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DEDICATED TO LADY PONSO.TBY. /rt , * lean in 3 vols. post Bvo., with 34 Illustrations from Original Drawings, price 31s. 6d. bound, T HREE YEARS IN CONSTANTINOPLE ; OR, DOMESTIC MANNERS OF THE TURKS. By CHARLES WHITE, Esq., Author of " A History of the Belgian Revolution," Ste. lienry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. To be had at all the Libraries. pOPULAR NEW NOVELS. JUST PUBLISHED BY MR. COLBURN. L..thy CECILIA FARRENCOLTRT. By Henry Milton, Esq., Author of "Rivalry.' 3 vols. 11. STRATHERN ; or, LIFE AT HOME AND ABROAD. A Story of trio Present Day. By the Cou HI. ntess of Blessing,ton. duLLIN GDON HALL. A Tale of Country Life. By the Author " Handley Cross." 3 vols. IV. TUE PALAIS ROYAL. An Historical Romance. By the Author of " Henri Quatre." 3 vols. V. ARTHUR ARUNDEL. A Tale of tho English Revolution. BY the Author of " Briunbletye House." 3 vols. vr. PARSONS AND WIDOWS. By the Author of " Peter I'riggins." 3 vols. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great 3farlberough.street. • UNIFORM WITH THE AUTHOR'S OTHER WORKS. A cheap Edition, in one vol., price only 12s. bound, of MR. LEVER ' S NEW WORK, "ARTHUR O'LEARY," EDITED RY HARRY LORREQUER, AND ILLUSTRATED BY GEORGE CRUIKSHANK, IS NOW READY AT ALL THE BOOKSELLERS. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. THEATRE ROT AL„ Dfit RY-LANE. THIS EVENING Will be repeated a Grand Opera Seria, called THE DAUGHTER OF ST. MARK. Lusignano Mr. Burdini ; Andrea Cornare, Mr. Bonen' ; Moncenago , Mr. Weiss • Adolphe de Courcy, Mr. W. Harrison; Catarina Cornaro, Miss Poole To conclude with a Grand Comic Christmas Harlequinade, called PUCK'S PANTOMIME; or, HARLEQUIN AND ROBINSON CRUSOE. Robinson Crusoe, Mr. W. H. Payne; Harlequin, Mr. Wieland; Clown Mr. T. Matthews ; Pantaloon , Mr. Howell ; Columbine, Miss Canon. The Box-ottice is open daily, from Ten in the Morning until Six in the Evening, where Private and Family Boxes, Stalls, Places, and Tickets may be had on application to Mr. John Parsons. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Lessee, Mr. B. WEBSTER. THIS EVENING Will be performed a New and Original Comedy, in Five Acts, eslled OLD HEADS AND YOUNG HEARTS. Colonel Rocket Mr. Strickland Bob,ittleton Coke, Mr. Charles Mathev, s ; Tom FortuneCok Mr. Webster; I 3 Mr Buckstone ; Jesse Rura l, Mr. W. ; The Countess of Pc,mpion, Mrs. W. Clifford ; Lady Alice Hawthorn, Madame Vestris; Miss Rocket, Miss Julia Bennett. Atter which, a New Grand Musical Fairy Extravaganza, entitled GRACIOSA AND PERCINET. King Uxorious, Mr. J. Bland ; Princess Graciosa, Miss Julia Bennett ; Percinet, Miss P. Horton ; Duchess Grognon, Mrs. Stanley. To conclude with a Grand MOVING DIORAMA; or, PIC. TORIAL TOUR IN SWITZERLAND. Private Boxes, Two Guineas and One Guinea and a.Half each. T.ckets and Places to be had of Mr. I. T. Ar cher, at the Box-office, from Ten till Five o'Clock. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. Under the Direction of Madame CELESTE. THIS EVENING Will be repeated 'by special permission of Charles Dickens, Esq.) a New Drama, entitled THE CHIM ES. A Goblin Story of Some Bells that Rang an Old Year Out and a New Year In. Toby, Veck, Mr. O. Smith; Alderman Cute, Mr. Wri g ht ; 'rugby. Mr. Wilkin son ; Sir Joseph Bowley, Bart Mr. Paul Bedford ; Will Fern, Mr. Hudson ; Richard, Mr. Selby • Meggy Veck, Miss Fortescue ; Mrs. Chickenstalkf...r, Mrs. Frank M atthews.' After which will be repeated a New Farce, called THE COR PORAL'S WEDDING; or, a Kiss of the Bride, in which Messrs. Lambert, Hudson, and Selby, and Miss Woolgar will Ferform To conclude with a New Grand Military and Comic t hristreas Pantomime, called CAT'S CASTLE ; or, Harlequin and the King of tho Rats. Harlequin, Mr. T Ireand ; Columbine, Miss Long dale; Clown. Mr. C. J. Smith ; Pantaloon, Mr. San ;ere. Prompter, Mr. Gallot ; Principal Painter, Mr Pitt ; Leader of the Band, Mr. Mellon. — Box - orrice open from Eleven till Four. Private Boxes to be had at the Theatre. and at all the principal Libraries. PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STIIELT, LESSEE. Mr. J. M. MADDOX. THIS EVENING Will be repeated an Englibh Version of the ce' ebrated Opera Butla, in Two Acts, called I'ilE ITALIAN IN ALGIERS. fhe Music by Rossini. Mustapha, Mr. P. Corri ; Lindor, Mr. Allen; Taddeo, Mr. Leffler; Hely, Mr. Mattocks; Isabella, Mdlle. Helen Cendell ; Elvira, Miss Grant; Zulma, :Mssßrentnall. To be followed by a new Divertissement. called THE IR! •H WEDDING. Principal characters by Mdlle. Caroline Rousset, Miss Marshall, Mdlle Teresiue, M. J. Itotrset, Mr. Marshall, and Mr. Gilbert , To be strceeded by a New Comedietta, entitled THE WIDOW E BWITCHED. Mr. Clement Furuiral, Mr. Walter Lacy; Mrs. Lotimer, Mrs. Stirfing. After which will be rEpeatel a New Grand Romantic, and rather Operatic Burlesque Extravaginza, called JOE MILLER AND HIS MEN. Otindoff, Mr Compton ; Lothair, Mr. Oxberry •' Belmar, Ms. Granby; itiber, Mr. Corri , Golatz, Mr. Walton; Claudine, Miss E. Stanlge ; Karina, Mrs. Fosbroke. Dress CirclE" St. ; Boxes, 4s. ;• Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, Is. Half - price a t Nine o'clock—Dress Circle,2s. ; Boxes, 2s. ; sit, Is.; Gallery, CA. Private Boxes, Iwo Guineas and One Gumes and aaHalt ; Proace .'nm Boxes, Two Guineas and a-Half. Do ors Is be opened at Half p a Six, and the Performancal to commence at Seven o'clock. Box-olllce under the direction of Mr. W. Massingham. Private Rote-sand ' 1 ree Admissiovis far the Season to be bad at the Stage Manager, Mr. H. I. Wallack. Stage Director , Mr. Emden, blachinist, Mr. F/ 4 .mund BradwelL THEATRE ROYAL LYCE HUSE LATE ENGLISH 0 VERA- O. Uzdar the Manag S ement or Mrs. KEELEY. THI EVENING Will be repeated THE CHIMES; A Goblin Story. Principal Characters by Messrs. F. Vining, Meadows, Dieldear, F. Matthews, Collier, Emery, Turner. and Keeley; Miss Walcott, Was Arden, Miss Grove, and Nine. Keeley. Ater which, a New Farce, called TO PERSONS ABOUT TO MARRY. Supported by Messrs. F. Matthews, Meadows, and Stoker, Mies Arden, and Mrs. Wigan. To conclude with a New Grand Operatic, Histaricil, Romantic l'lntomimical, Burlesque Extravaganza, entitled VALENTINE AND GILSON. Principal Characters by Messrs. F. Matthews; Meadows, Wigan, Collier, Turner, Kinloch, Yarnold, and Keeley , Mrs. Wigan, Miss Arden, Miss Fairbrother, Miss Grove, Mrs Usher, Miss James, Miss Turner, and Mrs. Keeley. PRICES OF ADMISSION.—Liatcony ;oozes. 41.• Upper Boxes, as.; Pit, 25.; Gallery, 6d. Second Price—Balcony Boxes, 2e. ; Sipper Boxes, Is. fid.; I'it, Is. Private Boxes on the Balcony Tier IS olding eight persons), Two Guineas. Private Boxes on the Second tier (holding eiiht persons), One Guinea and a-Half. Private Bose• on the rit tier (holding six persons), One Guiren, The Poi.o:Scei s open from Ten to Four o'Clock, under the direc tiaq a"' Mr. Grogan, late of Covent-garden Theatre. GRAND JUVENILE FETES. ASTLEY'S NOY AL AMPHITHEATRE OF ARTS. Proprietor and Manager, Mr. W. BATTY. Brilliant Success of the New Pantomime. THIS EVENING Will be repeated a New Spectacle, entitle.' THE ROYAL FOX HUNT; or, file Race-Horse and Life's Course of Man and Steed; introducing unequalled Natlosal Fetes. !teal Fox-chase on the Stage and in the Circle by living Foe and real Pack of Hounds, purchased b) Mr. Batty of Mr. Tattersall, to realise this novel production. Epsom Races and other Sporting Features. New Scenes of the Circle, and entire change in the Feats of Horse manship. After which, a Brilliant Military Cavalcade. introducing Thirteen Female E l ucstrians, entitled THE HUNGARIAN BRIGADE; or, Female Cavalry. To conclude with a Grand Comic Christmas Equestrian Pantomime, e: lied HARLEQUIN AND JOHNNY GILPIN'S RUDE; er, the Black Witch of Edmonton. Harlequin, Mr. H. Lewis ; Columbine, Mrs. J. W. Colyer ; Clown, Sir. T. Barry; Pantaloon, Mr. Bradbury, Johnny Gilpin, Mr. Wells. Acting and stage—manager, Mr. W. D. Broadfoot. ROX-Othee open from Eleven till Five. Lessons in the Art e Riding by Mr. R. Smith daily. DAVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE n compliance with the wishes of numerous Families, the Pantomime will be performed in the middle of the Evening.—Continuation of the most brilliant Success er known. THIS EVENING Willbe repeated THE SEVEN AGES OF MAN; or, The End or Crime. Principal Characters by Mr. Henry Corsi (from the Theatre Royal Edinburgh), Messrs. H. Hughes, Neville , R Hoarier, L e wis, Heston, and Seaman, Mrs. R. Honner, Mrs. Lewis, Mrs. W. Daly, and Miss Martin. To be followed by an Original Worldly Comic Pantomime, called FOUNDS, SHILLINGS, AND PENCE; or, HARLEQUIN 2„, s. D. Harlequin, Mr. H. Harvey; Clown, Mr. T. Ridgway; Pantaloon, Mr. Henry Corsi; Columbine, Miss Slaiter. To conclude with THE WET NURSE. Supported by Messrs. Neville, W. Smith,:and Lewis, Miss Martin, &c. Places and Private Boxes to be had of Mr. Kerschner, at the Box.. aim from Eleven to Four. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. IF...atraordinary Success of " Marianne • or, The Child of Charity," and the Now Comic Pantomime. THIS EVENING Will be repeated MARIANNE; or, the Child of Charity. Sup. potted by Mr. Oibaldiston, Henry Howard, J. T. Johnson, T. H. Higgie, J. ligrbert, E. Jones, W. Searle, Miss Vincent, Miss E. Terrey, and Miss Treble. After which, MONSEIGNEUR. Monseigneur, the French Jack Sheppard, Miss Vincent. To concinde with a New Grand Christmas Pantomime, entitled i* A RLEQUIN HOT CODIANS • or, The Little Old Woman and Demon of the Metal Mine. 'Harlequin, M. ChapiDo; Clown, Blanchard; Pantaloon, Mr. Coney; Columbine , Mdlle. Vito. FRENCH PLAYS, ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. Mr. MITCHELL begs respectfully to submit a list of the EN WAGEMENTS, and an outline of the ARRANGEMENTS which De has entered Into for the ENSUING SEASON of FRENCH PLAYS, which will commence on MONDAY EVENING, JAN. 97, and which, he trusts, will be deemed worthy the distinguished Patronage hitherto conferred upon his Theatre. _ . The Season will commence by the Engagement of Monsieur Lafont (of the Theatre des Varietes), his First Appearance at this Theatre, for whose performance the popular Plays of " Le Che. yeller de Saint Georges," " Le Chevalier du Guet," " Pierre le Rouge," " Reauefinette," " Pere et Fits, &c., &c., arc., will be produced. Mademoiselle Nathalie (of the Theatre du Gymnase) will also appear conjointly with Monsieur Lafont. ♦fter whom, the eminent Actor, Monsieur Frederick Lemaitre (who has accepted an engagement for a limited number of Nights only), and Mademoiselle Clarisse, will appear, until the close of the Season at Easter. During the Engagement of Monsieur Frede rick Lemaitre, the popular Plays of " Don Cirsar de Bazan," and "Iluy Bias," by Victor Hugo, as originally performed by him with se couch success, will be produced; as well as the last New Piece olf the Porte St. Martin, which now exeites such extraordinary interest in Paris, and in which M. Frederick has performed for Oren consecutive Weeks, entitled " La Dame de Saint Tropez." After Eastzr, the eminent Actress, Madame Albert (engaged for a few nights only), will appear in the Two New Comedies of the Theatre Francais, " Une Famine a Quarante Ans," and " Le Mari ala Carnpagne," in addition to " Mathilde, ou la Jaloulse ;" and Marie, ou lea Trois Epochs ;" with other favourite Pieces of leer repertoire; and will be succeeded by the popular Comic Actor, Monsieur Ravel (of the Theatre du Palais Royale), who will make Lis First Appearance in this Country. The Engagement of Monsieur Ravel will be followed by those of Mademoiselle Fleecy, and Monsieur Regnier (of the Theatre Francais, his First Appearance in this Country). It is intended, at that period of the Season, to produce, under the superintendence of Monsieur Cartigny, some of the finest Comedies of the French 16tage. In addition to which, Mr. Mitchell has the honour to announce, that an entirely . New Comedy will be produced, written expressly for the Company by the eminent French Author, Mon aieur Alexandre Dumas, who will be present in London to direct the raise en scene of his New Composition. _ _ The Favourite Actor, NlOnsieur Achard, is also engaged for a few Nights, and will appear in the last New Vaudeville of Le GYmnase. entitled " ILibiole et Joblot," by Scribe, " Ywan le 11oujick," a n d ot h er N ew Pi eces, w ith the oc casional Represents boo of some of the meat popular Plays of that admired Actor's repertoire. The Season vrlll terminate by the Engagement of Monsieur Arnal (of the Theatre du Vaudeville), who will have the honour o f making his First Appearanc Engagement the following eat this Theatre, and during whose Popular Plays, at originally performed by Monsieur Arnal, will be produced . : L'Homme Elase, ,, " RenatiZo ne c ' ; " • L'Hurnoriste," " Les GantsJ. Passe Minuit," " Les Cabinets Particulaire," Le nal du e n c r aen, , . .. L e Poltren,,, a I n i d e selected' N t o blonde," e , " f r tt o c m . , " La Mansarde du Crime," " The Company for the Season will be carefully Theatres of Paris, including M.&c.the Cartigny, Oudinot, M. De ehampes (of the Gymnase), M. M a .,,,ii ie ' Marti*, M. Lienard, M. Tourillon, M. B i zot r , M. f the Porte St. Eliza Forgeot, Mdme. Croset, Mdlle. Mery, Mdlle. Chaplin,Bonuct, Mdlte. OzY (of the Varietes), Mdlle. Andrea (of the forte' Mdlle. Valle. Estelle (of the Palais Royale), Mdlle. Bonval the(of St.Martin), F ran cais), Mdlle. Valerie (of the Odeon), Mdlle• La Theatre • Lambert (- wf the Varietes), Sec., dec., &e. Lnder of the Orchestra, M. Burotte (for Twenty Years &cond Chef d'Orchestre at the Theatre du Vaudevill e) ; Dircctric e , x,ille. Eilza Forgeot ; Regisseur, M. Clout). .Tbe Subscription will be for Forty Representations, which will take place on Mondays and Fridays; the Performances on Wed isesday Evenings will not be included in the Subscriptions, but Sub scribers will be allowed to exchange either the Monday or Friday Evening for the Wednesday, when they may desire to do so, for tie accommodation of their other engagements, an arrangement Which, on former Seasons, has given such general ratisfaction. Applications for Season Boxes and Stalls to be dressed to Mr. t. 311; tehell's Royal Library, 33, Old Bond-street ; ad Mr. Sams, I, St. P/ 14 0 . 44triat ; and Messrs. Andrews and Ebers, Bond-street. • ----- -- _.__--..... --- '"r"'"""'""'"' _ _ . impnevroNrallit, "A. AL, Sun derland" (part of a name) on the stern, has come ashore new- here, with sonic wreckage and planks. THE WEATHER.-SUN OFFICE, JAN. 24. THERMOMETER, Lowest, 37 ; Highest, 44 ; Noon, 44. BAROMETER, 29.70.—W1ND, S.W. VOTE.—The figures which follow the words "Lowest" and "Highest" denote the lowest and highest state of the Thermometer during the preceding twenty-four hours. All the other observations are made at noon. Water freezes at 32 ; 55 on Thermometers is marked "Temperate," and on Barometers "Fair" is generally placed opposite to 30, and "Rain" at 29 ; but there is no certainty of dry weather when the mercury falls below 30. ERRATU3L—The Barometer marked 30.09 yesterday, not 30.9, as given in our Weather Table. HIGH WATER AT LONDON.BRIDGE THIS DAY. Homing ... 32 minutes after 2 I Evening ... 50 minutes after 2. • &VA ' • j 41 * 1 4 A ;". La' lip Ilk 1 7 - AP. ' 4144 , Vir.97 oF 4016 ( ,41116000;.- ',UMW SECOND EDITION: ~, c'Ar IMMIX 11 >UAL LONDON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 24, 1845. A correspondent of the Times, in a letter pub lished in that journal on Thursday last, adverts to the recent announcements touching the arrival in this country, from the United States, of some of the Royal Sappers and Miners who " have been lately employed upon the survey of the boundary between that territory and British North America." He very naturally expatiates on the immense importance of accelerating the survey and settlement of the conter minous limits of the Oregon territory and that part of the dominions of the United States immediately impinging thereon ; and in re ference to our present condition of compa rative uncertainty, even as to the mere geographical or assumed frontier points, and of our absolute igno rance as to the physical features :of the boundary so needful to be promptly and distinctly ascertained, he expresses his astonishment that the Government should have hitherto taken no means for securing, towards the attainment of an object that is important and urgent in its nature, the invaluable aid and talents of certain distinguished individuals among its own servants, already engaged in another part of the American Continent on the Boundary Survey, under the stipulations of the ASHBURTON Treaty. In allu sion to Colonel ESCOTT and the other Commissioners charged with this latter survey, he remarks, that the return of the Sappers and Miners in question gives a colour of great probability to the general report, that the work in question approaches rapidly to its completion. If so, he demands, why should not the same officers, who have been selected on the express recommendation of our Astronomer Royal, for conducting the scientific operations under the ASHBURTON Treaty, be transferred, immediately on the completion of these labours, to the Oregon boundary ? And we quite concur in holding that no such means as those thus at hand and in full training for the work, can be collected again for ascertaining and determining the international boundaries between the Oregon territory and the United States, if the Commissioners in question be allowed to return to England without entering into this momentous investigation, whatever shape the Oregon affair may hereafter take—whether it result in a partition of that vast region between the two • countries, or we shall insist upon our extreme and indefeasible right to the whole of it. In either case, it is very certain that the first and the indispensable step to be taken is —to survey and fix the line to be hereafter recognised as that which divides the Oregon country from the territory of the United States. "Better know what we should claim, and then claim it as becomes our country, than procrastinate until the invaded rights of our fellow-subjects imperatively de mand the presence of a British fleet in the North This alternative we have ourselves, in treating of the Oregon question, so often urged