The Sun. — London, England, 1844-01-04 00:00:00

Elt Al I.ON De.)•:-131(11)(ili: TWiS DAY. s'l aitec 0. j 16 minutes after 1 13, Great Marlborough-street. THE LATE PRINCE TALLE YRAND. The First of a Series of Papers, consisting of ANEC DOTES of, and CONVERSATIONS with, the CELE BRATED PRINCE TALLEY RAND, at his favourite resi dence, Vallencay, is contained (among numerous interesting articles) in the First Number for the new year of COL BURN'S NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE. Orders received by all Booksellers. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. :Now ready, at all the Libraries, in 3 vols., rp HE BROTHER S. By the Author of " OLIVER CRO3I WELL," " MARIIIADUKE WYVIL," &c. " This tale i; written in the form of an autobiography, and possesses consevent I y a freedom, a vigour, and a reality which can rarely be imparted to a narrative in the third per son. 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ONCLUSIVE EVIDENCE.—If the direct ‘.../ written testimony in favour of the purity and perfection of BETTS'S PATE:CIT 'MANDY, given, after analysis, by three of the most eminent Chemi.ts of the day, needed any con firma2ion, it will be found in the fact, that it is employed, in preference to Foreign Bri - intly, under high medical direction, in many of the principal Hospitals, lofi maries, and other Public Institutions in the Kingdom ; among which it may suffice to name Guy's, St. George's, and the Westminster Hospitals in the Metropolis; and the Manchester, Bristol, and Brighton la tiimaries. Distillery, N. 7, Smithfield Bats, leading to St. John-street. Price, pale or coloured, in quantities not less than Two Gallons, Eighteen Shilling 3 per Gallon. ()DILE .NExT DisTßitititioN of MONEY it DIVIDEND& AUT,',ORISED and GUARANTEED i_..; illS MAJESTY the E \IPEROR t.f AUSTRIA, contains N.I(t7.=EY DIVIDENDS 4 £5O 1-2tia £7O £BO £9O $:100 £llO £l2O £l5O £2OO £4OO £6OO £BOO I.:1,000 £1,500 £5,000 and £•13,000 sterling. Amounting together to £70,170 sterling. Direa for PROSPECTUS with full particulars, WITH OUT DELAY, to HEINE BROTHERS, at HAMBURGH, Cr.to HEINE BROTHERS, at LUBECK. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. THIS EVENING, JANUARY 4, NVII be repeated a New Grand Opera, in Three Acts, called FRE BOHEMIAN GIRL. Count Arnheim, Mr. Borrani ; Thaddeus, Mr. W. Harrison; Arline, Mss RaMforth; Queen of the Gipsies, Miss Betts. After which, will be repeated a New Grand Comic Christmas Pantoinimo, entitled HARLEQUIN AND KING PEPIN ; or- V LENTV:E AND ORSON. Harlequin, Mr. Howell; Colum, bine, Mit. (.7aison; Clown, Mr. I'. Ridgway; Pantaloon, Mr. 13latichard. Dress Boxes 75., Second Price Is. ttd. ; Upper Circles of Boxes 55., and Price Fs. ; Pit 3s Second nice 2s. ; Middle Gallery 25., ceond Price Is.; Upper Gallery Is., Second Price 6d. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN. M. JULLIEN'S CONCERTS. FROGRAMME FOR THIS EVENING. PART I. Overture. Euryanthe—Web r. Opera Stars, in which will be introduced the most popular Opera Dances—Jullien. Solo, Violoncello,'Mr. Hancock. Surprise Symphony, The Andante, Minuet, and Finale—Haydn. Valle, La Va se a Dcux lemps—Jullien. Solo, Violin, Master Thirlwall. The English Quadrille--Jullien. PART 11. Opera, Don Juan, Grand Fantasia, with Solos—Mozart. Burletta Quadrille, entitlei Dancing for the Solo, Bas,oon, M. Paumann. Galop, from Gustavus the Third—Au'er. Doors Open at Half-past Seven. commence at Eight o'Clock. Promenade, 18 , , Upper Boxes, Is.; Dress Circle, 2s. ; Private Boxes, 11. I. Tickets to be obtained at the Box-office of the Theatre; of Mr. Mitchell, t:ld Bond-street; Mr. Andrews, New loud-street; Mr. Sams, St. James's-street; and M. Jullien's Office, 3, Maddox street, Bond-street. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. MR. BENJAMIN WEBSTER, LESSEE. THIS EVENING, JANUARY 4, Will be performed Murphy's Comedy of KNOW YOUR OWN MINI). I)ashwood, Mr. C. Mathews; Lady Bull, Madame Vestris. After which, the Unparall:led Perlerm inces of Professor RISLEY and his lON. To conclude with a New Fairy Extravaganza, entitled THE FAIR ONE WITH THE GOLDEN LOCI:'! King Lachrymoso, Mr. J. Bland; Prince Grateful, Miss P. Horton ; Queen Lucidora, Miss Julia Bennett. - THEATRE ROYAL, AI)ELPHI. 'lb., Best Pantomime of the Season—Gorgeous Scenery. THIS EVENING, JANUARY 4, The New Drama, embracing Extraordinary Effects, Powerful Cast, and Novel Scenic Display, called THE BOHEMIANS; or, Tl4e Rogues et Paris. Principal Characters by Messrs. Lyon, 0. Smith, Wright, Wieland, Maynaid, Mrs. Yates, Miss E. St.iney, Mrs. F. Matthews. After which, a New Grand Christmas Pantomime, called HAIL LEQUIN BLUE BEARD; or, The Fairy of the Silver Crescent. Produced with Enormous S.,lendour and Wonderful Effects' Columbine, Miss dollen ; Harlequin Quicksilver, by the inimitable Wieland ; Clown, by the Grimaldi of the day, Mr. T. Matthews, from the Theatres Royal, Covent-garden and Drury.lane; Panta. loon, Mr. Johnstone. Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 25.; Gallery, Is. ; Second price at Nine. Doors cren at Six, commences at a Quarter before Seven o'Clock. PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD.STREET. LESSEE, Mr. J. M. MADDOX. THIS EVENING, JANUARY 4, Will be performed LUCREZIA BORGIA. Don Alphonso, Mr. Burdini ; Gennarro, Mr. Allen ; Matlio Orsini, Mrs. H. P. Grattan; Gubetta, Mr. Walton ; Lucrezia Borgia, Madame Eugenia Garcia. After which, a Farce, in which Mr. and Mrs. Keeley will perform. To conclude with a New Musical Burlesque spectacle, entitled THE MAGIC MIRROR. Sing. Song, Mrs. H. P. (Rattan; Poo. Poo, Mr. Paul Bedford ; Sloe. Leaf, Miss R. Isaacs. DA V IDGE'S ROYAL SC It REY THEATRE. As usual, the funniest and most successful Pantomime. THIS EVENING, JANUARY 4, Will be repeated THE BOHEMIANS OF PARIS. Supported by Messrs. Saville, Hughes, Hicks R. Fonner, Johnson, Smith, Mrs. H. Vining, and all the Me:chers Hicks, 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 AEI 0 U. Harlequin, Mr. W. H. Harvey ; Grotesque, Mr. Stilt; Ciown, Mr. Fuller • Pants.. loon, Mr. flawhins ; Columbines (alternately) Miss M. Fair. brother and Miss Sharpe. Places and Private Boxes to be had of Mr. Kerschner, at the Box. office, from Eleven to Four. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE OF ARTS. Under ih;Maiilngeroent of Mr. Batty, Proprietor. Triumphant Success of the Splendid Christma, Holiday Fetes.—West minster-Bridge is now open. THIS EV ENINki, JANUARY 4, - - - - Will be performed the splendid , French Spectacle of THE VIC. 'FURIES OF MURAT, TtiE SOLDIER OF FRANCE; or, The General Prince, and King. New Scenes in the Circle, and unequalled Feats of Horsemanship. To conclude with a Grand Comic Pantomime, entitled HARLE QUIN TAM O'SHANTER, and- his STEED MEG; or, The Witches of Alloway Kirk. Harlequin, Mr. Gibson ; Columbine, Mdlle. Cushnie; Clown. Mr. King; Pantaloon, Mr. Mathews. Acting and Stage Manager, Mr. W. D. liroadfoot. Stalls. 55.; Boxes, 45.; Upper Boxes, ; l'it, '2s. ; Gallery, Is.; Upper Gallery, Box.otlice open daily from "I en till Vour. Stage Boxes, One Guinea ; Half-price to Ditto, Halt-a.. Guinea. Private Boxes, Two Guineas; Hall-price to Ditto, One tioinoa. Half-price, Half-past Eight, ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. THIS EVENINO, JANUARY 4, Will be performed THE CROSS ROADS OF LIFE ; or, The Scamps of London. Devereux, Mr. Freer ; Frank Danvers, Mr. Nants ; Louisa, Miss Vincent. After which, HARLEQUIN LINC:a.N LUCKY OF LAM. BETH; or, The Three Sisters of Witch willow Dell. Harlequin, Mr. Chapin(); Clown, Mr. Scarbrow ; Pantaloon, Mr. Morelli; Culumbine, Mies M. Schmidt To conclude with TFF: LAST WITNESS. 11 - 1 ?..; 11 , EATIIER -SUN OFFICE, JAN. 3. TiIE‘MOMETER, LowPSt, 20 ; Highest, 34 ; Noon, 31 BARONY:TER, 30.—WIND, N.W. NOTE.—The nu,nber 32 on the Thermometer denotes the freezing point, and 55 temp. , rate. In Barometers fair is usually placed op[)Oiite 30, and rain at 29. `$ 'N { ~~_~ ,~. -.~ A ajfel‘t. It& ' - " ;•• 01,4 R 0 4 E SUN, LOND'ON, THURSDAY MORNING, JANUARY 4, 1844 LONDON:, THURSDAY MORNING, JANUARY 4, 1844. In another part of the paper will be found intelli gence from Madrid, dated Dec 27, of great import ance. On that day the QUEEN dissolved the Cortes, following the advice tendered to her by her fugitive Minister OLOZAGA, for which he was threatened with impeachment, and barely escaped assassination. ICARVAEZ will thus have two months more of des potic rule, and by that time Queen CEIRISTINA and he will throw aside the Constitution as an old almanack. The change which has taken place in the public with regard to the principles of trade, within the last two years, forms a remarkable phenomenon in the history of the country. Every day we receive reports of meetings held in large towns and small towns—even in county market towns, frequented only by farmers, and in cathedral towns, under al most the undivided influence of the Church, assem bled solely for the purpose of discussing the taxes on bread, sugar, awl the other principal ncces tiaries of These meetings arc not held in the open air ; they are not got lip to catch the multitude; they are . unattended Fy any appearance of viulenee ;, they are not tlia monster assemblies that distinguished the Reform era ; or that during the last year have caused such alarm in England and Ire?and on the Repeal question. They are the meetings of men, it is tyne, bent on a purpose, and a great purpose but the speeches are not- mixed ; up with any threats, or with any furious abuse, either of landlords, tenants,. or monopolists of any descrip tion. All is left to tha calm voice of reason and the power of argument ; and L ever was a peaceable and rational agitation so triumphantly victorious. Some twelve months ago every tree trade meeting was in fested by a body of Chartists, who, in despair of ob taining their rights, thwarted every attempt to obtain 11 , 4rtial relief; counter resolutions were moved, and not unfrequently carried, or, if they failed 113 their purpose, a serious uproar was the consequence. Chartists now attend these assemblages like other people, and, as a testimony of their sincere repent ance, subscribe their mites to the great League fund. In another part of the paper will be found a report of a meeting held on Tuesday evening at Oldham, one of the most radical boroughs in the kingdom, when all the lower classes joined heartily in the cause, and every man gave according to his means. Pounds, and crowns, and half-crowns, and even shillings, were poured in from all quarters, and by eleven o'clock a very handsome sum was placed in the hands of the Treasurer. 