The Sun. — London, England, 1844-01-12 00:00:00

Preparing for publication, in 2 vols. Bvo., with Maps and Illustrations, price 28s. bound. VOYAGES AND SERVICES OF T II EN E M E S From 1840 to 1843. From the Notes of her late Commander, W. H. HALL, R, and from Personal Observations made i n Chi na an d other Parts, by W. D. BERNARD, Esq., A.M., &c. N.B. Those who may desire to secure early copies of this work, are requested to send their names as subscribers without delay, to their respective booksellers. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. I S FIRE NEXT DISTRIBUTION of MONEY A. DIVIDENDS, AUTiWRISED and GUARANTEED HIS MAJESTY the EMPEROR Gf AUSTRIA, contains kIONEY DIVIDENDS of 450 £6O £7O £BO £9O £lOO £llO £l2O £l5O £2OO £4OO £6OO £5OO £l,OOO £1,500 £5,000 and £23,000 sterling. Amounting together to £70,170 sterling. Direct for PROSPECTUS with full particulars, WITH. OUT DELAY, to HEINE BROTHERS, at HAMBURGH, Cr. to HEINE BROTHERS. at LUBECK. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. THIS EVENING, JANUARY 12, Will herepeated a New Grand Opera, in Three Acts, called rH E .130HEMLAN GIRL. Count Arnheim, air. Borrani; Thaddeus, 111 r. W. Harrison; Arline, Miss Raintorth; Queen of the Gipsies, Miss Bats. After which . ; will be repeated a New .Grand Comic Christmas Pardon - cane. entitled HARLEQUIN AND KING PEPIN ; or. VALENTINE AND ORSON. Harlequin, Mr. Howell; Colum, bine, Miss Carson; Clown, Mr. 'f. it:dgway; Pantaloon, Mr. Blanchard. Dress Boxes is., Second Price as. lid. ; Upper Circles of Boxes ss. second Price .I.s. ; Pit as , Second Price Qs.; ti allery Xs.: Second Price Is.; Upper Gallery Is., Second Price 6d. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-0A RDEN M. JULLIEN'S CONCERT S. PROGRAMME FOR THIS EVENING. PART I. Overture, Joao Lindpaintner. The !loyal Irish Quadrille—Jullien. 'the . Grand Jupiter Symphony, the Andante and Finale—Mozart. Burn's celebrated Song, Auld Lang Syne, perfOrmed on the Cornet. a-Piston, by Herr Kcenig. Valse, La Valse a Deux Tems—Jullien. Solo, Violin, Master Thirlwall. The English Quadrille—Jullien. PART Opera, Lucia di Lammermoor, with Solo or Co: r et.a-Piston, by Herr it len Donlietti. 'Berlina cusdrille, er.titleci Dancing for the Milli Ois—Jullien. . Solo. Bassoon, M. Baumann. Valle, Le Bouquet Royal (compoied 'expressly for her Majesty's State Balls)—Jullien. Theßeal Seotch . Quadrille—Jullien. . Doors Open at Halt- past Seven, commence at Eight o'Clock. Promenade, Is , Upper .oxen, ls.; Dress Circle, tis. (rd. ; Private Boxes, if, Is. Tickets to be obtained at the Box-office of the Theatre; of Mr. Mitchell, old Bond street; Mr. Andrews, New %oral-street ; Mr. Sams, St. James's-street; and M. Jullistn's Ottice, `h, Maddox-street, Bond-street. M. Juillen regrets that he is unable to give a Concert on Mond.y next, Jan. 15. the Theatre having been let for that evening previous AO his ty:eupation. • THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. . MIL BENJAMIN WEBSTER, LESSEE THIS EVENING, JANUARY 1U.2, Will be repeated the Cosiedy of THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR. Sir John Falstaff, Mr. Strickland; Master Slender, Mr. C.. Mathews ; M r . F or d , M r. Stuart; Mr. Page, Mr. Howe; Fenton, Mr. Caulfield; Sir Hugh Evans, Mr. Webster; Mrs. Page, :11-dame Vestris ; Mrs. Ford, Mrs. Nizbett ; Mrs. Quickly, Mrs. 'thover ; Anne Page, Miss MAttley. Alter which, the Unparalleled Performances of Professor RISLEY and his SON. lo conclude with a New Fairy Extravaganza, entit!ed THE FAIR ONE WITH•THE GOLDEN LOCKS! King Lachrymoso, Mr. J. Band; Prince Graceful, Miss P. Horton ; Queen Lucidora, Miss Julia Bennett. Orchestra Stalls, ss. ; Boxes, ss. ; Pit 2s. ; Gallery; 25.; tipper. Gallery, Is. Half-price—Boxes, 3s. ; Pit, '2s.; Gallery, Is. ; Upp e r Gallery, 6d. Doors opened at half.past Six, and the rerformances - commence at Seven. Ticket: and Pli;Cca to be bad of Mr. I. T. Archer, at the Box. office, from Ten till Five. TEIEAI RE ROYAL HAYMARKET. Sterling success of " The Merry Wives of Windsor"—Ales rs, Strickland, Charles Mathcsys, Webster, Stuart. Howe, Tilbury, C..aultield, J. Bland, Mesdames Vestris, Nisbett, Mattley, and Glover —►with "The Fair One with the Golden Locks," every Evening. The elegant Peribrmannces of Professor Risley and his Talented Child, their Last Appearances To-night and on Saturday. I. T. ARCHER, Box-book Keeper. THEAI RE ROYAL, ADELPHI. The Best Pantomime of the Season—Gorgeous Scenery. THIS EVENING, JANUARY 12, The New Drama, embracing Extraordin a ry EtlFels, Powerful Cast, and Novel Scenic llisplay, called IHE BOHEMIANS; or, Rogues of Paris. Principal Characters by Messrs. Lyon, 0. Smith, Wright, Wieland, Maynard, Mrs. Yates, Miss E. StAnley,•Mrs. F. Matthews. After which, a New Grand Christmas Pantomime, called HAIL. LEQIIIN- BLUE BEARD, or, The Fairy of the Silver Crescent. Produced with Enormous Splendour and Wonderful Effects: Columbine, Miss Bulien • Harlequin Quicksilver, by the inimitabl e Wieland; Clown, by the Grimaldi of the day,_ Mr. T. Matthews, from the Theatres Royal, Covent-gaiden and Drury-lane; Panta. loon, Mt Johnstone. . _ _ Nixes, is. ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, Is. ; Second price at Nine. Doo rs cpen at tilx, commences at a Quarter before Seven o'Clock. PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. LESSEE, Mr. J. M. MADDOX. JUVENILE NIGHT. THIS EVENING, JANUARY 12. Will be perormed THE FLOWER OF LUCERNE. Doctor Nicolemus Darkey, Mr. Paul Bedford; Bernard Arnault, Mr. Morrig Barnett; Madame Dorval, Madame Feron; Fanchon, Ma dame Eugenie s rosper. After which, a New Musical Burlesque Spectacle, entitled THE MAGIC MIRROR. Sing.Sorig, Mrs. H. P. Grattan; Poo. Poo, Mr. Paul Bedford ; Sloe-Leaf, Miss It. Isaacs. To conclude with O!SELLE. Duke Albert, Mr. Gilbert (liselle, Miss Ballin. DA V IDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. As usual, the funniest and most successful Pantomime. PHIS EVENING, JANUARY 12, Will be repeated THE BOHEMIANS OF PARIS. Supported Ly Messrs. Saville, Hughes, Hicks, R. Bonner, Johnson, Smith, Mrs. H. Vining and all the Members of the First Company in the W or l i l . After which an entirely new Grand Comic Pantomime, with Splendid Scenery, Superb Dresses, Inimitable P ropert i es and Tricks, every thing new and of the most costly description, HARLEQUIN GRAMMAR, or, Lindley Murray,and AEI 0 U. H ar l equ i n, M r. W. H. Harvey ; Grotesque, Mr. Stilt ; Clown, Mr. Fuller; Pants lava, Mr. Haw,ins ; Columbines (alternately) bliss M. R. Fair. brother and bliss Sharpe. Places and Private Boxes to be had of Mr. Kerschner, at the Box office, from Eleven to Four. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE OF ARTS. Under the Management of Mr. Batty, Proprietor. -Triumphant Success of the Splendid Christmas Holiday Fctes--West. minster-Bridge is now open—Juvenile Nights, THIS EVENING, JANUARY It, Wilt - be performed a Grand Comic Pantomime, entitled HA RLE ' QUIN TAM O'SH ANTER, and his STEED MEG' or, The Witches of Alloway Kirk. Harl equ i n , M r. Gib son ; Columbine, Millie. Cushnie ; Clown. Mr. King; Pantaloon, Mr. Mathews. • New Scenes in the Circle, and unfou.wli,d F tforsernatiship. 1 •,, or, fh me splenaia French Spectacle of THE VIC TORIES OF MURAT, THE SOLDIER OF FRANCE; or, The General, Prince, and King. Acting and Stage Maivager, Mr. W. D. Broadfoot. Stalls. 55.; Boxes, 45.; Upper Boxes, 35.; Pit, 25.; Gallery, ls. ; Upper Gallery, td. Box-office open daily trom len till Four. St age B oxes, One Guinea; Halt:price to Ditto, Halt.a-Guinea. Private Boxes, Two Guineas; Halt-price to Ditto, One Guinea. Half-price, Half-past right. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE, THIS EVENING, JANUARY 12, Will be performed an entirely New Domestic Drama, entitled POVERTY; or, Mary Graham. Leonard, Mr. Freer; Jessamy Tuel4 Mr. Nantz • Squire Graham, Mr. Dale ; Patty Parrot, .Miss Ark an ; Mary Gr isham, Miss Vincent. After which, a New Drama, entitled THE BROKEN PROMISE. Joseph . ; Miss Vincent; General Morin, Mr. James; Eloise, M. 84 Arden. To conclude with HARLEQUIN LINCOLN LUCKY OF LAN BETH; or, The Three Sisters of Witch Willow Dell. Harlequin Mr. Chapin° • Clown, Mr. Scatbrow ; P an t a l oon, M r. Morelli Columbine, M iss M. Schmidt . THE WEATHER.— SUN OFFICE, JAN. 11. TIIEUIONETER, Lowest, 35 ; Highest, 44; Noon, 43 BAROMETER,3O.43.—Wmn, N. NOTE. —The nuinher 32 on the Thermometer denotes the freezing pint; and 55 temperate. In Barometers fa'r is usually placed opposite 30, and rain at 29. HIGH WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY. Morning Id minutes after 6. Evening ... 31 minutes after 6. * 41 • a sty fa Ar .,4 -41—"/"_A -4 10 a1." 