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THE LAW 'OFFICERS OF THE CROWN AND THEIR UNIVERSITIES. The ibllowing list of the great law officers, showing Ate 'respective univergities-a , swisicis they are members, vilakvetieVievia, be found correct: — Or CAKBRIDGE. OF OXFORD. HIGII COURT OF CHANCERY. LORD HIGH CHANCELLOR. —Right Hon. John Sin gleton Copley, Baron Lyndhurst, 2d Wrangler and 2d Smith's Prizeman, 1794. Trinity College. MASTER OF THE ROLLS. — Right Hon. Henry Bick ersteth, Baron Langdale, Senior Wrangler and Smith's Prizeman, 1808. Gonville and Caius Col lege. VICE-CHANCELLOR ofENO LAND.--Right *.llon. Sir Lancelot Shatiwell, 7th Wrangler, 2d Chan cellor's Medalist, 1200. St. John's College. VICE-CHANCELLOR. - Rt. Hon. Sir John Lewis Knight Bruce, Honorary D.C.L. Exeter College. VICZ-CIIANCELLOit..--. Rt. Hon. James Wigram, sth Wrangler, 1815. Trinity College. COURT OF Q 1 LORD CHIEF JUSTICE.—Rt. Hon. Thomas Denman, Baron Denman, 8.A., 1800. St. John's College. SECOND JUSTICE.-Sir J. Patteson, Knt., 8.A., 1813. King's College. THIRD JUSTICE.--Sir John Williams, Knt., 18th Senior Optime, 1798. Trinity College. FOURTH JUSTICE.—Sir J. Taylor Coleridge, Knt., Ist class Lit. Hum., 1812. Exeter College. FIPTSI JUSTICE.—Sir Win. Wightman,Knt., Queen's College. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. CHM JUSTICE.—Rt. Hon. Sir Nicholas Conyngbam Tindal, lint., Bth Wran gler, and Ist Chancellor's Medalist, 1799. Trinity College. FOURTH JUSTICE-Sir W. Henry 34aule, Senior Wrangler and Smith's Prizeman,lBlo. Trinity College. FIFTITJUsTICE —SirCress well Cresswell, 13th Junior Optime, 1814. Emanuel College. COURT OF: CHANCELLOR.—Right HOD. Henry Goulburn, 8.A., 1805. Trinity College. LORD CHIEF BARON.—Rt. Hon. Sir Jonathan Fre derick Pollock, Knt., Se nior Wrangler and Smith's Prizeman, 1806. Trinity College. SECOND BARON.—Rt. Hon. Sir James Parke, sth Wrangler and Ist Chan cellor's Medalist, 1803. Trinity College. THIRD BARON.—Sir Eclwd. Hall Alderson, Knt., Se nior Wrangler, Smith's Prizeman. and Chancel lor's Medalist,lBoB. Gon villa and Caius College. FOURTH BARON.—Sir Ro bert Mousey Rolfe, 17th Wrangler, 1812. Down ing College. FIFTH BARON. Thomas Joshua Platt, sth Junior Optime, 1810. Trinity College. THE TA RATION. In talking of the taxation of Great Britain, the landlords always insist that the land bears peculiar burdens, equal to, in their way, if not greater, than those with which the remaining kinds of property are loaded throughout the kingdom. This assertion is made every day, and with reference to the present time. Look at the facts of the case. During the reign of King William 111., according to the state ment of Sir John Sinclair, in his work on the Revenue, the annual average of the land-tax was 34 per cent., that is, more than a third of the whole revenue of the kingdom_ As Mc. Macintyre states the same fact, his deductions being taken seemingly from one individual year, more " than a fourth of the public revenue was derived (in the reign of William of Orange) from the land- tax. At that time the whole of the revenue was about 4,600,0001., of which the tax on land was about 1,300,0001." Now, no man can deny that the species of property which has increased most enormously in the ratio of productiveness, since the close of the seventeenth century, is land. The rents of the landlords have been doubled, trebled, and quiadrupled—much more, indeed, in many cases — within the last few score years. The land- tax should then have been greatly increased in common fairness, with the increasing revenue which has been exacted from the country. Has such been the case ? "In the year 1842," we find " the total amount of revenue is 52,000,0001., of which the taxes on land amount to less than 1,200,000/." The land taxes redeemed since 1798 ought to be added to this, since the annual payment was sold for a value equal to it, and the land-tax ought to be stated at about 2,000,0001. But taking this latter sum as the correct one, what an enormity of increase on the burdens of the other classes, while the land stands comparatively at little more than the sam e rat e as i n Willi am th e Third's time ! A third at the utmost has been added to the land-tax, while the common taxes have been raised to nearly twelve times their amount in the same period, notwithstanding that the vast increase in the productiveness of land would have justified so fully a proportionate augmentation of the burdens thereon ! Look, sgain, at the different proportions in which land pays to the public revenue in other leading Eu ropean countries :—ln France, the land and pro perty-tax brings 23,200,0001., while other taxes fetch 17,500,0001.; in Austria the former rates at 8,795,0001., and the latter at 7,700,000/. ; and in Prussia the land brings to the revenue 3,990,0001., while the re maining taxes stand at 3,667,0001. And yet our British landholders have the impudence to talk of their bearing " peculiar burdens"—paying, as they do, but about two millions of the fifty composing the pub lic revenue ! Nor is this all. We have yet to reckon what the landholder gains by the laws on food which he has established, and place them against the taxes which he bears. He may be easily shown to be in the posi tion of a gainer by the corn-laws to an extent far ex ceeding what he contributed as a tax-payer. Such is the sort of contribution which the British land holder makes to the revenue of the empire. There will come a time when men will wonder at these things as monstrosities unpsralleled in the history of nations. Nay, the time is fast coming. The League are not working in vain.—Scotsman. A GHOST IN DAYLIGHT.—The superstitions of last eentury have not entirely passed away. A remnant is still left at the present day, oven in the heart of the agricultural county of East Lothian, as the follow ing will show :—On Sunday last a worthy elder of the Free Church, who is a farmer and a bachelor, left his house in the care of a female domestic, while he went on his way to attend his regular place of wor ship. No sooner had he taken to the road than a great noise was heard in the room he bad left, which sounded like the pattering of many feet. Such a sound proceeding from the master's own room was anythinc , but " canny," and so frightened was the servant that she called in a neighbour, but she in her turn also got frightened, when both took to their heels sad ran a distance of a eir quarter of a mile to where the hinds' houses are, wh e n story of the house being haunted was so o n told t th e gapin g wonder of the a ssembled women . Aft er many consultations, curiosity got the better of their fears, when it was resolved they should go the ha' house in a body, and endeavour to make out the cause of the disturbance. This was accordingly done, but on reaching the room door, the same noise was still heard with even greater violence than before, but none would venture to open it ; at las a to ( rle of th e women es pi e d a man on the publi c road, and to him th e y a ppli e d f or counsel and assistance. The ma n ecourageously agreed to lend his aid, and lau g h e d at tvlier?'r f , ars, telling them there were no ghosts n owa d ays; but sooner was he i n the house, and heard th e no i se, than r h o e o was affected with the malady, and de c l are d hi s unwil a lin gness to open the door. In this dilemma th ere was nothing for it but waiting with patience until the master home from chureb. As the noise w as loudercatTl e tn ever, they wisely concluded that this was a warning that he had net long to live—of course the warningnot apply to themselves. In the interi m all thestcooruileds that ever were heard of about warnings and ghosts were fully discussed, until the worthy elder made his appear ance, when, with breathless anxiety, ho was told of the awful sounds heard ; but to calm their minds he pro posed to read a chapter of the Bible to them, which was accordingly done. Thus fortified, the elder opened the room door, when the astonishment of the females may be more easily imagined than described, when out started the ghost in the shape of a pet foal that has been in the habit of following its master into the house, where it is gener.illy regaled with a piece of bread, but in the present instance had been inadvertently shut in the room. else Warder. :EN'S BENCH. SECOND JUSTICE.—Sit T. Coltman, Knt., 8.A., 1822. Brasenose College, THIRD JuSTICE.—Sir Wm, Erle, Knt., New [?] Col lege. IXCHEQUEEL ,~~..: THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY MORNING, JANUARY 30, ]845. •7111ErFEBRUARY NUMBER OF ei01.413 IT It N'S Pi EIV Al ONTII L Y MAGAZINE AND HUMORIST Contains the following interesting Articles: — I. Diplomatic Doings. , 2. Ideal Love. 3. A New Chapter in the History of Napoleon Buonaparte. 