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Colone Anson's b f Ardennes, by Touchstone, out of Hormea's dam—Mr. Jaques% Spur; by The Saddler, out of Red Tape, by Rowton. CHESTERI 1845. The Chester St. Leger Stakes of 25 soy. each, with 200 added, for three-year olds, Derby weights. Grosvenor Course. Sir R. Pigot's The Lass of Gowrie—Lord Eglinton's Vaudeville and Bretwalda—Sir W. W. Wynne's "f by Muley Moloch, out of Dryad—Mr. Price's Gothic--Mr. R. Bennett's Hope arid Violet—Sir R. W. Bulkeley's Bobstay, and f by Touchstone out of Brocade--Lord Westminster's Grotesque—Mr. A. Hill's The Libel— Mr. Mostyn's Master Stepney, c by Voltaire out of sister to Simia, and f by Sheet Anchor out of L'.Hirondelle— Mr. R. J. Mostyn's Miracle—Mr. C. M. St. Paul's cby Sheet Anchor, out of Calypso's dam—Mr. Davies's Prin cess Skelmerdine's c by Muley Moloch, out of Tillar—Mr. Cookson's Formula—Mr. Meiklam's Freeman—Mr. Cook's Yellow Boy—Mr. Dawson's Critn. Con.—Mr. Worthington's Lancashire Witch—Mr. Bris tow's Carissima—Mr. Bradshaw's Manasseh—Mr. R. Newman's Bloodstone—Mr. Critchley's Coeur de Lion Mr. Denham's fby Jereed, out of Compensation's dam— Lord Miltown's Plahowlah—Mr. Payne's c by Jerry, out of Esperance—Mr. T. Walter's Arthur—Lord G. Bentinek's Pug and Miss Elis—Mr. Osbaldeston's c by Jerry, dam by Dr. Syntax—Mr. J. Scott's Twig—Mr. Heseltine's Helmsman. NEWMArS.ET CRAVEN MEFTING, 1844. • - TUESDAY. The attlands of 50 SOV - 3. each, h ft, and only 10 ft if declared by the 22d inst. 11111 , gon. 4 yrs, Bst 81b—Revecatiou, 5 yrs, 7st 81b— Wye Pet, 4 yrs, 7st 71b—Law-not-Aware, aged, 7st 71b rive-hini-a-Name, 6 yrs, 7st 51b—f by Gladiator, out of Ele7mise, 4 yrs, 7st 21b—Maria Dias, 6 yrs, 6st 81b. IRST OCTOBER MEETING, 1844.— WEDNESDAY. The St. Leger Stakes of 25 sous. each. D.I. Lord Exeter's Antenor, Plush, and Sylvius ; Mr. Bristow's Fraystrop, Mr. Crockford's Rattan, Mr. Dixon's Oliver Cromwell,' Duke of Richmond's Pastoral. ASCOT HEATH, 18-14.—TIIESDAY. Sweepstakes of 100 sovs. each, for four-year-olds. • SwinleyCourse. Semiseria, Extempore, Poison. YORK AUGUST .MEETING, 1844.— WEDNESDAY. Nominations for the Prince of Wales's Stakes of 10 E:nvs. each, with 50 added, for two yrs old. 5 yrs, T.Y.C. Mr. F. 'R. Price's. Gothic—Mr. G. Mansle's The Conical Boy---Alr. W. Cookson's The Punjaub—Mr. Alkn's Alareian—Mr. Osbaldeston's Secutor, and 11l c 'by Jerry, dam .by Doctor Syntax—Mr. J. Shepherd's .A.lnric—Lord Zetland's Sister to Co-heiress—Lord Eg lintou's Bretalda and Vaudeville—Mr. Stebbing's - Mr. J. Scott's Twig—Mr. Wilson's 'St. .6—Sir W. M. Milner's Prescription—Mr. W. H. ' -Mr. Kitching's f by Voltaire, out of dam—Mr.' AI.• Hornsey's Stittenham r-• f by Sheet Anchor, out of Sul ' .)n's Crim. Con.--Mr. Smith's Alice 's Fire Master—Mr. Stephenson's L. Fox's f by Marcian, out of Flareaway d' ; . l :- I:; , ! A's Vaudeville and Moulton—Alr. Edmon rim`s The lieiresz—Mr. llesseltine's the Helmsman and - Eit;:allen (late rielding)—Mr. H. Robinson's Minerva — Mr. It. G. Walker's fby Voltaire, out of Adriana—Mr. •taltt's Sister to Pedometer—Mr. Bell's Sotverby— ancashireWitch (late Dishonesty)— r S - cpney and Pantasa. tpitakes of 30 sovs. each, 10 ft for 3 yrs - old. Royal, Mr. Metcalfe's Spinster, :Olin), Mr. J . . Osborne's Mount Charles, ):el:, Mr. Wor.nald's Pedometer. Stakes of 50 sovs. each, 20 ft for 2 yrs old. truss, Mr. JaqUes's Playmate, Air. e: to T:Gu MsT er. A EETING, 1845. :3;a!: , .'s of 50 sovs. each, 20 ft for foals at tgo yrs old. Bst 41b each. One mile. t by Stockport, out of the Mountain --Lord Cliesterfield's Constantia Ada— by•Het roan Platoff, out of Quid's dam. .:.aces of 50 sovs. each, 20 ft for foals of 18.13, &f-. ring, Mr. 7 aques ' s Spur, Vii.--Mostyn's out of Iris Clifton. r, of 103 sov. each, 30 ft., for Mile and three quarters. s H c by Jerry, dam by Dr. Syntax ; Red )Tobin (allowed 3ihs) ; Mr. n (allowed 3lbs) ;• Mr. llesseltine's airs). CEP TIMBER MEETING, 1844. ingtay N.' .!. 0:-Morni y f: i ~ `_, . ones 1 ; Cu • I• i nn c, . C I:. ill~:l~' ~. 0,b;. 1 ,( . ! ,i• Yarbll i'vr A Sal. THIRD DAY. _ Paris of 10 sous. each, &c. .. 3 Freystrop, 3 yrs ; Mr. Collins's Main C C‘ eicreirs Aurungzebe, 4 rn ; Lord f Bay 31:Ar.clon, out of 'Monstrosity, . - ~, st • C 2 t '3• GREECE. .c. 20, 1313 —ln the National As nil 1;211'40m:10d debates took place to the 'Royal speech which ter- ruajc)rit:,, , in favour. of the de- Co:ntnitLe appointed to draw t up. the opponents could muster only Ide the uumber on the other side was 179. )1 is the Address agreed to:7- • ereee;eeeri ore-e,eeeeere, thankful to Heaven for the appearee.ce of yeur Mejeety in the midst of the Assembly on the ttzth of Noseeeber, fulfil a must grateful duty in expressing to your ejesey the warmest sentiments of joy and gratitude. Interpretine the grave words of your Majesty as a happy augury fur the. future proTerity of Greece, they feel that the borale Which. from the year 1833, have milted the Greek nation to yl•iir Majesty, beeame indissoluble from the moment when --eus irnyeaLe of your paternal heart consummated the eleauirnously expressed. " la _enic nation, 0 King ! during the whole period o: its holy struggle fir independence, having consecrated by the act; of its successive national assemblies the principles and hoe-s of the constitutional system, feel sincerely grateful for the iietitutions which have been established from the commence ment of you: Majesty's reign, in conformity with those prin hut this gratitude became more profound from that when your Majesty, complying with the wishes of the ei 1 itely declared, was pleased to crown your acts by grant. a representative government—a convention between the audits king, which will consecrate for ever the rights of the people and the privileges of the throne. " Yea, Sire, thin convention alone, this constitutional Go nmi,,nt alone, can give life and durability . to the liberal de ereee, published since your Majesty's accession to the throne, which rearly become ineffective from circumstances en 4irely contrary to the goad intentions of your Majesty and the eri,dies of the nation—this alone can establish the political fabric upwe immovable foundations. " The Assembly, participating the desire of your Majesty to effect all that may secure the prosperity of the State, will be stoat ready to make reciprocal concessions for such purpose, nd will employ its utmost endeavours, on the one hand, to lapt the fundamental laws of the Constitution to the real wants 'lle Hellenic people, and render them worthy the expectations tithe civilised world' and, on the other hand, to insure the , lignitY and power of the monarchy, consecrating on behalf of the throne all necessary rights, so as to secure the interests of individuals, and the general happiness of the nation. " Your Majesty will be pleased to believe that, under all cir enmstances, the, Greek people will be ready to acknowledge your love for there, and that the representatives of the nation ;idl dilly appreciate it. " The Assembly will enter devoutly upon its great work, animated with a spirit of rectitude and patriotism, and, as sisted in its labours by your Majesty, will hasten to affix to the Constitution the seal of firmness and stability. " In inch manner the National Assembly, under Divine pro tection fulfilling its mission, ventures to hope that it may assure for ever the happiness of Greece, in inseparable union with the g!Ory and splendour of vour Majesty's throne." The Committee appointed to draw up the Constitution are roceening rapidly with their fork. It is understood that they have already agreed upon more than forty articles. It his been reported in the German papers that the Em perm. of Russia has declared he will never renew his relations with 'Greece until those who took part in the revolution of the 3d of. Septembef are punished. The National Assembly, to mat k . their indignant sense of this menace, passed a unanimous vote, granting to all the officers and men who' were in the capital, and engaged in the movement, pecuniary privileges and other immunities, which they, in a spirit of generous pa triotism, have declined. 4.e. .1 des o Ih hnu. STATUE or SIR D. WILKIE.—The statue of our late lamented and popular painter, Sir David Wilkie, which has just been finished by Mr. Joseph, is now erected in the National Gallery ; and yesterday morning the public were, for the first time, gratified with a sight of it. It is placed in the hall, at Coe foot of the staircase, in a light admirably. adapted for its due display. The figure is of white marble, and being placed - on a pedestal of a greyish colour, the contrast is striking, and a pleasing effect is produced at first. glance. The decreased artist is represented in an attitude of contempla tion. liie left hand is supported on his sketch-book, and in his right, whiek is, elevated, as if about to transfer some brilliant thought or serue happy effect to paper, he holds his port. crayon. A cloak of ample dimensions is thrown gracefully over Us shoulders, and this, besides improving the lines of the composition, has the advantage of concealing many of the sharp angles and unpict aresque forms of the modern costume. The likeness ref the great painter is striking, and the features are chiselled with much delicacy of detail, freedom, and play. The•figure however, is scarcely massive enough, and its ',,e neraappearance is more }outhful than that presented by Sir D. Wilkie a few years anterior to his death. On one side of the Fe.. 1.? 