41 4 ) fi• • Iltet;re. t:it :11 13 1011 ./lAir, co , , - 4 *, m • • ,Slettit T.O N D 0 N: FRIDAY MORNING, JANUARY 12, 1844, The conduct of the Duke of BORDEAUX in this country does not tend to raise the BOURBO N race in public estimation. Every Englishman at first welcomed him as an unfortunate exile frozn France ; his sad lot, and the sufferings of his family for three generations, called forth the sympathy of every generous heart, and all, from the SOVEREIGN to the peasant, would have been anxious to pay a due tribute to his reproachless life, and his position, as the last remnant of a Royal Family that had performed a great part for ages in the affairs of the world. But when he aisumed the character ofa Pretender, when he en couraged die relics of the old bigoted and cowardly n ddesse to come in crowds to England, and, taking athantage of her liberal institutions, to raise a standard which he could have done in no other European State (with the exception of Hanover), he was classed among the incorrigible despots who would rule by divine right, and set the people at defiance. LOUIS PHILIPPE was elected Sovereign of France almost unanimously —if there were any dissentients they belonged to the party who had not the courage to express their sentiments, and who have now come over in shoals to pay court to the Duke of Bon- DEAUI 113 HENRY V. It is unfair to make England the scene of such an exhibition. England had done and suffered much fur the Bouatioxs ; but on finding them, from the blind folly of CHARLE S X., and the puerile conduct of his son, utterly irreclaimable, even the Tory Government of WELLINGTON at once cast them off. What madness now to make an attempt to resuscitate the worn-out dynasty, and at the same time, by glaring indiscretion, to offend a State that had done more than all others to restore them to the throne ? Were he not as blind as any of his family, he would see, that if a revolution take place in France, it will not be in favour of the young HENRY. Young France and Old France, too, are sick of masses and monks and Catholic bigotry ; the fatal impressions made by t h e his tory of the last hundred years have ~ sealed his fate, and the revival of the CA PETS is as hopeless as that of the STUARTS. True to the character of The family, he yields when it is too late. He left Brighton privately—he has remained for some days in private at Belgrave-square, and he has made hie escape privately to some part of the As regards the State prosecutions of O'CoN NELL and the other Repealers, the Irish Execu tive has exhibited the national prospensity to blunder, in the broadest and fullest light possible. The very first step they took—viz., the prohibi tion of the Clontarf meeting, was a blunder; their subsequent proceedings, as respects HUGHES the reporter, were a series of blunders; and now comes the crowning blunder of all, the exclusion of all the Roman Catholics from the jury. This last act seems to us one of the most wanton, unjustifiable stretches of power ever perpetrated, even by a Tory Government. There is not the shadow of an excuse for it, for it has been ascertained—says the Irish Corre spondent of a Morning Contemporary—" be yond all possibility of doubt, that several of the Catholics struck off by the Crown, had never been connected with the Repeal Association, nor in any manner whatever identified with the Repeal movement." Under such circumstances who can wonder at the ferment now so general throughout Ireland? Who can wonder that the members of the proscribed faith are everywhere sounding the tocsin of alarm—that they are in dignant at the slur cast on them —that the Catholic hierarchy are coming forward to head the movement—and that many of the most wealthy, intelligent, and influential among their flocks, who hitherto have taken no part in the Repeal struggle, are now hastening from their retirement into the field of active exertion? Of course the object which the Irish Executive have in view by such a bare-faced stretch of authority, is to secure the conviction of the " conspirators." But suppose this object accomplished, how will they be the better for it ? Will the people re gard the conviction as one founded in truth and justice —as a legitimate triumph of law ? As suredly not. They will consider it as a con summation brought about by unworthy means— as a victory gained by chicanery ; and, thus thinking, they will resent it as another flagrant instance of the utter disregard in which the Tories hold their feelings; and become more fixed than ever in their determination to clamour for Re peal. It is a grave, a desperate blunder —this exclusion of Catholics from the jury, and one can scarcely exaggerate the lamentable conse quences that may result from it. In the first place, it will degrade the sacred majesty of the law in the eyes of the Irish people, and teach them to regard it rather as their oppressor than their guardian; and se condly, it will convince the Catholic portion of the community that they are still a distrusted class—still eyed with jealousy by the English Government. "of what use is Emancipation to us,"—they will argue, and not unreasonably:— "if we are still to be looked on as aliens? We sought a substantial equality with the Protestants, not a seeming one. We demanded, and were assured, that a generous confidence should be henceforth placed in the purity anti uprightness of our conduct ; and behold, we are not considered worthy even to serve on a jury ! It is coolly taken for granted that because we are Catholics, we must necessarily be traitors to the cause of justice; and, if placed in the jury -box, that we shall make a point of declaring the " conspirators" innocent, no matter how irresistible be the evidence against them. Is this in accordance with those honied professions of good will towards us which the Premier made so often last session? Is it not, on the contrary, a deliberate insult—a cruel mockery—another striking proof that nothing is to be hoped for from the good-will of a Tory Administration ? It is so, and we are now at length convinced that in a Repeal country. Even Cie loyal chronicler of his move ments leaves us to guess what is become of him. The same journal has accurately recorded how often he attended mass, as if that religious cere mony would raise him in the estimation of Frenchmen. The late meeting at Oxford to form a public cemetery in the neighourhood of the city, ex cites some sad reflections. 'There is . no fairer way of testing the truth of any set of religious opinions, than by examining their practical in fluence upon the every-day affairs of mankind. Those principles which when reduced to prac tice are found to be inimical to the common in terests of our species, may rightly enough be con sidered bad ; and, on the other hand, when the real substantial welfare of human beings is pro moted, we may be quite certain that there is no thing very unsound in the religious system by means of which this good has been achieved. Puseyism claims our homage, and the profes sors of the modern creed insist most pragmati cally upon the divine origin of what they in culcate; but if we decide upon the merits of the system by the conduct of those who preach it, we imagine we shall not be long in arriving at a very unfavourable opinion of what is presented to our notice. Oxford is the quarter whence these dogmas have arisen, and it is, therefore, well to direct our eyes thi ther occasionally for illustrations of the theolo gical system. The recent proceedings in reference to the establishment of a public cemetery at Oxford, supply us with some means of ascer taining the sentiments of the Tractariaa clergy, when a great public good is under consideration. The need of such accommodations as public cemeteries we take to be so evident that we shall not undertake to demonstrate it to our readers. The old system of allowing our dead to be buried in church-yards, placed in the most densely populated parts of our most densely populated towns and cities, for a long time escaped all attention, excited no fears, and, therefbre, met with no opposition. It was not even suspected that the noxious vapours emitted from putrid human bodies might exercise an in- 1 jurious influence upon the health of those resid ing in the neighbourhood of the church-yards wherein they were deposited. Fevers, malaria of various kinds, and the long train of disorders which it is now ascertained owe their existence purely to this cause, were then imputed to irresistible agencies, which human folly or human superstition had no hand in producing. Hence we went on in our absurd and most in sane habit of crowding charnel houses with the victims of our weakness, and they, in turn, con tributed to the prevalent evil. But now we are beginning to know better. Sad experience has taught us the folly and danger of going on piling