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THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVEN iNG, JANUARY 7. 1345. Kira ;lITIVTeeyB') IN AMUSING PRESENT FOR THE NEW YEAR. In portions of the Metropolitan Counties, the Now ready, in small Bve., price 10s. 6d., elegantly bound, gilt ed T ges, with . a Pcartr6titif i tieethor i ant an Illustration e by especially in parts of Middlesex, Kent, an S ELL AN Y a system of slovenly farming, which woul d scar ce l y FOR 1545. I have discredited the primitive practice that principle. nay have By JOHN POOLE, Esq. " Author of " Paul Pry." prevailed under the Heptarchy, still a - nests the " This is a book of the season, tasteful to the eye, inviting to the baitt e c p omical o, i , T edg displaying keen perception, ori- baneful influence of this "as you were" n n a d i humour, e l- Ur n :ll% l' a - A better and a brighter day dawns upon agricul us. Geo e of the human heart."—Court logical chemistry opens an inexhaustible treasury Of Jo ' tirnal. who love mirth, d with served up with a neatness which , is becom ing rarer and rarer in these superficial times, and "seasoned more sense than is to be found in many an oration, cannot do better really " useful knowledge " to the prac 4 thanbuy - The Comio Miscellany' by way of board and fire-side pro- turist. Chemical analysis detects and de, elopes 13 , J11 vision for the year just come in.' —Atherntum. Henry Colburn, publisher, 13, Great Mar lborou g h-street. principles of fermentation, new combinatio ns o f and new modes of extracting ammoniacal so:jas From various substances hitherto unapplied or imp ' • ...ez>Wn for the important purposes of manure. Ira f ine foremast rank of those illustrious contemporaries foreigners and Englishmen, to whom agriculture debted for its improving pros ,- ,s most l arge l y in admirable LIEBIG. ets we recognise th e ins approved himself the chemist of the soil. Bi let us be just to our own countrymen. If Co - ,lIDEN had not " rea d" hi s poli tical lectures to war landowners, the land would have derived no ber,efit from the chemical experiments arid discoveries .4* LIEBIG. The political economist first wrought the conviction in our agriculturists, that ttiey must devise securer bases to rely on for their future incomes than the average yield of the land, under the existing system of tillage and dressing, and exist ing and burdens prices of produce, would continue to give. When they had once been induced seriously to ponder on this conviction, the chemi.st of the soil demonstrated by what means that yield might be so largely and economically increased as to go near satisfactorily to achieve the desired object. But in other quarters, Mr. L. Fox, of Yorkshire, Mr. NV. PITT, of Lymington, &c., have shown how enormous a saving may be accomplished in the aggregate of seed wheat annually sown in England and - Wales, and how in conceivable an increase may certainly be derived from dibbling the corn at given and regular distances. We entreat the agriculturists to persevere in the wise course of careful observation and experiment upon which so great a body among them appear to have embarked in good earnest. But they will greatly err if they stop short at these improvements of system and processes. Let them be up and doing for the re moval of such substantial grievances as they endure j from the game-laws, and the preservation of game. Let them learn to see through the one-sided conces sions of selfish landlords—who offer, like Sir R. PEEL, to abandon their high " taboo" upon bar es and rabbits on the express understanding, however, that the phea sants and partridges shall still be rnai.ntained, like the Prmterian cohorts of old, in a sort of fortified camp—by the insolence or legalised i mpunity of a particular body of men, who care nothing for the sacrifice of human life and liberty which follows on the practice of poaching—poaching being the inevita ble consequence of game-preserving. Let the agri culturists look to the county Members, an d insist of their procuring the repeal of those °brio xious laws, under cover of which, as a Wiltshire correspondent o! the Times has lately proved, a farmer may be sub jected, lay pheasants alone, to the destructi on of grow ing crops to the extent of 2501. or 3001. a, year. We would fain hope that if the tenant farmer 3 succeed in pushing these social as well as professional improve rnents, we shall hear no more of their emulating, in their turn, the tyranny of some great landowner, (who are also game preservers), towards them, straining the law to its utmost severity of tension against the wayfaring pauper, or the warecLering men dicant for purloining a turnip or burninis a faggot. These are moral ameliorations in which we feel at least as much interested as in those me terial ones, upon which they will soon have so much reason tc congratulate themselves. This day is published, small 4t0., with a Portrait of Napoleon and of the Duke of Wellington, price Two Guineas, handsomely bound, NA POLEON: an Epic Poem, in Twelve Books. By WILLIAM RICHARD HARRIS. London Longman, Brown,. Green, and Longman. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. THIS EVENING _ . Will be repeated a Grand Opera Serla, called THE DAUGHTER OF ST. MARK. Lusignano, Mr. Burdini ; Andrea Comaro, Mr. Borrani ; 113oncemgo, Mr. Weiss; Adolphe de Courcy, W. Harrison ; Catarina Cornaro, Mims ftainforth To conclude with a Grand Comic Christmas Harlcquin.ide, calla PUCK'S PANTOMIME; or, HARLEQUIN AND ROBINSoN CRUSOE. Robinson Crusoe. Mr. W H. Payi,e; Harlequin, Mr. Wieland ; C'own , Mr. T. Matthews; Pantaloon, Mr. Howell ; Columliiie, Miss Carson. Box-ottiee is open daily, from Ten in the Morning until Six a the Evening, where Private and Family Boxes, Stalls, Paces, and Tickets may be had on application to Mr. John Parsons. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARK.LT. Lessee, Mr. B. WEBSTER. THIS EVENING Will he nerform^d a New and Original Comedy, in Five Act... called OLD HEADS AND YOUNG HEARTS. Colonel Ro' Mr. S rickland ; Littleton Coke, Mr. Charles Mather s •__Torr Coke Mr. Webster ; Bob, Mr Buckstone; Jesse Ru ra l, Mr. W. Darren; The Countess oft nmpion, Mrs. W. Clifford; Lady Alice Hawthor n Madame Vestris ; Miss Rocket, Miss Julia rennett. After which, a New Grand Musical Fairy Extravaganza, entitled GRACIOSA AND PERCINET. Ring Uxorious, Mr. J. Bland ; Princess Gracicsa, Miss Julia Bennett ; Percinet, Miss P. Horton ; Duchess Grognon, Mrs. Stanley. To conclude with a Grand MOVING DIORAMA; or, PIC TORIAL TOUR 1N S IVITZERLAND. Private Boxes, Two Guineas and One Guinea and a.Half eac'. rickets and Places to be had of Mr. I. T. Ar cher, at the Box-ottice, trim 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, Fs ) a New Drama, entitled THE CHIMES. A Goblin Story of Somft Bells that Rang an Old Year Out and a New Year In. Toby Vcck, Mr. 0. Smith; Alderman Cute, Mr. Wright; Tugby, Mr. - son ; S.r Joseph Bowley, Bart . Mr. Paul Bedford ; Will Fern, Ms. Hudson ; Richard, Mr. Selby ; Meggy Veck, Miss Fortescue; Mrs. Chickenstalkcr, Mrs. Frank Matthews. After which, NORMA, in which Miss Woolgar, Mr. Paul 3ed ford, Mr. Wright, and Miss Reynolds will perform. To conclude with a New Grand Military and Comic Christmas Pantomime, called CAT'S CASTLE ; or, Hailequin and the Ki g of the Rats. Harlequin, Mr. T. Ireland; Columbine, Miss Lons_ dale ; Clown. Mr. C. J. Smith ; Pantaloon, Mr. San"crs. Prompter, Mr. Gallot ; Principal Painter, M r. Pitt ; Leader of the M Band, Mr. Mellon. —Box-ottice open from Eleven till Four. Private 'taxes to be had at the Theatre, and at all the principal Librarin. PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STKEEI. LESSEE, Mr. J. M. MADDOX. THIS EVENING Will be repeated THE RENT DAY. Martin Heywood, Mr. Wallack ; Bullfrog, Mr. Compton ; Rachel Heywood, Mrs. Stirling To be followed by a new Divertissement, called LE "ALON DE BAL. Principal characters by Mdlle. Caroline Rousset, Miss Marshall, Mdile. feresine, M. J. Rou.set, Mr. Marshall, and Mr Gilbert To be succeeded by a New Cornedietta, 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 Extravaganza, called JOE MILLER AND HIS MEN. Grindoff, Mr. Compton; Lothair, Mr. Oxberry ; Kelmar, Mr. Granby; Riber, Mr. Corfi , Golotz, Mr. Walton ; Cl au di ne, Miss E. Stanley ; Ravine, Mrs. Fosbroke. stage Manager, Mr. H. L Wallack. Stage Di rec t or , M r. Emden, Machinist, Mr. Edmund BradwelL Dress Circle, As. ; Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 2s. ; Galls Half. price at Nine o'clock—Dress Cir c l e , 2s. 6d. ; Boxes, 2s. ; Pit, Is.; Gallery, r -fl. Private Boxes, Two Guineas and One Guinea and a-Half ; Prosce nium Boxes, Two Guineas an d a-Halt: Doors to be opened at Halt- past Six, and the Performances to commence at Seven o'clock. The Box.office, under the direction of Mr. W. Massingb-an Private Boxes and Free Admissions for the Season ts be had at thy Tneatre. iHEATRE ROYAL LYCEUM, LATF. F , N V HOUSE. Cruder the Management cst era. KEELEY. THIS EV:t4IN G Will be repeated THE CHP; E s ; Characters by Messrs. Vini A Goblin Story. Principe: Collier Emery, Turner, nxi K eeley ; Meadows, Diddear, F. Matthews, Miss drove, and Kc.efei. Miss Walct, Miss Arde Atter which, SI ARR V. Soon, a New. Farce, called TO PERSONS ABOUT Ti) r. -- ..0e1 by Messrs. F. Matthews, Meadows, and Stoker Miss Arden, a r m Mrs. Wigan. T° m ielY.sti 'with a New Grand Operatic, Historicil, Romantic Pantomiri ice d , AND Burlesque Extravaganza , entitled VALENTINE ORSON. Principal Characters by Messrs. F. Matthews; ew:sows, Wigan, Collier, T urner , Kinloch, Yarnold, and Keeley , .