The Sun. — London, England, 1844-01-30 00:00:00

THE THEATRES, &c. Th ENGLISH OPERA HOUSE. ( 1 • ) .8 theatre—the Lyceum as it is now . called— With + De l , l ied last night, for the first time this season, F oo ze First Part of Shakspeare's King Henry the 14 , ottt"`„ L ' ,„The character of Sir John Falstaff, the gra tt ,`"uncult, perhaps, in the whole range of the 4 41 ,w,at undertaken by Mr. Harvey Tuckett, whose kem e ‘n Lord Cardigan attracted, it may be re lelars i red, a good deal of public attention a few r, f li ce• On first coming forward on the stage by f te i kett, was received with marked approbation flar o ,,„ ll ,_": but not crowded house, and justified the llit e if "le feeling of the audience by the spirit and !ion le z g e o nce with which he went through his part. "It 4 ; 34 his points told exceedingly well—especially ltPre ee "isni on honour, which he delivered in an Priate tone of mingled sarcasm and humour. o ri , t r a 4 nner, too, on being detected in his to bhi.°,l-Is falsehoods about the " eleven men was highly comic, and elicited L tss e , att 3 7 burst of laughter. Mr. Tuckett pos• i tit „ tn i ,a : nY requisites for a successful actor ; he th n - "Tence, self-possession, and an evident love tbleg a" ; but, generally speaking, we missed Tame (4. that quiet, oily humour which is so Idio a r v i i , e nna a feature in the fat knight's b ut iF r acY• The actor's tone wanted mellowing; ta ti is will come of practice, without which no one SlatY to an English audience an adequate idea "tsi e Peare's Falstaff. Mr. Tuckett was, also, oc too active and elastic in his gait ; he did i tnd In • t °ve as if labouring under a mountain of flesh; 4 • Was with difficulty we could bring ourselves to I c i e i notwithst an di ng hi s a pp aren t bulk, that he hewar etl the lean earth as he walked along." These, v er, are blemishes easy of removal ; and as Mr. a lle kett) 8 conception of the character was correct and th e g,• t.ln the outline, and failed only here and there in b eca •iiiin g up we see no reason why he should not th e 111 a very diverting and successful Falstaff. Of better re.t. of the dramatis persona—the less said the l . Prin ce H enry was crue ll y marre d b y M r . fo te a l d+. who went through the part with the set, for tekigravity of a Methodist parson. Mr. Wentworth szd e r ed Hotspur" a noisy, petulant boy, instead of an 1 1 „, ve rI LI Chivalrous .warrior. As he is very young, 'eitL et er, and somewhat inexperienced, we are not th`nottt strong hopes of his improvement. Before e Play God Save the Queen' was sung with the 1 4s1 enthusiasm ; and the evening's entertainments 're closed with a d rama , en ti t l e d The lifiser's Well, L i' llr vfhich Mrs. Keeley played the part Of an adven i,,_ous boy, playsyge, with infinite spirit. The - "llery In both was excellent. ADELPHI. 0 new three-act play, from the pen of Mr. T. Mor- Il i !' entitled Judith of Geneva, was produced at this "tre last evening with great and deserved success. y t , titli til (Mr Yates), a mechanic's daughter, has in her "ki,c,u_tb been 66 betrothd to Julius St. Val (Mr. Lyon), an atm" c te, but his father disapp . roves of the connexion, 11 0 ;' in order to break it off, he entices Judith to his lover s, . under a pretence of an assignation with her e . places in her way a diamond necklace—the actbelieving that this is a present from her lover, ct i l li s herself with the jewels, and is instantly given in convictl by the father, on a charge of theft. She is fated and punished, and St. Val leaves her_ to her v i e t te , bit The con hough he knows her innocence. th-and thief ' is deprived, from that mo m ent,of all th e ce , °f gaining an honest livelihood—she becomes Fr uh uead of a gang who spread terror . throughout her asso eiat,'" and Switzerland. Herself a es,' are arrested at Lyons. By her charms she 401,;vstes the Count Malvoisine, who procures her par te'. 44 c 1 Marries her ; but her associates are condemned opel,risoninent for life. The Count dies,. and at the tau of the play we find the Countess livingat her Lady ilou m elt , u , the neighbourhood of Geneva, all t i; 01 1 of the district, and beloved and res t p r ec e ) ted by th e ,e ,world. Her daughter Amy (Miss Chaplin) Of "° lll t of marriage with Capt. Henri St. Val, is s so o n n )114}ZIesdvocate, who does not recognise in the Countess lte t ti, 1 'tie his old flame Judith. On the . morning of the re 44 l l 'g St. Val receives a letter, informing him . that tl:e i 4 a r,whorti he has entrusted the whole of his property tiesi r - "krupt, and that he himself is a beggar. He . is listB4sus of breaking off the match, but the Countess in . teen it'd proceeding, and the young couple are accord (b 04" ,Illarried. On the same mornin La Vog-u ". Smith), a member of Judith's gang, who saki i' * eaPed from prison, arrives at the chateau, ‘lf th:Cr?gniSeS in Rose (Mrs. D. Lee) the lady's maid self ',.`-‘ounte,s, his own wife. and in the Countess her mtivudith, his former leader. •The interview be- La s s. Y ate sPo and Judith was a d m i ra bl y ac t e d by asi, Q‘s and O. Smith. She at once throws off the ugl y llod tells him th a t thi s appearance of virtue has tetq h „• 7 ' ll maimed to m a k e a gran d coup. Sh e h as b een °lac' °P 13rivate theatricals in honour of the wedding, the ri c er taken care to cast the parts so as to include all Wh'enctlPersons of the neighbourhood ; and her plan is °Me e Y have divested themselves of their jewels . in -- s lime the characters allotted to them, to seize With and decamp with them. La Vogue with llPPointed her steward, determines to .be Vogue, o ha li nd Waitk. e rt and accordingly directs the carriage to . be in ( 1 - 1 an hour before the time she had appointed, earri,7Posits the jewels in one of the pockets of the P1ii41 . ,, e • In the meantime the marriage has taken tory,',"? Judith then discloses to St. Val her real his- Whieh -11 ` 4 , tells him that the haughty family of St. Val, tr Was too 1p dto suffer its representative to con act „ rou 110 % ,, " athance with the poor, but innocent Judith, has ,Itidirinected itself with the base-born daughter of tile swindler and thief. This, the most power ititl\vritten scene of the play, was acted with a thrill ris by Mrs. Yates and Lyon. Oh ! how she aaj"P rn ned ln her vengeance --how she revelled in the i llit; —eil t of gratified malice. St. Val, horror-struck, am itt to the earth, and in that state his son finds him, ff. having left him to prepare for her flight. St. i rt ;fa has died in his grandson's arms, after hay sie4.ad and destroyed a letter informing him of the ltto.Laace which his grandson had made, which 410 been conveyed to him by Judith. St. determines to fly from Geneva with his tt for ever —he sees the carriage waiting with lei. court- yard—forces his son to enter it— slllland departs. Instantly Judith gives the riei an d accuses St. Val of robbery •, he is pursued, rlo t a, arid the jewels are found in the carriage. Ile ,ludi;7;eol.2deraned on circumstantial evidence, ape' again %jel l ;i tri 9nllha. " You now drink of the bate! cup e,itee udith drained to the dress," exclaims she in the cWri steel, of her revenge. Nicholas, the coachman t), deposes that the carriage was ordered . by La h e, '":, and sets forth in pursuit of him, ^t l uot St Val, is the robber. Rose, too, who that declaring that ofh tti oat she has placed La Vogue out of the reach st hoe, declares that he is the robber. At that in- Nitl !_a. brought in by Nicholas, who has seized and PIaTIQ ?WI, and he declares that the robber s had been th e i nf 0 7 the Countess herself, who is no other than Zud iti amens Judith of Geneva. Baffled and discovered, 1 4 0 4 111 12 dies to . the balcony, hich (pens on the water, Ltu:!;_Lear isehretsze.esl ee f into it t y, h a e , l ta s es k d ee,xand throughout.th e curtain lv r fgahllts: as TheNi. ceedingly civaint an.hu 41*. Los look VI 2.3 sufficient to set the house d in a tic k i :relit praise is due to Mr. Morton for the artis- Creatanner in which he has developed his plot, and for care with which he has written the dialogue. Loa r e , tlatal of Judith is a vast improvement upon the toieh ru oi . 4 . l. of Adelphi pieces. There is not a word too '" dialogue, nor is there a scene introduced ~" ~ w v nople tifaat ritish r on 'ache ity in It ll the e re ctum- - 4 , 2 14 Year I, but ber of wtice went, vaion, ham_ Int Rich on a moon. )f the. the Duke ,oting. rocket it and and 5- rdshiP day. whets 3 next sump' Their of Fe- Goiver ' Par t i ace mbas of the M. 'a, was ves ted • week king 'a if AS reef toward Ellen mahof ever' mined on Sir Anti. large te put ulturai Lr mers, air, il l 5 Lord' ; Mr. other ening' Qt, has )ly the - :aptain 42 the it we!. on e, ox B hool which the ind ec t of Lerifaree oi nO mean even" ad R EV' id 6 iv tRi Oll. better 114 .13 l sa fety s is at )e tte; and entlf 0 thes ,~ ~ ; COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOIt, MOND AY .