upon the earnest consideration of the Government, that we do not feel called upon to go again into the general principles on which we have always regarded the occupation pro ject of the United States, as one which could neither be evaded nor postponed. We have shown, in many former articles on this subject, how completely we had crippled our own case with regard to the Canada Boundary question, by a culpable inactivity—an un accountable apathy—an unpardonable indifference to the palpable State necessities, which demanded that the reserved conditions of boundary stipulated by the treaty of 1763, between France and England, and, again, by our preposterous treaty with the United States, perpetrated at Ghent in 1814 ;—should be practically discharged by the actual survey and deter mination of that frontier which, in 1845, after refe rences and arbitrations, the award of which has been receded from with such singular bad faith on the part of America towards the Governments of this country and of the late King of HOLLAND, is now about to be finally ascertained and laid down. If delay,—that official delay which it is the misfor tune of Great Britain ever to complain of as the cer tain accompaniment or result of her diplomatic failures,—if this delay was to be deprecated in the case of the north-western and north-eastern boundaries of the United States—if the protracted adjustment of those territorial disputes, even in the moment of its tardy accomplishment, is only attainable by territorial sacrifices on our part, which, whether they be worthless or not, we ought never to have been in a condition of liability to be called upon to. make ; delay in the settlement of the Oregon frontier is calculated to be productive now of infinitely greater embarrassment and mischief. For the reasons upon which it has been our duty so often to ground the case fur the possessory title of Great Britain, we retain our conviction that the honour of this country is involved to a most serious extent in the vindication of that title. What the result of deliberations in the British Cabinet or the Legislature may be, as to any equitable suggestions that may be urged in favour of permissive occupation by subjects of the United States, or of territorial ex change, it is impossible for us to speculate upon. But the tone already assumed in two branches of the American Legislature on this Oregon question ; the unscrupulous policy and moral turpitude evinced by its Executive in their underhand intrigues in connexion with the PRESIDENT'S scheme for annexing Texas to the immense federal dominions of the United States ;—offer little prospect of our being enabled, with a just regard to the dignity and the just rights of that country, to find any course practicable that shall be short of a positive and abso lute demonstration of our sovereignty over the Oregon. The interests of a large and most valuable branch of our foreign commerce (though we advert to them as being of secondary importance to the great principles of inter-national law and territorial sovereignty, we contend for), especially demand, at the hands of our Government, a degree of attention and care, in dealing with this subject proportioned to the present and future importance of that region from whom the most valuable of the valuable furs that find so ready a sale in the markets of China, are now supplied. On still higher considerations of humanity, we do trust that a timely demonstration of earnestness of purpose, and energy of action, on the part of our Ministers and their diplo matic agents, may not only avert the extreme result of an ultimate collision between two great countries, and that sacrifice of human life which would inevi tably be entailed by such a collision, but, by rectifying one of those vague and undefined conditions of State relations, the mischievous tendencies of which it is im possible to exaggerate, may remove a baneful source of jealousies, excitement, and heartburnings between the American people and the British nation ; and thus tend, rather to the consolidation of friendly feelings, than the exacerbation of resentful ones, in those whom it is for the benefit of the civilised world, of universal civilisation, to retain in reciprocal amity. The laws relative to debt, and to the protection of game, are certainly among the most remarkable ano malies to be found in the institutions of this country. 'The juxta-position in which we place them on the present occasion is no more anomalous in itself, than almost every aspect under which these laws present themselves to the consideration of the statesman, the legislator, or the moralist. In the " Ninth Report of the Inspectors of Prisons," just issued from the Par liamentary Paper-office, we find these laws of debt E SUN,' LONDON, and of game, in ominous combination, among the most prolific sources of supply from whence the inmates of the prisons in the northern and north-eastern dis tricts of England—are furnished. The law of debt was certainly ameliorated to a certain extent, if, as we believe, to mitigate its severity was to ameliorate it ; by the remarkable acts of the two last sessions of Parliament. But the vicious principle, we are fully prepared to show, still remains in full vitality, which assumes the fact of debt to raise the inference of crime. For debt is still visited, irrespective of any considerations of the circumstances under which it may have been contracted, with a penalty at least as severe as that awarded to very heinous offences and mis demeanours, with this aggravation of its intensity— namely, that the unhappy debtor who has endured the ruinous infliction of personal imprisonment (with all its concomitants of severance from his family and friends, disorganisation of his household, exile from his home, loss of time, health, spirits, and good re pute in society, and does not clear himself even if he be so fortunate as to collect the wherewith to pay the debt he is incarcerated for. Twenty shillings in the pound will not suffice; twenty-five shillings more in the pound are frequently the amount of law ex penses incurred under our humane and honest system —ten shillings . more, or fifty per cent., is quite a common supplementary claim on this account. If he cannot pay these expenses, he may rot in his prison, notwithstanding that he could pay his debt. A re turn from all the prisons and "lock-ups" in the king dom of those who still remain in confinement for costs, after finding the means and making the offer to settle their principal debts, would be a most fear ful one. Now this, again, is an anomaly ; the fur ther imprisonment of men whom you have clapped up for not paying twenty shillings justly due from them, till they have paid ten shillings more for the luxury of being clapped up. But it is not mere re markable than that which, to the commission of a larceny with violence in a dwelling-house, assigns a far less period of imprisonment, on the average of cases, than is usually endured by a declining but well-principled tradesman who is precluded, by cir cumstances beyond his control, from promptly satisfy ing the demands of his creditor. This inconsistency, which is a feature common both to the law of debt and the law of game, is heightened, in the case of the former, by its reaction on the social affections. We may thus advert—it would be painful to dwell upon —the exhibition which Mr. Commissioner FON BLANQUE'S Court presented in the beginning of this week. Lord HUNTINGTOWER being again brought before that jurisdiction, his counsel indignantly di rected the attention of the judge to the fact that that very foolish, but much harassed person, was in the receipt of no other moneys but the allowance which he derived from the spontaneous kindness of his mo ther, the Countess of DYSART, out of her separate maintenance. The Earl, his father, who was present at this appeal, is stated to have returned for answer— " a smile ;" although as the Commissioner observed, Lord lIUNTINGTOWER was known to all the world in the relations of his son and heir. Conduct like this is so truly paternal—this solicitude of a parent to withdraw his son from being made, as it was em phatically styled, " a public spectacle"—is so im pressive, that we should have concluded the Noble Earl had been one of the young Lord's most fa niished and eager creditors, had we not the authority of DEBRETT and BURKE to confirm the recognition of Commissioner FONBLANCtUE. But the Earl of DYSART is by no means singular in his animosity for debtors, or his notions of the treatment which is proper for them. The intelligent officer whose " Report" is now before us, Captain WILLIams, shows us that debtors who probably are not amenable to such charges of wanton extravagance, absurd and childish credulity, and reckless desperation in in curring embarrassment, as have been imputed to Lord lIUNTINGTowER, aro subjected, in our north eastern districts, to the same sweeping construction of meditated bad faith which we suppose to be alone adequate to the justification of imprisonment as the penalty of debt. Captain WILLIAMS says— " The condition of many of the lock-ups in this dis trict, and the treatment of prisoners