The Sun. — London, England, 1844-01-29 00:00:00

THE NEXT DISTRIBUTION of MONEY DIVIDENDS, AUTriORISED and GUARANTEED by HIS MAJESTY the EMPEROR of AUSTRIA, contains MONEY DIVIDENDS of £5O £6O £7O £BO £9O £lOO £llO £l2O £l5O £2OO £4OO £6OO £l3OO £l,OOO £1,500 , £5,000 and £23,ooosterling. Amounting together to £70,170 sterling. Direct for-PROSPECTUS with full particulars, WITH. OUT DELAY, to HEINE BROTHERS, at HAMBURGH, Or. to HEINE BROTHERS, at LUBECK. ' THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. THIS EVENING, JANUARY 29, Will be performed Shakspeare's Play (as altered by Cibber) of RICHARD 111. Richard, Duke of Gloster, Mr. Charles Kean • Duke of Buckingham, Mr. Cooper; Duke of Norfolk, Mr. O. Horncastle; Earl of Richmond, Mr. Hudson - Elizabeth, Mrs. Warner ; Duchess of York, Mrs. Selby; Lady Anne, Mrs. Stirling. After which, will he repeated a New Grand Comic Christmas Pantomime. entitled HARLEQUIN AND KING PEPIN . ,• or, VALENTINE AND ORSON. Harlequin, Mr. Howell; Colum bine, Mist Carson; Clown, Mr. T. Ridgway ; Pantaloon, Mr. Blanchard. Dress Boxes 75., Second Price 3s. 6d. ; Upper Circles of ,Boxes Second Price 3s. • Pit 38 , Second Price 25.; Middle ( ' altcry 25., Second Price ls. ;' Upper Gallery Is., Second Price 6d. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT.GA,RDEN. M. JULLIEN'S CONCERT THIS EVENING, JANUARY 1. , 9„ PROGRAMME FOR THIS EVENING—PART I. Overture, Preciosa—Weber. But% Quadrille, on Airs by Mr. John Parry—Jullien. Beethoven's Sinfonia in A, the Andante Movement. Valse, Le Bouquet Royal—Jullien. Duo, Cornet-a-Piston and Ophicleide, by Herr Kcenig and M. Pros pore—Rossini. Tha English Quadrille—Jullien. PART IL First Movement of the (rand Symphony—Roth Albert. Solo, Flute, Mr. Richardson. New Quadrille, The Irish Echoes—Jullien. Valse, Bird of Pwadise, roceived with the greatest favour at the Nobility's Balls—Koenig. Burletta Quadrille, entitled Dancing for the Million—Jullien. Doors Open at ' Halt.past Seven, commence at Eight o'Clock. Promenade, Is , Upper Boxes, Is.; Dress Circle, 2s. dd. ; Private Boxes, I& Is. Tickets to be obtained at the Box-office of the Theatre; of Mr. Mitchell, old Bond-street; Mr. Andrews, New Bond-stret ; Mr. Sams, St. James's-street; and M. Jullien's Office, 3, Maddox-street, Bond-street. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN. M. JULLIEN'S CONCERT& MASTER THIRLWALL'S BENEFIT. TO-MORROW EVENING, TUESDAY, JANUARY SO. Mr. THIRLWALL begs leave most respectfully to announce that the CONCERT TO-MORROW EVENING will be for the BENEFIT of hia SON, MASTER THIRLWALLosho, though only Eleven Years of Age, has been pronounced by the Musical Profession in general to be a Performer of most extraordinary and precocious Talent. The Programme for To-morrow will embrace M. Jullien's Popular Music, and in addition Master Thirlwall will play a Ne w So lo, and els) thei First Violin Part of a Quartette by Mozart, &c., &c. Commence at Eight, and terminate before Eleven. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. MR. BENJAMIN WEBSTER, LESSER THIS EVENING, JANUARY 29, Will be repeated the Comedy of THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR. Str John Falstaff, Mr. Strickland; Master Slender, Mr. C. Mathews ; Mr. Ford, Mr. Stuart ; Mr. Page, Mr. Howe; Fenton, Mr. Caulfield; Sir Hugh Evans, Mr. Webster • Mrs. Page, Madame Vestris ; Mrs. Ford, Mrs. Nisbett; Mrs. Q uickly, Mrs. Clover; Anne Page, Miss Mattley. In the course of the Evening Mr. John Parry will sing " The Accomplished Young Lady." To conclude with a New hairy Extravaganza, entitled THE FAIR ONZ WITH THE GOLDEN LOCKS! King Lachrymoso, Mr. J. Bland; Prince Graceful, Miss P. Horton ; Queen Lucidorz, Miss Julia Bennett. _ _ Orchestra Stalls, Ss. ; Boxes, ss. ; Pit, Ps. ; Gallery, 25.; Upper Gallery, Is. Half.price —Boxes, 3s. ; Pit, 25.; Gallery, Is. ; Upper Gallery, 6d. Doors opened at Half-past Six, and the l'erformances commence at Seven. Tickets and Places to be had of Mr I. T. Archer, at the Box— office, from Ten till Five. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. The Best Pantomime of the Season—Gorgeous Scenery, THIS EVENING, JANUARY 29, Will be produced a New Play, in Three Acts, entitled JUDITH OF GENEVA. Principal Characters—Messrs. Lyon, Wright, 0. Smith, Miss Chaplin, and Mrs. Yates. To conclude with the Grand Christmas Pantomime, called HAR LEQUIN BLUE BEARD; or, The Fairy of the Silver Crescent. Proaticed with Enormous Splendour and Wohderful I.:fleets! Columbine, Miss Rune,' ; Harlequin Quicksilver, by the inimitable Wieland; Clown, by the Grimaldi of the day, Mr. T. Matthews, from the Theatres Royal, Covent-garden and Drury.lane; Panta. loon, Mr. Johnstone. _ _ . Bezes, 4s. Yit, 2s. ; Gallery. Is. ; Second price at Nine. Doors open at Six, commences at a Quarter before Seven o'Clock. PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. LESSEE, Mr. J. M. MADDOX. THIS EVENING, JANUARY 2A, Will be repeated th 3 Grand Opera of the MAID OF JUDAH. Ivanhoe, Mr. Wood; Friar Tuck, Mr. Paul Bedford; Rebecca, Mrs. Wood. . To conclude with the New Musical Burlesque Spectacle, entitled THE MAGIC MIRROR. Sing. Song, Mrs. H. P. tiratte; Poo. ?co, Mr. Paul Bodtord ; Sloe-Leal, Miss I t . Isaacs. • ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE OF ARTS. Under the Management of Mr. Ratty, Proprietor. Triumphant Success of the Equestrian Novelties and Pantomime. The succession of crowded houses and increased demands for Places at the Box-ollee, compels the Proprietor to announce that this Popular Establishment will remain Open a few Nights longer; and, by si ecial desire. and in concurrence with the wishes of Astley's Patrons, according to annual custom, for a series of British National Fetes, peurtraying the Victories of England's Hero— Wellington, with all its Military Effects, New Dresses Scenery, and Appointments, THIS EVENING, JANUARY '9 Will be perfarmed the Grand National Spectacle of THE BATTLE OF WATERLOO. Napoleon Buonaprte, Mr. Gomersal, his ori ginal character New Scenes in the Circle, and Uhequalled Feats of Horsemanship. To conclude with the Pantomime of HARLEQUIN TAM O'S H A NTEIL Acting and Stage Manager, Mr. W. D. Broadfoot. Stalls. 55.; Boxes, 45.; Upper Boxes, 35.; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, Is.; Upper Gallery, d. Box-ottice open daily from Ten till Four. Stags Boxes, One Clain: a ; Half.priee to Ditto, Halt-a-Guinea. Private Boxes, Two Guineas; Half-price to Ditto, One Guinea. Half-price, Halt-past Eight. DATIDOE'S ROYAL SURREY THEAI RE. Enormous hit of " Stella Rittersclorr—more crowded than ever— Increased attraction of the best Pantomime in London, overflow ing with fun. THIS EVENING, JANUARY 99, Will be repeated a New Drama, entitled STELLA BITTERS DORF. Sup; otted by Messrs. Saville, Hughes, Hicks, R. Honner , Neville, Vale, Smith, Johnson, Lewis, estop, Mrs. R. Honner, Mrs. Daly. Mrs. Hughes, Miss Terrey, and Mrs. H. Vining. Aft( r which an entirely new (=rand Comic Pantomime, with Splendid Scenery, Superb Dresses, Inimitable Properties and Tricks, every thing new and of the mos t cos tly d escr ipti on , HARLEQUIN GRAMMAR, or, Lindley Murray,and AEI 0 U. Harlequin, Mr. W. H. Harvey ; Grotesque, Mr. Stilt; Clown Mr. Fuller • Pante. loon, Mr. Hawkins ; Columbines (alternately) Miss M . Fair brJther and Miss Sharpe. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. THIS EVENING, JANUARY 7:9, Will be performed an entirely New Domestic Drama, entitled POVERTY; or, Mary Graham. Leonard, Mr. Freer; Jessamy Tacit, Mr. Mentz; Squire Graham, Mr. Dale; Patty Parrot, Miss Arden; Mary Graham, Miss Vincent. After which, the Domestic Drama of RUTH; or, The Lass that Loves a sailor. Bernard Jasper, Mr. Freer • Ruth, Miss Vincent. To conclude with THE MAN WITH THE CARPET• BAG. Grimes, Mr. Gardner; Harriet, Miss Arden. THE WEATHER —Sun OFFICE, JAN. 29. THEILHOMETEII, Lowest, 37 ; Highest, 52 ; Noon, 45 BAROMETER, 30.1.-WIND, W. NOTE.—The nmaber 32 on the Thermometer denotes the freezing point, and 55 , temperate. In Barometers flea is usually placed opposite 30, and rain at 29. tiltiki WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY. Morning ... 3 minutes alter 8. I Evening ... 