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1-11(ill WATER AT LON DOSI-BRIDGE THIS DAY. Morning 35 minutes after 11.1 Evening 0 minute after 0. THE NEXT DISTRIBUTION of MONEY DIVIDENDS, AUMORISED and GUARANTEED ny HIS MAJESTY the EMPEROR of AUSTRIA, contains JONEYDIVIDEN.DS of £5O £6O £7O £BO £9O £lOO £llO £l2O £ V A ) £2OO .E. 400 £6OO £ f 4W £l,OOO £1,500 £5,000 and £23,000 sterling. Amounting together to £70,170 sterling. t)lrect for PROSPECTUS with full particulars, WITH -JUT DELAY, to HEINE BROTHERS, at HAMBURGH, Or. to HEINE BROTHERS, at LUBECK. CONCLUSIVE EVIDENCE.—If the direct written 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 to Foreign Brandy, under high medical direction, in many of the principal Hospitals, Infirmaries, and other 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 Manchester, Bristol, and Brighton In firmaries. Distillery, No. 7, Smithfield Bars, leading to St. John-street. Priee, 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 O'pera, in Three Acts, calledTHE BOHEMIAN GIRL Count Arnheim, Mr. Borrani ; Thaddeus, Mr, W. Harrison; Arline, Miss Rainforth; Queen of the Gipsies, Miss Betts. After which, will be repeated a New Grand Comic Christmas Pantomime, entitled HARLEQUIN AND KING PEPIN ; or, VALENTINE AND ORSON. Harlequin, Mr. Howell; Colum bine, Mis 4 Carson; Clown, Mr. T. Ridgway; Pantaloon, Mr. Blanchard. Dress Boxes 75., Second Price 3s. 6d. ; Upper Circles of Boxes 55., Second Price 35. ; Pit 36 , Second Price 2s. ; Middle Gallery 25., Second Price Is. ; Upper Gallery Is., Second Price 6d. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN. M. JULLIEN'S CONCERTS. PROGRAMME FOR THIS EVENING. PART L Overture, Midsummer Night's Dream—Mendelsohn. Valse, Bird of Paradise, received with the greatest favour at the Nobility's Balls—Kcenig. 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—. Spohr. Valse Le Bouquet Royal ( composed expressly for her Majesty's State Balls)—Jullien. Solo, Violin, Master Thirlwall. The English Quadrille—Jullien. PART 11. Opera, Lucia di Lammermoor, with Solo for Cornet-a-Plston, by Herr K cenig— Don izettl. New Quadrille, entitled the Toy Quadrille—Jnllien. Solo, 'Bassoon, M. Baumann. Valve, 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 B Boxes, 11. Is. Tickets to be obtained at the ox-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, 3, Maddox-street, Bond-street. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. MIL BENJAMIN WEBSTER, LESSEE. THIS EVENING, JANUARY 2, Will be performed the Farce of TOM NODDY'S SECRET. Mr. Thomas Noddy, Mr. Strickland ; Inkpen. Mr. Buckstone ; Gabrielle,-Miss Julia Bennett; Mary, Miss Mattley. To be followed by THE LITTLE DEVIL. Nicolo Angeli, Ma dame Vestris ; Ferdinand of Spain, Mr. Stuart; Vincentio d'Estella, Mr. Charles Mathews. _ _ _ After which, the Unparalleled Performances of Professor RISLEY and his SON. To conclude with a New Fairy Extravagania, entitled THE FAIR ONE WITH THE GOLDEN LOCKS! King Lachrymose, Mr. J. Bland; Prince Graceful, Miss P. Horton ; Queen Lucidora, I%liss Julia Bennett. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. The Best Pantomime of the Season—Gorgeous Scenery. THIS EVENING, JANUARY 2, The New Drama, embracing Extraordinary Effects, Powerful Cast, and Novel Scenic Display, called.. . _ . THE BOHEMIANS ; or, The Rogues of Paris. Principal Characters by Messrs. Lyon, 0. 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 Silver Crescent. Produced with Enormous Splendour and Wonderful Effects ! Columbine, Miss Sullen ; 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. _ _ Mixes, 4s. ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, Is. ; 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 Alphonso, Mr. Burdini ; Gennarro, Mr. Allen ; Mattio 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 spectacle, entitled THE MAGIC MIRROR. Sing Song, Mrs. H. P. Grattan; Poo. Poo, Mr. Paul Bedford ; Sloe-Leaf, Miss R. Isaacs. DAV IDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. As usual, the funniest and most successful Pantomime. THIS EVENING, JANUARY *2, Will be repeated THE BOHEMIANS OF PARIS. Supported by Messrs. Saville, Hughes, Hicks, R. Bonner, Johnson, Smith, Mrs. 11. 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 ; Pants loml, Mr. flawsins ; 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 Four. 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 open. THIS EVENING, JANUARY 2, Will be performed the splendid French Spee,tacle of THE VIC. TOMES OF MURAT, THE SOLDIER OF FRANCE; or, The General, Prince, and King. New Scenes in the Circle, and unequalled Feats of Horsemanship. To conclude with a Grand Comic Pantomime, entitled HA RLE QUIN TAM O'SFIANTER , and his STEED MEG ; or, The Witches of Alloway Kirk. Harl e quin, Mr. Gibson ; Columbine, Cushnie; Clown. Mr. King; Pantaloon, Mr. Mathews. Acting and Stage Manager Mr. W. D. Broadtoot. Stalls, 55.; Poicrs 45.; LiTer Boxes, ; 2s. ; Gallery, Is.; Upper Gallery, d. Ifox.nt! , ce open daily from '1 cri till Four. Stags Boxes, One Guinea; Half-price to Ditto, Hall-a-Guinea. Private Boxes, Two imineas; Halt-price to Ditto, One Guinea. Half-price, Halt-past ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. THIS EVENING, JANUARY 2, Will be pertcrmed THE CROSS ROADS OF LIFE; or, The Scamps of London. Devereux, Mr. Freer ; Frank Danvers Mr. Nantz ; Louisa, Miss Vincent. After which, HARLEQUIN LINCOLN LUCKY OF LAM. ILETkI ; or, The Three Sisters of Witch Willow Dell. Harlequin, Mr. Chapino ; Clown, Mr. Scarbrow ; Pantaloon, Mr. Morelli; Columbine, Miss M. Schmidt To conclude with THE LAST WITNESS. TH 141 W EATH E R.