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The following outline of the arrangements. for the ensuing season Is. respectffilly presented to the Nobility, Subscribers, and the Public. ENGAGEMENTS FOR TUE OPERA. Madame Grisi, Madlle. M. Favanti (her first appearance at this Theatre), Madame Behind, Madame Dai Fiord, and Madame Persian'. Signor Mario, Sig. Cotten' (his first appearance at. this Theatre), big. Dai Fiord, Sig. Felice (his first appearance at this Theatre), Sig. Fornasari, Sig. F. Lablache, and Sig. Lablache. Director of-the Music, Composer, and Conductor, Sig. Costa. The Repertoire will consist-of a Selection of the most admired Works, and amongst the Novelties will be presented Persiani's New Orera " La Fantasma," produced with great success at the Italian Opera, Paris ; and Ricci's New Opera, " Corado D'Altamura," pro duced with great success at the Scala, Milan; and now in rehearsal at the Italian Opera, Paris; and an entirely New. Opera, composed by M. Costa, expressly for the company, entitled " Don Carlos." THE PALLET. Malik. Carlotta Grisi, Madlle. Adelaide Frasi, of the Teatro di Pergola, Florence (her fleet appearance at this theatre) ; Mad. Guy Stephan ; Madlle. Scheffre, Madlle. Ferdinand, Madlle. Planquet, Muffle. Barville (their first appearance at this theatre) ; Fanny Elssler, and Madlle. Cerito ; M. St. Leon, M. Montassu (his first" appearance hi this country), M. Coulon, M. Gossclin, M. Gourict, M. Venafra, and M. Perrot, and a numerous and efficient Corps de Ballet. Arrangements are also pending with Madlle. Taglioni, and there is every probability that the talent of this eminent artiste will be se cured for a limited number of representations. The Orchestra will consist of the same combination of talent which has entitled it to the distinctive merit of being the first in Europe. The Choruses will be numerous and effective. Leader of the Orchestra, M. Tolbeque. Principal Artiste of the Theatre, Mr. W. Grieve. Maitre de Ballet, M. Perrot. Sons Maitre de Ballet, M. Gosselin. Regissetir tie la Danse, M. Coulon. Leader of the Ballet, M. Nadaud. Madame Persiani and Signor Fornasari will appear on the First Night of the season, in Herold's chef d'oeuvre of "Zampa." The debut of Madlle. Favanti will be forthwith arranged. Madame Grisi, Signor Mario, and Signor Lablache, will appear at the re-opening of the theatre, immediately after Easter. Madlle. Carlotta Grisi will arrive in town in a few days, and will appear on the first night of . the settson, in a New Ballet, founded on Victor lingo's celebrated work of " Notre Dame de Paris," entitled "La Esmeralda." The part of Esmeralda, by Madlle. C. Grisi ; the part of Pierre Gringoire, by M. Perrot. 3ladlle. Cerito will arrive in town at the end of April. Among the novelties in the Ballet Department will be produced a New Grand Ballet, entitled " Jeanne d'Arc." Jeanne d'Arc, Fanny Eisaler. The Theatre will Open in the first week of March, when will be produced Herold's celebrated Opera of " Zampa :" Camilla, Madame Persian! ; Zampa, Sig. Fornasari. To be followed by a New Ballet, by M. Perrot, with New ScenerY, Dresses, &c., entitled " La Esme ralda." The Music by Sig. Pugni. The Scenery by W. Grieve. The Prinelpal Characters by Madlle. Carlotta Grist, Madlle. Adelaide }Masi, Madame Guy Stephan, Madlle. Schetfre, Madlle. Mamma, Itla•Me. Ferdinand, and Madlle. Barville; M. Perrot, M. Coulon, M. Cos=elin, and M. St. Leon. THEATRE ROYAL. DRURY-LANZ. THIS EVENING. FEBRUARY 13, Will be repeated a New Grand Opera, in Three Acts, called THE BOHEMIAN GIRL. Count Arnheim, Nlr. &mans. ' Thaddeus, Mr. W. H 4 arrism. Arline, Miss Raintorth; Queen of the Gipsies, Miss Betts. After which, will be repeated a New Grand Comic Christmas rautointme, entitled HARLEQUIN AND KIND PEPIN ; or, V A LENIINE AND ORSON. Harlequin, Mr. Howell; Comm. u ivne, Mis Carson; Clown, Mr. T. Ridgway; Pantaloon, Mr. Blanchard. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN. M. JULLIEN'S CONCERTS. THIS EVENING, FEBRUARY 13, PROGRAMME FOR THIS EVENING—FART I. Over' ore, Les reux Journees--Cherubini. Quadrille, on Chinese Airs, including the National Hymn, composed bti Confucius—Jullien. Grand Symphony (first movement), entitled The Power of Sound— S elm Val=e, 'I he (tarter—Koenig. Solo on the Concertina by Mr, Case—Cale. The Destruction of L'amptii—Rock Albert. -.. PART IL Op(ra, Li Sonnambula, Grand Fanta la, with Solo for the Cornet-a. Maim, by Herr Kcenigr.—Bellini. New Qu.idrille, The Irish Echoes—Jullien. Solo, }lute, Mr. fti_thareson. %raise ? Le Bouquet Rolal—Jullien. the haiglish THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKEL M.l - BENJAMIN WEBSTER. LESSER RE-ENGAGEMENT OF MR. JOHN PARRY. THIS EVENING, FEBRUARY IS, \Vrllbe repeated THE LITTLE DEVIL. Nicolo Angeli, Ma dame Vestris ; Ferdinand of Spain, Mr. Stuart; Vincentio d'gstella, Mr. Charles Mathews. er the Drama, Mr. JOHN PARRY will sing "The Old Eachelor." Alter which, a New Comic Drama, entitled USED UP. Sir Charles Coldstream, Bart. Mr. Charles Mathews ; Sir Adonus Lech, Mr Tilbury; urzle Mr. James Bland; Mary, Miss Julia Bemiett ; Lady Clutterbuck, Mrs. Humby. To conclude with a New Fairy Extravaganza, entitled THE FAIR E WITH THE tiOLDEN LOCKS! King Lach rymoso, Mr. J. Bland; Prince Graceful, Miss P. Horton; Queen Luctdors, .141,3 Julia Bennett. THEATRE ROYAL, ADEI.PHI. THIS EVENING, FEBRUARY 13, Will be repeated, by permission of Charles Dickens, Esq., THE CHRISTMAS CAROL. Principal Characters—Messrs. 0. Smith, Wright, Lyon, Maynard, Forman, Miss Woolgar. Mrs. F. Ma'hews, Miss Chaplin, and miss Lee. After which, the Tragedy of RICHARD THE THISD. Ri chard, Mr. Wright • Lady Anne. Miss E. Stanley. To conclude with THE WRECK ASHORE. Principal Cha. racters—Mrs. Yates, Miss Woolgar, Messrs. Lyon, 0. Smith, and Wright. PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. - LESSEE, Mr. J. M. MADDOX. THIS EVENING, FEBRUARY 13, Will be performed I PURITAN'. Elvira, Madame Eugenia Garcia; Henrietta, Madame Fermi; Lord Arthur Talbot, Mr. Allen; Sir Richard Forth, Mr. Burdini. After which, THE LOST LETTER. To conclude with the Ballet of GISELLE. taTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHII HEATRE A RTb. Under the Management of Mr. Ratty, Proprietor. • THIS EVENINO, FEBRUARY 13, Will beverformed the Grand National Spectacle of THE BATTLE OF WATERLOO. Napoleon Buonapsrte, Mr. Gomersal, his mi. gine! character New Scenes in the Circle, and Unequalled Feats of Horsemanship. To conclude with THE HORSE BANDITTI OF BAGDAD. OA VICKIE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE Enormous hit of " Stella Rittersdorf"—more crowded than ever— increased attraction of the hest Pantomi►ne in London, overflow. ing with fun. THIS EVENING, i.EBRUARY 13, Will be repeated a New Drama, entitled STELLA RITTERS. DORF. Sum cited by Messrs. Saville, Hughes, Hicks, R. Homier, .Neville, Vale, Smith Johnson, Lewis. estop, Mrs. R. Homier, Mrs. Dalv. Mrs. Hughes, Miss T e r rc y, an d Mrs. H. Vining. After which, the Grand Ballet of LA SONNAMBUL Amina, Nis Isaacs, from her Majesty's Theatre. To conclude with an entirely new Grand Comic Pantominie, with ,Splendid Scenery, Superb Dresses, Inimitable Properties and Tricks, every thing new and of the most costly description, HARLEQUIN GRA Mat AR, or, Lindley Murray,and AEI 0 U. HarleqUin, Mr. W. H. Harvey ; Grotesque, Mr. Stilt; Clown, Mr. Fuller • Panta. loo:,,' Mr . Hawstns ; Columbines (alternately) Miss M. R. Fair. brattier and Miss Sharpe. ROYAL VIC lONIA THEATRE. THIS EVENING, FEBRUARY 13, ♦VIII be performed A CHRISTMAS CAROL Principal Cha. race's—llies►rs. Freer, Nantz, Gardner, Paul, Seaman, Min; Vin cent, and bliss Arden. titer which, THE WILD IRISH GIRL Sheiah O'Shay, Miss Vincent. To con , Jude with THE GNOME OF THE GOLD MINF23, sup. ported by Messrs. Freer, liantz, Miss Vincent. &c. TIIE WEATHER.—SuN OFFICE, FEB. 13. THERMOMETER, Lowest, 25 ; Highest, 33 ; Noon; 27. BAROMETER, 30 15.—Wmp, W. NOTE.—The number 32 on the Thermometer denotes the freezing point, and 55 temperate. In Barometers fair is usually placed opposite 30, and rain at 29. HIGH WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY; :Month* .. 37 minutes after 8 I Evening .. 21 minutes after 9, SECOND EDITION. • , N„ 4_V, • 0 . lic" . ..0, 11.... 4 4 . , ~.......,.." .1 • • 6 , - . - •' • , T ' ..,- ~..i f.0.94‘, ;11k1 :,.' .• 6 7 : . .4 . ' ,1- if.' 2_ . .c.