The Sun. — London, England, 1845-01-30 00:00:00

THE FEBRUARY NUMBER OF COLBURN'S EW MONTHLY MAGAZINE AND HUMORIST Contains the following interesting Articles: — I. Diplomatic Doings. 2. Ideal Love. 3. A New Chapter in the History of Napoleon Buonararto 4. A Forest Thought. By Eliza Cook. 5. Two(Military Executions in Spain. • The Wulf and the Lamb. By the Author of " Peter Priggitis." 7. Tqwn Life in Italy. By L. Marlon'. 8. A Discourse of Yuppies. Part 11. 9. A Visit to a Circassian Chief. By H. Walter D'Arcy. Lights and Shades in the Life of a Gentleman on Half-pay. By W. H. Maxwell, Esq., Author of " Stories of Waterloo." No. VIII. The Outcast's Confessions —Midnight in a Madhoete. Traits of Corsican and Sardinian Character. By George Bur dett, Esq• The Robertses on their Travels. By Mrs. Trollope. Chapters XXV., XXVI., and XXVII. Sea Gulls. e&c., 84c. Henry Culburn, PublLsher, IS, Great Marlborough•street. WITS TWO ILLINTRATIONS Lir LEECH, The FEBRUARY NUMBER. Prise Ilse f-a-Crown, of BENTLEY'S MISCELLANY, Contains : TIIE MARCHIONESs OF BRINVILLIERS, TUE POISONER OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY. A Romance of Old Paris. By ALBERT SMITH. With Two Illustrations by Leech. Chap. IV.—The Students of IVA. Chap. V.—Sainte Croix and his Creature. Chap Vl.—Maltro Glager, the Apothecary, and his man Panurge, discourse with the people on poisons. The visit of the Marchioness. Croekford and Crockford's. The Post-bag ; or, Eccentric Cerrespondenm. By It. B. Peake. The Breeze upon the Ocean. Sketches of Legendary Cities, )To. 11. Bath. By Louisa Stuart Costello. - " Sleep on ! sleep on !" By William Jones. A Righteous Treasurer—" No Will ! Hurrah !"—The Gaol-Chaplain. or, A Dark Page from Life's Volume. Sketches of Spanish Warfare—Malibran, the Aide-de-Camp. Sappho and Phaon. Myaheer Van Clumseetrunk ; or, The Benefits of Smoking. 'Tie long since we have met, old Friend. Memorials of the Departed Great. By a Middle-aged Man. 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Prospectuses, with detailed Particulars;:and form of Application for Shares, to be obtained at the _Office of the Solicitor, to whom application for Shares may be addressed. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. THIS EVENING Wi;l il t repented /3alfe's Grand Opera, THE DAUGHTER OP ST. . Lusignano, Mr. Burdini ; Adolphe de Courcy, air. W. Bantam i Catarina Cornaro, Miss Itsinforth. Atte, which will he repeated the Grand Christmas Harlequinade, called PUCK'S PANTOMIME ; or, Harlequin and Robinson Crusoe. Robinson Crusoe, Mr. W. 11. Payne ; Clown, air. T. Matthews ; Pantaloon. Mr. Howell ; Harlequin, Mr. Wieland ; Columbine, Miss Carson. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. LESSEE, MR. B. WEBSTER. elst Night of " Heads and Young Hearts." THIS EVENING Will be repeated a New and Original Comedy, in Five Acts, entitled OLD 'LEADS AND YOUNG HEARTS. Colonel Rocket, Mr. Strtekla. d 7 Littleton Coke, Mr. Charles Mathews ; Tom Coke, Mr. Webster ; Bob, Mr. Buckstone ; Jesse Rural, Mr. W. Farren ; the Countess of Pompton. Mrs. W. Cliford ; Lady Alice Hawthorn, Madame Vestris ; Miss Rocket, Miss Julia Ben! ett. After which, a Sew Grand Musical Fairy Extravaganza, entitled .414AC1-/SA. AND PERCINET. Ring lixorius, Mr. J. Bland ; Pfincees Gradosa, Miss Julia Bennett ; Pereinet, Miss P. Horton ; Mattes*, Grognon, Mrs. Stanley. To condude with a Grand MOVING DIORAMA ; or, PICTORIAL TOUR IN SWITZERLAND. THE.ITRE ROYAL, ADELPIII. UNDER THE DIRECTION OF MADAME CELESTE. Fourth Night of a New and Original Drama, by tho Author of " Wreck Ashore," " Vietorinc," &c. TIIIS EVENING Will be repeated a Now and Original Drama, entitled THE GREEN BUSHES ; or, A Hundred Years Ago. Connor O'Kennedy, Mr. Selby ; George, Mr. Hudson : Wild Murtogh, Mr. 0. Smith ; Muster Grinnidge, Mr. Wright ; Jack Gong, Mr. Paul Bedford ; Geraldine, Mrs. Tate. ; Nelly O'Neill, Mrs. Fitzwilliam ; Miami, Madame Celeste. After which, THE CORPORAL'i WEDDING; or, a Rise of the Bride. Sir Felix Marmalade, Mr. Hudson ; Major Griskin, Mr. Selby ; Lady Arethusa Gr skin, Mrs. Frank Matthews ; ancy Cobb, Miss Woolgar. To eosselude with THE CaIIME 4 . Toby Veck, Mr. 0. Smith ; Aldirinan Cute. Mr. Wright ; Tu2by, Mr. Wilkinson ; Sir Joseph Dowley, Bart., Mr. Paul Bedford ; Will Fern, Mr. Hudson ; Richard, Mr. Scab.; /leggy Veck, Miss Fortescue ; Mrs. Chickenstalker, Mrs. Frank Matthews. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPIII. A Thorough Adelphl hit i—Vide, " The Times," and Public Prem. EVERY EVENING THE GREEN BUSHES, or A Hundred Years Ago ; by the Author of " The Wreck Ashore," " Vietorine,"& , . Principal Characters by Messrs. Hudson, Wright, 0. Smith, Paul Bedford, Selby, Cul leuford, and Worrell ; Mrs. Yates, Mrs. Fitzwilllain, and Madame Celeste. With the New Farce of THE CORPORAL'S WEDDING ; or, a Kiss of the Bride. And TIIE CHIMES ; A Goblin Story. PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. LESSEE, MR. J. M. MADDOX. THIS EVENING Will be repeated MONSEIGNEUR; or, PARIS IN 1720. Mon seigneur, Mr. Wallack ; Germaine, Mr. Omberry ; Rosaline, Miss E. Stanley; Annette, Miss Marshall. To be followed by THE IRISH WEDDING. Principal Characters by McUles. Caroline Roussel and Ter(sine, Miss Marshall, and Messrs. J. Reusset, Marshall. and Gilbert. Alter which, a New Comedietta, entitled TIIE BRIGADIER. Principal Characters by Messrs. Wallack, Granby. and Compton; miss li. limner. and Miss E. Stanley. To conclade with JOE MILLER AND HIS MEN. Grindoff, Mr. Compton ; Lothalr. Mr. Oaberry ; Claudine, Miss E. Stanley; Buell's. Mrs. Fesbroke. Stage Manager, Mr. 11. I. Wallaek ; Stage Director. Mr. Emden; Machirdat, Mr. Edmund Bradwell. THEATRE ROYAL, LYCEUM. lINDER TILE MANAGEMENT OF MRS. KEELEY. Last Three Nights of " The Chimes." TIIIS EVENING Will be repeated TIIE CHIMES. Principal Characters by Messrs. F. Vining, Meadows, Diddear, F. Matthews, Collier, Emery, Turner, .."o,sl Keeley ; Miss Walcott, Mrs. Woollidge, Miss Grove, and MA. Keeley. After which, a New Farce, entitled A MODEL OF A WIFE. Principal Characters by Messrs. A. Wigan, F. Matthews, and Mea dows ; Miss Walcott, and Miss Fairbrether. To conclude with VALENTINE AN]) ORSON. Principal Cha racters by Messrs. F. Matthews, Meadows, Wigan, Collier, Turner, Kisioc h, Yarnold, and Keeley ; Mrs. Wigan, Miss Arden, Miss Fair brother, Miss Grove, Mrs. Woollldge, Miss James, Miss Turner, and Mrs. Keeley. Unequalled Success of ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. PROPRIETOR, MR. W. BATTY. tlrst Week of the Southern American Minstrels. THIS EVENING Will be fepented THE ; Introducing a Real Fox-chase on the Stage, by Living Fox and Real Pack of Hounds. To be Allowed by the MeNdies of the American Southern Minstrols. Entire 011ange In the Circle.—Unequalled Feats of Horsemanship. To cotainde with the Pantomime of HARLEQUIN JOIIN'NY GILPIN'M RIDE; or, The Black Witch of Edmonton. Johnny Gilpin, Mr. Wells ; Clown, Mr. Barry ; Pantaloon, Mr. Bradbury ; Harlequin. Mr. Lewis ; Columbine, Mrs. J. W. Collier. Acting and Stage Manager, Mr. I). W. Broadfoot. DAVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE can scarcely have been unexpected by the Premier, who knows the Protestant temper of Ireland quite as well, if not better, than any statesman of the day. He must have foreseen the brewing hurricane, when as yet it was but a distant speck on the horizon. But we do most confidently hope and believe that the storm which will soon be bursting and whistling about his ears, and which we foresee will not be in ferior to that caused by Catholic Emancipation, will have no other effect on him than to confirm him in his resolution of redeeming his volunteered pledges strictly to the letter. On no other terms can Ireland be even partially reconciled to England. By no other means can O'Connellism—which is nothing more than the embodiment of a spirit of just discontent — be extinguished. The times are peculiarly favour able for the Premier's experiment. The busy hum of industry is again heard in the manufacturing districts; the finances of the country are in an unusually flou rishing condition ; political parties seem, in a great degree, to have lost the fury and bitterness that once characterised them ; and, whether deserving of it or not, there is no question that, just at the present moment, Sir ROBERT PEEL exercises a very com manding influence, as well without as within the walls of Parliament. Now, therefore, we repeat, is the best time for his commencing the grand experiment of the pacification of Ireland. He will, of course, meet with much and violent opposition, but his chief opponents will be the Irish Orangemen and the English Tories ; and these, fortunately, are two broken and scattered parties—the forlorn-hope of Bigotry !