruitful in crime, and so destructive to human life as the game-laws have proved, after long experience throughout the length and breadth of the country, and that they strongly recommend their abrogation." Several jurymen ex pressed their cordial concurrence in these sentiments, and all of them unhesitatingly signed the declaration, which the Coroner promised to forward to the Home Secretary of State; while one of the jurors added, that our gaols were half-filled with offenders against the game-laws, for the shooting and snaring of hares, pheasants, partridges, B‘c , was a great temptation to the lower orders, who could not be brought to believe that such an offence was any moral crime. This decided, deliberate expression of their sentiments on the subject of the execrable game-laws, does infinite credit to the Worcester jury, and we hope that at every future inquest of a similar nature—and they are of frequent occurrence—which may take place in the country, their example will be closely followed. It is only by keeping the grievance constantly before the public eye that we can entertain any hope of its removal, for the number of those who take a deep THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY MORNING, JANUARY 10 1845. first, of the proportion of the taxes, the bulk of which, instead of the minimum, has fallen on the producing classes, whereas it should have fallen on himself and his own class ; and, secondly, of their cheaper cost to him, the consumer, by reason of the reduced wages of production which the master or manufacturer can afford to nay to the producing operative, from the depreciation of prices caused by the institution of a gold currency. The Act of 1819, and its complement of 1844, are at the:root of the whole evil. Repeal these ; you will have high prices, high wages, equalised, or rather adjusted taxation ; and capital will be made to bear its fair share—and no more—of the public burdens. It is a mere ques tion of a tax or no tax, indirectly, upon money ; when it is no question about taxing all other property whatsoever. Why should gold money escape from that slight contribution which the fluctuations of its market price would occasionally levy upon it, as we see in the case of all other commodities ? NVhy should not paper money, the convenience and facilities of which, on a well-matured and responsible system of operation, no man disputes, be left to adjust its own value, according to the degree in which it may secure the confidence of the public ? A system, the expan sibility of which must provide the most certain guarantees against those sudden and convulsive con tractions of the general circulation of the country, which, since Sir ROBERT PEEL'S first experiment, have been of such frequent and such fatal recurrence; has, in that single quality, an irresistible claim on our respect ar 1 consideration. But it has the evi dence of hundreds of years in its favour. It appeals especially, for its testimonials of usefulness, and its powers of multiplying wealth and expanding com merce—of consolidating the public strength, and se curing the power and permanency of political insti tutions, to the stormy trials and brilliant termination of our last war with the combined Powers of Europe; to the unprecedented attitude which, in virtue of its inexhaustible energies, we were enabled to assume and to maintain, at home and abroad, a rallying point and beacon for the encouragement of all who came forward to participate in our victorious struggle against the colossal force of NAPOLEON. On what recollections does Sir ROBERT PEEL'S monetary legis lation repose for its proud history ? On the neglected warnings of his father, the founder of his fortune ? On the bankruptcy catastrophe of 1825 ? On the desolating ruin which fell upon our mercantile interest in 1838? On the past crises (as the disorganising shocks produced by his charlatanism are gently termed) ; or on those which are yet to come, like the intermittent fits of a fever, as inevitable as they are consuming ? Or does he rely on the praises which posterity will accord to the generous Legislator who propitiated all the possessors of ready capital to the support, in 1819, of his own party—in 1844, of his own Government—by the monstrous injus tice of mulcting the whole debtor and industrial interest of the empire, for the benefit of those who were mortgage and bond creditors, or interested in shifting from themselves to others that burden of taxes which the Legislature imposed, in contemplation of its being borne by them IP Accounts from Madrid of the Ist instant announce that the meeting of the Chamber of Deputies had been again postponed from the 2d to the 6th, at the instance of the Finance Minister. This i 3 not at all surprising. To make a budget with empty coffers is no trifling task, and may well require time. The news in the Spanish papers, both of the capital and the provinces, is generally without interest, but all accounts agree in stating that perfect tranquillity prevails. Despotism, therefore, it