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In a few flays, in 3 rots Bvo., II A T S IV 0 R T II; OR, TUE ROMANCE OF A WEEK. Edited by R. PLUMER WARD, Esq. Author of " Tremble," " De Vere," &c. Fleury Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. • Just ready, in one vol. post Bvo., CONFESSIONS .or a WHITE FOOT. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. NEW WORK ON INDIA. Now_ready, in 2 vols. - small Bvo., 215., bound, COLONEL - bAVIDSON'S TRAVELS afil ADVENTURES in UPPER INDIA. ;Trills is, to our thinking, the most amusing and informing book 'that has been produced, during the last ten years on any subjects or localities connected with our Ind:au Empire. We eau imagine the enthatiasin with which this work will be received by all old MrTimis ; yet is there not a single circulating library reader who will not rind it as exciting as the wildest romance."—Naval and Military Gazette. Henry Coltatrn, 1111,11.11er, 13, Great llarlborn3gll-street iLLOYLVS.—A SET PE RIN TEN DEN I of t he •MERCHANTS' RoOM to be attached to LLOYD'S, at the YEW ROYAL EXCHANGE, is REQUIRED. He nmst be a get:- Po:nail of gr, awl address, and conversant with FOreign Languages. Further intiwrination may be obtained at the Secretary's office, where' applications in writing, with Testimonials, must be left pre iloau the ;id' of March next. W. 1)OBSON, Secretary. • .I.loyd's. January 31, 1544. Y S CAPTAINS' ROOM.—Parties who A may be d;spo.wi to REN'r the BAR or LLOYD'S CAPTAINS' 110034, in the NEW ROYAL EXCHANGE, are invited to send in 'TENDERS, addressed to tilt: Secretary's office, on or before the sth of I%Larch next, where particulars may be obtained. I.loyd's..lannary 31, 1544. W. DOBSON, Secretary. "IHEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANK THIS EVENING, FEBRUARY 7, Will be performed Shakspeare's Play (as altered by Cibber) of RICHARD 111. Richard, Duke of Gloster, Mr. Charles Kean; nuke of Buckingham, Mr. Cooper; Duke of Norfolk, Mr. G. Werncastle; Earl of Richmond, Mr. Hudson • Elizabeth, Mrs. Warner ; Duchess of fork, Mrs. Selby; Lady Anne, Mrs.St , rling. After which, will be repi.bated a New Grand Comic Christmas Pantomime, entitled HARLEQUIN AND KING PEPIN ; or, VALENTINE AND ORSON. Harlequin, Mr. Howell; Colum bine, Miss Carson; Clown, Mr. T. Ridgway; Pantaloon, Mr. Blanchard. • THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT.GARDEN. M. JULLLEN'S CONCERTS M. JULLIEN has the honour to announce that a CLASSIC.( L CONCERT will take place THIS EVENING, FEBRUARY 7, when the following Music will be performed Beethoven's Septette for V‘olin, Tenor, Violoncello, Double Bass, '.Clarionet, Horn, and Ba , soon, performed on Twelve Violins, Six Tenors, Four Violoneelhs, Feur Double Basses, Two Clarionets, • Two Horns, and Two Bassoons. Moza•t's Cavatina, 0, Cara Imagine, performed on the Bassoon by • M. Baumann. Overture. k.ur) aht he Web. r. Ov:rture, Francs Juges Bei lioz. Surprise symphony—Haydn. Schubert's Romance, Ave Maria, performed on the Cornet-a-Pistons, try Herr Kee n• g. Poch Albert's Drand Syniphooy. Overture, Les lieux Journees—Cherubini. T;rand symphony (first movement), entitled The Power of Sound— S .ohr. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. MK. BENJAMIN WEBSTER, LESSEE RE-ENGAGEMENT OF MR. JOHN PARRY THIS EVENING, FEBRUARY 7, Will be repeated the Comedy Of THE MERRY WIVES OF . WINDSOR. Sir John Falstaff; Mr. Strickland; Master Slender, Mr. C. Mathews; Mr. Ford, Mr. Stuart; Mr. Page, Mr. Howe; Fenton, 31r. Caulfield; Sir Hugh Ev.ins, Mr. Webster; Mrs. Page, ''Madame Vestiis ; Mrs. Ford, Mrs. Nbbett ; Mrs. Quickly, Mrs. .Olover ; Anne Page, Miss Motley. Al er the Comedy Mr John Parry will sing his New Song, entitled A &Radon Bitters." To conclude with * New Fairy Extravaganza, entitled THE FAIR IINE 'WITH THE GOLDEN LOCKS! King Lachrympso, J. Bland; Piffle& Graceful, Miss P. Horton ; Queen Lueidorz, Ka Julia Bennett. TREAT RE ROYAL HAYMARKF:f Unprecedented success of " The Merry Wives of Windsor,' which will be acted To-night, and three times a week till turthet notice, thus ca t:- Sir John Falstaff: Mr Strickland; Slender, Mr. ,Charles Mathews; Evans, Mr. Webster; Ford, Mr. Stuart ; Page, .Mr. Howe; Caius, Mr. J. Bland; Pistol, Mr. Minds); Mrs. Page, "Madame Vestris; Mrs. Ford, Mrs. Nisbett ; Dame Quickly, Mrs. Glover. The Le see tespecttully informs the Patrons of this Esta blishment that Mr..lthllN PARRY will sing this Evening one of his Popular Songs—. A liallsd on Bitters." 'ins New Fairy &are. vaganza of The Fair One with the Golden Locks," Every Evening -Graceful, Miss P. Horton ; Lucidora, Miss Julia Ben 'nett. 'the New "onic Drama or Used Up," will be repeated To-morrow, on Saturday, and three times a_week. • 1. T. ARCHER, Box-hook keeper. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. The Best Pantomime of the Season—Gorgeous Scenery. THIS EVENING, FEBRUARY 7, • Will be repeated, by permission of Charles Dickens, Esq., THE CHRISTMAS CAROL. Principal Characters—Messrs. 0. Smith, Wright, Lyon, Maynard, torrnau, Miss Woolgar. Mrs. F. Mathews, Miss Chaplin, and iss Lee. after which, a New Play, in Three Acts, entitled JUDITH OF 01.. NEV A. Principal Characters—Messrs. Lyon, Wright, V. Smith, Miss Chapl.n, and Mrs. Yaw. • • To coni•lude w;th the Grand Christmas Pantomime, called H AR. „ .. I.EQUIN BLUE BEARD, or, The Fairy of the Silver Crescent. -Practiced with Enormous Splendour and Womicriut Effects: COlumbine, Miss Millen • Harlequin Quicksilver, by the inimitable Wieland; Clown, by the Grimaldi of the day, Mr. T. Matthews, from the Theatres Royal, Cment-gaiden and Drury.larre; Panta loon, Mr. Johnstone. PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD.STREET. LESSEE, Mr. J. M. MADDOX. THIS EVENING, FEBRUARY 7, Will be performed LA SONN A FIBULA. Amina, Mrs. Wohti ; .Llta, Miss Grant ; Elvinn, Mr. Wood. After which, the Farce of MY FELLOW.CLERK. To conclude with the New Musical Burlesque spectacle, entitled THE MAGIC Mlttnoit. Sing Song, Mrs. H. P. tirattan ; Poo. Too, Mr. Paul Bedford; Sloc.Leaf, Miss R. Isaacs. " ASTLEVS ROYAL AMPHrI'HEATRE OF ARTS. • . Under the Management of Mr. Batty. Proprietor. Triumphant Success of the Equestrian NoKelties and Pantomime. THIS EVENING, FEBRUARY 7, Will be performed the Grand National Spectacle of THE BATTLE OF WATERLOO. Napoleon Buonaparte, Mr. Gomersal, his mi. vittl Character - New Scenes In the Circle, and Unequalled'Feats of Horsemanship. To conclude with the Pantomime of HARLEQUIN TAM 0'S!! A NTER. O . AVIDGE'S__ROYAL SURREY THEAI RE: Enormous hit of Stella Rittersdorf"—more crowded than ever— Increased attraction of the best Pantomime in London, overflow. • ing with fun. ' THIS EVENING, FEBRUARY 7, • %Vill be repeated a New Drama, entitled STELLA RITTERS. DV Rt.% Supported by Messrs. Saville, Hughes, Hicks, R. Homier. Krone, Vale, Smith, Johnson, Lewis, estop, Mrs. R. Homier, Mrs. INiv. Mrs. Hughes, Miss 'rerrey, and Mrs. H. Vining. •After which, A CHRISTMAS CAROL, by " Boz," with splendid Appointments. To conclude with an entirely new Grand Comic Pantomime with sptendid Scenery, Superb Dresses, Inimitable Properties and Tricks, every thing new and of the most costly description, HARLEQUIN GRAMMAR, or, Lindley Murray, and A EI() U. Harlequin, Mr. W. H. Harvey ; Orotesque, Mr. Stilt; Clown, Mr. Fuller- Panta loon, Mr. Huwicins ; Columbines (alternately) Miss M.'l{. Fair. brother and Miss Sharpe. ROYAL VJCIORIA THEATRE. THIS EVENING, FEBRUARY 7, Will be produced THE GNOME OF THE GOLD MINES. supported by Messrs. Freer, Nantz, Miss Vincent, &c. After which, THE FAIRY LADY or, The Cabinet of Bronze. To conclude with HARLEQUIN L I NC OLN LUCKY OF LAM. BETH ; or, The Three Sisters of Witch Willow Dell. Harlequin, Mr. Chapin° ; Clown, Mr. Scaibrow Pantaloon, Mr. Merelli ; Columbine, Miss M. 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Places more remote &mit the - great lines will receive their papers by the Morning hails.• • Orders received by all news-agents, and at The Snit Offico ; Xo. .112, Strand, London. • THE WEATHER.—SuN OFFICE, FEB. 6. THERMOMETER, Lowest, 26; Highest, 35; 'Nix,u, 34 BAROMETER, 29.65.—W1ND, N.W. More.—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 TUTS DAY. .7.lforning .• 50 minutes after 3 I Evening .. 