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army, and further ef a constabulary army, I have little hopes in any important reduction of our military ex penditure. As regards onr maritime establishment, I do consider that, even to prevent war, there is no force so essential as our navy, to a nation situated as we are, geographi cally, and with onr 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 last had the honour of addressing y ou 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-rates, &c. Let us see with what justice. The population of great Britain, by the census of 1841, amounte I to 18,844,436 inhabitants—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 suhurban parishes—of great cities and towns, excluded from any except the county representation, but with popuh tions strictly ur ban—and of the persons employed in the iron, coal, tin, copper, and salt mines, and also in the factories without the electoral towns spread over Yorkshire, Lancathire, Cheshire Staffordshire, Lanarkshire, Ren- Lew, Ayrshire, Stirlingshire, and Angus, who are in no way employed in agriculture, and my e:timate rather ex-- ceeds 2,352,031 inhabitants, which, with the above, is equal to half the whole population of Great Britain; and as the urban population are notoriously higher taxed, locally, than the rural inhabitants, the assertion to taee protection, on account of peculiar rural burdens, is far worse than valueless. I muit now conclude with one remark, 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; but his arith metic has calculated t'; at 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 them fsre the duty of Congress not to allow it as a raw material to leave the country, but to naanufac sure 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, Switzerland, 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, nails, agricultural implements, anchorr, chains; steam-boilers, engines, iron steam-ships, stoves, pots, kettles, grates, shovels, tongs, pokers, knives, f rks, pick - axes, and many thousands of other articles. Now, you are not wise. You lose all this money because you do not make all the above articles, and all the others that can be made of iror, at your own furnaces at Dundyvan or Govan; you will secure all the gains. Yon should net allow Mr. Napier, nor Todd and Macgregor to have the profits of steam-engines, boilers, and large iron steam-ships. Nor allow iron-smiths, cutlers, or others to rob you of profits wade by the working of iron." The man who would propound such advice to any one between the banks of the Forth and the estuary of the Clyde would surely be deemed, if honest, at least insane. Yet such is Mr. Meredith's recommendation to the people of the United States with respect to their raw material, cotton. The cotton-planter will, Notwithstanding, continue, in con tempt of the American Seerctary,lto send his produce to the market, where he will sell it at the best price. BAieving all proteeiive duties mischievous, and con sidering that if we ma;ntain tranquillity at home—peace with all the world—pursue our industry, trade and na vigation, without being t,:mpt , d into uncertain and dan gerous undertakings during periods of prosperity—legis- Fate wisely for the common good of all, end under our free constitution administer the government impartially and the laws jut tly--I am of opinion that we never had, with the blessing of heaver, a fairer prospect before us in Great Britain, and in our comraerciel intercourse with all the nations of the world.—l am at all times, yours faithfully, J. MACGREGOR. 1, Pritice'E-terryr., Hyde-pink, London, Jar. 24, 1850. TEEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. Lessee and Manager, Mr. JAMES ANDERSON. THIS EVENING, Will be presented, by her Majesty's Servants, Shakcspere's Hay of AS YOU LIKE IT. Duke, Mr. Catlizart ; Amiens, Mr. Rafter; Jacques, Mr. Vander.hoff; Orlando, Mr. Montagne ; Adam, Mr. Cooper ; Touchstone, Mr. W. H. Angel ; llosaßnd, Mrs. Nisbett To be fcllowed by a New t,rand Historical, Metaphorical, Allegorical, a:nl Diabolical Pantomime, by the author of " Bluff King Hal to be called HARLEQUIN and GOOD QUEEN BESS ; or. MERRIE ENGLAND IN THE OLDEN TIME, Private boles, 31. 35., 21. 12s. 6d., V. 25., 11. Ils. 6d., and ii. ls. FIRST PRICE Stalls, 58. s. d. I S. d. Boxes - -4 0 I Fit - - - 2 0 Lower - 1 0 171Ter Gallery - 0 6 Box-book-keepo' SECOND PRICE. Boxes - = 2 0 Pit - - - I 0 Lower Gallery - 0 6 No lialf-priee to Upper Gallery r, Mr. J. Povey. THEATRE ROYAL, IIAYMARICET. M. B. Webster, :Sete Lessee and Manager, Old Brampton. THIS EVENING, Will be presented an entirely new and origlnal Comedy, entitled LEAP YEAR ; or, The ladies' Privilege. Sir Solomon Soil's, air. Keeley ; Captain Mouser, Mr. ielby ; Mr. Dimple, Mr. Buckstone ; Winb , m WI:1:er, Mr. Charles Kean ; Mrs. Flora Flower.' ew, Mrs. Charles Kean ; Miss Sally O'Leary, Mi - s. Fitz rilliam ; Mrs. Crisp, Mrs. Keele; Alter The Gem yrs. 1. S. Tl:Jekir NINTH character "." STATUE or, The Jewels and '3 by Mr. Manyard, Miss P. Horton, gr,t Miss K. Fltzwillialn To conclude with MAKE YOUR WILLS. The Box-oil:a ,s under the dire on or 51r. I. T. Archer. TIIEA Eng ROYAL. ADELPIII. 'i'r'ctioP nS triadatue Celeeta• THIS EXTZNING Will be performed a new domestic Drama, called THE WILLOW COPSE. Principal characters by Messrs. Hughes, Wright, P. Bai lor( , 0; s=mith, Worrell;• - Madame Celeste, and Miss Woolgar. Atter which FRANKENSTEIN . ; or, The Model Man. eranken ttciii, Mr. Wright ; the What is It ? Mr. P. Bedford; Zamiel, Mr. 0. Smith ; Otto of Rosenberg, Miss Woolgar; Tiddlewinez, Miss E. Chnplin ; Agatha, n 53 Coveny ; Unable, Miss E. "larding. To be followed by a new slippery sketch called MRS. MIMICRY'S SPOONS. Mr. Ilighbury Barnes, Mr. P. Bedford; Bob Twinks, Mr. Wright ; Job Smith, Mr. 0. Smith; Mrs. 