The Sun. — London, England, 1844-01-06 00:00:00

13, Great Marlborough-street, BA.RAK JOHNSON ; OR, THE BLIND WITN MSS, a TALE, by AGNES STRICKLAND, Author of " I 'Jives of the Queens of England," is contained tamosg mum sous other interesting articles) in the First Number for the New Year of " COLBURN'S NEW MONTHLY! VIAGAZINE." immense strength and activity, and is prepared to meet every danger. Sir ROBERT PEEL now has a surplus, and he can afford to abate some of the most obnoxious taxes. aggregate, in which this property should be invested, in trust. It has been calculated by eminent survey ors that at a very moderate computation their lands might be made to yield at least a rental of 600,0001. 'We should recommend the State to employ this ex tensive fund, first, in the payment of settled stipends to the Protestant archbishops and bishops; and, se condly, in the purchase of glebe lands and other en dowments for the Roman Catholic clergy. • • Orders received by all Booksellers. Henry Colbe irn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. The plans in active operation in Hindostan, Sinde, and the Punjaub, cannot fail to excite some interesting discussions in the ensuing session. Every additional information from these quarters, together with the circumstances in which the Indian Government is placed, however, only lead to the conviction that the great measures in progress will receive a deliberate and impartial consideration at the hands of nearly all parties, and that it will be generally admitted that the occupation of the countries bordering on the Indus is the result of necessity and not of choice. Most persons who have viewed the extent of our dominions in India are quite satisfied that they are sufficiently large, and that it would be desirable, under ordinary circumstances, to confine them to the limits settled within the last ten years ; but if it become a question whether it is safer to extend them, or to risk the loss of those already attained, no man can hesitate for a moment as to the alter native. IVe have powerful and restless neighbours in the west. The Punjaub would be a rich prize to a body of Affghans, Persians, and Russians ; the Go vernments of these countries or their agents have made no secret of their intentions ; and England would justly be regarded as guilty of cowardice and suicide if she allowed any Power whatever to take possession of districts on our frontier absolutely necessary for self-defence. We want no more territory, but we want to preserve what we possess ; and unless we have the thorough command of the Indus, from its source to its mouth, and the great tributary branches ; unless we can raise a strong barrier against encroach ing neighbours, and use these rivers not only for trade but for protection, the peace of some of the most valuable districts would not be worth two years' purchase. This is the view of the question taken by the two great parties in the State. For this purpose the Whig Government, at an enormous expense, sent an army into Caubul, and the Tories have the same ob ject in annexing Sinde to Hindostan. The Whigs, in fact, have the merit of discovering the plan, and their opponents have the merit of carrying it into effect. What madness, then, in a Whig journal to attack Sir C. NAPIER and Lord ELLENBOROUGH for doing what Lord AUCKLAND fully intended, and wickedly magnify the sickness of the brave Sinde army for party purposes ! In the Chronicle of yes terday we find these words :—" Sickness has in gloriously decimated the gallant army under Sir C. NAPIER in Sinde. Of 8,504 men, composing the garrisons of Hyderabad and Kurrachee, 3,856 were sick. The malaria of Sinde,' says the Bombay Times, 'is much more formidable than the snows of Caubul.' Any position on the Indus, after its fall, must prove fatal to the occupiers ; and thus the boasted conquest of Lord ELLENBOROUGH proves nothing but a pestilential grave." Why will this paper not leave Sinde alone ? Why will it heap coals of fire upon the heads of its patrons, and compel impartial readers to contrast the sickness of Chusan, and the heart-rending disasters of Caubul, with the partial and temporary sufferings of our troops in Sinde? "Sickness has ingloriously decimated the gallant army of Sir CHARLES NAPIER !" Who ever heard of a glorious decimation ? But what did the withdrawal of Sir JOHN KEANE, with the best of his army, and the appointment of General ELPHINSTONE, do in Caubul ? The troops were not ingloriously decimated by sickness, but they were ingloriously defeated by an enemy that common foresight and common bravery might have set at defiance. They ' were not confined to their barracks and hospitals by the inclemency of the climate, or by diseases brought on from natural causes ; their General and their officers gave them up to the enemy without a struggle ; when in the snare, they were slaughtered THE .N EW HISTORICAL ROMANCE. Now treadyat all'the Libraries, in 3 vols. ITEFRIA R S; THE DA ►YS OF CHARLES THE SECOND. " Whitefriarn sis the work of no common hand. It is full of talent."—John Bull. •. A work of talent and imagination ; full of interest and re plete with scenes of great power. Charles 11., Rochester, Buckingham, Nell Gwynne, Colonel Blood, Titus Oates, Claude Duval, and n 2 any other celebrites figure in every page. "—Court Journal. Henry Cel Churn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. CONCLUSIVE EVIDENCE.—If the dir ec t written . ter timony is favour of the purity and perfection of BETTS': i f 'ATENT BRANDY, given, after analysis, by three of the s fast eminent Chemists of the day, needed any con firmation, it v ill be found in the fact, that it is employed. in preference to Poreign Brandy, under high medical direction, in many of the principal Hospitals, Infirmaries, and other Public Institutions iin the Kingdom ; among which it may suffice to name Guy's, 3t. George's, and the Westminster Hospitals in. the Metropolis ; ; and the Manchester, Bristol, and Brighton In firmaries. D istillery, No. 7, Smithfield Bass, leading to St. John-street. Price, pale or coloured, in quantities not less than Two G aliens, Eighteen Shillings per Gallon. - --.__-_____--- - PUB . TEXT DISTRIEUTiON of MONEY JL. DIVI. ()ENDS. AUTVORISED and GUARANTEED by HIS MA TESTY the EMPEROR of AUSTRIA, contains MONEY E iIVIDENDS of £: Jo £6O £7O £BO X 90 £lOO £llO £l2O £ 150 £2OO £4OO £6OO X SOO £l,OOO £1,500 £5,000 and £23,000 sterling. Amount:rag together to £70,170 sterling. Direct for PROSPECTUS with full particulars, WITH. OUT DELAY, 'to 'dEINE BROTHERS, at HAMBUROH, Or. to HEINE BROTHERS. at LUBECK. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. THIS EVENING, JANUARY 6, Will he repented a New Grand Opera, in Three Acts, calledTHE BOHEMIAN GIRL. Count Antheim, Mr. Borrani ; Thaddeus, Mr. W. Harrison; Arline, Miss Rainferth; Queen of the Gipsies, Miss Betts. After which, will be repeated a New Grand Comic Christmas Pantomime. entitled HARLEQUIN AND KING PEPIN ; or al! ALENTINE AND ORSON, Harlequin, Mr. Howell; Colum, bine. Miss Carron; Clown, Mr. T. Ridgw a y; Pantaloon, Mr. Blanchard. Dress Boxes Is., Second Price Rs. 6d. ; Upper Circles of Boxes 54., Second Price 38. ; Pit 3s , Second Price 2s. ; Middle Gallery 25., eecond Price Is. ; Upper Gallery Is., Second Price 6d. T2IEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN. M. JULLIEN'S CONCERTS. TROGRAMME FOR THIS EVENING. PART I. Overture, Egmont--Beethoven. Quadrille, Semiramide—Jullien. Solo, Cornet-a-Piston. Herr Kcenig (Air and Variations) —Koenig. Surprise Symphony, The Andante Movement and flnale—Haydn. Valse, La Valse a Deux Temps—Jullien. Selo Violin, Ma ster the English Qu PART 11. Opera, Lucia di Lammermoor, with Solo for Cornet-a-Piston, by Herr hcenig— Donizetti. Burletta ijuadrll le, entitled Dancing for the Million—Julllen. Solo, Flute, Mr. Richardson—Richardson. Valse, Bird of I 'aradtse, received with the greatest favour at the Nobility's Ba' Is—Koenig. Oslop, Alma—' Costa. Doors Ope nat Half-past Seven, commence at Eight o'Clock. Promenade, is Upper Boxes, Is.; Dress Circle, 2s. 6d. ; Private Boxes, U. la. Tickets to be obtained at the Box-office of the Theatre; of Mr. Mitchell, Old Bond-street; Mr. Andrews, New !kind-street ; Mr. Sams, St. James's-street; and M. Jullien's Office, 3, Maddox—street, Bond street. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. MR. BENJAMIN WEBSTER, LESSEE. THIS EVENING, JANUARY 6. Will be repeated Goldsmith's Comedy of SHE SI OOPS TO CONQUER. Hrsrdcastle, Mr. Strickland ; Young Marlow, Mr. H. Holl ; Hastings, Mr. Howe ; Tony L.impkin, Mr. Buckstone ; M rs . Hardcastle, Mrs. Glover ; Miss Hardcastle, Mrs. Nisbett After which, the Unparalleled Performances of Professor RISLEY and his SON. To conclude with a New Fairy Extravaganza, entitled THE FAIR ONE WITH THE GOLDEN LOCKS! King Lachrymoso, Mr. J. Bland; Prince Graceful, Miss P. Horton ; Queen Lucidora, Miss Julia Bennett. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. The Best Pantomime ot the Season—Gorgeous Scenery. THIS EVENING, JANUARY 6, The New Drama, embracing Extraordinary Effects, Powerful Cast, and Novel Scenic Display, called THE BOHEMI ANS ; or, The Rogues of Paris. Principal Characters by Mesta& Lyon, O. Smith, Wright, Wieland, Maynard, Mrs. Yates, Miss F. Stanley. Mrs. F. Matthews. After which ,a New Grand Christmas Pantomime, called HA IL. LEQUIN BLUE. BEARD; or, The Fairy ot the Silver Cresce n t. Produced with Enormous Splendour and Wonderful Effects! Columbine, Mi , a dullen ; Harlequin Quicksilver, by the inimitable Wieland; Clo wn, by the Grimaldi of the day, Mr. T. Matthews, from the Theatres Royal, Covent-garden and Drury-lane; Pants. loon Mr. J'Anstone. Boxes, 4s, ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery. Is. ; Second price at Nine. Doors open at s'.x, commences at a Quarter before Seven o'Clock. PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. LESSEE, Mr. J. M. MADDOX. THIS EVENING, JANUARY 6. Mill be performed LUCREZIA BORGIA. Don Alphooso, Mr. Purdini ; Gennarro, Mr. Allen ; Mattio Orsini, Mrs H. P. Grattan; Vubetta, Mr. Walton ; Lucrezia Borgia, Madame Eugenia Garcia. After which, a New Farce, called THE MARRIAGE CERTI FICATE. Mr. Barnaby Dunover, Mr. Granby ; Frederick, Mr. W. Lacy; Peter Podge, Mr. Keeley; Susan Sly, Mrs. Keeley. To conclude with a New Musical Burlesque spectacle, entitled THE MAGIC MIRROR. Sing song, Mrs. H. P. tirattan ; Poo. Poo, Mr. Paul Bedford ; Sloe-Leaf. Miss It. Isaacs. like noxious animals, and out of fifteen thousand men, women, and children, only one reached Jellelabad to tell the tale. But what is more, they were located in a country where every man's hand was against them, leaving no excuse for a surprise ; while the decimated troops of Sir CHARLES NAPIER are hailed as friends, and their sickness, which the DAT IDGL'S ROYAL SURREY THEATKE. As usual, the funniest and most successful Pantomime. THIS EVENING, JANUARY Will be repeated THE BOHE %HANS OF PARIS. Supported by Messrs. Saville, Hughes, Hicks, R. Bonner, Johnson, Smith, :Ors. li. Vining, and all the Me t,bers of the First Company in the World. After which an entirely new Grand Comic Pantomime, with Splendid Scenery, Superb Dresses, Inimitable Properties and Tricks, every thing new and of the most costly description, HARLEQUIN GRAMMAR, or, Lindley Murray,and A EIO U. Harlequin, Mr. W. H. Harvey ; Grotesque, Mr. Stilt; Clown, Mr. Fuller; Panta loon. Mr. flatv.ins ; Columbines (alternately) diss M. R. Fair. brother and. Miss Sharpe. Places and Private boxes to be had of Mr. Kerschner, at the Box. office, from Eleven to Four. lying writers in the Bombay and Delhi papers seem to exult in, is as much lamented by the natives as by every true-hearted Englishman. We have given ex- tracts from these papers, as in duty bound, but at the same time place little confidence in their state ments. They are exaggerated to an enormous extent. No writer, , who says that the army of Sinde could be overpowered by a handful of Beloochees, is a ASTI.ErS ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE OF ARTS. Under the Management of Mr. batty, Proprietor. Triumphant Success of the Splendid Christmas Holiday Fetes.—West ininster-Bridge is now open. THIS EVENING, JANUARY li, Will he performed the splendid French Spectacle of THE VIC. TORIES OF MURAT, THE SOLDIER OF t RANCE ; or, The General, Prince, and King. New Scenes in the Circle, and unequalled Feats of Horsemanship. To conclude with a Grand Comic Pantomime, entitled HA RI.E QUIN TAM O'SH ANTER, and his STEED DEG; or, The Witches of Alloway Kirk. Harlequin, Mr. Gibson ; Columbine, Cushnie ; Clown. Mr. King; Pantaloon, Mr. Mathews. Acting and Stage Manager, Mr. W. D. broadtoot. Stalls, 55.; boxes, 45.; Upper Boxes, us. ; ; Gallery, Is.; Upper Gallery, Box-ottice open daily from 'l en till Four. Stage Boxes, One ; Half-price to Ditto, Hall-a-Guinea. Private Boxes, Two 44itineas; Halt-price to Ditto, One Guinea. Half-price, Half-past friend of his country, or to be believed upon his oath. Of the same stamp is a paragraph in the Canton Press, which states that " the Plenipoten tiary loses no opportunity of denouncing the gross iniquity of the invasion of Sinde; and on this question there is, perhaps, no man alive more com petent to give an authorative decision than Sir HENRY POTTINGER." This lie is easily put down, by no less an authority than Sir HENRY POTTINGER himself. In the blue book containing the correspon dence on Sinde, we find the following decisive ar gument in justification of Sir CHARLES - NAPIER'S conduct, long, be it remembered, before the Ameers had committed the treacherous acts which roused the vengeance of the Indian authorities. " They," said Sir HENRY POTTINGER, " had themselves literally imposed upon us the necEs si:y of dictating the arrangements provided for by the late treaty, and they must henceforward consider By adopting the course we have pointed out, it ap pears that an arrangement might in the first instance be entered into, which would be exceedingly benefi cial for the Protestant hierarchy; and secondly, a suit able fund might thereby be created, which would de fray the expense of educating, and maintaining in re spectability, a body of men of competent attainments to minister to the religious necessities of the great mass of the population. It seems to us that no possi ble objection could be offered to such an arrangement. The present resources of the Protestant prelates would be rendered certain and easy of payment ; while, by means of an improved mode of culture, introduced by a better security for the investment of capital, an ad( t quate provision might be made for the maintenance of a body of men, who, rightly or wrongly, must exist, and whom, therefore, it behoves the State to secure by such a tie. We shall not here enter into the discussions of cer tain objections, which we are aware might be urged, of an abstract character to the plan we have suggested. Those objections are best met by a simple reference to the present frightful condition of the Irish nation, to the fearful amount of poverty, ignorance, and crime which may everywhere be discerned, and which de mand a palliative, and, if possible, a cure, too urgently to admit of delay—too emphatically, to be postponed to the settlement of nice theoretic points of system. At a late meeting of the parishioners of St. Stephen, Walbrook, on the tiresome and perplexing subject of Alderman Glans' accounts, the Rev. Dr CROLY, who was specially requested to attend, de livered a forcible and brilliant speech, in which cer tain stinging home truths were told, which will bring vividly to the Alderman's recollection the old adage that " naked truth is exceedingly unlovely." For this clever and effective speech the Rev. Doctor is roundly taken to task by the Tory journals of this morning. The Post says, " While nobody will deny its power and brilliancy, if any should think it becoming the clerical character of the speaker, we regret that with such a person we cannot concur ;" and the Herald states, " led on by the cheers of public meetings, Dr. CROLY seems recently to have dropped the character of peace-maker, and to have assumed that of the political martyr and parochial patriot ;" and then proceeds to sneer at the wit and satire of the speech in question, as if they were offences not easily to be pardoned in a clergyman. Now, wherefore this Tory outcry against the Rector of St. Stephen's ? Is it absolutely neces sary that, because he is a parson, he should be a dull, prosy twaddler ? Are wit, and fancy, and sarcasm un becoming in one of the cloth ? If so, Heaven help SIDNEY SMITH, for he must have sinned beyond forgiveness in the eyes of our ultra-discreet Contemporaries. But granting even that brilliant qualities of mind ought never to be exhibited by one who writes " Reverend" before his name, surely the exhibition of such qualities might be pardoned, if only for their rarity. It is not at all likely that the Doctor's example will be infectious ; indeed, we think the very last thing that our Tory Contemporaries need be apprehensive of; is the spread of wit and fancy among clergymen. They are not, in general, the briskest and liveliest ofcreated beings. They usually say far fewer good things than they eat ; and, perhaps, you may travel all England over, from the Land's-end to Berwick, without meeting with a parson who com bines the wit and fancy of a STERNE with the terse humour of a SIDNEY SMITH. But if Dr. CROLY'S vivacity be really so objectionable in the pious, uplifted eyes of the Post and the Herald, we can assure them for their comfort that the Rev. Gentle man is by no means so great an offender as they may imagine ; for the whole of his sarcastic allusions to the numerous offices which Alderman Gmns hold, is a direct plagiarism from BURKE'S speech on Econo mical Reform, wherein he alludes to the various snug, profitable births of which GEORGE the TIIIRD was in possession, —viz., as Duke of CORNWALL, Count Palatine of Lancaster, &c. &c. Let the blame, therefore, rest on the right shoulders ; and let not Doctor CROLY be sneered at as a reckless satirist, for having merely made a dexterous application of the brilliant sarcasm of BURKE. After all, the only question worth considering, is are the Doctor's wit and humour justly applied? Are they grounded on truth ? Has he simply given a spirited and forcible version of ad mitted facts, or has he perverted the truth in order to suit his own purposes as an orator ? This is the right light in which to regard the matter ; and if it be acknowledged—and few can doubt the fact— ROYAL VICI 0111 A THEATRE. THIS EVENING, JANUARY 6, Will be pertermed THE CROSS ROADS OF LIFE; or, The Scamps of London. Devereux, Mr. Freer ; Frank Danvers, Mr. Manta ; Loui., Miss Vincent. After which, HARLEQUIN LINCOLN LUCKY OF LAM. BETH ; or, The Three Sisters of Witch Willow Dell. Harlequin, Mr. Chapino ; Clown, Mr. Scarbrow ; Pantaloon, Mr. Morelli; Columbine, Miss M. Schmidt To conclude with THE LAST WITNESS. TO CORRESPONDENTS. The snggestlon of " A Wellveisher" shall be attended to. l'H E WEATHER.