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To conclude with THE MAN WITH THE CARPET BAG Grimes, Mr. Gardner; Harriet, Miss Arden. , Tiri.,:titoolifiNlßLAND AND THE ROYAL Surma-, c. tw derstand that his Grace the Dult .4 . . - J., , A -=, • iplication of the Council of the Ro •.. # ~ : •7?,'G.l:t\ obligingly . given his consent to , fioclaiit4m, 011 • n:4. iy galleries, in February, of 'X !fft4e itVoPit.::,?Fitark • '.•_,l A tures in the Stafford-house ik e, , itilift col 4C " ....., 94 - c Tful.• . r • f 1..• : ion is Danby's famous work rep hr 'rile -#- lie dt 4 - X Red Sea by the children of Isra I, - 0.4 . 111 P ,. ~,,74. • the host of Pharoak—Scots -4-',.442_ 4 Li THI WEATHER.-SUN OFFICB, FEB. 1. THEILDIONETER, Lowest, 27 ; Highest, 38 ; Noon, 33 BAROMETER, N.W. NOTE.—The number 32 on the Thermometer denotes the freezing point, and 55 temperate. In Barometers fair is usually placed opposite 30, and rain at 29. HIGH WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY. Morning ... 57 minutes after 11. I Evening 0 minutes after 0. ,:',"*.' • 1i"0 7 'i• ,, , , . ... • '4„„xt . ~,,,o ,04:- 1 . :co", .. • 4114 , •• • - ~ f 7 . (at • z. .',l' sr_ °u,m44*. `AY/ 7• ' ir_4;...., t at - 4- e ' titlF,Vlol44 ' ' 114 "', f 1111P :7 . :I ' '., r i ,e7,.:,_ i ~,, . , '. - • ''' ." -,, ,ii. k 4 1, iist ~. ~z .s , ~ t ; . t,.. Si:?O.R. , ,110 77 ' ,, ..• v • ' •• A... . i .l, ',. ‘4•,b0 , '•••1. m° • • , r ,„ 1 0", .. AftoiT .. 1 1 , 1 ,c . .,,,- - -- • 7 ,,, .,;!;t4 ,, Zr ,- '_ r, ' 110mk, SECOND EDITION: , :. , w , .. THE SUN, LONDON, TITURStAY EVENTNO-, FEI3RITARY 1, 1844. bitnin a,„ 5.41, LONDON, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1844 The Irish Attorney-General, already too cele brated for his way of conducting state prosecutions, has at last reached the climax of absurdity, and brought the Government which he represents into supreme contempt. In every step he has taken in these momentous trials he has committed a blunder. The original panel of jurors was mutilated by the withdrawal, or suppression, or abstraction, of forty eight jurors; all the. Catholics on the list were struck off; the whole of Catholic Ireland was roused to mad ness by this deliberate insult; and every wise and im partial and honest Protestant said this rash proceed ing vitiated the whole proceedings. But all these blunders or machinations, all the remaining bigoted prejudices of bygone times, all the concealed rancour of Orangemen in office, and the evident determination of certain parties, by foul or fair means, to obtain a verdict against Mr. O'CONNELL, are nothing com pared with the outrageous, and the hitherto un exampled, conduct of the first law officer of the Crown, in challenging a brother advocate in the midst of the proceedings to fight a duel. Why is he not put into Bedlam at once ? Why is the representative of even-handed justice—the guardian of the laws —the man that evil-doers should look up to with • fear, and the good for pro tection—to be allowed to disgrace his office, and break down a prosecution, which, if it had been the most just and imperative, could not have withstood such unmeasured folly for two days ? Talk of the wild Irish ! Talk rather of the wild Saxon ; for in the whole course of the proceedings, rashness, and bigotry, and violence, and the worst passions, have all been displayed on one side, and that is the side of the Crown. It is impossible to form a greater contrast than that between the prosecu tors and the traveisers. The latter have, in every respect, conducted themselves according to the strictest forms of law, and the most fastidious cour tesy towards the Bench and the law officers of the Croivn ; yet, because one of the counsel in the course of his address to the jury tells the Attorney-Gene ral some plain truths, that legal functionary flies into a passion, and insults the Court, the de fendants, and his country, by an appeal to arms. "If these things are done in the green tree, what will be done in the dry ?" If such opprobrious acts are committed in open Court, what may be committed behind the scenes ? If a list of forty-eight jurors is stolen, who will now be accused as the culprit ? If an Attorney-General can openly set the law of his country at defiance, while conducting a solemn in vestigation, what may be done by himself and his underlings in secret ? The impartial public, nay, even those that are not always impar tial, will view such a scene with ab solute horror, and ask what chance any man has for justice under such a system ? If Mr. O'CoNNELL is guilty of the charges brought against him (of which we believe him entirely innocent), he has "the d—l's luck" in being blessed with such a prosecutor. No one cares what Mr. SMITH now says or does, and the sooner these trials are brought to a close, by an acquittal, the better for the Crown, the Government, and the country. The Irish State trials were resumed on Tuesday, when Mr. FITZGIBBON commenced his address, as Counsel for Dr. GRAY. He said that the doctrine of con spiracy, as laid down by the Attorney-General, was, that it was a combination of two or more persons to do an illegal act, or to do a lawful act through unlawful means. He denied the correctness of the doctrine. That proposition had been laid down by Lord DEN MAN, in a case which occurred in 1832, and had been repeated by the same Learned Lord in a case in 1834. But it was a mere dictum and not a decision ; and in 1839, when it was cited before Lord DENMAN himself, his Lordship said he did not think it a correct proposition, In the case of the King v. Forbes, better known as the bottle riot case, Chief Justice BUSHE had laid down a similar doctrine to that of Lord DENMAN, and it was to be found in East's Pleas of the Crown. But however good a text-writer EAST was, he denied that ihe was to be considered a good legal authority. They had looked in CORE, and all the old autho rities on the subject, without being able to dis cover any such doctrine. With respect to the two cases cited by the Attorney-General in support of the doctrine above quoted—viz., the King v. Watson, Howel's State Trials, vol. 22, and the case of the King v. Murphy, Bth Carrington and Payne, in which latter case Mr. Justice COLERIDGE had laid down the doctrine of conspiracy adopted by the Attorney-Gene ral, he submitted that they did not apply in the present instance at all. The former case was one of high treason, and could not be cited as similar to the present, which was one of misdemeanour, and , therefore Mr. Justice BAYLEY'S decision on it must not be considered valid. In the case of the King v.. Murphy, though the doctrine laid down by the Attorney-General was applicable to the facts there, it was by no means so to the facts in the present case. The Learned Gentleman de nied that there was any case of conspi racy established. The people were peaceable and orderly. They were not drilled, and ordered to advance and retire, as they were in Eng land. The people met in large numbers, but it was by such means that redress of grievances was always obtained. The Learned Gentleman then re ferred to the means adopted by the mailed Barons of England when the great charter of England's liberties was wrested from King JonN, and to the attitude assumed by the people at the time of the Clare election. He afterwards commented, in very strong language, on the conduct of the Attorney-General, with regard to the prosecutions. He did not object to his doing his duty, but he ought to do so in a manly and straightforward manner, and not state the law incorrectly to obtain the conviction of a brother barrister, who had been an ornament to his profession for many years. He concurred with the Attorney-General that this was a mo mentous case—momentous to the Attorney-General, and the party with which he was connected. It would afford that party a scourge to repress the people from giving expression to their feelings and opinions, but he trusted the Court and jury would interpose to pre vent them