The Sun. — London, England, 1845-01-17 00:00:00

TO NEWSPAPER PROPRIETORS. AGENTLEMAN connected with the Metropoli• tan Daily Press, and who has for some years edited a Country Newspaper with great success, is now open to an Engagement to furnish Editorial Articles for a Provincial Paper of Liberal Politics, on moderate terms. . Address J. P. H., Mrs. Fisk's, South Post-office, Kentish-town THEATRE ROYAL. DRURY-LANE, THIS EVENING Will be repeated a Grand Opera Saris, called THE DAUGHTER OF ST. MARK. Lusignano, Mr. Burdini ; Andrea Comaro, Mr. Borrani ; Moncenigo. Mr. Weiss; Adolphe de Courcy, Mr. W. Harrison; 4 atarina Corium, Miss Poole "lo conclude with a Grand Comic Christmas Harlequinsde, called PUCK'S PANTOMIME; or, HARLEQUIN AND IiOBINSON 'CKUSOE. Robinson Crusoe. Mr. W. H. Payne; Harlequin, Mr. Wieland; Clown . Mr. T. Matthews; Pantaloon, Mr. Howell ; %%Columnists, Miss Carson. The Box.ottice is open aily, from Ten in the Morning until Six • lin the Evening, where Private and Family Boxes, Stalls, Places, arid Tickets may be had on application to Mr. John Parsons. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Lessee, Mr. B. WEBSTEFL THIS EVENING Will be iserformrd a New and Original Comedy, in Five Acts, called OLD HEADS AND YOUNG HEARTS. Colonel Rocket Mr. S. rickland ,• Littleton Coke, Mr. Charles Mathe,,s ; Tom Cok e Mr. Webster ; Bob, Mr Buckstone ; Jesse Rural, Mr. W. iarren; The Countess of l'onTion, Mrs. W. Clifford; Ludy Alice Hawthori Madame Vestris; Miss Rocket, Miss Julia Bennett. After which, a New Grand Musical Fairy Extravaganza, entitled GRACIOSA AND PERCINET. King Uxorious, Mr. J. Bland ; Princess Gracious, Miss Julia Bennett ; Percinet, Miss P. Horton ; Duchess Grognon, Mrs. Stanley. To conclude with a Grand MOVING DIORAMA; sr, PIC. TORIAL TOUR IN S WITZERLAND. Private Boxes, Two Guineas and One Guinea and a.Half each. T.ckets and Places to be had of Mr. I. T. Ar cher, at the Box-office, from Ten till Five o'Clock. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Fit.ieth Night of the New Comedy of OLD HEADS AND YOUNG REAM'S, with GRACIOSA AND PERCINET, and PHILLIPS'6 DIOR AM t of SWITZERLAND. The Public is respectfully adviseliT;;;;lC;erily application fir places. I. T. ARCHER, Box Beok.keeper. Jan 17,1845. N.B. To prevent enrrusion, carriages must draw up with the horses' heads towards Pali mall. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHi. Under the Direction of Madame CELESTE. THIS EVENING will be repeated (by special permission of Charles Dickens, Esq.) a New Drama, entitled THE CHIMES. A Goblin Story of Some Bells that Rang an Old Year Out and a New Year In. Toby Veck, •Ir. 0. Smith; Alderman Cute, Mr. Wright; Tugby, Mr. Wilkin son Sir Joseph Bowley, Bart , Mr. Paul Bedford ; Will Fern, Mr. Hudson; Richard, Mr. Selby; Meggy Veck, Miss Fortescue ; Mrs. Chickenstalker, Mrs. Frank Matthews. After which, NORMA, in which Miss Woolgar, Mr. Paul Bed ford, Mr. Wright, and Miss Reynolds will perform. To conclude with a New Grand Military and Comic Christmas Pantomime, called CAT'S CASTLE; or, Harlequin and the King of the Rats. Harlequin, Mr. T. Ireland; Columbine, Miss Lona de./e ; Clown. Mr C. J. Smith ; Pantaloon, Mr. San'ers. p r ,;-npter, Mr. Liana ; Principal Painter Mr. Pitt ; Leader of the Band, Mr. Mellon. — Box - odice open from Eleven till Four. Private Boxes to be had at the Theatre, and at all the principal Libraries. PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. LESSEE, Mr. J. M. MADDOX. THIS EVENING Will be repeated a New Drama, entitled MONSEIGNEUR; or, PARIS IN 1790. Monseigneur, Mr. Wallack; Germaine, Mr. Oxberry; Rosaline, Miss Emma Stanley; Annette, Miss Marshall. To be succeeded by a New Comedietta, entitled THE WIDOW BEWITCHED. Mr. Clement Furnival, Mr. Walter Lacy; Mrs. Lorimer, Mrs. Stirling - To be followed by a new Divertissement, called LE SALON DE BAL. Principal characters by Mdlle. Caroline Rousse, Miss Marshall, Mdtle i eresine, M. .1. Rowset, Mr. Marshall, and Mr. Gilbert. After which will be repeated a New Grand Romantic, and rather Operatic Burlesque Extravaganza, called JOE MILLER AND HIS MEN. Grindoff. Mr. Compton ; Lothair, Mr. Oxberry; Belmar, litanby; Riber, Mr, Corri , Golotz, Mr. Walton; Claudine, AL.' E. Stanley ; Ravina, Mrs. Fosbroke. St ag e Manager Mr. H. 1. Wallack. Stage Director, Mr. Emden, Mactiin,:t , Mr. Edmund Bradwell. Dress Ct:cle, se. ; Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 28.; Galls Is. Half-price at Nine o'clock--. Dress Circle, 2s. 6d. ; Boxes, 21. ; Pit, Is.; Gallery, 64. Private Boxes. i"o Guineas and One Guinea and a.Half ; Prosce n urn Boxes, T w o Gtzineas • and a-Half. Doors to be opened at Half. past Six, and the Perfocmances to commence at Seven o'clock. The Box-office, under the direction of Mr. W. Massingharn. Private Boxes and Free Admissions for the Season to be had at the T eatre. IHE ATRE ROYAL LYCEUM, LATE ENGLISH OPERA. HOUSE Under the Management of Mrs. KEELEY. THIS EVENING Will be repeated THE CHIMES; A Goblin Story. Principal Characters by Messrs. F. Vining, Meadows, Diddear, F. Matthews, collier, Emery. Turner. and Keeley ; Miss Walcott, Miss Arden, iss Grove, and Nil's. Keeley. Atter which, a New Farce, called TO PERSONS ABOUT TO MARE". Supported by Messrs. F. Matthews, Meadows, and Stoker, Miss Arden, and Mrs. Wigan. To conclude with a New Grand Operatic, Historical, Romantic Pantomimical, Burlesque Extravaganza, entitled VALENTINE AND ORSON. Principal Characters by Messrs. F. Matthews; Meadows, Wigan, Collier, furner, Kinloch. Yarnold, and Keeley , Mr.. Wigan, Miss Arden, Miss Fairbrother, Miss Grove, Mrs Usher, Miss James, Miss Turner, and Mrs. Keeley. PRICES OF Al)Allt*lON.—Balcony I;oxes.. 45.• Upper Saxes, ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, ed. Second Price—Balcony BOxes, 2s. ; sipper Boxes, Is. lid.; Pit, Is. Private Boxes on the it-ile,my Tier tholding eight persons). Tsto Guineas. Private Boxes on the Second i'er (holding eight persons), One Guinea and a-Half. Private gaits on the Pit 'Der (holding six persons), One Guinea, The Box-ottleei s open from Ten to Four o'Clock, under the &rec. thin of 4r. Grogan, late of Covent-garden Theatre. _Nightly Ortftiows t, the Grand Christmas Holiday Novelties, and I reble Rotation of Entertainments at ASTLEY'.: 110 Y AL AMPHITHEATRE OF ARTS. prwprietor and Manager, Mr. W. BATTY. Brilliant Success of the New Pantomime. THIS EVENING Will be repeated a New Spectacle, entitled THE ROYAL FOX HUNT; or, fhe Race-Horse and Life's Course of Man and Steed; introducing unequalled National Fetes. Real Fox-chase on the Stage and in the Circle by living Foe and real Pack of Hounds, purchased by Mr. Batty of Mr. Tattersall, to realise this novel production. .E.;4om Races and other Sporting Features. New Scenes of the Circle, and entire change in the Feats of Horse asansh ip. To conclude with a Grand Comic Christmas Equestrian Pantomime, elled HARLEQUIN AND JOHNNY GILPIN'S RIDE; or, the Black Witch of Edmonton. Harlequin, Mr. H. Lewis ; Columbine, Mrs. J. W. Colyer ; Clown, Mr. T. Barry; Pantaloon, Mr. Bradbury ; J ohnny Gilpin, Mr. Wells. Acting And stagewninager, Mr. W. D Broadfoot. by open from Eleven till Five. Lessons in the Art • Riding I I Ayr. F. Smith daily. DAVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. As usuai, the heat Pantomime of the Season ! A more brilliant triumph than ever before achieved ! ! Laughter, Wonder, and Delight ! The First Pantomimic Performers of the Age, and Everything New!!!! THIS EVBNINII Will be repeated THE SEVEN AGES OF MAN; or, The End of C.-ime. Principa , Characters by Mr. Henry Corti (from the Theat:e Royal Edinburgh), Messrs. H Hughes, Neville, R Hoarier, 1 ewis, Heslop, and Seaman, Mrs. R. Houser, Mrs. Lewis, Mrs. W. -Daly; and Miss Martin. To be followed by THE WET NURSE. Supported by Messrs. Neville, W. Smith. and Lewis, Miss Martin, &c. To conclude with an Orig i na l Worldly Comic Pantomime, called POUNDS, HILLINGS, AND PENCE; or, HARLEQUIN L. S. D. Harlequin, Mr. H. Harvey; Clown, Mr. T. ftidgway; Pantaloon, Mr. Henry Corsi; Columbine, Miss Slaiter. .Places aßcl Private dozes to zv - • had of Mr. &erschner, at the Box cffic-, from Eleven to Four MOYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. Extraordinary Success of " Marianne: or, The Child of Charity," and the Ncw Comic Pantomime. THIS EVENING TVIII be repeated MARIANNE; or, the Child of Charity. Sun. ported be Mr. o:baldiston, M Henry /inward, J. T Johnson, T. H. Higgie, J. Herbert, E. Jones, Henry Searle, Miss Vincent,Miss E Torrey, and Miss Treble. After which, an Original Extravaganza, entitled THE PALACE GENEVA. Characters by Messrs. Herbert and J. T. John. • son. ,Miss E. Terry, and Miss Treble. - To ecnclode with a New Grand Christmas Pantomime, entitled MARL}. QUIN HOT COD LINS ; or, The Little Old Womau and t h e Demo,' of the Metal Mine. Harlequin, M. Chapioci ; Clown, Mr. Maria; and ; Pantaloon, Mr. Coney ; Columbine, Mdlle Le rite. TiIE WEATHER.