'Sunbury, Mrs. F. Matthews; Mrs. Ilighbury Barnes, Miss Brooks. RoTAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Undrr the Managerricat of Madame Vest % pole Lessee, Mr. Charles Mathews. THIS EVENING, Will be performed AN APPEAL T') THE PUBLIC. -After which THE ISLAND OF JEWELS. To conclude with HE WOULD BE AN ACTOR. Dress Boxes 5 Upper Bozos, 4s. ; Pit, 23. ; Gallery, IS. No talf-price to an/part of the house. All applications for Private Boxes must be made to Mr. Aileron, 15 Jew Bond-street. PRLNCESS'S THEAium. Mr. J. M. Maddox, Sole Lessee and Manager. THIS EVENING, Will be perfor:ned a new comic Opera, entitled THE VALLEY OF ANDORRE. To conclude with KING JAMIE ; or, Harlequin and Magic Fiddle Harlequin, Mr. Bologna ; Pantaloon, Mr. Paulo ; Clown, Mr. Flea more ; Columbine, Miss Fawcett. ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. FRENCH PLAYS AND OPERA COMIQUE. _ _ Mr. MITCHELL begs respectfully to announce that the French Performances at the St. James's Theatre will commence TO-MORROW EVENING, At Half-past Seven, when will be performed UN TIGRE DE BENGALE. After which LE MAITRE CIIAPELLE. To conclude with a New Opera Bouffon, entitled LE CAID. The rlox-omco of the Theatre is open daily from Eleven till Five. ASTLE r'S ROYAL AbIetiITHEATRIL. Prom:nor, Mr. W. Batty. A Grand Juvenile Night, commencing with the Pantomime will take place on Thursday. EVENINt, The performance will commence at a Quarter to Seven, with a now Grand Spectacle of TILE KNIGHT OF THE EAGLE CREST ; or, The Tourney of Love, in which Mr. N. T. Hicks will appear. To be followed by a brilliant display of Batty's peerless scenes of .he Circle', supported by the accomplished artistes of the establish ment. To conclude with a grand Equestrian Comic Pantomime, by Nel son Lee, called HARLEQUIN YANKEE DOODLE, 1% ho came to town upon his little Pony. Box-office open from Eleven till 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, for Madeira, the Cape de Verde Islands, Sierra Leone, and the island of Ascension, to be conveyed by her Ma jesty's steam•ress©l Gladiator, appointed to sail from Devonport on the morning of the 2d proximo. Letters for Madeira and the Cape de Verde Islands will be liable to a pottige of 1:. 10d. per half-aunce; newspapers 2d., which must be prepaid. Sierra Leone and Ascension letters ls. per half-ounce; newspapers free. For the Cape of Good Hope, on the evening cf the 4th, to be forwarded by her Majesty's steam.vesFel Hermes, ap pointed to. sail from Portsmouth on the morning of the sth proximo; letters le. per half-ounce; newspapers free. Both must be specially addressed by the above vessels. The Hermes will convey dispatches for his Ex cellency Sir Harry Smith, G.C.B. GENERAL ANNUITY SOCIETY.•-•-.A numerously at tended meeting of this society was held yesterday in ti e London Tavern, Mr. Henry Pownall in the chair. The usual annual report stat'd that eleven persons had been placed on the funds during the lest year, and that seven d persons—three males and four females —Were that ay to be elected from among 110 deserving applicants. The number of annuitants reported was 33-20 females and 13 males, one ef whom is 91 years cf age; only one under 50. The ainuities had been increased to the maximum amount allowed by the rules ef the society, namely, 21. ss. per month for man, and 1/. 109. 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. Tee total receipts were 2,571/. 2s. 93. The amount paid to annuitant s was 7264 sg. Stock had been purchar-ed to the value cf 5001., and ulcer all expenses had been paid, there remained in the bank a balance of 4341. 7s. It is intended hereafter to invest in the public funds all life subscriptions and donations of 5/. and up wards, the dividends of which shall be applicable to the general purposes of the institution. It was proposed to • hold the next festival on tFe 6th of March, when the Right Hon. E. H. Stanley, M.P., will preside. LOCOMOTIVE POWER.—German papers state that Mr. Gunther, the head of the locomotive factory at Neustadt, near Vienna, has solved the problem relative to the ascent ef trains on inclined planes; and built an engine which will draw, with ease , up an incline, of 4deg. to 50 deg., a train of the weight of 2,i00 tons. emu s 7 —Mining Journal. 4 ke/i, OP AN EAST INDIAMAsY.-13OULOGNE, JAN. .# : 1 ;277.-!.- stony bound d sh f ip L P , al d er o m o c w , a fr s o e m nti C re a l n y to w n r , e C ck a e p ci %gtis'l - . ' :-rtikil:t-iie A bell, ' er o e u r n Dan o e r , .. - r1.. 1 : : -The 'pi_ , consisting of eighteen persons, and three five n leagues from Boulogne. ' PanOnf ; ITOre Saved, ( ) ''''`:.•,--:=7 - ' i •• 7 / `i,z„/ i ,. THE WEATHER.—SuN OFFICE, JAN. 29. THEIDIOMETER, Lowest, 37; Highest, 46; Noon, 45. BAROMETER, 30'08. WlNr.—The wind has shifted from S.W. to N., with a dull atmosphere. NEW NOVEL BY THE AUTHOR OF EMILIA WYNDHAM. Now ready, at all the Libraries, in 3 vols., THE WILMINGTON& By the Author of "Emilia Wyndham," " Two Old Men's Talcs," &c. " The wilmingtons' contains scenes which no living anti or save the writer of ' Two Old Men's Tales' could have written s well. Few wlll be able to escape from this new story when they have once entered on it."—Atheneum. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough•street. INTERESTING NEW BIOGRAPHICAL WORK. New ready, 2 vols., with Illustrations, 21s. bound, LIVES of the PRINCESSES OF ENGLAND. By MRS. EVERETT GREEN. Editor of the " Letters of Royal and Illustrious LadieS." " As a companion to Miss Striclxlsmd'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."—Morning Post. Henry Colbnsn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. T HE QUARTERLY REVIEW, No. CLXXI., is published This Day. CONTENTS: I. Natural History of Man. 11. Clergy Relief Bill. 111. Agriennure —Draining. IV. Memoirs of Lord Cloncurry and Mr. John O'Connell. V. Free Trade. VI. Venice. VII. Lord Clarendon and the Orange Institution. Jelin Murray, Albemarle-street. PAGET'S HUNGARY COMPLETE. ♦ New Edition, with Coloured Map, and SO Illustrations. 2 vols B'vo , 24s HUNGARY AND TRANSYLVANIA ; with Remarks on their Condition, Social, Political, and Econo mical. By JOHN PAGET, Esq. John Murray, Albemarle-street. NEW WORK BT AUTHOR OF " BERTHA.'S JOURNAL." 