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1(1HE NEXT DISTRIBUTION of MONEY H. DIVIDENDS. A UTi3ORISED and GUARANTEED ty HIS MAJESTY the EMPEROR cf AUSTRIA, contains MONEY DIVIDENDS of £5O £6O £7O £BO .e-10 £lOO 1:110 £l2O .E.;50 £2OO £4OO £6OO £BOO £l,OOO £1,500 £5,000 and £23,ooosterlinf.r. Amounting together to £70,170 sterling. Pire , _;t for PROSPECTUS with full particulars, WITH. OLi T I;ELAY, to HEINE BROTHERS, at lIA.MBUIIGH, Cr. to HEINE BROTHERS, at LUBECK. fIONCLUSIVE EVIDENCE.—If th e di rec t X._.l critten 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 employed, in preference te Foreign Brandy, under high medical direction, in many of the principal Hospitals, Infirmaries, and ether Public Institutions in the Kingdom ; among which it may suffice to name Guy's, St. George's, and the Westminster Hospitals in the Metropolis ; and the Man c h es t er , B r istol, and Brighton In firmari.?g. 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. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. THIS EVENING, JANUARY 2, Will be repeated a New Grand Opera, in Three Acts, calledTHE ROD ENHAN GIRL. Count Arnheim, Mr. Borranr; Thaddeus, Mr. W. Harrison; Arline, Miss Rainferth; Queen of the Gipsies, Miss Betts. Atter which, will be repeated 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. Dress Boxes 75., Second Price 3s. 6d. ; Upper Circles of Boxes 55., Second I'rice 3s. ; Pit 3s , Second Price 2s. ; Middle Gallery 25., Second Price Is. ; Upper Gallery Is., Second Price tid. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN. M. JULLIEN'S CONCERTS. PROGRAMME FOR THIS EVENING. PART I. Overture, Midsummer Night's Dream —Mendelsohn. Valse, Bird of Paradise, received with the greatest favour at the Nobility's Ball;—Koenig. Burn's celebrated Song, Auld Lang Syne, performed on the Cornet a-Piston, by Herr Koenig. Grand Symphony (first movement), entitled The Power of Sound— Saohr. Valse Le Bouquet Royal (composed expressly fur her Majesty's State Balls)—Jullien. Solo, Violin, Master Thirlwall. The English Quadrille—Jullien. PART H. Opera, Lucia di Lammermoor, with Solo for Cornet-a-Piston, by Herr Is cenig— Doniaetti. . New Quadrille, entitled the Toy Quadrille—Th . lnm Solo, Bassoon, M. Baumann. Valse, The Metamorphoses (received with great favour at the Nobi. lity's Assemblies)—Koenig. Parade Galop—Lavenu. Doors Open at Half-past Seven, commence at Eight o'Clock. Promenade, is , Upper Boxes, Is.; Dress Circle, 2s. 6d. ; Private Boxes, 11. Is. Tickets to be obtained at the Box-office of the Theatre; of Mr. Mitchell, Old Bond-street; Mr. Andrews, New Bond-street; Mr. Sams, St. James's - street ; and M. Jullien's Office, 8, Maddox-street, Bond- street. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. MR. BENJAMIN WEBsTER, LESSEE. THIS EVENING, JA NUARY 2, Will be performed the Farce Of TOM NOD'HY'S SECRET. Mr. Thomas Noddy, Mr. Strickland ; Inkpm Mr. ISuckstone ; Gabrielle. Miss Julia Bennett; Mary, Miss Mattley. To be followed by THE LITTLE DEVIL. Nieolo Angeli, Ma dame Vestris ; Ferdinand of Spain, Mr. Stuart; Vinc.ntio d'Estella, Mr. Charles Mathews. After which, the Unparalleled Performances of Professor RISLEY and his EON. To conclude with a New Fairy Extravaganza, entitled THE FAIR ONE WITH THE GOLDEN LOCK...! King Lachrymoso, Mr. J. Bland; Prince Graceful, Miss P. Horton ; Queen Lucidora, Miss Julia Bennett THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. The Best Pantomime of the Season—Gorgeous Scenery. THIS EVENING, JANUARY 2, The New Drama, embracing Extraordinary Effbets, Powerful Cast, and Novel Scenic Display, called THE BOHEMIANS; or, The Rogues of Faris. Principal Characters by Messrs. Lyon, O. Smith, Wright, Wieland, Maynard, Mrs. Yates, Miss E. Stanley, Mrs. F. Matthews. _ _ After which, a New Grand Christmas Pantomime called HAR LEQUIN BLUE BEARD; or, The Fairy of the ilver Crescent. Produced with Enormous S , ,lendour and Wonderful Effects ! Columbine, Miss Bullen ; Harlequin Quicksilver, by the inimitable Wieland; Clown, by the Grimaldi of the day, Mr. T. Matthews, from the Theatres Royal, Covent-garden and Drury-lane; Panta. loon, Mr. Johnstone. Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery. la. ; Second price at Nine. Doors open at Six, commences at a Quarter before Seven o'Clock. PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. LESSEE, Mr. J. M. MADDOX. THIS EVENING, JANUARY 2, Will be performed LUCREZIA BORGIA. Don Alphooso, Mr. Burdini ; Gennarro, Mr. Allen ; Matti° Orsini, Mrs. H. P. Grattan; Gubetta, Mr. Walton ; Lucrezia Borgia, Madame Eugenia Garcia. To which will be added the Vaudeville of the SWISS COT TAGE. Natz Tieck, Mr. Keeley ; Lisette, Mrs. Keeley. To conclude with a New Musical Burlesque 'pectacle, entitled THE MAGIC MIRROR. Sing-Song, Mrs. H. P. Grattan; Poo. Poo, Mr. Paul Bedtord ; Sloe-Leaf, Miss R. Isaacs. DAVIDOE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. As usual, the funniest and most successful Pantomime. THIS EVENING, JANUARY Will be repeated THE BOHEMIANS OF PARIS. Supported by Messrs. Saville Hughes, Hicks, It. Bonner, Johnson, Smith, Mrs. Vining, and all the Members of the First Company in the World. After which an entirely new Grand Comic Pantomime, with Splendid Scenery, Superb Dresses, Inimitable Properties and Tricks, every thing new and of the most costly description, HARLEQUIN GRAMMAR, or, Lindley Murray, and AEI 0 U. Harlequin, Mr. W. H. Harvey; Grotesque, Mr. Stilt; Clown, Mr. Fuller; Panta loon, Mr. Hawkins ; Columbines (alternately) Miss M. R. Fair_ brother and Miss Sharpe. Places and Private Boxes to be had of Mr. Kerschner, at the Box office, from Eleven to Fonr. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE OF ARTS. - Under the Management of Mr. Batty. Proprietor. Triumphant Success of the Splendid Christmas Holiday Fetes.—West. minster-Bridge is now (pen, THIS EVENING, JANUARY 2, Will be performed the splendid French Spectacle of THE TIC. TORIES OF MURAT, THE SOLDIER OF FRANCE; or, The Ileteral, Prince, and King. New Scenes in the Circle, and unequalled Feats of Horsemanship. To conclude with a Grand Comic Pantomime, entitled HARLE QUIN TAM O'SHANTER , and his STEED MEG ; or, Th e Witches of Alloway Kirk. Harlequin, Mr. Gibson ; Columbine, Cushnie ; Clown. Mr. King; Pantaloon, Mr. Mathews. Acting and Stage Manager, Mr. W. D. Broadfoot. Stalls, 55.; Poxes, Se.; Upper Boxes, 35.; Pit, 23. ; Gallery, Is.; Upper Gallery, Box-office open daily from len till Four. Stage Boxes, One Guinea; Half-price to Ditto, Halt-a-Guinea. Private Boxes, Two 4;uineas; Halt-price to Ditto, One Guinea. Half-price, Hall-past Eight. ROYAL VICIORIA 711EATRE. THIS EVENING, JANUARY 2, Win be performed THE CROSS ROADS OF LIFE; or, The Scamps of London. Devoreux, Mr. Freer ; Frank Danvers, Mr. Nantz ; Louisa, Miss Vincent. After which, HARLEQUIN LINCt'LN LUCKY OF LAM BETH ; or, The Three sisters of Witch 1 Vil:ow Dell. llirlequin, Mr. Chapin(); Clown, Mr. Scarbrow P.:nt-doun, Mr. Morelli; Columbine, Miss M. Schmidt To conclude with THE LAST W ITN THE WEATII Orr JAN. .2. f mktmosiErEit, Lowest. 30 ; Ilightbst, ; Noon, 33. BAROSFETER, N.W. • NorE.—The number 32 on the Thermometer denotes the freezing point,. and 55 temperate. In Barometers lair is usually placed opposite 30, and rain at 20. HIGH WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY. Morning 35 minutes after 11. Evening .„ 0 minute after 0 4 kY,' - , ... : , 1 / 4 0 a...• . 44 ~,,,.., i.,... 4 , I f...., ' It''' '.• '4.1 ' '., :C - • ' : - . ',4 - L; l rlek„. ; '. ' .4. , . •S• .7 s , '.,,. -" - 1 •:, ..V.,. *\ :,- . • '• • ,430. A. ''' LIE, s ' 4 r • Ii0: 4 ,... .12R6if • •,:',..' ..f„,. - 7, - 4 ,, •• •- ~ - Vol SECOND EDITION. Ctrelting LONDON, TUESDAY, JANUARY 2, 1844. The explanations which have been received from Canada touching the causes that had led to the recent resignation of the Members of the Executive Coun cil, consist of a letter addressed by Mr. LAFONTAINE to his Excellency Sir CIIARLEi METCALFE, under date of the 27th November, 1843, and the answer' of his Excellency thereto, dated on the following day. We ‘vere certainly astonished at the news of the Council's resignation. But astonishment is an eMO• tiun of varying intensity, and we are much more asto nished at the statements and pretensions comprised in this letter of M. LAFONTAINE. The whole of its ex planatory recital and plea proceed upon a one-sided exposition of the views with which the Council had taken office, and of their " responsibility to the representatives of the people in Parliament." They completely throw overboard the question of any other obligations of their office, whether to the Colonial Government or to the Crown, in their capacity of Councillors. The letter itself is a laboured attempt to compile a manifesto of griev ances, which break down under the attempt to enun ciate and specify them. Nor is this result to be