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J. IiACCIREGOM 1, Princo'i-terra, Llydc-p...2k, London, Jar. 24, 1850. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. Lessee and Manager, Mr. JAMES ANDERSON. THIS EVrN LNG, Will be presented, by her Maj,sty's Servaßts, Shakespere's Play of AS YOU LIKE IT. Pule, Mr. Catti 'art ; Amiens, Mr. Rafter; Jacques, Mr. Vander_boff; Orlando, Mr. Montague ; Adezm, Mr. Cooper ; Touchstone, Mr. W. 11, Angel ; Roselind, 3lrs. Msbett 1 - 3 be teliewed by a New urand llisterical, Metaphorical, Allegor!c.,l, a•,d Pantmnltne, by the author of Bluff King Hal 'to be caned 11ARLEQDIN and GOOD QUEEN ISF.S.9; sr. 3IERRIE ENGLAND IN TIIE OLDEN TIME, Private bcxes, 31. 35., 21. } 123. Cd., Yl. 2e, 11. lit. Cd., and It. 13. , --, --- •.. Stalls, 5:3, eatt. s. (1. s. d. FIRST PRICY:. SECOND PR VW.. Ft ,N PS - - 4 0 110xts - - 2 0 tit - - - 2 0 Pit - - - I 0 Lower Gallery - 1 ) Lower G4llery - 0 i I uprer flalle:y -0 6 No 'tad-price to Upper Gallery, Itc)x-1:311c-keeper, Mr. J. rove'''. 11.tYMAItKET. , &Rd ftnagtr, tirotePtan- TIIIS EVENING, Will be presented an entircly new and orig;nal Comedy, entitled I.EAV YEAS: ; or, The Ladies' Privi!ege. Sir Solomon r Keeley ; Captain li user, Mr. sel y ; Mr. Diin;ale, Mr. IhrAstone IVillfarn Walker, Mr. Charles Kean ; Mrs. Flora Flower 'ew, Mrs, Ch3rles Kean ; Miss Sally O'Leary, MN. ; Mrs. Crisp, Mrs. Kec.loy. Mr. vt. Webstc After which THE IN - “ Tit STA_TCH or, The Jewels a The Gem Principal eh-tract. rs by Mr. l; nn , aril, 'tliss Ilona Mrs. itlickn , iihain. and Miss K. Fit. To con:iiile ;with MAKI: YOUR WILT The is ander the cilrect. !william ,fr. I. T. Archar. THEA rut: F.:,)Y.41„ A I,ELl•iii. •.)-:ie; - the :tireot , n <A diadsme t.;4 . lest. EVENINO Will be per!crme.l a new Om:nestle Urn's, called TILE WILLOW CC;DAE. O:nu:1, - n by Mersrs. 111,7,he5, Wright, I'. Itf 61- fot , , O. Smith, NVorrell ; .Madame Celeste, and Miss Woolgar. Atter which FRANK EN,:TEIN ; or, The M0 , 1..1 Man. franken tt,iii, Mr. IVright ; the WilAt is It ? Mr. P. Bedford; Zamiel, Mr. 0. Smith ; Ott , of Itoseiliwrg, Miss Woc-Igar ; Tiddiew;ucg, miss E. Chsplia ; Agatha, Miss Covetiy ; 2.71:01ne, Miss P. lts7ding. To bo followed by a new, slippery sket:l4 NBUR SPOON:i. Mr. liiglibury Ilarnes, Mr. I:etlford ; nob Twinks, 31r. Wright ; „LA) Siaith, Mr. 0. Sant!, : :4r:;. Banbury, airs. F. Matthews; Mrs. Eighbury itames, Miss Ilrookp. P.OTAL LYCEUM TFIEATite% ' 01 Vetnria Ti I it; EVENINsi. Will be performed AN APPE.A T PUBLIC. After which THE ISLAND OF JEWELS. To conclude with LIE WOULD BF. AN ACTOR D.c Boxes 44.; Upper 1:441 , 4*. 4s bait-price to any part of the house. All artpiications for rrivate Boxes cent ht, ittn,le to Mr. Ancroft, New Bond-street. en, . . 43llery, IP. Mr. .1. M. Maddox, Sul, lep.sco Manitger. THIS EVENING, Will be performed a new comic Opera, entitled TILE VALLEY OF ANDORRE. To conclude with KING .TAMIE ; or, Harlequin and Magic Fildle harlequin, Mr. Ito!ogna ; Pantaloon, Air. Paulo; Clown, Mr. Flex more ; Columbine, Miss Fawcett. ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. FRENCH PLATS AND OPERA COMIQUE. Mr. MITCHELL begs revectfully to ahnonnee that the French Performances at the St. Jac es'* 1 hes :re will commence 'I O-M ORROW EVENING, At Half-past Seven, i% hen will to performed US TIGRE DE RENGALE. After isdilch LE MAITRE CIIAPELLE. To conclude with a New Opera Bouffon, entitled LE CAI D. The Eox-orrice of the Theatre is open daily from Eleven till Five. A.STLF. RuYAL. Aaturtill tir..l i tt.t. Proprietor, Mr. W. natty A Grand Juvenile Night, eeinmeneing with the Pantomime will take place on Thursday. t'til, EV I N• The performance will commerce - at Quarter to Seven, with a new Grand Spectacle of THE KNIGHT OF THE EAGLE CREST; or, The Touruay of Love, in which Mr. N. T. Hicks will appear. To be followed by a brilliant display of liatty's peerless seeles of .he Circle, supported by the accomplished artistes of the establish ment. To conclude with a grand Equestrian Comic Pantomime, by Nel son Leo, called lIAh'LEQUIN YANKEE POODLE, mho came to Town upon hls little Pony. P.Ox-otileo ;pen from Eltrreii tilt Four. MAILS FOR MADEIRA, &c —Notice was issued yesterday at the General Post-office that mails will be made up on Friday evening, the Ist of February next, f)r Madeira, the Cape de Verde Islands, Sierra Leone, and the is'and of Ascension, to be conveyed by her Ma jesty's stmin vessel Gladiator, appointed to sail from Devonport on th,e morning of the 2d proximo. Letters for Madeira ar:d the Caro de Verde blends will be liable to a po:tage of le. lud, per half- iunce; newspapers 2d., which must be pre •paid. Sierra Leone and Ascension letters per half-ounce; newspapers free. F or t h e Cape of Good Hope, on the evening cf the 4th, to be forwarded by her Majesty's steam-ves,el Hermes, ap pointed to sail from Portsmouth on the, morning of the .sth proximo; letters le. per huff-ounce; newspapers free. Both must be sircially addressed by the above vessels. The Hermes will convey dispatch es f or his Ex cellency Sir Harry Smith, G.C.13. GENERAL ANNUITY SOCIETY.---A numerously at tended meeting of this society was held yesterday in the London Tavern, Mr. Henry Povnall in the chair. The usual annual report staNd that eleven persons had been placed on the finds during the last year, and that seven persons—three males and four females—were that day to be elected from among 110 deserving applicants. The number of annuitants reported was 33-20 females and 13 males, one of whom is 91 years of age; only one uncle! 50. The annuities had been increased to the maximum amount allowed by the rules cf the society, namely, 21. ss, per month for men, and 1/. 10s. for women. The report referred with pleasure to the large amount of subscriptions and donations contributed during the year; greater than it had been for the last twenty years, and exceeding by 1291. Bs. 4d, the receipts of last year. The total receipts were 2,571/. 2a. 9d. The amount paid to annuitants was 7261. ss. Stock had been purchased to the value of 5001., and after all expenses had been paid, there remained in the bank a balance of 4.54/. 7e. It is intended hereafter to invest in the public uads all life subscriptions and donations of 51. and up wards, the dividends of which shall be applicable to the general purpoFes of the institution. It was proposed to hold the next festival on tte 6th of M arc h, when the Right lion. E. H. Stanley, M.P., will preside. LocOMOTIVB POWER.—German p apers state that Mr. Gunther, the head of the locomotive factory at Neustcdt, near Vioera, has coved the problem relative to the ascent of trains on inclined planes; and built an engine ;Aid. will draw, with ease, up an incline, of VI deg. to sr, deg., a train of the weight of 2,:00 t ons. —Mining J ourn al Lose of AN EAST INDIAMAY.-131;ULOGNE, JAN, 27.—Yesterday the ship Palermo, from Canton, Cap tain Campbell, bound for London, was entirely wreaked off the coast near Dane, five leagues from Boulogne. The crew, consisting of eighteeu perm', told three DURllirlip were 01114 army, and further ( f a constabula-y army, I f aye little hopes in any important reduction of our military ex - per diture. - As regards our maritime establishment, I do consider that, even to prevent war, there is no force so essential as our navy, to a nation situate .l as we are, geographi cally, and with our trade and shipping; I will therefore not consent to diminish its efficiency, although I am de cidedly of opinion that our navy may be rendered more efficient at far less expense. I believe, however, that the expenditure since I list had the honour of addressing on has been greatly reduced. Before I quit the subject of taxes and expenditure, I must refer to local taxation. In Scotland, and especially in Glasgow, the poor -rates are exceedingly oppressive, and the Scotch poor-law remarkably imperfect. A great effort ought to be made to remedy those defects. Among other matters, the agricultural Protectionists complain of undue local taxation, in the shape of poor laws, county-rate? ' &c. Let us see with w hat justice. The population of great Britsin, by the census c f 1841, accounte I to 18,844,436 int abitants—that of the cities