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the strength and protection of its worst errors. It was not merely a question of the amount of good which was to be done by retaining the Bible in its proper place in the education of the poor—though it would have been painful to give up this means of doing so much good to the Roman Catholic children, to whom (commended as they are in so many ways to their sympathies) the clergy, in general, have the power of doing so little; but there was still a graver question of the amount of evil which would result from the change, and the part which the clergy were to take in effecting it. The principle of the sufficiency of the Holy Scriptures,' as it is main tained by our Church, is a fundamental principle of the most momentous importance. It is by means of it that truth has been guarded and handed down to us by those who have gone before us. And it is by means of it we are to preserve this deposit of truth, and to defend and transmit it, pure and unmutilated, to those who are to come after us. While, on the other hand, it is by re jecting this principle that the Church of Rome is able to retain and to defend its errors, its superstitions, and its usurpations. It is well known that our Church exacts from all its ministers an express declaration of their belief of this great doctrine, and a solemn promise that they will regulate their ministrations in conformity with it. And the steady maintenance of it is still further bound upon our clergy, when they are, by God's Pro ►idence, placed in circumstances in which they have to carry on a continual contest for the truth—not merely for the deliverance of those who are in error, but for the preservation of those who are more immediately com mitted to their care—and in which it is plain that their prospect of success in either object depends altogether upon their adherence to this principle, and that when it is in any degree allowed to become obscure or doubtful, in the same degree the cause of truth is weakened, and that of error strengthened in the land. And they could not doubt that if they connected their schools with the national system, and thereby entered into a compact to dispossess the Bible of the place which it had hitherto occupied in them, they would be, in the eyes of the young and the old of both communions, practically ad mitting the false principles of the Church of Rome, and submitting to its tyranny, and abandoning the great prin ciple of their own Church, concerning the sufficiency and supremacy of God's Holy Word. " It would seem that the board,`,to which the manage ment of national education is committed, has not been insensible to the force of this grand and primary objec tion. It changed the offensive, but true ground, on which the exclusion of the Scriptures from its schools was originally placed, for another which was more spe cious and popular ; and parental authority was brought in to occupy the post at first assigned to the authority of the Church of Rome. Those who were acquainted with the state of the country knew that there was no real objection on the part of Roman Catholic parents, speak ing generally, to read the Bible themselves, or have it read to their children, but the contrary. And, in fact, when ecclesiastical authority was first exerted to put down scriptural education in the country, it had to en. counter very stubborn resistance from parental autho rity—a resistance whieh undoubtedly would have been successful, if it had been aided, as it ought to have been, by the St ate. But a renewal of this;struggle was not to be looked for. However true it be that Roman Ca tholics in general would prefer that their children were taught the Bible, this desire is seldom so enlightened or so strong as of itself to arouse them to a contest with the authorities of their Church. Under former systems they resisted the despotic power which forbad their children to read the Bible, chiefly because their submission to it would have involved the loss of an improved method of secular educa tion. But when, in consequence of the establishment of the National System no such loss could ensue, it was not to be expected that any considerable number would persist in opposing the mandates of the clergy, or that the latter would find any difficulty in constraining the parents, from whom they were able to withhold the Bible, to forbid the use of it to their children. This being the case, it must he felt that, under all the modi fications which have taken place in the rule, the matter remaiLed in substance and fact unaltered ; and that the parental authority which is put forth so prominently, is really the authority of the Church of Rome, exercised on and through the parents of their children. " It is still further to be considered, that parental authority, like civil and ecclesiastical, and all other lawful authority, derives all its force from the authority of God ; and therefore can possess none, when it is exerted in opposition to the Divine authority on which it rests. And although a child, who, from tender years or false training, is unable to see clearly the opposition which may exist between his parent's will and the will of God, or to apprehend its effect in releasing him from the duty of submission, is not to be instructed or encouraged to resist the authority of his parent, even when it is unlawfully exerted ; yet that parent has no right to require others, who clearly perceive this opposition, and understand its effects, to be his instruments in enforcing an unlawful exercise of his authorily over his child ; and others have no warrant to become his instruments in such a case. The distinction is obvious. Our clergy wfluld, and ought to abstain from any direct efforts to excite resistance, or even to en courage it on the part of a child, until they had good grounds for regarding that resistance as intelligent and conscientious. But they could not recognise such an exertion of parental authority, as if it were lawful, and lend their assistance in enforcing it. So that, even if it were voluntarily exerted in forbidding the Bible to be read, our clergy could not consent to bind themselves to aid in giving effect to such an unlawful command. But when they regard the parent as himself in bondage to the usurped authority of the Church of Rome, and as not exercising his own free will, but obeying as a pas sive agent, in binding the same yoke upon his children, the duty of refusing to co-operate with him is clearer. The clergy - may be able to do but little towards delivering their Roman Catholic country men from such bondage, but they can at least keep themselves free from th guilt of becoming instruments in rivetting its chains upon them ; and this, accordingly, they resolved to do . in which resolution—as in all that they have done in this matter—they had the full con currence and support of the lay members of the Church. " The exclusive appropriation of the Parliamentary rants for education having left the Church destitute of its accustomed aids for the instruction of the children of the poor, the clergy and laity, to supply the want which had been thus created, united in forming the Church Education Society for Ireland. The immediate and chief object of this Society is to afford the means of re ligious education to the poorer children of our own com munion. But an earneat desire being felt to extend the benefits of the ;schools to other communions also, not only is the freest access given to all, but everything is done which can be done consistently with principle, to take away every hindrance to their availing themselves of the advantages which they afford. While the reading of the Bible forms a portion of the business of the schools, in which all children, when qualified, are ex pected to take a part, the formularies of the Church are required to be learned by none except the children of its own members. And although the attendance of Roman Catholic children at the schools of the Church Educa tion Society fluctuates considerably, as ecclesiastical authority is more or less actively exerted to restrain it ; yet on the whole there appears no room to doubt that united e a.ucation has been effected in a much higher de gree in tt e schools of this Society than in th ,se of the National Board. " The very limited resources of the Society, however, being inadequate to the full attainment of its objects, diocesan and other petitions were presented to Parlia ment, praying for such a revision of the question of education in this country, as might allow the Established Church to share in the funds appropriated to the educa tion of the poor. These petitions having been unsuc cessful, the operations and wants of the Church Educa tion Society were is the same way brought before the Legislature, with the view of obtaining a separate grant for the maintenance of its schools. And afterwards, an application was made to the Government, soliciting that the Irish part of the United Church might be allowed to participate with the English in the grant of money from which the latter annually draws support for a system of education in conformity with its own