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LONDON : THURSDAY EVENING, JANUARY 31, 1539. The Tories, with all the advocates of the Corn-laws, particularly the Herald, may boast of having obtained another triumph. The Destructives are gaining ground. The inhabitants of Finsbury, or rather a public meeting called by them, decided last night that Universal Suffrage, as a matter of paramount neces sity, is to be demanded in preference to a repeal of the Corn-laws. They came to this decision after hearing some arguments in favour of that view, but they were too predetermined, and too impatient to hear even Mr. ROEBUCK, though favourable to Universal Suf frage, when he recommended them to unite and petition for the repeal of the Corn-laws, sure that the Parlia ment would not listen to their prayer, as the best means of still further developing the evil constitution of the Legislature, and compelling the middle classes to unite with those who demand Universal Suffrage. The bulk of the meeting needed no additional proof that no good whatever could be expected from the Legislature, they loudly declared that opinion, and de manded Universal Suffrage, because they are thoroughly convinced thatit is useless to ask and hopeless to expect justice from Parliament. 'We have of late traced this determination in so many quarters, and see all the Journals in the empire, 'Whig, Tory, and Radical, so systematically employed in decrying the Parliament, one ridiculing its Tory and Aristocratic pretensions, another mocking at its slight influence of Catholic, Dissenting, and Democratic Members, and the third stigmatizing it as wholly selfish and unjust, that the conviction of its growing impotence and decay is daily forced on us. The political authority that is universally ridiculed and decried has lost all substantial power. Accordingly the opi nion is fast gaining ground, and we have of late heard it frequently repeated, that a fearful commotion will await the country, if the Legislature do not, by a manly and even generous exertion at the very com mencement of the Session, do something signal to retrieve its character. It is, as we have more than once said, placed on trial, the masses stand aloof from it, and do not seek, on the subject of the Corn laws, to dictate to it, or to overawe it. From its own free will, if it be not wholly evil, it may do the act of justice imperatively required from it, wholly re• peal the Corn-laws, and lessen the privations and dis content of the masses, in spite of their refusal to ask for that blessing. It is plain that the object of the bulk of the Fins bury meeting was to prevent any other resolution being adopted but one favourable to Universal Suffrage. We have heard that there are numerous parties in the metropolis who have resolved that such shall always be their conduct. One of the speakers last night ex pressly declared, very energetically, that the working classes were resolved to have their rights, meaning Universal Suffrage, though they used force to obtain them ; and he signified that the middle classes might expect determined opposition in all their political pursuits from the working classes till they joined with them in demanding Universal Suffrage. The Universal Suffrage men are to coerce the other classes, as it were, into their views. This is another proof, of which now unhappily too many are every day forced on us, of the complete estrangement of the non-electors from the electors, of the labourers from the capitalists, and of workmen from their masters, and of the resolution generally adopted to attain political ends by violence. Such a disease is vital, and if not arrested in its progress, will lead to far more fatal consequences than even the destruction of our manufactures by the Corn-laws. The Tory remedy for such a disease, as proposed by the Times and Sir ROBERT PEEL, is to remodel the national education, and place the people completely under the drilling of the Priesthood. It might hare been efficacious a cen tury ago, but it now comes too late ; and before the next generation can be new modelled by art, the State will be overturned, or th.e people be wholly enslaved. A more rational aud speedy remedy may be found. An Extension of the Suffrage, an extinction of the rotten boroughs, which the Reform Act un happily left in existence, and a more equal diffusion of representatien, dividing electoral districts more equally than at present, would serve, we believe, to pacify the bulk of the influential men among the Chartists, and at any rate it wouid diminish the just causes the people now have for distrusting the Legislature. If something of that kind were voluntarily, freely, and gracefully begun by the Legislature, at the commence ment of the Session, as well as abolishing the Corn laws, we should entertain hopes that it might yet be possible to reconcile the bulk of the people to the Le gislature, and preserve its authority ; without that, or something like that, we can only expect great calamities from the growing opposition between different classes, and from the disrepute into which the Legislature Las I fallen. cause of the high price, and also the mainstay of the combination, is the difficulty—or rather impos sibility—of finding room in the river, for the discharge of coals sufficient for the consumption of the metropolis. This acts as a dearth—acts on the corn market, and enables the seller to keep up a famine price. Captain ROWLAND, the Harbour• master, re ports that " the number of ships that can discharge their cargoes in the river is not equivalent to the wants of the trade or satisfactory to the public, inasmuch as the delay arising from the want of room for the discharge of ships sold is one of the great causes of the high price of coals, and if more ships were sold in the market than at present ; the cargoes could not .be discharged in the Pool ; that at the close of the market each day, in the month of Dedember, there had been an average of 94 vessels, and on the 28th of that month, not less than 143 vessels, that could not be discharged, some of them having remained in sec tions for six days after they had been sold ; that this detention of ships for finding the market, secures to the coal-owner Ins demand for the coals, and the ship-owner the freight he must have to compensate him for the delay and the extra charges incident thereto ; and that the difference between the freight of the free ship, and the one under the surveillance of the owners and factors, is about 25.61. per ton, which money is paid to support the owners and factors' regulations, and to keep the men who receive 61. 