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- an oPiPitiriartmrable to the claims of his Royal High ness. honour of stating this recently to him self, in coustquence of his Royal Highness having been greatly misinformed on the subject. ABERDEEN. LORD RANELAGH TO LORD ABERDEEN. Dec. 7, 1844. My Lord,—l have had the honour to receive your Lordship's letter of the 4th inst., and I observe, with more regret than surprise, that it contains no answer to the very simple inquiry to which it purports to be a reply, In the year 1837, when I first heard of Lord Palmer ston's instructions, I received a letter, from which the following is an extract. It was written by one, and sanc tioned by two others, of your Lordship's colleagues : " What you have done is calculated to make you stand well with the country generally. The petty spite of Palmeston you may well afford to despise. These people cannot always be in power, and you have gained a re putation that you have no reason to regret, however it may vex Lord Palmerston. I think that being quoted as you were by the Duke of Wellington, in the House of Lords, is full of compensation for what Lord Palmerston may say or do against you. Upon the whole, therefore, I would advise you to remain quiet for the present, and not suffer yourself to be annoyed by things which the petty malice of temporary authority may attempt against you. , With these words before me, I did not think I could be extravagant in expecting justice from your Lordship. For this injustice Lord Palmerston might plead, first, the insensible bias of party, and next, perhaps, an erroneous report, which, had he been in office, he would probably not have refused to correct. But what grounds has your Lordship even to palliate, much less to justify, this proceeding? I can imagine none, unless, indeed, I am to understand by your concluding paragraph that I have had the misfortune to offend your Lordship by the mention of public principle. My Lord, of the rights of Don Carlos to the throne of Spain it is neither for your Lordship nor myself to de termine. It is a question for the Spanish nation. I have a right to remind your Lordship that by main taining other and opposite doctrines, by advancing to placee of trust and authority, as your Lordship has dose, and is continuing to do, men whose chief distinction is their advocacy of Radical opinions, you bring a reproach infinitely more humiliating than honest failure upon your cause, and upon those who have the misfortune to trust in, or be associated with, your Lordship in office. RANELAGH. LORD ABERDEEN TO LORD RANELAGII. Foreign-office, Dec. 10, 1844. My Lord,—Having explained the true cause, as as sigued, of the prohibition referred to, I thought it right entirely to disavow participation in principles which your Lordship seemed disposed to impute to me, so far, at least, as they related to the claims of Don Carlos to the throne of Spain. Ido not presume to question the perfect liberty of your Lordship to form your own opi nions upon this or any other subject ; at all events, I have been equally consistent with your Lordship, for I have never ceased, during the last ten years, to regard Don Carlos as an usurper, against whose anarchical and rebellious attempts my best wishes have been invariably expressed for the cause of " legal order and constitu tional right." But I readily adopt the 'criterion referred to by your Lordship, and leave the pretensions of Don Carlos to be dealt with by the Spanish people, who, indeed, I ima gine had long since pronounced their decision. I have no wish to discuss the correctness of your Lordship's convictions, or of my own—it is sufficient for me to esta blish the fact of this total divergency; and this difference is not less with respect to the sentiments of my three un known col eagues, which your Lordship has quoted in your letter. I know nothing of the letters of Lord John Hay and Mr. Charles Wood ; nor is it at all necessary that I should do so. 'The word of an English gentleman, under such circumstances, is quite sufficient for me ; and, if I have interpreted your letter correctly, I shall, without hesitation, and with pleasure, submit to her Majesty the propriety of cancelling Lord Palmerston's dispatch of January 31, 1837. ABERDEEN. LORD RA.NELAGH TO LORD ABERDEEN. Dec. 12, 1844. My Lord,—l have had the henour to receive your Lordship's letter of yesterday, and I sincerely regret that I was not, by an earlier intimation of your purpose, spared the pain of my last communication. I will here own that the neglect with which your Lordship was pleased to meet even my request fur an in tarview previous to my departure for Bourges (when, in addition to this, a question was to be discussed of in finitely higher importance), tended very considerably to increase the regret which I felt on receiving your letter of the 4th instant. Upon this point, therefore, I have only to add that your Lordship has correctly interpreted my meaning. I never, directly or indirectly, come into hostile collision with the troops of my Sovereign, and with this declara tion I leave the case in your Lordship's hands. RAN ELA G LORD ABERDEEN TO LORD RANELAGH. Foreign-office, Dec. 19, 1844. My Lord,—Having received from your Lordship the declaration that you never, either directly or indirectly, were engaged in hostile collision with the British force in the uor:h of Spain, I have submitted to the Queen the propriety of recalling the instructions which had been addressed to her Majesty's Ministers abroad in the year 1837, prohibiting them from presenting your Lordship at the different Courts to which they were accredited; and I have the honour to inform you that her Majesty has been graciously pleased to accede to this request. ABERDEEN. LORD RANELAGII TO LORD ABERDEEN. Dec. 20, 1844. My Lord,—On reviewing the subjects upon which I have recently had the honour of being in correspond ence with your Lordship, I consider that they are of such deep and general interest, and the opinions which you have been pleased to express are so important, that I cannot help feeling that they ought to be communi cated to the public. Your Lordship is reported to have expressed your self as entertaining no personal objection to the produc tion of the letters in return to an order of the House of Lords ; but from what you held to be the non-official character of the correspondence, you are a tid to have advised the House to abstain from establishing an incon ♦enient Parliamentary precedent. I might consider this as a sufficient assurance that your Lordship would not now object to the publication of the entire series ; but I think it just, before taking such a step, to ascertain whether you have any personal wish upon that point. RANELAGH. LORD ABERDEEN TO LORD RANELACH. Foreign-office, Dre. 21, 1844. I should naturally feel much disposed to object to the publication of letters, which, by me at least, had never been ssoitt-n with any such view or expectation ; but as my requ, , st might be liable to misconstruction, and as I coojectun that the suppression of the correspondence would be more painful to your Lordship than its publi cation would be disagreeable to me, I leave you to do as you think proper. Should your Lordship finally decide on giving this correspondence to the public, I have only to express a hope that no part of it may be suppressed. ABERDEEN. COURT cIRCULAR. WINDSOR, FRIDAY.The Queen and Prince Albert walked for some time this morning in the pleasure grounds and the Home Park. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, Prince Alfred, the Princess Royal, and the Princess Alice, were taken to-day for pony and other exercise. This evening her Majesty and her Illustrious Consort took equestrian exercise in the riding school, attended by Major-General Weymss and Colonel Bouverie. The Queen and Prince Albert dined with her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, at Frogmore House, this evening. her Majesty and his Royal Highness were attended by the Marchioness of Douro, Viscount Sydney, the two Maids of Honour, the groom, and the two Equerries in Waiting, the Hon. and Rev. C. L. Courtenay, Captain Meynell, and Dr. Przetorius. The Duchesslof _Gloucester visited their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridge and the Here ditary Grand Duchess of Mecklenburgh Strelitz yes terday, at Cambridge House. A Cabinet Council wa4 held at two o'clock yester day afternoon, at the Foreign-office. The Ministers present were Sir Robert Peel, the Duke of Welling ton, Lord Wharncliffe, the Duke of Buccleuch, Earl of Aberdeen, Lord Stanley, Sir James Graham, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Earl of Haddington, Earl of Ripon, and Lord Granville Somerset. 'The Lord Chancellor joined his colleagues soon after three o'clock. Lord Wharncliffe arrived in town on Thursday night, from his seat, Wortley Hall, Yorkshire. The Council sat three hours and a half. Sir Robert Peel issued cards yesterday for a grand Parliamentary dinner party, on Monday, the 3d of February next, at his residence in Whitehall-gardens. The numerous guests will appear in full dress. HILD STRALI Friday last a man was brought before the o N r m G t n w gist b rates of . Wakefield on a charge of stealing, a d ay l ef?re, a little boy, four years old, at Thorns. The child is is the son of a working man named Cannon, residing Thornes. The prisoner was seen to take the boy inbi a i s i a o rm rb s, and walk with him on the canal side leading to and . was pursued and -yvertaken, when he had got a:o rY t'a mile from Thornes. It is thought he intended to disable u was the boy in order to send him begging. The fellow sent as a rogue and vagabond to the House of Correction for two months.