wondered at; seeing that Sir CHARLES MSTCALFE'S adminiqration of the Government of Canada has been conciacted, from the moment of his assumption of office to the period of our last advices from the colony, in a spirit of fairness, with a degree of political libe rality and civil justice, which have reflected upon his Excellency the highest honour, and have amply justi fied his selection by her MAJESTY'S Ministers for the discharge of' one of the highest—one of the most re sponsible—and perhaps the most difficult appoint ments, in the service of her MAJESTY'S Crown. M. LAFONTAINE, in stating for his Excellency's information the grounds of the explanations which it was proposed by himself and his colleagues to offer in their places in Parliament, refers to certain resolu tions introduced into the Legislative Assembly, with the knowledge and sanction of her MAJESTY'S Repre sentative; the gist of which appears to have been, that in order to preserve between the diflerent branches of the Parliament that harmony which is essential to the peace, welfare, and good government of the province, the chief advisers of the representative of the SOVE REIGN,n_s.ra constituting a provincial adini t tiun under him, ought to be men possessed of the confidence of the representatives,. of the people, thus affording a guarantee that the well-understood wishes ate! interests of the people, which our gracious SovErtinGN has de clared shall be the rule of the Prorineial Government, will, on all occasions, be faithfully represented and advocated. It will be seen by Sir CHARLES METCALFE S reply, that this. pledge, so far as it respected the ourse of his own Government, it is his Excellency's boast—and a well-founded one—to have carefully retrieved, and studiously maintained. It might be thought that N.r. LAFONTAINE and his colleagues knowing that if they could not pin his Excellency to some distinct infraction of this large and liberal policy, they must themselves be those nec , 's artifices whose fate it is, on the highest authority, arte perire suit—would hardly have augmented the jeopardy of their case by the ill-advised statement with which they followed up this effort. This state ment his Excellency demolishes in his reply, we are bound to declare—indeed, there can be no doubt of the fact on the mind of any candid reader after perusing the two documents—entirely by reason of its pervading vice. There was throughout it that suppressio ceri which moralists, as well as jurists, sternly denounce as equivalent to the suggestio falsi. What is omitted, being of the very pith and marrow of the case, its omission seems intended to mislead the public into the notion that what is stated is that which was the substantive matter of difference and final severance between the Executive Council and the Governor-General. The former, Mr. LAFONTAINE observes, had lately understood his Excellency to have taken a widely dif ferent view of their position and responsibilities " from that under which they accepted office, and through which they have been enabled to conduct the Parliamentary business of the Government, sustained by a large majority of the popular branch of the Legislature." Were we to try this significant allusion by that construction which our English modes of thinking would justify,—and figure to ourselves the aria:logy of a constitutional Sovereign and a Privy Council, in place of that Sovereign's representative and an Executive Council ; what should we think of this unblushing proclamation by the immediate advisers of the Supreme Power, of their actually bar gaining for Parliamentary support on this kind of reciprocating basis ? The Executive Council, however, would not have cared, had these differences of opinion between them and the Go vernor-General been merely theoretical ; but they had led to official appointments and proposals for such, of which they were not informed until the opportu nity for their offering advice upon them had gone by; and one Bill, introduced into Parliament with his Excellency's knowledge and consent, he had reserved for the expression of her MAJESTY'S pleasure thereon, without previously apprising the Council of such being his intention. Mr. LAFONTAINE then adds, that the want of that cordiality between the Council and the Governor-General, which his Excellency has frankly acknowledged to have observed, "together with an antagonism between them," extended not only to acts. on which there were apparent grounds for difference of public opinion, " but to all measures of Government involving political principles." This is a large and fair outline of all in Mr. LA FONTAINE'S letter which it is necessary for the reader to have, fully and fairly, before his mind, in order to form his own judgment upon the merits of the case. In his reply the Governor-General states, that he observes with regret, in the explanation which M. LAFONTAINE, and the other Members of Council, propose to offer in their places in Parliament, a total omission of the circumstances which he regards as forming the real grounds of their resignation. 'We will endeavour very briefly to abstract the nar rative which his'Excellency thus gives of events as they had occurred. He states that at the Govern ment House, on the previous Friday, Messrs. LAFON TAINE and BALDWIN, after some preliminary remarks, " had demanded of the GoVern or-General that he should agree to make no appointment, and no offer of an appointment, without previously taking the advice of the Council ; that the lists of citididates should in every instance be laid before the council; that they rne should recom' ad any others at-discretion ; and that the Governor-General, in deciding after taking their advice, should not rike llny appointment prejudicial to their influence." ."Isitpossible to gainsay the con struction which Sir CHARLES puts on this outrageous proposition ? "In other words, that the patronage of the Crown should be surrendered to the Council for the purchase of Parliamentary support ; for, if the demand did not mean that, it meant nothing, as it cannot be imagined that the mere form of taking advice, without regarding it, was the process con templated." The Governor-General replied that he would not make any such stipulation ; and could not degrade the character of his office nor violate his duty by such a surrender of the prerogative of the Crown. He appealed to the number of appointments al ready made by him on their recommendation ; to his own constant objection to the exclusive distribution of patronage with party views, and his maintenance of the principle that office should, in all cases, he given to the best qualified ; reserving the right of appointing at his own discretion, where no such pre eminence was to be found among the candidates. Understanding from the two gentlemen that their con tinuance in office depended on his final decision with regard to their demand, he agreed that at the Council of next day the subject should be fully discussed. He accordingly met the Council (on Saturday) fully expecting the parties would resign, as he could not recede from the resolution he had formed. But three or more distinct propositions were then made to him, over and over again, in different terms, hut (he adds) " always aiming at the same purpose, which, in his opinion, if accomplished, would have been a virtual surrender, into the hands of the Council, of the pre rogative of the Crown ; and, on his uniformly reply ing to these propositions in the negative, his refusal was each time followed by then we must resign,' or words to that purport, from one or more of the Council." His Excellency expresses his astonishment at find ing, after so many discussions of the demand on which the resignation was understood to he tendered, that it was now ascribed to an alleged differ ence of opinion on the theory of responsible govern ment. The Governor-General refers to his having protested in the course of those former discussions against the notion, that he was practically adverse to the working of the system of responsible government which had been established, and which he had hitherto pursued without deviation. He declares that he sub scribes entirely to the resolution of the Legis rive Assembly of September 1841 (quoted by Mr. LAFONTAINE), holding any other system but that which recognises responsibility to the people imprac ticable in that province. But while he is satisfied that all government exists solely for the people, he remarks that if, by "responsible government," the gentlemen of the late Council mean that the Council is to be supreme, and the authority of the Governor a nullity, then he cannot agree with them ; and must declare his dissent from that perversion of the acknowledged principle. As to the " Secret Societies Bill" reserved by him for the consideration of her MAJESTY'S Government, the justification of his Excellency is full and