The Sun. — London, England, 1845-02-18 00:00:00

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VI, i erces 1,573 131g,et air reek at tbe 001,4 Is. There Were tej 41 hds, and esPcc:i 00 e places is 10, Y ; at a ` i auction sold at t god qualitY• av ) ono the spot, 0 n e t Public sales sre - , ap t" the la dy of ^r. . e, 31r°. Charles .............................„,/ bf e, 3 Reed, 7th inst..„., , 01.0' n Reed, Esq., 1,,,..,1,` i las floustotto, Y-4, o I,' urcb, Catabervri;ll, oFranCeS, only' il° road, Peckharri. of IA the Earl ot jii: saeof InfantryLl'.l4;4o, iiers, I,lsttd, s Sative lerssitlß 0 of Jo hn ' fIO P 'l O gUitDO J- , IJ't 1.4 0. 0 Sun 0f6.1,,c60100tr voy, if). -e IBA 1 _ ~,,, r. GENERAL STEMNAVIGATION co - AfT.A.Nrs splendid anti powerttil first-class STEA3I SEWS are appointcd to leave LONDON far— I andIAMBUIttIII, carryin g Les Majesty ' s hlails —Every Wednesday Saturday -Morning. ROTTERDAM, carrying her .littics6's Mails—front Blackwall— EverY Wednesday and .saturday, at a Quarter to 'yen, Morning. AIsITWERP—From Wharf=-Every Brunswic day k i'lt , r, :iilck. ,N , ,iit---hvery Tbnr,- , at HAVTen, Morning. %Leming.E — From St. Katharine's Stiii , l ay, at Eight, From London Bru W ise narf, for-- OSTEND —Every Wednesday. an. Satiii.d,v orni,.g. BOU LOGNE--Every Thursdav an.l Saturday Morning. ALA.lS—Evcry Thursday and sunday Morning. HULL —Every Tuesday and Friday, at Eight, Morning. YARMOUTH—Every Saturday, at Six, Evening. EDINBURGH —From Brown's Wharf, Poplar—February 19, 22, and march I, at Ten, Evening. Down's Wharf, for— Betw 3TEWCASTLE -- Every Saturday, at Ei g ht, E ven i ng. een DOVER and BOULOGNE—The Magician and City of +.oZition, Laity , T. secure Berths, for Freight and Bills containing hours of negfteParture, fares, b e., apply at the Offices, 69, Lombard-street ; 37, ent-circus ; and 35, Leadenhall-street. RESIIAM AVENUE ASSOCIATION. Provisionally Registered. Notice is kereby given that the Committee will, on MONDAY, the 24ths i nst., proceed to ALLOT the SHARES in this Association amongst me applicants. By order of the Committee, W. " 30,Buc klersbury, Feb. 15, 1845 By order of the Committee, W. C. CRANE, Secretary pARIS and SAIN l' QUI..;NTI_N RAILWAY CO3IPANY. _ Raving its junction on the Great Northern Railway, at CREL. Cal'ital, 35,00%000 francs, or 1,400,000/. ; 11170,000 Shares of 500 fr ancs, or 201. each. Deposit, 50 francs, or 21. per share. t it PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE. Mons. J. Cordier, Member of the Chamber of Deputies. Z.' g Le Ma rqu i s Henry De Dion, Landed Proprietor (Pro °° prietaire). I:: . 0 Rysacus, jun. Banker, Paris. Q a -A. H. Nevill e , Ci v i l Engineer, Paris. C. W. Graham, Esq., Merchant, London. lions. 31 uslas, Landed Proprietor (Proprietaire). Slr De Beaupuy, Landed Proprietor (Proprietaire). joshua Walinsley, Director of the Chester and Birkenhead Railway, &c. William Jackson. Esq., Chairman of the Chester and Birken head Railway; &c. Mem,.. , A .. Y BANKERS. - --.'• Slleus; jun., and Co., Paris ; Smith, Payne, and Co., London ; Zon--b4-ieer--,j . Bank of Liverpool, Liv e rp oo l. a s . 4 . Rendel, Esq., F.R.S., Vice President of the Institute of C ivil Engineers. Solicitor_ of Borr . adai• le, Esq., 20, K ing's to Arms-yard, London. Shay B'"e''' and forms on wh i ch King's e are now ready, at the temporary offices o make tfhteheapeolmicaptanioyn, 20,f0r s aerns-yard, London, ' • abm,---ICO tinned orlic fatioms. ns for Shares will be attended to except on the ir, --__: .......... s . aen ..t 88 X and SUFFOLK RAILWAY From , COMPANY, at li. 4 lETFORD to the EASTERN - COUNTIES RAILWAY TFIELD, near CIIELMSFORD, and thence to the 'port of MALDON. Capital 750,000/. in 30,000 251. Shares. Pr et., . Deposit 21. Share. I' '''''' 4lll 2 , ' Registered pursuant to r ? and 8 Vic., cap. 1 llil o sec. 4. Jildh PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE. 41,1_, Richard, Esq., Foxearth Hall, Essex 1 .1 ali e n. Robert Alfred, Esq., Ballingdon Grove, Essex svan, Robert, Esq., the Bank, Bury, and Sudbury and Rsmgham. , Suffolk 41tuiden, Thomas, Esq., Cranmore, Melford Brown. gtepben, Esq., Market-hill, Sudbury. eburehyani, John, Manufacturer, Long Melford, Sttgolk. Freeland. Rev. W. Coyte, Rector of Chilton _Harding, C harles, Esq., Great Denny, Essex Hitchcock, Thomas, Woolstapler, Lavenham James, Julia, Manufacturer, Sudbury Jones, Thoma, Esq., Alderman, Sudbury Lambert,lCin'lsaallic'eF:h7r.d' ,WEi:qkh., LaTstioinallnallE7Elesex Mason, Maurice, Murray, Alexander, ~. E n r i t s , w s e t l i l db M u i r l y denhall, Suffolk ca O ptai lt 0 1, F SUDB Int Y TII E MA.r l':aottrt i i s, d fne: Geor ge. Esq., Castle Hedingham Maldon Essex ly e . a c t k ' Ivilli arn. Esq., Lavenh . am , 4 . t, Thoinas, Esq., Often Belchamp f, 3mond, Samuel Milbank, Esq. l3eichamp Hall, Essex !o,,,,irtailio,in;i,:tev. Oliver, Reetor oFMlddleton and Vicar of Buhner Sikes P*, Esq., Ivy Ral, Margaretting , Esq., Sudbury Stewart 1 9 e° Ne , Esq., A ttwood's, Halstead Tath a ,.„. ,:, k-sq., 'York-terrace, Regent's Park ane ct, i bonms James, Esq., Three Ash Althorne, near Maldon, Isti—__"eoford-Plaee, London IV E Z' T,,'amas, Woolstapler, Lavenham W riglit r ' -e°r ge , Esq.. Over Hall, Guestingthorpe 'William, Esq., Eyston Hall, Essex With power to ad I to their number. BANKERS. 21.1essrs Barclay, Bevan and Co., Lombard-street. •de,, . , rs. Strachan, Sir J. D. Paul, and Co., Strand. iiesrssrssrs. Oakes, B evan, and Co., Bury and Sudbury. Q. Sparrow and Co., Maldon and Halstead. "kaETAßT—Robert 3lapletoft, Esq., Stansted, Suffolk. • '' - `"' 111, 8 , " _ SOLICITORS. 14„... r5 . • ea N. Stevens and Fron, 1, Gray's Inn-square, London. G. W. Andrews, Sudbury. Brain,...,_ LOCAL AGENTS. li,„ , ..vo--Henry Jackson, Esq. At',s'ed—llesrs. Sperling and Harris, .....don—William Codd, jun., Esq., and Messrs. Crick. 4netford—Messrs. Clarke and Son. SURVEYORS. Messrs. G. E. Hadden and J. 0. Browne. lalhe Are PROSPECTUS. beten r ot ., line (which has long been ted and is now (,4,l4lrnsibi%\tinties li ho , v arff on the rejection of the Londo p n ro li e l e d Norwich Direc_t 4, 0 ,'' ntne Board of Trade ), is intended to form a connecting link , te - - the Noreich and trandon railway at Thetford, and the ne, at or near I!atfichl (about four miles from ._ a !don , a ,, `e hence it will he continued to the town and port of ViMs a. enuteriodating in its Course the important and Sudbury, pulous e4lD„tt:l r 'eiretw ee a n ‘l' th e e e' ui al e, st, t, " ititonerz St. Edmunds, Lavenham, Long Melford, at -Jo; efice to the fertile a f g t 7 h culurainterior of Essex and the Sea. through which the line passes -'..•' gg "ta that the district com e munication between Norwich and the be sh ould follow "e i Which th foster, and it can hardly a , niagh t ,, at traffic has contributed the old coach route through the populous to i•ei et „ by ' 1 that existing int eres t s will be permitted to be entirely I n tl • its diver • h ms , n, Nu, pi t r„ r tan ee t ` °t view, therefore, this line may be considered of vital la,•le at 1 ~.° the various towns near which it passes, a b n ut ma to na th n t f ; , r tea, t 4 t . te it also otters considerable Inducements as tl e t(-4 Nr ci Z t s O f flocking, 'Braintree, and Halstead,. are all con- T 0 T'l l, ' 4,1 tithe silk trade, and the intercourse ext. sting x h t e e t n w ., ne ve. Pit rt t -ese thee Port of Maldon is even now Nery e integral _ o a of t he e ,keee the Maldon branch (which is an it will real vtoduese!, and the 41; l e the 'ri l 4 .esent 'theme) is of great moment, as the imports W ea e !, i t sila to l us o ticarriage from about Bs. 6d. to 2s. per ton, thus ch tta( ii=, eck e, tro to trade, and materially augmenting enxi po ot rt l- s ca a k f e na , m tar ;lin s m. lat , This e ‘ s , ,.. a a l i:d an o d th a e t r ha g r e a n g e ri ra ctil l bet. line will I: e r .1 1 :1 - 44 '1 a dOn 4 " I ) " Hundred and C e , 4i w 'ell li , also secure at the same time im th s e fa e rd xte t n h s e iv d e is t t r a a n ffi ca c ti o e tng re th en'eY Ig, , ,,,°the r H oc an by the coach road. „__ . ta to ._ rords the same advarge n s t , r as ee ro-t7titeryia i;rit.tion one line from 1 even t a su pp osl Chelmsford,ng Paaneci Nit a ra t* oo t i l t. ttn . to Maldon, the whol d e is o t f a t ia h n e e liblaleindogniannedreCab.jeedlnys - a) : Th is ii . still be lost from the Vic,,,t l4 : eft{ o n iw e Will gain this, and save at a sacrifice of b l'h," b n e ttle t xtw a e Y__ ( Equivalent t d or 3' Cshaelmsford. 130,0001.),theconstruction of nearly 111'444cl:6e°' °f'n Su T d n b e u t r fo y rd is also connected with the silk and I‘.4vrleati„4nntfaettlre, but is supplied with heavy goods by t t he edar. lic e t rY liti t;O,which this line will prove an =po ' l 'ied eigd on-h t • Ler to proposed crosses the valley of the Stour below na tet, h__ldge to the east of the town, by a long and exp: aitl i an eln . the o7re,t;V•entailing a heavy outlay, and risking '!!' o Cck the I . °l ea t',`:,ation, and the great probability of penning h a eta. -th e ' et l ar ." inle town of Ballingdon. The pr. sent line (w't .b111135,41:0,-o.siltret), crosses the valley to the west of the town, at nro n °h a en„,tint, on a short timber viaduct, avoiding all possi -40);(sbz),aa•-d‘'.4s.ifoungw_latehrthe expenditure,navigttion(w hich does not extend above and all danger front the M Th, ti., a serious ti:at-h air uia of L ° ll g INielford and Lavenham are eng ag ed in the 4 " o tk ittet of nufacture, and in woolst.;pling, &c., an lvoald enjoy tiv4 a ,! l, l a eh 4 quick communication both with Norwich And Lon ni T o i• il t e ir , ea P supply of coal and other heavy goods ‘ from the ,cati oo town ont -, hl e , '' w,th tivY this line affords at once the most direct commui a4o . It alfe. - otwich and London, and with the port of ;Land n,twituil kiet. Dr eve tb'tdY Maintains a considerable intercourse i w ti e , ' , Polk , tlei shortest route from Yarmouth and Norw ch to the 14 14 . 