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our regret that he should have placed himself in ' such a false position with his countrymen, as to find it absolutely necessary to his po pularity to keep up the delusion. As.re s pects his assertion that the time has at length' arrived when there must be some alteration in the mode of govern ing Ireland, " whether it be towards federal institutions or unconditional repeal," we cordially agree with him -that, Ministers must, without loss of time,. devise some more effective plan for tranquillising - late sister -country than they have yet discovered, or else make way for those who can. The limits ofendurance are passed, andshould the next session be allowed to slip away without some enlightened remedial measures being brought forward, we shall begin to think that there is more sense and justice in the fierce cla mour for Repeal, than we can at present admit to be the case. Ireland has never been slow to fight our constitutional battles with firmness and alacrity; she was of infinite assistance to us in our great struggle for Reform, and in the minor Parliamentary conflicts that en sued; and it is base ingratitude, as well as injurious policy, to exhibit indifference to her welfare, the instant we imagine that we have no further urgent need of her services. But though we concur with Mr. O'CoNNELL that some important changes must be made in the present mode of administering the affairs of Ire land, we are by no means prepared to contend that a" federal institution" must be one of these changes. To our thinking, such an institution would be nothing more than a Parliament de prived of its virility—a wretched, peddling, chandler's-shop concern, which would be constantly • at loggerheads with the Im perial Senate, teazing and wasting its time with all sorts of petty applications and annoyances—a Parliament without power, with out dignity, without moral or political influence —a sort of Court of Common Council affair, which would make a prodigious fuss about small matters, and achieve nothing of moment ; —and when this apology for a Legislature had been in existence for some months, if it should endure so long, so inefficient would it be found, that the Irish themselves, with their quick appreciation of the ridiculous, would be the first to laugh it to scorn, and clamour for a Repeal of the Union with more fierceness and determination of pur pose than ever. It is not, then, to " a federal institution " that we look as one of the changes necessary for the future welfare of Ireland, but to a vigorous reform in the Protestant Church system, and to such wholesome measures as may rescue the poor helpless tenant from 'the state of thraldom in which lie is too often kept by his powerful and exacting landlord. We should not omit to notice that at the Banquet to which we have been alluding, the Chairman, in a sudden transport of enthusiasm, excited by Mr. O'Com- NELL'S energetic references to Repeal, warmly ex pressed his conviction that the " Liberator's mission was from Heaven, and that he was an angel ex pressly sent down to regenerate his native land." The Tories, we believe, together with not a few of the Whigs, are of opinion that the " Liberator's mission" is from another quarter; without, how ever, offering any opinion on this head, we may perhaps be, permitted to observe that, to our thinking, Mr. O'CONNELL has as little of an angelic look about him, as any fat, middle-aged gentle man, in a wig, that ever lived. Even with the utmost stretch of imagination, we cannot fancy him doing duty as a Cherub with a pair of wings at his shoulder-blades. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. THIS EVENING, JANUARY 9, Will be repeated a New Grand Opera, m I tree Acts, calledTHE BOHEMIAN GIRL. Count Arnheim, sir. Boffin' ; Thaddeus, Mr. W. Harrison; Arline, Misa Itatnlorth; Queen of the Gipsies, Miss Betts. After which, will be rep,ated a New Grand Comic Christmas Pantomime, entitled HARLEQUIN AND KING I'EPIN ; or_ VALENTINE AND ORSON. Harlequin, Mr. Howell; Colum, bine, Mis: Carson; Clown, Mr. T. Ridgway; Pantaloon, Mr. Blanchard. Dress Boxes 74., Second Price 3s. ; Upper Circles of Boxes 55., Second Price 35,; I'it , Second Price :28. ; Middle Gallery 211., ccond Price Is. ; Upper Gallery Is., Second Price (id. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN. M. JULLIEN'S CONCERTS. PROGRAMME FOR THIS EVENING. PART I. Overture. Euryanthe—Wth 2r. The Royal Irish Quadrille—Jullien. Sonata for Violoncello and Double Bass, performed by Messrs. Han cock and Howell—Corelli. Solo, Cornet-a-Piston, Herr Koenig (Air and Variations)—Kcenig. Valle, La Value a Deux Tems—Jullien. Surprise Symphony—Haydn. Solo, Violin, Master Thirlwall. The English QuadrilleJulUen. PART 11. or, with Solo for Cornet.a-Piston, by Opera, Lucia di Herr lc *nig— Donizettl. Burletta cuadrille, entitled Dancing for the Million—Jullien. Solo, Flute, Mr. Richardson—Richardson. Valse, Elizabethan—Strauss. The Real Scotch Quadrille—Aillien. Doors Open at Half.past Seven, commence at Eight •'Clock Promenade, is ? Upper B o xes, Is.; Dress Circle, ; Private Boxes, U. Is. Tickets to be obtained at the Box-dtfice of the Theatre; of Mr. Mitchell, uld Bond-street; Mr. Andrews, New 'iond-street; Mr. Sams, St. James's-street ; and AL JUlliQll'S ()like :;, Maddox-street, Bond-street. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKEL ME. BENJAMIN WEBsT.Eit, LESSEE. THIS EVENING, J ANUARY I, Will be performed PATTER VERSUS CLATTER. Captain Patter, Mr. Charles Mathews. To oe followed by WHO'S YOUR FRIEND? or, The Queens berry Fcte. (ides Fairland, Mr. Charles Mathews; she Countess of Rosedale, Madame Vestris. After which, the Unparalleled Performances of Professor RISLEY and his SON. To conclude with a New Fairy Extravaganza, entitled THE FAIR ONE WITH THE GOLDEN LOCKS! King Lachrymoso, Mr. 1. Bland; Prince Gra,:eful, Miss P. Horton; Queen Lucidora, lit!,s Julia Bennett. It is not to be supposed, a priori, that a Premier is. a conjuror ; and we have not yet seen, in the powers or the administration of Sir ROBERT PEEL, anything which should subject, him, by implication or construction, to the charge of having graduated in the black art. But we stand aghast at the fond expectations which both friends and foes profess to entertain of the Right Hon. Baronet's " power magical." He is, according to some, to come forward be fore the Easter recess with a scheme for cor recting the present dangerous and defective condition of the currency. This class of political puppets, not content with predicting the advent of so incalculably beneficial a remedy, are so extravagant in their credulity as to believe that Sir ROBERT will have the candour to acknow ledge at the same time, that, after the late Mr. HUSKLSSON, no man has done more than himself to create or to aggravate that diseased state of our monetary functions which now threatens the speedy paralysis of our whole industrial and commercial system. Then, we have among our Contemporaries some journalists who look to the same hands, within the next six months, for the development of matured plans for the extension of I our foreign commerce; the resuscitation and permanent maintenance of our manufacturing activity ; the effectual co unteraction of Russian intrigues against our power in Europe, and in North-Western and Central Asia, in Persia, and in China;—the adjustment of the Oregon and boundary questions, and of the seizures' com pensation claims by American citizens in the United States; the pacification of Mexico ; the settlement of the South American Republics ; and various other questions of some little im portance, and not without their modicum of difficulties. For our own part, we are so fearful that, in the matters thus hastily recapitulated, 'Here will be found stuff enough for the fullest occupation of the Premier's time, that we have scarcely margin enough of conscience left us to add our own wish—rather than expectation— tnat the Minister would be good enough to ap prise the country, in the first week of the en suing session, when he means to withdraw his destructive property and income-tax—that mon strous concomitant of the twenty-ninth year of our uninterrupted peace with Europe ? We are =,:msible, however—having repudiated the notion of his being invested with magic influences—that Sir ROBERT PEEL can no more manufacture time, t:lan Mr. DENT, the great horologist, can multiply it by any of the delicate and ingenious pro cesses which he applies to the manufacture of his chronometers. And if this be so, it is not to he imagined that the Premier, within the short interval which has yet to elapse before the re ;sembling of Parliament, can scrape together a sufficient stock of this " time "—the most pre- ( ions, after all, of all currencies—to the elabora tion of one-tenth of all the purposes for which people so kindly give him credit. Nay, it is not, in reason, to be supposed that he will be able to set apart, for any one department of the public service, more of this commodity than the portion which time course of official business has At a great public banquet lately given to Mr. a l ready assigned to it. Nevertheless, although we may not look O'CoNNEto. in Cluoniel, that gentleman, undis even to that Minister who understands so well trifled by the tholy-lit of the approaching- State " prosecution s , spo l :e calf on the hackneyed and tire- the technique of the art some question of - Repeal with just as much fresh- means to supply the of raising ways and deficient annual product ness and enthusiasm as if he were deliverityr his of our taxation, by further taxing the very first speech on the subject, observing, " Let every capital which has hitherto paid it, or the income man be a Repe a l er; let him wear a button or of that capital,—for a power to prolong the souse t(ik(11 by which-our enemies may know us duration of the natural day by Act of Parlia and try to count us. Do these things, and I went or Order in Council; we would entreat him promise you the Parliament i n College-green, at this period,—before the fight of parties in the abolition of the tithe•rent charge, or its ap- Parliament has begun,—to remember how much propriation to purposes of education, the abo- of real business it is indispensable for him to lition of the poor-rates, and the grand jury cess. crowd into the transactions of every twenty-four 1 vv ill also have - fixity of tenure for the te- hours which will elapse before an ad nants, and prevent the landlords from turning journment, by prorogation or dissolution, in them out to starve in the ditches. We the ensuing summer. Let him carefully will also have a ;;carchlu t corporate reform, and avoid the mischievous error of his predecessorsin every man will have a vote.' it was well said office, who, by neglecting to calculate before by MV.s. GLAziSE, in that immortal cookery-book, hand the time—limits within which certain ob which is an oracle at Guildhall, and the wonder jests of periodical legislation and general ques and admiration of all *tstronontists, " first catch Lions of political or official detail, the discussion your b are , b e f o re you consider how it shall be of which can be cert a i n ly f oreseen , may b e pro ircs.sed." Parody itg.; the language of this cele- bably disposed of—and by omitting to arrange, brated authoress, w e may say to Mr. O'CONNELL, also, their priority and seq uence , h ave f oun d it fi rc t, ~et your re2val, befbre you consider the themselves compelled, with the approaching measures that spirit. ;low f rom it." It is all very termination of a session, to precipitate, or abso i( a s,,liti o n of poor-rates," lately to cashier and burk , affairs of the most well to talk about but important relations, with a degree of injury to " searching corporate reform," &e., &c., these are fii.ci,,, ~;,,.:.2._,,arily depen d ent on , the public service absolutely incalculable. We , . ',vould. urgently recommend tel the Minister to Repeal, and every .site' to -qirtcticatile anit;l . . I.code ofolheial regulations the first !,?. - kw.t Stt:3l) i ,;,:i;":Ce:,-,l:_lily accom- ' prepare an . d organise plished. But this . -top Mr. O'Co.NNLLE knows, 1 ander which each branch of the civil service 1 o r sho u ld k lac e tv , can never b e accom plished; and shall be requ ired to p re p are all the returns, re we can only, therefor e , repe a t the exressikni of t ports, accounts ; iStc., fur which it may have been THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. The Best Pantomime of the Season—Gorgeous Scenery. THIS EVENING, JANUARY 9, The New Drama, embracing Extraordinary Effects, Powerful Cast, and Novel Scenic Display, called THE BOHEMIANS; or, Tke Rogues et Paris. Principal Characters by Messrs. Lyon, 0. Smith_, Wright, Wieland, Maynard, *Ss. Yates, MIA E. Stmiey, Mrs. F . Matthews. After which, a New Grand Christmas Pantomime, called MAR. LEQUIN BLUE BEARD; or, The Fairy of the Silver Crescent. Produced with Enormous Splendour and Wonderful Effects! Columbine, Miss Sullen ; Harlequin Quicksilver, by the inimitable Wieland; Clown, by the Grimaldi of the day, Mr. T. Matthews, from the Theatres Royal, Covent-garden and Drury-lane; Panta. loon, Mr. Johnstone. Boxes, 4a. ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, ls. ; Second price at Nine. Doors open at Six, commences at a Quarter before Seven o'Clock. _ PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD.STREET. LESSEE, Mr. J. M. MADDOX. THIS EVENING, JANUARY 9, Will be performed LUCREZIA BORGIA. Don Alphonso, Mr. Burdini ; Gennarro, Mr. Allen ; Maltio Orsini, Mrs. H. P. Grattan; Uubetta, Mr. Walton ; Lucrezia Borgia, Madame Eugenia Garcia. To which will be added the Vaudeville of the SWISS COT TAGE. Natz "neck, Mr. Keeley ; Lisette, Mrs. Keeley. 'l'n conclude with a New Musical Burlesque !spectacle, entitled THE MAGIC MIRROR. Singsong, Mrs. H. P. Grattan; Poo. Poo, Mr. Paul Bedford ; Sloe.Leat, Miss R. Isaacs. DAVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEAI /LE. As usual, the funniest and most successful Pantomime. THIS EVENING, JANUARY 9, Will be repeated THE BOHEMIANS OF PARIS. Supported by Messrs. Saville, Hughes, Hicks, R. Honner, Johnson, Smith, 'qrs. H. Vining, and all the Me.uhers of the First Company in the World. After which an entirely new Grand Comic Pantomime, with Splendid Scenery, Superb oresses, Inimitable Properties and 'Pricks, every thing new and of the most costly description, HARLEQUIN GRAMMAR, or, Lindley Nlurray,and AEIO U. Harlequin, Mr. W. H. Harvey ; Grotesque, Mr. stilt; Clown, Mr. Fuller; Panta. loon, Mr. Haweins ; Coluailanes (alternately) Miss M. R. Fair. brother and Miss Sharpe. Places and Private Boxes to be hail of Mr. Kerschner, at the Box. office, trout Eleven to Four. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE OF ARTS. Under the nin,gernent of Mr. Batty. Proprietor. Triumphant Success of the Splendid Christma, Holiday Fetes.—West minster-Bridge is now open—Juvenile Nights. THIS EVENING, JANUARY 9, Will be performed a Grand Comic Pantomime, entitled HA RLE RUIN TAM D'SH ANT Elt, and his STEED MEG; or, The Witches of Alloway Kirk. Harlequin, Mr. Gibson ; Columbine, Mdlle. Cushnie ; Clown. Mr. King ; Pantaloon, Mr. Mathews. New Scenes in the Circle, and unequalleu feats ot Horsemanship. ....... To conclude with the slientlid French Spectacle at THE VIC— TORIES OF MURAT, THE SOLDIER OF FRANCE; or, The Pnnce, and King. Acting and Stage Manager, Mr. W. B. Brottdfoot. Stalls. 55.; Bo xis, 45.; Upper 80xei,:i,..; Fit, Is. ; Gallery, Is.; Upper Gallery, M. Box-office open daily from len till Four. Stags lloxes, One Guinea; I-L.lf.prica to Ditto, Hall-a-Guinea. Private Boxes, Two Guineas; Half-price to Ditto, One Guinea. Half-price, Half-past r IiOYA CIORI A HEATRE. THIS EVENING, JANUARY 9, Will he performed an entirely New Domestic Drama, entitled POVERTY ; or, Mary Craham. Leonard, Mr. Freer; Jessamy Tacit, Mr. Nantz • l S4iire Graham, Mr. Dale; Patty Parrot, Miss Arden ; Mary Graham, i',;iss Vincent. After which a New Drama, entitled THE BROKEN PROMISE. Joseph°, Miss Vincent; General Morin, Mr. James; Eloise, Miss A rut en. conclude with liAUI 3:QUIN LINCOLN LUCKY OF LAM. is iti ; or, The Thr.e of Wadi vs ihow Dell. Harlequin Mr. Chapin,. ; Clown, 3r. Se :brow; Pantaloon, Mr. Morelli Coiiimbii,e, Miss M. :it:hr.:l:it EA T 1 I it.— SIJN OFFICE, J AN. 8. itziomwrEn, I,mvust, 32 ; Highest, 51 ; Noon, 40 13Ano3J , N. nioriber 32 on the Ther►uurneter denotes lie freezing point, and 53 temperate. In Barometers iit i 3 usually placed oppoAte 30, and rain at 29. kil(4l WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY. Morning ... 7 minutes atter 4. I Evening ... '26 minutes after 4. - 1,7 7 7 '.e ,,, r;. • • g LONDON: TUESDAY 3101ZNING, JANUARY 9, 1844. THE NEW HISTORICAL ROMANCE. Now ready at all the Libraries, in 3 voh. WHIT EFRIA RS; THE DAYS OF CHARLES THE SECOND. " Whitefriars is the work of no common hand. It is full of talent."—John " 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 0 tes, Claude Duval, and many other etS:ebritits figure in every page."—Court Journal. denry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Alarlborough• street. MR. 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London : Longman, Brown, Green, and Lotigmans:_ -WORTHY OF REMARKI.--The fact that many of the principal Hospitals in the Kingdom, among which it is sufficient to name Guy's, St. George's, and the Westminster, in the Metropolis; and the Manchester, Bristol, and Brighton Infirmaries, have adopted 13ETTS'S PATENT 'MANDY, in preference to Foreign, affords a sufficient gua rantee to the consumer: of Brandy of the extreme purity of the article, the connoisseur being, at the same time, baffled in his attempt to distinguish between its flavour and that of fine Cognac. Price, pale or coloured, in quantities not less than Two Gallons, Eighteen Shillings per Gallon, at the Distillery, No. 7, Smithfield Bats, leading to St. John-street. ------- rpm; NEXT insmniunol. , l of MONEY DIVIDP.:NDS, A UT :.0111SED and GUARANTEED by HIS MAJESTY ilio EMPEROR of AUSTRIA, contains MONEY DIVIDEND'S ;f £5O £6O £7O £6O £9O £lOO £llO £l2O £l5O £2OO £4OO £6OO £BOO .El,OOO £1,500 ' £5,000 and .E 23,000 sterling . . Antountinc. to , giaher to £70,170 sterling. Direet for PROSPECTUS with full particulars, WITH OUT DELAY, to HEINE BROTHERS, at HAMBURGH, Cr. to HEINE B ROTHERS, at LUBECK. T already called on, by order of her MAJESTY, or of either House, or which, by usage or precedent, and under statute, it may be bound to supply to Parliament,—by the earliest period at which it may be practicable to get such documents ready for presentation after the re-assemblingofParlia ment. Let these regulations enjoin