tri umphant ; and what is more, it is eminently constitu tional:— " If there is any part of the functions of the Government in which he is more than in any other bound to exercise an independent judgment, it must be in giving the Royal assent to Acts at' Parliament. With regard to this duty ho has special instructions from her 'Majesty to reserve every Act of an unusual or extraordinary character. Undoubtedly the Secret Societies Bill answers that de scription, being unexampled in British legislation." The Governor's reply closes with this impressive passage : "In conclusion, the Governor-General protests against the explanation which those gentlemen propose to . offer to Parliament, as omitting entirely the actual and prominent circumstances which led to their resignation, and as conveying to Parliament a misapprehension of his sen timents and intentions, which has no foundation in any part of his conduct, unless his refusal to make a virtual surrender of the prerogative of the Crown to the Coun cil, for party purposes, and his anxiety to do justice to those who were injured by the arrangements attending the Union, can be regarded as warranting a representa tion which is calculated to injure him. without just cause, in the opinion of the Parliament and the people, on whose confidence he places his sole reliance for the successful administration of the Government." As sincere friends to all classes in Canada, and heartily approving of the discontinuance of the para mount party policy, we grieve to find the French Canadians (for we must find a designation for the section represented by M. LAFONTAINE) doing all in their power to justify the sinister predictions of the bitter opponent 3 of colonial amelioration in this country. They are, as those opponents declared they would do, visibly attempting, by such unreasonable and absurd pretensions, to undermine British au thority and monarchical representation in their noble territory. For our parts, we shall at all times exert our best efforts to resist the practical development of their mischievous theories, which are fast tending to an avowed demand for the institution of a Republic, whilst we can boast a Governor-General every way so calculated worthily to represent the dignity and to maintain the rights of it British Sovereign. The commencement of a new year naturally sug gests a retrospect of the old, and prompts us, with a mysterious impulse, which is one of the most irre pressible influences of human action, to speculate on the future—by the waning light of that which has just sunk, after its predecessors, into the abyss of time. But the phases of human institutions are so changeful in our days, that to reason on what is likely next to happen, merely on the analogy of what has already occurred, might prove as bootless a labour as to argue that the present system of our currency can be maintained until 1868, seeing that it has been up held ever since 1819 ; as if the fact that it has been endured for a quarter of a century last past, were sufficient warranty for concluding that it will be submitted to for a quarter of a century now next ensuing. History itself is fast losing her former distinctive privilege of teaching by example. Who will undertake to predict the fact, or the degree, of the settlement which the troubled affairs of the young States in the New World will be likely to receive within twelve months from this day ? What is there in the prosperous though tardy progress and consolidating resources in the empire of Brazil, to supply any solid basis of favourable expectations on behalf of Mexico or Peru, of Chili or of Centrat America, of Bolivia or the Argentine Republic? The United States themselves have acquired, in the course of seventy years of national independence, the attitude, the functions, the commerce, the political authority and foreign influence of a powerful maritime empire. Yet who shall answer for the continuous development of this strength, or even for the main tenance of its political integrity, considering the active elements of disunion which are incorporated in its ►naterial system by the opposing interests of the southern and the northern members of her Federation; the presence of an enormous and discontented slave population in its finest and most vulnerable terri tories; and the almost ridiculous laxity and feebleness of its domestic government, heightened, as the spec tacle of this weakness is, by the absurd and arrogant tone it assumes in negotiating with foreign Cabinets ? In the Old World do we find any more hopeful principles of permanency, abroad ? It is not without pain that we confess to the negative. If we look to France or to Spain, to Italy or to Germany, to Poland or to Naples, we perceive that elements of disturbance are at work, varied, perhaps, with the locality, in intensity, but still, of uncertain character, and unascertained modes of operation. In France the energy and vigour of the reigning Monarch, and the sagacity of his Ministers, have not been able to prevent an extensive and organised manifestation of personal attachment—not to say adhesion—to the re presentative of the exiled family, over the dismantled throne and broken sceptre of whose last Sovereign LOUIS PHILIPPE was elevated to the seat of supreme power over " the French" by the will of that nation. The party by whom this devotion to the person of the Due DE BOURDEAUX has so been manifested, in cludes not a few among the most distinguished public men of France ; and their devoirs to the young Prince were not only publicly, hut even ostentatiously, paid. What are we to infer of the morale of political character—at what are we to esti mate the force of public opinion—or how are we to rate the implied superiority of party over principle, in France, when we see that sort of direct and special homage which, in all other nations, is usually reserved for the Monarch de facto as well ag de jure (so far as the will of the people:, is equivalet*; to law), transferred from him, and carriedibt.the feet 4 of the Prince in question, in a foreign countrY;with' the purpose, more or less avowed by them, of sanc tioning his antagonistic pretensions to wield the authority now exercised by Louts PnturPi? . : In Spain (that restless volcano of potitiCaT ex plosions), in the course .of the last year, we have seen the Constitutionalists quarrelling among them selves, and the Executive divided into two . parties. We have seen the authority of the Legislature almost equally repudiated by both, and the intrigues of the Queen-Mother, from their Parisian centre, so ex sively spread and so adroitly managed, as finally to accomplish the downfal and expulsion of the Con stitutional Regent, to whom his country owed so much for a brief but healthy respite from the ravages of faction, and the Queen-Mother so large a measure of resentment and revenge for the bold and honest interposition of his authority to curb he'r hostile attempts upon the Constitution. ESPARTERO himself, one day besieging and bombarding the cities where but a few brief months before his popularity had been most enthusiastic and remarl{able—another a fugitive, in jeopardy of liberty and life, throwing himself on board an English man•of-war, and received into the hospitality o" this country as a private gentleman. Then NARVAEZ, who had been the main instrument of his overthrow and expatriation, by a successful application of those means of corrupting the fidelity of the army, to which the Regent's Government had not hesitated, in its earlier staves, to resort upon emergencies, elevated to almost dictatorial power; and the state majority of the youthful ISABELLA, Queen of Spain, anticipated as if by the acclamation of her entire people. In the very first days of her inde pendent sovereignty she complains to the assembled Cortes, that the Minister, friend and colleague of NARVAEZ, has presumed to press for her signature to a decree, with an importunity terminating in acts of personal violence, restraint, and insult : arid this Minister, OLOZAGA, denounced by NARVAEZ, after vain efforts to procure the Cortes to hear the whole of his defence, and after escaping from more than one attempt at his assassination, is in turn compelled to flee in disguise to the frontiers, and, by the:protecting aid of smugglers, establishes his residence within the Portugese territory. The moment of NARVAEZ' triumph and success is distinguished by a still more daring project for his assassination, by four armed men, in the public streets of Madrid, in open day. The project fails; but the assassins escape without even, as it would seem, any attempt on the part of the bystanders to arrest them. The new Commander-in chief, PRIM, appointed to the district of Barcelona, in return for the good services rendered to NARVAEZ and CONCHA by his cruelty and severities, is shortly replaced by Baron DE MEER, to whom he is