-. , e:) .. ,• „ .i i ' ... ' • . to\ 4:. •Al ,' 14; I , s 'e ,„; , 41. ~,4A..0 . . 4 "l " '' ' , . ',, -.11, •.• 1, ry. , ...Y k 5... ' —') IT Pi' , N t , ~.. t— , etrtltillS LONDON, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1844. In the Housr of Lords a Bill entitled, "An Act for tho Amendment of the Law of Imprisonment for Debt" was read a first time on the motion of Lord COTTENJIAM. The. LORD CHANCELLOR laid on the table a Bill for altering the jurisdiction of Ecclesiastical Courts. The Earl of RtroN moved that the thanks of the House be presented to Sir CRARLES NA PIER and the office;s - and men under his command, for their gallant and successful operations in Sinde. .• 'Lord AUCKLAND seconded the motion. The Duke of WELLINGTON followed, and paid the highest tribute of praise to Sir C. NAPIER. For his strong expressions of approbation we must refer our readers to the report, with this short emphatic extract from the Noble Duke's speech:—" I must say it was one of the greatest feats it ever has been my good fortune to peruse, and it was completely successful." The motion was agreed to unanimously. The Marquis of NORMAN/3Y laid on the table his motion relative to Ireland, which_he brings on this evening. The Earl of CLARENDON put some questions to the Earl of ABERDEEN relative to Spain, and the Secre tary for Foreign Affairs answered in terms for which Lord CLARENDON expressed his gratification. The House then adjourned. In the House of Commons, after the presentation of petitions, and questions to the Members of the Government, for which we refer to the report, the Factories Bill was read a second time. On the Order of the Day for the third reading of the Metropolitan Improvements Bill, Mr. HUME ob jected to the principle of the Government borrowing money for such purposes from the Bank of England, and moved that the words " Governor and Company of the Bank of England be struck out." On a division the num bers were—for the Bill, 145, and against it 70. A provision was adopted, by which the Bank should not lend more than 220,0001., and the Bill was passed. The second reading of the " Racing Penalties Re peal Bill" was postponed, until the motion for a vote of thanks to the Sinde army was disposed of Sir ROBERT PEEL then brought forward his mo tion for a vote of thanks to Sir CHARLES NArIER and the other :officers and soldiers engaged in the ope rations in Sinde. Lord JOHN RUSSELL followed the example of Lord AUCKLAND in the House of Lords, and seconded the motion—high tributes to the gallant army of Sinde. For the speeches made on the occasion, we must, for want of space, refer to the Parliamentary report. A division took place, when there were for the vote of thanks 164, and against it 9. Mr. CHRISTIE then moved for a Select Committee to consider the expediency of the presence of stran gers at debates, &c., which was opposed by the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER. After a few words from several Hon. Members, the House divided, when the motion was negatived by a majority of 47. The other business on the paper was then disposed of, and the House adjourned at a Quarter to One. The verdict of the jury, which has been so anxi ously expected, is at length delivered, and dues not differ from that which we have always anticipated. A jury chosen from an imperfect list of special jurors, whose religious creed and political opinions formed the test of fitness to serve, and upon whom the Crown officials calculated, with undeviating reliance all through the trial, for a verdict in accor dance with the purposes for which these pro secutions were instituted, could not give any verdict but that of GUILTY against all the traversers. And this they have done. They have not disappointed the calculations of the Government, nor have they disap pointed us. We never had any expectations of an acquittal. We never placed any reliance upon the chances •of justice- from an Irish jury, con stituted and selected like that which for twenty fliur days has sat on the case of O'CoNNELL. The ends of the Crown, as to a conviction, are now gained—the purposes for which the Crown officials plotted in secret, and employed all the arts of espionage, are attained—the objects for which the jury was put in the box are achieved. And what then ? Does any man in the three kingdoms attach the slightest importance to this verdict, as having any moral effect, or any beneficial result? Does any honest, conscientious Tory, in his own heart, ap prove it, or look to it as a successful vindication of the law by legal means ? Does any Irish man feel that he has one grievance the less, or that there is any one more reason why he should cease to agitate for a redress of his griev ances ? We dislike Repeal—but we hate injustice. Trial by Jury ought to be free from taint, otherwise ver dicts avail not, and are of no effect. This verdict may be made an instrument of oppression, but it will not gain respect for the means by which it has been procured. The speeches, in both Houses of Parliament last night, on the affairs of Sinde, may be regarded as the most interesting of the session. The question was, not whether we had a right to occupy that country, whether we had a right to open the navigation of the Indus, and form a - strong boundary to our Indian possessions on the west—but was simply confined to a vote of thanks to the gallant men who had upheld, and, as some speakers well entitled to judge, said, surpassed,even the renowned valour of British troops. Of course Sir CRARLES NAPIER was the great object of attraction. He was the life and soul of the battle; he led his men on under difficulties unparalleled, in spired every officer, soldier, and camp-follower, with his daring spirit, and achieved a victory which casts all others in India, however remarkable, into the shade. With what exultation this Gallant Officer, who bears a name so celebrated in the history of the country, will read the tribute conferred on him by such a man as WELLINGTON. " 1 must say," said his Grace, " that on giving the fullest consideration to the operations, I have never known an instance of a general officer who had shown in a higher degree all the requisite qualifications to enable him to conduct great operations. Sir CHARLES NAPIER had manifested the utmost discretion and Irudfnce in the formation of his plans, the utmost activity in perfecting the preparations necessary to success, and, finally, the utmost zeal, gallantry, and science, in carrying these plans and operations into execution." Such a tribute from a veteran General, so little inclined to praise even the most gallant actions, and so well qualified to judge both of operations in India and Europe, may compensate for all the vile calumny and the wicked reproaches which have been heaped by certain parties on the head of this distinguished member of the NAPIER, family. The speech of Sir ROBERT . PEEL was in the best taste. It was, as might be expected, more pro lix than that of the Noble Duke, but it entered into details which will be read with the highest interest. lie paid just compliments to Sir CHARLES NAPIER and did not forget his illustrious brother, who, as some one said (General For, we be lieve) had written the best " French " his tory of the Peninsular war, but who, while doing justice to a brave enemy, did not for get the merits of his countrymen. In adverting to the deeds of the NAPIERS, he seemed to direct his speech to a Member of the House who has rendered his name immortal on the Syrian coast, and the way in which he associated him with his gallant rela tives, and combined the deeds of a family so remark able, elicited the loudest cheers from every part of the House. This was only an act of tardy justice. But for the utmost skill, zeal, activity, and gallantry of Commodore Sir CHARLES NAPIER, the battles which commenced at Beyrout and ended at St. Jean d'Acre might have been protracted for another year, and in volved the world in a general war. These praises are well bestowed, and they will be responded to by every friend of his country. On the origin of the war in Sinde we have nothing to add. We have ever taken the sam3 view of the subject. We main tained, in opposition to all our Contempoiaries, that it was a war in self-defence ; that the free navigation of the Indus was absolutely ne cessary for the security of the vast In dian territories