1 With the securing a large portion of that traffic in eon ,. .i , a 4 ,1 of .e Norwich and Brandon Railway. e Me. i ‘ii ll the a4Bing through a thinly inhabited district, as is the tre k ;Nat: London and Norwich direct line, this hallway en tom e et tow n ., 4 Poptilation of upwards of 150,000 souls, sev oi l atila ate '; and three boroughs, returning each two Members et. t,italitet_,,in• The intermediatetraffic, therefore, particularly , -\ ;r‘y 44l . e s on ' r.. al* , will be very considerable, t and will form a consi x nie '-'`- efsemolurnent, not possessed by any other line to ti "'Peed el - -en*, the , 'lot otao", Passengers, a considerable income will be de itki .4 't qu" .'rotti silk and other manufactured goods, Pr o , Pies, a intitles of corn, flour, wool, malt, &c., beasts, sheep, but from ala k o , s ' it e e Mire 'neat and poillt ~ which are annually sent 't r --•°. li-' district ; and from r3 East Norfolk, to the London ..h e tek, a . fon owtu C° liti; -. . g Su ntnittry of actual Existing Traffic may be relied 1 11, 01 ; 1 (ram.... tratio. • •••............ ........... „ .... .. £48,766 3 10 l'qtal tr •• ..... ..... ... .............. 35,719 1 11 bm uet ITe ............... Ni , ,, tit , , Per cent, for maintenance of way, e Petis n : . .I°°wev, management, and other 11 t.t , 33 794 2 3 ' • ...... ...... e fir'i nct al pr fl a Th,! -41 rCftw 6-t, being about 6N per cent. on the 'Ma, - t ,ith,,,,, Led ....... .. ................. „ Z 50,691 3 ,,,0 8 e ata," e sou r -. _ without calculating mxm any anticipatAlinc w r onid 1 i 7.1t tit,-.,.;. fore-rnentioned, which there is no doubt OraaMtotmi,°_, =lend to about 10 per cent. to lii? t, m a i:loh Of the line, as at present laid down, including the broptt,tf'ird„l3 ~(514 miles in len-th) is—to Bury, about 41 miles; art '`S•; there ni nes It does not ' interfere with any ornamental it or4ttiaritay are n° engineering difficulties, and the gradients al an t "Peci..i g° ° (l ; and the total cost, including stations, &e., Not ( ,: e for ~,' t° exceed 13,0001. a mile, leaving a considerable eltri on , IN e c.'nes and Stock l'arliAmentary and incidental ex etc.).-"ie ra,titans to public su ' p rt therefore, rest as much upon its I ' l ll e ; ttii-- -wh a s ' 4 a on the re otYnis . ed o ' le protection to vested t he \,-' the on e ' icn far fro e - t P ' n ii e nrcAl to the lines it joins, it tai"orlyieltilL'uts of preveni nting *lng d l i n versiOn of the greater part of ' , tri m° act , and Brandon traffic a to the ' Eastern Union line, and N 4 Yh t4 in,a4 IMPortant feeder to the Eastern Counties Railway, 1.- _ %MA,- r e of their line than the present coach traffic. ii`ti four Dttutiev Will be li I e;e a . . On i. _ ade beyond the amount of his subscription, „ti,_Pet ou __ uterest will be allowed on deposits and calls until ste 4 recati t , !I - the line. 344rtA,471,rsojrci.„2ursv .slgarreisoeatoi a l: eimitsadael'idin to th b e a 3 n t n ,s ex el e i d , form, to the ha..Nre'uorton-street I * ' * C rdwell and Sons, : ), e,'; }k i r J. il re, , , .ondon ; Messrs. a ~ t o , Jam,,. ;." e s; Lsq., Liverpool ; Messrs. Colli Esq., Angel nson and -tll4, "stol ; or— " ai nteson, Es q., Leeds ; and Messrs. Tate and h 1 ,, .11 'fitutay be obatnaraeodf. whom detailed prospectuses, with siliottcith attetioaiise.quence of arrangements which are being entered a plan of t ° appe ca r atrtPany, a limited number of Shares only can be T O the P ,„.., rorm ---- ; ------ --------_ r . lit. re eoe,t e- yision a l (,- ' A pplication for Shares. wtti t„ th at you u-renunittee of the Essex and Su s ff h o a l r k ea ß in al t i l ' i v e a l . c,- te,4otketat;l. and gan o nl k ell ,Pt Me LX ( 2'Y be 44 d t I 4,,,_ Z'atln'ne, i on the term . s i i. n s c o nt m io n n n e y d in the thereof wh e e tt t r e h) ed t o ' ili 7 , w ati l d k to al , such sh d art o s s , it o p thereon, and to etleiredaoorilanientary contra l c a t Y and ie Subscribers' agreement, to do. Dame _ Description IN iteas Residence Reference to trtsALSr• _ .. ~., 4 . I„rdii TO Al ED IV AL Pelham- ItEe' tiro 'LSE late of this count hut now of 5. on al 1(41., rftmou—Londo Y, •4 . pamphlet t i NI ,u, kLvA . ,., , th has lately publish, 0 n ny, asto- GALVANISM. rtiopath„' i f it , .-Sll, then contents of which have . ~,.„ 58 'e stat ed `, (rue that anism can accomplish such et. : ti ;:lel , ' :,°ver 41L4he galvanic apparatus must take as commanding a 14t,,iEttlice: ii7tt.l science as the s team-engine does overmeehasa , r 4 ,,,, a bent, tr ee that galvanism has long been resorted to , .liu Lie u a. out the old form of batteries were so uncertain in %,. lik e "t 4 almost do • good. Mr. 3;.q-.'tiici1.11.6".4(14 tknn4eaDallsical°3ardpt inueh.harm as they ma , conceived that . be possible to galNa'aleTCUl t a tilLeelik atialy he hale evi effects of the m p ay ratus, and after b in °4 , idcr Ti ve ,r Of the ti catest nicety. plislictitini I t m e e t a lt . e p ie a d g e r sired—viz., to Itri 4 ,, t ie la Us e 3 r ank as the greataePsittirnaproavement which has ever ,zve e,._zrol u „:_, alvailic battery. In the am filet we noticed an 'eave'„"act thi" Shl /kin "etic,, 'article for theApin nd Arercantile Gazette' of March 14. si, phlet ' - ` 1 5eve....., benefit of invalids :---` Our readers may 3, cs; Ni,. .a. extracts we have given from Mr. Halse's ,74 4;e stati,',!_al_Galvanism. We have reason to believe th e ft! aZO7 stint_e ; F0`1.7....ti pamphlet is perfectly true, Wonderful they It„4.°a,urc,e4 to 1 7 ini o rti_tiin ae aY a g i c a n c t e le Zit cwa'hioedwaasa 3 tt i n r derg a oing , the !theil:n.n,ituoo4, inpatient Informed us that it was not at all an unplea tii;larzs, aZteii,tlit:e f;litdist ourselves, and there , was not the least I t la Pl.,:i 4 w t . 18 that beforegelT 1 n 'lse one leg had l e e t a nx e fs te cas:_ r n . as .. pare y itr l jadth tout to mere skeleton ; " but now, said he, " you perceive 13 Nair' bY th e 4 ealthY." Such, indeed was the case. If we Inot•Naa,R 80,, vtuaaber of patients Mr Halm; has, we should say he ahi t at , ,, k t. till highter3'Wenderfhl cures for his house is crowded from at'l ki , S. 4 T i l that.l rt80"8 w haling ' to have Mr. Halse's pamphlet ill h. -'44 tir 1-1 r etthi t W '''' Vvrarded free on receipt of two postage ?In k , :nee la at . peulam4re;dent, Brampton, Londou." - I. • oil -..C.,,..._ ... ,•C7 71 . ~~ g, ~~ -~ ~_~~ ~--?~r__~-~ ‘,, ' W - •:. : '... , •cLim,_ .----.4 . i.2++,:- ' .! I. •- ; ,, iiv. eltik / ~ . .. 13 • / . 11111 -Pr. 7 i "..S < .-. 5- fo' :43„ ~,,, ' ,f.. 5,• 044.: •.• r - 44.,,. \ * I tiigi • - s ,: 4 - ' r-- - - ----- 7--: 7 1 ' ? ii f - .._ , '. - 0 • „. •j• ,• 4 W =., c, t , •' • 4/ , .. ,i. : • , .%,„, , , , , , . ti ~.. ',. t, .." \ _..,7::_ } , / -- i ?„ , ...., ' .i . :F -- . 9 . - --ei ',.: 4, 2 . 7 - , 1 ' ' Oh l _, ?• ,,, .`t?lr. .'. 4 ' '' ,sr \ st. ;.".. *.ao• ~ . ' •l' r • 2 ' l 4 o''c -- ,' \_:: ~ 1., i \,!,. , - "0p... P ,*6 - 1r LI '• 1) 1E 1 --. 7 ''' , , • . ~, -.4,0= •"" .....___ ),,,,,, ..,-- :,- ' l 4: ...N\' - ' '`DROll. , T , •••'' . '4l 4' " .....„ _ . ax...... mac , .1.,,.... ,-..• .., i vi;-, / k 'N. / "- -7 -- ' r is'''•• . . . ... . - - v TuEsaAy EVENING N ti f ,r" i f ~1 ` & ~`FS, `, 3~>_ a..F . ~ ~L. Sv N, FEBRUARY 18, 1845. PRICE sd. THE SUN is Published EVERY MOR.VING at FIVE 0 CLOCK, in Time for the EARLY TRAINS and TOWN DELIVERY ; a SECOND EDITION (Evening Sun) is Published in Time for the AFTERNOON TRAINS and a THIRD EDITION a t SEVEN O'CLOCK, for POST, containing. PARLIAMENTARY and all other NEWS in LONDON up to that Hour.. ADVERTISEMENTS INSERTED i n ALL THE THREE PAPERS, , Hornig , Noon, and Night, thereby insuring aTO WN . and COUNTRY CIRCULATION at ONE CHARGE M. Frederick Lemaitre and Mademoiselle Clarisse com menced an engagement at this theatre last evening. The piece chosen for their debut was the domestic drama, La Dame de St. Tropez, which has run for upwards of a hundred nights at the Porte St. Martin, in Paris, and could Frederick Lemaitre prolong his stay among us, we have no doubt but that La Dame de St. Tropez would have an equally long run here. In this piece, which is a dramatic version of the story of Madame Laffarge, Frederick Lemaitre acts the part of Georges Maurice (the Laffarge of the real history), and great as we knew him to be (his Robert Ma calm, for instance, must be in the recollection of all play-goers) we bad no idea that he was so transcendently great as lie has shown himself by his delinea tion of the character of Georges Maurice. The scene is laid in the year 1781, at a time when class feelings and class ha treds were at their height in France. Hortense (Mdlle. Clarisse) is the daughter of a poor proud noble, whose estates are mortgaged for more than their value to Georges Maurice, a rich roturier, who has been the architect of his own fortune. Georges forgives him the debt, and asks the hand of Hor tense in marriage. The Count refuses, but Hortense, al though she dearly loves another, accepts him out of grati tude, and they are married. On their road to St. Tropez, the residence of Maurice, they stop at a country inn. There is a young man there, who has been laid up with sickness for many weeks—and Hortense recognises her lover, Charles Dellbeyme. They meet, she tells him she is married ; and writing a letter without direction, which she leaves to be given to him, rejoins her hu s band , and urges their instant departure. Maurice observes her manner, and questions her. She is agitated, but still all obedience and duty to his wishes. The horrid truth at once flashes upon him—she has married him out of gratitude not out of love.._They arrive at St. Traiiei. Antoine, his cousin and heir, a low, vulgar villain, takes every opportunity of insulting Hor tense, while Maurice endeavours by the most tender attentions to win her affections. Madame Langlois, a friend from Paris, visits her, observes her melancholy, and speaks to Maurice on the subject. Maurice opens his whole heart to her, and she promises to aid him in his en deavours to gain his wife's affections. The acting of Le maitre in this scene was chastely and beautifully , pathetic. It went right to the heart. Charles Dellbeyme, it appears, had left the inn at the same time that Hortense and Maurice had quitted it, and accordingly did not get her letter which the innkeeper forwards to St. Tropez, and which gets into