—SUN OFFIcr., JAN. 5. that he has said nothing but what every pa rishioner knows to be the truth ; then we insist that he was perfectly justified in putting that truth in such a manner that it might make the strongest and vividest impression on his au (hence. Had he prosed over his charges, he would simply have set the parish fast asleep; and though this perhaps would have been more in keeping with the habits of the cloth, yet we respectfully contend that his attendance was not requested by his flock in order that he might drug them with laudanum. As regards the Doctor's passing remark, " I have been, like many others, a victim to the ingratitude of Governments, who, in conciliating their enemies, have neglected the zealous friends whom they used as stepping-stones to their own advancement," we are decidedly of opinion that the Rev. Gentleman does not complain without suffi cient cause. Heaven knows we have no great sympa thies with Tories, or with those who advocate Toryism; but common justice demands that men like Dr. CROLY and the late Dr. MAGINN, who spent the best years of their lives in upholding the interests of their party; who brought to the support of those interests wit—learning—humour—vigour—skill, and perseve rance,—justice, we say, demands that men like these, to whom their party owes so much, should not be over looked and neglected when the day of Tory triumph comes. It is bad policy and gross ingratitude, whe ther in individuals or parties, to kick down the ladder by the help of which they rose to power. TifEUMOMETER, Lowest, 44 ; Highest, 30 ; NOOD, 52. BAROMETER, 29.7.—W1ND, S.W. NOTE.—The nu,aber 32 on the Thermometer denotes the freezing point, and 55 temperate. In Barometers fait is usually placed opposite 30, and rain at 29. h WATER Al' LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY. Morning 16 minutes after 2. Evening ... 36 minutes after 2. LONDON: SATURDAY MORNING, JANUARY 6, 1844. THE REVENUE FOR THE YEAR AND THE QUARTER ENDING JAN. 5, 1844. The income-tax now tells with effect. While for several years previous to this impost, there was a deficiency of between 2,000,0001. and 3,000,0001., the returns for 1844 show a total in crease of 5,742,0781., of which the income-tax forms nearly the total amount, being not less than 3,249,260/.; thus leaving a surplus over ordinary years of 492,8181. But this sum, though small, is a good omen, when we take into account the reduction of establishments and the curtailment of expenditure caused by the new tax. It shows that the trade of the country is improving, and we are happy to find that under the two great heads of revenue, the Customs and the Excise—the best tests of prosperity— the increase is very remarkable. In the former, the Customs, there is a decrease on the year of 2,0911., but there is an increase on the quarter of not less than 552,8791. This at the same time allows how the public have been robbed by the plundering and audacious tricks of men well paid for performing their duty, and how negli gent, to use a mild phrase, have been those gentlemen called Commissioners of the Board of Customs. rt gives a proportionate increase on the year of more than 2,000,0001., while the in crease on the Excise fur the same period has been o nly 387,5031., and, if we judge by the quarter, not more than 32,0001., the increase being only 8,7631. The Stamps have fallen off, show ing a decrease in the year of 64,9451., and in the quarter, 38,1011. The Taxes, also, have decreased on the year 83,1061., and on the quarter, 17,306/. The Post-office, while exhibiting a decrease on i the year of 13,0001., has increased n the quarter 2,000/. On Crown - lan ds there is a decrease both in the quarter and year; and in the Miscel laneous there is an increase of 1,0a0,3301., withtotal a decrease on the quarter of 9,620/. The ordinary revenue, including in Imprest and other Moneys, is 50, 071 , 943/ . ; while, lB43, it was it was 44,329,8651. We are gratified on seeing these results, because they prove that, under the greatest difficulties, this country shows her Sinde to be, as it is in reality, a portion 01 Hindostan, in which our position makes us pars. mount, and entitles us to act as we consider best and fittest for the general good'of the whole empire." So much for the adverse opinion of the man best com petent to judge. But without the opinion of such an authority any one acquainted with the history of the transaction can judge for himself'. The Ameers are not the rightful owners of Sinde ; they were, till they set up for themselves, tributaries of the Caubul Sovereigns, and having ground down the unfortunate native population by every possible extortion, and ruined the trade, and con sequently the resources, of the country, like Brother Jonathan they became repudiators. They did more. They broke treaties ; they intrigued with Persia ; they received and entertained Russian spies disguised as Turks ; they attempted to raise Lahore against Ilindostan ; and committed such acts of treachery on the march of our troops to Caubul, that Lord AUCKLAND, if he had remained in office, had no ether alternative, but to crush them at The accounts from Madrid to the 28th ult. state that though the capital was tranquil, the Opposition members and journalists were preparing to arouse the provinces by issuing addresses and dispatching dele gates in all directions. The following curious apology for suspending the Cortes appears in the Government paper, the Madrid Gazette. The reasons urged arc equally applicable to the suspension and abolition of the Constitution The great debates which took place during several consecu tive days, relative to the conduct of Al. Olozaga on the night of the 26th of November, prevented the Cortes and the Go vernment from preparing the laws required by the state of the country, and excited a deplorable irritation in the public mind. A fatal party spirit stifled the voice of reason ; passions which had been subdued by the insurrection of June, had re-appeared more ardent than ever ; so that the calmness and prudence ne cessary to examine the grave matters submitted to the approba bation of Congress no longer prevailed in its deliberations. Already even too great an importance had been ascribed to words which had been pronounced in a moment of exasperation, and which might have led to fresh disturbances. Under these circumstances, the Government deemed it expedient to suspend the labours of the Cortes, which was accordingly done yester day. Repose will induce reflection, and time will allay the ir ritation. Those discussions, besides, occasioned the loss of much valuable time, which might have been usefully employed." The Three per Cents. were done at 25 2.51 1-16, for cash, and 25i at 60 days ' • the Coupons which are not to be capita lized, at 20i, at 59 days; and the Floating Debt at 42. once, as Lord ELLENBOROUGH has justly done. While animadverting on the aberration of one Liberal paper, which attacks its opponents and kills its friends, we see with some degree of pride that two Tory journals, once equally adverse, hut from a different cause, to the occupation of Sinde, have changed their opinions. On mature deliberation, the writers in these papers see that self-preservation, and not conquest, is the object; and, with a frankness which does them honour, they abjure their former doctrines and support a system essentially necessary to the prosperity of British India, and the very existence of our empire in the East. In a preceding article we explained the process by which it has happened that Church lands, and espe cially the episcopal estates in Ireland, have become generally deteriorated, and the progress of agricul tural improvement in them intercepted, more than on any other estates in the kingdom. We return now to the subject, with the view of showing how effec tual an amended kind of tenure might be rendered, for the better providing for the spiritual wants of the whole mass of the population, Catholic as well Pro testant, in Ireland. Let it be conceded, then, that the intermediate letting of the bishops' estates to undertakers on leases of twenty-one years' duration, subject to annual fine, is an evil. 'What we propose is, that a compromise on the part of the State should be immediately entered into with the bishops, in ease, with the view of ter minating this obnoxious kind of tenure. It is calcu lated that about the sum of 83,6301. is annually realised by fines, under the present system. This sum may, therefore, be considered as the annual value of an annuity, terminable with the various lives of the existing annuitants. Let a composition be effected on this calculation, which it should be im perative on both parties, bishops and undertakers, to accept. It would follow then, that all their lands would be immediately out of lease, and they would come into the possession of the State, subject to the perpetual annuities payable to the bishops, to the amount of 45,2581. per annum, this being the present yearly income deri vable from the rents. I It would be necessary, then, to form a corporation The Paris papers are almost entirely filled with reports of the discussions, or rather, conversations, in the different Committee-rooms, respecting certain paragraphs of the KING'S speech. The only one of interest took place in the seventh bureau, of which M. GUIZOT and M. THUM are members, when the ex-Minister put certain questions respecting the words "friendship and intimate alliance with Eng land." We gave the substance of the questions, with M. GUIZOT'S replies, yesterday, but as they re fer to subjects of considerable interest, as regards the relations of England and France, we subjoin them in a more ample form. M. TRIERS said he was anxious to have some explanation on one or two points, for he did not wish to allude to all the topics in the Royal speech ; but he would first of all declare that he was in the number of the Oppositionists—decidedly of the Opposition. It was a matter of notoriety for a length of time that he was not an adversary of the English alliance ; but time destroyed many illusions, and experience had suggested somewhat more