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Ireland. London : John W. Parker, West Strand HIGH WATER AT LONDON BR.UX4E. Tins DAY —Morning, 37 min. after 2 I Evening, 3 min. after 3 To-Moanow—Mormns, 26 min. after 3 I Evening, 4S min. after 3 4 0. -.sr A A." 7 ~. :,,, v,-;„ z .,,.,, EE jk oz. a : 1 tr ' = .. t iZVI4,. , ; , 1 4 ,4e -g , • . '-r- 1714:).F .,-- 04. 0 . 7 ' , A 41 T it ' -a l'`gi' - '''...- 1 .. ; • ~ ~.... V '1 4 ... .....-tik , a - Ra e - ..._. ZAt ..,, .....,/, . 4 <ev, alltrW - 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 annals of English Literature. Although the illustrious critic, whose sudden dissolution was briefly announced in our impression of yeeterday 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 unaffected lamentation. No age, how ever abounding with men of distinguished genius, can witness unmovel the disappearance of a mind so com prehensive in capacity, so agile in versatility, so subtle in sensibility. Especially have we reason to mourn ever the death cf a man thus gifted, when we remember that but one solitary representative is left of that glorious group (five in number) in the midst of which the departed essayist shone bright beside the brightest. A single member of that renowned circle alone remains to uq, the un dimmed splendour of whose abilities still continue, to afford the fittest attestation of the character of his remarkable contemporaries. Sustained, however, as that eminent genius cannot fail to be, in the midst of all his severed recollections, by a consciousness 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 ship, as he must inevitably be, by the abmb ing interest • of his profound and scientific re searches into the abstruser branches of natural philosophy (researches sufficiently important to 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 dearest emotion?, his most ardent sympa thies, his loftiest aspirations, were shared in, and re sponded to, by the kireired emotions, sympathies, and aspirations of his four noble competitors for celebrity. He must sometimes at least sigh for the return of that golden morning of his career when his thoughts communed with theirs in the city rendered classic by their presence. Particularly at this moment, when death must have revived a thousand of his most cherished associations, he will remember, doubtless, with sorrow the successive disappearance of those congenial and contemporary intellects the astute perceptions and varied accomplishments of JAMES MACKINTOSH ; the depth and lucidity of intelligence acquired by the indefatigable FRANCIS lionNEE ; the Hudibrestic and sarcastic jocoseness of that true dis ciple of PANTAGRUEL, 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 mcst recently deceased—FßANClS JEFFREY. Elsewhere, in this evening's impression of our journal, will be found 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, between the morning of his birth, in 1773, on the 233 of 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 com menced at the High School, and, as the record of 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, in 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 forensic 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 commencee. 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,"' or similar debating associations. With the dawn of 1802, however, dawned also the intellect of JEFFREY ; for in that year appeared the first number of the re nowned periodical with which his abilities as a critic have become for ever associated, we mean ne cesarily the foremost among all serial publications —the Edinburgh Review. Although the four opening numbers cf that great quarterly were superintended by the reputed originator of the speculation, the witty and earnest "PETER PLYAL LEY," FRANCIS JEFFREY must always be regarded as , 44 -fir s t editor, llis labours in that capacity beginning * Financial Reform : a Letter to the Citizens of Glasgow, by John Macgregor, M.P. London; James Ridgway, riccadirly. with 1803 and ending only with 1828, having ex tended over a period of no less than a quarter of a century. To pronounce any opinion on the papers which throughout that interval emanated from his own hand individually would be little less than an impertinence at this particular time, when his 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 been, 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 MAcArray. Whenever consulted, those brilliant effusions of the fancy, the 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 MOORE 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, Copal., and St. Andrew's, in 1830 ; secondly, in 1831, for the borough of Mahon, where he succeeded Sir JAMES SCARLETT , afterwards Lord ARINGER ; 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. A DERCROMDY) now Lord DUNFERMLINE—he was, in 1834, on the death of Lord CRAIGIE, appointed one of the Lords of Session, 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. WnsoN, of St. Andrew's, FRANCIS Lord JEFFREY, on her decease was subsequently united, in 1813, to CHARLOTTE, a daughter of CHARLES Winrus, Esq., of New York, and grandniece of JOHN WILKES, the celebrated democrat and alderman of London. Particulars such as these, uninteresting with regard to the msjority 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 embalmed in the amber of his reputation. Thirteen months since, on the 2Sth November, 1848, the Hon. Member for Glasgow addressed a letter to his numerous and influential constituency, in which the clearest and most statesman-like views of the fiscal and financial reforms, so urgently re quired and anxiously desired by the overtaxed, overworked, and under-fed pppulation of the United Kingdoms, were distinctly and intelligibly put forward. There were no specious fallacies, or ad captandum argu ments contained in that admirable epistle. Ic was directed to the reason, rather than to the pas sions and prejudices of the people. It did not propose to render Great Britain 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. I 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 did 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 national 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. Th 3 wheat was sifted from the chaff, and it was shown how our national expenditure could he 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 (sere 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 talented 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. MICGREGOR made no proposi • tion that could possibly injure the Liberal Cabinet, to which he rendered a general and most disinterested support. 