under British dominion; that the plan which has been carried into effect was in- finitely preferable to the occupation of Affghanistan ; and we now rejoice to find that we are not singular in our opinions. It is the greatest achievement of the present day, and in that opinion both Whigs and Tories agree. The Earl of CLARENDON last, night entitled him self to the best thanks of the public at large for the course he adopted, the British sentiments he avowed, and ,the statesman-like views he announced in re ference to the present condition of affairs in Spain, and to our relations with that kingdom. The Noble Earl, after a speech delivered by the Earl of ABER DEEN, in reply, declared himself perfectly satisfied with the explanations of the Foreign Secretary; but we must take leave to protest that the discussion thus excited has not at all relieved our own mind from the painful impression which passing events in Spain--and, above all, the unprincipled excesses indulged in by th e de facto authorities of that outraged country— have produced upon it. Lord CLARENDON truly de scribed the result of the late extraordinary move ments to have been—the overthrow of all her former institutions, and the establishment, in their stead, of " a military despotism of the most ferocious descrip tion." He observed, with great truth, that this " revolution had been brought about by one of the most wicked and profligate confederacies which had been ever organised ; and he foresaw that a re-action must soon inevitably follow, the certain tendency of which will be a chronic state of civil warfare." His Lordship expressed an opi nion that foreign influence had been extensively used to bring about the downfal of the ex-REGENT, and be referred to the extreme solicitude that had been manifested in. France —especially in Paris, for Es- PARTERO'S removal. any circumstances of grave suspicion corroborate the existence of the feeling; and more notably, the facts that the intended outbreak of the late discontents in the Basque provinces had been known, in Parii • itself, long before the event. and that the same agency teamed to be apparent in the insurrection that developed itself in Barcelona, accompanied with the demand of an apology on the part of the REGENT'S Government, for the accusations which had been made against the French Consul re specting his participation therein. Then the prema ture accession of the young QUEEN to the throne, and other acts to which she had been induced, by her counsellors, ro give her sanction, really had involved greater violations of the Spanish Constitution than had ever been committed throughout all the despotic reign of FERDINAND VII. But a " cordial understanding" had been stated, by the King of the FRENCH himself, to exist between his Government and that of Great Britain, on all subjects of foreign policy in general—on the affairs of Spain in particular. "On what policy was this good understanding based ?" asked the Noble Earl, in continuation. And then he adverted to the claim which the Court of France was understood to set up to the right of selecting a consort for the Queen of SPAIN, and to the limitation of that choice to some member of the house of BOURBON. He hoped that whatever might be the fact, as to this hitherto un heard of pretension, it was not true (confidently as the allegation had been made) that the right had been exercised, and the selection made, in the person of the Count DE TRAPANI, brother to the reigning King of NAPLES. This Prince had been educated in the College of Jesuits at ROme, and destined for holy orders. Now the Court of Naples, it was noto rious, was the only Court of Europe which had avowedly conspired on behalf of Don CABLos. The Noble Earl contended that, Without imputing to the French Government any actual connexion with the movement against the OX-REGENT, yet had it acted as it should have done towards its own sub jects who were known to be intriguing against hitr, ESPARTERO (to whose constitutional Government ,he paid a well-merited tribute) his Regency would never have been subverted. We think so too, and never felt a doubt on the matter. The Noble Secretary for Foreign Affairs remarked, that in the ten years which had elapsed since the death of FERDINAND VII. there had been so many political movements and constitutional changes in Spain that it was impossible for anybody, he believed, to give, as to many of these r any intelligible account. He was one who thought that there had been a disposition at all times, in the government of this country, to inter meddle too much with that of Spain. He was quite satisfied that the French Government had had nothing to do with the downfal of ESPARTERO'S authority ; and since, in the short space of six weeks, there was not a village in Spain which had not joined in the insurrection against it, the origin of so powerful a feeling must be sought in causes more domestic and more popular, within the Spanish kingdom itself. The marriage of the QUEEN he looked upon as a purely Spanish question, on which the Spanish people and Government only were entitled to decide. As for the remaining question of the Noble Earl, he had been asked by him on what basis the good understanding subsisting between France and England was raised ? " It was raised on the basis of an anxious desire to maintain the complete independence of Spain—(Hear, hear)—a desire to promote in Spain the establishment of the constitutional system—a desire to check, by all proper and legitimate means, every description of violence and revolution—(Hear, hear)—a desire to develope the just natural resources of that fine country—(Hear, hear)—and to promote and extend its happiness and prosperity." On a future occasion we shall inquire how far these objects are likely to be attained by the policy of Lord ABERDEEN. The business of Parliament has begun—not with. out the exhibition of some incipient symptoms of languor even at this early stage of its sittings, if we may judge from the adjournments and "No House" interruptions that have already interposed in the progress of public business. The debate on the affairs of Sinde appears to have interested all parties in a degree commensurate with the import ance of the transactions upon which it was founded. But, without disparaging the gravity of the topics urged on Friday night, or on the discussion upon the "Address" to the Throne at the re-assembling of the two Houses; or the subjects of any speeches delivered, subsequently, in either of them, we must own that we had expected to find, ere this, one or two vital questions of nearer domestic concernment and of even superior interest, occupying the primal.) attention of the Legislature. Let us instance one these—the income, or property-tax (for, like the object of CLEVELAND'S apostrophe, it is " both or either.") We can but marvel at the fortune of a Minister, who, after such an experiment as he has induced the country to submit to in this monstrous infliction, iF permitted by the Legislature, in the second or third year of its protracted application, to pass unchal lenged for his hazardous empiricism. Yes; this statesman-like expedient for arresting the internal decay of our financial system, in the nine-and twentieth year of an unbroken peace between Great Britain and all the other Powers of Europe. is the very "Elixir," that none but a political empiric, would have ventured to recommend to his distracted patients. Sir ROBERT PEEL has caught the mantle of the late Mr. ST. JOHN LONG. His treatment is founded on a theory of counter irritation. Has the Public Treasury a morbid tendency to decline, year after year ? His first care is to exhaust the sources which alone sustain it. Is the public income, with a taxation of more than 43,000,000/ sterling inadequate to meet the public expendi ture ? He claps on another tax-blister, in the technical hope that "it may Rim" Do the Customs and the Excise, and other branches of direct and indirect contribution, annually decrease in productiveness, becoming "small by degrees and beautifully less," and showing diminished means as to our capacity, both of foreign and domestic con sumption ? Our Premier draws upon the remaining capital of those diminished means to make good the deficient product of their contribution to revenue. Since the fiscal duties of all kinds appropriated to the public service, and paid out of the profits