The Sun. — London, England, 1844-02-29 00:00:00

HIGH WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY. Morning .. 49 minutes after 9 I Evening .. 33 minutes after 10. JUSTICE TO IRELAND.! DIN).IER TO MR. O'CONNELL. This Dinner will take place at COVENT-GARDEN THEATRE On TUESDAY, tho , 12th o; March, at Six o'Clock precisely. Every attention will be paid to make the arrangements worthy of the occrsion. The pit and stage of the theatre will be laid together, and the tables spread over the whole area. The boxes will be en tirely reserved for ladies. The galleries will be opened, and admit tance to the boxes and galleries by tickets, which will be issued to the Stewards. Dinner Tickets, One Guinea each, to be had from the Stewards only. lii consequence of the number to each Steward being limited, an early application is requested. - • • The Tickets will be ready on Friday next. JA yrs COPPOCK. 3, Cleveland-row, St. James's, Feb. 26, 1844. COMPANION TO THE NARRATIVES OF LADY SALE AND LIEUTENANT EYRE. Just ready, in 1 vol. small Bvo., with Illustrations, 10s. 6d. bound, NARRATIVE OF THE LATE VICTORIOUS C AMPAIGN IN AFFGHANISTAN. UNDER GENERAL POLLOCK. By Lieut. JOSEPH GREENWOOD, of H.M. 31st Regiment. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. Now Ready, Price One Shilling. P ART IV. of "WINDSOR CASTLE," AN HISTORICAL ROMANCE. WITH 110 ILLUSTRATIONS. By G. CRUIKSHANK, &c. To be Completed in Eleven One Shilling Monthly Parts. Orders received by all Booksellers. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. Now ready, at all the Libraries, in 3 vols. post ivo., HATSW O R T H; OR, THE ROMANCE OF A WEEK. Edited by R. PLUMER WARD, Esq. Author of " Tremaine," " De Vere," &e. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. HER MAJ E U N Y IB ' 4 S THEATRE. The following outline of the arrangements for the ensuing season is respectfully presented to the Nobility, Subscribers, and the Public. ENGAGEMENTS FOR THE OPERA. 3fadame Grisi, Mad!le. M. Favanti (her first appearance at this Theatre), Madame Bellinl, Madame Dai Mott and Madame Persian!. Signor . Mario, Sig. Correlli (his first appearance at this Theatre), Si 3. Dal Fiori, Sig. Felice (his first appearance at this Theatre). gig. Fornasari, Sig. F. Lab!ache, and Sig. Lablache. Director of the Music, Composer, and Conductor, Sig. Costa. Madlle. Carlotta Grisi, Madlle. Adelaide Fres!, of the Teatro dl Pergola, Florence (her first appearance at this theatre) ; Mad. GUy Stephan ; biadtle. 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. Gouriet, M. Venafra, M. Bertram, and M. Perrot, and a numerous and eflicient Corps de Ballet. Arrangements are also pending with Madlle. Taglioni, and there is. every probability that the talent of this eminent artiste will be se cured for a limited number of representations. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE THIS EVENING, FEBRUARY 29, Will be rep eated a New Grand Opera, in Three Acts, called THE BOHEMIAN GIRL Count Arnheim, Mr. Borrani; Thaddeus, Mr. W..llarrison; Arline, Miss Raintorth; Queen of the Gipsies, Miss Betts. After which Will be repeated Albert's celebrated Ballet of THE BEAUTY OF GHEN P. Marquis de San Lucar, M. Albert ; Benedict, M. Hoguet Vestris; Beatrix, Mdlle. Fleury; Agnes, Mdlle. Clara Webster; Julia, Madame Petit Stephan; Diana, Mdlle. O'Bryan. Dress Boxes is., Second Price 38. lid. ; Upper Circles of Boxes vecond Price 35.; Pit 3s, Second Price 24.; Middle Gallery vs.. al xond Price Is.; Upper Gallery IL, Second Price 6d. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN, M. JULLIEN'S CONCERTS. M. JULLIEN has the honour to announce that his ANNUAL BENEFIT will take place THIS EVENING, Febzuary PROGRAMME FOR THIS EVENING—PAR I. Overture, Anacreon—Cherubini. Scotch Quz.drille, with the imitation of the Highland Pipe--Jullien. Solo, Cornet-a-Piston, Herr Koenig. Grand Symphony (first movement), entitled The Power of Sound— Spohr. Solo, Flute, Mr. Richaulson. I alse, La Cal le—Jullien. The Destruction of rompeli—Roch Albert. PART 11. The Nightingale Waltz—Jullien. Opera, Robert !e Diable, G and Fantasia, with Solos—Meyerbeer. Solo, Violoncello, M Pilet. Selections from &abet Mater—Rossini. Valse, La Valse a Deux Tems—Jullien. The English Quadrille—Jullien. Doors Open at Halt-past Seven, commence at Eight o'Clock. Promenade, Is , Upper Boxes, Is. ; Dress Circle ; Private Boxes, 11. Is. Tickets to be obtained at the hox-ottice of the Theatre; of Mr. Mitchell, Slid Bond-street; Mr. Andrews, New Bond-sty eet ; Mr. Sams, St. James's-street; and M. Jullien's Office, s, Maddox-street, Bond-street. • THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. M tt. BENJAMIN WEBSTER. LESSER THIS EVENING, FEBRUARY 29, Will be performed a New Comic Drama, entitled GRIST TO THE MILL. Marquis de Richeville, Mr. Charles Mathews; Francine, Madame Vestris. After which, a New Comic Drama, entitled USED UP. Sir Charles Coldstream, Bart., Mr. Charles Mathews; Sir Adonus Leech, Mr Tilbury; Wurzle, Mr. James Bland; Mary, Miss Julia Bennett ; Lady Clutterbuck, Mrs. Humby. To conclude with a New hairy Extravaganza, entitled THE FAIR ONE WITH THE GOLDEN LOCKS! King :Lachrymoso, Mr. J. Bland; Pi ince Graceful, Miss P. Horton ; Queen Lucidora, Miss Julia Bennett. Orchestra Stalls, ss. ; Boxes, ss. ' • Pit, as.; Gallery, 25.; Upper Gallery, is. Half-price —Boxes36. p..Pit,u.s.; Gallery, is. ; Upper Gallery, 6 d. Doors opened at .Half-past Six , and the l'erformance commence at Seven. Tickets and Hades to be had of. Mr I. T. Archer, at the Box office, from Ten till Five. PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXF'.ORD.STREET. LESSEE, Mr. J. M. MADDOX. .. THIS EVENING, FEBRUARY 29, WI Ibe Icrformed Beßini's Onera Seria, NORMA. Pollio, Mr. Wood ; °roves°, Mr. Wei s ; Norma, Mil. Wood ; Adel isa, Miss Grant; Cloti:da, Miss Floyd. After which, a New Petite Comedy, called ,AGED FORTY. Sir Marcy %,‘ ilder, Mr. Walter Lacy ; Mr. Dapper; Mr. Oxberty ; Lady Clifton, Miss Fortescue. To conclude with a New Farce, called BOUNCE; or, The Ojibbeway Indians. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. THIS EVENING, FEBRUARY 29, Will be repeated, by permission of Charles Dickens, Esq., THE CHRISTMAS CAROL. Principal Characters—Messrs. 0. Smith, Wright, Lyon, Maynard, t•orman, Miss Woolgar. Mrs. F. Mathews, Miss Chaplin, and nliss Lee. To be followed by ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA MARRIED AND SETTLED. Antinny, Mr. Wright; Cleopatra, Miss Woolgar. After which, the. Tragedy of RICHARD THE THIBD. Ri chard, Mr. Wright; Lady Anne, Miss E. Stanley. To conclude with THE DAUGHTER OF THE DANUBE DAYIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEAIRE. THIS EVENING, FEBRUARY Will be performed a New Drama, entitled THE LAST SHIL. LING, supported by all the Company. utter which, The Armenian Prodigy, or Wonderful Ariel Pole Dancer. Tu be followed by A CHRISTMAS CAROL, by "Boz," with splendid Appointments. lo conclude with THE PLEDGE OF LOVE. NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS. Having received complaints from many of our Subscribers, that they do not receive the THIRD EDITION of The Sun, containing the Debates in Parliament up to the latest hour of Post, as well as the Gazettes on Tuesday and Friday Even ing*, containing Military and other Promotions, the Betting at Tattersall's on Monday and Thursday, &c. &e., this is to give notice, that if any irregularity occur in future, it will , be immediately rectified by parties forwarding the names,of the agents who supply them, to The ig UM Office, 112, Strand, London. 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Malan ..Ezzilit was to be done—at what powerful odds, with established interests and powers—under what stern discouragement from class legislation. But in the actual conduct of that enterprise they had incessantly to grapple with obstacles more formidable than any they could have anticipated. False data and incomplete statistics had perverted, instead of guiding, the conclusions that highly gifted minds had, in many instances, arrived at, touching the laws of which it was the first, the avowed effort of the League to procure the repeal. And thus, not only were farmers and tenants found amongst the most strenuous supporters of the unjust monopoly which landlords had long exercised so un fairly, so injuriously to their interests ; but even the poorer classes of consumers upon whom that mono poly supply of dear bread had operated, as it ever must operate, so oppressively, were, at first, in not unfrequent instances, vehemently opposed to its ex tinction. But whatever the difficulties, the obstacles, the prejudices, the forces, the influence, which lay clearly in prospect before them when the active spirits of the League commenced their arduous crusade—what ever the ignorance or fatuity with which, as their labours were advanced, they had to contend—they brought to their mighty task faculties of mind and body which have proved more than equal to the de mands of each successive exigency. They have made proselytes, by the force of argument and illustra tion alone, in every rank of society. From the highest order of our long-descended and opulent nobility, to the humblest, and poorest, and the hardest-working sections of our working population, they have equally recruited the ranks of their adhe rents. In every portion of the empire they have pushed their cause with the same indomitable activity and spirit—with the same average success. The popularity and influence of the League are in creased and consolidated, in place of being exhausted or endangered by these constant appeals to public opinion. It carries about it a self-maintaining excitement. The crowded attendance of last evening demonstrates