when detained in them, has occupied much of my attention ; and I have not failed to visit those which opportunity or convenience Isrought within my reach. I regret to report that a number of these places are wholly unfit for the reception of human beings ; and that the treatment of prisoners, while in custody of constables, is in many cases very far from satisfactory. In many instances they are unpro vided with bedding or artificial heat; and the allowance of food to prisoners is arbitrary and irregular, although in most places ample provision is made by the justices through the agency of the keepers. The insecurity, danger to health, and inadequacy of many of these lock ups, are more clearly shown by the fact, that prisoners, before examination, are often retained in custody by the constables at a public or private house. It must also be observed, that by the intervals of several days elap.ing between the holding of petty sessions, prisoners are liable to bo detained in these places for a considerable time, and that instances occur of their being kept in them after conviction or committal, to suit the con venience of those charged with the duty of conveying them to prison. The complaints to me by prisoners of the sufferings and inconveniences thus imposed upon them are most frequent, and corroborated by my personal observations. " The discreditable condition of the gaols for debtors, attached to peculiar jurisdictions, and the condition of their inmates, have long been the subject of animad version in these Reports ; and although by the passing of the 7 and 8 of Victoria, cap. 96, the number of this description of prisoners has been materially and perma nently diminished, yet they still continue liable to re ceive debtors in execution for sums above 201. " The accommodation in many of these prisons is limited to the bare walls. No respect being paid to re ligion by the performance of Divine service ; no medical assistance in cases of sickness ; no provision of food, bedding, light, nor fire. No authority exercised by which the brutal and hardened are restrained from prac tising on the weak and better disposed. Idleness and corrupting influences prevails in all, unchecked and un reproved. It is worthy of remark that imprisonment in the gaols of the Courts of Request at Sheffield was found to make so little impression, that it was deemed necessary to heighten its severity, by ordering that prisoners should not be allowed to employ themselves in any kind or description of work. I may add, that I never went into these prisons without finding a party engaged at cards, or some other idle game." But the testimony of Captain WILLIAMS—a very intelligent observer—on the subject of convictions under the Game-laws, reinforces the argument against those founded on their anomalous relations to such as regard all other species and rights of property among us, by this striking exposition of their utter futility, as regards the accomplishment of the great object all penal laws propose to effect—namely, to deter by example. In spite of Mr. GRANTLEY BERKELEY'S ecstatic commendations of this bar barous feature in our code, convictions for poaching seem only to multiply poaching offences, and render callous to punishment or remonstrance offending poachers : " While upon the general subject of prison discipline, I may remark that, however severe in physical restraints or powerful in moral influence, it signally fails in pro ducing any salutary impressions upon offenders con victed of infractions of the laws enacted for the pre servation of game. These men, while undergoing im prisonment, appear possessed with the idea that these laws are more harshly and inflexibly administered than in other cases of a more serious character, and that the punishments awarded are unequal, disproportionate, and unjust. In support of their views, they instance the double convictions and cumulative penalties and im prisonments under various statutes for one offence, and the Act against night poaching, under which offenders are adjudged to hard labour while detained for the want of sureties, contrasting the law in this respect, with its different application to those committed for sureties in assaults and other cases, where the penalty of hard labour does not attach. The testimony of the chaplains of prisons will be found to furnish abundant testimony that argument, admonition, entreaty, are all unavailing to induce in these offenders any admission of criminality or a promise of relinquishing this pernicious pursuit. 'There can be no question that the tenacity of this feel ing among poachers is in some degree to be traced to the support and encouragement it receives from the sym pathy so notoriously prevailing among the middle and lower classes of society, and which is well described by a chaplain in the following terms:—` I have frequently endeavoured, but quite in vain, to persuade prisoners convicted of poaching that they offend God in breaking the laws of their country; they answer, the law is op pressive, and they have as much right to the game as others. The man's neighbours, too, second him in this feeling when discharged ; they receive him as usual, saying, " You have been in prison, it is true, but not for stealing or felony." A man loses no caste by having committed an offence against the game-laws, but when discharged, goes into the society of his fellow-men quite as usual.'" If these extracts from the " Ninth Report of In spectors of Prisons" do not establish against the laws for the punishment of debt and the protection of game, the anomalies we speak of, and make out an irre sistible demand upon the Legislature for the re vision and correction of such outrages on the common sense and humanity of the country, we shall be at a loss to conceive what call of graver urgency can be devised for such an intervention. The accounts from Madrid are to the 16th inst The Gazette of that day contains an important docu. ItIDAY EVENING - , JANUARY 24, 13454 ment, namely, a royal decree appointing a Com mission, under the Finance Minister, to prepare a Bill for indemnifying the proprietors of lay tithes for losses sustained by acts of the Cortes. It con tains, also, a circular addressed by the Minister of the Interior to the political chiefs of towns, directing them to adopt measures for carrying into effect the new measures relative to municipal corporations. In the Chamber of Deputies the Clergy Endowment Bill was still under discussion, and from all accounts would be carried without any material amendment. At the conclusion of the sitting a royal ordinance was read, appointing General CONCRA military governor of Catalonia, in place of the Baron DE MEER. The Three per Cents. closed at 321 for cash, and 32i at 60 days ; the Five per Cents. at 23i for cash, and 234, 1 at 60 days ; and the Debt without Interest at 7 for cash and at 60 days. of Deputies on Tuesday, which did not conclude until a quarter to seven o'clock—one of M. de Peyramont, of unmeasured length ; the second, of M. Thiers ; and the third, of the Minister of Foreign Affairs. Neither M. Thiers nor M. Guizot had intended to speak on that occa sion, but having been attacked by M. de Peyramont with the same vehemence as if he had been a culprit before the Court of Assize, M. Thiers was compelled to ask leave to speak. The impression produced by his speech, except the part relative to the alliances, which appeared confused, feeble, and embarrassed, was such, that although it was near six o'clock, the Minister for Foreign Affairs would not suffer the sitting to conclude without replying to the attacks against his policy. It is impossible to place great talent at the service of a less worthy cause. M. Guizot has seldom spoken better, and, nevertheless, it must be admitted that he did not succeed in destoying the effect produced by M. Thiers' speech. The Chamber re mained cold, and separated under the sad and profound impression that, with more firmness, it would have been easy to have obtained the expulson of Abd-el-Kader from Morocco—he who has been neither expelled nor confined to the interior of the country—as well as the formal disapprobation of the culpable conduct of the missionary Pritchard, and the revision of the treaties of 1831 and 1833. It was only to have wished, in order to have obtained those advantages." On the following day more confidence in the stabi lity of the Ministry was evident on the Bourse, and the Funds improved. The Three per Cents. closed at 85f. 20c., and the New Loan at 86f. 35c. The Paris papers are almost entirely occupied with the speeches of M. TIIIEAS and M. GUIZOT on the address, and though there was much talk on both sides, especially on the part of M. TIIIISE,S, no new fact, idea, or principle was produced which could make an impression on the public mind. The ex- Minister spoke in his usual vivid and striking manner ; be had prepared his case well, arranged facts, and drawn up accusations, but the sum and substance of the speech have been blazoned forth already in all the Opposition papers, and so repeatedly that even the most eloquent orator could produce little effect when he had no topics but the right of search, the Morocco war, and the "eternal PiurcnAßD," as he is denominated by the National. TRIERS was con fined, or rather chose to confine himself, to these, and carefully kept all the horrors inflicted on Spain entirely out of view, chiefly because he could not charge GUIZOT in this part of • THE BOURSE--WEDNEsDAY, JAN. 22. First Highest Lowest Last Price. Price. Price. Price. French Five per Cents .. 