4. A Forest Thought. By Eliza Cook. 5. Two Military Executions in Spain. G. The Wolf and the Lamb. By the Author of" Peter Friggins." 7. Town Life in Italy. By L. M2riotti. 8. A Discourse of Puppies. Part 11. 9. A Visit to a Circassian Chief. By 11. Walter D'Arcy. 10. Lights and Shades in the Life of a Gentleman on Half-pay. By W. H. Maxwell, Esq., Author of "Stories of Waterloo." VIII. The Outcast's Confessions—Midnight in a Mndhouse. 11. Traits of Corsican and Sardinian Character. By George Bur- dett, Esq. 2. The ltobertses on their Travels. By Mrs. Trollop°. Chapters XXV., XXVI., and XXVII. 13. Sea Gulls, &c., &c. Henry Colburn, Publisher, IR, Great Marlborough-street. Now ready at all the Libraries, embellished with a 7ine Portrait of the Authoress, from a Drawing by Edwin Landseer , R .A., T HE COUNTESS of BLESSINGTUN'S NEW NOVEL, " STRATHERN ;" A STORY OF THE PRESENT DAY. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. BENTLEY'S ILLUSTRATED EDITION. With tho Magazines, on the 31st instant, price 2s. 6d. (containing nearly 200 pages, or 600 pages of the original edition), embellished with two exquisite Engravings, comprising the Attack on the Tuileries and the Murder of the Princess de Lambalie, and Por traits of Murat and the Princess de Lamballe, PART HI. of M. THIEItS' HISTORY OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION, with Illus trative Notes from all the most authentic sources. By FREDERICK SHOBERL, Esq. To which will also be appended a copious Index of Persons and Events. Richard Bentley, New Bnriinzzon-street. *.* Orders received by all Booksellers. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. THIS EVENING Will be repeated Balfe's Grand Opera, THE DAUGHTER OF ST. MARK. Lusignano, Mr. Burdini ; Adolphe de Courcy, Mr. W. Harrison ; Catarina Cordaro, Miss Rainforth. After which will be repeated the Grand Christmas Harlequlnade, called PUCK'S PANTOMIME; or, Harlequin and Robinson Crusoe. Robinson Crusoe, Mr. W. H. Payne ; Clown, Mr. T. Matthews ; Pantaloon, Mr. Howell ; Harlequin, Mr. Wieland ; Columbine, Miss Carson. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. LESSEE, MR. B. WEBSTER. 61st Night of " Old Heads and Young Hearts." THIS EVENING Will he repeated a New and Original Comedy, in Five Acts, entitled OLD HEADS AND YOUNG HEARTS. Colonel Rocket, Mr. StricklaLd ; Littleton Coke, Mr. Charles Mathews ; Tom Coke, Mr. Webster ; Bob, Mr. Buckstone ; Jesso Rural, Mr. W. Farren ; the Countess of Pompton, Mrs. W. Cliford ; Lady Alice Hawthorn, Madame Vestris ; Miss Rocket, Miss Julia Ben-, ett. After which, a New Grand Musical Fairy Extravaganza, entitled GRACI4)ISA AND PERCINET. King Uxorius, Mr. J. Bland; Princess Graciosa, Miss Julia Bennett ; Percinet, Miss P. Horton ; Duchess Grognon, Mrs. Stanley. To conclude with a Grand MOVING DIORAMA ; or, PICTORIAL TOUR IN SWITZERLAND. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. TINDER THE DIRECTION OF MADAME CELESTE. Fourth Night of a New and Original Drama, by the Author of " Wreck Ashore," " Victorine," &c. THIS EVENING Will be repeated a New and Original Drama, entitled TIIE GREEN BC SIIES ; or, A Hundred Years Ago. Connor O'Kennedy, Mr. Selby ; George, Mr. Hudson : Wild Murtogh, Mr. 0. Smith ; Muster Grinnidge, Mr. Wright ; Jack Gong, Mr. Paul Bedford ; Geraldine. Mrs. Yate" ; Nelly O'Neill, Mrs. Fitzwilliam ; Miami, Madame Celeste. After which. TIIE CORPORAL'S WEDDING ; or, a Kiss of the Bride. Sir Felix Marmalade, Mr. Hudson ; Major Griskin, Mr. Selby ; Lady Arethuss Gr skin, Mrs. Frank Matthews ; Nancy Cobb, Miss Woolgar. To conclude with TIIE CHIME 4. Toby Veck, Mr. 0. Smith ; Alderman Cute, Mr. Wright ; Tugby, Mr. Wilkinson ; Sir Joseph Bowley, Bart., Mr. Paul Bedford ; Will Fern, Mr. Hudson ; Richard, Mr. Seib, ; Meggy Veck, Miss Fortescue ; Mrs. Chickenstalker, Mrs. Frank Matthews. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. A Thorough Adelphi lilt !—Vide, " The Times," and Public Press, EVERY EVENING THE GREEN BUSHES, or A Hundred Years Ago; by the Author of " The Wreck Ashore," " Victorine,"&r. Ptincipal Characters by Messrs. Hudson, Wright, 0. Smith, Paul Bedford, Selby, Cul lenford, and Worrell ; Mrs. Yates, Mrs. Fitzwilliam, and Madame Celeste. With the New Farce of THE CORPORAL'S WEDDING; or, a Kiss of the Bride. And THE CHIMES ; A Goblin Story. PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. LESSEE, MR. J. 31. MADDOX. THIS EVENING Will be repeated 3IONSEIGNEUR; or, PARIS IN 1720. Mon seigneur, Mr. Wallack; Germaine, Mr. Oxberry ; Rosanne, Miss E. Stanley; Annette, Miss Marshall. To be followed by THE IRISH WEDDING. Principal Characters by Mdlles. Caroline Rousset and Ten sine, Miss Marshall, and Messrs. J. Rousset, Marshall, and Gilbert. After which, a New Comedietta, entitled THE BRIGADIER. Principal Characters by Messrs. Wallack, Granby, and Compton; Miss E. Hormel*, and Miss E. Stanley. To conclude with JOE MILLER AND HIS MEN. Grindoft Mr. Compton ; Lothair, Mr. Oxberry ; Claudine, Miss E. Stanley; Raving, Mrs. Fosbroke. Stage Manager, Mr. 11. I. Wallack; Stage Director, Mr. Emden ; Machinist, Mr. Edmund Bradwell. THEATRE ROYAL, LYCEUM. UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MRS. KEELEY. Last Three Nights of " The Chimos." THIS EVENING Will be repeated THE CHIMES. Principal Characters by Messrs. F. Vining, Meadows, Diddear, F. Matthews, Collier, Emery, Turner, and Keeley ; Miss Walcott, Mrs. Woollidgo, Miss Grove, and Mrs. Keeley. After which, a New Farce, entitled A MODEL OF A WIFE. Principal Characters by Messrs. A. Wigan, F. Matthews, and Mea dows ; Miss Walcott. and Miss Fairbrcther. To conclude with VALENTINE AND ORSON. Principal Cha racters by Messrs. F. Matthews, Meadows, Wigan, Collier, Turner, Kialoch, Yaraold, and Keeley ; Mrs. Wigan, Miss Arden, Miss Fair brother, Miss Grove, Mrs. Woollidge, Miss James, Miss Turner, and Mrs. Keeley. Unequalled Success of ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. PROPRIETOR, MR. W. BATTY. First Week of the Southern American Minstrels. THIS EVENING Will be repeated THE ROYAL FOX HUNT ; introducing a Real Fox-chase on the Stage, by Living Fox and Real Pack of Hounds. To be followed by the 3lelsclies of the American Southern Minstrels. Entire Change in the Circle.—Unequalled Feats of Horsemanship. To conclude with the Pantomime of HARLEQUIN JOHNNY GILPIN'S RIDE ; or, The Black Witch of Edmonton. Johnny Gilpin, Mr. Wells ; Clown, Mr. Barry ; Pantaloon, Mr. Bradbury ; Harlequin, Mr. Lewis ; Columbine, Mrs. J. W. Collier. Acting and Stage Manager, Mr. D. W. Broadfoot. DAVID6r:S ICOIAL SURREY THEATRE. The GrandPeattondme every Evening, with Splendid Novelties, and Another New Piece. THIS EVENING Will be repeated a New Three Act Drama, entitled WOLSEY, in which the whole of the Company will perform. After which, THE WHISTLER. To conclude with the Pantomime of POUNDS, SHILLINGS, AND PENCE. Harlequin, Mr. 11. Harvey ; Clown, Mr. T. Ridgway ; Pantaloon, Mr. Henry Corti ; Columbine, Miss Slaiter. Places and Private Boxes to be had of Mr. Kerschner, at the Box office, from Eleven to Four. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. Grand Juvenile Week—Pantomime, Second Piece. THIS EVENING Will be repeated MARIANNE ; or, The Child of Charity. Sup ported by Messrs. Osbaidiston, H. Howard, J. T. Johnson, J. Her bert, E. Jones, and W. Searle ; Miss V ncent, Miss E. Torrey, and Mrs. E. Jefferson. After which, the Pantomime of HARLEQUIN HOT CODLINS. To conclude with BLACK WHISKER ; or, The Demon of Seven Dials. Boxes, 2s. ; Pit, Is. ; Gallery, 6d, TO CORRESPONDENTS. We have no means of reference, immediately at hand, that enable us to answer the inquiry of our Sheffield Correspondent. Our own impression is that the Noble Lord in question did accept the Chiltern Hundreds, on one occasion—very many years before he succeeded to his present title. THE WEATHER.-SIIN OFFICE, JAN. 29. rHERMOMETER, Lowest, 26 ; Highest, 40 ; Noon, 32 BAROMETER, 29.35.—W1ND, W. NorE.—The figures which follow the words "Lowest" and ' Highest" denote the lowest and highest state of the Thermometer during the preceding twenty-four hours. All the other observations are made at noon. Water freezes at 2 ; 55 on Thermometers is marked "Temperate," and on Barometers "Fair" is generally placed opposite to 30, and "Rain" at 29 ; but there is no certainty of dry weather when the mercury falls below 30. HIGH WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY. Morning 59 minutes after 5 I Evening .. 