The Sun. — London, England, 1845-02-20 00:00:00

order that he may delay for a little longer the sentence, condemnation, and execution of the corn laws. There is, I contend, every motive to urge us to pro ceed. The triumphs which we have obtained in the recogni tion of our princ;ples, the abandonment of the fallacies with which we had to grapple, the giving up of all those excuses which were once pleaded for the corn-laws —these triumphs, I say, of the justice and reason of oar cause, are so many motives to increased exertions.—(Hear, hear.) While pro tection exists, the Anti-Corn -law Leagua must proceed, adding strength to strength, numbers to numbers, force to force. We have made thus for amazing progress, greater progress than any similar Association ever made, I believe, in the history of the world. And when men hereafter shall inquire in what way they may overthrow some hoary abuse protected by power, surrounded and defended by wealth and rank and corruption—when, I say, they inquire whether they may venture to hope that by exertion and toil and sacrifice they may bring such an abuse to the ground, they shall turn to the pages which record the history of the Anti-Corn-law League ; they will therein learn that voluntary association will work greater miracles than the hands of those who reared the pyramids ; that bloodless revolutions are only to be brought about by the agitation of men's minds ; that there are walls which must be struck down in the warfare; that our power is one which, though impalpable and invisible, is yet universal and irresistible, and shall outlive Ministers and Go vernments and States, and rule the world when man is man indeed. Mr. BRIGHT, M.P., then came forward, and was received with loud cheers. He said—l may be excused if 1 feel some anxiety in being called upon to address this meeting after the two speeches to which we have listened—one delivered by a gentleman who is well known as a perfect master of the science of political economy—the other by a gentleman cele brated, not only in this kingdom, but in distant parts of the glebe, as a perfect master of the art of oratory. My confi dence, however, arises from the fact, that the question which we are met to-night to discus is one of vast importance, and of almost limitless extent. I know, indeed, that the pro foundest thinker or the most powerful speaker, however much he may exert himself, can get no further than the very borders of this question—for day by day, as we are co-- nected with it and investigate it, we find continually more and more beauties, and become more and more enamoured of the great work in which we are engaged. Its course is like that of every great. question : its beginning was feeble enough. At its commencement it was wrapped up in ranch sophistry and mystification. Fallacies the most ludi crous, pretensions the most absurd, were brought forward to oppose th ise principles of which we have been the humble exponents to the public of this. country. But now this so phistry—this mystification—these fallacies, and these preten sions have vanished, and the question of free trade—the ques tion for the promotion of which the Anti-Corn-law League is organised, stands before the people of this country in this simple form—we have justicecenfronting wrong and oppression, and we ask the people of this empire to side with justice against oppression.—( Cheers.) Two principles are offered for your adoption—the one goes by the name of Protection—the other is known by the title of Free Trade. At the Mansion house, and at an office not far off this place, men sometimes give false names. If they have committed any act which is dis graceful and criminal, not being entirely lost to shame, they give a name by which they were not commonly known. The men who support this system—the men who for thirty years at least have laid hold with a re'en less hand of the subsistence of the toiling millions of this country--these men dare not call their system by the name which only it can justly claim, but they have assumed that of protection—an amiable and harmless thing.—(Laughter.) On the other hand, the free-trade principle is offered to you ; and I believe that so many meet ings have not been held in this building and elsewhere, with out the effect being that from one end of this country to the other there is now almost a universal assent to the beauty and honesty of the principles which the Lea zue is established to promote. This great principle—or rather these principles are faithfully represented by the two societies—the Great Central Society for the Protection of Agriculture, and the National Anti-Corn-law League. He had learnt that protection is not only a robbery of those upon whom it acts, but that it is ener vating and injurious even to those who profit by it. It is sup ported, for the most part, in this country by landowners, great and small, not by facts, reason, argument, and proof, but by force and fraud, and calumny, and delusion, practised upon any class which comes within the range of their influence— The Protection Society, formed twelve months ago, sought the means of obtaining this odious system. From them was formed the Great Central Association, which has opened an office in this metropolis. To be particular, lam informed at No, 17, Bond-street.—( Laughter.) In the north of England I have occasionally seen circulars sent down from certain, not very respectable firms in the city of London, offering to any party in the manufacturing districts, whom they supposed to be short of capital, certain accommodation bills, to be drawn and accepted, and endorsed and d shonoured. and renewed to be dishonoured ag a i n .—(Cheers and laughter.) These firms may be called 'swi ndling concerns. Now, I have endeavoured to discover whether that establishment at No. 17, Bond-street, is not of this character.—(Laughter.) I told them in the House of Commons, the other night, that they ought to put a sign over their door, with this inscription upon it—" British Farmers regularly taken in and done for"—(Great labghter)— and a brass plate, with the words " Richmond and Co." en graved on it.—( Renewed laughter.) 'They offer to the far mers, in order to help them out of their distress, fraudulent bills of every description—promises which can never be rea lised—Acts of Parliament of no more value for the purposes for which they are passed than the parchment upon which they are engrossed alluring thousands of farmers to place reliance upon a support which must lead them to ruin, and from which there is no escape.—( Hear, hear.) This society is curiously framed—Political lard. lords, Dukes, Earls, Lords, ftaronets, and so forth, and a sprinkling of a certain sort of amphibious animal, known by the name of land-valuer—( Laughter I—a person who was a half-farmer, and half-squire. —( Cheers.) There is a little, al'o, of steward and auctioneer in his composition. Now, the leaders of this firm are the Duke of Richmond, the Duke of Buckingham, and time was when Sir Edward Knatchbull might have been considered a leader. It reminds me of a society which we hear of in" Martin Chuzzlevvit"—the Anglo- Bengalee Disintere-ted Loan Society._-(Laughter.) I be lieve the chairman of the board of directors and the one indi vidual who formed the board were enriched, and all those who trusted to their professions duped and ruined.—(Hear, hear.) Now first, as to the Duke of Buckingham : When the Government came into office, that great man—Plantagenet his name, I believe—was a member of the Cabinet. He was then called the " Farmers' Friend." It became necessary to alter the corn-law, and greatly modify the tariff; and it was desirable for the purposes to be hereafter accomplished, that the confidence of the farmers in the Duke of Buckingham should not be entirely destroyed; and therefore he left the Cabinet, and did not interfere with the carrying out of this free-trade mea sure. Did the Duke get nothing ? lam not able to estimate the compensation which he received, but it was stated in the public newspapers that he received what is called a Garter.— ( A laugh.) Let no one imagine that this Garter is that homely article by which stockings are kept up.—( Great laugh ter.) I don't know exactly what it is, because I never saw one, but I have learned from the ordinary sources of informa tion that it is a decoration—a sort of toy, which you in the pit of the theatre would laugh at, or be insulted if any one told you )ou coveted, but yet a decoration for which great men, with a long line of ancestors, will do any dirty work for. —( Hear, hear.) 1 know net its use, unless it be to give one precedence above another. I have heard of magnetic or metallic rings—some contrivance by which either very wise or very superstitious people fancy they can cure the tic-doloreux, or such complaints.—( Laughter.) It may be, that this Collar or Garter may have some effect on the body ; but of this I am perfectly certain, that it comes like a shock of paralysis upon anything like independence and honourable feeling.— ( Great cheering,) I next come to the Duke of Richmond. Now it is hard to tell whether he is not a bigger man than the Duke of Buckingham. He talks as though he had made the Cabinet, and that if the Cabinet did not do his bidding he would unmake it. Well, one would suppose that a free-trade measure of Government would make the Duke of Richmond exceedingly hostile—he talks to the farmers of ancestors of his having led soldiers to battle some generations ago, and that so long as there is a drop of blood in his veins he will stand by the British farmer. What does all this mean ? The Duke of Richmond is believed to be a rich man, but he has brothers who are thought to he very root —lie allows his brothers a small ineeme from the family prooto ty until he can get them settled under this Government. —( Hear, hear.) One of his brothers, Lord Arthur Lennox, who is, I am told, colonel of a regiment, was lately placed in office under the Government as a Lord of the Treasury. I believe he still retains command of a reeiment. The salary of a Lord of the Tres ury is reported to be 1,2(n. a-year, a thing having much the same effect now as when Butler wrote " Hudibras"— What makes all doctrines plain and clear ? About twelve hundred pounds a year ; And that which was proved true before, Proved false again ?—Twelve hundred more. _-(Cheats.) But the Duke of Richmond has a son, known by the title of Earl of March. He represents a district in the west of Sussex, and has had special favours from the Go vernment. lam told that he explained to some farmers in Sussex last year, that he left the army, and shaved his moustachios.