The Sun. — London, England, 1844-12-30 00:00:00

Wl' VI TWO ILLUiTRATIONS El LEECH. The JANUARY NUMBER, Price lief-a-Crown, of TO CORRESPONDENTS. BENTLEY'S MISCELLANY,' We cannot insert the letter signed " Isabella Lloyd," as Will contain the commencement of a it contains exparte statements in relation to a matter NEW STORY BY MR. ALBERT SMITH, which may be again brought before a court of justice. Entitled THE MARCHIONESS DE BRINVILLIERS ; TILE POISONER OF TIIE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY A Romance of Old Paris. With Two Illustrations by Leech. Chap. I.—The Mountebank of the Carrefour du Chatelet. Chap. ll.—The Boat-mill on the River. Chap. lll.—The Arrest of the Physician. The Fete of Peterhoff. By Mrs. Romer. The Sick Man's Request. Queen Pomare. An Imaginary Poem. The Plaint of Sappho. By C. H. L. The Opium Smoker. The Men of Old. By W. Jones. Confessions of De Loude Chiselliam. By Charles Whitehead Loiterings in Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Washington. By 11 The Fortunes of the Scattergood Family. By Albert Smith. Close of the Old Year, 1844. By 11. 11. K. The Boys of Kilkenny. By the Irish Whisky Drinker. The Post-bag ; or, Eccentric Correspondence. By R. B. Peake Monody on the Death of Thomas Campbell. By Dr. Beattie. Literary Retrospect of the Departed Great. By a Middle-aged Man Drink—The Knavish Treasurer of a Popular Charity. Advice Gratis—The Gaol Chaplain ; or, a Dark Page from Life's Tolume. THE WEATHER..—SUN OFFICE, DEC. 27. THERMOMETER, Lowest, 35 ; Highest, 46 ; Noon, 35 BAROMETER, 30.08.—WIND, N. NOTE.—The figures which follow the words "Lowest" and " Highest" denote the lowest and highest state of the Thermometer during the preceding twenty-four hours. All the other observations are made at noon. Water freezes at 32 ; 55 on Thermometers is marked "Temperate," and on Barometers "Fair" is generally placed opposite to 30, and " Rain" at 29 ; but there is no certainty of dry weather when the mercury falls below 30. Cooke. HIGH WATER AT LONDON.BRIDGE THIS DAY. Horning ... 6 minutes after 5 1 Evening... 25 minutes after b. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. THE SPECTATOR, Next SATURDAY, 4th JANUARY, 1845, will devote * a whole-sheet, SUPPLEMENT, of twenty-four pages, to the RESULTS of the NEW ZEALAND INQUIRY: the Materials derived from the House of Commons' Blue Book, of 1,200 pages, and other voluminous Official Papers. Principal Topics of the Supplement :—Some Passages in the History of New Zealand ; Natural Resources and Advantageous Commercial Position of the Islands (with a Map) ; The Aborigines ; The Mis sionaries; The Treaty of Waitangi; Hobson-Shortland Administra tion ; Hobs.rn-Shortland Colonisation ; Hobson-Shortland Finance ; The New Zealand Company's Settlements; Auckland and the Northern Settlements ; The Massacre at Wairau ; The Company's Charges against the Government; Proceedings, Report, and Reso lutions of the Select Committee of the House of Commons; Notices of Mr. Stephen of the Colonial-office, Lord Stanley, and Governor Fitzroy. SECOND EDITION. 9, 'Wellington-street, Strand for its wholesale treachery to the rights of nations a for its absurdity. He admits that Mexico had for mally notified to the United States her intention of reducing Texas, as a revolted member of her empire, to its obedience, and that again and again she had pro tested against the scheme of its annexation, to the United States. He admits that not only did the A merican Executive secretly encourage that scheme, but that they negotiated a treaty for effect ing it ! And then he desires to show, first, that Mexico was not wronged by this conduct, of which he is compelled to allow the Senate and the House of Re-, presentatives hare as yet no legal cognisance; and secondly, that Mexico will be benefited by the dis memberment of Texas. What would the old Flo rentine we have named have said to reasoning like this : during the last revolt, had been permitted to visit his patients, accompanied by two gendarmes and eight soldiers. The authorities of Lucerne had seized a sum of 80,060 P. in specie, deposited by M. JULES SALZ MANN in the hands of a banker of that city. Colonel GUGGENBURLEZ had died at Lenzbourg in the arms of his wife and sister. Confined by illness during the whole summer, he left his bed to defend the cause of liberty, and the fatigues he experienced in the out break of the Bth inst. had completely exhausted his strength. "Mexico has no right to jeopardise the peace of the world by urging any longer a useless and fruitless con test. Such a condition of things would not be tolerated on the European continent. Why should it be on this ? A war of desolation, such as is now threatened by Mexico, cannot be waged without involving our peace and tranquility. ground of displeasure against this Government or people for negotiating the treaty. What interest of hers was effected by the treaty ? She was de. spoiled of nothing, since Texas was for ever lost to her. The independence of Texas was recog nised by several of the leading powers of the earth. The interests of Mexico, therefore, could in nothing be bettor consulted than in a peace with her neighbours, which would result in the establishment of a permanent boundary. Upon the ratification of the treaty, the Executive was prepared to treat with her on the most li beral basis. Hence the boundaries of Texas were left undefined by the treaty. The Executive proposed to settle these upon terms that all the world should have pronounced just and reasonable." But the best is to come. Feeling that he had con fessed too much, in owning that the annexation scheme was not yet sanctioned by Congress, the PRESIDENT has what we must call the assurance to say that the favourable decision of the whole American people has been abundantly manifested by the result of the late Election! An admirable contrivance, these Elec tions, for superseding the rights of nations and the useless forms of diplomatic discussion ! But we do not imagine for a moment, that the American people are to be caught by clap-traps so palpable as this. got all together, as well as I could feel them on the upper landing, and it was only some seconds after we were outside that I discovered this unfortunate boy was lust. The whole of this transaction might have occu pied four minutes. By the CORONER—Our occupation for that night was to prepare a report for the Vice-Chancellor, and the bays were engaged in copying the rough draft. I had an Arnott stove heated from the wash-house and passing through the conservatory. I had an ordinary stove also with a fire, but there Ives not the smallest connection with wood work. There was indeed less tire than ordi nary. The Arnott stove in the washhouse Was to heat the conservatory and the back drawing room beneath my study. I had a vertical flue passing from the stove through the wall to the outside, then straight up outside the wall of the conservatory. The conservatory is a half circle or bow, and the flue went round that. It had other branches, one to the back drawing-room, coming in under the window, the other branch was near the stove, and the floor of the pantry was the ceiling of the washhouse, and in that floor was an iron pipe about eleven feet above the stove. The size of the main flue at the stove, might be nine inches by four inches, all of brickwork. Mr. WAKLEY—Now, Mr. Fairey, do, if you please, describe the other flue communicating with the ironing stove ? Witness—There i s anot h er fl ue f rom t h e iron ,ing-stove also in the laundry, going upwards to the ' pantry, and ending in what I believe to be a chimney in the next house. I think it cannot be cleaned on account of the very acute angle which occurs in its line, and that angle corresponds with the place NS here I observed the appearance of gas-lights on a foggy night. In one part of the wall, where an arch was formed in order to admit the pipe, a very nicely fitting piece of wood-work was inserted, and nothing was placed beta eeu that wood work and the heated pipe itself. I believe now, that the fire originated in the small closet where my servant kept his boots, and that it then entered at the staircase window, thus, in fact, at first arising in the wooden arch referred to already by me. Mr. WAKLEY—Here is a fireman belonging to the Brigaele, who arrives at a different conclusion. It may be as well to examine his reason for this opinion. George Calf, a fireman, put in the ground plan of the premises by direction of Mr. Braidwood. He believed it to be a correct plan, and he agreed with Mr. Braidwood in his opinion from the appearance of the premises. The house was as bad a house as over was built. The floors had sunk from not having proper support. He only called out five of his men a few minutes before the floors fell in, and it was next to miraculous that the whole of them were not buried in the ruins. Mr. Fairey said the house was a very handsome one, but not of substantial materials. A former owner had greatly beautified it, but he removed some main beams. The house was all lathe and plaster, not unlike a scene in a play. Two pilasters which were intended to sup port the ceiling, and made of strong materials, he had found since the fire that they were made of wood and plaster, and consequently combustible. The youth Hall was then examined—He said ho went to bed about half-past two o'clock. He was employed in writing up to that time in the drawing-room. At that time there was neither fire nor smoke, and nothing pe