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NOTICE. p ART 11. OF I3URKE'S HISTORY OF THE LANDED pENTRY, A GENE LOGICAL and HERALDIC DICTIONARY of the WHOLE of the LANDED GENRY ; or UN TITLED ARISTOCRACY of ENGLAND,T SCOTLAND, and IRELAND, IS NOW READY FOR DELIVERY. This work will be completed in Four Parts, price 10s. Bd., forming a single volume of upwards of 1,600 pages, uniform with the Author's popular PEERAGE and BARONETA GE. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. 09NCLUSIVE EVIDENCE.—If the direct written testimony in favour of the purity and perfection of BETTS'S PATENT BRANDY, given, after analysis, by three of the most eminent Chemists of the day, needed any con firmation, it will be found in the fact, that it is employed, in preference to Foreign Brandy, under high medical direction, in many of the principal Hospitals, Infirmaries, and other Public Institutions in the Kingdom ; among which it may suffice to flame Guy's, St. George's, and the Westminster Hospitals in the Metropolis ; and the Manchester, Bristol, and Brighton In firmaries. Distillery, No. 7, Smithfield Bats, leading to St. John-street. Price, pale or coloured, in quantities not less than Two Gallons, Eighteen Shillings per Gallon. 'ran: NEXT DISTRIBUTION of MONE Y BL DIVIDENDS, AUTAORISED and GUARANTEED by HIS MAJESTY the EMPEROR of AUSTRIA, contains MONEY DIVIDENDS of £.50 £6O £7O £BO £9O £lOO £llO £l2O £l5O £2OO £4OO £6OO k.:',300 £l,OOO £1,500 £5,000 and £23,000 sterling. Amounting together to £70,170 sterling. Direct for PROSPECTUS with full particulars, WITH OUT DELAY, to HEINE BROTHERS, at HAMBURGH, Or.-to HEINE BROTHERS, at LUBECK. . THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY.LANE. THIS EVENING. JANUARY 3 Will be performed CINDERELLA. Felix, Mr. W. Harrison; Cinderella, Mrs. A. Shaw. After which, will be repeated a New Grand Comic Chris tmas Pantomime, entitled HARLEQUIN AND KING PEPIN ; or, VALENTINE AND ORSON. Harlequin, Mr. dwel l ; Col m . bine, Mis= Carson; Clown, Mr. T. Ridgway; Pantaoon, Mr. Blanchard. Dross Boxes 75., Second Price Is. 6d. ; Upper Circles of Boxes 55., Second Price 3s. ; Pit , Second Price N. ; Middle Gallery 25., :'econd Price Is.; Upper Gallery Is., Second Price 6d. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN. 'ti. JULLIEN'S CONCERTS. PROGRAMME FOR THIS EVENING. PART L Overture, Fra Di avolo—Auber. Quadrille, f rom ',lie Ballet of Giselle—Jullien. Solo, Oboe—M. - B a rret. Trio, for two Violoncellos and Double Bass, by Messrs. Crouch, Hancock, a' ad Howell— Corelli. Valor, Bal P.aketen—Strauss. Solo, Violru, Master Thirlwall. The English Quadrille—Jullien. PART 11. Opera. La Sonnambula, Grand Fanta ia, with Solo for Cornet-a. Piston, by Herr Koenig—Bellini. Burletta Quadrille, entitled Dancing for the Million—Jullien. Valse, Deutche Lust—Lanner. Galop, Alma —Costa. Doors Open at Half-past Seven, commence at Eight o'Clock. Promenade, is , Upper Boxes, I s.; Dress Circle, 2s. 6d. ; Private Boxes, U. Is. Tickets to be obtained at the Box-oflioe of the 'Theatre; of Mr. Mitchell, Old Bond-street; Mr. Andrews, New - dond-street ; Mr. Sams, St. James's-street ; and M. Jullien's Office , Maddox street , Bond-street. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. M it. BENJAMIN WEBSTER, LESSEE. THIS EVENING, JANUARY 3, Will be performed HE WOULD BE AN ACTOR. Motley, Mr. C. Mathews; Dicky Darling, Mr. Strickland ; Becky Morgan, Miss Mattley To De followed by WHO'S YOUR FRIEND? or, The Queens berry Fete. Giles Fairland, Mr. Charles Mathews; the Countess bf Rosedale, Madame Vestris. After which, the Unparalleled Performances of Professor RISLEY and his SON. To conclude with a New Fairy Extravaganza, entitled THE FAIR ONE WITH THE GOLDEN LOCKS! King Lachrymoso, Mr. J. Bland; Prince Graceful, Miss I'. Horton ; Queen Lucidora, Miss Julia Bennett. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHL The Best Pantomime of the Season—Gorgeous Scenery. THIS EVENING, JANUARY 3, The New Drama, embracing Extraordinary Effects, Powerful cp st, and Novel Scenic Display, called THE BOHEMIANS; or, The Rogues of Paris. Pe J .,,, pal Characters by Messrs. Lyon, O. Smith, Wright, Wieland, Y.aynard, Mrs. Yates, Miss E. Stanley, Mrs. F. Matthews. After which, a New Grand Christmas Pantomime :. ailedr HAIL LEQUIN BLUE BEARD; or, The Fairy of the adver Crescent. Produced with Enormous Splendour and W , Jridertill Effects ! Columbine, Miss Sullen ; Harlequin Quicksilvci r , by the inimitable Wieland ; Clown, by the Grimaldi of the day, Mr. T. Matthews, from tho Theatres Royal, Covent-gardv., and Drury-lane; Panta. loon, Mr. Johnstone. Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, 'ls_ ; Second price at Nine. Doors c [el at Six, commences at a %Titter before Seven o'Clock. PRINCESS'S T.l-Ii.:ATRE, OXFORD.STREET. ~LES`..CE, Mr. J. M. MADDOX. inTiS EVENING, JANUARY 3, Will be perform r -,1 the Petite Comedy, entitled BORROWING A LIUSI3AND. S Vivian Delacourt, Mr. W. Lacy; Gilbert Buck_ horn, Mr. Fee".ey ; Alec, Mr. Oxberry ; Pamela, Mrs. Keeley. To be f°tfriwed by THE FLOWER OF LUCERNE Doctor N eodemus Darkey, Mr. Paul Bedford; Bernard Arnault, Mr. M"rrk, 13 Arnett; Madame Dorval, Madame Feron; Far.chon, Ma- Jame r . .agenie Prosper. Art er which, TWICE KILLED,in which Mr. and Mrs. Keeley will f o per rm. I'o conclude with a New Musical Burlesque Spectacle, entitled 'THE MAGIC MIRROR. Sing Song, Mrs. H. P. Grattan; Poo. Mr. Paul Bedford ; Sloe-Leaf, Miss R. Isaacs. DAC IDGL'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. As usual, the funniest and most successful Pantomime. THIS EVENING, JANUARY 3, Will be repeated THE BOHEMIANS OF PARIS. Supported by Messrs. Saville, Hughes, Hicks, R. Honner, Johnson, Smith, :firs. H. Vining, and all the Members of the First Company in the ‘%orld. After which an entirely new Grand Comic Pantomime, with `splendid Scenery, Superb Dresses, Inimitable Properties and Tricks, every thing new and of the most costly description, HARLEQUIN GRAMM AR, or, Lindley Murray,and AEI 0 U. Harlequin, Mr. NV. H. Harvey ; Grotesque, Mr. Stilt; Clown, Mr. Fuller; Panta loon, Mr. Ilaw,ins ; Columbines (alternately) Miss M. R. Fair_ brother and Miss Sharpe. Places and Private Boxes to be had of Mr. Kerschner, at the Box office, from Eleven to Four. / ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE OF ARTS. Under the Management of Mr. Batty. Proprietor. Triumphant Success of the Splendid Christmas Holiday Fetes.—West neinster-Bridge is now open. THIS EVENING, JANUARY 3, W ill be pert , rmed the splendid French Spectacle of THE VIC TORIES OF MURAT, THE SOLDIER OF FRANCE; or, The General, Prince, and King. New Scenes in the Circle, and unequalled Feats of Horsemanship. To conclude with a Grand Comic Pantomime, entitled 11A LE QU IN TAM O'SI-lANTER, and his STEEL) MEG; or, The Witchts of Alloway Kirk. Harlequin, Mr. Gibson ; Columbine, Cushnie; Clown. Mr. King; Pantiloon, Mr. Mathews. Aztin,; . and stage Manager, Mr. W. 1). Broadfoot Stalls. 55.; ox's, -Is.; Upper Boxes, 'ls.; Pit, 25.; Gallery, Is.; Upper Gallery, it. Box-office open daily from 'l en till Four. Stage Boxes, One Guinea; Half-price to Ditto, Hall.a-Guinea. Private Boxes, Two ouiticas; Halt-price to Ditto, One Guinea. Half.pricc, Hall-past ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. THIS EVENING, JANUARY, Will be performed TIIE CROSS ROADS OF' LIFE; or, The S,:amps of London. Devereux, Mr. Freer ; Frank Danvers, Mr. Nantz ; Louisa, Miss Vincent. After which, HARLEQUIN LINCOLN LUCKY OF LAM BETH ; or, The Three Sisters of Witch Willow Dell. Harlequin, Mr. Chapino ; Clown, Mr. Searbrow ; Pantaloon, Mr. Morelli; Co!unabine, Miss M. Schmidt To conclude with THE LAST WITNESS. W BATH E R.-SUN 01•10ICF., JAN. 3. I'IIE4MOMETER, Lowest, 20 ; Highest. 34 ; Noon, 31. BA P. 031 ETER, 30.—WIND, N. W. 7.; - NoTE.—The nuather :32 on the Thermometer denotes the freezing point, and 55 temperate. In Barometers !a'r is usually placed opposite 30, and rain at 29. lill;ti WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY. ()ruing 6 minutes after 0. Evening ... 30 minutes after 0. ;I1 - OR tt I • 14 ie • sz_ , •„ . - • -' • 4 . mo st ▪ F: V, • Roii 4 Nep t ... - P' • " SECOIND EDITION. 942Y - )l4Jening .- -7- 1- ' Mt LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 3, 1844 The letter, a copy of which we published yester day, from Messrs. P. DE LIZXRDI and Co., agents for the State of Mexico, to G. R. ROBINSON, Esq., Chairman of the Committee of Spanish-American Bondholder:, is an instructive curiosity in its way. To those who have not had the misfortune—or com mitted the folly—of confiding in the " promises to pay " of these experimental Republics, it would even be amusing, but for the sympathy created on behalf of the ill-used creditors, by the high personal and commercial character of the Chairman, and very many of their general body. Upon ourselves it may he supposed to come as no matter of surprise, after the terms in which we expressed ourselves some months ago, on the conduct of the Mexican Government, and the correspondence of the same parties or their agents. But seeing that the communication from the Committee to which Messrs. DE LIZARDI'S answer, dated the 30th of December last, is now lying before us, com prised simply a protest against the agents retaining a certain remanet of 11,3301., out of the money (al ready short-remitted), confided to them for the liqui dation of the dividends, on the plea that so much and more being due to them from the Government for which they acted, on account of commission, they had, therefore, appropriated it for their own account; whereas, by the very special agreement subscribed to by the Mexican Government in September, 1837, its said agents were authorised and required to appro priate said remittances to the payment of the dividends on its bonds, exclusively ; we must own that DE LIZARDS and Co. have rather overrated the ingenuity and legality of their plea for prior payment, and rather underrated the proximity of that point of en durance at which even the long sustaining forbearance of a British capitalist will bear the intense strain Trans-Atlantic assurance and dishonesty. The Committee, however, desired on the 28th of December to be categorically answered upon this series of questions :—" 1. Did the Messrs. LIZARDS intend to restore the sum so withheld to the dividend account ? 