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aware of the obstacles thrown in the way of an ope ration now acknowledged to be perfectly. legal. The information then acquired was altogether inadequate to the object proposed ; but the various investigations which the Government had ordered showed that the Present assessment was not so vicious as had been sup posed. In place, therefore, of immediately modifying the assessments, and for certain inequalities substi tuting others, it had appeared to the Government better to introduce a Bill which should, by degrees, remove all disproportions that might exist in the several departments of the kingdoin. By that means, the contingent of each department would be diminished each year, as well for the property contributive depending on the houses destroyed as personal taxes of the occupiers of those houses. It wound he augmented only in proportion to the real value of the new constructions really occupied by the inhabitants. He proposed to fix the propor tion in which the augmentations were to take place by twentieths. The total amount of the value of habitations, such as it appeared from the late census, was 5:33 millions, and might be estimated at 30 or 40 more, if the difficulties which prevented that opera tion being properly executed, were taken into consi deration. The produce of the twentieth, applied to that amount only, furnished 28 or 29 millions, whilst the personal and property contingent amounted to 34 millions. The diminution would, therefore, be rela tively greater than the additions, if it could not be proved that from the increasing wealth of the country the houses to be erecte d would much exceed those tha t were allowed to disappear. The Government felt convinced that no loss would accrue, and to act with still more consideration, the departmental assessment was not to be increased until the third year after the commencement of the new buildings. A Bill should be laid before them for this purpose. As to the question both of doors and windows, no difference of Opinion has ever arisen between the Government and the rate-payers, for the simple reason that the assessment could be made without the officers engaged in it being obliged to enter the houses. It would be seen by a table an nexed to the budget, that if the legal number was enforced, as proved by the inquiries made during the census, the sum produced would be 28,056,450 f., or 4,500,000 f. more than in 1844. They did not intend, however, insistinc , on the rigorous exercise of the law so as to produce that sum, the new mode of assess ment being fully adequate to obtain the result they arrived at. An article relative to the indirect taxes had for its object to furnish, at the cost of a very trifling sacrifice to those landlords who had a great number of tenants, the means of delegating to them the charge of paying their taxes. Two articles would be proposed to the Chamber relative to indirect taxes, one intended to fix the meaning of article 15 of the law of 15th June, 1841, and the other to furnish the most •efficacious means of preventing the frauds which were practised on the revenue in the article of potable liquors, parti cularly spirits. The Hon. Minister concluded by stating that the equilibrium of the budget which he had just presented had not been obtained by omissions or extenuations of expenses, or by the exaggerations in the presumed receipts, but declared that the result was real and sincere. Two conditions were, however, l i he added, necessary to secure this result—the con currence of all the powers of the State, and a perse verance in the line of policy consecrated by that as sistance. It was in the hands of the Chamber, and he felt assured it would not be compromised. " Art. 1. Credits are opened to the amount of 1,372,538,141 f., for the expenses of the estimates of 1845, as follows 367,120,654 F. 14,745,000 ORDINARY SERVICE. Public Debt Grants . Expenses of the various Ministerial de partments . Expenses of r "i g ie,collection of taxes, &c. 147,692,191 Reimbursements, provinces, and dis -66,355,770 tricts Total . 1,276,106,797 f. EXTRAORDINARY SERVICE. Extraordinary works Railroads.. 62,431,344 f. 34,000,000 General total Credits amounting to 19,517,992 f. are also opened for the estimates of 1845 as follows : Legion of Honour . . Royal Printing-office Consular establishments. Invalides, Marine, and the Mint..... 7,102,898 f. 2,760,500 360,000 1,350,494 Total .. 19,517,992 f. " Art. 2. The above-mentioned expenses shall be provided for by ways and means of 1845. " Art. 3. The effective force to be kept up in Al geria, beyond which the second paragraph of the Art. 4 of the law of 11th June, 1842, will be re quired, is fixed for the year 1845 at 60,000 men and 13,896 horses. " Art. 4: A distinct account is to he given of the employment of the credits on the Chapters 21, 25, and 33 of the budget of the War Department for ex traordinary works in Algeria. " Art. 5. The sum of 1,050,000 f. is opened to the Athascei - of for military v elitiutiS. " Art. 6. The interest of caution money of public officers is fixed at 3 per cent. after January, 1845. " Art. 7. The faculty of opening supplementary credits by Royal ordonnance, to supply the insuffi ciency of grants, can only be allowed in the cases already determined." The next order of the day was the verification of qualifications. M. Cremieux presented the report of the Commit tee on the election of M. Sieyes for Valence (Drome), which was in favour of his admission. M. Lherbette opposed his admission, on the plea that he was ineligible, in consequence of his having entered the service of a foreign Power. The objection to his admission was, after some dis cussion, overruled, and his election declared valid. The Marquis de Dalmatie, who had been re-elected for Castres (Tarn-et•Garonne), took the oaths and his seat The discussion on the Address was fixed for Mon day next. Tho Chamber adjourned at half-past four. ANTI-CORN-LAW MEETING AT EDINBURGH. CT Thursday a public meting was held in the New Music Hall (Assembly Rooms), the largest public hall in Edinburgh, to receive a deputation from the National Anti-Corn-law League, consisting of Richard Cobden, Esq., M.P., John Bright, Esq., M.P., Colonel T. P. Thompson, and R. R. Moore, Esq., the object of the meeting being to promote a subscription in Edinburgh and neighbourhood in aid of the Great League Fund of 100,0001., to be applied in securing the total and imme diate repeal of the corn-laws, the Right Hon. the Lord Provost in the chair; and among those on the platform were, Richard Cobden, Esq., M.P.; John Bright, Esq., M.P. ; Colonel T. P. Thompson; R. R. Moore, Esq. ; Bailies Duncan and Gray; William Dick, Esq., Deau of Guild; Councillors Wright, James Duncan, stark, Lo thian, Stott, Cruickshank, Grierson, Dodds, Drummond, Lindsay, and Sanderson. The Lord Provost, Mr.. Cobden, Colonel Thompson, and Mr. Bright, addressed the meeting, and a resolution, cordially approving of the objects and exertions of the Anti-Corn-law League, was adopted. The CHAIRMAN announced the amount of subscrip tions, including the sums which had been previously sub scribed, to be 1,142/. 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She intimates that she has taken her portraitures from originals in private life."—Observer. " The Laurringtons' are well drawn, and from the life."— Examiner. " Every page of ' The Laurringtons' bears the impress of the authors peculiar talent for sly humorous satire, and her nice discrimination in unveiling the heartless frivolity of modern fashionable life."—John Bull. London : Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans. MRS. GRANT OF LAGGAN. On Friday next will be published, vols. post Bvo., with Portrait, MEMOIR awl CORRESPONDENCE of the late Mrs. GRANT, of Laggan, Author of " Letters from the Mountains," "Memoirs of an American Lady," &c., &c. Edited by her Son, J. P. GRANT, Esq. London : Longman, Brown, Green, and Longman. FLANDERS MAIL. BRUSSELS, J.N. 12.