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Fr III: IRISH LEBELLION is r e p o rted EX ...L. (,LiJSIVELY in HOOD'S MAGAZINE. 1, Adam- ACT:vl,i - - - 4 s ON 61- lAI PK !ON of 11001YS ia. :MAGAZINE wa3 publi3lied on Saturday Alorning. !rfice, 1, Adant-stret,t, To HE COMPLETED IN ELEVEN MONTHLY 4NE SHILLING PARTS. OTICR—WINDSOR CASTLE, —L WITH 110 ILLUSTRATIONS, By G. CRUIKSHANK, Sc, THE SECOND MONTHLY SHILLING PART IS NOW READY FOR DELIVERY. N.B. Copies of the Complete ‘N or k , in One Volume, with all the Illustrations, may also now be had, price 145., elegantly bound. Oraers received by all Booksellers. Henry Culburn, l'ubli,her, 13, Great Marlborough-street. NOTICE. pAttT H. OF BURKE'S' HISTORY OF THE LANHED GENTRY, A GENEALOGICAL and HERALDIC DICTIONARY of the WHOLE of the LANDED GLNTity ; or UN TITLED ARISTOCRACY of ENGLAND, SCOTLAND, and IRELAND, IS NOW READY FOR DELIVERY. This work will be completed in Four Pat ts, price 105 . 6 d. , forming a single volume of upwards of 1,600 pages, uniform with the Author's popular PEERAGE and BARONE'I'AGE. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. - • 13, Great Mar!borough-street. TIIE Al AItC II lONESS of LONDON DERRY'S NARRATIVE of HER VISIT to the COURTS of VIENNA, CONSTANTINOPLE, ATHENS, anil, NAPLES, is now in course of publication in " COL BORN'S NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE." The first number for the new year of this popular periodical also comprises a variety of interesting Articles, by Miss Agnes Strickland, Mrs. Trollope, Miss Eliza Cooke, the late L. E. L., Horace Smith, John Poole, Barry Cornwall, Laman Blanchard, Peter Priosins, The Medical Student, and other favourite writers; besides the first of a series of papers, con taining Anecdotes of, and Private Conversations with, the celebrated Prince Talleyrand, at his favourite residence, Va lencay. llenry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. TO THE PROPRIETORS OF EAST INDIA STOCK. LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, AVACANCY having taken place in the ad ministration of your affairs, by the death of your highly respected Director, Vk illiam Stanley Clarke, Esq., I have the honour to acquaint 3ou that it is not my intention to solicit your support on this occasion. The position of Major Oliphant at the last election, which he .only lost by two or three votes, and his great accession of strength, as ascertained during my canvass, leave no doubt in ivy mind of his success et the approaching Ballot. Under these circumstances I should not feel justified in now eoming forward, but I confidently hope I may be en abled to do so on the next vacancy, and in the meantime eat nosily solicit a continuance of the flattering encouragement I have hitherto received. 1 remain, Ladies and Gentlemen, very respectfully, ytsur obedient humble servant, WILLIAM J. EASTINICK. London, 22., Sloace-street, Jan. l , 1844. TO THE PROPRIETORS OF EAST INDIA STOCK. LADIES AND GENTLFMEN, AVACANCY having occurred in the Direction of your affairs, by the death of William Stanley Clarke, Esq., I take the earliest opportunity of soliciting the honour of your support. It may be in your recollection, that at the last election I was deleateu by a majority of only three votes, 782 having been re corded in my favour ; and it now gives me great satisfaction to state, that the numerous additional promises of support which I have received since that period, justify me in assuring my friends that we may look forward with perfect confidence to the result of the approaching Ballot. I shall have the pleasure of again addressing you when the day of election is fixed ' • and have the honour to be, Ladies and Gentlemen, Your faithful and obliged servant, JAMES OLIPHANT. London Tat ern, Jan. 1. 1844. To prevent mistakes in the transmission of Proxy Papers, it is part►cularly requested that those friends of Major Oliphant who may have recently changed their residence will be pleased to notify the same to his Committee, which sits daily at the London Tavern, Bishopsgate-street. TO TIIE PROPRIETORS OF EAST INDIA STOCK. - - - -- LATME'; ANT) GENTLEMEN, AVACANCY in the East India Direction having taken place by the lamented decease of William Stanley Clarke, Esq., permit me to inform you that it is my inten tion again to proceed to the Ballot as intimated in my last address to you of the 9th June, 1842. The great accession that I have received . to my supporters, and the kind assurances of powerful aid from numerous parties released from their engagements by the election of the Sth June, IS-12, inspire me with the fullest , 2onfldence in the suc cessful result of the approaching contest, and I earnestly and respectfully sfilicit the favour o f the votes and influence of tho.e Peofrietors who have not already declared their intentions. When the day of election is announced by the Honourable Court, I stall do myself the pleasure of forwarding the usual power of attorney to such of my kind supporters as shall prefer voting by proxy, and in the meantime request the favour of communications as early as possible, intimating their wishes in that particular, and informing me of any change of residence, either permanent or temporary, in order to facilitate the trans mission of letters. _ . I have the honour too he, Ladies and Gentlemen, Your faithful servant, JOHN CLARMONT WHITEMA N. London Tavern, 1843. Mr. Whiteman's Committee it daily at the London Tavern, Bishopsgate-street. -- CONCLUSIVE EVIDENCE.—If the direct ritten testimony in favour of the purity and perfection of BETTS'S PATENT BRANDY, given, after analysis, by three of the most eminent Chemists of the day, needed any con firmation, it will be found in the fact, that it is employes!, in preference to Foreign Brandy, under high medical direction, in many of the principal Hospitals, Infirmaries, and other Public Institutions in the Kingdom ; amon4 which it may suffice to name Guy's, St. George's, and the Westminster Hospitals in the Metropolis ; arid the Manchester, Bristol, and Brighton L firrtiaries. Distillery, No. 7, Smithfield Bats, leading to St. John-street. Price, pale or coloured, in quantities not less than Two Gallons, Eighteen Shillings per Gallon. VILE NEXT DISTRIBUTION of MONEY VILE DIVIDENDS. AUT.WHISEDand GUARANTEED by lIIS MAJESTY the ENIPEROR c.l AUSTRIA, contains hIoNEY DIVIDENDS et' • £5O £6O £7O £BO £9O £lOO Ella £l2O £l5O £2OO £4OO £6OO £BOO £l,OOO £1,500 £5;000 and £23,000 sterling. Amounting together to £70,170 sterling. Direct for PROSPECTUS with full particulars, WITH. OUT DE LAY, to HEINE BROTHERS, at lIAMBUEGII, • Cr. to HEINE BROTHERS. at LUBECK. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. Tills EVEN►NU, JANUARY I, Will be repeated a New Grand tip era, in I hree Acts, called I'HE BOHEMIAN GIRL Count Arnheim, Borraci ; Thaddeus, Mr. W. Harrison; Arline, Miss Rainforth; Queen of the Gipsies, Miss Betts. After which, will be repealed a New Grand Comic Chri.iinas Pantomime, entitled HARLEQUIN AND KING PEPIN ; or, VALENTINE ANI) ORSON. Harlequin, Mr. How. II ; Coluin_ bins, Mi 4 Catson; Clown, Mr. I. Ridgway; Pantaloon, Mr. Blancicad. Pres Boxes Is., Second Pric., 3s, CO.; Upper Circles of-(loxes 55., .`',cc and Pr.ce :'s. • Pit 3s `second Price •2s. ; Nliddle Gallery mond. nice Is. ; 'Lipper Gallery Is., Second Price 6d. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN, M. JULLIE,N's coNcEdTs. PROGRAMME FUR THIS EVI•.NING. PART 1. Overture, Der Vainpyr. New Quadrille, midi.] the Toy o, , adrille do, t.lariotiet, Mr. I. azar us - Lazarus SintOnia C Minor, The A ii.4atite, Allegro, and Finale—Peethovt n. V;,lse, pethentine, composed expre sly fyr her Majest)'s State Balla !nllien . . . . —Jolliest. Solo, Violist, Mister 't hirlwall (his third appe:lranct). . . the Real zcoteh Quadrille—Jullien l'Alt'r 11. Opera, Rul.e7t le Diable, Grand rantz.sia, with Solos for the Oboe, Bacsoott, a, nd Clarionet, by M. Ilarret, M. Eauinatin, a..d Mr. I..azarus— Meyerbc r. . Solo, Cornet.a.Piston, Herr Koenig. Valse. Sidi 'moat: limier - Lanner. 'llse English Quadrille - Julliett. L_ 1N,,,, , ,, op ei , at liatf..pa,t. Seven, commence at Eight o'Clock. .... • ' " ' - Promenade, is , Upp r Boxes, Is.; Diess Cirri 2s. lid. ; Private Poxes, I/. Is. 1 ickeis to be obtained at the Box-otliee of the The.itre• of Mr. Aldrhell, • hi Bond-street; Mr. Andrews, New Bond-street ; Mr. Aanis, St. James's-street ; and M. Jullion's &Mice, I, Nladtiox-street, Bend-street. '1 HEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. 1f It. BENJA MIN WEESI LESNEE. 1 HIS EVENINt:, JANUARY I, NV.II he performed . PATTER yeast's CLAT I Ell Cap ain Patter, Mr. Lb:loes Mathews. To a followed by WHO'S Yt Ult Fill END? or, The Queens btu I y 1... Gilts Pal Hand, Mr. Char es Mathews; tie. Countess of 11.3.-etLle, hLuiame Vestri , . After whicti, the Unpzita Lied Peeormarie.of Vrofe.zor RISLEY and Ins 3 ON. To conclude u ith a New fairy Extravaga.iza, eutit'e I 'll-1E FA 111 ONE MI 111 THE GOLDEN LOCK-0. King Laeliryino,o, Mr. J. 111..ud ; Pi ii:ce Gra..•eful, Miss I'. !Carton ; Queeo Ltictdot a, Alisa JuChi Bennett. I'LIEfiCI ADELPHI. The Cest P...n,oiniine or the Season -(lorgeoits scenery. THIS EVFNIN(I, JANUARY I, Tha New Drama, embracing Extraoritiv:ry Effects, Puwerful Cast, _ and Novert...cenic Display, called '1 III: conEm LANA ; cr*, 'Pre Ico,,,res of I aris. 