— Wa kefield Journal. MYSTERIOUS CASE OP POISONING IN T li —At an early hour yesterday morning,'theaa S a Alfred'sTßEET. police s trgeant and constable were on duty near Head Tavern , in the London - road , attention their directed to a respectably dressed young female, who was° be was lying on the step of a door. She appeared at fir :asleep, but on t heir endeavourin g to arouse her, r a ,th . ey ' discovered that she was unable to move, and q uit e t s ensible. With difficulty they conveyed her tothee In sensible. of Mr. Chaldocott, who, from her symptoms, judged the had swallowed poison. She was conveyed to Guy's hospital. The stomach pump was speedily put in re and by its means a considerable quantity of arsenic was elected. Upon being restored to conscious ness, she was questioned as to her motive for taking the arsenic and where she had procured it, but this she per tinaceoualy refused to state. She, however, after great persuasion, said her name was Margaret Bennett, that be was tweay-years of age, and lived at Newington. THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, JANUARY" 25, 1845. 13, Great Marlborough-street. THE NELSON LETTERS and DISPATCHES. A SECOND EDITION of the FIRST VOLUME Is now ready for delivery. N.B. Vol. 11. will be published in February next. Orders received by all Booksellers. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. THEATRE ROYAL LYCEUM, LATE ENGLISH OPERA HOUSE. Ihder the Management of Mrs. KEELEY. THIS EVENING Will be repeated THE CHIMES; A Goblin Story. Principal Characters by Messrs. F. Vining Meadows, Diddear, F. Matthews, Collier, Emery, Turner, and Keeley; Miss Walcott, Miss Arden, Miss Grove, and Mrs. Keeley. After which, a New Farce, called TO PERSONS ABOUT TO MARRY. Supported by Messrs. F. Matthews, Meadows, and Stoker, Miss Arden, and Mrs. Wigan. To conclude with a New Grand Operatic, Historical, Romantic Pantomimical, Burlesque Extravaganza, entitled VALENTINE AND ORSON. Principal Characters by Messrs. F. Matthews; Meadows, Wigan, Collier, I'urner, Kinloch, Yarnold, and Keeley , Mrs. Wigan, Miss Arden, Miss Fairbrother, Miss Grove, Mrs Usher, Miss James, Miss Turner, and Mrs. Keeley. PRICES OF ADMISSION.—BaIcouy _tsoxes, 45.; Upper Boxes, Is.; Pit, 25.; Gallery, 6d. Second Price—Balcony Boxes, 2s. ; lip per Boxes, Is. 6c1.; Pit, is. Private Boxes on the Balcony Tier olding eight persons), Two Guineas. Private Boxes on the Second Pier (holding eight persons), One Guinea and a.Half. Private Boxes on the Pit Tier (holding six persons), One Guirea, The Bex.otlicei s open from Ten to Four o'Clock, under the direc— tion of Mr. Grogan, late of Covent garden Theatre. GRAND JUVENILE FETES. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE OF ARTS. Proprietor and Manager, Mr. W. BATTY. Brilliant Success of the New Pantomime. THIS EVENING _ Will be repeated a New Spectacle, entitled THE ROYAL FOX HUNT; or, The Race-Horse and Life's Course of Man and Steed; introducing unequalled National Fetes. Real Fox-chase on the Stage Ind in the Circle by living Fox and real Pack of Hounds, purchased b y Mr. Batty of Mr. Tattersall, to realise this novel production. Epaom Races and other Sporting Features. New Scenes of the Circle, and entire change in the Feats of Horse nianship. After which, a Brilliant Military Cavalcade. introducing Thirteen Female E liwstrians, entitled THE HUNGARIAN BRIGADE; or Female Cavalry. To conclude with a Grand Comic Christmas Equestrian Pantomime, cilled HARLEQUIN AND JOHNNY GILPIN'S RIDE; er, the Lila& Witch of Edmonton. Harlequin, Mr. H. Lewis ; Columbine, Mrs. J. W. Colyer ; Clown, Mr. T. Barry; Pantaloon, Mr. Bradbury, Juhnny Gilpin, Mr. Wells. Acting and stage-manager, Mr. W. D. Broadfoot. Box-office open from Eleven till Five. Lessons in the Art e Riding y Sir. V. Smith daily. DAVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE n compliance with the wishes of numerous Families, the Pantomime will be performed in the middle of the Evening.—Continuation of the most brilliant Success ever known. THIS EVENING Will bo repeated THE SEVEN AGES OF MAN; or, The End Df Crime. Principal Characters by Mr. Henry Corri (from the Theatre Royal Edinburgh), Messrs. H. Hughes, Neville, R Honner, Lewis, Heslop, and Seaman, Mrs. R. Honner, Mrs. Lewis, Mrs. W. Daly, and Miss Martin. To be fol•owed by an Original Worldly Comic Pantomime, called POUNDS, SHILLINGS, AND PENCE; or, HARLEQUIN L. S. D. Harlequin, Mr. H. Harvey; Clown, Mr. T. Ridgway; Pantaloon, Mr. Henry Corri; Columbine, Miss Slaiter. To conclude with THE WET NURSE. Supported lay Messrs. Neville, W. Smith,,and Lewis, Miss Martin. &c. Places and Private Boxes to be had of Mr. Kerschner. M the Box thee, from Eleven to Four. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE Extraordinary Success of " Marianne: or, The Child of Charity," and the Ncw Comic Pantomime. THIS EVENING Will be repeated NIARIAN NE; or, the Child of Charity. Sup t;orttid br Mr. O.baldiston, Henry Howard, J. T Johnson T. H. Higgie, J. Herbert, E. Jones, W. Searle, Miss Vincent, Miss E. lerrey, and Miss Treble. After which, MONSEIGNEUR. Monseigneur, the French Jack Sheppard, Miss Vincent. To conclude with a New Grand Christmas Pantomime, entitled HARLEQUIN HOT CODLINS • or, The Little Old Woman and the Demon of the Metal Mine. 'Harlequin, M. Chapitm; Clown, Mr. Blanchard; Pantaloon, Mr. Coney; Columbine, Mdlle. Le Vite. FRENCH PLAYS, ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. Mr. MITCHELL begs respectfully to submit a list of the EN GAGEMENTS, and an outline of the ARRANGEMENTS which be has entered into for the ENSUING SEASON of FRENCH PLAYS, which will commence on MONDAY EVENING, JAN. .27, and which, he trusts, will be deemed worthy the distinguished Patronage hitherto conferred upon his Theatre. The Season will commence by the Engagement of Monsieur Lafont (of the Theatre des Varietes), his First Appearance at this Theatre, for whose performance the popular Plays of " Le Che valier de Saint Georges," " Le Chevalier du Guet," " Pierre le Rouge," " Requefinette," " Pere et File, &c , &c., will be produced. Mademoiselle Nathalie (of the Theatre du Gymnase) will also appear conjointly with Monsieur Lafont. After whom, the eminent Actor, Monsieur Frederick Lemaitre (who has accepted an engagement for a limited number of Nights only), and Mademoiselle Clarisse, will appear, until the close of the Season at Easter. During the Engagement of Monsieur Frede rick Lemaitre, the popular Plays of " Don Cwsar de Bazan," and "Ruy Blas," by Victor Hugo, as originally performed by him with s (much success, will be produced; as well as the last New Piece )f the Porte St. Martin, which now exeites such extraordinary :nterest in Paris, and in which M. Frederick has performed for Ten consecutive Weeks, entitled " La Dame de Saint Tropez." After Easter, the eminent Actress, Madame Albert (engaged for a few nights only), will appear in the Two New Comedies of the Theatre Francais, " Une Femme a Quarante Ans,'' and " Le Mari a la Campagne," in addition to " Mathilde, ou la Jalouise ;" and Marie, ou les Trois Epochs ;" with other favourite Pieces of her repertoire ; and will be succeeded by the popular Comic Actor, Monsieur Ravel (of the Theatre du Palais Royale), who will make his First Appearance in this Country. The Engagement of Monsieur Ravel will be followed by those of Mademoiselle Plessy, and Monsieur Regnier (of the Theatre Francais, hls First Appearance in this Country). It is intended, at that period of the Season, to produce, under the superintendence of Monsieur Cartigny, some of the finest Comedies of the French Stage. In addition to which, Mr. Mitchell has the honour to announce, that an entirely New Comedy will be produced, written expressly for the Company by the eminent French Author, Mon sieur Alexandre Dumas, who will be present in London to direct •he rnise en scene of his New Composition. _ _ The Favourite Actor, Monsieur Achard, is also engaged for a few Nights, and will appear in the last New Vaudeville of Le flymnase, entitled " Babiole et Joblot," by Scribe, " Ywan le Moujick," and other New Pieces, with the occasional Representa tion of some of the most popular Plays of that admired Actor's repertoire. The Season will terminate by the Engagement of Monsieur Arbal (of the Theatre du Vaudeville), who will have the honour of making his First Appearance at this Theatre, and during whose Engagement the following Popular Plays, as originally performed by Monsieur Arnal, will be produced :—" L'Homme Blase," " L'Hureoriste," " Les Gants Jaime," " Passe Minna," " Les Cabinets Particulaire," " Renaudin de Caen," " Le Poltron," " La Mansarde du Crime," " Le Bal du Grande Monde," &c., &c. The Company for the Season will be carefully selected from the Theatres of Paris, including M. Cartigny, M. Oudinot, M. De z.bampes (of the Gymnase), M. Masquillier (of the Porte St. Marti.), M. Lienard, M. Tourillon, M. Burnt, M. Bonnet, Mdlle. Eliza Forgeot, Mdme. Croset, Mdlle. fiery, Mdlle. Chaplin, Mdlle. ")zy (of the Varietes), Mdlle. Andrea (of the Porte St. Martin), Nldlle. Estelle (of the Palais Royale), Mdlle. Bonval (of the Theatre Francais), Mdlle. Valerie (of the Odeon), Mdlle. Lambert (of the Varietes), &c., Sec., &c. Leader of the Orchestra, M. Burotte (for Twenty Years Second Chef d'Orchostre at the Theatre du Vaudeville) ; Directrite, Eliza Forgeot ; Regisseur, M. Cloup. The Subscription will be for Forty Representations, which will take place on Mondays and Fridays; the Performances on Wed nesday Evenings will not be included in the Subscriptions, but Sub scribers will be allowed to exchange either the Monday or Friday Evening for the Wednesday, when they may desire to do so, for :he accommodation of their other engagements, an arrangement which, on former Seasons, has given such general satisfaction. Applications for Season Boxes and Stalls to be addressed to Mr. Mitchell's Royal Library, 33, Old Bond street ; Mr. Sams, I, St. *arnes'a-street ; and Messrs. Andrews and Ebers, Bond-street. FIRE AT THAME.