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IRISH STATE TRIALS. SPIRITED ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE IRISH STATE TRIALS, WILL APPEAR IN "THE SUN," DAY BY DAY, MORNING AND EVENING, DURING THE IMPORTANT TRIALS NOW GOING ON IN DUBLIN ; WITH CHARACTERISTIC DESCRIPTIONS OF WHATEVER OCCURS IN THE COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH. un-office, 112, Strand, London. THE NEW NOVEL. Now ready at all the Libraries, in 8 vol s., THE UNLOVED ONE, A DOMESTIC STORY. By MRS. HOFLAND. Authoress of " Catherine the First ; or, the Czarina," &c. Henry Colburu, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. THE STATE TRIALS. THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS on SATURDAY NEXT, January 20, 1844, will contain SPLENDID ILLUSTRATIONS:—O'ConneII, his Sons, and Tom Steele, on their way to the Four Courts—drawn by James Mallen', Esq. Also, CITY PORTRAITS :—The Lord Mayor, fawn Clerk, Alderman Butt, the Recorder, Mr. M‘Laughlan. PORTRAITS of EMINENT LAWYERS: — Mr. Pierce Mahony, Mr. Hayes, Mr. Clements, Mr. Gant. land, and Mr. Cantwell. Interior and exterior of the MUSIC HALL, during the Steat aggregate meeting of the Roman Catholics of Ireland ; ignal Fires, in Ireland. Also, Statue of Wilkie ; Portrait of the Rev. W. ; Camberwell New Church ; Chantrey's Statue of George IV. ; Portraits of Madame Dnlcken, Miss Rainforth, and Mr. W. Harrison ; an original tale, by Miss Camilla Toulmin, with three illustrations. With all the news of the week ; price 6d., stamped. Immediate orders should be given. Office, 198, Strand. THE NEXT DISTRIBUTION of MONEY DIVIDENDS, AUTILIORISED and GUARANTEED by HIS MAJESTY the EMPEROR of AUSTRIA, contains MONEY DIVIDENDS of £5O £6O £7O £BO £9O £lOO £llO £ 120 £l5B £2OO £.lOO £6OO £tsoo £l,OOO £1,500 £5,000 and £23,000 sterling. Amounting together to £70,170 sterling. Direct far PROSPECTUS with full particulars, WITH. OUT DELAY, to HEINE BROTHERS, at HAMBURGH, Or. to HEINE BROTHERS, at LUBECK. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY.LANE. THIS EVENING, JANUARY 18, Will be repeated a New Grand Opera, in Three Acts, called'l'HE ➢OHEMIAN GIRL Count Arnheim, Mr. Barran'; Thaddeus, Mr. W. Harrison; Arline, bliss Raintorth; Queen of the Gipsies, Miss Betts. After which, will be repeated a New Grand Comic Christmas Pantomime, entitled HARLEQUIN AND KING PEPIN ; or, VALENTINE AND ORSON. Harlequin, Mr. Howell; Colum, pine, Miss Carson; Clown, Mr. T. Ridgway; Pantaloon, Mr. Blanchard. Dress Boxes 75., Second Price 3s. 6d. ; Upper Circles of Boxes 55., Second Price 3s. ; Pit be Second Price s.; Middle Gallery 2&, tiecond Price Is.; Upper Gallery Is., Second Price 6d. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN, N. JULLIEN'S CONCERTS. THIS EVENING, JANUARY 18. PROGRAMME FOR THIS EVENING , PART I. Overture. Euryanthe—Weber. The Toy Quadrille--JaSen. Surprise Symphony—ldaygn, Sol.), Violin, Mr. Case. Vatic, La Valse a Deux Terns—Jullien. Solo, Cornet-a-Piston, Herr Kcenig. Serenade from Don Pasquale, with Guitar Accompaniment, the Voice Part, as sung by Signor Mario, performed by Herr Kenig —Donizetti. Burletta Uuadrille, entitled D PAR T IL for the Milli csi—Jpllien. Opera Don Juan, Grand Fantasia, with Solos—Mozart. New uadrille, The Irish Echos—Jullien, Solo, Ophicleide, M. Prospere. Pry Peccatis, from The Stabat Mater. raise, The Metamorphoses (received with great favour at the Nobi. lily's Assemblies)—Kcenig. The English Quadrille—Jullien. Doors Open at Hall-past Seven, commence at Eight .'Clock. Promenade, Is , Upper Boxes, Is.; Dress Circle, Ys. 6d. ; Private Boxes, 11. Is. Tickets to be obtained at the Box-office of the Theatre; of Mr. Mitchell, Old Bond-street; Mr. Andrews, New !loud-street; Mr. Sams, St. James ' s -street; and M. Jullien's O ff ice, 5, Maddox-street, Bond-street. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. MR. BENJAMIN WEBSTER, LESSER. RE-ENGAGEMENT OF PROFESSOR RISLEY AND HIS INFANT SON. THIS EVENING, JANUARY 18, Will be repeated the Comedy of THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR. Sir John Falstaff, Mr. Strickland Muter Slender, Mr. C. Mathews Mr. Ford, Mr. Stuart ; Mr. Page, Mr. Howe; Fenton, Mr. Caul field; Sir Hugh Evans, Mr. Webster; Mrs. Page, Madame Vestris ; Mrs. Ford, Mrs. Nisbett ; Mrs. Quickly, Mrs. (aver; Anne Page, Mies Mattley. After which, the Unparalleled Performances of Professor RISLEY and his SON. To conclude with a New Fairy Extravaganza, entitled THE FAIR ONE WITH THE GOLDEN LOCKS! King Lachrymoso, Mr. J. Eland; Prince Gracelld, Miss P. Horton ; Queen Lucidora, Miss Julia Bennett. Orchestra Stalls, ss. ; Boxes, ss. ; Pit, ?s. ; Gallery, 25.; Upper Gallery, Is. Half.price—Boxes,36. ; Pit, 25.; Gallery, Is. ; Upper Gallery, Bd. Doors opened at Half-past Six, and the Performances commence at Seven. Tickets and Places to be bad of Mr 1. T. Archer, at the Box off ice, from Ten till Five. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. The Best Pantomime of the Season—Gorgeous Scenery, THIS EVENING, JANUARY The New Drama, embracing Extraordinary Effects, Powerful Cast, and Novel Scenic Display, called THE BOHEMIANS; or, The Rogues of Paris. Principal Characters by Messrs. Lyon, 0. Smith, Wright, Wieland , Maynard, Sirs. Yates, Miss E. Stanley, Mrs. F. Matthews. After which, a New Grand Christmas Pantomime, called HAR. LEQUIN BLUE BEARD; or, The Fairy of the Silver Crescent. Produced with Enormous Splendour and Wonderful Effects! columbine, Miss Bullen ; Harlequin Quicksilver, by the inimitable Vfieland ; Clown, by the Grimaldi of the day, Mr. T. Matthews, from the Theatres Royal, Covent-garden and Drury-lane; Panta, I.xm, Mr.:Johnstone. Boxes es. ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, Is. ; Second price at Nine. Doors open at Mx, commences at a Quarter before Seven o'Clock. PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. I.F.S.SEE, Mr. J. M. MADDOX. THIS EVENING, JANUARY 13, Will be repeated an English version of DON PASQUALE. Principal Characters by Madame Eugenia Garcia, Mr, Allen, Mr. auroni, and Paul Bedford. After which, THE LOST LETTER. To conclude with the New Musical Burlesque Spectacle, entitled HE MAGIC MIRROR. Sing-Song, Mrs. IL P. urattan ; Poo. Yee Mr. Paul Bedford ; Sloe-Leaf, Miss It Isaacs. DAVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. es usual, the funniest and most successibl Pantomime. THIS EVENING, JANUARY 15, Will be repeated THE BOHEMIANS OF PARIS. Supported PrMessrs. Saville, Hughes, Hicks , R. Bonner, Johnson, Smith, Mrs. Vining, and all the Members of First Company in the World. After which an entirely new Grand Comic Pantomime, with Splendid Scenery, Superb Dresses, Inimitable Properties and Tricks, every thing new and of the most costly description, HARLEQUIN GRAMMAR, or, Lindley Murray,and A EI 0 U. Harlequin, Mr. W. H. Harvey ; Grotesque, Mr. Stilt; Clown, Mr. Fuller; Panta loon, Mr. Hawsins ; Columbines (alternately) Miss M. R. Fair. brother and Miss Sharpe. Plaited and Private Boxes to be had of Mr. Kerschner, at the Box °Mee, from Eleven to Four. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. THIS EVENING, JANUARY IS, Will be performed an entirely New Domestic Drama, entitled POVERTY; or, Mary Graham. Leonard, Mr. Freer; Jessiany Tacit, Mr. Nantz ; Squire Graham, Mr. Dale; Patty Parrot, Miss Arden; Mary Graham, Miss Vincent. After which will be produced THE FAIRY LADY; or, the Cabinet of Bronze. To conclude with HARLEQUIN LINCOLN LUCKY OF LAM. SETH; or, The Three sisters of Witch Willow Dell. Harlequin, Mr. Chapin° ; Clown, Mr. Scarbrow ; Pantaloon, Mr. Morelli; Cfshissilsine, Miss M. Schmidt THE WEATHER.-SUN OFFICE, JAN. 18. TIIEILMOMETER, Lowest, 39 ; Highest, 43 ; Noon, 4i , BAROMETER, 30.27.—W1ND, W. Nom—The number 32 on the Thermometer denotes the freezing point, and 55 temperate. In Barometers fair is usually placed opposite 30, and rain at 29. HIGH WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY. 'Morning ... 19 minutes after 0. f Evening ... 50 minutes after 0. - . - - a ,' , . . ..V . l:!' . ' 4 V-f 1 lir, . .. 0 ,,...,.." 0 , -01 .c.- --,-- v : gr i -"*". - -Nir.'..:t • , A gill: ~: II =JP iiMillk ' ,4„ , , - t - .Mb rai . :- ;-.7-.