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Catholic in Ireland considered himself insulted by the course which that Honourable and Learned Gentleman had pursued with reference to these trials. With regard to the particular question before the House, he thought it would be better to leave out 'every word which alluded to a repeal of the union. An allusion to it was not called for—it was totally unnecessary, and could en!y have the effect of ha rassing the jury in Ireland. There were men in Ireland who would take the reference in the speech in a wrong sense, look ng upon it not as an expression of the House, but as that of her Majesty herself. He thought it most unfortunate and un fair for the Government, under the present circumstances of the trials, to have made any allusion at all to Ireland in the speech, especially with the professions of the Right Hon. Bart. that his only desire was to held the scales of justice even handed. He should certainly vote for the amendment. Mr. HUME said the chief question for the House to con sider was whether the words of the speech would have the effect of giving any bias to the proceedings which were now going on in the Courts of Ireland. Two or three gentlemen from Ireland declared such bias would be produced by the words, whilst the Right Hen. Bart. and others on the Ministerial side denied this. If the words would have such effect, it was for the Right Honourable Baronet to say whether he would not leave them out— (A laugh).—in order to prevent any injury that might arise from their use. He was sorry Ito see that so winch personal feeling had been mixed up with the discussion, and thought that the Right Hon. Gentleman (Mr. Shaw) was hardly justi fied in making the attack which he had done on his Hon. and Learned Friend beneath him (Mr. Roebuck), who had only done his duty in bringing forward the matter, as he had done so to deter others from doing that which certainly appeared to be a direct interference with the due course of justice. Every one had been speaking of the Attorney-General and his amiable disposition and excellent character, but few said anything of the facts of the case, or whether any injury would accrue to the interests of justice, and the fair-play due to the traversers, which he (Mr. Hume) was afraid would be the case. In this state of things, and fearing that, if the words were allowed to remain, they would have this effect, he felt himself bound to record his vote in favour of the amendment. Dr. BOWRING said he came with distress of mind to something like a conviction that, if the union was to be sepa rated, it was to be by such executive measures as had been brought lately to bear upon Ireland. He would impress nylon the House to consider whether the union was represented by what was now going on in Ireland. Did they think, that in a country where seven-eighths of the people professed a certain religion—that on a trial of vast importance to strike every man of that religion off the jury was the way to main tain peace, or consolidate union ? If that was to be the law, no wonder the union was beginning to be intolerable. He quite agreed with the remarks that had fallen from his Hon. Friend (Mr. Brotherton) on the subject of duelling. But when they saw it countenanced in the most high and exalted places, in the very seat and sanctuary of justice—(Hear, hear)—how could they hope to see it properly rebuked, or its abominable practice be put down? Referring again to the union, he recollected Mr. Ricardo many years ago stating that if that question was not allowed to be quietly mooted, and freely discussed, it would force itself into a discussion with a violence that all would regret. For his own part, he (Dr. Bowring) could not see the crime that any person committed in discussing it. Seeing that the address declared the integrity of the union—that the question was foreclosed by it—that it bound Members to opinions which hereafter they might see reasons to change—he could not, conscientiously, vote for this particular portion of it, arid must, therefore, give his support to the amendment of his Hon. Friend. The House then divided, when there were— For the address For the amendment Majority ... —lO7 On the re-admission of strangers to the gallery we found, Mr. F. FFRENCH complaining of the manner in which the Commission of Inquiry respecting land-tenure had been con stitnted. It was an additional insult to Ireland, that in the appointment of that Commission Irishmen had been excluded. Sir ROBERT PEEL assured the House, and the Hon. Gentleman that in the constitution of the Commission no in sult was intended to Ireland. The Noble Lord who was ap pointed to preside over the Commission had been selected be cause he was not only a large proprietor of land in Ireland, but he was intimately acquainted with the laws relating to the tenure of land in England. He had been a Master in Chancery, and also had filled the office of Clerk to the House of Lords, in which situation he had great opportunities of becoming ac quainted with the laws and usages relating to the tenure of land in England. The four gentlemen associated with him were also Irish proprietors, and they were gentlemen so well known as to render it unnecessary for him (Sir It. Peel) to say one word in refutation of the assertion that their appointment was an insult to Ireland.—(Cheers. ) Mr. S. CRAWFORD said that he had attended two days before the Commission, and he was quite satisfied that they had entered upon their inquiry with a sincere intention of doing justice. It was his duty to rise for the purpose of thanking the Right Hon. Baronet for the appointment of the Commission. . . Sir R. PEEL requested the House to suspend its judgment on the question of the Commission. He desired no higher re futation of the charge that the appointments were an insult to Ireland than that which had been given by the Hon. Gentle man who had just sat down.—(Loud cheers.) Mr. F. FFRENCH denied that he had made any attack on the Earl of Devon. Sir R. PEEL had not accused the Hon. Gentlemen of an attack on the Earl of Devon, but of an attack upon himself (Sir R. Peel) and the Government, which the Hon. Member acMised of inflicting an additional insult upon Ireland. Mr. T. DUNCOMBE said that, for the convenience of the House, he had postponed to this day his motion of an amend ment upon the address, which had for its object the extension of the franchise in Irish boroughs as well as in the counties. He had intended to move an amendment to the effect that the last paragraph but one should be altered with a view to the extension of the franchise in Ireland, in boroughs, as well as in counties. In the paragraph upon which he propesed the amendment it was admitted by the Government that the effect of the Registration Act was to re strict the franchise. The same effect had been acknowledged in the boroughs. Mr. Smith O'Brien had shown in 1841 that from the year 1827, down to that year, that is to say, in four years, the constituency of Ireland had been reduced from 109,000 to 80,000. He could not well understand what the object was of giving, at this particular period, an extension to the county constituency, whilst the constituency of the boroughs wrs left untouched. He would, therefore, persevere in his motion. Sir R. PEEL protested against any discussion of the repre sentation of Ireland, upon the consideration of the paragraph in the Queen's speech, to which the Hon. Gentleman's amendment applied. The effect of the Registration Bill had been to limit the constituency of the counties, and it was the intention of the Government to submit to Parliament a mea sure for remedying that inconvenience. It was not, however, to be supposed that they excluded frum their consideration any other amelioration of the present law of franchise. Mr. BARRON thought it was unnecessary to press the motion to a division, after hearing the Right Hon. Baronet at the head of her Majesty's Government that it was not his in tention to limit the proposed amelioration to the county voters alone. After a few words from Mr. F. FFRENCH, Mr. T. DUNCOMBE said that he did not think it was now necessary to press his amendment. After what he had heard from the Right Hon. Baronet, he thought it would be most advisable to withdraw that amendment.—( Hear, hear.) Sir R. PEEL said that if the report upon the address were now carried, he should move that the House meet to-morrow, at two o'clock, for the purpose of going up with the address. , The address was iheri brought up — ana agreed to. JOINT-STOCK BANKS. Mr. BLEWITT said, there was a paragraph in the address referring to the Bank Charter and Joint-Stock Banks ; he wished to have more information of the course the Government intended to pursue in regard to those subjects. Sir R. PEEL said, that her Majesty's Government would not institute any inquiry into these matters, but they would themselves undertake the responsibility of all questions con nected with the renewal of the Bank Charter and the state of Joint Stock, and other banking establishments. He could not then say at what period of the session any such motion would be made, but it would be made at such a period as would insure the fullest consideration of it. The most ample notice would be given when any measure would be brought forward. Mr. BLEWIT'f expressed his thanks for the information given to him by the Right Hon. Baronet. THE IRISH CHURCH. Mr. WARD seeing the Noble Lord the Secretary for Ire land in his place, wished to put a question to him as to some returns which were ordered last session, and which were not then made out. There was then a difference between himself and the Noble Lord as to the amount of the revenue of the Irish Church. Might he ask the Noble Lord now, if these re turns were made out, and when they would be placed in the hands of Hon. Members ? Lord ELIOT said all the information which was in the power of the Ecclesiastial Commissioners to give had been prepared, and should be furnished. But a great portion of the revenue of the Church in Ireland did not pass through the hands of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners ; therefore it was not in their power to give any return of it. He admitted that there was a difference last session between the Hon. Member and himself on this subject, and he was quite ready to acknow ledge the accurateness of the calculation made by the Hon. Gentleman. METROPOLITAN IMPROVEMENTS. The Metropolitan Improvements Bill was brought in and read a first tune, and ordered to be read a second time on Monday nest. The Howie then adjourned. LORD MORPETIL In another part of our paper will be found a lengthened report of the proceedings of the free-trade banquet at Wake field on Wednesday. Very great interest was attached to this meeting in consequence of the attendance of Lord Morpeth. The Noble Lord's withdrawal from public life for the last two years has been a source of deep regret, as well as a real loss, to the Liberal party. The circumstances attending Lord Morpeth's temporary retirement were such as to increase the attachment which his countrymen already so strongly felt for the many end. rent qualities which distinguish his character ; and his re-appear ance amongst them was by many hailed with the greater enthusiasm, from its being regarded as the preliminary step to the re-occupa tion by his Lot dship of an active position in the ranks of his party. And we trust this anticipation may not be wholly disappointed. The speech of Lord Morpeth is another indication of the progress Of opinion upon the subject of free trade. Like the letter of Mr. Gibson Craig, it is one of the facts that denote this pro- Ilffess, as it were, by stages. In 1841, Lord Moipeth was a strenuous advocate of an eight-shilling fixed duty. Such a compromise as that his Lordship now thinks is vfholly unattainable. He thinks, however, that even still a com prothe audience falseisd esirable ; and, n o t w i t h stand i ng the a d verse op i n i ons o f by which he was surrounded, he candidly avowed this. But , he added, if withi n a year a low fixed duty is not adopted, he weuild then join the League in demanding a total repeal. And thus will it he with the whole p arty which is now fixed in favour of a duty. The, operation of the sam e cause: which have converted a sup porter of an eight-shilling d u t y into an anadvocate eth of a five-shilling thr did: F. must induce the advocate o f the tlling duty, by and by, to join the ranks of the total repealers. However desirable may be the adoption of a low fixed duty, as a compromise of a qui stion upon which two great interest s o f the nationareat issue, or however just, in point of principle, it may he regarded by yet all imm P° are coming, by degrees, to f ee l that neithermany yet ground of justice, or still less of expediency, c an such a settlementu be /toped for, after the obstinate resistance of anot h er year, The c ombination against it is becoming too stron g . I t is, day by tu a bsoirbing into its ranks some new element of p ower, which, like the conditional adhesion of Lord Nlorpeth, renders its final triumph orJy a question of time.