the hands of Antoine, who loses no time in endeavour ing to rouse feelings of jealousy in the breast of Maurice, and who in confirmation of his slanders againstilortense, which are at first treated with contempt, produces this letter, In a fury of rage Maurice taxes Hortense with her crime, produces the letter, and swears vengeance on her and on h er lover. This terrific scene was magnificently given by Lemaitre and Mademoiselle Clarisse, and the drop-scene fell at the conclusion of the third act amidst most enthusiastic applause. It appears that Charlet, Dellbeyme has been in the habit of receiving sup plies from an unknown benefactor. This unknown is Maurice, who having unwittingly killed his father feels it a duty to support the son. Maurice gives to Antoine.a sum of money , to take to Charles, and then makes a will be queathing all his property to Antoine's son. The will made, Antoine conceives the diabolical scheme of poisoning Mau rice. Maurice is taken ill. Hortense attends him day and night, and prepares all his medicines with her own hands. Still he gets worse. Hortense has gone to church to pray for his recovery—he is left alone—his physician enters, ,accom. panied by another physician, a stranger. The medicine which had been prepared for him by Hortense, is brought in by Antoine's wife. It is analysed. It is found to contain poison, and the wretched Hortense, on her return, is accused of being a poisoner. She demands to see her accuser, the new physician is brought in. It is her lover, Charles Dellbeyme. They rush into each other's arms. The look of horror with which Le maitre beheld this scene was perfectly sublime. Maurice is on his death-bed—he calls Hortense to him and forgives her, urging her to fly from justice. Con vinced of her own innocence she refuses and rushes out to give orders for her own arrest, in order to vindicate herself. Antoine enters, and Maurice raises him ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION. A New Subject in CHEMISTRY of universal Interest — PHILLIPS'S PATENT FIRE ANNIHILATOR, illustrated by Dr. Ryan in his daily Lectures, and on the Evenings of MONDAYS, WEDNESDAYS, and FRIDAYS. DURING LENT a Series of LECTURES on ASTRONOMY will be delivered by Pro fessor Bachhoffner, on the Mornings and- Evenings of Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. accompanied by Dr. Wallis on BRABY'3 CALOTONE,--KITE'S PATENT SMOKE-CURING and VENTI LATING ROOF, COWLS, LIMP, and CHIMNEY-SWEEPING APPARATUS, and TAYLOR'S improved domestic FIRE ESCAPE, are interesting. Novelties. Two beautiful Pictures of the SHRINE of the NATIVITY are just added to the NEW DISSOLVING VIEWS. CHILD'S CHROMATROPE. THE PROTEOSCOPE. The PHYSIOSCOPE. EXPERIMENTS by meansof the DIVING BELL and DIVER. The Music Is conducted by T. Wallis, Mus. Doc. Admission, Is. ; Schools, Half-price. GREAT BRITAIN STEAM-SHIP a t BLACKWALL. - _ _ • THE THEATRES. FI?ENCII PLAYS-ST. JAMES'S. Tickets, enabling persons to go on board this magnificent Vesiel, with a free passage down the Blackwall Railway, and including steam-boat fare to and from the Vessel, can be obtained between the hours of HALF-PAST EIGHT and FOUR (Sundays excepted), at any of the Stations on the Railway, except those of Limehouse, West India Docks, and Poplar, at the following prices :—Second Class, Is. Bel. • First Class, Is. 10d. Tickets to view the engines can be obtained; on board at an extra charge of Is. Parties walk directly from the pier , on board the steamer, which starts on the ar rival of each train. tion with the ports of Liverpool and Hull. Length of line, 39 miles; capital, 1 ,200,0(,01. Reported in favour of by the Board of Trade. Agent—Mr. Hayward. WEST YORKSHIRE.—It appeared from the inquiries insti tuted by the Committee, that this line proposes to connect Bradford, Halifax, Huddersfield, and Leeds, in junction with the Manchester and Leeds, Huddersfield and Dewsbury, and Bradford and Halifax Railways. Length, 44 miles; capital, 1,000,000/. This is one of the lines reported against by the Board of Trade.—Agents, Messrs. Burke, Pritt, and Venables. LEEDS, DEWSBURY, AND MANCHESTER JUNCTION.—It appeared that this line commences at Leeds, in junction with the Leeds and Bradford line, passing through Dews bury towards Huddersfield,-and terminating in junction with the Manchester and Leeds, half a mile west of Dewsbury station. Length, 10 miles. The agents were Messrs. Dor rington, Hayward, and Ellicombe. Ricumoxo (SunirEtt).—Mr. Pratt, the agent, stated that this line commences at Richmond, and terminates on the Surrey side of Hungerford Suspension bridge, Lambeth, passing through Wandsworth, Putney, Barnes, and Mort lake. The length will be 10 miles; with a branch of one mile and three-ctnarters to Kew-bridge. WAKEFIELD, PONTEFRACT, AND GOOLE —Messrs. Wright and Smith were the agents. From their statements, it ap peared that the line was proposed to connect the port of Goole and the town of Pontefract with the manufacturing districts of Yorkshire and Lancashire. It was also intended, by a junction with the York line, near Snaith, to open a rail way communication with all parts of the kingdom. The usual preliminary proceedings having been stated, a petition was presented from Mr. John George Smyth, complaining of non-compliance on the part of the Company with the stand ing orders. Lands and other property, it was contended, were not inserted in the book of reference, and that a bridge, the ownership of which was disputed, was not designated on the plan, according to the standing order No. 33. On this point a long discussion ensued, and, at its close, strangers were ordered to retire. On re-admission, the Chairman stated the opinion of the Committee, that in this case the standing orders had not been complied with. Sun-ComarrrrEE No. 2.—Sir William Heathcote, Chair man ; Mr. Hope Johnstone, Mr. Morgan O'Connell, Mr. Packe, Mr. Acland, Mr. Evans, Mr. Home Drummond, Mr. Childers, Mr. Cornwall Legh, Mr. Evelyn Phillip Shirley ; Committee clerk, Mr. Freere. YORK AND SCARBOROUGH DEVIATION.—Mr. Bulmer, agent; Mr. Richardson, solicitor; Mr. Stephenson, engineer. The petition recited that the Bill for constructing this line had been granted last session, with the exception of that portion of it passing through Clifton. This was owing to the opposition which the Bill experienced from the inhabi tants, and from Lord Harewood, Capt. Fothergill, and Lord De Grey. The opposition of the former nobleman being with the view of effecting a deviation from his estates at Clifton. The promoters stated that a deviation had been decided on, which met with the concurrence of his Lordship and the other objectors. The circumstance of this particular part of the line not having obtained the sanction of Parliament in the last session has not impeded the construction of the works at either of the termini. The proposed deviatien would have the effect cf bringing the line nearer than before both to York and Clifton. lords of the United Kingdom ; not by restrictive legislation, but by a profitable carrying trade, and by throwing her manufactures with great gain into all the markets of the world, while the industry of other countries was paralysed by the insecurity occasioned by desolating invasions. In time of war the harbours of England gave her military and commercial fleets an incalculable advantage over those of continental Europe. Lying west of the continent, the prevailing winds, which prevented foreign ships from putting to sea, enabled those of the east coasts of Britain and Ireland to leave their ports ; those of the west coasts being at the same time safe from their position, as well as from the pro tection of our ships of war, cruizing in, and off, the entrance of the English and Irish Channels. Thus, while the nations of the Continent were disturbed in all their industrious pur suits, Great Britain enjoyed, from her geographical situation and commanding harbours, peace at home, and the oppor tunity of supplying the rest of the world with her domestic fabrics and the produce of her colonies. In defiance of the Berlin and Milan decrees, our manufactures found their way into the heart of Germany and Italy ; while, even in France, we clothed the soldiers of Napoleon ! Thus, although taxed beyond all possible calculation of endurance, the natural ad vantages of England, and the enterprise of her people, enabled her to withstand, in magnificent splendour, the convulsions that shook the Continent to its foundation. Peace for nearly thirty years has, however, transformed the destructive pursuits of most of the Continental nations, into occupations of productive industry. The great bulk of their population have, since the year 1814, been engage d generally in agriculture an d grazing. Those employed in manufactures have therefore been enabled to maintain life at a lower cost than in a country circumstanced like England. The commercial laws of England, France, and, somewhat later, of Austria, have been the most unsound that the spirit and principle of restriction could well devise. Those of Ger many, fortnerly liberal, are now highly restrictive. Those of Spain were tyrannical, and at the same time unsound and ab surd. Those of Portugal inconsistent and capricious. Russia much later adopted the restrictive system; Sweden and Den mark followed the example. The Italian States, with the exception of Rome and Naples, have generally imposed moderate duties. Holland has, since the peace of 1814, and while connected with Belgium, departed from a more free system than that of any other European country, with the exception of Turkey, in regard to the import trade. The present tariff of imports duties in Holland, notwithstanding the high taxation in other respects of that kingdom, is the most liberal in all Europe. The United States of America have lately agreed to a most. restrictive tariff, which cannot, if persevered in, but be ruinous to their fiscal, agricultural, and commercial interests. The South American States appear to be governed by the same spirit as that which dictated the commercial policy of Spain. * The Revolution annulled,, at the same time, this treaty and Its