'Manchester has raised 20,0001. Liverpool 6,0001., and almost every town has followed in the wake. But, what is most remarkable of all, there is an utter apathy on the part of those opposed to the League. Even in Essex, the county above all others likely to raise a loud noi.e against COBDEN and BRIGMT, the attempt to form a counter league has been an utter failure, and every other county has wisely eschewed the example. The clergy are silent the farmers almost to a man support the reform of the corn-laws; and even the Duke of RICHMOND, the most rational, yet most determined anti-corn-law man i❑ the country, in place of getting up meetings to sup port his party, and making strong speeches against the men given to change, confines his labours to the praiseworthy task of writing articles on agricultural improvement for a Farmers' Journal. This happy result is honourable to the English character. The English are obstinate in their purposes ; they are often headstrong, and unwilling to give up their opinions; but when reasoned with as rational beings, when all the facts of the case are laid before them, and they are left to judge, their verdict is seldom wrong. That is the course which Mr. COBDEN has pursued. Ile has appealed to their reason and their judgment— he has shown that he has no more interest in the ques tion than any other member of the community—and they have almost unanimously decided in his favour- We regard the question as settled. The strong Go vernment, even with all the corn-law Lords and Commoners at its back, is too weak to strive with the voice of the nation. The letter, a copy of which we published yester day, from Messrs. P. DE LIZARDS and Co., agents for the State of Mexico, to G. R. Ronisisos, Esq., Chairman of the Committee of Spanish-American Bondholders, is an instructive curiosity in its way. 'To those who have not had the misfortune—or com mitted the folly—of confiding in the " promises to pay " of these experimental Republics, it would even be amusing, but for the sympathy created on behalf of the ill-used creditors, by the high personal and commercial character of the Chairman, and very many of their general body. Upon ourselves it may be supposed to come as no matter of surprise, after the terms in which we expressed ourselves some months ago, on the conduct of the Mexican Government, and the correspondence of the same parties or their agents. But seeing that the communication from the Committee to which Messrs. DE LIZARDS'S answer, dated the 30th of December last, is now lying before us, com prised simply a protest against the agents retaining a certain remanet of 11,3301., out of the money (al ready short-remitted), confided to them for the liqui dation of the dividends, on the plea - that so much and more being due to them from the Government for which they acted, on account of commission, they had, therefore, appropriated it for their own account ; whereas, by the very special agreement subscribed to by the-Mexican Government in September, 1837, its said agents were authorised and required to appro priate said remittances to the payment of the dividends on its bonds, exclusively ; we must own that DE LIZARDS and Co. have rather overrated the ingenuity 'sand legality of their plea for prior payment, and rather underrated the proximity of that point of en durance at which even the long sustaining forbearance of a British capitalist will bear the intense strain of Trans-Atlantic assurance and dishonesty. The Committee, however, desired on the 28th of December to be categorically answered upon this series of questions :—" 1. Did the Messrs. LIZARDS intend to restore the sum so withheld to the dividend account ? 2. What remittances had come to Messrs. LIZARDS and Co.'s hands from their Government since the payment of the dividend on the October coupon ? 3. Were Messrs. LIZARDS and Co. pre pared to complete the payment of the coupon at once l" In similar dealings between any parties in this country (always excepting Mr. Alderman GIBBS and the benighted parishioners of St. Stephen, Wal brook, in the City of London) nothing in the world would have been so easy as for the authorised agent of the one to obtain distinct responses, affirmative or negative, from the authorised agent of the other. Mr. Alderman GlBBS—who will forgive us for alluding to him again,—might indeed have answered to any other body, as he does to rate-payers, " Wait till you can enforce your right to make me answer. If you can't do that, I think I might establish a bad precedent by volunteering information on such frivolous questions as, what has become of your money ?" But the Alderman is a phoenix. There is but one to be found, and but one, who will thus publicly sacrifice himself, in a whole century. We are very sure that there is but one description of financial agents who would meet Mr. ROBINSON'S three plain demands with such evasive Gibb-erish (v,e cannot get out of Wal brook) as this : Sir,—We have received your letter of the 28th inst., and are unable to reply to the ques tions therein contained—until we receive further in formation from Mexico ; especially as regards the distribution of the funds in hand," &c. &c. How very singular. They have received 11,3301. among other moneys remitted to them for payment of divi dends some months ago. They withheld it at the time, from the parties justly entitled to it, namely, the Mexican Bondholders, on the pretence—(an intelligible pretence at least, on the same principle that to appropriate any money, in transitu, to one's own purposes, instead of the pur poses of him to whom it is specially remitted, may be dishonest, but is still " a great fact")—on the pre tence that they had taken it in order to pay them selves a like amount due to them from—whom ? The English Spanish-American Bondholders? Not a bit of it. From the Mexican Government who had forwarded it, not to satisfy their claims, but the claims of the English holders of their stock. Messrs. LIZARDS have continued ever since in the same mind. They still withhold the money. Nay, by their own showing, it is gone—paid--absorbed by their own demand. And now, forsooth, they gravely tell Mr. ROBINSON, that to all his three questions, including the first, relative to their own determination as to restoring or not the abstracted 11,330/. to the divi dend account, they must defer their answers till they have been further instructed from Mexico! The ancient Governments of the Toltzeck and Azteck Princes of that fine country may have been as arbitrary and cruel as historians have represented them to be ; but we greatly doubt whether they ever asserted so tyrannous, so monstrous a pretension as this which Messrs. DE LIZARDS and Co. would in timate is exercised by their successors in the govern ment of the modern Republic. For, according to those agents, they are actually compelled to appeal to Mexico for further instructions as to whether or not they have made up their own minds to an act already committed and avowed in October last, and never since recalled I The business part of the matter remains. The Committee of Bondholders must memorialise the British Government—and if their efforts fail with the Minister, then renew them, forthwith, with the Parlia ment—to insist upon the Mexican authorities making instant satisfaction for conduct which, whether the fault be with them or their employes., has every ap pearance of impudent fraud. English credulity has paid a penalty sufficiently severe in the loss of scores 4)f millions of money by foreign debtors within the last 25 years. England's own honour would be com promised by further acquiescence in such barefaced trickery, attempted to be excused on such flimsy grounds. The Paris papers of Sunday, from which we gave brief extracts yesterday, contain some articles which are not without interest. The few broken sentences uttered by M. LAFITTE, have given great offence to the Ministerial party, and roused not a little the hopes of the Republicaus. Not one half of it, however, was heard, the interruption was so great. The scene, says the National, (lid not last long, but had a marked character of excitement and rage. N. LAFITTE had the honour of raising the storm, and the gratitude of the country! is glue to the man who told the Minister, and others some severe truths. It became his tried probity and patriotism to express feelings of sorrow and serious alarm which the situation of affairs pre sents to all those attached to the principles of the Revolution. The same journal, after adverting to the seizure of so many Legitimist papers, turns to the levees of the Duke of BORDEAUX, in Belgrave-square, and thus attacks M. GUIZOT and his friends : The Ministers intended to have made some allusion, in the speech from the Throne, to the pilgrimage of the Noble Legi timists to BelgraVe-square. But they did not dare to do so. They knew full well that the Deputies who advocate the cause of the Duc de Bordeaux would throw some harsh truths in their teeth if they had made the King accuse them (the Legi timists) of joining the ranks of a Pretender. What could M. Guizot have said if M. Berryer and his friends on being taunted from the Throne, had replied :—" We went to London to pay our respects to the Due de Bordeaux, and in so doing we followed the example which was set by the principal member of the Cabinet in 1815. He did not think that the Government of that day could be consolidated, and therefore (he told us so himself from the