—Chronicle. A FALL OF PORK AT DEVON PORT. Saturclav morning a loitilding in the market of this town, which was supported on pillars, and appropriated for hanging the car cases of pigs on the erN.s-beams attached thereto, not being able to sustain the weight of the dead pigs, in consequence of the rottenness of the timbers, fell down on a number of person', who were engaged in business under the roof. The utmost confusion ensued. When the parties were taken froth the ruinw it was discovered that a pigdealer from the country had his leg and thigh broken, and otherwise injured ; an industrious woman, a butcher's wife, had also a leg broken. Four others were severely hurt, and many slightly. Had the accidont happened half an hour later, some serious disasters woul dno doubt have been the result. The parties whose i bonen were fractured were taken to the infirmary at the work house, where every attention is being paid to them by desirp of M. E. St. Aubyn, the steward of the manor. ST. JAMES'S PALACE, JAN. 31. The Queen has been pleased, on the nomination of Lord Forester, to appoint George Denne, Esq., as one of her Ma jesty's Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms, vice Talman, who retires. WAR-OFFICE, FEL 2. Royal Regiment of Horse Guards—Lieut. T. Brunt to be Adjutant, vice Munro, superseded; Cornet J. Brunt, from the 3d Light Dragoons (Riding Master), to be Cornet, without purchase, Feb. 2. 9th Light Dragoons—Cornet P. Antrobus to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Dixon, who retires ; C. E. Law, Gent., to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Antrobus, Feb. 2. 13th Light Dragoons—Lieut. R. J. Elrington, from the 47th Regiment, to be Paymaster, vice Leech, appointed to the 9th Light Dragoons, Feb. 2. Ist or Grenadier Regiment of Foot Guards—J. G. C. Dis browe, Esq., Page of Honour to her Majesty the Queen Dowager, to be Ensign and Lieutenant, wi th o ut purchase, Feb. 2. 4th Foot—Lieutenant J. Cumming, from the 26th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Campbell, who exchanges, Feb. 2. 7th Foot—Ensign J. H. F. Stewart, from the 24th Foot, to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Pakenham, promoted, Feb. 2. 18th Foot—Ensign W. H. Graves to be Lieutenant, with out purchase, vice Simmons, deceased; T. Mostyn, Gent., to be Ensign, vice Graves ; Assi s t an t-S urgeon R. Stevenson, M.D., from the 3d Foot, to be Surgeon, vice M'Ki n l a y, de ceased, Feb. 2. 24th Foot—Ensign W. Hartshorn, from the Cape Mounted Riflemen, to be Ensign, vice Stewart, promoted in the 7th Foot, Feb. 2. 26th Foot—Lieutenant W. M. Campbell, from 4th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Cumming, who exchanges ; T. W. An drews, Gent., to be Ensign, vice De Montmorency, promoted in the 7th Foot, Feb. 2. 36th Foot—Ensign J. T. Bettesworth to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Harries, who retires ; W. H. Fortescue, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Bettesworth, Feb. 2. 59th Foot—Brevet Lieut. Col. A. H. Trevor, from the 95th Foot, to be Lieutenant-Colonel, by purchase, vice Fuller, who retires, Feb. 2. 67th Foot—L. Newman, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Orlebar, whose appointment has been cancelled, Feb. 2. 95th Foot—Capt. T. St. Leger Alcock to be Major, by pur chase, vice Trevor, promoted in the 59th Foot ; Lieut. H. 0. C. aster to be Captain, by purchase, vice Alcock ; Ensign T. Davis to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Master ; F. T. Patterson, Gent. to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Davis, Feb. 2. Ist West India Regiment—To be Lieutenants without pur chase—Ensign F. Huson, vice Grant, promoted, Jan. 30; Ensign G. H. Robeson, vice Meehan, promoted, Jan. 31 ; Ensign A. Croad, vice Clements, appointed to the 84th Feot, Feb. 1 Ensign M. Gernon, vice Bingham, appointed Ad jutant, Feb. 2. - - To be Ensigns, without purchase—F. J. Hills, Gent., vice Huson, Jan. 30; J. M. Tittle, Gent., vice Rubeson, Jan. 31 ; M. Fanning, Gent., vice Croad, Feb. 1 ; W. R. Sprat, Gent., vice Gernon, Feb. 2. 2d West India Regiment—T. P. Wright, Gent., to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Smith, deceased; C. Macartney, M. 8., to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice M'Kinnon, appointed to the 78th Foot, Feb. 2. 3d West India Regiment.--Ensign E. T. Fitz Gerald to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Butcher, deceased, Dec. 20; W. S. Cumming, Gent., to be Ensign, vice Fitz Gerald, Feb. 2. Royal Newfoundland Companies.—Lieutenant-Colonel R Law, from half-pay Unattached, to be Lieutenant-Colonel, without purchase, Feb. 3. ~ . UNATTACHED.—Major Robert Law, from the Royal New. foundland Companies, to be Lieutenant-Colonel, without pur. chase, Feb. 2. HOSPITAL STAFF.—Surgeon Edward Pilkington. from the 17th Light Dragoons, to be Staff-Surgeon of the First Class, vice St. John, promoted, Feb. 2 ; Alfred Crocker, G en t., t o be Assistant -Surgeon to the Forces, vice Young, deceased, Commission by the Lord-Lieutenant of Glamorganshire. Royal Glamorgan Light Infantry Battalion of Militia.— Thomas Smith, Esq., to be Lieutenant-Colonel, vice Morgan, deceased, Jan. 27. WHITEHALL, JAIL 17. The Right Hon. Sir N. C. Tindal, Knt., Lord Chief Jus tice of her Majesty's Court of Common Pleas, has appointed R. W. Lumley, of Carey. street, in the county of Middlesex, Gent., to be one of the Perpetual Commissioners for taking the acknow ledgments of deeds to be executed by married women, under the Act passed for the abolition of fines and recoveries, and for the substitution of more simple modes of assurance, in and for the City of London, also in and for the city and liberties of West. minster, and also in and for the counties of Middlesex, Essex Kent, and Surrey. BANKRUPTS. DUNCAN LAMONT, publican, West Smithfield, to sur render Feb. 14 and March 12, at eleven, at the Court of Bank. ruptcy. Whitmore, official assignee, Basinghall-street ; Bu chanan, Bali n ghall-street. WILLIAM LAW WOOD, ironmonger, Bishopsgate street Within, Feb. 9, and March 14, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Belcher, official assignee ; Henderson, Man sell-street, Goodman's-fields. ROBERT PETTIT, livery stablekeeper, Eaniug, Suffolk, Feb. 9, at twelve, and March 12, at half-past eleven, at the ourt of Bankruptcy. Tnrquand, official assignee, Old Jewry-chambers; Gill, Harrington-street, Hampstead-road. JOSEPH HENRY PERRYMAN, bookseller, Birming ham, Feb. 14, at half-past one, and March 5, at half-past twelve, at the Birmingham District Court. Valpy, official assignee, Birmingham; Holroyde, Halifax; Wright, Bir mingham. ROBERT PHILLOTT, scrivener, Blagdon, Somerset shire, Feb. 13, at twelve, and March 12, at eleven, at the Bristol District Court. Acraman, official assignee, or Heaven, Bristol. JAMES ROBERT DRAGE, tallow merchant, Leeds. Feb. 17, and March 7, at eleven, at the Leeds District C ourt , Fearne, o ffi cial assignee, Leeds ; Williamson and Hill, London; Cariss, Leeds. WILLIAM WEBB, hotel-keeper, Leamington, Warwick shire, Feb. 12, at eleven, and March 9, at half-past eleven, at the Birmingham District Court. Bittleston, official assignee, Birmingham ; Greatwood, Birmingham. GEORGE COOPER, butcher, Leeds, Feb. 14, and March 11, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court. Young, official assignee, Leeds ; Raynar and Son, Leeds ; Sudlow, Sons, and Tom Chancery-lane, London. WILLIAM THOMPSO.N and JAMES MELLIS, com mission agents, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Feb. 13, at eleven, and March 21, at one, at the Newcastle-upon-Tyne District Court. Riker, official assignee ; Watson, Newcastle-upon- Tyne ; Shield and Harwood, Queen-street, Cheapside, London. NOTICES OF INSOLVENCY. G. 'White, tailor, Regent-street. H. Ricket, beer retailer, Princes.terrace, Islington. T. W. Briggs, licensed victualler, Barrow, Derbyshire. H. B. Swain, Bradford, Yorkshire. J. Holt, plumber, Middleton, Lancashire. W. N. B. Harman, jeweller, Windsor -terrace, Dover-road. W. H. Jones, master mariner, Tranmere, Cheshire. J. Baker, painter, Bradfield, Essex. T. Procter, servant, Leeds. H. Carman, tailor, Holywell, Flintshire. E. J. Cotsford, auctioneer, Ann-street, Pentonville. M. R. Platte, painter, Great Pulteney-street, Golden-square. W. Eagleton, hat maker, St. Alban's. E. Cunnah, attorney-at-law, Cheshire. T. J. Turner, carpenter, Marshall-street, Golden-square. T. Mayers, wheelwright, Christieton, Cheshire. J. Leigh, ale dealer, Gresford, Denbighshire. J. Tench, attorney-at-law, Stafford. W. Jarrett, wood cutter, Chatham. J. Elston, music seller, Leamington Priors, Warwickshire. J. Wilson, attorney, Kendal, Westmoreland. J. Gist, baker, Totnes, Devonshire. J. Firman, bailiff, Frinton, Essex. T. Wingham, oilman, York-terrace, Borough-road. W. Presgrave, schoolmaster, Sevenoaks, Kent. J. G. Woodcock, railway-guard, Croydon. T. Smith, small-ware dealer, Warrington, Lancashire. H. Marklew, innkeeper, Oxford-street. W. Palley, beer seller, Kimberley, Nottinghamshire. R. Ward, Lydney, Gloucestershire. M. Gill, farmer, Hotor,, Leicestershire. 1. Lobley, cloth dresser, Huddersfield, Yorkshire. G. Chappels, stone mason, Huddersfield, Yorkshire. C. M'Craight, engraver, Percival-street, Clerkenwell. J. Parks, grocer, Trafalgar-street, Wal worth. J. Nott, lace dealer, Hemingford -terrace, Islington- S. Wilson, house agent, Streatham, Surrey. T. Ornsby, glass agent, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. T. Elphick, horse dealer, Sutton, Surrey. W. Nilson, tailor, St. Margaret's, Leicestershire. W. Claydon, jun., boot maker, Rochford, Essex. J. Pitt, victualler, Liverpool. J. Blunt. Church-street, St. Mary, Newington. G. S. Peacock, master mariner, Turner-street, Commercial road East. Z. Radcliffe, wheelwright, Braithwell, Yorkshire. G. Edwards, builder, Ipswich. C. Wood, bookbinder, Great Charlotte-street, Blackfriars-road. J. Cowsill, builder, Lymm, Cheshire. J. Marston, sen., watch maker, Castle-street, Leicester-square. T. Haw, woollen salesman, Leeds. H. Cope, coal higgler, Old Radford, Nottinghamshi re . T. Sturgess, baker, reat Saffron-hill, St. Andrew's, Holborn. G. Woods, butcher, High-street, Stoke Newington. T. W. T. Prescott, Duke-street, Manchester-square. W. Baird, grocer, Cheltenham. W. Cauty, Selwood-terrace, Old Brompton. SECOND NOTICES. ' J. Eyears, saddler, IToUnsTo;, Feb. 8, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Graham, official assignee. W. Dobbin, clerk, Arundel-street, Strand, Feb. 26, at half past one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Turquand, official assigne e . J. Venables, coachman, Gower-street, Bedford-square, Feb. 10, at half-past twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Groom, official assignee. W. 