culiar. Mr. WAKLEY remarked that it was next to impossible that the fire could have been in that flue next to the conservatory without Mr. Fairey or the youth's know ing it. Hall continued—Put the guard on by the desire of Mr. Fairey, Slept in the same room with Robinson, but not in the same bed. Shook him and called him to get up. He never made the least motion. Witness did not dress himself. Came back to the room twice in the hope of saving him. The last time he could not ve nt u re i n to the room. He was generally a very heavy sleeper. When witness awoke the room was full of smoke. Mr. WAKLEY said that a small quantity of smoke in some of the small passages of the lungs would cause death. MONEY AND COMMERCIAL l'a: ----svB ~., CITY, QUARTER TO THITII4 There was a steady demand for C o tt on a t Liver'? on Saturday, and p rices were fi rm, b ut no t higbe . r Sales, 7,000 bales, including 2,000 bales on s p e culation , l In general, the M essage o f t h e P res id ent o f t h e Unit! States on the opening of Congress, is held to he sail factory ; but th e r e i s one p o i nt upon w hi c h i t i s deemed to be not favourable to the claimants upon the rePr e diating States. N o t a wor d i s, i n f act, said upon t a d dishonest . % of the repudi a ti ng St ates — no t a ward of admonition to th em to pursue i n future a more honest c ourse , b y w hi c h t h e honou r of the whole Union would be relieved from the stain that has been cast upon it. In the 3 1 ot -- there is a paragraph which ought to tell on our-Prune Minister. The American President thinks, and 111 ,,, truth too, that the reduction of taxation ought to he 1 ; . ; main point to be considered when there is a sap !. revenue. On this side of the Atlantic there are Oct sands of persons who think that it would " %. • ll' better to r e d uce di rect taxation, ratnera , i 0 by laying out an y o f th e surp l us rece i pts of t h e kivg"c'of over expenditur e , in t a ki ng out o f c i rcu l at i on dribltt,i, the National D e bt. Si r R o b ert P ee l s h ou ld l oo k to '''' is subject. If car r i e d ou t t o th e f u ll extent poss ible,' will wive satisfaction to the " millions." IY The speech of Sir Charles Metcalfe on the 0 /1., ing of the Session o f' th e U n i te d Colonial to° gisature has been w e ll s p o k en o f i n t h e co urse f trade this morni ng . Th e e l ect i on of Sir A. 31`Nab is the Speakership i s cons id ere d a f avourable feature, 4e,, is thought to d emonstra t e t h at t h ere will be less of Pll,l'.' spirit in th e di scuss i ons t h at were to come on in the ' 1 gislature. The weath er was rat h er mi ld than otherwl-,e The navigation of th e l a k es an d port i ons of the 5 t- La ir rence was partially closed. Information has been communicated to us this le f _ l et l ; ing corrobor a t or y o f th e a d vantages of the f ru it 11"1 taking Southa m pt on as t h e i r po i nt of arrival an d dePa 1„„ tura. The Elenor sailed for Fayal on the 24th Novel' ber; reached th e r e , t oo k i n h er cargo, and returne d° the 28th Dec em b er . Th e S tyx steamer departed 10-- ~. Southampton for the same port, and reached Southanq ton yesterday with a full cargo. The market for the public securities has been CO what heavy to• day, a few speculative sales of Cons/ having been m a d e . Th e pr i ce f or the Account has re cede d from 1004 to 100 k ; the Reduced Three per Cents. fr ° r 10(4 to 100 i; and the N ew Th ree - an d . a -Q ua rter Pe . Cents. from 103 k to 103. Among the speculators 1 the Stock E xc h ange th e P res id ent ' s Message cane e i , little remark. The premium upon Exchequer . billg ll steady at 625.; Bank St oc k f or t h e A ccount i s a t In anticipation of the settlement in the Forel. Market, which is fixed for to-morrow, there has been; very good amount of business transacted to-day. M el i c ,, sl y, Bonds have fallen from 36f, the last price of Satlliu - '' to 3.5 i I. Portuguese Converted have declined to 6 d' but are now ,i per cent. better. Spanish Consols down to 27 ; a nd th e Th ree per C ents. to 37 * . Putt ' Brazilian, and Chilian are rather lower also. 00 'The Shares of the c hi e f Railway Companies are the rise. London and Birmingham have bean sold! 129 premium ; the Bi rm i ng h am an d Gl oucester a t 1 c1,,1 count ; the Bristol and Gl oucester at 10, i t o 14 preinit and the Great W es t ern t o 76 premium. There were ° 0 quotations for Banking Shares this morning. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK' (From the Official List.) Bank Stock 2lOl 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities New 3,1 per Cent. Annuties Consols for Openi ng Bank Stock for Account. India Stock . -. 2871 Exchequer Bills. lid. . lid. 1,0001, 5001. ... Ditto Small — Ditto Advertised ........ ,— pm. FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCJ'' Mexican Bonds, 1837, 5 per Cent 351k1 Ditto for the Account 36 351 Ditto Deferred Peruvian Bonds, 6 per Cent Ditto for the Account 291 Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent B6 Ditto Converted .. Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent., 1840 274 2 7 Ditto Passive Bonds 6gl " Ditto 3 per Cent 3B 371 Dutch 21 per Cents Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates Ditto 5 per Cent.... „„ 99 r,5 PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE O'CL ,, n - RAILWAYS. PAID. PER Smote- Birmingham and Gloucester 100 - Ditto, New... Bristol an d Gl oucester.. Caledonian 5 4„ o ..... 43 Churnet Valley 2 - Dublin an d B e lf ast J unct i on 21 .. Eastern Counties Great So u th an d W. (I r i s h) ... 5 Great Western 43 ... ... t London and Birmingham ...100 2261 ...... to 229 London a n d Bl ac k wa ll 164 ...... to -- London and 8right0n.......... 50 London and South Western.. 411 Ditto New — London and Croydon London and Yoik... .... . to Manchester and Leeds 7O l2ll ..... .to -- , Ditto 1 Shares Midland lOO ll5 ...... to Birmingham and Derby lOO B5 to --- . • Newcastle and Berwick - South-Eastern and Dover... 33/ t : r 7,4 401 Yarmouth and Norwich .. ... 20 - York and North Midland... 50 lO 3 Ditto Scarboro' Branch lO 31l Ditto Selby Scrip 2O 671 Boulogne and Amiens Orleans and Bordeaux ... .. 2 Paris and Lyons DUTCH FUNDS.—AusTuaDer, Dec. V. Money. 1.11W4 Aetna) 1)(!bt, 6 214 per 64% 44% Ditto, ditto, 3 per Cent Ditto, ditto, 4 per Cent. atty. auto S per cepa. A t Syndic, 4% per cent ..... 4;0% 14 Vitt°, ditto, 36 per cent 91% 9 2 4 Commercial Company, 4% per cent 147% 145 Loan 1837, 4) per cent... Exchange on London, Onemonth Two months ..... 12 15 At sight l2 20 Dutch Papers, Dec. 28. • BELGIAN FUND3.—Bausens, Dic. 27. Actua Debt, 2% per Cent., .... ........ Rothschild's Loan, Five per Loan •f Thirty Millions, Four per Cent...". .... ' a " Three per Cent........ 7" --Thirty-seven Milli, „ ns, ditto , ,S Loan of City, 1843, Four per dent. 103% 183 t Society of Commerce, Four and a Half per Cent. -- Bank of Relgiont, Five per Cent Issue of ...... Aspe, - s, Dec. 28. LIAMBURGH BUNSENHALLE, Dec. QC. Bills. bien e T . Austrian 5 per Cents. ............ ..... 113 ~ Bank Shares Neu Anglo-Russian Lean Russian 5 per Cent ., Ist series, Certifirate lO5 I ° s Inscription, Ist series ..-1I 10D • Russian 5 per Cent. Hope and Co., 3d and 4th Series._ . .... .... . ..., .... 90 1 4 -- Ditto in Certi fi cates .- ............ ..••• ..•. 1441 .... New 4 per Cent. (1940) — Irni Dutch Actual Debt, 2)4 per Cent, ......... s 3 si 63 Ditto 5 per Cent. ... ...... ...... Zg Anglo-Danish Lo a n, 3 p er C oat.... ........ ....... 871 i '"'' Spanish, New S per C ents. 2O le% Polish Bonds --• -..--,.. New Tickets W _ ... exchange on London. Haa%burgh, One ni‘nth Two inonths l3 8 06 — .: O d d • 441: *l, .4:4,111106111 • mss ` 7n • • MOS .N."lri ' r" ft J•4,.,,,t g Atening :- 6 Ant THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. Immense Holiday Attraction. TIM EVENING will be performed Balfe's grand Opera, THE DAUGHTER OF ST. MARK. After which will be repeated the Grand Christmas Harlequinade, called PUCK'S PANTOMIME ; or, Harlequin and Robinson Crusoe. The principal characters by the unrivalled pantomime artistes, Messrs. W. H. Payne, Wieland, T. Matthews, Howell, and Miss Carson. SCENE 1. An " Attic" Story. Author (in distress for many :things, but principally for a pantomime subject), Mr. Hance ; ruck (Envoy from the Court of King Oberon, with powers to pro vide the usual Christmas fun for "Children all, both great and small," Miss A. Payne. Ilow Puck gives new life to the author by giving life to his attic, which occasions an extraordinary stir on the pre mises, and introduces an extensive circle of old acquaintances ; haw Messrs. ruck and Author form themselves into a Coounittee of Taste, and decide in favour of Robinson Crusoe. SCENE 2. Coast of the island on which Crusoe was wrecked, with the ship high ant dry, the ocean slumbering in the back ground, the crabs, &c, wide awake in the fore ground. Robinson Crusoe, Mr. W. 11. Payne. How Crusoe pays a morning visit to the wreck; his private - opinion of the useful and the useless ; how he is astonished by an unceremonious visit from the Caribee Indians, and how he de termines in his turn to astonish them. SCENE 3. Interior of the island. King Paribo (Autocrat of all the Caribees, having a passion for Princess Tooraloora, and being in a passion with everybody - else), Mr. T. Matthews; Hankipanki (his club-bearer, au office equivalent to mace-bearer to the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor of London), Mr. Howell ; Prince Parramatta, after wards " Friday" (King Pariboo's young brother, and old rival, con temned to the cage during her Majesty's pleasure), Mr. Wieland ; Princess Tooraloora (intended by Pariboo for himself, but intending ierself for his brother), Mr. Johnson. How, preparations being made for a Caribee Picnic, Crusoe, fired with indignation, fires a volley— how Pariboo anti Hankipanki jump out of the frying-pan into the .tlre, 1.e., the water. SCENE 4.