40 a rcc?ss is sculptured, in which the favourite pa k tte F , f the painter is suspended. During the whole of yes terci this s's.-tue was the great object of the attention of the which frequented the National Gallery. )l DLAY AND Dualß.—Yesterday crsl meeting of the Governors and sub- the h Institation, established in. the latter part of the hit century, for the support and education of the deaf and tiritils children of the poor, and situated in the Old Kent zt, was held at tre London Tavern, Bishopagate-street, 'llromes Engiand in the chair. The address of the ittee congratulated the. Governors on the progressive cf the charity dut ing a period of fifty years, qh in the 11..5t five years the admission d only to th:rty• six, that in the course s more than three hundred had been nurn!;er - at the present moment under in ., ,ton in tl - a , Ir.rtitution, with the exception of those u,.on the pay list. The s'atement .of receipts and exnendi ,rre sho;vetl that the annual subscriptions had amounted to 't2l/., '.rofn Three per Cent. Consols dividends 4,285. and inking a total of 10,023 L, and :Inch, rspeoditure of 7,3E01. and 1,412/. for stock • 1 :13;C in the Lands of the treasure: of prsssal, it was resolved, cn f).erimittee, to alter rule 20, rt.lat „, of cliiPlen, by the insert:on of 151. Nobl.T.:en and Gentlemen were ti!il,ters for the year ensuing :—Presi e Duke of Vueeleueb ; Vice-Presidents, hi; Canterbury, Martinis of Bristol, an !, f:;f:coat Salinoutlt. Lord Calthorpe, Lord it t-qr T. Turion, Sir C. Hunter, P., Alderman Copelan d, M.P., Mr. , Aider‘oata 1 7 . n% brother, Alderman Gibbs", and tet►eatr T, e:iy ; Sir. Alderman Gibbs and Mr. .•.3kgerv.itti t cu.:r gentlemen to form the Committee et:rift then proceeded to elect twenty • :14tren out of a Est of fifty-six. The poll commenced at v, n and elo,ed at th.ets o'clock, when the names of the sue c•..ca-a.lidate; were announced, and the meeting broke up. 9,vribterf; -to t .re 11 •ZIIJOUT la,z!'. fire ft Ticios :,11e .i of :; ,:;lev r'. 4er ISGII~ ;LT lie THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY E‘ ENING, JANUARY 9. 1844. THE NEW HISTORICAL. ROMANCE. Now ready at all the Libraries, in 3 vols. WHITEF,R-IA: • OR, a THE DAYS OF CHARLES THE SECOND. " Whitefriars is the work of as common hand. It is full of talent."—John Bull. " A work of talent-and imagination • fall of interest and re plete with scenes of great power. Charles H., Rochester, Buckingham, Nell Gwynne, Colonel Blood, Titus 0 tea, Claude Duval, and many other eilebrites figure in every page."—Court Journal. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough•street. - - - - It S; MR. GLEIG'S NEW WORK. Now ready, In 2 vols., post Bvo. A , DRGOON. THE LIGH T By the Author of The Subaltern," " The Hussar," " The Chelsea Pen sioners," &c. " The whole work is a moving panorama of incident, and no one can read it without the deepest interest. It is a most faithful picture of a soldier's life."—Weekly Chronicle. " We point attention to these volumes as a necessary adjunct to every military library, and as among the most entertaininf books of miscellaneous reading that can possibly be taken up. ' —Naval and Military Gazette. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. MARY HOWITT'S NEW WORK. Square 12m0., 10s. 6d., in fancy binding, with gilt edges, TE CHILD'S PICTURE and VERSE BOOK: commonly called " Otto Speckter's Fable-book." Translated by MARY HOWITT. • With French and Ger man, on corresponding pages, and Illustrated with One Hun dred Engravings on Wood by G. F. Sargent. On Friday nest, 2 vols., foolscap Bvo., JACK of the MILL. By WILLIAM HOWITT. London : Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans. WORTHY OF REMARK.—The fact that many of the principal Hospitals in the Kingdom, among which it is sufficient to name Guy's, St. George's, and the Westminster, in the Metropolis; and the Manchester, Bristol, and Brighton Infirmaries, have adopted BETTS'S PATENT BRANDY, in preference to Foreign, affords a sufficient gua rantee to the consumers of Brandy of the extreme purity of the article, the connoisseur being, at the same time, baffled in his attempt to distinguish between its flavour and that of fine Cognac. Price, pale or coloured, in quantities not less than Two Gallons, Eighteen Shillings per Gallon, at the Distillery, No. 7, Smithfield Bars, leading to St. John-street. IiIIIE NEXT DISTRIBUTION of MONEY IL DIVIDENDS. AUTr/ORISED and GUARANTEED by HIS MAJESTY the EMPEROR of AUSTRIA, contains S4ONEY DIVIDENDS of £5O £6O £7O £BO £9O £lOO . 1:110 £l2O £l5O £2OO £4OO £6OO £6OO £l,OOO £1;500 £5,000 and £23,ooosterling. Amounting together to £70,170 sterling. Direct for PROSPECTUS with full `particulars, WITH OUT DELAY, to HEINE BROTHERS, at HAMBURG% Or. to HEINE BROTHERS. at LUBECK. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. THIS EVENING. JANUARY 9, Will be repeated a New Grand Opera, in Three Acts, calledTFlE BOHEMIAN GULL. Count Arnheim, Mr. Bolton]; thaddcus, Mr. W. Harnson; Arline, Miss Rainforth; Queen of the Gipsies, Miss Betts. After which, will be repeated a New Grand Comic Christmas Pantomime. entitled HA It LEQ UIN AND KIN CI PEN N ; or. VALENTINE AND ORSON. Harlequin, Mr. Howell ; Colitin, bine, Carson; Clown, Mr. T. R.dgway; Pantaloon, Mr. Blanchard. Dress Boxes 75., Second Price as. ; Upper Circles o: Boxes - .7.;econd Price Is. ; Pit , Secls.ond P rice ult.; .1; t'allety `..5., • ecend Price Is.; Upper Gallery , Secont Price 6 THEATRE ROYAL, COVENI.GARDEN M. JULLIEN'S CONCELUS. PROGRAMME FOR ART I HIS EVENING. P T. Overture. Furyluithe—Wel”r. The Royal Irish Quadrille—Jullien. Sonata for Vioioneelre and 03.33;e Bass, performed )1 Mcs;rs. Han cock and Howell—Cc r Solo, Cornetts-Piston, Herr Koenig (Air and Variations)— Valsi.•, La Valse a Deux cms—Jullien. S rprise Symphony— it) dn. Solo, Violin, Master 'I hiriwall. theEnglith Quadre.e—Juliten. PART 11. Opera, Lacia di Larnmernvor, with Solo or Cor et.a-P.sten, by Herr ncenig— Danizetti. Burlotta uadrilie, entitlei Dancing fcr the en. Solo, Flute, Mr. •lii.thardson—Richardsor. Valse, Elizabethan—Strauss. The Real zicotch Quadrille—Juilien. Doors Open at Half-past Seven, commence at Eight&Clock. Promenade, Is , Upper BJices, Is.; Dress Circle, ; Private Boxes, It. Is. Tickets to be obtained at the ilex-office of the theatre; or Mr. Mitchell, cad Bond-street; Mr. Andrews, New 3otid.street ; Mr. Sams, St. James's-street; and M. Juliion's Office, Maddox-street, Bend.street. • THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Mit. BENJAMIN WEBSiEIt, THIS EVENING, JANUARY 9, W:II be performed. PATIER vErtsys CLATTER. Captain Patter, Mr. Charles Mathews. To „e tollowect by WHO'S Yt UR FRIEND? or, The Queens berry Fete. Giles i airland, Mr. Charles Mathews; I lie Countess of Wriedrle, M. Chine Ve,trig. Ater wtiich, the thipara.kleci Performincesot Professor RISLEY :Ina his oON. To conclude with a New Fairy Extravagalza,entitted THE FAIR ON Wlll-1 THE GOLDEN LOCKS! King Laelitymoso, Mr. J. Bland; Prince (ira:etul, Miss P. Barton ; Queen Lucidora, Julia Bennett . THEAIRE ROYAL, ADELPHI„ The Best Pan:olnitneot the Scay-n—Gorgeous Scenery, THIS EVENING, JANUARY 9, Me New Drams, embr..cing Extrao.dmary Effects, Powerful Cast, - - . and Novel Scenic Display, called IHE BOHEMIANi ; or, rie Rogues or Paris. Principal Characters by Messrs. Lyon, O. Smith 'Wright, WielanA, Maynard, Mrs. liates,3ll,s SL.n'ey, Mrs. F. datthews. After which, a New Grand Christmas Pantomime. called H AR. LEQUIN BLUE BEARD, or, Tire - Fairy of the Silver Crescent. Prot:mod with Enermons S.:lend:lir and Wonderful Eflcets: Columbine, Miss i.tul!en ; Harlequin Quicksilver, by time inimitable Wieland; Clown, by the Orima!iii of the day, Mr. T. Matthews, from the 'Pleat: es ltoyal, Covent garden and Orin y.lane; loon, Mc._ _ - • Poxes,; Pit, 25. ; Gallery, ts. ; Second price at Nine. Doors open at Six, comaienees at a Quarter before Seven o'Clock. THE.ATRE, OXFORD:STREET. LESSEE, Mr., J. M. MADDOX. THIS EVENING, JANUARY 9. Will be performed LUCREZIA 13ORGIA. Don Alphoi7so, Mr. Burdini ; Gennarro, Mr. Allen ; Matllo Orsini, Mrs. H. P. Grattan; Gubetta, Mr. Walton ; Lucrez]aßorgia„Matiaine Eugenia Garcia. To which will be added the Vaudeville of the SWISS COT. TAGE. Matz Tieck, Mr. Keeley ; Lisette, Mrs. Keeley. To conclude with a Kew Mtrical Burlesque spectacle, entitled ME MAGIC MIRROR. Sing. Song, Mrs. H. P. kirattan; Puo. Poo, Mr. Paul Bed:ord ; Sloe.Leat, Miss. R. Isaacs. DATIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEAIIIE As usual, the funniest and most successful Pantomime. THIS EVENING, JANUARY 9,' Will bs repeated THE BOHEMIANS OF PARIS. Supported Messrs. Saville, Huglios, Hicks, ft. Bonner, Johnson, Smith, Mrs. . Vining, and all the Mea,bers of the First Company in the World. After which an entirely new Grand Comic Pantomime, with Splendid Scenery; Superb oresscs, Inimitable Properties and Tricks, every thing new and of the most costly description, HARLEQUIN GRAMMAR, or, Lindley Murray,and A E 10 Harlequin, Mr. W. H. Harvey ; Grotesque, Mr. Stilt; Clown, Mr. Fuller; Pants. loan, Mr. Hawains ; Columbines (alternately) Miss DI. R. Fair. brother aml Miss Sharpe. .Places and Private Boxes to be had of Mr. Kerschner, at the Box. Ake, from Eleven to Four. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE OF ARTS. Under the Management of Mr. Ratty, Proprietor. Triumphant Success of the Splendid Christmas Holiday Fetes—West minster-Bridge is now opri—Juvenile Nights. THIS EVENING, JANUARY 9, • Will be performed a Grand Comic Pantomime, entitled HARLE QUIN TA)I O'SHANTER, and his STEEL) MEG ; or, The Witches of Alloway Kirk. Harlequin, Mr. Gibson ; Columbine, Cushnie ; Clown. Mr. King; Pantaloon, Mr. Mathews. New Scenes in the Circle, and unequalled Feats of Horsemanship. Te conclude with the splendid French Spectacle of THE VIC CURIES OF MURAT, THE SOLDIER OF FRANCE; or, The lieneral, Prince, and King. Acting and Stage Manager, Mr. W. D. Broadfoot. Stalls. 55.; Boxes, 4e.; Upper Boxes, Bs.; Pit, 25.; Gallery, Is.; Upper Gallery. d. Box-office open daily from Ten till Four. Stage I'oxen, One Guinea; Half-price to Ditto, Half-a-Guinea. Private Boxes, Two ituineas; Halt-price to Ditto, One Guinea. Half-price, Half-past Eight. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. THIS EVENING, JANUARY 9, Will be performed an entirely New Domestic Drama, entitled POVERTY; or, Mary Graham. Leonard, Mr. Freer; Jessamy Tacit, Mr. Nantz ; Squire Graham, Mr. Dale; Patty Parrot, Miss Arden ; Mary Graham, Miss Vincent. After which, a New Drama, entitled THE BROKEN PROMISE. Josephe, Miss Vincent; General Morin, Mr. James; Eloise, :dies Arden. To conclude with HARLEQUIN LINCOLN LUCKY OF LAM. BETH; or, The Three Sisters of Witch Willow Dell. Harlequin, Mr. Chapin° ; Clown, Mr. Scarbrow ; Pantaloon, Mr. Morelli; Columbine, Miss M. Schmidt. day after day, the utter overthrow of the 1 Constitution as the immediate and inevitable consequences of that measure. Yet the Reform Bill was carried, and the Constitution evinced not the slightest symptom of giving up the ghost; and at this moment—twelve years after the pe riod when, according to the Post, it ought to have resigned its last breath—it is just as alert, as vigorous, and as efficient as it was in its best days. And so will it be with the agriculturists, even when the tariff and the League shall have achieved a perfect triumph. They will be among the first to laugh at their own idle apprehensions; and will look at each other, and wonder how it was that they could ever have put faith in the gloomy vaticinations of a one-sided monopolist journal. The remarks on which we have been commenting, occur in the course of an article, suggested to our Contemporary by a late agricultural meeting in Lincolnshire. Though this meeting is decidedly on his own side of the question, yet his troubled spirit is so far from deriving comfort from it, that he eyes it with the same " jealouS leer malign" with which MILTON tells us the Devil eyed Eve in Paradise. Even the suggestions of such monopolists as Messrs. CHAPLIN and CHRISTOPHER fail to meet with his approval. He is a bigot of the " nil admirer' " school, and can find nothing but what is tainted in the whole political ittmosphere. Dismissing our Contemporary, we may observe, that at the Lincolnshire meeting in question, Mr. CHAPLIN indulged in the following very strange . —say to the least of it—language. "Possibly," he observed, " if Mr. COBDEN should again present himself in Lincoln, and if the people did notput him in the river, they ought to get a man accustomed to mob oratory to answer him." Now imagine a significant suggestion like this directed by a member of the League against some sturdy mo nopolist—say, for 'instance, Dr. SLEIGH or the Duke of BUCKINGHAM ! Imagine Mr. COBDEN slily hinting the expediency of throwing one or both of these amiable individuals into the river ! What an uproar there would be among the Tories ! What a wringing of hands, uplifting of eyes, and shaking of thick heads ! Sir ROBERT PEEL—as on a former memorable occasion— would take the earliest opportunity of accus ing Mr. COBDEN in Parliament of recom mending assassination ; and Mr. FERRAND— ,he whose genius for finding mare's nests is so remarkable—would write' long prosy letters to each of the Tory journals, wherein he would volUnteer to prove before a Committee of the House, that the Hon. Member for Stockport had publicly and deliberately advised the murder of an unoffending Doctor of Divinity, or a Duke, illustrious by courtesy. Were the League disposed to make such fools of themselves as the Tories, they might easily get up as plausible a case against Mr. CHAPLIN, as their enemies got up against them ; but they are far too wise to dream even for an instant of following in the track of a parcel of spiteful, doting, old women. It is not to be supposed, a priori, that a Premier is a conjuror; and we have .not yet seen, in the powers or the administration of Sir ROBERT PEEL, anything which should subject him, by implication or construction, to the charge of having graduated in the black art. But we stand aghast at the fond expectations which both friends and flies profess to entertain of the • Right Hon. Baronet's " power magical." He is, according to some, to come forward be for(' the Easter recess with a scheme for cor recting the present dangerous and defective conbalition of the currency. This class of political puppets, not content with predicting the advent of so incalculably beneficial a remedy, arc so extravagant in their credulity as to believe that Sir ROBERT will have the candour to acknow ledge at the same time, that, after the late Mr. Ilu.sxissosi, no man has done more than himself to create or to aggravate that diseased state of our monetary functions which now threatens the speedy paralysis of our whole industrial and comm ercial system. Then, we have among our iiißeipporaTtes-aaamesaaratatata who look to the same hands, within the next six months, for the development of matured plans for the extension of our foreign commerce; the resuscitation and permanent maintenance of our manufacturing activity; the effectual counteraction of Russian intrigues against our power in Europe, and in Nort b-Western and Central Asia, in Persia, and in China;—the . adjustment of the Oregon and boundary questions, and of the seizures' corn peasatiou claims by American citizens in the' United States; the pacification of Mexico ; the settlement of the South American Republics ; and various other questions of some little im portance, and not without their modicum of difficulties. For our own part, we are so fearful that, in the matters thus hastily recapitulated, there will be found stuff enough for the fullest occupation of the Premier's time, that we have scarcely margin enough of conscience left us to add our own wish—rather than expectation— that the Minister would be good enough to ap prise the country, in the first week of the en suing session, when he means to withdraw his destructive property and income-tax—that mon strous concomitant of the twenty-ninth year of our uninterrupted peace with Europe ? We are sensible, however—having repudiated the notion of his being invested with magic influences—that Sir ROBERT PEEL can no more manufacture time, than Mr. DENT, the great horologist, can multiply it by any of the delicate and ingenious pro cesses which he applies to the manufacture of his chronometers. And if this be so, it is not to be imagined that the Premier, within the short interval which has yet to elapse before the re assembling of Parliament, can scrape together a sufficient stock of this •" time ".