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ow N ready, at all the Libraries, in 3 vols, postBvo., C AT S W O R T H; OR, THE ROMANCE OF A WEEK. Edited by R. PLUMER WARD, Esq. Author of " Tremaine," " De Vere," &c. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. NEW NOVEL BY MRS. THOMSON. Now ready, in 3 vols. post Bvo., THE WHITE MASK An Historical Romance of the Seventeenth Century. By Mrs. THO3ISON. Author of " Widows and Widowers," " Ragland Castle," &c. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. V. To be had at all the Libraries. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. SEASON 1844. The following outline of the arrangements for the ensuing season Is respectfully presented to the Nobility, Subscribers, and the Public. ENGAGEMENTS FOR THE OPERA. Madame Grist, Madlle. M. Favanti (her first appearance at this Theatre), Madame Bellini, Madame Dai Fiori, and Madame Persiani. Signor Mario, Sig. Correll (his first appearance at this Theatre), Sig. Dal Fiori, Sig. Felice (his first appearance at this Theatre), Sig. Fornasari, Sig. F. Lablache, and Sig. Lablache. Director of the Music, Composer, and Conductor, Sig. Costa. THE BALLET. Madlle. Carlotta Grisi, Madlle. Adelaide Frasi, of the Teatro di Pergola, Flerence (her first appearance at this theatre) ; Mad. Guy Stephan ; Madlle. Scheffre, Madlle. Ferdinand, Madlle. Planquet, Madlle. Barville (their first appearance at this theatre) ; Madlle. Fanny Elssler, and Madlle. Cerito ; M. St. Leon, M. Montassu (his first appearance in this country), M. Coulon, M. Gosselin, M. flobriet, M. Venafra, M. Bertram, and M. Perrot, and a numerous and efficient Corps de Ballet. Arrangements are also pending with Madlle. Taglioni, and there is. every probability that the talent of this eminent artiste will he se cured for a limited number of representations. Madame Persiani and Signor Fornasari will appear on the First )tight of the season, in Herold's chef d'ceuvre of " Zampa." The Theatre will Open in the first week of March, when will be produced Herold's celebrated Opera of " Zampa:" Camilla, Madame Persiani ; 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. Pupil. The Scenery by W. Grieve. The Tflite.ipal Characters by Madlle. Carlotta Grisi, Madlle. Adelaide Frasi, Madame Guy Stephan, Madlle. Seheffre, Madlle. Planquet, Madlle, Ferdinand, and MaWle. Barville; M. Perrot, M. Coulon, M. Gosselin, and M. St. Leon. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE, THIS EVENING, FEBRUARY 19. Will be performed Shakspearc's Tragedy of MACBETH. Mac b elb, Mr. Charles Kean ; Lady Macbeth, Mrs. Warner. After which, TILE BEAUTY OF GHENT. Marquis de Sail Lucar. M. Albert ; Benedict, M. Iloguet Vestris ; Beatrice, Made. Fleury ; Agnes, Mdllc. Clara 'Webster. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN. M. JULLIEN'S CONCERTS. THIS EVENING, FEBRUARY 19. PROGRAMME—PART I. overture, Zampa, Herold—The Chinese Quadrille, Jullien—Sym phony, The Power of Sound, Spohr—Solo, Cornet-a-Pistons, Her Kißnig—Romance Adieu, loch Albert—Valse, Bird of Paradise, Xcenig—The Destruction of Pompeii, loch Albert. PART IL—Prologue to the Ballet of Alma, Costa—The Irish Echos, Jullien—Solo, Ophicleide, M. Prospere—Valse, Le Bouquet Royal, Jullien—The English Quadrille, Jullien. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. THIS EVENING, FEBRUARY 19, Will he performed Shakspeare's Comedy of THE MERRY WIVES of. WINDSOR. Sir John Falstaff, Mr. Strickland; Master Slender, Mr. Charles Mathews ; Mrs. Page, Madame Vestris; Mrs. Ford, Mrs. Nisbett ; Anne Page, Miss Mattley. To conclude with THE FAIR ONE WITH THE GOLDEN LOCKS. THEATRE ROYAL, .DELPHI. THIS EVENING, FEBRUARY 19, • Will he performed THE CIIIIISTMAS CAROL, supported by Messrs. 0. Smith, Wright, Lyon, Maynard, Furman, Miss Woolgar, Mrs. F. Mathews, Miss Chaplin, Miss Lee, &c. After which, RICHARD THE THIRD. Glo'ster, Mr. Wright. To conclude with THE WRECK •ASHORE. PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. THIS EVENING, FEBRUARY 19, • Will be performed Bellini's Opera Seria, NORMA. Pollio, Mr. Wood; Oroveso, Mr. Weiss ; Norma, Mrs. Wood ; Adelgisa, Miss Grant, After which, THE MARRIAGE CERTIFICATE. To conclude with BOUNCE ; or, The Ojibbeway Indians. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. TIIIS EVENING, FEBRUARY 19. Will be performed LOVE'S SACRIFICE, supported by the entire Company. After which, A CHRISTMAS CAROL. To conclude with THE BOHEMIANS OF PARIS, We, this Day, print THE SUN with an entirely New Type, cast by the Eminent Firm of ALEXANDER WILSON and SONS, of London, Edinburgh, and Dublin. The beauty of the Type will speak for itself; and its character for distinctness is only surpassed by its quality for great durability. THE WEATHER.-SUN OFFICE, FEB. 17. • - - • -- - - - THERMOMETER, Lowest, 34; Highest, 45; Noon, 46. BAROMETER, 30.17.—W1ND, S.W. NOri'E.—The number 32 on the Thermometer denotes the freezing point, and 55 temperate. In Barometers fair is usually placed opposite 30, and rain at 29. • • HIGH WATI9R AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY. Morning .. 38 minutes after 2 I Evening .. 55 minutes after 2, return, although cultivated at an expense unnecessa rily great. Why are manure heaps left in the field, where they lose their richness and fertilising qua lities ? Why is the refuse from the farm-yard and dwelling-house allowed to escape into the common ditches, and to produce a rank crop of noxious weeds, instead of adding to the richness of the land ? Why do we see ponderous four-horse wag gons doing work, for which two horses with light carts are sufficient ? Why is farming expensive in particulars, in which cheaper cultivation would bring more produce ? And why is there such unwilling ness to expend capital, where that capital would give an ample return? The answer, I believe, is, imper fect farming encouraged by unwise legislation." The death of Lord SIDMOUTH, who died on Thurs day last, at the advanced age of eighty-seven, reminds us that a peer of the realm has just passed from among us who, by sheer luck and the proverbial caprice of fortune, attained those honours which are often denied to talents a thousand times superior to any of which he could boast. Without eloquence— without statesmanship—without energy of character or family connexions—without even a solitary claim on the gratitude or confidence of his country—the deceased nobleman gained the highest and proudest post which a British subject can possibly gain— namely, that of Prime Minister ! And, as if this faCt were not of itself sufficiently astonishing, he succeeded the second PITT as Premier—a statesman who, whatever other disqualifications he may have possessed, was certainly not wanting in a certain commanding energy and loftiness of mind, in which his twaddling, common-place successor was noto riously—not to say, ridiculously—deficient ! Among the many strange events that marked the commence ment of the present century, few are more strange than Mr. ADDINGTON'S acquisition of supreme power— at such a period, too, when the restless and enterprising NAPOLEON was Chief Consul of the French republic ! and none more completely exemplifies the truth of the old adage that " the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong." The late Lord SID MOUTH was the son of an able Berkshire physician, who had the honour of practising in the family of tho first Lord CHATHAM. In due time young ADDING TON was elected Member for Devizes, in which capa city he exhibited not the slightest talent of any sort ; being punctual, however, in his attendance in Parlia ment, and tolerably well acquainted with its forms and usages, he was appointed, through the influence of his patron, PITT, Speaker of the House of Commons, and by all accounts discharged the duties of his office with de corum and impartiality. On the retirement of Mr. PITT from place, Mr. ADDINGTON was appointed his successor--doubtless as much to his own surprise as to that of the whole country. The peace of Amiens followed, but the distrust of the French Govern ment continuing as active as ever, hostilities soon re-commenced ; and then came the Premier's hour of trial. A very brief period sufficed to con vince both parties in the House of Commons of his utter incapacity ; his measures were all marked by imbecility and short-sightedness, such as might be expected from a mere red-tape official; and the con. sequence was that PITT and Fox coalesced in order to drive him from the helm. On his resignation, Mr. ADDINGTON was raised to the peerage by the title of Viscount SIDMOUTII. Shortly after he joined the Fox and GRENVILLE party; and when, on Mr. PITT's death, that party came into power, he was made Privy Seal. On their re tirement, in consequence of their attempts to force a Catholic Relief Bill on the KING, Lord SIDMOUTH was once again dispossessed of office, notwithstanding that he held the same sentiments as his Royal master on the subject of Emancipation. His last official appointment was that of Secretary of State for the Home Department, which he held during many years of the LIVERPOOL Administration. He finally quitted' public life in the year 1822, from which period to the day of