—SuN OFFICE, JAN. 16. THERMOWTER, Lowest, 38 ; Highest, 45 ; Noon, 46. 'PAROMETER, 30.5.—W1ND, E. NrirE.—The figures which follow the words "Lowest" and " Highest" denote the lowest and highest state of the Termometer during the preceding twenty-four hours. All the other observations are made At noon. Water freezes at 32 ; 55 on Thermometers is marked "Temperate," and on • ,Barometers "Fair" is generally placed opposite to 30, and "Lain" at 29; but there is no certainty of dry weather % alien the mercury falls below 30. . ZIGH WATER AT LONDON.BRIDGE THIS L I AY. .»21 minutes after 8 I Evening N minutes aa:ter P. . ...., 4 i 41' c. " 1 0 0 -, .., • . 4 4 .; ~. / 14- 4". .I, .. a , i .. ' '''i ' - 1 ). - Z \ ' ,- • .A4A . ‘;..' 0k e,:s7w . allli ksoo‘ 7 . ~.`,..r.-!... - !: . 1 ii, _ ; : r ~: r - : j .. 1 y.t , . KOS _„; ~,,.. . llNtit . • i. • ,- _ in 0 Miag nt LONDON, FRIDAY, :JANUARY 17, 1545. Those who attended the public meeting of the Anti- Corn-law League on Wednesday at Covent-garden Theatre ; who beheld the vast numbers that were present, filling to an absolute overflow every part of the house from the pit to the slips in the upper gal leries ; who marked the deep interest which was taken in the proceedings by the audience—the • delight with which they listened to the cool, sagacious, matter-of-fact reasoning of Mr. COBDEN, and the glowing, eloquent declamation of Mr. Fox ; those, we say, who attended the League meeting last night, and observed the striking effects produced on the hearers by the various talents of the speakers, will at once be convinced of the "great fact" that this imposing confederacy is so far from having declined in popular estimation—as the organs of monopoly assert that it has—that it holds at the present moment a more conspicuous posi tion than ever, and is more efficacious for good than it has been at any one period since its first institution, now some six or seven years since. What a tri umphant answer is the crowded meeting of Wednesday to the calumnies of those who have been constantly asserting for the last six months that the League i s in a state of decrepitude ! Decrepitude ! Why, it was never in a more healthy—flourishing—vigorous condition than it is at the present moment! The number of its members have increased—its resources have increased —its moral influence has increased— 1 and in like proportion its means of doing good have increased. A season of prosperity would—its enemies declared —give it its death-blow. Well, the season of prosperity has arrived—the busy hum of industry is again heard in the manufacturing districts —yet the League still lives and thrives-- still acts as a bugbear to the disap pointed and panic-stricken monopolists ! Even the so-much vaunted Protection Societies, which were supported by Dukes and Lords, and Squires with out number, and which were instituted for the ex press purpose of putting down the Anti-Corn-law - League, have served only to increase its moral influ ence, and add to its popularity with all the right thinking classes of the community. The hostility of the monopolists has tested its efficiency as an instru- 1 rient of public good ; and the reasun of this is ob vio,as. The cause which the free-traders advocate 4 one wkich is essentially based on truth. On this point Mr. MILNER GLUSON justly observed—" Any cause which is not based on truth has no principle of cohesion in it, and any combination to support such a cause becomes split up into fragments, and is scattered to the winds. There is no bond of union to hold men together for any length of time in support of any great cause but truth; and when we see a great society like this holding together year after year, and assembling together constantly, as we are now assembled, it is a convincing proof that the cause which we advocate is the cause of truth and of justice, if the experience of past times is to be trusted on the subject." Had the different Protec tion Societies the same sacred tie that binds the mem bers of the League together with bonds of one com mon brotherhood, they would not lee harassed by divi sions as they now notoriously are. The strong in herent conviction of the justice of their cause would unite them as one man. But they have no such con victions to quicken their zeal and conduce to their unanimity. They know that they are banded together for purely selfish purposes, and that the truth is not in them ; hence they are perpetually differing from each other, and while one local Protection Society sets its face against any interference with the registers, en the maudlin, hypo critical pretext that it is unconstitutional, another is all for active interference, and for fighting the League with its own weapons. The institution of these mono poly confederacies has been so far from doing injury, that it has been of the utmost possible benefit to the free-traders, for it has been the means of showing the deplorable weakness of the one party, numerically speaking, and the robust strength of the other. Ex cept for the Protection Societies, from which their advocates expected so much, we never should have known how deeply-rooted the Anti-Corn-law League was in the good opinion of the community, and how well qualified it was to bear the brunt of whatever opposition the self-interested monopolists might think proper to bring against it. " The Game-laws," we are happy to find, appear to be attracting in all quarters that degree of attention which supplies the best guarantee that they will not be much longer tolerated in their present form, or endured under their present administration. It is not a bad beginning in the work of their modification or repeal which the correspondent of a Morning Con temporary suggests—namely, that game preserves should be rated, by the proper parochial authorities, to the poor-rate, according to the computed annual value of their game product. But the finest case to be made against these laws, we were always sure would be supplied by any advocate for their main tenance who could be brought to commit his views and his arguments to paper—and print them. In this point of view we deem Mr. GRANTLEY BERKELEY eminently entitled to the thanks of the public ; for he has just published "A Pamphlet in Defence of the Game-laws, in Reply to the (their ?) Assailants; and on their Effects upon the Morals of the Poor." In endeavouring to arrive at any sound judgment on the expediency or inexpediency of upholding such a code as that which comprises the laws relative to the pro perty in, and protection of, game, it has always ap peared to us a preliminary of importance to get at the real animus with which game-preserving country gentlemen really regard—first, their title to that property ; secondly, its relations to general principles bearing on the moral and social condition and rights of their fellow-creatures. We were curious to learn whether gentlemen of large landed estate, in their passion for preserving game, really postponed the consideration of what might be due to the feelings, the wants, and the temptations consequent on those wants of their poorer tenants or neighbours to the paramount object of securing partridge, pheasant, and hare from liability to destruction—by uncer tificated hands. We were not uninterested about ascertaining whether, in this age of universal cant, the sacred cause of religion would be impressed into the service, even, of the Game-laws. On these and other such points Mr. GRANTLEY BERKELEY has cer tainly enlightened, if he have not satisfied us. To Mr. BERKELEY we must concede the praise of being much in earnest with his subject; but, had he par ticipated in the long nap of the Seven Royal Sleepers, or the fifty-seven years' unbroken slumber which PLINY pronounces EPIMENIDES to have en joyed, he could not have bee's, upon again awaking, more behind the spirit and intelligence of his age, than he has shown himself to be in his notions of the status of the English labourer, or hind. Mr. BERKELEY clearly regards him in the light of a mere serf. He would have drawn up, we should say, had he been a contemporary of our Norman Princes, a most acceptable memoir to the hunting Conqueror, on the extreme utility of the newly afforested dis trict for the King's deer and other game, and " beasts of venery," for whose accommodation—and his own—a country of thirty miles in compass, largely sprinkled with towns, villages, and home steads, was laid waste—their inhabitants turned out houseless and ruined on the world, and six-and thirty churches levelled to the ground. To judge from the lachrymose affection with which he deplores the relaxed protection that that very forest now ex periences, he would have been eloquent indeed, seven hundred and sixty years ago, in pleading the in valuable advantage to the kingdom of the Monarch's enjoying his pleasure and his sport, at any price, and in showing how grossly the Saxon ceorles of that day misconceived the case in supposing themselves at all aggrieved, or that their interests were