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IRISH STATE TRIALS, SPIRITED ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE IRISH STATE TRIALS, WILL APPEAR IN "THE S U x-r," .i. DAY BY DAY, MORNING AND EVENING, DURING THE IMPORTANT TRIALS NOW GOING ON IN DUBLIN ; WITH CHARACTERISTIC DESCRIPTIONS OF WHATEVER OCCURS IN THE COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH. Sun-office, 112, Strand, London. Now ready at all the Libraries, POPULAR HISTORICAL ROMANCES. By H. W. HERBERT, Esq. 1. THE BROTHERS. 3 vols. 2. MARMADUKE WYVIL. 3 vols. 3. OLIVER CRO3IWELL. 3 vols. " One of the best historical romances which has appeared since the master-hand of the magician tray laid in Dry burgh burial-ground."—Athencum. Henry Colburn, Publi , her, 13, Great Marlborough-street. ' HE NEXT DISTRIBU LION of MUNE IC .11. DIVIDENDS, AUT,';ORISED and GUARANTEED b HIS MAJESTY the EMPEROR cf AUSTRIA, contains IIt)NEY DIVIDENDS of £5O £6O £7O £5O £9O £lOO £llO £l2O £l5O £2OO £.lOO £6OO £6OO £l,OOO £1,500 £5,000 and £23,000 sterling. Amounting together to £70,170 sterling. Direct for PROSPECTUS with lull particulars, WITH -0 ._:T DELAY, to HEINE BROTHERS, at HAMBUIIGH, Or. to HEINE BROTHERS. at LUBECK. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE THIS EVENING, JANUARY 20, Will be repeated a New Grand Opera, in I hrce Acts, calledTHE BOHEMIAN GIRL. Count Arnheim, Mr. Borram ; lhaddetis, Mr. W. Harrison; Arline, Miss Raiulorth; Queen of the Gipsies, Miss Betts. After which, will be repeated a New Grand Comic Chrotinas Pantomme, entitle! HARLEQUIN AND KING PEPIN ; or, VALENTINE AND ORSON. Harlequin, Mr. Howell; Colum bine, Mis Carson; Clown, Mr. T. lt,dgway ; Pantaloon, Mr. Blanchard. Dress Boxes 75., Second Price 3s. (3,1.; Upper Circles of Boxes 55., !econd Price 3s. ; Pit 38 , Second Price •211.; Maldle ( 'al:(ry 23., Second Price Is.; Upper Gallery Is., Second Price 6,1. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT.GARDEN. M. JULLIEN'S CONCERTS. GRAND PERFORMANCE OF SACRED MUSIC. BAND AND CHORUS, ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY PERFORMERS. THIS EVENING, JANUARY W, PROGRAMME FOR THIS EVENING—PART I. • SELECTION from HANDEL'S MESSIAH. Between the Parts will he performed the Celebrated MADRIGAL, " Down in a Flow'ry Vale." PART 11. Grand Symphony by Roch Albert, " Tha Last Judgment" (First Movement). Air from Hander's Oratorio of " Deborah ;" and Selection from Haydn's " Creation." Doors Open at Halt-past Seven, commence at Eight o'Clock. Promenade, Is , Upper foxes, Is. ; Dress Circle, ; Private Poxes, 11. Is. Tickets to be obtained at the Box-office of the Tneatre; of Mr. Mitchell, old Bond-street; Mr. Andrews, New B sod street ; Mr. Sams, St. James's-street ; and M. Jullien's Othee, 3, Maddox-street, Bond-street. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Ms. BENJAMIN W EttsT ER, LESSEE. RE.ENGAGEMENT OF PBOFESsOR RISLEY AND HIS INFANT SON. THIS EVENING, JANUARY 2A, Will be repeated th: Comedy of THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR. Sir John Falstaff, Mr. Strickland; Master Slender, Mr. C. Mathews; Mr. Ford , Mr . Stuart; Mr. Page, Mr. Howe; Fenton, Mr. Caulfield; Sir Hugh Evans ' Mr. Webster; Mrs. Page, Madame Vestris ; Mrs. Ford , Mr s . Ni bett ; Mrs. Quickly, Mrs. Glover; Anne Paize, Miss Watley. Atter which, the Unparalleled Performances ot Professor RISLEY and his SON. To conclude with a New Fairy Extravaganza, entitled THE FA 111 ONE WITH THE GOLDEN LOCKS! King Lachrymoso, Mr. J. Bland; Prince Gracetul, Miss P. Horton ; Queen Luchtora, Miss Julia Bennett. Orchestra Stalls, ss. ; Boxes, ss. ; Pit, fs. ; Gallery, Ss.; Upper Gallery, Is. .Half.price—Boxes, ; Pit, 125.; Gallery, Is. ; Upper H Gallery, 6d. Doors openet at alf.p.ist Six, and the Performances commence at Seven. Tickets and Places to be had of Mr I. T. Archer, at the Pox office, from Ten till Five. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHL The Rest Pantomime ot the Season—Gorgeous Scenery. THIS EVENING, JANUARY 20, The New Drama, embracing Extraordinary Effects, Powerful Cast, and Novel Scenic Display, called THE BOHEMIANS; or, The Rogues of Paris. Principa' CoaracterS by Messrs. Lyon, 0. Smith, Wright, Wielan4, Mayn i• d, Mrs. Yates, Mi,s E. St in!cy, Mrs. F. Matthews. After which, a New Grand Christmas Pantomime, called HAR LEQUIN BLUE BEARD, or, The Fairy of the Silver Crescent. Promiced with Enormous Sclendour and ‘Vot.deriut Effects! Columbine, Miss Bulien ; Harlequin Quicksilver, by the inimitable Wieland; Clown, by the Grimaldi of the day, Mr. I'. Matthews, from the Theatres Royal, Covent-gatdcn and Drury. Lane; Panta loon, Mr. Johnstone. Botes, 4s ; Pit, 29.; Gallery, Is. ; Second price at Nine. Doors open at Six, commences at a Quarter before Seven o'Clock. PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD.STREET. LESSEE, Mr. J. M. MADDOX. THIS EVENING, JANUARY '2O, Will be presented for the sr and time at this theatre, thi grand opera of the MAID OF JUDAH. Ivanhoe, Mr. Woos ; Friar Tuck, Mr. Paul Bedford ; Rebecca, Mrs. Wood. fo conclude with the Sew Musical Burlesque Spectacle, entitled THE MAGIC MIRROR. Sing. Song, Mrs. H. P. Lirattan; Puo. Poo, Mr. Paul Bedford ; Sloe. Leal, Miss R. Isaacs. LEI'S ROYAL AMPHIIHEA OF AWLS. Under the Management of Mr. Batty, Proprietor. Triumphant Success of the Equestrian Novelties and Pantomime, which remains Open a Few Nights Longer. GRAND JUVENILE FETE. THIS EVENING, JANUARY :0, Will be performed a Grand Comic Pantomime, entitled HA RLE QUIN FAM O'SH A NTER, and his STEEL) MEG; or, The Witches of Alloway Kirk. Harlequin, Mr. Gibson ; Columbine, Mdlle. Cushnie; Clown. Mr. King ; Pantaloon, Mr. Mathews. New Scenes iii the Circle, and unequ.illeu Feats of Horsemanship. To conclude with the splendid French Spectacle of THE V II 'roRIES OF' NIU RAT, THE SOLDIER OF FRANCE; or, The General, Prince, and King. The succession of crowded houses and inc'eascd demands for Places at the Box-o I ce, tomnels the Proprietor to announce that this Popular Establishment will remain Open Seven Nights longer ; a ; d, in compliance with the wi-hes of the Astley's Patrons, and according to annual custom, for a series of British National Fetes, pourtraying tho Victo ies of England's Hero—Wellington, On Monday next. Jan 2, will be produced, the Grand National Spectacle of THE BATTLE OF WATERLOO. DAVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEA 111 E. As usual, the funniest and most successful Pantomime. THIS EVENING, JANUARY Will be repeated THE BoIIEMIANS OF PARIS. Supported by Messrs. Saville Hughes, Hicks, R. Efonner, Johnson, Smith, %;rs. H. Vining, and all the Members of the First Company in th, Vs orld. After which an entirely new Grand Comic Pantomime, wits Splendid Scenery, Superb Dresses, Inimitable Properties and Tricks, every thing new and of the most costly description, HARLEQUIN GRAMMAR, or, Lindley Murray,and AE I 0 U. Harleliiin, Mr. W. H. Harvey ; Grotesque, Mr. Stilt; Clown Mr. Fuller; Pants. loon Mr. Hawkins ; Columbines (alternately) Miss M. R. Fair br /Vier and Miss Sharpe. Places and Private Boxes to be had of Mr. Kerschner, at the Box o lice, trom Eleven , o Four. ROYAL VICIORIA 'IHEATRE. THIS EVENING, JANUARY:A Will be performed an entirely New Domestic Drama, entitlte POVERTY; or, Mary Graham. Leonard, Mr. Freer; Jessamy Tacit, Mr. Nantz • Squire Graham, Mr. Dale; Patty Parrot, Miss Arden; Mary Gr.am, Miss Vincent. After Which will be produced THE FAIRY LADY; or, the Ca'Auet of Bronze. To conclude:with HARLEQUIN LINCOLN LUCKY OF LAM BETH; or, 'I he 'three Sisters of Witch Willow Dell. Harlequin, Mr. Chapin° ; Clown, Mr. Scatbrow ; Pantaloon, Mr. Morelli; Ctiumbine, Miss M. Schmidt. THE WEATHER -SuN OFFICE, JAN. 19. TuxumomETEn, Lowest, 37 ; Highest, 46 ; Noon, 47 BAROMETER, 30.07.-WIND, W.S.V. - - _ _ NOTE.—The nu,Ftber 32 on the Thermometer denotes the freezing point, and 55 temperate. In Barometers fair is usually placed opposite 30, and rain at 29. HIGH WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY. Sinning ... 10 minutes after 2. I Evening ... 31 minutes after 2. I dated August 9, 1843. The next is one addressed to Mr. O'Connell, signed by Patrick Donaghue, dated Sept. 4, 1843 ; one addressed to Mr. Ray, signed by Hugh Maguire, dated Aug. 12, 1843 ; one addressed to D. O'Connell, Esq., signed by J. Brady, and dated August 31, 1843 ; also one addressed to Mr. Ray, signed by Henry Harpur, dated 26th August, 1843 ; also one ad dressed to D. O'Connell, signed J. M. Donan, dated 29th August, 1843 ; also one addressed to Mr. Ray, signed John Birch and Timothy Bestick, dated 15th August, 1843. The entire proceedings on Thursday consisted of the examination of witnesse - . Mr. Fre derick Bond Hughes, whose testimony went to prove the various allegations in the indictment, respect ing the proceedings at the meetings, commenc ing with that at Mullaghmast, on the Ist of October, and terminating on the 18th of the same month, when he left for England. Both on the direct and cross-examination he admitted that peace, order, and regularity were always observed, not only at the various meetings in the Corn Exchange which he had witnessed, but also at the great monster meeting at Mullaghmast. He de posed to the truth of the belief that tranquillity and order were preserved at this last vast assemblage by means of the exertions of the men who called them selves " O'Connell's police," and who were stationed in various places for that purpose on the Rath or Mound, upon and around which the mighty mul titude were collected together. Ile declared that from his experience of public meetings that persons to pre serve order were necessary, particularly in such vast throngs as the " monster meetings," and that " O'Con nell's police" effectually accomplished that end. In giving his evidence respecting the meeting of the Re peal Association of the 3d of October, he swore that Mr. Steele in his speech on that occasion had, when referring to the monster meeting held at Loughrea, a short time previously, said, that it surpassed in im portance even the meeting at Mullaghmast, where— -" Behemoth, biggest born of earth, Upheaved its vastness." A phrase which, it was very generally stated, Mr. Steele had never pronounced, but that in writing his speech subsequently he had introduced it. On the cross-examination, no allusion to the use of this language by Mr. Steele on that occa sion was made. Laughter was produced from time to time during the examination of this witness, who certainly gave his evidence with great fairness and readiness. Ile withdrew his allega tion respecting the presence of Mr. Barrett at the Abbey-street meeting on the 12th of October, and also at the dinner at the Rotunda. The count of the indictment against Mr. Barrett, therefore, falls to the ground, as far as those meetings are concerned. Mr. Ross, the London reporter, was next produced on the table, to use the Irish phrase, and after a brief exami nation of the witness, the Court