The Sun. — London, England, 1844-12-28 00:00:00

OYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION. -4 -V Christmas Ilolidays. One of the brilliant neveltie* is Child's CI IROMATROPE, to which may be added, Subjects in Nature and :krt for the PROTEOSCOPE. The PH YSIOSCOPE. The Arta Ex- Vbitiun of a Series of beautiful DISSOLVING VIEWS. On the the of Tuesdays and Thursdays Mr. C. E. HORN lecture s o n ' 4, e MUSIC of DIFFERENT NATIONS. Dr. RYAN'S and Pro fessor BACHHOFFNER'S 'varied LECTURES dady. Dr. RYAN t i le , Lectures en the Evenings of Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. " 11 these Lectures abound in interesting Experiments. SURMA- I t pE EXPERIMENTS by means of the DIVING - BELL and 'VER. The HYDRO-ELECTRIC M' CHINE Admission, is.; Sehools, Halt-price. A New Editiott of the CATALOGUE, containing Three Hundred additional Works of Art, &c., since the last revisal, is just pttblishod. Drice la. GENERAL TOM THU MB. The AMERICAN MAN in MINIATURE has returned to London and is now holding his PUBLIC LEVEES at the 0...1 i _ `"7, in Suffolk-street, Pall-mall. Tice General has been visiting the P r incipal towns in England, Scotland, and Ireland, and has met With unprecedented success. Whilst in Edinburgh the foneral W as presented with a beautiful Highland dress, of the Royal Stuart Tartan, manufactured by Messrs. Meyers and Mortimer, in Which he will appear at each exhibition, in addition to his Citizen, 147 aPoloan, and Court dress. Hours of Exhibition from Eleven to ° at, Three to Five, and from Seven to Nine. Doors open half an hour previous. Admission (regardless of age), One Shillieg. 11 , General's Miniature Equipage will be exhibited daily from 'ant to Half.past Five, and from Eight to Half.past Nine, P.M. t 121, Pall-mall, at the trifling charge of Threepence, merely to : er raY the rent et the room. WINTER OVER-COATS, WRAPPERS, &c. MESSRS. BURCH and LUCAS ( late J. Albert) respectfully invite gentlemen to view their new and fashionable assortment of PATENT and BEAUFORT BEAVERS, FANCY VESTINGS, TROUSERINGS, &c., for t he approaching season ; •he style and cut of every garment are IMatanteed equal to any of the first houses at the West-end, at Prices in unison with the economy of the times, feeling confident that gentlemen who may do them the honour will be perfectly satin. NI with any garment that leaves their establishment. A large as "rtment of Great Coats kept ready made in all the different and %est approved forms agreeable to the prevailing taste; being made Alder the superintendence of the proprietors, they are enabled to 'Peak eenfidently as to their superiority over all garments of a slop 4 Wription, the which are entirely excluded from this establishment. 32 , KING WILLIAM-STREET, LONDON-BRIDGE, op. Polite the Statue. )EMPLOYMENT. —Persons having a little time to spars are apprised that Agents continue to be appointed i n er ° '2on. and country towns, by the EAST INDIA T EA COMPANY, t ,d Bale of their celebrated teas. ufflces, No. 9, Great St. Helen's -churchyard, I`llshopsgate-strrt.l . Plity are packed in showy leaden canisters , front one ouncelta a bind , with the price and weight marked on eack pack et, and but e trouble is occasioned by the sale. The license is only lie. per •4nl m, and many during the last nineteen years h ave realised con 11"treble incomes by the agency without one shilling let or loss. Application to be made (if by letter post-paid) as above. THE DISSENTERS' and GENERAL LIFE FIRE ASSURANCE COMPANY. lustitnted 1827. t i n. Powered by special Act of Parliament, 5d Vic. c. 20, $2, King . 1 4re-street, London-bridge, London ; 21, St. David-street, g "l• inburgh 6, King.stre,t, Queen-square, Bristol; and St. An. Hall.plain, Norwich. Capital, One Milliom. TRUSTEES •ND DIRECTORS Gen rge Bousfield, Esq. Thomas Piper, Feq. •V i otaas Challis, Esq, Ald. Thomas B. Sirnpsou, Esq. p r efer Ellis, F.sq Edward Smith, Esq. 'ePh Fletcher, Esq. Hon. ( h•trles P. Villiers , M.P. khard Hollier, Esq. John Wilks, Esq. t earles Hindley, Esq , M.P. Edward 'Wilson Esq. On the return of the Chrlstmis Quarter, the directors beg leave is remind their Friends snd the Public that, in the Fire Clepattraent t hey ss 7 receive Risks of all descriptions, including Chapels, School . Mills, Goods, and Shipring in Dook, F.irmi ng Stock, &c., ~▪ ` the same reduced rates as other respectable Companie s, and make .*chaig e on policies transferred from other offices. In the Lite 9epartment they Conti rite to teansact all business ✓atin to Lie Assi.ances, Annuities, and Family Endwmnt, t q' el nn the most f liberal terms ccnsistent with sound princi o ples e an s d enblie security. Loans also are granted on equitable terms to life assurers on life i nt erests or satisfactory person .1 securities. To all agents and sollci. 'X't auctioneers and surveyors, liberal allowances will be made. By order oftbe Directors, "I HJM AS PRICE, Sec. FIDDLE AND PRINCE ALBERT'S PATTERN PLATE. AB. SAVORY and SONS, Manufacturing i Silversmiths, 14, Cornhill, London, opposite the Bank of 1 ,. illand.—The best wrought SILVER SPOONS and FORKS, ilddle Pattern, 7s. 2d. per ounce ; the Prince AlUert's Pattern, si l , „_' 6 d. per ounce. The articles may be had lighter or heavier, at the ' Ol l l price per ounce :- I,,!Prince O. Table Spoons 30at 7 210 15 112 Table Spoons 40at7 6...15 0 11 . Dessert ditto 90 73 7 3 4112 Dessert ditto 26 7 6... 9 15 0 il Table Forks 30 7T 10 15 o i te Table Forts 40 7 C.. 15 0 0 1 I 3 essert ditto 20 7 2 7 3 4112 Dessert ditto es 7 6... 915 0 4 Gravy spoons 10 7 2 3 11 8: 2 Gravy Spoons 12 7 8... 4 10 1 ! °SI P Ladle 18 7 2318 8 1 1 Soup L adle 12 7 8... 410 0 . -..uee slate 10 78318 6, 4 Sauce ditto 12 8 0 ... 416 0 Salt Simons (gilt stront) 1 001 4 Salt Spoons (stronggilt) 2 2 0 t Flo, g l . F 1 2 , ice 210Oi 1 Fish Slice llO 0 1 'en Spoons 10 7 5... 310 8 I'l- Tea Spoons 14 8 0... 511 8 Pair Sugar Tongs Ol5 (1 Pair Sugar Tongs 1 5 6 it t(Pogrs. Savory anti Sons recommend the Prince filbert's pattern. ,___LL l very novel and of unexampled Iseauty. FREE TRADE! FREE TRADE! IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT! kl . /le Public are specially informed that during the re . ereeti o n of jr,..IOSES and SON'S premises in Aldgate , the entrance to their - "ord•lishment is only at IM, Minories. I et the Public observe that we never are found To take up a theme on political ground ; And no such allusion, of cosarse, will be made In the following hints with regard to" Free '1 rade." Our meaning need not he mistaken by one— For we mean a "Free Trade" with E. MOSES and SON. Long, long have we struggled to bring this about, And the thing is effected, beyond any doubt : To the east and the west our goods we send forth, And we send to the south, and we send to the north; 'Phrouglaout the whole world (wheresoever it be) The trade of E. MOSES and SUN has been " free." • ~ And still through the glorious efforts they've made Shall the warehouse of Moses bi , crown'd with " Free Trade." While the Public, united, shall ' league" as in one To e s t a bli s h " Free Trade" with E. MOSES and SON. nurrahl for their noble achievements, hurrah I Let the lament their houses be sounded afar! Let Fame about it forth with a trumpeter's mouth, In the cast and the west, and the north and the mouth— s Yea, let the whole universe cry, as in one, "Free Trade is establish'd with MOSES and SON!" 4 .wew work, entitled " THE COMM ERCIAL PHENO- 4 . 1 0%) * " with full directions for Self-Measurement, en applies. 'el swill be forwarded poet free. !lei, . r , t; i. READY hILRE. Xs. d. .If t 0 • wen.- •••••••••••••• ••••••••••• 100 fYom I 9 6 b,;!6 t ‘ heterfields dittot odringtons ............... ........ .... .... .............• 0 13 6 Petril.r , lcvs, Athols, Peltoos, and every description of ... o wintsv Coat, handsom e ly t r i m med I R 11 S 6 ii : i s. winter Coats, in every sty l e ......... W m Winter Trousers, lined Ditto Doeskin Dress Coats, edged, 0 10 Q frock ditro,ditto •• 41".... ........ "......... ..... . ..." ..... ..•.. 1 0 te 1 3 9 11 • 1 104 Cellar V est...• Ils ouble-Isreasted Ditto" ............. '. 0 1 9 2 6 B ' o Hussar Suits to II "......•••••• 10 17 6 braic i l i ed ADß • 18 6 1 1 1101 e. ne a tly TO MIZAMURE. ._. - Sale Gotha Coats, velvet cellar and cuffs from 1 IS ..,,,:i.nter Coats, in every style and Shape, handsomely trimmed I 5 0 Z"led Tweed Wrappers ............. ................. ... ............ .... 0 17 6 t u t e t k o s l i i n tto ra , i Tr tt :users 4 II 6 0 12 6 skin Ditto Is . r . iTiia ... tiern ........ ....... .... . .. .. . ...... 