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Colonel Anson's b f Ardennes, by Touchstone, out of llornsea's dam—Mr. Jaques's Spur, by The Saddler, out of Red Tape, by Rowton. CHESTY R 7 18-15. _ . The Chester St. Leger 5ta1. , .;:!3 of 25 s, - )v. each, with 200 added, for three-year olds, _Derby weights. Grosvenor Course. Sir R. Pigot's The Lass of Gowrie—Lcrd Eglinton's Vaudeville and Bretwalda—Sir W. W. Wynne's f by Muley Moloch, out of Dryad—Mr. Price's Gothic—Mr. R. Bennett's Hope and Violet—Sir B. W. Bulkeley's Bobstay, and f by Touchstone out of Brocade—Lord Westminster's Grotesque—Mr. A. Hill's The Libel — Mr. Mostyn's Master Stepney. c by Voltaire out of sister to Simia, and f by Sheet Anchor out of L'Hirondelle— Mr. R. J. Mostyn's Miracle—Mr. C. M. St. Paul's cby Sheet Anchor, out of Calypso's dam—Mr. Davies's Prin cess Royal—Mr. Skelmerdine's c by Muley Moloch, out of Tillar—Mr. Cookson's Formula—Mr. Meiklam's Freeman—Mr. Cook's Yellow Boy—Mr. Dawson's Crira. Con.—Mr. Worthington's Lancadiire Witch—Mr. Bris tow's Carissima—Mr. Bradshaw's Alanmt:vh—Mr. R. Newman's Bloodstone—Mr. Critehley•-, Lion Mr. Denham's f by Jereed, out of Couip:•ri:;:i.tion's Jam— Lord Miltown's Flahowlah—Mr. Payne's e by Jerry, out of Esperance—Mr. T. Waltev's Arthur—Lord G. Bentinck's Pug and Miss Elis— Mr. Os:,alde..ton's c by Jerry, dam by Dr. Syntax—Mr. J. cutts ig—Mr. Heseltine's Helmsman. NEWMARKET CRAVEN MEL'T'ING, 1844. TUESDAY. The Oatlands of 50 soya. each, h ft, and only 10 ft if declared by the 22a inst. Phlegon, 4 yrs, Bst 81b--P.evocation, 5 yrs, ist 81b— Wee Pet, 4 yrs, ist 71b-lam-riot-Aware, aged, 7st 71b Give-him-a-Name, 6 yrs, 7st 51b—f by Gladiator, out of Elegance, 4 yrs, 7st 21b—Maria Dias, 6 yrs, 6.it 81b. FIRST OCTOBER MEETING, 1844.— WEDNESDAY. The St. Leger Stakes of 25 sovs. each. D.I. Lord Exeter's — Antenor, Plush, and Sylvius ; Mr. Bristow's Froystrop, Mr. Crock ford's ttan, Mr. Dixon's Oliver Cromwell, Duke of Richmond's Pastoral. ASCOT HEATH, 1844. —TUESDAY. Sweepstakes of 100 sous. each, fur four-year-olds. SwinleyCourse. Semiseria, Extempore, Poison. YORK AUGUST MEETING, 18-1-I.—WEDNESDAY. Nominations for the Prince of Wales's Stakes of 10 sovs. each, with 50 added, for two yrs old. 5 yrs, T.Y.C. Mr. F. R. Price's Gothic—Mr. G. Mangle's The Comical Boy—Mr. W. Cookson's The Punjaub—Mr. Allen's Marcian—Mr. Osbaldeston's Secutor, and bl c by Jerry, dam by Doctor Syntax—Mr. J. Shepherd's Marie—Lord Zetland's Sister to Co-heiress—Lord 1 7 :g. linton's Bretwalda and Vaudeville—Mr. Stebbing's Mainstay—Mr. J. Scott's Twig—Mr. Wilson's St. Pancras—Sir W. M. Milner's Proseliption—Mr. W. 11. Brook's Titania—Mr. Kitching's f by Voltaire, out of .P.rscilla Tomboy's dam—Mr. M. Ilornsey's Stittenham —Mr. F. A. Milbank's f by Sheet Anchor, out of Sul tana—Mr. Dawson's Crim. Con.—Mr. Smith's Alice my—Mr. J. Osborne's Fire Master—Mr. Stephenson's Wynyard—Mr. L. Fox's f by Marcian, out or Flare:may --Mr. Jaques's Vaudeville and Moulton—Mr. Edition son's The Heiress—Mr. Hesseltine's the Helmsman and Fitzallen (late Fielding)—Mr. H. Robinson's Minerva— Mr. R. G. Walker's fby Voltaire, out of Adrian:l—Mr. Wormald's Sister to Pedometer—Mr. Bell's Sowerby— Mr. Worthington's Lancashire Witch (late 1)i ,lione.sty)— Mr. Mostyn's Master Stepney and Pantasa. Three yrs old Sweepstakes of 30 sovs. each, 10 ft for 3 yrs old, Mr. Smallwood's Princj Royal, Mr. Metcalfe's Spinster, Mr. Teating's Corodino, 111r..J. Osborne% fount Charles, Mr. Jaques'sKing Dick, Mr. Worinahl's Pedometer. The Normanby Stakes of 50 sovs. each, 20 ft !or 2 yrs old. Mr. Bower's Albatross, Mr. Jaques':; Playmate, Mr. Wormald's Sister to Pedometer. YORK AUGUST -MEETING, 1545. a a The Filly sapling Stakes of 50 sovs. 20 ft for foals of 1843, to run at two yrs old. Bst 41b each. One mile. Mr. Osbaldeston's t by Stockport, out of the Mountain Sylph's dam—Lord Chesterfield's Constantia Ada Ir. Hesseltine's b f by Hetman Pla,toff, out of Quid's dam. The Colt Sapling Stakes of 50 sow. each, 20 ft for foals of 1843, &c. Mr. Bell's Harpstring, Mr. Jaques's. Spur, Mr. Mostyn's c by Hetman Platoff, out of Miss Clifton. The Knavesmira Stakes of 100 sovs. each, 30 ft., for 3 yrs olds. Mile and three quarter,. Mr. Osbaldeston's bl c by Jerry, dam by Dr. Syntax ; Major Yarburgh's Red Robin (allowed albs) ; Mr. jaques's Moulton (allowed albs) ; Mr. Ilesseltine's llelmsman (allowed 31bs). WARWICK SEPTEMBER MEETING, 1844. THIRD .DAY, The Castle Park of 10 sovs. each, &c. Mr. Bristow 's Freystrop, 3 ; Mr. Collins's Main stay,r3 yrs; Sir C, Cockerelrs Atirlingzew, 4 yrs ; Lord Geo. Bentinek's f by Bay Middleton, out et Monstrosity, ..: yrs. GRE ECE. ATHENS, DEC. 20, 1/313 —ln the National As 4embly warm and lengthened debates toe!: pl:lce in the address to the Royal siieveli which ter minated by a great majority in rayonr of the d=e cision of the Committee appointed to Army it up. On a division the opponents could :unster only 11, while the number on the other side was 179. The following is the Address agreed to:— " The representatives of the nation, thankful to Heaven for the appearance of your Majesty in the midst of the Assembly on She Bth of November, fulfil a most grateful duty in expressing to your Majesty the warmest sentiments of joy and gratitude. " Interpreting - the grave words of your Majesty as a happy augury for the future prosperity of Greece, they feel that the bonds which, from the year 1833, have milted the Greeit nation to your Majesty, became indissoluble from the moment when the generous impulse of your paternal heart consummated the national desire so unanimously expressed. " The Hellenic nation, 0 King ! during the whole period of its holy struggle for independence, having consecrated by the acts of its successive national assemblies the principles and bases of the constitutional system, feel sincerely grateful for the institutions which have been established from the commence ment of your Majesty's reign, in conformity with those prin ciples. But this gratitude became more profound from that hour when your Majesty, complying with the wishes of the nation lately declared, was pleased to crown your acts by grant. ing a representative government—a convention between the n ation and s its king, which will consecrate for ever the rights of the people and the privileges of the throne. " Yes, Sire, this convention alone, thin constitutional Go vcrntnent alone, oan give life and durability to the liberal de crees, published since your Majesty's accession to the throne, - which had nearly become ineffective from circumstances en tirely contrail to the good intentions of your Majesty and the wishes of the nation—this alone can establish the political fabric upon immovable foundations. " The Assembly, participating the desire of your Majesty to effect all that may seenre the prosperity of the State, will be most ready to make reciprocal concessions for such purpose, and will employ its utmost endeavours, on the one hand, to miapt the fundamental laws of the Constitution to the real wants the Hellenic people, and render them worthy the expectations of the civilised world ; and, on the other lilted, to insure the dignity and power of the monarchy, consecrating CTI behalf of the throne all necessary rights, so as to secure the interests of individuals, and the general happiness of the natio:. " Your Majesty will be pleased to believe that, under all cir cumstances, the Greek people will be ready to acknowledge your love for them, and that the repre3intate.es of the nation will duly appreciate it. " The Assembly will enter devoutly upon its great work, animated with a spirit of rectitude and patriotism, and, as sisted in its laboUrs by your Majesty, will hasten to atfiX to the constitution the seal of firmness and stability. "In such manner the National Assembly, under Divine pro tection fulfilling its mission, ventures to hope that it may as ore /sir ever the happiness of Greece, in inseparable union with the glory and splendour of your Majesty's throne." The Committee appointed to draw up the Constitution are r eseeding rapidly with their work. It is understood that they have already agreed upon more than forty articles. It has been reported in the German papers that the Em peror of Russia has declared he will never resew his relations with Greece until those who took part in the revolution of the 3d of September are punished. fhe National Assembly, to mark their indignant sense of this menace, passed a unanimous vote, granting to all the officers and men who were in the apital, and engaged in the movement , pecuniary psi , ileges and other immunities, which they, in a spirit of generous pa triotism, have declined. STATUE or Silt D. WthxzE.