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RLEGANT LITERARY PRESENT. NOW BEADY. LIVES OF THE QUEENS OF ENGLAND. By AGNES STRICKLAND. NEW and REVISED EDITION, in Seven Volumes, price 10s. GC, each, elegantly bound, any of which may be had separately. " A valuable contribution to historical knowledge—to young per sons especially. It contains a mass of every kind of historical matter of interest, which industry and research could collect. We have de rived muck entertainment and instruction from the work. - - Athetneu n. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. Orders received by all Booksellers. THEATRE R') Y AI : , pRURY-LA NE. THIS EVENING Will be repeated a Grand Opera Syria, called THE DAUGHTER OF ST. MARK. Lusignano, Mr. Burdini ; Andrea Cornaro, Mr. Borrani ; Moncenigo, Mr. Weiss; Adolphe de Courcy, Mr. W. Harrison; Catarina Cornaro, Miss l'oole ''o conclude with a Grand Comic Christmas Harlequlnade, called PUCK'S PANTOMIME; or, HARLEQUIN AND ROBINSON CRUSOE. Robinson Crusoe. Mr. W. H. Payne; Harlequin, Mr. Wieland ; Clown Mr. T. Matthews ; Pantaloon, Mr. Howell ; Columbine, Miss darson. The Box-office is open daily, from Ten in the Morning until Six m she Evening, where Private and Family Boxes. Stalls, Places, and Tickets may be had on application to Mr. John Parsons- THEATRE /LOYAL. HAYMARKET. Lessee, Mr. B. WEBSTER. THIS EVENING Will be performed a New and Original Comedy, in Five Acts, called OLD HEADS AND YOUNG HEARTS. Colonel Rocket Mr. S..rickland ; Littleton Coke, Mr. Charles Mathe•• s s Tom Coke Mr. Webster ; Bob, Mr Buckatone; Jesse Rural, Mr. W. Farren ; The Countess of Pc.ri , pion. Mrs. W. Clifford; Lady Alice Hawthort, Madame Vestris; Miss Rocket, Miss Julia ,Sennett. After which, a New Grand Musical Fairy Extravaganza, entitled GRACIOSA AND PERCINET. King Uxorious. ?dr. J. Bland ; Princess Gra , lcsa, Miss Julia Bennett ; Percinet, Miss P. Horton ; Duchess Grognon, Mrs. Stanley. To conclude with a Grand MOVING DIORAMA; or, PIC. fORIAL TOUR IN SWITZERLAND. Pnvate Boxes, Two Guineas and One Guinea and a-Half each. l'lckets and Places to be had of Mr. I. T. Ar cher, at the Box-office, ft im Ten till Five o'Clock. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHL Under the Direction of Madame CELESTE. THIS EVENING Will be repeated (by special permission of Charles Dickens, Esq.) a New Drama, entitled THE CHIMES. A Goblin Story of Some Bells that Rang an Old Year Out and a New Year In. Toby Veck, NIL 0. Smith; Alderman Cute, Mr. Wright • Tugby, Mr. Wilk in. son ; Sir Joseph Rowley, Bart , Mr. Paul Redford • ; Will Fern, Mr. Huson ; Richard, Mr. Selby; `leggy Veck, Miss Fortescue ; Mrs. Chickenstalker, Mrs. Frank Matthews. After which, NORMA, in which Miss Woolgar, Mr. Paul Bel ford, Mr. Wright, and Miss Reynolds will perform. To conclude with a New Grand Military and Comic ChTistrnas Pantomime, called CAT'S CASTLE; or, Harlequin and the Ki g of the Rats. Harlequin, Mr. T. Ireland; Columbine, Miss Low... dale ; Clown. Mr. C. J. Smith ; Pantaloon, Mr. SanAers. Prompter, Mr. °allot ; Principal Painter, .4r. Pitt ; Leader of the Bsnd, Mr. Mellon.—Box-oftlee open from Eleven till Four. Private Boxes to be had at the Theatre. and at all the principal Libraries. PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STHEE - 1. LESSEE, Mr. J. M. MADDOX. THIS EVENING Will' be repeated the New Drama, called DON CESA It DE 13AZAN Dea Cxsar, Mr. Wallack ; Charles the Secom , Mr. Waltan ; Maritina, Mrs. Stirling; Countess di Rotondo, Mrs. Fotbroke. To be followed by a new Divertissem mt. called LE SALON DE EAL Principal characters by Mdlle. Caroline Rousset, Mi , s Marshall, Mdlle. Teresine, M. J. Rou•set, Mr. Marshall, and Mr. Gilbert. To be succeeded _by a New Comedietta, entitled THE WIDOW. BEWITCHED. Mr. Clement Furnival, Mr. Walter Lacy; Mrs. Lorimer, Mrs. Stirling. After which will be repeated a New Grand Romantic, and rather Operatic Burlesque Extravaganza, called JOE MILLER AND HIS MEN. Grindoff, Mr. Compton ; Lothair, Mr. Oxberry; Mr. iiranby; Riber, Mr, Corri , Golotz, Mr. Walton ; Claudine, Miss E. Stanley ; Ravina, Mrs. Fosbroke. Sage Manager, Mr. H. I. Wallack. Stage Director, Mr. Emden, Machinist, Mr. Edmund BradwelL Dress Circle, ss. ; Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 25.; Galle Is. H a lf -pr i ce at Nine o'clock—Dress Circle,2s. 6d. ; Boxes, 2s. ; Pit, IL; Gallery. 6d. Private Boxes, Two Guineas end One Guinea and a-Half ,• Prc,ca aium Boxes, Two Guineas and a-Half. Doors to be opened at Halt:. past Six, and the Performances to commence at Seven o' c l oc k. The Box-office, under the direction of Mr. W. Massingham. Private Boxes and Free Admissions for the Season to b e h a d at t h e Taeatre. HEATRE ROYAL LYCEUM, LATE ENGLISH °VERA HOUSE Mader the Management of Mrs. KEELEY. THIS EVENING 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 Ardel, Miss Grove, and :qrs. Keeley. Atter which, a New Farce, called TO PERSONS ABOUT TO MARRY. Supported by Messrs. F. Matthews, Meadows, and Stoker Miss Arden, and Mrs. Wigan. To conclude with a New Grand Operatic, Historical, Romantic Pantomirnical, Burlesque Extravaganza, entitled VALENTINE AND ORSON. Principal Characters by Messrs. F. Matthews; Meadows, Wigan, Collier, Turner, Kinloch, Yarnold, and Keeley , Mrs. Wigan, Miss Arden, Miss Fairbrother, Miss Grove, Mrs Usher, Miss James, Miss Turner, and Mrs. Keeley. PRICES OF ADMISSION.—BaIcony Boxes. 45.; Upper Boxes, 3s. ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, 6d. Second Price—Balcony Boxes, lw. ; Upper Boxes, D. 6d.; Pit, is. Private Boxes on the Balcony Tier ;holding eight persons), Two Guineas. Private Boxes on the Second Tier (holding eight persons), One Guinea and asHalf. Private Boxes on the Pit rler (holding six persons), One Guirea, T,ie Eox.etlicei s open from Ten to Four o'Clock, under the direr. ties of Mr. Grogan, late of Covent-garden Theatre. Nightly Overflows to the Grand Christmas Holiday Novelties, and lreble Rotation of Entertainments at ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE OF ARTS. Proprietor and Manager, Mr. W. BATTY. Brilliant Success of the New Pantomime THIS EVENING Will be repeated a New Spectacle, entitled THE ROYAL FOX HUNT; or, The Race-Horse and Life's Course of Man and Steed ; introducing unequalled National Fetes. Real Fox chase on the Stage and in the Circle by living Fox and real Pack of Hounds, purchased by Mr. Batty of Mr. Tattersall, 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, c• lied HARLEQUIN AND JOHNNY GILPIN'S RIDE; or, the 'flack Witch of Edmonton. Harlequin, Mr. H. Lewis_ ; Columbine, Mrs. J. W. Colyer ; Clown, Mr. T. Barry; Pantaloon Mr. Bradbury. Acting and stage-manager ? Mr. W D. Broadfoot. Box-office open from Eleven till Five. Lessons in the Art et Riding by Mr. R. Smith daily. DAVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. As usual, the best Pantomime of the Season ! A more brilliant triumph than ever before achieved I I Laughter, Wonder, and Delight!! ! The First Pantomimic Performers of the Age, and Everything New!!!! THIS EVENING Will be repeated THE SEVEN A 61.4 OF MAN; or, The End of Crime. Principal Characters by_ Mr. Henry Cord (from the Theatre Royal Edinburgh), Me s srs. H. Hughes, Neville, R Roane:, Lewis, Heslop, and Seaman, Mrs. R. Hornier, Mrs. Lewis, Mrs. W. Daly, and Miss Martin. Atter which, Herr Joseph Gouldsmith and Marie Gouldsmith, lrom the Teatre Berlin, will perform most wonderful Gymnastique Feats on the horizontal corde and miraculous evolutions, suspended by a double rope. To conclude with an Original Worldly Comic Pantomime, cal!ed POUNDS, .411ILLINGS, AND PENCE; or, HARLEQUIN 1.. S. D. Harlequin, Mr. H. Harvey; Clown, Mr. T. Ridgway; Pantaloon, Mr. Henry Corri; Columbine, Miss Slalter. Places and Pnvate - Boxes to be had of Mr. Kerschner, at the Box . &Ace, from Eleven to Four. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. Extraordinary Success of " Marianne; or, The Child of Crime," and the New Comic Pantomime. THIS EVENING Will he repeated MARIANNE; or, the Child of Charity. Sur_ ported be Mr. Osbaldiston, Henry Howard, J. T. Johnson, T. H. Higgie, J. Herbert, E. Jones, W. Searle, Miss Vincent, Miss a Terrey, and Mina Treble. After which, the laughable Drama, entitled WILFUL MURDER. To conclude with a New Grand Christmas Pantomime, entitled HARLEQUIN HOT CODLINS ; or, The Little Old Woman and the Demon of the Metal Mine. Harlequin, M. Chapiqo ; Clown, Mr. Blanchard; Pantaloon, Mr. Coney; Columbine, Mdlk. Le t'ite. THE WEATHER-SUN OFFICE, JAN. 9. TI11:1111024ETER, Lowest, 31 ; Highest, 33 ; Noon, 32 BAROMETER, 30.15.-WIND, 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 DAY. Wring ... 15 minutes after 21 Evening—. 4'2 minutes after 2. e.- • 4- 41_ ' : tot • %',-*: 1 ) 1. , .ui .) 7 14 , • '• •,:• 'sto • .A, „ „A ' * z . ~. Ail : _____ • t„ r • ,- ` 7. , , . , .If, , 4 e... - , . • 40,;,.,Asopoitt t i , ,,, ~, _- . ., _ if a v-:. _. , - -P 7 m 0 -., ~_..