tribune) he repaired to Ghent to do homage at the feet of him whom the whole of Europe was preparing to restore to France. In this we have scrupulously followed M. Guizot's example. If, ,therefore, you condemn us, con temn him also, and out of your own momhs speak your own condemnation." Such a defence as this, supported by the transcendent talent of M. Berryer, would place the Ministry in an awkward position. They have, therefore, adopted a less perilous and more certain method of wreaking their petty vengeance, and have determined to pour out the vials of their ill-humour upon the newspapers. The day before yesterday the Nation was sei zed. Yesterday the Quotidienne, and now they pounce upon La France, and se on. Thus it appears that a jury, and not the Chambers, will have to settle the quarrel between the elder and the younger branches of the fleurboas. But the combat will not be the less interesting on that account There isnot a single noble family of any eminence in France which has not sent its representative to Belgrave-square—or which has not at least in its circle some adherents of legitimacy—they are even to be found on the steps of the throne, and if the old King can pierce into futurity and look beyond the tomb, he may fancy a General Monk in the foreground of his vision. His is a sad situation, but we foresaw and foretold it, long since, to those who now govern the country. The Journal des Debats has a good article on the long-winded message of the American President, and makes some hard hits both at TYLER and the bank rupt States. "To repudiation," says that journal, the President does not even refer. The boasting preamble by which the message opens would even forbid the suspicion that this document emanates from the head of a nation reduced to the humiliating condition of a bankrupt. Under such circumstances the language of a WasuINGToN or a MADDISON would have been quite different. With that authority which they possessed they would have solemnly recalled their fellow-citizens to the path of duty and honour. The message in fact has nothing to recommend it, neither elevated views, generous sen timents, nor even a vulgar knowledge or business. It is even devoid of that spirit of candour and inde pendence which one would naturally expect. Presi dent TYLER in writing it had evidently but one view, which was to captivate the favour of the multitude, by flattering their vanity, by humouring their prejudices, and by abstaining from addressing, even with the utmost reserve, some advice relative to the dishonour able conduct of some of the States, in which they ob stinately persevere. This is not the language of a supreme magistrate, but that of a hunter after popula rity. A power which speaks such language abdicates of itself ; and never, perhaps, had North America such need of a strong and independent Government." A new Legitimist paper is announced, to be called the Christian France, and the Government, it is said, are ready to pounce upon it the moment it appears. The next number of the Mode is doomed to the same fate. The Paris Papers of Monday have since been re ceived, with intelligence from Madrid to the 26th, but they possess little interest. New Year's Day is ob served in Paris as a general day of rejoicing and amusement, and little or no business is done even on the preceding evening. About twelve o'clock the principal members of the two Chambers, the Judges, Ambassadors, and the different State functionaries began to arrive at the Tuileries, to pay their respects to his MAJESTY. The receptions were very nume rous, and the levee lasted till five o'clock. The Journal des Debats announces that Queen CHRISTINA would leave Paris for Madrid sooner than was at first intended—probably about the beginning of next month. Several of the Paris papers state, some of them with strong remarks on the encroaching spirit of our country, that " the English had taken possession of the harbour of Diego Suarez, on the coast of Mada• gascar, one of the finest in the world." Little business was done in the French Funds on New Year's Day; the Three per Cents. were quoted at 82f. 2c. Accounts from Madrid state that a reconciliation had taken place between the QUEEN and Don FRAN CESCO DE PAULO. The question of the marriage of her MAJEsTY was to be postponed till the arrival of her mother. Accounts from Figueras state that Baron de MRSR arrived there on :the morning of the 23d ult. The attempt made to induce AEI ETTLER to sur render has failed. Further re-inforcements had arrived. On the morning of the 24th, the firing from the fort had recommenced. It would appear to be the intention of the Baron de MEER to prosecute the siege with vigour. FOREIGN SUGAR FliOM THE BRITISH COLONIES. It is general) , known that our enlightened and consistent Government, although it will not allow the sugars of Brasil and Cuba to be consumed in the three kingdoms, allows them to be refined in this eountry in bond, and to be sent' to the West Indies, to be eaten there by the free negrees and their employers. In consequence of this permission, foreign sugars refined is this country are sent out to the West Indies and the Mauritius almost every day, and along with the refined' sugars there go out also considerable quantities of bastards, that is, of the inferior kinds of sugar, separated Irom the better parts in refining. This bastard sugar is in appearance very like unre fined sugar, and as the bastards can be bought in Liverpool for 145., whilst the raw West India and Mauritius sugar is worth 30s. per cwt. in this country, there is a great temptation to mix them in the colonies, and to send the mixture to this eountry as plantation sugar. We have reason to believe that this kind of .rausl has been praqi,ed more than once of late, especially in a case of which we heard last week, and we do not doubt that if the law continues in its present state, it will become store common every year. In some descriptions of sugar it is scarcely possible to tell the difference between bas tard and raw sugar by the eye, so that it is not detected if the sugar is sold in an unrefined state, though it becomes quite evident if this attempt is made to refine the mixture, when the residuum el the previously refined sugar is easily detected, as it was in the case which we have mentioned above. —Lic er- Iwo. 2 intes. NEW TRICKS IN LONDON.—There are few per sons who are acquainted with the streets of the metropolis but must have occasionally noticed some poor and wretched object gathering together the contents of a parcel of lucifer snatches, which have fallen from her hands on to the pave ment of a crowded thoroughfare. In nine cases out of ten this is purposely done to excite the sympathies of the passer by. It would seem, however, that encouraged by the success which has attended this system, a desire has been raised to improve upon the original idea. The vagrant having selected ter her object a well-dressed, charitable looking person (a et:sugary gentleman with drab gaiters is sure game), places himself suddenly in his way, and down go the snatches. 'The innocent ♦ictim of premeditated collision is immediately surrounded by a host of ragged confederates, who loudly cry shame, The public take up the part of the "suffering," and a compromise is entered into by the payment of an amount in silver. This trick is often performed by a woman in High Holborn, who, during the hours of the labourers' dinner, would represent the wife of one of that class, with some pieces et 'rockery warn and a bottle of greasy water, suspended in a ' , ticket handkerchief, acts in a similar manner to that ex emplified in the lucifer scheme. On Tuesday the match trick was performed with great success upon the pavement of the National Gallery, and although at one time there were more than three parties at work upon this small space, the results appeared to be highly encouraging. TIIE FRENCH GOVERNMENT AND TIIIi PRINCE DE LA MoSKorvA.-1 he National publishes the following details relative to the fact of the Prince de la Moskowa (Ney) having resigned his commission in the army, which was stated in The Sun some days since:—" The Prince de la Moskowa has been for a long tins, a chef d'eseadron (major of cavalry), impatiently waiting for promotion ; he tendered his resignation several months since to the Minister at War, who induced him to change his resolution by assuring him that in a short time he would ha promoted. The period specified having expired, the Prince waited on Marshal Soult, and asked him if he had forgotten his promise. The Marshal replied, that it was his anxious wish to have performed it; and he added, that nothing could hare given him greater pleasure than to have proved to the son of Ney that he was not unmindful of the friendship which existed between him and his old comrade. He had given his word, and he wished to observe it, but an invineillo obstacle held the Minister's hand. The Prince de la Moskowa took the first opportunity to complain to the Duke de Nemours, who replied, that it was impossible to promote those who gave a systematic opposition to the Go vernment. We should have perfectly understood the mode of reasoning had the Duke de Nemours declared, ' You com mand very much at your ease in the Chamber of Peers, at the Jockey Club, or behind a piano ; your comrades perform their duty, which is often a painful one, in garrison towns ; you do not suffer any of the fatigues of your profession, and you de ceive yourself if you imagine that your name or your rank of Peer of France, gives you a right to promotion which you do not deserve.' And it belonged to the Minister o f War, and not to the Duke de Nemours, to distinguish between those who served anal those who did not. Instead of that, the Mi nister induces the Prince to retain his commission. lie snakes a promise, and it is the Duke de Nemours who inter feres between the Minister and his subaltern. What, there fore, must the army think, whorl it finds that it is not its legal Chief which it is bound to obey, but a Prince upon whom the Charter has conferred no power ?" NEW YEAR'S :MORNING AT EDINBURGII.