The Sun. — London, England, 1844-12-31 00:00:00

COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY LIFE. On Saturday next will he published, post Bvo., 109.64. cloth, THE COLLEGIAN'S GUIDE; or, Recollec tions of College Days : setting forth the Advantages and Temp tations of a University Education. By - 31.1., - Col lege, Oxford. London : Longrnan, Brown, Green, and Longmans. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. Immense Holiday Attraction. MN EVENING will be performed Balie's grand Opera, THE AI:OUTER OF ST. MARK. After which will be repeated the Grand Christmas Harlequinade, ailed PUCK'S PANTOMIME; or, Harlequin and Robinson Crusoe. Ile principal characters by the unrivalled pantomime artistes, Messrs. W. H. Payne, Wieland, T. Matthews, Howell, and Miss 'arson. SCENE 1. An " Attic" Story. Author (In distress for many things, but principally for a pantomime subject), Mr. Hance ; Puck (Envoy n'om the Court of King Oberon, with powers to pro vide the usual Christmas fun for "Children all, both great and small," Miss A. Payne. How I'uck gives new life to the author by giving life to his attic, which occasions an extraordinary stir on the pro mises, and introduces an extensive circle of old acquaintances; Is ,w Messrs. Puck and Author form themselves into a Committee of Taste, and decide in favour of Robinson Crusoe. • SCENE 2. Coast of the island'on which Crusoe was wrecked, with the ship high and dry, the ocean slumbering in the back ground, the crabs, &c, wide awake in the fore ground. Robinson Crusoe, Mr. W. H. Payne. How Crusoe pays a morning visit to the wreck ; his private opinion of the useful and the useless ; how he is astonished by an unceremonious visit from the Caribee Indians, and how he de termines in his turn to astonish them. SCENE 3. Interior of the island. King Paribo (Autocrat of all the Caribees, having a passion for Princess Tooraloora, and being in a passion with everybody else), Mr. T. Matthews; Hankipanki (his club-bearer, an office equivalent to mace-bearer to the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor of London), Mr. Howell ; Prince 1 arramatta, after wards " Friday" (King I'ariboo's young brother, and old rival, con temned to the cage during her Majesty's pleasure), Mr. Wieland ; ?rlnce.ss Tooraloora (intended by Parit;oo for himself, but intending terself for his brother), Mr. Johnson. How, preparations being made for a Caribee Pic-nic, Crusoe, fired with indignation, fires a volley— how Pariboo and Hankipanki jump out of the flying-pan into the fire, 1.e., the water. SCENE 4.—Exterior of Cavern on Sea Shore. San Domingo Billy (the celebrated Pacific Shark, netted expressly for the occasion, in hopes of his turning out " a great catch"), Mr. Longswallow. how Pariboo and Hankipanki bolt from San Domingo Billy, and how Billy bolts them—how Crusoe and Friday go out fishing—how they have a " glorious nibble"—and how, the fish being landed, lands its two insides—and how the exterior of the cavern naturally changes to SCENE s.—lnterior of Cavern, with Bird's-eye View of Robinson Crusoe's Farm. How Crusoe and Co. give the Caribees the go-by— how Pariboo and his warriors, to the tune of " Follow, follow over mountain," set off in pursuit—and how it is supposed they were lost in fog, which will account tbr their not arriving earlier at SCENE 6.—The House that Crusoe built. N.B. The premises may be viewed nightly with tickets, apply to Mr. Parsons, Box office, from ten till six. How Crusoe does the honours of his hut to the great Princess and her little brothers—how he gives Friday his first lesson in " Mrs. Glass's Domestic Cookery"—how the jollifica tion within is suddenly interrupted by the Indians from without ; In short, how the appearance of Puck leads to the disappearance of the hut, and then to the change of the Old Wreck to the Jolly Young Waterman and Crusoe's Departure for London-bridge. SCENE 7. Exterior of Music Shop and Artificial Arms and Legs Manufactory; Duet, in two fiats, tune, " Here we go up, up, up, here we go down, down, down ;" Roman Gladiator versus British Gladia tor ; a clear stage and no favour ; patent violoncello, warranted to play on Itself grand discord. SCENES 8 and 9. Curriers and Fancy Leather-dressers, and Throne room in the Palace at Morocco ; bow to leather Morocco and how to dress its leather ; how to hide yourself to avoid hiding by another — a whole skin is better than a skin in holes. SCENE 10. Exterior of Insolvent Debtors' Prison; Remember the poor Debtors ; Knockers an 1 bells versus thieves ; Somebody's coming ; Poor debtors and heardhearted creditors ; the tables sud denly turned by an Act of Parliament ; Change of the Premises to SCENE 11. Baths and Wa.shhouses for the Labouring Classes; " Ladles of the Round Tub:" Soap at a premium Mangling done here; Arrival of" the trades of London, with their respective young ones ;" The bell invites us ; Wives go to (Eimer ; Husbands go to bath; Boiling water versus cold water cure ; The washing-tub in a storm, and general confusion. SCENE 12. Lamp and Chandelier Shop and Lodging-house ; " Catch him who can,".or Harlequin here, Harlequin there, Harle- quin everywhere ; Bagged at last ; " Off with his head, so much for Harlequin ;" Eight heads better than one; Patent self-lighting Chandelier. " The happy family we all know so well, " The still happier family we all love so well." SCENE 13. A Stene Quarry ; A monster meeting, with a tail and without one ; How to convert a blockhead into a great man ; Art and Commerce lend their assistance to produce SCENE 14. A. most extraordinary 'Change, leading to a still more extraordinary one, viz., SCENE 15. Grand emblematical and national tableau of leer Majesty christening the Royal Exchange. THEATRE ROYAL, HA YMARKLT. Lessee, Mr. B. WEBSTER. THIS EVENING, DECEMBER 31, Will he performed a New and Original Comedy, in Five Acts, called OLD HEADS AND YOUNG HEARTS. Colonel Rocket Mr. S. rickland ; Littleton Coke, Mr. Charles Nfathe••• Tom Coke Mr. Webster; Bob, Mr Buckstone; Jesse Rural, Mr. W. Farren ; the Countess of I on•pion, Mrs. W. Clifford ; Lady Alice Hawthorn Madame Veatris; Miss Rocket, Miss Julia ;:eniu.tt. After which, a New Grand Musical Fairy Extravaganza, entitled GRACIOSA AND PERCINI T. sing Uxorious, Mr. J. Bland ; Princess flra.:icsa, Miss Jul a Bennett ; Percinet, Miss I'. Horton ; Duchess Groguon, Mrs. To conclu!e wi,h a Grand MOVING DIORAMA ; or, PIC. TORIAL TOUR lN S IVITZERLAND. Private Boxes, Two Guineas and One Guinea and a-Half each. ticktts and Places to be had of Mr. I. T. Ar cher, at the Box-office, er - uh Fen till Five o'Clock. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. Under the Direction of Madame CELESTE. THIS EVENING, DECEMBER al, Will be repeated ;by specialpermission of t'harles Dickens, Fsi.) r New Drama, entitled THE CHIMES. A Goblin Story of Some Bells that Rang an Old Year Out and a New Year In. Toby Veck, Mr. 0. Smith ; Alderman Cute, Mr. Wright ; Tugby. Mr. soil ; S r Joseph Bowley, Rart , Mr. Paul Redford ; Will Fern, Mt. Hudson ; Richard, Mr. Selby; Meggy Veck, Miss Fortescue ; Mrs. Chickenstalk2r, Mrs. Frank Matthews. To be followed by a New Comic Operetta, called the FOX AND THE GOOSE. Principal Characters by Messrs. Hudson, Paul Bedford, and Mrs Fitzwilliam. To conclude with a New Grand Military and Comic Christmas Pantomime, called CAT'S CASTLE; or, Harlequin and the Ki g of the Rats. Harlequin, Mr T. Ireland ; ('olumnine, Miss Loos. dale ; Clown. Mr C. J. Smith ; Pantaloon, Mr. San 'era. Prompter, Mr. Gallot; Principal Painter, -1r Pitt; Leader of the Bunt, Mr. Alellon.—Box—odice open from Eleven till Four. Private /Fixes to be had at the Theatre, and at all the principal Libraries. PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. LESSEE, Mr. J. M. MADDOX. THIS EVENING. DECEMBER 31, Will be repeated an Engli h Version of the ce'ebrated Opera Buffa, in Two Acts, called I'HE ITALIAN IN ALGIERS. Ihe Music by Rossini. Muttapha, Mr. P. Corri ; Lindor ' Mr. Allen Taddeo, Mr Leffler ; H a ly, M r . M a tt ac k s ; brabella,Mdlle. Helen C:ndell ; Elvira, Miss Grant; Zu!rna, Miss Brentnall. To be succeeded by a New Cotnedietta entitled THE WIDOW BEWITCHED. Mr. Clement Furnival, Mr. \Wier Lacy; Mrs. Lorimer, Mrs. Stirl.ng After which will be repeated a New Grand Romantic, and rather Operatic Burlesque Extravag .naa, called JOE MILLER AND HIS MEN. Or indoff, Mr. Compton ; Lothair, Mr. Oxberry ; Kelmar, Mr. Granby; Riber, Mr, Corri , Golotz, Mr. Walton; Claudine, Miss E. Stanley ; Ravina Mrs. Fosbroke. Stage Manager, Mr. re I. Wallack. Stage Director, Mr. Emden, Machinist, Mr. Edmund Bradwell. Dress Circle, sg. ; Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallo Is. Half-price at Nine o'clock—Dress Circle,2s. lid. ; Boxes, 2s. ; Pit, Is.; Gallery, Pd. Private Boxes. Uwo Guineas And One Guinea and a-Half ; Prosce nium Boxes, Two guineas and a-1-fa. Doors to be opened at Half_ oast Six, and the Performances to commence at Seven o'clock. The Box-ottice, under the direction of Mr. W. Massingham. Private Boxes and Free Adatisnons fur the Season to be had at the Cheat-e. Iift:AIRE ROYAL LYCEUM, LATE ENGLISH OPERA. HOUSE. Under the Management ot MTS. KEELEY. THIS EVENING, DECEMBER 31, Will be repeated THE CHIMES; A Goblin Story. Principal Characters by Messrs. F. Vining, Meadows, Diddear, F. Matthews, Collier, Emery, Turner, and Keeley ; Miss Walcott, Miss Ardc•i, Miss Grove, and Mrs. Keeley. After which, a New larec, called TO PERSONS ABOUT TO lie ARR v. Supported by Messrs. F. Matthews, Meadows, and Stoker M 43 Arden, and Mrs. Wigan. To conclude with a New Grand Operatic, Historic