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m ost van it varied instruction thatwas possible to impart. Our clergy, as a whole, are by far the beat educated portion of the com munity ; but if teachers, however able or esti mable, were taken from their ranks, persons of different persuasions would hesitate to place their children under their care. It would, indeed, be in finitely desirable that the children of the gentry, the mercantile classes, and those intended for professions, should be brought up at the same institutions ; any other procedure must be productive of exclusion, narrow, one-sided views, and distorted, abortive conception of men and things. The Catholics, in my opinion, make a great mistake, in conducting the preliminary education of so influential a body as their clergy, in a theological seminary ; and in further debarring them from the advantage once enjoyed of a partial residence abroad. Finally, I must regret that public opinion does not yet appear to sanction establishments for imparting a higher grade of educa tion to females than what seminaries for the young can reasonably be expected to afford. That estimable individual M. Theobald Mathew, with others, has effected a most beneficial revolution in lessening the uncalculating addiction to in toxicating drinks. The advantages yielded by the Mathewite reform, I may be permitted to observe, would be considerably enhanced by a reduction in the duties on tea and coffee, for which civilising bever ages the Irish working classes have already a great addiction. I would further attach great importance, in the way of improving the social condition of our labouring poor, and generally consolidating the union, to a more perfect intercourse between the countries., There ought to be a daily steam-boat communication between Glasgow and Londonderry, Belfast and Liverpool, Bristol and Waterford, as between Dublin and one or two points there already is. The charge ;perhaps is low enough; but the ac commodation for humble wayfarers is infamously de ficient. In the old sailing packets straw and a refuge in the hold were always available ; but at present even during the coldest weather, exposed to wind, rain and drifting surge, men, with women anddelicate children, divide the crowded decks with swine and cattle, destitute of the accommodation which decency, not to say comfort, enjoins. I would have no Irish Parliament, whether inde pendent or federal, since I fear they would only prove the source of strife and disunion, an arena for secta rian disputes, clashing interests, trashy harangues, and petty ambitions. American federalism hardly in vites inntation. 'We had a Parliament once, and those who composed it, Irish as they were, sold their inhe . -critance. Who is to say that successors equally un .+l!'.•-**t‘ . might not repeat the sale ? The shame, as " . 14 fi all, 4hoanake a trade of their country's wrongs, s"1 "nth- inb`ee the seelling than in the buying—out upon sletdraies'• i a -a n'a £heir memory for ever! Would that the union, however desirable, had been accom plished by honester means ; an honest end neither needs nor sanctions a dishonest re sort. I would maintain the Union indeed, but on the principle of equal justice ; I would maintain it, but not to be cast in the shade, to be treated with scorn and obloquy, neglect and poverty. Let not the iron heel of despotism be planted in the faces of the widow, the fatherless, the miserable. Do not further alienate the energetic, the enlightened, and the de termined of the Irish ; do not push beyond endurance the sufferings of the poor. The rattling cutlass of the heavy dragoon, the clanking musket of the red coated soldier—horse, foot, artillery, are poor and passing expedients to allay starvation and despair. We may be trampled on, but we still would have strength left to drag our oppressors into the mire. Yet rancour towards Ireland is not so potent, nor the love of order and justice so extinct, as to suffer the continuance of ineffaceable wrong : bright and con fident are my hopes in the well-doing of generous England as in the progress of our race. If not a local Parliament however, elective grand juries, or other similar local elective jurisdictions, in order•to transact local business, and watch over local interests, should assuredly be established. Bills for particular purposes before the Imperial Legislature might well be discussed in Standing Committees ; an institution that we might borrow with every advan tage from the Congress of the United States. In other respects, the unnecessary and expensive juris diction of the Lord-Lieutenant being abolished, I would urge, with all my heart and soul, that the Im perial Court and Parliament should sit triennially in, Dublin, of course, triennially in London and Edin burgh. It is quite absurd to say that the members:of an itinerating Parliament, as it has been termed, could not as readily meet in Dublin as in London.. Never will there be happiness, never perfect peace or pros perity in Ireland, till this vital measure be accom plished. If Mr. O'Connell, with his powerful talents, his unwearying energies, had agitated for this in place of the dislocating expedient of repeal, he would have had the hearty concurrence of myriads who otherwise never will join with him. Suitable accommodations were easily, and how cheerfully provided ; we have a palace and houses of parliament already constructed, with means of communicating with London in a few hours. Absentees, one and all, would flock without coercion homeward ; we should be further visited by multitudes of our Eng lish and Scottish neighbours ; and more would be done in a single year by this simple and constitutional measure, which am well assured must one day be carried, to conciliate the Irish, appease the differences, unite the countries, and introduce order and pros perity, than during long years of previous abortive legislation. These remarks now close. Without a wish to give offence to any party, they have been dictated by an earnest desire to promote the prosperity of my native land, and to secure in reality, as well as name, a tho rough community with England ; that we might in all things be one with a country which in many re spects, as I trust she will one slay prove in all, is the hope of surrounding nations, the bulwark of the op pressed, and the glory of the world.—l am, &c. HENRY M'CORMAC, M.D. Belfast, January,lB44. #.5 THE 'NOTTINGHAM TRADE. CHINA LACE. she state of the most extol' ,ive branch of the hosiery manufacture—wrought cotton stockings— has very little varied for some tin ,A , past, the frames, with the exception of those ► Love forty guage, being in general fully employed. The cut-up cotton hose branch continues brisk, and as most of. the firms are coming gradually in to give the penny advance, the hands have some hopes that another rise in wages may be obtained.—The drawer and pantaloon branch, we are sorry to report, is worse this week than it was the last, the masters coming from the warehouses with empty bags. An al#idgment of the labour in some cases has been adopted by the workmen being directed to widen up the thighs of the drawers by taking the thread round the needle, instead of removing the troops, in the usual manner. These articles are not like the drop-offs ; they are perfectly sound, hut the selvages are raw and unsightly. The hands complain that too much is deducted :from their wages for this abridgment of labour.— 'The silk glove branch is in a better condition. The ..articles generally made are cut-up, and of the most inferior kind, but still the increased demand is felt most beneficially. A new fashion is coming into -vogue, of making long-armed mits. These are made from the shoulder to the hand on wide frames; they are then run on narrow frames, to ornament the hands. The fancy bobbin-net trade is dull, more es pecially the plat and other ornamented laces. Yet there are few or no machines standing, the nets being in general consumed. The plat-net machines keep going, though the sale prices are extremely low. ;Lace has been for some years much cheaper than anuslin, and will wear longer, being made of hand ts2un two-thread yarn, of the best quality. Muslins are linade of single yarn, the shoot being very slightly twisted. We have been favoured with the sight of a very singular production, namely, cushion bobbin lace made in China. This article was obtained by a British soldier,wlyi was a lace-maker, at the time the armament advanced up the great river, to obstruct the grand canal, and to attack Nankin. It was near this place that the soldier saw the women at work, and conceiving it to be a great curiosity, he took out his knife, and without ceremony, cut off a yard, which he ibrought to England. The ground is that of a 2nechlin, a sort of Brussels, being plaited at the close, and twisted on the (Aker sides of the hole. 1.. t is coarse, having only about four holes to the in ch—a scallop pattern is worked in to it, by shoot jn g the threads cross-wi se , near s t hree quarters of gat inch. It has large -prominent spots, which fie the hole is closed with no less than e e en it bouts round the pillars. To the n a k e d tie appearance of being made of yellow - B enga l has lk, in the gum, but no sooner is th e microscope applied, than this vanishes, and it has a ll the reserii iblance of being a vegetable substance, as though corn siosed of a sort of fine basket twig. Several experi- assents have been made, to ascertain its real quality. Upon being boiled, it produced It thick, foetid, glu- Vilma substance, and the material had all the of • twisted cotton, though not the len▪ d twist can be observed in the thread stvlien in the gum. At a distance it has Pomewhat of a shining appearance, as though jr were a metallic substance. . This is considered t saber important to this district, as it demonstrates Ilbat the Chinese wear and use lace, and that such articles will be in request in that extensive empire, 'et hich is said to contain a third of the human race.