—Exterior of Cavern on Sea Shore. San Domingo Billy (the celebrated Pacifte Shark, netted expressly for the occasion, in hopes of his turning out " a great catch"), Mr. Longswallow. Ilow Pariboo and Ilankipanki bolt from San Domingo Billy, and how Billy bolts them—how Crusoe anti Friday go out fishing---how they have a " glorious nibble"—and how, the fish being landed, lands Its two insides—and how the exterior of the cavern naturally changes to SCENE s.—lnterior of Cavern, with rdrd's-eye View of Robinson Crusoe's Farm. Ilow Crusoe and Co. give the Caribecs the go-by— how Pariboo and his warriors, to the tune of " Follow, follow over mountain," set off in pursuit—and how it is supposed they were lost in fog, which will account for their not arriving earlier at SCENE 6.—The House that Crusoe built. N.B. The premises may be viewed nightly with tickets, apply to Mr. Parsons, Box oMce, from ten till six. Ilow Crusoe does the honours of his but to the great Princess and her little brothers—how he gives Friday his first lesson in " Mrs. Glass's Domestic Cookery"—how the jollifica tion within is suddenly interrupted by the Indians from without ; in chort, how the appearance of Puck leads to the disappearance of the hut, and then to the change of the Old Wreck to the Jolly Young Waterman and Crusoe's Departure for London-bridge. SCENE 7. Exterior of Music Shop and Artificial Arms and Legs Manufactory ; Duet, in two Hats, tune. " Ilere we go up, up, up, here we go down, down, down;" Roman Gladiator versus British Gladia tor ; a clear stage and no favour ; patent violoncello, warranted to play on itself grand discord. • SCENES 8 and 9. Curriers and Fancy Loather-dressers, and Throne- Loom in the Palace at Morocco ; how to leather Morocco and how to dress its leather ; how to hide yourself to avoid hiding by another— a whole skin is better than a skin in holes. SCENE 10. Exterior of Insolvent Debtors' Prison ; Remember the poor Debtors ; Knockers ant bells versus thieves ; Somebody's coming; Poor debtors and heardhearted creditors; the tables sud denly turned by an Act of Parliament ; Change of the Premises to SCENE 11. Baths and Washhouses for the Labouring Classes ; " Ladies of the Round Tub :" Soap at a premium ; Mangling done here; Arrival of " the trades of London, with their respective young ones ;" The bell invites us ; Wives go to dinner ; Husbands go to bath; Boiling water versus cold water cure ; The washing-tub in a stonn, and general confusion. SCENE 12. Lamp and Chandelier Shop and Lodging•house ; " Catch him who can," or Harlequin here, Harlequin there, Harle quin everywhere ; Bagged at last ; " Off with his head, so much for Harlequin ;" Eight heads better Hunk one ; Patent self-lighting Chandelier, " The happy family we all know so well, " The still happier family we all love so well." SCENE 13. A Stone Quarry ; A monster meeting, with a tail and without one ; llow to convert a blockhead into a great man ; Art and Commerce lend their assistance to produce SCENE 14. A most extraordinary 'Change, leading to a still more extraordinary one, viz., SCENE 15. Grand emblematical and national tableau of her 3lajesty christening the Royal Exchange. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Lessee, Mr. B. WEBSTER. THIS EVENING, DECEMBER 30. Will he Performed a Nev and Original Comedy, in Five Acts, Called OLD HEADS AND YOUNG HEARTS. Colonel Rocket Mr. S rickland ; Littleton Coke, Mr. Charles Mathe•' e ; Tom Coke Mr. Webster; Bob, Mr Buckstone; Jesse Rural, Mr. W. Farren ; The Countess of I pion, Mrs. W. Clifford ; Lady Alice Hawthor" Madame Vestris; Miss Rocket, Miss Julia ~ e nnett. After which, a New Grand Musical Fairy Extravaganza, entitled GRACIOSA AND PERCINET. King Uxorious. Mr. J. Bland ; Princess Grancsa, Miss Jul a Bennett ; Percinet, Miss P. Ilortpit ; Duchess Grognon, Mrs. stanley. To conclude svi.h a Grand MOVING DIORAMA; or, PIC. TORIAL TOUR 1N SWITZERLAND. Private Boxes, Two Guineas tout One Guinea and a.. Half each. rckcts and Places to be had of Mr. I. T. Ar cher, at the Box-office, (rim Ten till Five o'Clock. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. Under the Direction of Madame CELESTE. THIS EVENING, DECEMBER SO, Will be repeated I - )3T special permission of Charles Dickens, Esq.) a New Drama, entitled THE CHIMES. A Goblin Story of Some Bells that Rang an Old Year Out and a New Year In. Toby Veek, Mr. 0. Smith ; Alderman Cute, Mr. Wright • Tughy, Mr. Wilkin. son ; S,r Joseph R ow l ey, B art , M r. Paul Redford ; Will Fern, Mr. Hudson ; Richard, Mr. Selby; Meggy %Trek, Miss Forteacue; Mrs. Chickenstalku, Mrs. Frank Matthews. To he followed by a New Comic Operetta, called the FOX AND THE GOOSE. Principal Characters by Messrs. Hudson, Paul Bedford, and Mrs Fitzwilliam. To conclude with a New Grand Military and Comic Christmas Pantomime, called CAT'S CASTLE; or, Ilailequin aid the Kii•g of the Rats. Harlequin, Mr. T. Ireland; ('olumnine, Miss Lolls dale; Clown. Mr C. J. Smith ; Pantaloon, Mr. San •crs. Prompter, Mr. Gallot ; Principal Paint4r or Pitt; Leader of the Bind, Mr. Mellon.—Box-citite open from Elevan till Four. Private .8' , X09 to he had at the Theatre, and at all the principal Libraries. PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. LESSEE, Mr. J. M. MADDOX. THIS EVENING, DECEMBER 30, Will be produced an English Version of the celebrated Opera Buffa, in Two Acts, called I'HE ITALIAN IN ALGIERS. Ihe Music by Rossini. Mustapha, Mr. P. Corn ; Lindor, Mr. Allen Taddeo, Nit' Leffler; Haly, Mr. Mattacks ; Isabella, Mdlle. Helen Ccndell ; Elvira, Miss G ran t ; Z u ' ma, Miss Brentnall. To be succeeded by a New Comedietta entitled THE WIDOW BEWITCHED. Mr. Clement Furnival, Mr. Walter Lacy; Mrs. Lorimer, Mrs. Stirl.ng After which will be repeated a New Grand Romantic, and rather Operatic Burlesque Extravag,nza, called JOE MILLER AND HIS MEN. Giindoff; Mr Compton ; Lothair, Mr. Oxberry ; Kelmar, Mr. Granby; Riber, Mr, Corri , Golotz, Mr. Walton; Claudine, Miss E. Stanley; Ravina, Mrs. Foabroke. Stage Manager, Mr. H. 1. Wallack. Stage Di r e c t or , Mr. Emden, Machinist, Mr. Edmund BradwelL Dress Circle, 5,. ; Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 25.; Galle Is. Half-price at Nine o'clock—Dress Circle,2s. ed. ; Boxes, Qs. ; Pit, Is.; Gallery, Private Boxes. l'wo Guineas and One Guinea and a-Half ; Prosce nium Boxes, Two luineas and Doors to be opened at Hall vast Six, and the Performances to commence at Seven o'clock. The Box-office, under the direction of Mr. W. Massingharn, Private Boxes and Free Admissions for tha Season to be had at the rheetre. "/ kIEATRE ROYAL LYCEUM, LATE ENGLISH OPERA HOUSE. Uwder the Management of Mrs. KEELEY. THIS EVENING, DECEMBER 30, Will be repe a t e d THE CHIMES; A Goblin Story. Principal Characters by Messrs. F. Vining, Meadows, Diddear, F. Matthews, Collier, Emery, Turner, and Keeley; Miss Walcott, Miss Artie., Miss Grove, and ' , lt's. Keeley. ARer which, a New Farce, called TO PERSONS ABOUT TO )LARRY. Supported by Messrs. F. Matthews, Meadows, and Stoker; Miss Arden, Mrs. Wigan, and Mrs. tNoolliage. To conclude with a New Grand Operatic, Histeric4l, Romantic, Pantomimical, Burlesque Extravaganza, entitled VALENTINE AND ORSON. Principal Characters by Messrs. F. Matthews; Meadows, Wigan, Coll:er, furner, Kinloch, /amok!, and Keeley , Mrs. Wigan, Miss Arden, Miss Fairbrother, Miss Grove, Mrs Usher, Miss James, Miss Turner, and Mrs. Keeley. PRICES OF A 0311.s,ijION.—Baicony ir , oxes. 45.; Upper B,sxes, 35.; Pit, 25.; Gallery, 6d. Second Price—Balcony Boxes, 2F. ; tipper Boxes, Is. (Id.; Pit, Is. Private Boxes on the Balcony Tier (holding eight persons), Two Guineas. Private Boxes on the Second Pier (holding eight persons), One Guinea and a..HaIL Private Boxes on the Pit f ier (holding six persons), One Guirea, Fre Box-office is open from Ten to Four o'Clock, under the dim flop of Br. Grogan, late of Covent-garden Theatre. Great Hit of the Equestrian Comic Pantomime at ASTLe:Y's ROYAL. AMPHITHEATRE of. ARTS. Proprietor and Manager, Mr. W. BATTY. W EVENING, 30, ill be repeat e d THlS a New Spe:RacIe, DECEMBER entitled THE ROYAL FOX HUNT; or, file Race-Hone and Life's Course of Man and Steed ; astroducing unequalled Natio' al Fetes. Real Fox-chase on the Stage and in the Circle by living Fos and real Pack of Hounds, purchased b, Mr. Batty of Mr Tattersall, to re a li se thi s novel production. Lpsorn Races and other Sporting Features. New Scenes of the Circle, and entire change in the Feats of Dianehip. To conclude with a Grand Comic Christmas Equestrian Pantomime, c. fled HARLEQUIN AND JOHNNY GILPIN'S RIDE; or, the Black Witch of Edmonton. Harlequin, Mr. H. Lewis ; Columbi ne , Mrs. J. W. Colver ; Clown, M r . T. B arry ; Pantaloon, Mr. Bradbury. Acting and stage.m mager, Mr. W i i 13roadfoot. Box-office open from Eleven till Five. Lessons in the Art of Riding by Mr. K. Smith daily. Mr. BATTY begs to a - quaint the Nob:lity, Gentry, and his Patrons, that, in compli nce with numerous requests from the country, and by special desire, he has formed arrangements to pre sent, during the Christmas Ho Way, a S ries of EQUESTRIAN lISORNrNI4 FECES and FASHIO ' NABLE DAY PERFORM ANCES, to commence at Half-past One, and terminate at Half-past Three : consistin g o f Batty's S,,lend id ' S . ones of Equitation in the Circle. The first Three Morning Performances will take place This Day, Dec.3 l , Wednesday, Jars. I, and Fr day, Jan. 3. DA VIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE As usual, the best Pantomime of the Sevon I A more brilliant triumph than ever before achieved : I Laughter, Wonder, and Delight !!! The First Pant om i m i c Performers of the Age, and Everything New !II! THIS EVENINO, DECEMBER 30, Will be repeated THE SEVEN AGES OF MAN; or The End of Crime. Principal Characters by Mr. Henry Corti (from th e Theatre Royal Edi n b urg h) , Messrs. El Hughes, Neville, R Honner, Lewis, Heslop, and Seaman, Mts. IL Hof. ner, Mrs. Lewis, Mrs. IV. Daly, and Miss Martin. To conclude with an Original Worldly Comic Pantomime, called POUNDS, sHILLINGS, AND PENCE; or, HARLEQUIN L. S. D. Harlequin, Mr. H. Harvey; Clown, Mr. T. Ricgway; Pantaloon, Mr. Henry Corti; Columbine, Miss Slaiter. Places arid Private Boxes to be had of Mr. Kerschner, at the Box. office, from Eleven to Four. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. Extraordinary Success of the Ncw Comic Pantomime. PHIS EVENING, DECEMBER 3+4 Will be produced MARIANNE; or, tho Child of Charity. Su rot tett trr Mr. o.;baldiston, Henry Howard, J. T Johnson, T. H. Higgie, Herbert, E. J ones, W. Searle, Miss Vincent, bliss E, lerrey, and Miss Treble. A fter which, the laughable Drama, entitled WILFUL MURDER. To conclude with a New Grand Christmas Pantomime, entitled HARLEQUIN HOT CODLINS ' • or, The Littl e Old W oman and Lethe Demon o f t h e Metal Mine. Harlequin, M. Chapin° ; Clown, . Blanc hard; Pantaloon, Mr, Coney ; C o l umbine, Mdlle. Vibe. The i:11 of Cardigan has given away seven oxen this season to the necessitous in the villages of Deene. Deenethorpe, Glassth Stangon and Corby. The Countess has also made' liberal distribution of warm clothing and other necessaries to the poor of the district surrounding his Lordship's estate in Northamptonshire. Accounts have been received of the death of Plr Scales, postmaster of Hon;-Kong. LONDON, MONDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1844. The Caledonia, which effected her rapid passage from Boston in thirteen days, arrived, yesterday afternoon, in the Mersey, bringing, among her other important papers, including intelligence from Mexico and from Canada, the penultimate " Message " of the President, Mr. TYLER. In an early period of the month of March next the Presidential plumage of this gentleman will disappear. It is no wonder, therefore, if he ruffles it somewhat, and makes a great show, previously to " moulting." The old Roman poets had a fancy that the dying swan, prescient of her approaching dissolution, always sings her own requiem, by an instinct of anticipation. Whether a flickering President, just about to go out, can sing as harmoniously as a mori bund swan, we will not undertake to pronounce ; but if the song of the expiring bird be half as long as the "Message" of the departing Chief Magistrate, a swan must amply make up in articulo mortis for half' a century of taciturn existence. We have heard, in England, of Governments, Cabinets, and Ministers being described as composed of "squeezable mate rials," which, how little promising so ever before they are subjected to the "gentle violence" of a pertinacious badgering in Parliament, are found to yield abundantly on the application of adequate pressure. In the United States the chief officers of the Government must possess a contrasted power—that of expan sibility. It must have required a very high pressure to raise the steam from the few ideas which Mr. TYLER has collected in the shape of pabulum for the combustion of his Message to the Senatt) into a volume of bulk enough to fill four columns and a half of our largest London newspapers. In point of fact, even for a document of its class, this " Message" is unusually wordy, un reasonably " lengthy." But it does touch some topics of high interest to countries on this side of the At lantic. Mr. TYLER adroitly felicitates " the Senate and the House of Representatives" on the peaceful and orderly conduct of the United States' population in the various stages of the late election of a Presi dent, throughout all the districts in which the votes of the vast Electoral College of that country were recorded. We do not detect any over zealous tendency to congratulate his fellow-citizens on the fact of not having re-elected himself; or any self-denying admissions that they have done well it choosing one more worthy than himself fur his suc cessor to the great office. He expatiates on the ex cellency of a political confederacy composed of many States, each of them supreme as to the direction and arbitriment of all matters within its own peculiar jurisdiction, but entering with other States into a vo luntary compact to submit the general government of the whole to the direction of the majority of all their citizens, as the sense of that majority is to he collected from the Legislative body organised by the Federal Constitution. In a further section of hi- Message one perceives all the bearing of the pro minent position which the "Election" occupies is, his exordium. On the subject of the foreign rela tions of the United States, he observes, in that quaiu phraseology which is naturalised nowhere else, the at no former period were the apparent guarantee: of peace among the various Powers " of that en• lightened and important portion of the globe, Europe," more firmly established. Mr. President TYLER then directs the earnest attention of Congress to the pend ing negotiations fur the occupation of the Oregoe Territory, the value and importance whereof ht warmly dilates upon, recurring at the same time tc certain of his former messages, in which he had urgently recommended the establishment of a susses sion of military posts, to be occupied by soldiers in the United States' service, on " the long line of lane travel," for the double purpose of facilitating ano protecting emigration thither. This point is touched upon with some show of malicious indulgence, as it it would prove to Congress at large a question the more agreeable in the ratio of the disapproval with which it might probably be regarded in this country. That such an idea did pass through the PRESIDENT'S mind, we may infer from the circumstance that, without having specifically noticed the fact of the proposed Oregon occupation having been already a matter of disagree ment between the United States' Government and ours, he unconsciously proceeds to notice, in the very next paragraph, " other matters in d!yerenct between " them. As to one of these, the seizure of American vessels on the coast of Africa by British cruisers, the officers of which had acted under the mistaken impression of such vessels having been en gaged in the slave trade, he is pleased to assume that former concessions of the Bri tish Government have already proved that it admits its responsibility to make good the damage occasioned by such seizures—under one of the arti cles of the Washington. Treaty. With all submission, this is a little too far and too fast. We must have the argument before, and judgment pronounced by, our High Court of Admiralty on each of such cases, before we can encourage Mr. TYLER to expect that sort of conclusion to these affairs which he affects to look forward to. It is also possible that these cases may become, in the ensuing session, the subject of some inquiry by the British Parliament. The tone of the other passages of this Message, except those which regard the improving condition of the public treasury, are rather lachrymose and petulant. lie regrets that the running of the boun dary line between the territories of the United States and the territories of Great Britain in North America, —a work of such signal importance to both Powers-- has been seriously retarded, owing to the failure of Congress to make a timely appropriation, before the conclusion of its last session, for the expenses of the United States' Commissioner. Then, the enlightened policy of the Emperor NlcnoLAs in advancing Russia in her career of civilization and improvement (!) i s spoken of in terms of equal panegyric with the sagacious policy of "the wise Monarch" who governs France. Belgium and Brazil are eulogised, too, for the commercial treaties into which they have respectively entered with the Uniteo States. But as to Prussia, and the commercial treaty which the American Minister had successfully ne gotiated at Berlin, with the Zollverein, on terms which would have been so essentially advantageous to the trade and manufactures of the United States ;—again the Congress had spoiled all. Their failure to take this treaty into consideration within a certain prescribed term, had carried the matter over that day, which was the utmost limit allowed for its ratification. The "RESIDENT, how ever, infers that Congress would have sanctioned it and his darling scheme of a Tariff, had they gone into the, matter : so he has directed the negotiations to be renewed ; but he speaks coldly of the chances of ultimate success. Then all the negotiations of the American Ministers severally accredited to the Go vernments of Mexico, New Grenada, Chili, Peru, and to the Congress of Venezuela, fur the satisfaction of claims preferredagainst them for