- 6UN OFFICE, JAN 2. 1: II E 431031 FT Ell, Lowest, 30 ; Highest, 38 ; Noon, 33. BA ROM 14TE ft, 29.66.-I\7IND, N. W. NOTE.—The number 32 on the Thermometer denotes the freezing point, tankl 55 temperate. In Barometers tar is usually placed opposite 30, and rain at, 29. -ve , ••• • %• • f d r -• EV 4 • SECOND EDITION. ebriening (*am LONDON, TUESDAY, JANUARY 2, 1844. The exp!anations 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 CHARLES METCALFE, under date of the •27th November, 1843, and the answer of his Excellency thereto, dated on the following day. We were certainly astonished at the news of the Council's resignation. But astonishment is an emo tion 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 METCALFE'S administration of the Government of Canada has been conducted, 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 appeays to have been, that in order to preserve between the different 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 Soya.. REIGN, constituting a provincial administration 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 and interests of the people, which our gracious SOVEREIGN has de clared shall be the rule of the Provincial Government, will, on all occasions, be faithfully represented and advocated. It will be seen by Sir CIIARLES METCALFE'S reply, that this pledge, so far as it respected the course 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 Kr. LAXOETAIIi4 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 necs artifices whose fate it is, on the highest authority, arte perire sna—would hardly have augmented the jeopardy of their case by the ill-advised statement with which they followed up this effort. Tii's 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 yen which moralists, as well as jurists, sternly denounce tis equivalent to the suggestio 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 qf 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 analogy 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 oil 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 wkicht x th i trp l ‘ rere !parent grounds for difference of putigii . ,'9BV:yo ( 6o to all measures of Government involving polificai 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 eemarks, " had demanded of the Governor- 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 candidates should in every instance be laid before the Council ; that they should recommend any others at discretion ; and that the Governor•General,,,in deciding after taking their advice, should not make any appointment prejudicial to their influence." Is it possible 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. Ile 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, be 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 differeat terms, but (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 be 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 tive 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 of Parliament. With regard to this duty he 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, twe 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 opponents 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 a 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 en 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 Central 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 material 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 Duc 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, but 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 as de jure (so far as the will of the people is equivalent to law), transferred from him, and carried to the feet 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 Louis PIIILIPPE ? In Spain (that restless volcano of political 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. IVe 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 her hostile attempts upon the Constitution. ESPARTERO himself, cne day besieging and bombarding the cities where but a few brief months before his popularity had been most enthusiastic and remarkable—another a fugitive, in jeopardy of liberty and life, throwing himself on board an English man-of-war, and received lot° 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 sta ;es, 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 : and 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 (yen, 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 NAnveEz and CONCHA by his cruelty and severities, is shortly replaced by Baron RE 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 Figueras ; 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 which 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 McnoLAs 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 degra dation he has inflicted upon them—unconscious, perhaps, of, and certainly indifferent to, the deep and lasting 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 a visitation as well oven as 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, Lours 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 intelligencelthey bring is not important. The Spanish Commissioners deputed by the Government to invite Queen CHRIS 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 preparations 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 Powers have amicable relations with France. 