„- - ~ v, -.. • N‘. k• '4, %Pi ., '-. SECOND EDITION. temugflt LONDON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 9, 1845. Never was there a more hopeless or more absurd agitation than that got up by certain landed pro prietors and farmers throughout England for the re peal of the malt-tax. As if land was not sufficiently protected already by the sliding-scale and many im munities from burdens to which personal property are liable, these gentlemen, born to consume the fruits of the earth, cry out for more exemptions, under pre tence of\ benefiting the poor, while in reality theic out v object is t o add to the grievances of the corn-laws. The benefit to the poor or the community at large is mere moonshine; and with what face can the country gentlemen come forward and advocate cheap beer, when one of their great themes at quarter sessions and in Parliament is the mischief caused by beer shops ? According to them beer is the great source of poaching, smuggling, stealing, and Sabbath-breaking. 'There is hArdly an evil under the sun that is not at tributed to drinking malt liquors ; yet these Solons would reduce the price of this article of consumption, all for the good of the people. But putting this mockery aside, we ask how is a deficiency of between four and five millions sterling t) be made up ? Is the income-tax to be made perpetual? Is there to be no reduction in the import duties on the necessa ries of life, and especially on sugar, tea, and corn ? Are all the rest of the community to suffer that prodigal lords and squires may be able to keep up their vast establishments, spend large revenues in foreign countries, and make suitable marriage settle ments ((kr their sons and daughters ? Th e manufacturing towns—great and small—the shop •owners, the merchants, and, above all, the opponents of the corn-laws, would cry out against -such an act of injustice, and an impulse would be given to the operations of the latter body, which in a every short period would put an end to the sliding -.scale and the tax OR bread together. This is not the •object of the agitators, but they know not what they ask ; and, were their prayer granted, they would be 'the very first to exclaim against its consequences. `.The more rational portion of the landowners wow aware of these truths, and are not at all dosed to concur in the agitation ; but the repealers ha v e ,R , FiTe ; at,nutjfirtty. At a meeting of the C en t ra l toinwittee, beid 2 013: Monday, for the purpose of ob hti aining the sense ofliie country—that is, the agricul urists—iletters wereAtd from many local Committe es , from which it woo l pear that a strong and una- µ'~~ ~J THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDWY EVENING, JANUARY 9, 1845. nimous feeling prevailed among that class in favour of a total repeal of the tax; and at a special meeting of the Warwickshire Association for the Protection of Agriculture held at Warwick, on Saturday, the following resolutions, amidst considerable opposition, were ultimately adopted:— " That it is the opinion of this meeting that the mal t tax is detrimental to the moral and physical comfort and happiness of the industrious classes, and oppressive to the ag ricultural interest generally. That the total re peal of the malt-tax would enable farmers to use the in ferior barley for feeding purposes in lieu of foreign oil cake and linseed, and thereby facilitating the means of feeding cattle for the consumption of the increasing popu lation of this country. " That, in or ler to carry out the foregoing resolutions, this meeting firmly, but respectfully, calls upon the county Members generally to support and advocate the total repeal of the malt-tax, as being beneficial to all classes of society." It is probable that other agricultural associations will follow the example, and Sir ROBERT PEEL and Lord STANLEY will be compelled to throw these gentlemen overboard, or yield to their wishes—that curtail the revenue of about one-tenth of its amount, repeal the Canada Corn Bill, and make the landed interest, as in the days of PITT, the supreme arbiter of national policy. Thanks, however, to the Reform Bill, and the progress of free trade principles, these days are gone by. A new race and a new era have arisen. The aristocracy can no longer boast of their pocket boroughs, and Birmingham, and Manchester, and Leeds, and fifty other influential towns, have now something to say in the great council of the nation. We have laboured very earnestly to produce a conviction' on the minds of others which has long possessed our own—namely, that the most alarming symptom in our social condition is the absence of an efficient principle of distribution in relation to our unrivalled and perpetually augmenting power of production. By means of the enormous masses of capital accumulated in a few hands, we can set on foot the most gigantic enterprises, in which, the money basis being provided, the utmost ascertained capacities of machinery and industrial:labour can be developed to their full extent, and worked to the utmost realisable profit. Thus it is we see in England the most delicate and costly articles of luxury, and fabrics of the cheapest and most inferior kinds, produced with equal facility. The cotton printing works, the silk factories, the power-looms, the mills, continue almost uninterruptedly the process , of incalculably multiplying their various products, and especially those commodities in the class of cheap clothing and raiment which are most univer sally in demand. A comparatively small per centage on the enormous capital sunk and weekly wages dis bursed by the millowner or the manufacturer, is found a sufficient ratio of profit to maintain all these great works and extensive machineries in motion. But the result is not to " distribute" them among the great bulk of the population. Least of all do those classes which compose the industrial community benefit by the low prices of the articles, of which their ow n labour or supervision has been the main element in the production. Their wages are so deplorably re duced that low prices do not extend to them that power of purchase or consumption which high prices, with whatever evils they may be in the opinion of many authorities clogged, would certainly give to them. The condition, then, of the industrial com munity is an anomaly no less positive than this— extreme destitution, with low prices of all com modities and necessaries of life, in place of compara tive competency and comfort, under high prices, of these articles. The explanation of the anomaly consists in this fact—that the wages of their labour are reduced in a far greater ratio than the prices of such commodities. The numbers of hats, caps, coats, gown stuffs, shirts, blankets, stockings, cotton goods, may be all infinitely increased, and vastly reduced in price, but the reduction of price only carries them readily to the foreign consumer. Our own industrial classes acquire but a very minute proportion of the increase. A longer daily term of work, and di minished pay for the product, have paralysed their powers of home consumption among the most meri torious, the most overtaxed, and the most underpaid body of our native population. An individual, who signs himself "MxLes EMERITUs," has addressed a letter to the Morning Post on the subject of " Currency and Labour," which is a sensible and well-reasoned paper, so far as it goes, but which its able writer will pardon us for saying does not go far enough. It enunciates several pro positions as to the baneful effects of Sir ROBERT PEEL'S legislation on the market of labour, in almost all of which we fully concur ; but, strange to say, except that it contains one or two incidental allusions to our " monetary system," it is utterly silent as to the " currency." This is the more to be lamented (in our judgment, at least), because we hold the scheme of currency, established through the immediate instratnentality of Sir ROBERT PEEL, to be primarily responsible for that depression of labour or prices of which " MILES" complains. His premises are that the nation is composed of two classes—those whose pro perty lies in their labour, and those whose propert , consists in money or land ; i.e., the producing and the unproducing classes. That to the welfare of the former, as the more important, but the least at leisure to watch their own interests, an enlightened statesman will undoubtedly look, in the first place, as a duty towards those who are themselves the founda tion and origin of all wealth and prosperity in the State. That the latter class, in respect of their more fortunate condition and superior education, he may properly leave to take care of their own inte rests. But, contrary to the exigencies of these pre mises, the legislative consideration and attention of the Premier, are, according to "MILES," exclusively devoted to the interests of a section of the latter class ; namely, the moneyed capitalists only. " MILES" next assumes that the fixed, certain liabilities of the State, amounting, annually, to about 