„Krg- Wigan Miss Arden , Miss Fairbrother, Miss Grove, Mrs Vsilor, Miss James, Miss Turner, and Mrs. Keeley. _ RICES OF ADMISSION . —BaIcouy Boxes, 43. ; Upp ei (Boxes, 3e. • Pit 25.; Gallery, 6d. Second Price—Balcony Boxes, 2.. 'Upper Bo x es , l ' s. 6& ; Pit, Is. Private Boxes on the Balcony Tley ('.olding eight persons), Two Guineas. Private Boxes on the Seconc Fier (holding eight persons), One Guinea and a-HalL Private Boxes on the Pit Fier (holding six persons), One Guirea, Tne Box-efficei s open from Ten to Four o'Clock, under the direc tien of Mr. Grogan, late of Covent-garden Theatre. - - --- N* _Nightly Overflows to the Grand Christmas Holiday Noveltiv, and Veble Rotation of Entertainments at ASTLEII'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE OF ARTS. Iteprietor and Manager, Mr. W. BATTY. brilliant Success of the New Pantomime THIS EVENING be repeated a New Spectacle, entitled THE ROYAL FOX IffUN'T; or, The Race_ Horse and Life's Course of Man and Steed , dntroducing unequalled National Fetes. Real Fox-chase on the Stage - and in the Circle by living Fox and real Pack of Hounds, purchased wb y Mr. Batty of Mr. Tattersall, to realise this novel production. ;k.l.isom Races and other Sporting Features. New Scenes of the Circle, and entire change in the Feats of Horse. , tnansh ip. To conclude with a Grand Comic Christmas Equestrian Pantomime, tiled HARLEQUIN ANp JOHNNY GILPIN'S RIDE; or, the slack Witch of Edmonton. Harlequin, Mr. H. Lewis ; Columbine, .141 rs. J. W. Colye r ; Cl own, M r. T . B arry; Pantaloon, Mr. Bradbury. Acting and stage-manager Mr. W. D. Broadfoot. Am-office open from Eleven till Five. Lessons in the Art of Riding by btr. R. Smith daily. The intolerable injustice and opprealion of the game-laws are at length—as we hinted the other day —beginning to be acknowledged even by the great landowners of the country, the majority of whom, thinking of nothing but their own selfiaki amusements, have hitherto maintained them in all their rigour " In addition," says the Aylesbury News, " to thF names of Dr. LEE, Sir H. VERNEY, and the Duke of BEDFORD, we have now to add that of Sir THOMAS COTTON SHEPPARD to the list of those common-sense landlords who have taken the only proper step to wards putting an end to the game nuisance. One day lately upwards of six hundred hares were shot in some fields on the latter gentleman's estate at Thorn borough in this county; and the worthy Baronet has given his tenants unlimited permission to defend their property in any manner they may think propel from the ravages of the game. There will be no more preserves in the neighbourhood of Thorn borough." This is a good beginning, and the example of these liberal landlords will, we trust, be promptly followed up by others of the nobility and squire archy. Sir R. PEEL, to his credit be it spoken, was among the foremost to set the fashion of this dis interested line of conduct by publicly stating, a few months since, at an agricultural dinner which he at tended at Tamworth, that if any of his tenants could prove that their crops were injured by the ravages of the various game in his preserves, he would that instant give orders for them to be destroyed whole sale. As this was quite a volunteer declaration, which none of the neighbouring farmers called for, and, ap parently, none of them expected, we doubt not that the Right Hon. Baronet will be ready and willing to put it into practice whenever its necessity is made manifest to him. Probably, indeed, the destruction of his game has already commenced, for hares and pheasants are notoriously active and diligent foragers, and it cannot be but that they must have inflicted a world of mischief on the crops in the neighbour. hood, since the Premier, with a considerate regard for his tenants' interests, made his gracious declara tion in their favour. Few people, except the initiated, are aware of the enormous amount of damage that is annually done to the farmer by the game in the ad jacent preserves of the squire or the lord of the manor. Scarcely are the seeds deposited in long parallel lines in the prepared soil, than the pheasant, with that keen instinct which a healthy appetite im parts to the brute creation, artfully scratches up the earth, and gorges to repletion on the seed from which the farmer—unconscious, perhaps, till too late, of his loss—hopes to derive an abundant crop in due season. Not less active are the hares and rabbits among the tender young shrubs and turnip-fields, so that the luckless farmer has not only to contend against the proverbial fickleness and vicissitudes of our change able climate, but he has also to make bead, as best he may, against the certain annual losses inflicted on him by the crowded game in his landlord's adjacent preserves. Should he indignantly remonstrate against this last visitation, his remonstrances are, in too many instances, treated with aristocratic indiffe rence ; and nothing is left him but the humiliating conviction that he must continue to submit without a murntur to his losses, should he desire to retain pos session of his lands. But if the game-laws are in jurious to the fanner, to the poor defenceless bourer they are absolute destruction, both in a moral sense, and as regards his prospects in life. Let us take an individual case in support of our assertion. Suppose—and the supposition is no improbable one— a young, industriously-disposed, married day la bourer unable for weeks together to obtain regular work, from the distressed state of the farmers in his neighbourhood. For some time he continues to pick up a precarious subsistence by doing such odd jobs as chance may throw in his way; but at length even this scanty resource fails him, and he has nothing but a hateful, soul-degrading workhouse standing between him and absolute starvation. Meantime the fading cheek of his wife and the increasing cries of his chil DAVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. As usual, the best Pantomime of the Season I A more brilliant triumph than ever before achieved ! I Laughter, Wonder, and Delight :1! The First Pantomimic Performers of the Age, and Everything New t I I! THIS EVENINti Will be retreated THE SEVEN AGES OF MAN; or, The End of Crime. Principal Characters by Mr. Henry Corri (from the Theatre Royal Edinburgh), Messrs. H. Hughes, Neville, R. Rosner, Lewis, Heslop, and Seaman, Mrs. R. Bonner, Mrs. Lewis, Mrs. W. Daly, and Miss Martin. After which, Herr Joseph Gouldsmith and Marie Gouldsmith, from the Teatre Berlin, will perform most woneerful Gymnastique Feats on the horizontal corde and miraculous evolutions, suspended by a double rope. To conclude with an Original Worldly Comic Pantomime, call,: POUNDS, SHILLINGS, AND PENCE; or, HARLEQUIN Z. S. B. Harlequin, Mr. H. Harvey; Clown, Mr. T. Ridgway ; Pantalc,:n, Mr. Henry Corri; Columbine, Miss Slaiter. Places and Private Boxes to be had of Mr. Kerschner, at the Box office, firm Eleven to Four. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. Extraor,l nary Success of " Marianne; or, The Child of Crime," and the New Comic Pantomime. THIS EVENING Will bs! repeated MARIANNE; or, the Child of Charity. Su . ported by Mr. Osbaldiston, Henry Howard, J. T. Johnson, T. H. Higgie„ J. Herbert, E. Jones, W. Searle, Miss Vincent, Miss E Terrey, and Miss Treble. After which, the laughable Drama, entitled WILFUL MURDER To conclude with a New Grand Christmas Pantomime, entit'ed HARLEQUIN HOT COD LINS ; or, The Little Old Woman and the Demon of the Metal Mine. Harlequin, M. Chapigo ; Clown, Mr. Blanchard; Pantaloon, Mr. Coney; Columbine, Bich!, Le Vite. THE WEATHER.-SUN OFFICE, JA.24. 7. THWRSIONETER, Lowest, 42 ; Highest, 49 ; Noon, 4 BAROMETER, 30.3.-WIND, S. NOTE.