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Sl* WORK BY MRS. LEE, AUTHOR OF TAXIDERMY. On Thursday, Fcb. 15th, will be puLlished, 12m0., Woodcuts, ELEMENTS of NATURAL HISTORY, for the use of Schools and Young Persons : comprising the Prin ciples of Classification, interspersed with Amusing and Instructive Original Accounts of the most Remarkable Animals. By Mrs. LEE (formerly Mrs. T. E. Bowdich), Author of " Taxidermy,' "Memoirs of Cuvier," Ste. London : Longman, Brown, Green,7and Longman, THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY.LANE. THIS EVENING, FEBRUARY s Will , Ise performed Shalcspeare's (as altered by Cibber) of AICHARD lIL . Richardlhike ortikiator, Mr. Charles Kean; Doke of Buckingham, Sir. Cooper •; Duke of Norfolk, Mr. G. Serncettle; Earl of Richmond, Mr. Hudson ; Elizabeth, Mrs. Warner ; Duchess of York, Mrs. Selby; Lady Anne, Mrs. Stirling. Alter which, will be repeated a New Grand Comic °lndian Paneomime. entitled HARLEQUIN ANL) KING PEPIN ; or, VALENTINE AND ORSON. Harlequin, Mr. Howell; Colum.. Dime, Mist Carson; Clown, Mr. T. Ridgway ; Paataloort. Mr. Elanchard. Dress Boxes 75., Second Price Ss. 6d- ; Upper Circles of Boxes 55., Second Price Si. ;..Pit 3s , Second Price 2a.• Middle Gallery Si., Second Price Is. ; Upper Gallery Is., Second P rice Id. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN. M. JULLIEN'S CONCERTS THIS EVENING, FEBRUARY 5, Will be perfbrmed (first time) A Grand Descriptive FANTASIA, selected from Roch Albert's Opera, entitled THE DESTRUC TION OF POMPEIL The Programme will also embrace—. A Grand Fantasia from Don Juan. Salo, Bassoon, M. Baumann. Bole, Ophicleide, M. Prospere. The English Quadrille--Jullien. New Quadrille, The Irish Echoes—Jullien. Doors Open at Halt-past Seven, commence at Belt o'Clock. Promenade, Is Upper Bores, Is.; Dress Circle, 2s, lid . ; Private Boxes, 14 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, 5, Maddox-street, Bond.street. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. MK. BENJAMIN WEBSTER. LESSER RE-ENOAGEMENT OF MR. JOHN PARRY. THIS EVENING, FEBRUARY 3. Will be repeated the Comedy of THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR. Sir John Falstaff, Mr. Strickland; Muter Slender, Mr. C. Mathews; Mr. Ford, Mr. Stuart . „,_ Mr. Page, Mr. Howe; Fenton, Mr. Caulfield; Sir Hugh Evans, Mr. Webster • Mrs. Page, Madame Vestris ; Mrs. Ford, Mrs. Nisbett ; Mrs. Q uickly, Mrs. Glover; Anne Page, Miss Mattley. After the Comedy Mr. John Parry will sing his Descriptive Scene, entitled 4 . Blue Beard." To Conclude witiTaNew Fairy Extravagansa. entitled THE FAIR ONE WITH THE GOLDEN LOCKS! King Lachrymal°, Mr. J. Bland; Prince Graceful. Miss P. Horton ; ilueen Lucidors, Miss Julia Bennett. Orchestra Stalls, se. ; Boxes, ss. ; Pit. ?s. ; Gallery. 2s. ; Upper Gallery, Is. Half.price....)3oxes, 3s. ; Pit 25.; Gallery, IL ; Upper Gallery. Od. Doors opined at Half-past fix , and the Performance commence at Seven, 'rickets and Places to be bad of Mr I. T. Archer, at the Box— office, Item Ten till Five, THEA'I RE ROYAL HAYMARKET. Unprecedented success of " The Merry Wives of Windier," which will be acted. To-night, and three times a week till further notice, thus cast z—Sir John Falstaff. Mr Strickland ; Slender. Mr. Charles Mathews; Evans, Mr. Webster; Ford Mr. Stuart ; Page, Mr. Howe; CAiius, Mr. J. Bland; Pistol, Mr. Brindal; Mrs. Page, Madame Yestris; Mrs. Ford, Mrs. Nisbect; Dame Quickly, Mrs. Glover. The Lessee respectfully informs the Patrons of this Esta— blishment that Mr. JOHN PARRY will sing this Evening one of ids most Pbpular Songs—" Blue Beard." The New Fairy Extra. vaganse -of " The Fair One with the Golden Locks." Every Evenino—Grraceful. Miss P. Horton ; Lucidora, Miss Julia Ben. nett. To—marrow (by express desire) " The Little Devil,"and a New Drama will be produced, called " Used Up." 1. T. ARCHER, Box-book Keeper. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. The Best Pantomime of the Season—Gorgeous Scenery. THIS EVENING, FEBRUARY 5. Will be pioduced, by permission of Chariest Dickens, Eaq.„ THE CHRISTMAS CAROL Principal Characters—Messrc 0. Smith, Wright, Lyon, Maynard, Forman, Miu Woolgar. Mrs. F. Mathews, Miss Chaplin, and alias Lee. After which, a New Play, in Three Acts, entitled JUDITH OF GENEVA. Principa l Characters—Messrs. Lyon, Wright, 0. Smith, Miss Chaplin, and Mrs. Yates. To conclude with the Grand Christmas Pantomime. called HAR LEQUIN BLUE BEARD; or, The Fairy of the Silver Crescent. Produced with Enormous Splendour and Wonderful Meets! 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; Pants WO. Mr. Juhnstooe. PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. • LESSEE, Mr. J. M. MADDOX. THIS EVENING, FEBRUARY 5, Will be performed LA SO NNAMBULA. Amina, Mrs. Wood; Lisa, Miss Grant; Elrinn, Mr. Wood. To conclude with the New Musical Burlesque Spectacle, entitled THE MAGIC MIRROR. Sing-Song, Mrs. H. P. 131'1181in; Poo. Pao, Mr. Paul Bedford; Sloe-Leat, Miss R. Isaacs. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE OF ARTS Under the Management of Mr, Batty, Proprietor. Triumphant Success of the Equestrian Novelties and Pantomime. 'THIS EVENING, FEBRUARY 5, Will be performed the Graad National Spectacle of THE BATTLE OF WATERLOO. Napoleon Buonaparte, Mr. Gomersal, his ori ginal character New Scenes in the Circle, and Unequalled:Feats of Horsemanship. To conclude with the Pantomime of HARLEQUIN TAM O'SHANTER. Acting and Stage Manager, Mr. W. D. Broadfoot. Stalls , 55.; Boats. 4g.; Urper Boxes.3s.; Fit, 2s. r Gallery, Is. ; Upper Gallery, Box-otfice open - daily from Ten till Four. Stag. Boxes, One Guinea ; Half-price to Ditto, Hall-a-Guinea. Private Boxes, Two G ineas; Half-price to Ditto, One Guinea. Half.price, Half.past Eight. DAYIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Enormous hit of " Stella Rittersdorf'—more crowded than ever— Increased attraction of the best Pantomime in London, overflow. ing with fun. THIS EVENING, FEBRUARY 5, Will be repeated a New Drama, entitled STELLA RITTERS DORF. Supported by Messrs. Saville, Hughes, Hicks R. Honner, Neville, Vale, Smith, Johnson, Lewis, estop, Mrs. R. Honner, Mrs. Daly. Mrs. Hughes, Miss Terrey, and Mrs. H. Vining. After which, A CHRISTMAS CAROL, by " Sos," with splendid Appointments. To conclude with 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 t and A E 1,0 U. Harlequin, Mr. W. H. Harvey ; Grotesque, Mr. Stilt ,• Clown, Mr. Fuller; Pante. loen, Mr. liawsins • Columbines (alternately) Miss M. R. Fair_ brother and Mite Sha;pe. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. THIS EVENING, FEBRUARY 5, , Will be produced THE GNOME OF THE GOLD MINES. supported by Messrs. Freer, Plants. Miss Vincient. &c. After which, THE FAIRY LADY ; or, The Cabinet of Bronze. To oonclude with HARLEQUIN LINCOLN LUCKY OF LA M. BETH ; or, The Three Slaters of Witch Willow Dell. Harlequin, Mr. Chapino ; Clown, Mr. Scarbrow ; Pantaloon, Mr. Morelli; Columbine, Mita M. Schmidt NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS. Having received complaints from many of our Subscribers, that they do not receive the THIRD EDITION of The Sun, containing the Debates in Parliament up to the latest hour of Post, as well as the Gazettes on Tuesday and Friday evenings, containing Military and other promotions, the Betting at Tattersall's on Monday and Thursday, &c. &c., this is to give notice, that if any irregularity occur in, future, it will be immdiately rectified by parties forward-. ing the names of the agents who supply them, to The Sun Office, 112, Strand, London. 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Morning 36 minutes after 2 I Evening .. 55 minutes after 2, .. .. .. .. . - l 0 ' . ;. 1 . 1 . . 1; ';;••• • 4 ' 4, 4, 41 , , , 1 . It . , . 7,,,,,,i: .i•ai .4 ........ Ji i ~,,.,. k .: tt i . 4 E I 4 A ... . ' Zo- ri''';...,, 4P - lON 11141411t0,- • .- 4 r . ' t, 1 ::, . - :',.. V." , : •ri7. • x o S ~ ' '-- ' NW, • ...- ~,_iik .. _ .. 411. , ~ .I.Jatielg, i, , •.' -4,- r. t ',.