appears, suits the taste of the Spaniards. They are quiet as lambs under an absolute monarchy; and commit every extra vagance, issue pronunciamentos, form conspiracies, and set law and constituted authority at defiance, when they enjoy the rights and privileges of freemen. New Year's-day was observed as a holiday, and the Bourse was closed. We find nothing new in the Paris journals, and most of them are chiefly occupied with disquisitions on the prospects of the Session. On Monday, the Committee on the Address met, when M. GUIZOI% Marshal SOULT, and, indeed, all the other Ministers fit for duty attended and gave the necessary explana tions on questions of policy to which the KING'S Speech refers. It was reported that M. GUIZOT had announced to the Committee that England had agreed to modify the treaties respecting the right of search. The debate on the Address is looked forward to with much interest, as explanations are expected both from Count MOLE and M. TRIERS, which will show whether the GUIZOT Ministry is endangered by a coalition with men professing different political opinions, or is threatened from a higher quarter. A very general belief certainly prevails that the " Chateau" is not by any means an indif ferent or idle spectator in the combinations against the " Man of Ghent." The Opposition journals, however, seem to take little interest in the affair, justly foreseeing that if the KING wishes a charge of Ministry it is for some personal object, and tlxst the present policy at home and abroad will be as .effec tually maintained by MOLE and TRIERS 'as by GUIZOT and SOULT. The National, for instance, says there is not a whit of difference between the parties. Adverting to an article in the Journal' des Debats on the subject, it thus takes a view c f the 'policy professed by the coalition, and puts some per tinent questions, which it expects to be answer ed in the course of the debate :—" But has not the Joi irnal des Debats justice on its side when it demands that the pretenders should explain what system they themselves intend to pursue ? This, in is ct, is 'the only matter in which the country is interested. Will Count MoLE, for ex:Ample, engage to take advantage of the text c,f the treaties of 1831 and 1833, to denounce them at the moment when it will become necessary to retie w the licenses furnished to the cruisers ? We can -under ‘tand that he should refuse to explain himself with respect to facts ill-understood, and upon pc 'ints of policy not clearly explained ; but this subject is sur rounded with light. Every one knows what; France wishes. Public opinion, in common with the Cham bers, has declared that the police to be car ri ed into effect with regard to French ships should b e placed under the French flag. This must be don Will the pretenders to office undertake to do so ? And if they do not explicitly undertake to do so, but` confine themselves to declare their intention to /AI gotiate, what do they promise more than M. CruszoT ? And where is the guarantee that they v ill suc ceed better than the present Ministers 1' Upon this point, if the journal of Count; MOLE does not explain itself, it will be necessary th.; at Count MOLE or his friends should explain it lee Pere the Chambers. As to the affair of Otaheite, no i loubt w e cannot go back to the question of taking p )ssession of the island ; but if they blame the inderni city pro mised to Mr. PRITCHARD, they may undertake net to pay it. It would be necessary to state this e xplicitly. There is more. They are of opinion that the disa vowal of Admiral DUPETIT TnouAßs is Ulll. just, and they find the blame inflicted on Lieutene r it D'AU-. SIGNY unworthy; the consequence ought t ) be that those officers should receive compensation fi r. r the in jury they have sustained. This requires to b e clearly explained. These are not, however, the onl y matters to be considered. We should know whethe r the suc cessors of M. GUIZOT would proclaim pubh: icly their sympathy for that infamous reaction in Sp.: in which is proceeding to establish a pure counter-rut volution. Will they consent that the French nation shs ill pass in the eyes of the Spaniards and of Europ e as the accomplice of MARIA CHRISTINA and of N. ARYAEZ ? The presumptive heirs of M. GUIZOT hav ry already had the direction of public affairs. They 1 aye per mitted the British Consul at Algiers to e: u srcise his funtions, by virtue of an exequatur derived from the dethroned Bey. Will they longer suffer tl u. s insolent infraction of the rights of nations ? Engle as d protests publicly, in the face of Europe, against our legitimate possession. That she should do so in he r own Par liament is something ; but that she should maintain in Algeria a functionary, whose existence the re is a per manent protest (against our sovereignty)„ is intole rable. We do not wish to speak of the 1 st, or of Greece, or of the attempts made by ( xI 'eat Bri tain to confiscate for her own advantage the high road through Egypt. Upon all th. s% points the policy of M. GUIZOT has been f. e dg e ,, inju rious, and timid. Having alluded to %nig n osffsurs, we must refer to certain legislative T e f orit is for a long time demanded and discussed in thy ! C I 'MD ber, and which have been the subject of ses 'eral nots'e. Are those to be neglected? Are the l a ps .4)f Sep- tember to remain immutable ? Shall the electoral laws remain as they are ? Shall the composition of the Chamber of Deputies not be modified ? Shall the reduction of the interest on the Five per Cents. be accomplished ? It should be remarked that we do not refer to the condition of the operative classes which at present occupies the attention of every person possessed of a spark of justice, foresight, or humanity. We do not proclaim our system. We merely take that of the Parliamentary Opposition. But the aspirants to office should explain themselves ; and if they shrink from doing so, we shall be forced to confess that they in fact merit the severe epithet of intriguers, applied to them by the Ministerial journal." It was understood that Count MOLE was greatly annoyed by the imputation entertained in nearly all quarters that he was at the head of the coalition—in other words, that he had formed an intrigue to turn out the Ministry, and would repel the attack on the very first opportunity. Probably, therefore, he will be one of the first speakers on the Address. M. VILLEMAIN'S health has rather improved, but from the following remarks in the Journal des Debuts there is little hope that he will ever be again fit for public business : " It is with the liveliest sentiment of interest that the public inquires after the health of M. Villemain, and in dulges in the hope of soon seeing this eminent man, as elevated by the qualities of his heart as by the faculties of his mint, restored to health, to the blessings of re pose, to the consolations which he found in his children, and to the literary works which have rendered him illustrious. The misfortune which strikes a great citizen is a public grief, turd on this ground no person could meet with more sympathy in all ranks of society than the eloquent professor Whose language and knowledge have so long charmed and instructed youth, whose writings have so much contributed to disseminate and maintain a noble style of writing, and who, after having served with glory the cause of education and literature, devoted himself with so much sincerity to the defence of oar institutions and our liberties. We are convinced that so fine an organisation, fatigued for a moment by so many struggles and so much occupation, will eventually triumph over the accidents which we all lament so deeply; and we learn with the greatest satisfaction that already the calm and intelligent cares with which he is surrounded have notably ameliorated the state of the illustrious patient." The Augsburgh Gazette quotes a letter from Athens, of the 21st ult., stating that a bad feeling exists in the mind of the English Ambassador, not only towards the Greek Ministers but also the Royal Family, and mentions, as a proof of it, his refusal to be present at a grand entertainment which had been given in honour of the QUEEN'S birth-day, under pretext that the recent death of her Royal Highness the Duchess of GLOUCESTER would not permit him to appear in public. THE BOURSE---TuEsnex, JAN. 7. First Highest Lowest Last Price. Price. Price. Price. FrenehrivoperCents...... 121:10 .. 121 25 .. 121 10 121 25 Fours .............. 108 .. 108 .. 108 .. 108 Three per Cents..... 85 25 .. 85 35 .. 85 20 .. 85 30 New Loan ........ 86 40 .. 86 60 . 86 40 .. 86 60 Bank of France . . 3280 ..3280 . 3275 .3275 Guilin Bank, I,ooof. Shares • . 1095 ..1095 ..10 r 5 ..109a Belgian Fives, 1840 ...... 1044 .. 1044 . • 1044 .. 104 4 1842 ........106 .. 106 106 .. 106 Four-and-a-Half.— 103 .. 163 .. 103 .. 103 Two-and-a-Half.... 62 .. 62 .. 62 .. 62 Spanish Three 5............ 374 .• 374 • • 374 374 Active 37 .. 37 4 • • 37 374 Passive . 6%, .. 6 3 % .. 6% Neapolitan .. 96 50 .- 96 50 .. 96 50 96 50 Roman ... RAILWAY SHARES. Versailles,R.B. . L. 8.• • .......... 385 .. 385 .• 375 374 75 Rouen 50 . 1042 50 -.1042 50 ..1042 50 Rouen to Havre............ 826 25 82G 25 . 826 25 • • 826 25 Orleans . Strasburg to 8a1e.......... 302 50 .. 302 50 .. 301 2.5 . 301 23 Avignon to Marseilles.. 942 50 .. 942 50 937 50 -. 938 75 RAILWAYS FOR THE ACCOUNT, JAN 16. St. Germain: ..........1017 50 -.1017 50 —lOl7 50 —lOl7 50 Versailles, R.B .......... 486 25 .. 487 50 .. 482 50 .. 482 L. 8............. 382 50 .. 392 50 .. 377 50 .. 275 Rouen • ...................1040 ..1050 -.1042 50 ..1045 Rouen to . 827 50 .. 827 50 .. 825 .. 825 Orleans —1136 25 ..1136 25 ..1132 50 ..1135 itrasburg to Bale. .. 302 50 .. 302 50 .. 301 25 .. 302 50 Avignon to Marseilles-- 940 .. 942 50 .. 935 .. 