of the capital invested in the trade, or absorbed by the con sumption which yield them are already too heavy to permit of that consumption, or to carry on their trade to the former extent of either, the " State Doctor" (it is his own soubriquet) depletes the capital still further by drawing off five millions of what he must really suppose to be superabundant vitality in his unhappy patient! When a man complained to a quack of the counter-irritant school that he suffered from severe shooting pains in his shin bone, the quack applied himself to the case by an external exasperation of the complainant's shoulder-blade, or his cranium—no matter which. It was evident that the artificial or superinduced agony, must either expel or neutralise the original pain. It was like an equator of powers in algebra; plus skin, minus shoulder =A. In this manner Sir ROBERT proceeds to prescribe for the financial evils resulting from diminished consumption of exciseable articles, by diminishing the means of consuming them, as to the largest number of consumers ; and he seeks to bring up the waning revenue of the Customs, derived en tirely from the energy with which commerce may be enabled to pursue its active functions, by further in cisions into the capital that represents the legs upon which it walks, and by persisting to retain the clumsy fetters which, under the notion of preserving the straightness and vigour of its limbs, have absurdly cramped and deformed them. Let it be conceded that, like other empirics, our modern Dr. WARD is very lucky. His "pills" have not yet killed whom they cannot cure. Nay, more —the constitution of the patient, which, on their own candid and manly admission, had assumed some alarming aspects under the attendance of such men as BIELnouaNE, RUSSELL, and PALMERSTON, has ac tually rallied under the perilous operations of PEEL. This is one of those fortunate vindications of physical strength against physic, of which the rarity makes us sceptical as to the reality. Yet the fact is, that trade is reviving, that the Customs are improving, that the Excise is on the " look up." Is the im- provement organic and constitutional, or accidental, only and transient ? Can the " patient" retrieve his former condition under the exhausting processes he is subjected to, aggravated by the additional bleeding of the income-tax, and the paralyzing ligatures of so many tight monopolies ? We doubt and dread the issue. But if any think it dangerous at this time ex tensively to alter the treatment and utterly to discard the " doctor," at least let us entreat of the Legisla ture to - watch the effect, if it will not discontinue the annual practice of this " income" phlebotomizing. THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 13, 1844 Be it remembered that the essential premises, predi... cated by the Tamworth practitioner, of his proposed remedy have been suspiciously underrated. The pro duct of the new tax has largely exceeded his avowed anticipations on the subject, and this excess of its product has not elicited any announcement as to the accelerated termination of the experiment. Parlia ment itself, without distinction of party, seems dis posed to congratulate the Premier on the language of the Speech from the Throne, on the auspicious dis tinction of this year in the fact of the revenue being fully adequate to defray all the charges of the expenditure. Ministers assume a lofty tone of se lf gratulation at having achieved this re sult ; and the Opposition forbear to remind them that it has been accomplished by the revival in a period of profound peace of the most odious and inquisitorial of taxes ever resorted to in time of war. Even the economists—apt to watch with jealous vigilance the increase of customary, or the in troduction of new items of charge on the estimates— abstain from showing that by how much the antici pated product is exceeded by the actual receipt on account of the income-tax, by so much is a case of irresistible force made out for the reduction of the rate of per centage. They forget to insist that, in the alternative of retaining the present per cent ige, yielding this excess of product, a case as unanswer able is established for the - Minister's abridging the term during which this iniquitous impost shall be levied on our overburdened country. Finally, per haps, from very weariness, they cease to expose the juggle of a surplus income, derived not from the legi timate yield of previously-imposed taxation, more or less equal, but from the screw force brought to bear upon private property and income, by the application ,f that perilous and unnatural high pressure which the most inapt of financial Ministers has ever ven tured to invoke under similar circumstances. Surely some Member of the House of Commons will presently call on the Premier for an explicit statement of the views entertained by her Majesty's Government on these points. The country has a right to demand how much longer it is intended to charge upon her a growing tax, which she consented to bear only ow• the express assurance, that it would be so charged for a very limited period, and on the express assumption, that its annual produce would re present a sum greatly inferior to that which it is now realizing. And should the Member, who may make this demand, be met with one of those petulent "flings" of official ill-humour, or personal arrogance, with which Mr. PATTISON, the representative of London re turned, instead of " BARING the preferred," was res ponded to the other evening, on his question touching the sugar duties, we trust he will not lose so fair an opportunity of apprising the Premier with what sen timents of disgust and indignation the public at large regard the Right Hon. Baronet's whole scheme of income-tax—with what hostile suspicion they scan all his acts in connexion therewith. Let him lay bare to the Right Hon. Baronet's observation, and the judgment of the Legislature, the whole iniquity of that character istic selfishness and egoisme which must have devised the principle and determined the scope of this tax-- a principle and a scope of common application to the ducal rent-roll of hundreds of thousands per annum, and the starving salary of 1501. a year. Let him show how the inheritors of splendid patrimonies, the recipients of large public salaries, the dispensers of )fficial patronage, have responded to that "impera tive State necessity" which has been relied upon for the justsflcation of this intolerable expedient. Let him illustrate the fairness and_ equity with which only sevenpence in the pound is abstracted 'rom the redundant income of the great proprietors and large capitalists, and wealthy nobles, in whose revenues this amount creates scarcely any .sensible diminution ; and so much as 7d. in the pound is equally taken from the small tradesmen, the ill-paid clerk, the toiling artisan, or the thrifty small annui tant, to diminish their respective pittances below that point at which they had hitherto managed to maintain themselves out of the reach of debt and its concomi tant disquietudes. The tyranny of Sir Ron Ear, as a financier, is the exact converse of Procrustes as a destroyer of his species. The tyrant lopped off limb And member from all whose proportions exceeded the limits of his iron bed. The Minister cuts down, after one and the same measurement, all incomes which can be made to come within the limits of his not less cruel " standard." Accounts from Madrid of the sth, leave no doi that Carthagena had followed the example of Ali cant, and that the movement had been successful. The garrison, together with about 1,200 military prisoners, who had been marched to the place from Catalonia, for safe custody, h a d j o i ne d the Reportsinsur clelci prevailed a t M a d r id , and supposed to Murcia, that simil ar r i s i ngs had taken place in e Valencia, Jar e d a , El che, Santander, and Bilbao. According to th e G overnment papers, how bge n l i elenf eouaAinc, A how ever, Murcia, up to the 3d remained quiet. One of these journals, the Castellano, says the gold of Eng land has done it all. The following is the extract in which this wicked accusation appears : " General Roncali has left Valencia with 10,000 men. He is marching to Alicant, whither he m us t h ave arr i ved on the themost vigorous measures to st i fle the in- si r r r h e 3d or the 4th. The Council of Mini s t ers