The Sun. — London, England, 1845-01-23 00:00:00

THEATRE THIS EV ROYAL,ENING DRURY-LANE. Will be repeated a Grand Opera Serbs, called THE DAUGHTER OF ST. MARK. Lusignano, Mr. Burdini ; Andrea Cornare, Mr. Bonsai ; Moncenigo, Mr. Weiss ; Adolphe de Courcy, Mr. W. tlarrison ; Catarina Cornaro, Miss l'oole To conclude with a Grand Comic Christmas Harlequin.ule, called PUCK'S PANTOMIME; or, HARLEQUIN AND ROBINSON CRUSOF.. Robinson Crusoe. Mr. W. H. Payne; Harlequin, Mr. Wieland ; Clown , Mr. T. Matthews ; Pantaloon, Mr. Howell ; Columbine, Miss Carson. Box-ottice is open daily, front Ten in the Morning until Six [be ln the Evening, where Private and Family Boxes, Stalls, Places, acid Tickets may be had o n application to Mr. John Parsons. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARILLT. Lessee, Mr. B. WEBSTER. THIS EVENING WUI be performed a New and Original Comedy, in Five Acts, called OLD PLEADS AND YOUNG HEARTS. Colonel !locket Mr. SI rickiand ; Littleton Coke, Mr. Charles Mathews Crom Coke Mr. Webster ; Bob, Mr Buckstone; Jesse Rural, Mr. W. Farren ; The Countess of Mrs. W. Clidord ; Lady Alice Hawthori, , Madame Vestris; Miss Rocket, Miss Julia Bennett. After which, a New Grand Musical Fairy Extravaganza, etititlett GRACIOSA AND PERCINET. King Uxorious, Mr. J. Aland ; 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 anti One Guinea and a.l-lalf each, Tieketa and Places to be had of Mr. I. T. Ar cher, at the Box.otfice, 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. Hr. O. Smith ; Alderman Cute, Mr. Wright; Tugby, Mr. Wilkin son ; Sir Joseph Bowley, Bart , Mr. Paul Bedford ; Will Fern, Mr. Hudson ; Richard, Mr. Selby ; Meggy Vcck, Miss Fortescue ; Mrs. Chickenstalker, Mrs. Frank Matthews. After which will be repeated a Sew 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. Sawlers. Prompter, Mr. Gallot ; Principal Painter, Sir. Pitt ; Leader of the Band, Mr. Mellon.—Box-ortlce open from Eleven till Four. Private '3.mo 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 an English Version of the celebrated Opera Buda. in Two Acts, called IliE ITALIAN IN ALGIERS. fhe MUsic by Rossini. Muitapha, Mr. P. Corn ; Lindor, Mr. Allen; Madden, Mr. Leffler; Haly, Mr. Mattacks ; Isabella , Mdlle. Helen Condell •' Elvira, Miss G rant; Zulma, Miss Brentnal To be followed by a new Divertissement, called THE IRI H WEDDING. Principal characters by Mdlle. Caroline Rousset, Mist Marshall, Mdlle. Teresine, M. J. Rou.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 Extravaginza, calleil JOE MILLER AND HIS MEN. Orindoff. Mr. Compton ; Lothair. Mr. Oxberry ; Kelmar, Mr. Granby; Riber, Mr. Corn . Golotz, Mr. Walton ; Claudine. Miss E. Stanley Ravina, Mrs. Fosbroke. Dress Circle, Ss. ; Boxes, 45. ; •..; Gallery, Is. Half-price at Nine o ' clock — Dress Circle,2s. 6d. ; Boxes, '2B. ; Pit, Is. • Gallery, fad. Boxes, Two Guineas and One Guinea and a-H;alf ; Prosce nium Boxes, Two Guineas and a-Half. Doors to be opened at Half past Six, and the Performances to commence at Seven o'clock. The oz-office, under the direction of Mr. W. Massingham. Private Boxes and Free Admissions for the Season to be had at the Theatre. Stage Manager, Mr. H. I. Wallack. Stage Director, Mr. Emden, Machinist, Mr. Edmund Bradwell. THEATRE ROYAL LYCE H UM. LATE ENGLISH OPERA.. OUSE. Under the THIS Management EVENING of Mrs. KEELEY. . . . Wlll he 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, Historic il, Romantic Pantomimical, Burlesque Extravaganza, entitled VALENTINE AND ORSON. Principal Characters by Messrs. F. Matthews; Meadows, Wigan, Collier, Turner, Kinloch, Yarnold, and Keeley , Mrs. Wigan, Miss Arden, Miss Fairbrother, Miss Grove, Mrs Usher, Miss James, Miss Turner, and Mrs. Keeley. PRICES OF AOM IS6I ti.—Saicou y runes. 45.; Upper Pores, ; Pit, is.; Gallery, 6d. Second Price—Balcony Boxes, 2., ; Upper Boxes, Is. &I.; Pit, Is. Private Boxes on the Halcany Tier eiolding eight persons), Tao Guineas. Private Boxes on the Second [kr (holding eight persons), One Guinea and a-HalL Private Bore , on the Pit Fier (holding six persons), One Guirea, The Box.officei s open from Ten to Four o'Clock, under the direr. lien of Mr. Grogan, late of Covent-garden Theatre. GRAND JUVENILE FETES. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHFIHEATRE OF ARTS. Proprietor and Manager, Mr. W. B ATTY. Brilliant Success of the New Pantomime. THIS EVENING Will be repeated a New Spectacle, entitled THE ROYAL FOX HUNT; or, The Race. Hor,e and Life's Course of Man and Steed ; Introducing unequalled Natim.al Fetes. Real Fox-chase on the Stage and in the Circle by living Fox and real Pack of Hounds. purchased b y Mr. Batty of Mr. Tattersall, to realise this novel production. Epsom Races and other Sporting Features. New Scenes of the Circle, and entire change in the Feats of Horse olanel)ip. After which. a Brilliant Military Cavalcade. introducing Thirteen Female Eluestrians, entitled THE HUNGARIAN BRIGADE; or kemale Cavalry. To conclude with a Grand Comic Christmas Equestrian Pantomime, c.lled HARLEQUIN AND JOHNNY GILPIN'S RIDE; or, the slack Witch of Edmonton. Harlequin, Mr. H. Lewis ; Columbine, Mrs. J. W. Colyer ; Clown, Mr. T. Barry; Pantaloon, Mr. Bradbury, Johnny Gilpin, Mr. Wells. Acting and stage.aninager. Mr. W. D. Broadfoot. Box.ollice open ftom Eleven till Five. Lessons in the Art o Riding by PA , . W. Smith daily. DAVIDOE'S ROYAL SORREY THEATRE. In rompliantC with the wishes of numerous Families, the Pantomime will be performed in the middle of the Evening.—Continuation of the most brilliant Succes , 3 ever known. TH Is EVENIN(4 Will be repeated THE SEVEN AGES OF MAN; or, The End of Crime. Principal Characters by Mr. Henry Cord (from the Theatre Royal Edinburgh), Messrs. H. Hughes, Neville, R loaner, Lew* Heslop, and Seaman, Mrs. R. Honner, rs. Lewis, Mrs. W. Daly, and Miss Martin. To be folsowed by an Original Worldly Comic Pantomime, called POUNDS, NHILLINOS, AND PENCE; or, HARLEQUIN L. EL D. Harlequin, Mr. H. Harvey; Clown, Mr. T. Ridgway; Pantaloon, Mr. Henry Corri; Columbine, Miss Slaiter. To conclude with THE WET NURSE. Supported by Messrs. Neville, W. Smith,.and Lewis, Miss Martin, &c. Places and Private Roam to be had of Mr. Kerschner, at the Box. Geier, from Eleven to Four. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATER Extraordinary Success 4f '111.111;zine; of Charity," and the NEw Comic Pantomime. urns EVENING Will tie repeated M A Ili or, the Child of Charity. SUP.. ported hi Mr. o.baldiston. Honry Howard, J. T Johnson, T. H. Higgie, J. Herbert, E. Jones, W. Searle, Miss Vincent, Miss E Terrey, and Mist; Treble. After which, MONSEIGNEUR. Monseigneur, the French Jack Sheppard, Miss Vincent. To conclnde with a New Grand Christmas Pantomime, entitled HARLEQUIN HOT CODI.INS ; or, The Little Old Woman arid the Demon of the Metal Mine. Harlequin, M. Chapino; Clown, Mr. Blanchard ; Pantakrm, Mr. Coney ; Columbine, Mdlle. Le Cite. TILE WEATILEIL-SUN OFFICE, JAN. 22. THERMOMETER, Lowest, 29 ; Highest, 42 ; Noon, 42. BAROMETER, 30.26.—W1ND, N. Nom—The figure* which follow the words "Lowest" and "Highest" denote the lowest and highest state of the Thermometer. during the preceding twenty-four hours. All the other observations are made at noon. Water freezes at 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 wheli the mercury falls below 30. HIGH WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY. Morning ... S 6 minutes after I 1 Evening... 16 minutes after 2. /1/ 1 ` ( t 16'=z 4tN i tts ,„„ 4Knriich; 1111, - • • f .