121 90 .. 122 .. 121 90 .. 122 Three per Cents •• 85 10 .. 85 10 .. 85 .. 85 10 New Loan •• •• 86 40 .• 86 45 .. 86 40 .. 86 45 Bank of France • • ..3262 50 .. 3265 3262 50 .. 3265 Goulnßank, I,ooof. Shares —1095 ..1095 ..1095 ..1095 Belgian Bank..• ••. . • ••• . • 635 .. 635 .. 635 .. 635 Belgian Fives, 1840 .• • • .... 10434 .• 10414 .. 104 34 • • 10414 1842 •• •••••• 106% .. 106% .. 106% .• 106% Spanish Threes .. • • ... . Active ....... Passive .. 6% .. 7 .. 6% .. 7 New Deferred • ... 16% .. 16% .. 16% 16% Portuguese Five per Cents • • 59 % .. 591. •• 5934 .. •59 ,E Neapolitan • • ...... ••• • . .. 98 80 .. 98 80 .. 98 80 .. 96 1 80 Rowan •• • ......•........ 105 % .. 105 % .. 105 IA .. 105 RAILWAY SHARES. Versailles,R.B... ..... 49 75497 50 .. 497 50 L.B.•••••••••••• 38 8 1 25 .. 38 8 1 25 .. 381 25 .. 381 25 R0uen............1060 . 1060 ..1057 50 ..1057 50 Rouen to Havre. • • • • • • . • 825 .. 830 .. 825 .. 830 Orleans • Strasburg to Bale•• •••••• .. 305 .. 308 75 .. 303 75 . 307 50 Avignon to Marsailles.• ••.. 927 50 . 930 .. 926 25 .. 930 RAILWAYS FOR THE ACCOUNT, FEB. 3. ............497• •• ...... 497 50 .. 500 .. 497 50 .. 500 L.B.•••• ••...... 380 .. 385 .. 380 .. 385 Rouen •••••••••••••• ......1062 50 ..1062 50 ..1058 75 ..1058 75 Rouen to Havre.• 823 75 .. 832 50 .. 823 75 .. 832 50 Orleans •• Strasburg to Bale• ••••.... 305 .. 310 .. 305 ..:307 50 Avignon to Marseilles...—. 930 .. 931 25 .. 928 75 ..931 25 his foreign policy with having yielded to England. The liberty of Spain was cast to the winds when party interest came in the way. The only portion of THIERS' speech that had the semblance of novelty related to the position of France in respect to alliances with other States, and he frankly admitted that under pre sent circumstances France was not only isolated, but that she could not be otherwise, that she could form no alliance with Russia, Austria, or Prussia, and that compared with either of these England was preferable. These are his words :—" Much at present is said of continental alliances—you know my opinion on the subject. Permit me to tell you that there is something chimerical in alliances on the continent. Frankly, is there any one possible for us at the present moment ? It is for this reason that I am a partisan of peace— but not of peace at all price. Time will undoubtedly change the condition and the feeling of certain powers ; but at present there is not a single one of these alli ances which is possible. The longer war shall be kept distant from us, the greater chance there is to find al liances on the continent of Europe. In all alliances some sacrifices must be made. Thus, the first condi tion of an alliance with Russia would be the sacrifice of our interest in the East. An alliance with Austria would sanction for ever her rule over Italy; and That with Prussia, the most probable of all hereafter, would be to confine us for ever in the limits fixed by the treaties of 1815 ; so that it is my conviction that the solution of the great European questions—that of the East, for instance, and the interest of our revolu tion—require an alliance with England ; and I may add that the analogy of the two Governments will prevent England from again forming a coalition against us, as she did forty years back. The interest of our African possessions also requires the Eng lish alliance ; for a war with England, without pro ducing the loss of that colony—far from it—would considerable impede our intercourse with it. From this, I come to the conclusion that we ought not to fling ourselves without conditions into the English alliance ; but that still it merits being maturely and seriously meditated on and weighed. How, then, since lam in favour of this alliance, have I differed from the present Cabinet ? in the manner of con ducting it—which is a most grave and important con sideration. The situation has become singularly modified of late years, and in the following manner —When you find in a country a party disposed to act efficiently with you, as was the case with the Whig party, then you may form an alliance with that coun try ; but when, in place of the Whigs, a Tory party is found in England, that is, a party holding itself on a certain reserve, and not wishing to act freely with France, then I say that you ought not to pledge yourself to that party, as you are now doing.' Now nothing can show more the miserable shifts to which TuiEas is driven to make out a case than the latter part of the quotation alluding to the Whigs. He would make an alliance with the Whigs, because they are disposed to act efficiently with France, yet the very orator himself was driven from office, be cause, if we are to believe his words, the Whig s deceived him. The Whigs would not act efficiently with France ; and had he not been thrown aside by his SOVEREIGN he and his friends, the Whigs, would have contrived in a month to bring on a bloody war. The reply of M. Guizor was a matter-of-fact speech, rebutting with precision and effect the charge brought against him by his oppo nent, and towards the close, where alone he made any attempt at eloquence, he produced far greater effect on the Chamber than the attacking party. It related to a delicate subject too—respect for England; but he brought it forward boldly and carried the Chamber with him. He thus describes the litriu's visit to England : " France has often been at peace with England, but behind their outward show of friendship there always subsisted a jealous and hostile spirit of rivalry. The prosperity, progress, and activity of one of the Govern ments was a source of annoyance to the other. But this is no longer the case; for both, acting in the pleni tude of their liberty, in place of being opposed as formerly, are able to aid each other. Such was the pre sent opinion of the two Governments. There are then, I say, two Governments in Europe who consider it their duty to act towards each other in a particular way, and act so ; they continually testify a mutual confidence in each other's intentions and acts, and the care of th e ir gravest interests end neither in a rupture nor a coolness. —(Hear, hear.) The result then of all that I have just alluded to has been this : The King of the French went to England. —( Murmurs on the Left.) This result is not a conjectured one, but palpable and undoubted. It has been said that we have hurried on matters to admit of this visit. We precipitated nothing ; all was resolved maturely and independently ; and when nothing more existed to embarrass the two Governments, the King went to London. The propriety of this journey has certainly not been contested by any person, and its political utility cannot be impugned either. Although the personal inter. course between Sovereigns is not at present so impor tant as at other periods and under other forms of go vernment, yet certainly they have a certain influence on the good accord of states and on the easy arrangement of affairs. You know the result of this visit, you have beheld the manifestations of the sentiments of the Queen of England, of her husbrnd, of those of the whole coun try, towards the King and dynasty of July, towards France herself, towards our policy of peace and libe ral Conservatism. Every one beheld this—Europe witnessed it—and do you suppose that the spec tacle is without fruit ? that France was weakened or humiliated by these incidents ? Ask where you please in Europe, and I will, beforehand, agree to accept the answer.—(Loud approbation.) But what Europe witnessed and comprehended, France her self also understood. I saw the King's return to France —I saw how he was everywhere welcomed—l . saw a just pride displayed at the consideration with which he was greeted in England, and a just satisfaction at the re moval of all difficulties between the two States.—(A fresh burst of approbation.) I shall only add one word more on the question which has been alluded to so re peatedly in the course of our discussion—l mean the Right of Search. I do not wish to give my words an extension beyond what facts will bear out. Ido not say that this question is already settled, for the conviction of England was that it was the only means of putting down the slave trade, and you all know with what honourable perseverance that question was prosecuted in England. It was then necessary to prove to England that other means , might be devised to effect the desired object. This w as an immense step, and that step had been made by the nomi nation of the mixed Commission. Believe me, this Com mission is not appointed to elude t he question—the name s of the persons appointed to compose it, taken as they a re from the most considerable of the two countries—will be a proof of the contrary. Gentlemen, such is the positio n of affairs at present, and there i s a vast distance from this lofty region to mere party struggles.. In which o f the two will the Chamber place itself ? Will it side with mere party squabbles, or will it take. into account gre a t public interests ? Such is the question which the dis cussion will resolve. I have placed it before you in all its truth. Tho Chamber must decide.