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THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. THIS EVENING Will be repeated Ha 7fe's Grand Opera, THE DAUGHTER OF ST. MARK. Lusiemano, Mr. Rural' ; AO - lphe de Courcy, Mr. W. Harrison ; Catarina Cornaro, Miss itailiforth. After which, r ill be produced a Grad Ballet, entitled LES DANAIDES. Damns, M. Ilogvet ; Euricles, Mr. Howell ; High Priest, Mr. O'Bryau ; Lynceus, Mon. 11. Vestris ; Polycter, M. Del fcrier ; Alemenon, Mr. Webster ; Egyptian Chief, M. Finart ; Ifyperumesta, Mdlle. Maria ; Automate, Madame Finart ; Amymone, Madame Guibilei ; Agave, Mdlle. O'Bryan. The Boa-office is open daily, from Ten in the Morning until Six in the Evening, where Private and Family Boxes, Stalls, Places, and Tickets nay be had on application to Mr. John Parsons THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. LESSEE, MR. B. WEBSTER. 65th Night of " Old Heads and Young Hearts." THIS EVENING . Will be repeated a New and Original Comedy. in Five Acts, entitled OLD HEADS AND YOUNG, HEARTS. Colonel Rocket, Mr. Stricklatd ; Littleton Coke, Mr. Charles Mathews ; Tom Coke, Mr. Webster ; Bob, Mr. Huckstone ; Jesse Rural, Mr. W. Farrell ; the Countess of Pumpion, Mrs. W. Cliford ; Lady Alice Llawtliom, Madame Vestris ; Miss Rocket, Miss Julia Benrett. To be followed by a Grand Musical Fairy Extravaganza, entitled GRACIOSA AND PERCINET. King Lisorius, Mr. J. hand : Princess Graclosa, Miss Julia Bennett ; Percinet, Miss P. Horton ; Duchess Grognon, Mrs. Stanley. To conclude with a Grand MOVING DIORAMA ; or, PICTORIAL TOUR IN SWITZERLAND. Private Boxes, Two Guineas and One Guinea and a-Half each. Tickets and }laces to be had of Mr. I. T. Archer, at the Box-office, from Ten till Five o'clock. THEAME ROYAL, ADELPIII. UNDER TILE DIRECTION OF MADAME CELESTE. Eighth Night of a New and Original Drama, by the Author of "Wreck Ashore," Victorine," &c. THIS EVENING Will he repeated a New and Original Drama, entitled THE GREEN BUSHES ; or, A Hundred Years Ago. Connor O'Kennedy, Mr. Selby ; George, Mr. Hudson : Wild Murtogli, Mr. 0. Smith ; ?Muster Grinnidge, Mr. Wright; Jack Gong, Mr. Paul Bedford; Geraldine. Mr!. Yate , ' ; Nelly O'Neill, Mrs. Fitzwilliam ; Miami, Madame Celeste, After which, THE CORPORAL'S WEDDING; or, a Kiss of the Bride. Sir Felix Marmalade, Mr. Hudson ; Major Griskin, Mr. Selby ; Lady Arethusa Cr skin, Mrs. Frank Matthews ; Nancy Cobb, Miss Woolgar. To conclude with THE CHIME 4. Toby Veck, Mr. 0. Smith, ; Alderman Cute, Mr. Wright ; Tngby, Mr. Wilkinson ; Sir Joseph Bowleg, Burt., Mr. Paul Bedford ; Will Fern, Mr. Hudson ; Richard, Mr. Selby ; Illeggy Veck, Miss Fortescue ; Mrs. Chickenstalker, Mrs. Frank Matthews. Prompter, Mr. Gallot ; Principal Painter, Mr. Pitt ; Leader of the Band, Mr. Mellon. THEATRE ROYAL,, ADELPHI. A Thorough Adelphi bit I—Vide, " The Times," and Public Press TIIIS EVENING AND TO-MORROW' EVENING TIIE GREEN BUSHES, o. A Hundred Years Ago ; by the Author of " The Wreck Ashore," " Vlctorine," &c. Principal Characters by Messrs. Hudson, Wright, 0. Smith, Paul Bedford, Selby, Cul lenford, and Worrell ; Mrs. Yates, Mrs. Fitzwilllam, and Madame Celeste. With the New Farce of THE CORPORAL'S WEDDING ; or, a Kiss of the Bride. And THE CHIMES ; A Goblin Story. On THURSDAY will IA produced a New Drama, called THE SOLDIER OF FORTUNE. PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. LESSEE, MR. J. M. MADDOX. THIS EVENING Will be repeated THE CASTLE OF AYMON; or, The Four Brdthers. Baron de Beaman°lr, Mr. Walton ; Olivier, Mr. Allen ; Allard, Mr. C. Hon), Jun. ; Richard, Mr. tEnse ; Renaud, Mr • Mattocks; “-on, Mr. Leffler; Hermitic, Mdlle. Helen Conde]] ; Clara, Miss Brentnall ; Yolande, Miss E. Homier; Eglantine, Miss O'Connor ; Gertrude, Mrs. Fosbroke. To be followed by DON C.ESAR DE RAZ:I.N. Don Usti: de Bunn, Mr. Wallack ; Maritana, Mrs. Stirliag. After which, a New Comaetta, entitred THE BRIGADIER. Principal Characters by Messrs. Wallack, Granby, and Compton ; Miss E. Hoofer, and Miss E. Stanl,T. THEATRE ROYAL, LYCEUM. UNDER TIIE MANAGEMENT OF MRS. KEELEY. Valmtine and Orson" is one Devouring Flame of Triumph, In con ' sequence thereof it will be performed Every Evening. TIIIS EVENING Will bo repeated a New Comic Drama, entitled TAKING POS SESSION. Principal Characters by Messrs. Keeley - , Meadows, Craven, Kinloch, A. Wigan, Yaruold, Bender, and Stanton ; Mrs. A. Wigan, Miss Arden, Mics Howard, and Miss James. Alter which, THE MARRIAGE CERTIFICATE. Principal Characters by Messrs. F. Matthews, F. Collier, and Turner ; Miss Walcott, Mrs. Usher, and Mrs. Keeley. To be followed by :t New Farce, entitled A TODEL OF A WIFE. Charactera by Messrs. A. Wigan, P. Matthews, and Mea dows T , 6 3 n ts WaleoL. and Miss FairtrGther. racters 1 de with VALENTINE AND ORSON. Principal Cha• lessrs Matthews, Meadows, 11' igan, Collier, Turner, I(imbach :„ % lr i ar iss , ltio.n , Keeley ; Mrs. Wigan, Miss Arden, Miss Fair- Mrs.brother Keeley e, Mrs. Woollidge, Miss James, Miss Turner, and • ASTLEVS ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. PROPRIETOR, MR. W. BATTY. Unc,l,l32led Success of the. Southern American Minstrels. THIS EVENING wjll be repeated THE THIS FOX HUNT ; introducing a Real Yox-chaso on the Stage, by Living Fox and Real Pack of Hounds. To be follf , wcd by the Melwlies of the American Southern Minstrels. Entire Change in the Circle. —Unequalled Feats of Horsemanship. To conclude with the Pantomime of HARLEQUIN JOHNNY or, The Illack Witch of Edmonton. Johnny, L PIN'S RIDE 4 hlpn, Mr. Wells ; Clown, Mr. Barry ; Pantaloon, Mr. Bradbury Haxlegnin, .fr. Lewis ; Columbine, Mrs. J. W. Collier. Acting and Stage Manager, Mr. D. W. ilroadfoot. DAVIDGE'S THEATR I 1 The Grand Pantomime every Evening, with Splendid Novelties, and Another New Piece. THIS EVENING Will be repeated a New Hire° Act Drama, entitled WOLSEV, iu which the whole of the Company will perform. After which, BEN THE BOATSWAIN. To be followed by the Original Bohemian Polka, by Mr, Harvey and Miss Srulthyes. To conclude with the Pantomime of POUNDS, SHILLINGS, AND rENCE. Harlequin, Mr. 11. Harvey ; Clown, Mr. T. Ridgway ; Pantaloon, Mr. Henry Corri ; Columbine, Miss Slaitev. Places and Private Boxes to be had of Mr. Kerschner, at the Box offlce, from Eleven to Four. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. Continued Triumphant Career of " Marianne"—Two New Dramas, supported by the best Company in London. THIS EVENING Will be repeated MARIANNEChiId of Charity. Sup. ported by Messrs. Osbaldiston, H. Howard, J. T. Johnson, J. Her bert, E. Jones, and W. Searle ;:Vise Vincent, Miss E. Torrey, and Mrs. E. Jefferson. After which, a New Petite Drama, entitled A NIGHT'S FROLIC ; or, Once './1 a Hundred Years. Ludovic, Mr. T. H. niggle ; Nicksus, 31iss Vincent ; Grechen, Miss E. Terrey. To conclude with an Original Nautical Drains, entitled THE LIFE RAFT; or, the Two Reefers. With entirely New Scenery, Machinery, and supported by the entire strength of the Company. Zoleh U.; Ylt, 111. ;.Gallery, 6d. THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, FEB. 4. TIIESMOMETER, Lowest, 34 ; Highest, 42 ; Noon, 40. BAROMETER, 30.3.—W1ND, W. NOTE.—The figures 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 geaerally placed opposite to 30, and '.Rain" at 29; but there is no certainty of dry weather when the mercury falls below 30. HIGH WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY. Morning •• 43 minutes after 11 I Evening •. 0 minutes after 0. ' 4 l • * , • • .r SECOND EDITION. THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 4 1845. 