—The Minister of the Interior will very shortly distribute a great work on educa tion in Belgium. It is a complete history of educa tion since 1794. The collection of documents forms the half of two large octavo volumes. We are not aware that any work so complete as this exists in any country of Europe. At the opening of the sitting of the Chamber of Representatives to-day, M. de Roo presented the Report on the petitions relative to the transit of cattle by the railway, proposing to refer these petitions to the Minister of Finance, asking him for explanation. Several Members wished the Report to be printed, and discussed on Monday. The Minister of Finance observed that the Royal Decree of Sept. 23 having been adopted by his advice and that of the Minister of the Interior, the Report should be referred to both. M. Mulon, and some other members, affirmed that the decree in question was illegal, for that it could not be founded on the law of the 28th March last, which authorises the Government to modify the regulations concerning the transit. The Members decided that the Report should be referred to the two Ministers. The Chamber then resumed, and concluded the debate on the budget of the Department of Justice, which was voted unanimously. The sum voted is 10,983,000 f. DRURY-LANE THEATRE.—It is many years since there has been so brilliant a season at this establishment as the present one ; and such is the attraction of The Bohemian Girl and the new pantomime of Harlequin .TC;ng Pepin, that every prospect presents itself of its con tinuation. Benedict's opera, already in a forward state of preparation, has been retarded, and Charles Kean, who was to have appeared on the Bth inst., does not make his appearance until the 22d. The receipts have realized, we are given to understand, upwards of 2,0001., a-week. ASTLEY'S THEATRE.—This elegant theatre has been crowded, night after night, during the representa tion of the Christmas pieces, and the spirited proprietor has yielded to the earnest entreaties of his patrons and friends, and announced his intention of keeping it open for six nights longer. Our holiday friends will feel highly delighted with this arrangement ; for the fun and amus ing representations are so very ludicrous as to draw forth the loudest demonstrations of merriment and applause. The subject of the pantomime is taken from Burns' celebrated production " Tam O'Shanter," of which we gave a full account at its first production. The enter tainments conclude with the Scenes in the Circle, the performances of Mons. Piege, and the Victories of Murat , of which we have before expr esse d a f avoura b le op i n i on. The bill of fare is highly attractive. KEEN SHAVING.—It will be remembered that a market has commenced at Seaham-h ar b our for the con venience of the colliery districts, and to improve and extend the trade at that place, the tradesmen under taking to supply every article of as good q ua li ty and on the same terms as in the large towns in this district. On the last market day, a pitman went into a barber's' shop to get his week's crop removed from his chin, when, having been duly soaped, and all ready for the operation he suddenly started up , and exclaimed, " Does that; shave at Durham prices ?" " Yes," exclaimed the astonished shaver, " what for ?" " Why," said the pitman, " if thou had'nt thou should have washed the soap off again, my lad, for we'll pay nae mair than Durham prices.—Newcastle Advertiser. The young lady who has taken the Neapolitans by the cars, under the cognomen of Favante, is a Miss Ed wards, a pupil of Crivelli, who used to sing at the Aca demy concerts a season or two back ; and who belonged to that institution.—Dramatic and Musical Review. THE FAILURE OF A LIEGE HOSIERY HOUSE.— Messrs. Nevill, Son, Rossall, and Co., of Cary-lane, Lon don, this week, has produced a great sensation in this market, and some houses are large creditors, but from the last report it appears probable that there will not ultimately be any loss.—Leicestershire Mercury. THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY 15, 1844 them by the law authorities of Dublin who, by striking all the members of that faith off the jury list, have deliberately proclaimed it as their opinion that they are not to be trusted on their oaths. Lord KENMARE, Mr. Wvss, of Water ford, Mr. SHELL, and several eminent Catholic Prelates, who have hitherto either taken no part in Repeal, or shown themselves decidedly hostile to it, have come publicly forward to mark their sense of this flagrant indignity ; and at the Aggregate meeting which was held in Dublin on Saturday last, the Lord Mayor, who was in the chair, correctly expressed the feelings of his excited hearers, when he ob served that " as in religion he was a Catholic, the conduct pursued by the Crown within the last few days showed that they considered him unworthy to act as a common juror in the city of Dublin. Every citizen who professed that creed, sincerely believing it to be best, was declared disqualified to discharge the functions of a juror. There are seven and a half millions of Catholics in Ireland; they were excluded—practically dis qualified by time act of the Crown, which expunged the name of every Catholic from the jury panel in the State prosecutions." It may perhaps be imagined that these gentlemen were struck off merely because they were Repealers, and might naturally therefore be presumed to be so biassed as to be unable to give an impartial verdict ; but this was not the case ; their sole crime was their religion--a fact to which Mr. WYSE thus alludes :—" It was not until after the Catholic- jurors had been struck , • from the list that any idea was entertained of inquiry into their political principles; so that it has been clearly ascertained that it was not the connection with any political associa tion, or the profession of any principles which might be considered as forming any particular political creed, which had incapa citated those gentlemen for the enjoyment of their privileges. Their sole crime was their Ca tholicity. The conduct of the Crown had esta blished the principle that the being Catholics implied a suspicion which in itself was sufficient to deprive men of the rights which belonged to the great mass of the people of Ireland." And this is the way in which the Catholics are treated, —fourteen years after the passing of the Act which professed to emancipate them from all the lz.gal.and political and civil disqualifications under which they had hitherto laboured! And the Government, which treats them thus cavalierly, is the same which brought forward and carried that Act, which was intended—in the language of its authors—to be one of grace and conciliation ! Yes, the Tories, who were the Emancipators, are now, true to their old instincts, become once again the oppressors of the Catholics. They cannot divest themselves of their old hereditary prejudices—they cannot get rid of their favourite system of government—but must needs betray the cloven foot, no matter how indispensable it is to their interests that they should keep it carefully concealed. Justly observed Sir ROBERT PEEL in the year 1836—only a few hours before he crossed over from the Treasury bench to the Opposition side of the House—that his great difficulty was Ireland. It was his great difficulty then—it is his great difficulty now—and it will continue to be his great diffi culty, until he sees fit to humble himself and cry " Peccavi"—to retrace his whole course of policy—and turn over a new leaf as regards the sister-country. Surely he must by this time be convinced that a one-sided system of legislation —a petty, temporising, neither-this-nor-that line of conduct, will never do for Ireland ! He has already given it the fullest trial, and it has failed—failed so egregiously that not a few, even of those who have hitherto been its warmest ad vocates, have at length seen their error, and re fused any longer to sanction such a blundering system of policy. Beset with difficulties as the Premier now is—difficulties in a great measure of his own courting, and which be might have overcome, had he been possessed of the requi site energy and decision of character—we suspect that it is in Ireland he is destined to meet with his downfal. That is the rock on which he will split—the country in which his reputation for political sagacity will ere long find its grave. Let the issue of tl►e state prosecutions be what it may, he cannot fail to be the sufferer. If the result be an acquittal, his Ministry will have the mortification of having been beaten by O'CON NELL in a trial of strength of their own seeking, and in which they had put forth all the resources of the Crown; if, on the contrary, the result be a condemnation, not a Catholic in Ireland—no matter which he be a Repealer or a non-Repealer— but will be firmly convinced that such a result was brought about in bold defiance of justice. 