-...., • -1111; LONDON, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1944. Our Dublin Correspondent gives the following summary of the proceedings in the Court of Queen's, Bench, Dublin, on Friday : Mr. WHITESIDE resumed to-day at the sitting of the Court of Queen's Bench. He adverted at great length to the Arbitration Courts, and submitted that it was monstrous to make them the subject of an in . dictment, inasmuch as they were perfectly in accord :. macs with the spirit of the law of the land, and of - the COnititution. With respect to what had been chiiged against Mr. O'Commu., relative to the army,' 6.55.41 that the sum total of Mr. O'CoNNELL's obser- - . vationson that head was that sergeants ought to be pro moted . to commissions— , 4 doctrine which had been pro = pounded by a host of military writers—men high in station in the army; colonels and commanding officers. How, then, he asked, could Mr. O'Coreum be in dicted as a conspirator for disseminating the very same doctrines ? Much had been said about the use that had been made of SAURIN'S words by one of the . traversers. Why, those words were public property —they were the property of posterity, and why not use • them as such. It is now rather too late to prosecute Mr. O'Comisix for quoting those words, for during the last • 34 years they had been scarcely out •of his mouth. On the trial of Mr. MAoan, the then proprietor of the Dublin Evening Post", for libel in the King's Bench, Mr. O'CoNstELL, cited those very words in .the presence of Mr. Attorney-General SAURIN himself. &exam lis tened to the utterance of his own words, and did he stand up and deny that he had ever used them? Did he say that he regretted having so expressed himself, or that such language ought never to h ave been used ? No such thing. Mr. Attorney-General SAURIN sat by unmoved. The songs known as "The Spirit of the Nation" had been complained of, and one of them, "The Memory of the Dead," had been made the subject of an indictment. Why thus as sail what was but the impassioned outburst of a young and fervid mind in a moment of excitement ? Besides, had similar effusions not been published before ? Had not Sorrner and MOORE wiitten strong opinions in verse ? Could not the term violent be applied to some of the effusions of those celebrated men ; and yet was a prosecution their reward ? No ; one was made poet-laureate—the other was punished with a pension. The Learned Gentleman then pro ceeded with a powerful appeal to the jury to preserve the right of free discussion as they would their lives; and concluded a most powerful harangue amid the applause of the crowded Court. Mr. M'DowouGu then commenced his address to the Court, on behalf of his client, Mr. BARRETT, the proprietor of the Pilot newspaper, and contended that, if the speeches and articles published in that journal were fit subject-matter for a prosecution, Mr. BAR awn ought to have been prosecuted for a libel, and not for conspiracy. The following is a summary of Saturday's pro ceedings : At the sitting of the Court of Queen's Bench this morning, Mr. O'CONNELL addressed the Court briefly. He said he wished to state that, as the line to be taken by him would not be precisely that taken by the other counsel, and as he knew the materials which Mr. M'DoivouGH meant to use would occupy the Court the greater part of the day, be would ask their Lordships not to call on him (Mr. O'CoNNELL) on that day. He promised the Court that what he had to say would not occupy much time, and he would be enabled still further to condense his observations if he were not called on till Monday next. Chief Justice—Certainly, Mr. O'CoNNELL. Does Mr. STEELE m•an to address the jury ? Mr. O'CONNELL—NO, my Lord. Mr. M'DoNouou then resumed his address to the Court, by commenting on the various " monster meetings." With respect to the meetings at Baltinglass and Clontibret, he contended that there was no evi dence to establish anything like a charge of con spiracy, and as to the meeting at Tara, he submitted that the witness, whose evidence had been chiefly re lied on, Captain DESPARD, had been humbugged much in the same manner as Mr. TREVELLTAN, the author of the letters signed " Philalethes " in the Morning Chronicle had been humbugged by the carman, who told him that the letters G.P.0., marked on the mile stones along the high-roads were the initials of the words GOD preserve O'CortivELL. In allusion to the last of the "monster meetings," that at Mullaghmast, he told the jury that Mr. O'CON-. NELL was desirous, and endeavouring to repeal the Act of Union by legal and constitutional means, and he reminded them that [there was a large party in this country, and large societies, _.(the Learned Counsel alluded to the Protestant Operative Society, and the Conservative Association), that were equally anxious to repeal another im portant measure affecting the public interest, viz., the Roman Catholic Emancipation Bill ; and though the speeches and proceedings of those Societies were published from time to time in Saunders News Letter, there never was any question made of their right to seek the carrying out of their purposes by illegal _means. Why, he would ask, were not the members of those Societies indicted for conspiracy? The Learned Gentleman then proceeded at much length to advert to the peaceable nature of all Mr. O'ConNzLes proceedings. He pointed cut how fre quently Mr. O'CoNnELL had disclaimed everything revolutionary; and he laboured to impress upon the jury the perfect legality of the course which the Re pealers had adopted to effect their purpose. Mr. HENN next addressed the Court. He said he had been engaged, with Mr. SHEIL as his senior, as counsel for Mr. JOHN O'CONNELL, but that one of the traversers, Mr. STEELE, who had appeared first with out counsel, had selected him as his, advocate, and hence it was that it became his duty to address the Court and jury—a duty which, until lately, he did not think would have devolved upon him. The ques tion which they (the jury) were empanelled to try was, not whether the repeal of the Union was bene ficial or not to the interests of the empire—not whether the discussion of the expediency of repeal or otherwise was legal or illegal. That was not the question which the jury was empanelled to try; and he thought it necessary to say so, because he knew that the question submitted to their decision had been already, before the trials com menced, prejudged out of Court—because he knew that there was not an honest Repealer who had not already pronounced a verdict of " not guilty" in his own mind for the traversers, and because he equally well knew that there was not an honest Anti-Repealer who had mot, in like manner, pronounced a verdict of "guilty," both under an erroneous impression of what the question was that was submitted to the Court and jury for ti ial. For his own part, he did not hesitate to say, that he differed in opinion from the traversers on the question of repeal. He was of opinion that the repeal of the Union would be prejudicial to the interests of the empire at large ; and he claimed the right of holding that opinion—of en forcing that opinion by every legitimate means ; and if he found any great body of men agreeing with him in that opinion, he claimed the right of making known, by legal means, their sentiments on the question to the Government of the day, and the Minister who directed that Government. The right which the claimed for himself, he felt that he was bound to concede to others —nay, he claimed that right for the traversers now before the Court. 'The question, then, they were to try was not the legality of discussing the question of repeal ; but they were empanelled to try whether or not the traversers were guilty of the charge of conspiracy. The Learned Gentleman then defined what in law constituted a conspiracy, and proceeded to arg ae that there was no evidence what , ever to sustain that charge. He went through each of the counts of the indict ment severally, and contended that neither in law nor by the evidence could they be sustained. The Learned Counsel then directed his arguments to the particular charges againt his client, Mr. STEELE, and concluded a short but able address, by imploring the jury to show by their verdict, that in no country on the face of the earth might the accused calculate with more cei iainty of obtaining justice than in Ireland, and at the hands of a Protestant jury. The Court shortly after adjourned at four o'clock till ten on Monday (this day). Whatever may be said lor thought of the conduct of the Government officials in relation to, or during, the now pending trials—however the conductors of the prosecution may have disappointed the hopes of their principals, and proved unequal to the position in which they placed themselves, and incapable properly to discharge the duties which their position required —this much is quite certain, that never in the bright est days of the Irish Bar, was more brilliant powers of eloquence displayed ; more devotion and energy, combined with judgment and talent, exercised than on the present occasion,_ in behalf . of the traversers. The speeches made for the defence present a mass of oratorical beauty, of legal lore, and of logical skill un equalled. It is to the honour and credit of the Trish bar, that several of those who, in behalf ofthe traversers, have shown such identity of feeling with the accused, and who have so clearly and convincingly proved that no crime hai been committed or attempted, are yet in politics, and in religion, opposed to the clients whose cause they have so gloriously advocated. It is' de monstrated beyond a doubt, that the Irish bar, con tains many men in its ranks, who are now able to he the guardians of the liberty of the subject, and who are worthy hereafter to be the dispensers and the expounders of those laws, which can only be purely administered by men of clear minds and unclouded intellects. It is plain that there are hearts which beat as proudly, as devotedly, and as freely among the bar of Ireland as among the very first in the legal profession in this country. Mr. O'CoNNELL now alone remains to address the jury, for with Mr. HENN'S speech on Saturday the Counsel for the defence concluded. The mingled re lations in which Mr. O'CoNNELL stands throws an intensity of interest upon him which all the magnifi cent efforts preceding only tend to increase. It is the great Champion of Ireland pleading for Ireland — for his country—for his countrymen—for their right to proclaim and to discuss their grievances, and to endeavour, by peaceable means, to obtain redress. It is the Liberator of millions from the ban of exclusion on account of religion, contending for the rights of those millions to the possession of equal laws, equal justice, and equal freedom from civil disabilities— to the same franchises, and to the same enjoyment of Parliamentary privileges as their brethren of Eng land ; and pleading, and contending for the right to seek these ends by every peaceable, and every legal means. No feelings for self can, or will, mingle with the enthusiastic devotedness that O'CONNELL will throw into his country's cause; the man will be sunk in the patriot; all thoughts of private conse quences will be merged in public considerations, and Ireland alone will be his client. But to -those who look upon the man, who know what he has done, who know how eagerly the bloodhounds of Ire land thirst for his conviction, the position in which he this day stands at the bar of his country, is one of the deepest interest. May Heaven direct the jury in their verdict—may they show that an Irish and a Protestant jury, can yet give justice to a fellow-countryman although a Catholic —may they show that they can decide upon the case before them without bias, and in conformity to their oaths. Whilst with us, they may believe that a repeal of the Union would not be a good to Ireland, let them not be led to declare the seeking of that repeal a crime, when all the evidence laid before them has proved, that peaceable constitutional, and legal means alone, have been used, to compass a legal end, namely—the repeal of an Act of Parliament, at the hands of the Parliament of Great Britain. In the debate which arose in the House of Com mons, on Friday evening, relative to the State Trials now pending in Dublin—to the conduct " and infirmity of temper" . recently manifested by the Irish Attorney-General in his squabble with Mr. FITZGIBBON—and to the affairs of Ireland in general— an incidental allusion was made to the Commission which has been discharging the very important duties confided to it, of examining thoroughly into the existing relations between Landlord and Tenant in that country. We are sorry to be obliged to confess that the tone and temper in which Mr. FFRENCH alluded to this body as the " White-washing" Com mission were in all respects emulous copies of the good taste and moderation so conspicuous in the defiance of Mr. Attorney-General Swim. It must have struck every body who heard Mr. FFILENCR'S com plaint that the " Head of that Commission and its Se cretary were Englishman," as a singular oversight in the Hon. Member, to have incorporated into his cata logue of the grievances, (those of English patronage more especially), under which Ireland really labours, —the best and most unexceptionable and least inter ested intervention which the Government has yet exercised on behalf of Ireland. Confident as we feel, under assurances given to that effect by the highest possible authorities, that the labours of the Commis sion must be productive of incalculable benefit to the agricultural peasantry of Ireland, and by the developement of all her great native re sources, to the market of her native labour we lament to see any Irish Member overlooking the admitted beneficial tendencies of this wise and salu tary appointment, for the sake of venting upon the Earl of DEvox and his colleagues a little of that atrabillious humour which may have been most un naturally excited by the deportment of other Minis terial functionaries in Ireland. In defending this Commission, Sir ROBERT PEEL said—" We appointed five Commissioners to inquire .into that most important subject—the relation be tween landlord and tenant—the state of the law and practice respecting the occupancy of land. The whole of the five gentlemen composing the Commission are proprietors of land in Ireland. It certainly was desira ble that one of the Commissioners should have a know ledge of the English law as bearing on the subject. There was a nobleman who was willing to undertake the duties of Chairman —a nobleman, a large proprietor in the south .west of Ireland, and who had been a Master in Chancery, and had had peculiar opportunities of ascertaining the law and practice touching the oc cupation of land in England." Now, these facts would certainly show a strong prima facie case for the nomination of Lord DEVON to the head of the Commission, were there no other recom mendations to be predicated of that noble in dividual, in the high attainments, the practical talents, the legal experience, and the business like habits which have always :distinguished him in private life, throughout his professional career, and ever since his entrance into the Legislature. Be sides, he is a popular and an "improving" Irish landlord, who is a frequent resident upon his Irish estates, and at such times a personal superintendent of their occupation, their farming, and ge neral management. Nor must the moral influence of his exemplary character in all the relations of pri vate life, nor the authority of his public reputation as a nobleman, enjoying the respect and confidence of all parties in the State, be set aside, as things in different to the justification of his selection, in this case, for the duties that have been delegated to him. After all, these are really not subjects for party feeling.. They should be sacred from the bitterness sad irritation that surround the purely controversial questions of contemporary politics. The inquisition into the vicious principles which—not one man in either of the two kingdoms attempts to deny—do, somewhere, exist, in the relation of landlord and tenant in Ireland, must operate to the application of a remedy; and the advent of a remedy for all that social and natural disorganisation which their fatal activity has hitherto produced, ought to be hailed with entire satisfaction by every Irishman who desires to see the prosperity of hisnative land consoli dat2d on the permanent bases of external or domestic equity and justice. In this spirit we have perused, I with unmixed satisfaction, the prompt and handsome testimony which was borne to the value of the Corn mission ; to the public character of the objects they proposed by their investigations to accomplish ; to thek earnestness and impartiality with which they have conducted the business before them ; and to the mode in which they have hitherto fulfilled the pledges recorded by her MAJESTY'S Ministers on under taking to appoint them, which was borne by Mr. SHARMAN CRAWFORD. To the patriotic na tionality of this gentleman, in the zealous and de voted services which he is at all times prepared to perform on behalf of the Irish people, we adverted so recently as Saturday last, in an article on the impolicy of the amendment upon the Address: which was moved by him on the first night of the session. Our pleasure in recurring to the tribute of respect which we then offered is, surely, not to be lessened because " an Englishman"—and that Englishman the Prime Minister—has confirmed our judgment of the high character of an Irish gen tleman, by declaring, at the close of Friday night's debate, that " the Hon.. Member for Rochdale's must always be the highest and the most disinterested testimony on any point of this kind." But we can as little conceive why, because at the head of the Landlord and Tenant (Ireland) Commission, there happens to be an Englishman, and that English man the Earl of DEVON—Mr. FFRENCH should feel himself called upon to designate it by the contemptuous epithet -of " white-washing." 1 It is certain that the true welfare and interests of Ireland have as often been sacrificed to the mere political antagonism of Irishmen, as to any other evil influence. Let not the same little objects com promise the working of so great an engine of improve ment as this Commission will prove, if it be left to its own unfettered and uninfluenced action. We can easily conceive why, with such an object of inquiry before it, the Commission should not be differently constructed, but the question of its propriety, or its utility may easily be tested. If these points cannot be made out in its favour, let its discontinuance be mooted in Parliament; but if Parliament affirm, as it has already sanctioned, its continuance to the com pletion of its labours, Parliament must be assumed to have stamped and recognised the national value of its results, by such affirmation. If the results shall turn out to be really thus valuable, of what importance is it. to Ireland, whether they be realised to her by Irish, or by English hands ? In earnestly invoking the public, at large, to give their most careful and attentive perusal to the " Ad dress of the Society for the Emancipation of In dustry" (which will be found in another column), we claim for that remarkable document no higher a de gree of consideration than it is amply entitled to by its subject matter and the intrinsic importance of its eon tents. From the greatness, the simplicity, thebenefi cence, the national character of its objects, it is a paper with more powerful pretensions to the active sympathies