that the sympathy it has aroused in all classes, on behalf of its great cause, is inex haustible— " Age cannot wither it, Nor custom sate its infinite variety." And, in truth, the merits of that cause are of a magnitude and character, intrinsically, which out weigh all the splendour of the brilliant success that has hitherto attended its advocacy, and are a more eloquent testimony to the merits of its champions than twenty such demonstrations as that, even, of last night. For what is the constitu tional fight in which the League have en gaged ? It is a struggle on their part for the abolition of a grinding monopoly, vested by an improvident and iniquitous Legislature in one " class" of the nation. On the part of that class it is a des perate struggle to retain what they fondly imagine a privilege, which it must, now and permanently, be for their signal benefit to retain. The poor feel that from this contest one of two alternatives must inevita bly result to them. The success of the League will secure for their working hands, and for their half starved children, an abundant and cheap supply of the first necessary of life at all times, and under any of those often recurring fluctuations of trade and de • rangements of the currency to which they have been made the first and most certain victims. The failure of the League must hand them over to the tender mercies of that Legislature, which, after cheering them on through all the sufferings and burdens of a wasting war of twelve years (reckoning from the peace of Amiens) by their repeated pledges to relieve them from their unnatural load of taxation on the return of peace, profaned that auspicious event by taxing more heavily than ever, from that moment, the millions of bread consumers, for the palpable, sordid, disgraceful, and fraudulent purpose of en hancing the rentals of themselves and some few thousands of other bread growers. The in dustrious but ill remunerated mechanic and journey man—the struggling tradesman—the reduced or in digent pensioner —they who struggle " to maintain appearances," or the class with which they are un fortunately connected by family or other relations, in the hopeless effort to obtain an adequate measure of monopoly-taxed subsistence out of their currency taxed pittances of income—these look forward with intense solicitude to a consummation which may enable them, at last, to participate in the bounties of natural production from the enjoyment which the iron hand of the monopolist has for nine-and-twenty years rudely thrust them forth to pine in sickness or perish in despair. The pro-corn-law landlords— neither satisfied with the excessive rentals they have long derived in virtue of the excessive prices which the working of that law has obtained for the produce of their acres, nor content to contribute their volun tary sacrifice to the mass of those compulsory ones which the circumstances of the times and the " de-. mands of Parliament" have so largely exacted from every other class of the people—are mad enough to protract that which would, even now, be accepted as a concession by those who will, ere long, indignantly extort it as a just, but contumaciously withheld, debt to the nation at large. The:final triumph of the League is certain. The ultimate consequences of such impracticability in their opponents no man can venture to predict. duelling begin to decline. Ridicule effected what the Royal Arbiter of Europe, in the plenitude of his authority, was unable to effect, even with the Bastile at his back ; and the duel was in a great de gree laughed out of fashion solely by reason of its growing frequency among the untitled and un distinguished masses. And certainly it is a far fitter theme for popular contempt and ridicule, than for the interference of the Executive power. To interpose formally by Act of Par liament is to invest the subject with too much consequence—to raise it to an importance that does not and ought not to belong to it ; for in nine cases out of ten the duel is an act of sheer folly and Absurdity, and we do not see why such a deli berate fool as he is, who has recourse to a pistol on the slightest provocation, should not be left to the consequences of his own infatuation, more espe cially as the law has still sufficient length of arm to reach him. The good taste and good feeling of modem society repudiates the duellist who cannot show that he has been made one by the most inexorable necessity; it thinks none the better of him for having popped at his man at Chalk Farm or Battersea; and it is to the gradual spread of this wholesome social feeling among us, that we look with confidence, at no distant day, to the utter abolition of the practice of duelling. The Liverpool Peninsular steamer has arrived at Southampton, with favourable intelligence from Por tugal. The accounts are to the 21st inst., and an nounce that the foolish attempt at insurrection had utterly failed. The few revolted troops in the neigh bourhood of Elvas had retreated across the Spanish frontier, .and been disarmed by the Spanish au thorities. At Abrantes, a great number of the dis contended soldiers had joined their regiments; the number that still held out did not exceed 250, and the population had not in any place given them the slightest countenance. The Cortes, after con ferring extraordinary powers on the Government, adjourned on the 21st till the end of March. Madrid journals and letters of the 20th have been received. The butchery of prisoners at Alicant and other places was still going on. The Phare de Bayonne says BONET, by way of reprisal for the ex ecution of the officers, has thrown General LAssALA and the Political Chief CERATS into a dungeon, and told them to prepare for death. It was hoped at Madrid that he would reflect before executing the two prisoners, and that he would not persevere in a determination which could not but aggravate the pre carious situation in which he was placed. RONCALI, on the other hand, announces to the Government that he was about to decimate the prisoners taken at Alcoz. The savage conduct of this ruthless people renders them rather objects of horror than sympathy, and blunts the feeling of other nations towards their me lancholy condition. On the 20th the Three per Cents. were done at 30 for cash, and 30f at 60 days ; the Five per Cents. at 201 for cash, and 21 at 60 days. The official statement which appeared in the Moni ker of Monday, announcing that the French Go vernment disowned the proceedings of Admiral DUPETIT THOUARS, has caused much excitement at Paris, and if we may judge from the scanty intelli gence yet received, the affair will be seized by the Opposition, probably with M. Tnizus at their head, as a means for ousting the GUIZOT Cabinet. On Monday, in the Chamber of Deputies, after some routine business had been transacted, M. CARNE mounted the tribune, and said, " You must have seen in this day's Moniteur a piece of news which must have astonished you as much as me. In consequence of Queen POMARE having failed to execute the treaty entered into with France, Vice-Admiral M. DUPETIT THOUARS haS deprived her of the government of Otaheite. This act seemed a just ono. Yet what does the Moniteur tell us ? Admiral DUPETIT THOUARS' conduct is disavowed.—(Murmurs.) I beg the Chamber to fix the day on which I may ques tion the Minister on the subject." M. GUIZOT said he was ready to enter into any explanation the Chamber might require. M. BILLAULT said, in order to arrive at the true bearing of the question, the dispatch of Admiral DUPETIT TIIOUARS should be laid before them. To this M. GUIZOT had, no objection, and Thursday was fixed for the attack on the Govern ment. The Pattie of Monday evening gives the fol lowing additional particulars relative to the course adopted by the French Cabinet, but we cannot be lieve it likely that M. GUIZOT, or Lord COWLEY would let the 'public know what private discussion took place between them on such a grave subject :—" For carrying into effect," says this journal, "the decision of the Ministry in the affair of Tahiti, the Govern ment'has resolved to send a corvette to the South Seas, with the special mission of recalling Admiral DUPETIT THOUARS, and of establishing the authority of Queen POMARE. This resolution of the French Government was taken on Saturday, after a long con ference between Lord COWLEY and M. GUIZOT. The Minister had brought forward the question in several meetings of the Cabinet Council. It was known, that he was much embarrassed about it; that he hesitated between national susceptibilities on the one hand, and the remonstrances of England on the other. Lord CowLEY made very warm repre sentations to M. GUIZOT, and in consequence the latter gave way. Lord COWLEY immediately dis patched a courier to his Government with notice of the promises he had received from M. GuizoT. A few hours after wards he received a copy of the official notice about to appear in the Moniteur, which he also forwarded to London by another courier. It was de manded of the British Government, and promised by Lord COWLEY, that the missionary chief, PRITCHARD, should be recalled. ,M. GUIZOT thinks of presenting this to the Chambers as a concession forced from England, and which will re-establish the balance of concessions between the two countries." The question of duelling was incidentally alluded to on Tuesday in the House of Commons by Mr. TURNER, who asked Sir R. PEEL whether he were prepared to bring in a Bill for the more effectual' prevention of that practice. In reply the Premier remarked that Government had had an opportunity during the recess, of which they had, availed'them selves, of showing their disposition to discourage duelling, so far as it could be discouraged