—Th e Q ueen a nd Prince Albert olt their usual early walk this morning. p Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales and the a_rincess Alice ere taken a carriage airing to-day, at led by the Dowager Lady Lytte!ton. thener Royal Highness the Princess Royal was also 1 her usual airing to-day. k' u t ,l 3 Royal Highness Prince Albert went out shooting „ the forenoon in the royal preserves, accompanied by Z: Earl of Liverpool, and attended by Sir Edward Bo and Captain Meynell. The Royal party returned th e Castle to lunch. T h Sir „Robert P ee l arr i ve d t hi s a f ternoon a t th e C as tl e . e Right Hon. Baronet will cline and sleep at the Castle. th, Lo s rd S tanley and Mr. Davis are expected to arrive ' ti e rening on a visit to her Majesty. Ller 15t ; 72a 1 Highness the Duchess of Kent and her 4t waiting will join the Royal circle at the Castle inner this evening. R tailed k —nYal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge, at -" Baroness Ahlefeldt, arrived in town yester ii? morning from her residence at Kew. Her Royal tess returned to Kew in the afternoon. art' r , i t R °Yal Highness the Duke of Cambridge has Ric l -" at Goodwood, Sussex , to honour the Duke of n e l l n cald with a visit, from Petworth, the seat of Colo q„ A abinet Council was held at two o'clock yesterday moon at the Foreign-office. The Ministers present V I ! Sir Rob er t Peel, the Duke of Wellington, Lord d,katrncliffe, the Duke of Buccleuch, Earl of Aber op Lord Stanley, Sir James Graham, the Chancellor t:'e Exchequer, Earl of Haddingdon, Right Hon. W. A ya ladstone' Sir Henry Hardinge, and Sir Edward le The Lord Chancellor subsequently joined his col ts' I Council sa t t wo h ours . i e teh rti ed intely after the Council Sir Robert Peel left f Windsor Castle, on a visit to her Majesty. r d Whar nc liff e, L or d P res id e nt of the Council, Ult t r ; a grand din ner l as t evening at his residence in ofe n-s treet to the Cabinet Ministers and the Great St t car s of State of the Queen's Household, viz., the Lord 401vard, the Lord Chamberlain, and the Master of the sent At At the meeting the Roll of Sheriffs for the .pre he.Trear,:w. as settled, preparatory to its being submitted Au Majesty in Council. Ivith „ t he Cabinet Ministers were present at the dinner, hi, Lae exception of the Lord Chancellor, the Earl of Ce i ;,.. °lll and Sir Robert Peel. The Clerks of the Privy sweil m /ter r• C. Greville and the Hon. William Bathurst, ,thalso invited to the dinner. Governor of the 'Bank of England and the ti l l t / Governor had an interview with the Chancellor boZ Exchequer, yesterday, at his official residence in v. -tri g -street. be, Ze(Dant Canning has arrived in town, from a visit to A ~rijeaty at Windsor Castle. It C`tePutation, consisting of Messrs. Mills, Carpenter, bad ;,, C ; ar Penter, William Burchall, Knight, and Jones, tx e C interview yesterday with- the Chancellor of the City D e quet The Deputation were accompanied by the "errienabrancer. THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY MORNING, JANUARY 30, 1844. vaults of the Bank was to give a credit or secu rity for its issues 6f Bank money ; and it is equally plain that any other fixed capital of ascertainable, known, and convertible value would perform just as well the same function. The Bank of Amsterdam assayed credit by the means of a deposit of the pre cious metals ot standard value. I propose to assay credit by the means of fixed capital of sterling worth. To perfect a system of commercial circulation four conditions would seem to be required—that it be .Iself-dependent, self-adjusting, abundant, and cheap. If it depend at all upon causes extraneous to itself, then its power of completely fulfilling its object will depend als, upon the co-operation of causes over which it can have no control. If it be not self-ad justing, if it do not possess the property of dilation and contraction, according to the demands of an ever-varying commercial circulation, then that power of accommodation which may be equal to the wants of to-day, may be quite unequal to the wants of to morrow. If it be not abundant there can be no certainty that there will be enough for all the purposes of legitimate credit. If it be not cheap, then that adage is untrue—that low in terest is the soul of trade. At all events, the profits of discounting capital should bear a due pro portion to the profits of capital generally. Accord ing to the working of the present system I suppose it bears very little. I will now state in what way, as it appears to me, every condition of a perfect system of commercial circulation may be fulfilled. I would propose the es'ablishment of a Bank of Transfer, with a capital equal to the discounting, if required, the whole commercial circulation of the country : The capital to consist of property having a market able value, as bullion, Exchequer bills, Bank stock, India bonds, funded property, railway shares, canal stares, and generally of any fixed property having a marketable value. The depoits to remain the property of the de positors. The rent, or dividends, accruing from the deposits to be theirs also. The deposits to be withdrawn at the will of the de positor (when no debits in the Bank books stood against their credits). _ _ A credit in the books of the Bank to be given to each depositor, according to the nature of the deposits. To the amount of each individual credit, the de positor would be at liberty to lend or sell his credit, that is to discount on whatever terms he might choose to accept. To prevent any improper use of the credit, each depositor to balance his account within stated times. The Bank would neither pay money nor receive it, except to the amount of its commission, say of one eighth per cent. The depositor receiving all the profits belonging to his deposits, would seem to expect little more for dis counting than a fair guarantee commission for the credit he might advance, and for the risk he had to run—his deposits would be a source of double in come. To those who had no occasion to raise money upon such property the inducement of a moderate additional profit by discounting, would offer an easy and safe field for the employment of capital. This is my idea of a system fitted to accommodate the wants of commerce, at once secure, expansive, abundant, and cheap. Having trespassed so far upon your valuable space, I will not presume at present to go farther into detail. I am, Sir, &c., RICHARD WADESON CARTER. Kirk Andreas, Isle of Man, Jan. 9, 1844. Sir E. L. Bulwer, Bart., has consented to preside at the dinner of the General Pension Society for 1845. Lord Wharncliffe, we observe, is, according to some of our Contemporaries, about to be advanced to an Earldom. What does this portend ? In ordinary times we should think nothing of it ; but, under pre . . sent circumstances and at the present crisis, it does, when considered in connexion with certain appoint ments and resignations which have recently taken place, most assuredly look as if Ministers were preparing for the worst, and " setting their house in order," in case any sudden emergency should drive them from power. Bets, we understand, have been made in London that they will never see May in their official characters.—Liverpool Albion. An extraordinary investigation has been goi ng on before the magistrates, at Wolverhampton, during the last few days, relative to a revolting charge brought against one Caroline Harris, a midwife, who it is alleged has been keep ing a house for the reception of pregnant females during the time of their confinement, and that for a pecuniary considera tion the children were destroyed by her. The details of this case are of a horrible nature. The woman was remanded for further examination. The accounts that have hitherto been given of Sir Francis Burdett omit altogether his connection with the University of Oxford. He was matriculated as a gentleman commoner of Christ Church, Dec. 13, 1785, being then 15. His father was also of Christ Church, entering in 1761, and his _ _ grandfather of New College, where he matriculated in 1733, and hild the honorary degree of Doctor in Civil Law in 1749. Lord John Russell, Viscount Palmerston, and se- veral of the leading members of the late Administration, are expected to hold a conference to-morrow. There is to be a general meeting of the Whig-Radical Members on Wednes day or Thursday, when, it is supposed, a plan of opposition to the Government, especially as to the amendment to the Address, will be agreed upon.—Post. DOG STEALEBS.—We are glad to learn, that early in the ensuing session of Parliament, a Bill will be in troduced by Mr. Liddell, making the, offence :of dog stealing a penal one. This nefarious traffic, so long carried on with impunity, calls loudly for legislative in terference. Horse-stealing and sheep-stealing are de nounced as felon:es ; and why should not the same penalty be awarded to the dog-stealer ? These thefts are committed for the purpose of extorting money, for it most frequently happens that individuals so robbed would recover their dogs by payment of large sums rather than allow their favourites to be subjected to cruelty. We understand, strange as it may appear, that no less a sum than 7131. has been paid in this manner during a short period. Mr. Bishop, the gun-maker of Bond-street, is entitled to the thanks of the community at large for his humane exertions in affording protection to the owners of valuable dogs. A petition has for some time been open for signature at his establishment, which has received numerous signatures. The object of this petition, which will be embodied in the Bill to be brought before the House, is to insure a proper meed of punishment to all dishonest dealers in canine flesh ; that the crime of dog-stealing shall be constituted a felony ; and, moreover, that the receiver of any dog, known to be illegally obtained, shall be considered as an accomplice, and be visited with a similar sentence of transportation.—John But. SOUTIIEY ON STYLE.—" Ours is a noble language, a beautiful language. I can tolerate a Germanism for family sake ; but he who uses a Latin or French phrase where a pure old English word does as well, ought to be hung, drawn, , and quartered, for high treason against his m other tongue. ' MILDNESS OF THE SEASON.—On Saturday last the gardener to Mr. Walesby, the Chairmen of the Middlesex Magistrates, was pruning some bushes in the grounds attached to that gentleman s mansion in the Wandsworth -road, when he suddenly started a robin. Upon examining the bush from which the affrighted bird had flown, a nest was found with two eggs in it, both quite warm. For some days past the rooks have been busy in. repairing the old nests and build ing new ones in the magnificent row of elm trees which skirt the entrance of the village of Fulham from London. EXTENSIVE RODBERY.