21 minutes after 6. Or* 8 11 s 4 qie al* PI4I, •mn . 41, 111,amiim 2int. LONDON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 30, 1945. The Repeal question still contrives, "like a wounded snake, to drag its slow length along," though much of the prestige and quick vital power that once cha racterised it, have departed from it—we trust for ever. In vain Mr. GRATTAN makes furious speeches cf an hour's length at the Conciliation Hall ; in vain Mr. O'CONNELL throws off " soft sawder"—as Sam Slick would call it— with that inimitable adroitness so peculiar to him ; neither the furious philippics of the one, nor the oily flatteries of the other, seem longer to exercise that magic influence over the national mind, that they possessed but one short year since. Cir cumstances that have hitherto served to favour the views of the Repealers in no inconsiderable degree, seem now at length to have declared against them. The late Papal rescript—the Catholic Bequests Act—even the vacillating, unintelligible conduct of Mr. O'CosireELL himself on the question of Federal ism—which he honestly confessed he embraced with ardour, because he understood nothing at all about the matter, upon the principle of "omne ignotum pro magni . fico ;"—these and other minor adventitious cir cumstances have all had an adverse influence on Repeal, which at present, notwithstanding its would-be exulting swagger, wears no nobler aspect than that of a baffled and beaten bully. No agitator—not even the fertile and ingenious Tom ST.ERLE himself— appears any longer to have any schemes to propound at the Association. Mr. O'CoNNELL's crotchet of the Aristocratic Irish Parliament of three hundred—the exact number, by the bye, of LEONIDAS'S band of patriots—who were to assemble together in Dublin, with, each, a hundred pounds in his breeches pockets, for the express purpose of checking the revolutionary tendency of the more plebeian Association—of this once favourite crotchet we hear no more ; it has passed away, lik e o th er fantastic conceits, into the Limbo of Vanity, and is scarcely likely to be revived. Then the Rent I Thi s i s one of the unerring touch stones of Repeal—a sort of barometer by which its upward or downward progress may be estimated with pretty fair accuracy, and this, alas, is gr ovi i n "small by degrees, and beautifully less;" though now and then there is an evident rally in the week's accounts, like the last quivering flesh of the lamp when it is just on the eve of expiring. Mr. O'CONNELL appears to be perfectly aware of the present humi liating condition of Repeal; and to be still more keenly and anxiously alive to the fact that its conti nued existence as a popular and thriving source of agitation depends rather on Sir ROBERT PEEL than himself. If the Premier redeem the pledges which he volunteered last session—and of which he cannot too often be reminded—adieu, at once, to all Mr. O'CoN NELL'S hopes of obtaining a Parliament in College-green until the advent of the Greek Kalends. The Liberator clearly sees that the game is now in a great degree out of his hands, hence his warning to his countrymen at the last Repeal Association meeting, that nothing was to be expected from the British Parliament for Ireland, who " would only fling them the offal while they secured the carcase for themselves." Mr. O'CONNELL must entertain a very poor idea of his own cause, when, as the best means of defending it, he prejudges the policy of the English Goiernment in this ungenerous spirit. It would be idle to disguise the fact that there is a determined and growing hostility manifested in the French Chamber of Deputies towards this country, England is constantly before their eyes. Her great ness, her vast extent of territory, her late acquisitions on the Indus, the Sycee silver brought from China, and the glorious peace concluded in the very heart of the Celestial Empire, are all sources of jealousy and envy to our aspiring neighbours. Those who have paid the slightest attention to the speeches and amendments of the different Members must have observed that they all relate to England—no other country obtains the slightest notice. Austria, Russia, and Prussia have been mentioned, it is true, by M. Times, in a parenthesis ; but the entire stock-in trade, the list of grievances against the Government, and the humiliation of France, so loudly announced by the Opposition, have their entire source on this side of the Channel. The affairs of Morocco and Otaheite, the right of search, the entente cordiale, and the royal visit to Windsor, are only different chords, all playing the same tune —hatred to England. These airs are not played by men of obscure character, or by wild visionaries who regard war and victory as synonymous terms ; they are performed by some of the most able leaders in the Chamber, by men who have been in office, and know the secrets of diplomacy—such as MOLE, TRIERS, DUFAURE, DUPIN, not to mention BARROT, BILLAULT, LAMARTINE, BERRTER, ARAGO, and other second- rate men, distinguished by almost every shade of politics ; and what renders appearances more omi nous, they are supported, even under present circum stances, by one-half of a Chamber that does not fully (represent the warlike feeling of this provinces. The KING'S prepossessions in favour of peace cannot pos sibly be doubted. His rejection of M. TRIERS, at the critical period of the Syrian expedition ; his anxious wish to cultivate friendship with the Royal Family of England ; indeed, his whole policy since he was placed on the throne, have convinced the Great Powers of the Continent, and, above all, the war party in France, that during his lifetime, at least, peace shall prevail. But he is now advanced n years, and should his life not exceed the usual span of three score years and ten, the throne will be left to a minor, under the guidance of his uncle, as Regent. The KING'S influence in the Chamber is great. Some say the Court and Cabinet can corn. island a hundred votes, but whatever may be the number, all that influence can command only a bare majority in favour of peace. It becomes the country then to look to futurity, and to no distant futurity, in order to be prepared. M. TRIERS, by his own ad mission, is.anly waiting for a combination of' circum stances. The death of Louis PHILIPPE may be one of the combinations, and a young King, a young Regent, a young Admiral, and " Young France," with M. TRIERs as Foreign Minister, will serve to make up the complement. He will find supporters, too, out of number throughout the French dominions, whom no dread of results, no recollection of past sufferings, and no dictates of prudence can deter. They long for the return of those golden days when the armies of France overran Europe, when common soldiers became Marshals, and Princes, and Sove reigns, and the supply of young men was barely suffi cient to fill up vacant places in offices erected for levying tribute on every German and Italian state. The condition of this country is now so different; France is so cribbed and confined in the eyes of the present generation, and the outlet for trade so small, that this desire for change can be regarded only as a natural result. From whatever cause, however, it takes its rise, there is no doubt that it exists, and that on the demise of the KING a general election would return a Chamber as thoroughly hostile to England as M. Tniaas could desire. But, independent of the Chamber, he has nearly the whole press on his side. Not a tenth part of the French journals support the peace policy of the KING and his Minister; and if this circumstance be taken as a test of the national feeling, no country was ever more ripe for war than France is at the present moment. If, under the pru dent sway of Louts PHILIPPE, a rupture was immi nent about a trifle, what may England expect when the, hand that has controlled the people for fifteen years is powerless? The important division on Mon day shows that the KING'S influence cannot be reckoned upon even at present, and a Conservative journal, the Presse, thus calls loudly upon France to assert her honour : " France suffers the consequence of her own heed lesncss. Why has Great Britain placed herself is the alternative of a rupture with her, or of a blame inflicted by us on the brave Captain d'Aubigny, and an indemnity granted to the flery agitator Pritchard 1 Why have not our Ministers repulsed this incredible pretension by replying instantly with firmness, that as no indemnity was due, and as no blame was merited, France could not with honour grant one or inflict the other, and that if England, dissatisfied