—This morning the new year was ushered in with the usual demon strations of revelry ; though, we are happy to say, on this oc casion the custom was observed by fewer persons on the streets than we ever remember to have seen. The groups col lected in the principal thoroughfares were in hi g h good humour ; and we may mention that up to two o'clock there was scarcely an individual brought to the police-office for drunkenness, or any other char,ge,—Edinburgh Courant. IMPORTANT NEWS FROM SPAIN. (From the Morning Post.) We have received the Madrid journals of the 27th ultimo, together with private advices from that capital. Their contents possess considerable interest. The rumours which we have repeatedly noticed, as to the Gonzales-Bravo Cabinet designing either a disso lution or a prorogation of the Cortes, were well founded, although it was not expected that they would come to so serious a resolution so early. On the 27th, the Senate and Chamber of Deputies meet. To the former, the President of the Council and Mi nisters of the Finances and Interior; and to latter, the Ministers of Justice, 'War, and the Navy, communi cated the following Royal decree : " I, Queen Isabella 11., exercising the powers con ferred on me by the 26th article of the Constitution, and after taking the advice of my Council of Ministers, do decree the following : " The sittings of the Cortes are suspended in the present Legislature. " Vone at the Palace," &c. &c. The issuing of this decree was determined upon at a Council on the 26th, and kept secret until the moment it was communicated to the two Chambers. The reading of it would appear to have been quietly listened to, and the sittings to have been closed with ' out disturbance. By a Royal decree of the 20th ultimo, counter signed by M. Carrano, " the public finances are to administer from the Ist of January, 1844, the Puertas duties in all the capitals of provinces znd ports where they are not yet re-established on the finances' account. The preamble to this decree says that the abolition of the Puertas duties is one of the measures by which Espartero wanted to render impossible all ad ministrations that did not suit his revolutionary views, and that their revival is necessary to restore an equilibrium between the receipte and expenses of the country. Our usual express has brought us the Courrier Francais, Quotidienne, Gazette des Tribunaux, and Galignanis Messenger, being the only journals pub lished at Paris on Tuesday, the others having kept New Year's day a cliose holiday. Their contents are very unimportant. We, nevertheless, subjoin the principal congratulatory ddresses to the King on the occasion of the New Year, with his Majesty's replies. [These are in the usual strain, and show a loyal dis position more than ordinary, but we can find room only for the Address of the Archbishop of Paris and the King's reply :—] TUE ARCHBISHOP OF PARIS IN TILE NAME OF THE CLERGY. .‘ Sire—The year which has just terminated has been a happy one for for your Majesty, we now come to express our wish that the present may be still happier. A Queen, your powerful ally, has come to recognise your wise and persevering ef forts for the preservation of the tranquillity of Europe. A Prince,_ dear to our seamen by all the qualities of his noble heart, has brought to you from another hemisphere a new pledge of union between our country and that of his illus trious spouse. The arts, manufactures, and commerce, the happy offspring of peace, continue to spread their rich be nefits over our country. No Frenchmen exe more desirous than ourselves to increase and perpetuate these benefits. But the most ardent wishes of our hearts, and those of your Majesty will not be fully satisfied until we shall see extended and con firmed amongst us, the empire of faith and the Christian vir tues, the fruitful source of security, grandeur, and moral dig nity, and without which there can be neither real strength nor true wisdom. May the Divine Dispenser of all gifts grant these legitimate prayers, and preserve to us a King whose life appears to have been saved a few months ago from a new peril only to remind us of the dangers from which he himself has preserved France." The King replied— " You remind me of the happy circumstances which have marked the year which has just passed. In addition to the marriage, which brought to my family new consolation for the grief of the Queen and my own, I have received with h a ppi ness the visit of an august ally ; and the increasing progress of the arts and manufactures have still further added to public pro sperity. I thank Providence for having showered so many blessings on my house. I am deeply affected with the wishes you express for my family and myself, and I do not cease te form very sincere wishes that sentiments of morality and reli gion, the true sources of all virtues, may continue to strengthen and increase." BOURSE, TUESDAY.—Three per Cents. 82f. 10c. MONEY AND COMMERCIAL NEWS CITY, WEDN'tsbAY EVENINO. The English Market left off tolerably well this afternoon, but certainly not quite so buoyant. Cottsals were 91 to A without the dividend. Exchequer Bills continued high. 'The Foreign Market exhibited also rather a downward ten dency, Mexican being 324 to a ; Spanish 2;24 A for the Five per Cents., and 3O A for the Three per Cents. Dutch Bonds were firm. The additional transactions in Railway Shares have been these :—Birmingham and Gloucester Nv tn. 34 ; Brighton, 6 to 6 ; and South Eastern Scrip, 134 to discount.. Edin. burg and Glasgow were 84 ; Brighton Loan Notes, 14 ; Croydon, 1; ditto Scrip, 44 ; Manchester and Leeds, New, 154 ; Midland Counties Quarter, 7 ; ditto Eifths,l,, ; Norwich and Brandon, ; Northern an.l Eastern, 71.; Paris and Orleans, 14A to 133 ; Paris anti Rouen. 12,1 ; Rouen and Havre, 6to i; South Eastern Scrip, 11%; and Yarmouth and Norwich, 34 premium. British North American 13ank Shares were 1:34 discount ; and Union of Australia, 2i prem. (From The Sun of Last Night.) A large amount of business was done yesterday, in the Li terpool Cotton Market, arid prices were gradually improving The sales were 10,000 bales, includinr 3,000 American on speculation. The transactions consisted' of 500 Bahia, at 6.1 to bid ; 300 Egyptian at tip to 7d ; '2,000 Sere at 30 to 30, and the rest American at •Plid to 7d t Cr lb.—The share market was firm, with an upward tendency and a good business. Eastern Counties were 107 i ; Manchester and Birmingham 391; North Mid'and 90; Paris and Rotten 33%; South Eastern 36%, and Paris and Le ons 34. It is certainly to be regretted 'hat the affairs of the Colon al Bank—as appeared by the proceedings yesttrday at the half yearly General Court —show such an unsatisfactory result. It is too true that the Bank, and its branches, have lost largely ; but at the same time it ought to be borne in mind that, in all new and extensive est abli-hments such as this—where a new field is opened fur monetary transactions, difficulties and losses to a certain t xtent must, and always will, arise. A sound principle of banking, upon the authority of Mr. Gurney, a man of soma weight in such matters, has been established, but errors will creep in, even in the best regulated concerns. At the same time it cannot be denied that the Bank is in a sound condition. The Auuitor stated at the meeting held yt stertlay, that every claimant upon the Corporation coul,l be paid off as rapidly as the clerks were enabled to make the entries. In our opinion the Shareholders assembled came to a wise determination in placing confidence in the Court of Directors, and it cannot be doubted hat had that confidence been withheld, the Company would have been broken up, which would have produced losses to many w ho could ill afford to bear them. We have, on a previous occasion, referred to the frauds in the tobacco trade. A Circular nuw before us on this subject. remarks: Deputations of the trade have had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer, relative to a reduction of the duty ; but we think it may be inferred, from what transpired, that it is not in the contemplation of Gov, rnment to make any reduction. Certain inquiries are being made by persons con nected with the Excise, which lead us to the sioposition that an alteration in the law is in contemplation." We hope so, and so do all the fair and honest traders in the leaf throughout the length and breadth of the land. There are not any later accounts from the Colo:tie; to-day. Some additional letters have come to Band from Sydney, but their contents only tend to confirm the previous advices of the losses and ruin that have resulted from commercial speculations in that quarter of the world. Many men who were rich ten years since in the Sydney trade are now reduced to poverty. The system of long credits has proved to be a losing concern. The Commissioners purchased about the usual amount to day in the Three per Cents Reduced, at 98. The price is now a fraction lower. Bank Stock has advanced to 186, though now slightly lower. The premium upon Exchequer Bills is up to 70s. Luna Bonds are worth 78s. premium. Not much variation has taken place in the Foreign Market to-day. The price of Spanish Bonds has fluctuated from 30i to 34 The fluctuations in the other Foreign Bonds were but slight. _ _ _ Most of the Railway Shares have advanced to-day. The annexed list will give the rise in prices as compared with those of yesterday : MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, JAN. 2.—We have still a good demand for Railways generally at improving prices, with the exception of Sheffield and Manchester, which are freely of fered. Our quotations are:—Eastern Counties, Scrip, 13 1-16th ; Edinburgh and Glasgow, 581; Ditto, Quarters, 14A ; London and Brighton, 43; Sheffield and Manchester, 531 and 54 cum interest; Trent and Aler.ey, 500 ex div. CLOSING PRICES BRITISH FuNus. BLk Z , tock IK.4 India Stock ... Int 0..,r Cent. Red...... 97i Ditto Bonds .. .... 