dead bodies, as though they were merchandise, in the neighbourhood of our dwellings; and there appears to be a general desire abroad to reform what hitherto has been done .so shamefUlly amiss. At this crisis, however, the friends of im provement have an opponent to contend with—an opponent powerful, resolute, and energetic; and yet, strange to say that very opponent ought to be a most zealous and ef fective ally. The Church —the Establishment which has been called the Poor Man's Church— appears to be most determined in her opposition to the scheme for improving, by means of public cemeteries, the health of our population. And the party in the Church which has shown itself foremost in this array is the party which is called Puseyite. A t Oxford, on the occasion to which we have been referring, the Tractarian clergy mustered all their local influence, with the view of either crushing the scheme of forming a cemetery, or else of carrying out their project, by rendering it a cemetery for purely sectarian purposes. How little, how puerile, how paltry this interference with the sacred privileges of the dead! The grave has been re garded as the sanctuary from all the strifes and animosities which too much agitate us frail mor tals while passing through this brief 'and most perplexing scene. Why, then, convert it into a source for perpetuating what already, to a re flective mind, must appear far too enduring Surely, when we see a religious system int./A- I eating 9 iwch priaCipleS as this conduct evinces, we may well regard it with suspicion ; and hew ever much its professors plume themselves upon their honesty, simplicity, and devotion to truth, we may, without want of charity, exclaim, how contrary is such conduct to everything while Christianity enjoins ? ; THE SUN, LONDON, PRIPIPAY MORNING, JANUARY 12, 1844. of the Union lies our only c h ance o f sarvation." Such, we fear, will ere long; be the language generally held among the Ca tholics; and for this bitter feeling of animosity the Irish Executive will have none but them selves to thank. Having sown the wind, they must be prepared to reap the whirlwind. Having issued their challenge, they must look to have it answered. Having thrown down the gauntlet, they must expect to have it taken up. We said, from the very first mooting of the question, that the State prosecutions were a blunder, and we are now more con firmed than ever in our opinion. Let the trials go which way they will, the Government will equally be damaged. If the " conspirators" are convicted, the con viction will be regarded throughout Ireland as one that has been gained in defiance of justice, if not of law; if they be acquitted,' the legality of " monster-meetings" will be established, and Repeal will thereby acquire a tenfold moral in fluence over the minds of the community. Better—far better that Ministers had never interfered with these meetings. In process of time, when they had ceased to become a novelty, the press would have become weary of reporting their proceedings; the Association Rent would have diminished; and they would have died a natural death; but now—thanks to the blundering Irish Executive—fresh life has been infused into the Repeal question, and the State prosecution is a sort of starting-post, from which it will again set forth like " a giant refreshed," In prison or out of prison, Mr. O'CONNELL will henceforth be more powerful than he was even during the great moral struggle for Catholic Emancipation. A deputation from the Chester and Holyhead Railway Company, accompanied by some Directors of the London and Birmingham, and of the Grand Junction Railways, had, very re cently, an interview in Downing-street, with the Premier and Sir JA.MES GRAHAM, 011 business that must be deemed—more especially under existing circumstances—of the most grave im portance to the interests of the public service. We might. be_ justified in putting the affair on a still higher ground, viewing it in connexion with the present state of political excitement in Ire land; and say, that the subject of conference was one of vital bearing upon the welfare of the empire, for it was no other than a proposition, on the part of the Deputation and Directorh in question, that -the Government should "give them some assistance" in establish ing a railway from Chester to Holyhead. The vast importance of a rapid and certain commu nication between the two capitals of Londo and Dublin, via Holyhead, has been recognised and legislated upon by the Imperial Parliament dur ing a long succession of years. Indeed, ever since the period of the union, the completion and repairs and maintenance of this great road have formed the subject of a sort of Standing Com mittee's most anxious solicitude. Before the Ap plication of steam to locomotive power by land, it was employed in perfecting a sea packet com munication between Liverpool and Dublin, Dub lin and Holyhead, with great energy and success, both by the Government and by that spirited steam-boat proprietor, Mr. WILLIAms, the founder of the Packet Company, whose gigantic efforts in achieving this great service were, we fear, but ill-rewarded by the event. Consider able praise is due to the late Lord CONGILETON, also, for the extreme vigilance and assiduity with which, as Chairman of the Committee in question, he personally visited every part of the great Holyhead-road, and even superintended various improvements from time to time eßected at its southern or London extremity. Since then, it must be evident to every thinking man that reasons of the most irresistible character, some founded on apprehensions of resulting good, others on the contemplation of possible evil, have been suggested by the course of events for carrying into execution every available means of s'aorten ing the geographical distance, -and accelerating the passage of the mails, passengers, arid some kinds of goods, between the Imperial metropolis and the most important of our provincial cavitals. The rapidly expanding resources of Irela.)-Id, and the 1a ac lriyh am/English investments ern barked in their development, would, alone, hare esta blished_ adequate claims on the Government and Legislature ()Nile United Kingdom for th e devo tion of liberal grants, and the most active and enlightened supervision to the accot nplish ment of objects so desirable. But: the prmdial disturbances, and the mu a:icipal discontents of Ireland in late years, and espe cially the more recent and more menacing atti tude which has been lately assumed in: that portion of the United Kingdom, in refere n ce to the repeal question, have concurred to Ire nder this abridged and accelerated line of com n runi cation to connect Dublin with London, a con summation of primary, essential, and o. rr4anic necessity to the general well-being of the et t spire. Now, what was the nature, and wha t the amount, of the assistance which the Gc ern ment was moved, by the deputation we a Olude to, to grant towards this consummation ° We are assured by the Times, " that the irnms si liate question for consideration was understood t o be, whether Government would, for a given tern n of years, engage to pay any, and what sum, fox the conveyance of the mail by this new rah-, ray, beyond the ordinary charges of conveya Surely this was little enough to ask in 1-1 ter ence to the greatness of the end to be ac t om plished. But, adds our Contemporary, •.‘ we have reason to believe that no arrangement ' with regard to this important undertaking was TIT s de." And why? Was any principle involved i n the acquiescence of the Government in such quest, so important to the general manage E and prosperity of public works in this cou x 'try, that to have acceded to the wishes of the ( Is Imi tation would have been to compromise the still more important object of upholding that p e ple ? No. This pretence does not appear to nave been thought of. Even the hacknied plea o f all Administrations in this country, for their wt tit it of spirit or sagacity to appreciate propositions c a lcu lated to effect objects of the highest public u. ti lity, —namely, that all undertakings entered upon with a view to public accommodation cat pleasur yt are best left, in England, to private speculati o n, — does not appear, on this isolated occasion, to- have been thought of in Downing -street. Th .e no tions under which the First Lord of the Tr( 41 jury and the Secretary for the Home Departure a t re fused the assistance required, were, if our Con temporary's statement be correct, just wha t we wotild have ventured beforehand to predict w ould be set up. They are eminently characters: is of that small, pedling, crafty, bargain-dr it 'ing cunning which Sir JAMES GRAIIAM has throit gli out his public career mistaken for statesmansl tip; and that habitual prudery, wincing under - the contemplation of any departure from official / cedent, and always looking forward with nervous horror to being questioned is Pad. 