—There is no material alteration in the cotton warp lace trade, the hands being fully em- Voyeci.—The silk blond hands are, however, confined to certain limits, nor does there appear much prospect at present of a renovation taking place in that-branch. to—Nottingham Review. '•aunt Baptiste Metax* has arrived from Greece, at THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY MORNING, JANUARY is, 1844. whole to 15,094,889 f. The sum paid for railroads had been only 1,364,508 f., leaving to be disposed of 'in 1843 14,135,492 f. The result of that year's esti mates could not yet be exactly ascertained, but he should not be much wrong were he to value at 118 or 119 millions the expenses of public works to be paid out of the loan—expenses which, put down in the budget for 75 millions, were increased by the sums brought forward from 1842 by credits granted by special laws. The expenses of railroads were, he supposed, about 39,500,000 f. Subtraction being then made of the 75,294,889 f. imputable to the first third of the loan, there remained about 80 millions to be paid by the floating debt, and recoverable : one half from the other portion of the loan not yet ne gotiated, and the other half from the reserves of the sinking fund, which were to be disposable after the payment of the deficiencies of the ordinary budgets. Not only was it easy to provide for all those de mands with the customary resources of the floating debt; but when last year they dropped a hint of a slight rise in the interest of Treasury Bonds, as a means of remaining masters of the moment in the negotiation of the loan, they had been obliged speedily to lower the rate of that interest, to prevent the assets from rising to an exaggerated rate, to the detriment both of the circulation and of the Treasury. They had also reduced the advances of the Receivers- General, as much as the prudence which ought always to be observed in such matters would permit. Those measures had produced the effect which was expected, and, nevertheless the assets of the Treasury had remained more than sufficient to ward against all eventualities to such circumstances. It had appeared to the Government opportune—and they hoped that the Chamber would now approve of their decision—not to make use, during the year that had just finished, of the faculty which the law accorded them, of issuing the whole or part of the other two thirds of the loan. They had judged it preferable to allow the first to class itself definitively and public credit to gain strength. They could do so without danger, since the situation of the country allowed them to announce, as they had done last year, that whilst they reserved to themselves the right of profit ing by circumstances, they held themselves fully at liberty to wait for a favourable moment for negotia ting the remainder of the loan. He now came to the budget of 1845, of the different dispositions of which he would give a summary, and would begin with the ordinary servic3. An augmentation of 2,749,532 E, applicable to the Three per Cents., was caused by the consolidation of the bonds of the sinking fund. As they were unable to fix beforehand the period for the issue of a new series of the loan, and the nature of the funds in which it would be issued, it has been decided on to provide for the service from the resources of the floating debt, and an increase of 1,500,000 f. on the interest of that debt was proposed. In consideration of the advantages secured by the law of 28th April to all the holders of transferable offices, it is proposed to fix at 3 per cent. the interest of the caution money of that class of of fices. This will produce a saving of 800,000 f. The calculation of probable extinctions showed a diminu tion of 1,440,000 f. in the payment of life annuities. A saving of 286,050 E had been effected in the allow ances to members of the Legions of Honour. A saving of 22,500 f. had been effected in the budget of the de partment of justice. That of public worship showed an increase of 136,400 f., caused principally by the creation of fresh chapels of ease, and the salaries to Protestant clergymen. The budget of foreign affairs presented an increase of 144,100 E, of which 30,000 f. was devoted to bring up to 200,000 f. the credit for extraordinary missions. The credits demanded by the Minister of Public Instruction exceeded those of 1844 by 205,400 f., 91,000 f. of which were provided for in the budget of receipts ; the surplus was in tended for the creation of two inspectors-general, the establishment of new professorships, the crea tion of two new royal colleges, and the increase of the rent of the building occupied by the Royal Aca demy of Medicine. The department of the Interior gave a decrease of 300,000 f. on the allowance of foreign refugees but an addition of 50,000 f. for the persons employed in the central administration, and some augmentations to little importance reduced the actual saving to 278,744 E The departmental service allowed an increase of 100,985 f. The department of agriculture and commerce, - not requiring to repeat the credit of 500,000 E for the exhibition of national in dustry, a saving in that department of 401,565 f. was effected. The department of public works presented an increase of 1,425,500 f., but that increase in reality 'amounted to 2,717,500 E, and was, as may be easily perceived, only reduced to the former sum, in conse quence of a reduction of 1,070,000 E on the credit appropriated to rebuilding various bridges, and of another credit of 222,000 f. on that of the Normal School. Whatever may have been the desire of the Government to avoid any increase, yet the above are so well justified, that they could not fail to be readily admitted. The expenses of this department'merited an exception, and the Govern ment felt satisfied that the consent of the Chamber would be given to the increase of the grant; of 1,403,000 f. for the maintenance of royal roads; of 600,000 f. for that of rivers, and particularly of the Rhone and the Rhine ; of 150,000 f. for sea-ports, and of 135,000 f. for keeping up buildings of public interest. The receipt and expenses of the carrying on the lines of railroad executed by the State had also been concluded. The war department, compared with 1844, showed a total reduction of 2,127,374 f. On the expenses connected with Algeria, an in crease ,of 1,516,229 f. was demanded, viz., 500,000 f. for the expense attendant on colonisation; 315,000 f. for roads; 310,000 E for the support of convicts in the different workshops, and other objects. In the budget of the Marine important changes had been made. Instead of the former classification of ships, under the name of disponibilite de rade and commission de port, an intermediate class had been substituted, called commission de rade. Vessels belonging to this class would be provided with all their materiel, but would have less men than when in a state of disponibilite de rade, but more than when en commission deport. Their crews would consist of men who had hitherto been kept inactive on shore. This change would not only be favourable to the general in struction of the seamen, and leave a number of men available to the merchant-service, but would also ef fect a considerable saving to the State. The budget ofl 1844 contains a credit of 24,984,500 f. for the pay and clothing of the crews and the marines for an ef fective force of 160 vessels, 'including sixteen en disponsibilite de rade, and four en commission de port. A credit of 23,998,5001 r. would now suffice for 190 vessels, 30 of which would be en disponibilite de rade, with a much larger number of steamers. The Minister of Marine demanded that the saving which he had effected by this ar rangement should turn to the benefit of the materiel of the navy. The state of the supply of stores in the arsenals had been the object of too repeated and just complaints for the Chamber not to congratulate itself on seeing the grant of this branch of the service increased by nearly one million, with out adding to the general charges of the State. The other changes effected in the budget of the Marine nearly . balanced each other, the difference consisting only in a diminution of 143,734 f. The principal augmentations applied to the military and civil officers ; 122,000 f. were for the promotion of 100 enseignes de vaisseaux to the rank of lieutenant, and, for indemnities for lodging paid to officers not em barked ; for hospitals, 209,000 f. ; 111,000 f. paid for the freight of stores from one arsenal to another; and 547,203 E for the colonial service. The most important reductions were under the head of victualling, and for the colonial service. Under the former head was a sum of 457,1921. in consequence of the change in the system of the classification of vessels, and under the latter 