The Sun. — London, England, 1844-01-15 00:00:00

Jo :se *let Dlr• ape lwa tesi Aga will 0 01 oar CO tb_!, ibr ittr lob 510 0 01 itch' 10' oa t/ an j , to 0 no o olef lirs" )‘' .f. ArrrAot ei Stl e e .01 Af fll ' tor dor •titer' r Af :co'be F'ol o°o Ores -- Eastern and Dover (50 paid) ..... . Ditto scrip (25 paid) York and Scarboro' Branch (2i paid) lB .! --t~,;i MUNE ir AND COMMERCIAL NEWS • (From The Son of Saturday Evening.) The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were spoo bales, the market being quieter, but steady. There was some int . prosement in Shares—Grand Junction were 233 ; ditto Halves, 1 16 ; Birmingham, Quarter, 2•4 1 4 ; Brighton, 43 ; Manches ter and Leeds, 100; South Eastern ' 3/ ; ditto New, 36} ; Paris an d Orleans, 32} ; Paris and Lynns, 21. 17s. 6d. The only arrivals to-clay are from Vn Diemen's Land, from whence we have accounts to th a e 12th of September , last. We (tan hardly believe the representation made in some of the advises that have reached us to-day, that a slight had beet, offered to the newly arrived Governor, Sir Etrdley Wilmot, by Sir John Franklin ; but so is it stated, and we cannot refrain fr , m rnentiening the assertion. A de parture from the ordinary rules of courtesy, how ever slight or unintended, once imagined, trilling cir cumstances are readily advanced to support an idea that an affront was intended. It is in this light that we Would throw overboard the statement that Lady Franklin had gone on a pleasure water trip, in the only available vessel at "'amend, when the New Governor was in the offing. The :!nted bushranger, Cash, had been captured, and no ques- I nn his fate would soon be sealed. This villain was the wider of a Da , d in the busk that have committed the lanst horrible atrocities, and the capture of the rest of the gang was looked forward to as a certainty. They will staeet with no sympathy at the hands of the colonists. The p r esent adsice s d o not notice any alteration for the better in fade or commerce in the colony. There are no accounts today from Sydney. h The following letters (copied from the Chronicle), which o i aid bet wren the firm of Salomin and Co ,ot Panama, 5 1. Alosquent, the Minister f: , r New Grenada in this : --bb trY, Show that th e exAusive privileges for openitis a eorn %l 4,ineation between the two oceans across the Isthmus of Pa granted to the Company of which the above firm was the e tef psrty comet ned, are s till a cknowledged by that Republic, the !ntl that surve undertakings have been made by them for N ov. 24, 1843 he execution of " Paris, . b: B.l *,—A letter from London informs me that many L s `aeles are thrown in the way of my agents there, in con .tilla"nee of false statements circulated in the City concerning P ei "lege granted by the Republic of New Grenada to the •• minus , in which my house at Panama is principally 'uteruses!. . ro " As it is o f grea t importance to an undertaking of such b e t n i nide, and of such general interest, that the public should t asquainted with the real state of the question concerning the p " Privilege, I take the liberty of applying to you, as the re treseetative of the Republic inEngland, to enable me to con- A r tpl iet_ . in the most exp li cit terms the statements to which I 7, t : You were to take the trouble of giving a positive answer p - or the followi n g questions, it would, I think, fully serve my e „,,.. 1 6 Has the Republic of New Grenada granted to any other :"Plloy than the one in which I am interested, an exclusive ' r e nrge for opening a communication between the two oceans, ta'°BBada, the Isthmus of Panama, or any other part of New N , II g, • m . 4 .* Has any party, excepting those named in the decree s o P i ing the privilege, received any power from the Republic to form a company for the same purpose? a. Has the Congress of New Grenada passed any decree, or . b etioned, resolutions to deprive us of the privilege so granted ? sari 4. Has it come to your knowledge that we have caused ~iela to be made across the Isthmus of Panama, with the tvs of ascertaining the most eligible line to be adopted, either ' o r cutti ng a ship canal, or making a read ? 54 8 _ beg to apologise fr troubling you to give tne written Ru. wess to the above que s tions; but as the subject is one of .." 1 general importance, it will, I trust. be considered by you "rn a sufficient excuse.—l have the honour to be, &c., " AUG. SALOMON. " T 0 Monsieur Mosquera, Chargé d'Affaires for the Republic of New Grenada to England, now in Paris." " Paris, Nov. 27, 1843. t i , " Siress-In reply to your letter of the 24th inst., asking me to I Le g an answ er t o the several questions contained therein, Ces to say , i n re f erence to the first question, that since date of the privilege granted to the Franco-Grenadian lis rn t n Y , no other privilege has, to this day, been given 6 ,„,", • Government of New Grenada for the purpose of I,,V h bi ng a communication between the two oceans, across the 41 ' 1 ' of Panama, or any other part of the territory of the aPublic, .01 ad above :Your second question is virtually announced by what is oe LAs to your third question, I can only say that I have re pi,7l neither official nor private information that the above „ i n'ae has been declared torfeited. said And as to the last question, it is acknowledged that the , ion mPany have caused surveys to be made, for the exeeu „.:4 the work they have undertaken. thts !. lett authorise you to make whatever use you think proper of er.—l have the honour to be, &c. se To M .6 M. MOSQUERA. ~',..sugustin Salomon, of Panama , in Paris . " th e r u ulte securities have remained this morning at about 'anle rat es as they left off yesterday. The business done ai d • 111141 , and the brokers for the Sinking Fund Commissioners Lost ma k e ny a additional pun bases. Consols for Morey ll:„ebec,cw quoted at 86* 4, and the same for the Account. k 273 Stock is up t o 187, India Stock for the Account to A io r but Exchequer Bills are heavy at 655. premium. 1 04 % ,5 'a1l has taken place in Belgian Bonds this morning from toese,7, l°3 il• Dutch Bonds rema in much about the same as 3 u o r aYs Spanish Stock has improved, the Three per Cents. em the Five per Cents. for Account to 22i. ends were a shade lower than yesterday. In the other t o :P/4o Stock s th ere h as not b een any material alteration ay pl:the Railway Share Market not much alteration has taken ° I,LIY, if we except Bristol and Exeter, which have o b i he other Shares are steady, fractional alterations Y have occurred. M A , , h Clit.tiTEß STOCK EXCUANCE, JAN. 12.—There itii b i n change to notice in our market to-day; business is I)ttiblv'e'Y limi , ed. The following are our quotations in atitl Drogheda, 54 ; Lancaster and Preston, 36* ; r"nehester and Birmingham, 37i ; Manchester and Lies das Quartcrs, 8 to Si ; Bolton and Preston, 254• to 25k. CLOSING PRICES. 1% 6t.ocx • - BRI FISH EUNDs. • . 187 .India Stock . pm %••• Cent. Red. 3 . i -eta. Cons. ... 96 1 'Ditto Old Annuities... et ..sr Cent. Red... 1021 !Ditto New Annuities... . e.... 31 per Cent.... 102 Ex. Sills, 1,000/. Ij4l. 65 pm Nov" S ter Cent........., Ditto 5001...... 65 pm Lo;ig Annuities to expire Ditto Small •67 pm Jul' 1860 ••••••••• 121 ,Bank Stock for Acct. 'it t. 1859 , ao. l'l6o .•• ••••• !Consols for Act. FOREIGN FUNDS. ."-"ar 5 per cent. ... , Portuguese, 5 per cent. k iglo - n ' ser cent lo'i Ditto, New Ditto - e r4 llian 80nd5......... 75} Prussian, 5 per cent., %it . 4 nut Ayresfi per cent. IRussian, 5 per cent....„ 'an, 6 per cent. — Ditto, ri letallic ...... . 17" 1 11i - tan, 6 per cent... 111 Spaniih, 5 per cent 22} v itt ° 1m24 . Ditto, 3 cent... 3l '6444/Ms, 6 r cent. 11i Ditto Defer red.... . 12A V 1413 14.3 per : ent — French, 5 per cent. —f. . sired, 1525, 5 per cent — Exchange ...... .... —f —c. Bi e t tiekb s 6 per cent. . 32} French, 3 per cent..—f. —c. p al t :' , ti per cent. 1837 . Dutch, 2i per cent. 54* ,vian, 1825,6 per ct. , Ditto. 5 per cent.... 1.001 SHARES. Pristol and Exeter (70 paid) %tern C ount i es ( 2 3 pa id) lO Ditto New 'Registered ( paid) Edinburgh and Glasgow (50 paid) 57 tireat Western (75 paid) Ditto Half Shares (50 paid) "radon and Brighton (50 pad) . 43i Loudon and Birmingham (100 paid).. Loudon and Greenwich Railway (12/ 15s 4dpd) 5i Loudon and South Western (4116 s 10d pd) 74% London and Croydon Railway (Trunk) ... 15% Manchest er an d Bi rm i ng h am ( 40 paid) 3g i yarwich an d B randon ( 2 paid) ..... Northa st 1 e and Darli ng t on Junction(ls paid" 28 eru and Eastern (45 paid) b, a - Dittot Scrip (15 paid) ~,,t . is and Orleans (20 paid) i - aris and Rouen (22 paid) ... . ... BoUtli g TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Itopdlub"-Your animadversions of this evening's date on the Nf er ,,, et of the Co mmon -S ergean t o f th e City of London, in t ti :'," to a rec en t case at t h e C entra l C r i m i na l Court, appear ti e , , 0 be of so revere a nature that lam sure in common jus attaet will insert this explanation. If any blame is to be le th„" to the nature of the question left to the jury to decide apth`l.ctse. that blame is attributable to the subtle distinction hor se l s ed by the law. The law is that "if A. bonci fi de hire a plith, ° l . partkular purpose, and after that purpose is aecom orißC:', the horse, it is no larceny ; for unless . he had D oti . at. felonious intention, the subsequent witholding dis : 16 4 ,"g t of the horse does not constitute a new felonious takinz. 2 p As ". v. h an k s, R. and R. 441, overruling R. v. Tunnard, 'best b e P .C. 687. In order to constitut e a larce ny the jury e satis fi ed that th e p ossess i on was o b ta i ne d antmofitrands if roll Bias the p o i n t l e f t is t h e j ury to d eterm i ne, in the, case to tly t g'Y commented on in your recent article. Idu not say 4 1 o n Was put to the jury in that distinct and simple way that 1 4 . ' such cases is de cab le, but I think your censure of the itp t , r ,t'l'd Judge was rather too severe, anii as the author of your tl:`e Was in all probability a person not very well versed in thi s 1 4tleties of the law, perhaps you will give insertion to - v . I trpretation uy A BARRISTER. M itre -court-buildings, Temple, Jan. 12, 1844. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. 1 ) .. BETTING AT MANCHESTER—Fernair. R a t tan -7 to 1 agst Ugly Buck (offers to take)-8 to 1 ~ , ., ,na ttan---18 to 1 agst Loadstone-20 to 1 eget Cockainaroo Vto 1 agst Orlando. Not a bed laid. tir t beet (t)-- 30 to 1 t "Ilt Cur.-30 to a g st P agstkay B ne—(t) allinkeele (t)-30 to 1 agst °. COURSING. thp I4I YETING, JA N. 9.—The Puppy Cup (8 Dogs Witiolvided by M r . P ar t r id ge ' s B ac h e l or an d Mr. Wh i tfield '. 1 1 e b"ike• The All-aged Stakes (12 Dogs) w e r e won b y toble ; artr idge's Tyson, Mr. 13urford's Martha received the O c gwe-ta BARON Y (NORTHIJILRERLAND) MILT ING.—The e lutake. f or 16 Dogs were won by Mr. Bainbridge's Mar ; Mr. Grace's Queen of Trumps ran np. 111, t , ",e Great League Fund already exceeds 60,0001., t ne metropolis h as y e t to begin its subscription. Aliti,-kPIRTuRE or THE DUKE OF BORDEAUX.