—The figures which follow the words "Lowest" and 4 ‘ Highest" denote the lowest and highest state of thF 'Thermometer during the preceding twenty-four hours. All flit, other observations are made at noon. Water freezes at ; 55 on Thermometers is marked "Temperate," and on Barometers "Fair" is generally- placed opposite to 30, and " Rain" at 29; Nit there is no certainty of dry weather when the mercury falls below 30. HIGH WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY. Mervin; 27 minutes after 0 Evening 50 minutes after 0 dren for food drive him, into; a fierce frenzy o f despair ; the proud, manly sense of right by which he was up to this moment distinguished breaks down beneath the heavy pressure of misery; and after a bitter, protracted struggle between his conscience and his necessities, he sullenly betakes himself to the poacher's hazardous trade ; and if he escape being shot in: a conflict with the squire's gamekeepers is —almost as a matter of course—discovered, tried, and committed to prison, there to herd with the very dress of society. Adieu from this fatal moment to all sense of pride, self-respect, and justice in the breast of the doomed labourer ! The fallen humanity within him is never again uplifted. Constantly haunted with a bitter feeling of degradation, this very feeling plunges him still deeper into error— all the nobler instincts of his nature, one by one, give way—he becomes reckless_ desperate—abandoned ; and, most probably, finishes his brief career in a penal colony or on the scaffold. Yet this man—but for the cruel temptation which the game-laws throw in the way of poverty—might still have continued a worthy member of society ; by endurance and:the exercise of manly patience he might have overcome the suffering ; under which he laboured ; but the poacher's vocation supplied him with a ready means of subsistenr:e, and he could not resist the tempting oppo In a word ''unities which it th rows i n hi s way. tie fell a victim to the facilities which the game-lairs afforded him of becoming a rogue and vaFabcnd. Verily these laws are a disgrace to the n'zeteenth century, and it will never be well with the vast mass of the: labouring population till they are wholly and for ever erased from the statute-book. The last news from Otaheite, though not destitute of some features of novelty and interest, does not present any aspects upon which we deem it expedient at present, to offer any observations. But, though further discussion may tend to prolong angry feelings between the Governments of France and England, it must not be anticipated that the violence which has been offered by the French authorities to the native Princess who has appealed to our protection, and the insult which has been cast upon the dignity of the British nationality by their injurious treatment of Mr. PRITCHARD, will not very often be turned upon the wrong-doers, in the shape of a self-recorded case of political delinquency, which, like cases of moral delinquency, is sure in the end to entail upon the actors in it, its own punishment. Our present purpose is simply to express an ardent hope that the British Government, warned by the disastrous conse quences of such anomalous interventions in the affairs of remote, and barbarous or semi-civilized countries, as have signalised their shilly-shally, would-and would-not treatment of New Zealand and Otaheite, will turn its most prompt attention,to a general revi sion of the whole condition of those scattered settle ments, which it has but recently acknowledged by specific acts of sovereignty, or which it still leaves to the same ambiguous constructions of possessory or non-possessory title, that in both hemispheres have been of such fatal development. We take leave rapidly to name a few, a very few, of these doubtful or " no-men's" lands, as to which, if the principles were to prevail that have been followed by all the other The Presse has an article on the probable result to France of the trade with China, which, as will be seen from the following extract, is not considered favourable : " The information furnished by the Special Commis sioners sent to China, as to ,the probability of finding markets for our produce, is not of a nature to justify the hopes of the French merchants. The monopoly of the most important articles of manufacture appears to bt secured to the Eng.ish and the Americans, with whom it will be difficult to contend in the supply of white and unbleached calicoes. The exportation of muslins and cambrice has been tried by the English, but has not suc ceeded. Our woollens might find a better chance of suc cess, but even that is not certain, because the Chinese prefer cotton, which they wear single in summer and wadded in winter. The Russians, moreover, have mo nopolized the Chinese markets for cloth. Our printed calicoes might perhaps find a market if our manufactu rers could reduce their price. Until the present mo ment the Swiss have been in possession of the markets for that article. In the year 1843, the Americans ex ported 1,000,000 pieces of unbleached cotton. That amount was nearly doubled in the year 1844. In April last the warehouses in the interior of Canton were over loaded with British and American manufactures. We may conclude from the information received that the Go vernment does net expect much advantage from the ex pensive expedition sent to China. Thus are confirmed the doubts we expressed on the departure of M. La gren6." On Sunday the Three per Cente. were done al TORTONI'S at 85f. 30c. maritime nations of Europe in scores of instances, the title of our flag to paramount and primary authority cannot be questioned, if it be specifically and at once asserted. The exigencies of our com merce, and the political defences of our broken range of transmarine and colonial dominion, make this assertion an affair of momentous interest and in describable importance. The eighty or ninety years' postponement of the boundary line between the conterminous frontiers of British North America and of the United States ;—the north-eastern and north western lines of demarcation—the rights over the Oregon territory and the mouth of the Colombia River—the New Zealand districts, over which the title of aboriginal owners is not, and those over which it is, alienated or defeased :—these suggest a few of the more modern exemplifications of the luxury and safety of undetermined rights, unascertained titles, or unsurveyed possessions. We should like to know in what condition and under what settlement the lands, once the property of an African Association, and afterwards transferred to this Government, now are, on the Gold Coast ? Is there no conflict of pretensions between ourselves and Holland, or Den mark, as to any portion of them ? Do the stipula tions of our treaties with the Sovereigns of Ashantee and other neighbouring Powers expressly recognise us in the possessions we virtually hold ? Are our settlements on the Senegal Coast altogether aban doned; or, if not, are they in private British hands ? Have the pretensions of the French in the Portendic affair been finally conceded, since Dr. LUSHINGT9N retired from the House of Commons to the Admiralty tribune ? Do we retain any hold on the valuable gum trade, of which it may not be proposed, from a deficiency on our part of diplomatic recognitions, some fine morning, by one of the two French Chambers, to deprive us under the force of a string of " resolutions," after the fashion of Mr. President TYLER'S management ? Has Portugal been left without a loophole through which to rake us in our possessions on the eastern and south-eastern coast of Africa, where she still affects, in her political decrepitude, to trace the footsteps of her more vigo rous youth of maritime enterprise and discovery ? On the' southern coasts of America, do we mean to retain as Crown possessions, or do we intend to aban don, the Falkland Islands, whose ill-understood value as a refitting and refreshment station for our navy about 80 years since, nearly victimised us for the purposes of Spain, practising on our ignorance or our credulity, our apathy or our rash ness ? Is it intended in the Indian Archi- THIS DA Y'S NEWS SHERRIFFS' COURT-(THIS DAY. BRETTON AND ANOTHER V. FENTON. This action was brought to recover the sum of 161. 165., for goods sold and delivered by the plaintiffs to defen dant under the following circumstances. In the course of November, 1844, the defendant or dered of a person of the name of Jackson, one of the present plaintiffs, a number of dining-room chairs, which were to be delivered to defendant on the 13th of the same month. The plaintiff Jackson desired the other plaintiff, Bretton, to make these chairs, and to deliver them to the defendant on that day. On the plaintiff Bretton taking them to defendant's house, however, he (defendant) refused to pay for them, on the ground that it was from Mr. Jackson, and not from Mr. Bretton he had ordered them. Defendant pleaded that he was not indebted, and it having been proved that the goods were ordered of the plaintiff Jackson, and not of the plaintiff Bretton, the jury, with.ut retiring, found a verdict for the defendant. The Court rose shortly after one o'clock. CRIMINAL COURT. THIS DAY) OLD COURT. (Before the RECORDER.) William Hunt, who our readers will recollect surren dered to his bail yesterday, was this morning again placed at the bar. The prisoner, it will be remembered, was charged, upon two indictments, with having, on the 12th of March last, at the parish of St. Paul, Shadwell, forged an undertaking for the payment of the sum of 1,7391. 