--. %-• ,_ k N'Ari , _ . SECOND EDITION: Q' bertall# rintd LONDON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 18, 1844. The Irish State Trials commenced in good earnest on Tuesday, at ten o'clock. The traversers made no more opposition to the swearing of the jury, which was pro ceeded with, after a short delay caused by the non appearance of the traversers, Mr. Barrett and Mr. Duffy, the former from having to come from his country residence, some distance from Dublin, and the latter from ill health. Mr. Cantwell, the soli citor, and Mr. Henn, the counsel for these gentlemen, each offered to allow the trial to proceed in their ab sence, but the Attorney-General would not per mit it, and the consent of the Crown is necessary for s defendant in such a case to appear by attorney. The Chief Justice said the re ason g i ven b y Mr . Barrett was no excuse, and if the delay occurred again the Court would enforce the recog nizances. Some applications for exemption, sup ported by affidavit and certificate of bad health and incapacity, having been granted, and one for exemption on account of age having been refused, the following gentlemen were sworn : dames Hamilton, Upper Ormond-quay, Foreman ; Capt. Roper, Eccles-street ; Edward Clarke; F. Faulk ner, Grafton-street; John Croker ; Henry Flynn, William-street ; Henry Thompson ; Anson Floyd, Rellington-street ; John Rigby, Suffolk-street' Robert Hanna, Henry-street ; William Longfield ; William Ord, Cork-street. The Attorney-General then rose and commenced his address for the prosecution. He stated the nature of the offence and the law of conspiracy, supported by numerous quotations from law authorities. He went into a lengthened history of the repeal agitation, gave sketches of the different Associa tions that have been connected with the movement, and grounded his case against the individual traversers by ,quotations from the repeal press, from the speeches of Mr. O'Connell, and the evidence of the organisation of the Association itself. In de scribing the repeal card of membership, the mention of the portrait of Brian Boru, which is one of its illustrations, excited considerable merriment, which he immediately reproved, appearing somewhat vexed at a merriment he considered so out of place. In reviewing the different scenes which had been exhibited during the repeal agitation, he pointed out the illegal course pursued by Mr. O'Connell. That gentleman, he said inculcated peace and order, but his object was to carry out the designs of the con spirators ; for if the peace was not kept till the conspiracy was ripe, its purpose would be frustrated. And what were they to say of the law put forth by Mr. O'Connell, that the Irish Parliament could be revived with out applying to the Imperial Parliament at all ? Could it be that a lawyer, eminent as he was in his profession, spoke as he believed, when he laid down such a doctrine, in the face of the 3d article of the Act of Union ? No, said he, it was laid down for the purpose of lulling the apprehensions of the authorities. His object was to crouch, but it was the crouch of the tiger to clutch its foe in its grasp. As another instance, he said, of the objects of the accused, at a meeting held on the Ist of February, 1843, Mr. O'Connell said, England is in distress, and now is the time for Ireland. Could Ireland have been worse if she was a dependency of France ? In the speech made by him on that occasion, he evidently intended to convey the idea that Ireland had the power of driving her oppressors into the sea—every road was a defile—every field was a redoubt— and cavalry could not aot against the people. He next alluded to the wild speeches of young TYLER in America, and quoted some spirited verses entitled " The Memory of the Dead," and at five o'clock the Court adjourned. The Attorney-General was to resume his speech on Wednesday morning. The jury then retired to their homes. No officer of the Court was appointed to attend them. The speech of the Attorney-General was, carefully got up, and delivered with firmness, but it was destitute of that fire and animation which distinguish Irish speakers. The prosecution against Mr. O'CONNELL and his fellow traversers, "like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along" the slimy paths of Irish law. The challenge to the array, or, in other words, to the entire jury, although refused, and productive of no direct advantage to the traversers, served, at all events, to expose more fully the gross injustice which carelessness, or wilful intention, had perpe trated, by excluding from the panel nearly one tenth of the entire number of qualified jurors. The fact is now admitted on all hands, and it is openly confessed that, by the conduct of the Irish officials, the jury-list has been limited in number, and the chances diminished, to the prejudice of the ac cused. So much for justice to Ireland, and the Irish, under a Tory Government, when even the material out of which a jury is to be selected, shall be confined, and partially annihilated, to the utter prevention of all fair choosing. And when the forty-eight names were chosen from this unfairly diminished list, the course taken by the prosecutors, to exclude every Roman Catholic fromthe the panel, was just as unwise, and improper, as the omission of the qualified jurors from the entire list was illegal and unjust. Can it be wondered at, that the traversers should make every effort to set aside a panel, from all chance of serving upon which so many had been by fraud excluded, and all of one faith rejected ? Can it be any matter of surprise, that they should fight every inch of ground, and contend foot to foot with their persecutors, not for advantage, for of all advantage the Crown officers have deprived them, but to obtain, if possible, justice in the tribunal appointed to try them, and to show the public how justice is dealt out to the people of Ireland P Shame upon all concerned, that fraud, and exclusion from civil privileges, on account of religious opinions, should be perpetrated under the name of justice ! Shame upon all concerned, and may the day of their shame be the day of their punishment, as it is of their exposure and disgrace ! A jury has at length been constituted, after pro ceedings which, most unfortunately for the ends of justice, have taken away from it every claim to con fidence, and rendered the conduct of that jury matter for the closest scrutiny, and the most rigid observ ance. And before that jury, a jury chosen from a list improperly narrowed in number, and to serve upon which religious opinions were made the test of fitness, or of exclusion, the eyes of England and Ireland are now fixed. That jury may yet show its disdain of the trammels in which the law officers of Ireland have sought to place it, and may prove that an Irish jury, although selected from fraudulent lists, and sought to be confined to one religious creed, can do the duty of jurors to their fellow -countrymen, by deciding according to the evidence submitted to them, and not according to the would-be dictation of Tory prosecutors. The Attorney-General for Ireland may be taught that the juries of his country are, as yet, proof against all the manceuvres of his subal terns, and that no conviction can be attained by sharp practice, or the trickery of official underlings. It is said, and we believe it to be true, that. Sir ROBERT PEEL, and the English law officers of the Crown, look with disgust and disapprobation upon the :proceedings of the Irish officials, in the whole matter of this trial. No one on this side of the water connected with Government, save and except the renegade Whigs, part of the present Ad ministration (and to whom, in order to form a " Go vernment of Combinations," as Sir ROBERT PEEL himself said and wrote, he sacrificed the patronage and the real reins of Government), in heart approves the reckless desire and purpose to convict O'CONNELL, displayed by the conduct of the present prosecution The director of the " Derby Dilly" and the " Ne. therby Clan" desire to crush the fearless assertor of Irish rights—the champion of equal justice —equal awg—equal privileges for Ireland. But we do not believe that Sir ROBERT PEEL, led, as he is, by the fiery TYBALT of his Administration, and yielding to the advice which, disapproving, he yet follows, can really hope for gain to himself, or power to his Go vernment, even by a conviction upon the present occasion. It would have been far better for the Crown officers, that their mischievous intents and decided aims at conviction should have been more decently shown, and less obnoxiously avowed. It would have been far more decent that the jury list should have been pro perly formed, and that the names of 65 persons, of whom thirty-seven are Catholics and Quakers, should have ap peared thereon, rather than have been totally omitted, with every appearance of design. It might have been more decorous if the Recorder had waited to see the lists completed, before he hastened off to join the fes tivities of Sir ROBERT PEEL at Drayton Manor, to which place the sheets of the jury list were sent. It would have been less obnoxious to every Catholic in THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, JANUARY 18, 1844. England and Ireland, if, in striking the jury, religious opinion had not been the sole ground for exclusion. And it would have been more consonant to the prin ciples of justice, and to the course that a POLLOCK or a FOLLETT, a CAMPBELL or a WILDE, would have pursued, if, instead of throwing every difficulty in the way of the accused, every leniency and concession had been shown, that could in fairness have been demanded. Then, at all events, would the prosecutors have gone to the jury with clean hands, and with claims to their attention, founded upon the purity with which they had conducted their official duties; then would the jury have had the confidence of all par ties—the Crown might have hoped for favour—the jury for implicit trust,—and the whole proceedings would have been freed from the imputations and sus picion which now attend them. The accounts which have been lately published of the state of affairs in Monte