—On Thursday night, be tween six and ei g ht o ' clo ck , some person or pe rsons entered the bedroom of Mr. T. Elkington, landlord of the Coach and Horses, No. 120, Holborn-hill, by means of a skeleton key. About eight o'clock the children were put to bed by . the fe male servant, who observed the doer of the room ajar, but did not mention the circumstance till about ten o'clock, when on going into the room t cro drawers of the wardrobe, in which were placed a large quantity of money, S'et being two other chests of drawers in the room) were (them d to have been forcibly broken open, and the following m oitn , and property stolen :- 150!. in notes (number known), a 2 ° l rote, marked " Adam Moss," ten sovereigns in a bead-purse, ten sovereigns, two double sovereigns, 24 old guineas and three half ditto, old coins, a silver watch, two pair tablespoons (sif ter) marked "T. A. E," six silver teaspoons, marked " T.A.E." one gold mourning-ring, marked 66 John Elking ton," a silver hunting-watch, a gold guard attached, a gold chain (curb), five gold finger-rings, one pair sugar tongs, three gold seals, and two gold keys , gold eye-glass, chased, Sec., &C. The robbery is supposed to have been committed by some one who knew where the money was kept. Information has been given to the City and Metropolitan police. COMMISSION OF LUNACY. — On Friday forenoon at ten o'clock, a commission of lunacy was opened before Mr. Commissioner Barlow, and a jury of sixteen gentlemen, at the Crown Inn, Holloway, to inquire into the state of mind of Miss Mary Elisabeth Graeme Henry, the daughter of an East and West India merchant, now residing in Alfred -terrace, tlpper Holloway. The commission was sued out at the instance of Mrs. Charlotte Amelia Beckwith, the sister of the unfortu nate object of the inquiry, who was represented by her solicitor. Miss Henry was unrepresented. Mr. Commissioner Barlow explained the case to the jury, and after the examination of several witnesses, the jury expressed themselves satisfied, and they found—That Mary Elizabeth Greme Henry was of un sound mind, and incapable of taking care of herself or pro perty, and that she had been so since January, 1841 . LIGHT GOLD.—The Governor of the Bank of England, with a view to facilitate business at that establish 'Kent, has invented a plan for a machine for weighing sove reigns, and of separating the light from the heavy go ld ; a model having been completed, which was found to answer in .all respects, the light coins b ein g wei ghed arid separated from those of the legal current weight with the greatest exactness and nicety. It is driven by a small vacuum engine, but is capable of being worked either by hand or steam, and, on the average, weighs between forty and fifty sovereigns a minute. It would be impossible here to enter into a minute detail of the varied beautiful mechanical movements, bat, suffice it to say, that the machine is first set in motion by the sovereigns being placed in a receetacle similar to a tube, called a "hopper," and from thence, by springs and wheels are con veyed to the balance. If the coin be light, it is deposited, by means of a " gripper," in a box on one side, and if of a proper weight, it falls into a box on the other. .. These "grippers' are similar to those used in printing - machines. A conger eel, seven feet long , and two feet three inches round, was sold in our market yesterday for six shil lings. It weighed about 1281b5., and was bought by a per son belonging to Lewes. It was the largest eel ever seen by the oldest of our fishermen, and was taken a b out twenty miles off the town by Hannan's boat.—Brighton Herald. SUFFOLK.--A curious discovery was made in St. Mary's Church, Bury, last week. In cutting through one of the pillar-shafts (which are of limestone or clunch) for the purpose of inserting the new capital, the saw was obstructed by same hard substance, and the workmen was obliged to cut it off at a lower place. On afterwards opening the piece of stone, it was found that the obstruction was caused by two iron balls about the size of pistol bullets, firmly embedded in the stone, which was perfectly solid all around them,_ proving that the iron substances must have been there before the stone was formed. We believe t h em to be pyrites, or sul phate of iron, which are not milrequently found in a very regular form in the chalkstone cliffs of the Southern coast. — Norwich Mercury. OLYMPIC. There is great difficulty in deciding upon the school of criticism, by the rules of which a modern English drama is to be judged. The question of the Uniti, s re mains unsettled, and France—that smiled at Voltaire's elaborate comparison of Calderon with Shakespeare— (both of whom he disliked, for the one reason that each was a poet and he was not)—France now delights in the representation of dramatic poems, which are poetic in their structure, and depend not upon mere rhyme for their effect. The lapse of years between the parts of an ac tion was condemned by the critics, from the time of Lopez de Vega to that of him who dreamed the glo rious dream of " Victorine." Leman Rede belongs to the school which regards truth more than technica►ity, and puts a story upon the stage with the life-like energy of an Italian painter or an Indian story-teller. The drama called the Profligate, produced last night at the Olympic, is a fine specimen of what may be done to re concile the adverse schools. It would be a hazard beyond which we could not venture, to say that unity is in any respect violated. The drama is a beautiful work—to be usefully read in the closet, or pleasantly regarded on the stage. WILSON'S SCOTTISH ENTERTAINMENT. Amongst the numbers who crowded to hear Mr. Wil son's second lecture upon the History and Music of Mary Queen of Scots was the reporter for The Sun. He found himself entangled in a throng •of carriages, which reached from Gower-street to Tottenham Court road. It was no small vexation to learn that the finest throat in Great Britain (except a skylark's) was stopped by a cold. He was informed that Mr. Wilson will be able to give the entertainment on Monday next. Vexed as he was at his own disappointment, ho was much gratified in observing the kindness with which it was endured by the great gathering of song-lovers assembled around the Music-hall in Store-street. TWO SUPPLEMENTS GRATIS, WITH THE "DISPATCH." GREAT NATIONAL TRIAL AT DUBLIN. 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CHESTER CUP. 6 to 1 agst Dawson's lot—taken. 14 to 1 agst Mr. Milbank's Sir Robert—taken 18 to 1 apt Mr. Sharratt's The Prior—taken 20 to 1 apt Mr. Collett's Cattonite—taken 20 to 1 agst Mr. J. Tuting's Tacita—taken and aft. offd. 25 to 1 apt Duke of Richmond's Red Deer—ditto ditto 25 to 1 apt Sir W. W. Wynn's Rowland—ditto ditto 30 to 1 agst Mr. W. Dawson's Merry Andrew—taken 30 to 1 agst Mr. Salvin's Beeswax—t. and aft. offd. 30 to 1 apt Mr. St. George's Winter—taken 50 to 1 agast Mr. Parr's Young Lochinvar—taken. From the above we may select Sir Robert and The Prior, not only as the best favourites, but as having been most promi nently in demand ; the other horses mentioned were backed for moderate sums. DERBY. 11 to 1 agst Col. Peel's let—taken 13 to 2 aget Mr. Jno. Day's The Ugly Buck—take 7 to I 15 to 2 agst Mr. Crockford's Rattan—t. and aft. offered 14 to 1 agst Mr. Lichtwald's Leander—take 15 to 1 16 to 1 agst Mr. Quin's Loadstone 20 to 1 agst Cot. Peel's Orlando—take 22 to 1 25 to 1 ag.t Mr. Bowes's T'Auld Squire—taken 25 to 1 apt Mr. A. Wood's Running Rein—tn. and off. 25 to 1 art Lord Maidstone's Cockamaroo—tn. and off. 40 to l - apt Mr. Watt's Vohri—taken to 1501. 40 to 1 apt Mr. Payne's Vat colt—taker, 4b to 1 apt . Mr. Thornhill's Apprentice—taken 1000 even between Leander and Loadotone-11 to 10 was afterwards offered on Leander 2000 to 25 apt Mr. J. Osborne's Mount Charles—taken MOO to 2000 on Col. Peel's lot agst Loadstone 1000 even between Vat colt and Telemachus The two leading favourites were steady at precisely the same prices that were quoted last week ; nor did Loadstone show any change, except that he lost the third place to Leander, who was in immense force, and in a brief space sprang from 18 to 15 to 1, takers. 25 to 1 was taken about T'Auld Squire; 35 to 1 to a pony ; and 40 to 1 to at least 1501. about Voltri ; 900 to 25 about Apprentice, and 2,000 to 25 about Mount Charles, the latter rather more than the market price. The odds against Cockamaroo exhibit rathir an ominous decline. OAKS. 12 to 1 agst Lord Chesterfield's The Princess—taken 12 to 1 agst Lord Chesterfield's The Bee—take 14 to 25 to 1 agst Col. Peel's Zenobia—taken 30 to 1 agst Mr. Standish's Susan—taken. SAVINGS' BANKS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR,-A mis-statement, either ignorantly or wilfully, is put forth at this time connected with banks for sav ings. There has been during the last year an increase in the amount of deposits over the preceeding year ; and.- it is made to appear as the best proof of a better condi tion in the working classes. That there is a partial improvement among those classes must be evident, but it is not of such a nature as to admit of their saving and investing in a public Institution —'tis out of the question. The increase in amount of deposits is no criterion ; the description of depositors can only be fairly looked at. Increase in amount of deposits over the prior year arises from the fact of other individuals than working people investing their money for themselves, their chil dren, and as trustees for so and so. And this is done because those individuals obtain a better rate of inte rest than what is given in the regular banks. The truth should appear to the public. I am, Sir, your obedient servant, A MANAGER. Jan. 29, 1844. THE BEAUTIES or BURNS.—In introducing his very successful Musical Entertainment on Thursday even ing, Mr. Templeton said, "In selecting The Beauties of Burns' as the title for this entertainment, I must in justice to myself remark, that it has not been made choice of with a view of arrogating to myself the privilege of pointing out to my auditors The Beauties' of the Bard, but it was fixed upon from the firm conviction that the title was ap plicable to the whole of the poet's works ; and that what ever might be my selection of songs I could not fail in pre senting The Beauties of Burns.' " WOOLWICH Doc IL- YARD.--Her Majesty's steam. vessel Vulture having had her engines, boilers, and other ma. chinery put in by Messrs. Millar, Ravenhill, and Co., of Pop lar, made an experimental trip, down the river on Tuesday afternoon last. Previously to proceeding to Milford for sea service, she will make another trip, when the full power of ber fittings will be put to the test. This vessel was built under the inspection of Williame, Esq., master shipwright of the above yard, and launc h in the autumn of last year. Her Majesty's steamer Prometheus having received new boilers, and having bad her engines put into complete repair, was commis• sioned on Saturday last by Lieut. W. 111. J. G. Pasco, for the packet service in the Mediterranean. Her defects were made good by Messrs. Seaward and Co., of Millwall. She was taken out of the basin on Thursday afternoon, and will be ready for sea in a few days.- THE DURHAM PETITION.