—(Great laughter.) I had often suspected that there was a vast deal of the gallant bearing and cou rage of these men in their moustaches.—(Laughter.) I am told that he left the likes, where he was a lieutenant, and is now unattached on ball-pay, and fully paid as well for Aide-de-Camp to the Commander-in- hief the Duke of Wellington, a Cabinet Minister. It appears to me that this trade of " Farmers' Friend" is not a bad one.—( Hear, hear, and great cheering.) The Duke of Richmond, you must know, is said to be in the habit of withdrawing his family allowance when his brothers, &c., have been settled in life, that is, settled upon you.—(Hear, and great cheering.) By his brother becoming a Lord of the Treasury, he will be able to dispense with the allowance of 31)0/. a-year, which will be some compensation to the Duke of Richmond for the losses he has sustained owing to the free trade in salmon.—( Hear, hear, and laughter.) We come now to Sir Edward Knatchbull.— ( Laughter. )You will remember that he comes from the county of Kent ; that he male a speech on the question of the corn laws, in the House of Commons, and a country gentleman, a Member of the House, told me the other day, that it certainly was a most imprudent speech. He spoke of the marriage set tlements of the iaughters of the nobility and gentry, hut he never thought a moment upon the settlements of the daughters of farmers and labourers.—( Hear, hear, and cheers.) He was about to be called to the other House of Parliament, or, as some people phrased it, translated —( Laughter.) It was un derstood that Sir Robert Peel declined to give a peerage, since his accession to office, unless on the ground of special ser vices—for good and weighty reasons. — (Hear , hear. If not, he would have had a list of applicants for the peerage, so long, that it would have reached from Charing-cross to the House of Commons.—( Hear, hear.) But he would not promot e any one except for special reasons.—( Hear. ) I take it for granted that there have been special services in the case of Si r Ed war d K na t c hbull.—( Hear, hear.) He is to cbe eated,.aceordinw to the newspapers, Viscount Penenden. I say again I believe there are special services. He was taken to the Cab inet in 1841, a l ong w i t h th e D u k e of Buckingham, as a sort of decoy duck—(l..suoht, r) —he was supposed to have sneh an unblemished reputation, to stand with a character so entirely unassailable, 'ha t into the Cabinet and remaining there was consi d ere d th h a i ii c a:s t m a i n ng undeniable guarantee to the farmers that protectio n been d interfered with. And yet there Sir Edward sit., with his L ands in his pocket and his chin on his breast, enjoying the s rri a o n s eamfortable slumbers imaginable, whilst laws were passin g th rough Parliament, which if the principles he and his party g conteded;for were true, the most paramount interests of the ereantryn sac rificed. However Ido not regr.tt thatthe u Ho st use of Colit is to be released from the soporific influen c 7 .' his pr e sence . ( Hear, hear.) He g oes to that House which ha s been not ina p tl y terme d the House of Incurables , and I declare, without any reservation whatever,asso se that I never behe ld a man who, from nature and habit, was likely to occupy in a bench in that House as Viscount Penen den. Now you will see from all this the cases of Buckingham, Richmond, and Knatchb ull, that this trade of farmer's friend i s a very thriving affair.—( Hear, hear, and cheers.) It is like the trade in guano from Ichaboe, only it cannot be considered nearly so clean.—( Roars of lau g hter.) Now, I will ask you to go that class who really are agriculturists, for these men are not agriculturists, and ask the farmers how they got on under this system. I have heard of some of them obtaining rich church livings—ne garters—some labourers have no stockings --(Hear. hear, and cheers)—no naval, military, or civil pro motion, for the man who invests his capital in the soil of Eng land under the faith of these corn-laws. And if the labourers were heard to speak (and it is hard to speak jocosely of them, I t is a subject too sorrowful to be jested with), but if it were not amid way, that the only decoration they could ask would be _ I condi' ion of the working classes. They blame us for not sur rendering aportion of our principles in order to obtain a more speedy relief for the sufferings of the masses. I do not pro fess to be more patriotic than other persons, the principle of justice may not be more deeply implanted in me, but I will answer for myself and my friends that we shall adhere to the principles with which we have started until we bring them to a triumphant end. It had been stated in the House of Commons that since the passing of the Corn-law Bill in 1815, no less than 200,000,0001. had been taken from per sons to support the poor-rates, and this independently of sums distributed by charitable institutions and by private benevolence. It has been said that in one-tenth part of England and Wales—the richest portion of the empire—there are no less than a million and a half of persons depending for subsist ence on parochial relief. Look at that mass of misery, and ask what charity—what beneficence can do—to alleviate it. It will not touch the edges—it will not affect the fringes of that enormous evil. Private charity cannot prevent its rapid increase; but the Anti Corn-law League provides a greater remedy than that. We have a charitable plan—not indeed designed by us—for it is a plan involving the principles that were laid down by the Great Creator of the uni verse. This plan is self work—we do not look to patronage — we ask no string of names distinguished in the world. We have no committee with books of subscriptions lying on the counters of West-end bankers, we have no charity that will comprise machinery of the most cumbrous kind. Our principle per vades all classes of the community—wherever misery is there we endeavour to bring relief—( Hear, hear)—whether in the garret or in the cellar—we endeavour to illu minate: the darkness of despair by the propagation of this great principle Nor shall we be deterred by difficulties from persevering in this glorious course, until the principles of free trade receive the fullest sanction of the law.—The Hon. Gen tleman sat down amidst great applause. The Cliaxass.tx then came forward and announced, amid loud cries for Mr. Cobden, that the proceedings of the even. ing were over, and that the next meeting would be duly ad vertised. Mr. Connets then came forward, and demanded three cheers for the Anti-Corn-law League. His request was enthusiasti cally responded to, and the meeting separated. the order of the union Lworkhousel.—( Hear, hear, and cheers.) Well, if those 17, Bond-street gentlemen played such fantastic tricks with the interests of the farmers, how do they conduct themselves in the House of Commons? They sit by the side of Ministers—though they distrust the Government—they look uneasy, they are a little sullen, but they do not make any great demonstration of resistance. I told them the other night that the character given in a very innocent book of certain faithless guardians, of old " dumb dogs who either could not, or would not, bark" was applicable to them.—(Hear, hear, and cheers.) This was considered rather vituperative.—(Laughter.) Sir Robert Peel, not wishing to displease his party, took it upon himself to lecture me for want of manners.—(Renewed laughter.) He forgot the charges which he himself had made against an Hon. Friend of mine. —(Loud cries of "Hear, kear,"—" Hurrah for Cobden," and great cheering.) There was another Member on the Ministerial side of the House, Mr. Stafford O'Brien, the Member for Northampton, Chairman of the Publication Committee, of the Great Central Committee, which meets at No. 17, Bond-street, who lectured me like wise. Mr. Smith O'Brien was, he was going to say, guilty —no, but he must be held answerable for the publication of a pamphlet in which the sentiments of the venerated Adam Smith were garbled and perverted—when he was told that the land lords ought to serve their tenants and labourers, Mr. O'Brien said that was not a way to speak of the gentry of England. No:. it is a great mistake in Mr. Stafford O'Brien to clothe himself in the lion's skin, and then take upon himself the cha racter of the most sincere man in the House of Commons ; he disappointed the designs of nature very much, for, from his dress and manner he showed that he was much more suited for a roan-milliner —( Great laughter,) I believe he might have filled with great respectability such an office.—( Laughter. ) They don't, then, make a great demonstration against the Go vernment—it is only a sort of human growl they utter, but no great resolution on which the body agree. Their cause is bad, and they know it, and their courage oozes our, for they have no faith in the maintenance of their principles—. they never had any soundness. Sir R. Peel drags them along and they can make no opposition. A very beautiful and pleasing writer, Leigh Hunt, in one of his essays, describing a number of pigs being driven to Smithfield—( Laughter)— says, " Unwilling was their subjection, and more in sorrow than in anger, they were overgone from rage, their cause was hopeless, they did not see why they should proceed, but felt themselves bound to do so—they first conglomerated, crowded, grunted, but onward went, impelled by fate and Peel. Often would they have rebelled under any other master—they halted and grunted in ordinary—they sidled and shuffled, half stopped, turned their eyes towards all outlets and lanes by which they might escape, hut in fine there they stuck, for their very progress was a sort of sticking-charm at the centre of their sphere of action— laying their heads together but to no purpose, looking on all sides—shrugging their shoulders and eschewing the knotty end if the whip of office—much eye had they to their left legs. 4 ‘ They shrink backward with groans—not an incipient squeak—but a sound suspicious in character and violent to a degree." But pigs find it more difficult than any other animals to accommodate themselves to circumstances.— NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS. The THIRD EDITION of THE SUN of LAST (Wednesday) EVENING contained — The Report of the Railway Committees of the Heuse of Commons. A Report of the Day's Proceedings in the Court of Queen's Bench. The Spirit of the Public Journals ; and A Full Report of the Parliamentary Proceedings up to a Quarter before Seven o'clock. The whole was published in time for transmission by the Evening Mails. 13, Great Marlborough-street. THE NELSON LETTERS and DISPATCHES, VOLUME IL, WILL BE READY on the 25th. a.* Orders received by all Booksellers. Henry Colburn, rublisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. BOURDEAUX, TOULOUSE, and CETTE • RAILWAY COMPANY. The Letters allotting the Shares in this Company have this day been distributed. The Provisional Directors beg to intimate to those applicants for Shares who may not have received answers to their letters, that they have been unable to include them in the apportionment, and to ex press their regret that they have not had it in their power to satisfy all the applications By order, 31, Lombard-street, Feb. 19, 1845 C. T. BEKE, Secretary. lIER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. SEASON 1845. To the Nobility, Subscribers, and the Public. The following Outline of the Arrangements for the ensuing Season Is respectfully presented to the Nobility and Subscribers : ENGAGEMENTS FOR THE OPERA:— Madame Grist, Madame Anaide Castellan, Of the Imperial Theatre, St. Petersburgh—her First Appearance at this Theatre) Madile. Brambilia, Madlle. Rossetti, Madame Rita Borba, (Of the principal Theatres in Italy, and of the Royal Theatre, Madrid —her First Appearance in this Country) And Madame Rossi Caccal, Of tho Theatre Royal, Lisbon--her First Appearance in this Country. Signor Aiorlani, Signor Corelli, Signor F. Lablache, Signor Roteßl, (Of La Scala, Milan—his First Appearance in this Country) and Signor Mario, Signor Fornasari, and Signor Lablache. In addition to the above combination of Talent, a conge has been obtained, and an arrangement effected by which Signor Barronhet, (Of the Academic Royale de Paris) will be secured for a limited num ber of Nights. _ . Director of the Music, Composer, and Conductor—Signor COSTA. The Orchestra will be on the same Scale as in the past year. The Chorusscs will be numerous and effective. Chorus Master—Signor Bonconsiglio. BALLET. 3fadlle. Carlotta Grist, Madlle. C.!rito, ➢fadlle. Ferdinand, Madlle. Deinelisse, Madlle. Lucile Grahn, Madlle. Louise Weiss ; Madlie. Cason, Madlle. Moncelet, THE WEATHER.-SUN OFFICE, FEB. 20. THERMOMETER, Lowest, 19 ; Highest, 32 ; Noon, 29. BAROMETER, 30.22.-WIND, S. Num.—The figures which follow the words "Lowest" and " Highest" denote the lowest and highest state of the hermometer during the preceding twenty-four hours. All Lhe other observations are made at noon. HIGH WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAT. Morning 54 minutes after 0 I Evening .. 12 minutes after 1. :Of the Academie Royale departs—their First Appearance at this Theatre) and 3tadlle. Taglion', (Iler Farewell Season.) THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY rEVENINer ) FEBRUARY 20 1845. may believe the Morning Post, the disciplinarian Premier reads a " Select Lesson" every evening to the more refractory of his Conservative class. But really, we do not see that it met the argument of the Learned Member for Bath on the positive inequity of the distinction between Ireland and Great Britain, or the relative degree in which that inequity is enhanced by the fact that Ireland has enjoyed a long exemption from the assessed taxes paid by the people of Great Britain. We put the case, not in reference to the question of the ability, or inability, of Ireland to take her share of the burden of property-tax and assessed taxes—a question we are not called upon now to enter into ;—but, in reference, solely, to the fact admitted, that she does not take that share, and to the sort of argument on which the Premier may have attempted to defend her exemption. The case urged by Mr. Rosnucx as showing an equitable ground why Ireland should bear her pro portion of property-tax was strengthened by the consideration which Mr. ROEBUCK enforced upon the Howe, " that the Irish landlord had been recently much benefited by the amount of tithe added to his estate ;" and the reflection, so successfully enlarged upon by all popular Irish speakers, that the Irish landlord could travel from Limerick or Dublin to London, from London to Naples, winter in Rome, lounge through a spring in Paris, pass an autumn in Saxony, and return to Cork, Waterford, or any other part of Ireland where his property might happen to lie, " without being once molested by the demands of the tax-gatherer." Mr. Smells was a singular answer to the demand of Mr. ROEBUCK. "The Irish absentee landlords already drained the country of large sums." But the English income and property- tax payers are not the cause of their absence ; and why should they contribute the proportion which the Irish landlord ought to pay, in addition to their own ? " The Crown rents and quit rents of Ireland were also expended in the embellishment of London and of Windsor Castle." In what relative propor tion,—Mr. ROEBUCK might have a.sked,—to the sums contributed from the Consolidated Fund (en which the Exchequer and other issues for public works are charged), for the improvement and construction of roads, bridges, harbours, &c., &c., in Ireland ? The Lucerne is preparing for a contest, by assembling MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS' and levying troops. On the other hand, popular CITY, QUARTER TO THREE. meetings hostile to the Jesuits had take n p lace, at There was no change in Cotton at Liverpool yesterday Sales, inclusive of 3,500 bales on speculation, which most exciting language had been used. Vo- viz., 400 Surat at 3d. to 3Nd. ; 100 Egyptian at 514d.atto_11:i: lunteer bands wen!, assembled in various places, and 2to°° 6 P d ernam at b 5%1 1 . a 5 re 3 ,1 d . w ; er a t n d t a h o e t ,_, r d e,t as Air l r i , i , c , a r s n :....... 3 ( r e. drilled, evidently prepared for resistance. Should a donian, per B 1 4 7 — % ; Chester were quoted Holyhead, 8 ; Din. civil war take place little doubt remains that Austria fin aind and Glasgow, 57 ; Chu t rnet 1 1 5 ': / iley, G lg go ; w an d on the one side and France on the other would take G u re g en ' ock, 15% IT; w, Gr Q ai t id ar Junction, ers4 224 226 ; Ditto, 7,000 bale! steps to prevent any serious consequences. Halves, 111 1 4 ; Great Western Extension, 6 3 / 4 ; Li n. and Carlisle, 314 • Liverpool and Blanchester Halves/ The forthcoming discussion on the Secret Service Quarter, c l a o3 ste • r London ad Birmingham, 238 ; Ditto, Money Bill and the affair of the Archbishop of LYONS 29 3 / 30; London and Brighton, 58%; Ditto and 50t.4.11_:: occupied the public mind at Paris. According to the Western, h New 6 501., 1 6 2% 7 14 ; Manchesterur a,nd.,,,,1t ; Journal des Debuts, the Oppositicn are at a loss I D n i l i n dfan a d m' Cou 2 die ; s, 12812 l 2; ii l t io . lto r l ( , )rtii and British,B3, l''',i l 11 ; what course to pursue. " A meeting," it says, " was Preston and Wvre, 22% A ; Scottish Central, 4 1 /i i held on Sunday at M. THIERS'S, which was attended Sheffield and Manchester, 106 1 A ; ,Walle y .,Shrewsbui Grand Junction, .5% 14 ; South-Eastern, 42%; Trent . by the leaders of the coalition, among others MM. 19 3 / 4 X ; Paris and Lyons. 3 ; Central of France. 12% yi t 'h. BERRYER 7 BILLAULT, and ODILON BARROT. Some Bordeaux and Toulouse, 2 1 / 2 ; Northern of Fratncee, t City are aNrveitnho great arriv wanted to recommence the discussion on the foreign Llstetroes-td"L and proceedingsart ies in h in Parliamen!. watching There policy, whilst the others were of opinion that it would The value of sugar is firmer, and there has-been a is golbduZ, be better to cut short the debate, and vote at once. In ness doi n g this week. The amount of the differential on Colonial, it considered, will average 145., al thou ou . b th e the impossibility of corning to any understanding on respective sums are but 9s. 4d. and Ils. B d., bec ause it will the conduct to be held, the meeting separated with be only the fine white cloyed foreign descriptionsotochnawrietri out having decided on anything. It was merely 2tlBie pr o duce t of f ai . ,, h w e i c il ol c o o nTe e s. The ei[l present le-agemo7Java Sug!! s. du, agreed that a fresh meeting should be held before the in bond, of the same quality as the average of West l o n t discussion." Muscovado, is stated in the Grocers' Price Currant of Fll l .. and Millard to be 20s. per cent., making with th e duty 4r: The Legitimatist journal, the Quotidienne, thus while West India, with the duty of 253.3 d., is but 545. it h adverts to the proceedings against the Archbishop of cording to this view of the question there will not ',O 11,1; LYONS :-- foreign brought into consumption until the produce of (.... colonies rises to 48s. ; and this would only give relief t T o " The prosecution of Cardinal de Donald, in the name of consumer to the extent of about %d. per lb., by no inec,, the State, on the part of M. Dupin, is a resolution which sufficient to stimulate a greatly increased use of the arti‘j; pleases us, as does everything which evinces a logical charac- or to yield the gross sum calculated upon by_; ter in any direction whatever. The Government could not Robert Peel. These views may be partially C0„,17,40, escape the necessity of pronouncing between a Bishop perform - but we believe they are also a little one-sided. -.!1;„ ing an act of religious and civil liberty, and a Government smack, in short, too much of " trade," and therefore In fo functionary laying down an official doctrine in matter of be - rested opinions, and we trust no effort will b e spared, ONO lief. It pronounced for M. Dupin : the matter is natural as fair competition goes, to give the poo rer classes the ,o. enough. Let us be far from feeling sorrow or complaining ! benefit of the reduction, which if the "discriminating'; 41 0 o f M. Guizot has just assumed an excellent determination. By this culty does not prove a hindrance , ought , in the ortiol ° 4 l6 pretension of the State to interfere in the matters of the competent judges, to be such as to give goo d consul' Church, he proclaims its separation from the Church ; or else sugars at sd. per lb. he constrains the Bishops to see if it suits them to have a The Funds are rather firmer, the majority civil Pope, Protestant or Jew ; he takes from the priesthood in the House last night having . produced a s s ad all idea of obedience to a power without faith; h e enlightens effect. Consols are 