Video are at once dis tressing to humanity and disgraceful to our own apathy. Monte Video has been exposed for about twelve months, not so much to the more immediate horrors incident to a protracted siege, as to the more hopeless and withering process of a land blockade, efficiently established, and rigorously maintained by a bigoted and remorseless soldier. General Roses, commanding the troops of the republic of Buenos Ayres, invests Monte Video with an ar.ny which cuts off all communication between the beleagured town and its commercial resources and connexions. Monte video contains not only a very considerable number of English merchants and their families, but Spanish and colonial mercantile establishments of extensive connexions and character. It is believed that through this body, in the aggregate, outstanding credits on English account are due, amounting to upwards of 500,0001. The passion of Roses having, for its pecu liar object, the extirpation of foreign commerce, he will not permit the cordon which be has established under the walls of the ill-fated city to be broken through, on any pretence of communicating with the native and colonial consumers from whom these credits are due. The inevitable consequence, it would appear, must be, that they can never be collected. The Monte Videan houses must perish under the continuance of the cruel duresse in which the con tending pretensions of Buenos Ayres and Monte Video thus operate to keep all .foreigners who are shut up in the latter. They have especial reason to complain, and do, accordingly, most vehemently com plain, that they have been made the instruments of aggravating the losses which are likely to be sus tained by the strong assurances that were given to them by Mr. MANDEVILLB, our Minister, when visiting the shores of the Plata, that the British Go vernment would certainly protect British rights and property in those regions, in the event of the Buenos Ayrean armament entering the territory of Monte Video, by repelling force by force. In conse quence of this assurance—so the correspondence, re cently received in London, declares—" large sales of merchandise were made on credit, and orders transmit ted to this country for further shipments." When Roses did cross into the territory, there was a British force in these waters, more than five times suf ficient to have effected his instant discomfiture and retreat ; but he was not interfered with, and has, ever since, cooped up the unhappy residents at Monte Video, within the bare walls of their strong posi tion, where the whole community experience the un satisfied cravings for the common necessaries of life. In the meantime the native and other consumers in the interior of the country are becoming, every day, less and less competent to pay for their purchases, owing to the unrelenting destruction of all foreign property, carried on by orders of Roses throughout the territory subject to his exactions and his vengeance. To such an extent does Roses indulge his stupid preposses sions against external commerce of any kind, that he had very recently enforced the immediate return, without unloading, of several vessels which had arrived with cargoes of produce from Corrientes at Buenos Ayres. These cargoes were composed, in part, of returns of the native dealers and consumers above alluded to, for the British merchandise and manufactures supplied to them by the importers of Monte Video. It seems, therefore, that no course more effective could have been taken for sacrificing all chances of reimbursing the shippers or owners of 500,0001. of British merchandise, destined for that market alone. Now, it is not without reason that the Monte Video correspondent of the Morning Chronicle complains, that if Mr. MANDEVILLE was authorised to give such assurances of protection as he did, the British Go vernment is bound to do that instantly, which it ought long ago to have done, namely—to interpose its full authority for securing compensation and satis faction from the ruling authorities in Buenos Ayres, on account of losses by British subjects thus sustained : that if Mr. MANDEVILLE had no such authority, the fact ought to be immediately proclaimed,—himself dismissed or otherwise punished,—and his proceeding formally disavowed by the Foreign-office. For ourselves we go further. Irrespective of the question, whether Mr. MANDEVILLE had or had not due authority for a certain declaration to British subjects in the territories of a foreign State, — is the grave consideration how far the honour of our common country is involved in, and compromised by, such vexatious pantomimes of State hostility and diplomatic duplicity, as these crude and but half-fashioned States of South America are perpetually " getting up"—to their own gratification, probably, but to the detriment and injury of the com merce of the civilised world, and all the blessings which follow in its train ? It is true that modern jurists have ruled very decisively that a blockade— maintainable as to all other circumstances•.-is good, so long as it can be effectively enforced. It is also true that France has concurred with Great Britain in re cognising this exercise of the right of blockade by Buenos Ayres against Monte Video. Nevertheless, in a case where the sufferers by the interruption and prohibition of the trade of the place are foreigners,— English, Spanish, and French subjects, against whom there is no charge of contraband trading or smuggling, but who, in the lawful pursuit of their commercial • - V•4.41L operations, are suddenly placed in a position from which they are not permitted to extricate themselves, wherein their capitals are sacrificed, their trade ruined ; and their lives endangered by the proceedings of belligerents, each of whom is under treaties of amity with their own sovereigns ;—it does appear to us that on every principle of expediency and justice those sovereigns, or one of them, should insist on the per sonal rights and liberty of their own subjects being respected. Reparation ought clearly, we think, to be enforced in this instance, which comes precisely under the conditions we have been supposing. The conduct of ROSAS, in sending back the vessels from Corrientes, was a wilful interference with the private property not merely of the merchants of Monte Video, but of his own compatriotes of Buenos Ayres, that his own Government should be made to disavow, as some sort of guarantee against the recurrence of such exhibitions of wanton folly in future. Let us hope that a little Cromwollian vigour may yet be aroused in the re cesses of Downing-street, to bear upon the wings of the wind the once dreaded and omnipotent protest of Britain against all dishonour to her flag, or injury to her subjects, in any corner of the habitable world I Of all the questions which have been entered upon by the public reformer in this country, there is no one which has presented greater diffi culties to his efforts than has that of University reform. The causes of this seem to us to be pretty evident. With the majority of topics which have been from time to time imported into public discussion, people generally have at least something like a practical familiarity. Re specting, however, the two national Universities and their concerns, the nation, excepting the upper classes and the members of the learned professions, is as completely ignorant as if these institutions were in nowise connected with the country. There is a mystery attending every thing transacted at Cambridge and Oxford, which the uninitiated can only look upon with no means of solving. Those, too, who have the power of divulging " the secrets of the prison house" are apparently restrained from doing so by a feeling of attachment to their Alma Mater, and an esprit de corps, which makes them regard with utter abhorrence, as a species of parricide, any such publication. Just nolv, however, things appear to have taken a turn more favourable for the operations of those who would introduce amendments in the regula tions of the two great academical bodies. People appear to be at the present time aroused to the necessity for some inquiry into the application of funds which were left by pious and patriotic be nefactors for the advancement of religion and science, and in very many instances for the pro secution of these most commendable purposes by eliciting indigent merit. The expense of an education at either Oarn bridge or Oxford has of late years been far too high to admit of any but those in com paratively easy circumstances sending . their sons to those institutions. But they are considered as national seminaries. How can this character rightly accrue to them when such obstacles exist to their realising the pur poses which so comprehensive a title suggests ? The lowest annual expense at which a young man can pass through either of our Universities we should fix at 1501. This we consider is the lowest estimate which can be formed for an undergraduate's expenses. These expenses usually are much higher. We all know the force of a spirit of emulation upon the actions of men. In youth the same feeling has influence, and there is far less discrimination to direct it into proper