—The petition against the return of John Bright, Esq., M.P., as the representative of the city of Durham, will, we understand, be either aban doned, or if opened, formally dropped immediately after, as no cue can be made out by the petitioners to vitiate the election. The object of petitioning is believed to have been to annoy the Hon. Member, and to insinuate unconstitutional practices against the Anti-Corn-law League. Shortly after the meeting of Parliament, the factious proceedings of the disappointed Durham Tory party will be duly brought to light, when the disgrace of dishonodrable proceedings will recoil upon those who could resort to unworthy means to injure the fame of a straightforward and manly political opponent. —Netroctstk Ad vertiser. STATE or TRADE.—LIVERPOOL.—At no former period have we experienced so much activity in the sugar trade as during the last three week"s. This speaks well for the trade in the interior, but it is in great measure accounted for by the fact th at our very larg e s t oc k h as l ate l y k ept pr i ces l ower h ere than in any other market in the kingdom, especially for brown descriptions, chiefly in use among refiners ; and this business is now carried on here to a very small extent, the London and Bristol houses supplying, in great measure, the requirements of the neighbourhood. The strike fo r hi g h er wages amongst col liers bill ser iously affect the manufacturing business of this port, for most of our large man u f ac t or i es, consum i ng coal to a vast extent, will immediately curtail their operations, rather than pay the advanced prices for coal, and this course has already been adopted by some houses. The salt manufac turers, too, have, in consequence, given notice of an advance of from twenty to thirty per cent. ; for coa l b e i ng the only a r ticle consumed in making salt, the expenses are, of course, seriously increased, and the advance must have the effect of diminishing the demand, probably one half, salt being an ar ticle more frequently taken by captains as ballast th an f or t h e supply of -actual owners, and lately i t has be e n a precar i ous trade with the American ports, losses, even at late prices, having frequently resulted from shipments; so that the ad vance stated will in a great measure sto p this trade. Yet eve n here, where the effects of such a st rike are so immediately . felt, nearly every house prefers suffering the temporary incon venience that must ensue, rather than aid the endeavours of the colliers to compel their employers to give higher wages,— Lelerploi Mercury. THE CURRENCY. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR—In a letter published by you some time ago, you invite the attention of all parties to the conside ration of the renewal of the Bank charter; and you dwell upon the dismal effects whiCh have proceeded from its management. Upon the almost incalculable importance of a system of money, at once abundant and secure, in its bearings upon the capital and in dustry, the agriculture and commerce, the revenue and debt of the country, there is not, I suppose, any doubt, in any quarter. But whether the fault of the present system proceed from the mismanagement of the Bank Directors, or from the wrong position in which they are placed, is a point of some consequence to be sure of. I will state, without much formality, and as shortly as I can, wherein, as it appears to me, the evil consists, and what will be the remedy. 'Die evil proceeds from the depend ence of the circulation of commerce upon the precious metals. The remedy will be in causing it to depend upon fixed capital. By the circulation of commerce, I mean that business which passes betwixt dealer and dealer, so long as any commodity continues to form a part of the circulating capital of the country. 'What passes between dealer and consumer—the cir culation of consumption, is another affair. But it is from not duly conceiving of the essential difference, in principle, between those two branches of circulation that the evils of which you speak have arisen. In the circulation of consumption it is essential that the buyer, or consumer, give to the dealer, or seller, a real equivalent—something of equal value to the article to be consumed, as gold or silver coin, or notes convertible into them; because that is the only safe condition upon which the dealer can carry on his business for any length (of time. A shopkeeper who sold all upon credit would soon have done. The articles he deals in being placed in the stock set aside for immediate consumption, no longer form any part of the circulating capital of the country ; and, there fore, cease to be articles of commercial exchange. So far every man is instructed by common experience. But, in the transactions between dealer and dealer, that is in the circulation of commerce, the case is es- sentially different. In that the commodities, al though changing hands, are not consumed, and they do in themselves form the true basis of commercial circulation. The proper idea of it is the transfer from one man's obligation to the shoulders of another, as the commodities themselves change hands. This is done by the operation of credit. And the instrument of commercial credit is an acceptance by the party re ceiving the commodity, or a draft upon a third person. So long as the idea of the commodity and responsibi lity shifting together is preserved in the mind, there can be little difficulty in apprehending how the com modity is the real basis and equivalent of the respon sibility—and that, as often as the commodity changes hands, the responsibility should shift with it—which is, as has been said, the proper notion of commercial circulation. But, as in the variety and complication of mercantile affairs the certainty of the two being together cannot be known, it is necessary, in relieving one man's responsibility, to bring forward a third party, who will certify that all is right—which is meant by discounting. Still it is, if properly under stood, an operation of credit, and not of money. Nor is there any need of money appearing at all in a well arranged commercial circulation. That this is the fact will appear, even from considering the present mode of business, faulty as it is in one particular. When a merchant of Liverpool provides for his ac ceptances, whether directly or through his banker, it is not with money :gold and silver, or bank notes— . that he provides, v but with other paper, the circulat ing credit of other men. Perhaps, if all the gold, and silver, and bank notes were forwarded by railway at once, they would not be sufficient to meet the en gagements of Liverpool in London for a single day. Yet its engagements are fulfilled ; its bills are paid, without the provision of one farthing !! ! How, then, are the London bankers to liquidate the thousand millions which they have yearly to pay, when it forms no part of their system to make advances at all ? How is the enormous wheel of circulation kept in motion, but by the impelling power of credit? But perhaps the London bankers do advance the money. They do so in part, and only in a small part. The far greater part of the business is settled by means of what may be not inaptly termed that fiction in com merce, the clearing house, where one banker, at the dose of the day, sets off his claims against another. Although nineteen-twentieths of the commercial cir culation is so settled without the use of money, yet there is not any part of it of which it can be abso lutely predicated that it will not be called for in money. Money, therefore, to some amount, must be provided. Whilst matters go on smoothly the pre sent system works well—every man of credit can meet his engagements with comfort. But now comes the radical defect of the present system. The Bank of England is liable to pay all its notes in gold and silver. When, therefore, any cause reduces its stock of bullion, it is driven to reduce its accommoda tion, until the scarcity of money, and the consequent high rates of interest, make it for the interest of par ties to keep their money at home. All other in terests are put out of sight to secure the Bank's own safety. The regular circulation of commerce is thrown into disorder, and that frightful overthrow of the best-laid schemes follows, of which you speak. When the sum of Bank notes is. diminished, by the lessening of the stock of bullion, common sense would suggest the propriety of increasing the issue upon other securities. For it is no necessary consequence, that the wants of commercial circu lation diminish as the stock of bullion diminishes. Contrariwise, that is the time when the greatest spur should be given to the productive industry of society, the greatest facilities afforded to the wants of com mercial interprise, to increase and circulate at home and abroad the exchangeable produce of the industry of the country, At present the order is reversed The Bank of England is most ready to accommodate when accommodation is least wanted ; and when it is wanted, she tightens the screw. Whether a com mercial circulation of more than a thousand millions annually, shall proceed or not in its regular course, is made to depend upon the presence or otherwise of a few millions of the precious metals. If, indeed, they, as a portion of the circulating capital of the commer cial world, were indispensible fur the completion, for the perfect working of its circulation, it might be im possible to get over the inconvenience of their absence ; but when it is notorious that they do not, whether pre sent or absent, enter into such circulation, is it not worse than folly to make the wholesome circulation of com merce depend upon them ? Still I presume not to blame the Bank. The fault is not with it ; but is owing to the false position it is placed in. When the stock of bullion is much reduced, no other course is open to it, whatever individual suffering is entailed thereby. And so long as the circulation of con sumption, which cannot be otherwise based, with safety, than on the precious metals, so long as the circulation with foreign nations, which must depend altogether upon the precious metals, and the circula tion of commerce at home are carried for ward by the same way, the community will be exposed to like periodical returns of those evils which have occurred within the last fifty years. Perhaps there was a time when the present system of money might have been adequate to the wants of the country. Amidst the stupendous and almost bound less extent of its commercial relations at the present day, it is utterly defective. There is now wanting a great commercial road, so to speak, capable of car rying