• A . . .. " tits" lllob I tin IX It Ant 4 LONDON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 23, 1845. After a brief retirement from active exertion at Darrynane, Mr. O'CONNF:LL has once again appeared in the field of political controversy. On Monday last he attended, for the first time for several weeks, a Repeal meeting in the Dublin Conciliation Hall, which, as might be expected, was crowded to excess, the liveliest curiosity being manifested to hear the Hon. and Learned Gentlespan's opinions on the subject of the late Papal rescript to the Irish Catholic clergy. He was exceedingly concise on this ticklish matter, and even treated it with a coolness bordering on absolute indifference. Ile had been told, he ob served, that a rescript had been dispatched from Rome whose direct object was to prohibit the Repeal agitation. He admitted the re script, but he denied the prohibition. The resolution sent by Doctor CROLLY to him as having been adopted by the Bishop, was merely that they would curry out the spirit of the rescript, which was to the effect that every exertion should be made to keep up and promote the spirit of benevolence and charity. The rescript, therefore, should be put out of the question. It had nothing to do with the laity or with Repeal. This, it must be confessed, is an exceedingly free and easy way of dealing with a troublesome matter. Nothing can be simpler or more explicit than at once boldly to deny that there is anything in the Papal rescript which prohibits the Catholic clergy from taking part in the clamour for a Repeal of the Union. But is the fact such as Mr. O'CoNNELL would have his hearers believe it is? Unquestionably not. The rescript ex pressly enjoins the Irish Bishops to warn the priests in their respective dioceses of the impropriety of mix ing themselves up with political agitation, and in this ,n sense it was understood and acted on by Archbishop CEoLLY. There is nothing vague--nothing vocal in the wording of the missive. The agitation alluded to is clearly that of Repeal, for in what other great political controversy have the priests t a k en so active—so decided—so ensrgetic a part ?As for Mr. O'CONNELL'S interpretation of th e m ean i ng of the rescript—namely, that it was merely a Papal exhortation to the Catholic cle rgy to make every on in their power to " promote the spirit of benevolence and charity"—" this is pure fudge," for what earthly occasion was there for the PorE to enjoin the Irish priesthood to do that which it is taken for g ranted that they are always doing, quite as a matter of course —which, in fact, is the first and most imperative duty attached to their sacred vocation ? As well might the Archbishop of CANTERBURY issue a formal order to the Protestant clergy, requesting them "to pro mote the spirit of benevolence and charity"—in other words, to fulfil their ordinary duties as Christian ministers ! But if the POPE'S rescript be so perfectly harmless as Mr. O'CONNELL proclaims it to be, why does he recommend to the Irish people the " absolute necessity" of their sending two delegates to Rome fur the purpoae of laying a statewnt of their case before THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY MORNibiG, JANUARY_23, 18.15, his HOLINESS, and imploring him " not to thwart them in their peaceable exertions to obtain a restoration of th , air domestic Legislature ?" Surely there is no omasion for Ireland dispatching delegates to the Pops, if his rescript contains nothing prohibitory of Repeal, more especially as Mr. O'CONNELL insists that his HoLINEss " has no control, or ought to have none, over ! their temporal affairs !" In alluding to the renewal of the agitation for a domestic Parliament, the Hon. and Learned Gentleman spoke out with more boldness and emphasis than he has of late been in the habit of doing. He would have no compromise—no halt ing—no trusting to English justice, he said. "No palliation—no half-measures—nothing that the Bri tish Parliament could give them, would satisfy them —they were resolved to have nothing but the Re peal. England should neither delude them, nor bribe them, nor intimidate them." " Prave words these," as Captain FLusLuzx would say. Nevertheless, despite Mr. O'Commis determination on the sub ject, backed by the " hundreds of thousands" of agitators of whom he speaks, Repeal will never be carried ; and we will even go further and state, that if Sir R. PEEL will but boldly and liberally carry out into practice the pledges which he made last year in Parliament respecting Ireland, the question of the Repeal of . the Union will very shortly afterwards sink into comparative insignificance. 'We felt it to be our duty, some time ago, on an nouncing the vacancy which had occurred by the death of the late ILTID Nlcuou., Esq., in the office of her MAJESTY'S Proctor, to exhibit some glimpses of that unlimited nepotism which has, for so long a course of years, appropriated all the lucrative offices connected with the Courts of Doctors' Commons in the two families of the Nicitows and the JENNERS, and their nearest kinsmen. We showed how this line of hereditary office-bearers, virgule nominis, was con tinued, by links of a " golden chain," like that which the poets fabled as binding this globe to the footstool of Jovz's "empyreal throne"—from the supreme judge in the ecclesiastical and spiritual jurisdictions, down to their inferior officers. We demonstrated that the rule of office-appropriation, in that somewhat obscure region of the law, was so strictly exclusive, that all the possessors of appointments within the gift of the Dean of the Arches, or the vicarious patronage of the Archbishop, are but varying phases of the Jenner-Nicholl, Nicholl-Jenner, Jenner-Dyneley, Dyke-Jenner combination, which overrules and over-rides the whole of these judicial and official establishments. In conclusion, we did venture to ex press an earnest hope that on the occasion of filling this vacancy in the office of QuEsx's Proctor, the chain of nepotism would be broken, and that room would be made for the induction of the most ex perienced and best qualified practitioner among the proctor-candidates into this appointment. It gave us great pain to name one of those candidates, Mr. F. HART DYKE, as one of the "family compact," be cause we knew how highly and justly respected he was for his probity and business-like habits. But he stood in a degree of relationship to the judge which made the several appointments already held by him distinctions provoking much invidious commentary, especially when his pretensions were opposed to those of men of much higher pretensions on the score of seniority, experience, and legal knowledge, as well as knowledge of mere technical practice in the courts and registries of the civil law and maritime courts. This gentleman (if we mistake not the junior of the several candidates) has been appointed her MA JESTY'S Proctor. It is painful to find so little sense of decorum operating with those who control such an appointment. These are not the days in which family favouritism in public affairs—and this is one of that class—can be safely persisted in. The public opinion has been loudly and emphatically expressed against class-legislation. The motive of this hostility is a generous desire to see the law devised and ad ministered for the benefit of all, not of the few. But family office jobbing is a sin against the good sense, as well as the good feeling of the public. They will not endure that the example of the Roman Pontiffs in elevating to all points of honour and emolument, not the worthiest candidates for them, but those most nearly allied by blood or by family connexions to themselves, should be imitated, though on a micro-. scopic scale, in the genial atmosphere of Doctors' Commons. It may be very true that, as one of our Contemporaries has stated, the gentleman appointed her MAJESTY'S Proctor is the Proctor employed by Sir ROBERT PEEL. This fact does not help the matter. It cannot purge the transaction of the taint of outrageous favouritism. But it may be productive of one good effect, in common with most of the indiscretions committed by the Premier—it may tend ultimately to advantageous results never contemplated by him. For the last twenty years, at least, there have been impending over that classic ground of the canon and civil law, of spiritual tribunal and civil forums, threats more or less formidable of inquiries into antiquated customs and modern abuses, snug sinecures, &c., &c. By dint of some clever management and wheedling on the part of Hon. and Learned, or of Right Hon. Members, attached to them in divers capacities, the discussion of the expediency of going into such matters is always tided over till the fast outrunning current of the session leaves it stranded, high and dry, among the dropped orders of the session, where it is clear it must remain till the " springs" of the following year, when, in the shape'of new or renewed notices of motion, it may float off again upon the surface of the business periodically brought before the Legislature. Terrible things have been talked of; some of them but reasonable propositions ; others, unfair in themselves and calculated to produce ruinous consequences. It has been endeavoured to open the advocates' bar to barristers—to allow attorneys to practise as proctors—to reduce all fees—to reform the whole scheme of appeal courts, &c. The peril has from time to time subsided ; the storm has blown over. But most assuredly the spirit of indifference which this last appointment manifests for public opinion (so decidedly intimated as that has been through the public press against the continuance of all family monopolies of office), is the sort of challenge best calculated to