compensation due to American citizens, either still hang fire, or have utterly failed hitherto. On the annexation of Texas, Mr. TILLER speaks out. There is no chance of mis taking his notions of political independence —in the weak ;of political power—in the strong. The doc trine he proclaims is of a public morality which might put IstecnuotEe to the blush, quite as much Within our recollection we have not known re corded, in so short a space of time, so many frightful acts of outrage and violence, arising out of our execrable Game-laws, as have been perpetrated within the last six months, and of which the tragedy at Croome Park forms the last acted scene. The laq statute for the " protection," as it is called, of game, was the labour, if we remember aright, of the pre sent Duke of RICHMOND. His Grace, at all events, did not demur to its affiliation upon him in the House of Lords. The ostensible object of the two last Bills which underwent any considerable discus sion was—to legalise the sale of game. What was their real design we suspect scarcely appears upon their enactments, but is to be learned only from their framers. The Duke of Iticnatotsn's exertions in this line have been as unfortunate as theirs will in almost every case be, who attempt to build upon a rotten foundation. What superstructure could that code of penalties bear, which should either command respect or acquire permanence and solidity —a code which was the disgrace and reproach of the land—a bye-word among all the nations of Continental Eu rope whenever it was sought to prove that the gran deur of Britain contained within its system some elements of active decay ? It would have better be come the character and dignity of the House of Lords—it would have spoken far better for the genuine and disinterested principles of their legisla tion—standing as they especially do in the capacity of large landowners, and especially as breeders and preservers of game —to have kicked out every Bill on the subject of protection to game which did not go to the root of the existing evils connected with the laws those Bills professed to amend. The Game laws, as they stood at the beginning of GEORGE the FOURTH'S reign, for example, were partial, arbitrary, fraudulent, and oppressive. They were a premium on treachery and perjury, by reason of their ma chinery touching the laying of informations and the recovery of penalties; but being so clumsily drawn and of such conflicting enactments, they were easily evaded by unqualified bumpkin squires; openly defied by sporting small attorne3 s, roue sportsmen, and other such worthless and profligate gentry; and made the subjects of clap -trap declamation in Parliament by candidates for popularity and the fame of political liberality, there, who were themselves the strictest preservers on their own lands, the most vindictive prosecutors at sessions, and the most inexorable ma gistrates at quarter sessions, whenever there was an information to be tried for the unlawful destruction of a hare, or a murderous assault on a pheasant. These Agrarian Solons made up by their tendencies to condemn, and their consistent severity on sen tencing, for the miserable technical deficiencies of the statutes. The Act to legalise the sale of game was one of the most sordid in its results—whatever its real aim—that ever received the sanction of an as sembly of gentlemen of rank and fortune, surrounded by all the proudest ancestral and historic recollec ions of their country. How the descendants of the HOWARD 3, the STANLEYS, the FIELDINGS, the RUS SELLS, the FIENNES, and the TurroNs, could ever have been brought to put themselves in the position of poultry farmers for the supply of the London dealers, we cannot imagine. It is notorious that some of our great landed proprietors absolutely pay the expenses of their Latta slaughters, signalised by the presence of noble and even royal guests—by the sale of the game victimised to those who retail them to that large class of her MAJESTY'S subjects who can get at no game but that which they bring down with their own silver shot. This is an instructive key to the solicitude and devotion with which Noble Peers, as well as Hon. Members, attend to the busi ness of game-law making. It is also an instructive lesson on the sort of compromise which pride in high places sometimes makes with thriftiness. At the end of the season, imagine a great landowner's account balanced thus DR.—To expenses of three grand battu days, at 100/. per diem £3oo CR.—By (so many) head of game sold this season £3oo Now, it is the legalised, merchantable, or commer cial value you have imputed to this commodity —game-- which is the great temptation to poaching. Poachers can dispose of their plunder without difficulty, when stewards and bailiffs can carry the same articles to sell openly in the market In these times of pres sure —of diminished occupation and miserably reduced wages—is it not too much to expect that you can put down poaching by legislation ? The more severe your , laws, the more determined will be their violation. The range of the covers, the woods, and the shaughs, the concealment of night, the excitement of the occu pation, to say nothing of the means of satisfying at once the claims of hunger and the desire of making a little money—are temptations too strong for the stal wart peasant who would labour, it may be, but can not procure employment; who would be honest if you would only permit him to live. By every degree in which you exercise the severity of your penal visita , - tion on this crime —(a crime undoubtedly it Is, inas much as it is a gross trespass on other men's property) —in a similar ratio yott tempt the offender to aggra vate his offence. You e:.aggerate violence into bleed- Shed, assault into murder. The poacher and the game keeper look upon each other, not as brother men, but as animals, the contact of whom must be fatal to ate one or the other. It becomes, with every fresh s(itoreugstigoloe , o a f wmhoore desperate, shollsoooest d b is e p c a a t u ch se th m e o o r t e her c . er i t i m o in w, Things g ng s will It ow wL longeg s 1 a t N t v i r i p t e h r e m , n i t po r t b this t cy h t e i a d do e ”d o e u gn s je on state e no tf Britain consent t o re t a i n the of of a luxury or an amusement, at the inevitable price of tempting men into crime, and punishing their crime in blood, or the loss of their liberty for life ? The only remedy must be found in the utter abolition of the Game-laws, or in the treatment of poaching, according to the modification and variety of the cir cumstances under which it shall be committed, as simple trespass or as larceny. It cannot be borne much longer that human lives shall answer for the safe keeping of partridges and pheasants. We learn from the lielvetie of the 24th inst., that the Government of Lucerne has issued a decree order ing the re -organization of the lamisturm, " to protect persons and property against the attack of foreign hordes of brigands." All men able to carry arms were to be incorporated with the landsturm, and to assemble in the chief town of their respective districts at the first sound, of the tocsin, and " march to destroy the invaders." Dr. STEIGER, one of the prisoners taken --- MISS CLARA. WEBSTER.—A nearly similar acci dent occurred to Miss H. Curse, during the perform ance of the White Maid of Avenel, at the Theatre Royal Covent-garden, some years ago, by her dress catching fire in the last scene. Tn rot.—' esterday Molting, a few minutes be 'bra 12 o'clock, the metropolis and its environs were visited with so dense a fog that, though mid-day, it had the appearance of night. At many of the churches and chapels it was necessary to have the lamps lighted to enable the clergymen to proceed with the service. The steamers and other teasels proceeding up and down the river dropped their anchors. it being totally imposal. ble to discern objects t en yards distant. A bout two o'clock the wind shifted, when rain commenced, and the fog die persed, TUE OFFERTORY AT lIIIRST.—Wi ark ailthoriAda to state 3 that the steps taken by Mr. Cameron " in giving up the use of the proper concluding portion of the morning service, has, though not directed by the Bishop, since received his Lordship's full sanction and approval, in consideration of the extreme evils to be apprehended in the parish if another course were persisted in."— Perhstiire Chronicle. PIGEON FLYING MATCH BY NIGHT.—On Monday night last the following unusual and extraordinary pigeon flying match came off between two gentlemen for the purpose of deciding a wager :—lt appears that some doubt existed as to the power of the pigeon travelling through the air by night, consequently the above match arose to test the fact. The night was somewhat cloudy, but, notwithstanding, the match took place, attended by a vast crowd of persons who had been attracted to the spot. The bird was to fly st mile between the hours of ten and eleven o'clock at night. The pigeon having been marked in the usual way, vi as tossed at the door of the George public-house, Gravel-lane, Southwark, where the match was made, but was soon out of sight, reaching its home in a few seconds in apparent ease. The bird passed through the bolting wire of the trap into the pigeon -loft, where it was secured by the owner, who pro duced the bird at the house where the match was made under ten minutes, to the great astonishment of a large assemblage of pigeorefanciers and others. The pigeon alluded to is the property of Mr. T. Braddock, of Win chester-place, Southwark, The same bird has flown from Windsor Ilampton Court, Gravesend, and manf of the principrl race-courses in England in extraordinary quick time. • REFUSAL OF A CHURCH. RATE AT HELSTON.