'The consequence will be that a spirit of discon tent and distrust will become more general than ever among the Irish people ; and Mr. O'CoN NELL will resume the agitation of Repeal with more vigour and confidence, in his solitary dungeon, than lie - would if he were declaiming publicly in the Conciliation Hall, or at one of his famous monster meetings. We have accounts from Madrid to the 7th inst.,-and though the capital and the provinces were perfectly tranquil, many feared that it was only the calm before the storm. GONZALES BRAVO and his Mini,istry are becoming every day more contemptible,. and as soon as General NAR.• VAEZ has served his purpose with them lie will get rid of them, as 11... c did of LOPEZ and OLOZAGA. One point of importance has already been gained, the renewal. -of the pension to the Queen- Mother. The Gazette of the Bth was to contain the following Royal . . decree : ‘, According to the iidvice of the Council of Ministers, and following_ the dictr rtes of my heart, I have decreed as follow : " Art. 1. The decree' , issued by the ex-Regent of the kingdom at Vittoria e o n the 26 th of October, 1841, which suspended the I rayment of the pension assigned in the budget of the Ist of September of said year to my dearest and most belov . M mother, Queen Maria Chris tina de Bourbon, is he Irvby revoked. " Art. 2. The Minis tar of Finance is charged with the execution of the present decree. " Given at the Palace, on the 6th of Jan., 1844." M. L. A. de Cueto hie d been appointed Minister Ple nipotentiary at Lisbon.. M. Martinez de la Rosa was to proceed to Paris in a km days, and the Duke de Rivas to embark at Cadiz for Naples. The Paris Papers bring the Address to the Royal Speech, agre ed to by the Committee, and a full report of the: financial statement for the year 1845, made by the Minister of Finances on thell el Chamber, and requires no Friday. The Add rE.ss varies little from that adopted by comment. The Budget is of more importance, PP as it shows the go o d effects produced on the country by peace wand security. The subjoined brief outline, which is sufficiently favourable, is extracted from a Government paper, the Journal des D e b a t s . The Budget for 1844, pre sented a year ago, re tuired for the o r d i na r y ser vice a sum of 1,281,01 3,710 f., and the receipts at 1,247,228,366 f., giving a surplus of )1, a deficiency of 33 , 785 , 344 f. !I For 1845, the o r di nal expe nses are put down at 1,276,106,797 f., a n d the. e receipts at 1,276,925,231 f., early 1,000,000 f. Besides for 1834, the extraor( li nary Budget amounted to 123,500,000 f., 80,000, 000 of which were to be covered by loan, and . 43,500,0 00 were imputable to the floating debt. :. For 184 5 , the first part of the extraordinary w 'arks, that which is to be acquitted by means o f the loan already voted, amounts to 62,431,34411; the second, charged to the floating debt, am( v unts to 34,000,000. But it must be remembered . that among the expenses is included the dotati, of the sinking fund, the larger portion of whilx !h, or that which corres ponds to the Four p• .11 r Cents., Four-and-a-Half per Cents., and Five / ler Cents., remaining un employed, is applicab,l to to covering the floating debt. For 1845, the resources of the sinking fund will amount to 4.1 ouble the sum which the floating debt will have to bear on account of the extraordinary works. The writer, after q a( sting some other proofs of national prospe r ity, aeii Is, with what we hope is well-founded ex u lt a ti, o n —" We do not think there is in Europe me] . 1 an instance of the in crease of revenue, will .bout an aggravation of taxes. Since 1833, all b e ing balanced, it has WILLIAM lIOWITT'S NEW WORK. Published This Day, 2 vols. foolscap Bvo., with Forty Illustra tion on Wood by G. F. Sargent, 15s. cloth, THE LIFE and ADVENTURES of JACK of the MILL, commonly called " Lard Othmill ;" created, for his Eminent Services, Baron Waldeck, and Knight of Kitticottie ; a Fireside Story. By WILLIAM HOWIT f. Also, just published, by MARY HOWITT, with Ten Wood 'Engravings by G. F. Sargent, price 10s. 6d., THE CHILD'S PICTURE and VERSE BOOK. London : Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans. T 1 1E NEXT DISTRIBUTION of MONEY DIVIDENDS, AUTHORISED and GUARANTEED by HIS MAJESTY the EMPEROR a A lISTRIA, contains 4102 YE Y DIVIDENDS .E £5O £6O £7O £BO £9O £lOO £llO £l2O £l5O £2OO £4OO £6OO £BOO £l,OOO £1,500 £5,000 and £23,000 sterling. . . Amounting together to £70,170 sterling. Direct for PROSPECTUS with full particulars, WITH. OUT DELAY, to HEINE BROTHERS, at HAMBURGH, Or, to HEINE BROTHERS, at LUBECK. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY.LANE. THIS EVENING. JANUARY 15, _ . .. . Will be performed CINDERELLA. Felix, Mi. W. Harrison; Cinderella, Mrs. A. Shaw. Atter which, will be repeated a New Grand Comic Christmas Pantomime, entitle.i HAR LEQ UIN AND KING PE PI ; or- VALENTINE AND ORSON. Harlequin, Mr. Howell; Colum, bine, Miss Carson; Clown, Mr. T. Ridgway; Pantaloon, Mr. Blanchard. Dress Boxes 75., Second Price 3s. 6d. ; Upper Circles of Boxes 58., Second Price Is. ; Pit 3s , Second Price .; Middle battery 25., :ccond Price Is.; Upper Gallery Is., Second Price 6d. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-DARDEN. M. JULLIEN'S CONCERTS, M. Jullien regrets that he is unable to give a Concert this Evening, Monday, Jan. 15, the Theatre having been let for that evening pre vious to his occupation. TO-MORROW, TUESDAY, JANUARY IR, Will be produced a New Comic Quadrille, by 51. Jullien, entitled THE HUSH ECHOS : Semiramide—Echo,Air, Life let us cherish. Air, Poor Mary Ann—cho, Nix my dolly Pals. Air, Duncan Grey—Echo, Yankee Dcodle. Air, Huntsman's Chorus—Echo, St. Patrick's Day and Rule Britsnnia The National Air in the Finale will be given with New and Grand Effect, in aid of which Twelve Cornets-a-Piston will be added to the Orchestra. Doors Open at Half past Seven, commence at Eight o'Clock. Promenade, Is , Upper Boxes, Is.; Dress Circle, •2s. ; Private Boxes, 14 Is. T B "Tickets to be obtained at the ox-office of the Theatre; of Mr. /Mitchell, Old Bond-street; Mr. Andrews, New Sond-stieet ; Mr. Sams, St. James's-street; and M. Jullion's Office, 3, Maddox-street, Bond-street. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. MIL BENJAMIN WEBSTER, LESSER RE-ENGAGEMENT OF PROFESSOR RISLEY AND HIS INFANT SON. THIS EVENINti, JANUARY 15, Will be repeated the Comedy of THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR. Sir John Falstaff; Mr. Strickland; Master Slender, Mr. C. Mathews; Mr. Ford, Mr. Stuart; Mr. Page, Mr. Howe; Fenton, Mr. Caulfield; Sir Hugh Evans, Mr. Webster; Mrs. Page, bLrlame Vestris ; Mrs. Ford, Mrs. Ni.,bett; Mrs. Quickly, Mrs. Glover ; Anne Page, Miss Mattley. Atter which, the Unparalleled Performances ot.Professor RISLEY and his lON. To conclude with a New Fairy Extravaganza, entitled T lIE FAIR ONE WITH THE GOLDEN LUCKS! King Lachrymose, J. Bland; Prince Graceful, Miss P. Horton ; Queen Luculora, Miss Julia Bennett. Orchestra Stalls, ss. ; Boxes, ss. ; Pit, fs. ; Gallery, 25.; Upper r Gallery, ls. Half-price—Boxes, 3s. ; Pit 25.; Gallery, ? ; Upper Gallery, 6d. Doors opened at Half-past Six, and the I ertermai ces commence at Seven. 