—The statue of our ute lamented and pOpular painter, Sir David Wilkie, which has ..ons: 'tut been fi nished by Mr. Joseph, is now erected in the Nati Gallery ; arid yesterday morning the public we r e , for the first time, gratified with a sight of it. It is paced in the ball, at the foot el the staircase, in a light admirably adapted for its due display. The figur se of white marble, and being placed on a pedestal of a gyish colour, the contrast is striking, and a pleasing e feect is produced at first g l ance. . The deceased artist is represetite , l 4 in an attitude of contempla tion. His left hand is supported on his sketch-book, and in his right, which is elevated, as if about to transfer tome brilliant thought or some happy effect to paper, he holds his port. *warn. A cloak of ample dimensions is thrown gracefully ever his shoulders, and this, besides improving the lines of the 4tomposition, has the advantage of concealing many of the sharp ' singles and unpicturesque forms of the modern costume. The likeness of the great painter is striking, and the features are chiselled with much delicacy of detail, freedom, and play. 'The figure however, is scarcely massive enough, and its ge neral appearance is more youthful than that presented by Sir D. Wilkie a few years anterior to his death. On one side of .the pedestal a recess is sculptured, in wl,ich the favourite palette of the painter is suspended. During the whole of yes terday this statue was the great object of the attention of the company which frequented the National Gallery. ASYLUM FOR THE DEAF AND Demit.—Yestertla the half-yearly general meeting of the Governors and sub scriberg At this Institution, established in the latter part of the last ceCtury, for the support and education of the deaf and lamb children; of the poor, and situated in the Old Kent- To ad, was held at the L ondon Tavern, BishopArfate-street Mr. Thomas England in the chair. The address o f th e C o mmittee congrafulated the Governors on of fifty on the pro y gre y s e s a i r v s e increase, of the charit y durin g a period And stated that though in the first five years the adm ission e t: children amounted only to thirty. six, that in the coune of the last five years more than three hundred 'had been admitted, the number at the present moment under in struction in the Institution, with the exemption of those upon the pay list. The statement of receipts and exeendi tore showed that the annual subscriptions had amounted to '2,3211., from Three Per Cent. Consols dividends 4,-.28: 1 /. and from legacies 2,244/., making a total of 10,023/., and ;hie+, deducting the expenditure of 7,380/. and of I the 4l2/ treasure: stoc of The k parchased left a balance in the hands 1,2,30/. amount, having .been passed , it was resolved, on the recommendation of the Committee, to alter rule 20, relat ing to the apprenticeship of children, by the insereon of 15/. instead of 10/. The following Noblemen and Gentlemen were then elected pat rons and officers for the r' yeaensuieg :—Presi elent, his Grace the Duke of Buccleuch ; Vic Pre3ldent3 ;his quis of Bristol Grace the Archbi sho p of Canterbuty, Mar, Earl of Zetland, Viscount Sidmonth. Lord Calthorpe, Lord Bexley, Sir W. Ashburnham, Sir T. Turton, Sir C. Hunter, Alderman Thompsow, M. P. ,_ Ald er man Copeland, M.P., Mr. Denison, M.P., Alderman Farebrother, Alderman Gibbs, and Alderman Kelly; Auditors, Mr. Alderman Gibbs and Mr. .Alsger ; with twenty-fenr gentle men to form the Committee of Management. The meeting then proceeded to elect twenty- A'c'e children out of a list of fifty-six. The poll commenced at el Rve rn and clOsecl at three o'clock, when the names of the suc e"tal Ca/1"3". Rim announced, and the meeting broke up. THE NEW HISTORICAL ROMANCE. Now ready at all the Libraries, in 3 vols. WHITEPRIA R S; OR THE DAYS OF CHARLES THE SECOND. " Whitefriars is the work of no common hand. It is full of talent. "—John Bull. " A work of talent and imagination ' • full of in rest and re plete with scenes of great power. Charles 11. , Rochester, Buckingham, Nell Gwynne, Colonel Blood, Titus 3 tes, Claude Duval, and many other ceiebrites figure in every page."— Court Journal. Henry Celburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough- street. MR. GLEIG'S NEW WORK. Now ready, in 2 vols., post Bvo., H E LIGHT DRAGOON. By the Author of The Subaltern," " The Hussar," " The Chelsea Pen sioners," &c. " The whole work is a moving panorama of incident, and no one can read it without the deepest interest. It is a most faithful picture of a soldier's life."—Weekly Chronicle. " We point attention to these volumes as a necessary adjunct to every military library, and as among the most entertaining books of miscellaneous reading that can possibly be taken up," —Naval and Military Gazette. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. MARY HOWITT'S NEW WORK. Square 12m0., 10s. 6d., in fancy binding, with gilt edges, THE CHILD'S PCTURE and VERSE BOOK: commonly called " Otto Speckter's Fable-book." Translated by MARY HOWITT. With French and Ger• man, on corresponding pages, and Illuitrated with One Hun dred Engravings on Wood by G. F. Sargent. On Friday next, 2 vols., foolscap Bvo., JACK of the MILL. By WILLIAM HOWITT. London : Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans. VORTIIY OF REMARK.—The fact that many of the principal Hospitals in the Kingdom, among which it is sufficient to name Guy's, St. George's, and the Westminster, in the Metropolis ; and the Manchester, Bristol, and Brighton Infirmaries, have adopted BETTS'S PATENT BRANDY, in preference to Foreign, affords a sufficient gua rantee to the consumers of Brandy of the extreme purity of the article, the connoisseur being, at the same time, baffled in his attempt to distinguish between its flavour and that of fine Cognac. Price, pale or coloured, in quantities not less than Two Gallons, Eighteen Shillings per Gallon, at the Distillery, No. 7, Smithfield Bass, fading to St. John-street. VVHF,NEXT DISTRIBUTION of MONEY DIVIDENDS. AUTIIORISED and GUARANTEED HIS MAJESTY the EMPEROR of AUSTRIA, contains %.lONEY DIVIDENDS of £5O £6O £7O £BO £9O £lOO £llO £l2O • £l5O £2OO £4OO £6OO £BOO £l,OOO £1,500 £5,000 and £23,000 sterling. Amounting together to. £70,170 sterling. Direct for PROSPECTUS with full particulars, WITH OUT DELAY, to HEINE BROTHERS, at HAMBURGH, Or. to HEINE BROTHERS. at LUBECK. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. THIS EVENING, JANUARY 9, Will he repeated a New Grand Opera, in Three Acts, calledTHE BOHEMIAN GIRL Count Arnheim, Mr. Borrani; Thaddeus, Mr. W. Harrison; Arline, Miss Rainforth; Queen of the Gipsies, Miss Betts. After which, will be repeated a New Grand Comic (2irLstinas Pantomime, entitled HARLEQUIN AND KING PEPIN ; or- VALENTINE AND ORSON. Harlequin, Mr. Howell; Colum, binc, Mis.i Carson; Clown, Mr. T. Ridgway; Pantaloon, Mr. Blanchard. Dress Boxes 75., Second Price 3s. 6d. ; Upper Circles of Boxes 55., Second Price Is. ; Pit 3s , Second Price tbi. ; Middle Gallery 25., ccond Price Is.; Upper Gallery Is., Second Price 6d. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN, M. JULLIEN'S CONCERTS. PROGRAMME FOR THIS EVENING. PART I. Overture. Euryanthe —Weber. The Royal Irish Quadrille.—Jullien. Sonata for Violoncello and Double Bass, performed by Messrs. Han cock and Howell—Corelli. Solo, Cornet-a-Piston, Herr Koenig (Air and Variations)—Koenig, Valse, La Valse a Deux Tems—Jullien. S rpnse Symphony—Haydn. Solo, Violin, Master Thirlwall. '1 he English Quadrille—Jullien. PART 11. Opera, Licia di Lammermoor, with Solo for Corn et-a-Piston, by Herr K senig—Donizetti. Burletta Quadrille, entitled Dancing for the Million—Jullien. Solo, Flute, Mr. Richardson—Richardson, Valse, Elizabethan —Strauss. fhe Real Scotch Quadrille—Jullien. Doors Open at Halt-past Seven, commence at Eight .'Clock. Promenade, Is , Upper Boxes, Is.; Dress Circle, 2s. ; Private Boxes, I/. Is. Tickets to be obtained at the box-office of the theatre; of Mr. Mitchell, Old Bond-street; Mr. Andrews, New 9ond-street ; Mr. Sams, St. James's-street; and M. Jullien's Office, 1, Maddox-street, Bond-street. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Alit. BENJAMIN WEBSTER, LESSEB. THIS EVENING, JANUARY 9. Will be performed PATTER VERSUS CLATTEIf: Cilpteln Patter, Mr. Charles Mathews. To -e followed by WHO'S YOUR FRIEND? or The Queens. berry Fete. Giles Fairland, Mr. Charles Mathews; The Countess of 119sedale, Madame Vestris. Alter which, the U nparalleled Performances of PrOtileSor RISLEY and his To conclude with a New Fairy Extravaganza, entitled 2111 E FAIR ONE WITH THE GOLDEN LOCKS! King Laek*meso Mr. J. Bland; Prance Graceful, Miss P. BMWs' Queen isseidon, Mi,s Julia lleiniett. THEAT RE ROYAL, ADELPHL The Best Panlcnnime of the Season—GorgeouS swum THIS EVENING, JANUARY 9, The New Drama, embracing Extraordinary Efiscts, intarld it s and Novel Scenic Display, called THE BOHEMIANS; or, The Rogues of Paris; Frlndpid Characters by Messrs. Lyon, O. Smith, Wright, Wieland, idayaard, Mrs. Yates, Miss E. Stanley, Mrs. F. Matthews. After which, a New Grand Christmas Pantomime, called 'NAIL LEOU IN BLUE BEARD, or, The Fairy of the Silver Crescent. Trounced with Enormous S,,lendour and Wonderful Effectal Columbine, Miss rtul:cii ; Harlequin Quicksilver, by the Inimitable Wieland ; Clown, by the Grimaldi of the day, Mr. T. Matthews, from the Theatres Royal, Covent-garden and Drury.lans; AIWA. loon, Mr. Johnstone. Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 25.; Gallery, Is. ; Second price at Nine. Doors Iron at Six, commences at a Quarter before Seven o'Clock. PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD.STREET. LESSEE, Mr. J. iII. MADDOX. THIS EVENING, JANUARY 9, Will be performed LUCREZIA BORGIA. I)on Alphonso, Mr. Burdini ; Gennarro, Mr. Allen ; Mattlo Orsini, Mrs. H. P. Grattan; Gubetta, Mr. Walton ; Lucrezia Borgia, Madame Eugenia Garcia. To which will be added the Vaudeville of the SWISS COT. TAGE. Natz neck, Mr. Keeley ; Lisette, Mrs. Keeley. 'fo conclude with a New Musical Burlesque Spectacle, entitled PHE MAGIC. MIRROR. Sing. Song, Mrs. H. P. Grattan; Poo. Pon, Mr. Paul Bedford ; Sloe-Leaf, Miss R. Isaacs. DAT IDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. As usual, the funniest and most successful Pantomime. THIS EVENING, JANUARY 9, Will be repeated THE BOHEMIANS OF PARIS. Supported ;Messrs. Saville, Hughes, Hicks, R. Honner, Johnson, Smith, Mrs. . Vining, and all the Members of the First Company in the World. After which an entirely new Grand Comic Pantomime, with Splendid Scenery, Superb Dresses, Inimitable Properties and 'ricks , every thing new and of the most costly description, HARLEQUIN GRAMMAR, or, Lindley Murray,and AEIO U. Harlequin, Mr. W. H. Harvey ; Grotesque, Mr. Stilt; Clown, Mr. Fuller; Panta loon, Mr. Ilawsins ; Columbines (alternately) Miss 141. R. Fair_ brother an' Miss Sharpe. Places and Private Boxes to be had of Mr. Kerschner, at the Box. 3ffice, from Eleven to Four. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE OF ARTS. Under the Management of Mr. Batty, Proprietor. Triumphant Success of the Splendid Christmas Holiday Fetes.—West rninster-Bridge is now open—Juvenile Nights. THIS EVENING, JANUARY 9, Will be performed a Grand Comic Pantomime, entitled HARLE QUIN TAM O'SII A NTER, and his STEED MEG ; or, The Witches of Ailoway Kirk. Harlequin, Mr. Gibson ; Columbine, Mdtle. Cushnie ; Clown. Mr. King; Pantaloon, Mr. Mathews. New Scenes in the Circle, and unequalled Feats of Horsemanship. To conclude with the splendid French Spectacle of THE VIC l'ultIES OF M U RAT, THE SOLDIER OF FRANCE; or, The leneral, Prince, and King. Acting and Stage Manager, Mr. W. D. Broadfoot. Stalls, as.; do xcs, 45.; Upper Boxes, 3s. ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, Is.; Upper Gallery, d. Box-office open daily from Ten till Four. Stage Boxes, One Guinea; Half-;;rice to Ditto, Half-a-Guinea. Private Boxes, Two ;iiit.eas; Half-price to Ditto, One Guinea. Half-price, Half-past ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. 'llll3 EVENING, JANUARY 9, Will be performed an entirely New Domestic Drama, entitled POVERTY; or, Mary Graham. Leonard, Mr. Freer; Jessamy Tacit, Mr. Narita; Squire Graham, Mr. Dale; Patty Parrot, Miss Arden ; Mary Gr.ham, Miss Vincent. After which, a New Drama, entitled THE BROKEN PROMISE, Josephe, Mbs Vincent; General Morin, Mr. James; Eloise, Miss Arden. - To conclude with HARLEQUIN LINCOLN LUCKY OF LAM BETH ; or, The Three Sisters of Witch Willow Dell. Harlequin, Mr. Chapin(); Clown,. Mr. Searbrow ; Pantaloon, Mr. Morelli; columbine, Miss M. Schmidt. 11 E WEATII ER.-SUN OFFICE, JAN. 9. r:1 EIZKOMETEIt, Lowest, 35 ; Highest, 42; Noon, 35. BAROMETER, 30.4.—W1ND, S. to S.E. NoTE.—Tlie nu,nber 32 on the Thermometer denotes ne freezing point, and 55 temperate. In Barometers air is usnally placed opposite 30, and rain at. 29. ‘t' ATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY. touring 7 minutes atter 4.1 Evening ... 26 minutes after 4. : 4 ..,,, , ..„ , , i 1 4 .4- , 0 : i yoiiiieui•zr ~.- ,r*.- - ,8 --A! ., I!, ,ti -;--,t4s—` = =AI' ' d g ip" -,; .'''' :i '• li. , 5,..:, , ,,;,,; .11 , - 4:11 - 0 ,i r *tiriSe , 1 i i.:,,,, fr . 'VP. IR OS ' ,;- :,,,i'i ' .bR 0 it fot: SECOND EDITION.. ettraing -°;-na4 LONDON, TUESDAY, JANUARY 9, 1844. A Tory Contemporary, of this morning, con spicuotis by his old-fashioned politics, and the twaddling, old-fashioned manner in which he enunciates them, is more than usually lugubrious at thought of the cruel sufferings which'hence forth must be the inevitable lot of the agricul turists. He has discovered that they are all doomed to death, and is only doubtful on the point whether their dissolution will be a sudden or a protracted one. " The tariff," he says, "dooms the British farmer to a slow death—to a death of gradual poverty, saddened by blasted hopes. The sentence of the League, on the other hand, is prompt as the guillotine. Let the agriculturists of England choose between these for►ns of execution." Cheering remarks these, to open a new year with, and every way calculated to infuse balm into the heart of the farmer ! But let him take heart ; he will neither be slowly put to death by the tariff, nor guillo tined' by the League; but, on the contrary, de spite the operation of these dreaded influences, he will find himself at the close of the year just as far remcved from dissolution as he was at the commencement. The Post's croakings are worth no sane man's consideration for a single instant. They are the mere frantic outbursts of dispirited Monopoly, which, because its own doom is irre vocably sealed, takes for granted that the doom of the British flamer is sealed also. Our dis ' quieted Contemporary indulged in precisely the same triste spirit when tho great question of Re. form was in agitation, and never failed to predict, day after day, the utter overthrow of the Constitution as the immediate and inevitable consequences of that measure. Yet the Reform Bill was carried, and the Constitution evinced not the slightest symptom of giving up the ghost; and at this moment—twelve years after the pe riod when, according to the Post, it ought to have resigned its last breath—it is just as alert, as vigorous, and as efficient as it was in its best days. And so will it be with the agriculturists, even when the tariff and the League shall have achieved a perfect triumph. They will be among the first to laugh at their own idle apprehensions; and will look at each other, and wonder how it was that they could ever have put faith in the gloomy vaticinations of a one-sided monopolist journal. The remarks on which we have been commenting, occur in the course of an article, suggested to our Contemporary by a late agricultural meeting in Lincolnshire. Though this meeting is decidedly on his own side of the question, yet his troubled spirit is so far from deriving comfort from it, that he eyes it with the same " jealous leer malign" with which MILTON tells us the Devil eyed EYE in Paradise. Even the suggestions of such monopolists as Messrs. CHAPLIN alld CHRISTOPHER fail to meet with his approval. He is a bigot of the "nil admirari " school, and can find nothing but what is tainted in the whole political atmosphere. Dismissing our Contemporary, we may observe, that at the Lincolnshire meeting in question, Mr. CHAPLIN indulged in the following very strange —say to the least of it—language. "Possibly," he observed, " if Mr. COBDEN should again present himself in Lincoln, and if thepeople did notput him in the river, they ought to;get a man accustomed to mob oratory to answer him." Now imagine a significant suggestion like this directed by a member of the League against some sturdy mo nopolist—say, for instance, Dr. SLEIGH or the Duke of BUCKINGHAM ! Imagine Mr. COBDEN slily hinting the expediency of throwing one or both of these amiable individuals into the river ! What an uproar there would be among the Tories What a wringing of hands, uplifting of eyes, and shaking of thick heads ! Sir ROBERT PEEL—as on a former memorable occasion— would take the earliest opportunity of accus ing Mr. COBDEN in Parliament of recom mending assassination ; and Mr. FERRAND— he whose genius for finding mare's nests is so remarkable—would write long prosy letters to each of the Tory journals, wherein he would volunteer to prove before a Committee of the House, that the Hon. Member for Stockport had publicly and deliberately advised the murder of an unoffending Doctor of Divinity, or a Duke, illustrious by courtesy. Were the League disposed to make such fools of themselves as the Tories, they might easily get up as plausible a case against Mr. CHAPLIN, as their enemies got up against them ; but they are far too wise to dream even for an instant of following in the track of a parcel of spiteful, doting, old women. It is not to be supposed, a priori, that a Premier is a conjuror ; and we have not yet seen, in the powers or the administration of Sir ROBERT PEEL, anything which should subject him, by implication or construction, to the charge of having graduated in the black art. But we stand aghast at the fond expectations which both friends and foes profess to entertain of the Right Hon. Baronet's " power magical." He is, according to some, to come forward be fore the Easter recess with a scheme for cor recting the present dangerous and defective condition of the currency. This class of political puppets, not content with predicting the advent of so incalculably beneficial a remedy, are so extravagait in their credulity as to believe that Sir ROMMT will have the candour to acknow ledge at the same time, that, after the late Mr. Husxissort, no man has done more than himself to create or to aggravate that diseased state of our monetary functions which now