2. What remittances had come to Messrs. LIZARDS and Co.' s hands from their Government since the payment of the dividend on the October coupon ? 3. Were Messrs. LIZARDS and Co. pre pared to complete the payment of the coupon at once ?" In similar dealings between any parties in this country (always excepting Mr. Alderman GIBBS and the benighted parishioners of St. Stephen, Wal brook, in the City of London) nothing in the world would have been so easy as for the authorised agent of the one to obtain distinct responses, affirmative or negative, from the authorised agent of the other. Mr. i i THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESTMY EVENING, JANUARY' , Alderman GlABS—who will forgive us for alluding to J um again,—might indeed have answered to any other I ,ody, as he does to rate-payers, " Wait till you can e nforce your right to make me answer. If you can't d 0 that, I think I might establish a bad precedent by vi dunteering information on such frivolous questions as, w hat has become:of your money ?" But the Alderman is a phoenix. There is but one to be found, and but on e, wiz() will thus publicly sacrifice himself, in a NO Tole century. We are very sure that there is Ito t cane description of financial agents who would I Ile I.it Mr. ROBINSON'S three plain demands with such or it;ive Gibb-erish (we cannot get out of Wel ha'' a 3k) as this : " Sir,—We have received your letter oft he 28th inst., and are unable to reply to the ques t Tun s therein contained—until we receive further in• f brr nation from Mexico ; especially as regards the Mist ribution of the funds in hand," &c. &c. How very sink ;ular. They have received 11,3301. among other mo! neys remitted to them for payment of divi der ids some months ago. They withheld it at tbio time, from the parties justly erg Titled t o it, namely, the Mexican Bondholders, oz the rigetence—(an intelligible pretence at least, on tic .e same principle that to appropriate any money, as 6. ansitu, to one's own purposes, instead of the pur- Post .s of him to whom it is specially remitted, may be dish onest, b u t i s s till " a grea t f ac t")— on th e pre ( tenc e that they had taken it in order to pay them sell,' as a like amount due to them from—whom ? The English Spanish-American Bondholders ? Not ahl tof it. From the Mexican Government who had for' warded it, not to satisfy their claims, but the C l 2 ims of the English holders of their stock. Messrs. li 7 .ZARDI have continued ever since in the same mind. T hey still withhold the money. Nay, by their own a towing, it is gone—paid—absorbed by their own di mand. And now, forsooth, they gravely tell Mr. B dOBINSON, that to all his three questions, including t' ha first, relative to their own determination as to ,'_res Loring or not the abstracted 11,330/. to the divi den ‘ll account, they must defer their answers till they hay -e been further instructed from Mexico! The anc lent Governments of the Toltzeck and Azteck Princes of that fine country may have been as arbitrary and cruel as historians have represented the in to be ; but we greatly doubt whether they ever ass erted so tyrannous,: so monstrous a pretension as thi s which Messrs. DE LIZARDS and Co. would in tin lati2 is exercised by their successors in the govern me .n't of the modern Republic. For, according to th( ise agents, they are actually compelled to appeal to Mn xico for further instructions as to whether or not Or e.y have made up their own minds to an act already c( Nntmitted and avowed in October last, and never since r &called ! The business part of the matter remains. The Ciommittee of Bondholders must memorialise the Briti`sh Government—and if their efforts fail with the Minister; then renew them, forthwith, with the Parlia- In_Qnt—to insist upon the Mexican authorities making instant satisfaction for conduct which, whether the fault be with them or their employes, has every ap pearance of impudent fraud. English credulity has paid a penalty sufficiently severe in the loss of scores of millions of money by foreign debtors within the last 25 years. England's own honour would be corn , promised by further acquiescence in such barefaced trickery, attempted to be excused on such flimsy grounds. We are not inclined to magnify the existing dan gers of the country, nor to look on the dark side of a scene, which is resplendent with many beauties. In the ensuing session of Parliament many subjects of the most vital importance to the British nation must he brought forward, and not only brought forward and discussed, but settled, and in a way, too, satis •• factory to the nation. Not a few of these are sur rounded with many difficulties ;—we need only men tion the state of Ireland ; the all-engrossing question of the corn-laws ; the principles of free trade which are gaining ground every day ; the education of the people, perhaps the most ignorant in any civilized state ; and we wish we could add the improvement of the clergy, and a reform of the national Church. The two last, however, must be sometime de layed. The violent antipathy between Churchmen and Dissenters showed itself so strongly last year, that the case appears utterly hopeless : and the Church—that is to say, those interested in Church livings, ecclesiastical perquisites, ecclesiastical abuses, and in the division ( f property belonging to this enormous national establishment—is too powerful for any Minister. But without these, there is enough of wcrk for the forthcoming session, and if the Minis ter has only the spirit to undertake reforms in a vigorous and judicious manner, all the difficulties maybe easily surmounted. Several measures introduced by Sir llonEwr PEEL show that the landlords and tenants are not so obstinate and bigoted as they have been described. They murmured for a few weeks at the new tariff, they now see that it has done them no harm ; and we may therefore generously suppose that other - classes, whose supposed interests are at stake, would yield with the same composure, if the Minister would only muster courage to take a bold, a straightforward, and just course. Ireland, and especially the Irish Church, cannot remain as it is with safety for another year. Many parts of that country are not habitable for civilised beings. The law is set at defiance, murders are com mitted in open day, witnesses will not come forward to give evidence at a trial or an inquest, and the very magistrates themselves are afraid to perform their duty. Scenes have lately taken place in that un fortunate land, which, with a numerous priesthood paid by the people, and the most wealthy Established Church in the world, are unparalleled among the most barbarous nations of the earth. This does not happen without a cause. In every country laws which are found just and merciful are willingly obeyed. The Irish, when properly treated, are generally an obedient and grateful people. Convince them that they have fair play, and no class of men are more easily governed. History confirms the fact. Under two administrations, short unfortunately they were, the whole of Ireland, even including the wilds of Tip perary, was more peaceable than any part of Great Britain; one-half of the usual number of troops was withdrawn, and the remainder were as little wanted as the few scattered depots in Scotland to preserve order. This might partly be produced by hope, and by a conviction that the existing Government was willing and anxious to redress their grievances, and, with the usual generosity of the people, they waited the result —they waited to see the Church reduced to its proper limits—to see Catholics promoted to offices of trust as well 5...3 Protestants, and to see magistrates appointed in whom they could place confidence. But when all these bright pictures were swept from the view, and the Home Minister, in one of his many unguarded speeches, declared that concession had reached its utmost limit, can any man be surprised that the disappointed hopes of the people broke through all bounds, and that, like madmen, they re solved to carry a measure which would destroy them and their oppressors ? This is the whole secret of the present agitation, and we trust Sir ROBERT PEEL will be wise in time. England cannot part with Ireland. She must be attached to this country, by fair or other means ; and what Christian can hesitate for one moment about the alternative ? Place her Church, her laws, her magistrates, and her govern ment, on the same footing with those of England, and Scotland ; and Ireland, in place of being a constant source of anxiety and alarm, would become the strongest bulwark of the United Kingdom. She is not to be put down by dismissing magistrates, by Arms Bills, or even by fifty thousand troops. but she is to be put down by justice, and woe to the Minister who rebels against it. All the other dif ficulties of Sir ROBERT PEEL are nothing as com pared with Ireland ; and he will find that unless he put down his bigoted colleagues, and bring forward a great, a generous, and comprehensive scheme for the regeneration of that country, he and his Con servative Cabinet must give way to other men. On. this subject, as well as others adverted to, we quote the following frOm an able pamphlet by a Whig writer, just published by RIDGWAY, entitled " What is to be Done ? or, Past, Present, and Future :"—" There must be no longer delay or double dealing. The way of free trade is open before the Government—so is the way of ge neral education—so is the way of frank and friendly recognition of Ireland's rights and Ireland's religion. The Government has not, as a Government, abso lutely compromised itself against any of these active principles—it has stood between them and their op. ponents, leaning perhaps a little too much the wrong way ; but this was natural—was the effect of old habits, and may be retrieved. Let it lean now a little in the other way, and gradually move on in the direction to which it points, and it may find, if all its paths be not pleasantness, that at least its ways are