—whose political ascendancy is for ever departed. But were it not so — were these factions much stronger than they are at present—still, there is a spirit of liberality in the House of Commons quite strong enough to carry the Premier triumphantly through all obstacles. To succeed, then, he has only to dare ; and though we are by no means among the number of those who entertain any very high opinion of his moral courage, yet, with so many chances in his favour, we can scarcely permit ourselves to doubt that he will fully and honourably redeem his last year's pledges. And what a fame will be his when he shall have succeeded in placing the national education of Ireland on a just, comprehensive, enlightened, and satisfactory basis; thereby giving thousands who are now without a hope, involved in the grossest igno rance, a fair chance of rising in the social scale, and ranking among the future ornaments of their country ! There is no more exalted or lasting celebrity than The Grand Pantomime every Evening, with Splendid Noveltios, and Another Now Piece. THIS EITENINCI Will be repoated a New Three Act Drama, entitled WOLSEY, in Wilk/ the whole of the Company will perform. After which, Tlllt WHISTLER. To conclude wtth the Pantomime of POUNDS, SHILLINGS, AND PENCE. Harlequin, Mr. H. Harvey ; Clown, Mr. T. Ridgway ; Pantaloon, Mr. Henry Corti ; Columbine, Miss Slaiter. Plaecv and Private Boxes to Go had of Mr. Kerschner, at the Box• office, from Eleven to Fonr. ROYAL. VICTORIA THEATRE. Grand Juvealle Week—Pantomime, Second Piece. THIS EVENING WIII be repeated MARIANNE ; or, The Child of Charity. Sup portod by Messrs. Osbaldlston, H. Howard, J. T. Johnson, J. Her bert, E. Jones, and W. Searle ; Miss Vinceut, Miss E. Terrey, and Mrs. E. Jefferson.. After which, the Pantomime of HARLEQUIN lIOT CODLINS. To conclude with BLACK WHISKER; or, The Denton of &Yen Dials. _ _ Doxos, 2e. ; Pit, la. ; Gallery, 6,1. THE WEATIIER.--SuN OFFICE, JAN. 30. TutittßomerEtt, Lowest, 27 ; Highest, 33 ; Noon, 32. BAROMETER, 29.28.—W1ND, W. NOTE.—The figures which follow the words "Loweet" and ' Highest" denote the lowest and highest state of the Thermometer during the preceding twenty-four hours. Ail the other observations are made at noon. Water freezes at 32 4 - 55 on Thermometers is marked "Temperate," and on Barometers "Fair" is generally placed opposite to 30, and "Rain" at 29 ; but there is no certainty of dry weather wheu the mercury falls below 30. HIGH WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY. I " ri thig •• 59 minutes after 5 Evening .. 21 minutes after that which attaches to the statesman who can con• scientiously say, that he left general intelligence where he found nought but the intensest ignorance ; and encouraged the spread of true religion in a king dom where, hitherto, it had been little better than a party watchword. dredging vessels, or other suitable means. The " Small Downs" is an " anchorage of considerable extent, lying between the Brake Sand and the shore northward of Deal." They notice various plans that have been furnished for increasing, extending, and protecting this anchorage ; and, among others, a design by the late Sir JOHN RENNIE for a break water, five miles in length, at an estimated cost of 3,280,0001. It has recently been shown that the "Brake Sand" has gone, since its last previous nota tion on our coast charts, " about 700 yards bodily in shore." For these and other reasons, and especially "considering the Downs at the present time an ex cellent roadstead, with Ramsgate Harbour imme diately adjoining, the Commissioners cannot recom mend any outlay upon the " Small Downs." Of Dover, they notice the geographical as well as political importance of the position. They hold that there is no place with greater advantages for the erection of a breakwater, from its having an inner harbour, an ex cellent dock, &c. But seeing that two objections hive been suggested as likely to arise to its conversion into a harbour of refuge—namely, that according to • some witnesses the holding ground is not good, and that " it would have a tendency to silt up ;" the Commissioners report they are satisfied, from the experiments made on the tenacity of the bottom by her Majesty's ship Blazer, that the former ob jection is unfounded. As to the silting, they re commend that some of the water be taken under all varieties of time, season, and weather, for a whole year, then to be analysed by the proper officer of the Museum of Economic Geology, in order to test the nature of the deposits held in suspension by it ; and they are clearly of opinion that it ought to be a harbour of refuge, " in order to give it that efficiency as a naval station which is necessary to pro vide for the security of this part of the coast, and the protection of trade." At Dungeness nature has done so much to make it an excel lent roadstead for ships, that the Commissioners do not at present recommend the construction of a breakwater there. As to Beachy Head, East bourne, and Seaford, they do not recommend any works to the east of Beachy Head ; but there is The vital importance of providing harbours of refuge in the Channel, and elsewhere on our coasts, with a view to making better provision for the safety of our commercial shipping during the prevalence of tempestuous weather or adverse winds ;—of construct ing forts and defences in connexion with these and other such statons for the assembling of our fleets and ships of war—and the extension and completion of a system of coast protection in the event of war ;—these topics, it will be in the recollection of our readers, have been repeatedly and urgently enforced in The Sun in the course of the last twelve months. On such occasions we have endeavoured to demonstrate the degree of even enhanced exigency which the de mand for these indispensable national works assumes in reference to the daily increasing efficacy, and con sequent employment, of steam force by all European Powers, as a main element of taaritime strength and success. We have pressed these considerations so long and so frequently on the attention of the public and the Government, that we hare perused with the deepest interest the "Report" we reprint from the Commissioners appointed by minute of the Lords of the Treasury, dated in April last. The "Blue Book has just been issued, and its Appendices, as well as the body of the Report itself, are full of extremely valuable matter. A Contemporary, who has justly remarked on the " penny wise and pound foolish" policy of being to) niggardly of the public money, where the objects to be secured by its expenditure are of so vast and so beneficial a character, and of such indisputable expediency, enforces the ne cessity of promptitude in carrying them out into execution, and the wisdom of our being prepared in times of peace for any unhappy contingency of sudden war, in language which we have employed so often, that we are tempted to use it in this place, in order that we may not appear to re peat ourselves. He says— " Independently, however, of these considerations, we are bound by a consideration of the changes which steam may operate in any new warfare, to " take time by the forelock," and be prepared for the enemy long before he may come. This, after all, may be the surest and simplest coarse. It is not in any spirit of jealousy or distrust that such recommendations are put forward. The true friends of peace are those who are always pro pared for war." We are glad to find our own anxious representa tions on these two points of a prompt commencement of such works, and the unspeakable advantage of timely preparation, thus supported. Nothing that we see in the political horizon modifies thtt gravity of these views. Every cloud that steals over it imparts new force to them. The foreign news of even the last twenty-four hours is not without its significant bear ing on them. It may assist our readers in forming their judgment on the contents of this very remark able document, rapidly to indicate some of its mere salient features. The Commissioners thus state the main objects of the investigation delegated to their care : " Tho Treasury minute, under which we act, gives for our guidance three principal objects, viz.:— " First--The formation of ports of refuge for the safety and convenience of vessels navigating the British Channel. " Secondly—That these should be calculated to be come, in the event of hostilities, the stations for ships of war. " Thirdly—The considerati m of expense as compared with the public advantages likely to result from the con struction of such works." They recapitulate the various aids and colleagues in the different branches of their service which have been placed at their disposal by the Lords of the Ad miralty, the Trinity Brethren, the officers of the Cinque Ports, the Ordnance, the Board of Customs and their collectors, the officers of the Coast Guard, and other public and official functionaries, and the names of the parties by whom the numerous and ela borate surveys which that service called for, have been (very ably and satisfactorily) made. They then notice with high commendation the Report of the Select Committee of the House of Commons of last year On Shipwrecks ; and we are well pleased to see our estimate of the mass of important information, sug gestions, and evidence comprised in that volume, so emphatically corroborated by the testimony of the present Commission. In alluding to the " Harbour Commission" of 1840, which was appointed " to visit" the coast between the mouth of the Thames and "Selsea Bill," for purposes strictly analagous to those of their own appointment, they remark upon the fact that their predecessors of 1840 were thus precluded, by the terms of their instruction, from examining the harbour of Harwich on the eastern coast ; and they express their belief that had they been required so to do, they would have reported as distinctly and as favourably on Harwich as the present Commission is enabled to do. The Commissioners confine their attention and examinations to Foreness ; Rams gate ; the Brake, or Small Downs ; Dover; Dungeness ; Seaford ; Newhaven ; and Harwich Harbour. 