—the most pre cious, after all, of all currencies—to the elabora tion of one-tenth of all the purposes for which people so kindly give him credit. Nay, it is not, in reason, to be supposed that he will be able to set apart, for any one department of the public service, more of this commodity than the portion which the course of official business has already assigned to it. Nevertheless, although we may not look even to that Minister who understands so Wej l the technique of the art of raising . "ways and means" to supply the deficient annual product of our taxation, by further 'taxing the very capital which has hitherto paid it, or the income of that capital,—for a power to prolong the duration of the natural 'day by Act of Parlia ment or Order in Council; we would entreat him at this period,—before the fight of parties in Parliament has begun,—to remember how much of real business it is indispensable for him• to crowd into the transactions of every twenty-four hours which will elapse before an• ad journment, by prorogation or dissolution; in the ensuing summer. Let him carefully avoid the mischievous error of his predecessors in office, who, by neglecting to calculate before hand the time—limits within which certaint ob jects of periodical legislation and general ques tions of political or official detail, the discu scion of which can be certainly foreseen, may be pro bably disposed of—and by omitting to arrange, also, their priority and sequence, have found themselves compelled, with the approaching termination of a session, to precipitate, or abso lutely to cashier and burk, affairs of the most important relations, with a degree of injury to the public service absolutely incalculabfe.. We would urgently recommend to the Minister to prepare and organise a code of official regailations under which each branch of the civil service shall be required to prepare all the returns, re ports, accounts, S:c., for which ma Mae been already called on, by order of her MArEsTv, or of either House, or which, by usage or p I!ecederV, and under statute, it may be bound to t;upply to Parliornent,—by the earliest period at which it may be practicable to get such documents ready for presentation after the re-assembling ofParlia meta. Let these regulations enjoin that in every instance wherein, according to the opinionof the responsible superior head or officer of a depart ment, it may be impracticable to get such papers prepared by the time sug,gzated in the regulaa lions, such superior officer shall report to hint, the Premier, directly, the reasons or causes the delay, and set forth the more distant period at which it can be guaranteed that such papers shall be severally ready. Of all Parliamentary papers, in like manner, which may be still passing through the press, let the Minister on the first day of the ensuing session call for a return, setting out the present stage towards completion at which the documents may have arrived, and the date at which the printer under takes to have the copies delivered at the Parlia mentary Paper-office in Abingdon-street. By some such measures as these, previously concocted, it may be possible to avoid that in decent hurry, that hopeless confusion, and that very serious mischief which the "clearing of" the Return and Notice Paper in the penultimate stages of a ilession usually exhibit. It is in this way that the go-by is given for another year, not only to important Private Bills and muni cipal and county business, which have been introduced or conducted at very heavy expense— all of Which for the most part in such instances has to be re-incurred—but to public questions, the progress of which has been anxiously but vainly watched by the people, whose expecta tions in like manner must be postponed to the "next session." We have no wish to see the important questions of public education, the cur rency, the renewal of the Bank charter, the general policy of free trade, the adjustment of our con nexions and dominions on this side and beyond the Indus, the position and bearings of our foreign policy, the revision of our domestic taxation, the reform of our fiscal establishments, especially the Customs, and the careful retrospect of our financial system (all of which must, in a shape more or less substantive and direct, come under the deliberation of the Legislature in the en suing session)—we have no wish to see subjects of this vital magnitude sacrificed to defective arrangements and deficiency of time, which a little previous management may surely obviate. Accounts from Madrid of the Ist announce the arrival of Mr. BULWER, the new British Envoy, on the 31st ult. He shortly afterwards had an interview with M. BRESSON, the French Minister. On the 21, the Marquis de MIRA FLORS3 was to give . a grand soirée to M. and Mine. BRESSON, to which the other Foreign Mi nisters had been invited. New Year's Day was observed as a close holiday, and the Bourse, con sequently, was closed. Most of the Paris papers contain accounts o the procession of students to the Hotel Laffitte, to congratulate the senior member of the Cham ber on the speech which he delivered a few days since. Some of the journals reckon the number of young men who joined in procession at 300, and others at 500 and 1,090. The display gave some alarm to the authorities, and a considerable number of tfoops were un der arms during the bight of Friday The police, too, watched their movements, and captured a few of the most noisy. The Journal des Debats gives the following account of the affair :—" A newspaper announced ,yesterday morning that M. LAFFITTE was to receive a visit of felicitation from a certain number of students, on account of the speech which he delivered last Saturday week in the Chamber of Deputies. Accordingly groups of students met yesterday morning at the Place de Pantheon and the Place de l'Ecole de Medicine, and in a short time about 300 of them set themselves in motion towards the Pont Neuf, which they passed in silence. Arrived at the Rue Richelieu, they saluted the new monument to MOLIERE with three cheers, and " Vive MoLIERE I" Having arrived at the Hotel Laffitte, they drew up in . the court of the mansion, and about a dozen of them went into.M. LAFFITTE'S house, and presented to him written address. M. LAFFITTE after wards came into the court, and addressed to the students some words of thanks. On leaving the Hotel Laffitte, the young men seemed at a loss what direction to take, but ultimately some one called To BERANGER at Pussy,' and accordingly they took that direction. In going along the Boulevard they were very quiet, but on reaching the:office of Foreign Affairs they set up a moss tumultuous shouting, amidst which the words, A has GulzoT,' were to. LE distinguished. The authorities were hitherto content to watch the processiont but they now in terfered, and a commissary of police, who was present, called upon them to disperse. Accord ingly they separated, but the greater portion of them came together again in the Rue St. Honore, from which they proceeded forthwith to Passy. No disorder took place until they reached the house of M. BERANGER. On learning that M. BERANOEZ was absent, they expressed them selves very much dissatisfied, and commenced to them even ( lifting their sticks, D abuse the police agents , who were Down with the resent,call sinpgiesot;t; and ' A somebas l o et t n . to the Commissary of Police who had followed them. The police agents immediately arrested several of the creators of this disturbance, and the rest dispersed. The number arrested is light or ten. An investigation is going on. The authorities, who were previously aware of the intention of the students, had taken steps to prevent disturbance ; but they were rendered of no avail, as the demonstration was altogether more ridiculous than dangerous." " A thousand or twelve hundred young people (says the National) went yesterday (Saturday) to M. LAFFITTE'S, to express the sentiments of patriotic sympathy with which the young men of the schools had received his speech in the Chamber of Deputies. This is the only public reward M. LAFFITTS has received for his noble conduct; but all the true friends of the Revolu tion and of the country, at least, applaud him. With the exception of the Doctrinaire faction, there is not one in. France who does not render homage to the firmness with which the respect able President of the Chamber recalled the principles of a revolution which he was not suf ficiently strong to defend against intrigue and cupidity." The following is the speech delivered to M. LAFFITTE. It was read by one of a' deputation:— Sir,—The youth of the schools agree with you entirely in the maieuline truths which you caused to be heard from the tribune. They do not come here to felicitate you for having courageously fulfilled the duty of a good citizen, for having obeyed the noble inspiration of your conscience as a public man ; they come solely to give you a further proof that they are not so indifferent to the afiairs of the country as people pretend. The portion of the Parliament that lives by the budget only answered your prophetic words by irony and in sult, but the whole of France has learned them through the medium of the press. France will preserve the recollection of them until the day when, having rid herself of the shackles which now oppress her, she will resume, with a firmer pace, her march towards the high destinies to which she is appointed: Neither has France forgotten the great part which you took in the Parliamentary struggles of the Restoration—the memora ble struggles which preceded an abhorred dynasty. She kanws that the popularity of your name served as a pedestal for the enthronement of a new regime. You have asked publicly, in the face of the same France, pardon from God and man. Honour to to you, Sir. History, severe and inexorable, will give every one his due ; and stigmatise with its fatal seal these that deserve it. " Before leaving this house, for ever celebrated, which was the centre of our revolution of three days; may the young men who now address you be allowed to express one wish. The opposition