40 minutes after 8. must be cleared. Mr. SHEIL launched some withering sarcasm at the Attorney-General, which told with great effect, and concluded his address at exactly three o'clock. The Court then adjourned till Monday. One of our Dublin Correspondents makes the fol lowing remarks on the proceedings which took place in the Queen's Bench on Saturday "It is not alone to the counsel arrayed against him within the Court that the Tory chief law officer of the Crown for Ireland has afforded opportunities, in his drowsy, and yet, paradoxical as it may appear, intemperate opening address to the Court and Jury ; but even to many without the Court—to such indi viduals as he had occasion to allude, has he supplied food for contradiction. Among several instances may be mentioned that one connected with the "Baltin glass Monster Meeting." In adverting to some of the attendant circumstances of that meeting theßight Hon. Gentleman said that "he was in a position to prove the observations of some of those assembled thousands." Those observations, he proceeded to state, were to the effect, "that they (the people) would and should have repeal, and that, in this part of the country, they would die to a man, but that they were afraid of the sea-side fellows not standing by them ;" and that "Fa ther LALOR" (the parish priest of Baltinglass) " told them in the chapel, that it was too far gone now, and that they should get it, but not without blood being shed." In the Dublin Evening Post, the Rev. Mr. La- LOR has inserted a letter contradicting,in the most un equivocal manner, this statement of the Learned Crown official, and the Rev. Gentleman assured me this morning that he purposes remaining in town during the trial, in order to prove on oath, on the defence, that such language as that, thus attributed to him, never escaped his lips. " With respect to the course to be pursued by the traversers in their defence, various rumours are afloat. It is said they are prepared with no less than 270 witnesses, but I have been assured by one of their counsel that they mean to call not more than sbmft twenty, and that those are to be gentlemen of rank and station in the country—some of them magistrates and ex-magistrates, and also Members of Parliament —each; of these to be examined briefly as to the character and tone of the meetings, &c. The influ ence of their testimony, it is presumed, and justly so, will be not a little enhanced by the circum stance of many of those gentlemen being neither Roman Catholics nor Repealers. "In case the course above adverted to be followed up by the traversers, the trials are all but certain to be closed by next Thursday week." The evidence for the Crown on the Irish trials has closed, and the case for the defence has been com menced by Mr. SHEU.. To any casual observer these questions would arise : What have the accused to meet ? What is the charge against them ? What is the crime of which they are guilty ? The witnesses for the Crown have not proved anything against them ; and, for aught that appears on the proceedings, not a single offence has been committed. Combina tion for unlawful purposes—conspiracy with ille gal intents—union of combiners and conspirators for objects contrary to law; not one of these has been proved by the evidence for the prosecution. On the contrary, there is not the slightest evidence of com bination, of conspiracy, or of illegal union ; and there is every proof that all acts done were peaceable, and in furtherance of a peaceable intent. What, then, have the accused to meet ? Before an English jury, and an English tribunal, we answer NOTHING ILLEGAL, NOTIIING CONTRARY TO LAW. But they have an Irish and an Orange Jury, and an Irish Attorney-General, whom Mr. SHELL designates as an " ARTFUL DODGER" to meet. They have to break the trammels of the net which has been thrown around them, and they have only truth, justice, and innocence to rely upon, as a protection from per jury, espionage, and a packed jury. Before an English jury, and with English judges, the closing of the case for the prosecution, would have been the finding a verdict for the defendants. For never, in our experience, did case for a prosecutor furnish such ample means for a traverser, as this pre sent. Nothing proved—nothing established, save this great fact, that the Government of Sir ROBERT PEEL was, by its organs, prepared to go all lengths, and to run all hazards, to gain a conviction of the man, whom, by argument, it could not put down, and whom it was determined to crush by m-ans legal or illegal. Everything that eloquence, that argument, that learning can do, will be done by the counsel for the traversers. They have a glorious and an important office to perform—they have to strip sophism of its influence, superstition and bigotry of their powers over a prejudiced tribunal. They have to argue as if were possible to convince by argument, or to make predetermination submit to reason. If they succeed, great to them the glory, great to the jury the honour will be. If they fail, no dishonour will attach to the counsel, and the public will give as much im portance to the decision of the jury as they would to the finding of Eastern satraps, or to the nominal council of the Grand Seignior. Whatever may be the result of the trial for murder and parricide which must ensue upon the finding of the Coroner's inquest just terminated at Taunton— (and GOD forbid that we should prejud ge , even i n the most unimportant particular, the issue of that solemn proceeding ; or prejudice, by the weight of the minutest atom, the case of the parties now in prison to await it)—we may, without impropriety, direct attention to one remarkable fact in the case, that may be noticed without any detriment to individuals, the question of whose guilt or innocence must be deter mined on the proof, or failure of proof, as to their own personal acts, of a much more grave and direct character. The unhappy victim in this case was a labouring man, of very good reputation ; and although his family appear to have been on the pauper books of the Somersetshire Union, within which their place of residence was comprehended, he had managed to subscribe, and regularly pay up his contributions, to one of those benefit clubs, which assure to parties standing in a given relation to any member or sub , scriber, a certain sum; in the name of funeral ex penses, payable on such subscriber's death. On the decease of the man SEALEY, whom the verdict of the inquest declares to have died by poison feloniously administered to him, the somewhat considerable sum of 8/. was paid to the eldest daughter for the expenses contingent on the burial of her father. It is not necessary to recur here to the point which came out, howevei, in evidence—that -the money does not appear to have been so paid to the " nearest relative," in the eye of the law ; for there was an eldest son in neighbouring service, who, pro _ _ bably should have been the individual to receive the amount. But this is a question which we must leave to the Society to settle on future occasions, with persons similarly situated—as to relationship to a deceased member. Let us hope that there may be no further features of analogy to the present in any future case, wherever the burial money may be claimed of such associations. We have simply to remark that the unfortunate man, the fact of whose murder has been affirmed by the finding of the in quest on the result of medical and chemical evidence, tendered with great apparent accuracy and scientific detail, was a member of such a society ; that the funeral expences actually incurred in his burial, &c., were proved by the party to whom they were paid, to have somewhat exceed( d 21. ; and that his eldest daughter claimed and received 81. Now this is a circumstance calculated to create a pri m a facie case of suspicion against her in the minds of the jury, who will have to try the capital indictment against her, before another Court. And if the wretched prisoner were not, as to the receipt of this burial money, in the same position, only, as thousands of the labouring classes innocently are, in the course of a single year, there might be some reasonable ground for this sort of presumption of guilt against her. But in common justice both to her and to her sister (and fellow prisoner), we would warn those who may be called upon to discharge the duty of sitting as jurors on their coming trial, that the claim of the burial money —even in connexion with the much inferior charge of the actual funeral—can justify, of it self, no such presumption. This is one only of a class of ca ses , ar i s i ng out of a system vicious and dangerous, undoubtedly, beyond any terms of reprobation that we can employ. The inevitable tendencies of such societies to degenerate from their legitimate and valuable purposes, i s as un questionable its it is to be deplored. objects of . • 4-Z • • ,4•4* .-.=.4lll"Ztt, pip .11, : ? 1.111011110- 4101Sii i ;ji joi „tlt s l,- • t•t i , ititto• 'v4 • SECOND EDITION.. ita4 LONDON, MONDAY, JANUARY 29, 1844. The end of the beginning of the Irish State Trials arrived on Friday. " This is the case of the Crown,' said the Attorney-General, in a weak voice, scarcely audible in the gallery. Is this the case of the Crown ? inquired every one outside the Court. Where are the reported revelations respecting the French and American correspondence ? said one—where the expected exposure of appropriation or misappropria tion of the Repeal funds ? inquired another—\; here the secret meetings and designs of the conspirators ? where the proofs of the " as wicked a conspiracy as ever existed ?" asked all. This wicked conspiracy consists, then, of articles from newspapers, reports of speeches, which disclaimed all violence and appeals to physical force; monster meetings, at which there was not the slightest tendency to a breach of the pence ;" arbitration courts, to which the people chose to resort for that justice which they had no confidence in finding elsewhere, and songs. Nobody who does not wish for a verdict per fas aut nefas now believes in any conspiracy. The Crown case has settled that. It is ad mitted on all hands to be a miserable failure. a mistake—a spoiled speculation —a bungled blunder. The beginning of the end commenced on Saturday— Mr. Sam. led on the attack. The greatest anxiety prevailed to listen to him. There was not more in terest manifested the first day. The questions asked were—" What are they doing now in Court ?" " Is SHELL speaking ?" "Is he pitching it into' the Attoroey-General ?" " Are the jury moved ?" Within the Court all was deep interest—not a sound was heard save the piercing tones of the speaker. Mr. SHELL addressed the Court from the end of the table immediately facing the jury. Mr. O'CONNELL sat with his back to the bench, on the right of Mr :- Slum, who had a large