The Sun. — London, England, 1845-02-11 00:00:00

hour afterwards...no-leas than'six persons became immersed by the ice breakingin, two places. The first accident took p4ce,off the island, near the Humane Society's marquee, where Mi. Bower, of No. 1, Powis- place, Queen-square, Bloomsbury ;_Mr..Morrell, No. 14, Charles-street, Portman ' square ; and John and Henry Davis, of No. 1, Great Barlow street, Marylebone, broke through into eight feet water, but were extricated by icemen Southern, Winnott, and Griffiths. The second accident took _place on the Broad-water, where Mr. Warren, of No. 37, Gloucester- place, New-road ; and Mr. Townsend, of High-street, Camden-town, broke through into seven feet water, but were rescued by icemen George Clapson and John Winnott. All the above persons were admitted into the marquee, and received assistance from the Society's servants. Two of them (the Devises) were so ex hausted that it was fonnd necessary to put them into warm baths, Sec." The ice in St. James's Park is also very slight, not being more than an inch and a quarter thick, and it will to-day (Monday) be highly dangerous for persons to venture on. The number of skaters during the day was about .5,000 and about :40 accidents happened. Amongst the persons who broke through were the following:—Samuel Sebley, No 14, Arnold-place, Walworth ; George Legg, No. 2, Rochester row, Westminster ; George Barker, No. 27, Berwick street, Pimlico ; James Gardener, No. 9, Broad -street, St. Giles's ; George Ladwick, silversmith, 106, Vauxhall-walk ; James Purser, 14, Cross-street, Hatton-garden ; James Pawlev, 6, Bedford-court, New North-street, Red Lion-square ; John Farrance, 1, Heron-place, Vauxhall-bridge ; William Ed ward Rangford, 346, Strand, John France, Primrose-street, Bishopsgate ; Daniel Lardner, No. 4, Ranelagh-walk, Thames-bank ; John Feakins, No. 4, Peel-terrace, Deptford; Joseph Duke, 26, Lambeth-terrace ; John Lenden, Star-court, Chancery-lane ; Charles Hodset, 3, Gardener's-cottages, West minster ; Joseph Caldwell, Post-office, Southwark ; James Beekworth, 27, Wootton-street, Cornwall-road, Lambeth ; Anthony Reading, llighbury-barn : Richard De Leon, artist, 145, Goswell-street ; Thomas Newland, 4, Douglas street, Vauxhall-road : Thomas Baxter, Charles-court, Hungerford-market ; Frederick Moody, 10, Pall-mall East ; and Joseph Male, 24, Buckingham-street, Strand, &c. The whole of the above persons were, when rescued, taken to the Humane Society's marquee, and placed in warm baths, and received every attention until able to return home. The icemen and other officers of the Royal Humane So ciety deserve the highest praise for their exertions in all the parks, to which may be attributed the preservation of so many persons from a watery grave. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE, The Amethyst, 26, recently launched, was ordered to be docked on Saturday to have her bottom examined. _ _ The Superb, 80, Capt. CoirY;isirOiies;ini;eViayourably, in her equipment. The Express, 6, Lieut. Herrick, was towed out of harbour on Friday, and sailed for Falmouth, to take out the next mail to the Brazils. SHEERNESS. —The Trafalgar, 120, Capt. Martin, flag-ship of Vice-Admiral Sir John Chambers White, is completing fittings in the Basin ; the crew of the Queen, 110, turned over to her, are hulked on board the Minotaur. some dis content has recently been manifested by the crew of this ship, at what they consider their overwork, and certainly, we think, not without cause. This crew fitted out the Camper down, 104; dismantled her in Portsmouth harbour, and were turned over to the Qucen ; went to sea in her for the trial cruize; dismantled her at this port, and are now turned over to the Trafalgar, which they are now equipping. In a time of pcace, no crew could have been much more employed. We are informed they wish to be paid off. The Dido, 18, Captain the Hon. H. Keppel, is dismant ling in the harbour, and will, it is expected, be paid off to morrow. The Erebus and Terror bomb-vessels are to be fitted for another expedition, and have left for the river for that purpose. The Monarch, 84, is expected to be shortly commissioned at this port. PROMOTIONS. Commander—George Truscott to be retired Captain. Lieutenants—J. Orlebar to be Commander ;S. Allen to be retired Commander. Surgeon—James Allan (A), M.D. (1813), to be Deputy- Inspector of Hospitals and Senior Surgeon of Haslar Hos pital, vice King. Mates--E. E. Morgan (1836) ;W. C. Grierson (1837) ; Harry Smith (1839) ; W. Arrnytage (1840) ; A. P. Ark wright (1840) ; J. E. D. Kay (1841) ; H. N. Burroughs (1540), to the rank of Lieutenants. Assistant-Surgeon—W. Brown (1837), M.D., to the rank of Surgeon. Clerk—J. de Vries to the rank of purser. A P PO I NTM ENTS. Captains—E. Collier, C. 8., to the Rodney ;G. W. Wiles to the Vanguard. Lieutenants—G. W. Sanders, J. Nourse, E. B. Rice, and the Hon 0. Lambert, to the Rodney; F. H. Stanfell, W. Tottenham, and R. C. Tatnall, to the Vanguard ; B. Young to the Persian; H. King to the Lily; M. Bouchier, from the Excellent, to the Vanguard; J. G. Moore to the Excel lent; 0. Cumberland to the Racehorse; W. H. Webb to the Firebrand; J. F. Cornall to the Comus; F. G. Leigh to the Stromboli. Masters—J. M . Donald, to the Rodney; P. C. D. Bean, to tbe4tnitun ; S. S. Flinn, to the Vanguard. Surgeons—Alexander M'Kechnie (and medical store keeper), to Haslar Hospital, vice Allan, promoted ; J. M"l'ernan, of Greenwich, to Deptford Dockyard ; NV. Bruce, of the Trafalgar, to Greenwich, vice M‘Ternan ; D. Finley to the. Rodney ; J. Caldwell, to the Spiteful. Paymastere and Pursers—J. Maddocks, to the Rodney; T. Shanks to the Vanguard. Assistint-Surgeons—C. Crandell and G. Whitmarsh, t o the Rodney; W. Wilder, M.D. (acting), to Plymouth Hos pital; Pottinger, to the Radamanthus; T. Seecombe (acting additional) to the San Josef; C. C. Protheroe (acting additional) to the San Josef; J. W. Reid, to the Victory, ad ditional, fur service, at Haslar. Masters' Assistants—L. Fisher, W. IL Burke, J. Imrie, and R. Smith, to the Rhadaminithus. M idshipmen —W. G. Douglas and W. J. Fead, to the Ex cellent; J. J. Li ekens and C. Didham, to the Vindictive. Goodwin, to the lthadamanthns. val Cadet —W. Temple, to the Albion. ROYAL MARINES. eutenant—Augustus .Flemyng, to the rank of Captain. Appointments—Lieut.o O AST GUARD.J. Bro oms to Torquay station, vi ce Moore, appuintdd to the Holla brig Removals—Lieut. NV. Boys, from. No. 2 Batt ery , t o Kings town, vice LovelesF, to Pegwell Bay, vice Trappo, deceased ; Lieut. R. G Caw oodridge, from ic H e } 000pe Cove t o Si dmouth, vice Coleman (b.), Edward, to sand Bay, vt, superannuated; Lieut. Glover, removed. from La3siernouth to Fraze r b urgh, N. 8., vice Chaplains in the Navy are now made eligible to receive ball-pay after eight years' (foreign or home) service. BRISTOL SUG A R MARKET, FEu lluAlt have no alteration to notice in ou r sugar marketY' • the c)ntinne trade barely to supply their imm e di a t e wants, and prices are not Inure than supported. No sales reported In Mnauri tius and West India, and the rum market is quite neglected. —Bristol Mercury. At one time there was a prospect that the effect of the spectacle of opening Parliament was ,to have be,a brightened by the presence of the Prince of Wales. Though there ara some who assert that there never was any intention of introducing a child of four years old into a grave State ceremony, yet it may be asked for What,rpurpose was the Prince of Wales kept from accompanying his sister and brother to Brighton ? However, whether there was such an intention or not, every one must feel that it is full early for the little ' Prince to take a part in any pageant, and the more he is kept Just now to his nursery the better. The Princess • .Itoyabalreidy has been made to comprehend the dignity of herposition, and the stateliness she sometimes as- Eames when in public, forms an amusing contrast with the child* erAety she manifests in private.--Chetenham - - - 3 a PORTSMOUTH, FEll. 9.