—(Approbation.)" With the exception of the Journal des Debuts and the Globe, not one paper does justice to the Minister' s Speech. They want a change, they call for variety, and care not who comes in, if GUIZOT only goes out. Even the Conservative Presse, though it cannot deny great merit to the reply of the Foreign Minister, con demns his policy. That journal thus sums up the debate : "Three speeches occupied the sitting of the Chamber THIS DAY'S NEWS A Cabinet Council was held at two o'clock this afternoon, at the Foreign-office, Downing-street. It was attended by Sir Robert Peel and most of the Cabinet Ministers. Previous to the Council, the Chancellor of the Exchequer and several official gen tlemen had interviews with Sir R. Peel, at his private residence in Whitehall-gardens. THE EARL OF MORNINGTON.—We are happy in being enabled to state that the health of this vener able nobleman has somewhat improved, the reply given this morning in Grosvenor-square was, " His Lordship has passed a tolerable night, and is rather better this morning." Several of the nobility and gentry made early calls at the Noble Earl's. THE EARL OF CARLISLE.—We regret to state that the Earl of Carlisle is seriously indisposed. On in quiring at Carlisle House this morning, we were in formed that his Lordship was something better this morning. QUEEN'S BENCH.—(THIS DAY.) The Court took the special paper this day. Nothing of importance or interest came before their Lordships. BAIL COURT.—(THIS DAY.) (Sittings in Banco.) . - THE POOR-LAW COMMISSIONERS V. THE GUARDIANS Or THE KINGSBRIDGE UNION. Mr. TOMLINSON moved for a rule to show cause why a mandamus should not issue, directed to the guardians of the Kingsbridge union, commanding them to appoint a chaplain to the workhouse there. The affidavit on which he made the application showed that the union was duly constituted by the Poor-law Commissioners on the 28th of May, 1836. On the 24th of March, 1841, the Poor-law Commis sioners issued an order directing that a chaplain should be appointed, and a gentleman was accordingly chosen and ministered for some time. He afterwards, how ever, sent in his resignation, and since that period none other had been appointed. On the sth of February, 1842, the Commissioners issued a further order of regulation on the subject, but on that a doubt arose, whether by its admitting or delegating a sort of discretionary power to the guardians as to the fitting time for filling up the appointment, they (the Commissioners) did not in fact altogether rescind their order of the 24th of March. To satisfy that doubt, the Commissioners subsequently issued a peremptory order, that a chaplain should be elected within two months from that date. On receiving that order, the guardians communicated with the Commissioners, in closing a string', of resolutions which evinced clearly that their object was procrastination, and that they hoped to be able to secure the gratuitous services of the neighbouring clergyman. They craved a further delay, which the Poor-law Commissioners did not deem it expedient to grant, and therefore it was that he was instructed to move for that rule. Mr. Justice WILLIAMS—You may take a rule to show cause. The other motions were of an unimportant cha racter. EXCHEQUER.—(THIS DAY.) (Sittings in Banco.) The Court proceeded to-day with the new tria paper. ACRAMAN V. COOPER. In this case a rule had been obtained in Hilary term, calling upon the defendant to show cause why the verdict in his favour should not be set aside, and a new trial had. Mr KELLY, as Counsel for the defendant, was about to reply, when The LORD CHIEF BARON said, that in this case the Court were satisfied that justice could not be done without a new trial. The great and important ques- tion was whether the documents were transferable. The effect of the transfer seemed to have been over looked until the question suddenly arose in conse quence of Counsel for the plaintiff calling witnesses to prove one thing when they unexpectedly proved the very reverse. There must be a new trial in order that the whole of the matters might be properly con sidered, and that both parties might have an opportu nity of looking at the record. Principles of great commercial and general importance were involved in the decision. (Sittings at Guildhall before Mr. Baron ROLFE and a Common Jury.) The Court disposed of four undefended actions. HARVEY V. PRITCHARD. This was an — action to recover the sum of 1851. 19s. Bd., for which the defendant had made himself liable by guarantee. Mr. Jervis and Mr. Montague Chambers appeared for the plaintiff; Mr. Knowles and Mr. Miller were counsel for the defendant. The plaintiff in the action was Mr. Harvey, the draper of Ludgate-hill, and the defendant, Mrs. Pritchard, a.milliner in St. Paul's Church-yard. Mrs. Barnes, the daughter of the defendant, carrying on business as a bonnet-maker, had been supplied from time to time with goods, by the plaintiff. Early in the last year, however, the plaintiff became dissatis fied with the mode of payment. On the 22d of March, Mrs. Pritchard agreed to become re sponsible to the plaintiff for the payment of goods purchased by her daughter, and lodged securities with him for that purpose. Before this time a balance was owing to the amount of 871. 7s. 2d. On the 15th of May following Mrs. Barnes, being anxious to pay off the balance, called upon the plaintiff for that purpose, and tendered to him 186 sovereigns for goods had since the date of the guarantee, but the plaintiff refused to take the money unless 401. were paid in respect of the previous balance. This Mrs. Barnes refused to pay, and her agent, Mr. Barratt, a proctor of Doctors Commons, made a formal demand of the securities, which the plaintiff refused to part with. The defendant had two pleas, first, that she did not make the guarantee ; secondly, that a tender of the money had been made, and that it was refused. Mr. KNOWLES contended, for the defendant, that the guarantee given by Mrs. Pritchard did not extend to the previous balance. The COURT being of opinion that the guarantee did not support the declaration, the verdict was entered for the defendant on the first issue, with leave re served for counsel to move that it be entered for the plaintiff. On the second issue the verdict was also for the defendant. INSOLVENT COURT—(THIS DAY (Before the CHIEF COMMISSIONER.) " THE " RUNNING REIN AFFAIR—IN RE IGNATIUS FRANCIS COYLE. This insolvent, who was a man well known upon all the race-courses throughout the kingdom and in all sporting circles, applied to be liberated upon sure ties until the day appointed for his hearing. On the bail being called on, no creditor app ear i ng to oppose, the Learned Chief Commissioner ex amined the insolvent at considerable length respecting a debt inserted in the schedule as due to Mr. Cooke, the banker, of 15, Bedford-street, Covent-garden, who had obtained possession of all his furniture, but per mitted him the use of it upon payment o f 2/. p e r week.—He (the',lnsolvent) said he was of no trade or profession, but that he occasionally acted as agent for discounting bills of exchange, that is to say, if any party came to him and wanted an advance of money he obtained it for them. He was at present 33 years of age, and began to speculate in horse-racing in 1832. His profits from those speculations varied from 1001. to 3501. per annum. He had petitioned the Bankruptcy Court last year, and his petition was dismissed in consequence of his not appearing. He had hoped at that time to be able to settle his debts from a sum of money which he expected to receive from the result of the trial respecting the late Epsom Derby. He expected upwards of 7,0001. from that source. Mr. WOODRUFFE, who supported the insolvent, said the insolvent alluded to the horse Running Rein, On which he had won very largely, but the horse, unfortunately for the insolvent, was disqualified through being a year too old.—(Laughter.) The CHIEF COMMISSIONER then proceeded to ex amine Owen Swift, one of the proposed sureties, who stated that he was landlord of the Horse-shoe public house, in Tichborne-street, Piccadilly, and had been so for six years. He held the lease under Messrs. Taylor and Walker, the brewers, as a tenant-at-will The stock in trade in his house amounted to 6001. The CHIEF COMMISSIONER—But we want secu rity in this case to the amount of 6801. Owen Swift—Well, if you do, you can have it. The Learned CHIEF COMMISSIONER—HOW and where ? Owen Swift—From my bankers. The CHIEF COMMISSIONER—But that won't do. The Court must ihave property which it can seize under distress. What property is there in your house worth 6501. Owen Swift—Plate. The CHIEF COMMISSIONER—Do you mean to say seriously that you have plate in your house worth that amount? Owen Swift—l did not come here to joke.