719,982 f., of which 143,000 E were in consequence of the advanced state of the works at Fort Bourbon. One chapter alone now remained to be mentioned as far as the Finance Department was concerned, viz., the expenses of the Treasury. It presented an increase of 70,000 f., in consequence of the development of the operations in Algeria. The expense of the regie and the collection must increase in proportion to the amount of the productions, since it comprised a large sum by wayof discount allowed on the receipts. Savings effected on some articles, reduce for 1845 the increase to 227,990 f. Amongst the numerous charges included in this sum was an amount of 106,800 E for the expenses incurred by the special agents of the direct taxes in fixing the duty on patentes in different parts of the country. The credit destined for the purchase of tobacco had been in creased 2,200,000 E over the budget of 1844. Supple mentary credits had besides been opened on anterior budgets, and the Administration had been thereby enabled to profit by the fall in the price of Ame rican tobacco, to complete their reserve stock. This circumstance permitted the augmentation to be maintained at 1,200,0001. The continual in crease in the consumption rendered necessary consi derable expenses under the head of land labour, which reduced to 535,000 f. the diminution effected under this head. Little remark was required on the extra ordinary service of the budget, which was divided into two parts—the expenses chargeable on the pro duct of the loan, and those which the law of the 11th June, 1842, had left provisionally to the charge of the floating debt. The credits, which in former years had been opened by anticipation to the Minister of Public Works, had exhausted some of the sums granted by the law of 25th June, 1841, and reduced his demands for 1845 to 22,311,344 E, consequently the total credit of the first part was but 62,431,3446' That of the second part amounted Only to thirty-four millions, and was . the consequence of tile ws previously vot ed. The propositions which wine submitted relative to railroads in the course oftbe n t he e xa mination e th .this e recei pts; It wouilcl be necOary to observe that', the changes which ,tbey presented, compared with the estimates for 1844, proceeded from two causes : first, .the increase of products during the last twelii ruouths kuoirn at the time of the preparation of the budget, and which, according to custom, had served as the bases for the calculations ; and secondly, the circumstances which would operate in 1845, but which did not in 1843, and which would exercise an influence on the results of the new budget. An increase of 2,475,0001. had taken place in the receipts on the taxes on doors and windows, and on patentes ; on the revenues and sale of domains, as estimated from the ordinary receipts of 1843, there was an increase of 1,163,000 f. An increase of 14,251,000 f. had arisen on the following indirect receipts, viz. : Registration dues, and stamps Customs .. .. 5,373,000 Indirect taxes, tobacco, and gunpowder 2,864,000 But this increase has been reduced to 14,119,000 f. by a falling off of 138,000£ in the receipts of the Post office. Another increase of 1,424,000 f. had arisen from the receipts of the University, of those of Algeria and the Colonies. The amount of the receipts for 1845, therefore showed an increase of 19,181,2301. The increase arising from circumstances connected with the estimate of 1845 amounted to 11,720 , 715 f., • and were as follows :- 1. Suppression of the funds of non va- F. leurs by cessation of trade • • 600,000 2. Consequences of the law of July 2, 1843, on Sugars 3. Reduction from 5 per cent. to 3 per cent. on the sums allowed for waste on Salt 4. Probable results of the New Customs' Ordonnance in Algeria 5. Produce of the carrying on the Northern Railroad 400,000 6. Purchase of Lands for Railroads 3,000,000 7. Increase of sums arising from labour in Prisons The Marquis de Dalmatie, who had been re-elected for Castres (Tarn-et•Caronne), took the oaths and his seat The discussion on the Address was fixed for Mon day next. The ehamber adjourned at half-past four. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF CHANCERY, Jan. 15. The Lord Chancellor did not sit till 11 o'clock today. MASSIE v. DRAKE. The Court was occupied the whole morning with the arguments in this case, which were commenced on Sa turday. The question on the case relates to the taxa tionpf a Solicitor's hill, and possesses no roint of interest except to the parties corwerned. 650,000 8. Sundries 1,375,715 Total By uniting these two categories, a total of 30,940,945 f. was given. According, however, to the rules which had been adopted, a diminution of 1,922,783 f. was anticipated, the principal of which. were 657,500 E which the Commission on the Budget of last year had added to the produce of the forests ; 514,000 E for the increase in value added to the budget of 1844, in the valuation of indirect produc tion, in consequence of circumstances connected with that estimate, and which could not be again brought into the budget of 1845 ; 284,173 f. for the non reproduction of the provisions in the budget of 1844, and of sums to be received from the railroad compa nies, the realisation of which could not take place in 1845. These different items reduced the excess of the receipts to 28,988,1621., on deducting from which an increase of expense above stated of 741,892 f., showed an improvement in the budget of 1845, com pared with that of 1844, of 28,246,270 E In making this comparison, it must be remarked that there are included not only the credits comprised in the vote , of the budget of 1844, in which there was a presumed ex cess of expenses of 24,947,8 36 f. ; but also the credits opened by three special Bills in the course of the ses sion, which had added to that excess a sum of 2,480,0001., and had raised it to 27,427,836 f. This sum was less than that of the increase stated in the estimate of 1845 by 818,134 E It was in fact, to this last figure, that arose, according to the proposi tions of the Government, the excess of the receipts of the budget of 1845, the resources of which amounted to 1,276,925,2311., and the expenses to 1,276,106,797 f. It only remained for him to make mention of the various articles comprised in the budget of receipts. The most important were connected with the execu tion of Art. 2of the budget of 1842. By the terms of that article, it was in this session that new plans were made for levying in the departments both the personal and propertty c ontributions, and that on doors and windows. To effect this, the Government had only at its disposal the -returns made in compli ance with the Acts of April 21, 1832, July 14, 1838, and the census of 1841. The two first-mentioned Acts had been allowed to be insufficient, and a new set of returns were ordered in 1841. The Chamber was aware of the obstacles thrown in the way of an ope ration now acknowledged to be perfectly legal. The information then acquired was altogether inadequate to the object proposed; but the various investigations which the Government had ordered showed that the oresent assessment was not so vicious as had been sup posed. In place, therefore, of immediately modifying the assessments, and for certain inequalities substi tuting others, it had appeared to the Government better to introduce a Bill which should, by degrees, remove all disproportions that might exist in the several departments of the kingdom. By that means, the contingent of each department would be diminished each year, as well for the property contributive depending on the houses destroyed as personal taxes of the occupiers of those houses. It would be augmented only in proportion to the real value of the new constructions really occupied by the inhabitants. He proposed to fix the propor tion in which the augmentations were to take place by twentieths. The total amount of the value of habitations, such as it appeared from the late census, was 533 millions, and might be estimated at 30 or 40 more, if the difficulties which prevented that opera tion being properly executed, were taken into consi deration. The produce of the twentieth, applied to that amount only, furnished 28 or 29 millions, whilst the personal and pr o p ert y contingent amounted to 34 millions. The diminution would, therefore, be rela tivelv greater than the additions, if it could not be proved that from the increasing wealth of the country the houses to be erected would much exceed those that were allowed to disappear. The Government felt convinced that no loss would accrue, and to act with still more consideration, the departmental assessment was not to be increased until the third year after the commencement of the new buildings. A Bill should be laid before them for this purpose. As to the question both of doors and windows, no difference of opinion has ever arisen between the Government and the rate-payers, for the simple reason that the a ssessment could be made without be seen by a table an dengaged in it being obliged to n an nexed if the legal number was xt produced the inquiries made during the • would be 28,056,450 f., or census,nei enforced, routhto the thehhathe :n u officers proveds . budget, d e p r gr ol s e btt, dyu would 4,500,000 f. more than in 1844. They did not intend, however, insisting on the rigorous exercise of the law so as to produce that