and towns, within the strictly electoral limits, of voters sending Members to Parliament, was 7,070,186. I have taken some pains to estimate the population of numerous towns which do not send Members to Parliament—of the suburban parishes—of great cities and towns, exclude:l from any except the county representa'ion, but with popul..tions strictly ar ban—and of the persons employed in the iron, coal, tin, copper, and salt mines, and also in the fact nies without the electoral towns spread over Yorkshire, Lancashire, Chcshise Staffordshire, La! arkshire, Ren frew, Ayrshire, Stirlingshire, and Angus, who are in no way employed in agriculture, and my elt,mste rather ex— ceeds-2,352,031 inhabitinte, which, with the above, is equal to half the whole population of Great Britain;. and as the urban populition aro notoriously higher taxed, locally, than the rural inhabitants, the assertion to have protection, on account of peculiar rural burdens, is far worse than valuelese. I must now conclude with one reinaik, on a mare's nest which the Protectionists have discovered, and in which they exult. The present American Secretary of the Treasury is not a Benjamin Franklin; Wit bis arith metic has calculated t'iat the cotton grown in the United States may be doubled, and often quadrupled, in value, by spinning, weaving, dyeing, or printing operations; that it is then f o r e th e d u t y o f C ongress net to allow it as a raw material to leave the country, but to manufac • ture it, in order that the United States may be enriched by all the enormous difference of value which is now gained by England, France, Belgium, Switzerlane, and Germany. Very flattering, I will put a similar case. Supposing my excellent friend, Mr. Wilson, of Dundyvan, or my generous opponent, Mr. Dixon, were to be told, " You do wrong to sell your iron as you de. After leaving your hands it is vastly in creased in value by being made into bolts, spikes, mile, agricultural implements, anchors, chains, steam-boilers, engines, iron steam ships, at ,vey, pots, kettles, grates, shovels, tongs, pokers, knives, f , rke, pickaxes, and many thousands of ( ther articles. Now, you are not wise. You lose all this money because you do not make all the absve articles, and all the others Oat can be made of iron, at your own furnaces Et Duntlyvan or Govan; you will secere all the gains. You should not allow Mr. Napier, nor Todd and Macgregor to have the profits of steam-engines, hollers, and large iron steam-ships. Nor allow iron -smiths, cutlers, or others to rob you of profits made by the working of iron." The man who would propound such advice to any one between the hanks of the Forth and the estuary of the Clyde would surely be deemed, if honest, at least insane. Yft such is Mr. Meredith's recommendation to the people of the United States with respect to their raw mate rial, coat m. The cettor-planter will, notwithstanding, continue, in con tempt of the American Secretary,'to send his produce to the market, where he will sell it at the best price. Believing all prote ;live (hale; mischievous, and con sidering that if we rea'ntain tranquillity at home—peace with all the world—pursue our industry, trade and na vigation, without being t it to uncertain and dan gerous undertakings during periods o f prosperity—legis late wisely for the common good of all, and under our fete constitution administer the government impartially and the laws ju , tly--I am of (pinion that we reser had, with the hi,- ssing of heaven, a ftirer prospect btfore us in . Great Brit a i n , an d i n our commercial intercourse with all the notions of the world.—l am at all times, yours faith fully, INTERESTING NEW BIOGRAPHICAL WORK, New ready, 2 vols., with Illns.tration., 21s. bound, LIVES of the PRIN'CES'SES OF ENGLAND. By MRS. EVERETT GREEN. Editor of the 11 Letters of Royal and Illustrious Ladles. " As a companion to Miss Strickland's Memoirs of the English Queens, this work may claim a similarly wide audience, and help to popularize historical tastes.' —Examiner. These memoirs are richly fraught with the spirit of romantic ad venture. The vast utility of the task undertaken by the gifted au thor of this interesting book can only be equalled by the skill, inge nuity, and research required for its accomplishment. Mrs. Green is entitled to the respect and gratitude of the country."—Mornlng Post. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. THE QUARTERLY REVIEW, No. CLXXI , is published This Day. CONTENTS: I. Natural History of Man. H. 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F RASER,'S MAGAZINE for FEBRUARY, Price 2s. Gd., or by post, Ss., contains : 1. State and Prospects of the 7. The Drainage of the Metro- Country. polls. 2. Ruskin', Seven Lamps of Ar- 8. Southey's Life and Corre ehitecture. spondence. 3. Leaves from the Note-book of 9. The Mlcraac's Bride. Part 11. a Naturalist. Part 11. 10. The Pat-office. 4. Aliwal. 11. Linne, the Woodland Flower. •5. North Devon. (Concluded). 12. Touching Opinion and Evi- Clovelly—Lundy. dance. By Morgan Rattler. G. Dom of Dautzic. (Concluded.) , 13. Ireland. Lordon : John W. Parker, West Strand Hula WATER AT LONDON' iIitIDGE. True DAY orning, 37 min. after 2 I Evening, 3 min. after 3 To-Moanow rydrK, 2G ann. atter 3 I Evening, 43 min after 3 THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, JAN. 29. LIERMOMETER, Lowest, 37, Higheit, 46 Noon 45, BAROMETER, 30 OR. Wier.—The wind has shifted from S.W. to N., with a dull atmosphere. 1 N 4 t fti;A,„I.L.AI 4 ak 9 i 55„....r.....,,,, ,i cal .c, i Z A.. . n r 4' 4 "L '' • ' , : ` i , 't te r '. e - .......-,i ti: ~t , * ~ c O. ~.- .7_ ""r • sl. 4 * 4 If . • _ _. NJ.... •• EtTrelxin,a 2''1111; LONDON, TUESDAY, JANUARY 29, 1850 A brilliant intellect has become extinguished in the demise of one of the most celebrated men, who, by their writings, have, in our days, adorned the ar,nals of English Literature. Although the illustrious critic, whose sudden dissolution was briefly announced in our impression of yesterday evening, had attained the ripe age of seventy-seven years before the day of his departure, it is impossible to receive the intelligence of his decease without experiencing some feelings of regret, or without giving utterance to some words of subdued and unaffi cted lamentation. No age, how ever abounding with men of distinguished genius, can witness unmoved the disappearance of a mind so com prehensive in capacity, to agile in versatility, so subtle in sensibility. Especially have we r anon to mourn over the death cf a man thus cd, when we remember that but one solitary representative is left of that glorious group (five in number) in the midst of which the &parted eAnayist shone bright beside the brightest. A single tnembf,r of that renowned circle alone remains to us, the un dimmed splendour of whose abilities still continues to afford the fittest attestation of the character of his remarkable contemporaries. &stained, however, as that eminent gt:nitis cannot fail to be, in the midst of all his severa - I recollections, by a consciouincss of the full appreciation of his great powers by the more discriminating observers of this generation ; consoled, in the midst of all his breaking bonds of friend day, as he- must inevitably be, by the absorb ing in:errst of his profound and scientific re sc.rches into the abstruser branches of natural philosophy- (retouches sufficiently important tc elicit the eulogiums of the astronomer ARAGo)— he cannot fail at times to lament over the departure of those days of his auspicious and memorable youth, when his charest emotion?, his most ardent sympa thies, hit loftiest aspirations, were shared in, and re p to, by the kindred emotions, sympathies, and aspiration? of his !liar noble competitors for celebr He must sometimes at 11:_et sigh fur the return of that golden rimming of his career when his thoughz , communed with theirs in the city rendered c l ass i c b y their presence. Particularly at this moment, when death roust have revived a thousand of his most cberi-hed associa!ions, he will remember, doubtless, with sorrow the successive disappearance of those congenial and contemporary intellects—. the astute rrceptions and varied aceemplishmf nts of JAMES