78 1 11, )-1: Cent. Cons. ... !Ditto Old Annuities ... l 4 par Cent. Red... 102% ',Ditto New Annuities... 04.. w 3i per Cent.... Ex. Bills, 1,00://. lid. 68 am N. :w 5 per Cen. — i Ditto 5001...... 68 an. Long Annuities to expire I Ditto Small lan. 1800 ... 1.23 Bank Stock for Acct. U ( t. 1659 ann. V•6O ... FOREIGN FUNDS. 4.u_trias, 5 per cent. Portugrese, 5 per cent. Belgian b per cent — Ditto, New Ditto Brazilian 80nd5......... Prussian, 5 per cent tdrios Ayres 6 per cent Russian, 5 per cent...., Crtilian, 6 per cent — Ditto, Nletallic . 6 per cent... --Spanish, 5 per cent 22i Ditto. 1824 __ _ Ditto, 3 per cent... ZOA Cuba Bonds, 6 per cent. Ditto, Deferred:— Danish, 3 per sent — French, 5 per cent. —f. Greek, 1825, 5 per cent — 'Exchange.......... —f —c. Mexican, 5 per cent 323 French, 3 per cent. —f. Ditto, 6 per cent. 1837 Dutch, 21 per cent. 54i Peruvian, 1825,6 per et. Ditto, 5 per 100 A SHARES. Birmingham and Gloucester Railway (100 pd) 66 Edinburgh and Glasgow (50 paid).. Great North of England Railway (100 pd) 86b London and Brighton (50 pa d) 44 London and Blackwall (161 13s 4d paid) London and Croydon Railway (Trunk) 143 Ditto Scrip ( 5 paid)... 94 Manchester and Leeds (70 paid) ...... -.— Ditto New Shares (30 paid) Midland Counties Railway ( 100 paid) Ditto Quarter Scares (15 paid) 22 Ditto Fifths ( 2 paid) 2i Northern and Eastern (45 paid) Paris and Orleans (20 paid) .. Paris and Rouen (20 paid) . ............ 321 Rouen and Havre ( 6 paid) 12b South Eastern and Dover (50 paid)... 36b Ditto Scrip (25 paid 1 Yarmouth and Norwiah (13 paid) l6l THE MEDICAL TIMES ALMANAC FOR 1844. The " Medical Times Almanac" is another of the many publications of this kind addressed to a particular class of the community. The medical profession in all its branches will here find accumulated an immense mass of information not readily accessible in any other form, or scattered through a great number of authorities. This is given in addition to the usual contents of an almanac, and consists of a List nt the Royal College of Physicians, of the College of Surgeons, of the So ciety of Apothecaries, of the dicers of all the Hospitals and Medical Schools, u well as of the Provincial Hospitals, and those of the officers, and days of meeting of the Metropolitan Medical and Scientific Societies. A great deal of medical information as to the symptoms and treatment of various diseases is also brought together in a well-arranged digest, with a valuable analysis of the composition of many of the most generally used patent medicines. The work is well got up, is very cheap, and desert es the patronage of all the profession. DEATH.—At Shoe-lane, on New Year's Day, in the ordinary course of nature, the double sheet of the Morning Herald. Post. We have really been so touch amused at a New Year's manifesto by one of our contemporaries (the Morning Herald) that we feel bound to rescue it from the obscurity in which its own limited circulation might otherwise leave it, by offering it the additional notorietv.of our own columns. Our Con temporary appears to be in a state of revolution , it has changed its size—it has changed its managers ;it appears conscious of having (" not essentially") changed its politics ; it has, if we mistake not, changed its typo (at least we rec guise here and there in its columns the familiar letters of an evening contem porary), and out it comes, " spick and span." on New Year's_ day, to pay its readers the cemplimervs of the season in its new dress.— Times. We are informed that Mr. and Mrs. Wood are en gaged at the Princess's Theatre, and will make their first ap pearance in a few days in the opera of The Maid of Judah. PRESENT TO HER Al AJESTY.—EigHt must beau tiful and pure-bred bantams (consisting, of a cock and three hens, of gold, and the like numlwr and description of silver bantams), arrived at Windsor Castle on .Monday last, as a pre sent to the Queen, from W. 11. Holcombe, Esq., of Camplen, in Gloucestershire, a gentleman who has long been celebrated for his peculiar breed of this - rare and curious species of do mestic birds. Mr. S. Cotterell, one of :he victims slain in the affray at New Zealand, wa , the son of Mr. F. Cotterell, of this city, a member of the Society of Friends It is stated on the best authority that he took no part in the affray, except as an " unarmed peace maker;" that, during the whole of his so journ in New Zealand, he was on the best terms with the na tives; and the very last letter received from him here mentions the pleasure he experienced in having acquired sufficient a the native language to be enabled to converse with the " Maories" on religious subjects, and thus to benefit them in the h:ghest sense. He wanted only a month of twenty- tiur years of age. Journal. CHRONOLOGY OF SPORTING EVENTS IN 1843. — Bell's Life in London of Sunday next, the 7th of January. will consist of two folio stamped sheets of the ,ame size, the second gratis ! comprising full and accurate Chronologies of all the important Sporting Events of the year —Racing, Steeple Chasing, Aquatic, Cricket, Trotting, Pedestrianism, and the Prise-ring; all alphabetically and intellig,bly arranged for immediate reference. Entries for the Derby, Oaks, and St. Leger ; horses in training, trainers, and places of training ; the two-years-old and their engagements, &c. ; forming a concen tration of intelligenceinvaluable to the sporting circles. Price of both sheets, tid. Papers forwarded on transmission of 6d , or six Post-office stamps, to Mr. Clement, jun., 170, Strand. FATAL RESULT OF NEGLI2,TING GAS-ESCAPE.— A family in South Paterson-street, Glasgow, consisting of mother and infant, with a grandmother, having gone to rest on Wednesday night, were n&t observed on the following day ; and from a strung smell of gas beirg felt, it was thought neces- Nosy to open the door, when the infant was found dead, and the . ether individuals lying insensible in bed. The unfortunate oc currence was found to arise from a gas-pipe being accidentally fractured. The two survivors arc slowly recovering.— Tyne Mercury. BODY OF A MAN FOUND IN TUE PUBLIC ROAD.— About six o'clock on Monday morning, as a youth named Wright, the son of a milkman of that name, residing at Nor wood, was proceeding along the road at Norwood Hill, he dis-• covered the body of a man lying across the ro rd, completely' encased in mud, and his clothes torn almost to ribbons. Wright immediately raised an a4rm,.and the body was removed to the George the Fourth public-house, opposite, to await a Coroner's inquest. Nothing was found upon the body which could lead twits identity. It has the appearance of being that M one of the superior order of mechanics, and is about. the middle age and stature. During the night a man named Tidy, who re sides in a cottage close to the place where the body was found, heard a voice say, " Come, an't you going to get up—do get up, come," but supposing the noise proceeded from some drunken men, he took no further notice of it. Dealt is sup- . posed to have been caused by applexy, but it cannot at present be conjectured as to the manner in which his clothing had been so much torn. LISBON, DEC. 26.—The doctor of her Majesty s ship Warspite, now in this port, vas huzied on Saturday last at the Prazeres Cemetery, in this city. The unfortunate de ceaFed was in perfect health and vigour a few days ago. While dissecting a corpse at the hospital of Saint Joseph he acciden tally cut his finger; the wound festered and inflamed, a gangrene soon came on, and in less than a week he was a corpse himself. SUM'iII.ARY OF tIE4S AZ , TD Vtibitt evtuton. " 117. , ) runs may read." On New Year's nay, a grand levee was held at the Tuileries, at which the Chambers, public lunetionaries, awl irtrt'gri Am bassadors, attended to pay their respects to the loyal family. The King, on Saturday evening, received at dinner a large an i distin;zzui•bed party, attiotig whqm were Generals Dam pierre and Cubicres, the Count de MLO-a t the ;!itches of Abrantes, Count Foy, and more than sweaty o'her§. On Saturday evening, says the Commerce, there was a grand diplomatic meeting at Lord Cowley's. Al. Gtfzet, and the ex-liegent of Spain, Queen Maria Clsristiri, were present, After that extraordinary conference, courier, were dispatched to several foreign courts. The Gazette de France, a Legitimist parer, was seised second time, by order of the Governicent, on Sunday morning. Bread has exfericnced a further rise in Paris. The price of the 21b. loaf, first quality, has been fixed t.t.m the lst inst. at 35c. (131 d. British) , second quality, sic. ; being a rise of lc. on bread of the first quality. On Friday last several shocks of an earthquake were felt at Cherbourg, at four o'clock in the afternoon. The I:onses were shaken by it, the furniture oscillated in the apartments, chairs aid tables were displaced, and many objects were actually thrown down. A number of the inhabitants, air-, liendin7, a catastrophe, ran out of their homes. No asddent, however, took place. Monday was New Year's-day and a genet al holiday, the Bourse shut, and the Post-offiee closed at an early hour. The commerce sates that considerable activity was obzerv able in the dockyards of France, and that the scoaf'ren " for exercise," about to leave Toulon under the command el Rear- Aslmital the Prince de Joinville, would comprise six sail of the ►ice, besides frigates, brigs, cutters, &c. Prince Leopold, son of the King of Bavaria, and his suite, landed at Cadiz on the 15th from the Spanish Steam r Teodosio. The Prince senn after proceeded to Gibraltar, where he was to embark for Malta. fhe Journal des Chemins de Fer publishes the returns of the receipts of the Paris tv.d Orlnns and Bouen Railroads, from which it aprar., that those of the former amoimted last week to 97,097 francs, and the latter to 78,249 francs. A letter from Augsburg (Bavaria) states that the workmen employed on the rail., ay in the vicinity of Donawerth, have just found, at a depth of nine feet below the surface, an immense cemetery, from which a variety of antique