'l'. Ashton, decorative gilder, Sherrard. street, Golden square, Feb. 21, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Lacking ton, official assignee. H. Clark, coachman, Drummond -street, Euston-square, Feb. 21, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptc. Johnson, official assignee. y 1 T. Cheshire, cabinet maker, Dunstalsle, Bedfordshire, Feb. 21, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Lackington, official assignee. • J. Heathorn, baker, Ripley, Surrey, Feb. 8, at two, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Belcher, o ffi cial assignee. P. Lane, Bell's-buildings, Salisbury-squa re , a F tt eb. 8, at two, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Belcher, official assignee. J. Jakes, nurseryman , Peterboroug h , amptous h . ire, FRIDAY NIGHT'S GAZETTE. Feb. 7, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Follett' official assignee. C. J. Mathews, comedian, Westbourne-green, Paddington, Feb. 8, at half-past eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Tur quand, official assignee. H. Harrison, baker, East-street, Walworth, Feb. 8, at two, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Pennell, official assignee. R. Setchell, butcher, Buckden, Huntingdonshire, Feb. 7, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Green, official assignee. W. Porter, coffee-house keeper, Upper Wellington-street, Covent-garden, Feb. 6, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Green, official assignee. W. Barrett, Fairford, Gloucestershire, Feb. 7, at half-past eleven, at the Bristol District Court. Miller, official assignee. A. Mayor, tailor, Liverpool, Feb. 7, at twelve, at the Liver pool District Court. Cazeno ve, official assignee. J. Mayor, tailor, Liverpool, Feb. 7, at half-past eleven, at the Liverpool District Court. Cazenove, official assignee. E. Jones, farmer, Suckley, Worcestershire, Feb. 9, at half .._. At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 31st dey of Jams , ary, 1844, present the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty in Council. Her Majesty having been pleased to appoint the Right Hon. John Edward Cornwallis, Earl of Stradbroke, to be Lord Lieutenant and Custos Rotulorum of the county of Suffolk, his Lordship this day took the oaths appointed to be taken thereupon, instead of the oaths of allegiance and supremacy. Her Majesty in Council was this day pleased, upon the re presentation of the Right Hon. the Lords of the Committee of Council on Education, to appoint the Rev. Henry Moseley, A.M., Professor of Natural Philosophy and Astronomy, and the Rev. Frederick Charles Cook, A.M., to be two of ber Ma jesty's Inspectors of Schools. THE PRINCE OF WALES' COUNCIL CHAMBERS, SOMERSET HOUSE, FEB. 2, 1844. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS FROM THE DAILY PAPERS OF YESTERDAY. GLOBE.—The Cabinet cooks, whoha;-esetb7ifore us the various made-dishes of the Queen's speech, deserve credit for diversifying the dainties out of such limited raw materials. The real subjects of congratulation amount, in reality, . mainly, to two—and these two may be briefly designated as the results of a conquest, and a confiscation. That we have conquered peace and " indemnity " for our ' selves, and free trade for every body, by our Chinese expeditions, is undoubtedly matter for congratulation. Only these proceedings were inchoate u n d er ano th er administra tion • and most enormously was that a d m i n istration black , ened for them by some members of the present. Most piously—most pusillanimously—did the Gladstone and Gra . ham thereon perorate. They have thought better of it, and are content to have conquered trade from China, maugre , their deprecations ; and even, after straining at the gnat of China, to swallow the camel—of Sinde. We confess a pa ' triotic satisfaction in showing the world that no English party are quite such fools and cowards as these inen then affected themselves — As if hypocrisy and nonsense Had got the advowson of their conscience— . and we feel a further satisfaction moreover, superior to party jealousies, in the proud position Great Britain has been the first amongst nations to take in this treaty with China. We mean the position of true mag nanimity, and true policy, so strongly contrasted with all the miserable annals of Portuguese, Dutch, French, and English mercantile reciprocal injuries and pro scriptions in those remote markets—exposing all Europe to the hatred and contempt which the traders of each nation poured on each other. It is a great, and hitherto unrivalled glory, that the Sovereign of this country can say— " Throughout the whole course of my negotiations with the Government of China, I have uniformly disclaimed the wish for any exclusive advantages. It has been my desire that equal favour should be shown to the industry and commercial enterprise of all na tions."conquest, we come to confiscations — the (together with some whatth e i h me Passingeincome-tax. xfrom These two operations more favourable seasons) have chiefly, or wholly, made up the real matter for public congratulation. If " several important branches of trade and manufactures" are in an " improved condition," it is owing (coincidently with better seasons) to the conquest of a new market, of important ' extent, and indefinite profit. We say o f i n d e fi n it e pro fi t, be cause it is not clear (and the royal speech has made it no clearer) what equivalent returns we shall be able to obtain, directly or indirectly, for our newly-extended exports to China. The Chinese, no more than any other nation, can defray any vastly increased extent of purchases in the precious metals ; the question, therefore, is, can we obtain and consume a vast increase of Chinese products; or carry a vast increase of them to others, in payment for other things which we want ourselves? Unless the Chinese can supply our wants, it will hardly pay long to supply • theirs. We regret that the speech and debate throw no light on anything concerning tea and sugar. Conquest and confiscation then have made up the revenue, as the ' former has helped commerce. Without the unreckoned-on windfall from the former, and the professedly unexpected amount derived from the income inquisition, the commercial policy of the present Ministry would have increased the deficiency of the revenue. Let us thank God, then, and make no boast. But the Prime Minister, it seems, will boast. Sir Robert Peel says—" I hope that, looking at the general state of affairs, the Government may be considered justified in stating that a considerable improvement has taken place ; and that, upon all the matters referred to in the speech, in regard to our foreign relations, in regard to our trade, and the state of our revenue, the Government may fairly present itself before this House, and before the country, confident of having fulfilled the expectations it had held out, and of not having failed in any of its duties." The Government held out no expectations that any measures it could take would revive commerce ; and, with regard to revenue, the expectations it did hold out would have been disappointed, had not one blunder balanced another, and had not large contributions been received from uncalculated sources. We shall examine Sir R. Peel's corn-law declaration at more leisure. STANDARD.—In justice to the Attorney-General for Ireland, it is right to quote the authority of the Dublin Evening Mail, a journal hitherto the reverse of friendly to the Right ,Hon. Gentleman, for the fact that the coarse in sults offered to him by Mr. Fitzgibbon were the result of a premeditated plan to run him down—in short to bully him, if he were accessible to fear. The Mail tells the story, after describing Mr. Fitzgibbon as a " person of vast powers of [foul] language—possessing great facilities for rendering his observations peculiarly biting, and is reputed, and we under stand deservedly, as one ever ready to incur any personal re sponsibility that his observations may involve him in." This, with the word we have supplied, and certainly it is only in foul language that we have seen any proof of Mr. Fitzgibbon's power, exactly describes a bully, and this, according to our Dublin Contemporary, was the person set upon the Attorney- General :—" At an early hour on Monday it was boasted by the friends of the traversers—and was matter of such public notoriety that nothing but a sense of delicacy, and a desire not to anticipate the line intended to be taken by any ad vocate, prevented our noticing it in the publication of that evening—that Mr. Fitzgibbon's instructions were to kill and slay'—and that no doubt. he would do his work efficiently. This was the impression made upon the minds of the gentlemen attached to the London press— many of whom talked of it in this office ; it was the im pression made upon the public mind ; and is it not reasonable to suppose that some d—d good-natured friend' did not give the Attorney-General a hint of what was in pre paration for him. It was further boasted that the Right Hon. Gentleman was hasty in coming to conclusions, easy of excitement, sensitive in disposition, and quick of temper— that a trap was set for him, and that he was sure to be caught." The Attorney-General, however, was not caught. It is no doubt a legal fiction that a library removed some score of yards from the Court, is the Court, just as it is a legal fiction that St. James's Park is St. James's Palace, but this is mere fiction ; a private note, whatever its tenor, delivered in a distant library during the recess of the Court certainly could not disturb the Court, and if Mr. Fitzgibbon had acquiesced in either alternative of the Attorney-General's application, neither the pub lic nor the Court would know one word of the matter. The note, let it be remembered, was not a challenge, it was a demand of an explanation of what was, and was deliberately intended to be, a gross insult. As to what afterwards occurred, no human being—no one at least with the feeling of a gentleman, could anticipate that Mr. Fitzgibbon would take the course he did take. If he felt that he had been wrong, he could either apo logise directly, without the least loss of honour, or apologise through the friend whom he was invited to name. If lie felt that he was not wrong, he might, we hope, without disgrace, say so, and decline, the alternative •, but having given what was taken as an offence, the Lord and,p st P i e l a rb le e d gthe Court by the obtrusion o f a personal quarrel. Of this the at all events, M r .*Fit z - Chief Justice was exactly the last ma n i n th e wor ld to whom Attorney -General is wholly guiltless. n TIMES.