'tickets and Places to be had of Mr I. T. Archer, at the Box• office, from Ten till Five. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. The Best Pantomime of the Season—Gorgeous Scenery. THIS EVENING, JANUARY 15, The New Drama, embracing Extraordinary Effects, Powerful Cast, and Novel - Scenic Display , called IHE BOHEMIANS; or, The Rogii - es of Paris. Principal Characters by Messrs. Lyon, O. Smith, Wright, Wieland, Maynard, Mrs. Yates, Miss E. St.inlcy, Mrs. F. Matthews. After which, a New Grand Christmas Pantomime, called HAR LEQUIN BLUE BEARD; or, The Fairy of the Silver Crescent. Trounced with Enormous Splendour and Wonderful Effects! Columbine, Miss Ruben ; Harlequin Quicksilver, by the inimitable Wieland; Clown, by the Grimaldi of the day, Mr. T. Matthews, from the Theatres Royal, Covent-garden and Druiy.lane; Panta. loon, Mr. Johnstone. Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, Is. ; Second price at Nine. Doors open at Mx, commences at a Quarter before Seven o'Clock. PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD.STREE'f. LESSEE, Mr. J. 51. MADDOX. THIS EVENING, JANUARY 15, Will be performed LUCREZIA BORGIA. Ibn Alphonso, Mr. Burdini ; Gennarro, Mr. Allen ; Matlio Orsini, Mrs. H. P. Grattan; Gubetta, Mr. Walton ; Lucrezia Borgia, Madame Eugenia Garcia. After which, A DAY WELL. SPENT. To conclude with the New Musical Burlesque spectacle, entitled THE MAGIC MIRROR. Singsong, Mrs. 11. P. Grattan; Poo. Poo, Mr. Paul Bedford ; Miss It. Isaacs. DAYIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. As usual, the funniest and most successful Pantomime. THIS EVENING, JANUARY 15, Will be repeated THE BOIIESIIANS OF PARIS. Supported by Messrs. Saville, Hughes, Hicks, R. Homier, Johnson, Smith, Nlrs. H. Vining, and all the Members of the 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 ORA 5151 AR, or, Lindley Murray,and AEI 0 U. Harlequin, Mr. W. H. Harvey ; Grotesque, Mr. Stilt; Clown, Mr. Fuller; Panta loon, Mr. Hawr i ns ; Columbines (alternately) Miss 51. It. 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 the Management of Mr. Batty, Proprietor. Triumphant Success of the Splendid Christmas Holiday Fetes,—West rninster-Bridge is now open—Juvenile Nights. THIS EVENING, JANUARY 15, Will be performed a Grand Comic Pantomime, entitled HARLE QUIN FAM O'SIIANTRR, and his STEED MEG ; or, The Witches of Alloway Kirk. Harlequin, Mr. Gibson ; Columbine, Mdlle. Cushnie ; Clown. Mr. King; Pantaloon, Mr. Mathews. New Scenes in the Circle, and unequallen Feats of Horsemanship. To conclude with the splendid French Spectacle of THE VIC. fORtES OF MURAT, THE SOLDIER OF FRANCE; or, The General, Prince, and King. Acting and Stage Manager, Mr. W. D. Broadfoot. Stalls, • Boxes. 45.; Upper B oxes, 35.; Pit, Gallery, Is.; Upper Gallery, f open daily from • Ten till Four. Stag e Boxes One Guinea; Half-price t o D itto, Half a : Guinea.. Private Boxes ' , Two Guineas; Half-price to Ditt o , One Guinea. Half-price, Halt-past Eight. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. THIS EVENING, JANUARY 15, Will be performed an entirely New Domestic Drama, entitle," POVERTY; or, Mary. Graham. Leonard, Mr. Freer; Jessamy Tacit, Mr. Nantz ; Squire Graham, Mr. Dale; Patty Parrot, bliss Arden ; Mary Graham, Miss Vincent. After which will be produced THE FAIRY LADY; or, the Cabinet of Bronze. To conclude with HARLEQUIN LINCOLN LUCKY OF LAM. BETH; or, The Three Sisters of Witch Willow Dell, Harlequin Mr. Chapin° ; Clown, Mr, Searbrow; Pantaloon, Mr, Morelli Columbine, Mu N. Schmidt. WORTHY OF REMARK.—The fact that many of the principal Hospitals inthe Kingdom, among which it is sufficient to name Guy's, St. George's, and the Westminster, in the Metropolis ; and the Manchester, Bristol, and Brighton Infirmaries, have adopted BETTS'S PATENT BRANDY, in preference to Foreign, affords a sufficient gua rantee to the consumers of Brandy of the extreme purity of the article, the connoisseur being, at the same time, baffled in his attempt to distinguish between its flavour and. that of fine Cognac. Price, pale or coloured, in quantities not less than Two Gallons, Eighteen Shillings per Gallon, at the Distillery, No. 7, Smithfield Bars, leading to St. John-street. TO CORRESPONDENTS. We are obliged to " R," and though we have turned our at tention to the principal documents referred to, perhaps some may have escaped notice. We shall be able to judge from the extracts which he proposes to communicate. We have no knowledge of the firm about which " Henry Ash croft" makes inquiries. WEATHER.-SUN OFFICE, JAN. 14. THERMOMETER, Lowest, 27 ; Highest, 43 ; Noon, 33. BAROMETER, 30.4.—W1ND, N.N.E. NOTE.—The nuteber 32 on the Thermometer denotes the freezing point, and 55 temperate. In Barometers fair is usually placed opposite 30, and rain at 29. HIGH WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY. Morning ... 3 minutes after 9. I Evening ... 41 minutes after 9. f• ~ - . ~,,,,..'"\'' ,r•••,:•K , 1 . 4 , , ... . • .... ~:14424, • ~ ,I'.-1.- . ~,,A ll, a tte . t s mi ... l- '44. ~ ..... . V 4 u t 1- ;341 ,„•y , z, ~,,.....,.-....-°:-.' 4. (i,, ~ li p y- -1 .04.4ivt, • .1;4 k , ', . - . . .._ -, .. n. ,..„....,i6,:'..' v ':: , ......r -- -7 7 ,3 i . •,•••• • . 1 .• kE2 ' • M 0 • , :,,,,i4uoi, .. )R0 (I .io ..4....::, . - ,- vibill, *::‘, 131110:14',', .i,.,2.':•.;...-....e?„••,,,,,,,,,i ,'!:,,,-• '._ . SECOND EDITION: awnings e4illt LONDON, MONDAY, JANUARY 15, 1844. This morn dawned upon the commencement of a trial, the effect of which, to the Govern ment of the country, to the people of Ireland, and to the well-being of the empire, it is totally impos sible to calculate. The trial of DANIEL O'CON NELL, for a seditious conspiracy, would at any time have excited the liveliest feelings of sym pathy, and called forth all the anxiety of friend ship, among those who recognised in him the great assertor of his country's rights, and the regenerator of her religious freedom,—whilst those, whose Orange bigotry saw, as the result of his acts and deeds, the downfal of their own long-continued selfish legislation, would have hoped to witness his conviction, his punishment, and his disgrace. But at the present time, when the utmost power of a Government has been stretched, to procure, if possible, the certainty of a triumph,— when the bitterness of enmity has sharpened every weapon, and the vehemence of a party, desperate, in proportion to its want of judgment, has called upon the legal officers of the Crown to cry havoc, and let slip the dogs of war, upon one, who, whatever his occasional errors, has always been the firm supporter of civil and reli gious liberty all the world over, and who, whilst claiming for himself and his own countrymen en tire freedom, has always been equally ready to con cede it to others—how gratifying to himself must it be to feel, and to every Liberal to know, that let the result of the present trial be what it may, neither punishment nor disgrace can attach to him. The jury must decide upon a conviction — we believe that they must decide rightly, and that conviction of unfair dealing will attach to the prosecutors—acquittal of all offence to the traversers. In our last number, we gave a sketch of the various practices by which the current of jus tice has been sought to be impeded, corrupted, and polluted. Upon the additional means to pro cure a conviction, namely, the exclusion of every Roman Catholic from the jury panel, in a coun try where seven millions of Catholics are fomid to one million of Protestants, the grand aggre gate meeting of the Catholics of Ireland, held on Saturday, and which is reported in our columns this day, has pronounced its indignant opinion. In that opinion every honest Liberal will con cur, and denounce the proceeding as the greatest insult to religious feeling, and the grossest in justice to an entire faith, that even the history of Tory official conduct of political prosecutions can show. The other