peace. It is morally impossible to go back to old Toryism—it is not practicable to stand still. The ground will slide, is sliding, away from those who fancy they are reposing firmly on it. No men, nor party of men, can stand still in the times and circumstances in which we are living. Let the Government, then, go on—go forward gently, firmly, charitably, justly. And in that case good luck go with it ; for in that case we, for our part, will not then disturb it." With regard to England, he adds, "we have less fears. It is clear enough what must and what will be done. The great Free-trade League is confessedly increasing yearly in numbers, funds, discretion, ability, and success. It has all the characteristics of a winner,--of what we are accustomed to call the persevering, straight-for ward, business-like, resolute, but not violent, Anglo- Saxon blood. And we firmly and conscientiously believe that it has justice and good intentions on its side. If this be so, and it is difficult to deny it, where will Sir ROBERT PEEL find either the ability or the means for permanent resistance. Finally, then, and summarily, it appears that a Government of repression and exclusion is ill fitted for times of progression and expansion ; and that these now require for the peace and well-being of the coun try—For Ireland, the support of her tenantry, and the endowment and recognition of her Roman Catholic Church ; for England, national education ; and for the empire at large, free trade, which includes the relief of her pauperism, by finding increased employ ment for her increasing hands. Let who will do these, but done they must be—sooner or later ; and the sooner the better, and the safer." We have great pleasure in directing public atten tion to an article headed " CURRENCY," with the sig nature of " BEIRNIARD." The reasoning is at once co gent and philosophical. One pound of practical com mon-sense is worth a million of illusive theories, which only dazzle to bewilder and confound. Sir ROBERT PEEL and the Directors of the Bank of England would do well to read and duly consider this matter before they strike a bargain in the dark respecting the re newal of that precious monopoly—the Bank Charter. The Paris papers of Sunday, from which we gave brief extracts yesterday, contain some articles which are not without interest. The few broken sentences uttered by M. LAFITTE, have given great offence to the Ministerial party, and roused not a little the hopes of the Republicans. Not one half of it, h&wever, was heard, the interruption was so great. The scene, says the National, did not last long, but had a marked character of excitement and rage. M. LAFITTE had the honour of raising the storm, and the of the country is due to the man who told the Ministers and others some severe truths. It became his tried probity and patriotism to express feelings of sorrow and serious alarm which the situation of affairs pre sents to all those attached to the principles of the Revolution. The same journal, after adverting to the seizure of so many Legitimist papers, turns to the levees of the Duke of BORDEAUX, in Belgrave-square, and thus attacks M. GUIZOT and his friends : The Ministers intended to have made some allusion, in the speech from the Throne, to the pilgrimage of the Noble Legi timists to Belgrave-square. But they did not dare to do so. They knew full well that the Deputies who advocate the cause of the Duc de Bordeaux would throw some harsh truths in their teeth if they had made the King accuse them (the Legi timists) of joining the ranks of a Pretender. What could M. Guizot have said if M. Berryer and his friends on being taunted from the Throne, had replied :—" We went to London to pay our respects to the Duc de Bordeaux, and in so doing we followed the example which was set by the principal member of the Cabinet in 1815. He did not think that the Government of that day could be consolidated, and therefore (he told us so himself from the tribune) he repaired to Ghent to do homage at the feet of him whom the whole of Europe was preparing to restore to France. In this we have scrupulously followed M. Guizot's example. If, b therefore, you condemn us, con e emn him also, and out of your own meuLhs speak your own condemnation." Such a defence as this, supported by the transcendent talent of M. Berryer, would place the Ministry in an awkwat d position. They have, therefore, adopted a less perilous and more certain method of wreaking their petty vengeance, and have determined to pour out the vials of their ill-humour upon the newspapers. The day before yesterday the Nation was seized. Yesterday the Quotidienne, and now they patinae upon La France, ani so on. Thus it appears that a jury, and not the Chambers, will have to settle the quarrel between the elder and the younger branches of the Bourbons. But the combat will not be the less interesting on that account _ There isnot a single noble family of any eminence in France which has not sent its representitive to Belgrave-square—or which hes not at least in its circle some adherents of legitimacy—they are even to be found on the steps of the throne, and if the old King can pierce into futurity and look beyond the tomb, he may fancy a General Monk in the foreground of his vision. His is a sad situation, but we foresaw and foretold it, long since, to those who now govern the country. The Journal des Debuts has a good article on the long-winded message of the American Preident, and makes some hard hits both at TYLER and the bank rupt States. "To repudiation," says that journal, the President does not even refer. The boasting preamble by which the message opens would even forbid the suspicion that this document emanates from the bead of a nation reduced to the humiliating condition of a bankrupt. Under such circumstances the language of a WasitINGToN or a MADDISON would have been quite different. With that authority which they possessed they would have solemnly recalled their fellow-citizens to the path of duty and honour. The message in fact has nothing to recom tend it, neither elevated views, generous sen timents, nor even a vulgar knowledge of business. It is even devoid of that spirit of candour and inde pendence which one would naturally expect. Presi dent TYLER in writing it had evidently but one view, which was to captivate the favour of the multitude, by flattering their vanity, by humouring their prejudices, and by abstaining from addressing, even with the utmost reserve, some advice relative to the dishonour able conduct of some of the States, in which they ob stinately persevere. This is not the language of a supreme magistrate, hut that of a hunter after popula rity. A power which speaks such language abdicates of itself ; and never, perhaps, had North America such need of a strong and independent Government." A new Legitimist paper is announced, to be called the Christian France, and the Government, it is said, are ready to pounce upon it the moment it appears. The next number of the Mode is doomed to the same fate. The Paris Papers of Monday have since been re ceived, with intelligence from Madrid to the 26th, but they possess little interest. New Year's Day is ob served in Paris as a general day of rejoicing and amusement, and little or no business is done even on the preceding evening. About twelve o'clock the principal members of the two Chambers, the Judges, Ambassadors, and the different State functionaries, began to arrive at the Tuileries, to pay their respects to his MAJESTY. The receptions were very nume rous, and the levee lasted till five o'clock. The Journal des Debuts announces that Queen CHRISTINA would leave Paris for Madrid sooner than was at first intended—probably about the beginning of next month. Several of the Paris papers state, some of them with strong remarks on the encroaching spirit of our country, that " the English had taken possession of the harbour of Diego Suarez, on the - coast of Mada• gascar, one of the finest in the world." Little business was done in the French Funds on New Year's Day; the Three per Cents. were quoted at 82f. 2c. Accounts from Madrid state that a reconciliation had taken place between the QUEEN and Don FRAN CESCO DE PAULO . The question of the marriage of her MAJESTY was to be postponed till the arrival of her mother. Accounts from Figueras state that Baron de MEER arrived there on the morning of the 23d ult. The attempt made to induce AMETTLER to sur render has failed. Further re-inforcements had arrived. On the morning of the 24th, the firing from the fort had recommenced. It would appear to be the intention of the Baron de MEER to prosecute the siege with vigour. THE ROYAL STAGHOUNDS.—In consequence of the extremely unfavourable nature of the weather (a pretty thick fog prevailing with a snow accompaniment) but a very small field (not more than between twenty and thirty) were present at the meet of her Majesty's staghounds, in the town of Bea consfield, on Monday last. Indeed it was for some time ques tionable if it would be judicious, under these circumstances, to uneart the deer. The weather, however, partially clearing up shortly before twelve o'clock, an untried deer was turned out close to Dorney Bottom, which went away towards Hall Barn, the seat of Sir Gore Ouseley, crossing the park to Woburn Common, where it doubled to the right down the hill into the village, on to the church, whence it circled round on the side of the hill to Holtspur-gate, and was taken at Mr. Brooks's farm, at Holtspur-bottom, after a very good run of an hour at a hunting pace throughout. The Aeld were well up at the take. CRIMINAL COURT.