il, Romantic, Pantomimical, Burlesque Extravaganza, entitled VALENTINE AND ORSON. Principal Characters by Messrs. F. Matthews; Meadows, Wigan, Collier, f urner, Kinloch. Yarnold, and Keeley , Mrs. Wigan, Miss Arden, Miss Fairbrother, Miss Grove, Mrs Usher, Miss James, Miss Tamer, and Mrs. Keeley. PRICES Or A .oxen. 45., Upper Boxes, ;;e. ; Pit, 2.5.; Gallery, rid. Second Price—Balcony Boxes, 2.. ; Upper Boxes, Is. f3d.; Pit. Is. Private Boxes on the 14-31c , iny Tier rt.olding eight persons). Tao guineas. Private Boxes on the Second rier (holding eight persons), One Guinea and a-Half. Private . area on the Pit Tier (holding six persons), One Guirea. T .e Box.olice is open from Ten to Four o'Clock, under the direr. teen of Mr. Grogan, late of Covent-garden Theatre Great Hit of the Equestrian Comic Pantomime at ASTLe:Y'a ROY AL AM PHI'l HEATitE O ARTS, Proprietor and Manager, Mr. W BATTY. THIS EVENING, DECEMBER 31, Will be repeated a New Spe3tacle, entitled ThE ROYAL FOX HUNT; or, fhe Race- Flor>e arid Life's Course of Man and Steed ; introducing unequalled Natioi al Fete, Real Fox-chase on the Stage sod in the Circle by living Co and real Pack of Hounds, purchased by Mr. Batty of Mr Tatter.all, to realise this novel production. Epsom Races and other Sporting Features. New Scenes of the Circle, and entire change in the Feats of Horse manship. To conclude with a Grand Comic Christmas Equestrian Pantomime, e. lied HARLEQUIN AND JOHNNY G+LPIN'S RIDE; or, the Black Witch of Edmonton. Harlequin, Mr. H. Lewis ; Columbine, Mrs. J. W. Colyer ; Clown, Mr. T. Barry; Pantaloon, Mr. Bradbury. cting ana stag...menagar, Mr. W tsroaatuot. Box-office open from Eleven till Five. I essons in are Art of Riding by gr. R. gmith Mr. BATTY begs to a'quaint the Nobility, Gentry, and his Patrons, that, in compli,nce with numerous requests from the country, and by spacial desire, he has formed arranvernents to pre sent, during the Christmas Ito idar,,, a S ries of EQUESTRI AN 5.10RN , N0 FECES and FASHIONABLE DAY PERFORM- A NCEi, to commence at Half-past One, and term;nate at Half-past ""hree: consisting of Batty's S lend id Scenes of Equitation in the Circle. The Next Morning Performances will take place In-morrow, Jac. 1, and Fr day, Jan. 3. DAVIDOE's ROYAL SURREY tlik:A FRE As usual, the best Pantomime of the Semoa! A more brilliant triumph than ever before achieved ! ! Laughter, Wonder, and Delight!!! Tte First Pantomimic Performers of the Age, and Everything New!!!! EVE:NINit, DECf , :MBER 31, Will be repeated THE SEVEN AGES OF MAN; or, The End of Crime. Principal Characte rs by M r H enr y C orr l (from the Theatre Royal Edinburgh), Messrs. H Hughes, Neville, R Howler, Lewis, Heslop, and Seaman, Mrs. R. Honner, Mrs. Lewis, Mrs. W. Daly, aed Miss Martin. To conclude with an Original Worldly Comic Pantomime, called YOUNDi, • HILLINGS, AND PENCE; or, HARLEQUIN L. S. D. Harlequin, Mr. H. Harvey; Clown, Mr. T. Riagway; Pantaloon, Mr. Henry Corri; Columbine, Miss Slaiter. Places a id Private Boxes to be had of Mr. Kerschner, at the Box. uosce. from Eleven to Four. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE ExtraordiuAry Success of the Ncw Comic Pantomime. l'HiS EVENING, DECEMBER 31. Will he produced MARIAN SE; or, the Child of Charity. Su-- ported by Mr. o,baldiston, Henry Howard, J. T Johnson T. H. Iliforie, J. Herbert, E. Jones, %V. Searle, Mi ss Vincent, htiss E. Terrey, and Miss Treble. After which, the laughable Drama, enti'led WILFUL MURDER. To conclude with a New Grand Christmas Pantomime, entitled HARLEQUIN HOT CODLINS ; or, The Little Old Wonsan and the Demon of the Metal Mine. Harlequin, M. Chapino ; Clown, Mr. Blanchard; Pantaloon, Mr. Coney; Columbine, /Mille Le \rite. ... THE LATH FORGERIES BY A CLERGYMAN IN PERTH SHIRE.—AIthough the messenger dispatched after the Rev, Mr. Tulloch, to Liverpool, by the Procurator Fiscal, returned after a short chase of the packet-ship down the Channel, we understand the local banks have conjunctly sent off an officer, with proper authority and instructions, by the last steamer to New York ; and as the passengers at this season are often protracted by the packets, there is some probability of success. It is reported that the Rev. Gentleman's destination was Texas, and as no treaty exists betwixt Great Britain and that country for the giving up of delinquents, the only chance of his being apprehended depends upon the steamer reaching New York ere he leaves that State.—Perth Paper. THE FOG IN PARIS.—The Presse states, that an in tense fog covered Paris on Thursday morning. It was dispelled at the moment the King quitted the Chamber of Deputies and returned to the 'I uileries, but it became so heavy from two to six o'clock that the authorities were obliged to for Lid carriages to cross any of th e bridges. I t was difficult, a nd leed impossible, to drive a carriage through the thick fog which covered Paris at that time. Towards live o'clock the Place de Carousel presented a singular spectacle. I'ersons who wished to cross the place found thenast Ives in an opposite direction from that they wished to attain. Coachmen who had lost their way were heard to demand assistance, and for fear of accidents they remained stationary. Immediately a number of boys, furnished with flambettwx, made their appearance, and for a trifling gratuity extricated the pas sengers from, hqi_r difficulti es . At t h e same h our more than IGO carriateN were collected near the Pont Neuf, 's t where the j - vfe:re \ bliged to rem a i n , t h e coac h men from their . ..sees Nr?t, be g able to di scern t h e h eads of their Ot:i horses. ou - the levards the f og was scarcely per eeptibl _ t IVELSH.ji/QNr I a Ans.—.:fin ad: ance of 10s. p er ton has takfti4ila4V n the price of Welsh iron, while .: the pkce crrOttiffordshire iron has advanced it. Th e i trade appean49 - be more steady than it has been fot ; months, and it said that a general advance of wages is , dot unlikely to take place shortly.— Welbhman. . ' THE WEATIIER.-SUN OFFICE. DEC. 31. THERMOMETER, Lowest, 33 ; Highest, 41 ; Noon, 41 BAROMETER, 30.1.-WIND, N.E. NOTE.—The figures which follow the words "Lowest" and " Highest" denote the lowest and highest state of the Thermometer during the preceding twenty-four hours. All the other observations are made at noon. Water freezes at 32 ; 55 on Thermometers is marked "Temperate," and on Barometers "Fair" is generally placed opposite to 30, and " Rain" at 29 ; but there is no certainty of dry weather when the mercury falls below 30. HIGH WATER AT LONDON.BRIDGE THIS DAT. rnlng ... 44 minutes after 5 I Evening 5 minutes after 6. winning over to their ranks no inconsiderable portion . of the younger clergy, to say nothing of certain ecclesiastical dignitaries who saw—or imagined they saw—that their exertions had no other aim than to increase the temporal and spiritual authority of the Protestant Establishment. But gradually as they felt their way, the Tractarian heretics began to adopt a bolder course of conduct. The meekness and apostolic simplicity that had at first distinguished them slowly 'disappeared. They assumed a loftier— a more decided—a more imperious tone. What was at first mere zeal became downright fanaticism, as their successive Tracts abundantly manifested, each of which was of a more bigoted character than its predecessor. Still, however, they forebore from dis playing the cloven hoof, or outraging public opinion in too marked a Manner ; and it was not until the appearance of the famous Tract, No. 90, when they fancied that the pear was at length ripe, that they boldly threw off the mask and displayed themselves in their true colours. From that time to the present, their course has been one continuous, systematic out rage on common sense and the great principle of re ligious toleration. They have endeavoured to degrade the naked, straightforward, majestic simplicity of the Reformed Faith, by engrafting on it a variety of superstitious mummeries and showy ceremonial ob servances avowedly borrowed from Rome; and what is far worse, they have recommended the revolting practice of Auricular Confession, the worship of the Virgin and the Saints, and similar Popish usages, the attempt to enforce which cost JAMES the SECOND the loss of three kingdoms. They no longer deem it necessary to conceal their real sentiments. Not a few of them have already gone over to the Church of Rome; and of those who still keep within the pale of the Establishment, sharing in its emoluments while they disavow its tenets, several are constantly oc cupying themselves in sounding the praises of the antagonist Religion, and boldly proclaiming in their tracts, pamphlets, sermons, and reviews, that the further we have wandered from Rome, the more have we been mistaken in our estimate of the true Faith. When these Tractarian heretics first began to awaken public attention, we thought—in common, no doubt, with the majority of our readers—that they sere a set of mere recluse, simple-minded, unworldly theo logians, who meant well, and whose very excess of zeal sprung out of the simplicity and integrity of their character. But we no longer entertain this favourable opinion of them. We have watched their progress, and the gradual, artful development of their intrigues with some attention, and are at no loss to recognise in the whole course of their pro ceedings the presence of a subtle, jesuitical intellect, essentially worldly in its character, well acquainted with the springs of human action, and skilful and ready in availing itself of some of those weak nesses to which all humanity is more or less subject. With scarcely one single