provoke in the House of Commons a searching, uncompromising, and severe scrutiny into " the way in which they manage these matters" south of St. Paul's Churchyard. The attention of the community has seldom been more strongly attracted to objects of domestic specula tion, as favourite investments for capital, than, of late, to the progress of those numerous projects for railway communications which will have to be disposed of in the now ensuing session of Parliament. The expe riment of referring all such applications, in the first instance, to a Committee of the Board of Trade, whose preliminary investigations and report on each case should be somewhat in the nature of the inquiries and finding of a grand jury on the original bills and presentments brought before them, was, at all events, a well-timed experiment. It may hare been—it may still be—open to some very grave objections both on legal and on constitutional grounds. We are by no means satisfied that the rejection, by so anomalous a tribunal, of projected railway lines, on which certain considerable sums may have been already expended on account of previous surveys, negotiations, &c., in perfect good faith, and under reasonable expectation of their final accomplishment, may not amount, under special circumstances, to a defeasance of common-law rights and equitable claims which the Legislature can never have contemplated in the constitution of this Board of Trade Committee, but which the simple act of, rejection by that Committee may assuredly work to individuals who have taken the initiative in such applications. On constitutional grounds such delega tions of legislative responsibility to mere official or departmental sections are, in our judgment ) of far more doubtful propriety. It is easy to plead the necessity for saying the time of Parliament—" for relieving the Legislature from some part of a burden which threatened"—as did this annually increased accumulation of Railway Bills—" to engross its whole time and attention." We are neither prepared to deny the extent which the evil of these accumulations of budeemed expedient, was fast attaining, nor yet to sugg e st an y bett er plan for meeting it than that which it has been expedient, by the Legislature, to adopt. Nevertheless, the principles on which that plan is open to the two classes of objection we speak of, are not affected by th ese considerations of expediency, or the still more t r i te and common-place argument fouilded on the " many evils that may be anticipated from improvident or unprincipled railway specu lations." Whether it will very materially "reduce the enormous expense of contests," or, which ja too probable, the greatest weight of Parliamentary influence or pecuniary means would prevail, whatever might he the merits of the particular case—is a ques tion as to which we are still more sceptical. Let its suppose a case in which the whole Parliamenttary influence—that is the whole number of Metabets of Parliament really interested in a given railway—is on one side—what chance against that side will the other have ? That which would be represented by the equa tion of 1 minus 1. All the merits of such a ease, whether the unrepresented party were supporters or opposers of the line, would have been already estimated , by the proceedings before the Committee of the Board of Trade without the walls of the two Houses. All the interest of the court of appeal, by which the fate of the Bill would be finally decided, would be still to be encountered, after being reported upon and sent forward by the Committee. Two great objections to all such expedients will still attach to this delegated representation of the Board of Trade, after admitting everything, as we freely do, that can be urged in its favour on the score of the capacity, experience, and honour of the individuals who compose it. First, it is a perilous policy at all times to interfere by legis lative enactment, with the free action of private ca pital. The evils of its occasional improvident em ployment are more that► counterbalanced by a per manent power of interfering in its management, vested in the Legislature. Secondly, the finding of any such Committee cannot, on any common-sense construction of the matter, be regarded as the finding of the Legislature, whatever the derivative force it may technically carry with it. People will prefer to be heard before a Committee actually selected from and sitting in the House of Lords or the House of Commons, whenever it can be shown that such Committees are fairly struck and constituted, to being heard before the more limited, and perhaps the stricter tribunal of a permanent Committee, on submitting the original grounds and scheme of their projected un dertakings. We observe that the author of a clever and very well-reasoned pamphlet, entitled "Remarks upon the General Railway Acts, printed, and to be proposed in the approaching Session, with Suggestions for more Efficient Restraint on the Arbitrary Powers of the Railway Companies":—" by a Small Landowner," does not concur in these our doubts as to the constitution of the Committee of the Board of Trade. But he opens up some other views of the character of inter ests that may be prejudicially affected by the law of Railway Bills as it stands—and of the mode in which they may be so affected—that do not seem much ex aggerated, or, in themselves, unfair, although their avowed leaning is to the side of the landowners, as a body. He says,—" Three general or special Bills are proposed to be enacted, with the view of sparing or saving the repetition in each special Act of the regulations proper to be established in the generality of cases, both for empowering the companies to take the lands required by them, and for laying down re servations and declaring conditions and restrictions for protection of the landowner from excesses and abuses in the employment of those powers." Ap proving of the principles of these Bills, he yet com plains that they are open to many suggestions of improvements, for which " there would have been little room, if their own great and acknowledged abilities could have been employed upon the details and structure of the Bills, and they had not been unavoidably left to some technical draftsman whose execution of the task the Board have not hitherto had, and may probably (from the pressure of so many railway claims on their attention) not have time to examine sufficiently, before the session commences." In the Companies' Clauses Consolidation Act, he is of opinion that there should have been a clause inter dieting the payment or allowance of salaries to any other director than a chairman or president, " till the shareholders shall have received some dividend, not out of subscribed capital, but out of profits, after de ducting working and other expenses,"—and then but an allowance in proportion only to the amount of such dividend ; "so that the interest of the director should never be paramount to his interest as a share holder, but always go hand in hand with his duty, and form a stimulus to his exertions." But what is to be done in the case, a very common one, of a company's present means being utterly dis proportionate to its prospective means, the latter requir ing only the superintendence of an able business management to realise them ? It may be of essential importance to secure the valuable services of a party otherwise qualified as a clever man of business and capacity, because he is a director. For that very reason it may be neither fair nor practicable to retain his services, except for the consideration of reasonable fees or salary. Furthermore, it may be very well worth while, under peculiar circumstances, to give him such compensation on a greater scale, out of regard to the importance of the specific object proposed to be accom- - plished by employing him, than the proportion of the dividend last paid could warrant. The clause should therefore leave this point of remuneration to be settled by the vote of a majority of any shareholders, at a meeting duly convened for the express purpose of deciding on such a question. How far the 'proposi tions of the same writer for protecting the interests of landholders, through whose property the lines of any future railway roads are to run, recommend themselves for adoption, we shall enable our readers to judge, in a day or two, by the analysis we propose to make of these suggestions. We have intelligence from Madrid to the 14th inst. The Chamber of Deputies was engaged on that day in discussing the Bill for the endowment of the clergy, when an amendment, proposed by Senor CERIA, was rejected