on it the whole internal commerce of this great country always safe and always open. And that road must be formed upon the solid ground of its fixed capital, and not upon that unstable portion of its circulating capital, its silver and gold, which is here to-day and gone to-morrow. My object and design is to introduce and establish a fresh system of discounting—that is, of circulating commercial credit, whereby greater security and greater facility shall be given than exist at present. The end is the same, the mode different. I seek to establish that power amongst themselves which mer chants and manufacturers have now to seek for in London, and often to seek for in vain, or under most embarrassing and ruinous circumstances. I seek to make their own fixed capital the instrument of circulating their credit, instead of being dependent upon the monied interest, as at present, for that pur pose. The circulation of commerce, implying the transfer of one man's liability on to another, as the commodities are transferred, all that is required for that purpose is an establishment whereat each man's credit, at the moment of transferring his own liability on to his neighbour's shoulders, shall be as certained in an assay room, as it were, when the value of every man's provision to meet his engagements shall be tested. Of such a nature was the Bank of Amsterdam in its ori ginal intention, as detailed by Adam Smith. A certain portion of the circulating capital of Amster dam was converted into a fixed capital. The money deposited in the vaults of the Bank circulated no longer, no more than if the whole had been laid out in a railroad. The intention of that Bank in issuing its bank money, as it was called, was not to pay bills in reality, but to furnish a standard of value, accord ing to which merchants having bills to pay had to provide. Whatever might be the nature of that pro vision which satisfied the holder of Bank money, the merchant payer having received the amount he needed, was thereby enabled to meet his bill with Bank money. But nothing was paid by the Bank. The bill had been provided for out of the Bank, and the transfer in the books of the Bank, or the pos session of Bank money, was a certificate that provision had been made according to that standard by which all bills were required to be paid. Perhaps the prin ciple of that Bank's operations has not been always understood. However, it is enough for my present purpose in showing how a fixed capital was made the means of ascertaining the circulating commercial credit of Amsterdam. Moreover, it is obvious that the only use of the bullion, or coin, lying in the FRANCE. CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES.—C ITZING OF JAN. 25. M. Sauzet, the President took the chair at two o'clock, when the Chamber resumed tile adjourned debate on the seventh paragraph of the address, relative to PubliC in struction. M. de Tracy, the first speaker, contended that the 69th article, which proclaimed the freedom of instruc tion, ought to held as sicred as any other articls of the fundam ntal compict. He reminded his colleagues of the circumstance of the foundation of the University. The man whose Ludacity, genius, and astonishing tri umphs had dazzled the world could say, " the youth of France shall have no ides, no sentiment, no passion, ex cept those that I may be pleased to inculcate ;" but he (M. de Tracy) did not suppose that there existed now a-days a man or a p«,wer sufficiently bold or rash to claim the inheritance of Napoleon. M. de Tracy, how ever, was of opinion that the question would be more properly discussed %hen the promised law on public in struction should be presented. M. Nisard spoke at some length; amidst the marked inattention of the Chamber, in favour of the University, of which he is one of the professors. M. St. Priest addressed the Chamber in opposition to the paragraph. Ile stated that he should withdraw his own amendment and support that of M. de Came, pre sented the day before. M. Dupin remarked that the attacks against the Uni versity ought not to excite surprise, as at all times eats blishtnents at the head of education had shared the same fate. He mentioned Port Royal as a proof of this, which, moral as it was, had also been violently attacked. He, however, thought that it was useless to go back on the former condition of the University. The present state of the country, and the necessity of the times, ought alone to guide them. He referred to the claims of the clergy, and opposed them as ill-founded. They might be allowed to have the regulation of certain schools for the education of young men destined for the priesthood, as there were military schools fur lads intended for the army, and naval establishments for those destined for the navy, but nothing more. Congregations, he pro ceeded to observe, were dangerous, under whatever name they existed ; and he thought that the State ought to look narrowly at their aims and actions. He consi dered the attempts now made against the authority of the University to be of a retrograde nature, and such as ought to be opposed by every legal means. The Hon. Gentleman then spoke with great force against the Jesuits, describing them as a most dangerous set of men, paying bnt little regard to oaths, and interfering, whether at home or abroad, in all affairs in which they could obtain an entrance. The article 69 of the charter promised a law on secondary instruction. He con sidered that the Government should be allowed to bring it in without being shackled by any vote of the.,Chamber: They must suppose that this Bill would not take away anything from the liberty promised by the charter to public instruction. It was more than probable that it would secure to fathers of families, that if they in tended their suns for officers, or lawyers, or merchants, their minds should not be so influenced as that they might desire to become priests. France never would: submit to the yoke of the priesthood, and he therefore called on the Chamber to allow the paragraph to re main as it was, relying on the Ministry to bring in their Bill with a proper regard to the interest of the charter. M. 0. Barrot thought that the Hon. Gentlemen who had proposed amendments were proceeding against the very object they desired to carry. It was dangerous to interfere in the arrangements of the University, when there might be some risk of its liberty being injured by the change, if effected without prudence. He considered that in place of making attacks on the University, they ought to have it more firmly constituted, and therefore he should recommend the Hon. Deputies who had pro posed amendments to withdraw them, and allow the Go vernment to bring in their Bill on their own responsi bility.—(Hear, hear.) M. Bouillard, who was one of the members that had presented amendments, signified his intention of comply ing with the recommendation of 11. 0. Barrot. He should, however, like to hear some explanation relative to the conduct of the Bishops and clergy. M. Martin (du Nord), the Minister of Justice, entered into a history of the late dispute, and stated that it had burst forth with so much virulence during the last year, because the Ministry had, in 1840, insisted on the ordon nances of 1828, against the Jesuits and other secret societies, being carried into effect most strictly. A cir cular had been sent to all the Bishops in 1840, to the effect that as it had not been acted on with sufficient alacrity, the Government had again, last year, insisted on the law being observed. Hence arose the hostility of the Bishops and clergy. N. Isambert rose, and was left speaking. CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES—SrruNa OF• FRIDAY. The Chamber resumed the adjourned debate on the ad• dress. The following paragraph was adopted without any discussion : " A young Princess, sister of the Emperor of Brazil and of the Queen of Portugal, has taken a place in the midst of your family, and we share in the satisfaction felt by your Majesty in a marriage which assures the happiness of one of your sons, and adds to the consolations that God has re served to you." The next paragraph was then read by the President " We are pleased to hope, Sire, that our rule in Algeria will soon be general and tranquil, and that, thanks to our perseverance, we are near the attainment of our object, and on the point of finding, in the accomplishment of our work and in the diminution of our sacrifices, the price of our efforts. We unite with your Majesty in thanking, in the name of the country, the chiefs and the soldiers of that brave army, who are never weary either of the fatigues of war or of the labours of peace. Among the chiefs of that army we are proud to number one of your sons, whom we are accustomed to see in every point where France has either danger to encounter or glory to obtain." 31. Gustave de Beaumont, who was inscribed to speak on that paragraph, observed, that he considered a discussion on Algeria to be indispensable, but as the question would again come before the Chamber in the debate on the supplemen tary credits, he thought proper to postpone until then the observations he had to offer on the subject. The paragraph was then put to the vote and carried. The next and last paragraph was afterwards read by the President : "Yes, Sire, your family is truly national ; between France and you the alliance is indissoluble. Your oaths and ours have cemented that union. The rights of your dynasty re main placed under the imperishable guarantee of the inde pendence and loyalty of the nation. The public feeling brands with reprobation guilty manifestations. Our revolu tion of July, in punishing the violation of sworn faith, has consecrated amongst us the sanctity of an oath." M. de St. Marc Girardin, the reporter, having been called to the tribune, said that the Commissioners on the ad dress had met in the morning to submit the para graph to a new discussion, and had agreed to insert in it the following sentence:—" The rights of your dynasty are founded on the imperishable principle of the national sovereignty." Considering, moreover, that the Legitimatist demonstrations in London were reproved by the nation, and branded by the public feeling, they had been of opinion to make no alteration in the expression of reprobation with which they had stigmatised their conduct. M. Bechard, who followed, said that the act proposed to the Chamber was very serious, that