rose at the usual hour. The Irish ATTORNEY-GENERAL has finished his ad dress to the jury, having in the delivery of that address occupied tn•o days. The speech of the legal functionary contained nothing new,—it was a second edition of the indictment, with notes and comments ; and, to the sur prise of everybody, contained no solemn announcement of dire interest, or awful conspiracies with which all the world was not previously acquainted, such as he had led us to expect he would disclose. The evidence in support of the charge has now commenced, and in a few days we shall see what can he proved of all the mighty allega tions against the prisoners. Before the jury can convict the traversers, they must have the facts fully proved to their satisfaction, that an illegal conspiracy did exist, and that O'CONNELL and his fellow-conspirators intended by illegal means to com pass the ends of that conspiracy. Mere fancy, imagina tion, probability, or suspicion, will not suffice ; the facts must be proved, and fully believed by the jury, before they can find the traversers guilty. The criminal intent is the crime with v‘ hich the accused are charged—criminal intention is the mater they have to meet and to repel— intention pre-existent in their minds, and in furtherance of which the acts were committed. And until we see it indisputably proved, that DANIEL O'CONNELL conspired for illegal purposes, we shall not give credence to tl:e charge. If the man, who achieved emancipation for millions of his Roman Catholic countrymen, for so long 'a period bound by the trammels and restrictions which religious intolerance had cast around them; if the man who has earned for himself the proud title of Libe rator, a title far beyond that of conqueror; who has in- cessantly called for justice to his country, and whose history presents the only instance upon record, the only object of a national offering yearly made, freely and willingly tendered, as some recompense for the rank and Curtune that would, and must, have attended his path through life, if he had pursued only his own good, and directed his talents to his own advantage ;—if such a man shall be proved to have departed from the rule by which all his conduct has hitherto been guided, namely, to avoid riot, conspiracy, or illegal proceedings, and to Use only peaceable and constitutional means, then, and then only, shall we credit his conviction. It is the misfortune of the jury that, up to the moment of their entering the jury -box, every trick that could be played, every plan that could be resorted to, had been used, to prevent the procuring of an honest panel, to try this great cause. Suppression of the names of jurors, exclusion on account of religion, and every art that cun ning or malice could devise, had been put into requisi• tion. The twelve men who now form the jury, had against them all the prejudices of all frierds to fair deal ing, and when sworn to try the matter submitted to them were naturally looked upon as a packed and concocted body of jurors. And so the fact is—they are an improperly selected jury—they are a concoction of trickery and of fraud• And yet they may be themselves as honest and as indepcn dent a set of jurymen as ever tried a cause. They were no parties to the proceedings which resulted in their selection ; they had no hand in mislaying sheets of the jury lists, or in excluding their Roman Catholic brethren ; and they ought, now that the issue of this great trial is intrusted to them, to be judged by their conduct in the jury box, not by the proceedings of those who have placed them therein. The officials who have got up this pro secution, have, from the very outset of the case, laboured-- if not intentionally, at all events, most effectually —to im press upon the public mind that conviction was the only end aimed at ; and that the law was not to try and decide upon the guilt or innocence of those vho were submitted to its ordeal, but that an indictment must be found, and the parties charged must be convicted ; that in truth justice had but one meaning in their minds— prosecution, with certain punishment. tut it does not follow that the jury will carry out the merciless intents of the ATTORNEY-GENERAL, and it is only owing to the recklessness and mismanagement of his proceedings in this trial, that any cause for suspicion or distrust in the jury could have arisen. The prosecutors have, by their own conduct, put themselves before a jury with public and private feeling arrayed against them ; and a con viction will be to them no triumph—to the accused no dis- grace. Governments cannot in these times set at nought the decencies of justice. Public opinion rules more despoti cally, and decides more freely, in all matters between an Administration and an individual, than between men placed in the same station of life, whose privileges and chances are equal. And whenever a Government, even in former times, sought to stretch the laws beyond their just letter—to make the law the instrument of vengeance, and not the wholesome means to restrain crime and punish guilt, seldom indeed, in the very worst periods of our history, have juries been found to lend themselves to the purposes of persecution. Look back to the trial of HARDY in 1794—a trial commemorated in every year from that to the present time—and see how a prosecution very similar to this (save that the offence which is now called seditious conspiracy was then sought to be tortured into high treason) broke down under the indignant eloquence of an ERSKINE, and the brilliant language of a Gums. Look to the attempted crushing, in 1817, of IIoNE, who thrice ran the gauntlet of a Crown prosecution, and came out of the fiery furnace of an Attorney-General's wrath, unscathed ? And what was the result of these prosecutions, and their effect upon the public mind ? To spread in each case the principles of liberty beyond their former bounds— to give additional freedom to speech, to writing, and thereby to thought and action—to make men the enemies of persecution, and to show to the world that English juries in 1794 and in 1817, two of the worst periods of English modern his tory, were neither to be cajoled nor bullied into verdicts which would rivet chains, such as in all ages, and at all times, despotism has sought to impose upon the thought, the feelings, and the actions of men. The result of this second edition of the attempt of JOHN, Lord ELDON, in 1794, to put down Ifinvy and his friends in England, revised and corrected by Mr. Attorney-Gene t. 1 t.-.;3llTrr, and adapted to the Irish bar, will, it is to be hoped and prayed, meet in all respects.with a reception such as the first attempt experienced; and may the ver dict pronounced—to copy theilanguage of the immortal ERSKINE—show that ishatever the Irish may have lost o f a control in Parliament, they have yet a sheet-anchor ro hold the vessel of the State amidst contending storms, that they have still a sound administration of justice secured to them, in the independence of the Judges, in the rights of enlightened juries, and in the integrity of the bur. Accounts from Madrid to the 11th inst., state that the Go vernment insisted upon NAAVAEZ retaining the rank of Cap tain-General, conferred on him by her MAJESTY. Honours are thus thrust upon the modest warrior, and he must wear them. The fact is officially announced in these words.— ratt ,§uu, LONDON: SATURDAY MORNING, JANUARY 20, 1844. The Irish State trials continue, and when they are likely to terminate, no one can tell. The Attorney- General concluded his speech on Wednesday, and, in the opinion of all parties, so bald and jejune a statement was never made to a jury. It was infinitely below the occasion, consisting merely of extracts from the different speeches made by the traversers, and a few dry, common-place observations on them. The most favourable commentator upon it could only say that the extracts were ingeniously dove-tailed. There was a total absence of that indignant declama tion which might be naturally expected from the first officer of the Crown, if he really believes the object . of the traversers was to dismember the empire and deprive the Crown of its most valuable prerogatives. From the sweeping assertions made by him, the counsel for the tra versers were in constant expectation of some startling revelations with respect to the American and French correspondence, but nothing .of the kind appeared in his statement. O'Connell is to address the jury as counsel retained for his son John,—and every one expects the greatest - effort of his life; and the play ful spirit which he sometimes evinces in Court, seems to.shadow forth the glory of a triumph. Opinion is now divided as to the result, some think ing that if there be no further revelations than what appear in the speech of the Attorney-General, no jury can convict. The traversers will produce an accumulative body of the most respectable evidence as to the peaceable state of the country. A writ has been served on each of the Ira• versers, requiring them respectively to produce. copies of certain letters enumerated in the do cument. The first letter mentioned is one pur porting to be addressed to D. O'Connell, Esq., signed P. Kelly, and dated 24th August, 1843. Also one signed Pierce Grace, addressed to Mr. Ray, and 4:0 At. 4 .- 4 4 yer. .. u sc-57- . • • • OA* , ,1" THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY MORNING, JANUARY 20, 1844. DON RAMON MARIA NARYAEZ. " Excellency,—l have communicated to her Majesty your rea sons for your tendering your resignation, and her Majesty orders me to inform you that in raising your Excellency to your present rank, she has duly weighed all the arguments you use in support of your determination, and has decided in not accepting your re. rignation. God preserve your Excellency. (Signed) " MANUEL DE MAZAREDO." The election of Deputies continued favourable to the Liberal party. ARG UELLES, who was at the head of the list, had 1,441 votes, and OLozao A 1,337. The Three per Cents. were done at 25 11-16 cash, and 26A at 60 days ; the Fives, at 19 cash, and 19 5-16 at 60 days. The Paris papers are filled with reports of the debates in the Chamber of Deputies, and comments on the speeches of M. TRIERS and M. DUCHATEL, the Minister of the Interior, but they possess little interest for the English reader. The Minis terial journals, of course, give the preference to the speech of the former, admitting at the same time that THIERS displayed considerable ability. His speech, however, was vague, and is thus truly described by the Journal des Debuts :—" If we were asked, what was the question debated by the honourable M. TRIERS, among all those to which the address has given rise, we should be very much embarrassed for an answer. It is quite certain that M. TIIIERS spoke, and we cordially grant that he spoke with great spirit. He talked a little about every thing—about his former political life, but without going further back than 18.39—0 f the coalition, which has become an event that has sunk into the domain of history—of Egypt—of the famous campaign of 1840, and of the Right of Search, and en passant, of the Dotation Bill, which has not been pre sented—of M. GIRAUD, and the Municipal Council of Angers, and of a thousand other things—all to prove that the Ministry exists, but does not govern. That M. 