channels—a feeling which, if properly fostered, in after years assumes a liberal and most praise worthy bent, directing frequently to the accom plishment of purposes highly beneficial to man kind, in youth is liable to be perverted to a thou sand purposes injurious alike to society and the in dividual. Hence we have young men of high birth, excellent capacity, and with ihigh-spirited but misdirected natures, applyin g all their energies to perfection in tandem driving, pigeon shooting. ,jockey ship, and other employments,' which, at least, are inconsistent with the scope of a liberal and intellectual education. How much of the tendency to extravagance on the part of the upper classes of society in this country is attributable to the habits of profligacy and folly nurtured under the present system of University education ! Is not a cheaper system of instruction—a system which might develop the eleemosynary resources of our colleges, and attract poor but enterprising scholars to their foundations—compatible with a course of study as efficient:as, if not superior to, the course which is now adopted? In the Scotch and German Universities the expenses are, in many instances, not one-fourth part of what they are at Cam bridge and Oxford, and yet these bodies have furnished their full quota to the stock of learned, wise, and pious men. It would be well if sizarships, servitorships, and bible clerkships were more numerous and better endowed than they now are. It ought to be within a young man's power to live on the emoluments which these situations produce, instead of being obliged, as is at present the case, to draw largely upon the already shat tered resources of the paternal purse for main tenance during his college residence. In former times these:endowments did greatgood,by:eliciting obscure and indigent merit, and by providing a maintenance for those who, in after-life, occupied distinguished posts in various departments of Church and State. In later days like/results, though of a disproportioned extent,l have fol lowed. 'Why should not amendments be intro , duced which might restore the utility of our collegiate establishments, infuse into them fresh and highly needed vigour; rendering them, as they ought to be, as they still may become, seminaries of a national, comprehensive, and un sectarian character, the boast of England, splen did evidences of the intelligence, the opulence, and grandeur of our countrymen, and :the means of handing down the lamp of philosophy with undiminished, and still accumulating splendour, to those who come hereafter in the course of scientific research ? Madrid journals of the 10th have been received, but they bring no news. The City elections still continued in favour of the Progresista candidates, the highest of whom on the list had 928 votes, while the highest on the other side had only 589. On the 10th the Three per Cents. were done at 25ik, for cash, and 2.5 i sa 60 days, and the Five per Cents. at 19 at 60 days. The Paris papers of the 16th are almost entirely occupied with the debate on the address, and the pilgrimage of the Legitimatists to London. The speech of M. BERRYEII, in defence of himself and his colleagues, is generally admitted to be a great failure. M. GUIZOT took advantage of his weakness, and made a most impressive speech. The Constitu tionnel admits its great ability, and the weakness of M. BERRYER'S oration. The Journal des Debats says of it—" The man has failed, and the cause is lost." Much business was done on the Bourse on Tuesday, with a considerable rise in the Funds. The Three per Cents. closed at 83 ; the Five per Cents. at 125-10 ; Orleans Railroad Shares at 861-25; R ouen , 842-50 ; Avignon, 678-75; Havre, 652-60 ; Sp an i s h A c ti ve, 30 In the Number of the Edinburgh Review (CLIX.) which has just come out, we fi n d a remarkable con firmation of the views announced in the article we publish to-day on the subject o f th e " O regon Terri tory." It occirs in an able paper on Captain Sir Edward Belcher's "Voyage , Ro un d th e W or ld , per formed bySulphur, during the yearslB36—h4e2r. Majesty(London,shiplB43.),, The passages to which we would direct the readers' attention are these : (The Reviewer has been quoting a dispatch from the Right Hon. the Earl of Aberdeen, repudiating a sort of compulsory cession which had been made of the Provisional Government of the Sand wich extraordinary Greatlslandsordin ar y b y Britain,theQueen, P omare, to the Q ueen in consequence of certain proceedings of Captain L or d G eorge Paulet, in her Majesty's ship Carysfort :)—" This sound doctrine, moral as well as political . . . may also serve to abatis the furious attacks o f ou r transatlantic brethren fon this occasion, who, in no measured terms of accuse, abuse the Briti s h Govern ment of an all-grasping disposition to plant colonies in every part of the world. If pri or it y o f di scovery auth or i s ed possession —which, alone, it does not ; but if cession of territory, made by legitimate auth or ity, sanctions possession, which it does—then the Sand wich Islands might, long ago, have been annexed to the British Crown—a furmal cession of them having been made to the King of Great Britain, in considera tion of services rendered by Captain Vancouver. But supposing the charge of all-grasping to be true, what prevented us from establishing colo nies in every part of the Pacific, and on the northern and western coasts of America Y Instead of which, what did we do ? We gave up Nootka Sound and its islands, which were ceded to us by Spain. We left the Falkland Islands a derelict on the ocean, also ceded to us by thatlPower." . . . "But the Ame ricans are the last people in the world who should ac cuse us of a grasping disposition to seize upon new acquisitions of territory." . . . "It is somewhat whimsical, and augurs no great share of moderation or modesty, that a nation brought into existence only about half a century ago, and which by its grasping propensities' has swallowed up nearly the half of a vast continent, and will not be satisfied until she has got the whole,—so that its two shores may be washed by the Atlantic on one side and by the Pacific on the other, —that such a nation should talk of the grasping pro pensity of others." CLERKENWELL-(THIS DAY.) John Battens, a notorious thief, was charged with breaking into the stable of Mr. William Henry Cook, a linen-draper, re siding in High-street, Islington, and stealing therefrom a quantity of carriage -harness,, whips, umberellas, and other property. It appeared, from the evidence ' that, on Tuesday night last, the prisoner get up on th e roo f o f the stables, and, by removing the tiles, effected an entrance- into the loft, in which the har ness, &c., were deposited. H.e carried the property down to a public-house in the New-road. where he was arrested by police constable Wright, of the N division, whilst endeavouring to sell it to another person. Mr. Cottur committed thin prisoner for trial. young mechanic, named. Albert Jones, was charged with assaulting police -constable 179 G. The prisoner was creating a disturbance in Coppice-row en the previous night. The officers attempted to remove him, but the prisoner attacked the complainant in a very savage manner, and endeavoured to _force his eye out with his thumb. He did not succeed, but very much hurt the organ, and dis figured the flesh about it. . . — The prisoner was fined 15s. The fine not being forthcoming, he was committed for sevon day.. REVIVAL OF TRADE JIT STOCKPORT.--We hear that arrangements have been 3nade for the working of one of the cotton-mills last occupied by Messrs. Lane and Sons, in Higher Hillgate, and which hats now been standing about four years, and that it is likely to commence operations very shortly. An extensive firm, at presmit carrying on business in the borough, are named as the benants. We are also informed that the premises eight years ago occupied by Messrs. Christy, opposite St. Tilt:lmo:es Church, Higher Hillgate, have been purchased by a cottoxi-merchant, with the intention of commencing some description of work therein.