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 wag, we believe, reprinted_in extenso, or at least in substance, by journals of every shade and variety of political feeling, and " wafted on the wings of the press throughout the length and breadth of the land.' It was subsequently 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 form 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 " Conservativc" 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 into a calm consideration cif the entire question of protection, more especially as it relates to a " bread tax," and duties on the importation of foreign corn, and la a concise history of the enact ments relating to the food of the people, and by the 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. They will find that their pre decessors have suffered most deeply, under the most stringent systems of protectior, 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 doctrines 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 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 fur 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. 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 cairn 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 own 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 ado quate 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 ne 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 fir 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 sod: ty," " their former habits of life," " the expectations and marriages of their daughters," " the educating and purchasing of com 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 friends, and to quarter his dependents on the public purse. These are the objects which they rt.:sire to secure and not the welfdrr, the happiness, or the prosperity, of the industrious chsses, wht , ther engaged in agricultural or manufacturing pursuits, or the mere labourer, the "hewers of wood and d; avers of water." THE FRENCH REPUBLIC. WTe have received the Paris journals of yesterday. They are principally occupied by the report of M. Tunas to the Assembly on the law for affording relief 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 fir the poor and destitute. The Legitimatist journal La Mode is to be pro secuted for falsely end calumniously stating that a coup rectal had been determined on at a Council of Ministers, over which the PRESIDENT of the Republic presided in person. PAR s JAN. 28.—Latest P r ices :—Five per Cents., BuIR.E 35 e 9 ; Three per Cents., 581.; Think Actions, 2,385 f. o 5 s BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK-EXCEIANGE, JAN. 28. Boulogne and Amiens, 73/ 8 Central of Franco (Orleans and Yierzon), 127/—Dutch Rhenish, 2—East Indian, 4 —Northern of France, dis.—Paris and It..uen, 23% Rouen and Ilayre, SPAIN. Madrid journals of the 22d have arrived. Their contents are unimportant. MADRID 13oLsA, JAN. 22.—Three per Cents. 294, account per Cents. 12:1 paper. Exchange on c Lon don, 90 days, 50 35. ac o t d ; on, GERMANY. ACCEPTANCE OF THE PRUSSIAN CONSTI TUTION BY THE CHAMBERS. The Ministerial crisis in B er li n i s over , an d th e 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 proposed by the Com mittee in the Constitution. He regretted, he said, that the articles had been re ce i ve d w i t h so muc h mistrust, and that unjust suspicion as to the inten tions cf the Crown had been connected with them. He was empowered to declare that in case the propositions were accepted, the Constitution w o uld b e acce pt e d and sworn to by the KING. He would not attempt to define whether the Crown had done well, or chosen the fittest time for the introd uc ti on o f th e 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 halt elected members, but it did not attach so much importance to th e ti me a t which it should come into existence. For this rea son it accepted the amendment of Cou n t A RNIM (above all u d e d t o ), an d, should it be carried, it wou ld make no obstacle to the Crown taking the oa th t o t h e Constitution. The second essenti▪ al point h e ld b y the Gov e r nmen t w as the creati▪ on of the Court of Special Jurisdiction for the trial of treasonable offences. lie 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 MAJFSTY, 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 (wecksel dcr personen) would not produce far deeper results? Tne names attached to the message were most intimately connected with the Constitution of the sth of December, and the endea vours to realise the German unity. If a change in this policy sh o uld be introduced, it was clear to him that the union of Germany would be inde finitely deferred and thrown to a distance Ile 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 cf the party of Anarchists, but he would not receive the approbation of Prussia or (Tammy, The Chamber then proceeded to die discussion of the articles themselves with the following results : The Ist article (which cancels the 26th article of the Constitution of the sth of December), and makes the publisher and printer of a seditious work equally liable to punishment as the author, was accepted by 226 votes against 100. Articles 2d and 3d, giving the command of the military force 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 Commission. This article is not classed among the essentials. Art. 6th, prolonging the time between a dissolution and summoning cf the Chambers, was accepted, con trary to the recommendation 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 