from obtaining that power. The juries of England had always saved the liberties of the peOplo when they were sought to be crushed by charges like the present. The last case of this kind was the charge of constructive treason brought against TooKE and HARDY, but an English jury three times brought in a verdict of not guilty. Our Dublin Correspondent gives the result of the day's proceedings in these words : " One of the most extraordinary scenes that perhaps ever took place in a court of justice, was enacted this afternoon in the Court of Queen's Bench, between the Attorney-General and Mr. FITZGIBBON. It would seem that the good old practice, so peculiarly Irish, of settling all matters in dispute by an appeal to the pistol is, in these degenerate days, becoming so fallen into disuse, that, to sustain the character of the law, even the law-officers of the Crown, and that too in open Court, call out "Any money for a duel !" During the progress of Mr. FITZGIBBON'S speech this day, the Court and Jury retired as usual about two o'clock, for refreshment. During their absence the Attorney-General was observed to convey a note to Mr. FITZGIBBON, which he had been writing in Court. On the return of their Lordship; Mr. FITZGIBBON applied to them to ascertain whether he had, during the progress of his address, permitted himself to make use of any improper expressions personally reflecting on the conduct of the Attorney- General, with regard to the trials. He then called on the Attorney-General to hand up to their Lord ships a note which the Attorney-General had sent over to him. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said that if the Learned Counsel had any motion to make on the subject he had better state it upon affidavit. Mr. FITZGIBBON (vehemently)—Never. And if the Attorney-General does not hand up the note to the Court I will state the substance of it. Mr. Frrz- GIBBON then stated that the'Attorney-General had sent him a note, calling on him to retract certain expres sions which he was represented to have used in the course of his address, and which the Attorney- General considered as personally reflecting on himself, and calling on him, if he did not retract them, to name a friend. This statement caused the most marked sensation, surprise being the most prominent feature of it, throughout the Court. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said that Mr. FITZ GIBBON had stated in• his address to the Court, that - he was influenced by private motives in the conduct of the present prosecution—that he was guided in the conduct of it by his feelings as to what effect success or failure might have upon his political ad vancement, and if he withdrew the reflection thus cast upon his conduct, he would be satisfied. Mr. FITZGIBBON said the Attorney-General came with pistol in hand, and he could not help telling him that he would not thus draw an apology from him. Mr. MOORE suggested that as all must regret that such an occurrence had taken place, an opportunity should be given to both parties to become reconciled with each other by a mutual explanation. The CHIEF JUSTICE thanked Mr. MOORE for his suggestion, and stated that the Court felt itself in a very embarrassing situation ; and that the Attorney- General was the last man that ought to have allowed himself to be betrayed into any such expression as that now declared to the Court. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said that now he would not impose any condition respecting the withdrawal of the expressions which had hurt him. Mr. FITZGIBBON declared that he had never meant to impute anything like improper motives to the At torney-General in the conduct of the trials, but that he felt he did not exceed his duty in canvassing his conduct as a public man. _ After some flirther observations from the mutua' friends of both learned gentlemen, Mr. FrrzwuuoN resumed his address to the Court, which rose at a quarter to five. There is one circumstance that rendered the send ing the challenge at such a time and in such a manner especially blameable. The lady of Mr. FITZGIBBON and her child were sitting at the table nearly by the side of Mr. FITZGIBBON." In earnestly invoking the public, at large, to give their most careful and attentive perusal to the " Ad dress of the Society for the Emancipation of In dustry" (which will be found in another column), we claim for that remarkable document no higher a de gree of consideration•than it is amply entitled to by its subject matter and the intrinsic importance of its con tents. From the greatness, the simplicity, the benefi cence, the national character of its objects, it is a paper with more powerful pretensions to the active sympathies of every class of British subjects—ranging, in the scale of society, above that enormous working com munity, on whose behalf its eloquent appeal is more especially asserted—than almost any we remember to have met with in our whole experience as journalists. We will briefly state what those pretensions are. The objects of the Asso ciation are not private or corporate, but strictly public. The attainment of those objects is not merely a question of expediency, but of vital neces sity to the welfare of the State. This vital necessity consists in the visible, incontrovertible, appalling fact, that a wasting disease, which has been gene rated in the entire system of British greatness, civil and political, by erroneous legislation, must speedily become mortal, if it be not arrested by some legislative remedy of timely applica tion. The remedy suggested in the " Address," with a view directly to relieve, and perma nently re-establish, that branch of our population which has hitherto most suffered, and at present languishes and declines under the influence of the disease we deprecate, would indirectly but rapidly reinvigorate the energies and prosperity of all other sections of the public who have been fellow-sufferers from the same *evil influence. The type of the disease is, ." all the wrong and misery" which have been wrought to the labouring poor, in all occupations, by the Currency Act of 1819; and the simple remedy proposed is, the repeal of that fatal measure, accom panied with the issue, by Government, of Govern ment paper to the amount of our annual taxation. It would be affectation on our parts were we to disclaim the gratification we have derived from find- ing that the "Address," in tracing the origin and the course of the disease which has so long invaded, and now threatens to destroy, " the comfort and happiness of all the productive classes," and in indicating the remedial course requisite to be taken for its removal, concurs in all respects with the views which we have ourselves long announced on these subjects, and have more particularly enforced for some months past. The Address, after announcing that " the time has arrived when active measures must be taken for the protection and relief of the industry of the country," takes a rapid review of those isolated and partial attempts which, only, have hitherto been made "to rescue our suffering people from the cruel bondage" imposed on them by the consequences or the results of the mea sures we have so often denounced. It adverts to the Anti-Corn-law League, and its exertions on behalf of the manufacturer ; to the efforts from time to time put forward on behalf of factory children—female colliery labourers—education of the children of the poor, &c.