by a majority of 93 to 29. To show the utter helplessness of the Opposition, not one amendment which they have proposed since the meeting of the Cortes has been carried. The Chamber of Deputies, from being the most turbulent and un governable assembly in Europe, is now the most sub missive and tractable. The Castellano announces that upwards of 80 inhabitants of the valleys of ['echo and A nso, who had taken part in the recent revolt, and emigrated to France, had returned to their families. The Three per . Cents. closed at 31 15.16 for cash, and 321 at 60 days ; the Five per Cents, at 24 at 60 days ; the Coupons at 27f for cash; and the Debt without Interest at 7 for cash. The debate in the French Chamber of Deputies on the Address commenced on Monday. The only Oppo sition speakers were M. GUSTAVE de BEAUMONT and M. de TOCQUEVILLE, names familiar to Englishmen, and we are glad to find that though averse to an alliance with thi i country, which they regarded as impossible, they adverted to her government and institutions in terms of great respect, and professed an ardent desire to live on good terms with their neighbour. M. de BEAUMONT said he knew the Eng lish too well not to esteem them ; he was too well acquainted with England not to admire her govern ment and free - institutions ; he should never forget that she was the first to recognise the Government of July, but all those considerations did not militate in his mind in favour of a close alliance. Good and friendly relations-should be cultivated with her, but that was all ; for it was impossible that a cordial alliance could exist between two countries whose interests were at variance not only on one point, but all over the globe. "War with England," said the other speaker, "would be a very great calamity ; he honoured and esteemed the English nation, but the interests of the two countries were so opposed that no intimate alliance could subsist between them; for England could not subscribe to any concession ; her existence would be the price of it; if she lost the monopoly of the trade of the world, she must perish. He then contrasted the political position of both countries. France was the head and heart of democracy, and her interests commanded her to propagate as much as possible de mocratic principles, whilst England was the stronghold of aristocracy, and necessarily entertained widely dif ferent sympathies." These are just remarks, and made in a fair spirit, differing in every respect from many other opponents of the Gutzor Cabinet, who hate him and his colleagues because they do not hate England. That is the policy of the Radical, the Le gitimatist, and the Republican parties ; and even some, calling themselves Conservatives, would sacrifice a Conservative Government, if France could thereby only become more estranged from England. About bixty Members of the Left assembled on Sunday at their usual place of meeting, in the Place de Made leiue, to come to an understanding on their mode of proceeding in the debate on the Address ; and, from the remarks made; it is evident that they will 'op pose the Minister, chiefly, if not solely, on account of his foreign policy—meaning, of course, his leaning to wards England ) for among that class of politicians " f oreign" and " English" ate, tyllooymeAs tetras. Daitb, took the chair. M. TOCQUE. party also was present. M. ODILON BARROT was the first speaker, and explained the object of the meeting. He urged his colleagues to vote firmly against the present Cabinet, and to support any admi nistration which would assume a more dignifled atti tude in the foreign policy of the COUhlry. Several other Members spoke to the same eflect, and the assembly agreed to the proposal. According to what fell from M. ODILON BARROT, it is not likely that the Left will hazard any amendment of its own, but will support such as are to he made by Conservatives, who have now entered into the paths of Opposition, so that if the Cabinet falls, it falls by the desertion of its own friends. This is admitted by the Presse, an oc casional supporter of the Government, though a de termined enemy to England. "If M. GUIZOT should fall," says that journal, " in the contest which is about to commence in the Chamber of Deputies, none will deplore more than us the infatuation which will have caused his disaster, and which will have deprived the country of a statesman endowed with such powerful eloquence and with such elevation of soul. We do not deny the gravity of the embarrassment which will arise from his fall. Evidently, if the Cabinet falls, it will be in conse quence of a division among the majority. This divi sion will be perpetuated, and, however weak M. GUIZOT'S party may be numerically, it will derive immense force from his talent. For this reason, we should have wished that the present Ministers had assumed a more firm tone towards England, or that, if they did not consider they could do so with suc cess, that they would voluntarily have left the re sponsibility -to others. Two things are certain— first, the Chamber of Deputies, which has twice ex pressed its wish that our commerce should be placed exclusively under the care of our flag, will not suffer that this wish shall longer be slighted; secondly, the Chamber of Deputies never will permit, particularly in its third session, an indemnity to be voted to Mr. PRITCHARD, no matter how small the amount that Admirals HAMELIN and SEYMOUR may fix on. It is not on the amount, but on the principle, that the debate will turn, and the principle cannot be defended." On Sunday evening, a deputation from the House of Peers proceeded to the Tuileries and presented the Address to the KING. They were received, by his MAJESTY on the Throne. The Duke de NEMOURS, the Prince de JoiNviLLE, and the Duke D'AustALE, stood on the right and left, and the President, Duke PASQUIER, read the Address, to which the KING made the following reply : " Gentlemen,—lt is very gratifying to me to find in this Address new demonstrations of the sentiments of which the Chamber of Peers has so frequently given me so many proofs. This striking approbation given to the course that we have followed with so much perseverance and success will facilitate the continuation of it. In ap preciating, as you do, the favourable dispositions which have permitted my government to re-establish with that of Great Britain the happy accord which had already preserved the world from so many dangers, you add new pledges for the stability of general peace, and the gradual increase of the prosperity which our country now en joys. I thank Providence for having permitted my sons to show themselves worthy of the sentiments which you have just manifested to me for them. The affection of France for my family and myself is the sweetest recom pense that I can obtuin for my labours, and our entire devotedness." The National contains a long account of a meeting relative to the disposal of the funds subscribed to purchase a sword for Admiral DUPETIT THOUARS. It appears that the total sum received is 19,685 francs (7831.), and that 175,000 persons had subscribed. There were still thirty-two provincial journals which had not sent in their subscriptions; so that the total sum will probably amount at least to 1,0001. The following report of what occurred at an interview with the Admiral was read by one of the deputation : " We waited upon Admiral Dupetit Thouars as your delegates, and we wish to render an account of our in terview. We explained to the Admiral the sentiments which had inspired the public manifestation in which 175,000 citizens had joined. The subscribers wished to honour in his person the entire navy which had taken part in that contest in which the French flag was opposed to the insolent pretensions of England. They particu larly protested against the act of cowardice committed by the Ministry disavowing, by order of the London Cabinet, a general officer who had fulfilled his duty. Public opinion, excited by that act, had hastened to extend its hand to the person attacked ; because it was considered necessary to prove to our armies by land and sea who are charged with defending the honour and dignity of France, that esteem, consideration, and a just popularity are the rewards se cured in our country to those who on all occasions re collect that our first sentiment ought to be the love of country, and that the devotion which it inspires ought to precede all others. After having expressed to the Ad miral the sense of the manifestation which we had wit nessed in his person, because he alone had been the object of the disavowal accompanied by calumnies, we asked him