of every class of British subjects—ranging, in the scale of society, above that enormous working com munity, on whose behalf its eloquent appeal is more especially asserted—than almost any we remember to have met with in our whole experience as journalists. We will briefly state what those pretensions are. The objects of the Asso ciation are not private or corporate, but strictly public. The attainment of those objects is not merely a question of expediency, but of vital neces sity to the welfare of the State. This vital necessity consists in! the visible, incontrovertible, appalling \TILE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY MORNING, PEBRUARY 1F14,4, act, that a wasting disease, which hm been gene rated in the entire system of British greatness, civil and political, by erroneous legislation, must speedily become mortal, if it be not arrested by some legislative remedy of timely applica tion. The remedy suggested in the " Address," with a view directly to relieve, and perma nently re-establish, that braneh of our population which has hitherto most suffered, and at present languishes and declines under the influence of the disease we deprecate, would indirectly but rapidly reinvigorate the energies and prosperity of all other sections of the public who have been fellow-sufferers from the same evil influence. The type of the disease is, ," all the wrong and misery" which have been wrought to the labouring poor, in all occupations, by the Currency Act of 1819; and the simple remedy proposed is, the repeal of that fatal measure, accom panied with the issue, by Government, of Govern ment paper to the amount of our annual taxation. It would be affectation on our parts were we to disclaim the gratification we have derived from find ing that the "Address," in tracing the origin and the course of the disease which has so long invaded, and now threatens " the comfort and happiness of all the prod touc destroy, classes," and in indicating the tive remedial course requisite to be taken for its removal, concurs in all respects with the views which we have ourselves long announced on these subjects, and have more particularly enforced for some months past. The Address, after announcing that " the time has arrived when active measures must be taken for the protection and relief of the industry of the country," takes a rapid review of those isolated and partial attempts which, only, have hitherto been made "to rescue our suffering people from the cruel bondage" imposed on them by the consequences or the results of the mea, sures we have so often denounced. It adverts to the Anti-Corn-law League, and its exertions on behalf of the manufacturer; to the efforts from time to time put forward on behalf of factory children—female colliery labourers—education of the children of the poor, &c.—and laments the insufficiency of these "to meet the exigencies of the times." It then proceed*, " We turn to our fellow-countrymen of every de gree, and ask them to join us in forming a Society which, entertaining no schemes of private advantage, but devoted solely to the public good, hopes, by the corrective aid of the Legislature,. to remove the evils which an unfortunate Act of Legislation has created." We will not do the "Address" the injustice of giving, in abstract only, the several paragraphs occupied by the argument for the propriety of securing taxation wages to the labourer, and taxation prices to the manufac turer and the agriculturist--as to the manu factured commodities of the one, and the produce of the other; or to the demonstration of that enormous legislative blunder or injustice—unparalleled at least in the annals of legislative spoliation—which by fixing and legalising, exclusively, a. gold standard of cur rency, and diminishing the previous paper circulation in the enormous proportion necessary to enable the Bank of England to meet its excessive liabilities under this more expensive and prodigiously decreased metallic currency, so reduced prices, and by conse quence the wages of labour, that " it is calculated that more than 30,000,0001. annually are wrung from the hard earnings of the poor by means of extra toil and increased privations, which nature cannot long endure." "By adding taxation to natural or gold prices, that portion of the indirect taxes which cannot be borne by the productive classes in their productive capacity will be paid at last by the con sumer"—from whose shoulders, let it never be forgotten —Sir ROBERT PEEL'S iniquitous Bill quietly trans ferred it to those of the then already taxed, but since miserably under-paid, under-fed, and unrega.rded labourer and artisan. As we must here conclude our notice of the " Address," we may commend :hese, its benevolent purposes, to the beet assistance and the best wishes of our readers. " We object to the labouring roan being burthened with the task of providing all that wealth which others, who do not work, enjoy at his expense, while they allow him, in re turn for unremitting toil, less food and clothing, worse shel ter, coarser and harder fare, • than a West India planter allowed his. slaves, or en English farmer gives his horses. We are desirous of seeing the industrious workman partake of some of the benefits of those improvements in machinery which have hitherto added so wonderfully to the luxuries of the rich, but have sunk - the peer into deeper poverty." " To effect this, we shall urge that higher wages be given— wages not merely increased in numerical amount, but able to command a greater quantity of every useful and necessary article. We pledge ourselves to prove that this is attainable with the greatest facility, depending for the extent of its be neficial action solely upon a vote of the Legislature." We indulge a pleasing confidence that this appeal will be most efficiently responded to throughout the country ; and we cordially concur in the old ballad prediction that follows ;-- It WWI once merry Entland. And it shill be a a no le th tte er r f p r ar om t A o f f r. T j h o e ; : a un Lo o y f ils t , h i i n s a cia n s y w e w r i l t l o b a e found ln request that he would become a member of an asso ciation formed for the purpose of counteractin g t h e designs of the Anti-Cora-law League. It is not a little curious that Mr. LOYD, of all men in the world, should have been applied to to enrol himself in such an association, seeing that his opinions on the sub ject of free trade are well known, and that it is scarcely six months since he subscribed fifty pounds to that very League which he is now called on to oppose ! Really the gentleman who made such an application to him must be endowed with no ordi nary powers of effrontery, for what is it but a cool and modest request that he will act directly counter • • to his known opinions, and declare himself a protec tionist when he is at heart a free trader ? We sup pose Mr. COBDEN will be next applied to, to " coun teract the designs of the Anti-Corn-law League," and possibly Mr. VILLIERS, also, may be politely requested to use his efforts for the same purpose; and in neither of these applications would there be a whit more absurdity than in the one to which we are alluding. However, to pass this matter, and come at once to Mr. LOYD'S letter—it is penned in a tem perate, manly strain, and is so close and succinct in its reasoning, that it is impossible for even the ob tusest intellect to misapprehend it. After stating that the prosperity of British agriculture is a cause in which he would gladly enlist himself, inasmuch as it is indissolubly connected with the welfare of the whole community, the writer goes on to observe that he cannot recognise either the justice or the policy of attempting to protect his own individual interests as a landed proprietor, to the detriment of the great body of the people, by restricting the free and full supply of their food; and he significantly adds, " I would submit whether it would not be as well for us landed proprietors to examine carefully whether these restrictive laws, thus at once offensive and injurious to other classes, are really productive of the benefit to our particular interest which has usually been as cribed to them. The agriculturist is a dealer in the produce of the soil, and the prosperity of his, as of every other, trade, must be dependent on the prosperous condition of his customers. What ever improves the general condition of the people, and causes a rise of their wages, must promote in a most effectual manner the prospe rity of the agriculturist. Our population is annually increasing at a fearful rate; if a corresponding increase of employment be not found, that population must ultimately become a charge on our land, and thus prove ruinous to our interests as land-owners." This is quietly but forcibly put, and seems to us to gO at once to the root of the question. Not less emphatic are the writer's remarks on the subject of protective laws in general, which he declares to be founded on erroneous principles, to engender jealousies and heart-burnings among the different classes of the in dustrious community, and to diminish the wealth of the country by interrupting its legitimate distribution, and forcing it into wrong channels. Mr. Loco next