01wining LONDON, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 4, ISIS. In an article or the opening of a rew session of Parliament, our Contemporary, the Speetotor, has some caustic remarks on the unprofitable results to which that session, in all probability, will lead. It takes as disparaging a view of what it calls its "hope less" labours, as of the degree of interest with which the public at large regard their commencement. This degree, in its estimation, is evidently represented by that negative quantity which, in commercial par lance, is termed nil. we rightly collect his meaning, the Speclu himself expects no thing from the new Parliament; whilst the public manifests such an apathy about its existence, as im plies that nothing is to be expected from it. We are kept, it is said, in more than even the usual degree of igno rance of the programme of the measures to be brought forward, the pieces to be performed, and the partie s to whom their representation is to be assigned. There is more playfulness, We trust, than truth in these re marks, and in the conclusion which is deduced from them,: " that the session of 1845 is destined to follow the fate of some of its predecessors, in exhibiting an absurd contrast between any brilliant expectations formed of it at its opening, and the realised national benefit derived at its termination, from the whole aggregate of its labours during that in terva1.",,,,,,2",,,0ur Government must strangely neg lect its duty, if it fail to originate within the next six months, some of the most important, ex tensive, and urgent questions that any administration has submitted to the Legislature during the years that haVe elapsed since the general peace of 1315. Our Legislature will utterly have repudiated its own legitimate functions if it have not, before the next sessional recess, compelled the questions we speak of to be submitted by the Government for full and na ture discussion -within the walls of Parliament. In truth the necessity of the case, properly looked at, supplies abundant guarantees for the assumption that the now pending ses• sion will be rendered memorable by the variety, the number, and the extraordinary magnitude of the matters and the interests with which Parlia ment will have to deal, which it must finally adjust or vindicate, propound or renew, but which it will be out of its power to postpone. On this account we differ from our Contemporary, and are disposed to look rather for a " hopeful" than C9r his "hopeless" session. Let us consider for a menient what, under the head of home business, are the great social ard domestic questions pressing for the earliest consideratim, with a force and exigency proportionate to the intense solicitude which they excite in the public mind. There is, first, the reconstruction of the amended Poor-law, especially in refereece to Sir JAMES GRAHAM'S Bill, which attempts to estahlisl the law of settlement on a s'ngle basis, namely, the settlement in every case acquired by th e f a th er . It is deemed, on high authority, very expedient that the place of birth of the male parent should thus deter mine the settlement of the progeny ; and nothing seems to be fii::er than the course which the Right Honourable the Home Secretary has adopted, for ar_ riving at the opinions of the soundest practical autho rities on this vital question ; for it involves the recon struction, not only of the Ae!, but of the Poor •law Com mission itself. If we m judge cf the aggregate returns from the Board: of Guardians throughout England and Wales (and, we believe, Ireland) to t'2o questlo - A submitted for their opinion and report, with copies of the new Lill ; by these we have had already an opportunity of becoming acquainted with, we may safely predict that the replies to the Home Secretary's various queries will be so contralctory, so conflicting, and yet so unqualified and unhesitating, in most instances, that Sir JAMES will be compelled to abandon his new principle. On the other hand, we firmly believe that the anomalies, absurdities, in justice, and uncertainty, attending the operation and construction of . the law of settlement, as, it at present exists, will be so powerfully de monstrated by these returns and replies, that Parliament will be brought to the unanimous determination that such a law shall no longer be acted upon. We have heard it surmised that these difficulties will result in a foreseen conclusion; and that the whole burden of the poor-rate will be levied by a Poor-subsistence tax under Parliamentary authority, through Government machinery, in the usual manner, but with a more equable distribution than has hitherto beeti adopted in respect of moveable as well as fixed capital and income. Next, there will be the all-im portant question, whether the property-tax is to be re-imposed and re-endured; and if that should even be determined in the affirmative, there remains another almost as difficult—quite as inddieras :—" How shall the surplus ,revenue be appropriated?" Without the property-tax these can be no surplus at all. With it, and a realised surplus, there will be the re missive pretensions of malt to be balanced against those of windows, c f tea against those of raw cot': an, cf paper, &c. The manufacturing interest will have to Le fought by the reluctant Min'Aer on one Supply" night against the landed irte - -:.st; cn another the landowner will be set up to ride over the manufac turer. It is very evident, that if there be a " surplus," the consumers of tea, sugar, tobacco, paper, raw cotton, &c., &c., will not hear of their claims being postponed or adjourned. These must be met, and either affirmed or negatived. Then the busi- ness of appropriation of surplus m:11 be transferred to its re:ations with such vast affairs as the paying for new harbours of refage, brzakwatcra, and forts, the extension and strengthening of our steam navy, and all the other details of that necessary condition of preparation for warlike contingencies, the wisdom of which appears to be no longer matter of doubt with any party in the kingdom. A most rigorous revenue inquiry we suppose will also be called for by some of these Members in either House whose eyes have been opened to the scandalous inefficiency of our Custom I.!)use management, in London more particularly, and th incal... fable loss, which the frauds that have grown under such a fiscal administration have inflictej, and still inflict upon the annual income and financial resources of the em pire. We cannot believe that the corn-laws will be continued to 1846 in the same shape they present themselves under, now, in 1845. Nor is it to be imagined that our monetary system can be trusted for another year in its present rickety and vicious condition to those happy accidents which have tided it through so many perils, on so many occasions, with out actually renewing its disastrous shipwrecks of 1825-26, and 1838. We are much mistaken, more over, if the Legislature will not deem it sill its duty to infuse more vigour and liberality into any existing plans of national education, so as to arrest, if possible, the appalling growth and in crease of crimes, in a large proportion of cases the the lastsucht result of igno r ance--in almost all, stamped by a cha racter of atrocity, recklessnessa to treachery, f blood, a proneness to savage violence, and even ill impart to the cri m i na l annalssw ofmonths of darker and more p rur i ent shades guilt, than bare been heretofore thought compatible with charac ter semostquestions, degraded in classes of connexionf with our population. the twelve a population. Besides do mestic and social status, the Parliament grillscarcely separate again without paying due attention to others that it is not less imperative upon it to regard with i the most unremitting vigilance. The restrictions on ( our foreign commerce, which cramp our home in. dustry and contract our foreign markets, impoverish the trade of our greatest staples, and paralyse the enterprise and speculation of our manufacturers and shipowners, whilst they burden our consuming classes with iniquitous ani vexatious imposts ;—these must be largely removed forthwith. The utmost limits of patience, as well as prudence, have been reached. This is a work which brooks no further delay. In the foreign relations of the country, GOD knows, we detect but too many indications that re mind us how possible it is that Parliament, even in the pending session, may be called on to record its opinions on political measures of the most profound interest and the most extensive