threatens the speedy paralysis of our whole industrial and commercial system. Then, we have among our Contemporaries some journalists who look to the same hands, within the next six months, for the development of matured plans for the extension of our foreign commerce; the resuscitation and permanent maintenance of our manufacturing activity ; the effectual counteraction of Russian intrigues against our power in Europe, and in North-Western and Central Asia, in Persia, and in China ;—the adjustment of the Oregon and boundary questions, and of the seizures' com pensation claims by American citizens in the United States; the pacification of Mexico ; the settlement of the South American Republics; and various other questions of some little im portance, and not without their modicum of difficulties. For our own part, we are so fearful that, in the matters thus hastily recapitulated, there will be found stuff enough for the fullest occupation of the Premier's time, that we have scarcely margin enough of conscience left us to add our own wish—rather than expectation— that the Minister would be good enough to ap prise the country, in the first week of the en suing session, when he means to withdraw his destructive property and income-tax—that mon strous concomitant of the twenty-ninth year of our uninterrupted peace with Europe ? We are sensible, however—having repudiated the notion of his being invested with magic influences—that Sir ROBERT PEEL can no more manufacture time, than Mr. DENT, the great horologist, can multiply it by any of the delicate and ingenious pro cesses which he applies to the manufacture of his chronometers. And if this be so, it is not to be imagined that the Premier, within the short interval which has yet to elapse before the re assembling of Parliament, can scrape together a sufficient stock of this " time "—the most pre cious, after all, of all currencies—to the elabora tion of one-tenth of all the purposes for which people so kindly give him credit. Nay, it is not, in reason, to be supposed that he will be able to set apart, for any one department of the public service, more of this commodity than the portion which the course of official business has already assigned to it. Nevertheless, although we may not look even to that Minister who understands so well the technique of the art of raising "ways and means" to supply the deficient annual product of our taxation, by further taxing the very capital which has hitherto paid it, or the income of that eapital r —tor a power to prolong the duration of the natural day by Act of Parlia ment or Order in Council; we would entreat him at this period,—before the fight of parties in Parliament has begun,—to remember how much of real business it is indispensable for him to crowd into the transactions of every twenty-four hours which will elapse before an ad journment, by prorogation or dissolution, in the ensuing summer. Let him carefully avoid the mischievous error of his predecessors in office, who, by neglecting to calculate before hand the time—limits within which certain ob jects of periodical legislation and general ques tions of political or official detail, the discussion of which can be certainly foreseen, may be pro bably disposed of—and by omitting to arrange, also, their priority and sequence, have found themselves compelled, with the approaching termination of a session, to precipitate, or abso lutely to cashier and burp, affairs of the most important relations, with a degree of injury to the public service absolutely incalculable. We would urgently recommend to the Minister to prepare and organise a code of official regulations under which each branch of the civil service shall be required to prepare all the returns, re ports, accounts, &c., for which ma have been already called on, by order of her MAJESTY, or of either House, or which, by usage or precedent, and under statute, it may be bound to supply to Parliament,—by the earliest period at which it may be practicable to get such documents ready for presentation after the re-assembling of Parlia ment. Let these regulations enjoin that in every instance wherein, according to the opinion of the responsible superior head or officer of a depart ment, it may be impracticable to get such papers prepared by the time suggested in the regula tions, such superior officer shall report to him, the Premier, directly, the reasons or causes of the delay, and set forth the more distant period at which it can be guaranteed that such papers shall be severally ready. Of all Parliamentary papers, in like manner, which may be still passing through the press, let the Minister on the first day of the ensuing session call for a return, setting out the present stage towards completion at which the documents may have arrived, and the date at which the printer under takes to have the copies delivered at the Parlia mentary Paper-office in Abingdon-street. By some such measures as these, previously concocted, it may be possible to avoid that in decent hurry, that hopeless confusion, and that very serious mischief which the " clearing off" the Return and Notice Paper in the penultimate stages of a session usually exhibit:. It is in this way that the go-by is given for another year, not only to important Private Bills and muni cipal and county business, which have been introduced or conducted at very heavy expense— all of which for the most part in such instances has to be re-incurred—but to public questions, the progress of which has been anxiously but vainly watched by the people, whose expecta tions in like manner must be postponed to the " next session." We have no wish to see the important questions of public education, the cur rency, the renewal of the Bank charter, the general policy of free trade, the adjustment of our con nexions and dominions on this side and beyond the Indus, the position and bearings of our foreign policy, the revision of our domestic taxation, the reform of our fiscal establishments, especially the Customs, and the careful retrospect of our financial system (all of which must, in a shape more or less substantive and direct, come under the deliberation of the Legislature in the en suing session)—we have no wish to see subjects of this vital ,magnitude sacrificed to defective arrangemerits and deficiency of time, which a little previous management may surely obviate. Accounts from Madrid of the Ist announce the arrival of Mr. BULWER, the new British Envoy, on the Alst ult. He shortly afterwards had an interview with M. BRESSON, the French Minister. On the 2d, the Marquis de MIRA.. FLORES was to give a grand soirée to M. and Mme. BRESSON, to which the other Foreign Mi nisters had been invited. New Year's Day was observed as a close holiday, and the Bourse, con sequently, was closed. Most of the Paris papers contain accounts of the procession of students to the Hotel Laffitte, to congratulate the senior member of the Cham ber on the speech which he delivered a few days since. Some of the journals reckon the number of young men who joined in procession at 300, and others at 500 and 1,000. The display gave some alarm to the authorities, and a considerable number of troops were un der arms during the night of Friday The police, too, watched their movements, and captured a few of the most noisy. The Journal des Debats gives the following account of the affair :—" A newspaper announced yesterday morning that M. LAFFITTE was to receive a visit of felicitation from a certain number of students, on account of the speech which he delivered last Saturday week in the Chamber of Deputies. Accordingly groups of students met yesterday morning at the Place de Pantheon and the Place de l'Ecole de Medicine, and in a short time about 300 of them set themselves in motion towards the Pont Neuf, which they passed in silence. Arrived at the Rue Richelieu, they saluted the new monument to MOLIERE with three cheers, and " Vive MOLIERE !" Having arrived at the Hotel Laffitte, they drew up in the court of the mansion, and about a dozen of them went into M. LAFFITTE'S house, and presented to him a written address. M. LAFFITTE after wards came into the court, and addressed to the students some words of thanks. On leaving the Hotel Laffitte, the young men seemed at a loss what direction to take, but ultimately some one called ' To BERANGER at Passy,' and accordingly they took that direction. In going along the Boulevard they were very quiet, but on reaching theloffice of Foreign Affairs they set up a most tumultuous shouting, amidst which the words, A bas GUIZOT,' were to be distinguished. The authorities were hitherto content to watch the procession, but they now in terfered, and a commissary of police, who was present, called upon them to disperse. Accord ingly they separated, but the greater portion of them came together again in the Rue:St. Honore, from which they proceeded forthwith to Passy. No disorder took place until they reached the house of M. BERANGER. On learning that M. BERANGER was absent, they expressed them selves very much dissatisfied, and commenced to abuse the police agents, who were present, call sinpgies'), out, bassom l e e f m them h a even