so little disposed to act as second, that, by some accounts received in town yesterday, a most violent altercation is said to have taken place between them at Iligueras ; and in others it is affirmed that the Baron has actually been assassinated in the latter town. Is there in this chequered drama of last year, a single scene upon hich one can reasonably base any flattering anticipa tions of the probable condition of Spain in 1844 ? The troubles in the Papal States and in Naples (upon all of which, by the way, our information has been extremely meagre), alternately suppressed, in one quarter by military detachments, and breaking out in others with a force and combination which no military detachments at hand are strong enough to face — these are as questionable indications of tranquillity presently to be restored, as the coincident eruptions of Etna suggest the notion of future security and repose to the terror-stricken citizens of Bronti and Catania, around whom red-hot lavas are holding on their fiery course, and beneath whom portentous earthquakes are struggling to accomplish their work of 'ruin and de vastation. In the well-governed kingdom of Prussia, even, we have been grieved to observe how many causes of discord and animosity between the throne and some of the national institutions appear to have stealthily attained a formidable heading; and we cannot but feel an extreme anxiety that some well-intentioned, but possibly, indiscreet acts of the Monarch, in re ference to these affairs, may not have compromised his general well-merited popularity with his subjects. In Russian Poland the Emperor NICTIOLAS has been busy in enlarging the territorial deserts of his vast empire by the depopulation of towns, the desecration of homes, the annihilation of connexions, the extinction of all the charities of life—wherever these had existed in connection with that of the most important, and altogether the most industrious, classes of his subjects, namely, the Jews. Three hundred and fifty thousand of these people he has driven forth from the country, reckless of the destruction of property, the sacrifice of personal claims and liabilities, the personal suffer ings, the moral wretchedness, and the political (*re dation he has inflicted upon them—unconscious, perhaps, of, and certainly indifferent to, the deep and la;ting wound he has inflicted upon his own empire. Of that empire, with all its enormous extent and its resources, it may fairly be doubted whether it is in a condition to bear such visitation as well even as TUE SUN, L'ON'DON, TUESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 2, 11444 Spain, under the vigorous dominion of FERDINAND and ISABELLA, could meet the expulsion of her Moresco and Jewish subjects ; or France, under the most selfish and stony of her many tyrants, Louis XIV., could bear up against the losses and disasters she " realised" by his infatuated revocation of the Edict of Nantes. On all sides, then, we see many threatening aspects, without considering those which meet us at home, that cloud the first dawning of the new year. We trust that the wisdom of the Legislature will sedu lously apply itself to such adjustments of the diffi culties that beset our foreign and domestic policy and status, as may be calculated— if they cannot avert the storm that may impend in any quarter—to protect us at least from the more disastrous effects of its fury. Paris papers of Sunday, and Madrid papers of the 25th ult., were received at a late hour, having been retarded by the badness of the roads and the boisterous weather in the Channel. The Paris intelligence:they bring is not important. The Spanish Commissioners deputed by the Government to invite Queen Gums- TINA to Madrid having accomplished their mission, took leave of her MAJESTY on Saturday. The answer is all that can be desired by the party who ap plied. It expresses the pleasure she felt on receiving the invitation sent by Queen ISA.. BELLA and her Ministers to return to Madrid and to accept of the guardianship of the second daughter of the Infanta LOUISA, and her anxiety and readiness to accept the charge. She is to leave Paris for Madrid as soon as the preparati9ns for her journey are arranged. This, however, cannot be before the commencement of the month of February, at the very soonest. This is the answer which the Com missioners are to carry back to Madrid. They were to leave Paris on Monday. Another Legitimist Paris paper had been seized, making the fifth within five days. The Courrier Francais says the King of the NETHERLANDS has sent the Duke of BORDEAUX a pressing invitation to visit him at the Hague, and the Duke is to leave England on the 12th of next month. The King of HANOVER, the Emperor of RUSSIA, and the King of SARDINIA have also sent him invitations. The Courrier Francais asks if, see ing these matters, and also remembering the " Royal Reception" given to the Duke, it can any longer be be said that foreign Power's have amicable relations with France. We are mueh inclined to disbelieve these statements. On Sunday, at Tortoni's, the French funds, which on Saturday had fallen to 81f. 90c., opened at 82f., and afterwards rose to 82f. 10c., and finally closed at 82f. sc. buyers. The only intelligence from Madrid of the slightest interest is, that the Council of Ministeri had come to a definitive resolution to dissolve the Cortes, and were only waiting till they had received the neces sary authority from the Chambers to collect the taxes before putting the resolve into execution. There must be some mistake in the accounts from Southampton, that the China and India Maid had left that place on the Ist. The Post-office gives notice that it is not to leave for two days. We have had another heavy fall of snow in the night, and it now lies in niany4pl aces severatinctes 'deep. Both the -barometer and thermometer are - very low, and there is - every appearance of severe weather; LLOYD'S DA:Y.) LONDON, JA breeze. from- N. W-zanti.: fine. OFF SWANAGE, DEC. 28.--=Europe, grebik t gnetiee. .2' DARTMOUTH, DEC. 4 1 : 1 i4erdam, for Surinam. , • k OFF LOPH, D E : S . z. ,2,?...t 7 Zq . ej,144.... - dit l .;.l4earr ; Vftiita.,.4 9 l`? . 7 • BowsionE (IsLex), PREVIOUS TO DEC. 27.—Express, Campbell, Laguna. - • SHIELDS, DEC. 3q; , --the,Margardt and Jane, I - tender- son, of Neweatre,--which was laid On the Litnekihi with dam4ge, - litis been Tered anif:Ptdelkda; OFF. PERzANei,lsi.o: Scbiedatii, Seitult, Batavia, for Anasterchurk; Bonne Mere, St. pomingo, for. Rouen. . BRISTOL, JAN. 1.--Arrd. Nestor, Burrows,- Africa; LIVERPOOL; JAN. I.—Wind N.W , fresh.--Arrci. Ade laide, Miraulietti; annithopeside, MontreaL turd. off; Hope, Glasgow. - _ CORK, DEC. 30:--Arrd. Concord, St. Domingo, for Havre, master and eight men washed overboard, off Ber muda. Hercules, Londbn for New York, bore_ up from long. 27, with loss of a cookhouse, stanchionS, &c., in a gale. LIMERICK, DEC. 30.—Tbe Parmelia, Ross, towed into the Shannon in distress, has been taken to Scattery Roads, to repair. LONDONDERRY, DEC. 30.—ThaCreole, Clarke, hence to Mobile, has been towed in here dismasted; having been struck, by a sett on the 20th alt., lat. 56 long. 21, while lying to in a heavy gale. REDCAR, DEC. L—The Albion, from Boston to Stock holm, ran 'on the rocks off this place, on the' 30th ult., but was:got off the next tide. DEAL, JAN. I.—Wind W.S.W. and -N.W., strong. P.M. N. W., 'light airs.—Arid. Cheldyra, Wishart, Sydney ; Cuthbert, Young, Herideen, and William Gurney, Calcutta ; Thebe, Batavia, J. Henry Yates, Valparaiso .1 - Ocean, Wilson, Sierra Leone ; RaMbler, Demerara John Horrocks2 M'Lauchlan, Berbice ; Sandwich, Batter, St. Lucia; Minerva, Ogdren, Nassau; Concord. Cobb, Quebec ; Marmaduke, Wake, a.nd Pro mise, Bickford, Saguenay. Sld. Malacca, Madras; Quebec, New York. OFF MARGATE, JAN. l.—Parland, Gillespie, Cal cutta ; Chanois, Jay, Buenos Ayres. OFF DARTMOUTH, DEC. 2 9.—Coquette, Sierra Leone. FALMOUTH, JAN. I•—wind N.N.W., f res h b reezes .— Arrd. Black Nymph, London for Ascen s i on ; J o h n , d o . for Gambia ; Forester, do. for Tobago. Put back, Syd ford for Grenada ; Duke of Norfolk, for Tobago. MARKET NEWS.—(THIS DAY.) HAY MARKETS.S MITHFIELD.—Coarse Meadow Hay, 21 lOs to 31; useful ditto, 31 5s to 31 lOs ; fine upland ditto, 31 12s to 31 16s. Clover Hay, 3/ to 51. Oat Straw, 11 6s to Il 8s ; Wh e at _Straw, 1 8s to 11 lOs per l c ad. Both Hay and Straw met st very dull inquiry, at barely last week's quotations. CUMBERLAND.—Coarse Meadow Hay, 2/ 12s to 3135; useful ditto, 31 5s to 31.145 ; fine upland ditto, 3/ 15s to 4/ ; Clover Hay, 31 5 s to 4 / 16 s ; Oat Straw, 1/ 6s to 'll Os ; Wheat Straw, 1/ lOs xn 1/ 12s per load. A short supply, and a heavy trade. Prices about sta tionary. w HlTEctrArEL .—Coarse Meadow Hay, 2 l 5s to 31; useful ditto. 