exception, all the moves of the Tractarians have been made with the judgment and dexterity of accomplished chess-players. Madrid journals of the 23d have been received. M. MARTINEZ DE LA ROSA presented on that day to the Senate a Bill for carrying into effect the treaty con cluded with Great Britain in 183.5, for the suppres sion of the slave trade. This till renders offences connected with the slave trade penal. The discussion on the Clergy Dotation Bill was resumed in the Chamber of Deputies. It was decided by 78 to 41 that the amendments of the Marquis VILLUMA and others should be considered, not as amendments, but as distinct projects of law. A proposition by M. REINOSA, to refer them to a Committee, was rejected, and the Chamber adjourned for the holidays. The example of the Marquis de VILLUMA had been fol lowed by 17 Deputies, who had resigned their seats. It would appear that the sons of Don FRANCISCO DE PAULA are the destined husbands of the QUEEN and her sister. Although the Queen-Mother advo cates the marriage of the QUEEN with Count 'IRA PANI, that event is stated to be no longer probable. The Paris papers of Sunday have arrived, and from lem it would appear that a Ministerial crisis is at hand in France. Not only do the Opposition journals treat the result of the Saturday's election for Vice-Presidents of the Chamber of Deputies as a triumph, but the Ministerial papers all but acknow ledge it as a defeat. On the first ballot, as we stated yesterday, M. SALVANDT, M. BIGNON, and M. DU FAURE, were elected three of the Vice-Presidents, and as neither of the other candidates had an absolute majority a new ballot took place for the fourth. On the second ballot taking place M. BILLAULT, the Op position candidate, obtained 150 votes, while M. DE BELLEYME, the Ministerialist, obtained only 145. The number of voters being 307, and the absolute majority required 154, another ballot between the two last-named gentlemen was adjourned to Monday. It is considered that M. Guizor was only saved from absolute defeat on this occasion by the adjournment of the ballot to Monday. There is, to speak in English Parliamentary slang, " a smart whip " for that day. According to the Constitutionnel, Ministers sent off couriers in the course of the even ing to require the attendance at the ballot of Monday of all the Deputies on whose fidelity they could reckon: In the meantime the check of Saturday was pro ducing its usual effects. There were various rumours of ratting, and although there is little doubt but that the Ministry succeeded in defeating M. BILLAULT on- Monday, yet, still their tenure of office must be con sidered as rather precarious, and it is not improbable that they may be defeated on the first great trial of strength. As one of the signs of the times, it may be mentioned that Count MOLE, who has hitherto afforded M. GUIZOT a sort of sullen support, has now openly declared against him. He is stated to have said, openly, at the Chamber of Deputies, that " at no period since 1830 had the dynasty of July received so severe a rebuff as at the royal sitting of Thursday, and that the only person who was the cause of it was M. Guizor, the most unpopular man in France." In the Chamber of Peers, too, on the same day, Count MOLE made a violent attack on the Go vernment respecting its policy in general, but expressly with regard to Morocco. The part taken by Count MOLE is the more signifi cant, as it may be considered in some measure indicative of the feelings of the KING, who is said to have felt severely the coldness of his reception by the Chamber, and to have ascribed this negative unpopularity to his protection of M. GUIZOT. The following extract from the Journal des Debats shows the disappointment and alarm of the Minister's friends at the result of the ballot of Saturday : " We will not affect to disguise our regret at this result. Without any doubt it would have been better if the majority were not divided, and did not give the Opposition reason to doubt the union of the Conservative party, and the hopes which, however, we have no fear of seeing realised. We have no fears as to the result of the scrutiny which will take place on Monday ; but we think it necessary to put the majority on their guard. Hitherto the evil done is not great. M. Dufaure, in almost all great questions, has voted with the Ministry, and has already been a Vice-President of the present Chamber—that is to say, of the Chamber which has always supported the present Ministry. We may, therefore, consider the no mination of M. Dufaure as a homage paid to his personal character, and to his incontestible merits. But the no mination of M. Billault would have quite another signi fication. Let the Ministerial party not deceive itself. If in nominating M. Dufanre it has to a certain point remained faithful to the line of policy it has always fol lowed, in naming M. Billault it would contradict that policy, and would be making the amende for all the rotes it has given for the last three years. M. Billault's p)si• tion in the House does not make his nomination neces sary. His loquacity, which is sufficiently elegant, has become eloquence only from the silence of the leaders of his party. He has spoken a great deal because those who pushed him forward chose to be quiet. M. Billault, therefore, represents a party which, for four years, is in a permanent minority in the Chambers and in the coun try : he represents opinions which hare been condemned in the loudest manner on all the occasions that they have been put forward, and which has prevented, to the utmost of its power, the re-establisment of order at home, and of peace abroad." The Constitutionnel is in ecstacies at what it con siders as a severe check to the Ministry. It says---- "To convince oneself of that, it is only necessary to compare the votes of this year with those of last. The 29th December, 1843, two ballots were sufficient for the Vice-Presidents. The whole four were of the Conser- vative party. Among them M. de Salvaudy and M. Lepcllitier d'Aulnay represented to a less degree than they do to-day the hesitations of the majority. M. Bil limit, who next to those elected had the greatest number of votes, was still below them 43 votes on the first ballot, and 31 on the second. This year two candidates only on the Conservative lists have been elected. We will not remind our readers that the first of these, M. Bignon, has on more than one occasion caused a great deal of displeasure to the Ministry by his reports on the budget ; we will not say that the other, M. de Salvandy, preserves a predilection for another Cabinet, but that he certainly was not the candidate which the most devoted friends of the Ministry would choose. It is sufficient to say that M. Dafaure, the Opposition candidate, was elected on the first ballot, and that M. Billault obtained on the second ballot five votes more than his opponent, M. de Belleyme. Six more votes in the first ballot, and four in the second, would have secured the election of M. Billault." The ballot of Monday is looked forward to with great interest. There have been several extensive failures on the Paris Bourse. On this subject the Commerce has the following paragraph : " The Bourse is at this moment a prey to great anxiety. It is known that one of the capitalists who frequent it has failed to the amount of 700,000 francs. It is to be feared that this is but the beginning of other disasters when the impending settlement takes place. The cause of this commotion is the great rise that has occurred in the public funds after the adjudication of the loan. Bitter complaints are made against the power ful banker who rules the market, and who is the author of all these misfortunes. It is he, say they at the Bourse, on every side, who had weighed on the funds, and kept them down at l ow p r i ces unt il l ate l y: it is he who, to prevent a rise which would naturally have taken place, declared to all he spoke to that he never would offer to take the loan at a high price; it is he who, afterwards, gave such an impulse to the funds that they reached three francs after the adjudication of the loan. It is not our province to take up the cause of speculators imprudent enough to struggle with 'such an ascendancy; but these vicissitudes, and their ruin ous consequences, fall upon trade, and react upon its transactions. Is it not deplorable that the Govern merit should, by its complaisances and its concessions of every description, have suffered an influence to arise powerful enough thus to keep public credit under its dependence, to stop and make it recede one day, and give it an impulse on the next." The Journal des Debats rather conspicuously an nounces that Admiral DUPETIT THOUARB has arrived at Brest in the Reine Blanche frigate, and that he has immediately repaired to Paris. He had been expected to land at Cherbourg, where the National Guard intended to present him with a crown of laurels. The Opposition prints state that the Ministers haVing become acquainted with the intention of the Cher bouriens, M. de Macsax, the Minister of Marine, dispatched positive orders to Admiral DUPETIT TMOUARS to land at Brest, and not at Cherbourg. On board the Reine Blanche came to France the Neapolitan Prince-A(lmA and his bride (the Prin cess JANUAXII of the Brazils). Admiral DUPETIT Tnowills arrived in Paris on Sunday, and immedi ately visited the Minister of Marine. The Reine Blanche sailed from Rio on 24th October. HINTS TO HOUSEKEEPERS.