'principal CLaracters Ly Messrs. Lyon, D. Srnrt.r, Wr;ght,lamt, Mayn ar d, Mrs. Yates, Mi s K St aVey, Mrs. E. Matthews. After which, a New Grand Chr.stmas Pantomime, mit d lIAR. LEQUIN BLUE BEARD; or, The Fairy or the Silver Crescent. PrOdUCCA with Enormous S lendour arid %Voric!etful Etnets! Columbine, Miss (rut err ; harlequin Quicksilver, by the inimitable Wieland (his sixth appearance in that character); Clown, by the Grimaldi of the stay, Mr. T. Matthews, from the Theatres Royal, Covent-garden arid Drury-laire; Pantaloon. Mr. Johnstone, (their sixth appearance on the Aclelphi stage.) Boxes, .1s ; Pit, 25.; Gallery, Is. ; Second price at Nine. Doors war at Six, cum hences at a Quarter before Seven o'clock. PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD.STREET. LESSEE, Mr. J. M. MADDOX. THIS EVENING, JANUARY I, Will be per formed LUC REZ IA BO ltGl A. 1 kin Alpho so, Mr. Martini ; Gennarro, Mr. Allen ; Matlio Ursdi., Mrs H. P. Grattan; GuLeita, Mr. Walton ; Lucrez a Borgia, Madame Eugenia Gircia. 'Tube followed by the F.,rce of MY WIFE'• GU V. in which Mr. and Mrg. Keeley and Mr. W. Lacy will perform. To conclude with a Mew MioieJ Burlesque 'pectacle, entitled TUG MAGIC MIRROR. Sing Song, Mrs H. P. Grattan; Poo. Poo, Mr. Paul Beil'ord ; Mica R. lsaies. IJACIOOES ROYAL SURREY I'OEATITE. As usual, the funniest and most successful Panto:tame. l'EllS EVENING, JANUARY 1, Will be repeated 411 E 1101 E lA NS OF PAK IS. Supported by Messrs. Saville, Hughes, Hicks, It. Homier, Johnson, Smith, -Mrs. a Vining, and ale the Members of the First C o mpany in the ‘‘orld. After whith an entirely new Grand Comic Pantomime, wi h Splendid Feetiery, Superb Dre,ses, Inimitable Proper ies and Tricks, every thing new and of the most costly descrip'iun, HARLEQUIN GRAMMAR, or, Lindley Murray,and AEIO U. Harlequin, Mr. W. 11' Harvey ; Grotesque, Mi. stilt; Clown, Mr. Fuller; Panta loon, Mr. Haw: ins ; Colum bines (alternately) Mesa M. R. Fair. brother and Miss Sharpe. Places and Private Boxes to be had of Mr. Kerschner, at the Box office, front Eleven to Fotir, ASTLEY'S ROYAL ANIPHITHEATRE OF ARTS. Under the Management of Mr. Batty, Proprietor. Triumphant SOCCeB 3 of the Splendid Christmas Holiday Face.—West minster -Bridge is now open. • THIS EVENING, JANUARY 1, Will. he performed the splendid French Spectacle of THE V roitit:s OF MURAT, THE SOLDIER OF FRANCE; or, The lieneral, I rdice, and King. New Scenes in the Circle, and unequalled Feats of Horsemanship. To conclude with a Grand Comic Pantomime, entitled HA RI.E QUiNTA O'SHANTeIt., and his SITED MVO; or, The Witches of Alloway Kirk. • Harlequin, Mr. Gibson ; Columbine, Mdlle. tomainie; Clown. Mr. King; Pantaloon, Mr. Mathews. ROYAL VICIOKIA 1 HEATRE. THIS EVENING, JANUARY 1, Will be performed THE CROSS ROADS OF LIFE; or, The Seaintot of London. Devereux, Mr. Freer; Frank Danvers, Mr. blantz ; Louisa, Miss Vincent. After which, HARLEQUIN I.INCOLN LUCKY OF LAM BETH; or, I'h three Sisters of Witch. Willow Dell. Harlequin, Mr. Chapin° ; "Clown, Mr. Scarbrow; Pantaloon, Mr. Morelli; olumbine, Miss M. Schmidt. To conclude with THE LAn WITNESS. TILE SUN, LONDON, MON.DAY , P,V.gI 4 4TING, JAN'UART 1, 1F444. shill be our purpose shortly to prove.how this may be effected. • A more careful perusal of the American PRESI DENT'S Message than - we were on Thursday able to spare to that document, has not only confirmed the impressions which it originally produced in our minas, but has satisfied us that it is as reckless an appeal to party spirit, for the most sordid purposes of elec tioneering intrigue, as ever was promulgated even in the United States. The approaching term of the natural dissolution of Mr. TYLER'S chief magis tracy, and the activity of the canvass carrying on by the friends of the more popular candidates for the va cant chair, seem to have inspired the PRESIDENT with a determination to "go the whole hog" in administer ing to the worst passions and the blindest follies of the Loco-foco, and other anti-British factions of the Republic, whatever may serve to influence the one, or gratify the other. It is really an instructive lesson, to all who would study the grand problemof the form of government best adapted to the wants and the interests of civilised communities in the present diffusion of moral and political intelligence—to note the ten denC.;ns of electoral responsibility—a principle of un doubted al.:stract excellence,—to defeat occasionally the great end of securing a vigorous and unbiassed executive, which should seem to be the first and most natural end of its application. In the " Message" be fore us, we have Mr. President TYLER enlisting into the service of his own political views every topic of national irritation that preoccupies the public mind throughout a vast proportion of the Union, against the rights and the a4hority, the character, dignity, and power, the prosperity and influence of Great Bri tain. The most offensive strain of that sort of arro gance which is best designated by the name of " bragging," is resorted to in the allusions to Mexico; and the ultimate "pleasure" of the United States in regard to Texas, is intimated in a tone of menacing assurance, which well accords with the easy-going lawless insolence that has marked, for so many years, the unauthorised locations of American citizens on its territories. But there is no act, out of those many outrages on national faith and territorial rights and international law, which have been perpetrated within the last seven or eight years by citizens of the United States, which does not find, either by specific mention, or inevitable implication, with a whole class of ana logous offences, an apology, a vindication, or an en couragement in this Message of President TYLER. This is strong language ; but it is easy to justify it. We have marked the several passages which bear us out in each of these charges against it. That part of the Message which we may designate as the monetary portion, is the lonkest. In addition to the deficiencies of revenue and income, which we noticed on Thursday, there appears to be a deficit on the close of the present fiscal year of other 2,000,000 dollars, arising out of appropriations already made by Congress. What is said of the condition of the States currency, and of the expedients proper to be resorted to, or already adopted, to meet the emergencies arising out of that condition, is very clearly stated, and evinces abundant good sense. But the inconsistent obliviousness with which the PRESIDENT affects to talk in lofty language of the duties of a government in enforcing the punctual discharge of the public debts, with its nefarious acquiescence in, and mire buking cognizance, of the fraudulent swindle of the repudiating States, we have already remarked upon. So have we, likewise, on the reiterated adjurations of the " SUPREME BEING," and the invocations of DIVINE PROVIDENCE—not in a strain of Christian humility and pious faith, but, we are constrained to say, in a strain of downright cant. When the late GEORGE RosE, TreaSurer of the Navy, and one of the most unscrupulous Tory officials that ever became the ready tool of a Minister in this country, ventured to make some startling averments with a boldness which for the time silenced the incredulity of the Opposition, GEORGE THE THIRD was accustomed to ask hia Ministers whether ROSE " had called GOD to witness" the truth of what he had stated ? If answered in the affirmative, the good-natured Mo narch would remark, with an amusing air of mingled uneasiness and shrewdness, "Then I know it's a lie !" We feel just the same suspicions of what lurks beneath the puritanical phraseology of JOHN TYLER. Perhaps he was striving to produce the same personal impressions of his moral probity, among other quali fications for high authority, as OLIVER CROMWELL. When OLIVER gave an account of his advancement, he said, " I am a person that from my first employ ment was suddenly preferred and lifted up from lower trusts to greater, from my first being a captain of a troop of horse, and I did labour as well as I could to discharge my trust, and GOD blessed me as it pleased him." In one of the passages relative to commercial negotiations, the PRE S IDENT says, "From its origin, the importance of the German Union has never been lost sight of by the United States. The industry, morality, and •other valuable qualities of the German nation have always been well known and appreciated." Why, the " force of canting can no further go." As if the -morality of their customers formed one millioneth of a cent in the considerations that would weigh with a federal government which justifies the maintenance of negro slavery in its most cruel forms in Alabama, or Georgia, or Carolina, on the plea that it is necessary to be retained, in order to enable its planters—among the worst slave masters in the world—to raise tobacco and cotton on terms suffi ciently cheap to command a market. Again, we find the "CREATOR" invoked in a paragraph of maudlin sensibility about the guilt of Mexico in continuing at war with Texas, and turning nature's solitudes into scenes of desolation. This