it was worthy of the worst times of the revolution, and that it was impossible that deputies could brand colleagues whom they were every day in the habit of taking by the hand. Having complained of an illegal act committed by the Ministry, in publishing the decision of the Court of Cessation in the case of M. Defontaine, M. Dupin, the Attorney-General of that Court, rose and declared that the Minister of Justice was alone to blame for the act complained of by M. Bechard. Messrs. Barrot, Desmousseaux de Givre, and Chambolle, were respectively heard on the incident. M. Berryer next addressed the Chamber, when a scene the en p correspondent re vious previously expected o took place which far surpassed any commotion ever witnessed even in the House of Commons when at the utmost height of fa Contemporary excitement. The following outline of the proceedings is fur nilsthleidadhbvetoGhent: would be made a weapon for retaliation by the Legitimatists for the attack made upon them ; and no sooner had M. Berryer mentioned the circumstance, than the feeling it created was immediately felt through the assembly. M. Berryer was at the moment alluding to what he called the injustice of branding a body of honourable men with po litical immorality who merely went, when the world was in a state of profound peace, to pay their respects to the Duke de Bordeaux, " thinking, as they did, that the principles which might call that Prince to the throne offered the best guarantees for the future glory of France," and anxious " to talk to him of his country, and to tell .him how much that country wanted peace." lie denied that in doing this they had outstepped their duties as citizens, and he drew a parallel between their conduct and the conduct of their accusers as a previous occasion. " If," said M. Berryer, " we had gone to the entrance into France to give political council to a King in the midst of a hostile army. This evident allu sion to Ghent promised great confusion. Then, pointing to M. Guizot, he added, " You glory in it ;" and as soon as the tumult would allow, he appealed to the House " if the parallel was not in his favour.' M. Guizot was thus changed from the accuser into the accused, and found it necessary to defend himself. He immediately mounted the tribune, when a scene ensued such as has seldom been witnessed. For more than an hour M. Guizot stood in the tribune utterly unable to obtain a hearing. " Yes, I have been at Ghent," said M. Guizot, but beyond that not one word would be listened to. " Never," says the Constitutionnel, " have we been present at such a tempest, —never in the Chamber have we seen so forgetful a tumult." On other occasions we have seen some sympathy for an orator who boldly faced the storm, but it is impossible to give that satisfaction to M. Guizot. He struggled against manifestations which rose from all parts of the assembly, and he fought for a deplorable cause which the whole nation condemns as energetically as the Chamber. The interruptions came principally from the Opposition benches. " It is treason—it is infamous," were vociferated from the opposition in the midst of the ringing of the President's bell, and noise and clamour on all sides. In vain did M. Guizot attempt to pro ceed. He repeated the words, " I went to Ghent,' and the storm immediately recommenced. He then expressed his surprise that he should not be allowed to explain now, though on a former occasion his explanations had been listened to; but this was answered with "No, no, we have always ,pro tested," "'Treason never prescribes," and other exclamations equally complimentary. M. Guizot showed admirable cool ness and courage under such disagreeable circumstances. He stood the storm coolly, and with indomitable patience. " You may exhaust your strength," said he, in a moment of compa rative calm, " but you cannot exhaust my courage." Still he struggled on, commencing with the same unhappy—" I went to Ghent." At length M. Ernest de Girardin brought things to a climax by calling out " You are a traitor," in which he was joined by the Opposition. Even in these circumstances M. Guizot was calm. He merely asked M. Girardin to ex plain • what be meant from the tribune, to which M. Girardin replied, " No, I will not mount the tribune, but I tell you from my place that you have betrayed your country, and that you passed the evening before the battle of Waterloo with foreigners; that is infamous."- Even after this the most opprobious epithets were thrown out against M. Guizot, and it was only after repeated solicitations on the part of M. Barrot, and M. Dupin, that he was allowed to proceed. When M. Guizot's defence was at last heard, it consisted in this—that finding, as all men of sense knew, that the res tore n of Louis the 18th to France was inevitable, he went to Gh . ogive his political advice,for he thought it more lis?de sirable t at the Bourbons should return under the conditions of a charter than as counter-revolutionists. But M. Guizot seemed to forget that this was just what M. Berryer pro perly called waiting for the misfortunes of France to justify his conduct. He, however, drew a good distinction when he said that his conduct might be very differently estimated, if, after going to Ghent, and before their entrance into France, he had again taken his seat in the convention; which ac knowledged the party opposed to them. INL . Berryer's'defence is rather a singular one. He draws a distinction between the oath which was taken to the elder branches of the Bourbons, and that taken to the present dynasts-. • The former was an unconditional oath to the per sons of the monarchs, the present was merely an oath bind ing them to observe the order of things established by the national will, but that neither he nor any one else intended to bind himself to "resist all solicitation for a fresh manifes tation of the national will," and he denied that the oath he had taken was one of fidelity to King Louis Philippe per sonally. It would appear that French oaths of fidelity to the "King of the French" are not without "evasion, equivoca tion, or mental reservation." _ _ _ After the speech of M. Guizot, the debate was adjourned ll the following day. SITTING OF SATURDAY. The President took the Chair at half-past one. The tribunes appropriated to the public were crowded to excess, the front seats being occupied by ladies. The following is the last paragraph as at present proposed by the CoMmittee, the amendment of M. Bethmont for the insertion of the words " national sovereignty" having been agreed to by them. " Yes, Sire, your family is truly national. Between France and you the alliance is indissoluble. The rights of your dynasty, founded on the imperishable principle of national sovereignty, are guaranteed by your oaths and ours, The public conscience brands with reprobation guilty manifesta tions. Our revolution of July, by punishing the violation of sworn faith, has consecrated amongst us the sanctity of an oath." The 4ange in the above consists in substituting " national sovereignty" I'or the words "independence and loyalty of th nation." On the above paragraph several amendments were proposed and rejected. The ballot on the whole question of the Address closed at quarter to six, when the numbers wer e declared— For the Address . Against Majority for the Ministers 220 190 TO THE Emrps OF THE SUN. Slit—l shall feel oblrge4:-,to any of your readers learned in constitutional inw, IgrO will resolve an im portant problem, viz., , •• Whether, in the event of:kr:, O'Connell and his " co seditionists" (to use the.'- - ntocieit -.language of the Times), being convicted, Sir Rtii#Ft Plegiand Sir James Gtaham are not liable to be iroientAed for enormous dereliction of official duty ? The reason for adopting the affirmative of the propo sition is simple. If the ttSgemblinv a " monster meet ing," and addressing them in the language Mr. O'Con nell has invariably adopted, be an offence against the Crown, the Constitution, and the security of the common wealth, it was as much aft offence at first as at last, and Ministers, who suffered scores of these acts to be accom plished without interference, assuredly deserve impeach ment as richly as ever public officers have done since the days of Alfred. What should we say, if the Home Secretary, knowing that A.B. had in January, murdered C.D., should take no steps to apprehend him, but leave him to slaughter B.F. in February, G.H. in March, L.T. in April, and so on to the end of the alphabet .and year, and should in the last month of it become awake to propriety of stopping the murderer's career? SlYntld have a cry through the length and breadth of the lana, he impeachment of such a Minister? Either Mr. O'Connell ought to be acquitted, and the Ministry kicked out for fools —or condemned, and Mi nistors impeached for gross neglect of duty. PHILO-JUSTITI/E. ETHNOLOGICAL SOCIETY. The meeting on Wednesday evening was engaged in hearing and discussing three papers entitled—l. " A few remarks on the inhabitants of the Pyrenees, by Mr. W. .li. Masterson." 