to the Commissary of Police who had followed them. The police agents immediately arrested several of the creators of this disturbance, and o ouc rds ' (' Down w i t h t h e lifting thei r s ti c k s the rest dispersed. The number arrested is eight or ten. An invest igation is going on. The authorities, who were previously aware of the intention of the students, had taken steps to prevent disturbance ; but they were rendered of no avail, as the demonstration was altogether more ridiculous than dangerous." " A thousand or twelve hundred young people (says the National) went yesterday (Saturday) to M. LAFFITTE'S, to express the sentiments of patriotic sympathy with which the young men of the schools had received his speech in the Chamber of Deputies. T reward M. LAFFITTB has received for his noble applaud conduct; .but an the true friends of the Revolu tion and of the country, at his least, is the only publichin . With the exception of the Doctrinaire faction, there is not one in France who does not render homage to the firmness with which the respect able President of the Chamber recalled the principles of a revolution which he was not suf ficiently strong to defend against intrigue and cupidity." The following is the speech delivered to M. LAFFITTE..It was read by one of a deputation:— . Sir,—The youth of the schools agree with you entirely in the masculine truths which you caused to be heard from the tribune. They do not come here to felicitate you for having courageously fulfilled the duty of a good citizen, for having obeyed the noble inspiration of your conscience as a public man ; they come solely to give you a further proof that they are not so indifferent-to the affairs of the country as people pretend. The portion of the Patliament that lives by the budget only answered 3 , our prophetic words by irony and in sult, but the whole of France has learned them through the medium of the press. France will preserve the recollection of which now oppress her, them until the day when, having rid herself of the shackles her h e Neither smt raurgc Parliamentary e towards sFr whichan ce struggles p the froer cg h eo s i d g i' tet h e edn w oa fitnl the destinies taehrbee great abhorred o u rmtroeedpw, Restoration—thea rhd w iyte i n t wh h uhs th a yeeh. fiiysrsom appointed.uheetro ok pnkan memora blecwi en 3 that the popularity of your name served as a pedestal for the enthronement of a new regime. You have asked publicly, in the face of the same France, p ardon from God and man. Honour be to you, Si r . Histor y, severe and inexorable, will give every one his due ; and stigmatise with its fatal seal these that deserve it. " Before leaving this house, for ever celebrated, which was the centre of our revolution of three days ; may the young men who now address you be allowed t o e xpress one wish. The opposition of 1815 was organised and disciplined ; it upset the dynasty. May the present opposition organise itself similarly. May it march as one man. In that manner it will will in crease its means and strength a. hundred fold, and let it not doubt but that the whole country, that army of 34 millions of men, will march in a body after it." M. LAFFITTE answered--. " Gentlemen—l am touched with the sentiments you have expressed toward s me, and I th ank you f or them. Your patriotism, your intelligence, and your courage, have long been known to me, and perhaps you hav e no t f org otten that, in spite of the clamours of the party which d om i n ates to-day, I have been able to render to your service s , an d to y o ur devotion during another epoch, public and solemn justice. The revolution of July was then the word ! It has lost that dif- tinction since that time, by the ingratitude of some, and the carelessness of others ; and you know how people listen to those who have continued f a ithful to their promises and their engagements. I have recalled to the recollection of the Chamber the responsibility under w hich it lies in the face of dangers which threaten us, and corruption, which is disgraceful. The Chamber did not choose to understand me. As for me, gentlemen, I am nearer the grave than any of you are far from your cradles ; but to the end I shall do my duty; ; and my heart, I swear to y ou , w ill never cease to beat for the liberty and happiness of France." The procession then moved to g assy , the residence of M. B era nger, to invite him, it is said, ,t o pres ide at a meeting in honour of Moliere. But the administration of the Tartuffes and the police of the " infinitely little," did not wish for the fete. Disguised agents precipitated themselves upon the students as they left the house of M. Beranger, who was not at home. Acts of violence , which nothing cau just ify, were committed upon the young men, and several arrests took plaFe. Thus ended a day in which the young men had the audacity to manifest their attachment to the revolution. The Govern ment, which M. Laffitte aided to upset fourteen years ago, the "barbons" of Beranger, and the " Tartu es," and the Mar quises of Moliere, could certainly not have done more. In the Chamber of Deputies, the Committee appointed to draw up the address, are proceeding with their labour. On Saturday, in answer to a question relative to the collision between the Church and the University, the Minister of Public Instruction said, the Government would with all its power resist the pretensions of the clergy to interfere with the public education of youth. The reply was received very favourably The Minister of Finance also made a statement which gave satisfaction, and showed that there would not only be a surplus of revenue to the amount of 800,000 f. over the expenditure for the last year, but that the various deficiencies for the years 1840, 1841, 1842, and 1843 would be reduced to a sum of 350,000,000 f. (14,000,0001.) The Budget is to be brought on in the course of the present month. OPENING OF THE PORTUGUESE CORTES. LISBON, JAN. 3.—The Cortes were opened again on the 2d inst. by the Queen in person. The_ following is her Majesty's Speech on the occasion : Worthy Peers, and Honourable Deputies o the Portuguese Nation, With pleasure I see again assembled, in this respectable place, the representatives of the nation, whom the fundamental law of the State has invested with the noble character of legiti mate interpreters of the national opinion and wishes. With the view of learning from closer obser vation the wants of my people, I left the capital for some weeks, accompanied by my august Spouse, and two of my children, to visit the principal places in Alemtejo and Estremadura ; and I hope that that excursion will not have been without utility for the welfare of the people of those places, of whose love, loyalty, and respect for me, I am happy to make this public acknow ledgment. Since the solemn opening of the last legislative session, it has pleased Providence to grant, by the birth of a Princess, another pledge of secu rity to the Throne of this kingdom. _ I have the satisfaction to be enabled to assure you that I continue to receive from all allied nations sure proofs of friendship; and I fully trust that ere long the negotiations with the Holy See will be terminated without detriment to the rights of the Crown, and with due regard :to the wants of the Lusitanian Church. It is exceedingly gratifying to me to assure you that public tranquillity has not been in the least disturbed throughout the kingdom. In fixing the amount of land and sea forces you will attend to the national honour, interest, and security. Conformably to the dispositions of the consti tutional charter of the Monarchy, the estimates of receipts and expenditure for the ensuing financial year will be laid before you; and both in regard to this subject, and to the different branches of the public service, my Ministers will submit to you such proposals as may be thought expedient, and as experience may have shown to be necessary. _ _ _ I am fully confident that the Chambers will afford to my Government that co-operation which is to be expected from their zeal and in terest in the public welfare. The Session is opened. DESTRUCTION OF THE SHIP CAMBRIDGE BY FIRE. (FROM A CORRESPONDENT.) PLYMOUTH, JAR. 8, 1844.