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- - WITH NUMEROUS ILLUSTRATIONS. THE FEBRUARY NUMBER, Price Half-a-Crown, of BENTLEY'S MISCELLANY, Will Contain: THE FORTUNES of the SCATTERGOOD FAMILY. By ALBERT SMITH, Esq. Author of " The Adventures of Mr. Ledbury," " The Wassail Bowl," &c. With an Illustration by LEECH. Chap. V.—Vincent Scattergood meets with an engagement. Chap. Vl.—The Mysteries of Pantomine. Clasp. Vll.—Merchant Tailors' School. The Divan—The Old Joke, The Song of the Dicky, Parlour Magic. With Illustrations. The Dummy. A Legend of Lincolnshire. By Dalton. A Good Glass of Ale. By Balzac D'Anois. The Northern Tower. By Alfred Bunn. Lines to M. Bagniet. The Gaol-Chaplain; or, a Dark Page from Life's Volume— The Vacant Benefice. Our Fathers. By William Jones. The Yeoman's Grave. A Wiltshire Story. By Paul Pindar, Gent. The English Captives at Caubul. A Personal Narrative. By one of the Female Primers. Old Queen Jeanne of Pan. By Louisa Stuart Costello. The Happy Family. A Tale of the Town. By William Jerdan. 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The price is 6d., for which the WEEKLY CHRONICLE may be obtained of all respectable newsvenders ; and by post, paid in advance, at a subscription of 265. per annum, 13s. the half-year, and 6s. 6d. the quarter. Sold by all newsvenders in town and country. Office, 337, Strand. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. THIS EVENING, JANUARY Will be repelled a New Grand Opera, in Three Actg. calledTHE BOHEMIAN GIRL. Count Arnheim, Mr. Boffin' ; Thaddeus, Mr. W. Harrison; Arline, Miss Ratnforth; Queen of the Gipsies, Miss Betts. After which, will be repeated a New Grand Comic Christmas Pantomime. entitled HARLEQUIN AND KING PEPIN ; or, VALENTINE AND ORSON. Harlequin, Mr. Howell; Colum bine, Misi Carson; Clown, Mr. T. Ridgway; Pantaloon, Mr. Blanchard. Dress Boxes is., Second Price Ss. 6d. ; Upper Circles at Boxes 55., Second Price 3s. ; Pit lie , Second Price Mcitlie l'allery Ys.. Seecind Price Is. ; Upper Gallery Is., Second Price 6d. THEATRE ROYAL COVENT-(GARDEN. M. JULLIEN'S CONCERTS. MASTER TIIIRLWALL'S BENEFIT. Mr. THIRLWALL begs leave most respectfully to announce that the CONCERT THIS EVENING will be for the BENEFIT of his SON, MASTEN. THIRLWALL, who, though only Eleven Years of Age, has been pronounced by the Musical Profession in general to be a Performer of most extraordinary and precocious Talent THIS EVENING, JANUARY 3', PROGRAMME FOR THIS EVENING—PART I. Overture, Leonora—Beethoven. The Toy Quadrille, Pa s ;anini's Extravaganza, performed by Master Sinfonia Pastorale, the Andante and Storm Movements —Beethoven Solo, Oboe—M. Barret. Valle, Clementine, composed expressly fir her Majesty's• State Balls _-Jullien. Mozart's Quartette No. 7, the Violin part by Master Thirlwall. The Real scotch Quadrille—Jullien. PART 11. Grand Fantasia from I Puritani, the Four Cornet-a Pi , tons by Messrs. Harper, Laurent, Handley and Hat Kosnig—Bellini. New Quadrille, The Irish Echoes—Jullien. Solo, Violin, Master Thirlwall. Airs and Variations from Auber's Opera Fra Diavolo. Valse, Bird of Pa adise, received with the greatest fa vou r at the NoZility's Balls —Koenig. The English Quadrille—Jullien. Doors Open at Halt-past Seven, commence at Eight o'Clock. Promenade, Is , Upper Boxes, Is.; Dress Circle t kid. ; Private Boxes, 11. Is. Tickets to be obtained at the Box-ottice of the Theatre; of Mr. Mitchell, old Bond-street; Mr. Andrews, New 13)nd-street; Mr. Sams, St. James's-street; and M. Jullien's Office, a, Maddox-street, Bond-street. • "/HEATRE ROYAL., HAYMARKET. MA. BENJAMIN WEBSTER, LF,SSFB. THIS EVENING, JANUARY 30, Will be repeated the 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 Vestiis ; Mrs. Ford, Mrs. Ni:bett ; Mrs. Quickly, Mrs. (rover ,• Anne Page, Miss Mattley. In the course of the Evening Mr. John Parry will sing " The Accomplished Young Lady." To conclude with a New retry Extravaganza, entitled THE FAIR ONE WITH THE GOLDEN LOCKS! King Lachrymoso, Mr. J. Bland; Prince Graceful, Miss P. Horton ; Queen Lucidora, Miss Julia Bennett. • Orchestra Stalls, as. ; Boxes, ss. ' • Pit, rs. ; Gallery, 25.; Upper Gallery, liL Half-price—Boxes, as. ; Pit, 'A.; Gallery, Is. ; Upper Gallery, CAL Doors opene.l at Half-past Six, and the Performance commence at Seven. Tickets and Places to be had of Mr I. T. Archer, at the Box office, from Ten till Five. THEAI RE ROYAL HAYMARKET. Unprecedented success atte- ding the revival of " The Merry Wives of Windsor," which will by acted every evening till further notice, thus cad :—Sir John Falstaff: Mr Strickland ; Slender. Mr. Charles Mathews; Evans, Mr. Webster; Ford, Mr. Stuart ; Page, Mr. Howe; Caius, Mr. J. Bland; Pistol, Mr. Itrindal; Mrs. Page, Madame Yestris; Mrs. Ford, Mrs. Nisbett ; Dame Quickly, Mrs. (Mover. The Le see respectfully informs the Patrons of this Est-- blishment that he has succeeded in Engaging Mr. JOHN PARRY for Four Nights only, To.night, on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, who will on each of these Evenings sing one of his most Popular Songs ; To-night, " The Accomilish d Young Lady." The New Fairy Extravaganza of •• The Fair One with the Golden Locks," Every Evening. I. T. ARCHER, Box.book Keeper. THEATRE ROYAL, ADEI.PHI. The Best Pantomime 05 the Season—Gorgeous Scenery. THIS EVENING, JANUARY 3.i, Will be repeated a New Play, in Three Acts, entitled JUDITH OF GENEVA. Principal Characters—Messrs. Lyon, Wright, 0. Smith, Miss Chaplin, and Mrs. Yates. To conclude with the Grand Christmas Pantomime, called HAR LEQUIN BLUE BEARD, or, The Fairy 01 the Silver Crescent. Produced with Enormous Splendour and Wonderful Effects! Columbine, Miss Buller' ; Harlequin Qiiicksilver, by the inimitable Wieland ; Clown, by the Grimaldi of the day, Mr. T. Matthews, from the Theatres Royal, Covent - ga rd e n and Drury-lane; Pants. loon, Mr. Johnstone. Boxes, as. ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, Is. ; Second price at Nine. Doors *pan at Six, commences at a Quarter before Seven o'clock. ' - PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD.STKEET. LESSEE, Mr. J. M. MADDOX. THIS EVENING, JANUARY 3 1 , Wilt be perforrned LUCREZIA BORGIA. Don Alphoiso, Mr. Eurdtni ; Gennarro, Mr. Allen ; Matti° Orsini, Mrs H. P. Grattan “übetla, Mr. Walton ; Lucrezia Borgia, Madaine Eugenia Garcia. After which, A DAY WELL SPENT. To conclude with the New Musical Burlesque vectacle, entitled THE MAGIC MIRROR. Sing-Song, Mrs. H. P. Grattan; Poo. Pun, Mr. Paul Bedford ; Sloe.l.eat, Miss R. Isaacs. • AaTLEI's ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE OF ARTS. Under the Management of Mr. Batty, Proprietor. Triumphant Success of the Equestrian Novelties and Pantomime. The succession of crowded houses and increased demands for Places at the Box-ol:ce, compels the Proprietor to announce that this Popular Estahlishment will remain Open a few Nights longer ; and, by special desire, and in concurrence with the wi.hes of • Astley's Patrons, according to annual custom, for a series of British National Fetes, pourtraying the Victories of England's Hero Appoint • welli ngt mentson, with all its Milit ary E ffects, New Dresses Scenery, and , THIS EVENING, JANUARY 30, Will be performed the Grand National SPectStle. of THE BATTLE OF WATERLOO. Napoleon Buonaleirte, C. Gomersal, his ofi ginal character New Scenes in the Circle, and Uhequalleil Feats of Horsemanship To conclude with the Pantomime of HARL EQUIN TA M ' O'SH ANTE R. Acting and Stage Manager, Mr. W. D. Broadfoot. Stalls. 55.; EON. a, 4•.; Upper Boxes, 35.; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, Is.; Upper Gallery, Fd. Box..ottice open daily from Ten till Four. Stage 'loxes, One Gum a' • Half-price to Ditto, Han.a-Gulnea. Print . Box es , T wo G i ieaa; Half-price to Ditto, One Guinea. Half.pnce. Halt-put E 4M. DAVIDOE'S ROYAL SURREY THEAIRE. Enormous hit of " Stella Rittersdorr —rnore crowded than ever— Increased attraction of the best Pantomime in London, overflow. ing with fun. THIS EVENING, JANUARY se, Will be repeated a New Drama, entitled STELLA BITTERS. DORF'. Supported by Messrs. Saville, Hughes, Hicks R. Honner. Neville, Vale, Smith, Johnson, Lewis, ' eslop_, Mrs. R. Honner, Mrs. Daly. Mrs. Hughes, Miss Terrey, and Mrs. H. Vining. . After which an entirely new Grand Comic Pantomime, with Splendid Scenery, Superb Dresses, Inimitable Prope rties and Tricks, every thing new and of the most costly description, HARLEQUIN GRAMMAR, or, Lindley Murray,and A EIO U. Harlequin, Mr. W. H. Harvey ; Grotesque, Mr. Stilt • Clown, Mr. Fuller • Pants. , loon, Mr. Hawsins ; Columbines (alternately) Mu ta. Fair. brother and Miss Sharpe. THE NEXT DISTRIBUTION of MONEY DIVIDENDS, AUTi;ORISEDand GUARANTEED b HIS MAJESTY the EMPEROR Gf AUSTRIA, contains MONEY DIVIDENDS of £5O £6O £7O £BO £9O £lOO £llO £l2O £l5O £2OO £4OO £609 £BOO £l,OOO £1,500 £5,000 and £23,000 sterling. Amounting together to £70,170 sterling. Direct for PROSPECTUS pith full particulars, WITH OUT DELAY, t 3 HEINE BROTHERS, at HAMBURGH, Or. to HEINE BROTHERS. at LUBECK. 