—The Queen ought w to as h l a v v h e e d a i he ib b o u o Queen's speech has been composed on a principle which has of late years come into vogue, both in this country and on the continent—viz., of avoiding the introduction of topics which might provoke debate or prevent an unanimous vote—a principle which has at least the merit of saving the time of the House from being unnecessarily squandered upon premature speeches and fruit less dissertation. With this view, therefore, the speech delivered yesterday by the Queen diligently eschews every subject which could create diversity of feeling, and contains only such allusions to public affairs as could neither give offence nor excite a contest. There could be but one feeling, either in or out of Parliament, with respect to the friendly relations between England and France ; no one could but rejoice at the happy conclusion of the negotiations with China ; and no one could fail to applaud that unselfish and high-minded policy which has opened the Chinese trade to every nation of Europe. Whatever difference of opinion might exist as to the justice or expedience of the Sindian war, few would be unwilling - to share in the tribute of praise paid to the valour of our troops and the genius of their Com mander. There are very Opposite and very strong opinions in the country on the question of commercial restrictions. But the present state of trade is a notorious: and a cheering fact. No man, whatever might be his theory of coin mercial policy, would refuse to join in ex pressions of thankfulness for the revival of industrial employment and the increase of remuneration. And we believe that there will be found very few persons whc , will convert the excess of the revenue over the expenditure into a national grievance. Reference to general Irish politics is properly deprecated during the judicial inquiry now pending in Dublin ; and the subjects of county registration and of the relation between landlord and tenant in that country, as well as the Bank charter in England, are noticed merely by way of prelude to future consideration, and so as to avoid the necessity of discussion or opposition. On the whole, therefore, the speech may be pro nounced to be of a negative character; and for this, which to us appears a virture, we doubt net but that it will be principally - cen sured. It intimates no plan of Ministerial conduct—it discloses no scheme of legislation—it is almost wholly retrospective. It tells people what they know, rather than that which they wish to learn. It passes over some subjects which might have been reasonably in troduced. It says nothing of Wales — nothing of the corn-laws. Yet, silent as it is on these points—wisely, as We think, avoiding a pre mature and prolix debate--it has given an opportunity to the Minister to announce his intention on the corn-law question. He has declared his resolution not to alter, repeal, or modify the existing law. This decla ration will lull, if it does not extinguish, doubt and perplexity. The Mi nister has, as we foretold on Wednesday, spoken out on the important question by which men's minds are now chiefly agitated. His an nouncement will reanimate the spirits of one, and stimulate the exertions of another, party. The battle which has been carried on for months in the provinces will again be fought in Parliament, if not with decisive results, certainly with desperate energy. There is now no " via media" left for the adherents of the Cabinet ; no concession proposed, no conciliation allowed ; their leader tells them that he has taken his ground ; and those who know him best must feel that he would not have spoken as he has done, without reckoning the strength of his forces, and the chances of immediate success. That that success will extend beyond the present session, we dare not anticipate. Henry Lewis Stephens, of Tregenna Castle, in the parish 01 St. Ives, has been this day appointed Sheriff of the county of Cornwall for the present year. WHITEHALL, JAN. 30. . - past eleven, at the Birmingham District Court. Christie, official assignee. W. Roberts, Wickwar, Gloucestershire, Feb. 7, at eleven, at the Bristol District Court. Hutton, official assignee. W. Jeffs, Bristol, Feb. 7, at eleven, at the Bristol District Court. Acraman, official assignee. J. Horrocks, tea dealer, Bolton, Lancashire, Feb. 8, at The Queen has been pleased to present the Rev. David Ross, Master of Arts, to the church at Tobermory, in the island of Mull, in the parishes of Kilninian and Kilmore, in the presbytery of Mull and shire of Argyll, vacant by the trans portation of the Rev. Donald Stewart, late minister thereof, to the parish of Fortingall, in the presbytery of Weem. twelve, at the Manchester District' Court. Fraser, official WHITEHALL, Fut. 2. The Queen has been pleased to present the Reverend Angus Logan to the church at Berriedale, in the parish of Latheron, in the presbytery of Caithness and shire of Caithness, vacant in consequence of the Reverend Samuel Campbell, late minister thereof, having ceased to be a minister of the Church of Scot land. assignee. J. Eccles, horse dealer, Dudley, Worcestershire, Feb. 7, at one, at the Birmingham District Court. Valpy, official assignee. D. Pryde, joiner, Birkenhead, Cheshire, Feb. 6, at twelve, at the Liverpool District Court. Cazenove, official assignee. J. Hubberstey, book agent, Blackburn, Lancashire, Feb. 8, at twelve, at the Manchester District Court. Hobson, official assignee. J. Butcher, shopman, Leyland, Lancashire, Feb. 8, at twelve, at the Liverpool District Court. Fraser, official assignee. W. Gamble, omnibus driver, Manchester, Feb. 8, at one, at the Manchester District Court. Hobson, official assignee. The Queen has also been pleased to present the Rev. Donald Al'Donald to the church at Kilmenny, in the united parishes of Bowmore and Kilmenny, in the presbytery of Isla and Jura and shire of Argyll, vacant in consequence of the Rev. James Pearson, late minister thereof, having ceased to be a minister of the Church of Scotland. 0. Moseley, attorney-at-law, Stockport, Cheshire, Feb. 8, at twelve, at the Manchester District Court. Stanway, official assignee. T. Smith, Liverpool, Feb. 8, at eleven, at the Liverpool Dis trict Court. Bird, official assignee. DIVIDENDS. At the Court of Bankruptcy, Basinghall-street. A. Laing, draper, Halifax, Yorkshire, Feb. 23, at two—J. Bedford, iron merchant, Melina-place, Westminster-road, Feb. 28, at:three--S. Jones, jeweller, Cheapside, Feb. 28, at eleven —R. Yallop, scrivener, Basinghall-street, Feb. 23, at half past two—D. Hodgson, banker, Sandwich, Kent, Feb. 24, at two—J. Collins, hotel keeper, Staines, Feb. 23, at one—W. Fry, J. Fry, and J. Chapman, bankers, St. Alildred's-court, Poultry, Feb. 23, at half-past one—D. Bidmead, warehouse man, Bread-street, Cheapside, Feb. 23, at two—R. Lyon, ca binet maker, High Holborn, Feb. 23, at half-past twelve. In the Country. G. Allison, scrivener, Darlington, Durham, Feb. 22, at eleven, at the Newcastle-upon-Tyne District Court—J. Buck ley, coal master, Higher Crompton, Lancashire, Feb. 27, at one, at the Manchester District Court—W. Collings, baker. Devonport, Feb. 23, at eleven, at the Exeter District Court —.M. Cullen, merchant, Liverpool, Feb. 29, at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court. _ _ CERTIFICATES to be granted, unless cause be shown to the contrary, on the day herein-mentioned. D. Rowlands, wine dealer, Pwllheli, Carnarvonshire, Feb. 24—J. Wilkinson, grocer, Leeds, Feb. 27—S. Partridge, tea dealer, Birmingham, Feb. 27—W. and J. Statters, cotton spin ners, Feb. 26—J. M. Wintle, silversmith, Drury-lane, Feb. 23—J. Zuliani, merchant, Commercial Sale-rooms, Mincing lane, Feb. 23 —L. Mosely, Staffordshire warehouseman, High-street, Shadwell, Feb. 23—H. G. Clapton, warehouse man, Bristol, Feb. 23—F. Messenger, corn merchant, Liver pool, Feb. 23—H. W. Diamond, surgeon, Frith-street, West minster, Feb. 23—E. Locke and A. D. Mills, needle manufac turers, Lawrence Pountney-hill, City, Feb. 23—P. A. Nuttall, newspaper vender, Edward-terrace, Chalk-road, Feb. 25. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. J. and R. F. Bailey, auctioneers, Wood-street, Cheapside— R. Harrison and T. G. Robinson, erchants, Philpot-lane, City—W. Walker, sen., and W. Walker, jun., manufacturers, Manchester—C. R. Penfold and W. S. Watson, surgeons, Brighton—R. Pitt and L. Lane, lace dealers, Ludgate street, City—J. Alexander and H. Gibbons, chemists, Wol verhampton—J. R. Dutton, C. Dutton, and J. Wilkinson, wine merchants, Chester (so far as regards J. Wilkinson)—W. S. Plane and W. Martin, bottled ale dealers, Gravesend—M. Bloome and A. Gatliff, attorneys, Leeds—Js. and Jn. Puttick, grocers, King-street, Long-acre—l. and J. G. Somers, Houndsditch—W. and E. Garside, coach builders, Ashton under-Lyne—W. and W. Watson, butchers, Great Easton, Essex—H. A. and T. Rodgers, news agents, Sheffield—J. Heaton and J. S. Ellison, joiners, Gomersal, Yorkshire—T. and S. R. Drury, stone masons, Leeds—T. Ellis, E. A. Ellis, J. Alexander, G. Thomson, G. A. Brown, J. Thompson, and A. Thompson, forming the Westminster Mining Association (so far as regards T. Ellis, E. Ellis, and G. A. Brown)—W. and B. Watson, dyers, Leeds—J. Spencer and E. Wood, bakers, Goswell-street—J. Lampray and A. S. Field, attor neys, Warwick—C. and T. Burrows, timber merchants Wil lington, Derbyshire—W. Cl a ph am an d J. H. Whitaker, worsted spinners, Esholt, Yorkshire—W. H. Coleman and J. Manton, tea dealers, Crown-street, Finsbury—J. Cooper, li. Cooper, W. Cooper, D. Turner, and T. Cooper, grocers, Shef field—S. Faulkner and J. Pierrepont, surgeon dentists, Man chester—T. Delf and W. Kent, drapers, Beccles, Suffolk—J. and U. Knowles, fustian shearers, Blanchester—F. Denby and W. Dobbings, cabinet makers, Leeds—The Shields and New castle Steam Navigation Company. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS. SPENCER SUTHERLAND, harbour contractor, Ar lroath, Feb. 7 and 28, at one, at the Star Hotel, Perth. DAVID APEWEN, banker, Dundee, Feb. 12 and March 1, at one, at the British Hotel , ROBERT M'ALISTER, farmer, Shotts, Lanarkshire, Feb. 8 and 29, at two, at the chambers of M. Waddell, Glasgow. ROBERT BRYCE, brassfounder, Edinburgh, Feb. 9 and March 1, at twelve, at the chambers of R. Deuchar, Edinburgh. PRICE OF SUGAR. The Average Price of Brown rr — liinsCOvado Sugar, for the week ending Jan. 30, 1844, is 355. Old. per cwt., exclusive of the Duties of CUSUMIS paid er payable thereon on the Im portation thereof into Great Britain. THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL FOR IRELAND. It would appear that the Attorney-General—or, to speak safely, the gentleman who was Attorney-General for Ire land three days ago—is determined that the world shall not forget the unseemly want of temper which characterised his earlier pro. ceedings in the great repeal case. Matters were beginning to go on a little more smoothly. Those who were anxious for the cause of justice, and for the integrity of the British empire, were just congratulating themselves that Mr. Smith was really doing his work like a gentleman and a lawyer, when, to ! the thunder.clap of yesterday comes down upon us. Under the very nose of full bottomed justice herself—in the very atmosphere of law and equity —with Judges above—attornies below—Queen's Counsel around —his brief before—his junior behind him—the Queen's Attor. ney-General, wig, silk-gown, and all, electrifies the embodied jus tice of Ireland by insisting on the satisfaction of shooting at the counsel for the traversers. Our ultra-Ministerial Contemporaries seem to think this rather fine, and in the tone of a well. dressed young gentleman who puts his back to the fire, pulls up his collar, and "confesses" to some sixteen cardinal virtues, inform us that Mr. Smith acted, perhaps, immorally, certainly illegally, but at any rate, they do flatter themselves, like a gentle.. man. For ourselves, in this ludicrous and disgraceful affair we find it difficult to say whether the scandal or the absurdity predo minates. Can this " gentleman," we are tempted to ask, know what he is, where he is, what he professes, what he is paid for, what is the weight of the obligation which rests on his shoulders-- that he dares to postpone the interests of his country, which has employed him, the character of his party, the success of his cause, to the satisfaction of avenging a trumpery insult offered him by a still more trumpery opponent ? Here is the great demagogue of the day on his trial—the cause of civil government itself at stake, as one party says—" a nation dragged to the bar of the Queen's Bench," as the other ejaculates—Europe looking on to see what happens—the majesty of the law in ettremis twelve honest jurymen all gaping attention to the engrossing argument when the Attorney-General— the advocate of law, and order, and government—diverts the course of proceedings by "an appeal to the Court of twelve paces," by challenging Mr. Fitzgibbon. Derogatory words had been spoken of