3 , or Dre ss Trousers ..........-.. ...... 1 6 0 -- Ve5t.,",...„,..,...... ...... ... ....................... .... ........ 0 7 1 tits - b' zi ,4 mouserlnt Ditto, in endless pattern ............ Coat ... .......• 1 12 • ;Ito, dioattto, 1 15 best manufactured 2 15 0 Li, k C 0 4 do, the best manufactured t ;:it 1 $ 11 ' Hussar Suit 1 7 0 k te Tunic ettrniug to any extent can be had at firs minutes notice, at the following prices:— Il ea's Suits dress coat, vest, and trousers, from 1 16 jacket, ll , ditto, vest, and trousers from 01$ 0 tt " , POI I .7A/IT. Any article purchased or ordered, if not approved , exchanged, or the money returned. ~,,,Uhserve—E. MOSES and SOl4, Tailors, Wholesale and Retail Z • u, len Drapers Outfitters, and General Warehousemen, 154. Mi r,r'ee. and 06, it7ldgate, City, opposite the Church. ' , Wrists ___E„ Moses and Son are obliged to guar the public itlelst imposition, having learned that the untradesmanlike h ehood of being connected with them, or it's the same concern, . 1 .,r been resorted to in many instances, and for obvious reasons. iZ 6'a e7 have no connexion whatever with any other establishment , 4 those who desire genuine Cheap Clothing should ( to p i e vont a PPomtment, &c.) call or send to, 154, Minories, or 80, Aldgate t 'll i esite the Church. p.ll }l . No business transacted at this Establishment from sunset on , till au nset on :Aaturday, when business is resumed till twelve 0 0,,, POST.OFFICE.—CAUTION. PRICE and CO., perfumers to her Majesty, 28, Lombard-street (late Price and Gosnell's, and formerly Pat eYs Mutts, Price, and Co's.), by the recommendation of the Se_ 'e LtarY of the Post.office, beg to " impres s u p on their Corre rndents the necessity of precision In the a ddress of all letters in. : t atted for them," thus—" Price and Ce." (and n ot " P rice and s antll"--that firm ceased to . exist in 1831), as the only means of rutrding against the fnt conduct of take Land retain totters and raudule individuals orders intended for Price and Co., who by it. 1744 assuming the firm of " Price and Gosnell , " well knowing l it they never were in any way connected with that firm OTHERWISE THAN AS SERVANTS. Price and Co.'s Perfumery is so superior to any ether, and in inch ie neral demand, that many shopkeepers are b as e l y deceivin g the Pu blic by selling's urious imitations. Price and Co. respect ` . 411 Y solicit Ladies and Gentlemen when they p ur c h a se not S. e ke , any article without the protection labe l, from a design by Sir "liliara C.ngreve, being affixed to it, with the signature of ~P rice, nd Co. Lombard-street," in red ink, and "28" conspi. %lowly In its centre. Price and Co. are the sole Wholesale Agents for DELCROIX'S KALYDOR, Vrench cosmetic, surpassing all others for prese rvin g and beau ring the Complexion, prepared for the use of her meet g racious alesty the Queen, and her Majesty the Queen Dowager, by es 14tiai command, and protected by letters patent. Price 4s. dd. DELCROIX'S MACASSAR OIL, the use ender the sanction of the " Lords ef the Treasury , " for Oge ef her most gracious Majesty and their Royal Highnesses be Prince ef Wales, the Princess Royal, kc., is also protected by Wo elegantly-executed, correct likenesses, in embossed medallions, I t her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert. Price id. DELCROIX'S °DONT& ‘ We do mot hesitate to recommend, from experience, DEL. 'nOIX`B ODONTO, er the Queen's own Dentifrice, as the most " ll isble means of purifying, preserving , and embellishin g the aTeeth and Guns, hitherto ofltred to the Public."—Conrt Gazette. c . The Bouquet Duke of York u the last new fashionable i"furno of the season 1844 ; but though the last, is net the least tZelfeetlon, as it happily combines the p recedin g excellence of all royal bouquets, with the delicate and de licious fra g rawce of the 10 Int. mess rose. Let him who is a true horn gentleman, And stands upon the honour of his birth If he suppose that I have pleaded truth— From off this briar pluck a white rose with me. I tessrs. Delcrolx and Co., 15$ , New Bond-street , have pleas ur e th:" er ing this their last bouquet of the season, and be g to inform Nohtlity and their Patrons that, during the recess, all orders .. ° F their " unique eadeau" of a case containing the six royal bou get, for one guinea, comprising the bouquets de la Reine, d'Alhert, Al k b ce of Wales Duke of York, Princesse Royale , a n d Pr i n cesse . 1 ,:!e. will be forwarded to any part of the c ountr y , carria g e p aid. tha lasure the gennine, particular attention is required in observing l!i•• 156, New Pond-street, London, be upon each case and " I 'settle, as worthless counterfeits, for the sake of Froth, are b y Druggists and Hairdressers in town and country. SHAVING A LUXURY. PRICEIL, and CO.'s ItYPOPHAGON surpas s es ever y soa p ever er 'ted for shaving. One trial will prove that the luxury of a toed shave can be enjoyed only by those wit. u se Price and Co.'s aß;:l' h alon. which renders shavieg (hitherto disagreeable and patnfull pleasant and easy. tosPrepared by Price and Co., 2s, Lombard - street ( late P rice aid a n ta d and sold by Delcroix and Co. , 15 S , No w Bend-street, no where else in London, price Ss. Ild per pot, Is. per square, cakes for boxes Is. 6d. and 25. sd. 4,, 4 ... Mr. Price will have pleasure in presenting any brother rn the do"vbeiller With a square of the Itypophagon gratuitously, who may -41, 4 honour of 3 oal! 'at blontpellieu ouse, 2e, Lombard. 5 i ..... n FOGS AND DAMP AIR. BARCLAY'S AS . I H mATic CANDY has, tri m th, f9r many years, been proved an . effectual Preservative li e . he 4 e . ff o ects of the Fogs and Damp Air, which, in the Winter prevalent in . this Climate. Its effects are to expel t ° rev' t° preserve the Stomach from the admission . of Damps, and p 'eve those who suffer from DifEcilty of Breathing. 1 4 Pa oh r " only by Barclay and Sons, 95, I arringdon.street, 150 ,-,-- I and Sold Retail, by their appointment, by Sanger, 4,4 ,,x ford.street ; Gifford, hut, and H. Burfield, ISO, Strand; itngzton .. h ' '".. Cornfaill ; Hallows, Druggist, High street, Is all r„.-; H udebourck, Druggist, Church street, Hackney ; and by fais:Pectble Medicine Venders in Town and Country. el) n , a " -- None can be genuine, unless the names of "Barclay and re on the Stamp affixed to , each Box. fi e • - - • /. ere-- 1 •t• .„ • • , , ,/,--C• I --te 4 4 . ;.‘ "1 " KAF- 37 ,6PAPIO N * 1 t:- _L',4lllll, - rm. gg , & I 77,7-7 L in respect to Ireland. The Charitable Bequests Act, and the arrangements made with certain members of the Irish Romanist hierarchy, to act under Govern ment appointment in carrying its provisions into effect, is the cause of the present clamour. The Church of England has quietly enough submitted to place some of its most important interests in the hands of Commissioners to be appointed by the Civil Government, but the Romish Church in Ireland cannot so easily brook such interference : "In the first pla ce , it pl aces th e nomination of com missioners entirely in the hands of the existing Go vernment, whether they be Whigs or Tories, pre tended favourers of Catholic claims, or open and avowed antagonists of a Church which is pronounced by law, as by their favoured organs, idolatrous in its tenets and in its practices. If it be their will, at any moment, they can turn the three present Bishops adrift, and appoint in their place three pliant tools fitted for the worst purposes of corruption or tyranny. Suppose the Act good—that it did not revive the penal spirit of the Relief (!) Bill—that it did not out law an exemplary, useful body of men and citizens — that, in fine, it was unexceptionable in all its remain ing clauses—still, it is dangerous in the power of nomination by the Government, and the facility of removal at will. The second section does provide that ' five, and not more: than five, shall at all times be persons professing the Roman Catholic religion,' Why not say that three of the five shall at all times be Archbishops or Bishops of the Catholic Church ? Oh, no! professing Catholics, who have a religion to sell, are far more valuable to an English, Protestant Government than Bishops who have a Church to guard, and a people to defend." Such sentiments from the organ of the Romish priests in the south of Ireland show very clearly how much has been done by " concession" to reconcile these persons to the sway of an " English Protestant Government." The storm, however, is but in its begir.ning. Unless the discipline belonging to the Romish system shall pre vent it, we must have, ere long, a hurricane of Agita tion in the Hiberno-Romish Church. NO TEST IN THE UNIVERSITIES. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR,—If the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge were schools merely for the education of young men to serve as ministers in the Established Church, it would be fit and proper that such parties should be required to subscribe to the articles of the Reformed Liturgy in the fullest intent and meaning of the Pro testant compilers ; but when we find that members of the Universities can take degrees in law, physic, and music, I can see no reason why in this age such parties should be called upon to subscribe to a par ticular religious creed. Let the candidate for ordination be put to as severe a test as possible in order to prove his allegiance to the Protestant faith, but there is no necessity that this should be required until he desires to hold office in the Ecclesiastical Establishment; and I would go even further, and require that every minister should be required once or oftener every year to renew his protestation in his parish church in the face of the whole congregation. We find that times and circum stances in the political world often alter the opinions of Ministers of State—why, then, may we not expect that times and circumstances may alter the opinions as to doctrine of ministers of religion ? These parties having most conscientiously subscribed to the Protes tant Articles of Religion at ordination, too often remain outwardly members of a Church that inwardly they repudiate, merely for the sake of its temporal emoluments—hence the true necessity for an oc casional renewal of the test of adherence to the articles of religion of the Church in which they are ministers. This would sufficiently protect the Church of England from all but the perjured. From what I have read of " The Ideal of a Church," I feel bound to say, that I think the acknowled,red author, the Rev. W. G. Ward, a jesuitical intruder into our boasted Protestant Church ; but is that any reason why he should be deprived of being a member of the University of Oxford, or of enjoying any honour therein that his ability or talents have won, provided such honour might be held by a layman ? I think not. Test, or no test, has long been an agitated question. " Now's the tune, and now's the hour !"—let the struggle be bold and undaunted, and victory will soon be proclaimed. The 13th of February will not take place until the Thursday week after the first meeting of Parliament. There will be plenty of time to debate the subject, in order to make it a popular one, but not long enough to settle the question ; still it will be preparing matters so as to get the support intimately of those whom the proposed test will shut out if adopted—and if not adopted, on what ground is Mr. Ward to be allowed to remain a member of the University of Ox ford, and to retain his honours and fellowship, and professedly Roman Catholics and Protestant Non conformists excluded ? I declare myself to be a staunch member of the Protestant Church of England, and would strongly oppose the introduction of anything Popish into our churches which our Protestant forefathers have dis carded ; at the same time, I would give to Roman Catholics equal civil privileges, and protect them in the observance of all the rites and ceremonies of their Church, so long as they confine the performance of them within the walls of their own fabrics. Make the Universities schools for the education of those intended as ministers of the Church of England only, then put what Protestant test you please ; but when it is a school for general purposes, I say, abolish all tests. This letter, of itself, will have no weight at all. I merely address you in hopes to call your attention to the subject, so that you may throw your best ener gies to aid a subject which you hare on many pre vious occasions so ably advocated. I am, Sir, yours, &c., Ilfracombe, Dec. 26, 1844. R. W. D. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. COURSING. BROUGH AND HORNBY MEETING.—The Eight-dog Stakes were won by Mr. Maxwell's Seymour. The Brough Cup (8 dogs) was won by Mr. Mangle's BeIlona; and the Ilornby Cup by Mr. Mangle's Major. BELSAT CLUB MEETING.—The Sweepstakes (16 dogs) were won by Mr. Thompson's Cerberus ; Mr. Kirkly's Coiherstone ran up. MORPETH CLUB MITFORD MEETING, DEC. 23 AND 24.—The Borough Stakes of 3 guineas each (16 subs.) were won by Mr. Jobling's Miner ; Mr. Braithwaite's Miss Jane ran up. HUNTING APPOINTMENTS. Mr. Drax's hds., ,Mon., Aims Bills ; Fri., Holnest Kennel. Essex Union hds., Wed., Tiptree Windmills ; Sat, Moor Gardens. Badsworth hds., Tues., Wentbridge ; Thurs., Robin Hood's Well ; Sat., Ackworth Moor Top-10i. Mr. Foljambe's hds., Mon., Blythe Law Hill ; Tues., North Carlton ; Thurs., Rossington Bridge ; Fri., Headon Clump-10i. Rutiord hds., Mon., Kennels ; Wed,, Ossington ; Sgt., 14,ng with Bridge. Quorn lids., Mon., Shearsby Inn ; Tues., Steward Hay ; .Thurs., Rolleston Ball ; Fri., Widmerpool Inn-101. Pytchley hds., Mon., Buttock's Booth ; Wed., Kilworth Hall ; Fri., Spratton Bridge ; Sat., Sulby llall-10i. Heythrop lids., Mon., Chapel House ; Wed., Blenheim ; Fri., Addlestrop Gate ; Sat., Ditchley-101. Thanet harrs., Mon., Hale; Wed., Manston Wood-101. East Kent hds., Mon., Sellinge Les; Wed., Black Mile; Fri., Sweech Gate-101. Somerset Subscription hds., Tues., Aisholt Wood; Sat., Stowly Wood-101. Bedale hds., Tues., .1 iepswell Village; Thurs., Scorton; Sat., Busby Stoop-101. Hurwith hds., Tue.., Enter Common ; Sat., Middleton One Row-101. Lieut.-Colonel Hildyard's harrs., Mon., Acklam Blue Bell; Wed., Kennels; Fri., Trenholm Bar-10i. Durham County lids., Mon., Sunderland Bridge; Wed., Chester Lane; Fri., Thornley—lol. • Whitehaven ,harrs., Mon., Leys (Lamplugh)l Wed., Distington-10. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. PORTSMOUTH, DEC. 27.—The Lily, 16, was commis sioned on Monday by Commander C. J. F. Newton. The Locust steam-vessel was commissioned by Lieute nant Henry Eden (1837) on Tuesday. The Siren, 16, was dismasted on Tuesday, having been paid off. The Comet steam-vessel, Lieut.-Commander Pretty man, returned on Wednesday from Chatham. The Lightning steam-vessel, Master-Commander Ro berts, arrived from Sheerness on Wednesday, with ma rines from the Queen and Hornet, belonging to the Ports - mouth division. The Avon Royal Mail (West India) steamer, docked on Monday for repair, was found to require none, and consequently she left the dock on Tuesday, and pro ceeded to Southampton on Thursday. The Emerald tender, which proceeded to Devonport on Saturday, with supernumeraries for the vessels fitting out there, returned on Wednesday. The Mercury tender returnc d from the relief of the wind-bound vessels in the Channel on Thursday. The Lightning steam-vessel, Master-Commander W. Roberts, left last evening for Devonport , with up wards of seventyand supernumeraries for the ships fittinout a Chatham Sheerness. They were chiefly newly`entered hands. The royal yacht Victoria and Albert is ordered to bo paid off immediately. When re-commissioned she will only have one lieutenant The Nautilus, tender to the yacht, is also to be paid off. The Vindictive, 50, is ordered to be fitted for sea ser vice immediately. The orders arrived yesterday. She will be fitted for a flag. In Harbour —The Victory, Excellent,Vietorieuse (flag hulk), Nautilus (tender), Sparrow (ketch), the Comet, Echo, Dwitef, and Fearless (steam-vessels), Lily and Diligence (naval transports). In Dock—The St. Vincent, Prince Regent, Victoria and Albert, Vengeance, and Athol. In the Basin—The Neptune, Magicienne, and Locust. CHATHAM, DEC. 27.