s it s cont i nually, and is acpt out elsewhere, f or it i s evident that the Aft cant and Carthagena movements are but th e execut i on of a plan concerted at Madrid , whence the e m i ssar i es o f t h e Re p te Adopting o breaki iwb i ch has broken o u t on those two points, and will Re volutionists had started a few days before, nor is it doubful that these movements have been provoked with the gold of England, which is interested in subverting the monarchic and religious institutions of our country." The same journal relates another story equally en titled to credit—namely, that the Finance Minister had received offers for a loan of 1,000,000,000 of reals, on good conditions, but that he ref use d t o en t er n egotiation of th e ki n d unt i l the funds were On the sth the Three per Cents. were done at 27 m in u to ch an h y ig n h e e go r than they are at p resent . / 4 for cash, and 28f, at GO days; and the Five per Cents. at 20, for cash, and 20 15-16, at 60 days. The intelligence in the French papers, of any in te Spain, but it furnishes no new f the outbreak at Ali can t. The Journal floyt4) infers, fr om th e p re p ara ti ons o f re s t , facts relatest des erelative s D the Spanish Government, that a vast conspiracy ex tends its ramifications throughout the south-east of Spain—a conspiracy directed by M. LINAGE and other Esparterists residing at Gibraltar, and acting in concert with the Exalted() party against the com mon enemy, which is the Government. The Com merce states that the French and English Ambassa dors at Madrid had applied to the Minister for Fo reign Affairs for explanations relative to the arrest of the Deputies, and the reply was, that letters had been seized which compromised them ; but it is not said whether the letters had been written by the De puties. According to a letter in another paper, Lo• PEZ and MADoz had made their escape from the BEAN° Government, and numerous arrests had taken place in the provinces. Great complaints are made against the F renc h Ministers for delaying , the publi cation of th e t e l egra phic dispatches, and well grounded suspicions are excited that the state of affairs in Spain is worse than they would lead the public to believe. It is said that Queen CHRISTINA will not leave for Madrid for some weeks. On Sunday the Funds remained stationary, the Three per Cents. closing at 81f. 90c. The vacancy created in the representation in Parlia ment of the northern division of the county of Wilts, by the death of Sir Fracis Burdett, Bart., was yesterday supplied by the election of Mr. Sotheron, the late Con servative M.P. for Devizes. Mr. Eldridge, of Puckeridge House, in the same county, who had stood forward to contest this honour, as the avowed advocate of free trade principles, and in compliance with a requisition to that effect, which had been addressed to him by the North Wilts Reform Association, declined to go to the poll. He has alleged, in a frank and handsome manner, his reasons for this determination. They seem to have been the indifferent chances of ultimate success, which his late appearance in the field held out to him, and his unwil lingness, under this impression, to subject his opponent to the expenses which a continuance of the contest would entail, without any countervailing benefit to the great principles advocated by Mr. Eldridge and to their pro gress. It is thought, however, in the county, from the very questionable character of many among the signa tures attached to the requisition forwarded to Mr. Sotheron, and the strong feeling which the Anti-Mo nopolist party have created in the great body of the Wiltshire people in favour of their doctrines, that had not the nomination of yesterday been unopposed, and the election thereupon consummated, Mr. Sotheron's re turn would have been very doubtful. DESERTION OF FAMILIES BY THEIR PARENTS.— In the parish of St. Mary, Islington, there have been off ere d during the week rewar d s f or th e apprehension o f seven men who have deserted their wives and families, leaving them bur dens upon the parish. THE VERDICT, THE STATE TRIALS. (From the Times.) DUBLIN, MONDAY, FEB. 12. The Chief Justice; Mr. Justice Burton, and Mr. Justice Crampton took their seats on the bench this morning a few minutes after nine o'clock, at which hour the Court was crowded, but not inconveniently so, as a very large force of police was stationed at the main entrance to keep off the crowd, and clear the various passages leading to the Queen's Bench to prevent the admission of persons not duly authorised. The traversers arrived at an early hour. Mr. O'Connell, who was accompanied by his son Daniel and Mr. W. S. O'Brien, took his seat at the table of the Queen's Counsel. Mr. J. O'Connell appeared in his professional robes amongst the juniors, while the rest sat at the traver sers' bar. Mr. Justice CRAMPTON minutely detailed to his brother judges what took place on Saturday evening, subsequent to their leaving the Court, at half past five o'clock, and accounted for the difficulty which the jury had experienced respecting the first and second counts by observing that they contained five distinct issues, upon which there should be five distinct findings, and did not, there fore, admit of a general finding. Having briefly de scribed the nature of the issues, involved in the several counts, and pointed out in what respects they differed one from the other, his Lordship sug gested that the proper course to adopt would be to put these issues before the jury, in the distinct form in which he had now explained them. The jury were then called into Court; the sug gestion of his Lordship was acted on ; they retired, and returned at ten o'clock with their verdict, to the reception of which , Mr. MOORE, Q.C., objected, on the ground that one of the jurors was described on the panel as " John Rigby," though he himself had declared that his name was " John Jason Rigby." The ATTORNEY-GENERAL observed, that Mr. Rigby had been sworn as " John Rigby," and that particular notice was made of the fact at the time by the Crown. A note having been taken of the objection, Mr. BOURNE, the Clerk of the Crown, read the verdict of Guilty generally against all the traversers excepting the Rev. Mr. Tierney, who was found Guilty upon t wo, counts only. The following' are the several counts of the indict ment, with the verdict of the jury, as affecting each traverser upon.each count : FIRST AND SECOND COUNT. For unlawfully and seditiously conspiring to raise and create discontent and disaffection amongst the Queen's subjects, and to 'excite such subjects to hatred and contempt of, and to unlawful and sedi tious opposition. to the Government and Constitu tion ; and to stir up jealousies, hatred, and ill•will between different classes of her Majesty's sub jects ; and especially to promote amongst her Majesty's subjects in Ireland feelings of ill will and hostility against her Majesty's sub jects in other parts of the United Kingdom, especially in England, and to excite discontent and disaffection amongst divers of her Majesty's subjects serving in the army ; and to cause and aid in causing divers subjects unlawfully and seditiously to meet and assemble together in large numbers, at various times and at different places within Ireland, for the unlaw ful and seditious purpose ofobtaining, by means of the intimidation to be thereby caused, and by means of the exhibition and demonstration of great physical force at such meetings, changes and alterations in the Government, Laws, and Constitution, as by law established ; and to bring into hatred and disrepute the Courts by law established in Ireland for the ad ministration of justice, and to diminish the confidence of her Majesty's subjects in the administration of the law therein, with intent to induce her Majesty's sub jects to withdraw the adjudication of their differences with and claims upon each other from the cognisance of the courts of law, and subject the game to the judgment and determination of other tribunals to be constituted and contrived for that purpose. GUILTY—D. O'Connell, R. Barrett, and C. G. Duffy, omitting the words " unlawfully and sedi tiously" before the words " to meet and assemble." NOT GUILTY as to the words omitted. GUILTY—.J. O'Connell, T. Steele, T. M. Ray, and J. Gray, omitting the words " unlawfully and seditiously" before the words " to meet and assem ble," and omitting the words " and to excite discon tent and disaffection amongst divers of her Majesty's subjects serving in the army." NOT GUILTY as to the words omitted. GUILTY.