that in every instance wherein, according to the opinion of the responsible superior head or officer of a depart ment, it may be impracticable to get such papers prepared by the time suggested in the regula tions, such superior officer shall report to him, the Premier, directly, the reasons or causes of the delay, and set forth the more distant period at which it can be guaranteed that such papers shall be severally ready. Of all Parliamentary papers, in like manner, which may be still passing through the press, let the Minister on the first day of the ensuing session call for a return, setting out the present stage towards completion at which the documents may have arrived, and the date at which the printer under takes to have the copies delivered at the Parlia mentary Paper-office in Abingdon-street. By some such measures as these, previously concocted, it may be possible to avoid that in decent hurry, that hopeless confusion, and that very serious ►nischief which the " clearing off" the Return and Notice Paper in the penultimate stages of a session usually exhibit. It is in this way that the go-by is given for another year, not only to important Private Bills and muni cipal and county business, which have been introduced or conducted at very heavy expense — all of which for the most part in such instances has to be re-incurred—but to public questions, the progress of which has been anxiously but vainly watched by the people, whose expecta tions in like manner must be pgstponed to the " next session." We have no wish to see the important questions of public education, the cur rency, the renewal of the Bank charter, the general policy of free trade, the adjustment of our con nexions and dominions on this side and beyond the Indus, the position and bearings of our foreign policy, the revision of our domestic taxation, the reform of our fiscal establishments, especially the Customs, and the careful retrospect of our financial system (all of which must, in a shape more or less substantive and direct, come under the deliberation of the Legislature in the en suing session)—we have no wish to see subjects; of this vital magnitude sacrificed to defective arrangements and deficiency of time, which a little previous management may surely obviate. The Madrid Gazette of the 31st ult. publishes the new municipal law, not passed by the Cortes or any constitutional authority, but ordered by NARVAEZ and the Camarilla. Against this law nearly the whole of Spain protested in 1840. Vast numbers of petitions were, addressed to Queen CHRISTINA, entreating her not to sanction such a measure. She treated them with contempt, and then finding such a general out. cry against her she resigned the Regency and fled into France. For this despotic measure BRAvo and his party calculate on obtaining a bill of indemnity. Time will show whether such a change has taken place in the political views of the people since 1840 as to make them accept in 1844 what they declared three years before to be inadmissable. The Government in fact have adopted a system of legislature never before heard of. They pass a num ber of acts in a secret conclave, promulgate them to the country, enforce them by the sword, and in order to prevent endless talk they propose to call upon the Cortes to sanction them in a lump. The Phare des Pyrenees says the suspen sion of the Chambers was agreed to by the Cabinet without any communication with the heads of their party, and it was only on the ni.,;ht .previous to the prorogation that the resolution of the Cabinet was communicated to the President of the Chambers. The Gazette contains the following decree r " Considering the distinguished merit of M. MAR.. TINEZ DE LA ROBA, and the services which he has rendered the country, I appoint him my Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Court of his Majesty the King of the FRENCH." The Duke de Rivas had been named Ambassador to Naples, and was to bring with him. as Secretary M. AGUSTO DE CUETO. The Three per Cents. were done at 25i at 60 days ; the Five per Cents., at 20i for cash ; and the Float ing Debt, at 411 for the 17th inst. We learn from the Paris papers that the Committee of the Chamber of Deputies appointed to draw up the address, continue to sit daily, and had put numerous questions to Ministers relative to the main points in the KING'S speech. The answers, in general, were satisfactory. On Saturday the Ministers of Religion and Public Instruction were to be heard, and from the steps taken by the Government lately, we may infer that their explanations will be in accordance with the majority of the Chamber. M. GUIZOT is not at all inclined to support the Jesuits, or allow the Church to ride over the University, and M. MARTIN seems to be of his opinion. Having lately ascertained that the Jesuits have been educating children in some of the convents of the order, he took immediate steps to put an end to this breach of the charter. The Minister of Trade will find some more difficulty in performing his task, for, if certain accounts were to be believed, commerce .and domestic manufac tures are not at all flourishing. On this sub ject the Presse makes the following re marks :—" If there he some branches of manufac turing industry which produce a profit, there are, much too many which are not as prosperous as they were during former years. Had the Ministers been well informed by their agents, they would have known that in the eastern departments several manu facturers have been obliged to reduce their hands. The machine makers are likewise complaining. The iron masters labour under great difficulties in conse quence of the high price of fuel, of which the Finance Minister is perfectly aware. It cannot be said that the wine-growers are in a prosperous condition, although the late rise on wines may have for a moment re• lieved their - distress. The home-made sugar ma nufacturers have diminished their production, and the foreign growers have not benefited. As to our maritime commerce, it has suffered more than almost any other species of industry. Our shipments have been at the same time less important and less productive. By a deplorable coincidence our ship owners have had to encounter difficulties in many countries where they formerly found an advantageous commerce. At Mexico our produce has been sud denly loaded with an increased duty. At the Brazils the Custom-house officers have adopted a new mode of measurement, so arbitrary that it has become im possible to land merchandise there without ruin to the shipowner. At St. Domingo the tonnage duties have been raised 100 percent. - At the United States the maintenance of the tariff of 1842 prevents the extension of all mercantile speculation. In Europe commercial affairs are not on a better footing. Coun tries with which we traded have decreased their pur chases without any reasonable motive, and the Ger man markets have been closed against much of our produce. To characterise our foreign commerce in one figure, it may be asserted that in the year 1842 our exports diminished to the amount of 126,000,000 f.! The returns for the year 1843 are not yet published, but we are confident our exports during that year have not equalled those of theyear 1841." The Journal des Debats has a curious article on the late doings of NARVAEZ and Co. It evidently has no wish to blame them much for violating the Constitution, provided only the plan could be made to succeed. "Itis to be believed," says that Minis terial paper, " that the Progressist party would not resign itself to such Platonic acts if it had any hope of being able by' any means of again throwing the country Into a state of agitation. But in the pro vinces, as well as in the capital, people are tired of agitation. Catalonia, the permanent focus of insur rection, seems, by a strange anomaly, the part of the kingdom the least disposed to incur the chances oC civil war. We certainly, at long intervals, hear reports of the interminable siege of a small castle at Figueras, the sound of which is smothered by the more noisy debates in the Congress; but Barcelona has evidently, for the moment at least, lost its taste for bombardments, free battalions, and volunteers en himve. ani m.e1.. , to raine it , manufacture , ' and it::. 