volume before him, formed of sheets of paper roughly sewn together, " written within and without," and on which were pasted variou s slips of printed matter in the shape of quotations, dm He commenced by stating that he appeared for Mr. J. O'CONNELL, that he was fully aware of the magnitude of the occasion, and his own inability to do justice to it, but that he approached it, if not unmoved, at least without dismay. He at once plunged into his case ; no summary could possi bly do justice to his anim a t e d address; we must, there fore, refer the reader to the report itself. No portions of his speech were more feelingly delivered than those in which he deplored the unhappy effects of the religious dissensions that have torn Ireland asunder. Mil comparison of her present disturbed state, with every element of religious rancour and hatred raging within her, with the quiet and harmony in which the Protestants and Catholics of Germany live together, was exceedingly striking. Atone por tioiw of his address, the audience being carried away • by the eloquence, of the advocate, forget they were in a: Court of Justice, and gave a round of applause. The _Chief Justice immediately reproved the inde corum, stating that if it occurred again, the Court TILE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EIENING, JANUARY 29, 1844. small periodical contributions by respectable la- ' bourers, of course of limited means, can be imagined, at once more natural or more harmless, if not actually meritorious, than the making timely provision for the decent interment of themselves or the members of their families. But it has been clearly shown, by Mr. CHADWICK, in a valuable portion of his " Sup plementary Report on the Practice of Interment in Towns," devoted to an exposition of the " crimes produced by payments on the deaths of children," 1, That individuals, by multiplying their connexions with societies of this kind in various quarters of a large district, and paying a small contribution to each, realise on the death of a child, or a parent, or a wife, according to the terms of their respective " as surances," very large sums, to the great misapplication of the original design and the great waste of the funds, of benefit or assurance clubs or societies. 2. That these means of deriving considerable profits from such assurances have too often proved fatal temptations to infanticide and to murder by some heads of families, the children of which have been previously " entered in burial clubs," or by parents, the one of whom was to derive this advantage through the death of the other ; and even, in some cases, to the deliberate suicides of fathers who conceived that there was no other course open to them by which they could so readily secure a certain sum of money to their wives or their offspring ! Surely this is a hideous defect in the working of a system of association, in •so many other respects in valuable and entitled to every praise, for which the Legislature cannot too early apply itself to devise some remedy. Let it not be supposed that we are speaking of imaginary consequences, or merely pro bable results. We blush to record that the clerk of the Stockport union was, about two years ago, com pelled to prosecute in two such cases, the parties receiving such moneys on the death of their children for murder. We make, also, the following quotation from Mr. Cli ADWIC/e8 Report, without a single remark. It is, itself, too impressive not to illustrate strikingly what we have advanced on the subject. In section 62, he observes, of another case— " In one case, where three children had been poisoned with arsenic, the father was tried, with the mother, and convicted at Chester, and sentenced to be transported for life, but the mother was acquitted. In the other case, where the judge summed up for a conviction, the accused, the father, was, to the astonishment of every one acquitted. In this case the body was exhumed after interment, and arsenic was detected in the stomach. In consequence of the suspicion raised upon the death, on which the accusation was made in the first case, the bodies of two other children were taken up and ex amined, when arsenic was found in the stomach. In all these cases payments on the deaths of the children were insured from the burial clubs. The cost of the coffin and burial dues would not be more than about 11., and the allowance from the club is 31." With this practical corroboration of the evils which may be theoretically predicated of the societies re ferred to, we shall for the present conclude the re marks so irresistibly suggested to us by the recent appalling averments made before the Coroner at Taunton. Madrid journals of the 21st have been received, but they bring no news. A private letter states that the Minister of Finances has succeeded in procuring, in the course of a month, a sum of 48,000,000 reals for the army, &c. ; and that he was thinking of entering into a contract respecting the tobacco revenue. The contractor, or contractors, were to manage it for ten years, to advance to the Government 50,000,000 reals in three months, and to pay in, moreover, 72,000,000 a year. Half of the net produce, after deducting the above, was to belong to the contractors, and the other half to the Government. The former were, in addi tion, to subscribe obligations to the amount of 150,000,000, in order to supply, if need were, the wants of the Government. The Archbishops of SEVILLE and SANTIAGO, who had long resided in Madrid under a sort of surveillance, had been autho rised to return to their dioceses. On the 20th, the Three per Cents. were done at 25i for cash, and 261 at 60 days ; and the Five per Cents. at 191 at 60 days. The universal subject of conversation in Paris on Saturday was the terrible tempest (tempete epou rentable) which took place in the Chamber of De puties on the preceding day. No scene like it has taken place in any French assembly since the worst days of the Revolution. The cause of all the uproar was the tenth paragraph of the Address, which cen sures those Legitimatists who came to London on a visit to the Duke of BORDEAU.X. The first speaker against it was M. BECHARD, who had not been at Beigrave-square, but, nevertheless, defended the con duct of the pilgrims, and vindicated their attach ment to the descendant of so many Kings. M. DE GI VRE followed, and made a violent attack upon the Royalist party, who, he said, laboured to abolish oaths, in order to abolish perjury. This caused loud marks of disapprobation from the Car lists, which continued almost without interruption while this member was in the tribune. M. BERRYER defended his conduct with moderation, but was fre quently interrupted, and concluded by saying that he should retain his seat in the Chamber so long as it pleased his constituents. After a number of other speakers, M. GUIZOT ascended the tribune, and attacked those who despised oaths, and forgot their duty as citizens, and in strong language vindi cated "public morality." This roused the ire of M. BERRTER, who rushed to the tribune, and with great effect contrasted tlie visit of the Legitimatists to London, with the journey of M. GUIZOT to Ghent. " We have not been," said he, " like those who dare to accuse us, and wish to affix a brand of infamy on our brows—we have not been among armed foreign ers—we have not been to place our hopes in an im mense disaster about to strike our native land. Yes, you have gloried in it; you went amidst a foreign army to give political advice to a king. I have been to adversity, and to tell a prince that France must be left in peace." This again called up M. GUIZOT, when the storm commenced in earnest. " Yes," exclaimed he, " I have been at Ghent." Near a dozen of times, says a correspondent of the Post, the organ of the Royalists in this country, did the Minister of Foreign Affairs repeat the words " Oui, j'ai ete a Ga►d." We have given else where an account of the proceedings, but it may be interesting to our readers to have another brief ver sion of it as described by our Contemporary. " On every occasion," that journal says, "his voice was drowned in a clamour which shook the hall. It is an indignity, it is treason, it is an infamy roared the Gauche. Oui,j" ai ete a Gand,' exclaimed the Minister, and the same cries of indignation were revived—' On ne se vante pas de sa honte, on la cache ! vous n'avez servi que l'etranger.' Innumerable invectives mingled with the clamour. M. GUIZOT, though looking pale, maintained his composure, and reminded the Chamber that he had been formerlysuffered to explain himself respecting the same fact before a quiet house; but this appeal yielded him but another thundering ex plosion. ' Non ! non !' cried they, nous avons proteste r Nous avons proteste r The confusion then reached its height, the Opposition rose, many climbed their benches, all shouted together, numbers struck their desks—in short, the storm raged in all its fury. Vous pouvez epuiser vos forces,' (you may exhaust your strength), replied M. GUIZOT, whose voice for a moment commanded the uproar, Vous n'epuiserez pas mon courage !' (You will not exhaust my courage !) The undaunted firmness with which he stood their' violence seemed to exas perate themmore and more ; he repeatedly commenced again his Oui, j'ai ete a Gand,' but was invariably overwhelmed by the furious vociferations of the Op position. Vous etes un traitre !' (You are a trai tor) exclaimed M. ERNEST DE GIRARDIN, when the Gauche responded in chorus, Oui, oui !" Does the Member