-(THIS DAY.) OLD COURT. (Before Mr. Justice EasarwE.) George hat alias Jeremiah Regan, aged 21, smith, was placed at the bar, charged with feloniously uttering counterfeit coin, well kn )wing it to have been counterfeit. Mr. Ellis, Counsel to the Mint, and Mr. Bodkin, conducted the prosecution. It appeared from the evidence that the defendant, on the 21st of December, went to Covent-garden Market and pur chased some holly from a person named James Moore, for which he gave a shilling. The prisoner said he would come to Moore next day to buy more, and went away. Moore, in the mean time, found the .billing to be bad, and when the prisoner called next day, he gave him a crown-piece, which he found was bad, and which he narked with his teeth. The defendant was then taken to the station-house and was committed for trial. Mr. Field, an officer from the Mint, proved that the crown and shilling were counterfeit. It appeared that the defendant was sonvicted on a former occasion for a similar offence corn m itted in April, 1e342. The Jury found the prisoner guilty, who was sentenced to ten years' transportation. NEW COURT. (Before the COMMON SERGEANT. ) The Court was occupied during the greater part of the morn ing, in disposing of charges ef uttering counterfeit coin, of a trivial nature. Stephen Soper, Emma Stone, J. Straughan, and G. Holier, were convicted of the offence. The first three were sentenced to six, and the last te nine months' im prisonment. Ctarhe was indicted for 'stealing from the person of Sarah Ellingham, on the 19th of December, a cloak, the pro perty ef William Allen. The robbery was alleged to have taken place near Rickmans worth, in Hertfbrdshire. The prisoner, whilst driving a cart in open day, asked the prosecutrix to ride. She did so, and the prisoner first attempted te take improper liberties with her, and upon her resisting took from her the bundle. This being the evidence for the prosecution witnesses were called for the prisoner, who gave him an excellent character, and Counsel in his defence, contended that he must have been drunk at the time of committing the offence, otherwise he could never have done what was charged against him. The jury returned a verdict of Not Guilty. Thmnas Cunningham was found guilty of stealing a number of fowls, and sentenced to be imprisoned in the House of Cor rection for three months. Richard Staiey was charged with stealing one handkerchief, value 25., the property of George Franklin Collins, from his person. The prisoner was found guilty. There had been a previous conviction, and an attempt was made to rescue him when taken into custody for the last offence, by a gang of no torious thieves. He was sentenced to be transported for ten years. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. UNION HALL.-(THIS DAY.) Two young women, the daughters of labouring men, were charged with robbing their parents. Both charges were of a very aggravated description. It appeared that the first girl took an opportunity of break ing open her father's box, and taking therefrom two sovereigns. The moment she took the money she absconded, and joining some loose characters went to one of the " penny theatres," as they are denominated, and staying out all night spent the whole of the money. She was found in the morning in one of those dens of infamy in Vine-yard. The other prisoner had robbed her parents on several occasions, and having spent the money in the lowest company, was in the habit of return ing home with scarcely sufficient clothes to cover her. The latter prisoner endeavoured to exculpate herself by say ing- that she was cruelly treated by her step-mother, and that she could lot remain in the house with her. Mr. COTTINGILAM remanded the prisoners with a view of saving them from utter destruction, and endeavouring to obtain their admission into an asylum for the reformation of female offenders. LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY.) LONDON, JAN. 3.—Light, N. Westerly breeze and hazy. YARMOUTH ' JAN. 2.—The Sir J. G or d on , f rom R ouen t o Shields is sunk oh Haisborough ; crew saved. DEAL, JAN. 2, 6 A.M.—Wind, E. S.E., blowing strong, with heavy rain and thick weather. 8, A.M., it veered to E.N.E., with very heavy snow-squalls, and at 11, A.M. it moderated and veered to N.W. r. M., moderate, N.W., clear weather. Early this morning the Achilles, for Bordeaux, lost anchor and chain, and proceeded for Westward. The Promise, from Saguenay to London, lost anchor and chain, and remains in the Downs. Arrd. James, Ross, New Zealand; George town, Demerara ; Premier, West Indies ; Fortune, St. John's, New Brunswick. MARGATE: J. 2.—The Ocean, Watson, from Sierra Leone to London, got ashore on the Main, near Kingsgate, this morning, and is discharging. DARTMOLJTS, Jaw. 2.—The Pomona, Tomkins, from Lon don t• St. Helena, put in here yesterday, with loss of bulwarks, stanchions, sails, rigging, &c., having been struck by a sea, 31st ult., and had one man washed overboard. PORTSMOUTH, Jaw. 2.—Wind N. to N.W., squally.— Arrd. Toronto, Griswold, New York. Off, M'Leed, Batavia. PLYMOUTH, JAN. 2.—lt blew a very heavy gale all last night from W.S. W. to N.W. ; it is now N.N.W., squally. Dec. 31.—Pmt back her Majesty's ship Nereus, South America. LIVERPOOL, JAN. 2.—Wind, N., moderate.—Arrd. Bri tannia, Galiatly, Valparaiso, Sept. 14; Glasgow, Meredith, Demerara, Jamaica, Martin, Quebec. Off, Fairfield, Kath leen. A barque is aground on the Dutchman's Bank, near B eauinaris. The John, hence to Newfoundland, is aground near the Bootle Sand Mark. NIILFOILD, JAN. I.—The John Cumming, from Liverpool to New York, has put in here leaky, with loss of sails, bulwarks, &c., and cargo shifted, having been struck by a sea on 22d ult. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. (RECEIVED THIS I)AY.) BETTING AT MANCHESTER. DERBY.-7 to 1 agst Rattan (taken to 251. )-7 to 1 agst Ugly Buck-17 to 1 agst Loadstone-25 to 1 agst Cockamaroo —27 to l against lonian-30 to 1 agst Leander (taken to 1001. )-30 to 1 agst Campunero-30 to 1 agst Running Rein —35 to 1 agst T'Auld Squire (offered)-33 to 1 agst Voltri (offers to take)-40 to 1 agst Lancet (offered)-50 to 1 agst Marinella colt-50 to 1 agst Saddlebow-5 to 1 agst Scott's lot. SUMMARY OF NEWS AND nbltt t4ptuton. " Who runs may read." FOREIGN. On New Year's Day, a grand levee was held at the Tuileries, at which the Chambers, public functionaries, and Foreign Am bassadors, attended to pay their respects to the Royal family. The King, on Saturday evening, received at dinner a large and distinguished party, among whom were Generals Dam pierre and Cubieres, the Count de Murat, the Duchess of Abrantes, Count Foy, and more than twenty others. On Saturday evening, says thei4Commerce, there was a grand diplomatic meeting at Lord Cdtsley's. M. Guizot, and the ex-Regent of Spain, Queen Maria Christina, were present, After that extraordinary conference, couriers were dispatched to several foreign courts. The Gazette de France, a Legitimist paper, was seized a second time, by order of the Government, on Sunday morning. Bread has experienced a further rise in Paris. The price of the 21b. loaf, first quality, has been fixed from the Ist inst. at 35c. (3id. British) ; second quality, 28c. ; being a rise of lc. on bread of the first quality. On Friday last several shocks of an earthquake were felt at Cherbourg, at four o'clock in the afternoon. The houses were shaken by it, the furniture oscillated in the apartments, chairs and tables were displaced, and many objects were actually thrown down. A number of the inhabitants, apprehending a catastrophe, ran out of their houses. No accident, however, took place. Monday was New Year's-day and a general holiday, the Bourse shut, and the Post-office closed at an early hour. The Commerce states that considerable activity was observ able in the dockyards of France, and that the squadron " for exercise ' " about to leave Toulon under the command of Rear- Admiral the Prince de Joinville, would comprise six sail of the line, besides frigates, brigs, cutters, &c. Prince Leopold, son of the King of Bavaria, and his suite, landed at Cadiz on the 15th from the Spanish steamer Teodosio. The Prince soon after proceeded to Gibraltar, where he was to embark for Malta. The Journal des Chemins de Fer publishes the returns of the receipts of the Paris and Orleans and Rouen Railroads, from which it appears, that those of the former amounted last week to 97,1)97 francs, and the latter to 78,249 francs. A letter from Augsburg (Bavaria) states that the workmen employed on the railway in the vicinity of Donawerth, have just found, at a depth of nine feet below the surface, an immense cemetery, from which a variety of antique vessels, ornaments, medals, &c., have been already dug up. LAW 11. ND POLICE. At the Central Criminal Court Samuel M. Vendean and Sarah Thompson delivered themselves up to take their trial for a conspiracy to defraud the creditors of a bankrupt named Bacon, and concealing some money and goods. The evidence altogether failed, and the prisoners were acquitted. In the New Court several] minor cases of larceny were dis posed of. The Lord Mayor, during his sitting at the Mansion.house, expressed his determination to take measures to compel a better attendance to their duties on the part of the scavengers of the City, and expressed a hope that he should be supported by the inhabitants of the different districts. William Bates, an artist, said to possess considerable talents, was brought before the Lord Alayor from Giltspur.street Compter, where he had been confined for six months for making use of violent threats to Mr. Masterman, M.P. His applica • tion was to be admitted to moderate bail, the sureties demanded for his good behaviour being so heavy he could not obtain them. He was remanded, and directed to apply to the Quarter Sessions. A young man, who would give no name, was charged at the Guildhall, with having attempted to drown himself at the stairs at Blackfriars Bridge. At the time he wore a female dress, with a bonnet, boa, and shawl, over his own clothes. He was ordered to be detained till he should give an account of himself. Mr. James Pascall, churchwarden and treasurer to the parish of Clerkenwell, was charged at Clerkenwell office by Mr. John Scott, of No. 1, River-street, Myddleton-square, with having committed an assault. The defendant is the person against whom certain proceedings were taken by the parish some time ago. The summons was discharged. Robert Augustus Jones was brought from Bath, in the cus tody,of police-sergeant Valiance, C division, and charged at Marlborough-street, with having stolen a horse, chaise, and harness, value 50/., the property of William Winch, livery stable-keeper, White Horse-yard, Windmill-street. He