'NIERS governed when he held the office of Minister, we can very well believe ; but at that time the Cabinets over which the Hon. M. TRIERS presided were never long lived. M. THIERS managed so well, that at the end of six months his Ministry or his Go vernment had nothing better to do than to give up the game, leaving it to be finished by others as best they might." The remarks in the France, on the speeches of the two orators, are not complimentary to either, and though contained in a very small compass, probably give a true picture of both parties. "M. TIIIERS," it says, "reproaches the Ministry with a desire of remaining in power. The Ministry accuse M. TRIERS of spreading snares for it. Clap your hands, Gentlemen. As for us, our mission is to pick up the truths which you throw at each other's heads, in ord'r to lay them before public opinion, which will judge both of you." The funds on Wednesday declined a little, the Three per Cents. closing at 82f. 80c., and the Fives at 124 f. 95c. BOURSE—PARIS, WEDNESDAY, JAN. 17. First Highest Lowest Last Price. Price. Price. Price. French Five per Cents. 125 ... 125 5... 124 80... 125 41, 4 per Cents 112 50... 1 !2 50... 112 50... 112 50 Threes t2 85... 82 75... 82 85.. 82 75 Bank of France. 3265 ...3267 50 ..3265 ...3265 Laffitte Bank I,ooof 1112 50 ..1112 50...1112 50...1112 50 5,000 f 5072 50...5072 50...5072 50...5072 50 Belgian Bank ..... 685 ... 698 75 .. 685 ... 698 75 Belgian Fives 1840 le9h Ic9 i i 109 k 1 0 9 k 1842 llOl ... 110 i ... 110 110 Dutch 2i per Cents ss- ... 554 ... 554 ... 554 Spanish Active Passive Portuguese Fives ... 46 ... 46 ... 46 ... 46 Neapolitan Roman ...... .....•...... IC5a ... 105 A .. 105 k ... 105 k RAILWAY SHARES. St. Germain 625 ... 825 ... 825 .. 825 Versailles, H. B 331) ... 340 .. 330 ... 338 75 L. 8... Rouen Rouen to Havre...... 655 ... 655 ... 655 ... 655 Orleans. Strasburg to Bale Avignon to Marseilles €BO ... 680 ... 678 75... 678 75 RAILWAY SHARES, FOR THE ACCOUNT. - - St. Germain B2O ... 822 55... 820 ... 822 50 Versailles, R.ll 315 ... 340 ... 330 ... 340 L. 8... Rouen Rouen to Havre... 655 ... 655 ... 655 655 Orleans . 865 ... 872 50... 865 ... 872 50 Strasburg to Bale 2°s ... 2.35 ... 235 ... 23.5 Avignon to Marseil:es CBO ... 680 ... 677 50 .. 680 COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL. Thursday a Court was held for the dispatch of public busi ness. It was the first Court since the election upon St. Thomas's Day, and there was a large attendance of members. A great part of the day was occupied in the appointment of the various Committees for the ensuing year. THE FARRINGDON-WITHOUT WARD ELECTION. A petition was presented from Mr. Samuel Wells. It stated that he had petitioned the. Court of Aldermen against the return of Mr. R. Taylor, Mr. Olobard, Mr. Hodgson, and Mr. Gre sham, as representatives of the Ward of karringdon- Without, upon the ground that they were not resident inhabitant house holders, and the petitioner prayed the Court that he might be permitted to examine the records of the Corporation, for the purpose of supporting his opposition to the return, as he had been informed that an ordinance passed in the reign of Richard 11., and other ordinances passed since that time, defined and specifically described the nature of the qualifications required of a candidate fur the office of Common Councilman. The petition was then ordered to be laid upon the table. CITY IMPROVEMENTS. Mr. R. L. JONES (the Chairman of the London-bridge Ap proaches Committee) brought up a Report from that Com mittee, " On the state of the funds connected with the ap proaches to London-bridge, and for authorising the raising of the sum of 50,0001. for completing the same ; and for the completion of the improvement by the removal of the west block of Bank-buildings, in the vicinity of the Royal Ex change ;" and said his object at present was to point out the necessity of immediately empowering the Committee to direct the Controller to serve certain parties with notices with respect to premises which were required for the further improvement of the city of London, as the Act which gave the Committee power would expire in August, and if immediate measures were not adopted, it would be necessary to apply again to Par liament.—( Hear, hear.) He thought it was due to the Com mittee to state, that, after a period of twenty years, during which it had existed, and expended upwards of two millions of money in the erection of the bridge and the formation of its approaches, the present was the first time it had come to the Court to state any deficiency in its estimates.—(Cheers.) He felt pride in asserting such a fact, the more so as he was able to allow, he trusted to the satisfaction of the Court, that no blame was imputable to the Committee. What were the facts of the case? After the Committee had finished the various streets which it had been intrusted with the power to form, and which constituted so noble a mass of im provements, it considered that a surplus would remain suffi cient to carry out the great object of making a street from the Bank to the Post-office. The conduct of the Bank of Eng gland wad, he regretted to say, in direct contrast to the libe rality which there had been reason to expect from such a body, and which the Governor and Deputy-Governer several }ears ago had given the Committee every ground for supposing would have been exercised.—( Hear. ) It was natural to rely upon the promise then held out that improvements which in so many respects benefited that building would, to a certain ex tent, receive its patronage and assistance ; but instead of help ing the Corporation in promoting the grand design which the Committee was labouring to carry out, everything had been done by the establishment to which he alluded to show their in difference to the exertions which had been made.—( Hear.) The Committee had been called upon from all quarters of the city, to extend to them the vast advantages which had been al ready completed. The law expenses in investments became greater than had been calculated upon, and the interest upon the Slims required to complete the purchases which were indis pensable in effecting the improvements was what the Com mittee had never been subjected to upon former occasions.— ( Hear, hear.) The necessity for improvement became every day more and more apparent. The largest item in the report related to the block of Bank-buildings, the freeholders of which were the Governors and Company of the Bank of England, who had repudiated by their illiberality the evidence of the former Governor and Deputy-Go vernor, Mr. Curtis and Sir J. Reid, before the House of Commons' Committee. That Committee pressed upon these gentlemen the necessity which existed for giving up that block of buildings, as no buildings were to be erected on the site, and the Bank would be itself thrown open to public view by so splendid an improvement. Their answer was, that they could not think of recommending such a gift, as the Bank would be put to a very large expense in throwing open Bartholomew-lane and Threadneedle-street, but they would be liberal in their views with the Corporation on the subject. Now, the Bank had made no improvements in Bartholomew-lane or Threadneedle -street, and their liberal views amounted to an evasion of everything like liberality. He felt that the Court were determined to do justice to the labours, and instructions, and integrity of the Committee.—(Cheers from all parts of the Court.) A general cry was then raised of " Move that the Report be received.") Mr. JON Ks moved that the Report be agreed to and printed. Mr. 11EPPELL said he rose, as one who did not belong to the Committee, to second the motion. He fully approved of the Report, and of everything which had been stated by the Chairman.—( Hear. ) Sir J. DUKE called the attention of the Chairman to the state of the eastern end of the Royal Exchange, and asked whether it was likely that the improvement which the public hail frequently called for, in the throwing back of the houses in Freeman's• court, would be effected ?—( Hear.) Mr. JONES said he regretted that the ground in the spot described was unfortunately out of the hands of the Corpora tion. In fact the ground was never in their hands. Morden College had a clause giving that institution a right of pre emption, and it had been appropriated accordingly. It would, be, indeed, a most important addition to the splendid improve ment of the Royal Exchange ; but the Committee congratu lated itself upon shat it had already accomplished, and would not relax its exertion to gain every possible advantage.—( Hear, hear.) Ile would venture to say that the ground at the eastern eml of the building would be made a fine pathway 47 feet in width.—( Hear, hear.) Alderman liumrwEay said, that every one in the City would be delighted to see the block of houses at the eastern end of the building removed, and he thought the Committee might beneficially make the experiment of applying to the Commissioners for the Improvement of the Metropolis, who were about to wait upon her Majesty, and were to meet on Wednesday next to sign their Report, to represent the fact alluded to in the proper quarter.—(llear, hear.) A sum of money was about te be raised by a tax of 6d. per ton upon coals, and, as the City would be very large contributors, they had a right to expect a share of the advantages.—( Hear.) The Report was then received and unanimously agreed to, and ordered to be printed. —Adjourned. MONUMENT TO Da. Wares.—At a meeting held in the Poultry on Thursday afternoon, Mr. Alers Hankey, in 'the Chair, a Committee was appointed and a subscription commenced, for the purpose of erecting a monument to the memory of Dr. Isaac Watts. Several gentlemen present expressed their deep sense of the debt which the Christian world owed to this pious and gifted man ; and the Chairman remarked, the testimonial, al though offered late—more than a century after his death—was a greater honour to the memory of Dr. Watts than had it imme diately followed has removal from this world, as it might then have been supposed to be paid by his friends and acquaintances. Mr. William Greig, a City merchant, was the first to band in his :übscriptio; of 5,:t MONE Y AND COMMERCIAL NEWS CITY, FRIDAY EVENING. The Consol Market did not close quite so well this afternoon, the quotation being 961 for Money and Time. Reduced Thrue and-a-Half per Cents. touched 103. Bank Stock remained firm at lfft. Spanish Bonds continued rather dull, but were at about previous rates. The Passive brought 51i, and the Three per Cents. 