of 1815 was organised and disciplined ; it upset the dynasty. May the present opposition organise itself similarly. May it march as one man. In that manner it will will in crease its means and strength a hundred fold, and let it not doubt but that the whole country, that army of 34 millions of men, will march in a body after it." M. LAFFIITE answered— " Gentlemen —I am touched with the sentiments you have expressed towards me, and I thank you for them. Your patriotism, your intelligence, and your courage, have long been knoan to me, and perhaps you have not forgotten that, in spite of the clamours of the party which dominates today, I have been able to render to your services, and to your devotion during another epoch, public and solemn justice. The revolution of July was then the word ! It has lest that dis tinction since that time, by the ingratitude of some, and the carelessness of others ; and von know how people listen to those wim have Continued faithful to their promises and their engagements. I have recalled to the recollection, of the Chamber the responsibi:ity under which it lies in the face of dangers which threaten ns, and corruption, i 3 disgraceful. The Chamber did not choose to understand me; As for me, gentlemen, lam nearer the grave than any of you are far from your cradles ; but K it h end I shall do my ditty ; and my heart, I swear to you, l ne ver cease to beat for the liberty and happiness of France." The procession then moved to passy, the residence of M. Beranger, to invite him, it is said, to preside at a meeting in honour of Moliere. But the administration of the Tart uffes and the police of the " inficitely li,tle." did not wish for the fête. Disguised agents precipitated themselves upon the students as they Isfc the house of DI. Beringer, who was not at home. Acts of vi,lence, which nothing can justify, were committed ueon the young men, and several arrests took place. hus ended a day in which the young me n bad the audacit y to manifest their attachment to the revolution. The Govern- Tnent, which M. Laffitte aiderl --nt fourteen Ter.r7 r.go, the "barb 9" of Beranger, and a`artuffes," and the Mar guises of Aloliere, could certainly not have done more. In the Chamber of Deputies, the Committee appointed to draw up the address, are proceeding with their labour. On Saturday, in answer to a question relative to the collision between the Church and the University, the Minister of Public Instruction said, the Government would with all its power resist the pretensions of the clergy to interfere with the public education of youth. The reply was received very favourably The Minister of Finance also made a statemenl which gave satisfaction, and showed that there would not only be a surplus of revenue to the amount of 800,000 f. over the expenditure for the last year, but that the various deficiencies for the years 1840, 1841, 1842, and 1843 would be reduced to a sum of 350,000,000 f. (14,000,0001.) The Budget is to be brought on in the course of the present month. OPENING OF THE PORTUGUESE CORTES. LISBON, JAN. 3.—The Cortes were opened again on the 2d inst. by the Queen in person. The . following is her Majesty's Speech on the occasion:— Worthy Peers, and Honourable Deputies of the Portuguese Nation, With pleasure I see again assembled, in this respectable place, the representatives of the nation, whom the fundamental law of the State has invested with the noble character of legiti mate interpreters of the national opinion and wishes. With the view of learning from closer obser vation the wants of my people, I left the capital for some weeks, accompanied by my august Spouse, and two of my children, to visit the principal places in Alemtejo and• Estremadura ; and I hope that that excursion will not have been " without utility for the welfare of the people of those places, of whose love, loyalty, and respect for me, I am happy to make this public acknow ledgment. Since the solemn opening of the last legislative session, it has pleased Providence to grant, by the birth of a Princess, another pledge of secu rity to the throne of this kingdom. I have the satisfaction to be enabled to assure you that I continue to receive from all allied nations sure proofs of friendship; and I fully trust that ere long the negotiations with the Holy See will be terminated without detriment to the rights of the Crown, and with due regard . to the wants of the Lusitanian Church. It is exceedingly gratifying to me to assure you that public tranquillity has not been in the least disturbed throughout the kingdom. In fixing the amount of la►►i and sea forces you will attend to the national honour, interest, and security. Conformably to the dispositions of the consti- tutional charter of the Monarchy, the estimates of receipts and expenditure for the ensuing financial year will be laid before you; and both in 'regard to this subject, and to the different branches of the public service, my Ministers will submit to you- such proposals as may be thought expedient, and as experience may have shown to be necessary. I am fully confident that the Chambers w afford to my Governtmint that co-operatio which is to be expected from their zeal andin terest in the public welfare. The Session is opened. DESTRUCTION OF THE SHIP CAMBRIDGE BY FIRE. (FRO3I A CORRESPONDENT.) PLYAIOUTH, JAN. 8, 1844.—The ship Cambridge, of Lon don, bound for Sydney, with a general cargo, being in Ply• mouth Sound, run on the rocks at the back of St. Nicholas' bland, about a month since ; but was got off soon after with some little damage to her bottom, and was in Mr. Gent's yard, Teat's Hill, undergoing repairs, previously to her resuming her voyaA. 11;tween eight and nine o'clock on Sunday evening a fire was discovered in the after part of the vessel, as she lay en Mr. Gent's patent building slip. Alarm was immediately given, but the flames increased, notwithstanding the greatest attempts were made to subdue them. Close to the Cambridge was another large barque, and a va , :t quantity of timber and other inflammable materials, and the greatest anxiety was ma nifested lest they should ignite. In order to prevent this taking place it was proposed to launch the burning vessel, but as the tide was then nearly high, but falling, it was found that had they done so at that period she would have gone amongst a number of fishing and other vessels in Sutton Pool, and have spread the fire in that direction, so the launch was prudently delayed until, by careful calculation, the tide had fallen suffi ciently to allow her to ground in the mud a short distance from the yard, but clear of all other vessels. About half-past ten o'clock was the period chosen for this, when she was launched in gallant style, and presented such an appearance as never will be forgotten by the spectators, being on fire nearly her whole extent, and the flames gradually stealing up her masts and rigging. As was csnjectured, she grounded in the mud a short distance from the yard, and the engines bad then abund ance of room to play on the burning miss. The flames by this time had approached nearly to the foremast, and it was deemed advisable to cut it away, which was done, but it unfortunately fell against and was consumed with the rest. By one o'clock the tide had entirely left her, and as but little water could be then procured to work the engine, the flames again acquired a fearful ascendancy. In the interim two or three explosions oc curred on board, of the powder. The flames continued till the tide returned in the morning, when the whole of the upper part of the vessel having been destroyed, they were put out by the rising of the tide. The engines belonging to the town t were i‘ p i a r e r i s n e n e t B , e at s . r w a c e k r were o m t h o e s r t s e from cie n h t leyr manned. Majesty s Dockyard Th e and greatest exertions were used to save the vessel, but unfortunately all efforts were useless ; the vessel was completely destroyed. Thousands of persons thronged the quays and eminences in the neighbourhood. The night was exceedingly fine, the moon shining beautifully. The fire is attributed to the carelessness of the cabin-boy. A Cabinet Council was appointed to beheld at three o'clock this afternoon at the Foreign-office, Downing street. The summonses for which were issued yes terday. The greater part of the Ministers were ex pected to attend. Lord Wharncliffe, and Mr. Glad stone, have not arrived in town. - ROYAL INSTITUTE OF BRITISH ARCHITECTS.— Last evening the members held their first meeting for the pre sent year, at their rooms in Grosvenor-street, Grosvenor square, Mr. T. Barry, F.R S., V.P. presiding. A long and elaborate paper, communicated by Air. Higgins, was read by Mr. Bailey, the Secretary, on the recent restoration of the spire of the church of St. Stephen's, at Vienna, a structure of the German Gothic style, and founded in 1144 by the first Grand Duke of Austria. The paper went to show that the introduction of iron into architecture was now becoming common in Germany, in the construction of its new, and the restoration of its more ancient buildings. The total height of St. Stephen's church was estimated at 400 feet, the spire alone being 168. The total cost of its restoration being 13,5001. FREACHERSIHP OF LINCOLN'S INN.