liberal principles of commerce and navigation. It is by far the most remarkable commercial treaty on record. According to its stipula tions " the subjects and inhabitants the respective dominions of the two Sovereigns shall have liberty freely and securely, without license or passport, general or special, by land or by sea, or in any other way, to enter into the kingdoms, dominions, provinces, coun ties, islands, cities, villages, towns walled or unwalled, fortified or unfortifled, ports or territories whatsoever, situate in Europe, of the two Sovereigns, and to return from thenee, remain there, or pass through the same, and therein to buy and purchase all things neces sary for their subsistence or use, and they shall mutually be treated with all kindness and favour. Provided, however, that in all these matters they conform themselves to the laws and statutes." The same freedom was extended to ships and merchandise. The duties to be paid on French commodities in England were rated. as fol lows :—Wines, no higher duties than on those of Portugal. (In Ire land no snore than the nominal duties then paid on foreign wines.) Vinegar, less than half the previous duty ; olive oil, the lowest duty paid by the most favoured nation ; brandy, 7s. per gallon. The fol lowing duties were to be lev ed reciprocally in both kingdoms, viz.:— Hardwares and cutlery of all kinds, and of whatever metals, cabinet wares, furniture, turnery, &c., not higher than 10 per cent. ad valo rem ' • cotton and woollen manufactures of all ki n d s ( excep t m i xe d with silk) 12 per cent.; gauzes of all sorts, 10 per cent. ; linens, same duties as linens from Holland ; saddlery, 15 per cent ; millinery, 12 Per cent. ; plate and glass wares, porcelain and earthenware, 12 per cent. fi M. Colbert, however, did not establish the system of prohibition, and the duties he imposed on imports never reached the maximum of 10 per cent. ad valorem.. self from his bed, and sits at his dressing -table. His ine i - eine is on a table opposite, and on looking into the glass Maurice sees Antoine, whose back is turned to him, mixing poison in the cup. He dashes the cup from his hand, and at the alarm Hortense and Charles Dellbeyme enter, accompanied by the physician and domestics of the household. In the presence of all, he declares his wife's innocence; and, exhausted by the effort, dies, having previously placed the hand of Hortense in that of Charles Dellbeyme. Nothing could exceed' the pathos and the beauty which Lemaitre in fused into the character of Maurice. The audible sobs of his auditors bore witness to his powers. The acting of Ma demoiselle Clarisse, as the innocent wrongly-suspected wife, was most heartrending. Both were called for at the fall of the curtain, and received with a perfect tumult of applause. The house was crowded with the elite of fashion. (To be continued.) • rom imes ) There are good rea s o n s for the beli T eving that the present re ductions are only the steps to a more comprehensive plan now under contemplation. The Premier almost violated his Parliamentary reserve by an exces s i ve anx i ety to guard it, and told the House he would intimate what tax is to come next for reduction but for the serious mercantile inconveni ences such a knowledge might occasion. A far more impor. tant and specific disclosure, however, now lies before us in the shape of a document originally designed for the peculiar di rection of those in the Ministerial confidence, but a por tion of which we publish to-day. It is an essay on " Com mercial and Financial Legislation," which, though in perfect keeping with the "financial statement" of Friday, is a very bold and ample development. With the assurance that there was the most absolute agreement on those questions between Sir Robert Peel and the late Vice-President of the Board of Trade, and without the least hint of any discordant voice in the Cabinet, we have no alternative but to read in the document before us the ultimate intentions of the present Ministry, as far as they have been reduced to tangible form, and as far as circumstances seem likely to admit of their execution. We have only space this day to give to our readers the two first introductory papers. Their style is compendious and suggestive, but there can be no mistake as to their drift. The freest possible exchange of commodities, and the imposition of taxes only for revenue, are made the basis of a scheme which we think it due to the financial acts of the Ministry to publish even in its present imperfect shape. The writer, after reviewing the whole existing system, and sug gesting what reductions and alterations are possible under the circumstances of the nation, arrives at a conclusion of which it will be sufficient to mention only the boldest fea tures. He offers us the alternative of dispensing with all the assessed taxes, the stamps en marine and fire insurances, and all the excise, excepting the duties on licenses, spirits, and malt, together with a great reduction in the customs, and making up the deficiency with a tax of about five per cent. on all " realised property." Or, retaining the assessed taxes, and making up what. in that case, would be a less deficiency, with a like property-tax of three per cent. It is superfluous to observe that there is no real objection to such a scheme, except what the altered circumstances of the country may possibly interpose. LWA Y INTELLIGENCE : LEEDS AND BRADFORD.--Agents, Messrs. Burke and Venables ; engineer, Mr. R. Stephenson. The object of the promoters is to run a branch line from Shipley to Colne, and a line from Keighly to Haworth. Several witnesses were examined, who proved that the standing orders had been complied with. MANCHESTER AND BIRMINGHAM (ASHTON BRANCHES). — This application was for making a line to connect the Man chester and Birmingham with the Sheffield and Ashton under-Lyne, near Guide Bridge. After the usual routine in quiries, the petition on standing orders passed the Committee. NORWICH AND BRANDON DEVIATIONS.—This is one of the lines reported against by the Board of Trade, but the pro moters intimate notwithstanding their intention of prose cuting the Bill in Committee. The proposed deviations refer to the Dias and Dereham branches. LONDON AND YORK.—Agents, Messrs. Dyson, Hall, Parkes, and Coates ; engineer, Mr. Cubitt ; solicitors, Messrs. Burchell, Killgour, and Co., and Mr. Rose. The petition, which was of considerable length, stated that the line pro poses to commence at Pentonville, passing from thence through Hitchin, Biggleswade, Bedford, St. Neots, Hunting don, Peterborough, Stamford, Grantham, Newark, Lincoln, Boston, Retford, Gainsborough, Doncaster, Wakefield, Leeds, Selby, Hull, terminating at York, embracing, with branches, 327 miles, and 270 parishes. The result of the inquiries in this case showed that the number of persons to whom it was necessary to make application between the Ist and 31st of December exceeded 12,000, and that they lived in all parts of the kingdom. It was proved in evidence that to all these persons application was made in the re gnired time, with the exception of four, and these of a somewhat peculiar character. It appeared that the neces sary plans had been lodged in all the 270 parishes, but that in one instance a plan, though lodged in the right parish, designated it by an incorrect name, calling it Thornton-le. Fen instead of 'Thornton. The next exception related to the service of notice in a case where the "occupier" was de scribed as a " wandering" pedlar, one moment at Hull and another _at Huntingdon, rendering " service" physically im possible. The other instance was where a person was stated to have lived at Derby, while in reality he resided at Dur ham. In the fourth case the service of notice was acciden tally omitted. With these exceptions the standing orders were proved to have been complied with ; the subscription contract showed that the deposits amounted to more than three-ft.urths of the estimated capital, being 250,000/., or five per cent. on 5,000,000 L Sterling. ' The room was cleared, and the Committee, after a short conference, reported that, with the exceptions alluded to, the standing orders had been complied with. The Chairman stated that the case was creditably got up, and that he was sorry to send it to the Select Committee on the standing orders, before whom he thought they would experience no difficulty. The Com mittee then adjourned. PROCEEDINGS IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS. COMMITTEES ON PETITIONS FOR PRIVATE BILLS. Yesterday the railway campaign bommenced with the sit ting of the Sub-Committees en standing orders, to whom is committed the preliminary proceedings on railway Bills, prior to their examination by the Select Committees of the House. It may here be necessary to state that these Sub- Committees are appointed by the Select Committee on the standing orders, composed of the chairman of the Sub-Com mittees, Mr. Escott, and other Hon. Members. The railway Bills brought before the two Sub-Committees yesterday were fifteen, the number of Members on each Committee amount ing to eleven. Their attention was directed to the ascertaining whether the necessary Parliamentary notices of intended ap plications to Parliament had been inserted in the Gazettes during the months of October and November, in conformity with the standing orders; whether the necessary applica tions had been made to th e owners , l essees, and occupiers, before the 31st December, the deposits with the clerks of the peace and Board of Trade and Private Bill-office of the plans, sections, and books of reference, made before the 30th November. Also the depositing, in the Private Bill-office of lists of the owners of estates, and of the deed of partnership and subscription contract. The inquiries of the Committees further extended to the service of notice upon landowners before 31st December, either by personal delivery, or leaving at their place of abode, or, in their absence abroad, with their accredited agents, in which latter case the production of a written acknowledgment was required. Sir William Heath cote, the Chairman of