instance of Tory official manage ment, the suppression of 63 names out of a panel of 780 qualified jurors, proved to have occurred, no matter how—and by a Judge of character un impeachable, declared to be ?natter for grave suspicion—and yet to have been done in such a way, that no remedy exists for the accused until after conviction, adds burning coals of fire upon the heads of the Irish officers of the Crown. And thus, to sum up all, the trial in which justice is pretended to be about to be administered, has this day commenced, with a total denial of every thing that is worthy of the name; and the sacred temple of the laws is attempted to be polluted by a perversion of that justice which it is the boast of Britons, that it belongs to their very soil, and is inherent in the very spirit of their con stitution. No correct copy of the indictment supplied to them, contrary to law and to English practice ; the names of the witnesses withheld, contrary to law and to English practice ;—the witnesses sworn in secret, and not in open court, contrary to law both in England and Ireland ;—the striking orf the jury of all men of the Catholic faith, contrary to Christian charity and common j us ti c e ;—and the suppression of nearly one-tenth of the entirejury panel, contrary to law, princi ple, and all fair dealing,—these are the pre parations for a great act of justice, in the year 1844, in the time of a Tory Government, but after all—and greatest shame of all—in the Y►emiership of Sir ROBERT PEEL. We had hoped better things from him, but it appears we hoped in vain; the regret is now ours,—the eter nal infamy which these proceedings must entail upon their concoctors, will attach equally to their abettors, and will be his. The jury have now committed to them, the care for the interests of justice, which Tory officials have shown they totally disregard. The jurors sworn to determine upon the evidence sub mitted to them, may still keep from degradation an Irish tribunal. They must decide, whether the traversers are guilty of doing acts, with any 5u2,11 intentions as the Crown officers impute to them. No matter what those acts may be, it is the intent. that affixes their guilt or innocence. The intention to do an illegal act must first exist, before any criminality can attach to that act. No act can amount to a crime unless it be proved to be committed in fulfilment of a premeditated intention, and the establish ment of an act, is no establishment ofan intention to commit that crime. There can be no doubt, that if multitudes as semble, with intent, by force and violence, to compel the repeal of any law, a crime is thereby committed; but if the intent be, to produce the repeal of the law, without force or violence, no crime is committed by the assembling of multi tudes, however numerous. The law deals with intents, not with numbers; and jurors will—all jurors must—remember that no suspicion, or pro bability, or chance of guilt, will suffice, but proof, clear and indisputable, of guilt and intent pre existent, is requisite to enable them to pronounce an accused party guilty, in accordance with their oaths. The Roman Catholics of Ireland are promptly and boldly resenting the gross insult passed on been at an average, above 26,000,000 a) ear, half of the budget of Sweden. The augmentation is continual and progressive, and when we compare the foreseen receipts with the receipts realised, as the anticipated receipts are reckoned after the receipts of the two preceding years, the overplus is much increased. Thus 1843 will have yielded 45,000,000 more than was reckoned. In 1842 the overplus has been 77,000,000. Hence the consoling result to those who had been alarmed, •by the additional expenses imposed by circum stances in 1840, that the extraordinary disburse ments the Treasury was in consequence con demned to, will involve us much less than had been supposed. Our finances will soon bear no vestige of it, provided we be wise enough to persevere in the same policy, of which a doubt must not be enter• tai ned. Thisstate of the revenue will relieve the Go vernmentfrom some anticipated difficulty in com pleting and maintaining the fortifications, and, if we are to credit a statement in the Reforme, the latter operation is in a very advanced state. From 12,000 to 15,000 gun-carriages it says have been cast at Nevers, Toulouse, Douai, Lille, and Strasburgh, of which a specimen may be seen at Vincennes, and at the esplanade of the Invalides; and as the Government has written on its banner, ' Peace everywhere, and for ever,' and as the arsenals contain from 8,000 to 10,000 pieces of cannon, the twelve bastiles which are ready to ceive their artillery may be supplied with their guns and mortars as soon as it pleases the Go vernment." BOURSE—PA RIS C SATURDAY, JAN. 13. First Highest Lowest Last Price. Price. Price. Price. French Five per Cents. 124 45... 124 65... 124 45 .. 124 65 Four per Cents. 105 50... 105 50... 105 50... 105 50 Threes B2 50... 82 60... 82 50.. 82 55 Bank of France 3260 ...3262 50 —3260 ...3262 50 Latiate Bank I,ooof 1112 50 —lll2 .50...1112 50.-1112 50 Belgian Bank ..... 652 50... 660 ... 650 ._ 660 1841 lOBO —.lOBO —.lOBO ...1080 Belgian Fives 1840 lOBl 108 i ... 1086 ... 108 i Threes.. 76 40... 76 40... 76 40... 76 40 Dutch 2i per Cents 541 ... 541 ... 541 ... 544 Spanish Passive Old Deferred 51 51 ... 51 51 Portuguese Fives ... Neapolitan ..... Roman ...... RAILWAY SHARES. Versailles, R.B 3lO ... 310 .. 310 310 L. 8... Rouen Rouen is Havre 650 ... 650 ... 650 ... 650 Orleans. Strasburg to Bale- 230 ... 230 ... 228 75... 230 Avignon to Marseilles 662 50... 662 50... 662 50... 662 50 RAILWAY SHARES, FOR THE ACCOUNT. Versailles, LB l7O ... 175 ... 170 ... 175 Rouen to Havre... 650 ... 650 ... 650 .. 650 Orleans B4O ... 840 ... 832 50... 837 50 Strasburg to Bale O2O ... 235 ... 230 ... 235 Avignon to Marseilles t:62 50... 663 75... 662 50 ...663 75 IA Cabinet Council is appointed to be held this afternoon at the Foreign office, Downing-street. All the Ministers are expected to attend, the Cabinet Ministers being in town. AMERICAN NEWS ARRIVAL OF THE HIBERNIA. LIVERPOOL, SUNDAY MORNING. Ti►e Hibernia, Captain Judkins, which has performed some extraordinarily quick passages across the Atlantic, arrived here yesterday at one o'clock, having, with fifty-six passengers, left Boston on the afternoon of the Ist, and Halifax • at noon on the 3d instant, thus making the run from the latter place in ten, and from the former in twelve days, including the stoppage to take in the mails, which, considering the season of the year, is one of the most successful trips on re cord. Her dates are nine days later than those brought by the Liverpool. Congress dragged its slow length along. No thing of interest has occurred in either House, if we except a furious onslaught which the southern members, headed by Mr. %Vise had made upon Mr. John Quincey Adams, for contending that Congress was bound to receive the petitions of the people against slavery, in accordance with the spirit of the American declaration of independence. Pre vious exhibitions of the same kind were marked by great bitterness of feeling against the aboli tionists; but the outbreak alluded - to seems to have excelled all that have gone before it in that respect. Mr. Wise, in particular, distinguished himself by his ridiculous violence. The annexation of Texas is discussed in the pa pers, but the project, which is by no means po pular in the north, seems to excite but little enthusiasm, or even warmth of feeling in the south, although more particularly interested in the measure. But, however this favourite pro ject of the retiring President may have fallen still born upon the people, it is clear that the feelings of the same authority with regard to the Oregon territory, have excited more atten tion, and are more zealously responded to. To take immediate 'possession of the dis puted territory, is the favourite topic of the day. The British Government ought to lose no time in settling this bone of