304 ; Chilian touched 102, and Brazilian Old Stock 77 to 77i ; French Three per Cents. were 82f. 75c. to 83c. ; Dutch Frye per Cents. rose to 1001. The additional transactions in Railway Shares have been these :—Bristol and Exeter were 4, Great North of England 14k, Brighton Blackwall 10/, Greenwich 7i, and South Eastern 141 to 1 discount. Edinburgh and Glasgow 9, Great Western, Half, 19i, Hull and Selby 7, Birmingham 1421, Croydon 2, South Western 32h, Croydon Scrip si, Northern and Eastern 81, and York and North Midland 7f to 70i premium. Australasia Bank Shares were 54, London Joint- Stock 2i, and Union of Australia 21 premium. The rates far bills of exchange were rather flat again for all the principal flantinental cities. (From The Sun of Last Night.) There was a steady demand for Cotton in the Liverpool market yesterday, at previous rates, but the market had rather a dull aspect. Speculators took 2,000 bales, and altogether 8,000 bales were sold.—There was an improved demand for Railway Shares. Eastern Counties were 110 i ; Grand Junc tion, Halves, 116 i ; Birmingham, 240%; Ditto, New Thirds, 42; Brighton, 44; North Midland, Thirds, 30% ; Paris and Rouen, 32%; Paris and Lyon, 21. 19s. 3d. ; Paris and Or leans, 33k. The condition of the Cotton market in the United States is a matter of much interest on this side of the water. We have received a table showing the value of the export of this staple for about ten years; and it appears that the lowest estimate in the period stated was that of 1542 and 1843. " The table exhibits a great regularity in the consumption in bales at home, and in the exports to Europe, but the in crease of actual quantity does not appear visible. The con tinual increase in the size of the bales, from year to year, shows the additional number of pounds consumed. For only two years has the y:eld of cotton exceeded two millions of bales, in 1839-40, and in 1842-3. The past season has, without any very important exception, been very unfavourable in all parts of the country for a great crop; it has not been propitious enough to produce an average yield. The season opened very late and closed very early, and the harvesting has been attended with many unfavourable circumstances. In several sections continual rains prevented the gathering of what little the previous weather suffered to mature. In some dis• tricts a fair average quantity was raised, but we have not heard of a singlq section where the crop was over abundant. The season that produced 2,378,875 bales of cotton in this country was early and late, and without a solitary unfavourable event to injure the plant from first to last. It was one of those for tunate seasons, as regards length and quality of weather, that seldom occur in any country, and which must again be expe rienced in this before we can raise a like quantity of produce. " There is very little cotton going forward from any port of this country. Prices in Liverpool, from last accounts, ranged considerably lower than the quotations that rule in any market on this side." Some private letters received from Athens by merchants in the City, represent that plots were in embryo to bring about the ancient order of misrule. King Otho has been soured in temper by the late movements, and would, if he dared, have vengeance against the plotters of the recent peace able revolt. There are not colonial arrivals in the City to-day. The foreign arrivals possess but little interest. In fact, public attention is almost exclusively directed to the State trials in Dublin. A firm market has ruled for Consols to-day. The Commis. sioners bought about 20,0001., partly on account of the Savings' Banks, and partly far the redemption of debt. For Money Stock, and for time bargains as well, the price has been 97. Bank Stock continues to advance- 1 9 1 has been obtained to day, a rise within a month of full 8 per cent. The opinion is becoming very general, that the terms upon which the Government intends to renew the Bank Charter are all but arranged. India Stock too, has been on the rise. From 273 the price has been en hanced to 275. The New Three- and-a-Half per Cents. have been quoted at 102, and the Reduced Stock, bearing the same interest, at 1021 1. The premium upon Exchequer Bills has fallen to 655., and India Bonds are heavy at a reduction to 795. premium. The Northern Bonds still command a ready sale. For Austrian 1131 have been paid to-day, and for Danish Three per Cents., 87. The Portuguese Converted have risen from 45i to 454. Spanish Actives wore worth 22* g ; and the Three per Cents. 301 1 . For Dutch Bonds rather ad vanced prices have bean paid to-day. Mexican Bonds have advanced a trifle, the present price is 3276. London and Birmingham Railway Quarter Shares have ad vanced to 27i prem.; Manchester and Leeds to 32 prem. ; and most of the Shares of the principal lines have rallied. Austra lian Bank are at 5 to 6 premium ; and Provincial Bank of Ireland at 16 premium ex-dividend. PRICE OF IRISH STOCKS, JAN. 16. Three per Cent. Consols.... 96 V3 Three and a Half Stock lola Ditto New, 1830 lOl/4 3i per Cent. Debentures Grand Canal Debs. 6 per Cent MANCsIKSTEI'. STOCK E XCH ANGE, JAN. I 8 —'There is more disposition to do business in Railway Stock, and prices have rather a tendency upwards. Our quotations are : —Man chester and Birmingham, 381 ; Lancaster and Preston, Three Quarter Shares, 241 ; Dublin arid Drogheda, 56i ; South Eastern, 35i ; astern Counties, Five per Cents., 15s. prem. ; Manchester and Sheffield Water-works, 55k. CLOSING PRICES. BRITISH FUNDS. B ink Stock l9O India Stock 275 pm 3 2.. r Cent. Red. 3 .e. Cent. Cons. 3 I , rr Cent. Red ... 103 Ditto New Annuities... • • vw 31 per Cent.... 102 Ex. Bills, 1,0001. lid. 65 pm New 5 vcr Cent Ditto 500/...... 67 pm Long Annuities to expire Ditto Small Jan. 1660 ...... 121 Bank Stock for Acct. l9oh , itt. 1559 J an. 1860 ..... 12i Consols for Act. FOREIGN FUNDS. Portuguese, 5 per cent. Ditto, New Ditto Prussian, 5 per cent — 'Russian, 5 per cent Ditto, Metallic . Spanish, 5 per cent Ditto, 3 per cent... Ditto, Deferred.... French, 5 per cent. —f —e. Exchange.......... —f French, 3 per cent. 83f 751. Dutch, 2i per cent. 54i Ditto, 5 per cent.... ICOi t-t ES. paid) . in,trian, 5 per cent. Belgian, 5 per cent Brazilian Bienos Ayres 6 per cent (Xilian, 6 per cent lO2 Colombian, 6 per cent — Ditto 1 t 4•24 Bonds, 6 per cent lli Danish, 3 per :ent Greek, 1625, 5 per cent — Mexican, 5 per cent. Ditto, 6 per cent. 1837 Perovian,lB2s,6 per ct. .. .. .. .. .. .. .... U .. ....- . 26 SHA Bristol and Exeter (70 pi 66 Eastern Counties (23 paid)... lOl Edinburgh and Glasgow (50 paid) 59 Great North of England Railway (100 pd) 851 (;rest Western (75 paid) .. 109 Ditto Half Shares (50 paid) Hull and 'Selby . (50 paid) London and Brighton (50 pad) ..... London and Blackwall (161 13s 4d paid) London and Birmingham ( _paid)„ ••••. 2421 Ditto New Quarter Shares ( 2 paid) 29i London and Greenwich Railway (12/ 1554dpd) 5i London and South Western (4 . 1/ 6s 10d pd) 74A London and Croydon Railway (Trunk) ... Isi Ditto Scrip ( 5 paid) 0 Milan Northern and Eastern (45 paid) 12 6i Genoa South Eastern and Dover (50 paid ) ....„ .. 3 4 i York and North Midland (50 paid) .. .. 120 i COURSE OF EXCHANGE.—( YESTERDAY.) Amsterdam ...... CF. 12 6 ilGibraltar .. Ditto, at sight ......... 12 41 Leghorn ... ... 30 90 . 26 0 Hamburgh • ...... ALB. 13 15 Venice . Altona ................. . 14 0 Naples A R n ot t t w e e rd rp a ...... .. .. ....... .... 39i Paris, 3 days' sig ht ... 25 75 Palermo, per oz 1181 Ditto, 3 m0nth5......... 25 95 1 isbo n Marseilles ........ ••• . 26: 0 Oporto s2i Bourdeaux ............... 26 0 Rio J ane i ro 23 Frankfort on Ma ine ••• 122 Bahia 23 Petersburgh, 3 Us. ••• 36} Buenos Ayres Berlin .. ......... .. ...... 7 New York, 21days sight 46/ Vienna, effec. fl. 3M. 959 Philadelphia 46 Trieste, ditto ........ ••• 10 0 karcas OF BULLION, PEA 01, Madrid ... ............... 364 Foreign Gold, bars.£3 17 9 Cadiz ..................... 36i Portugal Gold Coin.. 317 5 Bilbao ................. ... 36 New Doubloons .....0 010 Barcelona ............... 36 New Dollars... ......... 0 4 9,1 Seville ......•.••• ••.... .... ,Silver in Bars... ..... 0 4I 1 PROMISSORY NOTES. ( From Last Night's Gazelle.) An account of the average aggregate amount of Promissory Notes payable to bearer on demand, which have been in circula tion in the United Kingdom, distinguishing those circulated by the Bank of England, by Private Banks, and by Joint Stock Banks, in England and Wales, by the Banks in Scotland, by the Bank of Ireland, and by all other Banks in Ireland, and of the Average Amount of Bullion in the Bank of England, during the four weeks ending the 6th day of January, 1644, pun. suant to the Act of 4th and sth Victoria, cap. 50 : ZNCLAND. Bank of England Private Banks 4,822,675 Joint Stock Banks SCOTLAND. Chartered, Private ,and Joint Stock Banks 4001,746 IRILAND. Bank of Ireland Private and Joint Stock Bank.... Total ... £35,774,259 Bullion in th e B an k o f England ••... £14,638,000 HENRY L. WICKHAM. Stamps and Taxes, Jan. 19, 1844. a nd's SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. THING STEEPLE CHASE, --AVEDNESDA N Handi cap ee j te o e y: t o k s e t s b o ( f; ib ls (Owner) 1 Mr. Anders on ' s C ar l ow, I Ist 7 1b Mr. Barnett's I3oxkeeper, lost 121 b s oya. each, &e. Mr . B. L 3 Twelve st ar t e d . One of the finest races ever seen. Won by half a neck. -- , -- SERIOUS O UTRAGE .-0 11 ThurslaY, at noon, several coal-backers in the employment of M r . William Convert Wright, a coal-merchant, of Rateliff, e ntered the Tham es Police Court under blackened ryes the protection of police-constables of the K division, for the purpose of obtaining warrants against a number of the same fraternity, who bad committed a most unp rovoked outrage upon them. The appli cants exhibited the marks p of recent injuries. tine man's cheek was cut open, and the blood was streaming down his face; another had violent kicks he had ; a third was criledfrom re ceived; and the others bruised, their clothes torn, and their faces marked. Six ~,,were and it appeared from their I them were sworn, statement s that, about au hour previous they were employed on their master's whatf, when a sudderi at t ac k was made upon then by flf. teen coal-backers recently in the service of Mr. Wright, who drove them into the lobby, beat them in a most savage manner, and tried to force several of them into the river. An attempt was then made to close th doors of the lobby, for the purpose of hemming ing in the applicants , and preventing the escape of any one, whi, h would have enabled the assailants to carry their apparently mur. derous intentions into effect. A desperate fight ensued, and the party attacked defended themselves in the hest way they could, but were overpowered by numbthe most serious consequences would have taken place if po e l Fs, and g cant Pitt, No. 40, and Rooke, a con. stable, No. 245, of the K ie d e-ser- o, had not opportunely arrived. The fellows, on seeing the police, ivisi fled from the place, leaving their vic tims on the ground. SObleeding profusely, and others in a state of exhaustion. The rioters soon rallied, and threatened to pull the wharf down, and to sacrifice the lives of their fellow workmen, when a strong force of Police from the Shadwell station-house came to the spot and intimidated them. No more violence was attempted, but the rioters, who were joined by ma ny idle blackg uards in the neigh , bourhood, continued groaning - and hissing for some time. Mr. Bal lantine issued warrants liar the aP goli ens ion of nine men, named John Simums, Thomas Trotter,lWilliam Moriarty, Coffee Joe, Thomas Swaine, Moey, Henry Bridgman, Thomas Nightingale, and James Ilarris, the principals in the affray. The worthy Magistrate said, if there was any more rioting going on the warrants we , e to be immediately executed. The rioters heard what was doing and kept out of the way, and the police were stationed at the wharf to prevent any further breach of the peace. The men attacked had been con. tinued in Mr, 'right's employ because they were the best and most steady hands, and the services of the others had been dispensed with only till business became inure brisk. Mr. Willies Gil e , gardener of this town, on .