proceeds to state his impression of the objects which the League have in view by their agitation, and explicitly states that he cannot concur "in designating them as mischievous designs," for he conceives, on the contrary, that " they are founded in reason." He concludes with the following hint to the agriculturists, by which it is to be hoped they will make a point of profiting :---" In the laws upon which too many of us at present rely, I can place no confidence; what is unjust and baneful to the rest of the community, cannot be permanently beneficial to us." We thank the Monopolist Association, for their impudent appli cation to Mr. JONES LOYD, inasmuch as it has been the means of drawing from that gentleman one of the most lucid—forcible —argumentative—and con vincing letters on the subject of the corn-laws, and monopoly in general, it has ever been our good fortune to peruse. At the present erisis—when the Mi:ister has for a season (but only for a season !) thrown ' himself into the arms of the and the TSOLLOP ss, and the rest of that fry—such a letter is invaluable, as putting us in possession of the cool, deliberate judgment of one of the wealthiest merchants of the day ; and who is still less re markable for his wealth, than for h's great practical sagacity, and the utter absence all party views that characterise his opinions. The League has many able lecturers in its service ; but the best lecturer it can possibly employ, is this letter of Mr. JONES LOYD, which it will do well to circulate in the cheapest, possible form throughout the country, for it strips the subject of its adventitious ornaments, and addresses it self, by its simple and transparent style, to the under standings of the most ordinary minded men. One word more, by way of wind-up,to the League. The necessity for strenuous agitation, always imperative, is now far more so than ever. They must adopt a bolder tone in their language—bearing in mind the effect that a few recent bursts of dictatorial energy on the part of the Monopolists have produced on the mind of our trembling, canting, time-serving Minister —must get up meeting after meeting ; issue address after address ; and justify the confi dence of the country by preserving a stern, impassioned, uncompromising course of conduct in this, their apparent, season of depression. Have they not justice—have they not common sense—have they not every possible motive on their side that can urge men to strenuous action ? Again and again we say to the League—persevere, for in perseverance lies your sole chance of success. What, though the Premier has for the season sold himself to the Mono polists ! Surely you should by this time know him well ! He is a man who will sell himself readily to which ever party gives him the fairest prospect of a continu ance in office ; and your's will be able to offer him this effectual bribe, if you only exert your selves with the spirit of men conscious of the justice of the cause, and resolved to win the day. We subjoin the very manly and sensible letter of the Right Hon. Earl SPENCER, in reply to the memorial of the meeting at Spalding (held on the 23d ult.), calling on his Lordship to resign his office of President of the Royal Agricultural Society of England. Our readers will remember, that a sec tion of that Society, in its abounding liberality, and its exuberant solicitude to challenge free discus sion on all topics connected with the great agricul tural interest of this kingdom, had thought fit to taboo the rather important question of the corn-law monopoly. Any member was to be at liberty to ex press his own opinions, even on that matter—provided always that they concurred with those of these sa gacious memorialists. The quiet dignity, good sense, forbearance, and yet significant brevity with which Lord SPENCER "declines to comply" with the re quest of the gentlemen, are eminently characteristic of the Noble and inflexible President : "Wiseton, Jan. 27, 1844. "Sir—l have this day received your letter, containing a request to me from certain inhabitants of Spalding and its neighbourhood to resign the office which I hold for this year, of President of the Royal Agricultural Society of England. Believing, as I do, that the Society is doing a great deal of good by the improvement which it is tending to produce in the agriculture of the country, and wishing, therefore, most earnestly to do all in my power to support it, no personal con sideration would induce me to hold the office of its President for one moment, if I thought that my resignation of that office would be advantageous to the Society. As, however, upon the best consideration I can give to the subject, I am convinced that my resignation of that office, for the reasons stated in the paper which you have inclosed to me, would be extremely detrimental to its interests, I must decline to com ply with the request of the gentlemen for whom you are acting. " I beg to say that the opinion which I have lately ex pressed upon the corn-laws is no new opinion of mine. I held it, as it is perfectly well known, long before the Anti- Corn-law League, with which I have no connection what ever, was in existence. " I have the honour to he, Sir, " Your most obedient humble servant. "Chas. F. Bonner, Esq., Spalding." "SPENCER." The accounts from Madrid are of the 26th ult. It was stated in the journals that General Pant (now Count DE REUB) was to be appointed Governor of Madrid. The latest accounts from Saragossa and Bar celona were satisfactory. On the Madrid Bourse the Three per Cents. were done at 26i and 27 for cash, and 28 for 60 days ; and the Five per Cents. at 19k at 60 days, with I premium. The Paris papers of Thursday bring no intelligence lof interest to an English reader. The resignation of M. SALVANDY forms the principal subject of political conversation. Parties hostile to the Government look upon it in a favourable light, as he is known to be a firm adherent of Count MOLE, destined as they believe to be the successor of M. GEIZOT. During the last three days, says the Reforme, the visits of Count Mots to the Tuileries had become more fre quent. On Tuesday he was summoned twice to the Palace, and on Wednesday he passed the greater part of the day in conference with the KING. Mar shal VALLEE has likewise been received at the Tuileries. Neither of the Chambers sat on Wednes day or Thursday; on Friday it was understood Minis ters were to bring on their proposed measure on public instruction in the Chamber of Peers. The funds had rallied a little on Thursday. The Three per Cents. closed at 82f. 5c.; the Five per Cents., at 1241. 80c.; Orleans Railroad Shares, at 850 f. ' • Rouen, 836 f. 26c. ; Havre, 665 f.; Avignon, 7421. 50c.; Spanish Actives, .30j. _ _ THE BOURSE-THURSDAY, FEB. 1. First - , Higliest Lowest Last Price. P - rice. Price. Price. French Five per Cents. •• • • 124 40 .. 124 60 •• 124 40 ...124 60 Four per Cents. • • lO6 .. 106 -• • 106 .• 106 Three per Cents... • • 81 90 . • 81 90 • • 81 80 • • 81 SO Bank of France ..... •• • 3282 50 -•3282 50 •.3282 50 •.3282 50 Belgian Bank 1841 lOBO ••1080 ••1080 ••1080 Belgian Fives lO6l .• 107 •• 1061 .. 107 1840 ••• —108 f 109 .. 1081 .. 109 1842 Spanish Active • 1 . 4,813iVe .••.•• • • • • • • 51 • • 51 • . 51 .. 5i Portuguese Five per Cents .• 48} • • 48f • • 47i • • 481 Neapolitan lO7 .. 107 .. 107 •. 107 Roman 106 •• 106 .. 106 .. 106 RAILWAY SHARES. St. Germiu Versailles, L.B. .. Rouen • . • • • • •• • • •• • • •• • • •• 845 • • 845 .. 845 .. 845 Rouen to itarre•• •• •••••••• 663 75 .. 663 75 .. 663 75 .. 6G3 75 Orleans Strasburg to Bale •••. • • •• 235 • • 235 .. 233 75 235 Avignon to Marseilles-- 742 50 .. 745 .. 742 50 .. 745 RAILWAY SHARES FOR JANUARY ACCOUNT. Versailles,;L.B.• •••••• • • • • • 181 25 .• 181 25 • • 181 25 .. 181 25 Rouen to Ilavre.• •.... ..... 668 75 • • 668 75 .. 668 75 .. 668 75 Orleans •... Strasburg; to Bale • ♦vignon to Marseilles—. • • 740 .. 745 • • 740 • • 7 4 . RAILWAY SHARES FOR FEBRUARY ACCOUNT. Versailles, L.B. ..... .• •• • • 180 •• 182 50 .. 180 .. 182 50 Rouen Rouen to Havre.. • •• 665 .. 665 • . 665 •• 665' Orleans . ....... ......• .• 845 • • 850 .. 845 • • 850 Strasburg to Bale. 236 25 .'..236 25 .. 235 .. 235 Avignon to Marseilles• .•• POSTPONEMENT OF THE COMMONS' ADDRESS.---The reception by the Queen of the address from the House of Commons was postponed, in consequence of intelli gence having reached his Royal Highness Prince Albert of the decease of his father, the Duke of Saxe Coburg. Notice was, in consequence, sent to the House of Corn mons, and to all the usual officers of the Household. FLANDERS AND DUTCH MAIL. BRUSSELS, FEB. I.—DEATH OF THE KINQ'S BROTllER.