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!S . ±, THE SITN, 14 , 01q.13019', FRIDAY 1:111NINd JAIIITARY 26, 1844: represent and embody the peculiar spirit of its age. This the Monopolist Association does not do. On the contrary, it is in direct opposition to that spirit; and, as a necessary consequence, must — notwithstanding its exertions—grow weaker and weaker in exact proportion to the progress of en lightened public opinion. When men are groping about In the dark, nothing is more likely than that they should mistake one thing for another—a dwarf for a giant ; but when they come forth into the broad day-light they see things as they really are, divested of all exaggeration, and reduced to their just dimensions'. Now the people are no longer grop ing about in the thick darkness of ignoraoce ; the broad steady light of intelligence has been let in on them, consequently there is not the slightest appre hension that they will mistake the small, trivial circum stance of a monopolist Confederacy for a "great fact" like the League. But, alas, for Sir R.PEEL 1 The agitation of the corn-law bigots, though it has no terrors for the free-traders, will be quite imposing enough to alarm his delicate political sensibilities. He, who is so apt to take fright at phantoms, will be pretty sure to mistake the shadow for the substance; and we should not be at all surprised were he to make another retrogade move towards the monopo lists, on whom last session he had all but brought himself to turn his back. Well, let him do so; it is net one Paar, nor a hundred PIUS, that can stop the triumphant progress of the League ; it moves for ward in spite of him ; and the day is not far distant when we shall see this man of many faces—this ex pounder of solemn plausibilities—dragged an unwilling captive at its chariot wheels. Since the above remarks were written, we have read, with the attention it deserves, an account of the great meeting of the League, which took place at Covent-garden Theatre last night. What a striking contrast does not this meet ing exhibit to those which the monopolists have of late contrived to get together with such difficulty ! In the one case we find earnestness—sincerity— con fidence—and inflexible determination of purpose; in the other, faint-heartedness, scarce hidden beneath the flimsy disguise of noise and bluster— clumsy special pleading, with which conviction has nothing to do, substituted for plain, manly, sound reasoning —and coarse abuse attempted to be palmed off for energetic appeals to the feelings. The League directs its efforts to enlightening the understandings of its audience—the monopolist Confederacy, to the strengthening and confirming of their prejudices. The one states broad, undeniable facts—the other runs riot in the realms of fiction. The one describes things as they are the other, as they are not. Every successive meeting of the League is at tended by enthusiastic crowds—every successive meeting of the Monopolists, by a set of sulky de pendents, to whose intelligence and quick-wittedness we should be sorry to depose on oath at Bow-street. In referring more particularly to the proceedings of the League last night at Covent-garden, we cannot avoid noticing in terms of high praise the admirable speech delivered by Mr. Fox. It was just what such a speech should be—animated—argnmentative—full of lively illustrations drawn from the most obvious and familiar sources happily timed and skilfully adapted to the taste and temper of the audience to whom it was addressed. Mr. Fox, speaking the sentiments of the Leaguers, boldly re pudiated the idea that they entertained any thing like a compromise. They were entitled to a full measure of justice, and they would not be put off with light weight. They were the chosen repre sentatives of the interests of the industrious classes, and for those interests they would struggle through all difficulties, and at all hazards. "The total, the un conditional, the immediate abolition of the corn-laws," observed the speaker, " was what they asked of all. They sought no more—they would take no less, whether from Sir B. Peen on the one side, or from Lord J. Ruesenn on the other." Mr. Ginsois, in the course of a pithy, closely-reasoned address, lashed the Monopolists in such scientific style, and with such evident heartiness as would have drawn bursts of applause from one of Lord CARDIGAN'S drummer-boys ; and Mr. Bourn's . instituted a suc cessful comparison between Sir ROBBRT ruul. and that punctual and dextrous man of figures and ac counts, Mr. Alderman Guam. In point of spirit and energy the mooting was one of the most remarkable that has yet taken place in tho,metropolis. The strength and force . with which the influence of the currency upon the public weal daily grows upon u, has prompted us to redeem our promise of returning to the subject, and we are the more in duced to do so from the perusal of a pamphlet, by Mr. GILLIBRAND HUBBARD, which has just fallen in our way. It is natural to look upon the observations of an official person as possessing more than ordi nary weight, when they refer to the ma tt ers w ith which he i s presumed daily conv ersan t. F or threasonis in w e these pages w e repa t s o be inclined to s t u d y t h e op i n i ons contained with no little respect ; but we must confess that we have seldom been more woefully disappointed than in this instance. Going over a large field, and comprising topics of the most various and extensive importance, and hav ing one definite object in view, we had a right to anticipate straightforward argu ment and logical deduction. The unity of his objects—the demonstration of the necessity and utility of a national bank of issue--g ave hi m an ad mirable opportunity of arriving at it by the clear declaration of premises and the natural deduction of conclusions. The statements of his page of contents would, one would conceive, have helped him mate rially, for it is to all appearance satisfactory enough, but in the course of considering the texts -of his several chapters, he has contrived to mix up so much of ill-arranged thoughts, and sophisticated argument, as to render his conclusions altogether wide of the truth. It is painful to s peak thus severely of, no as it is impossible to f o ll ow t h e author doubt, a well-intended eff ort , and th e more so i n the in the confi ne d space of a newspaper article, and our o b servat i ons must, th pr m ese u n g t h c t as he e, whole of his range therefore, have a genera l bearing, rather than a per son al reference. Huma=n appears, with all the advocates for a metallic currency, to entertain a confused notion of the nature of money. He has been so much accus tomed to the sight of bank-notes and sovereigns that he' has learned to consider nothing really of value until it has been converted into these representatives of value, not being satisfied with a bank-note itself, indeed, except insomuch as, he has a certainty of turn ing. it into sovereigns, thus, at all times, possessing thqe power of putting what he conceives to be of in trimic value into his pocket. He forgets that gold itself is but so much shining trash, except in so far as it can be exchanged for commodities, which, as they conduce to physical comfort, or mental elevation, can alone possess the value he desires. Every grain [ of .corn that tends to the bodily sustenance, and every yard of cloth that covers from the cold, possesses an in . trinsic ; value and a piece of printed paper, impressed with an authority possessing the power, legal through enactment, and moral from position, of rendering it available to the community at large, becomes as ser viceable in the purchase of commodities, as the brightest sovereign that evens eoin — nay, in finitely more serviceable—as it is free from the con tingency to which gold, as the circulating medium between nation and nation, is liable, of being at any time withdrawn from the country, by the operations of trade ; while it possesses, moreover, the additional advantage of accommodating itself with less incon venience to the various requirements of the social public. The great evil occasioned by the advocates of a metallic currency, consists in their promotion of the notion that gold is of more service as a currency, be cause it possesses, as they conceives an intrinsic value, not recollecting that the currency of the social system, is, like the vital fluid in the corporal system, only the medium through which the means of nutriment is conveyed to the whole body politic, and that through the very scantiness of the mass, and through its great liability to waste by depletion, either from abrasion and loss at home, or from draughts for abroad, utterly insufficient for the purposes for which it is designed. The very circuanstance of gold being of exchangeable value gives it a double cha racter, and consequently renders it a cause of dis turbance in the internal circulation. 