who interrupts me wish to speak after me ?' ob4erved M. GUIZOT, with much calmness. Non ;' replied he, mais je vous dirai de ma place que vous avez trahi le pays, que vous avez passe a l'etranger la veille de Waterloo et cet acte est in fame !" (But I will tell you from my place that you have betrayed your country, that you passed the eve of the battle of Waterloo with the 'stranger,' and that act is infamous). A thousand other apostrophes were levelled at him, such as C'est abominable ! C'est hunteux r M. ODILLON BARROT disdainfully cried—' Eh ! bien, laissons-le etaler sa honte et ayons le courage de l'entendre jusqu'au bout.' (Come, let him glory in his shame, but let us have the courage to hear him to the end.) M. Manx im plored silence, and M. GUIZOT again strove to address the Chamber, but at every attempt the storm grew louder and fiercer. At length, nearly exhausted, he succeeded in obtainingsome hearing, and concluded again by exhorting the Chamber to - vote the para graph, the discussion on the ensemble of which we ultimately closed. The sitting commenced at half past one, and at near eight, when it ended, the Cham ber continued to exhibit the utmost agitation upon this extraordinary debate." All the journals before us dwell, and almost everything that we see in their co lumns is connected, with its exciting features. The Chamber met next day, when the calm was most remarkable. M. CORDIER moved that the paragraph in which occur the words " culpable machinations" be left out. Whilst the speaker was supporting this amendment, above fifty Members approached the Ministerial bench and shook hands with M. GUIZOT , M. BEERTER himself addressed him with much courtesy. The Gauche paid little attention to M. CORDIER'S speech. Meanwhile, M. T RIERS approached, with a paper in his hand, a cluster of Deputies, of which M. ODILLON BARROT was the Centre. M. LEDRII RoLum supported the amendment, and succeeded in imparting some animation to the discussion, by comparing the Acts of the Restoration, with what had been done since 1830. After a speech of 31. JoLAIN, in favour of the Committee's paragraph, M. DE LAMARTINE addressed the Chamber for the first time this session, and delivered a conciliatory speech, in which he declared against the strong lan guage adopted in that paragraph, and in favour of one of the proposed amendments, though he had no ob jection to the sanctity of oaths being proclaimed. M. DANGEVILLE deemed a demonstration against the Legitimatists necessary, and declared that he should reject all the amendments. M. BECHARD required a definition of the oath taken by the Members of the Chamber, in order that he might make up his mind as to the propriety of tendering his resignation. Thereupon loud cries of " Aux voix" arose, and the amendments were rejected by a majority of 30. _ Upon the division taking place, the Marquis DE LAROCHE-JACQUELIN resigned his seat in the Cham ber of Deputies. THE BOURSE—SATURDAY, JAN. 27. First Highest Lowest Las Price. Frice. Price. Price. .French Five per Cents. • 124 45 .. 124 50 .. 124 40 • • 124 50 Three per Cents.• •• • 82 25 • • 82 25 • • 82 10 82 15 Bank of France. • .• • • • • •. • • 3285 .. 3285 . • 3282 50 • • 3282 50 Laffitte Bank, I,ooof. Sharcslll2 50 .. 1112 50 ..1112 50 . • 1112 50 5,000 f. Sharesso7o 5070 • 5070 • • 5070 Belgian Bank .. • • • • • . • • • • • • 690 • • 690 • • 690 • • 690 Belgian Fives ••••• .. • . • 107 • • 107 107 • • 107 1840 •••• • • • • 109 • • 109 .. loaf •. )08f 1842 •• •••• 110 .. 110 .. 110 .• 110 Spanish Active .. .. ••• • • • 30 •• 30/ • • 301 •• 30/ Passive .... •••. • • • • 51 • . 51 • • 51 • • 51 New Deferred ••.• • 14 • • 12i • • 12 • - 12 Old Deferred- .•... 61 •• 61 •• 61 .. 61 Portuguese Five per Cents.. 47 471 •• 47 •• 471 Neapolitan•... Roman Versailles, L. 14.. Rouen ...... Rotten to Havre • • . • 0r1ean5...... ......... , •• 190 •• 845 • • 671 25 • • 860 Strasburg to Bale. • Avignon to Marseilles • • • • • • 760 • . 762 50 • • 757 50 • • 762 50 RAILWAY SHARES, FOR THE ACCOUNT. - - St. Germain .............. 825 .. 825 •• 825 .• 825 Versailles, R.B L.B l9O •• 195 187 50 .. 191 25 • 845 .• 847 50 845 .. 847 50 • 667 50 •• 671 25 667 50 .. 671 25 ▪ 862 50 •• 862 50 .. 852 50 .. 857 50 240 .. 243 75 240 .. 240 755 •• 760 •• 752 50 760 Rotten• • • • • • • • • • Rouen to Havre . . ... . Orleans .. Strasburg to Bale •••• • • Avignon to Marseilles. ANTI-CORN-LAW MEETINGS AT HULL.—On Fri day a meeting was held in the Town-hall, at eleven o'clock, to receive a deputation from the Anti-Corn law League, consisting of Richard Cobden,' Esq., M.P., John *Bright, Esq., M.P., and Colonel Thompson. The hall was crowded to excess. Sir Wm. Low throp was called to the chair. The speeches made on the occasion fill six pages of the Hull Rockingham newspaper, but owing to the great length of the splendid speech made by Mr. Shell in defence of Mr. John O'Connell, in the Queen's Bench, Dublin, we cannot find room for even an outline. In the evening another meeting took place in the Victoria-rooms, when about 500 persons assembled, and Sir Wm. Lowthrop was again called to the chair. The meet ing was addressed by the Rev. James Aspinall, rector of Althorp, Lincolnshire ; Mr. Bright, the Rev. E. Higginson, Colonel Thompson, and' the late Mayor of Hull, Mr. Alderman Atkinson. The subscriptions amounted to 354/. ss. PRO-CORN-LAW MOVEMENTS.—Anti-League meet ings have recently been held at Grantham, at Hunting don, at Aylesbury, at Gloucester, in North Bedfordshire, and Derby, and at Long Sutton. At all these meetings the speeches were pretty nearly of the same character, and full of abuse of the League. The Cabinet Council appointed to be held this after noon at the Foreign-office, Downing-street, is fixed for two o'clock. All the Ministers are expected to attend. The Sheriffs' Dinner will be given this evening, by Lord Wharncliffe, to the Ministers and great officers, at his Lordship's residence, in Curzon-street. The Sheriffs' list for the present year will then be arranged. LLOYD'S SHIPPING.—(THIS DAY.) LONDON, JAN. 29.—Wind fresh Westerly breezes, fine. OFF DOVER, JAN. 28.—Nelson, M'Laren, New Zea land ; Ann, Hartlepool, for Newhaven, leaky, having struck on a wreck in the Downs. DEAL, JAN. 28.—Wind W.S.W. to N.W.—Arrd. Mary Ann, Medhurst, Algoa Bay ; Antonia, Amster dam, for Surinam ; Foxhound, Simmons, South Seas ; John Williams, Ridley, Buenos Ayres ; Georgetown, Bell, Demerara ; Bremen, New York, for Bremen Eagle, Banns, St. John's, Newfoundland. Ski. Cuddie, Calcutta ; Medora, Havannah ; Seagull, Trinidad ; Osbart, Dominica. OFF FOLKSTONE, JAN. 28.—St, James, New York. PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 28.—Wind W.N.W. to N.W.— Arrd. her Majesty's ship Curlew, Rio, sld. Nov. 26 ; Ocean, London. for Trinidad ; Ralph Bernal, London, for Jamaica. Ski. her Majesty's ship Satellite, Rio. FALMOUTH, JAN. 28—Wind W. to W.N.W., strong and squally._Arrd. Oberon, Robinson, Bahia, 14th ult. ; 2:: u t 20th ult. CORK, JAN. 25.—Arrd. Spartan, St. Domingo. Ocean, De Ryter, , JAN.Por t R v ep . ib T li h c e ain A , Montgomery, .frotilltuNnitErnit, sprung a leak on the 25th inst. off Corn wall, and was run ashore in Saltpan Bay, materials saved. Should - the wind blow hard the vessel will go to pieces. WEXFORD, JAN. 26.—A schooner, name unknown, is reported to have gone on shore on Blackwater Bank, during a thick fog, this morning. LOWESTOFF, JAN. 27.—The Helena, MtLaren, - got on the Barnard Sand this morning, and beat heavily, but was assisted off and got into the Roads, making but little water. WELLS, JAN. 28.—The Pearl, of London, for Wis beach, is on shore at Thomhaud. FLANDERS MAIL. - BRUSSELS, JAN. 26.—The Duke of Bordeaux arrived at Augsburg on the 20th of this month. He there met Prince Polignac, with whom he spoke about the numerous visits which he had received at London from French Legitimists. He proceeded to Goritz by way of Innspruck. offer a was fine accepted. eof 1 25f. , The Dusseldorf Gazette announ ces, that when the Duke of Bordeaux passed throug h Frankfort one of the young Mes sieurs Rothschild waited upon him, solely:f or th e purpose,fif his Royal Highness had a n y Bank notes or other gotes not cur rent in the Austrian empire, to exchange thenl for others hic. A baker at Poselle was condemned the day before yester day to two are curren t years' ia there. r This onme instand for hav ing mixed copper in his b r ead. The tribunal further o r d ere d that the baker should be deprived of his license during his imprisonment, and th at the s entence should be posted up an d y h imp published at his expense. ALEXANDRIA, DEC. 26.—The theatre in this city was re opened after an individual had been banished from Egypt at the desire of the Sardinian Consul. We thought that the matter was now ended ; but the day before yesterday th e French packet brought orders from Florence immediately to arrest the unlucky actor who has spoken the few words which has given offence, and to put him on board the first Tuscan ship bound for Leghorn, where he is to be put on his trial. This affair has caused a great sensation here. An important transaction has lately taken place. Ibrahim Pacha has sold 40,000 cwt. of coffee to a Greek house, on what conditions and at what price is a secret, and few per sons believe the price that has been mentioned. _ It would be interesting to know, at the conclusion of the year, the Report of the operations of the famous Egyptian Bank, which still exists in name. If the establishment of this bank excited the apprehensions of the merchants of the place, they are now revenged by the ridiculous situation in which this pompous institution appears. But if the share holders in the bank are duped, there is one, however, who laughs in his sleeve. UNITED STATES. LIVERPOOL,JAN. 27.