the three Crown Counsel, which the Attorney-General (on the principle, we suppose, of " seniores priores'') thought it decorous to " take up." The Attorney-General, "with an unusually stern expression of countenance" discharged at Mr. Fitzgibbon a three-cornered note. Mr. Fitzgibhon, three-cornered note in hand, elbowed his way across the Court, thumped, stamped, vibrated, shook his wig, and, taking nothing by his move but a severe " Nothing could justify you, Sir :" sat down in wrath unappeased and unappeas able. But then enter the Dii majorum gentium—the Judges of the Court. Mr. Fitzgibbon throws himself upon their protection, and so tells the Attorney- General that he is not the Alan to be bullied ' into . an apology. Mr. Moore, with a feeling which does him credit, beseeches the belligerents not to be in a hurry. The Court re.. monstrates—the Attorney-General withdraws—Mr. Fitzgibbon ex. plains. Mr. Moore keeps continually pulling the tails of Mr. Fitzgibbon's coat, lest he should say the wrong thing as well as the right. The Attorney-General is content, and Mr. Fitzgibbon proceeds in his address to the jury. And this is an Irish trial! This is the way in which an Irish Attorney-General vindicates the Above all, this is the mode in which an Irish Court enter. tains such a specimen of truly Irish legal argument! The Court was perfectly " satisfied, and hoped there would be no more about it"—only anxious, as it would seem, not to interfere unduly with the excited feelings of the " jontlemen :" " We are reluctant to give an intimation of the strong opinion we entertain as to the impropriety of what has taken place in Court, willing to make allowance for those heated feelings which, when called forth, frequently carry gentlemen beyond the limits which their 000ler judgments would forbid them to pass." We, for our parts, entertain no such overwhelming reluctance. Mr. Smith may be—it appears to be on all hands admitted that he is—a gentleman —a man of honour—a sound lawyer. But, reluc. tant or not reluctant, we feel bound to say, that a person so wholly unable to command his temper, that in the very crisis of a trial, and such a trial, he cannot help giving his and his employer's enemy the triumph of such an exposes as we have recorded, is plainly unfitted for the responsible and difficult situation in which he finds himself. Even if such a strange escapade is of a nature to find favour with the Irish people, as it seems to have found mercy from the Court, it still remains a degradation to a court of justice —an immoral, illegal, uncivilised exhibition with which no people ought to be indulged. HERALD.—It will be seen by our Parliamentary report that Sir Robert Peel has in a single emphatical sentence dissipated all the direct falsehoods, and all the false surmises of the alarmists of the last live months. The Right Hon. Baronet took the earliest oppor tunity to declare, in terms the most distinct and unequivocal, that "IT IS NOT THE INTENTION OF THE GOVERNMENT TO INTERFERE IN ANY WAY WITH THE EXISTING CORN-LAWS." The announcement was received with loud cheers by the great majority of the House, and it will be welcomed with equal cordiality by at least five-sixths of the people. Why such' it declaration should excite so strong a feeling must be answered by those, whether Whigs, Radicals, or pro fessing Conservatives—there were too many of the last class engaged in the disgraceful work—who have employed the whole of the recetti in misleading the public inind upon the important question now set at rest. Their objects were, no doubt, sordid and selfish. Some wished to swell the funds of "the League " by anticipating victory —some had their corn-jobbing speculations to aid by the mis representation—some (and they were of all parties) sought to damage the Ministry, by creating distrust among its supporters; but what ever the motives of the dealers in falsehood, they have been guilty of a great crime against the public. It is no light matter to excite fears which, in many cases of individuals, have led to loss and ruin ; and which, as far as they prevailed, could not but tend to repress the enterprise and activity of that class of the community which must ultimately supply the wealth, as directly it supplies the food of the people. Sir Robert Peel has acted with his characteristic wisdom and promptitude in dispelling these pernicious fears at the earliest opportunity open to him ; but his early interposition diminishes nothing of the guilt of those whose profligate contempt of truth made such interposition necessary. The public, if it consult its own se curity, will mark and remember its late misleaders, and learn how in future to treat their assertions of the designs of the Government. POST.—The Prime Minister has made his declaration on the corn laws. Our readers may, perhaps, suppose that he was interrogated on tho subject by some county Member. This, however, was not the case--it was in answer to the observations of Mr. Joseph Hume and Lord John Russell that Sir Robert Peel twice stated, in his most em phatic tones, that her Majesty's Government have not contemplated, and do not contemplate, any alteration in the present laws which re gulate the duties upon the Import of foreign grain. So much fur the success of all the agitation, all the speeches, and all the subscriptions of the Anti-Corn-law League ! The Minister did not, on the present occasion, qualify his statement by restricting It to the existing ses sion. Ile did, indeed, say that tt would be a desertion of their proper duty to the Crown if Ministers were to say that, at no time, and un der no circumstances, would thoy consent to an alteration of the exist ing corn-laws ; but then he returned to his former text, that her Ma jesty's Ministers have not contemplated, and do not contemplate, any alteration of these laws. Mr. Joseph Hume, in a long, tedious, straggling mass of verbal rubbish, which it would be a misnomer to call a speech, took notice that, in 1841, when the late Ministry pro posed an alteration of the corn-laws, Sir Robert Peel not only ob jected that such an important measure should have been brought for ward without any previous notice, in her Majesty's speech at the opening of Parliament, but argued from that omission that the mea sure was an afterthought, and could not have been intended when the session commenced. The Minister said, that the Member for Mon troseme nti w oi as o q f u th ite e ri c g o h n t , i - n la t referencews hithe Queen's speech, and as to the he drew from the absence of an y other point it is hard to say, added the Right Hon. Baronet, what it is IMPOSSIBLE f or a ma n to do. At this the H ouse laughed very heartily, the 31inister joining in the merriment, and presently afterwards stating, in a tone half emphatic and half jocu lar, that if the majority in the country should come to the deliberate opinion that a fixed duty upon foreign corn was the best policy to be adopted, and if it should become necessary to propose such a plan to the House, he was rather of opinion that the Noble Lord opposite (Lord J. Russell), and not himself, would be the proposer of that plan. What does our potent friend, the " Times," say to this ? Our readers will not fail to observe that, how evsr satisfactory may have been Sir Robert Peel's declaration that he does not contemplate any further " concession" to the free trade agitators, there was squeh In hie observations, and Medally " Cassio, I love thee well ; But never more be oticer of mine." Mr. Smith remains, no doubt, an excellent advocate in a real action or an ordinary prosecution for burglary; but preserve the public from such an Attorney-General. Our notice of this wild affair would be imperfect without a short reference to the sequel, as it appears in to-day's paper. The solemn pacification which took effect—as of record, we suppose—under the high sanction of the Court, is not enough for Mr. Fitzgibbon. " I am," he is good enough to inform them, "an ardent man in a high degree— too much so, I must confess, but I cannot help it any more than I can help sleeping(!);" and so, with characteristic impetuosity, lie hastens to repeat his regrets. Mr. Fitzgibbon laments—deplores. Mr. Fitzgibbon "cannot say he is satisfied with what took place yesterday." Mr. Fitzgibbon "is not satisfied, because he thinks that justice was not done to the Attorney_ General as a lawyer and as a gentleman. How con siderate of Mr. Fitzgibbon! "He placed himself," adds Mr. Fitzgibbon, "in a moment of irritation, in a false position, which did not or ought not to belong to him." "lam n ;t satis. fied, because I felt, and still feel, that what I said pressed upon a temper which cannot be helped by the Attorney-General no nacre than the air he breathes." Charity itself!—forgiving, candid, generous, enduring charity! But it reminds us a little of a well known Joe Miller. " Ma'am," said a countrywoman of ours to a sharp Frenchwoman, " I hear you go about saying I'm a fool Y" " Oh, que non, Madame!" was the apologetic reply, " I never, never say thing so impoli. I have often heerd it say." Mr. Fitz gibbon's balm has much the same healing quality as that furnishes by the Frenchwoman. It is very good of him—extremely so—to apologise; but it rnlght have been thought to show better taste it he had done so for himself alone, and not for the Attorney-Gene. ral. We certainly do not envy Mr. Smith his "false position," from which kis unaided efferts will not soon extricate him. We have only to hope, for his own sake, that he has learnt to write no more three-cornered notes; for ours, that he will not have oc. casion to do so in the service of the public.—Times. - - OCIIILTREE.—For the last fewdays the weather has been extremely boisterous, and on Sabbath we had a good deal of thunder. The ground is so completely saturated with rain that ploughing is both a difficult and unpleasant task at preseut.—Ayr Obsur►er. THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 3, 1844. in his agreement with the abstract principles of the Whig leader, which we cannot regard with approbation. .We confess, however, that, writing as we do immediately after having listened to the speech of Sir Robert Peel, we are unwilling to pronounce a decisive opinion upon those parts of his address which appeared to us to be of at least a questionable character. The declaration about the corn laws gives us at least a breathing time, of which we shall take ad vantage before we offer a deliberate judgment upon the new appear ance of affairs CHRONICLE.—It cannot be said that the Royal speech with which Parliament was opened yesterday disappoints expectation. It is just what we had ventured to anticipate. It tells what everybody knew before it was spoken, but leaves untold what everybody was anxious to know. Ministers wished, properly enough, to avoid dis cussion, and the speech was therefore formed with a view not to provoke it. Topics of discussion are no doubt suggested, but the necessity of taking them up immediately was obviated by Ministers indicating an intention of bringing them, at an early day, more formally under consideration. Thus, notice of a motion for a vote of thanks to the Sinde army was given for the 12th of February, under cover of which the paragraph announcing the annexation of a por tion of Sinde esuaped from being_made the subject of an amendment. A confident hope' Is expressed, rounded chiefly on the friendly rela tions existing with the King of the French, that peace will continue uninterrupted. Parliament is informed that a copy of the Chinese treaty will be laid before them. If along with it was laid a copy of the instructions under which this treaty was negotiated, Parlia ment might be enabled to appreciate the degree of credit that is due to the Government of Sir Robert Peel. It is remarkable that this treaty, which would never have been concluded if the Tories had had their way, is the only treaty of commerce on the conclusion of which Ministers can congratulate the country. The reference in the speech to domestic affairs are as few and as meagre as might have been an ticipated from the embarrassed condition of the Government. The great question of the corn-laws, like the bust of Brutus, is suggested to every mind only the more vividly by its absence. The other great question, as to the policy to be pursued towards Ireland, Is adroitly evaded by touching successively the State trials and the Land Com mission. One important intimation, indeed, there is, respecting the registration of voters ; but, with this exception, the affir matives of the speech are as poor a collection as ever were mustered by a Minister at the commencement of a session. ADVERTISER.