50,000,000/., their pressure on the producing classes must be inver:ely as the value of labour compared to money—that is, that with wages of 2s. a day a man can with more facility pay a fixed or given amount of taxation than if he has only ls. a day for wages. This, too, is very certain ; and "MILES" justly infers, that to increase the value of money is to increase the difficulty of meeting the additional engagements. No doubt of it. But he might have as well added that herein, also, is to be noted an ingredient of enormous iniquity in Sir H. PEEL'S monetary legislation. With this fired taxation all other commodities but gold have a _fluctuating value, whether as to the relations between Government and the people, or the people and the market of the world ; and consequently they are all directly or in directly affected by taxation. Gold alone is, as be tween Government and people, estimated at a fixed value, and the standard of. prices as to all other articles is thus regulated by the fixed Government value of gold. Now, if instead of this fixed Mint or Government value of gold; which makes all other prices cheap because itself is low, gold (already a free commodity in the open market) were left to fluctuate in price according to the laws of demand and supply, like all other commodities, in trans actions of all kinds, it would be, like them, affected, mediately or immediately, by taxation; and the wages of labour would not be arbitrarily reduced to the minimum scale, at which the Mint price of gold has been so unwarrantably as well as absurdly fixed by Sir R. PEEL. But what would in that case be the result ? That capital would be taxed. The capitalist would complain that the nominal amount of . _ his securities in the hands of the Government or the Bank of England could not be realised in gold except at a certain per centage of depreciation. This is, in fact, what ought to have been the case, and just what Sir It. PEEL meant to avoid. The industrial community, as we have often shown, pay at least 30,000,000/. of taxes out of their diminished wages —diminished by the natural or gold prices established 1 by the Standard Mint price ofgold. The capitalist gets for his gold, or paper convertible on demand, by I law, into gold, so much a greater proportion of com- Imodifies as is represented by the two elements-- first, of the proportion of the taxes, the bulk of which, instead of the minimum, bas fallen on the producing classes, whereas it should have fallen oy, himself and his own class ; and, secondly, of thei r cheaper cost to him, the consumer, by reason of th e reduced wages of production which the master or manufacturer can afford to pay to the producing operative, from the depreciation of prices caused by the institution of a gold currency. Th. Act of 1819, and its complement of 1844, are at theroot of the whole evil. Repeal these; you will hare high prices, high wages, equalised, or rather adjusted taxation ; and capital will be made to bear its fair share—and no more—of the public burdens. It is a mere ques tion of a tax or no tax, indirectly, upon money ; when it is no question about taxing all other property whatsoever. Why should gold money escape from that slight contribution which the fluctuations of its market price would occasionally levy upon it, as we see in the case of all other commodities ? Why should not paper money, the convenience and facilities of which, on a well-matured and responsible system of operation, no man disputes, be left to adjust its own value, according to the de2ree in which it may secure the confidence of the public ? A system, the expan sibility of which must provide the most certain guarantees against those sudden and convulsive con tractions of the general circulation of the country, which, since Sir ROBERT PEEL'S first experiment, have been of such frequent and such fatal recurrence; has, in that single quality, an irresistible claim on our respect and consideration. But it has the evi dence of hundreds of years in its favour. It appeals especially, for its testimonials of usefulness, and its powers of multiplying wealth and expanding com merce—of consolidating the public strength, and se curing the power and permanency of political insti tutions, to the stormy trials and brilliant termination of our last war with the combined Powers of Europe ; to the unprecedented attitude which, in virtue of its inexhaustible energies, we were enabled to assume and to maintain, at home and abroad, a rallying point and beacon for the encouragement of all who came forward to participate in our victorious struggle against the colossal force of NAPOLEON. On what recollections does Sir ROBERT PEEL'S monetary legis lation repose for its proud history ? On the neglected warnings of his father, the founder of his fortune ? On the bankruptcy catastrophe of 1825 ? On the desolating ruin which fell upon our mercantile interest in 1838? On the past crises (as the disorganising shocks produced by his charlatanism are gently termed) ; or on those which are yet to come, like the intermittent fits of a fever, as inevitable as they are consuming ? Or does he rely on the praises which posterity will accord to the generous Legislator who propitiated all the possessors of ready capital to the support, in 1819, of his own party—in 1844, of his own Government—by the monstrous injus tice of mulcting the whole debtor and industrial interest of the empire, for the benefit of those who were mortgage and bond creditors, or interested in shifting from themselves to others that burden of taxes which the Legislature imposed, in contemplation of its being borne by them ? Accounts from Madrid of the Ist instant announce that the meeting of the Chamber of Deputies had been again postponed from the 2d to the Gth, at the instance of the Finance Minister. This is not at all surprising. To make a budget with empty coffers is no trifling task, and may well require time. The news in the Spanish papers, both of the capital and the provinces, is generally without interest, but all accounts agree in stating that perfect tranquillity prevails. Despotism, therefore, it appears, suits the taste of the Spaniards. They are quiet as lambs under an absolute monarchy; and commit every extra vagance, issue pronunciarnentos, form conspiracies, and set law and constituted authority at defiance, when they enjoy the rights and privileges of freeman. New Year's-day was observed as a holiday, and the Bourse was closed. We find nothing, new in the Paris journals, and most of them are chiefly occupied with disquisitions on the prospects of the Session. On Monday, the Committee on the Address met, when M. GUIZOT; Marshal SOULT, and, indeed, all the other Ministers fit for duty attended and gave the necessary explana tions on questions of policy to which the KING'S Speech refers. It was reported that M. GUIZOT had announced to the Committee that England had agreed to modify the treaties respecting the right of search. The debate on the Address is looked forward to with much iliterest, as explanations are expected both from Count MOLE and M. TRIERS, which will show whether the GUIZOT Ministry is endangered by a coalition .with men professing different political opinions, or is threatened from a higher quarter. A very general belief certainly prevails that tlet " Chateau" is not by any means an indif ferent or idle spectator in the combinations against the .Man of Ghent." The Opposition journals, however, seem to take little interest in the affair, justly :foreseeing that if the KING wishes a change of Minist;ry it is for some personal object, and that the present policy at home and abroad will . be as effec tually maintained by MOLE and TILLERS as by Guiv n: and SOULT. The National, for instance, says there is not a whit of difference 'netween the partie:s. Adverting to an article in the .Journal des Debate on the subject, it thus takes a -view of the policy :professed by the coalition, and punts some per tinent *questions, which it expects to be answered in the co u rse of the debate :—" But has not the Journal des Rthats justice on its side when it d emands that the pre tenders should explain what !system they themsehes intend to pursue ? This, in fact, is the only matter in which the 'country is interestei 1. Will Count MOLE, f' ir example, engage to take advantage of the text of the treaties oi' 1831 and 1833, to denounce them at the moment when it will become necessary to renew the licenses :furnished to the cruisers ? W e can under stand that he should refuse to explain himself with I respect to facts ill-understood, and upon points of policy not dearly explained; but this subject is sur rounded wit h light. Every one knows ' , a ;hat France wishes. Pu blic opinion, in common with the Cham bers, has de dared that the police to be c arried into effect with 'regard to French ships should be placed under the French flag. This must be done. Will the preter tiers to office undertake to do so ? And if they do nt it explicitly undertake to do so, but