The Sun. — London, England, 1845-01-17 00:00:00

TO NEWSPAPER PROPRIETORS. AGENTLEMAN connected with the Metropoli tan Daily Press, and who has for some years edited a Country Newspaper with great success, is now open to an Engagement to furnish Editorial Articles for a Provincial Paper of Liberal Politics, on moderate terms. Address J. P. H., Mrs. Fisk's, South Post-office, Kentish-town. THEATRE THIS E VENI NG DRUR Y-LANE. .. .....- Will be repeated a Grand Opera Soria, called THE DAUGH I'ER OF ST. MA.RIL. Lusignano, Mr. Burdini ; Andrea Cornaro, Mr. Borrani ; Moncerugo, Mr. Weiss ; Adolphe de Courcy, Mr. W. Harrison ; Catarina Eornaro, Miss Poole To conclude with a Grand Comic Christmas Harlequin.ide, called PUCK'S PANTOMIME; or, HARLEQUIN AND ROBINSON CRUSOE. Robinson Crusoe, Mr. W. H. Payne; Harlequin, Mr. Wieland; Clown , Mr. T. Matthews; Pantaloon, Mr. Howell ; Carson. The Box.onice is open aily, from Ten in the Morning until Six the Evening, where Private and Family Boxes, Stalls, Places, aad Tickets may be had en application to Mr. John Parsons. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Lessee, Mr. B. WEBSTER. THIS EVENING Will be performed a Nev and Original Comedy, in Five Acts, called OLD HEADS AND YOUNG HEARTS. Colonel Rocket Mr. Strickland ; Littleton Coke, Mr. Charles Mathe's ,• Torn Coke Mr. Webster; Bob, Mr Buckstone; Jesse Rural, Mr. W. Farren ; the Countess of Foo-pion. Mrs. %V. Clifford; Lady Alice Hawtnori., Madame Vestris; Miss Rocket, Miss Julia Bennett. After which, a New Grand Musical Fairy Extravaganza, entitled GRACIOSA AND PERCINET. Ring Uxorious. Mr. J Bland ; Princess Graciosa, Miss Julia Bennett ; Percinet, Miss P. Horton ; Duchess Grognon, Mrs. Stanley. To conclude with a Grand MOVING DIORAMA; or, I'IC. TORIAL TOUR 1N SWITZERLAND. Private Boxes, Two Guineas and One Guinea and a.Half each. 'F cketa and Places to be had of Mr. I. T. Ar cher, at the Box.ottice, *ora Ten till Five o'Clock. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Fiftieth Night of the New Comedy of OLD HEADS AND YOUNG HE•R fS, with GRACIOSA AND PERCINET, and PHILLIPS'S DIOR A M of SWITZERLAND. The Public is respectfully advised to mike early application far places. I. T. ARCHER, Box Beok-kener. Jan. 17,1843. N.B. To prevent confusion, carriages must draw up with the horses' heads towards THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. Under the auction of Madman CELESTE. THIS EVENING Will be repeated (by special permission of Charles Dickens, Esq.) a New Drama, entitled THE CHIME& A goblin Story of Some Bells that Rang an Old Year Out and a New Year In. Toby Veck, Hr. 0. Smith; Alderman Cute, Mr. Wright; Tugby, Mr. Wilkin. son ; Six Joseph Rowley, Bart , Mr. Paul Redford ; Will Fern, Mr. Hudson; Richard, Mr. Selby Meggy Veck, Mill Fortescue ; Mrs. Chickeristalkor, Mrs. Frank Matthews. After which: NORMA, in which Miss Woolgar, Mr. Paul ',led ford, Mr. Wright, and Miss Reynolds will perform. To conclude with a New Grand Military and Comic Pantomime, called CAT'S CASTLE ; or, Harlequin and the King of the Rats. Harlequin, Mr. T. Ireland; Columbine, Miss LOTlA dale ; Clown, Mr. C. J. Smith ; Pantaloon, Mr. Sarriers. Prompter, Mr. °allot ; Principal Painter, 4 1r. Pitt; Leader of the Rand, Mr. £ lellon. — Box-odlce open from Elevvn till Four. Private Boxes to be had at the Theatre, and at all the principal Libraries. PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. LESSEE, Mr. J. M. MADDOX. THIS EVENING Will be repeated a New Drama, entitled MONSEIGNEU rl ; or, PARIS IN 17 1 2.0. Monseigneur, Mr. Wallack; Germaine, Mr. Lkbeery; Roaaline, Miss Emma Stanley; Annette, Miss Marshall. To be succeeded by a New Comedietta, entitled THE WIDOW BEWITCHED. Mr. Clement Furnival, Mr. Walter Lacy; Mrs. Lorimer, Sirs. Stirling. To be followed by a new Divertissemmit, called LE SALON DE BAL Principal characters by Mdlle. Caroline Rousset, 3los Marshall, Mdlle. feresine, M. J. Rou°set, Mr. Marshall, and Mr. c 'Wert. _ _ _ After which will be repeated a New Orand Romantic, and rather Operatic Burteeque Extravaganza, called JOE MILLER AND HIS MEN. Grindoff Mr Compton ; Lothair, Mr. Ozberry; Kellnar, Mr. tiranby; Riber, Mr. Corri , Golotz, Mr. Walton ; Cl au di ne , Mize E. Stanley ; Ravina, Mrs.Eosbroke. Stage Managir, Mr. H. 1. WaHark. Stage Director, Mr. Emden, Machinist Mr. Edmund BradwelL Dress Circle, 51. ; Boxes, 4s. •; Pit, 2s. ; Galls Is. Half. price at Nine e'clock—Dress Circle,2s. 6d. ; Boxes, 9.a. ; Pit, Is.; Gallery, 6d. Private Boxes, t'wo Guineas and One Guinea and a-Half ; Pro,ce. noun Boxes, 't wo Guineas and a- H a lt Doors t o b e opened at Half. pest Six, and the Performances to commenc e a t S even o ' c l oc k . The Box-office, under the direction of Mr. W. Massingham. Private /loxes and Free Admissions for the Season to be had at the Tneatre. "1 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 :kin:. Keeley. Atter which, a New Farce, called TO PERSONS ABOUT TO MARRY. Supported by Messrs. F. Matthews, Meadows, and Stoker, Miss Arden, and Mrs. Wigan. To conclude with a New Grand Operatic, Historic il, Romantic Pantomimical, Burlesque Extravaganza, entitled VALENTINE AND ORSON. Principal Characters by Messrs. F. Matihmvs; Meadows, Wigan, Collier, Turner, Kinloch, Yarnold, and Kee ey , Mrs. Wigan, Miss Arden, Miss Fairbrother, Miss Grove, Mrs Usher, Miss James, Miss Turner, and Mrs. Keeley. PRICES OF ADMISSION.—BaIcony Boxes. 4+.; Upper Boxes, 3e.; Pit, Is.; Gallery, lid. Second Price—Balcony Boxe , , ; Upper Boxes, Is. fid.; Pit, Is. Private Boxes on the , 11,11e , my Tie- olding eight persons), Two Guineas. Private Boxes orrthe Second Fier (holding eight persons), One Guinea and a-Half. Private Boat; on the Pit fier (holding six persons), One Guinea. The Box-otticei a open from Ten to Four o'Clock, under the direc.. lien of Mr. Grogan, late of Covent garden Theatre. Nightly Overflows the Grand Christmas Holiday Noveßic., and reble Rotation of Enteftainments 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 Fox-chase on the Stage and in the Circle by living Foe and real Pack of Hounds, purchased by Mr. Batty of Mr. Tattersall, to realise this novel production. Jo.paom 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, et Lied HARLEQUIN AND JOHNNY GILPIN'S RIDE; or, the Black Witch of Edmonton. Harlequin, Mr. H. Lewis; Mrs. J. W. Colyer ; Clown, Mr. T. Barry; Pantaloon, Mr. Bradbury , ohnny Gilpin, Mr. Wells. Acting and stage-mAnager, Mr. W. D. Broadfoot. Boy—office open from Eleven till Five. Lessons in the Art it Riling by Mr. B. Smith daily. DAVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. As usual, the best Pantomime of the Season I A more brilliant triumph than ever before achieved : ! Laughter, Wonder, and Delight!! I The First Pantomimic Performers of the Age, and Everything Newt!!! THIS EVENING Willis* repeated THE SEVEN AGES OF MAN; or, The End of Crime. Principal Characters by Mr. Henry Corrl (Prom the Theatre Royal Edinburgh), Messrs. H. Hughes, 24eville, R Hoerer, Lewis, Heslop, and Seaman, Mrs. It. Honner, Mrs. Lewis, Mrs. W. Daly, and Miss Martin. To be foPowed by THE WET NURSE. Supported by M,qrs Neville, W. Smith, and Lewis, Miss Martin, &c. To conclude with an Original Worldly Comic Pantomime, called POUNDIi, r•HILLINGS, AND PENCE; or, HARLEOUIN Z. S. D. Harlequin, Mr. H. Harvey; Clown, Mr. T. Ridgway; Pantaloon, Mr. Henry Corri; Columbine, Miss Slaiter. Places and Private Boxes to be had of Mr. Kerschner, at the I:ox. Alice, from Eleven to Four. ROYAL. VICTORIA THEATRE Extraordinary Success of " Marianne: or, The Child of Chari;y and the New Comic Pantomime. THIS EVENING Will be repeated MARIAIINE;o7, the p Child of Charity. Su ported be Mr. 04baldiston, Henry Howard, J. T. Johnson, T H. Niggle, J. Herbert, E. Jones, W. Searle, Miss Vincent, M,ss E Terrey, and Miss Treble. After which, an Original Extravaganza, entitled THE PA LACE 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 •;Harlequin, or, The Little Old \Vomit! and the Demon of the Metal Mine. Harlequin, M. Ckapigo ; Clown, Mr. Blanchard; Pantaloon, Mr. Coney; Columbine, Millie Le Vito. THE WEATHER.-SuN OFFICE, JAN. 17. THLIRMOMETER, Lowest, 34 ; Highest, 45 ;. Noon, 42, BAROMETER, 30.15.—W1ND, E. N.TE.—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 3•: ; 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-I3RIDGE THIS DAY. ... 21 minutes atter 8 I Evening ( • 9 minutes atter S. 14. 3 4, 4 L.'.1 4. 4 4_o mo w ; . 