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the friendly relations between France and England, had deeply agitated the two countries, and called for all the attention of our Government. We are well pleased to learn that a reciprocal sentiment of good feeling and equity has maintained betwee n the two States that happy accord which is so important both to their prosper it y and to the repose of the world." To this paragraph, M. Leon de Malleville moved the following amendment : "We are happy to learn that the accord so necessary to the repose of the world has been maintained between the two States, but we regret that, in granting a repara tion which was not due, the rules of justice and recipro city, which France shall always respect, were not suffi ciently taken into account?' M. Leon de Malleville, having been called to the tri bune to develop his amendment, said that the Chamber having granted a Bill of indemnity to the Ministry on the ensemble of its policy, the amendment he pro posed was not directed against its existence ; his in tention was merely to examine the question, in itself a question which had wounded to such a degree the national susceptibility—he meant the indemnity awarded to M. Pritchard, which he did not hesitate to declare the country was unanimous in reproving.— (" No, no," on the Ministerial benches.) He then en tered into considerations to prove that no cordial alliance should prevail between Great Britain and France with out a perfect reciprocity, and on that condition alone was he a partisan of that alliance. M. de Malleville protested his high respect for the work of the English missionaries who had initiated the savages of Oceania in a knowledge of the doctrine of Christ, and in the arts of civilization ; but M. Pritchard, in his eyes, was no missionary ; he was a mere trader, an intriguer, the mayor of the Palace of Queen Pomare, the King of Ota heite. All the French authorities in the Pacific spoke in high terms of the English missionaries, M. Pritchard alone excepted. M. Malleville had blamed the establish ment of the French at Otaheite, because he had foreseen all the obstacles and complications that occupation would produce t • but once the French flag hoisted on that islasd, h e had felt it imperative to defend its honour and dignity. He then described all the circumstances that had preceded and followed the arrest of M. Pritchard. M. Pritchard, he said, was no longer an English Con sul ; he had remained at Otaheite as a spy on the French ; he had had many opportunities to proceed to his new residence, but he had no doubt received in structions from his Government to remain at a post where he had rendered, and could yet render, such im portant services. •M. Malleville next proceeded to con demn the manner in which the negotiations relative to Otaheite had been conducted in London and Paris, and e ntreated the Members of the House , who two days before wished to save the existence of the Ministry, to vote for his amendment, and thereby save the dignity of the conntry. M. Peyramont rose to reply. He combated the amend ment, because it implied that nothing was due to England, and that England had been wanting in good feeling and equity towards France. This meant, in his opinion, that the indemnity agreed to be paid to Mr. Pritchard should not be paid by the Ministry which would succeed the present Administration. The majority of the Committee on the Address, of which he had been a member, ren dered entire justice to the equity and good feeling of England throughout that affair, and it had determined to insert that conviction in the Address. M. Peyramont then proceeded to justify the conduct of the Ministry, amidst the murmurs of the Opposition. M. Odillon Barret, who followed, referred to what had occurred at the close of the last session, when a Minister of Great Britain had declared in Parliament that an insult, a gross outrage. had been offered to the honour of England. Had the French Cabinet, he asked, responded to that expression. which, to say the least of it' was imprudent, either by recriminations or other wise ? No ! Atter examining the events of which Otaheite had been the theatre, he protested on his soul and conscience, in presence of the facts, of the docu ments submitted to the assembly, and the declarations of the Minister fur Foreign Affairs, that the disavowal of M. d'Aubigny and the indemnity granted to M. Prit chard, were not, as asserted in the Address ;conformable to equity. He then painted M. Pritchard as the author of all the caleniities that had fallen on tho French at Otaheite. He had remained there without any official character, to prevent Queen Pomare from returning among her subjects and restoring peace ; —he remained there to give time to his agents to kindle the fire of revolt ; and when this object had been attained, lie was preparing to quit • the island in the darkness of night, when M. d'Aubigny found it his duty, under the apprehension of approaching danger; to arrest the fugitive ; and although the guilt of the latter was so evident that the Ministry itself was obliged to admit it, it leas the unfortunate officer who had adopted that indispensable measure fur the security of hie command who had been visited with a disavowal, and the wretch, the promoter of the revolt, at whose in stigation murder and incendiarism pervaded the island, was to receive compensation, because he had been de tained during a, few days a prisoner ; and so degrading a concession had been demanied and exacted in the face of Europe from noble France ! M. Odillon Barrot said, that he would willingly choose the English people for judge in the affair ; and he hail so high an opinion of their good sense that he was sure they would not view the affair in the light it had' been viewed by a French Ministry. In concluding, he declared that there was no equity, no reciprocity, in granting an indemnity to the instigator of a war of savages against civilisation, par ticularly under the threats which had been preferred from the British tribune. M. Guizot was in possession of the tribune at the hour of post. RAILWAYS. ------- The report of the Board of Trade published in the Gazette of Friday night, relative to railways, caused some little fluctuation in the value of the shares of the several lines alluded to. Newcastle and Berwick im proved to and left off at 111 to 12-, premium, being a considerable rise on previous prices. Few of the Irish lines are yet quoted, and hence no great alteration was perceptible in them, but still the decision of the Board is regarded as favourable to those securities. The Eastern Counties did not suffer much, for although they opened rather flat on Saturday morning, their final quotation was much the same as on Friday. The shareholders in this company, notwithstanding the rejection of the Colchester and Bury branch, do not seem to be the least fearful of their success in the Cambridge and Lincoln and the York struggle, which accounts tor the firmness with which the stock is supported. They stand .on the opinion that the policy of the Government is Con servative, and that every support will bo given by the Board of Trade to existing lines which can show a fair claim to increased traffic, in preference to deluging the public with competitive undertakings—a system likely, in the long run, to be productive of mischief, not only in share speculations, but also in the ultimate ad vantages to be derived from railway communication. Eastern Counties, in consequence. still remain 18 to 18i; and Cambridge and Lincoln, 2 to 21 premium. The market in other respects was fairly steady, and a large amount of business was trail -acted. There was hardly so much done in the French securities on Saturday as hitherto, but considering the present state of excitement connected with our own projects, and the near approach of the Parliamentary session, when all will be bustle and confusion in the matter, this is not very extraordinary.. Another circumstance against an extended business in these securities is the very high value they already bear for newly recognised schemes in our market. The monthly returns of the French railways shoW an amount of nearly 50,0004 fur December on 289 miles of railway. At the corresponding period of the previous year the amount was only 37,0001. The increase is stated partly to arise from additional lines opened, but exclusive of these sources the advance per month over last year amounts to 7.0001., or 18 per cent. The follow ing are the French lines not yet opened, but now tinder course of construction:—Amiens and Boulogne, 79 miles, by Laffitte and Co.; Avignon and Marseilles, 72 miles, by Talabot and Co.; Orleans and Bordeaux, 300 miles, by Mackenzie and Co.; Orleans and Centre, 51 miles, by the Orleans Company; Paris and Sceaux, 6i miles, by Arnoux and Co.; Rouen and Havre, 57 miles, by Laffitte and Co.