-Wed nesday last, found a bird's nest in a , fruit tree, in the garden of Mrs. Bull. It was the nest of a tiv.catclier, and had thrcc eggs i n it ',....! Worce*ter Cluottick." . SUMMARY OF MEWS AN D 13tibitt Optatton. " Who runs may read." FOREIGN'. The weather at Paris still continues very severe. At six in the morning of Tuesday the thermometer stood at 19 deg. (13 below freesing), and at noon rose only to 25. The Duke de Nemours, the Prince and Princess de Joinville, the Duke de Montpensier, and the Duke and Duchess of Saxe. Coburg, honoured the Theitre Francais on Monday night with their presence to witness the representation of Moliere's Tarlatffe. The general debate on the address in the Chamber of Deputies was brought to a close on Tuesday, and on Wednesday the discus. sicn on each paragraph commenced. M. Bethmont, one of the mino rity in the Address Committee, has presented to the Chamber the following amendment, to be introduced into the last paragraph of the address :—" The rights of your dynasty arc founded on the imperishable principle of the national sovereignty." M. de Labaume has been elected Deputy for the Gard by the Electoral College of Uzes, in the rocm of M. Teste, raised to the Peerage M. de Labaume, who is a Legitimatist, had 246 votes out of 460 ; thus defeating M. Teste, jun., the Ministerial candidate. The price of bread in Paris, for the second fortnight in January, has been fixed at 33c. per kilogramme for the first quality. A melancholy event occurred in the basin of the canal at La Vilette, on Sunday night. A bargeman named Belmaire, was sleeping in his barge laden with stone, with his wife and five chil. dren, when suddenly, from some unknown cause, the barge began to fill, and before Delmaire could extricate his family all six were drowned. He made his own escape with difficulty. Major-General Wautier died at Clermont on the 14th inst., in the 87th year of his age. He served in all the campaigns of the Revolution and Empire, and was Colonel of the 84th Regiment of the Line, which had inscribed on its colours this glorious device— " Ten against one." The Austrian Observer publishes a letter dated Athens, the 26th ult., announcing that the reply of King Otho to the address of the National Assembly had excited such general applause, that the entire Assembly wished to proceed to the Palace to thank his Ma jesty, Perfect tranquillity prevailed throughout Greece. LAW .II.IITD POLICE. In the case of Dickens t. Berger, before Vice-Chancellor Bruce on Thursday, a motion was made to dissolve the injunction granted on the 11th instant, restraining the defendant from copying or imitating, in the work published by him, called Parley's Illumi. Hated Magazine, any part of the work recently published by Mr. Dickens, under the title of A Christmas Carol in Prose. The mo tion was refused. In the Bail Court Mr. Planche brought an action against Mr. Hooper, the proprietor of the Bath theatre, for representing a piece called The White Cat, of which the plaintiff was the author, with out his permission, and in opposition to the statute. The jury re. turned a verdict for the plaintiff, damages 14/., costs 40s. Wheatley, the beadle of Ealing parish, brought an action against Captain Wilde, R.N., for an attack made upon him by one of the defendant's dogs, and obtained 10/. damages. A motion was made at the Middlesex sessions for increasing the salary of Mr. Wakefield, the medical officer of the House of Correction and New Prison, from 4001. to 500/. a year, which was lost by a majority of six. At Clerkenwell Joseph Headford, aged 18, apprentice to Messrs. Mortimer and Hunt, silversmiths, of No. 24, Harrison.street, Gray's Inn-road, was finally examined, charged with stealing 3oz. of silver. The prisoner, who reserved his defence, was fully coin. mitted for trial. John Davis, alias James Blythe, and Henry Robertson, charged at Worship-street with a burglary on the premises of Mr. Edwin Leaf, 47, Wood-street, Cheapside, and George Hist, charged with receiving part of the property, knowing it to have been stolen, were committed for trial. COURT—FASIIIONABLE. Lord and Lady John Russell are expected to arrive in Chesham. place on Friday next for the season, from a visit to the Earl and Countess of Clarendon at the Grove, near Watford, where they have arrived from the Duke of Bedford's at Woburn Abbey, and Earl Spencer's at Althorp Park. The contemplated matrimonial alliance between Lord Aberdour, the eldest son of the Earl of Morton, one of her Majesty's Lords in Waiting, and Miss Watson, is expected to be solemnised at the close of the ensuing week. The answer to inquiries on Thursday at Sir Francis Burdett's mansion in St. James's-place, was, that the venerable Baronet con tinued indisposed with a severe cold. Sir 'William Massey Stanley, Bart., left Hooton Park on Wed nesday for Newnham Paddocks, Leicestershire, for the hunting of Leicestershire and Northamptonshire, having left the Hooton hunting under the management of Mr. Charles Stanley, during the time he is in Leicestershire. IVIISCELLATJEOIIa. The annual meeting of the members and friends of the London Vaccine Institution took glace on Thursday at the George and Vulture, Cornhill. The applications to Parliament in the next session for Railway Acts will be more numerous than in any previous year since 1835. These applications relate to lines extending six hundred miles in length ; and so confident are the projectors of obtaining their Bills, that they have been eager to make contracts, even before the Bills are passed, and many of such contracts have been entered into for the formation of railways, at an expense, including stations, of 10,0001. per mile. The Earl of Stradbroke (says the Bury Post) will be the new Lord Lieutenant of Suffolk, in the room of the Duke of Grafton. It was currently reported in Dublin on Wednesday, that the Court of Queen's Bench would prohibit the publication of the evidence to be given on the State trials till all the witnesses had been examined. A bill in Chancery has been filed, within a few weeks, by cer. thin ex-Directors of a Joint_steck Company, and which will re. quire an answer of about 2,000 folios, and ten or twelve reams of paper in its preparation. It has been mentioned that filing this bill and its answer will alone cost about 7001. _ . . Their Royal Highnesses the Duke mid Duchess of Cam bridge returned, on Thursday afternoon, to their residence at Kew, from Glouces'er House. Lord Wharnelitre, Lord President of the Council, has issued invitations to the Cabinet Ministers, and the Great officers of State of the Queen's Household, to a grand dinrer, on Mon- day, the 29th inst., at his Lordship's residence, Curzon. street. On this occasion the roll of Sheriff: for the present year will be arranged previous to being submitted to her Majesty in Council. The annual bill, in aid of the Licensed Victuallers' School, took place on Thursday at the London Tavern. The Advertiser thus winds up the description of the scene :—" At twelve o'clock one thousand tickets had been received. At the witching hour the pleasures of the dance appeared to be at their height, a remark, in. deed, equally applicable at two this morning. The Stewards, with excellent tact, met everything like inconvenience arising from such an assembly, Bathe and Breach, the proprietors of the tavern, made their domestics absolutely ey ; refreshments were plentiful and of ready access, as, indeed, is always the case at the Londo❑ Tavern." DRURY-LANE THEATRE.—Mr. Charles Kean, who, it is said, has been reaping a most abundant harvest in the pro vinces, appears here on Monday next, in Richard the Third, which will be produced in a style of extraordinary splendour. There are, we understand, upwards of '2OO people at work upon the costumes, coats of mail, banners, and other paraphernalia of this performance. MR. TEMPLETON'S MUSICAL ENTERTAINMENT.— Mr. Templeton repeated his popular entertainment of " Mary, Queen of Scots," at the Horns Tavern, Kennington, on Thursday, before a numerous and delighted auditory. Ile was in excellent voice, and not only sang, but acted admirably. His manner of giving the history of Mary's escape from Lochleven was graphic in the extreme, and when he concluded with the spirited song, " Put off, put off, and row with speed," the en. thusiagn of the audience was excited to the highest hitch. He was of course rapturously encored. In marked con trast with this spirit-stirring song is the melancholy finale " Where shall I rest." Many of the audience were affected even to tears, by the pathetic and expressive tenderness with which Templeton gave this exquisite air_ He was equally delightful in "Farewell to thee thou pleasant shore," while in " The Jolly Beggar" he exhibited buffo powers fur their possession of which we had not before given him credit. All present seemed highly delighted with the evening's entertainment. We perceive by the programme, that on the 25th of this month, the anniversary of the birth of Scotland's greatest poet, Mr. Templeton will commemo rate the day by producing his new entertainment " 7he Beauties of Burns." At the last weekly meeting of the National Asso ciation, the following resolution was unanimonsly agreed to : Resolved—That the conduct of the Ministerial officials i❑ Ireland, in striking off the Irish Catholics from the jury list, is a flagrant act of injustice ; and, in the opinion of this meeting ought to be resented by all those who are not in favour of a State Church and rresponsible Ministers. DEPARTURE OF THE PENINSULAR, MALTA, lONIAN ISLANDS, AND WEST INDIA MA MS.