—On Wednesday night, between eight and nine o'clock, the stable and chaise-house of Mr. Reynolds, surgeon, at Theme, Oxfordshire, was found to be in flames. The fire spread with such ra pidity, that, with the exception of the dogs, and a trifling article or two, the building and its contents were de. stroyed. Two valuable horses perished. A carriage, a single-horse chaise, a quantity of straw and hay, and several sets of harness were destroyed. The building was thatched, and chiefly built of timber. The origin of the fire is not known. EXPEDITIOUS BRIDGE BUILDING.—Mr. Dredge has just erected a bridge over the Blackwater river, county Tyrone, Ireland. This bridge has been in con templation nearly 40 years, the only obstacle being the immense expense of any structure on the old system, and probably for 40 or 100 years more the county would have been deprived of the advantage now conferred, but for Mr. Dredge's estimates, and his highly approved plan. Mr. Dredge has not added much to the long delay, by any dilatory process of construction ; when the iron was on the ground he astonished the public with the rapidity of the work, the bridge being extended and completed in one week. The bridge is 74 feet span, and for the heaviest traffic. It was erected at the cost of the Earl of Caledon.—lViltshir e Independent. The Earl of Glengall has recovered from his recent indisposition. The Noble Earl is still at Dublin, where the Countess and the youthful Ladies Butler are also so journiug-. THE WEATHER—SUN OFFICE, JAN. 25. THERMOMETER, Lowest, 32 ; Highest, 45 ; Noon, 43. BAROMETER, 30.11.—WIND, S.W. NOTE.—The figures which follow the words "Lowest" and "Highest" denote the lowest and highest state of the rhermometer during the preceding twenty-four hours. All the other observations are made at noon. Water freezes at 32 ; 55 on Thermometers is marked "Temperate," and on Barometers "Fair" is generally placed opposite to 30, and "Rain" at 29 ; but there is no certainty of dry weather when the mercury falls below 30. HIGH WATER AT LONDON.BRIDGE THIS DAY. vorning ... '; minutes atter 3 I Evening ... 22 minutes after 3. candid as well as collected character of the statements made in them—than we have experienced from the letters of Lord ABERDEEN. It was certainly in bad taste on the part of Lord RANELAGII to identify the source of the injurious treatment he remonstrated against with his own adherence to, and Lord ABER DEEN'S defection from, political " principles so long and so' ably maintained by the latter nobleman and his colleagues in her MAJESTY'S Government ;" for this gratuitous assumption only brought down, in return, Lord ABERDEEN'S announcement, that, on the records of the Foreign-office, instructions had been found which Lord PALMERSTON, whilst holding the Foreign seals, had deemed it his duty to issue to our Ministers abroad, prohihiting them from present ing Lord RANELAGII at the Courts to which they were accredited, on account of Lord RANELAGB I S having actually, after joining the army " of Don CARLOS, taken part in operations, in the course of which the Carlists were engaged with a portion of the British co-operating force in the neighbourhood of Bilboa." Lord RANELAGII'S solemn disclaimer of the fact, admitted by the recal of these " instructions," as stated, in the fairest and most honourable manner, in Lord ABERDEEN'S dispatch to him of the 19th ultimo, does not cure Lord RANBLAGII'S ungra cious mistake of attributing their origin to the wrong cause, and of assuming that cause to be— the personal abandonment of former political prin ciples by Lord ABERDEEN. But surely it was in still worse taste for Lord RANELAGII, in his letter of the 7th, in reply to Lord ABERDEEN'S dispatch of the 4th, to instruct the Foreign Minister as to what he ought to have done, or what his predecessor, Lord PALMERSTON, " might have pleaded for what he did do, and to taunt the Noble Earl with bringing humiliating reproach" upon " those who have the misfortune to trust in him or to be associated with his Lordship in office." Lord RANELAGII may plead ex treme irritation to account for the caprice of reading a didactic lesson to the Noble Secretary, and even for reflections se unmeasured and unqualified on that functionary's official conduct ; but we doubt whether even to himself such a plea will excuse an error of judgment that appears to have elicited from Lord ABERDEEN only this cold, but courteous and signi ficant notice : " Your Lordship will excuse me if I abstain from en tering into any consideration of other portions of your letter, personal to myself and relative to my official duty. I think that these may safely and properly be left unnoticed." Still there are many passages in Lord RANELAGR'S pamphlet that strike us as evidencing abundant good sense. They prove how much easier it is for men mixed up with the concerns of public life to express forcibly sound opinions upon paper, than to control and regulate their own conduct in respect to those concerns. He thus alludes, in his introductory re marks to the present state of Spain :- 4. No man, who loves his country, or his species, can contemplate without anxiety and alarm, the present state of Spain. There we see not the successive rise and fall of opposite parties in the State, but a monstrous union of anarchy and despotism, which, under all changes of administration, pursues one constant and fearful triumph over every form of public order and private right. The people—once temperate, industrious, brave, and loyal,— are familiarised with butchery and instructed in crime by the examples of their governors : and the abundant elements of natural and moral wealth are crushed and eradicated, by a system which, if permitted to continue, cannot fail to communicate its frightful contagion to other States. This is an evil immediately suffered by Spain ; but it is a danger from which no kingdom in Europe is safe. The cause, therefore, involved, is not that of any faction, but of general peace, and of human We must also emphatically concur with Lord RANELAGH in reprobating such terms—in respect of the present hideous disorganisation that rules supreme in Spain—as Lord ABERDEEN has applied to it : "In proportion as what Lord Aberdeen calls the cause of constitutional liberty ' has advanced, the secu rity of life and property has diminished ; and amidst that tranquillity of which ho boasts, not only is anarchy and strife everywhere prevalent, but hundreds are from year to year put to the most horrible death, without even the form of a trial." There is as much of reason as of smartness in a similar allusion : " The Noble Foreign Secretary considers legal order and constitutional right' to be synonymous with the present state of Spain : what he may think would exem plify a condition of anarchy and rebellion' it is diffi cult to imagine." Lord RANELAGII will pardon us for saying that the following passage involves a mere quibble : " It is necessary to bear in mind that the question really at issue in the subjoined correspondence is nut the law of Spanish succession, but the re-establishment of Spanish peace. The rights discussed are not those, re spectively, of Don Carlos and Isabel, but of Spain—with out reference to party, and of humanity—without regard to political opinion." The simple fact is that the very propositions of Don CARLos impeached the existing law of Spanish suc cession. They contemplated nothing less. They would have been to the last degree " vague," as Lord ABERDEEN calls them, and irrelevant to fact, if they meant anything else. But we must here take leave of the subject, once more referring the reader to our abridged abstract of the correspondence. The Madrid Gazette of the 17th inst., contains the following decrees :—The Ist, appointing the Baron V s E MEER a Grandee of Castile under the title of Count DB GRA and Viscount of Loyalty ; the 2d, appointing the Viscount DE GRA President of the Supreme Tribunal of War and of the Marine ; 3d, appointing General Don MANUEL DE LA CONCHA Captain. General of Catalonia ; 4th, depriving Don JOSE RamoN RoniL of all his honours, titles, and decorations, and removing him from the list of gene rals of the army; and ith, appointing Don FEE• NANDO COTONER second in command in the province of Catalonia. Gen. RoDIL has been stripped of his titles and honours for refusing to obey the summons of NAR VAEZ to appear before a