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OUT DELAY, to HEINE BROTHERS, at HAMBURGH, Cr. to HEINE BROTHERS, at LUBECK. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. THIS EVENING, JANUARY 26, Will be performed Shakspeare's Play (as altered by Cibber) of RICHARD 111. Richard, Duke of Gloster, Mr. Charles Kean; Duke of Buckingham, Mr. Cooper ; Duke of Norfolk, Mr. G. Horncastle; Earl of Richmond, Mr. Hudson ; Elizabeth, Mrs. Warner; Duchess of York, Mrs. Selby; Lady Anne, Mrs. St rling. . After 'which, will be repeated a N'ir;v Grind Cemic Christmas Pantomime. entitled HARLEQUIN AND KING PEPIN ; or, VALENTINE AND ORSON. Harlequin, Mr. Howell; Colum. bine, Mis , . Carson; Clown, Mc I'. Ridgway; Pantaloon, Mr. Blanchard. Dress Boxes 75., Second Price 3s. 6d. ; Upper Circles of Boxes Is., Second Price 95.; Pit 3s, Second Price !kr.; Middle l'allery es., Second Price Is.; Upper Gallery Is., Second Price tid. THEATRE ROYAL. COVENT-GARDEN. M. JULLIk.N S CONCERTS, THIS EVENING, JANUARY 96, PROGRAMME FUR THIS EVENING—PART I. Overture, Oberon—Weber. New Quadrille, entitled the Toy Quadrille, with Solo by Master Thirlwall—Jellien. Locke's celebrated Music to Macbeth, with Solos for Ophieleide, Bassoon, and Oboe, by Messrs. Prospere, Baumann ,and Barret— Locke. Vale., Le Bouquet Royal—Jullien. Bassoon. M. Baumann. The English Quadrille—Julllen. PART IL Grand Symphony, The Last Judgment—Roch Albert. Duet, Lo, here the gentle lark (arranged for the Pluto and Clarionet), performed by Mr. Richardson and Mr. Lazarus—Bishop. New Quadrille , The Irish Echos—Jullien. Sole, Violin, Master Thirlwall. Valse, The Wreath of Roses—Jullien. Burletta Quadrille, entitled Dancing for the Doors Open at Hall-past Seven, commence at Eight e'Clock. Promenade, Is Upper Boxes, Is. • Dress Circle, 2s. ; Pnvate Boxes, I/. Is. Tickets to be obtained at the Box-odiee of the Theatre; of Mr. Mitchell, Old Bond-street; Mr. Andrews, New Bond-street; Mr. Same St. James's-street; and M. Jullien's Office, 3, Maddox-street, Bond.street. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Mut. BENJAMIN WEBSTER. LESSER RE-ENGAGEMENT OF PROFESSOR RISLEY AND HIS INFANT SON. THIS EVENING, JANUARY 213, Will be repeated the Comedy of THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR. Sir John Falstaff; Mr. Strickland; Master Slender, Mr. C. Mathews; Mr. Ford, Mr. Stuart; Mr. Page, Mr. Howe; Fenton, Mr. Caulfield; Sir Hugh Evans, Mr. Webster; Mrs. Page, Madame Vestris ; Mrs. Ford, Mrs. Ni.,bett; Mrs. Quickly, Mrs. Glover; Anne Page, Miss Mattley. After which, the Unparalleled *Performances of Professor RISLEY and his SONS. To conelede with a Neer Fairy Extravaganza, entitled THE FAIR ONE WITH THE GOLDEN LOCKS! King Llchrymoso, Mr. J. Bland; Prince Graceful, Miss P. Horton ; Queen Lueidora, Miss Julia Bennett. Orchestra Stalls, ss. ; Boxes, ss. ; Pit, Ss. ; Gallery. 2e.; Upper liallery. Is. Half.price—Boxes3s.; Pit 25.; Gallery, Is. ; Upper Gallery, fid. Doors opened at Half.past Six, and the Performances commence at Seven. Tickets and Places to be had of Mr L T. Archer, at the Box'. Once, from Ten till Five. THEAIRE ROYAL HAYMARKET. POSITIVELY THE LAST NIGHT BUT ONE OF PRO- FESSOR RISLEY AND HIS INFANT SONS. Unprecedented success attending the revival of " The Merry Wives of Windsor," which will b" acted every evening till further notice, thus cast :—Sir John Falstaff. lit Strickland ; Slender. Mr. Charles Mathews; Evans, Mr. Webster; Ford, Mr. Stuart ; Page, Mr. Howe; Caius, Mr. J: Bland ; Pistol, Mr. Brindal; Mrs. Page, Madame Vestris; Mrs. Ford, Mrs. Nisbett ; Dame Quickly, Mrs. Glover. By special request of many families of distinction, and In consequence of the numerous disappointments, arising trona the nightly overflows, of witnessing the extraordinary and unique Per. formaaoes of Professor Risley and his Infant Son. Master John " The Little Wonder," they have been induced to forego their Provincial Engagements, and remain for positively Three Nights only, of gearing every evening this week Master H. Risley (only four years old) will make his second and third appearances To-night, and I o-morrow, and go through a Series of Performanooe, in con junction with his Father and Blether, unparalleled for elegance and fearless daring. I. T. ARCHER, Box-book Keeper. THEATRIC ROYAL, ADELFHT. The Best Pe itornime of the livesen—Gorgeous Scenery. THIS EVENING, JANUARY 93, The Now Drama, embracing Extracndinary Enacts, Powerful Cast, and Novul Scenic Display, called THE BOHEMIANS; or, The Rogues or Paris. Principal Characters by Messrs. Lyon, O. Smith, Wright, Wieland, Maynard, Mrs. Yates, Mies E. St.inley, Mrs. F. Matthews. After wliieh a New Gri r nd Christmas Pantomime, called HAIL LEQUIN BLUE BEARD, or, The Fairy of the Silver Crescent. Produced with Enormous Splendour and Wonderful Meets! Columbine, Miss Buller' • Harlequin Quicksilver, by the inimitable Wieland ; Clown, by the Grimaldi of the day, Mr. T. Matthews from the Theatres Royal, Covent-garden and Drury-lane; Pante.: loon, Mr. Johnstone. __ _ Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 2i. ; Gallery, Ix ; Second price at Nine. Dooms open at Six, commences at a Quarter before Seven o'Clock. PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD.STREET. LESSEE, Mr. J. 14. MADDOX. :THIS EVENING, JANUARY 26, Will be presented for the fifth time at this- theatre, the grand opera of the MAID OF JUDAH. Ivanhoe, Mr. Wood; Friar Fuck, Mr. Paul Bedford ; Rebecca, Mrs. Wood. To conclude with the New Musical Burlesque Spectacle, entitled THE MAOIC MIRROR. Sing-Song, Mrs. H. P. tirattau; Poo. Poo, Mr. Paul Redford ; Sloe.Leat, Miss R. Isaacs. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE 01 ARTS. Under the Management of Mr. Batty, Proprietor. Triumphant Success of the Equestrian Novelties and Pantomime, THREE GRAND NATIONAL HOLIDAY CLOSING FETES. The succession of crowded houses and increased demands for Places at the Box-ol ce, compels the Proprietor to announce that this Popular Establishment will remain Open a few Nights longer; and, by at ecial desire, and in concurrence with the wishes of Asttey's Patrons, according to annual custom, for a series of British National Fetes, peurtraying. the Victories of England's Hero— Wellington, with all its Military Effects, New Dresses Scenery, aad Appew tyrants, THIS EVENING, JANUARY 26, Will be performed the Grand National Spectacle of THE BATTLE OF WATERLOO. Napoleon Buonap'irte, Mr. Gomersal, his °si gnal character. New Scenes in the Circle. To conclude with the Pantomime of HARLEQUIN TAM O'SHANTER. Acting and Stage Manager, Mr. W. D. Broadfoot, Stalls. 541.; Boxes, 41.; Upper Boxes, 35.; Fit, 2s. ; Gallery, Is.; Upper Gallery. liox-othce open daily from Ten till Four. Stags Boxes, One Glints ; Half.price to Ditto, Halt-a-Guinea. Private Boxes, Twe -ineas; Half-price to Ditto, One Guinea. Half-price. Half-past DAYIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEAIRE. As usual, the funniest and most successful Pantomime. THIS EVENING, JANUARY 26, Will be repeated a New Drams, entitled STELLA RITTERS.. DORF. Sup, oited by Messrs. Saville. Hughes, Hicks, It. Honnor. Nevil..e, Vase, Smith, Johnson, Lewis, estop, Mrs. R. Hoosier, Mrs. Daly. Mrs. Hughes, Miss Terrey, and Mrs. H. Vining. After which an entirely new Grand Comic Pantominse, with Si4endid Scenery, Superb Dresses, Illimitable Properties and Tricks, every thing new and of the most costly description, HARLEQUIN GctA M MAR, or, Lindley Murray,and AEI 0 U. H ar l equ i n, M r . W. H Harvey ; Grotersjue, Mr. Stilt; Clown, Mr. Fuller; Pants. loon, Mr. flaweins ; Columbines (alternately) Mlss M. FL Fair. brAiier and Miss Sharpe. Places and Private Boxes to be had of Mr. Kerschner. at the Box.. a lice, from Eleven to Four. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. THIS EVENING, JANUARY 26, Will be performed an entirely New Domestic Drama, entitlc4 POVERTY; or, Mary Graham. Leonard, Mr. Freer; Jessarny Tacit, Mr. Wants; Squire Graham, Mr. Dale; Patty Parrot, Miss Arden ; Mary Graham, Miss Vincent. After which NATURE ANt) ART. In which Miss Vincent will sustain her Five Original Characters. To conclude with lIA It LEQU IN LINCOLN LUCKY OF LAM_ tiETH ; or, The Three Sisters of Witch Willow Dell. Harlequin, Mr. Chapin° ; Clown, Mr. Scarbrow ; Pantaloon, Mr. Morelli; Columbine, Miss M. Schmidt THE WEATIIEIt.---,-Subi OFFICE, JAN. 26. TLIERAOMF.TER, Lowest, 37 ; Highs St, 43 Noon, 42. BAnoMETER, 30.35.—W1ND, S.W. NcrrE.—The ntunber 32 on the Thermometer denotes he freezing point, and 55 temperate. In Barometers 'zit is usually placed opposite 30, and rain at 29. 1141 WATER Al It/NOOK-BRIDGE THIS DAY. Pimping ... 46 minutes after 5.1 Evening .. 