'We are much 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 Ministers 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 many places several inches deep. Both the barometer and thermometer are very low, and there is every appearance of severe weather. LLOYD'S SHIPPIN G.-( THIS DAY.) LONDON, JAN. 2. —Wind, light breeze from N.W. and fine. OFF SWANAGE, DEC. 28.—Europe, Grebb, Quebec. DARTMOUTH, DEC. 31.—Arrd. Anna Elizabeth, Am sterdam, for Surinam. OFF LooE, DEC. 29.—Zeenirz de Boer, Batavia, for Rotterdam. BOWNORE (ISLAY), PREVIOUS TO DEC. 27.—Express, Campbell, Laguna. SHIELDS, DEC. 30.—The Margaret and Jane, Hender son, of Newcastle, which was laid on the Limekil❑ shore, with damage, has been repaired and proceeded. OFF PENZANCE, DEC. 29.—Stad Schiedam, Sault, Batavia, for Amsterdam; Bonne Mice, St. Domingo, for Rouen. BRISTOL, JAN. I.—Arrd. Nestor, Burrows, Africa. LIVERPOOL, JAN. I.—Wind N.W., fresh.—Arrd. Ade laide, Miramichi; Buruhopeside, Montreal. Arrd. off, Hope. Glasgow. CORK, I)Ec. 30.—Arrd. Concord, St. Domingo, for Havre, master and eight men washed overboard, oft' Ber muda. Herculas, London for Ne.v York, bore up from long. 27, with loss of a cookhouse, stanchions, &c., in a gale. LIMERICK, DEC. 30.—The Parmelia, Ross, towed into the Shannon in distress, has been taken to Scattery R.)ads, to repair. 1.4 NDONDERRY DEC. 30.—The Creole, Clarke, hence to Mobile, has been towed in here distnasted, having been struck by a sea on the 20th ult., lat. 56 long. 21, while lying to in a heavy gale. REDCAR,DEc. I.—The Albion, from Boston to Stock- Win, ran on the rocks off this place, on the 30th ult., but was:got eff the next tide. DEAL, JAN. I.—Wind W.S.W. and N.W., strong. r.u. N. W., light airs.—Arrd. Cheldyra, Wishart, Sydney ; Cuthbert, Young, Ilerideen, and William Gurney, Calcutta ; Thebe, Batavia, J. Henry Yates, Valparaiso ; Ocean, Wilson, Sierra Leone ; Rambler, Demerara ; John Horroeks, APLauchlan, Berbice ; Sandwich, Batter, St. Lucia; Minerva, Ogdren, Nassau; Concord. Cobb, Quebec ; Marmaduke, Wake, and Pro mise, Bickford, Saguenay. Sld. Malacca, Madras; Quebec, New York. OFF MARGATE, JAN. I. Parland, Gillespie, Cal cutta ; Chanois, Jay, Buenos Ayres. OFF DARTMOUTH, DEC. 29.—Coquette, Sierra Leone. FALMOUTH, JAN. I.—Wind N.N.W., fresh breezes.— Arrd. Black Nymph, London for Ascension - John, do. for Gambia ; Forester, do. for Tobago. Put back, Syd ford for Grenada ; Duke of Norfolk, for Tobago. MARKET NEWTS.-(THIS DAY.) HA T IYZATMETS. SMITHFIELD.—Coarse Meadow Hay, 21 lOs to 31; useful ditto, 31 5s to 3 / lOs ; fine upland ditto, 3 / 12s to 3/ 16s. Clover Hay, 3/ to 54 Oat Straw, 1/ 6 s t o 1/ 8s ; Wheat Straw, 1/ 8s to 11 lOs per lcad. B o th Hay and Straw met a very dull inquiry, at barely last eek's quotations. CUMBERLAND.—Coarse Meadow Hay, 21 12s to 3/3s; useful ditto, 3/ 5s to 3/ 14s ; fine upland ditto, 3/ 15s to 41; Clover Hay, 31 5s to 4/16s ; Oat Straw, 1/ 6s to .1/ 9s ; Wheat Straw, 11 lOs tc, 11 12 s per load. A short supply, and a heavy trade. Prices about sta tionary. WHITECLIAPEL.—Coarse Meadow Hay, 2/ 5 s t o 3/ useful ditto, 31 3s to 3 1 103 ; fine upland ditto, 3/ 12 s to 3/ 16s; Clover Hay, 3/ 5s to 5/ 5s ; Oat Straw, 1/ 6 s t o 1/ Ss ; Wheat Straw, 11 8s to 1/ 10s per load. S upp l y good, and trade dull at the above prices. coLONIAL. 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 tierces 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 lit inst. in London was 28,525,000 lbs. We quote Congon ord to good ord to but mid is to Is Id; Souchong good or d to but mid is to Is 9d; good ord to but mid is lid to is 2d ; do. Ilyson kind is 4(1 to is 9d ; Hyson good ord to mid is 11d to 2s 5d ; Young Hyson, is 9d to as 2d ; Imperial, 2s 4d to 3s 3d; Gun powoer, 2s lld to 4s 6d. The stock of Company's Congou is 3,609 ehests. TALLOW.—P. Y. C. is 41s 6d per cwt on the spot, and Town flit per cwt. Tosacco.