— Times. A commercial case has been submitted to us with a request for an answer. The writer, it appears, has had some produce consigned to him by a correspondent in India. This correspondent has drawn bills against the consignment, and has handed to the party purchasing the bills the shipping documents as a security, such documents to be delivered to the consignee on payment of the bills, either under discount or at maturity. The bills are presented and accepted, " payable if accom panied by such shipping documents." On the arrival of the ship, which takes place before the bills become due, the owner of the bills applies to the consignee to retire his acceptances. The consignee replies that he will do so, when he requires the property against which the goods are drawn, the property being held as security against the acceptances. The holder of the bills re joins that the acceptances must be retired at once (under discount at the bank rate), or he will pass entry for the goods, and charge two per cent. commission for so doing. The question is, whether he has a right to take this step. This case we have referred to experienced parties in the City, and the opinion seems to be that the Bolder of the bills has clearly no right to proceed in the manner described above until the bills have arrived at maturity. Even if the bills were already due, and had been dishonoured, it seems very doubtful that the holder, after effecting a sale to reimburse himself, could make any charge in the shape of commission. The question is, however, more fitted for a professioaal adviser than for a public journal.— T • unc:. WINDSOR, SUNDAY Ev ENING. —Arrangements have just been made for the departure of the Court from the Castle for Buckingham Palace, on Monday, the 3d of February, the day before the assembling of Parliament, which will be opened by h er M a j esty in person. On the following Saturday, according to present arrangements, her Majesty and the Prince Consort w ill l eave town for the Pavilion at Brighton, where the Court is expected to remain for about a fortnight o r three weeks. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal, and the Princess Alice, will proce e d to Brighton.❑ on Saturday next, under the care of the Dowag er - Lads' Lyttleton, the preceptress to the Princess Royal. It is at present uncertain whether the infant Prince Alfred will leave the Castle for the Pavilion at the same time, or accompany his royal and illustrious parents to Buck ingham Palace, and proceed thence to Brighton, on t h e Sib proximo. THE NEW CHANCERY COURT OF 14 ANC ASHIRE.— The new Vice-Chancellor sat for the first time last week. As confined to the county of Lancaster it possesses equal powers to the High Court of Chancery of England, and the expenses to suitors is not greater, if so great, as in the higher Court. In the event of any reduction in the ;expenses of this Court, with a Vice-Chancellor of the legal acquirements of r. Horace Tw . is s we look for ward to a speedy WI) eto its pract i ce .—Bolton Free 4 ••,... ' '. 1 . 17-V7 tZ a In the press, A NEW NOVEL. would be at liberty to refuse the indemnity at its risk and peril. The persons who, in order to become Minis ters, blame the indemnity of Mr. PRITCHARD, under take to refuse it in case they should replace the present Cabinet; for it would not be possible for them, unless and certainly of some of the most intrepid and in dustrious of his countrymen, could not have fallen into bands that might be expected to use it more liberally or beneficially than those of Mr. MATHESON. But this gentleman will seldom receive, we appre hend, a more honourable or a less equivocal testimony to his public and private character than is pourtrayed in every line of the address from the borough of Ash burton. Two thousand of the poorer, but assuredly not of the least intelligent, of his constituents, sub scribe their humble mites to purchase a snuff-box ; and this they present to him with that warm and even enthusiastic expression of their respect and gratitude which we this day bring under the notice of our readers. We abstain from further commentary upon it—only because it speaks so emphatically for itself, to the honour of those from whom it emanates, and of him to whom it is addressed. Mr. MATHESON'S answer is one of genuine acknowledgment, such as was due to so genuine a compliment. He accepts their present in the language of a man deeply sensible how much the manner of a graceful act may enhance the matter ; and with equal good taste and generosity receives their souvenir, as if it had been a diamond studded box transmitted from a crowned head. It is evident that he rightly appreciates, above the price of all the jewels that could have decked it, the "good will towards him," of which it is the token. 'We have been particularly struck by the considerate sen timent, forcibly and happily expressed in this passage of his answer. " The testimony in question," he says, " is the more gratifying from the manner in which it has been arranged; for, first, it is a source of satis faction to me to know that none of the contributors have been put to inconvenience by the share they have borne in it ; and, secondly, the large number of those who have joined in presenting me this gift is the best possible proof of the - unanimity of feeling which suggested it, and the harmony of opinion which it is designed and intended to convey." On the progress of free trade, " meaning thereby the abolition of all merely protective duties," he ex presses his entire concurrence in the sentiments of his constituents—holding its practical establishment to be calculated for the certain benefit of the world. at large ; but, for the especial and palpable advantage of Great Britain, from the nature of her present position and relations, he deems it would as surely operate, as-he conceives it to be absolutely essential This very important topic is handled with all the effect which might have been expected from a gentleman of his large experience and high practical authority. But the views he announces as to the vital exigencies that call, on all hands, for the most extended diffusion of the blessings of edu cation, are such as must ratify, to the latest period of their connexion, the claims upon their affection and regard which Mr. MATIIESON has evidently established among the townspeople of Ashburton. He alludes to the crime, disease, and misery still operating in England, and to their causes ; and he remarks that—" For these evils, education, intellectual, moral, and religious, with training to habits and practices as well as professions of good, will be found the most effectual cure." He concludes by exhorting his friends to bring up their children in liberal principles. It is not , likely they will forget an ; admonition given by a gentleman who in his own person has nobly illustrated the influence of those principles on character. ,Of his response to the honest and fervent wishes expressed in the address, for the continuedihappiness of himself and his lady, it is unnecessary for us to say more than that they breathe the same open and friendly spirit as the rest of his reply ; but we have rarely perused two documents of so muchhigher and more earnest a cha racter than those elicited in the usual routine of such affairs ; and we have only to add our humble feli citations to those of Mr. MATHESON'S Ashburton 'fiends. He well deserves them. BY THE AUTHOR OF "CECIL Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. Orders received at all the Libraries. 13, Great Marlborough-street. MARSHAL MARMONT'S WORK on the SPIRIT of MILITARY INSTITUTIONS, addressed to the FRENCH ARMY, will appear in the " UNITED SERVICE MA GAZINE" for February 1. Orders received by all Booksellers. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. they became models of roguery, and an object of public contempt, to find honourable for themselves what they find blameable in the others. Therefore, to condemn the indemnity of Mr. PIITCRLRD to-day is to promise to refuse it to-morrow. But is there a Cabinet bold, rash, and foolish enough to commence MRS. HOWITT'S NEW WORK. Jest ready, In 3 vols., post Bvo. T HE IMPROVISATORE; Or, LIFE IN ITALY. From the Danish. By MRS. HOWITT. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. • by a rupture with England, and to sacrifice for three fourths. of a score of thousand francs, perhaps the prosperity of France and the peace of the world ? We do not hesitate to say no 1 This question, there fore, of the indemnity of Mr. PRITCHARD is not by any means serious, since it could not b. got rid of but by a rupture with England, and every one feels that such a question is not worth such an extremity." The Opposition journals, in commenting on the defeat of their party, are much divided in opinion. The Constitutionnel says nothing is decided by the vote. It is only an adjournment, not a victory. The writer adds :—" It is said, indeed, that some of the THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. THIS EVENING Will be repeated Balfe's Grand Opera, THE DAUGHTER OF ST. MARK. lusignano, Mr. Hardin' ; Adolphe de Courcy, Mr. W. Harrison ; Catarina Cornaro, Miss Rainforth. After which will be repeated the Grand Christmas Harlequinade, called PUCK'S PANTOMIME ; or, Harlequin and Robinson Crusoe. Robinson Crusoe, Mr. W. H. Payne ; Clown, Mr. T. Matthews ; Pantaloon, Mr. Howell ; Harlequin, Mr. Wieland ; Columbine, Miss Carson. The. Box-office is open daily, from Tan in the Morning until Six in the Evening, where Private and Family Boxes, Stalls, I laces, and T - ckets may be had on application to Mr. John Parsons. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. LESSEE, MR. B. WEBSTER. 