his death he lived in a state of tranquil, domestic retirement. As Home Secretary, Lord SIDMOUTII obtained just about the same amount of popularity that he obtained during his dull, but brief, burlesque of the Premiership. His colleagues may have re spected him as a man, but they could not but have contemned him as a Minister ; and as for the coun try, it scarcely thought of him at all, except when he came prominently forward with the thanks of Government to the Manchester magistrates for their conduct during the Peterloo massacre, on which occasion he was visited with just and gene ' ral approbrium. We sum up our brief, hasty notice of Lord SIDMOUTII by observing, that he was a use ful party drudge—a subservient, unhesitating Tory tool—whom Prejudice confided in for his mediocrity, and Bigotry for his narrow-mindedness. A capi tal office-clerk was spoiled when he first as pired to political distinction. His proper place was at a desk in the Treasury or Somerset-house, with a pen behind his ear, and a bundle of red tape-tyed documents under his nose. When, instead of copying official instructions he dictated them, he got completely beyond his depth—a notorious fact, which furnished an inexhaustible theme for the sarcastic wit of CANNING. If Lord SIDMOUTII be ever remembered at all, it will be—first, as a prodigy of political ineptitude, and secondly, as the hero of the Anti-Jacobilis famous parody on NORVAL'S soliloquy " My name's the Doctor ; on the Berkshire hills My father bleeds his patients," &c. It is some time since we called the attention of our readers to the unseemly and contumacious conduct of the incumbent of a large parish in Hertfordshire— not very far from Ware—in persisting, against the remonstrances of the great majority of his parish ioners, and the repeated intervention of the church wardens, in some of those obsolete mummeries which the Tractarian disciples of Dr. PusEy's school uphold with such insane, but offensive pertinacity. We advisedly apply the old ecclesiastical censure of "con tumacy" to such preposterous deportment in any clergyman of the Established Church, albeit exhibited to laymen. It involves an insult, and it professes an indifference (on the part of the officiating minister) to the prejudices, as lie calls them—to the opinions, as they entitle them—of his congregation, not to be tolerated by the members of that Reformed Anglican Church, whose clergy should respect in its laity the same hostility to all mere ceremonial worship, which, after all, is the great charter of their own re cognised status, in separation from the see of Rome. Incessant genuflexions and theatrical obeisances—the revival of long-forgotten observances at the altar or in the reading-desk—strange and absurd, or supere rogatory gesticulation, recruited and equipped from the most dusty of the canons, or the most obliterated directions of the Rubric ;—these, it is true, are forms, morally and religiously speaking, of utter indifference. But to insist on their practice—to " Romanize" even to the furniture and dressing of the Com munion-table--to display, in the most remarkable manner, the least conciliatory pretensions of the elder " High Church," in acts bespeaking a sort of divine nature and condition for the minister than that of his auditors ;—all these are symptomatic of a studied desire for, in a section of our own Church, once more to assert pretensions of infallible superiority in its clergy, which the good sense of the English people had long ago indignantly discarded. We must now refer, with sorrow, to a new ebullition of this PUSEY mania, which is vexing the suburban orthodoxy of a parish in Essex —namely, Great Ilford. The minister of Great Ilford, like him of whom we wrote formerly, has the happiness to acknowledge the Bishop of LONDON for his diocesan. The corre spondence between this Diocesan and the church wardens of Great Ilford is a curiosity in its way ; and, on the part both of Prelate and parson, is marked, emphatically enough, by the true " superbia prelatica " of those times, the return of which both of them so fondly desiderate ; for the sleek and pharisaical Bishop of LONDON must be con tent to be adjudged a Puseyite, since he so manifestly affects, on all occasions, their colours and their cause ! Not that we mean to affirm the competency of the Right. Rev. Lord of Fulham House to adopt, even in this controversial warfare, a course which he can hold without trimming. It was amusing, some three or four years ago, toobserve the desperate munificence he found himself irresistibly propelled into, by the sarcastic epistle of the Rev. SIDNEY SMITH, in which the Prebendary read to the Bishop his memorable homily, touching the disingenuousne ss of denouncing the "large incomes of Deans and Chapters" as fitting objects for new appropriation, whilst preserving a religious silence in respect of the sacred revenues of opulent bishoprics. To stifle the laughter of the public at detected inconsistency, the Right Rev. Prelate, as it seemed to us, diffused his subscriptiveness over twenty or thirty church en dowment, and church-building propositons, at one and the same time ; yet, a few months afterwards, he was engaged in another epistolary squabble with Dr. HumE, of Ilanwell, about the Doctor's right to sink gravel-pits, on his copyhold, without a sort of Peter's-pence payment to the Ecclesiastical manor Lord—" CHARLES LONDON." At present, how ever, the Bishop, clearly enough, abets our Pu seyite parson. In December last, he apprised the churchwardens that he had been informed by the Rev. FOLLIOTT BAUGH, that a vestry meeting of the "parishioners of Greatllford has been summoned for the purpose of considering the question of the side table placed within the rails at the eastern end of the church, the determination of which rests with them selves, as churchwardens, subject to his Lordship's directions." He requested that they would take no steps for the removal of such table till he had had time to make all necessary previous inquiries, and to further struct them. At a subsequent meeting, summoned to consider this letter, and at which the Rev. Mr. BAUGH himself presided, that Reverend Gentleman " admitted that he had informed the Bishop that it was only a faction of his parishioners who had got up this opposition to the present mode of performing Divine service at Great Ilford." On the veracity of this information, we shall offer a word presently. Certain resolutions being agreed to before the close of this meeting, they were communicated in due form by the churchwardens to the Bishop of LONDON. The Bishop, in his reply, admits that he had learned that the offensive alterations (turning the aspect of the reading desk, and setting up a slab, or " table of credence," at the altar place), although effected twelve months before with the knowledge of the then church warden, had been so made " without his express permission." Yet his Lordship adds, in defiance of the respectful requests of a populous parish, and very large congregation, "As no objection was made at the time, I do not think it necessary now to authorise the removal of the slab, or the re storation of the reading-desk to its original form." This was consistent to be sure ! The reading-desk had been deliberately turned, so as to indulge more than three-fourths of Mr. BAUGH'S parishioners with the sight of his back instead of his face, at prayers. The Right Rev. Bishop could do no less than rump the remonstrating churchwardens. The most amus ing pretension is to come, and we hasten to make room for it. " With respect to the other parts of the resolutions, I will content myself with expressing my regret that the concession which Mr. BAUGU has made to the wishes of the Select Vestry, in discon tinuing the weekly offertory, has not been met by them in a kinder spirit." " Concesion," truly ! The withdrawal of an offensive, impertinent observance, calculated to insult all sincere Churchmen, by challenging associations and recol lections connected with the worst usages of sangui nary superstition and priestly intolerance. But perhaps our readers may imagine that, after all, the Puseyite practices in which the incumbent of Great Ilford in dulged were harmless as to consequences. They may be thinking of his assurances to his Bishop, that the remonstiants composed only a "fraction of his parishioners?' Alas ! our experience of Puseyite doctrine, Puseyite clergy, and Puseyite corres pondence, have impressed us with a lofty notion of their love of truth or accuracy. Now, what is the testimony of the report from whence we have ex tracted the facts of this case ? That the very large congregation which used to attend Great Ilford Church has diminished, in consequence of the Rev. Gentleman's caprices, to an attendance of 40 or 50 persons only, for some time past; and that very re cently it consisted of but nine people ! What a fine prospect for the "unity and welfare" of that Church whereof it is just possible that the spiritual humility of the Right Reverend Bishop not seldom contemplates the possibility of his becoming, at some future day, the ecclesiastical head—afforded by the progress of the innovations which his Lordship thus