'Dent for any acts which may damage, howe distantly, his political plausibility, that is -, most hopeless and, at the same time, the pitiable among the moral weaknesses of Sir ] BERT PEEL'S public deportment : It was considered on the part of the Government th .at any such arrangement would at present be premature, as th, ,t had been s c arcely time for drawing the public attention to the • Re ports of the naval officers emplosed by the Admiralty, r 6 S? that of Mr. Walker, the civil engineer, and for giving tr , I sarties generally who might be induced to undertake the con st, . uction of a railway communication from Chester to Holy! le ad, the opportunity of submitting to the Government any proposals they might have to offer. a re- lia ver the ost to Premature, forsooth, to contribute the r est and most efficient mean 3 for quickenin munications between Saint James's and th Regal Lodge at a tima like this With : Tompt g com- e Vice- enormous portion of the Irish publicasyo to be in avowed discontent with your C. ment, your policy, and their connecti• ;nth an u know iovern- the one and the other, will you await drawing of public attention to the of Mr. WALKER" —which object ma 3 as much time to accomplish a: WALKER'S repairs to Westminster-brid. already occupied? With State trials ing in Dublin, the event of which, in )n with ; " the reports r take i Mr. ;e have pend certain results, no - man can undertake to fbretel—with hourly onrces of political and popular irritation opening and welling afresh, all around your establishments, civil, judicial, and military in Ireland, will you talk of awaiting the determination of parties " who may be in duced" to . , undertake, or submit to Go vernn:ent their proposals for undertiking, the zonstruction of a work which you, the Govern ment, in a more provident and far-seeing dis charge of your duty, would long ago have ac. complished yourselves, or caused to be effected by others? Profound administrators of a "Con servative" policy, tray—thus to have hitherto neglected, thus now to huckster and tam per with, a measure of paramount, inde scribable exigency, for the interests of that public whom you affect to serve ! But per haps it may be attempted to justify this tardy and reluctant, this cold, sneering, discou raging entertainment of the proposition made— on the score of the expense to be incurred by giving effect to it being excessive and inordinate, as compared with the admitted value of the work when accomplished. Let us see how the facts stand. So far from this being the case, be it remem bered that the whole question was as to the Go -vernment's allowing a certain surplus allowance for the conveyance of the mails along the pro jected line. W• dismiss this proposition at once, not caring whether the,over-allowance was to have been 20, or 2,000 per cent. beyond the or dinary charge for such service on ordinary roads. We contend, for the reasons we have already assigned, that if any diffi culty is experienced in the immediate con struction of the work by private capital, the Go vernment should advance, say upon an issue of Exchequer bills, in the usual form "for Public Works" the whole of the expense. The length of the line would be but sixty miles. The saving of time, as Mr. WALKER has shown, on the whole communication between the extreme points of Dublin and London, would be nearly twenty-four hours! The total estimated expense would be 800,0004 or thereabouts. Let it be assumed at 1,000,0001. Will any Minister ven ture to get up in his place in the House of Com• mons, if challenged on this subject, arid attempt to justify the denial of such advances for an ob ject of this prodigious importance, on a plea of the danger of the precedent to be established ? Look at the advances already made for railway lines on the Irish side of the Channel. 'Why should similar assistance be withheld on this? Again, the National Gallery, the Park improve- , merits, the extension of other works which, though called public," are so ob sure as to be known to but very few indi viduals, have cost within the last three or four years, in various parts of the kingdom, double the amount required for this wise and necessary undertaking-.-to say nothing of Royal stables, and other objects merely appertaining to the ex- , ternal pomp and dignity of the Crown. We protest that we "cannot find a single ground of jus tification for the course adopted in this matter by Sir ROBERT PEEL and Sir JAMES GRAHAM. We have received Madrid papers of the 3d inst., and are not a little surprised to learn that the New Municipal Bill hardly excitesa murmur of discontent. The Political Chief of Madrid is actively employed in organising the mode of exe cution of the new laws. The majority of the members of the municipality submit, but seve ral have given in their resignations. It is not thought that that body has an idea of making any opposition to the new law; the meeting was rather for some regulation of the affair. It is also stated that the new laws have been well re ceived in the provinces. On the 2d, the Liberal electors of Madrid met for the purpose of select ing candidates on theirside at the elections which are to take place, in consequence of the vacan cies caused by the late appointments. The fol lowing names were unanimously agreed to : MM. ARGUELLES, OLOZAGA, SAN MIGUEL, CAN TERO, LUJAN, MIRALLES, SAGASTI, and ANGULO; and the candidates for the Senate, CALATRAVA, r zaTIVIALACARREGUI, and VALLEJO. The Impartial of Barcelona of the 2d inst. stags th.t ti,c commander of the castle of Figueras had capitulated on the following terms :. —" 1. The soldiers of the army and of the free corps are to serve eight years in the army; and the National Guards, after being disarmed, are to remain under the surveillance of the authori ties. 2. The chiefs are to re-enter the class of citizens. 3. The revolters possessed of property are to indemnify the individuals who have suffered material damage by the insurrection." On the Madrid B 4 231 foroursethe crib, Three and 241 p e r at6o y Cents. were the a at 2312 Five per Ce n t s . at 201 at 60 days, with premium. donel and premium. The ss papers are alm ost ent i re l y fill e d w i t h the debates P and Paris in the Chamb er o f P eers on the ad dl. e comments on th e var i ous top i cs on e a a t i s which it touches, and chiefly on the visit of the Duke of BORDEAUX to England. The Legitimist papers, of course, are furious against M. GUIZOT for describing the attentions paid to the Prince by Frenchmen as "revoltin g scan d a l s ." "M. Gr u ius e says the Quotidi enne, " yesterday esta bsterling value of th e R o y a li st p arry i by contending with tas lie did, an d b y revea li ng i zop t 7 le his system of conduct throughout Europe with relation to the Duke DE BORDEAUX. Vainly did M. GUIZOT attempt to attenuate the importance of this great party by cutting it into halves, making one-half wise men, and th e ot h er h a lf tools. The fools, itappears, are henceforth to play a prominent part in the Ministerial controversy. But let us leave M. GUIZ OT , t h e p hil osopher, to amuse himself with his own inventions. France knows very well what the Royalist party in the mass expresses . The Chamber of Peers would have been taught this yesterday if two men, ac customed to explain with the greatest authority to it the true Royalist ideas, had not been absent; one of them painfully kept away by illness, and the other cruelly pre-occupied by apprehensions which Gon, we hope, will dissipate. No, no ! Jere are no root: but in parties that will no look at anything passing around them, and will not be taught by the crises with which they are menaced. The fools are the Ministers, who dare to murmur threats of exceptional measures. Therefore let us render thanks to M. GUIZOT, for he has placed us in the most favourable posi tion for our defence, and for defending the country against the follies of the Ministry. This is a fine opening of the session. Having offered up our thanks to M. G IMO; let us do homage to Messrs. DE RICHELIEU and DE VERAC." The Journal des Debats gives unqualified praise to the address, and to M. GUIZOT'S speech, which it thus characterises :—" We shall not attempt to analyse the speech of the Minister of Foreign Affairs, for we should be afraid of weak ening the profound impression and irresistible ascendancy he gained over the Chamber. All that eloquence which the highest power of rea soning, inspired by the most noble and legiti mate passion, could be brought forth from a statesman defending the rights of his country, her greatest and best interests, both present and future, M. GUIZOT infused into his answer to the audacious manifesto proclaimed from the tri bune. We have been the first to say, and we repeat with the illustrious orator, that an importance beyond their deserts as suredly ought not to be attached to vain demon strations. Some allowances should be made for the well-known irreflection and incurable folly of the Carlist party. There has been as much frivolity as culpable attention in the small assem blage of gentlemen who have amused themselves by playing at royalty in a private house in Lon don. Thanks be to GOD, the scenes in Belgrave square have not placed the Revolution of July or its dynasty in any danger, but they have pro duced, repeating the words used by M. GUIZOT, an immense scandal." No doubt remained that the notation Bill had been given up, and it was currently reported also that there would be no discussion on the Right of Search question, as it would interfere with pending negotiations. On Tuesday the editor of the Gazette de France was tried at the Court of f* r ;v;;‘ , " ter-lw; 1 1 a "se7 l .itlol-, published some ten dais since, and was condemned to pay a fine of 6,000 francs, and be impriso..ed for two years. BOURSE—P - ARTS, TUESDAY, JAN. 9. First Highest Lowest Last P. Price. Pri. rice. French Five p er Cents. 