confine themselves , to declare their intention to negotiate, what do they promise more than M. GulzoT ? And whe re is the guarantee that they will suc ceed bet ter than the present Minister s ? Upon this poi► it, if the journal of Cour it MOLE 'toes not exi plain itself, it will be necessary t hat Count MOLE or his friends should explain it k efore the Chambers. As to the affair of Otaheite, n a doubt w e cannot -go bs.ck to the question of taking possession of the island ; but if they blame the inde [unity pro misedi to / IT. PRITCHARD, they may under take nut to Pay it. I , t would be necessary to state this. explicitly. Thele is n sore. They are of opinion theft the disa vowal of i kdmiral DUPETIT THOUARS is ter ijust,.and they find the blame inflicted on Lieutenant D'AX SIGNY 1111 , A orthy ; the consequence ought t a be tha t those office n should receive compensation fa r the in jury they bi .ve sustained. This reo,uires to b e clearly explaine's. These are not, however, the only matters to be comic"( red. We should know whether the suc cessors of N . GUIZOT would proclaim publicly their sympathy foi • that Infamous reaction in Spain which is proceed; rig to establish a pure counter-1 revolution. Will they consent that the French nation slaall pass in the eyes of t' ne Spaniards and of Europe as the accomplice •of MARIA CHRISTINA and of NJ IRVAEZ ? ( The press ptive heirs of M. GUIZOT have already had the action of public affairs. They h ave per !flitted tb e 3 3ritish Consul at Algiers to exercise his funtions, b 3 ai • virtue of an exequatur derived 'from the dethrom l ;ey. Will they longer suffer th; is insolent infracrlo n c f the rights of nations ? Englai id protests public, y to the face of Europe, against our Ilegitiinate Pou.ess.ion . That she should do so in her own Par ilr.crient is something; but that she should mi iintain in Algeria a functionary, whose existence there is a per manent y irotest (against our sovereignty), is s intole rable. V 7e do not wish to speak of the Dia t, or of Greece, or of the attempts made by G rewt Bri tain to confiscate for her own advantage the high road tl 'rough Egypt. Upon all those points the poi; h ey of M. GUIZOT has been feeble, inju rious, r .nd timid. Having alluded to foreign affairs, we mu .st refer to certain legislative reforms for a long to . me demanded and discussed in the Chamber, and w Bich have been the subject of several notes. Are, tl ose to be neglected ? Are the laws of Sep frathaer •to remain immutable ? Shall the electoral laws ri ;main as they are ? Shall the comp, mition of the Ch amber of Deputies not be modified ? Shall the redact ion of the interest on the Five per Gents. be ml ,fished ? It should be remarked that we do not re fer to the condition of the operative classes, which at present occupies the attention of every person possessed of a spark of justice, foresight, or huma n i ty. W e d o no t pr o claim o ur system. We me re Ay take that of the Parliamentary Oppos ition. But the aspirants to office should explain themselves ; and if they shrink from doing so, we shall be forced to confess that they in fact merit the severe epithet of intriguers, applied to them by the Ministerial journal." It was understood that Count IsfloLE was greatly annoyed by the imputation entertained in nearly all quarters that he was at the head of the coalition—in other words, that he had formed an intrigue to turn out the Ministry, and would repel the attack on the very first opportunity. Probably, therefore, he will be one of the first speakers on. the Address. M. VILLEMAIN'S health has rather improved, but from the following remarks in the Journal des Debuts there is little hope that he will ever be again fit for public business : " It is with the liveliest sentiment of interest that the public inquire 3 after the health of M. Villemain, and in dulges in the hope of soon seeing this eminent man, as elevated by the qualities of his heart as by the faculties of his min 4, restored to health, to the blessings of re pose, to the consolations which he found in his children, and to the literary works which have rendered him illustrious. The misfortune which strikes a great citizen is a public grief, and on this ground no person could meet with more sympathy in all ranks of society than the eloquent professor whose language and knowledge have so long charmed and instructed youth, whose writings have so much contributed to disseminate and maintain a noble style of writing, and who, after having served with glory the cause of education and literature, devoted himself with so much sincerity to the defence of our institutions and our liberties. We are convinced that so fine an organisation, fatigued for a moment by so many struggles and so much occupation, will eventually triumph over the accidents which we all lament so deeply; and we learn with the greatest satisfaction that already the calm and intelligent cares with which he is surrounded have notably ameliorated the state of the illustrious patient." The Augsburgh Gazette quotes a letter from Athens, of the 21st ult., stating that a bad feeling exists in the mind of the English Ambassador, not only towards the Greek Ministers but also the Royal Family, and mentions, as a proof of it, his refusal to be present at a grand entertainment which had been given in honour of the QUEEN'S birth-day, under pretext that the recent death of her Royal Highness the Duchess of GLOUCESTER would not permit him to appear in public. MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.) BAY MARKETS. SMITHFIELD.—Coarse Meadow Hay, 31 lOs to 4115 s ; Useful ditto, 4/ 16s to 51 4s ; fine Upland ditto, Si 5s to 5/ 105 ; Clover Hay, 41 lOs to 61; Oat Straw, 1114 s to 1/ 16s ; Wheat Straw, 1/ 16s to 1/ 18s per load. A fair average supply, and a steady demand. CUMBERLAND.—Coarse Meadow H, 31 12s to 41165; Useful ditto, 41 17s to Si 4s ; fine Upland ditto, 51 5s to 5/ 12s ; Clover Hay, 4/ lOs to 5116 s ; Oat Straw, 11 16s to 11 18s; Wheat Straw, 1/18s to 21 per load. Supply but moderate, and trade tolerably firm. WkIITECILAPEL.—Coarse Meadow Hay, 3110 s to 4/ 153; Useful ditto, 4/ 17s to 51 5s ; fine Upland ditto, 5/ 6s to 5/ las ; Clover Hay, 4l 10s to 6125; Oat Straw, 11 15s to 11 17s ; Wheat Straw, 1/18s to 11 19s per load. Trade on the whole dull, at the above quotations. _VIEZLT WZARILETS. _ _ _ SOUTHALL, JAN. B.—We had rather a steady demand for the primest Beasts and Sheep, but all other kinds of stock, which were in fair average supply, were a dull sale, at barely stationary prices. Beef, from 2s 10d to 48 ; Mutton, 2s 8d to 4s 4d ; Veal, 3s Gd to 4s ; and Pork, 2s 8d to 3s 8d per 81bs, to sink the offal. Supply: —Beasts O , 40; Sheep, 1,450 ; Calves, 41 ; Pigs, 52. RMFORD, JAN. B.—Generally speaking, we had a very inactive demand here this morning, and the rates were with difficulty supported. Beef, from 2s 8d to 43 ; Mutton, 2s 10d to 4s 4d; Veal, 3s 6d to 4s ; and Pork, 3s to 3s 8d per 81bs. Suckling Calves, 18s to 30s ; Quarter-old Store Pigs, 16s to 20s ; and Milch Cows, with their small Calf, 16/ to 19/ each. HAILSHAX, JAN. B.—We had a very dull inquiry for stock, the quotations of which had a downward tend. ncy. Beef, from 2s 10d to 4s 2d; Mutton, 3s to 4s 4d; Veal, 3s 6d to 4s ; and Pork, 3s to 3s 6d per Blbs. ARUNDEL, JAN. 7.—Beef, from 3s to 4s ; Mutton, 33 to 4s 4d ; Veal, 3s 6d to 3s 10d ; and Pork, 3s to 3s 6d per Blbs. Supply but moderate, and trade dui I. CHIcItzBTXR, JAN. B.—There was a scanty show of prime stock, which in consequence supported previous figures. The value of other kinds was lower. Beef, from 2s 8d to 4s 2d ; Mutton, 3s to 4s 4d ; Veal, 3s 4d to 4s; and Pork, 2s 10d to 3a 6d per 81bs. Suckling Calves, 18s to 28s; quarter-old Store Pigs, 16s to 19s; and Mulch Cows, 161 to 181 lOs each. COAL MARKET. Prices per ton at the close of the market :—Buddle's 'West Hartley, 20s ; Carr's Hartley, 20s ; Charlotte Main, 21s ; tiasting's !tartle), 20s ; Holywell Main, 21s ; Hedley's Hartley, 17s ; Old Pontop, 19s 6d; Ord's Redheugh, 19s ; Taylor's West Hartley, 20s ; ownley, 19s 6d ; Wylam, 20s 9d ; W. E., Bell and Brown, 22s ; W. E., Clark and Co., 20s ; W. E., Clennell, 20s 6d ; W. E., Gosforth, 22s ; W. E , Heaton, 21s 9 ; W. E., Hilda, 21s 6d; W. E., Hotspur, 2is 6d ; W. E., Killing worth, 2ls 6d ; W. E., Wharncliffe, 21s 9d; Eden Main, 22s ; W. E., Belmont, 22s 6d ; W. E , Hetton, 24s ; W. E., Hetton, 22s ; W. E., Haswell, 24s ; W. E., Hetton, 24s ; Hytton, 22s ; Lambton, 24a ; Morrison, 21s 6d; Shotton, 245; Stewart's, 245; Whitwell, 22s 6d; Caradoc, 23s 6d ; Cassop, '23s 6d ; Hartlepool, 23s 9d ; Heselden, 21s 6d ; Ileugh Hall, 22s 6d ; Kelloe, 23s ad ; South Hartlepool, 20s ; South Kelloe,23s 6d ; Adelaide, 23s 6d ; Bitchburn, 223 ; Gordon, 20s 9d ; Seymour Tees, 23s ; Tees, 23s 6d ; West Hetton, 21s ; Cowpen Hartley, 20s6d ; Garnaut Stcne, 268 ; Lessiss Merthyr, 21s 6cl ; Moreton's Milford Stone, 26s ; Townhill Elgin, 19s 6d ; We'ch Channel, 35s ; West Hartley, Netherton, 20s ; West Hartley, 19s. 6d. —Ships arrived, 52. CORN AVERAGES. GENERAL AVERAGE PRICES OF BRITISH CORN For the Week ended Jan. 4 1845, made up from the Returns of the In.pector in the different Cities and Towns in England and Wales, per Imperial Quarter. Wheat ..... 