principles. These appeals have been hitherto unsuccessful, but we cannot bring ouselves to think it possible that the striking in equality of the measure which has been dealt towards the Established Church of this country in the important concern of education, and the great hardship of the posi tion in which it has been thereby placed, can fail ulti mately to attract towards it such fair consideration as may procure for it due sympathy and redress. We, on the contrary, entertain a confident hope that, whatever be the hindrances which have hitherto obstructed that fair consideration, they are but temporary, and that they will pass away, leaving the Government free to afford the assistance which is greatly needed by the Church Education Society, and to which its objects and its cir cumstances give it so strong a claim. " To all, then, who are interested in the maintenanc e and extension of the schools of the Church Education Society, we recommend steady perseverance, and the employment of all suitable effimts to bring its case calmly and effectively before the public. And we cannot believe that our brethren in the faith in England will look on with apathy, while the Church in this country, faithful to its high office as a witness and a keeper of Holy ,Writ,' is struggling, unaided, to di sc h arg e its most pres sing duties, first to the children more immediately com mitted to it s care , an d t h en to a ll w h om G o d h as p l ace d within the sphere of its influence. But this will be as God pleases. Let it be the aim of those who are en gaged in this sacred cause, by His help to do His will, leaving the issue of their labours—the time and measure of their success —altogether to His wisdom. And let us not be weary in well-doing, for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.' " JOHN G. ARMAGH. " CHARLES KILDARE. " ROBERT P. CLOGHER. " J. KILMORE, &c. • RD. DOWN and CONNOR and DROMORE. " S. CORK and CLOYNE. " LUDLOW KILLALOE and CLONFERT. " J. T. OSSORY and FERNS. " ROBERT CASHEL, &c. " January, 1845." The following prelates have withheld their signatures from the protest :—The Archbishop of Dublin. the Bishops of Meath, Tuam, Limerick, and Derry. REPEAL.—THE EIGHTY-TWO CLUB. The Freeman's Journal contains the following:—" It is no slight evidence of the approaching maturity of a party, to find the principles of that party commingling themselves with the social re-unions of the elite of its members ; but what will those who have chanted the dirge of Irish nationality say, when we tell them that 1 over one hundred gentlemen —some men of rank and property, all men of social position and refined and cul tirated tastes, many of them not members of the Repeal Association—have, under the title of The 'B2 Club,' 1 a title hallowed by the most glorious associations, adopted I as their charter toast The Legislative Independence of Ireland;' as their costume, the national green ; and pro mulgate, as their profession of faith, That . the object o f the Club is to facilitate the repeal of the mum], to secure THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY MORNING I -' JANUARY 14 1845. the establishment of the legislative independence of Ire land, and, as a means for the attainment of these ends, to encourage Irish manufactures, art, and literature, and to diffuse through society a national fealing.' The Nation says, on this subject, " It may seem a little thing that one or two hundred gentlemen have bjoined in a club to dine together a few times in the year; ut when we say that these are the chosen men of the national party, proved by their unmistaken charter toast —‘ Legislative Independence'—tested by a strict ballot, and found possessed of honour, education, and patriotism —when we say that their festive days will be the anni versaries of such events as the Dungannon meeting and the Declaration of 1782—that they are to assemble in uniform, with the ceremony of men conscious of their position—when we add that their influence will be used to make theatre and ball-room, concert, and lec ture, and library, minister to the cause of Ireland—then this dinner club grows into a social league of political chieftains, to exhibit and increase the passions and powers of its members—to occupy every avenue of the public mind with the sentiments of freedom, and enlist the taste and the honour of the country in the cause of nationality. This, then, is a new citadel, garrisoned fur Ireland. It was a project during that period of seem ing rest. It is now established and complete—its laws made (few and to the purpose)—its committee chosen (thoughtful, honourable men), and its influence already cheering and uniting us. " We need not detail its arrangements—enough — O'Connell is its President, Smith O'Brien, Lord Ffrench, Cornelius M'Loughlin, Henry Grattan, and Edmond Roche, its Vice-Presidents, and on its committee are the chiefs of our municipalities, the heads of the popu lar press, the best of the repeal bar and the repeal mem bers—the rank and the intellect of the party." Now ready, in 3 vols., post Svo., with numerous Illustrations by - . Leech. The FORTUNES of T HE SCATTERGOOD FAMILY. By ALBERT SMITH, Esq., Author of " The Adventures of Mr. Ledbury," " The Wimaitll Bowl," 14c. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. To be had at all the Libraries. MR. MILTON'S NEW NOVEL. Now ready, at all the Libraries, in 3 vols., L ADY CECILIA FARRENCOURT. A NOVEL. By HENRY MILTON, Esq. Author of " Rivalry." " She is a woman, therefore may be weo'd ; She is a woman, therefore may be won."—Shakspeare. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. THIS EVENING Will be repeated a Grand Opera Saris, called THE DAUGHTER OF ST. MARK. Lusignano, Mr. Burdini ; Andrea Cornaro, Mr. Borrani ; Moncemgo, Mr. Weiss ; Adolphe de Courcy, Mr, W. Harrison ; catarina Cornaro, Miss Poole. To conclude with a Grand Comic Christmas Harlequinsde, called PUCK'S PANTOMIME; or, HARLEQUIN AND ROBINSON CRUSOE. Robinson Crusoe. Mr. W 11. Payne; Harlequin, Mr. Wieland; Clown , Mr. T. Matthews; Pantaloon, Mr. Howell ; Columbine, Miss Carson. l'he Box-ottice is open aily, from Ten in the Morning until Six in the Evening, where Private and Family Boxes, Stalls, Places, nd Tickets may be had on application to Mr. John Parsons THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Lessee, Mr. B. WEBSTER. THIS EVENING . Will he performrd a New and Original Comedy, in Five Acts, called OLD HEADS AND YOUNG HEARTS. Colonel Rocket Mr. S. rickland ; Littleton Coke, Mr. Charles Mathe , . s ; Tom Coke Mr. Webster; Bob, Mr Buckstone; Jesse Rural, Mr. W. Farren ; fhe Countess of Mrs. W. Clifford; Lady Alice Hawthorn, Madame Vestris ; Miss Rocket. Miss Julia tennett. After which, a New Grand Musical Fairy Extravaganza, entitled GRACIOSA AND PERCINET. King Uxorious. Mr. J. Bland ; Princess Grazicsa, Miss Julia Bennett ; Percinet, Miss P. Horton ; Duchess Grognon, Mrs. Stanley. To conclude with a Grand MOVING DIORAMA; or, PIC. IGRIAL TOUR IN SWITZERLAND. Private Boxes, Two Guineas and One Guinea and &Half each. Pickets and Places to be had of Mr. I. T. Ar cher, at the Box.office, !'r - im Ten till Five o'Clock. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. Under the Direction of Madame CELESTE. THIS EVENING Will be repeated (by special permission of Charles Dickens, Esq.) a New Drama, entitled THE CHIMES. A Goblin Story of Some Bells that Rang an Old Year Out and a New Year In, Toby Veck, Mr. 0. Smith; Alderman Cute, Mr. Wright; Tugby, Mr. Wilkin. son ; Sir Joseph Rowley, Bart , Mr. Paul Bedford ; Will Fern, Mr. Hudson; Richard, Mr. Selby ; Meggy Veck, Miss Fortescue ; Mrs. Chickenstalkcr, Mrs. Frank slarthews. After which, NORMA, in which Miss Woolgar, Mr. Paul Bed ford, Mr. Wright, and Miss Reynolds will perform. I'o conclude with a New Grand Military and Comic Uhristmas Pantomime, called CAT'S CASTLE; or, Harlequin and the Ki,g of the Rats. Harlequin, Mr. T Ireland; Columbine, Miss Lons dale ; Clown. Mr. C. J. Smith ; Pantaloon, Mr. Sanders. Prompter, Mr. Gallot ; Principal Painter, sir Pitt; Leader of the Band, Mr. Mellon.