7 minutes after 4 • 4_Z ; 4 -44 out, • Al A le- s 6 • er ' - 7.;s:k e 't 4. " , NtO bitOrt e :t 4 • Nu*, • t:mut:4 "-,)Ant ,4 LONDON, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1844 In the House of Lords a discussion took Place rela tive to the property of felons. - The subject- was in troduced by the I)nke of RICHMOND, who moved fora copy of a circular which had been sent to the different clerks of the peace in the United Kingdom. The • paragraph in the circular to which he objected was .that which authorised a constable to. enter the pre mises of a prisoner in order to ascertain the amount "'his property. This, he considered illegal; and as visiting magistrate he should consider it his duty to inform every prisoner that, up to the period of his tonvictit, n , he had a right to dispose of his property in any way he might think proper. Lord WnAnNclarrE concurred in the remarks made by the Duke of RICHMOND. Lord BROUGHAM Said it was impossible to defend tAat part of the cir cular which authorised a constable to commit a tres , rpi; and after a few words- from Lord CAMPBELL and the Duke of IlictimoNn the motion was withdrawn, cm an understanding that the Government would. make an intimation to the clerks of the peace that the ib::-eeionable clause was not to be acted cm. Lord CLARENDON gave notice that he would on Friday put some questions to the Secretary for Fo reign Affairs relative to Spain. A conversation then took place between the Nroble Earl and Lord ABERDEEN, respecting the Chinese eaty, when the Foreign Secretary said Government tad not yet received the supplementary treaty, but he trusted it would be satisfactory. In answer to a question from Lord MONTEAGLE the Duke of WELLINGTON said it was not the inten tion of the Government to appoint a Committee on banking, as there was already sufficient information before the House on the subject. The Noble Duke also said it was the intention of' the Government to institute an inquiry respecting Vie. Irish poor-lain s, but not till the Irish representa tives had returned. In the House of Commons, after the presentation 1 of petitions, Mr. COBDEN gave notice that on Tuesday (fortnight he would move for a Select Committee to inquire into the effect of the import duties on tenant farmers and farm-labourers. Mr. ROEBUCK gave notice that, on the motion of Lord ASHLEY, relative to Sinde, he should move that the conduct of Lord AUCKLAND, in his negotiations with the Ameers of Sinde, was iniquitous and unjust, and was unfortunately the necessary cause of the policy pursued by his succcessor. Mr. RICARDO gave notice of a motion on com mercial treaties with foreign countries. Mr. GISBORNE gave notice that he would on Tues day fortnight move for a Select Committee to inquire into the deterioration of the gold coinage. In answer to a question from Mr. WvsE, Sir J. GRAHAM said it was his intention to introduce a Bill to amend the law respecting the Registration of Voters in Ireland before the recess. After questions relative to the Right of Search and Cemeteries in large towns, Sir J. GRAHAM moved for leave to bring in a Bill to amend the laws relating to factories; and, after some remarks from Mr. HUME, Lord ASHLEY, Mr. STUART WORTLEY, and Mr. HINDLI3Y, leave was given to bring in the Bill. Mr. GLADSTONE moved the appointment of a Select Committee on railways. The motion led to a lengthened discussion, and the appointment of the Committee was postponed. On the Order of the Day for the House resolving itself into a COMIDIItee of Supply, Mr. S. CRAWFORD moved that the redress of the grievances of the people should be taken into consideration before granting the supplies. Mr. WILLIAMS seconded the motion ; which, on a division, was rejected by a majority of 108. After questions put by Mr. WAKLEY and Mr. Fox MAULE, relative to the Landlord and Tenant Com mission, and the Non-Intrusion riots at Roskeen, the House went into Committee of Supply, passed the resolutions, and adjourned at Half-past Ten o'clock. Our Dublin Correspondent gives the following outline of the proceedings in the Court of Queen's Bench on Monday The knowledge of the fact that Mr. O ' CONNELL was to address the Court to•day, drew a larger con course than usual of all classes to the neighbourhood of the Courts this morning. At an early hour the Queen's Bench was thronged in every part, a great portion of the auditors consisting of fashionably dressed ladies and members of the most distinguished t'amilies in this country. At a few minutes after ten o'clock, Mr. O'CON NELL, who was not habited in wig and gown as on the preceding days of the trial, com menced his address .to the Court and jury, by saying that he felt some diffidence in addressing the jury, not for his own sake, but when he reflected how important was the cause he had to plead, and how numerous were his clients. He had seven mil lions of clients—the whole Irish people—and he was afraid that their case might in any respect be injured by the incompetency of his advocacy. Ile was not there to palliate or mitigate anything .he had ever said. He would reiterate, in the pre sence of the Court and jury, every protestation he had ever made against the union—for that union had been carried, he repeated, by the most nefarious agency, and had been designed in fraud and a feeling of envy—as had often been said by one who had long ornamented that Bench (Chief Justice Busua)—a feeling of envy of the growing prosperity of Ire- land. With respect to this prosecution for conspiracy, it was the most preposterous proceeding that had ever yet been instituted. He had looked into the dictionary, 'and he found the meaning of the word conspiracy was a private or secret agreement among various parties to commit crime. He asked the jury, then, as consisting of men of honesty and intelligence, what evidence had been adduced to them of any such agreement in the pre sent case ? Had it been proved that there was any secret agreement between the parties indicted in the present instance ; and, even if had been proved, had it been shown that he was pre sent when that agreement had been entered into ? No such thing. At least this might give him the benefit of an alib,(. The Hon. and Learned Gentleman then alluded to the Anti-Corn-law League, and ridiculed the idea of its being denominated a conspiracy. Yet the organisation of the League differed in little from that of the Re peal Association. Could a jury be found in England that would convict the League of a conspiracy, if it were possible to suppose that such a charge would be preferred against that body ? Then there was the Anti- Slavery Society—would that be termed a conspiracy ? That body received money both from home and abroad ; its members held their private and their public meetings, and yet it was never thought of call ing the body a set of conspirators. With respect to the constitution of the jury, he stated that in England no twelve men would be put as a jury into a box to try men from whom, according to the principles on which they were edu cated, they differed so widely in opinion. He then alluded to the peaceable character of the meetings; and with respect to the charge of intimidation which had been brought against them, he said this Go vernment, who had all the gentry, the magis tracy, and the clergy of the Established Church attached to them, could have ascertained whether the charge was founded in truth or not. But not one witness had been called to prove that any thing like intimidation had been used at those meet ings ; and why ? Because no one could conscientiously swear that intimidation had been used. He pointed out that eight years ago, when illegal combination was attempted to be established among the trades unions of Dublin, he was the person who put a stop to it. Would he have done so if he was one who was justly liable to the charge of conspiracy ? Allusion had been made by the Attorney-General to the conduct of the men of 1798, and it was sought to fix upon him the charge to which they were amenable—that of desiring French sympathy and French aid. Had he acted as one who had desired either ?