124 rice ce P 30... 124 30... 124 25 .. 124 30 Threes Bank of France. 3215 ...3220 ...3215 ...3220 Laffitte Bank 5,000 f 5075 ...5075 ...5075 ...5075 Belgian Bank 697 50... 697 50 .. 697 50._ 697 50 1841 lOBO ...1080 ...1060 —lOBO Belgian Fives, 1840 lOBl ... 1081 los* ... 1081 1842 lO9 ... 109 ... 169 ... 109 Spanish Active ... 291 ... 291 ... 29i ... 291 Passive ...... 51 ... 5/ ... 51 ... 51 Neapolitan ....... 106 10... 106 50... 106 50... 106 50 ' , omen ...... ............ 1045 ... 1044 .. 1041, ... 104 k RAILWAY SHARES St. Germain 790 ... POO ... 790 800 Versailles, R.B 3lO ... 312 50.. 310 312 50 L. B 176 25... 177 50... 171 '25... 171 25 Rouen to Havre . €46 25... 655 ... 646 ... 655 Orleans. Mulhaksen to Thann 3BO ... 380 ... 380 380 Montpellier to Cette 375 ... 375 ... 375 ... 375 Strasburg to Bale Avignon to Marseilles 672 50... 672 50... 667 40... 667 50 RAILWAY SHARES, FOR THE ACCOUNT. Versailles, L.B 176 25... 176 50... 172 50... 172 50 Rouen to Havre , 650 ... 658 75... 650 .. 658 75 Orleans ....... . 830 ... 840 ... 830 ... 840 Strasburg to Bale 215 ... 215 ... 215 2:5 Avignon to MarseiUcs 672 50... 672 50... 667 50 .. 667 50 On Wednesday afternoon a very general rumour prevailed in Dublin, that the trials were abandoned, the grounds assigned for which were, that after the Recorder left Dublin and arrived at Drayton Manor, he discovered among his papers some sheets of the jury list, which contained the names of some of the Roman Catholics, about whose absence from the panel so much has been said and written during the last week. Wagers had been made that no trial will take place this term. We mention the rumour merely as having been current in Dublin, but attach not the slightest importance to it. AMERICAN NEWS LIVERPOOL, THURSDAY MORNING, The packet-ship Liverpool, Captain Eldridge, arrived in the river at a late hour last night, having left New York on the 21,t ult., making the passage in about twenty days. The dates by this arrival are five days later, the dates being by the last steamer to the 15th. The news seems to be of little importance. In Canada no new Ministry had been formed, but a Pro visional Committee had been appointed, composed of Mr. Daly (the Member who did not resign), Draper, Viger, and a few others, unknown in the political world, until a more permanent arrangement can be made. 51 rt ri '' ,4l lrl"' SI! Ati4 tts ir Pf; AND pubttr Optuton. " Who rains may read." FOREIGN. On Monday, at twelve, the King of the French pre sided at a Council of Ministers. On the preceding evening the following personages had the honour of dining with his Majesty:—The Neapolitan Ambassador, the Minister of Wurtemburg, the Count de Sercey, the Prince de San Severino, the Marquis de Brancaccio, the Marquis de Riario, the Duchess and lidlles. de Serra Capriola, the Count and Countess de Bondy, and Ge neral Schneider. The Address Committee of the Chamber of Deputies, on Monday, entered on the discussion of the paragraphs. It is said that one in favour of the Poles is to be intro duced, and a short one blaming such Deputies as have made the journey to London. M. de Bignon was chosen to be the reporter. The annual ball for the benefit of the Briti: h Chari table Fund will take pace at the commencement of February, under the patronage of his Excellency the British Ambassador and Lady Cowley. A lottery has been got up at Toulouse by the Vis countess Duchatel, with the object of raising a fund for putting an end to mendicity in that town. This has atfirded the Royal Family a fresh opportunity for dis playing its benevolence. The King has remitted 5001., and the Queen, the Duchesses of O r l eans an d N emours, and her Royal Highness Madame Adelaide have sent several prizes. The Minister of the Interior has also contributed 1,0001. to this good work. The Journal du Havre gives the following account of an English collier, lately arrived in the docks of Havre :--" This vessel, whose registered measurement is 318 tons, can carry upwards of 400 tons of coals ; she draws only 11 feet, English, and therefore can pass through all the channels of the Seine. She is built of iron, on such a plan as combines great capaciousness with delicacy of form, and a very low draught of water. She is called the Vulcan, and is gone to Rouen towed by the Hercule steamer." The Committee for the erection of the monument to the memory of Moliere assembled at the Hotel de Ville on Sunday, and decided that the inauguration shall take place on Monday next, the 15th inst., at twelve o'clock. Count Rainbuteau, the Prefect of the Seine, will preside at the ceremony, and will deliver the first oration. He will he followed in succession by M. Etienne, Director of the Academie Francaise, in the name of the Institute ; M. Samson, for the actors of the Theatre Francais ; and, last, by M. F. Arago, in behalf of the Committee. The Institute is a body, tie Municipal Council, and deputa tions from the Societies of Dramatic Authors and of Men of Letters will be present. This homage to the author of Tartuffe must give great umbrage to the clergy. The Ambassadors of the Great Powers having com plained to the Porte on the subject of the execution at Broussa, of a Christian who had abjured the Mahometan faith, after having embraced it, the Porte has replied that the execution had taken place by mistake. The Bey lek&chi who ordered it has been dismissed. PUBLIC OPINION. The Chronicle of yesterday remarks, in reference to the recent Anti-Corn-law League meetings :—" We perceive indications that our Essex and Lincoln men are not quite in the humour for fair-play and no favour.' Fear, is, of course, a very indiscriminating sensation, so that we must not particularly object to strong expressions on the part of the Essex and Lincoln protectionists. It is quite natural that they should utter wild exclamations about utter ruin to British agriculture—the infamous lies and malignity of the League—the atrocious conduct of Cobden, and other desperate characters. But we do object to British farmers and landowners degrad ing themselves from that yeomanly sell-respect which one expects to find within rural England. Die Judges say that the use of the knife now forms a conspicuous feature in our criminal calendar, and marks a fearful change in the manly spirit of the lower classes of our population. Are we to infer that Peel's assassination scene in the House of Commons, and the encouragement given to the wild, infamous, and absurd charges of the monomaniacal slanderer, Ferrand, are in dications of a fatal change in the character of the fine old English gentleman ?' At all events, a Mr. Chaplin, who acted as Chairman of the Lincolnshire agricultural meeting (at which Mr. Christopher, one of the Members for the county, was present), and who is described by the Post as a gentleman of high character and large for tune, did not scruple to throw out a hint that the next time Mr. Cobden visited them, the most effectual mode of silencing him would be to fling him into the river ! Fie, fie, Mr. Chaplin !" We take the following from the Advertiser :—" The Patriot, of Monday, contains the following announcement respecting the preliminary steps which are being taken for a Conference of Protestant Dissenters, with the view of taking into consideration the best means of making a grand permanent demonstration against religious esta blishments. We are happy tol learn,' says] our Con temporary, that the preliminary steps towards the for mation of the General Provisional Committee, on which it has been devolved to make arrangements for the Con ference of Protestant Dissenters, are proceeding in the most satisfactory manner. We have authority to state that, so far as answers have been received, the gen tlemen invited to become members of the Committee have, with very few excertiee i s.. _anr9r-trrl fh-c -non, and that in tho mopt .