by the Ex ecutive power, and that therefore they were not prepared to introduce any new legislative enactment on the subject. He added that it was impossible not to see that the practice of duelling was on the decline ; that the influence of civilisation was producing its necessary effect; and that this was another reason why he should deprecate any active and direct interference on the part of the House. We think there is much good sense in these remarks of Sir ROBERT PEEL. Civilisation is, in deed, producing "its necessary effects," as regards the barbarous custom of duelling. The race of fire eaters is extinct ; and we no longer have CAMELFORDS and FITZGERALDS among us, who are ready to re sort to the pistol on the slightest proy9cation. Were impossible that men of their, stamp could .re-appear, they would instantly be scouted from society, which has for many a year past set its face against the practice of appealing to the "laws of honour," except in cases of the most aggravated character. Under these cir cumstances, seeing how rare duels are now, compared with what they used to.be—bearing in mind also that there are occasions, though happily of most , unfrequent occurrence, when a recourse to the pistol becomes a matter of cruel and stringent necessity, we do think that the Premier has consulted the dictates of good sense and discretion in leaving the abolition of the practice to the progress of civilisation. No legislative interference could put an immediate stop to the evil ; tir a quick, jealous sense of honour, stung to madness by some deadly insult or injury, would be pretty sure to set at naught all the proprieties of Parlia ment ; and there is just a possibility that by public attention being directed too Vigilantly to the subject, the evil of duelling might be increased, instead of di minished. At least, history shows us that this w as the case in the days, of LOUIS THE FOURTEENTIL. That Illustrious Monarch, it may be remembered, was always strongly o p pose d to the habit, so common in his time, among French gentlemen of settling their private . quarrels by the sword—the favourite weapon ; and, by way of putting a stop to such a barbarous practice, he established a Court of Honour, which was presided over by military men, chiefly Marshals of France, who were to decide upon the right or the wrong of every dispute brought ' before them, and whose verdict was to be held as final. But what was the consequence of this interference ? Why just this, that so far from duels being dimi nished, they increased in frequency; and what was worse, instead of being confined as before, for the most part, to the military and aristocratic circles, they spread among the plebeian classes of society ; and as the Court of Honour, from the nature of its constitution, could not, and would not, take notice of the quarrels of the mere canailie—as all men below a certain station were haughtily. styled in those etclu sive times—the Court fell gradually into desuetude, and then, and not till then, did the practice of The Funds fell considerably on Monday, owing to various rumours on the Bourse. Among other re ports it was stated that thirty-six Members of the Cliamber of Deputies had resigned their seats in that assembly, disgusted with the acquiescence of Minis ters in the demand of England ; and that a meeting of Opposition Deputies is to :be held to-night at the residence of M. humus to discuss the expediency of an impeachment of Ministers. We cannot see what benefit the resignation of so many Members would do to the party, but we can readily believe that TIIIBRS would head any crusade against the KING and his Ministers. LONDON, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 29, 1844. Another meeting of the Anti-Corn-law League took place at Covent-garden last night; when the same enthusiasm in the cause, and the same determi nation to fight the battle to the last, was displayed. Sir R. PEEL'S announcement about " finality" was treated with the same respect as Lord J. RUSSELL'S " finality." The audience knewWe - 1i that the words of a Minister signify nothing unless they are in ac cordance with existing circumstances, and that, though an announcement may come fToin Downing street that the corn-law is as unchangeable as the law of the Medes and Persians, it`ninst break down before public opinion. No Minister can resist the public voice. Sir R. PEEL is goaded on to speak in support of the corn-laws ; but no man who has care fully weighed his speeches on free trade—and. in that we include the trade in corn—can fail to see that hcl s waiting only for a fit opportunity to carry his wise principles of trade into full effect. The Anti-Corn-law League is his best supporter. Its onward course is too rapid, and attended by events too impressive and too startling, to leave room for deliberation on any of the mere outlying circumstances • and proper ties which are incidental to the character of its con struction. It is a spell which has awakened the slumberers of half a century throughout the breadth and length of the land. Its most de termined opponents cannot deny that its ap peal has been magical. It has spoken, trumpet tongued, in the north ; it has re-echoed alike through the waste and the cultivated districts of the east; it has made head, and successfully too, against the " sacred legion" of monopoly in the west ; and ere long it will doubtless have brought the fertile counties of the south under its allegiance. That principle must be one of irresistible cogency which can thus, in defiance of long transmitted opinions, of hereditary prejudices, and the authority of practical and experienced, but not the less ill-informed and ill judging agriculturists, assail the very fortresses of monopoly, and tumble down the long consecrated idols of "protective duties" levied nn the introduction of foreign corn. In the enterprise upon which the League embarked its leaders felt how much there The following were the latest quotations on the Bourse -Three per Cents., 82f. 15c. ; Five per Cents., 125 f. 50c.; Orleans Shares, 837 f. 50c. ; Rouen, 825 f.; Havre, 667 f. 50c. ; Spanish Actives, 32.1. THE BOURSE-MONDAY, Fzu. 26. First • Highest Lowest Last. Price. Piice. Price. Price. French Five per Cents. ...• 125 60 .. 126 55 . • 125 40 • • 125 55 Four per Cents. .• •• 106 25 .. 106 25 .. 106 25 .. 106 25 :Three per Cents.•. • . 82 30 .. 82 30 82 25 82 25 Bank of- France.• .. • • ...... 3260 ••3260 ••3260 ..3260 Latlitte Bank, I,ooof. Sharesllos ..1105 —llO5 —llO5 5,000 f. Sharesso77 50 .:5077 50 —5077 50 ..5077 50 Belgian sank Belgian Fives .• ••• • • ....... 1071 .. 1071 • . 1061 • • 1061 1840 .• lO9l .. 1091 .• 1091 .; 1091 1842 •••••••• 1101 .. 1101 .. 1101 .. 11 Spanish Active ..• • . ... 321 • . 321 • . 321 .. 32 Passive 5l .. 51 .. 51 .. 5 Portuguese Five per Cents • • 46 .. 46 ••• 46 • • 46 Neapolitan . 103 75 .. 104 .. 103 75 .. 104 Roman .... RAILWAY SHARES. Versa Wes, R.B. 4250 L. 13 Rotten •. Rquen to Havre 670 .. 670 .. 667 50 .. 667 50 Orleans . 835 .. 837 50 .. 835 .. 837 80 Strasburg to Bale• Montpellier to Cette.. ••.. • • 460 • • 460 .• 457 50 .. 457 50 RAILWAY SHIRES. FOR THE ACCOUNT. • L.R. ..... l6l 25 .. 161 25 .. 161 25 161,25 Rouen 625 .. 825 .. 825 .. 825 Rouen to:MaTre 667 50 ...670 .. 667 50 667 50 Orleans . Strasburg to tale 242 5Q .. 243 75 .. 242 50 .. 242 50 liontpellter to Cette ; . • MORTALITY IN THE METROPOLIS: In the week ending February 27, there has been a decrease of 31 in the deaths, as compared with those of the previous week ; but the excess over the average is still great, amounting to 137. This arises chiefly from diseases of the lungs. The average is 330, while last week the number was 428. The deaths from bronchitis were 63, average 19 ; from pneumonia 111, average 91 ; consumption 165, average 146; diseases of the heart 41, average 21; dropsy 32, average 9. There is a considerable decrease in violent deaths, the ave rage being 25, while last week the number was only 15, and of these 10 were from burns and scalds, one was from drowning ; no case of suicide is stated. Of the 19 persons who died of small•pox, 12 had not been vaccinated. The thermometer, according to oWervations made at the Greenwich Observatory, was lowest on the night of the 23ct, marking 2.35 degrees,-(of!-Fahrenheit), ,and highest on the 24h;, being 48.3 degrees. In a note it is stated that the changes in the height of the barometer have been THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 29, 1844. considerable. On Feb. 22d it stood at 29.1, on the 23d it had risen to 29.7, and on the 24th it had fallen to 28.6, and at midnight rose to 29.5. SCOTCH LAW REFORM.—(From a Correspondent.) — Mr. Wallace's motion on Scotch Law Courts Reform fel to the ground for want of a seconder, and it is no wonder, for there did not appear to be more than four or five Members on the same side of the House with the Meer for Greenock. Dinner hour is a very dan gerous one for any but very popular or party questions, and as so few in the House of Commons take any inte rest in Law Reform, and especially in Scotch Law Reform, it would be no surprise that Mr. Wallace had to address himself nearly to empty walls. The Hon. Member's statement referred almost entirely to returns and other documents which he used at the table, and as these evidently contained a mass of figures and statistics, it was impossible without being possessed of them te give a full rep•rt. This may be best judged of by stating that, the speech of the Hon. Member occupied more than an hour, and was listened to without any symptom whatever of impatience—an unusual occur rence during the discussion of so dry a subject. ' , ~ •••••••• , , . 7. ,it 4-,...V., 04 - , 4 • ... .07 uhhi l L 'A• C el . , •,.,., li ~,...