—The Rolla, 10 guns, is ordered to be immediately fitted for commissioning. The Pearl, 18 guns, was put out of dock on Thursday, the 26th inst.; and the Fantome, 16 guns, Commander Sir Frederick Nicholson, taken in to clean her bottom. She will go out again in a day or two, Aqien the Cowing, No. 16 5 :339. LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING SII PI7 DECEMBER '2B, 1844. PRIG sd. THE SUN is Published EVERY MORNING at FIVE O'CLOCK, in Time for ike EARLY TRAINS and TOWN DELIVERY; a SECOND EDITION (Evening Sun) is Pahliotke4 in Time for the :AFTERNOON TRAINA and a THIRD .EDITION at SEVEN O'CLOCK, for POST, costaiming PARLIAMENTARY and all other NEWS in LONDON up to that flour. ADVERTISEMENTS INSERTED in ALL THE THREE PAPERS, Morning Noon, and Night, thereby insuring a TOWN and COUNTRY CIRCULATION, at ONE CHARGE. MISS MARTINEAU'S STATEMENT. A FEW WORDS of COMMENT in THE ATHENAIUM of THIS DAT. BUILDING SOCIETIES-WINDOW DUTIES. THE BUILDER, No. 99, of TIIIB DAY, con tains a beautiful Illustration of the Confessional Chair in Len ham Church--Willoughby Wilton's Fourth Letter on Building So cieties—Petition of the Society of Master Carpenters for a repeal of Window Duties—Shed on the Eastern Counties Railway—lmprove ments in the Tower—Novel Proposition to koep Dover Harbour claar of Shingles—Society for Improving C Hazes—Notices of Contracts, Tenders, Competitions, Timber Sales, &c.; and the Architectural New of the week. Price Id. . Offlee, 2, York-street, Covent-garden ; and all Booksellers. A GIFT FOR THE NEW TEAR. THE SPLENDID PANORAMA of LONDON from the THAMES, a most beautiful Engraving, 11 feet In length, Is given to all purchasers of the PICTORIAL TIMES for December 28, Jainary 4, 11, and 18. A remittance of 2s. 3d. In Postage Stamps will ensure the delivery of the Engraving and the four week's papers through the Post, (Mice, 135, Fleet-street. NEW SPELLING BOOK, BY MRS. MARCET. 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Notes of Leading Cases.—Digest of Cases.—Events of the Quarter.— . . supposed to be the Brazilian schooner Aventura, with four hundred slaves on board ; of the destruction of the Brazilian slave-brigantine Piedade, completely equipped for the slave trade, by her Majesty's sloop Albatross ; and of the capture of the Spanish slave-brigantine Andaz, completely equipped for the slave trade, on the 25th September last, by her Majesty's steam-sloop Ptometheus; of the capture of the Spanish slave schooner Concepcion, on the 23d September last, by her Majesty's steam sloop Growler ; of the detention, on the 30th August last, of a brigantine, name unknown, completely fitted for the slave trade, by her Majesty's sloop Star ; of the detention of a Brazilian felucca, called II Grande Poder do Dios, bound to Bahia, with forty slaves on board, by her Majesty's sloop Wasp ; of the capture of a schooner, fully equipped for the slave trade, supposed to be the Virginia or Alerto, but without papers of any kind, by her Majesty's steam-ship Penelope, which ship had also driven on shore and destroyed a smaller schooner, of about forty tons, equipped for the slave trade, and probably Brazilian. The Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty have pro moted Mr. John Francis Tottenham, mate of the Hya cinth, to the rank of Lieutenant. LORI) CHAMBERLAIN'S-OFFICE, DEC. 27. The Lord Chamberlain of her Majesty's Household has appointed the Hon. Mortimer Sackville West to be one of the Gentlemen Ushers Quarterly Waiters in Or dinary to her Majesty, in the room of the Hon. Heneage Legge, deceased. DOWNING-STREET, DEC. 24. The Queen has been pleased to appoint Frederick Sedley, Esq., to be Inspector of Police for the island of Malta. week ending Dec. (44, 1844, is 30s. 81c1. per cwt., exclusive of the Duties of Customs paid or payable thereon on the im portation thereof into Great Britain POLICE INTELLIGENCE. (YESTERDAY.) MANSION-ROUSE. A man, named Benjamin Lambourn, was brought before the Lord Mayor, charged by the Directors of the Commercial and General Life Insurance Office with having forged a bill of exchange for the pay ment of 150/., with intent to defraud the Company. Mr. Humphreys, fer the prosecution, stated that in - March, 1843, the prisoner applied at the Commercial and General Life Insurance Company for cash fur a bill of 3001., and obtained it, upon the understanding that the bill should be reduced by quarterly payments, and that upon each reduction a new bill should be given. Reductions had taken place, the quarterly payments having been made until the amount of the debt was 1.501., when, upon failure of payment of the regular instalment, it was discovered that the last bill was a forgery as to the acceptor and some of the indorsers. Mr. Frederick Lawrence, Secretary to the Com mercial and General Life Insurance Company, stated that in the month of March, 1843, the Company re ceived from the prisoner a bill of exchange of 3001., drawn by Richard Lambourn, and accepted by Thos. Ratley, of NsW. 7, Ivy-terrace, Horton, and indorsed "Benjamin. Balls,. Richard Lambourn, Samuel Long, Joseph Donovan, and Benjamin Lambourn" (tile prisoner). That bill was renewed for the smaller amounts as the instalments were paid, upon several occasions, each bill bearing the same names as drawer, acceptor, and indorsers. On or about the 7th of September inst. the prisoner brought the present bill for 1501., as a renewal of the preceding bill. It purported to be drawn by Richard Lambourn, and accepted by Thomas Ratley, payable to the drawer's order three months' after date, and purporting to be accepted and indorsed as the former bills had been. That bill came to maturity on the 10th of Deeember inst., and was dishonoured and noted. The full amount of the bill was due to the Company, Henry George Ward, the Member for Sheffield, and others. The LORD MAYOR—Have all the bills the Com pany received from the prisoner bore the same in dorsements? Witness—Yes, the same names. Here the prisoner, upon being asked whether he wished to ask the witness any questions, replied in the negative, but he wished for a remand. The LORD MArox said he should be ruled by the nature of the evidence whether or not to grant an other remand. Thomas Batley, of No. 7, Ivy-terrace, Hoxton, head waiter to Messrs. King and I3rymer, of Corn hill, stated that he had accepted bills for the prisoner, but it was a long time ago. He had not, to the best of his belief, accepted a bill so lately for the prisoner as two years ago. The acceptance to the bill pro duced was not in his handwriting, ner had his name been written by his authority. The prisoner—About the middle of the year 1843 were you not confined by illness to your bed ? Wit ness—l was. The prisoner—That's all the questions I wish to ask you. Samuel Long, of No, 93, High-street, Marylebone, licensed victualler, stated that about March, 1843, he indorsed a bill for 3001., at the request of the pri soner, at his own house. The prisoner subsequently requested him to renew the bill, but he refused to do so until he should see the old bill. He accordingly went to the Company's offices, where he saw the old bill, erased his name, and accepted a bill for, he had no doubt, 2731., for the prisoner. Witness never in dorsed any other bill for the prisoner. The indorse ment, " Samuel Long," upon the bill ;produced, was not his handwriting, neither had he authorised any one to write it. Joseph Donovan, fishmonger, of 292, Oxford street, stated that at the prisoner's request he in dorsed in the beginning of the year, 1843, a bill for 3001. He afterwards went in company with Mr. Long to the Company's offices, and saw the old bill, from which he erased his name, and he indorsed a bill for 2751. Subsequently he cut his name out of the bill for 2751., and he had never indorsed a bill since that period for the prisoner. The signature, " Joseph Donovan," to the bill produced, was not his, nor had it been sanctioned by him. Mr. Humphreys said that no doubt the signature of the drawer was genuine. The LORD MAYOR—The case is complete. I can see no ground for granting a remand of the prisoner. The prisoner—Mr. Balls, whose name is on the back of the bill, my Lord, is not in the Court. The LORD MAYOR—It is not necessary ; here are two of the indorsers, who swear that their names have been forged. Besides, I am not trying the case. I commit upon the evidence I have just heard. The prisoner—l was told that if I would make up a certain amount of money, the Company would exonerate me from a prosecution. The Secretary to the Company most positively denied that any proposition of the kind had been made upon the part of the Company, or that he had made any such intimation to the prisoner. The LORD MAYOR (to the prisoner)—You mean that you were given to understand by somebody, that if you did as you sa3r, you would not be prose cuted ? The prisoner —Yes, my Lord. Mr. Goodman (the Chief Clerk) —Do you wish to sign the statement you have just made ? The prisoner—No; I don't see any occasion for that. The prisoner was then committed for trial. The Lord Mayor received from A. B. 2/. ; and from T. Moore, Esq., 1/. ls., for the poor-box. BANK OF ENGLAND. (From Friday Night's Gazette.) An Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and stb of Vic toria, cap. 32, for the Week ending on Saturday, the 21st day of December, 1844. ISSUE DZPARTMENT. X. Notes issued ... 