- had he not rejected the proffered assist ance of the French party, at the head of which was 31. LEDILU ROLLIN. He flung back with indignation and contempt the charge which the Attorney-General, in his opening address, had sought to fasten upon him of speaking disrespectfully of the QUEEN. He denied it. The charge was false. The Hon. and Learned Gentleman then proceeded at much length to de monstrate that the English Government had, from the commencement of its connexion with Ireland, governed this country with the most narrow jealousy, and he adverted, par parenthese, in proof of his position, to the history of the woollen trade of Ireland— that the transactions of 1782 were intended to be a final adjustment of the condition of the Irish Par liament, which it was then agreed should be estab lished as an independent Parliament for ever—that the greatest prosperity of the country followed from the establishment of an independent Parliament—that the union was forced upon the Irish people, against heir consent, and by the most corrupt and fraudulent means—that the poverty under which Ireland is now suffering is the result of the union, and that the only remedy for Ireland's grievances, and the only means of preventing the ultimate separation of the twO countries, was the repeal of the union . . In the course of his observations he quoted AUGUSTIN Tutßaal', Mr. PITT, Primate BOLTON, Chief Justice, finsuz, and several other writers and speakers, in support of his position. . He also entered at length into" statistical details to show how prostrated were the energies of the Irish people, and how ruinous .were the effects of the union upon the manufacturing industry of this country. He then read in full several of the documents issued by the Repeal Association, and which had been read in part and produced in evidence by the Attorney-Ge neral, and he contended that those very documents GREY, Busns, constituted hi s b es t d e f ence. H e c i te d L OCKE, L or d SAURIN, PLUNKETT, &c., in support of the doctrines which he had propounded asa Repealer. In a . nation like the British empire, where Parlia ment had so often changed the succession to the throne, was he to be told that he would not be allowed to discuss a question like the repeal of the union? There might he error, but there could not be crime in discussing the question. H e aga i n re verted to the present state of Ireland, and com pared it to that of the country in the middle of the last century when ARTHUR YOUNG visited it The people, then, according to that writer, had each " a belly.full of potatoes " to eat when hungry ; but now, according. to the report of. Captain LAE.. PENT, 30 per cent. of the town and city population, and 70 per cent. of the agricultural population were in a state of the most abject poverty. - Were, then, those who sought to remedy that dreadful state of things to be branded as conspirators, and those who sat undisturbed in the enjoyment of the emolu ments and honours of place, to be lauded, when they assailed those who endeavoured to remedy such evils? The Hon. Gentleman concluded by glorying in his attempts, whether successful or• otherwise, to benefit his native country. At the conclusion of Mr. O'CONNELL'S speech the Crnur JUSTICE inquired if the traversers were going into evidence, and being informed by Mr. MooRE and Mr. HATCIIELL that the witnesses could not be conveniently produced this evening, the Court adjourned until the usual hour to-morrow morning. It is now generally admitted, that the Govern ment has totally failed in establishing the shadow of a case against Mr. O'CONNELL and the other tra versers ; it is allowed, on all hands, that not a parti cle of evidence has been adduced, from which a con spiracy can be inferred, an illegal intent presumed, or an overt act either of conspiracy or unlawful in tendment established : and yet nobody presumes to guess, with anything like certainty, what the next Government move is to be, either in the event of a conviction; in the procurement of which evidence has no concern ; of an acquittal, which the evidence given ought clearly to cause ; or of no verdict at all, to which the general opinion, at this moment, seems to lean. Suppose O'CONNELL convicted, what then ? What earthly creature, save a Government creature, will attach the smallest importance to such a consumma tion of fraud, of intolerance, of official and judicial knavery ? Suppose him acquitted, what then ? Does any human being, save the-Tory and renegade GRA HAM clique, think that the acquittal of O'CONNELL is other than the mere dealing out of barren justice to him? And suppose, that the jury do not agree upon a verdict, what then ? Is there a man who will not believe that, honest although the jury may be, there are men among them who wish to save the Government from that defeat which a direct acquittal might be thought to inflict ? Let what will happen, the Government of Sir ROBERT PEEL in Ireland is damaged beyond re demption by the result of the trial. Commenced in anger, tarried on with hatred and malice, ridicu lously imbecile in all its progress—the only remem brance in after times of the Irish State trials of 1844 will be of a Government powerless to prevent, eager to punish, and yet without the ability either of inflicting effectual punishment or of procuring the means by which that end might have been attained. Without a single individual, from the Attorney-Ge neral downwards, competent to set the legal machine in motion, to direct its movements, or to bring those movements to any useful end, the engine of Irish law has been rolling about, totallymisguided, and without direction. Such a getting up of a case, lawyers never yet saw ; such a 'conduct of a case, heaven grant no lawyer may again witness ;—and from Crown Solicitors and Attorney-Generals such as. Ireland is now blessed with, there is not a man in that country, who does not heartily pray to be deli vered. Melancholy, indeed, is it to witness the destiny of a great nation confided to instruments so utterly incompetent. Melancholy is it, to witness the play ing with the welfare and well-being of_ a great coun try, merely to gratify the vanity and the self-pride of a GRAHAM, a STANLEY, or any other renegade of such a school as that to which they belong. Melancholy is it to witness the spectacle of two entire terms consumed in a. vain and hopeless prosecution of the man who has been to Ireland, and accomplished for Ireland, more than man could have hoped, and achieved more than any other man for her liberties, her rights, and her privileges. To witness the whole legal business of a nation suspended, that an illegal attempt might be made, to crush by the name, but not by the spirit, of the law, the right inherent in every man of England, Scotland, or Ireland, to discuss his grievances, and, by peaceable means, to seek for their redress I Is Sir ROBERT PEEL prepared to enact the part of RICHARD the THIRD in our times ? Is he prepared— having gained the Government by deception, by base truckling to the prejudices of all parties, to the worst passions of bigots and monopolists, in all the three countries—to support the power he has gained by force of arms and of violence ? Does he adopt the sentiment ? " Thrones that are won by blood, by blood must be maintained." And is he prepared to carry this doc trine out in all his relations ? If so, he will find. his field of .Bosworth sooner than he may calculate. Those who hear the tittle tattle about town must long since have heard the rumour, that immediately on the meeting of Parliament it was the intention of the Government to apply for a sum of money to pay her MAJESTY'S debts. The amount so to be applied for has been stated at various sums, but the sum al leged generally was 200,0001. - We have heard this report frequently, and have always been able to trace it to some of the old Tory party. The last time we heard it was about a week ago, when a gentleman, who boasts of his intimacy with the Duke of BUCKING IIAM, and glories in the great services he has rendered to the good old cause, gravely assured us that he knew from indisputable authority, closely connected with the Palace, that 200,0001. was required, and would be asked for. The incredulity we then expressed to our un doubting informant, was justified by what occurred in the House of Commons last night, when Sir ROBERT PEEL, in answer to a direct question on this subject, said " I give a most emphatic denial to the rumour. It has not the slightest semblance of truth for its foundation. There is not one shilling of arrear in the Civil List." We presume this will stop the circulation of one falsehood at all events. And, whilst on this topic, how much it would rejoice us to see condign punish ment inflicted on the gang of slanderers, who, ever since her MAJESTY'S accession, have made the state of her MAJESTY'S health, then of her children's, next her domestic habits, and lastly even the Royal visits among her people, subjects for the foulest and most malignant rumours. Every slander has been based in envy, every report has been a wicked lie; the in ventors are well known to belong to the old CUM BERLAND clique. In the House of Commons, on Monday, Mr. GLAD.. STONE, pursuant to his notice, moved for the appoint ment of" a Select Committee to consider the stand ing otders relating to railways." We have so very recently commented on the incalculable importance of the Parliament or the Government taking the initia tive in all future legislation on Railway Bills, that we have now little to add, in adverting to what trans pired in the discussion of Mr. GLADSTONE'S motion except the expression of our wish, that the views of her MAJESTY'S Ministers had been somewhat more strictly directed to first principles, necessary to be affirmed in dealing with this subject, than we collect them to have been. For although we cannot deny that both the terms of Mr. GLADSTONE'S motion (which will be found at length in our Parliamen tary report), and the views announced by that Right