—ln Virginia, sales have not exceeded 120 hhds, the principal part of which have been old _tobacco. Kentucky leaf And-aksipe. s Pew limited 'Wes have been made Tn both sorts, and in the former at 3%d per lb below last month's quo tations. teons. In Havanna leaf a fair ext en t of business has been done, and descri v tions of good qua li ty su itable for fillers, have been sold at an advance. H avanna h S eg ars, 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 been in very good demand, bat at present the market is well supplied, and parcels may be obtained at rather lower rates. INEitio has been exceedingly difficult to sell. LAC DYE has fallen off in the demand for home use, and the stock in hand is very large. COCHINEAL has been in g oo d d eman d, both for home use and exportation. SALTPETRE has been in f a i r request, an d prices fully sus tained. NITRATE OF SODA has g one off very 5 1 0 w19 % BRIMSTONE remains witho u t a l terat i on in price. RuM.—The quantity landed l ast mont h a t the East and West India Docks was 321 puns, 43 hhda ; t h e re were taken for home consumption 1,177 puns, 107 hhds, and exported 2,066 puns, 163 hhds. The stock in th e same p l a ces is 13,285 puns, 2,074 hhds. COAL MARKET Ships arrived since last market.day, 60, 2 , 2 d.l Middle's West Hartley l5 7 Davison's West Hartley l6 Hastings Hartley New Tanfield Moor l4 0 Ord's Redheugh l4 , Pontop Windsor •... 14 0 Raven sworth West Hartley 15 6 Taylor's Hartley l5 6 West Hartley..... l6 i West Wylam l5 3 Wylam Walls End Clark and Co. Walls End Gosforth Walls End Heaton lB 0 Walls End Hilda. l7 6 PRICES 0 . d. Walls End Hotspur ' . ,17 3 Walls End Killingworth l7 6 Walls End 17 9 Walls End Haswell . ...... 20 6 Walls End Hctton '0 3 Wahs End Pemberton ..... 18 3 Walls End Russell's Hetton 19 0 Walls End Stewart's 2O 3 Walls End Caradoc 20 3 Walls End Adelaide ...... 19 5 Walls End Brown's DeanerylB 9 Walls End Seymour Tees l9 11 Walls Dad Tees "l9 6 Cowpen .. ........ « l6 C Howard's * W. N etherton .. 15 6 'l l. SEEDS Per Quarter St. Foin .....«..... ....... —s 385 461 'Rye Grass ..... ....... 8s his racey Grass... ......... --S 'Linseed, for feedin; ..—s 54s 56s 'Ditto, for sowing ....... —s 62s 66' Ditto for crushing ....—s 508 53 s Hemr .—s 365 42s Canary ........ . .... . .—s 60 s 6 Fs Per liushel White Mustard...los Od to 12s Od Brown Ditto ........ los Od to 145 Pd Tares 4s Cd to it Per Cwt. New English lied C10ver...35s 568 1 Old Ditto Ditto —s —s ...a, New Foreign 35s 54 s Old Ditto Ditto —s — s i New White (River 453 ses Ms' Old Ditto Ditto —s s —.3 New Trefoil r s 12s 24s' Old Ditto —s —s —s frefolium .......... —s English Carraway —s 40s 41s Foreign Ditto s 40s 46s Coriander —s 141 2081 The Marquis of Ilastings, we learn, is suffering from protracted illness at Southampton, where the Noble Marquis, accompanied by the Marchioness, has arrived fr Dornenaeutli ; withW the Leal few days. SUMg.'ARY OF NEWS AND Vutatt 14) /Anton. " Who 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 for 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 E to the hospices, 100,000 E to bureaux de bienfaisance, and 100,00uf. 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 " notwithstanding the indirect admissions that have been made by the intimate friends of the executive, that he is opposed to annexation, 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 fur annexation, we consider,it certain thaithe would accede to it with joy." A letter from Ragusa, Dec. 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 standing between Brazil and Buenos Ayres, had not been healed. M.A.W AND POLICE. At the Stafford Assizes on the 30th ult., 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 Mr. Baron Rolfe, sentenced them to 18 months' im prisonment 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 his 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 coin. At Marylebone, George Patmore and Robert Jerran, two canal boatmen, were charged with improper con duct towards a married woman between 50 and 60 years of age, and afterwards committing a brutal assault upon her when she remonstrated. The former was ordered to pay a fine of 5/. and the latter 40s. Being unable to pay they were locked up. At Woolwich, a middle-aged man, named Hammond, who has hitherto borne a most irreproachable character in the town of Woobi ich, was charged with stealing pots from licensed victuallers and others. The case excited the greatest interest, from the respectability of the pri son?r's friends, and he being the last person to be sus pected of carrying on this systematic sort of plunder. He was at the same time charged with attempting to utter counterfeit coin. After several witnesses had given evidence, the Magistrate said was it not from the urgent solicitation of those present to deal leniently with the case, he should decidedly commit him for trial, as it looked like a regular system carried on by him, and little expected as the party. He now should fine him the highest penalty the law allowed, that was 51., in default to be committed to Maidstone gaol. for one month and held labour. Mr. Broderip, after disposing of the night charges at the Thames Police-office, remarked that the amendment in the habits and manners of the people of the district was very striking. A night of festivity—th going out of the old year and the coming in of the new one—had just taken place, and Sunday had also intervened, but there were only four cases of drunkenness ; none of them were attended w ith violence and disorder, and they were of the ordinary