with that reply, wished absolutely for a rupture, the world would then judge between them and us ? In fine, why did not the majority reject the amendment of M. de Malleville on this delicate ques tion ? We shall explain that fact, for when truth appears to us dangerous to be concealed there is no secondary consideration sufficiently strong to induce us to maintain silence. The truth is, that England, which is informed of the number of our vessels as accurately as she is of the number of her own, knows moreover that we carry to infatuation the fear of war, and thence her menacing exigencies. The truth is, that the majority, which still remember the disasters of 1814 and 1815, does not be lieve that war can break out between France and Eng land without extend;ng to all the other parts of Europe, , an error propagated by those who ought to apply them selves most to destroy it. Thence the vote of Saturday." " Catilina" is the exclamation which involuntarily occurs to us as, day after day, we are apprised of some new atrocity on the part of that execrable and ferocious despotism which wields the destinies of Spain. How long, indeed, will the majesty of civilisation, represented by this country and the other great Powers of Europe, permit these bloody excesses to be perpetrated by a Government as disorganised as it is faithless, as weak as it is dis organised—to their own dishonour—to the scandal of our age—to the disgrace of humanity—to the infamy of the Spanish people? The rights of man, the ties of nature— the integrity of justice, the solemnity of law, are alike violated, severed, and in sulted in Spain, by a system of relentless proscrip tion—as irresponsible, as sanguinary as in the times of her severest civil struggle was ever witnessed by Old Rome. But this modern proscription is even more wanton than those which have consigned to perpetual horror the names of SYLLA, or of MARK ANTONY and LEPIDUS. They might have pleaded the necessity of self-preservation against the antago nistic power of rivals, who, because they were rivals, were necessarily, therefore, their implacable enemies. But the blood spiller who sets in motion this hideous engine of wholesale murder in Spain—be he NAX VAEZ himself, or one of his creatures who, under a mask of office, propounds and executes the sugges tions of NARYAEZ'S personal vengeance—has no such palliative plea to offer. Corruption, the wholesale corruption which has floated the obscure NARVAEZ into his present position of "bad eminence," has too thoroughly accomplished its work to leave him the apology of personal peril to himself, or of the dread of successful rivalry by others ir i the struggle for political power. He seems to hare ingratiated him self with the two Queens, and to - Lave become neces sary to the consolidation of tiny Administration which shall possess efficient authority, under ISA BELLA. In return, he appea rs to be able to seal the doom of any other individual in her kingdoms who may have had the spirit and ITsolution to oppose him self to his schemes of uni principled aggrandisement and ambition. Another victim has just expiated this offence in the person of his brave and resolute op ponent, ZURBANO. The blood of this ill fated man's race has been shed profusely since he first stood be tween the wreck of Spanish independence, in the capital, and the lawless and insolent pretensions of NARVAEZ. Bitterly has his own vindictiveness been atoned for in the violent deaths of brothers id-law, brothers, sons ; and we learn, by the last intelligence received, that ZURBANO himself has been summarily shot by order of the Governor of Logrono, together with one of these, his nearest and dearest kindred! It has been recently shown, in a note appended by Lord RANELAGII to his pamphlet, that between the Ist of December, 1843, and the 13th of December, 1844, no less than two hundred and fourteen indi viduals have been shot for political offences in Spain. These unfortunates perished chiefly at the instigation of NARVAEZ, though we must not be suffered to ex cept, or to forget that, of this number, no less than one hundred and twenty-nine, the prisoners of that still more detestable chief, V ILLALONGA, were murdered in cold blood in the Maestrazgo, after their capture. It was only in the month of November last that two other sons of the ill-starred ZURBANO and one of his brothers-in-law were shot in Logrono, where he him self, with, according to some accounts another son, according to others another brother, has just been slaughtered. We have ever been, and still are, decidedly op posed to all intervention with the internal affairs of other States, except as to cases wherein our arbitra tion may have been applied for. But we cannot help feeling that this country and the other great Powers have only to intimate, in terms sufficiently grave and distinct, their detestation of, and displeasure at, these brutal reprisals and murders—to put an end to them. Let the Court of Madrid be apprised that the example of these sanguinary punishments are viewed by the great Powers not as required for the vindica tion of established law and authority, but in order to satisfy the rancour of party, and private and political enmities. Let the Spanish Cabinet be made to understand that it is setting an example of violence and crime the most dangerous to the cause of peace and order in Europe ; and that it cannot be per mitted by a perseverance in this career of military executions to present to the subjects of other States the hateful spectacle of executive authority trampling under foot all the laws of GOD and man, to satisfy the revengeful or malicious desires of whatever un principled faction may happen to be in power, upon those who have in any way thwarted or resisted their progress towards its attainment. All diplomatic re lations should be suspended with a Government, call ing itself the Government or a civilised country, which not merely permits, but abets, Ii system of political brutality that is calculated rather for the meridian of Ashantee or Pegu (where human sacri fices are congenial to the unbridled passions and savage habits of unreclaimed barbarians), than to ,hat of one of the most ancient monarchies of Europe. The accounts from Madrid are to the 21st inst. Intelligence of the capture and execution of ZURBANO had been received, and produced much excitement. A Cabinet Council was held in consequence. The Gazette of that date contains the appointment of Lieutenant-General Don Jose PRIMO DE RIVERA to the functions 'of Commander of the Naval Station at the Havannah, in place of Don FRANCISCO ULLOA. The Three per Cents. closed at 31i: for cash, and at 60 days; and the Five per Cents. at 23i at 60 days. The Paris journals are entirely occupied with the proceedings in the Chamber of Deputies on the PRITCHARD indemnity. From all accounts the result is the general topic of conversation, and cannot fail to cause a strong sensation throughout the whole of France. The Ministry have been saved from destruc tion by a majority of only eight against an amendment which, if carried, must have seriously compromised the relations between England and France. The Opposition, with loud cries of exultation, claimed a decided victory, and without waiting for the divisions on the other paragraphs of the Address, left the house in a body. It will be recollected that on Saturday the Members broke up in great agitation —the Ministry contending (and they were borne out by three of the tellers), that the amend ment of M. MALLEYILLB was rejected, while the Opposition, on the authority of the fourth teller, maintained that it was carried. On Month) , the Chamber again met in a state of great excite ment, when the President read the third paragraph of the Address, which runs thus;—" Incidents which at the first moment appeared calculated to disturb the good relations existing between France and England had greatly agitated the two countries, and called for' all the attention of your Government. We are happy to learn that a mutual feeling of goodwill and equity has maintained between the two States that happy accord which is in dispensable for their prosperity and the repose of the world." To this M. MALLEVILLF moved the following amendment :—" We are happy to learn that the accord so necessary to the repose of the world has been maintained between the two States, but we regret that, in granting a reparation which was not due, the rules of justice and reciprocity, which France shall always respect, were not suffi ciently taken into account." M. BILLAULT spoke strongly in support of the amendment, and was fol