--Manchester Guardian. SUMMARY OF NEWS AND übitr Optrtton. " Who runs may read." rOR,EXGIV. The cold on Tuesday, at Paris, was intense. At one p.m. on that day, Fahrenheit's thermometer stood at 23. At Brus sels the weather is even still more severe, the thermometer has been as low as 17 or 15 degrees below frtezitig. The canals are frozen up, and in many parts the ice is five inches thick. M. Jean Antoine Constatin, the celebrated landscape painter, the master of Granet, Count de Forbin, &c., died at Aix, on the 10th inst., in the 88th year of his age. The editor of the Gazette de Franc, who had been sentenced by default to two years' imprisonment and 6,000 francs fine, took his trial on Monday, and was acquitted. M. Charles Laffitte has been elected to the Chamber of De puties by the Electoral College of Luuviers. He had 286 votes out of 404. M. Jacques Laffitte has resigned the Presidency of the Counc of Directors of the Rouen Railroad Company. The mother of the late General Mina died at Pampeluna on the 6th inst., in the 99th year of her age. A letter from Dresden announces, that the entry of the Paris journal Le Siecle had been prohibited in Saxony, al though the Courrier Francais,Constitutionnel, and Demo cratic Pacifique, were permitted to circulate freely through the kingdom. LAW AND POLICE. In the Bail Court, Mr. Justice Williams fined a number of persons who, being summoned as jurors, did not answer to their names. He at the same time said, it was necessary to impose fines on absentees, for it would be most unfair to call on one set of gentlemen to do all the duty, and excuse others. At the Middlesex Quarter Sessions, the Chairman, Mr. Sergeant Adams, gave the following advice to young barristers. In the course of the day, on a young ;,barrister continually rising to interrupt the Court when it was in his favour, the Learned Gentleman said, his advice to young men was not to keep on talking least they might start a crotchet which the other side would take advantage of, but to remain quiet, and do nothing more than nod—nod--nod, until the Court was against them. Twelve omnibus drivers were summoned to the Mansion house for "crawling." The Lord Mayor listened calmly to,the numerous ingenious excuses of the defendants, but inflicted the full penalty allowed by the law in every instance. lie at the same time announced that he would sit every Wednesday to meet people of this description, and suffer no case to escape. Mr. Broughton, the Magistrate at Worship-street, announced the receipt of the following donations:-51. from Mr. Dixon, of Stanfield Park. and 5/. from " F." for the poor-box. From "L. B. S." Si., and from " A. C." 1/. for the use of the poor widow Hoscroft and her destitute family, whose afflicting ea,e appeared in this paper on Tuesday last. COURT -FASHIONABLE. The Queen Dowager has contributed a donation of twenty pounds to the Indigent Blind Visiting Society, through the hands of the Hon. William Ashley, a member of the Committee. Her Majesty also contributed twenty-five pounds at Christmas, 1838, when she accepted the (Ace of Patroness to the charity. Prince George of Cambridge has left Corfu, with two or three English officers, to pass the winter in the genial climate of Naples. The Marquis and Marchioness of Londonderry, who have taken one of the splendid hotels in the Champs Elysees, are net expected to return from the French capital until shortly before Easter. The Dowager Marchioness Conyngham is expected to return from Rome, accompanied by Sir William M. Somerville, Bart., ere the second week in March. The remains of the late la mented Lady Maria Somerville were interred in the Roman capital. Earl Delawarr proceeds to town on the 31st inst., to attend the Duke of Wellington's grand dinner at Apsley House. The Earl and Countess of Ayle4urd have during the last week enlivened their beautiful seat, in Warwickshire, by a suc cession of parties. Among the company assembled were the Earl and Countess of Dartmouth and Lord Lewisham, Lord Brooke, Lady Jane Peel and Misses Peel, Captain Peel, Hon. C. Finch, &c. Count Nesselrode is expected to return to the Russian em bassy in a day or two, from a short tour in the provinces, pre vious to his departure for St. Petersburgh. The marriage of Lady Elizabeth Sackville West, eldest daughter of the Lord Chamberlain and the Countess Delawarr, and niece of the fourth Duke of Dorset, with Mr. Francis Hast ings Russell, of the Scots Fusilier Guards, and eldest son of Lord George W. Russell, late ambassador at Berlin, are fixed to take place to- day at Buckhurst Park, East Grinstead. The Lord Groat Chamberlain and Lady Willoughby de Eresby and family are not expected t• return to this country from Rome, where they are passing the winter, until the first week i n May. His Lordship, as hereditary Lord Great Chamberlain, has delegated las official duties connected with the opening of Parliament to the Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod, Sir A. W. Clifford, Bart. 111ISCELLANEOUS. The Care Journal states, that mass was offered up yester day in Ennis and the adjoining parishes for the safety of Mr. O'Connell pending the State trials. The steam plough has been introduced in Scotland, for ploughing in morasses and boggy land, where horses cannot be employed. John Romilly, Esq., recently appointed one of her Majesty's Counsel, took his seat on Wednesday as a Benchor of the Hon. Society of Gray's Inn. A collegiate school was opened in Lambeth on Monday, to the head mastership of which the Rev. J. R. Barber, M.A., has been appointed. CORN AVERAGES. GENERAL AVERAGE PRICES OF BRITISH CORN, For the Week ended January 13, 16.13, made up from the Returns of the Inspectors in the different Cities and Towns in Englan , ! and Wales, per Imperial Quarter, Wheat sos. Od I Oats 8ar1ey......... 335. (Id. Rye ...... ads. 5d Pease 3ls. 01 AVERAGES OF THE LAST SIX WEEKS. Weeks ending! WHEAT. HARLICY.I OATS. I RYE. BEANS. I EASE Dec. 2 '511,31 8 18 8 1 .70 1320 X 33 6 9 5O 0 32 0 18 6 30 0 31 6 32 0 16 ...... 23. ...... 30 49 10 32 7 18 3I 30 8 29 5 30 7 Jag. 6 ... IMPERIAL AGGREGATE AVERAGES OF THE SIX w EFKS Wheat 504 sd. Oata Barlsj 32s. 3d.1 Rye DUTIES ON FOREIGN CORN. Wheat 2os. 0(1.1 Oats - 10. 631 Barley .......... 6s. Od. 1 Rye ...... ... 103. 6d.1 Pease .... 10, 6d. MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.) HAY MARKETS. SMITHFIELD._Coarse Meadow Hay, 2/10s to 31 ; useful do, 3/ 3s to 3110 s ; fine Upland do., 31 12s to 3/ 16s ; Clover Hay, 3! to 5/ ; Oat Straw, I/ es to 1/ 8s ; Wheat Straw, I/ 8s to li 10s per load. Both hay and straw, though in limited supply, sold heavily, at barely late rates. CUMBERLANI). —Coarse Meadow Hay, 2/ 15s to 315 s ; use de., 31 8s to 31 12s ; fine Upland do., 3/ 13s to 41; Clover Hay, 3/ to 4/ 15s ; Oat Straw, 1/ 6s to 1/ 8s ; Wheat Straw, 1l 9s to 1/11s per load. A short supply and a very dull trade. WHITECHAPEL.—Coarse Meadow Hay, 215 s to 3/ ; useful de., 313 s to 3/10s : fine Upland do., 31 12s to 3l 17s ; Clover Hay, 3/ to Si; Oat Straw, 1/ Os to 11 8s ; Wheat Straw, 1/ Si to 1/10s per load. Supply tolerably good, and trade dull. MEAT MARKET'S. SOUTMALL, JAN. 17.—Our Market to-day was rather hea vily supplied with stock, on account of which, and the thin at tendance of buyers, the demand was, throughout, heavy, and the quotations had, in some instances, a downward tendency. —Beef from 3s 2d to 4s ; Mutton, 3s to 4s 4d; Veal, 3s 6d to 4s 8d ; and Pork, 2s 10d to 4s per 81bs. Supply—Beasts, 37 ; Sheep, 1,640 ; Calves, 50 ; Pigs, 42. ROIIFORD, JAN. 17.—Prime beasts and calves commanded a steady inquiry, at full prices, but otherwise the trade ruled extremely inactive, at depressed rates. —Beef from 3s 2d to 4s 2d; Mutton, 3s 4d to 4s 6d; Veal, 3s 4d to 4s 4(1; and Pork, 3s to 4s, per 81bs. Suckling Calves, 183 to 28s ; quarter•old store Pigs, 18s to 30s; and Milch Cows, with their small calf, 161 to 101 each. LEWES, JAN. 16.—We had a very sluggish demand here to-day, and prices were not supported.—Beef, from 3s 2d to 4s 2d ; Mutton, 3s 2d to 4s 4d; Veal, 3s 4d to 4s 2d; and Pork, 3s to 4s per 81bs. A IiKEI last market.day, 68, s d. Walls Endßelmont W.•E. litaddyll'atiettcn Walls End East Helton Walls End Haswell ...... 21 0 Walls End Hettcm Walls End Lambton Wahl; End Pemberton 18 0 Walla End Russell's Hetton 19 8 Walls Eh d Peen Cowpen Llangennech Coal 2O C MONEY AND COMMERCIAL. NEWS CITY, QUARTER TO THREE. In the Liverpool Cotton market yesterday, the sales were 9,000 bales, the market being rather less animated. Speen lato7s took 1,500 bales American, 1,000 Pernambuco, and 1,000 Surat; 2,000 Pernam sold at 64d. to 64d., 100 Bahia at 6 1 / 2 d., 200 Maranham at 6d. to 61d., 100 Egyptian at 64d. to 7d., 1,500 Surat at 34d. to and the rest American at 54. to 6}d.—Shares were inactive : Eastern Counties, ex New, 10; Grand Junction, 233; Birmingham, Quarter, 29; South Easteru,S 354 ; ditto, New, 354 ;j Paris and Lyons, 2 19-20; Manchester and Leeds, 101. We briefly noticed yesterday the attendance of many influen tial parties to inspect specimens of foreign cured provisions, including the Secretary of the Board of Trade, and other practical men in such matters, to ascertain if, in ordinary course, the poorer classes were likely to derive any advantages from the reduction of duties, by the new tariff, upon articles of food imported from abroad. So satisfied were all present upon this point, that it is in contemplation to convene a public meeting (to be held at the Hall of Commerce we understand), to show the policy of an extension being given to this new branch of trade. It is established as a fact that most of the provisions already imported—that is the best of them— have been sold to the middle and pourer classes at immense profits, as English produce, while the inferior is marked "American." 