12 minutes after 6. - • --• • 1 . . , t - , 94b, • .• .Ire Nit As a: t1A11117(7.7,4 • 4-. 4 7 +v. it4for SECOND EDITION. i v , kitain.,l,l LONDON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 26, 1844. The proceedings in the Court of Queen's Bench, Dublin, on Wednesday, commenced at the usual hour. The first witness examined was a con stable of the name of HALEY. He stated he attended the Mullaghmast meeting, at which he purchased a paper purporting to be " a full and true account of the bloody massacre of four hundred Roman Catholics at M ullaghmast," and also that he saw a banner flying at the front of the platform inscribed with the words—" Ireland dragged at the tail of another nation." On his cross-examination the witness, not withstanding the frowns of the Attorney-General, persisted in swearing that those were the words, and not " a country containing a population of nine millions, Mr. Lennie discharged the prisoner, ae it did not appear • tamale had authorised the boy s t o r id e th e h orse . Still, i f it too great to be dragged at the tail of any other :ad been proved to hie satisfaction that the prisoner bad g al- nation," which really was the inscription. aped the horse furio us ly i n t h e s t reet, h e would have fined ; " — IFEITJanz and Mr. MOICAIIAN, on the part of eeavily.—ble was then discharged. the traversers, objected to the paper mentioned by the witness being read in evidence, inasmuch as it was not proved to have been printed by the printer of the Association, nor with the authority and con sent of the traversers. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL contended that such proof was not necessary, and that the fact of its having been distributed in the presence of the tra versers, and therefore with their knowledge ;Ind con sent, rendered it admissible evidence. The document was admitted. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL then applied to put in evidence that portion of the speech of her MAJESTY on the prorogation of Parliament, referring to Ire land, and expressing her determination to maintain the Union. Mr. Mown objected to this course, but the speech was admitted by the Court, on the ground alleged by the Crown lawyers, that it had been commented on in several speeches of Mr. O'CoNximi., which formed the subject matter of the indictment. The speech, or rather the extract from it, was read from the London Gazette of August 25. JAMES Inwirr, station-house clerk of police at Liver pool, was the next witness examined. He proved the posting of a placard in that town, containing the " Address to all the Subjects of the British Crown." C. Vsnworr, registrar of newspapers, proved the registraoon of the Pilot, Nation, and Freeman's Jour nal newspapers, by Mr. BARRRIT, Mr. DUFFY, end Drs. GRAY and ATKINSON, as the respective proprie tors of each. The conclusion of the day's proceedings consisted of law arguments on both sides as to the admissibi lity or rejection of certain extracts from the Nation newspaper. We add the following extract from a letter written by one of our Dublin correspondents :—" The evi dence for the Crown is expected to close on Thursday There was a report that the traversers would not pro duce any evidence, the peaceable character of the meetings being established by every witness called by the Crown, but it now appears it is their in tention to call evidence, and particularly Protestant evidence, to prove the perfect repose of the country, and the peaceable character of the agitation. Not a point is raised by the Counsel for the traversers which is not ruled against them by the majority of the Bench. Mr. Justice BURTON, who is not likely to sit again during these trials, was cer tainly disposed to decide according to law, and there was at least an absence of bad feeling on his part. His illness is a loss to the traversers. The contrast between those he left behind on the Bench is now more prominent. The " sliding scale" is gone, and the Chief and his left hand brother are left to rule or overrule as they please. With regard to the jury, the opinion becomes more general that they will prove " good men and true," on one side, though gentlemen of Conservative principles offer bets that the jury will not agree. Whatever be the result, the cause of Repeal will be strengthened." We would give no small trifle, to know what report Lord ELIOT, when he arrived in London on Wednes day morning from Dublin, made to his chiefs as to the state of Ireland. He, no doubt, reported that, thanks to the care taken by that most excellent Crown officer, Mr. Attorney-General SMITH, the traversers now en their trial had bean deprived of all privileges, and been put on their defence with as little chance for themselves as possible. That, thanks to those exemplary functionaries the parties con cerned in making out a fair jury list, nearly one tenth of the entire number had been suppressed, and thus, the traversers had been confined to a panel con cocted by those gentry. That, thanks to those who now administer justice to Ireland, every Roman Catholic had been struck from the panel, and that none but Orangemen and Tories had been left on the jary. That, thanks to the Judges, every point raised in favour of the traversers, had been ruled against them. That, although the evidence for the prosecution had signally failed, that circumstance would do no good to the traversers, and that conviction was, at the mo ment Lord ELIOT left Dublin, believed to be certain, and that so far the ends of the Government were attained. Fancy, Lord ELIOT grasping the hand of Sir JAM' GRAHAM, or Sir ROBERT BERL, and exclaiming— " Thu far into the bowala of the land Hare we toarshed oa without naludiataat." And, after the first burst of enthusiasm had subsided, picture the wily Premier coolly asking his overjoyed Secretary, well, what then " Aye, there's the rub!" What then ? O'CoNxism, convicted-^a verdict for the Crown— after a prosecution concocted and got up in such a manner—before a jury so selected—and after such proceedings in Court and out of Court! Will any living creature tell us, what the Crown can do with such a verdict—of what earthly use it will be to the prosecutors—and how it will serve the purposes they profess to have in view—namely, the putting down of the Repeal agitation. We tell them such a verdict as they hope and seek, such a verdict as they be lieve they have ensured, will be utterly useless to them. It will be vox et preterea nihil, or, as an Irish Latinist translated it, all moonshine, to the accused, but death to the prosecutors. The public like justice purely administered—they respect the laws dispensed legally, and for legal ob jects; but they despise justice turned inside out— bearing the name, but not the substance—dispensed without regard to the statute book, and rendered subservient to the worst passions of tyrants, rene gades, and persecutors. The conviction of O'CoxNELL will be destruction to the present Government. Its temporary triumph will be the forerunner of its complete disgrace. And what if the Jury should do their duty We palm for a reply. It may be remembered that when Sir EDWARD COVRINGTON went out to take the command of the Mediterranean fleet, just previous to the "untoward" victory of Navarino, he was reported to have received his instructions in these words, "Go it, Nan 1" Parodying the pithy language of these instructions, we may say to the monopolists, who are now begin ning to stir in all quarters, "Go it, Neddies," though we have not the slightest apprehension that another " untoward" victory will be *e con sequence of their _display of newly-awakened energy. The truth is, they have stirred too late for any efficient purpose. They should have enlisted their recruits, collected their resources, and taken the field months since, when the League was less able to cope with them to advantage than it is at present. They should have torn up the tree by the roots when it was a mere weakly sapling, and not have waited till it had become a lusty, deep rooted, matured oak, capable of resisting the strongest hurricane that hatred, self-interest, and desperation may let loose against it. The monopolists, we repeat, are - too late with their displ:;y of energy. The industrious classes have rallied and combined against them; and even in the agricul tural districts—so many years their strong-hold— men's opinions are seriously divided, and the League can already number its converts by hundreds. Yet the monopolists do not seem to be aware of their true position, or else, from politic motives, they are keep. ing it concealed from each other ; for they are at work at Warwick, Spalding, Buckingham, and Heaven knows how many other places, expostulat ing—vilifying—sophisticating--and pouring forth twaddle and fustian with a profusion that bids defi ance to exhaustion. The