bearing. In Europe we have not yet concluded all our differences with the French Government, touching the right of search, the Otaheite affair, or the trade of the Gambia and the Senegal. In America we see but one continued series of ebullitions, dictated by a feeling to which it is not necessary here to apply a name, but which seems identified with a double purpose,of unprincipled territorial aggrandise ment, and of the manifestation of an attitude of defi ance to Great Britain. Neither in the Oregon occu pation, nor the annexation of Texas, nor the scanda lous tampering with Mexican and Texian authorities, do we recognise in the bearing of the United States' Government any cause for satisfying ourselves that there is no danger of a violent disorganisation, in 1845, of those amicable relations between the Union and this country which have subsisted now, through so many years, to the great advantage of both nations, sand the benefit of the civilised world at large. It is not in such elements of disturbing forces, as these, that we can make out the promise of one of those "hopeless sessions," whose barrenness of excitement, —whose routine-torpidity, offer perhaps, after all, the best assurance for the prolonged maintenance of the peace and repose of the world—to the two Govern ments which are most deeply concerned in pr. serving them inviolate. We have always been sceptical as to the amount o : public benefit likely to result from the constitution of the Board for the transaction of railway business— created under Minute of the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade, in August last. The grounds assigned for this innovation on the practice of former years are, in themselves, not merely specious, but very sound ones. It had long been felt that it was necessary to economise the time of Parlia ment, to the extent of relieving it from the unprofit able but indispensable preliminary discussions de manded by the terminal points, selected lines of pro jection, proposed levels, gradients, &c., and by the probable expenses of the cuttings, embankments, con structions, plant, and all other details connected with railroads, for which parties came forward to obtain the sanction of the Legislature. It was acknowledged as a grievous fact, within the experience of both Houses, that, after devoting from week to week, and month to month, the labour of many hours a day to such investigations, and to the hearing of counsel for consenting as well as for opposing parties, the exami nation of surveys, plans, and specifications, and the conflicting allegations of innumerable petitions ; it had been frequently discovered, after the Select Com mittees had reported in favour of a particular Railway Bill ; and Parliament, acting on such report, had passed such Bill through all its stages ;—petitions and projects came before the House of Commons for constructing, between the extreme termini of such specific railroad, "a competing line," as it was called. In some cases this competing line was found to be so much better than that which had been already ap proved of and reported on, that it was found im possible to refuse the permission prayed for to bring in a Bill for its accomplishment. In many more it resulted that, though, in some particulars, the "come Feting line" might offer preferable advantages, it was not, as a whole, as much entitled to legislative sanction as that which had been already affirmed. Thus, after attaining to the stage of a first, or a second reading, or even to the maturity of entering a "Committee of the whole House," it was dropped, or, upon vote, thrown out. In all such instances the great evil was, that a vast amount of valuable time, which was abstracted from the due consideration and routine of the most important public and official busi ness, was fruitlessly sacrificed to the formal enter tzinment of Railroad Bills, and inquiries that proved either utterly abortive, or were mere repetitions of those previously devoted to similar schemes, better or worse, as the case might be, but at any rate which had been earlier brought forward. It must be obvious that such a mode of transacting this description of business was calculated to encourage a spirit of gambling speculation on the issue of any pending Railway Bill, and to promote the most hopeless, and, at the same time, the most expensive litigation between parties to originally proposed, and parties to competing lines. Nor can it be denied that that mischievous accumulation of public business, the arrears of which it is found, at the close of every session, to sweep off with an un considering rapidity and wholesale dealing of which it is impossible to exaggerate the mischief, the in convenience, or the indecorums, has been greatly owing to the absorbing occupation of railway busi ness. So far, therefore, as related to the economy of Parliamentary time, the discouragement of specu lative litigation, and the diminution of legal expenses in the process of soliciting and carrying Railroad Bills through the Legislature, the new Board may be pronounced an useful and a successful experiment. But it remains yet to be proved whether it will effect any such dispatch of the public and official business of the country in Parliament, or work any such diminution of gambling in railway scrip, as can compensate for that vicious principle of its constitu tion to which we have, in a former article, directed attention—namely, the indirect, but virtual, inter position which its arbitrary findings carry—with the disposition and employment of private capital. That men should expend large sums of money in the bootless agitation of particular schemes for its investment, both without and within the walls of Parliament, is bad. That capitalists should make ducks and drakes of their money by throwing it into concerns which in the nature of things never can re pay them (whether from the excessive expenses at tendant on the construction of the proposed work, or the disproportionate paucity of the passengers and traffic to be reasonably calculated upon)--this, also, is bad. But both the one and the other are evils, the inevitable tendency of which is to correct themselves, and the utmost possible extent of which is measured, perhaps, by the loss sustained by the individual parties. But to legitimate, by Act of Parliament, or Minute of the Committee of Lords of the Privy Council for Trade, or any ether authority, the inter ference of a Select Board, delegated without either the election or consent, the control or the nomina tion, of the persons whose interests it is, in effect, to report upon, by recommending Parliament to grant the Bill craved by A B, but to refuse that ap plied for by C D;—this is really to hazard—at the least—an evil of far more serious and extensive mis chief. It is to oppose the authority and influence of a publicly-recorded official opinion to the free opinion and unbiassed action of the capitalist; a policy not only at direct variance with the first principles of free trade, but directly opposed to that noble spirit which has consolidated and extended the commerce of this country to a degree never before witnessed by the world. What would have become of those grea public —aye, national works, in Great Britain, whic' present to the admiration of the foreigner the glorious anomaly of such achievements consummated neither by the public will, nor by the national funds, but by individual enterprise and by private capital, if this sort of pseudo-paternal and protective authority had existed among us, when the New River, the Bridge water Canal, the Decks of London, Bristol, Liver pool, the noblest bridges of the metropolis, or the two finest railroads in the world, the Great Western and the London and Birmingham, were constructed ? The consideration of competing lines—the nervous apprehensions of such a self-assumed official respon sibility would have crushed these magnificent under takings in the germ. And, again, the Railway Board of Privy Council, or by whatever other title we are to recognise it, can only be tolerable so