—On Friday last, a meeting took place at Helston for the purpose of making a c h urch-rate, when a rate of a penny in t he pound was proposed and seconded ; after which an adjournment for six months wit s carried by a large mar iority.— Welt .Briton, THIS DAY'S NEWS Accounts have been received by the Levant Mail from Constantinople to the 9th instant, and from Alexandria to the ith. At Constantinople, on the 9th, one of the Sultanas was confined of a Princess, to whom the name of MUNIXE (Brilliant) was given. The birth of the Princess MCNIRE was celebrated with public rejoicings. The postal treaty between the Pacha of EGYPT and England had not yet been arranged, but hopes were entertained that it would be speedily settled. The new dry dock at Alexandria had been opened, but its efficiency could not be judged of. The PACUA has left Alexandria for Cairo, where he will remain for some months. The Madrid papers of tFe 20th and 22d have been received. On the 21st, in the Chamber of Deputies, the Minister of Finance, ir reply to a question of M. ORENSE, stated that if the conversion of the Five per Cents. had given rise to any stock-jobbing transac tions, the Government was perfectly unconnected with them. On the same day a scene occurred in the Chamber between M. Mos; and the Marquis VI LUMA, in which the former, after making a violent attack on the latter, was at length obliged to apolo gise. Notwithstanding the apology, however, El Tiempo, of the 22d instant, announces that the Marquis DE VILUMA, the Duke D'ADRANTES, and M. EGUIZABAL, had resigned their functions as Members of the Chamber of Deputies, in consequence of some expressions used by the Minister of Finance during the debate in the Chamber of Deputies on the pre ceding day. El Clamor Public° of the 22d instant states, that notwithstanding the efforts made to pre vent a Ministerial crisis, such an event is inevitable, and that it will take place at the moment of the de bate on the Clergy Bill. It would appear, that in consequence of the resig nation of N. Dorozo CORTES not having been ac cepted, General NARYAEZ had resigned his office of President of the Council ; but, at the request of the QUEEN-MOTHER and the members of the Cabinet, had consented to withdraw his resignation. It was generally believed that a treaty with Great Britain, for the suppression of the slave trade, would be shortly laid before the Chambers. The Paris papers of Friday and of Saturday have been received. The only business of importance transacted in the Chamber of Peers was the election of Secretaries, and the nomination of Members to draw up the address in answer to the Speech from the Throne. The Chamber proceeded to the election of the per manent Secretaries, and Count D'AUDIFFRET, Presi dent BOULLET, Viscount CAVAIGNAC, and Count DE COLBERT, having obtained the greatest number of votes, were declared duly elected. The Marquis DE LA PLACE, Count PORTALIS, M. MERILIIOU, Baron GIROD DE L'AIN, Count ROT, Count BEUGNOT, and M. BARTIII3, were nominated to draw up the address. In the Chamber of Deputies on Friday, the order of the day was the election of President of the Cham ber. The number of votes was 331, giving the re quired majority at 166. M. SAUZET obtained 164 votes, M. Durm 95, M. O. BARROT 63, M. DU PONT (de l'Eure) 3, M. de SALVANDY 3, and MM. BERZTER and HERNOUX I each. None of the candi dates having obtained a requisite number of votes, a second ballot was proceeded to, in which the number of voters was 323, and the .absolute majority 162. M. SAUZET received 177 votes, M. DuriN 129, M. 0. BARROT 15, and MM. BERRYER and M. DUPONT (de l'Eure) 1 each. Consequently M. SAuzrr was proclaimed President. The smallness of the majority by which M. SAUZET, the Ministerial candidate for the Presidency, has succeeded, is considered by the Opposition press as an indication of Ministerial weak. ness. In the organisation of the bureaux, the success of the Ministry was complete. Of the nine Presidents chosen, eight are Ministerial, and only one of the Opposition party. Of the Secretaries, six are Minis terial, and three belon g t o th e O ppos i t i on. On gaturday th e e l e cti on o f t h e four Vice • Presidents took place. The following is the result of the first ballot : Number of votes, 303—Absolute majority, 152, M. BIGNON . ...... M. DE SALVANDY M. DUFAUXE M. DB BELLEYMB ............ 150 M. BILLAULT M. LEPELLATIER D'AULNIT. The first three candidates having more than an Rh , solute majority, were elected. A second ballot took place for the fourth Vice-President, when neither candidate having an absolute majority, the election wits adjourned till Monday. Of the three chosen, two are considered Conservatives, and one is of the Opposition. - - THE BOURSE--SATURDAY, DEC. 28. First Hi ghest Lowest Last Price. Price. Price. Price. French Five per Cents•• •• .• 120 75 .. 120 75 120 60 .. 120 60 Four-and-a-lialf..•• 113 •• 113 .. 113 .• 113 104 .• 104 .. 104 .. 104 ''' ............. 45 ......362280005 50 ....:3 6 20 8 16 0 5 45 E . :7 2 8 0 0 S So 86 75 .. 86 80 .. 86 70 .. 86 75 Thr xew ee L p o c an r LBaatnliktteofßranrakn, France .... .•.3200 Shareslo9s ..1G95 ..1090 .. 10. 0 5,000 f. Sharesso73 ..AlOO .. 5075 ..5101 104/ .. 1041 .. 104/ .. 104 f 1120 ..1120 ..1120 •.1120 Belgian Fives, 1840 1842 •• •••• •• 106 3 • • 106/ •• 106/ .. 06 Threes . Two-and-a-Halt• •• • 62 40 .• 62 40 .. 62 30 .. 62 30 Sparish Threes •• •• •• ••• • •• 39 .. 39 .. 381 .. 38: Active ..... .•••• •• 3Ci •• 37 .• 36/ .• 37 Passive ... GI • .. rorrugnesc Five per Cents•• 613 • 6/ 61 .. 6f •• •• 103 • 6 1/ .. 61* .. 61/ Rome , 3 104* •• 104* •• 104* RAILWAY SHAIZES. St. Germain .•••...........1027 50 ..1027 50 ..1027 50 ..1027 50 Versailles, R.ll, „„ „ 500 •• 500 .. 495 .. 495 L.B.— •••• •• 390 .. 390 .• 381 25 Rotten •• •••• •• •• •• •••••• •• 1060 . 106 1 25 ..1060 160 5 Rouen to Havre............ 822 50 .. 825 .. 822 50 .. 25 Orleans • ...............1140 .. 11 43 75 ••1140 ..1143 78 Stralbarg to Bale.. Avignon to Marseilles.. :RAILWAYS FOB THE ACCOUNT, Jab% 3. St. Germain lO2B 75 ..1030 ..1023 75 —lO2B 74 Versailles, 1118 495 .. 500 . • 495 . • 500 to 8 3 2 9 2 0 50 8 39 2 0 5 8 3:2 50 5 8 3 2 8 5 0 tot u ie e z r i i .. . . ... 7.7 1085 ..106 5 ..1860 ..1061 25 Orleans 80 ..1145 ..1137 50 ..1141 50 Strasburg to 310 .. 310 .. 307 50 .. 308 75 Avignon to Marseilles...." 932 50 .. 935 932 50 935 THE LATE CALAMITOUS FIRE IN GUILDFORD-STREET. INQUEST ON THE SUFFERERS.—(THIS DAY.) Mr. Wakley, Coroner for Middlesex, Mr. G. J. Mills, Deputy-Coroner, and the jury empanelled to inquire into the circumstances connected with the late fire at 67, Guildford -street, Russell-square, by which four unfor tunate individuals lest their lives, re-assembled this day in the Angel Inn, High-street, St. Giles, for the purpose of further prosecuting the inquiry. Fairey, Esq., the gentleman on whose premises the fire occurred, Mr. Braidwood, superintendent of the London Fire Brigade, and others interested in the evidence, were present. Precisely at ten o'clock the Coroner and Deputy- Coroner entered, and the names of the jurymen having been called over, they were sworn, and the court was opened in the usual form. The names of the unfortunate men, it will be remembered, were Robert Birkmyre and John Wright, police-constables of the E division, Charles Jenkins, a groom, and William Robinson, a clerk. The first witness, Frederick Perrier, fireman No. 71, said that he found John Birkmyre in the ruins, on Saturday, the 21st. Found him in the front kitchen alive. Heard a cry of "Here, here Help ! For God's sake, save tee !" I crawled under the fallen wood work, and asked if any one was there. He said " 'Yes, Jack's here." With assistance I got him out in about three quarters of an hour. Found the young man, William Robinson, about half-past three the same afternoon, on the top of the ruins, between the rafters, with his face towards Russell-qsuare. The body was greatly burned. I also found a drunken man on the premises, but he was recovered. A young man stepped forward, and said that some remains had been found, which were supposed to belong to the deceased Robinson. Witness—l cannot say how the drunken man came on the ruins. He was apparently insensible, and could give no answer to the questions asked him. I did not know John Birkmyre before he was burned. Gregory Cole Dudley, inspector of the E division, knew Birkmyre. Saw his body at the ruins, but cannot say how he came by his death. Saw also the body of John Wright, aged 30, brought out. Ile was also a police constable. 