10s., with intent to defraud Thomas Rogers. In a second count of the indictment, the prisoner was charged with uttering and putting forth the under taking, we ll k now i ng i t to b e forged. The pri soner was also charged, upon a second indictment, with forging an undertaking for the payment of 4001., with intent to defraud Thomas Rogers. Oa the prisoner surrendering yesterday to his bail, upon the ap plication of his counsel, the case was postponed to this morning, the counsel for the prosecution stating that it was uncertain whether they would be prepared to pro ceed with the prosecution. On the prisoner being placed at the bar this morning, the case was postponed till next session, in consequence of the injury received by one of the witnesses last Friday by a kick of a horse, render ing it impossible for him to attend the court. `The other cases that came before the Court during the morning were totally unworthy of any special report. NEW COURT. Before the COMMON-SZRGEANT and Alderman Sir C. pelago to allow Holland to affix the seal of pro• scription, stamped by our own unaccountable acqui. escence in her crafty policy, on that decree of virtual exclusion by which the has so far succeeded in shut ting us from the richest markets in the Eastern World, after all that our courage, capital, and ad- MA.RSHALL &c .) Ann Harley, a middle-aged female, was charged with feloniously receiving, and in another count with steal ing, eight pair of shoes and four pair of booth from cer tain premises. The evidence showed that the house in question had been locked at three o'clock in the afternoon, and that it was broken open, and property stolen from it, before the hour of eight. The prisoner was observed coming from that direction and carrying a bundle. She was de tained, and the boots and shoes charged in the indict ment found her. She stated that the property was her own, and had been brought from home. venture had opened and accomplished in these lati. tudes during the last three centuries ? We shall re- turn to this subject on the occasion of entering into some examination as to the operation of our existing treaty with the Netherlands' Government, of the year 1824. We believe it to be a subject that, if not seasonably entertained, will be forced on the attention of our Legislature and Government next session. Madrid journals of the 31st ult. have been received. On that day the Senate resumed the consideration of the Reform Bill, when the Duke DB Goa moved that certain grandees of Spain, and the Archbishops and Bishops, should be entitled to seats in the Chamber. The motion, which was supported by only one mem ber, was of course rejected. A report from the Com mittee on the Bill for the Abolition of Slavery, was laid before the Senate, which fully sanctioned the measures proposed by the Cabinet. The Bill for promulgating organic laws by royal decree, had re ceived the royal assent. NARTAEZ and MARTINEZ DE Le Rose, in fact, have had everything their own way in the Cortes, and the country seems quite dis posed to submit to their authority. The Three per Cents. closed at 31i for cash, and 321 at sixty days ; the Five per Cents. at 22i- at sixty days ; the Floating Debt, at 77i for the 27th of January; and the Coupons at 26 1-16 for cash, and 264 at sixty days. MY. PAYNE, in a very ingenious defence, contended that as the prisoner had been committed from Clerken well Police-court for the felonious receipt, it was alto gether unfair to insert the other count as an after thought, and in these circumstances he prayed the jury to dismiss it altogether from their thoughts. There had not been a tittle of evidence adduced to prove the charge, and therefore he considered that the prisoner should be discharged. The COMMON SERGEANT, after examining the indict ment, said there was BO pretence whatever for the charge of feloniously receiving. He did not say that the prisoner might not have been assisting to rob the premises, but it was natural to infer that the person upon whom the stolen property was found was the person most likely to have done so, but that under the circumstances ho would leave it to the jury. The jury found her Not Guilty. Catherine Driscoll was charged with feloniously steal ing from Henry Hubbock, a sailor, the sum of 6s. 6d. The sailor had got drunk, and the prisoner, to use his own phrase, "had towed his hulk into port," and there robbed him of the sum in question. The case was clearly proved, and the young lady, who bore not the most estimable of chai &eters, was transported for ten years. Several cases of petty larcenies were then disposed of. Elizabeth Wilfins was charged with unlawfully dis posing of the body of her dead child. The prisoner had been an in-patient of St. George's Hospital, and under treatment for a diseased limb. On the 3d December the body of a deceased child was found in a box by her bed-side, and it was discovered that she was the mother. No evidence was adduced to show that the child had been born alive. The Learned Counsel for the defence contended that there was no evidence to prove that there was any inten tion of permanently concealing the body of the infant. The box was an open one ; it was close beside her bed, and therefore the most natural course for the prisoner under these circumstances was, to place the body where it had afterwards been found. There was nothing cri minal in this; and he trusted, therefore that the jury would discharge her from her present painful position. —Not Guilty. Sarah Seville was similarly charged, and also dis charged. The Paris papers are as destitute of news as ever. They contain no domestic intelligence, no foreign cor respondence got up to give an impulse to the discussions in the Chambers ; nothing from Spain, or Morocco, or Otaheite ; and even Admiral DUPETIT TROUARS, who was to be the lion of the day, is entirely for gotten, and living quietly as a retired half-pay officer in the Rue de Castellane. What is to be done with the sword no one can tell. The Admiral rejects it, as he considers employment in his profession, and the favour of the Court, preferable to popular applause. For want of a better subject, therefore, the journals are occupied with the probable destinies of the GUI ZOT Ministry. A very general belief prevails that it cannot last the session; that the KING, notwithstanding certain outward signs, would feel no disappointment if M. GUIZOT should be compelled to retire, and Count MOLE, with TRIERS as his right - hand man, take his place. He would thus to a certainty obtain one of the great objects he has had in view for years— pensions for his younger children, and a provision for the Duke of NEMOURS should he become Regent. MOLE, TIMERS, DUFAURE, and other leaders of the Coalition, would willingly return this compliment to his MAJESTY for their restoration to office, and the ousted Ministry, who are already ',implicated in the business, could not with any decency oppose the scheme. But, besides this, the political principles professed now by the new candidates for the KING'S favour, have undergone a material change on one point. They are now as anxious for peace with England as GUIZOT—in fact they are playing the game of Sir ROBERT PEEL before they are in office, and adopting the policy of their opponents to obtain favour with the KING, for the KING, whatever may be said to the contrary, governs as well as reigns. The National makes no secret of the fact. " The Minis terial journals," it says, " are triumphant. The ma jority for Ministers has again been consolidated, and the intriguers feel afraid. Thus, the Conservative deputies who voted for M. BILLAULT were intriguers__ men without principles or faith—discontented and timid men, capable of coalescing in the dark, but in capable of sustaining the light of discussion. It is wall to know this, for we have long been accustomed to hear the Conservative party spoken of with a pomp ous eulogium. It appears that the Conservative party has Marplots amongst its members. So much for persons, now for principles. It has long been a boast LAMBETH.—(THIS DAY.) George Prince, a bone-collector, Catherine Waley, and Mary Jones, described as residing in North-street, Lock's fields, were charged with coining. Police-constable, P 28, stated that from information which he received, he went yesterday evening to the prisoners' lodgings, which was in a small back room in North-street. On going up stairs he suddenly opened the door, and saw the male prisoner with some coin in his band, which he attempted to place in his pocket, but which the officers prevented, and the prisoner was secured. On searching the fire-place the officers found some coin ing implements. The male prisoner said, " Aye, you have found all you will find, which, I suppose, is suffi cient for your purpose." The prisoner Waley said that she had only just come in, and had nothing to do with the coining implements. Mr. HENRY ordered the two female prisoners to be removed from the Court, and asked the male prisoner what he had to say to the charge ?—The male prisoner (Prince) said Waley had nothing to do with it, and that he found the implements en a dunghill at Lock's-fields. The two females, on being again brought into Court, were asked if they wished to say anything, but they declined. Mr. llErzny asked if the police knew anything abou the prisoners ?—The officers said the whole of the pri. Boners were well-known characters. Mr. HENRY said the prisoners mutt be remanded until Saturday. SOUTHWARK.