—and laments the insufficiency of these "to meet the exigencies of the times." It then proceeds, " We turn to our fellow-countrymen of every de gree, and ask them to join us in forming a Society which, entertaining no schemes of private advantage, but devoted solely to the public good, hopes, by the corrective aid of the Legislature, to remove the evils which an unfortunate Act of Legislation has created." We will not do the "Address" the injustice of giving, in abstract only, the several paragraphs occupied by the argument for the propriety of securing taxation wages to the labourer, and taxation prices to the manufac- turer and the agriculturist--as to the 'manu factured commodities of the one, and the produce of the other; or to the demonstration of that enormous legislative blunder or injustice—unparalleled at least in the annals of legislative spoliation—which by fixing and legalising, exclusively, a gold standard of cur: rency, and diminishing the previous paper circulation in the enormous proportion necessary to enable the Bank of England to meet its excessive liabilities under this more expensive and prodigiously decreased metallic currency, so reduced prices, and by conse quence the wages of labour, that " it is calculated that more than 30,000,0001. annually are wrung from the hard earnings of the poor by means of extra toil and increased privations, which nature cannot long endure." "By adding taxation to natural or gold prices, that portion of the indirect taxes which cannot be borne by the productive classes in their productive capacity will be paid at last by the con sumer"—from whose shoulders, let it never be forgotten —Sir ROBERT PEEL'S iniquitous Bill quietly trans ferred it to those of the then already taxed, but since miserably under-paid, under-fed, and unregarded labourer and artisan. As we must here conclude our notice of the " Address," we may commend these, its benevolent purposes, to the best assistance and the best wishes of our readers. " We object to the labouri ng ma n being burthened with the task a providing all that wealth which others, who do not work, enjoy at his expense, while they allow him, in re turn for unremitting toil, less food and clothing, worse shel ter, coarser and harder fare, than a West India planter allowed his slaves, or an English farmer gives his horses. We are desirous of seeing the industrious workman. partake of some of the benefits of those improvements in machinery which have hitherto added so wonderfully to the luxuries of the rich, but have sunk the poor into deeper poverty." " To effect this, we shall urge that higher w ages be given— wages not merely increased in numerical amount, but able to command a greater quantity of every useful and necessary article. We pledge ourselves to prove that this is attainable with the greatest facility, depending for the extent of its be neficial action solely upon a vote of the Legislature." We indulge a pleasing confidence that this appeal will be most efficiently responded to throughout the country; and we cordially concur in the old ballad prediction that follows : 4. It was onee merry England, And it shall be so again." SUMMARY OF NEWS AND Vittbitr Optnton. " Who runs may read." FOREIGN. The French mail had not arrived when the paper went to press. LAW AND POLICD. In the Court of Common Pleas the rule nisi, in the case of Lord William Paget v. the Earl of Cardigan, for entering up judgment as in the case of a aonsuit, was discharged, on the terms of a peremptory ufidettaking to proceed to trial. The witness Winter still keeps out of the way. Patrick Leigh Strachan, convicted at the Old Bailey during the session before last, was sentenced by the Court of Queen's Bench, to be inprisoned in Clerkenwell gaol for eighteen months, and kept to laird labour. Eli Froud, a bricklayer, living in St. James-street, Cam berwell-new-road, was brought before Mr. Cottingham, at Union-hall, charged with committing a desperate assault on his wife Mary, who is confined in Guy's Hospital, owing to the serious injuries inflicted on ler with a poker. A police man produced a poker broken in two, with which the in juries were inflicted, and said that he found it lying on the floor of the room in which the outrage was committed; he also produced a medical certificate from the hospital, to the effect that the woman who was assaulted was considered in a very precarious condition, and that, being enciente, a pre mature labour was momentarily expected to take place. The prisoner, who said nothing in answer to the charge, was re manded. William Matthews and David Orridge, the conductor and driver of Kerrison's Clapton omnibus, No. 4,930, were chaiged before Mr. Broughton. with insulti ng conduct to Dr. Eliot, a surgeon, residing on Finsbury Pavement. Mr. Broughton sentenced Matthew+, as the least culpable of the two, to pay 9s. fine and costs ; and Orrislge to pay a fine of 20s. and the costs, or fourteen days' imprisonment in the House of Correction. _ At the Thames Police Court, Captain Thomas Dunnett, the master of the brig Sarah Charlotte, appeared before Mr. Broderip, on a charge of abandoning three seamen, named Edmund Wilkinson, Hiram Gibbs, and James Cline, in a fo reign port, without the sancticn of the British Consul. The Magistrate said there was a prima facie case made out on the part of the Crown, and the defendant had been guilty of a technical violation of the law ; but there was nothing affect ing his moral character, nor had he acted with any inhu manity. He ordered him to fud bail, himself in 601., and one surety in 601., to meet the charge at the sessions. CQVAT—PaS/IXOZZABLE. The Duke of Cambridge, while shooting in Colonel Wynd ham's preserves, on Saturday, stumbled against the stump of a tree, and had rather a severe fall. His Royal Highness returned to Petworth House immediately, but was able to dine with the company, the only inconvenience resulting from the accident being a stiffness of the shoulder. The Earl of Aberdeen entertained the Count de St. Au ' Mire, Baron E. Langsdorff, Sir Robert Peel, Prince Castelci cala, Sir James Graham, Count Kielmansegge, General Sancho, M. Van de Weyer, Count de Tarnac, Baron de Cetto, Viscount Canning, the Marquis de Lisboa, and a dis tinguished party, at dinner, on Tuesday evening, at Argyll House. The Speaker of the House of Commons is expected to com mence his Parliamentary dinners the third Saturday in this month. The Right Hon. Gentleman came to town from his seat in Hants on Tuesday. The Duke of Montrose and Lord Ernest Bruce came to town on Wednesday for the meeting of Parliament. The Marquis of Salisbury, who has been visiting Mr. and Lady Eleanor Balfour at Whittinghame House, near Dunbar, has arrived in Arlin on - street from the north. Lord and Lady Stanley have issued cards for a grand dinner party on Saturday next, to which most of the Foreign Ministers are invited. The Archbishop of Canterbury and Mrs. Howley have an rived for the season from Addington Palace, the archiepis copal residence, near Croydon. 2111 SC ST.I.ANEOUS. The following is a. list of the game killed during the last week by a small party on a visit to the Hon. H. Wilson, at Didlington Park :—On the two first ;days, pheasants, 279 ; partridges, 13 ; hares, 225 ; rabbits, 216 ; woodcocks, 12 ; snipes, teal, and other water-fowl, 29—total, 774. Three last days, pheasants, 180 ; partridges, 21 ; hares, 177 ; rabbits, 178 ; woodcocks, 7 ; teal and other water-fowl, 52—total, 615. Grand total, 1,389. The hunting Ameers of Sinde could not beat this. By a recent Order in Council, all the stills in New South Wales have been suppressed, in consequence of the demora lising effects produced by ardent spirits on the population of that colony. Government have in all instances awarded compensation. The Royal Santiago Mining Company held their half yearly general meeting on Wednesday, at the offices in Old Broad-street, Mr. J. Robertson in the chair. The Report announced that the quantity of copper ore received from the mines during the past half-year had been 5,700 tons, pro ducing 49,6561. The total expenditure during the same period had been 37,8294, leaving an available profit in hand of 12,2231. From the general election in July, 1841, to the month of February, 1844, there hare been 69 changes in the repre sentation, or more than one-tenth of the number of members of the House of Commons. Of these, 23 have been unseated on petition, 15 have died, and 26 have retired. In consequence of a great number of convicts having been shipped off from her Majesty's Dock-yards, Woolwich, Chat ham, Portsmouth, &c., within these few days, the Lords of the Admiralty have issued orders for a large number of la bourers to be entered to do the work required; but none are admitted who cannot pass the test as to their strength. Lancashire has become the most populous county in the kingdom, and Middlesex, which a short time since stood at the head in point of numbers, is now only rated third. The earnings of the several railways in Great Britain, for the last year, are calculated at 4,627,0561. The receipts for the London and Birmingham line were the highest, amount ing to not less than 826,509!. The Great Western stands next, the receipts being 701,3631. - - LLOYD'S SHIPPING.