The Sun. — London, England, 1845-01-29 00:00:00

COUhl Wirrnsoa, Tv ESDAY.—The Queen and Pri nce Alb ert took th e i : y tart walk in the grounds adjoining the Castle and in the Ilatne Park ti is morning. On the retur n of her Majesty and the Prince his Royal Highness left the Castle on a shooting excurson in the royal preserves, accompanied by the Marquis of and Captain Meynell. I'l Their Royal Highnesses th e P r i nce o f W ales, the Princess Royal, and the Princess Alice, were taken for wHi alking and pon y exercise thi s morning. Hng. Hisis an airi ng to day -day s Princ e Alf re d has also been taken . tAi The Right Ho n . Si r R . Peel left the Castle early dinner,inornin g for t own, and returned this evening to The Marquis of Ormonde has relieved Viscount Sydney from his duties as the Lord in Waiting on th e Queen, and Major. General Sir Frederic Stovin has succeeded the Hon. Nelson Hood as the Groom in Waiting on her Majesty. In the afternoon her Majesty and Prince Albert walked out for some time. T he Marquis and Marchione ss o f D ouro, L a d y ? e , the H o n. Am e l ia Mur ra y, an d L ucy K err, took Il ex a carriage and four this afternoon. F anny Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, L a d y theandihe Countess ' Wratislavv, joined ro yal cir c l e at dinner. __The band of the Royal Horse G uar d s wa3 i n 4lt.r.PndCastlejitce duri ng di nner. M aesty's private-band aft erwar d s a tt en d e d at 41 D eputy Chairman of the South Sea Company and the PutY Chairmen, Messrs. Franks and Bouverie, had Iln interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer Ye A st r e _ rd .,.ai, at his official residence in Downing-street.. St a ir. hoebuck, M.P., had an interview with Lori n.y yesterday, at the Colonial-office. wrr Robert Peel arrived in town yesterday, from bztinhds°r Castle. Sir Thomas Fremp,ntle, the Earl of Hou' a s i '!,, i e the Right Hon. H. L. Corry, and the • Ho n. ll'n'eY Herbert, had interviews with the Right tow, o —ar k c'tlet. I n the P - cternoon Sir R. Peel left had r . - 1 /,:t return to 'Windsor Castle. c heque r 1:1, iinethihrvaim:ew, r nairman of the Stamps and Taxes, Ex an ic!lte•-• Yest•dr,d,..,. with the Chancellor of the E h x d - .5 Captain Boldero, M.P., also a DiThrN.lv with the Right lion. Gentleman. 11 °Pe " te lles from the Governor of the Cape of Good • Were received yesterday at the Colonial-office. ......_ THE THEATRES, b lond LYCEUM. en s ', ,a.Y, after the dramatised version . of Dick prQvi 'lttines Which, looking at the thin attendance am I,, , hi ci ° ll 3 to half•price, appears to have lostthe . ch e it one novelty and the name of " Buz" g• ,, ,‘, (lei ' ?I 1v.,,-t farce, bearing the title of A -I ". ° . 4 4 We, .l d here for the first time. tilos., ~ p.oi.uce ... 10,,....ena. (Mr. A. Wigan)' ko re i ,`, toough slight, is amusing, and , w t h n a a t ,i( : r s , B o re ~‘,ls somewhat original. A Mr. 1 i enj.,..°lealer from the Lowther -arcade, falls desperate t ,l?: the son of a retired French set `'n t o b ur e d of a lay figure, which he Ills freqhubenourY, Atr, s t ,tugh the window of his oppositf' 4itid tea'4o_"P (.Ir. F. Matthews), a jealous neig ainter the o b_ n e,r ot drawing. Mr. Stump imagin.es_ps Mrs. StLii,,i)Jr\trof the Frenchman's attentions i I%lfe, and iliss alcot), his young and newly-married "lonn,. onfusion which this mistake occasions siti" t i o ''' all parties gives rise to many laughable Stari4s. 13ut Clara (Miss Fairbrother), Mrs. tontl4o.,iece, who has all along supposed that reak e „ '3 attentions are directed to her, ultimately fr ' la cerstaat right, by transferring his affections " 1 the b y dr e • gure to herself, which she accomplishes farce easing herself in the "dummy's" clothes. The illSt al; t W t - , lh : is smartly written, and lags not for an acti nz :. interest, was eminently successful. . T '' 1 %°"! need scarcely say, was unexceptionable. SURI(EY THEATRE. , was A 1 ,, Smith, .e.sq , last 'ol three -act play, by J. tilnealght performed at this theatre for Secretthe second 4, e titled wois.,„ or, The 4. 1 with ' ' by kr' _ kin k, ar some very pretty sceneryarvuan tier ',';'..?. Turner, Sze. The plot . well adapted to Y(e) situations and incidents, which are e. hi h is likely to Zeite ieterest, and the play is one ' embraces ll B V lter, the theitt otne a favourite with the frequenters N of this 1;,.. The first scene introduces us to _a_ . N., T. liisi e cs lr Y to Sir John de Mandeville (M r of this chaplain kih d ) , : , w ho, in the presence ) the ward Henner k, rn commoner, frankly avows his his passion , for . of sp jret de Alandeville (Mrs. R. thtile eh r John, being at the same time . forew ' nrned by e plain of the consequences of presumptionhis .. scene ttim ofng of ignoble birth) in aspiring next scene the li ar a lady of noble blood. In the plight et de Mandeville appear -3, and Walter 'lValter is t'oaV their faith toe ach other, and, while _ of the nex and she in,i,l_,liimees, rapturously kissing the handdanee of o tt ' rn e , they are surprised by the p de k ' an Italian physician 2nd creature a resump lion, 4a„.civille, who reviles Walter for his p , wh o d A alter is about to lay hands . Ra nd I ,a,_ws a small d igger, and gives him Adam, . p o e f ar Sir John ont under taetwe:nat its blade is poisoned. Margaret stands his Nei ii... 4 them, and at the nod of 1 uar• Rtu-4%,_`' aPPear and bear off Walter to pr A iso d n a , m Mar • ilia being summoned to the presence of her og Sir te •,, ,Inha rr►or to this, however, Henry, t . he . son ) f hip, ,i'dageci 18 (played by Mrs. Henry Vining ~smpeaest: Nair,n f'n'ear eoz,' and in ardent terms declares .ht lips te ur her, and entreats a kiss from her pouting: e l: , Nr a o r h is afterwards brought into the presence °T Pre 1‘,.',1 Mandeville, whoi accompanied by_ A on da ‘ m . , presup2Litp' being informed that the penalty his; 1,,i0_,-"Ption i, Nvithor.w, for thedeath, that rushes atoutinterv_teh:. purpos e of obtaining an his i hikt svardinal NVolsey, whose life, we are told, father 1)4, ed ece n A on the Orwell when they were schoolboys. . the seat i nidi eto - a act introduces us to the grand hall of ' 2. f . \v l e in the palace of Bigiopsthorp, - portal s!Y; where Walter, having presented.. ammadee laphl, PI person to the Cardinal,. is by olm r_. te tti,, () t the chamber and obtains from him a p o h N i . ,inoil This scene and obtains by a meeting between t.darn :Isde Mandeville and the Italian physician, , designs of s ,k)lr John' 0, Pandering to the ambitious • . ills x4;4 to Dlandeville, who has been seeking_ i t r o j. fo o r i c m e that • to marry him boldly kith' la o rder t ' h• views, which have suggests to Sir , k Elt o } 0 carry out is „rgaret'een thwarted, he should murder his ward. which ta , h .' bY administering poison to her, by 1... ltrl: . IS Owli honour would remain to all appear " vatoegnsullied before the world, and the number ILA .4 e n if his estates vvould he considerably enhanced.. , 4' 14'llorrIk'sal is erpertained by Sir John, but the fi• of e Plan has been overheard- by Henry, his son. s e itlii s 3" aPPears in the streets of York at night, dis 444otiesti as a friar, and ' meets with a woolstapler of ), John Steadman (Ir• R• Honner) who, watch otltsidß that an is in danger, agrees to .. Tqc,rk ild. the residence of sir John (whilst the pre i friar seeks a refuge for the night under that l 41 1411 ' Vd to fetch the officers of justice when a signa karet a%41'14. An interview %flows between Mar tentn':, the Cardinal, who assures her that he will tri, having and he retires behind the arras in the . latess zt.vlng Made the signal for assistance • Adam r .t„ w h the " poisoned chalice," which ta ble ,IN ~ ,he is followed by Sir John de Mandeville, th, 4 - th e. is placed same time Henry appears at the back of hlk,iloristaille to watch the proceedings ''°sals --argaret. M , the repeated pro_ meets dings of the plot to IN hi3t.ber guardian with indignation and contempt, i tot wa e d Is about to stab her when his son rushes ata r 4, wrests th xtv lci s h i , __ e dagger from his hands, and up q flpi n i,'" 'I a Murdeer. Henry then advances karet. 3 the poison which he had intended for Mar- I up•- ar; and in his d ' ~4 1. s et ~I,l_ Ytng agony pours his blessings on i y et is ate The officers of justice appear, and Mar quis ai disgllnisr (~of being the murderer, the Cardinal it foes eUrt, iia .escaping from the room at the moment. 110%, Ili drawn aside, and the witness to the ' 4 dli ce of Mar . away to to .r.keon garet has fled —she is borne _ search die Q ..' a nd a trial ensues, and she is sentenced ....,Lead f. the vtnan, the woolstapler has been sent in kh(),111 1 1 ° , ...„ r riar, and he encounters the Cardinal, . } :c i ):i ever ,liCsellovSterat.ber roughly handles. The Cardinal, ant sett is to letrstlillirilSelf' but assures Steadman te m th o a_t a nd t 11,4hichtis e murderers proceed until . h de o r ile t o h;_ "3' may suppose they have triumphed; b,.. tar e , hi.__; Word, the prelate marches into court, d "t' Whoi'l elf to be the witness in favour of Mar alte , le hand, as de the . 