—Box-ortice open from Eleven till Four. Private Bozos 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 ce'ebrated Opera Buffa, in Two Acts, called I'HE ITALIAN IN ALGIERS. Ihe Music by Rossini. Mustapha, Mr. P. Corfi ; Lindor, Mr. Allen; 'Fadden, Mr. Leffler; Haly, Mr. Mattacks ; Isabella, Mdlle. Helen Condell ; Elvira, Miss Grant; Zulma, Miss Brentnall. To be succeeded by a New Comedietta, entitled THE WIDOW BEWITCHED. Mr. Clement Furnival, Mr. Walter Lacy; Mrs. Lorimer, Mrs. Stirling After which will be repeated a New Grand Romantic, and rather Operatic Burlesque Extravagmza, called JOE MILLER AND HIS MEN. Grindoff, Mr. Compton ; Lothair, Mr. Oxberry ; Kelmar, Mr. Granby; Riber, Mr. Corri , Golotz, Mr. Walton; Claudine, Miss E. Stanley; Ravine, Mrs. Fosbroke. Stage Manager, Mr. H. I. Wallack. Stage Director, Mr. Emden, Machinist, Mr. Edmund Bradwell. Dress Circle, ss. ; Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 25.; Galls Is. Half-price at Nine o'clock—Dress Circle,2s. 6d. ; Boxes, 2s. ; Pit, Is.; Gallery, 6d. Private Boxes, Two Guineas and One Guinea and a-Half ; Prows_ alum Boxes, Two Guineas and a-HalE Doors to be opened at Half_ past Six, and the Performances to commence at Seven o'clock. The Box-ottice, under the direction of Mr. W. Massingham. Private Boxes and Free Admissions for the Season to be had at the Theatre. HEATRE ROYAL LYCEUM, LATE ENGLISH OPERA. HOUSE. Under the Management of Mrs. KEELEY. THIS EVENING Will be repeated THE CHIMES; A Goblin Story. Principal Characters by Messrs. F. Vining Meadows, Diddear, F. Matthews, Collier, Emery, Turner, and Keeley ; Miss Walcott, Miss Arden, Miss Grove, and t lrs. Keeley. Atter which, a New Farce, called TO PERSONS ABOUT TO MARR Y. Supported by Messrs. F. Matthews, Meadows, and Stoker, Miss Arden, and Mrs. Wigan. To conclude with a New Grand Operatic, Historic tl , Romantic Pantomimical, Burlesque Extravaganza, entitled VALENTINE AND ORSON. Principal Characters by Messrs. F. Matthews; Meadows, Wigan, Collier, Turner, Kinloch, Yatnold, and Keeley , Mrs. Wigan, Miss Arden, Miss Fairbrother, Miss Grove, Mrs Usher, Miss James, Miss Turner, and Mrs. Keeley. PRICES OF ADMISSION.—BaIcony tioxes. 45.; Upper Boxes, 35.; Pit, 25.; Gallery, 6d. Second Price—Balcony Boxes, 2.. ; Upper Boxes, Is. 6d.; Pit, Is. Private Boxes on the Balcony Tier holding eight persons), Two Guineas. Private Boxes on the Second Der (holding eight persons), One Guinea and a-Half. Private Boxes on the Pit 'ler (holding six persons), One Guinea. The Box-efticei s open from Ten to Four o'Clock, under the dim tien of Mr. Grogan, late of Covent-garden Theatre. Nightly Overflows tl the Grand Christmas Holiday Novelties, and Treble Rotation of Elite;tainments at ASTLEY'S ROY AL AMPHITHEATRE OF ARTS, Proprietor and Manager, Mr. W BATTY. Brilliant Success of the New Pantomime. THIS EVENING Will be repeated a New Spectacle, entitled THE ROYAL FOX HUNT; or, The Race-Hone and Life's Course of Man and Steed ; introducing unequalled National Fetes. Real Fnx.chase on the Stage and in the Circle by living Fos and real Pack of Hounds, purchased by 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. manship. To conclude with a Grand Comic Christmas Equestrian Pantomime, lied HARLEQUIN AND JOHNNY GILPIN'S RIDE; or, the Black 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-manager, Mr. W. D. Broadfoot. Box-office open from Eleven till Five. Leuona in the Art of Riding by Mr. R. Smith daily. DAVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. As usual, the best Pantomime of the Season t A more brilliant triumph than ever before achieved f ! Laughter, Wonder, and Delight!: I The Fiist Pantomimic Performers of the Age, and Everything New !II! THIS EVENIN 4 Will b. repeated THE SEVEN AGES OF MAN; or, The End of Crime. Principal Characters by Mr. Henry Corrl (from the Theatre Royal Edinburgh), Mews. H Hughes, Neville, R Horner, Lewis, Heslop, and Seaman, Mrs. R. Honner, Mrs. Lewis, Mts. W. Daly, and Miss Martin. To be fol owed by THE WET NURSE. Supported by Me.srs. Neville, W. Smith, and Lewis, Miss Martin, &c. To conclude with an Original Worldly Comic Pantomime, called POUNDS, -HILLINGS, AND PENCE; or, HARLEQUIN L. S. D. Harlequin, Mr. H. Harvey; Clown, Mr. T. Ridgway; Pantaloon, Mr. Henry Corti; Columbine, Miss Slaiter. Places and Private Boxes to be had of Mr. Kerschner, at the Box. office, from Eleven to Four. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE Extraordinary Success of " Marianne: or, The Child of Charity," and the New Comic Pantomime. Will be re THIS EVENING MARIANNE; or. the Child Charity. ported by bv Mr peated . o, baldiston, Henry Howard, J. T of Johnson, T. H. Higgie, J. Herbert, E. Jones, W. Searle, Miss Vincent, Miss E. Terrey, and Miss Treble. After which, an Original Extravaganza, entitled THE PALACE OF GENEVA. Characters by Messrs. Herbert and J. T. John son, Miss E. Terry, and miss Treble. To conclude with a New Grand Christmas Pantomime, entitled HARLEQUIN HOT CODLINS ; or, The Little Old Woman and the Demon of the Metal Mine. Harlequin, M. Chapiuo ; Clown, Mr. Blanchard; Pantaloon, Mr. Coney; Columbine, Mdlle. Vite. THE WEATHER—SUN OFFICE, JAN. 13. THERMOMETER, Lowest, 36 ; Highest, 46 ; Noon, 47. BAROMETER, 29.65.-WIND, E. MITE.—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 generally placed opposite to 30, and " Rain" at 29; but there is no certainty of dry weather when the mercury falls below 30. HIGH WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY. Morning ... 57 minutes after S 1 Evening... if minutes after I. 4 - • . 4 v . '<• zi-, - 44 - .7. 25 , , v kNt .' , - .;77.- . ,op /• ....„ „pi aci, 4 ,. j ... .4el . — "‘ II 4IO.OIPMS ,.. 4R 7 V"" - '=-' - , ~,, .21... , 4 .. ..,,:, 01 look r ."-- ~~' ~~3r~3T 4 :<'~;ll3t, LONDON, TUESDAY, JANUARY 14, 1845. An important letter from Dr. CNOLLY, the Catholic Archbishop of Armagh, to Mr. O'CONNELL will be found in another part of The Sun of this day. It seems that some short time ago the Hon. and Learned Member for Kilkenny publicly asserted that a docu ment sent from the Propaganda of Rome to Dr. CROLLT, on the subject of a system of popular agita tion that had been carried on in Ireland by certain Catholic ecclesiastics, was not canonical. In answer to this assertion of Mr. O'CONNELL, the Most Rev. Doctor expressly states, " allow me to assure you that in the year 1839 I received from the Cardinal Prefect of the Propaganda a communication in which I was directed to admo nish some political ecclesiastics who had made at public meetings such violent speeches as were not i congenial to the mild spirit of their sacred ministry. In obedience to the injunction of the Holy See, I en deavoured to reclaim these misguided clergymen, but as my fraternal admonitions did not produce the de sired effect, his HOLINESS directed the Sacred Congre gation to send me another letter on the same subject, in order that I should more efficaciously admonish such priests or prelates as I might find taking a prominent and imprudent part in political proceedings. I considered it my duty to lay this docu ment before the assembled prelates at our last general meeting in Dublin, who not only acknowledged it to be authentic and canonical, but to be a document of such importance that they entered it on their minutes, and unanimously resolved that they would regulate their conduct according to its injunctions, and use their influence with the clergy in their respective dioceses, and prevail on them to follow its salutary instructions." This letter of Dr. CROLLY to Mr. O'CONNELL is, at the present crisis, a most important one, and cannot fail to produce immediate results of moment in Ireland. It is a direct and by no means a sparing rebuke of all those Catholic bishops and priests who distin guished themselves a few years since by the prominent part which they took in the agitation for a repeal of the union, when that question interested the Irish masses more deeply than appears to be the case at present. They are here assured through the medium of the Propaganda, that the turbulent game which they then played, was " imprudent," and " not con genial to the mild spirit of their sacred ministry ;" and they are emphatically warned by the `` Sacred Congregation," by the express com mand of his Holiness the Pore, to desist from such agitation for the future. in order to render this rebuke more effectual, the Catholic pre lates at their last general meeting in Dublin unani mously resolved that they would use their influence with the clergy in their respective dioceses to prevail on them to forego all further agitation. Here, then, is a strong blow levelled at the repeal crotchet,—the most severe, in fact, that that measure has vet sustained. Of course the majority of the Irish Catholic ecclesiastics will take the emphatic warn ing sent them express from Rome, and thus we shall have a vast amount of moral force withdrawn from the side of repeal. Hitherto, the priests have been among the most prominent and successful agitators of that crazy measure, but hence forth they will perforce retire into the hack-ground, and Mr. O ' CONNELL and the Repeal Association will be left "alone in their glory." It is evident from circumstances that have recently transpired, that the unity of action which has so long existed among the Irish Catholics is well nigh gone, and that the more intelligent among the upper and middle classes of that party are about to separate altogether from the more democratic and inflammable members. When once this separation is fully accomplished—and events are hastening it—Mr. O'CoNNELL's influence over his countrymen will be diminished to no incon siderable extent; and as fur repeal, the chances of its success will be ten times more remote than ever. We are not sorry for this ; for the agitation of such an impracticable question for so many years succes sively, has done infinite mischief to Ireland, by un settling men's minds—keeping one party in a constant state of apprehension, and the other in as constant a state of fretfulness and exacerbation. If we recur, often, to the aspect of our relations with the United States and to British colonial ques tions, it is not only on account of our deep sense