‘, r di a . terms. The majority of the few who have declined, have done so, not because they do not entirely approve of the proposed Conference and of its great object, but simply on account of other engagements, which would prevent them, as they think, from giving the subject of the Conference a due share of their attention. Those who assign this reason are gen tlemen, the bare mention of whose names would be sufficient to show that perfect religious liberty cannel beast of firmer or more determined advocates. A num ber of the answers have been accompanied with hand some remittances, and others with promises of pecuniary lielp."Phis is encouraging in the highest degree." The Morning Post says :—" This country is dema gue-ridden. Such men as Mr. O'Connell in Ireland, and Mr. Cobden in England, are allowed almost un bounded license in inflaming and misleading the popular mind ; while on the other side—that is, on the side of government and order—we have nothing but tameness, and an absurd trust in the pedantry of politics. While the demagogue is maddening the hearts and perverting the judgments of millions—while he is giving a political purpose to their passions, and turning the wildest folly into a kind of political reality by associating it with the desires and expectations of the clamorous multitude, the persons who ought to be the directors of the nation are directing nothing. They are constructing tariffs, and issuing commissions, and, perhaps, adoring in secret their own great abilities ; but they do nothing to meet the actual troubles of the times. It is not very clear what they could do, beyond taking vigorous measures for the suppression of the demagogues, and the falsehood and folly they disseminate, but for this they lack either the disposition or the courage." The Times thus justly comments on a recent cruel sporting case of a trotting -match against time :—" The exploit which was hit upon in the present case was to drive an unfortunate little pony from Bedford to Lon don, and back again, in one day, and then back to Lon don again on the following morning. The distance, 150 miles, was to be performed within the time kept by the Bedford coach, which travels at the rate of 12 miles an hour. The poor little animal, as might have been expected, died under the trial. Could riot the authorities' of that community which is known as the sporting world' devise some system ofsupervision which should prevent the occur rence of such disgraceful exhibitions as this ? A member of any ordinary trade or profession, if detected in prac tices not within the fair rules of the body to which he belongs, is forthwith either expelled, or subjected to the summary displeasure of the rest of his fraternity, in a manner which is never found to fail. Could not this Bedford pony-driver be made the example of a similar system ? There is honour, it is said, even among thieves ; and the blacklegs of the racecourse submit to forego the indulgence of the full measure of knavery and swindling, and to be put under a code of laws of their own, in order to save society the scandal, and themselves the loss, which would probably ensue from unbridled license." LAW AND POLICE. The political principles of the new Government w probably coincide with those entertained by the late members. By the arrival, at New Orleans, of the brig Del find, intelligence had been received that the Congress at Merida, adjourned on the 17th November, and that on the 19th Governor Mendez assumed the reins of government. The acting Governor, D. Miguel Barbachano, issued a valedictory address, in which he urged the people to accept the proposals male by the Mexican Government, for a re -establishment of peace. The French brig of war GrifFon was detained at the port of Campeachy, and it was thought the Yucatan Commissioners would probably go in her on her way to Vera Cruz. It was believ ed. that a treaty would soon be ratified on terms similar to those offered last August, by Tornel, the .Mexictan Minister of War. Captain Coleman, of the schooner Manson, at Holmes' Hole, from Savanilla, informs the corres pondent of the Merchants' Exchange, Boston, that five days before he sailed the Go vernor was assassi nated at Santa Martha, by a gang of ruffians, supposed to have landed from some vessel ft 'om South America, In Congress, at Washington, on the 18th inst., a movement was made simultanec , usly in the Senate and the House of Representatives on the present Tariff Act. A resolution was introduced, calling on the Committee of Ways and AtE , ans to report as to the expediency of bringing in z. Bill to repeal the existing tariff, and to bring in a Bill establishing r. twenty per cent. 'ad valorem ditty -, with discrimina tions only for the purpose of rev( nue. It was nega tived, the votes being 77 to 111. The New York papers annoulici) the death of Smith Thompson, Judge of the Stnrceme Court of the T-7 I[3l.ra COMMERCIAL NE WS.—STATE OF TRADE. NEW Yonx, DEC. 20, P.it.—Tht T e is very little doing in any article of trade. Cotton is more tc.tive than anything else. AslsEs.—We quote Pots at $4 56i,. and Pearls at $5 06i a $5 121. Both kinds very dull. HAY.—Sales of North River bale it 43 a 45 cents. The re ceipts are small, and a fair demand exists. Country sells as wanted at 65 a 75 cents. PROVISIONS.—Our quotation; and' 'remarks of yesterday will still apply to the present state of the market—not the slightest change perceptihle. WHISKEY.—Drudge is still held tat 23 cents. Barrels are very dull at 24} cents. Fr.oua AND Gitarx.—Articles in. this line are without any actual change, although prices ha sr.! an inclination down ward. Genesee cannot be quoted at 'over 4 dole. 62i cents. a 4 dole. 6M cents. COTTON.—The transactions to-ilmy amount to about 1,500 bales. In some cases a small adva ac e has been paid on the rates of yesterday. Holders are quite stiff, and the amount on sale is small. Both buye rs an d se ll er s are an xi o u s ly awaiting the arival of the steamer Hibernia. SALES AT THE NEW YORK STOOK EXCHANGE, DEC. 20. /115,000 U. S. s's, 1862... 5,000 N. Y. City s's, '7O 14,090 Ohio 6's, '6O ..••• opg 103 20.000 Kentucky 6's ........... 5,000 Penn's s's.. '..107i, ~. 69; 5,000 spcl bds... 5,000 Indiana Bonds ... 1,000 Alabama s's 5,000 Tenn. s's _ _ • 45 30 Atlantic Bank, Brook'n 50 Me and Tra's Bank, N 25 Illinois Bank .. 7 Kentucky Bank 25 N Am Trust Company....• 25 Vicksbing Bank 25 Manhattan Gas Company' 100 Farmers' Trust Company 95 33 COWES, ISLE OF WIGHT. (FROM Of a COMM STONDENT.) THE OLD 2 UNS OUT.---110w Alen have we been told by old gentlemen and elderly Is dies, that a long and se vere winter always followed a quantity of wild berries — that a large crop of haws was a bitter sight for the poor, yet who ever saw them so plentiCal as this season, one of the mildest ever. known. Our vv,,ods and lawns are em bellished wits white thorn trees ; our hedges are com posed of them and privet, and new, in the middle of Ja nuary, they are covered with haws and privet-berries. The meado s are as green as in May, and wild and garden flowers are as plentiful. To see an apple tree bloom out of season is unnatural, a freak of nature on a s mall scale, but it is of too trifling a nature to require a remark, when compared with a whole country. Were all the trees in only one orchard to break blossom at C hristmas it would be worth mentioning, but it would tl ten not be equal to the unusual appearance of the fields nd gardens at present. The thermometer is at 57, and tile barometer, 30.10. The Marquis and Marchioness of Sligo and family are expected to leave Cowes about the 16th inst., for No. 2, lansfield-street. His Lordship's health has been much 'benefited by his residence in the Isle of Wight. He *rides oat now twice every day. Ills Lordship proposes Ireturning to Cowes for the summer in May next. A middle-aged woman, named Charlotte Scott, was charged at Bow-street, with forging the name of Anne Lee, alias Brien, a depositor in- the Savings'-bank, Charing-cross, with intent to defraud the managers and directors of the institution. She was remanded. John Mullins, butler to the Hon. Mr. Murray, of Rut land-gate, -was charged, at Marlborough-street, eith having robbed his former master, Mr. Keate, surgeon, of Albemarle-street, of a considerable quantity of property. He was remanded for a week. Eliza Mary Jones was committed for trial, from Union hall, for stealing a