from the heroes of Pen sicola —the exterminators of Florida—the unrelenting destroyers of the red men, in all the countries to the west and north-west of their own ample dominions, where ever they can find them. A further complaint against Mexico is, that she has made predatory incursions, the result of which has been to carry off certain 'l'exian authorities, " thus leaving crime to go un punished, and immorality to pass unreproved." President TYLER aware of the moral condition and social Government of the Illinois district—that vaunted United States' Paradise—at this moment ? What immorality is there there which is reproved ? —what crime which is punished? Does he know Nvhat is at this moment the condition, civil, social, and moral, of those vast hordes of emigrants, Europear and American—British, Scotch, Irish, French, Ger• man, Dutch, who are "settled "—in the most mourn. Cul sense of the term—along a vast line of the banks oi the Mississippi ? We doubt whether any territory 01 • the whole world, inhabited by civilized men or their descendants, can produce the parallel of zuc a con dition as exists - in that_ region of audacious profli gacy, of unrestrained violence, of utter abandon - ment, and undisguised licentiousness, of the subver sion of all rights of property, all notions of order and religion? The fortunate few who have returned in rags and poverty, in abject indigence, yet still re joicing to have escaped at all, and once more to have set foot on their native land, have supplied ample details on these subjects to undeceive their townsmen of Glasgow or Dublin, Liverpool or London. But, enough of these matters of domestic American history. Let us pass, in conclusion, to the hostile spirit in which other parts of the " Message" are con ceived- An apparently designed distinction is taken in the mode of announcing the progress of diplomatic relations with other States from that employed in speaking of Great Britain. Thus, as to the former, it seems, "since the last adjournment of Congress the Executive has relaxed no effort to render jade structilde the relations of amity which so happily xist between the United States and other countries ;" and of the latter—" The treaty lately concluded with Great Britain has tended 'greatly to increase the good understanding which a reciprocity of interest is calculated to encourage, and it is most ardently to be hoped that nothing may transpire to interrupt the relations of amity which it is so obviously the policy of both nations tocultivate." The same tone preserved throughout the Message with regard-to the relations between the two countries. It is a sorry compliment to give credit to this great country for no higher motive in maintaining rela tions of peace than mere "reciprocity of interest." Then, again, the atrocious misconduct of the Ame rican authorities in dealing with the case of Mr. M‘LEoD, is not 'even glanced at in the following garbled and disingenuous statement of the affair:— " The hazards incident to this state of things were greatly heightened by the arrest and imprisonment of a subject of Great Britain, who, acting as it was alleged as a part of a military force, had aided in the commission of an act violative of the territorial juris diction of the rnited Stateg, and involving the murder of a citizen of the state of New York." The notices of the condition of the United States' army, of the proposed mode of strengthening and en larging it, of the state of the public works, the torts on the sea coast, and the navy ; the strong recom mendation to have the' forts on the lakes, and the approaches thereto, put immediately in an efficient state ; the display of diplomatic strength and influence in the recapitulation of treaties entered into with Foreign Powers ; the continual allusions to some sup posed case of necessity, contemplated, or of probabry proximate occurrence, as calling for the infusion of All possible strength—all these various departments of die public service are all conceived in a spirit which xe cannot but consider as one of intended distance and unfriendliness towards this country. The ill conL'ealed intentions and views about the Oregon and he Texas (which lattet, it should seem, by a recent political revelation, some have net hesitated to consider as part of the United States' territory), are specimens of the most unprincipled political doctrine we ever saw promulgated in a State paper. On the whole, we cannot think that on the great majority of the American' nation, shrewd and sensible as they are, I manifesto so abundant in boastful and impudent language, is likely to have much influence ; or that JOHN TYLER'S presidency is likely to be resuscitated by the people. By the way, if we may be forgiven for once more alluding to the offensive feature we have denounced as of such perpetual repetition in this Message,. we must own we have been amused with one instance, in which the PRESIDENT at the same time helps himself to a more than Archi-Epis copal designation. The old Scotch Covenanters, and the English Puritans before them, were scandalised, among other abominations of the hierarchy, by their profane assumption of spiritual excellence. They could not tolerate a bishop's announcing himself to be " CHARLES -by Divine permission Lord Bishop of LONDON or SARUM." Fox, the Quaker, and other eminent Dissenters, protested against the "blasphemous" distinctions taken in all their public acts by the Primates of our Church, each calling himself "By Divine Providence, Lord Archbishop of --." But JOHN TYLEit leaves bishops and archbishops far in the back ground; he " goes ahead" thus :—" When by a dispensation of Divine Providence I succeeded to the Presidential Chair." After this, the fanaticism of the great, but cruel ALVA himself expressed itself in terms of absolute personal modesty ! The Madrid journals of the 23d ult. give an account of a strange scene, which occurred in the Chamber of Deputies, on its reassembling, on that day. The business commenced by an announcement from MAR TINEZ DE LA ROSA, stating that he had presented to the QUEEN the address of the Chamber, which was most graciously received. On the Ministers entering, Senor DIAS put a question to the President of the Council, relative to the late disgraceful attacks com mitted on persons connected with the Eco del Com mercio and Tarantula. Senor BRAVO said he did not deny the right of members to put questions to the Government, but the Government had also their rights, and might answer or not as they judged pro• per. This excited loud disapprobation, but when he added " Honourable Deputies would act more wisely by attending to the Bills before the House than by putting questions," the storm became tremendous. The President rang his bell and put on his hat in vain. The uproar having at last died away from exhaustion, BRAVO said that if he delayed replying to the questions, it was only because he wished to be able to communicate the full details of the measures which had been adopted to give satisfaction to the journals which had been attacked, or those which thought themselves menaced. This explanation, not having produced the effect of calming the confusion which the Minister had caused, several Deputies rose at the same time to speak without being able to make themselves heard. M.. CABALLERO, having at last obtained a hearing, asked M. GONZALEZ BRAVO if he intended to give a plain answer or not ? M. BRAVO said he did not think proper to add anything to what he had already announced. This added new fuel to the flame, and, after another uproarious scene, the Chamber adjourned without doing any business. Towards the conclusion of the meeting, i❑ answer to a question from a Member re lative to the impeachment of OLOZAGA, two of the members of the Committee, CORTINA and POSADA, said that for various reasons the Committee had not yet assembled, but would meet on the following day. The Chambers were adjourned for three days. The Three per Cents. were done on the 23d at at 60 days, the Fives at 21i for cash, with five coupons, and 191 at 60 days. The Paris papers are chiefly occupied with the pro ceedings in the two Chambers, which possess consi derable interest. After the election of M. SAUZET as President of the Chamber of Deputies, the usual Ses sional Committees were formed, and the Presidents elected, six out of nine being Ministerialists. Another great triumph to the GUIzoT party was the election of the Tice-Presidents, all of whom are Conserva tives. M. BILLAULT, the Opposition candidate, had only 99 votes, while the Ministerial candidates, who stood lowest on the list next to him, had each 150. The names of the successful candidates are M.M. BIGNON,_ LEPELLETIER D'AULNAY, SALVANDY, and DE BELLEYME. These are regarded by the Minis terial journals as great victories, and hardly denied by those of the Opposition. The Journal des Debats after adverting to the very feeble demonstration made by the Opposition, after so much boasting, says—" To sum up, the result of the sitting is what we expected. The session of 1844 opens like that of 1843. The majority, which has not changed its representatives, has not, we are sure, changed its principles—it has resolved to have now, as it had a year ago, the