10F. a voyage, two-thirds of their time in idleness; the public pay this sum on about 2,000,000 tons." Thus the pub lic pay to these gentlemen. according to the Harbour master's statement, 250,0001. a year ; but that amounts only to about one-fourth the addi tional sum they pay, owing to the supply being limited, and the price proportionally raised. And this grievance is not a thing of yesterday. So far back as 1824, representations were made to the Government that the public were taxed at an enormous rate because there was not sufficient room for vessels in the river ; yet nothing was done to abate the evil, but on the contrary every thing done to increase it, by laying a tax of six or seven shillings on land borne coals, and inserting clauses in Railway Bills for the sole purpose of keeping up the price of this great necessary of life. In consequence of this negligence on the part of the Legislature and the Go vernment, the poor are paying at the present moment at the rate of 50s. a ton for coals ; and what with this high price and the high price of bread, thousands of the lower classes are actually in a state of starvation. Have they, therefore, not good reasons for calling out for Universal Suffrage ? After these ex- - posures of the system, if the ensuing Session pass over without a remedy, the public must look for protection to others than their representatives. The remedy, too, is so simple that Parliament is without excuse. If the duty on coals brought from the interior were removed, and all the coal-factors and coal meters sent about their business, the inhabitants of the metropolis would have the benefit of a free com petition—that is, a reduction of about 100 per cent. on the price of coals. The Cora Averages have fallen, for the week, 2s. ld., and are reported to-day at 795. 3d. We sin cerely hope, therefore, that the highest point has now been reached, and that a still further fall may be anti cipated. The average for the six weeks is only a penny rimre than the average.for the previous six weeks. The Manchester Guardian, of Tuesday, con tains elaborate and detailed proofs of the manner in which the tax on corn operates against our manufacturers, and in favour of the foreigners— and an explanation of the circumstance why these laws were not formerly so ruinous as at present. The fol lowing two passages, coming from the seat of the cotton manufacture, are worthy of attention : " A piece of English calico and a piece of German calico, of the same width, length, weight, fineness, and finish, will sell in any foreign market, under all ordinary circumstances, for the same money price—say ten shillings or two ounces of silver. Of this price we may suppose one half to have been paid by each manufacturer for the raw material, and the charges of shipment and sale ; leaving five shillings, or one ounce of silver, to be divided as wages and profit between the manufacturer and the labourers employed in making the calico. This sum will obviously pro duce very different results in the two countries. In Germany, under all ordinary circumstances, it will purchase more than a bushel of wheat • in England, under the operation of the Corn-laws, it will purchase very little more than half a bushel ; and if the real wages of labour—the quantity of food which workmen can earn—are the same in both countries, it is clear that the German manufacturer will be able to manufacture his goods at somewhere about half the cost of the labour employed in the English goods." • " Some parties, who have not paid much attention to the sub ject, will probably inquire how it happens that the high prices of grain have not heretofore prevented us from exporting manufactures. The reason is obvious to those who have taken ordinary pains to inquire into the subject. Until recently, we had a monopoly of the new machinery and the improved pro cesses which have entirely changed the nature of manufac. turing industry, and which gave us advantages so enormous, that prices of - food double, or even triple, those of the Corr i nent were :not sufficient to countervail them. At that time, English manufacturers had no competition, except from (ac other; and, being all equally subject to the tax of dear brer.d, the only effect was to increase the price of oar manufac tures, and to give the landowners a large participation in the profits of the manufacturers. That time, however, has wholly passed away : we no longer possess any superiority in ma chinery ; all our processes are as well known to foreigners as to ourselves; and there is no longer any safety for us, unless wo can meet the manufacturers of the Continent and of the United States on equal terms." The interminable question of the French Cabinet is still in obeyance. According to the Paris Journals of Tuesday, Marshal SouLT is so seriously indisposed as to be unable to leave his apartments. The rumours of his Premiership are therefore silenced. His dis temper is erysipelas. On Monday Count MOLE ap peared in the Chamber of Deputies, from whence several of the Journals infer that the KING'S ac ceptance of his resignation was a mere feint to try the temper of the Opposition ; and that he is not less . head of the Cabinet now than he was six months ago. A state of uncertainty cannot, however, long continue. Without a dissolution of the Chambers, M. THIERS will bring the question to a speedy issue. Mr. HENRY LYTTON BULWER, Secretary of Legation at St. Petersburgh, has arrived in Paris. The intelligence from Madrid is of the 22d inst., but it consists of local reports of no European interest. ESPARTERO is " reposing upon his laurels," at the trifling cost of 64,0001. sterling weekly to his country. VAN HALEN, of Carlist-:,hooting notoriety, is said to have started on a private mission to this country. The journals from the frontiers of Spain announce that the Government of Madrid has sent several men-of-war to the coast of Africa, with a ♦iew to attempt to regain possession of Aletilla. We shall add that Newcastle, though late, has at length taken the field ; and preparations have been made for holding a public meeting, to procure a repeal of the Corn-laws, in that commercial town. In our columns of this day will be found an excel lent address from Mr. DANIEL WHITTLE HAR VEY to his constituents, the electors of Southwark, on the resignation of his appointment to the office of Registrar of Public Conveyances, to which we beg to direct public attention. We also insert an article from the Morning Advertiser on this subject, in the spirit of which we entirely and heartily concur, and to which, therefore, we would invite the notice of our readers. The present is not the time for losing the Parliamentary services of such