99% to 99% for Money! li p consciences still undecided; he settles what was doubtful ; have been 99% for Account. Bank Stock is 0 and be places all Catholics in the best possible position for to 212 and 212% ; and India Stock is steady at vito acquiring a just idea of their duties. We shall narrowly t o %. Exchequer- bills realise 555. to 565. premium. '. watch this affair. .At present, we confine ourselves to notinc , Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. are 103 3 % to %. ~ Fifa down the eagerness with which the Opposition of the Left The Foreign Bonds are also rather firmer. Spanis",„t hurry to meet the Council of State, in order to pronounce per Cents. realise 28 1 4 to )' ; the Three per Cents: 47,4 beforehand their sentence against Cardinal de Bonald. And Portuguese Converted, 59 1 2 to 60 ; Mexican, 3 51 4 ;have liberty of conscience is spoken of ! Falsehood !" Brazilian, 90 1 4. Dutch I wo-and-a-Half per Cents. The following eulogium, passed by the P resse on bean 62% ; and Belgian Four.arid.a-Half, 10114.: obts_mdiaed There is not much doing in Shares, Sir ROBERT PEEL's financial statement, is evidently prices generally. but they directed against the French Chamber, as well as the O' CL' FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE 0 CLO 6l ' . Minister : (From the Official List.) Bank Stock. realise 0 " Here is, at least, one man who knows what is wanted, and who, having come to a resolution, also knows how to ,hi , ht The Tr - who 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities lOO 3 per Cent. Consols Anns _ 190.4g . q a I`T, . ,-V .. , m., . ''. ,-..: \ ' • Z4l, * 4,_ —.„ ..t • 4C, •., , .„0 .Q.,..,,. .. at - 5,70.... -••-- 1. itr - .t 7. Air"-/16,, , l * ' d ' 3 Z`Alikii .';' n .I,7,rip kt4:-- .. 4, ~.4'...4trinare•;••t". , ic itilllk ai . ;_•••isa , *! 1, .....-., w ~,.. • 1 c....• .• . 'a.. ' Illiin,-, SECOND EDITION, (Shouts of laughter.) "He with 'his tail out is in the highest state of wonderment, is sluggish and obstinate, not very civil, and has no desire to see foreign parts. Think of him in a multitude forced to travel, and wondering what the devil it is that drives him."— ( Continued laughter.) Well, as far as the great Central As sociation for the protection of British agriculture is concerned, I think it will make a very ridiculous figure in the pages of his tory—that is. if any historian will deem it worth his while to notice it.—( Ironical cheers, and laughter.) It was an impos ture when first started, got up for the purpose of making a spasmodic effort to propagate a gigantic and monstrous injus tice.—(Cheers.) But now its true character is begin ning to be clearly developed, and all the intelligent classes see through its motives. This knowledge is extend ing, and even the farmers are beginning to find that it wears the features of an impneure, so that we may speedily expect to see it put down altogether.—( Great cheers.) But now of that other Association—that which we are here met to-night to sympathise with—the A ssociation which ever has advocated and tried to promote the truly grand principle of free trade, and perfect freedom to industry.— ( Immense cheering.) We have no Richmonds or Bucking. hams, or Knatchbulls, to whom we can point as ornamented with stars and garters, or to whom we can give promotion in the army or in the civil service. The prominent men in the ranks of the Anti-Corn-law Leaguers here, or (for they are widely extended) in other parts of the kingdom, have sprung from the ranks. They are not joining in agitation for the purpose of obtaining places or power or station—( Cheers.) If there is one rank that they covet more than another, it is this, that they may occupy a place in the minds of their countrymen — that now and in after times it may be remembered by the grateful people of a happy land, that they did something in their day and generation to strike off the shackles that fettered their commerce and their industry, and that they contributed, in however little a degree, to make their beloved country happy and prosperous.—(lmmense cheering.) From the beginning of our exertions, some six or seven years ago, we have had no reliance on any interests further than these—first, on the eman cipation of truth ; and, then, on the intelligence and the virtue of our countrymen. We have appealed to you time after time. We have unremittingly appealed to you and my fellow-men in all parts of the country—( Cheers)—and nobly have you and they responded to that appeal.—( Cheers.) No man in this country, be he who he may, connected with any political movement whatever, has met or can meet with so hearty, so efficient a response, as was given to the appeal which the members of the Anti-Corn.law League addressed to the people of Great Britain.—(Great cheers.) In 1839, we asked our friends and neighbours, principally in Lancashire and Yorkshire, for sub scriptions to begin to carry on the war against the corn laws, and 5,0001. was almost immediately subscribed. In 1849 we asked for further subscriptions, and 7,a)01 or 8, 0 001. was sub scribed for that and a portion of the following year. In 1841 we sent out circulars to every county in the kingdom, asking the men who were engaged in teaching the doctrines of Christianity, what they thought of the corn-laws, and re questing them to meet us at Manchester, and no less than 700 of these men did leave their districts at immense inconvenience and at great expense , because they were summoned to discuss this great question.—( Great cheering.) In the year 1842 we had a bazaar in Manchester, and the ladies there pr svided arti cles, sold them at the bazaar, and handed over a sum of 10,0001. to the Council of the Anti-Corn-law League.—( Great cheer ing.) In 1843 we asked for 50,0001., and 50,000/. was at once collected.—(Continued cheers.) In 1844 we asked for 100,0001., and between 80 and 90,0001. has been already sub scribed, although the great bazaar to be held here in May next was considered when we asked the country for 100,0001. —( Tremendous cheering, which was continued for some minutes.) This year is but young, as yet but two months are almost gone. In the first month of this year, and in three months of the last, we ap pealed again to the free traders in the Northern counties, and we asked them, not to subscribe money, but to do something far more beneficial—we asked them to invest some of their pro perty in the purchase of a powerful weapon by which they could at the election hustings defend their dearest rights and liberties.—( Cheers.) And how was that appeal responded to ? I will tell you. The free traders in the Northern coun ties, principally in Lancashire, Cheshire, and Yorkshire, at the recommendation of the League, invested a sum no less than 250,000/. in the purchase of county qualifications.—( Great cheering.) You are aware that there is a class of men every where who do not take the trouble to inquire into the truth of • any matter, but who nevertheless go about spreading that • which is not true. Such men had they here. Many in the , country said, „ It is quite unconstitutional in the League to s collect money for the purpose of buying county qualifications." ; —( Laughter.) These are fictitious , assertions. The League never collected a pound to buy qualifications for anybody . ..— (Cheers and laughter.) The members of the League pur chased these qualifications for themselves.—(Cheers.) My five brothers—there are six of us—and myself have spent 900/. in buying qualifications for counties in the North of England —(Cheers)—and so these 250,000/. have been subscribed wholly by individual free traders throughout the country, who have resolved to get within the pale of the Constitution, and to fight the battle firmly, and coustitutionally too, on the hus tings at the next election of theirrepresentatives to Parliament. I have said that we shall have a large bazaar here in this house in May next, and I may also tell you, that in this me tropolis, in Manchester, and in a large number of towns in England, committees are farmed, and at work, for the purpose of providing materials for that bazaar; and a magnificent col lection of articles, the production of ladies, who have kindly aided us, will be then submitted for your purchase.—( Cheers. ) Every body in the country asks—" While we are doing so much, what are they doing in London ?" In the country the connexion that binds society is favourable to projects like these, and we can get the ladies, therefore, to do it in first-rate style—(Laughter)—but here it is not so easy. One does not know one's neighbour so well as in the smaller towns of the northern connties. I do not doubt that a great deal has been done, and I expect that a great deal more will be done before three months are expired --(Hear, hear,) And when this bold speculation is fully matured and perfected, it will beno discredit to the Sovereign of these lands to be pre sent in this building.—(Cheers,) Now, I take it that our pre sent position is a very prosperous one. I never advise any one to look at the dark side of things. I always look myself on the cheerful side of the picture, and troubles we know come fast enough without our going to meet them. Recollect what th. , present Prime Minister says—he came into office on the shoulders of the Central Association, but what says he new, and what was his opinion in past times ? He no doubt hopes that a liberal policy, and liberal measures at this time, will at an after period induce the people of England to remember him without unkindness, if not with attachment. I will read you an extract from a speech of his in 1824, when Mr. Huskisson brought forward same measure of free-trade, in the article of ribbons, &c. Mr. Secretary Peel is reported to have exhorted the House to firmness. He reminded the House that the eyes of Europe were upon them, and how greatly their commercial policy would be prejudiced if they yielded to the force of circumstances. He knew a good deal about these questions iu 1824, and he certainly could not be less familiar with them in twenty years after. In 1842 he an nounced the important principle, that the true policy of the nation was, to buy in the cheapest market and sell in the dearest. In his speech on Friday last, when alluding to a combination among the coal-owners of the north of England, he said that there could not be a greater abuse of national resources, than for a combination to exist among coal-mine proprietors for the put pose of raising the price to the consumer. I shall read it in another way. I know of no greater abuse of a national monopoly than for a combination to exist among landlords for restricting the supply of corn, in order to raise its price in this country. Can we doubt that the man wlao can be so right in his conception of the blessings of a free-trade in coal is not equally right with regard to the principle of a free-trade in corn ?