—The Commander-in-Chief, Sir C. Rowley, Bart., returned from leave yesterday and re-assumed the port duties. The Rodney, 92, Captain Collier, C. 8., is alongside the jetty preparing for sea. Rendezvous are opened for the entry of men. A rumour is in circulation that Vice-Admiral Sir William Parker, Bart., will hoist his flag in her to command in the Mediterranean. The Sparrow, 2, Commander Otter, left to compl e t e h er refit alongside her hulk on Friday. The Medway, royal mail steamer, was towed into this harbour on Friday, at high water, to be docked, having tailed the ground in the Southampton water, and scraped her copper, and lost her rudder. A steamer was secured on either side of her at the bow, and another steamer was towed astern to act as a rudder. She was taken into dock yesterday. The Rattler, 8, screw-propelled steam sloop, Commander Smith, is in the harbour, painting and preparing for sea. She is short-handed. Squadron in the Pacific—The Dublin, 50, Captain Tucker, flag of Rear-Admiral Thomas, was at Callao, on the sth of November, waiting the arrival of the Collingwood, 80, Rear-Admiral Seymour, to take the command. The America, 50, Captain the lion. John Gordon, was at Callao on the above date; she arrived on the Ist from the Cape. The Cor morant steam-sloop, Commander Gordon, was at Callao on the 3d of November. The Fisgard, 42, Captain Duntze, and the Salamander steamer, Commander Hammond, were at Islay on the 3d of November. The following notice to pilots has been issued by the Lords of the Admiralty :—" Notice is hereby given, that on suzh occasions as it is found necessary to employ a steam vessel to tow any of her Majesty'sships or vessels, only one pilot will be paid for such service (except in extraordinary eases);and that such payment will be made for which ever vessel draws most water." The Cygnet, 6, Commander Layton, was cruising off the Bight of Benin on the 23th of November. She had captured a slaver on the 15th. The Winchester, 50, Captain Eden, flag of Rear-Admiral the lion. J. Percy, was at Symond's Bay on the 20th of De cember. The Wasp, 16, Captain Usher, and the Star, 6, Comman der Dunlop, were cruising off the Bights on the 2d of De cember, at which date the Ringdove, 16, Commander Sir William Daniel, and Albatross, 16, Commander Yorke, were at Benguela; the Growler; steam-sloop, Commander Buckle, Sealark, 10, Commander Gooch, and Ardent, steam-sloop, Commander Russell, were at the Gallinas ; the Alert, 6, Commander Bosanquet, and Alert, 3, steam-sloop, Lieute nant-Commander Cumberland, were at Sierra Leone, ex pecting the arrival of the Commodore in the Penelope, 22; the Eclair, steam-sloop, Commander Estcourt, the Hydra, 4, steam-sloop, Commander Young, and the Tortoise, guard ship, were at Ascension. The Albatross had made two prizes. DEVONPORT.—The Espiegle, 12, Commander Harris, and Flyish Fish, 12, Commander Thompson, "made their num bers" on Wednesday, and put to sea again. A private letter from the former states, that since their departure from the sound, on the 31st ult., they had encountered very rough weather, which, during the first three or four days, was really awful. During a heavy squall, the Espiegle carried away her jib-boom and narrowly escaped being dismasted. They had encountered also a severe snow storm. The Espiegle proves herself a most weatherly vessel, and far superior to her competitor, the Flying Fish, as a sea boat; but the latter bad some advantage over the Espiegle on a wind. They showed themselves off the port again on Friday, and stood down Channel. The Vanguard, 80, Captain Willis, is alongside the jetty fitting. Her complement will be, we believe, 580. The Daring, 12, Commander Matson, when ready, will join the Espiegle and Flying Fish in another trial cruize. She has shipped her ballast, and was to be afloat again on Satur day, her bottom having been completed. The Acorn, 16, Commander Bingham, was paid advance on Wednesday, and sailed on Thursday for the Brazils. The . Wellesley, 72, is alongside the dockyard to be com pleted as an advance ship. The Persian, 16, Commander Coryton, left the harbour for the Sound, on Thursday, which she will leave in a day or two for her destination. The Firebrand steam-frigate, Capt. James Hope, left the harbour for the Sound on Saturday. The Canopus,B4, was to be undocked for masting, &c., on Saturday. The Actaeon, 26, Capt. Manse], and the Ranger, 10, Com mander Anderson, were expected to go into the Sound on Saturday. TEL SL N, LONDON, TUESDAY MORNING, FEBRITARY 11, 1845. NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBE R S , The THIRD EDITION of THE SUN o: MONDAY NIGHT, contained— The Report of the Special Meeting of the Direc Portsmouth Railway Company. The Flanders Mail. The Conclusion of the Day's Proceedings in the case of the Attorney-General v. Reilly, in the Court of Exchequer. The Spirit of the Public Journals. The Arrival of the steamer Paella at Southamptor, bringing the Mails from Gibraltar, Cadiz, Lisbon, Oporto, and Vigo. A Full Report of the v►hole of that Day's Parlia mentary Proceedings, amounting to Three Columns and a-Half. Betting at Tattersall's up to Six o'clock. The whole amounting to Five Columns and a Quarter. Now ready at all the Libraries, embellished with a Fine Portrait of the Authoress, from a Drawing by Edwin Landseer, R.A., T HE COUNTESS of BLESSINGTON'S NEW NOVEL, " STRATHERN ;" A STORY OF THE PRESENT DAY. " This novel presents a series of exciting tableaux vivans of so ciety, such as no writer of the day except Lady Blessingtou has the courage to paint and the ability to execute. tier portraitures are full length ; her dissection of the human heart is scientific and un sparing."—Morning Post. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. the speech of the Noble Lord, as it must be expected that her MAJESTY'S servants would wait until the financial statement should be made in another place, before they interfered in these matters. Their Lordships adjourned shortly after Six o'Clock. In the House of Commons, after the presentation of petitions, and the ordering of sundry returns, the Select Committees on Divorce Bills and on Private Bills were appointed. A new writ was ordered for Lewes, in the room of Captain FITZROY, who had accepted an office under the Admiralty. Lord DUNCAN gave notice, that on the 20th he should move for a Committee of the whole House to consider of the repeal of the window-tax. Mr. HUME gave notice of a motion for papers on the subject of Sierra Leone and the Mauritius, and postponed until the 20th his motion on the subject of colonial accounts. Mr. WALLACE gave notice of a Bill to repeal the Railway Act of last session, and said that to-morrow he would move certain resolutions on the subject of rail ways. Mr. llumE asked questions on the subject of educa tion in India, and of the recal of Lord ELLENBO ROUGIL but the answers of Mr. BARING to both ques tions were inaudible. In answer to a question from Sir R. Iscms, Mr. BARING stated that the lands of the Temple of Jug gernaut would be restored, so as to render payments to the Temple unnecessary. Lord DALMENY gave notice, for to-morrow, of a question on the subject of the Scottish Poor-law. The Report of the Committee of Supply was brought up. The various Railway-law Consolidation Billsoere read a second time. The CHANCELLOR Of the EXCHEQUER gle for a Committee of Ways and Means for Wednesday. The House Adjourned at Five o'clock. It is now certain that Sir ROBERT PEEL will pro pose the re-imposition of the income-tax—on the re commendation of the Crown (as our constitutional fiction supposes) "for a limited period." A "limited period " is a very ambiguous term in the mouth of a Premier or a player. It means always just as long a time as the good nature or the prepossessions of the public—their common patron—can be wheedled into enduring the speculation undertaken by the one or by the other. An engagement positively " limited " to "a very few nights," never prevents a starring comedian " of the Theatres Royal "—who has made a hit in the character of Joseph Surface, for example —from extending marvellously the " limited opportu • pities " he had at first proposed to afford his provincial admirers for witnessing his conception of a difficult character. To read his advertisements, any third party might suppose that he was about to present the public with some signal benefit, at his own personal expense, not theirs; and that the prolongation of the number of nights on which he had "consented" (such is the usual strain) to "repeat the character," was a concession on his part, the self-denial of which could not be too highly estimated. In the mean time, the number of nights is determined actually by the amount of the money taken at the doors, or the sale of the tickets. Let no man suppose that it is the Premier's meaning to measure his " limited period" by any other than an analogous scale. Let none be alarmed lest the duration of Sir ROBERT'S performance in his favourite character of Income-tax Reviver, in the tragi-comic farce of liaising the Wind, should prove too short. So long as this little ancillary to the legitimate contributions of the Excise, the Customs, Stamp and Post-office Duties, Land and Assessed Taxes to the public income, can bring into the national exchequer its clear five millions sterling per annum—so long will her services be retained, and the political ma nager be induced to extend the " limited period" during which it was once imagined, by some, that this very remarkable performance of his would be re • pelted. In truth, the income-tax'has every principle about it of theatrical vitality. It has been, in the managerial jargon of the day, " a tremendous hit." It " continues to be played with unabated success," and it " draws bumpers" of John Bull's spare cash " into the treasury." On. all these accounts we implore the representa tivesfof the people in the Commons' House of Parlia ment to watch vigilantly the course of this matter. Let them, at all events, in closing with the Political Manager's terms, stipulate for the strictest