—(T.HIS DAY.) LONDON, FEB I.—Wind N. W. DEAL, JAN 31.--Wind W.N.W., strong and squally. P.N. W.N.W., fresh breeze.—Arrd. Robert ; Antigua packet, M'Knight, Faircleugb, Sierra Leone ; Margaret, Ceylon Small, ; Demerara; Clara an d E mma , Hud son,Slight,lpsra i Isabella eh Calcuttalalam Aura, West Indies ; Mogadore. During last night it blew heavily from W.N.W. with heavy snow squalls; to:N.W.; A.M., this day, W.N.W., fresh. t PORTSMOUTH, JAN. N.W., squally.— P.M., Arrd. Harbinger, Grangemouth for New York. Off, N.W., more m w e i r n e d i Lir ci l e si r .: t v e7 7, Nayaden, Charleston, for Hamburgh. SWANSEA; JAN. 30.—Arrd. Encarnacion, Audicochea ; Alderman Thompson, Darling, and Chieftain, Cuba. FALMOUTH, JAN. 31.—1 t has blown a violent gale from N.W. during the night and continues ; the shipping ride well. BUDE, JAN. 31.—Some long deck-planks, painted white under, and with composition or copper nails, sup posed from a steamer or a packet, apparently very fresh, have been washed ashore hem RYE, JAN. 31.—The Lanaburn, of Hastings, in running for this harbour, struck on a su n k bank, capsized, and it is expected will become a wreck. OFF BROADSTAIRS, JAN. 30 . —Elizabeth, of South Shields, America for Lond on . WHITEHAVEN, JAN. 29 .—Arrd. Sirius, Ravenglass f or C a rdiff, with loss of bulwarks, &c., having been in contact with the Lark, of Milford, 24th inst., off Wick low-head. LIVERPOOL, JAN. 31—Wind, N:W., a gale.—Arrd. Kate, Scott, Paraiba (29th ult.) ; Creamore, Shapley, Maceio ; Adrian, Davis, New Orleans ; Rob Roy, Arnold, Mobile ; Shakspeare, Henderson, Charleston ; Jefferson, Mason, Virginia. KINGSTOUN, JAN. 30.—Arrd. Demerara,Demerara. CORN, JAN. 29.—Arrd. John Dugdale, Singapore. HARTLEPOOL, JAN. 31.—The Two Brothers, Trotter, of Newcastle, ran on the rocks off the Heugh, yester day, but was got off, and in here, in a sinking state. YARMOUTH, JAN. 31.'—The Margaret, of Sunderland, was abandonedof bowsprit , off Blythe, crew saved.—Mem. The been towed i n t o Harwich, with loss &c., and only o ne man on b oar d , h av i ng been fallen in with off the Humber. Margaret yesterday,has since SAVINGS'BANKS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Six—l quite agree with " A Manager" respecting the cause of the increase in the deposits in the Savings' Banks. H e sa ys That the increase in the amount of deposits is no criterion, the description of the depositors can only be fairly looked at." I shall be sorry if the interest, be lowered, as it is said that it is likely to be, when the Parliament meets, to make Acts to amend Acts," &c. &c. lam convinced that many persons have money in the Savings' Banks, who ought not to have. Much of the amounts now in the Banks are not Savings, but Legacies, and as the writer justly states, " the money is vested in trustees for So-and-so." For o ne I hope that the interest will not be lowered, but that a more strict investigation should be made by the Managers of Savings, and not, as they are now, Legaiyiranks.—.l remain, respect fully. NOT A MANAGER. Huddersfield, 1844. STATISTICS OF RAILWAYS.—Mr. Earle Langston, ' broker, of Manchester, in an annual statement of calls and traffic on the principal railways in Great Britain, makes it to , appear that the total of calls in 1843 was 1,456,567/. against 2,722,595/. in 1842, 4,036,741/. in 1841, and 7,491,390/. in 1840; the total of traffic in 1843, 4,627,056/. against 4 ,320,442/. in 1842, 3,714,515/. in 1841, and 2,481,303/. in 1840; the calls made in the course of the four years amount ing, collectively, to 15,707,390/., and the traffic to 15,143,316/. The earnings of the several lines of which returns are fur nished, for the last year, and which comprise the above amount of 4,627,056/., are thus specified : Birmingham & Derb. £66,2211L0nd0n and Croydon £15,572 Birmingham & Glou. 93,4541L0nd0n and Greenw. 40,969 Birkenhead and Ches. 23,4401L0nd0n and South W. 315,542 Eastern Counties 115,7131Man., Bolton, & Bury 34,352 Edinburgh a n d Gl as 111,038 Manchester and Bir. 144,557 Grand Junction Glasg., Paisley, & Ayr 62,607 Midland Counties ... 133,777 Glasgow andGreenock 44,871 Newcastleo& Carlisle 72,311 Great Western 701,363 North Midland Great North of Engl. 71,257 North Union Hull and Selby Liverpool and Manch 219,733 Preston and Wyre ... 13,631 London and Birmingh B26,so9lSheffield and Manch. 23,125 London and Brighton 189,130 South Eastern 14 3 , 204 London and Blackw. 42,2691Y0rk and North Midl 86,096 A serious accident happened on Sunday morning at the Paris station of the Orleans Railroad. The train with merchandise, having attached to it a waggon for passengers, which left Orleans on Saturday night, on arriving at about nine o'clock at the terminus, got off the rails as it was en tering the station. The waggon, which contained sev en passengers, was overturned, and two of them were a l most instantaneously killed by the shock. DEATH OF AN OLD BOW-STREET OFFICER---yes terday morning (Wednesday) Mr. Francis Goodson office keeper at the Poli c - cour t, B o w-street, expired at his resi dence attached to the court. His rapid decline was occa sioned by asthma, which closed his career, after a month's confinement to his bed. He had been 21 years in the ser vice of Government, attached to Bow-street, and 15 years court-keeper. He was the companion of Ruthven, Ballard, John James Smith, and the rest of the old Bow -street officers, who now enjoy their pensions, after hard service; and who, mere shadows of th e i r f ormer s elves, often visit the spot of • their former active associations. num bersen din in g t J b a e nu e . n a r ry r • es 25, 139 n was n as g 624, w eek and nf tin atC year BOULOGNE AND CALAIS.--The number of persons who passed toa and from France via Boulogne, in the week y al e we re—Boulogne ais2 409, Calais 180. HER MAJESTY'S SPEECH, OPENING OF PARLIAMENT MY LORDS AND GENTLEMEN, It affords me great satisfaction again to meet you in Parliament, and to have the opportunity of profiting by your assistance and advice: I entertain a confident hope that the general peace so necessary for the happiness and prosperity of all nations will continue uninterrupted. My friendly relations with the King of the French, and the good understanding happily esta blished between my Government and that of his Majesty, with the continued assurances of the peace ful and amicable dispositions of all Princes and States, confirm me in this expectation. I have ditected that the treaty which I have concluded with the Emperor of China shall be laid before you, and I rejoice to think that it will, in its results, prove highly advantageous to the trade of this country. Throughout the whole course of my negocia tions with the Government of China, I have uni formly disclaimed the wish for any exclusive advan tages. It has been my desire that equal favour should be shown to the industry and commercial enterprise of all nations. The hostilities which took place during the past year in Sinde have led to the annexation of a con siderable portion of that country to the British pos sessions in the East. In all the military operations, and especially in the battles of Meanee and Hyderabad, the constancy and valour of the troops, Native and European, and the skill and gallantry of their distinguished Com mander