vessels, ornaments, medals, &c., have been already dug up. 1..0.31, 7 AW'P P LIC E. At the Central Criminal Court Samuel M. Vendean and Sarah Thompson delivered themselves up to take their trial for a conspiracy to defraud the creditors of a bankrupt pasted Bacon, and concealing some money and goods. The evidence altogefter failed, and the ~- , risonet s were acquitted. In the New Court several_ tumor cases of larceny were dis posed of. he Lord Mayor, durin 4 his sitting at the Mansion •house, expressed his dett-rmination to take measures to compel a better attendance to their duties on the part of the scavengers of the City, and expressed a hope that he should be supported by the inhabitants of the different districts. William Bates, an artist, said to possess considerable talents, was brought before the Lord Mayor frasn Giltspur•street Cumpter, where he had been confined for six 'months for making use of violent threats to Mr. Masterman, M.P. His applica • lion was to be admitted to moderate hail, the sureties demanded for his good behaviour being so heavy he could not obtain them. He was remanded, and directed to apply to the Quarter isicssions. . . . A young min, who would give no name, was charged at the Guildhall, with having attempted to drown himself at the stairs at Illackfriars Bridge. At the time he wore a female dress, with a bonnet, boa, and shawl, over his own c!othes. He was ordered to be detained till he should give an aseount of himself. Mr. James Pascal!, churchwarden and treasurer to the parish of Clerkenwell, was charged at Clerkenwell offioc lay Mr. John Scott, of No. 1, River-street, Myddleton-square, with having committed an assault,. The defendant is the person against whom certain proceedings were taken by the parish some time ago. The summons was discharged. Robert Augustus Jones was brought from Bath, in the cus tody of police-sergeant Valiance, C division, and charged at Marlborough-street, with having stolen a horse, chaise, and harness, value 501., the property of William Winch, livery stable-keeper, White Horse-yard, Windmill-street. He was committed for trial. _ _ . John Davis, alias Blythe, and Henry Robinson, two men Of notorious character, were charged, at Worship-street, with having burglariously entered the warehouse of Messrs. Reilly and Storer, silversmiths, &c., in Carey-lane, Gutter-lane, Chrapside, and stolen therefrom a large quantity of plate and other property, of the value of 250/. The prisoners were fur ther charged with having been concerned in the commission of an extensive burglary at the premises of Messrs. Leaf and Co., of Old 'Change, and aloe with having been implicated in several other robberies. They were remanded for a fortnight. COURT -rill; tiION.A.33I6Et The Duke of Cambridge, on leaving Dean Park, the seat of Lord Cardigan, is expected to honour the .111arquii and Mar chioness of Exeter with a visit, and also the Duke of Rutland, at lielvoir Castle, and then return to town to meet the Duchess and the Princess Mary, on their arrival from the Continent. Lord Cardigan proceeds to Dublin at the close of the ensuing week to resume the command of the 11th (Prince Albert's) Hussars. as his leave expires on the 15th inst. The Duke of Bordeaux, on Monday, visited the men-of-war lying in the Plymouth Sound. He was received with yards manned, end all the honours due t• his rank. On that day and Sunday he attended mass at the Stonehouse chapel. The Duke of Richmond arrived in Portland-place on Mon day, from Goodwood Park, to be present at the marriage of hit niece, Miss Maitland, to T. W. Blomefield, Esq., son of Sir Thomas W. Blomefield, Bart., solemnisedon Tuesday morn ing. His Grace returned to Goodwood yesterday, where a family circle has assembled for the holidays. A matrimonial alliance is talked of bel ween the Rev. Lord Augustus Fitxclarence and Miss Gordon, grand-daughter of the Marquis of Huntley. Sir William M'Gregor, Bart., of the 18th (Roza] Irish), has arrived in town from China. -....-- ....-........... _____ General Sir Lewis and Lady Grant have arrived in Harley, street from Scotland. General the Hon. Sir Alexander Duff and Lady and Miss Duff left the Brunswick Hotel, Jermyn-street, on Tuesday, for Brighton, where it is the General's intention to winter. Mr. George Hope, M.P., arrived in town on Tuesday, from Ditton Park, the scat of Lord Montague. Lord John Russell arrived in town on Tuesday, from Woburn Abbey. The Countess of Jersey and Lady Clementina Villiers left town on Tuesday, for the residence of the Hon. Frederick Villiers, in Northamptonshire. MISCE7.7.ANEOIM. The cold on Monday night was intense, the thermometer having fallen twelve degrees below the freezing point. The frost still continues, but it is not severely felt as there is little or no wind. The ground is covert d with snow. Within a week or ten days the temperature during the night has fallen t wen t y degrees. The weather, says a Newcastle journal, was so remarkably fine at Alnwick on Christmas-day that a number of boys were seen bathing in the river A In, near that town. Several per sons were engaged in angling, numerous insects were on the wing, the song of some of the warblers was heard, and the whole had more the appearance of spring than winter. It appears that on account of a want of proper draining at Kentish Town, an alarming epidemic prevails there. It was stated o❑ Tuesday, at a meeting of the t. r'ancras board of di rectors and guardians, that in one street alt , ne there were no lass than thirteen families some portion of whom are suffering from fever. The half-yearly meeting of the Proprietors o the London Dock Company was held on Tuesday at the Dock-office, New Bank-buildings, Mr. John Cattley in the chair. From the financial statement, it appeared that the revenue of the Com pany for the last half year, including whar age and other dues, amounted to 19706e1. 15s. 7d. ; ti• exoenditure 108 ; 5681. 9e. sd. A dividend of two per cent.. was declared. A landowner in South Derbyshire has sent a contribution of 1001. to the Derby subscription to the Lea vac fun , from "an opponent to the adding scale." The Derby subscri! ties), which last year amounted to 4001. only, has already amounted to be tween 1,0001. and 1,200/. Before the books are closed, it will reach from 1,200/. to 1,3001. Miss Delcy, after having completed a successful engagement at Verona, has repaired to Bologna. '1 he appointment of official assignee of the Liverpool Dis trict Court of Bankruptcy, vacant by the renaeval of John Follett, Esq., to London, has been conferred on George Mor gan, Esq., of Bristol. Tuesday the half-yearly general meeting of the proprietors of the Colonial Bank, established to extend banking •pera tior,s in the West Indies, was held at the London Tavern, for the purpo,:e of receiving a Report from the Court of Directors, the election of Directors who have gene out by rotation, and on other matters. he chair, in the absence, by reasr Ti of ill ness, of the Governor, Mr. Irvine, M.P., was ta'cen by the Deputy-Governor, Mr. A. Culvide, ALP. From the Report, it appeared that the profit made by the corporation during the halt-year ending June 30, 18-13, after deducting all current ex penses, is 10,4121. 2s. 4d. ; deducting half-yearly proportion of preliminary expenses, 1,0001., leaves an available balance of 9.412/. 2s. 4d. .No dividend was declared, and the outgoing Directors were re-elected. Great dissatisia•tion w. , s expressed with the Fart of the Report detailing a roSbery of rite branch at liarbadoes by one of the clerks, to the amount of 11,000/. The annual meeting of the members of the l'oyal South London Dispensary, took place on Tuesday at the Dispensary, St. George a-fields. The Report stated that the Society was established in 1821, and that during the first year WM patients were admitted. The numbers had gra lualiy increased, and during the last year 4,333 received medical assistance. The re ceipts amounted to 7741. ss. 10d., and a balance oi 561. 6s. 4d. had been left ire the hands of the treasurer, after paying all ex penses. 'Dr. Clutterbuck, Dr. Addison, and Dr. Sutherland. were elected physician, for the ensuing year. SALE OF LIEUTENANT MONRO'S TEKDAN The sale of Lieutenant IlLinro's eflects comm ence d yesterday, at twelve o'clock,: at his resiclunce in Brompton square. There were very few persons present, aid th e pur chasers were chiefly furniture brokers. some inquiry was made for the case of duelling pistols, but it was not in the cata logue. It was expected that the ?ale would be interfered with by Air. Walcley, the Coroner, but up to the time our reporter left the lion. C;eulleman had not made his appearapee, and the sale was proceeding. The articles sold ibis morning fetched a fair price; they were confined to small articles of bed-room furniture. -The sale will be concluded to-mcrrow. _ HE INVASION OF RUSSlA.—Accounts received through the foreign papers on Tuesday con' ain the following ad ditional particulars of the monument erected by the Emperor of Russia : —The monument erected by the Emperor In the city of Kowno, to commemorate the extraordinary events. of 1812, was inaugurated on the iOth of November. Kowno was one of the most remarkable points in the Russian em pire, for there Napoleon concent , ated the enormous force with which he marched across the Russian frontier, and there commenced the sanguinary war, which afterwards spread through the interior of Russia. The monument which has just been erected is of colossal dimensions. In front- is an ii,scription consisting of some words quoted from tbe first manifesto issued by the Emperor Alexander at the opening of the war. These words are—" God is against the aggressor." On the back is the following inscription .—" In the year 1812 700,000 hostile troops entered Russia, of this number' only 70,000 marched back." At the inauguration of the monu ment there were present the few surviving warriors who fought in the battles of 1812. In this category the number of Gene rals, -tall and superior officers, amounted to 23 ; the number of subalterns was 31. I)nici; or BREAD.