contention, because it is clear that, whatever the American Execu tive may wish to do—however honourably it may be inclined to act, the impetuosity of theipeople will be in advance of diplomacy; and by taking peremptory possession, embroil the two Govern ments. The present excitement appears to have ' been produced by what are termed the " British agents" taking forcible possession of the land, and selling portions of it to American settlers. Repudiation becomes popular. One of the New York papers says, " It is greatly to be re gretted that the doctrine of repudiation, in several parts of the Western States, is openly sustained and defended." As the tide of emigration is continually flowing towards the west, and as population, which is the basis of the constitution of the Union, is more rapidly in ! creasing there than in the north or south, it is poor consolation to reflect that the most dis honest portion of the communiiy will soon be ! paramount in Congress. Staten Island had been the scene of a horrid murder. A woman named Houseman and her infant, in the absence of her husband, who is a seafaring man, had been murdered, and then covered with a rag, which had been set fire to, in order to consume the bodies. The atrocity took place on Christmas eve or morning. A re ward of a thousand dollars had been offered for the discovery of the murderers. There appears to be nothing new or exciting from Canada. The Welland Canal had been the scene of another riot, produced by a police officer going to make an arrest. The officer was met with an armed resistance, the troops were called out, and the ringleaders were arrested. Many of the labourers, it is added, had refused the present prices, and destitution had made then► desperate. The Stock and Money-markets of New York, which at the date of the previous advices were very buoyant, had sustained a check. The prices of many descriptions of stock had fallen considerably, and something like a panic had 111- lowed, from which the Stock-market had not recovered when the packet sailed. The Cotton-market was active, although the most conflicting opinions still prevail respecting the yield of the new crop. CANADA. DISSOLUTION OF THE UNITED LEGISLATURE. Our advices from Canada this morning furnish the speech of Sir Charles Metcalfe on the disso lution of the Parliament. The following are the main points of this document. A Council had not been formed when the advices left : " Honourable Gentlemen of the Legislative Council, and Gentlemen of the . Legislative Assembly : "In consequence of the interruption which our joint labours: have undergone, entirely against my inclination, and front causes over which I have had no control, I now meet you for the purpose of relieving you from further attendance in Parliament. I am sensible of your unremitting application to your arduous duties during the session which has been so unexpectedly shortened and I trust that the measures which you have passed, and to which I have given the Royal assent in her Majesty's name, will prove beneficial to the country. Some Bills I have been tinder the ne cesiity of reserving fin. the consideration of her Majesty's Government, either from the imprac ticability of their being carried into execution, owing to their depending on other measures which have not passed into law, or from their affecting the prerogative of the Crown, or being of a character that, under the Royal instructions, render that proceeding imperative." His Excellency next thanks the Assembly for the supplies granted ; and then, addressing both branches of the Legislature, expresses a hope that brotherly love will be secured, and that " peace and happiness will render our country a desirable place of refuge for the surplus popula tion of the parent country, whose settling here is frought with benefit to themselves and the colony." LAW INTELLIGENCE. CHANCERY.-(THIS DAY.) The Lord Chancellor did not sit till 11 o'clock to-day. MASSIE v. DRAKE. The Court was occupied the whole morning with the arguments in this case, which were commenced on Sa turday. The question on the case relates to the taxa tion;of a Solicitor's hill, and possesses no roiut of interest except to the parties concerned. VICE-CHANCERY..-(THIS DAY.) The Vice-Chancellor of England was occupied the whole morning with the part•heard case of Beresford v. Armagh, which came before the Court upon exceptions to the 51ust,r's Report. (Before Sir J. WIGRAM.) OSBORNE V. FOREMAN. His llortora pronounced judgment in this case. The bill was filed by some residuary legatees against the trustees of real and personal estate, who were also the executors. The dike now came before the Court on a point of form. It was determined by the Court upon the construction of one of the last orders. QUEEN'S BENCH.—(THIS DAY.) (Sittings in Banco.) MANDAMUS.-THE QUEEN V. TIIE CORPORATION OF MAN. CHESTER.-THE QUEEN V. THE CORPORATION OF MR.. :HINGHAM. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said that it would be in the recollection of the Court, that in each of these cases a rule for a mandamus had been directed to be made ab solute against the new corporations, ordering them to award compensation to certain officers. That rule had been directed to be drawn up in the alternative directed either to the corporation or to the town council. Some difficulty had arisen at the office in amending the rule, so as to enable Counsel to direct it to whichever party they might think fit. Lord DENMAN—We always presume that the parties brought before the Court are the right parties. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL—There can be no doubt as to the identity of the parties in the present case. The town council and the corporation are essentially the same parties, both are before the Court, and my application is,' to amend the rule so as to have it drawn up in accord ance with the directions of the Court. Lord DENMAN—I should not imagine that there could be any objection to that.—Application granted. THE QUEEN V. SCOTON. The defendant in this case had been convicted at the last Stafford assizes of perjury. A motion in arrest of . judgment had been made last term by Mr. Sergeant Taifliurd, and the Court had fixed this morning to give judgment on Mr. Sergeant Talfourd's motion. The ATTORNEY- GENERAL applied to the Court to name some other day. The Court no doubt had intended that the defendant should be present, in order that, if the rule should be discharged he might be brought up for judgment. The defendant was not present. Another ground of his application was, that the case having been tried before Mr. Justice Williams, it would be advisable that that Learned Judge should be present when the judgment of the Court should be delivered. Lord DENMAN—We certainly intended that the de fendant should be present : let the case stand over until this day week, and I will speak to my brother Williams, who will on that day come into this Court. EXCHEQUER-(THIS DAY). (Sittings in Banco.) COFFIN V. BRAITHWAITE. Mr. RICIIARDS moved for a rule to show cause why the verdict found for the plaintiff in this case, which was tried before Mr. Baron Rolfe on Friday last, should not be set aside and entered for the defendant, or why judgment should not be arrested. It appeared that the plaintiff, with a party of friends, intending to visit Sheerness, embarked on board the Prince Albert steam boat. When off Gravesend, the captain caused the plaintiff and his friends to disembark, believing them to be members of the " swell mob," by which they were put to considerable inconvenience, and were refused a passage by any of the other steam-boats, from the pre judice which had been created against them. They were obliged to take a carriage to town, and were con sequently put to considerable expense. The defendant had paid 2/. 12s. into Court, the amount of the ex penses to which the plaintiff and his friends had been put. Mr. Riclrude contended that the captain of the steam-boat was not responsible for the annoyances to which the party had been subjected from being f placed under the surveillance of the police, and from the hoot ings of a mob of 200 persons.