and shortest definition of the "limited period" he proposes. The strongest case that Sir ROBERT and his party could establish against the Government of their predecessors was—that these latter could not square the public re venue with the public expenditure. They went out of office, and their successors have worked the finan cial problem which they could not solve, by—whe ther rightly or injudiciously, is not now the question re-enacting, in the twenty-eighth year of profound peace, a tax which bad only been tolerated in former years because it was imposed to meet the extraordinary expenses of the extraordinary war in which we were then in volved by extraordinary means. It is now the thirtieth year og' peace, and the third year of this revived tax, which other Ministers have always reserved for periods of such overwhelming exigency, a condition of hostilities, for example, between this kingdom and some formidable enemy like France. It is enough for our purpose to suggest that at this instant the aspect of our foreign relations is not so utterly pacific, so decidedly firm and encouraging, as to put out of the pale of probability all danger of abrupt misunderstandings with an European neighbour —of a precipitated collision with a people equally sensitive in the New World. Far distant he the day on which either of these casualties shall eventuate. But in the meanwhile, let U 3 act upon the wise and self evident p( 'hey of not exhausting, at a protracted period of peace, the energies we should be prepared with to meet the terrible exigencies that will charac terise any future war. On every principle of consti tutional - wisdom, of political expediency, and of finan cial prudence, Parliament ought to determine the Pre mier's "limited period" on this occasion at one year— and no Laore. If the necessity for its continuance at, or shortly before the close of that period, can be satisfac torily d , ,;monstrated, Parliament will doubtless renew, and the English people, with their characteristic reasonableness, on such demonstration, will ..heerfully pay it. :But it is objectionable on every ground, to entrust a Finance Minister with that sort of cred margin, an the plea of keeping up a surplus of in come, which may be anticipating the most vital and essential features of the country's capacity in time of war, to meet the immediate and positive demands upon them. This consideration reminds us that Sir ROBERT PEEL has shown a marked disinclination to follow out the recommendation of the Harbours of Re fuge Co mmission in respect of enlarging and im proving Dover harbour, on account of the enormous expense, to which we referred the other day. We are strongly disposed to recommend to his attention, as a wholesome compromise, the immediate im- provement of a neighbouring and very importan point, where such improvement may be effected al a compaeatively small expense. We mean Dunge ness. But the Examiner puts its pretensions so well, that we readily avail ourselves of the language in which our -able contemporary has noticed them : " Dungeness is nearly twenty miles to the south-west of Dover, but with a steam navy it would command the straits almost as effectually as Dover, and it has in comparably superior capabilities for a harbour. " Vessels that have beat down Channel to the Owers, perhaps nearly to the Isle of Wight, and that making bad weather, are then obliged to bear up and run, have to put back to Dungeness at the least, losing all the ground they had gained. So the other way, vessels that have beat up Channel almost to Dungeness, and then encountering bad weather are compelled to seek shelter, have to run back all the way to the Isle of Wight. To recover the distance so lost will take ships of ordinary sailing qualities, with contrary winds, several days." The Pr emiers remarkable faculty of saying sen tentious nothings with a gravity which almost disarms the suspicion and mocks the experience of those who hear him oftenest and know him best, has not often been more strongly exemplified than in his answer, on Thursday tight last, to a question from M MA CAULAY, on the subject of the Bight Hon. Baronet's intentions with regard to the Small Note Circulation idea that a we h of Sc o tl an d. Th at answer was the most elaborate array of rany waovredsevtoercosneeen in print.ealhalfafrac ß ti a o t n v‘ o ,e f one are far from uvderyaluin g Sir ROBERT'S ingenuity so much as to imagine that this was an unartificial dis we think it was a very a b le play. On the contrary, mode of extricating himself out of the springe which had been set to catch him, unawares, at an answer. It sounded, for the first sentence or so, so like an answer-about-to-be-given, that even Mr. MACAULAY'S extraordinary powers and quick perception may well have been staggered, for two in,mtmt::, by the tgki.sf.tdas iiiu 'that chess,' s,i, T ,. a' if i t were a reply. Two moments of bewilderment were enough. The Speaker called on another Order of the Day, and the cheat had vanished, and could not be recalled. Yet we agree with ,the writer of the money article in the Times, that careful observation might detect, through the 'studied ambiguity of the Premier's language, a foregone conclusion arrived at touching " the doom" of the small bank-notes of Scotland (and of Ireland). Like Mr. MACAULAY'S, our present business Li with the; Scotch' circulation only. Now we differ, toto ccelo, from the Contempo rary we have just referred to, both in our estimate of the value of the existing system on which that cir ulation is based, and in the degree of apprehension with which we regard the new experiment about to be ventured upon by Sir ROBERT PEEL. It is really to be regretted, in our opinion, that Sir ROBERT has no i political who, i n v i r t ue o f th a t rela tionfor, and o bt a i n f rom h er r m ight MaaesTv, or her MAJESTY'S Cabi ne t, an e ff ec ti ve tto him, o c heiir i apply n inhibition, a controlling or restraining power, to withhold him from damage and waste to the fortunes and interests of the empire which have been confided to his keeping. It is to be feared, however, that were Lord MELVILLE, Or Sir GEORGE CLERK, or Lord DUNFERMLINE, himself, even, on behalf of themselves and all Scotland, as parties to their suit, to bring such a plea to the foot of the throne, he would be dismissed as not coming before it with clean hands. The moneyed interest of Scotland has weakened and damnified the powerful case it would otherwise have to urge against being drugged by Sir ROBERT PEEL'S nostrum through the fact of its having been, if not a particeps criminis, an apathetic looker-on when the same visitation was inflicted on the currency of this country by his notorious " complement " of the measure of 1819, last year. We assiduously warned the Scottish people that their turn would come next. The English nation has been operated upon, and neither Scotland nor Ireland, we are told, can now escape the same fate. Thus it is that JUNIUS is justified : " what is fact to-day becomes precedent to-morrow." But our sympathies are still with Scot land in her coming trial ; and we expect her to offer a firm, an unwavering, a "no-compromise," a com bined, cordial, sustained, and, therefore, triumphant opposition to the mischievous meddling of our High Tamworth Currency Doctor. Let the Scotch repre sentatives take warning by the listlessness, the indo lence, the infatuation, and the apathy of their English colleagues ; show a firm front from the first day the Premier displays his battle (the 14th inst.), and by maintaining it unyielding, resolute, and prompt at all times for action, they may be sure of vanquishing a Minister whose progress has been at all times iden tified with concessions to principles that he has at some former period or other loudly declaimed against. We have, in several former articles, demonstrated the unparalled advance—the steady, unfluctuating improvement—of Scotland, in agricultural and manu facturing production—in the diffusion of competency among the middling—and her demand for industrial labour for the lower—classes of her community ; in the encouragement she has been hitherto enabled to afford to a system of husbandry, the most enterpris ing, economical, and incessant—altogether, perhaps, the most perfect—to be found in the world—and to the corresponding scale in which the moral conduct and education of her people have been raised. All these important movements have been coincident with, and in a main degree attributable to, that happy and intelligible system of currency which she has now enjoyed for about 150 years. That system has sur vived the shock of two great popular rebellions, many wars, many adverse seasons. It was unmoved by, and almost insensible to, the monetary earthquake of 1825-26, and utterly unscathed by later convulsions, the sad evidences of the fatal empiricism which had been practised here in 1819, and is once more in peatie lent activity in 1844 and 1845. Scotland was permitted to retain her small bank-note circulation, whilst pri vate and commercial credit in