— %) :4 ; the visit of the Duke to Woolwich, on the 11th, he was leat,to continue his tour, when letters reached him•romdtr: aneouncing the severe indisposition of the Due His Royal 4. o _ °ulet4 4, 'ha is considered in extreme danger. tti.;:""rricowdiately decided upon abandoning his tour in 4 cls and embarked last evening, for Ostend, on his way . to 11e4;,..' z ' A portion of the suite of the Prince will remain in ie ve ' 44 l(lare during the ensuing week. in t 7j, ll .B roa SIDNEY.--A contract has been entered reaii") . 11 ' Majesty' s G overnment f or t h e conve y ance o f tic ti N Monthly, fr om the United Kingdom to Sydney. Ile wsPapers will b e f orwar d e d f ree o f postage. le itt — t PURIT Y OF THE LAW.—That th 3 adminis -44030.r3s of the l aw s h ould be clean- handed is the universal 18i " of the whole civilised world ; but it has re _ cioryor an Irish votary of Themis to carry the,ri.ne hcell b ' legal purity to its fullest extent, ; as b Y ,the following notice, which we extract from tir.Sgknleirs News- Letter of this morning:—" Notice. — bo w ,. n,11,,y, Provisional Assignee of the Insolvent imurCourt, b ubi requests that all clerks and others having se ess to transact with him, will make use of the rug ap art r aper fur th e f eet , prev i ous to their entering his cl erks nt." Perhap s Mr. Molloy h as f oun d that t h e Li to ,,' and others h av i ng b usiness to transact with 1)1.4; re semble the French lady, who, when some sur eotwi4,4s expressed by an acquaintance at• the impure of 116 i—hands, patheticallY iesponded, " Ah, 404 eu , if yo u were onl to see my feet I"—,Dublin COURT CIRCULAR, The Queen and Prince Albert, and the ladies and gentlemen of the Royal suite, attended Divine service yesterday at Claremont. The Venerable Archdeacon Wilberforce officiated. _ _ . Archdeacon Wilberforce arrived at Claremont on Saturday, on a visit to the Queen, and had the honour of dining with her Majesty. Her Majesty and Prince Albert 'promenaded in the grounds of Claremont Park on Saturday afternoon. In the forenoon his Royal Highness Prince Albert, attended by Sir Edward Bowater, Equerry in Waiting, Lord Rivers, Hon. C. A. Murray, and Mr. G. E. Anson, went out shooting. The Royal party returned to Claremont to lunch. We have authority to state that her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent has withdrawn her name as Pa troness of the Royal Belgrave Lying-in Institution. The Governorof the Bank of England, and the Deputy Governor, had an interview with Sir Robert Peel on Saturday. The Commissioners of the Model Prison at Pentonville had a meeting on Saturday, at the Council-office, Whitehall. The Commissioners present were the Lord President, the Duke of Richmond, Earl of Chichester, Lord John Russell, Sir Benjamin Brodie, Dr. Ferguson, Major Jebb, Mr. W. Crawford, and Mr. Whitworth Russell. The meeting broke up at three o'clock. Sir R. Peel and Sir J. Graham had an interview with the Eari of Aberdeen on Saturday, at the Foreign-office. Di-patches from Sir Charles Metcalfe, Governor of Czot.L, and trout the Governors of the other North Ame rim') Colonies, were received yesterday at the Colonial offi(•e. Mr. Driver had an interview with Sir Robert Peel on Saturday. at his official residence in Downing-street. Mr. Dean, Chairman of the Customs, had an interview on Saturday with the Chancellor of the Exchequer, in Downing-street. Dispatches from the Governor of Van Diemen's Land were received on Sa!urday at the Colonial-office. IRISH STATE TRIALS. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH, DUBLIN. FRIDAY, FIVE O'CLOCK. At an early hour in the morning the Attorney and Solicitor-General, Mr. Brewster, and all the rest of the Counsel engaged for the Crown, appeared in Court. Mr. Moore, Q.C., Mr. Henn, Mr. Pigott, M.P., asd the other Counsel for the traversers, were also present. At a quarter past ten o'clock Mr. Justice Perrin sat for the disposal of motions of course. At eleven the full Court sat, and proceeded to deliver judgment in the case of" the Queen v. Samuel Grey." Mr. Justice FERRIN recapitulated the facts of the case. He gave it as his opinion that a venire de novo should be islued, and the motion on the part of the prisoner in arrest of judgment should be granted. Mr. Justice Crampton,• Mr. Justice Burton, and the Chief Justice, were of the contrary opinion, namely, that the motion should be refused. The CHIEF JUSTICE then passed sentence upon Grey. His Lordship said, that he had been convicted of discharging a loaded pistol, or some other deadly weapon, at, and wounding James Cunningham, but whether with intent to kill him or not was probably only known to the Divine Searcher of the human heart. The Court, takingthe enormity of the offence into consideration, had unani mously come to the conclusion that the•sentence should be a heavy one—transportation for life. Sentence was then passed in the usual terms. Mr. NAPIER said, that as it was his intention to sue out a writ sf error, it was necessary that this sentence should be respited, to enable him to do so. The CHIEF JUSTICE replied that this should be done. At twenty minutes to four o'clock, the Chief Justice called upon the Attorney-General to know whether or not he had anything to mcve. The, ATTORNEY-GENERAL replied that he understood two motions were to be made by the Counsel for the tra versers, in the case of the Queen v. O'Connell. Mr. MOORE, Q.C., rose and moved that the special jury in this case be quashed, and that a mandamus be issued. directed to the Recorder of the city of Dublin, calling upon him to replace on the special jury list the names of certain parties excluded therefrom. And, fur ther, that until this be done the trial of this cause be postponed, and that the special jury to try the same be taken from such amended list. The motion was grounded upon the affidavits of - Mr. Pierce Mahony and others. Counsel proceeded to call the attention of the Court to the Act under which the jury list was formed, namely, the 3il an 4th Wm. IV.. c. 94. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL opposed the motion, which, after some remarks from the Bench, was refused. Saturday. Jan. 13. THE QUEEN V. DANIEL O'CONNELL AND OTHERS. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL moved, On the part of the Crown, for an order that in the event of the trial in this case not hat ing terminated on or before the 31st instant, that Thursday. the lst. of Februar;t , and every day until next term, or te. many as shall be necessary, shall be fixed by the Court tor the purpose of said trial, and be deemed and taken to be part of the present Hilary Term. He could not say the precise titre that would be neces sary for the trod, but he thought it well to have the order made. He applied trader the Ist and 2d William IV , section 3, by which it was provided, that if any trial at bar shad be directed by any of. the .said Courts, it shall be competent for any of the Judges of said Courts to appoint any day for the trial thereof ; and that if such day shall be in vacation, it shall be deemed and taken to be part of said preceding term. He apprehended there could be no difficulty with regard to the propriety of making this order ; and he thought it would not be right to make an application pending the trials for such an order, and he deemed it to be the most proper course to have the order made before the trial. That order would be entered upon the record, and thus the proceedings which it might be necessary to take in vacatiou would be perfectly regular and legal. If there was any difficulty in making the order, of coarse the Court would take it at their peril. The CHIEF JUSTICE—IS there any occasion for mak ing an order at all ? The ATTORNEY-GENERAL referred his Lordship again to the provision of the Act of Parliament. The CHIEF JUSTICE—When the Court directs a trial at bar to take place, and fixes a day for it, does not the Act make the provision that, in such case, the vacation shall by virtue of the statute be part of the term 2 The ATTORNEY-GENERAL —But it is the safest course to have the order made that the vacation shall be part of the preceding term, and I apprehend there can be no difficulty in making the order. - It will, on the contrary, prevent any difficulty that might be suggested hereafter, for if the order were not made and entered on the record, it might be said that the proceedings should not be con tinued in the vacation. Judge Cstastrrost—At present there is no order for any trial in the vacation. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said that, inconsequence of some allegations over which they had no control, with regard to the time the trials would extend to, he thought, even though the construction of the Act be what the Chief Justice said, that this order should be made in the terms of the notice. In point of fact, if it were contemplated when the original order was made that the trials should continue so long, it might be made part of the original order. But lest any difficulty should arise hereafter, they applied for this order, and when that order was entered on the record all the proceedings would be perfectly regular. Judge PERRIN—Cannot you make this application at any other. time. I have an objection to make an order to this extent, for you anticipate that the trial will continue for three months, and it would be a formidable precedent to make such an order. I cannot see why the trial should not be closed within the term, but if necessary you can make this application at any other time. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL —The Court, by the Act, is to fix a day. Judge PERRIN—But I have great difficulty in con • senting to appoint a month or months. What I mean, Mr. Attorney, is this ;—Here we have fifteen days of term before us, and we will better see our way in the course of that time than at present, and I have a great objection to make an order of this kind unnecessarily. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said the course they pro posed to take was desirable, as it was necessary that there should be no opportunity hereafter of suggesting any irregularity. Judge PERRIN—But that order will be as good any day in term as to-day. It is not an ord, r to fix the day of trial, but to extend the time, and you have the same facility of moving it any day during term if it should be necessary as at present, and you would then have much better grounds fee- applying to the Court than you have in calling upon us now to anticipate that a trial by jury would exceed fifteen days, and there are yet fifteen sit ting days in term. Judge CRAMPTON—If that anticipation were likely to add a single hour to the trials I would object to make the order. But I eannot see how making the order now can affect the trial except to abridge it. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL—If there be any point be hind which may affect the regularity of the proceedings, that may be a ground for delay. When I speak of the vacation I have not the slightest anticipathn that the trial will occupy all that time. But if we fixed a parti cular day within which the trial should only last, it will hold out a bonus to extend it beyond that time. Judge PERRIN—You call upon us to make an order which contemplates the trial lasting until the first day of next term, and that, I think, would be really holding out a facility for prolonging it. If gentlemen found that a certain time was given they would consume a great deal less time than if three months were given. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL —With great respect to your Lordship, I cannot concur in that view. Judge CRAMPTON said the application might be made on the last day of term as well as that day. But he would like to give every facility to make it ; and argu ments might arise on the last day which would.create embarrassment ; and as it might give rise to discussion, time might be lost in making it. The ATTORNEY GENERAL said they thought it would be more conveniat to the Court, and more proper for them to make the application before the trial com menced, and Rot delay the proceedings by a discussion of this kind during the trial. The Court might say, if they had postponed this application, why not make the application before the trial commenced. Ile thought it probable that the. circumstance of this order being made would lead to the trial being concluded within this term, and te thought if the order were not made it would not be concluded. The CHIEF JUSTICE—We understand that no opposi tion is made to your application by the traverser. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL —We understand no. Mr. MONAGHAN—The traversers don't appear on this motion. The CHIEF JUSTICE—I am not including you at all. Of course, as there is no opposition made to the motion, the Court—however they may think it might be unne cessary, and it is my own opinion—conceive it will do no harm, and the majority of the Court are for granting the motion according to the terms of it. I don't think my brother Perrin agrees with the order of the Court. Judge L'uswi-I ant - 4nd great difficult is it, and . the danger of such a precedent, in the contemplation that the trial by jury will be extended to such a time. It is not necessary for me to go into my reasons ; I con sidered it a good deal since I heard the intention of moving it, and I cannot reconcile it to my mind to think that it is at all within the meaning of the Act of Parlia ment, and from the extent to which the order goes, I greatly fear the result of it as a precedent. I have no idea of consulting my own convenience. I have no ob jection to sit any length of time every day. Application granted. SITTING OF THE COURT.—THE FIRST DAY THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY MORNING, JANUAR OF TRIAL. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL—What hour will your Lordships sit on Monday morning ? The CIIIEF JUSTICE—We have been thinking about that, and on Monday morning the Court intend to sit punctually at ten o'clock. THE GREAT AGGREGATE MEET ING OF THE CATHOLICS OF IRELAND. DUBLIN, SATURDAY. The great aggregate meeting of the Catholics of Ire land took place this day, at the Music-hall, Lower Abbey street. To the requisition by which it was called an immense number of names were attached, and as the interest attached to the proceedings had been much in creased within the last few days by the decision of the Court of Queen's Bench against the motion on the part of the traversers to postpone the- trial, on the ground of the illegality of the jury panel, the anxiety to attend the meeting was great in proportion. The admission Was by tickets. The body of the ball, the side galleries, and the space beneath them, were crowded. The gallery fronting the platform was appropriated to the ladies, and it contained ladies of some of the most respectable families in Dublin. . . The entrance of Tom Steele was greeted with several rounds of applause. Mr. O'Connell entered soon after him, and was received with unbounded enthusiasm, the cheering continuing several minutes. He is evidently in the best state of health, and appeared in excellent spi rits. Mr. Shed was also most loudly cheered. Among the gentlemen present were the following : lion. Charles Barnwell, Esq. ; James Blackney, Esq., Fort Castle, Phillip's Town; W. Ferregan, Esq. ; C. D. Duffy, Esq. ; A. R. Stritch, Hugh Macgill, Henry Marray, E. Campbell, P. M'Gowran, C. M'Allister, C. Lennon ; Roe, Blessington-street ; S. O'Brien, Esqrs. ; Rev. Mr. Scudy ; Doheny, barrister ; Dr. Nagle ; G. Hamilton ; T. Joyce ; Valentine Blake ; Walter Joyce ; S. J. Murray; Richard Barnwell; Mar tin Henan ; Richard Ferrall, J.P. ; Sir John Power ; James Nugent ; W. Reynold, T.C. ; Mr. Moran, T.C. ; Mr. Atkinson, T.C. ; Mr. Loughman ; Very Rev. Mr. Stewart ; Rev. Mr. Tierney, one of the traversers ; Reverend Mr. Andrews ; Reverend Mr. Hopkins ; T. Sheridan, T.C. ; Rev. Mr. Lynch ; J. T. Devit, Barrister, Limerick ; C. Walsh, solicitor ; Dr. S. Murphy ; J. White, J. P., Shannon ; J. Chester, D. L., Stone House, South-bridge ; Johnson, J.P. ; Major Kearney, J. P., Gerald Aylmer, county Kildare ; Cor nelius Egan, Alderman of Dublin ; Richard O'Connell; H. S. Reynolds, D. O'Connell, Mr. Duffy, barrister ; Mr. Kelly, T. Kerwan, T.C. ; Dr. J. Murphy, James M'Kean, ; Sir T. Esmonde, J. C. Egan, John Es - Mond, James M'Owen, G. Fitzgerald, Martin Madden, Sligo ; J. Troy, Rey. Mr. O'Malley, T. Wise, M. P. ; F. J. Moony ; Philip Taggard, George Graham, Coyan, T. N. Redington ' M.P. ; J. H. Talbot, county of Monaghan ; Robert Irwan, Roscommon ; James Hogan, Robert Cassidy, J.P. ; James Power, M.P. ; Hogan, Fairview ; Thomas Dwyer, J. Mackenna, T.C. ; the Lord Mayor ; the Rev. Miley, D.D. Michael Staunton,Edward Dowell, Esqrs.,county Galway; W. Ford, P. Kelley, Esq. ; B. Andrews, T.C. ; O'Flannagan, barrister; Alexander Macarthy, barrister ; Barlew, I'. C. ; G. Gilchrist, T. P. Curtis ; J. Flan naghan, Rs+ ; Galway, Esq. ; Thomas M'Mahan, J. Kirwan, Richard L. Sheil, M.P. ; James Barnwell, Dr. Harker, &c., &c., &c. The proceedings did not commence till two o'clock, when, on the motion of Sir T. Esrnonde,.Bart., the Lord Mayor of Dublin, T. O'Brien, Esq., took the chair. The LORD MAYOR on taking the chair observed, that it was now sought by the Government to deprive the Roman Catholics of Ireland—the loyal subjects of this realm—of that privilege to which even aliens were entitled ; namely, the privilege of being represented on the jury before which they were to be tried. No less a number than seven millions and a half of the subjects of the British Crown had been thus excluded from the en joyment of their undoubted right and privilege. To express their abhorrence of that inroad upon their liber ties, the Roman Catholics of Ireland had assembled there that day ; and, for his own part, not remembering the exertions of those to whom he, as a Catholic, owed his elevation to the office which he now filled, he felt that gratitude and duty both urged him to take en active part in the proceedings on the present occasion. He wanted words to express his sense of the high honour conferred cn him by being called on to preside at the present meeting. He would not then take up their time further, particularly as they would be addressed by men who had won high fame in former i.truggles for civil and religious liberty. —(Cheers.) After some further observations, the Chair man, who was all but inaudible throughout the entire of his observations, resumed his seat amidst loud applause. On the motion of Sir 'l'. ESMONDE, Bart., T. V. Fitz pataielt and Alexander M'Carthy, Esqrs., were nomi nated Secretaries of the meeting. Mr. APCARTHY having read the requisition convening the meeting, which was signed by a host of the most in- , fieential and wealthy Roman Catholics of Ireland, in eluding the Earl of Kenmore. Sir T. ESMONDE, Bart., came to the front of the platform, and was received with the most enthu siastic applause. He said he attended there that day with, he candidly acknowledged, very sincere regret, for he came from necessity, as a Roman Catholic tl o wie f birtemh l r rit termination t l a,h a atae n iumno d dnd , i t thn o hbayedit vindicate his own character . and prin ciples,gnAFr cop e at r utot many cause years o f civil he andli d agitatedreligious f to that species Emancipation, 0 h f e agitationthoughtin which they had acted together for so many years., But within those few days there 'had arisen proof positive that Roman Catholics were considered unworthy of belief on their oath. Th a t f ou l i m p u t a ti on which had been cast upon them by itinerants from period to period was now nearly obtaining the sanction of those in power. It was to protest against that that they were now assem bled.—(Cheers.) And if they should have to struggle again in the cause of civil and religious liberty, h e was much mistaken if his countrymen would not be more firm and more persevering, if possible, than when they had been seeking for emancipation.—(Cheers.) Th ey were now a temperate people, and in the pursuit of civil and religious liberty, they would be consistent, perse vering, united, and firm.—(Cheers.) He concluded by moving the first resolution, which was to the following effect :—" That the Roman Catholics of Ireland yielded - to no portion of the Queen's subjects in true loyalty to the throne, and the strict observation of the religious obligation of an oath." Sir J. POWER, Bart., seconded the resolution, which was carried amidst the most vehement applause. Mr. WYSE, M.P., then addressed the meeting. He said it was but a few days after the first granting of the great claim of Catholic Emancipation, that a great meeting was held in that city, for the purpose of stating what were the feelings, prospects, and claims of the Catholic body, after the emancipation had become law. He read the resolution carried at that meeting, expressive of their gratitude for the measure so healing and conciliatory ; that was then the manifesto of the Catholics of Ireland, that the differences of the past were buried, and that they would do all in their power to promote the interest of the common country. It was hoped that that feeling would have continued. That was fourteen years ago. But what must be their feelings now, when they were called together again, once more, to claim the common rights of their fellow-subjects, of which they had been again deprived? Who would not, on looking round, believe that the Emancipation Act had never been passed, or that it had been repealed ? (Great cheering.) Since the time their claim was granted, had not the deeds of the party leaders proved what they said at the period—that that claim was granted unwillingly? And when that party was suc ceeded by one of more liberal and generous nature, were not the efforts and acts of that party continually thwarted when they endeavoured to make the Emancipation Bill more than a dead letter? It was the party of Wellington and Peel that always stood in the way of all their municipal and political reforms ; and the same spirit had been manifested. To be a Catholic was a crime ; that a man was of the opinion of the majority of the people of Irel 'lid was a sufficient excuse for striking a man off the list of the jury. There had been no proof that they entertained any peculiar political opinions ; it was sufficient that a man was a Catholic--was of that reli gion that had been branded in Ireland in every way, and had been accused of a disregard of oaths ; it was to destroy the confederacy of Catholic feeling that would always lead them, inside the House or out of it, to repel such imputations upon their honour, that Catholics were now struck off thejury. During the last year they were taunted with a disregard of the obligation of an oath by a Minister of the Crown, and that Minister was com pelled, in the face of the House and of the empire, to apologise for that imputation. The same principles on which the names of Catholics were struck off the panel would form a ground for re-enacting the old penal lows against them in all their severity. He contended for an equality of rights in every respect. Did they think that while every country was gaining its rights and fran chises, and were regaining their position in the scale of nations, did they think the people of Ireland could sit down contented and not do all in their power to make themselves felt and known in the great incorporation of the British empire ?