31 35 to 31 lOs ; fir,e upland ditto, 3/ 12s to 3/ 16s; Clover Hay, 3/ 5s to 51 5s ; Oat Straw, 1/ Gs to 11 83 ; Wheat Straw, 1/ 8s to 1/ lOs per load. Supply good, and trade dull at the above prices. COLOWI.A.L. The Colonial Markets re-.open to day, but there is but one public sale. There have been some small purchases of Ceylon Coffee, but nothing of moment in Sugar. The quantity of British Plantation Sugar landed last month at the East and West India Docks was 1,174 hhds 86 tierces 379 barrels, and there were taken for home consumption 4,204 hhds 399 tiereca 609 barrels. The stock'in the same place sis 10,155 hhds 1,449 tierces 2,007 barrels. TEA.—The market is rather steady. The stock on the Ist inst. in London was 28,525,000 lbs. We quote Congou ord to good ord to but mid Is to is ld ; Souchong good ord to but mid Is to Is 9d; good ord to but mid is lid to Is 2d; do. Hyson kind Is 4d to ls 9d ; Hyson good ord to mid is Ild to 2s 5d ; Young 'Tyson, Is 9d to 3s 2d ; Imperial, 2s 41 to 3s 3d; Gun powder, 2s Ild to 4s Gd. The stock of Company's Congou is 3,609 ehests. TA LLO W.—P. Y. C. is 41s Gd per cwt on the spot, and Town 42s 64 per cwt. TOBACCO.—In Virginia, sales have not exceeded 120 hhds, the principal part of which have been old tobacco. Kentucky leaf and stripes a few limited sales have been made in both sorts, and in the former at 31,( 2 d per lb below last month's quo tations. In Havanna leaf a fair extent of business has been done, and descrirtions of good quality suitable for fillers, have been said at an advance. Havannah Segars, of good quality, have been in request, and parcels have been sold at improved rates. In St. Domingo very little has been done. Stalks have In CoculNEA L h as b een been in very go o d d emand, but at present th e mar k e t i s we ll supplied, and parcels may b e o bt a ined at rather lower rates. Innteo has been exceedingly di ffi cult to sell. LAC //Ira has fallen off in t he d e mand for home use, and the stock in hand is very lar ge. and exportation. fair SALTPETRE h as been inrequest , and prices fully sus tained. good demand, both for home use NIT RATX OF SODA has gene off very slow l y . BR I NISTONE r ema i ns without alteration i n pr i ce . num.—The qu an ti ty landed last mont h at th e E as t an d W es t India Docks wa s 321 Puns, 43 hhd3 • there were taken for home consumpti on 1,1 77 puns, 107 hih, and exported 2,066 puns, 163 hhds. Th e stock in the same p l aces i s 13 , 285 puns , 2,074 hhds. COAL ET Ships arrived sin MARK mar ce last ket.day, 60, Diddle's West Hartl ey d. Davison's West Hartley 16 6 Hastings Hartley l6 6 New Tantield Mo or 14 0 Ord's Redheugh l4 6 Pontop Wind50r .....,.,, , 14 0 Ravensworth West Hartley 15 6 Taylor's Hartley., 15 6 West l6 0 West Wylam ................. 15 3 Wylam 15 3 Walls End ClarkandCo l5 6 Walls End * l o:forth Walls End Heat0n........,, 18 0 Walls End Hilda ............ 17 6 a. d. Walls End Hotspur ; ,17 3 Walls End Killingworth l7 6 Walls End Riddell's l7 9 Walls End Haswell 20 6 Walls End Hetton t.so Walls End Pemberton 18 3 Walls End Russell's Hetton 19 0 Walls End Stewart's '2G 3 Walls End Caradoc 2O s Walls End Adelaide Walls End Brown's DeanerylB 9 Walls End Seymour Tees l9 0 Walls Et,d lees °l9 6 Cowpen Howard's W. Netherton )5 F SEEDS Per Quarter New English TtediClover...3s, 5 8 , 1 PRICES a Per Cwt. New White C hover,, ses Os Old Ditto Ditto --s - -s 8 Rye Grass. ...... .......--, CBB 40s New Foreign Ditto. —s 35 54 0 ss —s —s —s Old Ditto Ditto —l, —8 —s Linseed, for feediu, ..—s 54s 566 ilti.ttFoe,info.: .. .. ...._..... ...... ..... s 28. 46! owing .......—s tas C6i Old Ditto Ditto ---s 3 —s'Ditto, for crushing ....—s slls 5.31 New Trefoil Old Ditto —s 12s 2.lB'Hemp —2 als 42s —, •—s —s'eanary --s 603 rifs fr,foliurn ... ............ ...—s —.l — B l Per Bushel English Carraway ......— s 4 0s 4i Foreign Ditto --3 4011 46s'Ilt own Ditto lOs Od to 14 s Psi Coriander White Mustard 10 s Od to 12 s Od —5 14s 208,Tares ...... 4s Cd to it 4 The Marquis of Hastings, we learn, is suffering from protracted illness at Southampton, where the Noble Marquis, accompanied by the Marchioness, has arrived from Bournemouth, within the last few days, SUMMARY OF NEWS AND Vubltr Optittott. " TVho runs may read." FOREIGN. The French mail brings the intelligence that the ex- Queen Regent of Spain had accepted the invitation of her daughter and the Council of Ministers to proceed to Madrid. She was to set out as soon as domestic circum• stances would permit. The present-Cortes are to be dissolved as soon as the Ministers have obtained their authority for the collec tion of the taxes. Sir Charles Metcalfe, the Governor-General of Canada, has prorogued the refractory Provincial Parliament. Senor Olozago has taken refuge in Portugal, having entered Castello Branco on the 19th ult. The autho rities immediately communicated with the Lisbon Go vernment, who dispatched orders fur his reception with the attention due to his exalted rank. The funeral of Louis Brune, of Rouen, whose death we announced a few days ago, took place on Wednesday. The hearse was followed by an immense concourse of persons of all ranks, by detachments of the national guards and of the line ; the deceased having been a member of the Legion of Honour, by several deputations of Freemasons, &c. On the same day was buried at Rouen, one of its most distinguished citizens, M. Bouctot, who has left by will 100,000 f. to the hospices, 100,000 f. to bureaux de bienfaisance, and 100,000 f. to other public establishments. The Houston Telegraph (Texas) intimates that a large majority of Members of both Houses of Congress are in favour of the annexation of Texas to the United States. That paper, in "speculating on this subject, says that " notwithstanuing the indirect admissions that have been made by the intimate friends of the executive, that he is opposed to :►nnexation, we are still confident that he really desires that the measure may be effected. He may be restrained by some secret pledge to the British Government, from openly advocating the measure, but if a proposition were to be offered on the part of the United States to renew the negotiations for annexation, we consider it certain tha the would accede to it with joy." A letter from Ragusa, Dee. 4, states that shocks of an earthquake continue to be felt every day more and more sensibly. On the above day a violent shock took place at half-past four in the morning, and roused up all the inhabitants. It was followed by a number of lesser shocks. Accounts from Monte Video of October 18, state that the town was still besieged - and blockaded, that Admiral Brown had sent notice a day or two previously to the different Consuls, and that it was his intention to enforce the blockade. The Brazilian Admiral had received orders to acknowledge the blockade, but the misunder sta.nding between Brazil and Buenos Ayres, had not been het:Jed. LAW AND POLICE. At the Stafford Assizes on the3olttit Samuel Fel lows, aged 19, Robert Purslow, 21, John Perry, 18, and Daniel Webb, who were acquitted at a late hour on Thursday night of the murder of Mary Jane Wild, were indicted for assaulting the unfortunate girl, with intent to commit a rape upon her, and found guilty. The Judge Kr. Baron Rolfe, sentenced them to 18 months' im prilsomnent with hard labour. Joseph Parnell, a respectable-looking man, and by trade a butcher, was indicted in the New Central Criminal Court for marrying. Mary Ann Maria Wood, on the 16th of January, 1839, his wife being then and now living. The.jury returned a verdict of guilty, with a recommendation to mercy. Mr. Commissioner Bullock said that he would not, for the sake of his children and hits wife, to whom he had made some reparation, inflict a long imprisonment. The sentence was imprisonment for three calendar months. At Queen-square police-court, James Strachan, a well-dressed young man, was committed on a charge of inducing children of a tender age to issue counterfeit At 'Marytebone, 9,.o l7 s4ill* . pigre:ll;ad3reiV e l:Orati: s: two Tcanal boatmen, .W.firo , ihpirgetf4f.itli.improper conv - , 4 44 . -t4varits;a Married: w„oniali:beqviattOGA.44 401*aro ;ef-age; cOmmf4i,tigibrutal assault Upon :Ler when she remonstraipt, , The former, was ordered pay 4e:of 514.0 d tb - clito;44W.-4163gagiable to jay thu e lktgo At Waioliktoh, ,1400.130 - 13it*. t9'froilialtlpos:t trrepraa -"ilpt-We6tni4.ll':-Nvas charged wit ffrpfn gtWatestl'iltdeS„''fi•oin e'`eapecta lity o song 's frik4lo l :, 'and lie . being *the la§t personlo,4e.us.- , "pifetedfir dying on, tlni:,-systematic_sort of ail finder.: ite was at the same: time charged withitteleptl i ng,:,tot utter couaieifeit Coin. "AfteN , leveral witnesses had l - i tbe . .Wptfate, said was_kirnßt,froKaffie_ - urdpfnrallolicitapon ofltase present to dZalle`mentli3eritlk: the ease, he Shopfd.detiaedly oorAraitshim for-trial, as it ilookied ike a regular system carried on,, by. him,- and ait 3e,7cATE434, as the, party. Lrmil#houlit gne-hinp, th*...