4 ' t i f ltAt' , ROII • ,k -4% • SECOND EDITION . Uitlll ,l '3l4 LONDON, FRIDAY, !JANUARY 17, 1845. The dire hostility displayed against England by almost every writer in the Paris journals, forms a singular anomaly in the history of the newspaper press. With the exception of the Journal des Debuts and the Globe, not one admits that the Government of this country and the people can perform one good action, or conduct any negotiation or speculation in trade in an honourable and straightforward way. There is always some chicanery, some deceit, seine perfidy or brutality (we use their own phrase) lurk ing in secret, and all the malignity is directed only against France. Like lunatics, they believe their best friends to be their bitterest enemies. The Presse, the National, the Courrier Francais, the Con.iti tutionnel, the Commerce, the Quotidienne, ire;eed every paper, whether professing Carlist, Ra dical, Republican, commercial, religious, or Infidel opinions, never loses an opportunity of joining in the cry against the nearest neighbour of France and her only ally. Like a spoiled child, Young France is peevish, froward, and ungrateful to her best benefactor. In every respect England has performed for the last fourteen years, not to go fart . rer I back, the duties of a good neighbour. When the French people by acclamation rebelled against inroads on their constitution, defeated the troops of the despot in the s t ree t s of Parh, and expelled the degenerate Bour bons, the joy displayed in this country could not have been surpassed had " perfidious Albion" herself been rescued from slavery. The Go vernment, even a Tory Government, Willi►,gly and at once gave its adhesion to the new dynasty, and Whigs and Tories have ever since maintained the same principles and mani fested an anxious desire to be on gocd terms with France. What other country has done the same ? What independent sovereign but Queen VicioetA has visited Louis PHILIPPE ; and sanctioned, by his pre sence, the principles for which all these journals con tended ? Even at the present day, when his power is consolidated, and Franee submits willingly to his sway, the great continental states still stand aloof. Austria, Russia, and Prussia have no communion kith the new dynasty ; they regard France and her ruler with a jealous eye, and would rejoice to see a rival placed on the throne. England is her only ally, THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY l7, 1845, and without England she would be as completely isolated as the little obscure, invisible, and unapproach able domain over which Dr. FEANCIA so long reigned. Even in our foreign policy we oonsult the wishes of the French nation. When Algeria was first occu pied, the French Government gave the most positive and unequivocal assurance that the occupation would be only temporary. It has since been declared per petual ; yet, though this important aequisition threatens British possessions in the Mediterranean, no objection has been raised against the change ; and these ungrateful journals, so far from being satisfied by this act of condescension, are eternally denouncing England because her Consul at :Algiers has not done what he is not required to do by the law of nations — taken out his exequatur. As if Spain were an appendage of France, we have stood by calmly while ESPARTERO was expelled, the Constitution destroyed, and the agents of Louis PHILIPPE installed as the des potic rulers of the country. Even on the most tender point England has yielded to France ; she has sacrificed her missionaries in the islands of the Pacific, and given up settlements which had become sacred in the eyes of posterity, by the primitive labours of these teachers of Christianity ; and, to sum up our benefits, we have found a new market for French produce— given France three hundred millions of fresh cus tomers—done what all the other nations of the world together could not have done—thrown open China, and created a new world. To come nearer home, is it necessary to ask what aid England has rendered to France, in the con struction of railroads ? One half of them owe their origin to English capital ; English engineers lay down the lines, English labourers make the tunnels and cuttings ; and not a little of the success attending the lines which have been opened is owing to English machinery. In fact, our kindness to France is beyond all calculation, and:our disinterested benefits so nu merous and so great, that these French writers give up all hopes of ever paying the debt, and their grati• tude is turned into hatred :—"Naxn beneficia eo usque lmta sunt, dum videntur exsolvi posse : übi multum antevenere, pro gratia odium redditur." "The Game-laws," we are happy to find, appear to be attracting in all quarters that degree of attention which supplies the best guarantee that they will not be much longer tolerated in their present form, or endured under their present administration. It is not a bad beginning in the work of their modification or repeal which the correspondent of a Morning Con temporary suggests—namely, that game preserves should be rated, by the proper parochial authorities, to the poor-rate, according to the computed annual value of their game product. But the finest case to be made against these laws, we were always sure would be supplied by any advocate for their main tenance who could be brought to commit his views and his arguments to paper—and print them. In this point of view we deem Mr. GRANTLEY BERKELEY eminently entitled to the thanks of the public ; fJr he has just published "A Pamphlet in Defence of the Game-laws, in Reply to the (their ?) Assailants; and on their Effects upon the Morals of the Poor." In endeavouring to arrive at any sound 'xdgment on the expediency or inexpediency of upholding such a code as that which comprises the laws relative to the pro perty in, and protection of, game, it has always ap peared to us a preliminary of importance to get at the real animus with which game-preserving country gentlemen really regard—first, their title to that property ; secondly, its relations to general principles bearing on the moral and social condition and rights of their fellow-creatures. We were curious to learn whether gentlemen of large landed estate, in their passion for preserving game, really postponed the consideration of what might be due to the feelings, the wants, and the temptations consequent on those wants of their poorer tenants or neighbours to the paramount object of securing partridge, pheasant, and hare from liability to destruction—by uncer tificated hands. We were not uninterested about ascertaining whether, in this age of universal cant, the sacred cause of religion would be impressed into the service, even, of the Game-laws. On these and other such points Mr. GRANTLEY BERKELEY has cer tainly enlightened, if he have not satisfied us. To Mr. BERKELEY we must concede the praise of being much in earnest with his subject; but, had lie par ticipated in the long nap of the Seven Royal Sleepers, or the fifty-seven years' unbroken slumber which PLINY pronounces EPIMENIDES to have en joyed, he could not have been, upon again awaking, more behind the spirit and intelligence of his age, than he has shown himself to be in his notions of the status of the English labourer, or hind. Mr. BERKELEY clearly regards him in the light of a mere serf. He would have drawn up, we should say, had he been a contemporary of our Norman Princes, a most acceptable memoir to the hunting Conqueror, on the extreme utility of the newly afforested dis trict for the King's deer and other game, and "beasts of venery," for whose accommodation—and his own—a country of thirty miles in compass, largely sprinkled with towns, villages, and home steads, was laid waste—their inhabitants turned out houseless and ruined on the world, and six-and thirty churches levelled to the ground. To judge from the lachrymose affection with which he deplores the relaxed protection that that very forest now ex• periencea, he would have been eloquent indeed, seven hundred and sixty years ago, in pleading the in valuable advantage to the kingdom of the Monarch's enjoying his pleasure and his sport, at any price, and in showing how grossly the Saxon ceorles of that day misconceived the case in supposing themselves at all agg•ieved, or that their interests were prejudiced by the institution of a royal preserve on this rather ex tensive scale. But we really fear that Mr. G. BERKE LEY is not alone in thus projecting his epitome of the merits of our Game-laws for the year of Grace 1085 instead of the year of our Lord 1845. He is but the spokesman of a class. The truth seems to be, that game preservers are so utterly selfish, so absurdly selfish in the attainment of their one great end of se curing to themselves and a few bidden guests the ex clusive luxury of this particular class of sport—the bringing down with their own guns the feathered and the furry denizens about whom they have spread a protection, rigorously and wantonly severe, against all the rest of the world, that they never suffer their purpose to be ruffled by such unsportsmanlike re morse as other men would feel at being instrumental to the temptation which our Game-laws hold out to various classes of the community, the old as well as the young—the well-disposed equally with the pro fligate—to dishonesty, to violence, and to the most fearful crimes. Your strict game-preserver, the capacity in which Mr. 13EaKELur seems desirous most