'Thus a prejudice is kept up, and the retailers, by demanding comparatively high prices for articles imported, which were bought 25 or 30 per cent. lower, are, as already stated, immense gainers. It has been suggested, in in order that the new tariff may have in this respect a fair trial, that in the more populous districts of the metropolis shops should be opened where none but foreign cured provisions should be sold. The principal complaint made by some of the practical men present at yesterday's inspection, was, that the Pork, and some of the Beef, was too fat. This, however, cannot refer to the Port Philip Beef, as that is de cidedly cut too lean. There were no colonial arrivals in the City to-day, and the French mail was detained, supposed by the prevalence of fogs in the Channel. The Commissioners purchased 18,0001. Consols this morn ing, but only a small sum was invested in aid of the Sink ing Fund ; in fact, as the brokers for the Commis sioners lump the purchases, the specific sum laid out daily, in reduction of the debt, is not publicly stated, nor in deed is there the least clue as to the transactions of those re presenting the Lords of the Treasury upon the subject above alluded to. Consols for Account have touched 97—the same quotation rules for Money. Exchequer Bills have been heavy at 665. premium. The Reduced Three and-a-Half per Cents. have touched 103, but they are now a shade lower. The Transfer Books are now all open for free transfers, and business is, in consequence, much increased. It ought to be stated that the purchases of the Commissioners were made in Consols at 97. Bank Stock for Money and Account is worth 1894. This is the pay day in the Consol Market, and it has gone off satisfactorily. In the Foreign Market not much business was transacted to day. Old Portuguese Five per Cents. were quoted at 71 ; the Spanish Actives at 224; the Three per Cents, at 304 ; the Passive Bends at 54 ; Dutch Five per Cents. at 100 a ; and the Two-and-a-half per Cents at 54g. The principal changes in the Railway Shares have been to day in the G‘ eat Western, which are up to 34 premium ; in the Grand Junction, which are at 134 premium ; in the Manches ter and Leeds, which are at 15 1 / 2 premium; in the South Eastern and Dover, which are at 5 1 / 2 discount ; and in the York and North Midland (Scarborough branch) which are at 154 premium. In the other Railway Shares the variations have been slight this morning. New Australian Bank Shares have realised 4 premium, and the London Joint- Stock Bank Shares 24 premium. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. (From the Official List.) Bank Stock 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 3 per Cent. Consols. Annuities: 34 per Cent. Annuities, 1818 34 per Cent. Reduced Annuities ...:10241 103 1021 New 34 per Cent. Annuities Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan. 1860 Ditto 30 Years, Expire 10th Oct. 1859 India Bonds, 1,000 Ditto under 1,000 Bank Stock for Account Consols for Account Exchequer Bills, lJd. 14d. 10001. 5004 Ditto Small FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent Spanish Bonds, Five per Cent. Ditto for the Account Ditto Passive Bonds Ditto Deferred Ditto Three per Cent. ...... Ditto for the Account 304 Dutch 24 per Cent Mai Dutch 5 per Cent. PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE. RAILWAYS. Paid. Per Share. Eastern Counties 23 .. .. 10 Ditto New ...... .. ... ........ .. : .- I Li...—. to Edinburgh and Glasgo w .... . . 50 5B to Ditto Registered .. Great Western Grand Junction 100 .234 London and Brighton ... .. 50 London and Birmingham Stock 240 London and South Western ... 4135 ... .. 73i 1 Ditto Eighths ... M... to . Lancaster and Carlisle Manchester and Leeds ...... ...... 70 s--- ... to Ditto New Shares..... Norwich and Brandon Newcastle and Darlington Junct. 15 ...... 29 Northern and Eastern North Midland lOO to Ditto Thirds 2l/. 13s. 4d. 30 Paris and Orleans Paris and Rouen .. ..... ..... 20 South Eastern and Dover... Ditto Scrip York and N3rth Midland 5O Ditto Scarboro' Branch Yarmouth and N0rwich............ 13 JOINT STOCK BANKS. Australasia (New) Lohdon Joint Stock lO - to -- MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, JAN. 17.—We cannot report any change in our market, except Bolton and Bury, which have advanced to 971., being an improvement of 41. per share. Prices generally continue firm :—Sheffield and Man chester, Quarters, 4 9-16 - Manchester and Leeds, Quarte r s, Si ; Manchester and B irmingham, 38i ; Manchester and Leeds, 991, to 100 1 / ; Bolton and Preston, 25A to 1 ; Edin burgh and Glasgow, 54. CLOSING PRICES. BRITISH FUNDS. Btack lB9 ~.•, exit. Red. 3 •_!. Leut. Cons. 96k 3i iLir Cent. Red ... 102% eW 3 per Cent.... 1011 New 5 I•er Ceti: ...... Long Annuities to expire Jan. 1860 ... l2 11.16 Ott. 1859 Jan. Ih6o — FOREIGP India Stock — pm Ditto Bonds ....... 81 pm Ditto Old Annuities... Ditto New Annuities... Ex. Bills, 1,0001. 14d. 67 pm Ditto 5001...... 68 pm Ditto Small ..... .68 pm Bank Stock for Acct. 1891 (India Stock for (Consols for Act. 1 FUNDS. !Portuguese, 5 per cent. I Ditto, New Ditto Prussian, 5 per cent — Russian, 5 per cent Ditto, Metallic ...... . ...• Spanish, 5 per cent Ditto, 3 per cent... Ditto, Deferred.... . 123 French, 5 per cent. —f. —e. Exchange.......... —f. French, 3 per cent. —f. —c. Dutch, 2i per cent. 54i Ditto, 5 per cent.... 1001 RES. isustrian, 5 per cent 13elgian, b per cent Brazilian Bonds... BlLmos Ayres6 per cent — Cnilian, 6 per cent. Colombian, 6 per cent — Ditto 1824 Cuha Bonds, 6 per cent lli Danish, 3 per sent Greek, 1825, 5 per cent — Mexican, 5 per cent. Ditto, 6 per cent. 1837 Peruvian, 1825,6 per ct. SHA Eastern Counties (23 paid j...... Ditto New Shares ( paid) .. ... 11i Great Western (75 paid) ... 108} London and Brighton (50 pa d) ..• London and Birmingham ( paid).. ..... 240 Ditto New Quarter Shares ( 2 paid) 29A London and South Western (4116 s 10dpd) 734 Ditto Eighths ( 11 5s paid) .. London anti Croydon Railway ( Trunk) ... 161 Lancaster and Carlisle (5 paid) Manchester and Leeds (70 paid) ...... ...... Ditto New Shares (30 paid) Newcastle and Darlington Junction(ls paid\ 29 Rouen and Havre ( 6 paid). . 116 South Eastern and Dover (50 paid) ...... Ditto Scrip (25 paid) Yarmouth and Norwi3h (13 paid) 164 We understand that in the House of Commons, Viscount Clive, the Member for North Shropshire, will move the address in answer to her Majesty's speech ; and Mr. Card well, Member for Clitheroe, will be the seconder. AMERICA.—The packet -ship Siddons, Captain Cobb, arrived at Liverpool on Tuesday last from New York, which city she lea on the 27th ult. SUDDEN• DEATH AT A VESTRY..---MY. Higgs held an inquest yesterday afternoon, at the Prince's Head, Princes street, Westminster, on the view of the body of Mr. Simon Stephenson, aged eighty, late vestry clerk of St. Margaret, Westminster. The facts appeared in The Sun of yesterday. Verdict—" Natural death . ' At the conclusion of the inquiry, a conversation arose as to whether or not there had been any necessity for holding the inquet. The Coroner stated that he did not intend to have done so, had not one of the deceased's relatives called upon him on the subject, and expressed a wish thatcsuch an investigation should take place. INDIGENT BLIND VISITING SOCIETY.—Her Ma jesty the Queen Dowager has just graciously contributed a donation of 201. to the funds of this excellent charity, through the hands of the Hon. Wm. Ashley, a member of the Com mittee. Her Majesty also contributed 25/. at Christmas, 1838, when she condescended to accept the office of patroness to the charity. WooLwicn GARRISON.—A General Court-martial was held yesterday in the mess-room of the Royal Artillery, Colonel Mercer President, Adjutant Varlo, Deputy Judge• Advocate, for the purpose of trying private John Knowles, of the Royal Marines, for conduct highly unbecoming the charac ter of a soldier, in repeatedly 'cracking down Corporal Chad wick, a non-commissioned officer of the same regiment, on Sunday, the 25th day of December, 1843, whilst doing duty at her Majesty's Dockyard, Deptford. The Court, after a lengthened and patient investigation of the whole of the evi dence, and maturely deliberating upon the prisoner's former bad conduct, found him guilty of the charges preferred against him ; but the sentence will not be promulgated till it has re ceived her Majesty's approval. - - - NON-ATTENDANCE OF JURORS.—In the Bail Court, yesterday, Mr. Justice Williams ordered a number of gentle men summoned on the jury, who did not answer when their names were called, to be fined. One gentleman, who had been fined on Tuesday, stat e d th at h e appeared an d served en the first day of the sittings, and was not aware that he was re quired by the summons to attend day by day. He did not wish to shrink from the performance of a public duty. The fine in this case was remitted. THE PLEASURES OF CHANCERY.--Within the last few days an extraordinary answer to a bill in Chancery has been filed. The answer is engrossed on " forty" skins of parchment, consisting of upwards of one thousand folios. It has been ascertained that an office copy of this answer will cost the plaintiff no less than forty-nine pounds ten shillings, which amount must be incurred before the suit can be pro ceeded with. SAILORS' FEMALE ORPHAN HOME.—A meeting of the patrons of this charity was held last evening at the Fins bury Chapel, Moorfields, the Rev. A. Fletcher, in the chair. The instituti on was esta bli s h ed for the re li e f of the orphans of sailors who have pe r ished at sea. From the Report it appeared that there are at present twenty orphan children on the funds of the charity. The receipts from the 20th May, 1842, to November 20, 1843, amounted to 5201. The liabilities of the Society amount to upwards of 2921. COAL M Ships arrived since r. d. Car's Hartley Chester Main Davison's West Hartley ... 