—Rev. Thomas Tierney, from the commencement, and including the words " especially in England," and NOT GUILTY of the remainder of the Ist and 2d counts. THIRD COUNT. For unlawfully and seditiously conspiring to raise and create discontent and disaffection amongst the Queen's subjects, and to excite such subjects to hatred and contempt of, and to unlawful and seditious opposition to, the Government and Con stitution ; and to stir up jealousies, hatred, and ill-will between different classes of her Ma jesty's subjects, and especially to promote amongst her Majesty's subjects in Ireland feelings of and hostility against her Majesty's subjects in other parts of the United Kingdom, especially in England ; and to excite discontent and _disaffec tion amongst divers of her Majesty's subjects serving in the army ; and to cause, and aid in causing, divers subjects to meet and assemble together in large numbers at various times and at different places within Ireland, for the unlawful and seditious puipose of ob taining, by means of the exhibition and demonstration of great physical force at such meetings, changes and alterations in the Government, laws, and Constitution as by law established, and to bring into hatred and disrepute the courts by law established in Ireland for the administration of justice, and to diminish the confidence of her Majesty's sub jects in, the administration of the law threin, with intent to induce her Majesty's subjects to withdraw the adjudication of their differences with, and claims upon, each other, from the cognizance of the courts of law, and subject the same to the judgment and determination of other tribunals to be constituted and contrived for that purpose. GUILTY—D. O'Connell, R. Barrett, and C. G Duffy. GUILTY—J. O'Connell, T. Steele, T. M. Ray, and J. Gray, omitting the words " and to excitc dis content and disaffection amongst divers of her Ma jesty's subjects serving in the army." NOT GUILTY as to the words•omitted. GUILTY—The Rev. T. Tierney from the com mencement so far as, and including, the words " es pecially in England." NOT GUILTY of the remainder of this count. FOURTH COUNT. For conspiring to raise and create discontent and disaffection amongst the Queen's subjects, and to excite such subjects to hatred and contempt of, and to unlawful and seditious opposition to, the Government and Constitution ; and also to stir up jealousies, hatred, and ill-will between different classes of the subjects, and especially to promote amongst the subjects, in Ireland, feelings of and hostility towards the subjects in other parts of the United Kingdom, and especially in England and to cause and aid in causing divers subjects to .• meet and assemble in large numbers, at various times and different places in Ireland, for the unlawful and seditious purpose of obtaining by means of the inti- midation to be thereby caused, and by means of the exhibition and demonstration of great physical force at such meetings, changes in the Government and Constitution as by law established. GUILTY—D. O'Connell, J. O'Connell, J. M. Ray, J. Gray, T. Steele, C. G. Duffy, and R. Barrett. GUILTY—Rev. Mr. Tierney from the commence ment so far as, and including the words, " especially in England." FIFTH COUNT. For conspiring to raise and create discontent and disaffection amongst th Queen's subjects, and to excite them to hatred and contempt of, and unlaw ful and seditious opposition to, the Government and Constitution. And also to stir up jealousies, hatred, and between different classes of the Queen's subjects, and especially feelings of and hos tility against her Majesty's subjects in England. GUILTY—D. O'Connell, J. O'Connell, T. M Ray, J. Gray, T. Steele, C. G. Duffy, R. Barrett, Rev. T. Tierney. SIXTH COUNT. For conspiring to cause and aid in causing divers subjects to meet and assemble in large numbers at various times and at different places in Ireland, for the unlawful and seditious purpose of obtaining, by the exhibition of great physical force at such meetings, changes and alterations in the Government, laws, and Constitution as by law established. GUILTY—D. O'Connell, J. O'Connell, T. Steele, T. M. Ray, C. G. Duffy, J. Gray, R. Barrett. NOT GUILTY—Rev. Mr. Tierney. The same verdict was returned on the remaining five counts. 7. For conspiring to cause, and aid in causing, divers subjects of the Queen to meet in large numbers, at various times and at different places in Ireland, for the unlawful and seditious purpose of obtaining, by means of the intimidation to be thereby caused, and by means of the exhibition of great physical force at such meetings, changes and alterations in the Govern ment, laws, and Constitution of this realm, as by law established, and especially by the means aforesaid to bring about and accomplish a dissolution of the Legis lative Union now subsisting between Great Britain and Ireland. 8. For conspiring to bring into hatred and dis repute the tribunals by law established in Ireland for the administration of justice, and to diminish the con fidence of her Majesty's subjects in the administra tion of the law therein, with intent to induce the subjects to withdraw the adjudication of their dif ference with and claims upon each other from the cognizance of the tribunals by law established, and to submit the same to the judgment and determina tion of other tribunals to he constituted and contrived for that purpose. 9. For conspiring to bring into hatred and disre pute the tribunals by law established in Ireland for the administration of justice, to diminish the con fidence of her Majesty's subjects in Ireland in the administration of the law therein, and to assume any' usurp the prerogative' of the Crown in the establish ment of courts for the administration of the law. 10. For conspiring to bring into hatred and dis repute the tribunals by law established in Ireland for the administration of justice, and to diminish the con fidence of her Majesty's subjects in Ireland in the ad ministration of the law therein. . 11. For conspiring to cause and procure large numbers of persons to meet together in divers places and at divers times in Ireland, and by means of unlawful, seditious, and inflammatory speeches and addresses to be made ana 'delivered at the said several places on the said several times, and also by means of publishing and causing to be published to and amongst her Majesty's subjects, di vers unlawful and seditious writings and compositions to intimidate the Lords spiritual and temporal, and the Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, and thereby to effect and bring about changes and al terations in the laws and constitution of this realm, as now by law established. For self and fellows, JAMES HAMILTON. The verdict having been recorded— The CHIEF-JUSTICE thanked the jury for the pa tient attention they had bestowed for nearly a month upon this unprecedented case, admitted the lOss and injury it must have been to them, regretted that the Court did not possess the power of granting them compensation (which the foreman in delivering the verdict applied for), and dismissed them. Mr. MOORE, on the part of the traversers, de manded a copy of the verdict. The CHIEF JusTicE directed that it should be fur nished, and the Clerk of the Crown immediately ad journed the Court to the first day of next term!, when it will be in the power of the Crown to call for j udg ment upon the traversers. Mr. O'Connell, accompanied by a juvenile mob of Repealers, soon after drove to the Corn Exchange, where a meeting of the Association will be held at two o'clock. The following address from the Hon. and Learned Gentleman appeared in the Freeman's Jourluzlof this morning : " TO THE PEOPLE OF IRELAND. " Alenion-square, Feb. 11, 1844. " Fellow-Countrymen, —Once again I return you my most heartfelt thanks for the peace, quiet, and good order you have observed, and I conjure you by the country we all love, and even in the name of the God we all adore, to continue in the same peace,, quietness, and perfect tranquillity. "I tell you solemnly that your enemies and the enemies of Ireland are very desirous that there should be a breaking out of tumult, riot, or other outrage. Be you, therefore, perfectly