59th Night of " GM Heads and Young Hearts." THIS EVENING Will be repeated a New and Original Comedy, in Five Acts, entitled OLD HEADS AND YOUNG HEARTS. Colonel Rocket, Mr. Strickla..d ; Littleton Coke, Mr. Charles Mathews ; Torn Coke, Mr. Webster ; Bob, Mr. Buckstone ; Jesse Rural, Mr. W. Farrell ; the Countess of Pompion, Mrs. W. Cliford ; Lady Alice Hawthorn, Madame Vestris ; Miss Rocket, Miss Julia Ben. ett. After which, a New Grand Masi - cal Fairy Extravaganza, entitled GRACIOSA AND PERCINET. King Uxorius, Mr. J. Bland ; Princess Graciosa, Miss Julia Bennett; Percinet, Miss P. Horton ; Duchess Grognon, Mrs. Stanley. To conclude with a Grand MOVING DIORAMA ; or, PICTORIAL TOUR IN SWITZERLAND. Private Boxes, Two Guineas and One Guinea and a-Ralf each. Tickets and 'laces to be had of Mr. I. T. Archer, at the Box-office, from Ten till Five o'clock. majority thought the amendment was too general, and conceived that, by adopting it, they would be con- demning some of their former votes, and, therefore, re• served their disapprobation and their black balls for special amendments, more directly aimed at the faults committed. The game is not won by the Cabinet; the balloting urn is like the urn of destiny ; there are _ _ seen to come out of it all the alternations of fortune— unexpected defeat, unhoped for success, and sudden returns. Be it so. We, in fact, shall not think that the Chamber has given its final fiat in this discussion THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. UNDER THE DIRECTION OF MADAME CELESTE. Sccond Night of a New and Original Drama, by the Author of " Wreak Ashore," " Victorine," &c. THIS EVENING Will be, repeated a. New and Original Drama, entitled THE GREEN BUSHES ; or, A Hundred Years Ago. Connor O'Kennedy, Mr. Selby ; George, Mr. Hudson : Wild Murtogh, Mr. 0. Smith ; Muster Grinnidgo, Mr. Wright ; Jack Gong, Mr. Paul Bedford ; Geraldine, Mrs. Yatel ; Nelly O'Neill, Mrs. Fitzwilliam ; Miami, Madame Celeste. After which, THE CORPORAL'S WEDDING; or, a Kiss of the Bride. Sir Felix Marmalade, Mr. !Judson ; Major Griskin, Mr. Selby ; Lady Arethusa Gr ski-4 Mrs. Frank Matthews ; ancy Cobb, Miss Woolger. To conclude with THE CHIME 4. Toby Veck, Mr. 0. Smith ; Alderman Cute, Mt. Wright ; Tugby, Mr. Wilkinson ; Sir Joseph Bowley, Bart., Mr. Paul Bedford ; Will Fern, Mr. Hudson ; Richard, Mr. Selby ; Meggy Veck, Miss Fortescue ; Mrs. Chickenstalker, Mrs. Frank Matthews. Prompter, Mr. Gallot ; Principal Painter, Mr. Pitt ; Leader of the Band, Mr. Mellon: Box-office open from Eleven till Four. Private Boxes to be had at the Theatre, and at all the principal Libraries. untill we see the Address voted." The Courrier Francais cannot see any grounds for consolation, and thus laments the result : " It is all over ; we believe in the eternity of the Mi nistry of October 29. It had against it three weighty questions—Morocco, Otaheite, and the right of search, in which the amendment stated that it had failed in forethought and firmness. Never had so heavy an accu mulation of faults awl shame weighed on a Cabinet, never had the heart of a nation reproved more energetically an ensemble of Ministerial acts. In fine, men considered in the two Chambers as the highest from their position, experience, and talent, have spoken against it, whereas its defence has been marked by a feebleness to surprise even its adversaries. And it triumphs ! Each fault strengthens, and each shame confirms it ; the pri vilege of impunity belongs to it ; let it then be invulnerable, immortal, immoveable, since so the Chamber wills. For us, it suffices that it be well understood that the majority of the national repre sentation only serves to cover with a Bill of indemnity a deplorable system of government which the country con drams ; that the Ministry at present has no longer any need of the power of eloquence to colour the disgrace of its policy; without rhetorical artifices, without display of eloquence, without any exaggerated expenditure of sophism, flat, dry, and naked, the policy of October 29 is welcomed amongst the majority." The Quotidienne exclaims " Hurrah for England ! M. Guizot triumphs ! The ballot has shown the presence of 422 Members of whom 197 only consented to recognise that the policy of the systeme has not been prevoyante, has not been ferrite. For, alas! it is in these terms that the Opposition has been confined by the intrigue ; consequently, the Ministerial majority is 28. Let us confess that there is in this vote of the majority a good sense, which is alarming, no doubt, but at the same time incontestable. It has been told from every point of the dynastic horizon that the English alliance is necessary; that for the young esta blishment there is no other ; that Austria is indifferent, Prussia disdainful, Russia hostile ; that no Ministry can or dare reject the entente cordiale." The National attributes the result to the timidity of M. SALVANDY, and some other friends of M. Durausta, and looks forward to better days:— " M. Guizot has been . the conqueror ; 422 Members have taken part in the ballot. Only 212 votes were re quired to save the Cabinet —it had 225, thirtern more than the absolute majority. The Opposition only got to gether 197 votes, so that it had a relative inferiority of 28. We know well that this is not enormous, that fifteen individuals in changing position could overturn the Mi- . nistry. We know that at the last moment some Depu ties, further in the intrigue than others, withdrew with out voting. We know that MM. de Salvandy, Lepelle tier d'Aulnay, Lasnier, and some other friends of M. Dufaure, refused to apply to the conduct of the Ministry a general and absolute blame ! Say what you please, arrange figures, seek for consolations, the 'fact is there— M. Guizot has triumphed ! But now that this paltry duel of personal pretensions is decided, let generous voices at last arise to say the whole truth to the country; let the discussion assume proportions worthy of the af fairs of a great people. Leave the majority in their litter, speak to France and for France as one speaks of what is durable, as that which must increase, in spite of this unwholesome policy, to which the unthinking cling, without seeing that each day pushes it closer to its tomb." " Several manifestations have been made at Geneva against the Jesuits. Popular meetings have been held. A petition, invested with 2,500 signatures, has been addressed to the Grand Council, and referred to the Council of State. The speeches delivered by the Presi dent of the Grand Council and by the First Syndic at the ceremony of Dec. 31 leave no doubt of the opposition of the two first bodies of the State to the introduction of the Society of Jesus into the canton of Lucerne, and we have every reason to be persuaded that when the moment shall have come Geneva will not be last to adopt, and even to solicit, the necessary decrees for keeping this scourge at a distance from Switzerland." A letter from Vienna, January 17, in the Journal de Frankfort, says:— " To-day the Archduke Albert was formally invested with the command of the troops of Upper and Lower Austria. Field-Marshal Baron de Wimpfen, the prede cessor of the Archduke Albert in the superior command of Upper and Lower Austria, presented the general and superior officers to his Royal • Highness, who received them most graciously. THE BOURSE --FRIDAY, JAN. 24. PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. LEdBEE, MR. J. M. MADDOX. THIS EVENING Will be repeated THE CASTLE OF AYMON ; or, The Four Brothers. Baron de Beaumanoir, Mr. Walton ; Olivier, Mr. Allen ; Allard, Mr. C. Horn, Jun. ; Richard, Mr. Ilime ; Renaud, Mr. Mattacks ; Ivon, Mr. Leffler ; Hermine, Mdlle. Helen Condell ; Clara, Miss Brentnall ; Yolande, Miss E. Homier; Eglantine, Miss O'Connor ; Gertrude, Mrs. Fosbroke. After which, Miss Coletti will perform Mendelshon's Concerto in D Minor. To be followed by DON C.ESAR DE BAZAN. Don Cesar "de Bazan, Mr. Wallack ; 3faritana, Mrs. Stirling. To conclude with HIGH LIFE BELOW STAIRS. Stage Manager, Mr. H. I. Wallack t Stage Director, Mr. Emden ; Machinist, Mr. Edmund Bradwell. THEATRE ROYAL, LYCEUM. UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MRS. KEELEY. Last Week of " The Chimes." • THIS EVENING Will be repeated THE CHIMES. Principal Characters by Messrs. F. Vining, Meadows, Diddear, F. Matthews, Collier, Emery, Turner, and Keeley ; Miss Walcott, Mrs. Woollidge, Miss Grove; and' Mrs. Keeley. ' After which, a New Farce, entitled A MODEL OF A WIFE. Principal Characters by Messrs. A.. Wigan, F. Matthews, and Mea dows ; Miss Walcott. and Miss Fairbrother. To conclude with VALENTINE AND ORSON. Principal Cha racters by Messrs. F. Matthews, Meadows, Wigan, Collier, Turner, Kimloch, Yarnold, and Keeley ; Mrs. Wigan, Miss Arden, Miss Fair brother, Miss Grove, Mrs. Woollidge, Miss James, Miss Turner, and Mrs. Keeley. Unequalled Success of ASTLtT'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. PROPRIETOR, MR. W. BATTY. First Week of the Southern American Minstrels. THIS EVENING Will be repeated THE ROYAL FOX HUNT ;.introducing a Real Foxtchase on the Stage, by Living Fox.and Real Pack of noun& To be followed by the Melodies of the American Southern Minstrels. Entire Change in the Circle:—Unequalled Feats of Horsemanship. To conclude with the Pantomime of HARLEQUIN JOHNNY GILPIN'S RIDE; or, The. Black Witch of Edmonton. Johnny Gilpin, Mr. Wells ; ClOwn, Mr. parry ; Pantaloon, Mr. Bradbury ; Harlequin, Mr. Lewis ; Columbine, Mrs. J. W. Collier. Acting and Stage Manager, Mr. D. W. Broadfoot. The Madrid Gazette of the 18th inst. publishes an account of the Three per Cent. Debentures issued between the 16th and 31st of December hut, in consequence of the liquidation and conversion of credits created by contracts, Treasury bonds, and the centralised floating debt. The amount of these securi ties is 36,171,562 reals. Among the Court gossip in the Madrid journals, is an account of a grand din ner given by the French Ambassador to General NARYAEZ, Mr. BULWER, General Colic KA, and others. We are glad to find from these papers that a pardon has been granted to General Famt, who had been so unjustly condemned . by the evidence of persons not entitled to credit. The following decree appears in the Gazette of the 19th : In the exercise of the prerogative granted to me by the 46th article of the Constitution, and by the advice of my Council of Ministers, I remit he penalty to which Major-General Don Juan Prim, Count de Reus, was condemned by a court-martial composed of General Officers. " Given at the Palace on the 18th of Jan., 184,5 and signed with the Queen's hand." _ ---- An extraordinary courier had been sent off to Cadiz .o Announce the news to General num, who was in prison at that place. He is allowed to return to Madrid. The Three per Cents. closed at 31} for cash, and 31i at 60 days; the Five per Cents. at 23 for the 14th of March; .the Coupons at 271 at 60 days; and the Debt without interest, at 7 3.16 at 60 days. First Ilixhest Lowest Leal Price. Price. Price. Price. French Five perCenta•• •• 121 90 .. 121 90 .. 121 85 .. 121 25 Fours ..•• •••• •• •• •• 10 . 8 .. 108 108 .. 108 The French Chamber of Deputies was occupied on Friday and Saturday in discussing the Address. Two more amendments were proposed—one on Friday by M. DE BRAUMONT, expressing a wish that the Cham ber could have congratulated themselves, without re serve, on the speedy re-establishment of peace and the brilliant success of French arms, and another by M. DE ISIALLEYILLE, objecting to an indemnity to Mr. PRITCHARD. The discussion on this amendment was not brought to a close when the post left, but it was generally understood that it would be rejected. The discussion on the motion of M. DE BEAUMONT was chiefly interesting from the speech made by Marshal I3UGEAUD, justifying the course pursued by Government in settling the Morocco war. When he first read the treaty he ad mitted that some of the clauses did not appeared to him satisfactory. He blamed the stipu lation relative to Ann-EL-KADER, and the absence of guarantees ; but subsequent events in Morocco had since convinced him that the Government had perhaps acted more wisely. The EMPEROR would not have been free to execute the conditions of the treaty, particularly as respected ABn-EL-KADER—that powerful enemy, that man of genius, who would not leave any repose to the French so long as he should have a soldier left. Marshal BUGBAUD confessed that he had been surprised by the attack of the Moors, for nothing announced any serious hostility on that side. He had, however, soon collected his detached forces, and might not at first have been sufficiently strong to march upon Fez, but, after the victory of Isly, when the Moorish army had been completely dispersed, he could have advanced on that city without any great obstacle ; the heat alone presented serious difficulties, for the day after the battle (August 16) the thermometer ranged 47 degrees in the shade (116 of Fahrenheit). Ile then described the immense works executed by the army in Algeria and the results obtained by the expeditions undertaken into the interior of the regeacy, in a com mercial point of view, urged the necessity of perse vering in the military system pursued of late, and declared that with 100,000 men judiciously employed the colonization of Algeria would proceed more rapidly and satisfactorily. M. ST. MARC GIRARDIN, lately one of the editors of the Journal des Debats, followed the Marshal, and spoke strongly in favour of the amendment. The speeches made by BUGEAUD and GIRARDIN are given at length in another part of the paper. The amend ment was rejected without a division. The result of the division on the PRITCHARD indemnity excited some interest. A strong party it was said would oppose any vote whatever, and if Ministers had a majority, it would be very small. The defeat of M. Guizoy on this point is extremely improbable, a s it would place the aspirants to office in rather an awkard predicament. The case is thus placed in its true light by the Ministerial Globe :—" There is re lative to the eventual indemnity of Mr. PRITCHARD a little piece of very simple :reasoning, which we re commend to all who are blinded by the desire of being Ministers. The pi' esent Cabinet is pledged to the Cabinet of London to give Mr. PRITCHARD an equitable indemnity, not for his expulsion from Ota heite, but for the uselessly severe treatment which he underwent, and which M. BRUAT himself was the first to blame. The present Cabinet is therefore pledged to an indemnity, but France is not. A. new Cabinet, free from all engagement in this respect, Three per cents.— •• 85 30 .. 85 35 .. 85 25 .. 85 25 • • ••• •• ••• •••1262 50 ..3262 65 ..3262 50 —8162 65 New Loan •• •• •• 45 .. 86 50 .. 86 45 .. 86 50 Bank of France Gouin Bank. I,ooof. ShareS. • 1080 ..1080 .• 1075 —lO7B Belgian Bank ..• ••••••• •• • • 63 5 •• 635 .. 635 .• 635 Belalan Fives, 1840 ..... ••• 104% .. 104% •• 104% 104% 1842 •••••••• 1664 1061,4 106 1 ,4 1061,, Spanish Threes• •• • ..... ••• 41 •• 41 1 ,, .. 41 .• 41 1 /, Active •• ••••• • •• •• 38 % •• 38% .. 38% •. 38% Passive. •.•••• • • •• 7 • • 7 .. •• 7 Portuguese Five per Cents•• 60 .. 60 .. 60 .. 60 Neapolitan•• • • •• •• •• •• • 10 2 102 .. 102 .. 102 Koehn .• . ..... . .•. • • • ` -051, 105 4 .. 1054 .. 105 4 RAILWAY SHARES. Ver5ai11e5,R.8............. 308 .. 500 .. 500 .. 500 L.B.— •• •• •••• •• 387 50 .. 390 .. 386 25 .• 386 25 Ronan •• •••••• .• •• ••••••1n67 50 . 1071 ..1067 50 ..1870 Rouen to Havre• •••••• • • • • • 850 •• 852 50 .• 850 .. 850 1130 ..1135 ..1133 75 ..1133 75 Strasburg to 8a1e.......... 307 50 .. 308 75 .. 307 50 . 307 50 Avignon to Marseilles.• •• •• 930 .• 931 25 930 . 930 RAILWAYS FOR THE ACCOUNT, FEB. 7. St. Germain ..... .........•1012 SO ..1020 ..1012 50 ..1020 ............ 500 • • • • • • • 50 0 .. 502 50 .. 500 .. 500 847387 50 50 387 855 50 387 847 5 5 0 0 387 851 50 25 o Ronan • • •••••••• • ....... 1067 50 ..1073 75 ..1067 50 ..1072 50 Rouentollavre ........ 1135 _1132 20..1135 Strasburg to 8a1e.......... 307 50 .. 310 .. 307 50 .. 307 50 Avignon to Marseilles•• •• • • 93 0 .• 931 25 .. 930 .. 930 THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY MORNING, JANUARY 28 1845. MONEY AND COMMERCIAL .- 1; W S CITY, MONDAY EVENING. The English Securities do not close higher this after noon, but are tolerably firm at the prices current. Con sols 99i to par for Money, and 100* to 100+ for Ac count. Exchequer Bills were 625. to 665. premium. New Three-and-a-Quarter oer Cents. remained at 104 i to and the Three per Cents. Reduce.' were not higher thin 1008 4. The Foreign Bonds have been the same as in the morning, except Spanish, which drooped a little, the Actives being 28 to 274, and the Three per Cents. 40 to 4. Colombian Stuck was at 145, and Brazilian, Small, at 904. The additional transactions in Railway Shares hav , " been these : Birmingham and Gloucester, New, were 95; Bristol and Exeter, 4; Bristol and Gloucester, 144 to 15; Caledonian, 4 i; Chester and Holyhead, 14 ; Churnet Valley, 55; Cornwall, 1- Dublin and Belfast, 44 ; Eastern Counties, 35 ; Edinburgh and Glasgow, Quarter, 35; Great North of England, 51; Great Western, 95 to 97; Ditto, Half, 505 to 50; Ditto, Fifths, 204 to 194; Guildford and Portsmouth, 24; Harwich, 4; Bir mingham, 132 to 1334; Ditto, Quarter, 254; Brighton, 24; South-Western, New, 104 to 104; Croydon, 44 to 45; Manchester and Leeds, 59 ; Ditto and Birmingham, 15; Newcastle and Berwick, 104; Norwich and Bran don, 64 to 54 ; Ditto, New, 14 to 2 1 ; Shrewsbury and Birmingham, 4; South-Eastern, 145, to 5; Ditto, New, No. 1, 164 ; No. 2, 174 ; Trent Valley, 9 to 84; Orleans and Vierzon, 84; Orleans and Bordeaux, ex Toulouse, 54; and Paris and Lyons, 14 premium. Blackwell have been 94; Greenwich 14; and Portsmouth Direct, 4 dis count. Australasia Bank Shares were 5 premium. (From The Sun of Last Night.) The transactions in Cotton at Liverpool on Saturday were 6,000 bales, at previous rates, but the market was quiet. The sales included 200 bales Egyptian at 6d. ' and the rest were nearly all American. — The business done in Shares was at full prices generally. Birmingham and Gloucester, 112 ; Bristol and Gloucester, 434 ; Caledonian, 6 ; Churnet Valley, 65 4 ; Chester and Belfast, 64 11; Eastern Counties, 174 Lancaster and Preston, 494 50 ; London and Brighton, 52 ; London and South-Western, 78 ; London and York. 54 ; Manchester and Birmii gham, Quarters, 5; Manchester and Leeds, 1305 4 ' • Midland Ceunties, 128 1274 ; North British, 114 j-; Sheffield and Manches ter, 1005 ; South-Eastern, New, 224 214 ; South- Eastern, 21 204 ; Trent Valley, 104 ; Paris and Or leans, 441 ; Paris and Rouen, 414 4 ; Boulogne and Amiens, 5 ; Northern of France. 