MACKINTOSH ; the depth and lucidity of intelligence tcquired by the iadefatigable FRANCIS HORNER ; the Hudibrastic ard sarcastic jocoseness of that true dis ciple of PANTAGRUEL 7 SYDNEY SMITH ; and " last, but not least " among them all, the grace, the wit, the eloquence, the fervour, the acumen, the erudition, and the philosophy which characterised the genius of the most recently deceased—FßANClS JEFFREY. Elsewhere, in this evening's impression of our journal, will be f nand a brief but agreeable sketch of the life of this distinguished ornament of the legal and literary professions a sketch which will serve as the outline or ground-work for a future and more detailed biography. From that rapid retrospect of the principal incidents in his career it will be seen that no inconsiderable amount of labour was accomplished by him between the dates constituting the alpha and omega of his existence, Letvveen the morning of his birth, in 1773, on the 231 c f October, and the evening of his death in 1850, on the 26th of January. As soon after the time when his eyes first opened to the light (in that por tion of the Old Town of Edinburgh called the Lawn Market) as the perceptive and reflective faculties began to manifest themselves, his education corn , menced at the High School, and, as the record o. It is by no means surprising that :a docu ment so framed, and of such consummate ability, should have attained the most extensive publicity. It was, we believe, reprinted ..in extenso, or at least in substance, by journals of every shade and variety cf political feeling, and " wafted on the wings of the press throughout the length and breadth of the land.' It was subsevently published in the form of a pam phlet,* with 'introductory remarks and explanatory notes, which, as it justly merited, received a ready demand. Circumstances prevented the full discus sion in Parliament of the New Budget, but there can be no doubt that it will fjrm the basis of many ame liorations that will from time to time be introduced and receive the legislative sanction. This year the Honourable Gentleman has addressed another, and no less useful epistle, to the inhabitants of the important district he so ably represents in the popular branch of the Legislature, and which, with a due regard to the democratic principle, and the " ex tension of the suffrage," which the rapidly approach ing session must witness ere its termination, he has directed " to the electors and non-electors of the city of Glasgow." It is of a totally different character and tendency from that of last year, but we venture to predict that it will not be received with less approbation, or have a lower circulation than its predecessor. The former indicated sound and practical ameliorations in the existing fiscal and financial systems - that might readily be carried into effect. The present is essentially " Conservative" in its nature—" Conservative," not according to the old Tory cant, that meant dogged and pertinacious adherence to ancient prejudices, and a stubborn and obstinate resistance to the removal of abuses of long standing, of " aged vices, grey iniquities " but a firm and unflinch ing determination not to relinquish the free• trade policy, which has fortunately been adopted by a large and' decisive majority of the representatives of the people, with the general concurrence and as sent of the community. Mr. MACGREGOR is resolved that that there shall be no retrogression or reaction —that the nation shall not be deceived by the fallacies of the Protec tionists—that there shall be no resuscitation of monopoly. He has, therefore, entered I into a calm consideration o f t h e entire question of protection, more especially as it relates to a " bread tax," and duties on the importation of foreign corn, and by a concise history of the enact- his scholastic progress sufficiently indicates, pro ceeded from that period with extraordinary rapidity. Insomuch so that having remained a . . student at Glasgow University during four years, beginning with 1787 and terminating with 1791, i n the latter year he entered Queen's College, Oxford, and in 1794 was formally called to the bar of Scot land. Although subsequently to the assumption of that position he maintained for forty years his cha racter as an advocate, and during the latter portion of that interval acquired a large and increasing renown through his successes in fßensic oratory, the real field of his abilities was elsewhere, his true and most memorable achievements were altogether of a different description. Those achievements were wrought by the pen, not by the voice : that field was not dis coverable in the law courts, but in literature. It is with the opening of his literary enterprises indeed that the history of FRANCIS JEFFREY actually commences. Until then the riches of his critical aptitude had been frittered away in desultory conversations, the scope of his fluent and rhetorical genius had only evidenced itself in discussions carried on at the " Select Society," or the " Speculative Society,"' cr similar debating aw,ciation9, With the dawn of 1802, however, dawned alto the intellect of JEFF2EY ; for in that year appeared the first number ( f the re- , nowned p er i o di ca l w ith w hi c h hi s abilities as a critic have become for ever associated, we mean ne cesiarily the foremost among all serial rublications —the Edinburgh Review. Although the four opening numbers of that great quarterly were superintended by the reputed originator of the speculation, the witty and earnest "PETER PLYM LEY," Fiwicis JErrazr Laud always be regarded as its.fizst editor, his hibours 41 that capacity beginning ments relating to the food of the people, and by the * Financial Reform : a Lotter to the Citizens of Glasgow, by John Macgregor, M.P. London; James Ridgway, NEW NOVEL BY THE AUTHOR OF E3IILIA WYNDHAM. with 1803 and ending only with 1828 having ex- Now ready, at all the Librarie , , in 3 vols., , T HE W ILMINGTONS. tended over a period of no l ess th an a quarter o f a By the Author of , century. To pronounce any o pi n i on on t h e papers "Emil:a Wyndham, " Two Old Mem s Tales," &c. " ' The Wilmirgtons' contains scenes which no living as her save which throughout that interval emanated from his the writer of 'lv o Old Men's Tales' could have writte.i so well. own hand individually would be little less th an an Few will be able to escape from this new story' when they I ave once entered on it."—Athenienm. impertinence at this particular time, when his Henry Colbum, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-iireet. honoured ashes are not even as yet sepultured, and would, moreover, be an effort of criticism wholly and entirely superfluous, seeing that their merits are universally recognised, having elicited the panegyric of all the chief literary organs in the United Kingdom. Collected together in three noble and inestimable volumes, these works, forming altogether a perfect repertory of learning, eloquence, and criticism, have bees, some time since, published in a splendid edition by the Messrs. LONGMAN ; and we doubt not that the unex pected demise of the illustrious author will lead to their re-issue in a more popular form, for example, in a one-volume edition uniform with those recently issued of the works of SYDNEY SMITH and the essays of THOMAS MAcenner. Whenever consulted, those brilliant effusions of the fancy, ale book lore, and the intellectual judgment of FRANCIS JEFFREY cannot but excite sentiments of admiration at talents so versatile, information so copious and dissimilar, eloquence so fervid and classical, wit so keen, subtle, and sparkling, taste so exquisitely refined, and learning so repeatedly yet so unosten tatiously exhibited. It was the appreciation of these remarkable abilities, and the recognition of their generally judicious and magnanimous employment which deadened literary jealousy and disarmed poli tical opposition. Hence it happened that, not withstanding the duel with Moosz and the attack on BYRON, the distinguished critic to whose manes we are dedicating these syllables of deserved and spontaneous homage, acquired and retained the friendship, not only of those bards of immortality, but of almost every