—(Cheers.) It was impossible that the laws of the land could be respected unless they were loved, and, by being administered impartially, made the shield to defend, and not the sword to attack, the people. Ile concluded by proposing a resolution, stating, that in striking off the names of the Catholics from the list, the Government had inflicted a wrong and an insult upon that body, and against which they now recorded their opinion. The •resolution was seconded by J. H. TALBOT, Esq., who stated that he was himself a victim to his religion, having been dismissed from his deputy-lieutenancy be cause lie would not be the slave of any Government. W. Folio, Esq., then addressed the assembly, stating circumstances that attended former prosecutions, to show that the striking off jurors on account of their religion was no new practice. He also quoted the opinion of Mr. Smith, the Attorney-General, expressed in his speech at the great Protestant meeting of the 24th of January, 1837,—then Catholics had very little regard fur the sanctity of an oath, that oath being the one taken by Mr. Wyse and Mr. Sheil. He also adduced the in stance of Lord Roden casting the same imputation upon them. Ile alluded to the fact of the Catholic people of Dublin having returned three Protestants and a Presby terian to decide on the franchises of the citizens. They had done everything in their power:to show their confi -deuce in the Protestants, and were they now to be told that Catholic gentlemen were not to be entrusted to fit Qll it jury ? Who wll9le ptaceeding was want to crush the, znin who gained Catholic ,emancipation. He went minutelyinto all the circumstances of the re vision and preparation of the list, which had been denounced as an " atrocious fraud." He trusted that the solicitor for the Crown would 'be made accountable for his conduct—as accountable as the Attorney-General, being a Minister of the Crown, was for his. Mr. SHELL, M.P., was most warmly received, and, when the cheering had subsided, he said it wits not his intention to say more than a very few words upon this occasion, because, ere long, he should have the oppor tunity of adverting, in the House of Commons, to the very conspicuous incidents that had taken place in re ference to the pending trials.—(Cheers.) As he should have that opportunity of meeting his antagonists face to face, he should prefer reserving for that occasion the expression of his feeling—of his indignant feeling— (Cheers)—which these incidents had produced. It was to him a source of very great pride —of nothing had he ever been prouder in all his life—than that he had, been, the first person who had signed his name to the requi sition that bad called them together.—(Cheers.) lie saw that the time had come for making a great popular demonstration of their feeling, and a demonstration of their feeling was also a demonstration of their power. — (Cheers.) The nation was now roused—(Hear, hear) — and roused in a just cause ; the facts were with them ; and his advice was this—to present a memorial to the Queen, and a petition to both Houses of Parlia ment, setting forth these facts with clearness and with method, and without exaggeration.—(Cheers.) Exag geration might be resorted to in a weak and imperkct case ; but here the truths they would have to press on the attention of her Majesty and both Houses of Parlia ment were of such a character that he would venture to reiterate to them his strong advice, and he would add his strenuous entreaty to confine themselves to a statement of the facts of the case which had been so perspicuously stated by the Town Clerk of the city of I)ublin. It had been ascertained that individual Roman Catholics, who were not members of the Repeal Association,, nor sub scribed to its funds, were struck off the jury list. Let that go forth as an ascertained fact. The Times itself; which was strongly opposed to what was called the repeal agitation, had admitted that if a considerable portion (sf the jury list had been suppressed, it was a 'case that de served most serious consideration. That was one fact. There was another fact: it was this. Yesterday, in open Court, Mr. Justice Perrin, at the conclusion of the motion, whilst he declared that he concurred with the rest of his brethren in thinking that, upon legal ground , the Recorder should not be called on to amend, by mandamus, the writ, added that circumstances hat been disclosed which were calculated to awaken deep sus picion.—(Sensation.) He (Mr. Sheil) announced the fact, that it might get publicity. A judge of the land— unimpeached and unimpeachable—a man whose purity of mind corresponded with his talents and erudition— whoeombined great weight of character with the purity of judicial authority, from her Majesty's Court of Queen's Bench announced—made proclamation—that there were grounds for suspicion in those transactions. Let them put that fact in their petition to the Throne. The Right Hon. Gentleman having read the resolution, which was to the effect that sixty-three names of j urors, including a large proportion of Roman Catholics and liberal Protestants having been struck out, offered grounds for more than suspicion that foul dealing had been practised, and that it called loud for Parlia mentary investigation, went on to address the meet ing; and adverting to the statement of Sir Robert Peal, that his chief difficulty was Ireland, said Ireland he will find to be his insuperable impossibility. Sir Robert Peel is embarrassed by seven millions—he is embarrassed by the energy, the fearlessness, and indomitable spirit of your leader, Daniel O'Connell.—(Tremendous cheers, amidst which a cry of " Richard's himself again !") Mr. MAILER (late M.P. for Wexford) seconded the resolution. The meeting was then addressed by Mr. STEELE, and the resolution moved by Mr. Shell was then carried unanimously. Mr. REDINGTON moved the next resolution, in a brief address, in which he said that the Government had at tempted in Ireland what they would not have dared to attempt in Canada, and which they would find they could not attempt here with impunity. He then moved "That a petition be presented to the Queen, praying that her Majesty would be graciously pleased to direct her attention to the conduct of the Irish Government with respect to the State Prosecutions in the circumstances mentioned in the preceding resolution." Mr. V. O'KELLir seconded it, and it was carried unani mously. Mr. MACGILL, one of the deputation from the Catholics of Belfast, then proposed a resolution for a petition to both Houses of Parliament, praying fur an inquiry into the same circumstances. It was seconded by Mr. JOYCE G alway), and carried. Mr. O'Corixi-.m. then came forward, and was received with an enthusiasm almost o verwhelming.—He said some worthy friends had told him that he had no business to attend this meeting ; others said that a meeting of Ca tholies without him, would be the play of Hamlet with the part of Hamlet omitted by particular desire. — (Cheers.) But without listening to either one or the other, he had thought his business to-day was hei e, wherever it might be on Monday. He was one of those who had gained Catholic Emancipation for Ireland, and he did not like to have his job spoiled.—(Laughter.) As far as lie was himself concerned, the Emancipation Act had been repealed.—(Cheers.) The whole Catholic body of Ireland had been insulted by the Government. The, Hon. Gentleman then proceeded to remark with strong feelings upon the recent step taken by the Crown, but, as the mails were made up soon after he commenced his ad dress, we cannot give them. DRURY-LANE THEATRE.—It is many years since there has been so brilliant a season at this establishment as the present one ; and such is the attraction of The Bohemian Girl and the new pantomime of Harlequin King Pepin, that every prospect presents itself of its con tinuation. Benedict 's opera, already in a forward state of preparation, has been retarded, and Charles Kean, who was to have appeared on the Bth inst., does not make his appearance until the 22d. The receipts have realized, we are gives to undErstand, upwards of 2,0001., a-week. ASTLET'S THEATRE.—This elegant theatre has been crowded, night after night, during the representa tion of the Christmas pieces, and the spirited proprietor has yielded to the earnest entreaties of his patrons and friends, and announced his intention of keeping it open for six nights longer. Our holiday friends will feel highly delighted with this arrangement ; for the fun and amus ing representations are so very ludicrous as to draw forth the loudest demonstrations of merriment and applause. The subject of the pantomi me i s taken from Burns' celebrated productioa " Tam O'Shanter," of which we gave a full account at its first production. The enter tainments conclude with the Scenes in the Circle, the performances of Mons. Plege, and the Victories of Murat, of which we have before expressed a favourab!e opinion. The bill of fare is highly attractive. THE Ross-SHIRE RIOTS.—fn the High Court of Justiciary, held at Edinburgh on Wednesday and Thursday, several of the parties implicated in the Ross shire Church riots were tried. Some of them were convicted on evidence, and others pleaded guilty. The principal offender, Ur qu h art, was s entenced to nine months' hay risonment, and th e ot h ers to six months. ST. ANDREW'S.