Honourable Gentleman, Mr. LA.. BOUCHERE, and Sir ROBERT PEEL, and the in cidental complaints and objections . alleged by Mr. ROEBUCK and Mr. WALLACE,—Were connected, and coincide with the objects we yesterday touched upon as those which should form the preliminary basis of all further legislative proceedings in these matters ; yet the speeches of these several gentlemen were devoted rather to details than to principles. These details were, no doubt s of grave importance; but to us it is evident that even their very existence—still more certainly, all modifications of them—must be governed by certain established principles, which never have been yet laid down. The omission of this vital precaution, in lintine, has led to nine-tenths of the mischiefs, which the public on the one hand—and the sabscribers to and shareholders in those companies on the other—have had so seriously to complain of, since the first introduction of these lines of commu ncation. From the want of that digested system or scheme of railway lines, connecting in the first place various important, but remotely situated localities, with the metropolis as a centre, and these with other points of a previously deter mined radius,—such points being ascertained, in re. ference to various considerations connected with local and individual interests, but all of them made subsidiary to the permanent demand, of public utility THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 7, 1844 and convenience;--from this want have resulted the countless annoyances and injury to property of all kinds, that have not merely carried Colonel SIETHORP to (that remarkably short stage) his " wit's end," but have even driven " wise men mad." Lines have been selected, in some cases, by incompetent engineers, in others by interested speculators, which Parliament_ has sanctioned with all that "levity" of which Sir R. PEEL spoke last night in a tone of corresponding indif ference. Under that sanction, cuttings of unnecessary labour and difficulty, danger and expense, have been I encountered, when a little more of previous inquiry and precaution would have carried the same under taking through an easier, and in all respects more economically worked line of country. Private pro perty has been invaded; favourite retreats for pleasure or for health desecrated; carefully superintended and costly improvements levelled, rased, destroyed; beautiful vistas closed up; easy and valuable roads to markets, churches, &c., cut off; arable and pasture cut up or cut through ; valleys filled in; mountains tunnelled ; uplands brought to the " line level ;" the landmarks, and with them the pleasant associations of centuries, thrown down ; and finally, the public high-roads diverted, turned, twisted, broken, with water-courses more or less ill altered, and worse constructed;—all these changes in, and encroachments on, the former status and cases, esp e ciallytss, not wantonly,o fpr property, have b of ee p n u i b n lic too , many but needlessly, `and in absolute error, made and committed and per petrated under the authority of Acts of Parliament, which never could have passed had there, in the first place, existed such an organised and well-digested scheme of communication as we speak of. The ancient sage who concentrated the experience and reflection of his whole life in the profound counsel, " begin nothing of which thou hest not well considered the end," must have surely possessed a second sight vision of the railways, which were " yet Air_ to come," in the dist9kages and remote genera tions of an unborn posterity. All these undertakings among us have been isolated, uncombined, untested, but gigantic efforts. The ruinous destruction in excess,—excess to an extent which more forecast and - better matured plans of reciprocating and permanent railroad intercommunications might have obviated, has been gigantic also. We do not mean that such a revolution in our social and domestic economy could have been accomplished under any circum stances, Without vast prejudice to private property. But as these affairs have been managed, in a thousand instances, the victims of the ill-digested plans of re morseless speculators have discovered that the axiom " there can be no public wrong without its legal re medy" is moonshine. Entertaining these views ourselves, we have been disappointed at finding that the specifications of Mr. GLADS rorTE's plan of railway reform regard, appa rently, Such mere details as the reduction of the pre sent proportion . of paid-up capital (10 per cent.) to entitle the parties to a Bill :—the modes of construct ing the main ways and level crossings, the regulations necessary to meet the tendency of small lines to amalgamate into larger ones, and to repress the ori gination 'of competing lines. We agree with Mr. ROEBUCK, that the Government do not seem disposed to take up the great question in hand on grounds sufficiently large and national. They are too prone to merge the main consideration of public utility and convenience. As to competing lines, whilst we think Mr. GLADSTONE'S tone one of too decided discourage ment, as they are useful checks on growing monopo lies, we cannot adopt the extreme opinion of advocating them to the extent desired by Mr. ROEBUCK. This would tempt to and involve further enormous sacrifices of private capital. With Mr. WALLACE we concur in reprobating the studied disregard which the great com panies—or some of them—display in the non-accom modations for the poorer travellers in the third-class trains; and we do not envy Mr. Woeriurr. the feel ing under which he has discovered that this commu nity of passengers have nothing to complain of (!!) as to the cattle-cart like machines to which they are remitted. But the pervading fault of the whole debate, we repeat—and especially of the mean ingless, wordy, bald, and barren contribution of Sir ROBERT PEEL on this all important question— was the total absence of any large and statesmanlike views of the whole bearing, scope, and tendencies of the present system on which these marvellous com munications are laid down ; and this, at a period; too, which his own Government characterises as a new and eventful era in the history - of railroads. The Protest of the Dukes of StissEx and GLOU CESTER, of Lords GRENVILLE, WELLESLEY, KING, and several other Peers, against the passing of the Corn Bill of 1815—which our readers will fi n d i n ano th er p ar t o f The it is Sun—isa legislative document as important as succin ctly and skilfully d rawn up. N ot a wor d is :coet has n argument is beside the mark its value. The Dissentients — te t h h a r t o e w v n e r a y w a y n begin by stating broadly the fact that they " are ad verse on principle to all new restraints on commerce," and then proceed to declare their opinion that the Corn Bill is founded on a delusive theory, and will never be productive of benefit to the community at large. "We cannot peranade ourselves," they observe, " that this law will ever contribute to produce plenty, cheapness, or steadiness of price. So long as it operates at all, its effects must be the op posite of these. Monopoly is the parent of scarcity, of dearness, and uncertainty. To cut off any of the sources of supply can only tend to lessen its abund ance; to close against ourselves the cheapest market for any commodity must enhance the price at which we purchase it ; and to confine the consumer of corn to the produce of his own country, is to refuse to ourselves the benefit of that provision which PROVI •DENCE itself has made for equalising, to man tbe variations of season and .climate." These observations, which were mere prophecies at the time they were made, are _ admitted facts now ; but indeed the experience of the last thirty years has abundantly demonstrated the pre scient sagacity of every individual opinion put forth in the Protest. Had the sentiments of Lord GREN VILLE, who is said to have drawn up this able docu ment, been attended to, a s they ought to have been, the country would not , have known those commercial fluctuations and panics, and seasons of severest de pression, with which it has from time to time been visited since the close of ,the European war; trade, being carried on on just and enlightened principles, would have been comparatively steady and secure in its operations, -without being consigned, as it is now in a great degree, to the mercy of the chapter of accidents; and the selfish, indolent Few would not have been bene fited to the manifest detriment of the industrious Many. But the Monopolists prevailed in 1815, as they have prevailed in the present, 1844 ; but we have the consolation of knowing now—a consolation which was wanting to us at the former period—that the reign of this obstructive faction has long since passed its meridian, and