—The United States ship Liberty, Captain Norton, arrived at this port this evening, from New York, from whence she sailed on the 4th instant, and has brought a paper of that date. The Eutaw and Columbus sailed the same day as the Liberty. The Kouhassett sailed several days before, and Captain Norton has the merit of having made the speediest voyage, as none of the other ships had yet arrived. _ - The Governor of the State of New York delivered a message on the opening of the session of the New York Legislature at Albany, on the 3d inst. Though the document is long, it does not possess much interest here. We learn from it that the financial matters of the State are in a healthy condition and improving. The public debt amounts to $23,847.62 ; there is also a contingent liability of $1,720,000 for stocks issued on loans to railroad companies, which have thus far paid the interest ; the whole amount of interest which accrued during the year ending 30th September last was $1,377,261.84 ; the revenue amounted to $2,992,825.84. The Cotton market was steady, and the sales mode rate. Stocks of all descriptions were rather declining in price, but no cause was assigned for it. THE WILL FORGERIES.—We understand that two Bow-street officers have been busily occupied in this city for some time, in tracing the particulars connected with these extraordinary transactions. We regret to hear that some parties in this city, hitherto considered to be of irreproach able character, are strongly suspected to be deeply implicated, but the officers have not yet succeeded in capturing them.— Bristol Mirror. Lord Ward is passing the winter at Florence, where his Lordship i 4 expected to remain until the advance of the FpriDG. RAILWAY SHARES. . 185 845 ..... 665 .... 860 .. 192 50 185 .. 845 •• 845 . 671 25 •• 665 . 860 •. 860 SUMMARY OF NEWS AND pub lit Optitton. " Who runs may read." FOREIGN. On Saturday the debate in the French Chamber on the address was brought to a close. All the amendments were rejected, and the address adopted by a majority of 220 to 190. The French army, says the Journal des Debats, has lost one of its most illustrious members. Marshal Count Drouet D'Erlon, Peer of France, died at his residence in Paris on the 25th inst., from an affection of the lungs, under which he had laboured during several years. Count D'Erlon was aged 78 years. In consequence of M. C. Laffitte's election having been annulled, an application is to be made to the Ministry to have the Electoral College held at Neuboarg, instead of Louviers. M. Nodier, a member of the French Academy, lately died at Paris^ The Presse states, " that all its letters from Constantinople mentioned that the relations of Sir_S. Canning .with Rifaat Pacha were becoming daily more unfriendly. The British Ambassador had vainly remonstrated with that Minister on the dismissal by the Porte of Admiral Walker. Rifaat Pacha maintained his decision, and justified it by the necessity in which the Porte found itself of reducing its expenditure. It was for a similar purpose, no doubt, tlik it recalled all the young Turks studying abroad. The Prussian Universal Gazette announces that the re ceipts of the German Customs Union, for the three first quar ters of '1843, amounted to 17,892,776 crowns, being 1,844,244 crowns more than in the corresponding period of the year 1842. The importation of cotton threads has increased, but that of manufactured cottons has diminished. The Duke Decazes, Grand Referendary of the Chamber of Peers, has, in a spirit of courteous reciprocity, given notice that•theinembers of the two English. Houses of Parliament, who may happen to be in Paris during the legislative session, are to have free access to the Peers' galleries in both Cham bers. A correspondent who dates his letter Rome, Jan. 17, says, the weather here is very cold—frost every evening, and the thermometer has been as low as 25. Fahrenheit. Prince George of Cambridge and suite, including the Marquis of Worcester and Captain Macdonald, arrived ten days ago, for some weeks' sojourn. The Duke and Duchess of Argyle and family, Earl and Countess of Kinnoul,Earl and Ladies Cadogan, Lord and Lady Brabazon, Lord and Lady Willoughby, Lords Compton, Powerscourt, Duplin, and Poltimore, and a host of other fashionables, are all here for the season. The Chesterfield hounds meet in the Campagna twice or three times a-week, and are regularly attended by a full field of sportsmen, including the elite of the Roman chivalry—Prin cess Borghese, Aldobrandi, Canino, Doria, Chigi, and Odes calchi, &c. &c. When the meet is near Rome, as at Cecilia Motella, on the Via Appia, the concourse of vehicles and quadrupeds is about as numerous as 'mother celebrated hunt on Easter Monday. Foxes swarm." COURT-FASHIONABLE. The Duke of Cambridge leaves Petworth House to-day for Goodwood Park, to honour the Duke and Duchess of Rich mond with his company. The Royal.' Duke arrived on a visit to Colonel and Mrs. Wyndham on. Thursday afternoon, after having partaken of the splendid hospitalities of the Duke and Duchess of Norfolk, at Arundel Castle, during the three previous days. On Tuesday and Wednesday the Duke of Cambridge, and a party of gentlemen went out shooting, and killed during each day a.large quantity of game. Viscount Melbourne comes to town this day from Brocket Hall, Herts, for the Parliamentary session. Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston, Lord and Lady Beauvale, and a select circle, have been staying at Brocket with his Lordship since Thursday last, and are expected in town this day. The christening of the infant son of the Duke and Duchess of Sutherland takes place at the commencement of the next month, when Prince Albert will stand sponsor. A sump tuous entertainment will be given on that occasion. Their Graces will proceed to Brighton on the 9th or 10th of Fe bruary ; and the Marquis of Stafford 'and the Ladies Gower will then go to Trentham Hall. Sir Robert and Lady Peel will have a grand dinner party on Saturday, the 10th of February, at their residence in Whitehall-gardens, to which the principal Foreign Ambas sadors and Ministers, and their Ladies, and several of the Cabinet Ministers have been invited. The Duke of Newcastle, the Lords and Ladies Clinton, are expected to remain at Clumber Park until April next. Lord William Clinton arrived last week in Portman-square. The Duchess of Buctleuch, the Mistress of the Robes, is expected at Montagu House to-day, frdm Scotland. The Duke and Duchesi of Northumberland are expected to leave Ahiwick Castle for Northumberland House, the week after next. The". Duke and Duchess contemplate making a short stay at Leamington Spa. We are happy to announce that Baroness Brtmow is fast recovering from her late indisposition. _ _ The Earl and Countess of Beverley and Lady Susan Percy return to Portman-square on Wednesday next. . The Earl and Countess of CarliSle and the Ladies Howard return to Grosvenor-place on the 7th of February. The Earl and Countess of Morton, and Lady Ellen Douglas arrived in Palace-yard last week, from Dalmahoy Castle, N. 13., for the season. The Earl and Countess of Arundel and Surrey have re turned to town from Arundel CaAle, where they remained during the visit of his Royal Highness the Duke of Cam bridge to the Duke and Duchess of Norfolk. MISCELLANEOUS. A meeting of tenant farmers was held at Gloucester on Sa turday, to adopt measures for the formation of an Anti- League Association. It was not well attended. On the same day a similar meeting was held in the large room of the Literary Institution at Huntingdon, for the pur pose of forming a society for the protection of the agricultural interest in that district. About 20Q persons, chiefly farmers, were present. Mr. James Rust was called to the chair, in which he was supported, by the Earl of Sandwich, the Lord Lieutenant of the County ; Mr. E_ E. Fellowes, M.P. ; Mr. I. Thornhill, M.P.,&c. At Grantham, 131etsoe, Bedfordshire ' and several other places, Anti-League meetings have also been held. At the recommendation of his Grace the Duke of Welling ton, Captain A. W. Cassan, late of the 65th Regiment, has been appointed a Military knight of Windsor, to supply the vacancy occasioned by the death of the late Governor Captain Thomas Fernyhough. The Customs' return for Liverpool shows, that in 1842 the Customs' revenue of the port was 3,904,379/. ; in 1843 it was 4,121,646/. ; showing an increase, on that year alone, of 217,2671. It is satisfactory also to find that 1843 shows almost an equality of aggregate revenue with 1841, in which year the receipt was also 41,140,616/. Ils. 7d. LAW INTELLIGENCE QUEEN'S BENCH.