was committed for trial. . John Davis, alias Blythe, and Henry Robinson, two men of notorious character, were charged, at Worship-street, with having burglarionsly entered the warehouse of Messrs. Reilly and Storer, silversmiths, &c., in Carey-lane, Gutter-lane, Cheapside, and stolen therefrom a large quantity of plate and other property, of the value of 2501. The prisoners were fur ther charged with having been concerned in the commission of an extensive burglary at the premises of Messrs. Leaf and Co., of Old 'Change, and also with having been implicated in several other robberies. They were remanded for a fortnight. COITRT-r.a.SITIONA 33I, M. The Duke of Cambridge, on leaving Dean Park, the seat of Lord Cardigan, is expected to honour the Marquis and Mar chioness of Exeter with a visit, and also the Duke of Rutland, at Belvoir Castle, and then return to town to meet the Duchess and the Princess Mary, on their arrival from the Continent. Lord Cardigan proceeds to Dublin at the close of the ensuing week to resume the command of the 11th (Prince Albert's) Hussars, as his leave expires on the 15th inst. The Duke of Bordeaux, on Monday, visited the men-of-war lying in the Plymouth Sound. He was received with yards manned, and all the honours due to his rank. On that day and Sunday he attended mass at the Stenehouse chapel. The Duke of Richmond arrived in Portland-place on Mon day, from Goodwood Park, to be present at the marriage of his niece, Miss Maitland, to T. W. Blomefield, Esq., son of Sir Thomas W. Blomefield, Bart., solemnised yesterday morn ing. His Grace returns to Goodwood to-day, where a family circle has assembled for the holidays. A matrimonial alliance is talked of between the Rev. Lord Augustus Fitzclarence and Miss Gordon, grand-daughter of the Marquis of Huntley. Sir William M‘Gregor, Bart., of the 18th (Royal Irish), has arrived in town from China. General Sir Lewis and. Lady Grant have arrived in Harley street from Scotland. _ General the Hon. Sir Alexander Duff and Lady and Miss Duff left the Brunswick Hotel, Jermyn-street, yesterday, for Brighton, where it is the General's intention to winter. Mr. George Hope, M.P., arrived in town yesterday, from Ditton Park, the seat of Lord Montague. Lord John Russell arrived in town yesterday, from Woburn Abbey. The Countess of Jersey and Lady Clementina Villiers left town yesterday, for the residence of the Hon. Frederick Vil liers, in Northamptonshire. arvl 15CZ1.X../I.INTEOU3. The cold last night was intense, the thermo me t er h av i ng fallen twelve degrees below the freezing point. The frost still continues, but it is not severely felt as there is little or no wind. The ground is covered with fi tenne Cho aatywAs journal, wa s so remar k a bl y snow. W i thi n a wee k or h a r i N st e m w as ca ..t e y that a numb er o f b oys were ethiantwehjectrke,msoapriyecsrature during the night has fall en t wen t y degrees. seen bathing in the river Aln, near that town. Several per sons were engaged in angling, numerous insects were on the wing, the song of some of the warblers was heard, and the whole had more the appearance of spring than winter. It appears that on account of a want of proper draining at Kentish Town, an alarming epidemic prevails there. It was stated yesterday, at a meeting of the St. Pancras board of di rectors and guardians, that in one street alone there were no less than ihirteen families some portion of whom are suffering from fever. The half-yearly meeting of the Proprietors of the -London Dock Company was held yesterday at the Dock-office, New Rank-buildings, Mr. John Cattley in the chair. From the financial statement, it appeared that the revenue of the Com pany for the last half year, including wharfage and other dues, amounted to 197,1681. 15e. 7d. ; the expenditure 108,5681. 9s. sd. A dividend of two per cent. was declared. A landowner in South Derbyshire has sent a contribution of 1001. to the Derby subscription to the League fund, from 4 , an opponent to the sliding scale. The Derby subscription, which last year amounted to 400/. only, has already amounted to be tween 1,0001. and 1,2001. Before t he book s are closed , it will reach pei hfromcly, after,2 (31. t to l having3o co mpleted a successful_ engagementol. at Verona, has repaired to Bologna. The appointment of official assignee of the Liverpool Dis trict Court of Bankruptcy, vacant by the removal of John Follett, Esq. to London, has been co nferred o n George Mor gan, Esq., of Bristol. Yesterday the half-yearly general meeting of the proprietors of the Colonial Bank, established to extend banking opera tions in the West Indies, was held at the London Tavern, for the purpose of receiving a Report from the Court of Directors, the election of Directors who have gene out by rotation, and on other matters. The chair, in the absence, by reastri of ill ness, of the Governor, Mr. Irvine, M.P., was taken by the Deputy-Governor, Mr. A. Colville, M.P. From the Report, it appeared that the profit made by the corporation during the half-year ending June 30, 1843, after deducting all current ex penses' is 10,4121. 2s. 4d. ; dedUcting hal f - yearly proportion of preliminary expenses, 1,0001., leaves an available balance of 9,412/. 2s. 4d. No dividend was declared, and the outgoing Directors were re-elected. Great dissatisfaction was expressed with the part of the Report detailing a robbery of the branch at Barbadoes by one of the clerks, to the amount of 11,0001. The annual meeting of the members of the Royal South London Dispensary, took place last evening at the Dispensary, St. George's-fields. The Report stated that the Society was established in 1821, and that during the first year 690 patients were admitted. The numbers had gralually increased, and during the last year 4,323 received medical Assistance. The re ceipts amounted to 774/. ss. 10d., and a balance of 56/. 6s. 4d. had been left in the hands of the treasurer, after paying all ex penses. Dr. Clutterbuck, Dr. Addison, and Dr. Sutherland, were elected physician, for the ensuing year. • SALE OF LIEUTENANT MONRO's EFFECTS.—(TIIIS DAY. )—The sale of Lieutenant Munro's effects commenced this morning, at twelve o'clock, at his residence in Brompton square. There were very few persons pres ent, and the pur chasers were chiefly furnitur e b ro k ers. Some inquiry was made for the case of duelling pistols, but it was not in the cata logue. It was expected that the vale would be interfered with by Mr. Wskley, the Coroner, but up to the time our reporter left the Hon. Gentleman had not made his appearance, and the sale was proceeding. The articles sold this morning fetched a fair price ; .they were confined to small articles of bed-room furniture. The sale will be concluded to-morrow. THE INVASION OF RUSSlA.—Accounts received through the foreign papers yesterd ay conta i n the following ad ditional particulars of the monum ent erecte d by the Emperor of Russia :—The monument erect e d b y t h e Emperor in the city of Kowno, to commemorate th e extraor dinary events of 1812, was inaugurated on the 10th o f N ove mber. Kowno was one of the most remarkable points in the Russian em pire, for there Napoleon concentrated the enormous force with which he marched across the Russian frontier, and there commenced the sanguinary War, which afterwards spread through the interior of Russia. The monument which has just been erected is of colossal dimensions. In front is an inscription consisting of some words quoted from the first manifesto issued by the Emperor Alexander at the opening of the war. These words are—" God i s aga i n st the aggressor." On the back is the following inscription In the year 1812 700,000 hostile troops entered Russia , of this numb er onl y 70,000 marched back." At the inauguration of the monu ment there were present the; few surviving warriors who fought in the battles of 18 12 . In this category the number of Gene rals, staff and superior officers, amounted to 23 ; the number of subalterns was 31. PRICE OF BREAD.—We stated last week that a number of the Edinburgh bakers had reduced the price of the 41b. loaf to 61,4 d. ; and we observe, from a schedule sent round by what are called the " high price bakers," that they . have ho nestly resolved to follow this example. This schedule intimates flour at 2s Bd., and bran at 7d. per stone, and adds the im portant notice of—" No discount, neither anything to be given with the loaf."—Edinburgh Journal. SHEEP - KILLED ON A RAILWAY,—On Saturday last, as the afternoon train from Darlington to York was passing Poppleton-bridge, twenty-fiv e sheep, the property of Mr. Carr, of Overton, were killed by the engine.—D urham Paper. COURSING. CLYDESDALE CLUB MEETING, DEC. 28, 29, AND 30. The Douglas Stakes were won by Mr. Pollock's Crosshouse— : Lord Eglinton's Duke of Wellington ran up. The Eglinton Makes were won by Mr. Campbell's Blythswood—Marquis of Douglas's Crazy ran up. The Lanarkshire Open Cup was won by Mr. A. Graham's Long- long-ago--Marquis of Douglas' Checkmate ran up. The Consolation Stakes were won by Mr. Geddes's Tam Ritchie—Captain M. Innes' Velocity ran up. PEN[ RIDG E MEETING.—The Puppy Cup and Stakes, for 16 dogs, were won by Mr. Best's Molly Bawn ; and the Puppy Stakes, ler 14 dogs, by Mr. Scott's Topper. FOREIGN SUGAR FROM THE BRITISH COLONIES. It is genera.ly known that our enlightened and consistent Government, although it will not allow the sugars of Brazil and Cuba to be consumed in the three kingdoms, allows them to be refined in this oountry in bond, and to be sent to the West Indies, to he eaten there by the free negroes and their employers. In consequence of this permission, foreign sugars refined in this country are sent out to the West Indies and the :Mauritius almost every day, and along with the refined sugars there go out also considerable quantities of bastards, that is, of the inferior kinds of sugar, separated trom the better parts in refining. This bastard sugar is in appearance very like unre fined sugar, and as the bastards can be bought in Liverpool for 14,.. whilst the raw West India and /Mauritius sugar is worth 30s. per cwt. in this country, there is a great temptation to mix them in the colonies, and to send the mixture to this country as plantation sugar. We have reason to believe that this kind of ;rand has been practised more than once of late, especially in a case of which we heard last week, and we do not doubt that if the law continues in its present state, it will become more common every year. In some descriptions of sugar it is scarcely possible to tell the difference between bas tard and raw sugar by the eye, so that it is not detected if the sugar is sold in an unrefined state, though it becomes quite evident if the attempt is made to refine the mixture, when the residuum of the previously refined sugar is easily detected, as it was in the case which we have mentioned above. —Liver poo, New TRICKS IN LONDON.