13, Great Marlborough-street. HONG KONG AND MACAO. COLBURN'S NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE For FEBRUARY, being the Second Number for the New Year, will contain the commencement of a Series of Articles on the above interesting localities, written by a Gentleman who has just returned from the scene of our re:ent triumphs. They will include personal Sketches of the Inhabitants, an account of the Bazaars and Public Places, the numerous Bands of Pirates which infest the vicinity, the Methods of Locomotion, the Public Hotels, &c. &c. The Number for February will also contain a Continuation of the ORIGINAL ANECDOTES of PRINCE TALLEYRAND, and of the MARCHIONESS OF LONDONDERRY'S DIARY OF HER TRAVELS. A Story, by Mrs. Trollope ; another by Mrs. Gore ' • Poems by Eliza Cooke, the Author of " Lacon," & c . ; a h umorous Article entitled YOUNG ENGLAND; OR, THE PERILS OF THE CRISIS, with an Illustration by Leech : and other papers by Horace Smith, Esq., Leman Blanchard, Esq., Author of "Peter Priggins," the author of " Raising the Wind ;" and An Accu rate Report of THE MONSTER MEETING. Orders for COII3I3RN'S NEW MONTHTLY MAGA ZINE (which should be sent by the 3lst of January) are received by all Booksellers. N. B. A Second Edition of the First Number for 1844 is now ready. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough -street. THE WEATHER —SUN Orricu, JAN. 29. THE . io,tETER, Lowest, 37 ; Highest, 52 ; Noon, 45. BAROMETER, 30.1.—W IND, W. NOTE.—The nu.nber 32 on the Thermometer denotes the freezing point, and 55 temperate. In Barometers air is usually placed opposite 30, and rain at 29. HIGH WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY. 51 - irning 19 minutes after 9. I Ewming ... 59 minutes after 9. orUnto ~~ LONDON, TUESDAY, JANUARY 30, 1844. The speech of Mr. SHELL in defence of Mr. JOHN O'CoNNELL—or rather in defence of all the tra versers—is one of the most eloquent, forcible, and convincing displays of forensic oratory we have pe rused for many a long year. It made a strong im pression on all who had the good fortune to hear it —it will make an equally strong impression on all who read it. The Right Hon. Gentleman left the Attorney-General literally not a leg to stand on. lie commented, in cutting and energetic language, on the miserable policy that had dictated the State prosecu tions, and the still more miserable logic by which they were attempted to he supported ; and, alluding to the Attorney-General's marked expressions of indigna tion at the mischievous designs of the Repeal agita tors, said, " if, gentlemen of the jury, his anger was not simulated ; if his rage was not merely official ; if he spoke as he felt, how comes it to pass that no single step was ever taken by him for the purpose of arresting the progress of an evil represented by him to be so calamitous ? He told you that the country was traversed by incendiaries, who set fire to the passions of the people ; the whole fabric of society, according to him, has been in a blaze for the last nine months ; wherefore, then, did he stand with folded arms to gaze at the conflagration ?" This is one of those hits between wind and water which cannot fail to tell with crushing effect against him at whom it is aimed. Why did not the At torney-General, the instant he saw the blaze beginning to spread, use his utmost efforts to put it out ? Why wait till it had spread from county to county with the rapidity of wild-fire, and, according to his own account, was daily becoming more de structive ? Foreseeing the danger, was it not his duty to have striven to avert it at once ? Surely, by allowing it to increase, he made himself in some de gree responsible for the consequences ; and, so far from prosecuting the incendiaries—as he terms them—he should be tried at the same bar with them, for having aided and abetted them by his long supineness ! What would be thought of a man who, seeing a hou e beginning to take fire, and having the means of ex tinguishing it, should stand coolly looking on, to all appearance calm and unmoved, until the flames had spread throughout the whole buildin g, and then, for the first time, should send for the fire-engines ? Would he not be considered culpably negligent—or, what is more likely, incurably mad ? Yet this is the line of conduct that the Attorney-General has pur• sued throughout the repeal agitation. Instead of checking this agitation in its infancy—which he was bound to do, holding the views he does of its danger- ' ous character—he allows it to progress day by day, week by week, month by month, without the slightest attempt at opposition or reprobation ; and only inter- • feres to put it down at the very period when it ha s effected all the mischief it is now likely to effect ! If the Attorney-General has the power of interference , now, it is fairly to be presumed that he had a similar power months since ; and we repeat, therefore, our conviction that he himself is responsible for much of the agitation which he could, but would not, check. We dwell on this point because we think it one which the Hon. and Learned Gentleman will find it difficult, if not impossible, to answer satisfactorily ; and be cause also we think it will produce a marked, and we hope triumphant, impression in the proper quarter. Mr. SIIEIL'S inference from this long lethargy on the part of the newly-aroused Attorney- General, is one which can scarcely fail to suggest itself to the mind of every intelligent and unbiassed man in the community. " Is there not," observed the Right Hon. Gentleman, " too much reason to think that a project was formed, or rather that a plot was concocted, to decoy and ensnare the traversers, and that a con nivance, amounting almost to sanction, was delibe rately adopted as a part of the policy of Government in order to betray the traversers into indiscretions, of which advantage was in due time to be taken ? The public prosecutor who gives an indirect encourage ment to agitation, in order that he may afterwards more effectually fall upon it, bears some moral affinity to the informer, who provokes the crime from whose denunciation his ignominious livelihood is derived." This, too, is hard hitting, but who shall say that it is undeserved ? The conduct of the Government, throughout these injudicious State prosecutions, has been marked alternately by virulence and feebleness in a most eminent degree ; and, let them terminate which way they will—either in a triumphant acquit tal of O'CoNNELL, or his consignment to a Kilmain ham or Dublin prison—either way, the result will be equally injurious to the stability of the Administra tion. As for stopping the progress of the repeal agitation, neither one nor a hundred State prosecutions will be able to do this ; the check must be given in the House of Commons, by the public, deliberate an nouncement of Sir ROREET PEEL, to concede, without further delay, such measures as Ireland is justified in demanding, and ha, a right to receive. We take it the new rural associations, founded for the support of agricultural protection, will prove themselves most valuable auxiliaries to the very cause their present patrons design them to overturn. The prospects of free trade, we are quite convinced. stand in not the slightest danger from the skirmishing which the associations in question have a tendency to compel. On the contrary, they seem to us to afford an element which has hitherto been a desidera tum, and without which, probably, the progress of truth would have been considerably retarded. The public, we think, have long enough found out that the League were in no want of capacity for meeting their opponents in fair debate, either in the Legislature, on the hustings, or through the press. The misfortune for them and their cause was, that they were too strong. There appeared so fearful a contrast between their power and their enemies' weakness, that there was no means of bringing about an encounter. They were like the giant who marches unimpeded through the ranks of pigmies, defying opposition, but meeting no sufficient foe. if in the House they raised a de bate, the Ministerial whipper-in was instructed to contrive that the Members should be counted out before the question was brought to an issue. If they challenged an inquiry into the existence of those special burdens on land, which the Minister affirmed rendered the obnoxious law necessary, some flimsy pretext or other was put forth to elude it So things were going on within the walls of the House