same policy—the same men." In the Chamber of Peers the Committee for draw ing up the address to the Royal speech was appointed on Friday; the members chosen being the Duke DE BROGLIE, Counts DE TASCHER, D'ARGOUT, 'DE PONTECOULANT, MOLE, PORTALIS, and M. MERILHOU. The Duke DE BROGLIE is the Reporter, and Count DE PONTECOULANT fig the President. Some of the jour nals state that all the bureaux of the Peers have in structed the Committee to insert in the address a para graph against those Royalists who have visited the Duke of BORDEAUX in London ; and, according to the Commerce, several of the military officers who were among the visitors, are to be tried for having infringed an article of the law,_ which prohibits military men from absenting themselves from the kingdom with out a special permission, the consequence of which is the loss of their rank. Strong measures evidently are in preparation against the party. On Thursday two Legitimist journals, the Quotidienne and the France, were seized at the Post-office, and on the following day the Gazette de France was also seized. The .following appears in the Pilote de Calvados, a Caen paper : " Several journals, i n an nouncing the presentation at London to the Doke de Bordeaux, by the Duke de Mont morency, of a deputation from Normandy, has given the answer of the young Prince, in which he thanks his faithful Normans, recommending to them union and moderation. One of our subscribers has favoured us with a letter from Lo n d on g iving details of this occur rence. It appears that, independently of the personages who went to England, and whose names are given in the English newspapers, the Count de Mortemart and Count d'Osseville were charged with letters to the Count de Chambord, expressing the devoted attachment of many of the clergy of Rouen and Bayeux, and of a great num ber of functionaries who, notwithstanding their zeal for legitimacy, have not dared to venture upon this pil grimage. This explains the proclamation addressed by the young Prince to his faithful Normans, and the advice which he gives to them." The Paris correspondent of a Contemporary adds the following postcript to his letter of Saturday : " M. Latlite has just delivered in the Chanter a speech of a perfectly revo l u ti on ary character. He said that the peace which the country enjoyed was but apparent, and that at its root lurked anarchy and con fusion, that the French, people were really in a state of complete disoiganizution, and that venality and corrup tion were the ruling principles of the Government. Under these circumstances (he continued) it was requi site to act with caution. ror fourteen years a struggle had been raging between the central and local powers, or, in other words, between Monarchy and Democracy." The Ministers have decided upon not presenting the law of flotation, in consequence of the feeling of the Chambers against it, BOURSE—Y ams, S ATURDA Y, DEC.• 30. Fi rs t Highest Lowest Last. Price. Price. Price. Price. French Five per Cents. 123 70... 123 70... 123 60... 123 60 Four per Cents. 104 50... 104 50... 104 50... 104 50 Threes. B2 5... 82 5... 81 95.. t 42 Bank of France. 3230 ...3230 ...3230 ...3230 Latlitte Bank 1,000f...1095 ..1095 ...1095 bt 000 L.5075 ...5070 ...5070 Belgian Bank 747 50... 747 50 .. 747 50... 747 50 Belgian Fives 1840 lO 7l ... 107 1 ... 107 k ... 107 i 1842.... 1081 ... 104 ... 108 i ... 1081 Spanish Active ...... ... 261 ... 29/ ... 28{ ► ... 29/ Passive ...... 5 ... 5 ... 4/ ... 4/ Neapolitan , :(,,r i ati, ...... .....,...... 1044. ... 1044 .. 1044 ... 1C44 RAILWAY SHARES. Versailles, R.B 3lO ... 311 25... 310 ... 311 25 L. 8... ..,. 176 25... 180 ... 176 25... 180 Rouen 825 ... 827 50... 825 ... 827 50 Rouen to Havre C37 50... 637 50... 635 ... 637 50 Orleans. Strasburg to Bale. . .. 213 75... 213 75... 213 75... 213 75 Avignon to Marseilles 637 50... 640 ... 637 50... 640 RAILWAY SHARES, FOR THE ACCOUNT. Versailles, R.B 312 50... 312 50.. 310 310 L.B lBO ... 180 180 ... 160 Rouen Rouen to Havre... 635 ... 635 ... 635 .. 635 Orleans 842 50... 849 50... 835 ... 835 Strasburg to Bale '2ls ... 215 ... 213 75... 213 75 Avignon to Alarseil:es €36 25... 642 50— 636 25 .. 642 50 AMERICAN NEWS. ARRIVAL OF TILE ACADIA STEAM-SHIP. LIVERPOOL, DEC. 30. The Acadia, Captain Ririe, NI hich sailed from Bos ton on the 16th of December, arrived here this morn- ing, at eight o'clock, bringing intelligence eight days later than that brought by the last packet. The wea ther throughout the passage was very indifferent, she having encountered several strong gales, which, how ever, being from W. to N.W., were in some degree favourable. Between Boston and Halifax, at 10 30 p.m., on the 18th, she passed the steam-ship, Hibernia. The news to the English reader is but of little im portance ; the completing of the Congressional offices, and party ,squabbles, seem to occupy the attention of he American press. " A most perfect union," says the New York Herald, " has at length been completed among all the elements of the democratic party of the House of Representa tives. These members, numbering nearly 126, have had several caucuses, and have almost completed their arrangements for tha Presidential campaign. " In addition to the election of Mr. Jones, the new Van Buren Speaker, we have already mentioned that all the other officers of the House nominated are Van Buren men, including Blair and Rives as the printers of that body. From the consultations among all the elements of that party, we learn that the following is the arrangements for the next campaign, entered into, and agreed upon, by the combined democracy of Con gress :—President in 1844, Martin Van Buren ; Vice • President in 1844, a Southern man ; the succession in 1848, John C. Calhoun ; Secretary of State, 1844, Thomas H. Benton ; Secretary of the Treasury, 1844, James Buchanan ; Secretary of War, Colonel John son. In the debate on Tuesday, Dec. 12, the death of Lewis Field Linn, on the 3d Oct., in the 48th year of his age, was announced. After a brief sketch of his life and manners had been given, it was agreed that the House should go in mourning, as a mark of respect due to his memory If we remember right this is the member who brought in a Bill for occupy ing th• Oregon Territory. Mr. John Quincey Adams had been chosen Chair man of the Committee of Manufacturers. The ap pointment of Mr. llol►nes, of Virginia, as Chairman of the Committee on Commerce, was said to exhibit the hostile feeling of the House against the existing tariff. A long batch of documents—the Report of the Navy, the Report of the Treasury, &c.—which usually accompany the President's Message, had been published, and occupy much space in the American papers. They possess little interest. NEW YORK, DEC. 14.—MONEY MARKETS.—Stocks are still on the advance. Long Island rose l per cent. ; Paterson 2 ; Harlem a ; Norwich 2 ; Farmers' Loan 2 ; Canton 1 ; Illinois 2 ; Indiana 2 ; Indiana Sterling 2 ; Ohio Sixes a ; Kentucky very firm at former quotations ; Vicksburg Bank improved 1i- ; Pennsylvania Fives de clined 4 ; North American Trust sold at 12, which is 2 per cent. above the first sales. Considerable activity prevailed in Wall-street, and operations were very ex tensive. FROM NEW GRENADA.—From Carthagena advices are to the 25th November. The Governor of Santa Martha and two or three of his friends were assassinated at the Cienaga on the 14th November, by a party of rebels, who landed from that place at Jamaica, on the 10th inst. The party consisted of some eight or ten in dividuals, who were banished from New Grenada at the close of the late revolution. DISASTERS, &c.—Packet ship Hibernia, at New York from Liverpool, had heavy weather all the passage ; 17th ult., lat. 47. 30., lon. 24. 30., sprung the foremast, mizen-mast head, and main-yard, carried away cross jack and mizen topsail yard during the passage ; 24th, in a heavy gale, the second officer and one seaman, while in the act of furling the fore topsail, fell from the yard on deck ; Bth inst., whilst lying-to in a heavy gale from the westward, lost main topsail. STEAM-BOAT EXPLOSION.—Thursday morning, Dec. 7, about one o'clock, the steamer Warren collapsed a flue while lying at the wharf at Freeport, on the Alleghany river. There were, at the time of the acci dent, about eighteen or twenty persons on board, of which number about twelve were scalded—four or five not expected to survive. ,TExas, DEc. 2.—The United States schooner Flirl returned to Galveston from Vera Cruz on Nov. 22, She brought letters frotn the United States Minister in Mexico to General Murphy, our Chargé in Texas ; but the nature of the dispatches had not transpired. The Flirt reports that two of the Mexican vessels of war were at sea, and the remainder, including the three steamers, were lying under the fort of San Juan d'Ulloa. A second attempt was made, on the 22d, to sell the vessels of the Texian navy by public auction, but without success—no bid being offered. Nearly the entire popu lation of Galveston, including the military companies, in their parade dress, attended at the place where the sale was to be held, but there was no violence or dis turbance of the peace. Colonel flays arrived at Washington on the 23d, and reports that all is quiet in the west, all the Mexican troops having been withdrawn from this side of the Bio Grande. Some small traders have been into Bexar, but buiiness was limited. It is estimated that 2,000 bales of cotton will be raised in Bastrop county this year. There is nearly twice as much wheat there as can be consumed by the settlers. Corn is selling at a bit a bushel, and pork can be readily purchased at a cent a pound. FROM SISAL.