—SOUTHAMPTON, JAN. 18. The Peninsular Company's steam.ship the Pacha, Capt. Wilson, left the docks, on her outward voyage for Gibraltar, at four o'clock this day, taking out the Peninsular, Malta, asid lonian Islands mails ; also six passengers. The Royal West India Mail steam.packet the Tweed, left this port yesterday with the mails for the West India Islands, and 21 passengers, and a small quantity of money. LONDON VACCINE INSTITUTION.—The annual meeting of the members and friends of this institution took place on Thursday afternoon at the George and Vulture Tavern, Cornhill. Mr. D. W. Wire presided. The Secretary read the Report of the Board of Management, together with a statement of the accounts for the past year. The annual subscriptions were 3561. 9s. 6d., in addition to which 50/. had been granted by the Corporation of the City of London, and 100/. by the Directors of the Hon. East India Company, making a total of 5061. 9s. 6d. The expenditure had been 555/. 1 ls. 4d. The report stated that although it was sup posed that the Vaccination Act, which had cost the country 33,000/., would have rendered the institution unnecessary, yet it was proved, by the continual applications for vaccine fluid, that the provision made by the Act was wholly inadequate to the demand. The remains of the late Mr. Strutt will be interred in the burial ground of the Friar-gate Chapel, to-morrow morning; the service will be performed by the Rev. Noah Jones, the minister, of whose congregation the deceased was a member.—Derby Repot ter. FIRE.—On Thursday, at a few minutes to twelve o'clock the upper part of the house No. 64, Lambeth.street, nex door to the Flying Horse Tavern, and not more than twenty houses from the Police-court, was discovered to be on fire. The house was occupied by Messrs. Clarke and Dcnyer, feather mer chants, and the fire is supposed to have been occasioned by the overheating of the furnace at the top or attic used for the purpose of baking the feathers, and burned for some time with such violence, that the safety of the houses on either side was considered doubtful. By the prompt attendance of the engines, and the ex ertions of the firemen, the flames were confined to the upper story and rocf, which were destroyed. The damage done to the stock amounts to over 601., but had not the flames been subdued so quick ly, the damage would have been considerable, as the stock on the premises was very large. The sufferers are not Insured. _ A DELICATE STomAca.—On Thursday, a man at the Robin flood, Arnold, voraciously devoured a sheep's head raw, windpipe and all, and offered to bet a wager of five shillings, that on the following Monday he would eat another in the same state, and the pluck likewise; he came from Basford.—Nottingham Review. _ _ Mr. Charles Franks, Sub-Governor of the South-Sea Com pany, had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer, yesterday, at his official residence. in Downing•street. Mr. Cheatham and Mr. H. Ellis had interviews with Lord Stanley at the Colonial-office yesterday. A deputation of the licenses! hackney carriage proprietors, with Mr. J. 0. Philpott, their secretary, had an interview with the Under-Secretary of State, at the Home-office, yes terday. Mr. Higham, Secretary and Cromptroller-General of the Reduction of the National Debt Executive department, had an interview yesterday with the Chancellor of the Exchequer. Mr. C. D. Archibald had an interview yesterday with Lord Stanley at the Colonial-office. Mr. Vivian, M.P., transacted business yesterday at the Home-office. 13UCKHURST PARK, SUSSEX.—On Thursday, the 18th instant was married, in the pa: ish church of Withyham, near the ancient seat of the Sackvilles, the Lady Elizabeth Sack ville West, eldest daughter of the Earl and Countess Dela warr, to Mr. Francis Charles Hastings Russell, Lieutenant in the Scots Fusilier Guards, eldest son of Lord and Lady William Russell, and nephew of the D ike of Bedford. The ceremony was performed by the Hon. and Rev. Reginald Windsor Sackville West, the Rector of the parish, and brother of the bride, in the p-esence of the Earl and Counteas Dela warr, Lord Wm. Russell, the Earl of Liverpool, the Earl and Countess Amherst, the Rev. Lord Wriothesley Russell, the Earl of Verulam, Lady Jane Grimston, Viscount Cantilupe, the Ladies Mary and Arabella Sackville West, the Honour ables Mortimer, Lionel, and Win. Edward Sackville West; the Hon. and Rev. henry Napier, &c. &c. The bride was attended to the altar by the Ladies Mary and Arabella Sackville West, Lady Jane Grimston, and Miss Mary Seymour, as bridesmaids. Atter the ceremony the wedding party returned to a dejeuner at Buckhurst Park, and shortly atter the bride and bridegroom left for Knole Park, in Kent ; the seat of the Earl and Countess. Amherst, where they will remain till Monday, when they pro ceed to pass the remainder of the honeymoon at Bourn Hall, in Cambridgeshire, the seat of Earl Delawarr. FRANCE. CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES.-SIT riNG OF JAN. 16, The Older of the Day was the zdjourned discussion on the address After a brief speech from M. de Beaumont, The President here intimated that as no other party seemed desi rous of speaking, the general discussion was closed. M. Ducos said that he wished to explain the motive which had actuated the two members focusing the 'Milord f of the Committee in their votes. He should, however, give way, as he perceived that an lion. Deputy near him had expressed an intention to speak. M. Thiers said he must explain to the Chamber the motives which induced him to address them. For two years he had taken no part in its discussions, and if on a late melancholy event he had spoken, it was because, on the occasion of the death of the Duke of Or leans, he considered it became the Chamber to show a strong ac. cord and a sympathetic unity of feeling, Deeply devoted to the Government, he nevertheless since felt it his duty to ally himself with the Opposition, because he considered that the interests of France abroad were not properly defended ; he, therefore, de. manded permission of the Chamber to make known his own opinion, and that of his friends on that point. He begged their indulgence while he did so, for he should be obliged to speak very frankly. He cid not mean to deny the prosperity of the country, and the calm which it enjoyed—a cairn which certain events in Loudon had not been able to disturb ; but he would remark that in 1830 the pros. perity of the country was also great ; there was then perfect calm under the Ministry of the 15th of April, and yet they had attacked the Ministry, arid, if he remembered rightly, overthrown it.— (Laughter.) He merely meant now to show what they then de manded, and what they had since had. They wished for a firm Government, which, would by well.applied concessions, and a well. defined line of conduct, create for itself great strength in the• Chamber, which should screen Royalty from attack, and possess liberty of spirit necessary to carry out either trifling or extensive affairs. It was under that impression he had accepted a seat in the new Cabinet, and he declared that he would rather have submitted to remain a stranger for ever to political affairs, than accept it on other conditions. He had ro taste for innovations, and M. Pisca tory, the Minister in Greece, said that he hated progress, This was not exact : he certainly distrusted progress, and, if he urged the necessity of subscribing to reforms and reasonable concessions, his sincerity was not questionable. Now, he thought that by an Administration anxious to govern long, firmly, and in a pro fitable manner for the country, reasonable concessions should be made, even at the risk of displeasing the Court. 111. Tillers, after recapitulating a number of facts to prove that the Ministry was not sure of a majority, contended that it had compromised the powers of the State in the question of the right of search. The Chamber had formally required its abolition, the Ministry had promised to negotiate, and since the opening of the sesssion 11. Guizot had an. nouncrd in another Chamber that negotiations were pending. 'Thiers did not believe it. Ihe public voice in England was a cer tain indication to him that no concession was to be expected, and if the Chamber did not wish completely to forfeit all consideration, it was bound to insert an article in the address demanding that the French navy be replaced under the protection of the national flag M. Thiers then umiertook to demonstrate that the Ministry, not only did not cover the Crown, but actually compromised it in a more flagrant mariner than the Ministers of the 15th of April. The dotation of the Duke de Nemours, which Ministers acknow ledged by their silence to have been imposed upon them by an irrespohsible power, was, however, the only argument he adduced to F übs tJtit hit e his assertion. M. Duchatel, the Minister of the Interior, in replying to N. Tillers, showed the injustice of his attacks, and reminded him that when he was himself at the head of affairs, he had followed pre cisely the same system, although he had not had to contend with the Parliamentary difficulties which the present Administration had experienced. 111. Duchatel maintained that the latter had been invariably supported by the majority in all political questions on which it had staked its existence, and only sustained defeats in the discussion of Bills of minor importance, which did not impose upon the Cabinet the obligation to resign. Ile then vindicated it against the charge of leaving the Crown uncovered. He consi dered, he said, the dotation of the Duke de Nemours a good and useful measure, and when he should advise the King to present such a law, he would bring it forward and defend it at his own risk and peril, without mixing up the Crown in the question. M. Thiers said he had but a few more observations to make, for he considered that a discussion which might appear purr lv personal would be unworthy the dignity of the Chamber. H e h a d drawn a comparison between the situation of the country in 1839 and 1844, but the terms of that comparison had been denied. The country had been troubled in 1840 ; and why ? Because a grand question of foreign policy had been raised; one party thinking that the Eastern questio❑ was one on which France ought to declare war, and the other party being of a contrary opinion. For his own part, he defended the cause of Egypt with more strength than those who then sat on the Ministerial benches ; he replaced the French Ambassador at London by one who was considered to be more fa. vourable to the cause of Egypt ; but he no more deserved to be ac. cased of wishing to bring about a foreign war than the present Ca binet merited to be accused of wishing to produce a civil war by the census.