is setting westward. Never again . can they exercise the moral and political influ ence which they once exercised; the question .of their utter defeat, already fully settled in men's . minds, is now merely a .matter of time ; and they may cry out, with quite as much propriety a s the Psalmist, "Ichabod, Ichabod, the glory bath departed from our house !" Despite their majority in the House of Commons, it is clear that they are filled with gloomy forebodings--those shadows of " coming events"— and have less confidence than ever in the steadiness and determination of that Minister who is the only prop and stay that inexorable circum stances have left them. Even while he ranges himself unequivocally on their side, the Mono polists distrust Sir R. PEEL, and would fain, if they could, make a present of him - to the Anti-Corn-law League. From his professions of good will they shrink with well-grounded abhorrence,. and are never more suspicious of treachery than when he is most specious and friendly in bis declarations. Hear Mr. ADEANE on this point. " The Premier certainly did speak out," said this gentleman at the Cambridge Anti-League meeting, " and I hope he will keep his word. lie did speak out ; but the question was, did he speak out, or was it they who had spoken out ? Would he have spoken at all, had there not been this stir among the agriculturists ? He had learned his task during the ho lidays, and was now repeating it in Parliament, but it was they who had taught him his lesson." Mr. ADEANE is perfectly right. Sir RonEwr PEEL has spoken out from the pressure of no strong enlightened conviction on his mind, but simply because he was ordered to speak out by the Duke of RICHMOND and the rest of the Monopolists. It was Hobson's : choice with him• He must either make a public profession of faith to suit the views of his task-masters, or proceed forthwith to Windsor Castle, and lay his resignation at the feet of afflicted Majesty. When our slippery, time-serving Premier, who is as difficult to catch and to hold as an eel, next, receives pe remptory orders on the subject of the corn-laws, we suspect they will come from 'Mr. COBDEN, with a nation at his back ; and who doubts, notwithstanding his present declaration, that he will obey those orders to the letter ? Madrid papers of the 29th ult. have been received, but they bring no news, if we except some details respecting the death of the Infanta LUISA. CARLOTTA. She appeared on the Prado but a few days before her death. On the morning of the 29th she made her will, at noon received the sacrament, and in the even ing, at half-past. six, she was a corpse. The Three per Cents. were done at 27/ for cash, and 28 at 60 days; and the Five per Cents. at 19i at 60 days. All the Paris papers give the QUEEN'S speech at the opening of Parliament, with brief remarks on the topics adverted to in reference to foreign affairs. The speech, as well as the debates in both Houses, afford great satisfaction to the Ministerial party, but are very coldly received by the Opposition. Nothing said or done, in fact, by the existing Ministers of England and France, is approved of by the National or Commerce. The former in adverting to it says— " It is not France which has sought ' l' entente cordiale.' It is not France that has opened her arms to .the Tories. Her attitude is that of wounded pride and of abused confidence. She has not forgotten all that has been done ; the treaty of July is not rased from her heart, nor from her memory. She is strong and patient enough to wait her day, but while waiting for it she does not seek an alliance which she dreads, nor does she affect an unworthy hypocrisy." And in another paragraph adds—" We declare without hesi tation, that when the Whigs were silent with respect to France they showed less insolence and disdain than the Tories." " With regard to foreign affairs," the Journal des Debats says, " thanks to the persevering efforts which have been followed out for three years on both sides of the Channel, the two Governments are able to congratulate the two countries on the re-establish ment of good harmony and the consolidation of the gls e peace. We are glad to see that those friendly demonstrations have come not alone from the English Government, but that in the two. Houses of Parliament there has been a really cordial eagerness to give new strength to the expressions used by the QUEEN." The France makes the following remarks : "In every point of view nothing can be conceived to be more insignificant than the _ Queen of England's speech. It is not, properly speaking, a political act, for no new idea is seen to pervade it. There is nothing even to comment upon in this tranquil and languid exposé of affairs ; there is no ex pression that characterises a situation. It would seem that the Cabinet anticipated no danger. As to the phrase rela tive to the intente cordiale with France, it is very reserved; speaking only of good understanding. There is also the same phrase, as usual, relative to the inviolable union of Ireland and Great Britain. The discussion of the address was some what wanting in substance. The alliance with France was celebrated, and in the House of Lords threatening words were uttered against Ireland. The Dublin trial ought to have inspired the adversaries of Ireland with some circum spection ; but the hostility of the House of Lords is se de cided, that it could not wait for the verdict to give itself vent." Several of the Paris Opposition papers had stated that M. GUIZOT bad continued in his functions of Secretary-General of the Ministry of the Interior during the hundred days, under General Count CAR NOT, that he had signed the additional Act, and had been dismissed. The Moniteur, in reply, says, "We are authorised to declare those assertions totally un founded. M. GUIZOT left, on the 20th of March, 1815, the Ministry of the Interior. He was re placed in his functions of Secretary-General by a decree of the 23d of March, which transferred them to Baron BASSET DE CIIATEAUBOURG, a former pre fect. It is not - to M. FRANCOIS GUIZOT that the note inserted in the Moniteur of the 14th of May, 1815, refers; but to M. J. J. GUIZOT, a chief of bureau, at that time in. the Ministry of the Interior, who was superseded in his functibns in May, 1815." LOUIS PnrurrE, the QUEEN, and the Princei and Princesses of the blood, paid a visit of condolence, on Saturday, to Queen CHRISTINA, in the Rue des Courcell es. The French Funds continue to decline. 'On Satur day, the Three per Cents. closed at 81f. 80c. ; and on Sunday, at TOBTO/dS, they were quoted at 81f. 55c. PUBLIC INCOME —A return has just been laid be, fore Parliament, on the motion of Mr. Baring, of the nett public income of the United Kingdom, with an account of the balances of money remaining in the Exchequer on the sth day of January, 1843 and 1844. The total amount of revenue, for the year ending January 5, 1844, derived from direct and indirect taxes was, 51,069,978/. 7s. ; and from other receipts, 1,512,839/. making, altogether, 52,582,817/. 10s. 2d. Of the latter sum the money received from China forms the The total charge of the funded debt is 28,581,0761.45. 2d: ; ' for the army, 5,997,156/. ; the navy, '6,606,056/. • and the ordnance, 1,910,704/. The balance in the Exchequer, on the sth day of January, 1843, wa51,390,059/., and, thanks to the income tax, at the same period in 1844, it amounted to 4,716,019/. Is. 4id. Sir Robert Peel's declaration, that he neither has, nor does• he contemplate, any change whatever in the corn-laws," is likely to incline those, who before were sceptical as to its utility, to offer their estates with confidence to public competition. Our friend George Robins was loud - in his complaints last year at the un certainty that prevailed, and operated so strongly that he could not sell land at any price. It will be seen he is now joyous beyond measure, and promises the great capitalists ONE MILLION OF POUNDS STERLING in estates during the ensuing months. SUPPLEMENT TO THE LONDON GAZETTE OF FRIDAY LAST. LORD CHAMBERLAIN'S OFFICE, FEB. 5, 1844. Orders for the Court's going into mourning, on Thursday next, the Bth instant, for his late Royal High ness the Duke of Saxe-Goburg Goths, father of his Royal Highness Prince Albert, and uncle and father in-law to her Majesty, viz. : The Ladies to wear black silk, plain muslin or long lawn, crape or love hoods, black silk shoes, black glazed gloves, and black paper fans. The Gentlemen to wear black cloth, without buttons on the sleeves or pockets, plain muslin or l ong l awn cravats and weepers, black swords and buckles. LORD GRENVILLE v. SIR R. PEEL TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES. Sts,—The following admirably.drawn protest against the passing of the Corn Bill in March, 1815, may, at the present moment he worthy of insertion in your paper. It is knoWn, I belie►e, to have been written by Lord Grenville. I have omitted the fifth and last divisions of the protest, because they refer solely to then existing circumstances and facts. I am, &c. Feb. 5. W. Dissentient 1. Because we are adverse in principle to all new restraints on commerce. We think it certain that public prosperity is best pro moted by leaving uncontrolled the freecurrent of national industry; and we wish rather, by well-considered steps, to bring back our commercial legislation to the straight and simple line of wisdom, than to increase the duration, by subjectiwg additional and extensive branches of the public interest to fresh systems of artificial and in. jurious restriction. 