reserve TEE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY MORNING, JANUARY 6, 1844. on this point. Before pronouncing on the possibility of si acere agreement and perfect alliance with Eng land,, the matter ought to be looked at very narrowly. They ought to examine if it were not possible for the Ministry to obtain for the claims of the country some satisfaction—if such demands of the nation as were di etated by honour and right could not be fully con t' nted. If the two countries had really come to an understanding respecting Spain, the fact ought to be declared to the Chamber. As to Greece, which, in his opinion, presented the Eastern question in a new point of view, if an agreement had been come to, it ought to be at once announced to the public. If, on those points, satisfactory explanations were given, he could readily comprehend—not that irrevocable en gagements were taken—but that an inclination, a ten dency, as it were, towards the English alliance, should be expressed. If anything more than that had taken place, he thought the matter had been urged on too fast ! The expressions employed with respect to the English alliance had much struck him. Could it be possible that the question of the right of search, which had so strongly engaged the attention of the Chamber, had been abandoned ? He wished to hear some explanations on those points, also on the ques tion of public instruction, which was of immense im portance. Was there, he would ask, any course de termined on, relative to the seminaries for the edu cation of persons intended for the priesthood ? To these questions and remarks M. Guizo•r made this reply :—" The words friendship and intimate alliance had not been employed in the speech from the throne as in the years preceding 1838, but simply the expression cordial understanding—an expression which implied, in fact, that the several questions that might divide the two nations had been discussed one by one, and that a cordial understanding had been come to. As to the right of search, a negotiation had been commenced by the consent of England, and the wishes of the Chambers, and of the public in general, had been taken seriously into consideration. He could • say no more on the subject. As to Spain, the difference of • opinion on that point, between England and France, had I been one of the causes of coolness between the two States, l and Spain had suffered thereby very seriously. At pre ' sent they had come to an understanding, and Spain would reap from it a greater security. As to what con cerned Greece, England and France marched to• gether on the same path, and their agreement on this question was the more remarkable, inasmuch as ' Russia held herself apart, and refused to act in con cert with the other two Powers." COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, FRIDAY.—Their Royal Highnesses the Princess Royal and the Princess Alice were taken out for their cus tomary exercise this morning. His Royal Highness Prince Albert hunted this morning, the harriers meeting in the Park, at the Manor House at Horton. His Royal Highness was attended by General Sir Edward Bowater, the Hon. Captain Duncombe, Hon. C. A. Murray, and Mr. G. E. Anson. After two good runs, the Royal party returned to the Castle. tier Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, and Lady Fanny Howard, will dine with her Majesty at the Castle this evening. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge has arrived at Belvoir Castle, Leicestershire, to honour the Duke of Rutland with a visit, from Dean Park, Northamptonshire, the seat of the Earl of Cardigan. Sir R. Peel and Sir J. Graham visited the Earl of Aberdeen yesterday at the Foreign-office. Mr. John Wood, Chairman of the Excise, had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday, at his official residence in Downing-street. Lieut.-General Sir Peregrine Maitland, Governor of the Cape of Good Hope, transacted business at the Colonial-office on Thursday. Count de St. Aulaire, the French Ambassador, visited the Earl of Aberdeen yesterday at the Foreign-office. Sir David Davies has returned to his residence in Berkeley- greet from Witley Court, Worcestershire, the seat of her 11li jesty the Queeu Dowager. The Earl of Ripon arrived in town yesterday morning from his residence on Putney-heath. His Lordship visited Sir Ro bert Peel at his residence in Whitehall-gardens. MONEY AN]) COMMERCIAL NEWS CITY, FRIDAY EVENING. The English Funds left off at steady prices, a limited business having been done, as the revenue accounts will appear to morrow, and parties will then know what chance there may be of a reduction in the rate of interest. Consols closed at 97A ; Bank Stock receded to 1851. There were very few further operations in the Foreign market, Spanish 'Threes closing at 30*• ' the Fives at about 214 to 22 ; Peruvian for Account at 22i ; Dutch New Fives,at 99a ; and Colombian at 111. The additional transactions in Railway Shares have been these :—Eastern Counties were 12* ; Brighton, 6i; Green wich, 7* ; Midland Counties, 12; North Midland, 10; and South Eastern, 14* discount. Edinburgh and Glasgow New, 2g; Hull and Selby, 9i ; Brighton Loan Notes, 1* ; South Western, 338; and Northern and Eastern, 7 3 / 4 premium. Australasia Bank Shares were 2 premium ; and Colonial, 12i discount. There was a general decline in the rates of the Foreign ex changes. We have no news yet of the steamer from ',the West Indies, rather anxiously looked for by the Mexican bondholders. (From The Sun of Last Night.) There was not so much animation in the Cotton Market at Liverpool yesterday, but prices remained the same, and 6,000 bales met with buyers. Speculators took 1,000 bales. The Share Market was not quite so good, but still a fair business was done. Birmingham and Gloucester were 65 ; Edinburgh and; Glasgow, 59k; Grand Junction, 236; Great Western, 99; Manchester and Birmingham, 391; Manchester and Leeds, 101 i ; Paris and Rouen, 324 ; South Eastern, 37 1 ; Do. New, 37k; Paris and Lyons, 31. 6s. 6d. The letters by the Overland Mail were delivered this morn ing, but they do not contain much information beyond that communicated yesterday. It may be stated, with some confi dence, that the aspect of commercial affairs has improved. It appears that the supplies of Teas would be even greater than was calculated upon. There are, in the official documents submitted to the Con gress of Amerit.,a' by the President, and compiled by the Government officers, many items of intelligence of interest on this side of the Atlantic. It ought to be added that oar postal regulations have excited a strong desire on the part of the Americans to have a cheap rate established, and that the propriety of rendering the post-office operations a burden upon the national revenues was openly canvassed. In reference to the new law of Great Britain, the Postmaster- General of the Republic thus remarks : " There has been an increase of letters, but not to one-half the extent anticipated, and an increased charge for the ma nagement greater than was estimated. •` Instead of an increase of revenue, as was predicted by the Committee, there was a less of $5,290,268. " The system of penny postage in England, so far as revenue is concerned, has resulted in a loss of near two-thirds the re venue under the old system, and in an increase of cost of ma nagement equal to 30 per cent. •' These facts will serve to show that the tax, in the shape of postage, upon the English correspondence has been lessened ; that the postage on newspapers is paid, in the shape of a stamp duty, higher than the postage on newspapers in the United States ; that the correspondence through the mail has been increased; and that the revenue derived to the Crown has been greatly lessened. And they further prove that the income of the British Post-office is still greater than its cost of management. Two other facts should not be overlooked in the comparison of the revenue of the British Post-office under the old and new rates of postage. The first is, that all foreign and colonial letters which are delivered in England, in their transit to and from other countries, are subjected to a heavy postage. The second, that by law the transportation of letters by private conveyance, except where the carrier shall himself deliver the letter to the person addressed, is prohibited by severe penalties. " If the British Crown did not need the revenue, or if it did, and the subject was willing to be taxed in the form of stamp duty or excise equal to the reduction of the rate of postage, as more equal and less burdensome, no one will question this right, and the justice of yielding to the demand to have postage reduced. " If the Pest-office department of the United States yielded a revenue over its expenses, or if the charge of its manage ment was paid from the general treasury, no one would doub the propriety and justice of a reduction. " It is a question for Congress and the people to settle, whether they will so far change the laws of the United States concerning the Post-office department, as to direct its expenses to be paid out of the Treasury. Tne number of chargeable letters delivered, which an nually pass through the Post-office of the United States, has heretofore been estimated at 24.507,994. The number of similar letters annually posted in England, under the old rates of postage, was estimated by the Committee of Parliament at 77,500,000. " The number under the penny-rate of like letters may be estimated at 204,234,676." A limited amount of business has been transacted to-day in Stocks, if we except the purchase of about 18,000/. Reduced Three per Cents. at 98, by the Government brokers. It is perhaps worth notice that the investment made yesterday by the