emphatically to record himself to posterity, has no eyes for the ruined peace of peasant families ; no ears for the wailings of wives and families whose husbands, brothers, and sons, are torn from their humble hovels to expiate their offences against the sacred majesty of game, or the polluting atmosphere of the county gaol ; no misgivings about the fate of innocent offspring thus deserted and left to destitution, disgrace, or death—as the case may be—by the committal t.f their natural protectors—for, it may be—a first offence ; for an ebullition of that natural and uncontrollable excite- ment to pursue and destroy game which in the squire indicates "thorough-bred" sporting "strain," hut in the peasant is that last excess of vicious propensity, known to the rural ethics of country gentlemen, which they call "the inveterate love of p oac hi ng : , The pamphlet of Mr. G. BERKELEY might be worth analysing if we should be really justified in assuming that - there are many English gentlemen who, at this time of day, can gravely imagine that they may, with impunity, strain the distinctions of caste between the gentleman and the labourer, the game-owning landlord and the small tenant-farmer, to the extent which this Honourable Member ven tures to attempt. But on sober reflection we cannot believe that Mr. BERKELEY is more likely to find many abettors of his extravagant notions upon land lord prerogative, than he is to be extensively con firmed in such conclusions as these, which we extract at random from his pamphlet :—" .... So far from having a demoralising tendency, or of (?) being in jurious to the welfare of the lower classes, the Game laws are founded on sound and rational principles, and have a beneficial effect in regard to the pro prietor, the tenant, the yeoman, and the poor."— (P. 5.) " I have observed in each of the places I have rented a great improvement in the conduct and habits of the labouring population when the Game laws came to be enforced, and idle, poaching inclina.. tions restrained; the wholesome fact having also been placed before their eyes that it would be their interest as well as their duty to cease from the pur suit of game both by night and day. The hitherto systematic Sabbath-breaker returned to his church, and 1 have heard it from his pastor's lips that he had never seen the man so frequently an attendant on Divine service as he had since my arrival at the house."—(P. 14.) For our part we do not see much to marvel at in this sympathy between the opinions of the parson and the squire—on such a topic. But we find more difficulty in accounting for the trip which Mr. BERKELEY makes in his eager chase after proofs of his favourite theory, that the strict enforcement of the Game-laws eminently con duces to the strict observance of the Sabbath. He says, in describing that facilis " descensus Averni" by which his poacher graduates from the evening relaxation of merely accompanying a friend in the small-poaching line to see him knock a rabbit over, to a degree entitling him to a fellowship—with resi dence, in Newgate, that—" step by step, the man be comes a Sabbath-breaker—a fault declared by crimi nals in Newgate to be the origin of all their crimes. Instead of going to church, he takes his gun or mare," &c.— (P. 23.) But, alas ! the poor labourer is not the only Sabbath-breaker. Elsewhere, to write, " My brother, Mr. MORETON BERKELEY, de tected a man in the act of beating for game, with a lurcher, on a Sunday, during the time of Divine worship."--(P. 32.) Why was not Mr. :MORETON BERKELEY there, attending that worship ? Is Sab bath-breaking part and parcel of the reserved privi leges of the game preserver? Perhaps the gentle man was ill that day, and taking a calm contem plative walk through his covers, to muse on doctrines he could not enjoy the happiness of hearing. Alas ! he had a desperate affray with this poacher, knocked him down, and captured him. And since the man " was knocked down by the common policeman's staff, which my brother carried in his pocket," we fear we must infer that this was a malice-prepense occupation " during the time of Divine worship" on the part of Mr. MORETON BERKELEY. We must suppose him more given to catching poachers on Sundays than to hearing prayers. But woe to " the man of six days' labour who was tempted to desecrate the Sabbath." —(P. 35.) For such an " unpreserving" miserable offender, neither, like - Mr. G. BERKELEY, a game preserver on l is own lands," nor " in the administra- tion of the law, as a county magistrate, over the estates of others" (p. 6), nor yet " one of us, the country and landed gentlemen" (p. 48)—to presume to break the Sabbath is a strong proof that " he must have been inflamed with the beastly dregs of the pot house," instead of having "got himself up" on a breakfast of kidneys stewed in champagne, or on a devilled fowl washed down with milk punch. We quite enter into all the intensity of Mr. BERKELEY'S reflection on the murder of a certain gamekeeper by a poacher, that, " in stead of the dread of the severity of punish ment consequent on capture leading to the deadly aim, the eye that glanced along the barrel of that gun was"—what ?—" bleared by the baneful fumes and libations of the beer-shop." The beer-shop, in deed ! Why cannot men, bent on desperate purposes, decently carouse beforehand in a carpeted private room, over a magnum of SNEYD'S finest claret, at the tip-top hotel of the neighbourhood—instead of pre senting themselves in gentlemen's preserves reeking from a Tom•and-Jerry shop, and with their eyes dis ordered by the combined pollutions of beer and tobacco. But we will add, without a word of further present commentary, Mr. G. BERKELEY'S summary : —" The Game-laws are to be regarded as laws founded on sound and rational principles—doing good to the community instead of harm."—(P. 77.) We have received Madrid journals of the 9th inst. The Senate on that day had passed the Bill for the abolition of the slave trade with only one dissentient voice, and also a Bill for granting pensions to the families of the officers killed by the insurgents at Huesca. Senor Mow, in bringing forward the budget, made the following remarks, to which we call the attention of the creditors of Spain, and espe cially the second paragraph. It is hard, no doubt, that the present race should be compelled to pay the debts of their ancestors, but honest and prudent people, somehow or other, think this the best way to maintain public credit. So, apparently, does Senor Mow, but still his complaints about inherited debts, and the conduct of Governments that had contracted debts beyond their means, are ominous.:— " The good faith of the Government is above all pledged to satisfy the claims of both foreign and do mestic creditors. It is not our fault if we have inherited debts incurred by former wars, nor are we to blame for the conduct of Governments that contracted engage ments greater than their means, leaving to us the task of paying them. To begin by paying something, and speedily, and in the amount supplied to u.s by our sacri fices, and in a progressive mariner, in order that that payment be no longer interrupted, and that our creditors may receive each day new proofs of our anxiety - in their regard, of our good faith, and of the an ielioration of our public fortune—such are our objects, and to .attain them great prudence and peraeverenice are required from the Government, and support and confidence from the Cortes." The Three per Cents. closed on the 'Madrid Bourse on the 9th instant, at ni for cash, said 3] at 60 days; and the Five , per Cents. at 23 for cash, and 23i- at 60 days. In the French Chamber of Peers orr Tuesday' the Count de MONTALEMBERT made a speetth in favour of the claims of the Church in opposition to those of the University, asserted that the clerg y were the most ill-used class in France, and that th e Conserva tives would one day find out to their cos t the great error they had committed in treating with contempt the only body that had known how to respect the temporal power by keeping it within proper bounds, and which had always shown itself the faithful ally of authority. " However," said the N.o ble Peer in conclusion, " the Catholic Church had a certain re venge, which was to pray for them, and a victory not less sure, of surviving them." The Minister of Public Instruction, M. MARTIN (du Nord), defende d the course pursued by the Government, and believed the general feeling was that the clergy would obtain all the authority; they had a -right to by the Education Bill of last session. A b, , ie f discussion then ensued on the dissolution of the Polytechnic School, when Marshal SOULT said the a ;fair was not left to Government. Commissioners we re appointed to inquire into the state of the school, 'sad their re port had been followed. Baron CHARLE:; DVPIN and Count MONTALIVET expressed great regret that clemency had not been shown towards t hose seven teen pupils who had been expelled. The latter said he had been a member of the school II imself, with many of the Noble Peers he saw aroa tnd, among others the son of Marshal SOULT ; many •of them had at times been led into youthful acts of 'indiscretion, and as such subjected to the rigid disc spline of the school. They had not, he felt assure r 7, been the worse citizens on that account; and he a submitted to the Government that an act of clement! y might be performed, without being in any way it ijurions to the necessary discipline of the institution. On Wednesday the Prince DE Moscoi 'A, son of Marshal NEY, called the attention of the C lumber to the Morocco war, and blamed the policy a f the Go vernment, which M. GUIZOT defended. 'r he discus sion was going on when the post left. We find little additional information in the papers respecting the Ministerial crisis, but M. ; UIZOT cer tainly gains character in public estima t ion, when contrasted with Count MOLE. Not one jtt urnal cor dially supports the latter. The real Con servatives denounce his policy; he is only endured 7 the Op• position because he works with them for the time, and even one of the journals belonging to. the latter party gives Me preference to Gutzo a:. The following 'extract from the Nations P.4' places matters in a true light :—" We she gild feel repugnance in coming forward to add to the load cast upon Use Ministry, whom all the world: is aban doning. On Monday it was Count MOLE —yester day the Count DE MONTALIVRT ! The first. at least showed an openness and candour in his atta el; but I.E. DE MONTALIVET'S was made with apt rfidious politeness. How wretched was this conflict ! Can Count MoLE, who dared to tell M. Canzor that he must suppose that the country had lost its n ten tory— can he have a right to rely upon the benefit of .time ? Can Otsheite make us forget the enact tatiot.' of Ancona ?—the partition of Belgium ? Can the c. or ruption of the Ministry of the 29th of Octah i ‘r obß terate the audacious corruption of that of th e 15th of April ? Have the electoral manoeuvres re -veand by the ingurry amnestied the public frauds denc unced by the Chat nber after the elections made by 1 U. DE MoNTawvEg ? And it is between men thus con 'pro- k mised that the struggle for place and power is carried on! Who are you who put M. Guizor on his trial ? What are your rights and titles? Where is your glory ? What have you, more than► he, done to add to the power of your country ? Are your past deeds so great and high as to warrant your assuming this haughty tone ? You certainly are welcome to reproach him ,w ith his politique a outrance—the country has every reason to complain of it ; but you, ye ungrateful and greedy Conservatives, do you not feel that this policy has no other wrong than being shown by him in its true light ? Have you not, like him, practised for peace a outrance Y Have you not, like him, been guilty of corruption a outrancc Q Have you not, like him, drawn around a narrow and cupidinous oligarchy, the circle of immovability ? Does France stand indebted to you, any more than to him, for improvement in her laws and customs ? Have you, more than he, thought of those who labour, and suffer, and are productive, beyond the sphere within which you work your ambition ? What have you the right to reproach him with ? To show in all its nakedness the very system to which you are yourselves subservient—to talk about what he practises— le paix parent et toujours ;—servile devotedness to England—contempt of public opinion —gratification of the grossest appe tites ! But here is his merit. He has at least frank ness with his theories. He lays them down boldly before you, and defends them with courage ; he boasts of having gone to Ghent ; he finds the treaties on the right of search admirable ; and he crouched to the earth that he might be received into the good graces of Europe! What right have you to cry out against him ? What do you require of him? That he should continue to do as ,he has done, and what you have done yourselves, but that he shall not avow it, that he• shall seek to excuse what is not excusable, and add hypocrisy to shame." The Globe, a Ministerial paper, thus turns into ri dicule the pretended policy of the new candidate for the Premiership : "M. Guizot, the man who has so much lowered France, as every one knows, has another manner of comprehending the English alliance than that of M. Mold; he does not make it the object of a sterile contemplation; he does not want alliance for alliance ; he wants it to be of use in the affairs of the country. Our improved agriculture, our enlarged manufactures, demand impe riously that France should establish or fortify its moral authority abroad in the interest of her com merce. Our navy, destined to play so great a part in the future conflicts of the world, has need of a merchant navy to recruit it. All this requires every possible maritime extension to be attended to. M. Guizot and the present Cabinet have done so, and the acts accomplished ia Oceania only wanted to be the work of M. Thiers, who understands admirably how to organise the claque of the journals, to have obtained from all quarters a universal approbation. M. Molt says that Otaheite is a rock. With submission be it spoken, M. Mole has shown himself exceedingly hasty in speaking of these matters. What are the Bermudas? A rock. What St. Helena? A rock. What New Pro vidence? A rock. What Malta? A rock. Propose to England to abandon these rocks! Is it possible that , M. Molt feels esteem only for continents, as the M arqu i s I de Fodelet did for full moons? But continents are beginning to become rare ; and, besides, if M. Molt fears to irritate Great Britain in taking a rock, what will he not fear in taking a country? The present Cabinet, then, had seriously thought of providing for the maritime wants of France ; it had founded a number of factories on the western coast of Africa; recruited the French flag at Madagascar; taken possession of the archipelago of the Marquesas; and had prepared the future possession of the archipelago of Otaheite. It knew perfectly well, and M. Mold has nothing to inform it on the point, that all these acts were viewed with a jealous eye in England, if not on the part of the enlightened men who govern the country, at least by the men of ardent passion who agitate it ; but it knew also that nothing gilled and efficacious is done in politics without difficulties and struggles, and it is precisely with a view to diminish obstacles of this nature that the Cabinet had renewed and strengthened the English alliance. Such is the system of M. Guivit and his colleagues. It must be confessed that it is somewhat bolder and more national than that of M. Moll, It consisted in living on good terms with Ragland, in giving it marks of esteem, in inspiring it with testimonies of confidence, in order to shelter, under this sympathy and under these good rela tions, the aggrandisements necessary to the country. But why does M. Mof*speak of English alliance ? He does not want it. rival the moment he is decided to restore Otaheite to the missionaries, to evacuate the Mar quesas, to snatch away the French flag from all points where it could offend the eye of the English, he has nothing to do with an intimate alliance with them. As soon as alliances do not serve public affairs, and are re duced to a platonic adoration, they are good for nothing. We have no alliance with the Great Mogul, because we have no business to transact with him; but the English will become the Great Mogul for us, as soon as we withdraw successively on every point before them, from a fear of knocking against their policy or their commerce." The Monitew publishes returns for the year 1844 of the direct taxes, comparing them with those of some preceding years, and the result is highly favour able. The Customs and Excise have both greatly increased. They produced in 1844, 787,864,000 E; in 1842, 751,257,000 f. ; and in 1843, 764,573,000 f.— allowing an increase comparatively to 1842 of 36,607,0001., and of 23,291,000 f. over 1843. The following are the returns under the different heads ■f revenue : Francs. )Registry duties, mortgages, &c 214,082,000 *tamp duties 37,403,000 I Merchandise Illastotns' duties on Colonial sugars Foreign: sugars Customs' duties on exports 1,249,000 Navigation duties 2,921,000 Other customs' duties and revenues Tax on salt Taxes on liquors Taxes on domestic sugar 9,022,000 Various other taxes and revenues Sale of tobacco 107,436,000 Sale of gunpowder Post-office 46,417,000 Fares in mail-coaches Fares in mail-packets In all.. 787,864,900 The increase in 1844 as compared with 1842 was 40,436,000 f. ; that on registry duties exceeded 11,000,000 f. ; on customs' duties it was 14,700,000 f. ; on the sale of tobacco, 6,724,000 f. ; Post-office, if s a ,B2 th o e ,o d o u o t f i . e , s le o a n y s in al g t, a na n v e i t ga in ti c o r n e , ai g e un o - f 1,194,000 f., &c. The decrease, pro cee di ng p r i nc ip a lly pared with 1843 w ere th e procee d s o f from a falling weo o am ff s 3p60,w60de7r,008c01, The only items whi c h exper i ence d a di mthienduutitoines a o s n navigation and salt, which amouated to 1,646,000 f. All the others exhibited an augmentation, the sum total of which was 24,937,0001., leaving a sur plus of 23,291,0 00 f., nearly a million sterling. THE BOURSE--WEDNESDAY, JAN. 15. First Highest Lowest Last Price. Price. Price. p r i ce . French Five per Cents l2l 85 .. 121 85 .. 121 80 .. 121 85 Three per Cents.•• B5 25 .. 85 25 .. 85 25 .. 85 25 New Loan •••••••• 86 45 •• 86 50 .. 86 45 .. 86 50 Bank of France 3260 .•3260 ..3260 ..3260 (}Quin Bank, I,ooof. Shares 1100 —llOO .• 1100 ..1100 Belgian Bank.. • Belgian Fives, 1840 ••• • • • 104% •. 104 1 .; .. 104% • • 10434 1842••••• 1863.‘ .• 1063 i; .. 106% .. 106% Two-and-a-Half 62 .. 62 .. 62 .. 62 Spanish Threes •••••• • • • • • • 37 .. 37 .. 37 .• 37 Active •••••• • • • • • • 3634 • • 36 3 4 .. 36 3 4 363 4 Passive .••. • • • • New Deferred. • 16 .. 16 .. 16 . • 16 Portuguese Five per Cents•. 60 .. GO .. 60 .. Go g en= ..... 1043,; . 7 104 3 /, .. 1043.; RAILWAY SHARES. Versailles, 8.8... 500 .. 500 .. 480 .. 480 L.B. • ..... 385 • • 3 85 • • 275 • • 380 Rouen . • •• • • .... —1032 50 . 1040 1032 50 ..1040 Rouen to Ilene •• • • • • • • • • • • 815 • • 8 15 815 • • 815 Orleans ...................1125 ..1125 —lll7 50 1125 Strasburg to Itale - :::; .: 300 .. 3 00 .. 2 95 . 297 50 Avignon to Marseilles 945 .. 946 25 . 942 90 .. 942 50 RAILWAYS FOR THE ACCOUNT, JAN. 16. `Versailles, R. 8... 500 .. 505 • • 475 .. 490 L. 8.... ... 1035 ..1042 50 ..1030 ..1037 50 Rouen to Havre Bl5 .. 817 50 810 .. 810 Orleans .... ..... 1132 50 ..1132 50 ..1117 50 ..1125 Strasburg to Bale .... 300 •• 300 • • 295 .. 296 25 Avignon to Marseilles- 945 .. 945 .. 941 25 .. 942 50 MANUFACTURE OF CAMPHINE.—Mr. Ritchie, of No, 34, St. Mary-at-tlill, has sent a letter for publication to the newspapers, stating that the reporter of the Great Wardmote proceedings, which appeared in Tuesday's I papers, " had no doubt mistaken the subject of one of the presentments the other day, stating that a camphine manufactory was carried on by him (Mr. Ritchie) upon certain promises, viz., St. Mary-at-Bill, in the ward of Billingsgate, by which the lives of her Majesty's subjects were endangered," and requesting a contra diction to that statement, " since no such camphine manufactory exists in that neighbourhood, the premises being simply used as a depot wherein the article is put in square tin bottles and hermetically sealed." Mr. Ritchie will see how far our reporter had mistaken the subject upon casting his eye over the following, which is almost a verbatim copy of the presentment itself:--- " The inquest jury of the ward of Billingsgate doth present George Ritchie, of No. 34, St. Mary-at-hill, fur that, on the 23d day of December, 1844, and divers fol lowing days, in and upon the dwelling-house and floors thereof, and in the warehouses thereof, he did exercise and carry on a certain trade or business for the manu facture of a certain spirit called camphine, or lamp spirit, and did permit and suffer the same to remain, and doth yet continue to retain the same in the said dwelling house, from the inflammable nature of which spirit, the great quantity of it, and its liability to ignition, the lives and properties of the people there, and the premises ad joining thereto, are exposed to the danger of being bu rn t and destroyed by fire.' ARCHITECTURAL SHABBINESS. — The British Mu seum, when completed, will have a grand façade in front, and a mean brick building at the sides and back. It has been compared to a person with a limited wardrobe, who, to hide a scarcity of linen, puts on a handsome "dickey."—Punch. SUMMARY OF NEWS AND istablir Optitton. " Who runs may read.' POISMPagi On Monday evening their Majesties the King and Queen of the French received the Duke de Broglie, Vis count Montesquiou, General Jacquinot, Messrs. Kceehlin and Martin (du Rhone), Deputies, and M. Adolphe Barrot. The Address Committee of the Deputies on Tuesday heard read the draft, as drawn up by its reporter. M. Hebert. The Chamber will be convoked for Thursday, to receive the Address, and to fix the day for its being taken into consideration, which there is no doubt will be Monday next. The Committee on the Bill for the supplementary credits for 1843 and 1844 has called upon the Minister for Foreign Affairs for documents relating to the affair of Purtendic, referred to the arbitration of the King of Prussia. The King has granted his exequatur to G. W. Fea therstonhaugh, Esq., (her Britannic Majesty's late Com misionar for the North American boundary, and author of an " Excursion through the Slave States of the United States"), to be her Majesty's Consul at Havre. Mr. Featherstonhaugh, having had the honour of being presented to their Majesties, left Paris on Wednesday morning for his post. Preparations are being made for laying the first stone of the tomb of Napoleon, a ceremony which is expected to be shortly performed by the King. A letter from Algiers gives the following as the French force now in Algeria :—Division of Algiers, in cluding officers, 37,000; ditto of Oran, 29,500; ditto of Constantina, 24,500. Total, 91,000; from which are to be deducted is 000 on furlough, or in the hospitals ; making the effective force 78,000. The number of horses is 16,000, and of mules 5,000. The Augsburg Gazette mentions a report from Con stantinople that the Turkish army, which is only 100,000 strong, although nominally it is 150,000, is to be carried to an effective force of 200,000. Letters from Warsaw confirm the report that the Em peror of Russia has ordered the execution of the late Ukase against the Jews to be suspended for the present. " The causes of the recent rebellion in the Military School of St. Cyr," says the Presse, " do not appear to have been very serious in themselves. For a long time, the pupils of a certain standing in the School have, by usage, imposed upon the new comers, during their first year. a thousand unpleasant, and sometimes cruelty painful, obligations and treatment. Some of the last of the youths who entered having determined to resist these barbarous usages, were exposed to such violent treatment, that the lives of several were placed in dan ger. It therefore became necessary for the Conunandant of the School to interfere. This gave rise to the re bellion ; but the punishment inflicted by the Minister of War, upon the most prominent culprits, has re stored order." The Revue de Paris says, that the announcement of its being the intention of the Government to put down the establishments of Jesuits that exists in France is not well founded, such a measure being impracticable, as the Jesuits hold their property not as a collective body, but in the names of individvals. His Excellency Semi Pacha, Privy Councillor of the Viceroy of Egypt, arrived at Marseilles last week, on his way to Paris. According to the last accounts from Switzerland, there is still great excitement about the Jesu its. The Govern ment of Lucerne was in daily expectation of an attack from the volunteer forces of Argau. A letter from Athens, of the 31st ult., announces that the chief subject of conversation in that capital is a note, said to be communicated by Austria to the other great Powers, directing their attention to Greek affairs, and suggesting that the following resolutions should be agreed to between them :—" 1. That considering the dis positions obligatory which established the Hellenic king dom, the 40th article of the Constitution should he sup pressed, which requires that the heir to the throne should be of the Greek Church. 