sanctions, and the coincident defection of outraged flocks from the pastors who adopt them! The "Fifth Annual Report" of the Registrar-Ge- 1 neral of Births, Deaths, and Marriages in England, dated 14th August, 1843, brings under the notice of the public some remarkable contributions to these important branches of statistical inquiry. The whole of the annual abstracts which it comprises are for the year 1841 ; prepared (as we collect) with reference to the Population Census, which was taken about the middle of that year. The first division of the docu- ment before us is appropriated to a comparison of marriages, births, and deaths ; a statement of mar riages of 100,000, living in eleven divisions of the kingdom ; and of marriages solemnized in each of the four quarters of the year, respectively; also of re marriages, marriages of minors, and of persons mar ried who wrote their names. The other divisions relate to births, deaths( and their decrease), life tables, and health of towns. These are followed by tables of marriages, births and deaths in the several counties of England (in 1841), distinguishing males and females, and by other documents and correspondence having re lation to the same physical statistics of districts and towns. We have no room to-day for some results to which we had intended to call attention, among those which are arranged under the returns from the 324 statis tical districts into which England is divided for the general purposes of this registry. In the meantime, however, we shall quote the following passage, as suggesting an important modification in the, of late, generally received doctrine that the duration of life is cceteris paribus, in a very high degree greater in women than In men. The degree in which the difference has been overrated appears to remount to the age of the ingenious but defective calculations of the older economists, made• in times when there existed so few authenticated data, and those data so ill combined, on which to found the theory of those calculations ; and to the first attempt of BurroN, and other naturalists, prior to the better instructed efforts - of the savans who succeeded them, to estimate the vie probable of our species, under given conditions of social life, in its existing forms. Yet the reformation of the tables of our Life Assurance Offices, founded on this assumption of the superior longevity of women, and the consequent re duction of premiums in their favour, is but of com paratively modern introduction. To show how the assumed excess may be demonstrated, Mr. GRAHAM has prepared a table of which he says— " The Expectation of Life' in the annexed table was calculated separately for ' males," females,' and persons.' . . . . At first the expectation of fe- male lives is more by two years than that of males ; at twenty, it is 40.81 years, that of males being 20.02 ; during the whole period of life, _after the first year, the difference in the expectation does not exceed 1.17 year. This difference is important ; but the table disposes of the highly exaggerated opinions as to the superior vitality of the female sex derived from partial observation. I am informed that the lives of females assured are not longer than those of males, which might have been expected, as, at Assurance offices, their state of health is less strictly investigated." In some highly interesting calculations, which ap pear to have been most carefully conducted, and to be very fairly set out by Mr. GRAHAM, he points out a few remarkably falsified conclusions, which had been previously arrived at by the late Mr. RI6RMAN and by Mr. FINLAISON, (the calculator of the Government Annuity Tables,) and the Commissioners for conduct ing the last Irish Census. We advert especially to an extraordinary misapprehension of Mr. RICHMAN as to the minor waste of human life in the population of Liverpool ; and to a similar error on the part of the Commissioners as to the differences of duration of life between the Irish and English people. But we must postpone the very interesting illustrations we have selected, under these heads, to a future oppor tunity. From the last print of the " Poor-law Further Amendment Bill," brought in by Sir JAMES GRA HAM and Mr. MANNERS SUTTON, and now before the House of Commons, we observe that the principal points of difference between its proposed enactments and those of the law now in force, regard-1, the ex isting remedy in bastardy cases of the parish against the putative father, and the remedy for the mother of a bastard against the same father. 2. The regulations of parish apprenticeship, and the future abolition of compulsory apprenticeship. 3. The scale of voting for elections of guardians. 4. Regulations as to claims of owners, and as to proxy-votes at such elec tions. 5. Miscellaneous provisions. 6. Miscellaneous powers of guardians. 7. Burial of paupers. 8. District pauper schools, and asylums for occasional poor in London and other large towns. 9. Parishes under Local Acts. We have, in a recent article, expressed our views upon the general effect of the first set of these clauses, and remain of opinion that their general effect (of which we highly approve), will be in danger of being neutralised by the proviso, that the application of the mother for a warrant against the putative father " shall be heard and determined within the space of forty days from the service of the original warrant." This is to allow the poor woman no sufficient time, in many cases, to leave her room with safety, in order to make her application before the justices. The limit must be extended. The power which is given, by clause 11 (as it is at present numbered in the Bill) to the Poor-law Commissioners, by order, under their hand and seal, to direct what trades or businesses poor children may be apprenticed to, does not ap pear to us an unreasonable one. From the union, or the parochial poor-house, in which they have been brought up, it is to be supposed that the parties best qualified to speak to their capacity or turn, will have, from time to time, reported their observations in a form sufficiently conclusive to enable the Commissioners to form a correct judgment, and one therefore most advantageous to the children so about to be placed out. In the next place, the scale of voting seems to be judiciously altered, both as to rate-payers and as to owners. Instead of two tables, as formerly, the one for the latter, the other for the former class, it is proposed henceforth to sub stitute one table applying to both. Thus, owners and rate-payers, rated upon a rateable value of 'less than 501. each, shall be each entitled to one vote ; of 501., and less than 1001., to two votes ; of 1001., and less than 1501., to three votes; of 150/., and less than 200/., to four votes ; of 2001., and less than 2501. five votes ;of 2501., and upwards, six votes. `o owner of property is to vote, either in person or by proxy, until fourteen days after he shall have given to the overseers that statement of the property in respect of which he so claims to vote, which was required under the 4th and sth WILLIAM IV., c. 76 ; and no person (unless he be a bailiff, steward, land agent, or collector of rents) to vote as proxy for more than four owners of pro perty in any one parish ; no proxy to endure, or remain in force, more than two years from the making thereof. Clause 25 is an important, and may prove, we think, in working, a highly beneficial one. It authorises the guardians of any parish or union constituted by the Poor-law Commissioners to apply all money raised or borrowed for the purpose of de fraying the expenses of emigration, subject to the conditions and restrictions of the Act of GEO. IV., c. 48. The 27th clause is calculated to meet the complaints, and apuage the feelings in which those complaints originated, which have been occasioned by the existing enactments and practice as to the " burial of paupers." The guardians are now to be empowered to " bury the body of any poor person which may be within their parish or union, such person having died without effects of sufficient value for defraying the expenses of his burial ; and to charge the same to any parish, under their control, to which such pauper was chargeable." All paupers are to be buried in church-yards ; and the burial fees to be paid out of the poor-rates. Clauses 34 to 50, are devoted entirely to the formation, system, manage ment, and mode of defraying expenses of district pauper schools, and asylums for occasional poor in London and other large towns (Liverpool, Manches ter, Bristol, Leeds, and Birmingham are named in the Schedule annexed to the Bill). The 57th clause provides, that Commissioners may direct guardians under Local Acts to conduct their proceedings, in like manner, as guardians appointed under 4 and 5 WM. IV. c. 76. Parishes under Local Acts, with a population exceeding 20,000, not to be united without the consent of guardians. These guardians may act as a board, elect a chair man, and hold their meetings as set out by 4 and 5 Wm. IV. These are the principal features of this important Bill ; and it may be reasonably anticipated that they will occasion much discussion in their pro gress through