—SI R D AVID BREWSTER. — On Wednesday week, the C omm i ttee a ppointed by the Presbytery for arrangi ng th e case of Sir David Brewster, met in the session-house of the Town Church, to order the serving of the libel agreed to, against Sir David, at last meeting of Presbytery. On the officers arriving at the mansion of the Principal, it appeared that the gentle man had or dered his domestics not to receive any p a p ers comin g from the quarter from which the officers alleged they had proceeded. The officers ac cordingly th rew the do cuments into the mansion of the Hanoverian Knight, and took witnesses that they had duly served it at his dwell ing-house.—Fife Journal. WooLwicn JAN. 11.—Letters have b een received here by-the mail which arrived on Tuesday from Bermuda con veying the intelligence of the entire subsidence of th e medi e fevvr th e re, and of the return to Halifax, Nova Scotia, of cal officers end gentlemen who had kindly tendered their pro fessional services and attentions to the sick and dying during the recent fatal epidemic. Until this information had been furnished, no , more troops were to be sent to that region ; but now that the group of islands has been decla red to be free of the fever, reinforcements will shortly be sent ou t to fill u p the deficiencies occasioned by tbe,ntortality of the disease. The widows and orphans of the non-commissioned officers and men of the Royal Artillery and Royal Sappers and 'Miners, arrived at Southampton, in the Clyde mail-steamer, and reached Woolwich yesterday evening in a waggon. There are nine women and about forty children of the two companies of there two corps at Bermuda thus thrown on the world, without pro tection and support. The sight was a very melancholy one, and excited the deepest sympathy. It is consolatory to know that the Royal Sappers and Miners, in consideration of the deep distress to which the widows and or p h a n s of those w ho served in their corps, have been educed, have entered into a sub'cription for their re lief, and, r being aided by their officers, belonging to the Roy al Engineers , the contribution, which is still increasing, already amo unts to a sum which refints the highest credit on their libera l i t y - THE KE-KO-KA-RI, A NEW DOMEST IC A NIMAL . —M. Audubon, in a lett er of the 20th of June last , written degr ees l ten l o communicates the " disco- very of an animal whic h bids fair to be come not mmiinluestes above N., communicates Port Union, in l a tit u d e 49 only a valuable but a domestic one." He had taken re fuge in a wood during a storm,, and saw two enormous beasts at play, somewhat resembling kangaroos. A com panion shot one of them; the other fled. " The buffalo or mountain elk," says M. Audubon, " is nothing in com parison to this animal in the scale of worth. It sits on its hind legs, its front legs or arms are short, but armed with sharp claws, and it bounds or jumps with its hind legs. It has a tail, somewhat like that of a sheep, about 10 inches long ; and round the middle of the body it has a ring of flesh, about 12 inches wide and eight thick in the middle or centre, which produces a large quantity of oil. On their heads they have ti, o horns very similar to the horns of the deer, but no more than eighteen inches long; the head is also shaped Tory like that of the deer, and has the same kind of teeth ; but what is most remarkable, their coat is of the most beautiful fur I ever beheld, of a dark brown colour. The one we killed weighed, to the best of our calcula tions, upwards of 600 lbs., and it measured from the top of the head to the end of the tail, nine feet - four inches. We had no sooner killed this one, than some Indians joined us ; they said that in these woodlands similar animals were in great abundance. They called it in their tongue the ke-ko-kaki, or jumper ; they feed on grass, herbs, and foliage. Upon observing us take off the skin, the Indians expressed a desire to have some of the flesh, which we gave them. We cooked some, and found it delicious ; it was white and tender, and tasted very similar to veal ; but the ring on the body was nearly all oil, and the whole upper part will produce a great quantity. The "Indiana took us to their huts, or linage, which consisted of six families ; therewe saw no less than six of these animals domesticated. Two young ones, male and female, I bought for some beads."— Mirror. 15, 1844. THE CURRENCY. PAPER MONEY VINDICATED. A certain measure of value is necessary, if we would hold commerce with foreign countries; and the average price of wheat over the Continent of Europe in gold or silver gites that m , a•ure. If three quarters of an ounce of silver be the average value of a bushel of wheat in England, and that quantity be coined into "s. 10id. (at ss. 2d. per ounce), the quarter will be worth 31s. If one ounce of silver be its average equivalent, the price of the quarter will be 41s. 4d. 5 To preserve perfect uniformity of price in gold or silver at all times, on the average of seven or ten years, it should be the duty of Parliament, on any petition to that effect being presented from those who con ceive themselves aggrieved, to ascertain whether the measure had departed from the standard ; that is, whether since the last arrangement more or less silver or gold had become the average nfeutal equivalent of a bushel or a quarter of wheat; and to alter the shilling and the pound sterling in weight accordingly. Unless this be done, a sudden influx of the precious metals might take place, from new discoveries of mines, or from im proved methods of working those in use, which would have the effect, in a few years, of altering the measure of value to so great a degree that fixed sums payable for a long series of years, might not be of half the worth they are at present. How many payments made by public companie s and other corporatebodies, on account of trusts confided to them centuries ago, are reduced to comparatively nothing, from the want of such a committee for the supervision of the coin as that which is proposed ! How many charities have been injured by inattention to this plain duty of Government ! Perhaps nothing has so much contri buted to deter people from making charitable bequests in money, as the thought, that in the lapse of years it will have become of little value. But without taking so wide a range, every landlord who lets a farm or house on lease, and every tenant also who takes either, ought to be protected from such natural increase or diminution in the value of our coin as he finds to be attended with practical loss or inconvenience to himself. From 1287 to 1338 that quantity of silver which is now coined into 38s. Bd. would purchase, on the average a quarter of wheat. From 1339 to 1451, the price of a quarter was 21s. 3d. of our present money. From 1453 to 1560, it took only 103. of the same money to buy a quarter of wheat. During the whole period silver had beeome so enhanced in value that one shilling was worth in the last hundred years as much as three had been in the first hundred years, and as two in the middle period ; so that. in the course of a century he who ontracted at the beginning to pay a certain sum, then called 1001., had to pay at the end what was still called 1001., though it was really worth 2001. From 1561 to 1700 the value of silver decreased in comparison with corn, being on the avertge of that whole period exchangeable in the proportion of 455, against the quarter of wheat, by which the receivers of fixed in come were injured, being paid not quite 25/. in the name of 1001. Under the direction of a " Ccmmittee for the Supervision of Coin," the pound in gold or silver will always represent, or be exchangeable for, an equal quantity of wheat, taking the ave rage of a number of years. Let it be supposed, then, that 31s. or 355. cr 40a. is the true measure of value for a quarter of wheat in England ; as there is no doubt that this sum repre sents the natural value of wheat, it is just and necessary as a measure of value between different nations ' for without this or some such measure they could not adjust the value of their re spective commodities in the common market of the civilised world. But what is just and necessary between the inhabitants cf different countries may not le equally or at all so between the different inhabitants of the same country. Before we can determine whether they are all entitled to be treated as the inhabitants of another State, and paid according to the natural measure of value, we must see whether these are not some cir. eumstances affecting the value of money, applicable to them, and not to the foreigner. They differ from hint in the fact of being liable to a different degree of taxation. Every man is protected in his person and property by the State in which he resides, for which protection he has to pay the State ; and this is evidently a payment which neither ought to be nor can be exacted from the inhabitants of a foreign State by, another Power, but which may reasonably enough be required of the denizens of each particular country. Whether it ought to be so required from them, as to cause any difference in the price of commodities, will depend upon the mode of taxation. Such taxation as falls upon realised property, independent of trade, needs not and will not add to prices. Whatever sums are levied as a tax on land, or on capital in the abstract, as on property in the funds, are directly taken from the parties, and need not add to prices. If the landowner says, " 1 pay all the burdens of the State, and for some of them, at least, I ought to be reimbursed ; it is but fair, therefore, that I should be allowed to demand more rent for my land than before this tax was levied :" the answer would be, " If you increase the rent of your land, the farmer must have an increased price for his corn ; and the manufacturer who consumes it, paying that advanced price, must have an increased price for his pro du:lions. If he gets this by our interdict of foreign goods, except under payment of a certain duty, which is the only way he can get it and keep it, you must pay a higher price for every thing you buy, and the outgoings would, in that case, greatly exceed the additional sum you receive from your increased rent. If we do not protect him from foreign competition, he cannot produce his goods with so much advantage to himself here as abroad, and he will soon transport his manufacture to countries where corn is cheaper, by which means you will lose far more in the end than the tax for which you are contending."—Such taxes then as these, which do not require or necessarily lead to an advance in the price of commodities, may be levied without causing a difference to the individuals of a country in the price paid by them and by those of other countries. But this is not the general character of our taxation. There may be, therefore, other circumstances connected with it which will have an effect on prices, considered with reference to individuals of the same country. 