—Rule granted. COMMON PLEAS.—(THIS DAY.) (Sittings in Banco.) HOLMES V. HODGE. This was an action brought by a brewer to recover 81., as the price: of two barrels of ale, alleged to have been supplied to the defendant, who is a publican. The de fence was that the ale had been returned to the plaintiff on account of its inferior quality, and the jury found for the defendant. Mr. Sergeant CHANNEL now obtained a rule nisi for a new trial, on the ground that the verdict was against evidence. In three other cases, destitute of interest, the rule nisi for a new trial was also granted. POLICE INTELLIGENCE BOW-STREET.-(THIS DAY.) A respectable-looking man, who gave his name as John Wylie, whose appearance indicated that he was not in a perfect state of sanity, was brought up, charged with stealing a cloth cloak from the house of Mr. C. Evans, of Vere-street, Lincoln's Inn-fields. The prisoner, it appeared, took lodgings in the prose cutor's house about a week ago, and, after he had been there about three days, he suddenly left, taking with him the cloak in question, which was worth 30s. Yesterday he returned to the house, and asked if he and his wife could have a bed. He was then given into custody. The prisoner, in his defence, denied that he had taken the cloak. If he had done so it was not very likely that he would have gone back to the same house to ask for a bed. Mr. lIALL said he thought the prisoner had been charged with a similar offence, before him, on a former occasion, and, if he recollected rightly, he mado the same defence. The prisoner —Yes, Sir, I was sent to Clerkenwell, and there tried, and sentenced to three months' imprison ment. The reason of that was, that the certificate of my insanity did not arrive in time. The prisoner was remanded that search might be made for the cloak. MARYLEBONE.—(THIS DAY.) A very considerable degree of excitement was created i❑ the neighbourhood of Albany-street, New-road, yes terday evening, in consequence of the attempt by a man, named William flansford, to murder his own son, Ar thur, a boy of eleven or twelve years of age, by beating him about the head with a shovel. Fortunately, how ever, the alarm was given, and the interference of the police prevented a fatal consummation. The boy was taken to the University Hospital, where he lies in a most critical state. Alfred Hansford, the younger son, said that he lived with his father, mother, and two elder brothers, at No. 3, Munster-street, Albany-street. Arthur was the eldest, and Edwin was the next to him. lle then gave a long account of quarrels and fights which had taken place between his lather and brother, and of the assault com plained of. John King, 321 S, said that he heard cries of " Mur der" when on duty in Munster-street, and on running to the prisoner's house, met him on the stairs, but not knowing that he was the guilty person, permitted him to pass. When he got into the room he saw the injured boy in the centre of the floor, and his features quite un distinguishable from the blood. He supported him till assistance came, and the only words he could articulate were, " father," " asleep." Heard the prisoner after wards say that he " was aggravated the whole of the day, and it was enough to drive a man mad." After wards, at the station-house, he said, " I am sorry for what I have done." Police-constable Harrod, 179 S, produced a shovel, which was completely bent with the violence with which it had been used upon the boy, and was deeply marked with blood and hairs. Police-constable Vickers, 183 S, took the prisoner into custody. He said, "I am the man. I meant to pay him out, for he had aggravated me all day." He was remanded for a week. Count Baptiste Metaxa has arrived from Greece, al Alivarei PEDESTRIANISM UNPARALLELED.—B. Riding, alias the Morning Star, who has undertaken to walk 1,500 miles in 1,500 successive hours, last night, at 12 o'clock, completed the unparalleled number of 1,120 miles, a feat hitherto unheard of, and there is not the least doubt (sickness and accidents accepted) that he will accomplish his arduous undertaking, for which he has, as yet, been but very indifferently rewarded. He is walking from the Grey Hound Inn, York-road, to the Crow Trees and back. It is the Pedestrian's intention to walk one mile at the commencement of every hour for the last 104) miles.—Leeds Mercury. Sir Robert Peel has had an electioneering " re fresher," in the shape of a dinner given by Captain Townshend to his own supporters in Tamworth. The speeches were hotly anti-Ministerial. Captain Towns bend promised to stand by the borough in future con tests. " Often had it been said to him How useless for you to measure your strength with Peel 1' but he knew that when Peel was nothing, his family had for ages been established in that borough. —(Tremendous cheering.)—Hull Advertiser. • kv.g. 5u5 fro v 0 itvg it r A 1: D Vitt)ltr Otitittost. " Who runs may read." The French Minister of Finance, M. Lacave La' plague, brought forward the annual budget on Friday. It is of a very favourable character. On Thursday evening their Majesties received the Sardinian Ambassador, the Ministers of Sweden and Tuscany, Prince Soutzo, the Duke de Trevise, the Mar quis de li)alinatie, Generals Jacqueminot and Aupick , Count de Zea Bermudez, Count de Colombi, Count and Countess Werner de Merode, and other persons of rank. Lady Alexandrine Vane, who has been seriously in disposed, is fast recovering. Lord Alvardey has arrived at Paris on his way to Italy, and alighted at the Hotel Sinet. M. Desfontaine, one of the supplementary judges of the tribunal of Lille, appeared on Friday before the Court of Cessation to the charge against him of having visited the Duke de Bordeaux in London. The proceed ings were carried on with closed doors ; but the Gazelle de _Fiance of yesterday evening states that the judgment of the Court, after a deliberation of four hours, was cen sure and reprimand. The Moniteur publishes a circular of the questors of the Chamber of Deputies, informing the Peers that seats would be reserved to them in the hall of the House during the debate on the Address, and that the Members of the British Parliament at present in Paris would be admitted into the Peers' gallery. 'The Madrid Gazette of the Bth contains a Royal or dinance, countersigned by the Minister of Finance, t° restore Queen Christina to the enjoyment of her pension " Queen Christina," says the Gonstitutionnel, " cer" taiely did intend to go to Madrid, bat the preparation s for her departure are countermanded, and she seems t° have decided upon remaining at Paris, continuing to re side in the Rue de Courcelles." A letter from Alexandria states that Ibrahim Paella has confided the education of his sons to a learned Eu ropean mathematician, M. Othamare, who studied seve" ral years in Paris. This is, we believe, the first time that an European tutor has been chosen by a Mahometn° Prince for the education of his children. The Duke de Nemours was to leave Paris for Brussels in the course of the week, accompanied by the Prince and Princess de Joinville. It is stated, in a letter from the Hague of the Bth+ that the Count of Nassau, ex-King of Holland, gav e away daily to private families who could not submit ,t (: ` solicit public charity, not less than 1,000 flo r i ns , or nearly thirty thousand pounds sterling per annum. His Royal Highness Duke Maximilian of Bavaria arrived in Paris, and has alighted at the Hotel des Princes, Rue Richelieu. PUBLIC OPINION. The Times remarks, in an article suggested by a letter of Mr. T. Attwood on the cur renc y :—" Wh a t ever foie! have been our position in 1818, we have now pled%? ourselves to pay our debts in an appre c iat e d s tand:rd . On the strength of that pledge of ours, the greater Pe rt of the national debt has probably changed hands half e dozen times. Infants, widows, old or helpless persons , charitable trustees, and sober men of