--Captain Buckman, of the brig Trojan, from Sisal, Nov. 12, reports that ie Yucatan Commis sioners had returned from Mexico without effecting a treaty. It was generally believed that the Mexican troops would march against Yucatan in about thirty days. CANADA.—We have received the Kingston Whig of the sth inst. It contains news to the afternoon of that day. There is considerable excitement in Canada owin,,, , rto the troubles of the Government. It now appears that the late minority are throwing every obstacle in the way of the Goverrfor-General. (From the Kingston Whig, Dec. 5.) A message was sent down, ycsterd'ay, by his Excel lency the Governor-General to the Legislative Assembly, expressing a hope that the important measures now be fore them may be proceeded with to their termination. The members opposing the Governor have shown a dis position to sneak oft and embarrass him. Lafontaine f'ound•great fault with the dress of the Secretary who brought down the message.. It is contemptible for the House to be debating about the buttons of Mr. Rawson. Lafontaine, Baldwin, and Co., had better bring forward some better ground of complaint against the Governor- General. _ _ _ Every step now taken by the late Ministry, and their supporters, is with a view of insulting the Governor- General. A Committee of the whole House is now sitting on the Bill providing for the incorporation of townships, towns, counties, and cities in Upper Canada ; and are expunging all the clauses relating to patronage. They have put forth the lion. Member for Kingston as leader of the van. _ _ _ The debate on Mr. Price's motion, on the resignation of the members of the late Executive Council, com menced on Friday and was adjourned to the following day, when it -terminated. The passing of this mo tion by th• House is a direct insult to the representa tive of the Queen. It assumes the statement of Mr. Baldwin—that he resigned in consequence of some ob jections having been raised by his Excellency to the re solutions of the 3d of September, 1841, to be correct ; whereas, his Excellency informs us that he subscribes to those resolutions, and protests against Mr. Baldwin's ex planation as omitting entirely the actual and prominent circumstances which led to their resignation. Mr. Wakefield took a prominent pall in opposing the motion of Mr. Price. His not having been able to prevail upon Mr. Lafontaine to allow the Irish Colonization Bill to pass into a law, is assigned by some as the reason for his having deserted the ex-Ministry. In order to bring discredit upon the bold stand which has been made by Sir Charles Metcale, a report has been industriously circulated by the gentlemen who have left the treasury benches for their country's good, that Edward Gibbon Wakefield is a secret, a '• back-door" adviser of his Ex cellency. Nothing can be more false. Sir Charles Met calfe is too wise to be led by the advice of any such man. He has been'sent to this province as Governor, to regain and assert the prerogative of the Crown. He has his in structions from the British Government, and requires the advice of no one on that subject, but trusts to his own energy and the good sense of the people.. The following is the Address presented to Sir Charles Metcalfe by the Legislative Assembly : " May it phase your Excellency,—We, her Mejesty's dutiful and loyal subjects of the Commons of Canada, in Provincial Parliament assembled, humbly beg leave to represent to your Excellency the deep regret we feel at the retirement of certain members of the Provincial Ad ministration, on the question of their right to be con sulted on what we unhesitatingly avow to be the prero gative of the Cro . wn appointments to office ; and further to ;assure you Excellency that their advocacy of this principle entitles them to our confidence, being in striet accordance with the principles embraced in . the resolu tions adopted by the Legislative Assembly on the 3d day of September,•lB4l. " That this House, in dutiful submission to their gracious Sovereign, and with the utmost respect for the exalted station and high character of your Excellency, is most anxious to guard against any misconstruction'which possi bly might be placed upon the affirmative declaration of their opinion upon this delicate and most vitally important constitutional question, and, therefore, most humbly beg leave to disclaim, in a negative form, any desire that the head of the Government should be called upon to enter into any stipulation as to the terms upon which a pro vincial Administration may deem it prudent either to accept or continue in office, that mutual confidence, which is essential to the well being of any Government necessarily presumes that they are understood, while a due respect for the prerogative of the Crown and proper constitutional delicacy towards her Majesty's_representa tive, forbid their being expressed." REPLY OF SIR CHARLES MWICALFE. " The Governor-General observes with concern from the first portion of the Address of the Legislative As sembly of the 2d instant, that an impression has been made in the House, which has led to a misapprehension of his sentiments and views. " While it is his bounden duty to maintain unimpaired the prerogative of - the Crown, he recognises the resolu tions adopted by the Legislative Assembly on the 3d of September, 1841, as constituting the guide according to which tha administration of the Government of this province has since been, and is to be, conducted. " In expressing his entire concurrence in the second and concluding portion of the Address, he is happy to per ceive that the House of Assembly disapprove and dis countenance any attempt to require the Head of the Go vernment to enter into any stipulation as to his exercise *.f . the prerogative of the Crown. C. T. METCALFE. " Government House, Kingston, Dec. 4, 1843." CRIMINAL COURT.-(THIS DAY.) The third session of the present mayoralty commenced this day, before the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor, the Re corder, Alderman Hooper, Alderman T. Wood, the Sheriffs, and other Civic Functionaries. The Grand Jury having been sworn, were addressed by the RECORDER. He said that the calendar, comparatively speaking, was light, containing only 125 prisoners, to which number, however, there would be an addition during the course of their duties, but he did not expect their attend ance would be required for more than a few days. He had directed his attention to the depositions in some of the principal cases, and though many of them were of importance, they did not require any parti ular observation from him. Tee only case to which he would call their attentio , i was one of man slaughter, in which the death of a p'rson was caused by two omnibus drivers, one of them driving at such a rate as to cause the horses of a dray to become restive and unmanageable, and the other driving at the wrong side of the road, where it appeared there was not room for him, and in consequence of which the death took place. If the death was the consequence of mere accident, then there was no crime ; but if they were of opinion that there was any culpable negli gence on the part of the persons charged, they were liable to be punished. If, in the course of their duties, any difficulty presented itself to them, the Court would assist them to the best of its ability. . . . . . The Grand fury then retired to their room. The following is a summary of the calendar : Bigamy, 1 ; burglary, 2 ; unlawfully uttering counterfeit coin, 4 ; feloni ously uttering ditto, 1 ; cutting and wounding, 2 ; embezzle ment, 1 ; forgery, 3 ; horse-stealing, 4 ; housebreaking and larceny, 6 ; larceny, 68 ; ditto in a dwelling-house, 5 ; ditto from the person, 8; ditto by servants, 3 ; maliciously killing a, pig, 1 ; misdemeanour, 6 ; receiving stolen goods, 2 Total, 125. MIDDLESEX SESSIONS. (THIS DAY.) .. The January Quarter Sessions for the county commenced this morning, at ten o'clock, before Mr. Walesby and a full bench of Magistrates, at the Court-house, Clerkenwell-green. The calendar was comparatively heavy, there being no less than 58 names upon the prisoners' list, charged with various offences. Hannah Monday, aged 17 years, was indicted for stealing various articles of wearing apparel, the property of Thomas Holt, from the person of William Maxam. This was one of those cases so frequent in London amongst the thieves who are watching to plunder children. It appeared that Mr. Holt sent the goods named in the in dictment to No. 6, Goodge-street, Tottenham-court-road, by Maxam, a boy less than ten years of age, who deposed that he met the prisoner in Oxford• street, who promised him 6d. if he would go No. 4, Blenheim-steps, and inquire for Mrs. James, and that in the mean time she would take care of the parcel. When he went to the house he