peaceable. Attack no body. Offend nobaly. Injure no person. If you respect your friends--if you wish to gall your ene mies—keep the peace, and let not one single act of violence be committed. "You are aware the jury have found a verdict against me; but depend upon it that I will bring a writ of error, and will not acquiesce in the law as laid down against me, until I have the opinion of the twelve judges in Ireland, and, if necessary, 'of the House of Lords. "Be you, therefore, perfectly quiet. Do no vio lence whatsoever. You could not possibly offend or grieve me half so much as by any species of riot, omit, or outrage. "It is said that the great question of Repeal has been injured by this verdict. Do not believe it. It is not true. On the con trary, the result of this verdict will be of most ma- terial service to the Repeal if the people continue to be as peaceful as they have hitherto been, and as I am sure they will continue to be. " Obey my advice. No riot. No tumult. No blow. No violence. Keep the peace for six months, or at the utmost for twelve months longer, and you shall have the Parliament in College-green again. " I am, fellow -countrymen, your affectionate and devoted servant, " DANIEL O'CONNELL." --------- LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY.) LONDON, FEB. 13.—Light breeze from the Northward, with thick foggy weather. DEAL, FEB. 12.—Wind N.N.W. ; 7 P.M., N.E., moderate. —Arrd. Charlotte, Kinney, St. John's, New Brunswick. Arrd. from the River and sailed, Desert, Stabb, Palermo ;. Traveller, Finlay, Cadiz ; Gal gu , Bilb oa • Grace, Dartmouth. LIVERPOOL, FEB. 12.—Wind E.N.E. ' to S.S.E., moderate. —Sid. 11th, Waterville, Mills, Buenos Ayres; Albert, Harry, Dominica ; l2th, Leviathan, H enr y G a l ves t on , F ormosa ; Laidley, Mobile ; Athens, Jones, Philadelphia ; Fanny an d Jane, Lovering, Alexandria ; Waterlily, Payne, Beyrout ; Clipper, Holland:: Smyrna; Mentor, Gould, Galatz ; Woolner, Constantinople ; Law Ogilby, Morris, Naples ; Mercer: Carthagena ; Britons' Queen, Gibraltar. DOVER, FEB. 12.—Arrd. ofl; Charleston, Cattermole, Charleston, for Antwerp. RAMSGATE, FEB. 12.—S1d. Achille, Blaye, Rio Janeiro. OFF THE START, FEB. 11.—Alida Wilhelmina, Latges, Ba tavia, for Amsterdam. OFF PORTLAND, FEB. W.—Marie, New York, for Hamburgh. MILFORD, FEB. 11.—Arrd. Recovery, M'Nabb, Cardiff, for Belfast, with loss of head and jibboom, having been in con tact with a vessel i n th e B r i s t o l Channel. Coax, FEB. 12.—S1d. Kate Kearney, Belcher, Jamaica. HULL, FEB. 12.—Wind, N.E., light breeze.—Sld., 10th, Harvish, Hoskill, New Orleans. MUMBLES, FEB. 10.—S1d. Lion, Ruxton, St. Jago de Cuba ; Arrietta, Ellis, ditto; Tom Cringle, Mitchell, ditto. LEITH ROADS, FEB. W.—And. Blair, Oldham, Calcutta. YARMOUTH, FEB. 10.—Arrd. Centenary, Barnes, of South Shields, with damage, having been in contact with the Robert and Ann of Newcastle, off Sunderland Light. GUERNSEY, FEB. B.—The' John Allen is discharging her cargo, having grounded on a rock, and sustained consider able damage. SHEERNESS, FEB. 11 . The Jane Wright, co a l-l a d en , go t on the Nore Sand yesterday—assisted off, leaky, after dis charging part of her cargo, and has proceeded for the river in tow of a steamer. MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.) RAT ATARILETS. SMITIIFIELD.—Coarse Meadow Hay, 21 15s to 31 3s ; useful ditto, 31 58 to 3/ lOs ' • fine Upland ditto, 31 lOs to 3/ 16s ; Clover Hay, 3/ to 51; Oat Straw, 1/ 6s to 11 8s ; Wheat Straw, 11 8s to 1/ 108 per load. Both Hay and Straw met a very dull sale, at the above quotations. CUMBERLAND.--Coarse Meadow Hay, 2/ 18s to 3/10s ; useful ditto, 3l lOs to 3/ 16s ; fine Upland ditto, 3/ 18s to 4/ Clover Hay, 3/ 5s to 41 15s ; Oat Straw, 117 s to 1/ 9s ; Wheat Straw, 11 9s to 1/ 12s per load. Supply moderate, and trade dull. Prices barely stationary. WiliTuctiArEt..—Coarse Meadow Hay, 21 lOs to 3/ 5s ; useful ditto, 31 6s to 3/ lOs ; fine Upland ditto, 3l 12s to 31 17s ; Clover Hay, 3/ to 5/ 5s ; Oat Straw, I/ 6s to 1/ 8s ; Wheat Straw, 1/ 8s to 1/ lOs per load. A full average supply, and a heavy demand. LAW INTELLIGENCE EXCHEQUER--(THIS DAY). (Sittings at Nisi Prius, before Lord ABINOER and Com mon Juries.) JUGGING V. RAMSAY. Mr. Miller appeared for the plaintiff', and Mr. Peacock for the defendant. The defendant, who is a working jeweller, rented a house in Pentonville, which belonged to the defendant. The house, by an agreement, was rented to him at 28/ a year. The defendant took possession of the premises in the spring of 1842, and the rent falling due at Lady day and Midsummer, was regularly paid, but subse. quently and up to the present time he had not continued his payments, and a distress was levied on his goods, .which were sold for 10/. The defendant still continued his occupation of the premises, and refused to give up possession, or to allow ingress to the house, the garden gate being constantly locked and the shutters of the house closed. A notice to quit was served in the following manner:—The bell was rung, and in a few minutes a head peered out of the first floor window, and a female voice requested the mission of the person at the gate. He told his tale, and; on being informed by th e f ema l e , w ho stated she she was could n theonl e y t adult person in the house at the time,that theleave childrenthe apartment under in n e which e sh al e lin th g en in w to ns ; the fire, ftar or otherwise doing themselves some grie vous bodily harm, he threw the notice into the garden, which it was pre stuned was picked up by the defendant's wife (the de- ludliarn fendant being from home at the time), whop through the gard en a f ew h ours a f terwar d s . The girl stated that s h e f orgo t t o te ll h er mast er : r o mistress of the occurrence, so many p apers b e ing le" the house that ultimately she took no notice of tliel?!.,, The jury immediately gave a ver di c t f or th e plaint 4" damages Is. QUEEN'S BENCH.--(THIS Lord Denman at at Ni*i Pr:us this morning, wi t i e l Middlesex common jury. Two cases were disrsefer during the morning, neither of which presented anY tures of interest. CRIMINAL COURT.— . —(THIS P"'" AY.) (Before M r . Justice OLD COURT. , tie CP.ESSWELL and lit s COLERIDGE.) George Gifford, 71, a seaman, was indicted for niously stabbing and wounding Henry Howard, r" intent to do him some grievous bodily harm. I , till The affray took place in a brothel, during wo' c prisoner stabbed the prosecutor with a sword. a V The jury found him Guilty of the asstailt, an was sentenced to twelie months' imprisonment. POLICE IINTELLIGENC MARLBOROUGH-STREET (THIS DAY.) f 7 homas Robinson, between 50 and 60 years „ho., ce dressed in the s t y l e ca ll e d s h a bb y - gentee l, and 2:100 manners and appea rance a t once in di cate d that De c a seen better day s , was pl ace d at t h e b ar on t h e lb charge : tha n Police-constable, No. 85 of the C division, s tatc ; , , e r, between b and 10 o' c l oc k l a St n i g h t , h e saw the Pr i ,-. ° 0 . 1o• beg of several gentlemen passing along the Opera nude and also Reg ent - s t ree t— some h e f o ll owe d 1 1 1 3 k; considerable distan ce , en t rea ti ng t h em to give -or halfpenny towards enabling him to get a ni ght3 l ing ; he begged of f our t een p ersons a l toge th e r, at' ness then look him into custody. The prisoner produced a number of letters, wl' -c te said would pro ve th e correc t ness o f t h e s tatoneP te r was about to make. He had formerly been in an Ito; sire way of business a s a woo ll en manu f ac turer at .0 chester, and was at one peri o d o f hi s life posses s `jd great wealth. He, h6wever, ultimately fade h d i ht everything but an annu ity o f 171. per annum, " e was still in the receipt o f. A s h or t ti me ago he co n it London to endeavour to procure a situation, havief 1 ;0 viously arranged with a friend of his in town to an ti 3O him some money whil e h ere on hi s annu i ty . This 4:go however, had put him o ff f rom d a y t o d a y, and be! tb ' o ol arrears at his lodgings he c o uld n o t re t a i n them yf a l o paying, and was, ther e f ore , l as t night constrained . 4 1 0 a penny, whi c h, w ith 3d. h e h a d in his pocket,'" have enabled him to procure shelter for the nigh t ' 0 1 0 Mr. MALTBY ordered that the unfortunat e should be detained until inquiries might be made' UNION HALL,—(THIS DAlc,J o itli George Goodwin was c h arge d, b e f ore Mr. T om ' l*l threatening to stab James Butterworth with t' knife. and The complainant stated th a t, b e t ween tWO .