long as its " Reports" carry with them the concurrence of a large proportion of public opinion. Their powers are powers which will only be tolerable in virtue of e ßn x acen tr iidl e w m a e tys moderation in their exercise. Their "Reports" to Parli amen t, h owever, i n name b u t pre li m i nar y il incidents in ct, n i n T i o n g e ress t;:noi ninety-nine e ) cases y g i o u t t of a hundred, be decisive of the fate of such Bill. BY the etiquette and in the practice of Parliament it is not very usual for Members to turn round and re pudiate the recommendations, suggestions, or reports of official departments. Now, with all our respect for Major-General PASLEY, and the Earl of DAL norm, and Mr. G. S. PORTER (with whose talents and knowledge everybody must he, to some extent, acquainted), not to mention their colleagues, Mr. D. O'BRIEN and Mr. S. LAING (who may be less before the world) ; we, for our parts, shall be always greatly disinclined to accept their opinion on the merits of a railroad scheme, when it happens to he opposed to the more valuable, because practical and tested, opi nions of first-rate engineers of high professional cha racter, and as much respected for their disinterested ness and integrity as for their engineering science and success. Yet, on a division, we venture to predict that three men out of five in the House of Commons will follow where the report of Lord DALHOUSIE, Gen. PASLEY, and their official colleagues lead them, rather than the most decisive and distinct report which carries no higher vouchers than such names as BRUNEL Or STEPIIFNSON, LOCKE, GILES, CUBITT . &c. Any guarantee which the Beard is supposed to offer for the adoption of the best of competing lines, or the adoption of the good 'and rejection of the bad of original schemes, is, therefore, illusory. As for the moderation of the Board, we see not much matter for hope, in gazetted notices, that exhibit, as it ap pears to us, a proportion of about two .thirds rejected to one of approved application. Meantime the gam bling speculations in "railroad scrip" are carried on more extensively than ever. It is only the stage hich is allied in respect of them. It is no longer whether a Government Bill will reach a third reading in the Commons, or—pass tl'S House of Lords, and receive the royal assent ;—but whether it will be recommended by the Board of Trade, or thrown out We hope some Members will bring the question of the continuance of this Board, upon its present con stitution, under the early notice of Parliament. The accounts from Madrid are to the 27th ult. The Senate on that day passed the Bill for con verting the claims of Government contractors in Three per Cent. Stack ; and in the Deputies a lengthened discussion took place on the Bill against the slave trade. The Minister of Foreign Affairs, in reply to some remarks from Senor ISTURITZ, spoke strongly in favour of the measure, and contended that in place of injuring Cuba, as was said, it would be the surest means of preserving that important colony. The House then adjourned to the 29th. The Three per Cents. closed at 32 for cash, and 321 at 60 days ; the Five per Cents. at 231 for cash, and 234 at 60 days ; the Coupons at 26i- at 60 days, and the Debt, without interest, at 6; at 60 days. The Journal des Debuts announces that the or donnfnce appointing M. DE SALVANDY Minister o Public Instruction, waa signed on Monday, and that the new Minister had been swcrn into office. The appointment is generally approved of; and as M. DE SALVANDY had already filled the same department under Count MOLE with much satisfaction to tile public, and i 3 well acquainted with its duties hopes are entertained that the Education Bill, which caused such alarm to M. VILLEMAIN, will be carried through the Chambers without any material altera tions. In adverting to this addition to the Min:stry, the Globe says:—" The Cabinet, which had waited until the position of affairs was clearly defined, to complete itself in a significant manner, cusidered that the moment had arrived to do so, end we tre entirely of its opinion. On his side, M. DE SAL VANDY, in persevering in the line of policy he had so vigorously and loyally supported, gives an additional proof of hi 3 com;ctions, end adds example to pre cept. We congratulate both M. DE SALVANDY for having the honour to militate at the head of a majo rity so glorious an i so convinced, by the side cf colleagues already so honourably tried ; and the Cabinet, for having secured the co-operation of a man of talent, occupying as eminent position in the Chamber and public opinion." The Sieele denies the statements of some of the Opposi tion journals, that M. THIERS and the rest of the coalition had resolved to abstain iAyrn voting in the Chamber. They are to attend and vote as usual, an& probably will oppose the Secret Service Money Bill. The Journal des Debats alludes with much satisfaction to the remarks made by the C onstitutionnel on the meeting of Conservatives in the Rue Richelieu: —" We shall not," it says, " endeavour to reply to the gross insults which the journal of M. TRIERS ad dresses to the meeting of the Conservative party. We have no need to prove that a meeting which had at its head Marshal SEBASTIAN' and Marshal Bu- GEAUD, M. DE SALVANDY, and General JACQUE MINOT, is net a club of Ministerial Jacobins directed by a committee of public safety. The insults of that jots' nal prove but one thing, which is, that it is dissatisfied with what has occurred within the last two days, and we admit that it has cause to be so. Yes, the 213 Conservative Deputies would have ful filled M. TRIBES' object better if they had dissolved immediately after the vote of Monday, and if they had surrendered without resistance to the 205 of the coalition. M. THIEF'S and M. BILLAULT would now have been at the head of affairs. But in place of separating, the 213 Conservatives counted their votes, and they found they were still the masters. They have rallied and have undertaken to make head against the coalition. They believed they were thatcon pfilndsantthan they have to recommence. Euth great anger and such invectives. M T RIERS and M. B ILLAULT ex pect that they have a right to make coalition s aga i ns t Nothingquerors , a nd i s more they pleasant the majority, and that the Deputies of the majority should not have a right to assemble and to unite against them. It is to be permitted, in order to over throw the Ministry, that the pilgrims to Belgrave square should unite with the Republicans, and it is not to be permitted to the majority to organise them selves in order to defend tzeir p r i nc i p l es aga i ns t a crowd of all opinions.' The Three per Cents. were quoted on Sunday at at 85f. 10c. THE MINISTERIAL CHANGES. (From the Times) We understand that Sir George Clerk is to be the Vice-President of the Board of Trade, and that Mr. Cardwell will succeed Sir George Clerk as Secretary to the Treasery in the Finance Department. We bc.ieve also that Lord Jocelyn will be appointed to office—we presume to the Lordship of the Admiralty, vacant by the nomination of Mr. Corry to be Secretary to that Board. Of the fact that Lord Jocelyn is destined for some offi cial situation, we have no doubt. (From the Morning Post.) The fast of Sir Thomas Fremantle's appointment to the office of Chief Secretary for Ireland is piaced beyond doubt. The Hon. Baronet was only prevented from kissing hands yesterday, on his appointment, by the ill ness c f a member of his family. It is perfectly understood that the Right lion. Sidnsy Herbert will succeed Sir Thomas Fremantle as Secretary at War ; that the Right Hon. Henry Thomas Corry v 11l take the place cf Mr. Herbert as Secretary to the Ad miralty ; and we believe we may now add that Lord Viscount Jocelyn will be appointed a Lord of the Admi ralty in the room of Mr. Corry. We have reason to believe that Sir George Clerk, Bart., will retire from office as ono of the Secretaries to the Treasury., and that Mr. Cardwell will succeed to the lion. B aronet. Whether Si r George is des tined to preside G:er the Bo a rd of Customs on the an ticipated r e ti rem:nt of Mr. Dean, or t o b e come Pay master of the F orces, i n the possi b le even t of Sir Edward Knatchbull's r es i gnat i on, we are not yet in a situation to state with certa i nty. A rumour p reva il s that the con ti n ued ill-health of the Earl of Ri pon will, at no distant p e riod, occasion another vacancy in the Cabinet. T L. HE _ABRARY OF THE DUKE OF I:2ISSEX.