—(THIS DAY.) William Mariner, a weather-beaten old tar, was charged with being found lying drunk in the public street. The defendant received his pension on the previous day at the Pay-office, on Tower-hill, and afterwards be came so intoxicated that he fell down, and was found lying on the pavement insensible, and his pockets turned inside out, having been plundered of the whole of his quarter's pension. The defendant's account was that he had been robbed of nearly all his money, but still he had a " shot left in the locker." The policeman said he had not a farthing about him when he was searched. Defendant (giving his trowsers a hitch)—Oh, yes, I " bolted a sovereign when I found tke land sharks' about me, and I expect that I shall have it safe and sound by and-by."—(Laughter.) Mr. TIAILL discharged him, remarking that he hoped he would discover the sovereign he had swallowed without sustainin g any i njury from such an experiment. e_ PREsErn, TO AN EDITOR. The editor of the Devonport Telegraph acknowledges the receipt of a barrel of ale from a brewery in the town as a Christmas-box, the excellence of which is, of course, duly testified in grateful terms. that the monarchical and representative system is the personification of perfection. Men have been found to bend the knee before the constitutional fiction which elevates the royal person above the sphere of parties, which raises it over every ambition, and which ren ders it infallible, because its action is never felt. But we find from the Ministerial journals, that a number of Conservatives voted for M. BILLAULT because they imagined they would please the KING by so doing. It follows, therefore, that the Chamber, far from being independent of royalty, is at its orders." The discussion on the Address was to commence in Committee, it was understood, on Monday. M. GUIZOT, Marshal SOULT, and Admiral MAcKau, would attend the Committee to reply to questions and furnish documents. The debate in the Chamber will commence about the middle of next week. MONEY AND COMMERCIAL. NE WS WTI', QUARTER TO THREE. There was a moderate demand for Cotton at Liver pool yesterday, and prices were supported. Sales 4,000 bales, chiefly American.—A moderate business w a s d one in Shares, but prices were not quite so buoyant : Bristol and Gloucester, 39 ; Chester and Birkenhead, 39f 1 ; Dublin and Belfast, 5 ' • Eastern Counties, 151 1 ; Ditto Perpetual, No. 2, 235. 6d.; Glasgow and Greenock, 111 ; Grand Junction, 227} 227 ; Ditto, Quarter, 561 ; Great North of England, New, 61 ; Lancaster and Carlisle, 14 ; Liverpool and Manchester, N e w, 381 ; Direct Northrn, 21 ; London and York, 42 1 ; Cam bridge and Lincoln, 465. 3d. ; Churnet Valley, 4f 4 ; Manchester and Leeds, Sixteenth, 5 ; Midland Counties, 115 ; Ditto, 401., 51 ; South-Eastern, ; Ditto, New, 14f ' • 'Paris and Orleans, 441 ; Paris and Rouen, 401 ; Boulogne and Amiens, 5 ; Northern of France, It is admitted, in all circles connected with the ship ping interests of the country, that the guano trade has been a most seasonable source of employment for no inconsiderable portion of the vessels of various ports which prevougly were lying idle. London, Liverpool, Bristol, Dundee, Hull, &c., have all participated in this comparatively new branch of industry and enterprise. As respects Hull, the circular quoted yesterday has on the subject of the guano trade the following re marks :—" In the past year, being the first in which direct imports have occurred at this port, the supplies amount to about 4,000 tons. The trade, contrary to what might have been expected from the known enterprise of the agriculturists in this part of the country, and the ex tent to which every description of foreign manures is used, has not yet assumed that importance here that it has at some of the other leading ports. Still, however, its consumption is on the increase, and it probably only wants a season favourable for its application (which the last, from the long drought) was not, to cause it to be etttensively consumed." The stocks in the port may be calculated at about 1,200 tons. The price, which in the spring was as high as 101. per ton, has since the com mencement of the direct import, varied from Si. to 71 per ton, the present quotation being 61 to 71. per ton. There are accounts in the City this morning from the Mauritius to the 15th October. Money is described as being very scarce, the Banks having been rather dis posed to contract than to expand their issues. There is not any other news of moment from this or other colo nial possessions of the Crown to-day. The meeting of the holders of shares in the Colonial Bank, held this afternoon, was, on the whole, considered as a favourable one. The expose of the Directors as to its affairs, compared with previous reports given by the Court of Directors, is more satisfactory. Heavy losses by failures, and the large robbery (12,3501.), have, for the last two or three years, cramped the operations of the banks connected with the Corporation in the West India Colonies ; nor for the present is there any very sanguine expecta tion entertained that things, as respecting the Bank's pro fits, will materially mend, trade being represented in the accounts received yesterday by the steamer as dull, though the crops looked well. Tne Funds have been again somewhat drooping, as there are sales made in the Three per Cents, by holders who have only waited to take their dividends. Consols have been 100 f 1 for Money, and 1004- I for Account ; Bank Stock is 2111 ; and New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. are 1031 to 1044-. The Three per Cents. Reduced bring 1001 Exchequer-bills have remained at 655. t o 635. premium. There is a very dull market for foreign Stock s .— _ . Spanish Actives are 21 i ; the Three per Cents., 36t and the Passive, 6i ; Mexican Bonds are 34i ,I ; Aus Irian realise .1131 ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. obtain 63i to 64. The Railway Shares are also very quiet, but prices generally look firm. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. (From the Official List.) Bank Stock 211% 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 100%34 3 per Cent. Consols Anus 100%%% New 3 1 % per Cent. Annuties lO4 103% 104 1 Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan. 1860... 12 1 / s India Bonds 1,0001 — pm. Ditto under 1,0001 75 pm. Consols fur Opening Exchequer Bills. 1 3 Ad. 1 1 , d. I,OOOL 500/. Ditto Small — Ditto Advertised ..... ... ....• — pm. PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS. AT ONE O'CLOCK. Mexican Bonds, 1837, 5 per Cent Ditto for the Account . 34 1 / 2 3 / 4 Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent., 1840... Ditto for the Account. Ditto Passive Bonds 64 Ditto Deferred Ditto 3 per Cent Ditto for the Account. Dutch 22 per Cents Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificate s Ditto for the Account PRICE OF SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK. RAILWAYS. PAID. PER SHARE. Birmingham and Gloucester 100 lOl Bristol and Exeter Bristol and Gloucester Caledonian Cambridge and Lincoln Churnet Valley Cornwall," ... 3 ...... 3% 1 A to Eastern Counties Great North of England 100 Ditto New Shares Great Western BO 166 165% to 166 Ditto, Half Shares Ditto, Fifths Hull and Selby Lancaster and Carlisle London and Blackwall 16% 7r to London and South Western.. 41%...... 77 1 Ditto NewConsolidatedBths 6 London and Croydon London and. York... ..... ...... 21h..... 4%4 to Manchester and Leeds Ditto i Shares Midland 100 Newcastle & Darlington ;iiinc. 24 North British Norwich and Brandon 8 ...... 14 • .i...... to 13 1 , Portsmouth Direct I it Richmond and West End June. 1 Rugby .. 1 Shrews.,Wolver., Dud., Birm. 2% 2s to South Eastern and Dover ... 33% 4O 4 %... to York and North Midland ... 50 Ditto } Shares Ditto Scarboro' Branch Ditto Selby Scrip Ditto, Extension Orleans and Bordeaux ... .. 2 Paris and Lyons Paris and Rouen.. Strasburg and Bale ..........• 14... ll A__ to _ MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, JAN. 6.—We have had a fair business doing, and prices steady. Churnet Valley, 4 ; London, Worcester, Oxford, and Rugby, 31s. 6d. ; Great Northern of France, 6 1-16 ; West Yorkshire, 6 ; Manchester and Leeds, Six teenths, 5; Ditto, Half Shares, 55i ; Manchester and Birmingham, 53 ; Midland, 401., st; Barnsley Junction, 4i ; Birkenhead, Manchester, and Cheshire Junction, 6i ; Blackburn, Barnsley, and Accrington, 3i ; Bolton, Wigan, and Liverpool, 3i ; London and York, q ; Sheffield and Lincoln Junction, 18s. 6d. ; Huddersfield Canal, 191. FLUCTUATIONS IN STOCKS.—It may be a desirable feature, as a matter for future reference, to give the highest and lowest values of th ose B r i t i sh Stocks that i have been quoted n the past year. They are as follow 1844. Highest. Lowest. Consols Reduced Three per Cents lOl ... 97 New Three-and-a-Half lO4l ... 101/ Ditto Three and-a-Quarter Exchequer-bills India Bonds 9B ... 71 Ditto Stock 290 ... 272 Bank Stock 2ll ... 185 Spanish Five per Cents 2B- ... 21 Ditto Three per Cents. Portuguese Converted 6l/ ... 43 Mexican ... 321 Russie.a Austrian Brazilian Dutch Two-and-a-Halfper Cents 641 ... 54 COAL FROM PEAT.