54. The commercial accounts from the United States are of a favourable character as respects the demand for British manufactures. As to the State debts owing to foreigners, we fear there is very little chance of a pay ment of interest or of principal. Upon this point the Governor of the State of Illinois thus comments As to the extraordinary debt of the State, contracted for the canal and other internal improvements, no interest has been paid on it, which has accrued since the Ist of July, 1841; and no provision of law has been made for such payment. The magnitude of this debt, compared with the resources of the State, has been a continual terror to the people. They have lived in expectation of oppressive taxes. The same has been anticipated by all who would otherwise emigrate to the State. The popular vote at the last election shows that our population has been in creased bat little since 1840; and it is a fact, too notorious to be concealed, that nothing but the utter im possibility of selling real estate, prevents the rapid de crease of our numbers. The adjacent territories are filling up with inhabitants-at our expense. The high and palmy days have departed, when we doubled our population in a few years ; when, if a eitizen owned more land than he wanted to cultivate, or if he wanted to leave the country, or remove from one part of the State to another, he could sell his land for cash. What has produced this state of things ? Has itbeen high taxes? No. It has been the fear of them only. Is it because money has been drawn from our pockets, as a tax upon our industry? No. Not one, cent has yet been paid by taxation. On the contrary, our taxes, for State purposes, are three times less than they are in the great and flourishing State of Ohio. Neverthe less, Ohio is advancing to greatness with unparalleled rapidity; whilst we are paralyzed with the torpid fear of evil only, when no such evil really exists." What is the relief from this state of things? The people of Illinois cannot, nay will not submit to further taxation. The Governor says he would not propose a high or an op pressive taxation. The misfortunes and calamities of the people have been such as almost to prevent the col lection of the tax already levied. At the last session an increased taxation was impracticable, on account of a total want of money in the country. This is is indeed a bad feature, as respects the claims of British as well as other foreign claimants upon the States of America, for cash absolutely 'advanced to en courage public works and give employment to the people of the Union. It is with regret we must mention that the other repudiating States are equally disposed to lay by, and that too most dishonestly. We have before us a letter, dated Rio Janeiro, the 14th December. At that date favourable news had been received from Rio Grande. The rebels had been de feated in three or four actions. There is little news of interest on commercial matters. The settlement of the Otaheitean question, and the grant voted by the Chamber of Deputies of 1,0001. to Mr. Pritchard, our Consul there, has relieved the Bear party of a portion of doubt as to the success of their operations, and Consols for the Account have been done this morning at 1004 and 1004. For Money the rate has ranged from 994 to 100. The Three per Cents. Reduced have been at 1004, but they are now rather lower. The New Three-and-a quarter per Cents. have been done at 1044 4 ; Ex chequer-bills at 665. and India Bonds at 78s. premium. A good amount of business has been transacted in the Foreign Stocks to-day. Brazilian Five per Cents. have touched 90s. ; Spanish Actives are firm at 284 ; the Three per Cents. at 405 5. Dutch Two-and-a- Half per Cents. have been done at 634 4; the Five per Cents. at 99 ; the Portuguese Converted at 604 60 ; and Chilian at 101. A vast amount of business has been done in the Rail way Share Market to •day. Prices are kept up both for the English and French lines. PRICES OF BRITISH FUNDS AT CLOSING ONE O'CLOCK. PRICES. Bank Stock 3 per Cent. Reduced 3 per Cent. Consols New 3 1 4 per Cent Long Annuities to expire Jan 1860 12 3-16 IA I2 YB India Bonds, 1,0004. Consols for Account... ....... 100% IA Nom, Exchequer Bills, 1,000/., 66 pin.. 66 Ditto 500/. . Ditto Small PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT CLOSING ONE O'CLOCK. PRICES. Brazilian Bonds Ditto, New, 1829 and 1839 BB Chilian Bonds 6 per Cent. Columbian Bonds 6 per Cent — 14 1 Mexican, 5 per Cent. 1837. 34% Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent Ditto, Converted 6 0 1 14 60 Ditto, Account 6 Ol Russian Bonds Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840. Ditto, Passive Ditto 3 per Cent. 4 6os 40 Ditto, Account 4O 8 1 4 40% Dutch, 2 1 / 2 per Cent Ditto, 5 per Cent 99 RAILWAY SHARES PAID. PER SHARE. CLOSING AT ONE O'CLOCK. PRICES. Birmin and Gloucester. 100 llO% 112 111... Ditto New Shares ... 17 1 ,E -- Ditto % Shares Bristol and Exeter Bristol and Gloucester... 30 Cal...donian Cambridge and Lincoln 11 ,4 43b 4% 4... Chester and Holyhead—. 5 Churnet Valley Cornwall. Direct Northern • Dublin and Belfast June 2% 7%% •• Eastern Counties 25 ...... 18 Ditto Perpetual, 5 per 35z l l /a Cent, No. 1.......... / 8 • Ditto ditto, No. 2. l3s. 4d... % Eastern Union lO .. ... 14 16 1 h Edinburgh and Glasgow 50 6 44 65 1 Ely and Bedford Great South. and West. (Ireland) Ditto Extension Great North of England..loo 149 Ditto New Great Western 75 . ••• Ditto Half Shares 5O lO l l /2 Guildford, Fam'm,Ports. 2% ... .. 5 Harwich Hull and Selby 5O Lancaster and Carlisle... 15 London and Birminghm (5t0ck)...233 .. ......... Ditto, Quarter Shares 2 London and Blackwall. . . 16% London and Brighton... 50 ...... 521/4 % ... London and Greenwich.. 123/4 II% London and S. Western. 41% .78 Ditto New 2 London and Croydon, 13/. 15s. 9d. 17 1 1, 1 18% 18 London and York ...... ... 2 % 4 l /2 % Lynn and Ely Manchester and Leeds... 70 .......131 129 1 % Manchester and Birm. 40 Midland... 100 107 108% 109% 108 Midlandßirm andDerby.100 Newcastle and Darling- 24 .••••• 67 66, ; 67 ton Junction Newcastle and Berwick 1% ...... 14 1 13% 12 1 / 12 North British Northern and Eastern... 45 Ditto Scrip Norwich and Brandon... 8 Ditto, New Shares ... 1 3% Rugby Portsmouth Direct 2% 3 Shrews., Wolverhamp , 2% 3 34 Dudley, and Birm South Eastern & Dover 33% 483% FRENCH RAILWAYS. Orleans and Bordexax... 2 Orleans and Vierzon 2 ...... 11% lOl Paris and Rouen MANCHESTER STOCKEECHANGE, JAN. 25.—Our market continues exceedingly buoyant, and we have again had a large amount of business done :--Bristol and Gloucester, 45+; Edinburgh and Glasgow, New Quarters, 3+ prem.; Lancaster and Preston, 50k; Liverpool and Manchester, New Shares, 39 ; Midland Railway, 401. Shares, 8+ ; 1 Newcastle and Carlisle, 117; South-Eastern, 49i; Ditto, New Creation, 2I i; Great Northern of France, 5k ; Union Bank of Manchester, lei ; Barnsley Junction, Halves, 475.; Bolton, Wigan, and Liverpool, 41 ; Cale donian, 6 5 i ; Cambridg e and L i ncoln. 4 4 k; Chester and Holyhead, 64 ; Churnet Valley, 6; Great Grimsby and Sheffield Junction, 2 1-16 ; Huddersfield and Sheffield Junction, 3 7-16 ; Leeds and West Riding Junction, 5 3-16 ; London and York, 5 1-16 5 ; Manchester and Buxton, 51s. ; Sheffield and Lincolnshire Junction, 335. 355. DAVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. The Grand Pantomime every Evening, with Splendid Novelties, and Another New Piece. THIS EVENING Will be repeated a New Three Act Drama, entitled WOLSEY, in which the whole of the Company will perform. After which, THE RENT DAY. To conclude with the Pantomime of POUNDS, SHILLINGS, AND PENCE. Harlequin, Mr. H. Harvey; Clown, Mr. T. Ridgway,; Pantaloon, Mr. Henry Corri ; Columbine, Miss Slaiter. Places and Private Boxes to be had of Mr. Kerschner, at the Box office, from Eleven to Four. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. Grand Juvenile Week—Pantomime, Second Piece. TIIIS EVENING Will he repeated MARIANNE • or, The Child of Charity. Sup ported by Messrs. Osbaldiston, H. Howard, J. T. Johnson, J. Her bert, E. Jones, and W. Searle ; Miss Vincent, Miss E. Terrey, and Mrs. E. Jefferson. After which, the Pantomime of HARLEQUIN HOT CODLINS. To conclude with BLACK WHISKER ; or, The Demon of Seven Dials. Boxes, 2s. ; Pit, Is. ; Gallery, 6d. THE WEATHER.-Strx OFFICE, JAN. 27. THERMOMETER, Lowest, 35 ; Highest, 43 ; Noon, 42. BAROMETER, 29.3.—W1ND, S.W. NoTß.—The figures which follow the words "Lowest' and "Highest" denote the lowest and highest state of the Thermometer during the preceding twenty-four hours. All the other observations are made at noon. Water freezes at 12 ; 55 on Thermometers is marked " TemPerate," and on Barometers "Fair" is generally placed opposite to 30i and "Rain"' at 29 ; • but there' is no certainty of dry weather when the mercury falls below 30. HIGH WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY.' Morning • . 46 minutes after 4 I Evening • • 3 minutes after 5. 