'I he other heads of the it Report are devoted to " Proposed Breakwaters," " Mode of Construction," and " Mili tary Defences." The Commissioners are—Admiral Sir B. MARTIN, chairman ; Lieut.-Gen. Sir 11. DOUGLAS, Rear-Admiral D. DUNDAS, Capt. Sir W. SYMONDS, R.N., Capt. J. WASHINGTON, R.N., Lieut.-Col. COL QUROUN, R.A., Lieut.-Col. ALDERSON, R.E., Sir J. 11. PELLI, Capt. FISHER, R.N., JAMES WALKER, Pres. Inst. Civ. Eng. As to Foreness, " which stands well in the fair way of the traffic between the 'Thames and the Downs," and had been favourably reported on by the Commission of 1840, they " think it unnecessary to construct a harbour there," Harwich being of far sup . erior pretensi ons an d ca p ac ity a s to all purposes which it was ev er con t emp l a t e d t o accom pli s h at , oreness. Of Ramsgate they state that the harbour, on the average o f th e l ast t h ree years, has accom modated 1,600 sail an nua ll y , their average tonnage upwards of 450 tons each ; that, by fully executing works already designed there, this harbour would accommodate at least 500 more ships ; that it might be greatly improved by deepening the entrance by no place in the whole coast line, say between Dover and Portsmouth, where a harbour is so necessary as in Seaford Reach, to the west of the Head in ques tion. At Newhaven they do not recommend any outlay of public money. Of Portland Isle they re port in the most favourable and decided terms, as excellently calculated for the construction of a break water, harbour, &c.; having abundant supplies, also, of good water for the use of shipping. Added to al this, the execution of such works enable a squadron • " Stationed at Portland to hare under its protection, jointly with Dartmouth, all the intervening coast, and these places, with Plymouth, will complete the chain of communication and co-operation between Dover and Falmouth, a distance of 300 miles." Of Harwich Harbour it is said that " This harbour, formed by the junction of the rivers Stour and Orwell, is one of the finest, and may be ren dered one of the most useful havens in the kingdom. It has a sufficient depth of water and good holding ground over an extent capable of containing many hundred ships." And agalii, that " It is remarkably well-situated for the convenience of anorth-sea squadron, and fur the protection of the mouth 4,f the Thames. " It is the only safe harbour along this coast, and is in the direct line of traffic between the Thames and the northern ports of the kingdom, as well as of the trade from the north of Europe. " There is a dockyard, with building slips belonging to the Crown, and the property under the Ordnance depart ment is extensive." After recommending the construction of a harbour, breakwater, &c., at Dover, at Seaford Reach, and at Portland Bay, and going into some details as to the proposed modes of construction, the Report gives this "approximated estimates" of the probable cost of such works : Dov er, 2,500,000/. ; Seaford, 1,250,0001. ; Portland Bay, 500,000/.; Ham ich Harbour Improve ments, 50,000/. ;—total, 4,300,0001. This is, un doubtedly, a very large sum of money, but not when weighed against the interests, the property, the honour, the safety, the independence which its outlay is so well calculated effectively and permanently to secure ;—which its non-expendi ture from day to day so deeply perils. If there be a difficulty under the present shattered and manacled condition of our currency about advancing or disbursing se large an additional expenditure, we would remark,first,that that expenditure must neces sarily be diffused over some three or four years ; secondly, that the same hand which has worked the existing disorganisation of our monetary system, may easily obviate any apprehended pressure upon its dimi nished resources of the nature we speak of, by issuing a co-equal amount of paper money,—call them Treasury-notes or small Exchequer-bills,—under the authority and responsibility of the Government, that Government engaging to receive them at its Exche • quer in payment of taxes, Customs' duties, &c., &c., and reporting every month the number so paid iii, that the amount cancelled and the amount outstanding may be at all times within the cognisance of the public. Here would be "paper money" circulating, in the meanwhile, from hand to hand, which even the financial prudency of Sir R. PEEL could scarcely be , scandalised at. We once more renew the expression of our deep solicitude that the recommendations of this important Report may receive the very earliest considerations of Parliament. The Repeal question still contrives, " like a wounded snake, to drag its slow length along," though much of the prestige and quick vital power that once cha racterised it, have departed from it—we trust for ever. In vain Mr. GRATTAN snakes furious speeches cf an hour's length at the Conciliation Hall ; in vain Mr. O'CONNELL throws off " soft sawder"—as Sam Slick would call it— with that inimitable adroitness so peculiar to him ; neither the furious philippics of the one, nor the oily flatteries of the other, seem longer to exercise that magic influence over the national mind, that they possessed but one short year since. Cir cumstances that have hitherto served to favour the views of the Repealers in no inconsiderable degree, seem now at length to have declared against them. The late Papal rescript—the Catholic Bequests Act—even the vacillating, unintelligible conduct of O'Cosszcsim. himself on the question of Federal ism—which he honestly confessed he embraced with ardour, because he understood nothing at all about the matter, upon the principle of " onme ignotum pro mognifico ;"—these and other minor adventitious cir cumstances have all had an adverse influence on Repeal, which at present, notwithstanding its would-be exulting swagger, wears no nobler aspect than that of a baffled and beaten bully. No agitator—not even the fertile and ingenious Tom STEELE himself— appears any longer to have any schemes to propound at the Association. Mr. O'CosiNELL's crotchet of the l i Aristocratic Irish Parliament of three hundred—the exact number, by the bye, of LEONIDAS'S band of patriots—who were to assemble together in Dublin, with, each, a hundred pounds in his breeches pockets, for the express purpose of checking the revolutionary tendency of the more plebeian Association—of this once favourite crotchet we hear no more ; it has passed away, like other fantastic conceits, into the Limbo of Vanity, and is scarcely likely to be revived. Then the Rent I This is one of the unerring touch stones of Repeal—a sort of barometer by which its upward or downward progress may be estimated with pretty fair accuracy, and this, alas, is growing " small by degrees, and beautifully less ;" though now and then there is an evident rally in the week's accounts, like the last quivering flash of the lamp when it is just on the eve of expiring. Mr. O'Cosesszu, appears to be perfectly aware of the present humi liating condition of Repeal ; and to be still more keenly and anxiously alive to the fact that its conti nued existence as a popular and thriving source of agitation depends rather on Sir ROBERT PEEL than himself. If the Premier redeem the pledges which he volunteered last session—and of which he cannot too often be reminded—adieu, at once, to all Mr. O'Cosv ' NELL'S hopes of obtaining a Parliament in College-green until the advent of the Greek Kalends. The Liberator clearly sees that the game is now in a great degree out of his hands, hence his warning to