of Commons. The same sort of manceuvring was being carried on, but with less difficulty in the other Chamber. The county gentlemen, though generally a choleric race, and indisposed to sit placidly under unjust imputations, when they have anything to say in reply, still they suffered the emissaries of the League to visit their parishes and hamlets, discourse on the evils of the corn-laws, and circulate pamphlets without let or hindrance. Now and then, perhaps, some bluff and argumentative squire ventured to act differently from his order, and essay a speech in de fence of the landlords' law. But poor Sir JOHN TYRRELL, at Colchester, was found to be a very in adequate controversialist when RICHARD COBDEN met him face to face. But this was because Sir JOHN was out of training. Now, thanks to the plain, straightforward Eng lish character, which is not yet, we are glad to find, quite extinct amongst us, this Peelish reserve cannot be maintained any longer by the fine old race of country gentlemen; and hence, at length, they have started forth in the character of Anti-Leaguers, and are making their speeches and contributing their cash. Now all this, we say, is as it should be. We are happy to find the unnatural tyranny of the Trea sury benches giving way. It ought not to be that' because Sir R. PEEL, Sir J. GRAHAM, and Mr. W. E• GLADSTONE find some difficulty in squaring their practice with their theory, and are content to remain, with Mr. BARING, " free-traders in the abstract," it ought not., we say, therefore, to follow that the farmers' friends should for ever remain tongue-tied, and for ever withhold from the world their wise, patriotic, and generous sentiments, which have been so long bottled up. The tenant farmers, some of them at least, have turned their hand to oratory. Mr. BAKER-, of Writ tle, has made some figure in Essex. The other day this gentleman was at Romford. " For twelve years," says Mr. BAKER, " before the passing of the existing law in 1842, the average price of wheat was 575., and the average duty paid ss. 6d., which is only eleven per cent. for that period. Therefore protection to agriculture has never been more than eleven per cent. under the old Corn Bill." Here, we say directly, is the benefit of Mr. COBDEN'S tour through Essex last autumn. He set forth with the view of proving to the tenant farmers of that agricultural county that they had not benefited after all by the so-called pro tection to home agriculture. The course of Mr. COBDEN'S arguments was to show that, so far from deriving advantage from the intricate sliding scale, they had been tricked and cheated out of everything deserving the name. Mr. COBDEN has in Mr. BAKER, of Writtle, a promising pupil ; and we dare say Mr. BAKER will extend still further the benefit of his instructor's lessons. Mr. BAKER plainly asserts precisely what Mr. COBDEN and the League have been long endeavour ing to show, viz., that the tenant farmers, the very class who are supposed to be mainly benefited by this absurd piece of legislative legerdemain, are equally, with the rest of the country, interested in procuring the abolition of it from the statute hook. Surely, than, he may wish the new Protection Societies good speed, and hail them as most valuable adjuncts of the Anti-Corn-law League, wisely adapted to meet the scruples of those who at present quarrel with the name of the parent institution. Whatever may be the result of the trial for murder and parricide which must ensue upon the finding of the Coroner's inquest just terminated at Taunton— (and GOD forbid that we should prejudge, even in the most unimportant particular, the issue of that solemn proceeding; or prejudice, by the weight of the minutest atom, the case of the parties now in prison to await it)—we may, without impropriety, direct attention to one remarkable fact in the case, that may be noticed without any detriment to individuals, the question of whose guilt or innocence must be deter mined on the proof, or failure of proof, as to their own personal acts, of a much more grave and direct character. The unhappy victim in this case was a labouring man, of very good reputation ; and although his family appear to have been on the pauper books of the Somersetshire Union, within which their place of residence was comprehended, he had managed to subscribe, and regularly pay up his contributions, to one of those benefit clubs, which assure to parties standing in a given relation to any member or sub scriber, a certain sum in the name of funeral ex penses, payable on such subscriber's death. On the decease of the man SEALET, whom the verdict of the inquest declares to have died by poison feloniously administered to him, the somewhat considerable sum of 81. was paid to the eldest daughter for the expenses contingent on the burial of her father. It is not necessary to recur here to the point which came out, however, in evidence—that the money does not appear to have been so paid to the " nearest relative," in the eye of the law ; for there was an eldest son in neighbouring service, who, pro bably should have been the individual to receive the amount. But this is a question which we must leave to the Society to settle on future occasions, with persons similarly situated—as to relationship to a deceased member. Let us hope that there may be no further features of analogy to the present in any future case, wherever the burial money may be claimed of such associations. We have simply to remark that the unfortunate man, the fact of whose murder has been affirmed by the finding of the in quest on the result of medical and chemical evidence, tendered with great apparent accuracy and scientific detail, was a member of such a society ; that the funeral expences actually incurred in his burial, &c., were proved by the party to whom they were paid, to have somewhat exceed( 2/. ; and that his eldest daughter claimed and received 8/. Now this is a circumstance calculated to create a primi; fade case of suspicion against her in the minds of the jury, who will have to try the capital indictment against her, before another Court. And if the wretched prisoner were not, as to the receipt of this burial money, in the same position, only, as thousands of the labouring classes innocently are, in the course of a single year, there might be some reasonable ground for this sort of presumption of guilt against her. But in common justice both to her and to her sister (and fellow prisoner), we would warn those who may be called upon to discharge the duty of sitting as jurors on their coming trial, that the claim of the burial money—even in connexion with the much inferior charge of the actual funeral—can justify, of it self, no such presumption. This is one only of a class of cases, arising out of a system vicious and dangerous, undoubtedly, beyond any terms of reprobation that we can employ. The inevitable tendencies of such societies to degenerate from their legitimate and valuable purposes, is as un questionable as it is to be deplored. Few objects of small periodical contributions by respectable la bourers, of course of limited means, can be imagined, at once more natural or more harmless, if not actually meritorious, than the making timely provision for the decent interment of themselves or the members of their families. But it has been clearly shown, by Mr. CHADWICK, in a valuable portion of his " Sup plementary Report on the Practice of Interment in Towns," devoted to an exposition of the " crimes produced by payments on the deaths of children," 1, That individuals, by multiplying their connexions with societies of this kind in various quarters of a large district, and paying a small contribution to each, realise on the death of a child, or a parent, or a wife, according to the terms of their respective "as surances," very large sums, to the great misapplication of the original design and the great waste of the funds, of such benefit or assurance clubs or societies. 