1' by th, , , . a matter of course, is given.tho h tt bit tr , d . - Cardinal, and the scene closes with Itl4evilie i lsc overy b y Adam, that Sir John de t 7): affection:ld. basely used the object of his (Adam's) raiseqfs of th e and this declaration is followed by ~. try h oe hardened Italian, who gloats on the eto lm a has brought upon Sir John, and the ;',ent'rj': culprit are carried away to prison. The 'lse s wurths with ad , 3' of the artists. The Ouse at sun -1,,, .s T o , 18tant view of York Minster and Clif ttelv 11, 1' is e er itti 4 e d, and all Y good. The play was very well 0.,et.1. ..th: the characters were very ably sus tlAt_lcl4,, national was followed by the original t,,1%110M l'Y Airl.'Val polka, which was admirably 'qst \‘ere rap t 1-1. Harvey and Miss Smithyes, t..,, , greets ‘urously encored. Mr. Harvey is a tti_e Ara thui nt,incer. The drama of the Pledge of qtleptl. e I nntornime closed t evening's enter -144 kte ,-Is ..,.N %pi_itilv gait_ 't'a'rz,, OF TRADE. --Our manufacturers a pin g sto 41 7 ° I I sY in gf,tting foi ward good 3 suited for t.l/41ii.44414 4114'illiseatllr• Some very large .rich and i'ls 4 ' a nd 41 114 ,,, , ,e in the loom .or in cours e of' prepa- NI R tl o f th '''s etpri!opd still at Very low wages. till, l 't tb a , , e tiroes ont, of F.,, t wei, 41aetaNrs m ... our moct, spirit Ell and ex- L i l , ,4 eqi-4,,, e ~. . r.lterr, of Thread-strovt, has 4 K Aii(),,ihiii,',.o ri?,aiilding a N ery extensive weaving; ,ti.ll.4tli, pert orr, anidttehenaahon u'ork is contracted f ; lc tii4. To4it''',,r,'• These 6%, Farpenter and joiner work litc;bn, t,,,,,r1 t},° 01 (1 . 1 . h . e ?tiols alone will cost nearly i 1144,1) NI wil l i) _', il'ileu and out-of-the-a ay part 4 tit of „_er of Latici4e awiwost important matt , r, as a 00 ° r Pit into cire b u e la e t t inon"lPd' and a large LLOYD'S SHIPPING. A.OriticULTURAL LoNE,N, JAN. 28.--Wit,." at noon W 0 strap , breeze and fine. It blew hard lest night, with squAls, ac companied with snow and sleet. PORTSMOrFII, JAN. 27.—Wind W.N,W., hard and squally.—Arrd. her Majesty's .4.;p Dido, from Penang ; sailed (Vt. 31, Cape of C-ood Hope 18th ult., and bt. Helena 28th tilt, RAstsGATE, JAN. 27.—The Medina, from Sunderland to Cowes, has been assisted in here with loss of Main mast, &c. The Charles, from Newcastle to Marseilles. has put in here with damage v having be'en in contact with the Sarah, from London to Liverpool, in the Downs. DEAL, JAN. 27.—Wind W.S.W. to W.N.W., strong, with heavy sqtmlls.—Arrd. Ambassador, Tate, Ichaboe, for Hull; Llangothlen, H u ll, f or Valparaiso. Put back, Caledonia, Hull, for Bombay, with loss of bowsprit, having been in contact with a vessel, name unknonn, on the 26th. The Sarah, from London to Liverpool, was in contact with the Charles, from Newcastle, and lost bulwarks, &c. PLYMOUTH, JAN. 27. —Wind W., strong. Arrd. Oveston, Wright, Round Island. SWANSEA, JAN. 26.—Arrd. Alciope, Valparaiso. LowEsToFF, JAN. 27.—The whole of last night it blew a violent gale from N.W. to N.N.W. Last night several vessels lost anchors. YARMOUTH, JAN. 27.—Wind N.Y., strong.—The Elizabeth, of Scarborcugh, from Middlesborough toLon don, got on the Cross Land, yesterday (as reported), drifted off, and is supposed to have foundered ; crew saved. The Pedlar, from Middlesborough to Dover, got on the Inner Bar, and is expected to become a wreck. The Brougham, Broomfield, from Boston to London, came into the harbour to-day. The Earl Errol, from Sunderland to London, as well as several others, lost anchors, &c. BRIDLINGTON, JAN. 27.—A schooner is reported ashore to the southward. LIVERPOOL, JAN. 27.—Wind N.W., strong.—Arrd. Fergus, Finlay, Ichaboe ; Williams, Wilsons, Cama roons ; Lydia, Jones, Antigua ; Brewster, Laura, and Walpole, New Orleans ; Ashburton and Sea, New York (10th inst.) ; Cynthia Ann, Suckville, New Brunswick. Off, Irica, Valparaiso ; barque Mary. STRANRAER, JAN, 26.—The David, from Shields to Carthagena, drove from her anchors during a heavy gale at S.W. to N., and went ashore mar Lochmouth, where she remains full of water and rolling heavily; craw saved. The Isabella, Davidson, in company of the above, also drove ashore, and remains high and dry, but being in ballast is not expected to receive much damage. A large ship dismasted is ryportt d to have passed Port frahuck this mornin;, and it is supposed she will go ashore in P,--,„aspittal Bay, or at Portlogan. A vas numb;:, of vessels in the Roads. LOWESTOFF, JAN. 27.—1 t blew a violent gale al yesterday at N.W. and N.N.W., and during the nigh several vessels drove. LIVERPOOL, JAN. 27.—The Valparaiso, hence for Vatl araiso, is ashore on Forn. by Point. The Eliza. from Killough, foundered last night in the river off Brikenhead. The Fortfield, Braithwaite, from Ichaboe to this port, in corning through the Victoria Channel yesterday afternoon struck on the Bar, rolled over and went to pieces ; one man drowned and two severely injured.. SLIGO. JAN. 26.—The James Metcalf, of Maryport, lying at Customhouse Quay, capsized during a heavy gall• from north to north west, and is now lying across the river on her beam-ends, and with loss of both top masts. The Eleanor, Robinson, front St. John's, New Brunswick, arounded on the flats, where she remains. HULL, JAN. 27.—1 t blew a heavy gale on the night of the 25th instant. The Maria, hence to Antwerp, drove ashore in Jetney Haven, after being in contact in Grhnsby Road, bur has been got off, and in to Grimsby. TUE SUN, LONDON,' WEDNESDAY MORN EAST INDIA SHIPPING. Arrival:—Fier Majesty's ship Dido, Keppc.ll, from Singapore, at Portmnoutt, saied Oct. 16, Penang Oct. 31, Cape Dec. 18. St. Helena a c. '2B. Arrivals in Table Bay, Cape of Good Hope—Au gustus, Hart, from Adelaide, and sailed Di.c. 5 to Lon don ; True Briton, Consitt from Portsmouth, and sailed Dec. 6 to Madras ; Thomas Yohng, Rumford, from Bengal, and sailed Dec. 7 to London ; Cher,, Ross, from Liverpool. and sailed Dec. 9 to Ichabee ; Timandra, Skinner, front Calcutta. aid sailed Dec. 11 to Loudon ; Courier, Frye, from Mauritius, and sail.-d Dec, 12 to Monte Video ; Emma Eugenia, Kettlewell, from Mauri- „ tius ; Harriet, Duthie, from Liverpool, and sailed Dec. 11 to Algoa Bay ; Stedfast, Merritt, from Bristol; Esse quibo, Cain, from Ichabee ; Grace, Smith, and John Thomas Carr, Wilkie s, from Shields; Sirius, M`Kinnon, from the Clyde ; Active, Bruce, from ; Mary, Jane, Harper, from Liverpool, and sailed Dec. 16 to Ichaboe ; Janet Izat, Squire, Dec. 5, from Newport ; Exeter, from Liverpool ; Regent packet, from Crozets ; William Metcalfe, Philipson, from Calcutta ; Phoenix steamer, from Algoa Bay; Velox Dec. 7, from Rio; Ar temise, from Gothenburg; Lemmos, Bth, from Simon's Bay, and sailed 14th to Mauritius ; Emerald, 11th, from Bristol ; Isaac, from Ichaboe ; her Majesty's steamer Thunderbolt, from Ichaboe ; British Settler, 12th, from Bowie River ; Adele, from Ichaboe ; Parkfield, 15th, from London ; H.F.M. ship Sirens, 17th, from Macao. Departures from Table Bay—Elizabeth, Jansen, Dec. 6, to China; Earl Durham, Bth, to London; Sophia, 10th, to Mossell Bay; Tunor. 12th, to Batavia; Active and Grace, 14th, Rosanna, 16th, to Ichaboe; Antigone, 16th, to Havre; Governor, 16th, to Liverpool. Arrivals in Algoa Bay—Lalla Rookh, from London; John William Dare, from Table Bay; Ann Caithness, Dec. 3, from Mauritius. Departure from Simon's Bay—George the Fourth, Parsons, Dec. 7, to London. Arrivals at St. Heleua—Timandra and Mary, Ridley, from Calcutta. Arrivals at Wellington, New Zealand—Nelson, Aug.lB, and Raymond. Sept. 5, both from London. GREAT FOOT RACE. Notwithstanding the unfavourable state of the weather upwards of four thousand persons assembled on Monday at Gannick Corner (about a mile and a half beyond Bar net), to witnese the great foot race between Jackson, the American Deer, iind Sheppard. of Birmingham, which has excited so much interest in the sporting circles dur ing the past fortnight. Both these men have. in a num ber of contests, exhibited the most extraordinary speed, and in a race between them only a few days ago sur passed anything ever known in the annals of pedes trianism. On that occasion Jackson, who was the win ner, after a most spirited run, performed upwards of leven miles in an hour, a task hitherto unprecedented, and which surpasses the great American's trial of speed which h s deservedly been the subject of much talk. l'he exceeding closeness of the race between Jackson and Sheppard, until the latt•'r fell at the conclusion of the tenth mile, with the extraordinary game displayed by both, was the theme of conversation amongst some gentlemen shortly after the struggle, and a match was made for 50/. a-side, and the money deposited in the hands of Owen Swift at once for a five-mile race. Both men had been in very active training, and shortly after two o'clock made their appearance on the ground, and exhibited first rate condition and great confidence. Betting was 6 to 4 on Sheppard, and a great deal of money was laid out at that price. Preliminaries having been adjusted, the men went to the starting-place near Frank Key's, to run one mile out and return (the dis tance being measured towards London). Jackson lied the lead, which he maintained until nearly the whole of the distance had been accomplished, his opponent malt ing upon him the whole of the way, and being but a few yards behind him. The speed throughout the race was most extraordinary ; the first two miles were perlOrtned in 10 min. 10 sec.. arid the four miles under 21 mm. In going up to the fifth mile the men appeared to increase their spred, and Sheppard, whose style is the most ex traordinary and beautiful ever seen, ran right up to his opponent, and they were together for about fitty yards, when Sheppard, almost within sight of the distance post, gradually went in advance, and won by about four yards, accomplishing the five miles in 25 min. 45 sec. It was admitted to be the finest race ever witnessed. THE ROYAL BUCKHOUNDS.