Committee. Queen CHRISTINA has at length, after much wavering, left Paris for Madrid. She took her departure on Thursday at one o'clock, and was ac companied in her travelling carriage by a daughter of Don FRANCISCO DE PAULA, and preceded by the Duke DE LA ROCA, the Countess BELASCOIN, the widow of Don DIEGO LEON, and two other daugh ters of Don FRANCISCO. Her MAJESTY proceeds in the first instance to Chalons, where a steamer is in waiting to convey her to Lyons, and from that place she will go by water to Avignon, with the intention, says the Courrier de Lyon, of embarking at Port Vendres for Spain, unless she should decide enter ing that country from Perpignan by land. The Constilutionnel, alluding to the QUEEN' S departure, says :—" Only two days ago the resolution of Queen CHRISTINA was still wavering ; but at a grand dinner given on Monday at the Tuileries, Marshal SOULT, M. GUIzoT, and the Spanish Ambassador, expressed their joint opinion that her departure should not be any longer deferred. All the other Spaniards present thought otherwise, but their advice did not prevail." No business of importance has been transacted i n e ither of the French Chambers during the week. On Wednesday the Committee of of Deputies, c h arge d to exam i ne t h e permission to pr osecu t e M . E . DE Gl decided th a t th e pet i t i on was we ll Rd th eA e mßD C ani h Nd am ffoo b rr er libel, founded, and that the prosecution ought to be per mitted. The French Cabinet, not being able to de cide on any plan for the construction of railroads, have " resolved w no Minister," other mode of extricating says the J o urnal (14.5 himself Ta vaux from Publics , resolved to refer the question to the Chamber of Deputies. ‘ t lT h ic e h: difficulty arisin g ou t o f th e ques ti on , r ‘ b than by consulting the Chamber on the system advisable to pursue- With that object he will shortly bring in a Bill, containing no designation of lines, or bidders' names, but merely indicating the basis of the plan which he recommends as most eligible. The legia • lators having terminated their task, the Minister, in virtue of the powers vested in him by the Chambers, will definitively treat with such of the companies as shall propose to acquiesce in the conditions stipulated in the law. The roads for which no contractors shall present themselves are to be constructed at the public expense, and the Minister intends in the course of the session to apply for the funds necessary to execute and complete the works." The accounts from Stockholm of the KING'S health are more favourable. A bulletin of the 2d announces that the swelling in the legs had considerably abated, and that the KING had eaten with appetite, and slept occasionally. A decree dated February 1, had been issued by the KING, conferring the Regency on his son OSCAR, until the Ist of March. It begins in these terms— "We CHARLES JOHN, by the Grace of GoD, King of Sweden and Norway, of the Goths and Van dals," &c. The Madrid mail of the 9th had not reached Paris on Thursday. On the Paris Bourse the Three per Cents closed on Thursday at 82f. 40c. ; the Five per Cents. at 125 f. 80c.; Orleans shares at 847 f. 50c. ; Rouen 830 f.; Havre, 675 f.; Avignon, 760 f. ; Spanish Active, 31j. THE BOURSE—Tnuasnav, FEB. 15. First Highest Lowest Last Price. Price. Price. Price. French Five per Cents. .... 125 60 .. 125 70 • • 125 50 .. 125 70 Four-and-a-Half. •• • 112 50 .. 112 50 .. 112 50 • • 112 50 Three per Cents... • . 82 35 .• 82 40 • • 82 35 .. 82 40 Bank of France...• . • ...... 3277 50 ..3280 • .3277 50 • • 3280 Laffltte Bank, 1,6411 f. Sharesllos .. 1105 1102 50 ..1102 50 5,000 f. Sharesso7o —5070 —5070 • •5070 Belgian Bank .. ••.• • • •. • . 672 50 .. 672 50 .. 672 50 • • 672 50 1841 Belgian Fives .............. 107# .. 1091 1071 .. 1091 .. • • 1071 • 1091 107# 1840 . 1842 Spanish Active Passive 5l .. 5# • • 51 1 3 5 .. s Portuguese Five per Cents .• 47 • • 47 • • 461 • • 47 Neapolitan lO4 50 .. 104 50 .. 104 50 .• 104 50 Roman •• • • •• • RAILWAY SHARES. Versailles, R. 8.. 350 .. 350 .. 348 75 • • 348 75 L. 8.. . Rouen ................830 .. 830 •• 830 • • 830 Rouen to Havre . Orleans 850 .. 850 • • 840 845 Strasburg to Bale• 243 75 .. 243 75 • • 241 25 • • 243 75 Montpellier to Cette 4BO .. 480 • • 475 .• • 475 Mulhausen to Thann 372 50 372 50 • • 372 50 • • 372 50 Avignon to Marseilles 760 .. 760 • • 757 50 757 50 RAILWAY SHARES, FO R THE ACCOUNT. Versailles, R. 8....... 350 .. 350 • • 350 ,„ 350 L.B 177 50 .. 177 50 • • 175 _ 175 Rouen . . 842 87 50 83 0 8 6 4 7 7 6 50 8 "8 4 275 1 25 •. . 847 68732 50 Rouen to Havr e Orleans . . Strasburg to Bale. 243 75 .. 245 • • 242 50 • • 242 50 Avignon to Marseilles....... 752 50 760 • • 752 50 .. 760 We are informed that Mr. R. V. Richards, Queen's Counsel, of the Oxford Circuit ? is retiring from the bar, and will not again go on the Circuit. I * r• 4 4 ~ 5 , .. ' : '0 ' .l ilri r- ~-'.lllr 4 0 , , ~., 4 64 - ...,,...•.„... • . . -'--'- .--- ol isk .- , A 74: 41 • 46 4 .--0- _ • Uørntin "nit LONDON, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1844. A meeting of the freeholders, landowners, and te nants of Somersetshire, was held at Bridgewater oa Friday, on a requisition to the High Sheriff, for the purpose of opposing the machinations of the League. They met to curse COBDEN and BRIGHT, and Earl FITZWILLIAM, and Earl SPENCER, and the Marquis of WESTMINSTER, and the inhabitants of every large and influential town in the United Kingdom, and the scene ended like that between the King of Moan and the prophet BALAAM—they " altogether blessed them ihree times." Great preparations had been made for this demonstration ; the people gathered far and near, to the number of five thousand ; the leading mem of the country mustered in great numbers ; the parsons, of course, were among the motley crowd, - but the voice of monopoly was raised in vain, and common sense and justice prevailed. The High Sheriff had the honesty and courage to remain to the last, and put a question to the vote, which he knew would be against his party. He did not, like some others, dissolve the meeting, and retire to some hole and corner to pass resolutions ; he listened to the speeches on both sides, and, like a man of honour, gave a fair decision. The speeches we will not ad vert to seperately, though, from the strange mixture of blind prejudice, ignorance, and political animosity, on the one hand, and sound reasoning, and clear views on the other, they form a fit subject for com ment. We will leave our readers to judge for them selves. One fact is evident from this meeting, that the labours of the Anti-Corn-law League have taken effect in quarters where but two years ago any attempt to make an impression would have been re garded as an act of madness. We do not speak of the farm-labourers and the small tenants, but of men holding large property, and tenants renting land from 5001. to 1,0001. a year. Even these men begin to see that there is no safety for them under the pregent ambiguous system. The declaration of Sir ROBERT PEEL has left things precisely as they were. No man will yet take a lease ; tile-draining and all other draining is at a dead stand ; farm-steads will remain in the same dilapidated state, and landlords and tenants will alike wait till the League have ob tained their object, or a compromise take place which will assure all those interested that the question is definitively settled. All these county meetings, for the purpose of cheering on the Minister, are vain - exhibitions; they are what WELLINGTON called them, " a farce ;" they settle nothing, they argue nothing ; they merely display the ignorance, bigotry, and selfishness of a particular class, and make all men of knowledge and experience wonder that for the last two hundred years (we will not go farther back) the Houses of Parliament, in other words, the destiny of this empire, has been under the control of such a race. Much has been done within the last fourteen years. Some of the most obnoxious mono polies and most wicked class laws have been abolished, but no thanks to the performers in the farce. They ►ere to a man against them, and they will be against •very similar improvement till the voice of the country and the spread of intelligence compels them to yield. Sir ROBERT PEEL knows that well, and he •is only biding his time. Still, however, this delay iis• sadly • ruinous to the country, not to speak •ef•.our foreign relations, and especially those with the ',United States, which the sliding-scale renders every • year of less value ; not more than two-thirds of Eng land is under cultivation, and in general that is of the most expensive and rude description. Why ? Be -.cause no tenant has any security for his outlay. This subject has been well treated by Sir HARRY VERNEY, formerly Member for Buckingham, in a letter addressed to the farmers of Buckinghamshire, and published by RIDGWAY. He_is, we believe, a large landholder himself; and may therefore be taken as an authority. Nothing, he says, but an assurance of a permanency of tenure, will enable farmers to reap the fruit of -any capital they may embark in the cul tivation of the soil. And what man will embark capital in farming under the present • corn-laws ? He would as soon trust it to the repudiating Yankees, or to the insol vent Spaniards. "Is it right," says Sir HARRY " that, with our rapidly increasing population, such a state of things should remain ? Is it right that such a system should be persevered in, that prevents, or, at any rate, that has not forwarded and effected, to the extent that the country demands, an augmenta- Ilion of produce ? Look at the bad condition of farm houses and buildings in many parts of the country. See how constantly four or even five horses are used in a plough, when two would suffice ; and consider bat whole districts are cultivated with very small THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY i 9, 1844. AMERICAN NEWS. EXPRESS FROM LIVERPOOL. LIVERPOOL, SATURDAY MORNING. The splendid New York and Liverpool packet-ship, Sheridan, Captain De Peyter, has just arrived, bringing New York papers to the 28th. She brings also nine pas sengers, and made the voyage in twenty days. She brings intelligence three days later than the last arrival, but it is without interest. STATE OF TRADE. • ASIIES.