The Sun. — London, England, 1839-01-28 00:00:00

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. Morning lO mi• utes after 21 Evening 33 minutes after 2 FUN AND PHILOSOPHY. The singular MEMOIRS of DAVY DREAMY, Edited by FLIT, and Illustrated with Humourous Etchings, by PE' ER PALETTE, will be Published on Friday next. SOLD EVERYWHERE. Offices, 343 and 268, Strand. This day was published, the F: T HE A T Price 1 Contents—Reviews, with copie English and Foreign, including Seat of War in the East (new editions of Elphinstone and Connolly), with an original and interesting Letter from the Banks of the Indus Steam Navigation, with the best means of Extending and Im proving it Erman's Travels in Siberia (vol 2) Von Humboldt on the Fluctuations in the production of Gold Flagman's Lectures on Sculpture (2d edition, with additions by Sir R. 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ORIGINAL POETRY, Papers, Obituary Notices (L. E. L. —Duchess of Wirtemberg—The Archbishop of Cashel, &c. ) Foreign Correspondence (a Paris letter contains an account of The Daguerotype, the new method of Engraving)—Notices of the Theatres, &C.—Gossip with reference to the current Topics of Conversation : and Miscellanea, including all that is likely to in terest the informed and intelligent. The ATHENEUM is the largest Literary Paper (16, fre quently 24, large quarto pages) ; and it may be observed for the information of persons abroad, that this Monthly Part alone (price Is. 4d.), contains as much matter as two octavo volumes of 300 pages each, with 25 lines in a page. It may be ordered of all Booksellers and Newsmen ; and a Stamped Edition is published, which goes free by post. 'irst Monthly Part for 1839 of HENEUM. s. 4(1. )us extracts of all New Works, Sir J. Barrow's Life of Lord Anson Lord Chatham's Correspondence (2d vol. ) Ancient Scottish Melodies.— Edited by W. 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Persons desirous to purchase may receive PREVIOUS to giving any order, the Prospectus and Particulars, upon addressing, WITHOUT DELAY, a line to HEINE BROTHERS at HAMBURGH. The publication of Tnz SUN NEWSPAPER commenced this day at 0 minutes past Three o' Clock. -") it . - ... ''' :Pit:L, , ,, jti * , ---4 t, 4 - ~, P, •', ~-. qi , *,.; i : ~ ,.r.. .-..:1,i.!.. '''-. 3 . 4 "' - '_,__- , ir r ) LONDON : MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY 28, 1839. The Ten Towns' Messenger states that Sir RO BERT PEEL will, support a modification, but not a repeal of the Corn-laws. That settles the question of a change in them. Mr. O'CONNELL, it is rumoured, will vote against those laws, but the Irish Members generally will vote as their interest and the interests of their constituents dictate. The Tory Papers, one and all, continue to fire vehement abuse day after day at the Corn-law agi tators, and daily the Corn-law agitators increase in strength and numbers. Everywhere the determination has been formed to submit to no compromise, and we learn from Manchester that the opinion is there gain ing ground that a bounty ought to be given, as in the time of WILLIAM and MARY, on the importation of corn, in order to save our manufactures from the ruin with which they are threatened. We will say at once that such a bounty will be only to enact a new injustice, and we cannot approve of it. The bounty is intended to protect a particular interest, and will come out of the pockets of the whole people. We have already said, in reply to the Herald's argument, that the landlords have been unjustly treated in times past, that evils already suffered cannot be remedied, or undone, by committing another injustice. That such opinions have been generally' espoused is, however, a strong proof of the exasperation which has been caused by the continuance of the ruinous Bread Tax. `We also learn from Manchester, that the Chartists of Oldham, and we believe Wigan, have joined the middle classes for Corn-law agitation. To us Tio part of the late proceedings at Manchester gave greater pleasure than the assurance we found in them that the working classes in that neighbourhood were in many cases disposed to act cordially with their masters, to procure a repeal of the Corn-laws. A Correspondent informs us that Lord JOIIN RUSSELL'S letter is likely to have considerable influence in this respect. Nothing less than complete and total abolition is demanded by the manufacturers—nothing • less will or ought to satisfy them; but Lord JOHN RUSSELL is " for a moderate fixed duty," and this oppositicn is properly regarded as a proof that the Abolitionists are not set in motion by the Ministers. With such proofs before us of the extent of the agitation and the determination of the people to have a total abolition, promising complete success, we see no chance of their being cajoled into accepting the fixed moderate duty proposed by Lord JOHN RUSSELL. We refer to our reports of the meetings at Kendal and Stroud, to which we have not space further to ad vert, and to the public meetings which have been called at Newcastle, Leicester, and in the Metropolitan Borotighs, and indeed in every part of the country, to convince our readers, that, till the Corn-law question is settled, Parliament will not he allowed to occupy itself with anv other subject. We refer the reader to a brief but important Re port of a Church-rate Meeting, held at King's Lynn, on Friday last. The senior Churchwarden, Mr. JAMES TOWELL, a man of high respectability, and a firm supporter of the Church, declared that, be the consequences what they might, he never would be a party to any proceedings by means of distress warrants against conscientious Dissenters. The plan which he proposed was , t o lay such a rate as when levied on members of the Establishment, should be fully ade quate to the necessities of the case, without resorting to compulsory measures against those who do not be long to its communion. This is a course recommended no less by an enlightened zeal for the true interests of the Church, than by a regard for justice and the sacred rights of conscience. Mr. TOWELL has set an example which we trust will not be lost upon other Churchwardens. Happy would it be for the Church, were it universally imitated. Instead of those perpe tually recurring contests which are disturbing the pre sent peace of society, and sowing the seeds of lasting animosity among the inhabitants of the same locality, we should then see good will and harmony prevailing among them, however diversified they might be by ieligious opinions. In the Congress of the United States application has been made to the Government requesting the Ex ecutive to communicate to the House of Representa tives any correspondence that may have taken place with the British Government relative to compensation for the destruction of the Caroline steamer, and also any information received as to the treatment of American citizens by the authorities of Upper Canada. We think the Member who laid these and other pro positions respecting Canadian affairs on the table might, as a matter of justice,: have added many others to the list, and among these how much property of British subjects had been destroyed by American citi zens during the last twelve months—how many lives had been sacrificed in consequence of the negli gence or connivance of American functionaries, and what may be the