- - Yes• terday the Bale of the library of the late Duke of Sussex was continued at Messrs. Evans's rooms, in Pall-mall. The number of lots disposed of during the fo:ir days have been 969, realwing a su m o f f rom 4001. to 5001- Among the lots disposed of, tho se w hi c h fetched the hi g hest prices are the books containin g notes of the late illustrio us Duke. Yester day, lot 526, Europe, or a General Survey of the Present Situation of the Pri nc i pa l P owers, w ith Conjectures on their future Prospect s , b y a Citizen o f the United States, with Manuscript N otes b y the Duke of Sussex, pub lished in 1822, was bought by Mr. Boone for 2/. ss. Lot 768, Ilistoire Secrette de la Duchess d'Hanover, Epouse de George 1., London, 1732. A home-truth, or Memoirs of the Couri; of H (anover), with the names filled up in MS., by the Duke of Sussex, sold for 2/. 65., to Mr. Mur ray. Lot 829, Various Tracts relating to Gustavus Adol phus, King of Sweden, in 5 vols., sold for 9 /. 17 s. 6 d. Th i s very curious collection was made ' by Sir Robert Gordon, of Gordonstoun, and was bought at his sale by the Messrs. Longman for 18/. 10s. The most attractive portion of the sale yesterday was the disposal of various editions of Frois sard's Chronicles. The first lot, 923, Froissard Croniques, 4 vols. in three, very scarce edition, printed by Verard, at Paris, in 1518, sold for 5/. 12s. 6d. Lot 924, Froissard Cro niques, par Sauvage, 4 vols. in two, fine copy, Sir M. Sykes', printed at Lyons, 1559, sold for 5/. Lot 926, Froissard's Chronicles, translated by Lord BCrllerS, 2 vols., imperfect, printed by Myddleton and Pynson, in 1525, sold for 9/. 10s., to M. Pickering. The sixth remliversary of tlio ruarilue of 1,, , ::r Maje.ty, on Monday utixt, will be celebrated by public dinners at Windsor, Egham, &c. ; and a bal l in honour of thQ event will ta ke plane wt the latter town. THIS DAY'S NEWS. EXCHEQUER.—(THIS DAY.) (Before the LORD CHIEF BARON and a Special Jury.) THE ATTORNEY GENERAL V. PORTER. This was an information filed by her Majesty's At torney-General against the defendant for the recovery of penalties which he was alleged to have incurred by evading the payment of the Customs' duties. The Solicitor-General, Mr. Jervis, and Mr. Wilde, conducted the case for the Crown ; Sir Thomas Wilde, Mr. Cockburn, Mr. Humfrey, and Mr. Hindmarsh, ap peared for the defendant. Mr. Porter, the deFendant in this information, had been associated in business with Mr. Foster, as ware houseman, in Cheapside. The transaction from which the presont information arose, was the landing, on the 29th of March, 1842, of two cases of goods, Nos. 36 and 57, from the Harlequin steamer, from Boulogne. The principal ground of action, however, was the last case. This information, in its leading features, is closely assimilated with those of the Attorney-General v. Dean id Candy, so frequently before the Court of Exchequer, and with which our readers have been made so familiar. The cases from Boulogne contained gloves, silks, satins, and a variety of haberdashery, on which a duty of 1201. ss. 2d. was paid on the 2d of April 1842; the goods having been cleared by Mr. Noble, the prin.. cipal clerk of the defendant, but who ha• since left the country. From the size of the cases, and the calcula tion of their cubrical contents .it was contended, on be half of the Crown, that they could hold, and had held, a quantity of goods, the duty on which would be 3121. 4s. 10d. The difference, therefore, between these two sums was the amount which it was argued the de fendant ought to have paid, and he was now sued for his default, and the penalties thereby incurred. [The case was proceeding when we went to press.] CRIMINAL COURT-(THIS DAY.) (Before the BF:comm.:H.) The Court was opened this morning at ten o'clock, but no case of any interest was tried up to the time of going to preis. BOW-STREET.—(THIS Di.Y.) John Neil and Richard tieddon were charged before Mr. Jardine with an assault on James Saville, the pro prietor, and George Smith, the waiter, of a coffee-shop in High•street, St. Giles's, Mr. Saville said, that about four o'clo2k this morning he was roused by a row in his shop. He saw the pri soners in the shop struggling with the waiter. He de sired them to leave, but they refused, and he helped the waiter to turn them out. A policeman coming up at the moment when he turned the prisoners out, he gave them in charge. John Smith, waiter in Mr. Saville's shop, said that between three and four o'clok this morning the prisoners came in and asked for some coffee and bacon. When he served them they refused to pay beforehand, and he would not leave the tray with them. They tried to snatch it from him. The master then came down and assisted witness to turn them out. Policeman, F 23, said that he took the prisoners in custody, having seen them break one of prosecutor's windows. The prisoners said that they had not committed any a3sault on the prosecutor. They refused to pay for the coffee before they had taken it, and the waiter imme diately attacked them. The policeman said that the prisoners were drunk at the time, and Mr. JARDINE fined tile prisoners 10s. each, and in default of payment, sentenced them to 14 days' imprisonment. LLOYD'S SHIPPING.—(THIS DAY.) LONDON, FEB. 4.—Wind northerly, moderate breeze, and fine, but hazy. DEAL, FEB. 3.—Wind, N.W. by W., light breeze, very thick weather.—Arrd. George Canning, Ichaboe. OFF THE WIGHT,FEB. 3.—Augustus, South Australia, Sld. Sept. 12. PLYMOUTH, FEB. 3.—The Caroline, M'Cornish, arrd. here from Girgenti, is discharging her cargo, being leaky. SCILLY, JAN. 29.—The Northumbria, Harrison, from Cardiff to London, ashore on Crow Soul d, has been as sistal off and is now in St. Mary's Pool, and it is ex. pepected must discharge her cargo. MALDON, JAN. 31.—The Mary Ann, Mu'ley, of this port, drifted ashore at high water, on the 27th instant, and lay very bad, and has received considerable damage. HAYLE, JAN. 31.—The Anne and Betty, from Kit:sale and Thurso, has put in here, with cargo heated, and must discharge. BOWMORE, ISLAY, JAN. 31.—The Lion and the Mary Ann, ashore near here, are complete wrecks. LOUGHSVVILLY, JAN. 30.—Arrd. Ellison, Liverpool to Newcastle, cargo shifted, loss of bulwarks, &c., having experienced a heavy gale from W.S.W. to N., 25th inst., off the Lewis Islands. CORK, FEB. I.—The crew of the Thomas Laurie, which was abandoned Nov. 18, off Ichat3e, were picked up and landed at St.llelena by the Crescent, arrived here. CLAY, FEB. 3.—The Breeze, of Plymouth, from Mar seilles to Wisbeach, is ashore to the westward of Blake ney ; cargo discharging in a damaged state; crew saved. A head-board, masked " Livorno," has been picked up on Clay Beach. LivEnpooL, FEB. N.W., light.—Sld. Gowan, Newfoundland. FEB. 3.—Wind N.N.E.—Arrd. The Jeanie, Sh:elds for Rouen, leaky, and must discharge to repair. A sloop, with bhck masts, is sunk off Tru3thorpe, in about tour fathoms. MARKET NE WS.-( THIS LAY.) EAT WIALZACkTIL S3IITEIFIELD.—Coarse Meadow Hay, 31 lOs to 4110 s ; Useful ditto, 41 12s to 51 3s ; fine Upland ditto, 51 4s to Si 8s; Clover Hay, 41 lO s to 6/ ; Oat Straw, 11 14s to 11 16s ; Wheat Straw, 11 16s to 1/ 18s per load. A fair average supply, and a steady inquiry. CUMBERLAND.—Coarse Meadow Hay, 31 12s to 41125; Useful ditto, 41 14s to Si 4s ; fine Upland ditto, 51 5s to 51 10s; Clover Hay, 41 lOs to 51 18s; Oat Straw, 11 16s to 1/ 183 ; Wheat Straw, 11 18s to 21 per load. Supply moderately good, and trade firm. WILITECEIAPEL.