„...• .....,,, .:: ~....__ ,4.... LA , .. i : 4 " ....\ .1 11 .0. : ' I' ..411,011-:' 'l.,-,,,. ".. - , 77 •,..445tim .i." - Ar. mos t• s ',, ~ ,, arrEV , - , 1,,,A, +....... , ~,r i ~ , Imo er; MONEY AND COMMERCIAL NEWS CITY, WEDNESDAY EVENMG. The Funds closed rather flat this afternoon, but there has been only a moderate business done. Consols for immediate transfer and time were 97i to Exchequer Bills obtained 68s. to 70s. premium. The New Three-and-a-Half per Cents. were 1021 to A. Spanish Stock somewhat rallied upon the sudden depres sion that occurred just before our two o'clock report. The Five per Cents. were last marked 24,1 to and the Three per Cents. 34i to 35. The preparation for the settlement of the account to-morrow has been the chief cause of the fluctuation. Mexican Bonds leave off at 34i ; Colombian at 13i ; and Belgian at 1054. Spanish Treasury. Bonds were done at 70. The Railways became more active this afternoon, and in many instances improved a little in value. (From The Sun of Last Night.) The Cotton Market at Liverpool yesterday was firmer. Speculators took 2,500 bales, and the total sales were 6,500 bales.—There was not so good a market for Shares. Bir- mingham and Gloucester were 73 ; Chester and Holyhead, 5a ; Edinburgh and Glasgow, 59 ; Grand Junction, 225 ; Li verpool and Manchester, 221; Birmingham, 238 ; Ditto. Quartei - ;284 ; Manchester and Birmingham, 404 ; Midland Counties, 88 ; North Midland, Half, 44i ; Paris and Lyons, 21.165. ; South Eastern, New, 38 ; York and North Midland, Half, 17k. It will be observed from an advertisement which appears in another column of The Sun, that the Spanish Treasury Bondholders have agreed to another compromise with the Spanish Government, as to their long-neglected claims. At the meeting held yesterday, more unanimity was displayed than was anticipated, there having been but two dissentients to the reception of the terms offered, which are as follow :- 1. " That every 1001. of the Treasury Bonds, bearing 5 per cent. interest, will be exchanged for 2111. 13s. 4d. (say two hundred and eleven pounds, thirteen shillings, and four pence), of 3 per cent. Bonds. 2. " That the former holders of Treasury Bonds who ex changed them for only an equal amount of 3 per cent. Stock, when the capitalisation of the Coupons due from 1837 to 1840 took place, will also be entitled to all the privileges offered to the actual holders, and therefore to the difference between the 100/. of Three per Cent. Stock they then received, and the 2111. 13s. 4d., after deducting from that difference the value of the dividends paid to them at different periods." The agent, M. de Casto, states :--" As I had the pleasure to hear from you and Mr. Bramley, that you considered this as an equitable arrangement of these claims,it would, I think, be needless to call your attention to the advantages it gives to actual bondholders, or to the spontaneous and even unso licited act of justice of the Minister in compensating those holders who exchanged their Treasury Bonds for an equal amount of Three per Cent. in 1842. " I only beg further to assure you, that the present Minis-. try being fully resolved to pay, as heretofore, the interest of the Three per Cent. Stock most regularly and punctually, you will, I trust, find this a valuable and safe conversion." There is one other satisfactory feature in the report of the meeting of yesterday. The assurance, almost officially given, that the interest upon the Three per Cents. will be in 1 future regularly paid ; and if the following state ment of the anticipated resources of the Spanish Treasury be correct, there can be no doubt but that the promise will be fulfilled. The Chairman informed the Bondholders that the payments in the Legion certificates and the Aberdeen Bonds would cease in March next, and upon these two items of national account there would be a saving of something like from 150,000/. to 180,000/. It had been stated, and he thought correctly, that it was the intention of that Government to apply the tobacco duties, amounting to 800,000/. or 900,0001. to the specific -payment of the Three per Cents. The surplus revenues of Cuba, which produced a large amount—some 800,000/. per annum, although at present mortgaged, would be emancipated in about a year and a half. National property, too, he be lieved, yet existed to a very large amount, and these re sources offered, ultimately, better prospects to all classes of Spanish Bondholders. The property yet unsold was, he thought, estimated at upwards of sixty millions. The Funds are firm to-day, and the payment of the differences is proceeding well. Consols for immediate transfer are 971 1 to 4, and for the Account the same. Exchequer Bills realise 68s. to 70s. premium, and East India Bonds, • 86s. to 88s. premium. The New Three-and-a-Half per Cents. have been marked 102 k to i ; the Reduced at 103 A to i ; and the Three per Cents. 98i to i. Bank Stock has been at 195 to 1, and East India Stock is, nominally 278. The abandonment of Tahiti makes the market good. The Commissioners have taken Consols at 97k. The Foreign Market has been quieter. Spanish Bonds have been higher, but now sales are making, and Five per Cents. have receded from 241 I to - b h ; and the Three per Cents. from 35h ft to 34i - h. The ' statement in M. tie Castro's letter buoyed them up, but the rise tempts sales. Mexican Bonds are 34a to A; Colom bian aro 13i ; Peruvian, 30i ; and Brazilian, 794 to 80. Belgian obtain 106 to 1064 ; and Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 541 to i. Railway Shares are dull again, and the quotations are, scarcely so good. MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, FEE. 27.—We have no material change in our market to-day. The quotations are : —Dublin and Drogheda, 55 i ; Sheffield and Manchester, 71;South westernon Eigths, 3i ; Manchester and Leeds, 108 ; Manchester and Birmingham, 404. CLOSPNG PRICES. 278 . pm BRITISH FUNDS. 1 Bank Stock „.......... ..... 195 Indian Stock 3 per Cent. Red. ............ 98 ~ Ditto Bonds oi B iso i ls lls fo7Acc . t. l BB pm. 3 per Cent. Cons. ..... «.. _y,i_. Ditto OM Annuities 3% per Cent. Re] ......... ni Ditto New Annuities 96% 50 7 O 97 pm. New 5 per Cent ...•••••-•• Ditto 500/. 69 pm. Long Annuities to expire Ditto Small 7O pm. Jan. 1860 ....... ..... IA Bank Stock for Acct. Oct. 1859.... ..... 12 New 3% per Cent... ..... 102 India Stock for Acct 218% Jan. 1860............ 12116 FOREIGN FUNDS. Austrian. 5 per Cent ... — !Portuguese 5 per Cent 75% Belgian, 5 per Centi 10 5% Ditto, New Ditto — Brazilian Bonds ... ..... ..: ... •80 Prussian, 5 per Cent Buenos Ayres, 6 per Ce 0.... 35% Russian, 5 per Cent-. ...... - C hlli an . 6 per Cent ...... ...... 105 Ditto, Metallic .._ Colombian, 6 per Cent -... 13% Spanish, 5 Per Cent Ditto, 1824 ... ........ .. ......... .. Ditt o, 3 per Cent 353, C u ba Bonds, 6 per Cent .. 93 'Ditto, Deferre 4 13% Danish, 3 per Cent ............ 873 Y French, 5 per Cent.......1::6t --c. Greek, 18 5. 5 Per Cent - Exchange -f. - 4 Mexican, 5 per Cent Ditto, 6 per Cent., UM...." Dutch, 2 34 per Cent 54% Peruvian, 18 . 25 . 6 per Cent... 31% Ditto, 5 per Cent ... SHARE Birmingham and Derby (TOO paid) ........ .......... 56 Ditto Thirds (25 paid) Ditto Eighths (11. Ma. paid) B r istol and Exeter ( 0 paid) 3% 644 Chester and Holyhead ( 5 paid) ......... 5 ..... .......... Eastern Union ( 5 paid) 5 Edinburgh and Glasgow (50 mid) 58 Gravesend, Rochester, and Chatham ( 2 )4 paid) V Oreat North of England (100 p a id) 96 Great Western (75 paid) , • 101% Ditto Half Shares (50 p a w) . ......... r 8 Ditto P ifths (12 paid).....:.:....,...... ....... 18% Hull And Selby (50 paid) 6O Ditto Quarter Shares ( fip ai d) 7 London and Birmingham (Stock) Lon d o n and Greenwich ( 1 ' t. ii a. 4 , 1 paid) Ditto, Preference or Privilege (13/. 171 2d. pd) 17 London and South Western 4 11.65. ( 10d ; paid) London and Cr o y don ( Tr unk) l6 ••• Manchester and Leeds (70 Dud) lO9 Midland Counties (100 paid) 67 Norwich and Brandon ( 2 paid) ....... . , 14 ......... ......•• - North Midland (100 paid) 87% Paris and Rouen (20 paid) 22 Rouen and Havre ( H paid) South Eastern and Dover (50 paid) 3 53( Ditto Scrip (25 paid) 36 West London Thames Extnaion i 2 paid) POST-OFFICE NOTICE. The following notices have appeared at the General Post-' office, at St. 3lartin's- le-Grand : " The next mails for Malta, Greece, the lonian Islands, Egypt, and India, via Southampton, will be dispatched from hence on the morning of the Ist March. " The Lady Mary Wood will take out the Peninsular mails on the 29th instant. "The Oriental for the India, &c., mails, of the Ist of March. " The next mail for India, &c., via Marseilles, will bo dis patched from hence on the 4 th o March. " Her Majesty's brig Crane, for the Madeira, Brazil, and Buenos Ayrian mails of the sth of March. " Medway for the West Indian mails, of the 2d of March. " Caledonia for the American mails, of the 4th of Mar Ch. " George Town for the mails of the 29th instant." • DEATH FROM WRONG MEnicaNE.—On Tuesday af ternoon Mr. G. I. Mills, Deputy Coroner for Middlesex, held' an inquest at the Hammersmith workhouse of the Kensing ton union, on the body of Henry Hawkins, an infant child,. six weeks old, who died in consequence of wrong medicine having been sent it by one of the medical officers of the union. After a lengthened examination, the jury returned the fol lowing verdict :—" Died from disease of his lungs and brain, and that the cause of the said disease was a certain medicine which was administered to the said Henry Hawkins by mis-; adventure ;" and the jury, in addition, requested the Deputy Coroner would severely caution the medical gentlemen to be less careless in labelling the medicine in future. The Deputy Coroner, acting on the recommendation of the jury, cautioned them as to theirfuture conduct in such matters. MARRIAGE IN HIGH LIFE.