—At this festive season housekeepers should be on their guard against the depredations of persons going about under the gu4v of seeking for situations, but really with the intdn tion of stealing whatever they can readily lay thtir hands on. Instances of this nature have come o our knowledge, where articles have been miss, when the stranger had departed. On leaving t hall, it frequently happens that greet coats or min brellas left there are stolen, and the loss is not di covered till too late. The only remedy appears to to watch the place-hunters, until they are fair] " out of soundings," for they are a very crafty at piratical crew. THIS DAY'S NEW SHERRIFIFS" COURT-(THIS DAY. RYLES V. GARDNER AND ANOTHER. There were this morning two actions under this namt', in one of whi c h H enry Ryles, in the other Charles Ryles, was the plaintiff. In both cases the ground qf action was the same, and in both the defendants wert Wm. Gardner and James Thompson. In the first case, in which Henry Ryles was the plain tiff, the principal witness was Charles Ryles, the plain tiff's father, from whose evidence it a pp ears th a t ht (witness) and his son, the plaintiff in this action, have been for some time in the employ of Mr. Ellis, a painter, plumber, &c., i n T av i s t oc k- street, C ovent garden, and that on the 30th of October, 1640, they (witness an plaintiff) had to carry two cans of linseed oil to the stall of a salesman in Covent-garden Market, to whose father they had been sold. They wire directed to place them in one of the cellars under the market, and having done so, they were accosted by the defendant (Gardner), who is one of the clerks of the market, and whose duty it is to take the tolls of the salesmen in the market, and to see that the various rules of the market are obeyed. The defendant thought that the witness and his son had entered the cellar with some sinister design; and not being satisfied with their expla nation, he desired the defendant, Thompson, to take them into custody ; and he, Thompson, being the beadle of the market, took them accordingly to Bow-street Police office. Having been confined for some time in the yard at' Bow-street, they were taken before a magistrate, and charged by rhompson with being found in one of the cellars of the market, being unable to give any satisfac tory account of themselves. On their explaining the cireurnstance, they were at once discharged, and the de fendant, Thompson, admitted that their explanation was satisfactory. On being cross examined, the witness ad mitted that on leaving the police-office he went with the defendant, Thompson, to a public-house, and they had some bier together. Policeman Carter, F 5, produced, and swore to, the police-sheet of Oct. 30, 1840, which contained the names of witness and plaintiff. This was the plaintiff's case. Mr. PETERSDORF, on the part of the defendants, briefly addressed the jury, and pointed out to them the fact that the plaintiff's father (the plaintiff in the next case) had been on friendly terms with the beadle (Thompson) after the assault and false imprisonment, which formed the ground of action. He (Mr. Petersdorf) thought that it had not been proved that either of the defendants had exceeded their duty, but even if they had, the action, should have been brought against only one of them, and a second action might have been brought against the other. Then Thompson could have been brought for ward as a witness for Gardner, and Gardner fur Thompson. There was no one present but Gardner, Thompson, and the two 'Wes. They had taken care that they should be able to appear on behalf of one another by bringing separate actions, but he thought that the circumstance of the friendly conduct of Ryles towwarda Thompson, taken together with this fact, showed that they did not consider that they had a just ground of action. The UNDER-SHERIFF having summed up, the jury, without retiring, found a verdict for the plaintiff—. Damages, 101. CHARLES RYLES V. GARDNER AND ANOTHER. Mr. PETERSDORF, who appeared for the defendants in this action also, proposed that the jury should not be troubled with a repetition of the facts, but that a verdict should be entered for the plaintiff, damages 101., as in the previous action. Mr. WILKINS, on the part of the plaintiff, assented to this proposition, and the jury found a verdict accord ingly. THIS DAY.) BAN(BKefoRreUMPr.TCComYmciLer HoutoYD.) IN RE CHARLES CASH. In this case the bankrupt, lately an ironmonger in Whitechapel, whose affairs have been frequently re manded, on the ground of the unsatisfactory nature of his accounts, was again put back till the 11th February, for a similar reason. The official assignee said that the bankrupt himself was convinced that the statements in his balance-sheet were not sufficiently explanatory, and therefore craved a little time to amend them. His HoNoun, under these circumstances, ordered that the accounts, satisfactorily made out, should be in the hands of creditors before that time. SURREY SESSIONS.—(THIS DAY.) (Before Mr. PUCKLE and a full bench of Magistrates.) The general Quarter-sessions for the county of Surrey commenced this morning, at the Court-house, St. Mary, Newington. There was a very numerous attendance of magistrates upon the bench, amongst whom we noticed the county Members. The calendar, although containing the names of only 33 prisoners since the last session for this county, was, in point of the nature of the crimes with which the se veral prisoners were charged, what might be termed a heavy one The various prisoners were classified in such a manner as to present the respective degrees of education possessed by each. Out of the 33 prisoners so classified, only four could read and write well, 14 could read and write very imperfectly, and the remainder were wholly unable to either read or write. Thirty-one of the prisoners for trial were charged with felony, the other two being misdemeanants. The grand jury having been sworn, The CHAIRMAN briefly addressed them. After the grand jury had retired the Court entered upon the usual county business. CLERKENWELL.—(THIS DAY.) William Benny was charged with attempting to stab his wife. The prisoner, on the previous evening, asked his wife to give him some money ; she declared she had given him all she had. She lett the house, and went into a grocer's shop, and was standing by the counter when she felt a thrust at her side, and, on turning round, saw the blade of a knife projecting from her husband's hand. The prisoner was held to bail for the sessions. SOUTHWARK.—(THIS DAY.) Elizabeth Hawes was charged with robbing a, very sanctified-looking man, named Edward Davis, of a. 7purse, containing a quantity of silver. The complainant said he was walking home st eadily the preceding night, when he was accosted by th o pri soner, who persuaded him to take her into a wine- vaults and treat her to some liquor. It was entirely , out of good nature that he consented to her entreaties. "And," added he, with a subann shake of the head, " she after wards had the ingratitude to thrust her hand iitto my pocket, and rob me of my purse and money." Mr. TnAILL—Was the money found on her? The policeman said that ho went to the spot on. hear ing the noise, but he found neither money nor pi arse on the prisoner. The complainant was fuddled.—(Lau : gliv e r.) Mr. TRAILL (to complainant)--You forgot tu t , m a te you were intoxicated. Complainant—Oh, yes, I forgot that ; but, I f e l t t h e hand in my pocket. Mr, TRAILL said that he should not co• Am i t suc h t I THE SUN, _LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, DECEM BER 51, 1844, case for trial, for if he did he knew he would be entail ing an expense on the county, and that she would get acquitted. _ _ The complainant, who appeared very-much disap pointed at the result, left the court very much chap-fallen. MONEY AND COMMERCIAL WS CITY, QUARTER TO THREE. There was a steady demand for Cotton at Liverpool again yesterday, at firm rates. Sales, 5,000 bales.— Railway Shares were supported, and a fair business was done. Birmingham and Gloucester, with New, 100 101 ; Bristol and Gloucester, 43 ; Chester and Birkenhead, 35 ; Eastern Counties, 151 4 ; Grand Junction, 225 ; Ditto, Half, 1124 1131 ; Liverpool and Manchester, Quarters, 51} ; London and Birmingham, 321. Shares, 39f; Ditto), Quarter, 274; London and York, ; Manchester and Birmingham, 521 ; Manchester and Leeds, Half, 53 521 ; Midland Counties, 1151 ; North British, 71. 13s. 9d. • Sheffield and Manchester, 97-1- ; South-Eastern, 401: 41 ; Paris and Lyons, 3i- ; Paris and Rouen, 414. There are no late arrivals to-day. We are informed, in reference to our remarks upon the new and expeditious mode of landing fruit cargoes, intended for London, at the port of Southampton, that the Railway Company has manifested decided indif ference to the interests of its proprietors, as, in order to command the advantage of having fruit cargoes dis charged at Southampton, proper carriages for their con veyance were promised, and although thousands of pounds have been voted since for other purposes con nected with the dock and railway, not a single carriage has been built for this service ; the consequence of which has been, that the sales of two important cargoes, adver vertised by Keeling and Co. on the 24th instant, were completely frustrated by detention on the railway, and great damage to the fruit was likewise occasioned by the want of proper conveyance from the ter minus to Monument-yard. This has entailed a severe loss to the importers, who, naturally indignant at pro mises been made and not fulfilled, decline availing them selves again of this mode of conveyance. until the Rail way Directors put themselves in a position to carry out the promises earnestly made, to afford every facility for this now important branch of trade. We may safely leave the matter, it is to he hoped, to that universal monitor—self-interest ; for undoubtedly the Directors must sea that they are nipping in the bud a new source of profit to the railway The Funds have been rather flat again this morning, Consols realising 1001 to 1001 only, and with but a limited business doing. The New Three-and -a-Quarter per Cents. have been 1031 to 1031. The Commissioners continue their purchases. Exchequer-bills have ben 625. to 645. premium. Bank Stock is 210} to 2104, being rather higher. The Foreign Investments have rallied a trifle upon the settlement of the account. Spanish Actives have been 27i to 28, and the Three per Cents. 