military tribunal at Vittoria, where he knew justice could not be obtained. The mother of NARVAEZ has been created Countess DB LA CONCEDA, and decorated with the cordon of the ladies Maria Louisa. The Three per Cents. closed at 31i for cash, and 32i at 60 days; the Five per Cents. at 23 at 60 days ; and the Debt without interest, at 7i at 60 days with premium. The division in the French Chamber of Deputies on 'Thursday afternoon has destroyed the little in terest excited by the discussion on the Address. Mem bers themselves were evidently tired with the tedious repetitions about Morocco and Otaheite, and were glad to come to the main point and decide the fate of the Ministry. M. DuriN, who appears to have been in one of his most crotchetty fits, probably hastened the result, and increased the majority for M. G vizor. He had been disappointed of the Presidency of the Chamber ; the Ministry could not trust him, they pre ferred a man of less ability, but a man of correct habits, moderate in his politics, and consistent in his purposes, and for this DUPIN could not forgive them, or admit that any one act of their policy was good. Ile bitterly attacked them, therefore, for their con duct in avery point under discussion. The Morocco war, the Otaheite affair, and the Right of Search. On the last, he was actually rabid, and would not hear of a mixed Commission. He would cut the knot at once, and without England's consent abrogate the treaties of 1831 and 1833. This sally may have alarmed men anxious for the honour of their country and the peace of the world, and added a few number); to the majority. But this injudicious stateiman did not confine himself to politics, he could not avoid being personal, and to excite laughter on the Left against M. GUIZOT brought forward again the story of the journey to Ghent. M. GUIZOT may therefore con sider himself lucky in enjoying the full enmity of M. DUPIN, for the friendship of such a man is more injurious than his enmity. The Journal des Debats draws a correct character of the man, and rejoices that, in opposition to its recommendation, he was the rejected candidate for the President's Chair. " Without the speech of M. DUPIN," says that paper, " we should not have much to say. But M. DUPIN did speak, and this made a remarkable event in the sitting. Let us be permitted to express our great surprise. We did, perhaps, expect some of those raps and sallies which he is accustomed to be stow with an almost equal hand upon both the Mi nistry and the Opposition, but did not look for a speech of so much bitterness and violence, for such a torrent of acrimonious personalities as may perhaps excite applause from the Left, but which must be re pugnant to every noble mind, to every man of sound judgment and talent. True it is, then, that we de ceived ourselves when, a month ago, we proposed M. Durex for the Presidency of the Chamber ! His candidateship was not, as we might have had good reasons for believing, a neutral candidateship ! If M. DUPIN had been chosen, the darts he has now thrown from the tribune might have been thrown from the chair of the President ! For there can be no doubt that his acrimony has not been created suddenly by this check ! He thought a month ago as he thinks now, that the treaty of Morocco has sullied our diplomacy, and that the hands which signed it are dishonoured ! He knew a month ago that by Article 4 France freely engaged that AnD-EL-KADER, if he ever fell,into our hands, should be treated with moderation—a clause which, according to M. DUPIN, is an eternally dis graceful blot in our glory. A month ago M. DUPIN, whether President or not, would have left his chair or his bench to mount the tribune, and denounce to the anger of the country the PRITCHARD indemnity. In a word, the opposition of M. DUPIN blazed out yester day, but it has long been smouldering in his heart. This cannot be an incidental opposition—it is an op position of rancour. And yet we have recommended M. DUPIN for the Presidency. We were wrong, our loyalty compels us to acknowledge it. The Opposi tion knew better than we did what it was about. An other time we shall be more considerate. Beyond all doubt, M. DUPIN has a right to blame that which he thinks blameable ; it is a right which the Hon. De puty has exercised very frequently, and upon all parties. We shall not pretend to dispute his right or restrain his independence. We merely say that a man is of the Opposition when he endeavours to overthrow the Ministry, and that it is perfectly puerile for him to give out that he is a Member of the majority at the very time when he is endeavouring, by detaching himself from it, to dissolve it. M. DUPIN is at bottom a Conservative ; we know this full well, because he has given striking proofs of it. We cannot doubt his wish for peace. He expressed this wish with energy four years ago, after the treaty of July and the events of 1840. We have a wonderful recollection of this. All this, however, does not prevent M. Dorm from becoming at this day the most decided, the most active Oppositionist—and this is what we did not know, nor could expect. We add that, _ even with the Opposition, there is a measure to be observed; but M. Durtx, carried away by his lively imagination and his wit, has gone beyond all measure. For him, M. DUPIN, to seek to revive the unworthy scene of last year against M. GutzuT without the excuse of a moment, without any warranting circumstance, without any thing to provoke his rage ! M. DUPIN may believe us when we say that he will deeply repent his speech of yesterday. He has broken out of that neutrality in which he loved so much to keep himself, and into which he cannot re-enter very easily. With fine talents and a sarcastic humour, a man, no doubt, may succeed in making himself feared—he may become a dangerous adversary ; but he who spares no one must soon have all the world in league against him." All the Opposition journals are loud in their praises of M. DUPIN, and expected that his speech had done wonders. The large majority, however, against him has by this time convinced them of their error. There is no news of interest in the Paris papers. When the post left, the division in the Chamber was not known on the Bourse, but it could not fail to have a favourable effect. The Monileur publishes two royal ordonnances respecting Algeria ; one is for the regulation of the local and municipal budgets—the other declaring that the ports of Mostaganem, Arzew, Cherchel, Djemmaa• Ghazaouat, Deilys, Bugia, and Gigelly are to enjoy the same advantages and privileges as those of Algiers, Mers-el-Kebir, Oran, Tenez, Philippeville, and Bona. The Globe repeats its assertion that Count DE MONTALIVET voted with the Ministry on the Address in the Chamber of Peers. About four years ago, says a letter from Con stantinople, of the 31st ult., a society was formed for the relief of distressed foreigners in Turkey, and placed under the direction of the French Ambassador. Some of the other foreign Ministers, however, having disapproved of this exclusive protection, the Society has been, with the consent of the British Ambas sador, placed under that of the corps diplomatique generally. THE BOURSE-TUURSDAY, JAN. 23. First Highest Lowest Last Price. Piles. Price. Price. Frenchlrivepereents•• •• 121 95 .. 122 .. 121 85 .. 121 85 Three per Cents.•... 85 20 .• 85 25 85 15 .. 85 15 New Loan ........ 86 40 .. 86 40 .. 86 40 .• 86 40 Bank of France ••••.•.3270 —3270 .•3265 —3265 Gouin Bank, I,ooof. Shares • • 1090 —lO9O ..1085 1085 Belgian Bank . 635, .. 63% 635 .. 635 Belgian Fives, IS4O 1842 •••••••• 106?4 .• 108% •• 106 1 4 106 1 ; Four•and-3-11alf 103 1 . i .. 103 1 4 1031,4 .. 103 1 ,i Spanish Threes•• •• •• •• •••• 40 .. 41 .. .. 41 Active •• •• •• •• •• •• 38% .. 38% •• 38% .. 38';; Passive. •..•• • ..... 7 7 .• 7 .. 7 New Deferred...... 16% .. 16% .. 16% .. 16% Portuguese Five per Cents•. GO .. 60 .. GO .. GO Reiman •• • •••• New York Five per Cents.. 100 .. 100 .. 100 .. 100 Ohio State Debt RAILWAY SHARES. Versailles, 494 75 .. 498 75 .• 497 50 .. 497 50 385 .. 385 385 Rouen .............•..... 1( 62 50 • 1062 0 ••1060 Rouen to Havre— • • • ....• 840 . 842 50 . 840 Orleans •• • • • • .1130 ..1131 25 ..1130 Strasburg to Bale •......... 301 •• 385 ..1060 .. 840 ..1130 .. 310 .. 306 25 . 307 - 50 RAILWAYS FOR THE ACCOUNT. FEB 7. St. Germain ----- .r•• ..1010 ..1010 Versailles, 11 11.•• •• • • ...... 497 50 .• 497 50 .. 497 50 .. 497 50 L B.• ••• •• 385 .. 385 .. 385 385 Rouen •• Rouen to Havre•• ..... • 837 50 •• 847 50 .• 837 50 .. 845 Orleans .•••••.•.......•.••1130 ..1131 25 ..1125 .•1130 Strasburg to Bale— • • Aviguou to ....930➢larseillea..• •.. 930 .• 930 .. 927 50 .. 927 50 TREATY OF COMMERCE WITM BRAZIL.—By the Express packet, from Rio Janeiro, we are apprised of a Commission having been appointed to settle the treaty of commerce with this country. The names of the three gentlemen appointed are Senhor Paula Souza, a Senator ; Senhor Maia, late Conservator Judge for the British Nation ; and Senhor Ferreira Franqa, the Minister for Foreign Affairs at Rio. An officer had arrived at Rio, the bearor of the submis sion of the rebel chief in Rio Grande, who submitted after having been four times defeated by Baron Corxids. The Express has brought a large remit tance on account of the dividends. The Plymouth Auxiliary of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals has resolved that two prizes of three guineas and two guineas should be annually offered to the pupils of the several schools in Plymouth, Devonport, and Stonehouse, and within five miles of either of those towns, for the best and second best essays on the following subjects :—The claims of the brute creation to humane treatment at tie hands of man; and the duty of discontinuing all such proceedings as inflict needless sufferings on any portion of God's creation, merely for the sake of amusement, or for the gratification of an idle curiosity. THE CORN TRADE.