Post, meanwhile—the hitherto pensive, but now frisky and rejoicing Poet— cheers them On in language of congenial beauty, and riotously allude& yesterday to " large funds" at their disposal—funds which are yet in embryo, and which, we greatly fear, are never destined to chip the egg-shell. Go on, gentlemen of the monopoly persuasion—go on, we say, "fast and furious"—uplift your oriflamme, and rally your clodpoles under that august banner — declaim "a whole hour by Shrewsbury clock" to every mob you can induce to listen to you—mesmerise all Bucks, and rouse all Lincoln to duck Mr. COBDEN in one of those sleepy, stagnant ditches, which presume to call themselves rivers—draw forth from the shy depths of your reluctant breeches pockets subscriptions that shall show you are at length in earnest—do all this and more ; and when all is done, you shall still have reaped no solid ad vantage-4n no respect have strengthened your position—but continue on the same precarious footing as that on which you now stand. To struggle with any chance of success, a confederacy must strictly with whom commercial dealings occur, and whose taxation is not a third, perhaps not a fourth, of the imposts of our own Government, and would just in that proportion render our trade, home as well as foreign, more advantageous to others than ourselves. How taxation affects prices is well intimated in the admirable definition given of money in the " Catechism of the Currency," published some years since. It is there stated that "Money is a token of value of certain nominal amount, issued by Government in return for value received, and payable into the Exchequer in taxes, whence it becomes, of necessity, a general legaltender." In the "Essay on Money" this is happily explained, and the origin of the authorised currency stated in the issue of the Exchequer tallies. The reality of the addition to prices, caused by the imposition of taxes, is still more evident in the different effects produced on articles of use by direct and indirect taxation. If the maker of any particular article has been accustomed to dispose of it for 205., and he suddenly finds a tax of ss. put upon it, he must, of course, not only add the same ss. to the price, in order to reap the same reward for his labour as he did before, but also some thing additional, in order to provide himself with the means for conducting his business, and pay him for the increased capital employed in it. This increase and this payment is forced by the State, which imposes the taxes, in its promises to pay, issued fcr the articles Which its ne cessity demands. Now, so long as these promises to pay can be rendered available to the general ad vantage through a medium by which no loss is in curred, so long the country is benefited by the greater consumption of its commodities ; but the moment a medium is employed, which possesses a different value, and which has always a great tendency to appreciation, and little or no tendency to depreciation, that moment the monetary affairs of the country begin to be deranged, and just in proportion to the introduction of such a medium will the great body of the people, who are producers, and who have little opportunity of retaining much, or any of it, be impoverished. The wealthy will obtain the power to oppress the poor; capital will accumulate in few hands; and a condition of apparent affluence will only cover an inconceivable amount of misery, poverty, and distress. The attempt, therefore, to retain a high taxation with a metallic currency, which has always a ten dency to establish natural prices, is neither more nor less than obliging the productive portion of the people to pay all the imposts out of their labour ; leaving the rich to acquire, day by day, fresh power, to occasion a series of oscillations in the circulating medium, the slightest vibration of which twinges the heart strings of him whose little may in a moment become a nullity. It was apparently the oversight of this principle which occasioned the monstrous mischief wrought by Sir ROBERT PEEL in carrying out Mr. Hus aissoiq's principles of the currency. By the re-esta blishment of a metallic monetary standard, he at once knocked off the taxation-addition from all the commercial produce of the country, while he failed to reduce the taxation by which those prices had been enhanced. Gold became the governing medium, and contracted the circulation, according to its natural habitude. The people have to pay high prices with little money, and the consequence is, that the taxes have since been paid in the goods, and con sequently by the labour of the producers of the goods, instead of in the money of the State. How terribly this has acted will be evident by an inspection of the following table of the proportion of taxation and prices before, through, and after the war ; and a greater indication of national loss, and therefore of individual misfortune, could not well have been de vised. We extract from a valuable pamphlet, enti tled the " Monetary Policy of England and America." " Let us take the average rate of prices at certain successive periods, as they are shown in centessimal parts, in a very useful set of Tables of Currency, Taxation, and Prices, for fifty-four years, commenc ing in the year 1784 and ending in 1837. In this work the exact prices of eighty-eight different arti cles ofproduce are stated, independent of any particular duties levied on each. The eighty-eight articles of produce collectively are thus expressed as to relative prices, free of duty, at the following periods, in centessimal parts. 1784 to 1790 lO- O to 1797 l2l 1798 to 1804 149 1805 to 1811 175 Say pence, shillings, or 1812 to 1818 lBO pounds sterling. 1819 to 1825.. 126 1 1826 to 1832.. lO5 1833 to 1837 lO5. "To the fairness of this statement nothing can be objected; but it may be urged that, as the taxes (ex clusive of property and income-tax) produced in 1805 to 1818, the sum of fifty-two millions per annum, and the amount now is but forty-eight millions, a reduction in proportion should be made in prices for the same period. Let us, then, take off one-thirteenth (being- the difference) from 175, and it will leave 162 as the average comparative sum re ceived by producers in 1805 to 1818, for those com modities which they now sell for 105. It requires, therefore, an addition of 56 per cent. to our present prices to return producers the fair amount of their taxes—to place them in the same relative position as to taxation which they stood in from 1784 to 1790, before the war commenced—from 1791 to 1797, before the Restriction Act was passed—and from 1805 to 1818, when taxation and prices were at the highest. To this extent are they injured by the return to cash payments under our present amount of annual taxa tion." In tho eighty-eight articles alluded to are comprised all most necessary for commercial opera tions and social comfort. We think there could not have been more convincing evidence given of the anomalous and injurious state of our currency than this. Alone, it is enough to awaken every man who has a business to conduct or a family to provide for to active exertion to correct the evil ; but there is an almost interminable abundance of testimony equally strong to show the folly that must be evinced, and the ruin that must attend upon a metallic stan dard under our national circumstances. To Mr. Hunnkun's notions respecting currency we will return smother day. the Three per Cents. closed in Paris at 82f. 30e.; the Five per Cents. at 124 f. 65e.; Orloans Railroad shares at 860 f. ; Rouen, 840 f.; Avignon, 697 f. 50e. BOURSE—PAms, WEDNESDAY, J.N. 24. First Highest Lowest Last Price. Prier. Price. Price. French Five per Cents. 124 65... 124 65... 124 50 .. 124 55 Four per Cents 106 ... 106 106 ... 106 Threes B2 45... 82 45... 82 10.. 82 10 Bank of France. 3270 ...3272 60 ..3270 ...3270 Laffitte Bank 5,000f...5070 _5070 —.5070 ...5070 Belgian Bank ..... 690 ... 690 ... 690 ... 690 Belgian Fives ... lO7 ... 107 107 107 1840 lO9 ... 109 ... 108 108; 1842 ll O... 110 ... 109; 1091 Dutch 2/ per C e nt s 551 ... 551 ... 55i ... 551 Spanish Passive Portuguese Fives ... 461 ... 461 ... 466 ... 461 Neapolitan .?oraan ...... 1153 ... 10.5} .. 1053 ... 1053 RAILWAY SHARES. St. Germain B9O ... 830 830 ... 830 Versaiiles, R.li 340 .. 340 ... 338 75... 338 75 L. 8... 167 50... 170 ... 167 50... 170 Rouen Rouen to Havre 662 50... 662 50... 662 50... 662 50 Orleans. Strasburg to Bale 280 ... 230 ... 227 50... 230 Avignon to Marseilles 700 .•. 700 .. 697 50... 697 50 RAILWAY SHARES, FOR THE ACCOUNT. St. Germain B3O ... e3O 825 .. 825 Versailles, R. 13 338 75... 338 75... 331 75... 338 75 L. 8... , 172 50. 172 50... 168 75... 172 50 Rouen Orleans B6O ... 860 855 ... 880 Strasburg to Bale. 220 ... 230 ... 227 50... 230 Avignon to Alarseil:es 700 ... 