this partof the kingdom was paralyzed for - want of such aid. Scotland continued to advance in commercial importance, in political weight, in social happiness, in moral greatness ; for her steps in these noble destinations were never impeded by the obstructive fetters and golden manacles of an unexpar.sive, con tracted, costly, and unadaptable metallic currency. The banking and monetary system of Scotland has kept on in an unbroken march of improvement and importance, extending to industry its fair wages, to trade its fair markets and returns, to • capital and pro perty the means of representation and evolution ; to all mercantile dealings, security and confidence. In England the reverse of such a system —a theoretical fallacy forced into practical working by injudicious Acts of Parliament—a gold standard currency, as it is called—has cramped the energies of commerce, con tracted the representation, and taxed, in the most arbitrary manner, the transfer of property and capital, thrown do%s n industrial wages below the lowest subsistence scale, lowered the prices of our highly-taxed products to the level of the quasi un taxed products of continental industry, sapped our commercial credit, largely impaired our manufactur ing superiority, and disorganized private credit to its very foundations. It has accumulated capital in huge masses in a few hands ; its inevitable tendency is to preclude its distribution into the hands of the many. These masses are unproductive, as to any of the ordinary and legitimate branches of trade ; they are all powerful in the faculty of accumulation when embarked in the enormous operations of reckless monopolies,—or unscrupulous gambling in public funds and enterprises, native or foreign. They are so much of the specific volume of the life-blood of the Commonwealth abstracted from its system, perhaps in fused into others,—never again transmitted, in healthy action and regular distribution, through its own. Under this PEEL system, certain classes, composing the cre ditor as well as the realised capital interest, are infi nitely benefited ; the other classes, comprising the debtor and the industrial interest, are infinitely pre judiced. The annuitant, the fundholder, the mort gagee, being empowered and enabled to receive and pay in gold at a fixed rate or standard of value, purchase to the best advantage—that is, at gold or natural prices. The debtor on an old mortgage, the manufacturer, the artisan, the man who wants to convert property or labour into money, buys this money at the dearest price. The one to discharge his engagements, the other to acquire his subsistence, pays in the first case far more than he ever received on account of them ; in the second, far more than his reduced wages and his heavy taxation make equitable or even tolerable. Pauperism, therefore, increases throughout the radius of our system ; the plethora of capital enlarges itself a a few isolated spots within it. The extremities de. cline and die ; th e centre preternatura ll y f a tt ens an d corrupts. Dome s ti c t ra d e l angu i s h es , domestic in dustry declines from its twin-like connexion with trade. The condition of the one necessarily reacts upon the other. With a revenue of fifty-four millions for the last year, with a surplus, at the close of it, of income over ex penditure of 3,356,000/., with an actual balance in the Exchequer of 6,254,0001. on the 9th of January, 1845, we have scores of thousands of famishing, un employed artizans, with hundreds of thousands of destitute paupers, and millions of pounds of annual poor -rate to pay for their maintenance. This is so under our present currency system, and the evil goes on increasing. It WAS NOT so before Sir ROBERT PEEL was permitted, in 1819, to put upon tle statute book his two-sided Bill—a Bill of infinite aggrandise- ment to the private capitalist, of incalculable mischief to the national welfare and resources. Let Scotland regard this picture of our gold standard system and its consequences ;—and contemplate, in contrast, that which exhibits her own happy and instructive history under the system common to both countries, from 1797 to 1819. If she considers the gigantic efforts we made under the latter, and the brilliant triumphs which rewarded our confidence in it with the most signal success and opulence ever recorded in history, and if she will then look at our social declension and misery since 1822, she will assuredly and firmly resist, and cast from her the f a t a l m ill stone w hi c h th e Premier is obviously bent upon tying round her neck. Madrid journals of the Ist inst. have been received. The return of CASTELLO-Y-A Y ENSA, the Spanish en voy at Rome, had created some surprise in the capi tal, as it was generally believed he had failed in his mission to procure the POPE'S acknowledgment of Queen ISABELLA. This, it appears, is to a certain extent true, as the Court of Rome, before the recog nition, demands that all the unsold Church lands steal be restored to the clergy. The envoy not having rowel's to that f-xten.t, he returned for 3thqructions, and will 'gain proce,d to 3Rorn in a. k ,, :oi:r2- I nt. CAN TERO, formerly Minister of Finance, had returned to Madrid. - On the Ist inst. the Three per Cents. closed at 33 for cash, and 33i for 60 days; the Five per Cents. at 241 at 60 days, and the Coupons at 26i fur the 28th of March. The Paris papers are occupied with some curious discuss ions and results in the Chamber of Deputies, and with remarks on the debates in the English Par liament on the QUEEN'S Speech. The old saying, " They manage affairs differently in France" was never better, nor more ludicrously illustrated than on a motion brought forward in the Chamber of De puties on the 6th. M. LHERUETTE introduced a Bill relative to the appointment of public functionaries, the object of which is thus stated in the first clause— that no person should be admitted into a Govern ment situation unless he had proved his fitness to fill it by a special or public examination, a diploma in one of the faculties, or a' concours, the form of , exa mination being decided by royal o rdi nance .' After a brief discussion this clause was adopted by a large majority, and the four remain ing clauses received equal support, yet when the question was put, that the Bill be adopted, and the sense of the House was taken by ballot, the majority was converted into a minority— there being for the Bill, 157, and against, 156; ma jority against it, 1. The Bill consequently was lost. The result excited some sensation in the Chamber next day. M. ST. PRIEST brought forward his mo tion for the reduction of postage on letters, and the result was equally remarkable. He proposed to fix, from January 1, 1846, a uniform tax of six sous for all letters carried more than forty kilometres (about twenty-five English miles), and four sous for all shorter distances. M. Molina DE LA SIZERANNE proposed as an amendment that the postage of all letters act weighing more than a quarter of an ounce, for whatever distance, should be only four sous. After a discussion, in which this amendment was strongly opposed by the Minister of Finance, the Chamber adopted it by a majority of one, the numbers being 130 to 129. On Saturday the discussion was resumed, and the two remaining clauses were adopted, but when the whole Bill was tested by the ballot, it was also rejected, the numbers for it being 170, and against 170, and as an absolute majority of 171 was required, the President announced that the Bill was lost. On the same day Colonel DE BRICQUEVILLE moved that the remains of General BERTRAND be laid near those of NAPOLEON, in the Hotel des Invalides. The mo tion was unanimously agreed to, with the addition that those of DUROC should be equally honoured. We find little of interest in the remarks of the papers on the debates in Parliament, though the contrast between those of the Ministerial and Opposition jour nals is curious. The Journal des Debuts says:—" It is with as much astonishment as regret that we see a man so enlightened and so high-minded as Lord J. RUSSELL employing his talents and influence in de preciating the work of peace so happily accomplished by the two Governments. It has been generally re marked that his speech was steeped in bitterness to a degree altogether unusual with him. The leader of the Opposition did not, it is true, condemn the con clusion of the Otaheite affair, and joined with the rest of the world in rejoicing at the preservation of peace, but he severely criticised the manner in which the negotiations were conducted, and the appointment of Commissioners for revising the treaties on the right of search. Sir R. PEEL gave a most complete answer to this attack; he called upon Lord J. RUSSELL to make specific motions on which the House might categorically declare its sentiments on both questions. The papers relating to the right of search were to be laid before the House on 'Wednesday, and therefore it is probable that a day will be fixed fur discussing this question- We cannot, naturally, express