—GLAscoNr, JAN. 22.—During the past week the supply of wheat and barley has been more than equal to the demand. Of oats, oatmeal, and beans and peal-, arrivals have been light. Wheat—The bulk of imports are English of the last crop, the quality of which being superior to former years, requires less mixtures of old than our own, which is soft in condition. English meets a fair sale at 245. 6d. to 255. 6d. for white, and 235. 6d. to 245. 6d. per 2401. for red. Free foreign red inquired after at 235. 6d. to 255, 6d. Scotch new, a heavy sale, and cheaper. Barley—Consumers continue to purchase cautiously, and only selected par cels. The trade is very dull, and prices again lower. Oats—Few offering from aboard ship, but ex granary the show of samples is fair. Fine heavy meeting lots maintain attention at full rates. Oatmeal—The stock now in store being withheld for a further advance, the quantity offering for sale is not considerable, the price, consequently, well supported. Beans and Peas—The consumption is increasing, and fine heavy parcels are a ready sale at last week's rates. Inferior cheaper at various prices. In the provision and butter market the extreme rates hitherto paid are not so easily realised, the trade being rather languid. At this day's market the attendance was moderate. Purchasers showed little inclination to do . business, holding off for abatement. The market closed heavy, with the turn in favour of buyers for all sorts. RECOVERY OF LADY CHALMERS'S JEWELLERY.— Considerable excitement has prevailed among the ser vants employed on the Brighton Railway, in consequence of the suspected robbery of a valuable box of jewellery belonging to Lady Chalmers, stated to be worth nearly a thousand pounds. It appeared that, a few days ago, her Ladyship and family travelled from Brighton by the mail train, with considerable luggage, among which the box of jewellery was supposed to have been placed. On arriving at the Londcn- bridge terminus, the property of her Ladyship was cons eyed to her residence, and, after the vehicle had been unpacked, the jewel-box was missed. The servant employed to take charge of the luggage was positive that it hack been brought from Brighton, and it was immediately suspected that it had been stolen at the terminus, or on the way to her Ladyship's house. In. formation was instantly forwarded to the railway station, and inquiries were made at every station along the lisle, and at Brighton, without being able to discover any clue to the lost box. After two day's fruitless search the box was discovered at the railway station at Brighton, and was yesterday placed in the safe custody of her Ladyship. SHEEP-STEALING BY MICHAEL Ganns.—On Satur day last, a notorious character, named Michael Gibbs, was committed by Captain Browne to take his trial the next sessions for stealing a sheep from a field at Woolavington, the property of Mr. James Hurman, of East Bower farm, near this town. It appears that Mr. Abraham Winter, of Puriton, who has a field adjoining the prosecutor's, traced the sheep to the prisoner's house, a distance of nearly a mi!e and a half. 'The foot marks of Gibbs were also traced. A quantity of mutton was found, covered with straw, is a oack-house ' under the same roof the prisoner resided.—Somerset County Gazette. THIS DAY'S NEWS. QUEEN'S BENCH.—(TBIS DAY.) '1 he Court took the Crown paper, but nothing of any ,mportance came before it. BAIL COURT.-(THIS DAY.) (Sittings in Rtnco.) Several motions were heard by the Court, but none of them were of the slightest public importance. EXCHEQUER.-(THIS DAY.) (Sittings in Banco.) WADE V. SIMEON. Mr. WATSON said he appeared in this case to show cause against a rule, calling on the plaintiff to show cause why the order of Mr. Baron Alderson should not be set aside on such terms as the Court should direct. The action was brought in that Court in the month of May last upon two cheques made by the defendant, one dated May and the other July, 1840, and amounting to gether to 2,0001. Amongst other pleas the defendant had pleaded that he gave these cheques for money lost at play, and that the plaintiff well knew of their illegality at the time, when he took them. It appeared also from the affidavits, that the present de fendant had filed a bill in Chancery, which was answered by the plaintiff, The cause was appointed to be tried as a special jury cause on the 7th of December. Some overtures having been made by the defendant to the plaintiff to compromise the action, which were always resisted and refused by the plaintiff, on the 6th of De cember the defendant's attorney sent for the attorney of the plaintiff, and stated that he did not wish to defend the action, and that he would, therefore, agree to pay the debt and costs. Upon this it was arranged between the two attorneys that the record should be withdrawn, and that a judge's order should be obtained, under which payment should be made on the 14th December. Mr. Baron ALDERSON—It was stated that since the date of the order new evidence had been discovered. Mr. WATSON said he objected altogether to any in crease of jurisdiction on the part of the Court. The or der of Mr. Baron Alderson was drawn up on the 6th of December. (The Learned Counsel then read the order, which, after stating the agreement, provided that, in case of default, the plaintiff should be at liberty to sign final judgment, and to issue execution for the whole amount.) The affidavits stated that on 7th of December, the day after the date of the order, a person named Ledbitter, who had formerly been a Bow-street officer, obtained some information from a person of the name of Atkins, who alleged that he had been a partner with a man named Davis in a gambling house. On the evening of the 13th of December, a summons was served on the plaintiff's at torney, calling upon him to show cause why the order of Mr. Baron Aldersen should not be rescinded, and the parties be allowed to go to trial. The case came before Mr. Baron Rolfe at chambers, who refused to determine the question, but ordered the principal money and in • terest to be paid into Court, leaving the parties at liberty to apply to the Court in the course of the present term. The application bad now been made by his Learned Friend (Mr. Martin) on the part of the defendant ; and what he set up was this, that between the 6th of December, when this agreement was made between the parties, and the 14th, his client discovered some evidence which he believed would enable him suc cessfully to maintain his defence to the action. Now, his objections to this rule were twofold—first, he con tended that the Court had no jurisdiction in this case; and, secondly, that, supposing the Court had jurisdic tion, under the circumstances detailed in the affidavits, it would not be justified in exercising it. In the case of proceedings going on adversely, he admitted that the Court had power to interfere; as, for example, when there had been misdirection on the part of the judge, a verdict against evidence, or a surprise, and justice could not be obtained without a new trial. But what their Lordships were now asked to do was, to rescind a con tract between the parties. The LORD CHIEF BARON said the strength of the Learned Counsel's argument was, that the Court ought not to interfere to enable a party to break his contract. Mr. WATSON said that was his position. Ho did not know where the matter was to stop if rules were to be granted in cases like that before the Court. Take the case of a cognovit. If a party had given a cognovit, could he afterwards be allowed to say," I have discovered some new evidence, and I will go to a jury ?" He con , ceded at once, that if the agreement had been obtained by fraud or misrepresentation the rule must be granted, but there was no pretence whatever for such a statement. The Learned Counsel then referred to the case of Blight and Brewer, 3d " Dowling's Practical Cases," page 266. That was a motion to set aside a cognovit, on the ground that the consideration was illegal ; and, though 601. had been actually paid, the motion was refused. The LORD CHIEF BARON said that by the 9th of Anne, cap. 14, all notes, bills, bonds, and other securities, in respect of gambling transactions, were void. Mr. WATSON said the present was not at all the case contemplated by the statute, which meant all securities given for money won at play. The LORD CHIEF BARON observed that any security substituted for the original one was in the same position. Mr. WATSON said, that under a recent statute, such securities were not actually void. The LORD CHIEF BARON inquired if Mr. Wade was the actual plaintiff ? Mr. WATSON said he was the holder of the cheque. It was alleged, on the other side, that a person of the name of Davis, or one of his partners, first won the money in playing at hazard, and that