933 ! AMERICAN NEWS. I OCCUPATION of Ole OREGON TER RITORY —ABOLITION RIOTS. LIVERPOOL, JAN. 8. We have received this afternoon by the New York packet ship, St. Patrick, Captain Seymour—a new ship, on her first voyage—papers from that city to the 18th Dec. inclusive. The St. Patrick has experienced very rough weather; about the 24th ult. having in a gale lost main-top-gallantmast, sprung foremast, and received other damage. On the same day she passed a large ship floating bottom upwards, with her stern boat and spars floating near her. The chief feature of the intelligence in the papers is the introduction into the House of Representatives of a Bill for the extension of the jurisdiction of the United States over the territory of the Oregon. Its reception was not accomplished without a division upon the motion to suspend the rules, the result of which was —ayes 129, noes 53, being a majority of 76 in its favour. The Bill was subsequently read a first and second time, and referred to the Committee on Territories. It is evident, therefore, that the measure will receive the final sanction of the House. The reception it will encounter in the Senate will probably be of an entirely opposite nature. The abuses and frauds perpetrated at the past Presiden tial election had attracted general attention to the subject of the naturalisation laws ; and we ob serve that preliminary steps, to procure an exten sion of the term of probationary residence re quired of foreigners, previous to their being allowed the privileges of citizenship, and also to improve the operation of those laws, had been taken in both branches of Congress. The American Republicans require that the period prior to naturalisation shall be twenty-one years ; while others, and the most reasonable, say eleven or twelve years. The Bill in troduced by Mr. Duncan, to establish a uniform day for the appointment of presidental electors, had passed the House of Representatives. It runs as follows : " Resolved by the Senate and House of Representa tives of the United States of America in Congress as sembled, that the electors of President andVice-Presi dent shall be appointed in each state on the. first 'Tues day after the first Monday in November of the year in which they are to be appointed ; provided that each State may, by law, provide for filling any vacancy or vacancies which may occur in its college of electors when such college meets to give its electozal vote ; and provided, also, when any State shall have held an elec tion for the purpose of choosing electors, and shall fail to make choice on the day aforesaid, then the electors may be appointed on a subsequent day, in such manner as the State shall by law provide." This arrival brings accounts of a dreadful conflict between a party of Kentucky slaveholders and Ohio Abolitionists. It appears that negro slaves from Kentucky are constantly passing to Canada through the State of Ohio, facilities for such escapes, it is said by some, being established throughout the latter State by the Abolitionists. On the 9th ult. a party of "negro hunters" from Kentucky, hearing that runaway slaves were secreted in the houses of Robert Miller and Absalom King, two Abolitionists residing in Brown's County, Ohio, near the town of Georgetown, proceeded to the residence of the former and discovered two of the slaves, who attempted to escape, and while Miller was in the act of aiding their escape be was knocked down and stabbed repeatedly by the incensed Kentuckians. He lin gered but a few moments and died. The two slaves were then bound, when they proceeded to the house of King, where they were met by four or five armed men, who declared their determination to resist any search of the house. Both parties being well armed, a most horrible conflict ensued. A son of Colonel Towers was killed imme diately. King, while reloading some of the fire arms in the house, was shot by some one through the window in the back part of the house, and was not expected to survive. The sheriff and his posse arrived and checked the riot, and the ringleaders of each party were arrested. But another band of Kentuckians soon arrived and commenced another scene of bloodshed. One of the. slaves was hung without ceremony for resisting a brother of Colonel Towers, who had captured him. The houses of Miller and King were burnt to the ground, with all their contents. They then went to the house of Mr. Alexander Gilliland, tore him away from his family, and beat him until his life was despaired of. The latest accounts add that the Kentuckians were increasing in numbers, and the whole neigh bourhood was up in arms. The sheriff was exerting himself to suppress the riot. The New York Sun, in conjunction with others, makes this dreadful occurrence the ground for asser tions against, and attacks upon, England. The Herald mentions a rumour that the French have taken possession of the islands of Wallace and Fortuna. The Americans in the Oregon territory have formed themselves a government, elected executive and legislative officers, and established courts of justice. The papers by this arriTal also contain the annual report of the Secretary of the Treasury, and a few other items of news, from which we select the fol lowing : (From the New York Herald of Dec. 18.) By considerable effort we are enabled to give to our readers