—Yesterday evening the Court had a se cond ball in the palace, at which about 1,000 per sons were present. The dancing was very animated, and the King was conversing with different persons in the great drawing-room, when General d'llane came in and told his Majesty that an officer had ar rived express from the Court of Saxe-Coburg with important dispatches. The King immediately went to the apartment where the officer was waiting, and there he heard the afflicting news of the sudden death of his elder brother, the reigning Duke of Saxe- Coburg. His — Majesty, overcome with grief, directly retired to his private apartments. Unwilling, however, that the ball should be broken up, he sent word to the Queen that a slight indisposition hindered him from joining the company. The melancholy and unex pected news, however, soon became known to a part of the company and threw a damp over the whole. Many gentlemen and ladies declined dancing any more. The Queen did not leave the ball till just one o'clock, when she , was first informed of the death of her brother-in-law, whom she highly esteemed. It is probable that there will be no more fetes at Court during the whole winter. THE HAGUE, l'En. 2.—ln the second sitting of the Chamber of the States General to-day, the President proposed to put on the order of the day for Tuesday next,. the debate on the project of law for re gulating and providing for the deficiency of 1840 and the preceding years. Some mem bers objected on account of the connection be tween the measure and that relative to an extra ordinary income-tax and a voluntary loan. After some debate, the President's proposal was agreed to by a majority of 22 to 15. In the same sitting, the Central Section brought up the report on the project of law for meeting the deficiency of 1841, 1842, and 1843, the debate on which is immediately to follow the preceding one. TIIE HAGUE, FEB. 3.—On the 31st of January in the evening, during a splendid ball given by King Leopold, in his palace at Brussel s , his Alajesty re ceived the news of the death of the reigni,ig Duke of Saxe-Coburg- G otha. The deceased }Jerson was nutter of Prince Albert, consort of the Queen of Ey g Lind, : , tri uncle to the of l'orttural, to the _Nemours, thi to the husband ' of Irutcess %iteutehtme, daughter of King Louis k 1 V 7 Ot• r -0 i f 4, o h 8 c 0 4 7 1 43'4i - WiC kPtlitait. Who runs may read." a:•t3EL=GIAT. A Council of Ministers was held on Wednesday at the 'Tuileries, at which the King presided. Previously to the Council M. Guizot had a long conference with his Majesty. On Tuesday the King, and his sister Madame Adelaide, accompanied by General Durosnel and Colonel de Chabanues, paid a visit to INTettilly. In the evening their Majesties re ceived at the Tuileries the British Ambassador ' the Minister of Baden, the Mini s t er o f C ommerce , Ge nera l Marquis de Faudoas, Generals de Pouthon, Guingret, and other distin guished personages. The Marquis de Larochejaquelin has announced to the electors of Ploermel his intention of again soliciting their suffrages. The Moniteur states that the voyage M. Gisquet to Constantinople, in which he is accomp an ied by his f am ily, is connected with an agricultural project in Egypt, in virtue of an arrangement between the Viceroy and a French company, of which Al. Gisquet forms part. • An official Return has been published of the aggregate imports and exports of corn and flour in France during the last year. The imports were as follow, in tnetrical.quin tals (the metrical quintal is 221 i lbs. English) :—Wheat, 1,490,783 ; other corn, 150,603 ; flour, 3,913. The exports were—Wheat, 68,599 ; other corn, 90,556 ; flour, 33,373. The quantity remaining in the entrepots on the Ist of January last were—Wheat, 64,072; other corn, 7,135; flour, 17,365. The Moniteur publishes the table of the prices of wheat in the markets of France during the month of January last, from which it appears, that the average - rate was 22f. 22c. per hectolitre (24 imp. bushels), at Toulouse, Gray, Lyons, and Marseilles; 20f. 46c. at Marans and Bordeaux; 21f. 59c. at St. Laurent and Le Grand Lemps ; 19f. 's4c. at Mulhausen and Strasburg; 19f. lc. at Bergues, Arras, Roye, Soissons, Paris, and Rouen ; 18f. 85c. at Saumur and Nantes ; 16f. 58c. at Metz, Verdun, and Charleville ; 19f. 10c. at St. Lo, Falun pol, Quimper, and Hennebon. The Grand Council of the Canton of Geneva has just adopted, by a large majority, the system of trial by jury, for crimes,:misdemeanors, and in all cases. • _ _ _ The directors of the' railroad from Breslau to Freeburg, in Silesia, have established in each of the carriages a signal, by which passengers, in case of necessity, may have the train stopped. This is dime by hoisting a Hag through an aperture in the roof, and this being perceived by a conductor he orders the stoppage of the locomotive, and proceeds to inquire into the cause-of the signal. - _ LAW . gLrfID POLXOIII. At the Middlesex Sessions, Peter Kiley 'aged 22, was in dicted, charged with having assaulted Richard Bartlett and other police constables whilst in the execution of their duty. The case was fully reported when the : prisoner was examined at Marylebone, Mr. F. O'Connor being the principal witness. The jury, after an absence Of twenty minutes, returned, find ing the defendant guilty of a common assault, but recom mended him to mercy on account of the injuries he had re ceived, and the violence with which he had been treated during his confinement to the station-house. The Chairman sentenced him to six months' imprisonment. George King, the driver of a slop cart belonging to Gore, the city scavenger, was brought before Sid' J. Key, at Guild hall, charged with ill-treating a horse, by compelling it to work when in an unfit state, from a wound near the shoul der. Sir J. Key inflicted the extreme penalty of 40s, and in default of payment committed him to Bridewell for 14 days. At Worship-street, William Harris, a linen-draper, in Church-street, Bethnal-green-road, and a woman named Mary Garmon, were charged with receiving a quantity of valuable French silk lace, the property of Messrs. Marshall and Co., silk-mercers and lacemen, of Vere-street, Oxford-street. It was proved that the woman had been a lace-agent for several years, and that she had no knowledge of the mode in which the lace in question had been obtained. She was then admitted a witness against Harris • and, after hearing her evidence, Mr. Bingham com mitted male prisoner for trial. •At Lambeth-street, John Felix, John Wood, and John Wood, jun., who have been in cust ody for some days past on a charge of plundering the Export Excise-office on Tower hill, of several reams of printed paper, were fully committed for trial. Thomas Edwards, the American seaman, charged at the Thames police-court, with the wilful murder. of William Kammish, on board the barque Amelia, of Jersey, whilst voyaging on the high seas, from Para to London,. was fully committed to take his trial on the charge of wilful murder, at the next session of the Central .Criminal Cotirt, which commences on Monday. COURT wAsszomenx.E. The Duke and Duchess of Roxburgh have arrived at Thomas's Hotel, from Fleurs Castlo. The Duke of Beaufort returned to town on Wednesday, and the Duchess on Thursday, from Hampton Court.` On Thursday evening their Graces received at dinner the Mar quis of Worcester (who has just returned from Rome), the' Lord George and Lord Alfred Paget, and Dr. Quin. Viscountess Palmerston is expected to give her first assem bly on Saturday next. Lady Emily Hardinge and Miss Hardinge have arrived in Whitehall-gardenifrom Sir Henry's seat, near Penshurst, for the season. Sir Robert and Lady Peel will give a splendid banquet on Saturday next to a circle of about forty,, to which the DulFe of Wellington, Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch, his Excel lency the French Ambassador, and Countess de St. Aulaire,, and most of the corps deplomatique ant invited. The Marchioness of Anglesey and Lady Adelaide Paget, arrived early in the last week at Hinchinbrooke, Huntingdon, on a visit to the Earl and Countess of Sandwich, from Beau desert, Staffordshire. The Gallant Marquis and Lord Alfred' Paget have returned to Uxbridge House. 116ZSCEZZA1 1 7E0 A meeting of Corn-law Leaguers was held on Friday, at the Town Hall, St. Albans, for the' purpoie of forming an Association to -oppose the Anti-Corn-law League. There were present, the Marquis of Salisbury, Lord Verulam, the Earl of Essex, Lord Grimston, M.P., the Hon. G. D. Ryder, M.P., Abel Smith, Esq., M.P., Sir J. S. Sebright, H. W. Bur- . chell, Esq., J. S. Story, Esq., 'l'. NV. Blogg, Esq., R. Clutter buck, Esq., the Rev. Mr. Moore, the Rev. Dr. Nicholson, the Rev. Mr. Midcome, a great many other gentlemen of the county, and upwards of two hundred farmers. The usual re solutions were all carried unanimously, and it was announced that upwards of 1,000/. were collected in the room. Among the contributors were, the Marquis Of Salisbury, 100/. ; Lord. Verulam, 100/. ; the Earl of Essex, SOL ; Abel Smith, Esq., M.P., 100/. ; the Hon. G. D. Ryder, 501. Mr. Edridge, of Puckeridge-house, has acceded to the call of the North Wilts Reform Association; to stand for the va cancy, against Mr. Sotheron, the Tory candidate ; and in his letter to Admiral Bouverie, accepting the invitation, says, " I shall be delighted to do battle in the sacred cause of free trade, and of civil and religious liberty, against monopoly of every description." The funerals of Sir Francis Burdett and his lady, took place at Ramsbury, Wiltshire, on Wednesday. DEATH OF THE DUKE OF COBURG On Saturday, at four o'clock in the morning, an ex press reached Buckingham Palace, announcing the de cease of his Serene Highness the Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, the father of his Royal Highness Prince Al bert. The melancholy event was altogetliei unexpected, for no previous information of his Serene Highness's in disposition had been received at Court.