—(Cheers.) It was said, in the conclusion of his speech, that his object, while establishing the principle of a further extension of reduction of taxation was to realise the utmost degree of good, without the disturbance or alarm of interests which could not be rashly interfered with, without para lysing the industry . of the country. He openly acknow ledges the very principles which we have advocated out of doors and in the House of Commons. All his sympathies are with the Anti-corn-law League at present. But let them look to the other side of the House of Commons. There was Lord John Russell, who was altogether stationary for three years on this question. He advocated an adherence to protection. What is Lord John Russell's opinion now? On the very first night of the present session he expressed his full conviction that protection was the bane of agricul ture; and the night before last, in the discussion on the income-tax, he said that he still adhered to this declaration; and he went further, for he not only said that protection was the bane of agriculture, but the bane of every other interest to which the principle could apply. He referred to our colonial interests—to our silk manufacturers, and to our timber growers in our North American possessions. We are associated to carry out the principle of liberty and freedom in every branch of trade. We are associated to carry these principles out by concentrating the invisible but the almost omnipotent endeavours power o f pu bli c op i n i on i n t h e i r f avour . W e h ave then our sympathy promote a large the interestssection and of p r osperityth e o public f the country . Our oppon en t s are b ro k en —th e i r courage i s blasted, an in Pa rli ament confi dence to advocate th a o s i nent . or . out of it they have not the cone password be still Onwar d, onward." r Our course is plain—let our faith in the intelligence, in po w er , tohneward.Let us have continued the people of England to second ou and in the capacity of no thought of going back, but let rusezerrtesionfs. Let us have achieve a complete and final triumr.-4 pcbsooroor)war,rml yang we charge us with adhering too strict y to a dry p i a ne l p i e n n y f men liti , al economy. Such attacks are equally harsh a n d "„ 1 7., nerous, and they may in like manner characterise all attempts to relieve the distresses of the country and to ameliorate the ettrning lilt LONDON, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1845. The House of Lords did not sit last evening. The House of Commons met at Four o'clock. The Chairman of the Sub-Committees on Standing Orders brought up reports on several Railway Bills. Various petitions were presented and notices of motion given. Among these latter was one by Lord DUNCAN, for Monday evening, for the repeal of the window tax. Lord GRANVILLE SOMERSET was understood to say that he intended to propose that the House should hold morning sittings, to commence en Friday, for the purpose of disposing of the Railway Laws Consolidation Bills; but the Noble Lord, as usual, spoke in so indistinct a tone, that it was impossible clearly to understand what he said. Indeed, Mr. AGLIONBY complained of the very indistinct manner in which the Noble Lord had spoken, and said, that although he had listened attentively, he had not been able to catch one simgle word which the Noble Lord had uttered. After a short explanation from Sir J. GRAHAM on the subject of one railway share which he had once possessed, Sir R. PEEL, in answer. to Mr. M. MILNES, stated that the Foreign Secretary had never communicated either to the Austrian or Neapolitan authorities, or to the autho rities at Rome, respecting any particular designs medi tated at Corfu ; and that, so little apprehension had he entertained that any attempt would be made from Corfu, that no communication whatever had been made en the subject to the Governor of the lonian Islands. The fact was, the expedition of the brothers BANDEIR4 had taken every one by surprise. No communication whatever had been made to the parties themselves, inasmuch as it had never been suspected that such an attempt was contem plated, and any impression that the Government had allured these individuals to destruction, was erroneous and without foundation. Mr. GEO. &Aura asked if the duty on sperm oil was to be given up P Sir R. PEEL replied that, after January 5, 1849, the duty would cease. The duty on whale oil would be taken off at an earlier period. After some conversation on the subject of the sugar duties, the House resolved itself into a Committee of Ways and Means, and Mr. ROEBUCK moved the amendment of which he had previously given notice, for extending the income-tax to Ireland. The exigency that required the imp3sition of the tax was common to the whole kingdom, and their united wants should be met by their united means. He therefore asked the Government to tax, not the professions, not the trades, not even the offices in Ire land, but to tax the realised capital in that country The Bon. Gentleman then taunted the agriculturalists with their support of Sir B. PEEL, the manufacturers with having been bribed into supporting the Budget, and the Irish Members with having run away from their posts. He thought it would be just to remove the stamp duty, which fell on the retail, tradesman, and substitute for it a property-tax, which would fall upon the rich landholder. Mr. SHEIL opposed the motion, as unjust to Ireland. He defended his absent friends from the attacks which had been made upon them, and concluded by urging upon Parliament the necessity of giving good govern ment to Ireland, even in an eponomical point of view. If they were to adapt their institutions to Ireland, instead of attempting to adapt Ireland to their institutions, they would make money by it, for they would secure peace, which would throw open a vast field of enterprise in Ireland, and in the prosperity of Ireland they would for all their munificence be usuriously repaid. Sir JOHN TynnEm. supported the motion. Mr. WILLIAMS had heard nothing from the Hon. Member for Dungarvon to show that this tax ought not to be imposed on the landlords of Ireland. Mr. Ross, Lord BERNARD, and Mr. BELLEW, defended the Irish landlords from the attacks which had been made upon them by the Honourable Member for Bath. A smart and somewhat angry discussion ensued, in the course of which the words " foul calumnies" were used by Mr. NEWDIGATE, who, on being called to order, apo logised to the House. At length — Sir R. PEEL rose, and admitted that, although strict justice might require the extension of the tax to Ireland, yet, as there was no machinery for its collection in that country, the creation of the machinery would be so ex pensive, that the Government would not be justified, in an economical point of view, .in proposing its creation ; therefore, he considered that it would be better to accept from Ireland an equivalent for the property-tax, and, comparing the benefit which would accrue to Eng land from the removal of the impert duties with that which would accrue to Ireland, the latter country would not be justly dealt with if the property-tax were im posed on her. The discussion was continued for some time after the Right Hon. Gentleman had sat down, Mr. Sergeant MURPHY, Mr. WALLACE, Colonel SIBTtIORP, Lord PALMERSTON, and several other Hon. Members taking part in it, after which the Committee divided, when their appeared for the amendment 33, against it 275. The Committee then divided on the original resolu tion, when there appeared for it 228, against it 30. The other orders cf the - day were then disposed of, and the House adjourned at One o'clock. The clever speech in which Mr. Rossucs. last night brought forward his, unsuccessful amendment on Sir ROBERT PEEL'S proposition for renewing the income-tax, sth VicrostA—namely, " And that the provisions of the said Act, as far as regards the tax on property, be extended to Ireland "—provoked a somewhat smart debate. Nor is this any matter for wonder. The warmest and most consistent friends to the great principle of " justice to Ireland" might well imagine themselves not precluded from advo cating, with equal earnestness, "justice to England." When a people conceive that they are unnecessarily subjected to an odious and inquisitorial impost, they are very apt to become at least didactic on the enor mity of grinding taxation, in general. But when they find themselves selected, exclusively, to bear the whole of the detestable burden, and their brethren and compatriots of one great integer of the national union or confederacy, to which they belong, altogether exempted from it, that people are sure to perceive the practical hardship they suffer through so invidious and unequitable a distinction. Their protest and remonstrances against the unfairness complained of become animated and indignant in proportion to the distinctness with which they can detect it. Those remonstrances and that protest have found a caustic and sharp-witted exponent in Mr. ROEBUCK. In the very first course he ran at Sir Ronssr, he fairly un horsed his adversary. He pushed the Premier home with the undeniable discrepancy between his own avowed plea of Friday night last, in apology for the heavy tax he had to propose the con tinuance of, on property and income, " that it was in order to meet and satisfy the com mon exigencies of the country," with the fact of his having excepted Ireland from its operation. If the exigencies to be provided for by the stringent and extraordinary course the Minister has taken be com mon, in relation to all the components of the United Kingdom, why was Ireland to be thus invidiously released from her liability to her proportionable con tribution ? If those exigencies do not affect Ireland, why was it not shown that they could affect the condition and interests of England, Scotland, and \Vales, only ? " From Tamworth Tower to Leddlesdale" is not one• twentieth part of the distance of Sir ROBERT PEEL'S 'reply from these interroga tories. The Right Hon. Baronet faced about to make a showy feint at th 3 granite outworks of Mr. JOSEPH Hums. He hovered about that Hon. Mem ber's speech with all kinds of unwonted courtesies, salutes, and compliments, at the expense of a speech which was delivered on Friday by an Hon. and Gal lant Conservative follower of the Right Hon. Baro net, which speech the latter unkindly characterised as " very foolish," and in a moment of unpremeditated candour, admitted that " he had heard it with dismay." Characteristic soothing, this, to be sure, for the Irish Tory agricultural interest. A'leaf; if you will, out of the same primer, "Discouragement to the Landed Proprietary made easy," from which, if we The talent of this eminent Artiste has been secured for a few Farewell Nights, previously to her taking leave of the Stage. M. St. Leon, M. Gosselin, M. Dl Mat. ia (of the Theatre Royal, St. Carlos, Naples), M. Bertrand (of the Academie Royale de Paris), M. Perrot, and M. Toussaint (of the Academic Royale de Paris—his First Appearance in this Country), With a numerous and efficient Corps de Ballet. Engagement has also been effected for a few nights, with the Thirty-six Danseuses Viennoises, Who have lately appeared with extraordinary success at the Aca demie Royale do Paris, and who will appear at the Opening of the Theatre before Easter. Principal Artiste of the Theatre • . Mr. Marshall. Leader of the Orchestra •. •• • • Tolbeque. Maitre de Ballet .. M. Perrot. sous 'Maitre de Ballet • • • • • • • . NI. Gosselln. Ilegisseur de la Danse • • • • • • • • M• Bertrand. Leader of the Ballet • • • • • • • • .. M. Nadaud. Composer of the Ballet Music •.