1 commerce from the ruin inta which they hay e Ibeen thrown by so many disasters. This state of tranquillity leaves to the Government the exercise of its powers. IVhilst ;he Opposition are making cate- 5 chisms, the Ministers are making laws. Already have they promulgated the law which re-organises the ayuntamientos, or municipalities. This law, with the exception of one provision relating to the nomina tion of Alealdes by the Crown, is the same as that which was enacted by the Cortes in 1840, and in favour of which th? Progressist party voted. The Government is also preparing a law on the provincial deputations, another on the creation of a Council of State, and again ano;her on the electoral system. We simply note the ahoy? facts, without speaking of them with enthusiasm. Ve are not in any way disposed to make light of constitutional regulations. We admit and appreciate the good intentions of the Spanish Ministry ; but to alempt to do well for a country without the concurrence of its representatives must ever appear to us to be playing a hazardous game in a constitutional State. We do not wish to discourage M. GONZALES BRAVO. We ac knowledge the weight of the reasons by which he justifies the suspension of the Cortes. In the state of excitation created by the debates on the conduct of M. OLozAGA, into which the public mind was thrown, all serious discussions of affairs of State by the Con gress was almost impossible. The Opposition had adopted a system calculated entirely to fetter the ac tion of the Administration, and sacrifice to the in terests of party the general interests of the country, which imperiously demanded fundamentallaws. The constitutional Government is, truly, not on a bed of roses—it is a Government of debate and contestation, We are apprehensive the party 7 -' Young Spain'— which is in the actual possession of power, may prove itself to be too young, and that to make experiments of such a serious nature it would, perhaps, have been more desirable that the Monarchy should have been surrounded by men of riper years, and enjoying a less disreputable authority. We are aware that Spain is a country of exception. We wish, and are willing to hope, that the policy of force majeure now being followed by the Ministry, may have a happy issue, and •be absolved by a bill of indemnity. But we cannot help regretting that these happy results should have been obtained only by exceptional mea sures, having need of absolution." BOURSE—PA RIS, SATURDAY, JAN. 6. First Highest Lowest Last Price. Price. Price. Price. French Five per Cents. 124 40... 124 40... 124 15... 124 15 Four per Cents 105 25 .. 105 25... 105 25 .. 105 25 Threes. B2 70... 82 70... 82 50.. 82 50 Bank of France. 3205 ...3210 ...3205 —.3207 50 -Lalfitte Bank 5,000 f 5075 ...5075 ...5075 ...5075 Belgian Fives, 1840 108% 108% ... 108% ... 108% 1842 10 109 ••• 109 ... 109 ;Dutch 2% per Cents 55% 55% 55* ... 55% Spanish Active . ..... 29% 29% ... 29% ... 29% Passive ... 5t ... 5% Portuguese Fives ... 44% 44% ... 44% ... 44% Neapolitan Boman ...... ............ 104% 104% .. 104% ... 104% RAILWAY SHARES. Versailles, L. 14... ..:.i8Y10.,,i83 75... 178 75... 182 50 Rouen Rouen t• Havre t;6o ... 660 ... 645 ... 652 50 Orleans. Strasburg to (Sale 213 75... 213 75... 213 75... 213 75 Avignon to Marseilles 672 50... 672 50... 660 ... 667 50 RAILWAY SHARES, FOR THE ACCOUNT. Versailles, L. 13 lBO ... 183 75... 180 ... 183 75 Rouen Rouen to Havre , 642 50... 655 ... 642 50 .. 655 Orleans . 845 ... 845 ... 835 ... 845 Strasburg to Bale 213 75... 213 75... 213 75... 2:3 75 Avignon to Marseilles 675 ... 675 ... 657 50 .. 668 75 SUMMARY OF iv: AND Vubitt eptittoit. " Who runs may read." X' fjpNLEIGT.T. On Thursday evening tlieWiTg;.ric Queen of the Frettch received M. Guizot, General Count I3audrand, and M. Chasse loup-Labat. The draft of the Address of the Chamber of Peers by the Duke de Broglie, was read on Friday in the bureau of the Chamber of Peers. This day it was to be read at the public sitting. " Two phrases," says the Patrie, " one in the first, and the other in the last, paragraph, appear to refer to the journey of the Legitimists to London. Ooe was rather vague, the other more explicit. The Address does not say a single word in allusion to the right of search." Maria Stella, Countess of Newburg, who assumed herself, under the influence of di lusion, to be the daughter of the Duke of Orleans, father of his present Majesty, Louis Philippe, pre. tending that at her birth she was exchanged for the King, died a few days ago at her apartment in the Rue de Rivoli. At his Majesty's reception, on Wednesday evening, Colonel Dyce Sombre, late Deputv-GovertiGr of Sirdhanah, in the East Indies, in t-ie territories of her late Highness the I3eguin Sombre, had the honour of being presented to the King, and was most graciously received. The following Members of the House of Commons are now in Paris—H. Baring, M.P., Marlborough; D. Darner, Port arlington ; C. R. Fox, Tower Itam!e;s ; Q. Dick, Maldun ; J. Bowes, Durham; Lord 11. Vane, ditto; 11. llroadwood, Bridgewater •' C. Cochrane, Bi idport ; H. Smythe, Canter. bury • J. Duff, Banff; E. Stanley, Cumberland; and J. Matheson, Ashburton. A letter from Hanover of the 27th ult., states, that the Master of the Hounds had been murdered, whilst hunting in one of the forests of the Crown. The crime is supposed to have been committed by poachers. The statue of Moliere is to be brought from the foundry and placed on the Rah instant. The following inscription had been placed over the niche, in letters of bronze—" To Moliere !" but it has been changed into " To Moliere ! born at Paris, .lan. 16, 1622 ; deceased Feb. 17, 1673. National Subscription ;" which is cut in the marble. THE BANK OF ENGLAND. The return of the liabilities and assets of the! Bank of England, from the 7th of October to December 30, shows an immense increase in the amount of the precious metals held, while the circulation has been decreased. This is a feature, however, which is generally apparent on the face of the return that appears immediately preceding the payment of the divi dends. In the deposit, and in the securities, there is an in crease. A comparison with the items of the previous return gives the following results : Circulation, last time £19,121,000 Now Decrease ' 23,008 Deposits now Last time Increase Seettrities, now Last time 20,926,000 Increase ... .. 141,000 Bullion, now Last time... £580,000 AYLESBURY, JAN. 6.—(Fnom A CORRESPONDENT.) —The Epiphany Sessions for this county commenced on Tuesday last, before Sir Thomas Aubrey, Bart., Chairman, and a full bench of Magistrates ; and continued for three days. As soon as the worthy Chairman had concluded his charge to the Grand Jury, the appeal of the Great Western Company v. the parish of Burnham was called on, and occupied the whole of the day. In consequence of the great amount in volved, and the importance of the parties concerned, this ap• peal excited great interest. Sergeant Byles was specially re tained by the parish of Burnham, and was assisted by Mr. Wells ; and Messrs. Birch an d Saund ers , the leading counsel at the sessions, were retained for the Great Western Company. Sergeant Byles stated that the g round of appeal was, that the property of the Company was assessed at t oo hi g h a sum . They were assessed at 1 , 0001. p er mi le , in a subsequent rate Companyrate were such as would of 2,0001. per mile. they were assessed at 1,500/., and in a thi r d a t 1,7 0 01. Th e Learned Sergeant quoted se veral cas es to show that the Com pany were properly rated, and conclud e d an e l oquent speec h, a b l y; ow stating their thatl i ne the be aprofitssesos assessed a f the t th e Messrs. Birch and Saunders contended that the. assessment was too high, and no satisfactory reason had been given why the rate had been raised from 1,0001. to 1,5001. They should propose that a reduction be made for the payment of the income tax, the wear and tear of the line, and a number of minor charges, which would reduce the sum of 1,0001. to 500/. After the examination of several witnesses, the Counsel for the Great Western Company, withdrew the case; and Sergeant Byles applied for costs, which were granted. At these sessions it was resolved, that it is expedient that a Dew gaol should be built, and the necessary steps were ordered to be taken on the sub ject. The estimated cost is 40,0001. THE GREAT BarrAtN.—A meeting of the Pro prietors of the Great Western Steatn.ship Company was held at Bristol on Tuesday, when a resolution was passed, empower ing the Directors to put the Great Britain en the Liverpool and .New York station, and the day for her sailing was fixed for the 27th of May, Captain Hosken leaving the Great Westtrn to command, and is to be succeeded in the latter ship by Captain Matthews,late second officer. The Great Western commences her first spring voyage on the 27th of April. AN TI-LEAGUE MoVEAIENT IN SUSSEX.—A Corres pondent from Chichester writes to say that the adjourned B g ic r rt e ai(gt;erhantortiNnailroad pace in his t as k. He meeting, said to have been held there on the 4th inst., to form an association to resist the League, of which a report appeared in The Sun, was totally u nknown to the inhabitants, and the first information he received of it was from our columns. He adds that Mr. Rusbridge. who moved the resolution, is steward of the Duke of Richmond, and that Mr. Newland, who spoke at the meeting, is an owner as well as an oc n c o u l p d ie s r , of land l ß an a d ys in . builders iley for the completion the neighbourhood of Chichester. I prehase, the mansion a Kovrfact ' Am l e ' ir h ir: . e rrwoGh ll or i ileso outbid n i,R, oao c cibl o eict l n l hds t i; r :si i is bound, under a heavy tine, to finish it for occupation in four months. —Brighton Herald. In the last number of the PalamMe, the chess magamine, which appears each mont h at Par is under the auspices of M. St. Amant, we find the following :—" A French artist, lately returned from the north of Europe, declares that he saw M. Wagstrom, of Stockholm, play six games of chess at the same time against first-rate amateurs, without seeing the board. This is double what is attributed to Phillidor, and triple what we ourselves beheld Labourdonnais do. M. Wag strum, it is said, intends in the course of the year coming to Paris, and beating the whole of the celebrities of the Café de la Regence together without seeing either players or board. He may find it more difficult to do so than he imagines." The number of the Palantelde just alluded to gives the first five games of the late match, with notes from the pen of M. St. Avant. It also contains a very interesting article on the contest itself, and the demeanour and play of the two champions. The satisfaction expressed in the City at the revenue return is greater than has been knpsn for some time past, the fact that the greatest increase on the q uarter is shown by the item of Customs being deemed very important. Had the ap pearance of prosperity been kept up by the extraordinary action of the income-tax alone, there would have been less cause for congratulation, but now we have the signs of a sub stantial impro, ement. The announcement in Friday's Gazette of the application of the fourth p ar t of 9 08 , 5001. ( the sur p lus shown in the October balance-sheet) to the purchase of Stock and Exchequer Bills, is likewise interesting. The diminution of the national debt by this process is indeed very small, bat even a beginning is satisfactory.