prejudiced by the institution of a royal preserve on this rather ex tensive scale. But we really fear that Mr. G. BERKE LEY is not alone in thus projecting his epitome of the merits of our Game-laws for the year of Grace 1085 instead of the year of our Lord 1845. He is but the spokesman of a class. The truth seems to be, that game preservers are so utterly selfish, so absurdly selfish in the attainment of their one great end of se curing to themselves and a few bidden guests the ex clusive luxury of this particular class of sport—the bringing down with their own guns the feathered and the furry denizens about whom they have spread a protection, rigorously and wantonly severe, against all the rest of the world, that they never suffer their purpose to be ruffled by such unsportsmanlike re morse as Am men would feel at being instrumental to the temptation which our Game-laws hold out to various classes of the community, the old as well as the young—the well-disposed equally with the pro fligate—to dishonesty, to violence, and to the most fearful crimes. Your strict game-preserver, the capacity in which Mr. BERKELEY seems desirous most emphatically to record himself to posterity, has no eyes for the ruined peace of peasant families; no ears for the wailings of wives and families whose husbands, brothers, and sons, are torn from their humble hovels to expiate their offences against the sacred majesty of game, or the polluting atmosphere of the county gaol ; no misgivings about the fate of innocent offspring thus deserted and left to destitution, disgrace, or death—as the cue may be—by the committal (if their natural protectors—for, it may be—a first offence ; for an ebullition of that natural and uncontrollable excite. ment to pursue and destroy game which in the squire indicates " thorough-bred" sporting " strain," but in the peasant is that last excess of vicious propensity, known to the rural ethics of country gentlemen, which they call "the inveterate love of poaching." The pamphlet of Mr. G. BERKELEY might be worth analysing if we should be really justified in assuming that there are many English gentlemen time of day, can gravely imagine that who, at ;,;;;s they may, with impunity, strain the distinctions of caste between the gentleman ;-,ed the labourer, the game-owning landlord and the small te;',:nt farm er, to the extent which this Honourable Member ven tures to attempt. But on sober reflection we cannot believe that Mr. BERKELEY is more likely to find many abettors of his extravagant notions upon land lord prerogative, than he is to be extensively con firmed in such conclusions as these, which we extract at random from his pamphlet :—" .... So far from having a demoralising tendency, or of (?) being in jurious to the welfare of the lower classes, the Game laws are founded on sound and rational principles, and have a beneficial effect in regard to the pro prietor, the tenant, the yeoman, and the poor."— (P. 5.) "I have observed in each of the places I have rented a great improvement in the conduct and habits of the labouring population when the Game• l aws came to be enforced, and idle, poaching inclina tions restrained; the wholesome fact having also been placed before their eyes that it would be their interest as well as their duty to cease from the pur suit of game both by night and day. The hitherto systematic Sabbath-breaker returned to his church, and I have heard it from his pastor's lips that he had never seen the man so frequently an attendant on Divine service as he had since my arrival at the house."—(P. 14.) For our part we do not see much to marvel at in this sympathy between the opinions of the parson and the squire—on such a topic. But we find more difficulty in accounting for the trip which Mr. BERKELEY makes in his eager chase after proofs of his favourite theory, that the strict enforcement of the Game-laws eminently con duces to the strict observance of the Sabbath. He says, in describing that facilis " descensus Averni " by which his poacher graduates from the evening relaxation of merely accompanying a friend in the small-poaching line to see him knock a rabbit over, to a degree entitling him to a fellowship—with resi dence, in Newgate, that—" step by step, the man be comes a Sabbath-breaker—a fault declared by crimi nals in Newgate to be the origin of all their crimes. Instead of going to church, he takes his gun or mare," &c.— (P. 23.) But, alas ! the poor labourer is not the only Sabbath-breaker. Elsewhere, to write, " .... My brother, Mr. MORETON BERKELEY, de tected a man in the act of beating for game, with a lurcher, on a Sunday, during the time of Divine worship."—(P. 32.) Why was not Mr. MORETON BERKELEY there, attending that worship ? Is Sab bath-breaking part and parcel of the reserved privi leges of the game preserver ? Perhaps the gentle man was ill that day, and taking a calm contem plative walk through his covers, to muse on doctrines he could not enjoy the happiness of hearing. Alas ! he had a desperate affray with this poacher, knocked him down, and captured him. And since the man " was knocked down by the common policeman's staff, which my brother carried in his pocket," we fear we must infer that this was a malice-prepense occupation " during the time of Divine worship" on the part of Mr. MORETON BERKELEY. We must suppose him more given to catching poachers on Sundays than to hearing prayers. But woe to " the min of six days' labour who was tempted to desecrate the Sabbath." —(P. 35.) For such an " unpreserving" miserable offender, neither, like Mr. G. BERKELEY, "a game preserver on his own lands," nor "in the administra tion of the law, as a county magistrate, over the estates of others" (p. 6), nor yet " one of us, the country and landed gentlemen" (p. 48)—to presume to break the Sabbath is a strong proof that "he must have been inflamed with the beastly dregs of the pot house," instead of having "got himself up" on a breakfast of kidneys stewed in champagne, or on a devilled fowl washed down with milk punch. We quite enter into all the intensity of Mr. BERKELEY'S reflection on the murder of a certain gamekeeper by a poacher, that, " in stead of the dread of the severity of punish ment consequent on capture leading to the deadly aim, the eye that glanced along the barrel of that gun was"—what ?—" bleared by the baneful fumes and libations of the beer-shop." The beer-shop, in deed ! Why cannot men, bent on desperate purposes, decently carouse beforehand in a carpeted private room, over a magnum of SNBYD'S finest claret, at the tip-top hotel of the neighbourhood—instead of pre senting themselves in gentlemen's preserves reeking, from a Tom- and-Jerry shop, and with their eyes dis ordered by the combined pollutions of beer and tobacco. But we will add, without a word of further present commentary, Mr. G. BERKELEY'S summary : —" The Game-laws are to be regarded as laws founded on sound and rational principles—doing good to the community instead of harm."—(P. 77.) Madrid journals of the Bth instant have been re ceived, and bring the long-expected budget of Senor 'Mow, the Finance Minister. Strange to say, this ingenious financier not only keeps within his means, but has even a surplus. He estimates the total amount of the revenue at 1,259,635,353 reals, about (12,596,0001.), and the expenditure at 1,205,522,688 reals, leaving a surplus of 45,112,665 reals. He then proposed that the Government should be authorised to proceed to the arrangement of the domestic and foreign debt, and to apply to the interest of it, not provided for in the estimates, the surplus of the pro duce of the rents and public contributions. He may talk of the Government proceeding to the arrange ment of the domestic and foreign debt, but how is the arrangement to be made ? We believe at the present moment he has not the means of paying NARYABZ'S troops, and satisfying the greedy claimants on the civil list. He can find means only by borrowing from Ow bank of San FERNAND°, at a rate of inte rest which in time would ruin a solvent state. This miserable financial statement had no effect on the Funds. The Three per Cents. closed at 30 13-16 for cash, and 316 at 60 days; the Five per Cents. at 22i for cash, and 23i at 60 days ; the Floating Debt at 78 at 60 days; and the Coupons at 26i at 60 days. The chief topic of discussion in the Paris papers is the attack made by Count MoLE on M. GUIZOT in the Chamber of Peers. We referred to it yes terday, and could see little from the outline of the speeches that merited public attention, and on reading the speeches, as given at length in the French papers, we can come to no other conclusion than that the war commenced by the coalition (for there is a coali tion, however MOLE may deny it) is a mere war of words. There is no serious charge, no real accusa tion, no tangible ground of blame brought forward by the ex-Minister against his opponent. MOLE is as much attached to the English alliance as GUIZOT, only he would take care not to offend