one of the Sub Committees, thought that proof of the handwriting of the parties in the latter case was required, a point apparently not provided for by the standing orders of the House. The other requirements had reference to depositing the engineering plans with the Clerk of the Peace for public inspection, giving a description of the line, its works, and the lands through which it passed ; of the usual subscription contract, furnishing an estimate of ex pense, and showing that subscriptions had been entered into to the extent of three-fourths the amount of the estimate, and that one-twentienth part of the amount subscribed had been duly deposited. From this outline of the duties de• volving on the Committees and on the Companies, it will be seen that to the proceedings, although chiefly of a routine charaCter, there attached considerable importance. Upon the passing through the ordeal of the standing orders hinges the future progress of every railway measure. Inadvertence, or non-compliance with the strict letter of the provisions, ex poses a Company to the chance of being thrown over until a future session, and becomes fatal to its further progress; the mere circumstance of plans being deposited only one hour after midnight on the 30th November, the misdirection or non service of a notice, being sufficient to invalidate the claims of the best equipped schemes. This was proved yesterday in the case of the London a n d Y or k li ne, t h e inquiry into which occupied upwards of three hours. Imperfect compliance with the standing orders in three cases only out of twelve thou sand was sufficientto induce the Sub-Committee to refer the question to the Select Committee on standing orders. The number of witnesses examined on the part of the London and York amounted to nearly 100 ; on the Leeds and Bradford to between 30 and 40; and it is expected that on many of the lines to be brought on in Committee, more particularly in the larger ones, there will be nearly 100 witnesses exa mined in each. When it is remembered that there are upon an average 240 Bills to come before Parliament this session, representing a capital of nearly 100,000,0001., one of the causes of this great fertility in new lines being the recent re peal of the deposit on standing orders from 10 to 5 per cent, it will be seen that this extraordinary pressure of new pro jects portends an amount of labour hitherto unparalleled 'in railway legislation. Sub-Committee No. 1 ; Si r J o h n Y arde Buller (Chairman), Mr. Bramston, Mr. Richard Walker, Mr. George Philip, Mr. Bell, Mr. Gibson Craig, the O'Conor Don, Mr. Forbes Mackenzie, Mr. Horsman, Mr. Eliot Yorke, Mr. Kemble. The Chairman, after the usual inquiries, announced that the standing orders had been complied with in the fol lowing cases, with the exception of the Wakefield, Pontefract, and Goole : REPORT OF THE BOARD OF TRADE ON RAILWAYS. The following circular is issued by the authorised pub lishers of the Manchester Weekly Share List:— "Whoever reads Lord Dalhousie's speech on the delivery of the report of the hoard of Trade to the House of Lords, must see and understand clearly that the arrangements for conducting the railway schemes put before it, and the general management in all respects, have been as well and as ho nourably conducted as it was possible to expect ; and that all errors or mistakes arising from the conduct of indi vidual speculators, rest entirely with themselves ; for it is notorious that the great influx of new schemes has brought forward a host of the very worst class of capitalists, as share speculators, putting themselves before the public in every equivocal form to hurry on a crisis that bids fair to wind up with very extensive disaster. If the rule recorded in the oldest book—a book in every one's possession —be ofany value, the present is a fit period to respect it—' He that buildeth his house with other men's money, is like one that gathereth to himself stones for the tomb of his burial." The safest prin ciple for all interests, and to avoid dangerous and unruly speculations in scrip shares, will be for Parliament in future to prohibit their circulation, by compelling subscribers to new projects to keep the bankers' receipts t►ll an Act is got, or re jected. When got, the holder of the receipt being the real partner, becomes registered, and has his registered certifi cates delivered to him, with which he may trade as he pleases, with the best safety to the public and himself. If an application for an Act be rejected, the Directors should be forced to return to the subscribers, on their presentation of the bankers' receipt, the divisable part that remains after the account is made up, and thus end all further liability ; other wise the litigation and delay that may be set up will fritter away the fund to the last penny. " The gambling on foot at all the places where share busi ness has any sway, is now prevailing to an unusual and frightful extent, and calls for the most prudent caution. At Manchester we have two rooms for conducting share busi ness; and notwithstanding the influx of brokers on the public Exchange, their dealings with each other is rendered so very inconvenient to the mercantile community, as to be unreasonable and unnecessary annoyance, requiring better regulation should it not immediately subside ;—for after the lists for the day are printed at five o'clock, the business of share dealing is carried on in the public Exchange till the latest hour of its close, and the published lists are thus ren dered in a degree misleading or valueless to the interested in such matters. MANCHESTER AND LEEDS. —To raise further capital. Agents—Messrs. Dorrington, Hltyward, and Ellicombe. MANCHESTER AND LEEDS.—For extending the Oldham and Heywood liranclies, to join the Manchester, Bury, and Baasendale Railway, in th e t owns hi p . o f B ury , reported in favour of by the Board of Trade. Agents—Messrs..Dorring ton_, Hayward, and Ellicornbe. LONDON AND SOUTH-WESTERN (METROPOLITAN EXTEN SION).-The object of this extension is to afford a central terminus to the South-Western, London -bridge, and other railways in the neighbourhood of Hungerford Suspension bridge. The agents were—Messrs. Dorrington, Hayward, ar.d Ellicombe. Marty, STALYERITACE, AIM LIVERPOOL JUNCTION (Anp,- wrpx Alm Otrini BrupoE BitAxcrws).— Agents—Messrs. Porrington, Hayward, And Ellioorrsho. LEEDS -AND WEsT RIDING JUNCTION.—The object of this a_p plication was $ / connect the towns of Leeds, Hndiersfield, Bradford, Dewsbury, and Halifax, with each other, and with the intervening districts, forming three points Of junction with the Manchester and Leeds, and bringing the, whole of the Wept Biding of Yorkshire into immediate . tu . =lca. PRINCESS'S. Mr. Edwin Forrest, the American tragedian, appeared here last evening for the first time in the character of Othello. Mr. Forrest is certainly much improved since he was last amongst us. It is evident that he has studied his author and that he thoroughly understands him. There was a subdued tenderness in his delineation of the earlier scenes which was in excellent taste, and seldom have we heard the address to the senate more beautifully, or more correctly declaimed. The celebrated jealousy scene in the third act was most effectively given—from that moment a change came over him—the impassioned nature of the swarthy African burst through all restraint, and he was no longer a Venetiaa, but a true child of the desert—with whom revenge is virtue. As a whole, his Othello is a vigorous and intensely powerful piece of acting, and he well deserved the applause which was bestowed upon him most lavishly. Graham's lago was excellent, and Miss Cushman's Emilia was very fine. Mrs. Stirling was the Desdemona, and most interestingly did she delineate the character of " the gentle lady married to the Moor." The play is admirably got up and excellently put on the stage. The principal performers received the usual honours of the call at the fall of the curtain, and were much and deservedly applauded. There was some confusion created just at half-price by an alarm of fire. The alarm however turned out to be unfounded, and on receiving an assurance to that effect from the management, the audience remained quietly in their places. The house was a bumper. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. TATTERSALUS.—YESTERDAY. The room was well attended, and business, although sluggish in the early part of the day, improved towards evening, and on the whole was tolerably brisk at the undermentioned prices . CHESTER CUP. 8 to 1 agst Mr. Irwin's lot 9 to 1 agst Mr. Jaques's Semiseria 16 to 1 agst Mr. A. Johnstone'i The Era 18 to 1 agst Mr. A. Johnstone's Obscurity—taken 22 to 1 agst Mr. W. Scott's Cataract—taken 25 to 1 agst Mr. H. Stebbings's Celeste—taken 25 to 1 agst Mr. Gully's St. Lawrence—taken 25 to 1 agst Duke of Richmond's Strathspey—taken 25 to 1 agat Mr. Parry's Zanoni—taken 35 to 1 agst Mr. Bell's Winesour 30 to 1 agst Mr. Scott's Agriculture—taken 33 to 1 agst Mr. Irwin's Pride of Kildare 33 to 1 agst Lord George Bentinck's Pug 33 to 1 aget Mr. Williamson's Extempore 45 to 1 agst Mr. Osbaldeston's Sorella 50 to 1 agst Mr. Isaac Day's Seaport 50 to 1 agst Mr. Parry's Master of tha Rolls filly 2,000 to 35 agst Mr. Davies's Yheomun ac Knuc—taken 1,000 to 15 agat Mr. Irwin's Foigh- a-ballagh—taken 1,000 to 15 agst Mr. J. Day's Portrait—taken 1,000 to 15 agst Mr. Coleman's Devil's Dust—taken 1,000 to 15 agst Mr. Skerratt'a Intrepid. With the exception of Pug and Pride of Kildare, who were entirely out of favour, every horse comprised in the above return was backed ; the investments, however, were of mo derate amount, and the alterations few and insignificant. We ought to mention that a commission to lay against Semi seria to the amount of 601. was executed at 12 to 1, but with only a momentary influence onher position, as no one would bet more than 9 to 1 at the close. DERBY. 