2. " A comparative view of the human pelvis in the different races of mankind, by Sir Augustus Francis de Ritgen, Professor of Obstetrics at Gi6ssen." 3. " On the Mongols, by Mr. Bayle St. John." The inhabitants of Vernet des Bains, in the Eastern Py renees, are classed by Mr. Masterson as " longheads, ' for a very few round heads are to be found amongst them. They are an industrious and moral people, and differ widely from the Basques. They are of short stature, and exceedingly swarthy complexion. Inter marriage of near relations is very frequent, and with no unfavourable results. In their language there are many words of Moorish origin, which would show a descent mom the Moors who took refuge in these mountains after the t , ,rrible defeat they suffered from Charles Martel. Sir Augustus Francis de llitgen's paper related to the form of the pelvis, as furnishinc , ethnological criteria. After a rapid glance at the modifications' of the pelvis in fishes, reptiles, birds, and mammalia, the Learned Professor noticed five modifications of this part of the skeleton as recognisable in the human sub ject, and advanced the ingenious speculation that whilst that part of the pelvis which is above the brim may be compared to the skull, and bearing, some relation to it, the inferior portion may be compared to the face—the seat of the senses. Thus, in the elephant, as in the human Peing, the large intellectual organ is accompanied with a large upper part of the pelvis, whilst in the libidi nous monkey the lower portion is strikingly large. The cranium has so generally been taken as the sole or chief point of national distinction, that these suggestions must be regarded as an object of almost novel interest. The paper of Mr. )3ayle St. John was of much greater length than the two preceding, and was chiefly confined to the Mongols Proper, as distinguished from that group of .mankind designated by Blumenbach as .the Mon golian variety, and which comprises many nations be sides those'which formed the subject of the paper. These may be characterised as the nation which left their native seat, under conduct of Ghengis Khan, and exer cisecU a temporary sway over a large portion. of the East! Their physical characters, the modification which their ireligion and habits received from the natives whom they subdued, their present comparatively limited ter ritory, its capabilities for the maintenance of a large population under a different social system, and many otheri points, were alluded to in the paper, which ex hibited much careful research and extensive reading, and was well worthy the son of the justly-admired authOr of the " Manners and Cui toms of Ancient Greece." Dr. • Hodgkin presided, and an animated discussion, in which the Baron de Bode took a leading part, engaged the attention of the meeting until a late hour. UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. ----- OXFORD, JAN. 27.—Mr, C. F. Trower, Fellow of Exe ter College, having resigned the Vinerian Scholarship, a Convocation will be hidden on Wednesday, the 31st inst. to fill the vacancy; there are at present three can didates for this scholarship. The Reader in Experimental Philosophy (the Rev. R. Walker) will commence a course of lectures on Hydro statics and Pneumatics on Wednesday, the 31st inst., at one o'clock, at the Clarendon, and continue them on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, until completed. Mr. Walker has just added to his splendid philosophical apparatus an hydro-electrical machine. The Camden Professor of Ancient History (the Rev. Dr. Cardwell) will begin a course of lectures on Athens, in, the time of Socrates, on Tuesday next, at one o'clock. The Savillian Professor of Geometry (the Rev. B. Powell) will commence a course of Elementary and Il lustrative Lectures on Tuesday, the 30th inst., at one o'olock, at his house in New College-lane. ' The Regius Professor of Modern History (the Rev. Dr. Cramer) will resume his lectures on Philippe de Comines, on Thursday, Feb. 1, at two o'clock, and con tinue them on Tuesdays and Thursdays during the term. Her Majesty the Queen has presented the Rev: J. C. Toni*. late of Worcester College, to the Rectory of SoUthwick, Sussex—value 2071. per annum. The Rev. J. W. Twist, late of Queen's College, has been appointed clerk in orders of the parish church of Leeds, Yorkshire. The Rev. T. T. Carter, late of Christ Church, has been presented to the rectory of Clewer, Berkshire—value 4601. per annum. The next meeting of the Ashmolean Society will be on' Monday evening, Feb. 5. CAMBRIDGE, JAN. 27.—Smith's prizes were yesterday awarded as follows :—First, George Wergman Hemming, B.A. (Senior Wrangler), St. John's College. Second — William Bonner Hopkins, B.A. (Second Wrangler), Caius College. _ _ THE MATHEMATICAL TRIPOD.—The following Wrang lers were formerly students of King's College, London — Stephen, 4th Wrangler, St. John's College ; Wilkinson, 12th Wrangler, Christ's College ; Woodhouse, 15th Wrangler, Caius College • Gutch, 19th Wrangler, Sid ney College ; Fenn, 33d Wrangler, Trinity College ; Edwards, 34th Wrangler, Trinity College. The Margaret Professor of Divinity's lectures on the Early Fathers, commence on Friday, the 3d of February, at 'one o'clock, at the Pitt Press. Wednesdays and Fri slays during term. The Regius Professor of Divinity will deliver a course of lectures in the Sophs' school on Tuesdays and Thurs days, at twelve o'clock, commencing on Tuesday, the 13th day of February. Coarus Cttßurn COLLEGE.—Henry Albert Goodwin, . i has just been elected a Fellow of this Society. The Earl of Eldon was expected to arrive in Hamil ton-place last evening, from Encombe House, Dorsetshire. The Noble Earl will dine with the Duke of Wellington to morrow, at Apsley-house, and move the Address in the House of Lords on Thursday. Yesterday was the anniversary of the death of King George the rhird, in 1820. Sunday was the anniversary of the death of Peter the Great, in 1725. - deepliregret to learn that this estimable lady, the sister of the late Lord Holland, is at the seat of the Marquis of Lansdowne, Bowood, in so declining a state of health as to cause the most serious apprehensions to her numerous and attached friends and relatives. ADVANTAGES or Low FARES ON RAILWAYS.--The Report of the North Shields Railway presents , some curious particulars in respect of third-class passengers. The Direc tors, with a view of restoring the former position of the railway, which had been greatly depressed, resolved on re establishing third-class carriages at lower fares, and with more frequent trains. The result has been that in the half years ending the 31st of December last, the number of pas sengers was 487,304, as compared with 381,522 passengers in the corresponding six months in the previous year, being an increase of 105,542, the increase in money being 347/. 3s. 6d. A very gratifying fact is also mentioned in the Report—namely, that 4 the passengers carried since the opening of the railway, amount, on the 31st of Decem ber, to the very great number of 3,369,491, and no occident to the life or limb of any passenger has ever occurred."— Railway Times. ALTERATION OF TRH MARKET DAT IN MAN CREAMER: VOA CLOTH AND YARNS. —In consequence of the half-day holiday having now been generally conceded end fol lowed-up by a resolution :of all the carriers not to fetch any goods from the warehouses after three o'clock P.M. on Sa turdays; and, as in practice, the goods and yarn market may even now be said to be in reality on Fridays instead of Saturdays, as heretofore, an effort is now making by some of the most eminent firms in Manchester to obtain a formal sanction for the alteration of the day. With this view a document is now lying in the Exchange, to which some names of individuals and firms are attached, re commending the change of the market from Saturday to Fri day. The document has not been so numerously signed as might have been expected, and it is at present doubtful whe ther the proposed alteration will be generally supported.-- Leeds Newry. PROPOSED ALTERATION BY GO— VERNMENT, OF THE RAILWAY STAIW— ING ORDERS. The following declaration of the intention of her Najiity'r Goveniment, to institute an inquiry into the evils from the Present Railway Standing Orders in thOlionse oi Com Mons, will be read with great satisfaction Wall parties interested in railway undertakings—viz.:— " Railway Department, Board of Trade, Whitehall, Jan. 23, 1844. " With reference to the notice given of your intention to apply . to Parliam en t, i n t h e ensuing session, for a Bill to authorise the constntction of a railway from —to or the amalgamation of the Companies, or oth erw i se ( as the case may be), I am directe d by the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade, to inform you that it is the intention of her Majesty'e Go vernment, immediately after the meeting of Parliament, to propose that a Select Committee of the House of Commons be appointed to consider the Standing Orders relating to railways, and whether any, and what changes, ought to be made in those Standing Orders; and likewise to consider Whether any, and what new provision, for the advantage of the public, and the improvement of the railway system, ought to be introduced into such Railway Bills as may come before the House during the present or future sessions, and to report their opinions thereon to the House.—" I am, your obedient servant, (Signed) " S. LAIN - G. "To the Chairman, Secretary, or Agent of • the - Railway Company." A GOOD INTENTION.—" I meant to have told you of the hole," said a man to his fiiend, who stumbled into a pit full of water. "No matter now (says the other, blowing the mud - arid water out of his mouth), I have found it.'' IforiEsnr Is TILE BEST POLICY.—A man, named Moloney, an auctioneer, formerly residing in flelturbt, forged a draught for 1301. some time ago, and effected his escape to America. Whilst there he learned that he was heir to 50,000/. in dispute in Ireland. He had the hardihood to return, made good his claim, was immediately afterwards arrested, was tried in the Commission Court, Dublin, last week, convicted of forgery, and sentenced to seven years' transportation. The treasure is, of course, confiscated to the Crown. Baron Lefroy, in passing sentence, intimated that if an application were made to the Crown the property might be granted to the children.—Liverpool Mercury. A stranger, on taking his seat, lately, in the pit of a theatre, accosted a gentleman who sat near him with, " Pray, Sir, have you a bill ?" when, to the stranger's amaze ment, the gentleman, starting from a reverie in which he had been plunged, exclaimed, " No, Sir, but I have two next week, and bOth unprovided for." lquanru or Ma. IVALLF.s.—Yesterday evening, Inspector O'Connor, of the Dublin Detective Police, arrested a man named And rew Whelan, against whom informations had been sworn as one of the persons concerned in the murder of the late Mr. Waller. lie will be transmitted to Tipperary for trial at the next assizes. --Dublin Evening Post. The second ball of Lady Cowley, which was given on Wednesday night, surpassed even the first, and was un questionably the most distinguished of the season, from the selection of the company, the splendour of the ladies' dre&ses, :and the arrangements and decorations of the saloOns. It was not so numerous as the first, and the grand gallery was not open ; but the dances were much more animated. Many of the high aristocracy of the Faubourg St. Germain were among the company. Tea, sherbets, ices, and 'every other refreshment, were serred throughout the evening, and at a later hour the supper-rooms were thrown open, the tables of which were renewed till four in the morning, the dancing being kept up till half an hour after. Amongst the brilliant assemblage of Ambassadors, the King's Ministers, Peers, Deputies, and several members of the British Parliament, were Prince Maximilian of Bavaria, the Princess de Montmorency, the Prince and Princess de Baufremout, the Duke and Mdlle. de Bohan, the Prince and Princess de , v.auveau the Princess de Pons, the Duchess and MademOiselle de Noailles, the Princess de Pois, the Marquis and Marchioness delkthisy, the Marquis and Marchioness de St. Blaucar, the Count de Gontaut 13iron, the Duke de Saul:, the Duchess d'Albuteta.