• • .. Sig. Pugni. Arrangements have been made for the appearance of Signor Moriani and Signor Fornasari for the Opening of the Theatre before Easter. The Subscription will consist of the same number of Nights as Last _ _ Season The Repertoire will consist of a Selection from the works of the naosl admired Composers. The THEATRE will OPEN On SATURDAY, the FIRST of MARCH, When will be produced (first time in this country), Verdi's new Opera, ERNANI. With new scenery by Mr. Marshall, Ernani, Signor Moriani; Ruy Gomez, Signor Foraaaarl; Carlo Quinto, Signor Botelli • and Elmira, Madame Rita Borto. To conclude with a new Ballet, by M. l'errot, entitled LA FILLE DE LA DRYADE. The Music by Signor l'ugnl. The Scenery by Mr. Marshall. In which will appear Diddle. Lucile Grahn, Mdlle. Louise . Weiss, Mdlle. Ferdinand, Mdlle. Demel.sse, Mdlle. Casson, Mdlle. Moneelet, &c. M. Tous.saint, 31. Gosselin, 31. Di }Duda, 31. Bertrand, 31. Perrot, and the Danscuses ViCnnoises, THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. TIIIS EVENING Will be performed GUSTAVUS THE THIRD ; or, The Masked Ball. Gustavus the Third, Mr. Cooper ; Colonel Lillienhorn, Mr. U. W. King ; Captain Ankerstrom, Mr. Stretton ; Oscar, Miss Wittier ; Madame Ankerstrom, Miss Betts. After which, a Grand Divertissement of LA BAYADEEE. Cha racters by Monsieur H. Vestris ; Monsieur and Madame Finart, and Milne. Maria. . To conclude with the favourite Drams of CLARI ; or, The Maid of Milan. Clari, Miss ltainforth ; Vespino, Miss Poole. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. LESSEE, SIR. B. WEBSTER. THIS EVENING Will be repeated a New and Original Comedy, in Five Acts, entitled ')LD HEADS AND YOUNG HEARTS. Colonel Rocket, Mr. strickla.. d ; Littleton Coke, Mr. Charles Mathews ; Tem Coke, Mr. Webster ; Bob, Mr. Buckstone ; Jesse Rural, Mr. W. Ferret' ; the Countess of I'ompion, Mrs. W. Clifford; Lady Alice Hawthorn, Madame Vestris ; Miss Rocket, Miss Julia Ben , ett. After which, USED Ur. Sir Charles Coldstream, Mr. Charles Mathews; Wurzel, Mr. J. Bland; Mary, Miss Julia Bennett; Lady Clutterbuck, Mrs. Humby. To conclude with TIIE MILLINER'S HOLIDAY. THEATAE ROYAL, ADELPIII. UNDER THE DIRECTION OF MADAME CELESTE. TIIIt3 EVENING Will be repeated a New and Original Drama, entitled TIIE GREEN BUSHES ; or, A Hundred Years Ago. Connor O'Kennedy, Mr. Selby ; George, Mr. Hudson : Wild Murtogh, Mr. 0. Smith ; Muster Grinnidge, Mr. Wright ; Jack Gong, Mr. Paul Bedford ; Geraldine, Mrs. Tate• ; Nelly O'Neill, Mrs. Fitzwilliam ; Miami, Madame Celeste. —.— To be followed by a New Dramatic Anecdote, entitled THE SOLDIER OF FORTUNE ; or, The Irish Settler. The Duke of Anjou, Miss Woolgar ; Captain O'ltorke, Mr. Hudson ; the Baroness Ileaupre, Miss Fortescue. To conclude with THE UNFINISHED GENTLEMAN. PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. LESSEE, AIR. J. M. MADDOX. THIS EVENING Will be repeated THE CASTLE OF ATMON ; or, The Four Brothers. Baron de Beaumanoir, Mr. Walton ; Olivier, Mr. Allen ; Allard, Mr. C. Horn, Jun. ; Richard, Mr. Hime ; Renaud, Mr. Mattacks ; Ivon, Mr. Leiller ; Hemline, Mdlle. Helen Condell ; Clara, Miss Brentnall ; Yolande, Miss E. Honner Eglantine, Miss J'Connor ; Gertrude, Mrs. Fosbroke. After which, MONSEIGNEUR; or, PARIS IN 1720. Mon ioignour, Mr. Wallack ; Germaine, Mr. Oxberry ; Rosanne, Miss E. Stanley; Annette, Miss Marshall. To he followed by the Comedietta, entitled THE BRIGADIER. rrincipal Characters by Messrs. Wallack, Granby, and Compton ; Miss E. ilonner, and Miss E. Stanley. THEATRE ROYAL, LYCEUM. UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MRS. KEELEY. THIS EVENING Will be performed A TRIP to KISSENGEN. After which, THE MARRIAGE CERTIFICATE. Principe.] Characters by Messrs. F. Matthews, F. Vining, Collier, and Turner ; Miss Walcott, Mrs. Usher, and Mrs. Keeley. To be followed by a New Farce, entitled A MODEL OF A WIFE. Principal Characters by Messrs. A. Wigan, F. Matthews, and Mea lows ; Miss Walcott, and Miss Falrbrother. To conclude with VALENTINE AND ORSON. Principal Cha racters by Messrs. F. Matthews, Meadows, Wigan, Collier, Turner, Kialoch, Yarnold, and Keeley ; Mrs. Wigan, Miss Arden, Miss Fair brother, Miss Grove, Mrs. Woollidge, Miss James, Miss Turner, and Mrs. Keeley. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHKATRE. PROPRIETOR, MR. W. BATTY. TIIIS EVENING Will be repeated TILE ROYAL FOX HUNT ; introducing a Real Fox-chase on the Stage, by Living Fox and Real rack of Hounds. Entire Change in the Circle.—Unequalled Feats of Horsemanship. • To be followed by the rustic Pageant of THE FLITCH OF BACON. To conclude with the Spectacle of THE FORTY THIEVES; or. the Tiger Horde of Bagdad. DAVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. THIS EVENING Will be repeated a ;few llrarna,: with New Scenery and splendid Appointments, entitled MIDNIGHT ; or, the Sentinel and the hour. Legend .‘f St. Paul's. In which the entire Company will perform. Atter which, a Ballet, to be called THE GNOME OF THE RED RUT MOUNTAIN. To conclude with THE WHISTLER. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. THIS EVENING Will be repeated TUE LADY OF TROPEZ ; or, The Bride of Woe. George Maurice, Mr. Osbaldiston ; Antoine, Mr. H. Howard ; H. Langlois, Mr. E. Jones; Charles D'Arbell, Mr. J. T. Johnson ; D'Aribrine, Mr W. Searle ; Jerome, Mr. J. Herbert ; Hortense (the Bride of Woe), Miss Vincent ; Madame Langlois, Miss Eliza Terrey ; Charlotte, Miss Cooper. After wuich, THE HOUSE DOG. Supported by Mr. C. J. niggle, J. Herbert, E. Jones, Miss E. Terrey, Miss Jefferson, &c. To conclude with JOCK(); The Brazilian Ape. In which Monsieur Gouffee will perform the most wonderful and un-imaginn ble Feats. THE LORD MAYOR AND THE DISTRESSED NEEDLE WOMEN.—A ball being about to be given for the distressed needle women, Lord Mayor Gibbs was applied to for the usual permission to exhibit the printed announcements in front of the Mansion-house. Ills Lordship refused the request, and his name does not appear as one of the patrons of the charity. The latter we did not expect ; but we thought he might have placed the Mansion-house wall at the dis posal of the committee to post a bill upon. Though we did not think he was likely to give the poor needlovromen bread, we fancied he was just the sort of man to have offered them a stone.—Punch. ANOTHER CASE OF POISONING AT DORCHESTER.- Another child murder by arsenic has been committed at Dorchester, by a loose women named Warr, and the victim is her own illegiti mate child, only a few months old. The offence was committed In December, and has only been just brought to light. A coroner's jury ' 1 " been inVestigatieg the matter, but the inquiry hadnot Concluded yesterday. truth seems to be that the acute mind of Mr. SIIEIL was sensible of the feebleness of such an argument; and therefore rushed into vaticinations and warnings connecting the experience of the past with the proba bilities of the futnre ; SWIFT'S agitation of Ireland, about WOOD'S half-pence, with Mr. O'CoNNELL's agitation, should you put into his hands such a weapon as the opposition that would blaze up throughout Ireland to the introduction of a pro perty-tax. But all this is rather ad hominem than ad rem. Mr. WILLIAMS'S subsequent amendment, declaring that all persons in the receipt of the public money in Ireland, should be liable to the same in come-tax as that paid by the people of England, does not at all go to the extent of the broader prin ciple of Mr. ROEBUCK'S proposition. If the latter be good for anything, it cannot be satisfied by limiting its application to an income-tax, instead of one on property, and its levy to the recipients of official in come. If the amendment of Mr. WILLIAMS fell to the ground from its own imperfections of scope, better suc cess must be allowed to have attended the arguments of Lord BERNARD, Mr. BELLEW, and Sir 11. W. BAR RON, inasmuch as they voted in the majority against the Learned Member for Bath's proposition, than they merited. They were speeches whose only remarkable quality consisted in the intensity of their selfish unreasonableness. We shall not pursue this matter through the observations of the Chan cellor of the Exchequer, Mr. Sergeant MURFIIT, Lord PALMERSTON and others who followed on the same side. The principle of equitable division of the burden between the two countries, which was the strength of Mr. ROEBUCK'S address, was never once grappled with. Mr. GouLnuaN's Exchequer statistics were responded to by Mr. HUME, in a speech which closed with this fair and dispassionate remark :—"lf the people of Ireland demanded equal rights and equal privileges with their fellow-subjects, let them first be able to stand up and say they paid equally towards the expenditure of the country." The opinions of Mr. HUMS, strange to say, found fast backers in Col. SIBTRORP, Mr. BLscKsioris, and others of his " ancient foes." But the finest thing of the evening was decidedly the acting of Sir R. PEEL. He has studied the very idiosyncracy of " SAM Sucx." The great modern