—Coarse Meadow Hay, 3/12s to 4/ 12s ; Useful ditto, 41 14s to 51 3s ; fine Upland ditto, 51 4s to 51 10s; Clover Hay, 41 lOs to 6135; Oat Straw, 11 13s to 1 / 1 5s; Wheat Straw, 11 15s to 11 17s per load. Both Hay and Straw moved off slowly, at last week's quota tions. FLANDERS MA EL. (RECEIVED THIS DAY.) BRUSSELS, FEB. I.—The Chamber of Representatives in its sitting to-day, after a short general discussion on the budget of the Department of the Interior, voted the first two articles of the budget, and adjourned till Thurs day next. The speech of M. Elsyde Burdinne, at the opening of the sitting, related especially to the agricultural situation of the country. The King arrived this afternoon about five o'clock from Ardenne. A letter from Vienna of the 24th of January, says that the Duke Perdinvnd of Saxe Coburg, whose health had improved a has had a relapse, and that he is so seriously ill that fears arc entertained for his life. The latest accounts from St. Petersburgh, state that the Empress of Russia intends to visit Germany in the sprir.g tor the benefit of her health, which is N ery indif ferent. Prince Adam of Wurtemburg has obtained his discharge f:om the service of Russia, in which he held the rank of Adjutant-General and of Lieutenant- General. We have learnt a circumstance respecting the motion of M. sly. 'which is not uninteresting. In the evening of the dc v before y9sterday M. Osy hesitated, and thought o; withdrawing his motion. if he persisted, it was because it wt.s represented to him that a third trans formation would expoie him, if not to ridicule, at least to the accusation of groping iu Ca() dark, which would fall on the whole opposition. BELGOAN FUNDS.—BRUSSELS, FEB. 1. Actual Debt, 21,, i per Cent Rothschild's Loan, Five per Cent . • • . Loan of Thirty Millions, Four per Cent .. 9814 Ditto Three per Cent • • Ditto Thirty-seven Millions, ditto Ditto, ditto, 1840 • • • • • • • • • .. • Ditto, ditto, 1844. 102% Ditto of the City, 1843 •........... Ditto, 1832 . . Bank of Belgium. . • —Brussels Papers. Feb. 2. lIA3IBURGH BORSENIIALLE, J.ix. 30. Bills. Money. 113 Austrian 5 per Cents Bank Shares Anglo-Russlan Loan •••••••• • • • • • • • • 11414 Russian 5 per Cent., Hamb. Certificate. 105% 105 ti Ditto Ist series 1n5cripti0n............. 1051 A Ditto, Hope and Co., 3d end 4th series.. 9934 Ditto, in Certificate •••• - • • • ...... •• • 99Y. .New 4 per Cent., Hope and Co. .• • • • 92 91% Ditto Stleglitz Spanish New 5 per Cent •• • .• . Ditto 3 per Cent Anglo-Portuguese Loan, 234 per Cent • • Dutch Actual Debt, 234 per Cent .. •• • . 63 1 4 63 Polish New 4 per Cent. Loan, 1841 •• • • 8734 87 Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cent ••• • • • 8734 87si National Bank Shares • . Exchange on London. Petersburgh, Three months • • 37 15-16 Bremen, Two months —riaraburgh Borsenhalle, Jan. 30. PRUSSIAN FUNDS.—Bznulf, JAL 31. Bills. Money, St. Schuld Sch., 334 per Cent .. Pntss. English Bonds, 1830, 4 per Cent — Exchange on London, 2 mouths • • 6 28 —Universal Prussian Gazette, Jan. 31. AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, JAN. 26. S per Cent. Metalliques• ••••• • • •••• • • • . 111 V, 4 per Cent. ditt0...... 3 per Cent. ditto • 78 Loan, 1834 • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • ..... • • • • • • • Ditto, 1839 1:10 Bank Shares .. • • • • ...... • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 1634 Esterhazy's Loan • . ...... •67 Zeitung, Jan. 28. [ADVERTISEMENT.]—NUM BER ONE, SAINT PAUL'S CHURCHYARD.—The best of everything is good enoug h for anybody, and the best of teas and coffees are sold at Number One, Saint Paul's Churchyard. Here are two very bold and very straightforward assertions. We respectfully call upon the reader to prove their truth. It may easily be done by a single trial of our four-and-sixp enny bl ac k tea, which is in deed good enough for any and everybody, and will guarantee the quality of all other articles sold by l)akin and Company, tea merchants, at Number One, Saint Paul's Churchyard, London. AWFULLY SUDDEN DEATlL—Yegterda v an inquest was taken before Mr. Baker, at the Duke of Marlborough, Lower East Smithfield, on the body of John Nett'eship, aged forty-eight, coal porter. It appeared that on Saturday morn igg last deceased was in front of the bar of the above public house in conversation with the barmaid, when, feeling unwell, he asked for threepenny worth of brandy. Having draLk it, 110 fell back anti ali-llo.qazitly expired. A. surgeon Was sent tor, hut , al! medical aid was tma-.-alling. Verdict— Visitaboa of Goa. li , :cased has left a widow a ad roar eliildica. Mr. Tufnell, M.P., has paired off with Sir C. Cote, until UP) eiicl pf the prenut mouth, HER MAJESTY'S SPEECH. OPENING OF PARLIAMENT MY LORDS AND GENTLEMEN, I rejoice that lam enabled, on again meeting you in Parliament, to congratulate you on the improved condition of the country. Increased activity pervades almost every branch of manufacture. Trade and commerce have been ex tended at home and abroad, and among all classes of my people, there is generally prevalent a spirit of loyalty and cheerful obedience to the law. I continue to receive from all Foreign Powers and States assurances of their friendly disposition. I have had much satisfaction in receiving at my Court the Sovereigns who in the course of the last year visited this country. The journey of the Emperor of Russia, under taken at a great sacrifice of private convenience, was a proof of the friendship of his Imperial Majesty most acceptable to my feelings. The opportunity of personal intercourse thus afforded to me may, I hope, be the means of still further improving those amicable relations which have long existed between Great Britain and Russia. The visit of the King of the French was ren dered especially welcome to me, inasmuch as it had been needed by discussions which might have im paired the good understanding happily established between the two countries. I regard the maintenance of this good un derstanding as essential to the best interests of both ; and I rejoiced to witness that the senti ments so cordially expressed by all classes of my subjects on the occasion of his Majesty's visit were entirely in unison with my own. GENTLEMEN OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS, The estimates fur the ensuing year have been prepared, and will forthwith be laid before you. The progress of steam navigation, and the demands for protection to the extended commerce of the coun try, will occasion an increase in the estimates con nected with the naval service. Mr LORDS AND GENTLEMEN, I have observed with sincere satisfaction that the improvement which is manifest in other parts of the country has extended to Ireland. The political agitation and excitement, which I have had heretofore occasion to lament, appear to have gradually abated, and, as a natural result, pri vate capital has been more freely applied to useful public enterprises, undertaken through the friendly co-operation of individuals interested in the welfare of Ireland. I have carried into effect, in the spirit in which it was conceived, the Act for the more effectual applica tion of charitable donations and bequests. I recommend to your favourable consideration the policy of improving and extending the opportu nities for academical education in Ireland. The Report of the Commission appointed to in. quire into the law and practice, in respect to the occupation of land, is nearly prepared, and shall be communicated to you hnmediately after its pre sentation. The state of the law in regard to the privileges of the Bank of Ireland, and to other banking estab lishments in that country, and in Scotland, will, no doubt, occupy your attention. The health of the inhabitants of large towns and populous districts in this part of the United Kingdom has been the subject of recent inquiry before a Com mission, the report of which shall be immediately laid before you. It will be highly gratifying to me if the informa tion and suggestions contained in that . Report shall enable you to devise the means of promoting the health and comfort of the poorer classes of my sub jects. I congratulate you on the success of the mea sures which,i three years