—The election for this office, which was rendered vacant by the elevation of the Rev. Dr. Lonsdale 'to the see of Lichfield, is fixed to take place on the second day of term, Friday, the 12th instant. There are no less than 17 competitor 3. The following is a cor rect list of the present candidates :--The Venerable Arch deacon Manning, the Rev. John Vaughan, the Rev. John Garbett, the Rev. T..L. Claughton, the Rev. Frank Hewson, the Rev. James Anderson, the Rev. Thomas Robinson ' the Rev. Dr. Hussey, the Hon. and Rev. Samuel Best, tile Hon. and Rev. Henry D.- Erskine, the Rev. John. Edmund Cox, the Rev. Charles Edmund Wylde, the Rev. James S. Boone, the Rev. James R. Page, the Rev. William Harness, the Rev. Thomas Randall, the Rev. C. Merivale._ LYNN.—INCENDIARY FIRE.—We regret to learn that two large stacks of wheat were destroyed by fire on Satur day evening, belonging to Mr. Corbauld, of Weasenham, and that there can be no doubt but it was the work of an incen diary. Previous to this taking place, our neighbourhood had been free from this disgraceful crime. DEATH Or SIR C. E. NUGENT, G.C.H., TUE AD• MiRAL OF THE FLEET.—This gallant and veteran officer, who, it will be recollected . , was an inmate of Charing cross Hospital some time since, in consequence of an accident occuring to him near that place, expired on Sunday last at the residence of George Banks, Esq., M.P., Studland, Dorsetshire, at the ad vanced age of 86. We are not aware of the precise date of Admiral Sir Charles Edmund Nugent's entry into the Royal Navy ; but it must have been early in iife, as we find his corn. Mission of Post-Captain dated the 2d May, 1779. As a Lieu tenant, Sir Charles saw much service of a very distinguished character, as he' served in the Bristol on the coast of Africa, in the first American war of independence. He subsequently commanded the Pomona, at the capture of the fortress of Omoa, and the register ships in 1780. He also commanded th Veteran, and in this ship assisted at the reduction of the Frenc, West India Islands, in 1793; since which time we believe he has not had much active employment. His flag promotion as Rear-Admiral took place on the 20th February, 1797 • he was made a Vice-Admiral on the Ist January, 1801, andattained to the rank of full Admiral on the 23th April, 1808. He be came Admiral of the Fleet on the 24th April, 1833, and was nominated a G.C.H. on the 12th March, 1834. Hii. half-pay as Admiral of the Fleet was three guineas per diem. Sir James Hawkins Whit,hed, Bart., G. C. B. (whose date of commission as Post-Captain is not twelve months subsequent to the late Sir C. Nugent), is now the senior Admiral of the British navy, FAILURES IN ARIVIOATH.— We are extremely orry to state that several firms erigag,ed in manufactures have been under the necessity of suspending payments this week, and we ale much afraid will be followed by a few more. We have not heard the amount of the liabilities, but it must be very large, and from the bad trade of late years, we are i.fraid the ar,ets will be very inconsiderable. The working classes had eve-y appearance of plenty of work and ordinary wages, and from the geeeral low nen of provisions, were expeeting a better winter than has fallen to their lot for some years; but , Ilese unlooked-for calamities have blasted all their hopes, and left nothing but misery staring tam in ibe face,— Montrose Standard. ~~ ♦ A ~:r :,:~,. ~. - -, ,--2 ,,,- ,-, ry :4 $!.... , 3 •- • : .. 4 . : .7 . ..j. - - -., .-, -:. : .:. . 4 .., 1 , . 7, 0 it t ) 01 S ' 1 : 111 ii . a .' 0 .. i.-. ' d i 3 i r I rti .. • '. 614 " Will ' it) AND eptation. " Who runs may read." rortrorGN. On Sunday the Royal Family of France went into mourning for twenty days, on occasion of the death of tho late King of Holland. On Saturday evening there was a " grand reception " at the palace of the Tuileries. Accounts from Athens, of the 22d ult., state that a riot took place on the evening of that day, and the mob set fire to the hotel of the Russian Ambassador. The Presse states that the report of the demise of the Duke d'Angouleme was circulated in Paris on Saturday, but that the news was not confirmed, and not gene rally credited. The Committee appointed by the Chamber of Pters, to prepare the address in reply to the King's speech, met again at the Luxembourg on Saturday, when they heard the explanations of the Minister for Foreign Affairs and the Minister of Finance. The 64th list of the subscriptions paid into the Cen tral Committee of the Gaudaloupe relief fund has just been published. The total amount subscribed up to yes terday is 3,449,046 f. (138,0001.). During the last year the Tribunal of Commerce of Paris pronounced 737 judgments of bankruptcies, viz., 64 in January, 49 in February, 64 in March, 53 in April, 72 in May, 65 in June, 66 in July, 64 in August, 67 in September, 55 in October, 46 in November, and 67 in December. In 1842 the number amounted to 649. During the four weeks from the Ist to the 28th ult. inclusively, the number of passengers who embarked from and landed at Boulogne was 3,612. At Calais, during the same period, the number was 959. A Joint-Stock Company has just been formed:at Paris for the destruction of rats and mice throughout France. LAW AND POLICE. ___ At the Surrey sessions Henry Cox, aged 18, Acquilla Hopkins, aged 23, William Woolridge, aged 19, were in dicted for robbing George Sligo and Hannah Sligo, his daughter, on the Queen's highway, at Chertsey, on the morning of the 24th of December, and forcibly taking from the person of the former a knife, a tobacco-box, and ten pence in copper. The jury returned a verdict of guilty against Hopkins and Woolridge, and acquitted Cox. The prisoners were then sentenced to ten years' transportation. Joseph Brown, a cab-driver, was charged :at Marl borough-street with having caused shocking injuries to two horses, by driving in a reckless manner along Pic cadilly, while in a state ofintoxication. On the charges being proved, Mr. Maltby said, lenity in this case .would be wholly misplaced. He should, in the first place, inflict a fine of 101. for the public offence, order the de - fendant to pay 31., the amount of the damage done to retty's horse • and, in addition, prevent him from again endangering the safety of the public by at once revoking his license. At Union-hall. Jane Brown, the young woman charged with deserting her infant, and leaving it exposed in a basket at the gate of Kensington workhouse, was com mitted for two months to the House, of Correction. William Stokes, a labourer ; Henry Cock, a carpenter; and Thomas Gay, a baker ; were brought before Mr. Broderip, at the Thames Police-office, on a variety of charges of drunkenness,.and with assaulting two police tnent in the execution of their duty, and rescuing a pri soner from their custody. There was a more serious charge against Cock for stabbing Watkins, a police-con stable, K 310. Much conflicting evidence was given, when the magistrate ordered Cock to find bail, hiMself in 601. and two sureties of 301. each, for assaulting and wounding Watkins ; and the other prisoners to find sure ties each in 201., and two housekeepers in 101. each, to answer the charge of assaulting Sullivan. C OURT ZIA an X 07.T.5.33 L E. • Her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert will take their departure from Windsor Castle this afternoon, immediately after an early luncheon, for Claremont, accompanied by their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales and the Princess Royal. Only a limited portion of the members of 'the Royal Household - will proceed to Claremont in attendance upon the Queen . and the Prince. Viscount Melbenrne left South-street, yesterday, for Brccket Hall, Heri.z.i, where his Lordship is expected to remain till Easter. His Royal Highness Prince Albert has lately pre sented 201. to St. George's Hospital, in addition to a former donation of 25/, given 'about eighteen months since. - The new British and Foreign Institute is to be honoured at its opening with the presence . of Prince Albert, who has consented to become its patron. The opening will now be deferred till the return to town of the Noble President, the Earl of Devon, which is expected to be about the meeting of Parliament. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge and the youthful Princess Mary and. suite are expected to arrive at Dover, from Germany, on Saturday, and the Duke of Cambridge will proceed thither to meet them on landing. THE WEATHER-SUN OFFICE, JAN. 9. TREEMOMETER, Lowest, 35 ; Highest, 42 ' • Noon, 35. B ARO METER, 30.4.—W1ND, S. to S.E. NorE.—The number 32 on the Thermometer denotes Lhe freezing point, and 55 temperate. In Barometers air is usually placed opposite 30, and rain at 29. HIGH WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY. 4orning ... 7 minutes after 4. f Evening ... 