of their general importance, but because they are be coming, with every post, as it were, of more impres sive interest. We lately announced, on the authority ofadvices from New York, that " the Americans in the Oregon terri tory have formed themselves a government, elected executive and legislative officers, and established courts of justice." It is in this, or some such man ner, we have no doubt, that the "settlement" of the Oregon question will be precipitated ; and if it be, its results must tend, inevitably, either to dishonourable concessions on our part, or to a repression, of the most hostile character, of the attempts at Ame rican occupation of which these proceedings, if truly stated, are but the forerunners. The tardy di plomacy of the old Court of Spain, under the LERMAS and the D'OLIVEREZ', was surely not more halting in its progress, in the early part of the sixteenth cen tury, than that of our Foreign and Colonial De partments apparently is in the nineteenth century. Why has nothing been done in the shape of some distinct attempt to adjust this Oregon question, since it so largely occupied the public attention in the spring of last year ? Our Government, as we re marked a few days ago, seem to labour under a spe cies of mania for unsettled or open questions. Be they boundary line—right of search—construction of treaty —or territorial occupation disputes—the one great maxim in Downing-street seems to be, "Leave them all to take their chance. It will be time enough for us to go into the merits when the matters are forcibly pressed upon us for our immediate examination and defini tive settlement, either by a violent action from with out, or by the recorded opinions of Parliament from within." That does not seem to be a received axiom in our s 3 stem of diplomacy which is a practical truth in the working out of these affairs—namely, that this country, in nine cases out of ten, is a sufferer by its delay in meeting and closing questions of dis puted principles. Our reclamations are always too late. The aggressions of which we complain have always been abruptly, if not unexpectedly committed. Pretensions are set up against, say our national sove reignty over a certain district. We hold our title to be so good, that we seem to think it would be a stigma upon its legitimacy to defend it. America, France, or Russia, as the case may be, takes advan tage of this neglect, by making a second move in advance on the board, in the shape of some preposterous extension of the original pretension. America has done this, in more than one instance, with the avowed and bargain-driving purpose of leaving herself suffi cient margin, in the event of failing in her second, to carry her first set of demands. By the time the American Government have acted upon President TYLER'S significant suggestion of providing a chain of military forts to the Oregon territory for the re freshment and protection of emigrating citizens of the United States, ; we shall be beginning to put ourselves on the alert. It is notorious that the fur trade of that region, and the occupation of the hunt ing-grounds about the mouth of the Columbia River, are becoming of hourly augmented importance since our new and improved relations with the markets of China. Is it meant to abandon this lucrative peltry trade—(if the questions of possessory title and our national honour are really to go for nothing)—to the Americans, without an effort to accelerate the official machinery of Downing-street ? For our own parts, we confess with pain that both on this matter, and on that of the annexation of Texas, we regret profoundly to observe, in the House of Representatives, the pre valence among a majority of its Members of a spirit towards England which cannot be mistaken. This does not seem to be limited to simple hostility. There is a sustained effort to do things in the way which may be most offensive to the feelings and the dignity of the English nation. This is short-sighted policy, indeed, on the part of a somewhat over-shrewd and under-scrupulous political assembly. If they foment this spirit, until from the spark which is now discernible it kindle into a flame, the United States must inevitably be the real sufferers by the conflagra tion. We will not allude to a case of active hosti lities, though it is not gravely to be assumed that the most outrageous insanity of Tylerism would commit the States to such a suicidal trial of strength with Great Britain. But we will put the hypothesis of a reaction on American produce, trade, and society. Two articles of the intelligence we have so lately published have a bearing on this view of the matter, too illustrative to need much of commentary from us. One of these is from Brown's county, in Ohio; the other from the Cape of Good Hope. The one regards the terrible insecurity of all social order and institutions under Governments which tolerate negro slavery; the other demonstrates the precarious con tinuance of that staple trade to the United States, through which she at present derives so vast a pro portion of her commercial wealth and prosperity from Great Britain, that staple being raised by negro slaves. Both of the articles we advert to have this bearing in common ; they show that it is at any time in the power of this country to effect the reaction we speak of on American interests, whenever the dis position of the American Government or people to perpetrate such acts of territorial aggression and aggrandisement shall have developed itself in overt acts, the hostile tendency of which we shall find our selves no longer able to permit, or to overlook. In the course of the sanguinary affrays between some ruffians, slave-holders from Kentucky, and "negro hunters," as they designate themselves—and certain abolitionists, resident near George-town, in Brown's county, Ohio, human lives were sacrificed, houses burned and sacked, and the whole neighbouring dis trict thrown into commotion by atrocities worthy of the horrible campaigns of the "soldiers of the Church" against the Albiganses or the Vaudois. Slaves, it appears, following the first and most holy impulse of our common nature, were in the habit of escaping out of Kentucky into Canada and freedom, through the State of Ohio. Two well-known abo litionists dwelt on this border land, near George town. To their houses the "party of Kentuckian negro hunters" repaired to look for runaway slaves, and of these unfortunates discovered two in the resi dence of a Mr. MILLER. 'Whilst this man was gene rously aiding one of the slaves to get away, he was knocked down, and repeatedly stabbed by the Ken tucky people, and presently expired. The ruffians then proceeded to the other house, that of a Mr. KING, carrying with them the two slaves, bound. At KING'S, they were stoutly resisted by four or five armed men, who declared that the house should not be searched. In the fierce conflict that ensued, a son of a certain "Colonel" TOWERS, a Kentucky slave holder, was killed on the spot, and KING, whilst re loading the arms of his companions, was shot through the window and left for dead. The sheriff at length appeared, and took the " ringleaders" on either side into custody. But sheriffs and their posses are held as cheap, and are as utterly repudiated in the Slave States of the Union, as human liberty, negro life, or Pennsylvanian bonds. Another body of Kentuckians came up and recommenced the slaughter. " One of the slaves was hung without ceremony" for—hav ing resisted " Colonel" TOWERS, who had captured him, and therefore was one of the ruffians engaged in the first affair. The brave Kentucky hunters then entered the house of another obnoxious abolitionist, and beat him till his life was despaired of. The New York Sun makes these hideous outrages the ground, not of rebuke and denunciations of shame to their compatriots, but, forsooth, of absurd accusations and childish menace against England. Let us remark, in perfect calmness, that if the wise editors of these iournals will cast their eyes over the map of the Western hemisphere, and note the proximity of San Domingo to the Southern States of the Union, and consider the character and free condition of the com patriots of the " blacks " of San Domingo or Jamaica, and all the British West India Islands, they will find more substantial grounds for appre hension and alarm, as well as accusation and menace, in respect of and against their own unpardonable treachery to the cause of human liberty, and their own inexcusable blunder in the toleration within their own territory of negro slavery. But we fear that considerations founded on the rights of man—in the black variety—are lost upon a vast community of American citizens. Let us put one of another kind, calculated to appeal to their more active sympathies. Can they afford to lose their inordinate exports of raw cotton—of that slave grown staple—for the English market ? By a righteous dispensation, it seems as if England were destined soon to release slave-labour from its cultiva tion in one hemisphere, and to employ free black labour in its cultivation in another. We quote, with unfeigned satisfaction, from the City