French " susceptibility " by showing it. He thinks the occupation of Otaheite a bad speculation, and so does the Foreign Minister. France declares against the treaties of 1831 and 1833, respecting the right of search, and they must be replaced by some other scheme for checking the slave trade. This is exactly what M. GUIZOT says, and confirms his words by his deeds. He has opened a negotiation with Eng land : England has not repelled his overtures. On the contrary, she has entertained them, and Commis sioners have been appointed by both parties to devise other means for ensuring efficaciously the repression of the slave-trade. What other steps could the leader of the Opposition take ? He would not be so mad as to abrogate these treaties by a vote of the Cham ber. He knows there are two parties to a treaty, and that it cannot be legally or honourably dis solved but by mutual consent. This is M. GUIZOT'S object, and whatever remarks Count MOLE may make for particular purposes, he could adopt no other step if he were installed in office with a carte blanche from his Royal Master. In fact it is an intrigue from beginning to end. The opposition has been raised by a coalition of heterogeneous materials, and MOLE is trying to eject his opponent by the very means which he himself so loudly denounced when he was the sufferer. " The Minister of the 15th of April," says the Journal des Debats, " is not obliged to feel much friendship for M. GutzoT. But are the Chambers to serve as an arena for the indulgence of private passions ? No. Whatever Count MOLE may say, he has committed an act of opposition. Ile has raised the flag under which all parties are about to range themselves. A victim of the coalition of 1838, he is in his turn the chief of a new coalition, com posed, like the first, of the most discordant elements. The speech of Count MOLE is nothing but the mani festo of the coalesced parties. This will infallibly be the general impression. We respect too much Count MOLE, not to tell him candidly that it is ours. What motive can have induced him to speak ? Otaheite ? But during two years the Chambers and the journals have been occupied with discussions on Otaheite, and Count MOLe remained silent. It is full time to pro pose the evacuation of Otaheite, unless it be one of the articles of the future system of Count MOLE, when he shall be Minister with M. BILLAULT. The right o ch? If Count MoLe does not believe it possible to obtain frnm England a modification of the treaties on the right of search, hi might have said so sooner. His long experience might have ha 4 pro bably sufficient weight with the Chambers to have prevented theta from engaging themselves and the Government in an impossible undertaking. Should Count MOLE become Minister, he would abandon the negotiations opened by M. GUIZOT ! He would say to the Chambers—' You have repeatedly and solemnly expressed a desire to see our commence re placed under the exclusive superintendence of the French flag. This wish is but a chimera. With draw it ! Disavow yourselves! Nothing is left for us but to continue to execute the treaties of 1831 and 1833 until the entire &Haul of the slave trade!' Is this to be another article in the Ministerial pro t;ramme of Count MOLE ? Shall we see M. BIL LAULT sustaining it in the Chambers ? The evacu ation of Qtaheite, and the abandonment of the nego• tiations reiativeto tLe 4g4 of Search question, ar e apparently what we are to gain by the dismipo Qf THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY MORNING, JANUARY 11, !345. M. GUIZOT, that Minister who is said to compromise the honour of France by his concessions. Count MOLE is a grave man ; his words, he well knows, have weight and importance. Under actual circum stances in particular, they will be received and noted with care in England, and indeed in all Europe, more perhaps than in France. It has not been without design that so many anathemas have been pronounced upon Otaheite, and that such strong expressions have been used against the hope of obtaining a revision of the treaties of 1831 and 1833, respecting the right of search." The Globe, another Ministerial paper, adverts to the leading points in MOLE'S speech, and accuses him of inconsistency in asserting that he is as great a friend to the alliance with England as GUIZOT, and yet attempts to get into office by uniting himself with a party that detests the English alliance. Unlike some of the Opposition journals, which assert in the most positive manner that the unexpected attack upon M. GUIZOT by M. MOLE produced a powerful sensation upon the Chamber, the Globe declares that it did not produce the slightest sensation, and this we believe is the real matter of fact. The opinions of the other journals, which may be interesting to some readers, is thus given in Galignanis Messenger : " The effect that M. Mole's speech will produce upon the Frew, which is regarded as the organ of the party of which the ex-Minister is the chief, is anticipated by the Globe. It infers, and nut unreasonably, that the Presse cannot have been delighted at hearing M. Mo 4 profess the doctrine of a close and intimate alliance with England, which has been attacked by the Presse with so much bitterness ; neither can it have been pleased with his declarations on other points of the policy of the present Cabinet. The Presse realizes the anticipations of the Globe, for although in its remarks on the debate of yesterday it renews its attacks on the Ministry, and eulogises M. Mo 4 for having had the frankness to avow his opposition to the Cabinet, there is none of that warmth displayed in support of the ex-Minister which men are accus tomed to receive from their accredited organs. M Molio has evidently not come up to the point aimed at by the Presse, and it is obliged, instead of analysing his speech, and setting forth what his admirers will regard as its beauties, to content itself with a long dissertation on the documents respecting Otaheite and Morocco, and thus giving vent to its anger against the Ministry. The article of the Constitutionnel is so written as to make it impossible for us to give any extract that would fully describe its character, for it is a running commentary spun the two great speeches of the debate, and to detach a portion would be to do an injustice to the writer. We can only say that, without admiring M. Molts, the Constitutionnel comes to a conclusion that he has made a very successful attack upon 3i. Guizot, and that the war which has been declared so openly against the Minister regnant by the Minister aspirant must give a serious shock to the Cabinet. The Consti tutionnel is clearly of opinion that M. Mold, although apparently fighting for himself and his own party, is in reality fighting the battle of the Anti-Conservative Op position. This journal turns into ridicule many of the passages of M. Guizot's speech, and declares that his announcement of the intended appointment of a mixed commission to inquire into the means of arriving at a revision of the right of search treaties was listened to with great coldness." After a quotation from the National, hostile, of course, to the Minister, and making no allusion whatever to the Conservative leader of the coalition, the journal from which we quote thus continues : " The Courrier Francais is very complimentary to Count Mole in its review of his speech, and declares that it produced a profound impression. M. Guizot's speech, according to this journal, was a failure. Ile was pale,' says the Courrier, his voice was forced and hesitating, and his language was haughty and embar rassed.' The Courrier, which praises so highly the written speech of Count Mole, which bad all the advan tage of preparation, makes no allowance for the emotion of M. Guizot, in his extempore reply. At first, says this journal, M. Guizot displayed some energy, but he bad soon exhausted it, and could find only weak, dull, and blundering answers to the speech of M. Mo 3. If we were to give credit to the Courrier, we should regard M. Guizot's speech as a miserable failure, and we are assured also by this journal that the rejoinder of M. Muli was at the same time spiritual, polite, dry, and firm. Like the Constitutionnel and the National, the Courrier regards the announcement of M. Guizot about the appointment of a mixed commission on the right of search treaties as a concession on the part of England hardly worth talking of. The Commerce. although quite as dissatisfied with the Ministry as the other Opposition journals, does not accept M. Moli as the champion of that party. It says— " Whatever talent Count Mold may have shown in this first struggle, we cannot say that he spoke in a manner to satisfy the Opposition. What he blamed in the affair of Oceania is not the shameful fashion in which it was terminated, by the indemnity to Pritchard, for he does not even allude to it; it is the manner in which it was commenced, by seizing on Otaheite. On the right of search, he appeared to