9.6 minutes after 4. e;t 4 it fw-- "V 7- k" -- 43„, 044116' 11 t4' V . c i • ar, • • • • n ' •AY • • , k - , r• it r). 44 %, - Dl 'f SECOND . EDITION: Cm e.ti - int *VIII. LONDON, TUESDAY, JANUARY 9, 1844. A Tory Contemporary of this morning, con spicuous by his old-fashioned, politics, and the twaddling, old-fashioned manner in which he enunciates them, is more than usually lugubrious at thought of the cruel sufferings which hence tbrth must be the inevitable lot of the agricul turists. He has discovered that they are all doomed to• death, and is only doubtful on the point whether their dissolution will be a sudden or a protracted one."Tice tariff," he says, "dooms the British termer to a slow death—to a death of gradual poverty, saddened by blasted hopes. The sentence of the League, on the other hand, is prompts the guillotine. Let the agriculturists of England choose between these forms of execution." Cheering remarks these, to open a new year with, and every way calculated to infuse balm into the heart of the farmer ! But let him take heart; he will neither be slowly put to death by the tariff, nor guillo tined by the League ; but, on the contrary, de spite the operation of these dreaded influences, lie will find I,:msell at the close of the ycarjust as far removed from dissolution as he was at the co mmencement. The Poses croakings are worth no sane man's consideration for a single instant. They are the mere frantic outbursts of dispirited Monopoly, which, because its own doom is irre vocably sealed, takes for granted that the doom of the British farmer is sealed also. Our dis quieted Contemporary- indulged in precisely the same triste spirit when the g reat question of iu. form was in agitation, and never ft,,:ed to predict, MISCELLANEOUS. A statue of tilt late Sir David, Wilkie, by Mr. Joseph, has just been erected at the foot of the staircase in the National Gallery. It is a standing figure, not quite the sizes of life, in white stone, py t aded upon a solid pedestal of grey limestone marble. General Espartero intends;_ it is reported, shortly to leave England, and to take up his residence at Brussels. On the Bth the ceremony of laying the first stone of the new church of St. John, Notting-hill, in the parish of St. Mary Abbotts, Kensington, was performed on the yite chosen on the summit of the hill, known as the Hip podrome• bill, at the top of Ladbroke-grove, Notting hill, on the Uxbridge-road. The ceremony was per formed by the Rev. John Sinclair (Archdeacon of Mid dlesex), the vicar of Kensington, who expatiated in feel ing language on the spiritual destitution in that neigh bourhood, 12,000 of the inhabitants being unprovided with church sittings. On Saturday last the Gloucester Farmers' Club held their annual meeting in that city. Lord Ducie, who is one of the leaders, was not present on Saturday. The secretary read the usual report. It represented that the farmers had fallen off from the Club, and that many of them had found it difficult to make the two ends meet with present prices and burdens. A good deal of dis cussion followed, and opinions were expressed that the example of Essex ought to be followed in resisting the efforts of the League to beat down agriculture. At Tullamore (King's County) Sessions there were 517 applications for license to keep arms, and only 12 rejected. . The Dublin Evening Post of the 6th announces that an "aggregate meetinz of the Catholics of Ireland is about to be convened for the purpose of denouncing the grievous wrong and the gross insult offered to them by . the Crown, on the recont occasion of reducing the spe cial jury list." Mr. Steele summons the Duke of Wellington, Sir R. Peel, Sir J. Graham, and Lord Lyndhurst, as wit nesses on his trial.. ARRIVAL OF THE CLYDE WEST INDIA STEAMER. SOUTHAMPTON, WEDNESDAY, EIGHT O'CLOCK, A.M. The Clyde Royal mail steamer, from the West Indies, with the mails, is now coming up the river. Her mails will be - landed, and dispatched by a special, or the 11 o'clock train, so as to be delivered in town to-day. She is four days over due. LLOYD'S SHIPPING.—(THIS DAY. Lorrpox, JAN. 9.—Wind, fresh breeze from S. to S.E. and cloudy. DEAL, JAN. B.—Wind N.W. to W., moderate; P.M. N.N.W. to N.N.E., fresh breeze.—Arrd. George Fyfe, Pyke, China ; Diamond, Dempster, Berbice ; Mary Caroline, St. John's, New Brunswick. Sid. Diadem and John Scott, Cape of Good Hope ; Islander, Barbadoes ; Donna Maria, Antigua ; Perthshire, Savannah, with the rest of the outward bound. To RBAY, JAN. B.—Sld. turenne, Para; Jean Morice, Mar tinique. DOVER. JAN. B.—Sid. Ech0,.... St. Thomas. PORTSMOUTH, JAN. N.W. to N.—Sld. Lady Kinnaird, Calcutta; Duke of Bedford, Madras ; Duke of Sus sex, Cape and Batavia ; Diamond, Valparaiso; Erin, Domi nica ; David Lyon, Jamaica ; Quebec, New York. Coax, JAN. 6.--Arrd. Resistance (transport), St. John's, New Brunswick. Sailed Freeman, for Jamaica. RAMSGATE, JAN. B.—The Norwegian schooner, Nicoline, which came off the patent slip, on the 30th ult., has been hauled on it again to-day, being leaky. BIDEFORD, JAN. 6.—The Arab, from Quebec, has been got off the beach, without much damage, and brought into Appledore. BARNSTAPLE, JAN. 7.—Arrd. Two Brothers, Carpenter, Newfoundland, PLYMOUTH, JAN. B—Wind calm.—Sld. New Zealand„ Ceylon. The Cambridge, Turpie, repairing, took fire last night, and was run into the Pool,. where she burnt to tir e water's edge. FALMOUTH, JAN. B—Wind N. to N.N.W.—Arrd. w itch, Keitch, after striking on the outer rock of the Mar fl.c i es. Smarr...an-row, JAN. B.—Arrd. Theira (gteamee), Gib raltar, left 31st ult. MILFORD, JAN. 7.—The Orbit, Robinson, from London to St. John's, New Brunswick, put in here to-day, w ith loss of bowsprit, foremast, mainmast, sails, &c., having b een struck by a sea, on the 24th ult., in lon. 31. MARGATE, JAN. B.—The greater part of the •cargo of the Ocean, from Sierra Leone, has been saved in a dr.,na aged state The wreck will be sold to-morrow. LIVERPOOL, JAN. B.—Wind N., mode - ate.—Ar rd. Frank lin, Thomas and Constantine, Sampson, New Orlca ns. Arrd. off, a ship in tow of two steamers, supposed the. John Caro ming. Sid. Livingstone, Calcutta; Thistle, Bombay; Ferris, Buenos Ayres; Kate, Rio Grande; II ivoice, Rio ie I Janeiro; Mary Hannah, Africa; Parker, bemara ra ; Countess ' Durham, Guadeloupe. Agnes, Jamaica nge, Texas ; Charlotte Harrison, Drooma, and WoV v ili e , /,,r„ O r l eans ; Satelite, Mobile ; Sir H. Douglas, Savannah; Calista, Hot tinguer, and Montezuma, New York., SHIELDS, JAN. B.—The HarMony, Citizen, anrd Ann (light colliers), are all on shore on the Herd Sand. FREE CHURCH MISSION TO AMERICA.---I 3 y up. pointment of the Free Church Assembly's Commivai en, our townsman, Dr. Burns, Mt last night on a mission to the United States, in behalf of the religions body he . tta.ue Is con nected with. 'the Hey. Gentleman goes out to Amor ica as a companion to Dr. Cunningham, for the purpose of et :plaining the position of the Free Church of Scotland, and for collecting funds frt* its support. We believe it is the inten film" of this deputation to continue in America for about four 3 nonthe, and nut to retarn sooner than for the sitting of the Fres?. Assmmbly in May next.— Glasgow Saturday Post. It England paid her National Debt, it would take 46/. 9e. 2d. from each person to pay it ; it word d take 9i. 2d. from each Frenchman to pay the debt of ' ;ranee ; it would take 55/. Bs. 4d. from each Dutchman to pay the debt of Holland ; and it would only take 41. 13s, 9d. from each Pennsylvanian to pay the debt repudiated. TITT 77 WITT 170 r 'OO-11 RE-EXAMINATION of BARBER and FLETCHER. MANSION-HOUSE :THIS DAY). The re-examination of the prisoners Barber and Yetcher, who were remanded on Monday week last on ,so charges of forgery, was resumed this day. The prisoners, it will be remembered, have been frequently remanded on the charge of uttering a forged will, pur porting to be the will of Anne Slack, and when they were last being brought up they were charged, in addi tion, with uttering a forged will, purporting to be the will of Mary Hunt; they were on that occasion remanded on both these charges. Mr. Clarkson attended to conduct the prosecution, Mr. Chambers appeared for Barber, and Mr. Ballantyne for Fletcher. At eleven o'clock the Lord Mayor to3k his seat upon the bench. His Lordship was supported by Mr. Alder- man Humphery. Shortly afterwards the prisoners W. H. Barber, and Joseph Fletcher were brought up in the custody of Forester, the officer, and placed in the dock. Mr. Clarkson then called Mr. Alfred Dunn, who deposed—l am supervisor of births and deaths at the Belgrave district. I produce the register of the death of Ann Slack. I received it from Mr. Chappell, the superintendent registrar. Mr. W. Price Jordan —I am a surgeon, and reside at 9, Lower Belgrave.street. I am registrar of births and deaths for the Belgrave district. On the 25th February last I was called on to register the death of Ann Slack. As far as I can possibly recollect Fletcher is the man who called on me. I believe him to be the man. He stated that he came