-. - t ioiglieStwponalty , tbe law aftowed, 'thaik.Was dotht*tito_zbe , cointnittech to-Maidstone suolfor:one.month andloaakl Tabour: - • : tue..43rO4rip, "after disposing of the night cliarge at' the'lliantesrPolice-office, remarked. that phe'amexidmppt inl4jiaPlts'ind;rnannera of the people :Of was-Very siWiiing. A: bight a. of the pid year and the coming in of the new one—had just taken place, and Sunday had' also intervened,, but the,re.iy-nte, only, four cases of" drunkenness ;. 'notiu , Of them . weria . -"attencicd ; with' violence and disorder,, and they wOro:4644,o:94naiy.clecription: • It was &great antend ment-indsoed. the district to which tho. Magistrate re-: - ferred-'ensvpi-ivos a populutiou, of loo,oun persons, in cludingShadwell, Limehouse, Poplar, and St; G_ eorge's- . . in=the-East, whire sailors most do congregate. The Duke: of Bordeaux 'arrived at - Plyinoulh from" Ugbitiok on the 30th ulf., where he would remain till th© lb:1161%11g; day in erjer to inspect the establishments of that port. . . The Duke .diCambridge is at present at Dean-park, on a Visit to the Bail of Cardigan. The Duke asid Duchess of Sutherland and family fire, detained in town by the ;serious illness Of their infant son. In consequence of alarming symptoms having pre sented themselves an Saturday, several physicians were called in, but subsequently, we hear, a change, consider; ably for the bettir, has taken place. A's soon as the infant hiss TeeoVered the Duke and Duchess go'to Tren thttirr.' The, Duke and Duchess of Montrose are entertaining a large party at Sulby Hall, Northamptonshire. The Countess 9f. Jeney and Lady Clementina Villiers join the circle, to-day, • and from thence wilt go to Belyoir Caste. the Earl and Countess of Brownlow intend to have much, company at Belton House, near Grantham, during this month. The Countess of Jersey, Lady Clementina Vitliera,and a numerous circle, meet there early in the next week.- Viscount and Viscountess Dungannon arid the Hon. Miss 'lrvine left Grafton• street yesterd a y f or Southamp ton ;intending to embark there for H avre . Th e Vi sm i nnt and Viscountess purpose remaining abroad some months. The- Earl Of Penbroka intends to .pass the winter in Paris, and does no contemplate returning, to this coun try until the close of March. The Dowager Countess Fortescue has been surrounded by-a numerous family circle at Wear Gifford, Devon, during the last week. Earl and Countess Fortescue, Viscount Ebrington, Lord and Lady Courtenay, Hon. Mr. and Lady Anna Maria Courtenay, &c., are staying NVith the venerable Countess. Lord Beaumont has returned to Carlton Hall, near - S'elb3',. Worn Burton Constable, the seat of Sir Clifford Constalde, near Ilull. • . the Marquis of Salisbury has, during , the last week, had a succession of guests at his fine. old seat in Hefts, atriong whom were the Earl and Countess of Essex, Coiintess of Jersey, and Lady Clernentina Villiers, Lady A.. Capel, Lord and Lady De Hos and Honourable Miss Da H.os, Sir Henry Hardinge, Lord Polworth, Earl of . Lord Goderich, Viscount Mahon, Lord Sandys,;&c. • E • MISCELLANEOUS. • _ _ _ 1 1 On Monday the usual distribution of the Royal bounty to the poor of 'Windsor took place in the new Riding School. It consisted of meat, bread, plum-pudding, and ' blankets ; in addition to which the numerous recipients of her Majesty's and the Prince Consort's seasonable benevolence were each presented with tickets to receive (in proportion to the extent of their families) at the establishments of the respective tradesmen, ale, potatoes, and coals.. The ,provisions were distributed among 186 families, having at an average about three children each. The standing army of the United States is the smallest in the world, for a population of 17,000,000 of people -7,590 men ; including non-commissioned officers, dra goons, musicians, and artificers, probably 8,600. The army estimate for the year will fall short of last year nearly 100,000 dollars, and a reduction of several im portant offices is recommended, together with remount ing a regiment of dragoons for the frontiers. The number of visitors to the Tower, during the Christmas week, was,., to the Armouries 911, and to the Jewel-office 711. Total amount of proceeds 40/. 1 ls. Among the visitors - were a considerable number of foroigners. -When the Duke de Bordeaux, says the Cheltenham Journal, visited Badininton, he was accompanied by three Foreign Dukes. 'The party went out hunting with his Grace the Duke of Beaufort on a misty day; and at last all the five Dukes were lost in a fog, in five different places, near Didmarton 1 Will Long 's horn was sounded, but in vain. Ultimately the lost Dukes found their way to Badminton. According to a report made by Mr. Braidwood, the number of fires and alarms which have happened from Jan. 1 to Dec. 31, 1843, at which the engines of the establishment have been called into requisition, amount to 901. It further mentions that the fires, by which premises were totally destroyed, number 298, buildings considerably damaged, 231. For several weeks the opening of the Atmospheric line from Kingstown to Dalkey has been interdicted by the Lords of the Treasury, owing to the remonstances of parties owning property on the line. Mr. Walker, the eminent English engineer, has arrived in Dublin, having received instructions from the Government to hold an in quiry On the subject. Mrs. Waller, says the Leinster Express, is out of danger, and recovering, though slowly. There are some persons in gaol on suspicion of being concerned in the massacre. Two men are missing from the locality of Finnoe - ; they are supposed to be the two who were wounded, and that they will not return, if they ever do so, until their wounds are healed. THE LATE EARTHQUAKE IN THE CHANNEL ISLANDS. —lt appears from the Guernsey Star of Thursday last, that the shock of an earthquake, which was felt in Guernsey oti the afternoon of Friday week, had been also experienced in Jersey and the island of Alderney nearly at the same time. It had not been felt on the French coast. MONEY AND COMMERCIAL NEWS CITY, QUARTER 7'O THREE. The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were about 14,000 bales, at prices id. per lb. higher than on Friday. Speculators took 6.000 bales. The sales included 400 bales of Surat, at 31d. to 4d. ; 1,500 Egyptian, at bid. to 7d.; and the rest American at 4id. to 6d. per lb.— Shares had a further tendency to improve, and a large business was done. Eastern Counties were 108 to toi Birmingham, 236 ; South Western, 77 ; Manchester and Leeds, 1014; North Midland, 90; Paris and Rouen, 328; Rouen and Havre, Ili ; South Eastern, 36 ; Paris and Lyons, 3/. 3s. 6d.; Paris and Orleans, 34f. By a late arrival from Sydney we have accounts to-day to the 26th August last. The trading advices are not by by any means so favourable as could be wished. Though the depression in trade had been very considerable, still the estimate of the revenue of the Colonial Treasury had been exceeded by actual results. We have Rio de Janeiro letters and papers this morn ing to the 4th of November. Their contents are of little interest. We do not find any allusion to the negotiations of M. Ribeiro at the Court of St. James's, as respects the treaty that expires in the present month. In tho Stock markets to-day a considerable amount of business has been transacted. In addition to the 10,0001. of the Three per Cent. Reduced Stock taken yesterday, and announced under this head, a further sum of 10,G001. was bought on account of terminable annuities, thus making the investment 20,0001. The Commissioners took about the usual amount this morning in the Three per Cent. Reduced Annuities at 978. Consols for Account opened at 97 to 978, have since been quoted at 971, and are now at 97*. The premium upon Exchequer bills is at 645. to 695. premium; and upon India Bonds at 78s. to 80s. Bank Stock commands 1854; and the Three and- a-Half per Cents. are 102! to 102+. It is assumed in the City that the reply of Lizardi and Co., is of no more favourable a character than the com munications heretofore received from the Mexican agents, and a rise must be noted in the stock of the Republic to 324 and 33 ; the present value is 33. Spanish Three per Cent. Bonds have flactuated from 31 to 31! ; the Actives from 23* to 22+-; Dutch Two-and-a-Ralf per Cents. from 54+ to k ; the Five per. Cents. from 991 to • and Colombian from 11! to * ; Brazilian are at 73!. Shares are brisk and advancing. Eastern Counties 12k to 12 ; Great North of England 14+ ; Brighton 64 to 5* ; Blackwall 10*, 68,, to 61 ; Manchester and Bir mingham # ; Midland Counties 12+ ; North Midland9A-; and South Eastern 12! to discount. Edinburgh and Glasgow are 9 ; Great Western 334 to 34i ; ditto New 20 ; Hull and Selby 11 ; South Western 34* to 34i ;. Croydon 1 ; Manchester and Leeds 32 ; Northern and Eastern 8 ; Paris and Orleans 14* to 14 ; Rouen and Havre 6 to + ; South Eastern Scrip. 