found it empty, and on his re turn the prisoner and parcel were gone. On the CHAIRMAN questioning the boy, he displayed the most lamentable ignorance upon the subject of an oath and all other religious observances, and was unable to write, not even knowing the letters of the alphabet., The COURT commented strongly upon a boy of 10 years of age being, in those times of national schools, and other sources of education for the children of the poorer daises, in a state of such disgraceful ignorance. The Jury said although the lad Maxam showed much na tural intelligence, yet, owing to his ignorance of the solemn nature of an oath, they should net rely on his evidence. The prisoner was then acquitted. Three wretched-looking youths, named Johnson, Harris, and Purday, were indicted for stealing a loaf of bread, the property of Thomas Goodway. The case displayed the usual manifestations by which hun ger and destitution was the parent of crime. A verdict of guilty being returned, the COURT sentenced the prisoners each to three months' imprisonment with hard labour. Several other cases of a similar nature, for stealing trifling articles of food, were tried during the morning, in all of which the prisoners pleaded hunger as the cause of their offences. PO LICE INTELLIGENCE MARLBOROUGH-STREET. (THIS DAY.) ANOTHER MAN Theodore Mitchell, a slim young man, with a singularly wild cast of countenance, was placed at the bar, charged with having committed a violent assault upon his brother, and threatened the life of his father. While the prisoner was waiting in the anti-room of the Court, before his examination, he gave unquestionable proof of his being of deranged intellect, continuing to talk with great incoherency: It was also evident that he was labouring under various delu sions—one of which was, thathe had been privately married to the Queen, he should claim her in a short time, and take her ,away from Prince Albert, hut, as some compensa tion to him, he should put him into a snug little busi ness in the coal and potatoe line. It appears that he is the son of Mr. Lecompte Mitchell, a highly respectable tailor, reAding at No. 44, Gilbert-street, Grosvenor-square, he had latterly absented himself for days and nights together from home, although he had no money or the means of pro curing food. Between eleven and twelve o'clock on Satur day night he commenced abusing his father and threatened his life, and afterwards struck his brother violently on the cheek. At length his conduct became so outrageous, shrieking murder, etc., that he was given into the charge of the police. Mr. MALTBY—How long has the prisoner shown these symptoms of being deranged? Mr. Mitchell—Only five days. The prisoner, while at the bar, went on in a rambling, unconnected statement, asserting that he had a right to drown himself if he liked. Mr. MALTBY said he would have the prisoner's state of mind inquired into, and ordered him to be committed for the present to Westminster Bridewell. MARYLEBONE.—(THIS DAY.) Joseph Norman, a cab-driver, was charged with a violent assault upon Robert Beeson, a very old man, also a cab-driver. The complainant said that be had known the prisoner's father for many years, and had recommended him not to employ him (the prisoner) in driving his cabs, as he was such a notoriously bad character. The:prisoner took umbrage at this advice, and on Friday last he came up to complainant, and struck him such a blow on the eye that it was laid open to the bone. Com plainant did not give him into custody then for his father's sake, hut at a later hour the same evening,- he again came up behind complainant, and struck him a violent blow on the head with a stone. He then escaped, and complainant did not see him again till Saturday, u hen he came up to the cab-rank in Sey. mour-street, with a lot of infamous characters, and assaulted the complainant a third time. A policeman came up and took him into custody. He had no defence tb make, and Mr. RA wciNsorr said that he was determined to make an example of him, and fined him bl., or two months in the House of Correction. David Inglis, a boy about fourteen years of age, was charged with having robbed his brother of tis. MT. RAWLINSON asked the complainant if he wished to prosecute, and was answered in the affirmative. The evidence gas very dear that the boy had ari.en in the morning, and taken the money out of his brother's pocket. When taken into custody he had above 4s. 6d. remaining. Mr. RAWLINSON, who seemed reluctant to commit the boy, asked his brother a second time if he meant to prosecute him for the offence. The brother was determined to do so, and the prisoner was sent to Newgate in consequence. TH Ea WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, JAN. 1. ThEamomETEn, Lowest, 34 ; Highest, - 50 ; moon, 37. BAROMETER, 29.67.—W1ND, NOTE.—The nuinber 32 on the Thermometer denotes freezing point, and 55 temperate. In Bis ()meters 'air is usually placed opposite 30, and rain at 2 - - HIGH WATER AT LONDON -BRIDGE THI DAY. doming 25 minutes after 10.1 Evening 1 min e after 11 , • 4 , e 0 ,, am 1t, 4 -..--, 1 4 - , * 4 '',, ' 46 • \ All / 4- , ~,-.• ' k ~, 4 ,-; , • ',,Y , • 6 ) , :”(ill "" \ :. t.. ' , lik , - ..- i tiod , ;,- —,- ..- A 4 - M 0 ,' ' P Awl .441 Corr t1,,1 - I E i , .....„ \, 4...:_k e• , :'" , i. SECOND EDITION. Qrintfl ti krn, LONDON, MONDAY, JANUARY 1, )844 Instead of ushering in the new year with a smile l of welcome, the Post puts on as Yong and sour a phiz as an old maid at a conventicle, and sighs, and groans, and wrings its hands, and shakes its head, through three tedious, heavy columns of lamentation, which it must have been painful to write, and is a positive calamity to read. Not a single sun-beam bursts through the gloom of this triste and foggy diatribe. It begins with a grievance, and it ends with a grievance. To no one quarter of the political horizon can our disheartened Contemporary turn with hope and confidence. All is darkness in his sky—all barrenness beneath his feet. Visions of coming horrors present themselves to his fancy in every sen tence, and he seems to take a perverse delight.in throwing himself into hysterics with the spectres of his own creation. Not satisfied with draw ing the materials of disquietude from the pre sent condition of England, he sends his jaun -diced imagination across the Channel, and gleans in France a rich, supplemental crop of ripe grievances. Hear his groan on this subject :—" That France may, ere many years, plunge from present danger and con fusion into the chaos of a new anarchy is a fear that grows stronger in the hearts of the best and wisest," among whom our Contemporary of course ranks himself. Returning to England, for he is such a zealous patriot that he never quits his country for any length of paragraph, he tells us—and we can imaghie the gloomy satisfaction with which he im parts the intelligence—" We see landlords throwing away their rentals, their tens, and twenties, and thirties per cent., to rally and inspire the bankrupt farmer, to help him in his struggle to preserve cultivation, and continue the labourer's customary wages. Landlords are absolutely impoverishing themselves ! Does the farmer benefit by the sacrifice? Does the labourer find comfort from the ruin of rentals ? Let the straight answer be looked for in the actual condition of the country districts. Land lords struggling►, farmers despairing, labourers fast rushing towards the abject, sordid misery that was erst the peculiar disgrace of the great manufacturing bee-hives." This is pretty well for a New Year chaunt, but what follows is still more delectable. Addressing himself to the landlords, whom he seems to consider as his own peculiar prOperty, to be abused or praised just as he pleases, "proceed," adds our troubled Contemporary, " in your career of concession, and the landlord may give his rents away till he finds himself with no rents to give ; the farmer may stint, and the labourer may starve ; and what will then become of . England? With such a question you will then have no right to interfere. Your inheritance will have passed into hands more skilled to hold it. The legacy of your downfal will be a terrible warning to futuie genera tions of the faint and feeble .hearted." The Post has indulged in much needless despondency as regards— what is usually called—the Condition •of-England question. The country is by no means in so dis astrous a state as he would have us believe. It is not without its difficulties and embarrassments, but these are by no means of so hopeless a character that they may not be removed by a little seasonable energy and-liberality on the part of Government. Let Ministers but boldly resolve on doing justice to Ireland, and repealing that oppressive impost, the corn-laws—which, whether willingly or not, they must repeal ere long—and the clouds that now brood over our prospects will disperse like the mists of night before the morning sunshine. In the discussions which are now being carried on by the Press, with reference to the affairs of Ireland one point has been raised which appears •to have ex cited a remarkable swell in the already turbid waters of Irish controversy. It has been proposed to endow the Irish Roman Catholic clergy out