'That there are such circumstances will be clearly , evident, when we consider that our large revenue is nearly all derived from duties on the followiog articles :—Malt, hops, beer, wino, spirits, sugar, tea, coffee, tobacco and snuff, corn, butter, cheese, currants and raisins, cotton, wool, silk, printed goods, hides and skins, paper, soap, candles and tallow, auctions, licenses, coals. glass, timber, bricks, &c. From the taxes laid on these articles, under the head of Customs and Excise, we raise the sum of forty millions annually, and from the Stamps, Assessed Taxes, and Post-office about fourteen millions more, making in the whole about fifty-four millions for the year 1830. All these taxes, or nearly all, are not directly drawn from the parties who are intended ultimately to pay them : they are first paid by the producer or vender, and he charges them, with some profit for his outlay, to the consumer, whence they arc called taxes on consumption. Now how is the producer to charge these taxes to the con sumer, unless he can add them to the natural price ? There is clearly no other way. But if he adds them to the natural price, his commodities will then be so much dearer than the same kind of articles produced on the Continent by all the difference be tween our taxation and that of other countries. The conse quence of this will be, that the Englishman cannot afford to take the same price in the common market of Europe which will compensate men of other countries ; he must have more, or he must lose the extra amount he has paid in taxes. He cannot get more in an open market, and therefore he is shut out altogether ; or he loses the amount of his taxes, in which case, the producer, and not the consumer, pays those taxes which are then erroneously called taxes on consumption. Perhaps you will say," He has got the home market to him self, and in that he gets repaid his tax." If Government were to lay protecting duties on all the above commodities, and the preventive-service men were to exercise a vigilant scrutiny, we might probably succeed in keeping up such a price at home, in general, as would repay him ; but he is at all times liable to be injured in the extent of his trade by the successful issue of smuggling transactions ; to guard against which additional sums of money must be spent, which will render additional taxes necessary. We will suppose, however, that he could be protected from competition with foreigners in the home market, on all articles specially taxed ; what in the next place is to save him from that same competition in all other things? Men who pay taxes on corn, beer, clothing, &c., on everything, in short, which is needful for their support or comfort while engaged in pro ducing the various commodities by the sale of which they live, must charge for everything they produce a price as much higher than the natural price as that taxation which is peculiar to them amounts to. They must therefore be enabled to advance every commodity that can be offered for sale to a higher price than their conti nental rival, or they are not repaid in the same degree that he is. All competition must therefore be guarded against in the home market, in every kind of goods, or the Englishman has not justice done him. As this cannot be done, it follows that with a metallic currency ho cannot escape suffering in the de gree in which he is taxed beyond these persons who are engaged in the production of commodities in other countries. But it will be said that there are some articles which the foreigner produces, and the Englishman cannot pretend to produce, such as wine, brandy, &c., and he is at least not liable to injury here ? 1 fear, however, that this fact also will militate against him. Whatever is imported for sale here ought to be paid for by the export of some other articles. The foreigner has a bill on England for the amount of his wine, which he wants to make the roost of. If he buys English goods with it, lie mnst pay so much more for them, as the taxation adds to natural price. Ile prefers going to a cheaper market, and con sequently receives gold for his bill, with which he can buy more goods in other countries than here. Heavy sacrifices are made by the Englishman to prevent this; and, especially after his gold has been carried away, his price lowers; for he has then to tempt the foreign purchaser, in order to get it back again, by the superior cheapness of our commodities compared with those of less taxed countries. In doing this he loses even more than the taxes which he has paid; and that he loses these is the point which I have been proving. If this representation be true, it will follow that prices in a metallic currency cannot be maintained in England, for a continuance , higher than they are in neighbouring countries, or than natural price warrants. Ity a desperate struggle for life or death, our productive classes have for a long time upheld them, in defiance of every disadvantage under which an unwise Go vernment has compelled them to labour ; but prices still are gradually sinking, and must soon find their true level. For sixteen yearst the productive classes have been paying the greater part of forty millions a year in taxes, which ought not to have been required of them ; taxes which should have fallen al toget her on the consumer ; and they still remain crushed to the earth by this terrible visitation upon them of a burden which they were never intended to bear, nor can bear much longer. Forty millions to be taken every year from the working classes, to compensate for errors in legislation not committed by them, but by their rulers, besides the greater part of 14 millions more for stamps and postages, houses and windows, the whole of which ought to be paid by the rich, or by those Who are above want, ac cording to their respective means, is an impost of such magni tude, to be made without reason on men who are wholly unprepared to meet and unable to bear it, as cannot fail to ex cite feelings, not merely of discontent in those whom it affects, bat of indignation.in every liberal mind. It came suddenly upon the people, and such was their con sternation at the time, such their perpetual harass of mind ever since to be able to stand their ground, that they have not yet had leisure to inquire how, or why, er by whose fault, they are thus overwhelmed with difficulties which thicken as the years roll on. In the interim, they aro told by those public writers and public speakers who profess to be their friends, that all is going on right. " Wait a little longer (they say), and we will get the taxes repealed which oppress you." But if a mistake has been committed, if those taxes ought not to fall upon them at all, why should they wait a day ? Why should they not petition at once that these taxes should be charged as before to the con ' sumers of commodities? If Government will not furnish the ' means of carrying them to their destination by an issue of paper money, they can, at all events, commute them for a pro perty tax, and so relieve the producer. But whatever is done should be done quickly, fir thousands of lives are lost while we hesitate. THE CURRENCY. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN, Dear Sir,—Your Correspondent, Mr. Pedic, has favoured us with an article on the Currency, exhibiting much industry, but, unfortunately, based upon erroneous principles. lie assails a most mischievous institution, but does so upon utterly untena ble grounds. As the error is in principles, more than in details, and, as the latter are voluminous, 1 shall confine myself to one sentence, which is the key to r. Pedie's position. This gentleman, after comparing the average issue of the Bank of England, for the three months ending January, 1841, with the i , .sue in those ending January 1843, and showing that the issue in the latter exceeded that of the former by five mil lions, proceeds thus :—" This expansion of the currency, it is I have stated the natural price of corn in silver or gold thus hypothetically because opinions differ on the subject of its actual eruouut. P This was mitten in 1533• clear, raised the money price of all commodities about 33 per cent. above those at which they s!cod for the three months ending with January 1841." Nov if " all commodities" rose in price, of course land and the Government securities rose likewise. We cannot suppose that a merchant who, dealing in 500 articles, of each of which lie possessed a thousand pounds' worth, found each 1,000/. sud denly raised to 1,330/., could find no alteration in the value of the sum he might have in the Three-and-a-Half per Cents. If corn is at a high price, land becomes more valuable, as the instrument by which corn is produced. If iron doubles in value, an iron mine fetches mere in the market. Now the capital possessed by the inhabitants of this country, if we include the funds, is probably little under :3,500 millions. It may be objected that Consols are not a capital. Assuredly they are not national wealth ; but being in the na ture of a mortgage on the physical and mental energies of Ole population, they become a saleable capital to individuals. Mr. Pedie's proposition, then, taken rigidly, is, that a varia tion of five millions in currency makes an alteration of 1,155 millions in the value of our capital !!—a disproportion between cause and effect with a vengeance 1! ! However, we will deal gently and liberally with the proposi tion, arid assuming a vastly smaller ratio of operation on land and funds than on other commodities, we will take the amount at only a fourth part, say roundly 288 millions—nay, let us throw in the odd 38 millions, and confine ourselves to the neat, compact little sum of 250 millions—and then ask the most desperate and creduleu. of theorists, whether it is pos sible for him to believe that a public company can, by the issue of five millions of notes, raise the value of our capital to the extent of 250 millions!! 