tried Reformers as Mr. HARVEY ; and as, in the opinion of the first legal authorities, his retention of office would oblige him to vacate his seat in the House of Commons, we are rejoiced at his preference of public to private interest. We agree in opinion with the Honourable Gentle man, that acceptance of office under a Liberal, or indeed, under any Administration, does not necessarily imply a disconnection with the people ; and, therefore, we see no reason why Mr. HARVEY should lose the confidence of his old supporters were he appointed to-morrow to any office compatible with his continuing to sit and vote in Parliament. The office which he has just resigned, was equally unworthy of his great talents, and of his claims upon any Government pledged to, the support of an enlightened and liberal policy. According to the latest accounts from Seville apprehen sions of fresh troubles were entertained there ; the National Guard manifested much nostility towards General Cleonard, who commands there. The mails from Madrid are two days in arrear. Letters from kirussels say that the last protocol of the Con ference had been received there, and that it was going to be communicated to the Chambers. Public attention is gene rally excited. The Sentinelle des Pyrenees of the 21st has the following article : An Address from the Committee of the Church-rate Abolition Society, to the people of Great Britain, will be found in another column. It recapitulates briefly what has been done in furtherance of the ques tion, and calls upon the friends of civil and religious liberty, whether Churchmen or Dissenters, to renew their exertions, and to unite in one common struggle, against the Church-rate system, opposed, as it is, to the rights of conscience, and the interests of reli gion. There must be no compromise in this matter— no acquiescence in attempts to shift the burden upon any branch of the national revenue. This would only be a juggle, and, as the Committee justly observe, an incalculable aggravation of the evil. What have the Abolitionists gained by their late forbearance towards the established sect ? Has the Church of England shown herself meek and forbear ing in return ? Look at her proceedings. Look at the Dissenters whom she has immured in jails on the most frivolous pretexts. Look at the fierce spirit of persecution which she is every where displaying towards those who do not conform to her communion. As she becomes unpopular she becomes furious. Conscious that she has no hold upon the affections or respect of the people, she is determined to avenge herself on their pockets ; and in stead of reforming the abuses which alienate men from her—instead of rendering herself, by a disinte rested and spiritual bearing, what a Gospel-Church ought to be, an efficient instrument of religious in struction—she clings with a death-grasp to the very things which are dragging her down to to destruction. We say again, let there be no compromise between the opponents and the supporters of Church-rates. Let the Abolitionists rouse themselves, and bring all their influence to bear immediately upon this crying iniquity. " The Board of Health of Corunna has received informa tion that several cases of yellow fever had occurred in the town of Palireus, in the Canary Islands." This news is confirmed by a letter from a private corres pondent in the Canaries, which informs us that there bad been several cases of yellow fever in those islands since the month of October.—Gazette de France. General Bugeaud set out yesterday for the head-quarters of his division, which are at Lille. The General officers, who have a command in the army of the North, have, it seems, likewise received orders to repair to their posts. A letter from Cadiz says, that Don Antonio de la River and Don Jose Rodriguez, fencing masters, have been shot at San Roque, because they had entered into a conspiracy to kindle civil war in the mountains of La Ronda—a war in which they expected assistance, which was to come from some parts of Italy. A report was spread yesterday and confirmed by several Journals this morning, that the Ministers have determined to withdraw their resignations.—Le Commerce. BansszLs, JAN. 29.—There was a Councilof Ministers yes terday at the Palace. Messrs. de Geruche, de Merode, and Raikein were summoned to it. The object of the meeting was to examine the new treaty which has been laid before us by the Conference, and at the same time before Holland. This treaty likewise consists of 24 articles, slightly modified with regard to the debt, but without any change with respect to the territory. It has likewise received some improvements relative to the navigation of the Scheldt, which, however, are as much for the interests of England and Germany as for ours. Yesterday Messrs. Metz, d'Hoffschmedt, and d'Ansem bourg were sent for by the King ; only the two first went to the Palace. We do not know to what cause to ascribe the ab sence of M. d' Ansenbourg. The decision of the Conference reached Paris on Thursday. PESTH, JAN. 19.—A feeling of joy, which is beyond de scription, has been excited here by the English reports pub lished in the Allegemeine Zcitung, respecting the treaty of commerce between England and Austria, by which, if not the abolition, at least the modification of the prohibitory system is to be expected. Our satisfaction is the more just, as Hun gary, whose manufactures are in their infancy, has n o t t o ap prehend th a t any class of its inhabitants will suffer even a tem porary inconvenience, but that all will enjoy . the blessi ngs an d i advantages o f th e new sys t em : though t is possible, as we hear, that so me res t r i ct i ons w ith respect to importatio n from the German provinces into this kingdom may be retained. FRONTIERS of SERVIA., JAN. I.—Merchants' letters from Constantinople affirm that the differences between the repre sentatives of England at the Persian Court and the Schah have been settled, and that there is more confidence than ever that peace will be preserved. Orders that are given to English houses for Persia several months ago, and then re voked, have been resumed, with a desire to execute them without delay. Commerce has, therefore, become mote brisk at Constantinople, and this has a favourable effect here. Ready money is in great demand in the capital, and it is very scarce. The LORD MAYOR, in furtherance of the object which he has unremittingly pursued since his accession to office—a reduction in the enormous price paid for coals—transmitted certain queries to thellarbour-master at Greenwich, a reply to which has just been pub lished. From this report it appears that the main BOURSE --PARIS TUESDAY, JAY. 29. HALF-PAST THRE ll .