lowed by M. ODILLON BARED; who appeared to be in a state of great excitement, and gave vent to the following language :—" France should not have the appearance of voting under the threat .of a rupture ; that if England did not dread such a rupture, neither was France afraid of it. They were all, he said, men of honour, and if they were convinced that the im pious war, which had already cost the lives of 200 of their countrymen, had been kindled by Mr. PRIT.. CHARD, he was certain nobody in the house would consent to pay an indemnity to that manufacturer of sedition and revolt." A division by ballot then took place, when there were—For the original paragraph, 213; against it, or for the amendment, 205—majority, 8. The announcement was received with tremendous cheering and clapping of hands by M. THIERS and his party. A number of Conservatives refrained from voting, and left N. GUIZOT to his fate. The whole Address was finally voted by a majority of 183, only 33 Members remaining to vote against it. Ministers, however, are resolved to remain in office and proceed without delay to make another trial of strength by bringing in the Secret Service Money Bill. This Bill was announced for the following day (Tuesday). As the division on this question is one of the first importance to England, as well as France, it may be interesting to give the opinions of the Opposition Paris press on the present crisis. The Opposition party, we have said, claimed a majority on Saturday, and in proof of it the National says:— " That which particularly struck every one present in the Chamber of Deputies on Saturday was the unjustifi able conduct of the President and his unexpected flight. No person heard him adjourn the debate, nor did he read the order of the day. He was seized with fear at the mo ment when he felt the storm raging'. If a President may render himself. ridiculous (and M. Sauget sometimes abuses that liberty), it is not permitted to him to fail in the duties of his office. And now that we have done with the President, let us refer to the Secretaries. MM. de L'Espee, Boissy d'Anglas, and Las Ca3as, declared on Saturday that the amendment of M. Leon de Malleville was rejected. M. Lacrosse maintained, on the contrary, that it was approved by the majority. Let us verify the truth by a simple calculation. Two secretaries, consulted as to the number of, otes, affirmed that they had counted—one 410, the other 411 ; we shall take the last number as the basis. From these 411 the President and the four mem bers of the beard must be deducted. There remains 406 voters. It is certain, therefore, that about twenty members at least have abstained from voting. We have received the names of sixteen. Those sixteen deducted from 406, there remain 390. The majority is conse quently . 196, and we publish the names of 196 members who positively voted for the amendment of M. Leon de Mallet ille. We are not awure what course the Opposi tion will pursue on Monday, but the paragraph remains to be voted. The paragraph contains a candid and sin cere approval of the Pritchard indemnity ; the natural effect of the vote of Saturday will be the vote of Mon day. M. Guizot declared explicitly that he did not wish to be equivocally supported. lie was right; Government cannot be conducted by doubtful majorities. Let the majority, therefore, declare itself boldly. If it com pletely approves the solution of Otaheite, let it be de clared without a quibble." M. THUM' paper considers the victory certain, and thus proclaims it : " We yesterday gave an approximative calculation, Made in haste, from which we conceived we had a right to conclude that M. de Malleville's amendment had been adopted. We are at present able to rectify those figures, and to give proof in the place of conjecture. Here are the facts all proved. All that was doubtful we have considered as unfavourable to our cause. We have, therefore, remained below the truth, and we defy our ad versaries to oppose to our demonstration calculations as complete and as authentic. The manner in which the secretaries proceed in ascertaining the result of a difficult vote is this:—They ct'unt up beforehand the Members present ; they su6di%ide this amount according to the sections of the Chamber. When the vote takes place they compare the number of Deputies who have risen in each section with the number of those in the entire section. They thus deduce from these eight partial substracions the approxirna tive calculation of the general difference between the approvers and the opposers. On Saturday the Se. cretaries had, as usual, prepared this work. M. de I'Esp6 Ministerial, found 411 Deputies present, includ ing the five Members of the bureau ; M. Lacrosse, Op posi:ionist, reckoned 410. We take 411 as the exact figure. Deducting the Members of the bureau, this amount is reduced to 406. We have stated that a score of Deputies, though present, had not voted. We main tain the exactitude of this fact ; but we can collect in a certain manner but the following 15 names :—MM. Ea peronnier, Darbley, Lanyer, Dessaigne, Bernadou, E. Blaac, Lepelletier d'Aultlay, DugaLß, Remilly, Lebobe, Cent beer, Salgues, Sapey, Mesgrigny, Lavocat. It is thus evident that our list of yesterday was very nearly exact. Let us deduct 15, there remain 391. We give further on a list of the persons who voted for the amendment, it amounts to 196 ; so that there remain for the Ministry, putting aside such votes as are still a matter of doubt, 195. The Opposition, therefore, had the absolute ma jority ; we believe it had still more. Now, will the re sults bo contested ? In that case it must be peoved either that the secretaries were in error as to the number of persons present, and then the majority amongst them becomes more inexcusable not to have pronounced that the trial was doubtful ; or that the fifteen Deputies whom we have named as having abstained took part in the vote, and then it will be necessary to tell us how they voted ; or that our list contains errors, and includes De puties of the Pritchard party, and we wait to have them made known ; or that a list of more than 195 names of Deputies be produced who stood up in favour of the in demnity, and we maintain that such a list will not be produced. We shall give the list of the Pritchard party; we shall make known to the electors those whom the Ministry has drawn into this fault. The country must one day judge between them and us ; only we postpone this necessary publicity in order to assure its more com plete exactitude." Galignanis Messenger takes the following view of the division :—" The Opposition journals publish lists of the Deputies who, they say, voted for the amendment, and by which they show—some 195, and others 196 votes, for the Opposition, indepen dently of several of which they are doubtful. If either of these lists be correct, the Ministry was either in a minority, or could have had only a ma jority of one, even supposing all the Deputies whose names are set down as doubtful to have voted against the amendment. It is not at all improbable, how ever, that some of the names on the Opposition lists may have been placed there without the direct au thority of the parties themselves, and that some of them may, as is very frequently the case in such matters, come forward and declare either that they abstained from voting, or voted with the Ministry." The Prase considers the affair as by no means settled, and says— " The Chamber has not sufficiently weighed the con sequences of its vote, and as the affair is far from being concluded, since the indemnity is neither arbitrated on, nor authorised by a special vote, it is st - 11 time to reflect. The vote of Saturday is, moreover, contested, and the paragraph of the Address is not yet adopted by the Chamber. The strange promptitude with which the President deserted the chair after having proclaimed the result, appears likely to become the subject of strong animadversion." Lord COWLEY, says the Constitutionnel, paid a long visit to the Tuileries on Sunday morning. The, Funds, it will be seen, have undergone little altera tion. On Monday the Three per Cents. closed at 85E 30. ; and the New Loan at 86f. 50c. The following is the latest intelligence from Swit zerland respecting the Jesuits :—On the 21st instant the Government of Zurich, acting in the name of the Vorort, published its circular to the different cantons on the subject of the encouragement given to the Jesuits by the Canton of Lucerne. The circular is of great length, but the concluding paragraph, which we subjoin, will suffice to show its character, and the object at which it aims:— "As the tendency of the spirit of the order of Jesuits is to subject the State to the Church, and make the ruling policy theocratic ; and, as it is as it always has been among the religious orders, that which is most hos tile to the Reformed Church, its presence in the Canton of Lucerne—the seat of the Vorort, would insure the triumph of its principles, and spread a general mistrust throughout Switzerland. It is fur this reason that the Diet should endeavour to dispose this canton to abandon its project of entrusting its theological establishment to the Jesuits, and thus contribute to the re-establishment of public peace. We, therefore, entreat the cantons to call upon the Deputies to meet an extraordinary Diet at Zurich, furnhhir►g them with instructions, so that their first sitting may take place on the 24th of February next." THE BOURSE--MONDAY, JAN. 27. First Highest Lowest Last Price. ?Ties. Price. Price. French Five perConts.