—We still continue to quote Pots at $4 62k, and Pearls at $5 124. The market is very dull, and purchasers demand a reduction before operating. COTTON.—The market to-day was comparatively inactive until two o'clock, and prices had a drooping tendency; then a few speculators entered the market, and upwards of five thousand bales changed hands at very full rates. One list of 2,200 bales being taken at a higher rate than has been ob tainedbefore this season. noun AND GRAlN.—There is no change. All the markets continue very steady and uniform. Here Genesee is held at $4 75 a $4 81*. Witist(EY.—Drudge is held at 23c., but we hear of no sales; barrels are firm at $5 121. PROVISIONS.—There is so little doing in every article under this head that the quotations remain quite nominal. We have no alteration to report. BEESWAX.—We notice trifling sales of prime yellow at 29i c. SALES AT THE S 1 OCK EXCHANGE. $l,OOO Indiana 25 yr bds 2,000 N. Y. 51's, '6l b6o 104 2,000 Ohio 6's b3o 964 2,000 Kentucky 6's IOOA 11,000 Illinois 6's, 70 25 Nor. and Wor. RR. snw 34 50 Mech. Bkg. Ass. 20 North Ame. Trust 150 Farmers' Loan 304 50 Ohio Life and Trust 9l 100 Vicksburg Bank 6O 6 25 Mohawk RR 5l 125 Long Island RR. s6o 71 225 Harlem RR IMPORTANT NEWS FROM SPAIN. The Messager of Friday contains the following mportant telegraphic dispatch : " BAYONNE, FEB. 12. " On the 7th the insurgents evacuated Murcia, into which the Authorities and the National Militia, who had retired, were on the point of re-entering. " The disarming of the National Guard at Malaga has excited some disorders, which have been promptly repressed. In all the other cities of Andalusia the disarming is taking place without difficulty. Galicia is tranquil. On the 4th the events at A licant were known at Corunna." LATEST FROM CHINA. (From the Devonport Independent.) We have received letters, by the last Overland mail, from Hong-Kong, China, dated November 30th, 1845, from which . we extract the following :—" The ward-room officers of her Majesty's ship Minden have, at their sole expense, erected a neat monument to the memory of their late messmate, Mr. Thomas Hancorn, late master of that ship. About 200 men have invalided from the squadron, and will shortly leave for England, in the Rattlesnake, troop-ship.. Th e Cornwallis, Dido, and Vixen steamer, will sail as soon as the two mails which are now due arrive. As soon as the hospital at Hong- Kong is ready, the sick soldiers will leave the Minden, and be taken on shore. The ship has been moved about two miles further out from the town for the benefit of the sick, amounting now, in all, to seventy-five—twenty-fiva of-whom belong to the Minden. The Rattlesnake has about forty of the 55th Regiment on board, the Sapphire about fifty, and the Lansier more. Admiral Sir W. Parker will leave here (Hong- Kong) on the Ist November. Messrs. Allen and Rogers, assistant-surgeons, of the Minden, F o to England in charge of the invalids in the Rattlesnake. The Cornwallis, flag-ship, sails to-morrow (Ist December), and the Admiral, it is said, will return in May. All the troops will be taken out of the Minden, and sent to . Chusan, so that ship will only have her own sick in hospital on board." Hong-Kong barracks will be ready in about two months. There has been a survey held on board the Samarang, sur veying -vessel, Captain Sir Edw. Belcher; her copper being all off, it is certain that the destructive worms of these seas will soon make great havoc in her, and the officers have re commended that she shall be hove done. Mr. Gordon, Mate of the Cornwallis, is - appointed acting Lieutenant of the Starling; Mr. Spreat, Master command ing the Rattlesnake, has invalided, and is superseded by Mr. King, Master of the Agincourt ; Mr. Elliott, Master of the Dido, is appointed to the Agincourt ; Mr. Allen, Master of the Vixen steamer, to the Dido; Mr. Giles, Second Master of the Starling, to the Vixen. Lieutenant Wade, of the Samarang, is in thelMinden's hos pital. Lieutenant Heard, of the same ship. has been thrown from a horse and dragged along the ground, which disfigured him very much, but he was not at all dangerously hurt. Captain Call, and his father, Paymaster of the 18th Regi ment, go home on sick leave. Mr. Sullivan, Master, is" appointed Consul at Amoy. On the 9th of November a plot was discovered for blowing up the markets here (Hong-Kong). Had it succeeded there is no knowing what the consequences would have been : it is very likely one of the victualling stores and the commissariat would have been destroyed. One Chinaman has been appre hended, and he will be hung. The p o li ce are now burning down a range of buildings, occupied by a disaffected body of Chinese. The guards are all doubled, and armed boats now guard all night. On the 11th November an alarm of fire was given, and it was found that fifty houses were burning at once here. Sir Henry Pottinger is at Canton, and is not expected here till Hong-Kong is more healthy. The gunner of the Samarang has been tried by Court-martial, and broke for drunkenness. We have also received a letter from a medical gentleman at Hong-Kong, from which we extract the following:— " Sickness prevailed to a great extent ; fifteen have died in the last week, and about thirty are expected not to recover. Strange to say, that although the Admiralty have fitted out the Minden, hospital-ship, with every comfort, the men have a great dread of being sent to her, preferring to remain in their own ships even to death. A large house has been taken for a military hospital. Mr. Rae, R.N., is ill in the hospital. The prejudice against the Minden is so strong, that it is thought no more sick will be sent on board her. The soldiers are to be taken out of her, and sent to Chusan ; therefore the Minden will only have her own sick on board." We ought to have held Chusan, it being worth a hundred islands of Hong-Kong, and I think we only wait for a fair chance to take it again ; for if we do not America or France will, if we allow them to do so. A great " squabble " has arisen between the nobs here, the Governor supposing the Admirals and General have not paid him proper respect as to salutes. Sir W. Parker has been unwell, but is recovered, and has returned from Macao. The Starling, cutter, Lieutenant Gordon, has been con demned, being found rotten. The Castor, frigate, is expected to arrive daily. THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON'S HEALTH. LONDON, FEB. 16, 1844. Field-Marshal the Duke of Wellington presents his compliments to the Editor of the Times newspaper. It will save Om Duke some trouble if the Editor will be so kind as to announce that there is not one word of truth in a paragraph of the Times newspaper of this 16th inst., headed " The Duke of Wellington." The Duke has not been in better health for the last twenty years than at present. He was not on horseback on Wednesday. He went to and returned from the Horse Guards on foot through the streets, followed by his groom with his horse, which was not mounted, on that day. *** The paragraph was copied from an Evening Paper, and is manifestly one of those vile fabrications by which the press is occasionally duped. We cannot, however, in this case regret the error, as it has elicited from the illustrious Duke so gratifying an assurance upon a point which must be one of interest to all.