— Times. EUROPEAN-MADE SUGAR.—It is well known that sugar is yielded largely by the roots of carrots and beet. In Russia there are upwards of thirty . beet -root sugar factories in full operation. This manufacture is also thriving in Germany. A few years ago Messrs. Pie s and Slane ward, of Quedln_ burgh, Westphalia, discovered a process whereby, in twelve hours, 101bs. of pure sugar perfectly crystallised may be ex tracted from 100Ibs. weight of beet-root. Th w e i, s b e u eret was immediately purchased by M. Broklinoff , 20,000 francs ( 800/. ), on condition th at beyond the Rhine and Westphalia. A beet-root factory has been established in Essex ; and f ;g ood ualit and fined samples of English beet-root sugar 0 g . .. it s o li f ould not r b g e ' used . el, P raised upon a Hootsey states that forty tons of mangold• violas wses. Quar single acre, yielded three tons and a half of colour, were sold in the London market at 5/ er q csit y M. terly Journal of Agriculture. i two o'clo,.:k on w as awa e d Monday morning last, Mr. Jury , of Boot-lane, the in the same room by cries from one of his children , who slep t to have become with iiiimelf, and conceiving the chil d oMNAISIIi uLtsm.—Between one an ken entangled in the bed clothes, tition of the cry, soon convinced, from the faint rept! h as tily got up, but was eparated in some that it proceeded front some P • lace s searched, but the was missing. T he c h i ld, a girl of eight years of age, . . _, . nd by the way from the room. The bed w cries were again repeated, but still fainTei: ► " was directed merest accident, the attention of the family scarcely large to the chimney, the aperture of which appeared and there, about enough f'r a child of three years to enter, and difficulty,the poor three yards up, the was discovered. After some . situation, covered poor girl was exrricated from her perilous with soot, and in an exhausted state. From her own statement, as . she must have arisen in her sleep, and, in a state of somno lency, forced her %,:i.V up the chimney, believing herself to lie is • • got and it was a miracle her being to small, difficult to conceive, in tie washnouse. hlow she up the chimney, the aperture life was preserved, as. if her father had not haprened to awake, death must soon have ensued.—Devonport Independent, counT—r.O.SIIXOIVAI3LE. On Saturday the Duke of Bordeaux and suite arrived at the Bedford Hotel, Brighton, on a visit to the Earl of Shrewsbury, who had a numerous party at dinner in the evening to meet the Prince. The illness which prevailed at Claremont a week or two since having subsided, preparations are making for the reception of the Queen and the Prince, who are expected to take their de parture from Windsor Castle in the course of Tuesday. It is expected that her Alajesty and the Prince will prolong their visit until Monday, the 15fh inst. Circular: of invitation have been issued by the Duke of Wel lington for his Grace's political dinner on the 31st inst. Up wards of sixty Peers have been invited. The Marquis of But , : is passing the winter at Dumfries House, Ayrshire, the Noble Marquis having arrived there from Mount Stewart. . The Earl of Liverpool, who was expected to arrive at Wind sor Castle on Saturday last, upon a visit to her Majesty, is con fined to his town residence by a severe cold. The Earl of Yarborough is entertaining a numerous party at Brocklesby, Lincolnshire, and there was an entertainment at that seat on Saturday night. Lord and Lady Worsley and the Hon. Captain and Mrs. Pelham are sta3ing with the Noble Earl. Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston leave Broadlands, Hants, about the 20th inst., for town, and thrn go to Brocket Hall, Herts, to pass a few days with Viscount Melbourne, prior to the meeting of Parliament. The Bishop of Carlisle, Viscount arid Viscountess Holmes dale' have during th e l ast wee k j o i ne d the circle at Alnwick Castle. A public dinner was given at Paisley on Thursday last to Mr. Fillans, the sculptor, on his leaving that town for the metropo!is. . . . . . The Essex Agricultural Protection Society held its second meeting on Saturday at Colchester. Five kundred pounds were raised towards the fund. We have pleasure in stating that Lord Grey no longer needs the attendance of his medical advisers, and is now able to leave his room and join the large family circle now assembled at Howick Hall. It has, durint , the last week, been freely circulates at the Reform Club that the Hon. Member fur Kilmarnock intends to accept the Chiltern Hundred; on the meeting of ParliaMent. Morgan John O'Connell, M.P., the nephew of O'Connell, a young, good-looking, and well-educated gentleman, is about to be united to one of the Miss Powers, of Tipperary.' The young lady has a fortune of 20,C00/. in the funds. She is the daughter-►n-law of the Right Hon. R. L. Shell, M.P. The Conservatives of Buckingham intend to have their an nual dinner on the 23d instant, at the Town-hall, Buckingham. The Duke of Buckingham has engaged to preside on the occa sion. Thomas N. Redington, Esq., of the Landlord and Tenant Commission, has forgiven the tenants on his estate in Galway the last half-year's rent, and promised an abatement of 15 per cent. besides on all future payments. THE OCCUPATION OF SIND E. I'Ve find the following in the Chronicle of yes, terday : " Our Indian Correspondent, ' O. P. Q.,' has sent us the following extract from a letter, written by Sir Henry Pottinger, to a friend. in Bombay. Inde pendent of Sir Henry's high character for talents and uprightness, DO officer of the empire is better quali fied, from experience and long residence, to give a conclusive judgment on the affairs of Sinde." The following is Sir Henry's letter : " Your letter brought our happy and merry days in Sinde vividly to my mind, and I lamented, on reading it, if possible more deeply than I had done, over the fallen estate' of my old friends the Ameers, of whose case I have all along said,: and ever shall say, under all circumstances, and in all society and places where I may hear it alluded to, is the most unprincipled and disgraceful that has ever stamped the annals of our empire in India. No explanation or rea soning can, in my opinion, remove the foul stain it has left on our good faith and honour, and as Iknow more than any other man living of previous events and measures connected with that devoted country, I feel that I have a full right to exercise my judgment and express my sentiments on the subject. I was in hopes that some influential voice would have been raised in England against the tyranny and spoliation that had taken place, but the intelligence by the last mail—that of July---holds forth no such prospect, and all that I can now hope is, that the author of all this cruelty and misery may meet with his deserts hereafter. I shall only add, that I shall esteem it a favour, if you will let my opinions be known wher ever you hear the affair mentioned, and that you cannot use too strong language in expressing my disgust and sorrow on the occasion." We are inclined to regard this letter as a forgery. It is extremely unlikely that Sir 11. Pottinger would thus boast of knowing more about Snide than any other person . living, or that he, a representative of her Majesty, would apply such an outrageous epithet to Lord Ellenborough, or Sir Charles Napier, or Major Outran. The opinions expressed, too, are at utter variance with Sir 11. Pottinger's sentinlent;, expressed in his communication to Lord Auckland in 1839. By that time no doubt remained in his mind that the Ameers had acted treacherously towards the Indian Government, and had been intriguing with States hostile to England. On March 14, 1839, he thus writes :—" I found be (one of the Ameers) was ignorant of most of the intrigues that had been carried on by the Ameers with Persia and the Can dahar chiefs during the last year; and when I laid the proofs of them before him, and deduced from them that our recent arrangements were, in real truth, forced on us by the Ameers, be admitted the fact, and said he had not one word to urge against them." In another interview with these chiefs, he said distinctly that " they must hence forward consider Sinde to be a portion of Hindustan, in which our position made us paramount, and en titled us to act as we considered best