any surprise at the language of Lord PALMERSTON. All that the Oppo sition here has urged against M. GUIZOT was even more acrimoniously advanced by him against Lord Aberdeen. His Lordship attempted to prove that England had been outraged and humiliated, as M. BILLAULT and others have endeavoured to establish that France has been outraged and humiliated—and with just the same success ! We do not wish even to avail ourselves of the accusations laid by Lord PAL MERSTON against the British Government, as argu ments in favour of the value of the results obtained by the French Government. Neither of the two Cabinets wishes to triumph over the other. Both have accomplished in concert an honourable task; both have made secondary considerations subordinate to the great and permanent interests of the general peace and civilization; and each of the simultaneous attacks, of which both have been objects, reciprocally destroys the other." The Constitutionnel, on the other hand, pays the Opposition a high compliment. " The speakers," it. says, " and principally those of the Whig Opposition, express themselves in terms most honourable to the French nation, and the political parties into which our Chambers are divided. We have not found in one of their speeches any of those stale calumnies that used to be cast upon the pretended war party. Henceforth in England, as well as in Fiance, the mat-address and weaknesses of M. GUIZOT may be condemned, without driving the two countries into a war with each other. The high-toned speech with which M. TRIERS opened in our Chamber the debate on the Address, has exercised a happy influence on both sides of the Channel ; he enlightened the statesmen, and silenced the declaimers." The France thus animadverts on the inconsistency exhibited by the Chamber of Deputies on two im povant propositions : " We proceed frem astonishment to astonishment, and the representative government is a see-saw which an atom causes to incline now to one side, and again to the, other. The day before yesterday, the proposition relative to func tionaries was rejected by a majority of one ; and, yesterday, post-office reform, contained in an amendment of M. Monier de la Sizeranne, was adopted by a majority of one. Perhaps to-day another ballot will abolish that of yes terday. We are in the reign of the half minus one, and this one, which gives the law, can at its pleasure overturn Ministries, and adopt or reject propositions. There may be in the Chamber thus divided, a man, an unknown, as powerful as Bonaparte and the Com mittee of public safety. The Chamber cannot any longer, after these two days, proceed seriously. Votes and ballots are nothing more than a mystification. What ought to be the value of those reforms adopted or rejected by a ma jority of one ? Propositions are incomplete, ill-combined, and they prove abortive ; the Chamber is floating, unde cided, and weary, before it has fought. Is it the fault of the Chamber ? Is it the fault of the propositions ? How is this hesitating, irresolute position to be got out of ? By a dissolution of the Chamber, or a Ministerial crisis. The first means appears to us alone to possess any efficacy." THE BOURSE--FRIDAY, FEB. 8. First Highest Lowest Last Price. Price. Price. Price. French FiveperCents•• .• •• 122 50 .. 122 50 .• 122 30 122 30 Fours.. ..... ....• •• 103 20 .. 108 20 •• 108 20 .. 108 20 Three per Cents..... 84 95 .. 84 95 84 80 .. 84 80 New L oan „, „,,„ 86 .• 86 .. 86 •• 86 Bank of France ..... .......3285 .•3285 ..3280 ••3280 Gouln Bank, I,OOOL Shares.. 1085 "1085 ..1085 ..1085 Belgian 8ank.............. 650 .. 650 .. 650 ~ 65 0 Belgian Fives, 1840 ........ 104% .. 1043;, •• 104% 1047 i 1842 10614 .. 1061 .. 106% .. 106%1 Four.and-a-Half ... 10334 .. 10314 .. 103;4 .. 103% Spanish Threes— •• •• •• •• 41 1 .. 41% 414 .. 41% Active •.••• • • • • 39% .. 39 '4) • • 39;4 as% Passive . .. .. 6 „ Portuguese Five per Cialtil• • 69 4 .. 69 4 • • 59% 59 Neapolitan . 99 60 .. 99 60 .. 99 60 .. 99 60 Roman . . 105 .. 105 .. 105 .. 1 5 RAILWAY SHARES. St. Germain ••• • • • 1080 ..1080 ..1030 ..1020 Versailles, R.B. . 570 •• 580 .. 581 535 L. 8.• ...... 417 50 420 .. 413 .. 415 Rouen . • . Rouen to Havre 905 .. 905 .• 9 05 .• Orleans ..1162 50 ..05 1 Strasburg to Bale•• .• •• •• 317 30 .. 31 8 75 .. 316 25 362 50 ! 50 Avignon to Marseilles...... 957 50 .• 955 7 950 •• 952 Bordeaux to Teste . • 262 50 .. 275 •. 262 50 .. 265 50 RAILWAYS FOR THE ACCOUNT, FEB 15. St. Germain .......• .• •• ••1080 "1033 75 ..1077 50 ••1077 50 Versailles, R.B.— •• •• •• 570 .. 571 25 .. 560 566 25 L.B.•••••••••••• 420 .• 421 50 .. 403 75 .• 417 50 Rouen ....................1117 50 • 1117 50 ..1110 —lll5 Rouen to Havre............ 905 .. 935 • 900 • • 902 50 Orleans - •••••• 317 50 318 75 .. 316 25 31 7 Avignon to Marseilles...... 957 50 .. 957 50 7 50 . 950 • MuillausenitoThann 263 75 • 272 53 .• 263 952 50 75 .. 270 EAST CORNWALL.—By the following address from Sir William Trelawny, to the electors, it will be seen that there will be no contest for the Eastern Division of Cornwall. Mr. Carew will now be returned without opposition. We regret this; but in the present state of parties, what honest Liberal will spend money for a seat in the House of Commons ? G ..4entlemen,—My struggle through a long life has been to obtain for the people a free, full, and fair representation in the Commons House. That not being obtained, and finding that ao other person would come forward on the present occasion as a candidate, I yielded to the wishes of many influential and tried friends of the people to offer myself, with the hope that the inhabitants would use their influence on the electors, and that the electors would feel, as they ought to feel, that they are not entrusted with the franchise for their own bensit or the benefit of their landlords or employers, but for the good of the whole community. Having just seen a list of so many electors pledged to my Honourable Friend and opponent, and being convinced that it would require a Irzre-er sum of money to oontet tim on lo iuo?, t once withdraw from the contest, returning my waroit thanks to the gentlemen and yeomen who have so zealously Interested themselves in our common cause, and remaining ever, Gentlemen, your faithful friend, W. L. SALusuuttY TRELAWNY, Harewood, Saturday, Feb. 8, 1845. NATIONAL DE3T.—Accounts have just been issued from the National Debt-office, showing the results of operations undertaken from 1822 to 1844, for re ducing the charge on the debt, and the terms on which the reduction has been made. The total an•• nual interest saved during that period amounts to 3,051,8001. Also, accounts of the unredeemed public debt, from 1817 to 1844, and the amount of un funded debt in Exchequer-bills, from which it appears that in 1817 the capital of the unredeemed Funded Debt was 796,200,1911., and the annual charge 29,842,014/. ; while in 1844 the former was 772,169,0921., and the latter 28,516,882/. The amount Of capital in Exchequer-hills in 1817 was 650,300/., and the interest 2,173,9271., while in 1844 they were respectively 18,407,300/., and 594,0511. SOUTHAMPTON, FEB. 10.—The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer I'acha. Captain Burney. arrived this morning, at eleven o'cloLk, from Vigo, bring ing the following mails :—Gibraltar, Cadiz, Lisbon, Oporto, and Vigo. Her dates of departure are as follow: —from Gibraltar, Feb. Ist ; Cadiz. 2d ; Lisbon, 4th ; Oporto, sth ; and Vigo, 6th. Ships of war lying at Gibraltar—None. Cadiz—H.M.S. Scout, a Swedish brig, and a corvette, having been in search of three piratical vessels, reported to having been s een o ff C a p e S t . Vin cent. Specie on Board—Six packages. List of Pas- sengers—Thirteen, including the master and shipwrecked seamen who abandoned their vessel in a sinking state, the brig Idus, of London, from Ichaboe, bound to London, on the 14th January, in lat. 49 N, long. 9 W.; also four men from the schooner Tumbler, wrecked off Cadiz; also from Oporto, the master and two apprentices of the brig Ilebe, wrecked on Oporto Bar. Three other passengers. We wish to attract the particular attention of our readers to an advertisement which appears in another column, announcing that a fancy dress ball will take place at the London Tavern, on Wednesday, the 26th instant, for the benefit of the distressed needlework women of the metropolis, under the patrurage of the Queen Dowager, the Duke of Cambridge, Lord Ashley, Mr. Alderman Farebrother, and a Committee consisting of nobility and gentry. We have no doubt but the ball will be well attended, and we would suggest to all those who intend to be present at it, the propriety of employing those distressed persons for whose benefit the ball is given in making up their fancy dresses. We scarcely need add, and of paying them a proper remunerating price for their labour. We have this week to record the death of Mr. Andrew Franklin, of Tavistock-street, Covent-garden, in his 90th year. Near seventy years since Mr. Franklin com menced his literary labours in connexion with the Morn ing Puss newspaper, and subsequently joined the Morning Advertiser, where he continued till old age compelled him, a few years since, to relinquish his editorial duties and retire into private life, taking with him the respect and esteem of all who had the pleasure of his &!quaint ance. FALL OF SNOW.