10 to 1 agst Mr. Greville's Alarm—taken and after wards offered 13 to 1 agst Colonel Peel's Cobweb colt—taken 14 to 1 agst Colonel Anson's Kedger 16 to 1 agst Lord Stradbroke's Idas—taken 18 to 1 agst Lord Chesterfield's Pam 22 to 1 agst Lord Chesterfield's Newsmonger—taken 30 to 1 aget Mr. St. Paul's Mentor—taken ' 30 to 1 agst Lord Glasgow's Miss Whip colt—taken 30 to 1 agst Mr. Mostyn's Pantasa 33 to 1 agst Mr. Gully's Old England—taken 35 to 1 agst Mr. A. W. Hill's Ironmaster (all in)—tak. 40 to 1 agst Mr. Stanley's Minikin colt—taken 40 to 1 apt Mr. A. Johnstone's Annandale 50 to 1 agst Mr. Jaques's Anti-Repealer—taken 2000 to 35 apt Lord Eglinton's Lycurgus—taken 1000 to 15 agst Mr. Irwin's Connaught Ranger—taken 1000 to 15 agst Mr. Coleman's Young Eclipse—taken 1000 to 15 agst Mr. Lintott's Cabin Boytaken 10 to 1 agst Mentor, Pantasa, and Old England—taken. An increased disposition to back Newsmonger was the only noticeable feature in the speculations on this race; the price quoted shows an improvement of three points. All the lead ing favourites were backed, and so many inquiries were made about Mentor,Pantasa, and the Miss Whip colt," that we con fidently expect to see them cut a more prominent figure in the returns. 1,000 to 25 was taken, in three or four places, about the Minikin colt; the same, and 50 to 1, in fifties, about Annandale ; 1,000 to 20, two or three times, about Anti- Repealer; 1,000 to 15 each about Connaught Ranger, Young Eclipse, and Cabin Boy • 20 to 1 was taken ab ou t th e Iron master, with a qualification, and 35 to 1 all in. The question of qualification remains in abeyance. LIVERPOOL. STEEPLE CHASE. 6 to 1 agst Knight Templar—taken. Mr. Hibburd, the Clerk of the Course at Ascot Heath, was on Saturday last appointed starter at Newmarket in the room of Mr. Perren. Mr. Hibburd's flrmnas and long expe rience in all the details of the race-course, will enable him to prevent the irregularities that excited so much disapproba tion at the last October Meeting, and are not unlikely to lead to his appointment to a similar offi ce a t E psom, D oncaster, and otb'er great meeting's. Manchester Betting.,aor IO to j apt Lanpashire Witch winning the three events men ti one d i n yesterday's paper, read IVO to 1. " JOHN RAILTON AND SON, Manchester " Feb. 15, 1845." ~., . THE STOCKPORT FORGERY.—THE QUEEN V. JOHN KENYON WlNTEanorrom.—On Saturday the Judges (with the exception of Mr. Baron Alderson, and Justices Maule Williams, and Wightman,) assembled in Sergeants'-Inn Hall, to consider the objections reserved by Mr. Baron Gur ney on the trial of the prisoner at the late Chester Winter Assizes. The circumstances of the case must be fresh in the minds of our readers. Mr. Welsby having been heard at considerable length in support of the objections, and Mr. V. Williams in support of the Inictment, Lord Denman said the Judges would take time to consider the points raised before the gave judgment. UOLD WATER APPLICATION.—At Marlborough street Police -court, on Saturday, a stable-keeper, named Wm. Greenaway, of Norton-street, was fined 51. for throwing buckets of cold water over two gentlemen, one of whom en tered his stable, finding the door open, on a pressing emer gency, and the other afterwards accompanied his friend to re monstrate against such treatment. THE RECENT GAMBLING TRANSACTIONS.—The prisoners in this affair, the trial of which we have reporte t d h , et w t e h re e brought up for judgment on Friday. The Court declared that played facts of the indictment were proved, but that as the parties e h p sur parole, and money did Hot pass so as to' constitu e te ne th ieti o e tt n en e clo d f swindling, provided for by Art. 405 of the Code, Walker,n? c onviction Ogilvie, take place. The persons in custody— Lambert, Peyronnet, and Emma Cay via e, " t were incustody. In winding Baring, as we have already stated, threfore acquitted. tip its judgment, the Court says, " Thus , w e 4B n „. l i ' o the la w fa e ; t s but a bove it msta,esteirlidg,iinto to come within the application of any p prove them, not only in the interest of public morals, but in orde r that there might be no doubt as to the conduct of the complainants, consequences f dewn i o n f s a l who were right in refusing to submit o Walker with the greatest difficulty held by his fellow judgment being p ronounced, of convulsions, and was on medical assistance bein g • nen; and the municipal guards in attendance upon them. Ile priso .-, was thus carried out of Court, and, Inashort time restored to his senses.—Galignaiii. given him, wa s DEATH rao All inquest last nigft, at the King's Arms, Free-school-street, norsie • j living Free-ochool-street. The deceased went to down, on the body of Pete? Hall, aged seventy-five years, latel • • - morning last, at No. I, Queen's -place, Ilorsleydown, on Saistrday the vestry-ball4St. Jatin,s. i 1 Sea hundred w e ight of coals, which were for the PurP"° of rtc° 1 . being distributed among e inhabitants of the parish. The coals were placed on his d o ersshou, which lie succeeded ill getting home, and on placing them in the cupboard fell bAilw-ardS and ex pired without a groan. The surgeon iy.s.,r, oi' Opinion that the de ceased died from the rupture of a Wood -vessel near the heart, conse' quwenett de upon h, t aeoel erhe ove a tedr2s,4ertlon. The jury r eturned a verdi c t o f at by over ' , .`,4a THE LAMMONBT‘ 111URDER.—Jane Crosby, the w r et c h yearsed woman won m urdered her, daughter, Sarah Ann, age d 3e, by do her to death, having since her confinement iii Carib.4ls gaol been deprived of spirituous liquors and laudanum, her spirits have become much depressed, and she is at present in a very discnsolate state. 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A new illuminated clock, a t I -(1 i s p4 r k-cprn i ar, RATES AND IN ASH-ROUSES FOR THE LABOURING ;vas light e n for the first time on Surtd Ma jestys ta ho n oured e, 43 i d n CLASSES.—The Committee, aftrr a month's considera- • n i ig nd interesting effect. It isaYerieucgtehcl' o a n nd t l: l 4cl a ver? t , tion, have ~ e lected the plan of Mr. P. P. Baly, as the ! ' o - f t h e gate,lf„eeper's lodge, and is so constructed as e to show best of twenty-two which were submitted to them in i th e two LP Os NO PO iif wFil Os within t h e j'ark. competition. - I ,` a 4. ~ C. Y_}d ay-. `n =:~ ~.; t.~x COMMERCIAL AND FINANCIAL LEGIKLATION. INTRODUCTORY. In estimating the elements of just commercial and finan cial legislation, we should not only be well acquainted with the physical power and resources of our own, but also with those of other nations, as regards Leh- geographical position, configuration, natural productions, and population. An able legislator should also understand the political and moral power of nations, so far as their respective governments may, in a comparative view, be considered as advancing or retard ing national prosperity, or as limiting or extending public liberty and individual happiness." Then, and not before, in the present age of the world, can he comprehend in legislative usefulness the wise adaptation of those elements of national power which comprehend the income and expenditure, the occupations of the people, and the productions of labour. This division of legislation embraces the following subdivi sions : 1. Finance, or revenue and expenditure. 2. Occupations'of the people, whether in agriculture, ma nufactures, or in any other way connected with the produc tive operations. ' 3. Connnodities, whether they be of the growth of the soil, of the productions of mines, of fisheries, and of manufactures, or as regards• the arts of wild and domestic animals, for their skins, ivory, horns, bones, flesh, oil, tallow, and fur, —and 4. Commerce, or the interchange of raw and manufa c tu re d commodities. • The last three can only be made equitably subservient to the first, so far as the obligations of the State justifies taxa tion ; no one of the three, viz., the occupations of the people, commodities, and commerce; should be taxed at the expense of the other.' INTERCHANGE OF COMMODITIES. When the interchange of commodities, either raw or manufactured, between the inhabitants of a town or district, is subjected to no other restriction than its just proportion of the tax purely necessary to maintain its security, and its municipal ureter, and to defray the expense of erecting and supporting indispensable public buildings and institutions, we find, in that case, practical free trade existing, within such town or district, based upon a common interest, which each individual will, from personal interest, struggle to main tain in its peaceful course. A great nation is a great community, and all the nations of the earth, if the intercourse and trade between them were as free as between the individuals of a municipality, would then actually enjoy a peaceful and profitable system of com mon intercourse, based upon common interests, which it would be ruinous to any one of the nations concerned to disturb. The greater the commercial relations between the ,nations, the more disastrous would be the consequences of a war which would interrupt their reciprocity of interests. In pro portion as this commercial and reciprocal interest has been of long standing, and of great extent, the greater would be the securities for the maintenance of peace, and the more disastrous would be the calamity of continuing a war between two or more countries so circumstanced. All wars are more or less detrimental to the production of wealth, but a suspension of intercourse with a nation in which England finds but a trifling demand for her manufactures, would be of minor consequence, provided such war did not interrupt our intercourse with countries whose trade was of important value. A suspension of intercourse, for example, between England and America, could, only with great loss to both, from the long duration and enormous extent of the intercourse, be possibly maintained. The sound principle of unrestricted international trade, although laid down longsince by Adam Smith, in opposition to the more specious theory of Colbert, has in British legis lation only been practically attempted by the Government, during the first four years of Mr. Pitt's Administration, and during the time Mr. Huskisson was in power, and, afterwards, to a limited ex t en t, b y L o rd Sydenh am. The most extensive and liberal reform in the British Customs duties, since Mr. Pitt's tariff in 1787, is the tariff of 1842. In France, neither the Government nor the Legislature have admitted even the principle of free trade. Hence the limited cen3merce of that country with other nations, which, in regard to imports, is restricted, except by smuggling, nearly altogether to raw materials of the first necessity to her manufactures, as cotton, wool, raw silk, dye stuffs, &c. There was one remarkable, but brief exception to the generally un sound commercial legislation of France. That exception con sisted of the moderate duties on imports into France from England, as embodied in Mr. Pitt's celebrated treaty signed at Versailles on the 26th of September, 1786.