1 Mr. Pedie cannot be otherwise than honoured by compari son with a writer whose admirable virtues so well accord with her splendid and powerful talents--I allude to Miss Martineau. That lady, in one of her tales, intended to enforce and illus trate the doctrines of political economy, introduces a bosh of people in Siberia, who established a currency of mouse-skins, and the amiable authoress ( brin g an unflinching - believer in the potent action of a currency) finishes her account of a day's trading thus : " By Ernest's help, and to her own utter astonishment, she" (the lucky original possessor of a mouse's skin, intrinsically worth one farthing) " presently found herself mistress of a perfect pair of pattens of the finest wickerwork, a large packet of tea which had just crossed the frontier, pepper enough to last the winter, and a vigorous young reindeer !! Your readers may possibly smile at this astounding specimen of the length to which a thorough theorist will go ; but as suredly Mr. Pedie beats the lady hollow ! The real truth is, that, with certain moderate allowances and reservations, prices are but little affected by variations in the currency. Effect has been confounded with cause. Irade is not brisk because currency is abundant ; but currency is abun dant because trade is brisk. If the transactions of a country are doubled, its currency must be increased ; if greatly diminished, paper goes back to its issuers. Bankers' issues are naturally governed by the de mand far their goods • they may be occasionally rather too facile in parting with ;heir property, as the wine merchant or draper is, but, as a general rule, the body trust, on the whole, only those who may reasonably be expected to repay them, and who will not borrow, and pay interest ois, more capital than they think they can advantageously employ. The fundamental " original sin," which lies at the base"of all currency theories (of the usual school), is the mystifica•bn about a " standard of value." There is no such standard—if it means something which will always command the same amount of those other things which men consider valuable. Did a pound weight of gold command the same number of pounds weight of iron, sugar, and flour, six months prior and six months subsequent to the battle of Waterloo? A circulating medium of any kind is merely an instrument of exchange—a kind of unit of comparison—a convenience, saving the trouble of barter—and such a convenience will always be created by ilia ingenuity of man. In one State leather, in another iron, in a third shells, in a fourth gold, in a fifth silver, in a sixth parer, has been used. It is a curious fact that the most abstract and philosophical view of the matter is taken by the negroes of Africa, who have an entirely ideal unit of comparii , on, called a " bar," and who exchange so many " bars" of tobacco for so many " bars" of ivory—so many " bars "of gold dust against so many " bars" of rum—so many "bars" of palm oil against so many "bars" of powder, &c. It would be a "consummation devoutly to be wished" if we could ship off our currency theorists to Caffraria. BEIRN I AR D. P. S. The wisest measure, in respect to the currency, would be that suggested (I believe) by some of your correspondents, viz., that Government should issue, by degrees, forty or fiity millions of State notes, receivable in paymtnt of taxes. This would certainly drive in a considerable amount of our present paper (and release much gold for purposes of foreign com merce), but it would make the public independent of banking whims, and do away with all the stuff about " a metallic cur rency"—physically impossible, if even desirable, and not to be desired, were it otherwise. TO THE EDITOR OF 7'HE SUN. Sir,—Since writing my observations on Mr. Pedie's first letter, I have seen, but not had time to peruse his second ; if I find anything requiring further observation I will trouble you with a few lines. I now address you chiefly to notice some observations of " Germanicus" on my last. It is scarcely necessary to say more than that he offers no proof that paper was depreciated, nor even a shadow of argu ment. Supposing we were to concede all he assumes, as to variation of relation between gold and paper, it would not in validate my observation that the change of ratio was occasioned, not by diminished value of paper, but enhanced value of gold (which was in great demand to pay a million of soldiers of dif ferent nations - under arms during the late war). If a banker who issued a hundred thousand pounds worth of notes were required to withdraw *tern when gold was at an ad vanced price, his property might be diminished by the neces sity of buying the gold, but each note, instead of being depre ciated, would (as I have observed in a prior communication) be enhanced, because by its exchange for gold every holder would be put in the command of more sugar, iron, &c., thaa he could have commanded when he took the note. As to Parliament preventing the depreciation of paper, the job would be by no means harder, nor a whit less difficult, than the aame body regulating the quantity of sunshine which should fall on each acre of land in the country. Parliament may enact that a turnip shall be of equal value to a pine-apple —and when after such an enactment we find the holder of a pine-apple exchange it for a turnip, I will concede the whole question of depreciation to " Germanicus."—Always yours, BEIRNIARD. RAILWAY RETURNS. We extract from the Itatlway Magazine the sums re ceived on the principal Railways of Great Britain for the week ending on the day of the month prefixed to each. The return includes the money received for passengers, parcels, carriages, horses, mails, and Incr. ehandize : Week Total. Name of Railway. ended E. s. d. Jan. 6 Birmingham and Derby Junction.... 1,170 17 9 5 Birmingham and Gloucester 6 Brandling Junction .. 690 8 4 5 Chester and Birkenhead .... 350 9 0 7 Dundee and Arbroath .... 248 1 11 6 Edinburgh and Glasg0w... 7 Eastern Counties 6 Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr....... 1,548 4 4 6 Glasgow, Paisley, and Greenock...... 818 5 5 6 Grand J unct ion, and Chester & Crewe 6,218 13 6 6 Great North of England 7 Great Western ...... 10,205 15 4 5 Liverpool and Manchester 4,206 4 3 6 London and Birmingham .. 12,322 12 3 11 London and Blackwell 6 London and Brighton 9 London and Croydon 213 11 81 11 London and Greenwich 6Bl 3 7 7 London and Scuth Western 4,847 18 0 4 Manchester, Bolton, and Bury 9ll 14 7 6 Manchester and Birmingham 6 Manchester & Leeds & Hull & Selby 5,095 6 6 6 Midland Counties.... 7 Newcastle and Carlisle 7 Newcastle and North Shields 299 11 1 Northern arid Eastern — 6 North Midland North Union. 2 Paris and Orleans 3,782 10 7 8 Paris and Rouen ... 2,892 0 0 Preston and Wyre 6 Sheffield and Manchester ........ 669 15 I 11 South Eastern.. 2,248 13 4 Taff Vale.. 7 Ulster.... 6 York and North Midland 1,269 10 2 PRESENTATION OF TILE HUMANE SOCIETY'S MEDAL TO A FRENCH SAILOR•—On Friday a deputation from the Humane Society, consisting of Sir E. Codrington, Captain Codrington, M.P., Mr. Ilawes, M.P., &c., presented to Jean J. Gasvert, a sailor on board the French frigate Cuvier, lying off Blackwall, a silver medal, for having, at the risk of his own life, saved a gentleman of the name of Turner from drowning on Christmas-eve. The gentleman had fallen into the river from Blackwall-pier. H. G. WARD, ESQ., 111. P.—We are rejoiced to learn that our able representative Mr. Ward, in a letter to Afr. Alderman Dunn, has arranged to meet his constituents in Shef field, on Monday, the 22d instant. PREACIIERSIIIP OF LINCOLN'S INN.—On Friday the Rev. J. S. Anderson, M.A., incumbent of Trinity Church, Brighton, and chaplain to the Queen Dowager, was elected Preacher of Lincoln's Inn, vice the Rev. Dr. LonEdale, pro moted to the see of Lichfield. A grand Masonic ball will be given next week in aid of "The Aged Masons' Asylum." The proceeds are set apart entirely for this charitable purpose, and, we have no doubt, the " brethren" will, as usual, show their liberality on the oc casion. ENCROACHMENT OP THE SEA.—In consequence of several falls of the cliff at Black-rock, the eastern extremity of Brighton, the carriage road is considered dangerous, and a new road is now forming, nearly fifty feet more inland, which makes the third road made within the last twenty-five years. One has been completely washed away. and the second is now on the very brink of the cliff. Formerly cricket matches were played by the Brightonians, on a green in front of the Aberga venny Arms Inn, which must now be occupied by the carriage road. FLUENCY or THE FAIR SEX.—Mr Yearsley, speaking of the causes, varieties, &e., of stammering, observes. It is of rare occurrence in the female sex, the proportion of female cases being not more than seven per cent !" Married men, we opine, have long been aware of this " great fact." MANCHESTER UNION HoserrAL.—The Senate of the University of London has recently recognised Cer tificates of Attendance on the Medical Practice and Cli nical Lectures of the Manchester Union Hospital.— .3iedieol Gazette. On the last Sunday in the old year, as the governor of the Bingham Union Poorhouse was escorting the inmates to the parish church, which hits been the custom ever since the formation of the union, a number of the paupers withdrew from the procession, and entered the Primitive Methodist Chapel ; for this breach of discipline, the governor brought them before the magistrates on the 4th instant, when the Bench decided in favour of the paupers, allowing them the privilege to attend what place of worship they thought proper, so as they returned in the proper time to the workhouse. On Sunday last, they embraced the privi lege of attending the Wesleyan chapel in the morning, rudtho Primitive Methodist chapel in the afternoon. — Nottingham Rerior. While fishing for pike in the river 'fill on Thurs day week, John Carr, Esq., of Iledgeley, hooked and killed a fine specimen of sea trout, or Salmo Trutta Marina, weight six and a halt pounds, a circumstance not usual at this season of the year.—. Newcastle Atirerti.ser. THE COMMAND AT TILE Noart.--;- Sir J. Chambers White, K.C.8., Vice-Admiral of the White, is appointed Commander-in-Chief at the Nero. We unders'tand that Captain William F. Martin (1824), son of Admiral Sir By am Martin, G.C.8., is nominated Flag Captain. Sir J, Mitt) 4U heist 145 flag va bard We CanerchTa. STATE OF TRADE. FOREIGN WOOL TRADE, LEEDS, JAN. 1 - 2.. , --TileTe has been a very evident improvement in the demand for foreign wools during the past week, and a firmer tone has in consequence been given to 'prices. ENGLISH WOOL MARKET, LEEDS, JAN. 12.—Sales of combing wools are readily effected, and prices con tinue gradually to advance. Clothing wools are firm, but do not yield higher prices. WA kEriELD WOOL MARKET, JAN. 12.—We have to report a gradual and steady improvement in the demand for all descriptions of combing wools, and, as the market continues to be very barely supplied, the advance demanded last week is now fully obtained. No movement in short wools. LEEDS.—There has been a fair quantity of goods sold at our Cloth Halls this work, considering the time of the year. The principal articles in demand have been plain and fancy Tweeds, and low cloths for export, but fine and middle cloths still continue in very little demand. Prices continue unaltered, al though wool is higher. There are, however, no very heavy stceks, and if there should be a very moderate demand in the sprirg, an advance in price must take place. A few houses are busy in the export trade, but in the warehouses generally there is little doing. BRADFORD MARKET, J. IL—There is a dis position on the part of the merchants to lay in stocks of pieces, seeing that goods are far below the price of the raw material, and the manufacturers refuse to sell except at advanced prices ; knowing that the further increased cost in the production, by the late advances in yarns, will not enable them to meet the - buyers. Scarcely as much business was done as last week. The recently advanced prices for wool have caused the spinners to act with great caution, for many have old contracts at prices very disproportionate to the raw material ; and what sales are now made are chiefly for the home and Delaine trade, the prices of last week being generally realised. There continues to be a full average business doing in all kinds of combing wools, and the rates of last week are fully maintained. Noils and Brokes are more inquired after; the stock being low, higher prices are acceded to. MANCHESTER, THURSDAY EVENING.