— Times. [The information upon which the paragraph in question was founded, was communicated to us by a party, on whose veracity we place the utmost confi dence. He had received it from two informants who had, as they stated, witnessed the occurrence. We have made inquiries, and are satisfied there was no intention to deceive us, but that a mistake as to identity of the person has occurred. We are much pleased to find the paragraph unfounded as to the Noble Duke, in whose long continued health we shal sincerely rejoice. —ED. Sun.] COLONEL STODDART and CAPT CONOLLY. We regret to have to state, that accounts were yesterday received at the Foreign-office from St. Petersburg, stating that the Russian Envoy at Teheran. in a dispatch dated the 15th (27th) of December, had reported to hi s Government that the information which he had indirectly obtained from the Envoy of the Ameer of Bokhara, who had arrived in Teheran, had only toe surely removed all uncertainty as to the tragical end of Captain Conolly and Lieutenant-Colonel Stoddart, for he positively asserted that the first had been executed for having shown on many occasions great pax tiality for the Khan of Kokan, at that time at war with Bokhara; and the second in consequence of the discovery of a secret correspondence which he kept up with his country men at Caubul, through the channel of Indian merchants established at Bokhara. The Russian Envoy adds, that although the truth of these details can hardly be questioned, an Envoy from the Shah of Persia, who is about to proceed to Bokhara on a special mis sion, will be expressly instructed to collect on the spot the most precise information as to the details which accompanied the death of the two English officers. The Russian Envoy further says, that the agent from Bokhara, whether from fear or from delicacy, had evaded Lieut.-Colonel Sheil's attempt to obtain information from him as to a catastrophe which must painfully shock the British represent ative.— Times. TROOPS I IRELAND. An Account of the Total Rank and File of all Arms in Ire land, on the Ist day of January in each year from 1830 to 1844, both inclusive : Years. Rank and File. 1830 1831 1832 1833 1834 1835 1836 _ _ 1857 JC Adjutant-General's Office, F 4 Years. Rank and File. 1838 1839 1840 1841 1842 1843 1844 bHN MACDONALD, A.G. 'eb. 14, 1844. Maria Watford and William Burrell, each aged 12 years were drowned at Moulsey, on Tuesday week. The girl had ventured on the ice on a pond, which broke it, and let her in ; the boy endeavoured to save her and perished.— Chelmsford Chronicle. EXTRAORDINARY FACT. — Lately at Rampton, near Retford, Mr. Richmond, of that place, slaughtered a sow, and on opening her found the incredible number of 41 pigs in the animal's inside.—Doncaster Gazette. SUMMARY OF NEWS AND tittbltt Optviton. " Who rains may read." FOREIGN. A rumour prevailed at Paris on Thursday, that an out break had taken place at Burgos ; and the Madrid mail of the 9th had been intercepted in consequence. Some of the Paris papers mention another rnmour that the French Government had received a telegraphic dispatch, an nouncing the arrest of the Count de las Navas, and of several more of the Progresista Deputies. Colonel Berryer, brother of the Legitimatist Deputy,had a private audience of the King on Tuesday. One of the most eminent of the Polish emigrants resident in Paris, Francis Wolowski, formerly in his own country a Councillor of the Supreme Court, a Councillor of State, and Deputy of the Diet, died three days ago, and was buried on Wednesday. His funeral was attended by nearly all the Poles in the capital, including several of his former colleagues in the Diet, by many members of the French Chamber of Deputies, of the magistracy. the bar, the press, and the learned and scientific bodies. Count Septime de . Villeneuve (says the Quotidienne), having had the honour of making the journey to London, has been dismissed from his office of mayor of Ballan, in the Indre-et-Loir. • Letters from Vienna (Feb. 5) mention that Prince Meter nich is indisposed, and that he has of late not attended so much to the affairs of the State as he was accustomed to do. Accounts from Goritz, received at Vienna, state that the Duke d'Angouleme is so far recovered, as to enable him oc casionally to be present at the family dinner-table. The Duke of Bordeaux made the voyage and journey from Lon don to Goritz in twelve days. A letter from Naples, of the Ist, announces the death of Cardinal Caracciolo, Archbishop of that city. LAW AND POLIO._ At the Middlesex Sessions, Francis Redhead Smith, an attorney, residing at 14, Bethnal-green, and Stephen Skel lington, servant to the former,_ surrendered to answer an indictment, charging them with committing an assault upon John Kain, on the 28th day of December, 1843. It appeared that Kain having paid the defendant Smith a sum of money requested a proper receipt, when he told the plaintiff, if he was not satisfied with what he had given to him to leave the house, upon which he immediately laid hold of him by the neck, and dragged him to the door, assisted by Skellington. They both shoved him outside the door, and then pitched him down the stone steps, by which his leg was severely hurt. The Chairman sentenced Mr. Smith to three months' imprisonment in the House of Correction, and the servant to fourteen days' imprisonment in the same place. Mr. Ballan tine suggested that the imprisonment should be taken off Mr. Smith on his paying 501. to the complainant ; but the ar rangement could not be carried into effect. The Chairman subsequently ordered Smith to enter into his own recog nisance in 2001., and find one surety of 1001., to appear this day to receive judgment. James Cook and his wife were sentenced to six months' imprisonment with hard labour in the House of Correction, for keeping a house of ill-fame in the neighbourhood of Long-acre. The prisoners have been - previously convicted .for the same offence. -A Guildhall, a man of the name of Jones was convicted, on his own confession, of smuggling 81b. of tobacco on shore from' a foreign ship, and was ordered to pay a penalty of 100 L, or be imprisoned till the same is paid. At Union-hall, Thomas Richardson, a smart-looking young man, was charged with attempt at robbery. On the preced ing night, as a gentleman named Gardener was walking along the Waterloo-road, the prisoner walked up to him with a silk pocket-handkerchief in one hand, which he thrust in complainant's face, while with the other hand he made a snatch at a diamond pin in the front of his shirt. He failed in the attempt, and was immediately arrested. A policeman stated that the prisoner, a few years ago, was known to be a member of the "swell mob," at which period he used to dress like a " first-rate swell" about town. That since then he had gone down in the world, and was the associate of a set of low thieves who frequented the south side of the river, and was always to be seen lurking about the Elephant and Castle, and other places of public resort. He was committed to the House of Correction for two months. COURT-FABITIONABLE. The Marchioness of Hastings, accompanied by the youth ful Marquis and the Ladies Hastings, arrived at the Bur lington Hotel, Cork-street, early in the week, from Southsea, Hants, and has since taken a mansion in Belgrave-street, where her Ladyship's accouchement is expected shortly to bike place. The Marquis of Salisbury arrived in Arlington-street, on Thursday, from Hatfield House, Herts. The Countess of Jersey and Lady Clementina Villiers re turn to town on Tuesday from visiting the Duke and Duchess of Beaufort, at Badminton. The Earl and Countess of Clancarty are entertaining Lord and Lady Castlemaine and a distinguished party, at Gar belly Park. The Earl and Countess of Macclesfield and Lady Louisa Parker have arrived in Conduit-street, from Brighton, for the season. The Speaker's second Parliamentary dinner this evening is to Lord John Russell, Viscount Palmerston, Sir John Cam Hobhouse, and a numerous party of the leading Oppo sition Members of the House of Commons. Baron Brunnow, the Russian Minister, - left Ashburnham House, on Friday, on a visit to the Duke and Duchess of Beau fort, at Badminton, who are entertaining a large and distin guished party. Lord and Lady Chesterfield, Lord and Lady Wilton, Count Bielmansegge, the Hon. Colonel and Mrs. Anson, and several foreigners of note, are among the visitants expected next week. • MISCELLANEOus. A report is current in Dublin, and generally believed, that Lord - de Grey has given in his resignation as Lord Lieutenant, and that it has been accepted by the Government. His suc cessor is not named, but Lord Eliot is to continue Secretary. The anniversary of the London Orphan Asylum took place on Thursday at the London Tavern, Bishopsgate-street„ where, at six o'clock, 130 gentlemen sat down to partake Vf the pod things provided by Messrs. Bathe and Breach, the landlords, and to testify, by their contributions, the zeal they felt for the - success of the Asylum. Amongst the most liberal of the contributors were—Her Majesty the Queen, 21/. ; the Queen - Dowager, 10/. ; his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, 21/. ; Mr. Byng, M.P., 10/. ; Colonel Wood, M.P.; 10/. Exeter Hall was crowded to excess. on Friday for the the second performance this season of • Handel's oratorio of Jephtha. Braham was in splendid voice, and seemed deter mined to leave a great impression on the minds of his audi tory. His " Deeper and deeper still" brought down peals of applause. Miss Rainfortk never sang better, if so well, the music allotted to the daughter, and was rapturously encored in "The smiling dawn." The choruses went with marvel lous energy and precision. On Friday the sale by auction of the extensive library of Mr. Black, late ,editor of the Morning Chronicle, took place at the auction-iooms of Mr. Sotheby,Wellington-street, Strand, and was attended by some of the most eminent booksellers in the metropolis. The lots went off in general at very low prices. Bentham's works, 48 volumes, brought only 21.85., LOSS OF , THE BRITISH BARQUE BOLIVAR. The following has been received at Lloyd's : " Foreign-office, Feb. 16, 1844. " Sir,--I am commanded by the Earl of Aberdeen to transmit to you, for the information of the Chairman and Committee at Lloyd's, a copy of a dispatch from her Majesty's Consul' at the Cape Verd Islands, reporting ,the loss of the British barque Bolivar.