45a $d I Oats Barley AVERAGES OF THE LAST SIX WEEKS. Weeks ending WHEAT. BARLEY.' OATS. 1 ItTR. I DEANS.' TEASE Nov. 38 ..... , Dec. 7 14 Jan. i .. ...... 4S 4 45 2 45 1 45 3 45 6 45 8 3S 1 34 9 34 S 34 2 34 3 21 8 21 10 21 11 21 10 20 10 32 9 31 f.'. 32 2 32 0 31 9 33 9 38 0 37 5 36 9 35 11 35 1 34 3 35 11 36 4 S 6 1 35 4 35 3 36 1 MONEY AND COMMERCIAL NE W S , CITY, QUARTER TO THREE. A moderate business was done in Cotton at Liverpool yesterday. Sales 4,000 bales, all to the trade, and at previous rates, including 300 Pernam at 51d. to 54d. ; 200 Maranham, at 43d. to 53d. ; 200 Bahia, at 5/d. to 51d. ; a few bales Egyptian at 11d. ; and the rest American, at 3id. to 4id. per lb.—Shares were some what better. Birmingham and Gloucester, 102 ; Bristol and Gloucester, 394 401 ; Caledonian, 41 ; Chester and Birkenhead, 37 ; Chester and Holyhead, 54 ; Eastern Counties, 15i ; Churnet Valley, 4 i , 1 4 ; Edinburgh and Glasgow, 62 ; Glasgow and Dumfries, 21s. 6d. ; Grand Junction, 227 ; Ditto, Halves, 1131; Great North of Eng land, New, 61 i ; Great Western, 167 ; Great Western, Fifths, 333 ; Lancaster and Carlisle, 14 ; London and Brighton, 52 ; London and South Western, New, 51 ; Manchester and Leeds, 124 ; Midland Counties, 116 ; South Eastern, 411 ; South Eastern, New, 133 ; Paris and Lyons, 735. 6d. ; Boulogne and Amiens, 965. 6d. ; Northern of France, 75 ; Central of Fl atac.. 113-. Accounts from various parts, in many instances how ever of old date, have been received to-day. From the Cape there are dates to Nov. 12, but the latest we have seen from the frontier are Oct. 31. There was some restlessness still on the part of the Kafers, but a small yeomanry corps had been formed ahain's T. which, together with other precautions, Mould no doubt prove a bit of a curb to thieving. The weather had been rather severe. At Natal the farmers still evinced a dislike to British rule. Papers, &c., to Nov. 23, from Rio de Janeiro, advise the commencement of the new era in ~ur cominervi,.l re lations with Brazil, by the iinposition i.f high ,r dunes, but tile tff,et, of course, ties iii yes been shippers had all got their goods in previously. Toe fu ture will, perhaps, " a tale untold " that way not be without its effect on high duty advocates, whether in England ur Brazil. Advices of Oct. 16, from Buenos Ayres, and Oct. 18, front Monte Video, state that Roses was in hopes of oh taining reparation fur the insult offered to the Arg. mine flag by the United States Commodore, and that the Brazilian Admiral had threatened the Government of the besieged town with the seizure of Rat Island, unless an apology were offered for certain .indignities to sub• jects of the empire. The Funds are firm again to-day. and with a moderate business doing. The Government broker took New Three and-a-Quarter and Three per Cent. Reduced. Consols are 1001 3 ex-dividend for Money and the 17th inst. Ex chequer Bills have been firm at 635. to 655. premium. Bank Stock is worth 211 to 212; and India stock 289 i. The New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. are 1041 to 1. There is a very dull market for the Foreign Bonds. Spanish Five per Cents. have gone back to 271 3, mad the Three per Cents. nominally are about 361-. Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. are 634 3. Mexican Bonds realise 34{ 3. Portuguese Converted are 601 to 61. The Railway Share market is not brisk, but prices are. steady generally. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. (From the Official List.) Bank Stock 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 100 % 3 / q% 3 per Cent. Consols Anns 10 0 14% New 3 1 4 per Cent. Annuties Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan. 1860 l2 3-16% Do. 30 Years, Expire Oct. 10,1859 l2 Ditto 30 Years, Expire Jan. 1860 India Stock 28 9 1,4 Consols for Opening India Stock 289 Exchequer Bills. 1 3 ,id. 114 d. 1,0001. 5001. Ditto Small — Ditto Advertised ..... ... PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK. Mexican Bonds, 1837, 5 per Cent. Ditto for the Account & 471 ' 3 /4 Ditto Deferred Stock 15% Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent — Ditto Converted 604 61 Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent., 1840 271 / 2% Ditto for the Account. Ditto Passive Bonds 6 l/ Dutch 2V 2 per Cents Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates PRICE OF SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK. RAILWAYS. PAID. PER SHARE. Birmingham an Gloucester 100 lO2 Bristol and Exeter Bristol and Gloucester Caledonian Cambridge and Lincoln Churnet Valley Direct Northern 212 2 Eastern Counties Ely and Bedford Great Western Ditto, Half Shares Ditto, Fifths Hull and Selby Lancaster and Carlisle London and Birmingham ...100 Ditto New Thirds Ditto Quarters London and Brighton.... 5O ...... 51% ... to Ditto Loan Notes London and Greenwich ...... 123 / 4 ...... 107 8 1 / 2 % to London and South Western.. 41)8...... Ditto, New ---... ...... 5 1 / 2 3 / 4 ... to London and Croydon to Ditto Guaranteed 5 per Ct. 2 London and York ... ..... 2 l /2 .... 4 A l 4 to Manchester and Leeds 7O 123 Midland .. 100 Midland, Birm. and Derby ...100 Newcastle& Darlington o unc. 24 ...... 63 1 4 :to 62 Newcastle and Berwick North British South Devon , , South Eastern and Dover ... 3:3% 4 1 14 to Ditto New Trent Valley FRENCH RAILWAYS. Boulogne and Amiens Great Northern of France ... 4 Paris and Rouen. Rouen and Havre HAMBURGH MAIL. (RECEIVED THIS DAY.) STOCKHOLM, DEC. 24.—Our journals mention an act of injustice done to a foreigner, 200 years since, whose claims on the State have been officially re cognised more than once. This is the claim of a Po meranian captain, which was acknowledged in 1682, at the sum of 33,000 dollars in silver, which, with the interest, would now amount to a million. His Majesty has now referred the heirs to the competent tribunal to decide on the matter. PETERSBURGH, DEC. 21.—Prince Alexander Ga litzin, who but lately was restored to his sight by a successful operation, died soon afterwards, on the 4th instant, of water on the chest, at his estate in the Crimea, in the 71st year of his age. Mtn , mit, DEC. 22.—According to a report, the accuracy of which we cannot warrant, the Congress of the Deputies of the States of the Zollvereia next summer is to be held in Munich. The numerous complaints of the constantly-increasing number of commercial travellers are to be again taken into con sideration at this congress. Anne Louis Chretien, Duke of Montmorency, Grandee of Spain of the First Class, Knight of the French Legion of Honour, died here last night, at the age of 75 years. He was a faithful adherent of the exile Royal Family of France, and had resided for more than ten years at Munich, where he made many friends, though he lived in a very retired man ner. He was father of Prince Montmorency Robecq, who was condemned a few weeks ago by the Correc tional Tribunal of Paris for having sold busts of the Duke of Bordeaux. ALTON A, DEC. 31.—The complaints that have been so loudly expressed of late of the choking of the chan nel of the Elbe by sand, have induced a patriot to make a model of a machine, by the use of which the shoals in the Elbe may be entirely removed at no great expense. He is now engaged in preparing for the execution of his plan, and thinks to be ready by the middle of February next year. COLOGNF, DEC. 25.—1 t is said that in the next assembly of the Provincial Diet of the enlightened Rhenish provinces a proposal will be made to confine all religious ceremonies to the churches. MUNICH, DEC. 15. A. generally e,teemed Roman Catholic clergyman, named Skolt, of this city, has embraced the Protestant religion. HAMBURGII, JAN. 3.—The cold has now greatly abated. In the last twenty-four hr ,urs the mercury fell only 1 deg. below freezing point. According to the official account of the number of ships that arrived in the port of Hambargh during the last four years, there were-1841, 3,194 ; 1842, 3,300 ; 1843, 3,538 ; 1844, 3,260. Those under English colours were -15141, 973 ; 1842, 804 ; 1843, 907; 1844, 850. Mil/burgh papers, Jan. 3. PRUSSIAN FUNDS.—BERLIN, JAN. 2. Bills. Money. St. Schuld Sch., 3 1 / 2 per Cent 99 5-6 99% Pruss. English Bonds, 1830, 4 per Ct — Exchange on London 6 23% - -Universal Prussian Gazette, Jan. 3. HANIBURGH BORSENHALEE, JAN. 3. Bills. Money. Austrian 5 per Cents Bank Shares — 1688 Anglo-Russian Loan Russian 5 per Ceut., Hamb. Certificate 105% 105 1 / Ditto Ist series Inscription lO 5 l /x Ditto, Hope and Co., 3d and 4th series 99% Ditto, in Certificate 99% New 4 per Cent., Hope and Co 91% Ditto Stieglitz Spanish New 5 p er C e nt 223 22 Dutch Actual Debt, 2% per Cent 63 63 4 Polish New 4 per Cent. Loan, 1844 Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cent B7 BB% - National Bank Shares 124 Exchange on London. One month — Two months BELGIAN FUNDS.