master of " soft-sawder" could not have ac quitted himself more creditably than Sir ROBERT, in his honeyed compliments and elaborate, though some what tardy, praise (for ho admitted to the Member for Montrose 40 years' of most eminent public service) of Mr. HOME. But what was Sir ROBERT'S conclu sive and "sufficing reason" for exempting Ireland from this tax ? That there did not already " exist in that country a machinery for collecting it," and that to create a new one would be so operose and expensive an undertaking as to make it not worth while to impose the tax there. In the first place, Mr. HOME had pre viously shown that there does exist in Ireland the whole staff for the collection of poor-rate, which could be made instantly available for property-tax. In the second, how could Sir ROBERT preserve his gravity when he suggested the difficulty of organising a new one I But why a new one at all ? We will venture to promise him that the people of England, Scotland, and Wales, could be persuaded to deprive themselves of the tender attentions of his income-tax commis sioners, their clerks, boards, and collectors, without one murmur; and he would undertake to bring, at twenty-four hours' notice, 50,000 of the payers of this tax down to Blackwell, to greet the exporta • tion of this whole army of officials, with bags, books, and baggage, schedules, ledgers, papers, and distress warrants for " Ireland," by the GREAT BRITAIN. We have accounts from Madrid to the 12th inst. In the discussion on the Clergy Dotation Bill on that day the Finance Minister, in order to allay the public alarm as to the Church property already sold, announced that the Government were fully resolved to maintain the inviolability of the property that had already passed out of the hands of the clergy, and that they would suffer no encroachment on acquired rights. It appears, however, that, owing to the folly of the priests, the purchasers of this property were seriously alarmed, and had called a public meeting on the subject. The Three per Cents. closed at 32k for cash, and 33f at 60 days ; the Five per Cents. at 24k for cash, and 25f at 60 days; the Coupons at 26} at 60 days ; the Vales at 10 19-6 at 60 days ; and the Debt with out Interest, at 7f at 60 days. We regret to learn from the Paris papers that the excitement caused by the Jesuits in Switzerland is still on the increase, and that serious disturbances may be anticipated before the question is settled. The canton of Lucerne has resolved that the educa tion of the people shall be placed under the control of the Jesuits; and against this resolution not only many of the inhabitants of that canton, but the Go vernments of Berne, Zurich, and now the provisional Government of the Pays de Vaud, have protested against the introduction of this system of education into the Federation, and seem disposed to resist it by force. On this important subject, the Great Council of Vaud had been engaged for three days, at an extraordinary meeting held at Lausanne The object of the meeting was to come to a vote on the instructions to be given to the Deputies to be sent to the General Diet—one party contending that the Diet should not concur in any resolution for the expulsion of the Jesuits, while the other was for more violent measures, and were supported by 32,000 per sons, who had signed a petition against the Jesuits. After lengthened discussions the Grand Council, by a majority of 104 to 63, resolved that a polite but press ing request be addressed to the state of Lucerne, that it should not act upon its resolution relative to the introduction of the' order of Jesuits into its canton. It founds this request on the grave troubles which that decree has occasioned in Switzerland, on the fact that the order of Jesuits are essentially hostile to Pro testantism, and especially on the fact that the canton of Lucerne, as directing canton, should be still more circumspect as regarded the other cantons. Since that event the whole of the Council had abdicated, and at a general meeting of the people at Lausanne, a provisional Government, composed of nine members, and having for its president M. DRUM', Councillor of State, had been appointed. These events, which had for their motive the fact of the Grand Council not having paid sufficient attention to the petition sent in by 32,000 persons, for the expulsion of the Jesuits, took place on the 14th and 15th. In the meantime, convince those around him that it is right ; Le Tories . support him have, it is true, some severe moments to endure. It is certain that the projects of the Minister are grating to their ideas, and in several respects injurious to their interests. Nevertheless, the Minister marches on with a straightfor ward step and drags them on with him. The conduct of Sir R. Peel attests a great Parliamentary power, and at the same time claims the approbation of every elevated mind. There tl-e majority has really a chief who leads and guides it. A strong hand is felt to rule the Government, and we do not find, as with us, a Cabinet made the prey to a thousand subaltern influences, which dictate the law instead of obeying. Nothing can be more bold and energetic than the plans pro posed by Sir R. Peel. The system commenced in 1842, when the first reform in the tariff was made, now re ceives a complement worthy of it. Eight days ago the French Ministry caused the rejection of a reform which would have been eminently beneficial and popular—we mean the postal reform—by alarming the Chamber with chimerical fears of a deficit. With these timid and common-place tac tics compare those of Sir R. Peel, What is the Exchequer about to lose by the reforms he proposes? A .revenue of 84,000,0001'. This is a calculation made by Sir Robert him self. He sacrifices without hesitation the surplus shown by the last financial year. He makes this sacrifice deliberately, voluntarily ; well • knowing to what lie exposes himself, the vast responsibility he incurs in the eyes of his country. The sense of this responsibility does not stay his hand. He leaves all vain terrors, all puerile fears, to the mere calculators of figures. He is perfectly aware that the Treasury will find under a thousand forms, through a thousand different chan nels, in the increase of the general welfare, an ample com pensation for these temporary losses. One more word. Sir R. Peel thinks and acts like a statesman. This is rare now a-days ; for what has been said of the gods and of kings has become much more true with regard to great ministers—they are leaving the earth." THE BOURSE--TUESDAY, FEB. 18 First Highest Lowest Last Price- Price. Price Price French FiveperCents•• •• •• 122 65 .. 122 80 .. 122 65 122 75 Three per Cents••••• 85 .. 85 10 .. 85 .. 85 5 New Loan •••••••• 85 95 .. 85 95 -. 85 95 .. 85 95 Bank of France •• 8255 ••3255 3255 .4255 Gouin Bank, I,ooof. Shares 1085 —lOB7 50 •.1085 .. 1085 nsiglan Bank Belgian Fives, 1840 105 .. 105 .. 105 -. 166 1842 •••••••• 10614 .. 106% .. 10614 .. 10614 Four-and-a-Half 10 314 •• 103% .. 10314 .• 10314 Two-and-a-Half. •• • 61 .. 75 .. 6 1 .. 75 Spanish Threes •• • • Active •• •• . 3 8 34 .. as •• 38% .. 3834 Passive •• •••• 674 .. •• 67 4 Portuguese Five per Cents.. 5914 .. 5914 .. 59% .. 5911 Neapolitan ••• • • • Roman • • • ••• • • • RAILWAY SUARES. St. Germain .• „ „ ....1096 •.1100 ••1095 ..1100 Versailles, R. 8.•. L. 8.•• ••••••••.• 276 25 .. 382 50 376 25 .. 381 25 Rouen •••••••• • • •• •• • • —llOO •-1101 25 ..1110 ••1101 25 Rouen to Ilavre•. ..... . 890 .. 890 •• 890 890 Orleans .•• • • •• • • .• -- .1160 ••1166 25 ..1158 75 ..1170 Strasburg to Bale.. Avignon to Marseilles•• •• •• 975 .. 975 .. 972 50 972 5. Bordeaxx to Teste 205 •• 205 .• 202 50 .. 205 RAILWAYS FOR THE ACCOUNT, MINCH 3. St. Germain ..... lOB5 -.1080 ..1080 ..1080 Versailles, R. 8.• • .• • • 560 .. 567 50 .. 560 .. 567 50 L. 8..• •• •• Rouen .• •• • • • • Rouen to Havre. •• Orleans •••• ..... ••••......1162 50 —1172 50 ..1162 50 ..1172 50 Strasburg;to Bale•• •• 317 50 .. 318 75 .. 317 60 . 318 75 Avignon to Marseilles.• • • •• 975 .. 980 .. 975 .. 980 THIS DAY'S NEWS HOUSE OF LORDS-(THIS DAY.) The House sat to-day to hear appeals. The Peers present were Lord Brougham, Lord Cottenham, and Lord Campbell. RENNIE V. RITCHIE. The further argument in this part-heard appeal occupied their Lordships the whole day. CHANCERY.-(THIS DAY.) The Lord Chancellor sat in Lincoln's Inn Hall to- day and took appeal motions, it being the second Seal after term. MANN 17. RICKETTS, This case occupied his Lordship the whole morning. The question in this case was of no public importance, as it re lated to the practice of the Court. EXCHEQUER -(THIS DAY.) The Lord Chief Baron took common jury cases during the day, but the proceedings were entirely devoid of public in terest. INSOLVENT COURT-(THIS DAY (Before the CHIEF COMMISSIONER.) IN RE BENJAMLN BURROWS. The petition of this insolvent, who had carried on an ex tensive business as a carcase butcher in Courtney-terrace, was opposed by Mr. Dowse, on behalf of Mr. John Lyon, a slop salesman. The grounds of opposition were that the insolvent had procured from the opposing creditor, upwards of a hundred head of cattle, for payment of which he was compelled to sue him, when he defended the action, whereby Mr. Lyon was sent unnecessarily to law, incurring expenses exceed ing 501. Mr. Nicuot,L, on behalf of the insolvent, contended that he was justified in the course he had adopted, inasmuch as the jury ultimately returned a verdict for less than the sum for which Mr. Lyon went originally. The COURT held that the opposition upon this ground could not be sustained, after the verdict of the jury, and or dered the insolvent to be discharged. IN RE JOHN WRIGHT. In this case, which had been adjourned previously, in order that the insolvent might file a new balance-sheet, and render further information respecting the disposal of certain property of which he was possessed previous to his insol vency, the Court ordered the case to stand further adjourned to next Saturday. IN R 3 SAMUEL CHANDLER. The insolvent had been the proprietor of the Commercial inn, at Barnet, called the Old— Salisbury Arms. Several creditors had entered an opposition to the petition, but none appeared in Court when called upon. The LearnedCmgr COMMISSIONER examined the insolvent at great length, when it appeared that he had kept livery stables, although he had not described himself as of that occupation in his schedule. It also appeared that he had received certain moneys from Mr. Riley, the clerk to the board of guardians, for which he had not satisfactorily accounted in his balance.