amount of expense incurred by the British Government in sending out troops from England, and paying the Canadian militia to protect the frontier against the incursions of the citizens of the United States. A fourth return might have been required, and that the President could easily furnish, setting forth how many of these citizens, guilty of a breach of the laws of nations, had been captured, and after wards made their escape from American prisons, and also the number of individuals punished by the Ame rican Government for carrying fire and sword into a neighbouring and friendly territory. Possibly these questions will yet be put to the British Government by some Member of Parliament, and then the public will be able to say which party has the best claim to compensation. It is very clear that Old Glory has survived his friends as well as his faculties, or he would not be al lowed to make so public a fool of himself as he is doing. We perceive that a small knot of obscure Tories at Ashby-de-la-Zouch paraded him the other day as. Chairman at one of their annual feeds. The poor old dotard drivelled away, as he ale ays does— praising to the skies the Tories past and present, and reviling the Liberals, especially the Catholics of Ireland, with the wreck of the virulence of former times. Among the presentments made lately to the Court of Aldermen by the Inquests of the different Wards of the City, was one from Billingsgate, stating the hardship entailed on the Inquest by the expenses attending the discharge of their duties, and suggesting the propriety of paying these expenses in future out of the funds of the City, rather than out of the pockets of individuals. The LORD MAYOR told the gen tlemen of the Inquest that on the principle of their application every public officer in the kingdom might plead exemption from the duties devolving upon him. " Your duty," remarked his Lordship, " is of a very important nature, and, indeed, I think I may call it a privilege. You have the inspection of all the weights and scales in your Ward, and are to determine that they are of proper balance and legal weight ; and, in fact, it is the only security which you and your poorer neighbours have against the fraudulent and nefarious shopkeeper." There may perhaps be a difference of opinion as to the privilege enjoyed by the persons ap pointed on the Inquest ; there can be none as to the importance of the duties of the office, and we fear as little respecting the slovenly and inefficient manner in which they are discharged. It may be that from the great increase of trade the Inquest is not capable o fulfilling the ends of its original institution ; and in that case it becomes the more necessary that measures should be taken to adapt it to the circumstances of the present times, and to make it an adequate instrument for the correction of the great abuses over which its jurisdiction extends. The use of weights below the appointed standard, and the practice of frauds of various kinds to produce the same effect of cheating the pur chaser, are things of general and notorious occurrence among the retail dealers who hold out the temptation of low prices to attract customers. The poor, who chiefly resort to such shops, are in this wav cruelly robbed every day to an- incredible extent. Formerly, we be lieve, offences of this description were punished with great severity—with the pillory, and sometimes with the loss of ears. These punishments are now, we are happy to say, no longer in existence ; but what has been substituted in their stead ? The condemnation of the false weights, or a trifling fine of a few shillings, is all that we ever hear of as a penalty for these frau dulent practices. And what does the convicted robber of the poor man care for that ? Not a straw—it only affords him an additional motive for persevering in the same dishonest course. Why is not the name of such a wretch branded with disgrace ? The character of " fraudulent dealer" should be stamped upon him, and be made to follow him to whatever quarter he might remove. Thus the public would be put upon its guard, and his depredations prevented. We ven ture to say that if the inquest men were to avail them selves of the means in their power of giving due pub licity to every case of detected imposition, they would soon put an end to this enormous evil. Notwithstanding the outrages. into which an impe tuous temper too often hurries the natives of the sister isle, there seems to be no misgiving as to the security of property, if we may judge from the price at which land is now selling in that country. We perceive from a statement in the Dublin Evening Post that twenty f:ve years' purchase is not now esteemed a sufficiently high rate for landed property in the county of Limerick. Estates with a net rental of 1,1921. a-year in that county, were put up for sale, last week, by Mr. SIMPsoN, the auctioneer of Bucklersbury, and bought in at 30,3001. Mr. SIMPSON stated, in his address to the company assembled on this occasion, that he had sold or valued land in Ireland to the amount of 750,0001., and that a vary great improvement both in the culti vation of the soil, and in the price of landed property had taken place within the last few years. This happy change he imputes—and we think justly—to the disuse of the sub-letting system, by which the poor cotter was removed from the natural protection of the landlord, and delivered over to a middle-man, whose only care was to screw out of him an enormous rent, without regard to the impoverishment of the soil, produced by the " scourg ing" to which a tenant without capital, and paying a high rent, must necessarily subject the patch of ground which he cultivates. The Paris Journals of Friday and Saturday have all been received, but their contents are of very little im portance. After twelve o'clock on Friday night the KING, accompanied by the Dukes of ORLEANS, NEMOURS, AUMALE, and MONTPENSIERE, his sons, left Paris for Dreux, to be present at the funeral of her late Royal Highness the Duchess of WURTENIBERG. His MAJESTY was to return to Paris on Sunday. No Cabinet has yet been appointed, and, as might be expected, the subject of one 'occupies the Paris Journals, to the exclusion almost of every other. The following article, from the Commerce of Saturday, will be found to embody not only the prevailing ru mours, but the sentiments of the Moderate Opposition on the policy of leaving France f or so many d a ys, at so important a period, without a r espons ibl e Govern ment : pposition Th e ministerial question has not advanced a step to-day. The reports in circulation respecting it are consequently un founded. It has been said, for instance, that Marshal Soult, in his conversation yesterday with the King, mentioned seve ral political personages with whom he wished to enter the Cabinet, and that he had made overtures to them which had been rejected. Now Marshal Soult recommended the nomina tion of no person to the King, nor did he make nor cause to be made, any overtures to the persons in question. He could consequently experience no refusal, for this very simple rea son, that he was not charged by the. King with th e f orm ation of a Cabinet. He had with his Majesty several c onve rsations on the present crisis ; the King, at their first inter v i ew , as k e d him to aid' him in forming a Cabinet, and