—The ship Cambridge, of Lon don, bound for Sydney, with a general cargo, being in Ply mouth Sound, run on the rocks at the back of St. Nicholas' Island, about a month since ; but was got off soon after with some little damage to her bottom, and was in Mr. Gent's yard, Teat's Hill, undergoing repairs, previously to her resuming her voyage. Between eight and nine o'clock on Sunday evening a fire was discovered in the after part of the vessel, as she lay on Mr. Gent's patent building slip. Alarm was immediately given, but the flames increased, notwithstanding the greatest attempts were made to subdue them. Close to the Cambridge was another large barque, and a vast quantity of timber and other inflammable materials, and the greatest anxiety was ma nifested lest they should ignite. In order to prevent this taking place it was proposed to launch the burning vessel, but as the tide was then nearly high, but falling, it was found that had they done so,at that period, she would have gone amongst a number of fishing and other vessels in Sutton Pool, and have spread the fire in that direction, so the launch was prudently delayed until, by careful calculation, the tide had fallen suffi ciently to allow her to ground in the mud a short distance from the yard, but clear of all other vessels. About half-past ten o'clock was the period chosen for this, when she was launched in gallant style, and presented such an appearance as never will be forgotten by the spectators, being on fire nearly her whole extent, and the flames gradually stealing up her masts and rigging. As was Conjectured, she grounded in the mud a short distance from the yard, and the engines had then abund ance of room to play on the burning mass. The flames by this time had approached nearly to the foremast, and it was deemed advisable to cut it away, which was done, but it unfortunately fell against and was consumed with the rest. By one o'clock the tide had entirely left her, and as but little water could be then procured to work the engines, the flames again acquired a fearful ascendancy. In the interim two or three explosions oc curred on board, of the powder. The flames continued till the tide returned in the morning, when the whole of the upper part of the vessel having been destroyed, they were put out by the rising of the tide. The engines belonging to the town were present, as were others from her Majesty's Dockyard and the Marine Barracks, most efficiently manned. Tke greatest exertions were used to save the vessel, but unfortunately all efforts were useless ; the vessel was completely destroyed. Thousands of persons thronged the quays and eminences in the neighbourhood. The night was exceedingly fine, the moon shining beautifully. The fire is attributed to the carelessness of the cabin-boy. A Cabinet Council was appointed to be held at three o'clock this afternoon at the Foreign-office, Downing street. The summonses for which were issued yes terday. The greater part of the Ministers were ex pected to attend. Lord Wharncliffe, and Mr. Glad stone, have not arrived in town. ROYAL INSTITUTE OF BRITISH ARCHITECTS.-- Last evening the members held their first meeting for the pre sent year, at their rooms in Grosvenor-street, Grosvenor square, Mr. T. Barry, F.R.S., V.P. presiding. A long and elaborate paper, communicated by Mr. Higgins, was read by Mr. Bailey, the Secretary, on the recent restoration of the spire of the church of St. Stephen's, at Vienna, a structur e of the German Gothic style, and ounded in 1144 by the first Grand Duke , of Austria. The paper went to show that the introduction of iron into architecture was now becoming common in Germany, in the construction of its new, and the restoration of its more ancient buildings. The total height of St. Stephen's church was estimated at 400 feet, the spire alone being 168. The total cost of its restoration being 13,5001. PREACHERSHIP OF LINCOLN'S INN.—The election for this office, which was rendered vacant by the elevation of the Rev. Dr. Lonsdale tto the see of Lichfield, is fixed to take place on :the second day of term, Friday, the 12th tinstant. There are no less than 17 competitors. The following is a cor rect list of the present candidates :—The Venerable Arch deacon Manning, the Rev. John Vaughan, the Rev. John Garbett, the Rev. T. L. Claughton, the Rev. Frank Hewson, the Rev. James Anderson, the Rev. Thomas Robinson ' the Rev. Dr. Hussey, the Hon. and Rev. Samuel Best, the Hon. and Rev. Henry D. Erskine, the Rev. John Edmund Cox, the Rev. Charles Edmund Wylde, the Rev. James S. Boone, the Rev. James R. Page, the Rev. William Harness, the Rev. Thomas Randall, the Rev. C. Merivale. LYNN.—INCENDIARY FIRE.—We regret to learn that two large stacks of wheat were destroyed by fire on Satur day evening, belonging to Mr. Corbauld, of Weasenham, and that there can be no doubt but it was the work of an incen diary. Previous to this taking place, our neighbourhood had been free from this disgraceful crime. DEATH or SIR C. E. NUGENT, G.C.H., THE AD MIRAL OF THE FLEET.—This gallant and veteran officer, who, it will be recollected, was an inmate of Charing-cross Hospital some time since, in consequence of an accident occuring to him near that place, expired on Sunday last at the residence of George Banks, Esq. , M. P. , Studland, Dorsetshire, at the ad vanced age of 86. We are not aware of the precise date of Admiral Sir Charles Edmund Nugent's entry into the Royal Navy ; but it must have been early in life, as we find his com mission of Post-Captain dated the 2d May, 1779. As a Lieu tenant, Sir Charles saw much service of a very distinguished character, as he served in the Bristol on the coast of Africa, in the first American war of independence. He subsequently commanded the Pomona, at the capture of the fortress of Omoa, and the register ships in 1780. He also commanded the Veteran, and in this ship assisted at the reduction of the French West India Islands, in 1793; since which time we believe he has not had much active employment. His flag promotion as Rear-Admiral took place on the 20th February, 1797 ; he was made a Vice-Admiral on the Ist January, 1801, and attained to the rank of full Admiral on the 28th April, 1808. He be came Admiral of the Fleet on the 24th April, 1833, and was nominated a G.C. 11. on the 12th March, 1834. His half-pay as Admiral of the Fleet was three guineas per diem. Sir James Hawkins Whitshed, Bart., G. C.B. (whose date of commission as Post-Captain is not twelve months subsequent to the late Sir C. Nugent), is now the senior Admiral of the British navy. FAILURES IN ARBROATH. — We are extremely sorry to state that several firms engaged in manufactures have been under the necessity of suspending payments this week, and we are much afraid will be followed by a few more. We have not heard the amount of the liabilities, but it must be very large, and from the bad trade of late years, we are afraid the assets will be very inconsiderable. The working classes had every appearance of plenty of work and ordinary wages, and from the general lowness of provisions, were expecting a better winter than has fallen to their lot for some years; but these unlooked-for calamities have blasted all their hopes, and left nothing but misery staring them in the face.—Montrose Standard, SUMMARY OF NEWS AND Vublit Optuton. " Who runs may read." FOREIGN. On Sunday the Royal Family of France went into mourning for twenty days, on occasion of the death of tho late King of Holland. On Saturday evening there was a " grand reception " at the palace of the Tuileries. Accounts from Athens, of the 22d ult., state that a riot took place on the evening of that day, and the mob set fire to the hotel of the Russian Ambassador. The Presse states that the report of the demise of the Duke d'Angouleme was circulated in Paris on Saturday, but that the news was not confirmed, and not gene rally credited. The Committee appointed by the Chamiser of Peers, to prepare the address in reply to the King's speech, met again at the Luxembourg on Saturday, when they heard the explanations of the Minister for Foreign Affairs and the Minister of Finance. The 64th list of the subscriptions paid into the Cen tral Committee of the Gaudaloupe relief fund has just been published. The total amount subscribed up to yes terday is 3,449,046 f. (138,0001.). During the last year the Tribunal of Commerce of Paris pronounced 737 judgments of bankruptcies, viz., 64 in January, 49 in February, 64 in March, 53 in April, 72 in May, 65 in June, 66 in July, 64 in August, 67 in September, 55 in October, 46 in November, and 67 in December. In 1842 the number amounted to 649. During the four weeks from the lst to the 28th ult. inclusively, the number of passengers who embarked from and landed at Boulogne was 3,512. At Calais, during the same period, the number was 959. A Joint-Stock Company has just been formed:at Paris for the destruction of rats and mice throughout France. LAW AND POLICE. At the Surrey sessions Henry Cox, aged 18, Acquilla Hopkins, aged 23, William Woolridge, aged 19, were in dicted for robbing George Sligo and llannah Sligo, his daughter, on the Queen's highway, at Chertsey, on the morning of the 24th of December, and forcibly taking from the person of the former a knife, a tobacco-box, and ten-pence in copper. The jury returned a verdict of guilty against Hopkins and Woolridge, and acquitted Cox. The prisoners were then sentenced to ten years' transportation. Joseph Brown, a cab-driver, was charged :at Marl borough-street with having caused shocking injuries to two horses, by driving in a reckless manner along Pic cadilly, while in a state of intoxication. On the charges being proved, Mr. Maltby said, lenity in this case would be wholly misplaced. He should, in the first place, inflict a fine of 101. for the public offence, order the de fendant to pay 31., the amount of the damage done to Petty's horse ; and, in addition, prevent him from again endangering the safety of the public by at once revoking his license. At Union-hall Jane Brown, the young woman charged with deserting her infant, and leaving it exposed in a basket