—There are few per sons who are acquainted with the streets of the metropolis but must have occasionally noticed some poor and wretched object gathering together the contents of a parcel of lucifer matches, which have fallen from her hands on to the pave ment of a crowded thoroughfare. In nine cases out of ten this is purposely done to excite the sympathies of the passer by. It would seem, however, that encouraged by the success which has attended this system, a desire has been raised to improve upon the original idea. The vagrant having selected for her objeet a well-dressed, charitable looking person (a country gentleman with drab gaiters is sure game), places himself suddenly in his way, and down go the matches. The innocent victim of premeditated collision is immediately , surrounded by a host of ragged confederates, who lousily cry shame. The public take up the part of the "suffering," and a compromise is entered into by the payment of an amount in silver. This trick is often performed by a woman in High Holborn, who, during the hours of the labourers' dinner, would represent the wife of one of that class, with some pieces of mockery ware and a bottle of greasy water, suspended in a pocket handkerchief, acts in a similar manner to that ex emplified in the lucifer scheme. Yesterday the match trick was performed with great success upon the pavement of the National Gallery, and although at one time there were more than three parties at work upon this small space, the results appeared to be highly encouraging. THE FRENCH GOVERNMENT AND THE PRINCE DE LA MOSKOWA.—The National publishes the following details relative to the fact of the Prince de la Moskowa (Ney) having resigned his commission in the army, which was stated in Ihe Sun some days since:—" The Prince de la Moskowa has been for a long time a chef d'escadron (major of cavalry), impatiently waiting for promotion ; he tendered his resignation several months since to the Minister at War, who induced him to change his resolution by assuring him that in a short timAie would be promoted. The period specified having expired, the Prince waited on Marshal Soult, and asked him if he had forgotten his promise. The Marshal replied, that it was his anxious wish to have performed it; and he added, that nothing could have given him greater pleasure than to have proved to the son of Ney that he was not unmindful of the friendship which existed between him and his old comrade. He had given his word, and he wished to observe it, but an invinciLls obstacle held the Minister's hand. The Prince de la Moskowa took the first opportunity to complain to the Duke de Nemours, who replied, that it was impossible to promote those who gave a systematic opposition to the Go vernment- We should have perfectly understood the mode of reasoning had the Duke de Nemours declared, ' You com mand very much at your ease in the Chamber of Peers, at the Jockey Club, or behind a piano ; your comrades perform their duty, which is often a painful one, in garrison towns ; you do not suffer any of the fatigues of your profession, and you de ceive yourself if you imagine that your name or your rank of Peer of France, gives you a right to promotion which you do not deserve.' And it belonged to the Minister of War, and not to the Duke de Nemours, to distinguish between those who served and those who did not. Instead of that, the Mi nister induces the Prince to retain his commsssion. He makes a promise, and it is the Duke de Nemours who inter feres between the Minister and his subaltern. What, there fore, must the army think, when it finds that it is not its legal Chief which it is bound to obey, but a Prince upon whom the Charter has conferred no power ?" BRIGHTON, TUESDAY.—On Sunday night we were visited with a tremendous hurricane, which lasted until the following morning. A number of large fishing-boats have within the last few days been fitted out to proceed to Plymouth to commence the mackerel fishery; fortunately they had not started. The wind has done considerable damage to houses in exposed situations, and it is feared that disasters have occurred at sea. About ten o'clock yesterday morning the wind lulled, and was succeeded by a fall of snow, the first we have had here this winter. A very extensive fire broke out on the premises of Mr. Brews, clothier, Bute-street, Cardiff, on Thuisday, the 21st ult., which destroyed property to the amount of 8000/. 3, 1844. MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE-WEDNESDAY. The supply of English Wheat was very moderate, while we have to report a steady demand for it, at prices fully equal to those obtained on Monday. Free Foreign Wheat moved off slowly, at late rates. In Barley, a fair business wai doing, and its value was well supported Malt was quite as dear, with a small quantity on offer Oats, and all other grain, as last advised. ARRIVALS. 1 I Wheat. Barley. 1,210 qrs. 5,750 qrs Irish - Foreign 440 Oats. I Flour 890 qrs. i 1,780 sacks. Malt, 2,890 qrs. WHITECIZAPEL. Our market was, on. the whole, well supplied with Meat, yet the demand, arising from the favourable change in the weather, was active, on the following terms:—Beef from 2s 6d to 3s 6d ; Mutton, 3s 2d to 4s 4d ; Veal, 3s 6d to 4s 6d ; and Pork, 3s to 4s 6d per Blbs. MONEY AND COMMERCIAL NEWS CITY, QUARTER TO THREE. A large amount of business was done yesterday, in the Li verpool Cotton Market, and prices were gradually improving The sales were 10,000 bales, including 3,000 American on speculation. The transactions consisted of 500 Bahia, at 6d to 6id ; 300 Egyptian at 61c1 to 7d ; 2,000 Surat at 31d to 4id, and the rest American at 4 3 Ad to 7d per lb.—The share market was firm, with an upward tendency and a good business. Eastern Counties were 1076 ; Manchester and Birmingham 39/ ; North Midland 90; Paris and Rouen 33%; South Eastern 36%, and Paris and 1,30ns 3i. It is certainly to be regretted that the affairs of the Colonial Bank—as appeared by the proceedings yesterday at the half yearly General Court—show such an unsatisfactory result. It is too true that the Bank, and its branches, have lost largely; but at the same time it ought to be borne in mind that, in all new and extensive establishments such as this—where a new field is opened for monetary transactions, difficulties and losses to a certain extent must, and always will, arise. A sound principle of banking, upon the authority of Mr. Gurney, a man of some weight in such matters, has been established, but errors will creep in, even in the best regulated concerns. At the same time it cannot be denied that the Bank is in a sound condition. The Auoitor stated at the meeting held yesterday, that every claimant upon the Corporation could be paid off as rapidly as the clerks were enabled to make the entries. In our opinion the Shareholders assembled came to a wise determination in placing confidence in the Court of Directors, and it cannot be doubted hat had that confidence been withheld, the Company would have been broken up, which would have produced losses to many who could ill afford to bear them. ' We have, on a previous occasion, referred to the frauds in the tobacco trade. A Circular now before us on this subject remarks: —" Deputations of the trade have had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer, relative to a reduction of the duty ; but we think it may be inferred, from what transpired, that it is not in the contemplation of Government to make any reduction. Certain inquiries are being made by persons con nected with the Excise, which lead us to the supposition that an alteration in the law is in contemplation.' We hope so, and so do all the fair and honest traders in the leaf throughout the length and breadth of the land. There are not any later accounts from the Colonies to-day. Some additional letters have come to band from Sydney, but their contents only tend to confirm the previous advices of the losses and ruin that have resulted from commercial speculations in that quarter of the world. Many men who were rich ten years since in the Sydney trade are now reduced to poverty. The system of long oredits has proved to be a losing concern. The Commissioners purchased about the usual amount to day in the Three per Cents. Reduced, at 98. The price is now a fraction lower. Bank Stock has advanced to 186, though now slightly lower. The premium upon Exchequer Bills is up to 70s. India Bonds are worth 78s. premium. Not much variation has taken place in the Foreign Market to.day. The price of Spanish Bends has fluctuated from 30i to 30/. The fluctuations in the other Foreign Bonds were but slight. Most of the Railway Shares have advanced to-day. The annexed list will give the rise in prices as compared with those of yesterday :-,- BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. (From the Official List ) Bank Stock 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 31 per Cent. Reduced Annuities Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan. 1860 123 India Boncis, 1,000 Ditto under 1,000 Consols for Opening Exchequer Bills, lid. lid. 10001. 5001. Ditto Small • 70 FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK Mexican Bonds, 1837, 5 per Cent— -...... 32 iiii Ditto for the Account 32ga Ditto Deferred Stosk 9; Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent Ditto Converted Ditto for the Account Russian Bonds, 1822, 5 per Cent. .. .. 116; Spanish Bonds, Five per Cent. Ditto for the Account Ditto Three per Cent. ... 