Government brokers was not on account of any public fund, and hence the inference falls to the ground that a plan for the reduction of the Three-and-a-Half per Cents. is In reference to the question, whether any course had been determined on to settle the disputes between the University and the Church, the Minister of Jus tice (M. MARTIN, du Nord) said the Government had endeavoured to conciliate all parties, and he had every reason to hope that all struggles between the State and the clergy would soon cease. Most of the papers simply announce the suspension, or rather dissolution, of the Spanish Cortes (for it amounts to this), and seem to regard it as a matter of course, and quite in keeping with other acts of the Camarilla. The Congitutionnel, however, is an ex ception, and makes the following amusing remarks on the Spanish character : " It is very difficult, it appears, to govern in Spain with the Chamber. M. Olozaga was overturned because he desired to be armed against the Cortes with an ordonnance of dissolu tion. We have now his successors, who had been so much shocked at his audacity, adopting, with a slight difference in the form, the plan which turned out an abortion in his hands. They do not dissolve the Cortes : they suspend them. Except the electoral embarrassments from which they free themselves, it is precisely the same thing. Spain is an admirable country. There we may behold what we shall never see elsewhere. There is a Constitution which has interred two •r three others, probably with the pretension of being regardet as more serious than its predecessors. This Constitution prescribes the annual vote of the taxes by the representatives of the coun try, and in addition the examination, discussion, and passing of laws which should govern Spain. Yet, for the last year and more, this Constitution has been without action; for a year and more the Cortes have assembled to discuss no one knows what, and separate without voting either laws or budget. And notwithstanding everything goes on in Spain, badly enough it is true, hut Spain is an much in the habit of going out of the direct line, that nobody pays any attention to the circumstance. Budgets are levied by •rdonnance, laws are made by ordor nance, and future and problematical Cortes are waited for to pass a Bill of Indemnity. In truth, Spain is a happy country. If only the quarter of what is seen in Spain, was attempted in France or England, a furious kick-up would be the result." BOURSE—PARIS, WEDNESDAY, JAN. 3. First Highest Lowest Last Price. Price. Price. Price. French Five per Cents. 124 ... 124 25... 124 ... 124 25 4 1 / 2 per Cents 109 25... 109 25... 109 25 .. 109 25 Fouriper Cent, 105 ... 105 ... 105 .. 105 Threes n 45.... 82 50... 82 40.. 82 50 Bank of France 3215 ...3215 ...3210 ...3210 Belgian Bank 707 50... 707 50 .. 707 50... 707 50 Belgian Fives ... lO5 105 105 ... 105 1840 1074 ... 108 ... 107 i ... 108 1842 lo Bi... 1084 ... 1084 ... 1084 Dutch 24 per Cents 564 ... 564 ... 564 564 Spanish Active . ..... 30 ... SO ... 30 ... 30 Passive 5 5 ... 5 ... ?Jeanoiitan human ...... ...••• ••••• 10-1 ; 1044 .. 1044 ... 1044 RAILWAY SHARES. St. Germain .........• 7 ,4 0 ... 782 50... 780 ... 782 50 Versailles, L. 8... •••• 19 0 ... 195 199 ... 193 Rouen 842 50... 843 75 .. 842 50... 843 75 Rouen to Havre. ..••••• t 45 ... 655 ... 645 ... 655 Orleans. ......... 847 50... 850 ... 847 50... 850 Strasburg, t. Bale ..• 215 ... 215 ... 212 50... 212 50 Avignon to 'Marseilles 160 ... 665 ... (360 ... 665 RAILWAY SHARES, FOR DEC. ACCOUNT. St. Germain ........ 782 50... 782 50... 782 50... 782 50 Rouen Rouen to Havre... •• 650 ••• 650 ... 647 50 .. 647 50 Orleans Strasburg to 8a1e...... 212 50... 213 75... 212 50... 213 75 Avignon to Marseilles 165 ... 667 50... 665 .. 167 50 ACCIDENT TO THE SUEEN.-WINDSOR, FRIDAY. —A slight accident, which, happily, proved of no consequence, happened to her Majesty, who was being driven in a pony.carriage with the Marchioness of Douro. The postilion took too short a turn from one road into another, and the left wheel of the car riage went into a broad ditch, which threw the car riage against the hedge. Her Majesty and Lady Douro were speedily rescued from th-mr unpleasant position, and returned to the Castle in a small pony car, driven by Colonel Arbuthnot, which was kindly given up by a lady Neino was driving close by ; and his Royal Highness Prince Albert accompanied the car on h ors eback. `ire are gratified to learn that her Majesty has not experienced any inconvenience from this accident. not contemplated. The purchase was on private account. Our belief is strong, from facts that have transpired of late, that the conversion will be effected. Consols for Account have remained very tranquil to-day at from 97 to 97A ex div. The premium upon Exchequer-hills has advanced to 695., and that upon India Bonds t• 81s. Bank Stock is again higher, namely, at 181. A good deal of business has been transacted in the Foreign Funds to-day, and at prices generally in advance, though but slight, on the values realised yesterday. The Dutch Two-and a- Half per Cent s . hav e rallied to 54 a the Five per Cents. to 100 A ; and Colombian ex Venezuelan to 14. Spanish Con sols, after touching 22A, have receded to 21/ ; but the Three per Cents. have been pretty firm at 30/ a. The Railway Share .Market is scarcely so high as it has of late been. The principal variations have been a fall in the Manchester and Leeds, from 32 to 31 prem., and in the Edin burgh and Glasgow, from 81 to 8 premium. The Brightens, the Blackwalls, and the South Western are a shade lower. New London and Birmingham Shares_ have advanced to 261 ft prem. Real del Monte Unregistered Shares are heavy at There are no fresh quotations for Joint Stock Bank Shares to-day, DIANCHEsTEIL STOCK EXCHA NOE, JAN. 4.—We have had less animation to-day, but prices are not materially altered, though, perhaps, on the whole rather in favour of the buyers. —Bolton and Preston, 26; Manchester and Birmingham, 39a; Manchester and Leeds, 102; Half Shares, 45k; Sheffield and Manchester, 531 and .54 ex ml.; Ditto, Quarter Shares, 4 7-16th ; South Eastern, Scrip, 37i ; Rochdale Canal, GO/ ; Manchester Assurance, 9/. CLOSING PRICES BRITISH FUNDS. 13 ar, Stock 1 esi India Stock ... •• pro 3 Cent. Red. •31 Cent. Cons. Ditto Old Annuities ... 3i ;.,n - Cent. Red ... 102 i Ditto New Annuities... 3i per Cent.... Ex. Bills, 1,0001. 14d. 69 om i'onv 5 per lonig Annuities to expire Ditto Small Jan. 1800 ...... 12 11-16 Bank Stock for Acct. 4 -4 t. 1559 a.,. 1860 FOREIGN FUNDS. per cent b per cent Brazilian 80nd5.... A yres6 per cent — Cnilian, 6 per cent Gd:ombian, 6 per cent ll/ Ditto, 1624 Ct6a Bonds, 6 per cent lli Danish, 3 per sent Greek, 1825, 5 per cent — Mexican, 5 per cent. Ditto, 6 per cent. 1837 Peruvian, 1825,6 perct. Portuguese, 5 per cent. Ditto, New Ditto Prussian. 5 per cent — Ru3sian, 5 per cent Metallic ...... . 'Spanish, 5 per cent Ditto, 3 per cent 3O ,Ditto Deferred.... French, 5 per cent. —f. —c. Exchange.......... —f —c. French, 3 per cent. —f. —c. Dutch, 2i per vent. 54i Ditto, 5 per cent.... I.ooi ,RES. iaid) ...... . SHA. Bristol and Exeter (70 pi 66* Eastern Counties (23 paid) lO4 Ditto New Registered ( paid) Edinburgh and Glasgow (50 paid) 5B Ditto New Shares (12i paid) l4l Grand Junction Railway (100 paid) Ditto Quarter Shares (50 paid) 5B/ London and Brighton (50 pa d) ..... Ditto Loan Notes (10 paid) ... .. ...... London and Birmingham (100 paid) 238 Ditto New Quarter Shares ( 2 paid) 284 London and Greenwich Railway (12115 s 4dpd) 51 London and South Western (411 6s 10klpd) 75 Manchester and Leeds (70 paid) ...... ...... 102 Midland Counties Railway (100 paid) Ditto Fifths ( 2 paid) 2l Northern and Eastern (45 paid) North Midland (100 paid) Paris and Orleans (20 paid) Paris and Rouen (20 paid) . 324 South Eastern and Dover (50 paid) ...... Ditto Scrip (25 paid) COURSE OF EXCHANGE.—(YESTERDAY.) Amsterdam Ditto, at sight 26 5 Rotterdam ...2 U. 12 71 1 Genoa , Antwerp Hamburgh M.B. 14 0 Venice..... Altona Paris, 3 days' sight II isbor Ditto, 3 months 25 95 Marseilles Bourdeaux 26 5 Frankfort on Maine 122 Petersburgh, 3 Us. Berlin Vienna, effec. fl. 3 M lO 0 Trieste, ditto Madrid Cadiz Bilbao ............ 36 Barcelona .............. . 36 Seville ......... ....... 36 isbon ....... Oporto 524 Rio Janeiro 23 Bahia Buenos Ayres New York, 21 days sight 46i Philadelphia PRICES OF BULLION, PER. 02, Foreign Gold, bars£3 17 9 Portugal Gold Coin.. 3 17 5 New Doubloons 0 0 0 New Dollars... 0 0 0 Silver in Bars... 0 4 11; BANK OF ENGLAND. Quarterly Average of the Weekly Liabilities and Assets of the Bank of England, from the 7th day of October, to the 30th of December, 1843, both inclusive, published pursuant to the Act, 3 and 4 W. IV., cap. 98. LIABILITIES. ASSETS. Circulation . ...£19,098,000 Securities Deposits 11,751,0 00 Bullion 12,855,000 £30,549,000 Downing-street, Jan. 5, 1 £33,912,000 SUMMARY OF NE tS AND iUbttt Opinion. " 14'ho runs may read." FOREIGN. The King of the French, on Tuesday, presided at a Council of Ministers, which lasted from twelve till half-past one. The French funds on Wednesday rose considerably. The Three per Cents. closed at nf. 60c., and the Fives at 124 f. 50c. Cardinal Capaecini, the Pope's Interntmeio at Lisbon, was daily expected in Madrid, to arrange the religious differences between Spain and the Holy See. 