his countrymen at the last Repeal Association meeting, that nothing was to be expected from the British Parliament for Ireland, who " would only fling them the offal while they secured the carcase for themselves." Mr. O'CONNELL must entertain a very poor idea of his own cause, when, as the best means of defending it, he prejudges the policy of the English Government in this ungenerous spirit. Madrid journals of the 22d have been received The Gazette contains a disphtch from the Captain THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, JANUARY 30 1845. General of Burgos, announcing the capture and exe cution of ZURBANO. VILLA.LONGA, with a savage bar barity, rejoices that, having had the good fortune to dispatch some fifteen " astute Carlists" in a similar way, it should have fallen to his lot to be the means of inflicting the last punishment on ZURBANO, and recommend!' for promotion those who traced to his den the wretched old man, half dead with disease and mental sorrow. ORIBE, it was said, would be tried in s few days, for not showing like barbarity and dis patch towards his two sons. The Three per Cents. closed at 3l for cash, and 321 at 60 days; the Five per Cents. at 24 at 60 days; and the Debt without Interest at 7 1-16 at 60 days. justly said to Ministers, Et 'zunc or, according to an o 1 i translation, Is it clew ?' The Mini6try ought to comprehend that it is not in, vain that an appeal is made in France to the sentiment of mitiont.l :dignity ; the conscience of the Parliament satisfies such a cry, or the Echo of this cry, which infallihy resounds in the conscience of the country. After four years (4 a system of humiliation, cone( ssions, pusillanimous arran(r ' emt zts, and disavuwais, the Cabinet of Oc.ober 29 has not any longer permission to sport with the honour of France as with a toy that is out of fashion, which has no weight in the balance of its great policy The Chamber has spoken. What do you wait for ? Retire, or if you dare it, pronounce a dissolution ; appeal from the judgment of the Chamber to that of the country ; place your policy before the electors, and try 1 You will not venture it. You will drag on under the weight of your unpopularity, without either knowing how to redeem your faults or quit power. Your barque is reduced to place its flag half-mast high, but you will not abandon it, bearing, as it does, your fortunes and your portfolios ; you will wait until the opinion of the Chamber and of the country withdraws from you the last wave ; and rather than renounce the last hope of saving your wretched cargo, it suits you better to go abhore in the mud and be shipwrecked in the filth." The Siecle - thus exults in the sictory -- • - All the Paris journals put forth articles on the Ministerial crisis, the importance of which not one denies—not even the only two that support the GUIZOT Cabinet. The Journal des Davis admits that the Ministry have received a check which is by no means decisive, or shakes their moral force. It cannot be denied that the tone of this jour nal is anything but satisfactory. It tries, how ever, to put the best face on the untoward result. " The Cabinet," it says, " has had only eight votes majority—what ought it to do? Ought it to retire ? It must be allowed that nothing obliges it to such a step. To retire is a constitutional necessity only when one has lost the majority. Eight votes are a very small majority, it is true; but they are a majority ! With a majority of eight votes, the Whig Cabinet lasted three years in England. Let us add that the intrigue employed all its means in this last affair—intimidation, threats, seduction—and that the Ministry, on its side, obtained from the Chamber the most explicit and most complete approbation that perhaps a majority ever consented to give in France ! We know, in fine, the force of all the political consi derations which have been advanced to engage the Ministry to keep its post. Its resolution is taken. State reasons have appeared to it to demand that it should attempt new struggles; we shall not abandon it; we shall support it to the end in its noble and glorious career. The majority is small, but it exists ; it is resolute and firm ; nothing ought to be despaired of." The other Ministerial journal encourages the Cabinet to remain firm, and tells the Opposition that though they can raise an outcry against the present policy, and by intrigue among the Government of the KING, they have no chance for place, because they are com posed of such heterogeneous materials that they cannot work together." "The Ministry will re main," are the words of the Glo6e. " We do not say this to the Conservatives, with whom it is not and cannot be a question for a moment ; but we tell it to to the ambitious Members of the Opposition, in order that they may provide themselves with a stock of patience, because the places they besiege will not be surrendered to them. The Cabinet will remain, because it hai the majority ; it is its duty to do so, be cause it represents a party and not a heterogeneous mass. Pardieu! it would in truth be too accommo dating to surrender the power when it is well es tablished--when it has overcome all difficulties— when it has created prosperity at home and peace abroad! Opposition would become at once a most delightful trade. At once it would drive out a Ministry by its injurious attacks, and gain, at its expense, popularity among the lovers of disorder And,after having thus done it wrong, its place would be' taken ; its successors would glorify themselves with its works, and thus, at its expense, gain popularity among men of good sense. Being only stupid and pilfering drones, they would make themselves pass for industrious and skilful bees. We are very sorry, gentlemen, but this will not be. When you want a Majority, you will make it for yourselves; when you wish to have the confidence of the Chamber, you must endeavour to deserve it ; when you wish to hold places, ion must take them as you can get them ; but nothing will be given up to you. You must not expect to receive alms at the expense of the Charter and the rules of the Constitution." Against these two journals are arrayed all the other journals of the metropolis ; but the GUIZOT Ministry is not singular in that respect. It has more support from the press than even the FUL Cabinet, with a hundred backers in the Commons. " The result, under which the Ministry remained as if thunderstruck, is known—an absolute majority of three votes, to which the support of the six Ministerial Depu ties contributed. And to the imposing minority which had just protested against the humiliation inflicted on France must be, added, according to the avowal of M. Guizot and M. Dumon, the Conservatives who had ab stained from voting, and eight or ten of whom, present at the sitting, remaining motionless on their benches, had protested in their manner by silence ! The minority .thus exceeded by several votes the number of tho Ministerial voters ; it was a victory for the Opposition—a solemn protest in the name of France. Mb ved by the same impression, all comprehended it at the same time, and applause burst forth, the acclamations of the tribunes responded, and this enthusiasm was immediately communicated to the crowd which from the morning had besieged the doors of the Chamber I We shall not abuse the advan tage givc , .l us by yesterday's result to attack the decision of the bureau on Saturday. We believe that every one is now convinced of the necessity of introducing into the regulations a means of conciliating the certain verifica tion with a publicity of voting. This question will re turn before the Chamber ; and the Opposition will at a later period bring these party quarrels to a conclusion. At this moment, it is sufficient for it to Lave mortally struck a disastrous administration. To those English journals which exposed to the gaze of John Bull, three days back, in immeasurable letters, the triumph of M. Guizot, we send back as our answer the official bulletin of his defeat. Let us hope that this example will not be lost on his successors, and that it will remind foreign Governments of the respect, too much forgotten, of the rights and dignity of France." Queen CHRISTINA'S journal, the Pr esse, considers the fall of the Ministry sealed, and but kindly pro- mines to show zeal and devotion in their cause if they interest. would only have the goodness to walk out of office : " fhe political importance of the votes yesterday can not be concealed. We shall, however, leave to other journals the task of developing it ; for if we have not ceased for a single day during a period of three years to warn the Cabinet—to endeavour to restrain it—to check it on the edge of the precipice, down which imprudent flatterers were precipitating it, we have never had a thought or a desire of