2. That these means of deriving considerable profits from such assurances have too often proved fatal temptations to infanticide and to murder by some heads of families, the children of which have been previously " entered in burial clubs," or by parents, the one of whom was to derive this advantage through the death of the other ; and even, in some cases, to the deliberate suicides of fathers who conceived that there was no other course open to them by which they could so readily secure a certain sum of money to their wives or their offspring! Surely this is a hideous defect in the working of a system of association, in so many other respects in valuable and entitled to every praise, for which the Legislature cannot too early apply itself to devise some remedy. Let it not be supposed that we are speaking of imaginary consequences, or merely pro bable results. We blush to record that the clerk of the Stockport union was, about two years ago, com pelled to prosecute in two such cases, the parties receiving such moneys on the death of their children for murder. We make, also, the following quotation from Mr. CHADWICK'S Report, without a single remark. It is, itself, too impressive not to illustrate strikingly what we have advanced on the subject. In section 62, he observes, of another case— " In one case, where three children had been poisoned with arsenic, the father was tried, with the mother, and convicted at Chester, and sentenced to he transported for life, but the mother was acquitted. In the other case, where he judge summed up for a conviction, the accused, the father, was, to the astonishment of every one acquitted. In this case the body was exhumed after interment, and arsenic was detected in the stomach. In consequence of the suspicion raised npon the death, on which the accusation was made in the first case, the bodies of two other children were taken up and ex amined, when arsenic was found in the stomach. In all these cases payments on the deaths of the children were insured from the burial clubs. The cost of the coffin and burial dues would not be more than about 1/., and the allowance from the club is 31." With this practical corroboration of the evils which may be theoretically predicated of the societies re 'erred to, we shall for the present conclude the re marks so irresistibly suggested to us by the recent appalling averments made before the Coroner at Taunton. Madrid journals of the 21st have been received, but they bring no news. A private letter states that the Minister of Finances has succeeded in procuring, in the course of a mouth, a sum of 48,000,000 reals for the army, &c. ; and that he was thinking of entering into a contract respecting the tobacco revenue. The contractor, or contractors, were to manage it for ten years, to advance to the Government 50,000,000 reals in three months, and to pay in, moreover, 72,000,000 a year. Half of the net produce, after deducting the above, was to belong to the contractors, and the other half to the Government. The former were, in addi tion, to subscribe obligations to the amount of 150,000,000, in order to supply, if need were, the wants of the Government. The Archbishops of SEVILLE and SANTIAGO, who had long resided in Madrid under a sort of surveillance, had been autho rised to return to their dioceses. On the 20th, the Three per Cents. were done at 25i for cash, and 26f at 60 days ; and the Five per Cents. at 19i at 60 days. The universal subject of conversation in Paris on Saturday was the terrible tempest (tempete epou vantable) which took place in the Chamber of De puties on the preceding day. No scene like it has taken place in any French assembly since the worst days of the Revolution. The cause of all the uproar was the tenth paragraph of the Address, which cen sures those Legitimatists who came to London on a visit to the Duke of BORDEAUX. The first speaker against it was M. BECHARD, who had not been at Belgrave-square, but, nevertheless, defended the con duct of the pilgrims, and vindicated their attach ment to the descendant of so many Kings. M. DE GIVRE followed, and made a violent attack upon the Royalist party, who, he said, laboured to abolish oaths, in order to abolish perjury. This caused loud marks of disapprobation from the Car lists, which continued almost without interruption while this member was in the tribune. M. BERRYER defended his conduct with moderation, but was fre quently interrupted, and concluded by saying that he should retain his seat in the Chamber so long as it pleased his constituents. After a number of other speakers, M. GUIZOT ascended the tribune, and attacked those who despised oaths, and forgot their duty as citizens, and in strong language vindi cated "public morality." This roused the ire of M. BERRTER, who rushed to the tribune, and with great effect contrasted the visit of the Legitimatists to London, with the journey of M. Guizor to Ghent. " We have not been," said he, " like those who dare to accuse us, and wish to affix a brand of infamy on our brows—we have not been among armed foreign ers—we have not been to place our hopes in an im mense disaster about to strike our native land. Yes, you have gloried in it; you went amidst a foreign army to give political advice to a king. I have been to salute adversity, and to tell a prince that France must be left in peace." This again called up M. Guizor, when the storm commenced in earnest. " Yes," exclaimed he, "I have been at Ghent." Near a dozen of times, says a correspondent of the Post, the organ of the Royalists in this country, did the Minister of Foreign Affairs repeat the words " Oui, j'ai ete a Gaud." We have given else where an account of the proceedings, but it may be interesting to our readers to have another brief ver sion of it as described by our Contemporary. " On every occasion," that journal says, "his voice was drowned in a clamour which shook the hall. It is an indignity, it is treason, it is an infamy roared the Gauche. Oui,j'ai ete a Gand,' exclaimed the Minister, and the same cries of indignation were revived—' On ne se vante pas de sa honte, on la cache ! vous n'avez servi que l'etranger. Innumerable invectives mingled with the clamour. M. GUIZOT, though looking pale, maintained his composure, and reminded the Chamber that he had been formerly suffered to explain himself respecting the same fact before a quiet house ; but this appeal yielded him but another thundering ex plosion. Non ! non !' cried they, ' nous avons proteste r Nous avons proteste r The confusion then reached its h ei g ht, the Opposition rose, many climbed their ben ches, all sho uted together, numbers i s t t s ru f c n k ry. , their desks—in short, the s t orm rage d i n a ll vous pouvez epuise r vos f orces ,' ( you may exhaust h)O replied M. GUIZOT, whose commanded the uproar, Vous n'epuiserez p as mon c ourage!' (You will not st voicefor youra momentrengt c exhaust my courage !) The undaunted firmness with which he stood their violence seemed to exas perate them more and more ; he repeatedly commenced aga in his ' Oui, ete a Gaud,' but was invariably overwhelmed by the furious vociferations of the Op position. Vous etes un traitre r (You are a trai tor) exclaimed M. Eauzsr DE GIRARDIN, when the Gauche responded in chorus, Oui, oui !" Does the Member who interrupts me wish to speak after me ?' observed M. GUIZOT, with much calmness. Non ;' replied he, mais je vous dirai de ma place que vous avez trali le pays, que vous avez passé a l'etranger la veille de Waterloo et cet acte est in fame !" (But I will tell you from my place that you have betrayed your country, that you passed the eve of the battle of Waterloo with the stranger,' and that act is infamous). A thousand other apostrophes were levelled at him, such as C'est abominable !I C'est honteux r M. °DILLON BARROT disdainfully cried—' Eh ! bien, laissons-le etaler sa honte et ayons le courage de l'entendre jusqu'au bout.' (Come, let him glory in his shame, but let us have the courage to hear him to the end.) M. DUPIN im plored silence, and M. GUIZOT again strove to address the Chamber, but at every attempt the storm grew louder and fiercer. At length, nearly exhausted, he succeeded in obtaining some hearing, and concluded again by exhorting the Chamber to vote the para graph, the dismission on the ensemble of which was ultimately closed. The sitting commenced at half past one, and at near eight, when it ended, the Cham ber continued to exhibit the utmost agitation upon this extraordinary debate." All the journals before us dwell, and almost everything that we see in their co lumns is connected, with its exciting features. The Chamber met next day, when the calm was most remarkable. M. CORDIER moved that the paragraph in which occur the words " culpable machinations" be left out. Whilst the speaker was supporting this amendment, above fifty Members approached the Ministerial bench and shook hands with M. GUIZOT; M. BEBRTER. himself addressed him with much courtesy. The Gauche paid little attention to M. CORDIER'S speech. Meanwhile, M. TRIERS approached, with a paper in his hand, a cluster of Deputies, of which M. °DILLON BARROT was the Centre. M. LEDRU ROLLIN supported the amendment, and succeeded in imparting some animation to the discussion, by comparing the Acts of the Restoration, with what had been done since 1830. After a speech of M. JOLAIN, in favour of the Committee's paragraph, M. DE LAMARTINE addressed the Chamber for the first time this session, and delivered a conciliatory speech, in which he declared against the strong lan guage adopted in that paragraph, and in favour of one of the proposed amendments, though he had no ob jection to the sanctity of oaths being proclaimed. M. DANGEVILLE deemed a demonstration against the Legitimatists necessary, and declared that he should reject all the amendments. M. BEcuARD required a definitio of the oath taken by the Members of the Chamber, in order that he might make up his mind as to the propriety of tendering his resignation. Thereupon loud cries of " Aux voix" arose, and the amendments were rejected by a majority of 30. Upon the division taking place, the Marquis Dz.. LAROCHE-JACQUELIIi resigned his seat in the Cham ber of Deputies. THE BOURSE-SATURDAY, JAN. 27. First Highest Lowest Last • Price. Price. Price. Price. French Five per Cents. ..