—An untried deer was uncarted on Monday at Winkfield-street, the meet, at which nearly one hundred were present, taking place close to the church. The deer took away across Foli john-park to New-lodge, where it doubled to the left to Bray-common, on to Fifield, through the f Test to St. Leonard's-hill, and thence by Spital to Clever-green, crossing the New. road to Clarence -crescent, at Windsor, swimming over the Thames to the Boreas, on the Buckinghamshire side of the river, and then making for Barnspool-bridge, close to the College, beneath which it quietly reposed up to its haunches in mud. The hounds and huntsmen in the mean time proceeded from the Berkshire side over Windsor-bridge. The deer, upon being dislodged, made for Tangier Mill, at Eton, and again swam ovt r the river to the Lock, and thence again crossed the Thames for the third time, landing in the Eton College playing fields, and was run into and secured at Blackpots, the residence of Mr. Bat cheldor, after a run, from first to last, of an hour and a half. The deer was housed at the Christopher Inn, at Eton. MEDICAL REFORM.—Monday a meeting cf mem bers of the medical profession took place in the Com mittee-room of the General Medical Protection Assem bly, at Exeter Hall, for the purpose, among other things, of considering a motion, of which Mr. Wakley gave no tice at the last meeting of the assembly, for the adoption of a petition to the Queen, praying that her Majesty would not sanction any alteration in the existing charter of the College of Surgeons, until the members of the col lege, amounting to upwards of 10,000 persons, had an opportunity of staling their grievances, and what they felt to be their incorporated rights, before her Majesty's Privy Council. The Hon. Gentleman said he thought there would be this advantage in. taking the course he proposed—that it would be impossible for a Minister of the Crown, after learning from them how the Crown had been deceived in the grant of the last charter to the College of Surgeons by the representations of the members of the Council, to listen to them again. The members of the college tad not been con sulted on the last occasion of g anting the charter, but the Crown had been deceived by a majority o f twenty-one of the Council, although it was stated in the charter that the constitution of the body had been altered on the representation of the members. That was an immoral fraud and. after having been thus trea cherously betrayed by that body, the prefessic n would be simpletons to trust them again. The Hon. Gentle man then proceeded to urge strongly the importance of union. pointing out the advantage disunion gave their enemies, who would have this obvious answer to giv e when asked for reform—that the profession were not agreed among themselves on what conditions or prin ciples they would be governed. The power against them was immense; they had an enemy in the Government— they had an enemy in Parliament ; and if they were enemies to their own interests, and remained disunited, nothing but defeat and discimfiture, and disgrace, would be their lot. Mr. Cooper seconded the motion, which was carried unanimously, arid a Committee haying been appointed to prepare the petition, the meeting ser4hted, AUSTRALIAN . - - COMPANY. The annual meeting of this Company was held yester day at one o'cb c.k, at the King's Arms-yard. Mr. BrowNRIGG. the Chairman of the Board of Direc , . tors, said that he would not delay the meeting by malting: any prefatory observationt;, but, *O.llO, in the lirst in stance, tread the riport, and would then be happy to give any eXplanation that any Proprietor might require, anp Which it was in his power to give. The report was then read, from which it appeared that there were grounds to hope for returning prosperity, and that the colony was emerging from the extreme state of depression under which it had been lately suffering. The report then Went oh to state the circum stances of the Company with regard to their stock of various kinds in the colony. The CHAIRMAN then said that there was a surplus of 5.5821. after the expenses were paid, IN hfch had during the last year bees, considerably diminished, and from this, and the stnall surplus which remained last year, it was proposed to declare a dividend of 155., or 2i per cent., on the paid-up capital, which would be paid on Wednesday, the sth of February next. The dividend was declared, and the report adopted. It was then proposed and seconded, that R. W. Blaine, Esq., be appointed Deputy-Governor in the room of W. Brown, Esq., deceased. John Lock, Esq., W. S. Dawson, Esq.. and J. Hodgson, Esq., the outgoing Directors ' were re-elected. G. W. Thornton, Barclay, Esq., Knox, Esq., and Abel Smith, Esq., were appointed auditors. A vote of thanks was then passed to the Directors, for which the Chairman returned thanks, and the meet ing then separated. NEW BRITISH IRON COMPANY. The general meeting of the Proprietors of the icew British Iron Company was held yesterday at the offices, New Brod-sireet, Mr. W. Routh in the chair. Mr. W. SMITH, the Secretary, having read the notice of the present, and the minutes of the last meeting, The CISAIRMAN said they were called together in conformity with their deed of settlement, which re quired their accounts to be made up on the 30th of September, and that their general meeting should be held between the Ist of January and the 20th of February. It would he scarcely necessary for him to add anything to the report that would be laid before them ; the state of trade during the past year had been rather of a chequered character, but on the whole tending towards improvement ; the result had been, that instead of subjecting the Proprietors to a loss, as under the old Company, there had been some thing like a profit. He also had to congratulate the Proprietors on the improved prosperity of business for the ensuing year. He then read the report, which stated the balance in favour of the Company to be 8,0501. 19s. 2d. ; from this, there is to be deducted the interest of deben tures and other expenses, leaving 3,961/. is. 6d., out of which the Provisional Committee recommended a dividend on the paid-up capital of the Company, equal to the interest paid on debentures, 4 per cent. ; and a sum of 9611. ss. 6d. to be carried forward to the next year. The Committee had great pleasure in congratulating the Proprietors on the decided im provement that had lately taken place in the trade; as the demand was legitimate and not speculative, the improvement was likely to be permanent. The pre sent weekly " make " of the Company was stated to be nearly 1.000 tons of iron, and was likely to be considerably exceeded. As the functions of the Pro viSional Committee now expired, it became necessary to appoint twelve Directors. The parties forming the Provisional Committee would, with a few excep tions, he proposed to them as Directors. The report was then received and approved, and a resolution, declaring a dividend of 3s. per share, was carried unanimously, after a short discussion. The following gentlemen were then proposed, and declared duly elected to fill the office of Directors of the Company :—Mr. G. P. Barclay, Mr. Brownrigg, M.P., Mr. D. B. Chapman, Mr. M. Harrison, Mr. J. Hoare, Mr. C. Kerr, Mr. J. Horsley Palmer, Mr. J. J. H. Ravenshaw, Mr. Samson Ricardo, Mr. W. Routh, Mr. J. Abel Smith, and Mr. Alex. Wilson. The following gentlemen were elected as auditors : —Mr. Ricardo, Mr. J. Bruce, Mr. S. Smith. The CIAIRMAN returned thanks on behalf of him self and his brother Directors, and the proceedings terminated. SPANISH BONDS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR,--As an old subscriber to your widely-disse minated and popular journal, I would feel much obliged if you could inform me, (and numbers in the country similarly situated with myself), what is now doing with regard to the overdue Coupons on the Spanish Active Five per Cent. Bonds. lam a con siderable holder of this stock, and there was four years' interest due on the Ist of November last, being 20 per cent. There was four years and a half capi talised in 1840 into the Three per Cent. Stock ; since then we, the holders of the Active Bonds, have not received one farthing in the shape of interest, and as M. Mon, the Spanish Minister of Finance, has converted nearly everything owing in Spain into this stock, I, with the rest of the old bcndholders, hope that something either has been done, or will shortly, to convert this 20 per cent. owing into this stock, the more especially as M. Mon made some slight allu sion to this measure shortly after the meeting of the present Cortes. With the opinions which I and the lovers of freedom entertain of the present Govern ment of Spain, it is not for me to enter upon. I only wish to treat upon the interest which has so long been overdue upon the debts owing to their British creditors. Can you inform me and others, through the medium of your journal, whether there e a Com mittee of Spanish Bondholders or not, to watch over the interests of thems Ives and the other bondholders ? I think there cannot be a Committee, or ere this some thing would have been done, and the more especially so on the present instance, as there is rather an appearance of some better intentions to do justice by M. Mon than has been done by his predecessors in office If you can do us any good, by drawing the public attention to the subject, I should feel much obliged.—l remain, Sir, your obedient servant, A SPANISH BONDHOLDER. Cleveland, Jan. 23, 1845. [There is a Committee, but their labours have not yet obtained their just reward.—En. Sun.] GRAND CONCERT, SUSSEX HALL.