overturning it. We have on all occasions attacked only its faults, and if it should think itself bound to retire, the eminent men who compose it, whose character we honour, and whose immense talent we admire, will carry with them our regrets. The sincerity of our devotedne.,s may have appeared doubt ful to them whilst in power ; but once their resigna tions given in, this doubt can no longer exist in their minds." The Fiance says, "The Cabinet may be regarded as overthrown, as an existence at its last gasp. It must not be forgotten, however, that there are people who are not to be turned out of doors by the most decided means of moral expulsion." According to the Revue de Paris, the dissenting Conservatives did all the mischief :—" Those Conser vatives who had seceded from the Ministry, remained firm in their resolution to the last, with the exception of five or six. Fifteen constantly voted with the left centre. The Ministerial majority, on Saturday, against the amendment of M. DE CARNE, would not have been so considerable, if a fraction of the extreme left had not persevered in voting against it." To con clude the summary, we give the opinion of the Quail dienne, the bitter enemy of the present dynasty : "As to us. it 'is of little consequence whether M. Guiz,t remains or retires. The country is warned ; it will not shut its eyes—at least if we can help it. Two hundred and five Deputies have finely refused to sub scribe to the fresh shame which the system wanted to impose on France. From whatever part they come we thank them all, and we salute with gratitude this evi dence of a re-generation which cannot be far remote. French in heart as well as by birth, what we want above all is that our country shall never lower its flag ; shall never be wanting to her glorious destiny ; shall be always that which our fathers have made her at the cost of so much blood and so many sacrifices, by so many heroic efforts, by so profound a sentiment of the mission which she holds from God himself;—grand, free, strong, and proud l" The following are miscellaneous extracts from the papers The Paris Opposition press, as compared with the Ministerial, is about as ten to two, while Sir ROBERT PEEL here has only one daily paper to sup port him. We subjoin, for the amusement of our readers, brief extracts from the motley press opposed to the GUIZOT Cabinet, and begin with the journal patronised by the candidate for GUIZOT'S place. "The Ministry," says the Constitutionnel," cannot, without dishonour, remain in office, after the declaration, made from the tribune by MM. Guszor, DUCHATEL, and Dumox, that they would resign if the Chamber did not afford them a clear, firm, and complete co operation." "Let us now," says the Constitutionnet, "scrutinise the majority obtained to-day by the Cabinet. It consists of four votes, and there are six Ministers. In England, as well as in France, a majority so feeble is, for every Cabinet which respects itself, a signal of retreat. Some years ago Count MOLE gave in his resignati,m, and only withdrew it afterwards to dissolve the Chamber, because he had obtained but 221 votes against 213--difference, 8 votes ; majority, 4 ; pre cisely the same number. On the day following the vote MM. GUIZOT and DUCHATEL declared that Count MOLE should either retire or dissolve the Chambers, or otherwise be wanting in all the condi tions of Parliamentary government and political ho nour. Nevertheless, the majority of M. MOLE was more clear than that of the present Ministry to-day, for nobody then abstained from voting. To-day nine Deputies present took no part in the proceeding. In these cases, to abstain was to blame. To the 205 op " It was M. Duple," says the Globe, "who, standing at the foot of the tribune, prevented the Opposition Mem bers from voting, in order that there might be no Ad dress to the King. This was surely a very fine part to be played by a man who calls himself a supporter of the Constitution, and who, scarcely a month ago, solicited the Conservatives for their votes to make him President of the Chamber." We read in the Dehots--" The 'news which we gave on Saturday of Zurbanu's execution was officially con firmed yesterday. He was shot in the town of Logrono on the 21st. He died with courage, like a soldier, and even with repentance, it is said, cursing his wife for having urged him to revolt, and for having caused his death, as well as that of his two sons." A letter from Lucerne of Jan. 24, in the Zurich Ga rett,, says :—"Dr. Steiger, who was arrested forty eight days back, was at last set at liberty yesterday. Although the hour was late when the news was made public, a crowd of persons hastened to manifest their sympathy with this courageous man. The Executive Council has replied by a decided refusal, to the applica tion of Berne to suspend the calling in of the Jesuits until a decision was come to on the wish expressed by Zurich, referring to the law on the veto and to the can tonnal sovereignty. The same authority has complained to Argau of the ill-usage which several persons from Lucerne have undergone in the canton, and has de manded, besides, that the refugees of Lucerne should be removed from the frontier." A letter from Constantinople, of the Bth, announces the death of Athanase, the Patriarch of Jerusalem, at a very advanced age. The same letter mentions a report that new troubles have broken out in Bulgaria, on the frontiers of Servia and Wallachia, at the very moment when the political agent of the Sovereignty of Servia was neptiating an amnesty with the Ottoman Porte for the individuals compromised in the former insurrectional movement in Bulgaria. A letter from Alexandria, Dec. 27, says :—" The Viceroy has formally resolved to have the narrowing of the Nile executed. The engineer, Mongel, is charged with the task. He is to go to France on Feb. 20, to order machines. The Viceroy has invested Baron de Tossitza to accompany him in the journey he is about to take in his dominions. The Baron sets out tomorrow for Cairo." THE BOURSE--TUESDAY, JAN. 28. ponents must consequently be added nine votes to enable us to learn what the Chamber thinks of the Ministry. The indemnity was condemned by 214 votes against 213. The Ministry was consequently left in a minority. This vote is not accidental. On Saturday the opposing majority was certain. 'The day before another amendment had been rejected after a doubtful trial ...... The majority, so fur from being clear, firm, complete, and non-equivocal, as required, does not exist. The Ministr y should either retire 0; dissolve the Chamber. This is the regular course ; the contrary would be a dishonouring and useless con tradiction given to themselves. Nevertheless, we have been assured that they will adopt this last dis graceful alternative. If we be correctly informed, M. GUIZOT said, on leaving the Chamber, should have remained with one vote; I have three; that is three times more than I require !' " The National, though delighted at the result, has no great hopes from the amalgamation of parties. " W hen the numbers of the ballot were announced," says that paper, " the Opposition, en masse, set up such a shout of bravos that we thought the walls of the building-would give way. - What is the meaning of all these transports? What have you gained ? Who will replace the Cabinet expiring under your blows ?" It thus describes the scene : " The atmosphere on Monday last appeared to an nounce an unlucky day. A cold wind drove with it torrents of rain, and a thick fog covered the city. At the Chamber of Deputies all was movement and agita tion. Scarcely had the President taken his seat than an immense crowd rushed into the hall. After some words from M. Gamier Pages and M. Billault, M. Dumon, the Minister for Publie he Works, ascended oul thd e tribune, and demanded that t Chamb sh declare its opinion, no t indirectly or equivocally , but publiely, and in an explicit manner.' which appeal friends responded with loud applause. The Chamber was about to vote, when the President an. flounced that twenty Ministerialists had demanded the secret ballot. At this announcement contemptuous laughter was heard from the Opposition benches. The names of the Members were called, the anxiety became extreme, the Deputies rose, a nd:the balls fell into the ballot-box. The white advanced with the courage derived from their masks ; the back dashed for ward boldly, showing the c olour of their balls. At length the ballots were counted, and the President declared the result. On this we thought the walls of the Chamber would have burst, the Opposition, in a body, raised such a shout. M. Vivien having been called on to develop an amendment of which he had given notice, replied, the existing state of affairs I withdraw my amendment.' The greater part of the Opposition Members abstained from voting. If about eight Deputies had not lent their aid to the feeble majo rity, the final ballot on the Address would have been null for want of a sufficient number of voters. Such he is the history of the sitting. The majority seen by t board on Saturday clearly consisted but of three, or nailer, there a as no majority for Ministers, because the members of the board should be deducted frovn it ; and , of which consisted on Monday but of eig the decided energetic Niti rity ht demanded by p sis were . Guizot Ministers." The Courrier Francais, another Radical paper, says it is all up with GUIZOT, b u t fears he will cling to the sinking vessel to the last : " After the vote of the Chamber, might it not bo First Highest Lowest Last Price. Price. Price. Price. French Five per Cents.. • 121 80 122 .. 