—There has been activity, and the market to.day and the securities in general have improved. For the Account the Three per Cents. opened at 79f., rose to 79f. 25c„ and closed at 79f. 15c., a rise of 25c. The Five per Cents. from 110 f. 70c., declined to 110 f. 65c., rose to 1104. 75c. and closed at 110 f. 70c., a rise of 15c. For money, the Three per Cents. are 20c., and the Five per Cents. are 15c., better. The Bank of France shares have improved sf. The I.afitte Bank shares closed as yesterday. The Belgian Five per Cents. have received the same impulse, and have improved 3 per cent., and the:Threes 50c. For the Account the latter are at 67f. 40c. The Bank Shares have rallied 35f. The Spanish Active is ii. better. For the Ac count the Portuguese Three per Cents. 231. Little done in Railway Shares; the St. Germain and the Strasburg are not quoted either for time or money. The Versailles Right Bank have improved sf, First Highest I owest Last Price. Price. Price. Price. French 5 per Cents. 4 per Cents. 3 per Cents. Bank of France 264') ...2640 ...2640 —.2640 Latitte Bank I,ooof. Sh 5,000 f. Sh Zelgian 5 per Cents. usti ... vsN, ... los% 98 14 3 per Cents. 6l 50 ... 66 50 ... 66 50 ... 66 50 Bank. 550 ~„ 570 ... 550 ... 570 Spanish Active Neapolitan Roman lOO% ~, 100% ... 100)% ... 100% RAILWAY SHARES. Versailles, R.B. L.B. Orleans 45) „, 450 „, 450 ... 450 Rouen ASPHALTS VD BI lUMENS. Sind (A) " “.100 ...ZOU ...2000 THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 31, 1839. CORN AVERAGES. GENERAL AVERAGE PRICES OF BRITISH CORN, Fer the Week ended Jan. 25, iIP9, made up from the Returns of the Inspectors in the different Citie, 4- ..ind Towns in England and NVales, per Imperial Quarter. Wheat — 79 A 79A Sd. Oats 6artei - l:2s 5d I Rye INIM:ItInt, AGGREGATE AVERAGES OF THE 9 :X WEEKS PRECEDING. Whet......... 79,. 9d. I Oats Barley 39s. 7d I Rye DUTIES ON FOREIGN CORN. Wheat 3s I _4d. Rye TILE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.) The Hungerford and City Fish Markets were moderately supplied this morning, and though the attendance was limited, all kinds of Fish were very dear. In the Tallow, Spirit, and Hay Markets, there was but little doing, and prices remain as last quoted. COLONIAL MARKETS. Raw Sugar continues unaltered in value. B.P. brown, 535. Gd. to 541. and up to 555. ; yeilow, 565. to 59s ; fine, 595. 6d. Refined Sugar is 755. CofFee, 190 cks and 300 bags British Plantation were put up to sale ; prices much as yesterday. Low middling Jamaica 106 s. to 1075., and fine fine ordinary unclean Dernarara 90s. to 91s. 6d. The price of Rice has been affected by the decline in Wheat. Spices sell at pre vious rates. - - MONEY AND COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY (THIS DAY), TWELVE O'CLOCK. The nrrivals this morning arc a French mail; an Ostend and Dutch due. Ship letters from Calcutta of 17th September, old date. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, JAN. 30.—The demand for Cotton to-day has been to a moderate extent. The sales 3,000 bags, all to the trade, at fair prices. The market closed with steadiness. The accounts received from Manchester this morning state that there was another exceedingly dull arid flat market yes terday, and no sales, either of ysrn or goods, could be made to any extent, without a reduction of prices, to which the holders were not generally inclined to submit, consequently very little business was done. Accounts trom St. Petersburgh to the 13th January, state that the Russian Government continues more and more to aug ment their preparations for war at present. Their movements, both by sea and land, are in the south and east of the empire; arid it is expected it will soon take place in the north. The Minister of War had given orders to the corps of Ganeral Pall4n and General Shakousky to unite, and pass into La venia and Courland; these two corps amount to 42,000 in fantry, 8,000 cavalry, and 140 pieces of cannon. We have received the Journal qf Antwerp of Monday and Tuesday, dated 28th and 29th inst. BRUSSELS, JAN. 27.—1 n the Chamber of Representatives yesterday there were only 46 Members ; accordingly the dis cussion was put off till Monday. The Handelsblad, of the 27th Jan., says, " We received this morning from the Hague the confirmation of the news we gave yesterday from London, the accession of France to the last resolutions taken by the Conference; and which decides the Belgian question in a manner irrevocable. A person who has arrived from Venloo states that from the 24th of January, General Daine, in his order to the inhabit ants, states that no person can enter the town, or go out, without being furnished with a card of permission by the Com missary of Police, and visited by the Commandant. Ti-K.y write from Charlerov, Jan. 26—" To-day left this town, under an escort of artillery, eleven chariots, laden with 1,500,000 cartouches and powder, on their way to the fortress of Bouillon." From Compeigne of the 26th January they write that they have learnt nothing positive from the frontiers for three dais. A report prevailed there that the Dutch troops had made a retrograde movement, or that they had gone back a little from the frontier of Limburg, in the direction of Venloo. It is certain that they had evacuated some villages on the fron tier on the side of Antwerp. The Messenger of Ghent formally contradicts the news given yesterday by the Journal of Flanders, of the dikes being cut by the Dutch troops between Bouchante and St. Laurent. Dutch Funds of the 28th ( Monday)—Two.and-a- Half per Cents., 54 13-16 ; Five per Cents., 1011, about per cent. higher than the last prices. THE FUNDS. Up to the pretent hour there is a great slackness in specu lating in'the various Funds. Consols, which closed yesterday at 92k / fur the Account, opened this morning at the same price, both for Money and Account. Exchequer Bills, 64 66 ; India Bonds, 61 63; Bank Stock, 2024- 203 ; India Stock, 204} 205 k. In the Foreign Market most of the prices are the same as the closing quotations. Spanish Active, 20 to 204; Portu guese, 35k 1 ; Three per Cents., 221 1 ; Belgian, 981 994 ; Brazilian, 794 1; Colombian, 281-.1; Mexican, 244 ; Dutch Two-and-a- Half per Cents., 541 i ; Five per Cents., 1024 i ; Spanish has improved to 20i i ; Portuguese to 351 36. PRICES OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Bank Stock 20234 lndia Stock 25514 3 per Cent. Red. 9 3 3i 14 Ditto Bonds 3 per Cent. Cons. 9.1% South Sea Stock — 3 , , per Cent. —old Annuities — Ditto Reel. 1004% I New Ditto New 344 per Cent 100 99% 3 per Cent. Annuities, 1751... New 5 per Cent. Bank Long Annuities toexpire