—The alliance between Thomas M. Montgomerie, of Garboldisham Hall, Norfolk, and the Honourable Georgiana Louisa Foley, daughter of the late Lord Foley, was solemnised yesterday morning, at nine o'clock, at St. George's Church, Hanover-square. The cere mony was performed by the Right Reverend the Lord Bishop of Norwich, in the presence of the Duchess of Bedford, Lord William Fitzgerald, Miss Geraldine, and Mr. Frederick Fitz gerald, Miss Taafe, &c. A most diabolical attempt was made on Monday night to set fire to the premises of Mr. J. H. Nunn, of Nether Hall, Bradfield. The person appointed by Mr. Nunn to watch the premises, on going round the steelyards about ten o'clock, saw a man standing close to a wheat-stack, but he unfortunately made his escape. Upon searching on the fol lowing morning, Mr. Nunn found on the spot where the man stood some lucifer matches and a box, so that there is no doubt of the malicious spirit of the party.—Essex Herald. - PRIZE FIGHT FOR 1001. A SIDE.--On Tuesday a prize fight took place about 30 miles down the Dover Railway line for 1001. a side b e t wee n two of the heavy weights, Tass Parker and the Ti p t on Slasher (Wm. Perry). The same men fought about nine weeks since, but the battle was inter rupted by the police. The combat yesterday lasted two hours and thirty-two minutes, during which 132 rounds were fought. Parker is considered a man of great fistic science, but he yesterday proved that he has not a single atom of "pluck" in his composition. He fought fairly for a few rounds, and then had recourse to the unmanly mode of striking his adversary, and then falling the moment he was struck at to avoid a blow. Whilst Ile faty aon the round he several times kicked the Slasher,and last his own umpire declared that he had lost the fight through foul play. Par k-er's conduct created such universal disgust, that it is not expected he will ever find a backer again. In consequence of the determination of the superior, members of the prize ring the arena was admirably kept, and no-- disturbance or disreputable act took place amongst the spectators. SUMMARY OF NEWS AND Public Optuton. " Who runs may read." rosizzaN. By accounts received from Lisbon, of the 21st instant, we are glad to learn that the partial insurrection which had broken out at Abrantes and Elvas was at an end. The re volted soldiers received no support from the people. From Spain •we learn that at Madrid great preparations were making for the joyful reception of Queen Christina, and that in the neighbourhood of Alicant and Murcia the leaders on both sides were busily engaged in shooting officers and decimating soldiers. In the French Chamber of Deputies on Monday, Thursday next was fixed for a discussion on the Otaheite affair. At the same sitting a proposition for the interment of General Ber trand by the side of the Emperor was brought forward, and the taking it into consideration was determined on. The Ztkniteur states that the bill relative to the completion of the great lines of, rail-roads, and the conditions to be granted to the companies who may offer to execute them, was to be presented to the Chamber of Deputies on Tuesday by the Minister of Public Works. M. C. Laffitte has been re-elected Deputy at Louviers, by a majority of 199 ; having obtained 340 votes, while his op ponent, M. Auzoux, had only 141. According to accounts from Rouen, the extensive cotton works of M. Quesnel, in the Ile Dieu, near Vascoil, rented by M. Andrieux, were totally destroyed by fire on Friday night, leaving the whole a mere mass of ruins, except the dwelling-house, which escaped. This establishment con sumed more than 4,000 lb. of cotton a week, and employed 150 men. On the preceding day the manufactory of 'ln diennes belonging to Mine. Veuve Schlumburg Rouff, Son, and ; Raupp, was also destroyed by a similar disaster, with more than 300 pieces of the Indiennes which it contained. A letter from Marseilles states that a very considerable agitation took place in that city on Sunday last, in conse quence of a severe beating given by the mate and captain of a Russian vessel to a young cabin-boy. His cries reached the shore, and caused much excitement. Nearly 1,200 per sons soon collected on the quay, and would have boarded the vessel if the police had not gone -on board and rescued the boy. The Russian. Consul was informed of what had oc curred, and the boy was removed to a place of safety. The Pope consecrated as Bishops four of the Cardinals on the 11th instant. This is the first instance, it is said, for 150 years, of the Pope having performed this ceremony in person. The Prince of Wurtemberg, Don Miguel, and all the Diplo matic Corps, were present on the occasion. A letter from Ancona, Feb. 6, confirms a rumour which we published on Tuesday. "An event," it states, " took place here yesterday, which has caused the greatest alarm. As Judge Allessandrini, of the extraordinary commission, ap pointed to try the political prisoners, was passing down the street, escorted by two gensdarme, a man wearing a mask rushed on him, and plunged a dagger into his back. The crowd opened its ranks to the assassin, who mingled with the other masks that filled the public way, and escaped. M. Al lessandrini is not dead, but no hopes are entertained of saving his life. The police have not as yet discovered the murderer. The amusements of the Carnival have in consequence been suddenly brought to a close." Letters from Constantinople, of the 7th, state that a great insurrection had broken out in Albania, and that Bosnia threatened to follow the example of that province. It was said that the movement was instigated by Russia. LAW AND POLICE. At the Bankruptcy Court the adjourned hearing of the case of Mr. C. Mathews was resumed. The Court was crowded with theatricals. Mr. Mathews stated that his losses at Covent-garden Theatre amounted to 27,000/. The insolvent was examined at great length, and the case was again adjourned: Martha Brucer was re-examined at Marylebone, on a charge of having stolen various articles, the property of Mr. John Austin, of No. I, Thayer-street, Manchester-square. She had been for two months in the service of the prosecutor; recommended by a false character, previous to the robbery, which was proved; and she was committed for trial. Charles Bruce, a very expert housebreaker, was finally ex amined at Queen-square, on the charge of feloniously break ing and entering the dwellino•-house of Mrs. Emily Hawkins, a widow lady, residing at No, 9, Lower Grove, Brompton, and stealing therein a quantity of plate, wearing apparel, &c. From the time of committing the offence the prisoner has been suffering imprisonment for another felony, and as soon as he was liberated he was brought up upon this charge. He was committed for trial. Eliza Cook, a respectable-looking young woman, was brought from Guy's Hospital to Union-hall, on a charge of attempting to commit suicide by swallowing a large quan tity of laudanum, from'the effects of which she was with dif ficulty saved. Distress seemed to have caused the attempt. She was sent to St. Olave's workhouse to be taken care oE counv—FASHIONABLE. The Duchess of Gloucester entertained the Earl and Coun tess of Jersey and a select party at dinner on Tuesday at Gloucester House. The Grand Duchess Stephani, of Baden, intends, it is said, to come to this country in the course of the summer from Germany, to pass a visit of six weeks with the Duke and Duchess of Hamilton, and Marquis and Marchioness of Douglas. Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar has returned to Windsor, to resume his duties at the barracks, from visiting the Queen Dowager at Witley Court. The Earl of Zetland, .who has returned to Aske Hall, Richmond, from town, comes to the metropolis on Tuesday next, in order to be elected the following day Grand Master of the Freemasons, in the room of his Royal Highness the late Duke of Sussex. The Noble Earl's installation takes place at the ensuing quarterly meeting in June. The Earl of Pembroke arrived on Friday last from Paris, after an absence of nearly live months. The Marquis of Northampton is greatly improved in health, and is expected from Castle Ashby to-day, so that the Noble Marquis will be enabled to personally attend at the second soirée given by him, as President of the Royal Society. The Earl of Yarborough came to town on Tuesday from Appuldercombe, Isle of Wight. Viscount Cranbourne, eldest son of the Marquis of Salis bury, has arrived at Rome, and previous to his return to England purposes to make a tour of four months in Germany. The Earl and Countess of Sefton will give a grand ball and supper at Croxteth Hall, at the close of the annual steeple chases. MISCELLANEOUS. On Tuesday evening the sixteenth annual general meeting of the Governors of the Royal Free Hospital was held in the Gray's Inn-road, Lord Robert Grosvenor in the chair. The Rev: R. C: Packman, the Secretary, read the Report of the Committee; which was of a highly satisfactory character. The receipts for the year appeared to be as follow :--Collected by Lord R. Grosvenor and the' West-end - Committee for the building fund, 4,828/. 17s. ; by S: Gurney, Esq., and the City Committee for the same, 2,6954.75..; rent received; 311. ss. ; collected for general purposeS, 2,650/. 17S. Bd. Total receipts for the year, 1.0,2061. 6s. sd. The anonymous contributions to the subscriptibn boxes at the gates of the institution amounted to 194/. 2s: 10d.,' namely, 1151. in bank notes, 331. 10s. •in kold; 291. 