—We are informed that, by the application of a chemical process, an ingenious party has succeeded in the conversion of peat into coal within a short period of time. If the works of the great laboratory of nature, perfected during centuries, can thus be performed by art in a few weeks, it will indeed cause a great social and national revolution. —Literary Gazette. BECCLES.—OPENING OF THE CORN EXCHANGE.-- Our market-place, " which centres in a spacious area," presented a deserted scene on Saturday last, in conse quence of the announcement of opening the Corn Ex change having been publicly made known. This neat and commodious building, we are happy in stating, was at four o'clock well filled with merchants, traders, and farmers, connected not only with our own town, but others from Bungay, Halesworth, Lowestoft, &c., lent their aid in the stirring business of the day. We believe we are right in stating that each stand was engaged by two occupiers, thus proving the desire ableness of this long wished for and excellent improve ment. The projectors will thus see a prospect of being amply repaid for their spirited speculation. The borough band attended and played the National Anthem at the commencement, with many favourite airs. This build ing, which has a noble external appearance, is equal in length to our well known and spacious Assembly room, and considerably wider and larger ; bronze gas chande liers are introduced, and when the appropriate furniture, ornaments, &c., are finished, it will vie with any similar public edifice in the county. Perhaps at no former period has there been more corn exported from our town than at this period.—lpswich Express. Tus GAME NUISANCE.—" The mercenary spirit engendered by legalising the sale of game, has reduced our English country gentlemen to the condition of poul terers.' —Duke of Portland. His Grace might also very justly have added, that many of our English country gentry have, by this game mania, reduced themselves to legalised poachers. Poaching is odious, but the system pursued by very many of our noblemen and gentlemen is equally odious. The Act of Parliament passed for legalising the sale of game was to enable such of the aristocracy to become " poulterers " as were mean enough to take up the trade, for nothihg less than a trade is made of surplus game, and that, too, at the cost of tho farmers. The Duke of Hamilton continues confined at his mansion in Portman square, by an ophthalmic complairn. The Noble Duke has only quitted his residence twice since his arrival from Bath. LLOYD'S SHIPPING—(THIS DAY.) LONDON, JAN. 7.—Wind, southerly breeze and cloudy. DEAL, JAN. 6.—Wind W. to W.S.W., fresh.—Arrd. Magnolia, Johnson, Manilla ; Atkinson, Calcutta ; Gal way Lass, Ramsey, and Louisa Baillie, Remington, De merara ; Pandora, Honduras ; Marys, Forrest, Berbice; Sarah, Bayley, St. Vincent ; Auguste and Julius, St. I omingo, for Harnburgh ; James Caskie, Virginia ; Ottawa, Montreal ; Gem, Athelstone, Elizabeth, and Wallace, Quebec ; Betsey, Rio Janeiro ; Dream, Icha . boo and Cork. Put back, Lavinia, for Honduras; Planet, for Jamaica. PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 6.—Wind W.S.W.—A large steam-ship arrived in the quarantine ground at dusk; i particulars unknown. TORBAY, JAN. s.—Arrd. William Stoveld, London, for Port Phillip. FALMOUTH, JAN. 6.—Wind W.S.W., light.—Arrd. Alexandria, Deans, Ichaboe. Ski. his Neapolitan Ma jesty's steamer Vesuvius, Batavia. Off, Sarah, Demerara. The Agenoria left Ichaboe 29th Oct., and reports that the barque Isabella, of Preston, drove foul of the Agrip pina, of Scarborough, Dundee, of Dundee, and two other vessels, carrying away all their bowsprits. PENZANCE, JAN. s.—Wind W.S.W., fresh.—Sld. Agenoria, Ichaboe. HARTLEPOOL, JAN. 6.—The schooner Mary Ann, stranded on Seaton Snook, has been got off, and in here to be repaired. The Eleanora, on the Sands, near Hartlepool, has been sold, and is being broken up. YARMOUTH, JAN. 6 —The Minerva, Steele, of Mon trose, from Aberdeen to London, which was ashore near Mundslay yesterday, has been got off, and in here leaky, cargo discharging. WELLS, JAN. 6.—The brig Stafford, Lowther, of Sun derland, for London, got ashore between this port and Blakeney, but came off on the flood, after throwing about forty tons of cargo overboard, and proceeded. Coax, JAN. 4.—Arrd. Brazil packet, late Shannon, An tie'ua, with loss of rudder, boats and bulwarks, and mas ter and second mate both washed overboard, having been struck by a sea. LIVERPOOL, JAN. 6.—Wind W.S.W., strong.—Arrd. Fatima, Wilson, Calcutta and Mauritius ; Alhambra, Colchester, Hope, Providence, and Thomas Harrison, Ichaboe ; Magistrate, Crompton, Old Calabar ; Panope, Matthews, New Calabar ; Don, Liverpool, Rio Grande ; Laura, Dumbull, Bahia, Nov. 21 ; Cumberland, Per nambuco; Standard, Demerara ; Princess Royal, Hayti; Marmion, Johnson, Jamaica ; Horatio, Labanon, Ha vannah ; Pearl, Campbell, Tobasco ; Kyanite and Lord Anson, Laguna; Colombo, Cann, New Orleans ; By ron , Mobile ; Rockall, Savannah; Lochinvar, Alexander, and General Parkhill, Charleston ; Eliza Ann, St. John's, New Brunswick ; Lady Falkner, St. Stephen's, New Brunswick ; Cuba, Montreal ; Mersey, Quebec ; Mary, West, Newfoundland. GLOUCESTER, JAN. s.—Arrd. Nero, Miller, St. An drew's, New Brunswick. NEWPORT, JAN. s.—Arrd. Maria, Coregall, Quebec. OFF SEAFORD, JAN. I.—Arrd. Concordia, Surinam for Amsterdam. OFT THE WIGHT, JAN. 3.—Ceres, De Boer, Ha vannah for Rotterdam. CONWAY, JAN. 3.—Au Irish sloop from Newry to Liverpool is sunk off Ormes Head ; crew saved. MARYPORT, JAN. s.—The St. George, Halliday, from Dublin, is aground on the North Bank. SHIELDS, JAN. 4.—The Thetis, of Dundee, from Cardiff, is aground on the Middle Ground, but expected off without damage. CROORHAVEN, DEC. 31.—Arrd. Mary Machlin, De merara. Conk, JAN. 4.—Sld. Heywood, Africa. LIVERPOOL, JAN. 6.—The Kingston, from Ichaboe, which was ashore in the River, has been got off. 5. Sld. Prince of Waterloo, Bombay. Off, Maid of Mona. ABERDEEN, JAN. 3.—Arrd. Volant, Ichaboe. HULL, JAN. s.—Sld. Jefferson, New York. *i. ... -- 0 :A: 47. , .4. ' L. ' ' , - .• .tee 4.1 „ • . "i4f lipile, ...„ .............., ~ %- ‘,/ , . 4: .., -..)'-ftN . la , , SECOND EDITION. I ken* C Lbilt LONDON, TUESDAY, JANUARY 7, 1845. It must be conceded to the Anti-Corn-law League, by its most determined opponents—even by those who are the stoutest champions of the claims for exclusive protection to the " landed interests"—that the agita tion which that body has invited and maintained with s,) much energy, has benefited no class of the coin munity so much as the agriculturists themselves! It this assertion " sounds," at first, " too paradox," a moment's consideration will establish its soundness. It affords us sincere pleasure to observe that awakened spirit of research and improvement which, in ever:, great rural district of the kingdom, is sedulously applying itself to the pursuit of agriculture as a practical science. In this fact lies the true secret of that amelioration which, in all human probability, the great primary and permanent occupation of mankind —tae cultivation" of th e so il—i s a b out to exper i ence in this country. But again, we insist that, but for the stirring app ea l s of the League against monopoly prices for corn, ther e would have ben little or no thing ae?omplished by thi s ti me, of all those important discoveries and improved processes in tillage, hus bandry, and , cereal ec onomy which will stamp ' the year 1844 with a distincti on more noble than that which any epoch can derive from multiplied victories Determined opponents as we have ever been, upon principle, to class-legislation, whi c h i s had, anto class-protection, which is worse, we have never undervalued the vast importance of agriculture, as a primary element of the grandeur and strength of nations. In this country, notwithstanding all the ad vances it has made within the last century, its move ment bore no proportion to the gigantic strides of our commercial, manufacturing, and mechanical, develop ment. What has been the reason of this sluggishness on the part of our -agriculture ? simply that adherence to traditional practice, in defiance of scientific experi ment and demonstration, which the ignorance or timidity of prejudice cherishes as a meritorious ho mage to the " wisdom of our ancestors," in respect of so many arts and institutions in which we are most behind the progressing genius of our age. In agri culture, this is a principle which elevates mere tech nical imitation above the merits of the most enlightened discovery, the value of the most improved agents, or i the success of the most productive new combinations. MARKET YEWS-(THIS DAY RAY MARIEETS. SMITELFIELD.—Coarse Meadow Hay, 31 lOs tla 41155 ; Useful ditto, 4/ 16s to 51 4s ; fine Upland ditto, 5/ is to 5/ lOs ; Clover Hay, 4/ lOs to 6/ ; Oat Straw, 1/ 15s to 11 16s ; Wheat Straw, 11 16s to 11 18s per load. A fair average supply, and a sluggish demand. CUMBERLAND.—Coarse Meadow Hay, 31 l 2s to 4/ 17s; Useful ditto, 41 18s to 51 5s ; fine Upland ditto, 5/ 6s t• 5/ 123 ; Clover Hay, 41 lOs to 5/ 18s ; Oat Straw, 11 16s to 1/ 18s; Wheat Straw, 1116 s to 2/ per load. Supply but moderate, and trade tolerably steady. WILITECHAPEL.