700 ... 697 50 .. 697 50 We have not been unobservant of the struggles mole to captivate the public, particularly that part of it locally interested, by the three rival lines ;of railway to Epsom'; nor have we failed to note,'its the opening of Parliament approaches, the relative merits of each are brought uut in colours; made brighter by the dark sha dows thrown around its competitors. Two of these lines have the connexion of Epsom with the metropolis for their sole object, and their comparative merits are estimated by the probable utility of a West-end, or City terminus, for the good people of Epsom ; but the third, the Middlesex and Surrey Grand Junction, com prehends a much more extended field of action and utility by uniting, by an apparently direct and easy transit, the great Northern, Western, and Southern lines of communication, and affording in its progress, to Epsom amongst other places, not only the means of access to London by railway, but, by a continuous line, to every other part of England. When so much private interest is exerted to promote its own favourite scheme, the public must think for itself, keeping in ♦iew the axiom that the undertaking which gives the greatest amount of public convenience and usefulness, is that which will yield the surest return to the investing share holder. THE AFFAIRS OF SINDE. - We have merely time to call attention to the fol lowing important communication relative to Sinde, made by Lord ELLENEOROUGH to the Secret Com mittee on the affairs of India. It leaves no doubt— and this view we have always taken of the subject —that Sir CHARLES NAPIER had no choice, and was compelled in self-defence to occupy the country. The document was laid before the meeting of Proprietors held at the India-house, this day : TO THE GOVERNOR OF THE SECRET COM. IkIITTEE. Palace of Agra, March 13, 1843. Although it was my anxious desire that a fuel and statisfac tory settlement should be made with the Maws of Sinde, without a recurrence to arms, I cannot but feel that the victory of the 17th February has placed us in a position which will be ultimately mere advantageous than that I had endeavoured to secure by pacific treaty. In the occupution of Kurachee and the island of Bukkur, and of both the adjacent towns of Sukkur and Roree, with armed steamers upon the Indus, and the means, during seven or eight months of the year, of rapidly reinforcing the troops at those stations from Bonib” , and Feroeepore respectively, w• should have held a position which would have practically pro tected the navigation, and have given us military possession of the Lower Indus ; still it was impossible to depend upon the continued observance of treaties by the Ameers, notwithstand ing their release under the new teaty proposed to them from pecuniary payments, the never-failing source of bitterness of feeling and of dispute. Delusion, as to the circumstances under which we retired from Affghanistan, and ignorance of our real strength, which they never experienced, would have induced a brave and bar barous people of plunderers to avail themselves of the first oc casion in which we might be involved in difficulties to endea vour to throw al engagements, which they entered into with reluctance, to compel our ret.rement from the Indus. The war, which could not be for ever avoided, would have been forced upon us at the most inconvenient time, and night have produced a serious diversion of our force when we most needed it. • Fortunately, the treachery of the Ameere, and the overween ing confidence, and the reckless vic)lenee of the BelnJoclueeo, have brought on a crisis at the period at which we could with least embarrassment encounter it, and the result has bean the most decisive victory gained on the best fought field. Sir Charles Napier had my instructions more than three months before the battle of Meanee. He was during all that period at the head of a preponderating force; but acting with extreme forbearance, in the true spirit of a generous soldier, he earnestly endeavoured to effect the objects of the Government without using the military means at his dispoeal. The firmness of the language he adopted, and the energy of hie measures, were best calculated to control a barbarous Durbar, and hail the Ameere been entirely mastera of their own troops, it seems to be doubtful, even now, whether he would net have affected his purpose, and tarried the treaty into execution without actual hostilities. The events which have occurred, give to S.r Charles Napier the peculiar glory which attends the most decisive success in war, obtained in the prosecution of measures, which bad for their object the preservation of peace. MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE-FRIDAY. W. have received about an average time-of-year supply of English wheat np to our Market since Alonday, yet the show of samples was trifling. The finest parcels found buyers, at full quo.. tations ; but, in other kinds, exceedingly little was doing. The transactions in Foreign Wheat were wholly retail, at previous sates. The supply •f Barley was not larger. Superfine malt ing parcels were quite as dear k but grinding and distilling sorts had a downward tendency. The quantity of Malt on show was small, yet the transactions in it ware trilling, at late rat es . 'I here was a large supply of Irish Oats en offer, which kept the Market in a dull state, )et prices were net lower. Other Grain as on Monday. ARRIVALS. Wheat. Barley. Oats. , P lour English 4,380 qrs. I 5,050 qrs. 485 i) qrs . 8,1410 sacks. Irish — 9,910 $.. , 4.21i i Foreign . 1,9'20 I ,cBO .-..--. I Malt, 7,670 qrs. SIVEXTEWIZI.D. _ . _ Although our market was very scantily supplied with Beasts, the; demand for that description of stock was extremely dull. However, the primest Sew; found buyers, at prices about equal to those obtained on Monday, but the value of other breeds suffered a depression of 2d per Blbs. The numbers of Sheep were comparatively small, yet the Mutton trade was heavy, at barely stationary prices. In Calves, only a moderate business was doing, but previous rates were supported. Pigs were in fair average supply, and steady demand at late rates. Mitch Cows sold slowly at from 161 to 1915 s each. s. d. to 5..1. ! s. d toe, d. Inferior Boasts 2 3 2 10, Inferior Sheep ...... ... elO 3 II hecond quality ditto 3 0 3 2, Seeond quality ditto... 3 2 3 Il Prime large Oxen :I 4 3 8, Coarso.woelled ditto. 3 8 31 0 Prime Sects, kr.. . ..... BlO 4 0; Setitthlown Vt'ethers 4 0 4 4 Large coarse Calves 4 0 4 ti Laige Hogs ... ..... ... 3 () 3 C grime small ditto 4 8 5 2 Sim.ll Porkers ....... 3 S 4 it :Suckling Catvee,esich ..,0 0 30 ( 1 Quarter old Pigs, each!. • 34 V IIUtrLY AT MARKET. Beasts. I Sheep. I Calves, I Pigs 5i31 2,130 I !t•340 NZ/A/GATE AND 1.1 . 44.AAHN11AL1., Owing to the large supplies of Meat on offer, the [(canal demand was heavy, on the following terms:— Ai per btone, by tne Carcase. s. d. to s. ti. s. 4 to 6. d Beef, ireferior....... 2 4 2• Mutton, inferior ...... t• 8 8 w.ltiolling ...... 2 S 2 10: -- middling 3 2 13 4 -- prime lodge ..... 210 3 t.)— priiee...„ 3 0 3 V ptime striull The discussions in the French Chamber on the veal ...—..—...—..... 4 0 301 —small... ....... address are drawing to a close. The address consists zsCatt . ll7o)_Et HOP L":44.1r.F.Mi1 - T. . The supply of New Bops as show is still scanty, while a of ten pragraphs, and of these six being the most large hnsinees has been again transacted in those descriptions, important had been adopted without amendment. and Weald of Kent and Sussex qualities have advanced fully 25 rer cwt. ; the valise of other kinds being 61-inly supported. The debate, or rather conversation, on Wednesday, Old Hops emeimand a brisk sale, at an improvement in vale* referred almost entirely to the commercial relations of from 2s to 4e per cwt. of France with the United States, an d cer t a i n o f COLONIAL. Susie a —The business done in British Plantation continues the South American republi cs . It w ill be found to b e on a very limited scale, but previous rates have been ob under the proper head. 'While the talk is going Isaintei for the small quantity sold. 'I he transactions only , en i in the Chamb ers , th e G overnmen t i s act Ive y a w ai ll which t fo a t ilt a b b° a;e t rs 7') : ) t l' 6 h oe ds' 6cl to i"eln i.e of 100 hhds B ar b e d oee , bis for mid to fine greyish employed in hastening the completion of hostiles, yellow. not only at Paris, but elsewhere, as will be seen from lio r. a assa.—Thera has bee. less inquiry far thi s ar ti c l e, b ut far th e percale sold. Icily previous ratio hay, been obt aine d. the subjoined pa ragrap h i n the Commerce :—"Thase MAu/LITIUS.