2. Because we think that the great practical rule of leaving all commerce unfettered applies more peculiarly, and on still stronger grounds of justice as well as of policy, to the corn trade than to any otker. Irresistible indeed must be that necessity which could, in our judgment, authorise the Legislature to tamper with the sus. tenance of the people, and to impede the free purchase and sale of that article on which depends the existence of so large a portion of the community. 3. Because we think that the expectations of ultimate benefit from this measure are founded on a delusive theory. We cannot persuade ourselves that this law will ever contribute to produce plenty, cheapness, or steadiness of price. So long as it operates at all its effects must be the opposite of these. Monopoly is the parent of scarcity, of dearness, and of uncertainty. To cut off any of the sources of supply can only tend to lessen its abundance; to Close against ourselves the cheapest market for any commodity must enhance the price at which we purchase it; and to confine the consumer of corn to the produee of his own country, is to refute to ourselves the benefit of that provision which Providence itself has made for equalising to man the variations of season and of climate. And on all these grounds we are anxious to record our dissent from a measure so precipitate in its course, and, as we fear, so in jurious in its consequences. AUGUSTUS FREDERICK (Duke of Sussex). WILLIAM FREDERICK (Duke of Gloucester). GRENVILLE. WELLESLEY. ESSEX. TORRINGTON. DUTTON (Marquis of Douglas). CHANDOS BUCKINGHAM. MONTFORT. KING. CARLISLE. LLOYD'S SHIPPING Lownow, FEB. 6.—Wind, moderate breeze from W.S.W. and fine. DEAL, FEB. s.—Wind N.W. to N.N.E., moderate.—Acrd. Port land, Moore, Cuba ; Indus, Smith, St. John's, New Brunswick. CORK.—SId. William Inglis, Newfoundland. WHITSTABLE; FEB. 4.—The Woodland Castle, from Galway to London, got ashore on the Red Sand 2d inst., but was assisted off and proceeded. DONEGAL, FEB. 2.—lt blew a heavy gale from W.N.W.• last night, during which the Ann, bound to London, drove on the bank, but is not expected to receive much damage. HULL, FEB. 3.—Sld. Lina, Tampico, after repairing. WORKINGTON, FEB. 4.—The Aurora, of Dordt, on shore near here, has been got off and into Maryport, after discharging her cargo. PLYMOUTH, FEB. s.—The .lane, of this port, was towed into Yalin yesterday, having been thrown on her beam-end by the ballast shirting. UTCK IN Form, JAN. 29.—The Bertha Laura, from l'ewcastle to Roeskalde, had been put on shore in a sinking state, near Fanoe, pre vious to 23d ult. ELSINORE, JAN. 30.—The Carl, from Wolgast tO London, has pu t in here leaky, and mast discharge and repair. SUMMARY OF NEWS AND Vtibitt C;ptitton. " Who runs may read," PONLEIGN. Accounts from Stockholm, of the 26th ult., announce that the King was dangerously ill, and, considering his advanced age, little-hopes are entertained of his recovery. The intelligence brought by the French mail possesses little interest. A summary of it will be found under the proper heads. The Funds on Sunday continued to decline. MAW AND PIPLIC4% - At the Court of Exchequer another revenue case was tried, arising out of the Custom-house frauds. Mr. Dean, the de fendant, carried on a, silk business in St. Paul's Churchyard, at the time to which this action goes back, but he has now ceased to do so. It has been brought against him for having removed goods, knowing the duties thereon to have been unpaid in part. The case of the Crown having closed, the Attorney-General consented to allow it: to stand over till the sittings after term, the defendant not being prepared with his defence. The session of the Central Criminal Court, at - the Old Bailey, commenced on Monday. There are at present 250 prisoners for trial, some of the offences being of a very serious character, and it is expected that this number will be in creased to 300 before the grand jury are discharged. In the Court of Common Pleas, an action was brought against a Mr. Corry, one of the sub-contractors on the Preston and Wye Raihvay, by another contractar on the same line, named Gosling. Mr. Corry, in consequence of a disputa with the plaintiff about the purchase money of some timber, caused an advertisement to be inserted in the Hue and Ciw y clescribing the plaintiff's person, age, height, &c., in the same way as' for felons, and offering. a reward for his apprehension. For this libel the action was brought.. The writing of , the-letter having been proved - to the satisfaction of the jury, they gave their verdict for the plaintiff-- Damages, 2001. COITRM --PABRZOINTA.Ii IAL Since the intelligence arrived of the death of Prince Albert's father, Windsor Castle has assumed a sombre ap pearance, All the window blinds' are drawn down, and the shutters of most of the houses in the town are partially closed. Her Majesty and the Prince remain in strict privacy. • The Earl and Countess of 'Wilton have left tirosvernor: square for Egerton Lodge, Melton Mowbray, where a fashionable circle is about to assemble. The Dowager Lady Holland has commenced her regular conversaziones at Lord Palmerston's late mansion in Great Stanhope-street. Lord and Lady Aberdour have left the St. George's Hotel, Albemarle -street, for Sir George Rose's, Sandhills, near Christ Church, Hants. The Noble and Gallant Lord and his bride have been staying since their marriage at the Marquis of Abercorn's, at the Priory, Stanmore. The Duke and Duchess of Beaufort will return to Badmin ton at the end of the week. His Grace, at the close of the hunting season, returns to town. The Earl of Altamont arrived at Paris in the . preceding week, from the East Indies. His Lordship is daily expected at the residence of the Marquis of Sligo,,in Mansfield-street, after an absence of between two and three years. The Earl of Dundonald has returned to Chester-square, from Paris. The Earl of Shaftesbury and the Ladies Ashley returned to Grosvenor-square, a few days since, from St. Giles's, Dor chester. The Earl and Countess of Hillsborough have arrived at Hakes's Hotel, from Atherstone, Warwickshire. The Countess of Bridgewater leaves Ashridge Castle at the close of the month, for Grosvenor-square. Mr. John Beckett commenced his dinner parties at Strat ford House, on Friday evening. The party consisted of the Earl of Brownlow, Lord Strangford, Lord Forester, Mr. Tomline, Mr. Conyers, Copt-hail, Essex, Mdlle. d'Este, Lord Suffield has arrived from the Continent. His Lord ship intends to pass the season at his seat In Derbyshire. Lord Canterbury left Belgrave-square on Monday morning, for Exeter, on a visit to his son- in-law, Mr. Sanderson. MISCELLANEOUS. The High Sheriff of Gloucestershire has refused to con vene a county meeting "to take into consideration the existing restrictions on commerce, especially those affecting the necessaries of life ; and to hear Mr. Cobden and others on these subjects." A meeting of the landowners and occupiers of land was held at Sleafield, in Lincolnshire, on Monday, when speeches were delivered and resolutions adopted, expressive of the absolute necessity that existed for maintaining the existing corn-laws, and deprecating strongly any side-wind attacks at the agricultural interest generally. A meeting of landowners in the county of Salop, in favour of the agricultural interest, is to be immediately convened by the High Sheriff of the county. The subscriptions at the close of the recent Huntingdon meeting, in opposition to the League, amounted to nearly one thousand pounds. A requisition, numerously signed, has been forwarded to the High Sheriff of Somersetshire, calling on him to convene a county meeting, to take measures for opposing the-Anti- Corn-law League. The term being up for clearing the land lately purchased by the Crown at Old Ford and Bethnal-g,reen, for the com mencement of the new park, the Crown has taken possession of the property. On Monday evening, at a meeting of the Institute of British Architects, Mr. Tito in the chair, a paper was' read by Mr. Scoles, on the architecture of the pyramids of Egypt, describing the peculiar construction of the Abaroash, Takara, and Medoon, and showing their foundations to have been formed upon common sand, but supported by retaining or inclosing walls of masonry. ALARMING ILLNESS OF THE KING OF SWEDEN. We have received the following account; by the Hamburgh mail STOCIMOLM, J. 26.