—(Murmurs). The Chamber adjurned at half-past five. WEDNESDAY, JAN 17. The Chamber having closed on Tuesday the general discussion on the Address, commenced to-day the discussion of the para graphs. The Presidnet read the first paragraph. M. Ducos, the first speaker, contested the truth of the mile, giums bestowed upon the Government in the paragraph, and said, for his part, he felt little disposed to ratify them, the Ministry not enjoying either his sympathy or confidence, nor that of the Chamber, whose loyal concurrence was anything but secured to them. The Ministry, he admitted, had devoted friends, but the majority, on whom they 'chid for support, was hostile, and their main force consisted of what he would term a foreign legion. Its stability only rested on the difficulties which the construction of a new Cabinet presented. After enumerating several points of minor importance, on which the Ministry was abandoned by the majo rity, M. Ducos reminded them of the signal defeat they had suffered in the discussion on the right of search, when the Chamber tore the Convention of 1841, already signed by the Minister for Fo reign Affairs, and commanded him to demand the abrogation of the treaties of 1831 and 1833. M. Ducos said, that the country certainly enjoyed a considerable share of prosperity; but that welfare was the result of the Revolution, of the intelligence, activity, and good sense of the people. So far from the progress keeping pace with the past, he would tell Ministers that there was actually a marked falling off in the public fortune, and he then mentioned numerous facts to prove that the maritime trade of France had never been in a more suffering condition than at present. M. Cunin Gridaine, the Minister of Commerce, contested the reality of the gloomy picture drawu by M. Ducos, and proceeded to substantiate, by quoting official returns, the truth of the favourable accounts of the trade of the country exposed in the Royal discourse. In 1842, he confessed there had been a decrease of 105,000,000 f. in the sum total of the commerce of France, but he would remind the Chamber that the preceding years had been years of extraordi nary prosperity, the amount of the commercial transactions of France having exceeded 2,187,000,000 f. In 1837, a much greater reduction had taken place; the general returns were in that year 300,000,000 f. less than in 1836, which did not prevent the commerce of France making a new stride, and rising from 1,800,000,000 f. in 1837, to 2,187,000,000 in 1842. To prove the progress of commerce, M. Cunine Gridaine compared the aver. age results obtained from 1827 to 1636 with those of 1837 to 1841, and stated the augmentation to have been 717,000,000 it► 1842. In 1843, the documents already forwarded to his depart. ment showed that the improvement still maintained itself, that there was an increase of 20,000,000 in the imports, and a still greater in the exports. M. Lestiboadois, who succeeded the Minister, produced official returns to show that the decrease in the trade had not been partial, but had endured for several years—that is, ever since the accession to power of the present Ministry, and which he ascribed to the fatal concessions they had made to foreign nations. Ile cited, amongst others, the ruinous effects of the conventions con cluded with England and Belgium, in respect of the thread and linen trades. LONDON AND BIRMINGUAM RAILWAY.—The fol lowing contains an account of the taxes, direct and indirect, which were paid by the proprietors of the London and Birmingham Rail way from their earnings in the year 1843 ia-5 per cent. passenger duty, 27,0731. , income-tax, ; local taxes and parochial rates 18,3511. ; duty on transfers of stock and stamped receipts exceeds 10,0001. Total, 71,7381. It appears, from a Parliamentary paper, that there is an increase in the importation of sherry last year of 4,217 butts, the importation being in 1842, 25,096 butts, and in the year just ended, 29,313.--tt Brighton Gazette." TUE LASCARS.—The unfortunate Lascars brought over in the Thames East Indiaman, whose case has been so often before the public recently, are now fairly on their way to India, their wages having been paid and a passage secured for them by Captain Baker, in the Sophia Indiaman, now lying off Portsmouth, outward bound. The men, 72 in number, under the care of Mr. Luke, one of the officers of the East India Dock Company, were conveyed on Thursday in a steam-tug from Blackwall to the Nine Elms station of the Southampton Railway en route for Portsmouth, to join the Sophia. DESTRUCTION OF PORTAVO-110USE BY FIRE.— Portavo-house, the seat of Mr. David S. Ker,. M.P., has been burnt to the ground. The destructive element, it is supposed, had been secretly progressing for some days, but on Sunday morning last, at two o'clock, it burst forth with irresistible fury in Lady Selina's Ker's bedchamber. Such was the rapidity with which the flames extended, that scarcely any thing was saved, and had the family been in bed, the consequences must have been truly deplorable. We are happy to learn that no lives have been lost, or bodily injury sustained by any person. ACCIDENT FROM CARELESS DRlVlNG.—Thursday morning, about s. yen o'clock, as a poor old man, named David Jones, residing in Ann-street, Pentonville, who gains a precarious livelihood by selling milk, was crossing St. John-street-road, whilst going his rounds, he was knocked down and run over by a cab proceeding in the direction of Islington. The groans of the poor old man were heard by some passers by, who picked him up and conveyed him home, when it was found he had received a severe fracture of the ribs, from the shaft of the cab striking him on one side ; his left arm was also broken, and a large portion of the scalp torn from his head, by one of the wheels grating against it Giving to the darkness of the morning but few persons witnessed the accident, and it is to be regretted that, from this cause, the perpetrator of the wanton act escaped detection. The accident can only be attributed to the reck lei3 driving of the cabman. M. Fulchiron, was obliged, notwithstanding his devotion to the Ministry, to confess that agriculture was, in many departments, in a suffering condition, and required to be encouraged by the esta blishment of strong protective duties. M. de Tocqueville reproved in strong terms the conduct of the Minister of Justice throughout the deplorable quarrel which had arisen between the clergy and the patrons of the University, and expressed fears that the culpable indifference at first manifested by the Government, and the impolitic war which it had afterwards waged against the former, would in the end be detrimental to re ligion, and terminate in the tranformation of the ministers of the gospel into a class of public functionaries, and Catholicism into a political religion —a transformation which would ultimately lead to its extinction in France. M. Villernain, the Minister of Public Instruction, vindicated the glorious University of France against the imputations cast of late upon its professors by the enemies of the existing order of thin s, and which, he said, were entirely inspired by party spirit, for nobody in France, no more than O'Connell in Ireland, believed that the institutions of the University were schools of impiety. M. de Tocqueville afterwards rose to explain, and was followed by M. de Chainbolle. The payment of the differences on the Consul Account Bras made on Thursday, and though heavy in most instances, they were very punctually met. It may be well conceived that con sicb•rable amounts on the present occasion would charge hands, when it appears that, rotwithstat ding the limited extent of speculative business transacted, a rise of pearly t , ro per cant, bas taken place dnring the.laat iia weeks, COURT CIRCULAR, LAW INTELLIGENCE. WINDSOR, FRIDAY. —The Queen and his Royal Highness VICE-CHANCERY COURT. Jon. 18. Prince Albert walked this morning in the grounds in the (Before Vice-Chancellor KNIGHT BRUCE.) vicinity of the Castle. DICKENS V. BERG ER. His Royal Highness I'rince Albert went in the forenoon to In this ease a motion was made to dissolve the injunctiett enjoy some shooting in the Royal preserves. The Prince was granted on the 11th inst., restraining the defendant from co accompanied by th e Duke of Buckingham and Sir R. Peel, and pying or imitating, in the work published by him, called" Par was attended by Mr. George Edward Anson. Th e Royal ley' s Ill um i na t e d Magazine," any part of the work reeerdly . party afterwards returned to the Castle. p u bli s h e d by M i . D i c kens un d er t h e t i t l e o f " A Ch r i s tmas Car'' Her Majesty and her Illustrious Consort promenaded in the rol in Prose." The ground made in support of the /n otion afternoon. was, that the defendant hod done no more than he had a right His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, and her Royal to do, for that great labour, pains, and expense had been gen e Highness the Princess Alice, took a carriage-airing to-day. to by the Proprietors of the magazine in re-writing the work Her Royal Hi g h ness th e Prin c e s s royal went out with the in qu stien. Th e re was no colourable • •of t he • den" invasion mei Queen. of the s t or y, and nothing had been done which could in an/ Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, his Serene Hi g h- w a y i nj ure :Mr. ackens, either in the way of profit or reputa tion. ness Prince Albert of Saxe Weimar, and the Lady i s Waiting "I he magazine had a dedication t o Mr. Dickens, in which; after on the Royal Duchess ( Lady Fanny II w: rd), will join the doingjestive tothatgen'leman's abilities,theobject of the conduc - Royal Dinner-party at the Castle this evening. tors was stated to b e to allied the junior and humbler classes he d readers the means of perming the forcible incidents which for for depicted. The defee dant also insisted that he had been ter for some time in the habit of abridging, condensing, and re constructing, or re-originating the works of Mr. Dickens, they appeared, and untl the present application no steps what ever had been taken to prevent him from doing 30, and the plaintiff he insisted now had no right in the middle of a wori, , ."u_ ask the interference of the Court by way of injunction. .1 real question was, whet. er or not the defendant had bestowed so much labour on his book as to bring it within the authority of Dodsley v. Kinuersley, 1 Ambler, so that it might be con sidered original work. At all events, the defenda nt soh ' nitted Mr. Dickens ought to be left to his remedy at law , if had sustained any damage. Mr. Anderdon and Mr. Shebbeare appeared in support o,f; the motion ; Mr. Sergeant Talfourd and Mr. Bacon apPeerfe" __. to support the injunction, but were not called upon to ad 1 the Court. His Hosoue said that the plaintiff's right to protection of his copyright was not disputed. The defendant had published a novel, of which the fable, persons, names of characters , 1 1 14 e ' time, and country were exactly the same. The language _s in some instances identical, and in all similar. It was laid down by Lord Eldon, in Wilkins v. Aiken, 17 Vesey, that the q u e t !: tion in such cases was, whether the alleged piracy was a legy_ mate use of the plaintiff's publication, in the fair exercise 01,_‘. mental operation, deserving the character of an original wort . His Honour thought that, in the present instance, the defend ant's book did not deserve the character of an original wet' nor was it a legitimate use of Mr. Dickens's publication. . was merely and plainly a colourable alteration. 