'f he mortal remains of the Count of Nassau, ex-King of Holland, arrived at Amsterdam on the 29th - ult. On the 30th the King and the Prince Royal went to Amsterdam to see the body, and returned to the Hague on the same day. The funeral was to take place on Tuesday. Gustave Maximilien Juste, Prince de Croy, Cardinal Arch bishop of Rouen, died on Sunday night last. He was born at Chateau de l'Hermitage (Nord) on the 12th September, 1773, and was consecrated on the 9th January, 1820. M. Charles Dupin has been elected President of the Academy of Sciences, in the room of M. Dumas, and M. Elie tie Beau mont has been chosen Vice-President, in succession to M. C. Dupin. Mr. Baillie Cochrane, M.P., is returned to Paris from Bourges, having been on a visit to Don Carlos. _ The Hungarian Diet has, by a very large majority, adopted a resolution that an address shall be presented to the King, praying that his Majesty will, during this session, cause a Bill to be presented to it, for granting electoral rights and qualifica tion to become candidates for seats in the Diet to advocates, physicians, and other members of the learned professions in general ; and secondly, a Bill declaring that persons not noble shall be qualified for the places and employments in the Go vernment which are now reserved for nobles exclusively. The Commerce says :—" A work man of the Rue Vielles Audriettes, who for some time has attended the public lectures on mechanics, has invented a machine, by which a man can make 40 or 50 pairs of shoes a-day." The French press, in 1843, brought forth 6,176 works in all the languages, dead and living ; 1,872 engravings and litho graphic prints; 147 maps, plans, and charts; and 316 pieces of music have also been published. In the evening of Sunday and Monday, a great number of Deputies proceeded to M. Laffitte's residence to congratulate him on the address, so true and so well imagined, which he pronounced on leaving the place he had filled as Provisional President of the Chamber. On Monday, Beranger went to felicitate M. Laffitte for the generous words which he had uttered. On Tuesday, at a meeting of Odilon Barrot's party they decided that they would, in the bureax. interrogate the Minis ters on the subject of the reports in circulation about a dota tion to the Duke de Nemours. 'They also came to an under standing to oppose the exaggeration in the Speech from the Throne relative to the prosperity of the finances o f the country. The meeting were also unanimous in opinion that the Cabinet, in its relations with foreign Powers, had defended equally ill the material interests of the country, and its dignity and honour. An Algiers letter states that Colonel Charron, of the Engi neers, ill exploring the quarries in Algeria, which have been recently worked, discovered veins of marble perfectly suited for statuary and monumental sculpture. LAW AND POLICE. The Lord Mayor, at the sitting at the Mansion-house, cen sured the police for the remissness with which his orders as to the emnibus drivers and the scavengers, in the City, had been enforced. A young man, highly respectably-dressed, yet covered with dirt, was brought before Mr. Hall, at Bow-street, in a most woe-begone plight, charged with stealing a number of cigars, the property of Mr. Charles George, tobacconist, Long-acre. The pr►soner is well connected, but has, unfortunately, such propensities to low habits and low company, that he is incor rigible. He was once before charged with robbery, but was then discharged. He was now sent to prison for three weeks. Three flashily-dressed young men, who gave their names Henry Robins, Frederick Howard, and George Smith, were charged, at Marylebone, with stealing a coat from the house of Mr. Derbyshire, a surgeon, London-street, Fitzroy-square. They are well-known members of the "swellmob." They were committed for trial. Nehemiah Shakspeare, a middle-aged man, who had been upwards of seven years resident engineer at the Lambeth Water works, was charged, at Lambeth-street, by Mr. Johnston, of the firm of Johnston and Company, of Gloucester-street, Com mercial-road, with having wilfully and maliciously caused the bursting of a steam-boiler on his premises on Tuesday morn ing last, by which the lives of upwards of 70 individuals were placed in the most imminent danger, and property to a con siderable amount destroyed. There had been a difference be tween the defendant and his employer a day or two previous, but Shakspeare strongly denied the charge. He was re manded, but admitted to bail. Patrick Connel, a tall, athletic Irishman, was finally exa mined, at Worship-street, on a charge of having assaulted and wounded James White, aged 15 years, an inmate of St. Luke's workhouse. whereby his life had been placed in imminent dan ger. On being asked if he wished to say anything, the pri soner launched forth a farrago of inane and incoherent ravings indicative of insanity, which, however, it was the general opi nion was in part or wholly assumed. He was committed for trial. COURT —I I .II.SHIONAI3X.E. The Duke of Bordeaux, on Tuesday, arrived at Powderham Castle on a visit to the Earl of Devon, who proceeded to Teignmout.h to meet the Prince. He intended afterwards to visit Solworth Castle, where he resided for some time with the rest of the exiled family in 1830. Viscount Melbourne arrived in South-street on Thursday afternoon, from a visit to Lord and Lady Palmerston, at Broadlands. _ _ _ The Court went out of mourning on Thursday for his late Majesty King William Frederick of Holland, Count of Nassau. According to the latest accounts Earl Grey is improving in health and strength. MISCELLANEOUS. The number of presents this Christmas passing to their va rious destinations has been very large. So considerable were they in amount and sulk one day last week, that a special train was run on the London and Birmingham Railway for their con veyance into the country. On the day in question upwards of 6,000 barrels of oysters were transmitted by the train. A lady writes to a friend at Dumfries, that a draft sent by her brother in India came safely to hand through the Post office, after having been at the bottom of the sea in the Mem non, and although the seal was so completely wasted along with the paper adjoining, that the letter in fact was quite open. Edward Waller, Esq., eldest son of the late lamented T. Waller, Esq., of Finnoe House, has been appointed a Justice of the Peace for the county of Tipperary. The registration under the Arms Act goes on, in the county Cork, with great dispatch since the issuing of Lord Eliot's cir cular. At Bandon sessions, on Friday, the applications, which did not exceed sixty, were all granted in a couple of hours — no questions asked. It is the intention of the Council of the Royal Agricultural Society to give premiums of 50 guineas each for the best prize essays during the present year, on the agriculture of Norfolk, Cheshire, Essex, and Wiltshire. On Thursday the half-yearly general meeting of the London Coachbuilders' Benevolent Institution was held at the Red Lion, King-street, Golden-square, Mr. William Savage, the President, in the chair. The Institution is established for the purpose of affording permanent relief to coachmakers, trimmers, and harness-makers of the metropolis, who may become inca pacitated from following their employment, by an allowance of pensions of fifteen guineas tea male, and ten guineas to widows; and to orphan children of members or pensioners, not exceed ing ten pounds per annum to one family. The Secretary read the report, by which it appeared, that, notwithstanding the Society is in an infant state, its funds already amount to 3741. 3s. 7d. stock. The annual general meeting of the Travellers' Commercial Society was held on Thursday afternoon at the offices, No. 73, llasinghall-street, City. It appeared that from Oct. 1, 1842, to 1843, nine members and seven widows had been admitted on the fund. The receipts within the same period, including interest on stock, and subscriptions and donations from all sources, amounted to 5,5811. 3,. 71d. ; of that sum 1,7621. 6s. Bd. had been paid to claimants, and 3,167/. invested in the ftalls. 41 1 . * $ k , tersf.l:-:jr-1 14N(**1*14,, ' 11 4 " ;I ' '. . 1 t ' ji•A•ee d ' . ,C :: , ''` '-- ' ', 71. - ' l4 ''', ..,,;,. „,‘,..,.,..,. ......„,,, ~. ~ .. c§nu. J f FLANDERS MAIL. BRUSSEL(' JAN. 2.--The King, accompanied by M. Con way, set out this morning for his country seat at Ardenne. This evening, at eleven o'clock, a funeral service was per formed in the church of St. Jacques, near Candenburgh, on occasion of the anniversary of The death of Princess Mary, Duchess of Wurtemberg , sister of the Queen of the Belgians. A great number of parsons of distinction were present at this service, which his Majesty causts to be performed every year. The Queen was accompanied by the Countess du Merodi ; the Marquis de Rumigny, the French Ambassador; the Dake de Bassarra, Chief Secretary of thq• Legation ; all the Ministers the persons composing the Royal household, some Senators' Deputies, &c., were present. .11er Majesty and all the per sons of her household, were in deep mourning. -- The Moniteur publishes the 1. , .w which fixes at 41. per 1,000 kilogrammes the import duty on barley till Dec. 31, 1844, and which enacts that when wheat is exempt from import duty, the Government may subject rye to the same regime. The Moniteur, of the 3d, contains several columns of com plimentary addresses to their Majesties, in the name of the dif ferent public bodies, on New Year's Day. RONIE, DEC. 23.—A few how s since Count Von Manteuffel, Aide-de-Camp to Prince Alber• of Prussia, arrived here, ex press from Berlin, bringing to th eir Royal Highnesses Princess Albert and Prince Henry of Prussia, the intelligence of the death of the Count of Nassau. Notwithstanding the deep snow, he performed the journey in eight days and a half. The Russian General Paskevvitob, brother of the Prince of Warsaw, died this afterno on . P. S.—The melan c h o ly ne ws of the death of he r fa t her has indueed Princess Alb er t t o g ive t'p her plan of remain* here for the season. She has determined to leave Rome within a week, and return to Berlin.