—The case was adjourned to compel the attendance of Mr. Riley. The following petitions were heard during the morning, and the applicants ordered to be discharged forthwith : Thomas John Alger, George Noble, Thomas Thorpe, Thomas Holton, Henry West, John Stent, and James James Thomas Beard. LLOYD'S SHIPPING.—(THIS DAY.) Losnox, FEB. 20.—Wind southerly, fresh breeze and fine; last night it blew cold with a smart frost. OFF DOVER, FEB. 18.—Leda, New York for Antwerp; Kron Prindeesian Caroline, Charleston for Copenhagen. CowEs, FEB. 19.—Arrd. Norwegia, Stewart, Rio. DARTMOUTH, FEB. 19.—Wind S. E., fresh breeze.—Arrd. Johanna Dettard, Ludenig, Galveston for Bremen. PORTSMOUTH, FEB. 19.—Wind E.N.E.—Arrd. her Ma jesty's ship Eagle, Sheerness. Sld. her Majesty's steamers Rattler, Black Eagle, and Victoria and Albert, on a cruize. H. N. M. S. Huzaar and Lancier, Guinea ; Courier, Cape of Good Hope. PLYMOUTH, FEB. 19.—Wind E.—Arrd. J. P. Howard Duncan, New Orleans for Havre. FALMOUTH. FEB. 19.—Wind E., strong breeze.—Arrd. Cornucopea, Carr, Ichaboe ; Crusader, Labalestier, Honduras ; Jacot, Pennell, Mobile for Havre. OFF HEACHY HEAD, FEB. 18.—Fendon, Barkinstien, Rio for Antwerp ; Egmond, Surmam, for Amsterdam. SWANSEA, FEB. 18.—Hazelrigg, Prince Edward's Island. DEAL, FEB. 19.—Wind E. to E.S.E., fresh.—And. Adolph, Schwenson, Valparaiso for Hamburgh. Ski. Berkshire, Bombay; Waban, Cuba; St. James, New York. LivEßPoot., FEB. 19.—Arrd. Commerce, and Sir C. Camp bell, New Orleans ; Clara, Powhat tan ' Mobile ; Albion, Avon ; and Flora McDonald, St. John's, New Brunswick • Peel's One, Quebec. Sld. Livingstone, China; Circassian, Lima; Hero, Rio Janeiro ; Bristol, St. John's, New Bunswick ; Mars, Ilalifax. orr, City of Adelaide, Ichaboe; Abbot, Lord, New Orleans ; Mandane, Charleston. CLYDE, FEB. 13.—Arrd. James, Henderson, Ichaboe, part of cargo thrown overboard, having been struck by a sea, 18th inst., lat. 44. lon 20, during a gale at N. Sid. Ellen Gowan, Port Republicain. HULL, FEB. 19.—Arrd. Foster, St. Andrew's. Sid. Mary Miller, Valparaiso. DUBLIN, FEB. 17.—Arrd. Coolock, St. John's, New Bruns wick. WtritztrAvEzr, FEB. 18.—Arrd. Brazil packet, Beckett, Antigua; Camilla, Demerara, New 3'% per Cent. Annuties Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan. 1860 1 2% Do. 30 Years, Expire Oct. 10, 1859 ll% India Stock Consols for Account Exchequer Bills. 1 3 / 4 d. 11!d -1,000/. 5001. Ditto Small — PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CL OCIC Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent 906 Mexican Bonds, 1837, 5 per Cent 3 51 16 Ditto Deferred Stock lO Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent 6 0 Ditto Converted 590 59 e Ditto for the Account. Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent., 1840 -- 4/ Ditto for the Account 2 81? Ditto 3 per Cent 4O Belgian Scrip, 4 1 ,4 per Cent. Dutch 2 1 / 2 per Cents Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates .. 9 $ PRICE OF SHARES AT ONE O'CLOO 5 'O. RAILWAYS. PAID. PEA $0 3 3 ...... I t ° ....' Birmingham and Gloucester 100 132 Ditto, Bait' Shares .........3 4 ...... 0 _ Bristol and Exeter .„ 7 Ditto New ...... 58 Bristol and Gloucester... .... Caledonian ....„ Cambridge and Lincoln Chaster and Holyhead Churnet Valley Diss, Beccles, and Yarmouth 1 1 / 2 2 .... .... Pirect Northern . . 2% 2%4... t 0 .... to Dublin and Galway 2 1,4 3 ... '.. to 48 Eastern Counties 141. 16s. I 7 3- .... : to ••••• Eastern Union Ditto Extension 18 " 5 /5 ............ .....j Great North of England 100 Ditto New Great Western Ditto Fifths Guildford, Farnham, Portms. 2 1 ,4 3% ..... 0 .., Harwich 1 - Lancaster and Carlisle l5 ...... 31 ...... to ..„. Lincoln, York, and Leeds IN 1%•••• •. . to London and Birmingham ...100 Ditto uarters London and Blackwall London and Brighton 5 1 062% ...... 5:7//814::::::' to --": London and Greenwich... 12/. 15s. 4d... 11 .... :: to London and South Western 41%...... 80 ...... : 0 ..' .1 London and Croydon Ditto Guaranteed 5 per Ct. 4 London and York ... ..... ...... 2%.,, 7%..'...• :,-„ 0 Manchester and Birmir.gliam 40 10 Ditto Quarters ...... .:•'. Midland 100 126% to .••••• -' Ditto New .. - . Midland, Birm. and Derby ...100 Newcastle & Darlington,;unc. 24 ... ... to r° 15 1 Newcastle and Berwick North British Ditto New 1 ...... 3 25." t o Rugby, Worcester. and Tring 1 Shrews.,Wolver., Dud., Birm. 2% 5 6 / 4i ..... to 4 South Eastern and Dover ... 3.3% 4 0 3 / 40,V to Ditto New, No. 3 2% ...... 9A A - rz to " South Wales Trent Valley West Cornwall Yarmouth and Norwich - Ditto, New 8 York and North Midland ... 50 lO5 .... ' to "' Ditto Selby FRENCII RAILWAYS. to Boulogne and Amiens to ..... Great Northern of France ... 4 Orleans and Vierzon Orleans and Bordeaux ... .. 2 Paris and Lyons Paris and Orleans 2O ...... 45, / „••• . to 5, Paris and Rouen . Tours and Nantes - 1 ...... 2 . ~,,d 9° Erntum in yesterday's List.—Read L0nd01,1,..'" _ o il *Western first price 81. c o 11 01 sr ° -E• 19•- --1 ' pri c t le MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, ... ER. • ~r id .., rather less animation in our market tc-daY , P cll': btoP' not quite so firm as yesterday. Our sales are sold orig oti tir and Glasgow, New Quarters, 65% ; London ol d , P e a 58% ex new and ex div. ; Landoll o ao se, Western, New, 12N ; Manchester, Bori;restoriAtotee, sendale, 11 10%; Midland, 401. Shares, 3% ; n itto, ‘ . 1 4 0 5 1 1 Wyre, 22% ; Sheffield and Manchester, 105 ; 0 1' /. ; 13P o gie! Shares, 12 15-16 ; South-Eastern, No. 3, l ic a rn , 1)01. - a Junction, 6%; Ditto,'Half Shares, 2%) Black 7 ° l a and Bolton, 4 ; Bolton, Wigan, and LiverP7 610 g 0 pfd &Irian, 7 1 ,4, 8 ; Churnet Valley, 8% 8 ' si V o ° I) Dumfries 1 1 / • Huddersfield and Manchester RLeed_4o oo , / 4 , K 1 6 d Pr' teh Canal, 5% 3 4 ; Leeds and Thirsk, 3 1 .-,: irk ,ao _ $lll o t West Riding Junction, 6 ; Liverpool, Orrns,'. b, So!, l're.., 34 • London and York, 7% ; North Bral_ c., 69 ' c ot" 3 ; ' Shrewsbury, Wolverhampton. DudleY, q i , $5 Valley, 20 19 3 / 4 ; Bordeaux and Toulouse, 2 7 4 ' Fire and Life Assurance, 11%. 0 iir -------"-------------.____------ tea S e loci s ' .ioc t Her Majesty and Prince Albert are Ori nti r o w ill rive at Buckingham Palace this afternoon, a t - el from the Pavilion at Brighton. The roYa l P 5 r travel from Brighton by a special train. k thi s -sf ra f A Cabinet Council was held at two o'cl °c le noon, at the Foreign-office, Downing -street• the Ministers attended. ira l4l ,ta' e s, Ss s Wen di DEATH OF AN OLD AND FAITLIF.--, the Cre - On, - • On Tuesday, Mr. Waklcy, M.P., held an inquest al ` o f Di th e $lP:d chor, near the workhouse, Clerkenwell, on the holi er % at t' o rit t il, Cave, aged 75. The deceased had been 54 Yea_l„, r itoriety WV con's Head, Snowhill, and in consequence of ld , _,'""hult 070 1, ,"010 wee much respected by his employer, who Silevrv“,„ e Cittl„alea gences. As he was proceeding to his residence in L.. an d Dr.. - ,4 Saturday, he dropped suddenly in Goswell-street, , o ittP last. , ...1.4 3" 11; SERIOUS ACCIDENT IN FLEET about ten o'clock, a gentleman was driving lane (by the League office) into Fleet-street, whl ip ped ' l° o ag v.- 00 turning the corner somewhat sharply, the lioise 5 ..0 it ri s fio te t g o t bled. The consequence was that the owner, n ii :t i gre il . ,,ioler A o e -ST : c l3 o E hr - lol c a t o rsf a lte etu • tained, was a medical gentleman, was thrown el"'; so tel , k oe.,sB upon the road. Being a heavy man, the fall wayd been l o te: e s those who beheld the accident thought that le, had 010 1 1,0 l ife the spot. He WAS, however, immediately raiscef4 It v eo o o o o chemist's shop close to where the accident eccu a ri a ii sonO cr e Dhip found there were severe injuries on the head , wa wa v r ci f ala cuts and bruises, but that, fortunately, those , fine and er means of a dangerous character. The horse,. * lSt 04 beast, was perfectly unhurt, having only sliPPr''_,..e,tief, ,pe , CIUM. Cos.—ln the Court of }-,xg.c"ing3, „h 04,";,, isto day, it was arranged that the case of Dunnc.i:;ntlif, ?,Ir. I t it 0: to in the sittings after Trinity Term. The PT ro pertY• , en clea S barrister, and the defendant a gentlesaan ' that the action has been compromised, # prde Ye s '"" oa. pay I,sool.—Dublin Evening' Port. -,,v, B AO" - - ....Mel' ''!, to FIRE AT ST. G EORGIE'S-IN-...-. , fire, at o p" es, morning, between the hours of two and th_rece3, brochoccoon:Der, time threatened the most serious c onseq " "cMcortloct, c aw 004 The premises occupied by Messrs. E. and I t ill, boolatoecl New-road, St. George's-in-the-East. I w elt We'; mace tor, rt. of the ' t.. 0,,-- lo' til and when first discovered a great P their „ ca pe. ~if r ots o and that the de. inmates having been aroused, effeted ‘.., _ , 00 d f or _ t or with all promptitude, and, being aided v in itt .::tioue!,; ore the firemen succeeded in soon titi,nishrieu'origia of , th e considerable damage had been done. 1" known. ------- °ln s VIE TV . ill, L inc ,n-on- the - 0 0. fiend On the 14th inst., ISt Wytha my., oa R . the wife of Lieut.-General Johnson, . • mi .,. 111 . 11 of A r j, Winstanley, of a son. plrs• J . ' so. ii• ter, On the 14th inst., at Wandswortn, ..- virsoro, 130 or On the 14th mt.t., at Bridgewa _ . ,, r ocent , wife el On the 14th inst., at Mornington• . the n e, . of a daughter. 1 1J Ye rste O h l'a si Jolla On the 14th inst., at Dalton, near the Rev. J. Baldwin, of a son. 1 the wife of On the 14th inst., at Dunstab e, Esq., of a daughter, still born. nber Or ig t° l7,A . MA ItHIEI3' peon, coo, at rton,ofdl. d eld e 'A On the 12th inst., at stave date mei - , o r , co p - eldest g, Flea,,, 0, Robins, Esq., to Emma Ann, _ _ el, clia lr ace, 5 On the 13th inst. at Trevor CusP_ son of Seth Smith, 'Esq., r 0 daughter of llugh Garden, Earl.,:2_-- t—.L------------------;; e ster , DMI- ) . , ganc b m ice • at Ardwiek.gree , OP ' On the 6th inst., of baton - goo of Mr . C ' i wife of John Jesse, Esq., On the 9th inst., Leah, the wit, street, St. James's, agedlB_...---- aged 26.. f of fog o Y" t q" l d Dyvion: Printed ant l'ut,lisnud nv N.v• - - 112, Strand Printer. o The Sus 0.000 Strald, in the Precinct of the avoy, 10 Kiddlesez, Thursday, FebruarY 2° , 1845. P ond th, , o e bue : 4 4'1 4 A ' c r4l 44' 1 4 k 44 trim 1,7114 144 1, 41 1) C t q' t toff h , 144: 4 t-7 4 %,,,tztn to`4 m v 621. ticS s° Ab i tv ttel i 41 '4 t , 41 )Y ;fk t o ,, .01,11; Jr, lA6I ea r c itm o Viti< lastt 4 V 9 1 . )1 Tt L