whether he would accept a sword of honour, or whether the Committee should employ the funds for another purpose ? Admiral Dupetit Thouars, who ex perienced on receiving us an emotion which he did not 'conceal, told us that he was profoundly affected at our proceeding, that he felt strongly how honourable it was to him personally, and that the approbation of his fellow citizens was assuredly the most legitimate ambition and the most agreeable recompense for any man called on to serve his country; but he prayed u 3 to consider that the imperative duties of his discipline would not permit him to explain himself as to a political manifestation, nor to re ceive, without the permission of his superiors, a mark of public approbation. Placed, as he was, in the Royal navy he could not, without a violation of military law, depart from that reserve imposed upon him either to blame or to praise an act of the Government; neither, consequently, could he accept arq recompense which would imply, on his part, an adhesion to a political demonstration. We were bound to respect a determination supported by mo tives in which Admiral Dupetit Thouars believed his professional position engaged. We could not, moreover, without an abuse, refer in this place to the confidential conversation in which we were enabled to learn the true and honourable sentiments of the Admiral. But we may say, that ever occupied with the fate of the brave men whom he commanded, he spoke with a warm interest of all those who had fallen in the expedition against Otaheite. We then asked him what would, according to his idea, be the best mode of em ploying the funds subscribed ? to which he replied, that he could not believe that he was under an illusion when be considered the homage of which he was the object was intended to extend to all the seamen who had served worthily in those distant seas, and that assuredly it would be to respond to the wishes of the subscribers to expend the amount subscribed to re lieve the wounded seamen or the wives and children of those who had died in the performance of their duty. We regret that we cannot be more explicit in a report intended for publicity, but we believe we can Arm, gentlemen, that the mission with which we were charged has impressed us with a profound conviction that public opinion was not deceived when it wished to do honour to a general officer devoted to the glory of his country, a determined enemy of the foreign foe, jealous of our interest,) and well-determined not to commit any act by which it might be tarnished. Your delegates pro pose to you, therefore, to declare the subscription closed; to make public the motives of Admiral Dupetit Thouars' refusal—motives exclusively connected with military dis cipline ; and, in fine, that the funds of the subscription should be allocated in procuring relief for the wounded seamen or the widows and children of those who fell in the expedition to Otaheite." The meeting immediately adopted the resolutions, and appointed a Committee to carry them into effect. THE BOURSE--MONEY, JAIL 20. First highest Lowest Last Price. Price. Price. price. French rive per Cents— 122 .. 122 .• 121 90 .. 121 90 ?ours. •• 19 8 108 108 108 Three per Cents 85 10 .• 8 5 lb 84 .. go New Loan Bank of France 3267 50 ••3267 50 .•3267 50 —3567 50 Belgian Bank. • Belgian Fives, 1840 1842 106% •• 100!ii .. 106 N 106% Spanish Threes 3 B3i. •• 38 3 "4 38 '3 ,4 Active •• •• 3.1 '• fl 7„ .. 37 •• 27 Portuguese Five per Cents•• 5934 •• •• 59 N .. 59 1 4 98 00 98 50 .. 98 50 .. 98 50 Roman . RAILWAY SHARES. St. Germain .. ...1002 50 —lOO2 50 ..1002 50 ..1002 50 Versailles, 377 50 • 377 50 .. 377 50 .. 377 50 Rouen 6... ii10 4 ( 1 ilO • 10 15 no —10.15 50 ..1045 50 Rnuen to 816'15 82 ••8 id .. 8 , 4 Orleans ..... .....1127 50 ..1128 75 ..1127 50 ..1128 75 Strasburg to 8a1e.......... 297 50 •• 300 .. 297 60 . 300 Avignon to Marseilles.-- 925 .. 927 50 . 925 .. 927 53 RAILWAYS FOR TILE ACCOUNT, JAN. 31. St. Germain ...... .• ..1005 •.10f5 ..1005 ..1005 Veranillta, 11.11 ..... . 49.5 .. 495 • • 493 435 Rouen —.1045 —lO5O ..1045 ..1050 Rouen to Havre.. Orleans .... Strasburg to 8a1e.... •. '297 50 .. 230 Avignon to Marseilles-- 926t 43 0 .. 922 50 .. 927 50 The table of the mortality in the metropolis for the week ending January 18, shows a decrease in the number of deaths as compared with the preceding week, the total, except from violence, in the week end ing January 18 being 1,001, while in the week ending January 11 it was 1,098. By far the larger number of deaths during the past week have been from dis eases of the lungs and organs of respiration, the number of deaths attributed to this cause being 325, including no less than 146 cases of consumption. The total number of deaths, including deaths from vio lence, during the past week, in the metropolitan dis trict, is 1,010. The total number of births in tha metropolitan district during the same period is 1,331. During the week three males have died, of the re spective ages of ninety, ninety-two, and ninety-four years, and one . female died at Kennington at the age of a hundred and five years EARTHQUAKE IN LIMA. leArti from El Commercin, a Lima paper, of the tth of Pet)ti,ri4f; that do flit , preceding evening, at twenty minutes after ten; Lii , 6 r2i&git !!htict..s. ht an earthquake had been experienced in inaf city. At the second shock the greater part of the inhabitants quitted their houses and sought for re fuge in the squares and open places. A perform ance was going on at the theatre at the time, and many of thb atitlitinte 4 Who 'were much alarmed, rushed out, although the actors contititied the per , formances for the amusement of those who remained. Fortunately, however, no damage was occasioned by the earthquake, which appears to have been one of the smartest that has been experienced for years. this rich country. The interest for two years will be retained in this country. PRICE OF BRITISH FUNDS AT CNY., O'CLOCK (From the Official List.) Bank Stock ". • per Cent, Reduced Annuities _5/1/4 8 vet' 6 . gt: COI/SOl9 Anns lOOl/4 %IA New 34 tiff mkt. Annuties Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan. 1860 l 2 l /4 Do. 30 Years, Expire Oct. /0,1859 l2 11 15-16 Ditto 30 Years, Expire Jan. 1860 India Stock 286 South Sea Stock — Ditto Old Annuities Bank Stock for Account. Consols for Account Exchequer Bills. 134 d. 1 1 / 2 d. 1,000/. 500/. Ditto Small — Ditto Advertised ..... ... —,- PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK. Mexican Bonds, 1837, 5 per Cent. 34', 7 Ditto for the Accoant.: 3 4 3 / .1 Ditto Deferred Stock 15 % 34 Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent Ditto for the Account ~4491 4 3 / 4 Russian Bonds, 182 2 , 5 per Cent... 119 % Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent., 1840... 27% 28% Ditto for the Account. Ditto 3 per Cent 4 0 14 39 3 / 4 Ditto for the Account 40% 39 3 / 8 % Dutch 2% per Cents Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates PRICE OF SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK. RAILWAYS. PAID. PER SHARE. Birmingham and Gloucester 100 Bristol and Exeter Bristol and Gloucester Caledonian Cambridge and Lincoln Chester and Holyhead Churnet Valley Eastern Counties Do. Perpet. 5 per Ct. No. 1. 3% 1 Edinburgh and Glasgow ..... 50 Ely and Bedford Great South and W. (Irish)... 5 Ditto Additional Great Western Ditto, Half Shares 5O lOO Ditto Fifths Harwich 1 Hull and Selby Lancaster and Carlisle London and Birmingham ...100 235 to Ditto New Thirds Ditto Quarters London and Blackwall 16% 7 l / 2%... to London and Brighton 5O 5 2 34 53 1 4 to 52 1 / London and Greenwich ...... 12 3 / 4 ll London and South Western.. 41Y...... 78 1 ,E to 79 Ditto, New London and Y0rk....... 24 .. Lynn and Ely Manchester and Leeds 7O l3l 133... to 132 Ditto 1 / 2 Shares Ditto Sixteenths Manchester and Birmingham 40 — to Ditto y i Shares v 2 Midland 100 l3O 128... to 130 Ditto New Newcastle& Darlingtonjunc. 24 Newcastle and Berwick North British Norwich and Brandon 8 ... . Ditto New Shares 1 Portsmouth Direct Rugby ,. 1 Shrews.,Wolver., Dud., Birm. 2% 3%. / 4... to South Devon South Eastern and Dover ... 33 1 % 4 8 1...... to 48 Ditto New South Wales Trent Valley York and North Midland ... 50 __an A to 111 Ditto 1 / 2 Shares Ditto Scarboro' Branch Ditto, Extension FRENCH RAILWAYS. Boulogne and Amiens Great Northern of France ... 4 Paris and Lyons Paris and Rouen.. ... 20 JOINT STOCK BANKS. British North American - DIANCHXSTER STOCK EXCHANGE, JAN 2l.—We continue to have a large business doing, and prices generally are again higher : Birmingham and Gloucester lOB Bristol and Gloucester 44 Eastern Counties 201% % 1% London and Birminzham, 321. Shares . 