111 to 12 ; Yar mouth and Norwich 3k to 4 ; and York and North Mid land 70 premium. Colonial Bank shares are 11 discount. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. (From the Official List.) Bank Stock 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 3/ per Cent. Annuities, 1818 . lO4 3i per Cent. Reduced Annuities ..... Long Annuities, Expire bth Jan. 1860 ...12j Bank Stock for Account . Consols for Opening Exchequer Bills, 14d. lbd. 10001. 500/. Ditto Small FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Belgian Bonds, 5 per Cent .. .. 1031 i Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent. Mexican Bonds, 1837, s . pee Cent.......- .. 33 Ditto for the Account Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent — Ditto Converted Spanish Bonds, Five per Cent. Ditto for the Account - ' ' 23bi 22i - Ditto Passive Bonds ....: .•. . . ' sb Ditto Deferred , •7• A 12 Ditto Three per Cent. ... .... ........ 3lbi 31 Ditto for the Account' ~. .. .. 3113 31 Dutch 2b per Cent , ... b4 4 i ' Dutch 5 El:Cent. ~ .. , •:••••••2"rpfftArl.•9•9'4 0 4 , ,' .. -- : '....,....r.•-. K -9. - ..., ....-•-•••,t•ittiV 7 ."-"*.! . - '2• . r . - --044aetA,Tw4' . Tz4T 0;1E. , k ir 7•1: , ,;:s; , --' ,, 7 4 4 4'4 , 4,404.4.„,,. ,t. Ow* ' 441 441 , 7444.AiwAiA1r.5ci . .4, — ,47 - :, , ;..".. to:; - AF L . .t...*:t.ii...74 .., ;;c: - .#4 7. ,...-... r .66i :6 146 ° ' 4.4 .-V.kitill:NOOPYAki64- .. .. ; •';,491i,..t9,•k1y. at e - • ",: c . - • 4*"..4,0ia5.• . ~.,.ti..1. 3 1 1 • ~.. -;• -. 1)0•" -; ;;;.'4 '. .T','.. 4beiwie - 1464;2 7 ' •. '' .tO ' ~..4:7 11, W.A' ~...;.- . lsfiti6_ a - tittit.....:..,•••81; ge::8 - 7' ' l - 4 nburigli :and- Glasge*, 40.. ......-.:•••cri...,2 'to ....._ (: r " . '' '''' ' .- ''' 41 4 411. '',l'fr77-72 ' . : ' . • ' ' '' ' '' . ; 4o ll-'9 */ ; ;":4 0 :W 7 . ',, .. , Atoi : ...4., - :3 °0ct7 0 ,.. . - . 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The plaintiff craS .a ',carpenter, residing at Camden-"town, and tledefendant a surge on , holding a com mission in her Majesty's Royal Napi., In the early part of the year 1839' thedefendant Was,carrynag on his professional busi ness in Chapel-place,: Ventonville,, and the suin claimed was allekeit tOte'dtie' for 'fitting* up his surgery, .and doing,various rjobt of . cargenter's work About Abe wen:Uses, For:the - defence, several witnesses were Called to prove that part of the 'amount : had been paid at various times, and the balance tendered and refused.. The Ail, however, returned verdict for the plaintiff. CRIMINAL -COURT.-(THIS DAY, OLD COURT (Before the' EconnEn. Samuel M. Trreiderire and S a rah' Thrimpspn deliver e d them ,. VS take-their 'trial for .e to defraud the creditors of a 'bankrupt named . Bncori, • and conceali ng some money an - d`goods: Mr. Clarkson and Mr. Bodkin conducted the prosecution. 'phis prosecution was instituted by the assignees of a bank rupt named Bacon, under the following circumstances :—ln September last Bacon became a bankrupt, and his wife had, according to her own statement, accumulated, during ten or • eleven years previously, a-surd tif 3001., of which her husband had no knowledge. This money she placed in a portmanteau, and, when the bankruptcy took pace; she sent her son with the portmanteau to the lodging of Vendean, in Montague-street, who took the lodgings for. the purpose of better concealing the property, he having a house in John-street, Brick-lane. After the issuing the fiat, these facts came to the knowledge of the assignees, in consequence of a quarrel arising between Mrs. B ac on, the defendant Thompson, her sister, and the other prisoner Vendean, who was also a near relative of kers. Mr. CLARK S ON said the prosecutors thought they owed it to the public to institute the prosecution, but he owned that they were not able to prove the removal of the goods, or that they were in the possession of Bacon. previously to the bankruptcy. . The son also, who conveyed the portmanteau, was said to be insane, and was not in court. Indeed it was very doubtful that Bacon was not a party to keeping back his son, and they bad no proof with regard to the 3001., except the statement of Mrs. Bacon. __• _ Mrs. Bacon was called, and reiterated the facts disclosed in the statement of Counsel, but the story seemed so i m p ro b a bl e to the jury, that they at once acquitted the defendants. NEW COURT. (Before Mr. Commis,ioner BULLOCK.) George Andrews was indicted for stealing, on the 20th of last month, a coat of the value of 35., and divers copper and silver coins, the property of George Batchelor, his master. The prisoner was found Guilty, and sentenced to be impri• coned in the House of Correction four calendar months. John Dockerty and Charles Simmons, were indicted for stealing, on the 16th of December last, in St. Giles, Cripple gate, a drum of figs, the property of John Atkins. The prisoners having been found Guilty, Dockerty was sentenced to be imprisoned three, and Simmons six, calendar months. John Kettle was indicted for stealing.a quantity of copper be longing to the West India Dock Company. The prisoner was employed as a messenger by the Dock Com pany. It was stated in evidence that some copper having been found net of its place, an assistant fireman was set to watch it, and whilst he was doing so, the prisoner came to the spot and took some away with him. On his being searched more was found upon him, but a piece produced in Court was found at a few yards distance, The copper could only be taken away in small quantities. The Jury, after a few minutes deliberation, returned a ver dict of Not Guilty. Elizabeth IV Milian was charged with stealing a necklac e of the value of 145., the property of John Thurlow,her master. —Not Guilty. James Thompson was found guilty of stealing one hamper of the value of 25., and 142-bottles of the value of Bs., from the wharf of John Humphrey, Esq.—To be imprisoned six calendar months. George Wood was indicted for stealing, on the 19th of De cember, in the parish of St. Sepulchre; one coat, the property of Isaac Solomon. —Not Guilty. POLICE INTELLIGENCE BOW-STREET -(THIS DAY.) A man dressed in the garb of a porter, named Jame, Wright, was brought up before Mr. Jardine charged with as saulting Mr. John White, of Knightsbridge. The complainant stated that he was passing down Constitu tion-hill last evening, between six and seven o'clock, when he met the prisoner and another man. As soon as the prisoner saw the complainant he commenced staggering, pretending to be drunk, and stumbled up against the witness, and imme diately struck him a most violent blow in the mouth, whereby his lip was dreadfully cut. The complainant immediately seized the prisoner, upon which his companion commenced striking the witness, and would have succeeded in rescuing the prisoner had not a policeman fortunately come up at the time. The prisoner was not drunk, and his ( witness) firm opinion was, that a highway rubbery was intended, Mr. JARDINE lto the prisoner)—What do you say in answer to the charge? Prisoner (sullenly)_Nothing. Mr. JARDINE said he had never beard of a more brutal as sault. It was was a most suspicious occurrence too, for a sober man could not commit such an unprovoked assault without some motive. It was not, however, for him (Mr. Jardine) to say what that motive was. He should fine the prisoner for the assault in the full penalty of 51:, or in default of payment commit him for one month to hard labour. In default of payment the prisoner was committed. CLE iIIKENWELL—(THIS DAY.) Thomas Iloven was charged with stealing a quantity of va luable books, the property of Mr. Richard All en S pr i ng, book seller, No. 106, Great Russell-street, Bloomsbury. It appeared from the evidence that on the previous evening the prisoner went into the shop with a letter with no addresa in it, and said he had been sent by Mr. Hodson, a gentleman living opposite, to request that Mr. Spring's clerk would writ o the address ; his wife had just lain in, and his sister was dead, and between both he was in a perfect agony of mind. The shopman said he would write the address, and was doing so when the prisoner, who had his back to the window, with one of his hands, secreted several books on his person, stuffing the larger ones between his coat and his back. The prisoner ban very nearly succeeded,:as it was then twilight, but Mr. Hodson came into the shop, and discovering the robbery, called n policeman and gave the prisoner into custody.