—(THIS DAY. (Sittings in Banco). THE AGE NEWSPAPER AND THE DUKE OF BRUNSWICK. THE QUEEN V. lIOLT AND OTHERS. The defendants in this case were the proprietors of the Age newspaper, against whom a criminal information had been filed, for the publication of a series of libels reflecting upon the character of the Duke of Brunswick, and imputing to his Serene Highness crimes of the most atrocious and dis gusting character. The defendants had been tried before a specialjury, at the sittings of the last term, and had been found guilty. Two of the defendants, T. L. Holt, and George Frederick Brander, were this morning brought up for judgment. Holt had been the publisher of the news paper at the time of the publication of the libel, and the de fendant Brander, who resided at Christ-church, Hampshire, was one of the proprietors, having invested his money in the purchase of two shares in the paper. Very voluminous affidavits in mitigation and in aggrava tion of punishment were put in and read. Mr. PLArr, on the part of the defendant Holt, addressed their Lordships in mitigation of punishment, and complained that undue severity had been used in executing the warrant, and urged, that as the defendant had offered every reparation in his power a slight punishment would be sufficient to sa tisfy the justice of the case. A Learned GENTLEMAN, whose name we could not learn, addressed the Court on behalf of the defendant Brander, who had invested his money in the Age merely as a mercantile speculation, who had never exercised any control over the editorial department of the paper, and who had frequently recommended greater caution in the selection of articles for insertion. Mr. Brander had derived no profit from his con nexion with the paper, as his shares had decreased in value since he had originally purchased them in 1837. Mr. Sergeant TALFounn, in aggravation, urged the Court to pass a very severe sentence on those who had inflicted upon the Duke of Brunswick the severest injury they could inflict upon any human being. It was not as the Duke of Brunswick, but as a man, that the Duke had applied to this Court. Never had a more atrocious system of libelling been more perseveringiy followed up than that which had been pursued by these defendants ; and it was an insult to the Duke for the defendants to offer, as they had done, to opep their columns to a contradiction, after a criminal information had been obtained. Was that all the satisfaction he was to have for the publication of libels imputing to the Duke crimes in comparison with which ordinary felonywas a trifling offence ? Every step on the part of the defendant Holt had been ag gravation from first to last, and nothing like contrition had been manifested on his part. With regard to Mr. Brander, it would have been well if he, who had had affidavits made to his character, and complained of the disgraceful publicity to which he had been subjected by these proceedings—it would have been well that he should have recollected, that there was a publicity of a more painful character, even that, namely, to which individuals of good character were sub ject by being made the object of comment, by such libellous attacks as those .of the Age newspaper. It was absurd to say that the defendant could be ignorant of the character of the speculation in which he had embarked his capital. Many a man would have sunk into a dis honoured grave heart-broken, by these dreadful imputations, and he thought the British public was under the greatest obligation to the Duke of Brunswick for the manly manner in which he had come forward and dragged these defendants to the bar of a court of justice. Mr. KELLY and Mr. Wonnswonzn followed on the same side. Mr. Justice PArrEsox then proceeded to pass the judgment of the Court on the defendants,lThomas Holt and George Fre derick Brander. They had had a criminal information filed against them, charging them with having published in the Age newspaper a series of libels imputing to his Serene Highness the Duke of Brunswick, acts and propensities of the foulest and most disgusting character. From the affidavit of the defendant Holt, it would appear that he would wish the Court to believe that he was not aware that any such meaning could be attached to the paragraphs in question, at the time that he permitted their insertion. The paragraphs, however, were submitted to the Court, when the criminal information was granted, and the Court had entertained no doubt whatever as to the meaning of the paragraphs in question. The question had likewise been submitted to a jury, who had entertained no doubt as to the meaning of the paragraphs, and it was impossible that anymanreading those paragraphs could entertain any doubt as to the intention of the writer to cast such imputations, let him swear to the con trary as much as he pleased. It ha d been said that Holt had written a letter of apology to the Duke of Bruns wick, when these proceedings had been commenced. On looking at that letter, however, the Court was of opinion that it was no apology at all. It merely stated that if anything offensive to the Duke of Bruns wick had appeared in the columns of the Age, they were open to him to put iu any contradic tion which he might think proper. If any proprietor of a newspaper had accidentally permitted the introduction of scandalous matter into his paper it was his bounden duty to correct it at once, and not to say to the person libelled, my columns are open to you to contradict it or not as you think proper. It was a gross abuse of the liberty of the press for any person in the situation of the defendant to conduct him self as he had done. - These libels had not been inserted incautiously, but it was evident that they had been concocted with the utmost deliberation. The manner in, which the defence had been conducted, and the circum stances which had been urged in mitigation to-day, had operated vu the wind of the Court rather circlua. stances of aggravation. -- It was one 'of the most aggravated cases of libel that had ever come before the Court. With regard to the defendant Brander, he certainly had not been so culpable as the other defendant, he had had no control over the publication, and perhaps had not seen the libels, but he must have been aware of the character of the paper at the time he embarked his capital in it, and of the liabilities which as a proprietor he was incurring. The sentence of the Court - was that the defendant Thomas Holt be imprisoned iii the Queen's Prison twelve calendar months, and that the defendant Brander be iMpriiioned in the same prison for three calendar months.—The defendants were then removed in custody. BAIL COURT.-(THIS DAY.) (Before Mr. JuAtice WILLIAMS.) WHITE V. HODGES.-.-WHITE V. GOODHALL. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL moved for a rule to show cause why the judgment obtained in the first-mentioned cause, and the scire facias issued in the second, and all subsequent pro ceedings, should not be set aside on the ground of fraud and collusion. The Agricultural and Commercial Bank of Ireland appeared to have been established in the year 1834. A capi tal of 250,0001. was to be raised by shares, but it was alleged in the prospectus that the actual capital was a million. It appeared from the affidavits that the actual capital never exceeded 1,8001. What had been done in the present case was this. An action was brought against the public agent of the Company, and the party then allowed judgment by confession. The same thing took place in both cases. Judg ment was entered up in the Queen's Bench in Ireland. By an Act of Parliament relating to Joint Stock Banks, power was given to any party to remove a judgment from the Courts in Ireland, and to enter it up in the Courts in England, for the purpose of issuing the scire facias in this country against parties who might reside here. Judgment was accordingly entered up in England, and he now applied to his Lordship to set aside the judgment in this Court, on the ground of fraud and collusion. The defendant, in the year 1836, bought in this country 100 shares of a person of the name of Harvey, who acted as an agent of the bank. In November, 1836, the bank stopped payment, but it continued in existence by bor rowing money on promissory notes, and it had no power to do so by Act of Parliament. Coupons were issued to avoid the difficulty respecting interest. Under the provisions of the Banking Acts, there was a return made every year to the Stamp-office, of the names of the shareholders, and the defendant, Mr. Harvey, having ceased, in 1840, to be a shareholder, his name was not returned until the occurrence which lie was about to state. In 1843, 6,528 names were returned to the Stamp-office, whereas the number had never before exceeded 4,253. In that list the name of the defen dant again appeared. That being done, proceedings were taken for the purpose of getting the " judgments entered up. Upon the affidavits before the Court, he contended that the action in this case was not brought by the plaintiff, or for the benefit of the plaintiff, but that they were brought by per sons in the bank for the purpose of making the defendant, who had ceased to be a - partner in 1840, contribute to the losses of the bank.—Rule granted. PO LICE INTEL LIGENCE BOW-STREET.