384 to 1. Mexi can Five per Cent. Bonds have been 351 to 1 ; and the Deferred 15} to 1. Peruvian Stock has been 29 ; Co lumbian, 14k; Buenos Ayres, 39i to 40; and Brazilian, 89. Dutch Four per Cents, have realised 971 to 1. The Share Market bas been extremely quiet, but holders generally ask higher rates. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. (From the Official List.) Bank Stock 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities looii New 3i per Cent. Annuties ... lo3ii Consols for Opening Exchequer Bills. lid. lid. 1,0001. 5001. ... Ditto Small — Ditto Advertised ........ FLANDERS MAIL. (RECEIVED THIS DAY.) BRUSSELS, DEC. 28.—Their Majesties the hint and Queen w ill leave P ar i s on th e 30th , and arv v " at Brussels on the following day. Count Dietrichstein, the Austrian Ambassador to the Court of London, who leaves Brussels to-morr ow ' intended to make a longer stay here, but has been obliged to hast en hi s d e p ar t ure , b ecause h e h as r eceiv a notice that her Majesty the Q ueen o f E ng l an d w° lll receive the new Austrian, Ambassador on Monde! next, for the presentation of his credentials. At the commencement of the sitting of the Sell to-day Viscount Alill e y rea d a report on the proj ect of law relati ve t o th e t rea t y with the Zollverein. the Committee, of which he is the organ, adopts 0 1 , 1 1; mously this project o f l aw , th e di scuss i on o f wh ie is fixed for Monday. The Senate then proceeded t° the discussion of the articles of the project of law re i lative to the provi s i ona l cre dit o f seven millions ° { francs for the war department. After some obser rations of the Count de Ribeancourt on the Pr ° ‘ motions in the army, which he considers as W I numerou., the credit was vo t e d b y 29 to The Senate then passed to the discussion of s ° "i f other projects of l aw , a ll w hi c h were unanirn"sl agreed to ; one o f th em re l a t e d t o t h e cont i n gent ° the army, which is fi,ed at 80,000 men. TURKISH FRONTIERS, DEC. 12.—We.learn I° , o Bucharest that th e H os p o d ar h as g i ven hi s co n ant the marriage of his elde s t d aug ht er t o th e so n of th e President of the Divan of Wallachia, Alexander Philippesca, as it was believed by the public that the young Princess was intended for a son of the litt: podar of M o ld av i a . Th e reports respect i ng th 3 ( N o jest. of the meeting of th e P r i nces a t F oc k s horn gained ground. It was said that the two Princes in• tended to moot at Fockshorn with a Russian WI to deliberate on the necess ity o f a th oroug h reform the existing organic statute of Wallachia,:or at least °b the introduction of some new i ns tit u ti on , by whit , the defects of that stat u te m i g ht b e amen d e d.—Agr ,. mine Zeitung, Dec. 26. FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Mexican Bonds, 1837, 5 per Cent 3544 Ditto for the Account ... 35R4 Ditto Deferred Peruvian Bonds, 6 per Cent Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent., MO 274 28 Ditto for the Account. Ditto Passive Bonds 64 Ditto Deferred Ditto 3 per Cent 3834 Ditto for the Account. Dutch 24 per Cents Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates Ditto 5 per Cent.... PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK, RAILWAYS. PAID. PER SHARE. Birmingham and Gloucester 100 ...... 101 ...... to Bristol and Gloucester Cambridge and Lincoln Churnet Valley Eastern Counties London and Birmingham ...100 230 to London and Blackwall London and 8right0n.......... 50 ...... 524 London and South Western.. 414 ...... 764 DittA)NewConsolidatedBths 6 Ditto,New London and Croydon London and Y0r1........ ...... 25 ... .. 54 Midland Rugby South Eastern and Dover ... 334 Ditto New Trent Valley York and North Midland ... 50 Ditto, Extension Boulogne and Amiens 2 ...... 54 ...... to 5 Lyons and Avignon Paris and Lyons Paris and Rouen MANCHESTE it STOCK EXCHANGE, DEC. 30.—We have had a brisk market, at improved prices. Eastern Counties, Perpetual, No. 2, 225. 6d. ; Manchester and Birmingham. 53 ; Midland Counties, 115 ; Great Nor.hern of France, 2 1-16 2 ; Birkenhead, Manches ter, and Cheshire Junction, 64-; Blackburn, Burnley, and Accrington, 3i 9-16 ; Cambridge and Lincoln, 2; Churnet Palley, 3i; Huddersfield and Manchester B A H and Canal, 4 9.16 ; Trent Valley, 10 -2.; Dundalk and Enniskillen, 2i. MARKET NE S.-(THIS DAY.) BELGIAN FUNDS.—Bausans, Dcc. 21. Actua Debt, 2% per Cent., -- Rothschild's Loan, Five per Cent - Loan of Thirty Millions, Four per Cent... 9s Three per C , ent.......... --.— Thirty-seven Milli as, ditto ............. 78 .........-...-..-- (1844)..—.„... ..... Ige 3 1844..... ...... .........—.......—.---. IW BAT waltzE.:vs. SMlTHFlELD.—bsTaxseSfeaTio7l7ii, 3/ lOs t 9 41 15s Useful ditto, 41 16s to 51 4s ; fine Upland ditto, 5/ 5s to 51 lOs ; Clover Hay, 4/ lOs to 6/ ; Oat Straw, 11 16s to 1118 a ; Wheat Str,aw, 11 18s to 1/ 19s per load. A fair average supply, and a steady inquiry. CUMBERLAND.—Coarse Meadow Hay, 3l 12s to 4/ 16s; Useful ditto, 4/ 1i s to 51 5s ; fine Upland ditto, 51 6s to 5/ 12s ; Clover flay, 41 lOs to 5l 18s ; Oat Straw, 11 16s to 1/ 18s; Wheat Straw, 1/18s to 2/ per load. Supply moderate, and trade steady. WMITECHAPEL.—Coarse Meadow Hay, 31 108 to 4/ 106; Useful ditto, 41 12s to 51 4s ; tine Upland ditto, .515 s to 5/ 10% ; Clover flay, 4/10a to 6/ 4s; Oat Straw, 11 15s to 1/ 16s; Wheat Straw, 11 17s to 11 18a per load. Both Hay and Straw sold freely, at late rates. MaceltriAL The Colonial Markets re-open to-morrow, and it is expected prices will rule firm, although there will be tery little dsing till next week. SUGAR.—Tho stock of British Plantation, landed last week at the East and West India Docks, was 539 hhds, 41 barrels ; and there were taken for home consumption 643 hhds 75 tierces 34 barrels. The stock in the same places is 8,969 hhds 1,048 tierces 1,673 brill. Rum.—The quantity landed last week at the East and West India Docks was 95 puns 4 hhds. There wore taken for home consumption 122 puns 45 hhds, and ex ported 95 puns 20 hhds. The stock in the same places is 10,613 puns 1,218 hhds. Loan of City, 1843, Four per Cent. 1832 -- Society of Commerce, Four and a Half per Cent -- Bank of Belgium, Five per Cent 51% luueof 1841.,..„..„, ........... ... ..... ............._- -- ........... • • • 00000 .••••••••••••••••••••• —.Brussels Papers. Dee. 29. AUSTRIAN FU NDS.—TiENYA, DEC 21. Fire per Cents. Metalhques ............... Four par Cents. •••••••••• .....................««....»..«... Three per Cents. Bank ...... 165 2 ...Y r ' -.... Loan, 1634. Ditto. 1839 . TEA.—The market is very firm, and for Pouchong there has been a speculative demand, owing to the di minished imports this year. The stock of Tea in the United Kingdom is estimated at 39,500,0001b5. against 37,500,0001b5. at this time last year ; and the consump tion of the year is considered to be about 41,000,0001b5. The importation has been rather above 46,000,0001b5. Common Congou is about l ld per lb. TALLow.-1'.1.C. is 40s 3d to 40s 6d per cwt on the spot, and Town 43s 6d. - tazy's Loan COAT, MARKET. Prices per ton at the dol.& of the market :—Taylor's West Hartley, 27s ; West Wylatn, 26s ; Wylam, 25s ; W. E., Bell and Robson, 28s ; NV. E., Reid, 28s ; W. 8., Kelloe, 30s ; W. E. Adelaide, 30s ; W. E., Brown's Deanery, 30s ; Hunwick, 27s 6d ; W. E., St. Helen's Tees, 28s 6d ; W. E., Tees, 31s 6d ; Garnant Stone, 26s ; Graigola, 24s.—Ships arrived since last day, 21. RAILWAYS. The Northern, or Ferdinand I74N Gloggnitz ... ........... ......... Milan ll6 —4llgcmeine Zeitung, DEc. 24. ANTICIPATED BREVET.—The report of an early brevet daily gains ground ; indeed, when we look over the army and navy lists, and recollect the ages of the superior officers in either service, it becomes evident that we need some younger men to be raised to the higher ranks in both. In the navy, as we remarked last week, there are scarcely five men under sixty years of age among the first fifty on the list of captains ; and the greater part of this number, it has been shown to us, are above sixty-five. The same, we believe, may be said of the next fifty on the list ; thus, it must be manifest that the next promotion of flag officers, whenever it may take place, will, as we have heard is the intention, include the captains of 1810, which will be just forty-three, even if it does not go lower ; and this number, former precedents, together with the death of so many ad mirals (fifty, we think) since the last brevet, will fully authorise its being extended to. In January, 1837, the number of captains promoted to rear-admirals was 70 ; in June, 1838, 20 ; in November, 1841, 41. Hence, as upwards of three years have now elapsed since the last promotion, we have every reason to expect that the number of captains to be promoted to be flag officers will at least amount to forty-three, even it it does not equal the number that have died since the pre vious brevet. We might further remark, i❑ support of I the necessity of making the promotion of flag officers thus extensive, that out of the first fifty captains;on. u the list we have been informed that there are scarcely ten who have commanded sea-going ships for any period of time during the last twenty-five years and upwards; and that, moreover, out of the first two hundred there are full one hundred and fifty who stand in the same situa tion. Thus, with every sense of the gallantry and for mer professional reputation of these officers, we humbly think that after being from twenty five to thirty years on shore, they would not desire to be again brought into active employment at sea, where everything would ap pear so changed as to make their duties irksome and un pleasant to themselves, and set iously inconvenient to the public service.