-- niso• o'clock that morning, a s h e was wa lki ng over J . J ., 00 friars-bridge, he had an alt e r ca t ion w ith th e prison e ' bre fil . drew his knife out of hi s po c k e t, an d, o p eni ng it, tic the ened to rip up his bowels. The moment he, 59 0 re • weapon in the prisoner's hands, he (complailla n o per treated, and, calling for the police, gave the Pre, flit into custody. On their way to the station-ions 0 0 prisoner also threatened to stab the policema n ' wrested the knife from him. ffo o,' • The prisoner endeavoured to palliate his 0 - If 60 using a knife by saying he was struck in the Lio , stance by the man who mad e th e c h arge against P he cri; Mr. TRAILL said that no thi ng coud justifY,, t o 05 soner in drawing out a knife ag a in s t an y man-- - tm. i .ili• r' acts, were of • frequent occurrence amongst un c t i , c 0 ,1 1; beings ; but in the streets of London for a man , - „ f ibi . ,' duct himself with such violence was quite illex c 'il sir He, therefore, adjudged the prisoner to find bail, ti ll to pay a fine of ss. for intoxication. NE ED' MONE Ir AND COMMERCIAL .11-%.f. 'TIM CITY, QUARTER TO , - - ,,, t erin There was a fair demand for Cotton at Liverpool Y' 4 o;ti Sales-5,000 bales, exclusive of 1,500 by speculat°M; 0 Surat sold at 4d to 4id ; 300 of Maranham at 50 to "oil of Pernambuco, at bid to 60 ;20 Egyptian, at 9d; ,A rest rest American at sid. to 7d. for Orleans. 1 ollt, Shares were rather dull, and the market generaV i .,„iii so good. Birmingham and Gloucester, 70-1 • Eastern Vi ff hll; ex New, 10-1 ; Grand Junction, 227 ; South' Westero "'el .£3. 9s. ; Midland Counties, 91i ; Paris and Lyons, 3 ; te Eastern, 34k. From Saxony we learn that the Stocking trade `'l° viving. or l '' '" There are no tidings vet of the West India mail, 0 ril° re we any late ship arrivals. her lOf The Funds look very steady, and there is rat o pt ii , doing. Consols for immediate transfer are 97i to k'd 10 ( 4 time the same. Exchequer Bills bring 675. to 695., 3 ',,, e,, Bonds 82s. to 84s. premium. The Commissioners ban 2,el f Consols at 97i India Stock has risen to 277 i n: 1 1 .5 .1P Bank Stock is 1931 to 1924. The New Three-on , th' Three-and per Cents. realise 102 to h. tult s tile Spanish Bonds are not quite so good, the ace° ei , f morning representing the revolutionary spirit as rathe,r,: e re, advance. The Five per Cents, are 23% to 23, and the T',44 to' Cents 324 to 32. Mexican Bonds are rather dull at '', lys for the Five per Cents. Columbian are 12i to 1, and r e vian 27i to 28. Dut c h T wo-and-a- H a lf p e r Cents. II to i. ) 411t. The Share market is inactive, and p r ices are not bylet* Brighton . have been down to 54 discount ; Great 1:i ' New, and one or two others are also lower. , na• BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O*o- , (From the Official List.) 00 Bank Stock 1 ,1 ) 1,4 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 3 per Cent. Consols. Annuities 11 I°S g i i : e e r r Cent. en i ti cu ti d es An lB n l u B ities 14w 3% per Cent. Annuities l Ol 3 ,10)j Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan. 1860 1 2 1, 0 9' India Stock India Bonds,l,ooo ;ci 6 ti Ditto under 1,000 9 7% Consols for Account Exchequer Bills, • iNd. oid 1,000/. 5001. Ditto Small 69 FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CL 106 fi Belgian Bonds, 5 per Cent li Columbian Bonds. 34 Mexican Bonds, 1531, 5 per Cent. ... ......... —••• j j Ditto Deferred Stock :7)i,. Peruvian Bonds, 6 per Cents. n Ditto for the Account ". 23 /4 Spanish Bonds, Five per Cent ..................... 0 , t Ditto for the Account g r Ditto Three per Cent. Ditto for the Account Dutch 2% per Cents lOl Dutch 5 per Cents 10 014 New Loan 1837, 5 per Cents . $. PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT 0- 7.1 RAiLwAxs. 0 ~ PAW. P 6 e 1 4 .. S n .. 4,.: Birmingham and Derby ..... ...... 100 Birmingham and Gloucester...." 100 Ditto New .1 1.... . ::/ Eastern Counties - lO, .. Ditto New Ditto Extension l3s. 4d li•• .. 5 go .- Eastern Union 5 .. sq ". . t ° ..., Edinburgh and Glasgow 5O ..... .. _ , ....... to -' Ditto Registered. Great Western Ditto i Shares 5O ......... 7 04 .... to:, Harwich Extension London and Brighton 5O 4 4 ;0 67 ' t ° ,, London and Blackwall London and Birmingham Stock ~, „. „ -.. .......... to , Ditto 34 Shares London and South Western 41% - .. t° ,- Ditto Eighths %,. 42 .. to „, Mancheiter and Leeds Norwich and Brandon Newcastle and Darlington Junct. 15 3 ,W1,4 to .„ Northern and Eastern ..... ... ...... 45 ........ Morth Midland . Ditto N Shares ......... 46 .......... to „ Ditto Thirds 2l . 13s. 4d. so ...... . to _ Paris and Orleans Paris and Rouen 2O .. ...... 32 ' to .A 2,. . . 0 .-• South Eastern and Dover ..... 1 0 )11J „ Ditto Scrip - . Ogr s tet!' MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, FEB. 12 ,. --- „th f il od e ': ket is not quite so firm to-day, particularly in 0°- file J O' • •id c Shares, which have been more freely (de re ,;betbe 5S' are :—Manchester and Birmingham, 39i ; 'ns 00 4 Manchester, 63i ; Ditto, Quarters, 74 ; Sout-- h ,„ E Ditto, Scrip, 35i i ; Manchester Assurance , l'' S c' In th e B O QUEEN ITEMS IN OLD ACCOUNTS .---"-„spis ipg counts of the expenses of some old municipal l'ab`follee`''iDs processions for the city of Chester, we find th e . 0 0 0 1 ,. it, tati oth fo, for items :—" Paid for keeping hell head (a repro° mouth of hell) Bd. ; for making hell mouth 0 1, , d ei c harg,:pile 4s. ; for keeping of fire at hell mouth, 4d. ; 0 .0. ' cli' coals to keep up hell-fire), paid to the demon, - ti a. es, c ,., the bishops had but 12d. and the angels 0 111 Y bovr e la l There were other little perquisites to the bisholt.shops 0 0 for one item runs thus :—" Paid Pilate, the yo' e st ill knights, to drink between the stages, 9d." ° tiler o f eitl le gravely set down as ordinary matter of accoiTiog N o , more grotesque, as for instance—" Paid for se u i . lied ` world on fire, sd. ;" and "paid for half a yard (4 ..,' 6d."—Chester Chronicle ------- . ----- ii• -- a daughter. BIRTHS. Dlr s ' Finsbury -place, December, at Tank-square, Calett e t tS t:Sil't of On the Bth inst., the lad of J. Risdon Bennett of a daughter. of ° , F ,54 1' On the Bth inst., the lady of Benjamin Sho l T - ' WO' daughter. h tre t ' 10 He O n n ry t ß he ayn 9t e h s, i o n f s a t., so a n t . Clement-lane, Lonl- 8111-5 „ c og, f s. > 1 Ge On d the 10th inst., at Saville-row, Walwortll; l‘i-rl:sBes, the ye, of a daughter. On the 10th inst ,at the Rectory Little Pfau; lady of the Rev. T. L. Ramsden of fifth s°ll.l ler ellce' i9lls 0 1° On the 6th inst., at Kennington, Mrs. J. 11 ' ''' daughter. On the 6th inst., in Highbury-place, Mrs' Ge°rge Sandeman, of a daughter Res . , MARRIED. the te On the Bth inst., at St. Martinn-the-Fields, bY" c - if t he ,e6 t, Septimus Ramsey, Henry Braddick Gale, R. N., so ,otov. er Commander John Gule, R.N.,to Frances Rebecca, ) tw ill a daughter of Captain Byme, formerly of the Sec ts .forii fi n . Guards, and grand niece of the late Earl of Crio Lindsey. oe , hall''' . io On the 10th inst., at All Souls Church, Lallg ., to 11 ' the Rev. Sir John Hobart Culme Seymour N" 'f,sit• r Louisa, youngest daughter of the late Charles'Sniitl!,_ , Hilt s , On the Ist inst., at Llantarnam Church, °P t:llu to l '' ' buck, of the 38th Regiment Madras Native Infantry, _ 1%10 0 - daughter ofJohn James, Esq., of Nat Co tt4c, oe y, mouthshire. Be r m 00 He O n n ry tli t e . 6.‘tvhatillss,t.,ofatiatlitnecoChlnurscihnoufliJres's, Thoill - ' only daughter of Mr. W. Fawcett, of Crim:collitnsr)t.reet' Ilef. mondsey. DIED. - c ouo t - At Milton, Margaret Mary, youngest chi Milton. o strs i r 0n the sth of October, at Australind, Western .I_ o. , 11 r Robert Gordon Berney, the son of W. Hamilton, . British Majesty's Consul, Boulogn -sur-flier . iIhO A I r % t In December, at St. Helena,' e t-Colone, - ° • rit eo ' Lieutenan _, 0 R e g' ander Weight, East • India Company's Service. Id a vis London : Printed and Published by ld --"--------13 R p"'°t ? i/t'tb°sf No. 112, Strand, at The Sun Office, N 0.112, Strati , County of Middlesex, Tuesday, February 13, 1844. Fap ~Rh N, th. , I N "at Jrc I' l' l l ee l 411. 1'' , t 4r, "1 Ar N , Si' 1t;".4 G „ t e , o , irde