have been most conspicuous. I have .directed that additional information ex planatory of the transactions in Sinde, shall be forth with communicated to you. GENTLEMEN OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS, The Estimates for the ensuing year will be im mediately laid before you. They have been prepared with a strict regard to economy, and at the same time with a due consideration of those exigencies of the Public Service which are con nected with the maintenance of our maritime strength, and the multiplied demands on the Naval and Military Establishments from the various parts of a widely-extended Empire. MY LORDS AND GENTLEMEN, I congratulate you on the improved condition of several important branches of the trade and manufac tures of the country. I trust that the increased demand for labour has relieved, in a corresponding degree, many classes of my faithful subjects from sufferings and privations, which, at former periods, I have had occasion to . deplore. For several successive years the annual produce of the Revenue fell short of the Public Expenditure. I confidently trust that in the present year the public income will be amply sufficient to defray the charges upon it. I feel assured that in considering all matters connected with the financial concerns of the country, you will bear in mixd the evil consequences of accu mulating debt during the time of peace, and that you will firmly resolve to uphold that public credit, the maintenance of which concerns equally the perma nent interests and the honour and reputation of a great country. In the course of the present year the opportu nity will occur of giving notice to the Bank of England on the subject of the revision of its Charter. It may be advisable that during this session of Parliament, and previously to the arrival of the period assigned for the giving of such notice, the state of the law with regard to the privileges of the Bank of Eng land, and to other banking establishments, should be brought under your consideration. At the close of the last session of Parliament, I declared to you my firm determination to main tain inviolate the Legislative 'Union between Great Britain and Ireland. I expressed, at the same tine, my earnest desire to co-operate with Parliament in the adoption of all such measures as might tend to improve the social condition of Ireland, and to dew elope the natural re sources of that part of the Unitted Kingdom. I am resolved to act in :strict conformity with this declaration. I forbear from observations on events in Ireland, in respect to• -which proceedings are pen ding before the proper legal'. tribunal. My attention has been (Ili ected to the state of the law and practice with regain i to the occupation of land in Ireland. I have deemed it advisable. to institute extensive local inquiries into a subject of so much importance, and have appointed a Commissiun with ample autho rity to conduct the requisite it r vestigation. I :recommend to your e e .rly consideration the enactments at present in force , in Ireland concern ing the registration of voters %for Members of Par liament. You will probably find that zu revision of the Law of Registration, taken in (IQ junction with other causes at present in operation, would produce a ma terial diminution of the num b2r of county voters. and that it may be advisabif on that account to consider the state of the law, with a view to an ex tension of the county franchisee in Ireland. I commit to your delibon ate. consideration the various important questions of rol Lblic policy which will necessarily come under your rev; w,with full confidence in your loyalty and wisdom, ~and with an earnest prayer to Almighty God to d ix .ect and favour your efforts to promote the welfaree of all classes of my people. LEEDS WOOLLEN MARKETS.• —There is a good amount of business doing at both • the Cloth Halls nearly every market day, and the demandJ for tweeds and similar goods seems to be increasing. In fi A e goods little or nothing is doing. Numerous buyers have 1 ►e4 al in the town on home account, and a fair trade is doing in the warehouses.—The price of tallow in Leeds remains at 4 3. 3d. per imperial stone. —York Courant. WHALE FISHERY.—As an i in stance of the decline of the:whale fishery, it is mentione cl that the whole number of vessels that sailed for this trade b i 1843 was 11, whereas there used to be about 50 per alum .Ayr Observer.' THE COTTON CROP.—As we a nticipated a fortnight ago, the speculators on both sides ot f the Atlantic have suc ceeded, by acting and re-acting on each other's operations, in procuring, both in the United St at es and here, an advance in price which we cannot think is ji istified by anything we have been able to discover, either it t the American papers, or in the state of our demand or cons ir mption here. Since our last arrivals from the United States i t does appear that heavy rains have prevailed over a could( le rable extent of country occupied as cotton plantations ; an. ii that, in consequence, the crop will be somewhat •shorter tJ Ran previously we had reason to expect. The general . a uticipation hi the United States, if we may judge from . the statements confi dentlx put forth in the newspap e 3 •5 , is, that it will not exceed 1,700,000 bales, and one 1. 3tter from New Orleans estimates it as low as 1,600,000 ba le s. This, however, is the lowest estimate we have anywhere r.,een ; and, on the other hand, Messrs.. Stewart and Wri gl A, cotton brokers, New York, in their circular, state ti tat they see no reason to alter their estimate of 1,800,t )0 3 bales, made so long ago as the 14th of November • last. In the midst of these conflicting statements, if we refer to the state ment of the total quantities Jf cotton received at the various American ports, up ro th a latest dates, as compared with the same dates in 1842—a statement which appears in the New York Shipping and Cr sr mercial List of the 10th instant—we find those receipts to be-1843, 707,367 bales ; 1842, 906,03 6 bales. The differ( ssa ce, therefore, between the receipts of 843 and 1842 is about; 22* per cent. in favour of the last named year. In this toy al, there appears to be a general disposition to deduct 100) 300 bales from previous estimates ; and this appears to its be a reasonable deduc tion for the damage which there SO 3ms too much reason to fear the crop has sustained sinst the preceding advices. Though we cannot subscribe to tl to extreme views of the New Orleans letter already referred to , as to the probable amount of the crop, it contains some s to tements with reference to peculiarities in the growth of th a plant itself, not undeserv •ing of attention by those interest ad in the trade. The intelli gence of the crop brought by th t recent arrivals immediately produced a very active and ex. 6ted market in Liverpool ; prices rose fully Ad. per pound; ,and, as will be seen by the report of yesterday's cotton nu tri-.et, transactions to a large amount continued to be made, sn I much speculative busi ness was done.—Manchester Gua. rdi 4 in. ,HONE Y AND COMMERCIAL NEWS CITY, QUARTER TO 7 1 111lEE. In the Liverpool Cotton Market yesterday the sales were fully 22,000 bales, and prices were *d. to id. per lb. higher than last Friday. Speculators took 5,000 bales Surat, and 9,000 American ; the sales comprising 6,000 bales Surat at M. to 4*d., 2,500 Brazil and Egyptian, and the rest American at sd. to 6id. per lb.—There was a steady market for shares, and a fair business was done : Grand Junction were 229 ; Liver pool and Manchester, 221 ; Birmingham, 242 ; Brighton, 46 ; Midland Counties, 91; Paris and Orleans, 33* ; Rouen and Havre, 14; Paris and Rouen 32*. The English Securities are quiescent, business being sus pended till after the receipt of the Queen's Speech. Consols are at a decline of 97i to 97*, being affected by the report of the Parisian Bourse. Exchequer Bills are 665. to 695. premium. and India Bonds, 81s. to 83s. premium. Bank Stock is 194 to 195. The. Reduced Three-and-a-Half per Cents, realise 1021 to 1021. The Foreign Bonds. are supported. Spanish Five per Cents. have been at 231 to 1, and the Threes at 311 to A. Brazils are 79, and Portuguese Converted 47. Dutch Two and-a-Half per Cents. have been 54i to 55. Mexican are 34* for Money, and 34i to 1 for Time. Shares are generally steady; but the Southern lines droop. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. (From the Official List.) Bank Stock 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 9 Blik 3 per Cent. Consols. Annuities, ai per Cent. Reduced Annuities New 31 1 per Cent. Annuities 110110111 ge South Sea Stook Bank Stock for Account C,onsels for Account India Stock Exchequer Bills, lid. lid. 1000/. 5001. Ditto Small FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Danish Bonds, 1825, 3 per Cent 84 Mexican Bonds, 1837, 5 per Cent.......... 34i Ditto for the Account 34/1 Peruvian Bonds, 6 per Cent. Ditto for the Account 231i1 Snanish Bonds, Five per Cent. Ditto for the Account Ditto Passive Bonds Ditto Deferred Ditto Three per Cent. Ditto for the Account B llii Dutch 21 per Cent 55 34k Dutch 5 per Cent. PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE. a A ILWATS. Paid. Per Share. Birmingham and Derby Ditto Thirds ...... 2b - to Eastern Counties 23 ... .. 104 ... to Great Western - to Ditto 4 Shares Ditto Fifths Harwich Extension Liverpool and Manchester .....100 .. Ditto 4 Shares London and Brighton ...... ...... 50 London and 131ackwall London and South Western ... 41% ... 1 ,Ditto Eighths 3 ... .. 253 ... to Landon and Croydon ( Trunk)... 131 1644 ... to Manchester and Leeds ... 70 ll O..... to : Midland Counties 100 — to Ditto 4 Shares Norwich and Brandon Paris and Orleans Paris and Roven .. ..... ..... 20 Rouen and Havre .... ......... .. 8 South Eastern and Dover Ditto Scrip... ......... ... York and North Midland 5O Ditto Scarboro' Branch 24 2044 ... to -- MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, SAN. 31.—A good inquiry still exists for railways generally, but stock is sparingly offered. Manchester and Leeds are in request at 110/., our transactions are:—Bristol and Exeter, 673; Birmingham and Gloucester, 71 ; Manchester and Leeds, 110 ; Ditto, Half, 49; Manchester and Birming ham, 393; Paris and Rouen, 32 ; Eastern Counties per petual, 15s. 6d. premium. ~ MARKET NEWS.--(THIS DAY.) HAY MARKETS. SmrnmELD.—Common Meadow Hay, 21 lOs to 31 3s ; Useful Ditto, 315 s to 31 14s; fine Upland Ditto; 31 15s to 41; Clover Hay, 31 to 51; Oat Straw, 11 7s to 1/ 9s ; Wheat Straw, 11 lOs to 11 12s per load. Both HaY . and Straw moved off steadily, at full prices. CUMBERLAND.—Coarse •,MtidCrif ki 21 13s to 31 88 ; useful ditto, 3/ 108 to 31 16s • -fine Upland ditto, 31 17s to 412 s ; Clover Hay, 31 3s to ' 4l 18s ; Oat Straw, 11 8s to 1/ lOs ; Wheat Straw, 11 lOs to 1/ 13s per load. A limited supply and a steady demand. Quotations somewhat on the advance. WHITECHAPEL.—Coarse Meadow Hay, 21 15s to 313 s ; useffil ditto, 315 s to 31 14; fine Upland ditto, 31 15s to 4l; Clover Hay, 315 s to 515 s ; Oat Straw, 118 s to 1/ lOs ; Wheat Straw, 1/ 100 to 1/ 12s per load. Supply but moderate, and trade tolerably firm. MEAT MARKETS. SOUTHALI.ZJAN. 31.—Most descriptions of prime stock com manded a steady demand, at fully last week's prices, but otherwise the trade ruled.extremely dull, and a clearance was with difficulty effected. Beef, from 3s to 4s •, Mutton, 3s to 4s 4d ; Veal, 3s to 4s 10d ; and Pork, 2s to 3s 8d per Sibs, to sink the offal. Supply—Beasts, 32 ; • Sheep, 1,292 ; Calves, 38 ; Pigs, 40. ROMF'OND, JAN. 31.—We had a fair business doing in sheep at full quotations. In other kinds of Stock very little was doing. Beef, from 2s to 4s ; Mutton, 2s 10d to 4s 4d ; Veal, 4s to 4s 10d; and Pork, 2s 8d to 3s 10d per 81bs. Suckling Calves, 18s to 28s; Quarter-Old Store Pigs, 16s to 21s ' • and Milch Cows with their small Calf, 16/ to 191 each. LEtvEs, JAN. 30.—We had a fair average stock on offer, to-day, and which moved off slowly, on the following terms ; Beef from 3s to 4s 2d; Mutton, 3s 2d to 4s 6d; Veal, 4s; to 4s 10d ; and Pork, 2s 10d to 3s 10d per 8 lbs. LAW INTELLIGENCE EXCHEQUER.-(THIS DAY.) ,Sittings at Nisi Prins, before Lord ABINGER and Common Juries.) • _ The following undefended case; were disposed of at the sitting of the Court this morning ; in each case verdicts for the plaintiffs were given :—ln Walsh v. Gates, for 261. 19s; Martin v. Ratcliffe, for 35/. 3s. 4d. ; Cohen and Another v. Lawrence, for 661. 19s. COOKE V. CHEW. Mr. Whateley%nd Mr. Miller appeared for the plaintiff; Mr. Humphrey conducted the case for the defendant. This was an action to recover compensation in damages for false imprisonment. It appeared that the plaintiff, who was a commercial traveller for a mercantilehouse in the City, en gaged from the defendant a phaeton, for which he was to pay . 2/. 10s. a month. • Subsequently the plaintiff became involved in difficulties, and having left his• employment returned the phaeton to the defendant, at the same time stating his inability at that time to pay for the hire of the phaeton. The defendant detained the servant of the plaintiff who brought it back, and having traced the plaintiff to a coffee-house, there arrested him on a charge of felony, and caused him to be conveyed to the Moor-lane station-house, where he was confined during the night. The next morning he was taken before Sir Peter Laurie, at Guild hall, who stated his belief that the case was not one of felony, and remanded him to the next day; when the money was raised and the debt paid.—Verdict for the plaintiff 5/. HUNTER V. BRAITIINVAITE. This was an action to recover compensation in damages, under the following circumstances, which have been detailed at length in The Sun. The plaintiff, who is a licensed victualler, carrying on business at the Earl Cathcart's, in Munster-street, Regent's park, embarked with four friends on board . the Prince Albert steam-boat, with the intention of proceeding to Sheerness, on a pleasure excursion. On reaching Gravesend the captain denounced them to the crew as pickpockets and members of the " swell mob," at the same time informing them in language which could not be misconstrued, that they must land at Gravesend, and which they were compelled to do, and where, from the pre judice created against them, they were annoyed by a mob, and refused refreshments or.admission into any tavern in the town. After several ineffectual attempts to get a passage by the steam-boats plying to London, they were compelled, at considerable expense, to take a carriage to town. The de fendant is the proprietor of the steam-boat. An action was brought last term by Mr. Coppin, one of the party, against Mr. Braithwaite, when the preceding facts were adduced, and a verdict found for 501. in his favour. Verdict for the plaintiff, 20/. THE LATE FIRE AT DEPTFORD.