• So early as decorum would permit, this truly melancholy intelli gence was imparted to the Queen and his Royal High ness Prince Albert. At ten o'clock a telegraphic dispatch was received at the Admiralty announcing the same sad event. It is considered as a most extraordinary circumstance that no direct information relative to this important event should have been received from Germany. Ernest Anthony Charles Lewis, Duke of Saxe- Coburg-Saalfeld, was b orn on th e :2d of January, 1784, and succeeded his father on the 9th of December, 1806. The Duke had been twice married; first, to Dorothy Louisa Paulina Charlotte Frederica Augusta, daughter of Augustus, the last Duke but one of Saxe-Gotha- Altenberg, from whom he separated on the 31st of March, 1826. On the 23d of December, 1822, the Duke Married Antoinette Frederica Augusta Maria Anne, Princess of Wirtemberg. By the first marriage the issue was Ernest Augustus Charles John Leopold Alexander Edward, hereditary Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, born on the 21st of June, 1818 ; and Albert, the young bridegroom elect of Queen Victoria, born on the 26th of August, 1819, and therefore not of the legal age of twenty-one until August, 1840. Th e Queen was bern on the 24th of May, 1819, and is, therefore, three months older than her husband. When, during the war in Germany, which was ended by the peace of Tilsit, Napoleon found that the here ditary Prince Ernest, now Duke of Coburg, was at the Prussian head quarters, he issued a proclamation, declaring him his particular enemy, and caused formal possession to be taken of his territories. All the property belonging to the ducal family was seized, and a very heavy contribution imposed on the country, which had already suffered by the passage of the French army. During this period of distress Prince Leopold re mained with his mother, who, but for him, would have been entirely deserted, attentively watching aver the in terests of his family. It was not till the peace of Tilsit, that by a particular stipulation, the house of Saxe-Coburg -Saalfeld was re instated in its possessions. Duke Ernest, however, on his return, found the finances dilapidated by the French authorities, the institutions entirely ruined, and his country to the last degree impoverished. Having re mained at Coburg time enough to put his affairs some what in order, Duke Ernest went to Russia in 1808, and resided there for some time, leaving his possessions to the care of his brother Leopold, now King of the Bel gians. On the 9th of December,lBo6, died the eccentric Duke Frederic of Gotha-Altenberg, by which event his estates came into the possession of Duke Ernest, by virtue of the Salk law, established by Ernest the Pious. He shared, at that time, the inheritance of Gotha-Altenberg with his cousins the Dukes of Meinengen and Hildburg hau,en, and left the duchy of Saalfield to the Duke of Nleinengen. It was thus Duke Ernest exchanged the title of Saxe - Coburg-Saalfeld for that of Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. For some time after the demise of the sovereign Duke, Gotha remained without any regular succession, the public administration being concluded in the name of the widow, until, by a convention, dated the 12th Noreen her, 1826, it was agreed that the Duke Ernest of Saxe- Coburg-Saalfeld, brother to Prince Leopold of Coburg, should take possession of the principality for himself and heirs. His S erene Highness, in consequence of that con vention assumed the title of Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, as such, and made his solemn entry into Gotha on the 25th of that month. Loss OF Two VESSELS .—CALAIS, FEB. 2.—Yes terday morning some French fishermen brought into Calais an English three-mast vessel of 300 tons, called the William Ward, of Hull, which they had picked up, about ten miles off, at sea, abandoned by the crew. It is supposed she struck on the Goodwin, and floated off with the rising tide, the wind being strong from the northward. The cargo is corn , posed of flour, b7scuir, and coals. This is not the only dis aster occasioned by the late heavy gales, Early on the even ing of 3resterday, Captain Pahloy, on his voyage from London to Calais, in the Belfast steamer, perceived a brig on the Goodwin. It proved to be the Jane of Sunderland, laden ith coals from Ilarfleur. Fortunately the captain and crew altogether took t. , folly boat, having only two oars, and. contrived to keep ari , !'i cflptain Pashley, with his usual activity and exertions, took them on board his vessel. The brig sunk irgadistely after. • COURT -.CITICUL,AR WINDSOR, SUNDAY.—Her aud 14inee „Albert, companieci by her Royal Highnel,s the i'riheess Rod" : an d aheaded by Lord Charles Wellesley and COlonel'W%ide , rived last evening at the Castle from town, escorted by r party of the Life Guards. The Countess of Dunmore, Lady Caroline Cocks, 11 „ ° , 11. Miss Devereux, Viscount H awar d en , an d th e H on . and . se '' C. LeSlie Cottrtenay, arrived from town by th e Great Wester Railway yesterday afternoon. - jog The Royal party have remained in strict privacy', ° w , he to the bereaveme n t sus t a i ne d b y his Royal- Highness Prince Consort. The reception on the Throne, by the, Queen, of the A ti .; dress of the House of C ommons on S atur d ay afternoon, postponed, in consequence of the receipt at Bucking? Palace of _the melancholy and unexpected intelligence of ``", death of his Royal Highness Ernest (reigning) Duke of Sas,' Cobourg, Gotha, father of his Royal' Highness Prince Alber', The Right Honourable Earl Jermyn,. Treas orer se °' her Majesty's Household, attended at Buckingham Fid on Saturday afternoon. at His Royal Highness .the D u k e o f C am b r idge enneu o Buckinghim Palace on Saturday afternoon, to i n quire his Royal Highness Prince Albert. . tt%, Lady Caroline Cocks and th e H on . Mi ss F ranc e s DeeerLdi Maids of Honour in Waiting on the Queen, left Buckingt:;,, Palace at three o'clock on Saturday a ft ernoon , for the ter o T e ; of the Great Western Railway, at 'P a ddi n gt on . The C0 212 ' 4 , 0 .of Dunmore, Lady in Waiting, and Vi sco u n t Hawardenl ‘ arrived at the Paddington terminus. The Royal peel . '— their departure, via railway, for Windsor Castle. i p los Her Majesty and Prince Albert left . Buckingham Pa at at five o'clock on Saturday afternoon, in a carriage and f 0 for Windsor Castle. Her Royal Highness the Princeiss w o was taken in the next carriage, and the Equerries in l ing, Lord Charles Wellesley (Clerk Marshal) and td° 100 Wylde occupied another Royal carriage and four. s ts, The Royal party quitted the P a l ace Ly the garden - g and travelled post `to Windsor Castle, unattended by any e cort from town. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge Royal Highness the Duchess of Gl ouces te r on Ss,„.tt ir w , Yesterday morning his Royal High ness l e ft town for Keel The Messrs. Samuda had an interview w ith Sir Robert 'o r on Saturday at his official residence in D own ing-street, tive to the Atmospheric Railway. OOO Dispatches were received yesterday at th e Colon's." from the Governor of the Mauritius. visited het ' Mr. Wickham, Chairman of the Stamps and Taxes, had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on Saturday The Archbishop of Cant er b ury h a d ' an interv i ew with R. Peel on Saturday. •• • • " Dispatches for Sir Charles Metcalfe, Governor of Cana and for the Governors of the other North American Colonies , were sent off on Saturday, from the 'Colonial-office. • Sir Robert Peel had a Parliamentary dinner -on SaturdF . at his residenc e , i n Whi te h a ll -gar d ens . The company 112 _, eluded Viscount Castlereagh, "ViScount.Marebam , Lord C O I tenay, Lord Ashley, L or d .S an d on; L or d Mahon, Hon . '7 Clive, Hon. W. La sce ll es , H on . H.. Liddell, - Holt Wortley, Right Hon. Si r George Rose, 'Sir Thomas AeL an ot Sir Howard D oug l as , Si r C. Knightley, Sir Walter Jer, iro .Sir Charles Dougla s ,'Si r C. B u r re ll, Lie u t enan t-Colonel Nr. .Trevor, Mr. Thesiger, Mr. Kelly, Mr. Bodkin, kir', c k Beckett, Mr. G. Bankes, ' M r . B rams t on ,- M r. Ireland Bldg, burne, Mr. Alexander Campbell, Mr. Beckett Denison, 0; Escott, Mr. G. A. Hamilton, Mr. G. Harcourt, Mr.- atf Mr. Maunsell, Mr. Masterman, Mn N ee ld, M r. Gaily n-Pchay Mr. Stafford O'Brien Mr. Christopher, M r . P use y, Mrs Mr. B. Palmer, Mr. firownrigg, and Mr. Tattoo Egert ° ': t• he Sir Frederick Trench entertained his R o y a l Hightle . ..,A s s w Duke of Cambridge and a select party at dinner on . Stitt" — at his residence in Pall-mall. Lord Stanley had a dinner party on Saturday, at ten dence in St. James's-square. The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat 0; 2 , 01 1, 4 , ,turday. . The Lords" preSent were, the Master of the and t he Lord Brougham, the Judge of the Admiralty Court, 123 'Chancellor of the Duchy of Cornwall. Messrs. Burge and John Stuart, Queen's Counsek cou rt heard for the appellant, on an appeal from the SuprePt e of the Mauritius, "Heirs of Ribeiro v. May." o f the . • Lori Brougham, after alluding to the circumstan ce Court having to decide. without the presence of both far toot the respondent not having c h osen to appear, gave Pl u g h oll°, on the part of their. Lordships, reversing the decre e. deb' Court below, and also giving e ff ec t ua l j u d gmen t for the and costs below. clrA Mr. Charles Buller was heard on an appeal from " Kouadry "Valubha v. Valia Tamburah." _ • MONE ir AND COMMERCIAL .0 ..T "- vW (From The Sun of Saturday Evening.) 