• .• .. 121 95 121 95 .. 121 75 .. 121 75 Fours ..• ••• •.. 108 .. 108 .. 108 .. ICB Three per Cents..... 85 30 .• 85 30 .. 85 20 .• 85 20 New Loan ........ 86 43 . • 86 50 . 86 45 .. 86 50 Rank of France • • 3260 —3260 8260 .• 3260 Gouin Bank. I,ooof. Shares• lOB5 —lOB5 ..1085 ..1085 Bolvan Bank..• . ••.. Belgian Fives, lA4O .• •• 104 1 4 104% .. 104% 104% 1842 ..... 106% .. 106% .. 106% 106% Two-and-a-Half.... 62 10 .. 62 10 .. 62 10 .. 62 10 Spanish Threes •••••• .. •• • . 41 .. 41 .. 40% .. 40% Passive .. 6 .. 6% Portuguese Five per Cents 59% .. 59% .. 59% .. 5934 Neapolitan • . ..•• •• .. 99 .. 99 .. 99 .. 99 Roman • . RAILWAY SHARES. St. Germain ..... ••••••••••1042 50 ..1042 50 —1037 50 ..1037 50 Versal. •••• •• 505 .. 505 .. 502 50 .. 502 50 L. 8.•. .. Rouen •• •• ••••••••••••1072 50 ..1072 50 ..1072 50 .•107`2 50 Rouen to Havre•• Orleans •••• •• .....•• ......1135 ..1137 50 ..1135 ..1135 Strasburg to Bale 306 25 .. 366 25 .. 306 25 .. 306 25 TILE EARL OF MORNINGTON. — We regret that the state of this venerable nobleman is very un satisfactory. Dr. Copeland and Dr. Prout held a consultation yesterday with the resident physician. The reply to inquiries at the residence of the Noble Earl, in Grosvenor-square, was—" His Lordship has passed a very restless night, and is not so well as he wai yesterday." Her Majesty, Prince Albert, the Duke of Cambridge, her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, and the Grand Duke of Mecklenburgh Strelitz, sent to make inquiries. The Duke of Wel lington, and the nobility and gentry in town, made early calls yesterday at his Lordship's residence. nONLY AND COMMERCIAL NEW S CITY, WEDNESDAY EVENING, Consols cloM precisely the same as they stood in the morning —viz., 99k to par for Money, and 100 to 100* for Account. Bank Stock has been 214 to 215. Exche quer Bills were firm at 675. premium. The Foreign Bonds were rather better. Spanish Five per Cents. were 28 to + for February 14 ; Mexican 35; to 36 ; Colombian, 14+ to 1 ; Brazilian, 90+ ; and Spanish Three per Cents., 391 to 40*. The additional transactions in Railway Shares have been these : Birmingham and Gloucester were 9f •, Ditto, New, 9} ; Bristol and Exeter, 3 to 4 ' • Ditto and Gloucester, 1414 to 14 ; Chester and Holyhead, li; Chur net Valley, 5 ; Cornwall, -a ; Dublin and Mullingar, to* ; Eastern Union, 5} ; Great Southern and Western (Ireland) Extension, 4i to 3i ; Great Western. 97 to OR; Ditto, Fifths, 20f ; Guildford, Fareham, and Portsmouth, 21 ; Harwich, ; Hull and Selby, 23 ; Lancaster and Carlisle, 9+ ; Birmingham, Thirds, 40; ; Ditto, Quarter, 26+ ; South-Western, New, 10+ ; Croydon, 31 to 4; Lon don and York, 21 ; Manchester and Leeds, 60 to 62 ; Midland, 28 to 29 ; Ditto, New, 7 •, Newcastle and Ber wick, 11,} to 10+ ; North British, 34 Northern and Eastern, Quarter, 5 ; Norwich and Brandon, 5+ ; Ditto, New, 2* ; Rugby, 1+ ; Shrewsbury and Birmingham, to:i ; South Devon, 5+ ; South-Eastern, 14+ ; Ditto, New, No. 1, 15 to f ; Ditto, No. 2, 15+ ; South Wales, 2+ to 3 ; Trent Valley, 7+ ; Water ford and Kilkenny, ; ; York and North Midland, 57 ; Paris and Orleans, 244 ; Ditto and Rouen, 22 •, and Rouen and Havre, 15+ 4 ; and Tours and Nantes, 1 premium. Greenwich have been 1+ dis count. London Joint-Stock Bank Shares were 44 prem. The British American Land Company held its meet ing this afternoon ; and, from the statement submitted to the Proprietors, it is clear that its affairs are still im proving. (From. The Sun of Last Night.) The sales of Cotton at Liverpool, yesterday, were about 4,000 bales, including 3,0.)0 bales Egyptian, at 6 d. ; 4 00 Pernam, at 51d. to 64-41 ; and American at 31d. to sd. per lb. The market was quiet, but prices were un changed.—Shares were brisk, as regards the principal lines. Birmingham and Gloucester. 112 ; Bristol and Gloucester, 45 ; Caledonian, 5s ; Chester and Birken head, 36-il ; Chester and Holyhead, 7; Churnet Valley, 7 ; Eastern Counties, ; 184- 1 Ditto, Perpetual (No. 2), 'l+ • Glasgow Dumfries, and Carlisle, 11. 6s. ; Glasgow and Greenock, 13 ; Grand Junction, 234; Ditto, Half, 117 ; Great Wstern, 176 ; Ditto, Half, 101 ; Lancaster and Preston, 52 ; Liverpool and Manchester, New, 404 ; London and Birmingham, 232 ; Ditto, Quarter Shares, 281 ; London and Brighton, 52 ; London and York, 4t ; Cambridge and Lincoln, 415 ; Manchester, Bolton, and Bury, 1261 ; Manchester and Leeds, 1331; Midland Counties, 1191 119; Nlrth Union, 150 ; Preston and Wyre, 214 ; Shrewsbury and Grand Junction, 64 7* ; South-Eastern, 481 ; Ditto, New, 211 1 ; Ulster, 424 ; Paris and Rouen, 421 1 ; Rouen and Havre, 261 ; Central of France, 11 4 ; Northern of France, 51. It is with much regret that the merchants in the City interested in the East India and China trades, have learnt that the project of a railway for the con veyance of goods and passengers across the Desert is all but abandoned. It was hoped that the scheme would be successful, but it would appear that the difficulties are all but insurmountable, and a canal is likely to be formed instead. In some quarters we hear that the Pacha of Egypt is indisposed to make any advances for the rail way, his exchequer being somewhat low. It is impos sible to over-estimate the value of such a commu • nication if successfully carried into execution. If the railroad is at all practicable, no doubt capital enough would be raised here for the purpose, and thus a great boon be granted to the traders and passengers be tween Europe, India, and China. We are without any e!.,loniel arrivals to-tiny of late dates. The Public Securities have not been influenced as to value by the very exrras.rdinary divisions that have taken place in the French Chamber of Deputies. Cir cumstances nearer home—namely, a demand for capital for the settlements in the Railway and Foreign Stock—is the principal reason why Consols have gone back a little. Considering the high value of the Three per Cents. it is most remarkable that a much greater fall than from to per cent. has not recently taken place. Consols for the Account have been done at 104 but the Three per Cents. for Money are at a fraction below par. Bank Stock has reached 215 this morning, but they are now rather lower. The New Three-and-a- Quarter per Cents. have been sold at 1041 I. Exchequer bills command 675. premium. A fair amount of business has been effected in the Fo reign Bonds this day, but without much variation in prices. There has been a small reaction in the Portu guese Converted Bonds, which were done at 601 early in the day, and are now at 59 The Spanjsh Actives for Ac • count have been quoted at 26i, and the Three per Cents. at 40. Thy Dutch, the Chilien, and the Mexican Bonds are firm. Brazilian Five per Cents. have fallen from 90 to 89k. As the settlement of the Share accounts is fixed for to-morrow there is a heavy market this morning, as the list of prices will show. ONE PRICES OF BRITISH FUNDS. O'CLOCK. Bank Stock 3 per Cent. Reduced 3 per Cent. Consols ... 100 99% New 3 1 4 per Cent Long Annuities to expire Jan. 1860 12 1-16 1 ,! Ditto 30 years, 0ct.10,1859 ... 11 15-16 Ditto 30 years, Jan. 5,1860 ... 11 13-16 India Stock India Bonds, 1,0004 .. Ditto under 1,000!. . Bank Stock for Account Consols for Account' ....... 100 Exchequer Bills, 1,0001., 1 1 ,4 d.... 67 ptn. Ditto 5001. . Ditto Small ... 65 67 pm. ONE O'CLOCK. PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS Austrian, 5 per Cent ••• Brazilian Bonds Ditto, 5 per Cent, Bonds Chilian Bonds 6 per Cent... • Columbian Bonds, 6 per Cent Danish Bonds, 1825, 3 per Cent... 90 Mexican, 5 per Cent. 1837 35%%% Ditto Account Ditto, Deferred l6 % Peruvian Botids, 6 per Cents 2S Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent Ditto, Account. Ditto, Converted 60459% Russian Bonds ll9 Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840. Ditto, Account... Ditto, Passive CLOSING PRICES. 