—The following address has been presented to the Royal Marines, to whose prompt assistance upon this occasion so much credit is due : " To Captain Buchanan, the officer .in command of the de tachment of her Majesty's Royal Marines on duty at Dept ford, on Thursday, the 11th of January, 1844. Sir—We, the undersigned vicar, rector, churchwardens, and inhabi- tants of the parishes of St. Nicholas and St. Paul, Deptford, Kent, desire to express our sincere thanks for the prompt and effective assistance rendered by you and the officers and men under your command, at the alarming fire which oc curred in High-street, Deptford, on the 11th instant, and our admiration of the intrepidity and orderly and soldierlike conduct displayed on that occasion, by which the threatened serious conflagration was arrested, and but for which we feel convinced a very great loss of property, if not of life, must have occurred. We request you will accept for yourself, and be good enough to communicate to those of your corps to whose very zealous exertions we and our fellow-townsmen areso much indebted, this earnest of our feelings of gratitude towards you and them. We remain, &c." The following is the reply :—" Royal Marine Barracks, Deptford. Gentle men,--I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of a document bearing your signatures, together with many others of the respectable inhabitants of Deptford, expressing their gratitude to the officers, non-commissioned officers, and pri vates, under roy orders, in reducing and stopping the fi re which broke out on the morning of the 11th inst., in High street, Deptford. I have to request that you will be pl ease d to convey to them the high gratification I feel that the de tachment of the Royal Marines under my command should have proved of so much service at a time when much valu able property was threatened with deitruction. I trust that they will always meet their approbation under similar and any other circumstances. I have the honour to be your obedient servant, J. &cumin -NT, Captain commanding de tachment. To the Vicar, Rector, and Churchwardens of St. Paul's and St. Nicholas'." PRICE OF WOOL,—Since the beginning of Novem ber wool has risen above 40 per cent., and still looks upwards, and as the manufacturers have no stocks on hand, the farmers may confidently look forward for several years to good prices, in spite of all the exertions of the League.—Kelso Mail. BRIGHTON.--TH E DUKE OF CA M BRIDG E.—On Saturday morning his Royal Highness took his gun and went into Col. Wyndham's preserves, but before he had any sport he kicked against the stump of a tree, and had rather a se: vere fall. His Royal Highnegs returned to Petworth House immediately, but we are happy to state that he was able to dine with the company, the only inconvenience he felt from the accident being a stiffness in the shoulder. On Sunday his Royal Highness attended Divine service in the parish church, both in the morning and afternoon, and on the fol lowing day took his departure for Goodwood, oa a visit to the Duke and Duchess of Richmond. SOUTH EASTERNIiiIi;VAY, DovEit, _ JAN. 31.- It is now definitively arranged that the South Eastern Rail way should be opened to Dover on Tuesday next, the 6th of February; and the event will be celebrated by a dinner, on a sumptuous scale, at the e theatre, to which the Directors, engineers, and officers, of the Company. The civic authori ties of Calais, Boulogne, Ostend, Canterbury, Deal, Hyth e , Folkestone, & c., are to be invited; an excellent Committee, of which the Mayor is chairman, has been appointed to conduct the banquet, and a liberal subscription entered into to defray the expense of it.—( From a Correspondent.) ANTI-CORN-LAW MEETING AT STOCKPORT. On Tuesday evening one of the largest, most respectable , and most enthusiastic meetings ever held in Stockport, took place last evening, in aid of the great League Fund of 100,00 0 ,/ The meeting was held in Batty' s R o y a l Ci rcus , Middl e Hill" gate, a spacious pavilion, c ap a bl e o f sea ti ng 2 , 500 persons and the whole available space in the boxes, pit, and galleries , was crowded to excess. At ten minutes before seven o'clock , the chair was taken by Cephas Howard, sq., Mayor of the Borough ; and, on the platform were the following gentlemen :—Richard Cobden, Esq., M.P., Mr. Alderman Armitage, and Mr. R. Moore (a deputation from the Leaguey Henry Marsland, Esq., M.P. ; Me ssrs . Ald erman Orre ' Alderman Hollins, Samuel Carrington, John Dyson Fernley; Rev. Charles Baker, Rev. S. Healey ; the Town-clerk ; Messrs. Thomas Eskrigge, James Ashton, Benjamin Ashton , John Lees, Henry Pearson, W. R. Potts, Hamer, Sefton, Wilde, M'Culloch, Carrington, Potter, &c. In opening the proceedings, the Chairman said, they wer e met for the purpose of receiving the. deputation from the Anti-Corn-law League, advocates of the repeal of the corn-laws and free trade in every department of commerce. —(Loud applause.)—Henry Marsland, Esq., M.P., then car e forward to move the first resolution, and was received with cheers. He adverted to the origin of the Anti-Corn -la w League, the opposition they had met with, and the iriumPh they had achieved over their opponents. They had gone among the agricultural districts' for the purpose of enlighten ing the minds of those for whose benefit the corn-laws wer e said to be enacted. Great had been the labours of his Hon' Colleague—(Loud cheers)—and his coadjutors in the cause; and the farmers had now become convinced that they wet' not benefited by these laws, and had much rather that we should be the consumers of their produce than the victims of their policy. The Anti-Corn-law League had done very much to liberate us from the p o liti ca l t ramme l s i n which we were tied, and men of all shades of politics were now found uniting in this great m ovemen t i n f avour o f free end , unshackled commerce. The Whigs were equa ll y gu ilty the Tories in not caring for th e coun t ry , an d t h ere f ore the country ceased to care for them. He rejoiced that this was no party movement ; and, as a proof that it was no party movement, he was glad to be able to point to the gentlema n who now occupied the chair.—(Hear, hear.) -After advert ing to the deep distress which had lately been felt in Stock port,—distress which might soon return unless the policy 11 which it had been caused was altered,—he - coneluded by runv . ing the following resolution : "That this meeting, being firmly of opinion that this color try suffers severely from the baneful effects of monopoly, especially the corn-law, and that all laws which.interfer e with the freedom of industry and with the bounties of Pro s vidence are impolitic and unjust, reso l ves t o t en d er its bes t assistance, on all necessary occasions, to the National Alit' . Corn-law League, in its persevering endeavours for the coin plete abolition of all commercial monopolies.”—(Applause.) The Rev. Charles Baker, Baptist minister, brieflYn e. conded the resolution; and it passed without, a single sentient voice. A great number of addresses were presented by working men to Mr. Cobden from different manufactories, thanking him for his exertions, and calling upon him to persevere in his great object—the destruction of monopolies. Mr. Cobden returned thanks to the deputation, and then addressed the meeting. Mr. Moore announced the subscriptions for the night, which amounted to 9544 in addition to 320/. sub' scribed by Messrs. Orrell and Hollins at Manchester. Before the meeting broke up the total contribution for Stockport was announced to be 1,333/. 9s. 4d. FREE TRADE DEMONSTRATIO AT WAKEFIELD. WAKEFIELD, WEDNESDAY EVENING.---i-The:pronaised " Monstration of the friends of free trade, and the abolition; the corn-laws, in the West Riding of Y or k s hi re ," wa s Ina„"; this evening: The theatre selected for thi s display was'"- hall of the Corn Exchange, which was judiciously and ta,.7; fully fitted up for the occasion. Seats w ere provided for 6 4 " in all, and large as was the number, every ticket was 'll posed of several days ago, and many persons applied in v" -- as earl} :even as Monday. The following localities were represented by their dele" gates :—Ossett, Halifax, Farsley, Gomersall, Cleckheat °° : Heckmondwike, Doncaster, Dewsbury, Yeadon, HorinTha Guiseley, Rawden, 'Pudsey, Batley, _ Barnsley, Wake 6 e l Huddersfield, Lindley, Lockwood, South Crosland, lionleft Kirkburton, Golcar, Dalton, Kirkeaton, Miuteld, skeboX 3 : thorpe, Clayton West, Homefurth, Molegreen, Birkb e r Bradford, Otley, Morton, Clayton, an d Leeds. - y e Five o'clock was the ho ur a pp o i n t e d f or th e di nner , but w et , guests did not enter the room until a quarter to six. Je Garth Marshall, Esq., presided as chairman, the vice-cn* : ;3 men being H. H. Stansfield, George Craven, F. SehwannOn, F. Carbutt, Esqrs. The whole of th e exce ll ent arrangotj, were under the immediate superintendence of— lien Esq., assisted by G. M. Bingley,. Esq., the secretary Wakefield Anti-Corn-law Association. tie, kell, the right of the Chairman sat Lord M or p