—Akfemeine Zeitung, Dec. 30. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY, Jan. 5. IN RI HENRY THOS. 2.YALL, THE YOUNGER. This was an application on b‘half of the bankrupt to receive the protection of the Court under the new Bankruptcy Amend ment Act. He had been in very extensive practice as a surgeon and chemist in Greenwich, whore he resided up to the year 1840, and subsequently until the date of his insolvency in High street, Whitechapel. The amount of his debts and liabilities was 8001., of which more than one-half was contracted without opposition being incurred, chiefly on sporting bets. One with Mr. Camden, for a bet of 1101., was strongly con tended by the body of the creditors, on the ground that the in solvent had given him a fraudulent bill of sale upon his pro perty, although there was not the slightest consideration re ceived on account of this liability. The case was postponed in order that evidence on this head might be adduced. IN RE THOR. In this case the bankrupt h.t.cl carried on a very extensive business as a hosier and draper. The amount of his debts ex cdeded 27,0001., in liquidation of which his available assets were about 5,6001. No opposition being offered by the creditors he was allowed to pass his final examination. IN RE THOINIA.S CHADWICK. This day being appointed for the choice of assignees under the fiat against the bankrupt, who had bean as extensive whole sale corn and provision dealer, a number of creditors were in attendance to tender proofs prim to voting. The only one contested was one on the part of Mr. Wells for 1,3001. on account of a number of acceptances by the bank rupt, and for which it was alleged Mr. Wells held a mortgage on his property in Thomas.street. This proof was eventually allowed. Messrs. Henry Nicholl s a n d Ed wa rd Aylmer were appointed without opposition. DRAMATIC TELLIGENCE. LIVERPOOL, JAN. 4.—The Old Theatre Royal, Liverpool, still keeps up its powerful attraction. The houses are literally crowded to suffocation. Mr. Webster, of the Haymarket, has been performing here during the week, with Madame Celeste, in the popular dramas of Victor and Hortense and The Pretty Girls of Slilberg, and both have been applauded to the echo. Indeed, the interest excited was intense. The theatre has been open but seven nights, and nearly 18,000 persons have paid to enter it. Buckstone and Mrs. Fitzwilliam appear next week in a new operatic drama, adapted and partly re-written from Donizetti's Opera of La I ilia du Regiment, as Mr. Webster returns to London to superintend the revival of The Merry Wires of Windsor, at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket, on Tuesday night, in which Madame Vestris and Mrs. Nisbett will enact the Merry Wives. THE MARQUIS OF WESTMINSTER AND THE ANTI-CORN-LAW LEAGUE. We have just heard a rumour, to the effect that the Mar quis of Westminster has sent a very complimentary letter to the Council of the Anti-Corn-law League, accompanied by the munificent subscription of 5001., in aid of the Great League Fund. if this should be true, it will be another very " great fact" for the Times, falling like a thunderbolt amongst the monopolists, who plead the absolute necessity of a continuance of the corn-laws, as a means of providing for their mortgages and marriage settlements. The Noble Marquis is one of the greatest landowners, and most opulent noblemen in the kingdom, and so munificent and practical a protest against the iniquitous corn-laws, as that which he is reported to have made, would, in conjunction with those of Earl Spencer, Earl Fitzwilliam, Lord Ducie, and other distinguished Peers and agriculturists, be the death-knell of monopoly.__ Liverpool Mercury. LLOYD'S SHIPPING. LoNnox, JAN. s = Virind_S,W., light airs and cloudy / DEAL, JAN. 4.—Wind S.S.W.,toN. W. RAMSGATE, JAN. 4.—Arrd. Albion, Newcastle for Liver pool, with slight damage, having struck the east pier in entering the harbour. OFF MARGATE, JAN. 3.—Spartan, Wilson, St. John's. PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 4 —Wind W.N.W., fresh breezes.-- Arrd. Sussex, London for Batavia ; Diamond, for Valparaiso. Ski. M'Leod, Rotterdam ; Ontario, New York. RAMSGATE, JAN. 4.—Hercules, Dawburn, of, and for New York, from Newcastle, struck on the Brake yesterday, and has since drifted over and sunk in four fathoms at low water, crew saved. COWES, JAN. 4.—Arrd. Margeretha, Clinker, Mazatlan ; Nayaden, Mulbrans, Monte Video ; Osborn, London to Cape Coast Castle. SOUTHAMPTON, JAN. 4.--Sid. Lady Mary Wood (steamer), Gibraltar. PLYMOUTH, JAN. 4.—Wind S. S.W. to N. W.—Arrd. her Majesty's steamer Styx, Acores, and sailed for Sheerness ; New Zealand, Shields for Ceylon. FALmouzit, JAN. 4.—W.N. %V., fresh vales and squally.— Arrd. Eliza Pembrey for London, with loss of mainmast, fore topmast, Sce. BRISTOL, JAN. 4.—Arrd. Pandora, Bison, St. John's, New Brunswick ; Renfrewshire, Burns, Quebec. SWANSEA, JAN. 2.—Arrd. Trasmerana, Viga, Cuba. LIVERPOOL, JAN. 4.—Wind, W.N.W., light.—Arrd. Nightingale, Hunter, Pernambuco, Nov. 26. Sld. John Marshall, Philadelphia ; Britannia (s.), Halifax. HARWICH, JAN. 4.—The Agnes, of Jersey, on shore on the Cerk Sand, yesterday, has been got off, and proceeded. STRANGFORD, JAN. I.—The British Oak, from Caen, got on Rock A ngus , but floated offend proceeded, without damage. GATEHOUSE, JAN. 2. —The Greyhound, Homes, while at anchor on the 2t 2 ,th ult., at Gray's Point, Belfast Lough, was run into by a schooner, lost foremast, bowsprit, &e. MARGATE, JAN. 4.—About 2 or 3,000 bushels of ground nuts have been landed from the Ocean, wrecked near Kingegate. P .~ ~ INDIA AND CHIN ~ The following are additional extracts fro Iri th e Bombay and Canton papers: — DREADFUL SICKNESS IN SIND.E. (From the Bombay Courier.) The state of the troops at Sukkur and Shikarpore. it teed improving, as we thought some time ago, is, we re; re t W es : sively to hear, getting worse and worse ; it would a wet it P th t the fever is positively on the increase; the state of the lery, especially, is most deplorable ; and we cordia /join ill the hope of one of our correspondents that Governme at • will b : induced by these public representations, if not by ti tom , 'gb h ' have been made officially, to adopt some speedy i means Or saving the lives of the remainder of the two unfortui tate air panics. They can be of no use in their present stat ;e, and lb ° facility with which they might be conveyed to Kura( bee .00 surely to be an inducement to allow them that only chat ice of the ir , being preserved to the service. The apathy whic h has be si a evin ce d in supplying the station with additiona l medical aid is 0114 most discreditable to Government., and reflects on ev't ry e ber whose business it should have been to obviate y assistance the frightful results of sheer careless ness and negie":,, Tht:t Sukkur will be found altogether unfitte d for a Luropt statio,a must be sufficiently clear, and we only hope that is experie.nce derived from the fate of the unfortuaates who W e been sent' to deposit their bones i n s uch a Golgotha will li!!, the effect olopening the eyes of the authorities , dee r ') • as it!: been bought.. We had entertained s ome ho p es that Shikg." pore, being beyond the line of jung le, more open V s the wei r , and less expose:l to the malaria of t he immediate n eighW u 1 1 hood of the river, s.vould have proved a more admit woos* than Sukkur in jecq:nt of sanatory considerations , but 03 appears very little dih;rerice in the p ro p ortionate aumber ° sick in both stations. (From the Dahl' Cazette, Nov. 15.) " Sukkur, Nov. 11540%5i " The state of the Sukkur briga'ee is , least there are very few men nc sw left to go into hose,,l I hope, at its. worst!.l, and from all I hear the average nun tber of all grades per 0m; at at muster on the Ist of November, 1843, may be isk`, - , at 10; but you must bear in mind t bat many of these :)", totally unfit for more than standing ksentry, and mail :0 equal to that. All regiments are the same. Not one e d of the six medical men have been able to leave Ito beds for the last three days. Every guard has been reduc the very lowest, all orderlies, as far as possi. ble, withdrawe. , 0 ; death is beginning to make rapid strides am on g st the rialylAr 40, er about, I think, of the two companies of European finery, out of 180, have already been carried of, and the minder look more like ghosts than living beir gs. f t " Of officers, who possibly are of the least c onsideratio o, ,, have only, by God's providence, lost one ; fif. teen have 6:;,. away in different directions on sick certificate, and I sesp f some five or six more will leave shortly, as soots as the Of b iel are able to make out the certificates ; at Shikarpt ire the company and the detachment of Chamberlain's Horse s l ,,"" s ee believe, no better. Only two officers at the s tation escaped. This I write, being certainly .not an exagge rl ot statement of a Bengal brigade in an enemy's county y, whaetejo others may say to the contrary. This sickrless con. tmenc ft August, and the only assistance we have " ha d fron Otie es provinces, after repeated applications, has beet: one 535 141 ,70 surgeon, sick the day . he arrived, about the 3001 of ()etre and, I think, two native doctors • neglected by our wire A' sidency, we have to thank Sir C. Napier for his tier rely ante in sending us two medical officers, who, I re; vet are both very ill, and we have accounts of another itsving Hyderabad, although they can ill spare him, being lust s l ,di as we are. Sir C. Napier has also issued a ver3 r hane . 