12s. 4d; in silver, and 16/. Os. 6d, in copper moneys. • Persiani, Fornasail, Corelli, the new tenore secondo, and other- members of the Italian corps operatique, are expected in town from Paris, with Carlotta Grisi, to lead the ballet, preparator* to' the opening of the Opera for the season. The Trish 'provincial papers' continue their notices of the conveyanee of large quantities or arnii and ammunition to the different garrison towns', for the use of the troops. The Earl. of Harewood is causing great improvements and embellfshtnentS to be made it Harewood House, York shire, previous to its utcupiincy by the noble owner and his 'numerous family. - Lord Lascelles, his Lordship's eldest son, Will cOnie of age in June, 1845, when the event will be celebrated by great festivities; on 'the 'Noble Earl's estates in Yorkshire. The Marquis of Chandos, only son of th© Duke and Duchess of Buc rt hghatn,.will attain his majority make 10th of Sep tember next. Queen Donna Maria of Portugal has conferred on Donizetti, for his dedication to her Majesty of his opera Don Sebastian 'one of the'cis it orders of knighthood. SPORTING. INTELLIGENCE. LIVERPOOL STEEPLE CHASE, &c. LivEttrooL,. TUESDAY , EVENING.—The following horses are 'now at Aintree for the Great National Steeple Chase, which, weather permitting, will come off to-morrow :—Peter Simple s . Robinson, Wiverton, Heslington, Caesar, Fitz mouaroh, Magic, Lather, Louis Philippe, Robin Adair, Sautepan; Little Peter, Nimrod, Marengo, Discount, Tee totum, Charity, &c. • LATEST BETTING. 6 to 1 agst Marengo 12 to 1 agst Robin Adair 7 to I agst Discount 14 to 1 agst Charity 9 to 1 agst Wiverton 20 to 1 agst Louis Philippe 9 to . l agst Nimrod 120 to 1 agst Heslingtoa 10 to 1 agst Robinson 120 to 1 agst Fitzmonarch It is thought that fourteen or fifteen will run. LIVERPOOL STEEPLE CHASES, &c. LIVERPOOL; TUESDAY NIGHT, 12 , o'CLoeic...—The follow is a list of.the horses likely to Start for the Great National Steeple. Chase:- RIDERS. Mr. W. Ekins's Peter Simple, 12st 121 b Goddard Mr. Millbank's Robinson, 128 71b ..... Parker Leid Maidstorie'S'Whi - eiten, 12st 41b - Oliver Mr. Bradley naileslington, 12st , - W. M•Donough Mr. S. CrawfOrd's The Returned, 12st Scott Lord. Maidstone's. Cmsar; 11 st 101 b .......... Barker Mr. Speed na Fitzmonarch, llst 71b. Tempest ,Lord E. Russell's. Lather, list 21b • Ball .Sir J. Gerard's Louis Philippe, list Cowell Mr. Raworth's Robin Adair, ' llst Bradley • Mr. Lichwood's Sampson, 10 st 121 b.......... Owner Mr. Quartermaine's Discount, lOst 121 b Crickham -Mr. Hollinshead's Little Peter, 105t121b.... Owner Mr. Mare's Nimrod, 10it 101 b Frisby Lord Sefton na Marengo ; lOst 101 b . Bretherton Mr. Itertnroy's . Teetotum, lOst 71b Abbott Sir F. Goadricice's_Tom Tug, ipot 71b • Rockley Sir W. M.. Stanley. na Charity lOst 7.1 b It. is . not unlikely, 'that He s ' lington will be saved for the Hurdle • Stakes. • . . • _ _ Latest 13etting.-11 to 2 agst ISlarengo-6 to I agst Wiver ton-7 to 1 agst Discount-10 to 1 agst Robinson-12 to 1 agst Lather-12 to 1 agst Robin Adair-14 to 1 agst Hes lington-14 to 1 agst Charity-20 to 1-agst Fitzmonarch. The match between Arctic and Wiverton will not be run. The Coursing Meeting was.fixed to commence this morn ing at Northlard, but the severity of the frost made a post ponement imperative ; it now stands for Thursday and Sa turday. Since this was determined on the weather has again changed; it now rains heavily, so that the Steeple Chase is almost safe to come off. CELTIC ENTERTAIIMENT.—The• Highland Pipers and Dancers gavo an entertainment on Tuesday evening at the Music-hall, Store-street. The company were numerous and highly respectable,' and evinced great pleasure in witnessing the agility of the dancers. '" Gillie Callum," (or the Sword dance) by M'Dougall, and the " HighlandiShePherdess," bl M'Donald, were. cleverly executed and loudly ap puded. The "Piobaireachd of Tailte a Prionns," (Prince Charles's. Salute) was heautifully.played 'by . Cameron, who displays great taste in his playing , as well as in his manner on the stage. 1). M'Kay gave " Mackintosh's Lament" be tween the parts, which served to relieve the dullness that pervaded the room on thepreiious oecaiiona . Th ese p l easant and amusing entertainments are to be repeated on Friday afternoon at the Same place, evening, and every Tuesday until furtherricitice. ' • GOING A-HEAD" RATHER.—The New York He rald says, " The country is prosperous, and he who trades on the cash system, and believes in God and women, can always live happily, and get rich slowly. , This great republic is the Garden of Eden among the nations. We have nearly twenty tnillions of inhabitants—one thousand millions of dollars worth of annual produce—thirty or forty religions, and a new one every month—two hundred broken banks—=eighty mil lions of specie —two thousand financiers not yet in the state priions—and any quantity of fine land, high mountains, splendid rivers, with a sun and moon the .best and brightest that ever took the great circuit of eternity." COURT CIRCULAR WINDSOR, WEDNESDAY.— This morning his Royal Highness Prince. Albert rode out on horseback. 11 isi Royal Highness was attended by Colonel Wylde,t Equerry in Waiting. Her Royal Ugliness the Duchess IF Kent will dinej in private with her Majesty and her Illustrious Con; sort at the Castle this evening: - • • - A deputation, consisting of Mr. Thomas Hillingworth Mr. Wiggins, and Mr. - Williaiii Gaussen, had an inter view with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday, at his official residence, in Downing-street. The Chevalier Bunsen, Prussian Minister, visited the Earl of Aberdeen yesterday, at the Foreign-office. Sir Robert Peel left town yesterday morning, by the Great Western Railway, for Windsor Castle. The Right Hon. Baronet returned in the afternoon to his residence in Whitehall-gardens. Baron de Cetto, Bavarian Minister, and Count Kiel mainiSegge, the Hanoverian Minister, transacted busi ness yesterday at the Foreign-office.; Lord Sandon, M.P., had an interview with the Chan cellor of the Exchequer yeiterday. Dispatches from the Governor of Gibraltar were re ceived yesterday at the Colonial-office. LITERATURE. .JOURNALS of Messrs_ GULLY and DENHAM. Chapman and Hall, London, 1844. This is the journal of two British officers during a captivity in:China in the year 1842. It is exceedinlgy minute in its details, and bears every appearance of authenticity; but there is rather too much sameness about it, the record of one day's suffering being as like as possible to its successor. CHEERFUL CHERRY— ' WIT BOUGHT. Darton and Clark, London, 1844._ These are two prose tales intended for the in struction and entertainment of the more juvenile class of readers. They are written with great clearness and simplicity of languageA have just sufficient in cident to excite the curiosity, without fatiguing the attention of the young ; and are embellished with numerous wood-cuts, engraved with -a skill that would have delighted old Bewick—the father of this species of engraving. The tales are from the pen of an author who, under the quaint name of " Peter Parley," has gained no slight popularity as a writer of children's story books. EDINBURGH CABINET LIBRARY. Oliver and Boyd, Edinburgh, 1844. The present volume of this Cycloptedia contains the Second Part of the history of the United States of America, from the earliest period. The work is carefully condensed, and gives accounts of the com merce, banking transactions, political, literary, and social institutions, laws, and religious establishments of the United States, together with a brief sketch of the circumstances that led to the War of Indepen dence, of the progress of that war, and its successful result under the auspices of the illustrious Washing ton. We have rarely seen so great an amount and variety of matter contained in so small a space as in this little volume. HISTORY OF BACKGAMMON. Bogue, London, 1844. Those who desire to become proficients in the popular game of backgammon, cannot do better than peruse this little treatise, which explains the whole character of the game, and the means of acquiring ex pertness in playing it, in a very terse and perspi cuous manner. The volume is embellished with three or four ingenious wood engravings. ROYAL ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY.—On Tuesday the members of this Society met numerously at their mansion in Hanover 7 square. Professor Owen, F.R.S., in the chair. It was announced, amid applause, that, since Sunday last, another valuable accession to the Society's menagerie, in the Regent's-park, had taken place in the shape of a new male giraffe, the foal of one of those which, in 1837, was brought over from the forests of Darfur, in the interior of Northern Africa, upwards of 6 feet high, the dam being about 17 feet. Mr. Gould presented three new specimens of kangaroo, and Mr. Frazer three new species of birds, hitherto unknown in this country. A new species of stryx, or " snowy owl," was acknowledged from Captain Ferrer; and the reading of a paper by Mr. Yarrell, on a remarkable shoal of a new species of fish - caught at Lyme Regis, and which had added to the handicraft of the fishermen, concluded the proceedings of the evening. The enthu‘siasm displayed at Covent-garden on Wednesday evening must have shown Mr. O'Connell that the heart of the English people is in the right place—that they are ever ready to fling themselves into the breach when injustice is perpetrated—and that c theT will not stand tamely by, and allow him to be made kaacnfice for the gratification of the _Orange faction. In Ireland, the.best effects may be ex pected from sa enthusiastic a reception having been given to the man who, whatever may be his faults, has conferred inesti mable benefits upon his country, and who, as the champion of Irish rights, continues to hold the'foremost place in the estimation of his countrymen. Coercion has been attempted in Ireland, with what success is known to all. Pity that our rulers, following the wise example of the late Government, will not again try the experiment Of kindness. Much do we fear, however, that nothing is to be hoped for from the men to whom the destinies of 'lreland are for the present unfor tunately committed.