this morning the Annual Report of Mr. Bibb, the Secretary of the Treasury, which was presented to Congress on Monday last. We have no time to-day to give a minute analysis or review of this important re port, but under our money article head will be found a brief view and synopsis of its contents. It is obviously of the highest importance to all the interests of the country, especially the commercial and industrial, and is hardly second in interest to the report on our foreign relations : MONEY MARKET, D. 17. The Stock Market was rather flat to-day, and quota ons experienced a decline. Norwich and Worcester fell off 1 per cent., Reading Farmers' Illinois 1, Pennsylvania s's I, Indiana 1, Long Island 4 , Canton 1, Morris Canal f. Erie Railroad and Ohio 6's closed firm at yesterday's prices. North American Trust ad vanced 11 per cent. The House of Representatives of New Hampshire has rejected the fourth instalment of the Surplus Revenue by a vote of 137 to 93. The Norwich and Worcester Railroad have declared a dividend of three per cent., payable on the 21st inst. at this city at the Bank of the State of New York. We have received the report of the Secretary of the Treasury, and give it at length in our columns. It will richly repay a careful perusal. It is not often that a document so able as this has emanated from the Treasury Department. The first thing alluded to is the public debt, and being a subject of vital importance, it has occupied the attention of the Secretary at length. We annex his statement, showing the amount of the debt, July 1, 1844 : PUBLIC DEBT OF THE UNITED STATES, JULY 1, 1844. Amount of the funded•debt 4178,034 84 Outstanding certificates Treasury Notes of 1812 . 4,317 44 4,320 00 Certificates Debt o e f d Mississippi e6 S s o t l r B i t 5 . 0 . . f Columbia-1836, unpaid 1,260,000 00 Outstanding Treasury Notes, issues of the two acts 2,256,207 31 Loan due 1845, 5i per cent. Ditto 1863, 6 per cent. Ditto 1853, 5 per cent. Total debt July 1, 1844 $24,748,183 23 The Secretary extends his remarks to some length, in relation to the public credit, and says that the maritet value of the Government Stocks is sufficient evidence of the safety of inve.tments of capital in Government Securities. Mr. Secretary Bibb suggests the establishment of a sinking fund, not only for the purpose of extinguishing the debt of the Government, but to insure the safety of the surplus revenue, and to reduce the interest on the debt. The deposits are now used by the banks se:ected for the keeping of these funds, for whatever they may deem proper, without allowing the Government the smal lest per cent. interest, while the interest on the debt amounts, in a short time, to a very large sum. A sink ing fund, increased at the rate of about two millions per annum, which could easily be carried into effect, with the present large surplus, would, in a short time, annually produce an amount of interest full as large as that ac. truing on the Government debt. A modification and a reduction of the tariff are also recommended. The Se cretary suggests that reasonable time should be given, before the slightest alteration is made in the existing rates of duty, to enable those interested, or likely to be affected, to govern themselves accordingly. It is esti mated that, under the present tariff, with an importation similar to that of the past year, the surplus revenue of the year 1853 would, after paying all the expenses and indebtedness of the Government, exceed fifty millions of dollars, and it is in consideration of this and other facts, that the Secretary of the Treasury recommends a gradual reduction in the rate of duties. It is argued that the domestic interests of the country do not require such a high average, and that it is unjust to extract from the people a revenue so much greater than the wants Of I.ir'o vernment require. Our trade with foreign nations for the year ending June 30, 1844, has been more in our favour than we have • •iticipated. According to the official returns from the Treasury Department there was, for the fiscal year end- ; ing June 30, 1844, a balance in our favour. COMMERCE OF THE UNITED STATES-VALUE 01 IMPORTS Value of free goods Value of dutiable good AND EXPORTS. Imports. 124,766,082 83,668.620 Total value of imports 5108,434,702 Exports. Value of domestic produce $100,183.497 Value of foreign produce ... 10,944,787 $111,128,284 Balance in favour of the United States 0,693,58 Gross revenue on the above importation 29,137,060 60 Net revenue on thu above importation ... 