-(THIS DAY.) A private of the Scotch Fusilier Guards, named Robert Henderson, was brought up, charged with being a deserter. Mr. HALL, as soon as the prisoner was placed at the bar, addressed him, and said I have received a commucation from the Horse Guards that you are not a deserter. Prisoner—l am a deserter, Sir. Mr. HALL---An investigation has taken place at the Horse Guards, and it is reported to me that you are not a deserter; but you may rest assured that if you are brought here again under similar circumstances you will be imprisoned. You are discharged this time. The prisoner then left, again protesting that he was a de. MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE-MONDAY. We received about an average quantity of Wheat from Essex, but an unusually small supply from Suffolk and Kent. The stands exhibited on the whole a fair show of samples of Wheat of home produce, while the demand for it was steady, at prices about equal to those obtained on this day se'nnight. At the close of business most of the best descrip tions had found buyers ; but a portion of the middling and inferior kinds was left over for Wednesday next: The supply of fine Foreign Wheat offering was rather limited, yet the amount of business doing in it was scanty. Holders were firm, and for the few transac tions reported, last week's rates were supported. So little was doing in corn under lock, that the prices must be con sidered next to nominal. The supply of barley has fallen off considerably since our last. The Hertfordshire malsters took off a large portion of the malting qualities, at full prices ; but the value of grinding and distilling was with difficulty maintained. Malt was held on full as good terms as of late. Irish Oats were barely an average in amount, their quotations underwent no change. Beans, peas, and flour moved off slowly. The two former at barely ; the latter at fully last Monday's value. CURRENCY PER IMPERIAL MEASURE. NunAT—Essex & Kent, MALT—Chevalier 636 to red ...... ...... 43s to 60s OATS—Yorkshire and Ditto, white .., .... 576 to 61s Lincolneh., feed Norfolk and Lin- Potatoe coin, red Ditto white 44s to 506 black Irish, red 47s to 506 Cork, white Ditto white RYE—Old as to 330 BEANS—Tick 30s to 366 New 36s to 3tis' PEAS— Grey 3ss to 38s BARLEY—Grinding ...... 25a to 29s Maple 33s to 34s Malting .... ........... 33s to 36s White 30s to 354 Chevalier ... 32s to 358 Boilers 32s to 38s MALT—Suffolk and Nor- }lova—Town made folk s6s to 628 Sufto k 34s to 38s Brown sos to 518 Stockton & Norfolk 34s to 35 Kingston and Ware 56s to 62s FOREIGN GRAIN A/ WnEAT—Dantric Hamburgh 36s to 405 BARLEY 3os to 33s OATS—New Feed l4s to 16s, SMITH MONE ir AND COMMERCIAL NEWS - CITY, QUARTER TO THR.EE . The transactions in Cotton at Liverpool on Saturday were large, and prices met with very firm support.'" The sales werc 5,000 bales on speculation, and 3,000 for other- purposes. The Share Market closed rather languidly, but a fair number were sold. Eastern' Counties, 104 ; Grand Junction, 234 ; Great Western, Fifths, 19i • Brighton, 45 ; Manchester and LeedS , 1082; Midland &unties, 91 ; Paris and Lyons, 2 4 ; South Eastern, New, 36i ; and York and North Midland, New, 554. The Sr. James, from New York, does not, add much to our previous information, her dates being only , unary 4. The exchange was 109 k. Stocks appear to have been rather unsteady, owing to a slight diminution in the abundance of money. In. Corn business was quiet, but in Cotton there was more doing. From Canada we merely learn that Sir Charles Met calfe's policy appeared to be approved. There were a' good many ships building at Quebec, from which We may presume that an active spring trade was expected. An arrival from Nelson furnishes dates to Sept. 20, inclusive, and we are glad to observe, that in general, the accounts are of a satisfactory tenor. , Advices from Odessa state that the Russians have ob tained very important advantages for their commerce.. from the Porte, the import duty upon goods into Turkey being fixed at three per cent. on Russian fabrics, but seldom amounting to more than two per cent. The number of Russian firms in Turkey is said to be steadily increasing, the Government of the Czar favouring their removal from St. Petersburgh. The same also is the ease as regards Persia. The English funds are very firm, and the purchases by the Government broker continue to buoy up yrices. 'lO-day the amount taken is 20,0001. Consols at 974. li e current rates for this security have been 972 to - I P ° unfunded debt is steady in value, the premium being 675. to 695. East India Bonds are 81s. to 83s. Bank Stock is higher again, even upon the material rise of Saturday, being 195 k to 196. India Stock likewise ex' hibits a rally from its previous depression. The heavy investments are quiet at about former rates, the Ne w Three-and-a-Half per Cents. being 101.1- to 102, and the Reduced 1028 to 103. The Three per Cent. Annuities are 984 to i which is again rather better. There is a fair business doing in the Foreign Market,. and most of the investments look rather firmer. Spanis h Five per Cents obtain 23 to 234 ; the Three per CentS. , 31i to ; the Passive, 5k ; • Portuguese Converted ha ve again recovered what they lost, being 47 to 48. Th e Old Stock is 754. Mexican Bonds are supported at 3 4 to k for the Five per Cents , and at 101 for the Deferred . Colombian Stock is at 12k. Buenos Ayres Bonds are,/ 33 to 322 ; Brazilian, 79, or 1 per cent. higher ; an u : Peruvian, 23. Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. are firm at 55 to 55k. The icquiry for Railway Shares is moderate, and the. holders obtain good prices. Birmingham and Derby have advanced to 39 and 38 discount; Hull and Selby to 9 and 10 premium ; Brighton, 5 and 44 discount ; and South Western to 35k and 354 premium. The French Railways are less heeded. Paris and Orleans are 1 3 premium. Birmingham are a shade lower • and South Eastern have been somewhat flat; Greenwich have ral lied to 7 discount. Nothing has been done in Joint: Stock Banks. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK* (From the Official List.) Bank Stock 1951 196 iv". 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 9Bif ' 3 per Cent. Consols. Annuities 31 per Cent. Reduced Annuities ..... 103 1021 New 31 per Cent. Annuities 101 i 1 02 10 if Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan. 1860 Ditto 30 Years, Expire 10th Oct. 1859 India Stock 276 -278 Bank Stock for Account Consols for Account Exchequer Bills, lid. 1-14. 10001. NO/. 2 . Ditto Small FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCP , Brazilian Bonds. 5 per Cent. ... 79 Danish Bonds, 1825, 3 per Cent 86fr _ _ _ Columbian Bonds .:... -. .... Mexican Bonds 1837, 5 per Cent 34 34 Ditto Deferred Stook... loi Peruvian Bonds, 6 per Cent. ... 23 Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent Ditto Converted Snanish Bonds, Five per Cent. ... 231 23 Ditto for the Account Ditto Passive Bonds Ditto Deferred l4 13 Ditto Three per Cent. Dutch 2i per Cent... ... „........ 55i 55 Dutch 5 per Cent. PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT WO; ~ R A itivAirs. Paid. Per Share. Birmingham and Derby ..... .... 100 Bristol and Exeter 7O ..... 671 to 68 Eastern Counties 23 ..... -- - Do. Extension - Edinburgh and Glasgow ......... 50 - . Harrogate and Knaresboro' 3 .... 3h to .--• . Hull and Selby London and Brighton ...... ...... 50 London and Birmingham Stock .244354.. .. .. .. ... Lo t' ' --- 4" • Ditto A Shares - London and Greenwich ... 124 sgl ~ to --- London and South Western ... 4115 ... Ditto Eighths 4 ... .. 2411 to -- London and Croydon (Trunk)... 131 l 7 ...... to 161 Ditto Serip...... .. ............ ... 5 Manchester and Leeds .. 70 lO9 ..... to --• Manchester and Birmingham ... 40 - Newcastle and Darlington Junct: 15 - Northern and Eastern Ditto Scrip - Ditto A Shares ... l4 nisi_ to North Midland ... , 100 Paris and Orleans 2O - Paris and Rouen .. ..... ..... 20 - South Eastern and Dover 5O - York and Nartb Midland... SO - Ditto Scarboro' Branch 4 MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, JAN. 27.-- - W e :e s a fair inquiry for Stock generally, and our late F ri o , are fully maintained:—London and Birmingham Ne,w', l . t h shares, 431; Sheffield and Manchester, 60f to 61 ; - 17 ' w to r Unions, 100 ; South Eastern Scrip, 37 ; Manche s ,, o l and Birmingham, 39 i to I ; Manchester and Liv er r District Bank, 10*. A conger eel, seven feet long, and two feet th b re il e . , . inches round, was sold in ou r mar k e t yesterday for s i-% fings. It weighed about 1281b5., and was bought by a by son belonging to Lewes. It was th e l arges t e e l ever 0 0 , 1 . . 4 the oldest of our fishermen, and was t a ke n about tw" miles off the town by Harman's boat.--Brighton Herald. t led BRIGHTON.—Much excitement has prevai Brighton, in consequonce of the examination at the poil lt h court (carried on with closed doors) of a private in the r Hussars, charged with being accessory to the Inuri e gt• Edward Hanley, who was gamekeeper in the serviee.,,,a' oc h, Allcock, of Wilton, in the county of Wexford, in o f 1839.. This proceeding was occasioned by the receil , ',. e to letter from the Hon. Captain Hay, a Wexford magis ti o the Colonel of the 7th, apprising him that sonic post , vi ed was in custody at Wexford, on a charge of being CO in this murder, had made sonic statements iniPl ic hs ted Lynch, who, it was understood, had subsequently en, the into the 7th. It was ascertained at the termination ?I_ th e investigation that the prisoner admitted he had lived 1 :_, 0 5 neighbourhood at the time of the murder, and that h 7„, r present .at Hanley's funeral ; but he strongly denied / 7. 0 % knowlege of the murder. The prisoner will be sent;Wand for examination. Edward Hanley was murdered Au g .o return in the evening from tha fair at Enniscorthy , "rod found the following morning in a pool of water by the side, besmeared with blood; the scalp was found to the been torn from his head, and a hole, which penetrated t u tol d brain, appeared over the temporal artery, and the eY eb froin nose were much swollen as if he had received a blue' some heavy weapon. • o f Sit The accounts that have hitherto been* given the Francis Burdett omit altogether his connection w", 1 01 011 University of OXford.. He was matriculated as a ge n ,`,„ commoner of Christ Church, Dec. 13, 1785, being t ''',;d big His father was also of Christ Church, entering in 176 1, a 17:3 3, grandfather of New College, where he matriculated 1'11749, and had the honorary degree of Doctor in Civil Law j a i Lord John Russell, Viscount Palmerston, an ( - I _ , s re veral of the leading members of the late Administrationbe expected to hold a conference to-morrow. There is.,,t";e'does general meeting of the Whig-Radical Members oil s itter' day or Thursday, when, it is supposed, a plan of ePP ° to the to the Government, especially as to the amendmen t Address, will be agreed upon.