— Glasgow Aigus. 7.,,THE CURRENTS AT CAPE- AGULHAS.—A bottle, containing the following, was picked up near the mouth of the Kaffer Kiul River, Cape of . Good Hope, 'a short time since :—" Barque Maria, Sproule, from Batavia to Cowes, throjen overboard 20th July .1843, lat. 35. - 23. S., lon. 20.5 4. E. 'Should this be picked : up by any one, for the exten sion of our knowledge of the currents of the ocean, they will please to make it known.m• A difference of opinion exists amongst nautical men, trading tope eastward, regarding the current abreast of Cape Agilhaa,lbut it has been ascertained *om captains who have long traded on the eastern coast, and who have had very frequent :,occasions _to notice the current, that it generally runs westward oil - the edge of the bank all the way from Port Natal round , the Cape. Close to the shore there is often a reaction, and there are also eddies formed, which are apt to mislead:strange vessels in coming too near in. _ SPLENDID ACT OF CHARITY.—It has been found that the ministers who have left the Establishment are legally entitled to retain the rights - of their widows and families, in the Widows' Fund Scheine of the Church of Scotland. ; It is necessary for this' purpose, however, that the premiums should be regularly paid up, which, in the case of a considerable number of the outgoing clergy, it appears, has not been done since the diiruption. In these circum stances, Mrs. Dingwally Fordyce; of Aberdeenshire, it is said, has come forward and paid up the arrears of all the defaul ters. To appreciate fully this act of benevolence, it is unne cessary to add that the sum in errear was nearly. 1,3301. . THE WEATHER.—We have, during the last few days, been visited with a storm which rivals the severity of , mid-winter in its angriest aspect. The snow of Tuesday and Wednesday was followed by a still greater fall on Thurs day night and Friday ; and up to Sunday evening it may be said to have continued with very - slight intervals. The frost has, at the same time, been very - intense. During Thursday, large masses of ice floated down the river, and the harbour at one time became _so densely filled, that the steamers could with great difficulty- force a passage out or in; and on Friday morning the space between the bridges was one unbroken sheet of ice, having been completely frozen over in the course of the previous night, nowithstand ing the strong.current and the action of the tide. Yesterday morning at an early hour the fall of snow increased in heavi ness, and continued till mid-day, accompanied by a tempestuous wind from the north-east, which caused a severe drift, and rendered itthe most unpleasant winter-like day we have ex• perienced this seiteon.. •.m London mail Was, notwithstand ing, only about two hours beyond its usual time of arrivaL In the north, however, the downfal -has been very consider able, and the Perth mail has, in consequence, been much de layed.—Glasgow. Argus of Monday. Nannow, wqek, as a commercial traveller was.'proCsaeding in_ a .gig from Dunkeld to Blair gowrie, when about half-way, -he discovered, through the twilight, a woman sitting at the - roadside,-partly enveloped in the rapidly felliug snow. oil sneaking to her, and receiving, no answer, he , alighted, and found sfie was senseless, through the extremity of the cold, , Heiunianeli lifted her into the gig, and took her to the nearest public-house, where the usual' restoratives in such cases were used,- happily with effect; On recovering, it was ascertained - that she- had been round the neighbouring country, selling - small wares, &c., and being fatigued,. had sat clown to rest herself, when a stupor, as often happens in similar cases, came over her, whieh would most probably have ended in the sleep of death, had she not been thus providentially discovered.--Perth Journal. SALA OF WINES, &C., BELONGING TO THE LATE DUKR OF SUSSEX.—On Tuesday, at one o'clock, the entire cellar of wines at Kensington Palace, were sold at the room of Messrs. Christie. and Manson, King-street, St. James's, by order of the executors. The sale excited much interest, and among the noblemen and gentlemen present, who were prin cipally the purchasers, were Lord Dinorben, Lord Hawarden, Sir C. Burrell, M.P., Sir C. Chetwynd, &c. The wines con sisted of 35 dozens of Sherry, 58 of-Port, 80 of Madeira, 100 of white and red Constantia, with Champagne, Amontillado, Claret, Hock, Cyprus, Lachryma Christi, red Hermitage, Moselle, Burgundy, &c. There was also a great quantity of whiskey, which had been peesented, to the late Duke by the . Bishop of Derry, the Countess Listowell, Mr. Bannerman, the Hon. Fox Maule, M.P., and Sir Alexander Duff. The com petition was most animated, and the sum realized was be tween 800/. and 9001. The first lot put up consisted of " two pints of very extraordinary sherry (as described in the cata logue) 100 years old, from her 11Iajesty's table at Guildhall, given to his Royal Highness by Mr. Lawson," which, after much competition, were knocked down at 11. 4s. a b o ttl e . The Amontillado ( only four dozens) fetched 41.35. per dozen, and 31.45. Of the Madeira 27 dozens taken out to India by Sir Edward Paget, realised 98/. 2s. The Port realised the sum of 1331 7e., and the Madeira, exclusive of the 27 alluded to above; 1061. The Claret, 13 dozens, including some very choice Chateau Margeaux, of 1834, brought in 481. Bs. The Constantia, in pint bottles, sold from 245. to 455. per dozen, the total sum realised being 122 I ls. - The whiskey, which his late Royal Highness preferred to Wine, fetched remark ably high prices. There were .37 dozens, and the sum real ised was 157/. 19s. Two dozens, presented by. Mr. F. Maule, sold for 10s. per bottle, and one 25 years old, presented by Sir Alexander Duff, at 9s. 61 - per bottle. Thirty bottles of Kirschwasser fetched 6s. 6d. per bottle. The Champagne (a very small quantity), Cyprus, Shiraz, Mountain, White Bur gundy, &c., sold at very good prices. The sale concluded about five o'clock. AN ADROIT SWINDLER.--A fellow is going round the neighbourhood of the HaniPstead-road, dressed as a respectable groom, ringing-the-changes upon the pe ople in the following manner:—He called upon a respec ta ble ehe widow who lets furnished lodgings, and rePrn t il d lived had authority from his master r with whom some years, to take apartments for him ; a h :d a af_ter th t e , little preliminaries were settled, she askedher half a and he readily agreed to leave. 55.,. and gave two 'shillings, sovereign, she returning him a half-crown, and sixpence. He then.said, mention his master was a great drunkard, a f course, an when in it was nothi ng bud right to that state extremely boisterous and unruly. the the fellowwidow declined the half taking sovere him gn 4isez lodger, ngain , a ‘ n .tanm, tendered erece: a tu n r d n l e e d ft h t e h r e a he h n a s l e f : c . r s o e w n n n , - a t ftweoi: ha wa gone, 12 :P f e o ll tind the half-crown was a bid one. SOUTHAMPTON DOCK COMPANY The'` fifteenth half-yearly general meeting of th ig Company. took place yesterday at the Company's of. flees, Bishopsgate-street, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors, the election of three Direr, tors in the *room of those Who went out by rotation, et?' up&i.other business. The chair was taken shortly after one o'clock 11 Joseph Liggins, Esq. The minutes of the last meeting having been read, The Secretary then read the following_Report:-- , "The Directors have -ninch pleasure in acquainting their co-Proprietors, that Since their last 'Report Prep t progress has been made towards the completion of tt_l_n various works indispensable for the reception of a genet' trade. tbe " Their attention; as then stated, was directed to construction of a suitable provision of Ivarehouse-roon so soon as state of the ground, a source to them nci; to the Company generally of so much anxiety; so °ld expense, and so much delay, enabled them t o P r°°— with confidence in its stability. " The warehouse, as at first designed, might have hee,-lit finished by the commencement of the present year ; °",.1 the Directors hate deemed it to be both desirable si7. economical to extend the original design; before tho pletion of the work should make • it impracticable, ore cepting at a.much increased cost., They have thcigw for added to the original plan a . range of spacious vault s to the bonding of wines and spirits ; and a third It the building for the' bonding of corn, in addition t° f o r two ranges .of warehouse-room previously allotted..o the other descriptions of merchandise. Such applicatnice of further capital the Directors conceive to be tit o a . best calculated to secure the interest of those wb,°too vance it, and to render productive `to the PrePrielf. their investment in the construction of the dock in 0 " " The additions thus made to the warehouse witoA, reported to the Directors by their architect gr. 11"'i i - t e wick, not postpone its completion beyond the e nd ° f t ic ensuing month;, hut it will then be of the capaC it y warehouses, as compared with its original scale. . 150 " By the time of its coMpletion, the Directors wi° 7. 