28,151,730 GoTernment debt 11,015,100 Other securities 2,984,900 Gold coin aid bullion Silver bullion £ 2 8,151,730 li. MA Dated the 26th day of Dei X 28,151,730 ,SHALL, Chief Cashier. !mber, 1844. BANKING D X. :PART3IIi2iT. Proprietors' capi tal 14,553,000 Rest 3,110,513 Public deposits (including Ex chequer,Savings banks, Comanis sioners of Na tional Debt, and dividend ac- Government seen rities (includ ingllead Weight Annuity) 13,540,619 Other securities 10,763,777 Notes Gold and silver coin counts) 7,075,258 Other deposits Seven day and other bills 967,934 534,055,443 1 Di. MA . Dated the 26th day of Del £34,055,443 RSHALL, Chief Cashier. !ember, 1844. STATE OF TRADE. Very few vessels have yet been able to work their way to port, and the imports of the week are conse quently very unimportant. The amount of shipping now due, and, indeed, known to be in the immediate vicinity, is probably greater than at any former period, and the new year will consequently be entered upon with larger sup plies of produce of all sorts ; meanwhile the sufferings from severe weather of the crews on board ships, many of which will also have run short of provisions, must be very intense. There has been a large business in cottoa this week, and prices of all sorts, but more especially the lower kinds, have improved a shade, whilst the market has been benefited to a greater extent by the different feelings prevalent in busy times to such as are mani fested when selling, not buying, is the cry. Prices are low—lower than they were ever known ; but what is to raise them ? There is a large crop in prospect, and a large import (probably 150,000 bales) to arrive in the next ten days of westerly winds. Take the duty off, and the importer and spe culator will, no doubt, be benefited ; but let not the Manchester anti-corn-law advocates neglect the duty on food for the support of a repeal of the duty on cotton. The manufacturing trade is a good one, the consumption as great as the buildings in existence will allow, and the profits of the year very, very large ; but juSt now there is scarcely an article paying duty, or a trade under the influence of the Excise, which the parties most interested are not attempting to relieve by seeking a repeal of duty. In produce generally there is not much doing, and it is to be regretted that the Liverpool buyers and sellers do not act after the example of their London friends, and reduce their transactions at this (always a dull) season to the smallest possible extent. • There has been a continuance of animation in the share market, and large profits have no doubt been reaped this year ; this has had the effect of nearly doubling the number of brokers to do the work, and altogether this seems the most lucrative and improving business of the day. There is no lack of money, and all fears of a scarcity are long since dissipated.— Liverpool Mercury. I Irish echo; and it is more apt to soar into a counter-harangue than to subside into the modesty of a reply. But, in this instance, with the excep tion of the treaty with Morocco, which is very happily disposed of by the words " Peace has been as prompt as victory," the speech appears to contain no allusion to the great questions of the session—the Education Bill, the much-desired grant to the Duke de Nemours, the state of Spain, or any present negotiations, or future acts of legislative importance. We should be ungrateful, however, if we did not acknowledge with the greatest satisfaction the terms in which the King speaks, not only of the marks of reciprocal friendship which he has received from the Queen of England, but of the manifestations in favour of the long dura tion of the general peace, which met his Majesty at every turn in this country. The visits of a Queen of England to France and of a King of France to England, at a time when the malignity and intem perance of party warfare had fastened upon our in ternational relations, are memorable triumphs of the personal dignity and good feeling of the two Sovereigns over all petty causes of jealousy and strife ; and they will not be without their just effect on the approaching debate. We have often had occasion to point out the vices of the system of political discussion practised in the French assemblies, where the debate is alto gether artificial, and got up for the occasion, not growing out of the importance of the subjects or the pressure of events. The French Opposition have got so much in the habit of speaking without any prac tical question at all before the Chambers, that their annual parade of patriotic sentiments has lost all the spirit and the power of a real political demonstration. Nobody doubts the sincerity of their zeal to turn out the Government ; but it is unfortunate that they have not hit upon a single specific measure of improve ment, or even of a popular character, to which they can attach their efforts, and for which they may claim the efficient support of the interests and opinions of the country. Such an Opposition as this is has all along been treated by the Government with far more respect than it deserved. It has always proved powerless, often insecure. If it had come into office, it would have copied M. Guizot, except in those par ticulars in which M. Guizot has so demeaned himself as to copy the Opposition. Every concession he has made to them, every modification of his own palicy and genuine intentions which he has attempted to justify by his inability to do better, has turned out ill. For acts of this kind were acts which the Opposition itself, if in power, would not have attempted. Their grand object appears to have been to mislead him, like a tra veller in a fog, by false cries ; and, not infrequently, he has thought it safer to trust to the good feeling of his allies than to the good sense of France. But these deviations from the wonted severity of his course have always led to inconvenience, even more at home than abroad ; and we are convinced that if he had always shown a firmer determination to fulfil his whole policy, especially towards this country, he would have stood considerably higher than he does at present; and he would not have left it to others, his opponents, to boast that in their hands the alliance with England would become more secure and more productive than in his own. As far as the party com binations of the Chamber of Deputies are concerned, the French Cabinet runs no risk. The old questions of rightof search and the like will be dressed up for the de bate ; but, like the painted forts and dragon-banners of the Chinese, they were always unreal, and they are now tattered and threadbare. Great questions gain by successive discussions; false ones expire. The soundest part of the Liberal party which acts with M. de Tocqueville and M. Odillon Barrot have severed themselves from M. niers, and they will be joined in their campaign by the knight-errantry of M. de Lamartine, whose ardour to attack the nominal head of the Opposition exceeds even his desire to orerturn the head of the Administration. But, as affecting the great practical questions of the distribu tion of power and the government of the country, all these are outward feints, flourishes, and pretences. The duration of the Administration turns, in reality, on a much Smaller point—a point so small, indeed, that we know not in what corner of the reign of George 111. or George 11. we can find an analo gous case. Whilst the political horseriders and scaramouches are skirmishing round the ring, their master has his place in the centre. The royal will is fixed upon a single object, with the tenacity and with far more than the ingenuity of George 111. It is a peculiarity of the mind and character of the King of the French to make great questions ancillary to small ones. The peace of Europe and the pros perity of France are no doubt the honour of his reign; but one might imagine that the chief object of that reign was to obtain a paltry grant for the Duke de Nemours. Whoever can engage to carry that grant may be Prime Minister of France to-mor row. Already, on the question of the choice of a President for the Chamber of Deputies, the King and the Journal des Debuts support M. Dupin, whilst the Ministry adheres, more from private regard than public gratitude, to M. Sauzet. What can be the reason ? A very slender one. M. Dupin is said to have dropped his resistance to the dotation project; and, if that be true, his assistance will be invaluable in carrying it through the Chamber. Louis Philippe may say with Bishop Phillpotts on a recent occasion —"Paradoxical as it may sound, I rejoice that the battle is to be fought for these trifles.' The more contemptible is the object in