—We stated last week that a number of the Edinburgh bakers had reduced the price of the 41b. loaf to 6 1 ,4 d ; and we observe, from a schedule tent round by what are called the " high price bakers," that they have ho nestly resolved to folios this example. This schedule intimates flour at 2s td., and bran at '7d. per stone, and adds the im portant notice of—" No discount, neither anything to be given with the loaf."—Edinburyh Journal. SIIEEP KILLED ON A RAILWAY.—On Saturday last, as the afternoon train front Darlington to York 'was passing Popple:on-bridge, twenty-five sheep, the property of Mr. Carr, or . Overton, were killed by the engine. —Durham Paper. COURT CIRCULAR, WINPSOR, WEDNESDAY.—This morning his Roy's/ High' ness the Prince of Wales, and her Royal Highness the Princes° Royal, were taken for their customary exereise. tier :Nlajesty, accompanied by his Royal Highness Prin c o e f Albert, walked in the grounds about the Castle in the coa rse the day, Baron de Cetto, Bavarian Minister, transacted business yes, terclay, at the office of the Secretary of State for Foreign o' o* The Attorney-General visited Sir James Graham yesterdaYt at the Foreign-office. Lieut. •General Sir Peregrine Maitland, Governor of th e i. . Cape of Good Hope, transacted business yesterday at t" Colonial. office. Su. J. Graham visited the Earl of Ripon yesterday at t he office of the Board of Control. Dispatches for Sir Charles Metcalfe, Governor of Canadh and for the Governors of the other North American coloulato we sent off yesterday evening from the Colonial-office. Bill'iQUET AT FROGIVIORE-HOUS E wiN molt, TvEarn.% EVENING.— A grand banquet Wa i f given this evening, by her Royal Highness the Duchess Kent. to her Majesty, the Prince Consort, Prince Edward to Saxe Weimar, and a distinguished circle, in honour of the birth,: day of his Serene Highness Ernest Antoine Charles Louis, t'!; reigning Duke of Saae Cnbourg and Gotha (the fathe r of bid Royal Highness Prince ,Albert), who was born on the gd January, 1784. Covers were laid for sixteen, in the large dining-room. The Royal dinner party included, in addition to the Que, e and his Royal Highness Prince Albert, his Serene H i g bo : Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar, the Marchioness of Pau': ti.e Hon. Eleanor Stanley, the Hon. Clementina Ham ilt° "; Lady Fanny Howard, Lord Rivers, Captain ths Hon. Mtloirti Duncombe, Colonel Arbuthnot, lajor-General Sir Etio, g b , Bowater, the Hon. and Rev. Charles Leslie Courtenay• Hon. C. A. Murray, Colonel Sir George Cooper, Bart, Dr. Prictorius. o e ce At the conclusion of the banquet her lilajesty , the Pl„,, Consort, the Duchess of Kent, and her Royal .Hi g hness's w ri tinguished guests, retired to the grand drawing-I' o m , a concert was performed by the band of the Ist Life Ouard& i r t ANTI-CORN-LAW MEETING - OLDHAM. On Tuesday evening, pursuant to placards and advertl meat, a large public meeting was held in the Town-beill o f Oldham, in aid of the great Anti-Corn-law League Fuon, 100,0001. Mr. Joseph Gillham, senior head constable , sided. Though admission was only had by tickets, price 6 0 ? the lirge room, which is capable of holding upwards of persons (having an area of 242 square 3ards), was well fil o , wi'h a respectable assemblage, including a number of Isw it3 ;l The room, which was tastefully decorated, was bril lieo lighted by three handsome candelabra, of bright and burnis,,r gold, each containing eight argand gas burners. These buret delabra have just been fixed in the hall, and greatly in its appearance. They cost lbo/. Owing to a delay in the starting from the ManehO te j, station of the railway, of the principal.speakers of the even caused by the immense number of Oldham persons re tell from Manchester (so that the train which should have e at five o'clock was three-quarters of an hour later), the e"' was not taken until seven o'clock. qA The CHAIRMAN, in opening the proceeding!,_read . from Mr. Alderman Brooks, Mr. Brotherton, M.P., aet;ii James Lees, of Delph Lodge, expressing their regret at e" unable to attend. )1 10 The meeting was then addressed by Colonel Thompson , °s i ll usual quaint and pithy style ; by Mr. Cobden, in a Pe rce iost and argumentative speech, addressed chiefly to the vve r a classes, and considering the corn-laws as a wages and tile question ; and by Mr. R. R. Moore, who showed by d,e 5 10 respecting the hat trade of Oldham, and the exports et that with high prices of wheat our exports fell off, ste"“lif creased when wheat fell. lie also explained the progress ? , ..41 League, and how it had employed the large sums pre Oil contributed, and concluded by calling on the meeting to " the new year well. The CDAIRMAN said, he was not able this year losses had been severe) to double his subscription. Ile give 1001.-k Applause.) _ Mr. Moore then announced other subscriptions:—Aso Lees and Mills, Waterhead Mill, 40/. (double last year !caption) ; Messrs. Gartside and Mayall, 401. ; Alesertif and H. Nelson, 301. (double); Mr. James Cheethain , fl o p Mr. James Butterworth, Greenacres Moor, 20/. ( q uadr . l; o o , Messrs. Seville and Wolstenholme, Lower Moor, 201.; Marsden and Collinge, of Hellins Mill, 201. 4 (double)l,l John Bentley, head-constable, 10/. ; Mr. Eli Lees, Soh°, r4fill Messrs. Whittaker, of Royton, 101. (double) ; Messrs._ .d Holden and Brothers, Holden Fold, 10/. ; Messrs. Holden and Son, Royton-lane, 20/. (double); D,rot Lees and Barnes, Soho, 20/. ; Mr. John Peet - , ford Iron-works,lo/. (double) • Mr. James Greaveg; ri ' D fe 30/. (double) ; Mr. John Cha dwick, Rhodes Mill, la Siel , l William Wilde, Belfield, 10/. ; Mr. James Wilde, Mumps' o r Messrs. James Cheetham and Sons, Clough Mill, Creslrost 10/. (new) ; Mr. Thomas West, Union-street, Si. (las I,ll' 21.) ; Mr. Joseph Baxter, Hollinwood, 51. (new) /off Thomas Mellor, Royton, Si. (five fold); Mr. Sarong f t bl Market-place, S i. Oast year 21.) ; Messrs. Dyson end it el ,7 4 ift Greenacres, 101. (double) ; and at least 15 0 other sa;00, tions varying from 20/. to one shilling. Among other of subscriptions were—" A Bolus for Peel," 20/.; "le ( tfeii i Immediate Repeal, and No Compromise," 20/4 A Flirt& A Few Friends from Waterhead Mill, 301.: making a p_ Eight Hundred and Sixty Pounds.—(lmmense chee Mr. Moore concluded by proposing " Three cheersfor which were given with hearty good will. etlee,e' The CHAIRMAN proposed a vote of thanks to the g e ti who had addressed the meeting, which passed by wiz , * and was acknowledged by Mr. Colman, who said he felt grateful plealuire astonishment. For the size of the meeting, he had ner; f orr, tended one with more spirit than the present one. Be rs,,,beirt vote of thanks to the Chairman, which passed with three' o oii The CnetastAzt called for " three cheers for the w u which were given with spirit. 0 11 1 1 Mr. A L EXANDER TAYLOR moved a resolution of ar l ` 1 1. with Mr. Alderman Brooks, whose absence was caused h i serious illness of his only daughter. Mr. Moons moved a vote of thanks to the ladles' fe4 being passed by acclamation, the proceedings termina ted minutes after -eleven o'clock. • ,p, TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUNS lic e Six, —From the accounts in the newspaper s l, doll appears in a tumult respecting remedies le' ty existing distress, its crisis have actually react: l6 l . l oi ears of a Bishop. But in all this anxiety for agb . , 7 1,0 relief, I see nothing aimed at to prevent that appears to have led to the extensive inquiry nowt on—l mean the victims found in the Park. not' the Bishop of London has consented to hec°,f,! Christian, and move in this wide field of hisb a see no mention (in this as in every other chal: n i exertion) of the Duke of Wellington. Still tht,Ylo, might do a great deal. In this respect 4 v - , his superior, he does subscribe to charities+ itO it shall be related of him, when his tongue has ceased to wag that at of intense and universal distress, caused.)/ continued in some degree by his own obstinaetwe ll time when mothers were weeping over °l'll crying for bread—at a time when tholy, either died from actual starvation, or the r ibe of death were sown by want—he sub sc five thousand pounds for building c h urc hes. to pel people asked for bread and he gave piles of.ap'A The large subscriptions paraded in the new a P"iie , the preset - it time, are a wicked mockery of the 0 distress. But to return to the Duke. It was allege d think, the Morning Herald, that the victims f,1 1 1 0,,!' the park were from the country, they bad 1 ,, c) „,d,i: the soldiers, by whom they had been debaOe' a rtir seased, and then deserted : and I observe a 13 9 . 1/ 40 16 in your paper of the 21st ult. from the Leedi headed " Regimental Love Scene," which, beiebti terpreted, is merely an account of the rnanufactu similar victims, by the same parties, the militarii, The account is evidently intended as a laeg oo l affair, and no doubt would be so only for the; to quence, any one can see, must have ense e „' o o o ,l disease, desertion, &c. The scene "craning 01 4'' women up, four or five . at once into barracP o ' l l o , - laughable ; and " some few more devoted of tunny contrived to hide themselves in the t;; carriages, and went forward to Manchest er, also be laughable; but of the less devoted , 0 01 seems to have been the greater division, no al e 0 4 given, " s o m e few only" reached 3 i l a nchester, t no doubt b ecam e victims. Id the gel _ . The position of the Duke just now, an- o pe r reign now on the Throne, gives hint a fine vet tunny o! . doing honour to himself and his S° v ,,,Toor to by adopting some means to check the sY*" ce licentiousness of the army. It is a disgr ° ,ll o ' the British soldier that he cannot, even for 11 1 01 time, be quartered in any place, but he letl, e o marks of demoralisation in living c haracters,i t eni him. Private soldiers are somewhat like chilulytt they faithfully copy the manners of those Pio,ol above them ; and I fear imitation of office o e sv i , principal source whence springs this reckless° t4ef morals. The niilitary seem to enter a town P b 4o ° tertnined to r u i n its f a i r inhabitants; the W I peace are exchanged for the ravages of 'War. .304.,, This licentiousness the Duke might cons[ o f a l. check by a genera l or d er , c arr yi ng a penalq..