—On Monday a concert, on a grand scale, was given at the Sussex Hall, Leadenhall-street, and was attended by an auditory of more than 1,200 persons. The entertainment was opened with Bishop's glee, " Sleep, gentle Lady," by the Misses A. and M. Williams and Mr. Machin, which, both in the execution and the reception, was a fine promise of what was to follow. These young ladies are daily improv ing, and bid fair to stand, before long, in the very fore most rank of their profession. Mr. Machin in this glee and in his other performances of the evening, was much applauded. Without particularising the separate merits of the several a, t;stes, it must suffice to say, that each one was received with the utmost favour, and well merited the applause awarded. We cannot omit to men tion Miss Lucombe, Miss Sarah Flower, and Madame F. Lablache, with Mr. Allen and Mr. Russell. In the course of the evening Mr. Cohen performed a fantasia of his own composition upon " The Conquering Hero." A burst of applause interrupted him at the close of the first part, and at the conclusion he was honoured with an encore, to which, by some unaccountable mistake he did not attend otherwise than by the bow of thanks with which he retired. GALLANT ACT OF A LIEUTENANT OF 11Elt MA JESTY'S SHIP SUPERB IN HAMOAZE.—O n Tuesday morn ing last, a private of the Royal Marines, belonging to the above ship, accidentally tell overboard. A strong ebb-tide was running at the time, and the poor f e ll ow , being unable to swim, must soon have been drowned, but for the prompt and gallant act of bravery displayed by Lieut. Stewart in jumping overboard, and keeping the man from sinking, until, with the aid of ropes, he was got out in a most exhausted state, and taken on board the Bellona hulk, where the usual means for restoring drowned persons were quickly resorted to by Dr. Coulter, of the Superb, and happily proved efficacious in restoring animation.—Plymouth Tines, Sir Robert Peel's Parliamentary dinners are to be continued every week until the Easter recess. We hear it is in contemplation to have those official entertainments on the same scale as last year ; that is to say, the Right Hon. Baronet will receive about 40 Members of the House of Commons at each dinner. We understand the Board of Admiralty have de termined on withholding their assent to the proposed viaduct over the Penryn river, as a part of the scheme of the Plymouth and Falmouth Railway.—Falmouth Packet. HEARTLESS CONDUCT OF A SWEDISH CAPTAIN.— On Tuesday morning, as the crew of a Deal boat called the Princess Royal, were off the South Foreland, they observed a brig, which, from certain evolutions, they were led to conclude had a pilot to land. Impressed with this belief, they proceeded to the vessel, and on nearing her, the captain, to their asto nishment, called out that he had lost a boy overboard, at the same time pointing to windward. The conduct of the captain appeared so thoroughly heartless, and unfeeling, that the boatmen bitterly exclaimed against it in no very unmeassured terms, asking him why he had not hove to, and lowered his boat, particularly as there was nothing in the state of the weather to prevent him doing so. No reply was made, and the brig pur sued the same undeviating course, going at the rate of five knots an hour, leaving the poor boy every , instant at a greater distance. The boatmen, with that prompt alacrity and humanity for which they are proverbial, proceeded in the direction indicated, and, after malting two tacks, discovered the boy strug gling with the waves. To keep up his spirits they loudlyhailed him, at the same time waving their bats, and using every possible cheering demonstration. Strange to say, they arrived at the critical period on which the boy's fate seemed to depend—a few moments longer, and all would inevitably have been lost. A firm grasp of the arm soon rescued the sufferer, and brought him into the boat. By judicious treatment the boy ultimately re covered, and was removed in a cart to Deal, where he remains under the protection of the Vice-Consul Too much praise cannot be given to the boatmen for their noble and disinterested conduct. The name of the brig is the Preia, Captain Hendtman, bound to Rio Janerio. .Dover Telegraph. PORTUGAL-THE BUDGET. LISBON, JAN. 22.—0 n the 19th instant Count Tojal laid before the Chamber of Deputies his anxiously-ex pected budget for the year beginning on . the Ist of July next, and endint on the -10th of June, 1846, from which it appears that a surplus of about 39 contos is calculated upon. The following is an abstract of this important document : REVENUE. BOARD OF PUBLIC CREDIT. Milreis, For the payment of the interest on the home debt For the payment of the foreign debt 2,868,941 • PUTILIC TREASURY. Direct imports. Indirect ditto Crown lands and mit-cellaneous 417,832 7,888,013 Total revenue 10,756,954 EXPENDITURE. BOARD OF PUBLIC CREDIT. Miis. Interest on hom e d e b t Interest on foreign ditto 2,868,457 General charges (including Civil List) 2,065,207 Home Department Finance ditto Justice ditto 423,216 War ditto.... Marine ditto 868,194 Foreign Affairs ditto Surplus 7,849,085 10,717,542 39,412 10,756,954 The presentation of this budget was preceded by a very long programme, which the Finance Minister read aloud to the Chamber, and the most important and inte resting portions of which we have selected for translation, as follows, via.:-- (TRANSLATIOD7.) "Sirs,—l have the satisfaction to lay before you the budget of the receipts and expenditure of the State for the financial year 1845-6. " For my ability to do so I am indebted to the confi dence with which her Majesty the Queen has honoured me; and assuredly never was it my duty to perform a more pleasing and grateful task. " The efforts by which the present Administration has for three years preserved public order, maintained the institutions of the country, and provided for the exigencies of the State, are fully acknowledged and ap preciated. _ _ _ " The triumph of the cause of royalty and legal liberty —the organising and reforming measures adopted in all branches of the public service—and the punctual fulfilment of all legally contracted engagements, have been the bases upon which we flatter ourselves to have established that public confidence without which there can be neither political stability nor financial organi sation. " Various measures promulgated in the course of last year by the present Administration, are now becon'e laws of the land. Amongst them there is one which is eminently tendent towards the organisation of our finances. I allude to the farming of the united tobacco, soap, and gunpowder comps►nies, in connection with the raising of a loan of 4,000 contos, at five per cent. and at par. A series of political events had long rendered the solution of our financial problem extremely complicated and difficult. Imperative circumstances arising out of those events had caused a necessity for sacrifices which the scanty resources of the treasury could ill support; and to crown all other difficulties, the future revenues were mortgaged to the extent of two-thirds of th e i r amount—a state of things which could not but inspire the Government with the most serious apprehensions of a crisis, the fatal consequences of which could easily be foreseen. " It was in this alarming situation that the Govern ment conceived a thought pregnant with advantageous results to the country, and calculated to put an end, a great measure, to the torrent of embarrassments which involved it on every side. " The Decree of the 30th June last contained that most important measure, to which we owe— " Ist. The loan of 4,000 contos at par, and at the moderate interest of five per cent., to be redeemed in 23 years. " 2d. The augmentation, by 72,427 milreis, of the price for which the tobacco, &c., monopolies have been farmed. " 3d. The redemption of the mortgages upon various branches of the revenue. "4th. The rapid rise in the value of the public funds. "sth. The development of the spirit of association, inspired by confidence in the acts of Government, mod the tendency of capital towards useful undertakings, which must promote the material amelioration and pros perity of the country. "The Government purposes laying before this Cham ber at an early period a statement of the application of the last loan of 4,000 contos, and to propose such mea sures as it may deem indispensable, in order that the ordinary and extraordinary expenses of the year, ending 30th June, 1845, as well as any extraordinary demands that may arise in the following year, may be provided for without encroachment upon the revenue appropriated to each of those years. " I shall now proceed to state to you the estimated revenue and expenditure for the year 1845-6. (Here follow long details, the substance of which is given in the above abstract.) "The interest on the foreign debt is calculated at the rate of one-half per coat. additional, in conformity to the decree of the 2d of November, 1840. There would therefore be, under that head, a deficit of 248,292 milreis; but by means of the accompanying project, No. 1, which I have the honour to lay before you that de ficit can be covered. It is proposed therein, that in ex change for the additional duties upon foreign imports, which have hitherto formed part of the endowment of the Board of Public Credit, shall be substituted an annual allowance of 900,000 milreis, 480,000 of which to be paid from the Custom-house of Lisbon and 420,000 from that of Oporto. " You will see by a comparison of the present estimates with those for the years 1844-5, that reductions to the following amounts have been made in the expenditure of the several department s , viz.:— Home Finance 122,029 Justice War Marine Foreign Affairs J N: TT Ail, IT 29 1845. ful fecoi - ety ot all those rights of which, on account of their attachment to the chair of Peter, they