214 100% 99 - 7 8 104 1 4 12% CLOSING PRICES. 114% 90% 87 141% Ditto, Deferred Ditto 3 per Cent. - Ditto, Account 4O Venezuela Bonds, 2 per Cent — Ditto, Deferred! Dutch, 2 1 ,1 E per Cent Ditto, 4 per Cent., Certific 98 %. 4 PRICES OF CLOSING PAID. AT ONE O'CLOCK. RAILWAY SHARES PRICES Birmin and Gloucester. 100 Ditto New Shares ... 17% Ditto 1 , 4 Shares Bristol and Exeter Bristol and Gloucester... 30 Cawdonian Cambridge and Lincoln 1 1 / 2 4 14 Chester and Holyhead... ' 5 Churnet Valley Cornwall Direct Northern Dublin and hlullingar... 2 1 4 — Eastern Counties . 25 ...... 18% 1 / 2 18 ...... Ditto Perpetual, 5 per Cent, No. 1.... ...... 3%.- Ditto ditto, Nu. 2. l3s. 4d... Eastern Union Great North of England-100 Ditto New 5 ...... 2611... ........ .. Great South. and West (Ireland) Ditto Extension Great Western Ditto, Fifths 2O Guildford, Farn'm,Ports. 21,4 ... Harwich .. Hull and Selby 5O — Lancaster and Carlisle... 15 London and Birminghm (Stock) - ... Ditto New Thirds 2 Ditto, Quarter Shares 2 London and Brighton... 50 a.... 51:e Ditto Loan Notes lO London and Greenwich.. 12% II,E London and S. Western. 41 '/; Ditto New 2 l /2 l3 London and Croydon, 131. 15s. 9d. 17X% ...... London and York 2% 5 l /s 5 Lynn and Ely Manchester and Leeds... 70 l3 l l/ Manchester and Birm... 40 , Ditto Quarters Midland... 100 l2B 1271% 129... Ditto New 2 .. ... 9%% 9 Midland, Birm., Derby••• 100 N ew e a A: to and Berwick VA ...... 12 3 / 4 North British Northern and Eastern... 45 Ditto % Shares l 2 l /2 — N:nrwich at* Branson... is Ditto, New Shares ... 1 Rugby Shrews., Wolverhamp , Dudley, and Birm 2 l/ 3 3 /4 .. South Eastern & Dover 33 1 / s 4 7 14% 46 47... Ditto, New Shares ... 4' Ditto No. 2. South Wales 2 l/ 5 Trent Valley 2 York and North Midland 50 Ditto, Selby Scrip Ditto Extension .. ... 1 1 / ...... 131 12% 13 1 ,1 12 1 ,( FRENCH RAILWAYS. Boulogne and Amiens... 2 Great North. of France... 5 3 / 5 34 Ye ..«..... Paris and Lyons JOINT STOCK BANKS. London & Westminster. 20 Provincial of Ireland ... 25 MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, JAN. 28.—We have had a quieter market without much variation in Fie 26 : Dublin and Drogheda 76 Eastern Counties Preston and Wyre, and dins Sheffield and Manchester, Quarter Shares .. l3 South Eastern 49 Ditto,, Scrip .. York and North Midland, New Shares 14 Barnsley Junction 6f Birkenhead, Manchester, and Che shire Junction Blackburn and Preston lO Blackburn, Burnley, and Accrington 4 Cambridge and Lincoln 4 Churnet Valley Leeds and West Riding Junction...— 4 5 London and Worcester, Oxford and Rugby 2 11-16 London and York 5 Manchester, Bury, and Rossendale ... 9 Manchester and Buxton 2 Southport and Euxton West Yorkshire Trent Valley .... 101 i Manchester & Salf. Water Wks 57 ex div. 5/ /8 6 178 40% 4 3 / 4 1% 73 24M 47 1 % 19 1 / 17% 51 9% 107 CAMBRIDGE AND LINCOLN RAILWAY.--A memorial in favour of this railway, signed by nine Heads of Houses, including the Vice-Chancellor, seven Professors, ninety-one Fellows of Colleges, and twenty-four other resident Masters of Arts of the University, was on Tues day forwarded to the Board of Trade, through .he Chancellor of the Exchequer, one of the University. DEATH OF SIR JOHN GEERS COTTERELL, BART. —The venerable Baronet expired on Sunday last, the 26th instant, at the family seat in Herefordshire, at the advanced age of eighty-eight. Sir John was son of Sir John 4terrell, Knight, by the only daughter and heiress of Sir John (peers, of Garnons, Herefordshire. He mar ried, in 1791, Miss Francis Isabella Evans, only daugh ter of Mr. H. Michael Evans, who died in 1813. The deceased was created a baronet in 1805. He is succeeded in his title and estates by his grandson, now Sir John Cotterell. THE CHIEF SECRETARY FOR IRELAND.—ViSCOBBt Sandon has refused the Secretaryship of Ireland, on the ground, propably, of not wishing to plunge Liverpool in an election contest. It is now said, with every semblance of truth, that the Right Hon. Sir Thomas Fremantle has been offered the appointment 133 Sir Robert Peel. We understand that an express was forwarded to Sir Robert Peel, at Windsor Castle, last evening, from Sir Thomas Freemantle, so that a few hours will set at rest all specu lation as to his accepting of the Irish Secretaryship.— Morning Paper of yesterday. GRAY'S INN, JAN. 29.—George Baker Ballachey, Esq., and William Redfern, Esq., were this day called to the degree of Barrister-at-Law by the Hon. Society of Gras Inn. TROTTING MATCH.—Tuesday afternoon a match came off on Mitcham Common, between Mr. Vander stein's cob Wonder (of the Black Dog, Church. street, Shoreditch), and Mr. Griffin's cob Merrylegs, for 501. a side, to trot two miles in harness, Merrylegs having 250 yards start. Betting commenced at 7to 4 and 2 to 1 against Wonder. Burke, of trotting notoriety, drove Merrylegs, and Mr. Monk Wonder. The horses started well, Merrylegs keeping the lead till the mile and a half, when Wonder caught him, Burke trying all he could with his horse; but Wonder went ahead, and won easily by about five yards, doing the two miles in six minutes and a half, being considered a wonderful performance for a pony only thirteen bands three inches. The matc drew a great number of persons to the Common. THE YARMOUTH MURDER.—We understand that a man from Aylsham, reading in the newspaper an ac count of the murder of Mrs. Candler, bethought himself that he must have been at Yarmouth on that night, and remembered having seen a person coming out of Mr. Catchpole's house and going up the opposite row with a bundle under his arm. This was between eleven and twelve o'clock. In order to satisfy himself that it was really the place where the murder had been com mitted, he came over to Yarmouth on purpose to look at the house. Having fully assured himself that he was correct, he wrote a letter to the mayor stating the cir cumstances, and expressing his willingness to come over to Yarmouth and identify the individual whom, he said, he should certainly know again. He was sent for, and on being introduced to the gaol swore positively to Yar ham being the wan he saw. —Cambridge Advertiser. SUDDEN DEATH OF A CLERGYMAN.-011 Sunday the Rey. Richard 11. Chapman expired suddenly, at his re sideueg in Diarylsbone. 42% 51% 1114 12 3 4 17 1 ,4 4% . COURT , t !,.-Ui'- Alt. . ' A Princ e INT INDson, \‘' En N ESD A Y ..---.Tht, Q U een 8 1-1 - I ' i r Albert took tht•ir early w ilk this fortno on in 01'1 sure-grounds and the Home Park. Wa _ Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of les'.tberie Princess Royal, and the Princess Alice, w ere ta t'''ii‘ieo at carriage airing this morning, and were to the 050 gardens at Frogmore to walk there. The Right Hon. Si Robert and Lady rpour ° reel left tb° Castle this morning . for r town. The Marquis' also took his departure. ! eat I°l At five o'clock this afternoon her Alikl es J•tiop Prince Albert, attended by the Equerries in S l ' .°l e. went to the riding school to take equestrian e%er°- theids e His Royal Highness the Duke of Catrhri': expected to leave Belvoir Castle, Leicestershire , - the seat of the Duke of Rutland, yesterday, to oo b/ -there, Duke of Beaufort with a visit, at B adm c e inton cestershire. Sir Robert and Lady Peel arrived at their Will in Whitehall-gardens yesterday morning, fr° visit to her Majesty at Windsor Castle. , A rteS Mr. Mosquera, the New Granada Charg 6 a ' "A c sl e, transacted business yesterday at the Forogo'°;ti the The Governor of the Bank of England, altobert Deputy Governor, had an interview with Sir. r ail , Peel and the Chancellor of the Exchequer Yes'esilive A detation from the Original Harwich B oole Company had an interview with the Earl of D yesterday, at the office of the Board of Trade', oil, Lord Wharncliffe, Lord President of the v ° o ia gave a grand dinner last evening, at his to Curzon-street, to the Cabinet Ministers en, d d Tba officers of State of the Queen's Houselo the clerks of the Privy Council, Mr. C . Greville andnfit Hon. William Bathurst, were also present. orrost o meeting, the roll of sheriffs (nominated on tbe ni ter ot f St. Martin) for the present year for the do' English counties was settled. W e* Mr. Wickham, Chairman of the Stamps sand be' SO had an interview with the Chancellor of tt .n ie fo ie quer yesterday, at his official residence in v ° street. With Mr. Thomas Baring had an interview itoost- Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone yesterdan the of I'rade. Dispatches were sent off y e s terday ° en ro l; fr : the Colonial office for the Govrnor of Gib r ra, The Earl of Ripon had an interview / 11 `" Peel yesterday. BRITISH AMERICAN LAND C O PAN Y. hel d A special meeting of the Proprietors we'since,l3l4l torday, at two o'clock, in the CompanY 'e r c oateis, yard, Bucklersbury, for the purpose ei t - 0 ,00°2 of the application of stock, to the amount 01 2 b , toe' o aid of a proposed line of railway froin or Montreal, on the St. Lawrence, to Bost en ' ti dell t other port on the Atlantic, the line being I t l ir. Sobm" to pass through the eastern town 15 0(15 ' son, the Governor, in the chair. The CHAIRMAN having, in a few words , e%r ede Jt° the object of the meeting, r° Mr. Cummisis, the Deputy Govern° l % P re c P e r er loe ° ; read several letters from the CompanY! nn gli tive in America, Mr. Galt, impressing sb r s' Ac h 0 1"ot the Directors the absolute necessity nt . s. ltieet r o o way, as their lands at present, whether O tte ge t waste, were at a nominal valuation;. an d „l e nd be were in such a state of heartless dot - tlistltl e the pressure of several unsuccessful yes''' r in I , 0 they could they were either think in g , In oseepil of emigrating, to the westward. An a, jicl 0 ; state of things the advance of , e st ran considered as a gift, would be their eery - o t ter t ja The House of Assembly had done le n oth goop o l, for any particular remark, excepting' P e e xpeno ol grant of 2501. in aid of the preliroin lll.l so 00w - 0 01 the line. The estimated expenses were t a 'O O O O of this sum 100,0001. might be obtai,,,spl_A•eoool' vernment on the security of the C°.``Z. SovV e lands in the province; the ren 3Biii ,;;;l ll s/A . ieo cl might be raised among the public g e ,b' e esr:001; writer concluded by earnestly urging. "p o ds . .„' 4 10,; of giving activity and energy to thelf,,,-Ated fi t , porting, as far as in them lay, the P re t he 06001.'d Mr. Cummins added, that in replY' of had authorised Mr. Galt to yield the st llss ,b e san - rers conditionally, however-they requiring; t he ge the Executive body in Canada, sad ° t it , 1 /11 :1 11e1 .,o body of Proprietors of the Governllle.n" r also adding that, unless the proposed V e to 0 5 the approbation of Mr. Galt himself, le' the $ 11° , 1 , 1 ~o,° °l respect to pledge the Company. A resolution in accordance wit", t leit n e evo moved by Mr. GouLn, who observe", o f . ter v r '-d' o f pany s affairs did not look so dismal ro te as stated by their Commissioner, the "; e orli tn ord proposed line could be supposed at I , r fo l lioo l 60,0001. He thought that, making eY;eseeeAtll.4l for the sanguine expectations and r e P . st t iP Pi r d Mr. Galt, the line would be the Ter,' t e .. no rst had supported since they had been inc e .7 t o0„ 11 01 0:1 he would have great pleasure, thereforell the t o resolution, " That this meeting sublllirotheforeier Directors to subscribe 20,0001. in sto6%,Atis tee!' railway from Montreal to some port on line to pass through the eastern towns' " t he Y JAY stipulations mentioned in the letter of er o ix to the Commissioners in Canada. o an 0 A I Mr. CLARK seconded the resolution l obe ;Iv speech, which was supported by other I l t sl A after a few remarks from the CllO B- ol eePr' carried unanimously. the After a thanks to the C h broke '"" (1 ,,, 10. os pit i SIR HUMPHREY DAVY ON •-• solid substances used as manures, one,n,„,' a. "' fon ov ful is the dung of birds that feed on anu" - w hice ; ; larly the dung of sea-birds. 'The go n , ° ,,,bie b is °ie. a great extent in South America, tow Iff A ir nure that fertilizes the sterile plain s : etift - (19 111 duction of this kind. It exists a bunl i ists e n g informed by M. Humboldt, on the anr,.. 2 1 ic 11 . 1 South Sea, Chinche, Igo, lute, and Atri c- ih 0f 4 0 Y , 0 4 are laden with it annually at Chinche, e. B o gnot '! ries from 1,500 to 2,000 cubic feet. It. /s u isrlf,ittql only in very small quantities, and Pathne n sci of P i of maize. I made some experimat, ° V 4 5 1 guano sent from South America to tu e „ n e's td i feor culture in 1805. It appeared as a fine m r ,' 00 1 , 8 0:// blackened by heat, and gave off strong In „' treated with nitric it afforded uric ael 1 001 0 7,/ f r o A Fourcroy and Vauouein published on!. PO h ie of guano. They state that it contain:a wke d i e ety its weight of uric acid, partly saturet;ic 01 0 0 V and partly with potassa; some PlosP,ll(iiine. ae with the same basis, and likewise, wit t e 5 , au / tities of sulphate and muriate of Pei' 01 0 matter, and some quartoze sand. t ,„,wrifi C ie s ,V A A I THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON'S J--..noritfrolr Tho Herald and some of our Cen te " - isf e ,, e o o 4 to discredit the information which w e or P ro of Zi on this subject in the last number of n olo le are enabled now to add materially T ie tbe,ell9 ment. We believe it to be indispohluo or t he of Wellington has, for some yeerel_f o otet i , "harrei o s, o Melbourne's Administration , C o n t e Th ao'le es ot fortification of the whole of the pot a 9 Re l y at r e / England, particularly on the s outh , rog re o : o f ols 0 1 4 1 ; London. The works are even new i n b P e Set ne slihh a t ,`,o port. When the facility with which t he cre e v elti 1 in the Chinese war, ran up rivers we bsv e o le ~„"t i tr molested, is remembered, and whe n etewl e artalrAf not slow to apprehend or to follow wane dtheloost,A a high personage even talks oPe 811 :, an our own coast to an instantaneon-coneo. oia, ceived advent of armed steamers, it °r id sbo e one that the first strategist in the 0 01 flfrOt the means of protecting, his OW° co un try r' ply attacks.-Hisiorical .Regi.tter of Seturt, Wooer' BEDFORD.-ROMANCE or iltt, toe' B o & j ai years back a man belonging te c e 0 8 r:1/ wife and children, and no intelligen The o at A , of his whereabouts ever afterwar(?;,. t e,o struggled on, and supported her.elior grs" k e tr, about two years ago, when, taking . do we e o f husband was dead, she married a w s oo ,fite r iol to her great surprise and to the die e bo r el", T O husband, she received a letter rV b ' ou rii g biS c ly?" requesting to meet him at a neig ° nipo nie,l' ab fal 0 0, 1 she went and met him; he s a e iP friends to Bedford, when he Ina". n „ he r b e l l ; 10,1 due form, and succeeded in winninbpngait that the truant husband has been - t ot l o a pursuits during his mysterious absence f,/Yti e verliser. An I 'fig' s fl 4 SMUGGLING AT HOME ° P e a to 1 0. ,, 1 03 ., 5j 5t the last session Mr. Hume propee_stolisP,, return, a complete list of all the 0 7 pu ttii i i ; sho o f and supported for the purl:wa n tur n til ti r o 0, ,10 filing. It appears from the re , ue t he these establishments, in 184 2, l'i s r ue of, Thlf o r t 1: 1 ,) million sterling, and that the value 3,00.0cit46,4 goods seized that year was sti n g the. re sen t icpeo ping np the vent hole and oPen t , the Yon e t ot i, signify these trifling seizeinurilrpteoi:;l::B-.014f:otti:1,0;;;;00100:511 fact that goods of the value v br andij,iiig!, 4 4 ,01 four millions sterling, c hie fl y t eree_ e c ost:, are every year smuggled Franco the service of the Col", 26,000 cho 4 4 . 0„ of a million sterling, and a compete army ; and yet, le 50, 0 hons e f l" of its seizures was not more tha cus tot o o 4 ° I O or; 18,000 searchers in the FreneP,Aves 400 fe , ° Of byr jella r b o r 65 salts ith;o.l; least ten searches a day, a day for the whole kingdom' re d olte a year, producing the conte oer miab i c fi gi 00 0- e rd The Preventive Army of the t t o‘ing "i o re o p slot o f sts 400,0001. a year ;so til l ' ye ntiv e r " r ed and the Zolleverein, the Pr d o th t e o 50,000 men, and costs upweru9to ell 5 0 t ° 100:10 Applying similar calculations 0 ,01 4 p , here l i t "ft the per A 0 the European Continent, e ig o r "t o „ w oe 0 0 „ as ,. an o about 200,000 men, costing - d go ige sterling, and seizing Lo nrb ni e l d iro o ,oo s ‘of ,1 4 4 ) 4 , t 0 80.000/. or 100,000 VS" ni eet!A e- i a. d l DEATH or ONE OF tile per -0, rja sK, i i fOJ O I last Samuel Shergold, a t h e 'celfuaii/Pnyt°ol t he t ert e, glorious victories, died at l -7 frt o j h e VI 0 1P, The old tar was 25 years 'ill pa i d ti t pert," c jog i C i 1814, in which year he „ Ws ur ing th A en tlc ti gt• , George, at Plymouth. 11 ti partf,a c e • bo ut under Nelson in no less Os hed.rio bar last five years he had hee n .;Coet er ' was father-in-law of captl l _ 4 , this port.-Eants Indepenao 11 13-16 286 215 100% 36 36 16% 28 28 1 ,4 16% 40 401, 74 44 6% 6% 3% 15 1 ,4 12% 11 r 17), iW s : 3 N 23/4