and fittest ior the general good of the whole empire." But in addition to these strong proofs that the letter is a fabrica tion, we may state that before the Resident in Snide left, several parts of the territory had been taken possession of by the Indian GoVernment, and for•the very reasons, too, which, induced Lord Ellenborough to occupy the whole—namely the hostile and treacherous 'conduct of the Ameers. In writing to one of them he says, " It is to be perfectly under stood that his Lordship will not overlook the conduct of the authorities at that place (Kurachee), in know ingly and wantonly offering an insult to the British Government, and consequently that place will not be restored." On the 7th of March, too, he thus writes, " After their long course of deceit and treachery I am loath to pledge my word for their sincerity.'' And in a letter of the I lth of the same month he uses these remarkable words :—" It seems to use that it would be better at once to take possession of Sinde (or such parts of it as we require) by force, than to leave it nominally with the Ameers and yet deal with it as if it were our own. The one line is explicit and dignified, and cannot be misunderstood, the other 1 conceive to be unbecoming our power." After Sir Henry Pottinger's departure, which shortly took place, and especially during the passage of the Indian army :and their stay in Afghanistan, the. Ameers scarcely observed one article of the treaty, and for proof of their treachery and hostility it i 3 necessary only to refer to what has been said and written by Dr, Kennedy and Lieut. Postans. ANT I•STATECIIIJRC H ASSOCIATION —A meeting of thisjassociation, of which the Rev. Dr. Cox is the presid, nt, was held on Thursday evening last, at the King's Head, Poul try, to receive subsci'rions and to forward the general in terests a the Society: Thum a large acvesiioo to the number of members, and great interest seems to have been es cited by the efforts made in various parts of the country. So soon as the conference assembles, branch associatines will be formed in every provincial town throughout the country. . HONE i' AND COMMERCIAL NEWS THE ALLEGED L 'ETENTION OF A CITY, MONDAY EVENING. SUM OP MONEY B 1 r THE PORTUGUESE The English Funds have not been active, although firm, as probably parties are anxious to wait until to-morrow, - GOVERNMENT. The following is the copy' ~of a letter transmitted to Gray, and Co., received and see in what Stock the Commissioners invest, as this will Lloyd's by Messrs. Melbuish, tend to show the intention with regard to the Three-and-a- • upon the subject of Half per Cents. Consols closed at 97 to i i , both for Money by them from the Foreign - o ffice. and Tune. Exchequer Bills were 675. to 69 5. premium. the alleged detention o f a sum of money by the For- Spanish Bonds continued flat up to the close, and were done tuguese Government, produced by tile sale of a portion as low as 24 for the Actives, and 304 i for the Three per of the cargo of the Chatham, wrecked an the coast of Cents. Portuguese Converted were 4 4 % , .Peruvian 23, and . Buenos Ayres 294. Portugal, whien appears to exonerate that Govern - The additional transactions in Railway Shares have been ment from the charge of vexatious caut ion :-- these. :—Edinburgh and Glasgow were 7 to i; Great Western " Foreign-office, Jan. 5, 1844. 32.1 to 32, Birmingham 137, Lancaster and Carlisle 24 to '2, " Gentlemen,—Wlth reference to your letter of Newcastle and Darlington 131elaj o ,Northern and Eastern 7 1 to 8, the 6th of December last, respecting the d v the f South Eastern Scrip 11, West London Ist class Preferred 3i, Portuguese Government to pay over to the proper and York and North Midland 70i to 1. premium. Birmingham and Derby were 42, Bristol and Exeter 4, Black wall iih, parties the sum produced by the sale of a portion of Midland Counties Ili, North Midland 9, and South Eastern the cargo of the Chatham, a vessel which was wrecked 14 1 to i discount. on the coast of Portugal in November, 1842, I am (From The San of Last Night.) directed by the Earl of Aberdeen to acquaint you There was little or no animation in the Cotton Market at that be has received a dispatch from Lord Howard Liverpool on Saturday, and the sales did not exceed 3,500 bales, !rat at former rates.—The Share Market did not display much 1 13 Walden, enclosing a Report from her Majesty's activity. Eastern Counties were 104 ; Grand Junction, 235; Consul at Lisbon, upon the circumstances connected Paris and Orleans, 331; Do. and Lyons, 3/. 6s. 6d. ; South with the delay of which you complain. • Eastern, 36k; Do. New, 36i. " Mr. Smith states that the Messrs. Rentlall, the There are some later accounts in town this morning from ' agents for Lloyds at Figueras, made known to him Rio Janeiro by the Crane, and we are sorry to find that the hopes that were previously entertained that that they held proper authority from the master of the the treaty with this country was not likely to be Chatham, and trout the parties interested in her cargo, renewed upon those liberal terms which are so much desired, to receive the amount which was in the hands of the and by which the commercial interests of both countries would Portuguese authorities. He immediately applied to he immensely advanced, are not confirm( d. As the treaty the Portuguese Minister of Finance upon the matter; with the Brazilian Government will expire in the course of the present year, it is likely that a provisional arrangem ent will be that, after a considerable lapse of time, the power held come to for extending it a twelvemonth more to arrange the by Messrs. Rendall was submitted by Mr. Paize, their points in difficult—and we hope still anxious—consideration. agent at Lisbon, to the Minister of Finance, who re- Since the blockade of Monte Video trade had somewhat rallied ferred it to the Treasury Board, and that the docu at Rio, and at Rio Grande. merit was deemed insufficient by the Treasury, be- The ship letters received to-day do not contain news of RlO ment beyond that already obtained. cause it was not signed by all the owners of the cargo Some interest is exhibited in the Money Market to learn 3f the Chatham. Mr. Smith states that Mr. Paize was whether the Commissioners for the Reduction of the National duly informed of this by the Minister of Finance, Debt have directed their brokers to buy Thee per Cents. or who suggested that the amount or the sale should be Three-and-a-Half per Cents. to-morrow, when the invest- immediately paid through the Portuguese financial merits in aid of the Sinking Fund are to be resumed, after agent in London, to the solicitors for Lloyd's, or to a period of just over six years. It is t rue that the amount to be purchased on each transfer (lay in the pre- any other parties legally authorised to receive the sent quarter wilt not ~ x ceed about 5001.-27,000/. odd only money, upon their giving such an acknowledgment as havin,s been directed to be laid out in sleek, and 200,0001. in would release the Portuguese Govermnent from all the redemption of Exchequer Bills. If the Commissioners further responsibility in the matter. Mr. Paize con start with buying the Three per Cent. Consols, or the Three . sidered this proposal fair and satisfactory, but could per Cent. Reduced, it is thought that the reductio n of the Three-and a-Half per Cents. has been decided upon. By not accede to it without first consulting his principals, such a course, as has been before stated, a saving of at least who, when consulted, appear to have refused to accede 800,0001. a year would be made, and this , even in addit ion to to the arrangement. the surolus by means of the income and property-tax, t:.e " Mr. Smith further reports that, he has no doubt 1 Premiei would like very much to make. The long neglected Spanish Treasury Bondholders will be from a conversation which he has had with the Por - g,lal to hear that Lord Aberdeen has, through our Minister at tuguese Minister of Finance, that such a proposal Madrid, again forced upon the Goverment of Spain, the policy will be submitted for the final settlement of this busk of a settlement of the demands they have for arrears of interest ness, as will be considered satisfactory. unliquidated, and for the redemption of the capital. In reply " I am, Gentlemen, your most .obedient humble to a long letter from Captain Britten, the Chairman o f the Comn,ittee of Spanish Treasury claimants, the fact just noted servaint, (Signed) c$ CANNING. " was communicated in a letter received last week from the Se - .1. 1 0 Messrs. Mellhuish, Gray, and Co.' , cretary of the Foreign Minister. 