—Two houses, which may he considered rivals to each other, sat last night. The one sitting tooklplace in St. Stephen's, the other in Covent-garden. There was a marked contrast in the proceedings of the two assemblies. In the Commons, so far as the Ministerial side was concerned, all was vague and unmeaning, until Sir Robert Peel was forced to speak out ; in Covent-garden all was bold, decided definite. In the speeches of the Queen and the mem bers of her Govefnment, no one could discern a scintillation of mean ing ; in the speeches of the gentlemen who addressed the rival House, everything was so plain that there was no possibility of mis conceiving a single sentence. The contrast was equally striking in another respect. The objects of the two houses were wholly diffe rent. The Commons, as the body is at present constituted, seek to uphold all monopolies, and especially the monster monopoly in corn ; the object for which the meeting at Covent-garden took place was to abolish all monopolies, and especially the colossal monopoly in bread. Which of the two assemblies will triumph ? No one who was in Covent-garden Theatre last night could have a moment's doubt on the subject. PARLIAMENTARY DIVISIONS. (From the Votes and Proceedengs of the House of Commons. 1 THURSDAY, FEB. 1. THE ADDRESS.-MR. SHARNIAN CRAWFORD'S AMENDMENT. MINORITY—AYES, 29. Barnard, E. G. Elphinstone, Howard Trelawny, J. S. Bernal, Captain Feilden, J Villiers, Charles ? Blewitt, Reginald Gibson, T. M. Wakley, Thomas I odkin, John James Gisborne, Thomas Warburton, H. Rowring, Dr. Hindle ' , Charles Ward, H. U. Bright, John Hume, Joseph Williams, W. Brotherton, J. Johnson, General Yorke, R. H. Cobden, Richard Plumridge, Captain Collett, John Ricardo, J. L. TELLERS. Currie, Raikes Roebuck, J. A. Crawford, W. S. Duneombe, T. S. l'hornely, Thomas Wallace, Robert MAJORITY—NOES, 285. A ckers, James .0 ..vans, W. Miles, W. Acland, Sir 'l'. D Fellowes, Edward Milnes, R. M. Acland, T. D. Fitzmauriee, W. Mitchell, 1. A. ''Court, Capt. E. Flower, Sir James Mordaunt, Sl. J Alford, Viscount Follett, Sir W. W. Morgan, Octavius Allix, John Peter Fox, S. Lane Morgan, C, Antrobus, Edmund Fuller, A. E. Morris, David Arbuthnott, Hugh Gaskell, J. M. Mundy, a Miller Arkwrigt , t, George Gladstone, W. E. Neeld, Joseph Astell, William Glynne, Sir S. R. Neville, Ralph fittwood, M. Godson, Richard Newdegate, C. N Bagot, Hon. W. Goroon, Captain Nichol!, J. Bailey, J. Gore, Montague Norreys, Lord Bailey, Joseph, jun, Gore, W. R. 0. Northland, Lord Baillie, H. J. Gore, Robert O'Brien, A. Stafford Baird, William Goulburn, Henry Ossuliton, Lord Balfour, J. M. Gr ham, , 9* Jarces Oswald, J.incs Sankes, George Granby, Marquis of Owen, Sir Jorin Baring, W. B. Greenall, Peter Packe, C. Wm. Baring, F. T. Greene, 'l'. Pakington, John S. Bar neby, John Gregory, W. IL Pal • er, Robert Barrington, ViscOunt Grimsditch, T. Palmer, G. Baskerville, T. B. M. Grimston, Lord Palmerston, Visct. Beckett, William Raiford, Henry Patten, J. Vs Bell, Matthew Hamilton, J. Hans Peel, Sir Robert Bentinck. Lord G. Hamilton, G A Pennant, Hon. Col Beresford, Major Hamilton, LordClaud Philips, Mark Berkeley, Hun. C. Hanmer, Sir John Pluniptre,*.l. P. Blackburne, John I. Harcourt, G. G. Poll ingtori, Viscount Blakemore, R. Hardinge, Sir H. Pollock, Sir Fred. Boldero, H George Hawes, B. Powell, Colonel Borth w ick, Peter Heathcote, Sir W. Praed, W. T. Botfield, Beriah Heneage, G. W. Pringle, Alexander Bradshaw, James Henley, J. W. Pryse, Pryse Bramston, T. W. Hennikerd Lord Pusey, Philip Broadley, Henry Hepburn, Sir T. B. Bowdon, J. D. Browne, Hon. W. Herbert, Hon. S. Reid, Sir J. B. Brownrigg, J. S. Hervey, Lord A. Repton, George W. Bruce, Lord Ernest Hillsborough, Earl of Rice, E. It Bruen, Colonel Hinde, J. H. Richards, Richard Buck, Lewis W. Hobhouse, Sir J. C. R se, Si r G eorge Buckley, Edmund Hodgson, Frederick Round, Charles Gray Buller, Sir J. Y. Hodgson, _Richard Round, John Burrell, Sir Thomas Holmes, W. A'Court Rumbold, C. E. Busfeild, William Hope, Charli s Rushisrooke, Colonel Butler, Hon. P. Hope, Alexanler Russell, Lord Joan Campbell, John H. Hope, G. W. Russell, Charles Cardwell, Edward Hornby, John Sanderson, Richard Castlereagh, Viscount Horsman, E. Sandon, Lord Chapman, K. Hotham, Lord Scarlett, Hon, R. C. Hussey, Thomas Shaw, Frederick Cholmondeley, H. Ingestre, Lord Sheppard, T. C C h h a i l r d t e e r r ads, Chetwode, JF.srvviarn.cis John Howard,Hoarcl P C . . H W . . G. Scott, S m 0 ur,, Hon, Sir F. H. H. B. Jocelyn, Viscount Smythe, Han. G. CC C l hh a ur y its t e o t Clerk, Sir G. Jolliffe, Sir W. Somerset, Lord G. , o ii p w, h 1 l e u r .i ,i R. , A L . W J .j a e m r m e s y , n S , i E r a W rl alter Shirley,Seale , i r John Evelyn H J J. Clive, Viscount Jones, Captain Stanley, Lord Cochrane, Alex. Kelly, Fitzroy Staunton, Sir G. Colebrooke, Sir T. Knatchbull, Sir E. Stewart, John Collett, W. R. Knight, H. G. Stuart, H. . Compton, H. Langston, J. H. Strutt, Edward Connolly, Colonel Lascelles, W. S. Sturt, H. C. Coote, Sir C. H. Law, Hon. C. E. Sutton, Hon. H. Id. Copeland, W. Lefroy, Anthony Tennent, J. E. Corry, Hon. Henry Legh, G. C. Thesiger, F. Courtenay„ Viscount Leslie, C. P. lhompson, Aid. Cripps, W. Leveson, Lord Th rdhill, George Curteis, H. B. Liddell, H. T. Tollemache, J. Darby, George Lincoln, Earl of Tomline, George Davies, D. A. S. Lindsay, H. H. Trench, Sir F. Denison,John Evelyn Lockhart, William Trevor, Hon. G. R. Denison, E. Beckett Long, Walter Trollepe, Sir John Dickinson, FH. Lowther, Hon. Col. Trotter, J. Divett, E. Lyall, George' Tufnell, Henry Dodd, George Lygon, General Tumor, C. Dougla., Sir H. Macaulay, T. B. Tyrell, Sir J T. Douglas, Sir C. Mackenzie, Thomas Vane, Lord H. Douglas, J. DS. Mackenzie, W. F. Verner, Colonel Douro, Marquis of Marl an, DiJvild Waddington, H. S Dowdeswell. W. M'Neill, Duncan Walsh, Sir John B. Drummond, H. H. Mainwaring, T. Wilbraham, Hon. R.B Duffield, Thomas Mangles, R. D. Wilde, Sir T. Dugdale, W. S. Manners, Lord C. Wilshere, W. Dundas,:Frederick Manners, Lord J. Wodehouse, Hon. E Dundas, David March, Earl of Wood, Colonel Du Pre, George Marshall, W illiam Wood, Colonel T. Eaton, Richard .7, Marsham, Vsceunt Wortley, J. Stuart Ebrington, Viscount Martin, C. W. Wortley, Hon. Jn. S. Egerton, W. T. Marton, George Wyndham Colonel Egerton, Sir P. Master, T. W. Yorke, E. 'F. Eliot, Lord Masterman John Young, John J Emlyn, Viscount Maxwell, J. P TELLERS. Escott, Bickham Afeynell, Captain Fremantle Sir T. Estcourt, T. G. B. Miles, P. W. S. Baring, H. B. Dividend per Annum. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF EXCHEQUER, Feb. 2. (Sittings at Nisi Prius, before Lord ABDIGER and Common Juries.) COLLEY V. BURTON Mr. Jervis and Mr. Humphrey appeared for the plaintiff, Mr. Whateley and Mr. Terrett conducted the case for the defendant. _ _ This was an action to recover compensation in damages for certain injuries sustained by the plaintiff's cab, which he alleged were caused by coming in collision with the defen lant's cart, which was driven carelessly and negligently. The accident. occured nearly opposite the " Load of Hay," in the Hampstead-road. From the evidence adduced on the 'art of the plaintiff, it appeared that the cab had sustained considerable injury, and, that the cost of repairing it would come to 161. or 201. A witness, who was said to be in Scotland, was here pointed out by a witness under examination. This witness, on being sworn, stated that he repaired the cab ; that it took him about four hours, for which he received Is., and that the work and materials would not exceed 40s. ; that the bill produced in Court, purporting to be owing by the plaintiff to him, and amounting to 101. 10s., was made out by the direction of the plaintiff's wife ; and that the work specified in it was never done to the cab, and was merely concocted by the plaintiff and his solicitor to recover damages from the defendant. It however, ap peared, that the witness had formerly been in the service of the plaintiff, and was, according to his account, discharged for refusing to swear against his belief.—Verdict for the de fendant. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. (YESTERDAY.) MARYLEBONE. John Seager, lately a policeman in the S division, who, upon the representation of Robert Hancorne, Esq., of Euston square, had been dismissed the force for neglect of duty, he having left his beat for an hour and a half, during which time he was with the complainant's maid-servants, in his kitchen, when a considerable quantity of plate was stolen, yesterday requested that the whole charge might be investigated before the Magistrate, and his request was com plied with. Mr. Hancorne's two servants stated that the defendant was the policeman on the beat in Euston-square, and on the night of the 17th January last he was induced to enter Mr. Hancorne's kitchen, where he was treated to ham, fowl, &c., with rum and water, and " beer as much as he wished to drink." He remained with them from half-past four in the morning till about six o'clock, and that same morning the silver plate was stolen. Mr. Robinson, who attended for the defendant, called seve ral policemen, who deposed that they had seen the defendant attending to his duty, at the time he was stated by the girls to be in Mr. Hancorne's kitchen. Mr. LONG thought the case not proved, and the ex policeman was discharged. PRICES OF SHARES rrT y T LONDON, TUESDAY, FEB. 3.1 Names of Com panies. Canals. Ashton and Oldham Ashby-de-la-Zouch-av Basingstoke ......... Br ecknock & Abergay. Birmingham, h sh. Do. and Liverp. Julie. Chelmer & Blackwater Coventry ....„.«....., Crom ford ........... Dudley ........ ..... Derby Durube and Mayne Ellesmere and Chester Erewash Forth and Clyde Grand Junction Grand Union Grand Surrey ..... Grand Western.... Glanaorgansh., ay. cost Gloucester & Berkeley Grantham Huddersfle,d ....av Kennet and Avon ...av Lancaster av Leeds and Liverpool,.. Leicester Leicester & Northamp Loughborough .....-.av Monmouthshire Montgomeryshire Melton Mowbrly Mersey and Irwell Macclesfield... ....... Neath Oxford ........„....« Peak Finrest av Regent's (or London).. Rocndale av Shropshire . Somerset Coal Da. LOCK Fund Stock Stafford and Worcester Shrewsbury Stourbridge Stratford .on-Avon...av Swansea Severn & Wye & Trent & Mersey, sh. Thames & Medway av Warwick 'nd Burning. Warwick and Napton... W rcester & Burning. Wilts and Berks Wisbeach Wey and Arun Docks. Commercial East and West India London I)itto Bond, Bristol ay Do.Bilds,var.amounts St. Katharine Ditt . Bonds.., Ditto B nds .. Southampton !Bridges Hammersmith...... Southwark, new Subs Ditto New of 734 pr c Waterloo Ditto Old Ann. of Si, Ditto Nc•v di to cil7l Ditto Vauxhall av Assurances. Albion A Fred Life Allisnce Brit. and For Ditto Marine Atlas ........ Birmingham Fire British Fire. British Commercial Cler. Med. & Gen. Life County Eagle Economic Lite ...... Amount Etimpean Life Ditto New Share. 100 0 0 Stock Stock 147 9 0 Freemasons:. Globe Guardian Hope Life Ditte Fire Imperial Fi e Ditto Life.... ...... Indemnity Marine Law Life Legal and General Life London Fire Ditto Ship National Loan Fun , P , lladium Life Protecto Lite Provident Rock Life R yal Exchange Sun Fire Ditto Life.....