121 80 .. 122 Three per Cents... 85 10 .. 85 10 .. 85 5 .. 85 10 New Loan .. 86 45 .. 86 50 .. 86 45 .. 86 40 Bank of France.• ..• • • 3260 —3260 ..3260 .•3260 G min Bank, I,ooof. Shares 1085 .. 1085 .. 1085 .. 1085 Belgian Bank .. • •• 630 .. 630 .. 630 .. 630 Belgian Fives, 1840 104% .. 104% 104%' .. 104% 1842 •• •• 106% .. 106% .. 10634 .. 10634 Two-and-a-Half 62 10 .. 62 10 .. 62 10 .. 62 10 Spanish Threes.. •.• • • 40% • . 40% .. 403 i .. 40 1 A Active •• •• • • 38 .. 38 .. 38 38 Passive ...... 6% .. 6 36 .. .. 6% Portuguese Five per Cents.. 59 .. 59 .. 59 .. 19 Roman •• • •• 105 .. 105 .. 105 .. 105 RAILWAY SHARES. Versailles, R. 8.• • • - 500 .. 500 .. 500 .. 500 L. 8.• Rouen • ...... • •• •• ••••••••1070 ..1070 ..1067 50 ..1070 Rouen to Havre.• Orleans ...... litrasCurg to Bale•...•.•••• 305 .. 366 25 .. 303 75 .. 306 25 Avignon to Marseilles.. 920 .. 922 50 .. 920 .. 922 50 RAILWAYS FOR THE ACCOUNT. FEB. 7. Versailles;R.B..• ..•. 595 .. 497 50 .. 495 .. 497 50 L.B..••••• ...... 382 50 .• 382 50 .. 380 .. 382 50 Rouen •• Rouen to Havre.•..••.••.•. 866 25 .. 867 50 .. 865 .. 867 50 Orleans .. ..........1132 00 .•1135 ..1130 —1135 Strasburg to 8a1e.......... 305 .. 306 25 .. 3(3 75 . 318 Avignon to;Marseilles.• •• •• 925 .. 925 .. 921 25 . 925 A NEW PowEß.—An ingenious manufacturer ad vertises, in the daily papers, for " a second-hand huff horse power condensing engine l" We believe it has been generally understood that there could be no power at all in half a horse, because the very process of splitting him in half would instantly deprive him of all power, except the power of becomin very offensive to the olf ac t ory nerves of her Majesty 's liege subjects, in a very short time afterwards. We should be much obliged to any gentleman of the Veterinary College for his opinion thereon.—Grpa Gun. THREATENED GENERAL STOPPAGE OP THE MILLS AT HEYWOOD.—The power-loom weavers, to the num ber of about 200, in the employ of Messrs. John Hilton Kay and Sons, at Heywood, who struck for an advance of wages six weeks ago, are still out. They hold meet ings almost every day at some o f the public - houses. The masters have held several meetings at the Queen Anne Inn on the subject, and have received delegates from the turn-outs in order to arrange the matter, but without effect. The result has been that, on Friday and Satur day last, many gave notice to their hands that in four teen days from that time they would close their mills. Yesterday it was rumoured tha t all the masters are in tending to stop their factories if the turn -out at Messrs. Kay's is not spedily arranged.—Manchester Guardian. SIR W. FOLLETT.—We have more than ordinary pleasure in being able to state, on the best authority, that very favourable accounts have been received of Sir William Follett's health, and that there is every hope of his immediate return to this country, and of his being sufficiently re-established to undertake the discharge of his duties in Parliament at the commencement of the session.— Western Luminary. Tli IS: D J.l. Y %-:i --~- -- . CHANCERY.-('IHIS DAY.) TOLLOCII V. HAWILEY. The hearing of this part-h( aril appeal was continued during this morning. VICE-CHANCERY.-(THIS DAY.) (Before the VICE-CHANCELLOR of ENGLAND.) His HONOUR disposed of a great number:of unopposed cause petitions and short causes, possessing no publie BAIL COURT.-(THIS DAY.) (Sittings in Banco before Mr. Justice WILLIAIIS.) IN RE TIIE MIDLAND COUNTIES RAILWAY. Mr. DevoNeoßT Ihei. moved the Court for a writ of certiorari, to bring up the inquisition on the body of William Vernells, and also for a rule to show cause why the inquisition should not be quashed. He objected to the inquest on two grounds, on those that appeared on the face of it and on those that did not. It appeared that William Vernells was killed upon the line somewhere between Nottingham and Derby, and that an inquest was afterwards held ucon the body. Sometime before another person, Mr. Dean, had also lost his life on the same railway, and in reference to the proceedings upon that occasion an article had appeared in a newspaper, which newspaper was carried to the second inquest and banded to the jury, notwithstanding the objection to such a course urged by the gentleman who attended there for the Railway Company. The neighbourhood was in a greatly excited state, the jurymen were also excited, yet when that gentleman urged upon the Coroner the impropriety of placing such an article before the jury at such a time, he declined to interfere, alleging, forsooth; that " the jurymen were in an awful tamper." Mr. Ilill then reed the article in question from the Morning Post newspaper. It imputed blame to the Company on account of defective arrangements, and said that the driver in eases of that painful kind, blamed the guard and the station-master, anybody or nobody ; and in conclusion it found fault with the jury fur not amer cing the Company in a heavy deodand. Another point, not on the face of the inquisition was, that by a late statute regulating the Coroner's Court, it was laid down that the jury should come from the county in which the inquest was held. That accident occurred in the county of Nottingham, and yet he (Mr. H.) held affidavits proving that, at least, one of the jurymen resided in the town of Nottingham, which was a town and county in itself, and, therefore, as far as the legality of the case went, he might just as well have come from Wales or Cornwall. The Learned Counsel took several technical objections to the inquisition itself, and was proceeding with his argument, when Mr. Justice WILLIAMS intimated that he might take the rule. ...... ..,. v - ( 4t i , -,-,..:.. , 1 • t I ... ..,,,,'" _ ~ . • WI. '111,..., "•' :A b .l .. `: . : ipipie.' :k4 !1,..i 0_ .3_ , ~ „, .41110 Ilk . s,l, 4747. .41...mmA .il•‘-' ...,,:,:;,wt,'.:.. ....'cl , ' . * '.: '''. 1 / I v . ' • ''" . 4 t14110:10, , ....."", .:),6 .0 SECOND EDITION. hfltnij LONDON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 30, 1845. " The new movement against the Government system of education," says the Times of this morn iti&koyiginating out of the recent declarati on o f th e IS 1; kw A ~.'e other Prelates, is rapidly extending . 4 , 11 r002t the different dioceses of Ireland. i ..:1 , 0 .—,.,-- 0 1 ' k have already pronounced, and 14 Cr r-. -'1: 4) . :,';, •:: i • anifesto of the clergy of Ardagh . ; - P. -. 41 i- • ' t ' ' - c-i • ... I -tatllip iews Sir ROBERT PEEL may en- C '' • ( Vet'lL- IfOAOl i to his promise at the close of last t itik , ' - sessin .- , ... . • subject of education, it is not likely .that thfey v.% I be carried into effect without an opposition which, perhaps, was not calculated upon at the period of their enunciation." This opposition IN RE GILBERT. Mr. JERVIS said that in this case his Lordship might recollect that the Learned Solicitor-General had applied for and obtained a rule for a habeas corpus to bring up the bodies of two children of the names of Francis and Joseph Gilbert, on the application of the mother. The children were at the time in the custody of a gentleman, named Schwenk, who had brought up the deceased father and his brother, one of the co-trustees in this case ; he having reason to believe that the moral and religious education of the children were neglected while under the mother's care, and with the full approbation of Mr. Schwenk and his wife, sent them to a most respectable school. It had been arranged, with his Lot dship's approbation, that the children should, by a fiction, be considered before the Court, and that they should remain at school accord ingly. William Gilbert, while in possession of the chil dren, made a return to the Court, in obedience to his Lordship's direction, without preducii g the bodies of the children, the return, in effect, stating that he was appointed testamentary guardian along with the widow, and that believing their education not attended to, he had, with Mr. Schwenk's approba tion, sent them to school. His Learned Friend Mr. Iloggins and himself were then prepared to show just cause why the children should still be kept at school ; but it now appeared that the mother of the children had learned where they Were, and had gone there and obtained forcible possession of them. This was no doubt a con tempt of Court, and a warrant of attachment might in cons( quence be issued, but he (Mr. Jervis) would at pre sent content himself with filing certain affidavits. EXCHEQUER.