—l am, Sir, " Your most obedient humble servant, (Signed) " CANNING. " To William Dobson, Esq." &c. &c. (Copy.) " Cape Verds, Oct. 2, 1843. " Sir,—lt becomes my unpleasant duty to report the total loss of the British barque Bolivar, Francis Wheate .master, bound from Sierra Leone to England, with a cargo of timber. " The Bolivar, in consequence of making much water, endeavoured to get into one of the ports of these islands, but, the leak increasing, the captain and crew. aban doned her, and took refuge on board the English barque Adrastus, which had remained by them for three days previous. - "The captain and crew were landed at Porto Praiu, and sent from thence to the British Consulate here, and it is my intention to send the whole to the coast of Africa by the first English vessel that may offer, for Gambia or Sierra Leone. One man has died, and the whole, including captain and mate, have received sus tenance and clothing, with medical attendance where ii was necessary.—l have, &c., (Signed) "John Bidwell, Esq." "JOHN RENDALL. LLOYD'S SHIPPING. LONDON, FEB. 17.—Wind, this day at noon, light South westerly breeze, and cloudy. DEAL, FEB. 16.—Wind, A.m., N.W. by W. to N.W., mo derate, P.M., N.N.W. light breeze.—Arrd. Gladiator, Britton, New York. Sld. George, for Calcutta, Inchiman, for Bom bay, with the rest of the outward bound, except Triumph for Barbadoes. FALMOUTH, FEB. 16.—Light airs.—Sld. Madison, Newt. port, for Charleston. PORTSMOUTH, FEB. 16.—Wind N.N.W.—Arrd.—Nautilus, Dyer, Havanah. OFF THE WIGHT, FEB. 16.---Tunandia, Skinner, Calcutta, left St. Helena, Dec. 28. PLYMOUTH, FEB. 16.—Wind variable.—Arrd. Johanna, Bremen, for gavannah ; Virginia, ditto, for St. Übe's, with damage, having been in contact yesterday off the Start with the packet-boat Seine, Griman. Five of the crew of the latter got on board the Virginia. Sid. Ellen Brooks, New Orleans. MEGAVISSEY, FEB. 15.—The Simon Glover, Bowman, from the Clyde to Gibraltar and Marseilles, was run on shore on the rocks of Pennare, about a mile to the Northward last night, having borne up from the Bay of Biscay with five feet water in the hold, and the crew worn out with fatigue and declining to work. Part of cargo saved in a damaged state, and it is expected the remainder will be. The vessel is full of water, and expected to become a wreck. SwANsEA, FEB. 15.—Arrd. Harriet, July, and Lady Scott, Sulverson, Cuba. _ _ RAmsGITE, Fin. 16.—The Johanna, De Vries, from Am sterdam to Trieste, which put in here on the 13th ult., with damage, has been repaired on the slip, but must go into dry dock for further repairs, being found to be still leaky. PORTSMOUTH, FEB. 16.—The Defence, Smith, a London coaster, in leaving the Camber, this morning, got on the floating bridge, and is supposed to have knocked a hole in her bottom. LIVERPOOL, FEB. 16.—Wind W.N.W., fresh.—Off, Sheri dan, New York, (26th ult.) ; Triton. HULL, FEB. 16.—Wind, W.N.W., moderate.—Arrd. Even ing Star, Green, New Orleans. CORK, FEB. 14.—S1d. Colonist, Antigua. VESSELS SPOKEN Wmt.—lsabella, London to Trieste, 19th ult., lat. 37, lon. 10; Milo, Sunderland to Cadiz, 4th inst., lat. 48, lon. 7 ; Cornish Diamond, Liverpool to Oporto, by the Templar, arrived at Liverpool. Templar, of Liverpool, Calcutta to Cape of Good Hope, Dec. 2, lat. 26 S., lon. 34 E. ; Argaun, Calcutta to London, 6th ult., lat. 22 S., lon. 35 E., by the Admiral Van Heemskirk, arrived off Torbay. Camer ton, Liverpool to Honduras, Bth inst., lat. 46, lon. 10; Eliza beth Mary Ann, Liverpool to Messina, lat. 48, lon. 8, by the Notion, arrived at Falmouth. Bride of Abydos, of Shields, 14th inst., lat. 47, lon. 7, by the Elizabeth, arrived at Fal mouth. Prince of Orange, late Glover, Liverpool to Africa, Nov. 23, lat. 24 S., lon. 35 W. The Britska mails between Paris and Valenciennes commence running on Thursday next, performing the journey in twelve hours ; so that by their means a passenger arriving at Valenciennes by the railroad from Brussels at six o'clock in the afternoon, at which hour the mail starts for Paris, may, if he has no baggage to pass, arrive in this capital early neat morning. COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, SUNDAY.—Yesterday morning the Queen tin& Prince Albert took their accustomed early walk, In the afternoon her Majesty and his Royal Highness rode out ill& pony phaeton, attended by Lord Charles Wellesley, Equal' in Waiting, on horseback. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales and the Princess Alice were taken a carriage airing, and the Prince. Royal rode out on her pony. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited her Ma' jesty and her Illustrious Consort, at the Castle. This morning - her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert, her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, and the Household attended Divine service in the Private chap . within the Castle. The Hon. and Rev. C. Leslie Courtenei officiated. A Deputation, on the subject of New Zealand, had an ins terview with Lord Stanley, on Saturday, at the Colonial' : office. The deputation included Mr. Somes, Gofernor of thec New Zealand Company ; Mr. Aglionby, M.P. ; Mr. Builerr M.P. Mr. Hastie, M.P. ; Mr. Hutt, M.P. ; Mr. Harring" lr Secretary to the New Zealand Company; Mr. J. Abel Smith,. M.P., and several of the Directors of the New Zealand Coo EI P Y. A Deputation, on the subject of inland bonding, had an ik terview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on Saturdafr at his official residence in Downing-street. The deputatiog consisted of Mr. Philips, M.P. ; Mr. Tatton Egerton, M. Mr. Brotherton, M.P. ; Mr. Buckley, M.P. ; with Mr.., B. Watkins, the Town Clerk of Manchester, and Mr. a deputation from Manchester, on inland bonding. Dean, Chairman of the Customs, was present at the law view. A Deputation from the Committee of Deputies from til l Joint-Stock Banks of England, Wales, and Ireland, bad interview on Saturday with Sir Robert Peel and the Chart cellor of the Exchequer, at the official residence of the Rig'. Hon. Baronet, in Downing-street. The Deputies, twea t Y . three in number, were headed by Mr. P. M. Stewart , i, t . The Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England had a ing on Friday affernoon, at the office in Whitehall - T i l l ; The Commissioners present were the Bishop of London , Bishop of Hereford, the Bishop of Lichfield, the Rig ht 11 ; H. Hobhouse, the Right Hon. John Nichol, D.C.L., an d Dean of Westminster. Baron de Moncorvo, Portuguese Minister, and Mr. 31 „ Q s —Mexican Minister, transacted business at the Foreiglr"l— on Saturday. Ac 6 Dispatches were received yesterday at the Colo from the Governor of the Falkland Islands. • Lord Sandon had an interview with the Chancellor, of t ill ' Exchequer on Saturday. The Duke of Wellington attended the early service io the Chapel Royal, St. James's, yesterday morning. The Itr J. V. Povah officiated and preached. The Marquis of . 176 glesey, the Marquis of Normanby, Lords Ernest Bruce , Cil t be Alford, and Cantilupe, attended the daily service in, I. Chapel Royal. The prayers were read by the Rev. lv Hall ; the lessons by the Rev. J. H. Dakins, and the serl3l' was Lord Rev Dr. Sleath. Stanley by. had a dinner party on Saturday, at his r e rd6 l ' dence in St. James's-square. Lady Stanley had air` an evening party. ILLNESS of the KING of SWEDP,,„„`' The latest accounts of the King's health are ri;,, Stockholm, dated the 6th instant, and bring the folio ing bulletins:— d " FEB. 3, SEVEN, A.M.—His Majesty has p -- i t v restless night; the redness of the skin, and a 5 40 swelling of the foot, which remained yesterday, " rather abated than increased. "5, P.M.—His Majesty is gradually gaining atr, eli tot: though his night's rest has hitherto been ind iue ' t he The state of his Majesty's , health to-day increal'e; hope of progressive improvement. The state f ag foot and leg is not changed. As there are at preset!tb symptoms indicative of apoplexy, as was feared st o ne commencement of his Majesty's indisposition, oebiodr, bulletin will in future be issued every day at one 0 1.„ e t hat " FEB. 4, ONE P.M.—His Majesty has had a less restless night than the preceding; in other re sr no change has taken place. "FEB. s.—His Majesty has had more sleep ti l ; atio last bulletin than during the preceding days and 13 " P but his strength has not increased in proportiol3l.4lo the top of the foot, near the great toe, there is 0 abrasion, the skin is discoloured, and without Iri-•4 thepain in the leg and foot is but slight, and the 6 1 " -- bias nearly disappeared. " FEB. 6.