article of a Morning Contemporay, the following remarks on its last intelligence from the Cape of Good Hope : " We some time ago mentioned that some experi ments had been made in the cultivation of the cotton plant last year, which had produced rather promising results, and we now find that an associati , n has been formed for the parpose of continuing the experiments on an extended scale. Some districts in the new province of Natal are represented as offering every facility for the growth of the cotton plant, and it is a species of production in which the labour of the aboriginal tribes can be rendered available with advantage to themselves as well as to the colonists who may employ them. We have seen a letter to-day from an intelligent observer in the colony, who is exceed ingly sanguine on the subject, and who looks for ward to the extended cultivation of cotton as a most useful auxiliary for the civilisation of the natives, and, in time, for rendering the mother country less dependent on foreign supplies. There may be something too san guine in these anticipations ; but it ought to be recol lected that thirty years ago few persons would have be lieved that this country and the rest of Europe would have been dependent, to the extent they now are, on the production of this staple on the great plain of the Mississippi. It must be further borne in mind, that between Algoa Bay and Port Natal about 100 streams of varied capabilities discharge them selves into the ocean, which may yet be destined to pro duce as astonishing results as the development of the re sources of the Western and South-Western States of the North American Union. " But the modus operandi may be made as different as light is from darkness. In the one case the extension of the cultivation of the cotton plant has not only propa gated but refined upon the cruelty of domestic slavery ; whilst the other, under the guidance of the enlightened Government of Great Britain, may render it subservient to the civilisation of the African race in the south, and thereby, in time, penetrate to the stronghold of slavery in the centre of that continent." The Spanish Senate met on the 4th inst. to discuss the Bill for the suppression of the slave trade, when some opposition was made to it on the ground that England, the great leader in the movement, had pri vate interests in view, and desired to ruin the Spanish possessions in the Atlantic. The Minister for Foreign Affairs said the progress of the age required the ex tinction of the traffic, and the Bill could not be dero gatory to Spain, as similar conventions had been signed by other great powers. The principal clauses of the Bill were then adopted without any amend ment or modification. The Three per Cents. closed at 31i at 60 days ; the Five per Cents. at 23-1 at 60 days ; the Float ing Debt at 77 for cash ; the Coupons at 264 at 60 days; and the Debt without Interest at 7-4 at 60 days. We find no additional information in the Paris papers on the state of parties, or the crisis which has suddenly sprung up, threatening the existence of the GUIZoT Ministry. According to some reports the KING had an interview with M. GUIZOT on Wed nesday, and afterwards sent for Count MOLE. Their interview, it is said, related to a change of Ministry, and a programme of the new dramatis persons was presented by the ex-Minister to his MAJESTY, of whom the leading characters are MOLE, BILLAULT, PAsSY, and DUFAURE. What gives some air of probability to the report is the circumstance that THIERS' name is not mentioned. lie, of course, will lie by for a time. It would be rather too abrupt to yoke him and MOLE together at once, and a little time and a little coquetting for the purpose of saving appearances will therefore be necessary before the coalition can be completed. One thing, how ever, is certain : GUIZOT is in great danger, not from his enemies, but his friends; and, though he will at last, to a certainty, make a gallant stand, and sur pass his opponents, both in argument and eloquence, with the "chateau" against him, he can only die nobly. The Journal des Debats stands up for him manfully. It is, indeed, almost the only paper that he can depend on, and makes no secret of the fact that an intrigue is in operation, conducted by men who, in office, would maintain, to the full extent, his political principles. There is, also, a significant allusion to the real mover in this mysterious affair at the conclusion of the following extract from that j)urnal :—" What is the part the Opposition intends t take in the i n trigue that is to form the policy ab ou t to be enacted ? There is no idea of changing th e play of the Government, or even of modifying it in any serious degree. Better still ; the intrigue seems to have but one fear—that it should be suspected of being capable of not doing all that the present Mi nistry is doing. Listen to its programme. of only will it be Conservative, hut will be more so than M. GUIZOT himself; not only will it be pacific, but will, more effectually than M. GUIZoT can, insure peace partout et toujours. It would not have endea voured to trick England in the Pacific ocean in order to open new doors for our commerce. It takes little account of those two or three petty islands which M. GUIZOT has had the imprudence to place under the protectorate of France. It accepts not from the Chambers the mission of modifying the treaties on the right of visit. If this question is wanted to be settled, let the administration be given to the in trigue. The Chambers will then have nothing more to desire ; the right of visit will then sink down again into that happy state of oblivion in which it rested for ten years. M. BILLAuLv himself will not recol lect that the right of search ever existed. Whence arises the insolent presumption of M. GutzoT in representing himself as the only Minister for the maintenance of peace and alliance with England ? It is he, on the contrary, who compromises this peace and alliance. The entente cordiale is not attacked ; it is a mere watchword or pretet it is M. GurzoT who it is wished to assail. Turn out M. GUIZOT, and the entente cordiale will become a most excellent thing, and a new Ministry would have a thousand tittles greater favilitiea in sati,- fying England than the present Ministry can have. In home affairs, in order to give a different bias to the passions, should not something be conceded to them ? Let the present Ministry be sacrificed to them ; they will be contented, and, for a time at least, they will require nothing more. The dismissal of M. GUIZOT will be worth a Parliamentary reform, or a definition of the attentat formerly promised by the Ministry of March 1. M. TRIERS has guaranteed the silence of the left Centre if M. GUIZOT is turned out. Perhaps the old Centre will not be so quiet ; but what can it do when reduced to its own strength alone ? It will be put off to the calends. The great secret for not changing measures is to change men. A new Ministry has so many advantages! It adjourns—it refuses to give explanations—it knows not the meaning of what is required of it. Is it not just that time should be allowed for it to study the questions put to it? Can it be expected to form decided plans before it has made itselfacquainted with the state of affairs ? It will give its answers in the next session. Add that a change of Ministry puts at their ease many persons whom caprice, personal dis content, or an imprudent electoral promise have thrown into the opposition, and who are kept there against their own inclinations. A change tif Mi nistry affords them an opportunity for this change of sides. Do you know what would happen if M. GUIZOT were to remain too long Minister ? Two great parties would be formed in France as in Eng land and America, and in all countries where a re presentative Government is really brought into prac tice. The Opposition would end, perhaps, in being good for something more than upsetting Cabinets ; it might become capable of having a decided policy, and of seeking seriously a triumph of its ideas. This is what must be prevented at any price, and the means must, for want of better, be by creating diversions with changes of Ca binets, without making any other change whatever." The latter sentences plainly imply that the KING himself fears both Ministry and Opposition ; that his object is to play the one off against the other, to de stroy their authority with the nation, and deprive both one and the other of the power of setting up for themselves as arbiters of national policy. The following are a few of the reasons urged by M. TRIERS' paper for the ejection of M. GUIZOT " There is a curious balance-sheet to be made up, of the various indemnities which, in consequence of the Ministerial policy, France has to pay or receive. A com parison of both will suffice alone to enable the world to appreciate the dignity. firmness, and clevetness of our Ministers. France has to pay—an indemnity to the English merchants for the blockade of Portendic—the sum figures in the supplementary credits ; an in demnity to her own agents, pillaged and ruined by the Moors—this sum is also proposed ; an