proposed to him to enter it with Messrs. Mole and Montalivet, which the Marshal declined. The King, in yesterday's conversation, THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY, JANUARY 28, 1839. gave up those his favourite Ministers, but did not appoint the Marshal himself, nor empower him to appoint colleagt;e: his own choosing. " All those facts are correct; we have had them from un questionable authority, and we pledge ourselves for their ac curacy, in spite of the denials of the three Ministerial Journals—the Presse, Journal des Debuts, and Aroniteur Parisien. " Thus, up to the moment at which we are writing, no man in France has been commissioned to construct a Cabinet, al though four days have elapsed since Ministers tendered their resignation, and that, in the opinion of all political men, on no former occasion during the last eight years were circumstances so critical as at this moment. The Prussians and Dutch are assembling on the frontiers of Belgium, and the Belgians themselves are preparing to resist; and, in such a situation, we have not even a Ministry in France I " The Crown must look to itself. It is now alone, and in the presence of the country called upon to accompli s h i ts rea l constitutional mission. Its own interest requires that it remain not longer uncovered,' (to use the expressions of the draught of the address.) Under Louis XVIII., the formation of a Cabinet was the work of only two days; the mission of the Prince was then confined, as it ought to be, to the selection of the President of the Council, on whom devolved the choice of the other members of the Administration. It was only towards the latter end of the reign of Charles X. that the process for the organization of Cabinets became more prot racte d ; b ut then that Prince, who had his own secret designs, was anxious to commit each department of the state to devoted instruments of his will. The Royalty of July cannot and ought not to wish a comparison to be drawn between it and the Government of that period. Still it may be truly said that there is at this moment no 'Erecting- power in France. The evil is serious ; in the Chamber every one is struck with it ; if the crisis last until then, we shall not wonder if it give rise to a Parlamentary discussion in the first days of next week." BOURSE-PARIS, SATURDAY, JAN. 26. First Highest 1 owf st Last -- • • I'rice. Price. Price. Price. French 5 per Cents 4 per Cents. ... I 2 p.:r Cents. Bank of France 269.5 ...2630 —.2625 ...2690 Belgian 5 per Cents. 3 per Cents. 65 9) ... 65 90 ... 65 90 ... 65 90 Bak O6B ... 560 ... 535 ... 525 Spanish Active Passive 4% ... 4% ... 4% ... 4% Roman EXCHANGE ON LONDON.. One month. paper, —f —c,, money, 25f 7V. ; three months, paper, 21f. V2 1 , 2 c., money, 24f. 90c. BELGIAN I. UNDS—BaussELs, JAN. 26. • actual Debt, lN per Cent. Itothschild's Loan, 5 per Cent. 9l) Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent 87% 3 per Cent. 67 Lean of City, 1832, 4 per Cent — Society of Commerce, 4y; per Cent ll5 Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent 6O National Society . —Brussels Papers, Jan. 26. AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, JAN.IB. Five per Cents. Metalliques 'rotor per Cents. Three per Cents. Bank Shares .. 1492 •—,ll l gemeineZeilung, Jan. •43. Advices from Madrid of the 19th inst. inclusive have reached us this morning. Rumours were in cir culation of a new loan being projected, to be raised in London and Paris. We trust that our countrymen have had enough of Spanish loans to render it un necessary for the Press to put them upon their guard against being again bubbled by a Government noto riously proverbial for its bad faith. But to put the unwary upon their guard, we shall anticipate the arri val of the scheming projector now on his road to Lon don, by the publication to-morrow, or the day follow ing, of a few strictures on the Spanish system of Loan contracting, in which we are materially assisted by a clever pamphlet on this very subject just published by RIDGWAY. According to the Eco del Commercio, the advan tages in men and cannon, possessed by the QUEEN over the PRETENDER at the commencement of the current year, were 154,000 infantry, 8,500 cavalry, and 48 pieces of artillery. But of what avail is this overwhelming force, except to eat up and con sume the resources of the country ? Three Carlists were shot at Seville on the 11th, for attempting to escape from prison. CABRERA having refused to hold any intercourse with VAN HALEN, the Government has reluctantly consented to the adoption of a system of reprisals. England and France will surely not tolerate the car rying on of such an atrocious system of warfare in the heart of Europe ? What England could not be driven to tolerate to save the lives of her own subjects in the maddest period of the French revolutionary war, she will surely not suffer:to exist in Spain in the middle of the 19th century. QUEEN'S BENCH.-(THIS DAY.) THE QUEEN V. VIRRIER. The defendant in this case who was convicted, during the last Middlesex Sittings, of perjure, crisiti„.7 out of the evidence given by her before the Bristol Election Committee, was this morning brought up for judgment. Mr. Serjesnt STEPHEN said he had a motion to submit in arrest of judgment. He sought to arrest judgment on certain objections relating to the verdict, and also on objections founded on the indictment itself. There were three assignments of perjury in the indictment, alleged to have taken place on the 6th July, but the indictment did not charge that the alleged conversation did not take place on any other occasion, and it was only charged by inuendo. His objection was this—that there was no allegation in the indictment, that the words, in respect of which the perjury was alleged, referred, or were spoken of and concerning the occasion when Mr. Berkeley, Mr. Carlisle, and others called, or they were alleged to have called ; and this was material, because perjury was not as signed except in respect of that particular occasion. If the indictment had contained a general allegation, not only that no sovereign was put into her hand on that occasion, but on no other, it would have excluded this objection. If Mr. Berkeley and his friends had called twice, there would be nothing in the indictment. This objection to the verdict was, that there was no finding on the third assignment of perjury, that it ►bad been inferred that the Jury meant to find them guilty on that assignment, and that the Learned Judge who tried the cause, had, in fact, upon an application to him completely altered the finding that the Jury came to under the impression that they meant to find the contrary of what they had done. The Court granted a rule on both points. THE QUEEN V. THE MAYOR OF HYTIIE. In this case a rule had been granted calling on the Mayor of the Borough of Hytlie, in Kent, to show cause why the name of six persons should not be placed on the burgess roll, they having been expunged by the Mayor and assessors; and also why the name of four others should not be put upon the list, who were not on the original list, but had sent in their claims. _ Mr. MANNING (in the absence of the ATTORNEY- GENZRAL, who was engaged in the case of the Canadians in the Ex chequer), showed cause against the rule in the case of a person named \Vni. Brown. Mr. THESIGER was heard