—BnussEls, JAN. 4. Actual Debt, 2i per Cent Rothschild's Loan, Five per Cent Loan of Thirty Millions, Four per Cent 98% Ditto Three per Cent Ditto Thirty-seven Millions, ditto 7B Ditto, ditto 1840 Ditto, ditto 1844 Ditto of the City, 1843 lOB —Brussels Papers, Jan. 5. Lord Willoughby De Eresby has, with his usual liberality, given 100/. to be distributed in clothing among the poor of Spilsby and the surrounding neighbourhood. COAL MINERS' TURN-OUT.—The strike of the coal miners at Oldham has terminated, the dispute having been arranged. THE BOURSE--TUESDAY, JAN. 7. Tint Highest Lowest Last Price. Price. Price. Price. French rive per Cents.•.•.• 121:10 .. 121 25 .. 121 10 .. 121 25 Fours. lOB •• 108 .. 108 .. 108 Three per Cents••••• 85 23 .• 85 35 •• 85 20 .. 85 30 New Loan ........ 86 40 .. 86 GO .. 86 40 .. 86 60 Bank of France...—. ..... 3280 .•3280 .•3275 ..3275 Gouin Bank, I,ooof. Shares • • 1095 ..1095 ..1045 ..1095 Beigian Fives,lB4o ........ 104% .. 104% .. 104% .. 104% 1842 ........ 186 .. 106 .. 106 .. 106 Four•and-a-Half•... 103 •• 183 .• 193 .. 103 Two-and-a-Half.... 62 • • 62 • • 62 • • 62 Spanish Threes ...... .. 37 •• 37 1 ,E • • 37 % .. 37 1 ,E Active 37 .. 37% .. 37 .. 37 Passive ...... 6% • • 63 .. Neapolitan 96 50 •• 96 50 .. 96 50 .. 96 50 Roman •... RAILWAY SHARES. 485 .• 485 .. 482 50 .. 485 385 •• 385 •• 375 .. 378 75 Rouen— ••••••............1042 50 • 1042 50 ..1042 50 ..1042 SO Itorea to Havre .. 826 25 .. 826 25 .. 826 25 .. 826 25 Orleans .••• Strasburg to 8a1e.......... 302 50 .. 302 58 .. 301 25 . 301 2; Avignon to Marseilles.. 942 30 942 50 . 937 50 .. 938 75 RAILWAYS FOR THE ACCOUNT, .Tax 16. St. Germa1n:...............1017 50 ..1017 50 ..1017 50 ..1017 30 Versailles, R. 8... ...... 480 25 .. 487 50 .. 482 50 . • 482 L. 8............. 382 50 .. 332 50 .. 377 50 .. 375 Rouen .•1050 ..1042 50 ..1045 Rouen to Havre•.. - . 827 50 .. 827 50 .. 625 •• 825 Orleans Strasburg to 8a1e.......... 302 50 .. 302 50 .. 301 25 .. 302 50 Avignon to Marseilles.. 940 .. 942 50 .. 935 935 THIS DAY'S NEWS A Cabinet Council is appointed to be held at three o'clock this afternoon at the Foreign-office, Downing street, at which all the Ministers are expected to attend. Sir James Graham arrived in town this morning to attend the Council, from his seat, Netherby. Lord Wharncliffe arrived from Witley Court. Mr. Gladstone arrived from Wales. Others of the Ministers also came to town on purpose to at tend the meeting. Lords Aberdeen, Stanley, and Granville Somerset, and the Chancellor of the Ea• chequer, had previously arrived in town. CRIMINAL COURT-(THIS DAY.) OLD COURT. (Before Mr. Justice PArrnsoN and Mr. Justice ERLE. ) FORGERY.— William Wicks pleaded guilty to an in dictment charging him with forging an order for 101., with intent to defraud the Union Bank, and was sen tenced to two years' imprisonment. SINGULAR CHARGE UNDER THE NEW BANKRUPTCY ACT.—Thomas Kenrick, who was described in the calen dar as a horse-dealer, and who is a most respectable man in appearance, was indicted under the 32d section of the sth and 6th Victoria, chap. 142, with wilfully, know ingly, and unlawfully neglecting and refusing to attend the Court of Bankruptcy on the last day specified in the fiat. _ _ Mr. Bodkin and Mr. Doane appeared for the prosecu tion, and Mr. Ballantine for the prisoner. Mr. BODKIN in opening the case for the prosecution said, that this was the first one that had come before the Criminal Court since the passing of the Act; that by that Act the offence committed by the prisoner was a most grave one, and subjected him to severe p ena l t i es; the Act declaring that if a bankrupt did not appear on the last day appointed for his examination he committed a felony. The principal point for the consi deration of the Court would be, whether the prisoner had such notice of the different adjournments that had taken place as was required by the Act. The Learned Coun sel, after going shortly through the facts of the case, which have already been published at some length, proceeded to contend that the pri s on e r had had proper notices of the different ad journments, and that therefore he must be considered as guilty of the offence contemplated by the Act. He should be able to show clearly that the prisoner knew of all the adjournments, and that he went to the Continent to endeavour to evade them, and that under the new treaties he had been brought to this country. Mr. BALLANTINE, on behalf of the prisoner, contended that his case did not come within the operation of the Act, inasmuch as the non-surrendering to an adjourned meeting was not contemplated by the statute,.added to which, the indictment was bad, because, although it stated that the prisoner had had personal, it did not assert that he had had a written notice of the adjournment, which the Act required. He (Mr. Ballan tine) considered the New Bankrupt Act to be one of the most penal and severe on the statute book. After some further conversation between the bar and the bench,b o th Mr. Justice Pattes o n an d M r . J us ti ce stated it to be the impression on their minds that Erie the indictment was defective, inasmuch as it did not state that the notices wer e in writing. Mr. BODAIN, fter such an intimation from the Learned Judb-es, felt bound, on the part of the cre dit ors , not to proceed with the case further against the priso ner ; and The jury, under Mr. Justice Patteson's dir ec ti ons , gave a verdict of acquittal. wept repeatedly during the pro ceedings, ectfully to the Court, and withdr ew The pr b so o n w e e r d , who resp from the dock. Ile h as been in prison since the last session, when his trial was postponed by Air. Justice Maule. The Court then proceeded to hear the Mint case. It is expected the sessions will terminat e this evening. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. (THIS DAY.) Ilardinge Ackland, .a well -known sporting character, was brought up on a judge's warrant, issued on the finding of an indictment against him and ten other per sons, for keeping gambling-booths at Gorhambury Races in May last. Having been indicted he was, as a matter of course, sent before a Judge at Chambers. -L. .caTRAORDINART ARRIVAL OF SHIPPING AT LIVEAPOOL.—From Friday morning last up to last night upwards of 200 ve,sels have reached this port, the majo rity of wftich have been detained outside by the late easterly v%.;nds. The departures have a l so been rather more numerous than usual, considering the westerl y winds, 31 veosels having sailed on Friday, and 23 on Saturday. l'he docks and dock quays have assumed a very different appearance to that which they exhibited at the middle of latzt week, and for some time previously.— Liverpool Paper of Tuesday. GREAT INFLUX OF SHIPPING IN THE RIVER.— During the last two or three days, between 200 and 300 sail hare arrived in the river, which had been kept back in the channel by the late strong easterly winds. There has also been a large increase o f colliers in the Pool. The arrival of foreigners in t he West India, London, and St. Katharine Docks have been considerable, and the greatest activity is m anifested in the several dock de partments of the Custom-house. DEATH FROM BURNlNG.—Yesterday, Mr. Wak ley, M.P., coroner, held an inquest at the Plough public hcuse, at a place called Ellend, between Cribb's Farm and the river Colne, on the borders of Hertfordshire, on the body of Joseph Tucker, a child, four years of age, who was burned to death at a fire of twigs, which his brother had lighted in the fields to warm themselves. The elder brother left the child at th e fire whilst he went to the canal to look at some boats , and in the mean time the deceased was burnt to death. Verdict, "Acci dentally burned." DISTRESSING ACCIDENT AT WooLwicu.—Yester day afternoon, while a bricklayer's labourer, of the name of Mahoney, was engaged in carrying slates on his head to the top of the Marine Barracks, now building at Wool wich, the ladder on which the poor man was ascending broke, precipitating him from a height of about forty feet, with frightful velocity, to the earth. He was imme diately removed to the Royal Alarine Hospital, where he is receiving every attention that the skill and humanity of the medical officers can suggest. His back is sup posed to be broken. His mother and sister were by his bed-side, and a Catholic priest administered to him the last offices of his Church. The Marquis of Cholmondeley last week gave his annual munificent donation to the indigent on the Noble Lord's Cheshire estates, causing to be distributed to three hundred and fifty families fifteen pounds of good beef each, half a bushel of wheat, and 2s. 6d. in money. 34 21 21 10 IMPICRIAL AGOILIOATI AVIRAGIES OT ?HZ SIX WlticKS Wheat... ..... 455. 4d. Oats ...... 21s. 81.1 8ean5.......36, Batley— ...... 345. 61.1 Rye ..... 32.. 26.1 Pea5e........350. 101 DUTIRS OW FOUIGS CORR. Wheat 2es. Od. Oats ... ..... ed. Od.i 8ean5.......,.. 