in demnity to the ex-Consul Pritchard the promise is formal ; the expenses of the glory in Morocco — the sum is submitted to the votes of the Chamber. On her side, France has at least to receive—indemni ties, which the Dictator of Buenos Ayres has to pay to French merchants unjustly despoiled, and to the rela tions of the victims slaughtered by his agents. The complainants, have, however, been sent from La Plata to Paris, and thence back again, and several, after three or four months' useless endeavours. are oeginning to lose hope. The indemnity due to MM. Lemire by the Em peror of Morocco, and re,..ognised by him. M. Guizot shamefully tricked the petitioners, for, before the war, he told them to wait a more favourable moment ; after the war, he promised to negotiate later. The indemnity which England owes for the Marabout, towards which her agents violated the text of the treaties on the right of search. The affair has been these two years drag ging on, and England, condemned by a court of law, pursues with perseverance an interminable suit. Who would dare answer for the paym• nt of these items ? Is it not, on the contrary, certain that, as long as M. Guiaot shall be Minister, not one of them shall come in ? France offended, and insulted even when victorious, pays, and is not paid. Such are the financial results of M. Guisiot's diplomacy. Our honour and our money are both compromised in the matter." There are symptoms yet, however, in favour of the Minister. The appointment of the Committee on the Address he carried by large majorities, and he has also carried another important point—the election of M. HETIERT, his nominee, as reporter of the Address. In all probability the Address mill be as favourable to the Minister as that presented to the Peers on Sa turday by Count PoirAms. That is all that M. GurzoT could require, for it approves, in almost every respect, his general line of policy. The following is the draft of the Address to his MAJESTY'S speech;-- " Sire,—We have received with respect and gratitude the expressions of your Majesty. Witnesses, like your self, of the internal prosperity of the State, we return thanks to Providence which permits our national activity to multiply on every point of the territory the precious fruits of peace. We feel pleasure, Sire, in acknowledg ing with your Majesty that those blessings are flue to the wisdom of our laws, to their intelligent and faithful execution, and to the progress of public opinion. " Our confidence in the superior sagacity of the King has not been disappointed, when complications deemed worthy of the serious attention of the country, and of the solicitude•of your Majesty, manifested themselves at the close of the last session. At the moment when it became necessary to repel by force the hostile and repeated in cursions which disturbed the course of the pacification of our African possessions, a clear-sighted policy directed our arms, and, discerning the real object of the expedi tion, proportioned the means to the end. Thanks to the bravery of our soldiers and of our seamen, thanks to the skill of their chiefs, the war was but momentary. A double victory promptly re-estAlished on land and sea the peace which had been interrupted. After having given a proof of her power, France might demonstrate her moderation. " Sire, Algeria has been the glorious theatre where three of your sons exhibited a zealous rivalry for the service of their country. On board our ships, at the head of our battalions, in the ranks of our warriors, they hare been seen to obey, to command, to govern, and ever to give an example of that subordination acquired by com mand, and of that enlightened mode of command which induces a love of obedience. " Your Majesty assures us that the relations between France and England have not been affected by discus sions which might have compromised them. We con gratulate you on it, Sire, well convinced that the Govern ment of your Majesty is persevering in its efforts to ar range in a wanner conformable to the dignity and to the interests of France the difficulties which might menace peace in future. A good accord between the two States is of importance to the repose of the world. The inter eats ofcivilization and humanity are engaged in it. The high degree of prosperity enjoyed by those two nations, who have equal rights to the esteem of each other, depends upon it. May a mutual spirit of equity ever preside over their relations. " In the visit paid by your Majesty to the Queen of Great Britain, the reception which you experienced, the spontaneous manifestations which took place everywhere on your appearance, evince in an unequivocal manner the sentiments of the British nation. Your presence at Windsor, which is a signal testimony of the existence of an intimate and mutual friendsh p, will not hare been sterile. It afforded the inhabitants of the two empires a favourable oportunity of appreciating and understand ing each other. " The continuation of the good understanding which so fortunately prevails between France and the Foregn Powers guarantees the duration of that general peace under the mgis of which the conquests of industry and of the arts increase every day the wealth and power of nations. " The assiduous care of your Majesty to perpetuate those blessings has placed our country abroad in a situa tion becoming its power and greatness. At home, the development of industry, the free action of our Constitu tional institutions, the high state of public credit, a marked progress in the welfare of all, are tho happy effects of a wise policy. " Your Majesty announces to us that the balance is established between our anuual receipts and expendi tures. The realisation of a public wish, so often ex pressed, will be a great step towards the improvement of the general affairs of the State, and a powerful mo tive of security. " We will examine, Sire, with anxious attention the laws presented to us by your orders. The Bills relative to ♦arious objects of public utility will be the subject of our special study. It is the duty of the Chambers to attend to the application of the salutary rules which govern the administration of the public revenues and credit, and to prevent the exhaustion of future resources. "Sire, the blessings which Heaven bestows on your Royal Family are felt throughout France as a public benefit. She sees with joy the number of your children increase, and thereby add to the consolation which God reserves for you. Sho applauds that new union which commits to a princess of your blood the happiness of one of those princes whom she counts with pride, from their tenderest years, among her defenders. " Fourteen years of constant and generous devotion, and of a firm and loyal co-opersi ion, great works exe cuted, painful trials supported in common, have cemented the intimate alliance of France with her King. That alliance, contracted under such solemn auspices, con firmed by so many acts of a no less solemn nature, by the adhesion so often repeated of au entire people, will be continued in ages to come by your sons the heirs of your virtues, and, like you, devoted to the country ; and, Frenchmen, after being free and happy under your long reign, will not cease to bless your glorious memory under that of your descendants." THE BOURSE--SATURDAY, JAN. :.1. First Highest Lowest Last Price. Price. Price. Price. French Five per Cents . • Fours. lOB 108 .. 108 .. 108 Three per Cents B5 10•• 85 10 .. 85 10 .. ,5 10 New Loan B6 30 86 35 86 30 .- 86 3.5 Bank of France 3270 ..3270 —3265 ..3265 Belgian €3O Four.and-a-ThiC. . Two-tn 1 , , ,..!1 .r. , • • .4 3 : ft • 6% • • 1; 1 ;4 Portuguese Five per (ients • • 60 60 - 60 • 64 Neaw,litan - . '/6 75 .. 96 75 .. 96 75 .. fi6 75 •. 630 •• 630 !(14 , 4 . 1041 !",3 , lot 630 • 1,4% 105 105 • 1 5 RAILWAY SHARES. St.Gmnain ..............1010 ..1010 —lOlO —lOlO Versailles,R.B.•• L.B •••• MO .. 383 75 .. 380 .. 383 75 Rouen •• •••••••• ••••••••••1035 . 1035 .•1035 ..1035 Rouen to Havre• • •• • • •• • • 810 825 . 810 825 Orleans .... Strasburg to Bale— 295 .. 2 5 .. 993 75 . 293 75 Avignon to Marseilles•• •••• 935 •• 935 . 931 25 -. 932 50 RAILWAYS FOR THE ACCOUNT, JAN N. Versailles, 11.8........• 490 .. 490 .. 490 .. 490 LB.•••••••••••• 380 .. 380 .. 380 .. 380 Rouen.. ..... ••••••••• •• "1035 ..1035 ..1032 50 ..1033 75 Rouen to Havre . 810 .• 815 .. 810 .. 8 0 Orleans Strasburg to Bale.. •• ..•• '295 • • 295 .. 292 75 .. 293 75 Avignon to Marseilles.. •• .• 935 •• 935 .. 927 50 .. 935 ACCOUCHEMENT of the DUCHESS of MECKLEN BURGH STRELITZ. Her Royal Highness the Hereditary Grand Duchess of Meellenburgh Strelitz, daughter of their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, and first cousin of the Queen, was delivered yesterday of a prince, which, however, survived its birth only a few minutes. The following is the official bulletin : " Cambridge House, Jan. 13, 1845, Half-past Eight, A.M. " Her Royal Highness the Hereditary Grand Duchess of Mecklenburgh Strelitz was safely de livered, at half-past Mx o'clock this morning, of a prince, which survived its birch only a few minutes. " Her Royal Highness is going on quite favourably. (Signed) " C. LOCOCK, M.D." Intimation of the event was forwarded to her Majesty, and also to the different members of the Royal Family, at their respective residences. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester called at Cambridge House to learn the state of her illustrious niece. The Queen sent from Windsor Castle, and her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent from Frogmore House, to make inquiry after the health of their royal relative. The following members of the diplomatic corps called to leave their names at Cambridge House : The Prussian Minister, the Russian Minister and the Baroness Brunnow ; the Saxon Minister and the Baroness Gersdorff ; Baron de Thile, and Baron Breuner. His Serene Highness Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar paid a visit in the afternoon. Among the nobility and gentry who called during the day to inquire aft ,- r the health of her Royal High ness, were the Ma,'quis of Winchester, th, , Earl and Countess of Arundel and Surrey, Countess of Mans field, Lady Caroline Murray, the Marchioness and Lady L. Cornwallis, Viscount Cautilupe, Lord and Lady Wharncliffe, Lord Granville Somerset, Lady Stanley, Sir Frederick Watson, Sir Henry, Lady, and the Misses Wheatley, Major. General Sir James and Lady Reynett, the Solicitor-General and Lady Thesiger, Colonel and Lady Catherine Buckley, Hon. Captain Duncombe, Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence, Colonel and Mrs. Cornwall, and Colonel Berkeley Drummond. Dr. Locock visited the Hereditary Grand Duchess yesterday evening. Her Royal Highness was going on favourably. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester visited the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, and the Hereditary Grand Duke and Duchess of Mecklen burgh Strelitz, on Sunday evening. COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, MONDAY.—The Queen held a Privy Council at twenty minutes before three o'clock this afternoon, at the Castle. It was attended by his Royal Highness Prince Albert; Lord Wharncliffe, Lord President; the Duke of Buccleuch, Lord Privy Seal; the Duke of Wellington, Commander-in -Chief; Sir Robert Peel, First Lord of the Treasury; Sir James Graham, Secretary of State for the Home Depart ment; Lord Stanley, Secretary of State for the Colo nies ; Lord Granville Somerset, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster ; and the Earl of Jersey, Master of the Horse. Some reports relative to Guernsey, &c., were sub mitted to her Majesty in Council, and were received. Mr. C. Greville was the Clerk of the Council in Waiting. The Court was attended by the Countess of Char lemont, Lady in Waiting; the Earl of Warwick, Lord in Waiting; the Hon. Captain Duncombe, Groom in Waiting; and the Equerries in Waiting on her Majesty and the Prince. The Duke of Wellington, the Duke of Buccleuch, Sir R. Peel, Sir J. Graham, Lords Wharncliffe, Stanley, and G. Somerset, arrived from town in the forenoon to attend the Council. After the Council the Dukes of Wellington and Buccleuch, Lords Wharncliffe, Stanley, and G. So merset, Sir J. Graham, and Mr. C. Greville, took their departure. Sir Robert Peel remains at the Castle on a visit to her Majesty. The Queen and Prince Albert took their accus tomed early walk this morning. The unfavourable state of the weather this forenoon prevented Prince Albert from taking a shooting ex cursion in the royal preserves. The Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal, and the Princess Alice, were taken airings this afternoon. The Earl and Countess of Dalhousie, and Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston, took their departure from the Castle to-day. Sir Henry Wheatley arrived at the Castit, on a visit to the Queen. The royal dinner party at the Castle included her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, Lady Fanny Howard, Lord and Lady Wriuthesley Russell, and Captain Francis Seymour. The band of the Scots Fusilier Guards was in at tendance during dinner. Her Majesty's private band afterwards attended, and performed the remainder of the evening. - The agent for Jamaica had an interview with the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone yesterday, at the office of the Board of Trade. Alderman Copeland and Mr. J. Oswald, M.P. (Glasgow), had interviews with the Earl of Dalhousie yesterday, at the Board of Trade. Mr. Dean, Chairman of the Customs, had an inter view with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday, at his official residence in Downing-street. Dispatches were received yesterday at the Co lonial-office from the Governor of Gibraltar. Mr. W. Cotton had an interview yesterday with Mr. Gladstone. MONEY AND COMMERCIAL NE WS CITY, MONDAY EVENING. The English Market did not improve up to the termination of business, and Consols remained at 100 f 4. New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. were 104 to 4. The Foreign Market also was very dull. Spanish Fives realised 261 4, and the Three per Cents. 364 to 371. Portuguese Old Bonds were 851. Buenos Ayres realised 40, Colombian 144, and Mexican 344. The additional transactions in Railway Shares have been these :—Birmingham and Gloucester were 2 ; Churnet Valley, 11 ; Great Southern and Western (Ireland), 41 ; Great Western, 86 to 4 ; Ditto, Fifths, 184 4 ; Hull and Selby, 20 ; Birmingham, 129 to 1271 ; Brighten, 4 to 1 ; Ditto, Loan Notes, 214 ; South- Western, 344; Ditto, New, 7 to 8; Croydon, 21; London and York, f to 1+ ; North British, 2f to 1 ; Northern and Eastern, 14 ; North Kent, 4 to 7 ; Norwich and Brandon, 6 ; Rugby, 4 1 ; South Eastern, 84 to 94 ; Ditto, New, 11 ; York and North Midland, 55 ; Ditto, Selby Scrip, 481 ; Great Northern of France, 14 ; Orleans and Bordeaux, 51 ; Paris and Orleans, 234 ; Paris and Rouen, 204 to 1; Paris and Strasbourg,l• ' and Rouen and Havre, 124 premium. Direct Northern have been I ; Dublin and Galway, + ; Eastern Counties, 94 ; Greenwich, 2, and Midland, Birmingham, and Derby, 12 to 11 discount. London and Westminster Bank Shares were 74 premium. (Frorr The Sun of Last Night.) There was no change in Cotton at Liverpool on Sa turday. Sales, 4,000 bales, of which 500 to exporters. —A fair bua:ness was done in Shares at about previous rates.—Birmingham and Gloucester, 1034 104 ; Cam bridge and Lincoln, 21. 17s. 6d. 21. 18s. 9d. ; Chester and Birkenhead, 361 ; ChurnetiValley, 44; Direct Northern, 24; Eastern Counties, 1544; Edinburgh and Glasgow, 624; Glasgow, Dumfries, and Carlisle, lf ; Grand Junction, ; 227 226 Ditto ; Halves, 113 Great North of England, 151 ; Great Western, 1664 ; Ditto, Halves, 97 ; Lancaster and Cull.: le, 141; Liverpool and Manchester, 218 ; Kendal and Windermere, 41. Is. ; London and Birmingham, Quarter Shares, 261 ; Ditto and South- Western, New, 8f ; Lynn and Ely, 2f; Manchester and Leeds, 1221; Midland Counties, 118 ;:Ditto, 401. Shares, 6; Newcastle and Berwick, 8; North Kent, 34; North Union, 1471; Scottish Central, 2+; Sheffield and Man chester, 981 994; South-Eastern, 424 4; Ditto, New, 154; Lyons and Avignon, 2/. 155., 21. 14s. 6d.; Orleans, Tours, and Bordeaux, 71 4; Boulogne and Amiens, 44, Northern of France, 54 6. There are in several of the private letters and papers last received from Calcutta some very interesting items of information wore immediately connected with the extension of astricultural pursuits in that vast continent. The praiseworthy and persevering efforts of the Govern ment of India to encourage and extend the g - owth of the cotton plant were rapidly in the course of development, end the results at no very disttnt period are liken to be of a most important and beneficial character. In the extension of the growth of linseed, too, rapid strideshave been made, An import into Hull, that has just taken • plue, go sd in qt ...lity, according ti iU riro'll ar r se-s -to a... th : h,. i cr t e„,t . . la , It • 4 . ' " • 1 „ via u ,Jee etteg-4 , tee., 40s. to ; tut. surae for lionig-.berg and Rig::,; and Archangel at 405. t1s 435. per qu titter. When it is r. collect ed how gre to , the distance to bring the seed from Bom ba y .and cutta, as compared with the northern ports of Euror t l eo may be well affirmed that our East Indian pretry, are making rapid strides in improvements and Indus _ The Guano market at Hull was firm at from 6/ 71. per ton for African qualities. The last arrival t..T; Ichaboe was held for higher prices. At Liverpool 171,, the market for Guano is pretty firm, the news f r o 14 Commander of the Queen's ship on the station h a r e. intimated that not more than 90,000 to 100,000 totio._, mined to be taken off, and that there were British OW off the island to take all of it on board. 