'I he Government Brokers bought largely to-day, hut upon private account. They took, in one bargain, to 50,000/. Con sols, foi cash, and this raised prices of the Stock from 97 to 974. The price at which this large purchase was made was at the-highest rate of the day. Consols for Account have he a p done also at 97%, which with the dividend on, the commencement of the payment of which will commence to-morrow at the Bank of England, is equal to a value, only short of par by 3% per cent. There were not, we learn, any fresh purchases by the Companies this morning. To-morrow, as above stated, the purchases on account of the Sinking Fund will be resumed. The Three per Cents. Re duced have been purchased at 98 ; Exchequer Bills at 695. premium ; India Bonds at 81s. premium ; India Stock at '273 ; and the Reduced Three-and-a-Half per Cents. at 102% and 1021 • Bank Stock for the Account is worth 186 % . A ;light fall has taken place in the Spanish Bond Market this morning; the Three per Cents. having receded from 30i to 30%, and the Consols to 32. Portuguese Bonds remain at Saturday's rates. Belgian have advanced to 104, but the value of Dutch Stock is rather lower than it was at the close of last week. Brazilian Stock is firm at 75%, but Mexican has fallen to 324. A limited amount of transactions has been indulged in as re spects Railway Shares to-day, and mostly at reduced prices. The exceptions are York and North Midland. Old, which are up to 71 premium; the Ditto Scarborough Branch, to 154 premium ; and the London and Birmingham New Quarter Shares, to 26% premium. All the other Railway Shares scarcely command the rates of Saturday afternoon. Colonial Bank Shares have been done at 14 and 13 discount. MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, JAN. 6.—We have had a very flat market, and some descriptions of railways are easier, with only a moderate business doing. Eastern Coun ties, 11; Manchester and Leeds, 1024 ; Ditto Quarters, 8 %; Sheffield and Manchester, Quarters, 4i. CLOSING PRICES. BRITISH FUNDS. B sue Stock — India Stock ~ 273 pro 3na Cent. Red. :$ ssi Cent. Cons. ~. 97 Ditto Old Annuities - 34 iur Cent. Red ... 1021 Ditto New Annuities .--- .N.Ai 3% per Cent.... 1014 Ex. Bills, 1,0001. lid. 69 am .I.;w 5 her Cent. — Ditto 500/... •. Loin; Annuities to expire Ditto Small Jan. 1860 ... l2 11-16 Bank Stock for Acct. 186% 0,,t. 1859 • India Stock f J aa. 1860 ... ..... Consols for Act. FOREIGN, FUNDS. . suAsitie, 5 per c0nt..... —• ; Portuguese, 5 per cent. 110gian b per cent — IDitto, New Ditto f:trazilian 80nd5.......... ' I Prissian, 5 per cent — I 3 tanos Ayres6 per cent Russian, 5 per cent Cnilian, 6 per cent. — ,Ditto, Metallic ...... . Colombian, 6 per cent... Spanish, 5 per cent. Ditto 11+24 — Ditto, 3 per cent ''Oa Cinia 'fonds, 6 per cent. 11% Ditto, Deferred.... . 126 ')anish, :3 per •ent — 'French, 5 per cent. —f. --r. Greek, 1825, 5 per cent — i Exchange ...... .... —f. —c. Mexican, 5 per cent — French, 3 percent,. —f. —c. Ditto, 6 per cent. 1837 IDutch, '2% per cent. 541 Peruvian,lB2s,6 per ct. 23 IDitto, 5 per cent.... 100% SHARES. Birmingham and Darby (100 paid) Bristol and Exeter (70 paid) ... ...... ... .. 66 Edinburgh and Glasgow (50 paid) 57% Great Western (65 paid) ... 97 London and Blackwall (161 13s 4(1 paid) .. 54 London and Birmingham (100 paid)........ 237 London and Greenwich Railway (12115 s 4dpd) 51 Lancaster and Carlisle (5 paid) tthdland Counties Railway (100 paid) ...... 88% Newcastle and Darlington Junction(ls paid" 28.1 Northern and Eastern (45 paid) North Midland (1 00 paid) South Eastern and Dover (50 paid) ...... Ditto Scrip (25 paid) West London, Old Shares (20 paid) ,Ditto First Class Preferred (10 paid.. 134 York and North Midland (50 paid) .. .. 120% saved. OBAN, JAN. 4.—The Angelina, from Liverpool to Shields , went on shore in the Sound of Leing 2d inst., but got off, Oa was towed into Esdale very leaky, but will come up here to be beached. YAKBIOUTH, JAN. 7.—The Coundon, Ramshaw, front Stockton to London, got on Scroby Sand s th inst., but WO assisted off and beached below Winterton, but has sin ce been towed into the harbour , after throwing hal f her cargo overboard. STROMNESS, JAN. I.—The Theodore Henna, from Ri g a to London, has put in here from Longahips, leaky, and mint discharge. FLANDERS MAIL. BRUSSELS, JAL 22.—Letters from Madrid, of the 29th De' cember, state that by order of the Spanish Government an new postal convention between Spain and Belgium was to 1 0 carried into effect on the Ist of January, 1844. It is in e° l " templat.ion at Antwerp, to establish a regular communication between the Scheldt and Rhine between Antwerp and cologne . The object proposed is to serve the ports of the Lower Rhine , and thus to avoid the expense of transshipping and forwarding goods, to which they would be subject in consignments made by the railway, since that goes no further than Cologne. The following measure, of which the official journals give. • notice, appears to us to be very worthy of commendation. the time of the inquiry into the state of the linen manatee' tures, the frauds practised in the trade of flax seed to the pro' judice of our farmers, and of the quality of our linens was re' peatedly pointed out ; it was the subject of numerous cow' plaints. The Committee of Inquiry in its Reports called th e attention of the GOternment to this subject ; we are happy W find that a formality has just been adopted which will serve to cheek the evil, if not entirely, yet in a great measure. Th e following is the notice : "To satisfy the wishes of the merchants of Riga, the Bel" gian Consul in that city has been authorised (whenever to, shall be requ es t e d by th e merc hants) to a ffi x to the barrels 0 ' linseed intended for Belgium leaden stamps, with the Consul seal, and to deliver at the same time certificates stating th e origin and the destination of the seed." It is evident that this measure must give our farmers mots certain guarantees for the real origin of seed sold as Riga see u l especially if it is delivered in the original packages, preserv,e: entire, and if at the time of the sale it is accompanied by ti'v certificates given by the Consul. The committee of the merchants at Riga has decided that the expenses on consignments of linseed for Belgium shall h e reduced to the same rate as on those for England. VIENNA, DEC. 23.—His Highness Prince Coloredo, Master of the household of his Majesty the Emperor, died at Ol e , o'clock this morning, after a long protracted illness. ROCHESTER, JAN. G. THE RECENT CHARGE AGAINST A CLERGYMAN AND A BUTCHER FOR SELLING IT N wHOLESOME FOOD.—The adjourned inquiry into the case against the Rev. Henry Winter, chaplain to the Fortitude con vict-ship, and Mr. George Bassett, butcher, of High-street, Chatham, was resumed yesterday, before a full bench of county magistrates. The inquirv.excited the most intense in terest, and during the five hours investigation the court was so densely crowded that it was impossible to obtain standing room ; every avenue leading to the court was blocked up by farmers and others of the neighbourhood, anxious to hear the result. The evidence adduced on the previous day having been read over, and some additional evidence brought forward, Mr. Espi nasse was heard at leng'h for the defendants. Ultimately the chair Man decided that, in default of any evidence on the part of the defendants, the Bench must bold them to bail, to answer the charge at the quarter sessions. Mr. Espinasse begged leave to offer some evidence, and to make some observations, submitting that the bench ought not to hold the parties to bail, but leave the prosecutor to prefer an indictment at the sessions. 'Hie Learn( d Gentleman then called Robert Maynard, in the employ of Mr. Bassett. Ile stated, I recollect the carcase of a heifer being brought to my master's on the 25th of November last, in Mr. Winter's cart, by Mr. Winter's man. Mr. Bassett went to the cart, and said he did not think he could do any thing with it. The next morning, by my master's directions, I (Alt it up for the hogs. The bones I had for my perquisites, and the skin went to the tanner's. This witness underwent a rigid examination by the witnesses, but persevered in his tes timony. !Ur. Espinasse offered to produce Mr. Bassett's pocket-book of the entry of the transaction. The magistrates retired for ten minutes, when, on their entering the Court again, the Rev. Chairman informed Mr. Espinasse and the prosecutor that the Bench had determined to •discharge the defendants, and leave the prosecutor to indict at the sessions or assizes. THE QUEEN AND TIIE POOR ACTRESS.—There is a little incident connected with the temporary residence of the Princess Victoria at Tunbridge Wells, which I delight to re cord. It so happened that the husband of one of the actresses at the small theatre in that lovely and captivating watering• place, 1 died and left his widow in the condition of about becoming a mother. The fact came to her knowledge, and she applied to the Duchess for aid to the unfortunate lady. Always anxious to relieve distress, she placed 101. in the hands 01 the Princess Victoria, who added a similar suns herself. She then applied for permission to be the bearer of this sum of 20/. to the distressed and disconsolate actress. With that activity which distinguished her in all her l roceedings, she hastened to the afflicted woman, conversed with her with great kindness and affability, witnessed the good which was accomplished by the bestowment of the sum in question, and afterwards made many inquiries as to her condition. Here, however, her Royal munificence did not terminate, for when her Majesty ascended the throne she forgot not the poor widow of 'run bridge Wells, but sent to her a kindly intimation that an an. nuity of 401. would lie paid to her during the rest of her life. Frazer' a Magazine. ANOTHER DESTRUCTIVE FIRX AT J. Itoms's FAC TORY, OLD KENT-ROAD. — On Sunday morning, at out one o'clock, a most destructive fire broke out in the store-rooms belonging to Mr. Josiah Rolls, neer •cloth and table-cover ma nufacturer, japanner, &c., near