„ University Life Universal Life.. . , .... Union Fire and Life Joint Stk Banks Australasi, Ditto New Brit. North American Commercial of London Colonial London & W.stminstr Ditto New....... ... . London Joint Stock Metropolitan. . . .. Provincial et Ireland Ditto New National of Ireland..... Nat. Provincial Englnd Ditto New Gloucestershire .... Union of Australia Union of London Gaslight &. Coke Bath British • Ditto Provincial Birmingham Birming. & Staflbrdsh Bristol Brighton Ditto General City of Lor don Ditto New Continental Cons°lid Ditto New Equitable Imperi I Isle of Thanet Independent Phoenix Ratelift: Stock 50 i 0 50 0 0 63 2 8 50 0 0 100 0 0 70 10 3 500 0 0 25 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 250 0 0 250 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 1000 0 0 20 0 20 0 0 20 0 0 Stock 100 0 0 25 0 0 25 0 0 500 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 0 25 0 0 20 0 0 50 0 0 20 0 0 100 0 0 5 0 0 Stock 100 0 fl 100 0 0 20*, 0 0 40 n () South M. t opolitan..... United Genet . ...... Westmins. Chartered.. Ditto New ........ 50 0 ( 10" , 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 21 0 0 100 0 0 10 0 0 40 0 0 100 0 0 20 0 0 40 0 0 25 0 0 50 0 0 20 0 0 40 0 0 20 0 0 77 10 0 50 0 0 20 0 0 20 0 0 20 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 75 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 0 30 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 5' Y 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 Water Works. Birmingham East London. ...... Grand Juncti ,, n. av Kent Nw Riv Lon. Bridg An Manchester and Salford Vauxhall, late S. Lond. West Middlesex av Yrk BuldgCo.Les.Prop Iron Railways. Birmingham & Derby Birmiug. & Gloucester Bristol and Exeter Cheltenhm & Gt. West Clarence .... Eastern Counties.,, Edinburgh & Glasgow Ditto New Grand Junctio Great North of Enil . n . el Gre t Western .... Ditto Half Shares Ditto Fifths ......, Hull and Selby Leedi and Selby Liverpool & Manchestr Ditto Half-Shares Ditto Quarter-Shares London and Brighton Ditto Loan Notes London and BI ckwall London and Greer wich London and Birmingh. Ditto Quarter-Shares Ditto Thirds... ...... London and S. Western London and Croydon Manchest, r and Leeds Ditto New Shares Manchstr and Binning Ditto Extension Mid'and Cou tics North Midland Do. M i -Sh., iss. 10 dis Northern and Eastern Ditto Scrip, iss. 5/. dis Paris and Rotten Stockt n & Darlington South East. and Dover Ditto New, iss. 25 dis. York and N. Midland Ditto New Shares Mines. Alblrn Copper Alten 25 0 0 100 0 0 41 13 4 100 0 0 Anglo Mex., iss.s/. p.m. Ditto Subscription Bolanos 30 0 0 100 0 0 63 12 9 100 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 100 9 0 100 0 0 25 0 0 50 0 0 12 10 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 20 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 0 50 0 0 10 0 0 16 13 4 12 15 4 100 0 0 Ditt Scrip Brazil. Imp. iss.s/.p.m Do. Moeaub. & Coc. U. Do. St. John Del Rey British Iron 3200 i 1 6 10 13 15 9 100 0 0 50 0 0 70 0 0 70 0 0 100 0 0 1 , ,0 0 0 50 0 I) 50 e 50 0 e - 20 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 0 S 0 9 15 0 0 100 0 0 150 0 0 Candonga Ditto Registered Cobre Copper Copiapo Columbian, iss. 51. p.m General Mining Hibernian Imperial Slate Compy Mexican Mining Co. of Ireland Real del Monte, Un reg Ditto Loan Notes Rhymney Iron Santiago de Cuba United Mex.,iss.2/. pin Ditto Scrip Ditto New Scrip.„...„ Literary. Londß,with Sin. Ticket London University Russell King'. College 35 0 0 25 0 0 20 0 0 100 0 0 20 0 0 CO 0 0 55 0 0 20 0 0 AO 0 0 10 0 0 60 • 0 25 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 0 40 0 0 TEE COTTON CROP.—As we anticipated a fortnight ago, the speculators on both sides of the Atlantic have suc ceeded, by acting and re-acting on each other's operations, in procuring, both in the United States and here, au advance in price which we cannot think is justified by anything we have been able to discover, either in the American papers, or in the state of our demand or consumption here. Since our last arrivals from the United States it does appear that heavy rains have prevailed over a considerable extent of country occupied as cotton plantations ; and that, in consequence, the crop will be somewhat shorter than previously we had reason to expect. The general anticipation in the United States, if we may judge from the statements confi dently put forth in• the newspapers, is, that it will not exceed 1,700,000 bales, and one letter from New Orleans estimates it as low as 1,600,000 bales. This, however, is the lowest estimate we have anywhere seen; and, on the other hand, Messrs. Stewart and Wright, cotton brokers, New York, in their circular, state that they see no reason to alter their estimate of 1,800,000 bales, made so • long ago as the 14th of November last. In the midst of these conflicting statements, if we refer to the state ment of the total quantities of cotton received at the various American ports, up to the latest dates, as compared with the same dates in 1842—a statement which appears in the New York Shipping and Commercial List of the 10th instant—we find those receipts to be-1843, 707,367 bales; 1842, 906,036 bales. The difference, therefore, between the receipts of 1843 and 1842 is about 22* per cent. in favour of the last named year. In this town, there appears to be a general disposition to deduct 100,000 bales from previous estimates ; and this appears to us to be a reasonable deduc tion for the damage which there seems too much reason to fear the crop has sustained since the preceding advices. Though we cannot subscribe to the extreme views of the New Orleans letter already referred to, as to the probable amount of the crop, it contains some statements with reference to peculiarities in the growth of the plant itself, not undeserv ing of attention by those interested in the trade. The intelli gence of the crop brought by the recent arrivals immediately GENERAL DUFF GREEN AT HOME.—At Washing. produced a very active and excited market in Liverpool ; ton Duff Green is quite busy with the President and Cabinet. prices rose fully id. per pound; and, as will be seen by the He is organising measures and collecting capital for the report of yesterday's cotton market, transactions to a large establishment of a daily newspaper in New York. It will be amount continued to be made, and much speculative bush• a free trade Calhoun paper, and will also be an organ of the AM was done.-21fanclisster Guardian. I Anti-Corn-law League of England.—New York Paper. 75 0 0 100 0 0 25 0 0 Miscellaneous. Anglo Mexican Mint Australian Agricultur Brit. American Land, Canada Upper Canada Bonds Capper Miners' Comp Gen. Steam Navigation Iberian Mercantile Co. I)itto Property Met. Wood Pay., iss.ll. Mex. and S. American New Brunswick Land, New Zealand ...... Penins. & Orien. Steam Royal Mail Steam Reversionary Int. 60C South Australian Thames Tunnel Van Diemen's Land 10 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 15 0 0 5 q 0 5 0 0 10 0 0 10 0 C 50 0 0 100 0 0 25 0 0 50 0 0 20 0 0 00 00 00 0 0, PANIES' PRICES. 1844. 10 0 0 10 0 0 10 0 0 10 0 0 12 10 0 1 0 0 2 10 0 SO 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 0 25 4 0 h per cent. 11. 4 pciCent. 401. 91. 153. 71. 1L ss. 131 12s. Bd. 15s. 11 10s. 341. 101. 171. 30!. 3% 17s. tid. 101. 6 percent. al 151. 20:. 11. 10s. 15/. 321. — 105. 101. 81. tOs. 41. 11. 4s. 3 per cent. pe , cent 4 per cent. 4 per cent. • 3/. 10s. 5 per cent. 5 per cent I 5 pet cent. 4 per cent. 4 per cent. • 11. IN per cent. I/. Or. Si. 18$. Id. per cent. U. l's. 3,. 10s. 4 per cent. 6 per cent. 6 per cent. 13, 6A. pr 6h 51.55. per cent. T. per share 5 per cent. 31. 6s. 5 per cent./ & 30s. bds 54 per cent. 5 percent per cent. 6 per cent. 5 per cent. 4s. 2s. 6d. 12 percent, 193. IL sh. & bds. 1455. 10s. 10s. 5 per cent. 5 per cent. 5 per cent. IL ss. 5 per cent. sbi per cent. IL 4g. spe cent. 10% per cent 51. Ft per cent 6 per cent. 5 per cent. 5 per cent. 6 per cent. e per cent 8 per cent. 8 per cent. 6 per cent. Its per share 6s. per share 10 per cent. 5 per cent. 16s. 11. 5s 11. 7s 51. and bs. 4541. and bs. 10 per cent. 4 per cent. 81 per sh 315 s per sh 21. 6 per cent. 5 per cent. 8 per cent. 5 per cent 6 per cent. 4% per cent. 31. 12s. 21. 10s. 21. Ins. 21. 10s. sper cent. 41. 16s. 11. 14s. 10s. per sb 11. 4s. 4 per cent. 21. 10s. Ss. per sh. 41.55. per sh is 10d per sh lii per cent ?k t per cent. 31.55. per sh ?W. per sh. 12s. per sh. 4 per cent. 10 per cent. 10 per cent. 10 per cent. 116/. per sh 101. p ,, r sh. 11. 14s. 81. per share 3s 4cl per sh SL 17s. pr sh 1138 per sh 11. 1 /. - 10s. IL ss. 168. IL Ile. 10d. IS per cent. per cent. 10 per cent. 10 per cent. 1/. 11. Si. 17s. 6d. / ,-10 s. /0 per cent. 10s. per A. 11. 101. per oh. 11. ts. 1L 155. t per cent. per cent 5 per cent. I. Ss. and/ ts.6d. be. per cent. ?per cent. a% per cent t per cent, LIST op SCOTTISH COM JAN. 24, Bank of Scotland Royal Bank British Linen Compny Commercial Bank Glasgo, Union Bank Western B ...... Central Pk. of Scotland Caledonian Insurance. Hercules Insurance. North Brit. Insurance Insurance ('o. of Scot!. Edinburgh Life Incur. Sco , tish Union Incur Standard Life limn Dalkeith Railway Edin. and (4las. Ftailwy Glasg. and Green. Bail. Dundeeand Arbr Rail. !per cent. per Cent. `per cent. t per cer t. ?per cent. (pel rent t par cent. per cent. ?per Dent 9 per cent. tper cent. €per cent. !per cent. per cent. .k per cent. St% per cen t LLOYD'S SHIPPING. • LONI)0!4,• FRB. 2.--Winfl-lk•ht north easterly hreere,'lrlth IstidNY. N.W. ; , ; , .intoning Leopold, Augustin, Havannah; Candhlu , Honduras. Sld. Corinth, Havannah. During last night it blew very hard from N.W. The Woodland Castle drifted towards the North ward Sand Head, but was assisted clear of the sands,-with loss 9 1 anchors and cables. The Lightning, from Marsala to London, drove out of Margate Roads, and was assisted clear of the Goodwin Sands. with loss of anchors .and; chain. The William Ward, of and Iron; Hull to Athens , (coldi,laden), was abandoned off Calais yesterday afternoon, hating lost majnyard, sails, &c. ; crew saved, and arrived at Kingsdovria i the vessel has since been taken into Calais by French fishermen. Price. AmsoATE, FEB. I.—The Deveron, Christie from Shields to Al' meira, drove on the Knock this morning, but came off leaky, and was put on shore in a sinking state, near East Cliff Lodge. If the weather continues moderate, she will get afloat next tide, and be brought into this harbour. • - 105 31;4 65 FALMOUTH, FEB, I.—The gale abated during last night. ItraAcomsz, Fna. I.—The Unicorn, from the Clyde to St. Thorloo was boarded off this port this morning, and reports haying seen yes. terday to the westward of Lundy Island two brigs without any can' vass set, which the master fears must have gone ashore in Bride Bei last night. HITBY, JAN. 31.—The Earl Bathurst, of Scarborough, bas drives on shore a mile to the northward of this place ; crew saved. T" Syren, of Shields, has driven on shore near the same place; cre ° saved. 1200 135 100 117 300 MARKET NEWS.-(YESTERDAY•) COM N EXCHANGE. The quantity of English Wheat was exceedingly small; nevertheless, the demand for it was by no means active, though Monday's prices were supported. For Foreign Wheat there was a fair retail trade, at fully previous rates. The supply of Barley was small. Malting parcels sold freely; other kinds slowly, at stationary prices. The demand Let Malt was slow, but, as the quantity on offer was not large, prices were supported. Oats, Beans, Peas, and Flour moved off slowly at previous currencies. English. Irish F0reign.......... ARRIVALS. Wheat. 