one of their illustrious contemporaries.! Chosen Lord Rector of Glasgow University in 1821 ; made Dean of the Faculty of Advocates of Scotland in 1825 ; elected to a seat in the Imperial Parliament, first for the burghs of Forfar, Perth, Dundee, Cupar, and St. Andrew'e, in 1630 ; secondly, in 1831, for the borough of Melton, where he succeeded Sir James SCARLETT, afterwards Lord AI INGER ; and, thirdly, in 1832, far the city . of E linburgh, as the representative of which capital FRANCIS JEFFREY remained two years in the House of Commons, with his colleague Mr. ARERCROMBY, now Lord DUNFERMLINE—he was, in 1834, on the death of Lord CRAIGIE, appointed one of the Lords of Sessior, having previously, in 1830, been nomi nated Lord Advocate of Scotland. Throughout the discharge of his duties in these several posts he obtained for himself a respect similar in degree to that acquired by him amongst his own immediate circle by the dignity, the ardour, and the devotion manifested in all his domestic rela tions. Married in 1802, to CATHERINE, a daughter of the Rev. Dr. WILsoN, of St. Andrew's, FRANCIS Lord JEFFREY, on her decease was subsequently united, in 1813, to CHARLOTTE, a daughter of CHARLES WILKES, Esq., of New York,. and grandniece of JOHN WII.Kns, the celebrated democrat and alderman of London. Particulars such as these, uninteresting with regard to the majority of mankind, are of immense interest in connexion with a personage like Lord JEFFREY ; and they will not fail to be preserved for the contemplation of posterity—the chips and straws embalmel in the amber of his reputation. Thirteen months since, on thn 28th November, 848, the Hon. Member for Glasgow addressed a etter to his numerous and influential constituency, in which the clearest and most statesman-like views of the fiscal and financial reforms, so urgently required and anxiously desired by the overtaxed, overworked, and under-fed population of the United Kingdoms, were distinctly and intelligibly put forward. Tlere were no specious fallacies, or ad captandum argu ments contained in that admirable epistle. It was directed to the reason, rather .than to the pas sions and prpjudices of the people. It did not propose to render Great lgritain an Utopia, or to attain an ideal perfection, such as never existed save in the excited fancies of some day-dreamer —but it dealt with stern realities. It regarded things as they were, and not as they ought to have been. It did not contemplate the restoration of the golden age, when " the lion should lie down with the lamb," and " swords should be converted into ploughshares." It lid not suggest an universal disarmament or a ge neral submission of all international disputes to the awards of peaceful arbitration. It did not propose that taxation should be dispensed with, faith broken with the public creditor, or our great wional establishments carried on and maintained without any adequate provision. It was in every respect eminently practical. Abuses, although of ancient standing, which had flourished during suc cessive ages, were thoroughly and unsparingly ex posed. The v, heat was sifted from the chaff, and it was shown how our national expenditure could be materially reduced, without impairing the efficiency of our national establishments ; how the most impo litic and inequitable imposts might be either altoge ther abolished, or so far modified as to greatly alle viate the pressure, and render the burden tolerable to those whose galled sides were wincing under the un equally distributed weight. Its principal recommendation, its chief excellence, consisted in its very simplicity. There was nothing that could not easily be accomplished, which the taleated propounder would not himself be prepared to carry into operation, if invested with sufficient power—if appointed the financial Minister of this mighty empire. Others might put forward schemes calculated to embarrass the Government, or displace the Ministry, but Mr. M tCGREGOR made no proposi . ti m that could possibly injure the Liberal Cabinet, to which he rendered a general and most disinterested support. THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDA Y EVENING, They are manufacturers of agricultural pro , duce, and it cannot possibly be desirable or beneficial for persons of their position or class, that the prices of the " raw material" the lands they occupy—should be unduly enhanced. If they enter upon the task in a calm and unprejudiced spirit, anxious only to form an unbiassed judgment as to the line of policy that is most beneficial for the community at large, and even for their orirn particular class, we promise them that they will rise from the perusal not "sadder," but infinitely " wiser men." They will rejoice, for they will ascertain that their position and prospects are much better than they had previously supposed, that there was no adequate foundation for the gloomy vaticinations and dark forebodings which the would- be prophets dinned into their ears with so much energy and perseverance. They will no longer be seduced from their industrial pursuits and active duties to listen to the dreary and interminable harangues and untenable arguments of the advocates of monopoly, who, while shouting with stentorian lungs for "protection fn. British industry," are really attempting to defraud their fellow -country. men of a considerable portion of their scanty earnings, in order to support " their own establish ments and rank in society," " their former habits of life," " the expectations and marriages of their daughters," " the educating and purchasing cf corn-. missions in the Army or livings in the Church for their younger sons," and, above all, the means of corrupting the free and independent electors of the convenient borough which returns the head of the family to, a seat in the House of Commons, and gives him position and influence to provide for his relations and friend", and to quarter his dependents on the public purse. These are the objects which they desire to secure and not the welfare, the happiness, or the prosperity, of the industrious elnstvg, whether engaged in agricultural or manufacturing purEuits, or the mere labourers, the "hewers of wood and drawers of water." THE FRENCH REPUBLIC. We have received the Paris journals of yesterday. They are principally occupied by the report of M. TRIERS to the Assembly on the law for affording relit f to the necessitous. The report fills several columns, and, as might have been expected from the antecedents of the reporter and the composition of the Committee, condemns in no measured terms all the plans which have been proposed for the formation of a public provision for the poor and destitute. The Legitimatist journal La Mode is to be pro secuted for falsely and calumniously stating that a coup d'etat bad been determined on at a Council of Ministers, over which the PRESIDENT of the Republic presided in person. PARIS BOURSE, JAN. 28.—Latest Prices :—Five per Cents., 951. 35c. ; Three per Cents., 581.; Bank Actions, 2,385 f. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON S TOCK-EXCHANGE, JAN. 28. Boulogne and Amiens, 734 - Central of France (Orleans anal Vierzon), 123 I—Dutch Rhenish, :I—East Indian, 4 —Northern of France, 1 1 / 2 dis.—Paris and R , uen, 23% Rouen and Havre, 934. SPAIN. Midrid journals of the 22d have arrived. Their contents are unimportant. MADRID BOLSA, JAN. 2 2.—Three per Cents. 29k, account ; Five per Cents. 