since, were adopted by Parliament for the purpose of supplyi:lg the defi ciency in the Public Revenue, and arresting the accumulation of debt in the time of peace. The Act which was passed at that time for im posing a Tax upon Income will shortly expire. It will be for you in your wisdom to determine whether it may not be expedient to continue its.ope ration for a further period, and thus to obtain the means of adequately providing for the Public Service, and at the same time of making meduction in other taxation. Whatever may be the result of your, delibera tions in this respect, I feel assured th&; it will be your determination to maintain an amount of re venue amply sufficient to meet the necessary expendi ture of the country, and firmly to uphold that public credit which is indispensable to the national'welfare. The prospect of continued peace, and the general state of domestic prosperity and tranquillity, afford a favourable opportunity for the consideration of the important matters to which I have directed your attention, and I commit them to your delibe ration with the earnest prayer that you may be enabled, under the superintending care and pro tection of Divine Providence, to strengthen the feel ings of mutual confidence and goodwill between different classes of my subjects, and to improve the condition of my people. PARLIAMEN TARP _ENTERTAIN MENTS. - As is usual on the eve of the assembling of Parliament, the customary political dinners were given yesterday by the respective party leaders of both Houses. We subjoin the particulars regarding each of those meetings. The Duke of Wellington, as leader of the House of Lords, received a numerous party of the Conserva tive Peers at dinner last evening at Apsley House. The mover and seconder of the Address (Marquis Camden and Lord Glenlyon) and the following noblemen were present:—The Dukes of Buccleuch, Beaufort, Montrose, Cleveland, and Rutland ; the Marquises of Salisbury and Exeter; the Earls of Aberdeen, Bathurst, Liverpool, Delawarr, Jersey, Wilton, Shaftesbury, Dalhousie, Had dington, Ellenborough, Beverly, Brownlow, Rosalyn, Lonsdale, Eldon, Clare, Wicklow, Verulam, and Hard wicke ; Viscounts Strangford, Canterbury, Hawarden, and Canning; the Lord Chancellor, Lords Wharncliffe, Colchester, Redesdale, Abinger, De Ros, and Forester. Lord Stanley was obliged to send an excuse for his ab sence, his Lordship labouring under an attack of gout. Covers were laid for upwards of forty guests. The Queen's Speech to be delivered to-day was read to the company by the Noble and Gallant Duke, previous to the party separating. The Right Hon. Sir R. Peel, Bart., gave the customary full-dress Parliamentary dinner last evening at the family mansion in Whitehall-gardens, when a distinguished party of the supporters of the Government assembled. At the removal of the cloth, her Majesty's Speech, to be delivered by the Sovereign at the opening of Parliament to-day, was read to the guests by the Right Honourable Baronet. In addition to the Hon. F. Charteris and Mr. T. Baring, the mover and seconder of the Address, the Right Hon. the Speaker of the House of Commons, and the following Members of that branch of the Legislature were present;---The Right Hen. Sir J. Graham, the Right Hon. the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Lord G. Somerset, the Earl of Lincoln, the Hon. S. Herbert, the Right Hon. Sir T. Fremantle, Sir G. Clerk, Mr. Young, Mr. 11. Baring, Mr. Milnes Gaskell, Mr. Pringle, the Hon. W. B. Baring, Mr. E. Tennent, the Hon. H. M. Sutton, the Hon. Henry Corry, Admiral sir. G. Cock burn, Rear-Admiral Bowles, the Hon. Captain Gordon, Mr. G. W. Hope, the Hon. C. Hope, the Hon. Lieut- Colonel D. Wainer, Earl Jermyn, Lord E. Bruce, Lieutenant-Colonel Peel, Captain Boldero, Sir F. Trench, the Solicitor -General (Sir F. Thesiger), the Attorney- General for 7:eland, the Lord Advocate, the Judge Advocate-General, Mr. H. Greene, Viscount Jocelyn, and Mr. Cardwell. The whole of the noblemen and geuth men were attired in uniform or court dress. Lord C. 'Wellesley, the Attorney-General (Sir William Follett), Lord A. Lennox, and Capt. Meynell, were un avoidably prevented from dining with Sir R. Peel on this occasion. Lord John Russell, as leader of the Opposition party in the House of Commons, entertained the following party of his supporters last evening at his Lordship's private mansion in Chesham-place :—Viscount Palmer ston, Viscount Howick, the Right lion. Sir John Cam liobhouse, Lord Marcus Hill, the Right lion. T. B. Ma caulay, the Right lion.' Sir George Grey, Sir Thomas Wilde, Col. Fox, the Right Hon. Richlor Shun, the Right Hon. G eorge Stevens Mr. Vernon Smith, Mr. Parker, Mr. Bernard, Mr; s Ciln.rlc.',3 Mr. B. Hawes, Mr. C. Buller, Air. Wyse, 4e, Covers wee laid for 22, I • ....__ --------- MONEY MARKET and CITY pi E CV s CI TY, QUARTER TO THREE. There was a very fair demand for Cotton at tiverpool yesterday, but holders met it freely Sales 7,000 bales, of which 1,000 American Were on speculation.—There Wits a good market for Shares, and a large business was done:—Birmingham and Derby, at steady rates. 130 211; Bristol and Gloucester 54 7i; Caledoniav, 7 4 li; Chester and Birkenhead, 381 7 1 2 ; Churnet,Valley., 94' 10; Eastern Counties, 19i 18-4; Edinbui gh and Glasgoa I 65; Grand Junction, 224; Great Western, Balt; 10_4: ; Ditto, One-fitth, 41: Lancaster and Carlisle, 2Di i Lancaster and Preston, 53 ; Liverpool and Muchester, New, 291 29; London and York, 5 1 1 6 ; Dirct Northern, 38 '1 ; London and Birmingham, Quarter Shares' Manchester and Birmingham, Quarter Shares, 81_; Manchester and Leeds, 1451 ; Ditto, Quarter Sbn,ref' 15; Midland Counties, 1291 Ditto, 40/. Shares, 9 1 4 1 seetfield an . North British, 11 12; Noril Union, 151; _Manchester, 1031 - 5 ; Shrewsbury and Grand Joo, N o. 1,22 23 t % di i ; South-Eastern, 49A- 51/ ; Ditto, Trent Valley, 10-A- 111 ; fork and North Midland, 0 d Northern of France, 5,-1- 5/, ;16s. 3d. ; I3oulogne an Amiens, 5. r the The mercantile and other principal interests 0. the City are most anxiously looking for the result ofd the proceedings in the Lgislature this afternoon, an mea ns debates on the lnldress, as it is considered by . no ,_,, t improbable that something may escape to ingicate what are really the intentions of the Alinisters on the subJe"' of a further ameliorative alteration 4 the tariff. i re „ That present trading season opens exceed quires but proper discretion and fostering to be the ingly prosperous, the following , quotation fron , v,ll monthly report of Messrs. Wilkinson and Jewesbur) ; ter' well, a nd go far to prove, though the New York paragraph -5 tainly a drawback :- have been "The business transactions of the past mouth f the more extensive than at any former begieni n ,g, ,°„ Coe year ; more than 300 public sales have been 1 10 i" art lonial and Foreign products, and by far the greate,r P,s actually sold. From the manufacturing districovavils accounts continue favourable, and great activity' i I woo sales, consisting, in almost every branch of industry. The Colonist ,s_ last, at the Hall of Commerce, and so far have °IWO of 15,000 htv.s, commenced on Thuile(' u k with a degree of spirit seldom witnessed, advancerealising on t 2d. to 21d., and in some inz,tances 3d. per lb. s i s so he previous sales, and the attendance of buyer,,,tie. great, that any of the old sale-rooms would Y e lu" quate for little more than half the number. hu e been " Letters from New York, to the 14th ult., ter° e to ece e ived, stating, the trade in European Iliarene of which scarcityof money, caused by the bl, - ery dull, and prices ruinously low, in coniegc•,,,eie; mount s ' dieg five. since the beginning of Oct. last a . 3te n million dollars. This shows that, not" , „.,, ei icao the extensive shipments of cotton and other •t,,,siest the exportation .17aboye them to Europe, the balance of trade has beenr! t ot ; and will, for a time, rencier shipments v.' countr extremely hazardous." t se the The public securities have to-day been quie , opening of jobbers seldom operate on the morning of the e pre- Parliament. Consols have been 99i t° 10 0 1 ' o sent transfer, and 1001 i for account ; Tow and-a-Quarter per Cents. .., er C Ect. Spanish Active Stock is 28f, i, t Thre e 1 1 3.1e een 414 i, Portuguese Converted 591 to 581, and 36 to 361. Railway Shares are buoyant. 