—We have had rather less animation in our cloth market this week thaii - of late, but this circumstance does not appear to atlect the firmness in the market, as stocks are uni versally low. Most parties (sellers) seem anxious to wait the arrival of another. Indian mail before they enter into fresh arrangements, which they might do at old prices. It is -probable that the temporary and comparative stagnation of trade in,China xvill continue a short time, so that it will require a few weeks to test the reality of the present firmness. The velvet trade is br:sk and likely to continue s o . The silk trade is not so healthy as could be wished : some weavers are out of work, and a few limited as to the quantity produced. Twist is without any de. tided change; the change, however, if any, is favour able, and prices rather firmer. BARNSLEY.—The linen trade continuos steady although the improvement is not so great as it is in many other branches of trade, yet the prospects for the present year are encouraging.—Leeds Mercury. The trial of Mrs. Gilinour, for the murder of her husband, was to take place before the High Court of Justiciary, Edinburgh, on Friday. The Rev. Dr. David Ritchie, for many years minister of St. Andrew's Church, and Professor of Logic in the University of Edinburgh, died on Wednesday at an advanced age. Ile had long been in bad health. DEATH OF MAJOR-GENERAL JOUNSTONE, This gallant officer died on Sunday last. tie was son of Samuel Johnstone, Esq., of Carnsilloch, Dumfriesshire, by the only daughter of the fifth Lord Napier, and brother to the Right lion. Sir A. Johnstone. Ilia commission t f Major-General (local rank) bore date the 28th of June, 1838—the Coronation Brevet. The young , lady who has taken the Neapolitans by the ears, under the cognomen of Farante, is a Miss Ed wards, a pupil of Crivelli, who used to sing at the Aca demy concerts a season or tao buck ; and who belonged to that institution.—Dramatic and Mu,ical Review. Trawl fish have lately been very scarce, but the boats brought in a better supply on Tuesday morning. Gurnets it' particular were very plentiful ; and sprats have been hawked about the town for several days, at the rate of a penny a quart. The mackerel season has com menced. Several of our larger boats have been fishing for some days off Plymouth. Two Hastings boats on Monday took some fine fish, the first 1,300, the other 500, which were sold at 3/. per hundred. In consequence of this, other boats made immediate preparations to depart for the fishing grounds. We heard yesterday that some of our fishermen had be , n successful off Plymouth, and had taken about 4,000 mackerel to the London markets, but that owing to a large supply at the same time from other parts of the coast, they did not realise more than 18s. per hundred.—Brighton Gazette. AMERICAN lioNouß.—The Americans have raised a loan, but it is out of their own pockets. They have beets lending each other money, but it is only to decoy . others to do the same. The accomplices of a thimble-rig proprietor lend money to each other for the purpose of drawing on the by stets:lees to play the game. Such is the iotentien, no doubt, of an American loan, raised out of the pockets of the Americans. If other nations are inclined to trust them, the Yankees will make themselves safe, and then—repudiate. If, by chance, the pea is discovered under the right thimble, the proprietor of the " rig" instantly commences a row, upsets the table, loses the pea. pockets the cash, and, in a word, repudiates. In fact, repudiation is a convenient mode of disposing of sundry email claims ; and as America has tried it on a large scale, we strongly recommend its application to smaller matters—such as tailors' hills, and the claims of one's landlord.—Punch. M. Beranger has written a letter, praying the students of the schools to excuse his proceeding at their head to the ceremony of inaugurating the statue of aloliere on the 15th, as they had requested. "My character, my tastes, and my habits," says M. Beranger, " have always kept nee away from public solemnities, where I should find myself ill at ease and unable to utter a single word." The poet also expresses his regret at having been from home when the students visited him lately, and laments that any collision should have taken place afterwards. The following passage in the letter would seem to intimate that the poet still contames his compositions :—" Persuade those generous young men to leave in his corner—which, thank 'leaven, is not the gloomy corner of the misanthropist—the old philosopher and song-writer, still faithful to his convictions and his sympathies. The dreams which he still makes there will prove, he hopes, to your generation, which will so lug survive him, that to his last moments he was occupied with the happi ness and glory of his country." CROMWELL'S Nosr.—Cromwell's nose became a grand point of attack with the Royalists, in the civil wars of Charles the First, when they failed egainst the " Parliament Men" in the field. One of Saneroft's correspondents is thus humorous upon the topic in a letter, that is preserved in the Bodleian Library :—" One, in a discourse about the L rd's anointed, stuck not to say, he thought. Cromwell the my same.' (This was in 1650.) And shall that oily nose at last go for the Lord's anointed? No, we have better terms to ex. press so much desert by. It is the taints' minimum quoddant na. pirate : a Nol-witlothe-whisp—the Commonwealth's read roe tangere—that which people rather gaze at than delight in, and wherewith they are mastered, like a company of jackdaws in the night at the sight of a torch ; were that quenched, they would be at their nest again. It is Samson's foxes' firebrands, and all beaten together into an intolerable nose—the Devil's breeches turned wrongside upwards, and clapped by mischance to the General's face 1 But flies must not be too bold with the candle for scalding their wings: it is, God knows what ; and do what I can, 1 must leave it the same I found it." This is a tolerably strong philippic against the Oliverian nasal organ ! TIIE LATE REPAIRS AT RIPON CATHEDRAL.—The venerable cathedral at Ripon has, during the last two yea" undergone several repairs. The south-west tower has had its bands, mouldings, window betls, and pilasters, restored ; wad the walls tied together with large iron bars, thus rendering it more fit to sustain the peal of bells which hang therein. The apex of the middle compartment of the west front, down to the string course under the top lights, has also been thoroughly restored, and an early English cross, in good taste, fixed on the point. Groined ceilings ' in the Norman style, have ben added to the transepts' roofs. The whole under the architectural su perintendence of Wm. Railton, Esq., the architect of the Nel son Column.— !'ark Courant. FURTHER REGULATIONS IN TliE CITY POLICIL— In consequence of the numerous robberies which have meetly taken place in the Cite, the Commissioner of Police has lusts tuted an inquiry, which has resulted-in a return of the different periods of the dry in which such robberies have taken place. Most of them, it appears, have occurred during the time of changing the men by " relief," upon which occasion it has been the practice for the men to leave their beats, and march to the stations of their several sections in files. the s chef body following to occupy the places of those who have thus quitted duty. During this time the whole range of ground has been left, and thieves, seeing the opportunity, have burglarieuely en. tercel the premises, and escaped with their booty. To obviate this evil, Superintendent Sperry, of the let (or Moor-lase) division of the City, has received instructions to adopt the fol lowing pin, prior to being generally practited, if it is found to work well, which we understand it has done up to the pre sent time :—lnstead of the men being collected and taken to the station of the district, as heretofore, the man to be relieved is furnished with a ticket by the relief-constable, who receives it from the superintendent at muster. This he gives to the relieving-censtab'e, who returns it immediately to the officer on duty at the station, who receives it as the discharge of the constable from duty. By this simple, suet, as it appears to us, effective arrangement, the whole ground is covered, so that when the full system is in operation, no part of the public pro perty will at any time be left unprotected. The relief will in future, we are informed, be g ranted only three times in twenty four hours—at eight o'clock in the morning, tour in the after noon, and at midnight. FOOT RACES AT LEWISIIAM.—TWO very well con tested fcot.races took place en Thursday near the eight-mile-stone at Lewisham, and gave considerable satisfaction to a very numerous assemblage of the patrons and admirers of pedestrian performances. The first, which was to determine a race before disputed, was between Goldsmith, of Greenwich, and Banks, of the West-end-250 yards, for 20). a side. Both men started well together on the signal being given, and for the first dozen yards there was no lead taken by either party. Banks thee went gradually away from his opponent, and, after a race iu which first-rate speed was exhibited, woe by three yards. The second match was between Parr and Perch, two men who cone tended about a fortnight ago, when a close and doubtful race was the result, which was succeeded by arrangements for the match of yesterday. The distance was 150 yards, the stake 51. a side. A good start, and a smart struggle followed. They were together the whole way, and Perch won by half a yard. Lott s PitturrE's DlENtoar.—On Captain Crowdy, R.N., bring presented to his Majesty at the recepti on at the Tuileries, on Friday last, the King did the gallant officer the honour to say that he always saw with satisfaction a Captain of. the British navy ; Captain Crowdy, in acknowleedgdardg_tall _ compliment, reminded his Royal interlocutor that h e e h_ o _h m ! the honour of conversing take frigate, in the Mediterranean, in lot,Ca pt ai n Wel pole. King," you were First-Lieutenant o sir Charles Dullest with with his MajestLon ho a A r h d 1: n y id l the 1 How is my old shipmate, Admir al of of memory the length of time that haSlllllO ' lering d the momentous events which e l apse d (nearly 40 years), at , tly marked his Majesty's career, so strongly r h e o a p l e ly li r e m is a w r . k e i l.; , San instance ce have subsequen calculated to obliterate minor circumstances from the mind.-- GaJigtgoce jiCidettger!