—Naval and Military Gazette. DEATH OF SIR MICHAEL Michael, who received the honour of Knighthood, by patent, in 1839, died at George Town, Demerara, on the 17th ult., after a severe illness. He was a native of Sumnock, Argyleshire. HAMBURGH fORSENHALLE. Dec. 27. c f, Sills. M° ll Austrian 5 per Cents. Bank Shares ..1660 Anglo-Russian Lean ll4 Russian 5 per Cent., Ist series, Certificate 105% I°l l Inscription, Ist series l O5 Russian 5 per Cent. Hope and Co., 3d and 4th Series •.. 99S ....'" Ditto in Certificates ..... . ............. .............. NS al i 4 New 4 per Cent. (18-10)....... ................ ....... ~,i; Dutch Actual Debt, 2.% per Cent. ... ...... ..... 63% °""' Ditto 5 per Cent. Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cent. Soainsh. New B per Cents. ..... •••• 2f2 , 3i S 6 Polish Bonds ...... .- New Tickets ... _ .... . Exchange on London. Hareburgh, Ono month . ...... . 13 64 Two m0nth5..,....,, 13 8 PRUSSIAN FUNDS.—BitiLix, Dec. 24. . Bills. }long , ' St. Schuh! Sch., 3% per cent.... ...... ...... 99% 99% Prussian English Bondi,lB3o, 4 per cent. "'" oat Exchange on London 6 23% 6 g7m Prussian State Gazette. Dec. 24. BURGLARY, AND CAPTURE Ur THE THIEF UNDER EXTRAOIWINARY CUMSTANCES. In the morning of Sunday last, the 22d instant' about on e o'clock, the family of Mr. Robert Wit' of Littl e Y e ldh am , were a l arme d b y a l ou d esp °. sion i n th e l ower part o f t h e h ouse , as of fire arms. Mr. It. M ars h, son-in -law of Mr. Cut ler, immediat e ly go t ou t of bed, and looking . at a back w i n d ow , p erce i ve d a quan tity of ile,* 6 Issuing from the back premises. He then arouseu other members of the family, and ran down sta irs al most in a state of nudity, when he found the h sr. o full of smoke, and the back part of it on fire. As sis v , ante soon being at hand, the flames were speediblyen. tinguished, and but little damage was done• ht, mates, now some w hat re covere d f ro m their kik observed that the premises had been e ntered by a 13 i ; win dow, which had been forced out, and that part °f t e: roof had been carried off from the effects of the exp l sion ; th e y a l so f oun d a l arge p oo l o f bl oo d, and trace n d spots o f the same t o a co tt age ne ar, in the occupati ° ,, of a man named Cook. On being called up, C 0 0" stated that his boy Haggai had just arrived bottle wounded, and nearly dead, alleging that he had sus' tained his injuries from somebody who had shot at Oa as he was coming over the Hall Green, but on Mr' Cutler confronting the boy, he acknowledgedlbl t he broke into the house and caused the disaster above described The boy's statement was, that he and another lad, named Dearsley, had the even ing before been to a raffle in the village, an d °n leaving they agreed to break in and rob ale, premises in question ; but they •effected window entrance . into the back kitchen by cutting a with a pocket knife, and removing a shutter; bu t , having got so far, they found further progress by bars and bolts, and finding nothing there to sul them, were about to depart, when he (Cook) ° i d " I'll see what's in the oven." In his search he fl s ri tit a canister, which he supposed to contain test # 7,. s instead of which there was in it about three-quar; of a pound of gunpowder ; on pulling off the lid 1 . 1! poured out a small quantity, which_ immediatelff arrested ignite) the whole. The explosion carried off par t (I d the roof of the building, forced out a window', al% set fire t o var i ous articles in the oven, beL i " e i , , doing oth er d amage • it also shattered the UviEj thumb, carried away part of his tongue, inflict e d a very l arge sca l p woun d , hi s h ea d, fah and eyes presenting a frightful appearanc.: A surgeon who was immediately sent for dressed in ; wounds, and a lth oug h ma i me d as above described, he is likely to recover, when he will be brought bell: the ma g i s t rates upon t h e c h arge. Coo k , a lthoug, young i n years , i s sa id to b e h ar d ene d i n crime; h, c-d e „, /$ P about 15 years of age, o f di m i n iti ve s t a t ure , and been sev era l t i mes b roug h t b e f ore t h e mag i stra tes an committed for minor offences.—.Essex Herald. Th to Civil Tribunal of the Seine wa s oc cupieu a j i i n Tuesday w i t h a case i n w hi c h L a d y D orot h ea C a m of the Rue d'Aguessem, 12, was plaintiff, en° —;„; Rohaut d e Fl eury , h er l an dl or d , d e f endant. The Pr, to be decided was simply whether a tenant hau ht , right to have c arr i ages en t er th e cour t- yar d at ruk f f in giving balls or soirks. It appears that the plain ti t has fur a short time inhabited her present apartra en at a rent o f I,ooof. a - mont h. Sh e i s i n t h e h a bit of re ceiving company every Friday evening, and n o objet tion was at first made to the carriages of her frie ° , o entering in th e usua l manner i n t o h er cour t-yard ' set down company until about three weeks eg o ; when th e l an dl or d i ssue d a pro hibi tion to prever i _ any car r i age enter i ng t h e court, or go i ng out, °err twelve o'clock. This step was taken at th e i n stigation c! a Mme. Sarland:ire, a lady keeping a boarding-house of the sam e p rem i ses , an d w h ose i nmates comp l a ined (.), the noise m a d e ever y F r id a y n i g ht. A servan t of ab l . person w as pl ace d i n t h e p or t er ' s l o d ge , to t h e ex clusio n of the old servant, who had filled his office for tweetY" eight years, and when the carriages arrived he IP T S I vented the m f rom en t er i ng . Th e resu lt was, that lA a l, D. Campb e ll' s guests were o bli ge d to a li g ht in her street, and cr oss th e cour t-y ar d on f oo t, to reach c . apartment. H er L a dy s h i p remons t ra t e d ; b u t, fina in ; all her efforts at an amicable arrangement useless, 55 herself o bli ge d to b r i ng an act i on to esta bli s h h e r rig'? After the c ase h a d b een th us s t a t e d f or the plaintiff, counsel was heard for the defendant and Sarlendiere. The advocate for the former declarrA that his cli en t h a d d one a ll th a t was i n hi s power t.° conciliate matters ; he had offered to construct at own expense a tent in the court-yard, to enable ). D. Campb e ll' s guests t o arr i ve a t h er apartme nt and e d cover ; he had proposed also to put down a carpet ; la it had b een agree d, on hi s suggest i on , t h at stra w 51 1011 be strewed un d er the gat ewa y an d i n the yard, i, order to deaden the noise of the carriages. This arrange ment, however, had afterwards been broken by . 14 ,,J I). Campbell, and the suit brought on. For Sarland:ere it Ns as stated that, if the soirees PI alluded t o were con ti nue d, she must be utterly 'line as she had l a id ou t 50,000 francs in founding a boardi n g: house, and a ll h er b oar d ers wou ld l eave h er if their rest was disturbed every Friday night f ro m nine at nig1.412 until five in the morning. The plaintiff's counsel, reply t o th ese o b servat i ons , sta t e d t h a t t h e no ise of O a ; carriages wou ld b e h ear d i n th e s t ree t j us t as wel l he in the co urt -y ar d, by adame Sarlandiere's boarders , t rooms of all of whom were on the s treet. But the Co urt had nothing to do with the feelings of these persoo9;: however respectable they might be ; the question 11 ,tt as to the right o f a l oca t a i re t o h ave carr i ag es enter tu," , court-yard when a so h ee or ball was given. The C ourt after having deliberated, dec dt d that Lady D. C" 1.91: " bell's right was incontestible, and in consequence On' demned the d e fe n d an t t o th e cos t s o f th e suit.---.Ga li r ;vibes Messenger. General Nott is rather better, though still in it ory weak state. The present severe weather is a great draw; back on his recovery, but it is condently expected th a with the return of mild weather hiss trength will increase* —The Welshman. Vice-Admiral Sir W. Parker Bart., G.C.8 ., 19 appoint e d t o succee d Si r Ed war d Owen in the Mediter ranean command, and will hoist his flag on board th e Monarch, 84.—Hampshire Telegraph. s'sol The Lords of the Treasury have granted ' part of the Parliamentary grant for public walks, f or to the C or p ora ti on o f S un d er l an d, i n a id of a plan „ .. f providing a place of recreation for the inhabitants ; only condition of the grant being, that the ground, whe n . purchased, shall be legally and permanently secured tr a place of r ecr eation fur th e p e opl e . It is intended ti° purchase and lay out Building The estimated cos; is about 3,0001., the remainder of which will be r'l by public pubsctiptioa, BRUSSELS, DEC. 27.