* A war of material interests, or more properly speaking, of material injuries —that is, a war of custom-houses or fiscal forts, with their garrisons of revenue officers and servants, has long been declared and carried on between most Euro pean nations. This warfare of interests, or injuries, has not ceased with the wars of bloodshed, and if we may ever expect security against a recurrence of the calamities attendant on, and consequent to, the latter, it will be in destroying the ele ments of the former,—in short, by the extension of tree trade between all nations. Prohibitions and high duties on imports were, as is well known, from an early period common to most countries. England and France, so often and so long at armed warfare, were, however, the first, always exceptin g Sp a i n , w h o, en a great scale, held up to Europe the example of a perni. ciously maintained war of material injuries against the reci procal prosperity of both countries. England had her navi gation laws, prohibitions, and restrictions on importation, and bounties, before France had extensively established those pernicious regulations. In 1664, France, "in order to engage builders and merchants to construct French vessels, imposed a duty of 50 sous (25.) per ton on all 'foreign ves sels." In 1687, the war of material injuries —that directed against the importation of foreign commodities, includibg all manufactures, was, as a principle, fully established by France. Austria, but not until 100 years afterwards, followed the ex ample, and on the same specious grounds—viz., to force the creation and prosperity of home manufactures by excluding those of foreign States. In the history of Europe we cannot discover a sove reignty, great or insi gnificant, that has not maintain e d it s war of material injuries against its neighbours, during the usually considered state of peace, as well as when engaged in armed hostilities. Germany, in her history, exhibits amply, from is most early period until within the last few years, the ruinous modes of levying taxes. There is scarcely an old castle in the empire that can be viewed, in the choice of its position, otherwise than as a toll-house, and prison, as well as a place of defence. The capital of Bavaria owes the origin of its detestable situation, and worse climate, to a quarrel between a Duke of Suabia and a neighbouring Prince-Bishop, respecting the toll on, and monopoly of, salt claimed by the former. The Duke, to put an end to the chief business of the Bishop—that of smuggling salt—built a strong castle on the banks of the Issar. This protection occasioned a town to grow up around the castle; and the consequence has been, that one of the most classically built cities of Europe is cursed with a climate and situation worse than that of St. Petersburgh. Afterwards, each petty German sovereign established a line of custcens officers around his frontiers to levy taxes upon commodities. Intercourse between one State and another was consequently subjected to great expense and inconveni ence, industry was crippled, competition smothered, and the revenue itself gained but little, owing to the expense and the corruption of collection. The war of material injuries between one German State and another has now, however, nearly ceased. " The great Germanic Union of Custo ms, " says Mr. Loehr, " which for ten years appeared impracticable, was at last accomplished by means of that constant persevering German spirit which pervades and rules over our country—found as well in her enlightened Ministers as in the known gratitude of her faithful people. Thus, within themselves, free-trading in- terest now unites 28,000,000 from the Baltic Sea to the Alps." So much for the tariff and regulations of this ex traordinary union of material interests which has destroyed all the barriers to commercial intercourse, from the fron tiers of France and Belgium to those of Russia and Austria. There is no theory probably more flattering to Princes and statesmen, or to a whole nation, than to institute mea sure., which hold out indepeedence of all other nations by pro ducing and manufacturing at home all that is considered necessary and luxurious. It was easy to win a Prince and people to adotA•the application .f so very plausible a theory. Louis XIV., by revoking the Edict of Is m at ites, the n same timecarlyruined all leading manufactures in France, and furnished England with the most skilful French artisans. To revive the manufactures destroyed by Louis, M. Colbert, one of the most honest and patriotic Ministers of whom France can boast, directed his stedfast attention ; but unfortunately for his country, he became dazzled with the fallacious prin ciple of forcing home manufactures by premiums, and by im posing duties on those of other countries. He encouraged, by large bounties, manufacturers to settle in France ; lie pro tected them by the most despotic laws, without ever consi dering that he was taxing the many for the benefit of the few—that he was destroying that competition which creates cheapness and perfection in manufactures, and that his bounties and dutiest were taxes on the whole community, and especially on the agriculturists. To encourage the French West Indian trade he paid a premium out of the na tional treasury of 30 francs per ton upon goods exported, and 50 per cent. upon every ton imported from these colonies. He also established large bounties, which were imitated by England, on the fisheries. His system became exceedingly popular; its promised grandeur flattered national vanity; and neither the Prince, nor the_people, nor M. Colbert him self, understood its fallacy. We will hereafter show how fully it has been persevered in down to this day, notwith standing the changes towards liberal principles of commer cial legislation which have been boasted of both by the French and English press. England had, under William 111., who carried over and bequeathed to us the funding system, declared the French trade a nuisance, and laid a discriminating duty of 33% per cent. higher duty on French silks and cambrics than the duty imposed on those of Holland. This was naturally pleaded by the French economists as a full justification of the war of prohibition declared against English fabrics. The latter, it is true, continued to thrive, and it soon became a favourite argument, urged until this day, among the ,contis nental advocates of high duties on, or the prohibition of foreign manufactures, that England, in manufactures, com merce, and wealth, owed her prosperity to her legislation restieting or prohibiting the importation of foreign manu factures. They either did not understand, or would not admit, that England attained her prosperity, nut by t h e aid, but in de fiance, of her illiberal commercial system ; that England owed her wealth and power, and eve n h er l iberty, to her • geographical position ; to her many commanding harbours ; Tieltled hy her Mines of coal • Co the Vaat pokier of preductinn and iron interstratified, and conveniently disposed for cheap use and transport ; and to the enterprising and industrious character of her people. England also escaped, on her own soil, the perpetual wars which devastated and prevented the manufacturing industry of the continental States of Europe ; and although her taxation and her public debt have been carried to an incredible height, and her people compelled to PaY far hilier for maintaining existence than those of any bellet s i*Ory, yep t ler earlier inyehtieri of Mote Perfect ma ; Chinery, especially of the sleainTenkilie and the spinning jenny, and other circumstances Which existed (hiring war, spinning ,jenny, her s in defiance of igapoientes wars and. decrees— , In splto or bigh t AN4tio I}i 4 004 r foci, to enripti herself so ' far as to bear all her war burdens. Her people were enabled ' to do all this, and to pay those high p rices for bread and butchers' meat, which served to yield high rents to the land • 7 z 7 AND FOREIGN. MISCESLAZCZOITS. Vttbitt Optutoit. " Who runs may read." Capt. Huggins Smith wasfully_tornmated for. trial, from the Guildhall, I'4 obtaining 31. from Mr. Allen, of St. Paul'ii-• churchyard, under false pretences. At the Thames Police -court, Sylvan() Tabone, a seaman belonging to the ship David Malcolm, lying in the St. Ka tharine Dock, was charged with biting off the top of a man's linger. The ease originated in a public-house scuffle, in the course of which the prisoner got the complainant's left hand fere finger into his mouth and bit off the top joint. He was fully committed for trial. COVRT—raSHIONABLE. Mr. George Byng, M.P., and Mnr. Byng, have arrived in St. James's-square for the season, from Wrotham Park, near Barnet. The Marquis and Marchioness of Anglesea and Ladv Adelaide Paget have arrived at Uxbridge House for the season. The Earl of Carnarvon is expected to return to Grosvenor square,' at the close of the week, from a visit to the Hon. Edward Herbert, at his seat in Somersetsbire. The Countess has been slightly indisposed during the last few days. The Earl of Hurrowby entertained the Marquis of Bristol, Mr. and Lady G. S.Wortley, Captain and Lady Mary Saurin, and a select party at dinner last evening, at the Noble Earl's residence in Grosvenor-square. The Earl of Erroll is progressing most favourably, towards a complete re-establishment of his health. The Marquis of Westminster has been declared