7,l4 order to the medical officers for their attention and ex erts these these trying times. " Seven natives died last night out of two regime nts• A l t From Hyderabad we regret to hear almost as nu 1110'1 1 tale. Every regiment has its hospital filled with s ilk. s o 9th Bengal Cavalry have 375 on their sick l ist, and ;:be: ber is daily increasing. There, moreover, they hay . e o° ,o l cool weather beginning to be enjoyed at Sukkur • Idle s IY dreadfully hot in the day, and the nights cold And clanicis following is a late letter from that quarter : her ‘ e ‘ to a Lowe r very great Sin N er. ov amongst our own men, but also amongst the inhabitants of country ; there is not a single family some of the meint)-01. which are not l a id u p ; an d numbers of children, sin s t :. n 2 te: 11 .1,..641,f0 10,11 0 " Sickness still prevails withstand the dire malaria, perish daily. A season so able for rain and si c k ness h a s not been known in Si nd 10 0 , years. The crops, which might otherwise in a mann et 00 compensated for these evils, have been attacked by locus ty notwithstanding the fires kindl e d in every direction t 0 them off, these insects have committed grievous damag , ei ts ll/ f where they have once been allowed to settle down , sea. ,011 vestige of cultivation has been left. The direction 0 1 : flight was almost invariably from west to east. The tr u e Hyderabad are more sickly than ever ; one regiment , I stand, mustered only 20 men yesterday." AFFGHANISTAN. - (From the Del/ti Gazette, Oct, 26.) In our last we gave a considerable amount of news ,[l,O Central Asia, in which the position of Dort Mahomed;ast may be considered to be correctly set forth.. Diete'i s t ,tY home, his authority defied by his kinsmen, and resisted nearest chiefs, his treasury empty, his troops leavilt, for erant of pay,—nothing seems left him but the d e " :0 resource of some foreign expedition, by which he -"'" able to acquire an accession of wealth and territory, 0 if ficient importance to raise him in the eyes of his recill'Offi mediate subjects. He is only poor and despised beau' s are rich from our spoils, and able to resist his P ( " g lov, were he in a condition to recruit his finances, the f e r osition of ruler and subject would be greatly altered,b what it now is. The consciousness of this state of l ' e/ is inducing him to look now with more anxiety than e st; the direction of Peshawur, and although he might beoli, to gain but few proselytes at Caubul and its vicinity , . 4 l the people are gorged with plunder for same come and listless for the acquisition of mere, be 0 ;pit o once a nucleus of an army were set in motion, 138 O j e collect the tribes on either side as he passed cliviet, pi again, it is doubtful how far the Kh y b er tr ib es nvirLe r .bli Owed to assist, viewing, as they doubtless d o , PClP: d ev - ; their own peculiar prey, and considering, as they r would do, any attempt by Dost hlahommed as that 0 4 ,0 1 0 terloper. A considerably strong opinion seems also to) r o t I , d in Caubul that the ruler of Bukhara is inclined to dominions across the mountain chain, and that the dori Upper Affghanistan would not be loth to submit t ° fa t nation. The disunion which has arisen between fa t ut son seems against the latter being deputed to ca rr y ° ,4 equally hostile views on Peshawur, though later would incline us to the belief, that Sirdar 111ahonvene a j tb Khan had set out on such an expedition. The whole 0.0.9 considerations only tend to show that the present telt o e, sovereignty by the Aineer is very insecure, that the pot f se . affairs is entirely changed from what it was before we r o fil: the land, and that the whole lace of it will be i n a stet e tsr security and disorder until som e s t rong h an d s h a ll e i e, coerce the people under a p ower f u l G overnm ent. 1:',4 t h i" appear by the Candahar news that our surmises regard preparations of Sh ere M a h omme d h ave no t been far 11 'i; real state of affairs. H e h as b een em pl o ying his timefiatthe Western hill trib es t o some p ur pose, and may, in the fo' state of the garri sons o f Upp er Si n de, be induced to trY P tune at least against the Shikarpore detachment. A. DASHING EXPLOIT. Intimation was sent home by the last mail of sotne t : e , ; serious disturbances which had broken out at 1 0° ,,,i 1 ) 11 ,,, Shekawattee, where an elderly Ranee, of unpronoveao name, had collected 5,000 matchlock-men, and taken popo e; o of the sort, expelling the mother of the infant Raj a it 0 Singh, to whom the stronghold of right belonged- b i;l ,e/ rf stated too that Major Forster, with a detachment of t ;0 1 5 kawattee Brigade, was about to take measures for the ryce of the fortress and the punishment of the offenders- j of d now enabled to give particulars of .the insurrection, a-t i t /4, proceedings adopted by the gallant Major with the a if: t g quelling it, which he succeeded in doing after a long an in contested engagement with the enemy, terminating i) if capture of the town and fort of Khetrie. n l ' eh ti 4 N o It appears that Ram ath Perohif, the Kamdar JO of the minor Sovereign of Khetrie, was ejected 'goll y from:his appointment, and his place occupied by the y rg eao who was supported by a very large assembly of ins% a ri r , o f These, to the number of about 5,000, took up their q in the pass, town, and fort. On the 21st of Octob e t . _, Forster, who had been encamped at Singhana with t a "of guns, thiee companies of infantry, and two ris',, ot s9 cavalry, , proceeded towards Kotepootlee, for the P iD, of seizing a fort in that neighbourhood, of which some t trolJ rebels had gained possession. On the approach'ef °flrboh'oo the insurgents evacuated their position and fled, leavilt them six pieces of artillery which they had broug a 11s1 r d Khetrie. The fort was dismantled and blown up a° Forster proceeded to Dadta, wh e re h e also dislodged a oli") of rebels ; and the haunts of th e p r i nc ip a l leaders ( o t l i ee o g about eight were captured) were then destroyed. 03 ioli November he mar c hed to Khetrie, and attacked the r fl 'ior' o l of insurgents, when a gallant and decisive action took r or o , Major Forster's force consisted of 260 foot a n d 60 the Shekawattee brigade, with three gun s ; an d 10 ,, dr; lock-men and 80 horse, belonging to J ed p ore , with f°7l-I,eo The enemy are said to have mustered 6,500 men was a very strong one, situated on a steep emit:wile:oo o r feet high, and approached by a difficult defile five be o' o o length. Both the fort and pass were occupied by c o d fe u ds gents in considerable numbers, but they were soon rid, the latter, and obliged to take refuge in their st re nei n g Pi o ft was invested without delay. After some heavy P" the e tlf short time, they capitulated, p rom i s i ng to evacuatexer within six hours. Duri ng th e n i g h t most of them " 1 f ,' ;ef and on the evening of th e next d ay M ajor Forste r tl;l,,Pi session of the place. Amonst those who fled was th, e „oioll' e oi Kanai Ram, th e l ea d er an d c hi ef instigator of the re'r"tbe ha i lf During the attack on th e f or t , C apta i n F ors t e r, at ro g of the light companies of th e b r i ga d e , a id e d by a . hichf. of matchlo c k- men, di rected his steps to the town, -oda'," strongly occupi e d b y th e i nsurgents, w h o appear ed re' tet'or, defend it w i t h v i gour. They were obliged, how ev er i : o d r t way, and were eventually driven out with great less' def . 0,0 ,1 sued to the hills. The victory was completed by "etbe a strong body of men stationed on an eminence to ch i o f, the town, and commanded by a bold and courageou s 0 3 .0 seemed determined to maintain his position to the las t ' 3o oPr indeed, on the conclusion of the conflict, was fatu tcl / the number of the slain. es' • Several oth er c hi e f s o f no t e f e ll d ur i ng the eng u olti` ttO among them the nephew of the Dhabye. The Ca' ono/ our side a re s t a t e d as 2 kill e d an d 42 wou nded; p ffsir part of the rebels 16 killed and upwards of 80 vra". ri •ted skilful an d master l y manner in which the above sP. i ,, o us was conducted i s worthy of all praise. The con s P it, lantry o f C a pt ain F ors t er , i n th e s t orm i ng of the _l n cl"‘; r ii4 is, in particular, highly spoken ofail'his. bravery the very satisfactory termination of the deftre and ably-executed enterprise is doubtless in nn ' 5-- attributable. CIIINA. toir late c e The following elegy upon the Co ° Ge l sioner Lin is said to be from the pen °f his o tial Majesty himself:— Lirv t I .l o ' "AN IMPERIAL EDICT.—The great statesraard t he r o , sen preserved an undeviating line of rectitud e, an, ciples of probity and uprightness were rooted in., OP Of ig° ture. In ma nne r, he was pl a i n an d affable, and 111 the re dot" ness of heart was even emine n tly displayed. In mi liiV a rA d Kea-King, having been hono ure d by a n Imperia l e ' t e t l ite t 1 1 .6 he was raised from the ra n k o f Ilan-lin (the high t°lloo' graduate) to a seat in the C a bi ne t. We, upon nr r A throne, and observing his p a t r i o ti o s p ir it, his clisr a 6 110 coe" ne3s, and his extensive and varied experience, oroehr, sence about the I m p er i a l person, in which eapaeitY of cl e ,„ l- te for upwards of ten years without a single instan ce o per'',oig Last year we sent him to the province of Ho-nan s ale Se 01 0 . the embanking operations on the Yellow River i° d 04 1 : 0 I ° hoo district, which were conducted and compl ete v diet 'l' usual zeal and energy. Our Council then recofbn ie r tW ie ro take his age into consideration, and being fully al:atile ture with hith was en the dewy, we granted him I" th, to Te l thi but for, dr a fur the f t in tt npv v view chap On We h; *h;cl tion, Paid Pease ton g i " t, c, " ,4 co " Irc Itii tt Te, " Ali l 'qin „ thi Zl,4r: