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Fornasari, Sig. F. Lablache, and Sig. Lablaehc. Director of the Music, Composer, and Conductor, Sig. Costa. TUB BALLET. 3fadlle. Carlotta Grisi, Madlle. Adelaide Frasi, of the Teatro di Pergola, Florence (her first appearance at this theatre) ; Mad. Guy Stephan ; Madlle. Scheffre, Madlle. Ferdinand, Maine. Planquet, Madlle. Barville (their first appearance at this theatre) ; Madlle. Fanny ELssler, and Madlic. Cerito ; M. St. Leon, M. Montassu (his first appearance in this country), M. Coulon, M. Gosselin, M. Ooariet, M. Venafra, M. Bertram, and M. Perrot, and a numerous and efficient Corps de Ballet. Arrangements are also pending with Madlle. Tagiloni, and there is. every probability that the talent of this eminent artiste will be se cured for a limited number of representations. Madame Fersiani and Signor Fornasari will appear on the First Night of the season, in Ilerold's chef d'oeuvre of "Zampa." 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, Ay M. Perrot, with New Scenery, Dresses, &c., entitled " La Esme ralda." The Music by Sig. Pug d. The Scenery by W. Grieve. The Principal Characters by Madlle. Carlotta Grist, Madlle. Adelaide Frasi, Madame Guy Stephan, Madlle. Scheffre, Madlle.Piztnquet, Madlle. Ferdinand, and Madlle. Barville ; M. Perrot, M. Coulon, M. Uosselin, and M. St. Leon. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. THIS EVENING, FEBRUARY 19. Will be performed Shakspeare's Tragedy of MACBETH. Mac beth, Mr. Charles Kean ; Lady Macbeth, Mrs. Warner. After whivh, THE BEAUTY OF GHENT. Marquis de San Lucar, M. Albert ; Benedict, M. Hog - net Yestris ; Beatrice, Mdlle. Fleury ; Agnes, Mlle. Clara Webster. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN. M. JULLIEN'S CONCERTS. THIS EVENING, FEBRUARY 19. PROGRAMME—PART I. Overture, Zampa, Herold—The Chinese Quadrille, Jullien—Sym phony, The Power of Sound, Spohr—Solo, Cornet-a-Pistons, Her Kcenig—Romance Adieu, Roch Albert—Valse, Bird of Paradise, Kcenig—The Destruction of Pompeii, Roch Albert. PART H.—Prologe to the Ballet of Alma, Costa—The Irish Echos, Jullien—Solo, Ophicleide, M. Prospers—Valse, Le Bouquet Royal, Jullien—The English Quadrille, Jullien. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET, THIS EVENING, FEBRUARY 19, Will be performed Shakspcare's Comedy of THE MERRY WIVES of WINDSOR. Sir John Falstaff, Mr. Strickland ; Master Slender, Mr. Charles Mathews ; Mrs. l'age, Madame Vestris ; Mrs. Ford, Mrs. Nisbett ; Anne Page, Miss Mattley. To conclude with TILE FAIR ONE wrrn THE GOLDEN LOCKS. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPIII. THIS EVENING, FEBRUARY 19, Will be performed THE CHRISTMAS CAROL, supported by Messrs. 0. Smith, Wright, Lyon, Maynard, Forman, Miss Woolgar, Mrs. F. Mathews, Miss Chaplin, Miss Lee, &c. After which, RICHARD TIIE THIRD. Glo'ster, Mr. Wright. 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Places more remote from the great lines will receive their papers by the Morning Mails. Orders received by all news agents, and at The Sun Office, No. 112, Strand, London. Q' UtiTiltAl Int LONDON, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1844. A meeting of the freeholders, landowners, and te nants' of Somersetshire, was held at Bridgewater on Friday, on a requisition to the High Sheriff, for the purpose of opposing the machinations of the League. They met to curse COBDEN and BRIGHT, and Earl .FiTzwIELIAM, and Earl SPENCER, and the Marquis of WESTMINSTER, and the inhabitants of every large and influential town in the United Kingdom, and the scene ended like that between the King of Mono and the prophet BALAAII—they " altogether blessed them three times." Great preparations had been made for this demonstration ; the people gathered far and near, to the number of five thousand ; the leading men of the country mustered in great numbers ; the parsons, of course, were among the mot'ey crowd but the voice of monopoly was raised in vain, and common sense and justice prevailed. The High Sheriff had the honesty and courage to remain to the last, and put a question to the vote, which he knew would be against his party. He did not, like some others, dissolve the meeting, and retire to some hole and corner to pass resolutions ; he listened to the speeches on both sides, and, like a man of honour, gave a fair decision. The speeches we will not ad vert to separately, though, from the strange mixture of blind prejudice, ignorance, and political animosity, on the one hand, and sound reasoning, and clear views on the other, they form a fit subject for corn ment. We will leave our readers to judge for them selves. One fact is evident from this meeting, that the labours of the Anti-Corn-law League have taken effect in quarters where but two years ago any attempt to make an impression would have been re garded as an act of madness. We do not speak of the farm-labourers and the small tenants, but of men holding large property, and tenants renting land from 5001. to 1,0001. a year. Even these men begin to see that there is no safety for them under the present ambiguous system. The declaration of Sir ROBERT PEEL has left things precisely as they were. No man will yet take a lease ; tile-draining and all other draining is at a dead stand ; farm-steads will remain in the same dilapidated state, and landlords and tenants will alike wait till the League have ob tained their object, or a compromise take place which will as lure all those interested that the question is definitively settled. All these county meetings, for the purpose of cheering on the Minister, are vain exhibitions; they are what WELLINGTON called them, " a farce ;" they settle nothing, they argue nothing ; they merely display the ignorance, bigotry, and selfishness of a particular class, and make all men of knowledge and experience wonder that fOr the last two hundred years (we will not go farther back) the Houses of Parliament, in other words, the destiny of this empire, has been under the control of such a race. Much has been done within the last fourteen years. Some of the most obnoxious mono polies and most wicked class laws have been abolished, but no thanks to the performers in the farce. They were to a man against them, and they will be against every similar improvement till the voice of the country and the spread of intelligence compels them to yield. Sir ROBERT PEEL knows that well, and he is only biding his time. Still, however, this delay is sadly ruinous to the country, not to speak of our foreign relations, and especially those with the United States, which the sliding-scale renders every year of less value ; not more than two-thirds of Eng land is under cultivation, and in general that is of the most expensive and rude description. Why ? Be cause no tenant has any security for his outlay. This subject has been well treated by Sir HARRY VERNEY, formerly Member for Buckingham, in a letter addressed to the farmers of Buckinghamshire, and published by RIDGWAY. He is, we believe, a large landholder himself, and may therefore be taken as an authority. Nothing, he says, but an assurance of a permanency of tenure, will enable farmers to reap the fruit of any capital they may embark in the cul tivation of the soil. And what man will embark capital in farming under the present corn-laws ? He would as soon trust it to the repudiating Yankees, or to the insol vent Spaniards. "Is it right," says Sir HARRY " that, with our rapidly increasing population, such a state of things should remain ? Is it right that such a system should be persevered in, that prevents, or, at any rate, that has not forwarded and effected, to the extent that the country demands, an augments. tion of produce ? Look at the bad condition of farm houses and buildings in many parts of the country. See how constantly four or even five horses are used in a plough, when two would suffice ; and consider that whole districts are cultivated with very small return, although cultivated at an expense unnecessa rily great. Why are manure heaps left in the field, where they lose their richness and fertilising qua lities ? 'Why is the refuse from the farm-yard and dwelling-house allowed to escape into the common ditches, and to produce a rank crop of noxious weeds, instead of adding to the richness of the land? Why do we see ponderous four-horse wag gons doing work, for which two horses with light carts are sufficient ? Why is farming expensive in particulars, in which cheaper cultivation would bring more produce ? And why is there such unwilling ness to expend capital, where that capital would give an ample return ? The answer, I believe, is, imper fect farming encouraged by unwise legislation." The monopolists anxious, as it would seem, to make up for lost time, are at length beginning to bestir themselves in right earnest. At a meeting which took place at the Duke of RICHMOND'S on Saturday, it was resolved that vigorous measures should imme diately be taken to counteract the agitation of the Anti-Corn-law League, with which view a proposal was made, and agreed to, for the formation of a " Metropolitan Society for the Protection of British Agriculture," of which his Grace of RICHMOND was to be president, and his congenial Grace of Buck vice-president. There was a goodly exhibition of Lords at this meeting, and country Baronets were as numerous as prize oxen at a Christmas cattle-show ; moreover, there was a stray Colonel or two, and a pretty considerable drove of M.P.s, among whom BUSFEILD FERRAND—the celebrated discoverer of mares' nests—was not the least conspicuous. We infer from this numerous attendance of monopolists that the squad are bent on doing great things in the way of agitation, and are determined on the point that, whether willingly or unwillingly, Sir ROBERT PEEL shall be made as desperate an Anti-Free-trader as themselves. As the Herald, which announces the meeting, is considerate enough to spare the speeches —an act of generous forbearance on our Contem porary's part for which we can never be suffi ciently grateful—we can only form a guess as to their temper and import; they were pro bably violent enough, and the arguments trite and hacknied to a degree bordering on the miraculous ; peradventure also there was some small bullying manifested in them, intended for the express solace and edification of the Premier, whom, we greatly fear, the monopolists do not hold in the most exalted reverence as a political apostle. Be this, however, as it may, they are resolved, it is evident, to make him their mouth-piece in Parliament ; to set him up as their scare-crow to frighten away the Leaguers from the corn-fields ; and wring from his timidity what they despair of obtaining from his con viction. Well, let them do so. They are perfectly welcome to make what use they please of Sir R. PEEL, for we are quite sure that—notoriously vacil lating and inconsistent as the whole kingdom knows him to be—he can do them no great good, but, on the contrary, can only serve as a sort of wet blanket to damp their ardour. Besides, they will not have him long among them. Let but two bad harvests follow in succession—let but another fierce cry of distress come up from the manufacturing districts— and away will go the Velocipede Premier— off like a shot in the direction of free trade—and though the monopolists may bawl out " Stop thief !" till they are hoarse, they will never be able to catch himl in his exceeding hurry to throw himself into the outstretched arms of the affectionate and forgiving Member for Stockport. Trust to Sir ROBERT PEEL ! Rely on him for con tinuous and lasting support ! The monopolists may just as well trust to the steadiness of an April day ; or believe in the truth of an epitaph which re cords the virtues of some defunct Saint, who swin dled his creditors six days in the week, and got as drunk as a lord on the seventh. The Pre mier is one of those accommodating statesmen whose favourite maxim it is to be strong on the strongest side, and cry " Long life to the Conqueror," no matter whether he be the devil himself. He is not one to play a losing game, or volunteer to head a Forlorn Hope. The idol of his worship—the goddess of his love, is Expediency. Just now, he is all for the monopolists, because he sees that the current of Parliamentary opinion runs in that direction, and that a hurricane is getting up among the landholders; but let circumstances change, and we shall find him—as we observed just now—openly siding with the Leaguers. Meanwhile, as a set• off to the new " Metropolitan Protection Society," with the Duke of RICHMOND at its head and Mr. FsalcaND at its tail, we may adduce the admirable letter ad dressed by the Duke of SUTHERLAND--a nobleman whose political influence is not less remarkable than his political sagacity to his agent at Dun robin, wherein his Grace emphatically re marks :—" My own feeling is in favour of the free current of national industry —of un fettered commerce—of purchase and sale gene rally—without excepting any trade on which the sustenance of the people depends." While we have such intelligent and influential men as the Duke of SUTHERLAND, Lord WESTMINSTER, and Lord SPENCER on our side, we need not, in the long run, greatly fear the opposition of the " Metropolitan Protection Society," even though it be honoured by the support of Sir R. PEEL. It is some time since we called the attention of our readers to the unseemly and contumacious conduct of the incumbent of a large parish in Hertfordshire— not very far from Ware—in persisting, against the remonstrances of the great majority of his parish ioners, and the repeated intervention of the church wardens, in some of those obsolete mummeries which the Tractarian disciples of Dr. Pussy's school uphold with such insane, but offensive pertinacity. We advisedly apply the old ecclesiastical censure of " con tumacy" to such preposterous deportment in any clergyman of the Established Church, albeit exhibited to laymen. It involves an insult, and it professes an indifference (on the part of the officiating minister) to the prejudices, as he calls them—to the opinions, as they entitle them—of his congregation, not to be tolerated by the members of that Reformed Anglican Church, whose clergy should respect in its laity the same hostility to all mere ceremonial worship, which, after all, is the great charter of their own re cognised status, in separation from the see of Rome. Incessant genuflexions and theatrical obeisances—the revival of long-forgotten observances at the altar or in the reading-desk—strange and absurd, or supere rogatory gesticulation, recruited and equipped from the most dusty of the canons, or the most obliterated directions of the Rubric ;—these, it is true, are forms, morally and religiously speaking, of utter indifference. But to insist on their practice—to " Romanize," even to the furniture and dressing of the Com munion-table—to display, in the most remarkable manner, the least conciliatory pretensions of the elder " High Church," in acts bespeaking a sort of diviner nature and condition for the minister than that of 1113 auditors ;—all these are symptomatic of a studied desire, in a section of our own Church, once more to assert pretensions of infallible superiority in its clergy, which the good sense of the English people had long ago indignantly discarded. We must now refer, with sorrow, to a new ebullition of this PUSEY mania, which is vexing the suburban orthodoxy of a parish in Essex—namely, Great Ilford. The minister of Great Ilford, like him of whom we wrote formerly, has the happiness to acknowledge the Bishop of LONDON for his diocesan. The corre spondence between this Diocesan and the church wardens of Great Ilford is a curiosity in its way ; and, on the part both of Prelate and parson, is marked, emphatically enough, by the true " superbia prelatica " of those times, the return of which both of them so fondly desiderate ; for the sleek and pharisaical Bishop of LONDON must be con tent to be adjudged a Puseyite, since he so manifestly affects, on all occasions, their colours and their cause ! Not that we mean to affirm the competency of the Right. Rev. Lord of Fulham House to adopt, even in this controversial warfare, a course which he can hold without trimming. It was amusing, some three or four years ago, to observe the desperate munificence he found himself irresistibly propelled into, by the sarcastic epistle of the Rev. SIDNEY SMITH, in which the Prebendary read to the Bishop his memorable homily, touching the disingenuousness of denouncing the " large incomes of Deans and Chapters" as fitting objects for new appropriation, whilst preserving a religious silence in respect of the sacred revenues of opulent bishoprics. To stifle the laughter of the public at detected inconsistency, the Right Rev. Prelate, as it seemed to us, diffused his subscriptiveness over twenty or thirty church en dowment and church-building propositons, at one and the same time ; yet, a few months afterwards, he was engaged in another epistolary squabble with Dr. FIUME, of Hanwell, about the Doctor's right to sink gravel-pits, on his copyhold, without a sort of Peter's-pence payment to the Ecclesiastical manor Lord—" CHARLES LONDON." At present, how ever, the Bishop, clearly enough, abets our Pu seyite parson. In December last, he apprised the churchwardens that he had been informed by the Rev. FOLLIOTT BAUGH, that a vestry meeting of the "parishioners of Great Ilford has been summoned for the purpose of considering the question of the side table placed within the rails at the eastern end of the church, the determination of which rests with them selves, as churchwardens, subject to his Lordship's directions." He requested that they would take no steps for the removal of such table till he had had time to make all necessary previous inquiries, and to further in struct them. At a subsequent meeting, summoned to consider this letter, and at which the Rev. Mr. BAUGH himself presided, that Reverend Gentleman " admitted that he had informed the Bishop that it was only a faction of his parishioners who had got up this opposition to the present mode of performing Divine service at Great Ilford." On the veracity of this information, we shall offer a word presently. Certain resolutions being agreed to before the close of this meeting, they were communicated in due form by the churchwardens to the Bishop of LONDON. The Bishop, in his reply, admits that he had learned that the offensive alterations (turning the aspect of the reading desk, and setting up a slab, or " table of credence," at the altar place), although effected twelve months before with the knowledge of the then church warden, had been so made " without his express permission." Yet his Lordship adds, in defiance of the respectful requests of a populous parish, and very large congregation, "As no objection was made at the time, I do not think it necessary now to authorise the removal of the slab, or the re storation of the reading-desk to its original form." This was consistent to be sure ! The reading-desk had been deliberately turned, so as to indulge more than three-fourths of Mr. BAUGH'S parishioners with the sight of his back instead of his face, at prayers. The Right Rev. Bishop could do no less than rump the remonstrating churchwardens. The most amus ing pretension is to come, and we hasten to make room for it. " - With respect to the other parts of the resolutions, I will content myself with expressing my regret that the concession which Mr. BAUGII has made to the wishes of the Select Vestry, in discon tinuing the weekly offertory, has not been met by them in a kinder spirit." " Concesion," truly ! The withdrawal of an offensive, impertinent observance, calculated to insult all sincere Churchmen, by challenging associations and recol lections connected with the worst usages of sangui nary superstition and priestly intolerance. But perhaps our readers may imagine that, after all, the Puseyite practices in which the incumbent of Great Ilford in dulged were harmless as to consequences. They may be thinking of his assurances to his Bishop, that the remonstrants composed only a " faction of his parishioners." Alas ! our experience of Puseyite doctrine, Puseyite clergy, and Puseyite corres pondence, have impressed us with no lofty notion of their love of truth or accuracy. Now, what is the testimony of the report from whence we have ex tracted the facts of this case ? That the very large congregation which used to attend Great Ilford Church has diminished, in consequence of the Rev. Gentleman's caprices, to an attendance of 40 or 50 persons only, for some time past ; and that very re cently it consisted of but nine people ! What a fine prospect for the " unity and welfare" of that Church whereof it is just possible that the spiritual humility of the Right Reverend Bishop not seldom contemplates the possibility of his becoming, at some future day, the ecclesiastical head—afforded by the progress of the innovations which his Lordship thus sanctions, and the coincident defection of outraged flocks from the pastors who adopt them! The "Fifth Annual Report" of the Registrar-Ge neral of Births, Deaths, and Marriages in England, dated 14th August, 1843, brings under the notice of the public some remarkable contributions to these important branches of statistical inquiry. The whole of the annual abstracts which it comprises are for the year 1841; prepared (as we collect) with reference to the Population Census, which was taken about the middle of that year. The first division of the docu ment before us is appropriated to a comparison of marriages, births, and deaths ; a statement of mar riages of 100,000, living in eleven divisions of the kingdom ; and of marriages solemnized in each of the four quarters of the year, respectively ; also of re marriages, marriages of minors, and of persons mar ried who wrote their names. The other divisions relate to births, deaths( and their decrease), life tables, and health of towns. These are followed by tables of marriages, births and deaths in the several counties of England (in 1841), distinguishing males and females, and by other documents and correspondence having re lation to the same physical statistics of districts and towns. We have no room to-day for some results to which we had intended to call attention, among those which are arranged under the returns from the 324 statis tical districts into which England is divided for the general purposes of this registry. In the meantime, however, we shall quote the following passage, as suggesting an important modification in the, of late, generally received doctrine that the duration of life is ceteris paribus, in a very high degree greater in women than in men. The degree in which the difference has been overrated appears to remount to the age of the ingenious but defective calculations of the older economists, made in times when there existed so few authenticated data, and those data so ill combined, on which to found the theory of those calculations; and to the first attempt of BUFFON, and other naturalists, prior to the better instructed efforts of the savans who succeeded them, to estimate the vie probable of our species, under given conditions of social life, in its existing forms. Yet the reformation of the tables of our Life Assurance Offices, founded on this assumption of the superior longevity of women, and the consequent re duction of premiums in their favour, is but of com paratively modern introduction. To show how the assumed excess may be demonstrated, Mr. GRAHAM has prepared a table of which he says— " The Expectation of Life' in the annexed table was calculated separately for ' males," females,' and persons' At first the expectation of fe- male lives is more by two years than that of males ; at twenty, it is 40.81 years, that of males being 20.02; during the whole period of life, after the first year, the dffference in the expectation does not exceed 1.17 year. This difference is important ; but the table disposes of the highly exaggerated opinions as to the superior vitality of the female sex derived from partial observation. I am informed that the lives of females assured are not longer than those of males, which might have been expected, as, at Assurance offices, their state of health is less strictly investigated.'' In some highly interesting valculations, which ap pear to have been most carefully conducted, and to be very fairly set out by Mr. GRAHAM, he points out a few remarkably falsified conclusions, which had been previously arrived at by the late Mr. RICKMAN and by Mr. FINLmsoN, (the calculator of the Government Annuity Tables,) and the Commissioners for conduct ing the last Irish Census. We advert especially to an extraordinary misapprehension of Mr. RICKMAN as to the minor waste of human life in the population of Liverpool ; and to a similar error on the part of the Commissioners as to the differences of duration of life between the Irish and English people. But we must postpone the very interesting illustrations we have selected, under these heads, to a future oppor tunity. The intelligence from Madrid, which is to the 11th instant, adds little to that which we have extracted from the Paris papers. The disarmament of the National Guards was taking place generally through out the provinces, and met with very little resistance. At Seville two battalions refused to give up their arms ; but whether tlfey were ultimately successful is not stated. A number of Deputies, of what is called the " old majority," had presented an address to the QUEEN, expressing their devotion to the Throne. The QUEEN thanked the Cortes thus repre sented (in other words, the Rump Cortes), for their support, and praised the energy of the Government. The same party also moved an address to Queen CHRISTINA, thanking her for returning to Spain. They should also have voted a similar ad dress to Louis PHILIPPE. Accounts from Murcia state that the insurgents of Carthagena had retired from Murcia, carrying off all the public moneys, together with large sums exacted from the wealthy inhabitants of the place. The QUEEN'S troops occupied it on the Bth. At Madrid the Three per Cents. were done at 29 5-16 at 60 days, and 281 for cash, and the Five per Cents. at 201 at 60 days. The ?loniteur of Saturday contains the following telegraphic dispatch from Spain : "The Queen's troops entered Murcia on the Bth, amid the acclamations of the people. The authorities had resumed their functions. General Roncali was, on the evening of the 7th, at St. Jean d'Alicant, with a part of his division. The rest of his force was at Aspe. A n i nsurrect i ona l movement has just broken out in Portugal near the Spanish frontier." We give the dispatch as it appears, but at the same time place little confidence in any statements, except mere facts, which cannot be long concealed ; for the Liberal press in Spain is so completely put down, and the Post-office so controlled by the Government, that no impartial intelligence can be expected from that country. The home intelligence in the Paris papers is not of much importance. It appears from what took place in the Chamber of De puties, on Thursday, that more money and more men are wanted for Algeria. On that day Marshal SOULT presented a Bill demanding a credit of 7,673,589 f., as a complement destined for the pay and other expenses of 15,000 men to be added to the army in Africa, of which the effective force was to be 75,000. The Noble Marshal, in his prefatory observations, remarked that when the Chambers had fixed on 60,000 men as the nu m b er o f t roops i n Algeria, it had been with the understanding that, if a larger force were required to strengthen and conso lidate their conquest, the number of troops should be increased. It was now certain that 75,000 men would be necessary for the coming year, and the Government, therefore, without hesitation, applied for the required addition of men. Most of the papers advert to the conviction of Mr. O'CoNNELL, and to the debate on the state of Ireland in the House of Commons. On the former subject the Paris Globe says—" The verdict has not in the least surprised us. It is clear that the agitator raised masses of the people, orga nised them, represented to them that the English Government was their enemy, and thus prepared all the elements of civil war. O'CoNNeLn, therefore, is justly condemnedl,, and his acquittal would have been an annulment of all the laws of order by which the British empire is ruled. Nevertheless, two grand questions still t'emain open ; first, whether Ireland has not good grounds of complaint—and next, whe ther England has done nothing to deserve reproach. The agitator had a perfect right to proclaim the griefs of Ireland, although he had no right to raise the country, and org, , arnise the means of creating a civil war. Ireland has every right to complain of the manner in which she has been treated by England.' But even the Opposition journals express little sym pathy for the tra;wersers. Mr. O'Cororeni. very pro perly declined the aid of M. LEDRU ROLLIN and his party, and for thmt they cannot forgive him. In ad verting to the speech of Lord J. RUSSELL, the Journal des Debats says— " The speech of tire leader of the Opposition was such as might have been expected from him —simple, firm, and oc casionally full of irony and bitterness. He attacked, for he could not do otherwise, the two great evils of Ireland—the exclusive supremacy .of the Protestant Church, and the con nexion between tenaizt and landlord ; b ut on those two p oi he could not specify -or determine any remedy. 1\ or is lie more explicit when he speaks of the kind of social war going on between those whi ) possess and those who cultivate the land. All, in fact, tha t he says is, that he is obliged to ac knowledge that for oic, profound, so inveterate, so ancient an evil, he knows ofno. direct remedy." The following piece of information appears in the Journal de Havre-, and we have little doubt will prove Trove too true.:—." The Elizabeth whaler has arrived in ninety days froni Otaheite, brings intelligence that the French, on Pr etence of some infraction of the treaty, by which it agreed to afford protection to that island, had deposei 1 Queen POMARE. The French Rear-Admiral nu. - .PETIT THOURS had taken posses sion of Otaheite in the name of the King of th e FIIENCI!, and the n ational flag was hoisted in token of sovereignty." The Journal des. Chemins de Fer, in contradiction to the statement of the Journal des Travaux Publics, which we have alr wa dy given, says that the superi or commission on ra'ilroads, appointed by the Govern ment, has decided on recommending that there shall be two branches Ito the coast from the northern line at Amiens, viz.- - -to Boulogne by Abbeville, and to Calais by Arras- Our Contemporary adds, that the commission recommends a direct branch from Lille to Dunkirk. The French Funds on Saturday continued firm, the Three per Cents. closing at 82f. 40c., and the Fives at 125 f. 65c. THE BOURSESATuunits, FEB. 17. _ First Highest Lowest Last Price. Price. Price. Price. French Five per Cents. •••• 125 65 .. 125 70 .. 125 65 .. 125 65 Four:and-a-Half.. 112 50 .. 112 50 112 50 •• 112 50 Three per Cents..... 82 40 •. 82 40 .. 82 40 - • 82 40 Bank of France.. ..... ..3277 50 ..3277 50 ..3277 50 ..3277 50 Laffltte Bank, I,ooof. Sharesllos ..1105 ..1105 ..1105 5,000 f. Sharesso72 50 ..5072 50 ..5072 50 ••5072 50 Belgian Bank ..• • • • • • • • •• • • 670 .. 670 .. 670 • • 670 1841 ..•......1080 ••1080 ..1080 ..1080 Belgian Fives, 1840 .• • 109 k .. 109 i .• 1091 • • 109; 1842 • • 1101 .. 1101 .. 1101 .. 1101 Dutch Two-anti-a-Half .• •• . 561 • . 561 . • 561 • • 561 Spanish Active •.•• • • • ..... 31 •• 31 .• 31 .. 31 Passive .• •.•••• • • • • 51 • • 51 . • 51 .. 51 Portuguese Five per Cents•• 434 .• 45 434 •• .441. Neapolitan lO3 25 .. 104 .. 103 25 .. 10375 Roman lO6l .. 1061 • . 1061 • • 1061 RAILWAY SHARES. Versailles, L.B. .... 177 50 -• 177 50 . • 173 75 • • 175 Rouen • . • • • • • • • • . ... .. 822 50 .. 825 - 822 50 •• 825 Rouen to Havre. Orleans ............. Strasburg to Bale ..... 241 25 .. 242 50 .• 241 25 .. 242 50 Montpellier to Cette Avignon to Marseilles— . • . • 750 • . 750 745 • . 745 RAILWAY SHARES, FOR THE ACCOUNT. St. Germain 810 - 820 810 - 810 11.13.• . •• • • ...... 347 50 .. 347 50 • . 345 .. 345 L. 8.•...•. Rouen • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • . • • • • 825 .. 826 50 .• 825 .. 82G 25 Rouen to Havre•• Orleans • ..... .• •• • • 840 .. 840 .• 830 • • 835 Strasburg to I3ale•..••.•••• 241 25 .• 242 50 241 25 .. 242 50 Avignon to Marseilles• ••• • • 750 .. 750 • • 740.. .. 740 Montpellier to Cette 450 .. 455 .• 450 455 Summonses were issued on Saturday to the Cabinet Ministers to attend a Cabinet Council, this day, at the Foreign-office, Downing-street. All the members of the Cabinet are expected to attend the Council this afternoon. ACTIONS FOR PENALTIES ON GAMING DISCONTINUING BlLL.—This Bill (brought down from the Lords on the 10th inst.) is entitled " An Act to discontinue certain actions under the provision of several Statutes for the prevention of excessive gaming, and to prevent, for the future, the bringing of such actions." The preamble recites the enactments of 9th Anne, c. 14; see. 2 (" an Act for the better preventing of excessive and deceitful gaming)" also, the provisions of 16th Car. 11., c. 7, and of 10th Will. 111., c. 11; and the Ist clause is to the effect that " Proceedings commenced by common in formers for penalties incurred by playing at, or betting on certain games, shall be discontinued on application to the Court, or a Judge." 2. The same as to similar provisions under the Irish Acts. 3. No proceedings to be commenced by any common informer, under any of the above provisions after the passing of this Act. 4. Actions not to be brought without the consent of the Attorney-General. 5. Limits the duration of the Act to the space of three months next ensuing the passing thereof ; and nothing herein contained to extend to authorising the staying or discontinuing any proceedings which may be com menced after the lapse of such three months. The schedule referred to in this Act, as recapitulating the games in respect of which qui tam actions (founded on the statute of Anne, prohibiting all persons from playing or betting thereat, for any sum amounting in the whole to more than 10/.) have recently been brought, or threatened to be brought, comprehends the several games following:—Horse-races, foot-races, boat-races, regattas, rowing, sailing, coursing, and fencing matches, golf, wrestling matches, cricket, tennis, fives, racquets, bowls, quoits, curling, putting-stone. AMERICAN NEWS. EXPRESS FROM LIVERPOOL. ARRIVAL OF THE BRITANNIA. LIVERPOOL, SUNDAY EVENING. At half-past eight o'clock this evening, we had the satisfaction to hear the report of guns at the mouth of the Mersey, announcing the approach of the Royal mail-steamer, Britannia, which had been expected for four days past, and respecting which some anxiety had begun to be felt. We are happy to say that the detention of the Britannia was owing to circumstances arising before she left Halifax, from whence she did not take her departure until the 7th inst., making the voyage to Liverpool in a little over 11 days. One of the most severe frosts ever known set in at Boston, on the 27th ultimo, which very soon entirely stopped the navigation of the harbour, as well as greatly impeded the arrival of the inland mails, so much so, that the mails south of New York were eight or nine days past due, and from that city to Boston, only the expresses came through, and those occupied a considerably longer time than usual, a canal of six or seven miles in length had to be cut through the ice, to enable the steamer to get out. The authorities in Boston behaved in a very spirited manner, which shows they are justly proud of the very beautiful vessels which make their harbour their port of destination ; and, knowing the import ance of dispatch, a public meeting was held, and a subscription entered into by the merchants to defray the cost of the labour necessary to cut through the ice. It was, however, the 3d inst. before the Britannia could start, and between Boston and Halifax she ex perienced very severe and squally weather, so as to prevent her reaching that port until the 6th instant, and on the latter part of that day the fog was so thick that. Captain Hewitt did not think it prudent to go to sea until next day, when it cleared off. The news by this arrival is of but little import ance. There has been no proceedings in Congress of interest here. The cotton market was rather quiet, but prices were sustained; the rate of exchange had advanced to 1094. Business generally was in a favour able state on the 31st at New York. Owing to the unfavourable state of the weather, the Britannia brings news only three days later than the last packet. INSURRECTION IN PORTUGAL. LISBON, TUESDAY, FEB. 13. We have advices from Lisbon by the Lady Mary Wood steamer, to the 13th inst. The 60 dragoons, who had revolted at Torres Novas, had proceeded to Castello Branco, the chief town of the pro vince of Lower Beira, about eighty miles from Lis bon, and had there gained over another detach ment of the same regiment of Dragoons, 40 in number, and 400 men, with their officers, of the 12th Regiment of Infantry. The insurgents were therefore 500 strong, but the revolt was purely military, and from no part of the kingdom had the slightest echo arisen. The insurrecsion was then ten days in existence, and not a town or village in all Portugal had pronounced against the Government. The insurgents, in fact, were treated by the people everywhere with profound indifference. Baron Leiria, with his column of all arms, bad arrived at Abrantes, within a few leagues of Cas tello Branco, and troops were likewise marching against the insurgents from Estremoz and Chaves. A crisis must speedily ensue, and there seemed to be little doubt that the insurgents would in a few days be compelled to retreat across the Spanish frontier. Count Boinfim had failed in his attempt to produce insurrection in the garrison of Elvas. Other arrests had been made at Lisbon, including some leading Opposition Deputies. Even at Castello Branco the people took no part in the insurrection, and the telegraph announced tran quillity in every direction.—Times. THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 19, 1844. FLANDERS MAIL. BRUSSELS, FEB. 16.—The Chamber of Representatives commenced the debate on the budget of Public, Works. Several members spoke on the subject of iron railways. M. Rodenbach was alarmed at the expense which the cotui try had already incurred and those which it would still have to incur for the completion of railroads; the first estimates were 15 millions of francs, and if we do not take care the ex pense will soon amount to 200 millions. The Minister of Public Works compared the English, French, and Belgian systems, and did not hesitate to prefer the latter. The diversity of opinion on this subject is very remarkable. The King of Sweden, in order to favour the export trade of the kingdom, issued, towards the end of last year, a Royal Ordinance making the following modifications in the tariff of duties : 1. From the date of this ordinance (17th October), and till further orders, the following articles are free from export duty, namely, alum, pitch in barrels, red ochre, &c. 2. Coals and coke are henceforth, till further orders, free from duty on importation. BELGIAN FUNDS.—BRUSSELS, FEE, I. Actual Debt, 2% per Cent~ • Rothschild's Loan, Five per Cent 105% Loan of Thirty Millions, Four per Cent 99 sue_ ..... Three per Cent........... d------ Thirty-seven Million, ditto .. 77% -------- (1840)............... 1(8% Loan of City, 1832, Four per Cent. —..._....-- 1843 103% Society of Commerce, Four and a Half per Cent 6 - 53 i Bank of Belgium, Five per Cent x„ I sue of 1841 im National Society — Exchange on London (short) ........•••......•• - -Brussels Papers, Feb. 17. ROMAN ANTIQUITIES IN A FRICA.—A bust of Parian marble, in good preservation, and of excellent execu tion, as it is said, has recently been dug up at Cherchell, in Africa, supposed to be that of Ptolemy, son of the second Juba, and the last King of Mauritania Tingitana, which is valuable as being unique. Cherchell is the ancient C xsarea, the capital of that kingdom.. The bust is the portrait of a man in the freshness of outh, with the R o y a l fill et on his brow ; and has a striking resemblance to the like ness on th e coins of the Ptolemy in question. It is destined for the Royal Museum. The party assembled at the seat of Mr. Fergusson, at Pitfour, in the Highlands of Scotland, intended to have separated at the commencement of the present month ; but in consequence of the roads being impassable, arising from the heavy fall of snow, they were still detained there. SUMMARY OF NEWS AND Optuton. " Who runs may read." FOILEIGN. The Duke de Montpensier arrived at Lyons at four o'clock on Thursday morning, on his way to Algeria. The Prince remained only two hours at Lyons. So exceedingly thick a fog enveloped Paris on Friday even ing that it was impossible to see more than two or three yards in front. It came on suddenly a little before eight o'clock, and lasted for several hours. The price of bread for the remainder of the present month is fixed at 34 centimes the kilogramme. M. Gay Lussac was two days ago seriously injured in the Laboratory at the Garden of Plants, by the following acci dent :—As the Professor was opening a bottle in order to make an experiment, the sudden admission of the air in flamed the contents, and burst the bottle with such violence that persons outside conceived it to be the report of a musket. M. Gay Lussac was thrown down, with his face and hands dreadfully cut by the fragments of the bottle, but it is hoped that none of the sinews or articulations of the hands are ma terially affected. The Patrie, states that it is now very difficult to get authentic accounts from Madrid, as the officers of the staff of General Narvaez go every evening to the post-office to read the letters addressed to the exterior. A letter from Vienna, from a source generally well in formed, announces that the Emperor of Russia and the King of Prussia intend to visit Vienna in the spring. This report has given rise to many conjectures at Vienna, and it is said, among other things, that during the visit of the sovereigns, the marriage of the Archduke Stephen with the Grand Duchess Olga, second daughter of the Emperor of Russia, will be negotiated. The French Admiral, according to news brought to Havre, had dethroned Queen Pomare, and taken possession of Tahiti in the name of Louis Philippe. A letter from Bordeaux states, that the Blanquefort Dyke had given way, and that all the surrounding country has been submerged. The loss is said to be very considerable. The second part of the works of the railroad from Rouen to Havre, between Barentin and Flamenville (about nine English miles) has been contracted for (says the Journal des Chemins de Fer ) by Messrs. Mackenzie and Brassey, at the sum of 2,008,635 f. A correspondent at Nice writes, Feb. 10 :—" Here we have had an unusually fine winter, scarcely exceeded in the me mory of the oldest inhabitant—no cold—no winds—and, with the exception of half a day of rain now and then, uninter rupted sunshine since the beginning of October. The fol lowing are a few of the„English families who have been pass ing the winter here :—The Dowager Duchess of Bedford and suite, the Countess of Sandwich and Lady H. Baring, Lord Frederick and Lady A. Fitzclarence, Dowager Countess of Suffield and family, Hon. Mr. Craven and family, Lady Saltoun, Captain and the Hon. Mrs. Grant Macdowall, Mr. Baillie Hamilton, M.P., Lady Caroline Hamilton and family, Lord Southwell and party, Lady Elizabeth Alexander and party, Earl and Countess of Gainaborough and suite, &c." cows—PASBIONABLE. It is rumoured that the Court at The close of the month will proceed to Claremont, and remain there for a fortnight or three weeks. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, who are staying with the youthful Princess Mary at Kew, will give a series of grand dinners at Cambridge-house soon after Easter to the Ministers of the Cabinet and Foreign Ministers. Saturday next is the birth-day of the Royal Duke, when it will be celebrated with the customary festivities at Kew. The Duke and Duchess of Norfolk and Lady Mary Howard have left for Arundel Castle, Sussex, and the family remain there until after Easter.. The Marchioness of Douglas, at the date of the last letters from Holyrood House, where the Duke and Duchess of Hamilton and the Countess of Lincoln are still staying, was going on favourably. The Marquis and Marchioness of Ailsa are expected at their mansion in Whitehall-gardens at the close of the week, from St. Margaret's, near Richmond, where they have been passing the winter. Lord and Lady Brougham entertained a select party at dinner, on Saturday, in Grafton-street. Earl and Countess Craven have invited a party to partake of the festivities of Coombe Abbey during the Coventry race week. The Earl and Countess of Eglintoun leave town the second week in the ensuing month for Eglintoun Castle, for the spring races, when a very large circle will meet at the hospi table seat of the Noble Earl. The Earl of Winchilsea has restored the parish church of East Weld, Kent. The church is a very ancient one, and possesses some interesting historical associations. Amongst others it may be mentioned that the son of Richard, the Plan tagenet, who was killed at the battle of Bosworth-field, was buried there. On Saturday evening an elegant entertainment was given by Lord and Lady Stanley, at their residence in St. James's square, to a distinguished circle, including the Earl and Countess of Dunmore, Earl of Lincoln, Lord Wharneliffe, Lord and Lady Jemima Eliot, Viscount Mahon, Lord Redes dale, Right Hon. W. E. and Mrs. Gladstone, Viscount Sandon, Hon. Henry Corry, :Mr. Cardwell, Mr. Hope, &c. In the latter part of the evening her Ladyship had a soirée, at which the French Ambassador and the Countess de St. Aulaire, Baroness Langsdorff, Earl of Aberdeen, the Speaker, the Ba varian Minister, Viscount Grimston, and a large number of persons of rank and fashion were present. MISCELLANEOUS. A public meeting of the supporters of the corn-laws was held at the Subscription Rooms, Exeter, on Friday. Anti- League resolutions were passed, and a subscription raised amounting to 3001. Lord Clinton, Mr. Buck, and Sir Thomas Acland gave 501 each. Similar meetings have been held at Bridport, Sturminster, Rugby, Bridgwater, and Edinburgh. A new Dublin journal announces, in its prospectus, that " Foreign Parliamentary reports will be given until the Irish Parliament is restored." A new arrangement has just been carried into effect at Windsor Castle. The unused cut pieces of bread collected throughout the various departments of the Royal residence, are in future to be given to the inmates of the several alms houses within the borough, amounting to about 30. The distribution, which commenced on Thursday last, will take place on three days in each week. The receipts for the week ending Feb. 10, at the Thames Tunnel, amounted to 841. 7s. sd. The unexampled attractions of the arrangements for the ballet during the forthcoming season at the Italian Opera, have n of been thrown away, for the subscription list to this noble theatre is filling with unprecedented rapidity, and pro mises to be larger than any which has been known during the recorded seasons of operatic management. On Saturday night last Astley's theatre closed for the season, after having been open for ten months: The dockyard at Deptford is to re-established forthwith for the building and repairing steamers. The number of workmen to be employed is 350. LAW INTELLIGENCE QUEEN'S BENCH.-(THIS DAY.) (Sittings at Guildhall, before Lord DENMAN and a Common Jury.) THE QUEEN V. GOODENOUGH. This was an indictment against the defendant under an Act of Parliament sth and 6th Victoria, cap. 122, sect. 35, and the first that has been brought under it. The Act pro vides, that if any bankrUpt, within three months before his bankruptcy, obtains goods under false representation of his solvency, he shall for such conduct be held guilty of a misdemeanour, and be liable to an imprison ment, for any term which the Court may think proper to award, not exceeding two years. The facts of the case are brief and simple :—The defendant was a woollen draper, carrying on business at Newton Abbott, Devonshire, and on the 10th of December, 1842, he came up to London, and obtained goods to the amount of 1581. from a salesman of the name of Porson, in St. Paul's Churchyard. These goods were sent to the defendant's lodgings, in Wardrobe place, Doctors' Commons, and thence sent, in the name of Graham, to St. Katharine Docks, and shipped on board a vessel bound for Sydney. On the 3d of January in the next year—within a month of the time when defendant had obr tained these goods—a fiat in Bankrubtcy was issued against him. Suspicion was aroused 'amongst defendant's creditors that there had been underhand dealing, and a Mr. Quilter, an accountant in London, accompanied by the messenger of the Exeter District Court of Bankruptcy, proceeded to Ply mouth, and boarded, in the Sound, the vessel, then starting on her outward-bound voyage. They asked for defendant in his proper name first, but no person by that name was known ; and,' after twice asking for a person named Graham, defendant stepped forward. He was, of course, seized as a runaway bankrupt, and the entire goods obtained from Mr. Porson were found on board with the name of Graham attached to them. They also were seized, and were brought into Court this day, and identified as the very goods bought by the defendant under false representation of his circumstances, and within a month of the time when he was made a bank rupt. The facts were distinctly proved, and, in mitigation, evidence was adduced to show that the defendant, deeply penitent for his misconduct, had, subsequently, given to his assignees every assistance possible to realise his estate in a way the most advantageous to his creditors. The jury found the defendant "guilty," but recommended him to the mercy of the Court. The defendant did not appear in Court, but his counsel, Mr. Cockburn, desired that sentence might be passed in his absence. In doing so, Lord Denman remarked that it was a prosecution most properly instituted, and that if he had the power—which at that moment he was not satisfied of—he should assuredly order all expenses to be paid to the prose cutors. The Act was a new one, and a most useful one, for the protection of traders, and its existence on the statute book ought to be universally known. There were redeeming circumstances in the conduct of the defendant, and coupling those with the merciful recommendation of the jury, he should sentence the defendant to be imprisoned for six months in the prison of the Queen's Bench. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. BOW-STREET.-(THIS DA Y.) Three young men named Wright, Anderson, and Le ,the last of whom was deaf and dumb, were charged with being found in Clare-market on Saturday night last attempting to pickpockets. The case was clearly proved by a young man named Morgan ; several officers deposed to having seen the prisoners attempting to pick pockets at the English Opera-house, Exeter Hall, and in Parliament-street, on the day Mr. O'Connell went down to the House for the first time this session. They had all been convicted in various names. They were all committed for trial. CLERKENWELL-(THIS DAY.) A respectable-looking man, named Pritchard, who described himself as a tobacconist, was charged with the following sin gular offence : The prisoner on Saturday evening went to the door of a station-house of the E division and commenced knocking at it. Police-constable Wilde, seeing he was under the influence of liquor, told him to go away. The prisoner refused doing so, and as soon as the officer turned his back commenced hammering away at the door as fast as before. The com plainant asked him what he wanted, but he would give no other answer than a whack on the door with his stick. At length, finding remonstrance useless, he took him into cus tody, and locked him up. The prisoner, who seemed thoroughly ashamed of himself, was fined ss. i r he fine was paid at once. INCENDIARY FIRES.—On Tuesday . morning last another of those detestable outrages which have, to the county's disgrace, been lately too common, was committed at Foston, near Grantham, Lincolnshire. A wheat stack (con taining the produce of 11 acres) which was standing in a field about a mile from the village, was discovered to be on fire at about six o'clock. Assistance was immediately obtained, but no efforts on the part of the villagers could prevent the de struction of the whole. The stack, which was the property of Mr. John Watkivaou, was fortunately insured. MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY:) CORN EXCHANGE-MONDA Y. wrlie o Fresh up this morning the arrivals of En fish coastwise from Kent were rather extensive. o r the 'Ol t, finest qualities of both red and white hove-grown Wil es the demand must be considered on the whole finny a,. t about equal to those realised on this day se'nnight ; " 6 ut t middling and inferior kinds—which formed at least three, fourths of the quantity on offer—were a very dun sale; in . some instances the turn cheaper. The market cluse,, heavily. Of Foreign Wheat the imports have amountedvitt; nearly 7,000 quarters. To-day the show of sanWle s l• c e moderately good, but by no means extensive. We n° no alteration in the quotations. Bonded Grain was 1 1 _1 3 ` ii ii yet the holders of Wheat under lock were firm. Mt l i t i „4 Barley at fully last week's figures; malting and di s Cui r a lte iv; sorts at barely late rates. In Malt we can notice no tion in prices. The best parcels of Oats moved off freely; other kinds were dull. Beans and Peas commanded hN little attention. CURRENCY PER IMPERIAL MEASURE. t o,. Wnitivr—Essex & Kent, (MALT—Chevalier.......l""" red 44s to 63s OATS—Yorkshire onu 2 3 8 to „_,Pf Ditto, white Norfolk and Lin- Potatoe ..... .........f• coin, red 42s to 49s Youghall and Corsi ,pl . O 1! Ditto white 4ss to 58s black .......•••••••' ig s 7o YY, P . Irish, red 4/78 to 50s Cork, white ......... 00 t oo: . Ditto, white ...... RYE—Old 2bs to 33s BEANS—IIck ........... •••• sss tom New 36s to 33s PEAS- Grey .....-••••••" ss to ;:., EIeaLEY- 7 Grinding 2ss to . 2981 Maple ... ........ ... 7 : so , coa;0-, Malting - 34s le 37s Chevalier 32s to 35s MALT—Stiftlk and Nor folk s6s to 62s Brown 50$ to Ms Kingston and Ware 56s to 62s FOREIGN GRAIN AN WnnAT—Dantzic White ................... ;vs Boilers... ...... .... to 5 2 Floua—Town niade 3is t op Suflo k... ..........• s o to? Stockton & Norfolk ' ID FLOUR IN BOND* 9 O 9 to BEANS ..... 23s t o r:ss ..... to .. FLoua—American. ...... o p. Baltic . ....... Hamburgh 36s to 40s BARLEY 3os to 33s OATS.—New Feed l4s to 16s . SNUTEFIELD. . inet ie- Notwithstanding our market was, on the whole verZ er g ai , l. rately supplied with Beasts, both as regards num' ar t ot quality, a great disinclination was exhibited on the i y e ho g 4 the butchers. and others to purchase, arising fralt,9. l est ier arrivals of country-killed meat up to Newgafe Lulu ' liter hall, and the unfavourable state of the weather for a1a_ 1 ‘ . 16 0 ,04 ing ; hence we have again to report an inactive neuL,. sp. at a decline on last Monday's quotations of quite 2d Pt e fact The scarcity of really prime Scots must account for ta„,,er that a few of that breed found buyers at from 3s 10d to4 c ' e ig 81bs ; but, as those figures were only .realised in Pa P cv aii' instances, the highest general figure for Beef must he_ t ad' dered as not exceeding 3s 10d per 81bs. Although grr w oti ficulty was experienced in effecting clearances, ha t trol l' elf left the market unsold. The trade in Sheep was e 91 b the dull, at a depression in value of from 2d to 4d per gibs ~,t 0 best old Downs at from 4s 2d to 4s 4d per 81bs. Cal'es Iv; abatement of 2d per 81bs. Prime small Porkers sold r ea other kinds of Pigs slowly, at late rates. 1 Per 81bs. to sink the offal. _. d. to' 0 S. d. to s. ti.l I tolo 3 1 Inferior Beasts. ..... 2 8 2 10, Inferior Sheep ...... ....- 3• 0 Second quality ditto... 3 0 3 2, Second quality ditto.. . 0 1 6 Prime large Oxen 3 4 3 6' Coarse..woolled ditto. , 0 i 6 4 i Prime Scots, &c. 3 8 3 lot Southdown Wethers 0 0 Large coarse Calves 3 6 4 0 Large Hogs .......... 0- ~, 0 Prime small ditto 4 2 4 8 Small Porkers .... ..... 1 Suckling Calves, each 18 028 0 Quarter old Pigs, each., , z. SUPPLY AT MARKET. S ' • Beasts. I Sheep. I Calves. I o'7 2,643 I 23,300 0 54) ATEVZGATE AND LEADENSAS- 1 :,: g' 04 ,,,, The supplies of London slaughtered meat have L'':ol, 0 1 ' though not to say extensive. Prime Mutton, y Iv, scarcity, has commanded a steady demand, at, Mutton,` rates ; but, with all other kinds of meat, the traae , - ; inactive, at, in most instances, a decline of 2d per Bilh" j, At per stone, by the Carcase 1. 4 'l ° s. d. to s. d., 2 6 5 0 Beef, Inferior.... 2 4 2 6 Mutton, inferior .. w' 810 0 p middling....,.., H 2 8 2 P, --- mlddling.••• 3 2 1 -- prime large ..... 3 0 13 21 --- prime........ i 6 prime small ........ 3 3 2 3 4, Pork, large ...........•." 6 Veal ..... ........—. ARRIVALS DURING THE PAST . WIDg" OP,' Beasts. Sheep. Calve ,. IL , ' Scotland 3B 650 P, Yorkshire ................ Norfolk Suffolk 26 90 ••••• 1, " Cambridgeshire Essex - 4O 220 WO > 7 ',,, Surrey 7O 312 250 lw,, Devonshire Wiltshire Other parts —.—. ..---• 3 Total 355 2572 02,sri , 2, 41 2 Previous week's arrival l7O 2 , 088 76 0 ...--- Difference since our last... 185 484 60 - BOROUGH AND SPITAIMISTAtt . The arrivals of Potatoes in the Pool since our 1.7,,, t a " 1 " have amounted to nearly 2,900 tons-700 beingrLr land, 400 from the Channel Islands—the renuk!°7 lo o, 9 4 different parts of England. Selected qualities are . sr str at full prices ; but the trade with other descriptioo heavy. htv i " BOROUGH HOP staitzVZ tof ; In most kinds of new Hops a full average amo k ver, ness has been transacted since this day se'nnight , 3 :„„yea - rates. Old Hops, the supply of which is moderate , steadily at late currencies. l qe WOOL Ma=t/CET. The imports of Wool into the p or t o f London, " i t bst , ";,ll . week, have been confined to about 950 b a l e s. Sottd for „ t ing the stocks are seasonably ex t ens i ve , the deny descriptions is active, and the advance noticed jo report is firmly supported. TALLOW. • • CO -Ae This market is flat, a nd th e d eman d limited. - „y 4 -1 ,0 is worth 41, and w e b e li eve ( a l t h ou h there are Vita tations) that first so r t o f goo d quality cannot be i 5 ° t o t 41s : good second sort Y. C. is 40s to 405 3d. Thererio little disposition to do business in new tallow ; the d p f e the last three:months is 41s 3d to 41s Fed sellers, an buyers at 41s. Town tallow is 42s nett cash. LLOYD'S SHIPPING.—(THIS LONDON, FEB. 19.—Wind S.W., fresh breezes. ,„ DEAL, FEB. 17.—Wind, W. to W.N.W., moderv(l,Yug, Harbottle Castle, Young, Mogadore. 18th. -- W in e a Arrd. from the River, Enmore, Ellis, Sychiey; Evans, Rio Janeiro. _„ hot PLYMOUTH, FEB. 18.—It blew very stron:C.'" - Allgi e d from S.S.W., with rain, and continues.-- - h e m i tter rjr Crocker, from Barcelona to this port,- ran on the •"'; re nt yesterday, but came off on the flood without aPPZ t. 11 14 mage. The Virginia, Jansen, from Bremen W came into Catwater, 16th inst., to repair. If , th LIVERPOOL, .FEB. 17.—Wind W., fresh.- 18 th : s. Wi L t ; derate.—Arrd. 17th, Triton, Anderson, Valpara iso Staup, Buenos Ayres ; John Brooks, Lacklarl , . d Cho p; Lotus, Drinkwater, Laguna ; Desdemonsi_ „ to p ri r Orleans ; The Duke, Pursell, New Orleans ; son, New Orleans ; Sheridan, De Peyster, New - bke.!;:is line, St. John's, New Brunswick. Sld. 17th, ftleb tar a, Bleasdale, Calcutta; Peru, Shi e ld s , Africa; S', v t ir e! "7, Philadelphia; Taulas, Chevar, B os t o n. 18th; i• Sel A o4 , Rio Janeiro; Jane, Hamilton, Africa; Caroline, a coiling* Havannah ; Rowland, Blanch ar d, New Orleans; Cole, and Liberty, Norte, New 'York ; ii Boston. . s te m dee stel' WEXFORD, FEB. 16.—The Town of Dun liod. aground on Gulbar, but is expected off with the 1, YARMOUTH, FEB. 18.—The William Carraic hae P a g, for London, has been towed in here distnasted; cke Lion, Howick, Foster, of Sunderland, and the Fayb? Pt, e erf,.ii i „,; l lo," of Brixham, have some in here to repair, hari n b los se , '" p e Froger , tact yesterday off Hasborough ; the former with o _ lo boon, &c., and hull damaged, the latter bows st v"" bowsprit. rris lal LIVERPOOL, FEB. 17.—The T r iton, As n derson_slobac a this port from Valparaiso, brings dates from Fe _ Ai Os 4th ultimo. de'' 11 4 f 91 111 Apr t WHITBY, FEB. 17.—The Neptune, Bond, P -- „ 0 0-- which sank off Whitby rock 14th inst., has dr_ ll ' . ' East Cliff and gone to pieces. ,s, bow"- A SID 1 6th if Poirrsmouth FEB. 18.—The Defence, , e 1 • London, whic h grounded on the floating - b r ',7 was got off, yesterday, repaired and proce ede " . ton, reti Pl NORTH SUNDERLAND, lEB. 16.—The Gilunr,,,erstose„,/ and from Montrose to London, struck on the I s l e :, a nd r" Fern Islands this morning, and sank, crew saY e- ' f re9 ll. stores. O'VV4 FALMOU'iII, FEB. 17.—Wind, W.S.W. o k• ' t 18th, S.S.W., fresh gales. - i r or OFF THE NEEDLES, FEB. l6.—Atlantict p'ea r Bremen. $3. j°l3ll CORK, _FEB. 15.—Arrd. Amelia, Crosby, Brunswick. _ DISTRESSING CASE.-011 FT --- idaY - n i g h t! ose ,ij sal l - ‘1;;' gaoler of, the Thames Police-court, died'at l ii9 t n e ° r .o a .b._ ll t - 0 . i. " - , street, Sun Tavern-fields, St. George's, , Eas t ' illness, leaving a widow and six young children_il w as 4 ler tress, and totally unprovided for. The decea s ` 7 o of ge ' re• forty-two years of age, and had filled the sitnatioo t o T o o for nine years. He was attacked with apople,NYa oever:irl vious Saturday, soon after leaving the Court, a% s od lc l i d from his bed afterwards. He was a very- bluntistrittes,,ed hearted man, and much esteemed by the inldi o r. et r clerks of the Court. A subscription has been sires re neeti tfoitrletdhetroeliaenfyotfhhinisg'frpooomr wthideoswopaenraud foaumaitliyo,ll7ll4 t g li_ B l t o h or ° Tog Moore contributed to it as a police-const able of fourteen years. - , - Vera i 2 r j i mrtOf PRINCESS'S THEATER.—Anotner _ - „:„ 0r,..-- - f 0 L'Homme Blase was produced at _this_ boar l' e rfehliv night under the title of Blase; or, the Oa?, I n d ger. 00 Sensation. The piece is so good in elf . 0 left ill ° acting was throughout so perfect, that little isdesChdogge4 wished for. In the first act his languid n_l ic s od 0 , 0 heavy immobility of his features, as he.gaPe"' f the b oll, himself about, eonveyed a characteristic pictur e ° itt 0 1 hopeless of biases, and his scene with the wi m d ° lo l4 Noe! , .blf by-the-bye, he was admirably supPerted by wag rr 014 the true colouring of nature, while its effect b l eia De ludicrous... Paul Bedford was also very effecti% stow we d t° D o t ; quietly humorous than he is usually Loinaccilsllotted tev t Mademoiselle Prospere had the part of, allot. g eAt , and acted it in a neat and unassuming - f i t i. AP her credit. .The piece was completely succes_% ~,,ivief.d, A jolly young fellow, named Soubilli _r, Nit2:o appearance at the bar of the Correctional Tribi!,..lf,otentfteo toal 4l % ll° a stereotyped smile on his lips, expressive of salt .ki and good-nature, that every one present Was se u 9 w fe__ i,ri it was found that he was charged with beating P o d tk!,r o ot following colloquy ensued between the Presideqici j o g i' d jo soner :—" You are accused of beating ' O l youW °tl iitr wife." " Aye, aye ; it's a habit I've got." should like Fe :- well to get rid of it." "Of my w that, I o knee', 4 thing better !" " No, no, not rol l ree' ' Ow fectly well what I mean. Have you h aiVl l i _ s° ,, e 'oe' e .,; complain of your wife?" " I don't know t hill Ur''-otCll`,. you must see•when lam in a rage it. must ‘_., sbe olf I f thing, and as my wife is always at home , nibg," reinDO it." "You show a most deplorable want of to wo did not fall upon her I should be breaking tt_ l _ e ., w ife. a 0 0l)' there is no such risk, you know, in striking rli v: 7 l _ !yo._. to the President exclaimed, " Hold your tongue sentenced Me , ; jo g aggravate your offence !" The Tribtund,4lllthi9ever,ltiii 0,r6 two months' imprisonent, on hearinf Wirt' ' i certa -111)1 1VIO t smile left him, as he n remarked, "1 one's wife! at expect that. Two months for slapping ell the use of marrying !" Galignani. orko l j oeo The w e' t THE NEW SILVER COINAGE.---- • mix o 00 silver e ve ß r ocyolinlagbel,inatcoanresiddearialybleatamwoounrktinofewtrh.iiiiicjiwtdaytis.::hoe,; to the Bank of England within the last `ig S _.. 0 11' panic respecting the light gold currennci lia r ' o glat c "; i oite, the Governor and Company of the Ba K ii _, si iver .o u ; ge e l shortly giVe notice that they will issue the e er old c °l ,0 d - at the Bullion-office in exchange for th ~cii ere ,rho. George 111., George IV., and Willian Iv., lvflweight- in oi faced from wear and tear and deficient in the ca th rr e a public will not in any way be losers bY made her' jar,,, the old silver, arrangements having been I n ' A ate' Government and the Bank to that effect. „ by r mi o. 0t... , be ra , - a quantity of the new coinage has been _eel s t , An since Monday to the different branch ban i od , ii r g7it 0 factoring and agricultural districts of Eng, a_ w ill lia, : t t o Scotland. As the Bank receives it, the clerks reel e" lall / ` i 4 defaced as not to be re-issued, and it will b in t he . „01 Mint. The quantity of bullion at pres ent , than for h'• nearly 16,000,000 sterling—a larger ailleUni years. . ro RI Br a But co ate Mr. r ] • kOtarit, ` " t z terna t , , e an d a r"ls !Jan a :: Zvete ta r °r su ,10 -tstoty "lent ; \Vh er th e f''le ri;, 4l 14i 4 'ar t'4l4er,4' IVI (