in support of the rule. Mr. MANNING afterwards proceeded to show cause in the other cases, and after the arguments had been conclud,d, Judgment was deferred. TIIE CANADIAN PRISONERS. EXCHEQUER COURT-(THIS DAY.) The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said the returns to the writs of habeas corpus ordered by the Court on Friday had been made, and he moved that they be read. The return was then read by the Master ; it was a copy of that made to the Queen's Bench. Mr. HILL then said it was his duty to move for the discharge of the prisoners upon the ground of an insufficiency of the re turn; his motion of courae would be, that the return he quashed. He had seen some complaints that the prisoners were not contented with the adjudication of one Court, but he apprehended that the law allowed them to appeal to every Court in Westminster Hall. Whether it would be necessary or expedient to app ea l to any other, res t e d w ith t h e pr i soners and their advisers. In this money -making - country a question of time had been raised ; but in the case of Small v. Att wood, Lord Lyndhur s t, in giving judgment, said it bad occu• pied the .Court 100 days — t h ere was no question o f p u blic principle in tnat case—there was no question of any kind affecting the public, yet there was no one to say that it bad wasted tho public time. In the case before the Court, there was a great question of principle. In the case of B. Cropley, which was first taken before the King's Bench, then to the Common Pleas, an d f i nally to t h e E xc h equer, t h ere was no complaint of a waste of time. Yet the question in the present case was not of less consequence than that one. The case before their Lordships was founded upon the Ist Victoria, chap. 10, an Act of the Provincial Legislature 9f Upper Canada, by which it was contended by his Learned Friends, the Governor of that province had power to pass a sentence of transportation for life upon a pat ty who had never been tried. That law was repugnant to the laws of England, and ought to have no f orce . In this country no one could be transported without having b a d a trial—no on e cou ld b e sent in to exile without having seen the face of a Judge. His Learned Friends would be obliged to contend that the Governor who was acting under her Majesty's commission, had more power there than her Majesty had in this country. He would ask what power the Legislativ, Council of Upper Canada had to pass such an Act. If the Court were to hold that they had such a power, where was it to stop ? Had they the power under any Act of the Parliament of England to make any such laws ?—had they any power to trench upon the pre rogative of the Crown ? If they had such a power, where was the limit ? Would they make the Colony independent The whole act was an usurpation upon the prerogative of the Crown. Lord ABINGER—The law would have no effect if within two years the Queen had signified her dissent to it. Mr. HILL said that was to, but the two years had not yet passed. It was a maxim laid down in Bleekstone, 10S, that W a s suaa a law as this not repugnant to the laws of Eagiana ? Rom the earliest time, even in Magna Charta, it was laid down that no man could he exiled but by the operation of the law, arid the law required that all proceedings should he in open Court. In this case it was alleged that the prisoner had agreed to his own banishment, but that was a violation of one of the greet principles of our law, for it was not only the law of England, but it was also the law of God, that no man could consent to his own death. The same principle would hcid good with respect to banishment. The laws of England required that, in order that a man in prison give a warrant of attorney, or sign a cognovit, he must have—not only an attorney present, but must have one of his own choosing ; and that, in order only to dispose of a few pounds; but where was there any thing to show that in this case any one was present to tell the prisoner the meaning of the Act of Parliament, the nature of the pardon he petitioned for? It was averred that the prisoner had petitioned for a pardon, but how did that appear. The gaoler of Liverpool said so—he even said the prisoner had assented to the con ditions imposed upon him, but how did that appear—how did the gaoler of Liverpool know anything of that? Another objection was, that the warrant was not set forth, and he con tended that the return was insufficient, not only for the want of the warrant of Sir J. Colborne, but also for the want of that of Governor Arthur, and therefore ought to be quashed. Mr. FALCONER followed on the same side, and contended that, by the 31st Geo. 111., chap. 31, the Criminal Law of England was introduced into Upper Canada; but by that same law of the Imperial Parliament, the laws were to have no force out of Upper Canada. According to the Common Law of England, no man could be sent out of the country without having been convicted. The parties before the Court had not been convicted, and were now in England under a law which was of no avail or force out of Upper Canada. He contended that the return was defective, in consequence of it not setting out the warrant of Sir John Colborne. Mr. RoEunex followed on the same side, and was address ing the Court when we went to Press. COMMON PLEAS.--(THIS DAY.) ROTE V. BUSH. SINGULAR AND IMPORTANT CASE._This was an action tried before Mr. Justice Coltman, at London, and a verdict was found for the plaintiff, damages 301. It was an action for false imprisonment brought against the defendant, a constable, for taking the plaintiff into custody on a warrant, in which his name was erroneously given. Mr. Sergeant BOMPAS now moved for a rule to show cause why that verdict should not be set aside, and a new trial granted. It was not doubted, he said, that the plaintiff was the person intended to be apprehended, but unfortunately the warrant described him as " John Hoye," whereas his name was " Richard." Mr. Justice VAUGHAN-Was there a person named John? Mr. Sergeant BOMPAS—The father was named John, but he was not meant to be arrested. He apprehended that, in criminal proceedings,. a warrant might be issued without any name. That was constantly done at the police offices, and had been decided to be good. In fact there had been a cele brated case, in which a man bad been arrested, tried, con victed, and executed, without his name being mentioned. Lord Chief Justice TYNDAL—There is an old case in the 6th Term Reports, where it is laid down that a person cannot justify under a process in which the name of a party is mis taken. Mr. Serjeant BOMPAS. —Yes : but I submit, my Lords, there is a great difference between a civil proceeding and a criminal warrant. In cases of felony it was seldom, if ever, from the very necessity of the case, that the warrant issued for the ap prehension of a party suspected, specified his name, which was, in fact, seldom known. If a warrant had been issued to take up John, and Richard had been arrested, no doubt it would not be a justification. But in this case it was not disputed that the ri,7,lit person had been arrested; and because the name had been mistaken was the constable to be liable to an action for false inwrisonment ? Mr. Justice BOSANQUET—A warrant to arrest any per sons for a certain offence, would be bad, as being a general warrant. Mr. Serjeant BOMFAS—NO doubt ; but in this case the per son arrested was clearly the only person meant to be specified in the warrant ; and it was essential to the administration of justice that constables should be protected in the discharge of their duty, from the consequences of technical objections to warrants. But the Learned Judge has laid it down that the war rant was no justification because it had been executed out of the constable's jurisdiction, although a City constable was present at the arrest, the warrant having been "backed" to him, (and the arrest taking place at the City,) according to the constant practice ; and the only way, indeed, in which warrants could be executed in different jurisdictions.