43 London and South Western, New 1 3 14 Manchester and Leeds Manchester and Birmingham 56 Midland Railway Consols South Eastern New, Creation Barnsley' Junction Birkenhead, Manchester, and Chesh. Junct ,_ 7 1 ,4% -- -cv Blackburn, Darwen, and Bolton 2 7-16q 3 / 4 Caledonian Cambridge and Lincoln Churnat Valley 5 13-16% 1 / 2 % Huddersfield and Manchester Rail and Canal 4% Leeds and West Riding Junction 41A34 % London and Worcester, Oxford and Rugby 2 g A 3/ London and York 4 %- Lynn and Ely Manchester, Bury, and Rossendale Manchester and Buxton 2 5-16 1 ,1 Shrewsbury, Wolverhampton, and Dudley 2 34 Trent Valley 1 0 34 West Yorkshire Great Northern of France 6 Lyons and Avignon 2 3 /4 CLOSING PRICES. BRITISH FUNDS. Bank Stock 3 per Cent. Reduced ... 100 3 % 3 per Cent. Consols New 3 1 4 per Cent . 104% Long Annuities to expire Jan. 1860 12% 3.-16 Ditto 30 years, Oct. 10, 1859 ... 11 15-16 Ditto 30 years, Jan. 5, 1860 ... 11 15-16 India Stock . , South Sea Stock Ditto New Annuities . 9 9 3k Bank Stock for Account 213 Consols Exchequer Bills, 1,0004 1%d.... 60 pin. • . Ditto' 5001. Ditto Small , - FOREIGN FUNDS. Portuguese Bonds, 5 per,,Cent Ditto, Account '6 0 1 4. ... ....._ _ . Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840. Ditto, Account ... 28% Ditto, Passive Ditto, Deferred 1 76 30 Ditto 3 per Cent. ...... ......-- 44 8 Ditto Account Dutch, 2% per Cent . Ditto, 5 per Cent 99 • SHARES. Bristol and Exeter, 70 paid 7 6 1.4 Catedonian, 5 paid 5l, Chester and Holyhead, 5 paid 7 Churnet Valley, 2 paid Cornwall, 3 paid Dublin and Belfast Junction, 2 1 / 2 paid Eastern Counties, 25 paid lB4 Ditto Perpetual, '5 per,Cent, 3% paid, No. 1 1 1,4_ Ditto ditto, 13s. 4d. paid, No. 2 Eastern Union, 10 paid ll lB Edinburgh and Glasgow, 50 paid Ditto Quarter Shares, 12 1 / 2 paid 164 Great Southern and Western (Ireland), 5 paid 11 Great North of England, 100 paid Ditto New Shares, 5 paid 27 IA Ditto New, 2 paid Great Western, 75 paid ... 175 Ditto Half Shares, 50 paid lOl Ditto Fifths, 20 paid 39% London and .Birmingham (Stock) ... . 236 London and Brighton, 50 paid 53 London and Greenwich, 12% paid London and York. 2% paid 4% Lynn al t d Ely, 14 paid 44 Mancheito and Leeds, 70 paid Manchester and Birmitgham, 40 paid ..... Midland, 100 paid Midland, Birmingham, and Derby, 100 paid.- 97 New,tasni. and Berwick, 1% paid ........ -..- 10Y North British, 7% paid Norwich and Brandon, 8 paid l4 A Rugby, 1 paid 3 South Eastern and Dover, 33h paid 47% Ditto New, 2 paid Shrews., Wolverh., Dudley, and Birm., 2i pd 3I,E Staines and Richmond, 1 paid 1%% South Wales; 2 1 / 2 paid Trent Valley, 2 paid ll West London, Old Shares, 20 paid Ditto Ist Class Preferred 9 West Cornwall, 14 paid 44 Yarmouth and Norwich, 20 paid 29 Ditto, New Shares, 8 paid 1 5 3/ York and North Midland, 50 paid Ditto, Selby Scrip, 20 paid FRENCH RAILWAYS. Great Northern of France, 4 paid Paris and Strasbourg, 2 paid.................• Rouen and Havre, 12 paid THE EARL or MourriNGToN.—The answer given yesterday at his Lordship's residence in Grosvenor square, to the numerous friends and relatives of the Noble Earl, was, " His Lordship is no worse." REPORTED MINISTERIAL CHANGES.—It is gene rally rumoured in political circles (but we do not vouch for the correctness of the report), that Mr. Sidney Her bert will succeed Lord Eliot as Secretary for Ireland, and Mr. Corry will replace Mr. Herbert as Principal Secretary of the Admiralty.—Morning Paper. We regret to learn that accounts have been re ceived in town from Paris, stating the serious indisposi tion of the popular composer Balfe, who is at present in the French capital. SIGNS OF PROSPERITY.—We are glad to learn that within the last fortnight the Carlisle manufacturers have advanced the haudloom weavers' wages fully nine pet cent., making a total advance of twenty per cent. on wages since the spring of 1844. NEWCASTLE AND CARLISLE RAILWAY. —The acci dent which happened at the tunnel on this line a few weeks ago has been entirely repaired, and the engines have resumed their duties with the greatest safety, addi tional securities having been adopted which are calcu lated to prevent the slightest tendency to a repetition of a similar slip, which was of less magnitude than was generally reported. Notwithstanding the interruption of the traffic, the revenue during the week was 2001. over that of the corresponding week of last year, and this week the increase over the parallel week of last year is 4394—Newcastle Journal. R OCHDA LE FLANNEL MARKET, MONDAY, JAN. 20. —There has been but a very indifferent market. Few buyers have attended, and the business transacted has been upon a limited scale. Manufacturers are asking more for pieces, on account of the increased price of the raw material—Manchester Guardian. LLOYD'S SHIPPING. LONDON, JAN. 22.—Wind at noon southerlv, fresh breeze, and fine. DEAL, JAN. 21.—Wind N. to N. by E. to N.N.E., derate.—Sld. Essex, Cape and Madras; Caledonia, BOW.. bay ; John Graham, Bordeaux and Mauritius ; Freia, Rio Janeiro ; Robert and Cato, St. Kitt's ; Emerald, Antigua ; Porter, Bordeaux and Mauritius ; Royal Tar, Sydney; Lord Bruce, Valparaiso. RAMSGATE. JAN. 21.—Wind N. N.E.—Arrd. Montreal, Blenkensop, lchaboe for Shields. The Rosebud has commenced discharging. The Caroline, Michel, from - Pontrieux to Caen, which put in here yesterday leaky, is discharging her cargo. Duni.IN;JAN. 20:—Wind W.—Arrd. Rebecca, Fomey, 1) ,merara. KINGSTOWN, JAN. 18.—Arrd. Kathleen, Liverpool for Africa. PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 21.—Wind N.N.E. to •N.W. Sid. Plantagenet and John Fleming. Madras and Calcutta. JERSEY, JAN. 20. —The Judge Thompson, from Ant werp and Guernsey, arrived at Bowley Bay last even ing, dismasted. WATERFORD, JAN. 20. —Wind N.N.W. to N.—Sld. Lucinda, Bombay. FALMOUTH, JAN. 21.—Wind W., light.—Arrd. Zephyr, Bulwan, Ichaboe, sailed Nov. 23. Sld. Emily, Cape Coast Castle. PENZANCE, JAN. 20.—1 t blew a heavy gale at W. to N.N.W. yesterday. with heavy squalls, and is now blow ing a gale at N.N.W. to W.N. W.—The Lord of the Isles, Hooper, from Malta, came to anchor last night during a very severe gale at N.N.W., about four miles to leeward of this port, had to cut away her masts, but was towed into the pier this afternoon, and it is supposed her cargo is damaged. ST. IVES, JAN. 20.—The Lady Anne, of Yarmouth, Page, from Newport to Lynn, was boarded off this in a sinking state, during a strong north gale. In running for the pier she got aground, but was got off and brought into the pier, where she sunk. PADSTOW, JAN. 20.—The William Pitt, of Sunder land, Bowzer, from Alexandria to Gloucester, came ashore on the Dunbar sand in a severe gale this morn ing, and has gone to pieces; crew (except one man) drowned. PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 21.—S1d. Hendrik Hudson, New York. A hen-coop, painted green, with turned bars, a gangway port, and a piece of deck plank, supposed to have belonged to a foreign vessel, were picked up off St. Katharine's 18th inst. TORBAY, JAN. 21.—Sld. Britannia, Monte Video. _ PLYMOUTH, JAN. 21.—Wind variable and light. — Sid. Elizabeth, Antigua. NEWPORT, JAN. 21.—S1d. Irvine, Jamaica ; Helios, Havannah. FALMOUTII, JAN. 21.—The William, of Aberdeen, from Cameroons to England, was spoken 29th ult., lat. 22 N., lon. 35 W., in want of assistance, there being only three white men on board, the remainder being Kruomen, by the Zephyr, arrived here. The William Cometis, from Alicant to Rotterdam, which was ashore here, is leaky, and has been towed into the inner harbour. MILFORD, JAN. 20.—The Deux Clementine, from Cardiff to Guadaloupo, which put in here leaky, has been surveyed, and must discharge. CORK, JAN. 19.—Wind S.W., strong.—Arrd. Arctu rus, Will, Hatfield, Naupauma, Peru, and Corran, all from lehaboe ; Lady Mary, Newfoundland. CLYDE, JAN. 20.—Arrd. Laurel, Oliver, lehaboe. LEITH ROADS, JAN. 18.—Arrd. Duke of Richmond, Spittal, Callao. OPP BRIDLIN TON, JAN. 21.—Richard, Ichaboe fur Seields. HULL, JAN. 20.—S1d. Regent, St. John's, New Bruns. wick. SPORTING ID BETTING AT MANI CHEST: TELLIGENCE. !HESTER.-TVESDAY. :It CUP. 25 to 1 agst agst Pride of Kil to 200/0 dare (taken) 25 to 1 agst Cataract (tkn) 50 to 1 agst Sorella (taken) 25 to 1 agst Winesour (tkn) 50 to 1 agst Valerian (tkn) 30 to 1 agst Zanoni (taken) 50 to 1 agst Portrait (tkn) 40 to 1 agst The Era (tkn) 50 to 1 agst Alamode, 40 to 1 agst Extempore (tn) i 1,000 to 5 agst Barricade. The Pride of Kildare was backed on Monday at 50 to Ito 2001. Nothing done on Derby and Oaks. MONEY AND COMMERCIAL NE WS CITY, WEDNESDAY EVENING. The Stock Market was not considered quite so buoyant to-day, but at the close Consols were 100* I for Money, and 1001 for Account. Exchequer Bills were 60s. premium. New Three-and-a- Quarter per Cents. 