2. That the Powers, being determined to regard the present boundaries of Greece as decidedly fixed, disapprove of any attempt to extend them. 3. That desiring the consolidation of the Greek monarchy, they should see with displeasure any attempt to disturb the tranquillity of the interior." There was but one British ship of war at the Piraeus, the Belvidere, Captain the Hon. G. Grey. The French Admiral 'rurpin re mained there with several ships of the line and one frigate. MAW AND POTACIII. Mr. Cowling obtained a rule in the Bail Court, calling on the treasurer of the county of Lancaster to show cause why he refused to pay to the coroner of one of the divisions of the said county the fees and expenses of holding 129 inquests. Under the new law an inquest might be held by any coroner in whose jurisdiction death took place, but previously if an accident happened in one county, and the person injured was removed into another county, but ultimately died in a third, it was doubtful if a coroner had any jurisdiction, and it was for the pur pose of settling this point that the application was made. The Court of Common Pleas heard appeals from the decisions of the revising barristers. Robert Barrett, who lately kept the Saxe. Coburg Saloon, Windmill-street, was discharged by the Insolvent Court. At the Guildhall John and George Axtell, two gen teel-looking youths, who were charged on a previous day with burg lariously entering the chamber of Mr. Wise, a barrister, in the Middle Temple, were fully committed for trial. Ten male and three female paupers belonging to St. Luke's, Chelsea, the greater part of whom were about eighteen years of age, were charged at Queen-square with being disorderly and refusing to work in the house. The charge was clearly proved. It having been said that one of the male defendants could hardly be held accountable for his actions, he was discharged ; but the remainder of the male defendants were committed for fourteen days—the females for ten days. After the de fendants were locked up, they made such a noise by shouting and singing, that they could be heard a consi derable distance off. Yesterday, Mr. James Keeeh Buesel, who had for merly carried on an extensive business as a master tailor at Camberwell, was committed from Lambeth, on a charge of fraud, and embezzling various sums of money, to a considerable amount, the property of Mr. John Saunders, a tailor and draper, at Peckham-rye. COITIRT-FASZIONAH3.33. The Duke of Norfolk has left St. James's•square to join the Duchess and the Ladies Howard at Arundel Castle. The Marquis and Marchioness of Normanby, who are staying on a visit to the Duke and Duchess of Bedford, at Woburn Abbey, are expected to arrive at the Claren den Hotel to-morrow for the season. The Earl of Auckland and the Hon. Miss Eden are staying at Woburn Abbey, on a visit to tke Duke and Duchess of Bedford. The Earl and Countess De rrey are expected in St. James's-square early in the ensuing week, from Wrest Park, Beds, en route for Brighton. The Noble Earl, we regret to state, is still in delicate health. The Earl of Abergavenny has arrived at Brighton from Eridge Castle. The Earl of Devon has loft Powderham Castle, the Noble Earl's seat in Devonshire, where his Lordship has been sojourning during the last two months, for Dublin, to resume his duties as chairman on the Tenure of Land Commission. Viscount and Viscountess Adare are at Dunraven Castle. The Noble Viscountess is perfectly recovered from her recent accouchement. 51180.11.74AN110175. In the report last week of the inquest on Thomas Staite, who was murdered by the poachers on the Earl of Coventry's estate at Croome, it was stated that a memorial was signed by the jury against the game•laws, which the Coroner was requested to transmit to the Secretary of State. Mr. Hyde, the Coroner, has complied with this request, and on Tuesday a letter was received from Mr. Phillips ac knowledging the receipt of the memorial. The matter has been the subject of discussion before the magistrates of the city of Worcester, and a petition to the Legisla ture is now in course of preparation fbr a repeal of the Act legalising the sale of game. In answer to inquiries made yesterday, it was stated that a slight improvement had manifested itself in the health of the respected Member for Southwark, Mr. B. Wood, who has been seriously ill for some time past, at his country seat, near Eltham, Kent. On Thursday afternoon, about five o'clock, the family of Mr. Inwood, a general dealer in Wood-street, Cromer street, Gray's Inn-lane, were thrown into great alarm by a fire in the shop. It originated through overcharg ing a naptha lamp, which Mrs Inwood held in her hand. In a short time the contents of the shop were in flames ; they were soon extinguished, but the entire demolition of the stock and shop front was the consequence. Mrs. Inwood was much burnt. _ _ A fancy ball last night at the Princess's Theatre, under the auspices of some nameless French lady. Each purchaser of a ticket was to be pre sented with " some works of art," which consisted of an album, with some good copies of the great masters. The notion is a good one ; but we are sorry to say, from want of sufficient publicity, or from some other cause, it did not take. The whole assembly, at twelve o'clock, consisted of two sets of quadrilles, one of which was evidently French, and the other English. We only wish our friends, the gentlemen who qualify for Jullien c s grand bal masque, by a dozen Polka lessons, could see what French grace and esprit can do even for the staid quadrille. Assuredly in future years they would discard their old masters. Mr. Ransford, last evening, produced his new enter tainment, on Gipsey Life and Character, at the Music Hall, Store-street, with great success. The company was numerous and elegant. LINENDRAPERS' AND SILK •MERCERS' INSTITUTION —The annual ball in aid of the funds of this flourishing institution was held on Thursday night at Willis's Rooms, and was patronised in a manner which proved the increasing estimation with which the princi ples as well as the mode of carrying out the objects of the institution is regarded by the very numerous trades embraced by the society. Nearly 600 persons assembled and expressed the highest satisfaction with all the ar rangements of the evening. Mr. Adams's band, and Mr. Younghusband, as caterer of the refreshments, afforded equal satisfaction ; and it was not the least matter of gratification to the members to learn, that notwithstand ing every application of relief had been attended to dur ing the year with the utmost liberality, the permanent fund, required by the rule to be 20,0001., had reached no less a sum than 25,0001. Mr. Currie acted as master of the ceremonies. THIS DA. Y'S NEWS Mr. Justice WILLIAMS said be should consult his brother Patterson on the subject. THE QUEEN V. GRIFFITHS. Mr. EDWARDS moved for an order to cause Jones, the gaoler of the town of Haverfordwest, to deliver up the sum of 201., taken from the person of a prisoner named Griffiths, under the fAlowing circumstances:—lt ap peared that, in 1829, Griffiths had rented two farms from a Mrs. Foley, and some time after, he being indebted to Messrs. Biddoes, the bankers, and being afraid of their putting in an execution upon his farm and stock, communicated with Mr. Harvey, the agent to Mrs. Foley, who re , !moinended that he himself should put in a prior execution, and that a sham distress should afterwards take place, and the goods thus be held secure until the bankers were paid. All this was done, and Griffiths, having afterwards settled with the Messrs. Biddoes, continued upon the farm till August of last year, when being apprehensive of a distress at the in stance of Harvey, he drove some cattle off the farm, leaving behind, however, enough for the purposes of the distress. On the 9th September, he was carried before a magistrate on a charge of stealing, and afterwards remanded. On entering the prison, he was, as usual with all prisoners, searched by the gaoler, and this 201. taken from him by the ga,,ler. Griffiths was afterwards bailed out, but on mak ing application for his 201., Mr. Jones refused to re turn the money without an order from the Court of Queen's Bench. That money was now required for his defence. Mr. Justice WILLIAMS—I cannot interfere. Let an application be made to the Judge on Circuit, and he will, if the money is not connected with the charge, order it to be returned for the purposes of the defence. COMMON PLEAS.-(THIS DAY.) (Sittings at Guildhall, before Mr. Justice COLTMAN.) BREAM' OF PROMISE-RUSSELL v. CLEMENTS. Mr. Sergeant Shee appeared for the plaintiff; and Mr. Sergeant Talfourd for the defendant. The parties, in this case, are both in rather a humble condition, but, notwithstanding, the crowded state of the Court indicated that the cause had excited much interest. The assemblage were, however, evidently disappointed when it was announced to the Court by the Learned Sergeants that it had been agreed on both sides that plaintiff should take a verdict for 451. EXCHEQUER.-(THIS DAY.) (Sittings in Banco.) The Court disposed of several motions inv( dying points of practice, and of no interest to any one except the parties concerned. MARKET NEWS-(THIS DAY.) CORN-EXC HAN GE-FRIDAY. Since Monday large arrivals of English Wheat have taken place, chiefly from Lincolnshire. The show of samples of Wheat of home produce was extensive, owing to which, the demand for that article was exceed ingly dull, at barely Monday's prices. In Foreign Wheat we heard of no sales worthy of notice. The de mand for Barley was very limited, and only the finest qualities were purchased, at Monday's quotations. Malt was very difficult to sell, yet previous rates were sup ported. The supply of Oats was again large, and a de cline of 6d per quarter was submitted to by the factors. In other articles, no alteration. ARRIVALS. Wheat. Earley. Eag1i5h.......... '7,020 qrs. 4,0'0 qrs lrish..••..... 