6 have erected anopen shed In front "of it f or coup e sing and similar operations connected with the ware f e et of goods. This shed will be 270 feet long, by 4 tor ; wide. It is to be constructed of iron, and, the Pirec„otA. are glad to say, on a•most moderate contract a s to. 'rid, on account of the present very low price of that r4a t ! p ut " These works completed, the Company will he y° ! so itself into a condition to receive, and properly to hno and manage, general cargoes ; the class of bus ine ' which it necessarily looks for a revenue. . " Further, and to complete the provision of 5w:, 00 .. modation for trade in its several 'branches, the tors are constructing a spacious yard, on the corner of the Dock land, for, the recepti o n of for !_,4 timber to be bonded. Several cargoes of tiniberciPtio already been imported and sold in the Dock; Directors have received overtures for a eonsiderab e tension of the trade. • ' , ,; fl a of " Next to, if not indeed' before, the accontmooa goods, that of shipping claims the Company cart.; to " The Directors have given their best atter . t 'r i .bir each of the important points of this branch of siness. • " The .contractor for *dredging the Itchen chan c , again actively at work, and will, it is PxP ec ,i of 16 Midsummer have accomplished a minimum d e P` c oy feet at low water of spring tides, throughout that. nel, and into the dock. - 0 00 " Until then, and even on extraordinary c' c t or , afterwards, such vessels will be enabled to secure/oes selves to powerful.mOorings'at the mouth of 10°,1 wbicb channel, till the hour or two shall have elapse" we will bring them an ample depth of water. These „ poi ings the Directors have provided, and they al." being laid doivn. , of 0° "The next essential to the ingress and eg res t ,bl class of vessels which frequent the port and the " -a old/ night as well as by day, is the provision of prolie r Zete ° , lights. These are also provided : they are cons_t'L e tea on a scientific . principle, and it is confidently ej'r that they Will prove entirely satisfactory. 0 4 ' " A further useful provision is the use of .2° dief sheers for taking out steam ships' boilers, and and machinery of the heaviest weights. The Dire ew i . the ir contracted with Messrs. Seaward and Cupel construction; and while they are indispensably 1,7 0 ne cf especially in a steam port such as Southampton•moesg become, they will greatly add to the attractive foci .the Company's Docks; and will mike an aloPl,,'e'coar p-;• niary return upon their costs. They . , are to . 1, pleted in three months from the present time. ,f.xesoi " The Directors announced to the last lia!al-togi General:Meeting, that they had recognised, ~a rate] jl meneed with acting upon, the principle.of low le charge. They have since carried that princiPrepc; further ; and now *Offer to the ship-owner such vi e tion as must be well worthy, his attention, at t •,., aa iP t ' s time that the Company will find its e quivalent,' - .410.„: creased amount of , business, 'and from its 'l e a; it A r e profits on merchandise. This reduction, grea t 4 .‘',111 1 '.',1 $ will not of itself ensure the influx of that anion ba t lc' 0 which the Company must ultimately receive ; r eds °‘ the corresponding reduction which there is evei l " to anticipate on the conveyance of goods by the t Company, at no distant period, that result 1010 ,,, " In the smile spirit of attracting trade by u c i:a fig, scale of charge, the Directors, hate also stfOr reg .n a lities for the location of emigation ships t° s ct 1 0'4 ' larly to and from the Tidal Dock, on terms 10 °' no tages to the trade. The first ship for the sea s° ; „ n • rer t y in the dock, and is to be fcillowed - hy 'other s :"-„ to nil succession; and it will be a source of s atin Proprietors Proprietors to reflect that the emigrants thera selyes ,f be peculiarly benefited by the arrangement. r ote ,. ~ t i s " The advantage 'which the Company's L °- '„1 " 1 , charge gives to the public cannot r eceive Vr s eo li publicity. The 'Directors have recently °,210,e statements which show, that "vessels which " ..t to Is o r ceived damage and are compelled to put int o P°lo 50 P e i cargo and repair, effect a saving of from 4°oospsro cent. by putting into the. Company's Dock , as ' t he c!",, , .with other places in the English Channel. In of passengers, also, with heat} , baggage, the 1 4 i ie O r if• is most striking. • The Alexandrian stea ra ' s to rd,bs Liverpool, being detained in the Mediterrane an . by, b+ her passengers were this month brought . t h° 'to steamer Paella, which unloads in the Tidal m" 7 c oo )c t ilo landing . charges to her passengers, had the); enter t ho Southampton in the Liverpool, which does d 3 la Dock, would have exceeded 2.51. by Dock they were but 71. 1 to I be " The Directors have, in conclusion, 00- Y, o i 51 1 I:4 upon their co-Proprietors, each in his indiviun. e , j that much industry and much influence recio',lorcod exerted, to obtain for this undertaking, th e a,te o ti' business it is so well_ 'ealcrilatect to.. acc,,nnO° „11 be 0 1 1 that while their own efforts in that direction ° o ' , for remitting: they look, as they hope with reasf, h ich ; 0 0 the co-Operation and all the en eouragemen t " e t om be asked of those with whom they have but ° 1) fro' interest. to sit", .In accordance with the intimation giv en . t h O' prietors in August last, and the contract "1 perectleit M'Kay and Haddon having terminated. t he orise ) ; 0 j were enabled on the 31st December last tn. e er engagement with fr. Francis_ • Giles as OW" „ be' fir Company. _ •fa sr t t y 0 1 '11 "It being at Ae same time necessarnt ,; amptoeriod, to have an assistant engineer 'reslAen wot n, for the carrying. out. of the inin° r .f . th e in progress, and for the important object ' ho ne" )ft' and checking the dredging of the Itcli eu c .inee r 'frof e Directors have retained as such assistant en° o rks Alfred Giles, who has been engaged in the w their commencement. A wil l " " The Directors have to report that A.,' ' .0 1 ° Esq., has resigned the office of Deputy AC Director. witce 0 iv! " The four Directors who, in conform •Lf °pie . .fi provisions of the Company's Act, go rotation at this half-yearly meeting, co x. le g Mr. Cruikshank, Mr. Forbes, and Mr. , to rs gentlemen are re -eligible, and the D . ,recommend them for re-election. a ttis h '',„. V iri of " The .Directors beg also to recolnniellinted 7 0 0 Proprietors not being !Directors, be Appoi mai of .and.edeli subsequent; February meeting, a g _ hg' ) 40counts to be submitted to each future P IP general Meeting." Ile 9% The CHAIRMAN, in moving that the A 0 0 tia, proved of, , adopted, printed, sodn circulatTirtecetriAre ProprietorS, said that he did for the L' rraf " f the . to last time; it - beim* considered - by many ° ..a t scor „ t s sy and Directors that" it would be more e °- ha 0" interests of the Company that they shouldhe P s 44 0 nual Chairman,.-and by that means ohtai n of men of rank to their undertaking. the iter After Some considerable discussion, . agreed to. ;it P rc i is I P 'of Mr. PRICE thought there was nOthingor iliv one o b i prevent them from being in the receiPt, e 0 0 0 ; iu ' e s the Tidal Basin. He was astonished at bo tu t 6 001 , 0 01: 1 0 the receipts stated in - the Report, only . 6 t i c c° iv ?, 0 last half year. With such, small receiP. , see how there could be so great an outla2i s t he 7 fnj nicive the following resolution.-- - " 1 of this meeting, that it is of the utmost it tio" e in the expenses should be .diminished to t'l„ c resf l os that measures shoUld be taken to effect an s i t receipts, and. that a specific account of , Pr" 4 0 0.4, -the account current be kept in future , stns This resolution was carried after a t he ,.. `1,10 4 The next question was the re-election ton rectors who , went out of office ky . .r: o f e , Liggins 2 Cruikshank, Forbes,' and Witnie o tion em Mr. RICHARDS objected to the r i e i t 3 Liggins and Mr. Cruikshank, but . au e i e ri were re-elected after a short discussiOn. yo re tlas, Messrs. Foster, Loward;• and GOdlarsr°tooj th o, 0 10,„ auditors of the accounts, it being unu e ht fit , eioi r e y would' be at perfect liberty, if they thong „ he C, 't all theaccounts from the commeneemen!°l_:, pa Thanks were then'voted to the Chairtni". tors, and the meeth4 • f r ontAtiP ; Or" SinnE.--The recent motion t ier An d . 0 ix ph Houses of Parliament to Sir Charles Nal alt p stn, l , o o,, Army, elicited commendation from men o! svray o pi obt o!f o t, cordial, and sincere, however party be foo d s° 4 - ,4 really are surprised that persons can e._. to 0ur_1„011,44 not to distinguish betwoen the thanks du!,,, ri o f O A V' gallant conduct in the field, and approb3L'n.repare"4,oo, IY those who sent them into the field. 'We ar l !,4: o l c vti,„ to join in the ,general praise of that op prej t e e - c o Charles Napier, and of his soldiers, but e t o u_ set o subjugation of Simla; and ever : measur e From information, on whieli we. have,_}:l-nolibt..; sindo is alreaV enjoying the first fruits f a , ';ilc l ;" ije eti toning government,. An admirable systi', intro"Th Is., has been unostentatiously, • but g . ene.o2,: n trY• B ete` • t ioo pith wi n ioit c r n e i i l l e o i„:. t ilh it, i ll l ,..r ,; ,v e Vo total `iii Supported o'f' the revenue rote feet certainty the security cif 'proper . be e p oi l tion and immediate of slavery, the opening of trade by derriand3 o i l transit amfother duties, a n a btt.e- sg • , it, rule over a 'people lately in a state , e of_ ... t tie t bd Ale sufferable oppressien-- 7 ; 1 1 these hut , 1 .. 11 eto .once, and without he.sitatioci. empire.—Nceal and Military dazette- ;L'"' ~..-. ~"€ ~aG fer, b ti o h e Te /41 1 .13 the h a , do th' he , , vil I