have been deprived —nor shall they suffer any power of Parliamen tary creation to intercept one particle of that homage we all owe his Holiness, or of that spiritual jurisdiction, of which he is the best guardian. And allow me to ask yoti, who are they who in reality are making inroads on the power of the Pope, and striving to make a mockery of his jurisdiction ? Is it we who constitutionally labour for the repeal of the Bequests Act, which is repugnant to the canons of the Church, and not in accordance with the principles of the Catholic religion or those who, without consulting the Holy See, strive tyrannicaliy to enforce so penal an enactment ? Before the Commission was named we sought, as was the duty of Catholics, that this question should be referred to the decision of the Holy Father ? We were told why refer to the Holy Father a question regarding mere tempora lities ? Such was the unceremonious way in which the authority of Rome was treated, The people meet—re solVe, denounce the unconstitutional encroachment on their civil rights i they are told that they violate the obedience due to their spiritual superiors by their deli berating and resolving on a matter which they should leave to a spiritual tribunal. Thus the Pope must not decide because it is a temporal matter ; the people must not decide because it is a spiritual concern, and during this unprincipled and sophistical shifting, the prophecy of a celebrated writer is sought to be realised by the erection of a ministerial and political papacy in our own kingdom, directed by the nod of the Premier, disregard ing on one hand the authority of the Pope, and on the other striving to crush the religious and political rights of the people. " Whoever reflects on the career of Mr. Anthony Blake, his evidence before a Committee of the House of Commons, and his being a member of this Commission, must, unless the Commission be speedilydissolved, enter tain serious fears for the continuance of the Pope's sub stantial authority in Ireland. When I consider that he has been the old advocate of the veto, and of every mea sure for fettering the freedom of the Catholic Church, the pliant and dexterous follower of every successive Admi nistration, whether Whig or Tory, the self-appointed patron of Maynooth College, in order to project, I sup pose with Mr. Thomas Wys.., how far it may be feasible, by a little domestic concordat, to effect some change in the system of the teaching of its faith, for an increase in its finances. In short, the concoctor of a scheme of a royal Commission of bishops to manage the payment of the Ca tholic clergy, and to inflict the penalties of misdemeanour on the others who should not yield to the usurped powers of political bishops of the Parliamentary Com mission. When I consider how on that occasion he trifled with the authority of the Pope, recommending a course of penal legislation, and then leaving the Pope to shift for his own authority the best way he could; when I reflect that much of what has been suggested has been already done in establishing the Commission of the Be quests Act, lam only consoled by the reflection that the mischievous projects of the man will be defeated by the pious zeal of the Catholics of Irelond in procuring a total repeal of the law, and, were it not for this their zeal, I fear that as a public and political character history would have to record, that since the disastrous event of Protestant ascendancy a worse importation, or one more fatal to the Catholic religion than the same Mr. Anthony Blake was never wafted back to Ireland. To Lord Stanley this gentleman would be a most valuable acqui sition in the colonies. How humiliating the prospect of the once glorious Church of Ireland, when its pastors allowed their holiest rights and duties to be invaded and usurped by such scheming political adventurers. "I cannot, therefore, but deplore the misdirection of the patriotic feelings of some ardent Irishmen combating the phantom of a foreign temporal power, while they are heedless cf the enemy that is threatening them at home. Instead of being alarmed at the exercise of any undue power from abroad, what is desirable is to pre vent any encroachment on the Pope's hallow ed autho rity in protecting our Church. Some are also in ecsta cies rather immoderate at the diplomatic announcement that no negotiations are going forward on the affairs of the Irish church between the Holy See and the British Government. Even should their not, what grounds are there for congratulation ? What need you require a concordat, if, even without one, you can erect your Commission at home, and delegate to it a Parliamentary jurisdiction to invade the rights of the Catholic hierarchy ? What more do you require ? Lord Hey teshury hopes, indeed, that the Catholics of Ireland will, therefore, be contented. Yes, they will be less sus picious when the Bequests Act is repealed, and the Be quests Board dissolved ; otherwise his Excellency's pro position amounts to this Be not alarmed ; we have only made a breach in the walls of your Church ; hold, forbear your meetings ; put confidence in us, your old and trusty friends, and we will pledge ourselves to halt at the gates and make no further advances on your re ligion.. It is also made a subject of similar congratulation, that should a concordat be negotiated, all then would assist in averting such evils from the Catholic church. Instead of wasting our solicitude on distant and con tiegent dangers, we should be alive to the imminent evils of the Commission now established at home, and labour to close the breach which has been recently made in the bulwarks of its holy discipline. It will not be enough to say—' Allow the present incipient usurpation of the rights of the bishops to be firmly established, and in future they will obtain every necessary assistance in repelling future aggresSion.' Such is their mode of deal ing with the evil who talk of amendments in the Act, and the removal or modification of this or that objec tionable clause, while they allow the encroaching and invading principle of the Commission itself—the vigorous root of the evil -to remain. No, the successful step of letting any portion of the Act remain would only prompt you or any otherNlinister to in vite other prelates tojoin him in a fresh assault on our liberties, by another new Com mission still more penal ; the example 'ince given by good and enlightened men, of joining one Commission in disregard of the known wishes and feelings of, in general, the people, the clergy, and the majority of their brethren, might be successively adopted at some future day by others improving on their models, until the citadel of Catholicity would thus be surrendered, and almost t all tile sacred functions of the hierarchy be usurped by motley aggregations of political and Parliamentary Commissioners. _ • " Let, then, your fi rstpreeommendation to Parliament be, the repeal of an Act which the mischief already pro -duced should he a warning of:the more awful calamities with which it is fraught:' A la* so penal to religion,, -and so utterly repugnant. to. the interests and declared will of the entire people, would,,according to all spqpd civilians auk jurists, be .downright' tyranny tO enforce., You feared, if We are to judge of the night combinations of law and :armaments to which You resorted to crush them, tlle display ,of ,popular • power exhibited by these monster meetings. t The "malignant spirit of your Be quests Act has evoked' a far more formidable agitation. Yes—the people of Ireland, and its clergy, love their country. They are solicitous for its prosperity, and will give every aid compatible with their respective duties towards the restoration of a native Legislature. But they love their religion more—the one being a temporal, and the other an eternal interest. Indeed, so much are Ireland and the Catholic religion bound up together in the system of English domination, that it would be diffi cult to separate the interests of one flora the other. To the spoliation of their country's rights, religion has often reconciled the Irish people. Their history has attested that they are a nation who, for that holy religion, are ready to sacrifice their lives. " I am your faithful servant, " JOHN, Archbishop of Tuam." 451,017 - Add to which - the reduc tion in the Pension List 64,035 Total saving 515,053 The Chamber will see from this statement that the Government has been most solicitous to adopt all prac ticable economical measures, in order to avoid as much as possible the imposition of further burdens upon the country. . _ _ By a Royal Decree published in the Diario of' the 18th instant, the Queen has ordered the assessment of the decima tax for the financial year 1844-45, to be pro ceeded to forthwith, so as to be completed by the 31st of May next. The decree further enjoins an inspection to be made of all lands and houses, and a strict inquiry into the means and incomes of all persons subject to the payment of that impost, by the visiting Commissioners appointed by virtue of the decree of the 7th June, 1844; as also that any Commissioner who may show himself deficient in zeal, activity, or intelligence, in the discharge of his duties, shall be dismi, sed and substituted by ano ther and more capable person. The project of law for the abolition of the foreign Conservatorial Courts was voted usamimously by the Chamber of Deputies on the 15th inst. In the course of his speech the Minister owned that, there had been great difficulty in inducing the British Government to surrender the Conservatorial privilege by the treaty of 1842, and that Lord Aberdeen had only consented to the sacrifice on production of proof incon trovertible of the great amelioration which had been ef fected in the judicial machinery of the country. Of the improvement in question her Majesty's Minister at this Court had soon after a taste himself, having been for the last year or upwards involved in a suit to recover the value of a broken-winded horse from the rogue who sold it to him warranted sound. An attempt is making to form an opposition company of " Public works," under the name of the " Alliance" with a capital of 8.000 contos, but as the projectors, at the head of whom is Count Farrobo, are all of the anti- Cabral party, the Government is endeavouring to throw cold water upon it, by refusing to sanction its code of statutes. The Cortes have been occupied during the last few days with a project for equalising the weights and mea sures throughout the country. GENERAL ANNUITY SOCIETY, 36, Coleman-street, for Allowing Annuities to Decayed Merchants, Bankers, Professional Men, their Widows, and Clerks, and to Single Females, the Daughters of Persons belonging to such Classes.