think, on the one hand, that this plan was necessary to abolish the slave trade, and, on the other, that it was impossible to substitute any thing for it. Now we do not hesitate to declare that, if the reaction which is announced against the obsequious policy of M. Guizot is to lead us to abandon the islands in Oceania, and consolidate the treaties on the right of search, such a result would not appear to us of a nature to satisfy any serious man. But what constitutes the event of the day is less th speech itself than the act which this speech announces. For four years, during which period the former head of the Conserva tive party kept apart, if he offered any opposition, it was on some particular fact, or special Bill At present it is the en tire policy which he attacks ; it is the very existence of the Cabinet that he strikes ; it is a declaration of war that he has publicly made against the Ministry. Such a line of conduct on the part of a man of such consideration and discernment as Count Mole, gives a new appearance to political matters. It divides the Conservative party into two camps, and places it under two leaders; it gives an illustrious chief to the dis sentient party, furnishes them with a support, and assures them a retreat. In this point of view, M. Mole's proceeding inflicts a severer and more dangerous blow on the Cabinet than his words could have done." The Siecle takes care, in its notice of the debate, not to commit itself and its party by any admiration of Count Mole; but, on the other hand, its strictures on M. Guizot, although anything but friendly, are not remarkable :or any increase of . acerbity. What is most curi ous i n th e article of the S i ecle is its account of the mode and man ner in which the Minister replied to the attacks of Count Mole. The Courrier says, "He was pale (whe ther with emotion, anger, or fear, it does not say), his voice was forced and hesitating, and his language was haughty and embarrassed ; and again he could find only weak, dull, and blundering answers." The Siecle, on the contrary, begins by observing that, " Nature, and espe cially labour, have made M. Guizot an orator ; he has voice, manner, eloquence., everything to impose upon the eye and hold the ear captive." All these great qualities. according to the Steele, were displayed yesterday, and if M. Guizot was not successful in the opinion of the Siecle, it was not because he fell so miserably below himself as the Courrier a sserts , b ut b ecause he i s want ing in that evidence of self-conviction of right which communicates itself to an auditory. In another part of the Siecle, instead of finding any notice of the pale suf fering orator, without voice and without energy, we read, " It was easy to perceive th a t M. G u i zot soug h t to supply the place of inspiration by physical animation." It is not surprising that Journalists should differ so much as to the impression produced by a s p eec h upon the hearers, of whose impressions they have really no posi tive external indications, when they agree so little as to the appearance and manner of the speak ers , w h o are necessarily open to observation. The Quotidienne has the following:— " We need not call the attention of our readers to the sit ting in the Chamber of Peers. It is a curious one, and above all novel. The speech of M. Mole is indirect opposition to the Ministry. Nothing was more astonished, or more embar rassed than M. Guizot; nothing less happy than his reply, by which lie drew on himself a seconu speech still more vi gorous. France will certainly go farther than Count Moli, in the reproaches:which must be addressed to the Ministry on the subject of the right of search and the affair of Ota heite. But, like the noble Peer, we believe the latter ques tion still all in a flame, and we cannot see what favourable issue M. Guizot pretends giving to the first. Since M. MoIS has not been satisfied, we shall see if the Chambers will be contented with these vague and mysterious promises. At all events the country will not be satisfied with them." THE BOURSE--Tuxsowv, JAN. 14 First Highest Lowest Last Price. Price. Price. Price French Five per Cents•• 121 40 .. 121 85 .. 121 40 .. !21 75 Four-and-a-tiaff..•• 113 •• 113 •• 113 .. 113 Three per Cents.— 85 20 •• 85 25 •• 85 15 .. s 5 25 New Loan ...• 86 45 .• 86 50 .. 86 45 .. 86 50 Bank of France..." 3260 .. 3260 .• 3260 ..3260 Gouin Bank, I,ooof. Shares • llOO ..1105 • • 1100 —llO5 Belgian Bank ..•• •• • • 630 .. 630 •• 630 .. 630 Belgian Fives, 1840 .• • • lO4l • • 100;4 .• 1046 .. 104 3 1842 106 1063 .. 1061 y •• 100,i Four.and-a-itaif lO3 .. 103 •• 103 .. 103 Two-and-a-Half 62 .. 62 • • 62 .. 61 90 Spanish Threes...—. .• •• • • 37 •• 37 .. 37 •• 37 Active •••• •• •• •• 374 .. 37 N .. 37 6 N .. 37% Passive Neapolitan •• • 97 .. 97 • • 97 .. 97 Rowan RAILWAY SHARES. VersaWes,R.B.— 5OO •• 500 500 ~ 500 L. 8.•• •• •• 385 •• 385 •• 282 50 •• 382 50 R0uen.•••.•.....•... lO4B 75 . 1050 "10411 75 ..iosp Rouen to Havre............ 820 .. 820 .. 820 .. 820 Orleans .............•.....1135 ..1137 50 ..1135 .•1135 Strasburg to 8a1e.......... 298 75 .. 302 50 .. 298 75 . 300 Avignon to Mareeilles...• .. 947 SO .. 947 50 . 944 „ 9 45 RAILWAYS FOR THE ACCOUNT, JAN. IG. Versailles, 8.11... . L. 8.•• ...• 352 50 .. 380 .. 382 50 .• 382 50 Rouen ...... ...... .1050 ..1059 ..101: „ 050 . 815 .. 822 50 .. 815 Rouen to Havre •• 820 Orleans . Strasburg to 8a1e.... •..... 300 .. 301 25 .. 300 „ 300 Avignon to Marseilles . . 950 .. 952 50 .. 945 „ 945 We understand that the amalgamation between the Birmingham and Gloucester and Bristol and Gloucester Railway Companies has taken place upon something like the following terms :—The Birmingham and Glou cester capital to remain as it is. The Bristol and Glou cester to create as many new 501. shares as will ca pitalise their loan-notes and debentures, to be paid up as the loan-notes and debentures become due, and by equal proportions extending over five years. Ar rangements are nearly concluded for laying down the narrow guage between Bristol and Gloucester. thereby preventing the ruinous inconvenience and expense now caused by different guaged rails. EXPEDITION IN THE SHERIFFS COURT.—Yesterday morning the names of two juries were called over ; two juries, sworn 4nd charged on two cases, returned verdicts and departed, « by leave of the Court," in 15 minutes. All the other cases were struck out of the list, the parties not having arrived. On the last court-day a nearly simi lar occurrence took place. These cases seldom get into the list REPORTED DEATH 01111 E EMPEROR OF RUSSIA (From the Times.) BRUSSELS, TUESDAY, JAN. 14 A report was current yesterday, at the close of the Exchange, of the death of the Emperor of Russia. The news was said to have reached this city by way of Amsterdam. The Politique (a semi official journal) has the following : "At the time of going to press we were informed that letters, which were received this day from Prussia and Holland, bring the news of the demise of the Emperor Nicholas." The Eclair states, in a postscript : " The announcement of the death of the Emperor of Russia has just reached us. There can be no doubt of its authenticity." The Independence Belge states— " The funds fell on the 13th instant at Amsterdam, owing to letters having been received by some of the principal bankers of that city, by extraordinary ex press, informing them of the important and melan choly event of the death of the Emperor Nicholas." The Handelsblad confirms the above, and adds, " a considerable amount of Russian stock had been sold, which occasioned an unfavourable reactiun in other public securities." The severe illness of the Emperor was stated to have been occasioned by the excessive grief for the loss of his daughter, the Grand Duchess Alexandra. Since writing the above the Obseruateur, a paper which appears several hours after the other journals mentioned, announces, in positive terms, the death of the Emperor Nicholas. A special Cabinet courier, bearer of the informa tion, arrived at the Palace last evening, at half-past one o'clock. The Chamber met this day, for the first time since the vacation. (From a Third Edition of the Morning Post). We have just had the good fortune to receive a communication from a person of rank and remarkable acumen, just arrived from Brussels, who states that the melancholy intelligence as regards his Ma jesty the Emperor of Russia was considered at Brus sels, by the diplomacy of that Court, ns a stock jobbing device bruit de bourse. This appears the more probable, as the last authentic and very recent news from St. Petersburgh represented his Imperial Majesty as being in a highly improved state of health. He was undergoing, it is true, a mild antiphlogistic treatment; but rather with the view of compensating for the diminution of his habits of violent exercise than with any other object. The grief oocasioned by the death of his Imperial daughter, which had so violently preyed upon his feelings and health, had then subsided into one of those melancholy reminiscences of which the inter. course of one's remaining kindred gradually removes the sting. The news published by our Contemporaries we re ceived this morning at six o'clock by another channel ; but we disbelieved it. However, the circumstantial evidence brought forward induced us to present the news in a second edition. We hope and trust the present version will be found ultimately the true so lution of these distressing rumours. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE TATTERSALL'S.—YESTERDAY. Two or three hedging bets agst hedger and Alarm, at more liberal odds than were procurable on Monday, and a nominal improvement in the Cot web colt. The betting, and on the whole it was excessively flat and un interesting, touched up a few other Derby horses at the last quotations. For the Chester Cup 1,000 to 25 each was laid agst Trueboy, Zanoni, and Clumsy ; 1,000 to 20 each agst Cataract, The Era, and Barricade ; and 1,000 to 15 each agst Maramat and P. rtrait. The handi cap is looked for with great anxiety. The Derby Averages at the close were . DERBY. 13 to 1 agst Colonel Anson's Kctiger—t. and aft. off. 14 to 1 agst Mr. Greville's Alarm-15 to 1 taken 17 to 1 agst Lord Stradbroke's Idas-18 to 1 taken 18 to 1 agst Lord Chesterfield's Pam 18 to 1 agst Col. Peel's Cobweb colt 25 to 1 aist Mr. A. Johnatone's Annandale 33 to 1 agst Mr. Jaques's Anti-Repealer—t. 33 to 1 33 to 1 agst Mr. Most) n's Pantasa—taken 33 to 1 agst Mr. Gully's Old England —t. & aft. off. 33 to 1 agst Lord Chesterfield's Newsmonger—t. 33 to 1 agst Duke of Richmond's Laird o' Cockpen— taken and afterwards offered 33 to 1 agst Mr. Gully's Weathc'rbit 40 to 1 agst Lord Glasgow's Miss Whip colt—t. 50 to 1 agst Mr. Irwin's Connaught Ranger—taken 50 to 1 agst Mr: Ferguson'a Clear-the-way —taken 50 to 1 agst Mr. Lintott's Cabin Boy—taken 50 to 1 agst Lord Miltown's Flahowlagh—taken. OAKS. 7 to 1 agst Mr. Worthington's Lancashire Witch— taken to 150/. MONEY AND COMMERt NEWS CITY, THURSDAY EVENING. English Securities leave off a shade better than in the morning, though with no decided improvement. Consols have been 99i to par ; Bank Stock was lower, 2101 ; New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. obtained 1031 to 104 ; and the Three per Cents. 1001 to The Foreign Bonds have been very quiet ; Spanish Three per Cents. rallied a little, being 37.1 1; the Five per Cents, were not higher than 261 to ; Portuguese Converted were 59-i; Colombian, 141; and Dutch Two and a-Quarter per Cents. 632- The additional transactions in Railway Shams have been these : —Birmingham and Gloucester were 10 ; Bristol and Exeter, 8 ; Bristol and Gloucester, 13; Cambridge and Lincoln, 2 ; Chester and Holy head, 1; Great North of England, 48 to 50 ; Great Western, 89; Ditto, Half, 49; Birmingham, Quarter, 26; Brighton, 11 ; South-Western, 39k; London and York, lk to lk ; Midland, 27; Ditto, New, 54; Newcastle and Berwick, 73-; Richmond and West-end, 2i; Shrewsbury and Birmingham, to i; South-Eastern, 9i 1; Ditto, New, 12 to 111; South Wales, 1; Trent Valley, 7; Great Northern of France, 11; Orleans and Vierzon, 9; Ditto and Bordeaux, 6 to k; Paris and Lyons, 14; Paris and Orleans, 241 4 ; and Paris and Rouen, 21 premium. Eastern Counties hare bean 81 i; and Greenwich, 11 discount. London and Westminster Batik Shares were 74 premium. (Frorr The Sun of Last Night.) The Cotton Market was brisker yesterday at Liver- pool, and at previous rates a good business was done— sales 7,500 bales.—Shares continued firm, and a fair number met with buyers. Birmingham and Gloucester, 103 k 104 ; Bristol and Gloucester, 42k a ; Cambridge and Lincoln, 3*- ; Churnet Valley, 4f ; Dublin and Cashel Extension, 4* ; Dublin and Belfast, 5 ; Eastern• Counties, 16 ; Ely and Bedford, 11. 3s. ; Grand Junction, 227 228 ; Grand Junction, Quarters, 561 ; Great Western, Fifths, 381 ; Lancaster and Carlisle, 23 ; London and Birmingham 321. Shares, 391 40 ; Ditto, Quarter Shares, 27* ; Lon don and Croydon, 16 ; London and South-Western, 78i ; Ditto, New, 11k ; London and York, 31. 16s. 3d.; Lynn and Ely, 21. I Is. 6d.; Manchester and Birming ham, 531 ; Manchester, Bolton, and Bury, 122 ; Man chester and Leeds, 122 k ; Midland Counties, 123 1241; North Briti,h, 104 ; South-Eastern, New, 15i1 ; York and North Midland, Half, 52*; Lyons and Avignon, 2i; Paris and Rouen, 401- 41; Orleans, Tours, and Bordeaux, 8 ; Northern of France, 54; Boulogne and Amiens, 4i. The expectations of a full and complete, as well as a regular communication between this country, Alexandria, Suez, and India and China, have, for a short time, been disappointed, it having been announced officially from the Admiralty that the arrangements are not yet completed. It was expected from the tenor of the letter sent lately to the East India and China Trade Associa tion, that this desirable object would have come into operation on the 20th instant, and very consider. able pains have been taken by the merchants and others interested, to prepare for the occasion. They, of course, are sadly disappointed, still we have reason to believe that every effort has been made by the Government to facilitate the arrangements, and, but for unavoidable delays and the removal of diffieulties not to be controlled, the plan would have been brought into operation en the day named. It may he remarked incidentally, that the wisest course has unquestionably been adopted ; viz., to have all the arrangements in the most complete working order, rather than commence opera tions for the conveyance of the mails where there was a probability that a defect might exist to impede the full success of a first trial. As to the advantages that will result from the plan, not a dissentient Opinion exists in the City or at the outports, and the merchants, therefore, are n aturally most desirous that the delay should be rendered as short as possible. There are no ship arrivals to-day with later news. The demand for money has increased again to-day, and Consols, under the influence of the settlement, have been to i• per cent. lower, though the depression un doabtedly is but temporary. The report about the E• peror of Russia's death was also laid hold of as a handle by the Bear party. Consols have been 99i- to par for present transfer, and about par to 104 tor February. Exchequer Bills have been flat at 595. to 58s. premium, New Three and-a-Quarter per Cents. are 1031 to 104, and the Three per Cents. look to I. Bank Stock is 2111. The Foreign Investments are likewise eirreted by the oLk, settlement. sbudg e tSppraentiesnhd pretends have a that back , 3t : h n ie e rte : js4. a stretptilile, ul►hough us PvYellß©. The Five per Cents. are 26k to 27, and th ...• . 4 ,lre e Cents.. 371 to I. Portugue.,e CUlll'efteil are 39 . .1 to Mexican have been better, a-lialf per Cents, aTe col • .• • • • - The Railway kiklaq,sa v e aptp vo loc 44 also Birmingham Wc4tgli hare cgthcr advaricA e u a t u h d- Gloucester, Midland, Brighton, Great Western, and one or two other lines given in the list subjoined. PRICE OF BRITISH FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK (From the Official List.) Bank Stock 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities l o o' ' ,2 3 per Cent. Cons u ls A im s lOO 99% / 4 100 New 34 per Cent. Annuties 103% 104 10334 Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan. 1860... 12 3-16 1-16 Do. 30 Years, Expire Oct. 10, 1859... 12 Ditto 3o Years,ExpireJan.lß6o Consols for Opening Exchequer Bills. 1 3 %d. 1 1 %d. 1,0001. 500/. Ditto Small — Ditto Advertised ..... ... PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK. Austrian Bonds, 5 per Cent. 112% Belgian Bonds, 5 per Cent. ...... ... 90 Chilian Bonds, 6 per Cent lOl% 100% Mexican Bonds, 1837, 5 per Cent 34%% Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent Ditto Converted Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent., 1840 26% 27 26% Ditto for the Account. Ditto Passive Bonds 6%% Ditto 3 per Cent 37 Ditto for the Account .. 374% Dutch 2 1 / 2 per Cents Ditto for the Account. Ditto 4 per Cent. Certileates Ditto 5 per Cents PRICE OF SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK. RAILWAYS. PAID. PER SHARE. Birmingham and Gloucester 100 ... 108 111 to 109% 112 Bristol and Exeter Bristol and Gloucester Caledonian Cambridge and Lincoln Chester and Holyhead Churnet Valley Direct Northern 2% 2% to Eastern Counties Eastern Union Great North of England 100 Ditto Great Western Ditto, Half Shares Lancaster and Carlisle London and Birmingham ...100 Ditto Quarters London and 8right0n.......... 50 ...... 51 11 / 2 1 % to 50% London and Greenwich ...... 12 Ditto Preference London and South Western.. 41%...81 80 1 8 82 to 80 81% Ditto New Consolidated Bths 6 Ditto, New — ... 10 11 9 3 4 to 104 London and Croydon London and York... ..... ...... 2 2 ..... 234 to Manchester and Leeds 7O 123 Midland 100 12 7 1% 130 to 128 Midland, Birm. and Derby ...100 North British North Kent Norwich and Brandon 8 ...... 