—(THIS DAY.) (Sittings in Banco.) LACEY V. BUNN. Mr. OGLE moved for a rule, calling on the plaintiff in this case to show cause why defendant should not be allowed to add special pleas to the record, in addi tion to the general issue. The declaration was on a contract between the parties, that plaintiff would at Christmas next following enter the service of defendant. as manager of Drury-lane Theatre, and would act and perform in light comedy during the remainder of the season, the defendant agreeing to retain to him for that time at a salary of nine guineas a week. In other parts of the contract plaintiff gave defendant the power of declaring it to be void, if he performed at any other house in the stipulated time, or refused, after a week's notice, to act in a piece which was not light comedy. Plaintiff having made default in some of these particulars, an application of the same nature with the present was made to Baron Rolfe at chambers, who did not :decide on it, but allowed three days, in which to obtain the opinion of the Court. The LonD CHIEF BARON—When was this condition wade ? Mr. OGLE—It was a part of the contract, my Lord. • -••- Baron PARKE—I should like to see it. Mr. OGLE—Unfortunately, my Lord, I have it not with me. It does not appear in the plea, and we do not want to compare it with the original document. But de ft•ndant is advised that it would not be safe to go to trial iith the record as it now is. Baron PARKE—There is a case in point, respecting contract and plea. Mr. OGLE—It is the case of Nash v. Burge, in the 11th Meeson and We'shy. The LORD CHIEF BAlZON—There the plea qualifies the contract recited in the declaration. _ Baron PA.RKE—The case I speak of is of much earlier date. Mr. OGLE.—Your Loraship, probably, alludes to the case of Smart v. Hyde, i i the 7th volume of the same report =. Baron PARKE—Just so. It aprears to me a sufficient warrant for your application. Baron ALDERSON—What p'eas do you want to add ? Mr. OGLE—It was part of the contract, that the de fendant could oblige plaintiff to play in a piece which was not light comedy, after a certain notice. Notice NI ai accordingly . given him to appear in the character of Ferdinand, in the Tempest, which he refused to do. Baron ALDERSON—The principal issue then appears to be, whether the Tempest be or be not a light comedy. Mr. OGLE—No doubt, my Lord, that question is suf ficiently prolific to give rise to an argument, if necessary, as abstruse as any in law. The question is, whether it was any part of plaintiff's duty to appear in the chst• racter of Ferdinand after the regular notice, and whether the contract had not been rendered void by his net hay ing done so. There are, however, other points with which I will not now trouble the Court. Baron PARE—Do you then mean to say, Mr. Ogle, that in the same document there are two conditions— first, that plaintiff shall play in light comedy when called upon to do so, and in other f•pacies of dramatic representation after a certain notice ? Mr. OGLE—Yes, my Lord; he en.;aged to play in light comedy on demand, and in other pieces at seven days after date.—(Laughter.) Baron PARXE—I should like to know if these two conditions are really in the contract ? Mr. OGLE replied that as his time of pleading expired to•day, there would not be sufficient time. It was ultimately arranged that the rule should be drawn up, not absolute, and that plaintiff should to-mor row show cause at chambers, the time of pleading being in the meantime extended for three days. MIDDLESEX SESSIONS (TlllB DAY.) (Before the ASSISTANT-JUDGE ) John Edwards, a boy, whose head scarcely reached up to the top of the bar, was indicted for stealing ss. and a handkerchief, the property of Mary Ann Brown. It appeared by the evidence of the prosecutrix, that the prisoner, accompanied by a man who appeared to be his director, followed her along Barbican and into Worship-street, when, feeling a tug at her pocket, she turned round, and saw the prisoner with the handker chief in his hand, which he immediately dropped upon the ground. His companion made his escape, but some of the bystanders detained the prisoner, and handed him over to a policeman. In his defence the prisoner said that the lady had dropped the articles which he was charged with stealing. The jury returned a verdict of Guilty. The officer of the Court handed up to the Assistant- Judge no less than four previous convictions against the prisoner, whom the goalers described as an incorrigible young thief. The Learned ASSISTANT-JUDGE sentenced him to seven years' transportation, intimating at the same time that on account of his extreme youth he would be sent to Parkhurst Penitentiary. Mary Walsh, a girl about thirteen 'years of age, was indicted for stealing a coat, of the value of Bs., the pro perty of John Summers, her master. It appeared by the evidence that the prosecutor had taken the prisoner into his employment at a time when she was in the greatest destitution, having been deserted by both her parents. In less than a week after being taken into his employment, she committed the robbery for which she was indicted. _ _ The jury at once returned a verdict of Guilty, and the Court sentenced her to three months' imprisonment, the last fortnight to be solitary. BOW-STREET.—(THIS DAY.) AFFAIR OF " HoNoun."—A young man of gentle manly appearance, who gave his name as John Haig, and stated that he was a farmer from the county of Meath, in Ireland, was placed at the bar before Mr. Twy ford, charged with assaulting Mr. Ivimy, the soli. citor of Chancery-lane. The complainant stated that the defendant this morn ing came into his office, and, on being introduced to him, said that he called on the part of Major Cartwright, to require that complainant should retract certain expressions which he had used in reference to the major's conduct. Complainant asked the defendant if he knew the circumstances of the case between him and Major Cartwright? To which Mr. Haig replied, that the circumstance were of no consequence whatever, as he only wanted an apology. Mr. Ivimy answered that he would retract nothing until he was convinced that what he had said was untrue ; upon which the defendant told him to name a third person. This, he refused, and defendant called 0 0 him ac • Complains:A being naturally' ireo struci;. "ward. him, when the defendant struck hoin S r i,:ht ' s blows upon the head with One of Maj , a' 6 , art d , "' bid patent whalebone w alking-canes, ii hien c auso. -- e 1 to flow. I „nv The cane was produced, and .in. IvioY e ; % P "j o ss manner, e whalebone was prepared a very IT:e r so as to foi :n not O nly very hantbonie lc- a id ok riding cants, b ut i n fuct Yell I.(lU er, / 1 N N Y . eapons, Vk hen used as that one was by the pris°,oll', y Major Cartwright was procured by the coniPlaill!"„ati one of his clients, on account of which be bad ts ° i n h e e cessary to speak of the Major in the t er°s l:iwi l s required to retract. Two 0112 r ' i n to clerk v‘ s a interposed, and the prisoner was b." 11 1 custody of the r aid th st .1 . Mr. TWYFORD, on examinino, the cane, 5- . o sts ib invention was very ingenious, and one migh t. l ' irn be O s the inventor success, cause_ of complaint on the part of Mr. Ivinl* sa ge of of, Complainant—l wish him success for the 11 .,11'01" even though there 'nigh' client, but not in applying his invention in 1 0 ' gentlemen's heads. The defendant said that he did not call a r il oss , !t he co w w a a s r a d , coward. but only a go ne is The. 111 i • , GISTRATE said that was much oie . He would not say judicially that any other 1C,141"6, 00 as well as Mr. Ivitny, would have instantly' ‘s l o titi c ifS e " . , , , person who gave him such an insult in 1 0 $ " i c i be"' L ~, i but he thought it very natural that such stiu; tee e. case. Ile would not decide summarily basil to 5 the si h o arge, but would hold the prisoner to bail to .sd _ e oll , wit n h s, n h o i t m ice se s lf ot in hat 2 . o l. ol., and two sureties of lu v " I pet , to T nd h o e n d , e b f u en t d s a i n r t F s e a l i . l ho knew no responsible ~..t 1,. v iz Booth. Mr. TWYFORD expressed his willingnes3 to IPe gentleman's bail. tt . 