—His Majesty the King, who com pleted today his 81st year, has unhappily been attacked with severe illness. The State Gazette publishes the follow ing bulletins:— • " JAR. 26, 10 A.M.—The King, who retired to rest yester day evening without any appearance &indisposition, and slept well during the night, was seized at half-past six this morning with vomiting and determination of blood to the head, which still continues, but appears however to diminish. "2 2injc,sty is easier, and seems to be better than when the last bulletin was issued.- " 5 P.M.—His Majesty has experienced no change since two o'clock." The bulletins are signed "Er ap Edholm." The Aftorblad adds to the second bulletin that the ap pearance of improvement was produced by bleeding ; that the King had never before consented to be bled, but that the physician having now declared that nothing else could save his life, it had been done by order of the Crown Prince. The vomiting was a spitting of blood. The blood from the arm had no unfavourable appearance, and the patient fell into a state of lethargy. Between ten and eleven in the forenoon he asked for coffee, and drank some, then vomited again and fell asleep, Between twelve and ene he drank a glass of water, which he took from the hand of an attendant. A great number of officerS of State and persons of distinction have been to the Palace to make inquiries. A supper at the Crown Prince's this evening, and a fete intended to be given by the Queen the day after to-morrow, arc deferred. The theatre will not be open this evening. MIDDLESEX and SURREY GRAND JUNCTION RAIL '4 AY. We beg to call the attention of our readers to the above railway—an advertisement of which appears in our columns of to-day —not only on account of its general merits as a junction railway, which cannot fail to interest the commercial and manufacturing interest of the kingdom, but also in a military point of view. It appears to us that the facilities which the proposed line will afford to the transit of troops and" military stores to that portion of the coast of Kent in particular which has so recently attracted the attention of the Government, will necessarily re commend it to the serious consideration of our pro fessional readers ; and we ourselves are convinced that if the intended line should obtain the sanction of the Legislature, the defence of the coast of Kent will be easily secured, without incurring the expenses of batteries and lines which was at' one time contemplated. His Grace the Duke of Welling ton, in his evidence before the Committee of the House of Commons in the last session, referring to the necessity of establishing a harbour of refuge between Ports mouth and the Downs, readily admitted that naval warfare, in the strict sense of the word, was not sufficient to protect the coast from an invading army, and that the system of maritime warfare (by the power of steam) was such as to render the situation of a fleet in the Downs totally insecure. Now, it is clear that, by the junction line proposed between the Birmingham, Great Western, South Western, and Dover lines, a supply of troops from almost every part of the kingdom—from the most remote depots and garrisons —may be commanded—say Weedon, and Winchester, and Maidstone—within twelve or fourteen hours ; and within that time the coast of Kent may be bristling vvi,h bayonets I We sincerely trust that the line, in this national point of view, has already attracted the notice of Government—and, for our own parts, we wish the bold undertaking every success. The atmospheric principle of locomotion is, we observe, recommended to the consideration of the shareholders. United Service Gazette. DEATH. OF THE EARL OF BESSEOROUGIL—This venerable nobleman died on Saturday, at the seat of his second son, Lord de Manley, at Canford House, in Dorsetshire, where his Lordship. had arrived from his house at Brighton, and sunk under the prevalent influenza, at the advanced age of eighty.six. His Lordship is succeeded in his titles and estates by his eldest son, Viscount Duncannon, who was called up to the House of Lords in 1635. Frederick Ponsonby, Earl of Bessborough, Viscount touricatmon, county Wexford, Baron Bessborough of B , .saborougfi, county Kilkenny, Ireland, Lord Ponsonby, Baron Ponsonby, of Sysonby in England, aid Vice-Admiral of Munster, was born on the 26th of January, 1758, and succeeded his father i n Nog. His Lordship was married in 1780 to Henrietta Frances Spencer, daughter of John, first Earl of Spencer, by whom (whe died in 1621) he had issue John William Viscount Duncannon, the present Earl, who was cdled up to the House of Lords in 1835, by the title of Baron Duncannon. His Lordship was born in August, 1781, and was married, in 1805, to Maria Pane, daughter of John, Earl of Westmoreland, by whom, (who died in 1834) his Lordship had a family of fourteen sons and daughters; the eldest son, John George Brabazon, now Viscount Duncannon, was born in 1809. His Lordship's second son, Sir Frederick Caven dish Ponsonby, died in 1837, and his Lordship's third son, William Francis Spencer Ponsonby, was created Baron de Mauley, by patent, in 1838. His Lordship's only daughter, Caroline, was married to the present Viscount Melbourne, and died in IE2B. The death of the Earl of Bessborough puts several families of the highest rank into mourning —the Cavendishes, Spencers, Ponsonbys, Bentincks, Somersets, Beauclerks, Westmerelands, Lansdownes, Russell s, A s h ley . , &c., &c. T Mr. EhIPLETON.-1 1 e understand that Templeton, Fitageralds, who has been so pre-eminently successful i line of musical entertainments, has so many Piovincial and other n Hanover.square engagements to 111161, that be cannot re-a n his newly-ado Pied till March, when he promises Majesty'snovelties° "ved town,n prepar a tions for opening the Mr. Lumley, of her in and is busily occupied fa P T P r e h e 4 c e r h a e t r r e e is c i h s a r a a m c te r theatre the first week in March . i Madameer Persiani and Signor Fornasari will commence the season . The ballet of La Jolie Fi lls de Grand is in re hearsal at Drurplane Theatre! MONE Y AND COMMERCIAL NEWS CITY, TUESDAY EVENING.' There has been a sadden re-action again in the value of the English Securities, the Stock contracted for last meek having been delivered, and the Bears thinking it once mote a good opportunity to speculate. Consols were 97* to fOr Money, and 97 to * for A scount. Stock at these rates , how ever, was not at all freely offered. The Reduced Three per Cents. were 97i to 98. The heavy investments were not affected. Bank Stock did no,t look quite so good at the close. To a slight extent, also, th, 3 Foreign Market shared the flatness. Spanish Actives wer.l 24-1 to 24, and the Three per Cents. 3211 a. Mexican brougA ' it 34 11 to and Colombia% 12i to 11. Russian were 1181. The additional transactions in Railway Shares have been these :—Birmingham and Derby t.•ere 39 ; Ditto' and Glou cester, 27* ; Eastern Counties, LILA Great North of Eng land, 8 ; Brighton, 4 ; ManchestAT and Birmingham, 1; Midland Counties, 8 ; and South • Eastern; 14* discount Gravesend and Chatham, • Great Western, Fifths, 7i '1 Guildford Junction, ; Croydon, n ; Elbe, Scrip, 6i; Nor wich and Brandon, 211 to ; Newcastle a In. l Darhngton, 1.7 i; Paris and Orleans, 13 ; and York and No.n: l Midland, New,; 37 premium. There was no alteration of moment in a a rates of the Foreign Exchanges, which generally, th er efo r e are stead!' though not buoyant. The West India mail has not been announced.. We have no exports of specie to notice during the Week ending Thursday last._ (Prom The Sun of Last Night.) • In the Liverpool Cotton Market yesterday a etir ness was done, and prices were steadily suppoed..-:: Th e sales were 7,000 supported.: bags—including 1,000 on speculation,`. 1,700 Surat, at4d. to 4id. ; 100 Bahia, at 64d.; 300 Mersa: ham at 6d. to 64d. ; 30 Pernambuco, at 6i-d ; 30 Egyptia.v.ak 741, and the rest American, at sd. to 64d. per lb.—' l2 st Share Market continued steady. Eastern Counties wets' 10/. 6s. 3d. ; Grand Junction, 2291 ; Great Western, 1124 A Brighton, 46 ; South Western Eighths, 2/. 16s. 3d.; Midlanit Counties, 92 ; Paris and Lyons, 2/. 