—Rule nisi granted. BOIV-STREET.-(TRIS DAY.) James Graham, bl, t eyr;our-street, James Davidson, Bedford Hotel, Covent-garden, Alerander Wood, and Thomas Styles, Colonade Hotel, Charles -street, Elaymarket, were brought up by James Ledger and another constable, charged with conducting themselves in a riotous and disorderly manner at the Adelphi Theatre on Saturday night. It appeared that the defendants had engaged a private box, but not feeling themselves altogether in as comfortable a situa tion as they wished, they contrived to get upon the stage, and being a little elevated, they put the ladies into the greatest confusion behind the scenes. They were, however, removed with much difficulty, but returned in a short time to the stage door, where they caused such confusion that it was deemed necessary to hare them conveyed to the station-house. The constables informed the Magistrates that it was not the intention of their employers to press the charge, as the defen dants apologised, and made recompence for what had happened. Thoy were consequently discharged. John Dyer and Sophia Robson, 8, Hanover-street, Long acre, were brought up on a warrant by Shackell, charged with receiving a coral necklace, a watch, an eye-glass, and a gold seal, being a portion of property which was stolen in No vember from Mr. Isaac Brendon, a solicitor, of Howland -street, Fitzroy-square, by a clerk in his service named Cameron, for which he was transported. On searching the prisoner's room, the officer found a number of duplicates answering the descrip tion of the property, and, by the prisoners' acknowledgment, they were both intimately acquainted with Cameron, whom they knew to be a thief, both before and after the. robbery was committed. _ . The prisoner Robson said she bought the duplicates from Cameron, in the presence of another person, and her com panion declared he knew nothing whatever of the offence with ,;;rich he stood charged. Mr. TwYroaD ordered them to he remanded for a week. CORN LAWS. COMMON COUNCIL MEETING (THIS DAY), A Special Common Council was held to-thy for the pur pose of proceeding with the discussion as to the propriety of the Court presenting a petition to the Legislature fur the repeal of the Corn-laws. The LORD MAYOR took the Chair at 12 o'clock, and the Minutes of the Court held last Thurs day having been read, — Mr. WOOD presented a petition from a gentleman named Atkinson, residing in Alderspate-street, praying to be heqrd either before the Court or a Committee, upon the subject of the Cora-laws. He considered that the pra) er of the petition ought to be granted, as the Court had not now before it suffi cient information to come to any sound conclusion on the subject. Mr. SMYRNA deprecated the petitioner being heard either at the bar of the Court, or before a Committee, as the arg,u guments on both sides the question were very fully before the public ; and that being the case, it never could be said that an intelligent body, like the Common Council of the City of London, were so ignorant upon the subject, as to be totally unable to come to any decision upon it, without hearing scienti fic men :.5. the bar. Mr. HALL considered it totally unnecessary to hear the peti tioner ; and he should, therefore, move that the petition should lie on the table Mr. Alderman HARUER seconded the resolution. Mr. GODSON thought the prayer of the petition ought to be granted. The Common Council of London knew nothing upon the subject, and that therefore they ought to be en lightened upon it. He was clearly of opinion the petitioner should be heard at the bar, as it would be useless to send the matter to a Committee. Mr. PRITCIIARD thought the Court was bound to hear the petitioner. After some further discussion the petition was ordered to be laid on the table. Mr. STACEY then rose to address the Court in support of the original motion. He had been astonished at the argu ments of those who opposed the motion, especially those put forward by Mr. Gadsden. He was surprised that it should have been stated that Adam Smith was opposed to the importation of foreign corn, when his opinions were directly the reverse. What did he say on the subject? Why that if impOrtation was at all times free, it n asitrue that the farmer and country gentleman would get less money for their corn than they did at present. but the money which they got would be of more value, and they would be enabled with it to buy more goods of other kinds. The advocates of free tr to in corn were willing to rest their case upon the opinie f those who had written upon the subject of the Corn -lac ` - '.--(Cheers.) It was said that protection must be given a the Corn.laws. Why ? Was protection given to manu f actures, or did t h e y a pply to the Legislature to holster up the price of certain articles they manufactured ? Clearly not. Then why, he would ask, should landlords stand i n a b etter situation?—( Cheers. ) Mechanical improvements were taking place so rapidly, that what was considered a most valuable machine one week might be use less the next, and was it to be tolerated for a moment, that those who plodded on in the old way were to be permitted to . ask the Le g i s l ature to be protecte d f rom t h e consequences of improveme n t s . —(Ch eers.) Loo k at t h e e ff ec t that railroads were producing. Canals, which were one time considered a most expeditious mode of conveyance, were almost ren dcred usele ss b y t h e i r i ntro d uct i on , an d yet they did not hear the proprietary of that species of property, coming to the Legislature and asking for protection.—( Cheers.) Poverty prevailed to a great extent through the country—(No, no)-... he only made that statement to show that it was their duty, as far as possible, to improve the condition of the poor, whose improvidence, and distress, they all so deeply regretted.-- (Hear.) No member of the Council could have any motive but the general interest, in advocating the repeal of the Corn-laws; therefore their arguments bad the greeter force. —( Hear, hear.) But the supporters )f . the Corn-laws said, " What would the country do in case t f war? we should be suddenly crippled in our resources, and perhaps the na tional ruin would ensue." Now this was a most specious l'ut !In equally fallacious :Irg - ureerit. SeneosinEr %%eat to war with the country from whicu we ieeeß eci our sup. plies, would any one imagine that the same effect would not be produced as always took place when the orcincry trading connection between two countries was interrupted, that other countries would anxiously press forward to supply the defi ciency ?