1 , itO '1 he accounts from Madrid fully confirm t" e t formation received at the close of last week, tbe_..ei Government had succeeded in effecting an areaag e r r de with the Bank of Madrid for supplies to pay the i cl g ot coming dividends on the Three per Cents. This o f must make a pretty picking out of the Treasnrlo Spain, and the question is naturally asked , h oof the system is to go on ? Some peopl lv know if the Finance Minister pays in 4 " ott li created stock ? An answer to the question .1/ obit oblige not a few interested, as creditors of Spa in, city. Royal decrees to confirm contracts so tosu e sig e but little expense or trouble in the drawing UP A n C i ing, but it is feared that the National Debt of theca of is being most unduly augmented by this and sits operations. °f - There have been some accounts received at the dt Commerce, from South Australis, to the 31st of A cl u e rabf, Perhaps this is the information, that it was inten root the. Goverment to place one uniform duty on in?? me, 5 per cent. The revenue of this colony, ending t fey / amounted to 78,9341. There are some acco unts TDt New Zealand, but they are not of any inter est " colonists are represented as being very badly on. d iet' It has always been our desire to promote as far - (0 11 ' sible the employment of capital in the formation e l , pie. ways and other public improvements in the sistaehe cif' Therefore we think the following extract froin d e s ert' cular of Mr. John Wills sent to us this morning u e eb e ie ing attention :—"ln Ireland there are yet 1 3 ° su nn eti terei is to claim the protection of G °l ' e n r 0 , 6 (the writer had previously dilated nit re English lines), and, therefore, where i': fli bt!' t ° competition, it is the competition between 0 °, 4 1 0 - scheme and another-. for example, the 1)11 71)ii t Galway ' against the • Mullingar ' and the, a z, and Cashel' extensions to Limerick and Cor 6 ; the direct • Cork and Limerick.' Hence the ; of the Board of Trade will be, so far as Ireland is e 0 he to consider which of the competent schemes offe r .Sebn speedy and cheapest means of communication , 'to be connected by the formation of rail/s(" ' where, as in the case of the Cork and Lime one' noles' line), two of the most important cities (t b 4 6 polis excepted) are proposed to be connected "„,.' jet; with few engineering difficulties, only sixty-001;1,0,f' length, whilst the Cashel Company is nearly eig,, t ellL miles in length, it is hardly to be supposed Os' impartial tribunal as the Board of Trade will isn'sl;oo',, long line,with greater engineering diffi cu lti e s, to theeriot! line, which is proved to be in every respect s t l i P c iel a means of uniting the two great cities 0 11 _,,,, t1 1 1 0 4 , Moreover, the 'Direct Cork and Limerick' te,r an Qs °; , Cork will be in the centre of the city, on CalluZic 0 1 an advantage that cannot be estimated too higtit,,t commercial point of view, whereas the ter m- ',60" its rival will be one mile and 100 yards from en/ tl quays." Consols for the Account have been verY t: 1001 f, and the same for Money, the former on l / 4 ter s i at the present moment. The New Three - An a ' s per Cents. have been done at 104 ; Excheclue'sd 625. to 645. premium; and the Three per Cenis'• at 1001 i t -. /0 1 .' 0 / The dealings in the Foreign Market have bee:l,o, The French Scrip has been sold at p e r cent. Pl O 4 . Chilian Bonds have fallen from 101 i to101:4; to 14i; and the Mexican at from 34k to 3 4 . . 1 : Portuguese Converted Bonds have fallen f rom 59i for Money and to 59i for the Accou nt. e Three per Cent have been flat at 26i- I-, en d . 1 1 3 0 r . per Cents. at 38i. In general the market. ') heavy this morning. - n O A considerable amount of business has he e to ne9 - the Railway Shares to-day. If anything, t„. 11° 4 4 favour of an improvement, the demand "" - trlte , especially for the Irish and the French lines. rected list of official quotations are annexed. PRICE OF BRITISH FUNDS AT ONE 04° , (From the Official List.) ;,, n 3/ 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities ...........• 3 per Cent. Consols Anns New 3 1 % per Cent. Annuties Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan. 1860 g Do. 30 Years, Expire Oct. 10,1859..• 1004' `"I il4 ' Consols for Opening ........• It 1 , 4, Exchequer Bills. 1,/ i d. 1 44 pO. ril• v 1,000/. 6 262 6 - 500/. Ditto Small — - poi. Ditto Advertised ..... ... —•••—• PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT 0011011 ii la' Chilian Bonds, 6 per C ent .. 4 Columbian Bonds. ... . ............. -',' ...... . Mexican Bonds, 1837, 5 per Ca l " 34 1 . Ditto for the Account "' 1 5 7 8 ' , Ditto Deferred Stock ~..-: VI I.•-• '. i 0 Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent Ditto Converted 60 Ditto for the Account. Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent., 1840 OA Ifri , Ditto for the Account. -s'i ....... 16 Ditto Deferred Ditto 3 per Cent Ditto for the Account. Dutch 2% per Cents Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates ...... ''.,, ri,LOC . SP PRICE OF SHARES AT ONE (Y- - 0 ,4 4' Frit It RAILWAYS. PAID. to Birmingham and Gloucester 100 lO3 .... ' .to / Ditto, New. Bristol and Exeter Bristol and Gloucester Caledonian Cambridge and Lincoln Chester and Holyhoad Churnet Valley Eastern Counties Do. I ), -,'- ' .. I , If 10. Perpet. 5 per Ct. No. 1. 3% I .... "to ..... Great North of England 100 l4B . to 1 1 0 Ditto New Shares / Ditto Great Western Ditto, Half Shares Lancaster and Carlisle London and Birmingham ...100 Ditto New Thirds London and Brighton . 50 505 to to 40 London and Greenwich ...... 12% 10" '7 . 4... to.: London and South Western.. 41/ 75 0 q••''' $ Ditto,New — ...... 6 /4...., to / London and York... ..... Manchester and Leeds Ditto IA Shares Midland 100 Newcastle &Darlington ,tune. 24 Newcastle and Berwick North British Northern and Eastern Richmond and West End Junc. 1 Shrews.,Wolver., Dud., Birm. 2 1 / 2 2 .I '' to.j• South Eastern and Dover ... 3318 42 ••;''' 0 Ditto New South Wales Trent Valle York and North Midland ... 50 - •i) ,, 0 4 1' Ditto Scarboro' branch , Ditto, Extension iL / FRENCH RAILWAYS. t" / Boulogne and Amiens Great Northern of France ... 4 Orleans and Vierzon Orleans and Bordeaux ... .. 2 Strasburg and Bale 11 ' //' y g d MANCHESTER STK EXCHANGE, ..." 1 ".,, i 03 .- , has been a moderate OC business doing, the I- ;0 healthy : ... " 0 3 ' di Eastern Counties, ............................... , ... . /1# Ditto, ditto, No. 2 ............... , ,i, Manchester and Birmingham, ............... ... Di , ' Ditto Quarter Shares ........................ .. 1 ...... . I South-Eastern ....................... .., Is 4 Ditto New ....................................... 4 Ditto New Creation ........................ -..., 54 l Great Northern of France ..................... ... f i t Liverpool, Ormskirk - , and Preston ............ .. t i 'v North British .......................... ... '- West Yorkshire ................................ • CLOSING PRICES. _, • BRITISH FUNDS. 10 0 4 'i'i • 3 per Cent. Reduced ............ ... - lol ,' • 3 per Cent. Consols ................. 104 New 3 1 4 per Cent ............ .. ••• i glA Long Annuities to expire Jan. 186 0 • 121 Ditto 30 years, Oct. 10,1859 ••• , 10 0 1 ,ii Consols ... .............. .. ........... ... 64 o, Exchequer Bills, 1,000/., 11/,,,,d. ••• 0 Of' , Ditto 5001. ... ................. ... 0 VPY Ditto Small ..................... ... FOREIGN FUNDS- IA Columbian Bonds 6 per Cent ...... lOki SHARES. . i „•• ' Birmingham and Gloucester , 100 Paid "..., .. , Churnet Valley, 2 paid ......................... Pirect Northern, 2 1 / 2 paid ...................... ...,. ~, i Dublin and Galway, 2 1 ,4 paid ... .............. ..., J , ' ,# ' , Eastern Counties, 25 pt.id... ............. '",;,,': 1. Ditto Perpetual, 5 per Cent,. Ditto ditto, 13s. 4d. paid, No. 2 .......... ....ja 5 I"' lu" Great Southern and Western (Ireland), ..,. :3 4 Great Western, 75 paid... ............... ...••• :.,.. 10 Ditto Fifths, 20 paid ... .. ................... .... 4 5 , Hull and Selby, 50 paid ....................... •• . ‘ Ps9 London and Birmingham (Stock) ••• *" . ...• 4 Ditto, New Thirds, 2 paid ..•••• ........ ......-'' 1 5 " 2a paid, J- . - ~. London and Brighton, 50 paid •••• ....'..., I A Ditto Loan Notes, 10 paid ................ ••••.,.. , t , London and Greenwich, 12'A paid aid..... --... t o London an South Western, 413 paid•• -•••• . ..' 1 6 Ditto Now .................. . .............. , ss London and Croydon, 13/, 15s. 9d. rai d "‘:. 59 d London and York. 2 1 ./ 2 paid .• • • ............ il l ''' I C I,'" Midland, Birmingham, and Derby, 10 0 P a ... .. 5 , ,t North British, 7 1 / 2 paid .......... . .......... .•• 91 0 Northern and Eastern, 45 paid .............. ::,.., , 4 . , North Kent. 2 3 % paid . .................... • • ... .. if: , Norwich and Brandon, 8 paid .•••• .......... .... ~, Rugby, I paid. .................................... : .., ',, South Eastern and Dover, 33A paid ......... :.:... %' ii Ditto New Shares, 4 paid ............... • . 0. , i ,, J ,'" South Wales, 2 1 ,i paid ....................... ...... u 6 - , 4 York and North Midland, 50 paid ............. .... Ditto, Selby Scrip, 20 paid .............. FRENCH RAILWAYS' Pi 011 Great Northern of irance,4paid •..:•• ••• '''...; 7 Paris Parisari s Orleans aann addn Orleans,Rd o ß u o e r n e , 2 t 2o a o v pp . 'Flu" aaidi d.. .... ....................................... .. .. .: .: ...: i 4 4 0 .5 1 i II j .•• Paris and Strasbourg, 2 paid . . ............. •"' Pi' Rouen and Havre, 12 raid ........................