the Second Chamber, was, with a blight amendment, adopted. Art. 12th, relating to the representation and go vrnment of communes (a non-essential), was adopted. _ . _ Art. 13th, " the validity of regularly published decrees can only be questioned by the Chambers," was adopted, contrary to the report of the Commis sion, by 171 to 157 votes. Art. 14th, providing that all the deputies and the servants of the state (but not the army) shall be sworn to the constitution, was adopted by 245 against 66 votes. . Art. 15th, providing that till the new election law shall be published, 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 Kiilizer Zeitung• of the 27th instant we find the following telegraphic dis patches . " BERLIN, SATURDAY, JAN. 2G, EVENING. "In tie continuation f to-day's sitting Vie Lower Heine . bas procceled with its resolutions on the propo sition contained in the Royal Message. " The House accepted Art. 13 in an amended form, whi(li was moved by M. Darr°, and consented to by the Government, viz:, The examination and decision on the legality of royal decrees (if duly proclaimed) fall not within the jurisdiction of the authorities, but within that of the Parliament.' (Yeas, 171; noes, 157.) " The House accepted Art. 16, treating cf the oaths of the Meail - e - s of Parliament and of the magistrates (yeas 245, noes 66), and Art. 15 on the continuance of the provisional eleetionary 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, have the previeus sanction of the two Houses. (Yeas 224, noes 100.)" " BERLIN, SUNDAY, JAN. 27, 8 A.M. " In the course of last night the House continued its resolutions on the Royal Message. " The House refused to accept Article 3, on the creation ef a. House of Peers (noes 216, yeas 96), end accepted, with a majority of twelve votes, the amendment proposed by the Count Arnim, which limits the number of hereditary peers, and to which the Government had signified its adhesion. The House accepted Art. 7, with Mr. Viebahn'3 amendment, referring the debate and vote on money Bills to the Lewcr House, and establishing the principle that the Upper House Fa; no right to int rfere with them except by means of a general vote. •"fbn House refused to accept Art. 4, on entails (noes 160, yeas 14f), and also an ame%dinetit moved by M. Viebahu, modifying the Government proposition on entails. " The House adjourned at 12 o'clo c k at night." DENMARK. COPENHAGEN, JAN. 17.—The directors of the 13mk, in a special sitting, resolved to grant the Nil • 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 Flyiyposten asserts that the tardy prcgress of the negotiations is ovi log to the perfidy t f Prussic,, 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.—llarnburgh Bor seithalle, Jan. 2. ITALY. The return of the Porn to Rome is to take place it is said, on the 2d February. The Austrian Am bassador arrived there on the 19:1). The PorE 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 DR. ACHILLI. TO THE EDI7'OR OF THE SUN. Sir Culling Eardley presents his compliments to the Editor of 1718 Sun, and begs the f.evour cf —in order to remove the anxiety of tha numerous friends of Dr. Achilli—to inform them th he is set at liberty, and that this intelligence reachei by telegraph, on Friday last. Torquay, Monday, Jan. 28, 1850. - - - IRELAND. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) TILE GREAT TREE-TRADE MEETING. DUBLIN, ➢IONDAY —The meeting of Free-traders was held at the Rotunda to-day. The seats were crammed to suffocation. A large body of the Protectionista, headed by Mr. Butt 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 upr oa r an d t umu lt 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. Batt 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 tha 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 prc 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 Castlewellan investigation. The Chief Justice, in pronouncing judgment, said the Court had no difficulty whatever in allow ing the cause shown against the conditional order. Ti:ey 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 &fcer 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.—Tiines. SAYINGS' BANKS DEFALCATIONS,—The informa tion received during the past n elk regarding the various savings banks' defalcations at present under inveqiga tion, has not furnished any additional facts of much im portance. Mr. John Johnson and Mr. Wiliam Johnson, the actuary and sub-actuary of the St. Helen's Savings Bank, have been apprehended and held to bail in 1,0001. each. The ascertained deficiency is now 9,0001.; and as 120 of the depositors' books still remain to be examined it is expected ultimately to reach 10,0001. The claims on the Rochdale Savings' Bank have been found to amount to about 101,0001, and the available assets, a ctributions exclusive of what may be re alined from Haworth's estates, the amount of which is very doubteul, ti w that litigati on be not are estimated at 35,000/. The sum sub scribedi .eas ceiebrieceya b y r r e m ain s r thep r omi se d i : e d trustees onedit: but rdsmi.on further making kinot up' th e d resorted to. Tt e number of depositors in this bank was 3,000, including £everal friendly societies who'e claims are open to dispute, but who have received an in timation of the desire of the trustees that they should be treated on the same fooling as all the other parties. The investigation at the Scarborough Savings' Bank is pr ; .0 t p r:lant presentiocnon had ac (i being io bn E en t ni e t , h w zt goingeh n, still in progress, and the de f alcations 1 a7e already bean found much greater than had been anticipated, a ta n i i n r, ed the am l o n l i i )s n yte t ia, on for about eighteen 3,000/. and 4,000/. In this case, as in that of the St. Savings' Bank nothing fuither 1, u 3 transpired; I th le e len a ': " B r Aylesbury but a Lew case has just been reported from Jedburgh, a clerk in the savings' Lalk in that town having absconded with 50Cl. We regret to state that, in consequence of a severe accident, Sir Augustus Clinrd will be prevented from attending his duties at the House. of Lords for a short time. Applications fir a !mission may, however, during his absence, be made to Mr. Pulman, the yeoman miher. MANCHESTER, SHEFFIELD, AND LINCOLNSHIRE RAILWAY.