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THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANII THIS EVENING • Will he repeated Mite's Grand Opera, THE DAUGIITETI OF 4T. MAIM. Imskanuto, Mr. Hurdlnt ; Adolphe do Courcy, Mr. W. itarrt , un ; f'atarina Cornare, bliss Itainforth. After which, will he produced a Grand Ballet, entitled LES DA (AIDES Damns, 3f. Hognet ; Entitles, Mr. Howell; High Priest, Mr. 0* Bryan ; Lynreus, 31.,n. 11. Vestrts; I'olyetor, M. Bei- INler ; Alentrnou, Mr. Welter; Egyptian Chief, M. Pinarb; Ilyperameata. Mdlle. Maria ; Automate, Nfadamolirrart ; Amymone, Madame GliUgirl; Agave, !Mlle. O'Bryttn. 2:1x4 Dux-attire is open daily, from Ton in the 3fr4rning until Six to tho Evening where PrirMe and Family Boxes, Stalls. I'lacea, and .T.rkets rsay ha Inid on application to Mr. John Parsons THEATRE ROYAL. HAYMARKET. LESSER, MR. B. WEBSTER. - Q . % Night of " Hen.ls and Young rleattn." Til EvwsibiCi . Will t rviteatesi a New and Original Comedy. In Five Acta, entitled 9L) LlP.Allti AND TOUNG lIMARTS. Colonel Rocket, Mr. Rtrtnkra. d; Littleton Coke, Mr. Charles Mathews ; Torn Coke, Mr. W.,totex ; Bob, Mr. Itoetstone ; Jesse Rnral, Mr. W. Farren ; the G'ountces of Pompton, Mrs. W. Clitbrd ; Lady Alice Hawthorn, Mktd.trrne Tctttz ; Ml's Rocket, Miss Julia Bennett. To tra, ftstroweithy a Grand 3tasical Fairy Extravaganza, erititied GRACT4SI. AND PEIICINET. King Uxoritts, Mr. J. Illanol ; pripertra Gtactosg, Ns Julia ?Sennett ; Perelnet, Miss P. Morto n ; Da.tresi+ frionan. Mrs. Stanley. panelaite with a (Izaa,l MOVING DIORAMA ; or, PICTORIAL 71:117It IK SWITZERLAND. Privatz , 'lam-, Grdmerto and One Gaines and a-Ifalf each. tirlktrto mod rikteco to be hod of Mr. 1. T. Arditer, at the Box-office, rpan Tm till live THEAT:IE ROYAL, ADELPIII. L../sDER TfIK DIRLCTiON OF MADAME CELESTE. EIVTI Siert of a New eulel OrM nal Drama, by ate Author of " Wrett itahore," " Vietarine," &c. THIS EVENING VPH ITP c ated a Noe, and Original Dnarna, entitled TIIII II( Silldi ; or, A Hundred Tears Ago. Connor O'Kerinedy, 3Tx. George, Mr. llndsoa : Wild Martoo4 Mr. 0. Smith ; 3J Grfaullgv, St r. Wright; eftwk Gong, Mr. Patti Bedford ; riihMtrm. 3fra, tat". ; Nelly 3111nui, Ithidalue CelLete- Atrez Winch, THE CORPORAIP. , WEDDING; Ar, a Kiss of the Dridtb. Str Felix Marmalade, ...ktr. Itudßon ; Major Grisklu, Mr. nY; Tatty A•rethosa Gr Atm, Alta, Frank Matthews ; Nancy Cobb, Woolor. To COi with Tam ekrimz a Toby Voc2c, Mr. 0. Smith ; Ariterntitn` , t, Air. Wrt , ..eht ; Mr. Wilkinson ; Sir Joseph Itowietv, Mr. l'ntli UkTribrd Will /era, Mr. Hodson ; Richard, 2/tr. Sella ,• l'utk• MIN Furteacne ; Ira. Chletarstulker. Mrs. rrank 3fittithfirs. Prompter, Mr. f 3 11 j ; Prrtrefirll P...linter, Mr. Pltl; Leader of the Flan 4,, Mr. Merlon. tIIKATItit ROYAL, ADELNII. A Trittrvagh Adelphi hit I—Tide, " The Times," and Public Press. THIS EVENING AND TO-MORROW EVENING THE GREEN I3USIIES, or A Hundred Years Ago ; by the Anthor df " The Wreak Ashore," " Vrctorine,"&^. Principal Characters by Hudson, Wright, 0. snitni, Paul Bedford, Selby, Cul lenford, and Wore ; Yates, Mrs. Fitzwinlam, and Madame telcste. With the'New Farce of TILE CORPORAL'S WEDDIM) ; ar, a Kiss of the Bride. And THE CHIMES ; A Goblin Story. On THURSDAY win be produced a New Drama, called THE OLDIE% OF FORTUNE. PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. LEMSEE, MR. .1. M. MADDOX. TIIIS EVENING II be mated THE CASTLE OF AYMON; or, The Four Baron de Beatimanoir, Mr. Walton ; Olivier, Mr. Allen ; Alrird. Mr. V.' Horn, Jun. ; Itichard, Mr. 'rime ; Ren a ud, M r Mattaikks ; Mal, Mr. Leffler ; Hermine, Helen Condell ; Ultra, Miss Brentnall ; Yobuule, Miss D. thinner P Eglantine, Miss O'C'oanor ; Gertrude, Mrs. Fosbroke. To be Thilowed by DON C.P.SAR DE BAZAN. Don Caner do Pazon, Mr. Wallack ; Marikuut, Mrs. Stirling. Altar which, a New Comedletta, entitled TIIE BRIGADIER. Principal Characters by Messrs. Wallack, Granby, and Compton; MIAs 1,. Homer, and Miss E. Stanley. - - THEATRE ROYAL, LITECIM. UNDEE TILE MANAGEMENT OF MRS. KEELEY'. " Vl.Fentlie abd Orion" tsi one Devouring name of Triumph, in con- FiNutnne thereof it will he perfimned Every Evening. THIS EVENING 11l be rhpentrd a New Comte Drama. entitled TAKING POS makilON. Prine!pal Cllnracters by Meters. Keeley. Meadows, C +Pm, Kinloch, A. Wigan, arn igan, Yold, Bender, and Stanton ; Mrs. A. 4 4,4 MIA Arden, Miss Iloward, and Miss James. Pttt which, TILE MARRIAGE CERTIFICATE. Principal 9karaeters by Mmrs. F. Matthews, F. Vining, Collier, and Turnrr ; 3Oas Walcott. Mrs. Estior, and Mrs. Keeley. ~,Tb , „t ) fbilowed by a New ntree entitled A MODEL OF A WIFE. "I:9loal. tr araetern by Mmsra. .A. Wkan, E. Matthews, and Mea- EDT . ; Mi ss Walcott. and Mica Fair! rother. (1 '4 ,, with 'VALENTINE AND ORSON. Principal Clia raejers by Nktr. fly s t 4 ,, h, y , 2... p • MattheWS, Meadows, y_Fln, Collier, Turner, Mother, Miss Or% n 4 K"1".; 34n Arden, s' Fat- At, Keeley, 7l\ Mrs. Woollidge, Miss James, Miss Tnrner, and j ASTLArg ttoy AL ritomuvroft. W. HATT.r• thtequaliksli Sucems of the Southern American 3finstrels. THIS EVIiNING repetLted THE 110YAL FOX HUNT t tatmduclng a Real y o i.due.e col the Stage., by Llying Fox and Real Pack of Hounds. aNi, follarred by the Me1.(11.4 of the American Southern Minstrehaitire ls. changr In the Circle. —Unequalled Feats of lioraemanshig. To e.t.a/elude with the Pantomime of fIAItLEQUIN JOHNNY KII)F:1 or. The Bldck Witch of Vimontert. Johnny 011lltc}tr. Wells Clown, Mr. Barry t Pant aloon, Mr. Bradlntry hakip,,,,, Mr. t Crs olumhtne, M. J. W. Colli er. Acting and-Stage Manager, 31r. Broadtbst. I4VIDOE'S ROYAL SURRISY THEATRE. The titan(' Pantomime every Ereninc.„ wtth fivendtd Novelties, and Anoillcr New Piece. TflIS EVENING Withe repeated a New Three Act Drama, entitled WOLSZY, In whtch the whole of the Company will perform. Amer which, BEN TIIE BOATSWAIN. Tol - ,e'fbilowo by the Ori;;Inal Bohemian Polka, by Mr, Harvey. Ind MIA To conehtde with the Pantotnlme of POUNDS, SIIILLINGS, AND r r , N cE. harlequin, Mr. If. Harvey; Clown, Mr. T. Rid gway . antaloofi, Mr. henry Corn ; Columbine, Miss salter. narm and private Boxes to be had of Mr. Kerschner, at the Bex. (Aces fl•can Eret•en to Four. I:UF:1L VICTORIA THEATRE COntlnued Triamphant Career or " 3larianne"—Two New Dramas, supported by the best Company In London. THIS EVENING Will he repeated MARIA NNE; or, The Child of Charity. Sup rerted by Messrs. Oshaldistrin, It. IlowArd, J. T. Johnson, J. Her bert, E. Jones, and W. Searle ; 3liss V ncent, Miss E. Tcrrey, and Mrs. },;. Jefferson. After which, a New Petite Dr.ltna. entitled A NIGHT'S FROLIC ; or, Once in a Hundred Years. Lndovfc, Mr. T. H. Niggle; Nicksus, MIAs Vincent ; Grochen, Miss E. ierrey. To conclude with an Orrebral Nautical Drama, entitled THE LIFE . RAFT ; or. the Two Itet - lbw. With entirely New Scenery, Machinery, and suppqxted by the entire strength of the Company. Bates, 25.; rit, Is. ;_Gallery, 6d. and Mr. Templemin, had an interview with the Earl of Dpaifte yesterdaT at the office of the Board of Trade. The Ilareinis of Exeter arrived in town yesterday from Dispatches Km the Governor of Canada, and also for the Illovectaots of the other North American provinces, *ere sent elf yesterday evening from the Colonial office. Dispatches wiry also sent off for the Governors of the Went India Colonies. The Ras' Germain had an interview with the Earl of alh a yesterday. The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat yes terday. The Lords present were the Master of the Rolls, Lord Campbell, the Vice-Chancellor Knight Bruee, the Cl aneellor of the Duchy of Cornwall, and the Judge of the Admiralty Court. Coansel were heard, and witnesses examined, in support of a petition for a prolongation of Perkins's patent. Just ready:, In 2 vols., post Bvo. THE WORLD OF LONDON A New Scrim By J. FISHER MURRAY, Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. On Thursday next, 2 vets. Bvo., with two coloured lithoimphic Frontispieces, and numerous Illustrations on Wood, *TRAVELS in INDIA, including Scinde and the Punjab, in 1842 and 1643. Ily Captain LEOPOLD VON Tranliated (rum the German, by IL EVANS LLOYD, PESCIIEL'S PHYSICS. • On Thursday next, fcp. Mvo., with Diagrams and Wooden*, ELEMENTS of PHYSICS. Part I.—Ponder able Bodies. By C. F. FESCHEL. Principal of the Royal Military College, Dresden. Translated from the German, with Notes, DY E. WEST. London: Longman. Brown, Green, and Longman", COMMEREUAL, COLONIAL, and FIANCIA I L O, POLIC Y. ER This dg is publtshed , .re, , L iTIT On COMMERCIAL, COLONIAL, and FINANCIAL POLICY. I3y B. TORRENS, Esq.. F. 11.9. Also, by the samu Author. ESSAYS on the PROI>CCTION of WEALTH. 123. tnto the ()PI-RATION of the ACT fur the ItE>ZENVAT, of the CHARTER of the BANK of ENGLAND. 3s. ATTER to LORI) ASIILEY, on the MEANS of IMPROVING the CONDITION of the WORKING CLASSES. Ta. Lougnwm end Co. t Smith. Elder, and Co. 111 the aftm, and will spe'Atly be published, in one 'volume royal Svo.. with Portraits on Steel. pee(' One Guinea, LIVES OF MEN OF LETTERS WHO FLOURISHED IN THE REIGN OF : GEORGE 111. 11y 11E 413 Y LORD BROUGHAM, F.R.S:. and Member of the National Instititte of France. This volume. which to printed uniformly with the "Historical Mt etches of Statmmen," contains the Lives of Robertson, Hume, Blank Voltaire, Cavenllsb Rousseau, R. Simpson, Prto3tity, La Piave, Watt, and Davy. Londen: Charles Kntght anfl Co., Ludgatr-street. THE WEEKLY CqIRONICLE, during the ENSUING SESAION of PARLIA3fENT, will apace neither mortice nor expense to snstain and extend the character it has hithe.rte obtaini , d of thrnishink• to its readers, and with the greatest nertnteness of detail, the EARLIEST and MOST EXCLUSIVE IMIELLIGENCE of POLITICAL and PUBLIC MOVEMENTS, than ft; own PECULIAR SOURCES of INFORMATION. The rnAny interesting questions with% must shortly occupy the al_kation of Parliament—PA Free Trade, Ireland, the Church, Taxa- Tariff Itcform, with many others, give great interim, by antici pation., to the doinp of the (Inning Session ; and the Importance of a Journal which has proved, net only its intimate acquaintance with the policy of its own friends but with the intentions of the Govern ment. whose movements it has repeatedly announced in anticipation of fhe oAlcial orgaus, must be self-evident In all. THE WEATHER.—Strx OrrtcE, FED. 4. THERMOMETER, Lowest, 34 ; Highest, 42 ; Noon, 40. BAROMETER, 30.3.—W1ND, W. No=—The figures which follow the words "Lowest" and Highest" denote the lowest and highest state of the Thermometer during the preceding twentyAur 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. lIIGII WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE TIIIS DAY. 3fornlng .. 43 mtnntes after 11 1 Evening .. 0 rutnntce after 0. dustry and contract our foreign markets, impoverish the trade of our greatest staples, and paralyse the enterprise and speculation of our manufacturers and shipowners, whilst they burden our consuming classes with iniquitous and vexatious imposts ;—these must be largely removed forthwith. The utmost limits of patience, as well as prudence, have been reached. This is a work which brooks ne further delay. In the foreign relations of the country, Gon knows, we detect but too many indications that re mind us how possible it is that Parliament, even in the pending session, may be called en to record its opinions on political measures of the most profound interest and the most extensive bearing. In Europe we have not yet concluded all our differences with the French Government, touching the right of search, the Otaheite affair, or the trade of the Gambia and the Senegal. In America we see but one continued series of ebullitions, dictated by a feeling to which it is not necessary here to apply a name, but which seems identified with a double purpose of unprincipled territorial aggrandise ment, and of the manifestation of an attitude of defi ance to Great Britain. Neither in the Oregon occu pation, nor the annexation of Texas, nor the scanda• loos tampering with Mexican and Texian authorities, do we recognise in the bearing of the United States' Government any cause for satisfying ourselves that there is no danger of a violent disorganisation, in 1845, of those amicable relations between the Union and this country which have subsisted now, through so many years, to the great advantage of both nations, and the benefit of the civilised world at large. It is Rot in such elements of disturbing forces, as these, that we can make out the promise of one of those "hopeless sessions," whose barrenness of exeitement, —whose rsutine-torpidity, offer pkrhaps, after all, the best assurance for the prolonged maintenance of the peace and reposp of the world—to the two Govern ments which are most deeply concerned in pr; serving them inviolate. We have always been sceptical as to the amount of public benefit likely to result from the constitution of the Board for the transaction of railway business— created ander Minute of the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade, in August last. The grounds assigned for this innovation on the practice of former years are, in themselves, not merely specious, but very sound ones. It had long been felt that it was necessary to economise the time of Parlia ment, to the extent of relieving it from the unprofit able but indispensable preliminary discussions de manded by the terminal points, selected lines of pro jection, proposed levels, gradients, eic., and by the probable expenses of the cuttings, embankments, con structions, plant, and all other details connected with railroads, for which parties came forward to obtain the sanction of the Legislature. It was acknowledged as a grievous fact, within the experience of both Houses, that, after devoting from week to week, and month to month, the labour of many hours a day to such investigations, and to the hearing of counsel for consenting as well as for opposing parties, the exami nation of surveys, plans, and specifications, and the conflicting allegations of innumerable petitions ; it had been frequently discovered, after the Select Com mittees had reported in favour of a particular Railway Bill ; and Parliament, acting on such report, had passed such Bill through all its stages ;—petitions and projects came before the House of Commons for constructing, between the extreme termini of such specific railroad, "a competing line," as it was called. In some cases this competing line was found to be so much better than that which had been already ap proved of and reported on, that it was found im possible to refuse the permission prayed for to bring in a Bill for its accompliahment. In many more it resulted that, though, in some particulars, the "corn-, peting line" might offer preferable advantages, it was not, as a whole, as much entitled to legislative sanction as that which had been already affirmed. Thus, after attaining to the stage of a first, or a second reading, or even to the maturity of entering a "Committee of the whole House," it was dropped, or, upon vote, thrown out. In all such instances the great evil was, that a vast amount of valuable time, which was abstracted from the due consideration and routine of the most important public and official busi ness, was fruitlessly sacrificed to the formal enter tainment of Railroad Bills, and inquiries that proved either utterly abortive, or were mere repetitions of those previously devoted to similar schemes, better or wozse, as the case might be, but at any rate which had been earlier brought forward. It must be obvious that such a mode of transacting this description of business was calculated to encourage a spirit of gambling speculation on the issue of any pending Railway Dill, and to promote the most hopeless, and, at the same time, the most expensive litigation between parties to originally proposed, and parties to competing lines. Nor can it be denied that that mischievous accumulation of public business, the arrests of which it is found, at the close of every session, to sweep off with an un considering rapidity and wholesale dealing► of which it is impossible to exaggerate the mischief, the in convenience, or the indecorums, has been greatly owing to the absorbing occupation of railway busi ness. So far, therefore, as related to the economy of Parliamentary time, the discouragement of specu lative litigation, and the diminution of legal expenses in the process of soliciting and carrying Railroad- Bills through.the Legislature, the new Board may be pronounced an useful and a successful experiment. But it remains yet to be proved whether it will effect any such dispatch of the public and official business of the country in Parliament, or work any such diminution of gambling in railway scrip, as can compensate for that vicious principle of its constitu tion to which we have, in a former article, directed attention—namely, the indirect, but virtual, inter position which its arbitrary findings carry—with the disposition and employment of private capital. That men should expend large sums of money in the bootless agitation of particular schemes for its investment, both without and within the walls of Parliament, is bad. That capitalists should make ducks and drakes of their money by throwing it into concerns which in the nature of things never can re pay them (whether from the excessive expenses at tendant on the construction of the proposed work, or the disproportionate paucity of the passengers and traffic to be reasonably calculated upon)--this, also, is bad. But both the one and the other are evils, the inevitable tendency of which is to correct themselves, and the utmost possible extent of which is measured, perhaps, by the loss sustained by the individual parties. But to legitimate, by Act of Parliament, or Minute of the Committee of Lords of the Privy Council for Trade, or any ether authority, the inter ference of a Select Board, delegated without either the election or consent, the control or the nomina tion, of the persons whose interests it is, in effect, to report upon, by recommending Parliament to grant the Bill craved by A B, but to refuse that ap plied for by C ;—this is really to hazard—at the least—an evil of far more serious and extensive mis chief. It is to oppose the authority and influence of a publi3ly-recorded official opinion to the free opinion and unbiassed action of the capitalist; a policy not only at direct variance with the first principles of free trade, but directly opposed to that noble spirit which has consolidated and extended the commerce of this country to a degree never before witnessed by the world. What would have become of those great public —aye, national works, in Great Britain, which present to the admiration of the foreigner the glorious anomaly of such achievements consummated neither by the public will, nor by the national funds, but by individual enterprise and by private capital, if this sort of pseudo -paternal and protective authority had existed among us, when the New River, the Bridge water Canal, the Docks of London, Bristol, Liver pool, the noblest bridges of the metropolis, or the two finest railroads in the world, the Great Western and the London and Birmingham, were constructed ? The consideration of competing lines —the nervous apprehensions of such a self-assumed official respon. sibility would have crushed these magnificent under. the etiquette and in the practice of Parliament it is not very usual for Members to turn round and re pudiate the recommendations, suggestions, or reports of official departments. Now, with all our respect for Major-General PASLET, and the Earl of DAL IIOUSIE, and Mr. G. S. PORTER (with whose talents and knowledge everybody must be, to some extent, acquainted), not to mention their colleagues, Mr. D. O'BRIEN and Mr. S. Lama (who may be less before the world); we, for our parts, shall be always greatly disinclined to accept their opinion on the merits of a railroad scheme, when it happens to be opposed to the more valuable, because practical and tested, opi nions of first-rate engineers of high professional cha racter, and as much respected for their disinterested ness and integrity as for their engineering science and success. Yet, on a division, we venture to predict that three men out of fire in the House of Commons will follow where -the report of Lord DALuousts, Gen. PAsLeY, and their official colleagues lead them, rather than the most decisive and distinct report which carries no higher vouchers than such names as BRUNEL or STEPHENSON, LOCKE, GILES, CUBITT &c. Any guarantee which the Board is supposed to offer for the adoption of the best of competing lines, or the adoption of the good and rejection of the bad of original schemes, is, therefore, illusory. As for the moderation of the Board, we see not much matter for hope, in gazetted notices, that exhibit, as it ap pears to us, a proportion of about two •thirds rejected to one of approved application. Meantime the gambling speculations in "railroad scrip" are carried on more extensively than ever. It is only the stage which is allied in respect of them. It is no longer whether a Government Bill will reach a third reading in the Commons, or —pass the House of Lords, and receive the royal assent ;—b u t w h et h er i t will be _ _ _ _ _ recommended by the Board of Trade, or thrown out We hope some Members will bring the question of the continuance of this Board, upon its present con stitution, under the early notice of Parliament. The accounts from Madrid are to the 27th ult. The Senate on that day passed the Bill for con verting the claims of Government contractors in Three per Cent. Stock ; and in the Deputies a lengthened discussion took place on the Bill against the slave trade. The Minister of Foreign Affairs, in reply to some remarks from Senor Isruaryz, spoke strongly in favour of the measure, and contended that in place of injuring Cuba, as was said, it would be the surest means of preserving that important colony. The House then adjourned to the 29th. The Three per Cents. closed at 32 for cash, and 32} at 60 days ; the Five per Cents. at 23i for cash, and 23i at 60 days ; the Coupons at 26i- at 60 days, and the Debt, without interest, at 6i at 60 days. The journal des Debats announces that the or donnance appointing M. DE SALYA(DT Minister o Public Instruction, was signed on Monday, and that the new Minister had been sworn into office. The appointment is generally approved of, and as M. DE SALVANDY had already filled the same department under Count MOLE with much satisfaction to lite public, and is well acquainted with its duties hopes are entertained that the Education Bill, which caused such alarm to M. VILLEMAIN, will be carried through the Chambers without any material altera tions. Ix adverting to this addition to the Ministry, the Globe says:—" The Cabinet, which had waited until the position of affairs was clearly defined, to complete itself in a significant manner, considered that the moment had arrived to do so, and we are entirely of its opinion. On his side, M. DE SAL VANDY, in persevering in the line of policy he had so vigorously and loyally supported, gives an additional proof of his convictions, and adds example to pre cept. We congratulate both M. DE SALYANDT for having the honour to militate at the head of a majo rity so glorious and so convinced, by the side t,f colleagues already so honourably tried ; and the Cabinet, for having secured the co-operation of a man of talent, occupying an eminent position in the Chamber and public opinion." The Sleek denies the statements of some of the Opposi tion journals, that M. MIRES and the rest bf the coalition had resolved to abstain from voting in the Chamber. They are to attend and vote as usual, and probably will oppose the Secret Service Mond) , Bill. The Journal dee Debate alludes with much satisfaction to the remarks made by the Com& tutionn'el on the meeting ofOonservatives in the Rue Richelieu: —“ We shall not," it says, " endeavour to reply to the gross insults which the journal of M. Tutees ad dresses to the meeting of the Conservative part. We have no need to prove that a meeting which had at its head Marshal SEBASTIAN' and Marshal Bd- GEAUD, M. DR SALVANDT, and General JACQU/i- MINOT, is not a club of Ministerial Jacobins directed by- a committee of public safety. The insults Of that journal prove but one thing, which is, that it is dissatisfied with what has occurred within the fait two days, and we admit that it has cause to be so. Yes, the 213 .Conservative Deputies would have ful filled M. Tunisia' object better if they had dissolved immediately after the vote of Monday, and if they had surrendered without resistance to the 205 of the coalition. M. Timms and M. BILLAULT would not have been at the head of affairs. But in place of sepatating, the 213 Conservatives counted their votes, and they found they were still the masters. They have rallied and have undertaken to make head against the coalition. They believed they were oori querors, and they find that they have to recomtnence. Nothing is more pleasant than such great anger and such invectives. M. LITERS and M. BILLAULT ex pect that they have .a right to make coalitions against the majority, and that the Deputies of the majority should not have a right to assemble and to unite against them. It is to be permitted, in order to over throw the Ministry, that the pilgrims to Belgrave square should unite with the Republicans, and it is not to be permitted to the majority to organise them selves in order to defend their principles against a crowd of all opinions." The Three per Cents. were quoted on Sunday at at 85f. 100. • THE MINISTERIAL CHANGES. (prom the Times) We understand that Sir George Clerk is to be the Vice-President of the Board of Trade, and that Mr. Cardwell will succeed Sir George Clerk as Secretary to the Treasury in the Finance Department. We believe also that Lord Jocelyn will be appointed to office—we presume to the Lordship of the Adm;raity, vacant by the nomination of Mr. Corry to be Secretary to that Board. Of the fact that Lord Jocelyn is destined for some offi cial situation, we hare ao doubt. (From the Morning Post.) The feet of Sir Thomas Fremantle's appointment to the office of Chief Secretary for Ireland is placed beyond doubt. The lion. Baronet was only prevented from kissing hands yesterday, on his appointment, by the ill ness of a member of his family. It is perfectly understood that the Right Hon. Sidney Herbert will succeed Sir Thomas Fremantle as Secretary at War ; that the Right Hon. Henry Thomas Corry will take the place of Mr. Herbert as Secretary to the Ad miralty ; and we believe we may now add that Lord Viscount Jocelyn will be appointed a Lord of the Admi ralty in the room of Mr. Corry. We hare reason to believe that Sir George Clerk, Bart., will retire from office as one of the Secretaries to the Treasury, and that Mr. Cardwell will succeed to the Hon. Baronet. Whether Sir George is des tined to preside over the Board of Customs on the an ticipated retirement of Mr. Dean, or to become Pay. master of the Forces, i n th e possible event of Sir Edward linatchbull's resignation, we are not yet in a situation to state with certainty. . A rumoar prevails that the continued ill-health of the Earl of Ripon will, at no distant period, occasion another vacancy in the Cabinet. takings in the germ. And, again, the Railway Board of Privy Council, or by whatever other title we are to recognise it, can only be tolerable so long as its "Reports" carry with them the concurrence of a large proportion of public opinion. Their powers are powers which will only be tolerable in virtue of extreme moderation in their (exercise. Their "Reports" to Parliament, however, in name but preliminary incidents in the history and progress of any given Railway Bill, will, in effect, in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, be decisive of the fate of such Bill. By AIR LIBRARY OF THH DUKE OF SUSElEX.—Yea terday the sale of the library of the late Duke of Sussex was continued at Messrs. Evans's rooms, in Pall-mall. The number of lots disposed of during the four days have been 969, realising a aunt of from 400/. to 500/. Among the lots disposed of, those which fetched the highest prices are the books containing noted of the late illustrious Duke. Yester day, lot 526, Europe, or a General Survey of the Present Situation of the Principal Powers, with Conjectures on their thture Prospects, by a Citizen of the United 'States, with Manuscript Notes by the Duke of Sussex, pub lished in 1822, was bought by Mr. Boone for 2/. ss. Lot 768, Histoire Secrette de la Duchess d'llancryer, Epouse de George 1., London, 1732. A Home-troth, pr Memoirs of the Court of II (anover), with the names filled up in MS., by the Duke of Sussex, sold for 2/. 65., to Mr. Mur ray. Lot 829, Various Tracts relating to Gustavus Adol phus, King of Sweden, in 5 vols., sold for 9/. 17s. 6d. This very curious collection was made by Sir Robert Gordon, of Gordonstoun, and was bought at his sale by the Messrs. Longman for 18/. 10s. The most attractive portion of the safe yesterday was the disposal of various editions of Frois sard's Chronicles. The first lot, 923, Froissard Croniques, 4 vols. in three, very scarce edition, printed by Verard, at Paris, in 1518, sold for 5/. 12s. 6d. ' Lot 924, Froissard Cro niques, par Sauvage, 4 vols. in two, fine copy, Sir M. Sykes', printed at Lyon s , 1559, sold for Si. Lot 926, Froissard's Chronicles, transl a t e d b y L ord Berners, 2 vols., imperfect, printed by Myddleton and Pynson, in 1525, sold for 9/. 108., to M. Pickering. The sixth anniversary of the marriage of her Majesty, on Monday nex t, w ill be celebrated by public dinners at Windsor, E g h am , &c. ; and a ball in honour of the event will take place at the jotter town. THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 4 1845. THIS DAY'S NEWS. EXCHEQUER.-(THIS DAY.) (Before the LORD CHIEF BARON and a Special Jury. THE ATTORNEY GENERAL V. PORTER. This was an information filed by her Majesty's At torney-General against the defendant for the recovery of penalties which he was alleged to have incurred by evading the payment of the Customs' duties. The Solicitor-General, Mr. Jervia, and Mr. Wilde, conducted the case for the Crown ; Sir Thomas Wilde, Mr. Cockburn, Mr. liumfrey, and Mr. Hindmarsh, ap peared for the defendant. Mr. Porter, the defendant in this information, had been associated in business with Mr. Foster, as ware houseman, in Cheapside. The transaction from which the present information arose, was the landing. on the 29th of March, 1842, of two cases of goods, Nos. 36 and 57, from the Harlequin steamer, from Boulogne. The principal ground of action, however, was the last case. This information, in its leading features, is closely assimilated with those of the Attorney-General v. Dean lb id Candy, so frequently before the Court of Exchequer, and with which our readers have been made so familiar. The cases from Boulogne contained gloves, silks, satins, and a variety of haberdashery, on which a duty of 1201. st. 2d. was plid on the 2d of April 1842; the goods having been cleared by Mr. Noble, the prin cipal clerk of the defendant, but who ha• since left the country. From the size of the cases, and the calcula tion of their cubrical contents ,it was contended, on be half of the Crown, that they could hold, and had held, a quantity of goods, the duty on which would be 3121. 4s. 10d. The difference, therefore, between these two sums was the amount which it was argued the de fendant ought to have paid, and he was now sued for his default, and the penalties thereby incurred. [The case was proceeding when we went to press.] CRIMINAL COURT-(THIS DAY.) (Before the RECORDER.) The Court was opened this morning at ten o'clock, but no case of any interest was tried up to the time of going to press. BOW-STREET.-(THIS DAY.) John Neil and Richard Fleddon were charged before Mr. Jardine with an assault on James Saville, the pro prietor, and George Smith, the waiter, of a coffee-shop in High street, St. Giles's, Mr. Saville said, that about four o'clock this morning he was roused by a row in his shop. He saw the pri soners in the shop struggling with the waiter. He de sired them to leave, but they refused, and he helped the waiter to turn them out. A policeman coming up at the moment when he turned the prisoners out, he gave them in charge. John - Smith, waiter in Mr. Sarille's shop, said that between three and four o'clok this morning the prisoners came in and asked for some coffee and bacon. When he serred them they refused to pay beforehand, and he would not leave the tray with them. They tried to snatch it from him. The master then came down and assisted witness to turn them out. Policeman, F 23, said that he took the prisoners in custody, having seen them break one of prosecutor's windows. The prisoners said that they had not committed any assault on the prosecutor. They refuted to pay for the coffee before they had taken it, and the waiter imme diately attacked them. The policeman said that the prisoners were drunk at the time, and Mr. JARDINE fined the prisoners lOs. each, and in default of payment, sentenced them to 14 days' imprisonment. LLOYD'S SHIPPING.—(THIS DAY.) LONDON, FEB. 4.—Wind northerly, mod e r a t e bre e ze, and fine, but hazy. DEAL, FED. 3.—Wind, N.W. by W., light breeze, very thick weather.--Arrd. George Canning, Ichaboe. OFF THE WIGHT, FEB. 3.—Augustus, South Australia, Ski. Sept. 12. PLYMOUTH, FED. 3.—The Caroline, M'Cornish, arrd. here from Girgenti, is discharging her cargo, being leaky. SCILLY, JAN. 29.—The Northumbria, Harrison, from Cardiff to London, ashore on Crow Sound, has been as sisted off, and is now in St. Mary's Pool, and it is ex • pepected must discharge her cargo. MALDON, JAM. 31.—The Mary Ann, Mulley, of this port, drifted ashore at high water, on the 27th instant, and lay very bad, and has received considerable damage. HAYLE, JAN. 31.—The Anne and Betty, from Kinsale and Thurso, has put in here, with cargo heated, and must discharge. BOWMORE, ISLAY, JAN. 31.—The Lion and the Mary Ann, ashore near here, are complete wrecks. LOtTonswimot, JAN. 30.—Arrd. Ellison, Liverpool to Newcastle, cargo shifted, loss of bulwarks, &c., having experienced a heavy gale from W.S.W. to N., 25th inst., off the Lewis Islands. CORK, FEB. I.—The crew of the Thomas Laurie, which was abandoned Nov. 18, off Ichaboe, were picked up and landed at St.Holena by the Crescent, arrived here. CLAY, FEB. 3.—The Breeze, of Plymouth, from Mar seilles to Wisbeach, is ashore to the westward of Blake ney ; cargo discharging in a damaged state; crew saved. A head-board, mazked " Livorno," has been picked up on Clay Beach. LIVERPOOL, FED. 3.—Wind N.W., light.--Sld. Gowan, Newfoundland. Hum., FEB. 3.—Wind N.N.E.—Arrd. The Jeanie, Shields for Rouen, leaky, ani must discharge to repair. A sloop, with black masts, is sunk off Trasithorpe, in about four fathoms. MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.) NAT wzAßiniTs. SMITIIFIELD.—Coarse Meadow Hay , 31 lOs to 41 108 , Useful ditto, 41 12s to 51 3s ; fine Up land ditto, Si 4s to 518 s; Clover Hay, 4/ lOs to 61; Oat Straw, 1/ 14s to 11 16s ; Wheat Straw, 11 16s to 1/ 18s per load. A fair average supply, an d steady inquiry. OtilithEttLAND.—Coarse Meadow Hay, 31 128 to 41125; Useful ditto, 4/ 14s to 51 4s ; fine Upland ditto, 51 5s to 5/ Ws; Clover Hay, 4/ 108 to 5/ 18s; Oat Straw, 11 163 to 1/ 18s ; Wheat Straw, 11 188 to 21 per load. Supply moderately good, and trade firm. WRIT ECHAPEL.—CO4LrSe Meadow Hay, 31:12s to 41125; Useful ditto, 4/ 14s to Si 3s ; fine Upland ditto, Si 4s to 51 los; Clover Hay, 41 10s to 6135; Oat Straw, 11 13s to 1/ 15s ; Wheat Straw, 11 15s to 11 17s per load. Both Hay and Straw moved off slowly, at last week's quota tions. FLANDERS MAIL. (RECEIVED THIS DAY.) BnossELs, FED. I.—The Chamber of Representatives in its sitting to•day, after a short general discussion on the budget of the Department of the Interior, voted the first two articles of the budget, and adjourned till Thurs day next. The speech of AI. Elsyde Burdinne, at the opening of the sitting, related especially to the agricultural situation of the country. The King arrived this afternoon about fire o'clock from Ardenne. A letter from Vienna of the 24th of January, says that the Duke Ferdinand of Saxe Coburg, whose health had improved a little, has had a relapse, and that he is so seriously ill that fears arc entertained for his life. The latest accounts from St. Petersburgh, state that the Empress of Russia intends to visit Germany in the spring for the benat of her health, which is very indif ferent. Prince Adam of Wurtemburg has obtained his discharge from the service of Russia, in which he held the rank of Adjutant-General and of Lieutenant- General. We have learnt a circumstance respecting the motion of M. Osy, which is not uninteresting. In the evening of the day before yesterday M. Osy hesitated, and thought of withdrawing his motion. If he persisted, it was because it was represented to him that a third trans formation would expose him, if not to ridicule, atleast to the accusation of groping in the dark, which would fall on the whole opposition. BELGIAN FUNDS.—BRussEts, FHB. 1. Actual Debt, 234 per Cent Rothschild's Loan, Five per Cent • Loan of Thirty Millions, Four per Cent 98% Ditto Three per Cent.... — Ditto Thirty-seven Millions, ditto 79 Ditto, ditto, 1840.. ..... . • •• . • 10614 Ditto, ditto, 1844. 102% Ditto of the City, 1843 • . • • .. • . 102;;i Bank of Belgium. Brussels Papers. Feb. 2. lIAMBURGII BORSENIIALLE, JAN. 30. Bills. Money. 113 Austrian .5 per Cents • • • • • • • ..... • Bank Shares ........ Anglo•llussian Loan Russian 5 per Cent., Ilamb. Certificate. 105 1 A 105. 4 4 Ditto let series Inscription•..... •• •• .• • 10514 Ditto, Hope and Co., 3d and 4th series.. 995( Ditto, In Certificate . 99% Now 4 per Cent., Hope and Co• .•• • • • 92 9l Ditto Stleglitz ••••••••••• • • • • • • • • • • • 90N Spanish New 5 per Cent.• •••••• • • • • • • 22 21 Ditto 3 per Cent ••••••••• • • • • • • • • • 40 .Anglo-Portuguese Loan, 2% per Cent•• Dutch Actual Debt, 2% per Cent ••.• • • 63 1 4 63 Polish New 4 per Cent. Loan, 1844.. • • 87% 87 Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cent ••• • • • 87% 57% National Bank Shares exchange on London. Petersburgh, Three months ...... 37 15-16 Bremen, Two months.. •. •Ilarnburgh Borsenhalle, Jan. 30. PRUSSIAN PUNDS.—Bramv, JAW. 31. Bills. St. Schnld Sch., 3% per Cent •• •• • • • • • • 100 Truss. English Bonds, 1830, 4 per Cent.. Exchange on London, 2 months • • 628 -Universal Prussian Gazette; Jan. 31. AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—Tinian, Jaw. 26. S. per Cent.3letalliqucs...... 4 per Cent. ditto. . 2 per Cent. ditto ........... • •. • 78 Loan, 1834 18814 ' Ditto, 1839 .. . - Bank Shares ..... Esterhazy's Loan ••.••• • • • • • 57 Allgentelne &Rung, Jan. 28. Money. 99}4 [A DVEATISEWERT.]—NUAIDER ONE, SAINT PAUL'S ClluPrityAnD,--:rhe best of everything is good enough for anybody, and 'the best of teas and coffees are sold at Number One, Saiat Paul's Churchyard. Here are two very bold and very straightforward assertions. We respectfully call upon tb'e reader -to prove their truth. It may easily 'be done by a single trial of our four-and-sixpenny black tea, which is in deed good .enough for any and everybody, and will guarantee the quality of all other articles sold by Dakin and Company, 1 'ea merchants, at Number One, Saint Paul's Churchyard, L ondon. . O.W7ULLY S UDDEN DEATH.—Yesterday an inquest was oaken before. ltr i r. Baker, at the Duke of Marlborough, Lo frer East SuY:thfield, on the body of John Nettleship, aged for ty-eight, coal porter. It appeared that on Saturday morn ia :,141L d.:ceased was in front of the bar of the above public ho' Lift , in conversation with the barmaid, when, feeling d llll. ' t ali, he asked for threepenny worth of brandy. Having tank it , hefell back and almostinstantly expired. A surgeon wassenl for, but all medical aid was unavailing. Verdict— , r u ntaik n of God. Deceased has left a widow and four children. 'Afr. Tufnell, M.P., has paired off with Sir C. ( Cool L.A atil the owl of the present month. ".... Cr 1 .....i ' 4-I *7 4 :! % ~. ..„ ''.. % ' .. .7 ... a.. 4 .0.. fl - yam. E " - '", *ea - 1•11 N- ... • r-yiiiik..2•lrg " - 411110 46 \4 .. 11‘ ''' ••-:) a '.• 0 %.•• 64 41:9 - 1 1 . 11 , 1r7; 7, •ito S ' : '''' nif o , t''''' • - • -. n. _ In, SECOND EDITION. ~~~~t~~~ ~~s~ LONDON, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1845 In an article on the opening of a new session of Parliament, our Contemporary, the Spectator, has some caustic remarks on the unprofitable results to which that session, in all probability, will lead. It takes as disparaging a view of what it calls its "hope less" laboars, as of the degree of interest with which the public at large regard their commencement. This degree, in its estimation, is evidently represented by that negative quantity which, in commercial par lance, is tensed nil.. If we rightly collect his meaning, the Spectator himself expects no thing from the new Parliament; whilst the public manifests such an apathy about its existence, as im plies that nothing is to be expected from it. We are kept, it is said, in more than even the usual degree of igno rance of the programme •f the measures to be brought forward, the pieces to be performed, and the partie s to whom their representation is to be osigned. There is more playfulness, we trust, than truth in these re marks, and in the conclusion which is deduced from them,: " that the session of 1845 is destined to follow the fate of some of its predecessors, in exhibitinte an absurd contrast between any brilliant expectations formed of it at its opening, and the realised national benefit derived at its termination, from the whole aggregate of its labours during that in terval."'L'Our Government must strangely neg lect its duty, if it fail to originate within the next six months, some of the most important, ex tensive, and urgent questions that any administration has submitted to the Legislature during the years that have elapsed since the general peace of 1815. Our Legislature will utterly have repudiated its own legitimate functions if it have not, before the next sessional recess, compelled the questions we speak of to be submitted by the Government for full and ma ture discussion within the walls of Parliament. In truth the necessity of the case, properly looked at, supplies abundant guarantees for the assumption that the now pending ses sion will be rendered memorable by the variety, the number, and the extraordinary magnitude of the matters and the interests with which Parlia ment will have to deal, which it must finally adjust or vindicate, propound or renew, but which it will be out of its power to postpone. On this account we differ from our Contemporary, and are disposed to look rather for a " hopeful" than far his "hopeless" session. Let us consider for a moment what, under the head of home business, are the great social and domestic questions pressing for the earliest consideration, with a force and exigency proportionate to the intense solicitude which they excite in the public mind. There is, first, the reconstruction of the amended Poor-law, especially in reference to Sir JAMES GRAHAM'S Bill, which attempts to establish the law of settlement on a single basis, namely, the settlement in every case acquired by the father. It is deemed, on high authority, very expedient that the place of birth of the male parent should thus deter mine the settlement of the progeny ; and nothing seems to be fairer than the course which the Right Honourable the Home Secretary has adopted, for ar. riving at the opinions of the soundest practical autho rities on this vital question; for it involves the recon struction, net only of the Act, but of the Poor-law Corn mission itself. If we may judge of the aggregate returns from the . Boards of Guardians throughout England and Wales (and, we believe, Ireland) to the questions submitted for their opinion and report, with copies of the new Bill ; by those we have had already an opportunity of becoming acquainted with, wa may safely predict that the replies to the Home Secretary's various queries will be s•) contradictory, so conflicting, and yet eo unqualified and unhesitating, in most instances, that Sir JAMES will be compelled to abandon his new principle. On the other hand, we firmly believe that the anomalies, absurdities, in justice, and uncertainty, attending the operation and construction of the law of settlement., a,: at present exists, will be se powerfully de monstrated by these returns and replies, that Parliament will be brought to the unanimous determination that such a law shall an longer be acted upon. We have heard it surmised that these difficulties will result in a foreseen conclusion ; and that the whole burden of the poor-rate will be levied by a Poor-subsistence tax under Parliamentary authority, through Government machinery, in the usual manner, but with a more equable distribution thou has hitherto been adopted in respect of moveable as well as fixed capital and income. Next, there will be the all-im portant question, whether the property-tax is to be re-imposed and re-endured; and if that should even be determined in the affirmative, there remains another almost as difficult—quite as iasidions :—" Itow shall the surplus revenue be appropriated?" Without the property-tax there can be no surplus at all. With it, and a realised surplus, there will be the re missive pretensions of malt to be balanced against those of windows, of tea against those of raw cotton, of paper, &c. The manufacturing interest will have to be fought by the reluctant Minister on one " Supply" night against the landed interest ; on another the landowner will be set up to ride over the manufac turer. It is very evident, that if there be a "surplus," the consumers of tea, sugar, tobacco, paper, raw cotton, &c., &c., will not hear of their claims being postponed or adjourned. These must be met, and either affirmed or negatived. Then the busi ness of appropriation of surplus will be transferred to its relations with such vast affairs as the paying for new harbours of refuge, breakwaters, and forts, the extension and strengthening of our steam navy, and all the other details of that necessary condition of preparation for warlike contingencies, the wisdom of which appears to be no longer matter of doubt with any party in the kingdom. A most rigorous revenue inquiry we suppose will also he called for by some of these Members in either House whose eyes have been opened to the scandalous inefficiency of our Custom House management, in London more particularly, and the incalculable loss, which the frauds that have grown up under such a fiscal administration have inflicted, and still inflict upon the annual income and financial resources of the em pire. We cannot believe that the corn-laws will be continued to IB4G in the same shape they present themselves under, now, in 1845. Nor is it to be imagined that our monetary system can be trusted for another year in its present rickety and vicious condition to those happy accidents which have tided it through so many perils, on so many occasions, with out actually renewing its disastrous shipwrecks of 1825-26, and 1838. We are much mistaken, more- over, if the Legislature will not deem it still its duty to infuse more vigour and liberality into any existing plans of national education, so as to arrest, if possible, the appalling growth and in crease of crimes, in a large proportion of cases the result of ignorance---i n almost all, stamped by a cha racter of atrocity, a recklessness of blood, a proneness to savage violence, and even to treachery, such as will impart to the criminal annals of the last twelve months darker and more prurient shades of guilt, than have been heretofore thought compatibl e with the charac ter of e►en the most degraded classes of our population. Besides all these questions, in connexion with our do mestic and social status, the Parliament will scarcely separate again without paying due attention to others that it is not less imperative uponi t to regard with the most unremitting vigilance. The restrictions on our foreign commerce, which cramp our home in- HER MAJESTY'S SPEECH. OPENING OF PARLIAMENT MT LORDS AND GENTLEMEN, I rejoice that lam enabled, on again meeting you in Parliament, to congratulate you on the improved condition of the country. Increased activity pervades almost every branch of manufacture. Trade and commerce have been ex tended at home and abroad, and among all classes of my people there is generally prevalent a spirit of loyalty and cheerful obedience to the law. I continue to receive from all Foreign Powers and States assurances of their friendly disposition. I have had much satisfaction in receiving at my Court the Sovereigns who in the course of the last year visited this country. The journey of the Emperor of Russia, under taken at a great sacrifice of private convenience, was a proof of the friendship of his Imperial Majesty most acceptable to my feelings. The opportunity of personal intercourse thus afforded to me may; I hope, be the means of still further improving those amicable relations which have long existed between Great Britain and Russia. The visit of the King of the French was ren dered especially welcome to me, inasmuch as it had been needed by discussions which might have im paired the good understanding happily established between the two countries. I regard the maintenance of this good un derstanding as essential to the best interests of both ; and I rejoiced to witness that the senti ments so cordially expressed by all classes of my subjects on the occasion of his Majesty's visit were entirely in unison with my own. GENTLEMEN OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS, The estimates for the ensuing year have been prepared, and will forthwith be laid before you. The progress of steam navigation, and the demands for protection to the extended commerce of the coun try, will occasion an increase in the estimates con nected with - the naval service. Mr LORDS AND GENTLEMEN, I have observed with sincere satisfaction that the improvement which is manifest in other parts of the country has extended to Ireland. The political agitation and excitement, which I have had heretofore occasion to lament, appear to have gradually abated, and, as a natural result, pri vate capital has been more freely applied to useful public enterprises, undertaken through the friendly co-operation of individuals interested in the welfare of Ireland. I have carried into effect, in the spirit in which it was conceived, the Act for the more effectual applica tion of charitable donations and bequests. I recommend to your favourable consideration the policy of improving and extending the opportu nities for academical education in Ireland. The Report of the Commission appointed to in quire into the law and practice, in respect to the occupation of land, is nearly prepared, and shall be communicated to you i:nmediately after its pre sentation. The state of the law in regard to the privileges of the Bank of Ireland, and to other banking estab lishments in that country, and in Scotland, will, no doubt, occupy your attention. The health of the inhabitants of large towns and populous districts in this part of the United Kingdom has been the subject of recent inquiry before a Com mission, the report of which shall be immediately laid before you. It will be highly gratifying to me if the informa tion and suggestions contained in that,Report shall enable you to devise the means of promoting the health and comfort of the poorer classes of my sub jects. I congratulate you on the success of the mea sures whicb, three years since, were adopted by Parliament for the purpose of supplying the defi ciency in the Public Revenue, and arresting the accumulation of debt in the time of peace. The Act which was passed at that time for im posing a Tax upon Income will shortly expire. It will be for you in your wisdom to determine whether it may not be expedient to continue its ope ration for a further period, and thus to obtain the means of adequately providing for the Public Service, and at the same time of making a:reduction in other taxation. Whatever may be the result of your delibera tions in this respect, I feel assured that it will be your determination to maintain an amount of re venue amply sufficient to meet the necessary expendi ture of the country, and firmly to uphold that public credit which is indispensable to the national welfare. The prospect of continued peace, and the general state of domestic prosperity and tranquillity, afford a favourable opportunity for the consideration of the important matters to which I have directed your attention, and I commit them to your delibe ration with the earnest prayer that you may be enabled, under the superintending care and pro tection of Divine Providence, to strengthen the feel ings of mutual confidence and goodwill between different classes of my subjects, and to improve the condition of my people. PARLIAMENTARY ENTERTAIN- MENTS. As is usual on the eve of the assembling of Parliament, the customary political dinners were given yesterday by the respective party leaders of both Houses. We subjoin the particulars regarding each of those meetings. The Duke of Wellington, as leader of the House of _ Lords, received a numerous party of the Conserva tive Peers at dinner last evening at Apsley House. The mover and seconder of the Address (Marquis Camden and Lord Glenlyon) and the following noblemen were present:—The Dukes of Buccleuch, Beaufort, Montrose, Cleveland, and Rutland ; the Marquises of Salisbury and Exeter; the Earls of Aberdeen, Bathurst, Liverpool, Delawarr, Jersey, Wilton, Shaftesbury, Dalhousie, Had-- dington, Ellenborough, Beverly, Brownlow, Rosslyn, Lonsdale, Eldon, Clare, Wicklow, Verulam, and Hard wicke; Viscounts Strangford, Canterbury, Hawarden, and Canning; the Lord Chancellor, Lords Wharncliffe, Colchester, Redesdale, Abinger, De Ros, and Forester. Lord Stanley was obliged to send an excuse for his ab sence, his Lordship labouring under an attack of gout. Covers were laid for upwards of forty guests. The Queen's Speech to be delivered to-day was read to the company by the Noble and. Gallant Duke, previous to the party separating. The Right Hon. Sir R. Peel, Bart., gave the customary full-dress Parliamentary dinner last evening at the family mansion in Whitehall-gardens, when a distinguished party of the supporters of the Government assembled. At the removal of the cloth, her Majesty's Speech, to be delivered by the Sovereign at the opening of Parliament to-day, was read to the guests by the Right Honourable Baronet. In addition to the Hon. F. Charteris and Mr. T. Baring, the mover and seconder of the Address the Right Hon. the Speaker of the House of Commons, and the following Members of that branch of the Legislature ' were present:—The Right Hon. Sir J. Graham, the Right Hon. the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Lord G. Somerset, the Earl of Lincoln, the Hon. b. Herbert, the Right Hon. Sir T. Fremantle, Sir G. Clerk, Mr. Young, Mr. H. Baring, Mr. Milnes Gaskell, Mr. Pringle, the. Hon. W. B. Baring, Mr. E. Tennent, the Hon. H. M. Sutton, the Hon. Henry Corry, Admiral Sir G. Cock burn, Rear-Admiral Bowles, the Hon. Captain Gordon, Mr. G. W. Hope, the lion. C. Hope, the Hon. Lieut- Colonel D. Darner, Earl Jermyn, Lord E. Bruce, Lieutenant-Colonel Peel, Captain Boldero, Sir F. Trench, the Solicitor-General (Sir. F. Thesiger), the Attorney- General for Jteland, the Lord Advocate, the Judge Advocate-General, Mr. H. Greene, Viscount Jocelyn, and Mr. Cardwell. The whole of the noblemen and gentlemen were attired in uniform or court dress. Lord C. Wellesley, the Attorney-General (Sir William Follett), Lord A. Lennox, and Capt. Meyaell, were un avoidably prevented from dining with Sir R. Peel on this occasion. Lord John Russell, as leader of the Opposition party in the House of Commons, entertained the following party of his supporters last evening at his Lordship's private mansion in Chesham-place :—Viscount Palmer ston Viscount Howick, the Right Hon. Sir John Cam Hobhouse, Lord Marcus Hill, the Right Hon. T. B. Ma caulay, the Right Hon. Sir George Grey, Sir Thomas Wilde Col. Fox, the Right Hon. Richard Lalor Sheil, the Right Hon. George' Stevens Byng, Mr. Vernon Smith, Mr. Parker, Mr. Bernard, Mr. Charles Wood, Mr. B. Hawes, Mr. C. Buller, Mr. Wyse, 84e. Covers vivo WI for 22. ' MONEY MARKET and CITY DiEi" CITY, QUARTER TO TIIREE• ~ There was a very fair demand for Cotton at Liverr' yesterday, but holders met it freely at steady r e! Sales 7,000 bales, of which 1,000 American were e! speculation. —There was a good market for Shares,el: a large business was done:—Birmingham and De F o ) , 130 21 : 1; Bristol and Gloucester 54 7; Cale de a !! .., I I; Chester and Birkenhead, 38k 71 ; ehurnet V' Ile), 9i 10; Eastern Counties, 19118 i ; Edinb ur g h anti Gisg l: 65 ; Grand Junction, 224; Great Western, 114 1 4 _in ; Ditto, One-fifth, 41: Lancaster and Carlisle, Ji I, stet Lancaster and Preston, 53 ; Liverpool and 1dan.•,_13.,,, New, 384 ; London and Birmingham, 29 4 1 29; London and York, 5i 6 ; Direct Northern, ; : Quarter hi'lll Manchester and Birmingham, Quarter S h ares, Slisre: Manchester and Leeds, 1451 ; Ditto, QUOTIfI n,4. 15; Midland Counties, 1291 ; Ditto, 401. Shareo,,s;,,, North British, 111 12; North Union, 151; Sh i elli ,„ e ne tion• Manchester, 1031- 5 ; Shrewsbury and Gratin ' 0 1'231 ; ' 71 i ; South-Eastern, 491 511 ; Ditto, No. 1, . , 11 • Trent Valley, Iti Ili , York and North Dtidlandt z.,4 Northern of France, 54 5/. • 16s. 3d. ; ne lll4ne )I'. Amiens, 5 5. The mercantile and other principal interests :f, the !e City are most anxiDusly looking for the result _l d he proceedings in the Legislature this afternoon, Provo debates on the Address, as it is considered improbable that something V ele lI I° are really the intentions of the Ministers on the 5 of a further ameliorative alteration in the tariff. sod r e. That present trading season opens welt exc eed' may escape to indi s e _object quires but proper discretion and fostering to he _ the ingly prosperous, the following quotation frow r o monthly report of Messrs. Wilkinson and Jewesbilloe" , go far to prove, though the New York parsgraPh 1 tainly a drawback : hav e belt' "The business transactions of the past mouth of t he more extensive than at any former beg held i n CO' year ; more than 300 public sales have been he' . r p oi lonial and Foreign pr ducts, and by far the gre n ! e o tho actually sold. From the manufacturing distriertool accounts continue favourable, and great activi ll 1 ) ,,i wool in almost every branch of industry. T h e Colo,m.to ape sales, consisting of 15,000 bags commenced oil lu o , oe e og last, at the Hall of Commerce, ' and so far lin„ re i n g °- (rot° with a degree of spirit seldom witnessed, rettai7oooo 2d. to 2/d , and in some instances 3d. per lh• ib" f ra ise° the previous sales, and the attendance a bur „o great, that any of the old sale-rooms would 11° quate fur little more than half the number. ha t he " Letters from New York, to the 14th alt ., " n - ottal received, stating, the trade in European rl/5- e ll eetiee °. to be very dull, and prices ruinously low, in coaseg o i s - r ----the l the scarcity of money, caused by the exportation . n opt which since the beginning of Oct. last amounts,:tolig five million dollars. This shows that, notWitirmerican. the extensive shipments of cotton and other P o ' - g aitts' products to Europe, the balance of tra de has b ee .. th. s them ; and will, for a time, render shipatellw go Jo e country extremely hazardous." •„t, aa ( The public securities have to-day been q uiet, niag° Parliament. seldom operate on the morning of th e lor r e Parliament. Consols have been 991 to I° fi pyr Til Meg sent transfer, and 1001 4 for account ; and-a-Quarter per Cents. are 104 to 1. Thr ee pe! tr eol s Spanish Active Stock is 28i 1, the ~,,f; 1% 41i -0, Portuguese Converted 59f to bsz, ---( 1 36 to 36-k. Railway Shares are buoyant. ,oOCIC L' BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE ,L (From the Official List.)2ls 9 ,ti AP' Bank Stock .. 1.. , 4 3 per Cent. Reduced Annual; ... ......... 1 ° () ? 99/i 3 per Cent. Consols Arms ............•••••• 10 9 ° A , „ 4 ,, 3 per Cent. Annuities, 1726 ...... 9 ,,, 1 Lii it" New 3 1 4 per Cent..Annuties ............ 177r3.46 Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan. 1860. , 124 Do. 30 Years, Expire Oct. 10, 1859... 1 2 Ditto 30Years, Expire Jan.lB6o ...... 11 % --- PP - India Bonds 1,000/ ................ ..... „ 5 P P Ditto under 1,0001 ................. 11 ". ~;/ South Sea Stock .............................. 100 Ditto Old Annuities ............ 214 1 Bank Stock for Acc0un t. .......... ............. Consols for Account ................. 1 0 0° , L India Stock for Account ' .......................... .ac"'" Exchequer Bills. 1 3 / 4 41 .• 1 3 / 4 d. 6 4 pi* 1,0001. 500/. ,„ ...... 26 4 .01. Ditto Small Pon'P • Ditto Advertised ... ..... --- -- IC PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT 01 0 - 94 -. . Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent .••••••• " 1P93,,C Ditto for the Account ............ ," 4 ' Columbian Bonds. ..................... ; 6 I A Mexican Bonds, 1837, • 5 per Cent. , 5 6 " 6 Ditto for the Account. ............ 133 Ditto Debentures ................. Peruvian Bonds, 6 per Cent • ...... ...... Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent ...... •' _At Ditto Converted ....... ... ........... Lai Ditto for the Account. .........••• 1.6 Russian Bonds 1822, 5 per Cent. , i Spanish Bonds, , 5 per Celt., 1840... g Ditto for the Account ............ .. . 6 4 Ditto Passive Bonds ............... Ai Ditto 3 per Cent ..................... 41 Ditto for the Account .. •••••' 44 0 Venezuela Bonds, 2 per Cent ...... 63 ' Dutch 2% per Cents ................. .• 9s i 4 Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates .. i i 9 Ditto 5 per Cents .................... - ,010E0 . 4; PRICE OF SHARES AT ONE CO', O v its - Sit Y -1 30 RAILWAYS. PAID. 1,7- to ./ Birmingham and Gloucester 100 ......130 13 , °r" to 4 , Ditto. Hal , Shares . 3 8 ...... '' Bristol and Exeter - ..... " 70 ............ 78 .... ro '''' 7 Ditto, New 2 ...... 5 1 4;11 .. t o 5 0 4 Bristol and Gloucester 3O . 5 6 '' " to ' 6 3i Caledonian 5 ..... 7* .. ' to - Cambridge and Lincoln 5 ,, -; ` ... t c) l 4 Chater and Holyhead... .. . „. 9 Churnet Valley Cornwall Pirect Northern 2 • 164 91 ti . •to , 3 ..... 5 1 / 4 ...... to "0 2% ...... 2A ..... 'to l o Eastern Counties Ely and Bedford _..,''' ' Great South and W. (Irish) 5 .... 11 - 4 ...... to -' Great North of England 100 .. -- ...... to -- 9 Ditto New 2 ......... 13 ..... • 0 17 ... .• Great Western Ditto Fifths Harwich Hull and Selby . . ...50 ...... -- ...... to 1 ...... 2li v ........ to ! 71. Ditto Quarter Shares Lancaster and Carlisle... .. .. London and Birmingham lOO .. 2 38 ••*". to ..- fs . Ditto, New Thirds . 2 ..... 4 1'1 t. - w- London and Blackwell - 16%.•.. .7 4 to 7 9 0 ' London and 8right0n....... ... 50 ... ...... " t e ' London and South Weste rn 4lr .... 80 1 A ...... 0 ''''. Ditto NewCottsolidated Bths 6 8 .. .. . 26, ... 4to a Ditto, New 2%.. .. .. 13 1 /0 8 ,to 6 r 4 /4 London and Croydon to 03 London and Y0ric........ Manchester and Leeds ..... 70 .....142 ...... tcr ***:: Ditto Half Shares - 30 Manchester and Birmingham 40 ••• •• it ...... tO ,''''' Ditto Quarters Midland Ditto New 2 . ..... 911•"" to . 4 ...... to, Midland, Birm. and-Derby lOO ...... 9 6 . • N Ne o w w ea ca s s t t l l e e& an D d a nerw rlingt i o ck nJunc 24 „ . /4 ....... .... 4 - .. t - .., ' „ r , .... ,12 North British 45 ...... ......16 1 /4:: ... I. toto ..,,,.,,, , 7% ...... 12 ••:::: to ....,. Northern , and Eastern Ditto-Scrip Norwich and Brandon 8 ..•••• 15 3 / .to 24' Ditto New Shares 3 Ol .. .. ... .. . 4 . 6 3 ... ............ t to o ,.... .c: 4 Oxford and Worcester 2% ...... A ....ill to 14 'Rugby 1 ...... ... 4 . __ 1 . Shrews.,Wolver., Dud., Birm 2% ...... 6 A .... I° . ' South Devon , lO ..... 16,,, .. to 0 1 South Eastern and Dover .... ::: t 8/ 4 5 Ditto New, N 0.2 .. ... 22 . ... to .1i South Wales 2% ...... 7 0 %... w 27! Trent Valley 2 ...... 12 . .to ...„ 2 4"' ‘. to • ' Waterford and Kilkenny 1 ...... ...,. triv York and North Midland ...,.,/ • , Ditto Scarboro'Braneh lO. ...... 44 7 47 7 .. .to i4A : Ditto Selby Serip Ditto, Extension Boulogne and 2 .. , ... 5 5 76. 6 t ° 'i Great Northern of France Amiens PRENC II R 2 .4 01 1 1A L ii : 1 ..7.1.Y71531.34 ..../.. . to. • ..... .' .,, Orleans and Bordeaux ..... 2 •••••• 3 ..." to '''' Paris and Strasburg . 2 2 •"'.* - ' l° Tours and Nantes. ....... tit ;Of MANCHESTER $ TOC/C ExcEt.orcsit, A do , continue to to in h p a r v i o c.es a . targe cheater an'ißirMingham, Manches terb .uasr, i n er,9;l l . i giiir i 4 - 'e;: ; ;D" . t1 ; and Rossendale, 10 ;4 Midland, Cons.92;sre, 91i en ber: I)itto, 40/, Shares, 9f; Preston and Vq . . o llir,t4o l . l _ l c i Eastern 49i; Ditto, Scrip, s f i prenn. o r. - 44 !lin Manchester, and Cheshire Junction, 74 ' Sir d Spao. l ; Burnley; and Accringtein, 56 p n br i dge on l yeli f S6i Liverpool, si; CaledoniaV. 7; arabr tie d a. 1 5 4 . i 4a 5 ;,. Churnet Valley, 10. 5,11 0 146° • c 2 l lOO ll 0. li; Great Grimsby and Sheffield Jill / a nd i . oti c ;' % . Hudersfield and Manchester Bailwis/i,iverpoote,„„ Leeds and West Riding Junction, 7; A WO 6; P.re kirk, and Preston, 2 9-16;• L o ndon ''' ford and Rugby, 41. ii London an rA ld on -' IIP cheater and Buxton, 3i; She...e- vir,ttetii r 0 Junction, 1i 13.16; Southport's a P , _ Valley, 11} i; West Yorkshire, 2i. darlirordli;l:,6itao, ..104risbliii ....... . 4 ,34 yes t il 0 ,„ SAGACITY AND FIDELITY CYO- mid as 1 DC)a. dleg e d pital, on the body of W. Chadd , Mr. Wakle; 11S .P. , held an inquest the . i ,bear er ' nt - i t e-- , he • 9 a farlin., ago* het 0 so sixty-five, who was found by a dog, with 0 5 ' 0 ' t th joe t.A Hendon Wood. W. Smith, a farmer's n , 0P,, , heed •o'o,p was driving his master's hogs into the ' 0 ,° ° ,.. (4 w hich, o r g'o. ° s the entrance of the wood by deceaseds ofkii;‘, the . 02 , 1 cg ri , stretched f antic and barked, furiously. ast e r 's fern fernl t i e 4 !! l p g pearance, he returned towards his gl i tt, ace° lll .,„ P j Red i d a man of the occurrence. Thefotio'nyjebciees'ioitititfilthi :IT; the on i w i h oo is d, eide w . he s re ear th th ey e against a tree, with his throat etit , a e u ' - oi . . two I ti l n eetlif , spot I c ci, .00 WO 0, .• 0 one open and the other closed. Pe cease t the licisPeesed,tiff and a speechless, was conveyed in a cart ? the dec_.. 1 11,,,, B ddeley, house-surgeon, deposed theb Noyeinhei;'ll. '1", brought to the hospital as far baci(•sor 1 14 ' 4° 10 11 t r . ( ' brou u fe n w til d wound inflicted in his throat with a hnn_ s e t on y/ dee", wound was superficial, and deceased we," „ ra dea i e d o por i 0 , t a h y e s, 3 l o vh th en of l jleanbaeaggoitofvhaesasinohfkte,entinegci (?ndesicrievell.aogvaifelitllent,l, postmortem examination) the brain. During his whole illness he pea k ' len, and although able, vtould scir e v ' ' tia t con9/9010 " Death from a disease of the brain. .1 t nhtrien" teers °leo, WOOLWICH, FEB. 3.—A. o' f volto (nare rte' h der • •b - of fifteen rank and file and one -11.' stoolvoc•' t° 1. . ot 1 rine woo Royal Sappers and Miners, stationed this n o ~ t te 0 0 headed by the brass band of the cerPe,a;i in one 0 19 0; st ie ht Roff's wharf; and proceeded to Blackly ,_ _ i ll e iti s _, li a fre_f f el with steam-packets. The detachnien!ZilioniSna_ t he i East India Docks this afternoon in the "1, down to til e immediatelv to sailor her destination . tea ° ° lo°‘ . , , ship, for Hon-Kon, and she ;sill be " set ereeiceet SI o g The new Conservative Club -bOll on the siio site of the late Thatched -house Taveff,,, ouc h oe' - ,,, I • St. James's-street, will be opened, vil l if - •-• ' Monday nesti the 10th hat.