e th, , kell, Esq., Col. Thompson, George Wilson, e t, Wm. Hand, George Oxley, T. Bazeley, E: Baines, T. R. Milligan, R. 14 orbes, J. Scholefield, Gully, Jo& I '7ol E. Ackroyd, Wm. Morris, and Willoughby Wood, Eacirl i " the Rev. J. G. Morris. On the left were Richard Cobden, Esq., the MaYQ - ' O , Leeds, John Bright, Wilkinson, R. R. Moore, D. LoPI. r , T. Mallison, George Crosland, H. Ashworth, G. Wise, Clay, Jas. Thompson, Welsh, D. Peckover, H. Clayton, Taylor Crooke, W. Harvey, and Cha wick, Esqrs. V 0 I The Hon. C. P. Villiers, who had acc e pt e d a n invite was unable, from sudden indisposition, to attend. The approach of Lord Morpeth to the Hall was annuTh ia t to the dense company by the applau se o f th e populace la . thronged the avenues leading to the banquetting room' bled mediately his Lordship entered the building those assert' ,there responded to the enthusiastic plaudits of the people• son Messrs. Cobden, Bright, Gaskell, and Colonel Thn i r a t er e were also loudly heered as they entered the worn, and w ere severally recognised. At five minutes before seven, the cloth haVing been re moved, the ladies entered the gallery, and were loudly ap plauded. As soon as order was restored, grace having been said, The Chairman rose and ave " The health - of her 110 9 ' Gracious Majesty the Queen,' which was_drunk with nio times nine. - The first toast was not given till sewn o'clock, and th e last mail train left Wakefield at a quarter-past seven, 101°1 the express left. PUSEYISM. v im' The following is the answer of the Chancellor, the Addy Chancellor, and the Heads of Houses t o the Lay against the Tractarian party : To the Right Honourable Lord Ashley and other Lay, hers of the United Church of England,andirehuid- ou r We have received, and have had for some time under consideration, the letter addressed to us by your LordshiPa;, other gentlemen, in our character as the responsible , o f vernors of the . University of Oxfofd, on the sUbje c " o s, sentiments diffused by means of various _publietltin sent forth within the la s t f ew years, b y sev eral ui - hic j i , guished members of the U n i vers it y , t h e ten d enc y of sv,..coc it has grieved you. to observe, has been t o exc it e - dissatiw e tion with the principles of our Reformed Church, IL % t he bodied in the Rook o f C ommon P rayer, and especially Thirty-nine Articles of Religion. e 1 After stating-the opinion ofyotu. Lordship, and of th e g of tlenaen who with your Lordship have signed this letter:4g, the great national evils which will be the result - of any j o r tion from the Protestant character of the Church °t. land, and the alarm with which yoti haVe observed 5).‘,00 toms of such deviation, which have appeared in the 07,0 avowed by some whose station in the University gi veB deolk extensive influence over the yo unger p or ti on o f-the nes cal body ; OP Your Lordship, and the gentlemen who with your r o t tile have signed this letter, call upon us, th e Authoriti es' r otec t. University, to take such steps as are o pen _ to us for P rot the ing the youth committed to our superinte n di ng Bare n °- for + here, dangerous influence referred to, and f o r searing to tbe the future, such tuition as is in strict accordance "' t hese Protestant Church of England and the- Con st i tut i on of realms. _ It is undoubtedly true that, within the last few /MT die; tain tracts or pamphlets have been published by sev7, l loo , tinguished members of the University, c ontaining ,ct ia ble and sentiments consideied by many to be not con-Pypro to, or consistent with, the doctrines of the Ref t ' mg f Cote" testant Church of England, as embodied in the - Book 0 1 be mon Prayer, and in the articles of religion called Thirty-nine Articles." tac 6 ° r The opinions , and doctrines contained in thebe r d to 0 1 pamphlets have been considered, discussed, and rep deft other publications, and those discussions have, at "` times, attracted more or less of the public attention. Against the prevalence, however, of erroneous u_r a s ide' among its members generally, the University possess ee w ge l guard in the ' statute enacted more than two cent liri oili t `; which provides that eve r y c a n did a t e f or martricillat i°n to for subscribe the Thirty-nine Articles ; * and every candi ( .l o , SO a degree should again subs cr ibe the Thirty-nine in addition thereto, the Three Articles in the 36th kiil' io tt The authorities of the University have not lost %%tote; their duty in enf orc i ng a strict compliance - with thi s .„, s o rov r nor have they shown themselves indifferent to tile fi l proit, r ; ment of religious instruction within the "t Acts Tor, when her Majesty was enabled, by il e t e i datie ° ' of the Legislature, to provide for - the T ro fees°, l maintenance, and regulation of additional ni i v ersit:' ships of Divinity, the authorities o f the : very with the assistance of Co nvoca ti on , adoPte d , es _ecuti e i r sure for which they were competent, to can,' ' 9 " And t ile the views of Government and of Parliament. „. 00 se by course d of: sing, to train up the youth committed to their care pure principles of the Reformed ChureChurchof:England. WELLINGTON, Chanceilor, P. WINTER, Vi ce -Chan ce llor, 00 0. nieteirNa"a hi f w hi t e n s ; On behalf of the Heads FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE ----------------------- sp distressing ee mor n ing,tab ey b o and e u t n w g e f en a m t fa taleight accident and ili oc n c e urr o' e ci d oc o k n , t t h h e e f r ° i l v l " ° : : : l l l7l fr eeg o ' at Vauxhall, lost his life off Thames-bank, near Chelsea College, and by w h ' e a sidi" n fe am : T d hGee deceased orgeor Gore, a a s g rd filter,iaga the river with a barge, along with a man mulled l'" was when off the place above-named, the unfortunate gaujjea the act of passin g a l ong th e gunwa l e o f the barge, w,.. v ea: foot slipped :and he f e ll over b oar d. Painter used elvi„r`Sborb deavour to save his mate, but in vain, for after a few' us ed struggles he sank to rise no more. The drags we re as sob' find the body, but without success. The 'deceased w at the time of the accident. stems Arrangements are in progress for placinf;rarake4 carriages on the road from Stortford through I C ! off I 0 and from Colchester through Ipswich, to /Comic", the spring. g ist : %nix, JAN. 23.—The King of ilan? vel ;opee t , ° o to this city is deferred for the present. M. Tegle i r, e back ' of palaces at Hanover, left for London some t 111 a nd el ,r s inspect Kew Palace, and order several alteratioin,amejeaq„ largements, deemed necessary should it be still on ' d 6" o determination to make a lengthened stay in season. RA$ l.- --. if ,. • DEATH OF SIR WILLIAM JOHNSTON, -, - .„ 00 aet, ,- ,, have to record the demise of the above r espeered,, v , last, telligence of whose death was received on Moni e r -T e d on t which we are informed that Sir William expired prelri° 13th ult., having been seized with illness on raall Thursday. The melancholy event happen The deceased Baronet, who was son of the six''' . dau ghte c i was in his 84th year. He married first Miss 8ac0n,,,, 0; a0 _ ed at t ! ,_ ll 3 l a " r — ea et .. , of Mr. John Bacon, of Shrubland Hall, Suffolk, frieT secondly, the only daughter of Mr. John Bac ° '" j a ims ° ' House, Middlesex. His son, Mr. William Bacon succeeds to the family h onour s and estates. g e n tle LINCOLN'S INN, JAN. 30.—The followi ofelat-La% men were this day called to the degree of Baln liar a ren o u ti b the Hon. Society of Lincoln's Inn , viz. :—".„ Babin E f t „, sq., Thomas Henry Mackay, Esq., - •• c i ao Esq., William David Lewis, Esq., Edm un 1 F' sq `' Hugh Edward Adair, Esq., Robert Chohne ey, a t, William White, Esq. tendedl ttention oiem v ii n Sabbath week. Though the object of much ,oluess and divineunders s t erv and ice that Mrs. p rs a . ris C h h c r i i i s u t re in bi s oa G f _ oa- a curiosity, she comported herself with great composure,— Glasgow paper.