2 ; 580 qrs I Barley. Oats. Hour 3,270 qrs. 3,7'0 qts. 3,420 sack& 7,600 ....... :37% 11,5 101% 72 171 5 1514 Fri 6 5% 400 lk 10s. 174 46 6h 184 16 1 4 154 i 2% 40s 20s. 4% 170 205 12% 45)4 43% 1 40 130 13 34% 25 27% 10% 1,360 1 770 . Malt, 6,610 qrs. SMITHFIELD. Notwithstanding the supply of beasts was very moderate , the beef trade, owing to the thin attendance of buyers, wa, in a sluggish state, and in some instances the quo t a ti on s ha u a downward tendency. The numbers of sheep were un usually small. Prime old Downs sold briskly at an advance of 2d per Blbs, but the value of all other kinds remained un altered Calves were" in short supply and active demand at full rates. Pigs moved off slowly, yet late currencies were supported. In milch cows very little was doing at from 1 61 to 191 each. . • NEWGATE AND LEADEN'S/MX. We had a very heavy trade here. BOROUGH HOP BTAR/CHT. Although the amount of business doing in new hops 'this week has not been to say extensive, the quotations are steadily supported i n every i nstance. Th e va l u e of old hops is still slightly on the advance, with a very limited quantity on show. (From the London New Price Current of Feb. 2.) SUGAR.—To-day - the show of West India Sugar was smaller, and worse than has been • the case for some yeFirS at this time ; for the few boards of bright grocery buyers were compelled to pay p r i ces 6d to i s per cwt a b ove those or this day week : inferior sorts maintained the rates of that period• A board of fine yellow Jamaica brought 70s per cwt. REF'LNED.—The home trade have been large purchasers of Refined Sugar this week, and higher prices have been via' To-day Standard Lumps could. not be purchased under 76 0 0 and Brown Grocery 75s per cwt ; there was a good businC transacted. Bonded Crushed Sugar is fetching 25s 6d / 0 25s 9d per cwt. lilArnmus.—A large business has been transacted in al l descriptions this week, and the prices paid have been &It' ll/ to those previously established. EAST INDIA.—This afternoon Bengal Sugar met. :with fit" tention, and 1,059 bags at public sale sold. _at . the form ° worth : two lots mid and good white went at"66s to 67s C d ' the remainder damaged 65s to 66 s p er cw t. 2 , 273 b ag s °i Madras, in bond, sold at stiff prices ; tine yellow fetched &VI good 35s to 365, middling 34s to 34s 6d, damp and wasliem' 31s 6d to 39s per cwt. FOREIGN.—Holders of yellow Havannah submitting to reduction on late prices of 6d per cwt has tempted buyers L ° come forward more freely. Of Brazil none has been :01u mitted to public sale. To-day common yellow Havanna' . at 17s 6d per cwt. MOLASSES.—A fair demand has been experienced foiNs 4 ,, India this week, and f u ll. ra t es g i ven. B engal S y rup ." wanted. To-day mid Antigua Molasses at 27s per cwt. CocoA.—A better demand has prevailed for good qualiti' of Foreign, which have fetched full rates, but little inclinatid has been shown to buy inferior kinds; prices, howeverdlarr ° made a stand. West - India g ood an d fi ne re d at good price * but inferior is difficult to sell. Russ, BRANDY, AND HOLLANDS.—Jamaica Ruin 36 Ilo r cent. over proof, at 3s 6d, 33 over proof, 3s 4d, . and s: co, t parcels of fine quality 4s to 5 s p er ga ll on. L eewar d s at I s 1w to is lid proof. Calcutta Ruin at is 7d per gallon; Di 0 8 ; rara 28 per cent over at 2s Bd, and fine stio°l quality 2s 10d to 3s per gallon. In the Brandy m 0 , 1 4 1 1 , prices have risen ld per gallo n . C ognac b es t brai2, of the production of 1838, hhd s 5 s 10d, puns 5 s 8d ; hhds 5s 7d, puns 5s 3d ; 1840, hhds 5s sd, puns 5s 3d; 184 1 ' hhds 5s 3d, puns 5s Id ; 1842, hhds 5s 2d, puns ss, and in' t ferior marks 3s to 4s 4d per gallon. Geneva for shipping ° to Is 10d; for small parcels of fine pale for home use 2s 4d 3s per gallon paid. English Corn Spirits are lOs to lOs 2u; Scotch and Irish lOs to lOs 2d, and M a lt S p i r it s 12 s 6d to 1' per gallon. SAGO at improved prices. Sago Flour 18s to 18s 6d per cwt. Bermuda Arrow roo t i s ld t o i s 4d f or goo d to fill." St. Vincent's, good, 6d per lb. COFFEE.— All clean qualities - of West India have read I te ll j commanded previous prices, b u t b us i ness h as b een res t r ic by the scanty and indifferent assortment at market. day there was no public sale of Coffee. Ceylon met with ready purchasers by private contract, and prices are .stn) going up ; 65s 6d to 66s paid for good ordinary. Mocha. NO fetched rather higher rates. RlCE.—Carolina cleaned here has been in fair demand at 21s to 26s per cwt. To-day Bengal Rice was less in demand , and 1,844 bags at auction were all taken in at lls for good mid white ; lOs 9d offered after the sale. • TEA.—To-day several purchases were made in Tea, and tit 4 tendency of prices is still upwards ; common and fine Congoa was the most in request. The lowest point of the market of ordinary sound Congou is Is per lb. INDIGO.—The market has been in a firm position sin r o g Friday last ; a good demand has been experienced for : qualities from the home trade, some parcels have been tak for exportation, and the rates established at the quarts' 1 1 sale has been fully sustained at stiffer rates. TALLow.—P.Y. Candle of first quality 4ls per cwt. f,„ 4 °/ . delivery in the last three months of th e year at 41 s 6d to- 4 74 " . per cwt. Town Tallow at 42s to 42s 6d per cwt nett cash' American at the former currency. OILS.—For Sperm Oil prices have been firm, British so ld at at 721. American is 701 per tun. Cod Oil at 321 lOs to per tun. Seal cheaper, 351 lOs to 361f0r pale; Southern 3 to 37/for fine quality. Li nsee d Oil at 26s 9d to 27s per CS., Rape Oil, 36s is the valise of pale, and 35 s per c wt fir brown. Olive Oil 461 t o 461 lO s f or O alipoli, and 42/to 4311,;(0' Barbary and Spanish. Palm fine quality 28s 6d to 2 t. per cwt. Cocoa Nut Oil fine quality 32s to 33s per 01 0 American Lard Oil, at 421t0 421 lOs per tun. This afterno°., Southern Oil sold at 341 to 361 lOs ; S ea l, pa l e 354 brow' and straw 291 to 331.. SOUTH EASTERN R AILWAY , D OVER , J AN . 31 O B' It is now definitively arranged th a t th e S out h E astern ,4 way should be opened to Dover on Tuesday next, the 6th February ; and the event will be celebrated by a dinner, 7 , a sumptuous scale, at the th e at re , t o which the Direete r ., engineers, and officers, of the Company. The civic authoJle, ties of Calais, Boulogne, Ostend, Canterbury, Deal, HY tn d Folkestone, &c., are to be invited ; an ex ce ll en t C om mittee? which the Mayor is chairman, has be en a pp o i n t e d t o conda:"., the banquet, and a liberal subscription entered into to de& P i the expense of it.—( From a Correspondent.) Al'' CURIOUS PHENOM ENON .—A s the lonian ship ' ander, Captain Pomoni, was sailin g i n th e di rec t cou rse l' h o Smyrna to Trieste, on the 26th of November last, neighbourhood of Cape Strofadi, in 37 deg. 9 min. nortliZ and 20 deg. 45 min. east long., and not far , 1 71 1 0 Zante, the crew observed a v i o l en t convulsion 4),,,to sea, accompanied with a vapour h av i ng a s t ron g w o o minous odour. The water was of a high temperature? o ut muddy; the plummet heaved to 16 f a th oms , b u t Wit.„"„Ar bottom. In consequence of th e v i o l ence o f t h e w i n d, the - f tarn could not remain long on th e spo t ; yet t h e strea k ei is convulsion, and the discolouration of the water, occupied e: e l is space in the superficial surface of the sea. The spot indica,' g od in the direct course usually adopted by merchant vessels aye ships of war; and the phenomenon is conjectured to _ n ig been caused by an eruption of Mount Mongibello, which place about the same period. [The island Strophades , t i 7 n ' miles south of Zante, seems to be meant. Mount Gihe" e l li g, the older part of Vesuvius ; we have no account of its b then in a state of eruption, but Etna was so about that One —Scotsman. Stha ERRATA.—In an Advertiseme n t i n yes t er day s r . ' b e e loLk et t i b a e t S t a h m e headed " Express Edition of THE Sox," for " Clayton's Newsy:T oe % office, Southampton," read " Portsmouth ;" and for " Nine 0. - t or inth whiche E h o v u e r n i r s e l a N d •u " -a S s ix to o and all the principal hotels at Portsmouth, G os port, and the eit o bourhood. On this occasion THE SUN was circulating above j o g hundred miles from London, in less than four hours after iss . ;;;4 Tut SUN office. By the same train, a parcel of SUNS was dispa_ by Mr. Clayton, to Mr. Bourn, his agent at Southampton. WA' libr n the joint activity of these agents, and Mr. Williamson, of,' IP' mouth, the inhabitants of Southampton, Portsmouth, GOSpOr p eet erekaftcleinrn;rootra"—es, "'se* neighbourhood, were put in possession of the Queen's tJi through the columns of THE SUN, long before any other town. respective distances in the kingdom. We see, by the Advert, i v , will,G/ Wefo Mr. Cla yto n pteobrlr3uat, trust purchasing rhn P ortsmouth,eh intends sennigryt t a forwardneoasneddnE Southampton,oxtpeExpress e .Hotel-keepers xpEepdrriset Editions, n s tthe all Editionsee enable oaiubmtlhep -oh o wr f itme sa THE co u t O s orcerri : a s t: ovi l his spirited project. We need hardly say he has our best 1"7 n olW THE SUN was also dispatched by other agents to several large '- throughout the kingd om . Ttn ° THE MORNING MAILS.--The following inr ar tdr notice was issued on Thursday at lithote General Post-office, St' iters le-Grand, giving the corrected f post towns to which le-o,f. newspapers are forwarded by the morning mail trains , " Abingdon, Acrington, Andover, Appleby, Banbury, 8 4 , 1 1 ~,g °,i ligo. Basingstoke, 13eaummis, Berwick, Berkh am p s t ea d, B"'"" uro cio"" Bishop's-Stortford, Blackburn, Bradford (Yorkshire), Brampton, Brough, Bristol, Brighton, Buckingham, Bur n- Cher" ton, Cambridge, Canterbury, Carlisle, Carnarvon, Chathalll , ,. o .o 4 stow, Cheltenham, Ch es t er , Chi ppen h am , C i rences t e r, l ;', 1 , Da - Cockermouth, Conway, Covent r y, C owes , C uc kfi e ld, BartZ r d, ventry, Dover, Far e h a m, F a l r f or d, Faringdon, Fenny-Stro.'pot versham, Folkestone, Gatesh ea d, Godalming, Glouceste r, l ;iites; Gravesend, Guildford, Halifax, Hayd on -b r id ge , Hemel B e o irgef,, Hertford, Hexham, Highworth, Hoddesdon, H o lyhead, yeiP Huddersfield, Kendal, Lancaster, Leamington, L ec hlade , , , Oar ton-Buzzard, Lewes, Liverpool, M a id en h ea d, Maidston e chester, Margate, Maryport, Milnthorpe, Mold, Nora' Newcasle, Newport (Isle of Wight), Newport. Pa. 87 ,, port; ampton, North Shields, Oxford, Penkridge, 'Penr i Ste" mouth, Preston, Ramsgate, Reading, Reigate, dale, Rochester, Rugby, Ryde, Saffron Walden, loop,„ bourne, Shoreham, Slough, Southampton, South Shields, S t ' 5t 005 .• St. Alban's, Stafford, Stockbridge, Stockport, Stone, Strq,„ e esit. Stratford, Stratford-on-Avon, Sunderland, Swindon, Tring, Ulverstone, Uxbridge, Wallingford, Wallsall, on.Vri:o Rickmanswoy, 114' ton, Warwick, Watford, Weedon, Whitehaven, wigan';7llol; chester, Windsor, Wolverhampton, Workington, the receiving -houses will be open till 7 a.m. for n ewspaPei__- 90 , t uK Scotland and Ireland. For all the above places the let_t_er-r-d 51! rs till 14 I. _ 44 . Cavendish-street, and the Borough, for newspapers a.m. for letters, and those at the branch offices, Chario%F.,os and letters till S a.m. At the General Post-office , 0. for newspaPc'" 80 , lc-Grand, and the Branch-office, Lombard-street , go o till a quarter to 8, and letters till half-past 8 a.m.—R'• Secretary.—General Post-office, February, 1.844." BIRTHS. On the 31st ult., at Herne-hill Mrs. J. Curli n g , of s7,csrl.'s On the 31st ult., at Mornington' House, Fulham, Down, Down, 3f a son. Mr- On the 19th ult., at S3tl.2lMßarßisECDh.urch, Cheltenhni:Nter J. White, of Southwark, London, to Ellen, youngest datle.., of the late John Lewis, Esq., fB • be GloucestershP o runscont , DIED. of hi . Fis O k n e, t a l g ie ed 2 B 2 o dult. at Haverfordwest, in the 71st year . _. age, the Rev. Josiah Hill, Wesleyan Mini ster. • 1 On the Bth tlt.nlaphanl, m r. 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