41 ,4 ) , Au a t • .:,„! • . • • Altxtst" I Ming LONDON, TUESDAY, JANUARY 28, 1845. We publish, in another column, two documents, which, though they come before the world in a very unpretending form, will be found not less remarkable for The good sense they embody than for the good feeling that pervades them. We allude to "An Ad dress presented to JAMES MATHESON, Esq., 111,P„ with a silver snuff-box, by the working classes of the borough of Ashburton," and to the answer of the Hon. Member to that address. There is a touching tone of simplicity and earnestness about the one—a frank and manly truthfulness about the other—which stand out in refreshing contrast to the more studied and more excited displays of reciprocated compliment and professions, that have become, of late, so common at agricultural protection and other county meetings. There is, to he sure, in the documents we speak of, no pattern-Duke—no " farmer's friend" (and landlord) besprinkled with flattery "that licks the dust." There is no parade of magnanimous self-denial or self •gratula tion,7 by the wealthy landowner and man of office, on conceding to his tenants the enviable privilege of destroying rabbits and hares, provided they leave, in tact, the pheasants and the partridges for his exclu sive sport, at the cost of whatever ravages these in violable game may meanwhile commit on their growing crops. This is an affair altogether of genuine, hearty, personal respect, on the part of a constituency for their representative—on the part of the representative, for his constituents. We need hardly remind our readers that Mr. MATHESON is one of the most eminent among that in valuable body of British merchants who have amassed in remote countries—in China, for example—enormous fortunes, by the ability, judg ment, and high integrity with which they have con ducted their vast commercial operations. Since his return from China, he has become the proprietor of the large island of Lewis ; and, enormous as was the purchase-money he paid for that vast extent of ter ritory, we have no doubt, from the observation we have devoted to his most useful career, that he will more than redeem all the high anticipations which Dr. PATRICK CAMPBELL, eighty years ago, had formed, in respect of the Lewis and of its vast natural ca pabilities and undeveloped resources. The sagacious and well-informed author of the " Political Survey of Great Britain" predicted that, whenever the energy of capital, directed by a spirit of judicious as well as liberal enterprise, should be brought to act upon that extensive region of the Hebrides ; the product of its fisheries alone would surpass any preconceived no tions that might have been formed of it. It is certain that so enormous an extent of coast line, in dented with so many creeks, small bays, deep locks, and natural harbours, offers facilities for such a trade, which the improved commercial means of Ireland, that may be calculated on as certain to result from the rapid extension of railway communications throughout the length and breadth of that fine coun try, will, in two or three years, stimulate to unprece dented activity and importance. The distinguished privilege of providing a permanent market for the enterprise of many thousands of, perhaps, the hardiest, ARREST OF ZURBANO. A Bayonne letter of the 22d inst., just received, announces the arrest of Zurbano, in the neighbour hood of Logrono, on the 19th inst. The intelligence was received by a French courier, who met at Bur gos the express conveying the tidings to Madrid. Another account unfortunately confirms this news, and adds, that he was shot without trial on the 20th. The accounts of his arrival at Lisbon had therefore probably been put forth in order to deceive his pursuers. _ THE EARL or MORNINOTON. - Dr. Copeland and Dr. Prout visited the Earl of Mornington early yes terday ; the reply riven to inquiries was, " His Lordship has not had a very good right, but is no worse than he was yesterday." The calls of the No• bility at the venerable Nobleman's residence in Grosvenor-square were exceedingly numerous. Her Majesty, Prince Albert, and other members of the royal family, made Inquiries yesterday. DETONPORT, SUNDAT..--Sir William Trelawny, Bart., has issued his address to the electors of East Cornwall, on the Liberal interest, in the place of Lord Eliot. No Tory is yet named. Tii NEW JUDGE.--It affords us great pleasure to state, that the vacancy occasioned by the resignation of Mr. Baron Gurney has been filled up by the appoint. ment of Mr. Thomas Platt, Queen's Counsel. The zeal and ability by which his professional career has been, distinguished fully entitle him to the honourable promo tion he has received. It is peculiarly gratifying to us, who took an early interest in his success, and who have for a long series of years profited by his advice and as sistance, to be able to congratulate him sincerely on his receiving the only reward that can compensate in any degree for the laborious duties of the profession. We wish others had been spared to experience the satisfac tion we now feel at his success. Mr. Shepherd, Queen's Counsel, has been appointed Commissioner of Bank rupts, in the place of Sir C. F. Williams. Mr. Shepherd was entitled to compensation exceeding 1,2001. per annum as Clerk of the Custodies, upon the abolition of that office in 1842, and this sum will therefore be saved by the appointment. Mr. Shepherd is the son of the late Mr. Samuel Shepherd, formerly Attorney-General, and afterwards Chief Baron of Scotland.—Times. THE PORTENDIC AFFAIR.—The award of the King of Prussia in this matter gives to the claimant for com pensation, not 80,0001. or 100,0001., claimed, but 44,000 f. (1,760.) I TROTTING MATCH You TEN POUNDS A SIDE.— On Saturday afternoon a match to trot one mile in har ness came off over a measured distance of road on Streatham-common. The race was between Mr. Hans comb's brown cob and Mr. Well's grey pony. The grey Tony came in the winner by about nine yards. The one mile road was accomrlishea in three minutes and forty two seconds. SUMMARY OF NEWS A ig t utati eptriton " Who runs may read.' ~c'3~;$a:~':: On Thursday evening the King of the French re ceived Duke Pasquier, Generals Jacqueminot and Cubieres, Baron de Langlade, and the Prefect of the Department du Nord. M. I - 16bert was unable to attend the Chamber on Friday, in consequence of a domestic calamity. His daughter, aged thirteen, died on Thursday. On Thursday reports from several Committees, charged with the examination of various Bills ordered by the Chamber to be resumed, were distributed to the Deputies. One of the most important is M. Thiers's report on Public Instruction. Count de Jarnac, the Secretary of Embassy, has arrived in Paris from London. The Berlin Gazate states that a letter of the 14th inst., from St. Petersburgh, represents the Emperor Nicholas as being indisposed, but so slightly as not to prevent his going out daily in a sledge. A Vienna letter of the 18th, quoted by the Augsburg Gazelle, says Duke Ferdinand of Saxe Coburg, father of the King of Portugal, is so seriously ill that fears are entertained for his life. Couriers have been dispatched with this intelligence to Paris and Lisbon for his sons. Ilis youngest son, Prince Leopold, is the only member of the Duke's family left to watch over his sick bed." The Phare of Bayonne states, on the authority of a letter from Medrid, of the 17th, that the Queen, at the solicitation of the mother of General Prim, and at the re commendation of General Narvaez, has signed letters of pardon for the banished General, and sent off an extra ordinary courier to Cadiz to communicate the pardon, and prevent his departure for the Philippine Islands. We learn by a letter from St. Petersburgh of the 12th, - that the Kings of Sweden and Denmark, and the Duke of Schleswig-Holstein, had just been elected honorary members of the Academy of Sciences of that city. According to a letter from Locarno, in Tessino, pub lished by the New Zurich Gazette, and dated the 16th, a deplorable disturbance has taken place at Mogadino on the Lego Maggiore, which compelled the authorities to have recourse to arms. Two persons were killed. Zurbano was captured at Logrono on the 19th inst., and shut on the 20th. The following account of the Prussian revenue, from the years 1835 to 1842, is given in a Berlin journal -- 1835, 54,740,000 thalers ; 1836, 51,957,000 ; 1837. 