—Luke James Hansard, Esq., has, in a communication full of good feeling, addressed to Mr. 11. F. Richardson, the secretary of this charity, munificently presented 100/. The annual festival will be preside° over by Lord John Russell on the 30th of April. The stewards comprise names of the highest rank of commer cial and professional importance. SAVINGS' BANKS.—Under the recent Act of Par liament applying to savings banks, various amounts of interest have been fixed ; and it is a curious fact that small institutions are allowing a higher rate than larger ones, whereas the larger ones (reaping of course a greater profit) ought to allow the higher rate of inte rest. Probably those conductin g larger banks are de sirous to produce as much " surplus as possible, but the Government has a surplus fund enough in hand from savings' banks. Why, then, cramp depositors' in terest? The highest rate which can be allowed to them now is 3 per cent., and that they ought to receive—not a fraction less. The Government ought not to be bene fited at the expense of depositors,—From a Con espondent. It is mentioned as an extraordinary circumstance, that the white thorn on which Lamb (who is accused of rered y oung the eight y ears th a t murdering John Brill in Ruislip-wood), is sa id t o h ave man, has not grown have e g s sixteenth ht since partcthe the 7 ud murder. an inch during IRELAND. ARCHBISHOP M‘HALE cm THE IRISH CHURCH. l)unLite, JAN. 25.—The Evening Freeman's Journal contains the following letter:--- "io THE RIQItT lioN qiR ROEiETT PEEL, riARt St. Jarlath's, Tuain, Feast of St. Timidly, 1845. "Sir,—Whilst you survey with singular satisfaction the wide extent of spiritual bondage over Great Britain, you are, doubtless, mortified by the painful contrast of the spiritual freedom of Ireland, And anxious for the diffusion of this religious thraldom, you fear that its reign cannot be . permatient or sedufd Until the light of its Catholic faith is extinguished in a country so conti guous as to be likely to become contagious. It is not the first time that Ireland, an eAception to the surrounding servitude, roused the envy of the despots Who doomed its liberty to destruction. Such was the policy, which , we are told by Tacitus, Agrippa had in contemplation. He despaired of establishing the dominion of the impe rial arms over Britain and Caledonia as long as Irish freedom was, in the language of the ancient historian, within view. And you, too, improving on his policy, despair of perpetuating the worst despothrn cf heresy, under which the once favoured land of England groans, as long as the light and freedom of the Roman Catholic faith burns with such steady strength and lustre in the neighbouring island. " Hence the untiring exertions of that Protestant ascendancy, still so hostile, to extinguish a religion which is a living reproach to the revolting errors that disfigure the face of England. Witness the lamentable fruit of those errors in the entire disorganisation of what is termed the Church of England, and in the hideous in testine discord by which its crazy frame is falling asunder. Witness, too, the dreadful immorality which is their offspring, and the prevalence of those unpro voked and gratuitous crimes which, in despite of the insolence of its journalists and the homage which wealthy nations are sure to extol, even unto the palliation of their vices, have made the moral condition of England a word of warning over the civilised world. Are you ambitious to sink Ireland to the level of the same degrading social I materialism ? Should you succeed, instead of the occa sional outbreaks of revenge which humanity abhors, and which would have been frequent were it not for the in cessant influence of religion and its priesthood, you would witness a fierce spirit of national indignation which not two, nor all the spare legions within your command, could repress. So much is the tranquillity of the country and the stability of the throne beholden to the pious and disinterested exertions of its calumniated priesthood. " The lamentable state of social disorganisation to which I have alluded is felt and deplored by many of the English prelates, who confess they are unable to apply a remedy: witness, for example, the ludicrous embarrass ment of his Lordship of Exeter—to day issuing his episcopal mandates for ecclesiastical uniformity, and re voking them again, it is said, at the imperious requisi tion of the Minister of the Crown. Such of the members of that body as possess a tolerable share of learning, whose intellect ranges beyond the small pale of the An glican Establishment, and the brief period of its disastrous schism, surveying the social happiness enjoyed by the nations when the Church was not the chained handmaid of the Crown, are in a condition the most pitiable. While their zeal is animated by the heroic fortitude of the an cient champions of the freedom of the Church they fancy for a time that they can imitate their example. No sooner, however, do they engage in the attempt than they are obliged to own that from the Establishment, though retaining some of the material features of a church, the spirit that animated and informed it is gone; and instead of the holy vigour of an Ambrose .or an Anselm, who arraigned the cruel delinquencies of royalty itself, they are silent on the crimes of the nation, because they must regulate, by the nod of a political minister, the nature of the pastoral instructions. " No doubt you are anxious to bring about a similar reform in the Catholic Church in Ireland. If so, you must expect it will be productive of the same disastrous results upon morality and order. It is as a step to this complete subjection of the Catholic Church to the State, which, no doubt, is your aim, you have introduced the fatal measure of the Beque is Bill, and by its fruit you may judge of the wisdom of the policy which, in an evil hour, you have adopted. You have avowed that your difficulty was Ireland. Have you not increased and thickened those difficulties by this disastrous measure ? Never, within the memory of the oldest of its inhabi tants, was Ireland in a state of more frightful excitement. And why ? From the encroachment you have striven, but I hope in vain, to make on the freedom of the Ca tholic religion. And allow me to tell you, in all since rity, that, as you are now about meeting the Parliament, your first measure must be the repeal, the total repeal of that penal law, root and branch, if you wish to restore tranquillity to Ireland. I will not fatigue you or the public attention with the detail of any of the arguments against this iniquitous law that are now as fami liar as they are forcible. Whoever can resist the evidence adduced by Sergeant Shee, and principally by Mr. O'Connell, of the ruinous effects of that law, if un repealed, on the hest interests of the Catholic religion, must have an understanding steeled by prejudices which no argument can approach. The question has been so argued that persons the most illiterate, as well as the most enlightened, are in possession of those arguments, and hence an intellectual and religious opposition to that measure, deep, wide—embracing all orders and all classes—laity, clergy, priests and bishops, gentry and peasantry ; in short, spread over the entire cour.try, and fast as the hold which their faith has on its people. " When it was announced that three estimable and venerable pi elates were associated to the Commission to carry this odious act into effect, the public mind was stunned, and a sudden grief fell on the heart of the na tion. Their sorrow was intense ; they felt by the novel connection that the freedom of their Church was in mani fest danger, and the appointment, like edam chafing and fretting the current which it was intended to check, raised it still higher and gave it further force. " There are not in the world a people who feel more veneration for their prelates than the Irish people, and, therefore, you must suspect that the measure must be bad which could produce dissensions in a body, the members of which the spirit of Catholic faith and con- Onerfil; so closely 'cog - acted. It.';,re-; gaire'd nU extr4ordinarY. 