description. It was a great amend ment indeed. The district to which the Magistrate re ferred comprises 'a population of 100,000 persons, in cluding Shadwell, Limehouse, Poplar, and St. George's in-the-East, where sailors most do congregate. COURT-PASIIIONABX.E. The Puke of Bordeaux arrived at Plymouth from Ugbrook on the 30th ult., where he would remain till the following day in order to inspect the establishments of that port. _ _ _ The Duke of Cambridge is at present at Dean-park, on a visit to the Earl of Cardigan. The Duke and Duchess of Sutherland and family are detained in town by the serious illness of their infant son. In consequence of alarming symptoms having pre sented themselves on Saturday, several physicians were called in, but subsequently, we hear, a change, consider ably for the better, has taken place. As soon as the infant has recovered the Duke and Duchess go to Tren tham. The Duke and Duchess of Montrose are entertaining a large party at Sulby Hall, Northamptonshire. The Countess of Jersey and Lady Clementina Villiers join the circle to-day, and from thence will go to Belvoir Castle. 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 Villiers, and a numerous circle, meet there early in the next week. Viscount and Viscountess Dungannon and the Hon. Miss Irvine left Grafton-street yesterday for Southamp ton, intending to embark there for Havre. The Viscount and Viscountess purpose remaining abroad some months. The Earl of Penbroke intends to pass the winter in Paris, and does not 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 with the venerable Countess. Lord Beaumont has returned to Carlton Hall, near Selby, from Burton Constable, the seat of Sir Clifford Constable, near llull. The Marquis of Salisbury has, during thc , last week, had a succession of guests at his fine old scat in lierts, among whom were the Earl and Countess of Essex, Countess of Jersey, and Lady Clementina Villiers, Lady A. Capel, Lord and Lady De Ros and Honourable Miss De Ros, Sir Henry Hardinge, Lord Polworth, Earl of Ripon, Lord Goderich, Viscount Mahon, Lord Sandys, &c. MISCELLANEOUS. 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 Consor►t'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/. 11s. Among the visitors were a considerable number of foreigners. When the Duke de Bordeaux, says the Cheltenham Journal, visited Badminton, 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 ! Will Long's horn was rounded, 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. TIIE LATE EARTHQUAKE IN THE CHANNEL ISLANDS. -It appears from the Guernsey Star of Thursday last, that the shock of an earthquake, which was felt in Guernsey on 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 TO THREE. The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were about 14,000 bales, at prices sd. per lb. higher than on Friday. Speculators took 6,000 bales. The sales included 400 bales of Surat, at 3/d. to 4d. ; 1,500 Egyptian, at 64d. to • 7d.; and the rest American at 44d. to 6d. per lb.— Shares had a further tendency to improve, and a large business was done. Eastern Counties were 14 to 105 ; Birmingham, 236 ; South Western, 77 ; Manchester and Leeds, 1015; North Midland, 90; Paris and Rouen, 324; Rouen and Havre, 114 ; South Eastern, 36 ; Paris and Lyons, 31. 3s. 6d.; Paris and Orleans, 341. 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 the 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 10,6001. 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 974. Consols for account opened at 97 to 975, have since been quoted at 971-, and are now at 97,5. a'he premium upon lixchequer bills is at 645. to 695. premium; and upon India Bonds at 78s. to 80s. Bank Stock commands 1855; and the Three and-a-Half per Cents. are 1028 to 1024. 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 fluctuated from 31 to 318 ; the Actives from 235 to 224 ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. from 544 to 8 ; the Five per Cents. from 994 to ' • and Colombian from 11 8 to 4 ; Brazilian are at 73 4 . Shares are brisk and advancing. Eastern Counties 12* to 12 ; Great North of England 144 • Brighton q ;t054 ; Blackwall 10*, 64, to 61 Manchester and Bir mingham 4 ; Midland Counties 124 ; North Midland 9i- ; and South Eastern 124 to 8 discount. Edinburgh and Glasgow are 9 ; Great Western 334 to 345 ; ditto New 20 ; Hull and Selby 11 ; South Western 345 to 345 ; Croydon 1 ; Manchester and Leeds 32 ; Northern and Eastern 8 ; Paris and Orleans 144 to 14 ; Rouen and Havre 6 to 4 ; South Eastern Scrip. 114 to 12 ; Yar mouth and Norwich 35 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 9 8 .97ii 98 3i per Cent. Annuities, 1818 3/ per Cent. Reduced Annuities Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan. 1860 l2a , Bank Stock for Account Consols for Opening Exchequer Bills, lid. lid. 10001. 500/. Ditto Small FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Belgian Bonds, 5 per Cent lo3ii Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent. Mexican lionds, 1837, 6 per Cent.....,... 