'William Miley, coachman to Mr. Fairey, knew Charles Jenkins, and saw his body brought out of the ruins. The deceased was a stranger in the house, and merely came in to " lend a hand." Police -constable 52 E found the body of Charles Jen kins on the 24th in the ruins of the kitchen. Edward Payne, Upper Clairton, identified the body of Charles Jenkins. Police constable 52 E (continued)—The deceased, Jen kins, was in the same room with Birkmyre, but on the opposite side of the place. He was buried beneath the timber. Mr. Fairey—No other of my household is missing. I have not seen the body of the deceased lad, Robinson. He used to sleep at the uppermost middle window of the premises. His age was 15. Mr. Weeeeer —Now, gentlemen of the jury, if you are satisfied of the identity of the bodies, the next and only inquiry will be to ascertain how the fire originated. The coachman was called with this view, but he could give no account of the origin, as he slept over the stables. Mr. Fairey said the cook was the first of his domestic servants awake. (A section of the house was exhibited here, with the exact position in which the bodies were discovered.) The female domestic of Mr. Fairey and a boy who used to sleep with the deceased Robinson, were then sworn, and Mary Hall, the cook, was first examined—l went to bed at ten minutes before eleven. The parlour-maid and another girl were left up. I was alarmed soon after by finding that the room was filling with smoke. I mean the third floor back room. The two girls slept in the same room. One came immediately to me but the other did not for some time. I smelt a strong smell of fire about a quarter after the ee. I leaped out of bed and opened the door, and found myself almost suffo cated on the landing. I awoke my fellow-servants and screamed " fire," and then ran up stairs to the boy's room. I then came back for I met my master. The fire was coming up the staircase, and I tried to descend but could not. I then got up the stairs again and caught hold of my boy, who said " Oh, it is me, mother— and he then added—" Oh ! poor Robinson." We then all escaped except the last-mentioned. There was no fire left in the kitchen, and the last fire in the stoves had been on the previous Wednesday. The laundry is on the ground floor, with kitchen rather detached, the only communication between it and the house being a water-closet. Mr. WAKLEY—Mr. Braidwood gives it as his opinion that the heated air in the communicating flue bad occa sioned the occurrence. What is your opinion, Mr. Fairey ? Mr. Fairey—Su'h is my opinion, and that the heat communicated with the woodwork near. (The wit ness then explained at great length the direction which the flue took in its passage through the house, and the dangerous natur e o f t h e connect i ng woodwork.) , Mr. WAKLEY—Then this fire would have originated on the ground floor ? Mr. Fairey—No, on a landing above it. Mary Hall—There were no fires left in when I went to bed. There was nothing unusual in the fires in the house that day. Master was very careful of his fires himself. Mr. Fsirey—l sat up till after two o'clock in my study. I went down stairs after the time that cook says she met me, to look at this landing I have already mentioned. I could not see mach flume, for it resew bled the gas-lights burning through an intense Lon don fog. The other servants were examined, but added nothing to the evidence of the cook. They could form no further opinion of the origin of the fire than that it arose on the back ground floor, and was occasioned by the flue of the ironing -stove. Mr. WAKLEY—II has been said that there was com pany in the kitchen that evening. Is it so ?—The wit nesses said such a report was altogether false. Mr. WAKLEY—It has been also said that policemen were in late at night. It is as well to remove such an impression. An Inspector—lt is altogether false, for inquiries have been made, and the policemen, who were also stated to be drunk, were perfectly sober. Mr. Fairey—There had been scandalous disorder somewhere, for the wine cellar bad been broken open, and bottles of strong French brandy, gin, and wine, stolen and drunk, and the empty bottles thrown about the kitchen, where these men were found dead. Thomas Wenman, the chimney -sweeper, saw the sparks coming from the roof of the study in the morn ing, just as he was going to work. Mr. Wakley—The study is not burned down. William Dilley, coachman to Mr. Fairey, slept over the stables, and was roused by people knocking at the door. Saw the fire first inside the pantry windows. It was not in the house then. When he next saw the flame it had communicated with the bottom staircase window. Saw the man who was brought out tipsey. He lives on the Colonnade, and I have observed:him before. When brought out he was taken to the station-house. I hare seen the wine cellar since. The panel of the door was broken open, and also one of Chubb's patent locks. Police constable 5 E— Got to the house at about four o'clock. Saw fire then from the second floor front room. Sergeant Dyer and witness got over the area into the ground floor. The door was broken open, witness was told, by Wright, one of the deceased constables. The flames were over witness's head, and on trying to get up the staircase the pieces of wood were falling down. Wright, Birkmyre, and Jenkins, were looking under the kitchen table for a dog at that time. The men were quite sober. The cellar door had been before that broken in witness's presence. Saw no bottles handed about, hut heard Wright say that " this cellar must be looked to, or they would be at it." Wright broke open the door under the impression that it was the plate room, but finding it the wine cellar they left it untouched. He could swear that all were perfectly sober. William Quait, carpenter, was alarmed by fire, and went into the house by the coachman's back entrance, That led into a passage, and the kitchen door is just there, The fire was burning very briskly there, and it communicated with the staircase window. The fire ap peared to him to have broke out in the pantry at the back of the house. There was no fire in the front kitchen then, and soon after the policemen came; and they were quite sob e r. Wit ness told them several times, "If you don't come out now you will never come out alive," Soon after witness left the roof fell in. Me. WAittek—l think it is quite evident that these poor men were not intoxicated, unless, indeed, the jury wished to multiply evidence. The jury expressed their full satisfaction that the eohttabltN were quite sober, James Mallett was ,eitatnined, but nothing material was elicited, The neat beitnesti iallecl was the man who had been found in the house intoxicated; Mau rice Williams, coachman to Mr. James Hacking- , men—l heard a cry of fire, and went down to the back Of the house. I went by the back door to search for a dog which was said to be inside. I saw a policeman break open the wine cellar with a poker. He put in his lamp, and said, " This is the wine cellar; I thought it was the plate room." The policeman then went away. I drank something out of a pot. I don't know what it was . I don't know who gave it me. The only light was from a policeman's lamp. There were two in the kitchen then. It was not the liquor got over me. It was tke fright and the smoke that did it. There was no time for nothing. I was taken to the station-house en a stretcher, and thrown into a cold cell for four hours and a half, and when I was brought out the water ran from me. Mr. W AKLEY —lt has, I think, been sufficiently proved that these men were sober ; but there seems to have been something wrong about the protection to property, cer tainly. I cannot see the necessity for having broken open the door at all. . Mr. Fairey examined—l am an engineer, and on the night of the fire went to bed between a quarter and half past two o'clock. Told William Robinson, and the other boy, Hall, to put the fire right, and saw the boy Robin son with the fire-screen ready to do so. I then left to go to bed. My first impression was of a scream -of fire. I went outside, and then sew the smoke. I went up stairs to alarm the servants and met the cook. I told her to alarm the servants, and then sent to ray study, to save my papers if they should be on fire. When 1 got down nearly to the level of the study I found that the fire was lower down. I came back to my room where my wife was, and called out " Fire !" I told my wife to try to save nothing, not to speak except in case of abso lute necessity, and to do all I told her. I then took her up stairs to the third landing, and then gut them into the open air by the leads. Mr. WAKLEY—Iiow do you account for the boy Robinson not being saved ? Witness—l did not miss him till we were outside. 1 Mr. Fairey said Robinson had difficulty in breathing, and generally did so with his mouth open. Hall said he did not hear him breathe. The CORONER said it was very desirable that while one body of men paid proper attention below, another party should pay attention to those upon the roof. In this case, it appeared that Mr. Fairey and his family had been upon the roof six or seven mi nutes a ithout any one coming to their assistance. If any objection were made to admit persons for that pur pose at the next door, he should, if a policeman, have no hesitation in breaking them open. He thought no fur ther witness need be examined, for he did not think that were they sitting there for a fortnight they could come to any more satisfactory conclusion than they might with that before them. There being no further evidence, The CORONER proceeded to address the jury. He said there was nothing peculiar in the circumstances. There was a difference of opinion between Mr. Fairey and Mr. Braid wood and the firemen in regard to the situation of the premises in which the fire origi nated. In the opinion of all it originated in a flue. Consequently a difference of opinion only existed as to the particular flue in which the fire first happened. The inquiry, however, would have the effect of directing the public attention as to flues in general, and in his opi nion it was a subject which could not receive too much attention. Now even in this case, though an engineer of great celebrity had resided