4,tacity, to leraeiy4 that you, in looking for theaid,of Catholic bishops, sought net to, suplioxithe.OatholiC religia, tif'Wexalt its priesthood, but rather:to buttresti the.tOtteiing fabrib of -Protestant ascendancy. If you meant, as in policy` as 'will: as juS, tice you should have to legislate on; a principle of common fairness ; ,tcowtirds {,be Catholics, not recognise in law those ~caponical rights and apostolical jurisdiction on which..:lhis.,pentil law inContestibly en croaches ? Yet, with - till _atimppt to injure and _de grade, you, and a few hollOWeceriornists, take credit to yourselves for acknowledink, for the first tithe, the rights and titles of the episcopacy in Ireland ? Yes, you, acknowledge to insult them, and even, the honotir you show has in it all the bitterness of scornful derision. How do you honour even those venerable prelates whom you have made members of your ministerial board? By giving them the titles of bishops without sees, and em blazoning over their heads the sole and exclusively legi timate titles of others to the same sees which their sainted and heroic predecessors would never have consented to acknowledge. "There cannot be two lawful bishops of the same see. The respective epithets of Catholic and Protestant might, if compromise could be at all admitted, intwit the distinct sources of their Apostolical or Parliamentary jurisdic tion. But instead of this, the.. Protestant prelates are blazoned forth as the Archbishops of Armagh and Dub lin, without any qualification, while, in insulting and sub ordinate contrast, the Catholic prelates are announced as archbishops of—nowhere. But you give them a prece dence, a rank in society ! Yes, you strip them of their rights, as far as in you lies. You amuse them with the sha dow of ceremony, which is unmeaning but us far as it is significant of substantial rights and duties. And you humble them with the condescension of your insulting patronage, such as you would exhibit to some exiled and fallen dynasty, fixing on them more strongly the gaze of pity by the mockery of a homage of which you disown the legitimate foundation. What would her Prime Minister think of the respect of any individual for royalty who would allow her Majesty the name of Queen, withholding her rightful titles of Great Britain and Ireland, on which it is founded ? Surely, the recognition of her name could not disguise the want of fidelity necessarily included in any such omission of her rightful title. Of what in consistency and confusion is not bigotry productive ? You would fain confer on some of our bishops a Parlia mentary jurisdiction which you are incompetent to give, and deprive others of their apostolical jurisdiction, which you are as incompetent to take away. And, by way of indemnifying the one for the indignity of master slaves, to which you labour to degrade them, you give them a ministerial licence of making a similar invasion on the apostolical rights of their brethren. You expect hat You will do — all this to prolong the existence of 'et anti-national and odious Establishment, some of • whose prelates, their fellow-benchers, poured forth but the other day their usual contributions of orthodox hatred on the idolatry and tyranny of the Church of Rome. But, no; more valuable by far than the d.igrad- ing honours of the oppressors of the faith are the confi dence, the attachment, and affection of the devoted Catholics of Ireland, who, instead of denying the titles, the jurisdiction of their beloved bishops, will revere th . em as the only legitimate occupants of the thrones which some of the most eminent of the successors of the Apostles have adorned. " Immediately connected with this subject is the iffectstion of a new-born reverence !monk . the here- ditary enemies of Ireland for the rights of the Thanan Pontiff. If you really revere the centre of Catholic unity, why endeavour to strip the Catholic bishops of their titles, which his Holiness has conferred, and without which, and the spiritual iufluence they confer, _none of those bishops wduld be deemed worth a moment's negtitiation to relieve the embar rassments of a Prime Minister. Perhaps this feeling is like the prodigal's appreciation of virtue, from the habit of sinful courses, springing from the evidence of the disorders into which a privation of that light which issues from the Apostolic See has so long plunged the popula , tion of England. If so, then we should bail such a feeling, and help their faint and tottering steps in re turning to the light and merciful consolations of that paternal home from which they have been so long stray ing. Oh ! no, it is the envious feeling of the fallen spirit at the happiness springing from truth and union ; and their tongue, like his, strives to dart forth in glazing flattery the venom of destruction. They may spare themselves their officious solicitude about the conduct of the Catholics of Ireland. In the fight for their faith the Irish Catholics are no raw recruits. Thanks to the per secuting policy of England, and the atrocious code of her sanguinary edicts, the Irish Catholics, in defend ing their faith, have been made the most prac tised champions upon earth ; and they have not com bated so triumphantly and so long without the convic tion that they owe their signal triumphs to their unex ampled fidelity to that holy chief whom the Master placed over the Church for their guidance. They will then clingu—as their pious ancestors have done—cling to. $h ro cket Peter ; they slp,llloour, too, for the peace-. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR,—As the course of French policy would seem to be little understood in this country, I would ad. dress a few words on the subject. In 1840 I hap pened to. pass through Franee from Switzerland, at the time of the rupture of amicable relations with that country, and when it was considered that war was inevitable. In the same diligence were several of the Deputies, who did not hesitate to avow their belief that our object was to obtain possession of Egypt—a country which it was equally evident that France had determined to possess at some future period. Whilst they expressed with French politeness their high regard for Englishmen as individuals, they unequivocally expressed their hatred of England and her policy ;—they said we were a rasping, proud, domineering nation, and that our policy was opposed to the aggrandisement of France. They said that England had risen to her present position by her commerce, and that alone ; so did Carthage, but Rome vanquished her by force of arms ; so did Tyre, but an army swept it from the map of the world. Their arguments resolved themselves to this, that the strength of England was her commerce ; that what ever injured her commerce injured her; that whatever injured England benefited France—therefore the gist of Frenchpolicy should be the destruction and cramping of the commerce of England. I ask what entente cordiale there can be with such a nation and on such a basis ? have they not shown their policy ? Else why send a fl,-et to China, where they have no trade ? Why seize the islands of the Pacific, where British missionaries had shed their blood, and British Christians their money, in the work of civilisation, and where the French name is known but to be abhorred ? Why invade Morocco, but to cramp British commerce ? Why open her arms to the United States but to excite feelings against. England, and close one of her het markets for her manufactures ? Why seek an BA ante with the royal family of the Brazils, but to esta blish French influence, and exclu de, b y a high tar iff, British manufactures ? Why attempt to seiz e to the territory contiguous to the Gaboon river, b ut ob taro the means of destr o y in g our African trade? Why oppose a railway from Cairo to Suez? Because it would benefit British commerce, and throw under British influence a country where she hopes, ere long, to erect her standard, and thereby pave the way for her conquest of Africa. In Abyssinia she has long had her emissaries; her people, unfit from their native disposition for commerce, envious of the pros perity of England, would seek to raise their own commerce by the destruction of England's. I will only add, that no man is fit to guide the policy of this country who pays deference to French interests, or even French threats; they durst not go to war, as all Europe would be against them. Let England strengthen herself by a liberal commercial treaty with Russia. Russia has timber, corn, oil, flax, tallow, hemp, and many other productions of essential im portance to England. England has manufactures. and wants a market. Russia is now well-disposed towards England. Let the moment be embraced.— I am, Sir, your obedient servant, A LONDON MERCHANT. London, Jan. 24, 1545. TUESDAY NIGHT'S Gri, ZETTE. WHITEHALL, JAN. 25. Mk 5 -' The Queen has been pleased to appoint. ,Francis Hart Dyke, Esq., to be her Majesty's Protatrater i n all ca uses and matters Maritime, Foreign, Civil, tied Ecca'esiattical, in the room of Iltid Nicholl, Esq., deceased. CROWN-OFFICE, JAN. 28. The Queen has been pleased to appoint Henry Shep herd, Esq., one of her Majesty's Counsel learned in the law, to be one of the Commissioners of the Court of Bankruptcy, in the place of Sir Charles Frederick Wil liams, deceased. Commission by the Lord Lieutenant of Middlesex. Sir J. J. Hamilton, Bart., to be Deputy Lieutenant, Jan. 22. IN THE EXCHEQUER OF PLEAS. Hilary Term.