- ; . Op missal to all officers guilty of seduction or c rw- m iss' ° „ and making them ineligible to hold any 0° ti in the service. In the case of privates, corportelf they could b e p un i s hed by confinement, and s ' 01 hee of pay for a certain time. I do-not expee-I # . 4 i.vio of " Jo se ph s ," b u t some thing Sh o uld'beldoo2' t par this wholesale system of making victims and other places. 0 4 ' Your Constant Reader, irto • X., COMMEJICIAL TRA Clortmek Dec. 27, 1843. o6' • . • An 1,10 4 ANTI-CORN-LAW MEETING AT LEIGIV"'"; SO o pt , corn-law meeting was held at Leigh, on Monday CA,OOt Year's D ay ), at two o ' c l oc k, w hi o h was a ddressed 3 ' l4 o o ,i c la Thompson, Mr. R. R. Meorei-'and the ,Rerepro4,oP,oo of Chow Pent ; andxsubscriptiOn-was th e n - ciiiio o ,%tor ti ol! Wore the meeting closed, amounted to 821., a of which consisted of very small sums, men)",, l ': u ltlr; f ttr, working men. This amount, it , is- expected, will reach 140/. or 1501. Most of the subscriptions ""„ e ole who have given before, were doubled, and tior e , - r oe" • new ones. Indeed, last year the 'amount ultimate ly only 451. r .A. new villa, in the course of erection nea-e.,,' road, B r i s t o l, f e ll d own on S atur d ay l as t w hile six °Oleo": work; : five escaped, but the sixth, unhappily, ass - her ruins having fallen upon 11;m. 4 . r .• ler INC in; ARISM IN BEDFOILDSIIIRE.--- ea!" stand that G overnmen t h ave sent d own three de jet men to assist th e cons t a b u l ar y o f this county in.t."--oriPrifit of the villians w h o h a v e comm itt e d the late s et 3 4 (0 4 diarism on farming property. We are happy to etaliects 14 farmers are alio exerti ng th emse l ves for th,e P1 . r. 3 40, 1 15 A r their property and the p reven tion of th i s ;p ont r placing watchmen on their premises ; and, troll the advantages of this system, we may "e' 010 111 Thursday last, William Bone was fully com mitird_,.-"i i ,i ..19 11 gaol, by the bench of magistrates at Luton, for fv"10;„)1P Mr. Rudd's farm, called Gouche's farm, near . Dun°7 o .. -01 , tp the 26th Robert Truett, a labourer in the enr ig • sik t " 0 4 , Swannell, was remanded by the Rev. J. B. Magn,';' 'WO Rev. Vere Alston, until Monday, on a charge 0 00 10" to the farm of Sir. :Swannell, at Tehnershant•-•" • Advertiser. LLOYD'S SHIPPING. LONDON. JAN. 3.—Light, N. Westerly breeze and hazy. YARIIOI.ITS, JAN. 2.—The Sir J. Gordon, from Rouen to Shields is sunk oh Ilaisborough ; crew saved. DxAL, JAN. 2, 6 A.m.—Wind, E.S.E., blowing strong, with heavy rain and thick weather. 8, A.m., it veered to E.N.E., with very heavy snow-squalls, and at 11, A.M. it asoderated and veered to N.W. r. M., moderate, N.W., Clear weather. Early this morning the Achilles, for Bordeaux, lost anchor and chain, and proceeded for Westward. The Promise, from Saguenay to London, lost anchor and chain, and remains in the Downs. Arrd. James, Ross, New Zealand; George town, Demerara ; Premier, West Indies ; Fortune, St. John's, New Brunswick. MARIIATE, JAN. 2.—The Ocean, Watson, from Sierra Leone to London, got ashore on the Main, near Kingsgate, this morning, and is discharging. Da WT31011711, JAN. 2.—The Pomona, Tomkins, from Lon• dos to St. Helena, put in here yesterday, with loss of bulwarks, stanchions, sails, rigging, &c., having been struck by a sea, 31st ult., and had one man washed overboard. PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 2.—Wind N. to N.W., squally.-- Arrd. Toronto, Griswold, New York. Off, M'Leed, Batavia. PLYMOUTH, JAN. 2.—lt blew a very heavy gale all last night from W.S. W. to N. W. ; it is now N.N. W., squally. Dec. 31.—Pot bask her Majesty's ship Nereus, South America. LivitarooL, JAN. 2.—Wind, N., moderate.—Arrd. Bri tannia, Gallatly, Valparaiso, Sept. 14; Glasgow, Meredith, Demerara, Jamaica, Martin, Quebec. Off, Fairfield, Kath leen. A barque is aground on the Dutchman's Bank, near Beaumaris. The John, hence to Newfoundland, is aground near the Bootle San d Mark. MILFORP, J A N. I.—The John Cumming, from Liverpool to New York, has put in here leaky, with lossof sails, bulwarks, &c., and cargo shifted , havi ng been struck by a sea on 22d ult. ESSELS SPOKEN WlTH.—Jan e' Palermo to Liverpool, of Lisbon ; Earl Leicester , Odessa to Falmouth, 3d ult., in the DOt9frosmPaa3,sfmargoe; Ceers, bound to Constantin o ple, sa m e d a y ; Smyrna, 4th ; Gazelle, London to Venice, Ilth ; off Coast Passaro; Eliza May, Labrador to Malta, 17th ; Tell, Shields to C o nstantinople, same day; Lavinia, Messina to London, 30th, lat. 48, lon. 6 ; Normandie, Shields to New York, same day, by the Eliza Saunders, arrived at Liverpool. Lightning, Guernsey to Cadiz, 21st ult., off Cape St. Mary's ; Lord of the Isles, Liverpool to Lisbon, 26th, lat. 42, lon. 10, by the Brenda, arrived at Falmouth. Piet Hend, Amsterdam to Batavia, with loss of mizenmast, and proceeding to Rio, to repair, Nov. 9, lat. 20 S., lon. 38 W., by the Malabar, ar rived at Bordeaux. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. sE TTING AT MANCHESTER. Ug D Iy E RTk .-2 17 14 1 agst Rattan (taken to 25!. )-7 to 1 cas t to 1 agst Loadstone-25 to I agst Cockamaroo —27 to 1 against kintan-30 to 1 agst Leander (taken to 100/0-30 to I agst Carnyunero-30 to 1 agst Running Rein —35 to 1 agst T'Auld Squire (offered)-33 to 1 agst Voltri (otters to take) -40 to 1 agst Lancet (offered)-50 to 1 agst Marinella colt-50 to 1 agst Saddlebow-5 to 1 agst Scott's lot. COURSING. CLYDESDALE CLUB MEETING, DEC. 28, 29, AND 30. — The Douglas Stakes were won by Mr. P o ll oc k' s C ross h ouse — Lord Eglinton's Du ke of Wellington ran up. The Eglinton Stakes wero won by Mr. Campbell's Blythswood—Marquis of Douglas's Crazy ran u 1). The Lanarkshire Open Cup was won by Mr. A. Graham's Longlong-ago—Marquis of Douglas' Checkmate ran up. The Consolation Stakes were won by Mr. Geddes's Tam Ritchie—Captain , M. Innes' Velocity ran up. PENIC RIDGE Alzwrixo.— The Puppy Cup and Stakes, fur 16 dogs, were won by Mr. Best's Molly Bawn ; and the Puppy Stakes, fir 14 dogs, by Mr. Scott's Topper. SCOTTISH HOSPITAL. - Yesterday a meeting of the noblemen and gentlemen, mem bers and subscribers to the Scottish Hospital, took place in the Hall of the Corporation, Crane-court, Fleet-street. Mr. Nisbett having been unanimously called to the chair, the minutes of the general meeting held on St. Andrew's day last were read and confirmed. The SECRETARY then read the Report, from which it ap peared that, during the lzct half-year, the Committee for the relief of distressed Scotchmen had examined into the cases and claims of 291 individuals, and had expended the sum of 2,146/. in alleviating their sufferings. The amount ex pended in pensions during the first six months of the past year was 929/., and during the last half of the year, 9171., making a gross sum, during the twelve months, of 1,8461. After pay ing the expenses of the Corporation, a balance remained in the Treasurer's hands of 4,016 i. The stock invest d by the Cor poration amounted to 56,0071. The Report having been adopted, and ordered to be printed, a resolution was carried, giving the Committee power to sell out stock to the amount of 1,000/., it required, for any con tingency. A vote of thanks to the Rev. Dr. Brown was carried, on his resigning the chaplaincy of the Hospital, in consequence of his appointment to a parish in Scotland by her Majesty. Air. NOBLE said he hail a r esolution to propose, which he thought would meet their c ordial support. He begged to it b mit " That his Grace ihe Duke of Sutherland, the President, and Vice-President s of their a ncient ('orporation, be requested to wait upon his Royal H ig h ness Prince Albert, and express the feelings of their body, and their hope that he would b e pleased to extend his pwronage to . their ancient charity by The resolutio n having ben seconded, Mr. DONAL DSON said t h at, i n inviting his Royal Highness Prince Albert to p res id e over t h e m, it should be borne in mind that that they w ere not ask i ng f u r pecuniary assistance, but festival."—( Hear, hear.) presiding at th e i r spr i ng merely for the honour, and he might add the happiness of being presided over by a Prince of such truly libe r a l and amiable qualities---( Loud c h eer i ng)—w h os e means were already too limited to enable him to contribute to every charity. The resolution was then carried unanimously. After the transaction of other business of lesser interest, a vote of thanks was given to the Chairman, and the meeting separated. THE ROYAL STAGIIOUNDS.—In coviaequence of the extremely unfavourable nature of the weather (a pretty thick fog prevailing with a snow acco mpaniment) but a very small field (not more tha n b etween twen ty and thirty) were present at the meet of her Majesty's staghounds, in the town of Ilea censfield, on Monday last. Indeed it was for some time ques tionable if it would be judicious, under these circumstances, to uncart the deer. The weather, however, partially clearing up shortly before twelve o'clock an untried deer was turned out close to Dorney Bottom, which went away towards Hall Barn, the seat of Sir Gore Ouseley, crossing the park to Woburn Common, where it doubled to the right down the bill into the village, on to the ch urc h , w h ence it circled round on the side of the hill to Holt s p ur - gate, an d was taken at Mr. Brooks's farm, at Hchrpur-b o t tom, a f ter a very good run of an hour at a hunting pace throughout. The field were well up at the take. The health of the venerabh. Earl Grey continues much the same within the last few days, his Lordship's disease partaking of no further dangerous symptoms, neither is he so favourably held as to give hopes of any permanent improve ment,—Tyne Mercury, k , r:f Yl4 .-~