1...... to Richmond and West End June. 1 Rugby .. 1 South Eastern and Dover ... 33 1 % 42 8 to South Wales York and North Midland ... 50 ...... Ditto, Extension FRENCH RAILWAYS. Great Northern of France ... 4 Orleans and Vierzon Orleans and Bordeaux ... .. 2 Paris and Rouen. PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS, JAN. 14. 3 per Cent. Consols 10? 3 1 % Stock 3% per Cent. Debentures Bank Stock Royal Canal Stock Kingstown Railway Debentures. LAST PRICES OF IRISH SHARES. RAILWAYS. PAID. PER SHARE. Drogheda Ditto', 6O Great Southern and Western Ditto Extension 4 Dublin and Belfast Junction 2% 5 % 2% Irish Great Western, Dublin to Mul- 1 214 2 lingar and Athlone Railway Belfast and Ballymena 2I ,E 3l; Waterford and Limerick Mining Company of Ireland 7 Steam Ship Building Company Peninsular and Oriental Ditto - - . . MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, JAN. 15.—Our market continues very healthy, and a large business has been done at full prices : Edinburgh and Glasgow, New Quarters London and Brighton, Eighth Shares 2% London and South Western Ditto, New Shares Manchester and Leeds, 16th Shares 4 lO Manchester and Birmingham 53 2 Midland Railway Consols Ditto 401. Shares South Eastern New 15% Barnsley Junction Birkenhead, Manchester, and Chest). Junct., 6 15-16 Blackburn, Burnley, and Accrington Cambridge and Lincoln -16% Churnet Valley 4 1-16 8 Ely and Bedford Great Grimsby and Sheffield Junctio n 42s. Leeds and Bradford, New Shares 1214 Leeds and West Riding Junction 4l 1 1 /4 Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston 2 London and York 3% 78s. 6d. 4 Manchester and Buxton 2 Sheffield and Lincolnshire Junction West Yorkshire ,. 5 Great Northern of France Paris and Rouen 4501i ..i Peak Forest Canal CLOSING PRICES. BRITISH FUNDS. Bank Stock 3 per Cent. Reduced 3 per Cent. Consols New 3 1 4 per Cent Long Annuities to expire Jan. 1860 12 1-16 Ditto 30 years, Oct. 10, 1859 Ditto 30 years, Jan. 5, 1860 Consols ... Exchequer Bills, 1,0001., 1 1 / 2d 58 pm. Ditto 5001. Ditto Small . .. 60 pm. FOREIGN FUNDS. Columbian Bonds 6 per Cent 14% Dutch, 2 1 / 2 per Cent Ditto, 5 per Cent 9 9 1 /8 SHARES. Birmingham and Gloucester, 100 paid Bristol and Exeter, 70 paid 7B Bristol and Gloucester, 30 paid .. 43 Cambridge and Lincoln, 1 1 / 2 paid Chester and Holyhead, 5 paid 6 Eastern Counties, 25 paid... Great North of England, 100 paid ... 149 Great Western, 75 paid 169 Ditto Half Shares, 50 paid 99 London and Birmingham (Stock) ... ... Ditto, Quarter Shares, 2 paid London and Brighton, 50 paid 5 1 14 London and Greenwich, 12% paid London an . South Western, 41i paid Bl Ditto N .w London and York. 2 1 / 2 paid 122 3tyi MancliesLei and Leeds, 70 paid Midland, 100 paid Ditto New, 2 paid Neweinan- and Berwick, 1 1 / 2 paid Richmond and West End Junction, 1 paid 3 l /2 South Eastern and Dover, 33h paid 43 Ditto, New Shares, 2 paid 13% South Wales, 2 1 paid 2% Trent Valley, 2 paid __.' FRENCH RAILWAYS. Great Northern of France, 4 paid Orleans and Bordeaux. 2 paid Paris and Lyons, 2 paid Paris and Orleans, 20 paid Paris and Rouen, 20 paid •••• 5• 8 •••• 31 / • 44% • 41 JOINT STOCK BANKS. London and Westminster, 20 paid, 271/2 IMPORTATION OF SEED.—The Commissioners of Customs having had under their consideration the report of the practical officers on an application, requesting that Niger seed, Teel seed, and all other seeds not particularly described or enumerated in the tariff, commonly made use of for expressing oil therefrom, may be permitted to be landed at the first-class sufferance wharfs, orders have been issued that the seeds above-mentioned be added to the list of articles allowed to be landed at first-class sufferance wharfs as requested, of which the revenue officers at the several departments have had notice, for their information and government. LETTERS OF A GERMAN COUNTESS.—We are re quested to state that Mr. Colburn, of Great Marlbo rough-street, has this day published " Letters of a Ger man Countess, written during her Travels in Turkey, Egypt, the Holy Land, Syria, Nubia, &c., is 1 843-44," by Ida, Countess Hahn-llahn, in 3 vols. post Bvo., price 31s. 6d. bound, which can now be had of all Book sellers. Mr. Colburn has also just published the following new works :-2. Adventures of an Officer in the Service of Runjeet Singh, by Major Lawrence, Ben gal Artillery, 2 vols., with portraits, 21s. bound. -3. The Crescent and the Cross ; or, Romance and Realities of Eastern Travel, by Eliot Warburton, Esq., 2 vols.. with illustrations, 255. bound.-4. Colonel Maxwell's Adven tures, 2 vols., with portraits, 21s. bound.-5. Revelations of Russia, by an English Resident, 2 vols., with illustra tions, 245. bound.-6. A Journey Overland from India across the Desert, by Major and Mrs. G. Darby Grif fith, 2 vols., with 25 illustrations, 21s. bound. MASTER BOOTMAKERS' BENEVOLENT INSTITUTION. — Wednesday the members and friends of the above institu tion, in number about one hundred and fifty, sat down to an excellent dinner at the Freemasons' Tavern, to celebrate their eighth anniversary. Several members of the Cord wainers' Company were present. Benjamin Bond Cabb e ll, Esq., p res id e d , and after the usual loyal and patriotic toasts had been proposed and duly responded to, proposed that of Prosperity to the Master Bootmakers' Benevolent Insti• tution. ' The subscriptions and donations announced during the evening amounted to about 350/. TUE FOUNTAINS IN TRAFALGAR -SQUARE.— Some sensation was caused, a day or two back, in the immediate neighbourhood of Charing-cross by a rumour that the foun tains in Trafalgar-square had commenced playing. We in stantly dispatched a reporter to the spot, who experienced the greatest civility from the policeman on duty; and under the guidance of that local authority, he proceeded to inspect the two basins. On arriving at the spot, it was clear that some water had got into the reservoirs, but no one seemed to be aware how it had got there. The liquid was exceedingly muddy, fiat, and unsatisfactory. There was no appearance of the ftiuntuins having played ; and on inquiry of the oldest loiterer—the person who had been idling longest near th e spot—no inf orma ti on cou ld be obtatnscf. Vtir reporter, having thanked tho paAcei4ka3, , retired alwrtlx afterwards.-_ Punch, F U NERAL or DvAV gtIRKL—On Wednesday an i niwiiwcw ,,,, m v.ul peoplv assembled in front of elohn'ti C'hur'ch, Waterloo-road. to witness the flowral o . c pugilist, which was appointed to take place %al , o'clock. The corpse was carried from ois late residence, nearly opposite the church, and was follow d by Messrs. Conyaßlanohard, Toot Roundbead, , Robott on3 , and four wore of his intimate friends, NFVIS g aIN ; s?; ir " Who runs may read.' 10 , .SAL:ik, MIA . In the French Chamber of Peers, the gene sion on the address closed on Monday, and 012 'r, 1 . 1 r, f be the first paragraph was under consideration. It au' agreed to without amendment. The Bureaux of the Chamber of Deputies w.eireiliserts gaged in the examination of the Budget. No - fi t d oh was present, and the Budgets of Public Works T ao War were the chief subjects deliberated on. Tb e rsot el department excited most interest. Its expenses 1 . 4 ., 01 to 329,733,283 f. (13,500,0000 Some Membe' es , particularly M. Magne, expressed a wish to see t i b iss e e - penses of the army in Africa placed on Or r. 04,01 Budget of the State. In the department of Works an increase of 975,500 f. is demanded. __ o o The Messager gives the following account of at i . , ; to o rebellion, without assigning the cause :—“ On to , inst., at the time of the evening recreation, the tlhoot of the Ecole Spetloiale Militaire, at Saint -Cyr, 7 .. 01 any apparent cause or motiv e for discontents . till tho the most vociferous cries, and continued them, of W' of bed-time. The G en er a l in comman n ig t tie school inflicted punishment on the most violeu r s* st IV next morning issued an order of the day, veal ibeit pupils against listening to the suggestions .S s oli comrades exciting them to r e b e l, which, he sal , itioce! compromise their future su c c ess in life. Thi s ~40 a calm for the rest of that d a y un t i l the eveni n g s ' $ i ttr the riot was renewed, and w as re p e ated again ; n ook" day morning. Two of the adjutants Wert" e r down. The General sent an ac coun t o f what "T o . n sfer ing to the Minister of War, wh o re t ur ned dire e b. n d till, the whole School to be confined t o th e ir rooms, an thei chief culprits to be put under clos e arrest. „u n „ V, could be brought before the Cou nc il DiseiPt„ ll ' ift General was authorised to call in an artnecil ° 74l . solutely indispensable, informing the Pulnl e tile Minister would break up the School entirely I ,' . 