—( Year, hear.) In exact proportion as it was made the interest of other countries to deal with us, would the evils of war be annihilated. Truly had the poet said, that— " War is a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at."—( Hear.) It was, indeed, to the ambition and the folly of Princes that war was to be attributed, and to the benefits of commerce that the blessings of peace we.e to be traced. He (Mr. Stacey) was for the immediate, the total, and the unconditional repeal of the Corn-laws. The ports of this country had fer some time been open for the reception of corn. Why had it not come in ? Because the foreign corn growers had not—in consequence of the length of tine. during which the ports had been closed—had not provided a supply for the unexpected exigency, and because they could have no confidence that the ports would long remain open.—( Hear.) And it was only by a return to the principles of free trade, at least so far as regarded the ne cessaries of life, that foreign nations would be induced to trade with us regularly and constantly. —( Hear.) The Lord Mayor had lately been exerting himself greatly to obtain an abolition of the coal monopoly—(Hear)—and if he obtained a prospect of the speedy attainment of that desirable object, would his Lordship be disposed to enter into a compromise with the mo nopolists? No, surely not.--( Hear.) So with the corn mo nopoly. He ( Mr. Stacey):should therefore support the amend meta, and earnestly prayed of the Legislature to give to it their most careful consideration.—( Hear.) Mr. June hoped the question would not be taken up as a political question, but as a great and important subject, of vital interest not only to our fellow-citizens but to the world. —( hear, hear.) He wished to consider this subject in con nection with the poor ; he hoped that in any subject bearing upon the interests of the poor humanity would be the basis of his argument.—(Bear, hear.) And he was happy to say that he knew of several cases in which the farmers, in considera tion of the present high price of corn, had increased the wages of their labourers, many of whom had been in the habit of re ceiving such miserable sums as 3s. 6d., 4s. and ss. per week. He thought that the agricultural interests were entitled to pro tection. The manufacturing and the commercial interests were already to a certain degree protected. Doubtless, abuses had crept into the Corn-laws, and he wished to see those abuses corrected.—( Hear.) But the abuse of an insitution was no argument against its existence; and he considered that a duty, whether fluctuating or permanent, should be imposed on the importation of corn, so as to secure to our farmers a re munerating price, and that was all that the farmers asked.— ( Hear.) The farmers were not chargeable with the high price of corn; with that, in fact, they had nothing to do at all; a great part of the arable land was constantly and necessarily oat of cultivation, but during that time the farmers had to pay, not only rent and taxes, but tithes.—( Hear.) Mr. Hus kisson had said (before, however, he became Member for Liverpool)—that " to prevent the alternate evils of scarcity and superabundance, a permanent duty of 15s. per quarter, when corn was at an average price under 80s., and ss. when it was above 80s., and Is. when it was above 853." And a French Minister, when giving, a few years ago, an expose of the affairs of France, said—" Agriculture—first of manufactures—flourish I" For a revision of the Corn.laws he (Mr. Jupp) was anxious; but he would not support their repeal.—( Hear. ) Mr. LE . JIRSEY (WC !believe one of the new Deputies) said he had heard many exciting appeals to the passions of the people on this question. He thought the best way was to appeal to their judgments ; and he should pause before he rashly advo cated the repeal of the Corn-laws. Let us have a free trade in everything.—( Hear.) But it was curious to begin at the end and then have to go hack. The root of the whole evil was the national debt.—(Cheers.) The worthy Alderman had said let them have free trace in corn and they would have free trade in everythinr , else; he should like to kn ow w h o autho rised him to say that.—( Cheers.) What must be done was to reduce taxation, to remove the old burthen, and put the farmer upon a fair footing—( Cheers)—then, and then alone, he would be enabled to compete with the foreign growers. He was for supporting agriculture and commerce, but take agriculture away, and what, he would ask, would commerce be without it. He could not agree with the amendment, as he believed if any alteration was to be made in the law as it at present stood, it would be better to impose a fixed duty. Mr. CORNEY then rose to address the Court. It was his intention, at the proper time, to pro pose an amendment upon the resolution and amendment, already brought forward, which he had no doubt would meet with the unanimous sanction of the Court. He could not agree with the statements that had been made, that politics were altogether out of the present question, for who were the parties that had brought it forward, in that Court? Why, the crest advocates of revolutionary principles.—(Cheers.) Mr. HEPPE', wished to ask the worthy member if he in tended to apply to him the name of the advocate of revolu tionary principles ?—( feaughter.) Mr. CORNEY said he certainly did.—(lncreased laughter. ) He could not but admire the Jesuitical manner in which the original resolution was couched, as contrasted with the amend ment.—( Cheers.) In the latter they were honestly told what was wanted, and the gauntlet was at once thrown down. If they were to have a freo importation in corn, they must have a free importation in everything else. He denied that the price of corn had increased from artificial causes. The duty had been the same since 1828, but the price had varied consi derably, not from artificial but from natural causes, a plentiful or a bad harvest.—(Cheers.) It required a protective duty to enable the English farmer to compete with the foreign grower of corn, and the natural result of no protecting duty would be that this country would cease to grow corn, and would therefore become dependent upon foreign rations for the great necessary of life.—(Cheers.) He thought that the policy of the country demanded that they should support the agricultural interests. The manufacturer could extend his dealings to any amount ; he could erect fresh mills, and adopt other means for that purpose, but the agri culturalist could not increase his land. He should be sorry to see the agricultural and commercial interests opposed to each other, but he thought the interests of the former should be pre ferred. Was it to the manufacturing districts the country went for recruits? No. The sinews of the country were the agricultural population; and such being the case, he thought the Court ought to do all in its p ower t o induce he Govern ment to support them. He would at the present moment vote for Mr. Heppel's motion, as the least obnoxious of the two, but at the proper time he should move an amendment to the effect, that a• petition should be presented to the House of Commons, praying them to adopt such a fixed duty on foreign corn, in the ulace of the present fluctuating duty, as in their wis dom should appear advisable. He trusted that the Court would repudiate the other two resolntions as revolutionary, and adopt the one he should propose.