--1,580 bags brought to auction wont of without of Mont Valerien, St. Denis, Noisy-le-See, Rosny, spirit, and in some instanced at comparatively low prices, but being an iudiferent importation, affords no gu id e Nugent, Vincennes (th e new f or t ress ), Charenton, to the market generally ; low brown to good yellow Ivry, and Issy, are now occupied by the military. brought 50e to 62a tid. The bu,ineas done privately has been limited to small parcels, at fully form er nriet.s Thu) , await but th e i r armamen t. R ouen , lik e Paris, BEN•AL.-1,514 bags and 25 wits went of heavily at is about to have its detached forts. There are to be about previous prices, vie., 65a to 68s 6d fur mid to line White three citadels—one on the immense plateau of Bon- Itenaree, low to line soft yellow date kind 57a 6al to 635, and mid to good brown Khanr at 503 to 535. Tho transactions secours, a second on Mont Ribondet, and a third on privately this week have been trifling. the Havre road, about 600 metres from the gate of Fosztu24.—No transactions have taken place, consequently no alteration can quoted in value Correc.—The b r e e has been a fai; busin ess d one d ur i ng t h e Rouen, which opens on that road. The fire of those three points, whi c h cornniand Rouen from a height, weak, in nest descriptions admissibl e f or h ome consumption, rather higher prices have, in POW instances,been b comparable vk ith the buttes Montmartre, will corn -e o - good ord to fine ord Ceylo n ; and tained, but the transactions La ' a lo h t ave bneeenx.otensivme mand not only the whole city and environs, but also ' moo Id i . vately in a; the whole course of the Seine from Pont de l'Arche 62s 6(.1 to 655, but thief), at 63s to 63s Ad for good l ord. The to near Bouillon" public sales have contained 1,578 b ags C ey l on, c hi ef l y B r i t i sh Plantation kind, 148 bales Mocha, and 2,011 bags Costa Rica, the f MARTINEz DE LA ROSA, the new Spanish Am- ormer of which mostly sold at 75s 6d to 87s for fine fine ord to 'lour eie4ri an g id arb e l o ed loryA o g e o .l g ood ord ditto 641, a few lots 63, Gd; mid bassador, presented his credentials to the KIXG on al t a 69s ; ord ditto 38a Gil to (iris 6d, which Tuesday, and made a brief address on the occasion, prices are also rather dearer. The Costa Rica was nearly all to which his Majesty replied — taken in at 48 s t o 69 s f or goo d ord to mid, being about previous rates. Foreign aorta remain without demand. " I accept with the Kr - cutest pleasure the sentiments which you r ~, . have just expressed in the Millie 0.1 . Illy august niece, her Majesty the ' - '9C O4 • , ery little business has been done. 242 bags Queen of Spain, to whom I illll Wilted by so ninny floc I &etre Bahia were taken in at 31s for good to fine red, being barely Inset ardently that her Majesty may be able to eritahltsli in Spain a i the pteviont value. temporate, essienitenneel monarchy, to prevent the return of die- Russ.—No transactions have taken place worth reporting, orders which every One has deplored. I am most willing to give to aad conuentiv no alteration can be quoted in value. the Government of her Majesty the Queen of Spain every kind of v._ -" - • moral support, disinterested as that support must be, as France h as Rice . —The public sales have offered 4 ,713 bags, which no other object but to see Spain tranquil and prosp erous. To chiefly sold a t 7 s 6d t o 10 s f or or d to good white Java, a few lots arrive at this result, her Majesty the Queen, notwithstanding her fine ditto 103 6d to 11s. Privately some common Madras has own qualities, will used, on account of her youth and inexperience, been sold at 8s 6d, and low yellow cargo Bengal at 8s to 8s 6d, the aid of alfloval and enlightened subjects, hi the number of whom being for the lower sorts rather cheaper. Good white Bengal is dietinguished her present Atubaseador at this court.' was takos in at 119. The funds continue to decline, On Wednesday SALIFETAX.--1,01 7 bags were all taken in at 24i 6d to 25i The Madrid journals of the 18th inst. hare reached but are totally destitute of news. The Three per Cents. were done at 261 1 at 80 days, the Five per Cents. at 19i, and the floating debt at 41i for cash, and 42 at 60 days. In- 12 to 124 per cent. refraction. In Nitrate of Soda there is nu change to notice. Seicas.—The improved demand for Pepper has rather in creased, and for the parcels sold gradually advancing Viso have been obtained, establishing a rise from the lowest period of fully id to id per lb. 695 bags sold readily at 3id for good half Ilea% y Batavia, and 2?,ci for good black and earthy Sumatra, a few lots ord ditto 2.;; l ct to lid; and at which rates some transactions have also taken place privately. Pimento conti nues in demand at fully last week's prices-211 chests Cassia Lignea found buyers, but at rather lower prices, viz., 511 6d to .56s 6d for ord to mid quality. COTTON.—.There has been less activity for this article, bat for the parcels sold former prices have been obtained. TALLow.—P. Y. C. is steady at 41s 3d per owt on the spot. TEA.--The ina-ket has been steady since the conclusion of the public sales, and the consumption this year has increased. There are small sales again to-day. _ HONE IT AND COMMERCIAL NEWS CITY, QUARTER TO THREE. In the Liverpool cotton market yesterday the sales were 10,000 bales, being brisker. Speculatera took 5,000 bales, viz., 200 Pernam at 6d., 300 Maranham at s*d. to 6d., 300 Egyptian at 6d. to 600 Surat at 3d. to 4-id., 300 Bahia at 64d., and the rest American at sd. to :U.—Shares were fully supported, a largo busi ness being done. Eastern Counties were 101 ; Grand Junction, 235; Groat Western, 110; Birmingham, New, 30 ; Brighton Loan, 11/. Ils. 3d. ; South Western, 76 ; Midland Counties, 90/ ; Paris and Lyons, 21. IBs. 6d- ; Ditto and Orleans, 83i ; South Eastern, 36. The debates at the East India house, which com menced this morning, relative to the Asneors of- Siuda, attract much interest in the City, aid a most importest dispatch to the Secret Committee from the Goya-not/- General, has been handed to After a series of years of rion-usor of a most stringent and highly proper notification and reg u l a ti on , th e B a nk Directors - have re-issued an cliche, dated 1802, informing stock-brokers that they are liable to penalties if they identify psi ties not known to them. A fair amount of business has been done this week in the Colonial and the other produce markets. There are but few complaints now of the scarcity of silver specie' as immense supplies have this week been furnished to the Bank of England of the new coinage. Mercantile accounts, of Nov. 10, from the Cape of Good Hope give a return of the trade of the colony during the three months up to October 10th, by whitn it appears that the exports were to the extent of 75,6251. Improvements were making in various parts of the colony. The Funds to-day are very buoyant. The Commis sioners hare purchased -10,000/. Consols at 07f, The most recent bargains in Ccnsols have been at 97/ 3 to 971 ;in New Three-and-a-Half per Cents, at 102 to 1014 ; in Reduced Three-and-a-Half per Cents. at 1021 to 103 ; and in the Three per Cents. et 97i to 981 Bank Stock has been down to 192 to 1921 ; and East India Stock 276 to 275,1. Exchequer Bills obtain 68s. to 665.; and India Bonds 82s. to 81s. pram. The Foreign Market is barely supported generally, and is not so animated, so that where sales are forced. the tendency seems rather downwards. Spanish _Actives hare been 221 to 23; and the Three per Cents. 311 to 3. Mexican have been 331- to 343 ; Colombian are 111 to 12; and Peruvian 23 to f. Portuguese Converted Bonds are 461 to 47. Brazil are 78 to Dutch Two-ond-2 , Half per Cents. have been 55 to 54k. A good deal of business is still doing in the Railway Shares, but, although generally buoyant, ti.• few are to be had at a shade of decline. Great Western, Hull ,Selby, Birmingham and Derby, Croydon, and Yolk and North Midland are very arm. Eastern Counties, Blackwall, Birmingham, South Western, and South Eastern are slightly favourable for buyers. Joint-stoc Banks are quiet, but nominally are supported. BRITISII FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. ( Frees the Official List.) Bank Stock 3 per Cont. Reda•esl Annuities 97/ 91i S per Cent. Consols. Annuities 3/ per Cent. Reduced Annuities New 3} per Cent. Annuities lO2 10141 Long Annuities, Expire 6th Jan. India Stock for Opening 276 275} India Bonds, 1,000 Ditto under 1,000 South Son Stook Bank Stock for Account Consols for Account India Stock 274 Excheqner Bib, 11i. 1141. 10001. ... 66 1001. Ditto Small FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK . Brazilian Bonds, I per Cent. Ditto for the Account Columbian Bonds Mexican Rands, 1637, Et per Cant... .... .. /13j Ditto for the Account 641 84 ,1 Ditto Deterred Stook loa Portuguese Bonds, I per Cent . Ditto Converted Spanish Bonds, Five per Cont. Ditto for the Account 2ll 26 Ditto Deferred. . .. l2; Ditto Three per Cent. Ditto for the /wane 314/ Dutch 2; per Cent ........ as &I; 1 Dutch 5 per Cont. PRICES OF SHARES TWI DAY •T ONE. a AMWAY'S. Paid. tor Share. Birmingham and Derby ... BX) Ditto Eighths - Blrmingbara and Gloucester 100 ...... 67 ...... to 68 Bristol sod Exeter 7O ..... 67 Kasten, Counties w Ditto New ...... .. ... ......... Do. Exteasioa Edinburgh and Glasgow ......... 60 Gravesend, Rochester, Chatham 2i 2l ••• to Great Western Ditto Fifths - Hall anal Selby 5O ...... 691/ .. to -- Liverpool and Iklalehester lOO ...... Ditto 1 Shares - London and Blaekwall - London and Birmingham Stock 244 ...... to 2 45 London and Greenwich - Londou and South Wooten' 416 ..... 71111 ... to --- London and Croydon ( Trunk)... 134 ld - Ditto 50rip...... ........ •........ 5 Manchester and Leeds ... 70 1091..... to ic'" Ditto New Shared, 3O - Midland Counties 100 - a Norwich and Brand o n .. .. 4 Northern and Eastern North Midlitasi ... —l6O Paris arid Orleans - Paris and Rseinn ~ ~,.. ~.., 25 ~.., 32% to •-• South Eastern aid Dover... York and No r th Midl an d.. JOINT STOCK BANKS. Loader* Joint Stock lO - MANCSIDSTER STOCK EXCIIANGN, J AN , 2./ K .-A. market still continues active, with a good business dol at improving prices. Our transactions are : —Edinhld and Glasgow, Quarters, 14 13-16th s ; Manchester min Birmingham, 39i ; Manch e ster an d L ee ds, ilit' 0 , 4si 49; ditto Quarters, 10; Midland Counties, Qli l . t t l i 22i ; She ffi eld and Manchester, Quarters, 5 1.1,0_ , . , Lancashire and Carlisle, 5 13-16ths ; South We. l ` l ll. Eighth, 2 9-lithe and 24 • Manchester Assurance, 10e Po CLOSING PRICES. BRITISH FUNDS. Bank Stock 3 per Cent. R e d. 3 per Cent. Cons.— .. 971 Ditto Old Annuities - 31 per Cent. R e d 1024 ,Ditto New Annuities.. 1", - , 3 ,0 New 31 per Cent New 5 per Cant. Long Annuities to expire , Ditto 5ma11..... ~,, Jan. 1660 - • Oct. 1859 Jan. 1t.460 ...... FOREIGN FUNDS. ..... -.u:'..:ian, 5 per cent.... P or t ugneee , 5 per vont. , Belgian. 5 per cent — Ditto, New Ditto ........• .... Brazilian Bonds ...., 13 rant.s A yres 6 per cent — Russian, 5 per cent...-. ....., Cnilian, 6 per cent Ditto, sletallic ..... - •••• 0/ Unonibian, 6 por rent l2/ Spanish, 5 per coat .....• Ditto 115'24 Ca :a Bonds, 6 per cent lll Ditto Deferred.— • ....e• Danish, 3 per tent French, 5 per went. --i , • ....... 0 . Greek, 1:425, 5 per cent — ;Exchange.,,.,, ... -4 , .....a• tlexiezti, 5 per cent. Ditto, 6 par cent. 1837 (Mach, 21 per cent. 1 1 Par ties 11123, 6 per et. !Ditt o , 5 p er cent.... I°' SHARES. 61 Birmingham and Derby (100 paid) ... ...... gal Ditto Eighths (11101 paid) .. - 671 Bristol :aid Exeter (70 paid) ... ...... ..... 50i Edinburgh and Glasgow (50 paid) 21 Gravesend, Rochester, and Chatham (21 p) 110 Great Wester' (75 paid) ••• 71i Ditto Halt Shares (50 paid) Hull and Selby (50 paid) Liverpool and Man c h es t er (100 pa id) r Ditto Half Shares (50 paid) • Landon and Bri g ht on (50 pa d) .... .. . ..... 441 . . : London and Loath Western (411 6s 104 77. 8) igi . • London and Croydo n R a il way ( Trunk) 91 ]!Manchester and L ee d s (7 0 paid) ..... -••-• Ditto Quarter Sh am Pe ( 2 aid N , • i'' s, Manchester and Birmingham (40 paid) ...... en Midland Counties Railway (100 paid) ...... 4 Norwich and Brandon (2 paid) ... •• .... ;, yo • Neweastle and D ar li ng t on Janetiou(l6 ?lilt , ' Northern and Eastern (46 paid) ............ :7,1 • Paris and Orleans (90 paid) .. ......... ••••• ...7 South limier' and Doted (60 paid) Ditto Scrip 015 paid) 12 York and North Midland (50 paid) •.. •• an Ditto New Shares (20 paid) ... ..... - ..... A Y ' ) LLOYIYM — SH - TPP - 1 - NG - .—(T H- 18D bat. LoNDolf, JAN. 26.—Wind light northerly hro ey ' e 24rrci. I)aAL, Jaw. 25.—Wind, W.S.W. • n" &rata. f or' Tuscany, New York, and sailed for Hull 81 d. America. ____.,...._ c r., t 10 0, On the 21 it init., Mn.s Canoe, of Elm Cottage, ''''"" I Essex, of a d anghter, still-born. ,tho On the 22d inst., at Mount Dudley, Referee , wife of Samuel Sheld o n Dudley, Esq.. Tile r '''' ~.., S IThil ei°64 On the 23, ' inst., at Iralreorth, Surrey, irs'• Rolfe, ef a daughter. P. o• On the 24th inst , at Wimbledon, the lady ef Colonel Cregie, C. 13., of the . 55th Regisnent, of adaughter. n o, ef On the 24 th lust. , at Item, Sff lA' Lady ta on ire, a COO. of a daughter. mas 4. On 2.1. e 25th inst., at Blackheath, the wife of S. rior Zoete, Esq., of a son ltahtee O l n uo t r h ni. e . (21:hotihbefearjtiutc.,:truiacty•C.MjhaaAr:1-----Mrbreitli:l7Ea"ra :14:41.; later DIED. On the lDth init, at Weymouth, Mrs. Elizabeth Pon b Oa the 20th inst„ at Croydon, Mr. Nathan Cestiollioird On the 20th inst., at Wood-street, Chapelle , }h. Davies, chemist. Dong l4°. On the 20th inst., at Dyrharn-pa k, near Path, fi r s 'born On the 20th in s t., Sarah, the Wife of Alexander Ps' Esq., of Cadegan-ter r a c e, Chelsea. t r o t.. On th 21st inst. at Muddiford, near Chrittchurch, r_ la te the Hen. Charles Robert St. John, young est son of to` Viscount Bolingbroke. London i Printed and Pabliibed b y 11.II1D0 YOLL„'" No. 112, Strand, at The Sias Office, No. 11, ti"" L She Count/ of Middlesex, Friday, Jaouary •0441 _ _ . , fthe purchtt4' lhe paper or2otherwise. But the Act of Per im:tient said alai tiled copy of the declaration should be ?reds:toed igainst persons who had signed it. it or The Attornisig: oral said there was another clause in the Act, Ind— t Mr. Tomb handed it np to the bench, observing that the material portion was underlined. Mr. Justice Perrin read the Act again as far as the words, " and shall have signed the same." He was not disposed to make a preoedent,. especially in a case where there was abun -lent evidence, in order to govern future cases. Chief Justine--. The Court has admitted the evidence. Mr. Whiteside,—Save the point. The Court then adjourned for some time. The Court and jttry having returned, Mr. Vernon, of the Stamp-office, was recalled and exa mined by Mr. Stripe. Have yen got a Nation newspaper of the 10th of June?—l lave; it was the paper lodged at the Stamp-office, pursuant to the Act of Parliament. It imports to be printed by C. G. Duff/. proprietor and editor, Trinity -street, Dublin. Witness was then directed to turn to the leading article of the paper, page , 552, and to read it. It was written in conse quence c f a corresponient having condemned the placing the names of Clontarf and other Irish battles on the Repeal card, as Le believed it would have been better to have substituted such words as " Temperance," &c. The article dissented from this principle, and at some length the writer agreed that war sometimes elicited grea t v i r t ues , p ar ti c ularly in a just war. The article concluded with a quotation from Dr. Arnold's " Lecture on History." Mr. Whiteside asked the witness to turn also to the report of the proceedings of the Association in the same paper, and to read them. Witness did so. The speeeh of Mr. O'Connell was in sup port of a resolution for inserting on the minutes the letter of Mr. Smith O'Brien containing the resignation of his commis sion of the peace for the county of Limerick. He spoke in high terms of Mr. O'Brien, who, he stated, was the most inde pendent Member of Parliament, while his arguments in favour of Repeal were Unanswerable. The speech also contained a strong expression by Mr. O'Connell of his wish that in all re gulations between landlord and tenant the rights of preperty,&c., should be respected. As the witness lowered his voice during the reading, Mr. Whiteside desired him to read the speech as well es he had read the leading article. Mr. Steele': speech on this attention was omitted for want of space, and the resole- Intim as to Mr. O'Brien's letter was carried. Mr. O'Connell then addressed the meeting, condemning the conduct of the Chartists in England, and advising the Repealers of Ireland to expel them from their Associations, and have nothing whatso ever to 110 with them. The speec h then proceeded to allude to the unequal state of the Parliamentary franchise in both cons- Awies, and expressed as apprehension. that in a few years there , -would be no such thing as a Liberal constituency in Ireland. It Oats alluded, in denunciatory terms,to the Poor-law Amend ' sent Bill, and called upon the people to unite peaoehtlly and emeniteitiosially to obtain redress for their grievances. The Chief Justice—l don't know how you propose making that evidence ? Mr. Vernon continued to read the oonclusion of Mr. O'Con nell's speech. and then stopped short, as he expected to be asked to read no farther, but Air. Whiteside told him to read the address to the people of Ireland. The Chief Justice (appearing tired)—Was not this reed already ? Mr. Whiteside—No, my Lord, it was not, and this is the document which explains all the objects of the Association. The witness then read the address at length, and having came to that portion of the Report which stated that Mr. O'Connell moved the adoption of the Report, Mr. Henn respectfully submitted that if the Crown gave in evidence any document, and read only part of it, they had a right to have it all used as evidence for the Crown. This was laid down in Philips upon Evidence, sth Carrington and Payne, page 238.; and in 7th Carrington and Payne, page 3'6, the very point was decided. These authorities, he contended, established that the whole of the document was clearly made evidence—it was made evidence for the party who produced it. Judge Person asked Mr. Henn if he recollected the case of the King v. Perry. He knew it was decided in that case that the advertisement in a remote part of the paper could not be read in evidence. Mr. Henn—l do not know if the case had reference to the otherparty or net. Judge Perrin—lt is reported at all events. Mr. Heon.