in the house for many years, he was not aware there was a flue communicating with a stove in which a large quantity of soot might have con gregated through the peculiarity of its construction, and yet it excited no suspicion and attention even from the experienced mind of the occupier of the house. It only showed in what situations of danger one might be pla ed unsuspectedly. It was not known that the flue opened into a chimney of the next house. That was certainly a curious circumstance. Mr. Fairey stated that the flue was so constructed that it was actually in contact with wood-work, and with nothing to separate them. Now, in the state of that due, nothing was more easy than the heat fro n it communicating with the wood, and so originating this lamentable occurrence. In his own opinion the fire originated in the western flue of the laundry, for, if it had originated in the eastern one, those in the room must have seen it. If this inquiry directed attention to the construction of flues, of what ever kind, very great good would be derived from it, and much security to life and property would accrue, and occurrences of this painful kind entirely prevented. In nearly all cases fires occur from the improper con struction of flues, and too much att e nti on cou ld ' not, therefore, be paid to the subj ec t. TI e flue in which this fire occurred had been in use eleven years without having been once clear at the point in which it found an angle with the chimney- of the next house. In this case he thought no blame could be at tached to the policeman on the ground floor as regarded intoxication. If the jurymen were convinced that the firo had originated in the western flue, and that it was accidental and the cause of the deaths of these unfortu nate men, then they would bring in a verdict accordingly; and ho himself thought that the evidence adduced was sufficient to justify such a verdict. If, however, they required further evidence, he should be most happy to produce it before them. The jury expressed themselves satisfied, and without retiring, at once returned a verdict of "Accidental death," giving it as their opinion that the fire had origi nated in one of the two flues adverted to in the evidence. Before the Court finally broke up, a model of a build ing, indestructible by fire, was exhibited by Mr. Geary, architect, of Hamilton-place, New- foad, in which the pile was divided by party walls instead of lath and plas ter partitions, and the additional cost was said to be a mere bagatelle. The Cononen said that some of the professional gen tlemen around the table would perhaps think of so de sirable an improvement on the present defective mode of building. CLERKENWELL.—(THIS DAY.) Mr. Benjamin Taylor was charged with the following outrageous conduct. The prisoner came home in a cab on the previous night, and, although he had a key in his pocket, knocked so violently at the door as to alarm the whole neigh bourhood. He was admitted, and immediately went up stairs and beat his wife in a cruel manner. lie then came down again, went out, and continued his violence in the street, so that all the inhabitants of the street were aroused from their beds. The wife said the prisoner had treated her in a most cruel manner and had threatened to murder her, and she earnestly implored the magistrate's protection. The prisoner was ordered to find good bail, which not being able to do he was locked up. SOUTHWARK POLICE-COURT. (THIS DAY.) The business was opened at this Court by Mr. Edwin, the chief clerk, reading the order to that effect from the Secretary of State, and also the boundary comprising the district. John Buckley was charged with committing an as sault on James Bryant. The parties were present at an Irish funeral the pre ceding day, And as soon as the ceremony concluded they, with several others, adjourned to a public-house. where they became intoxicated, and this led to a "regular row." The defendant, who seemed to be the ringleader in the dleturbance, struck the complainant a violent blow in the mouth. The defendant begged the Magistrate would make due allowance for the funeral of a countryman, and said that it was an " ould Irian. custom to take a little spirits when an ould friend departed this life." The defendant was fined, and in default he was com mitted for 14 days. LAMBETH NEW POLICE COURT. (THIS DAY.) This morning the New Police-court in Kennington lane commenced business fur the first time. Mr. Henry took his seat on the bench at eleven o'clock. The court, though small, is replete with ePery convenience, and furnished with great neatness. Attached to the court is a range of small cells, for the accommodation of the pri soners, which are exceedingly well ventilated, and thoroughly warmed with hot air. There are also win dows, which admit a good light into each cell, and the prisoner can communicate with his friends by a small opening in the door. The only fault to be found with the fitting-up of the court is the small portion allotted to the public. nor has the convenience of the reporters been in the least con sulted, the only accommodation provided for them is a small tiox, scarcely large enough to hold one person. George Cook was the first prisoner brought up and placed in the felons' dock, charged with passing bad money on Saturday afternoon, at Mr. Kemp's, chemist and druggist, Lambeth. The prisoner was remanded until Saturday.. in order for the attendance of Mr. Powell, the Mint solicitor. The Earl and Countess of Egremont are surrounded by a circle of friends at Qoombe satchville, Devon, THE COMMISSION OF THE PEACE FOR Dtritnag' The names of the following gentlemen have be en ust included in the Commission of the Peace for th e :ounty of Durham, viz. :—Viscount Seaham,Willia m Standish Standish, Esq., of Cocken Hall ; John Eden , Esq., of Beamish Pa ; and the Rev. Henry Dougia°' 8.D., Canon of Durham. The whole of these gentlemen , with the exception of Viscount Seaham, qualified at t he , late adjou rne d sess i ons of the peace to act as magistra te. for the county. POLLOKSHAWS. SCENE IN A CHURCH. ...... Con' siderable excitement was occasioned here on Sabbath last, in consequence of an occurrence which happened i ll the Rev. Mr. Smith's church. The managers of Ole church had for some time past been considering th e most suitable method for heating the church, and in the course of lat week two small stoves (constructed on the consumption of smoke principle) were placed in the body of the church, and on Sabbath morning we re ,, lighted with c h arre d woo d . N o b ad effects were fe lt: " until about th e c l ose o f t h e f orenoon service, when near!'" twenty individuals were so much overcome by the vapour from the stoves that they fainted ; one of the elders was dangerously affected, so much so, that he was obliged to be carried home in a chair. 'The Rey' Mr. Smith was also affected to a very considerab le extent. When the congregation met in the afternoon (although the stoves had been previously removed), was found that the vapour was still so powerful as t ° compel the congregation to remove to a neighbouring schoolroom, where Divine service was performed bylMr - Smith, who was so far recovered as to be able to officiat e ' The moat remarkable circumstance was the fact, that in the afternoon a great number of the congregation wer e affected in the schoolroom in the same manner as the o thers had been affected in the fore part of the day in the church , and upwards of a dozen fainted, or suffered so much as t° be obliged t o b e carr i e d home. It is supposed that this was occasioned by the noxious vapour or gas adhering to their clothes, and the heat of the schoolroom caus ed it to produce similar effects to those felt in the forenoon. A good many of the congregation were still so much indisposed as to b e prevente d from attending t heir respective occupations on the Monday. We are glad, however, to learn that all are now fairly recovered. Renfrewshire Advertiser. TRAGICAL EVENTS AT Yonx.--Considerable ex citement has been occasioned in York by the aWfu l deaths of two persons of the name of Coultate, a mother and her son. The son was a young man, in the situ''' tion of a groom, a n d it was suspecte d t h at h e h a d been poisoned by a person of the name of Emmerson, who was supposed to have mixed a large quantity of laudanum with his ale, in a low public-house in Walmgate. Front, the evidence o f th e me di ca l men, h owever, i t appea red that the deceased had died from the effects of a severe injury on the head, which might have been of two or three days standing, and no trace oi laudanum was dis covered in his stomach. The same night that the de ceased was taken home, the mother, who was 70 years of age, was so much shocked by the death of her son, from poison, us she supposed, that in about an hour from that time, she herself expired. The jury returned • verdict that she had " Died from excessive grief, and the shock occasioned by the melancholy death of her son, John Coultate.—Leeds Times. FANG OF THE RATTLESNAKE.---A man had been bitten through his boots by a rattlesnake, and died. The bouts afterwards descended into the successive - pos: session of two other persons, and killed them both ; and it was then ascertained that au envenomed fang had re• maned Sticking in the leittheri—liogshin't Australia, k t ,, E , ar Th' o ng 4' 4 )1 l a Lo tit Y of THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY YEN IN - G , DECEM. BER 30 1844.. ....., Nei ..., ..., ~., Vi.i In th e s fir