—His Majesty is on the whole, better °ill' yesterday, the foot remaining as before." -- The Crown Prince held a Council this forenoon' MONEY AND COMMERCIAL 1 0 r (From The Sun of Saturday Evening) NO The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were 0 0 , 0 0 0 at former prices.-Shares were firm, with a fair.7_,,oefl' doing. Eastern Counties, Registered, 124 ; Grand J l 7lll' . 227 ; Great North of England, 914 ; Great Western , 0 0 r 19 ; Birmingham, 235 ; Brighton, 42*; Paris and LY 15s. 6d. ; South Eastern, New, 35k. 11 0 The Sales of Cotton for the week are 40,510 bale r . 00 Gladiator packet arrived at Holyhead yesterday. P ... are two days later. t 9' There is a quiet market for the public securities ; 1311 0 5/ 0 . quotations are supported. Consols for immediate '„ 111° have realised 974 to i, and for the Account the 5a 11 4; e i r c i Commissioners have not taken any stock to-day. _,1.,,„ ; 1111 ,„ chequer Bills at lid. have been 70s. to 71s. pr.en7Tilr e ,d, the East India, under 1,0001., are 86s. to 85s. - - -Ne,',; q l, 1 ,..,,'' and-a-Half per Cents. obtain 102 to *; Reduced iT'" Ps' the Three per Cent. Annuities 984 to 4. Bank Ste c- e f at 194, and India Stock nominally is 278. 4 Sill 6 The intelligence from Paris of the departure for to tli Queen Christina, seems to have favourably atre c . t 134 market for the Stock, for though the Five per Cen' te oct , e have only been 224 to 23, the Three Per Cents have `,., 13,. 32g. Portuguese Converted are 45 to 45k. Meii,n% oie.; been flat, as it has been asserted that Messrs. Lizar',l the issues are all confirmed in a decree of Santa Anna's, '"'" t pv, a further emission will even be attempted. The forr e st rof l ,r, of the statement we believe to be correct, but hav'Lri, '7,, doubts about the latter. The quotations are 34 to uilleP r ` it reported that the Goverment of Granada assents tnihoitte:r!: positions of the Committee of Spanish-American Derr e rav Colombian Stock has risen to 14 and 144. Ivre o 'i Bonds are rather slacker, being 31 to 31*. Buenos P' e 5 ?; Abu Oi'' steady at 38. Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents bot tine, The Railway Shares have been a little brisker,oieet has been occasioned rather by the disposition t 0 Do i s i buyers at easier terms. There is, however, no ge .i ° l 3 /000 r ration. Great Western have been 31 premium, an" rigi'do ham, 134 premium, each being rather cheaper. 'c o , ',,, are 7to 74 discount. South Western are 354 a erai sad l ' ''' meeting being considered satisfact or y. North inl" - / been down to 14 discount. l‘e re gv e: MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, FEB. 16.- -011 : 0 , a, -.4 , to-day has been firm, and rather more business -," deb' s cially in Manchester and Birmingham, which are sod 'rod The sales are-Eastern Counties, 10* ; Edinburg h _ /wig ,i e l gow, 594 ; Manchester and Birmingham, 401 r lO' Lyons, 24 ; Sheffield and Manchester, 644 to Junction, 34. CLOSING PRICES. 1 0 ' BRITISH FUNDS. Bank Stock ... ...,.. r 19: Indian Stock ......... ..." £ 0 S per Cent. Rd., 9B Ditto Bonds ....... ... 0.• .... 3 per Cent. Cens 3;6 per Cant. Rai lO3l Ditto New Annuitie s,. If 00. New 3% per Cent lO2 4 Ex. Bills, 1,0001. 1 liel*** 1 1 i' New 5 per Cent . Ditto 5001 ~. ....... ._. ... 0 Long Annuities to expire Ditto Small ... . ........... 04 Jan. 1860 4 , 12% Bank Stock for -Acct. ••• ..,, Oct. 1859 lndia Stock for Acct. , ' gflt Jan. 1860 l2 9.16 Consols for Acct. ..... ... FOREIGN FUNDS. ~,,t ..*". ' Austrian, 5 per Cent ' - Portuguese, 5 per •-•-- .. " Belgian, 5 per Cent Ditto, N ew Ditto ... . ...• ..... ~ , Brazilian Bonds Buenos Ayres, 6 per Ce.t - 'Ru s sian, 5 per Cent ... ..... 0" / Chlllan, 6 per Cent - Ditto, Metallie - •••• ....... " hi Colombian, 6 per Cent Ditto, 1824 Ditto, 3 per Cent ........ .05 . 2. Cuba Bonds, 6 per Cent 93 Ditto, Deferred ..••••' DJ nish,3 per Cent - French, b u er Cent. ..0 . :: ..g; /, Greek, 1845, 5 per Cent - Exchange ........... .0.0..1 Mexican, 5 per Cent Ditto, 6 per Cent., 18.17 - Dutch, 2% per .... ly" Peruvian, 1825, 6 per Cent 3l Ditto, 5 per Cent •••• 69 SHARES. Birmingham and Derby (100 paid) ........ .. ......... .. 6 9 *idol and. Exeter (70 paid) .. ................. /0 Eastern Counties (Z; paid) Ditto New (25 paid) Ditto Extension (I3s. 4d. paid` ..................... ...f Edinburgh and Glasgow (50 paid) ..................... 15 , Ditto New (12% p a id) ............................. .... Liverpool and Manchester (166paiCI) • ........... . 1/4 Ditto Quarters' (25 paid) ... .. ..... .. ............... .. 4 London and Brighton (50 paid) . ..................." 95? London and Birmingham (paid) ............... . ..... •••. 41 Ditto New Thirds (2 paid) ...... • t .. ••••.• .......... // London and Guildford Junction ( 5 paid) .... '' 'g London and South Western ( 411.6 e. 10d• F"'"' * . 1 6 . ..... .......... .. . ig Ditto Eighths (Iss. paid) .......... ..... •• ....•" is); London and Croydon grunk) ........ .. ..... ... . 1. 0 Manchester and Leeds (70 paid) ........................ /5 Ditto New Quarter. ( 2 paid) ................. ' ..... Midland Counties (100 pai-l).. -. ......................... 56 Norwich and Brandon ( 2 paid) . ...... .. t .„ • ••1-.•* .. fr . ' Newcastle and Darlington Junction OD rai d) ... 81 Northern and Eastern (45 paid) ........................ _ North Midland (100 paid) .. -. ............................ Ditto Half Shares (40 paid) ........................... $ Paris and Orleans (20 paid) ......... .... ................ :; Paris and Rouen (20 paid) .... .. .... ....... - ...... , 1 9 Yarmouth and Norwich (1 pa id) ....••••"" ........... - 0 091 1* York and North Midland c 1)..........••••• __ rob! le This ~ PO O DEATH OF LORD GLENTwORTII. ----- - -- ,,d Cm. r 00 to after a painful and protracted illness, ex i l l f; fe,h53,,, morning at his mansion, in Manchester-si lai; a s sir r i e ~,,'", time past the nature of his Lordship's inevaeolagrale,r,recee°llsl4,l, give not the slightest hopes for his that the immediate family connections were I, ) i r ide nr iclie d i l lo melancholy result. The deceased Ednirn, eiti c i t , A 6, Glentworth, was eldest son of the late . I, f 9Ti t oen e , 1%. 1837, and grandson and heir of the Earl °,, h octo b o, Vw o was born 3d March, 1809, and married, 8t of - yr , , oti eg e s Miss Eve Maria Villebois, second daughter 0 . , a y cina ot r. bois, by whom, we believe, his Lordship le,ir_ r e fancl..`Sr', e f, milt'. By his demise the families of the rf tant iisToil ii , of Limerick, Lord Monteagle, Lady LueY", 'FroncroiY and Lady Louisa Pole, Sir Henry and e au t od P ii i Count and Lady C ec il D e l a field, Mr. Ge.__ °r g re b t iof roline Russell, &c., are placed in mourn in g' On ' T si.F i ti CHARGE OF MURDER IN NORNfici f ;__ tis e; ti t ae, `',l l o evening an inquest was held at a public-o,„. 0 . !, 4 , 1 , ,, the Plough, St. Benedict's-street, before. f ir., V ;ss• P s, ley', - - $ .4 •f e , Coroner, on view of the body of John See uence , . 5 0 o t came by his death on that day in enn se il i i in by' il'.,, of t ii ilie ported, of a blow with a poker given_„ es kept °ma' , aid woman apparently about 40. The pa r ti thigegef±.„o infamous public-houses which aboun, n _ eas ed tt estrioci• Cooper's Arms, St. Margaret's. The ae_, h i s ill . _ es ,9l o is . on Thursday afternoon, and as rumOnrs_ v e i nt was na 0, fir' by his wife had got abroad, great excite.,"__ a fter ; r `..4th e i sle A jury was summoned almost immediateig. Do I lie trils, quest held about six o'clock in the 1 of the deceased, Mary Ann Seeley, was P d the She x i ' p euiry there was a great crowd outsideve the r ll : s . g e s o e t, • I : ( i ti t o il -ir. e ; interrupt t , r is inquest was going on, and often i her, a nd ti l ti ll X l o f asserting that deceased had struc k as _ d/ont oe used the poker at all. The inquest w , a J %° f for -Nor Ili olk Chronicle. lI°P. the bins' ost 5 10 0 '' The splendid abode of the g, ht __ re g ge , e 0 in Lichfield, in St. James's - squar e, is ' "'lg o /110 ' t he one of the i n° -o r icltii 10 t lt t i l is e On s wh i r r$ tdhierPrOeUegelh.ell METROPOLITAN IMPROVEMENTSacemeetrunoptoelids. St. G iles s ' r itg ir - sf ile the • .--- , iv _A large area of ground in Broad-street, ho __ s a t ._ a ion () been obtained by the removal of the 11_1 1 7 pu blic , , f oe ''„glr of Monmouth-street, was opened to 1t : 1 ,7 do wn._ t itor'lltfi road-way having been completed ana 1 0 11 , 1 ; he o ei!,_ ie le± , _ en lition of the houses and the formation ....' erit of chi 010, fare have added greatly to the improve_f ir a de. hono es i 00 1 as a very spacious thoroughfare has ne sp e o Z e sotn-;idepe:eoo - Belton-street, adjoining the same s iderfiblY ~ea t li p e lto n .: been cleared away, which has con _ w ill Pe- - To . oust part, and which, when paved with sto_ne:, n ds._,, iie o ri t he munication from Waterloo -bridge to bt _j. c . litt . ,„',, o _, ;e ic street (for the line of this new street), nef:keo lido _7. WorT g e. between Broad-street and Long Acre are,;`,. k;ort v e roll s the u in_. e _ west side. Anion the number was , i re ot n o F public-house wqs e:stablisn u _q . o r edge . Upon a site near to thTslieu§e, 'd eill` be bu ilt. church of St. Gilea-iu-the-Fields, IP" •