—Post. au 1 The police have not succeeded in throwi n goel light on the mysterious affair at West CoWes• seem to be completely at sea on the su bj ec t, and frown t l e ree' traced out everything they now know nothing, nor sorrel anybody. The story in one of the county papers of of gunpowder and other combustibles having been 1. 7 00 01 Mr. David's premises, is a pure invention.: The (1 1 , e0 jell found did not exceed three ounces, with which the Z, ta zle cannon was charged, and with three bullets, the st being about forty feet from Mr. D.'s bedroom (•cure -111.$ which it was pointed. We earnestly hope the jo tlY may be found out and receive the punishment they 5° merit. preside Sir E. L. Bulwer, Bart., has consented to P at Ili e dinner of the General Pension Society for 184. BIRH S. On the 24th in,J., at Redhill, T Havant, Hants, the w i f e of ti l ' , Rev. Thomas Yard, of a son. W' Bowe " On the 25th inst., al Forest-hill, Mrs. A. of a son. so. A I On the 25th inst., at'Leicestur, Leicester -squat °, phonso Henry Jones, of a daughter, iltew ter Hans On the 25th inst., Mrs., Richard Winter, of v.* race, St. John's-wood, of a son. M et- r• l l ' • '- On the 26th inst., at Bloomsbury-square, . Breton, of a son. R. O" On the 26th inst., at Clapham-common, Mr& - 1 .• of a son. pp On the 26th inst., the lady of Charles H. Whitm ore' _....--- Clapham-road, of a son MARRIED. On the 25th_ inst., at Didmarton. fire,Gloucestersh 1111' W. Rich, of London, to Anti, third daughter • Rich, of the former place. • On the 25th inst., at St. Martin's-in-tbe-Fielder Kooe, Benjamin, eldest son of Edward Clarkson , Esq., M r Tontli s ' Kentish-town, to Martha, fourth daughter o f Air. • Charing•eross. • Frol erj Oct 'e• On the 25th inst., at Poulton.le-Fylde, Laneaskireict &ugly son of Colonel Murton, Royal Marines, to M ar y , • ter of the late Thomas Wilson, Esq., of Poulton- DIED.•doo of On the ltehtee2CBethlenueltl.,DaateiAselifir.e4-street, Bath, Dorot hea,tsio ;oh, On the 15th inst., at Bittern Manor House, tada 161 — Lewis Shedden, of Eastonton, Hants, Esq., late Hussars, and eldest son of the late Colonel John Shedslir. On the 17th inst., at Ward's-farm, Writtle, Esse ll ! Blytn thehe ed 59. O ag 2lst inst., Edward Bowerbank, Esq. , ° t r BiOnp th shoate-street aged 83. sg e 23d inst. , , at Llanyblodwel Vicarage, 4-" or" Rev. James Donne, D.D., Vicar of that pa rish._ o f COW On the 24th inst., William Turner Parry, risq" brooke•row, Islington. serter. 'D FLOUR IN BOND. BEANS 20s t• 26s Pess 23s to 276 FLOUR—American Baltic ....... 'IELD. We had a full average supply, and there was an evident improvement in the general quality of the Scots, short horns and Devons. The attendance of buyers was numerous, but the Beef trade was in a sluggish state. The prices obtained on this day se'nnight—those of the best sorts ruling from 3s 10d to 4s per Blbs, were well supported, though some difficulty was experienced on the part of the salesmen in effecting a clearance. The numbers of Sheep were fully adequate to meet the wants of the butChers. Prime old Downs sold steadily. Bents, half-breds, &c., slowly, at last week's quotations. There were about 100 shorn Sheep and 50 Lambs, but their quota tions were very uneven. The number of Calves were small, while the sale for them was active, at full currencies. In Pigs, a good business was doing at late rates. No importa tions of Foreign Stock since our last. s. d. to s. tit s. d. to s. d. Inferior 8ea5t5.......... 2 8 2 10 1 Inferior Sheep 210 3 0 Second quality ditto... 3 0 3 4, Second quality ditto 3 2 3 6 Prime large 0xen...... 3 6 3 8. Coarse-woolled ditto 3 3 310 Prime Scots, &c. 3lO 4 0' Seuthdown Wethers 4 0 4 4 Large coarse Calves ... 4 0 4 Si Large Hogs 9 0 8 8 Irlme small ditto 4lO 5 (.1; Small Porkers ..... ~3 19 4 2 Suckling Calves, each 20 031 0 1 Quarter old Pigs, eachlB . 0 25 u SUPPLY AT MARKET. Beasts. I Sheep. I Calves. I . Pigs 2,714 26,170 83 270 NEWGATE AND • LEADENHAL L. A very extensive supply of country killed meat has been received up to these markets in, for the most part (owing to the frequent changes iu the weather) bad condition. With meat killed in London, we continue to be largely supplied, and, in consequence, the trade is very dull, at barely sta tionary prices. At per stone, by the Carcase. s. d. to s. s. d. to s. d Beef, ... . 2 4 2 6 Mutton, inferior 2 8 3 0 - middling 2 9 210 - middling 3 2 3 4 - prune large 210 3 0 1 - prime 3 6 3 8 - prune small ...... 3 2 3 4 Pork, large. 2 8 3 8 Veal 3lO 4 101-small ........ 3 4 4 0 ARRIVALS DURING THE PAST WEEK. Beasts. Sheep. Calves. Pits Scotland 3O 620 620 Yorkshire Norfolk Suffolk 8 190 80 Cambridgeshire Essex' )6 go •90 , 140 Surrey :5 133 70 212 Devonshire Wiltshire Other parts Total 177 2,104 Previous week's arrival l9B 2,800 196 2,111 464 2,812 • Difference since our last... 21 696 268 701 WOOL IMARXET. For public sale, on the Ist, 2d, 3d, and sth proximo, about 7,000 bales of Colonial and other wools have been declared. By private contract only a moderate amount of business is doing, yet previous rates are steadily supported. The im ports have consisted of about 1,300 packages, chiefly from Hobart Town T 11.1.7.0 IV. The price of P.C. Tallow on the spot is rather on the de cline, although the demand throughout the week has been somewhat better. There is no speculation, and the holders are ready sellers. There is a little business doing in new Tallow ; the price is now 41s 9d to 42s for new Y.C., deliver able the last three months of the year. Town Yallow is 42s nett cash. BOROUGH HOP MARKET. 1 ----- A very active demand has sprung up for Weald of Kent and Susseg pockets, the quotations of which have unproved fully 2s per cwt. In other yearling hops, a steady business is doing, at price; fully equal to those noted in our last. Old hops are commanding' considerable attention, and their rates have improved from 2/ to , ;:rer cwt. The supply of hops is miserably small, with every pi .,pect of further advanced currencies. BOROUGH 'AND OPITAZZ7MX/S. From Scotland, Yorkshire, and mast °thew' .ouarters, the arrivals of potatoes at the water-side continue ex::: nsive for the time of year, yet the demand for the best decriptb:_ils is tolerably steady, at full prices, , but all other kinds are I: 1 mere drug. YARMOUTH AND NORWICH RAILWAY.—The works on this line have been lately proceeding with great rapidity. With the exception of a small part at Thorpe, where the line crosses the river, and another small part at Brundall, the whole permanent railway will be laid on the Bth of Fe bruary ; when the Directors will traverse the entire distance with a locomotive engine. Last week Mr. Robert Ste phenson inspected the line, and expressed himself highly satisfied with the state of the works. At the Foundry bridge, the buildings are nearly erected for the terminus ; the embankments have been formed, and the rails laid to the first crossing on the river. It is expected that the whole line will be opened to the public in April or May, being a month or two earlier than was stated last year.—No7folk Chronicle. IRISH STATE TRlALS.—Amongst the various means devised by the press to give the public every informa tion of these important trials, none surpass the zealous exer tions of Mr. Young, proprietor of The Sun newspaper, who illustrates his journal with sketches of each day's proceedings, a supply of which reach Mr. Horn of this town daily.—New castle Advertiser. The following charitable bequests appear in the will of Miss Enuna Gibson, of Bradston Brook, near Guild ford, amounting to 5,000/. Three per Cents. ;—To the Society for Promoting Christianity among the Jews, to the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, to Christ's Hospital, each 5001. Three per Cents. Reduced; to the Society for Promot ing Christian Knowledge, to the Church Missionary Society, to the Royal Humane Society, to the Deaf And Dumb, to the Refuge for the D es tit u t e, t o t h e R oya l Marine Society, to the Middlesex Hospital, to the Female Orphan, to the, Queen's Lying-in Hospital, to the Widows' Friend, to the Indigent Blind, to the Orphan Clergy, to the Magdalen Hospital, to the Adult Orphan, each. 250/. Three per Cents. Reduced. SELF ACCUSATION.—On Tuesday night a man came up to a police patrol, and declared that he wishes' to hand over to them a great culprit, who, after having robbed his master, M. G--, a schoolmaster, had spent the money in riot, and was now conscience-struck at his conduct "This , _.--r-- - ------ oA- 1 wretch's name," continued he, "is Paul K— ; take him, and I - - - -- --- OVI C u j _ _____ _____--- 1,,n nO Y put him in prison, for he stands before you." This at first London: Printed and Published by DIU- - , 12 , stay - . seemed a joke, but the police took him into custody, and the Ne. 112, Strand, at The Sun Office, No. ‘'„, I to next day hii3§tory wall food W be correct. —Paris Paper. the County of Middlesex, Monday, January 4' , r