of the funds pro vided by the State. This proposition, whatever may be its merits, is certainly no new one, it having been mooted as long back as the time of the Union. But, as might be suppo3Kl, the proposition has excited a spirit of energetic resistance on the part of many, even at the present premature stage of its reception. M over, the opponents to the scheme are actuated by var►ous 'and totally distinct principles. Some, for histance, regard the project with displeasure, because it appears to them to sanction Popery. Others, less disposed to interfere with the religious sentiments of 8,000,000 of their fellow-subjects, object to the plan, simply because it recognises an Established Church, and is, in fact, a violation of that independence of religious - opinion which they deem best for the general good. We shall refrain at the present time from discussing this branch of the question. But, in the meantime, we would throw out for consideration, a plan for en dowing the Roman Catholic priesthood, which may he effected, we think, without compromising a por tion of that conscientious feeling, which is likely to be invaded by any.otber mode of payment, We be lieve the-scheme has never yet been broached. Any traveller who has visited Ireland, and who has employed his opportunities to any purpose, must have remarked one obvious fact, and that is the ge nerally inferior condition of the lands belonging to the Church. On no estates is cultivation at a lower mark than those in question. How does it arise? The cause is chiefly this—the tenure upon which these lands are let is of a kind peculiarly unfavourable to the interests of agriculture. The Bishops' lands hich comprise, we believe, about 669,000 statute acres, producing 45,2581. per annum, are let •to a hody of raen called undertakers, who take them on lvases of twenty-one years duration, subject to a fine for renewal, which is paid annually. The lands are again re-leased to under-tenants, and the process of under-letting seldom ends there. The fines paid for the renewal of the leases amount to yearly 83,6301. It will be seen that the effect of this tenure is to leave the Middleman in per manent possession of a lease of twenty-one years' duration, so long as the yearly fine ,is paid. It has sometimes happened that a strong, healthy, and moderate aged Bishop has chosen to " run his life against the lease," that is, he has preferred refusing the yearly payment upon the chance of his surviving the term, in which case he has received a very large SUM at once in the shape of a permanent renewal tine. The late Bishop of DERRY made such a bargain. But now what is the effect of this peculiar kind of tenure ? Does it not clearly throw impediments in the way of the improvement of the soil. Is it the Bishop's interest to fertilise, at some considerable cost, an estate which Hill descend, with all his im provements, to a stranger ? Is it the Middleman's interest to lay out funds on the property ? Clearly not, fur, immediately he has done so, there is a chance of the Bishop's declining the annual renewal fee, and then, at the expiration of the term, the rental is .raised just in proportion to the amount the tenant has in vestedin its improvement. To suppose that it is the lower tenant's interest to do anything, is to suppose an absurdity, and - therefore it follows conclusively, that 1 - .0 party is interested in the beneficial cultivation of the laid. Cana tenure of 4 such a kind be advantageous either for indk iduals or for the Church ? Is it desirable that 669,000 acrOs of vod pasture and arable land should be left to itself, with no means, no efficient means, employed to develope its latent resources, and this in a country where labour is cheap, and where there is the greatest dearth of employment ? Is it noLdesir- able that some alteration should be speedily devised whose effect may . be, at the same time that it provides employment for a now starving and ill-clad peasantry, to furnish funds also for other useful purposes. It THE STATE OF THE STREETS. There is no stronger proof of the misapplication of money and means, than that afforded by the present filthy state of the streets throughout this great metropo lis. Thousands of pounds are annually collected (we may say fraudulently collected) under the pretence of applying the amount for the cleansing of the streets, and yet, they are not cleansed. Thousands of our fellow creatures are wandering about alt parts of this hu ge town who would be glad of a day's work —nay, who are even starving for want of employment—and yet this labour, which they could all perform without any apprenticeship, and so much to the benefit of the community, is denied them, and thereby they are compelled to beg, to steal, or to starve. We are told that in every parish, or district, contracts are made by which parties bind themselves to cause all the streets to be swept, and the mud and filth to be re moved at certain periods Every parish has one or two beadles, part of whose duty it is to see that those contracts are duly performed, and to enforce the penalties incurred by every neglect of duty ; yet, with all theEe precautions, the contractors appear to en joy perfect immunity, and to do just as they like. If any public spirited individual were to employ sweepers, and set them to work to remove the mud from the streets, he would be stopped by these beadles, or the police, and would be told that he had no authority to do so, and that the mud and sweepings were the pro perty of the contractor ; and thus the contract that was framed for the benefit of the public would he turned again- to their .disadvantage. The misconduct of the contractor creates a nuisance, and you suffer from it daily and hourly, but you are not allowed to abate the nuisance. John Bull alw9..s gets the worst of a tariff, a treaty, or a contract.— Times. [Our Contemporary might have attacked another party infinitely more to blame than the contractors—namely, the police. The greatest annoyance to the public is the filthy state of the foot-pavements, yet, while the late Police Act authorises, nay, makes it an imperative duty on the police to inform against all householders who refuse to keep it clean in front of their houses, no step whatever is taken to enforce the law. The police con stables and inspectors are very active in laying informa tions against publicans for supplying refreshments at certain hours, yet, while serious accidents occur every day from the disgraceful state of the.pavements, the new law is treated as a dead letter.—ED. Sun.] HINTS TO COUNTRY CcUSINS.--7-If you want to buy " goodbarquins," select the shops which are placarded with " Immense Failure," " Dreadful Sacrifice," &c., and when you have paid your money, and taken your goods home, you will find that the " immense failure" is the article you have purchased, and that the " dreadful sacrifice "' is confined entirely to your own pocket. If you do not know your way about ;town, inquire of the nearest cabman. Take the contrary direction to the one be tells Jou and you will be sure t o reac h your destina tioui—Punclt's Almanac, SO -, NIARY OF NEWS ANn Vubitt Optatton. " Who runs nuty FOREIGN. In addition to the election of President of the French Chamber of Deputies, the election of the other officers for the session has been in favour of the Guizot Minis try. Al! the Vice-Pr es id en t s , an d a ma j or i ty o f t h e Presidents of Committees, are supporters of the Go vernment. • On Thursday evening,. the King received at dinner Generals Jamin, Lamare, Thiebault, Blancart, and Ba ron d'Andre ; the Presidents of the Chambers of Peers and Deputies ; the Duke and Duchess de Marmier, the Marquis de Los-Llanos, the Marquis de Terranova ; Counts d'llauterive, Mousbourg, Portalis, De Sal vandy, D'llaussonville, and a number of other distin guished personages. The Gazette de France states that, in the House of Peers, the Duke de Richelieu will be called upon by the President to explain his conduct in visiting the Duke de Bordeaux, in London ; and that, in the Chamber of Deputies, MM. Jacqueminot and Liadieres will bring forward the subject of the visit of the Legitimist Deputies. The day after the funeral of Casimir T)elavigne, M. • Villemain, the Minister of Instruction, sent to his widow an order for an annual pension of 1,200 E, and a bursar ship for her son to the College of Henry IV., the de ceased having left no fortune. he Municipal Council of Havre, the native town of the late Casimir Delavigne, has unanimously voted the erection of a monument to his memory, each member of the Council subscribing immediately 50f. It is to be d placed on the Quai de la Barre, at the house in which 1 the poet was born. The Quai is henceforth to bear his 4 name. The Siecle having mentioned a report that the King's Commissioner attached to the Theatre Francais had for bidden the performance of Tartufe at that theatre, the Messager states that the report is utterly destitute of foundation. Letters from Rome to the 26th of December state that the condition - of the Pope's finances is very bad, and the country in a wretched state ; but that, notwithstanding, he is obliged to levy further imposts upon the people. The direct taxes have been doubled