124 paper. Exchange on London, 90 days, 50 35. GERMANY. T HEUSSIAN CONS BY THE CHAMBERS. The Ministerial crisis in B gr li n i s over, and the ACCEPTANCE ru 110 N O C F r R Ministers have triumphed, as the Second Chamber has adopted the greater portion of the articles of the Constitution which had been rejected by the Com mittee. The Second Chamber met on the 26th, and the Minister MANTEUFFEL, addressed the members on the subject of the alterations p ropose d b y the Com mittee in the Constitution. He regretted, he said, that the articles had been received with so much mistrust, and that unjust suspicion as to the inten tions of the Crown had been connected with them. He was empowered to declare that in c ase th e propositions were accepted, the Constitution would be accepted and sworn to by the KING. H© would not attempt to define whether the Crown had d one we l l, or chosen th e fitt es t ti me f or the introduction of the message; the Ministry took the responsibility of the act in both particulars. The Crown adhered firmly to the principle that the Upper House should consist of half hereditary and half elected members, but it did not attach so much importance to th e ti me at which it should come into existence. F or thi s rea son it acc e pt e d th e amen d m e n t of C ount ARNIM (above all u d e d t o ) , an d , s h ou ld it be carri e d, i t would make no obsta c l e t o th e Crown taking the oath t o t h e Constitution. The second essential point h e ld b y the G overnment was t h e creation of the Court of Special Jurisdiction for the trial of treasonable offences. He could not enter into all the arguments for and against it, still he trusted the Chamber would accept it, and for that support he appealed to their patriotism. He asked those who did not con sider its acceptation desirable, whether they could advise his MAJESTY, should the message be rejected, to swear to the Constitution ? and what consequence a procrastination of taking the oath to it would produce to the nation he would not anticipate. One inevitable consequence of the rejection would be the retire ment of the Ministry ; they attached no high value to their services, but who could guarantee that a change in - the personality of the Government (wechsel der personcn) would not produce far deeper results ? Tne names attached to the message we re mos t i n timately connect e d with the Constitution of the sth of December, and the endea vours to realise the German unity. If a change in this policy s h ou l d b e introduced, i t was clear to him that the union of Germany would be inde finitely deferred and thrown to a distance He warned them not to make the question of voting the taxes the rock on which the vessel of the State might split when just entering the harbour; he warned them, too, that the political opinions of many of them would be changed by a compulsion, not from the Government, but the force of circum stances and the patriotism of the country ; he who would concede nothing on the present occasion might obtain the applause of the party of Anarchists, but he would not receive the approbation of Prussia or Germany. soundest and most unanswerable arguments, exhibited in the strongest light the folly and absurdity of the bucolic agitation, and of the mania that has recently taken possession of the agriculturists, and which has led to the various " gatherings" which it has been our painful duty to chronicle and record from day to day in our columns. It would be impossible, within the limits of a single article, to give even the most cursory sketch of the historical research and lucid views exhi bited in this admirable composition. Our readers must judge for themselves from the original, which will be found in full in another part of this day's impres sion. We earnestly entreat all who are anxious to arrive at a sound conclusion to attentively peruse, and maturely consider the facts recorded, and the palpable deductions from those facts contained therein. It will, we can assure them, well repay the time and labour that may be devoted to the study. There are none who may more largely profit thereby than the agriculturists. They will learn the gross deceptions that have been practised upon their credulity. They will discover that nothing could be more strongly opposed to their real interests, than the revival of the obnoxious and inequitable imposts for which they are about to array themselves in opposi tion to the wishes and feelings of the great majority of their countrymen. Tbey will find that their pre decessors have suffered most deeply, under the most stringent systems of protection, and that the present distress is trivial in comparison to that which was endured by farmers when the importation of foreign corn was practically prohibited—when they were not only exempted from external competition, but even when a bounty was offered on the exportation of their cereal produce. They will perceive that the fluctuations in prices were by far greater and more disastrous than any that can be anticipated so long as free-trade doctrin'es are recognised and observed. Above all, they will be taught that it is essentially a landlord's question which they are expected to con test; that it is to sustain high and exorbitant rents and oppressive taxation a that they are called upon to enrol themselves as recruits, and not, as they are led to believe, in behalf of fair and remu nerative prices for their produce ; that they are en deavouring to support the luxury and extravagance of their landlords, and not to procure comfort and com petence for themselves—to enable the proprietors to liquidate the charges and encumbrances created by the undue expenditure of their forefathers, and to receive the same returns from mortgaged inheri tances which their ancestors did from free and un fettered estates. JANUARY 29, 1850 The Chamber then proceeded to the discussion of the article: themselves with the following results : The istarticle (which cancels the 26th article of the Constiution of the sth of December), and makes the publisier and printer of a seditious work equally liable to Euriehment as the author, was accepted by 226 votes against 100. Article, 2d and 3d, giving the command of the military 'one to the KING, and allowing the crea tion of a burgherwehr, were agreed to without discussion. Art. 4th (the law of entails) was postponed. Art. sth fixing the responsibility of the Ministers, was rejected, according to the recommendation of the Commissiw. This article is not classed among the essentials. Art. 6th, prolonging the time between a dissolution and summcning of the Chambers, was accepted, con trary to the 7ecommendation of the Commission. Art. 7th was postponed till after Art. Bth (the voting of taxes) should have been disposed of. Art. 9th altering the electoral districts for the election of he Second Chamber, was, with a slight amendment adopted. Art. 12t1, relating to the representation and go vernment of communes (a non-essential), was adopted. Art. 13th " the validity of regularly published decrees can only be questioned by the Chambers," was adopte, contrary to the report of the Commis sion, by 17. to 157 votes. Art. 14th providing that all the deputies and the servants of the state (but not the army) shall be sworn to th( constitution,"was adopted by 245 against 66 votes. Art. 15th providing that till the new election law shall be pullished, the present order shall remain in force, was adopted. Thus, only two articles are left—the Peerage and the Law of Entails. In a third edition of the Kohler Zeitunc of the 27th instant we find the following telegraphic dis patches . " BERLIN, SATURDAY, JAN. 26, EVENING. " In the continuation of to-day's sitting the Lower HOW. _has proceeded with its resolutions on the propo sition contained in the Royal Message. " The House accepted Art. 13 in an amended form, which was moved by M. Barre, and consented to by the Government, viz., The examination and decision on the legality d royal decrees (if duly proclaimed) fall not within the jurisdiction of the authorities, but within that of the Parliament.' (Yeas, 171; roce, 157.) " The House accepted Art. 16, treating of the oaths of the Members of Parliament and of the magistrates (yeas 245, noes 66), and Art. 15 on the continuance of the provisional electionary law. " An amendment has been introduced to Art. 10, re lating to the creation of a Special Judicial Commission. The amendment, which was passed by the House, and assented to by the Government, establishes that com mission on the principle of the trial by jury, and pro vides that the appointment of the commission must, in each case, lave the previous sanction of the two blouses. (Yeas 224, noes 100.)" " BERLIN, SUNDAY, JAN. 27, 8 A.M. " In the course of last eight the House continued its resolutions on the Royal Message. " The Meuse refused to accept Article 8, on the creation of n House of Peers (noes 216, yeas 96), and accepted, with a majority of twelve votes, the amendment proposed by the Count Arnitn, which limits the number of hereditary peers, and to which the Government had signified its adhesion. The House accepted Art. 7, with Mr. Viebahn's amendment, referring the debate and vote on money Bills to the Lower House, and establishing the principle that the Upper House Las no right to int2rfcre with them except by means of a general vote. " The house refused to accept Art. 4, on entails (noes 160, y els 146), and also an amendment moved by M. Vicbahn, modifying the G l Oyernment proposition on entails. "The House adjourned at 12 o'clock at night." DENMARK. COFENIIAGEN, JAN. 17.