104 and the Three per Cents. 104 Bank Stock has been firm at 213. The Foreign Bonds have been dull, except Spanish, which advanced again this afternoon as regards the Five per Cents. to 29i and 29, the Three per Cents. being 39i to 44, and not raliying in the same proportion. Portuguese Converted were 60+, and Dutch Five per Cents. 99. The additional transactions in Railway Shares have been these :--Caledonian were 1 4 ; Chester and Holy head, 1 to 2i- ; Churnet Valley, 4i to 54 ; Cornwall, + 4 ; Dublin and Belfast; 3 to 2i ; Eastern Union, 14 ; Edinburgh and Glasgow, Quarter, 3 Great Southern and Western (Ireland), 6 ; Great North of England, New, 224 • Do., 91 ; Great Western, Half, 51 ; Do , Fifths, 19i ; Birmingham, 136 ; Brighton, 3 ; Lynn and Ely, 3 to 3 ; Manchester and Leeds, 60 to 62 ; DO. and Birmingham, 161 ; Midland, 31 ; North British, 44 ; Norwich and Brandon, 61 ; Rugby, 2 ; South Eastern, 14i ; Do., New, 17 ; South Wales, 2 ; Stainea and Richmond, 1 ; Trent Valley, 9 ; West Cornwall, 3 ; Yarmouth and Norwich, 9 ; Do., New, 17:1 ; York and North Midland, 604 ; Do., Selby Scrip, 51 to 4 ; Great Northern of France, 1 ; Paris and Strasbourg, ; and Rouen and Havre, 13 premium. Eastern Counties were WI; Greenwich, and Midland, Birmingham, and Derby, 3 discount. British Nor American Bank Shares were 44 discount, and Provincial of Ireland 19 premium. (From. The Sun of Last Night.) The Cotton Market at Liverpool was very firm again yesterday, but the sales did not exceed 5,000 bales—viz., 1,000 Surat at 2;1. to 3-0. 2 100 Pernam at 50. to 51d., 100 Egyptian at 51d. to 51d., and the rest American at 34-d. to sd. per lb.—A large number of Railway Shares changed hands, but prices were scarcely S) high. Mid land and Birmingham and Derby, 103 ; Birmingham and Gloucester, 107 ; Caledonian, 51 ; Chester and Birkenhead, 37;1 ; Chester and Holyhead, 6i ; Churnet Valley, 51 1 ; Dublin and Cashel, 101 ; Eastern Coma. ties, 201 4 ; Ditto Perpetual (No. 2), 11. Bs.; Glas gow, Dumfries, and Carlisle, 1/. ss. 6d.; Grand Junction, 237 to 238 ; Grand Junction, Quarters, 581 ; Lancaster and Carlisle, 26 ; Lancaster and Preston,47 4 ; London and Birmingham, 240 241 ; Ditto, 32/. Shares, 4344; Ditto, Quarter Shares, 30 294 ; London and Brighton, 53 54 ; London and Croylon, 154 ; London and South-Western, 794 ; London and York, 44 3g ; Manchester and Birmingham, 57; Manchester and Leeds, 1314 134 ; Ditto, Halves, 571 58} ; Newcastle and Berwick, 10 ; North British, 10i North Wales, 104 ; Scottish Central, 2. ; Sheffield and Manchester, 1001 101 ; South-Eastern, New, 214- 1 , Ditto, 19 : 1 ; ; Trent Valley, 101 ; York and North Midland, 112 ; Lyons and Avignon ' 21 a ; Paris and Lyons, 3/. 12s. ; Paris and Rouen, 414 ; Rouen and Havre, 24; Orleans, Tours, and Bordeaux, 84 ; Northern of France, 5i to 51. 18s. 6d. There is not a single arrival from the Colonies to-day. The following statement relative to the trade between the United States and Spain is not without interest at the present moment, especially as a strong rivalry exists for commercial precedence on the Continent. It is a quotation from the New York Herald-- " The trade between the United States and Spain has, within the past year, fallen off, but the decrease in the imports into Cuba from the United States are greater than the decrease in the exports from Cuba to the United States. The heaviest decline has been in the trade between Cuba and Great Britain. In 18.12 the importations into Cuba, from England, were va lued at 1,558,703 dolls. more than in 1843, while the exports from Cuba to England in the same year, were valued 2,406,443 dolls. less. This decrease in the trade is more favourable to Great Britain than to Cuba, while the decrease in the trade between this country and Cuba is more in favour of Cuba. The ag gregate decrease in the value of the exportation of the island in 1843, compared with 1842, reaches 1,654,909 dolls., while the decrease in the imports is 1,215,430 dolls.—a difference of 439,479 dolls. against the trade of the island. It would not be just to infer 1 from this table that the trade of Cuba was perma• nently declining, as we do not think that is the case. Some changes hare recently been made in the valuation of goods exported from Cuba, particularly the cost of copper ore, which reduces the total amount, and makes it appear that the quantity of merchandise exported was diminishing faster than is actually the case. The trade of the island is in a very healthy state, notwithstanding the diminished movement. The exports exceed in value the imports several millions." The market for the public securities has not been very firm today. Consols for Money and the Account have been done at 100 the opening price for the latter i being 1008. Bank Stock is up to 2131, a higher value than it has realised since 1837. The Three per Cents. Reduced have fluctuated from 100; to 100 i. The New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. from 10.1/ to 1041. Exchequer-bills have been sold at 575. to 595., and India Stock at 286. In the Foreign Market there has been a fall of about per Cent., the present price being 391 for the Account, and 27 eeil for the Five per Cents. Port uguese Converted are at The Dutch Funds are pretty steady. Mexican are at 34:1 8. A vast amount of business has been trans acted in the Railway Shares to-day, and at i m proved prices in most instances. The pro spectus of a loan for the Republic of St. Domingo has been circulated to-day. The instalments are to extend over a period of seven months. The Republic is stated to be free from debt, and the chief part of the funds to be raised here are to be appropriated to the full develop ment of the resources, egricultural us well as mineral, of SUMMARY OF NEWS .... 44'utlItt 4gpintoor " Who runs may read.' ------- i:.rm.te..2;vb..:. ril i in According to the Illoniteur the Protest r-. C ho ~, 6 17 i France possessed in 1815, 464 pastors ; in 18.1 PO and in 1845, upwards of 700. The budget of the,i,not; testant Church amounted, under the empire, to 3 0 1 1 ' 84 1:to under the Restoration, to 676,000 E ; and, in i oe. iir 1,219,000 f. The number of temples held likew _ . .. t i i . creased ; but there are still 111 localities 0.w.,,:e0, out any places of worship. There is, In France, '''.- testant population of about 4,000,000. b the'll'. The documents laid before the Chambersowl ulster of Marine, relative to the Gambier an . A , e 0 Islands, and an article in the Etiglish papers g r : prit• account of the new consular appointtnent of Ast ioo chard, have i:%roduced a great burst of disapnor from the journals which are opposed to the en; vie diale with England. The very mention of `, 4 _,. e _. p ry' chard" puts these journst:_' into a passion, and n" r , soti tion is only a new insult to Ftance. The affair of the Ecole St. Cr is tertninst Olg 0 order is fully restored. The ;i:iynis try intended str to bring the five pupils, who were arrested for . ~. m ot their adjutant, before a court-martial; but as t il bee. i '_. ° have left to a sentence of death, th? intention oc? abandoned, and it was decided to inflict u pon t i t: i v i e ftlle ciplinary punishment, by placing them at the 1 ,. Tlitf e regiments in which they are to be ittcorporate"_v th have been sent off to the different escort of gendarmes. 0 ea at ij;_ Marshal Bugeaud isms on the 16th bon -i f g ives o f moges, his native town, with a grand banqat' w hole, him by 220 of his fellow-citizens. Yearly t' . : tra nt d garrisons und er the inhabitants went out to meet him ()obis - OP The National, alluding to the notice of th 6 ',,,,3 rot England of its being readto discount oP,r ° r ik!lS mercial bills at 24 per cent., makes the folloelowe •, i , on the rate of interest taken by the Bank nf , o ored it i ht ' " When, on all sides of us, public and Via wo of ~,, extending and becoming stronger, the Dir e ? i, it 'l, Bank of France will not comprehend that it -hit ) same time their interest and their dutY to innlbesa i movement. Since the Bank of France W e i; Ifs existence, the rate of its discounts has not ea r c l i i o dat so ? Why, when from all sides commerce atliol,.los*i call for new facilities, has not the Bank of 1. 2:„ 1 . 