Ditto 500 ...66 64 67 pm. Jan. 5, 1860 — Ditto Small .66 64 67 pm Oct. bl, 1859 14% Ditto Commercial pm. Jan. 5, 1860 Ditto Advertised — pm. Jan. 5, 1880 Bank Stock for Account — April 5, 1880 -- I India Stock for Account — Jan. 5, 1870 ' -- ! Consols for Account 91% PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS Tins DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Austrian Bonds — I Peruvian Bonds Belgian Bonds Ditto Account Brazilian Bonds Ditto Account 79%51 Ditto Accoun' .36Si 5% Buenos Ayres Bonds ....... ..... Ditto, 3 per Cent. Ditto Account Chilian Bonds lbtto Account Columbian Bonds Ditto Account — Ditto Account Ditto Metallic Columbian Bonds, 1824 2854 Spanish Bonds... — Ditto Account Danish Bonds Ditto Account Ditto Account. Greek Bonds — I French, 5 per cent. ..... .... —t. —c. Ditto Bonds, .1825. -- 4 per cent ......... —f. —c. Ditto Account -- 3 per cent. —f. —c. Mexican Bonds, 5 per Cent — --- Exchange.......... —f. —c. Ditto Account Dutch, Zi per cent 5431% Ditto, 6 per Cent. 24 Ditto Account 54,4 5 14 4% Ditto Account Neapolitan Ditto Acc0unt........ ......... PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Paid. Great Western Railway Company 65 London and Blackwall Railway 9 I ondon and Greenwich Railway Company t. London and Croydon Railway Company l6l. Bs. Ditto New Scrip 4 Manchester and Birmingham Railway lO Do. Do. Extension National Bank of Ireland 1754 Worthing Tontine PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS, DUBLIN, JAN. 29. 3 per Cent. Consols - 3% per Cent. Stock - Ditto Reduced - Hibe►nian Bank Ditto New, 1830 3y4 par Cent. Debentures - Bank Stock 1954 City Debentures, 4 per cent.... 80 Royal Canal Stock - Ballast Office Debentures,4 per - Per Share. 76% 17 6 174 5,i, U. 16s. Grind Canal Stock - I cent . . DUTCH FUNDS.—Asurnanarti, JAN. 28. Actual Debt, 2 per Cent. Do do. 5 per Cent. Amort Syndic 4S.', per Cent~ Do. do. 3!4 per Cent. Commercial Company, 4% per Cent 17554 New ditto BELGIAN I. UNDS—BausseLa, Jam. 29.: Actual Debt, 254 per Cent. Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cent. 9O Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent. 86% 3 per Cent. 67 Loan of City, 1832, 4 per Cent Society of Commerce, 4Si per Cent ll5 Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent 54 National Society . lO5 —Brusseis Papers, Jan. 29. AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—Vtaxms, Jam. 21. Five per Cents. Metalliques Foer per Cents. Three per Cents. Hank Shares 1458 —AllgemeineZeitung, Jan. O. HALF.PAST ONE. Accounts from Trieste, dated Jan. 19, state that the tem pest experienced there has caused great damages. The news from all parts of the Adriatic are ♦ery melancholy. In the memory of man there was never seen such a tempest so ter rible, and lasting for such a length of time. The only news we have to the present hour of importance is that from Belgium, by which, according to accounts from Brussels, the Chamber of Deputies will not listen to the decision of the Conference at London, and the most extensive warlike preparations arc being carried on in every part of Belgium. _..... This is settling day in the Foreign Market—up to the present we do not hear of any failures. Consols, 921 for the Account, Money 02i ; Exchequer Bills better, 66 67; India Bonds, 63; Bank Stock, 2021. Spanish Active has been done at 20k, since receded to 20; Portuguese touched 361, receded to 35k-; Belgian 99k; Brazilian 79i ; Dutch Two-and-a-half per Cents. lower, 541; Five per Celits., 1001. THREE O'CLOCK. Consols for the Account, 92- THE FUNDS.-C LOSING PRICES FUNDS. India Stack 255 1 ,4 Ditto Bonds 63 Ditto Old Annuities Ditto New Annuities Ex. Bills, 1,000/ *4cl 67 pm. Ditto 500/ 67 pm Ditto 5001 67 pm. Bank Stock for Act. India Stock for ,_ct..., Consols for Act.. BRITISI Bank Stock 2025,51 3 per Cent. Re 4 93%1 3 per Cent. Ccas 99141 354 per Cent. Red, 1005, New 354 per Cent 100 New 5 per Cent Long Annuities to expire Jan. 186 Oct. 1859 Jan. 1860 92% FOREWN FUNDS Asturian, 5 per cent — Portuguese Bonds, 5 per cent.. Belgian, 5 per cent fq4l4 Ditto, New Ditto / 35 3 ,g Brazilian Bonds 79A Prussian, 5 per cent Buenos Ayres, 6 per cent.. — Russian Bonds, 5 per cent — Chilian, 6 per cent Ditto, Metallic — ' Coloinb.an 6 per cent 28% Spanish, 5 per cent 20% Ditto, 1624 t.B%; Ditto, Consolidated — Danish, 3 per cent 'French, 5 per cent. —l. —c. Greek Bonds, 1825, 5 per cent — Exchange —1 —c Mexican, 5 per cent. French, 3 per cent Ditto, 6 per cent., 1825 24 Iputch, 2% per cent.... Peruvian, 1325,6 per cent........ IDitto, 5 per cent. 102% (CLOSING PRICE OF SHARES.—(THIS DAY.) Great Western Railway „... ... 76 London and Brighton Railway London and Blackwall Railway London and Birmingham Railway e London and Greenwich Railway l7 London and Croydon Railway London and Croydon Railway (New Scrip) Manchester and Birmingham Railway — Ditto Ditto Extension Yesterday the Radical Club had their usual quar terly dinner, at Radley's Hotel, Bridge-street, Blackiriars. Colonel Thompson in the Chair. QUEEN'S BENCH.-(THIS DAY.) This being the last day of Term the Court went through :he bar, commencing with the junior Counsel. LORD HOWDEN V. SIMPSON AND OTHERS Lord DENMAN gave judgment in this case at some length. It had been argued during the last Term, and the declaration set out an agreement on behalf of the York and North Mid land Railway Company, to pay the plaintiff the sum of 5,0001. for having withdrawn his opposition, and given his as sent to the Railway passing near his mansion. The defen dants had subsequently refused to fulfil the agreement, on the ground that, having adopted a deviated line, the plaintiff had no claim to compensation. It was urged among the arguments that the interests of other parties were injuriously affected by the agreement, that Lord Howden—being a Peer of the realm—could not enter into such an agreement— and that the agreement, having been concealed from the Legislature, was a fraud upon it. There might be some weight in the objection that the interests of others were in volved in the agreement, although the Court was of opinion that Lord Howden, being a Member °tithe Legislature, might as well enter into such an agreement as any other person. These points, however, it was not necessary to enter into fully, as they thought the objection that the agreement had been concealed from Parliament must prevail. On the whole, therefore, they were of opinion that the second plea was good, and therefore the judgment of the Court must be for the defendants. DEAN V. LADY KIRKWALL. Lord DENMAN gave judgment in this case. It was an action to recover arrears of rent of a house, and the Jury re turned a verdict for the defendant on the ground that Lady Kirkwall was of unsound mind. A rule for a new trial had been subsequently obtained, but the Court having consulted with Mr. Justice Patteson, before whom the case was tried, was of opinion that these was no ground for disturbing the verdict, and therefore the rule for a new trial must be discharged. CRIMINAL INFORMATION.