sum, the new mode of assess ment being fully adequate to obtain the result they arrived at. An article relative to the indirect taxes had for its object to furnish, at the cost of a very trifling sacrifice to those landlords who had a great number of tenants, the means of delegating to them the charge of paying their taxes . Two arti cles would be proposed to the Chamber relat ive to indirec t taxes, one intended to fix of a rticle 15 of th e l aw o f 1 5 t h J une , o ther to furnish th e mos t e ffi cac i ous tlhBe4l and meaning t h e means of preventing the frauds which were practised on the revenue in the article of potable liquors, parti cularly spirits. T he Hon. Minister concluded by stating that the equilibrium of the budget which he had just presented had not been obtained by omissions or u expenses, or by the exaggerations in the t presumed ts, but declared that the result was e x re e alrea a sn t ud i In s ed i s nc or e fe r c e e . ip Two conditions were, however, he added, necessary to secure this result—the con currence of all the powers of the State, and a perse verance in the line of policy consecrated by that as sistance. It was in the hands of the Chamber, and he felt assured it would not be compromised. " Art. 1. Credits are opened to the amount of 1,372,538,1411.,. for the expenses of the estimates of 1845, as follows :-- not in a perfect state of sanity, was brought up, charged with stewing a cloth cloak from the house of Mr. C. Evans, of V.-re-street, Lincoln's Inn fields. The prisoner, it appeared, took lodgings in the prose cutor's house about a week ago, and, after he had been there about three days, he suddenly left, taking with him the cloak in question, which was worth 30s. Yesterday ke returned to the house, and asked if he and his wife could have a bed. lie was then given into custody. The prisoner, in his defence, denied that he 111 , 1 taken the cloak. If he had done so it was not very likely that he would have gone back to the same house to ask for a bed. Mr. HALL said he thought the prisoner had been charged with a similar offence, before him, on a former occasion, and, if he recollected rightly, he made the same defence The prisoner—Yo4, Sir, I was *ent to Clerken and there tried, Laud ,entenend to three months' imprison ment. The reason of that was, that the certificate or my insanity did not arrive in time. The priso-er was remandel teat search .might bn male ior the cloak. FRANCE. CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES: SITTING or JAN. 12. The President took the chair at two o'clock. The President read a letter from M. Teste, tender ing his resignation for the arrondissement of Apt (Vaucluse). The order of the day was the reading of the Address. The President, amidst the deepest silence, read as follows :—" Sire—The union existing between the great bodies of the State, and the loyal concurrence which the Chamber has given to your Government, have upheld and strengthened public tranquillity. The ascendancy of the laws, aided by the intelligence and good sense of the country, has everywhere proved sufficient to maintain order at home. Commerce and industry each day make a more rapid stride.— (Marks of dissent on the Left.) Agriculture, which has need of being encouraged in its progress and its efforts, relies on the solicitude of the Government.— (Renewed murmurs on the Left.) Information and comfort, diffused more equally through all ranks of society, are improving and elevating the condition of the inhabitants. Such, Sire, is France, as she has become under your reign, by the regular develop ment of the institutions which she has given herself; and we behold, with a lively gratitude towards Provi dence, the prosperity which our country enjoys. " We learn with the greatest satisfaction that the effects of this general prosperity permit a balance to be re-established between the expenditure and the revenue in the financial bills which are to be pre sented to us. We shall endeavour, by wise economy to consolidate this equilibrium so justly desired. " We congratulate your Majesty on the pacific na ture of our relations with foreign Powers. The peace of Europe gains strength by its very continuance—it is founded on the general interests of civilisation and the respect paid to existing treaties—to those treaties of which we claim the protection for an unfortunate nation, whom hope does not abandon, because she has faith in the justice of the cause.—(General appro ' bation.) " In Spain, Queen Isabella 11., who is the object of the affectionate solicitude of your Majesty, has just been called, although so young, to exercise the Royal power. In Greece, King Otho has drawn around him the representatives of the nation. In those two countries, may royalty and public liberty derive new strength from their intimate alliance. 'We are de lighted to learn that the sincere friendship which unites your Majesty to the Queen of Great Britain, and the accord of sentiments which exists between your Government and hers, relative to the events in Spain and Greece, confirm you, Sire, in the favour able hopes which are felt for the future prospects of those two nations allied to France. _ _ " This good intelligence will, without doubt, con tribute to the success of the negotiations which, while they guarantee the repression of an infamous traffic, ought to tend to again place our commerce under the exclusive surveillance of our own flag. " Your Majesty announces that you have con cluded treaties of commerce with the King of Sar dinia, and the Republics of the Equator and of Vene zuela, and that you are engaged in negotiations with other States in various parts of the world. We hope, Sire, that those treaties and negotiations, whilst they maintain to national labour the protection that its state demands, will open a wider career to the intelli gent activity of the country. " We shall examine with care the measures neces sary for the execution of railroads and various other public works. We hail with eagerness the assurance that the Bill which is to be presented to us on secondary instruction will, by satisfying the wishes of the Charter relative to liberty of instruction, main tain the authority and influence of the State over public education. "A young Princess, sister of the Emperor of Brazil and of the Queen of Portugal, has taken a place in the midst of your family, and we share in the satis faction felt by your Majesty in a marriage which assures the happiness of one of your sons, and adds to the consolations that God has reserved to you. "We are pleased to hope, Sire, that our rule in Algeria will soon be general and tranquil, and that, thanks to our perseverance, we are near the attain ment of our object, and on the point of finding, in the accomplishment of our work, and in the dimi nution of our sacrifices, the price of our efforts. We unite with your ]M ajesty in thanking, in the name of the country, the chiefs, and the soldiers of that brave army, who are never weary either of the fatigues of war, or of the labours of peace. Among the chiefs of that army, we are proud to number one of your sons, whom we are accustomed to see in every point where France has either danger to en counter, or glory to obtain. " Yes, Sire, your family is truly national ; between France and you the alliance is indissoluble. Your oaths and ours have cemented that union. The rights of your dynasty remain placed under the imperish able guarantee of the independence and loyalty of the nation. The public feeling brands with reprobation guilty manifestations.—(Numerous marks of appro bation.) Our Revolution of July, in punishing the violation of sworn faith, has consecrated amongst us the sanctity of an oath."—(Loud marks of assent.) THE BUDGET. The Minister of Finance, after having presented Bills for the allocation of the extraordinary and sup plementary credits of 1843 and 1844, and of the closed estimates, brought forward the budget for 1845. For some years past, he said, the Government had been obliged to depart from the principles which, in ordinary times, ought to direct the administration of finances. The income of the State had been below its expenditure. had they followed the example of a neighbouring country, and permanently omit ted putting down the sum annually applied for clearing off the public debt, and had there been consecrated to that purpose only the eventual excess of the receipts over the expenses, a balance would hare been attained long since. But not only did the constantly increasing elevation of the public funds oblige the Government to i suspend the action ' of a considerable share of the sinking fund, but the into, and due to engagements previously entered and the enactments of the financial code, imposed it on them as a duty, to reckon this expense amongst those various expenses which ought to be disposed of with the ordinary revenues of the country. Besides, the unemployed funds had received a special allocation, and the balance would not be a sincere one which would leave them involved either in totality or in part. It was not alone the pre-existing debt that was to be included in the usual budgets, but the interest of the sums expended in the groat public works were to be successively added to it, whether they were due to the sinking fund, or to the creditors of the floating debt. From this there arose each year a new expense, which rendered the final arrange ment