• 124 45 • • 124 50 .. 124 40 .• 124 50 Three per Cents.• •• • 82 25 • • 82 23 .. 82 10 .. 82 15 Bank of France•—• ..... 3285 ..3295 3282 50 —3282 50 Latlitte Bank, I,ooof. Shareslll2 50 .. 1112 50 —lll2 .50 • • 1112 50 5,000 f. Sliaresso7o ••5070 •.5070 —5070 Belgian Bank Belgian Fives lO7 •• 107 107 .. 107 - 1840 •••• • • • • 109 • • 109 •• 1081 • . 1081 1842 • ..... • • 110 • • 110 • • 110 .. 110 Spanish Active .... •.•• • • • • 301 • • 30/ • • 301 30t Passive .•.••. • • • • • 51 . • 5/ • . 51 .. 51 New Deferred ••.• • 121 • • 121 • • In •• 121 Old Deferred• ••• .• • 61 • • 6i •• 61 • • 61 Portuguese Five per Cents.• . 47 . 471_ • • .47 • • 471 106 75 10675 106 50 .. 106'50 Roman I 111 .10k , Ti .. ' i Y., \ s 'l s pis ..•... , t n ak/ , , „,.... / ,1 _„ , • , c... ~ ; . 4 ,0 11 , :.... , , ,di ....-- ~ , . 1,4 r. mor4 0+ „ . • Dix ..) ... ik _ - RAILWAY SHARES, Venal L. 8.•. •• • • • ..... 185 Rouen .. • . .. .. . ..... 845 .• 845 Rouen to Havre ....... ..... 66.5 671 25 • • 665 Orleans .. 860 .• 860 860 - 671 2 , 5 - 860 Strasburg to Bale.. • • 240 •• 242 50 • • 237 50 • • 237 50 Avignon to Marseilles...• • • 760 762 50 • • 757 50 • • 762 50 RAILWAY SHARES, FOR TIIE ACCOUNT. St. Germain ...... • ....• .. 825 .. 825 • • 825 - 825 Versailles, R. 13 341 25 341 25 340 340 L.B.•••••••••••• 190 .. 195 .. 187 50 .• 191 25 Rouen.• Rouen to Havre ..... • • • • ... 667 50 .. 671 25 • • 667 50 • • 671 25 Orleans ........... • . • • •• • • 862 50 862 50 .. 852 50 .. 857 50 Strasburg to Bale • • • • • 240 .. 243 75 • . 240 • . 240 Avignon to Marseilles.. • • 755 760 752 50 .• 760 DRURY-LANE THEATRE.—We hear that it is her Majesty's gracious intention to honour this theatre with her presence on Thursday, to see the Bohemian Girl. We have availed ourselves of the earliest oppor tunity which has offered for the publication of Mr. Carter's letter on the important subject of our existing currency, and the best mode of improving and ex panding the circulation. To some of his views on the general principles of a sound monetary policy, his definitions of money, and his proposition for the establishment of a general hank of transfer —many of which are original and very ingenious, and others which we are not quite prepared to concur with—we shall advert more particularly in a few days, on the occasion of adverting to other theories of recent pro pagation, relative to the same topics. PRO-CORN-LAW MOVEMENTS.—Anti-League meet ings have recently been held at Grantham, at Hunting don, at Aylesbury, at Gloucester, in North Bedfordshire, and Derby, and at Long Sutton. At all these meetings the speeches were pretty nearly of the same character, and full of abuse of the League. LLOYD'S SHIPPING. LONDON, JAN. 29.—Wind fresh Westerly breezes,ifine. OFF DOVER, JAN. 28.—Nelson, M'Laren, New Zea land ; Ann, Hartlepool, for Newhaven, leaky, having struck on a wreck in the Downs. DEAL, JAN. 28.—Wind W.S.W. to N.W.—Arrd. Mary Ann, Medhurst, Algoa Bay ; Antonia, Amster dam, for Surinam ; Foxhound, Simmons, South Seas ; John Williams, Ridley, Buenos Ayres ; Georgetown, Bell, Demerara ; Bremen, New York, for Bremen ; Eagle, Rollanq, St. John's, Newfoundland. Sld. Cuddie, Calcutta ; Medora, Havannah ; Seagull, Trinidad ; Osbert, Dominica. OFF FOLKSTONE, JAN. 28.—St. James, New York. PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 28.—Wind W.N.W. to N.W.— Arrd. her Majesty's ship Curlew, Rio, sld. Nov. 26 ; Ocean, London, for Trinidad ; Ralph Bernal, London, for Jamaica. Sld. her Majesty's ship Satellite, Rio. FALMOUTH, JAN. 28—Wind W. to W.N.W., strong and squally.—Arrd. Oberon, Robinson, Bahia, 14th ult. ; Ocean, De Ryter, Port Republicain, 20th ult. CORK, JAN. 25.—Arrd. Spartan, St. Domingo. STRANRAER, JAN. 27.—The Aclus, Montgomery, from Runcorn, sprung a leak on the 25th inst. off Corn wall, and was run ashore in Saltpan Bay, materials saved. Should the wind blow hard the vessel will go to pieces. WEXFORD, JAN. 26.—A schooner, name unknown, is reported to have gone on shore on Blackwater Bank, during a thick fog, this morning. LOWESTOFF, JAN. 27.—The Helena, M'Laren, got on the Barnard Sand this morning, and beat heavily, but was assisted off and got into the Roads, making but little water. WELLS, JAN. 28.---The Pearl, of London, for Wis beach, is on shore at Thomhaud. FLANDERS MAIL. BncssELs, JAN. 26.—The Duke of Bordeaux arrived at Augsburg on the 20th of this month. He there met Prince Polignac, with whom he spoke about the numerous visits which he had received at London from French Legitimatists. He proceeded to Goritz by way of Innspruck. The Dusseldorf Gazette announces, that when the Duke of Bordeaux passed through Frankfort one of the young Mes sieurs Rothschild waited upon him, solely for the purpose,lif his Royal Highness had any Bank notes or other notes not cur rent in the Austrian empire, to exchange them for others which are current there. This offer was accepted. A baker at Poselle was condemned the day before yester day to two years' imprisonment and a fine of 125 f., for hay ing mixed copper in his bread. The tribunal further ordered that the baker should be deprived of his license during his imprisonment, and that the sentence should be posted up and published at his expense. ALEXANDRIA, DEC. 26.—The theatre in this city was re opened after an individual had been banished from Egypt at the desire of the Sardinian Consul. We thought that the matter was now ended ; but the day before yesterday the French packet brought orders from Florence immediately to arrest the unlucky actor who has spoken the few words which has given offence, and to put him on board the first Tuscan ship bound for Leghorn, where he is to be put on his trial. This affair has caused a great sensation here. An important transaction has lately taken place. Ibrahim Pacha has sold 40,000 cwt. of coffee to a Greek house, on what conditions and at what price is a secret, and few per sons believe the price that has been mentioned. It would be interesting to know, at the conclusion of the year, the Report of the operations of the famous Egyptian bank, which still exists in name. If the establishment of this bank excited the apprehensions of the merchants of the place, they are now revenged by the ridiculous situation in which this pompous institution appears. But if the share holders in the bank are duped, there is one, however, who laughs in his sleeve. BELGIAN FUNDS.—Batrams, JAN, 25. Actual Debt, 234 per Cent-, 58% Rothschild's Loan, Five per Cent ... ......... 1a54 Loan of Thirty Millions, Four per Cent O9 Three per Thirty-seven Milli ne, ditto -- (1840) 107% Loan of City, 1832, Four per:Cent. 102% 1143 lOB Society of Commerce, Four and a Half per Cent — Bank of Belgium, Five per Cent 6B I sue of 1841 lO6 National Society Exchange on London (short) —Brussels Papers, Jan. 26 A USTR IA N FU NMI—VIENNA, JAN. 18 . Flreper Cents. Metalliques ......... ill Four par Cents. IOOU Three per Cents Bank Shares Allgemeine Zeitung, San. 32. PitUSSIAN:FUNDS.—BERLIN, JAN. 23. Bills. Money St. Schuld Sch., 4 per cent..... Prussian English Bonds, 1830, t per cent. 702% —.- Exchange on London Prussian State Gazette. Jan. 21. HAMBURGH BORSENHALLE, Jasr. 23. Bills. Money. Austrian 5 per Cents. Bank Shares 1690 Anglo-Russian Loan — 11214 Russian 5 par Cent., Ist aeries, Certificate 105% 11/5 Inecriptisn, let series l4 Russian 5 per Cent. Hope and Co., 3d and 4th Series 00000 0000000 ••••••••• 0000000000000 ••••••••611••• 9A Ditto in Certificates .. 90 New 4 per Cent. (1840).. 91 91 Dutch Actual Debt, 2' Cent. . 54 }i Sit( 1)( t per .. , me* ...... ..•• Ditto pet Cent. 00000000 Polish ponds New Tickets... 00000000 ••••••...••• 00000000000000 000000 Anglo-Danish Loan, 5 per Cent. Spanish, New 5 per Cents. :: 17/ V.l UNITED STATES. LIVERPOOL, Jeri. 27.