33 Ditto for the Account 32i 33 YY Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent. & Ditto Converted Spanish Bonds, Five per Cent. Ditto for the Account 2N4 224 Ditto Passive Bonds Ditto Deferred l2k Ditto Three per Cent. .Ditto for the Account 3144 31 Dutch 24 per Cent ...... ......... 5444 Dutch 5 per Cent. Ditto for the Account lOO PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE. RAILWAYS. Paid. Per Share. Birmingham and Derby Bristol and Exeter 7O .. ... 65 ...... to 6 1 4 Eastern Counties Ditto Scrip .. B/. 6s. Bd. ...... lak Do. New Registered - to Ditto Debentures 81. 6s. Bd. Edinburgh and Glasgow ......... 50 &eat North of England ........100 Great Western Ditto 4 Shares Ditto Fifths Hull and Selby London and Brighton ...... ... 50 . ... 4348 ... to 44S London and Blackwall ...... ...... 164 64 to London and Greenwich London and South Western .. 4135 ... .. 754 76...t0 754 Landon and Croydon ( Trunk)... 131 144...... to Manchester and Leeds —.... 70 lO2 ..... to —. Manchester & Leeds (k Shares) '2 74 to Manchester and Birmingham ... 40 Midland Counties 100 Northern and Eastern Ditto. Scrip ... 15 North Midland .. ~.100 .904 to Paris and Orleans Rouen and Havre .... ......... .. 6 south I..astern and Dover.. Ditto Scrip ... to 37 Yarmouth and Norwich... ...... ... 13 York and North Midland 5O l2O JOINT STOCK BANKS. Colonial... LAW INTELLIGENCE SHERIFF'S COURT.-(THIS DAY.) MARDON V. PREETY. This was an action for debt, brought to recover 31. 45., for work and labour done. The plaintiff was a carpenter, residing at Camden -town, and the defendant a surgeon, holding a com mission in her Majesty's Royal Navy. In the early part of the year 1839 the defendant was carrying on his professional busi ness in Chapel-place, Pentonvil!e, and the sum claimed was alleged to be due for fitting up his surgery, and doing various jobs of carpenter's work about the premises. 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 jury, however, returned a verdict for the plaintiff. CRIMINAL COURT.-(THIS DAY.) OLD CO UI? 7. (Before the RECORDER.) S amue l M. Vandean and Sarah Thompson delivered them selves up to take their trial for a conspiracy to defraud the creditors of a bankrupt named Bacon, and concealing some money and goods. Mr. Clarkson and Mr. Bodkin conducted the prosecution. This 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 sum of 3001., of which her husband had no knowledge. This money she placed in a portmanteau, and, when the bankruptcy took place, she sent her sun 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. Bacon, the defendant Thompson, her sister, and the other prisoner Vendean, who was also a near relative of kers. Mr. CLARKSON 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 had 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 improbable to the jury, that they at once acquitted the defendants. NEW COURT. (Before Mr. Commissioner 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 founi Guilty, and centeneed to be impri• Boned 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 dru►n 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 out 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, alter a few minutes deliberation, returned a ver dict of Not Guilty. Elizabeth M. Milian was charged with stealinc , a necklace 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 pariah 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 James 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 robbery was intended. Mr. JA KOINE (to the prisoner)—What do you say in answer to the charge? Prisoner (sullenly)—Nothing. Mr. JARDINE said he had never heard 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. lie 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. CLERKENWELL—(THIS DAY.) Thomas Hoven was charged with stealing a quantity of va luable books, the property o f M r. Ri c h ar d All en S pr i ng, book seller, No. 106, Great Russell -street, Bloomsbury. It appeared from the evidenc e th a t 911 tin preview main the prisoner went into the shop with a letter with no addre s : in it, and said he had been sent by Mr. Hodson, a gentler; living opposite, to request that Mr. Spring's clerk would wo d the address ; his wife had just Jain in, and his sister was di:v. and between both he was in a perfect agony of The shopman said he would write the address, and way' so when the prisoner, who had his back to the window, on e one of his hands, secreted several books on his person, sto;7l the larger ones between hi s c oa t an d hi s b ac k. Th e pr isoner _ 11 _ 4 ' very nearly succeeded , as it was then twilight, but Mr. MO, came into the shop, and discov er i n g the robbery, called' 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 the unfortunate servant of Mr. Walker, of Bodeen. 