at the gate of Kensington workhouse, was corn mitted for two months to the House of Correction. William Stokes, a labourer ; Henry Cock, a carpenter; and Thomas Gay, a baker ; were brought before Mr. Broderip, at the Thames Police-office, on a variety of charges of drunkenness, and with assaulting two police ment in the execution of their duty, and rescuing a pri soner from their custody. Thore was a more serious charge against Cock for stabbing Watkins, a police-con stable, K 310. Much conflicting evidence was given, when the magistrate ordered Cock to find bail, himself in 601. and two sureties of 301. each, for assaulting and wounding Watkins ; and the other prisoners to find sure ties each in 201., and two housekeepers in 10/. each, to answer the charge of assaulting Sullivan. C OURT-PASHIO NAB LE. Her Maje;t;;;Yhis Royal Highness Prince Albert will take their departure from Windsor Castle this afternoon, immediately after an early luncheon, for Claremont, accompanied by their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales and the Princess Royal. Only a limited portion of the members of the Royal Household will proceed to Claremont in attendance upon the Queen and the Prince. Viscount Melbourne left South-street, yesterday, for Brccket Hall, Herts, where his Lordship is expected to remain till Easter. His Royal Highness Prince Albert has lately pre sented 201. to St. George's Hospital, in addition to a former donation of 25/., given about eighteen months since. The new British and Foreign Institute is to be honoured at its opening with the presence of Prince Albert, who has consented to become its patron. The opening will r.ow be deferred till the return to town of the Noble President, the Earl of Devon, which is expected to be about the meeting of Parliament. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge and the youthful Princess Mary and suite are expected to arrive at Dover, from Germany, on Saturday, and the Duke of Cambridge will proceed thither to meet them on landing. MISCELLANEOUS. A statue of the late Sir David Wilkie, by Mr. Joseph, has just been erected at the foot of the staircase in the National Gallery. It is a standing figure, not quite the size of life, in white stone, placed upon a solid pedestal of grey limestone marble. General Espartero intends, it is reported, shortly to leave England, and to take up his residence at Brussels. On the Bth the ceremony of laying the first stone of the new church of St. John, Notting-hill, in the parish of St. Mary Abbotts, Kensington, was performed on the site chosen on the summit of the hill, known as the Hip podrome• hill, at the top of Ladbroke-grove, Notting hill, on the Uxbridge-road. The ceremony was per formed by the Rev. John Sinclair (Archdeacon of Mid dlesex), the vicar of Kensington, who expatiated in feel ing language on the spiritual destitution in that neigh bourhood, 12,000 of the inhabitants being unprovided with church sittings. On Saturday last the Gloucester Farmers' Club held their annual meeting in that city. Lord Ducie, who is one of the leaders, was not present on Saturday. The secretary read the usual report. It represented that the farmers had fallen off from the Club, and that many of them had found it difficult to make the two ends meet with present prices and burdens. A good deal of dis cussion followed, and opinions were expressed that the example of Essex ought to be followed in resisting the efforts of the League to beat down agriculture. At Tullamore (King's County) Sessions there were 517 applications for license to keep arms, and only 12 rejected. The Dublin Evening Post of the 6th announces that an " aggregate meetin2; of the Catholics of Ireland is about to be convened for the purpose of denouncing the grievous wrong and the gross insult offered to them by the Crown, on the recent occasion of reducing the spe cial jury list?' Mr. Steele summons the Duke of Wellington, Sir R. Peel, Sir J. Graham, and Lord Lyndhurst, as wit nesses on his trial. ARRIVAL OF THE CLYDE WEST INDIA STEAMER. SOUTHAMPTON, WEDNESDAY, EIGHT O'CLOCK, A.M. The Clyde Royal mail steamer, from the West Indies, with the mails, is now coming up the river. Her mails will be' landed, and dispatched by a special, or the 11 o'clock train, so as to be delivered in town to-day. She is four days over due. LLOYD'S SHIPPING.—(THIS DAY. LoNnorr, JAN. 9.—Wind, fresh breeze from S. to S.E. and cloudy. DEAL, JAN. B.—Wind N.W. to W., moderate ; r.3t. N.N.W. to N.N.E., fresh breeze.—Arrd. George Fyfe, Pyke, China; Diamond, Dempster, Berbice ; Mary Caroline, St. John's, New Brunswick. Sid. Diadem and John Scott, Cape of Good Hope ; Islander, Barbadoes ; Donna Alaria, Antigua ; Perthshire, Savannah, with the rest of the outward bound. TORBAY, JAN. B.—Sld. Turenne, Para; Jean Morice, Mar. tinique. DOVER. JAN. B.—Sld. Echo, St. Thomas. PORTSMOUTH, JAN. B.—Wind N.W. to N.—Ski. Lady Kinnaird, Calcutta; Duke of Bedford, Madras ; Duke of Sus sex, Cape and Batavia ; Diamond, Valparaiso; Erin, Domi nica ; David Lyon, Jamaica ; Quebec, New York. CORK, JAN. 6.--Arrd. Resistance (transport), St. John's, New Brunswick. Sailed Freeman, for Jamaica. RAMSGATE, JAN. B.—The Norwegian schooner, Nicoline, which came off. the patent slip, on the 30th ult., has been hauled on it again to-day, being leaky. BIDEFORD, JAN. 6.—The Arab, from Quebec, has been got off the beach, without much damage, and brought into Appledore. BARNSTAPLE, JAN. 7.—Arrd. Two Brothers, Carpenter, Newfoundland, , PLYMOUTH, JAN. B—Wind calm.—Sld. New Zealand, Ceylon. The Cambridge, Turpie, repairing, took fire last night, and was run into the Pool, where she burnt to the water's edge. FALMOUTH, JAN. B—Wind N. to N.N.W.—Arrd. Water witch. Keitch, after striking on the outer rock of the Manacles. SOUTHAMPTON, JAN. B.—Arrd. Theira (steamer), Gib raltar, left 31st ult. MILFORD, JAN. 7.—The Orbit, Robinson, from London to St. John's, New Brunswick, put in here to-day, with loss o f bowsprit, foremast, mainmast, sails, &c., having been struck by a sea, on the 24th ult., in lon. 31. MARGATE, JAN. B.—The greater part of the cargo of the Ocean, from Sierra Leone, has been saved in a damaged state The wreck will be sold to-morrow. LIVERPOOL, JAN. B.—Wind N., modek•ate.—Arrd. Frank.. lin, Thomas and Constantine, Sampson, New Orleans.. Arrd. off, a ship in tow of two steamers, supposed the John Cum ming. Sld. Livingstone, Calcutta ; Thistle, Bombay ; Ferris, Buenos Ayres; Kate, Rio Grande; Invoice, Rio Janeiro; Mary Hannah, Africa; Parker, Demarara ; Countess Durham, Guadeloupe ; Agnes, Jamaica ; Challenge, Texas ; Charlotte Harrison, Drooma, and Wolfville, New Orleans ; Satelite, Mobile; Sir H. Douglas, Savannah; Calista, Hot tinguer, and Montezuma, New York. SHIELDS, JAN. B.—The Harmony, Citizen, and Ann (light colliers), are all on shore on the Herd Sand. - - FREE CHURCH MISSION TO AMERICA.—By ap pointment of the Free Church Assembly's Commission, our townsman, Dr. Bums, left last night on a mission to the United States, in behalf of the religious body he stands con nected with. '[he Rev. Gentleman goes out to America as a companion to Dr. Cunningham, for the purpose of explaining the position of the Free Church of Scotland, and for collecting funds for its support. We believe it is the intention of this deputation to continue in America for about four months, and not to return sooner than for the sitting of the Free Assembly in May next.— glasgow Saturday Post. If England paid her National Debt, it would take 461. 9s. 2d. from each person to pay it ; it would take 111. 9s. 2d. from each Frenchman to pay the debt of France ; it would take 55/. Bs. 4d. from each Dutchman to pay the debt of Holland ; and 'it would only take 41. 13s. 9d. from each Pennsylvanian to pay the debt repudiated. THE WILL FORGERIES. RE-EXAMINATION of BARBER and FLETCHER. MANSION-HOUSE (THIS DAY). The re-examination of the prisoners Barber and Fletcher, who were remanded on Monday week last on two charges of forgery, was resumed this day. The prisoners, it will be remembered, have been frequently remanded on the charge of uttering a forged will, pur porting to be the will of Anne Slack, and when they were last being brought up they were charged, in addi tion, with uttering a forged will, purporting to be the will of Mary Hunt; they were on that occasion remanded on both these charges. Mr. Clarkson attended to conduct the prosecution, Mr. Chambers appeared for Barber, and Mr. Ballantyne for Fletcher. At eleven o'clock the Lord Mayor took his seat upon the bench. His Lordship was supported by Mr. Alder man Humphery. Shortly afterwards the prisoners W. H. Barber, and Joseph Fletcher were brought up in the custody of Forester, the officer, and placed in the dock. Mr. Clarkson then called Mr. Alfred Dunn, who deposed—l am supervisor of births and deaths at the Belgrave district. I produce the register of the death of Ann Slack. I received it from Mr. Chappell, the superintendent registrar. Mr. W. Price Jordan—l am a surgeon, and reside at 9, Lower Belgrave-street. lam registrar of births and deaths for the Belgrave district. On the 25th February last I was called on to register the death