and equilibrium more difficult. Yet the ambition of the Government—as it was their duty—was to bring this abnormal state of things to a close as speedily as possible. If in 1844 they had resigned themselves to still remain as they were, it was because they were allowed to anticipate the period when a balance would be attained. The Chamber was already aware that the provisions of the Government had not been erro neous. They had been able to obtain for 1845 a ba lance in the receipts over the expenditure—and that without in any way going out of the regular course of things—without any increase of burdens to the public, or any postponement of useful and necessary expenses. The credits given, in the budget which he was about to have the honour of laying before the Chamber, were calculated with the same exactitude as that for 1844; and certain departments, which ex perience had proved to be insufficiently provided for, were to receive a necessary addition of funds. The means by which this result of obtaining a surplus had been effected, were simply the augmenta tion of indirect prochice—the resources arising from the careful enforcement of the laws—and the savings which a severe examination had produced in certain departments of the public service. These means were sufficient to provide for the augmentations which he alluded to above, and to fill up the chasm of about 28 millions which were required to constitute an equili brium. Before entering on the details of the budget for 1845, he should briefly enumerate the deffciencies that had existed in the last few years. his prede cessor, in bringing forward his financial statement for 1843, had estimated the deficiences of the estimates for 1840, 1841, and 1842, at 372,443,207 f. Last year the deficiency of the four estimates, from 1840 to 1843 inclusively, were valued at 371,609,072 f., and at present they found that the whole deficiency for the five years, from 1840 to 1844 inclusively, was only 360,616,239 f. The estimates of 1843 and 1844 being down for 94 millions in this result, there was definitively an amelioration of 106 millions on the other three estimates. As this situation was capable of still further amelioration, it ought not to excite asto nishment if he declared, with still greater confidence than last year, that after 1846 the reserves of the sinking fund would be disposable for the great public works. It was even possible that a part of the re serve of 1846 itself might be so employed. On January 1, 1845, the reserves of the 4rears 1842, 1843, and 1844 would have been realised. They tdsahtde stated, tie. fi t di v o7 e nn y ai ym e t a ofo r ou s r ' tnh e it ee s s t di i m o, alt do a o t i e: , d s 2se6 w 6fis, c o o ; i u .2e l d That w' would amount t o 209 974 974 f and the arrears of a e t ig d h eb o t n th h e ar fi g o e a d tin in g , n , c 2 i s e s o , f _ w h w i c i t h h , a t h s e h aid i d had f the constant an ti c i pat i ons of the excess . of each year's estimates over the expenses, was Also to provide for the excess of the exp enses o f thebgfeat public works over the part of the loa n a l rea d y issued, and for th e expenses of the railroads described by the bill ofl June 11, 1842. The year 1842 had not imposed any charge in this respect, the expense of the public works having amounted to only 74,705,111 f., leaving a ba lance of 294,889 f., from the 75 millions allowed out of the 150 millions that had been realised of the ' loan. As the credit of 75 millions had been increased by a special law by the sum of 14,800,000 f., the portion of the unemployed credit which is to be added to the estimatee for the year 1843 aruegated in the qaDINARY SERVICE. Public Debt .... Grants ... . . 14,745,000 Expenses of the various Ministerial de partments .. . ... • . 680,193,182 Expenses of regie,collection of taxes, &c. 147,692,191 Reimbursements, provinces, and dis tricts .. . ........ .. Total ........... 1,276,106,797 f. EXTRAORDINARY SERVICE. Extraordinary works ........... 62,431,344 f. Railroads.. ... 34,000,000 General total Credits amounting to 19,517,992 f. are also opened for the estimates of 1845 as follows : Legion of Honour ....... Royal Printing-office ..... ..... Consular establishments. • Invalides, Marine, and the Mint.— 7,102,898 f. 2,760,500 360,000 1,350;494 Total ............... 19,517,992 f. " Art. 2. The above-mentioned expenses shall be provided for by ways and m eans of 1845. " Art. 3. The effective for ce to be ke p t u p in Al geria, beyond which the second paragraph of the Art. 4 of the law of 11th June, 1842, will be re quired, is fixed for the year 1845 at 60,000 men and 13,696 horses. " Art. 4. A distinct account is to be given of the employment of the credits on the Chapters 21, 25, and 33 of the budget of the War Department for ex traordinary works in Algeria. " Art. 5. The sum of 1,050,000 f. is opened to the Minister of War for military pensions. " Art. 6. The inter e st of caution money of public officers is fixed at 3 per cent. after January , 1845 . " Art. 7. The faculty of opening supplementary credits by Royal ordonnance, to supply the insuffi ciency of grants, can only be allowed in the cases already determined." - The next order of the day was the verification of qualifications. M._Cremieux presented the report of the Commit tee on the election of M. Sic yes for Valence (Brame), which was in favour of his admission. . M. Lherbetto opposed his admission, on the plea that he was ineligible, in consequence of his having entered the service "of a foreign rower. • - The objection to his admission w.aa, after some di s CUSSiOII. cverruled. and his electiou cloaked valid. VIC E-C HANCE it L‘ lir, Jun. 15. The Vice-Chancellor of England was occupied tho whole morning with the part•heard case of Beresford v. Armagh, which came before the Court upon exceptions to the Master's Report. (Before Sir J. WIGRABI.) OSBORNE V. FOREMAN. His HONOUR pronounced judgment in this ease. The bill was filed by some residuary legatees against the trustees of real and personal estate, who were also the executors. The case now came before the Court on a point of form. It was determined by the Court upon the construction of one of the last orders. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH, Jan. 15. (Sittings in Banco.) MANDAMUS.-THE QUEEN V. THE CORPORATION OF MAN CHESTER.-THE QUEEN V. THE CORPORATION OF BIR- BIINGEIAM. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said that it would be in the recollection of the Court, that in each of these cases a rule for a mandamus had been directed to be made ab solute against the new corporations, ordering them to award compensation to certain officers. That rule had been directed to be drawn up in the alternative directed either to the corporation or to the town council. Some difficulty had arisen at the office in amending the rule, so as to enable Counsel to direct it to whichever party they might think fit. • Lord DENMAN—We always presume that the parties brought before the Court are the right parties. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL—There can be no doubt as to the identity of the parties in the present case. The town council and the corporation are essentially the same parties, both are before the Court, and my application is, to amend the rule so as to have it drawn up is accord ance with the directions of the Court. Lord DENMAN—I should not imagine that there could be any objection to that —Application granted. - THE QUEEN V. SCOTON. The defendant in this case had been convicted at the last Stafford assizes of perjury. A motion in arrest of judgment had been made last term by Mr. Sergeant Talfourd, and the Court had fixed this morning to give judgment on Mr. Sergeant Talfourd's motion. The ATTORNEY• GENERAL applied to the Court to name some other day. The Court no doubt had intended that the defendant should be present, in order that, it the rule should be discharged he might be brought up for judgment. The defendant was not present. Another ground of his application was, that the case having been tried before Mr. Justice Williams, it would be advisable that that Learned Judge should be present when the judgment of the Court should be delivered. Lord DENMAN—WO certainly intended that the de fendant should be present : let the case stand over trail this day week, and I will speak to my brother Williams, who will on that day come into this Court. COURT OF EXCHEQUER, Jan. 15. (Sittings in Banco.) COFFIN V. BRAITHWAITE. Mr. RICHARDS moved for a rule to show cause why the verdict found for the plaintiff in this case, which was tried before Mr. Baron Rohe on Friday last, should not be set aside and entered for the defendant, or why judgment should not be arrested. It appeared that the plaintiff, with a party of friends, intending to visit Sheerness, embarked on board the Prince Albert steam boat. When off Gravesend. the captain caused the plaintiff and his friends to disembark, believing them to be members of the " swell mole," by which they were put to considerable inconvenience, and were refused a passage by any of the other steam-boats, from th, pre judice.which had been created against them. They were obliged to take a carriage to town, and were con sequently put to considerable expense. The defendant had paid 2/. Its. into Court, the amount of the ex penses to which the plaintiff and his friends had been put. Mr. Richards contended that the captain of the steam-boat was not responsible for the annoyances to which the party had been subjected from being placed under the surveillance of the police, and from the hoot ngs of a mob of 200 persons.