'CIPC/C. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE 0 (From the Official List.) ii 4 e1.5 1 /i Bank Stock ........ - - . . ....... 215 21 4- ith 3 per Cent. Reduced ........... ............ 100'05 3 per Cent. Consols Anns ......... ......... 100/s 3 per Cent. Annuities, 1726 ...... 1 0 4 10 4 New 3'4 per Cent. Annuties ........... 1 i" . 3_16 12 Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan. 1860... Do. 30 Years, Expire Oct. 10,1859•• 12, Ditto 30Years,Expire Jan.lB6o ...... 11,g --- lIII I * India Bonds 1,000l....•••••••'... .:.. 75 P lO Ditto under 1 000/ ................. l/.............. 116,4 South Sea Stock .. ' .... Ditto Old Annuities'.... .................. 1001, Bank Stock fer Account - . ...... ........... 214i/e.l/2 Consols for Account ........ 10° ...................... ,_. India Stock for Account .................. '.40-1 Exchequer Bills; 13/4d. • i.id. • . 62 84 V a. 1,0001. 5001. Ditto Small — ... 01 ' . • 62 64 p ..... 01. Ditto Advertised -- -- ..... O N -891' o'CLO O5‘ PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT 0-- 89 1 ' Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent ..••••"" i9ock Ditto for the Account ............ 141 Columbian Bonds. ..................... 36 Mexican Bonds, 18 37, 5 per Cot. 36 3 6 1* Ditto for the Account. 30 i ;pi. .. ........ .. 10 ..e1 .. Ditto Debentures ................ Peruvian Bonds, 6 per Cent ...... ......-/ Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent ...... "-. 58 5 / 1 Ditto Converted .................... „th Dino for the Account. ...Gent ... . 0 ,W 3 7 Russian Bonds, 1822, 5 per Cent... l'a 5 Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent., 184 ' 9 ' . Oki Ditto for the Account ............... ' Ditto Passive Bonds ............... ~111 A Ditto 3 per Cent... .................. 441'0/41r,1 Ditto for the Account .. ••••• 41 1 Venezuela Bonds, 2 per Cent ...... 631 63 - Dutch 2% per Cents ....... . _.. ....... .• 9 6 4 Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates .• g 9, Ditto 5 per Cents .................... ' I,OC S ' PRICE OF SHARES AT ONE O'C- WO" PEI , 1;3 0 RAILWAYS. PAID. tO / Birmingham and Gloucester 130 132,!...• 7, 4 100 ...... ...... to „ 9 Dittc, 110' Shares to , „„„,„ 3 ...... w o ... Bristol and Exeter to Ditto, New 5 3 /4 .... to 57 14 2 ...... 571/4 8, 1 Bristol and Gloucester 3O ...... 62 1 -$ to i, ... e es Caledonian p Cambridge and Lincoln Chaster and Holyhead . 5 7 ' ...... t° 9 Churnet Valley y 2 ...... 104 9A„ to Cornwall Pirect Northern Eastefn Counties Ely and Bedford - Great South and • 11 3 / 4 ••• -• to -"-•" an W. (Irish) l O5 ...... , , .. Great North of England 100 ..... -- .... to ..a ....... le, Ditto New 2 ..... 1 3 •. to Great Western Ditto Fifths Harwich 1 ...... 24 ...... to .... _ Hull and Selby 5 Ol 17 3 /• --Q, to r",i, Ditto Quarter Shares .. 12% . 1 7 7 4 ...... to eg g ......... ... Lancaster and Carlisle... l5 .... .2 8 ... to . London and Birmingham lOO .... : . 23 8 ..... to i Ditto, New Thirds . ..... 2 ..... 431 4 ... 'f; to' "5 5 London and Blackwell 16% .... .. 7 , f i , to ~,e London and Brighton 5O .. • ..... "" to 1 ' London and South Western 41%..... 80 1 / 4 ..... to '' DittoNewColisolidatedBths 6 8 .. . 26, i..li to •"" Ditto, New 2%.. .. .. 13%) 9 A 1 ; to ' - '0,,,i4 London and Croydon London and York._ ........ 4" . " 5 3 / ........ 1- ..... Mancheste r and Leeds Ditto Half Shares .... 30 .6 1 ...... to .... Manchester and Birmingham 40 ...... -- .. . to --- Ditto Quarters ..... Midland 100 ...... 130 ...... to 9 1 4'" •• to " th. --- Ditto New 2 ....... „,6 to 5 Midland, Birm. and Derby —lOO ..... ,;(:) ...... to i Newcastle &Darlingt . on June. 24 ••••• .. 15 1 / 2 ••*" . tO ....' Newcastle and Berwick - North British - ...... to .......' Northern and Eastern 3O ...... 46 • ... to 111 Ditto Scrip Norwich and Brandon 8 •••••' 3r •• ''' to ' Ditto New Shares 1 .....• 2 4 . .... to 6 1 04 I/ 7 Oxford and Worcester 2% ...... 06lri to . 5 I Rugby ••• I ...... 6 1 04 14 to ' 1 Shrews.,Wolver., Dud., Birm. 2% ...... 16 •"'' to 00 - ' South Devon lOl ..... : 5c%•'".• to sli South Eastern and. Dover Ditto New, No. 2 South Wales Trent Valley 2 ..... 2 / 4 •••••• to' . Waterford and Kilkenny 1 ....... l og ~•,•''. to "...- York and North Midland Ditto Scarboro' Branch Ditto Selby Scrip 2O ..... 1 3 3i...••• Ditto, Extension Boulogne and Am F i ß en E s Great Northern of France N ... C .. H .. ....... ..... ................• .6 to 5 to Orleans and Bordeaux ... .. 2 ...... 3 / `,..••• to --- Paris and Strasburg... 2 •••••• 2 ...... Tours and Nantes • 1 ...... ./ 0 MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, fsl3.ihoill's l'idilocrib' continue to have a large business doing ° I 1 45; 0 chaster in prices. Manchester and Leedsh'esters'if• ; r and j Birmingham, Quarters,lB/ ; Igal3c-0 e % „-- o th and Rossendale, 10 ; Midland, Consols, 13 „o; c ' et vi, Ditto, 401. Shares, 91;___ Preston and WYre9:zipotsa 't Eastern mmeie t 49i; Ditto, Scrip, Si I.preni; . - 13 10 1 ' . ;:ia s er, and Cheshire Junction, 71; i vi ll 0 10, Burnley, L. and Accrington 5i :-k 1301t091 A I,in.„ iverpool, 5 i; Caledonia', 7; darabridgeosal3"..mto,fl:ll`6; 4 1 5; Churnet Valley, 10n91: Gla;goW O .- 1° y ; fiu l dersfield and Manchester Railway to' i ° P. 1*• Great Grimsby and Sheffield Junctini, 61 0 01, o , Leeds and West Riding Junction, 7i; 1 - 4 .,, iver res ° t erf.Lc: kirk, and Preston, 2 9-16; London and 11° `'s 6; ice kirk, ford and Rugby, 41 *; London and York , 54 oldi bl' i Chester and Buxton, 3i; Sheffield an d Tijue I re° Junction, 11 13 16; Southport and Eux 'NO 3; Valley, 11i 1; West Yorkshire, 21. sixty-five, t . 3 1 , 1: . fio vne akley, u i I : I na, edta yittees3,' inflicted3woho when pital,SA SAGACITY AND FIDELITY OT A Pc)6".7-cl-9 -6 m..p. 'f e e s : fer e , held an inquest at the SPA , A,.,, the entranceivinthe body of W. Chadd, a farm.-aboure:9oo, , who was found by a dog, vrith Hendon Wood. tea t hat et was de W. Smith, a farmer's bop she was ',let...ea his master's hogs into the Wo d, I apps his thr't a s he frantic of the wood by deceased's dog. whic h d e g's a id and barked furiously Terrified by the oto pearance, he returned towards' his master's farnl9 t! a bio a man of the occurrence. The man eee°l°P3dlllealling against a i a t s h t e a tree, with w hheirse throatthey ofnot,undanddehcejaasfekairilihveos, dog stretched on on his side. Near the spot were WO as insesito wound 0 ght to h° tli ande open and the other closed. Deceased, ich°.°l_ ial. Jr , speechless, was conveyed in a cart to the nrgessea ,v a uwn r o o tti ci u ° To_ seei nhshouisrspgitetoirlo,aaatdepfaorsedhaothaaat sthoeve.arae_hea. few •• (1 was superficial, and dewcietashead:iefnetoornilAeea;2leicii°olre3 the brain. During , died (s APPeg ral' t '" post modem, examination) of a softening ' nofhjeanhbuiesagrNayin, wtohosninnke, rd rdad,u;i:rgeda,:po::i, len, and although able, would seti;r " Death from a disease of the brain. 5 14 ting t. con - -hole Illness asll:eiysepieaekeedio.creYrdict, WooLyncH, FE8..... A detacintleri9, _ ~f tile of fifoien rank and file. an I one bugler. Royal Sappers and M. ' ' dat Woolie/!, 11.1,, gr, It:kers, stat:one • this mornin9 9- Wool headed by the brass band of the corps, • eo f t 0 be Eoff's w harf, and proceeded to Blackwall In on harlc et t wick steam- ack t will en) d fre ip steam-packets. The • detacbmen i•._ . r East IndiaD P Wam 9-'''' t he vs e ocks this afternoon, in the 1 ' to Wed doWn ship for II 9 • ongKong, and she will be . immed* t l volunteer_remed, la e y, to sail for her destination. tile tea ell, of The new Conserieative Clu-holleet eTecio-t 6‘.l`` . sitt.e Jan the , late Thatcbc,l-11o:ce TawerVti plo't.°ooreilloro 42-P monci ay eq s-street, will be opened , Yi l - • next) the 10th h e st. -