15 Hastings Hartley Holywell Main l7 ( Ord's Redheugh l3 6 West Hartley...... Wylam Walls End Clennell l5 0 Walls End Hilda l7 6 Walls End Killingworth We understand that a steam.carriage has at last been invented, adapted in every respect for locomotion on com mon turnpike-roacia. The carriage for passengers is something like an ordinary stage-coach, and is propelled by an engine on two extra wheels, fitted closely to the rear of the carriage, but which can be disconnected at pleasure. The machinery is much simplified, and is rendered so compact that it can be placed upon patent springs of such a construction, that its liability to derangement, from the unevenness of surface on common roads, is entirely avoided. This appears to be a most important improvement, as it gets rid of the only obstacle hitherto found insurmountable in the way of successful I.co motion on common roads. It has already been run several thousand miles, over come of the worst roads i n E ng l an d, ascending and descending the steepest hills with facility and safety, and maintaining an average speed of fifteen miles an hour. A company has been formed to bring it into use. TUE GREENWICH RAILWAY.—A new and spacious entrance to the Greenwich Railway adjoining St. Thomas's Hospital is nearly completed, and will be opened in a few days for the passage of vehicles to the terminus, which, when finished, will be a very great improvement to the neighbour hood. A substantial stone pavement is being laid down, and a wide flag-stone footway is also being constructed. To effect these alterations a portion of the property of St. Thomas's Hospital was purchased, and the Company agreed to erect an ornamental iron railing, bounding the footpath, with some buttresses. This is now being raised, and has an extremely neat and elegant appearance, at the same time affording a fine view of the hospital. There died lately at Colmar, in the Haut Rhin, an Israelite, at the age of 98 years, leaving an immense fortune. This he accumulated by buying and selling land, by purchas ing reversions, and by granting loans of money at usurious interest. He was blind for the last twenty years of his life, and yet examined, personally, all the property he purchased before he concluded the bargain, which he took care should be a good one for himself. When land was the object, he went over every part of it, and when a house was offered to him, he visited every room from top to bottom running his bands over all that he could touch, and making his guide give him the details of such parts as he could not reach. He had, it is affirmed, between 6,000 and 7,000 persons who owed him money, and whenever it was required to settle an account with any one of these, his numerous debtors, he immediately gave, from memory, an accurate statement pf every i'em, principal and interest, dates and circumstances, being, in fact, a living journal and ledger.—French Paper. PRIZE FIGIIT.—On Thursday, the 11th inst., a pugilistic encounter took place on Lindrick-common, near Worksop, Nottinghamaisire, which was nearly attended with fatal consequences. The combatants were, a small farmer, named Miller, who resides at Cresswell, and has a family of seven children, and a fellow named Webster, who lives at Whitwell, and has likewise a wife and eight children. The stakes were 101. The fight, which consisted of 53 rounds, and lasted nearly two hours, was won by Webster, who so severely beat his opponent that it is doubtful whether he will survive, oilbough he has been attended by two medical gen tlemen. DEATH OF THE COUNTESS DOWAGER OF CLARE. —The Countess Dowager of Clare expired, at her house in Belgrave-square, late on Saturday evening. Her Ladyship was the eldest daughter of the late Richard Chapel Whaley, Esq., and was married, in 1786, to the late Earl of Clare, the Lord High Chancellor of Ireland, and father of the present Earl. LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY.) LONDON, JAN.' lB.—Light Westerly breeze and cloudy- DEAL, JAN . 7.—Wind A. 51. N. W. , moderate; r. 55. N. bI W., hazy.—Arrd. Earl Durham, Crouch, Calcutta; Hat; mony, Messery, Newfoundland. Sid. Sophia, Madras an d Calcutta. The schooner Friendship, of Yarmouth, whic h sank at her anchors (in the fairway of navigation for Rainsgate Harbour) during a gale in October last, has drifted, and lice off No. 2 Battery, in ten feet at low water, nearly half a .1 from the shore. Several boat s ' crews a r e attempting to weig h her, and will probably succeed should the weather continuo moderate. CLYnn, JAN. 15.—S1d. Ida, Demerara. A RDROSSAN, JAN. 11.—Sld. James Reid, St. Thomas's. GRIMSBY, JAN. 15.—The Sarah, of Yarmouth, was brought in here 3esterday, a derelict, having been fallen in with ou Flamborough Head, abandoned. •ted RYE, JAN. 17.—Artd. Zeldenhurst, Hamburgh—sai l e d Nov. 19. SoUTHAMPON, JAN. 17.—Sld. Tweed steamer, West Indies. PLYMOUTH, JAN. 17.—Wind N.E.—Arrd. Ann Hell Hubert, St. John's, New Brunswick, with loss of boats, bul• warks, Sld. H.1%1. S. Vestal, and Arcturus, New Yor k. . FALMOUTH, JAN. 17.—Wind N.E., moderate.—A rrd. Ellen, M'Eachern, Demerara, with trifling damage, ha vin g been in contact with a schooner this morning off Fleetw'ood' Richardson, Mauritius. SCILLY, JAN. 14. Arrd. George Ramsey, Quebec. FALMOUTH, JAN. 17.—The Gl ouces t er , f rom Liverpool to Prince's Hand, which put in here 9th i ns t an t, has commence d discharging her cargo of coals. LIVERPOOL, JAN. 17.--Wind Thomas Sparkes, Valparaiso; Scotland, Mills, Savannah ; Swanton, Da ven p or t, Charlesto n. Off, Monongahela, Philad e lphi a • Georgiana, New Orle ans. to White, N Newig h t. Orleans;— Arrd. Sld. Queen, Calcutta; Ell en Clare, Hayti; Orleans; American, Savann a h ; P eruv i an , t. John's, N.B• A number of scientific and nautical men yestern inspected the new li ne o f pac k et - s hi p, P r i nce Albert, n e w lying in St. Kathari ne D oc k. Th e vesse l i s a compani°nlia the Victoria, the build an d em b e lli s h ments o f w hi c h were 1 0 _4 stated on her first arri va l i n our port . Thi s i s the a fi fter trip to our shores which the P r in ce Alb er t h as made being launched in America, and the packet will, in a daY...,°o two, leave again for hom e . Th e Prince Albert is of the se noble build as the Victoria, though, perhaps, in length , 1 " ter P former has the advanta ge . Th e P r i nce , f rom ste m to s ti measures 160 feet, in breadth 36 feet, i n d e pth 22 feet,;, e o f commanding a tonnage of 1,000 tons. Th e b er th s in the t e . cabin are 36, but in our opinion one o f th e grea t e st iinPre_ v o , ments in this new line of packet s hip i s th e grea t accomm o f dation to be given to steerage passengers, a class cbea individuals whose comforts too frequ en tly h ave oee n tree upon to give advantages to those who could afford to pay , e d highest fares. The second deck, fr o m s t em t o s t ern , is de o to emigrants seeking employment a b roa d, andahus ample , is afforded for perhaps 250 to 300 passengers. The interior well finished, especially the c hi e f ca bi n , w hi c h i s b ea utifu ,.. l?, adorned with Spanish mahogany and Zebra wood. This vessel is commanded by Captain Sebor, who has eontin!,.'; since the year 1824, making th ree voyages a Sear between m a ports of London a n d N ew Y or k. It ought to be mentien e ,,f that a handsome likeness of P r i nce Alb ert is in the stern sOr cabin window, and at the other ext r e m it y a p i c t ure of Win ,t„ r s Castle. On the first trip to the Th ames th e P r i n ce Atlr og brought over an immen se quan tit y o f prov i s i ons , including nearly 300 tons of cheese, cured provisions, lard, &c. ten FIRE AT ISLINGTON.