0c5P, 4 P- ti itself in a position to procure them ? Is it be cap P-0, of its Directors, or unavowable prejudices or ;1 1,A, be accused ? If the Directors are incapable ti,r2iiglty, tioned, why does not the Government employ ilbeit u r fluence to stitnu;ate their idleness or orerconle peel inclination ?" of tbe A , . Paris journals state, that the receipts -- he t/s al :: instituted at Lyons for the Propagation o f t coo k e faith amounted in 1844 to 3,562,088 f. to , li r t o tributed 1,835,029 E ; Bavaria, 2329 74 °," 2 571 7 9 i 145,066 f. ; Germany, 42,159 f. ; Great Britaa l .' s. g,plei Ireland, 181,905 f. ; Spain, 10,575 f. ; I , l l o ite l l, Sardinia, 257,464 f. ; Sicily, 109,1181. ; tne,,,f ; of America, 6,384 f. ; South America, I° ,2 ' . .' Of 240 f. &c. o gta ih d e kir The Municipal Council of Paris was el/ R•eg ' - 89 . the whole of its sitting on Friday in discussioithod portant project of improving the 1 navigat Ore in its whole course through the capital. . 1 -' 7 ' , to be proposed to the Chambers, the cit.,' „ i ' o ' grant 1,500,000 f. towards its execution. ~„tfeik The Vigie of Morbihan states that on I ,'', - ,4St'ao t the 15th a shock of an earthquake was fe A " for ' 1 A noise' ike the roll of a carriage was beg r " 41° eight seconds. ~..1 „ re . .„r" tY The following paragraph respectingth et ro , f te ' r , the death of the Emperor of Russia, la tsr'e fro sts 41 Journal de la IJaye of the 18th: —" We lear ll o trd source, that all the accounts which hare m ie -S, A ttir e/ published respecting the state of health of t ar o. ar ~ 1 of Russia are mere fabrications ; that B oa eg tOi even been indisposed." la pa The The General Swiss Gazette of the -- th has ell - circular from the Vorort announcing that it to t i , the direction of federal affairs, and bores v .. ; d i 5 federal questions will be solved in a legal wil :sic, l l - 0:,/ By an ordonnance of the King of Denr,l; $l l 4 l published, the standing army of the Polo fl i r/ the present year is to be composed of 20 'fs 816 . the line, 18,956 as the war reserve, and ° 0 % vaern (militia), forming a total of 98,672 rae a r' 2io''97 AND P MACS' ~, Cb .. . i !' 1, The Judges assembled in the ,Exchefin„f. permn, according to custom, for the purpose of sc i iil ei 9, days on which their Lordships would 1101.,010 A ( for the present term. It was ultimatelrrahl ..4 errors from the Court of Queen's Bench s _, Pv ' er ' ) ,) for hearing on the Ist and 3d of Februoy e iro6o the Common Pleas, on the 4th and sth ot . ,.'' 60151 r those from the Court of Exchequer, on til e i3s o r e 4 of February. From the Court of Quee n's di _ s it ' are four cases in error, for 'udgment twin!, from the Court of Common Pleas, j one for jalogy from the Court of Exchequer, six for .i n `Tais' , t i O case of other cases from the Common hate ships made the above appointment for 1 1)° ' 0 ' The sporting case of Wood v. Leadbetll,oo' before the Court of Exchequer, and the a r r e il I were purely of a technical character , eie,:nt. • /d The Court took time to consider its j ildgill'in A IF fe d The Master of the Rolls gave judgme ° 4l ol Ambler v. the Lancashire and Carlisle A' Apt , do • pany. His Lordship refused to make anY n r ",, - 110 the defendants from assessing before aja r i 04 the land, the damage by the severance_ , all i ," 0 el sation for the injury to be sustained by '''' t - ho e he directed that the question respecting n , - el l. t from the provisions in the Act of Pn r " -111 ' r stand over for further information. g 0 e t ) A l° At Clerkenwell, Charles Tavis, a Yet 11 1, 111 01'0, charged by Mr. Faulkner, of Wh a rton - s tic :os e ed ins entered his dwelling house for the p . i0114 , nutting felony. The prisoner knocked Ali hi Saturday evening last, and requested cd ` - oly . o j Faulkner, sister of the prosecutor, ,wbn requested be / shortly afterwards climbed over the area r- I ,o_ through the parlour window into the it r 'i o l I he came there for food, and food he wottiu:hits46/ given into custody. The prisoner said ll' sel l , r of work, and he was hungry at the time.., efrf:i. milted to the House of Correction for 01 '. i f o rd rogue and vagabond. „ 1 , ar At Marylebone, two boys, named Se,„ - ti0 04 ,04 were placed at the bar for final exaraillreetiA'ls4 with having burglariously broken and ° pt . - lit '., ling-house of Mn Drewell, Bowling-st r tfcfir O'„M 1 and stolen therefrom six canary birds an lel i were committed for trial. rig 0 1 1 4, 1 ! On Tuesday, Henry Stephens. a Ya n- abt - ry been already tried and convicted, was br°";000 701 Henry, at Lambeth, on a charge of being.. htil, f4 three others, not at present in custody,' 1- 1 , vc - for the dwelling-house of Thomas Wade, -c a t iel f ° 40 . 004 street, Walworth. He was fully convn"' c i at ' t he,/ A man .named Sampson was charg e c h o_ l l4 with attempting to steal a lady's gold wit t if CoPoetrf of Mr. Sheppard, landlord of the Sar t % aao o l l / jacent to the theatre. The prisoner, vi l aio4,. o i, entered the Surrey Coal-hole the pre ce wal la 6 while standing in front of' the bar the ; 0 10110` i ing the prisoner making an attempt to s , p d r ol i from the side of a female, came roust' , -- bd m 4 0 ' stable, gave him into custody. MVO, 1 ,(011 several occasions distinguished himseP,oose o pev, j in ejecting suspicious persons from bis: fr et", if - a d y o 1000 1 truded themselves among his respects u - bottr p o i Traill said the landlord of the above _. O te much to be commended for his exertioeeivose 01 house of such characters, and that hi s ioa / 4 10 4 aided by those of the police on every uc''''- to I As, l os .., their assistance for such a purpose• in. tdoo4, complainant objected to take the 0 16 %1d:it'l l ' , to the sessions, he (the magistrate) An' 0 00 1 i of 40s. on the prisoner, and in default c , month. ... ik as/kt 0 0 01 cOUSLIF—FAUZZO'',4- 0 1 'o "id Lord and Lady James Stuart tto" Cardiff Castle. „ W ell t The Earl and Countess of Essex t's'eotoolfesy llie a numerous party lately at Cashioburfoff Ang . ,o ol ,t were the Marquis and Marchioness glitcluiti/eve Alfred and Lady Adelaide Paget , t he disk , o P i bury, Lady Catherine and Miss Cavevviao I .10 J Sydney, Baron Brenner, Hon. Mr. l3inc 0 1 0 i l i Jocelyn, Count Louis de Noailles, 8 4 ,c . baf o , o ol., The Countess of Bodies and famill seot'oe/ , the Pulteney Hotel from Leslie Hotis e ' ftil t .1 The Lady Palmer Acland has left Clio ~yotri pr i g P P t " for the Royal-crescent, Bath. Sir Alexander Hood has left t°"-II for A 4 t 01 4. 01311 Sir John Hay Williams, Bart., 1 1, Cash l i oll 1 The Marquis of Salisbury ba g l _s e - circl e d for Hatfield, where a distinguis he " r iti/ for m to , assemble. 0 0 . 5 P - 7 The Duke of Hamilton has left ret aals 1 4 , Palace, Lanarkshire. The Dtleb,,essvortnt°;oo i i ! The Earl of Cardigan has leit ''' rE , A P. .09 Deane Park, Northamptonshire' w he fre r o r 5 tr ll o I assembled. in i ls for 00' . His Excellency Count Dietricbste tor e i y the splendid mansions in BelgraYs* sq poll o i) residence. O ttte e'forti ins 0 • The present Earl of St. Gern 2 ye hoe e in jr.„ with the Countess and family'. h i s res icle l :d if i eje winter at his Lordship's offiei aL . sot , coo,/ Park, Dublin. The Noble Earl is v Jot, 1 .0 11 0 street in a few days, en route to pa rt , ball, y - 124 t e f Sir William and Lady Chatt er t of t i ' A lO sea :f ei, town from Woburn Park, the ...q 0 0 ' i Lady King. u ho ,_ 10 co ot; Mr. and Mrs. Henry Beauel er f t he P r 0 ,or from Cassiobury Park, the seat n 0 ,•• oso or' 0 1 1 masousniamAlliasocietii7, i O , 0 . 0 . 0 On Tuesday the Melophooin whe roe„ o grniro/d at the Music Hall, Store. s treet. ' f . t he r eo tarbo! A el at an early hour. The first part °_, t he so., ./e) 1 sisted of sacred music, selee p t r e o d du ir e ° , & ool ::: i b l i o c r b o ' ; oo, ° : Mozart, Haydn, Handel, Iluttood,,i ri O O l/ 0 0 f i e r l was one piece of modern great attention, and which vin s b , C. f' , .,' a O P , The Grave of Moses," a , trio , 1 ..... s 6 " 5 0, / Mrs. C. E. Horn, Miss M. Willino'i foil 0 0 0 4 The secondconvicted of gel'aeci t he 0 0 :0 1 part . e stiP es ter' fill instrumental, and the audience t b 110 , ii iioC ... 4 . , A , approbation. held at "t by t4 O t r it An adjourned inquest was , ‘.e se - be. iti..ool , body of an infant that had "' e n n ot N o y spea r ,' basket, addressed to some par s the o il .00 0 basket was at length opened at t i n o'o cojt, 4 . , inside was the body of an inft' n ro ti for i t,for (l3 _,. fri: oi d The inquest had been ad.i° ll fur ther o orool e l making inquiries, but as n ° tur ned s ent will of been produced, the but, re had been to .0 0 , " That the deceased child had is cir but by whom so sent, or bY "„ 00. London by the South Weserah;.- poets death, there was no evidence W •