child four months old, belonging to a man named Hellers, Walserley-street, Hackney-road. This being the first_ day of Term, the Courts were opened in the usual manner. coURT—FASHIONABLE. The Duke of Bordeaux and suite left town on Wed nesday at seven in the morning. _His Royal Highness, it is said, is about to make a tour in Wales, but probably he has some other object in view. Her Majesty the Queen Dowager continues in the en joyment of good health, and is expected shortly to return to Marlborough House for the season. The Earl and Countess of Ducie, and Lord Moreton arrived at Farrance's Hotel, Belgrave-street, on T ues d ay ' evening, from Rufford Hall. Brighton is very full of fashionable company, and will be enlivened during the month with no less than four grand halls, under the patronage of the Duchess of So merset, the Marchioness of Aileslatry, the Marchioness of Thornond, Countess of Abingdon, the Countess of Airlie, the Ddwager Countess of posse, the Countess of Grenville, Lady Hotham, Lady Rabett, Lady Petre, Lady Falknrr, Lady Lady Twysden, Lady Lawlev, Lady Easthope, -Sue UNLOVED ONE. —We are requested to state eats, Lady twit), L ady Westphal, K 0 ,e , a.t the new novel, entitled " The Unloved One," by Lady Strange, &e. The Turkish Ambassador and suite M rs. Hofland, is published this day by Mr. Colburn, of are The among i the latest arrivals of distinction. Gveat Marlborough-street, and may now be had at all i n chess of Cambridge, it is said, will visit the , Libraries. Mr. Colburn has also just published the Brighton a few days. follceving new works of fiction:-1. Whitefriars ; or, The Days of Charles the Second, an historical romance,MICTLL.EINEOU.S. 3 rc l Is. 2. The Brothers, by the author of " Oliver A correspond ent of the Post, in reference to the elec- Cruhnwell," &c., 3 vols. 3. The Perils of Beauty, by tiot) of Grand Master of the Society of Freemasons, Captain Chamier, 3 vols. 4. Jessie Phillipe by Mrs. says,—" Lord Salisbury not retired from Masonry. TAillope, 3 vols. 5. The Lost Ship, a Ronance of the Nu brother can cease to he a Mason. The Noble Mar- Oetean, by the author of " Cavendish ' &c., 3 vols. I clmis has solely resigned the offices in Masonry he held u 6. :Handley Cross, a sporting novel, by the author of under the p resent P ro -G rand . Master, the Earl of Zet 4. ,T orroc k 's Jaunts and Jollities," 3 voh; and 7. Wi n d sor land." This does not look like brotherly conduct. Grille, an historical romance, by W. H. Ainsworth, A convict named Cowle, sentenced to transportation Esq. ; new edition, complete in vol., with 110 illus in the sp r i ng o f l ast year, an d trans f rred to Pentonville, : has lately be!eme insane, and has been sent by an t.rder from the Horne -office trebtions by Gt orge Cruikshank, ec.. price 14 s. bound. to the Government department of Torts.—The first toll we cad of in England for • Bedlam. =tailing the highways, was Lowed in the reign of Edward the Third, and was for repairig the road betwixt Sc. Giles's üblished th e i r re Tho Council of the Pharmaceutical Society have just and Temple-bar. , pgulations for the examination and re• I THE REPEAL OF THE UNION. TO WILLIAM DUDLEY, ESQ., ALEXANDRIA, WEXFOED. Dear Sir,— I quite differ from you in opinion respecting TRepeal, which I do not believe is worth one rush to Ireland. 'The only change of that nature which would be useful, would be four subordinate Parliaments in Ireland, seven in England, and two in Scotland, for the purpose of relieving the Imperial P arliament from the trumpery masses of subordinate legisla tion, with which Parliament is overwhelmed. Ireland is, I know, grievously oppressed, but certainly not one jot more th ;n England. The fault, I fear, lies more in the people the mselves than in their governors. What Ireland really we; uts, is to have her currency trebled in amount, and issuing fro n ss thousand centres, in loans and accommodations, to inch astrious families, having the will to borrow it, in sums of frog a 2/. or 1/. to sums of 1,0001. or 2,0001. each. The em plc); ment of such sums would be found safe and profitable, in all branches of industry, as soon as such increased issues should have had time to produce what are called " remune. rating prices." :rif I were Minister, I would not only open the flood-gates of paper money from a thousand centres in Ireland, but I wot ld at once literally give away five millions sterling in food, clot, ping, and furniture, to a million of the poorest families in Irel and. This gift alone would of itself produce an extra con sum Mien and production, of perhaps 20 or 40 millions of the fleet !ssaries of life in Ireland in the first year. I am, dear Sir, your's truly, Birmingham, 20th Nov., 1843. T. ATTWOOD. gistration of members, assoria.tes, and at - Tr - cm tierS. , ia,ter beir 44 &ci et •• !_ •; •, •'''' sistants, whilst the higher examination qualifiety`n diploma of the Society. Th e m i nor examin 3 t' ° ore bracts an inquiry int o t h e e l ementar y principles naitry, matcri a JriNica, practical pharmacy, P li, "„ lo i s oi Frvscriptions,,..afikAbe antidotes for common P" b i and the, toaj4r 'O:Mt/nation embr ace s the same 11 ' only +mi 'a more extended scale. Tht. , first meeting of the members of the So i ci e e t Y Arts, for the present year, was held nn Wednesc' s ,Y d - e ; ) ing at the theatre of the institution, John-street , A„, Dr. Itoget, V.P., in the chair. Mr. 1- ", 5 ,, the secr e tary, read an interesting paper on the 9p, the of cleaning the streets of the metropolis, justly CO b ing that in a sanatory point of view it was o f t importance. Other papers were read by Mr' Cry and Mr. Thompson. The churchwardens of the parish of St. Georeb, Middlesex, have di , :trairied the goods of several o c t p, h bitatnts for church-rates. From the p re mises (4 75' Crook, 3S;Cannon-street-road, f or a rate of "' cloak and cape, valued at 22.5. 6d., has been sei vu; from Mr. Charles Bower's, of 18, Cannon-str eet ' a cloak and cape, f or a rate of is. B d ., va l ue d er : 23l other seizures have also been made. &lONE It r AND COMMERCIAL NEB V -v-OP CITY. THURSDAY +- 1 The English Stocks leave off a shade lower thi s ., noon, Consols being 961 to 4. The heavy inV esfr " however, were not so much affected. F ig Spanish Bonds also receded a little, the Cents. being at 21i to ',I; and the Five per Cents. , The Deferred were at 12 to Mexican we r e y I hitch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. realised 51 1 Danish were 86. The additional transactions in Railway Shar k el l been these :—Easte r n C ount i es S cr i p we re 41 Brighton Loan Notes, 11 1; Birmingham, 138 ' tl d ditto Quarter, 26; Lancaster and Carlisle, 1 tO I; Midland Thirds, 28/ ; Paris and Orleatt, 12 k i p and Rouen, 12; Rouen and H avre, 11 ; and West6ni First Class Preferred, 3} to prem. Eastern were 121 ; Brighton, 6i ; Bl ac k wa ll , 1 ; an d wich, 7ft discount. Colonial Bank Shares lt! e 6 discount. London Joint Stock, 21 ; and 1 . 411 Australia, 14 to 22 premium. The accounts from America to Dec. 21, do no t si r any important intelli gence upon t h e su bj ec t of b u ss which appears to h ave b een d u ll , t h e wea ther been unsettled. Th e caut i on man i feste d h e re I rashly investing in American State Stocks, to 14: less also the philippi cs o f t h e R ev. Sydney SMI" had the effect of cooling down the ardour of the t o Atlantic speculators, and we find that less wa g and that prices were tending downwards. (From The Sun of Last Night.) In the Liverpool Market yesterday a large business, It in Cotton. a n d pr i ces were fi rm l y supported. ,„te„°;1104 bales on spe cu l at i.. n , an d a l toget h er 8,000 bales . —'"rosri the Shar e M ar k e t were on l y moderate. Easter n 10 3-16; Grand Junction. 232; Birmingham, ; 45• Eastnn. 