the plaintiff received it, knowing such to be the fact. The defendant's attorney had had the opportunity of examining his opponent's briefs, and of ascertaining his case. Mr. Baron PARKE said there could be no great hard ship upon the defendant if the money were paid, because, if it were won at play, it could be recovered back again under the 6th Will. IV. Mr. WATSON said the plaintiff was a shopkeeper in the Strand, where his father had carried on business before him. All the arbitration cases were entirely against the exercise of the jurisdiction of the Court. The case made out on the other side was not one which called upon the Court to interfere. These were the state ments of Mr. Simeon and his attorney, and of Mr. Led bitter, who had been employed to procure the evidence ; and five persons were produced who avowed themselves to be gamblers, not one of whom said that Davis was present when loaded dice were used. Besides this, Led bitter had actually offered 500/. to Davis to appear as a witness. It was an important point that Davis said he did not know the plaintiff's. Ile was alleged to have been the winner of the money, and to have had the cheques subsequent to the action ; but that also was denied. Under all the circumstances of the ease, he thought he was entitled to ask that the rule might be discharged. Mr. VALENTINE LEE followed on the same side. Mr. MARTIN, who appeared for the defendant, said he had been astonished at the proposition of his Learned Friend, that where an order had been made by consent of the parties the Court could not, under any circum stances, have the least power to interfere to set it aside. The LORD CHIEF BARON said there could be no doubt as to the power. Mr. MARTIN said the action was brought upon two cheques four years old. Immediately after it com menced every possible means was used to obtain evi dence. Ledbitter, the most competent man in the king dom, was employed for that purpose, and it was proved that he had done all in his power to effect the object. The cause stood for trial on the 7th of December, and on the evening of that day important information was obtained. It was sworn that the evidence was not complete until the 13th, and the moment it became so the defendant went before a Judge, and paid the money into Court. If ever there was a fit case for the interference of the Court, the present was one. It was impossible that stronger grounds could exist. It was sworn most positively that, after the action was brought no less than five dif ferent people had seen these cheques in the possession of Davis ; and as this was denied by Mr. liaris and Mr. Russell, his Learned Friend would have' the advantage of calling them on the trial to disprove the statement. It appeared from all the affidavits, that Mr. Davis and Mr. Russell went down to serve the writs ; that they were together in - August, when one of the witnesses saw in their possession two documents, which he says were the cheques, hut which they say were two I 0 U's. It was impossible, he repeated, to make out a stronger case for the interference of the Court, and he maintained that the Court would be fully justified in granting the rule. It would be a very injurious practice if there were a peremptory rule excluding parties from applying for a new trial on the discovery of fresh evidence, under the circumstances of the case before the Court. Mr. BARSTOW followed on the same side. He called the attention of the Court to the important distinction between a case in which the proceeding was in Teri, and a case in which anything had been -Zone. In the pre sent instance the order of the Judge had not been acted upon. The COURT intimated that they would give their deci. sion on Monday. LAMBETH.—(THIS DAY.) Thos. Coote and Edward Newbery, two fine lads, were charged before the Mon. Mr. Norton, by police-constable P 151, with gambling in Surrey-square. It appeared in evidence before the Magistrate that the poor lads had been locked up at the station-house all night, and the only offence of which they had been guilty was that of playing at " pitch and toss" with buttons. Mr. NORTON said that really the police must be more cautious ; the prisoners ought never to have been taken into custody at all. Ile directed the boys to be instantly discharged. FIRE --This morning an alarming fire broke out, about half past four o'clock, on the premises of Mr. Webb, a broker and auctioneer, residing in Peter-street, Whitechapel. As a man named Wilmot, who resided in the same street, was passing at the time named, he per ceived smoke issuing from the grating over the kitchen window, and upon looking down through it he saw a large body of flame, when he at once raised an alarm, and the inmates were with much difficulty made sensible of their perilous pssition. Fortunately the flames had not gained such an ascendancy as to have reached the first floor at the time, so that they were all enabled to make their escape through the hall ; in less than five minutes after all the lower part f the building was one body of flame. By this time several engines from the adjacent stations were in attendance,, with their usual promptitude and alacrity, and succeeded in confining the fire to the lower part of the premises, the greate r portion of which, as well as a large quantity of furni. ture which was stored there, was totally destroyed. In less than half an hour after the arrival of the en g i nes, the firemen had o far succeeded in subduing the flames, as to banish any further apprehension with resp ect to the remainder of the house, or the adjacent premises, which at one time were in imminent danger. Unfortunately, Ur. Webb was not insured. • • A ~rte 4.1.11,, 4 "V v.vir ia[l: ; lo 4l eru,_ Irgrm•Au. • •. • 4 - ." • n 'NW SECOND EDITION. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. THIS EVENING Will be repeated a Grand Opera SWria,C;iled THE DAUGHTER ST. MARK. Lusignano, Mr. Burdini ; Andrea Cornaro, Mr. Borrani ; Moncemgo, Mr. Weiss ; Adolphe de Courcy, Mr. W. Harrison; Catarina Cornaro, .liss Poole To conclude with a Grand Comic Christmas Harlequinsde, called PUCK'S PANTOMIME; or, HARLEQUIN AND ROBINSON CRUSOE. Robinson Crusoe. Mr. W. H. Payne; Harlequin, Mr. Wieland; Clown , Mr. T. Matthews; Pantaloon, Mr. Howell ; Columbine, Miss Carson. The Box-othce is open daily, from Ten in the Morning until Six in the Evening, where Private and Family Boxes, Stalls, Places, Elul Tickets may be had on application to Mr. John Parsons THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Lessee, Mr. B. WEBSTER. THIS EVENING Will be performcd a New and Original Comedy, In Five Acts, called OLD HEADS AND YOUNG HEARTS. Colonel Rocket sir. Strickland ; •Littleton Coke, Mr. Charles Mathe" s • Tom Coke , dr. Webster ;Bob, Mr Buckstone ; Jesse Rural, Mr. W. Farren; the Countess of Fnn'pion, Mrs. W. Clifford ; Lady Alice Hawthori, , Madame Vestris ; Miss Rocket, Miss Julia ilennett. After which, a New Grand Musical Fairy Extravaganza, entitled GRACIOSA AND PERCINET. Ring Uxorious, Mr. J. Bland ; Princess Graciosa, Miss Julia Bennett ; Percinet, Miss P. Horton ; Duchess Grognon, Mrs. Stanley. To conclude with a Grand MOVING DIORAMA; or, PIC. TORIAL TOUR IN S WITZERLAND. Private Boxes, Two Guineas and One Guinea and a.Half each. Yckets and Places to be had of Mr. I. T. Ar cher, at the Box-office, from Ten till Five o'Clock. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. Under the Direction of Madame CELESTE. THIS EVENING Will be repeated (by special permission of Charles Dickens, Esq.) a New Drama, entitled THE CHIMES. A Goblin Story of Some Bells that Rang an Old Year Out and a New Year In. Toby Veck, Mr. O. Smith; Alderman Cute, Mr. Wright; Tugby , Mr. Wilkin. son ; Sir Joseph Rowley, Bart , Mr. Paul Bedford ; Will Fern, Mr. Hudson ; Richard, Mr. Selb Meggy Veck, Miss Fortescue ; Mrs. y; Chickenstalker, Mrs. Frank Matthews. After which will be repeated a New Farce, called THE COR PORAL'S WEDDING ; or, a Kiss of the Bride, in which Messrs. Lambert, Hudson, and Selby, and Miss Woolgar will perform. To conclude with a New Grand Military and Comic Christmas Pantomime, called CAT'S CASTLE; or, Harlequin and the King of the Rats. Harlequin, Mr. T. Ireland; Columbine, Miss Lons. dale ; Clown. Mr. C. J. Smith ; Pantaloon, Mr. Sawiers. Prompter, Mr. Gallot ; Principal Painter, fdr. Pitt ; Leader of the Band, Mr. Mellon.