view, the more absolute is that power, the more crafty is the skill, which can accomplish it in the teeth of the whole nation. At such times as these, with an attempt on the one hand to exasperate and delude the public mind against the best foreign ally of France, and a preconceived resolution on the part of the Crown to risk so much in order to gain so little, the path of a French statesman is neither straight nor smooth. But the more necessary it is for the man who stands at the head of affairs in that country to defy calumny, and to crush intrigue by the whole weight of his per sonal dignity, and a firm adherence to his political principles. His antagonists may hope to clamber into office by promising what he could not do ' • but they would remain there only by completing what lie has left undone. For the real interests of our own country and of our relations with France, it is now of comparatively small importance who may hold office there ; for almost all parties seem agreed that our good will is more desirable than our enmity, and the politicians who have talked loudest of war in Opposition, would be equally strenuous partisans of peace when in power. But a Government brought in by such means would inspire no confidence at home or respect abroad. It would owe its hybrid existence to a popular delusion crossed by a royal intrigue, and we confidently anticipate that the des tinies of France will not be transferred from the hands of those who have now governed them for more than four years. POST.—The political " understanding" between Great Britain and the Court of Rome, for ecclesiasti cal and general purposes, to which we alluded yester day, has already become a topic of no small alarm among the fiercely radical body of the Maynooth priesthood in Ireland. Hints are already muttered of throwing off allegiance to the Pope, and to this extremity we doubt not the Irish priests might come. They could soon make a Pope of their own. Nay, the mitred brawler of Tuam is almost ready-made to their hand, and very much suited, in all respects, to their taste. The organ of the Romish priests in the metropolis of the south of Ireland, exclaims, in alarm 1—" It is more than a rumour that Rome and England are now forming an alliance, by which the former is to give into the hands of the latter power over the Irish Church. On this subject we shall not dwell. It is startling as painful, and reflects no honour either on the policy of the Court of Rome, or on the Government of England. It would be a base betrayal of a faithful fold on the one hand ; and a mean, underhand, per fidious, but characteristic scheme on the other. To be sure, the question—one full of imminent peril to our beleaguered Church, and our endangered libettles---would arise, whether the clergy , and people of Ireland would obey the delegated autho rity,the spiritual oh o to h hti e ei d dt i e es c cp e ho o ra f a,_ t ,l h r ip e s C swa a e t t.r h i o o e l f, i this ah Protestant e qr r ou g te y ess or acknowltdge the right of Rome to make aver t a tia n o n d n t m G must laity o; c Vo t f; :m rlfir e lliel on for future discussion, and is only adverted to now to give the reader some notion of the many meshes which the hostile Anti-Catholic and Anti-Irish spirit of our hereditary and still-envenomed oppressor is preparing to enfold our Church and enslave our own people." There is nothing new in the doubt ex pressed in the above extract, whether the Romish Church in Ireland would obey the see of Rome, if that see should withdraw its countenance from the dominating policy which the Maynooth clergy have ever aimed at. That threat of separation has been said to have operated more than once upon the policy of the Vatican, and unless some new agent be at work, of which Lord Aberdeen and the Pope know more than we do, it may very possibly operate again. Rome would not willingly lose such a province as Ireland, and how she is to retain it, except by giving way to the will of her Hibernian subjects, does not very clearly appear. To yield, for the sake of go vernmg, has been her policy for the Last twenty years List of New Publications.—Postscript. *„* The Digest will henceforth contain all the Cases in all the Courts of Law and Equity reported in the Standard Reports, and will he separately paged, and form a distinct work in itself. London : William limning and Co., Law Booksellers, 43, Fleet-street. 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One persona visit only is necessary to effect *permanent cure FRIDAY NIGHT'S GAZETTE AMUR ALTY, DEC. 27, 1844. The Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty have re ceived from Commodore Jones, the senior officer of her Majesty's squadron on the west coast of Africa, a letter, inclosing one from Commander Scott, of the Hyacinth, of which the following is a copy :—. " Her Majesty's ship Hyacinth, Aug. 13, 1844. " Sir,—l have the honour to request that you will be pleased to bring under the favourable notice of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, the following account of the gallant and dashing behaviour of the officer belonging to the ship named in the margin,* which will, I hope, obtain for him that promotion he is, in every respect, most worthy of. On the 12th of August, in or about lat. 15 south, longitude 11 deg. 30m. east, when eff Fish Bay, I sent Mr. Tottenham, in a four-oared gig with one spare hand, to communicate with the Portuguese Governor. The weather became thick, and he missed his port, but, knowing that this ship was working along the coast, anchored for the night, and pulled to the southward. On the morning of the 13th he discovered a brig at anchor, without colours, and saw her slip and make sail, on which he gave chase, being to windward, and the breeze light, he was enabled to approach her weather beam, and fired a musket ahead to induce her to heave to, and show her colours ; this and a second was disre garded, but a port was open and a gun run out and brought to bear on the boat, which caused the officer to pull into her wake, when part of the crew of the brig commenced firing musketry, while the others got the gun on the poop, and pointed it at the boat. Mr. Tottenham now commenced firing, as fast as the spare hand could load for hins, being just able to keep way with the brig ; having hit four of the men on board, they left the gun, and after firing muskets for twenty minutes, finding they were unable to weather the land or tack, without being boarded by the boat, they ran the brig on shore, and abandoned her, to the number of eighteen, including three wounded men, bearing another mortally wounded (since dead), on board. In the course of the afternoon, the brig was dis covered on shore from the masthead of this. ship, which stood in, and anchored, and hove her off, when she proved to be of two hundred tons, with out papers, a Brazilian ensign in the cabin, fully equipped for conveying about one thousand slaves, two guns of four pounds calibre loaded, a barrel of powder, and a quantity of langridge shot, a number of muskets, swords, and bayonets on the deck. Almost every bullet expended in the gig was traced by me to the gun carriage, or its immediate vicinity on the poop; and I trust that the coolness, decision, and gallantry displayed by Mr. Tottenham, on this occasion, may obtain for him the rank of lieutenant , for which he passed in 1841. I have the honour, &c. (Si g ned) F. SCOTT, Commander. To Captain Jones, Commander-in-Chief of her Majesty's Ships and Vessels, West Coast of Africa. And the Commodore has also informed them of the capture of her Majesty's sloop Ferret, on the 28th Sep tember last, of a schooner, without colours or papers, but * Mr. John Francis Tottenham, mate. WHITEHALL. DEC. 26. The Queen has been pleased to direct letters patent to be passed under the Great Seal, granting the dignity of a Knight of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland unto Chevalier Robert Schomburgh, recently at the head of the expedition for exploring the boundaries of the colony of British Guiana. OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, DEC. 26. Corps of Royal Engineers —Second Captain A. Gordon to be Captain vice Rutherford, retired on full-pay; First Lieut. R. G. H amilton to be Second Captain, vice Gordon ; Second Lieutenant E. W. Ward. to be First Lieutenant vice Hamilton, Dec. 18 ; First Lieutenant H. W. Lu gard, to be Second Captain, vice Harness, seconded ; Second Lieutenant W. H. Jesse to be First Lieutenant, vice Lugard, Dec. 20. Royal Regiment of Artillery—Gentleman Cadets to be Second