30;ai4 Ditto for the Account • 3044 Ai Dutch 2; per Cent ....... 54i Ditto for the Account s4i Dutch 5 per Cent. . Ditto for the Account 99; PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE. RA I LWAYS. Paid. Per Share. Cirmingham and Gloucester 100 Bristol and Exeter 7O ..... 66; 65; to 67 Eastern Counties Ditto Scrip Do. New Registered — Edinburgh and Glasgow ......... 50 areat North of England ........100 Great Western Ditoo Fifths ... .. 12 Hull and Selby 5O ...... 61A to Ditto ; Shares London and Brighton London and Blackwell London and Birmingham 100 - ...... to Ditto A Shares London and Greenwich London and South Western ... 41Y1 ... .. 76i to London and Croydon ( Trunk)... 13k 14i...... to Manchester and Leeds ...... ...... 70 Ditto % Shares Manchester and Birmingham ... 40 Midland Countie5... Newcastle and Darlington Junct. 15 ...... 29 Northern and Eastern North Midland lOO 9O; to 91 Ditto i Shares Ditto Third. 211..135. 4d. 29k to 30k Paris and Orleans Paris and Booen .. .... . ..... 20 South Eastern and Dover... Ditto Scrip Yarmouth and N0rwich............ 13 JOINT STOCK BANKS. Union of Australia ...... COURSE OF EXCHAN Amsterdam CF. 12 7 Ditto, at sight Rotterdam .2 U. 12 7} Antwerp Hamburgh M.B. 14 0 Altona Paris, 3 days' sight Ditto, 3 months 25 95 Marseilles Bourdeaux 26 5 Frankfort on Maine 122 Petersburgh, 3 Us. Berlin 7 Vienna, effec. fl. 3 M lO 0 Trieste, ditto lO 1 Madrid Cadiz Bilbao 36 .. 25 .. 27 GE.—(YESTERDAY.) 'Gibraltar Leghorn Genoa t26 b Milan , ..... 31 Venice Naples Palermo, per o z 118 1 isbon (Oporto 52 Rio Janeiro 23 !Bahia (Buenos Ayres ...... New York, 21days sight 4* Philadelphia 4B PRICES OF BULLION, PER. (,Z • 'Foreign Gold, bars.E3 17 9 Portugal Gold Coin.. 3 17 5 New Doubloons .0 0 0 Barcelona Seville MiNCHESTEIt STOCK EXCHA NOE, JAN. 2.—We have still a good demand • for Railways generally at improving prices, with the exception of Sheffield and Manchester, which are freely of fered. Our quotations are :—Eastern Counties, Scrip, 13 1-16:11 ; Edinburgh and Gla'gow, 581 f ; Ditto, Quarters, 14i ; London and Brighton, 43; Sheffield and Manchester, 54 and 54 cum interest; Trent and Mertey, 500 ex div. THE MEDICAL TIMES ALMANAC FOR 1844. The " Medical Times Almanac" is another of the many publications of this kind addressed to a particular class of the community. The medical profession in all its branches will here find accumulated an immense mass of information not readily accessible in any other form, or scattered through a great number of authorities. This is given in addition to the usual contents of an almanac, and consists of a List of the Royal College of Physicians, of the College of Surgeons, of the So ciety of Apothecaries, of the officers of all the Hospitals and Medical Schools, as well as of the Provincial Hospitals, and those of the officers, and days of meeting of the Metropolitan Medical and Scientific Societies. A great deal of medical information as to the symptoms and treatment of various diseases is also brought together in a well-arranged digest, with a valuable analysis of the composition of many of the most generally used patent medicines. The work is well gut up, is very cheap, and desert es the patronage of all the profession. BOILER EXPLOSION.—SEVERALPERSONS SERIOUSLY INJURED.—Yesterday morning, at about ten minutes before nine o'clock, an accident, which occasioned the greatest alarm in the vicinity of the upper part of the Commercial-road, St. George's-in-the-East, took place at the extensive manufactory belonging to Messrs. Johnson and Co., cigar and tobacco dealers, situate in Gloucester-street, near Cannon-street gate, by the explosion of a steam-boiler of 25-horse power used in the factory. The premises are considered to be one of the largest cigar-manufactories in and around the metropolis. It was joined by a large building almost of the same height, used for drying purposes, and adjoining was the engine and boiler house where the explosion took place. At the time mentioned it appears that one of the firm was about to enter the drying room, when a tremendous report was heard, which shook the buildings and surrounding property to a surprising extent, and the next moment it was followed by heavy crashes, sending forth dense clouds of steam and dust. Unfortu nately most of the work-people, amounting to nearly fifty, were at work on different floors, and, fearing that the fac tory had caught fire, a rush was made to effect an escape. Those on the basement floor escaped easily by the regular entrance, but those on the uppermost stories, suspecting the flames were ascending, forced their way through the windows, and jumped into the street ; while others lowered themselves down by the side of the spout. Most of these, we regret to say, were more er less bruised, and five sustained such serious injuries that their immediate removal to the London Hospital was deemed necessary. Aa soon as the temporary alarm had in some way subsided, it was discovered that the boiler, which worked an engine of twenty horse-power, had exploded, occa sioning this most serious destruction. The boiler was blown a considerable distance from its original situation. The roof and nearly the whole of the floors of the drying house (which was overstocked with cigars a n d tobacco), were hurled to. the ground, nothing, in fact, remaining of the building but the outer walls. Considerable damage is also done to the case house, and also the factory walls. The accident is stated to have occurred through the negligence of the engineer, in not seeing that the boiler was properly supplied with water. The firm informed the authorities of the brigade force, that the amount of eamage done was at least one thousand pounds. They are insured in the Sun Fire-office, but the property hav ing been lost by en explosion, and not from fire the office is not liable to make good the loss. --~ SERIOUS CHARGE AGAINST CLERGYMAN AND A BUTCHER. ROCHESTER JAIL I.—This day the Rev. Henry Winfeto chaplain to the Fortitude convict-ship, together with George Bassett, army butcher, residing in the High-street os Chatham, appeared before the Rev. George Davis, clerk , William Gladdish, Esq., James Smith, Esq., and Jacob Georg e Bryant, Esq., county magistrates, to answer informatio ns, charging them with disposin g " o f a ' heifer on the 25th of 1 4 °' vember last, being unfit for food of man. David Harden, the first witness, deposed that be Tr as „,„ ll butcher, residing at New Bro m pt on , nea r Ch a tham. -." Rev. Mr.f Winter resides on board the convict-ship off Chat' ham Dock-yard, and also occupies a farm opposite to his house• also another farm near the Hook and Hatchet, in Chatham parish. The reverend defendant has had several heifers die of a disease called the murrain," which he had heard had been sold. The cattle were kept in a barn on the farm. Aboet half•past seven o'clock in the morning of the 25th of November he saw one of the heifers lying dead and stiff in the little lodge called Mr. Winter's Hospital. There was a small cut at the neck, but the beast never bled an ounce, and was in a dreadfrd I state. A man named John Burrell, a butcher, opened the animal and dressed it, which he saw the man do whilst s tandin( at his own door. The entrails were in a most dreadful ant s ulcerated state. The flesh appeared white and sickly. Th e heifer remained hanging up in the lodge until about two o'clock in the afternoon, when it was removed into a cart of Mr. Winter's, and driven by a servant of his to Mr. Bassett sr the butcher, at Chatham. John Flurrell, butcher, Brompton, said, that on the 25tli November last he went to Mr. Winter's farm to take a hide off a heifer at eight o'clock in the morning. 'I be bullock wall stiff, and had been dead about two hours. It had not been slaughtered. Its death, he should think, was caused by so inflammation of the lungs. The lungs and heart were so heavy that he could hardly lift them. The reverend defendant saw them, and looked at the carcass. Upon the 25th of lios vember, he dressed a heifer which had died of the disease. Cannot tell what went of the flesh. Both the beasts were io an awful state ; their insides particularly. As a butcher, he should say they were not fit to be sold for any shod. The meat was not fit for human food. Both carcasses he dressed to the best advantage. John Morgan, head servant to the Rev, Mr. Winter, proved that he cut up the carcass of the heifer into four quarters, and put them into his master's cart, and drove it to Mr. Bassett's , the butcher, by his master's desire. On the arrival of the cart at the house of Mr. Bassett, Mr. Bassett came into the street and looked at the meat. He said that he thought he could not do anything with it. Afterwards Mr. Bassett sent his young man for it, and it was taken into the slaughter house. The hide of the beast went with it. His master has had five bullocks die of the complaint. The Court being informed by the clerk that some very ina- , portant witnesses were prevented attending this day, adjourned the investigation until the next sitting. • From the known respectability of the defendants, the magistrates bound then , over in their own recognisances in the sum of 401. each to appear on Friday next. THE POACHERS UNDER SEN TENCE OF DEATH. Although we are not of the number of those who consider the infliction of the last penalty of the law to be either unjust or inexpedient in cases of murder, yet we cannot refrain front expressing a hope that the awful punishment of death will not he inflicted on all the wretched men convicted of the murder of Lord Derby's gamekeeper. They are all, it is true, equally guilty in the eye of the law, and those of them who did not fire the fatal shot are only a shade less guilty, even viewing the subject morally, than he who did ; but there is a shade of dif ference in their cases, and we trust that whilst none of them are allowed to escape without severe punishment, the last penalty of the law will only be inflicted on him who was the murderer in act as well as in intention. It is net merely on the ground of humanity, but also on that of policy, that we consider that it would not be desirable to in flict the