—THE QUEEN V LYN& AND OTHERS. Mr. THESIGER stated that in this case Mr. Kelly had ob tained a rule for a criminal information against the defendant Mr. Lyne and two gentlemen named Dalmano, for sending a hostile message to a gentleman named Warde. It had been ascertained that Mr. Warde was no party to the letter, which had been written by his wife, and under these circum stances the defendants having retracted the offensive expres sions, and expressed their regret for having used them, he hoped no objection would be made to discharging the rule with costs. Mr. KELLY expressed himself satisfied, and the rule was discharged. COMMON PLEAS.-(THIS DAY.) This being the last day of term, the Court gave judgments in several eases, among which was FE' TOR V. BEACON-TN RE THE MAIDSTONE ELECTION. The LORDCHIEF-JUSTICE (suffering, we were sorry to ob serve, under a severe cold), requested Mr. Justice VAUGHAN to deliver the judgment of the Court in this case. A rule had been obtained for showing cause why judgment should not be entered up, upon Mr. Speaker's certificate, for the costs incurred by Mr. Fector (the present Member for Maidstone), in defending his seat on a petition against his return, which petition was declared by the Com mittee of the House of Commons to be " frivolous and vexa tious." To this application three objections were made; Ist, that upon the facts disclosed in the affidavits, the Speaker had no jurisdiction, because the name of Mr. Fector nowhere ap peared in any document before the Court, till it appeared in the Speaker's certificate ; the original application having been made, and the reference to have the costs taxed by the examiners, in a Mr. Hart's name. But the Court were of opinion that the costs being all through designated as the costs incurred in defending the return for the borough of Maidstone, the costs of Mr. Fector and of Mr. Hart were substantially the same. This first objection, therefore, could not be allowed. The second objection was that the Speaker's certificate included the costs of a Mr. Binstead, who, being an elector, had been E4itnitted by the House a party to the de fending Mr. Fector's seat; and it was contended that the Speaker had no authority to include these costs in the certificate. The Court, however, consit:f red this objection obviated by the 6th section of the 9th Georg!, IV. (the Act uuder which the application was made-)—whiels ens:seted that the Speaker's certificate should he , conclusive as , to the ant of the costs. The last objection was that the plaintiff's demant: should be made jointly against all the parties to the petition and th.. l se verally against one. No doubt was entertained by the Court on the contrary, that under the Act the party could demand costs, under the Speaker's certificate against any one of the parties to the petition. The rule for entering up judgment must therefore be made absolute. NORMAN V. WINTER. Mr. Justice BOSANQUET gave judgment in this case, in which a rule had been applied for to set aside three writs of summons, and three writs of distringas, for irregularity. The points being purely technical, presented no interest, except one,_on which it was held that a summons, specifying errone ously the place of defendant's residence, was nevertheless good, because the place of residence named in the writ was the same as that written on the promissory note, on which the action was brought, and the last place of residence of which the plaintiff was proved to have any knowledge. BAIL COURT.-(TRIS DAY.) THE QUEEN V. TEE LONDON AND BIRMINGHAM RAILWAY COMPANY. Mr. V. Lan applied for a mandamus against the Directors of the London and Birmingham Railway Company, under the following circumstances :—Messrs. Robins and Co. were very large carriers between London and Liverpool and Manches ter, and rivals to Messrs. Pickford and Co. The goods of Messrs. Pickford and Co. were taken by the Company, but they refused to take goods tendered for Messrs. Robins and Co. After arguing the case at considerable length, and citing some cases, Mr. Justice PATTESON said he wished the application had been made a little earlier, in order that there might have been more time to consider it ; but lie should be doing an injury to Mr. Lee's clients by granting a mandamus, because it seemed to him that it would be impossible to sustain it, and it would be delaying their trying the question of right. The mandamus, if it went at all, must be to compel the Company to do some thing which they were required to do by the provisions of the Act; but there was no clause to compel the Company to take the goods of other persons in the Company's carriages. It seemed to him that it was not intended by this Act to compel the Company to take either all passengers or goods which might offer : whether there ought to have been such a provi sion it was not for him to say. Another argument urged was, that the Company held themselves out to the world as com mon carriers, and therefore came within the general law. If so, an action might be brought against them for having vio lated the law, and it would therefore be doing more harm than good to grant the rule.—Rule refused. BOW-STREET.-(THIS DAY.) An elderly woman, named Eliza Bowles, was charged by Alfred Lacy, an intelligent youth, with cutting and wounding him without any provocation. It appeared that the defendant and her sister, who was sup ported by a crutch, were rolling about a street near to Clare market last evening, surrounded by a crowd of boys, who were jeering them, and as the complainant, who had nothing to do with the others, passed by, the defendant took off her patten, and struck him a violent blow with it on the head. The com plainant instantly ran home, and being conveyed by his parents to a medical man, the wound was found not to be of a dan -gerous nature. The defendant declared she did not intend to hurt the complainant, as he did not offend her, but the other boys ; and she was ordered to pay a fine of forty shillings, or go to prison for a month. John Straker, a butcher, out of place, 11, Silver-street, Bloomsbury-market, was charged by Mr. John Horsfall, a custom-officer, with unlawfully offering him smuggled cigars for sale. The complainant stated, that about seven o'clock last night he was accosted by the defendant