—Coarse Meadow Hay, 31 1 Os to 41165; Useful ditto, 41 17s to Si 4s ; fine Upland ditto, 515 s to 5/ lOs ; Clover Hay, 4/ 105 to 6145; Oat Straw, 1/ 15s to 1/ 17s ; Wheat Straw, 11 17s to 11 19s per load. The best Meadow Hay moved off steadily, at full prices. Otherwise the demand was extremely dull. COLONIAL: SuaAR.-The market for British Plantation is with out animation, about 500 hhds having been sold at rather easier prices. The public sales have only offered 2,451 bags Bengal, which chiefly found buyers at previous rates, but being principally of mixed qualities and in small lots, it affords little guide to the market generally. The quantity of British Plantation imported into London last year was 84,933 hhds 10,986 tierces, against 82,827 hhds 10,429 tierces in 1843. The home consumption last year was 84,056 hhds 10,998 tierces, and in 1843 85,151 hhds 10,476 tierces. The importation of Havannah fell off last year, that of Mauritius increased, as also of Bengal. The consumption of Mauritius was larger, but of Bengal scarcely so great. The stock of British Plantation, on the Ist inst., at the port of Lon don, was 13,799 hhds 17,777 tierces, and at the corre sponding date of 1844, 13,416 hhds 2,056 tierces. The stocks of nearly all other descriptions show an increase. COFFEE.-The market has been very quiet. The quantity of British Plantation landed at the port of Lon don last year was 5,735 hhds 6,177 barrels and bags, being an increase on the precious year. The consump tion was 5,434 hhds and 3,461 barrels and bags, being a falling off. The stock is 3,516 hhds 3,724 Ivirrels and bags, against 3,742 hhds 1,419 barrels and bags at this time last year. The consumption of Foreign has in creased to some extent, and that of East India was larger, but the quantity admitted at the 9d duty was much lower. Stocks in general are larger. Rum.-The quantity landed last year was 16,882 puns 3,932 hhds, against 20,896 puns 7,621 hhds at the same date in 1843. The stock on the Ist instant was 12,572 puns 2,242 hhds. The consumption last year was 10,423 puns 2,584 hhds, against 10,951 puns, 3,009 hhds in 1843. The stock in January, 1844, was 15,365 puns 3,216 hhds. TEA.-The market is steady, but the deliveries are not yet so large as usual. TALLow.-P.Y.C. is rather dull at 40s to 40s 3d per cwt on the spot, but Town has improved to 44s per cwt. COAL rotARILET. Prices per ton at the close of the market :-Adair's Main, 2ls ; Middle's West Hartley, 20s 6d ; Carr's Hartley, 90s 6d ; East Tanfield, 183 6d ; Hasting's Hartley, 20s 6d ; Holywell Main, 21s ; Hedley's Hart ley, 175 ; Newcastle, 17s 6d ; New Tanfield, 19s 6d ; Old Pontop, 18s 9d ; Ord's Redheugh, 19s ; Pontop Windsor, I9s ; Pott's Primrose, 18s ; Taylor's West Hartley, 20s ; Townley, 19s 6d ; West Hartley, 20s 6d ; Wylarn, 21s ; W. E., Bell and Brown, 22s ; W. E., Clark and Co., 20s 6d ; W. E., Clennell, 20s 9d ; NV. E., Gosforth, 225 ; W. E., Heaton, 21s 6d ; 'V. E., Hilda, 21s Gd ; W. E., Hedley, 21s 9d ; W. E., Hotspur, 21s 6d; W. E,, Killingworth, 21s ; W. E., Newmarch, 21s ; W. E., Northumberland, 21s 6d ; W. E., Urpeth, 20s 6d; Eden Main, 225; W. E., Belmont, 22s 6d ; W. E., Castle Eden. 23s 6d ; W. E., Haswell, 245; W. E., Hetton, 245; W. E., Heughall, 22s 6d ; W. E., Hylton, 22s ; W. E., Lambton, 245; W. E., Morrison, 22s ; W. E., Richmond, 23s 3d ; W. E., Shotton, 24s ; W. E., Stewart's, 24s ; W. E., Sunderland, 21s ; W. E., Whitwell, 22s 6d ; W. E., Heselden, 21s Gd ; W. E., S ou th H art l epool, 21s; W. E., Gordon, 20s 6d ; AV. E., South Durham, 22s ; W. E., Tees, 23s Gd ; W. E., Tees Hetton, 20s ; W. E., Tennant's, 21s 6d ; W. E., West Tees, 21s 6d ; Hartley, 1 20s 6d ; Town Hill Elgin, 19s 6d ; West Hartley Nether ton, 20s 6d ; Holywell, 20s 6d.-Ships arrived, 168. Maurice O'Connell, Esq., M.P., and Garrett Nagle, Esq., jun., shot last week, in the preserves of Glencar, Kerry, in five days, 73 brace of woodcocks. The Very Rev. Dr. Waddington, Dean of Dur ham, has made a donation of 25/. in aid of the monu mental building to be erected at Barnard Castle in ho nour of the memory of the late Mr. Witham, High She riff of Durham. A matrimonial alliance, it is understood, is about to be formed between Colonel Ridley, of the Guards, brother to Sir Matthew White Ridley, Bart., of Blagdon, and the Hon. Miss Browne, daughter of Lord Oranmore, and niece to the Dowager Viscountess Dillon.—Newcastle Journal. BURY AND STANSTEAD RAILWAY.— Parties have been busily engaged in the neighbourhood of Thetford, i❑ delivering the necessary papers to occupiers and owners of land, which will be wanted for their con templated line ; and have also been boring along the line to discover the strata of earth in the necessary cuttings.—Essex Herald. We are requested to state that a witness, named Mary Ann Moss, examined at the inquest at Salt-hill, who is said to have given her residence 43, Crawford street, Bryanston-square, does not reside, and never has resided there.—Morning Paper. The Earl of Huntingdon has remitted all arrears of rent to his tenantry upon his estate near Loughrea. The Dowager Countess of Pembroke, during the past week has been surrounded by a distinguished party, at Wilton House, near Salisbury. The Earl and Coun. tess of Clanwilliam, Earl and Countess Bruce, Lord and Lady Wharncliffe, the Hon. Sidney Herbert, &c. were among the guests. TORYISM.—What is Toryism ? A remnant of barbarism. The Marquis of Lansdowne is expected on Thurs day next from Bowood. The Marchioness and Lady Louisa Fiztmaurice will come to town early next week. The nuptials of Lady Louisa Fitzmaurice with the Hon. James Kenneth Howard, son of the Earl of Suffolk, are expected to be solemnised next week, Recording to the present arrangements which have been made to the effect at Bowood. TIIE DISTRESSED NE➢DLEWOMEN'S SOCIETY-- The Duchess of Sutherland has signified her desire to have her name added to the list of the Lady Patronesses to the Needlewomen's Society in Rathbone-place. We are glad to find that this institution is progressing, and we sincerely hope that the funds will be so augmented this winter as to carry out the intentions of the committee. AN ODD Ftsti.—A very singular fish was caught on Saturday last, at the oyster beds, near Cockenzie. It has a long tapering tail resembling a snake, and is about a foot and a half in length. The colour, when it was alive was a bright green, interlaced with a little white. it has a long bill, terminating in a small mouth, resembling that of a horse-leech; and a long narrow fin appears on the ridge of the back towards the tail. This animal, to which tl.e fiahf rmen give the name of the tangle eel, is exceedingly rare on this coast—so much so, indeed, that one of the fishermen, who is sixty years of age, has never seen another specimen.—Scotsman. , LISEI OPERA SUftiiikilY OF NEWS =4 .: c .. 7 k , • t ton. " Who runs may read." ANPSILI4I:O, - ,t Accounts from Paris represent the state of M. Vine" main's health as sorntwhat improved, but still hold out, no hopes o f recovery . Having, no fortune, a motion w ill be made by the Government in the Chamber for a Pre' vision to his daughter. Admiral Dupetit Thouars (says the Courier Francais) has hired an apartment in the Rue de Castellane, No. 10. We have been assured that orders have been given to the porter to reply to all visitors that—" The Admiral i 5 not at home." Behold a General officer secluded ht command of the Ministry, as was the case last year wit' Captain Reine, his Aide-de-Camp ! The Commerce announces that the French Governmen t has concluded a second treaty of Commerce with th e Belgian Government. The object of this treaty is t A ° extend the period for admitting Belgian linen-cloth an d thread into France at a reduced duty, the existing treaty having but two years to run. The Moniteur publishes a notice to persons intending to bid for the construction of the Montereau and TroYe 6 Railway, stating that the adjudication is to take 1 01 ° ° on the 18th i ns t., an d t h a t t h ey must appr i se the MinikeA ter of their int en ti on , an d sen d i n t h e i r li st o f sub ' scribers before the 10th. The intelligence from Lisbon is to the 31st ult. S e " veral of the leading men in politics had been raised t° the peerage, among others Costa Cabral and Gomes de Castro, the former Minister of the Kingdom, and th ° , latter of Foreign Affairs. The Duke of Palmella h left for London. Zurbauo was said to have made his escape into Portugal, disguised as a muleteer. LAW AND POZICIt. Mr. Commissioner Fonblanque in the Bankrapt e l f Court remanded Thom a s Weth ere ll, E sq ., proprietor 0 the Kensington Theatre, back i n t o custo dy f or having, accepted accommodation bills to a l arge amoun t, without reasonable prospect of being a bl e t o p a y th em . At the Central Criminal C o urt, Mr. C omm issioner f Bullock, who presided in the N ew C our t, di s p o sed ° several cases of larceny, and sentenced the offenders various periods of imprisonment John Nixon, working jeweller, was c M harged at th e Guildhall with robbing his employers, essrs. Wheele r and Co., of