—The United States ship Liberty, Captain Norton, arrived at this port this evening, from New York, from whence she sailed on the 4th instant, and has brought a paper of that date. The Eutaw and Columbus sailed the same day as the Liberty. The Kouhassett sailed several days before, and Captain Norton has the merit of having made the speediest voyage, as none of the other ships had yet arrived. The Governor of the State of New York delivered a message on the opening of the session of the New York Legislature at Albany, on the 3d inst. Though the document is long, it does not possess much interest here. We learn from it that the financial matters of the State are in a healthy condition and improving. The public debt amounts to $23,847.62; there is also a contingent liability of $1,720,000 for stocks issued on loans to railroad companies, which have thus far paid the interest ; the whole amount of interest which accrued during the year ending 30th September last was $1,377,261.84 ; the revenue amounted to $2,992,82.5.84. The Cotton market was steady, and the sales mode rate. Stocks of all descriptions were rather declining in price, but no cause was assigned for it. THE WILL FORGERIES.—We understand that two Bow-street officers have been busily occupied in this city for some time, in tracing the particulars connected with these extraordinary transactions. 'We regret to hear that some parties in this city, hitherto considered to be of irreproach able character, are strongly suspected to be deeply implicated, but the officers have not yet succeeded in capturing them.-- Bristol Mirror. Lord Ward is passing the winter at Florence, where his Lordship is expected to remain until the advance of the spring. We understand that the lonian Bank, the chief es tablishment of which is in London, and which has been carry ing on a steady business for the last four years, greatly to the promotion of commerce in the Greek islands, has just obtained a charter from the British Government in addition to that pre 'timely received from the lonian Government. YARMOUTH AND NORWICH RAILWAY.—The works on this line have been lately proceeding with great rapidity. With the exception of a small part at Thorpe, where the line crosses the river, and another small part at Brundall, the whole permanent railway will be laid on the Bth of Fe bruary; when the Directors will traverse the entire distance with a locomotive engine. Last week Mr. Robert Ste phenson inspected the line, and expressed himself highly satisfied with the state of the works. At the Foundry bridge, the buildings are nearly erected for the terminus ; the embankments have been formed, and the rails laid to the first crossing on the river. It is expected that the whole line will be opened to the public in April or May, being a month or two earlier than was stated last year.—Norfolk Chronicle. 192 50 185 .. 190 • • 845 .. 845 SUMMARY OF NEWS SIR. H. POTTINGER AND THE AMEERS OF SINDE. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sin,—Circumstances over which I had no control have prevented me from seeing or noticing, sooner, the corre spondence and remarks arising out of a letter said to be written by Sir Henry Pottinger, and published in the Morning Chronicle of the Bth instant. - The last mail brought me two letters from Sir Henry, but there is no thing, either in them or my former letters, which enables me to deny or admit the authenticity of the letter so published, as they make no allusion to it whatever. I must be permitted to add, with reference to one letter published by you, that any one who can imagine that, under any circumstances, Sir Henry Pottinger could proclaim a falsehood, proclaims himself utterly ig norant of the truth, honour, and integrity of my brother, and has, in consequence, imagined that which must prove destitute of foundation.—l have the honour to re main, your most obedient servant, WILLIAM POTTINGER. INlajor, 6th Royal Regiment. Stockport Barracks, Cheshire, Jan. 25, 1844. MONEY AND COMMERCIAL NEWS CITY, MONDAY EVENING. The English Stocks closed at about the medium prices of the day, being barely so high as at one o'clock. Con sols were 97f for Money and Time. Exchequer Bills remained the same, and Bank Stock maintained its advance. Spanish Bonds closed steadily, but, perhaps, not quite so high for the Five per Cents., which were at 23i to 23. The Three per Cents., however, for Account, touched 311 to Chilian Deferred were 48i to 49. Mexican improved to 34f. Old Portuguese receded to 75 and 74. The additional transactions in the Railway Shares have been these:—Birmingham and Derby Thirds were 5 ; Ditto and Gloucester, 30 ; Eastern Counties, 124 to 4 ; Brighton, 4 ; and South Eastern, discount ; Birmingham and Derby Eighths, 2i ; Gravesend and Chatham, ; Great Western Half, 211; Hull and Selby Quarter, 3 ; Birmingham New Thirds, 40i ; Croydon, 21 ; Manchester and Leeds, 40 ; Midland Counties Fifths, ; Paris and Orleans, 12i ; Rouen and Havre, 51 to 41 ; South Eastern Scrip, I 1 York and North Midland, 74i to 74 ; aid Ditto New, 35i premium. London and Westminster Bank Shares were 31 to 4 ; and Union of London, premium. (From The Sun of Last Night.) The transactions in Cotton at Liverpool on Saturday were large, and prices met with very firm support. The sales were 5,000 bales on speculation, and 3,000 for other purposes.— The Share Market closed rather languidly, but a fair number were sold. Eastern Counties, 10+ ; Grand Junction, 234 ; Great Western, Fifths, 19i ; Brighton, 45 ; Manchester and Leeds, 104; Midland Counties, 91 ; Paris and Lyons, 21 ; South Eastern, New, 361 ; and York and North Midland, New, 151. The'St. James, from New York, does not add much to our previous information, her dates being only Ja nuary 4. The exchange was 1091. Stocks appear to have been rather unsteady, owing to a slight d'minution in the abundance of money. In Corn business was quiet, but in Cotton there was more doing. From Canada we merely learn that Sir Charles Met. calfe's policy appeared to be approved.. There were a good many ships building at Quebec, from which we may presume that an active spring trade was expected. An arrival from Nelson furnishes dates to Sept. 20, inclusive, and we are glad to observe, that in general, the accounts are of a satisfactory tenor. Advices from Odessa state that the Russians have ob tained very: important advantages for.their commerce from the Porte, the import duty upon goods into Turkey being fixed at three per cent. on Russian fabrics, but seldom amounting to more than two per cent. The number of Russian firms in Turkey is said to be steadily increasing, the Government'of the Czar favouring their removal from St. Petersburgh. The same also is the case as regards Persia. The English funds are very firm, and the purchases by the Government broker continue to buoy up prices. To-day the amount taken is 20,000/. Consols at 97 4 . The current rates for this security have been 97f to 4. The unfunded debt is steady in value, the premium being 675. to 695. East India Bonds are 81s. to 83s. Bank Stock is higher again, even upon the material rise of Saturday, being 1951 to 196. India Stock likewise ex hibits a rally from its previous depression. The heavy investments are quiet at about former rates, the New Three-and-a-Half per Cents. being 1011 to 102, and the Reduced 1021 to 103. The Three per Cent. Annuities are 98+ to which is again rather better. There is a fair business doing in the Foreign Market, and most of the investments look rather firmer. Spanish Five per Cents obtain 23 to 231 ; the Three per Cents., 311 to 1 ; the Passive, 5* ; Portuguese Converted have again recover e d w h at they lost, being 47 to 48. The Old Stock is 75t. Mexican Bonds are supported at 34 to * for the Five per C en t s ., an d a t 101 f or t h e D e f erre d. Colombian Stock is at 12*. Buenos Ayres Bonds are 33 to 32* ; Brazilian, 79, or 1 per cent. higher ; and Peruvian, 23. Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. are firm at 55 to 55*. The inquiry for Railway Shares is moderate, and the holders obtain goof prices. Birmingham and Derby have advanced to 39 and 38 discount; Hull and Selby to 9 and 10 premium ; Brighton, 5 and 41 discount ; and South Western. to 35* and 34 premium. The French Railways are less heeded. Paris and Orleans are 13 premium. Birmingham are a shade lower • and South Eastern have been somewhat fl at; Greenwich have ral lied to 7 discount. Nothing has been done in Joint Stock Banks. MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, JAN. 27.—We haft a fair inquiry for Stock generally, and our late prices are fully maintained :—London and Birmingham New, 321. shares, 43-1; Sheffield and Manchester, 60i to 61 ; North Unions, 100 ; South Eastern Scrip, 37 ; Manchester and Birmingham, 39i to ; Manchester and Liverpool District Bank, 10k. CLOSING PRICES. Bank Stock 3 per Cent. Red. 3 per Cont. Cone 974 3jper Cent. Red . . 