out of danger. Lord Huntingfield has left town for his seat, Hevingharn Hall, Suffolk. Lord Hatherton has left town for his Lordship's seat, Ted desley Park, Staffordshire. Sir George and Lady Shee have left the York Hotel, Albe marle• street, for the Continent. The Marquis and Marchioness of Londonderry have arrived at Wynyard Park, from Holdernesse House, and will reside there for a few weeks, previously to repairing to London for the season. On Monday, at noon, a loud explosion was h ear d on t h e premises of M r . Fenwick, the well-known artist in fire-works, residing in Regent-street, Lambeth-walk. A young man named William Hook, a journeyman firework maker, it ap pears, was making a quantity of rockets for the completion of a shipping 'order, and whilst ramm i ng one o f t h em w i th a mallet, the contents suddenly ignited, which communicated with a large quantity of combustible materials in front of him, the whole of which exploded with dreadful violence, forcing off the roof of the shop and setting fire to some portion of the building. The poor man Hook was found lying on his back, much disfigured about the face, hands, and chest, and in dreadful agony. He was removed in , a cab to Guy's Hospital. Lady John Russell, who has been for sonic time in a very delicate state of health, is progressing most favourably to wards convalescence. ' The Commissioners of the Customs having had under consideration a representation, stating that difficulty and delay are experienced under the present practice of for warding free entries to the registrars at their respective stations, to be endorsed with the quantities of goods landed, and afterwards returned, and requesting that in future each registrar be directed to record in a book, to be provided for that purpose, the free entries so soon as they are received from the Long Room, and to insert therein the actual quantity landed by virtue of each entry, such book to be forwarded to the Principal C omptroller of Accounts on, a specified day in each month, in order to enable him to 'pre pare the requisite accounts for the Inspector-General of Im ports and Exports—it has been resolved that the same is approved, and the several officers have been directed to govern themselves in future accordingly. The differences which have existed for some time among the members of the higher degrees of masonry in Ireland have been brought to a satisfactory termination, a com plete union being effected through the especial intervention of the Duke of Leinster. Sonie time before six o'clock on Saturday evening last a most daring burglary was effected in the warehouse of Messrs. M. and S. llyains, clothiers, 9 and 10, King-street, Cheap side. There were stolen from the premises 1864 yards of silk velvet, 600 yards of silk serge, in rolls ; 4954 yar ds of satin, in pieces ; and 13/. in gold, silver, and copper. A reward of 501. was offered yesterday for the apprehension and convic tion of the thieves, or on the recovery of the property. The police are making active search after the burglars. The Committee of the Winchester Diocesan Church Build ing Society have granted 4001. in aid of the fund for erecting a church at'Sandown, in the parish of Brading, Isle of Wight. The population of that parish amounts to near 3,000 inhabi tants, of which, at least, 900 live at a distance of between four and five miles from the parish church, which affords accommodation for only 500, including children. A suitable Site for the building ha.% been given by Sir Wm. Oglander, Bart., of Minerell, who has also liberally subscribed towards the expenses, which are estimated at near 2,000/. The Lord Bishop of Lichfield has given notice that all graduates of the University of Cambridge who shall offes themselves as candidates for admission into the order of Deacons after the year 1845, will be expected to bring certi ficates of their having passed the voluutary theological exa mination in that University. Duprez is engaged for Drury_lane Theatre to perform his favourite characters in William Tell and Lucia cli Lammer moor in the month et April next. COURT CIRCULAR. His Royal Highness th e D u k e of C ambridge, attended by Baron Knesebeck, left town yesterday morning for Witley Court, Worcestershire, on a visit to her Majesty the Queen Dowager. His Royal Highness travelled by the London and Birmingham Railway, and quitted the Euston-square terminus by the ten o'clock train. A deputation from the Hull and Gainsborough Rail way Company, consisting of Mr. John Chapman, Mr. Farquhar, and Mr. Leech, transacted business at the Railway Department of the Board of Trade yesterday, and presented the following memorials. From the bankers and other inhabitants of Driffield, in favour of the Hull and Gain:borough Railway. From the resident magistrates, bankers, and other in habitants of Bridlington, to the like effect. From the inhabitants of Headon to the like effect. From the inhabitants of Beverley to the like effect. From the inhabitants of Hornsea to the like effect. From the inhabitants of Patrington to the like effect. Sir Robert Peel returned to his residence in White hall-gardens yesterday morning from a visit to the Queen, at the Pavilion at Brighton. Sir James Graham and other Cabinet Ministers visited the Right Hon. Baronet in the afternoon. The Governor of the Bank of England, and the De puty-Governor bad an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday, at his official residence in Downing -street. Dr. Rogerson had an interview with Lord Stanley yesterday, at the Colonial-office. Viscount Sandon, M.P., Sir Howard Douglas, M.P., and a deputation, had an interview with the Earl of Dalhousie yesterday, at the office of the Board of Trade. Mr. Wickham, Chairman of the Stamps and Taxes. had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday. Mr. Willoughby Shortland had an interview with Lord Stanley yesterday. Mr. Forster, M.P., Mr. Robinson, of Berwick, The Chisholm, and a deputation from the Direct Northern Railway Company, attended at the Board of Trade ye s . terday, and presented the following memorials in favour of that undertaking. viz.:— Of the mayor, aldermen, and burgesses of th e borough of Berwick-upon-Tweed. Of the Berwick Shipping Company. Of bankers, merchants, tradesmen, an d other inhabi tants of the borough of Berwick-upon-Tweed. Of the mayor, aldermen, and inhabitants of the city of Durham. Of the inhabitants of Newcastle-upon-T yne and Gates head,f the and in h abi tan tst e vicinities o f theth e reo Of f. town of Thorne and neigh bourhood, in the West Riding of the county of York. Of the inhabitants of the town of Snaith and neigh bourhood, in the West Riding of the county of York. Of the merchants, tradesmen, and other inhabitants of the town or Belford, in the county of Northumberland. Of the inhabitants of the town and burgh of Alnwick, in the county of Northumberland. Of the inhabitants of the borough of Morpeth, in the county of Northumberland. Of the magistrates and commissioners of police of the town of Coldstream, in the county of Berwick. Of the bankers, writers, merchants, and other inhabi tants of the town of Coldstream, in the county of Ber wick. Of the provost, magistrates, and town-council of the royal burgh of Nairn. Of bankers, merchants, manufacturers, and other in habitants of the burgh of Huntley and neighbourhood. Of the Duke of Roxburgh and other landed projr.fe tors and inhabitants of the burgh of Kelso and its vic:inity. Of the commissioners of police for the bu.egb of Kelso. Of the bankers, merchants, and other inhabitants of the burgh of Kelso. Of the inhabitants of Edinburgh (3,000 signatures). Of the town-council of Inverness. Of the town-council of Dingwall Of the inhabitants of Dingwall Of the town-council of Porres. Of horse dealers NO joblaastara of L on d on. .• On Saturday the Ling of the French received Count Mole. Admiral Dupetit Thouars, the Count of St. Aulaire, and se veral prefects of departments. Another heavy fall of snow had taken place-at Paris en Saturday. In consequence of the severity of the weather in the south, the Madrid mail of the 10th had not arrived. In the Chamber of Deputies, M. Roger brought forward a measure, the object of which is the modification of some por tions of the proceedings in criminal trials. No objection was made by the Government, but M. Martin protested against the mode in which M. Roger spoke of the severity of the French criminal procedure and magistracy. Two Englishmen, possessed of large sums of money in English an d French bank. notes, for the possession of wiiich they could not satisfactorily account, were arrested in Paris on Friday last. A. report prevailed that some of the notes were those stolen from the bank of Messrs. Rogers and Co. A considerable sensation had been created by an extra ordinary mandate recently issued by Cardinaleßonald, the Archbishop of Lyons, condemning a well-known work of M. Dupin's, on the " The Liberty of the Gallican Church." Their Imperial Highnesses the Archduke and Archduchess Rayner, of Austria, have arrived at Milan, from Venice. Letters from Vienna, dated the Bth instant, state that the intelligence of the demise of her Imperial Highness the late Grand Duchess Elizabeth of Nassau has caused feelings of the deepest regret to the Imperial Family of. Austria. The last grand ear,iyal ball at Court, which was to have taken place the same evening the melancholy news arrived, was consequently put off. - The Hungarian Diet has passed a decree, admitting non nobles to purchase and possess land: The Prussian Miriste rial paper congratulates the Hungarian Diet on its liberality in this instance, whilst the estates of Bohemia, Moravia, and Galicia still insist on the rights of naturalisation. None but Hungarian born citizens of recognised religion are entitled to the above privilege. The King of Prussia has conferred the order of the Black Eagle on Ferdinand, King of Portugal. 34.41. W Attu D The Courts of Common Law are now sitting in the City, at the Guildhall. In the Court of Bankruptcy, Watson and Byers, late ware housemen in London and in Manchester, passed their final examination. mil/ `_