—( Cheers.) Mr. LAURENCE could not agree with the proposition that had been put forth, that the lowering the price of corn would not affect the farmer, because he felt convinced that it would. (LEFT SPEAKING.) TEA.—Assam is not the only country where means are in progress to tame the pride of the Celestial Empire. M. Guillemin, a French Botanist, who was sent out lately to the Brazils by the French Government, to study the culture of the tea plant, states that the growth of the plant there since 1825 has made rapid progress, and that the growers already supply a large portion of the tea required fur the home market. . On Tuesday night, at Paris, a young girl, in a Scotch costume, who had just left the masquerade at the Re naissance Theatre, entered a house in the adjoining Rue Van todour, rushed up stairs to the fifth floor, and after castinz off her mask and shawl, threw herself out of the window. liar body striking something projecting from the shop below, was burled to the other side of the street. She survived half an hour, and such is the shameful state of the police, that not the slightest assistance was afforded her during that time. Early on Saturday a fire broke out in the premises of the Viessrr. Lyons, well known boat-builders, near Astley's Amphi , ite,tre, in the W,:stmimter-road. A plentiful sup ply of water having been obtained from the River, the flames were got under without doing any material damage. The property is insured. How the fire originated is not kdown. STATE OF TRADE.-Prices of wools and yarns remain at the same quotations as before stated. There is no material improvement in the home trade, although there is general confidence in wools. Some shipping orders have been given out for fall goods, and some few orders for spring gloves for the home trade.—Patent elastic cloth is now be ginning to be manufactured here, of superior strenth,_a better article for trousers or dress pantaloons than anything yet made.—Leicestershire Mercury. THE ALLEGED OUTRAGE BY PADDINGTON BOATMEN.—A correspondent states that considerable doubts begin to be entertained relative to the truth of the statement made by the girl Giles as to, the gross treatment alleged to have been received by her at the hands of certain boatmen on the Paddington Canal. The most active inquiries are in pro gress, not only as regards the alleged perpetrators of the out rage, but with respect to the story told by the girl of family differences having induced her to leave her home in Wilts. It is, however, so far confirmatory of the girl's statement that the boatmen bear a most unenviable character, and that similar complaints have not unfrequently been made by other parties, although in their case the object of the outrage has happily been defeated. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.—Preparations for the opening of the musical campaign are proceeding rapidly. Guerra, engaged as first dancer and director of the ballet, is just arrived. Persiani, Lablache, and Rubini, are, we hear, re-engaged. Tamburini, we have no doubt, will be, although not mentioned in our letters of this day. He has just added a young prima donna to his family circle. All the French Papers are in raptures at his performance in 11 Sargante, whilst in Roberto Devereux he is said to have " out-Teraia rinied Tamburini." We understand Lablache, jun., is also engaged at her Majesty's theatre. DRURY-LANE THEATRE.—The performances here on Saturday night, for the benefit of the Jews' Orphan As) ium were, Guillaume Tell, Now or Never, and The Spirit of Air, but the house was by no means so well attended as on the ordinary nights it has latterly been with the Lions and the Pantomime. LEICESTERSHIRE CONSERVATIVE FESTIVAL. --The anniversary festival of this. the principal Conservative Association of North Leicestershire, was held last Saturday --Sir Francis Burdett took the chair. Amongst others pre sent were the Marquis of Granby, H. Halford, Esq., M. P., Sir J. R. B. Cave, Bart., Lord Charles Manners, M.P. ; E. B. Farnham, Esq., M.P., Sir W. Huggate, Bart. ; Sir W. W. Dixie, Bart. ; Captain Cheslyn. CT.: P T-T ' l . S 7-7 AC AT, _~ ._. .::~-rJii.L. The holidays Elie now nearly over, to the great satisfac fon of one party, and the regret of another, who would like the sunshine of holidays to laugh on for ever. But boys must learn as well as play, and this necessity reminds us of a circumstance which we neglected at the Christmas vacation. We paid a visit to Mr. DAY'S excellent Aca demy at Cleveland House, Brixton.bill, and were much gratified by the marked improven,ent in the boys under his tu;thi and care. Their progress in the various degrees of education, was as honourable to his management, as their health is creditable to his solicitude. The rosy looks of the boys indicated at first sight that the pure air of the Surrey Hills agreed well with their respectike consti:utions. Several of the elder scholars exhibited great proficiency in their acquirements, being as familiar with the Oassiel, French, &c., as with the vernacular. Altogether we can conscientiously recommend Mr. DAY'S Academy to those who wish their boys to learn rapidly and to live well. woNEY AND COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY (THIS DAY), TWELVE O'CLOCK. By the Halifax mail, arrived by the Reindeer of the Bth Ja nuary, we have received Halifax Papers to the 6th January. The intelligence the above Papers contain has beers antici pated by the arrival of the American Papers. They do not contain any fresh news front Canada, or of so late a date as previously received. ST. JOHN'S, NEW BRUNSWICK, DEC. 25.—0❑ Thursday morning the left wing of the 11th Regiment commenced mov ing off in detachments from the garrison for Fredericton, on their way to Canada. The men were well provided for on the route, and will be conveyed the whole distance to Quebec on sledges._ Prince Edward Hand Papers to tie 26th December have been received. These Papers are as barren of news as those from Halifax. We have received the Journal of Commerce of Antwerp of yesterday's date, from which we extract the following news from the frontiers : (Particular correspondence of the Observateur.) " News of importance has been communicated to me. You have remarked with what affectation the Dutch Journals an nounced the departure of the regiments for Eastern Brabant, as well as the sojourn of the Prince of Orange at Eyndev'er. All this was a ruse disguise to cause our attention to be di• rected to the opposite side to that on which he enemy were to attack us, if he decided on hostilities. Bois leDuc was the main point of their concentration ; the greater part of the Dutch army passed the Meuse at Grave. This movement was executed by day and night, with the greetest celerity and profound mystery. Most important despatches were addressed, within these last few days, to Lieut.- General Dibbets, superior commander of the fortress of hlaestrecht; this is, I am informed, the true intention of the enemy. _ " A corps of observation will remain along the frontier of the province of Antwerp. The enemy's army is concentrating in Guildres, and in the eastern province of Dutch Brabant." BRUSSELS, JAN. 26..