—The Government inspector has twice been over the Ciarehoretvfh and Saxilby branches a this company, but re`uses to give his certificate for epenivg, owing, aile% , ), V) toe in9f.cotity or 0.2 e tit iii 2pect and report upon which the company have jurt appointed Messrs. Stephenson And Ronda, the en gineers, MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, QUARTER TO THREE. The Cotton Market at Liverpool yesterday vas steady, but dull. Sales 6,000 bales.—Railway Shares were rather besvier. We are authorised by Messrs. Franks and Millard to state that no contract has been entered into by them for 5,000 bags of Ceylon coffee, as represented in the letter of Mr. James Goodison, which appeared in The Sun of lust evening. The following is another eery late letter upon this very interesting subject:— " Liverpool, Jan. 25, 1850. " Sir s —By the arrival to-day of the Eurydice, from Pernambuco, we are put in possession of advices from Messrs. Edward Johnston and Co., of Rio do Janeiro, to the 15th December. " The quotations of Coffee on that day were for Superiors... 5,200 to 5,300r5. per arr., 495. 6d. to 50s. 3d. Good Ist ... 4,900 to 5,000r5. ~ 465. 11d. to 475. 9d. Ist ordinary 4,600 to 4,700r5. , 445. 24. to 455. 31 per cwt. free on b oar d, ex ' freight ex 27id. Up to the Ist December very heavy sales were made at these quctstions, but on the date of our advices our friends report prices as nominal. " The shipments from the Ist to the 15th December ansouniel to 26,741 bags. The excessive high prices dernatded had obliged consigne s of vessels to said them back to the sates and elsewhere in ballast. The stock of coffee - had in consequence accumulat.d, and was estimated on the date of our advices at 90,000 to 100,000 bags in 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 since, and the now crop (which promises to be very abundant) is expected at market in Mardi. "Exchange 27-id. to 27'1d. at which rates business had been done for the Linnet packet. All depended on the sales of coffee, as to how it would rule rfterwards. " Freights were quite nominal, no cargoes offering f,r 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 prosperous. Our Sydr ey dates are to Septe-nber 22d, and the state of trade was then tolerably good. Franlifort adiicee, of the 26th instant, state that Austrian Metallies were quoted 85, and Spanish Three Eer Cents. 29a. At Amsterdam, on the 27th, the home securities were quiet, and foreign well supported. 8.- ruvian and Portuguese again higher. There is a listless-market again fur Public Securities, and prices are not quite so good. The idea cf a stout opposition in the Lords and a movement in favour of protection is one 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 even balance of opinion which keeps the gut t.tions so steady. Consols have been 96 to Efor Transfer, and 96* to for Time. - The New Three-and-a-Quarter per C , ,ntF. have realised 9SI 4. Bard( Stock is not higher than 205 k. Exchequer-bills-are 58s. to 615., and India Bends 90s. to 935. premium. - In the Foreign Markt t the South American stocks have lem feirly supported. Peruvian Ac:tive Bonds have rallied to 72, and the Deferred to 28i and 29. Grenada Benda have been marked 18k, Equador Mexican 29a t) 1, and Dutch Twc-and-i-llalf p er Cents. have been sq, and Russian hale again touched 1101. The scrip is - 31 to n premium.. in Railway Shares there has been rery little doing. North Staffords a-e flatter, Great Western hive ad vance], North-Western are much the same, Reading, Guileford, and Reigate not so good, and the foreign lines are steady generally. BRITISH - FUNDS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. (From the Official List.) Barik Stock 205 14 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 96 I A IAA S per Cent. _Consols Anna New VA per Cent. Antes. Long Annuities, Exp. Jan. sth, 1860 B 5/ 8 11-16 D 0.30 Years, Expire Oct. 10, 1859 ,-- Do. 30 Years, Expire Jan. 5, 1860— 8 5-16 India Stock Do. Bonds, 10001 93 FO p Ditto-under 1.0001 Consols for Account Exchequer Bills. I%d. 2d. March. June. 1,0691. -5001. 5B 61 p Small - 58 61 p PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE :O'CLOCK. - Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent_ Ditto New 80nd5,1829 and 1839 87 Ditto, New, 1843 Equador Bonds ... 4% Grenada, 1 per Cent. lB% Mexican 80ni5,1846,5 per Cent., CouponS Ditto Ex Jan. Coupons Ditto Account Peruvian Bonds, 4 per Cent 72 Ditto Deferred Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent • Ditto 4 per Cent. - Russian Bonds, 1822, 5 per Cent llO% Ditto Scrip Spanish Bands, 5 per Cent,l840 Spanish Batas, 3 per Cent 36 1 -A Venezuela "Bonds ...- Do. Deferred . 1234 Dividends on the above payable in London. Dutch 2% per Cent., 12 Guild BUSINESS - DONE IN RAILWAY SHARES AT ONE -O'CLOCK RAILWAYS. PAID. PER Smuts. therdeen - - 5,9 Ditto, Preference ‘, lil Ibl r., Noiting., Boston, &c. 746 kyrshire and Galloway lie !fast art l County Down .. 28 .. .. -- 3erks - and Hants Extension (Gt. Wet. Ferpet. 5 per ct.) 6 lirmi tignain & c afordJ unct., calla duly pd, or with guar. 20 , — x. i. to Do., without a guarantee... 20 . lirminghain,Wol., & Dudley, calls duly pd,-or with guar. 10 ..... Do.;Without a guarantee... 10 3ianing., Wol., & Stour Val. 13/.14a — Birlsenhks:ad, Lancashire, and Cheshire Junction Bristol and- Exeter Do.; Thirds - 2lili duckingharnshire..• 17 1 ,4 - .. .. to aledonian ..., 5O .. -... 1214 ...... to Ditto, New 10/. Preference 10 ...-,.. 7 Ti 3 to 8 1 ,i Ditto, Clydesdale Junction 50 Mester and Holyhead... ..... 50 ..... Ditto, Preference CI trance. . _ _ . .... ••..... to Do., Ist Class, 6 per Cent... 10 D0.,2d Class, 5 per Cent... 10 Do., Gov. Loan, 4 per Cent. 10 Oireet London & Portsmouth 5. 1 ,4 .•i:Utib .1./V11, , a , • ..... )u.blin and Belfast Junction.. 40 Dundalk and Enniskillen ... 