business, have in . vested their money in the funds at an augmented value' and are living in confidence on the income which their debtor has guaranteed to them. The thing is done, and it is too late to withdraw. We are now bound by a d finite bargain expressed in a certain nomenclature - .' pounds, shillings, and pence. To cancel our liability impossible. To evade it by arbitrarily changing that nomenclature is a piece of tyrannous ra s cality. It weal be quite another thing, if such a change were to be ore" rated by natural causes. Of -this, we and our creditors' like every other d e bt or an d every ot h er creditor, must take cur chance. If, by circumstances over which nei ther we nor they have the control, the value of men e l,, rises, so much the bett er f or t h em, —if i t f a ll s, so time' the better for us." We quote the following from the Post :—" The les t ing journal of the Anti-Corn-law Leagu e p ar ty sera' the Government proceed in Ireland against Mr. O'U°ll - and will not—as they dare not —pursue a simila r course against Mr. Cobden, they will make the most tia . questionable admission, that they are unable to enter th e lists against the repealer of the corn-laws, and that th feelings, wishes, and opinions of the most intelligent an, influential classes in this country are in his favou% With respect to this we wish to say, that we think r who hold right principles of government must be sat' s ; fled that the proceedings of the Anti-Corn-law Leg ti „ are as much opposed to the right and wholesome a ction of government in this country, as the proceedings of l'ar' O'Connell in Ireland are at variance with the due of government in that kingdom. Any systematic popula r ' agitation against the law, and for. the purpose of bringing the law into general odium by violent declamation again st it, ought to be put down." The Herald says :—" We have heard lately o f sundrY runnings to and fro of the Whig underlings—the Charl es Butlers and Edward Stanleys ; whose endeavours sel to be devoted, at the present moment, to form a new 01 / 0 compact alliance' between the members of the 1 °,,, Cabinet and the Anti-Corn-law League. True, 41 , broad and unqualified declaration of the held of tht Cabinet, Lord Melbourne, stands rather awkwardly 1% their:way:—' As to the notion of a total repeal of tu e present laws, I declare before God that it seems to M I the maddest scheme that ever entered the brain of tnert e o man 1' So protested the l e ad er an d mou thpi e ce of Whig Administration—no one of his colleagues testing against this unqualified language. To take IN then, in less than three years, thi s same maddest' of e' imaginable notions, would be, if possible, an adva,„. oe e e t even in Whig inconsistency and tergiversation. 1 b Lord John Russell is said to be in communication Earl Spencer on this very topic, and the tone of A l ' Fox Maule's speech exhibits the same tendency." The Chronicle, speaking of the Anti-Corn-law Leagr societies, says— " The formation of these associations 1 in fact, calculated to aid the progress of cor n -law reee% The more discussion the better f o r us . Th e more th advocates of protection disseminate their ca l cu lation s ' and arguments, and invecti ves , th e more apparent do they make the hollowness and selfishness of their en i o_r; Let them work away, and agitat e w ith a ll their might theirs is a false creed, to w hi c h th ey never can c onver t any man by argument— a s h a bb y cause, in favour °f which they can ki n dl e no flame of popular feeling' These associations will just put the fallacies of the P r° 4l ; tective system in a m ore p rec i se s h ape, an d , consequently in one which will p revent th e i r d ece i v i ng any one . Their will make many think and examine th e f oun d a tions () their creed, who now, without inquiry, swell the sh, ° : ° „ for protection ; and the most striking result of the a"... cussion will, probably, be that, as always happens eases, the best and sincerest of the farmers will, in t f course of the discussion, be converted to the side ° justice and good sense." COURT—FASHIONABLE. His Royal Highness Prince Albert (says the Pos t ,. ) ; who has shot every day, since the arrival of the Co l t s at Claremont, over the preserves of his Majesty t% King of the Belgians, has not experienced the except% sport which the Prince had been led to anticipate. ir- ci is the more extraordinary, as the strictest orders I: 1 ° 0 , been issued to preserve, with the greatest care, everi scription of game upon the Royal manor. His % 0 Highness, on Saturday, attended by Lord Rivers, . G . Hon. C. A. Murray, Sir Edward Bowater, and Mn e, E. Anson, rode to Oxshott farm, to shoot over the P r serves in that vicinity. Only twenty-six head of 0 in thebsve were bagged, viz., eleven hares, thirteen pheasants, snipe, and a woodcock. Lady Peel and family come to town next week for season from Drayton Manor: Mr. William Peel, third son of the Right Hon. the Premier, has gone to tort mouth to pursue his professional studies on board t. Excellent. It is thought that he will obtain his commi s. sion in April. The Duchess of Buccleuch is expected at Montage, House early in the ensuing w ee k f rom D a lk e ith Pal ec i; near Edinburgh. The D uc h ess comes t o t own express to attend on her Majesty as Mi s t ress o f th e R o bes at b, opening of Parliament, Viscountess Canning and L a dy S ara h S av ille hav e arrived in Grosvenor-square, from visiting the Ma11111:0 and Marchioness of Waterford,, at Cur rag h t nore, Ireland. Lord Adolphus Fitzelarence closed his visit to the Earl of Yarborough, at Brocklesby, on Monday, a nd now making a tour of visits in the midland counties. The Marquis and Marchioness of Blandford are st il io, ing with the Duke and Duchess of Marlborough. Blenheim, near Woodstock. Their intended tour to Continent is abandoned. The Earl and Countess of Mornington intend to r e c ji main in town during the winter. Lady Mary Begot Misses Begot, who are stayi ng with the Hon. Cal ell s e, and Mrs. Howard, at th e i r seat i n Staffords hi r e, f '" shortly expected in town. ' The Countess of J erse y an d L a d y Cl ement i na 'll 4,3 have arrived at Burghley, on a visit to the Marquis 11- n f Marchioness of E xeter , f rom B e l ton H ouse, t h e sent - the Earl and Countess of Brownlow. Colonel Peel has take's, the Duke of Beaufort's l e mansion in Park-place, St. James's, for a term, and,_ l `, c e shortly re move f rom t h e S ta bl e - yar d , S t. James'srals' MISCELLANEOUS. On Saturday a General Court of the Governors of thy'' Hospital for Seamen of all Nations was held in K o c h . William-street, Strand. It appeared, from the Wino. that the Society during the past year had fallen off in ns t,, donations to the extent of .5001., and was in debt 711 . i g . although its expenditure had been 2001. less than da 1 : 11- to' the previous year. The number of seamen admitted h it ' the hospital during the past quarter has been—from Majesty's ships, 55 ; British and foreign merchant her sels, 721 ;on beard, 176—total, 952. The total Dun o p received since the first establishment in 1821 was 46,41 e Lord Morpeth intends to appear at the great /‘ Riding Free -trade Dinner, fixed for the 31st. l ye One hundred and fifty-four gentlem en have give o ll o d' requisite notices of their intention to apply to b . 00 . 5 mitted attorneys to practice in the Court of Qu sts . , Bench during the present term, and there are tsevinco,',l eight notices of application for re-admission to ra e . t re in Mr. Lumley, the manager of her Majesty's Thee he re London, is now in Paris, on his return from lady, w hip % he has been making engagements for the EIPPr° I/C season, which commences in February. of From the yearly statement of the operation - Charing-cross Hospital, it arpears that 7,337 ina i ro sick persons were admitted (II the books for reli e ' o3 cl a cost of 2,5311. Of these 1,120 were in-patients► sot 6,217 were out-patients. 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