—The Senate, in its yesterday's sitting, after an animated debate, adopted the project of law on corn, by a majority of 20 to 13. There has been a meeting at Ghent of the men em ployed in the sugar houses, for the purpose of drawing up a petition to the Chamber against the proposed law on sugar duties. The petition has above 800 signatures. THE HAGUE, DEC. 26.—According to the preli minary report of the Central Section on the projects of law relative to a modification of the first book of the penal code, thirty-three Members declared in favour of solitary confinement as well by day as by night, with hard labour ; thirty-five Members desire the introduc tion of the penalty of transportation to ono of our colonies, 4, 1 1 1 , V 144 ' • ' VI ' : I '''' 4 ‘ii ' 4 ). ': e ~ ''''' i ' S . , tifi t •1 N 1 .!' ' il l A P:— 4.llilik:i. Alki „ Airft nit 1 - 4 . 11 . 7r,fik s• - , 2 Ariellii...4l : ir 7 'S , -!•, - --- •!.qtredW L( ~' err, o l ti V. )7e - k SECOND EDITION. beening 2111 t LONDON, TUESDAY. DECEMBER 31, 1844, It was last week our pleasant duty to advert to the pacific and dignified speech of a Constitutional KING to the legislative representation of the great monarchy he governs. To-day we cannot forbear from touch ing on the contrasted topics suggested by our further examination of the advices from Madrid, and the rumoured discovery of a serious " plot"—so called— in Poland against the usurped authority of Russia over that much wronged-kingdom. The distractions of Spain, and the disquietudes of Poland, are well calculated to read a memorable lesson to factious slaves on the one hand, and stern and relentless tyrants on the other. Spain, unlike France, has a feeble SOVEREIGN, " constitutional" only by a title which can never be applied to her except in the utmost excess of courtier-like flattery, or in the license of the most sarcastic mockery. Poland has been, and should be now, like France—a great monarchy : but she has never possessed an efficient legislative representation, through which to address, advise, or control her KING. Poland has little in common with Spain, in the nature of historical asso ciations, except it be to have been paralyzed by the personal weaknesses and vices of - many bad kings. But, whilst the Spanish kings, from PHILIP 11. to FERDINAND VII., were, in effect, absolute, the Polish Sovereigns, from SIGISMUND I. to STANISLAUS AUGUSTUS, were kept, more or less stringently, in check by their tumultuous Diets, their military Nobles, and their Bishop-Princes. When they fell at last, lamented victims of Imperial and Royal treachery by the Partition Treaty, they witnessed at least the agonized repentance of those infatuated oligarchs, who, to compass the objects of their own ambition or enmities, had placed the destroying weapons in the hands of their unprincipled de spoilers. Spain, with all the palmy recollec tions of her more than Imperial grandeur about her—of the laurelled days when she was mis tress of all the kingdoms of the Peninsula, Por tugal included—when her sceptre was extended over the provinces of Holland and the Low Countries, and Naples, and made itself felt through some of the other principal States of Italy—when she assumed and exercised the proud title of " Queen of the Indies," as well in the richest countries of the great Eastern Archipelago, as throughout her vast dominions of Mexico, Chili, and Peru ;—this Spain is now pros trated in the most sordid dust which was ever trodden by the foot of an iron despotism, not before a con spiracy of mighty kings—not before a confederacy of kinglike palatines, the natives of her soil—but before an obscure foreign adventurer, a heartless, callous, intriguing, unprincipled, faithless soldier of fortune ! The descendants of PELAGIO and the CID, of SAA VEDRA and of CORTEZ, at this moment hold their per sonal liberty, their property, their right to reside upon their natal territory, their very lives, even, at the good pleasure of such a creature of factions and of falsehoods as NARVAEZ ! Their best and noblest blood is profusely shed upon the public scaffold, for no graver offence than demurring to the pro fligate government of the domestic minions, or po'.itical favourites, paramount in a Court which rejoices in the august auspices of the quasi widow of FERDINAND VII., and those ready struments of all sorts of political corruption, whom French gold, French intrigues, and her own passions, or prepossessions, unscrupulously employ for ends the most subversive of tqat Constitution and those liher- ties, which they, equally with herself, have heretofore sworn to maintain inviolate. Strange coincidence ! In one and the same (lay, we have news from Warsaw and Mldrid that either capital has just been the theatre of a newly-made dis:orery. A plot in each, it seems, had been orga- nised against the de facto authority under which it groans. If the Polish affair should determ;ne in teaching to the Emperor NICHOLAS the salutary lesson that an outraged people is an inextinguishable volcano—that the fires excited by the intolerable action of foreign rapacity and bloodthirstioess may smoulder for a time, hut never can be quenched, until after they have burst forth in overwhelming fury to consume all whose alien hands have supplied the material of such combustion—we should think the Polish affair a fortunate one for her own interests. and those of Continental Europe at large. Spoliators on a great scale are to be admonished only by " ter- rible examples." It seems a hopeless task toremon- Atrate with the AUTOCRAT by petitions ut right or pleas ad nzisericordianz, or arguments "ad verecun- diain." The affair to which we refer, slightly as• it is noticed in the private correspon. dence, on the authority of which it has been announced, may yet have its revelations ; and these, we are fain to hope, may not be altogether fruitless of better influences on the moody mind of the CZAR. But, alas ! for the luckless Spaniards, who may be discovered, unintimidated by the past, and yet hopeful of the future, to have been engaged in organising new efforts to emancipate their country from its shameful thraldom. The long-enduring tolerance of such powerful Governments as those of Britain and France must have ere now allayed in the breast of NARVAEZ every tendency to a condition o doubt or apprehension as to the consequences which his brutal administration of power may bring down, . _ from without, on his own head. He has the patronage of CHRISTINA and her French connexion at his back—the forbearance cf the English Ministry before him—the inconceivable apathy and patience of the Spanish public on all hands—to encourage and cheer him on in his work of proscription and decimation. Such a man will not be taught. The adventurer, in the sense of a popular proverb, is mounted, much to his own astonishment, we doubt not ; and he wi. speedily reach his destination, we trust, much to the satisfaction of all good men. In considering the progress of the Tractarian heresy, which just now engrosses so much of public attention, nothing is more remarkable than the gradual, stealthy manner in which it worked its way, and the tact with which it kept out of sight every dogma that might come like a shock on the un prepared mind of the community. Nothing could well be more modest, and apparently more harmless, than the pretensions of its advocates when they first entered the field of theological controversy. Their gentle infancy gave no promise of the bigoted, un compromising manhood that has since distinguished them. They merely wished, they said, to rouse the lukewarm spirit of the Church ; to set an example of zeal to all the working clergy ; and impress on them a more earnest and active sense of their responsibility. They did not desire—not they !—to make any in sidious or dangerous innovations on Protestantism. They had no intention to do otherwise than keep strictly within the pale of orthodoxy, as determined by the usages of nearly three centuries. Nothing was further from their thoughts than the idea of giving a new interpretatio❑ to some of the more stringent Articles of the Established Faith. As for entertaining any sympathies with the Church of Rome, or regarding certain of its tenets and cere monial observances with an eye of partial fondness, they repudiated the notion with indignation. To re store the Church to its state of original efficiency by fully awakening the zeal of its members, was the Alpha and the Omega of their ambition. By this jesuitical mode of proceeding—by adroitly keeping in the back-ground the real objects which they had at heart until the public mind should be prepared for their development, the Tractarians succeeded in THE LATE FIRE IN GUILFORD INQUEST ON MR. MAY OW, SOLI CITOR OF EXCISE, This morning, at eleven o'clock, Mr. Mills, the De puty- Coroner, held an inquest at the Friend in Hand public-house, Colonnade-mews, Russell-square, on the bady of Mr. Philip Weynell Mayow, aged 73, the well known;and respected solicitor of Excise, of No. 54, Guil ford-street. The jury having viewed the body, Susan Uuy etated that she was housemaid to the de ceased. On Monday week he had a cold, and had since remained at home. He was attended by Dr. Latham. On Friday evening, at nine o'clock, she last saw him alive in his bed-room, and he was then more cheerful than usual ; and on Saturday morning she entered the room for the purpose of lighting the fire, and became alarmed at her master not speaking to her. She went and looked at him, and thought he was dead, and im mediately alarmed the house, and sent for medical as sistance Dr. Latham, of Grovenor-street, stated that ke at tended the deceased from Monday week for influenza Witness had examined the body this morning, and found the heart of the deceased very small, and soft. He would not say that the late fire did not make any impression upon the mind of the deceased, as he was a kind-hearted man, although possessing great force of character.