26,183,570 94 Expenses of collection, &c. 82,953,489 66 It must be recollected, in looking on this table of im ports and exports, that only six months of the period of large importations are included in these returns, and that since the Ist July the value of the imports is very great. For the calendar year the result will look far different, not only as to the balance of trade, but in the amount of the revenue. The finances of the Government are fullyas favourable as anticipated. The receipts and expenditures, as given in the annexed tables, show a very large sarplus, but we should think the expenditures were rather extravagant. FINANCES OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE YEAR ENDING JUNE 30TH, 1844. Receipts. Customs Lands Treasury Notes 261,007 94 Miscellaneous sources Total receipts 830,381,700 03 Balance in the Treasury, July 1, 1843 10,431,507 55 $40,813,207 58 Expenditures—Civil list, nary, army, &c. 32,958,827 94 Balance in the Treasury, July 1, 1844, 87,854,379 64 ESTIMATES FOR 1845—RECEIPTS. Customs-Ist quarter, ac tual Customs-3 quarters, esti mated Public lands Miscellaneous sources $31,945,018 2,139,857 120,000 $34,204,875 00 Total resources 542,059,254 64 Expenditures estimated 35,019,431 06 Balance in the Treasury, July Ist, 1845 $7,039,823 58 ESTIMATES FOR 1846—RECEIPTS. Customs Public lands 2,010,000 Miscellaneous sources 120,000 $32,160,302 00 Total resources Expenditures, estimated 28,193,784 82 Balance in the Treasury, July 1, 1846, $11,006,340 76 These estimates are based on as good data as can be commanded, but they are of little interest or deserving of much confidence. It is beyond the power of any in dividual to estimate, with any deg ree , of accuracy, the probable position o f finances of the Government so long in advance. In a country like this it is impossible to predict what a year may bring forth in commercial matters. Where is the man that,' two years ago, imagined for a moment that the year 1844 would pro. duce a revenue from customs larger than any one pre vious ? We look upon these estimates as useless, so far as the purposes of legislation are concerned. Mr. Secre tary Bibb can look as far into futurity, as regards this subject, as any of his predecessors, but the practice is at tended with danger, and often leads us all astray. The Washington Constitution says, a report has reached Washington that Mexico has closed her ports against the United States. No other paper , however, mentions such a rumour. The United States Gazette says—" We were yes terday put in possession of files of papers of three days later date from Barbadoes. Relative to the new Colonial Tariff Bill for 1845 we find nothing else of additional interest than that the Assembly had ad journed to meet on the next 26th of November, without having come to a definitive arrangement on all the details of the Bill. The next arrival from Barbadoes will probably bring us the final action of the Legislature thereupon. It was currently reported at the clubs last night, that her Majesty has been graciously pleased to appoint Sir Henry Pottinger Governor-General of Canada, in the place of Sir Charles Metcalfe, who is seriously indisposed* —Herald of yesterday. ATTEMPT TO POISON • FAMILY AT MANCHESTER. —On Monday evening last a most atrocious attempt to poison his wife and two children was made by Benjamin Anderson, a millwright, living at No. 91, Long-street, Ancoats, Manchester. It appears that for several days past Anderson, who is in the employ of Messrs. Fair burn, the engineers, had been drinking, and on Saturday spent the entire of his wages in liquor. On Monday afternoon he came home about half-past three o'clock and asked his wife to let him have some tea. Mrs. An derson told him that the kettle was on the fire, and as soon as she had made some for 'her daughter, who worked in a factory, she would make him some. lie immediately became very abusive, and told both his wife and son (a boy about eleven years old) that they should not stop in the house, and under a threat of being beaten they went into the street. Anderson then bolted the door and refused for some time to allow them to some in. As she stood near the window, Mrs. Ander son saw her husband go to the cupboard and take a quantity of onions out, which he placed in the window. After doing something else at the cup board, Anderson 'opened the door and left the house without getting any tea. As soon as he was goat, Mrs. Anderson again ventured, and made some tea, sweetening it with brown sugar, which she noticed was speckled with white spots, but did not suspect any harm. Upon tasting the tea, however, she was much surprised at its nauseous taste, which was accompanied by a burning of the mouth. She had remarked to her son that the sugar was covered with white spots. She then made some more tea, which she sweetened with sugar from the same basin as before, and, finding that the tea had the same burning unplea sant taste, she sent for a neighbour, named Cooper, who likewise tasted the mixture. They then made a little coffee, sweetening it with sugar which was wrapped in the cupboard, and found it entirely free from any offensi ve taste. Upon examining some flour and meal which were also in the cupboard, they were found to contain a plen tiful admixture of the same sort of ingredient which had been fonnd in 'the sugar. After consulting with Mrs. Cooper, Mrs. Anderson took the white powder off the sugar t.a a druggist. Mr. Turner, druggist, after a slight inspection, at once stated that sugar of lead had been mixed with it. Information was then given to the police, and the husband Was apprehended and brought yesterday, at the Borough Police-court, before D. Maude, Esq. The prisoner was remanded until Thursday, when the flour, meal, and sugar will be subjected to an analysis. and the proper means taken to secure the attendance et the witnesses.