—Box-ottice open from Eleven till Four. Private Boxes to be had at the Theatre. and at all the principal Libraries. PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. LESSEE, Mr. J. M. MADDOX. THIS EVENING Will be repeated a New Drama, entitled MONSEIGNEUR ; or, PARIS IN 1720. Monseigneur, Mr. Wallack; Germaine, Mr. Oxberry; Rosaline, Miss Emma Stanley; Annette. Miss Marshall. To be followed by a new Divertissement, called THE IRI H WEDDING. Principal characters by Mdlle. Caroline Rousset, bliss Marshall, Mdlle. Teresine, M. J. Bou.set, Mr. Marshall, and Mr. Gilbert To be succeeded by a New Comedietta, entitled THE WIDOW BEWITCHED. Mr. Clement Furnival, Mr. Walter Lacy; Mrs. Lorimer, Mrs. Stirling. After which will be repeated a New Grand Romantic, and rather Operatic Burlesque Extravagmza, called JOE MILLER AND HIS MEN. Grindoff, Mr. Compton; Lothair, Mr. Oxberry; Kelmar, Mr. Granby Riber, Mr, C,orri , Golotz, Mr. Walton; Claudine, Miss E. Stan ley; Ravina, Mrs. Fosbroke. Dress Circle, ss. ; Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 25.; Gallery, Is. Half. price at Nine o'clock—Dress Circle, 2s. CA. ; Boxes, 2a. ; Pit, Is.; Gallery, NI Private Boxes, Two Guineas and One Guinea and a-Half ; Prosce ..ium Boxes, Two Guineas and a-HalL Doors to be opened at Half. past Six, and the Performances to commence at Seven o'clock. The Box-office, under the direction of Mr. W. Massingham. Private Boxes and Free Admissioas for the Season to be had at the Theatre. Stage Manager, Mr. H. I. Wallack. Stage Director, Mr. Emden, Machinist, Mr. Edmund BradwelL Ober/tins '2mint LONDON, SATURDAY, JANUARY 25, 1845. The leader of the French Opposition is an aspiring politician, a smart orator, and probably a profound philosopher, but he is no statesman. He is carried away by a rage for talking, starts from one point to another with inconceivable rapidity, hurries on with a volubility which almost distances the most attentive hearer, and out of the fulness of his heart his mouth speaketh. Such old-fashioned statesmen as TALLEY RAND, and METTERNICH, and NEBSELRODE would not have allowed M. TUIERS to occupy the lowest office in their Cabinet, or see the title of a State paper, much less copy it, or even approach any public office where he had the slightest chance of obtaining political information, for the best reason in the world, because he is utterly destitute of a quality which is indispensable in a man trusted with secrets. The wonder now ceases that Lord PALMERSTON so clearly divined his course of politics when he happened to to be at the head of the French Cabinet, for if he lets out such important secrets from the tribune, as he did in the discussion on the Syrian expedition, and as he has now disclosed in his speech on the Address, what an ample insight into his foreign policy might be ob tained at his evening parties. By his own words was he condemned when he attempted to justify himself for siding with MEHEMET ALI against England, Austria, and Prussia. His object was to obtain ad ditional power for France in the East to compensate for his failure in the West. This he fully admitted, and he has admitted with equal precision and fulness the causes of the utter isolation of France from all the great Powers of the Continent. He makes no secret of his intentions. France will not rest satisfied till the victories and glories of the Empire are again realised, till the Rhine is the boun dary, and her influence is paramount in Italy, Egypt, and Turkey. The present, of course, is not the proper season. The party to which he belongs is too well watched, and the feelings ar rayed against any extension of the French frontier are too strong ; but he waits his time. "I am con vinced," says he, " that if at a later period war should break out, we have a chance of finding different com binations in Europe ;" and then he draws a very sig nificant contrast :—" In time of peace, we must ob serve treaties; in time of war there is no limit to ambition but the means of success" (En temps de guerre, it n'y a de liinite d'arabition que le suceas). To war, therefore, he looks, and he tells the three great Powers of the Continent what they may ex pect when treaties are no longer to be observed. The Rhine, Italy, and the East the three darling objects of NAPOLEON still dazzle the eyes of M. THIERS, and prevent France from fcrming an alliance either with Rus sia, Austria, or Prussia. • These are his words : " The first condition of an alliance with Russia would be the sacrifice of our interests in the East. An alliance with Austria would sanction for ever her rule over Italy; and that with Prussia would be to confine us for ever in the limits fixed by the treaties of 1815. Are not these sacrifices ?" This candid announce ment of his foreign policy is important news to the powers interested, and will make them more resolved than ever to shun the very semblance of an alliance with a nation that, under such guidance, would only seek their destruction. But what must his own party think of a leader who can thus blab out such mo mentous truths—truths that mark them as dangerous neighbours, deceitful friends, and determined enemies? England, too, knows what M. THIERS means by alliance. He would hold with her so long as it suited his purpose. He would not risk the loss of Algeria, or the destruction of every French ship in the Mediterranean by madly going to war single-handed, but wait for " different combina tions," and then make the attack. Should M.Tnieas, therefore, ever be again placed at the head of affairs, he must be watched like a tiger. The great Powers will be forced to maintain, what is worse than open war, an armed peace, and spend vast revenues in compelling France to observe treaties to which she is solemnly engaged. But, fortunately, M. THIERS' ability and prudence are not equal to his malignity. The remarkable correspondence between the Earl of ABERDEEN and the Lord RANELAGII, which the latter has just published under the title of "Legal Order and Constitutional Rights, as defined by the Earl of ABERDEEN," has scarcely received from our Contemporaries that degree of candid consideration which they are usually by no means backward in awarding to the merits, such as they may be, of con temporary polemics. Lord RANELAGII, it will be remembered, some few years ago thought proper to throw himself, with a degree of unquestionable en thusiasm, into the struggle for the succession to the Spanish Monarchy, that was sustained with so much sanguinary perseverance between the Carlists and the Christinos. His Lordship served under the banner of Absolutism against that of Constitutional Liberty. By these designations, at any rate, the two parties in the civil war which then raged in Spain reciprocally distinguished one another. We have always denounced the disastrous ambition of Don CARLOS, and canr.ot affect, therefore, any sympathy with the choice of a young English nobleman who had it in his power to draw his sword, for the other party, or the cause of what professed to be free in stitutions, and were largely modelled on those of his native country. We find it difficult to imagine how a free and enterprising spirit, such as Lord RANE LAGII seems to be animated by, can voluntarily have attached himself to the desperate fortunes of an un popular pretender to an European Crown, and a gloomy, bigoted vassal to a superstitious Church. We should have presumed that all the chivalry of an Englishman's prepossessions would have attached him to the cause of two Queens, contending for a mo narchy bequeathed to the younger, by the solemnly declared will and renewed act of her dying father, together with the guardianship of her person to the elder, the wife, the widow, and the mother of a Sovereign. But we are far from impeaching the motives, or doubting the sincerity, of Lord RANE LAGII'S partisanship. It is lamentable, in our view of the matter, that he should have sided with, and fought for, the friend and patron of the execrable CABRERA ; but had he given his services to the other side, we must confess with horror, that he would have been leagued with that bloodstained monster, NINA, or, haply, serving now with the contemptible and unprincipled NARVAEZ. The mistake into which Lord RANELAGII was betrayed, in the first instance, seems to have been that which was common to so many other of our countrymen at the same time— namely, to believe that it could be worth while to fight at all, and under any circumstances, for a country and a people, and institutions social and political, so utterly debased, disorganised, and worth less, as those of Spain. With regard to the " Correspondence" we advert to, it arises mainly out of the circumstance of Lord RANELAGII having been charged by Don CARLos to place in the hands of the Earl of ABERDEEN a certain letter, authorising Lord RANELAGII "to make certain propositions to her MAJESTY'S Government, on the part of his Royal High ness, having for their object the marriage of the Prince, his son, with the Queen of SPAIN." The nature of this communication will be readily collected in the extracts from the pamphlet that we publish in another part of our paper. We are bound, at the outset, to declare that we never rose from the perusal of any letters with more unrningled satisfac tion at the dignified as well as discreet tone—the D Al.l npurts , - fe LLOYD'S SHIP - PllsiG.— ( I .:7",. 5 h bre e ' ' LONDON, JAN. 25.-Wind at noon SIN. , '- fib re and fine clear weather. i s T.,, ~ 4 , DEAL, JAN. 24 AND 25.-Wind Wr• to )I'l'6l, breeze.-Arrd. Mona, Lawson, Batavia ; I ' l / 4d Gordon, Mauritius ; Adelaide, La Croix; Bathurst, Rio Grande. rpotoes 11 . ° ill PLYMOUTH, JAN. 24.-Arrd. Rosanna, .-- bat • Island, struck on the Dray Stone in entering, is apparently received no damage. g iaei ii* FALMOUTH, JAN. 24.-Wind NAV., strog o po ol Demerara ; .'' orj violent squalls. -Arrd. Express paelie t i . 0 gala .. 1 5,0001. l a N o v. 1', 1 4 sailed 15th ult., on freight, with diamonds ; Vesta, Shearer, Ichabov, sidle of f oot Hong-Kong, London for Madras, with loss 0 and one man overboard. i a, 1113 0 / FoWEY, JAN. 23.-The Thor , of Fin-a! I i d towed in here this morning with loss of insie_ be we! masts, ballast shifted, and having been on he t i ) v ot) in a gale, 19th inst., twenty miles S.S.B. e f t ;,VI., , ro irt PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 24.-W Ind S.W• t e for Yin& breezes and squally.