0 1 ) 0' There was a very firm market for Cotto n a t LiverP° „ ea ° terday. Sales, 20,000 bales, of which 14,000 were ou ir r i e er. lation.—A fair business was done in sh ar e s at stagif i f Sad Birmingham and Gloucester w ere 713 ; Edinburg tiro Glasgow, 593 ; Grand Jun c ti on , 2291 ; G rea t Westeloi; 72 ; Liverpool and Manchester, 222 ; Birmingkan i ,i ditt o Rouen and Havre, 143 ; South Eastern, 351 ; 111/- New, 363. e tit° • The debates in Parliame n t are lik e l y to have nlO l l llO 4 ordinary influence upon the Funds and Money Markt, beti the present session, s o many i mportant topics ha ":„ 1 1 ea t; announced•for diseussiou—a n d not the least p 7oint i 4 nieo ject of the renew a l o f the B ank charter; it is not t u • that any material alteration will be made, Unless th e f o od • stock banking interest bestir themselves, and that "' time. 3/ 411 ‘ " There is rather more business doing in the Conrail 1 , for this morning, and prices are a shade higher. C.," * o ° , the Money have been sold just now at 971, and for 4110 1 1-; disi , same. Bank Stock *as rather depressed early in , t': 3 6 10 0/ namely, to 192, but it Stocklga to 19:3i. T h , er aef stocks are firm. India commands a rise on yesi_ icu lst value of 2 per cent., being now 278. There is no Par: alteration in India Bonds or Exchequer Bills this ra;" ora l A good deal of business was transacted in th e 0 lit Funds this morning. Spailish Actives have been i s di 221, and the Three per Cents. at Sli 1-• For Belgr By ,tocx 6 per cent, above par is ihe current value. In Du tch scarcely any alteration has taken place this morning • e ps mSoeuxthicaAnmfoerriAcacheollimotn,dwshinerhe are et atm 3 u ti ch in demand ex is * per cent. lower than yesterda The Share Market has not d ve ry inimat e presente ave te pearance this morning, and , generally, rather 1 00 .1 . ree ter, 1. Brazilian: 70, have been submitted to; as for instance, the Great ! A the Manchester and Birmingham, the Edinburgh 4n e '!.. too gow, &c. Provincial Bank of Ireland Shares have b at 16 MA N premium HE . • 13111cSTEE STOCK EXCHANGE, FEB. 2.--IV * i c er. 1 firm market without any material alteration IriP to 1 .„ / 61. g d Eastern Counties, New, 121 ; ditto Perpetual, 155. - p Edinburgh and Glasgow, 593 ; Manchester and LW - Shares, 49*. . CLOSING PRICES. -A -. 0 BRITISH FUNDS - • • 20 Bank Stock 3 per Cent. Red. 3 per Cent. Cons:... 973 Ditto Old 'AnnuitieS..• $1 per Cent. Red 10:3 Ditto New Annizities••. 691 01 New 33 per Cent lO2 Ex. Bills, 1,000 1 . li d ' 6 9 P: New 5 per Cent — Ditto 5001......• 69 1 1- Long Annuities to expire DittO Small ••••• Jan. 1860 Oct. 1859 Jan. 1860 .. .. . -- Consols for Acct. •• ••• FOREIGN FUNDS: . •"' A ► -"nil% 6 per cent.... • Portuguese 5 pet st baleen, b_per cent lO5l Ditte,Newbi t to .... . ... Brazilian Bonds ... ..... lam •••' B s Ayres 6 per cent. 331 Russian, 45 put. eerie: •••• •••• Cnilian, 6 per cent. — ; Ditto Meta ll ic ..... •••• Colombian, 6 per cent l 2 ll " ,Spanish, b per 0 ." / ......... 5 Ditto 1824 Ditto, 3 per co" ...... Cnba - Bonds, 6 per cent 93 Ditto,_ Deferred.••• "7; Danish, 3 per vat -•-• French, 5 per oat* Greek; 1825;5per cent — Exchange...... ••••_. 55 cent. Mexican, 5 per cent. French, 3 pe.r coo t , reen`. 1 Ditto; 6 per 1837 Dutch, 2 per Perevian, 1825,6 perct. Ditto, b per ' Pt. SHARES. Birmingham and Derby (100 paid) .•••••••' . 4 1 1 Ditto Eighths (1/ 10s paid) .., ......... ••, 7 4 Birmingham and Gloucester Railway (10 0 0/ 6 9 Bristol and Exeter (70 paid) ... . ... 101 Eastern Counties (23 .............. 12/ •Ditto New Shires (25 paid) ..... . . ... •.. • 59b Edinburgh and Glasgow (50 paid)... .. •„,•••• • j . Gravesend, Rochester, and Chatham (llii Y‘' Great North of England Railway (10 0 / 11! Great Western (75 paid) .... ....... ... ; `•• 4 u Landon and Brighton (50 pa d) London and Greenwich Railway ( 1211544dr- 11. Ditto Preference, or Privilege ....••••••;,7) .. "a London and South Western ( 41164 1 0 dr" Ditto Eighths (15s. paid) .. . . ........ ••• ,1_ London and Croydon Railway (Trunk) -f* IIL Manchester and Leeds (70 paid) . . ...... ••• Manchester and Birmingham (40 Faid) ..... . 3 31 Nerwick and Brandon (2 paid) ••• •• ..... Paris and Orleans (20 paid) .. ........... ... 14 Paris and Rouen (20 paid).. ....... 3 5 Rouen and Havre ( 6 paid) ..•••• ..... South Eastern and Dover (50 pia) .... • DM* Scrip (25 paid) —%/11. _ _---- b - The House met at One o'clock, for the PaPrtstid ieb 2 ll : lll°°tif IMPERIAL P ARLIA I/1- 4-3 tb. address to her Majesty. There was not a (Ull ...*; 1100. a gain' e onlyaf ter.pu tthirty-two3ceoan a tee n ts k , t b h u e t C t i li ,a e e R fumt OUSE OF COMMON go°l;'l4ter—ted, prayers. Members n a B b ee Members r v s er o a n l t h being el o O n p . The SrEexx e In P I ff . tendan ' irmhpo p ati j,rchooesrtrsietieiti:noyytinte.,,lmbevherreneeticul,taeseo:f:lo6lo,ootocbdrillio.:. i edco i et h tor e tb:.46.oo -: rsi o T Members dropped i ana ''" Alfill t " Jef'" were only thirty-el • n very slowlY , w ss . _„d gr. Librar Ott present. A niessali e oe serfa '''" y, and atter some time the Attorner OOT IL td Q.C., entered and made the House. , v g COnle scililtt.' DEATH OF THE DUKE OF SA". O - u rea ef di „chid re"'""k i. Sir R. PEEL then rose and said—ln the . thAt_ agreed 1. -,,.: night on the Report on the lull es , _he a' d b s de to 1 1-. believe, in case the Report on ' t r he s *C Or ''' . al- in t° l'er that w .enient re Majesty, in answer to the counnual es tion to be conN wou ld p . requesting to know at w h a t period 1 . % W° .. o f Cotn in° ., nB 'stion tp tb Majesty to receive the address of the I:°°'" that Ulan' ....t 11 0° ' I ma den 1 110 u " . to O f bably name this day at two o'clock. '. M e i cony . fl eet. , -00 House, thinking it might be for the goer eying th e ir reir - rt e s .... Members should have an opportunitY of P tteo the IteP c t ' be stddfli Majesty. In consequence of that MOMS ni , ade oat er 4, address having been agreed to, au order Ivo' i Houle. ° it we , '7; be presented to her Majesty by the ho. ° . .,. n t but , A ngen , would certainly have adhered to this arratib'!l",_snroing Irciliet, painthl duty now to state that in the course of tla._',-e.oooltia t_to of had been received, which, though not directoaado : 4 of tna o u l tt er was still too much reason to fear was Wen d t father of ti t; of the reigning Duke of Saxe Coburg Gotha, .... e onsalO en t o tri ii,' s ous Prince, the Consort of her Majesty.eceilyac the addr _tdci, s event, her Majesty could not, of course, r .._ a motion. ..„.. to!: usual manner and he had, therefore, to niaxa . _ ~f whole jley.7 - az was sure would receive the general cOneuffeuvilL lli .00 by the f trog Ole the order for the presentation of the & areal" anco 0 t rescinded—that, under the particular cire ractlCo---°°4 tr eyer 30. there should be a departure from the usual P_ _op if he Wt.. , ~dl, address be presented by such Members of so a 119- 80 hers of the Privy Council. t he vr- 1 0 00 13 The order for the presentation of the address by ..„.„. E ight ...v.-•or was then discharged, and the motion of the coo agreed to. , f • th , gre et in 0 10 Tho ATTORNEY -GENERAL co mplained v 0 log nience he had been t hat morning put to, while na27,,„,n tho ._7;4 4 0 the House, in consequ ence of the communicatio n pzif the spVP and Westminster -hall being closed, notwithstalinins . 0_ • t utieS t l; order of last session that it should remain ope n' _ _,....,0 The SPEAKER said he had ordered that tn!..W.b"oooeas should always be left open, and he would see in?". .-- directions were given for that purpose. , The House then adjourne d. .........._............, _ . 1 0 __•"?'"'"-- t Cling I°s .ati W OLDENBURG, JAN. 27.—A mos.. 1 ~ t he . ° tv unexpectedly fallen on the Grand Ducal family - s d o V uebe° e country. This afternoon at four o'clock the Oran _ f her O:: pired, after a short WA Severe illness, in consequefritea a i.te f ros couchment. lig Royal Highness was a daughter 0 _ 11 :1 0 , j OW of Sweeten, Gustavus IV.; she was born June 22, 18°' • VW the Grand Duke of Oldenburg, May 5, 1831. nsg TI IIS° : EXPECTED ARRIVAL OF GENERAL T-- .of flit illustrious individual (a lineal defteenditiotone, f Immortal Tom") is ly expected from New York. L o op! Jonathan is not " poki d ng his fun at us," he is th e most r` e '' vest production of modern times. His age is eleven yen"' __„,,d, fr 15 lbs. 2 os, ', ', in lie,glit t 5 inches II I slost perfect'," ! antifu: wet'. marlcably healthy, good looking, and talented. The ', nor's errand is. we hear. o extract some more of John o, r y a an loose edit]. We • shall cer ;only pay hie Genera lshi p a vi s i t ' ' port aceordlnily, .. - • . , .. ‘ • 1