'IL I ' place of the murder is about a quarter of a mile from the scene of the Finnoe massacre. There was o nly on. witness examined at the inquest, the widow of the d?; ceased. The resident magistrate, T. Brereton, Esq., ' 3l ' not consider it necessary to examine any more; and the foreman of the jury, Bowen P. Cashel, Esq., Said th a t. it would not be safe to submit any witness to . the ordel' of a public examination. He would feel it- his duty examine witnesses, were; ho 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 see n about the house of the deceased ; there were a fe l women sitting with the corpse. The Coroner had to bring his jury principally from Borrisokane, a distanc e , of nearly two miles. There were in attendance—Edw: ru Waller and John F. Waller, Esqrs., the sons of the late lamented Thomas Walter, Esq.; Thomas George Stone)", Esq., brother-in-law to these gentlemen ; Thomas Brereton, Esq.. H.M. ; P. Carroll, Esq., County 1 0 Spector; and, amongst others, Mr. Marshall, the eminel o 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 her husband, the deceased John Ardell, was in the e mploy of Richard Joseph Falkiner, Esq., as ploughman and care-taker of the horses ; that on the 26th day of Dr ember he was ploughing in the morning and taking cor e of the horses in the evening. He came home to bis dinner at the usual hour, and left the house about cne 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. Ile was at the time wounded, and unable to speak. He stir 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 bim cry, and found him lying forty or fifty yards from his own house. It is about hal a mile from this where the late Mr. Waller was wor, dered. My husband did not speak to me at all. found him lying upon his back and unable to speal a He was immediately after removed into the house There is no doubt in my mind but he was waylaid by. some persons. Mr. Brereton here said, that if the widow's elideros was sufficient to answer the purposes of the inquest, he would not offer any other witnesses for examination. Mr. R. Cashel (foreman of the jury)—l did nqt like to itAc the question, if he had a dispute with any person. If I was upon an inquest in any other county, I would do it, but it would not be safe for any person here to put the question. I would rather leave it for private exa mination. Mr. Brereton, R.M.—I would rather not send any more evidence. • J. J. Stoney, Esq., M.D., proved that he examined the body of the deceased John Ardell, and that he found a number of fractures on the left side of the head, and gi depression of the fractured particles of the bone, causing a lacerated wound of the brain, and which had been in', flicted by some heavy blunt instrument, and which was the cause of his death. Mr. Cashel—Our verdict is, " That this is a barbarous and brutal murder by some persons unknown." A Juror—l think the wounds were inflicted by a pistol or gun. _ _ Mr. Cashel—l never witnessed anything more savage• I did not think they would beat a dog in such a way. Mr. J. F. Waller—lt is but in heathen countries that they beat dogs in that manner, and only in Christitul countries that they beat men so brutally. THE RECENT FIRE AT LIVERPOOL White, man who tell from the building at Messrs. Brancker's, and was so much injured, though a fearful spectacle, ie. not dead • he 'labours under concussion of the brain, injury of the spine, and many other disasters, yet his medical at;endants at the Northern Hose pital entertain hopes of his recovery.. Cassidy, who was in the lorry when White tell, is perfectly sensible, and is able to converse with the medical officers of the hospital. His recovery is almost a matter of certainty. Jones is fearfully burnt ; he is wrapped up in clothes, and looks like a mummy. Michael Ennissey, who was carried home to his friends, dreadfully burnt, has been conveyed to the Northern Hospital, where he lies in a very precarious state. No doubt exists as to the fate of poor Woods ; that he is under the ruins is unhap pily too true. The opinion of the surgeon at the Northern Hospital is, that all his patients will recover, notwith standing their present state ; so that Woods, it is hoped, will be the only victim. A. B. C.....-ANECDOTE OF THE PRINCESS VICTORIA. —Whilst under the process t f learning her A B C, the Princess evinced no usual degree of curiosity to ascer tain the utility of being so tormented. " What good this—what good this ?" was her frequent inquiry ; and when satisfied " that mamma could know all that was contained in the g..nt bunk on the table because shoe' knew her letters, whilst the little daughter could not • the little lady replied, " I learn, too—l learn, too—very quick 1" and, it is added, she so quickened her pace in learning and articulation, as soon to become mistress of the alphabet.—From Frazer's Magazine. EARL GREY.—We are glad to learn that letters , were received in Stanhope-street yesterday, which state that Lord Grey had enjoyed sleep during several hours of the night for some nights past. The Noble Lord had also suffered less pain lately, and his pulse and appetite were quite good. There is still, however. danger, and considerable cause for the anxiety of his friends. The great age of his Lordship (eighty years in March next) of course renders him less able to combat successfully with the attack. SUDDEN DEATH OF AN ARTlST.