30 ...... East Anglia, 25/. L. & L, azd L. & D , Ditto, 181., E. Cr. H lB ... .. Do, 31. Dl:., 6p. Ct. Pref. 3% — Do, 71.17e.,7 par Ct. Prof. 2 - Eastern Counties D o , Now Guarant. 6 per Ct. 10 Do. Exten., 5 per ct. No. 1,6/. 134. 4d .. p... to Do., do.-- N 0.2,6/. 138. 4d — p—to Do., Northern & Eastern... 50 Do., 5 per cent. Ditto, New ... .. 43 . .... ..:-. Eastern Union, Class A (late E. U. Shares) ...... ... .. 25 Ditto, ditto, Class A, ditto 6 . Ditto, do, Class B & C 25 — to Ditto Scrip (Alta. 6 per ct.) 20 . 15% to East Lancashire ...,. ......... 25 Ditto, New ... ........•..... . 25 Do., New Quarters Do., 6 per Cont. Preference Quarter Shares 6;i...... . to Fast Lincolnshire Edinburgh and Glasgow 50 Ditto, Half Shares Edinburgh and Northern ... 25 ...... Ditto, New port.. ... ..... .. 15 Exeter, Yeovil, & Dorchester 2% 2 ... .. to -- Exeter and Exm0uth......... 21s. ,;lase,., Dumfries, & Carlisle..Bl. bs.Bd — .. .... to ,ilasgow, Kilmarnock, & Ayr 50 - Do. Preference Consolidated 4.... to -- Gloucester and Dean Forest.. 1 11 2 •••.. to Great Northern Do. 1 6 A Deferred ..... ... 12% 3 I A) to Do. -1 ,4 13 6 per Cent....... 7,, Do., 5 - per Cent. Pref. ...... 12% — Gt. South. & West. (Ireland) 50 ...... 30 Great North of England 100 Ditto, Ne44o/........ .. •• 40 Ditto, ditto .... ........... 35 Ditto, New 301. 3O ... Ditto, New 151 l5 •••••• . ••• to Great Western 100 Ditto, Half Shares Ditto, Quarter Shares - Ditto, Fifths 2O Do. New 17/ l5 .. ... 0 1 / 8 ...... to Hull and Selby 5O lO3 ..... to 101 Ditto, Half Shares .. ...... 25 — . .... to Ditto,Quartcr Shares .... 12% — Lancaster and Car1i51e........ 50 D0., Thirds I .oncashire and Yorkshire ...100 ..... ...... to Ditto, ditto ... 93 Ditto Half Shares ..... ... 49 Ditto Quarters ...... ......... 23 1 ,4 — Ditto Fifths Ditto, Thirds - Do., Now Guar. 6 per cent Do. (Rudders. and Sheff.) 50 - Do., West Riding Union—. 10 .... • .., —. to Do., Preston and Wyre ... 25 Do., do., Half Shares (A) 10 . _ . - - Leeds and Bradford 5O .....104 ...,.. to 103 Leeds and Thirsk Do. ,do., Prefer., 6 per Cent. 3%. •••• ...,. t o _ Ditto, ditto... Ditto, ditto ..... ... No. 3 5 Do. Pref. Quarters, 1818... 9 Llverpool,Crosby, andSouth port.. - London & 131ackwall ......11/. Cs. 3d — •••••• to Lend., Bright.,& South Cowtloo ..... 85% ...... to Do., New 5/., gua. 6pr Ct.loo ....„ ..., . t o _ Do. Guaranteed 5 per Cent. 9 . . — .. ..., to Do. Preferential, 5 per Ct~ 50 Ditto, ditto 1852 50 ..... London and Greenwich,.. 12/.155. 4d... Ditto Preference Lendon t; North Western.....loo 1161,0,4... to 117 Do. New Quarters. Do. Fifths to 1' 0.40 g. Shares...,.L. & M 35 — to Do. 101... IV. and P. (C.) I London and S. Western .......100 Ditto, Now 504.-- •, ..... 42%...... 'fl ..... to Ditto, New 40/ 34 Do., New Scrip, 1848, Pret 7 per Cent •.• 5 . ••• ...... ••• Ile to ..... Lendonderry and Coleraine... 25 Do. Half Shares . ..... ..... 5 .. ;,,.- ~, J , 1.... ,, z , -, , ,,,-j , ,-,, • , :j;- •. ---; Do., Halt Shares I.43 , westoff, guar. 4 per ct Ditto (guar. 6 per cent...., 13 - 'ranch Buxton, & Matlock 5 — ....•• t o nanchr, Sheffield, and Linc.loo Ditto IA Shares (No. 1) ... 25 'Ditto, ditto (so. 2) 25 o Ditto, % Shares (No. 3)... 12 % Do., New 101. Preference.. 10 ...... to Ditto, Grimsby & Sheffield 5$ Ditto, ditto. Ditto, ditto .... 124••.... -•• Ditto Sheffield end Line. 25 ...... ...... to Ditto, Grimsby Dock Ditto, Man. & Lin. Union • 41. 25.... ...... to Mid1and........- , 100 ...... t° Ditto, Consol. Prefcrcnco 100 Ditto. 501. Shares ...... 30 to Midland, Birm., and Derby...lW Uidland, Consol. Bristei and to Birmingham, 6 per cent.... 100 Ilidland, Bristol and Glouc. 42 Ditto ditto 221.75...... ...... to •-• tO ••• Ditto,ErewashVal., Pref... 50 Ilidland, Leices. and Swan- to nington (8 per ct.gua.)....100 . ...... Great Western (Irish) 47% ...... to illidcllesbro' and Rodear. 6 - per cent. guar. . ........ ...... 50 Newmatle and Carlisle lOO ..... -- ............ 1 ° -..":„. Ditto Quarter Shares 25 ... .. •••••• "" to 0"" Ner ?market ••• ......e... 23 . to " Ditto Extension Scrip-. 2/. 12s — ..... , . to Newport Abergy., and lleref. 6 Newry and Enruskilles Newry, Warrenpoint, and to •-• Rostrevor .......... •••.,•••• 20 Norfolk ......... ..... Ditto Igo 201. 15 .. ...... .- Ditto Extension .... a • _ Do. Do. 5% per cent 6 ~ ... Do. do. Waveney Valley.. 2 - ••••..to 7. Northern Counties Union . e• 4 ..... ...... W North British -.. .. Ditto Fall Share. -.. - ...... in t° --- Do. Quarters 614.••••• 2%.“-•• "" ti , .-- .... Ditto Thirds'..... 8i s ••• -- ...... - ..... to Ditto. Prefeience 6 ` 7 orth Etaffordshire... .. ...... 17% Forth Wales 8 1 ,6.•... -- • •••• •- .... 'Torth Western 13% ..... --• •••••• t° Oxford, Worcester, and Wol- to ...- verhampton ... .. 5O - •••... . Reading, Guildid. & Reigate 15 .. .. 16 Royston and ilitchin - ...... to w IBA Scottish Central e n ••• Scottish Midland .... ....... - . to , '''' Ditto, Now... 22% - ...• to - Shrewsbury and Birmingl .. • • ana 12% . -- ...... -- ...- Ditto, ditto, Class B. 8 Ditto, New Guaranteed 8 Shrewsbury and Hereford .. 5 Shrewsbury and Cheater to " (Nor. W. Alin.) - • ..... ... Ditto Halves, Ditto 9 ... .. —. • t o ••••• Ditto, Oswestry lB% —. •••• to ••• Ditto (New). - ..... __. ...... t o -- Ditto 8 per Cent. Pref.— lO - ...... . to Shropshire Union . 6%..... ' ..... to South Devon .. ... Ditto, Preference ...... .. ... 5 2 0 5 ".... ' ..... ro -•••'. South Sta ff ordshire B% — ...... to South Eastern: ........33 hi — ..... to Ditto, No. 2.... Ditto, No. 3.' to to Ditto, Registered No. 4.... 10 ..., -- '.. '" t --• Ditto, Scrip No. 4.. South Wales South Yorkshire, Doncaster to •-• and Goole - l2 - •• Sheffield, Rotherham, and . to Goole (N.D) Gus. 5 perct. 16% — "' to Do. do. (South Div.) 5 ..... ..... Swans. and Loughor and Ca- . to ". meren's Strn. Coal .. ..•N. . 7 ..... _• to - Taw Vale Extension ........ 