—Rule granted. ACRADIAN V. COOPER. Sir T. WILDE moved for a ruld to show cause why the verdict found in this case for the plaintiff, for 8,400/, at the last sittings at Guildhall, should not be set aside, or a new trial had, or a nonsuit entered, on the ground that a question was left to the jury which ought not to have been left. The action was for the recovery of a paper purporting to be a scrip receipt for 10,0001. paid on account of shares in the Royal Mail and Steam Packet Company. Messrs. Acraman and Morgan had borrowed 20,0001. from Messrs. Cooper, Thompson, and Co., on the security of certain scrip receipts in the above-named Company.—Rule granted. DUNN V. TURNER. Mr. CURRY applied for a rule to show cause why the ♦erdict found for the plaintiff in this case, which was tried before the Under-Sheriff of Staffordshire in No vember last, should not be set aside and entered for the defendant, or a new trial had. The action was for goods sold and delivered. The plaintiff sold to the defendant a number of cows, and a portion of the purchase-money was paid. Subsequently the cows were found to be un sound. The defence set up was to this effect. The action was brought for the balance of the amount. Rule granted. SALOMANS V. ISAACS. A verdict for 2051. in favour of the plaintiff was given at the trial. The case arose out of an action for the re covery of an I 0 U, which the defendant alleged to have been paid. Mr. Sergeant BOMPAS now moved for a rule to show cause why the verdict should not be set aside or a new trial had.—Application refused. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, Jan. 15. (Sittings in Banco.) HOLMES V. HODGE. This was an action brought by a brewer to recover 8/., as the price: of two barrels of ale, alleged to have been supplied to the defendant, who is a publican. The de fence was that the ale had been returned to the plaintiff on account ofi its inferior quality, and the jury found for the defendant. Mr. Sergeant CHANNEL now obtained a rule nisi for a new trial, on the ground that the verdict was against evidence. In three other cases, destitute of interest, the rule nisi for a new trial was also granted. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. (YESTERDAY.) CITY POLICE COMMITTEE. A young man named John Eagle, driver of the En• deavour omnibus, plying between Gracechurch-street and the New Cross Station, wearing badge No. 7,003, was summoned by the police before Mr. Alderman Thomas Wood on Saturday, for causing an ob struction in Graoecburch-street, and for an aggravated assault on an old man, of the name of Cope, on Friday week. A solicitor appeared for the defendant, who pleaded not guilty to the charge. City police-constable No. 532, stated that on Friday afternoon he was placed on duty at the top of Cornhill. At about half-past four o'clock he saw the Endeavour omnibus coming up the hill, the defendant and his con ductor sitting on the box. Just before them was a cart containing an old man, a butcher, of the name of Cope, who was driving steadily, and following the line of other conveyances. On their coming nearly to the top of Cornhill the defendant whipped the horses to turn the corner into Gracechurch-street ; there was not sufficient room, as the defendant could plainly see, but their in tention apparently was to annoy the old man, and to throw his cart out of the rank, for immediately the pole of the omnibus caught the back of the cart and threw it, horse and all, completely round in an oppo site direction to where it was going. The concussion was so great as to throw the horses of the omnibus upon the pavement, thereby rendering it impossible for any person to pass, as also any other vehicle passing along the street, the omnibus obstructing the whole of the carriage road. Witness, perceiving the danger that was likely to ensue by the pole going through the shop windows, caught hold of the horse's heads to keep them quiet, and told the defendant to keep them so. He, however, continued whipping them, forcing the omnibus against the cart, with the old man in it, who was crying out not to turn his cart over to kill him, and appeared greatly frightened. Witness asked the defendant what he meant by such conduct ? he replied, "He would cut the b-r's liver out ;" at the same time striking the old man over the head three severe blows with his whip. Another police-constable coming up at the moment pre vented any further outrage being committed, The old man was much injured by the blows, and to this day has marks of the defendant's violence on the head and hands ; throughout, his conduct was most disgraceful. Cope, who is upwards of seventy years of age, and almost bent double, was next examined, and his evidence confirmed that of the officer. His bald head and the backs of his hands were much cut from the lashes of the defendant's whip. Mr. Lamb, a respectable tradesman, residing at No. 96, Gracechurch-street, came forward, and stated he never saw a more aggravated outrage committed. He happened to be standing at his shop-door with a friend, and saw the whole occurrence. A great crowd was at tracted in the street, who cried out "Shame, shame !" at the defendant's conduct, and it was a matter of much surprise that the officers did not drag the defendant off the box, and take him to the station-house. On behalf of the defendant, his solicitor called two witnesses, who, instead of adducing evidence in pallia tion of the offence, corroborated every fact that had been stated on part of the prosecution. Mr. Alderman WOOD commented severely upon the defendant's conduct in horsewhipping the old man, "old enough to be his grandfather." Unfortunately, the case before him had nothing to do with the assault, as the charge laid in the information was for causing an ob struction in Gracechurch•street. This had been sub stantially proved, and he inflicted the higl, est penalty he was empowered by law. Respecting the assault, it was a matter for another Court, which he advised should be applied to. The defendant was then fined 205., and 3s. the cost of the summon, which was pifl. BOW-STREET. A respectable-looking man, who gave his name as John Wylie, wh9fie OPPefkrilUO indicated that he was MARYLEBONE. A very eonsi&rabie degree t excitement was created in the ridghbourhood of Albany-street, New-road, yes terday evening, in consequence of the attempt by a man, named HansfOrd, to murder his own son, Ar thur, a boy of eleven or twelve years of age. by beating him about the head with a shovel. Fortunately, how ever, the alarm was given, and the interference of the police prevent d a fatal consummation. The boy was taken to the University Hospital, where he lies in a most critical state. Alfred Hansford, the younger son, said that he lived with his father, mother, and two elder brothers, at No. 3, Munster-street, Albany-street. Arthur was the eldest, and Edwin was the next to him. He then gave a long account of quarrels and fights which had taken place between his father and brother, and of the assault com plained of. John King, 321 S, said that he heard cries of " Mur der" when on duty in Munster-street, and on running to the prisoner's house, met him on the stairs, but not knowing that he was the guilty person, permitted him to pass. When he got into the room he saw the injured boy in the centre of the floor, and his features quite un distinguishable from the blood. He supported him till assistance came, and the only words he could articulate were, " father," " asleep." Heard the prisoner after wards say that he " was aggravated the whole of the day, and it was enough to drive a man mad." 'After wards, at the station-house, he said, " I am. sorry for what I have done." Police constable Harrod, 179 S, produced a shovel, which was completely bent with the violence with which it had been used upon the boy, and was deeply marked with blood and hairs. _ _ Police-constable Vickers, 183 S, took the prisoner into custody. He said, "I am the man. I meant to pay him out, for he had aggravated me all day." He was remanded for a week. TRIAL OF MRS. GILMOUR. This woman was tried on Friday and Saturday last, in the High Court of Justiciary, Edinburgh, for the murder of her husband, by administering arsenic to him, which produced death. The circumstances of the case are no doubt in the recollection of the reader full details of the charge against the prisoner, having, been recently published. The Jury, after an absence of about an hour, re turned with the following verdict—The Jury, after a careful and mature consideration of the evidence brought before them in this case, are unanimously of opinion, that John Gilmour died from the effects of arsenic ; but find it Not Proved against the prisoner at the bar, as libelled. This announcement was followed by very decided expressions of approval by those in Court, which were rebuked by the Lord Justice Clerk. The prisoner was then dismissed from the bar. EXECUTION OF SARAH WESTWOOD. STAFFORD, SATURDAY. --The unhappy culprit, Sarah Westwood, convicted at the last Special As siaes for the county, before Mr. Baron Rolfe, f r the murder of her husband, has been executed.. It ap pears that the culprit was the daughter of a labouring man, living at