—Liverpool c,ourier. COMMITTAL OF A POOR-LAW GUARDIAN FOR MAN SLAUGUTER.—An inquest was ,held by Mr. Evans, the coroner, on Friday last, at the union workhouse, at Ross, on the body of an old woman, named Mary Jons, 82 years of age, whose death, it was alleged, had been occa sioned by ill-usage and exposure to cold, through being improperly removed as a pauper to the above mentioned union. The evidence taken was exceedingly voluminous, but the facts may be briefly told. The deceased was in the receipt of out-door relief from the Ross union, and on the 2d of last month she walked from the parish of Llangarren, where she resided, to Ross, in order to apply to the board of guardians for an increased allowance, which was granted her. On her return home, being ex ceedingly infirm, owing to her great age, she became so lame and exhausted on the road as to be quite unable to proeeed, and one of the board coming up, and finding her in that helpless condition, she was removed home in a cart. She then became so ill as to keep her bed, and a day or two afterwards, her state being made known to the guardians, one of them persuaded her to go into the workhouse, where she would be taken care of and properly attended to; she refused, saying she had a great objection to the workhouse. Her condition be coming worse, the parish surgeon attended her, and by his treatment she somewhat recovered. On the 14th,•however, Mr. Garness, one of the guardians, accompanied by his son, and Thomas Lewis, and Edward Tourney, went and forcibly removed her to the workhouse, without the usual medical certificate for the removal. The deceased having an extreme dread of the union house, and fearing that she would be forced to enter it, locked all the doors of the cottage, so as to pre vent them removing her. They, however, broke in, and one laying hold of her le-ad end the ott e r of her I.gs, they carried her out and placed her in a cart en some straw, with a blanket put round her, she at the same time violently exclaiming that " she would nut go." The workhouse was reached about four o'clock, where the master aemitted her, not in obedience to the order of the guardian who came with her, as it was informal, but owing to the critical condition of the poor creature, who was suffering most severely from the cold, the frost being very intense during the day. A few days after wards she was attacked with illness, which terminated fatally. Mr. Joites, one of the medical offict rs of the union, gave it as his opinion that the deceased's death was the result of a diseased heart, wh:ch might have been hastened by the sudden exposure to cold. The jury, after a most careful and deliberate consideration, returned a verdict of " Manslaughter" against Samuel Garness, the guardian, Thomas Garness (his son), Thomas Lewis, and Edward Tourney, who were forthwith committed to the gaol for trial. The case has produced the greatest sensation throughout the whole county. AirsTenious PARCEL.—Wednesday information was forwarded to the metropolitan police of the following mysterious circumstance. It appears that a common white wicker reticule basket was received at the Universal Booking-office, Regent-circus, between the hours o f f our and eight, P.M., on th e 11th ult., addressed to Mr. Mus prat, ironmonger, Winchester, Hampshire. On the sth instant the basket was opened at Winchester, and on re moving some loose paper at the toe, a calico bass was found, containing a light-coloured oil-silk bag, which oft a newly-horit time child pre being opened, the body of seated itself. The basket is quite new aid is inatie,i on the bottom with the letter A," wit h two mull marks over it, supposed to be the Invitees private marks. An inquest has been held upon the body, and is adjourned to the 20th inst. ‘rz yp GREAT INFLUX OF SHIPPING IN nil Pa .- Sil v During the last t.‘ 0 or three days, ix•tween 200 andbacjt sail have arrived in the river, which had been k e f%er e .in the ehaneel by t!:e late strong easterly winds. . 1. 1 , 0 01. ea, also i.teit a large Moreau,' of collie. rs in sirdopy The arrival f.r.L•lunt.rs in the West India, 1 -' l ° an d il.nd tit. K.,:rhariipe Dock, have been considerableL the greatest activity is manifested in the sever partments of the Custom-house. HAMBURGH MAIL. STOCKHOLM, DEc. 24.—Our journals mention an act of injustice done to a foreigner, 200 years since, whose claims on the State have been officially re cognised more than once. This is the claim of a Po meranian captain, which was acknowledged in 1682, at the sum of 33,000 dollars in silver, which, with the interest, would now amount to a million. His Majesty has now referred the heirs to the competent tribunal to decide on the matter. PETERSEURGH, DEC. 21.