00000 240 Oats. 1 Flour 2.490 qrs. 5,01) 27,81 - 270 - Mak, 2,G40 qrs. SMITHFIELD. Although the supply of Beasts offering to-day was but limited, the Beef trade was in a very sluggish state, at a depression of quite 2d. per Blbs. We had on sale twelve Beasts and thirty Sheep from Holland, in very middling condition. For Sheep, the numbers of which were small, the inquiry was somewhat active, at fully Monday's quotations. Prime small Calves sold readily at an ad vance of 2d per 81bs Other qualities of Veal were quite as dear. The Pork trade was active, at higher rates. Milch Cows sold at 16/. to 191. each. Malt, 3,260 cis. Per Sibs. to sink the offal. s. d. to s.d. s. d. to s.d. Inferior Beivits 2 0 2 1 Second qualityditto... 3 4 3 8 Second quality ditto 3 0 3 6 Coaree.woolled ditto.. 310 4 0 Prime large Oxen. 3 8 310 Southdown Wether. 4 2 4 4 Prime Scots, &c. Large coarse Calves 3 8 4 2 Large Hogs Prime small ditto 4 4 4 8 Small Porkers 4 Suckling Calves, each 18 0 30 0 Quarter old Pigs, eachl6 Inferior Sheep ...... 2 8 3 2 Lambs 0 SUPPLY AT MARKET. Beasts. I Sheep. I Calves. I Pigs. 745 2.950 117 375 BrZINIPTDATII AND 3611ADMNELELZ.L. 6 4 2 4 4 6 0 20 0 0 0 0 We had a steady demand for each kind of Meat, at about Monday's quotations. At per stone, ky the Carcasee, s. d. to s. rl. 5. d. to s. 6. Beef, inferior 26 2 8 !Mutton, inferior ..... 28 3 2 - middling ..... - middling 3 4 3 6 - prime large . 1 .... 303 2 - prime 36 3 8 - prime small '3 _4 9 6 Pork, large Ves! ........«.«.«....«.. 3 6 4 6 -small. ........ ...•• 3 8 4 4 33072.0Z1GH HOP MEMEL'S. Although the supply of Hops on offer is comparatively small, only a moderate business is doing here, yet prices are steadily supported. Many of the holders are looking forward to higher rates. coi. SUGAR.—British Plantation has been rather lower this week, as the expected agitation about the duties already begins to tell upon the market. The sal( s to last evening inclusive, were about 1,100 hhds and trcs. At auction 106 hhds 3 trcs Barbadoes realised 63s to 66s 6d for fine, and 53s to 62s 6d for low to good. EAST INDLA.—Ten thousand four hundred bags Bengal mostly found buyers, good and fine white at 64s to 68s 6d, mid at 61s to 635, mid yellow 55s to 57s 6d, brown 42s to 42s 6d, and damp and washed from 40s up to 66s per cwt ; 4,901 bags Madras in bond were taken in at 17s to 25s 6d for clamp yellow; and 10,604 bags 414 casks Mauritius all sold at 58s to 64s for good and fine yellow, 51s 6d to 57s for low and mid, 45s to 50s for brown, and 46s 6d to 61s 6d for washed; 5,423 bags Manilla mostly sold, sound, in bond, at 19s 6d to 20s per cwt ; 1,502 bags Penang in bond went at 14s fid to 19s 6d for damp yellow. FORElGN.—Privately 200 bags Java have been sold at 33s per cwt. REFlNED.—Standard Lumps have been 73s 6d per cwt. COFFEE.—The market has been tolerably steady. A small parcel Jamaica at auction was taken in at 35s to 60s per cwt for triage to good. Ceylon has been firm : about 2,000 bags have been sold by auction at 49s to 52s 6d for low to good ord pale, at 85s 6d for mid green, and at 70s for low mid; 250 bags Manilla sold at 361 to 36s 6d for fine ord pale ; and 160 bags Bahia were taken in at 25s to 325, being above the value. In Mocha 124 bales partly sold at 62s 6d to 75s 6d per cwt; 15 bales Mysore at 44s 6d for sound, and 10 brls Java at 24s to 49s per cwt. COCOA.-194 bags Trinidad have been taken in al 40s to 41s per cwt. There has been less demand gene. rally for West India. SPlCES.—Malabar Pepper has been sold at full rates, 2,247 bags having realised 3fd for half heavy clean brown, and 3id for light. Sane white Pepper sold at 4Ad to 54d per lb. Pimento has been taken iii at 4d per lb., and Cassia Lignea sold at 52s 6d to 63s per cwt. RlCE.—Bengal has declined, mid white at auction having sold for 103 Gd to I Is, and good mid at lis to I Is 6d per cwt. CorroN.—There has been a moderate demand. Runt.—Nest India has been firm, and Calcutta proof has realised 2s to 2s Id per gallon. SALTPETRE. -1,360 bags Calcutta sold at 26s 6d for 51 refraction, and at 27s for 4.1 ; 200 bags Madras went at 26s to 273 for 7i to 34 refraction. TEA. —The transactions have been on a moderate scale. Good common Congou has been firm at 114 d to Is Old per lb, and ord Twankay is 3d to is 31d. TALLOW.—P.Y.C. is dull, at 40s to 40s 3d per cwt for fine quality. LLOYD'S SHIPPING-4THIS DAY.) LONDON, JAN. 17.—Wind S. to S.E., fresh breeze, and cloudy. DEAL, JAN. 16.—Wind S.S.W.—Arrd. Lady Rowena Miller, Calcutta. Sld. Ann, Hobart Town and Sydney, Centurion, Havre and Mauritius ; Hong-Kong and John Fleming, Madras and Calcutta ; John Calvin, Bombay ; Tahmaroo, New York, and the rest of the outward bound, except Sir E. Paget, Clara, Nancy, and Funchal. FALMOUTH, JAN. 16.—S1d. Penguin packet, Madeira and Brazils. BRIDPORT, JAN. 15.—Several pieces of loose wreck have driven along shore to-day, with a great number of loose oranges, supposed to be part of the cargo of th e Design, run down off Exm o uth , 10th inst. BELFAST, JAN. 13.—The Superb, Spearing, of thi s port, from Newcastle to Dublin, sailed from Tobermory, cn the 15th of October. and has not since been heard of. LIVERPOOL, JAN. 16.—Wind E.S.E., light.—Arrd. Jean Baptiste, Buenos Ayres ; Stewarts, Fisher, Pa raiba (9th ult.) ; Shenandoah, West, Charleston (26th ult.) sld. Ann Bridson, China ; Ann, La Guayra ; VICE-CHANCERY.-(THIS DAY.) (Before Sir J. WIGRAM.) MAT V. SKIPWORTII. The Court was again occupied with hearing the argu ments in this case, which lasted the day A notice in Vice-Chancellor Bruce's Court stet, s that bankrupt petitions will only be taken in the Court of Review on Mondays. QUEEN'S BEN CH.-('PHIS DAY.) The Court took the special paper to-day. Nothing of general interest came before the Court. BAIL COURT.—(THIS DAY.) (Before Mr. Justice WILLIAMS.) THE QUEEN AGAINST THE INHABITANTS OF SEVENOAKS. Mr. WATsoN moved for a rule to quash a writ of cer tiorari, issued in this prosecution some time ago, on the ground that the materials were insufficient. The affi davit necessary for the purposes of his motion showed that notice of the intended application had been given to two of the justices to bring up the order of session. The affidavit showed that notice had been served on two justices of the county then present at quarter sessions. lie submitted, therefore, that the materials were insuffi cient, on two grounds; first, because the affidavit merely showed that service had been issued on two justices at quarter session ; and, secondly, the person serving was not properly described and stated. These points were fully argued before Mr. Justice Matteson during last term. His Lordship took time to consider, and in about a week after he pro nounced judgment, and decided that on the first point such notice was insufficient ; and he seemed to think the second a very grave question also, but forbore ex• pressing an opinion on it. Mr. Justice WILLIAMS —What case was that? Mr. WATSON—The Queen and the Inhabitants of Darton. Cerre, Bbo Calcutta ; Curonatindel, Orleans. C Thc stea a me o r , Devonshire, from New* aground on East Hoyle. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NE'" Q UATER TO THLE,E, R The Cotton Market at Liven:o..l wag vf_r% q•re T;i ;7 sale 8 000 1m1,.6.—.\ ; ~, , • Mier . but the market under :w. some flac,uario,.. ~„! barn and Glouccsa,r, 10S1- ; Bristol and Exeter. 3 :1 Junction, s ci t t o il l , 7,11 i, a;n2d2BG3loou; Edinburgh,ce s GL te er r ait , nha 4 a t j :u ; loGertiti E on a i n e i r l ! s : : ° C: 1 e ll l i e Lancaster and Preston, 4C 4 A ; Liverpool And ham, Half' Shares, 108 ; London and Birmingh am ' ,27. Ditto, 32/. Shares, 401- ; Ditto, Quart er Sita 7 -: o.'if' London and York, 3i 4 ; London and South 1) ,', c: 803 80 ; Ditto, New, 111 ; Cambridge ands Liacei7,;, 31 . 6 s. 3 ii. ; Manchester and Birmingham, 31,;11:. chester and Leeds, 125 ; Miand Counties, `,l; North British, 103 ; Sheflidd and Manchester, 4,, South-Eastern, 4214 3; Lyons and Avign ( ! ri ' s;j , , m en s• and Lyons, 725. 6d: ; Paris and Rouen, 4 4 ;I b icorale 4 Orleans, o ll f a ii %T r e a , ne 2 , -1 ,, 1 5 ; 1.36 s .; B oTuci(u)r4sti,eanandTAortnde;ulsx,r4.; e _ oo , A notice was issued at a late hour yesterdali,,,, L Bank of England, announcing the intention o.t,,L:itt-j rectors of the Bank of England to discount bl u , per cent. d th r e awin :' nt °V No question this notification is an as it shows that a strong rivalry has beesbm at world s it i h n th t e he " menced by the largest "banking establis , e tdi g banks of the metropolis. The great sY 1 making to accommodate the public w' c ' ° t ," i indicates that the new system is working w e , o poq not, supposed, however, that the effect of t" 0 on • will D e psrtme n v. Is, have any material influence jo s ,r Money Market, as advances upon fir st.c i yeal ; 2 t other , la curities can readily be obtained establishments engaged in the discount htisin e !' hivi' 0 a lresni g w ill / City. It has, however, this feature, B p an ri k v i a n t g e and j°llindijd t a h n i d s morning, for at, that competition with the other banking' 6rin There are no Colonial arrivals of the le ast i goes: carried into effect most vigorously. This is the Account-day in Consols, settlement has proceeded, it has gone off nn e t a ls ot P, For the February Account, Consols are (1 11 ° 1 The , i ' ' '' e i• Three- ,-1 an--a-Quarter per Cents. have " —is d:' 0 , Exchequer Bills are heavy at 58 „ s ', n ; 4 fin d jb ° Bonds at 745. Bank Stock opened t •.''''' sa ttx -dc.c since advanced to 2111. The Three a Geri°. t°e° e per / so Annuities have fluctuated from 1003 to Or i Stock is up to 115 i. ho re-5 Not much business has been transacted in t 0 10'5 Funds to-day. The French Scrip has b ee „ l3 , itL siel e d ( at I t i- premium. Spanish Bonds have baer i h r - e e T: 4 he' at 26i to 27 for the Five per Cents., and i',i 0 canto t have risen from 373 to 383. The Duch petlll/.,.6 ve higher than theyyesterday, the t. r ru , elt i 1 cansb2e7 BRITISH pnar t lre h Nrarm i ti s hisi m eumr3 o ,14o r Fn n tt T r ph n t Neeh g r De " .cw York sde e a en r was t .1 3 1i having touched 98 ;_ the Old Portugue' pe r e si Cents. are at 85 ; and the Converted Th re c e - 1• . 