Churley, a hamlet near BurnNood, where the murder occurred. At an early age she acquired a loose reputation and was discarded by her parents, and eighteen months prior to her marriage with her unfortunate victim, she gave . birth to an illegitimate child. Twenty years since her union took place, the fruits of which are several children. At the same home in which they resided at Burnt wood also lived a man named Phillips, who, no doubt, was the principal cause of this diabolical occurrence taking place, from the fact that it was supposed that he had had a criminal intercourse with her, and which excited the unhappy differences that constantly hap pened between her and her husband. On the 9th of November, when the family were seated at the dinner-table, the father entered and complained of a pain in his head, and requested his wife to make him some gruel, thinking that the dinner would not agree with him. She did as de sired, and he partook of it, but inquired what was the " white stuff" that was floating about on the top of it. To this question she gave an evasive answer, and im mediately afterwards the unfortunate man was taken with a severe fit of vomiting, and pains in the stomach, and was instantly cent to bed, and expired the same night. The wife appeared but very in differently concerned, and expressed a wish to have the body as quickly interred as possible. An inquiry, however, took place, and on a post mortem examination being made, it was clearly ascertained that the deceased had died from the effects of arsenic. The above was the substance of the children's evi dence, and by the exertions of the constabulary force, abundant proof was adduced that she had purchased. the arsenic but a few days before, together with other poisonous matter, at a chemist's shop, at a village called Worsall. These facts, with other circumstances, so clearly brought the case home to the wife, that the jury,- on the trial, without hesitation, returned a ver dict of guilty. Sentence of death was accordingly passed upon her, and she was removed. Since her condemnation she has been daily attended by the Rev. G. Norman, chaplain of the gaol, who has used every spiritual means to bring her to a just sense of her condition, and in answer to the entreaties made by the worthy pastor to induce her to acknowledge her guilt, she has on all occasions firmly declared her innocence. Her two youngest children visited her on Thursday for the last time. The interview is stated to have lasted about an hour, and on their parting a scene presented itself of a most affecting character, such a one as not to be wished for again to occur within the walls of this prison. On the same day she expressed a wish to see her sister and her husband, who were instantly sent for. On their arrival, however, from circumstances which had been made known to the Governor, it was found that, instead of the man being the husband of the wretched woman's sister, it was Philipps, her guilty paramour; consequently the meeting was refused in the most positive terms. At this disappointment she manifested deep regret. This morning the condemned sermon was preached in the chapel, the worthy minister taking for his text the 2d Peter, chap. 1, verse 14, " Knowing that shortly I must put off my tabernacle." After the service the unhappy creature partook of the sacra ment, and she evidently felt the deepest anguish at the awful position in which she was placed ; in f ac t, she fainted twice or thrice during its performance. Notwithstanding all this, she still avowed her com plete innocence of the murder of her husband Her conviction appears to have given satisfaction throughout this part of the country, as no petition has been forwarded to the Secretary of State for a com mutation of her sentencu. Her age is stated to be 42. She appeared deeply distressed as she approached the scaffold, and when placed under the fatal beam trem bled violently. The preliminaries having been quickly arranged, and the rope placed round her neck, the bolt was drawn, and the sufferings of the murderess ceased in this world. SINGULAR CONTEST.--A few days since a woman, named Sharpies, the wife of a boatman, left her hus band at Selby, and eloped in a keel with another boatman, named James. Two days afterwards Shar pies came up with the runaways in the Humber, nearly opposite Barton, and boarded the pirate. A fight ensued on the deck, but the wife finding her husband down, and in a fair way of being pum melled; took part against her husband's vessel. The parties met again at Hull on Tuesday evening, in a public-house at the Southend, and it was agreed that they should fight for the woman. A battle took place accordingly, on Dock-green, the same evening, when the husband was the victor, and bore away with him the worthless prize.—lltill Packet. A great deal of dissatisfaction has been created this week among the pensioners and women who have been receiving pensions and half-pay at the dock-yard, in consequence of the clerks at the Navy Pay-office paying them in many instances with gold which is barely of the standard weight, and does not turn the scale. It seems to be an established axiom among tradespeople that gold issued in the reigns of George 3d and 4th is not now a legal tender, and Gd. discount is demanded on every 20s. It is certainly true that the clerks at the Navy Pay-office have refused to exchange the gold so issued, when returned in consequence of the above discount being demanded. This looks very like a fraud on the public, the money for paying these people being drawn from the branch Bank of England, which bank receives the light gold on payment of an established allowance.—Hampshire Independent. ST. IVES.—FORTUNATE DISCOVERY. —During last week, a labourer employed on the farm of Mr. Wratten, farmer, of Needingworth, near St. Ives, discovered what he considered to be a piece of paper projecting from one of his master's stacks, when, on a nearer inspection, it was ascertained to be a sort of a large fusee attached to a ball of what is consired to contain combustible mat ter, which was placed *lout a foot in the stack. The paper or fusee had beeii lighted at the end.:exposed, but from some fortunate reason had smouldered a short time and gone out.— Chelmsford Chronicle. The young lady who has taken the Neapolitans by ears, 1 - Ind , r . the cogrloa)er of Favpnte, is u111i:$ Ed wards, a pupil of Crivelli, who used to sing at the . Aca demy concerts a season or two back • and wile belonged to that institution.--Dramatic and liulkai Rolm MARKET NEWS.--YEST ERDA coa:ff-ztitc:ulaircos• Last week the arrivals of En , . o,; market were on a very moderate li s h whe at up to ou scale ; but those oi barley from all parts, were lawn. tIIY lat ge—those rt.. home grown alone amounting. to aver 12, 000 quarters, Of malt, beans, peas, and o f flour, the supplies wee' scanty. Fresh up from Essex, Ken't , supplies of wheat were very small, in id, comparatively s p, , alci,,g soinewhat .iut of condition, t, 'rit , iing from th: and Suffolk, the. I,teiy prevading damp weather. Tee qt, "ItYf n s a , b ,: r e not being equal to the wants of the deale. ' 6 '9 w ," : „-,- in good attendance, the demand for all dk scrlPt.' ° '" - both red and white was active, at an improve currencies obtained on this day se'nnight of Isl per quarter!, , was soap arid a clearance of the Essex and Kent stand. effected : hence very little was left over for W etin eili g' Fero ~g 1 , ..1 There was an increased number of samples of 'went in the_ IVh.: , .it oil SiloW, yet the business doing in th at artikee'w was tolerably extensive, and, in ware instal c''' t o y qa, aations had an upward teodeney, bu,. not st.tti 3 c h T '-' su to warrant as iii aolkieg. any alteration ink Our .Pr lee :.; A few spieWat i Vt. ptif,:ha.,,es were made in wheat il'' . „, o lock, at tint. currencies. In consequence Of the eat troi large supply of Barley offering, the demand w as I On, checked ; indeed, it must be called heavy, at an a b'. ti 'ent on last week's prices of is per quarter, mud l'el little progresg w,,s made in effective sales. Ala L' i l„ the quantity of malt brought forward was small, 1136 s.- quiry for it was iiiactive, at rates barely equal -to th t obtained on Monday last. The, show of Oat. Yalril7'; was large, and the dealers were by nu mean 5 titO W ns buyers. Prices, however, were aba ut stationavy. 13 e! ir were very dull, and some of the factors gave way in tle , demands by ls per quarter. In peas v ory little was dOlOb' ' The Flour trade was steady at late fig Tires. CURRENCY PER IMPERIAL 1 4EASURE. WHEAT—Essex & Kent, I MALT—Che valier ..... .. . 6 3 s to , red 43s to 60s0aTs—Yor 1 shire and go Ditto, white Norfolk and Lin- Potato? 2 5 3 to coin, red 42s to 455; Youghal i and Cork, .6 mg Ditto white 4ss to Sodj b lac k Irish, red 47s to 50s; Cork, w bite ....„... 19s t° Al Ditto white RYE—Old New 56s to 3SS PEAS Grey BARLEY-.-Grifiding 258 to 295! nvie ..,,,,, ••.•.•,•••»•- Xi s t° to gs Malting l3. to 36.1 Wh.;te 3 O, ., Chetalier 32s to 3531 80i1er:t.........—. ....... 32s to a ig• 45 , to MALT—Suffolk and Nor- 'FLoua—Town a tade ... folk s6s to 62s Suff&k.... 346 t ° • to S Brown 506 to 51. Stockton &N, Wolk 34s Kingston and Ware 56s to 6281 FOREIGN GRAIN AND FLOUR IN BOND. to 0 2 0s WREAT—Dantzic ...... 49s to 65s BEANS ...... Hamburgh. ...... 