at Somerset House, offer ing to sell him a quantity of choice cigars at the moderate price of ss. per lb., but the complainant declined having anything to do with smuggled goods, and passed on. The defendant, after a few minutes, again came up to him, repeating his offer, and be considered it would be a dereliction of his duty if he did not give him in charge. He was then taken into custody by 64 F, but there was nothing found upon him. Mr. MINSHULL, upon questioning the defendant, found that he could get no satisfacfory account from him, and he was or. tiered to find bail. A miserable object, lame of the right arm, named William Walker, was found in the Strand last night by constable Brooks, pretending to be in fits to excite charity. The complainant said that he was kicking and foaming from the mouth, while a woman by her cries was endeavouring to collect money, but on his perceiving that he was about to be conveyed away, he jumped up and tried to appear as if nothing was the matter with him. Mr. MINSHULL, after severely reprimnding the defendant, ordered him to be sent as a rogue and a vagabond to hard labour for one month. REFUSAL OF A POOR RATE.--Friday a nu merous and respectable meeting of the inhabitants of the parish of Kensington was held in the vestry room of the Old Church, pursuant to adjournment from Monday the 14th inst., "to proceed further in making a rate for the relief and em ployment of the poor of the parish, and other the purposes of the late Acts of Parliament in respect thereof, being the first poors' rate for the year 1839." After much uproarious dis cussion, in the course of which Mr. S. C. Hall said that the poor were in a starving condition, and that he had a few days since ordered his servant to place on his table, for luncheon, the quantity of fond allotted to a pauper for one day; and he could assure them it was not sufficient fur his lunch, an ad journment for a week was put and carried by a majority of three, and the vestry broke up amidst much confusion. AWFULLY SUDDEN DEA T11.—.111 last week's Merlin, we announced the arrival of the barque Bellona, Captain Hillman, of this port, from Miramichi. The Cap tain, on his arrival, wrote into Devonshire, to his wife, an nouncing the fact, when she repaired without delay to this tovvn to welcome her husband on his return. She arrived here in the early part of the week, and enjoyed her usual state of good health until the morning of the day she died. On that day, however she felt rather ill, and lay on the sofa, hoping, as she said, to recover. She in a short time fell asleep, and those around her, not wishing to disturb her, allowed hrr to remain for some hours, at the end of which time they found, on approaching, that she had breathed her last. The feelings of her bereaved husband can be more readily imagined than described. —. Merlin. COURT CIRCULAR• Viscount Melbourne had an audience yestern l ay of : be , • Ma jesty. The Marquis of Hcadfort, Viscount Melbourne,. the i / light HOn. George Stephens Byng, the Hon. Charles Gore , and the Hon. William Cowper, joined the Royal circle sr di inner last evening. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge honoured tl le Earl and Countess of Albemarle with their company at din) ter last, evening at their residence in Berkeley-square. Their Itnyal Highnesses were attended by Miss Kerr and Baron Kne: ;check. A Cabinet Council was held yesterday afternoon at tl ie resi dence of Viscount Melbourne, in Downing-street. It was attended by Viscount Melbourne, the Lord Chancell or , the Marquis of Lansdowne, Viscount Duncannon, Lor d Sohn Russell, Viscount Palmerston, Lord Glenelg, the Chr inceller of the Exchequer, the Earl of Minto, Sir John Ho b}►ouse, Lord Holland, Mr. Poulett Thomson, and Viscount Ft.c wick. The Council sat three hours. Mr. Amiot arrived in town yesterday, with de:^patches s from Sir John Colborne, G. C. 8., Governor of the Canada) : 4 Mr. Amiot had an interview with Lord Glenelg, at the: Co lonial office. The Spanish Minister transacted business yesterday at the Colonial-office. The Marquis of Lansdowne bad a dinner party last; .evening • at Lansdowne-house. Despatches from Governor Light, at British Guial ts, were received yesterday at the Colonial-office. FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENT DE. ARRIVALS. The Duke of Wellington, at Apsley House, from Sfrath fieldsaye, his seat in Hants ; the Earl of Cardigan, on Carlton House -terrace, from his seat, Deene Park, Nortbampt onshirc; Lord and Lady Francis Egerton, at Bridgewater Elouse, Cleveland-square, from Oatlands, their seat in' Surrey ; Mr. Spencer D'Horsay, M. P., and Lady Harriet D' Hors; ty, in Upper Grosvenor-street, from Sudbourne Suffolk ; the Countess of Surrey, in Hyde Park-place, from the :family seat, Littlehampton, Sussex ; Viscount Morpeth, in Grosve nor-place, from a visit to the Earl and Cou otess Cowper, at their seat, Pansanger, Herts ; the Duchess oaf Marlborough, in Park-lane, from Cambridgeshire ; the Baroness Rothschild, in Piccadilly, from a tour; the Marquis of Westmeath, from Wotton House, the seat of the Duke of Buckingham ; the Earl of Eglintoun, at the Clarendon Hote I, Bond-street, from Paris ; Col. and Lady Alice Peel, at f Fenton's Hote! from Paris; Mr. Leader, M.P., in Eaton-place, from Man chester ; Sir W. Molesworth, Ban., M.P., in ditto, from ditto ; C. P. Villiers, Esq., M.P., in Chester-place, from a tour ; Mr. and Lady E. Hope Vere and famil to, in Park-lane, from the north; Mr. LUshington, in Suffc.lk.street, from Paris ; Sir G. Clerk, M.P., Lady Clerk, and faaaily, at Marshal Thompson's Hotel, Cavendish-square ; the klisses Pead, at ditto, from Hornehurch ; the Rev. Mr. Drake, at ditto, from Dover ; H Usborn, Esq., at ditto, from Cheltenham ; -- Gambier, Esq., at ditto ; J. F. Schroder and Miss Schroder, at ditto, from Northbrook, Hants. DEPARTURES. Mr. Wombwell, yesterday, on a visit to Colonel and Lady Laura Meyrick, at the Auberies, Sudbury; the Hon. Major.. / General Lygon, from Grosvenor-place, for Paris ; Count de • Melfort and suite, for ditto ; Prince . Lieven, for ditto ; Mr• ' 1 Neeld, M. P., from Grosvenor-square, for his seat, Guttleton House, near Chippenham, Wilts; Mr. and Lady Harriet Drummond and suite, from Clarendon Rate', for Paris ; Mr. Pigott, for ditto ; Lord Nugent, from Chandos-street, for Lilies, Bucks. _ _ CHANGES. The Earl of Aberdeen on visits in Yorkshire, from a visit to the Earl and Countess of Morton, at their seat, Dal housie Castle, near Edinburgh ; Count Ziehy„ at Paris, from town ; the Duchess of Hamilton, at Leamington Spa, from the family seat, Hamilton Palace, Hamilton, N. B. ; Viscount and Viscountess Combermere, on a visit to the Duke of New castle, at his seat, Clumber Park,• Nottinghamshire, from their scat, Combermere Abbey, Cheshire; Sir Frederick and Lady Bathurst, on a visit to the Earl and Countess of Craven. at Coombe Abbey, from their seat, Clarendon Park, near De vizes; the Earl and Countess of Rosebery, on a tour of visits en route to town, from their seat, Dalmeny Castle, Linlith gowshire ; Lord Prudhoe, at his seat in Yorkshire ' Renwick Park, from a visit to the Duke and Duchess of Northum berland, at Alnwick Castle ; Count de Laytiere, at Paris, from Dover ; the Earl and Countess of Manvers, at There:by Park, from a visit to the Duke of Newcastle, at choher Park. We b e h e ;ye there is no truth in the rumour of the Duke of Sussex's intention to leave this country for any time► as stated in the paograph now going the round of the daill papers.