6% 6,1 Barley 4s. Od. I Rye .... ..... 10:. NO Pease ......... 7 6d LLOYD'S SHIPPINt—(THIS DAY ) LONDON, JAN. 9.—Wind easterly, light breeze, and cloudy. DEAL, JAN. B.—Wind E.S.E. to S.E., light, and very thick weather.—Arrd. Hartley, Ichaboe, for Leith , Pan dora, Demerara ; Adelaide, Stahre, New York for Ham burgh ; Montreal, Montreal ; Nelson, Cooper, New foundland. Std. the outward bound. BRISTOL, JAN. B. Wind S.S.E., light.—Arrd. Ness, Noble, Demerara. BRISTOL CHANNEL!, JAN. B.—Arrd. Octavus, New Orleans. SWANSEA, JAN. 7.—Arrd. Sarah Nicholson, Cuba. MARGATE, JAN. B.—Wind S.S.E.—The Brisk, Doane, from Jamaica to London, got ashore on the Long Nose Rock io•day, during thick weather, and remains. DOVER, JAN. 8.-1,1 ind E.S.E.—SId. Mars, Halifax. OFF HASTINGS, JAN. B.—Catherine, Drescher, Bahia. PORTSMOUTH, JAN. B.—Wind E.S.E.—Arrd. Ori ental steamer, Soy, Alexandria, left 23d ult., Malta 28th, and Gibraltar 2d inst. Sld. Cestus, Buenos Ayres. OFF YARMOUTH, JAN. B.—Henriette, of Hamburgh, Manilla, and sailed for Cowes. POOLE, JAN. B.—Wind E.—Arrd. Superb, Brown, Newfoundland. TORBAY, JAN. B.—Wind S.E.—Sld. William Stoveld, Port Phillip. DOVER, JAN. B.—The Toronto, in the Downs, from New York, experienced a heavy gale from N.E., 11th ult., sprung her mainmast, lost bulwarks, &c.; on 15th ult., lat. 39, lon. 62, spoke the brig llogsden, of Boston, dismasted. LIVERPOOI, JAN. B.—Wind S.S.E., moderate.—Arrd. Corsair, Piles, Ichaboe; Warwick, Kemp, Cameroons; Thetis, Norval, Honduras; St. Patrick, Seymour, New York; Sovereign, Brookland, St. John's, New Bruns wick; Don, Muir, Miraraichr; Atalanta, Wheeler, Mon treal, decks swept, loss of sails, &c., having been struck by a sea, 10th ult., lat. 48, lon. 38; Devereux, Barton, Quebec ; Wave, ditto, after being on Buret) Bank. The Conservative, from Galveston to this port, was wrecked on Long Key Shoal, Nov. 25, crew saved, cargo saved in a damaged state. A ship, of about 800 tons, coppered, was passed, bottom up, and with stern-boat and spars floating near here, 24th ult., lat. 41, lon. 59, by the St. Patrick, arrived here, which had experienced very severe weather on the day of passing the wreck, and lost maintop gallant-masts, sprung foremost, &c., and was obliged to slip from a., anchor. BELFAST, JAN. 7.—The Agnes, Boyce, from Ichaboe to the Clyde, ashore outside the South Rock light-house, has disappeared, and there is every probability of neither hull or materials being ever seen again. CORK, JAN. 6.—A long line of muddy water, stretch ing as far as the eye could reach, and supposed to rise from a sunken guano bhip, was passed Oct. 27, lat. 23 lon. 7, by the Clydeside, arrived here. DUBLIN, JAN. 7.—Arrd. Argyle, Kenney, Calcutta ; Civility, Gowan, Quebec. KINGSTON, JAN. 7.—Arrd. Hibernia, Lyons, St. John's, New Brunswick. OFF SALCOMBE, JAN. 7.—Gentoo, Cubitt, Calcutta. PLYMOUTH.—Arrd. Her Majesty's ship Harlequin, Cape of Good Hope. FALMOUTH, JAN. B. Wind E.S.E., moderate.— Arrd. Crane packet, Rio Janeiro, sailed Nov. 26th; on freight about 36,0001. in gold and diamonds. The John Dalton, from Sydney, New South Wales to London, drove ashore in a gale, on November 16th, on Cape Negro ; one lady drowned. Her Majesty's ships Frolic, Viper, and Spider, were ordered to her assistance, and she was expected off. CORK, JAN. 6.—Wind S.W., light.—Arrd. Clydes dale, Ichaboe. Off, Samuel, M`Lean, St. John's, New Brunswick. His Excellency the Turkish Ambassador is about to take his departure from this country. The successor to his Excellency is daily expected to arrive in England. Lady Champneys, who has been seriously indis posed at her seat at Gloddaeth, South Wales, is fast recovering. ARREARS OF BUSINESS IN THE LAW COURTS.— Hilary Term begins on Saturday, and by the lists of the Court of Queen's Bench and the Exchequer, it appears that the rules for new trials which remained undeter mined at the end of the sittings after Michaelmas term last number in the first-mentioned Court 120. The first rule was moved so long ago as Michaelmas, 1842. In Michaelmas term following there were three which still remain undecided. In Hilary term last four ; in Easter term last forty, and four which were tried during the same term ; in Trinity term last three, and a similar number tried in that term ; in Michaelmas term fifty one, and two others tried in the term. There are nine rules standing for the judgment of the Court, the first of which, as stated, was moved in Michaelmas term, 1842, and the last in Hilary term, 1844. In the Court of Ex chequer there are two rules for judgment, one moved in Easter term, and the other in Trinity term last, and in addition one rule for argument, moved in Ililary term last. There are sixty rules moved in the last term, and two granted after the fourth day of the same term. The special paper exhibits one for judgment and eleven for argument. The demurrer for judgment was heard in November last in the case of " Buron u. Denman, Esq.," in which an important question was raised re specting the capture of a slave vessel by Capt. Denman, and on which two other rules are pending. In the peremptory paper there are twelve rules ; the earliest day of the first rule nisi was in June, and the latest in November last. The peremptory paper is to be called on the first day of the term after the motions, and to be proceeded with the next day if necessary, before the motions. THE YARMOUTH ATURDER.—A rumour was very prevalent in this town on Saturday evening, that the hammer with which the fatal blows had been inflicted was discovered behind a stone in Mr. Catchpole's house, where Yarham lived when the murder was eommitted ; another rumour was that a coat with blood upon it had been found. These accounts, on inquiry, we found to originate in the following very . extraordinary circum stance, which must tend to criminate Yarham to no inconsiderable extent. On searching Mr. Catchpole's house more closely since the late examination, and in consequence of something which transpired there, the police found behind a door a wainscot panel, with a number of pegs on it, used for the purpose of hanging clothes upon. Here it was that Yarham invariably hung his coat, and at the bottom of the panel was a quantity of blood, with just the appearance of having been wiped off the flaps of a coat, when suspended against it. This panel was taken down and properly examined ; and the result leaves no doubt but that the colouring matter is blood. On the kitchen .door, leading to war d s t h e yard, were also marks of blood similar to what would have been made by a man with a bloody coat on coaxing past it. There was also a spot evidently made by the knee of a pair of trousers having, at the tim e o f ma ki ng i t , j blood upon them. —Suilollt Herald. SUMMARY OF NEWS AND Vubltr iz-ptuton. " Who runs may read.' POIOLMX3 . Several of the Paris journals state that the King ill" tends, in a few days, to give a grand Pete at Versai/les., The President of the Council and the 31inisters Foreign Affairs, Marine, and Commerce on Monday at" tended the Contuittee of the Deputies on the Addresvf at which M. Sauzet presided, and successively gave ex ; planations on the different points of the Speech frere the throne. They also laid sever a l d o cuments bel . o the Committee. 'rite print) it bills on the budget and s upplemeet ur i r credits were nistriouted to the members of the ClaaLe bt of Deputies. M. Sauzet, President of the Chamber of Deputies , M. Iltfiiiert, Procureer-General, have been named Cu° . man ern of the Legion of Ilenour. Letters trout Sy eta," says the Muniteur Parisitfl, " inform us that fresh dissensions have arisen bet the Druses and the Maronites." A deputation froth the subscribers to a fund for Pu t ; chasing a sword for Admiral Dupetit Thouars w.ateo upon him te, the :..übj, ct. Ihe Asimirst that. time Ix their ottentions, but itechlieo the present- the We perceive by the Se iss journals of the 3d, that ~, vesti,,n of the Je s ui t s con t inues to exc i te great nle r `,", Elm I:hout Switzerland. Pop u l ar mee ti ng s to prele o against their introduction into Lucerne have been at several places. The Government of Lucerne retow o fixed in its determination to protect them, and has t.a e k a d e p utat i on f rom Z uric h , w hi ch h a d gone to Lucerne to request the revocation of the decree in 1 Il v ?