8 names Haven Dock and . to Railway 17.4 ••.. to Vale of Neath Waterford and Kilkenny 2O ..... to -"" Waterford and Limerick... Waterford,Wexford,Wicklw, to •"" and Dub3in Wear Valley 6 per Cent. to Guaranteed Do. do. do. De. do. do. West Cornwall 7% .... to _ _ X riN ES. ;lo i axle, Khitehaven and Furness lB - Windsor, Staines, and South .. to ... Western..... Wilts . Sorner3et,& Weymouth 45 - to •"" York, Newcastle, and Berwick 25 Do. and Newcastle Exten. 20 Do. 0. 0. N. E. Pur. or Pre: 8 -• " ' i l to -- Do.Hartlepool i)k. & Illy. 100 York and Northillidland .. 50 to Ditto, ProfereEica FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Anglo Italian (late Italian . to and Austrian) bli, — ....... to ... Boulogne and Amiens 20;51..... 7 3 4 ... Central of France (Orleans and Vierzon) . ... .. to - Demerara. .. 0 ••• Dotch Rhenish $ ...... 2 ..... - to •., East Indian ..... 3 14 —. ...••• ..••• . to Ditto ..... ...... ............... 20 ..... -- ..... to •-• Great Indian Peninsular 6 •••••• mi... ...... to .0 . Do. Do to Louvain Ala t'fambre ......... 7 1 / 2 — ..... .. o . Luxembourg t° ...• Ditto ......, 10 ... . 23t ...... • .-- • . to Madrid and Valentin tO Natr.ur and Liege Northern of France.... . . .... l4l Bs.. ... (fir.- to- Orleans and Bordeaux:... .. 7 ... —8 % . ..... t° ~.. Pans rind Orleans... 2O . ~. ... to .... Pans and Rouen . 20 .... Paris & Strasbourg .......... 12 Reim and Havre 2O ....•• • -to '. Sambre and Meuse . Strasburg end Bale ..... ...... 14 , .— ...... to Tours & N anNs ... . .. 13 fournay, Jurbiso, Landen, to , and liasnit ... . ..•• .. 1 20 ••...• -- ••••.. ..... Weat Flanders B% — •.", to JOINT STOCK BANKS. to ...... A astral e.g a Briti:h North American Coionial ..... ..........., 25 ..... -- • to --- Commercial of London 2O ...... •••••: to •••• London Joint Stock 3... London and Westminster... 2$ _.. ....•• to .... National Provincial of Engld. 35 - ..... to - Ditto, New - ••'" 0 ''' National of Ireland 22% - ' ... to '""' Provincial of Ireland!: ...... ... 25 Ditto, New - .... to •• 4 Union of Australia ...... ...... 25 ...... -- ..... to " .1 Ditto, New .. 2% ...... ..... to "' Union of London ........ ... __ .. 10 .... to Union of Madrid , .............. 40 - .... an 100 •••••• " 15 Anp; I:turian am. • ........ £ 0 .°_, r••• . v- to ... Australian .___ 4 •••••••• to ... Barrossa Range...—. 2Bs --* ""... to '.. Blaenarvon Iron and Coal ... 50 —. •• m M'anes Scrio British Iron Brazilian Imperial ..... - "''' to Ditto Cocae3 and Cuiaba 3O - .• Ito Ditto St. John Del Roy ... 15 . - •• I to Cobre Copper General - •M.., to '''. Itf . at del Monte, Unregistered ... .. •—• .. " to ''. Do. Black Debentures — Do. Red Debenture s ... ...... -- ..**'' 0 ''', Sentiago de Cuba. lO ...... -- "' .: W United &lexicon ...... ..... 081,f, ..- _ t - LLOYD'S SHIPPING—(TiII"'. jplsl es. LONDON, JAN. 29.—Wind at noon NAT. , and fine mild weather. t afitbsf' OFF THE START.—Amet e l, V an Duyn, LIVERPOOL, JAN. 28.—Arrd. Columbi a, • ,„ . Earl of Lonedale, C a ll ao; A nn Melhuish, ditiv; 1 1 1 1 Lona, New O r l eans; Ch esapea k e, J33114 011 ' el' Seib, St. John's. N ev Brunswick. ..1 0 St ILFRACJIIIBE, JAN. 28.—1 t has blown SV, ale; during the ni g ht, an d h as cont i nued at Vir.L.c-get0,209 PORT TAL BOT , J AN . 28.—Th e H en ry which got on s h orn on t h e 1 9t h inst., Wass° o yesterday and brought in here. t LOWESTOFT, JAN. 28.—During a 1 ". ; ° -et) f 0 S.W. this morning, the Eupymeon, Lond,° l l,. o o ° „"l/ castle, and tie Abeona of Yarmo u th, were r letle'elP Newcome Sand; the f o rmer is wrecked; the le" been asi..MA elf with the loEs el the rudd c ' r " 0 0 ,gi will discharge. to c d fiee' WIVENHOE, JAN. 28.—The Emulous o '6 ll- H,, , artlepool to London, has been assisted off ‘. it -' Saud, with six feet water in the hold. et rise , cad MABLETHORPE, JAN. 28.—The Eater...P- d i from Hull, fur Spalding, was on shore at coates; cargo discharging. pret zlefl. le ° OFF DOVER.—Columbits, New Orleans la r d Por i PoRTSMOUTH, 28.—1 t blew 0 401 4 night, and continues at S. to W.S.W., with (3 "" ance of a dirty night. Ku oOs d WEYMOUTH, JAN. 28.—The Laurentioe:he Oi Micha2l': , , is very leaky, having struck 0, heavily in coming. o ,B a nd „do, ALDBOROUGFI, JAN. 26.—The Georgew e a % London, is riding off here with severe dani l 6lo lP lda r flying for assistance, having been in contact ty- iatlir vessel, when three of her crew and passenger 5j I ° l' board the latter. p e l f 1,, all ;or IlAuwicrt, JAN. 28.—1 t blew a gale j).•,cf-1 S.W.—The Isabella, of and from London W o g _coiej went on shore on the West Barrows, hilt P e d ofi leaky. The Premier, of Plymouth, Londo n of ow tie, went on shore on the Maplin Sand, Vi a° g brought in here. belly ; PEAL, JAN. 28.—1 t has blown a d- . I throughout the day at W.S.W., with sever e i i 0 10; 1 0 0 five P.M., more moderate.—A schooner WEI c f. l 6 f e r e .l l/1 , the Goodwin Sands this morning, and it is Der ° , Tr; the crew have pirished, as she disappear e chlit'V li d, boats reached her. Put back, Naomi, fo r , 0 ,0 0 `,4f a t dun, Bien a Lc one; Eliza, Johnstone , , May, Savannah ; and Bolivar, St 174° , ;# Cecilia, B . ) ror, AdelaiPo. South ilustra"; At e. I Streathau-, Newhoqn, India. of li. ve ss fi LLANELLY, JAN. 28.—A large quantitY pi le 0 0 floating at out the Bay, and the hull of a d 001 ~0 sunk in about four fathom, with figure - b e . B .„t. „jsr:o water, was scan on Carmarthen Ear 25t 11 1 7 0 - folPiostu t een $7 ll , HARWICH, JAN. 28. - A brig was the 26th inst., about eight miles between to' and Lowest ,ft. W . ci' L l eOr FALMOUTH, JAN. 28.—Wind W.S. t w' P' tian, Hanson, Rio Janeiro fur Altons; r 1,0 05, JERSEY, JAN. 27.—Wind AA ° r . A.l l flat :nab. t xr fro °. EnisToL, JAN. 28 —Wind W. 1 4. " • t Emerald, Fernncil, St. John's New Brun ° So cloe t o co 0 APPREHENSION FOR MURDEE•—Leoerstt v , de w 00 tg r the chief constable of Bradford (Ntr• epre" el'" to' party with constable John Shuttle w ortho i a c pie be r Irishmar, named Thomas Conroy, llsn n, o ,, f e eeP i t el , 4 .. r shooting Teren ce ,V P , O lO Queen's County, Ireland, on the last. The prisoner was immediately —Leeds Mercury. THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 29, 1850 I