—The directors of the Bank, in a special sitting, r:.3solved to grant the Mi • nister of Finance a fresh issue of bills of credit, to the amount c f four millions. It is stated that the project of the Danish Plenipotentiary for the nego tiation of peace is based on the independence of Schleswig. The Flyveposten asserts that the tardy progress of the negotiations is owing to the perfidy of Prussia, which wishes to protract the matter as long as possible, in order to maintain the spirit of insubor dination, and to pave the way to a partition, and if possible to a complete separation.—Hamburgh BOT senhalle, Jan. 23. Brazilian Bonds Ditto, New, 1829 and 1839 8 7 14 Ditto, New, 18{3 Equador Bonds .. Grenada Bonds, 1 per Cent. ita cjlac m, 5 pnr Cent. 1845, with Coupons-- Ditto, Ex Jan. Coupons Ditto, Account , olfast & County Dow - n 28 — Berks & Hants Extens. (Gt. West. Per. 5 per ct.) 6 Birmingham and Chr -I,rd Junct., calls duly paid, or with a guaran. 20 Do, withoutguarantee 20 ...... ki rmi ng, Wolverh'ton, and. Dudley, calls duly rl, or with zuarantee 10 ..... 130. without guarantee 10 B riming. ; Wolvcrlepton, and StcAlr Valley 13/. 14s ... B rkenhead, Lincashire, and Cl•eeliire June 2O Flristol an ,1 Exeter 92 —.. 64 Ditto, Thirds ... uckinglisin :hire Celebnisn - .. 50 Ditto, New 10/. Pref... 10 Ditto,Cly desdale June 50 elaester and Holyhead... 50 - ... ....«.. Ditto, Preference l 5 Clarence Do. Ist Class, 6 per Ct. 10 Do. 2d Class, 5 per Ct. 10 Do. Government Loan, 4 per Cent. Direct London & Ports mouth Dublin and Belfast June. 40 „.... Dundalk & Enniskillen 30 ... tot Anglian, 251., L. & E. and L. and D...... 25 Do. 181., E. & 11, ... 18 Do., 31. les., Pref... 3% „.." Ditto, 71. 175., 7 per Cent., Preference... 2 . .... Eastern Counties.... 2O ... 7% .. ........ Do. New, Gua.6 per ct. 10 Ditto,Extension, 5 per Cent., No.l 6/.135. 4d.... p ~.. ....., Ditto ditto. No. 2 61. 13s. 4d... p Do. North. & Eastern, 6 per Cent. Ditto. 5 per Cent.... 50 Do. New Eastern Union, Class A (late E. U. Shares) 25 Ditto, Clam A, ditto... 6 , Do., Class B & C 25 ~.... ...... , Do. Scrip (6 per cent.) 20 ... 15 %...... ..... . East Lancashire . 25 Ditto, New Ditto, New Quarters 6 1 4 — ... ......... Do., 6 per Cent. Pre ference Quarters ... 6 1 A East Lincolnshire ...... 25 .. ..... ... • e]dinburgh and Glasgow 50 Ditto, Half Share s ... 25 .. Edinburgh and Northern 25 r -....... ..... ti,, xo Ditto, tera , is e ' o e v w i i p , o a r , t Dos... c . h . ... I: 4a .. . ..: .... .. .......... : . . Exeter and Exmouth... 21s. Gla.s,;ow, Du m f r i es, and Carlisle ....... ... ..- . .8/.65. 8d —•.. , Glasgow,Kilmar.& Ayr 50 ...... Do. Preference Consol. Gloucester & DeauForest 12% — -.. -.. , reat. Northern Do, % A Deferred Do., %B 6 per Cent 7% — Do., o per Cent. Pref. 12% — .reat Lzouth. and West. (Ireland) rest North of En gland.loo ...... Ditto, New, 40/ 4O Ditto, ditto - ......... Ditto, New, 30/ 3O Ditto, New,ls/ ...... 15 .. Great Western 100 ..• - 69 Ditto, % Shares 6O Ditto, 1 4 Shares Ditto, Fifths ,„ 20 Ditto, New 171........ 15 ... Hull and Selby .. ...... 50 lO3 102 Ditto, Half Shares ... 25 ..... Do. Quarter Shares... 12% — Lancaster and Carlisle... 50 Ditto, Thirds Lancashire & Yorkshire 100 ....„ Ditto, ditto . •..•• Ditto, % Shares ...... 49 ... .. Do. Quarters . ..... 23% — „....... ...... Do. Fit th5... Do. Thirds lB ..... 8 %... ........ .... Do. New Guaranteed 6 per Cent. ..... 10 Ditto (Huddersfield and Sheff.) 5O Do. (W. Riding Union) 10.............. Do. (Preston & Wyre) 26 ............. Do. % Share:: (A)... 10 Leeds and Bradford 5O lO4 103........... Leeds and Thirak 50 ___ 8% .............. Do., Prefer., 6 per Ct. 3 1 ,4....„ .... ........... Do., do. No. 2 10 Do., do. No. 3 5 ...... .... ... .......... ... . Do., Pret. quar ,1818 9 .... ....., Liverpool, Crosby and Southport . 10 ...... ... London &Mad:wall-11/. Ce. 3d... Linda!, Brighton, ad South Cort L.. .... 100 Do., New 51., guaran teed 6 per Cent..... 100 Do.Guarant. b per et.. 9 ...... •-• - Do. Prefer. 5 per cent. 50 - Ditto ditt0...... 1852 50 ..... - Londonand Greenwich 12/15a 4d... .. ... .. . Ditto, Preferener. .20 Londol and N. We Ntoni 100 116%!i 117 MUNE Y and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, QUARTER TO THREE. The Cotton Market at Liverpool yesterday was steady, but dull. Sales 6,000 bales.—Railway Shares were rather heavier. We are authorised by Messrs. Franks end Millard to state that no contract has been entered into by them fn. 5.000 begs of Ceylon coffee, as represented in the letter of Mr. James Goodison, which appeared in The Sun of last evening. The following is another very late letter upon this very interesting subject:— " "Liverpool, Jan. 25,1850. Sir,—By the arrival to-day of the Eurydice, from Pernambuco, wo are put in possession of advices ieorn Messrs. Edward Johnston and Co., of Rio de Janeiro, to the 15th December. " The quotations of Coffee on that day were fc r Superiors... 5,200 to 5,300r5. per arr., 49F. 6d. to 50'. 3d. Good Ist . . 4,900 to 5,000r5. „ 465. 11d. to 471. 9d. Ist ordinary 4,600 to 4,700r5. , 44g. 2d. to 455.31 per cwt. f ree on board, cx ' freight ex 2 7 d. Up to the Ist December very heavy sales were made at these quctatione, but on the date of our advices out friends report pr ices as nominal. " The shipmnts from the Ist to the 15th December amounted to 26,741 bags. The excessive high prices demanded had obliged consigne-s of vessels to send them back to the states and elsewhere in ballast. The stock of coffee hal in consequence accumulat:d, and was estimated on the date of our advices at 90,000 to 100,000 bags is dealers' hands, and 25 000 bags held by speculators; a considerable decline was confidently looked for in the beginning of January, as it was generally supposed the crop would not be so short as was anticipated three or four months sine e, and the new crop (which promises to be very abundant) is expected at market in March. "Exchange 274 d. to 271 d. at which rates business had been done for the Linnet packet. All depended on the sales of coffee, as to how it would rule afterwards. " Freights were quite nominal, no cargoes offering fur any part of the world. " We remain, your obedient servants." Accounts of August 11th, from South Australia, de scribe the Mining-share Market as being firm, and the colony seems prosp erous . O ur Sydney dates are to September 22d, and the state of trade was then tolerably good. _ _ Frankfort advice?, of the 26th instant, state that Austrian Metallics mere quoted 85, and Spanish Three For Cents. 29i. At Amsterdam, on the 27th, the home securities were quiet, and foreign well supported. Pe ruvian and Portuguese again higher. There is a listless market again for Public Securities, and prices are not quite so good. The idea of a stout opposition in the Lords and a movement in favour of protection is ono cause of the indisposition to buy, but, on the other hand, the speculators for a fall are not either active or confident, and it is the t yen balance of opinion which keeps the quet:tions so steady. Consols have been 96 to *;for Transfer, and 96k to fur Time. The New Three-and-a•Quartor per Cents. have realised 982 4. Bank Stock is not higher than 2051. Exchequer-bills are 58s. to 615., and India Bonds 90e. to 935. premium. In the Foreign Marke t the South American stocks have Lem fairly supported. Peruvian Active Bonds have rank(' to 72, and the Deferred to 28 and 29. Grenada Bondi have teen marked 18k, Equador Mexican 291 t ) e, and Deitch Twc-and-a-Half per Cents. have been 554, and Russian have again touched 110? The scrip is 3i to 31 premium. In Railway Shares there has been very little doing. North Staffords are flatter, Great Western have ad vane el, North-Western are much the same, Reading, Guildford, and Reigate not so good, and the foreign lines aro Et -ady generally. ONE ()LOKI: 0 P t:t.E! , —.P 'RITIbiI rIINDS O'CLOCK. 