-Arrd. Essex, Lonaon!ois Cato, Ditto Ditto for St. Vincent's ; her 3. 15 . 1 ' ~„o ..-, ~..61it1°..1. 0 Apollo, Malta. COWES, JAN. 24.-Wind N.-The - I ' 4N r - e stera a2 -4 Rio Janeiro to Bremen, which lost bowsprit, foremast Sails, Scc., and Inti o n bet p having encountered a severe gale, been rb0 01.. 10 ends for some time and lost two men cl ot be 61 t y English coasting-schooner is reported to I' .10 0 . ti i , i on board of last evening by a steamer "OW Needles ; the former was towed into Yar n ' a Put in here yot dil; water by the latter, which then proceeded. f 0 1 t: i , DEAL, JAN. 24.-The Norval, Moore, e t ,„ Oro Newcastle for Havre, got ashore on the Brall°, sea noon, but floated off without apparent clatesr" oil anchored in the Downs. C 11t • tIl 1° RAMSGATE, JAN. 24.-The Eugene, fro a ( a t pi e Havre, ashore in Pegwell Bay , came eff l b s or gitteo has been brought in here leaky , a nd is dig ctid ni MARGATE, JAN. 24.-The mast of tbe Be.;:opor of the Goodwin Sands has been picked lIP , A , here. 3° °IP' PENZANCE, JAN. 23.-Two ships were Arfl .., boe, Nov. 22, and several dismasted. Vg• TORBAY, JAN. 24.-Wind N. W., str° .11' Plantagenet, for Calcutta. vir Arr dM PLYMOUTH, JAN. 24.-Wind N. •-" )f4 man, London, fur Antig IY ua. ~ .0 . •• " .„ 0 , w fre oll/ 0: LIVERPOOL, JAN. 24.-Wind t eill . A.,ite• David Banks, Jolly, Negotiator, Young , ;; oe $ flgrol , ray, Gribon, and Wilsons, Campbell, lehttabiell' Baker, Now Orleans ; Tuskina, Post, -AP' - 1,14 Columbus (supposed), New York. r a lcat t6 1 CLYDE, JAN. 22.-Sid. Peruvian, -- 0 Falkland, Savannah. riv O tt 1 KINSALE, JAN. 20.-Wind N.-is. -..--- Oil' Roberts, Ichahoe, for Leith. ._.,,, 5 , SP' SLIGO, JAN. 22.-Arrd. Eleanor, Bobius-- New Brunswick. A r rd. , A C 5 1‘ 41 a Ce :j STROMNESS, PRIOR TO JAN. ---- - f ...,,, e Ross, Bay Chaleur. 18. The Eamont, 0 iho re, sunk in Caussen Roads, has been mo ved in ,Aos being lightened. A , r o t e A DUNGENESS ROADS, JAN. 19. --- M". .„ A - Hingeus, Tyctatjup, for Rotterdam. _.: OP' 0 LONGHOPE, JAN. 17.-Arrd. Britanaie, Peterhead. ii fro . 5 1 1 : 1111 1 WIVENHOE, JAN. 22.-The Hudgi--.. the inif London, grounded on the Gunfleet during w ith the 21st inst., but came off and pro ceeded, of anchors, which have been recovered. IL- 1 , 11, J 0 155 : d ) NOTICE TO MARINERS - L IG c SYRA. Itotter 'Off The following is the extract o f a Sse from the Admiralty to W. Dobson , scl.' 1_ , 4 4 f.,, Lloyd's :- De e ' 2.1 ~ Syra, , , lo stent,l r o s "My Lord,-I have received an offieinfog tiloi , from the harbour-master of this port, o ,.t a , bo siei s 'ole, volving light had been placed on the ligu,%f ibe„ I, on the island nearly facing the, entranee y e alier t o 4' of Syra, and which hitherto had been a °o o Stol) total eclipse of the revolving light takes • Dritlsi V ' minute. (Signed by t he i "To the Earl of Aberdeen." n r Vsk l ' _AO CURRENTS , OF THE , -J - mes4 i d The following was picked up by the -- of ..., C Ballinskelly :-" On board the Zola °, 359, 11 4 Dec. 9, 1844, all well, lat. 49 N., lon• , r 9 h cl ui g‘ if°_, 085 thrown over to try the current." J - ,, e lleu' o eo" . ashore on January 14, therefore it hadtn:palt in 36 days, the current setting N. b _" i f) -------E, 'or MARKET NE WS.—(TOIS 4, COVENT-GASTIVII.,,nd v_, I t , , The supplies of most kinds of Fruit 'i n f i ri f here were rather large for the time ef n e nel v lo l j attendance of dealers was numerous, tb, e l s tee l oroi was somewhat active, at full prices. AL sdljf it to 48 6d per cwt; Turnips, is 9(1 te '" to SO "4 5s to 6s 6d ; Coleworts, or Greeus, 25 Arc,' Leeks, 8d to is 4d per dozen buneh ei n l , Onol l i 4s ; Pears, 3s to 88 ; Spinach, is 6d to n o ' o PI Is 8d to 2s 6d par half sieve ; Pine AO i; 0 0 4 Filberts, 10d to is 3d per lb ; SWYt t te a I Y dozen ; forced Rhubarb, Is to Is 6(1; '''," ; s ill J 6s to 7s; Horse Radish, 2s to Bs ; BrOOOM f ir and Celery, is 3d to 2s 6d per bundle ; to 0: Lemons, 6s to lOs per 100 • Seakail, 11 11 I punnet. Ai : / 1517NGERPOSID. , he ;r e We had a very large supply of Fish, s ' er which was heavy, at low figures. In 0/- ' 'i ceedingly little was doing at low rates. atilt .10 3c3EVITGALTB AZT $1 011 74 f D LEAD dy , jl. l 0 Each kind of prime Meat was in ste i t ha • a' a il prices were well supported ; otherwise w too , ig rei dull. Beef from 2s 6d to 3s 6d t • 3 ,,' t io toAo 3s 8d ; Veal 3: 8d to 4: 8d ; and l'Om pare O'll Sibs. Although the supplies of Poultry' Initt 0 o general demand was steady. Geese W ere iksir 5 3s 6d to 5s 6d ; Hares, is 6d to 2s 6d. r .1. 0 0' •1 ' 12s ; Partridges, is 6d to 2s ; and Ku' 'l' 6d each. i #g° ll ° NEVIPOILT. , full 1 04 , 1 Prime Meat was in steady request, 11 ' 0 ' .41 otherwise the trade ruled dull. Beef 00 15 00 ~ 8d ; Mutton, 2s 10d to 3s 8d ; Veal, 51 ' and Pork, 2s 10d to 4s 4d per !fibs.• J O BIZ. I. IN G SMELTS. 011, We had a large supply of Fish. The &Door cd was tolerably steady, at our quotations'. 11) Liol. Is 611 per pair ; Salmon, 3s to 3s 6d P er a to. ' lOs to 25s ; Brills, 4s to 9s ; Whitings, 6 h; 6 4 fr,:;) Fish, 2s to 8s; and Lobsters, is 6d to 35 VraiTECIMPFre• , .0%0 There was rather a slow inquiry for . 3 ; 4 9 0 41 0 ' quotations. Beef, from 2s 811 to 38 6t l l i 7- 141 . , 1 to 3s 10d ; Veal, 3s 6d to 4s 8d ; an d -01' so' ii r 4s 4d per 81bs. . r BREAD. ) f e rli t The prices of wheaten Bread in t h e to 63, biel ' from 7d to 7i-d ; of household ditto , 5 u loaf. ranuutics'r:, Or, 4 _00 4 i: iv Raw hides at per stone 0f141135.-lie s ' -te to -,. sf i ri 5s 6d to 5s 10d ; middling hides, 55 de.P 4 ferior hides, 4s 6d .to 4 s 10d. Sheep ! al- , P P ' per skin-Market calf, 6s 6d to °. li n ' 0. , 1 0 1 ; sheep, 3s 6d to 4s 6d ; short ditto, 35 4 m I li! i 1143. Y ISZAIZILST ° ' 3/ lv", Th OS, SMITHFIELD.—Coarse Meadow H ay' dit - ipi Useful ditto, 41 12s to 5/ 4s ; fine trPi s Z t re - o i tl , , 518 s; Clover Hay, 41 lOs to 61; Oat i' - _,,,,. 1 ', i r 1/ 14s ; Wheat Straw, 11 14s to 1/ 16 5 - ' 10 # 11 0 ,, ply but moderate, and trade rather du ll ' 3/ 0/0, - 01 CUMBERLAND.-Coarse Meadow„a di„,..... i y Useful ditto, 41 14s to 5/ 3s ; fine Up oat PPig f i , 51103 ; Clover Hay, 41 10s to 5/ 18s; Vi IP it, to 11 16s ; Wheat Straw, 11 16s te .- tes• 10 . 4 A sluggish inquiry, at barely previous rs' s i 0 51 9 yor WHITECRIPEL.-Coarse Meadow Ha* c up oi l , Useful ditto, 41 12s to 51 ; fine Uple ll :'str s , l ›, t Si 8s ; Clover Hay, 4/ 10: to 61; °,s: per v. 11148 ; Wheat Straw, 11 14s to 11 I °'„icell '' Hay and Straw moved off slowly, Y et r-1 0 ported. - "04 WAKEFIELD CORN IVIARIaIic; 4 0 0 0 10 3 :, The arrivals of Grain continue libera l : 1 1044, Wheat maintains the price of last week; ° oar Id ~.r6; vest prevents any reduction in price. Il l f ute antrfrif tion. Beaus in demand, but no dearer. `-' - 0 10. ,- /0 4 , 050 /, Wheat-Suffolk, Essex. and Kent •• •• Bed•• •• •13 4 4 " II Ditto ditto ••• • • • White .• 43 4 6 / . Norfolk Ditto ditto ...... W hite•• 4 • 1 46 r o Lincolnshire and Cambridge• • Red•• • 46 40 /,‘ 0 Ditto Per qr. of - 41, /, i i ditto -•• • • 18 'll ite ‘ . 40 4 0 ,' 0 Yorkshire ....... ....... .. _ Red•• '' 4 40 - 00 / Ditto ditto ...... Wlnte" 4 3 46 / j English, Old Foreign ' . Bed•• •' 49 4 4 4 r < Ditto ditto ...... Whit . ' "!er at 4 ;3 5 i / 5 ) 11 Barley-Norfolk and Suffolk ••••••• • • • •• 5uff01k.................. 3 1 3° ..„- l'?„ Yorkshire and Lincolnshire ••••'' •• •. 9 „' P o IT/11 Grinding.- . . Foreign per gr• 3 6 / / 9 Beans-Small fine .... ........ .:: 3 5 -, 11l /4:10 Ticks Foreign Oats—Alealing, per Stone • • ...... • .. ..... • tor r• Feedini.: • • • .... • . ,• • 00 , 19 o?fri Foreign' Shelling, per Load ...... ...• • • 4, 0 if: , , Malt, per Load of 6 Bushel ' s:: :: : .... .. :.. ..• •' .. r" 44 ' , 0 41 ' ' Pease—Blue and White Boilers ..... .••••• * • • . r O F' / Grey and Feed ..• • . • • • • • • " • ' .• • . :. ‘: e l' ' ' Rapeseed—English, per Last Imperial •"'•.• :• - 31' "e l F0reign .._....... l ire fee t th e 50t , THE EARL OF MORNINGTON."- t bs- ..,.0 sure in being enabled to announceber iitartiogol the Earl of Mornington has rat e d sr ite i i iiji though from his Lordship's adva l l e r . o nse t i ti te,ta r' born the 22d of May, 1763, an u „,, -- re , e13 ,01 0 . ,,p " 1 111 .1 82d year of his age, slight hoP e This I. '„§ic r yi his recovery. Dr. Copeland vi si t e , of F1V00,1,1,40V root ) had a conference with the resi ue s of sad I.'" morning. The different branchehoon r od' m g Family made inquiries at an ° rif f *, n0._: 0 ,,, be fO r of the nobility and gentry were y e ; d OM 1 00 reply given this morning was, refresh a tolerable good night, is more I.°l Ol4 better than he was yesterday oC - t. of o p' i„ of Ps' a btre p His Imperial Highness the Dl' , ar i a , 4 . 1/. 40 0 /„. his august consort, Archduchess il - fr - te ild w o r s olv - / Emperor and Empress of Russia , 1 7 ItalY $ .4'0' 66 ,04' suing spring in the southern par t ° b doeh e 0C ,he '' for the bene fi t of the illustrious Ar e os of p ied THE LIBRARY OF TKE EATS P tj ....nft i°° Of fik If Yesterday the catalogue of the Anittil it : Pill‘e t i°°•B9 ', 64 la .0c is tetbive and valuable library of the book P e jo 0 G a ol was issued by Messrs. Evans, the t his P c 'ip 0 , 0 ' Pall.mall. The number of lots 0 1 oi es, r - .. yob' oft * consisting of several thousan d , ~ 600 classics, foreign history, antiqui ti e s most rare description.