Lieutenants—J. F. E. Travers, vice Desborough, promoted ; Hon. E. T. Gage, rice Russell, promoted ; N. S. K. Bayly, ♦ice Shaw, promoted ; G. Barston, vice Lennox, promoted ; G. Leslie, vice Henry, pro moted ; A. M. Archdall, vice Flint, promoted ; C. Wright, ♦ice Taylor, promoted ; J. E. Thring, vice E. Swinton, promoted ; W. M. King, rice Pipon, promoted ; H. L. P. Greville, vice Paterson promoted ; S. R. B. Swinny, vice Lucas, promoted ; 11. Bent, vice J. D. Shakespeare, promoted ; F. R. Glanville, ♦ice Hamlet, promoted; H. J. W. Jervis, vice Field, promoted, Dec. 19. Corps of Royal Engineers—Gentlemen Cadets to be Lieutenants—J. G. Jervis, vice Galton, promoted ; H. W. Tyler, vice Barlow, promoted ; J. C. B. De Butts, rice Scott, promoted ; W. S. Stace, vice Ross, promoted; G. S. Tilly, vice Tuglis, promoted ; E. Stanton, vice Hope, deceased, Dec. 19. ADMIRALTY, DEC. 21. _ _ Corps of Royal Marines—Second Lieut. E. A. Wylde to be First Lieutenant, vice J. L. Braimer, to half-pay. Commission by the Lord Lieutenant of Clackmannan- shire. Stirling, Dumbarton, Clackmannan, and Kinross Militia, commonly called the 90th Regiment of British Militia—J. F. Erskine, Esq., to be Captain of a com. pany for the shire of Clackmannan, vice Young, de ceased, Dec. 10. BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED. Joseph Craven and John Hardman, dyers, Wakefield, Yorkshire. BANKRUPTS. Levi Israel Themans, tea dealer, Sidney-place, Com mercial-road, Middlesex, to surrender, Dec. 31, at one, and Feb. 6, at half-past twelve, at the Court of Bank ruptcy. Alsager, official assignee, Birchin-lane. Bevan, Old Jewry. Ann Seed, licensed victualler, Liverpool, Jan. 6, and Feb. 5, at twelve, at the Liverpool District Court. Cazenove, official assignee, Liverpool ; Wilkin, Fur nival's- Inn. London ; Wardle, Liverpool. Charles Strange and Robert Parsons, merchants, Baglen, Glamorganshire, Jan. 14, and Feb. 4, at eleven, at the Bristol District Court. Hutton, official assignee, Bristol ; Weymouth and Co., Angel-court, City. Christopher Watson, jun., tea-dealer, Darlington, Jan. 10, at half-past one, and Feb. 12, at two, at the Newcastle upon-Tyne District Court. Wakley, official assignee, Newcastle-upon-Tyne; James and Hamilton, or Richardson and Glover, Leeds. Joseph Raymond King, druggist, Bath, Jan. 8, and Feb. 7, at eleven, at the Bristol District Court. Acra man, official assignee, Bristol; Mansford, Bath. DIVIDENDS DECLARED. T. Sedgwick, grocer, Leeds-first and final div. of 4s. in the pound, on any day on and after Dec. 30, at the office of Mr. Young, Leeds. R. Bell, wool-stapler, Keighley, Yorkshire-first and final div. of Is. in the pound, on any day on and after Dec. 30, at the office of Mr. Young, Leeds. T. M. Monckmar, tobacconist, Bradford, Yorkshire first div. of 3s. in the pound, on any day on and after Dec. 30, at the office of Mr. Young, Leeds. J. Swallow, sen., J. Swallow, jun., and G. Swallow, corn-millers, Halifax-second and final div. of sd. in the pound, on any day on and after Dec. 30, at the office of Mr. Young, Leeds. J. Mallalieu, cotton-spinner, llalifax-first div. of Os. Bd. in the pound, on any day on and after Dec. 30, at the office of Mr. Young, Leeds. J. Clark, colonial broker, Mincing-lane, :Fenchurch street-first dir. of 6d. in the pound, on any Wednesday, at the office of Mr. Graham, Coleman-street, City. S. E. Welldon, butcher, Cambridge-first div. of 7s. 6d. in the pound on new proofs, and second div. of 3d. in the pound on all proofs, on any Wednesday, at the office of Mr. Graham, Coleman-street, City. W. Hill and W. K. Wackerbath, ship and insurance agents, Leadenhall-street-first and second div. of 26. 4d. on new proofs, and a third div. of 7d. in the pound on all proofs, on any Wednesday, at the office of Mr. Graham, Coleman-street, City. J. 11. Loup and G. Godber, cotton-factors, Cateaton strtet-first div. of 31d. in the pound, on Saturday, Dec. 28, and the three following Saturdays, at the office of Mr. Groom, Abchurch-lane, City. DIVIDENDS. At the Court of Bankruptcy, Basinghall-street. G. Rossiter, jeweller, Bridgewater, Somersetshire, Jan. 17, at half-past eleven-T. Marsh, miller, Canterbury, Jan. 17, at twelve-T. G. Postan, auctioneer, Alders gate street, Jan. 17, at eleven-J. Lark, bootmaker, Seymour-street, Euston-square, Jan. 17, at half-past eleven-G. Purt, ale merchant, Upper Thames-street, Jan. 17, at half-past twelve-W. Chamberlain, linen draper, Peckham, Jan. 17, at twelve-J. Woollam, silk throwster, St. Alban's, Jan. 17, at eleven-J. Holland, draper, Buxted, Sussex, Jan. 17, at one, In the Country. B.O'Beirne, wine merchant, Bath, Jan. 21, at twelve, at the Bristol District Court-G. B. Orchard, upholsterer, Bath, Jan. 16, at twelve, at the Bristol District Court- H. Drake, attorney-at-law, Barnstable, Devonshire, Jan. 23, at eleven, at the Exeter District Court- J. Row, chemist, Torrington, Devonshire, Jan. 24, at one, at the Exeter District Court-J. Goss, draper, Devonport, Jan. 23, at eleven, at the Exeter District Court-G. Alexander, innkeeper, Bea minster, Dorsetshire, Jan. 24, at one, at the Exeter District Court-J. Cuttell, clothier, Holmfirth, York shire, Jan. 21, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court- J. Laycock, tallow chandler, Colne, Lancashire, Jan. 31, at twelve, at the Manchester District Court-W. Taylor, wool merchant, Saddleworth, Yorkshire, Jan. 24, at eleven, at the Manchester District Court-T. Dickson, linendraper,ZThirsk, Yorkshire, Jan. 23, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court-T. Dobson, sen., J. Dobson, and T. Dobson, jun., carpet manufacturers, Kidder minster, Jan. 25, at eleven, at the Birmingham District Court-W. S. Batson, J. Wilson, and J. Langhorn, bankers, Berwick-upon-Tweed, Jan.2l, at eleven, at the Newcastle-upon-Tyne District Court-J. W. Harris, wine merchant, Wolverhampton, Jan. 25, at twelve, at the Birmingham District Court-W. Fletcher, maltster, Sedgley, Staffordshire, Jan. 25, at twelve, at the Bir mingham District Court. CERTIFICATES to be granted, unless cause be shown to the contrary, on the day herein-mentioned. W. Bailey, jun., currier, Whitecross-street, Jan. 17- B. Bright, licensed victualler, Wigmore-street, Maryle bone, Jan. 17- W. Martin, clothier, Woodchester, Glou cestershire, Jan. 17. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. B. and J. Cutler, steam-boiler manufacturers, New Gravel-lane, ltatcliff-J. Fuller and W. Thornhill, sta tioners Brewer-street, Golden-square-B. and M. Hiles and B:Heald, Bolton-W. Snook and J. Taylor, dra pers, Portsmouth-H. Huges and A. Galt, lace rouche manufacturers, Wood-street, Cheapside-J. and W. Garrett, tailors, Welford, Northamptonshire-W. and J. Adams, farmers, Plaistow, Essex-L. Lloyd, sen., S. J. Lloyd, L. Lloyd, jun., E. Lloyd, and C.W. Tabor, bankers, London (so far as regards L. Lloyd, sen.)-.T. Wood, M. Lund, T. Slim w, jun., and R. Shaw, cotton spinners, Kildwick, Yorkshire-C. J. Samuols and S. H. Ougbton, coal merchants, Manchester-11. and G. Hawkes, iron mongers, Reading-J. M'Naught and F. Alexander, coal masters, Rainford, Lancashire-W. Hatfield and J. Hall, silversmiths, Manchester. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS. Alexander Melrose, merchant, Fort William, Jan. 4 and 24, at one. at the George Inn, Fort William. James Mackenzie, spirit dealer, Beauly, Jan. 4 and Feb. 1, at twelve, at the Sheriff Court-house, Inverness. Robert Phillips Heastie, baker, Edinburgh, Jan. 2 and 23, at three, at Gray's chambers, Edinburgh. George Sutherland, merchant, Gret.nlaw, Jan. 2 and 23, at eleven, at Brooks's chambers, Greealaw. Archibald Thomson, merchant, Kelso, Jan. 4 and 245, at twelve, at Brooks's chambers, Kelso. PRICE OF SUGAR. the A.Terage Price of PrOWLI or Iguscoirado sugar, for the SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. FROM THR I'dORNINO PArTIRS OF THIS DAT. CHRONICLE.