—We announced yesterday the arrival, in our town, of two Cabinet couriers, bringing despatches of the highest importance. If we can believe persons who are well informed, the courier Delmatie, who left London on the 22d at night, and arrived here yesterday at seven o'clock iu the morning, was charged with a resolution from the Repre sentetives of France, Great Britain, and Austria, at the Con ference. This resolution takes into consideration the proposi tions made by our Government, backed by the Cabinet of the Tuilleries, relative to the repurchase of Luxemburg and Lim bourg, ceded to Holland by the treaty of 15th November, 1831. DUTCH FUNDS, JAN. 25.—Two and-a- Half per Cents., 54 7 : 16 ; Five per Cents., 101 7-16. The French mail of Saturday, with the express from Paris, arrived late this morning. On the above day the new Ministrf had not as yet been formed. Consols opened this morning at the same prices as they closed on Saturday, 92i f for the Ac count, 921 i for Money; Exchequer Bills, 62 64 ; India Bonds, 61 63 ; Bank Stock, 202 k 3. In the Foreign Market, the only business doing to the pre sent hour is in Spanish Active • on Saturday it c l ose d at 20i 1, this morning receded to 20+ f, although it is reported that the Marquis Cusa Riera, one of the richest Noblemen in Spain, i 5 expected in this country in a few days, on a financial mission , supposed to raise the rind for the Spanish Government. Still the Spanish stock is rather looking downward; Portuguese' 351- 1., rather lower ; Three per . Cents. 22+ -.1 ; Colombian , 28+ 4 ; Mexican, 24); ; Brazilian, 781 9+ ; Dutch Two-ark a- Half per Cents., 54i 5 ; Five per Cents. 102 i- I. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, SATURDAY.—We have bad 0 , fair demand for Cotton to-day; the sales were 2,500 bags, a : steady prices. The Royal William steamer was spoken with by Captain Scher of the St. James, 30 miles'off Sandy Hook, on her way, to New York on the 6th inst. PRICES OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Bank Stock .)03 :IY. ! indiaStock 25A 3 per Cent. Iteci. : - s per Cent. Cons. 92% , South Sea Stock 104 %. 3 , ,,, per Cent. ! Old Annuities —....... Ditto Red. Ncw t'4, per Cent lco l l '3 100 3 per Cent. Annuities, i 751.,. Now 5 per Cent. flank Long Annuities toexpire , Ditto 500 -.64 62 64 P° ; ' Jan. 5, 1860 l5 1-16 ' Ditto Small 65 63 Po i ' Oct. 1,), 1859 l4 '; Ditto Commercial - Pr ° ' J2n. 5, 1860 l 4 ,4ll)itto Advertised - PT: ~...--- Jun. 5, IRS I ' I Bank Stock for Account April 5, 1890 — ' India Stock for Account Jan. 5, 1870 — ' Consols for Account OS PRICES GE FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCI C ..-- Austrian Bonds ...-- Belgian Bonds ... ............. ..... 99 , Ditto Account ..-.! Ditto Account Brazilian Bonds Ditto Account Buenos Ayres Bonds Ditto Account Chilian Bonds .... iltto Account ~ . ... Columbian Bonds —l Ditto Account ...... _,, Ditto Account _ I Ditto Metallic ... Columbian Bonds, 1524 2S 7i% Spanish Bonds . Ditto Account -8 % Ditto Account .....- Danish Bonds Ditty '' ..<3‘ ....itto Account — , Ditto AccoUnt. t'OU iiiN , ',^ Greek Bonds — i _ French :. 4 5 p p e er , c c e e n nt. t. . ..... —.. _f. Ditto Bonds, 1825 f. - --e : Ditto Account Ditto Account — Dutch, 2i per cent. s4li ! Ditto, 6 per Cent 2l Ditt o Acc ount 5416.,'' Ditto Account Neapolitan I Ditto Account..._. ...... eitICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE 'O'CLOCK. '" Paid. Per Shalt , British Iron Company Brighton Railway :i,lOO and Greenwich railway Company 2l. 1641 Lmdon and Southampton Railway Company f ,-, a Looms and Croydon Railway Company Ditto New Scrip • ' ,chestor at:el Birmingham Railway • 10 9% Bitumen, Bastenne and Gaujac ' - 2 1% 1 4 PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS, puBLIN, JAN. 26. 3 per Cent. Consols :l per Cent. Stock Ditto Reduced Ditto New, lea!) ...... ..„, WOW, City of Dublin Steam Company . 1.16 it per Cent. Debentures .. 92. 4 National Insurance Company -----* Bank Stock .... ............. .... 19554 City Debentures, 4 per cent ------ Royal Canal Rock - Grand Canal Stock -. cent .. —...... HALF-PAST ONE. We have no further arrivals since the early part of the morning. The only feature in the Consol Market during the morning is the purchase of 3,0001. Consols by the Government broker, at 92. The price of Ccnsols continues steady, as i n the morning, at 92a buyers for the Account, Money 924. f ; Ex: chequer Bills 64 62 64 ; B an k Stock 202+; India Stock 2551 ; Julia Bonds 61. Jo the Foreign Market Spanish Active continues the same as in the fore part of the day, 20+ t-; Portuguese 351 I; Three p ,1 : 1,- leer Cents. 22 ; Brazilian 79 ; .Belgian 99 ; Colombian 284 :1; Mexican 24-i ; Dutch 'two-and-a-half per Cents. 544 5; Fivp per Cents. 102 L In the Share Market scarcely anything doing. Brighton 31 dis. ; Southampton 51. 2s. 3d. prem. THREE O' CLOCK. Consols for the Account, 92 THE FUNDS -C BRITISH Ran% Stork '20•24:.! 3 per ent. lie,l 3 per Cent. Cc a a -' 2,, ,,', ~. per Cent. Red OW New 34:, per Cent 100 New 5 per Cent — [mug Annuities to expire Jan IGfi Oc , . 1859 ... ll Ti 4 Jan. ISGO LOSING PRICES I FUNDS. India St xik Ditto Bondr Ditto Old Annuities Ditto New Annuities Fx. Bills, 1,000/...._2%d Ditto 500/ (14 pro j Ditto 5001 jitlL 'Bank Stock for Act. stock for Consuls for Act fn% FORM; N FUNDS - Asturian, 5 per cent - — Portuguese Bonds, 5 per cen t.. —, P..elgian, 5 per cent 9O !Ditto Mcw Ditto Brazilian Bonds 78% ;Prussi , sn, 5 per cent — Buenos Ayr. s, 6 per cent. Chilian, C. per cent —i Ditto, Metallic Colomb,an, 6 per cent — ;Spanish, 5 per cent ; 204 Ditto, I 524 il 3 s,f, Ditto, Consolidated — Danish, 3 per cent —i French, 5 per cent....... ..... . —f. —C• Greek Bonds, 1825, 5 per cent — • YExcharige Mexican, 5 per cent — IFrench, 3 per cent ... f. .....r• Ditto, 6 per cent., 1891 24 IDutch 2% per cent......... S4V Peruvian, 1825,6 per cent — IDitto, , s per cent. 102)4 (CLOSING PRICE OF SHARES.—(THIS DAY.) Birmingham and Gloucester Railway 25',4 Great Western Railway ~.,..... Nita London andqirighton Railway - London and Greenwich Railway—, . 173 London and Southampton Railway London and Croydon Railway (New Scrip) ... ........ Manchester and Birmingham Rai1way........ COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL. (THIS DAY.) The resolutions against the Corn-laws were c cried with a division. • The Lords of the Treasury have awarcled to Mr Lradale the annuity of 1201. a-year for the loss of his office of Town-cl er k G f Shrewsbury. It is reported that the Corpo ration will oppose their Lordships' order.—Salopian Journal. The laud and house tax of Paris for the current year, verified by the Prefect of the Seine, amount to 30,000,0001. Prince Paul Lieven left the seat of the Russian Embassy yesterday rooming to attend the fnneral of his la , mented father, the Prince Licven. The IThuquis of Anglesey left town on Friday last t) enjoy a few days'sbooting at the seat of Sir Harry Feather stone, in Sussex. The 'Marquis of Clanricartle, we understand, iite delighted with th e con d escens i on an d lib era li ty of th em' parer of Russia. Eh and his Lady are passing their time veiy pleasantly at St. Petersburg. We hear that the Mme' chioness is coming home in the spring, on a visit to hoe children. ~ ..5 _ . ....... Vi s cou *day at . Her M in the evi Viseo u turday. ~ Colon ( Equerry The t PA.! Mr. *tre e t, Baron fr om im Earl 01 ford-pi land; fo r M