52,488,000 ; 1838, 52.681,000 ; 1839, 53,475,000 ; 1840, 54.855,000 ; 1841, 55,867,000 ; 1842, 57,402,000 ; show ing that in seven years the public revenue has increased ' 5,662,000 thalers. We learn from Stockholm, that the King has publicly announced his intention to visit Norway at the end of ' the present month. COIIMIT-WASSILTOTIFABSIII. Her Serene Higness the Grand Ducbess Stephanie of Baden is expected to arrive in this country from Mann heim early in the ensuing month. The Countess Dowager of Limerick is expected in London in the course of the ensuing month. Viscount and Lady Marianne Alford arrived in Lowndes-street, Belgrave-square, on Saturday, from Earl Brownlow's, Belton House, which mansion is still full of company. The Noble Viscount and Viscountess will proceed in a few days on a visit to the Marquis of Northampton, at Torquay, Devon. His Excellency Count do St. Aulaire's next diplomatic banquet will take place at Manchester House on Saturday next. The C. unt and Countess D'Harcourt left the French 14:mbassy on Friday last, on a visit to Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Harcourt, at St. Le'mard's, nea" Windsor. Lord and Lady Stanley entertained at dinner, on Fri day night, Lord and Lady Wharncliffe, Lord and Lady Haddington, Lord and Lady Mahon, Sir James and Lady Graham, the Hon. Edward Stanley, the Hon. Co lonel Wilbraham, and Mr. James Stephens. Lord Brougham is expected to arrive at the Noble and Learned Lord's residence in Grafton-street on Saturday next, from the Continent. Letters have been received by Lady Brougham from his Lordship, who had arrived at Paris from Cannes, and intended to stay about ten days in that capital previous to his departure direct for London. The Dowager Lady Massey, Lord Massey, Mr. Alex. ander Murray, M.P., and Lady Ann Murray are staying Hastings. Lord and Lady Francis Russell have arrived at the Marquis and Marchioness of Abercorn's, Barons ;Court, county Tyrone, from visiting the Duke and Duchess of Bedford, at Woburn Abbey. Lord and Lady Parker, have returned to their seat Shirbourno Castle, near Watlington, from Eton Hall. The Right Hon. Thomas Grenville entertained a small party at dinner, on Saturday last, at his residence in Hamilton-place. ISZSCUZZAhiffIIONTII. Sunday morning, about one o'clock, a fire broke out in the house of Mr. Brain, artist and engraver, in Al fred-square, Pentonville, which, besides consuming the premises, damaged those adjoining. A proclamation of reward was issued on Saturday last from the Government authorities, offering the sum of 1001 for the detection and conviction of the party or parties who, a few nights since, set fire to the barn and outbuildings of Mr. Thomas Proud, of Thornville, near Green Hammerton, in the county of York, on which oc casion much valuable property belonging to that gentle-. man was destroyed. We regret to state that Mr. Benjamin Wood, M.P. for Southwark, still lies in a most pi °carious state. The Hon. Gentleman was attacked some time hack by $ severe stroke of paralysis. from the effects of which, however, he recovered ; but, unfortunit.-lv. the 'dis astrous comp'aint returned, and although Mr Wood's friends anticipate that he may linger, there are not the slightest grounds for holding out any hopes of ultimate and complete recovery. The new steam schooner Senator, built of iron, and fitted with the Archimedean screw, which left London on Saturday, the 18th instant, with a full cargo, arrived in Dublin on Thursday morning, having performed the passage in five days, and encountered very severe wea ther during Sunday and Monday. Another result of the operation of the new Tariff has been seen, the last few days, in the importation of hops from the United States. The samples have been pro nounced, by competent judges, as quite equal in flavour and quality to any produced in this country. The Lord Chancellor, the Master of the Rolls, and Lord Chief Justice Tindal, sat again on Saturday morn ing in the Lord Chancellor's private-room, Westminster hall, to hear the further arguments of Counsel respect ing the claim of the King of Hanover to a portion of the Crown jewels. Mr. Fitzroy Kelly, who appears on the same side with Sir Charles Wetherell, in supp wt of th" claim of his Majesty, addressed the Commissioners at great length. The proceedings were, however, strictly private, consequently no report of the Learned Counsel s argument can be given. We regret to state that a report prevails of the mur rain amongst cattle (which has been productive of such serious losses on the Continent) having reached this country. We cannot vouch for the accuracy of this re port, and from the inquiry we have made, on the con trary, we are inclined to believe that the disease now so generally prevailing, particularly amongst horses ex posed to the recent cold and changeable weather, is a species of influenza, the symptoms of which are of a more serious description than ordinary. Many of the hackney proprietors have, we are informed, nearly one-half of their horses laid up, and the deaths during the last few weeks have averaged twenty-five per cent. On Saturday evening a man, named John Walker, 47 years of age, was at work on some new houses in Kennington-lane, near the Horns Tavern, when a por tion of thescaffolding on which he was standing suddenly gave way, and he was precipitated to the ground from a height of nearly forty feet. He was taken up quite in sensible, and conveyed to Guy's Hospital, when it was found that he had dislocated the vertebrae of the neck to such an extent that no assistance could possibly be ren dered, and be expired in a few hours after his admission. DREADFUL ACCIDENT.—On Tuesday morning last, about seven o'clock, as a number of men labouring in the quarry were warming themselves at the lime-kilns on Kendal Fell, previous to commencing work, one of them, John Harrison, inadvertently stepped back, as is supposed, and fell to the bottom of one of the empty kilns. The consequences of the accident were dreadful. The unfortunate man's back was broken, and if he sur vive the injury, which is very doubtful, he will be bed ridden for the remainder of his life. The unfortunate vic tim is the same who about two years and a half ago was so severely injured while engaged in sinking a well at Burneside Hall that he was unable to work for six months afterwards. His companion on that occasion, who was also injured, but less seriously, Anthony Chambers was with the poor fellow on Tuesday morning when the more dreadful accident happened. We regret to say that Harrison's large family, consisting of a wife and sit children, are in very destitute circumstances, and the aggravation of their distress by the late dreadful occurrence may be imagined.—Lancaster Guardian. AWFUL VISITATION.—Saturday morning, between ten and eleven o'clock, a) ouug man, a compositor, in the employ of Mr. Saville, the printer, of St. Mar tin's-lane, named John Woodberry, whilst working at his case and talking to a brother workman, suddenly fell down speechless. He was removed with all speed to Charing-cross Hospital, where he shortly afterwards expired. The medical men attribute his death to apoplexy. We have seen a letter addressed by a colonist in South Australia to his father, a banker in Oxford, from which it appears that the cultivation of the vine and the olive is making considerable progress there, and that the sub-soil plough has been adopted with great advantag" in preparing the ground for that purpose. No ploughs of that description have been introduced as yet, but the young colonist referred to had sufficient ingenuity to construct one from a description contained in a work by a Scotch agriculturist. In breaking up new ground, especially for gardening purposes, this plough is stated to possess a very great superiority over the common plough. From the nature of the climate it is hoped that the orange and almond tree, as well as the vine and the olive, may soon be generally introduced into this colony. —Times. THE AFFRAY WTTH POACHERS IN PEMBROKE SHIRE.-It will be in the recollection of our readers that we detailed a dreadful affray with poachers on Picton Castle estate, some time at the end of last month. Th e exertions of the police have not yet met with success in apprehending any of the real parties concerned, and, from the length of time which has elapsed, it is impro bable that they will ever be discovered. The keepers and assistants, who were so much injured, have almost entirely recovered.---From Correspondent. 45 5% 6 % 71 7 42X, 18% 00 43 4 1 % 17% 29 55 47 3 / 4 WINDS Y —Th Queen a WINDSOR, A O IO U ND R A °I' . 4,! MONDAY. -1 CtiLA p r ince Athe' n oil took equestrian exercise in the riding se''`'" morning, attended by Colonel Bouverie. the clef/ The unsettled state of the weather during k 0 to e prevented the Royal Family from has for their accustomed airings. C a stleto• def ' The Marquis of Douro arrived at the TT fi sit on a visit to her Majesty. The Righ t A .,.%" ° ,., , , -. 00 , Robert and Lady Peel also arrived. ID the zuv" - on a visit to the Queen. • the Her • Majesty and Prince Albert walked In leasure , vourdi and Home Park this afternoon; bef P The - royal dinner party at the Castle include:of Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, LOY xa g ol3 aTdyheC°buanPGeorge Howard, L the Countess Wratislaw, Sir being attendance ere eddru,orafinngdthdCeianpntearin. Francis Screyumardsour. ii, Scots Fus ilier le a si Her Majesty's private band afterwards Attenu he Castle. ---...--•--- i, 1 The Duchess of Gloucester visited their 11. Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridge sod o' B • d te it r a d r a y y, G a ra t ildahlDhuricdhgeessioiforlenburgh strelitiie _ fte rno o A Cabinet Council was held yesterdaf 11 t ore at si the Foreign-office. The Ministers Pr esen 'l" l4 Chancellor Robert Peel, the Duke of Wellington, IV' i ancellor, Lord Wharncliffe, the Dikke,,,, joei c_euch, Earl of Aberdeen, Lord Stanley, ° l ' cal 0 f Graham, the Chancellor of the Exchequer,-,,i110 tiaddington, Earl of Ripon, and Lord vir'"' Somerset. s The Council sat two hours. Rollie ir Robert Peel left town immediately a fter Castle. Council, accompanied by Lady reel, for astle. inter/ _ The Master-General of the Ordnance had ono g , v il e a w lhou w s i i t e h , I H -r o a n n . c ß is a C ro h n a e r t t . eris, had d also interviews a nd the • bt ei, fil the Sit HRoonbertsiPieheelyyneseterrhdearty: Ile go The Marquis of • Bristol had an interview att Earl of D office Dalhousie - d Boardof . 3 ester_ay, at the Trade. 