—The weather within the last few days has been excessively cold. For several nights the thermometer has been many degrees below freezing, and on Sunday morning it had fallen to 21. In the course of last night there was a fall of snow which covered the ground for several inches in depth. The temperature iN now more mild, but it still snows heavily, with an ap pearance of continuance. WEST INDIA MAIL. The Dee, on the 22d ult. encountered a heavy gale from 'W.N.W., which lasted three days. One of her paddle-floats was carried away. At 10 o'clock A.M., on the morning of Saturday last, the Dee exchanged signals with the barque Uni corn, belonging to and bound for London, in lon. 9.20 W., lat. 48.46, all well. On the same day also exchanged signals with the Woodbridge, of London, running westward, and wished to be reported. On the 9th, in the afternoon, off the Start, spoke he Luton, of Baltimore, steering W.S.W. FLANDERS MAIL. BRUSSELS, FEB. 6.—The Minister of Public Works received to- day a deputation of the principal proprietors of iron-works interested in the railway of Sambre and Meuse, who came to assure Nita that they bad no part whatever in the intrigues, the ob ject of which is to support the line of Taylor ; that they all desire the prompt execution of the first proposed line, which will suffice for all the wants of that industrious country, which wants nothing more than this vent for its production to attain all the development of which it is susceptible. The Minister received these gentlemen in a favourable manner, and had no difficulty in satisfying them. The Chamber of Representatives resumed to-day the debate on the articles of the budget of the department of the interior. Article 3 was withdrawn. Article 4 (now article 3) was agreed to, as %ell as all the articles of the 2d and :id chapters, and the first ten articles ef chapter 4. BRUSSELS, FEB 7.—The Chamber of Representatives, after the pre=enta►ion of several reports, continued the debate on the budget of the department of the interior, several articles of which were agreed to. Several petitions have been presented to the Chamber. and to the Minister of Public Works, to obtain a reform in the Post-office. If we are rightly informed, a plan has been drawn up in the office of the Minister, admitting the reform in principle, but recommending the progres sive application of it. It is hoped that the plan may be laid before the Chamber before the el.tse of chi• ses sion. The greatest eb•tacle appears to be the fear that is entertained in the Finan e Department of a diminution of the revenue. To remove tha: objection, the merchants who have the greatest interest in that refute'. should im mediately point out the means of making good the defi ciency, it there should be any. We have had very unpleasant weather for three days past. Yesterday we had a thunder storm with snow, hell, and rain, which continued for four and-t4eitty hours, and has been succeeded by a pretty severe frost. There is, however, a pretty certain indication that the spring will be mild anti favourable—this is, that the spots in tho sun have greatly diminished. Mr. Forster. the astronomer at Bruges, has ascertained by a great number of experiments that the se spots have a great influence in the temperature.—Brussels papers, Feb. 8. AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, FEB. 1. 5 per Cent. • Afetalliques.......... •• • • • • • • 111% 4 per Cent. ditto.— • • •• • • •• • • 101 X, 3 per Cent. ditt0•...... Loan, 1834 Ditto, 1839 .• . Bank Shares Esterhazy's Loan • .... RAILWAYS The Northern, or Ferdinand ...... • • .... 182% Gloggnitz . Milan • . . 122% —Allgenaelne Zeitung, Feb. 4. .1625 DUTCH FUNDS.—AMSTERDAM, FEB. 7. Money. Dills. Actual Debt, 2% per C7ent... 64 64X Ditto, 3 per Cent Ditto, 4 per Cent..... .......• ••• • • . 98% 99 Ditto, 5 per Cent.. • • ... Amort Syndic, 45% per Cent.......... 99N 100 X Ditto, 3% per Cent ......... . Commercial Company, 434 per Cent . • 1473{ 148 East India Loan, 4 per Cent...—. •• • • 983 98% Exchange on London, one month • . 12 17.5 Two months... .... ••. • • . 12 12.5 At sight. . • . On Hamburgh ...... • ••.• • . 35 43.15 Two months.— ••• • • . 3.5 25 On Paris • . Two months. —Dutch Papers, Feb. 8. PRUSSIAN FUNDS.—BERLIN, FEB. 4. St. Seimld Sch., 33 Bills. Money. 4 per Cent •• • 1041 1-12 99 7-12 Pruss. English Bonds, 1830, 4 per Cent... Exchange on London, 2 months.. .. .• • • 6 24% 624 — Universal Prussian Gazette, Feb. 7. IIIMBURGFI BORSENHALLE, FEB. 4. Bills. Money. 113 Austrian 5 per Cents Bank Shares . ...... Anglo-Russian Loan .......... ••• • 114 q Russian 5 per Cent., Ilamb. Certificate. 1054 105 4 Ditto Ist series 1n5cripti0n........... •• 1054 Ditto, Hope and Co., 3d and 4th series.. 991 4 99 1 4 Ditto, in Certificate— ••.••• • .. • • • 99tµ9914 New 4 per Cent., Hope and Co. ...• .• 92 91 3 Ditto Stieglitz • 90% 9034 Spanish New 5 per Cent Ditto 3 per Cent . Anglo-Portuguese Loan, 234 per Ce n t 4O Dutch Actual Debt, 234 per Cent.. Polish New 4 per Cent..l.oan, 1844...• 87 1 4 87 Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 g - ,r Cent ... •• • 8734 87% National Bank Shares...—. ........ 140 Exchange on London. Petersburgh, Three months .... • • 37% Bremen, Two months ••• • • • 6 13 Hamburgh Borsenhalle, Feb. 4. BELGIAN FUNDS.—BRUSSELS, FEB. 3. Actual Debt, 2% per Cent . . Rothschild's Loan, Five per Cent Loan of Thirty Millions, Four per Cent .. .. 98 Ditto Three per Cent • Ditto Thirty-seven Millions, ditto •• 77 Ditto, ditto, 1840 lO3 Ditto, ditto, 1844 102 Ditto of the City, 1843 103 Ditto, 1832 ...... Bank of Belgium.... Brussels Papers. Feb. 5. .• 608 It is many years since milk was so scarce in Preston as it is at present. This mad• in part be owing to the high price of hay, but it chiefly arises from the increased demand among the operatives. Indeed, from diminished poor-rates, the reduced price of provinder, and the increased demand for milk and butter, the condition of the dairy farmers near the town is much better than formerly.—Preston Guardian. The Royal Mail Company's steamer Dee arrived at Southampton yesterday. She was five days over due. She does not bring any specie on account of Mexican dividends. She does not bring any additional news from Mexico. At the time of her departure, Santa Anna was advancing upon Vera Cruz. He was closely watched by Paredes, but no collision had taken place between their troops. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. THIS EVENING Will be repeated Balfe's Grand Opera, THE DAUGHTER OF ST. MARK. Lusignano, Mr. Burdini ; Adolphe de Courcy, Mr. W. Harrison ; Catarina Cornaro, Miss Rainforth. Atter which, will be repeated a Grand Ballet, entitled LES DANAIDES. Danaus, M. Hoguet ; Euricles, Mr. Howell ; High Priest, Mr. O'Bryan; Lynceus, Mon. H. Vestris ; Polyctor, M. Dcl ferier ; Alemenon, Mr. 'Webster ; Egyptian Chief, 31. Flnart ; Hypermnesta, Mille. Maria; Automate, Madame Fivart ; Amymone, Madame Guibilei ; Agave, Mdlle. O'Bryan. The Box-office is open daily, from Ten in the Morning until Six in the Evening, where Private and Family Boxes, Stalls, I laces, and Tickets may be had on application to Mr. John Parsons. THEATRE ROYAL, HAY3IARKET. LESSEE, MR. B. WEBSTER. THIS EVENING Will be repeated a New and Original Comedy, in Five Acts, entitled OLD HEADS AND YOUNG HEARTS. Colonel Rocket, Mr. Strickla_d ; Littleton Coke, Mr. Charles Mathews ; Tom Coke, Mr. Webster ; Bob, Mr. Buckstone ; Jesse Rural, Mr. W. Farren ; the Countess of Pompton, Mrs. W. Clifford ; Lady Alice Hawthorn, Madame Vestris ; Miss Rocket, Miss Julia Ben' ett. After which, SOMEBODY ELSE. Hans Moritz, Mr. Charles Mathews ; Minnie, Madame Vestris. To conclude with THE MILLINER'S HOLIDAY. Private Boxes, Two Guineas and One Guinea and a-Half each. Tickets and I- laces to be had of Mr. I. T. Archer at the Box-office, from Ten till Five o'clock. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. UNDER THE DIRECTION OF MADAME CELESTE. THIS EVENING Will be repeated a New and Original Drama, entitled THE GREEN BUSHES ; or, A Hundred Years Ago. Connor O'Kennedy, Mr. Selby ; George, Mr. Hudson : Wild Murtogh, Mr. 0. Smith ; Muster Grinuidge, Mr. Wright; Jack Gong, Mr. Paul Bedford; Geraldine, Mrs. Yates ; Nelly O'Neill, Mrs. Fitzwilliam ; Miami, Madame Celeste. To be followed by a New Dramatic Anecdote, entitled THE SOLDIER OF FORTUNE ; or, The Irish Settler. The Duke of Anjou, Miss Woolgar ; Captain O'Rorke, Mr. Hudson ; the Baroness Beaupre, Miss Fortescue. After which, THE CORPORAL'S WEDDING ; or, a Kiss of the Bride. Sir Felix Marmalade, Mr. Hudson ; Major Griskin, Mr. Selby ; Lady Arethusa Gr skin, Mrs. Frank Matthews ; Nancy Cobb, Miss Woolgar. Prompter, Mr. Gallot ; Principal Painter, Mr. Pitt ; Leader of the Band, 31r. Mellon. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPIIL Another Triumph of a New Drama, called " The Solder of For. tune ; or, the Irish Settler." THIS EVENING THE GREEN BUSHES, or A Hundred Years Ago ; by the Author of " The Wreck Ashore," " Victorine,"B6 , !. Principal Characters by Messrs. Hudson, Wright, O. Smlth, Paul Bedford, Selby, Cul, lenford, and Worrell ; Mrs. Yates, Mrs. Fitzwilllam, and Madame Celeste. After which, a New Drama, called THE SOLDIER OF FORTUNE ; or, The Irish Settler. Characters by Miss Woolgar, Mr. Lambert, Mr. Selby, Mr. Hudson, and Miss Fortescue. To con clude with the New Farce of THE CORPORAL'S WEDDING ; a Kiss of the Bride. PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. LESSEE, MR. J. M. MADDOX. THIS EVENING Will be repeated a New Drama (from the French), entitled TIIE CARBONARI ; or, The Bride of Parma. In which Mr. Compton, Mrs. Stirling, and Miss Emma Stanley will perform. To be followed by THE IRISH WEDDING. Principal Characters by Mdlles. Caroline Roussct and Tercsiue, Miss Marshall, and Messrs, J. Bousset, Marshall, and Gilbert. After which, 3IONSEIGNEUR; or, PARIS IN 1720. Mon. seigneur, Mr. NVallack ; Germaine, Mr. Oxberry ; Rosaline, Miss E. Stanley; Annette, Miss Marshall. To conclude with THE REAR-ADMIRAL. Stage Manager, Mr. 11. I. Wallack ; Stage Director, Mr. Emden ; Machinist, Mr. Edmund Bradwell. Box-office open from Eleven till Four. Private B..xes to be had at the Theatre, and at all the principal Libraries. THEATRE ROYAL, LYCEUM. UNDER. THE MANAGEMENT OF MRS. KEELEY. THIS EVENING Will be repeated a New Comic Drama, entitled TAKING POS• SESSION. Principal Characters by Messrs. Keeley, Meadows, Craven, Kinloch, A. Wigan, Yarnold, Bender, and Stanton ; Mrs. A. Wigan, Miss Arden, Miss Howard, and Miss James. After which, THE MARRIAGE CERTIFICATE. Principal Characters by Messrs. F. Matthews, F. Vining, Collier, and Turner ; Miss Walcott, Mrs. Usher, and Mrs. Keeley. To be followed by a New Farce, entitled A MODEL OF A WIFE. Principal Characters by Messrs. A. Wigan, F. Matthews, and Mea lows ; Miss Walcott, and Miss Fairbrcther. To conclude with VALENTINE AND ORSON. Principal Cha racters by Messrs. F. Matthews, Meadows, Wigan, Collier, Turner, Kinloch, Yarnold, and Keeley ; Mrs. Wigan, Miss Arden, Miss Fair brother, Miss Grove, Mrs. WocAlidge, Miss James, Miss Turner, and Mrs. Keeley. ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE. (Under the Direction of Miss Davenport.) THIS EVENING Will be produced a New Nautical Drama, entitled THE JACK O'LANTEIiN. Characters hs Messrs. Jelferini, Binge, and Broad foot; and Miss Kate "toward, &c. To be followed by a Ballet called JOCK OF INVERNESS, in which Mr. Bologna, Mr. Flexmore, and Miss Wright will appear. Concluding with SKETCHES IN INDIA. Tom Tapes, Mr. Roxby. Boxes, 3s. ; Pit, Is.; Gallery, Gd. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. PROPRIETOR, MR. W. BATTY. Last Week of the Southern American Minstrels. THIS EVENING Will be repeated THE ROYAL FOX HUNT ; introducing a Real Fox-chase on the Stage, by Living Fox and Real Pack of Hounds. To be followed by the Melodies of the American Southern Minstrels. Entire Change In the Circle.—Unequalled Feats of Horsemanship. To conclude with the Pantomime of HARLEQUIN JOHNNY GILPIN'S RIDE ; or, The Black Witch of Edmonton. Johnny Gilpin, Mr. Wells ; Clown, Mr. Barry ; Pantaloon, Mr. Bradbury ; Harlequin, Mr. Lewis ; Columbine, Mrs. J. W. Collier. Acting and Stage Manager, Mr. W. D. Broadfoot. DAVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEA TRE. Last Week of the Panto m i me. THIS EVENING Will be performed Mr. Fitzball's Drama of HOME AGAIN ; or, The Lieutenant's Daughter. Supported by Messrs, R. Harmer, N. T. Hicks, Neville, Seaman, MSS Martin, and Mrs. Honner. After which, a New Three Act Drama, entitled WOLSEY, in which the whole of the Company will perform. To conclude with the Pantomime of POUNDS, SHILLINGS, AND PENCE. Harlequin, Mr. H. Harvey; Clown, Mr. T. Ridgway ; Pantaloon, Mr. Henry Corti ; Columbine, Miss Slaiter. Places and Private Boxes to be had of Mr. Kerschner, at the Box office, from Eleven to Four. ROYAL VICTORIA TIJEATRE. Continued Triumphant Career.of " Marianne"—Success of the Two New Dramas, supported by the best Company in London. THIS EVENING Will be repeated MARIANNE ; or, The Child of Charity. Sup ported by Messrs. Osbaldiston, H. Howard, J. T. Johnson, J. Her bert, E. Jones, and W. Searle ; Miss V.neent, Miss E. Terrey, and Mrs. E. Jefferson. After which, a New Petite Drama, entitled A NIGHT'S FROLIC ; or, Once in a Hundred Years. Ludovic, Mr. T. 11. niggle ; Nicksus, Miss Vincent ; Grechen, Miss Terrey. To conclude with an Origival Nautical Drama, entitled THE LIFE RAFT ; or, the Two Reefers. With entirely New Scenery, Machinery, and supported by the entire strength of the Company. Boxes, 25.; Pit, Is. ; Gallery, 6d. THE WEATHER.-SUN OFFICE, FEB. 10. rHERMOMETER, Lowest, 23 ; Highest, 32 ; Noon, 30 BAROMETER, 29.85.—Wpat, E.S.E. Nont.—Tice figures which follow the words "Lowest" and " Highest" denote the lowest and highest state of the Thermometer during the preceding twenty-four hours. Al the other observations are made at noon. HIGH WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY. Morning 51 minutes after 4 I Evening .. 9 minutes after 5, .4.-. . - . 41, ~,.,..,. . 4 '!`.l';‘Q I% . ii: -;'.», ', ri bw - • .... i i , 4 s •okr;,-.., .- r.IV ~?..IrS :1 7- 0" 16'g... '' A ';' . -' 4. fit 401.1k4,,, '-- -0.. i ..., . , ~., - ,-.--, ~.„ • . ~,,,,, •-'. L.!. c. -,, -,: 4 , ,. • MON ,`, ..;e• D . 1 , ....,r-- - ,'? --, Nom ......... fitfftlibtfi LONDON, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1845. Both Houses of Parliament sat last evening for a short time. In the House of Lords, the Earl of ST. GERMANS took tke oaths and his seat. The Noble Earl took his seat on the Ministerial side of the House, imme. diately to the right of the Duke of WELLINGTON. After the presentation of petitions, The Earl of DALHOUSIE gave notice that he should to-morrow lay before their Lordships papers relating to the Railway Department of the Board of Trade, and that he should, at the same time, submit his views upon the extent of the jurisdiction of the Board of Trade, and the course of proceeding adopted by them in relation to railways. The LORD CHANCELLOR presented the answer to the address. Lord BROUGIIAM gave various notices on the sub ject of the law of bankruptcy. A short conversation ensued between the Marquis of NORMANBY and the Duke of WELLING TON on the subject of the delay which took place in forwarding Bills to the Lords from the other House. In answer to Lord CAMPBELL, the LORD CHAN BC E i I L I L o O n R t s h t e a t e s t b t j h e a c t t i o t f w b a a s il h i s i n i n e t r e r n o t r i ion n t od that bring i f i n n o a remedy existed in cases in which a jury might be improperly i mpane ll ed, he wo u ld endeavour to de vise one. Lord MoNI EAGLE then moved for a series of papers for the purpose cif showing the working of the financial measures of the Government, and, in doing so, took occasion to go into the question of the financial state of the country generally. The Duke of WELLINGTON had no objection to grant the papers, but declined giving any answer to PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. Braziliar• Bonds Ditto, New, 1829 Ditto, Account Mexican, 5 per Cent. 1837 Ditto, Account Ditto, Deferred Peruvian Bonds, 6 per Cents Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent Ditto, Converted Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840 Ditto, Account ............. Ditto, Passive Ditto 3 per Cent. ...... ... .. Ditto, Account 4l , Dutch, 2 1 / 2 per Cent Ditto, Account . 63% 99W Ditto, 4 per Cent., Certitic..., 98%%34 10 „ CL O , - r so. PRICES OF PAID. AT ONE O'CLOC.• VI- - RAILWAY SHARES 13 5 Birrnin and Gloucester. 100 135 134 137.••••• 91 Ditto New Shares ... 17% 33% 33 3 / 4 ..... , 4 Ditto 1,4 Shares ...- Bristol and Exeter Bristol and Gloucester... 30 ...... 561 57 58,.. • 74 Cal...donian - 4 Cambridge and Lincoln 1% 4 3 1 / 2 ... ...... ••• 8/1 Chester and Holyhead... 5 Churnet Valley - --- Cornwall ..„ Direct Northern Dublin, and Galway._ .. 2% — ... ............ -- Dublin and Mullingar... 2% 2M6 ......... ..• 1 74 Eastern Counties 25 -. . .18 % 17 3 4' 18 17 % Ditto Perpetual, 5 per Cent, No. 1. ... Eastern Union Ditto Extension Edinburgh and Glasgow 50 65 Elyand Bedford Great South. and West (Ireland) Ditto Extension Great North of Engl an d..10 0 ......... Ditto New Great Western Ditto 1 / 2 Shares 5O lO4 103% .••••• 40,4 Ditto Fifths ...... .• 44 Guildford, Farn'tn,Ports. 2 1 / 2 — ............... , Harwich Leeds and Bradford Lancaster and Carlisle... 15 Loudon and Birminghm (Stock) 237 .....• ..... 44 Ditto New Thirds Ditto, Quarter Shares 2 London and Blackwell.. 16% — London and Bright 0n ... 50 London and Greenwich.. 123/ — ............... 79 London Ind S. Western. 41% ' 79% ............ 1 3 Ditto New 2 l /2 IDA— ........... ...- London and Croydon, 13/. 15z.. 9d I7N, .1814 18.