—Prince Alexander Ga- Main, who but lately was restored to his sight by a successful operation, died soon afterwards, on the 4th instant, of water on the chest, at his estate in the Crimea, in the 71st year of his age. MUNICH, DEC. 22.—According to a report, the accuracy of which we cannot warrant, the Congress of the Deputies of the States of the Zollverein next summer is to be held in Munich. The numerous complaints of the constantly-increasing number of commercial travellers are to be again taken into con sideration at this congress. _ Anne Louis Chretien, Duke of Montmorency, Grandee of Spain of the First Class, Knight of the French Legion of Honour, died here last night, at the age of 75 years. He was a faithful adherent of the exile Royal Family of France, and had resided for more than ten years at Munich, where he made many friends, though he lived in a very retired man ner. He was father of Prince Montmorency Robecq, who was condemned a few weeks ag o b y th e Correc tional Tribunal of Paris for having sold busts of the Duke of Bordeaux. ALTONA, DEC. 31.—The complaints that have been so loudly expressed of late of the choking of the chan nel of the Elbe by sand, have induced a patriot to make a model of a machine, by the use of which the shoals in the Elbe may be entirely removed at no great expense. He is now engaged in preparing for the execution of his plan, and thinks to be ready by the middle of February next year. COLOGNE, DEC. 25.—1 t is said th a t i n th e next assembly of the Provincial Diet of the enlightened Rhenish provinces a proposal will be made to confine all religious ceremonies to the churches. MuNlcir, DEC. 15.--A. generally esteemed Roman Catholic clergyman, named Skolt, of this city, has embraced the Protestant religion. HAMBURGII, JAN. 3.—The cold has now greatly abated. In the last twenty-four hours the mercury fell only 1 deg. below freezing point. According to the official account of the number of ships that arrived in the port of Ifamburgh during the last four years, there were-1841, 3,194 ; 1842, 3,300; 18 43,3,538 ; 1844, 3,260. Those under English colours were -1841, 973 ; 1842, 804 ; 1843, 907 ; 1844, 850._ Hamburgh papers, Jan. 3. PRUSSIAN FUNDS.--BERLIN, .11A7. 2. _ _ _ , Bills. Money. St. Schuld Sch., 3 1 / 2 Per Cent 99 5-6 99% Pruss. English Bonds, 1830, 4 per Ct — Exchange on London 6 23% •Universal Prussian Gazette, Jan. 3. HAMBURGH BORSENHALLE, J. 3. Bills. Money, Austrian 5 per Cents Bank Shares l6BB Anglo-Russian Loan Russian 5 per Cent., Hamb. C er tifi ea t e 105% 1054 Ditto Ist series Inscription - 1 0 5 1 / 2 Ditto, Hope and Co., 3d and 4th series 99% Ditto, in Certificate 99% New 4 per Cent., Hope and Co — 91% Ditto Stieglitz Spanish New 5 per Cent 9O 90' % 22:i 22 Dutch Actual Debt, 2% per Cent 63 37 63 /4 Polish New 4 per Cent. Loan, 1844 Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cent B7 88% National Bank Shares 124 Exchange on London. One month — Two months BELGIAN FUNDS.—BnussELs, JAN. 4. Actual Debt, 2i per Cent — Rothschild's Loan, Five per Cent — Loan of Thirty Millions, Four per Cent 98% Ditto Three per Cent Ditto Thirty-seven Millions, ditto 7B Ditto, ditto 1840 Ditto, ditto 1844 Ditto of the City, 1843 lOB Brussels Papers, Jan. 5. 8 1 4 Lord Willoughby De Eresby has, with his usual liberality, given 100/. to be distributed in clothing among the poor of Spilaby and the surrounding neighbourhood. His Excellency the Turkish Ambassador is about to take his departure from this country. The successor to his Excellency is daily expected to arrive in England. Lady Champneys, who has been seriously indis posed at her seat at Gloddaeth, South Wales, is fast recovering. THE YARMOUTH MURDER.—A rumour was very prevalent in this town on Saturday evening, that the hammer with which the fatal blows had been inflicted was discovered behind a stone in Mr. Catchpole's house, where Yarham lived when the murder was committed ; another rumour was that a coat with blood upon it had been found. These accounts, on inquiry, we found to originate in the following very extraordinary circum stance, which must tend to criminate Yarham to no inconsiderable extent. On searching Mr. Catchpole's house more closely since the late examination, and in consequence of something which transpired there, the police found behind a door a wainscot panel, with a number of pegs on it, used for the purpose . of hanging clothes upon. Here it was that Yarham invariably hung his coat, and at the bottom of the panel was a quantity of blood, with just the appearance of having been wiped off the flaps of a coat, when suspended against it. This panel waa taken down and properly examined ; and the result leaves no doubt but that the colouring matter is blood. On the kitchen•door, leading towards the yard, were also marks of blood similar to what would have been made by a man with a bloody coat on coaxing past it. There was also a spot evidently made by the knee of a pair of trousers having, at the time of making it, I blood upon theca—Su/MA Herald. z~