the canal bridge in the Old Kent-road. The readers of The Sun will remember that this is the third fire that has happened upon these premises within the last twelve months. The store in which the present fire originated was a very capacious one, possessing sufficient room for drying at least sixty pieces of prepared goods of twelve yards each in length. It is situate in a line with another store, and the printing-room is contiguous to it. The first appearance o' a tire upon the premises was noticed by the private watchman, who instantly ran into the road anti gave the alarm. In a short time the engine front the Southwark-bridge-road station of the brigade was upon the spot, closely followed by the Watling street engine, and those from the Waterloo-road station and the West of England office. From the easily ignitable charaet:r of the materials, the fire had, even in so short a time, obtained sufficient hold of the japan store and its contents, to warrant the expectation that nothing it- contained would be rescued. The exertions of the firemen were consequently directed to the rescue of the buildings north of the store, in which were suiyended many pieces of table covers and other sock, besides a considerable quatelty of japan mixture, oils, &e. Fortunately, their efforts were successful, the fire being confined to the building in which it originated. The root tell in shortly after the outbreak, and not a particle of the property in the store was saved. An abundance of water was obtained from a ditch close by the gable end of the premises, which being poured with much judgment upon the burning mass, extinguished it by two o'clock. The building and stock are not insured. }RIGHTFUL Loss or LIFE.—A most deplorable event occurred on Monday evening at the Dynys Coal Works, the property of Walter Coffin, Esq., in the parish of Llantris sent, in Gamorganshire. The case is at present involved in considei able mystery, but from what we can collect it was is ease of fire damp, and that from ten to twelve lives have been suTiliecii, aril sesere injuries have been suffered by others. The roof of the pit has been blown up, and the bodies are all buried in the ruins, anti it is calculated that a week of day and night labour will be requited before the bodies can be found.— Monmouthshire Merlin. LLOYD'S SHIPPING. LONDON, JAN. B.—Wind, fresh northerly lweeze, and ins clear weather. DEAL, JAN. 7.—Wind N.W., moderate.— Arrd. Miry Bibby, Archibald, Honduras, with loss of sails, bulwarks, .1 mizen-mast, &c; Governor, M'Donald, Sierra Leone; Eme rald, St. John's, New Brunswick. Sid. Zenobia, Cape of ; Good Hope ; Chartley Castle, Valparaiso ; William Vs and Alexander Edmond, Savannah ; Flora and Caroline, Jainaica Grace Darling, Madeira; Charles Homerton, St. Domingo. It blew last night heavily from the westward. The shipping in the Downsltll rode well. CowEs, JAN. 6.—Arrd. Volunteer, London, for Mauritius; Brightman, ditto, for Antigua; Achilles, Shields, for Ceylon- To ABAY, JAN. 6.—Arrd. Lady Sale, Leith, for Havannah. PLYMOUTH, JAN. 7.—Wind W.—Arrd. Crane (packet)* Rio, sailed Nov. 24, with a large quantity of specie and gold. dust ; Justina, London, for Calcutta. PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 7.—Wind W. to N. W., fiue.—Arrd. Lady Kinnaird, London, for Calcutta. POOLE, JAN. s.—Arrd. Nymph, Newfoundland. I3noxtrAst, JAN. 6.—The King of Tyre, Stevens, front London to St. Michael's, has put into Torbay, to-day, under jurytnasts, and with loss of sails, rigging, bulwarks, &c., having been totally dismasted during a heavy squall, Ist instant, is lat. 47, lon. 12. SWANSEA, JAN. 6.—Sld. Lady Mary, Valparaiso. Coax, JAN. s.—Arrd. Thalestris, Main, Demerara. Sid- Sea Queen, Port Philip, HULL, JAN. 6.—Wind S.W., strong breeze.—Arrd. Ma* gunticork, Mays, New Orleans ; Victoria, New York. FALMOUTH, JAN. 6.—Wind W. S. W. to W. N. W.I. strong gales and squally. 7. W.S. W. ' fresh.—Arrd. Madi• son, Rotterdam for Mobile, leaky, and with pumps choked. Ski. Penguin, packet, Teneriffe and Brazils. Li v aro° L, JAN. 7. —Wind N. W., fresh. —Arrd. • Samuel Hicks, Bunker, New York; Larch, Lemon, Ba t liurst ; Severn, Boult, Pernambuco , Gossipiuni, Brown, and Rienzi, Smith, New Orleans • Sisters, Berry, Nassau ; Mary. Stickney, St. Andrew's. The Fanny, of Fleetwood, slate laden, is ashore on the Horse Bank, near South Port; crew' saved. A vessel of about 600 tons was seen on the 4th inst. in lat. 49, lon. 11, with foreyard lying across the deck, and only bowsprit standing, by the Rienzi, arrived here. The Franklin, which was on the bar at New Orleans, got off pre vious to the lst ult., and sailed for this port. The Minerva , of Kincardine, supposed from the Clyde to Bombay, has struck in Blackwater Bank, and becoming unnavigable, drove on shore on Cahore Point ; crew saved. LIVERPOOL, JAN. 7.—The Nymph, from Limerick, laden with wheat, took fire to-day in the King's Dock, and wee towed to the basin and extinguished without much damage , • cargo discharging. WEaroan, JAN. s.—The Wanderer, from Dublin to the West Indies, is ashore on the N. E. end of the Sluice Back , and expected to become a wreck. THURSO, Jaw. 1. —The Marys, from Shields to Liverpool, was totally wrecked Ist inst., forty miles west of this port—mite -- ----- RELIGIOUS ENTHUSIASM.—Luring othe whole O r last week, special services were appointed to be observed at the Wesleyan chapel at Holmfirth ; and as early as I li & o'clock in the morning numbers of devotees might be observe wending their way towards the meeting-house. It was on one of these occasions that a most melancholy incident occurred, bi d which considerable alarm was communicated to the assembl e members. Amongst the congregation was the wife of s red spectable general shopkeeper in the neighbourhood, nein_ Joshua Moseley, a woman noted for her activity in the M I ; thodist cause, and for her regular attendance at chapel. sn this particular occasion, however, she prayed with mere ordinary zeal, and ultimately worked herself up to such a Pr of imaginary and extravagant inspiration or delirium, as ta P. t oo• duce a decided state of insanity, in which state she still reMs —Leeds Intelligence.. ST. STEPHEN WALIIROO K .-.-A NOTHER MONODIM NlAe.—During the delivery o f th e R ev . D r . C ro l y , s 900 00 ! nn Sunday morning, a person who occupied one of the eet t rf, seats in the church, suddenly rose and exclaimed, " It's dl delusion, it's all a delusion ; I'm ashamed of you, Sir, for 6 `, tering such gross falsehoods." The eongregation was ss r , tonished, and rose en masse to inspect the strange intrude d The Rev. Doctor was alluding to the state of the new year, SP_ to the happy state of the country under the reign of our Ef";, cious Queen. Mr. Rock, who was present, immediatelY;,, moved the offender from the church, and gave him into 5 113 t THE FOREIGN MAILS.—The following notice W on issued at the General Post-office, St. Martin's-le-Grat i tdig, Saturday last :—" Th e nex t ma il s f or Op or t o , Lisbon, o ia Gibraltar, Malt a , G reece , an d t h e l on i an I s l an d s will bik o t up on next Th urs d ay morn i ng , t h e 11th i ns t an t ; and for L., and India on the morning of the Ist of February, to beZ r , warded via Southampton. The West Indies, Madeira, 1 1th muds, and St. Jago de Cuba on the mornirg o f thr etto instant, by the Tweed steamer via Southampton. Al, I ce le Passing betw een t h e United' Kingdom and any plat Jamaica, when conveyed by packet, will henceforth be • o at only Is. 2d, p er h a lf ounce , an d to Kingston, Jamaica , l i o n , half ounce, not being liable to inland postage. A ship Nese bag will be made up on Tuesday, the 9th instant, for tits York, to b e f orwar d e d by the Hendrick Hudso n, Fortsmouth." wer e Ott Christmas-day a number of young me n _ wh eil amusing themselves by target shooting on Mount 13atten unfortunately, one of then, named John Copplestone, ei_;t- et prentiee at the Journal office, was injured to such an es that the loss of an eye is the unhappy result of the e: l 4. w artS of the parties. The circumstances relating to the n i _ ec tieo as follow :—Copplestone was on the top of the castle‘r_r ;gel ; the object to be shot at, when a lad named Daniel - I N ion of cautiously fired before the former had retired, and . a the shot struck him in the head, one shot passing iron l w. .., e nd — po into the ball of his right eye, another perforating the,. Peet the left, and several shots entered the forehead. Advertiser. Sat urde A person named Lombard appeared on shos id b e before the Civil Tribunal, claiming that his marriage_ m.iggle r annulled, on the following grounds :— ln 1814, whi let t lL, of _ in England, the applicant contrived to win the sliteictbey WI pretty Lancashire girl, named Agnes Teylor• an,_ m o or, married by a Protestant Clergyman, atBBolton,"n -n," r isore - far from Manchester. After the peace of 1815, v tb e e d f o geth. e c a r and his wife returned to France. They have s a ppll 4 sine.. then—nearly 29 years—and now the husband l eie brate i : to have the marriage broken, from not having been The The t r to according to the forms prescribed by the Civil Cone bbrfualllaytroesntcoererdejtoecalteldetohnejuag_applrigabtitohn..., arndariorsdperaerdeth.e Wife THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY MORNING, JANUAR 9, 1844. ~. ~... .",.......„