punishment of (death on the whole of these five men. The difficulty of inducing juries to convict in such cases is already very great, and it they should all be punished with death, their execution will produce a feeling of horror in the public mind which will give impunity to succeeding gangs of poachers for a considerable time, whatever crimes they may commit. We well remember attending the trial of twelve or fourteen poachers at the York assizes, several years ago, when hanging was much more in fashion than it is now. They were all charged with Navin; murdered one of the gamekeepers of Sir George Armytage, of Kirklees.hall, near 110- dersfield, and all of whom were by the clearest evi dence shown to have been present at the affray in which ho was killed. After the case had been brought horse to every one of the prisoners, and after the Judge had laid down the law declaring that all present at the affray and resisting the gamekeepers, were equally guilty with the man who beat out his brains with the butt end of his gun, the Jury retired, and after remaining out of Court the greater part Of the night, came back and declared the whole of the prisoners Not Guilty. This verdict was given in direct defiance of the evidence, and it was the general opinion in Court that it would never have been returned if it had not been known that the Judge was a stern and inflexible man, quite capable of leaving every one of the prisoners to be hung if they were convicted. The more humane spirit in which the law has been administered for the last dozen years has greatly diminished this unwillingness to convict, but anything like a wholesale hanging will revive it with a greater force than ever, and render it, if not impossible, at least most difficult to convict in future.—Liverpool Times. ST. PANCRAS BOARD OF DIRECTORS AND G LTA RDIA DRAlNAGE.—Yesterday, at the meeting of the Directors and Guardians of the Poor of St. Pancras, held at the workhouse in the King's-road; Mr. Wright in the chair, Mr. Curtis, one of the medical officers of the north division of the parish, waited upon the Board for the purpose of laying before them the alarming amount of fever prevailing in certain portions of his district, on account of in sufficient and improper d r ai n age. He said that i n Ferdinand street, the want of drainage was so great, that the water, &c., lay in stagnant pools, from which a most noxious and dangerous effluvium arose, and the result was, that there were no less than thirteen houses in that street alone infected with fever. He had been applied to by some of the inhabitants, and had given a certificate as to the dangerous state of the locality through want of proper drainage, which he understood was about to be laid before the Poor-law Commissioners. Mr. Church warden Howarth said that Kentish-town possessed a local Act and the Commissioners were bound, by Act of Parliament, to carry out, throughout the district, a proper drainage. Mr. Douglas thought that the medical officers of the Board having made such a Report, they were in duty bound to call the atten tion of the Kentish-town Commissioners to the state of the drainage of that district. It was ultimately resolved that the clerk should forthwith call the attention of the Kentish -town Commissioners to the state of drainage in that district. The Board, after some other business, separated. PREVIOUS OCCUPATIONS OF CELEBRATED VO 7 cAusTs.—Rubini was a tailor, Tanaburini, a eourier, Naldi, an advocate. We believe he had the misfortune to a kill a man in a duel, and was obliged to leave the State in which he practised. He was a clever amateur in music, which he after wards made his profession. The manner of his death is well known. Viewing a steam cooking apparatus in Garcia's (Ma labran's father's) kitchen in Paris, the boiler burst, and he was kil'ed on the spot. Tramezzani was a surgeon, so was Fer rari ; Templeton was a printer, and so was Wilson, the " Scot tish Minstrel." Machin was a japanner in Birmingham, Pear sall the same ; Pyne, a poulterer ; Weyman (a celebrated bass at St. Patrick's, Dublin), a shoemaker; ditto, Tinney; ditto, Shoubridge. The celebrated Barite was the daughter of a boat man, and sang in the streets. Champneys, whose name ap pears in the old editions of Handel's songs, kept an iron monger's shop in Tothill-street, Westminster. He was the leading singer of his time, and came to the rehearsal for the I great festival in Westminster Abbey with his white apron on. He was also lay vicar of the abbey.-- Ten Towns Messenger. SINGULAR CREDULlTY.—Yesterday the following singular instance of gross superstition and credulity, took place at the Brentford Petty Sessions :—A female of respect able appearance, residing at Heston, near Hounslow, sum moned another female, residing in the same village, before Messrs. Pownall and Armstrong, the sitting Magistrates, for an assault and using abusive language. In the course of the examination it appeared that the cause of the quarrel between the parties arose under the following circumstances. A few days since half-a-sovereign, belonging to the defendant, was stolen from a drawer in her house, without her being able to obtain the slightest clue to the person by whom it had been stolen, or to the mode in which the robbery had been com mitted, and she in consequence went all the way from Heston to the Mile-end-road, a distance of sixteen miles, and back again, for the purpose of consulting a noted " cunning man," or fortune-teller, whom having made acquainted with the cir cumstances, he proceeded to describe a person as the thief who much resembled the complainant ; whom on her return, she began to abuse, which terminated in the assault. The Bench fined the defendant 10s. and costs, and advised her again to go to the " cunning man," who had got her into the difficulty, and persuade him to pay the money for her, at the same time expressing their astonishment that such superstitious ignorance should still exist so near to the metropolis. FALL OF SNOW IN THE COUNTRY.--So deep was the fall of snow yesterday morning in the country, that the Dover train, which left Folkestone at seven o'clock, was fifty-six minutes behind time in reaching Ashford, a dis tance of only 15 miles. According to the guard's statement it appears that the snow was in some places 18 inches deep on the metal, and completely solid from the severity of the frost. It was ten minutes to twelve before the train arrived in London. THE DUKE OF BORDEAUX.—On Sunday morn fog, after attending mass at the Roman Catholic chapel, at Stonehouse, near Plymouth, his Royal Highness the Duke de Bordeaux, travelling under the title of Count de Chambord, embarked in the barge of the Com mander-in-Chief, Admiral Sir D. Milne, Bart, and went on board the Sylph tender. His Royal Highness then pro ceeded to the breakwater, and, after inspecting that great national work, returned into the harbour, and went on board the Albion, 90 guns, her gallant captain, N. Locker, dockyard, Royalucokknyed aa a ry n d d,in H i ghne s spao a nr party t y mn g w da deder aboutea n ot sgh e o fna w hei a n l rlaf e tc o v e e r x t p h r is e ssplendidhis r a v t e s fi s e e a l C. 8., receiving his Roy a l Hi g h ness w i t h yards manned. The he , ti w oo h . en O hi n s p s u a s r t v e y t of ten, the e e D s t u a k h e lt s h vis m ited t t , all t t the eg9i give officers every being o r i ro n a a t t i t o e o n . d aAn clethe l at their respectre respective t e i voeu courtesy shown to foreign Noblemen of distinction have been paid by the authorities to the Royal Duke. B INCREASE uAdv Oe BRAZIL. — Advises THE, have D J u s Eb been eON receivedßßlTlSH f from mGßoyaioluptisueatnli u sua lly t t 3 ovhfe l ersot Britishet t o fi t eoctt ehg October,f has sroadfrom goods i m p o r t ed adoptedni m ro g p m t oh rea wh t eda ich course minot uo w n e tt v ihoai l f e tt ha dutiesrc n ro eu that gnat rrdy to ,thtweo whichh B isce r hv a zewir several they Brazilian kinds aavr 4 - 3 e reat o aomo f ty t etp h hir e m rei eog t tf e hr r teadato:f s yt ya o between e t t h aw et was de comp l aint ea liable immedi a t e l y , an d t h at, as It believes, without any breach r nf v e t e a aEro t o y n: 0. rs autl r a ahnd n ne, s d d p rdaaa c unr i o t std n yeo sdfe Brazil,qot by yi e s n t a l ys country. ow r i without o n u a Al t ye c or agreed gr a rtei ding ned g upon, British goods were to be admitted into th e B raz ili an I m s o t per l a c g e r r e i t e . m , e w o h t i c t h o 20 per cent. These terms the Brazilians were very anxious to have changed in November, 1842, but to this the Eng lish Government would not consent, and they therefore agreed, though with a very bad grace, that the present rate of duty should remain unchanged until November, 1844. They have since, however, discovered, that an ad valorem duty may be effectually raised by increasing the valuation of the goods taxed, as by increasing the per tentage raised upon them, and have therefore greatly increased the valuation of British goods of several kinds. In some cases the increase is 10 per cent, on the old valuation, in others 20, in others 30, in some 50, a nd in one or t wo 75 per cent. ! This is exactly the same thing in effect as if the rate of duty had been in creased from 20 per cent. ad valorem to 22, 24, 26, 30, and 35 per cent. Whether this is or is not a breach of the treaty we do not pretend to say, but it is evident that it is precisely the same thing so far as the commerce of this country is concerned. Amongst the articles thus subjected to anew and increased valuation are flannels, barragons, boots and shoes, several descriptions of cottons and of silks, cassimeres, var nished hats, cutlery, steel, Irish linens, gunpowder, and seve ral kinds of woollen goods. We shall next week give list of the articles whose valuation is charged, showing the ex tent of the increase on each article.— Lierpool Times. The health of the venerable Earl Grey continues much the same within the last few days, his Lordship's disease partaking of no further dangerous symptoms, neither is he so favourably held as to gi ve h opes of any permanent improve ment... Tyne Mercury. t f 5 1 i f,