—YeSteFday morning, at minutes before two o'clock, a fire was discovered on the p r o f mises occupied by Mr. Studd, coal and potatoe dealer, h next door to the Whit e S wan T avern , 'sling t° Police-constable N 360, w as th e fi rst p aroa erson to make 0 discovery, by perceiving a stro ng li g ht shining in the ( shop. The officer, upon making a c l oser i ns pection, ; go sufficient to satisfy himself that the whole of the abq le one complete body of fire. He immedi a t e l y sprang his lattli and shouted " Fire!" which awoke the inmates, and altil - p only a few seconds had elapsed from the first discovery Of fire, yet with such surprising fierceness did it burn , , ao . all escape by the stair c ases was cu t o ff. M r . and s" for Studd were soon at the first floor windows crying th e help, and were joined by three other persons, lodgers in rt , house. At this tim e th e fl ames h a d reac h e d t h e ver y l eo ment in which they had taken refuge, and had it not j a far the opportune assistance afforded by placing a ladd e ciii front of the building, by which the escaped, in all probahi so , the whole of the persons in the house would have fallen 3 13 , orifice to the fl ames . Th e I sl i ngton, and St. James, Cl e rke . well, parish engines were the first to reach the spot, and l o c i were tollowed by nu merous b r i gade engines, and also the this of England one from Waterloo -road. As is usual in te r neighbourhood, an immediate an d p l ent i ful supp l y of Rivet was flowing from the fire-mains b e l ong i ng to the New Plpis Company. By half-past two o'clock, less than three-sluar t ida of an hour after the outbreak, nearly the wh o l e o f M r . Ste o f premises, with his stock in trade, and a valuable assortman t os s furniture and plate, were consumed. The total d ama ge fn be considerable. As to the origin of the fire, n o thi ng err e , could be learnsel. Mr. Studd is insured in the U n ion Fi r be office. The landlord of the building is not so fortunate , being uninsured. THE COAL WHIPPERS' BILL, —A meeting 0 , f , 0 0 master mariners and seamen of S ou th Shi e ld s was h e l d t , - a s Monday, in the Seamen's Hall of th a t t own , when a letter 1 0 0 read from Mr. Wawn, M.P., expl a i n i ng to them the provi s of the Coal-whippers' Act, especially the clauses introduce d himself, allowing the sailors to unload the vessels with COsis iog London river, and urging upon the m th e a d v i sa bili ty o f 4 1 ' 00 advantage of those clauses. A long discussion took plael p f. the subject, and the result was the expression of a genera? if ing that the scheme was impra c ti ca bl e , an d t h at ev en t. could be carried into effect, it wou ld no t b e to t h e b e ne' e o f either the ship-owner or sailor. In Sunderland the opini° ll o , the maritime classes on the subject is divided, but it is not fp& bable the crews of many vessels from the north will super the coal-whippers in the delivery of their cargoes. MACREADY IN AMERlCA.—Maueady go es on his progress through the United States, and goes on prosPe ri g e . The newspapers last received supply us but with imperfect to , tails on the subject ; but as far as they go th e y are highly fi g e t bis factory, and the result will be hail e d w ith pleasure :!y a" bet great actor's numerous admi rers i n thi s country. When th, we heard of him he was at Baltimore, at the end of last rtin n ej t 'having made his first app e a rance th ere , at t h e Holiday-a° je Theatre, on the Monday preceding the 27th of December:4 the character of Macbeth. The writers of the critiques sr,, o , to be amazingly struck by th e or i g i na li ty of his delinestlibe and as in other places they are surprised how the genius Of 0 $ performer is heightened and supported by the consummat e $ he has acquired by experience. One newspaper calls it .0 splendid and glorious exemplificati on ," an d conclu d es i ts retl tio by this pithy remark, " Suffice it to say that M aerea dy best actor living." When h e p ro p oses to return to Erlg.l3o we know not, but at present, if money be his object, he little motive to shorten his visit to America. FATAL STEAM BOAT COLLISION ON THE RIVf•-' Yesterday morning at hi g h wa t er t h e b o d y of a man, or..d George Scroggins, about 28 years of age, was recovered ~ d the Blackwall-pi er , w hil s t fl oat i ng up the river, and con ce ir on shore to Poplar de a d-h ouse , t h ere to await a Coronefai'w quest. The'unfortu na t e young man it appears belonged b'• Woolwich, but ha s l a t e l y b een employed in the 0 1 1 . t. bout hood of Limeh ouse , an d on the evening of the 23u."18 proceeded to th e a b ove p i er in order to get on board Ty , of the Woolwich steam-boats, so as to return home. o t. however missed the last packet, and there being seven a a" eight persons in the same dilemma, they determined 'k w , hiring a w a t erman ' s w h erry to take them over. Thek cordingly all embarked, and whilst proceeding by Bug bole, the Nymph ste am -p ac k et was perce i ved coming uP the wards London. The boat's crew state that they hailed ~i, steamer some considerable distance off from where the ac dent occurred ; they, however, took no notice of their a l i t . and the packet struck th e b oa t on t h e star b oard side, t he ceased and another man who s t oo d up i n t h e b oat attempts 00 0 to ease the shock being thrown overboard, but the latter 1 0 , saved. It should also be m en ti one d, as a matter of ingt..ri that the crew of the p ac k e t fi rm l y d ec l are that the vessel "at stopped long before the boat came up, and if the helm is haelf been completely brought ro u n d, s h e must h ave cut her rigu'ier half. They also observe that the persons in the boat Deo stopped rowing, and th a t was t h e ma i n cause of the v e° coming in contact with each other. FUNERAL OF THE TWO MURDERED INFANTS t DEPTFORD.—Yesterday the remains of these hapless eln icir- ss ll were removed from the house in which the horrid crime perpetrated (No. 5, Giffen-street, Deptford), to the cha t yard of St. Paul, Deptford, in separate coffins, followed bY,, t i r , wretched father, as chief mourner, and his brother ('„ t Dickenson, of the London Stone Wine-vaults, Cannon-st re- i City), and Mrs. Dickenson's brother. The funeral cereal, was performed by Mr. Ffinch, the Rector of St. Paul, t he most impressive and feeling manner. Giffen-street and line of route to the grave was crowded by anxious then7o to witness the performance of the last sad offices. 00 s o procession arriving at the church-yard -gate a rush was n' t be to get to the pl ace o f i nterment—the whole area 0r ilO4. ground, which i s ver y extens i ve, was immediately P'*".ect During the readi ng of the service the f a th er o f t h e deeet o was wholly ab sor b e d i n gr i e f , and at the conclus i on borne home, supported by his own and his wife's bro tm ;bo On Thesday the unhappy woman expressed a wish tu r Rev. Mr. Flinch to be all owe d to see h er children O'L-ea husband together. Sh e to ld t h e pol i ce-constable in atteno,": that if her request was not granted she would be induced to tr r : the wound in her throat open again. Mr. Ffinch and , 1 1‘ , 3 $ ' Arthur having conf erre d t oget h er on the propriety of aceelois to her request, dete rm i ne d upon complying. Mr. Dicker then entered the room , an d sat down at the bedside, ands coffins contain:ng the bodies of the children were placed on , bed. K U looked at Itnem a moment, and then firmly Plal i a her hands on each side of their faces, kissed them 01 '1 1 3 a over again, in a state of eestacy. After . he coffins hau g 'l l e removed she said she felt much more composed, spoke o ',,. c s dreadful offence siie had committed, and knew that herd were numbered, bat hoped that the Almighty would afford Ig o strength to meet xiti 1 , .= with becoming resignation. waking in the morning she alinges to the extraordinary dr ea d" she has had during th e p ast nigilt. The Rev. Mr. Ffinch votes all his leisure in contributing to her spiritual welfal; and Mr. Arthur, the parish s'.;-g eon, after dressing her vo ua ani t yesterday, decl are d th at h e corm lered she would b e convalesc in the course of ten days or a for v.-tight. BIR TBS. h On thisth in s t., a t North-end, Hampstead, the lady 0. " --e " p Tatham, Esq., of a daughter. On the Inth inst., the lady of Mr. Robert Maynard, Terrace' Walworth, of a daughter. On the 16th inst., at Oundle, the lady of Mr. Charles Linto n ' of Oundle, surgeon, of a son. On the 16th i ns t., a t U pper S eymour -street, the Hon. Lad Dallas, of a daughter. lady The 16th inst., at Crowle Vicarage, Lincolnshire, the of the Rev. Benjamin John Armstrong, of a daughter. ter , On the 17th inst., at F re d er i c k- p l ace, M rs. George W'n of a son. MARRIED. On the 16th inst., a t F arn h am, S urrey, Alfred S teve ns, 944 to Eliza Osmond, only daughter of Henry Nichols, Esq....,•A o ut On the 16th inst., a t T r i n it y Ch urc h , E xeter, F ranc is 10 , - , ;so Ward, Esq., to Eli za W ere Cl ar k e, eldest daughter o f Willis Adams Welsford, Esq. A. to On the 16th inst., at Halif ax , J osep h P r i est l y Edvie,r` 4 ",! r is, Margaret Jane, second d aug h ter o f the l ate James E. -4.‘°- Esq., of Savill Hall. , t her• On the 16th inst., at Cheadle, Stafford s hi re , G e orge n o pO t Esq., of Trinity ollege, Cambrid ge , t o Caroline Peneaolly youngest daught er o f C apta i n S neyd, R.N., of Hun tley 4 - near Cheadle. DIED. On the 14th inst., William Ros coe , E sq ., of "°° Finchley-commo n , ag d 62. On the 14th inst., a t F a i r fi e ld , Bow-road, Robert it rj3 Esq., aged 56. the goo , On the 14th inst., a t O x f or d -terrace, Hyde-par k, William Joseph Wilton, M.A., aged 88. On the 14th inst., Thomas Scott, jun., Esq. William On the 15th inst., at Judd-place East, New-road, . Dodd, Esq. us ret On the 15th in s t., S tep h en Vertue, Esq of Queen -s q St. James's-park. On on t , h ße. l N s . th inst., at Richmond, Surrey, Commandecros Guy On the 16th inst., at Thorncroft, near Leatherhead• _ Drinkwater Bethune, aged 81 - - - London : Printed and Published by 11111RDO j No. 112, St ran d, at Th e Sun Office, No. 112, Stralw the County of Middlesex, Thursday, January 18,1844. IVilliat Ju n , Rob ert iiatthe Abel L Saroue Thorns Kirkm John 11 Reary James tnd G PAVE Capita --."------ ,SWA E t tunic) , vial fri t heTn t tent r i e l ‘l s Itri bur ALI no, 22,