36s to 40s PdAS 236 to r t 235 tL O% BARLEY 3os to 33s FLoult—American ggs 10 OATS—New 4* lss to lis Baltic Feed l4s to 16s Z. Although our market SMITZIPI exhibited LD rather are exte o ito 5 supply of Beasts as to numbers, a very great de ficien t° 4 as to. quality was observed in it, especially as relate s , that portion of it derived from our northern get t zing s tricts. The attendance of buyers was tolerably nutneros4 and notwithstanding. the weather was favo.v.rab le slaughtering, the Beef trade was inactive. Itiot ev o i the primest Scots, Devons, runts, and Herefwds, Ono buyers, at prices about equal to those obtained 00 I„pe day se'nnight, the highest quotation ruling at 4 s 2d Ka Sibs but the value of all other' kinds had z downtv' t ; tendency; still a fair clearance was effected previousii 1 ,. the conclusion of business. From Lincolnshire , Leieetir tershire, and Northamptonshire, we received sbnbi 2,300 short horns ; from Yorkshire—principa l q, railway-120 beasts ; from the Wet . tern and M id is counties, 200 Runts, Herefurds, Durhe•ms, Irish bf ii/ a st &c. ; from other parts of England 190 of variouSk in ol from Scotland, by a steam,r, 120 horne: l and po. in . Scots ; and from Ireland 50 beasts. A cons:if:terab i t e h crease was apparent in the supply of Sheep, and produeqd sotne heaviness in the trade, and the rate - e consequence suffered an abatement of 2d per Sibsnit o's° value of the best o ld D owns, w hi c h were ra ther 7 4 10. numerous than of late, not exceeding 4s 4d Pe r n i,/ In Calves, the number of which was scant- f, °"",' •e$ naoderate business was transacted, yet the , terra -i t • were firmly supported. For Pigs we have to reP r a lt, firm demand, at prices fully equal to those of 110 sv ,„ We are glad to be enabled to observe that very te•w,,, ' o of the prevailing epidemic were observed in eit herb - i t%) or sheep to-day. Since our last no imports of live ! A id have taken place from abroad, neither are any ibr this market. The state of the demand to 410 efl plkeely disappointed the expectations of the • sale' be and others ; but the cause of the depression : 0 3116 ,; t er print-spally attribut: d to the immense arrivals try-killed meat up to Newgate and Leadenhall and so long as they Continue so extensive, so :lung the trade here rule hea%y. it r. d. to s Looms Beasts 3 3 2 Interior Steep..... 9 n second,quealty ditto... ' 3 4 3 6 Second quality ditto:: ;3 7 ; Prime law Oxen q 8 310' Coars,..woolled ditto .3 10 * ; Prime Scots. ..., 4 0 42; sentimown Wethers 4 j I Large coarse (dyes . 3 6 4 61 Large Hugs ,3 I; /lime small ditto 4: 8 410 Sin,ll Porkers . T. ' ..'uckling Calves, each 2u 0 30 ill quarter old Pig's:it . chit 1 " SUPPLY AT MARKET. Baas[- Sheep. Calves. g o 2,952 i 29,060 1 69 4 , 6 dea• GAT:it: AND LEAD N 11/1.1.: L. A very large arrival of slaughti.rad nieskt 1" t he tak( n place since this day se'nnnight, together fur supply of that killed in the metropolis being larg r iota the time of year, the general demand in these lot i ia. has ruled excessively dull. However, in sot - ce stances, the quotations of the primest Beef as id 1 7" o fe: have been supported, but those of the middlin g an r 0 nor kinds, as well as of Veal and Pork, ha ye 50 an abatement of quite 2(1. per 81bs. At per atone, by the Carcase. a. d. to s. d. ; a. 11 • ;. g 6 Beef, inferior 2 4 26‘ Mutton, inferior ,2 . 91f - middling 2 6 2 middling.._. 3 4 6 -- prime large 210 3 0 ( -- prime . . ... " - prime small 3 2 36 ( Pork, large. 2ll A V:4l ARRIVALS DURING THE PAST WERE. ..a Beasts. Sheep. Calves.. lop Scotland 24 900 NO Yorkshire - i '2oo Norfolk Suffolk l3 150 10 Cambridgeihire 36 90 —.- 00 Essex' 25 100 100 ,Oli Surrey 7O 300 230 90 Devonshire .. ....... . ... Wiltshire Other parts ......—....- ...... --- Total... ..... Previous week's . ".. 2 14 65 0 22:894709 ftfig° 76.3 zebo 760 Difference since our last... 125 139 8 61° ^ ' BOROUGH AND SPITZ LPIELD Po`" About 2,850 tons of potatoes have arrived in tPLl,ite , since this day se'nnight mostly from Scotland, 0 0 1 and the Channel Islands. Prime qualities are i Q I : e s e at full prices ; but in other kinds exceedingly/ l' t doing. BOROUGH HOP MARKET. eic s° We have now a much smaller quantity or 0 %1 offer than has been the case at many previous t ° o o o ponding periods of the year. This, together 10. 1 ". el of the large brewers being short of stock, cfal se ', demand to rule active, and the prices to have al t ni r V tendency. The quotations of new hops are as inditt s ' Weald of Kent pockets, 612 s to 61 14s ; Mid Ken t hoic s ,' 6112 s to 91 lOs • East Kent, 61 15s to 9/ ; ditt c a oo 101 to 111 Ils ; ' Sussex, 6/ to 61 lOs ; Farnham.% to 11/15s ; Mid Kent bags, 6115 s to 8110 s. WOOl. MARKET. po ri About 1,200 packages of wool have arrived in th i c o leo; of London in the past week, chiefly from our CO , ,` No public sales have been yet declared, still the ape° by private contract is steady, and prices in some in s" ' have an upward tendency. TALLOW. otice' There is no new feature in this market worth s the delivery in the past week having been on 3 T e it t further decline has taken place in prices. Town 0 , 0 is rather more sought after, and the price is " 41s 6d to 42s net ca-h. COAL MARKET . - Ships arrived since last marKet.day, 40, OAA d. 9 Ord's fiedheingh l2 6 Walls Eud Quarringtee••' ' II 6 West IA ylarn ly i, Walls End Hopperi. ....... ••••• 19 I V6'ylam .. Walls EndClennell ..„1' A Walls End Heaton 8 0 Vl. all: End West ( letter''' . 2 1 •: 0 %ails End Hilda l7 6 Powell's Duftlyn Steer* "‘ 1,,2 6. Wails End Hetton Walls End Morrison ... Walls End Caradoc 20 3 PRI(`E- OF SEF.:9S 4, .., et C . Per vii.titi: .0 t , , kw Ei,glish 11. C10rri...35s 56s St. Fein .... ..-,•_,.- 1. 14 /I, 0161 i , it , Di, o ........-s -s -s Rye Grass - r New Foreign Ditto.. ..--b 15.4 54's Pacey Grass ............ . , '"7 # fe 01, , Ditto Di:to -s -s -s Linseed, for fet-di.i ••,-,, pll el New White t. !over 45s srs Ms Dit is, lb , sowing .... • .... ,5 0 41` f Old Ditt., Dii,t, -8 s-s Ditto, for crushnig ....--, 90 el ',.,../ Tre 0i1... • ,...s 121 24s Hem • ...., AIM 4.40•• ..... •• .... tpv- i Old Ditto -.- s -sCanary Per 13..5he1, A t 017 4 :1 1, tro-folium ..... ....... ......- s --s -e' F., glish tarraway .......-s 40s dis White Mustard....los,vo to 1,, i Foreign liitto - 408 468 Brown Ditto 'Os.' 0 ' Coriander ... -3 14s 20s Tares 4O Cd g CRIME IN WORCESTERSIIIRE.—From th e •„ j v e: mencement ( . 4: the year 1843 u p to th e present ` l— t period of but twelve nr.inths, there have been 4 . /1 ,7 1 than 700 prisoners whose names appeared for j 3 00 5( the calendars of Worcester county assizes and se s6 ne ri,°,; Of these 700 prisoners only 4 had received a 6tir oril l a ' education, and but 29 could read and write wel,l! the 39f could read and write imperfectly, and no Jr - pri*,. / 0 241 had been totdly denied both these invalusb!• " leges. Con cern i ng the attainments of the remall3air we have no means of knw‘ing.— Worcester JOurli - - -- ----_ BIRTHS. r a sh° ' On the 7th inst., at the Rectory, Meppershall , Be-- ° t e the lady of the Rev. Henry Howarth, of a still-born socref' ' On the 12th inst., at Harwich, thelady of Lieu tenant i tfr R.N., of a son. 10' On the 12th inst., at Clapton-square, Hackneys ee o, fred William Smith, of a daughter. z . Or% On the 13th inst., the lady of George Franks, .r-,0_1'..:,.......„, Blackfriars-road, of a daughter. , ro MARRIED. • hi re c to On the I3th inst., at Trinit Church, Marylebnn e ,' lse e rsi eldest son of Richards Jennin g s, Esq., of Portlan"100,10, Agnes Catherine Annabelle, ony daughter of Vie e ilterr s o o Sir Edward Hamilton, Bart., K. C. 8., of Cumberfleu es CO t o On the 13th inst., at St. John's, Hampstead , a 0 ,sr''' of Melvin, Esq., Secretary to the Hon. East India '°scl' Eliza Jane, eldest daughter of the late A. flardcastle' Hatcham House, Surrey. I‘o, DIED. 01' 0 ' 130 On the 9th inst., at Bedford-terrace, High V; r je ° so 4 l'sysr 13 Eleanor Phillipps King, widow of the late B. Nint o bert On the 9th inst., at Howe -street, Edinburgh, J` .0 , 1 Oa ° bairn, Esq., aged 72 . the to On the 9th inst., Mary Harman, relict of ' s c left Harman, of Hamersmith WO On the 9th inst m ., Anne,. eldest d aug hter of Jan i e, is, d, D Esq., of Eping, Esex. On the 1 p lth inst., at Clayton-place, K enn ington - 7 ° s s , 1 3.1' Elizabeth, relict of the late Mr. W. Edwards, stie d Jelin On the 12th inst., at Hornton-villas, Kensitlg t°° ' leit °°' o f ford, E.g., of Doctors' Commons. fcc. On the 12th inst., Robert Sperling, • g ,( 1./ w ill, street, Pimlico. • cArrey, l', On the 12th inst., at drove House , Hams .'" foil' Beebe, Esq. 10 0 On the 13th inst., at Felix - terrace , the wife of Mr. Samuel Dawes, Islington, 'O9 ‘ _ „ j ot) London : Printe,d; . .nd l'oblithed by 111URPO so lo I No. 112, Strand, at The Sun Offiee,-No. 112444. the County of Aliddleees, Tueedey , Jentoll 16' APOLLI SING u, CLAS FRIDA Y and Will t Terms 1 / 4 1 s); bi be adreiti Month. CLis January The I( and termi Term s Lemons) others, w as. p er 111 Each P Published Ticket 4 101 , St A -1-1 -A Tit 11 of c m ,It h as angle in ( %unity "rthy tl T• he ta , • ne obi offered I Board ' ex existing th, b ody of London ft °rn the N.B. th e s tk' aur a f i r telinis te Wind 52 _sor ' Windsor' !11. 6d ; I) AVIE ' 3 4044 iTCfr— t i 110N ] ?Ai Prolong, 43 tit 8N Palpit a de bility to 1,0 pui Lid a fe , th ein c°l *Plete " If tt 14° of it. 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