„ u g of the Jesuits, totally without h o p e o f an y c h an ge place in the intentions of the Governm e nt of the 18 "" canton. A fel The following is an extract of a letter fr o m Nice, Dec. 31:—" A grand bail was given last week at t Hotel de France, by Mr. Roberta, the London bawl% to all the principal residents at Nice. Unfortunat el he terrible fr acas t oo k pl ace a f ter supper, b etwe en " O f gentlemen, in consequence of a remark made by be them respectin g a y oung l a d y w h o was present I ball. From high words they proceeded to blows; one the parties, a captain in the French service, gave a P 7 .0 in the face to another officer, a capt a i n i n the 1111_,115d Imperial Guard, and the Russian immediat e ly retul" the compliment, not upon the French officer, but an officer in the Sardinian service, an aid-do-camp te t r . Governor of Nice. They then procured pi s tols, and Iv e to proceeding to fight a duel in one of th e ro oms of o r Hotel de France, across a table, when the Goiter' himself, who had been sent for, fortunately arrived , Je fin r, prevented them from committing a deliberate 1131 °t They were all immediately put under a r res t, and off to prison." fi c The following are the principal Engli s h &rallies Nice :—Marquis and Marchioness of Queensberyt i ty , Lady Flora Douglas, Lord Drumlan r i g , E ar l 0f„... P ;j1 bigh and family, Lord Monson and family, Mr. Oa', p Caroline Baillie and family, Mr. and L a dy I s abel° John, Mr. and Lady Harriett Baring, Lady Musg, o l oo l, Hon. Mr. Gore and family, Hon. Mrs. Berkeley Hon. Mrs. Grant, Admiral Dundas and family, Lie v9 Collett, Colonels Radler, Blake, Smith, Aubrey, e'c' AAV7 nND POLIC3I. f 111° In the Bankruptcy Court, the furth e r h ear ing case of J. Q. Harris, the hat t manufacturer of Soutrt and late M.P. for Newcastle-under-Ly me , was adie t'W-, to the 11th of March. Cril3ll4 On the arrival of the Judges at the Central ~- " its Court the enlarged calendar was cir cu l a t e d, by Wb i "giotif appears that, since the commencement of the se 9 )o4 38 prisoners have been committed f or t r i a l, w hich o° , the aggregate of 129, dowa to the ev en i ng o f Tuesti s J:4 Thomas Bartholomew Imbert, aged 38, for Intir r 'i l it Abigail Istal, his wife Sarah being then and now 111 1 0 was sentenced by the Common Sergeant to six t 1 imprisonment with hard labour. At the Middlesex Sessions Mary Ann Darlott, 11 g 0 4 4 23, was charged with stealing three night-govve°o other articles, described as the property of AVID' o ur The articles were entrusted to a littl e g i r l, f o r thel, pose of taking th e m ho me t o th e owner , who re4u,epert Goswill-stre. t. On her way sh e w as me t by the pri3°,l4 who enticed her into Claremont-square on pre tenc be t sending her on an errand, for whi c h s h e promisedoi sixpence when she returned. Th e c h i ld, a f t er, s e a tre,itation, accepted the offer, the priso ner prorat s i l 9 mind the clothes until her return, but when she ito hack neither clothes nor woman were to be f o und. oh jury found her guilty. The Judge, in passing seti t ooof said such cases had of late become v e ry co m p and he was determined to m a k e an examp l e Of ol d' offenders whenever they came bef..ire him. The ben! of ~ t the Court therefore is as, that, bhe be imorisoll o rt the term of six months six weeks of which t o be sol l r e d: James Tuskett, a shoemaker, residing at Ni. 10. court, Gray's Inn-lane, known as a Cornis b iil Devonshire wrestler, was convicted at ClerkenW e 3if violently assaulting Thomas Caution, potbay to foti Adams, a licensed victualler, of Gray's Inn-lane'tr tined 40s The prosecution was conducted by Ur..,,p cornbe, on the part of the Licensed Victuallers' Soc i ' 1, At Marylebone, yesterday, Thomas Macnara i l'f d ";of schoolmaster, residing at 34, Hichmond-streer. '"'" grove, was placed at the bar for re-examination , on e charge of having wounded police-constable 1" 1811 ,1 41 5, by striking him with an axe , and comcnitte .rial. o l° The case of Lord Huntingtower and Mr. Ducket t dr on at the Southwark Police -court, and the latter g e rj o l man was ordered to enter into his own recognisanc e ° , to use threatening language to Lord Hunting i t ior It appeared that Mr. Duckett had given Lord 0 ° 41)1 111 tower a written indemaification on his giving u p t'', 1 .19 which his Lordship, on a former occa s i on , s tate' A li been extorted from him by threats. COTTAT — PASZIONABSX. led The Marquis and Marchioness of Ely are Ord(' in town from Brighton in the course of the ens uing / / A' Marquis and Mar c hi oness o f O rmon d e an d t Ol e Page, who had been f or some wee k s on a visit sofl Earl of Shannon's, and latterly at Lord Lismore'sr returned to Kilkenny Castle. The Earl of Erne has left Crom Castle for Brig where the Noble Earl intends sojourning for soma His Excellency the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland e, tained a distinguished party at dinner on SaturdN' the Viceregal Lodge. t ick' The Austrian Ambassador and the Counte s s Die:, stein returned to Chandos House yesterday after' from a visit to her Majesty at 'Windsor Castle. Sir George Talbot, Bart., and family, have 06 0 Grosvenor-square, from the Isle of Wight. Ite s ' Mr. Angerstein, Sir Arthur Asht on , Si r F ran cis Sl ece r l . : Bart., Colonel Bradford, Hon. Mr. and Mrs. 13.,r,0 , Mr. Yorke, M.P., have been amon g th e fashionab le tants at Folkestone during the preceding week. pr lo# 4 Lord and Lady Delamere, Mr. Wilbraham 13 ,P)0,; Lady Egerton and Miss Egerton, Colonel to' c ir Tomkinson, and Captain Cotton, have joined tb e f olf l# assembled at the Marquis and Marchioness of We ° ster's, at Eaton Hall, Cheshire. ZIEZEICE&LANZOI7II. Her Majesty, with her accustomed generosV e 'jl given, we are informed, out of her pri v y purse, tb of 1,000/. a year to Sir Augustus D'Este, which i S to the sum Sir Augustus lost by the death of the des the Duke of Sussex. A ibe The fine American line of packet ship, Prince 4 0 , entered the St. Katharine Docks yesterday with,-ci usually large number of cabin and steerage Pes s- g ilc and a full miscellaneous cargo, comprising a larg i e City of American beef, pork, cheese, and other c' e , t o o tiona of art des of food, the produce of the United "' for home consumption in this country. cif}` J s his Royal Highness Prince Albert, in his calliooo a Knight of St. Patrick, has giv en 100/., in ac m • r o► the gift of 2001. by her Majesty, t o w ar d s th e repa ir restoration of St. Patrick's Cathedr a l, D u blin. i s P: r , On Thursday night, one of the ganaekeerl e;nploy of John Kerrich, Esq., of Geld esto n v folk, was most desperately wounded by posebe r now lies in a dangerous state. 00 pc During the last two so three days b e t w een " el :300 sail hav e arrived in the river, w hi c h h a ve 1 1: - ,osirs„ , hack the chatin-1 by the late str o n g easte rly 11 3 is which f-rtunate circumstance has be e n th e means tang into employment a vast number of laboure rs 0 40( 4 , several docks, who, of l a t e , h ave en d ure d much cieoeio owing to the conti nue d non - arr i va l o f the l a den There has also been a very large increase of c ° P e, the pool, which, i n many i nstances, h ave gone h . : 4 41 1 e g so as to discharge their cargoes more speedily. apt rival of " t o r e i gners " i n t h e W est I n di a , Lop A fid t y St. Katherine Docks have been considerablet doe l‘ greatest activity is manifested in the several i v ols' rrtments of the Cu,tom-house. Numerous arr i daily expected from China and the East Indiums . 1) 1 5V • Yesterday the half-yearly meeting of the Wl t oreri f , tiago Mining Company to o k pl ace a t t h e office,,e c lO O street Buildings, John Robertson, Esq., in t'oicl i o when a report was read by the secretary, fret' t he appeared that the quantity of ore raised 11 , 1 , a rri v 4 o months was 3,948 tons, of which 1,644 tons ha f o r producing nett 15,6F9/. 6s. 3d. Bills of lading ce ipo,' , cargoes more have been received. The totalrrer t he j e ll the six months were 40,147/. Bs. ld., which, alt e r , orb i e penditure, left a balance of 16,872/. ss. 7d., fr cl er sh„A, the Directors recommended a dividend of 21 , ?. 0 ,0 3 '" After some further proceedings, the meeting 94 DEATH OF A CHILD FROM SUFFOCATION* terday Mr. Baker held un inquest at the Lullt pital, on the body of Adam Sullivan, aged fourntbott,,)l Jane Sullivan, mother of deceased, said that , s ,'" r ee',, seemingly a healthy child, he was continuallY:y biro' ing. On Sunday night last, in order to qu' p e d she gave him some castoroil, d Pl sc- ; be by her side in bed. When sh awoke s t)11 p t-b c e lowing mornin g s h e f oun d hi m qu it e dead. Vi ti3e ;' l Coroner—Did not send for a medical wait- w ere g, dead she had had seven other children, but they 11-e n e f ; they had all died in their infancy from , — , fl urg e ",4 meazles, or hopping cough. Mr. John Liddelh;ie 6 0 ', 1 0 said that he had seen the body of deceased. Liddell'; WO - 0 buted death to suffocation, by being pressed too e ye bi t its mother's side. The deceased appearedalter, properly attended to. The Coroner said that ti . mell tion of the mother to her child when living was te bet/ei her favour. Under the circutestancas, it would l e ce l to return a verdict of Found dead," which 011 " 4 P AT 4 ingly recorded. , T , , SHREWSBURY, WOLVERHAMPTO N, DU" -9 BIRMINGHAM BAILWAY.—On Tuesday a tueet i l3 a. inhabitants of West Bromwich was held at t he ;ol mouth Arms, for the purpose of suppor tin g tbis The meeting was numerously and respectablY er ~ 0 .10 and resolutions supporting the proposed hne piously passed.— Wolverhampton Chronicle.