591. The only quotation :or the Five Per " gll. la this 00,50 A good deal of business has been done cPri'' h itlt the Railway Shares, but the tendency in t ' — t . no l ', l . 0 1 after all, so satisfactory to many as migh t had ef / A v ti II cipated. The London and South- , • e stern i ;licl l 7, l ll have advanced from 9 to 133 pr, in iura, t lie o fr`:0 1 : to 14 premium, and the Great Northern 01 r oe' prem. Provincial Bank of Ireland Are at 19 P c t'C l ‘' ' il' (From the Official L' t ) A I I is 0„ 7 ,0 Bank Stock ...... 0034, 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities l 1 5 3 per Cent. Consols AIMS. ''''''''''''' I°°l Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan. 1860... - 11 1 Do .30 .. 0 Years, Expire Oct. 10,1859•••1 15..1i Ditto 30 Years, Expire Jan. 1860 .• • l '' i4lt India Bonds 1,000/ .......... ." 1 5 Ditto under 1,0001...................... • , 5 3,,i South Sea Stock ................... : 'at i Consols for Account .................... l i ' Exchequer Bills. .............. 110' 1 3 / 4 d. lfr 1,0001. 500/. ... ... I) Ditto Small — 4 0 v is• Ditto Advertised .......... -- --. ' 11l . O'Ci'L Money fare is z tltiors tiitor,lyl, Aainlnelisi ci, .n.tuD:t iciA. e si. d.. yl . a- . as. . An. t.. d.. sTt.. .e.. E.. et .0.:: 1 .. ste. e. 0 3, important 11 lees ... 1 ii.poo 4P_ °I: fj;l i t e, r l ~ Li :1 1 ,, , , i, :, i iagor 6tej 4l 4 PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE -;4ii4 Mexican Bonds, 1837, 5 per Cen t * 05., Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent ...... 5 9 , 4 Ditto Converted ..................... ...,,, Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent., 18. 0 ." f.'6Y Ditto for the A ccoun t. ..........•• .... , 0 Ditto 3 per Cent ..................... 4 3 7 1 , 1 1 5! Ditto for the Accou n t ............ ..• 6.1. , , Dutch 2 1 / 2 per Cents 9814 y, Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates ...." 0., a PRICE OF SHARES AT ONE O' ' f. 5 RAILWAYS. PA ID . p I 0 / Birmingham and Gloucester 100 Bristol and Exeter Bristol and Gloucester Caledonian Cambridge and Lincoln Chester and Holyhead Churnet Valley ~ 2 Dublin and Belfast Junction 2 1 / 2 5 4•g I ' 2 / Eastern Counties Do. Perpet. 5 p er Ct. N o . 1. 3y, — •••' I ' ,/ / Ditto, ditto, No. 2. Ely and Bedford Great South and W. (I r i s h)... 5 Ditto Additional Great Western Ditto, Half Shares Lancaster and Ca r li s l e London and South West ern .. 41% BO •"*. t ° 4 Ditto, New — London and York ... .. . .... 2 1 / 4 _ Manchester and Birmingham .- 40 Midland lOO l2B "'. t °, Ditto New Midland, Birm. and Derby ...100 Newcastle and Berwi c k North British Northern and Easte r n Portsmouth Direet Richmond and West E n d Junc. l'' Rugby South Eastern and Dover ... 33 . 1. York and North Midland ... 50 '- Ditto Scarboro' Branch lO ' 342i.A t° Ditto, Extension FRENCH RAILWAYS. 2/ , 1° Boulogne and Amiens 2 ...... Ip ,' t d ° / Great Northern of France Lyons and Avignon Orleans and Bordeaux ... .. 2 .." 0 8 ' Paris and Rouen.. JOINT STOCK BANKS. ~ t° /4 Provincial of Ireland , Ao9 o° ' MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANH.I I d , ,v'' have again had a large business, and price" - 4 , well supported : 4 4 i Birmingham and Glo uces t er , N ew Share s ':,• O 9, ! Bristol and Glouc es t er ...................... ••"'' '5 l ' Eastern Counties, Perpetual, No. 2. ..... '''.. 0,, 4 Manchester and Leeds, 16th Shares ....... ",. p Manchester and 8irmingham.............. .. , 0 .1 Ditto Quarter Shares ..................... '';::. i r Midland Railway Consols .................. '; ~. 9 , Sheffield and Manchester, Quarter S lll ' re- „, 1 ri l l Barnsley Junction, Half Shares ....... •',.., gii, Birkenhead, Manchester, and Chesh. . 7 ' l- A . 4 - I li Blackburn, Burnley, and Accrington ••'l6P' 7 Cambridge and Lincoln - 41 ... i, Churnet Valley. ............................... ••:„. 9, 9 Dublin and Belfast Junction ............. ••.,,, 9i, Liverpool, Ormskirk, an d P res t on ..... •"'"... $ 7 Manchester, Bury, and Ross en dale •••''''... r Manchester and Buxton ................... •• ~,. 5 Sheffield and Lincolnshire Junction ••••'''... 5 West Yorkshire .......................... ••••1„, 5 Great Northern of France .................. .„•• Ocleans, 'lours, and Bordeaux ........ •••". 4 -----,------ 0, .., 4 BILLS FOR THE ENSUING SESSIO,•I we+ fp / close of the last session a number of 13 , 11 g iefi l a ill to be printed for consideration, with w e e ;t o r #l, ing business at an early period of the2a i . , ° ,yedfr order to preclude the objections which ha i c del e V t years been made, that many measures w e re thr e fic l ' es the session had far advanced. There Li ll ie, fl o ct i ,,,; ) ' respect to railways, joint-stock comP l . t ,, of P • 0, , v, which have for their object an u niforin i '4 o osl,o, Y these matters. The Bills are entitled '.l skis ijil` e or Consolidation," " Companies Clauses Con s° , h ree t 11 , ;./ t to i t9/ " Lands Clauses Consolidation." T he ; ;i a tia,g O P,A to bring into consolidation the laws r - re yst" bry• i ; jects mentioned, so that one law maY P o yert o cle . „ e appointed to administer the laws on th e tt ero'aq i have their attention directed to the 1 11 , 8 cav e 006 sideration without, as now exists, he l l o L ° .., 9 61 ,4, y refer to several statutes having r a e p fe p r o e asino be cte e r P r ::: e let subjects. The Medical Bill, which h co nsid e t of t o P discussed by the profession, stands for . 0 0 1 oil / also the measure relating to the ► Vle 9 TtO ,e ,l and other officers of petty sessions. de" G o o f ,ft 0 the Mines Registration and the Field voar j re gi; j44 ject of the former is to give to the to b e e e l', general power over all mines, which s e r e of 0% 0 04 and subjected to the superintenden ce of t , 1 0 ; 0 o , order to prevent the useless expenu'L .t o f t,v 4 ,0 1 _ cO, O reckless speculations ; and the purP° l t he/iv e 01, 0!; o ti b ti t n a g in t fi h e e l i d r g c a o r n d d e i t t l i s on fo . r labourers, with i Ti i s t t h o co d o e i f e r tl i forward at an early period of the ensue' li o tit' o ! . ;, t s h ol e ila i t o e us parochial Commons, settlements, r s e ta e n x d p ; nt r ec c , i s t e t9 o e s e , r: , ; : .: The mackerel season has cornm e ". o o 4 ,11 0 ,0 , ' favourable n d r a e u w s p s , i c t e h s e f m or ost ou lu r ck) itt . c i o n tr i i i ,o o oo tir i ; : i ti b , : h ; e d! o i came on shore here last Friday witt o , ts , v i .,gitg, boo fetched 16s. per hundred. All c ur v are e cr el ception of Andrews's, and one other , of osc e'er ~iri Plymouth, where there is a large fle et y .s th id r ; : r e 6 _ra d e t n o , b a e nd in so i r P b from various places.—Brighton Gcacite.,..o,llk , f 01 1 u r 1 I:e ° ir ATTACK ON A GAMEKEEPER. -- ke,pe- life , 0. , Henry Tebby, of Cottesf-Td, gat" w as l i fe i jel l / Rousbey, Dl.. of Cottesford House%ll. b i s ,„, 40 . Willis, a young man of Hethe, was reek , cl i , t o l i f t Ill ' ; gnjeUr.red t o_ t rria to ' •, ,i 1i e ) 1 ; j : r 7, ' ) 0 , ; , : 0 4. 4 P , gaol by the Bicester magistrates for a w` . wo . l io , o ',, 1 1 being one of the men. The keerr we' o , 1 .1:,,a ':,„,,,r, and a medical certificate to that effect: cr y, ;i e . cy, peared that the keeper heard a 114r _ en , coj ia. 0 0 0 1 :, going to the spot ho swot three . : 1 1 ' 0 . il . he 0 nised one of them, and ealli-d lil t ' hi ,' ti ll o'e o';;pilit s ; r e i a y t u d i 3 :i, n i Willis. All attucked him, and beu lo eig', 4 or 4 1 1; sensible. On Tebby somewhat ree' ~„ f ie% iiltrot , ure- , 113 ,10 13 0 0 14 4 prehended and identified by I n e tity of 011 5 bos , , the affair took place, a large quanrisoner's 8,..bc, 1.1 bludgeons were found. The P ~.. .1 . u f ilie P • the sly,• co _ sponded with foot marks neat tosi v • under coli c dangerous state, labouring w th h e e l r l e ev e . ce A r l y r. l‘ h l e ig p ui w re a ' s s laloirtoisred,eCd ah tl i i rn ol . w k;ril a ll o r o e; ~,