—Yesterday fore noon an inquest was taken before Mr. Wakley, M.P., av the Lord Wellington, University-street, Tottenham court-road, on view of the body of Mr. Thomas Gibson, aged thirty-two, an artist of some celebrity, residing . at Carlisle, whose death took place under the following melancholy circumstances:—lt appeared from the evi dence, that about a month since, the deceased, who was a married man, with a family, arrived in town, for the purpose of executing two paintings for a nobleman who had sent for him, on the finishing of which be purposed returning home. He took apartments at No. 32, in the above-named street, where he continued to reside in perfect health up to the time of his decease. On the night of Friday last, about half-past twelve o'clock, the landlady of the house hearing the sound of low moans, interspersed with ejaculatory cries of " Murder," pro ceeding- from deceased's bed-room, hastened thither, and on entering found deceased lying on the bed in his clothes, in a state of insensibility. Mr. E. Garland, surgeon, said that he was sent for to attend the de ceased, whom he found insensible, and apparently labouring under an attack of apoplexy. He bled him in the arm and jugular vein, taking away from him, alto gether, twenty-eight ounces of blood, but without any visible effect, and he died in less than two hours. He had, with Dr. Taylor, since made a post mortem exami nation of the body of deceased, and ascertained that the immediate cause of death was extravasation of blood on the brain. Verdict—" Natural death." FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE BIRMINGHAM AND GLOUCESTER RAILWAY.—On the arrival at Bromsgrolo station of the d , iwn train from Birmingham, about thirty' minutes past five o'clock on Wednesday evening, a bat, jacket, and bundle of sticks were found lying on the buffer bar of the engine. This leading to the suspicion that sonic accident had happened on the line, the pilot engine was instantly dispatched to ascertain the particu lars ; and between Barnt Green (near the residence of Mr. Mauglian), and Crofton Hall (the residence of Mr. Penn), the both of a labouring man was found lying be tween the rails quite dead. The body was warm, and it appeared the train had not passed over him, but it is supposed that the buffer bar of the engine struck hint in the back, and that his hat, jacket, and sticks were jerked at the same incipient upon the buffer bar, and there remained until the engine arrived at the station as before, mentioned. At the point, or nearly so, where the accident took place, the up-train pissed the down-train, and it is thought that that threw the poor fellow off his guard. The body was conveyed to the Malt Shovel, Vigo, and there lies, awaiting the Coroner's inquest, which will be held by Mr. Docker, at three o'clock this afternoon. The poor man, whose name is Berm, was about fifty-five years of age, and in the employ of Mr. Lamb, one of the cont ractors o f t h e li ne. T here was no crossing within a mile of the spot where the accident happened. It was about forty-five minutes from the time of the accident until the holy was found.— Worces ter Herald. MILITARY INTELLIGENCE.—MAIDSTONE.—A small detachment of ten men of the 7th Dragoon Guards is at this depot, under orders to join the head-quarters of that regiment at the Cape of Good Hope. The officers who will accompany the draft are Cornets Gore and Bum bray, of the 7th. It is stated that the depot of the 16th Lancers, which was transferred from Canterbury to Maidstone in September last, will, at an early period, be removed from the last place to Brampton Barracks. The reason assigned for this change is, that the depot at Maidstone is insufficient for accommodation of the num ber of men at present there, in addition to the large number of recruits required to reinforce the 3d Light Dragoons and 9th Lancers in the East. CITY POLICE. —NEW REGULATION B.—The follow ing official " pass order" has been forwarded to the various police stations in the City, and came into opera tion yesterday, viz. :—One undetected robbery having taken place in the section of any sergeant during the year 1843, the said sergeant to be removed to another division.—No sergeant to continue to act as sergeant in whose section two undetected robberies shall have occurred during the year 1843.—N0 sergeant to be allowed to act as assistant inspector upon whose sec tion one undetected rubbery shall have occurred.—The men are exhorted to adhere strictly to their book of instructions, and either or any of them discovered talking to females, or going into public-houses, 8c5., whilst on duty, will be suspended, or forthwith dis charged.—The inspectors, sergeants, and men to reside within the section of their division.—The latter has pro duced great dissatisfaction among the inspectors and sergeants, many of whom occupy houses and reside at some distance from their division. TILE IRON TRADE.—We are very glad to hear that a second furnace was blown in at Trimsaran, Carmar thenshire, on Tuesday last. We understand that the iron that . is made is o f th e b est qual i ty, being manufac tured w ith anthracite coal. Welshman. •.•••••,. THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 2: 1844 of