12s. 6d.; South Efts*" , tern.and Dover New, 36. Not a single arrival of any interest has been announced it the City to-day. The proceedings in Parliament relative to railway comps' vies, and the provisions to be made hereafter, as respects new lines, have formed the topic of much conversation M the City this morning, and a very strong hope is expressed, that some provision will be made to prevent an entire Monopeli in favour of the lines now in existence. • A very firm market has existed this morning for all the public Securities, and an immense amount of husineis ha s been transacted. Consols for Account have been firm at 97f! and for Money at 971 The Commissioners bought 15,00 w Consols at 97i. Exchequer Bills have fluctuated from 675. to 695. premium. India Bonds are up to 84s. presairar- Bank Stock has advanced from 192 to 194, but India Stock. is a shade lower, being quoted at 277. In the Threo-and a-Half per Cents. there has been but a shade of variation to day. The Foreign Market has been brisk, and the amount ce business done has been rather considerable. Spanish .Actives; have been done at 24i the Three per Cents. at 32i 32j, but in the other foreign Funds the prices have remained' - . much the same as yesterday. The Share Market is very quiet to-day, as our annexed list of official prices will show : MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, Fxn. s.—We have good market to-day, and prices are fully maintained.—Law don and South Western, 78 ; Manchester and Birmingham,. 39* to 40_; Manchester and L ee d s , H a lf Sh ares , 50} • Sher . field and Manchester, 61; South E as t ern , 36 ; Ditt o , Sall ), 36i ; Lancaster Canal, 26.; Manchester Assurance, 9i. CLOSING PRICES.. BRITISH FUNDS. Barik Stock 3 per Cent. Red. 3 per Cent. Cons.... 97i Ditto ()Id Annuities ""' 3i per Cent. Red lO3 Ditto New Annuities.. New 3i per Cent _ 4 l; New 5 per Cent — Ditto 500/. .. . ... -.69 V: Long Annuities to expire Ditto 5ma11.... 2 - Jan. 1860 Oct. 1859 Jan. 1860 ...... 12i Consols for Acct. 97k FOREIGN FUNDS. A Ittriao, 5 per cent. — Portuguese ' 5 per cent. •••• iielgian 5 per cent — Ditto, New Ditto Brazilian Bonds ... ...... Prussian, 5 per cent r at FS nmos A yres 6 per cent Russian, 5 per cent. .. I '7 Cnilian, 6 per cent. Ditto, Aletallic ..... .. Colmobian, 6 per cent... 121 Spanish, b per cent x• 39 iitto 1824 — Ditto, 3 p er cen t Cuba Bonds, 6 per cent 93 Ditto, Deferred.... ~. i _ 3 ! Danish, 3 per t ent — French, 5 per cent. -4. -7::: Greek, 1825, 5 per cent — Exchange ... ... .... —lr. ----; 81exicau, 5 per cent — French, 3 per cent. ...a. '''''' Oitto, 6 per cent. 1837 Dutch, 21 per cent. , 551 Perivian,lB2s,6 perct. 241 , Ditto, 5 per cent.... 101 i SHARES. . Birmingham and Derby (100 'paid) ... ...... 6 1 '. Birmingham and Gloucester Railway (100 pd) 72 1 • Eastern Counties (23 paid)...... ..... ' 14 Gravesend, Rochester, and Chatham (2* p) a Great North of England Railway (100 pd) 92 Grand Junction Railway (100 paid) l9l London and Brighton (50 pa d) . London and Croydon Railway (Trunk) . Ditto Scrip (71 paid) . . Pi Manchester and Birmingham (40 pal , : ) 3Vi Midland Counties Railway (100 p a id) - - 9 . 1 ! Nerwich and Brandon (2 paid) ...., .. . Newcastle and Darlington Junction(ls paid' • 321 Paris and Orleans (20 paid) .... ......... South Easte r n an d D over (50 paid).......- o'l7 York and North Midland (50 paid) .. .. -- Ditto New Shares (20 paid) bi- COURNE OF EXI:IIANG.E.—t YESTERDAY:? . kmsterdam CF. 12 6 Gibraltar - . • .- 30 Ditto, at sight Rotterdam .. .'2U. 12 611 Genoa . •25 9 Antwerp :2E5 90 Milan - :. flamburgh Rs. R. 13 15 Venire Alumna Paris, 3 days sight ... 25 65 Palermo, per or 1184 Ditto, 3 months Marseilles ... ..... ... - ..... 1).52 2 23 Bourdeaux 25 00 ;Rio Janeiro Frankfort on Maine ...122 ,Bahia Petersburgh, 3 Us., ... 301 1 , Buenos Ayres ...„ Berlin . trienna, effec. li. 3M. 955 Philadelphia Tri,ste, :lino 9 56 kaicts, OF BULLION, eta of. io , 'iadrid .• 36i Foiii - gn C - Id - barsE 3 - 77 . 1 3 Cadiz 36A Portugal Gold Coin.. 317 P 5 !';ilbao .. 36 ;New Doubloons ~ ,. .0 0 Barcelona Seville ........ ..-.. —.lSilver in Bars... ..... 0 411 COURT CIRCULAti "WINDSOR, TUESDAY.—Her Majesty and his Royal 1116 h . ness Prince Albert are as well as can be expected.. all Her Royal Highness the Princess Alice was taken airing in the Park to=day. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge arrive d town yesterday from his residence at Kew. f" 190 Le Comrnandeur M arques . Li s b oa, B raz ili a n 1 - 111- transacted business yesterday at the Foreign-office. t ia The Ecclesiastical Commission for England had*ra ee pe yesterday afternoon at the office in Whitehall-OW . bo y, Commissioners p resen t were th e A rc hbi s h o p of- Cante„r;shor the Bishop of London, the Bi s hop of Winchester, the„l„,/, of Lichfield, th e Bi s h o p o f Ri pon , th e Bi s hop of Solirest the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and the Dean Hof minster. t The Secretary at War transacted business yesterdaY 8 H S ir e-office. had James Graham and other Cabinet Ministers • views with Sir R. Peel yesterday. Dispatches) Y received yesterday at the Colon' from the Governor of the Cape of Good Hope. , 4 Dispatches were sent off last evening from the,tie office, for the Govern of Ho-Kon. . 0 0 The Judicial Commi or ng ttee of her Maj g esty's most Hon .0 The Privy Council sat yesterday in the CouncirCharnttn, the Lords present were, Lord Brougham, Lord Canl""of the Judge of the Prerogative Court; and the Chancomr • . Duchy of Cornwall. , wed Mr. Thesiger, Queen's Counsel, and Dr. Admen' lot heard for the appellant, on an app ea l f ro m the High Admiralty, "The General Steam Navigation Cor a l — Tonkin. 'Conne" The Queen's Advocate and Mr. Platt, Queen eUrr`w Ls were heard for the respondent. Judgment was d Tho mas The Solicitor-General was heard (ex parte), " Breton v. James Ennis," from Jersey. HAYMARKET THEATR' nt itlett A pleasant, lively, hustling, two-act fareet.!_ t e ve. "Used up," was produced at this theatre : 1 ,7 L 4 r ...0. ning. Th hero, Sir 'Charles , Coldstream- ( a T o rha Mathews) is a gentleman of 12,000/. a 3; 1 :Sole; having tried every pleasure, is of opinion vil ifin g,ol man " that every thing is vanity." Ile is .„. a hee ennui, and, to use his own expression, 11011 Z o let,e e r life at 13, he finds that, at 33, he .is e (3 lo ` off,e " used up." He determines to naake to the first woman he meets, and . ol d proposes to Lady Clutterbuck, .a.-;ciet, ;oo J, 4 0 , Ironbrace, a lady in her second .widon ro bit,. is acceptd. The lady's first husband, - 1 0- , r h , whom she had thought dead, happens, ' o ,.ti as olts ol o 6 ment, to be engaged in the capacity of if t vose._,_ , to in doing some repairs to Sir Charles . 4_,4 o iptiPe ou t sees his wife —accuses the Baronet d,',. 0 Ye1dr,,,, 0 - es seduce her. Sir Charles threatens to t i ",,i i e' i P l ', l "; r • of the window, which opens upon - tog'er, ll ,. e g —they struggle, and both roll C h Ta na) l' as , N— In the next act we find Sir Ll7-2-jand) .murder with Farmer ll'urzel (air. James farm servant. B e li ev i ng hi mse lf t o 11° to escaP e t i l e s Ironbrace, he h as assume d th i s disguise, wa re e l f „lio pursuit of j us ti ce ; t h e only pers on a i gi s s real rank being his foster sister MarY \s,llo fence Bennett) the farmer's nit-ce. Ironbrace, , h as °ler that he has murdered Sir Charles' filer sought refuge at the same, farm. o f a muse himself being his coniklant. serTained, f'scenes en sue , until at length all is ex c me o x r e r e i i e i s e : t li n e . Charles, effectually cured of ennui, The acting of Charles Mathews was the at the co lst rep . till. The ip kept the house in a continual roar, • at m . _ succession' and elusion announced the piece loud applause. - 'I his is an e suoceas io wfis cidents follow one another in rapta_he boas , the dialogue is smartly written. crowded. xefbelrlent tar ENGLISH OPERA-HOU. -4. 0 Romeo and Juliet was produced at this tht-0.41, Monday. It would be unfair to pass a harsh opil2l.X upon Mr. Harvey Tuckett's Mercutio, as th e Di f j o j ; announced that Henry the Fourth was p ' ostlx lied • n g a short time in consequence of that gentleman haniv a severe cold, which announcement was CO his performance He evidently laboured under PIT, sical , inconvenience; but there were occasionally si. ,‘ ;111, and even brilliant, points in his perforraancyl which lead us to infer that he will, by practice or" 311% attention to his art, become a superior actor. of e wo l r o t v h e looked Romeo, but his delivery' of 11111111-je passages evoked contrasts, whiciViss memory abundantly supplied. The Juliet of She Angell was a very creditable performance. played the love-sick girl with feeling and taste , 1.-- aivested of "rant," and that is saying much novq; 4"Ys, When " mouthir , g" and " ranting " see"' in t in the 411 ascendant, and are the ready means to w dienvee applause. The house w as well attended' ._~-~~ NO D u I .or, Ilv t , ilti