„ Baroness de Barante, the Countess d'Haussonville, the Duffs and Duchess Decazes, the Count and Countess de Rambuteau, 11, Count and Countess de Caraman, the Count and C oun t ess d e Beaumont, the Countess de Larochefoucauld, the Marquis de'w.migny, the Count and Countess de Greffulhe, Viscount d'Arlim.,, e t„ the Marquis.. f.Huntly, the Hon. Frederick Levison, and nears,- all the English aristocracy now in Paris.— G a li gnan i. Galignani. DEATH OF MR. PERCEVAL'S WIDOW.—Lady Carr died at Ealing on Saturday. She was, previous to her union with Sir Henry Can, the widow of the late Eight Hon. Spencer Perceval, who was shot in the year 1812, while filling the offices of First Lord of the Treasury, and Chancellor of the Exchequer, in the lobby of the House of Commons, by Bel lingham. For nearly the last two years her Ladyship has been much afflicted with illness, and for some time past has been unable to leave - her room. Lady Carr, who is stated to have been in zher72d year, had a large family by Mr. l'ereeval, of whom several are now living, but there was no issue by her second marriage. The flocks of wild fowl have been more numerous in the Western part of this county than has been the case for several years past. Vast numbers have followed the course of the Arun, and located in the low grounds adjacent. This is generally regarded as one of the signs of a severe winter; and the unusual abundance of hips and haws and other wild berrieson the hedges also led to the same inference. But hitherto we have escaped it. In fact, up to the present mo ment, there can be scarcely said to have been any winter at all.—Brighton Herald. DEATH OE THE HON. EDWARD CLIFFORD.—Let ters have been received by Lord Clifford from the Mauritius, conVeyng the melancholy information of the death of his Lordship's brother, the lion. and Rev. Edward Charles Clif ford, who expired on the 22d October, at .111ahebourg, at the age of'4o. 'On Saturday accounts were received in town from Combermere Abbey, Cheshire, of the death, after a very short illness, of Mr: Robert Gibbings. The deceased gentleman, who was father of Viscountess Combermere, was in his 84th Lear. 1 lie was staying on a visit to the Noble and Gallant Viscount at the abbey: WOre women admitted to plead in courts ofjudica hire, I am persuaded they would carry the eloquence of th e bar td, greater heights than it has yet arrived at. If any one doubtp this, let him but be present at those debates which freqmintly arise among the ladies of the British fishery.— Add/40n. TRADE WITH AMERICA.—The American packets which have recently left this port afford evidence of the im proving state of business with the United States. The Hot tinguer, on Monday week, took out freight amounting to up wards of l;500/., and eleven cabin passengers ; the Monte zuma', which sailed the same day, upwards of I,2(X)L, and ten cabin, passengers. In future, there will be a packet every five days.. -1 he Europe is the first ship under the. new regu lation. The lloscius, which is about to sail, takes out freight to the amount of I,4ooL—Liverpool Mercury. WILL or THE EARL OF COVEICTRT.—By the will and codicils of the late Earl of Coventry (which are at _pre sent the subject of litigation in the Prerogative Court, Wt. tors'commons), the following distribution of his property is mado:—lle directs 18,0001. to be invested for the benefit of his three children by Mrs. Williams, alias White (who has a le g acy of 3CIO/. and 250/. per annum); to Lady Cotton Or ife of Sir W. Cotton, K.C.8.), 1,000/.; to Lady Georgibna Bartres, 500 L ; to J. Coventry, 500/.; to 11. C. Coventry, 500/.1; to W. J. Coventry, 5001. ; his executors to offer his manion in Piccadilly, and " books, pictures, marbles, bronZes, ornaments, wines, &e.," to Viscount Peerhurst (son of deceased) for 15,0001., and if he should decline purchasing theni, they are to be sold by auction ; to B. Temple and J. Patrick in gives (upon certain trusts) " the gold cup pre sented to me by the freemen of Worcester," and other ar ticles ofjilate. He appoints Sir Anthony Lechmere and S. Crane, Esq., executors, who each have a legacy of 2001. if they accept the office To five of his servants lOW. each, arida year's *ages ; to five others, 501. each and a year's wages. By a codicil he increases the legacies to his three children to 10,000/. each, observing, " I have been able, by a rigid economy for one placed in my station of life, to save some additions to what I had when my will was made," and concludes thus—" There are many dear friends I love in Wokcester, and could wish to serve, but. the state of my family requires the residue." lie also increases the legacy of hishxecutor, Mr. Crane, to 5001. By a later codicil he be queaths to Miss Brunton (an actress) as follows :—" I have determined . to offer, as a tribute to her talents and virtues, that poverty may never overtake her, the small but welcome allowance of 50/. per annum, and after her death, which I cannot but contemplate without the deepest feeling of regret, to her son."• His property is estimated at about 145,0001. MILDNESS or THE SEASON.—Last week the nest Of a robin redbreast was discovered in a bullock-house, near Ileiston, with four young ones in it, apparently doing well. —Westßritan. THE WEATHER.—SeveraI farmers and small land owners in Wharfdale and the adjoining district, who are itt tho habit of rearing pork, have suffered to a serious extent during the last six weeks; immense quantities of the new bacon having become unfit for domestic purposes. We hear of one individual having lost, during the late mild season, eleven pigs; and several others to a serious amount, which, from all probability, arises from the late changeable weather. —Doncaster Gazette. THE WAR IN THE CAUCASUS.—(From the Niemen, Jan. 10.)—The late disasters of the Russians in the Caucasus have caused, as far as they are known, a great sensation. It cannot be denied that the mountaineers display a degree of perseverance and energy against which all the military skill and the courage of the Russian soldiers have not been able to effect anything decisive. These disasters have not, in— deed, broken their courage, yet they have occasioned a cer— tain alarm in the army, especially on account of the cruel treatment which awaits those who fall alive into the hands of the mountaineers, especially of the Tscherschensos. The prisoners are employed in the meanest service, for which amongst civilised nations only cattle are used. To hinder them from escaping, the soles of their feet are gashed with knives, and chopped straw put into the wounds, which are then suffered to heal. Inconsequence of this operation every step gives these poor people pam, and it is quite impossible for them to go to any great distance on foot.. It maybe conjectured that the Avares lately carried off 4. the Tscherschenges have, at least, in part been treated in the same manner. With all this it is very surprising whence the rebels obtain the ammunition necessary to continue the contest, as their own powder-mills and foundries are very imperfect, and are hardly able to afford a sufficient supply. It must be presumed that they receive supplies from other countries; though the stipulations of the treaty of the Dar., danelles, if they were strictly observed, would make this very difficult. With respect to these circumstances, those personal are, perhaps, not much in the wrong who believe that the germs of differences between Russia and other Powers aro more likely to bo found in them than in the affairs of Greece or the principalities on the Danube. BULLETIN OF THE HEALTH OF THE QUEEN AP PMISSIA.—Her Majesty the Queen has slept at intervals during the night, the fever and eruption have disappeared, and the latter has began to scale off, Berlin, 23d January, 1e44,i Signed Dr. Schonlein, Dr. Yon Ho sc b. SIR FRANCIS BURDETT AND THE COLD WATBIII CURE.—We have copied from Tile Times a paragraph rela— tive to the alleged cause of the death of Sir Francis Burdett. We may state m addition, that the place to which he went to undergo the cold water treatment was Thames Ditton, there being an establishment there for the purpose. The individual to whose hands he confided himself is scarcely known to the profe skin. It is unnecessary, therefore, to say that there is no ground for the impression entertained in some quarters that a medical gentleman, enjoying the honour of koigitlsoed, and who lately wrote a work in favour of hydropathy, superintended the application of the cold water treatment. So firut Was the faith of Sir:Francis in the efficacy of the cold water system that be rose up in his bed when scarcely able for the effort, and with uplifted hands declared, the day before Lady Burdett's drath, that had she been subjected to the hydropathic treatment shot would have been restored to perfect health. We understand that the friends of Sir Fianeis are determioed to instituto: strict inquiry into the whole circumstances connected wi th th melancholy case.— Observer. disgust, we weTaAninotc;Nce eto°oAuLr.—reslcil;;tshthafteesininegsysts:fenz=linieel p in ar p i r i e a r m a e r n at t io to n. lay T t h t e sz clr ... am , an d in i v r e wving e the streets of the metre. ifiEs: Lo pe t t ri on in o te n n eo d o to , a r p or ply th op e P 9f P i:49 be a t- 11 - god, we believe, is printed. A more imp,. ' • t hi s . was D ever contemplated. Will tit AC"" wink • • ood oot tr ., 4o _ Ar t_ ajoblAketlua?—Gateshead Obearrgd N . 11, .... ,_-_-_--, , ...„,...p , > ~.. t,.....:,, . , - - - =1 ir .:!.* .. .t which does not tend to the development of the plot. The interest never flags. The scenery is beautiful, and the manner in which the piece is put upon the stage is be yond all praise. This piece will no doubt carry Mr. Gladstane on successfully to the end of the season. Mrs. Yates was called for at the fall of the curtain, and re ceived with loud applause. The house was very well attended.