'PRICES. , ttrtt Stock 3 per Cont. Reduced Anis per Cont. CoTi2ol3 Annuities........ 96 1 4 06 96!,i 961 New 34 per Cent. Anus... ...... ..... . 98 3 / 4 lA% 983 / 4 New 5 per Cent. Annuities Long Anns. to expire Jan.lß6o Ditto, 30 years, Oct. 10, 1859 Ditto 30 yearf, Jan. 5, 1860. 8 5-16 8 5-16 India Stock — In di.i Bonds, 1,0001 ... ...... 93 90 90 Ditto under 1,0001.. ....... ....- 93 90 p 90 p Consols for Account 9 61A%'4 96% 7-. xchequPr Bills. 14(1. & 2d 1,000/. June bB 61 p 61 p 500/. June Small. June 5B 61 p 61 p PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. OAP: OLC6INc O'CLOCK. PRICE i 8814 87 1 4 84 414 18% Peruvian Bonds, 4 per Cent 72 Ditto, Account - Ditto Deferred Portuguese 5 per Cents. Ditto,4 per Cent. klusian Bonds Ditto Scrip Spaninh 5 per Cent. 1840 Ditto. 3 per Cent Venezuela Bonds, 2 per Cent Ditto, Deferred ... 12 3 4 12 1 / 2 Dividends on the above payable in London. Dutch 214 per Cent., 12 Guild. .. 55% PAICES OF rAiD - BUSINESS DONE ::A IL WAY SIV,E . EB. AT ONE O'CLOCK. Abordcon,. z .,.., ....... ... 50 ...,.. ........ ... Do. Preference Amber: Nott., Boston, and Eivitern Junction 7%.., — Aynibire and Galloway.. 72 - 63!4 CLOnNt, PRICES 1 T A I, Y The return of the Pore to Rome is to take place it is said, on the 2 1 February. The Austrian Am bassador arrived there on the 19th. The POPE has requested the King of NAPLES to grant an amnesty to all persons who were engaged in the war of inde pendence or of the Roman Republic. LIBERATION OF DU. ACHILLI. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Eardley presents his complitnrnts to the Editor of The Sun, and begs the f4vour (..f him —in order to remove the anxiety of the numerous friends of Dr. Achilli—to inform them that he is tet at liberty, and that this intelligence reached PariF, by telegraph, on Friday last. Torquay, Monday, Jan. 28, 1850. IRELAND. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) TIIE GREAT FREE-TRADE MEETING. DUBLIN, MONDAY The meeting of Free-traders was held at the Rotunda to-day. The seats were crammed to suffocation. A large body of the Proteotioni4F, beadA by Mr. ilutt and the Rev. Mr. Gregg, were in attendance, but their opinions appear to have been outnumbered in the proportion of two to one. The Lord Mayor took the chair at half -past one. The first resolution in favour of free-trade was proposed, amid considerable confusion, by Mr. Coffey, and seconded by Mr. Sweetman, the wealthy brewer. Mr. Galway, barrister, also spoke in favour of the resolution. Mr. Butt rose, at half-past two o'clock, to move an amendment; but here a scene of uproar and tumult arose which defies all description. Groaning, hooting, mingled with cheers, which lasted for nearly an hour, during which some of the free -trade leaders endea voured in vain to obtain the learned gentleman a hear ing. Mr. Butt continued to weather the storm with undeniable courage up to nearly five o'clock, during which he contrived to make himself heard as far as the hurricane of dissent would permit him. The Earl of Mayo followed; but at the time our report was dispatched there was no sign of the pro ceedings being brought to a close. CRIMINAL INFORMATION. -JUDGMENT. The Queen's Bench gave judgment this day in the case of the Queen on the prosecution of John Jardine, the proprietor of the Evening Post, for alleged libel or libels, originating out of Mr. Ber wick's report on the Castle wellan investigation. The Chief Justice, in pronouncing judgment, said the Court had no difficulty whatever in allow ing the cause shown against the conditional order. They did so on two grounds—first, because they were of opinion that the application was not bona fide for the purpose of punishing the de fendant for publishing articles, &c., calculated to pre judice on a trial; and secondly, because the applica tion was not made within a reasonable time after the alleged offence. The application was clearly not bona fide, because if the prosecution of the object was to put a stop to such publications, he would have proceeded against Conway at the last Commission, or upon any of the several opportunities he since had. The conditional order for a criminal information against Mr. Conway was then discharged.—Times. SAVINGS BANKS DEFALCATIONS.—The informa ,ton received during the past aesk regarding the various savings banks' defalcations at present under investiga tion, has not furnished any additional facts cf muc h im portance. Mr. John Johnson and Mr. Wiliam Johnsor, the actuary and sub-actuary of the St. Helen's Savings Bank, have been apprehended and held to b ai l i n 1,0001. each. The ascertained deficiency is nova 9 ,0001. ; and as 120 of the depositors hooks still rem ain to be examined it is expected ultimately to reach 10,0001. The claime on the Rochdale Savings' Bank hese been found to amount to about 101,0001, and the available assets, exclusive of what may be realised from Havvorth's estates, the amount of which is very doubtful, are estimated at 35,000/. The sum sub scribed by the trustees t twards making up th e deficiency remains at 13,00['1, but furth er contributions have been promised on condition that litigation be not resorted to. The number of d e p os i tors in this bank was 3,000, including several f r i en dl y societies whose claim! are open to dispute , b u t w h o have received an in timation of the desire of the trustees that they should be treated on the . same footing a s a ll the other parties. The investigation at the S car b orough Savings' Bank is still in progress, and the defalcations have already been found much greater than had been anticipated , the ascertained amount at present being tetweer; 3,0001. and 4,0001. In this cafe, as in that of the St. Helen's Bank, the misappr o p r i at i on had been going on for about eighteen years. In connexion with the Aylesbury Savinge'Bank nothing further has transpired; but a new case has just been reported from Jedburgh, a clerk in the savings' bank in that town having absconded with 5001 IVe regret t o s t ate that, in consequence of a severe accident, Sir Augustus Clifford will be prevented from attending his duties at the House of Lords for a short time. Appli cat i ons fur a !mission tr ay, however, during his absence, be made to Mr. Putman, the yeoman usher. MANCHESTER, SHEFFIELD, AND LINCOL . E6IIIRE ItAILWAY.-Tee Government inspector has tw i ce been over the Clareborough and Saxilby branches of this company, b u t re f uses to g i ve his certificate for opening, owing, he all eges , t o th e insecurity of the works, tom spect and rep or t u p on w hi c h th e company have j ust appointed Messrs. Stephenson and Rendel, the en gineers. Ditto, New Quarters 12 ...... 13N %•••"" ..... ..... ............... Do. 40/.kltares ( L. 1 14. ) 35 ............... Do. 101. (M.,& B.) 1 ........... *** London & B. l olest9rn l6O • ••• '''''' * DJ, New 501.. Do. New 40/ Do., New Scrip, 1848, . O W. ...e Prof. 7 per Cent ... 5 ...... AMIN ......... 0 ..onelonclerry &Coleraine 25 ...... -- •••••• ........ Do. 1 /v. Sharp. ,. .. 5 ...... ..... ........ .. ..... .ondunderry and Ennis- .... killc . n 25 •••• •• I•••• •• • ........... 0 Do. l<, Shares 6 - ...........•N 0 Lowestoff guar. 4 per et 20 Ditto (6 per et.) - ............ J. Slanche,talluz.ton,and .0. Matlock 5 ...... -- ...... ........ flanchester, Sheffield, .... and Lincolnshire 100 ...... -- ......."' ..... D- , ........... .0 JO. Quarters (No. 1) 25 ..... .. Ditto ditto (No. 2)... 25 ............. . D 0.% Shares (No. 3) 12 k - .......... Do. New 10!. Pre.... 10 •••••• ............. Ditto, t. Grimsby 50 Ditto ditto . Ditto ditto Ditte Sheffitid and Lincolnshire 25• ••• .....M.....•.. Do., Grimsby Dock... 25 ..... „-- ... ......... ' Do., Manchester and .... ••• Lincoln Union..... 41.25. — •••••. .. Midland „.... ....... ....it 0 .. - 44%.. . . ......... ••••••• ..... Do. CODSOlidatedPref.loo ... • ... Do., do., 50/. Shares BO ... ....