—(Laughter.) My furniture and fixtures are worth from 1,2001. to 1,4001. I have been security in this Court once, before for Mr. Thomas Morgan, a friend of mine. The CHIEF COMMISSIONER—What was he ? Owen Swift—A gentleman before he came to this Court. The CHIEF COMMISSIONER—And what did he be come when he ceased to be a gentleman ? Owen Swift—Why, a poor man, I suppose.— (L oud laughter, in which the Court joined.) The CHIEF COMMISSIONER—You may stand down Mr. Swift. Your bail is accepted. Mr. Biggs, the other bail, stated that he was a tailor, carrying on business at 24, Sackville-street, Piccadilly, in partnership with a Mr. Ellis. His stock in trade was worth about 1,0001., and was per fectly unencumbered. The COURT accepted the bail, and the recognisances being entered into, the insolvent was liberated until the day of hearing. The schedule filed by the insolvent exhibits an aggregate amonnt of debts of 9,7121. 14s. 2d., of which 1,1691. 7s. 6d. were deducted as those for which no consideration had been received, and an other amount of 4,4261. twice entered, leaving the net amount of debts owing by him of 4,117/. 6s. Bd. The only property available for the creditors was a dishonoured bill of exchange of 1201., accepted by Lord William Paget. He ascribed his insolvency to his expenditure exceeding his income, and his losses upon racing speculations. The case appeared to excite considerable attention in a very crowded court, where we noticed several well-known " turf characters." CLERKENWELL.—(THIS DAY.) James Hickey was charged with violently assaulting a poor widow, named Bream, residing in Blue Anchor-alley, St. Luke's. On the previous night the woman was standing at her own door, talking to another person, when the prisoner came up, and, without the least provocation, struck her a violent blow on the face. The fellow was not drunk, and the woman had never spoken to him.—ln default of fine he was sent to prison for three weeks. LAMBETH.—(THIS DAY.) John Connell was charged with being drunk and disorderly, and assaulting three policemen, in the ex ercise of their duty. Police-constable, L 109, stated that he was sent for last night, to the Tower public-house, in Westminster-road to quell a disturbance, when he found the prisoner brandishing a weapon in his hand. He aimed a dreadful blow at the head of the con stable, which he fortunately avoided. He closed with the prisoner, and they both fell together, and when they were on the ground the prisoner kicked the con stable severely, and struck at him several times. Two other constables were called in, on whom the prisoner made a most violent attack. Mr. Shaw, the publican, stated that the prisoner broke up his wife's apple-stall to fight with the police. Mr. NORTON said he never heard of a more out rageous case, and sending him to prison for one month was quite an inadequate punishment. The wife of the prisoner informed the magistrate that he used her in the most cruel manner, and turned her out of doors, and said that, " work or play," he was determined that she should keep him. He had already been five times in prison. Mr. NORTON said he was mere a brute than a man, and should go to prison for one month, and find bail for three months, and give 24 hours' notice of bail. Mr. IN ORTON ordered the - poor woman 20s. for the damage done to her stall. SOUTHWARK.—(THIS DAY.) John Neal was charged with stealing a quantity of hair rope, the property of Mr. Wilcoxson, of Monu ment•yard, and a woman named .Nicholson was charged as the receiver. The prisoner Neal was stepped a few mornings ago leaving the shop of his fellow-prisoner, after deliver ing a bag, which was subsequently found to contain a quantity of hair rope. Neal, on being taken into cus tody, said the bag and its contents was intrusted to him to carry to the other prisoner's shop. This as sertion, however, being doubted, the prisoners were remanded, and since then it was ascertained he was occasionally employed by Mr. Wilcoxson, an extensive hair-manufacturer, from whose premises he had taken it and carried it over to the other prisoner's shop, in order to sell it.—The prisoners were remanded. LLOYD'S SHIPPING.—(THIS DAY.) LONDON, JAN. 24.—Wind at noon S.W., fresh breeze, and fine. It blew strong last night. DEAL, Jex. 23.—Wind S.W. to W.S.W., fresh breeze, and thick weather.—Acrd. Maloma, Ichaboe; Camilla,_Canney, Jamaica. OFF MARGATE, JAN. 22.—Express, Whitehaven, lost bulwarks, &c., during a heavy gale off Scilly, 19th inst. . , OFF DOVER, Jew 22.—Sta - di, Amsterdani;Batavia, for Amsterdam; Governor, Lowther Trinidad. COWES, JAN 23.—Wind S.S.W.—Arrd.j Nautilus, Stockdale, Ichaboe; Expedition, Nordenholtz, Rio for Bremen, with loss of sails, &c.; Alert, Heinson, Rio, with loss of sails, and other damage. OFF THE WIGHT, JAN. 21.—Zodiacus, Hahn, St. Thomas and Porto Rico, for Altona. RAMSGATE, JAN. 23.—The Eugene, of and for Havre, from Ostend, got ashore this afternoon in Pegwell Bay, but is expected off to-night's tide. OFF ST. ALBAN'S HEAD.—Commerce, Swansea for London, with loss of boats, bulwarks, &c. SOUTHAMPTON, JAN. 23.—Wind .E.S.E.—SId. Paella steamer, Lisbon. PLYMOUTH, JAN. 23.—Wind S.W., strong.--Acrd. Rubicon, Dales, Round Island. FALMOUTH, Jew. 23.—Wind S.W., strong breezes and squally.—Arrd. Express packet, Brazils. PENZANCE, JAN. 22.—Wind S., light.--Arrd. Martha Jane, Torris, Ichaboe, sailed Nov. 26, and reports that on the 22d the rollers set in, and did considerable damage to the shipping ; about 350 vessels were lying there, but as the guano was not estimated as sufficient to load one-half, many were leaving in ballast. YARMOUTH, ISLE OF WIGHT, JAN. 23.—A ship dis masted was seen at six A.M., on the 20th instant, off the Eddystone, twenty-three miles from land, by the Rose, of Boulogne. OFF DUNGENESS, JAN. 22.—Doggersbank, Batavia. SHOREHAM, JAN. 22.—Arrd. Duke of Wellington, with loss of bowsprit, &c.,having_ been in contact with a smack. BIDEFORD, JAN. 22.—The Favourite, Williams, from Laundersfoot, which struck on the bar on the 17th inst., was got off on the 20th, after throwing part of her cargo overboard. GRIMSBY ROADS, JAN. 21.—Arrd. Cicero, Bell, Ichaboe, for Leith. The John Mowlam, Hartlepool, for Weymouth, has put in here, along with the Caroline of Yarmouth, both with damage, having been in contact. NEWPORT, JAN. 21.—1 t blew a heavy gale from W.S.W. to N.W. to N. on I.he night of the 19th inst.„, and throughout yesterday. About four P.M. yeSteraay afternoon a vessel of about 56 tons was seen driftiq ; into the Bay dismasted, and suddenly disappeared. SWANSEA, JAN. 21.—Sid. Sarah Nicholson, Cu'ta. _ _ MUMBLES, JAN. 22.—Arrd. Tom Cringle, Ichaboe ; Ellen Simpson, Leask, Ichaboe. MELFORD, JAN. 22.—Wind S.W.—Arrd. Gem, Hen dry, Ichaboe, with loss of sails, bulwarks, &c., and other damage. PORT TALBOT, JAN. 23.—The Speedy, Holman, ashore near the Breakwater, was got off this morning, brought into the River, and placed on the Hard, with considerable damage. MELFORD, JAN. 22.—The Henrietta,. from Llanelly to London, was got off the beach at Sawl.y Hewen last tide, and is much damaged. _ _ CORK, JAN. S., light.—Arrd. Beccles, Brown, Now City of Cork, Itobertson, and London, Snelling, Ichaboe. Off, Elizab'ah, Orr, Ichaboe, left &die lena sth ult. DROGHEDA, JAN. 25.—C onsti tu tion, Wilson, St. John's, New Brunswick. SUNDERLAND, JAN. 23.—Wind S.W.—Arrd. Gover nor Harcourt, Fox, Honduras. BRIDLINGTON, JAN. 23.--The Perseverance, of Shields, ashore to the northward, was got off last night, and brought in here, where she remains, and will come into the harbour. The sloop Liverpool is ashore on the Bar. YARMOUTH, JAN. 23.—The Lady Panmure, from Port Dundas to Rouen, came into the Roads to-day leaky, and will come into the harbour to discharge. The John, of Jersey, ashore on the beach, has been got off, and in here. LIVERPOOL, JAN. 23.—Wind S.S.W., fresh.—Arrd. Fifeshire, James Reid, Smith, Ninian Lindsay, Hut chins, and Perseverance, Riley, Ichaboe ; Tamerlane, Theobold, Savannah ; l'ales4ne, Mobile ; Caroline, -- -------"-------------- Parsborough ; Elizabeth, Moses, St. Step Sici. Carolus, New Orleans • Reis Effendi, St. Tborans'6',o4, DUBLIN, JAW. 22.—Wind N.W. to 5.W......Arrd•i;,; panina, Wilson, Ichaboe ; Brorsa (0, Cain, St. J ° ' New Brunswick. WARRENPOINT, JAN. 22._Arrd. Brother, ichilb°eief LIVERPOOL, JAN. 23.—The Washington, from conk Orleans, lost head and bowsprit, having bees in c°ll `i" - 21st inst. off the Skcirries with an outward-bound IN The Gazelle, of and from Camden, for Port BeP uc was abandoned 6th inst., lat. 36, lon. 63, in $ Siang state j ; crew saved by the Tamerlane, arrived here. e the a7setesrßnejisdianfdrosmanldebtabbroeew, feoxrptyertioenn:ed a ga le on o 1 W for New Islands, 16.—The Clarinda,guFantl:nelse'r°b'f"lrcif New Ross, put into a bay on the north-westfroo Bona 2d instant, dismasted and waterlogged, Maur of boats, bulwarks, &c., without provisions seuu",iill h fo a r nd th s e ex l o a e s p t t t t e h n li ltdE qs ter, second mate, al,9ttrillotiot.enj.' DAY' ) MARKET NEWS.