1 01 d to A warrant was subsequently grants P4r. , a Id i n i I against Major Cartwright. William Dunn was carged before liir' 7o - a u ; stealing a penknife and vencil-case tbe roll Samuel Ward, a shopkeeper,' ---, ' Lowteer PO at No. 18, A boy who serves in the prosecutor's shop i' tst ' (IA he th _ was standing in the arcade, by his 0 - 4 01 10 er: s 0 been morning, at eleven o'clock, when it I/ A u/601 0 TO n ta tu e r n cl a iasing some articles of him, 557,,.-it,aptiool had . penknife away without paying '""a ove l d pointed out the prisoner. He pursued i' ll m ril jo i him, and mentioned what the lady bad ss ,r;sia h e 60 produced a penknife and pencil case, snuir.",iie.,-0 just bought them,' and paid for the m ' to -- „ 1 ts' i. to tb- o b . b i gave him in charge. On being t aken house several articles were found upon bin), 11 :,,, 0 40 1 ness identified as Mr. Ward's pre erti. t. 11 have been purchased and paid lor,P but tu eo ' andrhpeeilikadnyifewhhaedgnaovte. information - ts 4 ills orr)b c ' rj j the c ov °ll above evidence. s st e/ . 1 2 e r :, The prisoner, who described himself 0 he ad 7 board an American steam-vts:-.el, said di st bite; t° tY chased the whole of the articles found 0 0 '',l4 ..„ 01 g it value of 75., from Mr. Ward. He hi ° f r ibis v e, l7. pencil-case which was found upon hin3, btisetii,A w to a o s k not a good one, and wishing to take be t hsg A eta up another and examined it. Vi nu te I lk for wer the penknife. ike ' he laid it down and ;tent QII.O03•"- het mil v . Mr. aux had no other course but to c trial. DAY') ~, e d 0 LAMBETH.—(THIS , j pf" f ilig A gentleman residing at Camberwell-Ikt'; iiste:101111 Mr. Ht nry for his assistance to recover P, 10 00 0 ,,,, eloped with a person last night. The galenall' tal l ior fellow wore most luxuriant curls, a P ls o {( 01 1 large steel military spurs to his boots, e Os, accompanied with a bloodhound and hug,„o4.6cor g ri e ti n in er g al w ly bi c p a , r s r o ie a d s in to his hand a hant ls°ll3e -P °cl7l " pearance, while in realitygiv hheimwtahsearti:elYfrfiairvilf.:ols lim applicant stated that his sister left.l:ooKsoesgpii sidence yesterday evening, he believed ln n abli‘fri 4 this person, as they seen corning out of Vab l s io a, o l together in the neighbourhood. ge "but II P 10 0 4 1 been in search of his sister all nigh t, „- seee,,,, e As traces of her. This person bad he e " b )e nr ti v about the house fur a considiereco- o p a to 0 and he had no doubt but be ha(' s t , rass e- bos 4 o l , seduction of his sister. He had ev er '. 0 01 f . 0 1 , lieve that he knew his name, and it ..... - f, a* , 10 4 months ago that he had seduced the / 4 ~ J residing in Lambeth. , age of t he Mr. HENRY asked the applicant tu e jwas of 11 lady, and whether he was aware that, riber e l a ° So l d' the house with her own consent, an ti [ si',.at."o l alive ?—The gentleman replied the' " t ootb e A Oplig years of age ; she was residing with Ur al , 0 1070ef berwell-green, who was the widow °` - 0 0 0 0 army, but it was impossible for hint te ll ~Atf_.: eloped with her own consent or not. a nt, e v- , 1 ,, orf Mr. HENRY regretted that for th e P r9.- cler w- fr circumstances, he was afraid he could 1.613 or -4 'of cant no assistance. beel a he , The applicant wished to know that 0 into 01 his sister, could he not give the tor s° bs l° Y PO i* the abduction. t off ° jo, Mr. HENRY said that if the lady' we ll , c ola o fb ,fe consent he could not ; but the appliee ll y_ writ fad e " could apply to a Judge at Chambers for ' l ii i, t ..„ and if the ►gentleman obtained a clue t ° ol IP ' id treat, he might renew his application+ fof, would afford him every assistance. a i l trs te o ll ~, P The gentleman then thanked the imag ist ses k lel' courtesy, and said he would renew t s / 1 40 3 A which the applicant, accompaniedbY h l . VOA"' office. . of eorai b Mr. Inspector Topp, of the L divist°flom dl allot ye that he had a gentleman in his ce sl i n a a §s it 4 being drunk, but unfortunately he " 9 ,, i - orltnisfor and had been removed to the Lambeth 00 9t, p g 10 he was now lying speechless, a nd le i ti t h b e b i o r, state. On the sheet he was c hargeu " h ip% d oe f o j g; but he thought it was a fit. On se ar f,os, s / 4 islet they found a gold watch, six soore'lttev,loo4 case, and also a card, on which was Vi , r e et t ne l tr happens, "take me to 14, Chlytee'sjbe VV. A t? , i The gentleman's name turned out to at ife: o t a although he was a person of virl g, r ; r //:- , c ol r residing in a small back room. Ei s s i . the l iv n ur f attending him in the work' owe,. a° ' vf o talc lire; stated that he was Lo' axieo:ed to ''' &h . i t day. _„ aie, 0 0 Mr. HENRY said, should the g'el ti ellili crife Cteu t m o u b s e t m hold ar k a e n d inquest . wig's rate 4,kfe') rrillS )l.o" 4 CLERKEN WELL. ( - - A ifi' 111 . N0 r.,* an. A lad named Williams, wa3Clia r r Aar" ing daring act of shoplift'ng :-"'„ „ Ett lltet l i, "- oet g i ) This morning the prisoner eo0 11 3: ilare'V:s of Mr. Edwards, a tobacconist, , 11 : 0% of e t eall' i Burton-crescent, took up a larg e % d o see 49 1/. 45., and walk( d off with it. Ii - asPror, —Committed for trial. W ed of t l ' be tO Daniel Cooper, a cabman, Was e ll 0 b) The fellow was the ringleader of 0 00 :t Pe ci Vter f ir vagabonds in Islington, at the 1310eitcols 1 je e t t oorto o'clock last night their t houts tal e 610 4 , 6 1 1 14/ whole neighbourhood. Police•conte ir ...-' 7 , The prisoner swore he would split llifiber I si t i o ast A t and carve him ; he made use ao t a go , ~ ow shockingly blasphemous character,.a.,°a for P 1,1 —ln default of fine, lieN 3l°..llltl' i 4 (ii tis :,e; LLOYD'S sHippiNG.-- - odor —l"----- • E. , o u i6 r LONDON, JAN. 30.—Wind S. t°l o f 0 ° 4 .,e: and cloudy. There was a slight f _4,rllo* nied with frost, last night. N a N' W to WI ° Pi . / DEAL, JAN. 29._W end —.- • .; pottif lid go , breeae.—Arrd. Ann, Ichaboe ; ne l ' i l l' l'l e l f ort i/ e Ayres ; Northumberland, Griswilobart a tig ia, o fO ili Ranger, South Seas ; Rebecca, tto ; Vcar s ji tins, China ; Brechin Castle, CeLe ll no leoet se at ,V Rambler and Eclipse, Muritus; 14 S lfriell ;AO ' Hope ; Layton, West Coast of -'" Cas': s , lie Valparaiso ; Ruckas. St. Vincent's ;31,0,0001.i:a ja London and Nautilus steam pae i lly.i l a .; of ho l g o o F . , DOVER, JAN. 29.—P.M. in" 'doer I°- rp, ;4 pr Fanny, Amy Demerara, for IP ° An tW e h oi i chors, &c.; Amy, Liverpool, for A nt e, 10 % bowsprit broken, and with other (it; fo olP" :f f• e / contact with a large barque e arl,' t" 0 0 " Ili gene. 0 ettyrsil& SQgenes. OFF HEACHY HEAD, JAN. -4.s,'''„iir $ , 16 F ALMO UTH, JAN. 29.--Wifj Avres , 0 0 Off, Edward, Schmidt, Buenos 1 o f a isi..., l o, and proceeded for Antwerp. a a o rge teSiirt 4 l BRIXHAM, JAN. 28:The herePel l- thi he " t itl/ to St. Ives, was brought io r oeit "- to r O viic / leaky, having struck on a sunkenvado! ; 01 Dartmouth. The Nancy, fro ° or h ei9 I R has been brought in here, the er e tre ° , i yilY mutiny. —1 Iris, ..afrifr JERSEY, JAN. 26.--• Ar r .• - N , ,0 a, land. Sid. Wm. Pitt, Rio Gral i N ci o c o . oior e ,; o os y SWANSEA, JAN. 28.--.Arrd,a. sfire,si, 0 1 0 , MILFORD, JAN. 28.—Wi nd '''' rd ers l* es si it's ft o l Arrd. Isabella, Livepool, for p k e o f oilt si Os .. . Is FALMOUTH, JAN. 29.--A C 36 t he 10 ril and burnt much, and m arked 0 ° Ai l adli been picked up off the Lizardiorge e" CARDIGAN, JAN. 25.--- , A ' l l7e -1) , O r Eybur, six miles from this -0 w., stronfolato,, .ii, Coax, JAN. 27.—W r io d P r ; ode ; Ott or Leicester, Bullard, Rio u' r o f f o ree l va oo.,: e , with los s Artie' fi r 144 Crosbie, Porto Rico, ri s tle, 0, Halifax. Off, Chartley LI B roth sr ,el 9 LEITH, JAN. 28.—Ar ru * „ Si ll° It tg is An n, Ac. i New Brunswick. Mari 0, oe 1 CLYDE, JA N . 25.....-SW. w ar of vi od vent, Bombay; Mary E1i,!7 6 9 00,0 OteslosrApe James Ewing steamer, with „ la test o re a -, A s Diamond, wrecked at -------•hoonar Ape/F.OO Vitt AYR, JAN. 28.—The s e the i 'oill,. / 0 00 h er ol l Dundee, from Waterford to ocau a OP of tag during a heavy gale at GirYt7e. Thircap, ictirj, mains, filling with everi. din g at ° frig ° 060 Luke, of Waterford, is riherts'A 01, 0 04 no- t er" 0 sails gone. aribio e s yes fro dreg ORAN, JAN. 27.—The •elif is D. uar yos . 0 4 to Leith, went ashore in rrie l " 0 r °l O sr l s HULL, JAW. 29.—T he °gi n SP - y Til e re rs tt of and for this port, ashore o aitio n, i4 0 00 o de e ing her cargo in g?°el o f Glesg ° 5.51,t0° 41 1; , ,, , Dunkirk, and the Lion, ,ff • °y. .40 4 iis' place, must also dischargewioct I 1• y e . . f i lt eo % LIVERPOOL, JAN. 2 9 ;, v e ree.,F l l o o ' e“, S '‘ e „ $ —Arrd. Sandbach, 13e111.,5.Z0h, Jf.,,. Joel' O i Domingo • Lancashire " ,- 4 , r at, 5 0 10 0 son, St. Marks ; CallioPe±:o,4oo ' , .tef o f i wick. Off, Goodvvin, Ne w o f ir l , s o t fos c unib er tio 1 0 0 ----- _Tile 0 , in stit i r ed BRITISH MUSEUM. *on o „, public rooms of this ne' ~ t o CO"" 542,937, being an increes,`„'7. ceding year (1843), Of 25'47 - , 0 1