to register a death—the death of Ann Slack. I asked when? He said on the 17th February. I asked where ? He said in South-terrace, No. S. On his naming No. 8, South-terrace. I said I did not know such a place in the district as South.. I asked him if he meant a row of , errace. Louses never Wooden-bridge, which have no name, but are called Terrace, and sometimes Kent-terrace, and are a continuation of South-place. He said yes. I ob served that I did not think there were eight houses there. I then entered the name, date, &c. as follows :---" Ann Slack, South-terrace, female, 68 years of age." When - I asked the cause of death, he said gout. I asked if it was gout in the stomach, as persons did not usually die of gout. He said she had been suffering from it for many years. I then inquired if he had been present at the death, or in attendance. He said he was present at the death. I then asked him his address. He gave No. 4, James-street. I asked where. He said Commercial road. I said I did not know . James-street, Commercial road, Pimlico, but that there was a Robert-street, Com mercial-road. I said there were two other Commercial roads, London, which did he mean? He said Commer cial-road, East, and I entered it accordingly. He then signed his name Robert Hunt in my presence. I finished the entry, and gave him a certificate, for the undertaker and clergyman. On 14th March following, a woman in mourning came to me for a certified copy of the registry of the death. I delivered one. Since this inquiry has been going on I accompanied the Governor of Giltspur street Compter to the cells of different prisoners on going his rounds. It was yesterday three weeks. I went int. six or eight cells, in some of which there were several prisoners. I went to the cell where the accused (Fla' cher) was confined, and as soon as I saw him I said heWss the man who had made that entry. Mr. Ballantyne—With whom did you go? Witness ' —The Governor. Mr. Edward Alfred Grattan—l am a clerk in the Lon' don and Westminster Bank. On 22d March, 184 2, Fletcher opened a deposit account with the Southwark branch of the bank. I have been in the habit of paying his cheques and have seen him write. I believe the sir nature "Rob. Hunt," to be his writings,somewhat disguise d ' (The 1,0001. note, No. 91,492; dated Feb. 1, 1843, then placed in witness's hand.) I perceive some 01 Fletcher's handwriting in that note. The words ar e " Emma Slack, 7. Francis-street, Tottenham-eourt; road." I now hold in my hand a note for 1,0004 another for 5001. On the 1,0001. note I see some words in Fletcher's handwriting, and the same on the 5001. note' Cross-examined by Mr. Chambers—Fletcher begs° keeping accounts with us in Feb., 1840. He had two accounts. I could find out easily the numbers of s°/ notes which he may have deposited, but I cannot do s° without the orders of my superiors. John Milton—l am one of the pay-clerks of the Balt of England. The 1,0001. note produced was broagbr into the Bank of England on the 13th of April in l b° last year ; at least, I imagine so, for I paid to E Olll l Slack a thousand sovereigns f or a 1,000/ note, as t h : cntiy• in the book shows. I hav e no reco ll ect i on O f person to whom I paid it. Mr. Grattan re-called—On the 13th,of April in t°l last year there was paid into our bank, to the account Fletcher, 1,000/. in gold. He paid it in himself. Joseph Deuner—l am a clerk in the Tellers'-office a'' the Bank of England. On the 10th of April a 1, 00431 i note was brought into the Bank in the name of Slack. gave 500 sovereigns and a ticket for a 500/. note. By Alderman HIIMPHERY—The name "Emma 51s°' was written on it. By Mr. Clarkson—On the 18th of April a 5001 hop came into the Bank in the name of Emma Slack. I Psi' it in gold. Mr. Grattan re-called—On the 10th of April, 1843 1 : there was paid into the accoun t o f Fl etc h er i n our brave' of the Bank 500 L in gold by Fletcher himself. On the 18th of April there were paid in to his account 4901.111 gold and a 201. note. Fletcher paid in that himself. William Taylor called , and examined by Mr. Cl's 4 c, son.—Was one of the assistant pay-clerks in the 1 3 s n a of England. On the 10th of April, last year, receive the ticket produced of payment, of the sum rue ntione d, He posted the sum stated in his cas h-bo o k. He ga ve the ticket to Mr. Williams, who paid over a note -° 5001., No. 41,856, dated Jan. 2, 1843. Mr. J. Williams called—Was also one of the Pi l l' clerks of the Bank of England. He confirmed the e /1 ; deuce of the pr ec eding witne ss , as t e , t h e payme nt of note of that amount, and the same &ate and number. This was the whole evidence on this case. into Mr. Clarkson then said he was prepared to g 9 another, and a third case against the parties. He sb o- to not go at any length into the details of that case, or b ie give more than what would be considered reasons, evidence, that there had been a forgery of the w ill ° o Miss Eliza Burchard. With respect to both the po rt, o ( charged, ho proposed to show that the certificat.ss the death of the said Burchard,. a forgery. He held in his hand a book just publiT i p which had created some interest, and which he doubt had not escaped his Lordshtp's perusal ; that i d ie lication was the report of M r . Ch a d wic k on buris'os towns and cities. In. one passage he pointed out -Sot defects in the mode of the registration of deaths- t he only had frauds oc curre d w ithin the knowledge i) ,`„ilf writer, but he seemed t o s p ea k somewhat prophet' - t he of cases precisely similar to 'the subject matter of . 00 case then before them. H e sa id , " cases o f r egistra tl 6 1 , in which false statements 'had been made, had been i ts ready detected ; some tne .d e w ith t h e v i ew o f obtsil/ et succession to property ; but there had also been css e e- t io false registration a: Lnong th e l a b our i ng c l asses , 01 ois places of death, in, order to gain interments in est. i t districts or pari: s hes. F a l se d ea th s h a d a l so been reg i . l l , tered in order t o d e f ra ud b ur i a l s oc i e ti es , and the ° f ief ficate of the Registrar used in order to obtain m ° ea t from these soil e ti es ." Aft er statin g that the work ' l O on to mentio'a other means of fraud, Mr. Clarkson c 6 sy/ 0 Mr. Seto; l3 , the same gentleman who produced the tb aS former wi: L is. He now produced a will purporting to be 3ge o of Miss 'Eliza, Burchard, of Cooper-street, Weetta ili fter aftery iards of Rostock, Mecklenburgh, GermanY, %golf wards of Bond-street, Bath, and 8, Broad-street, 1 ; 1. ' 0 10 ftrill of o th er pl aces , s pi ns t er . Th e w ill appmrea ro pos In. the same handwriting, and the same in apPe s 'As the others. 551* ivfr. Cox called—Was partner in the firm of li ce „A it - ertaings, proctors, Doctors' Commons. Belie v 7 be t , was in 1841 he first became acquainted with D al. ac' On the 9th of June in that year he called on bi L y t e ' r en companied by a female. He received from Bsr, account .of of the testatrix. Received from him , " date of the death, 21st of March, 1841. He re''o 4, ' from him the amo u nt for which the will was to be P.liest e and believed he filled up the usual Stain p-office cer t o for that amount under 2,000/. He scant the pron.sloo: Mr. Barber's office. There had been a small scl w 0; tration transaction with him in the same mon th ' to received fro:n Mr. Barbee a cheque and the pr o the C a r mount oss-examined by Mr. Chambers—Could o ,l' o lect the description of the female, whether slie ro rbe. lady-like person or not,- who accompanied M r * r oe Was originally introduced to Mrs. Barber th e e brother of his (Mr. Cox's). Mr. Noble called—Was assistant-accounta nt be r e e 6l , Bank of England. On the 22d Juno, 1841, rern e vol, a person coming to receive some dividends 00 f e roo l y‘ and-a-Half per Cent. Stock, accompanied by pi ! 0 He produced an order from the authorities of I n n to return to the Bank the amount that had b ‘ r e tile r up to the Commissioners for the Reduction ( n . • th e P e a t tional Debt, and to transfer that stock agiin V' be o' 4 ties applying for it. Thu, account purported to _ ive d ' to of Eliza Burchard. No dividends had been rec u t' ote d he that stock since 1823. The dividends due ail 0 145 rber • 4461. ss. He distinctly recollected Mr. —a a tit)f person who accompanied the female. There! ideo, oo , Hill, of the Stock Exchange. who attended t° l i c atl r d Mr. Barber. Hz attended on his (witness's) 3 PBeli Ve 4' according to the usual custom of tile office. t i l e P o f afterwards a direction to the chief cashier for .ric e ment of the 446/. ss. to Mr. Barber, in the P r ' o f the woman who accompanied him. c . Cross-examined by Mr. Chambers—The e the ti te business is, when they do not know at the om e _ i ., son who applies for payment, they procrre '`.0,1116. fication of the person from another party -- ; s or. Y -1 stOck-broker for instance. In the presee t es, s ro yer• her was identified by Mr. H. Hill, the sock T ( uq the r l): 1 rtio" / Pot ) Dart y ll , c oibe ut J sP Jan 9