'o 6° Sir Robert and Lady Peel have issued in/ 1 8 0 of fora with the toe grand dinner party on Saturday, tigliedeal. Febr a uar at their residence in Whitehall- y,. "--_. b ßf, r )ar e n e jgzaeem,r LLOYD'S SHIPPING' tri4 SHIPPING. ' LONDON, JAN. 27.—Wind at noon S. to •-• , w ai i Le t a l;r ad a no i d n n at intervals. Or elletil DEAL, JAN. 26.—Arrd. Eliza Bell, Bahia for I , o o o ' several for ° Pg . w 9! ;' , others. Wind rat ba ck ' ..-- RAMSGATE, JAN. 25. P.M.—Wind S• - • me b°ll' N.IV., strong.—Arrd. Lydia, Newcastle curb ' .00:: leaky; Brazil packet, Yarmouth for Plyeeiooo, The Medina, from Sunderland to CO"ee, I ° t3 i , e stie t ir, off Beach y Head early this morning in lae i t e WI for PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 25.--Wind N . ."' 1 ; - .. ° lit t le 26 . N.W., hard and squally —Arrd. Illtm e •7,00, tiv . New Orleans. Sid. her Majesty's ship Al lP s el. _Ay tic - and put put back her Majesty's ship Apollo,„ r e as c - Ne, , t r ol. DEAL, JAN. 25.—Wind W.N.W. to "*.„„nie .....' of rate. 26. P.M., W.N.W., strong a nd eq" - jartn4 Britannia. Bombay • Nautilus, Ichaboe ~ L e Wales, Buenos Ayres ; Abigun, Charlesti, r',.. vier' Mary, Axtell, St. John's, Newfoundlend* ob.- 0 10 sident,l.e Granby, Calcutta ; Bella Marius, ot., New Zealand ; Derwent, Steel, Mauritiut! ; ( Or Wylee, Collins, Africa ; Antonie, Mer l. ' ill ? ' ' Jell a burgh ; Great Britain steamer, Bristol. , j tera,•, lo " te Cowis, JAN. 26.—Wind N.W.. h 9 • L '' - 00 4 e r, ' - 'l l l Graham, Newcastle for Bordeaux, with q` s iglit'..,4o , &c., having been in contact with a veesel last 00 r - fer i Shannon, Malder, from Sicily to Falmouth' ~,, 0 1 4! f i r s O no m onw S r . here to-day with loss of sails, bulwarks, 1,, KV, leaky, and must discharge. It blew hee• ll 2, pie DART o , : w R t MoD iT o n3g S io . a , ugT a aH n l,e d . j s hAiNft.ed2st._hisEMoyosiridlegar:v 041000 Sydney, New South Wales. 10 4 TORBAY, ;NFJ. 24.—Arrd. Amelia Mulhol ilfgo for Mauritius unchal d f S i era l ' e°l3e lia ll ' 1 ,O.OT le _., d PLYMOUTH, JAN. 23.--Sid. Williarn l'" or Coast of Africa. gig otre a ‘A FALMOUTH, JAN. 25.—Wind WS:, "LOV A , / Ord squally. 26. W.N.W., fresh gales an" a lb, kik' Emelie and Helene, Newport, for $a en ria..- split, &c., and ruddy r damaged, having "`"` et „Os d r a sea. I v • V St, LIVERPOOL, JAN. 26.—Wind N..l4.‘r'' • s tie, re fresh.-25. Arrd. Bessy Robertson, Chrlooe ; 0 0; tius (Nov. 4) ; Corsair and Hopkinson, le': lifetaieoi; cilia, Donaldson, Pernambuco John r e . e a ly O r ' ?: 01/ Alhambra, Wilson and Essex! Leech, l' a 001.9 S A O° Victor, Bartlett, Charleston ; ColumLaa'bieilltel York.. Sid. Valparaiso, Valparaiso, •L'l,oo/_,,lri.vi, Orleans, and put back 26th. It bleW u„;',olow•tpoik, night from W.S.W., veering to N. N. We tin/111/I;4' Manchester, hence toCalcutta, drove ashor'. totP` A . 1% this morning, and is expected to beconl e 'OW" OP crew saved by the life boat. The Willitun eicot) Galway, is ashore in Bootle Bay. The k ili t . eb V I , for New York, put hack yesterday, froto i / l , of t i j i Lk ,'" very leaky, loss of sails. &c. The E'en - 0 0 1° j V . .. b dismasted and abandoned, was passed /),t,';itieP' 4 o , oV, lon. 45 by the Victor, arrived here. J:irreoterbillsi" den, hence to China, has arrived at it l°,.'fb - o e ° n i) PERNAMBUCO.—Arrd. Sunflower• len"-.,-,43; of GREENOCK, JAN. 25. -The Robert Pm- oftbe , 0 1 pool, has been brought in here in i t , Sidee,,s Napier steamer, dismasted and abandooeo.th o,' SHIELDS, JAN. 25.—The Jam( s. of i s° ,l tb,,,, e . tiro' towing !own from the Spout, gr ounne u _A - o ff t''' - ,d, P;(" o t' West End, and lies badly, but is eXeeeAt7.,d Y":„;, , ,", r e CLYDE, JAN. 25.—Wind S.W.-• - •‘';, • ',, I :leSt ir I, g ril bath, Orr, Ichaboe ; Palos. Flanders, u" a s ioei' l ie r evaret Ogilvie, Hunter, lelictboe. 24 ' SO ,to Demerara. 25. Sid. Elizabeth w okerl iO, O Singapore ; Helen Savannah. ,t.• tte.lol° Coax, JAN. 24.—Wind' N.W..ligh t. w' „ s os, t oo Kearney, Belcher, Jamaica ; Fan* . 1 • 1 ` iti/ or New Brunswick. built 17°1;1161er SKIBBEREEN, JAN. 23.—A clinker , ho t, • s ly feet long, and marked " Governor Ore' A " file 0041 1 wood," has come ashore at Cape Islaa"l 3 eso. a . 9 ' boat, twelve feet keel. A female figt e r e . Ir" , seven inches, has been brought EP' Tounsend. _ .4 00 111 Af fil . LEITH, JAN. 25.—Wind, S.E.---•A' . j%. '" 1,1 and Cicero, Bell, Ichaboe. or o°o r id SHIELDS, JAN. 25. Wind W. 5.,. T; r ,',', 1 01: 4 "4 tyo Montreal, Blenkinsop, Ichaboe. Std. Je'r. re - b•, ( 0 , HULL, JAN. 26.—Wind W.N.W ., "e:' :O bi ' t 4 11 ' Orwell, Collina. 25. John Gibson '-'" e V merce. Bolton, and St. George.e Ichabne. • glile _ d i , YARMOUTH, JAN. 26.—1 t hes blow•° from the westward. - . g oo 1 , 51)3 2 . E S O4I FALMOUTH, JAN. 25.—Arrd. -- ; rfj p ll r Haislop, Callao. Sld. Golden Flee Vi. her__,; o rt g, Eliza, Sierra Leone ; Vigilant, BerrneL 1070 1 fr o o steamer, Vesuvius , Batiivia ; LadY j - f o r'Cijet.o Aden. Off, John Fleming, London 1 (0 0 " , 1 marang, Hulbert, Mauritius for Life rpo .ft 0 sailed for Liverpool. rg a f er io , PORT TALBOT, JAN. 26 °t llfs 0.- P i " ..bore g Johnston, bound to Calcutta, got ' ov s 0 0 ~,, going out yesterday morning but h as e ' af ar,a P- Al' 0 at the end of the Breakwater' full of w s , of •$O,O , to become a wreck. (a rea ce;io.,.,pl YARMOUTH, JAN. 26.--Tile Jane , , t ool- - P - in running in through the Cockle t h is e d i ll or ssr ea 4 ;,.0 the Scrob y Sand and filled ; cre w - t he Se,„ i r 0,,,,, Lambton, of Sunderland, a l so e•ot 0 0 ~. e- oil r b on W e X j 1 crew saved. Two other brig gotirioo o d e:A ill has gone to pieces, the other ) 10 _7 - be) .- .lo o ' 0 t o r v blown out to sea ; crews (su ppose , - ° i , o h ._ .6 Choice, Cross, of Newcastle, has b ee- or sinking state ; crew saved. , __mil l ' , C 00 . 03 SCILLY , JAN. 24. —Wind N. #O , l tO O, ' or Michael's, in seven days. ; 1301fies.bel SWANSEA, JAN. 25.—Arrei. Ilan Or r 0 GUANO.--ICHABOE.—The gurg a i u sdla t 1 / in the Clyde, reports the following 1 to S e , 0 4 November, and as the last vessels lige foreb pilliii Tecumseh, Sh aw —Cassandra --Elora' s erab ; ole:j Princess—lsabella—Eliza—Eliza hia, ria •ee 140 O f fO r Bolton Abbey—Black Prince--tier°ll/ifider" o f - bine—Lika—Caledonia— Lavinia-- pet . Coro / . ► f Peel—West Ind' , . tan, of London -- It o" Majestic, of Sunderland. 10/, / 'A 0 e ...0 , 94) SAMBRE AND MEUSE CO ' - „jet 1• 51 10 tos e l ot ; • co u- of A ' Among the foreign railway pro.le nie ritg . , o rbit): may be noticed those upon tbe • - „olee 1 04 I Q Belgian Chambers will shortly be .; o ff 'I it P h t), nounce, for communication in the,„e ° ,: er e ar a p ; tbe 10 the rivers Sambre and Meuse. route.. )-m d I . ° o, all 0 1 , two parties whe are entitled to lied wit, sion in this case, each having haseom fiegiulsl9lPl tions imposed upon the subject hlr di tinf,ceo:::; : i4 project of one of these parties is as t he , e Western line ;" that of the other rture 0; 0 0 to o t , The former has its terminus of dePl i oy , .. o tt ( ! ; ;lt e j t s au-Pont, where it joins the State It' 00010 'eroe the valley of Eaux d'lleare to t l . l S :re ux, f/ ee tP ° oo s scending the valley of Vtronin to v " trs i liee' i d, ac est fo l g e minus of arrival. The latter, or C en C olli er o na":„Iy 4 , Charleroi, the central point of :•h r e t . the I s eielJj t e, naces, and other establishments ° Fi de e •P ev ir table -1a Sarke:ort ll iron, and proceeds aleug the, to, ~oril the centre of the iron ore distriefr e o ,bici, 007 - AP s' to Vireux. The principal fea ture & r eel . . 1 ;0 0 ii l l the Central line is, that its route 13104 ftlee, mineral districts of Charleroi, 0141400 CPciioV Florence, Stave, and Oret, i to o i v ro e n tj t IF the proprietors of the O a 'oral W i ."ieU ° , o f fo i °r the transmission of the l i t , l o line ( lio' o p i their land, which the Weste r t his 4 eo of A plish. The mineral formations r oot . 0: a ill c" gium are different from those ('' i s for st aee e t ori? it is well known that the being p lily o eof e oi.t ill ° y and the coal in another, there i hlglaboA3,6 tied, miles between. It thus becotoof!,oeit.,o,l44 an easy and economical modjive ''' -060714 o f t a i i ot e point to point. The Weiternini t he 1',,, $ 3 of,iperr 6 trict by going to the westwar" he , oop e oil le r, b flied 11l v d'lleure, so that if that li A ri e w eie or r eei p pto 4 , bers, the disadvantages u n " e e r r iod labPeeo4ll titlie tricts have for so long 8 T line bsi, ne o ~.o tt iotO r petuateke Since the Centre - , 0 0 ov_., te' - 44 clearly understood, its ineritsi.eP coints4o,oooo.lo, ated by the inhabitants of u s ' in . ite 1 6 00 0 00 the line will pass, for pe titi9n the 001 4 1 0 to t ee .Ovil all the proprietors of land I n Suchforwel' la, t ori l . i e ed- • hood of its course, have bee° .. s . s t ile ' AN is el i presentation to the Charob,ei ts bl. th 'illy given us of the two Pe c tl e - c ed lvi OP th e ' e l t...int f I§. spondent, who is well acct - a a 0 _ nf lt a part fr ell memoir has, however, been tbe Tbe. I I . 4 0Id if r of the claims to. support, al l i t ,e. e _ c ~e 0 / public, of the proposed Ceotr.,,eies etef i ,' a ye 0:0 s m der - • the pen of M. Augustine mosiutin.alte and to which, as English tr! 00 t ocrw reference may be made for " I . A .rt