102: N BRITISH FUNDS. ;idia Stock itto Bonds Ditto Old Annuities — I Ditto New Annuities — ..ew 3/ 1 per Cent. lOl New 5 per Cent....... — Long Annuities to expire Jan. 1860 Oet. 1859 Jan. 1860 ...... FOREIG r Austria*, 5 per cent Belgian, ti per cent — Brazilian Bonds... Buenos Ayres 6 per cent. 32} Cnilian, 6 per cent. Colombian, 6 per cent 12 Ditto 1824 Cuba 13oncla, 6 per cent II} Danish, 3 per sent Greek, 1825, 5 per cent _ _ Ex. Bills, 1,0001. lid. 69 pm Ditto 5001. 67 pm Ditto Small 67 pm Bank Stock for Acct 196 India Stock for Acct 278 Consols for Acct 97i ( FUNDS. Portuguese, .5 per cent 74 Ditto, New Ditto Prussian, s.per cent — Russian, 5 per cent...... Ditto, Metallic 'Spanish, 5 per cen t 23 Ditto, 3 per cent... 3ll Ditto, Deferred.... „ — French, 5 per cent. --f —e. Exchange.......... —f —c. Mexican, 5 per cent.... 34i Ditto, 6 per cent. 1837 Peruvian, 1825,6 per ct. S H A Birmingham and Derby ( Ditto Thirds (25 paid) Ditto Eighths (11 lOs p Birmingham and Gloucester Eastern Counties (23 paid) Gravesend, Rochester, and Chatham (21 p) Great Western (75 paid) Ditto Half Shares (50 paid) Hull and Selby (50 paid) Ditto Quarter Sharos ( 4 paid) 7 Landon and Brighton (50 pa d) 46 London and Birmingham ( paid)........ 246 Ditto New Thirds ( 2 paid) ...... 421 London and South Western (4116 s 10d pd) 77i London and Croydon Railway (Trunk) Manchester and Leeds (70 paid) ...... ...••• 110 Manchester and Birmingham (40 paid) 391 Midland Counties Railway (100 paid) - French, 3 per cent. —l. --c. Dutch, 2} per cent. 57 'Ditto, 5 per cent.... 101 i RES. :100 paid) 20 nid) 1r Railway ( 100 pd ) 70 10k 3 . . Ditto Fifths ( 2 paid) Paris and Orleans (20 paid) .... . ... 32& Rouen and Havre ( 6 paid) South Eastern and Dover (50 paid) Ditto Scrip (2.5 paid) York and North Midland (50 paid) .. .. 124 Ditto New Shares (20 paid) WHITETRIARS.—We are requested to state that a second edition of " Whitefriars ; or, the Days or Charles IL" an historical romance, in 3 vols., is pub lished this day by Mr. Colburn of Great Marlborough street, and may now be had at all the libraries. Mr. Colburn has also just published the following new works of fiction The Secret Passion, by the author of K Shakspeare and his Friends," 3 vols.-2, The Un loved One, by Mrs. Hofland, 3 vols.-3. The Brothers, by the author of " Oliver Cromwell," &c. 3 vols.-4. Windsor Castle, an Historical Romance, by W. H. Ainsworth, Esq., 1 vol. with 110 illustrations tylloorge Cruikshank, &c. 14s. bound.—and 5. Jessie tmps, a Tale of the New Poor Law, by Mrs. Trollope, 1 vol. with numerous illustrations by Leech, 12s, bound. IRISH STATE TRlALS.—Amongst the various means devised by the press to give the public every informa tion of these important trials, none surpass the zealous exer tions of Mr. Young, proprietor of The Sun newspaper, who illustrates his journal with sketches of each day's proceedings, a supply of which reach Mr. Horn of this town daily.—New castle Advertiser. The following charitable bequests appear in the will of Miss Emma Gibson, of Bradston Brook, near Guild ford, amounting to 5,000 1 . Three per Cents. :—To the Society for Promoting Christianity among the Jews, to the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, to Christ's Hospital, each 500/. Three per Cents. Reduced; to the Society for Promot ing Christian Knowledge, to the Church Missionary Society, to the Royal Humane Society, to the Deaf and burnt), to the Refuge for the Destitute, to the Royal Marine Society, to the Middlesex Hospital, to the Female Orphan, to the Queen's Lying-in Hospital, to the Widows' Friend, to the Indigent Blind, to the Orphan Clergy, to the Magdalen Hospital, to the Adult Orphan, each 250/. Three per Cents. Reduced. SELF ACCUSATION.—On Tuesday night a man came up to a police patrol, and declared that he wished to hand over to them a great culprit, who, after having robbed his master, M. G—, a schoolmaster, had spent the money in riot, and was now conscience-struck at his conduct. " This wretch's name," continued he, " is Paul K— ; take him, and put him in prison, for he stands before you." This at first seemed a joke, but the police took him into custody, and the next day his story was found to be correct.—Paris Paper. The police have not succeeded in throwing any light on the mysterious affair at West Cowes. They seem to be completely at sea on the subject, and from having traced out everything they now know nothing, nor suspect anybody. The story in one of the county papers of a barrel of gunpowder and other combustibles having been found on Mr. David's premises, is a pure invention. The qnantity found did not exceed three ounces, with which the leaden cannon was charged, and with three bullets, the muzzle being about forty feet from Mr. D.'s bedroom window, at which it was pointed. We earnestly hope the miscreants may be found out and receive the punishment they ss justly merit. Forgery, it is said, is now extinct in some of the States of North America, it being found that there is no differ ence in the value of the note+, whether genuine or counterfeit. AND tlntatt eptuton. " Who runs may rewi." FOREIGN. On Saturday the debate in the French Chamber on the address was brought to a close. All the amendments were rejected, and the address adopted by a majority of 220 to M lle French army, says the Journal des Debars, has lost one of its most illustrious members. Marshal Count Drouit D'Erlon, Peer of France, died at his residence in Paris on the 25th inst., from an affection of the lungs, under which he' had laboured during several years. Count D'Erlon was aged: 78 years. In consequence of M. C. Laffitte's election having been annulled, an application is to be made to the Ministry to have the Electoral College held at Neubourg, instead of Louviers. M. Nodier, a member of the French Academy, lately died. at Paris. The Presse states, " that all its letters from Constantinople mentioned that the relations of Sir S. Canning with Rifaat Pacha were becoming daily more unfriendly. The British. Ambassador had vainly remonstrated with that Minister on the dismissal by the Porte of Admiral Walker. Rifaat Pacha maintained his decision, and justified it by the necessity in which the Porte found itself of reducing its expenditure. It was for a similar purpose, no doubt, that it recalled all the young Turks studying abroad. The Prussian Universal Gazette announces that the re ceipts of the German Customs Union, for the three first quar ters of 1843, amounted to 17,892,776 crowns, being 1,844,2 44 crowns more than in the corresponding period of the year 1842. The importation of cotton threads has increased, bat that of manufactured cottons has diminished. The Duke Decazes, Grand Referendary of the Chamber. of Peers, has, in a spirit of courteous reciprocity, given notice that the members of the two English Houses of Paz t , who may happen to be in Paris during the legislative setsion, are to have free access to the Peers' galleries in both Charm' bers. A correspondent who dates his letter Rome, Jan. 17, sari' " The weather here is very cold—frost every evening, and the thermometer has been as low as 25 Fahrenheit. Prince George of Cambridge and suite, including the Marquis ot" Worcester and Captain Macdonald,: arrived ten days ago, for some weeks' sojourn. The Duke and Duchess of Argyle and family, Earl and Count ess of Kinnoul,Earl and Ladies Cadogan, Lord and Lady Brabazon, Lord and Lady 'Willoughby , Lords Compton, Powerscourt, Duplin, and Poltimore, and & host of other fashionables, are all here for the season. The Chesterfield hounds meet in the Campagna twice or three times a-week, and are regularly attended by a full field of sportsmen, including the elite of - the Roman chivalry—Prize. cess Borghese, Aldobrandi, Canino, Doria, Chigi, and Odes calchi, &c. &c. When the meet is near Rome, as at Cecilia. Motella, on the Via Appia, the concourse of vehicles and quadrupeds is about as numerous as another celebrated hunt on Easter Monday. Foxes swarm." COURT—FASIIIONABLZ. The Duke of Cambridge left Petworth House yesterday far Goodwood Park, to honour the Duke and Duchess of Ric - • mond with his company. The Royal Duke arrived on a visit to Colonel and Mrs. Wyndham on Thursday afternoon. after having partaken of the splendid hospitalities of the Duke and Duchess of Norfolk, at Arundel Castle, during the three previous days. On Tuesday and Wednesday the Duke ' of Cambridge, and a party of gentlemen went out shooting,- and killed during each day a large quantity of game. Viscount Melbourne came to town yesterday from Brocket Hall, Herts, for the Parliamentary session. Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston, Lord and Lady Beauvale, and is select circle, have been staying at Brocket with his Lordship since Thursday last, and were expected in town yesterday. The christening of the infant son of the Duke and Duchess of Sutherland takes place at the commencement of the 'text month, when Prince Albert will stand sponsor. A sump tuous entertainment will be given on that occasion. Their Graces will proceed to Brighton on the 9th or 10th of Fe bruary ; and the Marquis of Stafford and the Ladies Goieet will then go to Trentham Hall. Sir Robert and Lady Peel will have a grand dinner party on Saturday, the 10th of February, at their residence in Whitehall-gardens, to which the principal Foreign Ambas sadors and Ministers, and their Ladies, and several of the Cabinet Ministers have been invited. The Duke of Newcastle, the Lords and Ladies ClinttriL, are expected to remain at Clumber Park until April next. Lora William Clinton arrived last week in Portman-square. The Duchess of Buccleuch, the Mistress of the Bob., Wi . expected at Montagu House yesterday, from Scotland..' ' The Duke and Duchess of Northumberland are carets," to leave Alnwick Castle for Northumberland Houau, the wee". after next. The Duke and Duchess contemplate making 11 short stay at Leamington Spa. We are happy to announce that Baroness Brunnow it ss recovering from her late indisposition. The Earl and Countess of Beverley and Lady Susan rare return to Portman-square on Wednesday next. The Earl and Countess of Carlisle and the Ladies Howo return to Grosvenor-place on the 7th of February. The Earl and Countess of Morton, and Lady Ellen Douglas arrived in Palace-yard last week, from Dalmaii°l Castle, N. 8., for the season. - The Earl and Countess of Arundel and Surrey have re: turned to town from Arundel Castle, where they remaine" during the visit of his Royal Highness the Duke of Car bridge to the Duke and Duchess of Norfolk. razscinadmrzotra. A meeting of tenant farmers was held at Gloucester on Sly. turday, to adopt measures for the formation of an .Alltv League Association. It was not well attended. On the same day a similar meeting was held in the large room of the Literary Institution at Huntingdon, for the PO; pose of forming a society for the protection of the agricultural interest in that district. About 200 persons, chiefly farmsl* were present. Mr. James Rust was called to the chair, which he was supported by the Earl of Sandwich, the Lo Lieutenant of the County ; Mr. E. E. Fellowes, M.P. ; w r • I. Thornhill, M.P., &c. At Grantham, Bletsoe, Bedfordshire, and several other places, Anti-League meetings have also been held. • At the recommendation of his Grace the Duke of Welling" ton, Captain A. W. Cassan, late of the 65th Regiment, has been appointed a Military Cnight of Windsor, to supply the vacancy occasioned by the death of the late Governor Captain Thomas Fernyhough. 'The Customs' return for Liverpool shows, that in 1842 the Customs' revenue of the port was 3,904,3791. • in 1843 it WO 4,121,646/. ; showing an increase, on that ' year alone, d 217,267/. It is satisfactory also to find that 1843 5 110 " almost an equality of aggregate revenue with 1841, in ?dir t ' year the receipt was also 41,140,616/. lls. 7d. • THE ARMY IN INDIA. It would seem, by the late advices from India, that prior to the formation of the Army of Exercise, and 1.. the very face of a threatening and unsettled aspec t affairs, it was in contemplation to effect a numeric' of reduction of the native troops. This is a measure short-sighted economy, which could emanate from lit° quarter save the India house ; a re c kl ess experiMe" prompted by the love of filthy lucre, which must e ffs' tually recoil upon the h ea d s o f th e or i g i na t o rs, And ' n. flict future loss and disappointment. No sooner, it would appear, is a war brought to O: cessful termination i n I n di a , th an th e cr y re sounds Leadenhall-str ee t, " Cut down the military establish; ments—reduce the army !" Proprietors are aulj an c about their divid e nd', b u t if they can devise no be at , means than this for securing themselves, their case is hopeless one, indeed. Fortunately, India has now a Governor-General *l ll b ° is too shrewd an observer, and too well acquainted wi t the wants of our Indian empire, to endanger its sa fetf a t by rashness or overweening confidence, whilst he I to the same time too independent to sacrifice hie b e `o judgment to the insane clamours of the selfish a ignorant Not only is it clear to us that the present is not ir 6)o' venient or fitting time for reducing the Indian A r but we are sceptical as to the practicability or probe to lity of any future diminution of our Force. Loolijug sts our accession of territory in Simle, viewing the eleMetth of discord which are rife throughout the native St i a the the open turbulence of some of our neighbours, and a• hollow friendship of others, we find sufficient gr°u - e si.- for maintaining our military resources on the most m i c e cient footing. Without contemplating any ag 0 , 0 4 acts, it would appear to us, that for mere defensive ra . precautionary purposes, an augmentation of force is ther to be anticipated than any reduction. a OW Were the military force in India more than a d to to the present demand, it would be our duty loudly urge the relief of several of her Majesty's reg'i' bey whose tour of service there has been prolonged f a ti n ed yond the term conducive to their welfare or slket t _.,hat by good policy. It would be tedious to reiterate "oot has been so often represented as to the crueitY, r e unfairness of cutting off from the soldier the m° ; 8 1 1 mote hope of revisiting his native country, wh ic h practically the case when the service of a reglin''" nt the East Indies is exteaded beyond fifteen y e ars- A regiment, too, suffers in its nationality, it freqr t he degenerates in its material, and it falls altogether i. p st i o a rear in the onward march of society by an expo' of a uarter of a century. ric er:e• If t q roops can be spared, why are the 16th paindi" the Buffs, 13th, 31st, 40th, and 55th, still left in after twenty years' foreign service? a ntra There are at present twenty-six regiments or i%htt serving on the East Indian establishment, being 'rs i nce above the strength required some seven years bac,r t hree then Sinde has been con q u ere d an d occuP t i t l u i tie n o t t :: regiments are demanded for our Chi ne se se another is in garrison at Ad en . a rec ent act" l a de° and we observe that a new station is in c ontel to ote for the 86th Regiment on the Madras establis copy which is to be withdrawn from Belgaum t ° , Karrach, in the P ers i an G u lph. Thus, Wi t " o , il J s, and humanity urging an early relief of several c ;i o ta. is clear that none can be withdrawn from the an d Oil' we can supply their place by others.—Naval an tary Gazette. aile d s BRIGIITON.—Much excitement has prevt. eio. Brighton, in consequence of the examination at .0 7th court (carried on with closed doors) of a private frti' rairde r Hussars, charged with being accessory to the . 0 . of Di ll : Edward Hanley, who was gamekeeper in the se . ll l - 2viorc _ Allcock, of Wilton, in the county of Wexford,elc"_,,t of t : 1839. This proceeding was occasioned by the r . elt' tp _ letter from the Hon. Captain Hay, a Wexford ITI .) ; rty . the Colonel of the 7th, apprising him that sotr n e _l o eerr. l l was in custody at Wexford, on a charge of het g._, l i c a . tiP te in this murder, had made sonic statementan,r'edis.._6 Lynch, who, it was understood, had subsetp;THon of the into the 7th. It was ascertained at the term:, bred t: investigation that the prisoner admitted he h n t ' hat 10 1 7:7, neighbourhood at the tune of the murder, a . 0 Aenie d present at Hanley's funeral ; but he stril:lgP t _ ' so t to 117, knowlege of the murder. The prisoner will _D l a irdere d on _ia t ; land for examination. Edward Hanley was T orth y, tuul return in the evening from the fair at Ennis t t l y a th t e o T tt ; e e found the following morning side, besmeared with blood; the scalp „aerated ens been torn from his bead, and a hole, which P d e .,; es frO. brain, appeared over the temporal arterY, .. e d a blow a pool of wa s te fo r nose were much swollen as if he had recen Fri' some heavy weapon. f day, at the usual weekly meeting a thil_Alig r ie . Tborr_%, INCREASE OF FEVER AT MARTLEI3OI4.rbo• no t ord .l 7, guardians, a communication was read by o f the gre it ie asel, duties of the medical o ffi cers, in consequence of , to, L" - Dor Secretary, from the medical officers, ia reference to th 12 : 13 1 , 3 ; D r , ber of out-door patients they had to attend most prevalent being the measles and for y" ! patients.-.llfr. Culpepper 104, and the otrbeetberefors stated that the two assistant-officers bad to p r rerd b. ope o f: . them was entirely "knocked up." They w e to pay that attention which the several cases fel • _l~ THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY MORNING, JANUARY 30, 1844. ..i...,,.....- _......