of Ann Slack. As far as I can possibly recollect Fletcher is the man who called on me. I believe him to be the man. He stated that he came to register a death—the death of Ann Slack. I asked when? He said on the 17th February. I asked where ? He said in South-terrace, No. 8. On his naming No. 8, South-terrace. I said I did not know such a place in the district as South terrace. I asked him if he meant a row of houses near Wooden-bridge, which have no name, but are called Terrace, and sometimes Kent-terrace, and are a continuation of South-place. He said yes. I ob served that I did not think there were eight houses there. I then entered the name, date, &c. as follows :—" Ann Slack, South-terrace, female, 68 years of age." When I asked the cause of death, he said gout. I asked if it was gout in the stomach, as persons did not usually die of gout. He said she had been suffering from it for many years. I then inquired if he had been present at the death, or in attendance. He said he was present at the death. I then asked him his address. He gave No. 4, James-street. I asked where. He said Commercial road. I said I did not know James-street, Commercial road, Pimlico, but that there was a Robert-street, Com• mercial-road. I said there were two other Commercial roads, London, which did he mean? He said Commer cial-road, East, and I entered it accordingly. He then signed his name Robert Hunt in my presence. I finished the entry, and gave him a certificate for the undertaker and clergyman. On 14th March following, a woman in mourning came to me for a certified copy of the registry of the death. I delivered one. Since this inquiry has been going on I accompanied the Governor of Giltspur street Compter to the cells of different prisoners on going his rounds. It was yesterday three weeks. I went into six or eight cells, in some of which there 'were several prisoners. I went to the cell where the accused (Flet cher) was confined, and as soon as I saw him I said he was the man who had made that entry. Mr. Ballantyne—With whom did you go? Witness —The Governor. Mr. Edward Alfred Grattan—l am a clerk in the Lon don and Westminster Bank. On 22d March, 1842, Fletcher opened a deposit account with the Southwark branch of the bank. I have been in the habit of paying his cheques and have seen him write. I believe the sig nature "Rob. Hunt," to be his writings,somewhat disguised. (The 1,0001. note, No. 91,492, dated Feb. 1, 1843, was then placed in witness's hand.) I perceiie some of " Fletcher's handwriting in that note. The words are " Emma Slack, 7, Francis-street, Tottenham-court road." I now hold in my hand a note for 1,0001., and another for 5001. On the 1,0001. note I see some words in Fletcher's handwriting, and the same on the 5001. note. Cross-examined by Mr. Chambers—Fletcher began keeping accounts with us in Feb., 1840. He had two accounts. I could find out easily the numbers of any notes which he may have deposited, but I cannot do se without the orders of my superiors. John Milton—l am one of, the pay-clerks of the Bank of England. The 1,0001. note produced was brought into the Bank of England on the 13th of April in the last year ; at least, I imagine so, for I paid to Emma Slack a thousand sovereigns for a 1,0001. note, as the entry in the book shows. I have no recollection o f the person to whom I paid it. Mr. Grattan re-called--On the 13th; of April in the last year there was paid into our bank, to the account of Fletcher, 1,0001. in gold. He paid it in himself. Joseph Deuner—l am a clerk in the Tellers'-office at the Bank of England. On the 10th of April a 1,000/. note was brought into the Bank in the name of Slack. I gave 500 sovereigns and a ticket for a 5001. note. By Alderman HUMPHERY—The name "Emma Slack" was written on it. 13;" Mr. Clarkson—On the 16th of April a 5004 note came into the Bank in the name of Emma Slack. I paid it in gold. • Mr. Grattan re-called—On the 10th of April, 1843, there was paid into the account of Fletcher in our branch of the Bank 500/. in gold by Fletcher himself. On the 18th of April there were paid in to his account 4801. iu gold and a 201. note. Fletcher paid in that himself. William Taylor called, and examined by Mr. Clark son.—Was one of the assistant pay-clerks in the Bank of England. On the 10th of April, last year, received the ticket produeed of payment, of the sum mentioned. • He posted the sum stated in his cash-book. He gave the ticket to Mr. Williams, who paid over a note for 500/., No. 41,856, dated Jan. 2, 1843. Mr. J. Williams called—Was also one of the pay' clerks of the Bank of England. He confirmed the evi dence of the preceding witness, as to the payment of tt 'note of that amount, and the same date and number. This was the whole evidence on this case. Mr. Clarkson then said he was prepared to go into another, and a third case against the parties. He should not go at any length into the details of that case, or to give mor e than' what would be consider e d reasonable evidence, that there had been a forgery of the will of 16 Miss Eliza Burchard. With respect to both the parties , charged, he proposed to show that the certificate of the death of the said Eliza Burchard, We s a forgery. He held in his hand a book just published' which had created some interest, and which he had ne doubt had not escaped his Lordship's perusal ; that pub' lication was the report of Mr. Chadwick on burials la towns and cities. In one passage he pointed out the defects in the mode of the registration of deaths. N° s only had frauds occurred within the knowledge of She writer, but he seemed to speak somewhat prophetically of cases precisely similar to the subject matter of the case then before them. He said, " cases of registrations in which false statements had been made, had been al' ready detected ; some made with the view of obtaining succession to property ; but there had also been cases of false registration among the labouring classes, of the places of death, in order to gain interments in certain districts or parishes. False deaths had also been regir tered in order to defraud burial societies, and the cern' ficate of the Registrar used in order to obtain money from these societies." After stating that the work wend on to mention other means of fraud, Mr. Clarkson c alled Mr. Seton, the same gentleman who produced tho slve former wills. He now produced a will purporting to be tha t of Miss Eliza Burchard, of Cooper-street, Westm'ister' afterwards of Rostock, _Mecklenburgh, Germany, after; wards of Bond-str ee t, Bath,,and 8, Broad-street, Bristo , ' and of other places, spinster. The will appeared to b e in the same handwriting, and the same in appearance as the others. Mr. Cox called—Was partner in the firm of Messrs' Jennings, proctors, Doctors' Commons. Believed 1 ' was in 1841 he first became 'acquainted with Barber On the 9th of June in that Sear he called on him, ac companied by a female. He received from Barber as account of the testatrix. Received from him also th e date of the d ea th, 21st of March, 1841. He receive" - from him the amount for which the will was to be proved and believed he filled up the usual Stamp-office certificat e for that amount under 2,000/. He sent the pro bate t 0 Mr. Barbe r ' s o ffi ce. There had been a small admie fr l a r tration tran sac ti on w i th him in the same month. Pe received from Mr. Barber a cheque and the probate to the amount of 40/. Cross-examined by Mr. Chambers—Could not rece lfr lect the description of the female, whether she we-` lady-like person or not, who accompanied Mr. Barba'.• Was originally introduced to Mrs. Barber throtse.' brother of his (Mr. Cox's). Mr. Noble called—Was assistant-accountant at thcei Bank of England. On the 22d June, 1811, rem enibe re ,,. a person coming to receive some dividends on Vi l l e . and-a-Half per Cent. Stock, accompanied,' by a f elnn a lc He produced an order from the authorit',es of the Be - 0 • to return to the Bank the amount that had been g ive „, up to the Commissioners for the Re duction of the r ., tional Debt, and to transfer that - stocksgain to the P h e o ties applying for it. The account purported to be t of Eliza Burchard. No diy that stock since 1823, dividends due amounted he , ! idends had been received en 446/. ss. He distineily recollected Mr. Barber as ! t i; person who accempanied the female. Therelwas i e t , t ify Hill, of the- Stock Exchange, who attended to iue- . 0 0, Mr. Barber. Ile attended on his (witness's) according to the usual custom of the office. Delivery afterwardsay- a direction to the chief cashier for the P o f ment of the 446/. ss. to Mr. Barber, in the Pre sence the woman who accompanied him. Cross-examined by Mr. Chambers—The cours e business is, when they do not know at the office the Per . ' son who applies for payment, they procure an es a applicati fication of the person from another party—such stock-broker for instance. In the p resen t case Air. B" ber was identifi e d b y M r. H. Hill, the stock-brokar• S 1 OT ;i c l l l)let" ei ' v n(astl ettolllin Pkrt : Peak j not t ()nl e t6 4t 4.11 . - 4 Peak 0 THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY Ei ENING, JANUARY 1844.