— , (TH IS — ..r \ C ORN-EXC HAIN GE —(FRlP'ate The supply of English Wheat was seasofinnaebsitY4ool4 sive, but of very middling quality . The dea of both red and white commande d a steady n? full prices, but all other kinds we re a dull sale. let reign Wheat scarcely any transactions took Pri3;rlel the quotations were supported. The supplY ° „ 4 4 D W I being large, that article was dull, at barelY b ice figures. The same may be said of Malt. Aithols had a good show of Oats, that article was fi rm ' currencies. Beans, Peas, and Flour unaltered. roor . Oats. 5,0 2,370 10,160 ARRIVALS. Wheat. Barley. 5,680 qrs. 9,590 qrs. Ma.t, 6,840 qrs. 1 3 °16 SNIXTIIVIELD. V/ In our market, the supply of Beasts was,o ll sues fi but moderate, yet, owing to the thin attenute buyers, the beef trade was in a very slugg ish 615 13;° t5 barely Monday's prices. We had on sale thirtY A b e r and sixty Sheep from Holland, and 100 Scots from 01 4 Been. The numbers of Sheep were smal. rirliol/ Downs sold freely, at full currencies; but all othe _Ate io were a dull inquiry. The Veal trade was not Sifei active d a i s s p l o a s s e t d lovfeeakt, fullyet qnueaertlaytiotlnies. w h p o ig le s e i l .e til o e 0 0, 4 111/ e a s o e w ra s ge so s l u d pp a l t y afrnodnistela6dlytdoeml9aincle,aaothl,ate rat e !' „. 0 14 small Calf. English . • • • • • Irish •••• • • • • /WW I • • • • • • ti• Per Blhs. to sink the offal. S.' 3d• 1 4 0 a. d. to s. d. ai t tto 3 A Inferior Beasts .... 2 8 3 0 Second quail -- 310 4 - Second quality ditto. 3 2 3 4 Coarse-woolleddito 4 2 , 9 Prime large Oxen.. 3 6 310 Southdown Wet he , r l -- 4 Prime Scots ......4 0 4 2 Ditto o ut of O:JOY'' . 3 6 4 : Large coarse Calves 3 8 4 4 Large Ho g s ..... • . 4 6 20 Prime small ditto .. 4 6 4 8 Small Por kers •• : .16 0 0 ' Suckling Calves, ..18 0 30 0 Quarter old Pigs . 0 0 Inferior Sheep .•.. 2 10 3 2 Lamb s •• • • .... • • SUPPLY AT MARKET. Beasts. I Sheep. I Calves. I Pr-291 760 3,740 1 107 la iO P ,.e ge e NEIXTO.A.TE AND LEA.EaI-- ° we • We had a steady demand here, and prices d. I 0. 2 9 ; 3 6 3 " 4 4 rally supported. At per stone, by the CaraSo• s. d. to a. d. Beef, inferior.. •• .. 2 4 2 8 Mutton, i n ferior • middling .... 210 3 0 prime large • . 3 0 3 2 . prime • • prime small • . 3 4 3 6 Pork, large •• " Yeal 3 6 4 8 small- •• • ' Olf BOROUGH HOP BLEMSP7I;, ptiCrt We have very little variation to no tice iniat so of li or the demand for, any kind of Hops- Ims, holders, however, will not sell at pre sent rate ti doll COLONZAM. re f SUGAR.—The market for West India b 3e oto to v this week, and the sales do not exceedliP - As 50 evening, 700 hhds, prices being rather loWer'63 tion, 117 hhds 3 trcs Barbadoes realised 55° eft' f 0 mid, and 66s 6d for fine. 6d P er eir l i REFINED. —Standard lumps have been 7 - 6 ,,,r0 MOLASSES.-132 puns 2 hhds Demerara "- all taken in at 21s to 22s for good. o at EAST INDIA.-9,326 bags Bengal, ttohe ae for theft „00 sold, but rather in favour of buyers ; at 603 6d to 66s ; low greyish to good Ye"-11,60", ' 57s 6d ; and damp at 56s to 66s per cv4s6s to 5- 0 6 165 casks and 12 cases Mauritius sold a t t A , for low to mid yellow, at 57s to 63s for o and at 41s 6d to 57s for washed ; 2,320 7 6 a to about half sold ; mid and good yellow at 4 "; 7 5 n 0 and damp and washed at 41s to 47s per c w .,: t ' r iSo kets 586 bags Java nearly all found buyers'] - 00'e for sound, and 18s to 21s for washed. 0 s s COFFEE.—British Plantation has not been go , I° ,o l request. In Mochas 1,005 bales partly sol f c l i e ; v isS eri " ) 1/ i 6d and 76s per cwt for sound parcels 0 ifb fori the rest being taken in at 63s to 648 per 0 0 " t bob been more Ceylon offering, but only a Pe r ,. / r 0 . 1 ,1 buyers of 4578 bags, at 51s to 76s 6d for 1 0 0 1 , to Plantation sorts, the rest being mostly tß* e d . 5_, 11 0 1 0/ to 52s 6d per cwt. There were 10 casks 177 Do", Mysore taken in at 70s to 908 per cwt; S to ; A 7 at 45s up to 70s per cwt • 40 b e g" t 1 8 - r s old 01 0 Java at 225. Some Bengal, 86 ' bags, 6d per ow t, and the sound of 2.857 bags Ceetifid a t !V taken in at 45s to 58s, while the damage d s f o ltl lls 47s 6d per cwt ; 1,200 bags Manilla partly "" A 39s per cwt. Se_ A l" f! i p SPICES.—In Pimento 943 bags only Po- -- aiss. 4 l P,l to 3P per lb ; 635 bags Cassia Lignea la„,fr, to 67s per cwt ; 300 bags Malabar PePP er nli v ;OS Sid per lb ; 2,299 bags Sumatra at 2id to b o o y heavy clean, and 286 bags white were nearlYGiagef at 5d to sid per lb ; good white Jamaic a realised 21 19s to 10/. 17s per cwt. COTTON.—This article is steady. o_,l ftif ted RICE.-130 bags Java sold at 1 2 s 6d Po•-.„,, c 0 r r Pi rior samples; 965 bags and 1,487 pockets ipr sold at lOs 6d to Ils 6d for sound, and e`,,ivtAill' Madras the sound was taken in at 8s 6cl Pe r "tal‘v A COCOA.-202 bags Trinidad were raostli 40s to 47s per cwt for sound. v 0 11 ,4 r SALTPETRE.—:I,62O bags Calcutta were.Lifor 25s to 26s 6d for 104, and at 27s 6d to 28 ' cent. refraction. ea g i° c, INDIGO.—The sales of 7,475 chests bav e , b 2 e ,o 3 ' O a ; progress, and up to the last evening 21)0'4115 Pi had been offered, and 2,129 sold. Tbe,""oo been tolerably lively, but the Madras s ol ° - befi r io,,r . day 2d to 3d per lb lower than in o , el ,; ( l„ 4 , o'w ig Bengal at October prices for the mid an d v 4 , B f ir Id lower for the good broken and imperf ec- o f I. pah was 2d to 3d lower. The attendttae. - rP-04 buyers is good, but of continental buy ers 18 0 $ 09 TEA—The auctions have comprised 400,0- all of which passed in one day, and oolY rli e buyers at previous rates. There was va t , sold. orA TALLOw.—P. T. 0. is 39s 6 d to 4°6 the spot. sommemmoftemminimmoinm .. !! !!! FRANCE. jS MAJORITY FOR THE FRENCU ; 0/ 0 I llf PARIS, TnuasDA- fre, The Chamber having passed yesterale ,0001/ general discussion to the paragraphs e f .„ t odd / ~ m th i e ,d,s fi ot rs uo t rf pa la r c a bo g mou r p a rl p si h ca F iodned M. de Came proposed the following s"" f hte r troli r o conduct might have prevented, or te-11311.13a . I more satisfactory manner." The amendment was to-day austft -n ia itf. de ~ i ecl bf d th a at fecwlearra-s°iir 6 ,' Cremeux and Billault, and oppose d "' Os t ia ! I parin and the Minister of the In tr. the question was put to the vote, W hell peared:— 00 4 Against the amendment. ••• • • ' l9l For it . Majority for Ministers •'' '• o f ° v y The Chamber rose at a quarter as s¢d 1 17 0, 1 ,,, Thus the question of confidence 11 '; of Y d first paragraph has been settled in site 61:01)d' i , r 10, alition ; for although the paragraPD :so " d rocco merely, yet the amendment if 3" to affect the whole policy of Ministers o • c loti tr it , Our correspondent, writing at sec e . n tio e, of that the result, considering t h e cosli 4 ,0 informed saetdisiteitydelp:::: in the estillP , —ffera l 2l; Ot ot i t ; ROBBERY FROM A CAB AT TII I4 J,..,% m illi LONDON AND BIRMINGHAM BAILWA1011041:1, between twelve and one o'clock, tit° t t he t . ,9 1 1 0 1 ) were stolen from the cab No. 1,19 0, a l, V iS l . o.],al l y the London and Birmingham Bailwiatllesctroll,# snoons, 10 large table-spoons, 4 sauc e w i e e 0 ,01,,,, 18 silver forks, 1 large fork, and on e 5 e ngq!:010 fiel d silver. It appeared that the c ab ws' ec i frol i .o2 steward of the ship Blond, lately sal/ pa or y to convey him to the railway station..o t ho fe . 9 the station he had some altercation . 0 %00 1 ? t ell ti, t ,t to the fare, and after removing some itt ed ADo le to from the cab, he paid the fare ;_ som e be d : 0 0 0 A /ti f wards he recollected that he had left 9 ,,b, W O OO O 9 the above-mentioned articles, in the, cab, e. ° „to coil ing to the spot the cab was gone. 'fie i0:1,,g fo s*l morning he met the cabman, and ga rv , A.", ife He denied all knowledge of the robbevfbile 0 0 o o f or left the cab in the care of a young n' sll o . o f0, 1 :00 f° of• the steward, Maynard, to get ,c 13 , 1 9 , 111 ;nd `- 01 8 .60 and that soon after he . took up a lat'f st, i t t e r O f distance. ;wi left 4040 Last evening Mr. Higgs held et; o e f te -,,,, George's Hospital, on the body of i ti a, 0 0 4, aged 23, late a patient in this h 1; 40 e ~, or" oil Earl-street, Kensington. Mary ull—yo'lls* f po st efi ti oli said deceased was admitted into theat hal 0 0 • 15th instant, and she saw him s e ,t S: it.) t , on Friday night, when at his roil x i s se- f oic l o o o o o linen. He then took her hand, rend 13 , ° ,, ° tes j i o ,, D ai " God bless you, I hope you Wilt never t oo ', e aSi d l o yi am." She went into the King's w 3r : t o do," or o A P a patient in the York ward called her a od " - er si red she found in bed with his throats ut , d. i' r; a 91 lying on the counterpane of b e e,,,ls ne s' O s o ril, gentlemen were immediately in e tt _ co t P h is..,_,,e house-surgeon, described the treat!' roe coon pi. , i .,,,, 0 .,,if the self-infliction of the injurY• o we ' s ' od d hiv '`,l complaint, from ulceration of 1) Married bio,o l t om e r with the effects of the ' wound, ,• to eso 7, 0 0 5 ,, t 0 0 ,4 0 day afternoon. Whilst sensible, c wi oto tiPito Preltro/ he had cut his throat ? and li c t 1 wisb e hoket 4/ gave you all so much trouble, a's' by 0 ' (I alt ,000 to myself." If he had been a he recovered from the effects of til° " " " Died from natural causes. it I