— Globe. . The Marquis of Lansdowne had a dinner party last evening at Lansdowne House. The Marquis and Marchioness of Tweeddale, LedY Charlotte Hay, Lord Gifford, and a large party, are-visiting Colonel and Lady Elizabeth Steele, at Kimbolton Castle, the gut of the Duke of Mancheoter, near Huntingdon. The Earl and Countess tist Chesterfield are at Abing don Abbey, where the Noble Earl and his friends had sorer' good days' sport last week. The Earl of Harrowby and L ady Harriet Ryder at e expected in town to-day or to mot row, from Sandon Hall. Staffordshire. Viscount Sandon, M.P., and his lady are also shortly expected. The Earl aad Countess of Minty will not have a dinner party this evenirg at the Admiralty, the Noble Earl having received an invitation to join the Aforquis of Lans downe's dinner party, at Latiadowne House. THE EARL OF GRANVILLE.—A rumotis prevails that his Excellency is about to relh2quish his diplomat le post. We learn on inquiry yesterday, that his Lordship is exi. , ected to leave Paris in a few days for London. The Earl and Countess of Limerick are entertain ing a large party of distinguished friends at South Hill Park , in Berkshire. Lord St. Helen's is much indisposed at his house in Grafton-street, Berkeley-square. - The Right Hon. the Speaker of the House of Com mons and Mrs. Abercromby have arrived on Carlton House terrace, from Stubbing Court, near Chesterfield. Major-General Lygon is confined to his house ill Grosvenor-place, by illness. Mr. Rowland Errington returned to town yesterday• Miss Burdett Coutts left town yesterday. MUNICH, JAN. 17.—The King will leave this , capital in the middle of the next month. The rumour from Italy that he intends to pay a visit to the Holy Land, is for the present without sufficient foundation.—Allgemeine Zeitung- The Crown Prince of Bavaria left Munich for Rome on the 19th of January. The departure of the King also for Italy has been fixed for the 16th of February. It was on the 10th of January that Prince Lieven expired at Rome. Prince Soutzo, the Greek Minister, embarked at Dove) on Sunday morning for Calais, en route to the French capital. The business of the legation is discharged by Prince Jean Soutzo. Albert and Bocbsa's ballet, Le Corsaire, was performed last week for the first time at the Royal Theatre of Brussels. The Sheriffs have fixed the 14th of next month as the day fur the election of Coroner, on Clerkenwell-green. Samuel Miller, Robert Cook, James Howarth, George Duke, Arthur Munton Price, George Hammond Whalley, and William Peter Jolliffe, Esqrs., were yesterday called to the bar by the Honourable Society of Gray's Inn. Despatches were forwarded yesterday from the India Board for Lord Auckland, the Governor_General of India, and for the officers administering her Majesty's Government at the presidencies of Bombay and Madras. Mr. Macgregor, of the department of the Board of Trade, has left town with despatches for Lord Granville at Paris. Mr. M. has been also appointed one of the Commis sioners for negotiating, in conjunction with Mr. Aston, Secre tary of Embassy at Paris, a commercial treaty with the French Government relating to the customhouse duties of bath countries. M. Taglioni's new grand ballet, La Gitana, which has been brought out with so much pomp at St. Petersburgh, was to be performed on Monday at Paris, at the 'Academie Royale de Musique, under the title of Sarah la Bohemienne, • Mademoiselle Fanny Elsler enacting the principal part. On the 26th of January the oldest of the Sove reigns of Europe, Charles John (Bernadotte), King of Sive; den, entered his 76th year. The most aged Sovereigns after his Swedish Majesty arc the King of Prussia and the King or the French. On Saturday last two Mexican flags, taken by the French squadron under Admiral Baudin, in the fort of San Juan de Ulloa, were placed in the Church of the Invalides, at Paris. We are happy to hear that Lord Canterbury was considerably better on Monday, though hardly to be consi dered out of danger. The knowledge of his sister's death was withheld from his Lordship, lest that melancholy circumstance should operate prejudicially on his health. Justice to Dr. Mott, an American practitioner, who is the usual medical at tendant on Lord Canterbury's family, induces us to state that we understand the additional medical and surgical advice which we intimated had been called in, was at the express desire of Dr. Mott, who was anxious in such a case to have his practice corroborated by the most - Iminent of the facultyAt be found in Paris. THE LATE LORD CLEMENTS.—This lamented young Nobleman was in his thirty-third year, and was the eldest son of the present Earl of Leitrim, by a daughter of William Bermingham, Esq. His Lordship was a Captain in the Prince of Wales's Donegal Militia, and in politics professed Whig principles. Lord Clements sat for the county in the Parliaments of 1826 and 1830, but lost his election in 1831; he was, however, re-elected in 1835 and in 1837. His Lordship dying without issue, his.next brother, the Hon. William Skeffington Clements, becomes Lord Clements, and heir apparent to the Earldom. The present Lord was lately a Lieutenant in the 37th Foot, and was Aide-de-camp to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. Some natives of Cherbourg, in their anxiety to save a few barrels of rum from the wreck of the Dutch galliot the Minerva, which went to pieces during the great storm of tat ': : d Bth, near Vauville, were tempted to stave in a cask, and drinV a quantity of the liquor, of the strength of which they were ignorant. Two of them died shortly afterwards, and eight others are now in a desperate condition. Two Passed enthusi ~,_, GoE Sllj VOri ou trien of % q v ., skilful Gnp , A. 'last; th e , Lot. ; and , rite c I ' ol l4 over_ WI