0 00 0 ..: not immediately return to their duty. On n:L et iAl e mendation of the Council of Discipline, the ?"; tot I .ordered five of the pupils to be expelled, and s e lo elne . such of the regiments as they voluntarily agre ed The Montpellier and Nismes Railroad Was vr the 9th inst. ,„or tsb' A royal ordonnance has been published, e s an octroi duty in the sea-ports of Algeria. e ,? A letter from Oran gives the following 0 s . , $ of the battle of Isly ..—" At a critical monitl p the battle a battalion, being hard pr ess ed by W e e,' ge , cavalry, found it necessary to for m it se lf in scl u rsPl . ...'" seeing the front rank kneel, the Morocco: 11 10 1 ;g quainted with our tactics, fancied that our soluPp praying for quarter, and wish e d t o surr ender. _ A , all acts of aggression, the body of cavalry caur s o . l4 up, expecting only to receive th e arms of 951 soners. The commanding officer of the corr. ° 00, 4 4 saw the enemy's misconception, and kept w i ' t llo l l 4 . their position till the Morocco tro o p s c a me w4 s 6 paces of the front of the b a ttali on , w h en slem c br charge at point blank taught th em th a t the t re d :1 not accustomed to surrender so readily." , r i o gt In a long statistical account, i n one o f the part of the number of persons in F rance accus ed of pi/ of poisoning, from 1830 to 1842 inclusively, We bil ,r following result: :—The n um b er accuse d - rit ui d e 4 these 251 were acquitted • 65 condemned t°,' . i . j? whom 37 were executed, ' and 28 had Ol ei ti ot p ments commuted ; 138 sentenced to hard la be . l o hulks for life, and 58 for various limited ter'', - minor punishment. Of the total 541, 295 wer e bi. 246 women ; but the poisoning of husbands b l k,ei p i wives were more numerous thin of wives • 1,1 is to/ husbands. To the total number of 541 there , j 6 who have been tried and condemned in us e! appearance. It is necessary to • add two reor g I t s ,his sad account, viz. :—ln the ten years frea l , ‘ , 1839 inclusively there were 200, and in the t b I • e' from 1840 to 1842 there wer e 113 ascertain boo' # poisoning, the perpetrators of which have ne ye i covered. From the - whole statement, it is P re p l) o : i this crime in France has' bee n l a tt er ly g reatly 0 , I crease. _ L i f r O The Austrian Government has decided 14 "" a 01 01 1 / exhibition 'of articles of industry shall be ilg, Vienna, on May 15, and continue to July 15 of 4, sent year. Jr i A deliberation was held on M on d a y at til e d ment of Agriculture and Commerce, for the P forming the Commission that is to distribute p 0 on the 23d instant, at the mar k e t o f P o i s sy t t° o gii of cattle, in conformity with t h e Mi n i s terial i . 1 1 March, 1843. The oxen ar e t o b e di v ided "'I i classes, the first having four primes of 1,200 . 4 00 4 800 f., and 600 f. ; the second, thr ee of 'l,ooof.t A O 'l 700 f. ; and the third, three of 8004 700 f ., - 1 Sheep are to be divided into two' elasoe l 9 3 ook which is to have four prizes o f f rom 600 f. to o 1,. is at this great market that th e t wo b oeu f gills . , purchased. SAW Awn Powell. uni ..0 d In the Court of Commo n Pl eas , th e L or d .017: announced that their Lord s hip s wou ld on Nt°'' take the appeals. ellf The action of " Westa wa y v . Fi r ki ns ," was t- fi Ir 0 Mr. Baron Rolfe, in the Court of Exchequer' fendant was a beer-shop keeper, and the ac tion if assault and battery. The defendant pleaded 0 plaintiff was making a disturban ce , an d that b e used more violence than was necessary to es shop. It appeared, from the ev id ence , th a t tibias had behaved in the most disgusting manner , , r , •, list" insulted defendant's family, f or w hi c h he , i, thrashing. The jury fOund for the defenda . ,,nt"4oii Burford, the keeper of the Old D ru ry ' 11 1.014 married the widow of "Duteh S am ," the pug"' 0 Wednesday examined before Mr. Commission e f o iel in the Court of Bankruptcy. The case war eOO asmuch as it was at the alleged instigation j 0 r,,0 that he was arrested. The wif e was exist:oloy appeared that she conducted th e b us i nes s, sI i o pely bankrupt had been in the habit of taking 02,, or the till and spending it. M r . Nicholson, the :of was chosen assignee. The final examination o f Th omas Griffithe4 Waldrop for forging a c h eque i n t h e name Of ° l 4 , the fishmonger, took pl ace at th e Mansion-ho' -1 were fully committed for trial. Edward Hamer, was brought up in cust°4 l o . o r street, charged with stealing nine balls of a tm .1/ board from the parlour of the Gordon A i r' house, in Holborn. There were several c l3 , * elji ' similar nature against him. He was remandearoe le At Southwark Wm, Camplin, the O A * 5 0 ,0 550 dealer, of Star- corner , B ermon d sey, remandedj Wednesday, for violati ng t h e person o f Jane fo r t hi e a girl under 13 years of age, was brought , uP . ss ,lor mination, and committed for trial on the caP I, NO, e. ou sot • r audUZioIa,,I,AAA. )( Ci, The Marquis and Marchioness of Doug l as'., 4;4 1 Mary of Baden) arrived at their new residet7 naught-place, on Tuesday, for the season- i l ee/ The Marquis and Marchioness of Ely gin v I n f ~, Jo . Loftus have left town on a visit to the Duk ° - :or rough, at Blenheim Castle. iO IIOP 4'' The Marquis and M a r c hi oness o f Blew „, "' „ ' l7 making a tour of visits in Ireland. Lailie.s The Dowager Countess of S e ft on an d the t . neux are expected to l eave Arli n gt o n- stree t $ ;1 0 0 of the month for Stoke Farm, near Wiiidsor . tr o w Viscount Ossulston has arrived in South' s b as tour of visits. The Countess of Tankerville , in Lower Grosvenor-street. . $„ ltiV Viscount and Viscountess Grimston' ' w .. .: 4 0."; Id on a visit to the Earl and C oun t ess o f Are" - ,Sfir hambury, have arrived at Bath. or ,14 His Excellency the French Ambaega d e r, Countess de St. Aulaire entertained at &Ili, day evening, L o rd F o l e y an d t h e Hon. ro e, 0 / Lord Dufferin, Count a nd C oun t ess de / 11 i rg, moiselle de Chabot, C o u n t an d Countess e, " ' 4 Count de la Grange, Mon s i eur d e l a Belintil ... o br i l de Rebaudy, &c. 0 eoh.V. Count Louis de Noailles h as l e ft the xre oi „if on a visit to the Earl and Countess of Ese elc ' Ir • 1 0 bury Park, Herts. vie ls , The ion. F. Charteris has repaired on * is Stanley, at Haggerstone Castle. ~r i fei The Hon. Mr. William Cavendish has a"" -t , " grave-square from Brighton. "JO . .7 ', Sir William and Lady Georgians. `-'-- s . . 00 . 1 arrived at Bath. ' ' 4 1 6XISCESLANNOIrgi' e . to of ‘ P ajo4 The inquest en the body of Mr. MAY , ' - ‘rbe * f ont/ green, has been brought to a conclusion. . t he .07 is the verdict returned:—" Found dead 111 00. 01,P , the Regent's Canal, with marks of violenceed. but how or by w h at means d ea th was eau' conclusive evidence." * VI P : s li It is acid that P res id en t Tyler, of th e 04 l i iit and his lady, will v i s it thi s country hi'l lia 'so 0 neind From the report for the week ending o I. l s r, r appears th a t th e to t a l num b er o f deaths ^ e . ctgies 1,098 of th ese occurre d w ith ou t violen ° s ' o ol"S I A from diseases of the respiratory organ ° jt 1 , 1 0 . 1 1 10/ 406; and those from small-pox to 50 0E bill", Jr worthy of observation that the number ._ A ye , metropolis during the same period by 202. ~,, 0, fil, -T-..., ,„ A. 14/ , hi p P ELEVATION OF SIR CHARLES JUN''' . te Pl' so c o t ti t o PEERAGE.—We have authority to ~ 1 aged site Queen has been graciously pe- sib- / peerage on Sir Charles Metcalfe, b i l , p il; b e exceea' , - 0 0 Baron Metcalfe, of Fern Hill.—Her ts Tlfe A , ATTEMPT TO POISON.—MANCIINs ° I 3 derTA This morning a man named Benjamin_ 001 . 0 01#70? was brought up on Tuesday last, at t'll„ is" %e upon the charge of having attempted f u rthe r ir bl i and two children, was brought up fo r t u f ) lci°.e d bicti, se (ion. The prisoner, who is a ferociou s- in -40 eo e appeared quite unmoved at the situatin r !_ ee e' f ill A l Wicti I,a fi .OK, stood, and had lost the vacant stare w- - r, , - o p , .v on the occasion of his first examination•__Aattoetare previously adduced went the length of sh°' ctif 0 1 01 of lead had b een f ound i n some viler i ll ,: wife ii _. r ' the prisoner's house, and that gee, peisen er si edt d oSte cognised it in a basin of tee w:iieli she 01 "..0 .7 0 also proved that the prisoner had been se d Pots ens* ~r au Jed , s i ..1 thing in the cupboard where the sugar ' o ee c lirl found, and the reason ,- ,f his being r - _h e re A l e . • order that the police ilaight ascertain wwiele;0010;$1. he had purchased t', e poison. 311.'43e:he et t 6 ete l e ' superintendent of police, having dra i cro f .of fot the Court io ttie case, called Mr. Jam Frleed de , of Pollard-street, who stated hf i _.. 01 el - fle ! d oe week the prisoner came into his s _u_i w or., ; pry pennyworth of sugar of lead o fo f r ie el d : girog ge;:o 9 : e l oo rl the prisoner an ounce of sugar p e sonefj e w its,ilv''„. ,„r He bivl no C.otibt but that the he word _ .. 4 cross-exainination by Mr. Harding, 1 " .. rols n 'i IP" did not mark the paper with t . , . & ,sht Pv prisoner was pool Assizes. fully committed for MP .. ' 3 / 4 4 t '1 to li;', th e the