— Verdict, " Natural Death." LOSS of the ORION and SYRIAN. The following was received at Lloyd's this morning : " Admiralty, Dec. 27, 1844. " commanded by my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, to send you herewith, for the informa tion of the Committee • for managin ,, the affairs of Lloyd's, an extract of a letter frem eaptain Sir John Marshall, of her Majesty's ship Isis, dated Icbaboe, 16th October last, reporting the loss and rescue of the crew of the barque Orion, Almond master, o" Scar borough, bound to Ichaboe, wrecked on the 20th July, 150 miles north of Ichaboe ; and also of the stores of the Syrian brig, belonging to Peterhead, which vessel was lost about twelve miles north of Ichaboe, on the 28th September —crew saved. (Signed) "JOHN BARROW. " To W.' Dobson, Esq., Lloyd's." (Extract.) " Lieutenant Trollop; whom I had dispatched in a small cutter to the rescue of the crew of the Orion barque, Caultas Almond master, of Scarborough, of 315 tons, bound to Ichaboe, and wrecked on the 20th July, about 150 miles north of Ichaboe, returned to this ship on th e 13 t h i nstant, having happily succeeded, though with great peril to himself and his little crew of six men, in bringing away her entire crew of 16 persons, after patiently and perseveringly hovering at the hack of an exceedingly heavy surf during ten days, watching for a smooth sea. I have, however, to lament the loss of two excellent seamen of her Majesty's ship under my command, who were unfortunately drowned by the up setting of the cutter's boat in the surf; one of them, it is feared, was bitten by a shark. " Lieut. Troliope's conduct in carrying out my orders amidst appalling difficulties claims my acknowledgments, and I have much pleasure is deferentially submitting this officer's merits to their Lordships' notice. " The boats of the Isis also succeeded in saving the stores of the Syrian brig, James Law master, of 184 tons, belonging to Peterhead, which vessel was wrecked about 12 miles north of this on the 28th ult. ;• crew saved." LLOYD'S SHIPPING—(THIS DAY.) LONDON, DEC. 31.—Wind N. to N.E., fresh breeze, and hazy. DEAL, DEC. 30.—Wind N.E., hazy and foggy—Arrd. Jacob Cato, Ducks, and Orion, Vanderhnden, both from Batavia, for Dordrecht ; Courier, Cape of Good Hope ; Norden, Kruse, Havannah, for Hamburgh. Sld. General Palmer transport, Ascension. RAMSGATE, DEC. 30.—Arrd. Emma, Edgar, Bala more for Bremen, with bulwarks carried away, &c., having struck the pier coming in. PORTSMOUTH, Dicc. 30.—Wind E.—Arrd. 11. M. steamer Styx, Fayal. SOUTHAMPTON, DEc. 30.—Arrd. Eleanor, Wickhatn, Fayal. Sid. Dart, Madeira. FALMOUTH, DEC. 30.—Wind E., fresh gales.—Arrd. Pomona, Legg, Lisbon, in seven days. CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.—Arrd. Tudor, London. CLYDE, DEC. 28.—S1d. Agnes, Gilmour, New Orlrans. CORK, DEC. 28.—Arrd. Ann, Story, Supply, Mackey, and Euclid, Davidson, Ichaboe ; Cumberland, rota er, Pernambuco; Isabella, Parker, Newfoundland. LIVERPOOL, DEC. 30.—Wind E., light thick fog.— Arrd. Ambassador, and Catherine, Williams, Ichaboe (left Nov. 5, and St. H e l ena, 1 5 ) ; Margaret Elizabeth, M'lver, Bahia (Oct. 25) ; John Campbell, Old Calabar (left Sept. 27, and Fernando Po, Oct. 12) ; Serafin, Calder, Havannah ; James Edward, Webster, Charles. ton ; Nancy, Miramichi, not Quebec ; Palmerston, ; Coster, Montreal. Off, Susan, Flood, Bonny (left Oct. 14, and Pernando Po, 22d). Put back, Independence and Southenior, for New York, both 1,-aky. ST. HELENA (previous to Nov. 15).—Arrd. Elizabeth, St. George, Ocean, Mertoun, Araminta, and Alfred, Ichaboe; 'Caribbean, Ripley, and Gentoo, Calcutta. BRIDLINGTON, DEC. 30.—The Harmony, from Sun derland to London, struck on the rocks nearFlamborough ;Head, last night, and has since fallen over and become l a complete wreck. YARMOUTH ROADS, DEc. 30.—Arrd. Livonio, of Clay, 'rom Shields for London, having been on the Cockle Sand. CROORHAVEN, DEC. 27.—Arrd. James Prowse, Mal ley, Valparaiso, for Liverpool, out 123 days, put in from stress of weather. LIVERPOOL. DEC. 30.—The Meteor, for this port, was half loaded at Tampico, 21st ult., but was unable to pro ceed on her voyage, her crew being sick on shore. The brig —, from St. John's, New Brunswick, to England, with deals, was driven ashore near Digby Rock, 2d inst.; two men drowned. OFF TUSKAR, DEC. 24.—Englishman, Africa, for Bristol. GUANO.—ICHABOE, OCT. I.—Arrd. Princess Victoria and Union, half loaded; Commerce and London, third loaded; Laurel and Arrow, not commenced; Ambassa dor, Sims, and Leonard Dobbin, to sail in a week; Clau dine, Apprentice, Orwell, Nova, Idris, and Waterwitch. LIVERPOOL, DEC. 30.—The Lotus was lost seven miles to the southward of Ichaboe, previous to Nov. 5, and the Kate about eight miles to the northward. The Earl and Countess of Dartmouth have distri buted their annual supply of coals, bedding, &c., to the poor of West Bromwich. SOUTH-WzsmaN ItAILwAY.—The proposed exten sion of this railway through the parish of Lambeth and junction with the London and Dover and South-Eastern Railways will meet with considerable opposition from the owners of estates and property in and adjoining the pro posed line, who consider that it will materially affect the value of their property in the immediate neighbourhood. It is in contemplation to call a public meeting of the owners of property and those persons whose interests will be affected by the proposed junction, and who dissent from its being carried into effect. Already a number of owners have formed a society, and appointed a solicitor to conduct their opposition. THE CONDEMNED CONVICTS.—We understand that both Evans and Stew, the two men convicted of murder at the recent assizes, will undergo the last pe nalty of the law on the 4th of January (Saturday next), at Kirkdale. The former retains his wonted obduracy, whilst the latter is in a most depressed state of mind.— Liverpool Chronicle. MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT.--A fatal accident took place on Tuesday morning last, on the property of Kin corth, parish of Nigg, belonging to John Yeats, Esq., advocate. William M'Donald, the beadle of the church of Nigg, who had contracted fur blasting the stones ne cessary to the trenching and improving of that property, was engaged in his work, when, from condensed air in the part bored, or a spark of fire from concussion igniting the powder, an explosion took place, whereby the crowbar with which lie was priming the blast was driven into his cheek, and passed through the back part of his head, scattering the brains, and killing him on the spot. A deep gloom was cast ever the whole parish the moment the accident was made known, for he was universally respected for the excellency of hie character, and many was the tear of sympathy shed for his orphan family. Never has a death taken place in the parish, where all, without exception, so mourned the Liss of one in the prime of life, and so endeared by the kindness of his manners—the strict morality of his con duct—and the singular integrity which marked his every dealing. What heightens the melancholy of the tragical occurrence is the fact that ha was a widower, and has left eight orphan children to bewail his sudden and un timely end.—Aberdeen Herald. HIGHWAY ROBBERY NEAR Romroan.—On Tues day night, as John Sumner, a servant in the employ of Mr. James Stone, of Great Goose Farm, in the parish of Romford, was proceeding from Hare-street to his mas ter's house, between eleven and twelve o'clock, he was stopped a short distance from the Ship, Hare-street, where he had taken some refreshments, by two men, who knocked him down and robbed him of his watch and eig'ateenpente in money, with which they decamped o,ver the park palings of Hare Hall estate. Information, with a description of their persons, was immediately given to the inspector of police, at Romford, who appre hended John Staines, a blacksmith, and Thomas King, and they were both identified by Sumner as the persons who had robbed him. They were examined before Oc ta,vius Mashiter, Esq., at the Court House, on Friday last, and remanded for further examination to yesterday (Monday), when they were fully committed for trial. The prisoners are suspected to have been connected with a gang by whom many parties have been lately robbed poultry, provisions, &c,—.Essex Herald. STREET. DISCOVERY OF ANOTHER BODY. The firemen of the London Brigade, under the direc tions of Morris, the foreman of the Holborn Station, completed their task this morning of turning over the immense mass of burnt ruins, and on examining a pile of embers, in the north-western corner of the back parlour, they discovered the perfect skeleton of a human foot, and in the course of the morning they found the shin and part of the thigh-bone, as well as what spears to be an arm-bone and part of a scalp. The finding of these re mains has strengthened the rumours that there had been improper conduct on the part of some parties, who had been !plundering Mr. Fairey's wine-cellar. The discovery has also given rise to the supposition, that a fifth party must have been in the house for some improper purpose, although at present it is impossible to conjecture who the ill-fated person could have been. M. Pr, th l lia tai! cot to in ./" kri 11n ha! pre Col ' Lis hot of you of th e hat" of toi furi flex] strc 203 • Prit in a ~F 1 14it WI the 103 infc Cr( Vol tar qtil iasi dca t a n xle : C e Ito 11, vah, cie tci tat sol