—Committed. MURDER OF JOHN ARDELL. INQUEST ON THE BODY. On Monday we gave an account of the murder of this unfortunate servant of Mr. Walker, of Rodeen. Th e place of the murder is about a quarter of a mile fro' the scene of the Finnoe massacre. There was only one witness examined at the inquest, the widow of the de ceased. The resident magistrate, T. Brereton, Esq., di d not consider it necessary to examine any more ; and the foreman of the jury, Rowers P. Cashel, Esq., said that it would not be safe to submit any witness to the ordeal of a public examination. He would feel it his duty to examine witnesses, were: he on an inquest in any other county but Tipperary. Before the arrival of the Co roner, there was not even one man or boy to be seen about the house of the deceased ; there were a feW women sitting with the corpse. The Coroner had to bring his jury principally from Borrisokane, a distance of nearly two miles. There were in attendance—Edward Waller and John F. Waller, Esqrs., the sons of the late lamented Thomas Waller, Esq.; Thomas George Stoney. Esq., brother-in-law to these gentlemen ; Thomas Brereton, Esq.. R.M. ; P. Carroll, Esq., County I" Spector; and, amongst others, Mr. Marshall, the eminero Limerick auctioneer, who had been in the locality, enter ing into arrangements for the purpose of selling off the furniture and moveables at Finnoe House. The jury being sworn by James Carroll, Esq., Coro ner, the widow of the murdered man deposed that he r husband, the deceased John Ardell, was in the employ of Richard Joseph Faikiner, Esq., as ploughman and care-taker of the horses ; that on the 26th day of Pe* cember he was ploughing in the morning and taking eer e of the horses in the evening. He came home to 10 dinner at the usual hour, and left the house about one o'clock. He did not afterwards return until seven o'clock, when he was brought into her house murdered' He was brought in on a door between two men. 19 was at the time wounded, and unable to speak. He sur' vived about two hours and died. I heard his cry a short time before he was brought to the house. It was about four or five minutes. I saw where he was murdered. went out when I heard him cry, an d f oun d hi m lyinf forty or fifty yards from his own house. It is about he' a mile from this where the late Mr. Waller was iner, dered. My husband did not speak to me at all. found him lying upon his back and unable to spese. l He was immediately after removed into the house There is no doubt in my mind but he was waylaid hP some persons. Mr. Brereton here said, that if the widow's evidenc e , was sufficient to answer the purposes of the inquest, he would not offer any other witnesses for examination. 4, Mr. R. Cashel (foreman of the jury)—l did not lily to a,,k the question, if he had a dispute with any person; If I was upon an inquest in an y o th er coun ty, I Wool do it, but it would not be safe f o r an y p erson hereto pg. the question. I would rather leave it for •private eiln e mination. Mr. Brereton, R.M.—I would rather not send sof more evidence. J. J. Stoney, Esq., M.D., proved that he examinei the body of the dece a sed J o h n A r d e ll, an d th a t h e found a number of fractures on the left side of the head, and* depression of the fractured particles of the bone, causing a lacerated wound of the brain, and which had been in" flicted by som e h eav y blunt instrument, and which W 0 the cause of his death. Mr. Cashel—Our verdict is, " That this is a barbaron.,, and brutal murder by some persons unknown." A Juror—l think the wounds were inflicted by a Pits! 4:4 or guff, - Mr. Cashel—l never witnessed anything more savag e ', I did not think they would beat 'tt'dog in such a way I ' Mr. J. F. Waller—lt Is but in heathen coun t r i e s tbs,. they beat dogs in that manner, and o n ly in Christ* countries that they beat-men so brutally. n. • .4 PRI CES.) PRIES .) FUNDS. India Stock Ditto Bonds ....... Ditto Old. 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THEE RECENT FIRE AT LIVER PO OL.—WiI.e, thy man who fell from the building at Messrs. Branckett and was so much injured, though a fearful spectacle , . P , not dead ; he labours under concuss i on o f the brill!' injury of the spine, and many • other disaste_r; pitalyet hi e s nte m r e ta d i i n cal h a op tt e e s nda o n f ts h o is t th re e eo N re o r r y t . hern eas ki si D ., A w V i h th ite the rel m l, ed is iaa p l e o r ffi fee c A eo.. ; sensible, osibwie7 andin tihseablioertroy con 'h v e e n rse of the hospital. His recovery is almost a matter certainty. Jones is fearfully burnt ; he is wrapped ttQ in clothes, and looks like a mummy. Michael ' Eurussei t _ . who was carried home t o hi s f r i en d s , dreadfully burl i ) .; has been conveyed t o th e N or th ern Hospital, where lies,in a ver y p recar i ous state . N o d ou b t ex i sts as to O',PO fate of poor Woods ; that he is under the ruins is unhoi pily too tr ue . Th e o pi n i on o f th e surgeon at the Nort he r ` . _ , hospital is, th a t a ll hi s p a tient s w ill recover, notwitl standing their present state ; so th a t W oo d s, i t i s ho pe" will be the only victim. SUDDEN DEATH OF AN ARTIST.---Yesterday forty : noon an inquest was taken before Mr. Wakley, MX, 11 the Lord Wellington, University-street, Tottenha tlY court-road, on view of the body of Mr. Thomas Gibson; aged thirty-two, an artist of some celebrity, residing Carlisle, whose death took place under the followit melancholy c i rcums t ances: —l t appeared from the e % dente, that about a month s i nce, the deceased, who I'l a married man , w i t h a f am il y, arrived in town, for t, ,", purpose of execu ti ng two pa i nt i ngs for a nobleman w",l had sent for him, on the finishing of which he purpnt „1e returning h ome . He took a p artments at No. 32, in l': above-named s t ree t, w h ere he continued to reside k; perfect he a lth up to t h e t i me of his decease. On night of Friday last, about half-past twelve o'clock, the landlady of the house hearing the sound of low in 00394 interspersed with ejaculatory cries of " Murder," Pry ceeding from deceased's bed-room, hastened thither, it io on entering found deceased lying on the bed in m, ia clothes, in a state o f insensibility. Mr. E. Garlas surgeon, s a id t h at h e was sent for to attend the de. ceased, whom he found insensible, and a pp a rel% labouring under an a tt ac k o f apop l exy. Ile bled him the arm and jugular vein, taking away from him, si t() ; Bother, twenty-eight ounces of blood, but without any visible effect, and he died in less than two hours. PI had, with Dr. T ay l or, s i nce made a post mortem exalt: nation of the b o d y o f d eceased, and ascertained that immediate cause of death was extravasation of blood on the brain. Verdict—" Natural death." FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE BIRMINGHAM 01 : 0 GLOUCESTER RAILWAY.—O n t h e arr i val at Brornsgr°: station of the down train from Birmingham, about thir t y minutes past five o'clock on Wednesday evening, a I l e jacket, a n d b undle of sticks were found lying on t o buffer bar of th e eng i ne. This leading to the suspic',°,4 that some acc id ent had happened on the line, the 1 3 ,"; engine was instantly dispatched to ascertain the parne",:f lars ; and between Barnt Green (near the residence"; Mr. Maughan), and Crofton Hall (the residence of Penn), the body of a labouring man was found iyillgAwit tween the r a il s qu i te dead. The body was warm, a i r, 0 appeared the t ra i n h a d not passed over him, but "0, supposed th a t t h e b u ff er bar of the engine struck 010, in the b ac k , and that his hat, jacket, and sticks we a jerked at t h e same moment upon the buffer bar, 111:10 there remained until the engine arrived at the station . before menti one d . At the point, or nearly so, where ' 4841 0 „ accident took place, the up-train p isse d t h e down-trto and it is thought that that threw th e poor f e ll ow o ff guard.. The body was conveyed to the Malt Sho'l, Vigo, and t h ere lies, awaiting the Coroner's intl ll— is which will be held by Mr. Docker, at three o'clock I " se • afternoon. The poor man, whose name is Burm, about fifty-fiv e years of age, and in the employ of 00 , Lamb, one o f t h e contractors of the line. There was crossing within a m il e o f the spot where the acei d`e ht happen e d. I t was about forty-five minutes from , tu ue, , time of the acc id ent until the body was found.— Werces ter Herald. sm al l MILITAR Y INTELLIGENCE.—MAIDETONE.--4 sir a t detachMe n t o f ten men of the 7th Dragoon Greards,.:6hs this depot, under orders to join th e head-quaraers regiment at the Cape of Good Hope. Thr.: officers 141 .... will accompany th e d ra f t are Cornets Gore and B i r t h, bray, of the 7th. It is stated tklitt the clip& of the - lu te .. , Lancers, which was trar:skrred from Canterbury be , Maidstone i n Septelfner last, w ill, at an ear ly period,;,. ; removed fron-. 'ale last pl ace to B rompton Barrac ks. reason assigned for this change is, that the &O Maid s t one is insufficient f or accommodation of the 1111 a. e ben of men at present there, in addition to the U,rfis number of recruits required to reinforce the 3d Lig Dragoons and 9th Lancers in the Fat'