—ln the Eighth Year of the Reign of Queen Victoria. Tuesday, Jan. 28, 1845. This Court will, on Monday the 10th day of February next, and on the following days, namely, Tuesday the 11th, Wednesday th e 12th, Thursday the 13th, Friday the 14th, Saturday the 15th, Monday the 17th, Tuesday the 18th, Wednesday the 19th, Thursday the 20tb, Friday, the 21st, and on Saturday, the 22d days of the said month, hold sittings, and will proceed in disposing of the business then pending in the New Trial and Special Papers. By the Court. Read in Court—Samuel Dare, Master. WHITEHALL, JAN. 7. The Right Hon. Sir Nicolas Conyngham Tindal, Knight, Lord Chief Justice of her -•Majesty's Court of Common Pleas, has appointed Edward Handscomb, of Ampthid, in the county of Bedford, Gent., to be one of the Perpetual Com misssioners for taking the acknewledgments of deeds to be executed by married women, under the Act passed for the abolition of fines and recoveries, and for the substitution of more simple modes of assurance in and for the county of Bedford. WHITEHALL, JAN. 18. The Lord Chancellor has appointed Charles Wyatt Estcourt, of Newport, in the Isle of Wight, Gent., to be a Master Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery. WHITEHALL, JAN. 22. . The Lord Chancellor has appointed Richard Harvey, of Dover, in the county of Kent, Gent, to be a Master Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery. BANKRUPTS. Allen Hurrell, wine-merchant, Park-place, St. John's wood, to surrender Feb. 5 and March 13, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Whitmore, official ; assignee, Basinghall-street ; Clailcote, George-street, Mansion house. Charles Moore, carver, S. John-street, Clerkenwell, Feb. 5 and March 13, at deceit , * the Court of Bank ruptcy. Whitmore, official assignee; • .Basinghall-street ; Champion, Ely-place, Holborn. William Smith and Robert Smith, warehousemen. I Bow-lane, City, Feb. 4 and March 11, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Pennell, official assignesi, Basing hall -street; Parkes, Smith, and Co., Bedford-row. Charles Burrage, carcass butcher, Newgate-market, Feb. 4, at half-past twelve, and March 11, at teelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Zennell, official assignee, Basinghall-street ; Philipe, Gray's-inn-square. William Fairclough, licensed victualler, Liverpool, Feb. 12, and March 4, at twelve, at the'Liverpool DiF trict Court. Cazenove, official assignee, Liverpool ; Wilkin, Furnival's Inn, London ; Wardle, Liverpool. Charles Maxwell Wilkinson, wine-merchant Ulver ston, Feb. 10 and March 4, at twelve, at the Manchester District Court. Fraser, official assignee, Manchester ; Jones, New Bridge-street, Blackfriars ; Yarker, Ulver ston. John Kelsall, fishmonger, Hanley, Staffordshire, Feb. 3, and March 10, at eleven, at the Birmingham District Court. Bittleston, official assignee, Birmingham ; Jack son, Gray's Inn, London ; Harrison, Birmingham. DIVIDENDS DECLARED. H. Williams, grocer, Farringdon, Berkshire—first div. of Is. 3d. in the pound, on any Wednesday, at the office of Mr. Follett, Sambrook-court, Basinghall-street. S. Sly, engraver, Cornwall-road, Lambeth—final div. of 31d. in the pound, on any Wednesday, at the office of Mr. Follett, Sambrook-court, Basinghall-street. J. Smith and H. Titford, printers, King-street, Snow hill—first div. of 41d. in the pound, on any Wednesday, at the office of Mr. Follett, Sambrook-court, Basinghall street. H. Titford, printer, King-street, Snow-hill—first div. of 2s. 4d. in the pound, on any Wednesday, at the office of Mr. Follett, Sambrook-court, Basinghall-street. B. Bright, licensed victualler, Wigrnore-street—first div. of 2s. 6d. in the pound, on any Wednesday, at the office of Mr. Follett, Sambrook-court, Basinghall-street. R. Mitchell, merchant, Lime-street, City—second div. of 9d. in the pound, on any Saturday, at the office of Mr. Green, Aldermanbury. R. Hetherington, tanner, Ellen-grove, Cumberland — first and final div. of 4s. 2d. and eight-fifteenths of a penny in the pound, on any Saturday, at the. office of Mr. Baker, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. J. Parker, coach builder, Manchester—first and final div. of los. in the pound, on any Wednesday, at the office of Mr. Pott, Manchester. J. Metcalf, grocer, Liverpool—first div. of Is. 6d. in the pound, on 'Thursday, Jan. 30, and any subsequent Thursday, at the office of Mr. Cazenove, Liverpool. J. and J. Gale, rope makers, Love-lane, Shadwell— a div of 6d. in the pound, on account, to new proofs, on any Wednesday, at the o ffi ce of Mr. Follett, Sambrook court, Basingha ll-street. E. Conden, builder, Mitton-street, Dorset-square second div. of sid. in the pound, on any Wednesday, at the office of Mr. Follett, Sambrook-court, Basinghall street. J. Heron, shipowner, S aith Blyth, Northumberland —first div. of 9d. in the pound, on Saturday, Feb. 1, or any succeeding Saturday, at the office of Mr. Baker, Newcastle-upon. Tyne. W. Bearup, builder, Newcastle-upon-Tyne—second and final div. of 4d. and three-tenths of a penny in the pound (in addition to 3s. 6d. in the pound previously declared), on any Saturday, , at the office of Mr. Baiter, Newcastle upon-Tyne. E. Heron, shipowner, South Blyth, Northumberland —first div. of 9d. in the pound, on Saturday, Feb. 1, or sting succeeding Saturday, at the o ffi ce of Mr. Baker, _ Newcastle : upon-Tine. R 2 Beesley s -*file cooper; Wells- street. Oxford-street-- ffrst div: of 11; in the pound, on Monday, Feb. 3, and the folldwing Monday, at the office of Mr.. Alsager, "Birehin4ane, City. T. H. Whitmarsh, tavern keeper, George-street, Hanover-square—first div. of 3s. in the pound, on Monday, Feb. 3, and the following Monday, at the office of Mr. Alsager, Birchin-lane, City. J. Avery, colonial broker, Mincing-lane, City—first div. of 4id. in the pound, on Monday, Feb. 3, and the following Monday, at the office of Mr. Alsager, Birchin • lane, City. A. Goodeve, warehouseman, Aldermanbury—first div. of Is. in the pound, on Monday, Feb. 3, and fol lowing Monday, at the office of Mr. Alsager, Birchin lane, City. DIVIDEND. At the Court of Bankruptcy, Basinghall-street. G. C. Smith, builder,Keasington Park, Feb. 20, at teze.. CERTIFICATES to be granted, unless cause be shown to the contrary, on the day herein-mentioned. R. Coleman and E. R. Hall, ironfounders, Colchester, Feb. 18—T. G. Martin, wise merchant, Cold Harbour lane, Camberwell, Feb. 19-3. Stephenson, machine maker, Bradford, Feb. 19—W. S. Drury, ironmonger, Chester, Feb. 19—A. W. Pollock, machine maker, Li verpool, Feb. 19—C. N. Wilson, common brewer, Dews bury, Yorkshire, Feb. 20—E. Hemming, needle manu facturer, Feckenham, Worcestershire, Feb. 19—J. G. Webb, mineral-water manufacturer, Rosamond-build ings, Islington, Feb.lB—B. Jones, victualler, Birming ham, Feb. 18. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. . . E. J. Leathers and C. Attwater, grocers, Palace row, New-road, St. Pancras—J. Powell and A. Tunstall,. pawnbrokers, Liverpool—J. Wt.st and H. Pearson, wharfingers, Selby, Yorkshire-- J. Buckley, Kershaw, and Co., common carriers. Manchester—W. Mills and J. Hyles, painters, Maidstone, Kent—J. and E. Jones, plumbers, Wrexham, Denbighshire—T. H. Nevitt and J. Thomason, brewers. Tranmere, Cheshire—T. and J. Crofts. mercers, Helper, Derbyshire—F. Scholefield and J. Dawson, railroad carriers, High-street, Southwark — W. Cussons and J. Balderson, woolstaplers, Hudders field—T. and J. Dallin, sail makers, Ilfracombe. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS. Laurence Silver, merchant. Glamow, Feb. 1 and March 3, at twelve, at the chambers of J. Simpson, Glasgow. David Bowe, tea merchant, Leith, Feb. 3 and 26, at twelve, at the chambers of S. and P. S. Beveridge, Leith. Robert Walker and Co., manufacturers, Devonside, Clackmannar., Feb. 4 and 25, at one, at Thomas's Royal Oak Inn, Alloa. THE EARL OF 1110ENDIGTON.—We are happy to state that the health of the Earl of Mornington is more satidactory. On inquiry at the residence of the Noble Earl, the reply w as, " His Lordship has passed a good night, and is rather better than he was on Monday." Only one of his Lordship's physicians attended yesterday. Her Majesty,• Prince Albert, the Duke of Cambridge, the Duchess of Gloucester, and other branches of the royal family, sent to make inquiries. The nobility and gentry in town made calls in Grosvenor-square yesterday. THE MEDICAL PROFESSION.- - di Monday a cif i t y m ac i lo n ci g i el e el r go ! n t o a t j fh e e st meeting of mernhers of the medical profession was held at the Charlotte-struet School of Nledicine,l3loemsburY • ( th i ;:f e r an t tr h t e v i r e eeta P charter r od tPhl: mopiore heipoeentiiiMajesty case t s r Surgeons, t t h o e repealan which: particularly related. It appeared From the address of Dr. Collier, who presided, and also from the petition, that Mr. Derinott, consulting surgeon and a teacher of anatomy and surgery of twenty-two years' standing, had been refused to be made a member of the College. The case having been submitted to the consideration of Mr. Kelly, his opinion (which was read) was, that he was unable to say that in point of law the charter could be impeached ; nor was there any legal re medy by application to a court of law, or otherwise, upon the arbitrary or unjust admission or exclusion by the council of any individual in the appointment of Fel lows under the charter. The Learned Counsel, there fore, advised a petition to the Legislature and the Crown. The petition was signed by Mr. Dermott, not merely on his own account, but as the representative of numerous others suffering with him. The signatures of the pro fessional gentlemen present were appended as corrobora tive testimony of the truth of the statements in the . mtl a ! don, and the injustice of the case. It was I"polcithgthe a deputation should wait upon Sir J. Grahatnenwa gen tlemanpetition for the presentation to the Queen, h Post-office, when Sir James could created, fail f was agref l After the laughter which this joke_.r James,idt suggested that it should be t at o w thro se u e th g th .. e . requesting that a letter should be sent . to Si him to appoint a day to receive the deputation. ,d 1 Pier • , ,d 1 0 y/ Ai , ■