—The sentences, with which a French King opens his Chambers require much more choice and circumspection on the part of his Ministers, than those, in which our English Queen addresses her Parliament, demand from the wisdom of Downing street. French parties have been rendered so impa tient by a recess, that they are no sooner marshalled in each others presence, than they rush to action, not merely in masses, but in separate squads. And amidst the diversity and multitude of ambitions, in terests, opinions, susceptibilities, during a struggle which three weeks, there is no knowing what result an ill-chosen term, an intemperate expression, or an insidious amendment may lead to. A debate on the French address has, thus, much dramatic interest. For, however well enabled one may be to count and calculate the respective strength of Ministry and Opposition, there remains still a large space to be occupied by the chapter of accidents; and the strongest champion often receives a wound in such a mele, which sends him maimed and powerless from the contest. Last year M. Guizot, dangerously and fiercely menaced, met his enemies boldly, and with something of defiance. The outcry against him being his friendship with England, he, instead of de nying it, valiantly boasted of an entente cordiale be tween the Governments. Althoug:i these strong expressims were replaced in the address by weaker ones, the Ministerialists carried it by only 220 votes against 190, a majority little calculated to excite confidence in Ministerial strength. This year the speech of the King of the French is more circumspect and cautious, both in the announcement of, and in the choice of terms announcing, the happy accord between the two countries. But, independent of the cavils of opposition, M. Guizot could not this year have repeated the phrase uttered twelve months back. In Dec., 1843, M. Guizot made his Sovereign declare his hopes and expectations, that the entente cordiale between France and England would lead to an issue of events favourable to Spain and to Greece, in both of which countries monarchy was to strengthen itself by a respect for the public liberties. Now, really had his Majesty Louis Philippe been endowed with the clairvoyance of Alexis, or of the best of the Mes meric tribe, he could scarcely have, in 1843, hit upon expressions so fully and exactly, yet so ironically pro phetic of the results, in 1844, of the entente cordiale in Greece and in Spain. All Europe is by this time pretty well aware that the triumph of the exclusively French party, both in Madrid and in Athens, has led to a suspension of all liberty and all constitution, and to the substitution of a purely military, despotic, and sanguinary rule. We blushed for our Govern ment at the time, seeing that it allowed itself to be bound up with French policy in Spain, against which it should have protested, or from which it should have at least held aloof. We feared, yet could scarcely contemplate, the degree of infamy and disgrace into which those Governments, se=t up by French intrigue and guided by French councils, were likely to fall. But now that this system has attained its full development of horror and misrule, working more harm to the cause of constitutional govern ment than ever was yet achieved by despot or demo crat, we do hope that the English Government will shake off from itself the odium of being a sharer in the policy of the French Government. It is too bad, if, after having been deprived of influence in these countries, and cheated, politically and commercially, of po.ver, we should at the same time be made to share in the odium of having joined in or even silently sanctioned the liberticide and selfish trickery of the French Government and its agents. In 1843 M. Guizot boasted loudly of all that he had achieved in Spain, and contrasted the state of that country in 1840, when French influence was null, to its situation in 1844, when French influence was completely predominant. Most justly did M. Thiers even then reply to the Minister, that, as far as Spain was concerned, he saw no room whatever for congratulation. We must, however, do M. Guizot the justice to admit, that he seems somewhat stricken with remorse and shame far what he has done in Spain. The royal speech, for the first time, makes no mention of that country, nor of Greece. And the good understanding between France and England, which was to have insured the welfare of these young constitutional countries, is declared to be limited to their not quarrelling about Morocco or Otaheite. The French Government, having got up those two causes of strife for its own glorification, congratulates the country, that England has not quarrelled with it on those accounts. The King of the French and M. Guizot must be allowed, indeed, to have sufficient skill to push provocation and hostility towards this country only to that certain point beyond which they know it will not be borne. And Lord Aberdeen is the most useful of Ministers to them, because he stretches this point to the uttermost. The four first and chief paragraphs of the speech having been devoted to Morocco and to the relations with England, it proceeds to dwell on the national prosperity and the increase of the royal family. In deed, with a change of proper names, Sir Robert Peel or Prosperity Robinson might have written the last half of the King's speech, to put into our own Queen's mouth. There is not a word of the right of search, nor even of the law of public instruction, an nounced last year from the throne, though strangled by faction. It is remarkable how accurately the purport of the speech was known in the political circles of Paris several days previous to its being pronounced. In general the wording of the French King's speech causes much discussion and difference in the Cabinet, and excites prolonged debates even to the very morning of the royal sitting. This time all was quietly and definitively pre-arranged, M. Guizot being, as he deserves, uncontrolled leader. Our correspondent sent us, two days back, a most correct report of the chief paragraphs of the speech. The Times, which had not an inkling of it, gets up a cavil, and, in its petty jealousy, accuses our correspondent of saying what he did not say, and of representing Louis Philippe as having interpolated the word fletri into the royal speech of last year. Our correspondent made no such assertion. The word fletri was introduced into the address, it is well known, at the royal injunction, which is all our cor respondent meant to convey. The said fietrissure of the Belgrave-square levee gave a spirit and life to the commencement of the last French session, which is apparently wanting in this. The war cry is evidently on the wane. The Right of Search will probably give rise to more length than vigour of speeches. Mo rocco is a fait accompli; and Otaheite is a question so inglorious to all parties to stir, that we do not see well how it can be agitated.lf M. Guizot is to be accused of having sacrificed the influence and diminished the power of France then certainly it will not require any great effort of his oratory to show the contrary most tri umphantly. So that against the mere war party, the mere anti-English cry, M. Guizot is invulnerable. But if orators, unmaddened by Anglophobia, should come forward to ask M. Guizot what use he has made of the power and resources of the great country en trusted to him, and should point out the results of M. Guizot's policy in Spain, and in Greece, and in the Pacific,_ we fear it would be but too apparent that the French Minister, though he has Aucceeded in pre serving peace between great States, has at the same time been most merciless to the small. No aiminis , tration has been more destructive of liberty in other countries under French influence than M. Guizot's. None have spilt more innocent blood, or caused it to spilt. None have set on foot more intrigues, or prac tised more rivalry ) or sent foftli tribte petty expedi tionseseall attended with more disgrace than profit, all equally narrow in their ends as in their aims. We doubt if free discussion could ever endow M, Guiesot with Sir R. Peel's sole political virtue=that of being a safe mans Certainly ho effort d political rhetoric tould prove M. Guizot to be a great man. TIMES.—It is not to a speech from the throne that the world looks, except in times of great doubt and difficulty, for an announcement of politico notel ties, or for the Bisiials of patty Warfare. A consti tutional Sovereign, like the King of a tournament in older times, rides unarmed, except with his white truncheon, across the lists, and takes his state apart, whilst the real combatants in steel and mail are pre paring for the encounter ; but, though he take no part in the fray, he presides over the issues of the struggle, and at the most critical moment his wand may turn the fate of the day. It will require all the habitual ingenuity of our French neighbours to weave all the usual topics, which may raise a party division or justify a party speech, into the reply to the neat and appropriate expression of the sentiments of the Crown with which King Louis Phi lippe opened his Parliament op Thursday last. A French address has many of the propertiel of 114 sr i . j v t ^n!' ) cM e s q 04 th. ed, ter 41 1 Or Ul6 I