throughout the States, and the Customs duties have been greatly increased. The Barcelona papers of the 22d contain a remon strance addressed to the Queen by the Ayuntamiento against the extensive smuggling proceeding in the port of Barcelona, which they impute to the scandalous conni vance existing between the smugglers and the public officers of all classes. The Constitutionnel expresses its doubts of the article announcing the death of Mew. Catalani. It is said this lady expired at her residence near Sinigaglia (Roman • States ; that her husband, M. Velabrklue, died in 1828, and that she has left a fortune of eight or ten millions of francs. These circumstances are not exact. Mme. Catalani has never had any residence in the Roman States ; her husband still lives ; and all her remaining fortune amounts to only 20,000 f. a year. COURT—FASHIONABLE. Intelligence was conveyed to her Majesty on Sunday evening that sickness, said to be the scarlet fever or the measles, prevails in some of the families of the domes tics at the seat of his Majesty the King of the Belgians, •• and it is, therefore, very improbable that any of the Royal Family will accompany their illustrious parents to Claremont. Indeed, it is not unlikely that, from the • circumstances alluded to, the visit of the Court may be postponed for a few days. Sir Robert and Lady Peel have been entertaining at Drayton Manor, during the Christmas vacation, the Earls of Aberdeen and Lincoln, Viscount and Viscountess • Villiers, Sir James Graham, and John Wilson Croker, Esq., Mr. George and Mrs. Dawson, Sir Alexander • Grant, Bart., Dr. Bucklaud, &c. The Earl of lladdington is staying at Cliefden House, Berkshire, the seat of Sir George Warrender. The Marquis and Marchioness of Anglesey have been entertaining a large family party at Beaudesert during the Christmas holidays, consisting of the Earl and Countess of Uxbridge, Ladies Eleanor and Constance Paget, Lord and Lady Sydney, Lord Alfred Paget, Lady Teroplemore i and the Hon. Misses Chichester. Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston have, durini the last week, been surrounded by a family circle at Broadlands. The Earl and Countess Cowper, Viscount Melbourne, Lord and Lady Beauvale, Viscount and Viscountess Jocelyn, Lord and Lady Ashley, Hon. Was. Cowper, Hon. Spencer Cowper, &c., have been among the guests. Earl and Countess Cowper left on Friday for town ; and Viscount Melbourne and Lord and Lady Beauvale leave in a few days for Brocket Hall. The Earl and Countess of Delawarr have a party visiting at Buckhurst Park, Sussex. The Noble Earl has, during the last week, bountifully supplied the poor of Hartfield, Withyham, &c., with excellent cheer for Christmas. The Earl and Countess of Warwick arrived at Patter. son's Hotel, Brook-street, on Thursday. last. Her Lady ship has had a severe attack of gout, and been confined to her room for some time at Yatton Park. Her Lady- !‘ ship remains in a very weak state of health. The Earl and Countess of Limerick are entertaining a large family circle at South-hill Park. The Countess of Roden and Lady Maria Jocelyn left the Clarendon Hotel on Friday for Paris, vid Dover. The Earl and Countess of Shrewsbury left the Chi-. rendon Hotel on Saturday for Brighton. Lady Jernima Eliot gave her third ball for the season on Thursday evening at Dublin. The Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress, the Countess of Donoughtnore, the Ladies ,Hutchinson, the Attorney-General, Lord a nd Lady Francis Gordon, &c., were among the companh which was very numerous. NxisCELMANEOUS. • • A remarkable change has taken place in the weather in the course of the night. The barometer has fallen 4 nearly an inch in twenty-four hours, and the temperature is low. Much snow fell during the night, and u p to , twelve o'clock, but it has entirely disappeared, and the weather is now more favourable. This day (Monday), the Queen's proclamation re specting light and defaced gold, comes into operation. It directs that from that day light and defaced gold coin will no longer be a legal tender, and it gives power to the person to whom it ma} be offered, to slant or cut it so that it may never be again circulated. As a great quan tity of the coin will probably be brought out, persons cannot be too careful in the gold coinage they take, as the loss will fall entirely on themselves. The General Post-otfice gives notice that the next mail for India, via Marseilles, will be dispatched thence on the 4th inst. The Duke of Rutland's birth-day on Thursday next will be celebrated with the usual rejoicings, and a nu merous and distinguished circle will assemble to cele brate the occasion. The Duke of Cambridge will honour the Noble Duke with his presence. The sixtieth anniversary of the Surrey Chapel Bene volent Society, which was established in the year 1784, •by the Rev. Rowland Hill, was held yesterday at SurreY Chapel. From the address, prepared by the Committee, - it appeared that the Society, since its establishment!. - had raised 28,0001., and by its m e an s 55,0 00 cases a distress had been relieved. The spacious chapel was crowded to the ceiling, and a collection was made at the conclusion of the service. The Earl of Hardwicke has contradicted a paragraph originally inserted in a provincial journal, to the effects that At a late rent-day dinner he had expressed hiy opiniCm that free trade principles would ultimately triumph; but that such a result would not be so dis estrous as generally anticipated. His Lordship state that he uttered no such sentiment. We undertand that a considerable number of the prim'''. cipal coalmasters of North Staffordshire have agreed to give the advanced rate of wages, namely, 4s. per day. Lord Monson has made a return of fifteen per cent. to his tenants on his Lordship's estates in Lincolnshire; and Earl Forteseue has made a reduction of ten pe,r, cent. at his late au dit on t h e rents o f the Tatters h at l property, in that county. The Chief Justiceship of our newly-acquired settle' ment, Hong-Kong, has been offered to no less than seven members of the English bar, and been declined by thet° all, although the salary attached to the office is to be 3,000/. a year. Workmen, under the direction of Mr.- Blore, the architect, have commenced the construction of a ne er , corridor at Buckingham Palace, from the eipierri o entrance in the south wing to lead to the new private Chapel Royal, now in course of decoration, and which i 9 expected to•be completed by the arrival of the Court 1,6 the palace for the season, at the end of the month. The Duchess o f K en t, i t i s sa id , w il l give a gra n' banquet on Tuesday evening, at Frogmore House,. t o her Majesty, hi s R oya l Hi g h ness Pr i nce Albert, and e distinguished party; and her Majesty's departure front the Castle to Claremont has consequently been post' poned until the following morning. SO UTHAMPTON.—The Lady Mary Wood Perlin° . mar steam-packet arrived at Southampton on Saturdaf' the 30th of December, at half-past nine o'clock in the evening-, bringing mails from Malta of the 15th from Gibraltar, the 23d ult. ; Cadiz, the 24th ; Lisbo n ' the 2Gth; Oporto, the 27th; and Vigo, of the last datei left at Gib ra l tar h er M a j esty ' s ship Belvidere, a n Locust st eamer; at Cad i z, the Seine and Volage Frenc h men.of-war brigi ; a t Li s b on , h er M a j es t y ' s ship W ar ; spite, and two Portuguese frigates; and exchanged WO, lights with th e Ib er i a steam - packet between Oporto sa," Vigo. She b r i ngs h ome as passengers the Hon.. u' Grey, Capt a i n of the Belv i dera; Lieutenant LeWi°,'. commanding th e L ocus t ; an d Li eutenant S prat ,, of th e Beacon surveying vessel; also, Mr. Kelner, of the posh, office, Lond on; t h e R ev . M r. Davies, a Roman Cath olie clergyman ; M. Alf ocora d o , a P orto e ntlema n g uese going to P rance; an d t h e Mi sses F. and J. D g A fr° ll : Lisbon, the elder of whom is going to the nunnery a Youghall. There is no particular news by this packet' WILFUL DES TRUCTION OF C ORN .—O n Satur d a / last, an additional quantity of corn was taken out °, bonded wa re h ouses in th i s town and destroyed, haviaAbi by being k ept too long, b ecome unfit for human foo d Had the c orn -l aws been repealed, this corn would Ii 3v e been broaght i nto the market and purchast-d by some of our fellow-townsmen, who are now probably on 0 0 _ borders of starvation. And yet there are men who Pr,, fess and call themselves Christians and, friends of t'i s, poor who advocate a law which permits, nay compe l the wilful destrue:ion-of food in a country where te n of thousands are lacking bread l—Sunderland Herald:c, EARL GREY.—'rhe latest accounts from Howl r ":, Hall represent the state of Earl Grey's health as still c . e , 1 0 precarious. No unfavourable chane had taken Pla y since since Wednesday last, and some bad s ymptoms bad bee of relieved, but the Noble Earl was not considered .ou. danger when the last report left. Viscount and nearly all the members of the Noble Earl's fanu are in atteDdance upon their revered relative. LL O 1 4 elOttdy ino we , bt . . l S.W . i dams G°Ws~ 1 fl io; OF F Portia Pon squallj 2 8th I bailed 41 tUndi, - 7' O FF for Gi Oct. .2 1111,Clo. '1 11 I I‘l Eon !