• Do. Birm., and Derby ICO Do. Consol. Bristol and ..... Birmiug., 6 per cf.... 100 -• ." ...... ." .. Ditto,Brist. & Glocatr. 42 • Ditto ditto 22i. 75.., ... ....... .... .. ....... Do.,ErewashVal.,Pref. 50 - ...... Ditto, Leieest.& Swam.- ..... ........ ning ton, 8 per ct.guar.loo ilidiaud Groat Western .. Irish 47%...r•. -- ..... iliddloabro' and Redcar, .. ~• ...... 6 per cent. guar. Newcastle and Uarlisle.loo - .......... .. ... 25 ....• —' •• ....•••••.... ... Do. Quarters .. • ‘Tewmarket, ....... Do. Extension - ........ ewport, Abergavemiy, .. •••• and Hereford 6 ..«.. .... .1..0 ........ •• , Newry and Enniskillen 7 - ..... ... . " Newry, Warrenpoint, •• ........ 0.. and Rostrevor 2O ............. Norfolk/ ........ ......... ..100 Do. Itfe ' w 201. .. ... 15 ...... Do.:ExtenSioni... -- ..... Do. Guaranteed 5 1 ,4pc. 5 Do. do. Waveney Val. 2 ........... ••• • • • .. ...ill. N , irthern Counties Union 4 •..••. ... . ..... North i British ........ ... 23 .„.. Ditto, Halves .. ..... 12 1 ,4 •• " .. ....• Ditto, Quarters Ditto, Thirds .... .. .. Bi .. ~ .... Ditto Preference North Staffordshire ... 17% 7.k Va -4 " .. North Wales . .....• ..... North-Western . l3/ -- ........ ixford, Worcester, and ...... Wolverhampton ~ S, • '''.. Reading, Guildford, end ...... Reigate .. ..... Royston and Hitchin ... 4 1 4.. scottith Central ..... Scottish Midland Ditto, New - '• "'" ...• ihrawahury and Birns l 2 lh . —• ••'•...• .. ........ Ditto ditto, Class B. S - . Ditto, New Guaranteed 8 Shrewsbury and Hersfd. 6 - ........ Shrewsbury & Chester .... . ...... (Nor. W. Min.) ....... Ditto Halves ... ditto 9 Ditto Oswestry - ................. Ditto New 1 " -.•— ......... ...... Do. 8 per Cent. Prof. 10 ...... "" • ... ,0 . Skropshire Union .. ••" .sout b. Devon 5O - ... . .....e . .... Do. Preference ..••• 2# Eo..th Staffordshire B% .... ....... : ...... 0.. South Eastern Do., N 0.2. - •• ...... . .... ... P' Do., No. 3 3O ...... -- ........... .... / . Do., Registered No. 4 10 Do. Scrip No 4:' lO ..... --" •• .... inutli IV ale 3 6 outli Yorkshire, Don- .... ••• ( aster, and Goole l2 ...... —'........ Sh3flield, Rotherham, & • Goole (N. Div.) Gua- ....... • ranteed 5 per cent. : lB% — •" ........... Do. do (Bon. Ow.) ... 5 Swans. & Loughor & Ca- .... ...•......" meron's Stan. Coal. ... 7 .. .••• '" ..... O. raw Vale Extension ... 8 / llamas Haven Dock .... ... and Railway - ..... ..• 17% ..... . • .... ...... ........ Vale of Neath ... .. ........ W aterford and Kilkenny 20 . Waterford and Limerick 47% --........... •• Waterfd,Wx-frd,Wicklw ...... (aid Dublin 3 .«.. ........ Wear Valley 6 per Cent ...• &Guaranteed ... ... ......... . . Do. do. do. Do. do. do. ... 15 .. West Cornwall ..... -... 7% .. W'Niteliaven & Furness 18 4 indeor, Staines, and South Western..... ... 14 - ..», ~ ....... W i its, Somers . , t, & W ey - mouth York, N ewc::at le, and Berwick..... .. 00. Newcastle Exton, 20 Lo. (3,,N.E.Yretarcnce 6 • ............... Do. liertlepool Dock 0:h1 Lanway .. 100 ..... . .....•• York and i , ii.,rth sgidiand au iisq , 1' ate ...... ld FOREIGN RAIL WA Yb. • Al(,-,l It Tian (li(te ha- ...• 1 Tian and Austrian). —5% — ........... ........ Boulogne and Amiens— 74 .... 20 Celina! of France (Or- ............. % leans and Vierzon)... 20 Demerara ... ..... —,...... 17%. .... ~, Dt,teh Rhenish ...... ... 8 ~, Fast Indian ......... ..... 8 1 4... . ..... Ditto ...... ..... ... ... 20 . Gr D ea o t . Indi D an o. P . e . n . ins . u . l . az lo b s. ..... ............................... lj , Louvain Ala l'ambre ... 7 1 A . — ............ 531 Luxembourg ... ..... 8 „, .... Ditto 22i... •• • ... / 0 Madrid and Valentia... 2 • • ............ 2 ~RllN N) ::orao ll rurr ie liin e t a : I s : u nlraa e r esatu r . 1 nnAaacind and n i o d i i f i l tim irlL'ri Bordeaux..ae gn Orleanscee . 2 2 1 70 4 0 / . 8 : i .".. -3 % " A: Yt: ".. .....: ... .: : :•:: : I° ' ' '' . . .... .. ~ Paris and Rot aas te yeb n uieur.g......: 22 2 100 0 2 : 7 1 - -- . 1 , 1' . .; . .......................1 . : ://: ...... ....... SO, ... .... Strasbourg and Basle ... 14 ....... Tours and Nantes l3 Teurnay, Jurbise, Lan- ..... / den, and Hasse1t....... 20 West Flanders ..... .. ..... 8% .. -• .......... / / ••••• ••• ..• MINES. ........ ; An g l o - Mexican Asturian Mining Coin... 15 ~, AUstralian........ ........ 4 • --- "*. ... :: ... '' Bassora Range ... . ... 28s. ... 0- ......... 0 / Blaenarvon Iron & Coal 50 Bolonos Scrip ...... .... -- ................... .... -- ..... .. / 12 British Iron ..... Brazilian Imperial ..... 24 1, - ...... --.. / BrazilianCocaes&Cuiaba 30 12 - ............. . / Do. St. John Del Rey 15 .. .... '' / Cobre Copper . 40 General 2O Real Del Monte, Unreg. .. / ....... am/ • . ....... / Do. Black Debentures .— ....... ,' ..... Do. Red Ditto .. ......... . .. / Santiago de C u b a ... ..... 10 ..... .--- ... ' ........... . United Mexican 28% - •• •• ____,............._...._.....arvacr...mi1...... "1 VI-- 00 LLOYD'S SHIPPING 0110; " bre LONDON, J AN . 29.—Wi n d at noon N. " ' and fine mild weather. BatOl i n ts ' o l7ol, j OFF THE START.—Amste/ Van Day 13, ,, - ; , P - $130„„g 1 " LIVERPOOL, JAN. 28.—Arrd. Colun 3 litto; or Earl of Lonzdale, Callao; Ann Melhulit , a , re; d Lond, New Orleans; Chesapeake, 131° " -° I O. Tl' Seib, St. John's, Now Brunswick. a cats °- f p, ILFRACOMBE, JAN. 28.—1 t has blown re '' r.i.• dell' during the night, and bas continued at 11 i 13Stried ° PORT TALBOT, JAN. 28.—The IlenrY °, 00' 1 I which got on shore on the 19th inst., / 19 ”" le ll ' yesterday and brought in here. len t t V ti e f LOWESTOFT, JAN. 28.--During a 1 ,/ i° ,4l "C'no the S.W. this morning, the Eupymeon, I ,oll ",i r iren e ' r Po' castle, and the Abeona cf Yarmouth, we re f ie l il l t eo li f ; New come Sa n d ; the former is wrecked; -, O P - been asirist!..d off with the loss of the rild ue ' 00 0 hill discharge. , of eati fiell WIYENIIOE, JAN. 28.—The EmurouS ...- NO Hartlepool to London, has been assisted 0 - l Ol Sand, liA u l' E it T h li s o iß up fZt J w A a N t . er 2 i B n .— th ri e li h e old iatetrop rio r e th , c v, from Hull, for Spalding, was on shore a t ° 10 ° ' 0 CoatPs; cargo discharging. ore 010 0 OFF DovEß.—Columbaa, New Orleans fb ,, r d r e ef PORTSMOUTH, /AN. 28.—1 t blew ni . ; erf lie n g p night, and continues at S. to W.S.W., wit h -f fr o ~,,%_ ante of a dirty night. , , 0 WY if, ve J ry AN ica 2 k B y .-- , h T a h v o ing La s ure nt , ine ihe P r f Michael's,is talcs - e, °' heavily in coming. i 1000 tinuo et ALDBOROUGH, JAN. 26.—The Genre ~ a n d 00 - London, is riding off hero with severe danist 4 l2ll)- d °9 vessel, fw when cn th assistance, reeof he r hauls cr e g w b e s e n n d in p a n : s n e t i l li g e e t r if i n ) ll : ig i ou l flying o bt , board the latter. l ' JAN. 28.—1 t blew a gal e 11 Li f fe r t€ ll S.W.—The Isabella, of and from London for of el 00 A " went en shore on the West Barrows, b 0 g toPi d e ' ar leaky. The Premier, of Plymouth, Lond on nd °l) a OP , tie, went on 0 i brought in here. a belle ; I' d DEAL, plin Sand, lo g 5 JAN. 28.—1 t has blown .- a A tl _ 4O l O- , throughout the day at W.S.W., with Beery ov er WO' five P.M., more moderate.--A schooner we!' fon, the the Goodwin Sands this morning, and it 2 a 5 A boro'f0 0 : the crew have perished, as she disapPenbintiool' boats reached her. Put back, Naomi, w r r e ronttri don, Sierra Leone; Env', Johnstone,. s o •of May, Savannah; and Bolivar, St. V 11 . 3e . Wi fe Cecilia, Byron, Adelaide, South Australia; ri ci% i l l o f Streatham, Newholm, India. f /f 0 1. quantity LLANELLY, JAN. 28.—A large brie AP' floating about the Bay, and the hull of ba d 0 011" sunk in about four fathom?, water, was s!en on Carmarthen Bar 25th 7 0 0 1 00 1 BARWICH, JAN. 28.—A brig was teen ..., ErotO i ihrie the 26th inst., about eight miles bowel"' d L' t° and Lowestoft. „„..,,,.,trr ' rlti , VALMOIITH, JAN. 28.—Wind W.S. v' ' • OSP Yale" . WA i d ,,,... with figure' y e ti , .00,01 tian, Hanson, Rio Janeiro for Albans ., p I lins, I JERSEY, JAN. 27.—Wind S.—Sld. Ado Hayannah. fre,,sh'.° BRISTOL, JAN. 28.—Wind W.N. - ur ' !Ow emerald, Ferunell, St. jollies, New Bro il his. 29 29% 73 72 3 % 29% 13th 64 9IA dis , 7 1 4 11:% - P l A P 68% 34 1614 Ili 124% I 54 I,li 1 6 .• 151