—When the party on the other side calls for a doetaseat, and looks at a portion of it, we are entitled to have it all in evidence. Chief Justice—Yes, but the Crown does not eall for it here. Mr. Henn—That is an a fortiori case. The party call for it bore, wad, when they look at it, we are entitled to have any portion of it read. Chief initial—That may be very good law in a particular ease, bat it is no general rule. Hand me up the book. Mr. Heim handed up the book from which be had quoted, and the Chief Justice read it for 110111,0 time. The Attorney-Geseral relented the Court to the last edition of Carrington and Payne, p. 341, and said it was laid down that such a propocition as the other side contended for could not be nmintaieed. Mr. Fitzgibbon did net contend that he had a right to call for the advertisements to be read. The examination of a witness ought to - be confined to the issue, and if departed from it should only be to try the credit of a witness. They had no right to stop short when they pleased. It was for the Crown to interpose when anything was offered to be read which was net pertinent to the issue. Mr. Monahan said that the case cited by the Attorney- General from Adolphus and Ellis had nothing to do with the present use. Judge Crampton—The question is, whether one utiole ex plains or modifies the other, or whether it can be made appli cable to the offence charged.. The Lord Chief Justice said the'case had been so mush dis cussed that be would be brief in assigning his reasons for the decision he meant to give. An article published in the Nation newspaper. entitled " The Morality of War," was given in evi dence by the Crown. The article in itself was perfectly com plete and distinct, and the whole of it was read by the Crown. On another occasion, after -tn interval of some days, at a meeting of the Association, a speech was made by one of the traversers and reported in another part of that same Nation newspaper, apparently having no connection with, or inquiring no qualification of, the opinions published in the Nation on the subject of " The Morality of War." Now. let it be eappooed that speech, instead of having been made by Mr. O'Connell, was spoken by Mr. Daffy himself, at that mooting of the Association, could it be mid that he weeld have been entitled to have the whole of it read. thoegh he was unable to show its connection with the gaistieation of an article entitled " The Morality of War ?" There appeared, as his Lordship conceived, no ease bearing in seaport of the preposition now advanced br the traverser), and if he had been called upon to decide, he should have great doable as to whether the traversers, without the cement of the CPO IF 11. weals' have a right to have a distinct independent pahliastien real at all.. However, the Crowe made no ob jeetiess to the speech being read, as well as the publication, " The Morality of War." It was, not necessary at all for the Court to decide whether, if the objection bad been made, the Court would er would not have yielded. It Las been said the question was, by shorn the speech was read. The Court were of opinion that it had been read by the traversers. Mr.' Jastioe Crampton concurred with the Lord Chief Justice. The witness was then directed to refer to the Na l4ll of the 12th of August; 11343, and having identified and proved the publicition therein of an article headed " The March of Na tionality." Mr. Bourne read it at length. (This document was published at length in the opening statement of the Attorney- General.) Mr. Whiteside haring desired the atiser to road another paragraph from page 691, Chief Justice—Let it stand over till morning. As the Court was aboet to rise, Mr. Henn, Q.C., informed the Court that Mr. Samuel Alannsell was in attendance. The Chief Justice said it was the opinion of the Court that Mr. 141aansell should personally apologise to the High Sheriff, Ur. latoaelie. Mr: Latoeche said that he hat no personal feeling in the matter. Mr. Matins*ll, whom he did not know, applied to him for %LAO', which it was not in his power to give. Mr. hiattnell then apologised to the Court and it* officer is the terms suggested by the Chief Justice. Chief itaatice—Let ne more be said about it. The Court then rose. LAW INTELLIGENCE EXCHEQUER.-(THIS DAY.) (Sittings at Nisi Prins, before Mr. Baron ROLFE and a Com mon Jury. ) Twn undefended eases (Robinson v. Manners and Cockerill v. Hurd) were disposed of. In both cases verdicts for the plaintiffs sieve given. In the first place fur 2491., and in the second for 34,. 13. noccs v. HARRISON. Mr. Sergeant tannin g and Mr. Dodson conducted the cane for the plaintiff, and Mr. Watson appeared for the defendant. This was as action to recover the balance of an account for goods sold and delivered. The plaintiff and defendant are wine-merehants, the former carrying on business in Fenchurch street, and the latter in Fore-street. The plaintiff sold to the defendant a quantity of cheap French wine, for which the sum of 1601. 14e. 34. was agreed to be paid on delivery ; 1401. was leaving a balance of 201. 14s. bd., for which the present action was brought. The defendant had from time to time, and us the hearing of witnesses, promised to pay the amount, sub ieqiently reliving to do so on the ground that the wine, which is known as " Fparkling Burgundy ," and which was sol d him at ils..6d. per dozen, exclusive of duty, was of an in ferior qsality, a eireunsstanee which caused some merriment in Court, owing to its extremely moderate price. A sample was also produced in Court. On the part of the defendant it was contended by the Learned Cennsel (Mr. Watson) that the wine in question was draalt!lby persons in warns climate., which, perhaps, was no trivial cause of the mortality of many of the inhabitant* of those clitnatee—that the species of wide, known as " Sparkling Bar tundy," was sold in large ipitntities,te the animals who attend masquerades. The wine diti'not correspond with the sample tasted by the defendants ; and the very fact of this being so, was to warrant him in refusing to pay the amount whiob the plaintiff claimed. The defendant wrote to the plaintiff ttialling that the wine was so bad that be could not dispose of it, and requesting Mr. Gouge to send for it, or he would sell the trine . by aantion for whatever it would fetch. On the put of the plaintiff, it was contended that the &gen last Ind sad ample opportunity of examining and satisfying ;jewel! of the - real quality of the wine. There 'weld be little assubs the the whole of the wine was equal to the sample, that to Via was intended, the bereaia being made in all fairness. Verdict far the plaintiff., 26/. OLIVES 11,, csainsrsa.L. .1 , • d. • This wan an Lotion brought to recover the amount of a pro- Watery note at two months' sight, given by the defendant to the . piaintillf for *goods sold and delivered. The p r AugVir i• intbiican and maltster in Worceatershire ; the 'toesidesia at thetime the debt was incurred, being a general ittler• The - delendent, in a letter addresmed to the plaintit *good Tour Tour unfortunate Creditor," admitted his liability to pax the Anoint, but that at that time he was unable to do so, Owing to his distressed circumstances. The counsel of the Wends:it eonplained of the extreme hardship of bringing the lase from Worcester to London for trial, the expense of Ir isgiag the witnesses to town being more than the amount of he debt. Witnesses were called to prove the delivering of the go ods, and the:igneous of the promissory note.—Verdict for the plaintiff,-251. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. BOW-STREET—(THIS DAY.) A respectably-dressed young man, who gave his name as .Heeshaw, were placed at the bar before M r . J ar di ne, Ji.orged with riding a horse furiously in the neighbourhood of Cs Stand. 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