'I he plaintiff had a right to say whether or not he considered himself i n j ured, and if he thought so, then he was entitled to the p ro tectiorL e ! the Court. The injunction must, therefore, be continued. "I,_le . plaintiff must bring an action, and must undertake to abide FY,. any order which the Court should make, in the event o f t h e injunction being ultimately dissolved. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH, Jan. 19. WARNING TO GRAND JURYMEN.—The names of the Middlesel Grand Jurymen were called over this morning; only nine answer ed to their names, and it was consequently necessary to adjourn tbe proceedings before the Gr: lid Jury until next week. Si lt°n Grand Jurymen who did not answer, were fined 201. each for non attendance. The Court afterwards took the Special paper. COURT OF EX(.IIEQUER, Jan. 19. (Bofore Mr. Baron ROLFE.) SIR FELIX BOOTH V. SMITH. This teas an action to recover the sum of 991. 126. 6cl, the amount of two puncheons of gin supplied by the plaintiff, the no ted distiller, to the defendant, an:innkeeper, in Yorkshire. The defendant in his plea states that he has paid the amount claimed, with the e% ception of 10/. 17s. 6d., which he had paid into Court. Mr. Montague Smith and Mr. Martin appeared for the plaint ifr i and Sir John Bailey for the defendant. The following witnesses were examined : James Valentine examined—l am a clerk in Sir Felix Booth e distillery. It is my business to see that all orders are exec ute' The puncheons supplied to Mr. Smith w're invoiced by me to bi' y. It is customary to send invoices with all goods. The entry in th memorandum book detailing the orders of Mr. Smith is in my hallo • writing. George Beard examined—ls a carman, occasionally employed Sir Felix Booth. I took the puncheons to Messrs. Davis' wha t. where they were booked. William Sharman, wharfinger, examined—Recollects the c c. ceipt, at different ti mes , o f th e p unc h eo ns of spirits, directed to " J. Smith, Corby, Moorside, Yorkshire," which were shipp ed t° him from Davis' wharf. James Nash, managing clerk in Sir Felix Booth's distillery, " 3 :, mined—The orders of the defend an t were genera lly g iven throng . ' a Mr. Priestley, Sir Felix Booth's agent in Yorkshire. It IS "i; ternary to send in invoices of the balances of accounts owing h" customers in June and December.—Verdict for the plaintif f, mages, 991. 12s. 6d POLICE INTELLIGENCE. (YE. , TERDAY.) MANSION-11017S E. Mr. Humphreys, the solicitor of Joshua Fletcher, one of t he parties charged with having forged the wills of Anne slacki Eliza Burehard, and another person, waited upon the Le! Mayor on Wednesday last, for the purpose of formally Le manding, as a right, copies of the depositions and e xarnin s : ti.ins of the individuals who gave evidence in the case of the first heard lady. He had not, he sail, given notice to Messrs. Freshtield, who were employed by the Government, of his in ; tentioo to make the application to his Lordship, as he did . °°t entertain any doubt of the right whatsoever, and his cite claimed the copies, not as a matter of favour or inclulgenc• The Act under which he applied was the 6th and 7th Liam IV., cap. 14. The Loon MAYOR said he by no means considered that th! section of the Act just quoted bore such a construction as that. put upon it by Mr. Humphreys. It was decidedly his opini n that a person charged with an offence was not entitled to copies of the depositions and examinations of the witnesses against hill until either final commitment should take place or bail should be received. He must, therefore, refuse the application. Yes terday Mr. Humphreys again waited upon the Lnra Mayor, and requested to he informed whether his Lordship continued to entertain, and was determined to act upon the same opinion ? The LORD 111 Avon replied that he considered himself per feetly justified by law to refuse copies of the depositions pending the investigation, and that he was perfectly satisfied to tak e upon himself the responsibility of refusing to grant them as a matter of right. BOW-STREET. Two paupers, named Thomas Eady and John Cooper, o th e brought up, charged with refusing to work at the workhouse ft" Strand union. d bee n Mr. Corder, one of the relieving officers, said they - a h compelled to bring the prisoners to this Court, as there had ue,-- several most determined attempts at insubordination m the work r t house. The prisoner Cooper had only been out of ptiv an about five days, after having suffered three months' imprisonrocnt :: foi assaulting one of the officers of the establishment. Las t night both prisoners declared they would not work any longer, and it v° at last found necessary to give them into custody. ent The prisoners in their defence entered into a long -staters,- against the diet of the workhouse, saying that they very [ H och preferred the prison diet to that of the workho use . They ' tat .1 7 t that their shirts and stockings were not changed f o r five and s T weeks together ; and such was the filthy state in w hich many of U ,, - inmates were, that the vermin could be seen to crawl over thern• Mr. JARDINE said he himself knew this to be false, and he di not believe the other statement. tied Mr. Corder said nothing could be more untrue. He only wished the magistrate would some day go unexpectedly over the house. ea Mr. JARDINE said he had been, and he was perfectly sa tisti ..d with the arrangements. He should convict the prisoners, t" sentence them to 9.1 days' imprisonment. Cooper—Oh, make it three months. Yesterday afternoon a person, named Win. James Kilboa% was placed at the bar, charged with being found in St. Jani e ' Palace, supposed to be insane. Mrs. Mary Brittle, housekeeper of a portion of St, .Tam es Palace, said, I was standing at the foot of the grand staireoe' when I iaw the prisoner coming down the stairs. When h • got to the bottom he took a key out of his pocket, and 'l n ,: locked th e d oor th a t leads into the Colour-yard. I went oP - him, and asked him what he wanted there? He made answer, and I called a person, who took him into custoty• again asked what brought him there and he said, " hY' cane to take possession of the palace." The MAGISTRATE put a number of questions to the n soner. and, bvlieving him to be insane, sent him to St. 111artio workhouse. UNION-HALL. CHARGE OF STABBING.—John GijArd, the proprietor of a bo us ,„ e of ill-fame in Vine-yard, Tooley street, was charged with stab bil !'' Henry [toward with a lung cavalry-sword, and wounding hi° n' the breast. It appeared that between one and two o'clock that morning , . ° policeman, 59 M, was on duty in Vine-yard, a man came ron ul l to him and said that he had been stabbed by a man in a houl`j pointing at the same time to the prisoner's residence. The woun ded man was bleeding profusely from a wound in the breast, and n° time was lost in conveying him to Guy's Hospital, from the surge on of which the following certificate was produced :—.‘ This is tv certify, thai. Henry Howard is not in a fit state to be removed'' Signed, T. Pearce."—The policeman went on t o sta t e, that Att e., the wounded man was taken to the hospital he returned to V ine ,: yard, and took the prisoner into custody. Th e p r i soner , howev e ' denied that he had any altercation with Howard, but a femal e ' who was with the latter, stated that she was present during the affray, and that she saw the prisoner strike Howard with the sword during the affray that occurred, during which Howard toot up the poker to defend himself: Mr. TRAILL remanded the prisoner until the wounded man is in $ condition to appear. BRIGHTON, - WEDNESDAY, JAN. 17.—We regret t° hear that Sir Francis Burdett is suffering from indispositi on. After the funeral of Lady Burdett, the Misses Burdett will re side in Brighton, where a house is taken fur them. M i r Burdett Coutts has a house in Eastern .t errace . Th e Marqu'' and Marchioness of Thomond, after a stay of three month!' purpose taking their departure next Tuesday. The Marl u ff and Marchioness of Ail es b ury w ill rema i n h ere t ill the en'''„'" the month, probably longer. The Duke and Duchess of merset intend to stay i n Brighton till March. Lord and 1 ,31 / Granville continu e a t t h e D u k e o f D evons hi re ' s mansion is i r Kemp Town. Th e M arc hi oness an d t h e L a di es C orn wallis' the Earl and C oun t ess o f B eauc h amp, C apta i n an d La d y Augusta Seymour, Lady Harriet Gamier, Sir Augustus eggde, are among the late s t arr i va l s . L or d an d L a dy Petre, 12 , 1 ) ; Rivers, and family, the Earl and Countess of Jermyn, Chantrey, Sir Ch ar l es D a lbi ac , th e D owager D uc hess of 1 1 °, 1 :, burgh, Captain a n d L a dy Loui s a Babett, Lord Polwartb , !': Earl of Belfast, Lady Hotham, the Eail and Countess of Air Lord Ogilvy, Lord and Lady George Seymour, Lady I( e at ,; General Mundy, Lady Champagne, &c., &c., are still I Brighton. TIIE PLEASURES OF CHANCERY.—Within the last few days an extraordinary answer to a bill in Chancery bad been filed. The answer is engrossed on " forty" ski ns It parchment, consisting of upwards of one thousand folioss ill has been ascertained that an office copy of this answer _ cost the plaintiff no less than forty-nine pounds ten shil lings, . which amount must be incurred before the suit can b e P r° ceeded Kith. B IR TII S. R o On r t s h , e o 17th n c inst., e a r b \ u V i e l d s t i . g ßrixton, sol i t t o h r e , wife s o of . Mr. On the. 17th inst., at Frittenden, Kent, Lady "' r rtet Moore, of a son. m er• On the 17th inst., at Barnes, Surrey, Mrs. Henry C r° of a daughter. A. On the 17th inst., at St. John's-wood, the lady of R. Huscy, Esq., of a daughter. eb r t On the 17th inst„ the wi \ fe of the Rev. George Herbert Repton, Cloisters, Westminster Abbey, of a son. MARRIED. af'ddle - On the 18th inst., at the p ar i s h aim ch, Hampton , — l v r . sex, Colonel Hugh Percy Davison, of Swarland-par k, thumberland, to the 116 n. Caroline North Gra ves, sec ° daughter of the late, and sister of the present, Lord Graves. On the 31st ult., at Stockwell, Jane, relict of the late IV' Far hing, of Cornhill, aged tO. On the 9th inst., at Nice, Italy, Mary Ann, the el dest daugh' ter of slr. Edw ar d Whit e , o f Lamb's Conduit-street. ~,;or On the 12th inst., Ja ne , w ife of the Rev. J. 11 illi&rn9, of Splsbury, Oxon. • • or _ London : Printed end Published hv YO U c; URDO a h i • Strand, at fle e Su? , . „ u ee, ..o. 12 Stra n Ne 1-) the County of Middlesex, Saturday, January 20,1544.