353 ; Do. New, 35i ; Paris and Lyons, 31 Do. and Orleans, 3t. There were no arrivals in the City of importance' from the British colonies or from the Continent, to-dali t ber It would appear from th e R eport ma d e yesterday °ertilicsl4l fairsof the Louden Joint Stock Bank, that the cone, withstanding the l ow ra t e o f i nterest t h at h as ru l e d for r' f time past, is working w e ll. A di v id en d at the rat e r ° ol cent was declared. As thi s R e p or t appears i n a nethe 6 0 11 1 of The Sun, it is not necessary to advert to its si , se i, here, further th an t o o b serve t h at t h e sY Joint-Stock Banking is fostered in the City °cad', malgre all the denunciati ons o f th e supporters of tt e bankin g interests. when it was fir s t i ntro d uce d to t':, B ' t r polls by the London and West m i ns t er B an k Plan a r Gilbert. Among the indications of an augmentatina art h trade of th e port o f L on d on, i t may be yr) tice, that b ot h i n the S t. Katherine ' s and the dr Docks, additi ona l b ert h s and warehouses for shipping M+ are in cour se o f f ormat i on. There is a good demo' o f tish manufactures for exportation, and the nuraheror taking in cargoes in the River Thames shows a 'serf able increase on the list at this time last year. The private advices received this morning from state that the manufacturers o f th at country w ere 11e 'Y over-stocked with fabrics suitable f or exportat i on , the 184 principle of production being too g enera l. It i s to d hended that the same results will be exhibited lamed I, manufacturers (a revival of trade having occurred), It o caution be observed. The Commisioners for the Redu c tion o f th e Debt P l'ais sri purchases in Consols, this morning, at 97, taking i e „ r e l 4 the same amount a s they did y es t er d a y, b u t o f Exe1440,1 11 „4 they have not yet taken a n y i n t o th e i r h an d s . The n i ne r,J Stock has worn this morning a more buoyant aPps , : s than it did yesterday. Consols for Money have f r o from 96 3 / 4 to 97, and for the Account to 97, t a ke n c ot are now again lower. A move in advance has ~; , b in the New Three-and-a-Half per Cents., w", - e 0 1 0 :0 reached 102, and the Reduced Three-and-a-Half to , t 1 102%. The purchase yesterday, on account of an sPoriP t v of 100,000/. in these Securities has certainly added the firmness of prices, and to increase a feeling advef to tv reported reduction of the i n t eres t o f th ose ;Smoke per cent. Bank Stock has re m ai ne d a t 1864 ; and +.'• at 273. • beeo So large a remitta-ce as 72,000 dollars having .00 ceived by the Clyde, West Indi a s t eamer , h as verS In t otl ably enhanced the hopes and expectati ons of the h o er Mexican Bonds. It is in fact a most satisfactory , ; 40 4 1 find that Chili and Mexico show a strong detertn';;( o ; uphold their credit new. True it is th a t many yearshtstel when the interest upon the debts of each ; o p paid, but as s oon as poss ibl e t h ese S tates h av e en • f 1 liquidating. Wo u ld th a t t h e " rent nliatini" S" tfttn tj t t% + ..now so goo d, en d re s v i example. Tie price of M e xi can B on d s h as b een very tae morning at 324 to 324; Spani s h B on d s are he,T Three per Cents, at 21%, and the A ct i ve s a t 2 1 r0.0 7 slight change has taken place in Dutch Stock. ili a% remain at 754. the '614 : A further call of 10/. a share is quoted in - Western Railway Shares, and the premium is now Pyre share. The Half-Shares have receded to P yrei f , Eastern Counties are a shade lower than the day he,""for si f terday, notwithstanding the Report of th e Directors n it 1 , able. The London and Birmi ng h am Sha r es are orernium. Manchester and Leeds Shar e s are wort h "„ A d mium. The French Railway s comman d a goo d 0 1 . 004 tralian Bank Shares are at a I premium. Colonh s b e se. , 14 discount; and Union of London at piemium Per , la AN. gb MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE .) AN. Share Market has been very quiet to-day, wit h och r : downward tendoley -prices. Sheffield and lu„'" ter, 541 ; Paris and Lyon s , 3 3-16 ; Eastern Dl<¢ ter lok to 11; Dublin and Drogheda, 54 to 54 2 J ter and Birmingham. 372 to 30. CLOSING PRICES. BRITISH F i UNDS, R Stock 1864 India Stock ......... ..• 3 par Cent. Red. Cent. Cons. 964. Ditto Old Annuities... 3i oil- Cent. Red ... 1024 Ditto New A n nuities••• os 9; _yew 34 per Cent.... 1014 ;Ex. Bills, 1,0001. li d ' 69t d per Cep: — Ditto 500 L -• • 66r Luau, Annuities to expire Jan. 1860 i!, t. 1859 Ditto Small .... Bank Stock for Met' India Stock for •"' s'6o Jan 18-60- FOREIG ..4,trian, 5 per cent... ;3elgian, 5 per cent 4razilian Bondi . ...nws Ayres 6. per cent. Cnilian, 6 per cent Ut.ombian, 6 per cent — :litto 1824 Consols for Opg. FUNDS. Portuguese, 5 per Cel l.- Ditto New Ditto .....••'' Prussian, 5 per cent..•" .00 Russian, 5 per cent..•"' Ditto, Metallic ...... . ..... Spanish, 5 per cent ..•'' Ditto, 3 per, cent.... .... 14 13ondi, 6 per cent. >twist., 3 per .!ent B6 Greek, 1825, 5 per cent — >lexical', 5 per cent. 6 per cent. 1837 +'er•lvian. 1825,6 perct. Ditto lieferred.... French, 5 per cent• f to. Exchange.......... French, 3 per cent. 5 , 1 Dutch, 2i per cent' it p i Ditto, 5 per cent.... SHARES, —. 101 Eastern Counties (23 paid) Ditto Scrip (81 6s 8d paid) - London and• Brighton (50 pa d) ~. lls 4 Ditto Loan Notes (10 paid) ... „ ..... London and Blackwall (161 13s 4d paid) London and Birmingham (100 p a id)........ * 2 6 Ditto New Quarter Shares ( 2 paid) b London and Greenwich Railway , (12115 s 4dpd) e i . Lancaster and Carlisle (5 paid) ,.. North Midland (100 paid) - • Ditto Thirds (211. 13 s . 4d. paid) ' 30i gi Paris and Orl e a ns (20 p a id) .. Paris and Roue n (20 paid) ... . ... . 32. .......... Rouen and Havre ( 6 paid) .... West London, Old Shares (20 paid) .... „.,,,,, - - ' 3 ',-, Ditto First Class Preferred (10 paid.. 1,4 York and Scarboro' Branch (2i p a id) . .I‘° SPORTING INTELLIGENC TATTERSALL'S—YESTERDAY. ith thee The quotations, with scarcely an exception, agree lg oide r returned on Monday ; in fact, there was so decided L ie s of layers in a very sma ll company, t h at b usiness was 51'"6101 th stand-still. We subjoin the prices of the horses honour a notice ERBY. 10 to 1 ag s t C o l one l P e l's lot—take 12 to 1 1„1 to:) 13 to 2 ag s t M r . J o h n D ay ' s The Ugly Buch-- 311 h, 15 to 2 a gs t M r . C roc kf ord ' s Rattan—te'ten to 6 0 afterwards offered 16 to 1 agst Mr. Quin's Loadatone--tUen tO 20 to 1 agst Lord Maidstone's Cockarnaroo--tokell ti 30 to 1 agst Mr. A. Wood's Running Rein—takie n 30 to I a gs t M r . Lichtwald's Leander—take 3 3 "'mg, I 40 to 1 agst Mr. Bowes's Saddie Bow—taken to at° 40 to I ag s t M r . J. O s b orne ' s M ount Charles--ta.".„A 5 1 ' Mr. Osbaldeston's Monk of Dree (in the Derbf ;1;0 1 .: Leger), and f by Camel, out of Elizabeth (in the o . V,ts j ost' Leger) arr i ve d i n town yesterday en route for "' stables at-Newmarket. the Mr. Maher, whose death we announced a few — 4o 4 ' was not the nominator of the two horses named for Derby. , ' TIIE MEETING OF PAREIAMENT..--.-The 3 ., ° '' bei l circular h as b een a dd resse d to t h e Conservat ive 2 ri: 6 44' of the House of Conimons:—" Whitehall, JIM :''' 'l,, f ; ' Sir,—A s upon the meeting of Parliament, on :" 111P orii e h the Ist of February, public business of impol . 0 . 14 ,, 0 , ,. be proceeded with immediately, I take the libbkre of earnestly requesting your attendance in 'J ti b °- ,.61C' Commons on that day.—l have the horiotf t° E 1 t your obedient and faithful servant, RoBEPO l' i ii - b r 1 . 1). SOCIETY OF ARTS.—Wednesday, th- Th el - t , e : o ' this society met for the first time during the pre see a;:sc' e# Dr. Roget, V.P., F R. S., presiding. Mr. Vis.habct `". flit tary, read a paper on the subject of the new street "'Y.:, machines now employed under contract with the C003 ,11 ;410 of her Majesty's Woods and Forests, in Regent-street, two by the City authorities ; describing their mechanical al Ty" , together with the efficiency of their operation. Air. Ct 44t# President of the Practical Association for Improved tit. paving, laid before the meeting a Oa:l for eraplaYiPg, 0' able-bodied poor of the met ro p o li s by means of regularq 1 : t o sing the streets—a subject to w hi c h h e h a d d raw n the aft tpf of the Lord Mayor. The reading of two other paper'' subject of a newly invented fire-escape and a proposed 'IP R 1), woolen railways ( a t r i a l li ne of which now exists at Yalta concluded the business of the evening. . , 5 NoTTI NG 11 AM C OUNTY G AOL —Since the con pc,, escaped from this uaol, Capt. Williams, one of the Gover,li.ew. Inspectors of Prisons, has for several days been engaged._. 14, This gaol (a confined me) was never considered very 7 l_te let e Hopes ate entertained that the other escaped felons la long be taken ; the most active look-out being kept v xperienced town polite. . 111M.....1111 DUB the Cr( the Re wanes: , monses Dublin behalf ( eluded exarnin duce ej Which public. witness of a cha Upon. The 1 -Influent repealer tune in political retireme special j have rai been asc several c never ha et in a movemel this grot Rendric tholic sp any conr Amon the ni g h Thomas gan g of bishop s I be weetii The " Cork letter, vv fluential men in C excited have ha( women ing on hi 4 t* Cork, liament v a ive ex pr Parties w m ill thro ghoi after the each will t he Cove] her Maio; C atholic ( I NCRE 1 3I UT w e (Lii Of ratilian the treat' sal eigatit; rkie, whit: the n arsit au tao ßrizili de .311 that tht ill:"oathe - sa me da The folio, erei Ai n ' l ean ti Bt ee ;s sheet! 4 Eng :41, all 1, 41 1 : 4 13a5, chiltTs' silk o t t r h e4 ll : B ittlei"l ;"3rbikh es ' ate to 11141 ::r ns Po t°4 l na for Pic~itt°, e l 4 et - 601 0