• • Ditto Guaranteed 5 per Cent. London and York 9 l /2 6%%% 6 4" • Lynn and Ely Manchester and Leeds... 73 l3B. . ............. Manchester and Bi rrn i n . 40 Ditto Quarters Midland 100 Ditto New 2 ..... 9 8% ............ Midland, Birin., Derby 100 Newcistle and Darling- ton Junction 24 ...... 70%.•• ........... N •tv-as, !‘ and Berwick 114 ...... 15 1 / 2 1A 144 ••• Newry and Enniskillen. 2 1 :4 Newark and Sheffield ... 1 1 ,4 2i4 ......... North British Ditto New Shares 1 ..., 4 .. ............. ..... Northern and Easter n ... 45 Ditto, Quarter Shares 121/. 16 1 ... ........... •" 1 4 Norwich alit Brandon... 8 ---• .......... 4 ... Ditto, New Shares ... 1 Richmond and West End . .. • a Junction Rugby,Wor'ster,&Tring 1 Shrews., Wolverhamp , Dudley, and Birm 2% South Devon lO ...... —l-653.'...'........4.::.................. 47 South Eastern & Dover 33 1 / s • 48 ; 1 4... ......... 23 4 Ditto, No. 1 - .......... " ---. Ditto, No. 2. Ditto, No. 3 i b Staines and Richmond... 2 1 % South Wales Trent Valley Waterford and Kilkenny 1 . 65% ...... 1675; West Cornwall ....... ..„ Yarmouth and Norwich. 20 York and North Midland 50 lO5 ............... , .... Ditto % Shares 25 Ditto, Selby Ditto Extension ...... 11,4 l3 11% ..... 36 ............ IS • ........... ............ 10 14 6914 Orleans rr r ll e ee a aa t nn North, ssaa nn (dii3l , o oi e f r FRENCH rd F ze r oa a n,i n x c : e .. . i 570 224 RAILWAYS. Boulogne and Amiens... 2 - Paris and Lyons ..._7125:17....14.........—.........................: '''' '' , l irl , Paris and Orleans Paris and Rouen . - Tours and Nantes 1 - ........ ve lead MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, FEB. B.—Wre,la,r, doog a good market, and a fair amount of business bag '-',"', vsrevi at the annexed prices ; —Bit mingham and G l ou ces . t es e , : - ..Q/ ; Shares, 6 ; Bristol and Exeter, 81% ; Eastern Edinburgh and Glasgow, New Quarters, 6 1 A • L olla s, 04 ; Birmingham,Shares, 444 ; Ditto, Quarter'Shrenchoter Manchester and Leeds, Sixteenth Shares, 6 1 A ; 1 056 3 4 ; and Birmingham, 61 3 4 62 • Ditto, Quarter Share , sero 9; Preston and Wynt, 22 ; South Eastern, 49q4 ; 1.9 A miens, York and Selby, 501. Shares, 71 ; Boulogne an .. sur aticao (English), 54 ; Manchester Fire and Life ,•"' Black' 11 11-16 ; Blackburn, Burnley, and Accrington, 6%4l,n'ti Li% burn, Darwen, and Bolton, 4 A ; Bolton, Wiga n ; j a nc oln, 4 ; pool, 6% • Caledonian, 7%; Cambridge and L . ,_ neh ter Churnet ' Valley, 8% 9 ; Huddersfield and iki l .. riel iso, Countt ,00fizga Railway and Canal. 5 ILA ; Leeds and West Riding ;.' ", a do 64 ; London and Worcester, Rugby and Oxford , . _urt an and York, 674 ; Nrwark and Shrf i tield, 2 4 S°111" Euxton, 3 11-16; Trent Valley, 1 3 31; ; V s • ; 4 ' niz in the SAM ST ICK'S CRAVATThere is a chti-- e , .0 t'aslii,Ul here Squire Abi • i .. black stoel‘s :lint the • longer full dress, and the white no with • '• " ".' . •quite Ill) to the n. qeh, not hrr ; tomy mind they area leetle servan"".o A man of fashion must mind his' ece' a lways. 1 g l/( l7e Is t s r : i d ia i , ffi:• h it ., l 4 t es as n to f.a t e t t e . a - 1 ' used ones tont . ... 11l send and get some white mu:lins, but ill en n t o dittieultv is t• tie th( m nelt Perha i n°t hij a ' ' in - tlt white erorat SO . s„_iit ~ t ,'.'l 3, fl ' "lle it or silo it. It requires quite li . 1 1 4 :-.1 liat:e e ie . cow'' , am 0 r-help to d , . it whea I first b u t 's ; f.r N.,ln e „ , , ; h e n. . .!" " , - , 12.: , rs ;tint all ttlumb,, like u-ien . op ' --- 't" l ''''' .ll- dear „•..,; t•:o nor; t° 7 3 ::; . ..r e 4 2: . ; . ' ';', l h .d '" , tatid her oT, ti, ,0.01.—.1:.01, !Wu ti , — . 9 ," to P g . et ' - 5 "'it ;' '"(0 "" Cother, to , t a tiv 'i- , '.-- IF a nd dirt uri" , " '.- .; i' tt "''' I htv! !,. p‘it 0, e ha , ,,l en one sid.4.'ll:l'eber9:ll::-. Net her little heart. A Natin' lik: , a . cl'iiief.e. ii ' n•! kiwir flan w ta e ti.d . her, and it made irie feel s.c . t . of all overith tOOt ti(' gum it up, for it took too long."—The Attaclie• • MONJE:Y AND COMMERCIAL NEWS CITY, MONDAY EVENING. Stocks close rather firmly. Consols, 99i 1; and N EW Three-and a-Quarter per Cents., 104 Bank S' o4 recral , itp?rt'.stt w-re to !; ;j u t ! No •s. ivc!re 87 our-«n per (2 , • I The additional tran,actions in Hallway Shares hay' been these : Birmingham and Gloue. star wer e 33; Bristol and Glot.coster, 271; Caledonian, 11; Cambridgo and Lincoln. 21 ; Cite-ter and tiolvh , ad. 31; Ctutrr."; Valley, 7. - } a ; Elstern Union. 8 ; Great tii,uiliern Weet.-rn (lreland), ; Great Norti: of England, 7 1 i; Guildford and Ports,thotath 2 1 , to 2 ; I...eds and 13r .a" ford, 16 5-6 ; Thrrningham, Thirds, 42 ; Ditto. Qua' 27 ; South-Western, 37 ; Lynn and Ely, 24 ; Net'' castle and Darlington, 454 ; Newry and Enniskillen, 1 I Northern and Eastern, 16 • Norwich and Brandon. ; Richmond and West-End, 28 ; Rugby and Trigg. 2.1 1 South Devon, 6:4 to ; South Eastern, 14i ; Soine s ar ° Richmond, to 7 1- ; Trent Valley. 14 ; West Co. 23 ; Yarmouth and Norwich, 8 , York and North 'Mit' land, Half. 28 ; B ou l ogne and Amiens, 3is ,• th les " and Vierzon, 9f ; Ditt o an d B or d eaux , 4,1 I . Paris an d Lyons, 1 ; Parts and Rou , n, ; and Paris and Or:: leans, 25 premium. Blackwall have been SI Dublin and - Galway were par to a discount. 13 ; . `" - a North Ameri can B an k Sh ares were 4:1- discount , Union of Australia, 1 to 2 premium. • c- -= .)vii t.. (Fror; The Sun of Last. Night.) ~0 1 , No particular alteration occurred in Cotton, at Livery -. , : on Saturday.—The Railway Shares were —Caledonian, 7% 6% ; Cambridge and Lincoln, 4; Chester and Holyhead, 71. 10s. 71. 13s. 9d.; Dublin and Belfast, 5 76 1 Eastern Counties, 17 1 % ; Ditto, Perpetual, N°* R i f 51. 13s. 4d. ; Edinburgh and Glasgow, 64 ; , - 11 ,3; and Bedford, 2 1 A % ; Great North of EugA ; New, 33; Great 'Western, 180; Ditto, Fifths, " t 7 0., Lancaster and Carlisle, 27%; Liverpool and Maneh es ; quoted as followter New, 38; London and Birmingham, Quarter Shares,l7e'ci Ditto and Brighton, 55%; Ditto and York, 6% N; ,f i gir Northern, 2%; Lynn and Ely, 4%; Manchester au", Al . u d mingharn, 62; Manchester, Bolton, and Bury, 10% 311 " - n d CountieF, 128; Newcastle and Berwick. Carlisle, 120%; North British, 14 3 / 4 ; Oxford and Rug. 4 44, %; Scottish Central, 4/. 45.; Sheffield and Manchen, 15 ; New and Carlisle, 104; Shrewsbury and Birmingham, 6%; South-Er w e ;„ 47 3 / 4 ; Trent Valley, 13 1 % %; Ulster, 44; Paris and M a % : 42 3 / 4 ; Ditto and Strasb urg , 3 ; B ou l ogne an d A m iens, "" ' Northern of France, 5%. The contradiction exhibit e d i n th e d ec li ne o f. I'a cites shares after the Board gives a favourable opinion, e x i v some attention, as it is considered that this is anotherdece i, treme, after the overweening confidence placed in 111 _,„ tu re sions. Certainly what has taken place in the Leg": ts . tends to keep alive the speculation in " rejected" Pr °,3 ` - t , ill There are no arrivals with news of particular iate ves it. the City to-day, and th e N ew York letters to the 1601 L s s advise rather dull markets for imports, though Cotton r held a little firmer. „ Ag ee The English Funds are fluctuating to-day, with a tr i rsi, for business doing. Consols have realised 99% to '''.,lclie transfer to-morrow, and 99% to 9934 for Account ' -, rbe quer-bills have been down to 575. and 545. premium' e ked New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. have been 71,eing 10334 to 103%, and the Th ree p er C en t s. 100% to I ri , 214. steady. Bank Stock is firmer, having improved 1 ° be en India Stock is quiet at 282 1 / 2 . East India Bonds hav e marked 70s. to 71s. premium. i n tereg t ' The transactions in Foreign Bonds have been of nom T y r ee Spanish Five per Cents. are about 2734 to 28, and the 593/4' per Cents., 40% to 41. Portugu e s e C onver t e d h a ve been 87. Mexican Bonds have realised 36, and Brazilian Ne el ' the Dutch Two-and-a-Half_ per Cents. are 63% to %' a° Four per Cents. 98% to 34. ~ ~t os ts For Railway Shares the demand is fair, but prices nu' unequally, according to the supply offering. OS SG CL 1....5. ONE ~,0 IC PRICES OF BRITISH FUNDS. O'CLOCK.. 1 213 Bank Stock .. 3 per Cent. Reduced ... 1004 S 92d 3 per Cent. Consols - I/ 4 % 10 37 1 New 34 per Cents. 103% 3 / 4 12 1- 6 Long Annuities to expire Jan. 1860 • ISA Ditto 30 years, Oct. 10, 1859 ' 1 ' 282 3 / 4 India Stock , 282% 7 1 India Bonds, 1,0001 . , . . 7l 68 Ditto under 1,0001. . ....... .... . .. 213 Bank Stock for Account.. ... 213% 99 Consols for Account. . . 99% 54 Exchequer Bill s , 1,0004, 1%d.... 55 57 54 is., 57' Ditto 500/. Ditto Small ... 58 55 P un ' .3 0,06 0 ONE W C°. O'CLOCK. .-^ . ~s~ 284 6 ii l 6 171 4 ..,,-.. SU tt,. -4 c tx .11.8 4f, 4 .+1. uht h i„,, tb la T e• k Ba i l: eunae t41 , -1 t Z i ght o rd 2n h rr ovi _ s - of I.( , 044 -4 r isey t hat to b, h e tt a e i ci Tht toir44llo3it' an Ad a l ' dat I tttZ o t be I h:on c i tt l e 4te t r e to ri ed 1 t -Jor.Gel 41 , qlt cot 1 )(,1 1 , 1, ? k 4 419 0 d ° et of , *ride,:ive4 opts. Vh tt i,_° l lr .4 " rni