Bartlett's-buildings. It appeared, that the prisoner, while under notice to quit, absconded from his employers' premises, and that, on examining the stock of gold in his drawers, there was a deficiency to th e value of upwards of 51. The prisoner, who denied hi guilt, was remanded, with an i n ti ma ti on th a t h e would be hereafter committed for trial. At Clerkenwell, John Warkman, aged 13, we e charged by Mr. Richard Young, of St. John-stree t , t t Clerkenwell, with stealing a silk p oc k e t-h an dk e rchief The prosecutor was returning to his residence from S t : John's Church, St. John's-square, on Sunday night las" when he felt a tug at his coat-pocket, and on turning round, he found the prisoner with the handkerchief is his possession, and gave him into custody. Sergel' e ., Barton, G, said that the pri soner was one o f th e " school" or " kinshen (youthful) gang," who went 1 7, churches and chapels, &c., dressed up in an " innocen t style, with white collars, in company of older thieves, t ° rob the congregation on leaving those places. The PI; soner, who cross-examined the wit nesses w ith Ine e „. l shrewdness, denied the charge, but was f u lly comraitt' for trial. William Woodham, a plumber and glazier, living ,i 0 with Ellis-street, Chelsea, was charged at Quee n - squa re, ll— a furious assault upon Benjamin Williams, a gent ie ; man's servant. The cowardly ruffian had thrown the complainant down, and whil e o n th e groun d attemPteak. to gouge him by forcing out his eye with his Ouzo' The defendant pleaded drunkenness. Mr. Burrell oh served that this was a very bad case, in which the ci°' knee was of a very horrible species. He should 611 . 6 defendant 51, or commit him for two months ; in ttcl°ri tiou to which, he should call upon him to find good for the next twelve months. Defendant pleaded for mitigation of the penalty. Mr. Burrell said, if he he had the power, he would have inflicted a heavier 511e ' The penalty was paid, and bail put in. George Edwards, charged with having embezzl ed various sums of money, the property of his mast er : Samuel Suggett, baker, No. 85, Marga re t- s t ree t, Coq° dish-square, was fully committed from Marlboroug h ' street. The At Maryleboue, Edward Rigby, Mary, hi s w ife, , 11° , 0 their two daughters, were charged with begging. case was proved by John Horsford, f ormer ly i n the ew i ploy of the Mendicity Society, who fo un d th e w hole t) the prisoners soliciting alms in High- s t ree t, nea r thi s Court; the male prisoner stated that he was a poor car Tier, and that in consequence of a recent mine explosie° he and his family had been reduced to great distrel They had in their possession upward s o f 5/ in silver on e copper money. Wm. Horsford, chief officer of 0 Mendicity Society, stated that the prisoners had 1011 carried on a system of imposture, and that th e y had bee committed repeatedly from the various police-cour ts ' They were each sent to the House of Correction for month. Thomas Bartholomew Imb er t was b roug ht up f o r fin al examination, charged with having feloniously interznti r ried with one Abigail Isted, during the supposed life' time of three other women, to whom he had been pre' viously married, was fully committed from Worship" street. Lord At Southwark an application was ma d e by Huntingtower for a warrant against an individual 5 0 , r° „ e ,, Duckett, for using threat s of p ersona l v i o l ence to tul It appeared that Lord Hunti ng t ower h e ld a bill I)uckett's, which he had obtained from a Captain Whi te ' and that yesterday on meeting Duckett in the lobh of the Queen's Bench prison, that individual had cage', White and Lord Huntingtower a p a i r o f scoun dri had declared that the bill had b een s t o l en f rom him, 013 , had threatened his Lordship with a ki c ki ng un l e ss „ "i gave it up, whereupon Lord Huntingtow er gave D u cket the bill, and came to this Court for a warrant, / ale' was at once granted. Marie Adele Renoud alias Josephine Fountaine, i ° , middle-aged F renc h woman, was charged at Greenwie",, by Melanie Turlen with ha v i ng ro bb e d h er o f a variet. 7 . of valuable jewell e ry a n d d ress , to t h e va l ue o f upward' l of 301. The prisoner who had lived with the proseett" trix as servant, had absconded, taking with her the Pr ° c l perty in question. On b e i ng as k e d w h et h er she had anything to offer in her d e f ence , s h e mere l y re plieu " C'est vrai," and was fully committed for trial. At the Thames Court two men, named James Franci g : a hatter, and Thomas Salt, a l a bo urer , were c h arge d With committing a burglary in a private dwelling-house. b e i longing to Messrs. Brendel an d R o b er t s , propr i e t o rs the Artichoke Tavern and Whttebait House, at Blao'; wall, and stealing property to a considerable aroone c i therefrom. The house broken into is opposite the Js°, frontage of the Artichoke, and is occ u pi e d a t nig ht 1 / 4 some of the tavern servants and M r . B ren d e l Ming"' On Saturday evening one of the servants on attempting to unlock the street door to go into the house, heard scuffling in the passage and gave the alarm. Sentine' were posted at each door, and a ladder being procured man got in at the first-floor windo w . Th e prisoners procured tempted to escape by getting over the fences and yor e in the rear of the pre m i ses . Th e y were however Pe'; ceived, pursued, and after a gallant chase captured. Th e ' were fully committed. •;:".ttUa,'l"-- The Duke of Wellington will join the distinguish ed circle invited to meet her Majesty and the Prince & Iv ' sort at Stowe on the 15th inst. his Excellency the Duque of Soto Mayor, the no% appointed Ambassador f r o m Sp a i n , h as arr i ve d a t vart's Hotel, from the Continent. The Marquis and Marchioness of Douglas have l e Hamilton Palace on a visit to Lord and Lady de Tabl e ; at Tabby Hall, Cheshire, and are expected in town Or in the ensuing week, _suing week. jt The Earl of Cardigan is still in Portman-squate• to is yet uncertain when the Noble Earl will leave town join his regiment in Ireland. The Earl and Countess of Manvers and the La dled Pierrepont are at present staying a t Th ores by Notts. Earl and Countess Grey have a numerous family piling at Howick Hall during the Ch r i s t mas recess , inoludi A ti s ,' Lord and Lady Ho w i c k, L a dy Eli za b et h Bulled, i' s 7 Caroline Barrin g to n , th e L a di es L am b ton , Lady Gre°"' giant), Grey, Hon. Colonel and Mrs. Grey, &c. The Earl of Wicklow has left Shelton Abbey for D ube in, en route for Cavendish-square. Countess Flahault (Baro ness K e ith an d Nairne), and the Hon. Misses Elphi ns t one Fl a h au l t, arr i ved in C'iti'„,iv; ham-street on Sat ur d a y, f rom H ast i ngs. Her La dr will not leave for the Continent for some time. it Viscount and Viscountess Beresford, who have passing the Christmas recess in town, returned to Decls - Park on Saturday. Viscount Banelagh and the Hon. Miss Jones have re' turned to town from a tour of visits. Lord and Lady Wharncliffe are expected to return t: Wharncliffe House, Curzon-street, to-morrow, froinrt, visit to her M a j es ty th e Q ueen D owager, at Witley-0° f Lord Foley h as l e ft G rosvenor - square on a tou r 0 visits. Lord and Lady Gl e nlyo n l e ft th e i r res id ence at Dl in t i keld last week, and pro cee d e d t o v i s it t h e Duke $l3 Duchess of Northumberland at Alnwick Castle. TAISCISZLAZIIIOI7III. The Earl of Bosse and the M arqu i s o f W a terford, l newly-elected Knights;of St. Patrick, were duly instilleis; by the Lord Lieutenant, at Dublin Castle, on Saturdq, The marriage of Cerito with St. Leon is official , ' the Pope having granted a bull for the union, St. Leon , 0 violinist and dan ce r, h av i ng b een conve rted E rr ed Judaism. Cerito has given th e f or t une s h e has arclu lh to her parents. di d The Wesleyan Society are going to erect a 8 1 )--n e 0 chapel in the Bclgrave-road, between Eceleston -5 9 11- h, and Warwick-square. M r . S et h S m i t h an d Mr. Ar c o t butt have liberally s u b scr ib e d 100 1 . eac h to t h e fund, i 4 Mr. Edge 504 On Monday last the Salopian coach from Shrew s Zi l met with a singul ar accident on its road between Shi",ita and Wolverhampton. The coach was proceeding :fr to p usual pace, whe n th e guar d , w h o was seate d on thddeo of the lug gage , spea ki ng to the driver, hear d a soil yjs crash, and on turning his head round, he beheld , tc/ cii ,, utter astonishment and dismay, about thirty yard s ,. t he tent, the hind sea t o f t h e coac h i n t h e m iddle „ e road, with four of the passengers on the ground. of the passengers were seriously injured. We are glad t o fi n d t h e i nst i tut i on i n Rathbone - P lace te d: for th e re li e f o f nee dl ewomen, i s lik e l y to b e engine': the It has lately received the patronage of royalty, al l s "_,;„0 , Duchess o f Suth er l an d h as s i gn ifi e d h e r desire of h name added to the list of lady patronesses. Die Arrangements have b een made by the London I t ' the Company for the ere c ti on o f two s t e am-engines Shadwell entrance of the dock, for the purpose of PP'